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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1866)
TEE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONALIST Yankee School Makmm.—A psprr, *nyn fTic proclaim* In tUc most hearties* itiitl cold-blooded manner « terrible c.ilami*-> which lia* recently feilco upon the people of Ibai heroic city. “ Seven school in inn* left otir city on yesterday lor the North and may Jov go with-them,” remarks jho paper iu question. Tlio mortng cause of tins sudden oxodn* ie not stated, hut from the tone of th" Index vre feci a** tired that the people of Peters burg are bearing the loss of these *«r«<-tiv» and Interesting females with philosophic If not with Christian resignation. There was, no doubt, Very pood reasons for the departure of these “ unprotected females,” but they arc not stated. Whether they have taught all the young “colored” Idea* on the South Side how to shoot, or have been crossed In love, Is not stated. During their sojourn among us, however, wc sincerely hope, they were not profanely de nounced bv rowdio* like that anonymous victim of “Virginia brutality,” who poured fourth the harrowing tale ol her trials in the New York Tribune some mouths ago. We hope the in tercourse of these lovely missionaries and the colored heathen was mutually pleasant and ad vantageous. We trust that the juvenile frecd men were doolie and intelligent, and that the adult Cnflees were grateful and appreciative of the sacrifices of these fair maidens of New England. Their opportunities for studying our domestic and social habits will no doubt enable them to write Intelligently, spicily and pleasantly of high life In Petersburg. Let us, for Hie Mike of all the strong-minded and lovely *'school inarms” who are now at the South, iuuuige Ihe gallant hope that their sense ol duty to the juvenile Cuffeus ol the late Southern Confederacy will not induce them to remain with us a moment longer than is re quired to fultill their magnificent mission.—- There are a number of young negroes In Africa whose educations, we have reason to tear, are not properly eared for. Several cargoes of missionaries and female teacher* having re cently been devoured in that benighted land, there Is a fipli mild field Ibr Usefulness now open to the young ladies of New England why wish to regenerate the negro in the “ land of hi* noble ancestors." We really stand io no need of Northern ** school inarms” at tho South, either for white or black pupils, but the “first families” in Africa all desire to procure fresh, plump nViil tender teachers and missionaries. The inva sion of the Confederate Suites hy an army of “ school inarm*” alter the collapse of the Con federacy wits a mistake. WV fear their nqxiety to loach the Southern pickaninnies made them forgot the necessities—moral, educational and religious—of the unfortunate Northern negroes of whose horrible condition we read such shocking accounts in tho Boston, New York and Philadelphia Journals. National Bawk*.—All of the recent failures of ‘'National Isinks” says the Richmond Times, can be trnoed to precisely the game cause. In every Instance they have been smashed by en deavoring to make more than the legal rates of interest from their funds. The Pennsylvania and Washington bank explosions were the re sult of lending their funds to a few reckless stock gamblers and speculators, when they should have given accommodations to a mulll tnde ofjserfbetly solvent small borrowers. The Washington hank permitted a single broker to borrow nearly all its money. As money I* not ordinarily loaned by • bank from motives of disinterested friendship, we suppose the broker who absorbed and wasted six hund red thousand dollars of the capital ol the Washington bank, offered speculative induce ments which were 100 tempting to be resisted. The batik directors yielded to the temptation and the hank Is broken and dishonored. And such will be the fate eventually of every bank whirh combines with stock jobbers and speculators to do any other than u legitimate banking business. The profits of a bank which lends its money fairly and impartially to all who offer perfectly “ good accommodation pa per,” may not be us large as those of the dis honest Institutions which play Into tho hands of some merciless usurper, hut It Is Invariably safe from the possibility of bankruptcy. Those of our National banks which are doing a strict ly legitimate business, and are lending their capital in small sum* to a multitude of perfect ly responsible men of business are as safe as any banks enu be, whose solvency depends upon the value of Government sceurities. But when a city Is well supplied with banks and I tanking capital, whose citizens however ran n<W obtain money except at usurious rates of Interest, there Is strong reason for the suspi cion that the banks arc favoring one class of borrowers at tho expense of the groat mass of business men. Where snob Is the case, In spite of the large dividends declared by such banks, they are In an unsound and dangerous condition, because tlielr funds are In all proba bility in the hands of a few speculating money lenders. Underwood's tißAsu Jury.