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wm ■ H $ amowjemrsmttxxosKnusmsainiVja'msae.Km TIiq CSreorgia "Weekly Telegraph. THE TELEGRAPH. MACON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1869. Th* Fair of the Putnam County Agricultural J Club opens at Eatonton to-day. and will last for several days. This is a fine opportunity for per sons to look in upon the good people of Putnam. Persons can leave this city on either evening or morning trains of the Central Railroad and go directly through. We will guarantee a pleas ant trip to any who will make it. Dn. Subs.—Wo leamfrom Dr. Tucker, Presi dent of the Goorgia- Teacher's Association, that Dr. B. Sears, agent of the Peabody fund, will deliver an address before that body at its ses sion in Macon on the 17th of November, during the Agricultural Fair. Important Decision'-—Tha United States Su preme Court yesterday, in a case from Alaba ma, recognized the validity of contracts made in the Confederate States, computing Confeder ate currency at its value at the time the ob ligation was incurred. Sco telegraphic dis patches. Cotton Receipts at Columbus.—Up to the 29th nit, thero had been received of this year’s crop of cotton 10,9GG bales, against 19,839 boles for the corresponding time last year, and 10,224 bales for 18GG-G7. Stock on hand October 29, 18G9, 5194 bales. Salem Dutches.—The Galveston (Texas) News, of tho 24th, announces that in future Salem Dntcher, Esq., will have control of the editorial department of that staunch journal.— We congratulate tho Nows upon its acquisition, and wish both it and its editor snccess commen surate with their merits. Editors Tdcgraph: Please publish the fol lowing schedule as that of the extra-train on the Eatonton Branch Road, during the Fair—to commence Monday morning, November 1st: Leave Gordon 8:05 A. M. Arrive at Eatonton 10 A M. Leave Eatonton 3 P. M. Arrive at Gordon « P. M. Connecting with trains, morning and evening, to and from Macon. Respectfully, H. D. Catebs, Soc. St. Augustine, Florida.—The St. Augus tine Examiner says the improvement of the ancient city is beyond all precedent. The editor stands four stories from the ground on the unfin ished cupola of Mr. Palmer’s magnificent hotel on the piazza, and looks over the bay, over the high sand hills that enclose the harbor, and far out into the sea. But even there the sound of the hammer and the saw greet his ears. lie says: St. Augustine was a great old town once in “Spanish times.” Our hope is that it maybe greater in the great universal “ Yankee times.” Everybody has turned carpenter, mason or painter. Those that haven’t are hotel keepers, boarding house keepers, or restaurateurs. Those that are left are mariners, great and small. The rest of mankind arc railroad men. The balance teach school. It is difficult to realize how rap idly and stftely we are casting ofl' the garb and decrepitude of old age and putting on the strength and beauty and the brilliant apparel of youth. Wc must own to the fact that the thought is not unaccompanied by sad reflections. Tee Railboad Suits—The Receiver Missing —Another Process fob Contempt.—After the release of Captain Johnson on habeas corpus by Judge Knight, the sheriff returned to Talla hassee and reported the result to the Supreme Court. On Tuesday the Court issued another order for the arrest of Captain Johnson, and the sheriff again returned to Jacksonville, bnt on his arrival found that Johnson had disappeared, having, it is reported, taken the steamer Lizzie Baker on Monday morning and started for Sa vannah. Capt. Johnson, before making np his mind to disobey tho Supreme Conrt, had turned tho rail road ovor to President Dibble, but before com pleting the transfer of property, seems to have changed his mind and still retains the money. As matters stand now, the road is back in the possession of the company, but thereceiverjias run away, and some twelve thousand dollars are missing. —Jacluton ville Union, 29 th. The Political Situation. — A prominent Democrat, in conversation regarding tho polit ical situation, asserted publicly to-night thatthe Democratic party would continue its policy of" opposition to tho principles of the reconstruc tion acts in all future elections, adding that finally tho Supreme Court would sustain them, and predicted that the next Presidential cam paign will bo narrowed down to a struggle over the legality of the fourteenth amendment. In explanation "he declared that repudiationists, as well ns anti-reconstrnctionists, would unite on such a platform, because the amendment, while prohibiting the payment of the rebel debt, guarantees the payment of the national debt, and opposition to it is, therefore, the national inclination of the great masses of tho Demo cratic party. — Washington special to Phila delphia Press, October 27th. Postmaster-General Cresswell’b report will embrace a recommendation for the abolition oj the franking privilege, and that the several de partments shall bo required to pay their own postage.* Ho says that under such an arrange ment his department would become self-sustain ing, if not a sonree of profit He will also re commend that the laws regulating the advertise ments by the departments shall be changed in material respects, also the abolition of the let ter-box delivery system, thnt all mail matter be delivered by earners or through general deliv ery ; also, reduction of rates on registered let ters. He will further report a verv small defi ciency— Washington special to PJuladdphia Press, Oct. 27th. rr - Business in the West sympathizes with tho blighted expectations of the farmers in regard to the prices realized for grain. They have been so long accustomed to high prices for all their products, that the present rates—dear though they seem to the consumer—are a sad disap pointment. And depression among the farmers means still greater depression among the store keepers, and somewhat dull __ times all round. But there is no cause for gloomy feeling. The worst that can result from the present state of things, as the Chicago Tribune remarks, will be small profits, or no profits at all, to merchants and banks. If solvent, they will not more seri ously suffer. „■ * • ‘A correspondent In this morning’s Press gives his experience in seeking employment in Phila delpbia, and adds as a bit of advice: “Don't come to the cities, bnt seek honorable employ ment in the country.” In this cdhnection we give the annexed very sensiblo paragraph from anoxchange: “Instead of urging poor people in the cities to leave for the country, when they havo neither health nor. money to go with, it would be proper to induce people who are living in the country to stay thero. It is next to impossible to drive a city man, without capital, to a location and life of which he is utterly ignorant, and it should be equally difficult to drive young men into the cities from the rural districts.”