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21) c vUc cklii Constitutionalist. BT STOCKTON k CO. OCR TERMS. The foHowlng are, the rates of Subscription: Daily, one year $lO 00 Whiu, one year...... $3 00 We Are Growing Old. We are growing old—how the thought will rise, When a glance is hatkward cast O.i some !ong-rem“mbered spot that lies In the silence of the past; It raay te the shrine or our early tows, ' Or the tomb of early tears, But it seems like a f r-off isle to us, Iq the stormy sea of years. Oh i wide end wild are the waves that part Our steps from its greenness now, And we miss the joy of many a heart, And the light of many a brow; For deep o’er man-, a stately hark Have the.whelming billows rolled, That steered with us from that early mark— Oh, riends I we are growing oM 1 Old in the dimness of the dust Os our daily toils andcares— Old in the wrecks of love and trust Which our bm thened memory bears. Each form may wear to the passing gaze Hhe bloom of life’s freshness yet, And beams may brighten our latter days Which the morning never met Bat, oh I the changes we have seen, In the far and winding way. The graves in our paths that have grown green, And the locks that have grown gray 1 The winters still on our 6wn may spare Th sable or the sold; But we see their snows upon brighter hiir, And, frieqds, we are growing old! We have gained the world’s cold wisdom now, We have learned to praise and fear; But where are living founts whose flow Was a joy of heart to hear ? We have won the wealth of many a clime, And the loie of many' a page; But where is the hope that saw in time But its boundless heritage! Will it come again, when the violet wakes, And the woods their youth renew I We have stood in the light of sunny brakes, Where the bloom is deep and bine ; And our souls might joy in the spring-time then, But the joy was faint and cold; For it never could givens the yuuth again Os hearts, that are growing old. [From Harper’s Magazine. The Silent City at Greenwood. There’s a city vast yet voiceless, growing ever street on street, Whither Rends with friends e’er meeting, ever meet ing never greet; And where rivals fierce and vsngefol, calm and silent mntely meet; Never greeting, ever meet. There are traders without traffic, merchants without hooks or gains; Tender bribes in new-made chambers, where the trickling water stains; Where the guests forget to come, and strange, listen ing silence reigns ; Listening silence ever reigns. Ships sail past this silent city, hut their owners quiet lie, And no* signals fly from top-tree ’gainst the glowing, crimson «ky, Telling the neglectful owner that his well built Argosy For the fleece is sailing by. Here the belle forgets the fashions, mindless of her snow-white dress ; All unheeded now her toilet, free, ungathered lock and tress; None here flatter face or figure, none come fondly to caress; Treases flow, and none caress. Hushed are aU.these many mansions, barred and bolted doorand gate; , ' Narrow all the walls and earthy, and the roof-trees steep and straight; Boom foT all I—the high and lowly. Rich and poor here equal mate p Equal dwell and equal mate. Flowers are blooming near these mansions, kissed by loving deals at night. Breathing softly round their porches, flowing through the cooling light; Pealing from their bells sweet pneie, pealing odors puge and white; Pealing on’y to the night. Here each keeps his well-ceiled dwelling, fearing naught of quarter-day ; Here no landlord dans the tenant, and no tenant moves away; Dwelling ever unevioied, dwelling on from May to Kay; Paying never quarter-day. Beckons ever this mute city to its comrade living gay; To its comrade laughing loudly, sitting on the pu'sing bay; Drawing from its masqueraders pale, white spectres day by day ; - Spectres now, men yesterday. Thus two citiesgrow forever, parted by a narrow tide, This the shadow, that the substance, growing by each other’s side; Gliding: one into the other, and forever more shall ’ Growing ever side by side. In the Right. I bless Thee, 6, my God ! I bless Thee for the night— The stilt and solemn night, When tired nature sinks to calm repose; For aching hearts, oppressed with weary woes, May in the silent hours of the night Bare their mate anguish to Thy pitying sight. I b'ess thee for the balm, The deep and holy calm With which my sad, despairing soul is filled— The nope of sweet release, The whisperings of peace, When Thy dear voice has through the tempest thrilled. I bless Thee, O, my God I , I bless Thee for the trust, Tbs pare and deathless trust, That in the hour of suffering comes to me— The promise of a refuge yet to he Won from the toll of earthly sacrifice — From penitential tears and prayers that rise Like incense round Thy throne. Oh I let their truth atone For every sin known to Thy searching eye ! Ob I from my quivering heart Tear every shrine apart That bears the impress of idolatry 1 I We** Thee, O, my God 1 I bless Thee for the feet, The perfect, blessed rest, That shall be mine when this sad life is o’er— When my glad feet shall press the eternal shore, And I shall see my Saviour fiace to face, Clothed in the lovely majesty of glace I Thus, patiently I wait, Stricken and desolate— Walt till the angels summon me to come. Then shining angel hands Shall burst my earthly bands, And angel wittge