—The Alexan dria Gazette says : “We are Informed by a gen tleman who was born and raised and has lived uninterruptedly In ihie city for upwards or half a eenlury, who is known to all our citizens, and has at various times held important muni cipal positions, that of the thirteen members of Judge Underwood's grand jury, now in session In Norfolk, who hail from Alexandria, he Ims never heard of but three, and of these three, though clover in their way, no sane man would ever have supposed for an instant that a petty Juryman even could be selected.” Gin. How Ann's Sanotitt.—Henry Ward BeocWr, about the same time, was so carried away with sonic abominable slanders toft by Gen. Howard, at au anniversary meeting in New York, that he modestly compared himself to Jhon the Baptist,hy saying that hr was not wor thy to antic UeucnU Howards l shoes—thus, also paying the General a very high compliment iudeed. There is a movement on foot at Paducah to send ono or more somebodies to Mexico to iook at the country, investigate matters there generally, and report the result for the benefit ol certain Kentuckians who ore tucking of emigrating to Mexico. The Charlotte am) South Carolina Raai.road Comcast —We are indebted, says the Columbia South Carolinian, to the courtesy of ,Col. William Johnston fbr a copy of the rH port of the Eighteenth Animal Meeting of the ■Stockholders of the ul>oie road, with accom panying documents. The report of the President is graphic enough to be perpetuated as histotv. Its first sentence embrace* the statement tiiat “Gen. Sherman with a large array entered the city of Columbia and laid it in ruins,” and the writer then goes on to dcoeribe with much clearness and (Brcc the nnliarmy results of the war as they have affectw! *hr re nr pany of which be is chief. Wc have onlv space, however, for the synop sis of incidents contained in the report of a committee appointed to examine the report* of the President, Superintendent and Treasurer, wherein a handsome compliment is paid to these officer» u (or tlielr efficiency and energy. The committee state that having examined the pajiers referred to, and looking to general re sults, such a condition of the affairs of this company is therein presented as is not only gratifying, but far exceeding, in prosperity and success, our most reasonable aud sanguine ex pectation. A simple recapitulation of the prin cipal fiicts in the history of the road for the last year sets tlds forth in the most prominent light. This company, owning a road one hundred and ten miles in length, costing $2,000,000,1(00, has lost by fire and otherwise, its foundry, ma chine and car shops, all stationary machinery and etigine*. fifty miles of the whole super structure of the track, and all depots, water stations and wood thereon, a bridge costing SBO,OOO, sixteen hundred bnlcs of cotton, now worth at least $230,000; has had sixiy-five slaves, costing not less than $95,000, emanci pated, mvl has lost SBOO,OOO of debts dne the company by the Confederate States, besides $300,000 worth ot property destroyed by acci dental fires in Columbia and Charlotte. That while left in this crippled condition, without funds, wood, provisions or timber, witii the political, financial and labor systems of the country broken up, and a debt of $214,000 hanging over it, the officers have proceeded to repair the mutilated track, cars und engines; have rebuilt t tveuty-seven miles of the track de stroyed, met all the demands of the country for transportation, and made considerable pro gress towards an early completion of the bridge over the Catawba, and the remainder ot the track destroyed. In this, wc see exhibited, on the part of the President und his co-laborers, such energy—such au earnest interest iu the dis charge of their respecoivo duties, attended with such satisfactory results, Unit verbal commen dation would lie superfluous. The bonded debt is reported at $274,000, of which $80,500 of principal, and $71,000 of in terest is past due and must be provided ior. Fuuds should also be provided to meet obliga tions Incurred for iron for the track, for materi als for the bridge, und other expenses incident thereto. The committee therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolution ; Ilcsolred, That the President and Directors be, and are hereby authorized, for the full equip ment and completion of the road, to fund the bonds, coupons, and interest past dne, to issue new bonds for tho purpose of raising fuuds from time to time. Provided, that the aggre gate amount of the bonded debt