—Phila delphia Press, 291A St. Louis has a judge who understands his business, and no mistake. In sentencing an. ignorant German, who had been convicted of murder in the first degroo, but recommended to mercy, Judge Prim, after alluding to the re commendation, and advising the prisoner to banish all illusive hopes, said: “Endeavor to bring your mind and heart to such a frame and condition that you may be ad utrumgue para- tus, ready for "either fortune.” We have no doubt that the advice was .indelibly stamped upon tho mind of the prisoner, and that he has resolved to be act utrumgue paratas.. On Thursday .last Mr. Davis attended a ban quet at the .rooms of the “Life Association of America,"in New Orleans. Gen. Hood presided. The Picayune says : “After the gnest had as sembled aronnd the board, Gen- H. proposed the health of Mr. Davis, which was drank in moat respectful silence. The latter replied with a pleasant compliment to the fidelity and fear lessness of Gen. Hood, who, he said, would stand upon his crutches to the last, defending home interests and contending for that he be ieved to be right'' Crowding the Cities. The new Governor of Virginia, in a late agri cultural address, very earnestly urged the young men before him not to imitate those who had forsaken their “paternal acres” and gone to the large cities. This same point was enforced by onr own Governor, Hoffman, and by Ex-Gov ernor Seymour, in their recent addresses on similar occasions. These dignitaries, Northern and Southern, all agree on tbG superior claims and advantages of agricultural life. Tho young men of every part of the country need such testimony, and we are glad to see it adduced. The fact is undeniable that for some years farming pursuits throughout the country have been rather losing than gaining favor. The of ficial returns show that agricultural production has not been keeping pace with the advancing population of the country, and alike demon strates an increasing tendency to concentrate in largo towns and cities. Farmers’ sons have been moved by a spirit pf adventure to turn their backs upon the steady occupation of their fathers, and betake themselves to speculation, or trade, or mechanical employments in town. The immense immigration into the country has by no means contributed its just proportion to the demands of agricnltnre. The lest national census showed that nearly forty per cent, of tho Irish of the country wero living in tho large cities, and thirty-six and a half per cent, of the Germans. If to these had been added those who were located in villages, and those who wero scattered through the conn try employed in constructing railroads and other works of inter nal improvement, it would be seen at once that there wero far more agricultural consumers among this great class of onr population than agricultural producers. It is to be feared that the now census will show this disparity in a yet more marked degree. One thing is certain: that, taking the country at largo, there will be shown an immense falling off of producers, to the extent of four millions at least from the sin gle event of emancipation. Now, there can be no moro fixed axiom in political economy than that agricultnre must form the basis of the prosperity and power of the American people. It is the great foundation of onr wealth and consequence—tho primary sonree of all our prosperity. It feeds us. To a great degree it clothes us. 'Without it wo could not have manufactures, and should not have commerce. Itfumishes onr factories with their raw material, and it fills our ships with their cargoes. Social industry depends upon it; in dividual life depends upon it. Thero is no man in the country who is so wealthy as to be inde pendent of the snccess of this great interest, nor any so poor as not to be affected by its prosperity or its decline. This country has pe culiar facilities for advantageously prosecuting this great department of human labor. The variety of its climate, tho abundance and cheap ness of its fertile soil, are such as no other na tion on tho surface of tho globe can boast It is no credit to our vaunted enterprise that we have never yet made adequate use of these sig nal advantages—thatthe time has never yet been when tho proportion of our farmers to the whole population was as large as it should have been—when the number of those engaged in professions and trades were not, at tho very least, twice as great as the actual necessities of society required. Thero is reason to apprehend that this disproportion will increase. This restless, adventurous spirit is ever tending to take more complete possession of our people. Everybody is getting moro infected with tho eagerness to get rich in haste. There is a grow ing impatience of the good old plan of earning a competence by steady, persevering labor and frugal living. The young men of the day have tired of the isolation and monotony of agricul tural life, and pant for something more stirring and exciting, and something that seems to prom ise quicker and moro splendid returns. They havo seized upon the first opportunity to launch away into the tide of trade and speculation. And that tide once embarked upon, it is very seldom that they find their way back again to the plowed fields. A large proportion of them havo not succeded in their new pursuits; tens of thousands of them have miserably failed, and become bankrupts and drones; and yet they have from tHo pure force acquired habit clung to town life with all the greater tenacity. It cannot be too well understood by these young malcontents in the country that failure there almost infallibly foretokens failure here. The same qualities and habits which stand in their way in the country will cause them to stumble in the city. It is everywhere the same all over the world": to fill any situation success fully, one must fill it as belonging to it. The man who feels above his business, let that busi ness be what it may, is actually below any busi ness. He is without anything to hold him up anywhere, and is bound to sink anyhow. The great work of life, whether in city or country, cannot be maintained by any such weaklings. Least of all is this tearing, grinding, crushing mart the place for them. We already havo an over-production of incapables anddroncs. There is no room here for the drift of rural weakness and cowardice. Let the farmers’ sons heed the counsels of their Governors and stay at home— holding fast to the oldest, happiest, most inde pendent and most honorable of human occupa tions. The above sensible remarks are from the New York Times of the 28th. In connection with the above see from Columbus Sun— What Bovs Can Do—A Pregnant Example.— A young man of an adjoining county, “not yet nineteen years old,” aided by his brother, be tween twelve and thirteen years of age, and a pony, has this year, on rented land cleared three bales of cotton, and one hundred and fifty bush els of corn, and “lots of potatoes,” besides sup porting his mother and a little sister. He also has cotton yet to pick. He is the son of a de ceased Confederate soldier. He will commence the next year with the following capital: Three bales of cotton, at 23c $345 One hundred and fifty bushels of com, at §1 50 per bushel..." 