shall bear the wanderer “ home I” My Lovers Twain. My lovers twain—my lovers twain, , I pray yon let me be! To wed yon both I would be fain, Only that may not be. One lover la Uke music sweet, That steals my heart away j And one is like the trumpet blsst Which calls me to the fray. One is of gentle, courteous mind, To low and high dense: And one Is stern and harsh of mood, And metteth but to me. One la so strangely loveable, That but to touch bis band, Do woman kneel—before the one Do moo uncovered stand. And If I this one do not wed, He never wife will seek; And If that one I do not wed, He sotrowelba week. My lover* twain— mt losers twain, Vs should have let me I,a; J love the one with ait uir heart ■ Tbs other loveth me. [From the New York Bun, January 29. Tax on Capital Used by Brokers. ORSAT EXCITEMENT IN WALL STREET. The operators In stocks and secnritles in Wall street are in a fever of excitement in rela tion to a movement that has been began by Mr. E. ft.'- Webster, assessor of the thirty second district, with a view to enforcing the law providing for a tax of oue-tweuty-fonnh of one per cent, on all capital in active use.— The" brokers assert that they are mere agents of the capitalists, from whom they borrow money for investment in stocks and other securities, and that consequently they are nut liable to pay tbe tax. The assessor relics on the 79tb and 110th sections of the revenue act for au thority to collect this impost on capital. In the former section brokers and other persons who deal in stocks, securities, &e., are defined as “ bankers,” and the latter provides that all “ bankers ” shall pay “ a tax of one-twenty fonrth of one per ceatiim each month upon the capital df any bank, association, company or corporation, and on the capital employed by any person engaged in the business of bank ing.” The effort now being made to collect the tax has called forth considerable 'denun'eia lion in “ the street,*’ and in their excitement some of the principal brokers threaten to raise two millions of dollars cither to have their construction of the law approved by the Wash ington authorities or to have the law repealed. If the tax on the capital in active use in Wall street shonld be paid, there would be an in crease of the revenue of about $4,000,000 per annum. The reyenne officers of the thirty-second district, who have charge of the collection of this tax, assert that the whole amount of capi tal returned by the brokers and other specula tors in Wall street, for the past year, as taxa ble, is fifteen millions of dollars. This allega tion most astonish the public, for, if It Is true, the army of speculators who deal in stocks and securities, representing’ hundreds of mil lions of dollars, perform financial miracles daily. One firm, which, it is charged, has look ed up ten millions to derange the money mar ket, and sent sixty millions oi Erie ” flying,” have made returns, showing that their capital is only seventy thousand dollars, and yet they confess that they use annually acapital of three hundred millions of dollars. It is proposed to draw out this capital from its larking place, and to make it pay the tax. This, however, would tend to exhibit the financial status of the brokers, and hence the law is resisted. The revenue officers assert, after patient in vestigation and inquiry, that the amount of capital in actual use in Wall street, during a year, is not less than a thousand millions— that is, that large amount changes bands, and makes fortunes for the owners or speculators on its way. A delegation of brokers went to Wash ington a few days ago, and, it is said, had anfn terview with Secretary McCulloch In relation to their liability to pay the tax. The result of the interview has not leaked out, and as Mr Webster is immovable In his determination to enforce the law, it is believed, in the absence of any communication from Mr. McCulloch, that the delegation were unable to accomplish their object. Yesterday afternoon some of the principal brokers in Wall street had an interview with Mr. Webster, who informed them that the law providing for the tax is very clear and positive, and that the tax must be paid. Mr. Webster added that the decision of the Deputy Commis sioner of Internal Rctciiue, wr. I‘noraas tlar land, covered the question involved. The Com missioner, he said, decided, when the whole subject was referred to him, that “ if a banker (which the 79th section declares may be a broker) borrows money and uses it in his bulk ing business, it shonld be treated as a part of his capital, and be subject to the monthly tax of one-twenty-fourth oi one per cent.” It is cited, as a proof that an itomense amount of capital does not pay this tax,'that One of the largest banking houses In Wall street has au thority to draw on a European firm for £500,- 000, and that the latter amount is not included in the returns of the house, although it may be in active use. . “ The Coming Ship.”—A Rival of the Great Eastern.