shall at no time exceed five hundred thousand dollars. This will authorize the addition of only $155,- 000 to the present bonded debt. In the report of PresldentMohnston, wc note the following interesting points : More than three-fourths of the rails burnt and twisted by Sherman’s army have, by means of furnaces and manipulation, been restored to the track. Mas. RonKiix Toombs. —This lady passed through Montgomery on Saturday last on the way to Atlanta, On. She came directly from Havana, at which place she left Mr. Toombs, lie is in excellent health and spirits, enduring his exile with much fortitude. His advice to tho young men of the South is that they re main iu the South, which he still cousidcrs a % country much preferable to Brazil, Mexico, or Cuba, and, by putieut endurance and active in dustry, rebuild upon the surest of foundations their own shattered fortunes aud that of their native laud.— Mail. Hypocrisy. —Four millions of sermons are annually preached in Great Britain, which ac counts for the goodness of the people there. Yes ! and the believers of those sermons sent George Thompson over to the United States to civilize the slavehokders ; and just about the same period there was a parliament Commis sion appointed to examine iuto the collieries, aud they reported that thousands of men were a thousand feet tiuder ground that never saw God's sun, and who did not know that there was a God at all; and women, too, and chil dren that were horn in the coal-pits, who had no more idea of a world of light than the toad 'found imbedded in Ihc Scottish rocks of pre adamite formation. Chance tor Entbrukisino Darkies.— Seven thousand alligators, we are informed, have been purchased in the neighborhood of New Orleans, for shipment to Ireland by the British Aftearaer. They are of pretty good growth, and were bought from a contraband at the rate of $3 50 per loot. Some enterprising men might make this example the basis of a thriving trade. Alligators’ skins, fat and oil, are already known to have a marketable value ; why may the animals not be bred and hunted for them * Captain A. Catesbt Jonrs.— This gallaut officer, formerly Lieutenant in the United States Navy, and during the late war Captain in the Confederate Naval service, has been ap pointed by the Peruvian Government Chief of Ordnance In the Navy of that country. He is well known, fiir aud wide, for gallant and meri torious conduct, having been First Lieutenant of the Aimed iron clad “Virginia,” and hero ically participated lu the memorable engage ments between tiiat vessel and the United State* fleet, in Ilamptou Roads, iijlSfii. Lovisiana Flooded. —The Great Morganza and grand levees above have given way, aud .ill Southern Louisiana is flooded. Thirteen ‘parishes are now overflowed, and the people are very indignant at the inefficiency of the Levee Commissioners. The destruction of property will b« incalculable. ' From Washington. Oonhts About the Immediate Trial of Mr. bans The Matter of a Jury —The Complicity Charge Abandoned— Expressions of Mr. Davis ou the Death of Mr Lincoln. A special dispatch to the Philadelphia Ledger gives (he following interesting news; t;ie trial or mil patj^. Washington. May 9.—There are said to be *f rion* doubts to-dav whether Mr. Chase will coueeut to try the ease of Davis for treason, even now that Congress lias opened the way for him to do so. Rumor says that he prefers rather to postpone the trial for some months vet, which postponement the President is kuovrn to be decidedly adverse to. The coun sel for Davis are said to be all ready to proceed with the trial, and the President himself has on several occasions expressed a desire that it should proceed with the least possible delay. a jury the difficulty. Should the trial be finally arranged, the first and great difficulty will be the einpanuelling of a jury who have not already made up their minds npon the prisoner’s guilt or innocence ; and when a jury is obtained, the chances are thought to be niuety-niue out of a hundred that they will fail to agree. ONE CHARGE ABANDONED. The intention of bringing the prisoner to trial ou the charge of alleged complicity In the assa*sination plot, has, I am told, been aban doned, and the report about the “important testimony” that was to convict him having been "abstracted” from the War Department, is supposed to be n very clever method for let ting the charge drop. MR. DAVIS’ DENTAL. A gentleman who has read this evidence (be fore it w as “ abstracted,”) informs me that it did uot contain a single fact that would have been thought sufficient by the President, or any other fair-minded man, to order the trial sought. Davis himself lias said that he never knew a word with reference to the dark and damnable transaction until lie received tidings of the bloody deed while at Damjlle. A gentleman who was with him there, and saw