225 The Yerge* Case. The brief and clear argument of Mr. Carlisle, in reply to Attorney General Hoar, a few days ago, on the question of the jurisdiction of the supreme conrt in tho Yerger case, prepared ev ery one for the decision of the conrt contained in the Times on yesterday. Although it is re ported that Justice Miller dissents from the de cision, there will be .found very few who will question its correctness. When the case was before the court, Congress was in such haste to oust the court from appellate ju risdiction in habeas corpus cases that it failed to do what it intended, and left the act of 1789, giving such jurisdiction, in force. ’ This was the only point decided by the court on Monday. The question of whether Yerger was lawfully tried by a military court will come up when the argument upon the writ of habeas corpus, which will nndoubtedly be granted in the case, shall be made. Whether this question ■will involve the one of the constitutionality of the military bills as a whole, or reach only to that portion of them authorizing the trial of citizens not in the land or naval forces by mili tary courts, when charged with offences against tho civil law, is a point on which lawyers dis agree. Reconstruction has, through infamous and in. expressibly wicked agencies, gone so far toward restoring the rebellions States to the Union, that it is doubtful whether the interests of the whole country, or of the States which have been subjected to tho infamy, would be promoted by overturning it. If fair elections could bo bad in Mississippi and Texas, and the white men of those States could come into possession of their own State governments next month, there would bo no disposition to uproot the infamy from the foundation. In that case, Democrats as well as Republicans who are sick of its crimes, would say let it stand, and the remedies for its evils be sought for under the State governments it has authorized. In Florida and North Carolina, there is such criminal and bloody transgression, and so much of it, that the State authorities can do nothing to preserve order. Tho carpet-bag and black governments there havo appealed to the gener al government for military help to maintain them. It is a sad and disgraceful business, but it is doubtful whether it would be bettered by upsetting the State governments altogether, and throwing the people back into the anarchy which snch a proceeding would occasion. They will shortly release themselves, as their,brethren in Tennessee and Virginia have done. There is no donbt thnt the supreme conrt will declare so much of the reconstruction infamy as substitutes military for civil conrts unconstitu tional, and for reasons clearly showing that the infamy altogether is, as its author, Thadeus Stevens, declared it to be, “wholly outside of, and unknown to the Constitution,” bnt it is not probable that this will have any other effect than to release Yerger from military custody. Con gress will either pay no attention to such a de cision, or will make war on the court, as it did in tho McArdle case, and will proceed to so pro tect the infamy that it will run its appointed time. Be it reverently said, thank God, thero is a prospect of its speedy death. The peoplo do not now ask that it be executed by the supreme court. It is too late for the intervention of that court, except to shield individuals applying for relief. Thero was a time when the conrt, by a prompt and fearless discharge of its duty, might havo released the South from military despotism, and havo restored to her constitu tional freedom, but it was permitted to pass, and the court cannot now redeem the opportu nity.—Chicago Times, October 27th. Tlte Value of Our Crops. The following table represents the value of leading crops for the year 18G8, the estimate be ing made upon homo values in the respective States, and furnished by the Commissioner of Agricultnre at Washington: Indian Com $5G9,512,400 Wheat 319,189,710 Rye 28,683,G77 Oats 142,484,910 Barley 29,809,931 Buckwheat 20,864,315 Potatoes 84,150,040 Tobacco 40,081,942 Hay 351,941,930 Cotton 225,000,000 $570 and his pony. Ho contemplates buying a mule, and hiring a hand and more ground. He cultivated thirty acres this year. Presbyterian Union. Those interested in the ecclesiastical move ments will remember the great interest felt thonghont tho conntry last year in the proceed ings of the Old and Now School General Assem blies of the Presbyterian Church, looking to ward a union of the two bodies. The terms of union, doctrinal and practical, agroed on by the committees in conference, it will bo recollected, passed both bodies. It was then to be sent down to the presbyteries of each denomination to bo voted on directly. Returns from more than two-thirds of the presbyteries have been now received and the union known to have been ratified by more than the required majority.— According to the terms of their respective ad journments. the two General Assemblies will meet in Pittsburg, November 10, to count tho ballots and declare officially the result This consolidation of two of the largest Pro testant bodies, which will undoubtedly be fol lowed by the absorption of many smaller bodies of kindred faith—perhaps, indeed, of the en tire Calvinistio element of Protestanism—is an event of no small moment to either the religions or the secular world. The historical significance of the movement cannot well bo estimated at this moment. Of one thing, however, we may be certain. Under its present organization a mass of disjointed sects, Protestantism as a religion cannot take its proper place in history, either as a positive power, or as a preparation for some further and better development.—Philadelphia Press, 28th. Talented Inebriates. A correspondent of the Boston Journal writes: “In the Binghampton Inebriate Asylum are eminent lawyers from 'New England, whom I have heard plead with Webster and Choate, men of wealth and standing; eloquent temperance orators, whose names and address I have seen within a year in tho Jonrnal; men who have been and are still officially connected with the city government of New York; professional men of high standing; eloquent and distin guished ministers of tho gospel; sons of emi nent merchants of New York and other leading cities; some of the most talented artists of the land; organists who readily commanded $5,000 a yearinthe city; with bankers, lawyers, clerks, and eminent men; nearly all of them under thirty years of age. Manyof them are fine per formers. They have organized a choir, con- dnoting in superb style the worship which is held daily, and the worship of tho Sabbath, give concerts, have entertainments, run a small theater once a week, have negro minstrels, and the whole week is occupied in a round of inter esting amusements. Many of the rooms are fitted up in artistic style by the patients, and a moro cheerful, exuberant’ retreat cannot be found in the country. A bachelor, in commenting upon the large amount which Queen Victoria saves annually from her salary, remarked thnt “there was a widow worth going for.” ■ . Total : $1,811,608,915 It will be seen that much stress as is and has been laid upon the value of our great wheat and cotton crops, they are not the first nor even the second crops in value, the first rank being held by Indian com, so far above competition as to render it remarkable how so much attention was ever concentrated on the magnitude and value of other products. Its range is greater than that of any other crop in the country, cov ering the whole Union from end to end, and its cultivation is so general that in traveling through any section one may always safely cal- cnlate on seeing growing com. Whether a farmer can send his cotton or his wheat to mar ket or not, he can always make use of Indian com, for if he cannot sell it to advantage he can feed it to his live stock, or dispose of it in other ways. By tho former process the large provision trade of the West has been bnilt np. At the South, com is the bread of the planta tion hands universally. The reader will also observe that the hay crop exceeds in value that of wheat or cotton, and holds the second place on the list. This is not accidental or temporary. It has alway been so, and probably always will, in consequence of our great demand for hay to feed the horses and cat tle. The hay crop, like that of Indian