— The “ coming Ship," as the intended rival of the Great Eastern is designat ed, has at . present been exhibited, in model only, in San Francisco. It Is to be of the same size as the Great Eastern, except that instead of twenty-eight feet it will draw only eighteen feet, and it will carry proportionally less ton - taqge It is destined to Carry four times as many passengers as any present Style of ship, and to substitute for bunks regnlar beds; it will also give fonr times the space to a state room. The. San Francisco Times say e: “The present mode of bunking passengers is un worthy of the age. Sea sickness, if preventable by construction, shonld be rendered obsolete. This desideratum is attained In Thomas Sliver’s eoming ship; it is secured by the proportions ot the ship, and by there beiog thirty feet less of the bull out'of water than in the Great East ern, but the motto I is rendered almost imper ceptible by anew device. The state rooms, instead of being at the .Outside limits of the vessel, arC amidships, that Is, along the centre line of the ship, where the roll is scarcely per ceptible. The saloon is to be five hundred feet lbng, and clear of obstructions. It is not for dining. Instead of a public table, there ale to be two competing restaurants at the extremities adjoining the saloons. The ship will sell pass age only, the board being payable as meals are ordered. It is contemplated to carry second class passengers and third class in the some way. The present first class bunks will be for third class berths. * A New Infernal Machine.—A new and very dangerous “ infernal ” machine has been invented and “ successfully ” tried in Ban Fran cisco. A street car, partially filled with passen gers, was thrown violently from the traelfc one evening. All inside supposed at first that it was another earthquake. A search for the cause of the disturbance revealed an exploded torpedo firmly fastened to the rail of the track. In general appearance It resembles an old fashioned watch, being about two inches in diameter and five-elghtiiß of an iocb in thick ness. It was composed of Russian sheet iron, with two strong clasps of lead, by which it was secured to the rail of the track. Fixed in the intei lor of the torpedo, and nearly reaching ile upper surface, were three gun nipples soldered to the lower plate. They were armed with or dinary percuseion caps, and were exploded by the car wheels passing over them. The ma chine was filled, of course, with some powerful explosive mixture. The whole affair is a mys tery. The object aimed at was, no donbt, to see what an explosion of that character, direct ly under the wheel of a car, would effect The reckless daring which prompted the inventor to give it a trial In the very heart of the «Kv, points indirectly to the probable use to which others of a larger calibre may be put. At the meeting of the Trustees of the Pea body Ffind, held In Baltlmoreon Thursday, Dr. Rears reported that he bad traveled extensively In Arkansas and Tent-essee, and had establish ed schools at I-tttle Bock, Camden,-Napoleon, Fort Smith and a few other points. He slaws that he found the people ready and anilpus to assist in carrying out the object of the gift. The schools which base been established already have generally been elded by a gift of one Qr two-thlrde of the amount necessary to coin nvuee them, while tbs remaining mhh lias been rslsed by the dtlaena of the vicinity. Some of these school* will he self sustaining by the end ol the jw»r, AUGUbTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17, 1869. Exit of Messrs. Breckinridge and Ben jamin from the Confederacy. —There are a few facts connected with the escape of General Breckinridge and Mr. Benjamin from the Con federaey which are perhaps not generally known. After the surrender at General Lee’s army, both Gen. Breckinridge and Mr. Beoja. min made their way to Florida. Gen. Breckin ridge struck the State near Montieello, where he found friends who assisted him it getting to Marion county, from whence he hoped to find an opportunity to get out of the eountry.— Gen. Breckinridge 6pent a number of days in bunting and visiting with his friends in Marion, but knowing that he cob Id not remain there long, bis friends proenred a small metallic boat, in which he and his companions, Colonel Wilson and Captain Wood, and the General’s faithful servant, 60on fonnd themselves ascend ing the St. John’s river. The party, after much toil, reached New Smyrna, where they found a schooner which carried them safely to Nassau, N. P. The "General was known as Colonel Cabel. Mr. Benjamin also struck Florida pear Mon ticello, where he met friends who assisted him on to the vicinity of this place. Here Mr. Ben jamin hoped to find some way to Cuba, or one of the Bahama Islands; but there was a strict watch kept by the United States troops station ed here, and there were but few boats left on the coast. But Mr. Benjamin finally procured a small boat at Manatee, upou which' the ex- United States Senator and ex-Oonfederate States Secretary of State embarked as conk, and in a few days fonnd himself under the protecting folds of the British flag. Mr. Benjamin passed himselt off as a land hunter, named Howard. There is quite an amusing little anecdote con nected with Mr. Benjamin during his stay with a friend of ours, in this vicinity, hut we refrain from making it public.— Florida Peninsular. Alpeoria Heard From.