the dispatch when It was placed in his hands, says that Davis, on reading If, made the remark: “This is most extraordinary intelligence!” He after ward* expressed deep regret at what laid occurred, and in no instance was ever known by liis friends to uphold tho net. MRS. DAVIS TO REMAIN WITH IIKR HUSBAND. It is understood that Mrs. Davis is now to remain with her hneband till his (ate is decided one way qr the other. She is said to, be in possession of ample means, which will enable her to remain at the fortress without being an additional burden upon the Government. Senator Wilson comes down upon the Presi dent after thiswise: “ ! believe, upon my conscience, [the Presi dent] has made more anxious nights, more troubled days, more bitter thoughts, more ago ny and sorrow- of honest, conscientious, God fearing men and women of our country than were ever made by any other man tiiat ever lived. Upon my conscience, I say that I be lieve Mr. Johnson has made more thoughtful men and women bow- heads in anxiety and sorrow during tin- pasj, year than did the rebel chiefs during their four years of fire and blood.” , Wilson forgets. The National Intelligencer thinks that when Wilson was flyiug at top speed and by the nearest way from the first Manassas, whither he hnd gone looking for fun, lie had a more anxious and troubled time for fear of the “rebels,” than any that Johnson has brought upon him. Past Prating. —A correspondent of a New York Radical paper complains, tiiat a number of Methodist ministers, wliotu he met on a Mis sissippi steamer, while ou their way to the Gen eral Conference at New Orleans, prayed night and morning for the President, but did not ouce pray for Cougress. This complaint is just. The President doesn’t need praying for particularly, while if there ever was anything on this earth tiiat did, it is the present Con gress. The ministers in. question, however, may have thought the concern past praying for. in that case, they were uot so much to blame. Honor to Jackson.— The 10th of May—the anniversary of the death of Jackson—was solmnlv observed at Richmond. The stores were’draped iu mourning, Hollywood Cemetery was crowded with those who came to lay flow ers on the graves of the once neglected dead, and flic day was passed in ceremonies of the most impressive character. Why Paymasters Deposit in Private Banks, —The Herald's special says that unfa vorable comment is excited by the fact of paymasters and others having such large sums deposited In banks to their own credit, and upon which they undoubtedly receive interest or douceurs in some way, while the Govern ment is paying a high rate of interest on the same inOuev, obtained on temporary loans and otherwise. One Wat to Get Back a Deposit.—A telegraphic dispatch from Washington says: “A mau who had a considerable amount on deposit in the Merchants’ National Bank, now suspended, in this city, followed the President of that institution this morning, threatening his life unless the money was paid. The funds were handed over without delay.” Church Militant.—On a Bt. Louis Frank lin avenue car, a Catholic priest, who was among the passengers, became angry about the sacrilegious remarks of another passenger and up with his fist and knocked the heretic down. It is stated that during the melee the driver gave the heretic a welt across the face with his whip. Rabid. —Sneh is the cupidity ot the male nurses in the Paris hotels, stimulated by deal ers In hair, the moment a female patient dies her whole head of hair is out off. One male nurse at the Hotel Dieu is said to have made 800 francs by selling the hair and teeth of dead patients in his ward ! for dentists are as eager purchasers of corpses’ teeth as hair dressers are of corpses’ hair. The Hannibal (Mo.) Courier laments that the town is threatened with a visit from the cholera and the Hon. John Hogan, and expresses its in ability to determine which visitation is most to be dreaded. Cheap Cotton. —Thaddeus Stevens, th* leader of the Republican party, its foremost representative mau, and tho exponent of its best intelligence, got up in the House of Represen tatives a few days ago and said.hc was credibly informed that, with free. labor, cotton could be produced for one cent b pound. Late Foreign Fashions. Compiled for the New York Timex from Tier Bazar—The Mueen, te. Never has a Spring opened with more variety in fa.