com, is also almost universal, and there are thousands of acres in the West formerly cultivated in grain that are now devoted to hay in consequence of the sudden increase of the demand for that arti cle, caused by the rapid increase of population in all the cities and towns of that section. This is a steady and reliable crop for which there is always a demand in any populous region, and about which there is scarcely any risk. The diminution of the production of wheat in snch States as Pennsylvania and Ohio may easily be accounted for by the increased attention to such crops as hay, rendered absolutely necessary by the growth "of cities and towns. So it is beam ing, also, in Indiana and Illinois, and thus the centre of wheat production recedes farther and farther west. The increase in the oat crop is for the same reason, and that, like hay, must go on permanently increasing from necessity, though not on the same scale. At the present time its value as a crop equals the sum of buckwheat, potatoes and tobacco. The value of the cotton crop being below that of the wheat crop, shows how vast an extension the latter acquired during the war, when it was in such unusual demand both for home consump tion and for export'. Since the close of the war, a large surplus of wheat has been produced and shipped from the Southern interior, so that in this respect the South has become self-support ing. It raises its own breadstufls aud provisions. The wheat crops of our Pacific coast have become so great as to constitute an important item in the supplies of Australia, India, England and the Atlantic States, and these crops dre inereasing in an enormous ratio. At the same time the area of wheat culture is extending very last in Michi gan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Dacotah, Iowa, Ne braska, Kansas and Montana. Under all these circumstances, there can be little doubt that the value of the wheat crops will continue to rank ahead of cotton, and unless more energy shall be displayed by the cotton planters, it would not be surprising to see even the oat crops go ahead of cotton. It will be remarked also that the tobacco crop makes far less progress in recovery of its lost prosperity than any of the Southern pro duct^ which doubtless may be attributed to the terrible ruin and desolation of Virginia, the headquarters of tobacco culture. Tobacco has of late years been quite a profitable crop in the North, but its true home is iu Maryland, Vir- § inia, West Virginia, Kentucky and the ncigh- oring regions, and in duo time will flourish thero again as it did of old.—Gemiantoim Tele graph. ■ - Grant on tlie Mississippi Election. Special to the Louisville Courier-Journal.] Washington, October 28.—The views of Pres ident Grant on the Mississippi election, &b fil tered through Senator Thayer, of Nebraska, and telegraphed by the Associated Press, are put out for a purpose, as Thayer attemped to im pose his account on nearly every representative of the press in Washington. Judge Dent’s law partner here says that Dent has nover repre sented that he had the support of the President and administration for the Governorship of Mis sissippi, bnt has declared, and now repeats, that Grant told him that if the Gdnservative Repub licans were bound to carry the election in that State, he preferred Dent’s triumph to that of any other man; but at the same time he admitted that the administration was inclined towards the Radical ticket. Dent writes here that he has no doubt whatever of his election on November soth. Kino William, of Prussia, offers the Pope'a carpet to cover the floor of the hall in which the great council will meet. It will cost $30,000. btst i teXjEo:r,-ajp:e3:_ FROM WASHINGTON. ~‘ -' Washington, November 1.—Belknap has been in stalled Secretary of War. Unreliable hints regarding the annual reports are published. It seems certain, however, that Bout- well and Delano will oppose any changes in taxes. There are questions of veracity between the Para guayan Minister, McMahon, and members of the Argentine Legation here. A Committee of the Louisville Convention have ah interview with the President on Wednesday. IMPORTANT DECISION. The Supreme Court in tbs case of Thorington vs. Smythe & Hartley, from Alabama, reversed the decision of the Court below, and the case was re manded for a new trial. This decision gives validi ty to obligations within the Confederacy, computing dollars at the value of Confederate notes at the time tho obligation was incurred. A fuller statement of the case of Thorington vs. Smith & Hartley, on a bill in equity for the enforce ment of the vender’s lien: Smith & Hartley pur chased ThoriDgton’s land and gave their promissoiy note for part pay. The transaction occurred in 1864, Without modifying circumstances, Thorington would be entitled to a decree for the amount and interest. The defence pleaded that only Confederate notes wero current. Tho land was worth only three thou sand dollars in real money. Tho contract price was forty-five thousand dollars—thirty-five thousand whereof was actually paid in Confederate notes, and a note for the remaining ten thousand was to bo discharged in tao same manner, and it is claimed on this state of facts that tho vender is entitled to no relief in the United States Court, which claim was sustained by tho court below, and tho case was dismissed. „ The questions before the Supreme Court upon an appeal are: First—Can a contract for the payment of Confederate notes, made during the late rebel lion, between parties residing within the so-called Confederate States, be enforced at all in the courts of tho United States? Second—Can evidence be re ceived to prove that a promise expressed, should be for the payment of any other than lawful dollars of the United States? Third—Does the evidence in the record establish tho fact that the note for $10,000 was to bo paid, by agreement of tho parties, in Con federate notes ? The first question is answered affirmatively. The Tho second question iB answered affirmatively, with tho following remarks: We aro clearly of the opin ion that such evidence must be received in respect to such a contract, in order that justice may bo done between tho parties, and that tho party entitled to ho paid in these Confederate dollars can only re ceive their actual value at tho time and place of the contract, in lawful money of tho United States. On tho third question tho Court says: We do not think it necessary to go into a detailed examination of the evidence. It is enough to say that it has left no doubt in our minds, that tho note for ten thousand dollars—to onforco payment of which suit was brought in tho Circuit Court—was to bo paid, by agreement of the parties, in Confederate notes, Tho Supreme Court decides that the issues of tho Tennessee State Bank, previous to the war, are good tenders for Tennessee State taxes. A mandamus has been issued compelling county officers to re ceive these notes for State license. In the case of Samuel B. Paul vs. Virginia, in dicted for issuing insurance policies without State license, the Supremo Court affirmod the decision of the lower court, holding that coiporations aro not citizens in the meaning of the Constitution, and that issuing insurance policies is no part of com merce. • * Revenue" to-day, over one million. The Pacific Railroad Commissioner’s report says: It will require over a half million dollars to com plete the Central, and a million aud a half to com plete the Union Pacific Road. They report the offi cers of both roads as working in good faith. Washington, October 31 Boutwell directs, the Assistant Treasur, at New York, to give notice that the sale of gold to purchase bonds bo continued without change during November. The debt statement shows a decrease of nearly seven and a half millions; coin balance, one hun dred and seventeen .millions; currency balance, seven and a quarter millions. Shipments of frac tional currency to Charleston and New Orleans, fifty thousand dollars; to Mobile, twenty-five thousand. GENERAL NEWS. St.