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BY W. M. JEFFERSON & CO. VOLUME 3. fH£ PLANTERS’ WEEKLY PUBLISHED AT _ Greenesboro’. Ga. fa. M. JEFFERSON, ) ItOLIN W. STEVENS. [ Proprietors. FRED. ( FI LLER. > •fElf*tk—TWO DOLLARS A YEAR: OIvDOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS IN ADVANCE. ttutes of Advertising:* Advertisements inserted at the rate of one dollar per square of ten lines or less, for first and fifty cents for each subsequent insertion, Those not marked with tne number of inser tions will be published until forbid and charg ed at these rates. The following are our lowest contractins RATES ’ 1 Sq’r Six months 87. .one year sl2 2 • * “ 11.. •• 20 3<• “ “ 16.. “ “ 28 column 6 mo. 20.. “ *• 35 £ •• 6 “ 30.. •* “ 55 J *< 6 “ 40.. •• “ 70 1 ■ 6 50.. “ “ 80 Advertisements (Vntn -tranrers and transient persons must be paid for in advance. Legal Advertisements Sale of Larnt or Neirror., by Viininistrutora, rarrm re, anOGit “Hiai per square. ?5 0O Stic o’ P raonal prupertv hy Adininiatratur*. -x rut rs, and Guar liana, per square- 3 ■’’h tt-aice ii Debtnra and Creditors, 3 N die ‘>r L ive to Sell, AOO Citation for Letter* of Adminiatratlon 2 75 Ciiati m for Di <mi'i ‘n from Administration, 600 Citation for Diainital m from Guardianship. 3 25 The Law of Newspapers. 1. Subscribers wh<> do not give -xpress no tice to the contrary, v e considered as wishing to continue their gubsoriiition. 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their newspaper, *he publisher may continue to send them until all arrearages are paid. 3 IF jjbhsrribers neglect or re f use to take thir newspapers from the office to which they are directed, they are held respons ble until they have settled the bills and ordered them discontinued. 4. If subscribers remove to other places without informing the publisher, and tho news papers are sent to the former direction, they are held responsible. . 5. The eeurts have decided that refusing, to take newspapers frfrn the office, or removing amt leaving them uncalled for, is prima facie evidence of intentional fraud. 6. The United States Courts have also, re peatedly decided, that a Postmaster who neg l ecti to’perform his duty of giving reasonab’e notice, as required by tne Post Office Depart ment, of the neglect of a person to take from the office newspapers addressed to him, rend ers the Postmaster liable to the publisher for the subscription p.ice. gTrFsT ~~ = JO HN C. RE 11), ATTORNEY AT LAW, junel’s9-ly. . G reenesboro, Georgia. ROLIN W.~STEVENS, ATTQ'RK S Y AT LAW, Greensboro’ Georgia. WILL practice tn the counties ofGreene, Baldwin, Putnam; onran, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro and Hancock [K-b 2. 1559-tf.] UNITED STATES HOTEL, MNo. 232. Broad Street, AVGUSTA, GEORGIA. DWELL & MOSHER, Proprietors l. DWELL | J. MOSHER Medical Card. 1 HEREBY tender my thanks loihepuullc for kind ly bestowing on me heretofore, a larger .liar • of patronage than 1 anticipated, and again offer my pro tcaaiunaT .errice. to anv who tnay give nie a rail. When not professionally engaged. I may be found at- Wood's Drug Store. Jan 12, IS6O lv. W L BETHEA, M. P DENTIST R Y. DR. II*.W. Surgeon ami Mechanical Dentist. Pcnfleld, Georgia, WOULD inform U>e citizens of Greene and ad joining eountie*. that he is prepared to perform MMiy operation pertaining to bis profession, wiitiiiest •tiers and dispatch, He will insert from one to an en tire ael ol teeth. I< iah'a intention in please. .He will be In Greenesborn on Monrlav. Tuesdav and Wednesday of each weeek and in Peofi. ltl the remainder of hislimo. Anv call from the country that may b - tendered him will meet with prompt attention, lie refers to Dr. J >hu B Murphy of Rome —Feb. OT 1860. FRESH FRUIT, Green Corn. Beans, Ac., m WINTER! JJAYING been apjtointed Agents for >IASO>'S PATENT SCREW-TOP, SELF-SEAL* 1N6,. ULASS FRUIT JARS, We are prepared to furoith them at a lower p.ice'than horetofore. •‘These J :rs speak Tor themselves” and are considered by those who hava used them, THE BEST AND MOST I2ELIA BLE FRUIT JARS JX MARKET, , being made of GLASS, they will not corrode, and arc free otions urgtd *g*i*l U a. A Wae&ty Journal—’Devoted to Eomo Literature, Agriculture* ForcigU aad Domestic News, Wit, Humor, &e. MISCELLANEOUS. Unseen Spirits. BV N. P. WILMS. The shadows lay along Broadway, ’Twas near the twilight tide, And gjowly there a lady fair Was walking in ner pride— Alone walked 6he. yet viewlessly W'knd spirits at her side- Pence, charm’d the street beneath her feet And honor charmed the air, And all astir looked kind on her And called her good nnd fair— For all God ever gave to her She kept with chary cate. She kept with care her beauties rare From lovers warm nnd true. For her heart was cold to all but