— The Savannah News says, Alpeoria Bradley has acted wisely in patting the largest possible space between bimself and Savannah, and we advise him to maintain the same anionnt of prudence for and during his natural life. We received yesterday, under cover of an envelope postmarked “ Bos ton, January 23.” the fallowing characteristic communication, which we publish just as writ ten, not from any respect to the wretch who wrote It, but as a judicial and literary curiosity and par) of the history of those disjointed times: \ *** To the Superior Couit of said county, I pray that your honor will be pleased to take judicial notice, of the law and the fact: —that sections 4250, 4351, and 4252 and the laws of 1866 p 151 p 152 3 are not enforced in thej&tate of Georgia : as onr new Constitution that gave them legq) existence is not as yet the organic few. of the State: and because Maj. Gen. G. Mead has by an order, withdrawn all bis orders by whieh they were made the provisional taw of Georgia. The Eleventh Article section third of the State Constitution that makes Irwin’s Code the law of Georgia, cannot compleat its , work until Congress had adutited our Senators. 1 submit to your honor the law and the facts, that if the Ogechee colored people are insurrec tionists it is against the United States and not the Btate of Georgia. And again because Sheriff Dooner did not take the Test Oath as required by the reoon struction acts of all officers acting under pro visional laws, and therefore ha might be leo"”? , ccieteu as onenn or Chatham county. If these sections are to be enforced as legal law : under them the Republican party of Georgia they can have put to'death, the editors, owners and news boys of the Savannah Ilepub lican—and the Jfeses and one-balf the printers of the State : for what they write, print, and circulate for the. purpose of exciting resistance against the laws of the United States. A. Alpeor a. Bradley. Aiken.— Thurlow Weed, now a sojourner at Aiken, thus writes to the Commercial Adver tiser ; “ We find in the climate of Aiken all the ad vantages we hoped for'. In this respect, there was nothing of exaggeration In the many favor able representations we had heard and read, In climate, the January of Aiken resembles the October ol New York—it is dry and clear. We walk morning, afternoon and evening, without overcoats. Ladies enjoy croquet iu costumes suitable for May on the North river. Violets are in full bloom. Now, as heretofore, there are many Northern citizens passing the Winter here, among whom are Hugh Maxwell. Geo. T. Andrews, of'New York,and General Dimick, of the United States Army.- Mr. Maxwell came here tor the benefit of bis own health, whieh is fully re-established. The son of Mr. Andrews, who was dangerously ill, is improving. Mr. J. C. Derby, the enterprising New York publisher, has a large and productive farm, adjoining the village of Aiken. His peach orchard, the largest we bad ever seen, is in full view lrom the railway cars. Mrs. Derby, who called yes terday, says that they are preparing one hundred acres for cotton planting this season. The Globe Hotel, where we lodge, is well kept.— The walks and drives iu and about Aiken are very pleasant. The woods, they tells US, will soon be beautiful and fragrant with wild flowers.” Tag Material Progress of the South— Cheering Signs.— Perhaps the beet evidence of the sure and rapid material progress of the South may be found la the fact Hat the price of the bonds of (he different Southern States is steadily rising in Wall street. The directors of our New York savings banks, who are pro verbially conservative, captious and sagacious, have lately bought largely these State bonds. The Southern people themselves are also add ing considerably to their investments in these bonds. Other cheering signs of the energy with which the recuperative powers of (he South are awakening may be fonnd in the great cotton crop, estimated at two hun Ired million dollars.; in the plentiful rice and eager crops; in the abundant production .of every thing consumed by the Southern people at borne; in the report that in many parte of the South labor baa become even cheaper than it used to be in the days of slavery; and, lustly, in many indications that (be political pacifica tion which mast infallibly follow the inaugura tion of Preeidcnt Grant will open at the South an era of good feeling apd of unprecedented prosperity. —New York Herald, Jan. 90th. Manufacturing at Columbus— We learn from the Sun that the city of Colpmbue now has three factories in the “ fall tide of success ful operation ’V-tbe “ Eagle and Phoenix,” the “ Columbus,” and the “ Steam Cotton Mills.” Tbe first has 0,000 spindles in operation, exclu sive of the woolen ; the seeorid 3,500 ; and the last 2,ooo—total, 13,500 spindles. Tbe finest kind of cassimeres, all kinds of thread, sheet ing, shirting, etc., and beautlfal blankets, are being made. The Eagle and Pbtenix and the Columhail both contemplate doubling their machinery during tbe present year. When this is done, there will be 25,000 spindles In opera tion. There can bo do room for doubt as to the im portance and value of enterprise* of this char acter. When our people wake up fully to a knowledge of, and belief In their capacities to do their own manufacturing, and thus geCrleb, as the New England spinners are doing every day, we ahall begin to h* lop rail again. \Journal $ Meuengtr. A doxeo men and hoys, and about tweiitv dogs, war* bitten by a mad dog, la Cincinnati, lately. Independent Journalism.