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HLa wtio reside near each o'her can club to their provisions, supplies or; corn in V* CIV ' sivcait paper* is city. I f iitptra Wl n be sold on the streets and at the Hi f.»t cents ptr copy. K-Wrwi'i not receive anv money but Rpecie. , r Manni and \Vke*lcrn and South-Western Hmd issues at present [i\ WEDNESDAY HOUSING, AUG. 80,1865, H.usehcld Servants. ■ v truly surprising to see with what E- the Southern people have accomd [j themselves to the new order of E and with what patience they have I .1.. the/inconveniences and embarras- E ■ ilting from the sudden abolition E. rv in our midst. Forsaken by I >Tv;ti»rs, all their domestic service E M-hold arrangements have been E 1 The delicate hands of out ■ i r-tci>. unaccustomed to knead E _ii. lift the oven, cook, wash, sweep, E clean, have in many, many in- j E~’ .ci compelled t<» perfotin these j E j-viecs in the household drudgery. E . have done it, usually, with an E urtK't alacrity. All praise is due ■ Sitla-rn women fqr their patience this trying emergency,— Bt:\.;i_' and severely embarrassing to! Bti an anv other class. E w liieui, we have sought to hire K im-n as set vants; but elated with Kudrin fiocdom —ignorant and, un- B >r prehentl what freedom is—they K i\v what to do with it. Easily K and bv each other, impulsive, tickle, i. f change, they seem to think consist in going where and ■k} pleas*, without any obligation K. „r anv regard, whatever, to their Hi it rails. «>r tl»e convenience of! I \Y«* »mploy them to-day—the S'. - c’.oarlv understood uni satis-1 a signed, sealed, and de ■—tomorrow they are gone, or if ■ a—do well for a season, a very Hi' : .—they soon think that they can i Her elsewhere, get higher wages, J H» w<>rk. and more time to gad j H and become dissatisfied — | H ;i< oitv . and it f»«*on becomes m re j H t _< t (heir work done than it is to j ■ The consequence is that tlfcre are , Hi- of negroes without regular em-1 tlirouging our streets, doomed to j Starring paupers or criminals, while H - - are‘subjected to all the incon- R 1 of irregular and uncertain service H uestic work. This state of things lc sciiiuo; and wo ask, as an echo H- 't every household, is there no ■ h'rthe evil? Say you carry them, H: to orders, before the Freedman’s Hfor a violation of thoir contracts, Hte tlrcm to stay with you in compli Hd-.v« not know that they can, when i. Jovise contiuually ton thousand ' vnneos which would render their iufitiitclv preferahh; to their pres- 1 I N .v, notwithstanding all that the j H n's bureau have done and are will-; Hi —and l>r. French and those eon- Bwuls him certainly deserve our high- Hwtr.uatiou for their earnest, faithful R' aud offo.;s in their department — remedy may not be fouud iu dm bureau alone, or iu geucr.ißfct ■ iu legislation, But it is, in a large . in our own bands. Thou, say R*e should employ white servants as a Bute for negroes. If so, the negroes Hi a uui midst, to live in idleness and B-,u. to t*c supported by crime or char-; Hioi.l-, iveil if this he practicable at ■ cam t W made generally available time \o come. Nay, we must 1 >>' ■ m.jnst mi l wholesome, which Btar.ifi-t’y render it , indispensably to the interest of the freedmen to HN ;r contracts, but how can this be Vonply by adopting the system -'at the North iu the employment * ow a white servant can employment without a Li hona & former em* He. to * ln * IHtfy employer ia Boiltt louriial.anO Jllcssraaer. j the bond” from the beginning, that inch j certificate of character shall be given them j if they, keep their part of the contract j May we not adopt adopt a similar rule, ; that we will not employ servants uni ess they | bring from some responsible person a cor ticate that Are honest, obedient, in dustrious and keep their contracts. This, simple plan, universally adopted, will in a great measure relieve our difficulties, as it will fiirnish the freedmen with a strong motive and a reward to faithfulness, inas much as such a* certificate will always se cure them employment and the best wages, and without it they, must suffer as the fruit of their own doings. Teach them the value of a good character—‘-that it is all-ee scntiul to succesS in life—let this be the first great lesson they learn: then—not till then—may we hope to render them useful, upright and industrious. Under this simple plan the intelligence office* which we t ee have been opened by Messrs. Clayton & Gouldings might be made available for such information as may be needed. We urge this subject with em phasis upon the consideration of our peo ple, as it is one that we must meet continu ally .face to face and at our hearthstones; and it becomes us to