gold, And the rich'came not to woo. Alt, honored well are charms to sell When priests the selling do ! Now, walking there was one more fair— A slight girl lily-pale, And site had unseen company To make the spirit quail — ‘Twixt want andscorn site walked forlorn And uothing could avail No mercy now can clear her brow For this world’s peace to pray— For, as love’s wild prayer dissolves in air. Her woman’s heart gave wav ; And thesin forgiven by Christ iu heaven By man is cuised av. ay. Terrific lialloou Adventure. “You are about to witness Professor O.’s ascension,” said a gentleman to me, as I entered the enclosure devoted to an a?ro nautic display. He was an entire stranger tome; bur not being superstitious in mat ters ot etiquette, as we might suppose a “gentleman ot distinction” to he, I did uot. object to this brusque inode nt iutroduc tion, and so civilly answered “Yes.” “But 1 shall go umber to toe it than you will,” continued the gentleman ; “I intend to ascend with Professor C.” “You may go farther and faro worse,” said 1. “You are pleased to be witty,” saia lie; “hut 1 intend to make some examination ol those upper regions for myself, to as certain whether the stars celestial are on duty during the day, or whether their’s is as much a sinecure as tho office of our ‘stars terrestrial. Would you not like to asce >d with us ?” “No, thank you kindly,” said I; “in getting iulo tho clouds one might lose oneself--the way is likely to be mutt Every one to his taste; the earth h, s such charms tor me that I would not change a spadeful of it for cubic miles of the blue empyrean. I’m uo poet.” Yaiii declaration! How little did I imagine the horrors which awaited me ! How little did 1 foresee my dreadful fate iu hanging between the heavens and the earth, a spectacle to laughing men, gig gling women, and iusensatc, hooting boys! Wo entered the enclosure. There was the vast silken bubble, puffing nut its hol low cheeks like the face of a fat clown when laughing, nnd rising aud tugging away at the ropes, as if impatient to leave our society. “You will accompany me?” said iny friend ;to which I replied in the nega tive. “Perhaps the gentleman would assist in cutting the ropes,” said the tßronaut. “Certainly,” said 1, “with pleasure.” “Thank you,” said the aeronaut; “please take your station.” Hu aud my friend entered the car. I grasped one of the ropes nnd awaited the order. _ln a moment it came. “Cut!” said one voice. “No, hold on !” said another. 1 was bewildered, and did both. Whoa the others cut, 1 did the same, and with the direction to hold on, I gtasped the end of the rope still near me, aud ‘ held on.” In a .noiueut more I was fifty feet from the ground. Imagine iny suspense! There was I, like a freshly caught fish, dangling at the end of n line, with the balloou represent ing the boat. 1 cried out to iny friend and the aeronaut, but iu vain. The spectators below, thinking I was some serial acrobat, who was about to turn fifty double somer setsand then alight upon his feet before them, cheered sufficiently to drown my voice. The parties iu the car could not see me; but, by the hat swung occasion ally over the side, I knew they were bow ing to the crowd below. Meanwhile, I ■ was swinging like a pendulum below them, with only teu fingers to sustain my weight of one hundred and eighty pounds (I’m rather stout,) and to preserve me from be ing thinly spread over the ground beneath, from “larding the lean earth” with my human form divine- What an age ot ter ror! The dome off the Independent Church became a parasol; men became nine-pins, aud the houses as before began to look like so many chicken-coops. In the meantime iny fingers stiffened, but 1 Hatched the rope with the energy of despair.* I bad long ceased calling; I ex hausted myself. Suddenly a cold perspi ■ ration broke ,t upon me ; T knew my GREENESBORO’, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 4, 1860. hour had come. My fingers were slowly slipping down tho rope. Oil? those ag onizing moments. Inch by inch I ap proached my doom. First the left hand lost its hold; and theD, ns I felt the end slipping by the little linger of the right, 1 jf.veonc brief prayer, and fell— out ok bed ! Being, as I before observed, a corpulent man, my fall Lad shaken the whole house, and the alarmed inmates aroused from their “sweet slumbers,” were knocking violently at the door, which had t'.e efteet of restoring mo to consciousness, wheil I discovered that my “terrific balloon as cent” was nothing more than a nightmare, superinduced, I am led to believe, by the festivities usual on day, in winch 1 may ray I indulged somewhat on Monday last, in ,No ! I will not betray my friends; but allow me to tell you. dent reader, that such a Shanghai dinner as they gave, is uot