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tHffhlu JntrUigrncrr. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, Wednesday, November 22, I860. Election Return*. Fcltox County.—For Governor—Jenkins 840. For Congress—W. T. "Wofford, 396; J. P ’ Hambleton, 234. For Senator—Johnson, 450 ; Collier, 22S. Hill and Maddox elected to the House. Gwinnett County.—For Governor—C. J. Jenkins, 713. For Congress—Junius Hillyer, 321; J. H. Christy, 292; E. M. Johnson, 44; Dr. Lyltlc, 7. For Senator—J. N. Glenn, 36Gv F. E- Manson, 2C2; Arnold, 63. House of Delegates— Tkos. II. Mitchell, 465; S. Martin, 426 ; D. N. Byrd, 340 ; W. E. Simmons, 276; J. T. Doug- lots, 63. Clayton County—For Governor—C. J. Jen kins, 260. For Congress—Bigham,260; Buchan an, 15. Senator—J. F. Johnson, 180; John Col lier, 21. House of Delegates—Byington, 178; Fears, 109; Purdy, 5. Fayette County—For Governor—Jenkins, 892. For Cngrest—Bigham, 272; Buchanan, 160; Brassell, 44. For Senator—Carter, 375.— House of Delegates—Bed wine, 275; Minor, 111; Renfro, 64 ; Grice, 44. Coweta County—For Congress—Bigliam, 122; Buchanan, 785. For Senator—Turner, 399; Rob inson, 256 ; Arnold, 80; Watson, 43; Bead, 43; Bullard, 24. House of Delegates— Stalling, 380; Teuch, 293; Smith, 242 ; Williamson, 219 ; Sims, 216; Kirby, 195; Goodwyn, 69; Lasiter, 33. In Troup county, R. A. T. Ridley and F. A. Frost have been elected to the House of Reps. In Cobb county, N. B. Green and J. O. Gar- trell have been elected to the House of Reps. Campbell County—Jno. M. Edge lias been elected to the House of Reps. In Spalding county, J. D. Stewart lias been elected to the House of Reps. In Bibb county, Messrs. Hardeman and Mougli- ton liavc been elected to the House of Reps. In Jones county, Win. T. McCullough aud A. J. Middlebrooks have been elected to the House of Reps. Taylor County.—For Cb/igresa-Bigham, 215; Buchanan, 10. Scandett is elected to the House. Harris County.—Bigham gets a majority for Congress. Hudson and Hargett elected to the House. Chatham County.—Russell and Harrison elected to the House. Muscooee CocNTY.-Fbr Congress—Buchanan, 561; Bigham, 235. Russell and Moses elected to the House. Ricitmond County.—Suead aud Barues elect ed to the House. Morgan County.—Woods and Walker elect ed to the House. Floyd County.—For Congress—Wofford, 584; Hambleton, 209. Thomas and Woods elected to the House. Bartow County.—For the House the vote was as follows: Howard, 473; Sims, 394; Dodd, 355; Tumlin,340; McDow, 243. Talbot County.—We learn that Bigham had u majority of two votes in Talbot county; that Redding, for Senator, carried the county, and is no doubt elected; and that Messrs. Willis and Hall are elected Representatives. Cherokee County.—Wofford, 659; Cole, 132 ; Hambleton, 74. Harden and Sharp elected to the House. Greene County.—McWhorter and Swan elected to the House. Upson County.—Wombcll elected to the House. Monroe County —Cahaniss and Woodward elected to the House. Pike County.—McDonald elected to the House. Spaulding County.—J. D. Stewart elected to the House. Hancock County.—Smith and DuBose elect ed to the House. Muscogee County.—Russell and Moses elect ed to the House. Pulaski County. House. Milton County.- House. Gwinnett County.—Martin aud Mitchell elected to the House. The Twenty-Fourth District has elected Dr. Munson. The Thirty-Second District has elected Mr. Russell The Thirty-Third District has elected Mr. Dorsey. The Thirty-Ninth District has elected John T. Ezzard. Forsyth County.—For Governor—Jenkins ) 895. For Congress—Hillyer, 285; Christy, 247; Johnson, 20; Lytle, 1. For Senator—John T. Ezzard. 273; II. W. Howell,278; Wm. A. Teasly, 47. For House of Representatives—A.. W. John ston, 23S , Tolbert Strickland, 199; F. M. Haw kins, 1S2. Paying the National Debt.—The present figure at which “Greenbacks,” or the National currency, is rated, when compared with gold and silver, is attributable, in a great degree, to an idle doubt on the part of the masses of the people that the National debt will be repudiated and never paid. This doubt is encouraged by de signing and artful men who know better, but who anticipate the realization of immense for tunes, by speculating on the currency and impos ing upon the ignorant, wiiose fears they are ac tive in f -citing. The ability of the country to pay the National debt is beyond any doubt, aud that in comparatively a brief period, when we consider how European governments—the best of them—England herself especially—have paid theirs. If peace prevails, and the Nation is in volved in no foreign war—it will not be, we are sure, in a domestic one—ten years will not expire before the debt will cease to be onerous upon the people. Wealth, population, and resources, not yet, but daily being developed, will insure this. There is no such country in the world, and it can endure burdens no other Nation can. We look upon the efforts being made to impair con fidence in the National currency as wicked in the extreme The intelligence of the people, we trust, will save them from being further imposed upon by those who propagate the idea that the Nation's debt will not lie paid, thus causing the depreciation of the National currency, and raising the value of every commercial and agri cultural commoditv. -Kibbee elected to the -Grogan elected to the Immigration to the South.