act advisedly and in eo operation with the Freedman’s Bureau, for our own interest and that of those in our piiclst, whose relation to us has been suddenly and providentially changed. Domestic Items. The Administration and the military have forced Mississippi to adopt the Constitutional Am ndoicnf, abolishing slavery. The Con vention has also repealed the ordinance of secession. A silverware manufactory has been rob bed iu New York, by burglars, of thirteen th idsaud dollars’ worth of jowelry and sil ver. Gold closed at 1435. Davis, it. is said, will be brought to trial iu Richmond. ... The Government machine shops at Nor folk, Ya , have been discontinued by order of the- Government. ’j he New York Herald has private advices from England that the defect in the At lautic Cable was intentional and caused by a rival contract for the wire. Postmaster-General Denison dcelines to be a candidate for United States Senator in place of John Sherinuu. The paramour of Jenkins, the Phoenix Bank robber in New York, has been dis charged by the Court. , Gen. is petitioning for tfie pardon of his wife, who is quite wealthy. Graham & Cos. estimate their losb by the, Ketehutu defalcation at a million and a half —nearly a million of which was by the. forged checks. - Foreign Wema. The Bank of France lost 7,000,000 francs cash during tho last week. The cholera continues its ravages. The negotiations between Spain and Rome about Italy liavo been concluded.— Spaiu promises to protect the interests of ; the Legion in Romo. They have had unsettled weather in Great Britain, the rain interfering with har* vest operations. There are rumors of the potato disease in Ireland. Tho prices of wheat and flour havo advanced. Austria and Prussia have adjusted their i dispute over thc.territory they jointly stole from Denmark. .! The Emperor of Austria and -the King jof Prussia aro to meet at Dresden. Tho latter has injured his eye while hunting. % Au Alabamian, writing to the New York Times, says: Granted that we hate you with all con ceivable malignity* short of the pitch of ut ter insanity, when we look about und see the ruins of what we once thought our country, when we remember the fearful demonstration of its inherent weakness in the very hour of apparent strength, shall we, unless lunatics, think to resuscitate it in the face of the strong antagonist that has done it to death ? ’ Or shall. we, with suicidal frenzy, go on to goad intomadness the champion that has already prostrated us, thus focring him to crush us utterly ? Shull men, regardless of their dear ones, and of the cries of their own natures, still flounder on after a light which, though we ; once thought it celestial, has proved an ig jnusfutu B? . % At the Democratic Convention of Montgomery county, Ohio, the following resolution was adopted: Rooked, That in addition to the dele gates and alternates appointed, we cordial fy invite all. who are opposed to negro equality, and in favor of habeas coitus, trial by jury, State rights, tbs immediate restoration of the Union of the Statee.equal taxation, with reasonable hours, with Just and fair comp»ns«tSon for labor, to attend tbs Convention. ear Atn imlß rt *» iNf VMf WHUS pM Mlfi MACON, GtA., WEI? ST ESI) A. Y. A.UGKTST 30, 1565. [•* Love and Revenge. “ Well,” replied my companion. “I don’t go so far aB they say, that the press-gang would go to burst a door open; but if they found-it open, why, in they went. I know to one case,” he continued, with the ac- Gent and phraseology of Devonshire, “ where one young fellow—aye, as likely one as ever drawed breath—was took away the very night before he was mar ried, and in sight of his sweetheart and h s friends, too. It was a strange matter, that was, altogether,” ho muttered,' almost to himself. “ Pray tell it,” I Baid, becoming inter ested. # “ It’s a long story, master, and it’s dry work talking,” he replied, with a significant twinkle in his eye, though his face main tained its gravity. “ So it is,” said I, “ and the warm weath er has made me thirsty. Suppose we step j in here ami lay the dust; then perhaps you | wHTfator me with it.” My new acquaintance requiring no’fur ther invitation, I led the way to a little tavern I»had noticed standing apart from the village, and there, seated in the cool parlor overlooking the bay, supplied with rum and a pipe of tobacco, while I confined myself to the remarkably unpleasant com pound which the signpost «proclaim<*i as “homebrewed,” Sifter a few preliminary draws and puffs, he began his story : “ You see, mate,” he said, becoming more familiar in his conviviality, “ this isn’t altogether a story of the press-gang, as you’ll see before I’ve done, and it made a good deal