to be sneezed at. “lutiocent Flirtations/* If there is and feature of American soci ety which cries more loudly than any other for reform, that feature, par excellence, is tlie system ot flirtation carried on by mar ried women. Ninetenths of all the di vorce suits brought by husbands against their wives for criminality can be traced directly to “innocent flirtation.” And the weak victim of an elopement almost inva riably can look hack to her first error as the time when she received the attentions of another than her husband. The inno cent flirtations of married women are the abominations ot modern society, and tend as directly to subvert the domestic rela tions as visiting tippling shops does to drunkenness. Sidney Smith says, “Shaw me u woman who will not blush while dis playing her beauty, grace or charms, arid you will have shown me one whose virtue hangs upon a thread which a word will cut.” There are some women who can al ways see iu the many that surround them iu their comminglings with society certain attractive points : u others that their expe rience i ells them are not possessed by their kunbamrs, .on. whenever they diseern one of these apparent excellencies in others they are sure to see a corresponding defi ciency at home. Forgetting that none are perfect, such women are apt to magnify : mole hills of faults into mountains of crimes x An uneasiness, therefore, takes possession of them, and they think over their hus band’s defects until their happiness is de stroyed, and they are prepared to receive the attentions of all those who approach them, hoping and expecting to find a “con geniality” which their owu imaginations have convinced them is essential to happi ness. This disquietude is heightened whoti thev consider that they are bound already iu matrimonial obligations which cannot he severed, and as society, though guilty of the same failings, perhaps equal ly with them, will not look with complac ency upon them in receivingfamiliar atten tions in public, clandestine meetiugs are next in consideration, and honor and vir tue yield a willing pray to perverted judg ments’ and” sensual appetites. The wile seeks to keep from her husband knowledge of her preference for another, until from her too oft repotted intimacies with others, her heart is utterly estranged from him.a— Then actuated by guilt alone, feeling her self debased beyond redemption, she throws off tho cloak of privacy, and etr.er ges into the world an outcast, despised and shunned by those perhaps equally as guil ty, and by society at large. Is proof of this needed ? Are not elopements tho or der of the day? Are they not coming to be more prevalent than any other species of crime 1 Divorces by the dozen are of common occurrence, and society is contin ually nauseated with tho tales of guilt brought to light by the newspapers aud courts. We are not. sure that there is any remedy for this state ot filings as long as parents persist in trainiug up their dangh-1 lers in idleness, mid some iu luxury and effeminacy—utterly ignorant of the true j aim and object of existence—with only a| parior education for the first, aud a “fast life” for the other, having no greater care than to carefully fit their daughters in ex tensive appearance, tor the matrimonial market and to establish tbeir sons in ‘ po- j s'tions” amongst the corrupt suiroundings of fashionable society, thus giving to both an outside show, which is entirely at war with the real business of life. A good story is told of a Connecti cut parson. His country parish raised his salary from three hundred to four hundred dollars. The good man objected for three reasons. “Fuat,” said he. “because you can’t afford to give more than three hun dred. Second, because my preaching isn’t worth more than that. Third, because 1 have to collect my salary, which, hereto fore, has been the hardest part of my la bors among you. If I have to collect an additional hundred, it will kill me. Lady Byron. —This lady, a few days previous to her death, sent the sum of two hundred dollars to the Sicilian committee of London, in aid of the Garibaldi fund.