-Loris, November 1 The Stonewall commit tee report sixty-five bodies found. Only the col ored steward and chambermaid have been recog nized. Richmond, November 1.—Gov. Walker has des ignated November 18th as thanksgiving day. Tho city is full of strangers to attend the State Pair, which opens to-morrow. Futures. Wm. A. Bryce & Company’s, cotton circular of October 30th, says: A fair business has been done in contracts this week, with rather a downward tendency in pri ces. Very little demand exists from exporters or spinners, bnt speculators cover their shorts quietly as prices recede. Twenty-five cents seems about the idea for November and Decem ber deliveries of low middling, bnt the market has not that healthy tone which would lead to the conclusion that operators felt safe to buy at that rate. A good many of these contracts, es pecially for late delivery, are being taken on Southern account, by parties who have faith in the Spring rise, and who sell their cotton on ar rival here, and immediately buy a contract, this proceeding saving them all charges of storage, nsuranco, etc., while their interest in the raar- kot continues the same. The great advantage of this kind of business over holding actual bales, at no little expense, is gradually being appreciated at the South, aud no doubt a ma jority of planters and operators, who desire to hold for a late month, will avail themselves of the advantages offered by onr market To those of our friends who are unacquainted with these transactions wo would say, that a margin of ten dollars a bale is deposited in the Trust Compa ny by both buyers and sellers, for the faithful performance of tho contract and tho variations of the market against either buyer or seller must be immediately made good by a further deposit in the Trust Company, or the forfeiture of tho original margin of ten dollars per halo. At tho close wo quote November and December at 25c, January at 254c. to 25jfc., February or March at 254c. to 2Go.', all on a basis of low middling. ” , Corn—Prospects of an Advance. From a private letter of a partner of tho house of Blackmar, Roberts, Chandler <fe Co., of St. Louis, October IGth, addressed to a member of the firm, Captain Chandler, now in Columbus, we extract tho following “ Corn is sure to rule higher, and if I were to attempt to make figures, they would hardly be credited. My opinions are based on tho follow ing facts:. The Commissioner of Agricultnre says that the com crop, in every scotion of the conntry, has been the prey of numerous ills. Only six States show an average crop. He puts the loss in Virginia at 49 per cent.; Maine, Ver- mond, Maryland, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Michigan and "Wisconsin, a£ 30 to 40 per cent.; New Hamp shire, Connecticut, Now York, New Jersey, Del aware, Georgia, Indiania, Ohio, Iowa and Min nesota, 20 to 30 per cent.; Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, 10 to 20 per cent.; Rhode Island, Alabama, Missouri and California, 1 to 10 per cent., or about one hundred and fifty million bushels less than a full crop. This looks like high com before next Spring. Oats will, to some extent, sympathize] with corn in price. Again, the large orders now received from South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, confirms me in my views, that com must advance materially in the next sixty days, if not before. Now is the time to order, that we may use our discretion, and take advantage of heavy receipts, dull days, etc., and fill orders gradually, instead of pre cipitating them on the market at onco." One of the partners of the house has traveled through six com States, and these views corres pond with his personal observations.—Colum bus Sun, Oct. 24. • ■■•*. «-.t The short dress, elaborately but artistically trimmed, is fashionable for evening wear, and more worn at balls than the trained skirts, but for grand occasions and dinner parties the long train is the most stylish. The citizens of St. Louis are making liberal arrangements for the recovery end sepulture of the bodies of toe passengers and crew lost by toe disaster to the steamer Stonewall, aud for the relief of families rendered destitute by it. The New Orleans Pioayune says that all the hands that can possibly be procured in Louisiana are busily engaged iu picking cotton. Every planter is so busy picking he has no time to ship. THE BRIDE AND CHtOOft. A Jewish I/ejrnd. Among the most learned and pious Jews of the twelfth century, next to the great Maimoun, or Maimoriides, of European- fame, stands Ra- schi, or, as he was more properly called,' Schlo- mo ben Isaac. He wrote a commentary on Th li ra and on several of the books of the Prophets, and also one on the Talmud.. He was a great mathematician, and among his own people was reverenced for his sanctity and asceticism. His parents lived in Toulon, but Raschi was bom In Troyes; and this is the reason why his father Isaac and his mother left Toulon. Short ly after the birth of the child, the good woman walked down a 1 narrow street. A cumbrous wagon was being drawn along it by four stout horses, and the wagon filled the street so as to make it impossible to pass. Seeing this, the woman turned to seek a side street; but at that moment the car of a young nobleman drove up the lane toward her. The timid woman ran from side to side in quest of a corner into which she might retreat from the two vehicles. “Look at toe Jewess!’’ exclaimed toe driver of the nobleman’s car; “how frightened she is.” “Whip the horses and run her down,’, said his master. The two vehicles approached, and toe poor creatnre, finding no place of retreat, with a pite ous cry shrank against the wall. At that mo ment toe huge wheel of toe wagon rolled toward her almost grazing the house wall. Then, sud denly, the wall bowed inward, and formed a lit tle recess, in which toe Jewess stood secure. “Softer and more yielding are these stones than your hearts, ye Christians!” she exclaimed. Now when this miracle was known, it was at onco concluded that it was wrought by magic, and Isaac, fearing lest it should be the cause of their being both brought to the stake, fled pre cipitately to Troyles, and there Raschi was bom. When Raschi was an old man, and renowned every where for his vast learning and. profound wisdom, and above all for his great holiness, the school wherein he taught was crowded with pu pils, and his sayings were treasured as though they were precious like gold. Ho fasted contin ually, only eating wliat was just sufficient to keep life, and what lie ate was of poor quality and was mingled with ashes. He drank nothing save water, and of that onlv a little, once a day. He remained whole'nights in prayer, and when not engaged in teaching during the day, he stood wrapt in meditation. As he stood at his window ono evening, two Jews passed, and they were speaking of him. One said to the other, “Was there ever in the days of the prophets a greater saint than is this Rabbi