of talk at the time, as I remcm b r, though I was only a lad; but the crown er’s quest set all things right, and after that it was no use asking flny further ques tions. It must now be nigh fifty years ago —fifty years!” he repeated, half closing his eyes, pausing as his mind traveled over the space which had brought so many and so great changes, e. en to that little vil lage—“that an old seafaring man they called Capt. Meredith lived —at least, that is to say, lodged—in the house of a widow named Penryn. “ You blight see the spot from the brdw of the hill, for the house itself has been pulled down since then. Well he might have been a Captain or not, I don’t pretend to say; it is certain that ho had a bit of money put by, and lived comfort able enough. Home said he had been in the smuggling trade, and made money that way. However, it don’t much matter; he was well respected, and though he- had no wife living, he had a daughter as was called Ellen, and the prettiest lass iu Craw sand and lor miles around. Well, now, this old widow had a sou named Paul, and a strange article he was. I remember} him—a little bandy-legged chap, with red ! hair, and the people used to call him ‘Doctor * ” . “ Was he a surgeon, then ?” I inter rupted. “I am going to tell you. He had been ’prenticed to a surgeon in Devenport, (we used to call it ‘Dock’ in those days) and after his time was out he had been stop ping with his mother to take care of her, or perhaps because he couldn’t find a sit uation ready for himself. The old widow had put something by, I suppose. Paul ha 4 been at home about a year when the Captain came there to lodge with his daughter. This Paul’s room was at the top of the house, where his light would be seen burning at time of night when honest folks were in bed aud asleep. Sometimes he would be met in tho morning returning with his arms full of weeds and plants, which he used to take up stairs to the ‘Doctor’s shop,’as they called it.” “ Ah, a botanist,” I remarked. «I don’t know about that,” replied my friend, slightly puzzled, “ but th'e people said he made poison out' of them. Any way, once when Paul was seen passing by the* blacksmith’s, the dog ran out and bit* him, and tho next Paul was seen to give him a piece of bread, and the dog was j dead within au hour. The neighbors. blamed him for it, ajid I recollect, when a | youngster, calling after him, ‘there goes Dr. Nightshade ! r and his stopping and saying. ‘lf I bad to doctor you, my lad, you wouldn’t • shout so loud.’ Well, very shortly after Ellen and her father had been lodging at the widow’s house, it was clear to see that Paul wished to court her. Wherever/she went, sure enough Paul wasn’t far behind, and 'things went on in this way for about six months, when one dark and wintry night, the wind blowing great guns and the sea running high, we saw signals of distress from some vessel off the point there. “ There was no lifeboat in the place, and our small craft couldn’t have lived an hour in such weather. In the morning we saw ; no signs of the-vessel, and we had sup- j posed site had gone down, and all abomd j lost* however, we heard in the day that j one-of the poor fellows had escaped, and,, though cut and bruised, had contrived to ! crawl up to the point there, where he had been found by Captain Meredith, who 1 brought him home t • his own lodging and l uursed him. He was a fine young ieilow, an orphan, as he said, by name \\ m. lian dall, and Lad been w .rkiug his way to Liverp 01, in hopes to obtain employment. The clergyman of the place —you may see ; the church on the right as you go toward 1 Edgecumb Perry—heard of this, and, be coming a good deal interested in the young man,, offered him a place as gardenei, us general servant, or something or other. “ Bill was a handy chap, and soon made friends with the people,* and they persuaded him to stop here instead ol going to Liv erpool as he inteuded. He didn’t want much pressing, for any one could Bee there was a girl in tbe ease, and that girl was Ellen Meredith, and it didn’t w ant more than two eye# to see that she liked him.