— By her death, her eldest grandson, aged tirentyfour years, enters the House of Lords as Baron Wentworth A Free Man Suing to be Made a Slave. Under the act of the Legislature of Louisiana allowing free persons of color to bring suit to reduce themselves to a state of slavery and elect their owners, a good many applications have been made. The District Attorney, who is already overburdened with regular criminal busi ness, and who is charged with the duty of acting as amicus curiae of the tiegro who brings a suit under this head, finds he has a heavy docket of cases of this class. The following petition in one of these cases, which has been served upon the District Attdf'iey, is a fair specimen of the grounds and ren?oL’. a upon which pe titioners sqek to avail thenisel'C? the benevolent features of tills statute: John Clifton, a free man of color, vs. State ok Louisiana. Sixth District Court in and for the Parish of Orleaus. Tc the Hon. the J edge of the Sixth Distr. Court in and for the Parish ot Orleans: Your petitioner, John Clifton, a free man of color, who has resided iu this city ami State for the last ten years, and who is about 40 years of age, begß leave res pectfully to represent that having long since become satisfied that the rights, lib erties and tree agency exorcised by per sons of the African descent, it being the status of your petitioner, is merely theo retical and having no foundation in point of fact. Therefore, your petitioner, who was born m the South, wedded to all its institutions, lias selected under the Act of the Legislature, approved March the 17th 1859, as Ins owner aud master, Green Lee Bunt pass. Wherefore petitioner prays that this pe tition he accepted nnd filed, nnd that after duo legal proceedings had, m accordance with the Act aforesaid, that your petition er be adjudged and decreed to be the slave for life of him, Green L. Bumpass. and for such further relief as tho case may require. ’ his Signed, John Clifton, mark. Signed, Thomas J. Earhart, Att’y. John Clifton is evidently a philosopher. He lias the sagacity to percieve and the courage to avow that with a kind and good master his status ns q slave would be pie terahle to the mockery of freedom with which tlioso seek to delude him, who pre tend that he can ever sustain himself us the equal of the white man, when Naturo andciicurnstano.es have made him his in terior. As an inferior, John Clifton nat urally seeks a protector and guardian, and the law furnishes him one of his own choice, who by the acceptance of this guardianship, incurs the obligation to pro tect vnd support him. Sneli is the oper ation of our Act of the Legislature per mitting of color to select their owners arid becomo slaves.— N. Q, Delta, ■-- . The Knock Down Argument. Messrs. Johnson and Stephens both use an argument which they think conclusive, hut which we think as weak as the old woman’s coffee, that had just nine grains to the gallon. It is, that in as much as we agreed to lea v e our rights to the judiciary, and the Supreme judicial tribunal of the country has decided in our favor, that we ought to be well pleased and satisfied, not withstanding the strongest man of our par ty, backed by a majority, refuse to be gov erned by it. Here is logic for you with a vengeance. If a school boy had put such a thing in his composition, the master would have refused to receive it; but as it is proclaimed by two distinguished gentle men, it is hailed as powerful aud unanswer able. This is about the amount of it.— Wo have carried our case to law. and the judgment is in our favor, but our adversa ry stands out in contempt of judgment.— What a victory we have gained! How : thankful we ought to be! The judgment, which has a political ap ’ plication and effect, is that we have a tight to go with our slaves in the territories, and ; that that right cannot be impaired by any power until a State Constitution is properly formed. But tho political power which must see that this judgment is executed as a rule of political conduct, says we refuse !to do so. Nevertheless we must bo grate -1 fulthat the decision is in our favor. We have the shadow —what care sensible men for the substance 1 Besides, it is of very small consequence that our adversary has solemnly agreed to award us this right if thus determined iu our favor. What has good faith to do with shaping the ctmrse of men who at least ougiit to be bunest ? Fall iu ! fall in ! on the strong tide—keep the party together. Southern rights are at present not practical We hope wagive no offence if we add that a lick at the eighty urillhms is practical in the eyes of all men. And it is just here that the understanding ot many become obtase. seeing that the ofre is more readily grasped thau the other.— Albany Fat, iot. iy Never strike a child while yon are in anger. Never interfere with your lius band o* wife in the correction of a child ;in its presence. The parents must be uni* I ted, or there is an end to government. — ! Never make light promises to children, of i rewards or puuisbuieuts; but scrupulously j fulfill what von promise. Begin early with 1 your children. Break their temper if it is high, while young; it may cost you amjl them a pang, but it will save you botli fifty afterwards ; and then be steady in yonr government. Use the rod sparingly —it is better nnd easier to command from their love and respect than their fear.