Raschi ?” To which the other replied, “Surely, for him there must be prepared one of the most exalted stations iu Paradise.” Then the Rabbi fell to musing on the place that was to be his in the Kingdom of God, aud he wondered who would be his companion in the Land of Light, and sit at his side in Para dise. With Ms thoughts fixed on this theme, he stood long at his window gazing out over the vine-olad hills towards the horizon where toe sun had set, and where its rays shot upward, kindling the finely attenuated vapor which hung in the air, and making the blue of heaven green as grass. Level bars of cloud burned like gold in a furnace, and small misty fragments glowed scarlet, like fiery lilies growing in a field of sun lit grass between strips of yellow crocuses. As the old man stood with his eyes fixed on the west, and his mind revolving the thoughts suggested by tho speakers, he saw the western sky undergo a sudden transformation; toe gold en clouds became steps of light in a pavement of amethyst, and on these platforms were placed pairs of golden thrones with gorgeous robes of ruby tissue cast over them, and in these robes diamonds were set, and as tho light changed they twinkled like sparks that wander about the ashes of consumed paper. Upon each throne a name was written with lightning brilliancy. And the Rabbi saw on two of tho highest—two that stood side by side on toe same stage—Ras- cM ben Isaac, of Regensburg, and Abraham ben Gerson, of Barcelona. As soon as the old man had made out these names, tho light faded and he found that the sky was dark, that only a fdint amber glow remained above the horizon, and that the stars were shining in too dark bluo vault. So he shut his window, and he busied himself through tho night in gathering together a few necessaries for a journey, for he was re solved, ere day-break, to start for Barcelona, and to make the acquaintance of Abraham ben Gerson, who was to be he his companion in Paradise. After a tedious journey, Raschi arrived in Barcelona, his feet sore with walking, and Ms palm fretted with the staff he held, and his shoulders galled with tho straps of the little knapsack wMoh held his clothes and provisions. As he entered the town he thought to Mmself, “I will not mention the holy man by name, but will see whether the Hebrews here know of his Mgh merit and future exaltation.” Then, meet ing a Jewish wood-cutter, he stopped him and said: Friend, who is the most pious of the faithful intoiscity?” Tho wood-cutter replied, “Rabbi Jonathan.” “Who is the next greatest saint in the city ?” * ‘Levi ben Nathan. ’ ’ “Have you other wise, just, and holy men here ?” “Certainly; there is Ishmael Zadik, there is Jehoshua ben Ammon, Samuel the Learned, Mordecai Cohen ” “But stay,” interrupted Raschi; “toe old one I mean, I suppose must bo a very old man, with pale face, bowed knees, a long white beard, eyes red with tears from much weeping for tho transgressions of Israel; a man ever engaged in prayer, who macerates his body and trains Ms soul.” 1 “There is no such a man in Barcelona,” an swered the wood-cutter. “Farewell. J “Stay,” exclaimed tho rabbi, detaining him,' ‘can you tell me aught of Abraham ben Ger son ?” “Abraham ben Gerson ?” echoed the laborer, ‘he is no saint. He is a rich man: a delicate liver; keeps much company, and is Mgh in fa vor with the Gentiles.” “Where does he live, friend ?” , “Follow me and I will show you.” Tho Rabbi Raschi was brought by toe wood cutter before a marble palace. Gaily caparison ed horses stood at the door, held by pages in gallant liveries. He hastened up the flight of steps leading to tho entrance, and entered the hall. It was paved with colored marble; tho walls were incased with alabaster richly sculp tured, and silk curtains hung before toe doors. Noblemen waited there, lounging on velvet sofas, till the master of the house could attend to them. Servants glittering with gold lace hur ried about, bearing slavers of the most precious metal, on wMch wero goblets of iced wines, and plates with delicious confections, which they handed to the illustrioua visitors. Travel-stained, dnst-begrimmed, leaning on his rude staff, his gaberdine in tatters, his long wMte beard untriunned and the white hair of Ms head in tangled locks, unattended to, the wondering Raschi stood entranced. A servant approached Mm with a golden salvor, on which were wines. The old man raised his staff, and with flashing eyes indignantly signed him to re tire. Suddenly a silver bell tinkled. Instantly all the nobles rose, the servants started to the stairs leading to tho upper portion of the house, drew back the brocade curtains that screened the as cent, and ranged themselves in a line between the stairs and tho entrance door. In another moment a noble looking Jew, in a crimson velvet dress, with gold chains Ibout his neck appeared, accompanying a Spanish Prince of royal blood, conversing with him familiarly as they descended, the steps, and os he led him to his door. “Make way,” said Rabbi Raschi, thrusting his staff betwixt "two of the liveried servants', “nutoe way for me.” " ' Hi The master of the house stood still and looked at him; then made a sign to the domestics, who fell back aDd allowed the old man to pass. Basohi’s cheeks grew crimson. His hand, trembled as he thrnst it forth and laid it on the arm of the wealthy Jew. “Are yon Abraham, son of Gerson?" he asked in faltering tones. “I am. What do you want with me, father ?_” “I must speak with you. Lead on to a pri vate chamber.” The merchant obeyed and brought the Rabbi into a little room hung with blue silk, fretted with silver. . “I am RascM ben Isaac,” said the old man, “and I came here to seek you, Ihopedto havo found a pious Jew; I find one living in pomp and worldliness. I hoped to have found one fasting and praying; I find one eating aud trafficking. I thought to have found oue the favorite of God, and I Undone the courted of princes and nobles. Is this a house for a Jew— a child of a despised and outcast race ? The temple lieto waste, aud shall we live iu luxury and splendor?” “I feel honored in being visited by toe illus trious RascM,” said Abraham. _ “Shamed, shamed,” exclaimed toe Rabbi. “Are you not ashamed before me to exhibit all this profusion?” 1 ‘God’s blessing has been on my business,” said the merchant “And how do you recompense him ?" cried the indignant Raschi; “by neglecting too giver, by squandering the gift Do you fast tong? i y? 11 wear the stones with your knees?” “My business occupies my time and demands my energies I pray, bdt cannot pray forloDg. I cannot fast, or my business could not be at tended to.” “Do you eat of meat, the flesh of beasts not slain by a Jewish butcher ?" “I have even done so.” ' “Have you partaken of the accursed flesh of too swine?” “I fear that I have.” \ ’ 1j s “Have you neglected regular daily attendanqy at the synagogue ?” “My attendance has been irregular.” “Alas, alas!” cried Raschi, throwing down Ms staff and raising his hands to heaven. “Surely there Is injustice in paradise as well as on earth. Here lives a wicked Jew, a breaker of tho law, in splendor, as a king; in another place is a pious man, fearing God, macerating his body, in want and nakedness, crushed by poverty, and the kingdom of heaven receives both, aud sets both on a level! Woe is-me!” and ho would have rnshed from tho chamber had not the merchant stayed him. “Rabbi,” he said, “I know my duty to God and man, and I practice it as best as l ean.” . “Profane, one!” exclaimed the old man, “Trust not your own strength. When the un godly are green as the grass, and when all the workers of wickedness do flourish, then shall they be destroyed.” But just then there flashed before the Rabbi’s eye that golden throne beside bis own, on wMch was written the name of the merchant. “ Come with me,” said Abraham, taking the old man’s hand ; “ to-morrow my daughter is to be married, and to-day. I am going to make presents to the poor of our tribe. They aro now assembled to receive my alms." “And to whom is your daughter to be married?’ asked RascM. “ To a rich Gentile, may be ?” “ No,” answered the merchant, mildly. “To my clerk. He is uot wealthy, but he is upright and useful, and on Mb marriage I shall make Mm my partner." They descended the stairs to the hall, in which the poor were assembled. The rich Jew gave them abundant alms, aud as each received Ms gift he loft. One old woman remained. She pressed forward, and Abraham extended to her a little purse.” “No!” she exclaimed, thrusting the money aside;, “I have not come here to beg, but for advice.” “Speak, wherein can I advise you? Draw nearer to me.” Tlie woman approached Kim and began: “ I am a poor widow, hardly supporting four chil dren. All my hopes were fixed on the marriage of my eldest daughter to him to whom my dear husband, now no more, bad Betrothed her. He was an orphan, brought up in our houses and when he left us, ho gained an honest and re spectable livelihood; and I hoped, when he married my Miriam, that we should have been raised from our penury. But, alas! his eyes have been blinded by prosperity, and he is about to marry a rich wife and desert my daughter.” “ Woman! why do you come about this mat ter to me ?” asked the merchant; “ how can I give your Miriam back her betrothed ?” “You car do so,” replied toe widow: “for that young man will be to-morrow your son-in- law.” Don Abraham started back dismayed. For some moments he did not speak. After a while, however, he broke silence and said to the old woman— “ Did toe young man love your Miriam ?” “I am sure, very sure, he did.” “ I will inquire into the matter,” said toe merchant, turning awhy. “ Well now,” spoke Raschi, as they ascended the stairs together, “this is a Bad Business. However, I see what must be done. Be gener ous ; give the young woman, Miriam, a decent sum of money ” “ Come here to-morrow,” interrupted Abra ham; “be present at the wedding. By that time I shall havo decided for myself what is best to be done.” On the morrow, at the appointed hour, hav ing finished Ms morning prayers, the Rabbi RascM betook himself to the palace of him who was to be Ms comrade in Paradise. There he found a throng of guests of all ranks, filling the rooms. Music played, and tables groaned un der viands of the richest and most rare descrip tions. Raschi with difficulty pushed Ms way through the crowd to the chamber of the mas ter. Don Abraham was dressed in a magnifi cent blue velvet robe, broidered with gold pomegratates, of which the seeds were rubies. Around Mm were clustered the grandees of the town. On seeiDg RascM, he, however, ad vanced towards Mm and extended to him Ms hand. The wedding ceremony soon began; in tha court all was prepared; an awning was spread; the bride, vailed and in white, was led forward by two ladies. Then came the bridegroom ac companied by two gentlemen, and the guests followed, each with a lighted taper in Ms hand. From a balcony a band played, and choirs sang. A Rabbi read aloud and distinctly the contract, and the acceptance of the bridgroom into part nership with himself, as Abraham’s dotation of the bride. Then the bridgroom took a gold ring and placed it on the bride’s finger, with the words: “Be to me wed by toe means of this ring, according to the law of Moses and of Israel.” • • The Rabbi then gave the pair Ms blessing. A crystal goblet was raised in the air and then sMvered to atoms on the pavement, all the peo ple shouted “Masel tob!!’ (goodluck!) Don Abraham, when tois ceremony was con cluded, stepped up to toe bride>and gently raised toe vail from her face. “God of our fathers!” cried the bridegroom, staggering backwards, “it is Miriam I” The crowd remained silent, as though turned to stone, for the bride was not Abraham’s daugh ter, but the child of the poor widow. “I must explain this puzzle,” said toe mer chant, smiling on toe company; “this girl was betrothed to tois youth by her fathor on his death bed. They were brought up together and loved ono another. I knew notMng of this; and when I found that the young man was worthy and useful in business, I proposed to Mm that ho should become my son-in-law. Out of gratitude for past favors, and in the hope of being able, as my partner, to assist Ms poor relatives, he yielded to my persuasion, and promised to many my daughter. Only yester day did I ascertain the circumstances of his previous engagement; I knew then the reason of Ms frequent fits of depression. His heart was elsewhere. Through, me, however, shall two hearts never bo saddened. I have made Mm my partner and given him the widow’s daughter to wife.” Then Raschi, laying abont Mm with his staff, beat himself a way through too multitude, and pressing up to- toe merchant, he burstinto tears, and, throwing Mmself on his neck, embraced Mm, and nising Ms hands cried: “Yes, you are worthy to reaoh Gan Eden! (Paradise.) Glory bo to God, who has given me such a man as thou, to he my companion for eternity t Glory be to God, who has not made one rough road alone to Paradise, but has made many roads be sides; who has prepared a. throne, not for toe fasting ascetic and contemplative alone, but al so for him who can do what is right and just freely!•” . The manufacture of colored veterans of too battle of New Orleans, is a regular employment in that city, in view of the pension to such as may succeed in proving their identity. The oldest lunatio on record—Time out of mind. The Anondagon giant is not the only man who has been petrified in that region. A forlorn widow, now living near Syracuse, has as a par lor ornament her late* lamented,-wMch she dug up nicely petrified into a limestone statue after a few years of burial The castor bean, from wMch the oil is made, is becoming an important industry in Perry county, California. One prominent dealer re ceived at Ms warehouse one thousand bushels in one day, paying $3 18 per bushel. It yields more bushels to the acre than wheat. The New York Herald says that in his forth coming message the President will recommend that the internal revenue taxes remain undis turbed for one year, after which time toe ad ministration will have toe debt well in hand, so that a material reduction of taxation can be se cured. The disappointed Johnson men in Tennessee have already prepared another programme, I. c., Brownlow is shortly to die and A. J. to be elect ed in Ms place, and get into toe Senate ahead of Cooper. Nobth Gkbmant is straining every nerve to develop commercial intercourse with foreign na tions, and with that objeot Count Bismarck has already established 121 new consulates in both hemispheres. The New York Commercial says gambling never was more rampant in that city than it is at present. COMFORTABLE U V| >. BE HARRIET 2f. AUSTTv- v Hj Prom the Roadster Democrat.) ’ " * I bad the Dlounm a- . was very glad to seeVaenewJ* l A^ ho V ty in toe fact that they W0 re seAiT? P* and beautify their house, wMch they were doing it did notrt In' Nl It evinced too much of toe *jsrxwi«/ * vails with too large a find the enjoyment of fife in fort and display rather than I found ray fnend in the midst of Meaning, with every room in disord^ 1 * * toe near prospect of complete orde-T^’-™ Her parlor was neatly painted and ^Vl mshed with a handsome Brussels t 1 ful gilt wall-paper, lace curtains chairs to match, etc. This was all’ ir„n ’hi provided they had toe means to fT • parts of the house and to dress and lyincorresponding style. But thevhadp,£>l the extra means wMch they had inrr, v. mulating in fitting up the parlor so they had made it really too cfefe J 01 common family use. It was growing-up, romping, boisterous chi!