— The World, discoursing upon independent journalism, takes occasion to contrast the different rela tions now existing between Journalists and party managers, with those which used to obtain, in former years. It says : “ Party journals are becoming more inde pendent than formerly, because journalism itself has become more powerful and self-support ing. It requires, at present, such large invest ments of capital, such heavy outlays for the col lection of news, such a number of alert, trained men to keep up its various departments, so much business capacity to manage its finances, that a successful journal must be a great, com plex establishment with large resources and wide connections. The consequence is, that it is a very formidable undertaking to establish a new journal. Os the new ones started the greater part fail, andthe very few that take root, succeed only after staking a large amount o/ capital. * * Formerly, if a party journal was not subservient, parly leaders coaid set np anew one at a trifling expense, and draw off sub scribers enongh to damage or destroy the re calcitrant organ. But established journals can so longer be supplanted in this easy way ; and their conductors, having no fear of new rivals, are more free to follow thalr own judgment as to what is for the best interests of their party. If a jonrnal has enlightened convictions and sound views, it can afford to advocate them 1n a forcible spirit, confident that time will vindi dale them, and that snch members of Its party as are displeased will, after a while, recognize (heir soundness.” Taking an Equitable View of the Case. —JI lew years ago, one Mrs, Harrington (a handsome widow of sixteen) was tried lor the murder of her husband, at the Delaware Oyer and Terminer, before Jndge Balcom. For the purpose of establishing her motive to poison her husband, the district attorney proved that her husband was thlrly-Blx yesra of age, and married her when she was only fifteen years old, in Pennsylvania, by falsely representing to her that he was a rich tanner of Delaware county, N. Y., when ho waa an Intemperate teamster there, and that he abused ber after be brought her to Delaware county. This evi dence created the strongest kind of sympathy for her. It became so strong (in the thtrd day of the trial, one More met Judge Balcom as hi was going but to dinner, and More (with tears in bis eyes) besought him to take an equitable view of the ease When he came to charge the jnry; whereupon Judge Balcom asked him what be meant by an equitable view of the case, and More (crying) exclaimed, “ Tell the Jury the poor girl did not kill her hnsbnnd half as quick as she ought to.” And it was supposed the jury took that view of the case when they acquitted her. f Cor. Albany Evening Journal , Jan. 25 th. The Blue Ridge Railroad.— We learn that a full report by Col. James P. Low, Chief En gineer of the Bine Ridge Railroad, of his re cent reconnolssanee of the Gap, has been re ceived by General Harrison, the President of the company. We are glad to learn that the deterioration of the road-bed and bridges, whieh it was apprehended would -be oonstdera h’V; from the long Interval since work wus sus pended, is pronounced comparatively trivial', in cpi'seuuence of the substantial character of the made Gap (the tunnels included) ebu be completed in twenty months from the time that operations are resumed. Colonel Low proposes at once to confluence the re-snrVey of the line, with ao effective force of assistants; and expects to have the working estimates ready for the contractors in the early part of April; ao that ibere*aro reasonable hopes for the completion of the road from Anderson to the Rabun Gap by the month of December, 1870. As 1 nearly all the difficulties on the route to Knoxville are com prised wßhin this section, and as the remainder of it is of easy construction, we can afford to congratulate our readers on the early termina tion of tijia work, which will make South Car olina the thoroughfare, and Cbwrleston the out let, of the immense productions of the mighty West. —Columbia Phoenix. Niggers in the Gallery.—The Washing ton correspondent *f the Cincinnati Commer cial gives the following acceunt of tfie reasons why negroes congregate in the galleries, ol the Legislative Halls: I woe. greatly amused at what one of the door keepers of the gallery said to me not long since. I remarked to him that the galored people were not so fond of attending the debates of Con gress as they were formerly. “ The weather U too fine,” be responded, sententlonsiv. “ Why, what has the weather to do with It ?” 1 asked. “ Every thing. When It is cold and uncom fortable, and no warm side of a wall to be bad, they flock here, for they have comfortable seats and a warm place without paying for It. You como here some bitter, cold, inclement day, and see bow crowded the galleries will be with our colored friends. They will' sit and sleep and snore here all day, like black snakes in the son of fipriog.” • Poor creatures. lam glad the galleries cun be made ao useful—lodgings for improvident negroes. ■ __ A Desperate Affaib.