— Keep these rules, ar.d my word for it your children will be a happiness to you while young, and an honoF to you when they grow up. Mr. Toombs’ Speech. Hon. Robert Toothbfl, of Ga., lias re cently made a speech in the Senate, which like all hi effoits, is characterized by boldness and ability. We give the lat ter part of his speech as reported in tho Herald : He reviewed at length the Dred Scoff decision- tc show that it sustained to the fullest extent the right of slavery to pro tection in tho Territories. Ke had no idea that Mr. Douglas’ prediction that the Union would be dissolved if this doctrine was enforced would be fulfilled. He thought the Union could stand u little more than that. The government could not be distroyod ; justice and truth would preserve it; but it the dissolution of the Union was to result from this protection, let it come. He would adhere to no gov ernment that refused to grant him the pro tection it owed him. Mr. Toombs read from Mr. .Douglas’ Freeport speech to show that ho asserted the people of the Territories could exclude slavery in spite of the decision of tho Supremo Court, which was in direct opposition to his speech of July, 1856. lie accused Mr. Douglas of playing at the game of “heads I Win, tails yon lose,” and seeking by craft and cunning to do what it was not holdnesstodo by open and manly effort. That was not the bargain, and the Gov ernment could uot he maintained without observance of good faith. If the territo ries would not obey the fundamental law of the land he would take the government from them, and give them one that would. He said the true issue had been avoided. The Senator from Mississippi (Brown) clamored for a law that would do no good; and the Senator from allinois clamored against a law that would do him no liann. Non-intervention had been confounded with squatter sovereignty, and the rights of tho South in the Territories with a slave code. Ile controverted Mr. Brown’s position that tho Territories, by the exer cise of a taxing power, might keep slaves out. The slave code afforded no remedy. He would not give a code of laws to he administered by a set of men who, in re fusing protection where it owed it. had showed themselves unfit to be trusted. In conclusion, he called on his political friends to put the stamp ot disapproval on- of squatter sovereignty. There was a gleam of light coming from Chicago. Active had been devoured by his own dogs. He called on the democ racy to unite against the common foe. [The last part of Mr, Toombs’ speech was not very well heard, but understood as vindicating the action of the Southern delegates at Charleston, and urging their return to Baltimore, with the view of uni ting to defeat the republicans.) Jesus and the Dead Dog* Jesus, says a very old Persian story, ar rived one evening at the gates of a certain city, and sent his disciples forward to pre pare suppor, while he himself, intent on doing go,id, walked through the streets in to the market-place. And he saw at the corner of the market some people gathered together, looking at an object on the ground; and he drew near to see what it might be. It was a dead dog, with a halter round his neck by which lie appeared to have been dragged through the dirt; and a viler, a more ab ject, a more unclean thing, never met the eyes of man. And those who stood by looked on with abhorrence. , “Faugh!’’ said one, stopping his nose, “it pollutes the air.” “How long,” said another, “shall this foul beast offend our sight ?” “Look at his torn hide,” said a third ; “one could not even cut a shoe out of it.” “And his cars,” said a fourth, “all draggled and bleeding.” “No doubt,” said a fifth, “be has keen haDged for thiev ing” And Jesus beard them; and looking down compassionately on the dead crea ture, he said: “Pearls are not equal to the whiteness of his teeth.” Then tbe people turned toward him with amazement, and said among them selves : “Who is this 1 This must bo Jesus of Nazareth, for only he could find something to pity and approve even in a dead dog!” and being ashamed, they bowed tbeir heads before bim, and each went on his way. An Indignant Editor. —Tbe editor of the Nashville (Tetin.) Union. on missing his pen one morning from its aecsutomed place in tho sanctum, thus mournfully wails: “Hung be the heavens in black! and yon, bright sun, if your engagements are not too pressing, turn from your burn ing pathway across tbe firmament—sink to the bosom of tho southern seas—and let Terms—§l,so Always in Advance. the day be niglit! Let tho world bo draped In mourning of thine unnatural ab sence, nnd let dirge, and wail, and requiem swell mournfully up from all the volceftil things of earth! Our affection is twined nbottt it ns the lovijig arms of the grape vine are twined abbuf the wedded <Wt4 of its bosom, and fkor tender reCoHecffbfl of its many excellencies riiW foteviw, plead, like angels trumpet-tongued; against the deep dyed wretch who took it off. Deaf, lamented sharer of our days pf toil and nights of scribling! hail and farewell 1 Peace to thine ashes, and ashes be peace nt him who tore flvcc lienee t” Kindness.