* Xi be permitted to run in there evert* !ash *4 toe man coming in dusty, swcatvn^Mi aot ^l Ms work should go thereto restart the sofa. •hour c - > | The family sitting room !; a ,! v,, , ' T bare of comfortable things. I- xA'M gfll and scarcely an easy chair - f].‘ c ™ ta::! cheerful, the wall-paper was old wj? *•» '4 tho windows had those most ! S E l blue paper curtains. There was no* house a good-sized mirror n6r toilet tions better than a tin wash-dish and cracked pitcher. The kitchen were not convenient—nor the fiir. 1 ,v!° l “" s '‘l dent for toe best accommodation of mcT, ^1 ly. My friend, in order to get a good had to expend double the strength which; have been nccesary if a small sum 0 f ' . could have been spent in her kitchen fc^j „ thought they had made a great 1 their method of trying to better'SdSfi I had seen them before they had cone < w T would as a familiar :f-: en - v * . ! tyto offer suggestions I wouia have yH “Instead of buying a Brussels carpet. Cf ” 3 | three dollars a yard, bny a good im-tik „ mg one dollar and fifty cents; inneadd ' paper, get pretty satin, which iscompsns^ inexpensive ; and instead of lace cartes, hi muslin, and make a nice lounge instead?! '1 ing a costly sofa. Then you will have s Wj good enough to receive any friends or <*r£Tj who will ever visit you; entirely app 0 Jill and nice for any occasion, for people in circumstances, and not so fine as to esdiier in your family capacity. You could aUmfi and enjoy yourselves together of a Iefcneh, and so get too benefit of the very fine r; >1 wMch your parlor windows afford, tnd | time when you or your husband felt fed wanted a quiet place, you could go and talnl nap on the lounge. Then take tho rest of 41 money and put a set of drawers in yoar paiftl buy an extra tin dipper or two, a good reJ lain kettle or two, which you need very m-'l get some pretty muslin curtains foryoTuatel room windows, put a cheap carpet or nafel on your own bed-room floor, and fit tp reit ; | and comfortably your spare chamber ~ 1 your entire house will bo symmetrical." As it Is, there Is a great gap in that how J tween the parlor and the other park of it. Th;;J is no natural relation of things. In fact, dun] is so great that none of the family will ever isl a great amount of good of their parlor, I fcf They live on the principle of those youn-bhJ aftd some older ones, who have no mMicny tween a nice silk dress and a calico. Theyr*.| to think that they cannot get along rcspecUH-l without a silk dress, and gloves, ehoa b4i| collar, etc., to correspond; but in obtakingiL suit they exhaust themselves. It is either fid- calico. If a girl with small means woddil content to have her best dress poplin or cicsi-r rino, which is good enough for a poor gimJ wear anywhere in this country, even to hsccl wedding, she might .then afford to have t p delaine, with corresponding shoes, gloves, e as second Best suit, and she would feel mil more at home iu her clothes than some dowl One cannot always go easily and gracefully fe:| a cheap calico “for common” into a mcefi| as a ‘‘dress up.” If we American can ever learn to adapt ourselves to onr c stances and to be content with such thingia:| have and not always try to imitate those vl have, much greater means than oursclr^rl shall have made substantial progress in tier" of comfortable living. . Growth of States. In 1850, Illinois had a population of 851,0 I Missouri of GS2,000, and Iowa of 192,000. Isr years later the population of Illinois arid Missouri had doubled, and that of lows had:J creased nearly fourfold. The railroad im had effected these great changes. In iv’-I-" T | will have a population of 1,2U0,*»H). w r-l roads aro being constructed East ard across toe State, and ethers are anticipt!i| The plan is to Lave a latitude railway he" tier of counties, of wMch there are nine. State is fertile beyond comparison. The < of grain raised is immense. Out of 35,000/'’ acres in the State, 3,500,000 were devoted: grain in 18G7, and these produced 56.WV I bushels of corn, 14,000,000 bushels of vi®! and 15,000,000 bushels of oats. Only ajKhl of tMs was used in the State, the residne to feed the hungry elsewhere. Tins grrnr" be transported on railroads, and hence w* form some idea of the ultimate value of fct-J road system of the State. There ;s tc'I and south line in tho Stats, though one is tered. Iowa is and will be essentially aa W cultural State, and every farm will freight.—If. Y. Com. Adc. The surgeon’s reports showthat onr s® have suffered greatly from chills anil fever*" is induced by the miasma and change otc^H to which they are exposed. They *1* ■ Ayre’s Ague Cure is an effectual remedy f distemper, and are urging the govercsS'J adopt it within the regulations. The 6* General hesitates, because it is put up w -y prietaiy form. However great that contest to toe public, be prefers the physicians £• * army should givc-thelr own direction^;-' doses. "UTiatoverprofcssional pride may® 1 * he knows as well as we do, that Dr. Ayre’a‘ 1 -' r -‘'J is an almost perfect antidote for toe AfWH that the soldiers should have the benefit well as the people.—Washington Cam D. C. m * Post-Offihs Repost.—The anneal repW; ( the Postmaster-General will show tw * number of stamps, envelopes, and MmFU wrappers sold during the year to ^ the total value of wMch is $13,0* ceipts and expeditures for the Z ee,t „ e .~, -*; 30th of last June: Receipts, being an increase of 12J per cent, on penditures, 23,C98,13I 50; an incretse ““ of per cent. A LKTTxn from Virginia complains ® scarcity of labor in that State. Th® ’■JtL that 75 negroes left Richmond Louisiana, hiring themselves at iffy “ per month to work on cotton plantaUca^cj f exodus from Virginia southward of.tne“* j ement of her population, has recently ue» jr large, and instead of diminishing, seeiw increasing with the rigor of the season. Labge Cleabangx of Limber.— Johnson yesterday cleared three cap?*, lumber, toe Mary W. Hupper for f**"j New York, Frauds Satteriy for A®® York, and Angie Amesbury, for L The aggregate number of .valued at $11,600.—Sav. Rep., 30th Gioege Sand is past sixty-five does not seem so. Her hair is w' lc V‘^,^1 and is worn in pufled bands. “ ct 'Jlfl wide, but retreats, while her eyesore T “; f j" limpid and dark. She has a delicate,-_ hand, that bestows the gentlest sor- ^ when you are introduced. She dHSS^U. J black silks, without trimmings, with , laoe collar, and cuffs of antique pattern- - . cashmere shawl, bordered with a de ^|, i flounce, is worn over her shoulders, su ^ cap, with a tea-rose on top, complex “Gentlemen of toe jury,” said H> ristor, “it will be for you to defendant shall be allowed to cota . with unblushing footsteps and witn hypocrisy in his mouth, to withdr* ^ ocks out of my client’s pocket wiW wr The gin house of Mr. P. T. S»y«^i thirty-live bales of cotton were Montgomery, on VTodnewJay dgot- iosurance. -- , • *• % *