— The folks used to jeer Paul about his nose being out of joint, aud Tom Trevelaiu, Iks Dlaeksmith, as owsd him a grudge for Iks gog, used to say, 'Wsll, doctor, bow’s ttafMMtytkitttnMt' SRVJSIWB’SSSJff’S 1 the same thing when he gave the dog : bread. \V*el!. things prospered’ so well ‘ with yoUng Randal!, that at last he made up his-mind to ask the Captaiu for his con- , j sent, and as the old fellow was a jolly, easy going old customer, and liked*Bill very much besides, it -wasn't long before he gave , it- . * f ' | J ust about this time the folks in the j village were frightened by the report that ! tiie pressgang were out; that they had j been as far as Plymptou, lour or five miles from the town there, «nd had pressed one or two men. The Captain and Ellen wanted to put the marriage o'fi, Bill wouldn’t hear of it, ands range to say, : Paul sided with him. Well, on the very day before the wedding, a strange man as hadn’t been seen ia the village afore, called tit the house to speak to Paul, and a neighbor as haliened to be present at the time, said afterward, that she had heard them talking together, on the road to Plymouth. Now rnind me, in- the evening, and just as they were sitting down to supper, and drinking toasts, Paul who was late, ran into the room, leaving the door open behind him, and entreated AVilliam to look to himself, as the press ing, were already in the village; and | afore poor Bill could get away, the press- ! gang were inside, and had seized him, and in spite of his struggles, and Ellen’s cries, and Paul’s entreaties, carried him to the beach, where a boat lay ready, and took him away.” “Is that all ?” I asked. “Not exactly, mate,” said my friend, finishing the rum. “The strangest part has to come.” So replenishing his glass and refilling his pipe, he continued : “Well every one, of course, was very much cast down at this, but poor Ellen particularly; however, for many months she kept a brave heart, always telling the Captain that William would return, and they would yet be happy; and d’ye see, no one liked to tell the poor tiling different, although but very-few thought they’d ever see,him again. At any.rate it was clear, Dr. Paul didn’t, for after awhile he began again to pay his addresses to her, and this time more in earnest than before; but it was no use. Ellen Would have nothing to say to him at all. Now about two yosrs after they had pressed poor Will, was getting on toward the winter time—there lu.d been a good deal of dirty weather about, and several had been lost on the coast—there was a report that several crews had been paid off, and Ellen had made up her mind more than ever that William would i return, when one day a neighbor come3 in i and says she has heard that a vessel like | the Spitfire—that was the one that William went out in—had gone down off the Sioillys, mid it wne feared that <<li Imud? i had. perished; he had it, he said from a party who was told so by Paul, who had learned it when he was over to Devenport the day before on matter of business.” This was bad news for the poor lass, but I believed she still hoped and prayed for her sailor sweetheart-, and all along kept on telling the Captain that he would live to see her and Will Randall bride aud bridegroom yet; but about a fortnight; after this, Paul comes in, in a great taking, and shows the Captain a buttle which he said he picked up on the Cornish coast, no doubt and ifted in, and in it was a paper saying the Spitfire couldn’t live through the night, and praying that whoever found the bottle would, for Heaven’s sake, send it to Captain Meredith, of Cowsaud, with the last prayer of poor Will, This -was dated back, and was aboutt square with the'dav when ihc Spitfire Was said to havo gone down ; and so now there j seemed no hope at alt, and so poor Ellen ■ seemed to think at last, for she got* paler 1 and weaker every day, and moved about J like one who had nothing to live for. To ! make matters worse, the Captain had gone ! into debt, and difficulties got bigger and bigger. Well, one dpy, all on a sudden, the Doctor goes to lwm and offers to marry Ellen out of hand, promising to discharge, all the Captain’s obligations, and stating that his long attachment had induced him to make the proposal! The Captain as you may believe, didn’t much fancy Paul for a son-in-law, but at last he relented, and pressed by his debts and troubles, urged ‘Ellon to accept him. The poor lass refused for a long time, but when she found her father’s welfare and liberty de pended on it, and besides, had lost all hope of ever seeing William Randall again, at ! last consented. “ But you don’t mean to say that they were married at last?” I interrupted. “ In two or three months, they were mar ried, and a pretty couple they must have j made —she with her tall figure and pale face, and he with his red head and bow leg-s, shambling along by her side.. They were married at Milbrook Church, on the hill, sir, and Will Randall’s old master fead the service. They said Ellen didn’t cry or faint, or have any nonsense of that kind, but went through her share quietly and calmly enough, while the Doctor seemed 'all abroad. ’ “ Now, it seems this very evening, just about desk, when the Captain had out to smoke his pipe, that Paul, who had gone up stairs, head a terrible