—Bo kind to all. In thesb few words how much meaning there may be—meaning of vital importance to thu person eohcernCd.’ By being kind nothing is lost, but’ itVAeh be gained.— *even it nothing is gained Sirecfiy to t'liC doffoi* qf kindness, there is, r never-failing Rtippiy of benefit accruing to him. By an act of kindness, not only the blessings of the benefitted, but of the world, nnd of God, alighted on tho bend of him who does the act. Through all our lives we may look in vain for any other trait which gives greater celebrity to its possessor than kind ness. Washington was a gieat. mart, but was that tlie only reason why Iris name is revered and blessed by thousands ? Np. —it is because lie used that, greatness for the benefit of his country and fellow-beings. Napoleon is recollected ; but is it with the same kind regard with which we remem ber Washington ? No,—“it is w ith bitter 1 feelings atul a loud lament that the name Bonaparte is recalled.- And why | Be cause he had no nobleness in liis sohl. May each and all read and reflect upon tho lives of the departed great, of our 6Wri’ as well as other countries, judging whether they arc recollected for kind deeds or fyr etil ones, —consider how they are regard ed, whether Hke Washington or Napoleon, and then make a solemn vow—l willAio kind—renewing the vow as often as tlio tempter comes. Those who thus live, t the coming of gitoy hairs, will- have little to repent ot.-^-Ex: . _ ‘ f ‘ Mining in tub United States.—AV’ though America, from its dicovory until', this day, h#3 furnished the gireat balk of the precious metals, mining as an art, or as a seif lice, lias never been well under stood here, nor systematically followed, 1 especially in tbe United States. GoM be ing found, for the most part, on tbe surface, or in the alluvial sands, is extracted by the rudest means aud the most unskillful ope-’ rators, the process being unworthy of the’ name of mining. Tlie few deep mines in Virginia and the CarolinaS, where the gold 1 bearing rocks are wrought, scarcely form an exception tb this remark. Tho ores of silver and those of the leiss valuable metals, are, however, to be pro cured-only by deep mining, and the resour ces'af the United States are to be devel-- opod’ iiv thftf dfre'cfhffiV Th‘e galena—oro of lead‘d ol Missouri and tbe adjacent re gions, has been hitherto dug from beds of clay at a considerable dejpth. TliCr6 iffniV regular lode or vein, and the process of procuring it is even less like mining than the washing of auriferous sands, Thu Da tive copper of Lake Superior Las no anal ogy in the previous history of mineral ex ploration.—Nat. Intelligencer. v Prepayment ok Postage by Stampk.- The recent order of the Postmaster Gen eral requiring the pre-payment of postage to be made, in all cases, by the United States postage stamps, is said to have been misunderstood by some postmasters, as compelling tbe pre-payment of postage upon all letters and other mail matter ad dressed to foreign countries. To correct any misapprehensions, it is now officially announced that the purpose of the new regulation is simply to require pre-payment by postage stamps instead of mouey in all cases when postage is prepaid in the Uni ted States; leaving it. as heretofore! en tirely optional with tho senders te pay the postage in advance, or leave it unpaid, when mailing letters for Canada or ofler British North American provinces, Great Britain, Prussia, France, Belgium, and the German States, by the Bremen and Ham** burg mails, as our postal our postal arrange-’ meats with each of those countrios havd adopted the principle of optional pre-pay ment. In order to facilitate pre-payment of pos tage on letters addressed to foreign coun tries, and to avoid the necessity of affixing thereto a large number of stamps which would in some instances increase tbe weight so as to subject the letters to additional postage, the Department has ordered the’ issuing of ucw stampsof the denominations ot twenty-foftr, thirty, and ninety- cents, respectively. The tw enty-four cent Stamps will be ready for distribution next , week,- the thirty eent stamps soon thereafter, and the ninety eons Stamps as soon as they’ can he pfoetfretL—*• Baltimore ‘ —•—j—a* a .•■;>*. si it Pike’s Peak Wrr.-Tbey have a *poal” at Pike’s Peak, who lias perpetrated the following : - „ . *’tgy Luck varies with the men who hunt For gold, as I’ll explain : <_* Some find the ore fotrfatei, While others **ek 4n rain t NUMBER 27*