—The New York Herald ofthe 13th instant says “among the immi grants arriving here a considerable number are bound directly for the Southern States. There are parties whose destinations were fixed before they left Europe, and who do not include the im migrants who came here without any settled plana, and who were subsequently influenced to proceed in the same direction. The fact is a sig nificant one, and is full of promise for the South. It is well known that but few immigrants arrive here without bringing some little capital with them, and no doubt most of those who started with the idea of settling in the restored States are provided with larger sums than usuaL At the South the amounts which they bring will, in gold, purchase ten times the land which they could buy at the North for the same money.— Thus We shall Lave introduced at once into the Southern States an agricultural element that will re-place negro labor, aud that, by its introduction of capital, will also replace all that ha9 been lost by the war." This is “a consummation devoutly to be wish ed." The immigration the South needs from Europe is one direct fr om there; not an immigra tion composed of foreigners from the West and North, who may have already contracted preju dices wrainst the South, and would seek it only as an El Dorado to grow rich upon and riot in, bat an immigration composed of those who come to labor and fit* with us; who want lands and homes, and would become good citizens. These the South needs and would welcome—none otb- The CoafMlcnile foloa/ln Mexico. The St Louis Republican, says the Cincinnati Time* of the 13th instant, under an article headed as alxive, “learns from a gentleman who lived formerly in Lexington, in this State, something of the prospects of the Confederate colony which is being established in Mexico. The one to which he belongs, and to wliich he will return, as soon as lie can dispose of certain property in thi3 State, lies near Cordova, a town on 4he road between Vera Cruz and the city of 1this tin*; which might otherwise be overlooked Mexico, and about a hundred miles from the for mer place. It consists of about a dozen large haciendas of apparently good land, capable of producing cotton, coffee, cocoa, and tobacco. This land will be given to the settlers by the Em peror’s Government, in parcels of six hundred and forty acres to families, and in smaller allot ments to single men." “Sterling Price, Gen. Jo. Shelby, Ex-Governor Harris, of Tennessee, and Judge Perkins, of Louisiana, were there at the time of his depar ture, with other settlers of less note. Lieutenant Maury, formerly of the Naval Observatory at Washington, was also there, and actively engaged in furthering the scheme by drawing up a report to be circulated in the Southern States, with a view of inducing parties of colonists to come over and join them. The work of tilling the soil had not been fairly commenced, and would be post poned until there was a suitable accession to their numbers. Tliis they expected to obtain in rea sonable time through the medium of Maury’s report, and the influence of the newspaper which Ex-Governor Allen, of Louisiana, has commenced publishing in the city of Mexico.” While there is in the South, and especially in Georgia, lands in abundance capable of produc ing cotton and tobacco, if not “coffee and cocoa,” We would advise our people not to seek homes in Mexico, however tempting may be the induce ments held out to them in that distracted realm. “ The Emperor’s Government!” How long will it be his, if it be his government now ? And wlmt kind of a government is it now, or will be, should the “Emperor” succeed in maintaining his position there ? We trust that no portion of the people of the South will be deluded into an abandonment of their homes, by the prospects held out from Mexico. Let them stay by theij brethren, and for weal or for woe, meet with manly fortitude their fate! It is in the hour of adversity that the souls of men are tried. That hour is now upon the South, and let her men stay by her, the one encouraging the other, and all labor to promote a returning prosperity. Am nesty for the past has been granted and received, and in good faith let all go to work now to re store that which has been lost. Abandon your homes! Never think of it, people of the South! From the London correspondence of the “Round Table," we extract the following inter esting medical reminiscences, which, as they re fer to two diseases, one now prevalent in some of our sister cities, and the other threatening its ap pearance in America—the small-pox and the Asiatic cholera—will doubtless interest our read ers, and especially the medical faculty of, and their pupils attending lectures at, the Medical College in this city: Dr. Spencer Hall, a very distinguished London physician, recently declined to obey the law which requires that all infants shall, within a certain period after their birth (six months, I be lieve,) be vacinnated. When called upon by the authorities, he responded in a very remarkable letter, which was read before the authorities, of Marylebone parish, stating why he had deter mined to pay the fine rather than have his child vaccinated. He declares that he has never been able to find a cow with the disease, nor can he find in England a farmer who has ever seen one with it, consequently the virus which is now used in England is nearly or quite all taken from hu man