— We learn, from re liable authority, that Sheriff McClurd, of Picken* county, accompanied by a man by the name of Brown, succeeded in arresting a horse thief by tbe name of Richie, who had been op erating between Hamilton county, Tenn., and Pickena county, Ga. After tbe arrest, Richie made a desperate effort to escapeand succeeded by shooting, and almost instantly killing, the sheriff and wounding Brown In snch a manner that be soon afterwards bled to death. Richie, afterwards mounted the best horse in thecrowd and made good iris escape. Richie told tbe sheriff, tbe moment he drew bis pistol from Ms boot leg, that he H had killed seven men, end that be would be tbe eigbtb one.” This sad affair occurred nine miles below Jasper, on Sunday, tbe 17th Inst.— Vahlonega Signal. ANbw Tot.—A. late nnmber of tbe Conti nental Gazette publishes tbe following para graph: ”The fashionable Bnd drawing-room pastime of the present boor Is called the Grim akUticope. It is a box containing all the celeb rities of tbe day, unto the features of whom any visitor can, with a touch, Impart any ex pression he likes, from tbe most awful grim aces that ever added ugliness to a monkey, to the eweeteat ever dreampt of by the Undone det Hoeei.” An American Lion.—A party of htmtere bad a fearful encounter with a foil grown American lion, nisar the Belt Ranze of moun tains in Montana Territory, one day last month. The animal received seventeen bullet* before he succumbed. He measured eight feet from nose to Up of tail, and wa* nearly lour feet high The contest was desperate and pro tracted, and several of the boaters received ogly wounds. The Rev. Dr. John Hall had occasion, a few we'-k* since, to preach a sermon on behalf of ! domestic missions. Next day be received s i note from » gentleman expressing a dealre to ' add aa much more a* the congregation b«d given, and wishing to know the amount. Hr j wa* Informed of tbs amount (94,70(1), and **nt ! at one* *5,500 In money, pot wishing even hi* i ebsok to Indicate bis natne to any one, and say ing IbM h« wiabsd to make lbs sum ”910,000 I even." Golden Hair.—lt Is said that no woman can now command a good salary on the stage unless ahe has golden—that is, bright yellow hair. The managers are perfectly insane upon the •* blonde” style ol beauty ; teat. In conse quence, every aetreßß who can scrape together SIOO or so is purchasing the application of the alkaline washes that bleach, and the arsenical liquids ttyit auburnlze the hirsute appliances of the female cranium. We understand tbet these requirements are also in demand among' the ladles who arc denominated a social evil; and that good society, excepting in rare instances, has therefore shnt down upon the “ beautiful forever" Bednctions, and is content, with much sorrow intermixed, to cling to nature somewhat fondly. Those who attend public places of amusement habitually, will have noticed that dark hair among jhe female performers is as much of a rarity as golden and flaxen tresses used to he. Anon, nins-tenths of onr actresses will be bald-headed, and possibly paralytic— which will perhaps give the gentlemen who profess to cure palsy by a process of “ dry-cnp ping”. plenty of opportunities for making ex periments. Hair-dyes have led in a great many cases to loss of muscular action. [New York Atlas. No More Cakes and Alb.— On the railroad between Philadelphia and Cape May, in ihe Btate of New Jersey, is anew creation called Wneland— a district of country embracing fifty square miles. In IBfiß it was a wilderness.— Now there is * village, a mile square, with a population ot 3,000, and within sound of the village hglls a suburban population of 9,000 more. Magnificent obnrcUes of various denom inations have been constructed; schools, acad emies, taverns, stores and palatial private resi dences abound. Thrift, prosperity, happiness and a widespread and univeraal morality dis tinguish the ooinmunitv- No police, and not a gill of liquor wereevef seeu within the sacred precincts. Sociable rneetli gs, with weak tea and scientific conversation, enliven the blissful community and variegate the routine of exist ence. In a word, It is the properest place tire world has ever seen. But We suspect a poor son of mother earth, with any of the infirmities of humanity hanging loose about him, would find life there somewhat of a bore. We should be a little afraid of It ourselves. [ Richmond Whig. The First Woman Doctor i* Russia The Medico-Cblrutrieal Academy at Bt. Peters burg conferred, at Us annual conference, a week or two ago, the degree ot M. D. upou Mdme. Kaschewarow, the first female candi date for this honor who bad presented herself before them. When her name was mentioned by the Dean It was received with an Immense storm of applause, which lasted for several minutes. The ceremony of Investing her with the Insignia of her dignity being over, her fel low-students and new colleagues lifted her upon a chair and carried her, with triumphant shouts, through the hail. But at this moment Mdme. Lucca was espied among the audience, and such was the students’ fickleness that the lady doctor had to yield her elevated seat to the popular singer. The prima donna not only remained in undisputed possession of the ex temporized throne, hut was carried npon It to her carriage. Whilst the new doctor had to find what comlort she could Id ber diploma. Handsomely Stated.