loud scream, and, rushing back into the room where he had left Ellen, finds her fainted dead away i on the floor, and William Randall himself kneeling by her side. “ William used to say afterward that he could not forget Paul’s face when they saw each other for the first time; he used to dream of it, lie said; and he had many and many a time seen the faces of ‘Strong men who had been struck down in tbe heart and passion of battle, or who had died violent deaths iu various ways, but j Paul’s face, he said, reminded faim of a; picture be bad once teen, when quite a lit* tie lad, of tbe devil, which be remembered bad frightened him tben, hut which be bad forgotten till their eyes met that night. When Paul had recovered from bis eur> priet be m!4 sol ft word about lb# oar* riage; but-when V\ lift am said he hud just lelt Plymouth, aud hadn't seen a soul in the | village,yet^he suddenly seemed delighted i at meeting him again, and insisted on their i drinking together. “He led Ellen into another room, when ,be told Wili his mother w uld attend her, and shortly returned with two glasses of strong grog, wlfteh be put on the Vablobe tween them. ‘Now, Iliil, old mate,’ says be, | bvo’il drink to your return home.’ ‘But j what about Nelly, my poor girl V says Will, j •Never mind her,’* s.-tys Paul, ‘mother will j soon bring her round, aud r meanwhile, driuk j the grog ;’ but first ui' all, he shut the door, j and coming back to the tabic, says, ‘Now, Bill, here’s your jolly, good health, and no j heeltaps!’ and -they both empti.d their • glasses. ‘William,’ says Paul, after awhile, I ‘how do you feel V ‘Quite well, Paul, my i hearty, thank ye,’ says Will. ‘Do you,’ says Paul, griuniug, ‘then you won’t for long. William llandafr/ says he, gettiug white, and trembling, ‘we’ve a long account to settle, aud now it’s doae.’ “‘Whatd’ye mean.?’ asked Will, in sur prise, as you may be sure ‘l’ve never in jured you!’ ‘Yes you have!’ says Paul.— ‘Didn’t you step in between - me and the j eirl 1 had set my f.e.ln on?' Didn’t the ; neighbors jeer and mock tne, and drive me almost mad? And didn’t I swear to be even with you, come what might? And I am IJam ! Wb.-n you wore pressed,’ said he, getting worse aud wor.-., ‘I put the gang o i you ! l brought the account that made them think you were dead ! and uow that you have returned alive, you find the wo man you loved ti e wile of tho man you de spised.’ ‘lt’s a shameful lie,’ cues Will 4 ‘and I can’t believe it.’ ‘lt’s true,’ says Paul,‘for we were married this morning ; but true or. false, it’s all the saute to ypu, fori tell'you; Will Randall,’ and Paul turns very pale and rubs his hands, ‘you are poisoued. You drank the. brandy, and iu an hour’s time you are a d*ad man.’ ‘“Paul Pccrhyn,’ says. Will, speaking ea’nt and low, ‘you’ve played t deep game, i but you’ve made one mistake ; I heard of your trick with the press-gang, and knew you to bo.a rival of mine, and you’ve just owned to other treachery. But when a man that I knew hated me, aud who looked as you did when we u»ct ju.-t uow, suddenly became my friend and asked me to drink, I grew suspicions; and while you chttpi the door, I—changed the glasses.' “When Ellen hoard the fearful cty that Paul gave, she ran iu, pale and weak as she was, and fouqdhim all twriled.togother like, with rage or pain, and foaming at the i mouth from the poison he had swallowed. 1 ” “Aconite ?” I asked. “I. don’t know rightly what it was ! called,” fjairl the coast gmidmau, “hut it, was very strong, for Paul, they say; died within the hour, and before the two he had tried to keep asuodoi 1 .” “A strange tale,” I said, rising to go, “it’s as good as a play.” “It’s better than most of ’etn,” said he, knocking the ashes out of % his pipe, “for this is true. Good night, sir.” The German Muddle. —lt is at least a fair subject fur notice, even tbdugh the dan ger be very remote, that the States of Ger* many are discussing the probabilities of war, growing out of the high-handed measures of Prusiia in defining her claims to the con quered duchies. The question approaches a crisis of some kind. The imperial gov-' ernmeat of Austria was looked upon as hav ing performed a masterpiece of diplomacy when Cumae Blonie was dispatched to the King of Prussia with a plan by which all interests might be reconciled. Heconceded the port of Kiel as a naval station and ttendsburg as a fortress —two prominent, points*a dispute. * The propositions seemed liberal, and little doubt was entertained of. their acceptance. Bat no Herr vou Bis marck, in reply, declared 'ho could abate nothing from the conditions already laid dopn, one of which was the right to levy soldiers and sailors in the aforesaid