subjects. On inquiring at the various hos pitals, he finds from the medical men employed in them that it is next to impossible to get any- real vaccine matter, i. e., from the cow. He also gives reasons for supposing that nearly all of the virus in use lias come through the bloods of some three hundred different people, many of which must be tainted ■with some disease. Dr. Hall prefers that his child should incur the risk of the small-pox to these taints. The dying out ot the disease among the cows has been attended by a singular decrease in the virulence of small-pox among human beings. The disease, from being among the most formidable, has now almost lost its terrors. He thinks that for some reason or other—possibly because the whole community has become gradually inoculated—the small-pox may die out altogether. The Marylebone authori ties were considerably staggered by the doctor’s very able letter, and did not know whether to im pose the fine or not—the fine being arranged for the negligent, not for the philosophical. They finally agreed to allow the doctor four months to hunt up some original vaccine virus for his child. The most important medical event, however, is that Dr. John Chapman has certainly succeed ed in making an impression on the cholera with his ice cure. This is acknowledged by the med ical fraternity of England; and now no person is attacked but a bag filled with ice is at once thrust, upon the spine. The doctor published, some months ago, a pamphlet, in which he showed how deeply he had studied the cholera in connection with the ice treatment, which he had tried upon diarrhoea with such success.— When the cholera appeared at Southampton, he hastened thither, and found the physicians quite willing to have him treat their cases. Though called to those patients some time after the dis ease had had its way with them, he saved six.— Two died, but one was seventy-three years of age, and the other an habitual drunkard, living in a very filthy place. Since then the success has been most remarkable, and it may be almost assumed that this fierce visitor from the tropics has been mastered in the region of ice. Dr. Chapman is not only known as an eminent phy sician, but as a literary gentleman of fine attain ments. He edited “The Catholic Series,” w T hich brought out in England so many of the liberal religious productions of America and Germany. He nas been for many years, and is now, the edi tor of the “Westminster Review.” He is, how ever, not an old man, but bids fair to live many years, assisting humanity to give the cold shoul der—or rather spine—to its various ills. To Mr. F. G. Grieve, Assistant Clerk of the Supreme Court of this State, we are indebted for the following points decided by the Supreme Court of Georgia at Milledgeville, November Term, 1865: Samuel Merideth, Plaintiff in Error, vs. Knott and Hollingsworth, Defendants in Error. Possessory warrant from Baldwin. A bailee repudiating his trust and setting up adverse title, may be proceeded against by pos sessory warrant at the instance of the bailor af ter demand and refusal. Judgment affirmed. P. & R. A. Fleming, Plaintiffs in Error, vs. W. B. Dorn, Defendant in Error. Case from Richmond. In an action against copartners, one of the defendants may be made a competent witness for the other, by bond of indemnity, release and deposit of money in Court to cover the recovery in the case, Judgment reversed. An Important Decison.—Jutlge Trigg, of the United States District Court for Tennessee, in dismissing an application for the privilege of a writ of habeas corpus in the case of McCann, the applicant, on the ground that he bad no ju risdiction in the case, it being within the jurisdic tion of the State Courts exclusively, is reported to have said: “I am at a loss to pe#eive how any judge or court, whether State or Federal, can assume the responsibility of pronouncing otherwise than that it was a civil war—that the parties engaged in it were belli germ ts, and as such entitled to exercise every right accorded to them by the laws of war. It will of course, be con ceded, that if it were a civil war, and the parties engaged in it were belligerents in the sense of the international law, then whatever one of the bellige- The article which we publish below appear ed in the W ashington City national Intelligencer, of the 13th instant The position which, as is generally understood, this paper occupies in rela tion to the President and his administration : and especially in regard to the work c.f recon struction which has been initiated by the former and pressed with so much earnestness and zeal by him; gives its suggestions, always respect fully considered by the public, an importance at or pass unheeded. Of tiie article referred to, we have to remark that it cannot fail to attract the attention and serious consideration of the representatives elect to the next Congress. If, as we believe it does, the article, as a whole, ex presses the wishes of the President, in regard to their policy when they reach Washington City, then it should be gravely considered by them, whether they should, or should not, lieed and lie governed by its suggestions. But to their wis dom and patriotism this must be submitted. The members of Congress elect from the South ern States, are now the South’s representative men, and in occupying that position, a solemn responsibility