—' The editor of the scathed through a trying libel stilt. He does not, in the hour of his exultation, turn npon hi? enemies, hut extends to them hie hand, and in substance says : Gentlemen, your efforts were vain. Yoa can not stop history maxing, you can uot muffle truth. The press is the organ of though! in the body politic. If you can not' bear Its, power, Stand from under. This victory is not mine, or I might vaunt myself and tnnnt yon. Itle simply a step forward of journalism. It is the Shaking oft of n parasite #hich might have disturbed, but never ednlrl have choked up, th® avenues ol free expression. When jmpotent men and swindlers learn these great truths, black mailing attempts on journal ists will gradually cease. * ' ’ •- New York Amusement*.— There Is pr<i{is - no city lo the world wbers the people pay so much to be amused as in New York. Be low will be fonnd the total receipts of tbt va rious establish rnents In that city for the year 1868. Legs and tinsel take the first prize; Nibto's Garden, $359,376; Olympic $349921; New York Circus, $311,027; Wal lack’s Theatre, $263,810 ; Broadway Theatre, $171,250; French Theatre, $165,848; Wood's Museum, $100,490; Pike’s Opera House, SIOB,- 599-/old Bowery Theatre, $107,263; Theatre Conrtque,;sni4,72B; Kelly ALeon’s, $101,480; New York Theatre, $98,480; Tody Pastor*, $83,331; Baa Francisco Minstrels, $88,635; Bryant’s Minstrels, $59,080; Academy of Mn sfc, $39,743; Boiler’s American Theatre, $8,095. Beat it if Too Can— Mach 1* said through tbe paper* of tbe Peeler, and other varieties of long stsplo cotton, but We have yet to lenrn that any ol these have sold !b any Southern market for more tli*n about thirty-five cento per pound, except the “Tbrelketd Cotton," grown by Mr. T. J. Threlkeld, OOe of the firm of Sims A Threlkeld, cotton brokers of this city. Twelve bale# of tbl* cotton wa# told, a tew days since, in Savannah, Ga., at fiftj-enc cents per pound. Mr. Tbrelkw'd raised this cotton on bis plan tation, in S| aldl ig county, and has a few bash el* of tbe seed on band, which he Will cell for ten dpUars per boehel. —Griffin Star- Alt Example for the Georgia Legisla ture. —In the Illinois Legislature a hill has been Introduced to compel railroad companies lo that State to charge uniform rotes for trans portation of freight In proportion to the dis tance carried, and providing that any railroad charging more than tbe pro rata proportion, shell pay tbe owner five times the tom wrong fully collected, besides the attorney’s fees. A llfe-siOT wax figure of a living New Or leana belle has been set up In the New Orleans Muse Om. She Is a member of tbe most fash ionable society, and is justly distinguished for ber beauty. It was manafoctured in New Tork, from an nmbrotjrpe sent for tbe pur pose. The young lady knew nothing of tbe liberty thus taken of her person. Gen. Sherman 1* said tw detest “new” uni forms, and never appears in new clothes If he can help it. The reaaop la said to be that, when a lieutenant, he was one day at Washington, sunning himself io a bran new outfit at the door of bis hotel, where a crowd of beys gath ered, one of whom inquired: “ Mister, where’s your engine going to squirt f” Os the originally known John Brown party who ckjxured Harper’* Ferry and act up a pro visional government for Tlrginfa, bnt two arc now living—Oliver Brown, who resides in Western Pennsylvania, and Oliver P. Ander son, a colored man, living in Canada. Cincinnati theatre receipt* for 1888 amount ed to tbe enormous sum—for Cincinnati—of 9210 434. A doctor In Missouri has been detected In poisoning hi* patients, Which bn has been ac customed to do In s cautious and stealthy man ner. On examination he wa* found to bo In sane, and yet be had been practicing lor months fu that condition. Two Clark* war* burntd to death by tha Philadelphia Ira reported by telegraph Friday last. VOI* 28. NO. 7 Hon. Joshua Hill U in Atlanta. An accident occurred on the State Road* few daya since, damaging three ears. Velocipede aleeve-bnttons are the latest de velopment of fast finery. Thirty-four million dollars In gold were mined in Montana last year. A popular organist hi New York gets SIOO lor playing at fashionable weddings. A Chinese printer works on the San Jose (Cal.) Mercury. The Bank of Montreal, Canada, was entered and robbed a few days siuce ot $50,000. Everybody is anxious to go to heaves, but nobody fein a burry about it. A Yankee, named Keeler, is lecturing in Bos ton on how to make the “grand tour ” on slßl, as he did. A Nashville firm has recently shipped a large number of samples ol Tennessee corn to a firm in Calcutta. Cotton seed meal is being shipped in large quantities from Tennessee to Ohio, as food for cattle. A handsome set of plate has been presented to Mrs. Abraham Llneoin by the admirer* of her hnsband at Frankfort-on-the-Maio. French citizens ol New Orleans have sub scribed $95,000 to the stock of a cotlou mill to be erected in that city. The report of the Oneida Commnulty shows a.constant increase of the eos( of living for several years, until it averaged $4 85 per week to each person in 1868. The general opinion of Congressmen is that the first session of the next CoDgrea*, com mencing on the fourth of March, will not last over fonr or five weeks. Florida planters are preparing foi; ,planting cotton largely this year. They think the un usually eold weather there has destroyed tbs caterpillars. A medical atudent say* be has uevep been aide to discover the bone of contention, ond desires lo know whether It la not situated pear