duchies? \be “minister president,” as he is some times called, is “evidently riled.” A few days ago Bavaria, Saxony aud ilcsse-Darm stadt jointly propounded certain questions touching the sore topic which were cousid- I ered impertinent, whereupon the semi-official I Nord Dautsche Allgeuieine Ziitung (Herr | von Bismarck’s organ) publishes a brief j exposition of the policy of the Berlin Gov- I eminent, terminating in the following curt paragraph : “For fifty yoirs Prussia has fulfilled her federal duties with earncstnces, fidelity, and all kinds of sacrifices. She will not swerve in future-one hair’s breadth from those du ties. however arduous, however unjustly dis tributed, however iitile they may conduce to her private interests; but if the interna tional basis of the country is abandoned tlirouah the inequitable a-sumption of oth crs J_jf treaties are to be tern up, the day will undoubtedly have dawned when Prus sia will only allow her policy to be guided by her own well understood interests.” A Vienna letter of the sth inst. says the Emperor is pr. siding oyer a cabinet council * at which matters of high moment will be disen-sed. Gentlemen uiuit keep cool.— N. j Y. Journal of Commerce. Kejro is. Mexican Troops. —l have men- ! \ally compared our colored troops with the j Mexican, and rnv opinion is that the for- ! rner would decidedly lick the Mexicans ; though our arms are not so much better than those of the Mexicans. The latter now have Minie rifles and are drilled, hut j badly officered. Let the Hon. Hecretary | bear this in mind. To pit against the French aud Austrian troops, the very best corps would be nec essary; and I feel suretHat unless the dis cipline in our army should be bettered, an action between the French and our best troops, on open ground, would result in defeat to ours. I knew very well the qual ities of both troops, and sav this to give timely warning to the >Var Department.- Cor, Nl Y, Herald. W9T May not a bird who sleeps upon the wing be saw W esenpy a feather beef , B?ju A long train of cars loaded with i Howe’s truss bridges, to replace the bridges recently dertroyed on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division, by the unpre cedented high waters in tho Kansas rivers, passed West a few days ago in charge of Major Herring, the General Agent. Mean* time the business of the road continues without interruption, temporary bridges having hceu constructed to enable trains to pass along. The present energetic directors of the road are sparing no expense to make the road first class i&r Henry Coleman, late treasurer to Jean Francois Gravelet, alias “Blondin,” has been odhe more before the London bankruptcy court. His unsecured debts amount to up wards of £32.000, of which nearly £13,- 000 are due to the celebrated rope-walker, who is now amusing the Spaniards in Mad rid. The examination of Coleman was again adjourned, in order that certain dupli cates of pawned jewelry might be given np and the accounts amended. A gentlpnmn living on the bank oJ the Mississippi, a few miles below New Madrid, says that during the earthquake , last Thursday the river was violently agi tated. The water seemed to rise in a body severa 1 feet high, and was forced back ward up-stream. The current was actually stopped during the few seconds the earth quake continued. A fatal disease somewhat resem bling cholera in hogs, prevails among the sh6ep in the northern section of Monroe county, Missouri. Lambs lively and frisky in the morning are found dead in the even ing. One farmer'has lost thirty head froth the disease, others, iu the same neighbor hood, a smaller number. The Louisville Journal admits a Democratic majority in both branches of the Kentucky Legislature. It will be a fair working majority. They have also a majority of . the members of Congress. With a free election, they would have car ried nearly every candidate in the State. The Bureau of Employment fordis iibl -d ami discharged soldiers and sailors in New York, have organized a corps of mee ieugers from among deserving veterans, who arc furnished with certificates of thoir merit and trusLworthmcHF, aud recommended to down-town merchants and knsiness mon for employment iu carrying messages and par cels. A female candidate for the De troit penitentiary, who was bound there iu the cars the other day, was asked for her ticket by the conductor, while the officer in charge of her was temporarily absent in another car. She wouldn’t disgorge, and the ticket rhap threatpnirig to put her off, dared him to, and he did. JfcjST’ A large meeting of the oldest planters of Lafourche, La., was recently held, when they resolved to quit trying to raise sugar. Tim report of