rests upon them, which we trust they will wisely meet. Below is the article to which we refer: We have a word of advice to give to members elect to Congress from the South, and especially to such members as may not feel able to take the oath prescribed by the test-oath enactment—we will not call it a law, as applied to members of Congress—of July 2, 1863, and this advice is, that they shall not press for their seats, under any circumstances, until after the organization of the House. The embarrassments of the situation are pecu liar, and naturally grow out of the state of things that follow the rebellion; and this state of things to which we refer is especially disclosed by the elections in both sections of the country* On the heel of the war little else tvas to be expected than that those candidates should win, on both sides of the line, who have been more or less iden tified with the ultraisms oi the rebellion. The storm cloud is yet w r arm with the lightning.— Statesmen long estranged should meet, talk, min gle, exchange views, sentiments, professions, dis close feelings and policies, and intermingle such amenities as belong to responsible gentlemen, and not rush, like belligerents, at once and vehe mently, to any ultimatum. As victors, as con- querers at every point, a3 the overwhelming power, it becomes the North to receive the rep resentatives from the South with all the distin guished consideration that belongs to the situa tion, and which has always graced the close of civilized wars, in the conduct of victors charged with responsible posts, civil and military. This much is due from the North to the South as gen tlemen, and this much is due to the dignity of the Government and to the records ot history. Cer tainly we cannot afford, on an occasion so inter esting as will be the assembling of the next Con gress, on the close of tlie war, and under the dawnings of a peace that we all fervidly pray may be immortal—we cannot afford, at such a time, to present a spectacle disgraceful to civiliz ation, and to the sublime part that America is enacting in the eyes of all the world. And such a spectacle we will present unless the represen tative statesmen of the land shall rise, in this par ticular, to the full altitude of the situation. How reproachful to us would be a record of sectional hate, of bitter and narrow prejudices, when all civilized mankind are looking either with affec tionate interest and hope, or with derision, envy, and hate, on the result of the experiment to con solidate the Union! Now that the party elec tions are over, if w r e are doomed to differ, let the difference be on high and compromisable State grounds—grounds that are rational and fairly de batable, and such as can be discussed and sub mitted to the ultimate tribunal with the calmness of argument, while we shall despise the rage of sectionalism, and the empty noise of mischiev ous demagogism. To the South we respectfully say that perhaps a certain degree of self-respect and manly pride impels them, while yielding no right to remain for a reasonable time on the outside of the Con gressional body, which, in one sense, may be compared to a court or to a commission of gen tlemen, to wdiom their case, to a certain extent, is referred by a large portion of the public senti ment of the country. Nothing should be com mitted on the part of the South which can go to disclose that it is lust for power or office which induces lier members here; but, on the contraiy, that they assemble here and knock at the door of their father’s house as erring sons, who desire to meet once again, never to separate, around the family altar and hearth, in the home of their love and of tlieir choice, the home chosen for themselves and for tlieir children and for tlieir children’s children. To this end the demands of a noble pride can be reconciled with every amount of concession on their part which does not yield constitutional questions that, in their gravity and importance, concern the Government itself. And the course which we have suggested is due front gentlemen on all sides to the President of the United States, who is entitled to be re lieved of every needless embarrassment. Let it never be forgotten that Andrew Johnson stands forth not as the head of any perishing party whose organization is based on fleeting events, but that as President he is the representative of the Constitution and the political father of the whole people. He cannot afford to be angry with the excitable and the erring, nor can he quarrel with the political elements which are just awiatnral in the present state of our politi cal world as are the laws that regulate the mate ria! universe. There must be the ebb as well as the tide. The storm-tossed ship will continue to rock to and lro on the waves long after the “let loose winds” have returned to their prison. And as the President is the representative of all that is majestic in authority under the trying cir cumstances of our case, so let all concerned re member that authority is neither noble nor com manding when it consents to involve itself with the contesting passions of men. It is for the President to remember the value of the supreme law, so well set forth by the poet : AH the ambitious for the throne will fight, For where none has the title all have right : Thus, while we cast a bloody tyrant down, 4 . By blood we raise