the law bone. The tears we shed for those we lord Are the streams which water the garden of th* hshrt, and without them U would be dry and barren, tnd the gentle flowers ot affection would parish. Mr- Manton Marble baa bought dot aij the other owners of the World newspaper, and it now lta sole proprietor. The prlee mild for one quarter of Ot* stock was one hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of any real estate. The New York Fire Commissioners are emu lating the vigorous measures taken by the Board °f Health tor the suppression of “ the Illegal and dangerous traffic in kerosene." H The New York Express predicts a prosper ous Spring trade and an early commencement es it, owing to the prospect of speedy Open ing of navigation. The Jury in the case of Daniel Dechert, edi tor and proprietor of the Hagerstown (Mary land) Mail, gave him a verdict against the Ha gerstown corporation for $7,500 damages, for allowing his office, types, etc., to be destroyed by a mob In 1863, and driving him out of town as a secessionist. This case Is likely .to lye taken as a precedent for numberless suits throughout Maryland. Veloelpe building new forma an important branch of trade in Paris. There not only raan rlWwfi'or e" tire “tro’n*%i orlT “o f ’ Wffleft’fbllj'fifc composed is cast. Oneof these employ* two hnndred and fifty workmen, and tarnishes twelve velocipedes per day for n coitoh builder of Lyons. A Lyonese veloelperiiat Is wllHngto take a bet that he will beat the fastest trotter In a race. Brigham Young has telegraph wires leadltfg to bis office and connecting with every hrariet in Utah—a line five hundred miles long. Bvenr nett lenient of half a dozen houses .has atsde grnph office, with fetfmle Saint Operator*, irtid ib charge of a Bishop of the Mormon Cbnrch, and who can report, at any time, all that, takes place to Young. From bis private pffled i« Salt Lake City, like tbo watchman In the’tete grapb, Brigham may gtvfe an order or ring an. alarm from Idaho to New Mexico. The following I* the letter whieh Barfyer wrote from his death-bed to the Comte dc Cbambord: “O, Monseigneur, O, ray King! they tell me my last hour I* at .band, l.die with the sorrow of not having witnessed the triumph of yoor hereditary right*, consecra ting the establishment and expansion ol those liberties which onr country needs. I earry these wishes up to boaveij for your Maietty, for Her Majesty the Queen, for our beloved France I That tiny be In* unworthy 01-fold ing favor lo the eye* of the Almighty* I deport from thl* Die provided with all the aids es oar blessed religion. Adlan, sire ; may heaven pro tect yon and preserve France I Yoor devoted and faithful subject. BIRRTERf” A Womanly Woman—A party of young girl* Were assembled around a centre-table under the-llght of ii Chandelier in one of lour moat elegant and foehionaol* bouses. A bObre, elderly lady, whose silver tresses, banded Madonna-wise on- each s'do of ber head, showed that near four score Winters bad Irosted Aetr Once raven beauty, but whose dark eyes atljl glowed with the softened intelligence which belonged to n green old age, sat not far distant, engaged with that everlasting knitting. The group around the table were discussing matters of gossip with which young people are Interested. They spoke freely of tble or that gentleman’s or lady’* peculiarities, foibles, faults, merits, or beauties. Finally, a lady’a name was mentioned abont whom there seemed a variety of opinions. She wa* not only « social notoriety, but one who all agreed was admired and respected, and who moreover, exerted a wide spread Influence. But she was not accom plished, In tbe asttfil sense of the word. She did'not eing divinely—nay, she did not ting at nil. She did not play like Tbalberg—indeed, she did not play atoll; she was not a brilliant conversationalist; she bod never written n book; she bad never presided over a benevolent society, and yet her claim* to social position, respect, and Influence were undisputed. ” Pray what did Mr*. D. ever do to obtain her position and influence ?” exclaimed a little beauty, rather impatiently. Breaking from the circle and going to the piano, she senta shower of stiver bell* ringing tbrovgb tile room, in a manner Mr#. D. never could have done. “What has Mrs. D. ever done ?” and whirling on the piano atool ahe ftCed the old lady. “My dear.” said the silver-haired matron, smiling as only dear old ladles know bow to smile, a smile of tefWer pitying love, “My dear, Mr*, 0. never did anything—she endured.” [New York Demotrat. Fatal and Disgraceful Oocurbence at Obaniteville.— Near Granitevllle, ow Satur day night, ten days ago, while an assembled company were enjoying themselves at a hall, certain men left the room and, for cansea Un known, began Bring promiscuously into the company. Before the affray ended, Mr. JSd. Dinkins wss shot through tbe bowels (it i* {bought be will die), and Mr. John Prescott tbroagb tbe shoulder. The perpetntors of this nubenrd ot atrocity are stilt at large, hav ng defied all attempt# at capture. [Kdgefteld Adverther. Not TiißSaM* War or Thinkhhi.-A l*4y correspondent ol the Washington Chrontale •talus that although Senator# Pomeroy, Wsdo and Wilson attend the Womcn'l 'tight* Con ». hi ion io Hist ally, their wives ar# all opposed to the movement. Tkja la nothing satraordl nary.