-likms. All those which delighted us du ring last Sring and Autumn seem vieing with new ones for supremacy. To be dressed within the stvle of the year past, and be out of fashion, is quite imoossibkt. The newest fashionable freaks are more in the line of trimming and general finishing off than of positive shape or color. For bonnets the prevailing and favorite styles seem to be the Fanclion, Empire and Pamela, and up to the present week it is impossible to sav which syill i e taken into popular favor. The Fanchon are nol precisely similar to those worn last vearaas the new forms under that name are muciniVcr in every respect than their pre decesffi»< When they were first introduced there was an attempt made at crowns nothing substantial and firm, it is true; but lace, rib bon, and an occasional spray or two of flowers supplied the place. But the new Fanchons are shorn of these adornments, and enormous chignons project, unadorned from the back of the head in their stead. Fancy straw, worked with crystal and jet beads, will be very fashion able, both for Fanchon and Empire bonnets, during the forthcoming six or eight weeks. A writer from Paris says that the bonnets worth at the races in the Bole de Boulogne were for the most part composed entirely of flowers of one kind or another, which were placed upon tulle, sud made to cover the small round or triangle Fanchon, which now forms the modern bonnet. Thus one bonnet was entirely a seme of girgflees, (wall flowers,) those above being yellow aud orange, while a few under the rim assumed a reddish tinge. A prettier specimen by far was composed of lily of the valley, the dew falling in crystal drops on the forehead and chignon of the fair wearer.. White daisies formed another, and with this the toilette worn was almost entirely white, relieved hy narrow black stripes. * For out-of-door wear paletots of all descrip tions are in favor. They are made loose or fit ting the fignre according to the fancy of the wearer. The Paris correspondent of the Queen says it has become latterly the fashion to wear in Paris what formerly Was Only to be seen at sea-bath ing places aud spas, namely, paletots made of purple and white cloth, and extremely elegant they look. The purple paletots are cut to fit the figure partially, and arc covered with black silk braid or syntactic, worked with jet beads. The braiding designs surpass anything I have seen in former seasons, being arranged iu grace ful sprays on the basques, shoulders and sleeves. The front of the paletot is ornamented with frog buttons. The paletots made ot white cloth are not so highly ornamented as the purple ones ; they are cut with a round basque iu front, and are edged with a broad, flat worsted braid, headed with narrow soutache, which describes either trefoils or diamonds ; gimp ornaments are interspersed with the braiding pattern, and gimp frog buttons decorate the front of the paletot. \ Paletots made qf grey and fancy cloths arc much less elaborately trimmed than the purple and white ones, but, again, those made of Py renean cloth and Algerian silk, and fastened with buttons mnde of Aleppo marble, are very highly ornamented. A white cloth paletot, iu its first freshness, trimmed with llama fringe, is not considered now at all inappropriate for an afternoon dress toilette. For traveling and for seaside wear Talmas will be general. The following is a pretty style of trimming them: Imagine a sailor-blue cloth Talma cut out in scollops, round at the tower, and square at the upper edge, these scollops embroidered aud bound with braid, and alter nating with scollops made ol black taffetas, then a second row of cloth scollops terminating the border of the paletot. Paletots made of rich black gros grain or faille ■ are no longer worn straight round the edge ; they are now almost invariably cut out in either square or round scollops. The bas quines with three points are considered tho most stylish ; two points fell at the sides, anti one at the back. The points are all wide. The basqnine is edged with either a lace ruche, or with gimp richly] worked with jet. Those which are trimmed with guipure are made to fit the figure closely, and the basqutnes, which are rounded at the back, are as plain upon the as an Empire dress. A bow with long euds, made of moire ribbon, is invariably added at the top of the back of the paletot. Colored hand embroidery on shawls is anew feature in the fashions introduced for the coming spring and summer. The* materials upon which the work- is executed are China crepe, French crepe , fine cashmere, Ae., and upon black or white grounds. Flowers and leaves are introduced in the natural colors, sometimes in garlands carried round the shawl as a border, and sometimes in sprigs. .Lace patterns in black aud white, and executed with a Russian stitch, are also used, sometimes alouc, and at others mixed with the colored flowers. Rich soft silk fringes, knotted, are generally added to these shawls, but sometimes the border is of lace, black or white, or a mixture of both. Black aud white grenadine shawls, em broidered in scarlet, deserve notice as a novel. Plain shawls also, in these thin materials, and fringed, and also plain scarf) shawls in llama, iu all colors, delicate light blues and rich rose shades will be worn. Avery pretty black grenadine shawl was richly