their commit tee argues that cotton cannot be raised with the presqpt labor force in the State, and they recommend planters to turn their attention entirely to corn. The immense iron plates on which will rest the “saddles” for the cables of the CoviDgton and Cincinnati bridge, were hoisted to their places on the towers of the Cincinnati side on Saturday. The plates for the toWers on the Covington side will be raised to their proper places next week. They weigh 16,000 pounds each. * 6&Y' The Louisville Democrat estimates that over 60,000 slaves have crossed over the Ohio river, under Gen. Palmer’s passes, since the Ist of May. At this rate the whole slave population of Kentucky will “pass away” in less than one .year. Hon. C. L. Vallandigham ad dressed a Democratic Convention held in Montgomery' county, Ohio, on the topics of the day.. lie was one of the delegates selected to attend the State Convention to be held at Columbus. TylSu The sentence of Major Herod, of the 16th Indiana cavalry, who was to have been executed for the murder of Lieut. Col. Loomis, lias been commuted to ten years in the Penitentiary.' The on ty part of a white lady’s gear that the colored sisters have been en abled to imitate is the “waterfall,” and on tViat account it is the subject of all the ridi cule they can command. The Chicago Journal (Republican) calls for SIOO,OOO for the Northwestern Freedmeu’s Aid Society, “to carry it tri umphantly over the obstacles ‘ which now beset it.” jfrfUr A W asbiigton paper announces » court-martial on a leave of abeence. We should be glad if all the military courts could go on on leave* of abeence and never get leave to come back again.—Pm**- J&r A young lady's first lqte kbjjbse the same iflni on her as being elsetrilsa. Xt'sa great ibeeb, bgf toes ever* Vol, LXIII — No. 126 The Banian Murrain D«ep concern is now fck throughout the Cain 4 Kingdom oo account of tbo sodden appearance of di * t * m P« r •noug horned cattJ#, m *4 which is rapidly extending. Entire Her-is bare been swept away by its ravages, aad tbo alarm is farther aggravated by tbo aimuJußeows appear c? sSrsahasrsars moetir prevailed, aad wTu*h U character, *d by exactly the aame symptoms. The «*; -—- under the name of RindOrpest, or ria -ie but opiniona differ in regard to !ta origin. A Am mittae of the Loudon corporation market, alter aa interview with the largoet meat salesmen believe that the disease watsti imported, hoi hA its ori gm In tbe dairies, whereas tbs Scotsman my. t£ dweass, beyond dotibt, was ooumnnieaisd hv in ftttiotf from anfntak brought from the comment. However thta mavf bo, farmers and breeder are meeuqg in different iocaißies to check its progress aftd dawk* a remedy. The lamke ?'»r a» , ap parently with no desirs to exaggerate, that “noth* »ng caS exceed the gravity of the qtusuoa nor the extent of the intereete at stake. A dkwa.se like "df with aimoet untan -d rapidity, and of a most iofecUooe character, r ght destroy half the cattle in the kingdom, and bo- COn ?*’ , witkoM “7 ®ffore of speech whete*.* a netloaal salamky, mm* disastrous in its eff cts than tbe cottou famine, or an adui:.oo of twea.y millions to tbo national debt." Kenorts are r*- ecived respecting tbs progress ot this ma;t mdsdy from nine ooaaliotf in logknl tail from tho county of Boxburgshire, in Scotland, inJ •> '“f ** e < ? U fi° n h W1d4,17 Heii cal officers of health and cattle doctor',o-op e as for a common interest, bolding fre M nent seaaal tattoos, and using every means to Jith.s- informa tioa, to secure the isolation of aoapected or dm •ssed cattla. No animals except tbo-*.’ of the » .- ™»* •« affected. .Prof. Stmoods, of tbo Royal Veterinary College, has fully and. crbtw !ta symptoms, showiog them to be of a stro-g tvpe easily detected, and sufficiently rspalatve to smso i * general abstinence in the see of b**f a mT - . ol© of food, woese there k tbe least rrason for suspicion. Indeed, English people ilrea ir, if «« are not mistaken Tare content to forego the pleas ure of “roast btef*’ for tbe time, so »©» $ ».» t , are sure of the “plum pudding.” This Kos- n murrain or whatever its name, must be remar.a bly vnwleot, if we may jedge from s nbmmmifia tion eigned “Physician" in one of tbe London pa pers, the writer of which spook* of rTrr experiments with small animals who had her- f. t withoogleaina ted milk. Two kittens wer.