embroidered, both in the upper and lower half, in black tulle and jet bends, and the edge was of lace. Other embroidered grenadines were scalloped and overcast at the edge, uot “requiring any fringe or otheff’ornament. Deep talmas of heavy black gros grain silk are much worn in Paris. They are arranged in a broad fold at the top of the back, and con fined for several inches below the neck band by stripes of moire ribbons fastened with heavy jet buttons. A stylish promenade toilette is a brown gros grain dress, cut in the Princessc form, and trimmed with black velvet and mother-of-pearl buttons. Black velvet ribbon is sewn in stripes on the bodice and upper part of the skirt, so as to stimmuiate a paletot. The black velvet is studded with buttons and every stripe termi nates with a brown and black tassel. A black tnjle bonnet, embroidered and ornamented with sprays of brown velvet leaves. If the tnother oi-pearl buttons are considered too conspiuons on the black velvet, they can be replaced by silk ones to match the dress. For evening drosses the styles are infinite. At a grand charity ball given recently by Lady Cowley at the Grand Hotel de Paris, white dresses predominated. The tinsel so popular during the past winter appeared to have boen abandoned, and gilded ornaments, bsada and spangles, were laid aside for flowers. Fringes made entirely of flowers were used for border ing the coat-bodices ; garlands of flowers, in stead of sashes, looped np tulle skirts ; and flowers were general in the hair. Indeed, all the head-dresses were a I’antique, consisting of cordons of flexible branches of hawthorne and violets, small convolvuli, and variegated foliage, mounted as Benoitons, and festooned from one ear to another, suspended in front of the neck and throat. A style of evening dress which is exceedingly novel and pretty, consists of rich uuwatered moire, ent in the Empire form, the low bodice being pointed both in front and at the back of the waist. A narrow Indian cashmere scarf forms braces passing from the left shoulder, crossing the bodice and fastening on the right side ot the skirt. I have seen this arrangement with a scarlet Indian scarf on a rich white gros grain dress, made quite plain, without any other trimnvog, with a long train and almost without crinoline, and the effect was extremely crood A white cashmere scarf on a pale bine dress also looks well. The hair is worn latterly much higher at the . back of the head: the chignons anneor u mounting to the summit. Those midi, „ b * ringlets are the most popular; and t h« P ° f imitated in nets, which are called Benoitm. »i re everything is christened Benoitons now LJu!- These nets, which match the hair in eoi^VT 3 '®' a mass of ringlets imitated in verv fine Jiu? Te the back. They are anything but 7 "»v* ook, at a short distance, very like a <w. , head—it is so very palpable that the curing uot hair. The fashion of dyeing the hri? r s or bright auburn is at last passing awav v ? vet bandalets are now replaced bv those of h ’ cade moire and gros grain ribbons; the sir*.™' to the bow at the back of the head, - were before, have latterly lengthened cottiZi in silks, anew shade is worn, callod “ Patti pink.” It is a sort of lilac pink anrfT generally found becoming to the complexion * Another new material, ehristenedthe « Chi™ bery foulard,” is already extremely feshionahu It is a fabric between the Chamber taffetas in texture, and is, in fact, a light bri' liant silk, which falls in very graceful fold, t« pearl-gray it has all the efl4 of being ™™ with silver threads, so brilliant is it. The Chan, .bery foulard is always worn striped; -rav wbb colored stripes. Tn white ana eerist# white and blue, and white aud mauve it is partieulariv pretty, and although light.it is a material whiei. does not soil rapidly, for the reason its surface being silky the dust docs uot cling to it It t, a Lyons manufacture, and innnv of the Parisian ladies have ordered dresses of it direct from that city, so as to make sure of having the genu ine material. Toilettes composed of this" Chambery foulard arc worn with a paletot to correspond. They are trimmed with crosscut bands, ornamented with crystal or jet beads with fringe of the same color as the stripes ’ White and scarlet will be the Parisian Sum mer mixture. Many white foulard bodies are trimmed witii these colors. Avery pretty Dne has, first, scarlet ribbon frill and black lace round the throat, and another turned down as a collar round the neck. Seaflet buttons cov ered with Cluny lace are arranged down the front, and the eufls match the neck. Garibaldis in white muslin are trimmed with a new,material in cotton that washes with them and looks at sight like black ribbon and Cluny lace. Some of tliese bodices in fine muslin lace and embroidery, are cut open square at the throat. Others cross like a fchu, and are com posed of narrow tucks and lace. Medallions and Bcneitons are used very ex tensively for trimming bonnets, dresses and paletots. Chains festooned across thebackand tastened on each shoulder by huge medallions, form a favorite trimming for paletots, while the sleeves aud fronts of the garment are pro fusely onamented with medallion buttons. We have seen silver chains very tastefully appled to a black gros grain dress. The body was ajaclcet made with tabs. A military knot of several rows of chains on the right shoulder, ended in a square medallion, which allowed some latitude as to the mode of arrangement. That which brought it across the chest was perhaps the most effective. Square silver ornaments and white pipings carried out the effect of the silver cord very happily. United States Census for 1860—Georgia, We do not think that we could give our read ers a more desirable article than the following. The census is from Ist June, 1859, to 31st of' May, 1800. It is interesting as to,the showing our State will make in. 1870, four years heuce. File away this copy for future reference: Area in square miles, 58,000. Population, 1,057,386. Population per square mile, 1,823. Absolute ratio increase of population per square mile from 1850 to 1860, 3.61. Whites in 1850, 591,588 ; colored—Free, 3,500 ; Slaves, 462,198—t0ta1, 1,057,286. Ratio of increase from 1850 to 1860,13.42 ; Colored—Free, 19.51; Slaves, 21.10—Total 1,667. Ratio of increase from 1790 to 1860—White, 1,018.60; Colored—Free, 779.40; Slave, 1,489.41 —Total, 1,180.81. Representative population, 572,406. Repre sentation under the appointment in 38th Con gress, 7—Loss, 1. White males, 301,066; Females, 290,484; Col ored —Free Male's, 1,669; Females, 1,831; Slaves—Males, 239,493 ; Females, 233;005. Deaths from the Ist of June, 1859, to 31st May 1860—Males, 6,651; Females, 6,156—T0ta1, 12,807. Deaths by accident—Males, 500; Females, 428. Suicides—Males, 14 ; Females, 7. Homi cides—Males, 15 ; Females,'s. Murder—Males, 15; Females, 2. Executed, i.—Total, Males, .547; Females, 442. Deaf and Dumb—Free, 345; Slaves, 83. Value of Agricultural Implements produced during the year, ending June 1, 1860, $252,075. V’alue of Steam Engines and Machinery pro duced in the State duriug the year ending Ist June, 1860, $375,345. Iron Founding in the State, for the same period, $79,000. Bituminous Coal produced—bushels, 48,000 ; value, $4,500. Value of sawed and planed Lumber, $3,- 064,026. Value of Flour and Meal produced, $3,- 323,730. Spirituous Liquors distilled—number of es tablishments, 8; total gallons, 16,620; value, 11,804. Cotton Goods produced—number of estab lishments, 32; Captal invested, $1,854,603; I pounds of cotton, 12,977,904; value of raw mi terial, $1,689,075. I Number of Spindles, 44,313—L00m5, 1,068- Hands employed, Male 1,475; Female, 1,909; annual cost of labor, $482,580; annual product, $2,215,636. Woolen Goods, mixed, <ftc. Number of es tablishments, 58, Annual product, $465,000. Leather produced, $393,184. Boots and 6hoes manufactured—Number of establishments, 117; capital Invested, $163,430; value of raw material, $173,666; Hands em ployed—Male, 347; Female 10 ; cost of labor, $92,904 ; Annual products, $357,267. Banks in the State, 29; Capital, $16,689,560; Specie, $3,211,974; Circulation, $8,798,100; Deposits, $3,838,289. Assessed value of Real Estate and Fersonal Property—Real Estate, $179,801,441; Personal Property, $438,430,946—T0ta1, $645,895,237. Production of Agriculture—Lands improved, Acres, 8,063,758 ; 1) nimproved—Acres, 18,587,- 732. Cash value of Farmff, $157,072,803; Value of Farming Implements and Machinery, $6,844, 387. H0r5e5—194,972; Mules, 120,069; Sheep, 638,214; Swine, 2,411,466; Milch Cows, 299,- 688 ; Oxen 74,487, other cattle, 893,049. Value of Live Stock, $38,372,334. Grain—Wheat, bushels, 2,544,913; Rye, 115,- 532; Corn, 30,776,393; Oats, 1,231,817; Rice, pounds, 52,507,662 ; Tobacco, 919,316. Ginned Cotton, bales, 100 pounds each, 701,- 840, at SSO a bale, $35,063,000. Wool, pounds, 946,339; Peas, bushels, 1,785,- 314; Irish Potatoes, 316,552; Sweet Potatoes, 6,508,541; Barley, 14,682 ; Buck Wheat, 3,033. Value of Orchard Products, $176,048. Wine, gallons, 27,646. Value of Market Gardens, $76,500. Butter, pounds, 5,439,765. Cheese 15,597. Hay, tons, 46,448. Cane Sugar, hhds, 1,167; Cane Molasses, gal lons, 546,770; Sorghum do., 103,550. Vain* of home-made Manufactures, $1,431,- 413. Valne of Animals slaughtered, $10,908,304. Newspapers, Periodicals, Ac., 79; number of copies, annually, 13,415,444. . N umber of miles of Railroads, 1,404; Csst of construction, $29,057,744. Population of the principal cities in the State —Augusta, 12,493; Columbus, 9,631; Savanna! ‘mffji.—MiUedqeoiUe Recorder. Capt. Thomas Joyes, the first white m* ,c child bom in Louisvillef died in that city a tttt days ago, in the 78th year of his age.