< aor.ru upoa milk from a cow slightly diseased Ore died Ik a few o*ys, but tbs outer wee restored by feeding it with tbe row yolk of eggs. The . a experiments wsss tried noon two rabbit* at. 4 a whelp With similar results. This physician r*m*' <« “The origin of those experiment* amee through two young infante in my own famiiv b- .r : wcked with tbe infection and presenting unu-. and symptoms wbiok baffled every mean* of tree* it. The sight of the little coos was grievous in .he extreme, cadaverous and ghostly, eccori.n*- ed with delirium end severe pains. Vo he lives were astaruioed. Their milk w.» iavarfeblv vomited, although reduced with lima and otrer water. The ruggeetion to analyze k was made, when it wm found to be impregnated l»rsr-lc w t» pus, thin, decomposed, and adeiteraieo with ar rowroot, fat, and glycerine ;o thicken i_ was then dispensed with, and the intro ts were f* * upon the yolks of raw new laid egg* with tba nun cases salts sparingly intermixed. lmmedi.ue re covery took place. Thi* is not ao ireUt-1 ic • stance, as every medics! practitioner can avow.” It k shocking to think not only of enure b**rfe SSItC being swrpt away by iLi* malady, but of families being invad' and and ! • > onev prostrated with the same lo*th«omo nn,. tonML It yrewtd be an art of prudence 0.. ~.. t of the officers of Mr leading agricuh; iral , to take the subject in fund and volunteer suggestions as might be useful at toe v.nous quarantine station* on the seaboard — .V . y J v ,, of Com. No Religion in the BcUgi oua Paper* I Our Sunday editor complain* th«t tber>> mno religion in the religious paper*, aD d M " °¥* h ® , lhiok * «ho*Uu'. c .no,, .i fce done about it Jt’a * bard <-**. -- " We .hall hare to uke up Te^-e our religion brethren of the qiffl spoo their Uck of y*»>» ■-ag-TrTj exhibit an itching to crowd upon aud »« • province of us political editor*, the eioncr* are supposed to have no oentderu Ti brother Beecher, for instance, wH- Ucs every week in the Independent insieMeluls learned bebdonndal from New York, th*; w« open ,and the other day in tbe expectation offindu.g Journal, when lo J the first * nd to.dit n - etlton*. iu it was beaded, “What Kind of P e ««." Wc read on and on unUI we bad flushed it. and to i it til politics, politic!'*. much so as anvtl",, z th u ever appeared in the Journal. Ao 1 th u- »> • „ gious papers go on. Now, brethren, this will a ,v- r do. You must repent and reform. You mi. t become religious. You muei set u. good pies. We look up to you as example*, and rr , els. Imagine our feelings, therefore, when, while perusing your lucubrations, we Lave to Co* at ibe name of the paper to find out whether h - * religion* or politiod sheet we are reading! When "uti£; w ** i?eu ***' 1 Home of our religious cotempcraiies that she ’d certainly be peaceful seem to strath*.’ uor. gercntly inclined than many of those i -U sinners, the polical editors TcM :• Th., n •at<( the red rod of wroth applied toil! who\l V-. from them—m politics. The* ... ‘ ~ ‘ r rere on the poor ex rebels, and we suspect that they want the door of mercy against them both here aud hereaiteV* tTT. sure the e,-rebel, are eeftS* + £2* sM 5 saved, but tbe rather questionable terms used is iLh thn^h 0r !i 8 ’ U “ to f«*red, will never reach those bard eases. The effir. v of | as a mean, of grace may well be double J pray our religious editor, to bethiu* them of matrumentahtiea. The ex-rebel*“ie V " good deal already, enough, it would aeem ;n n.r>-: msunces to satisfy.nyChri-Uanman. iorei.m pie, the Vicksburg Cadets” went Into the war t- e hundred and twenty-three strong, and nwuil ® ,x - . Tbe Vicksburg Sharpshooters” went or e hundred and twenty-four at lO cg, and returned "tu™ Jv ***“. th#t re,urned "• w 7 Et&THi q,Jt ’ * Dd berwafler. We are told, however, that they, and all hkwdbem, baven ‘7*‘ «Pf nted, and that there i. no trwS them till they do. Perhaps no t, but it is aomewl.*t problematifj whether tbe peculiar and: which our religious co temporaries wogld «..i j. .*t them to is the best way to eflect so desi-*l,!e an object. If we mistake not, a certain old book, which has fallen somewhat into desuetude of ;*ua years—whose perusal we would recommend to ocr religious editors—hints about me«ho<J. It inculcates, If we recollect aright, the to- ,ve neaa of enemies, returning good for evil, a- 4 u.wcb more unfashionable doctrine of that kind. Oir dearly beloved brethren of the Independent, tho Methodist, the Examiner, etc., may procure the book,, we believe, in some of the stall* of thw bibUopolirtts of New York. They will fiod in it much interestihg matter with which they mv-ht fill their page, to the delectation, no doubt, of tbfcir numerous readers. Novelty I.always charm- Ing. W# let off tiie bretbreb mildly to-day, hot If they don’t repent by nest week we shall be uadoe tbe painful neeoMity of rMortiog to a*v*r*t die cipUna.—Louituillt Journal. tST What io th# boo oi eighiof ttd weeping ae we fioat down ibe etream eC time? Why make the veyage es hie ft {wsfifeg veyaftf