another to the crown. All men who love the country, and who hope for the future safety and dignity of the institutions otr which the most precious hopes of mankind depend—all such men must rally in aid of the restoration policy of the President If need be, North and South must make cheerful sacrifices of non-essentials and of collaterals. The watch word-better now than hereafter—must be the Union—“Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.” Then, if, after all these important aids shall be brought to the President by the wisesAand best of our country’s sons, North and South, there shall still remain an obstinate, un-American, warring faction, powerful enough to obstruct, for the time, the great object of all our sacrifices, the popular corrective is at hand, and there need be no doubt that it will be summarily applied. For ousel ves, we insist that if the President shall proclaim the South to be recognized, that the Clerk of the House shall enter the names of all the returned Southern members on the roll, and that such shall retain their seats—unless plain reasons founded on necessity shalL appear to the contrary—without reference to the test-oath.— But we much prefer that the Southern members, under all circumstances, shall wait outside of the House for a reasonable period after its organiza tion—and this for the reasons which we have cursorily given. The Memphis Bulletin says General Longstreet is to be President of the Mobile and Ohio Rail road, and the Memphians base great hopes upon the change. Just now the road is being man aged to the injury of Memphis, both in extortion ate charges upon freight and in facilities for for warding it. The Bulletin says, “So odious has this company become, and justly, too, under the present regime, that there is danger that its future usefulness may be trammeled by Legislative ac tion in Tennessee and Mississippi. The people of these States cannot submit to all wrongs.— There is a limit to popular patience, however po tent chartered rights may render soulless corpo rations. There is national necessity for the par don of General Longstreet if it fe granted in or der that a national highway mat' lie fairly real ized.” A Remarkable Decision.—In New Orleans lately Jndge Duplanter decided that the value of rents might do in conformity to the laws and usages] a pew in church might depend in a great degree of war, also might the other party." A Matamoras paper says seven- regiments of negro troops were mastered out of seryice and disbanded in Brownsville on the 2d instant.— Most of these were Northern negroes, and will be furnished transportation to their former States without delay. A dispatch was received on Friday morning at Washington announcing the death of Wm P. Johnson, Esq., the only brother of the President of the United States, and late the Collector at Yalasco. He died on the 6th inst. front the ef fects of an accidental gun-shot wound. on the "legitimate pride of a father to establish a gifted daughter with the benefit to be .derived from the -conspicuous position" in question.— This is the first tiBewe ever knew it to be said so from-.the Judicial benclt. _Gex#Dick Tayt.or is living quietly in New York, and has not lieen running to Washington, as the telegram and newspaper correspondents have him. __ The Columbus Sun says their cotton market was'rather dull on the 17th. Middling may. be quoted at from 41 to 42 cents, though the range was greater, and good middling 43 cents. f Crime in Nashville.—The following record j of outrage and crime in Nashville, for one day, i we dip from the “ Union" of that city. We are amazed that in a dty of so much commercial and political importance, itself the State’s Capital, and as it used to be, of elegant social refinement, such a state of lawlessness should prevail Can this, too, be one of the sskT results of tlie late war ?—Ed. Ixt.] We yesterday gave a chapter of horrors. We continue it tondav. If there is not a change, people will begin to doubt that Tennessee is the most moral place in existence. Only one murder —that is, as tar as we were able to learn yester day ! Only one! and onl^one the day before; and only about a dozen last week—and all with in forty miles of tliis place. But not to general ize : MURDER OF A NEGRO. A negro named Stephen Jones was yesterday shot and killed by another negro, named Joe Bell, near the corner of Cherry and Jefferson streets. Bell was slightly intoxicated, and was pointing a pistol at a little colored boy, when Jones approached him and said: “You should not do that; the pistol might go off and kill the boy.” “D—n you,” said Bell, “I’ll settle you; I killed a nigger over in Edgefield last week, and now I’ll kill you ;” and at the same instant he fired, and the ball passed though Jones’ heart, killing him instantly. , The alarm was soon raised, but Bell had fled. A warrant was sworn out against him before Esq. Patterson, but at the time of going to press the culprit had not been found. wife-whipping. A warrant was yesterday sworn out before Esq. Patterson by an Irish woman named Mrs. Brace, who lives near the Buena Vista Springs, charging her husband with the most horrid cruelties to ward her. Her head and face were horribly mu tilated, and her general demeanor was that of a broken-hearted woman. She has been the sub ject to ill-treatment for years, but never before appealed to the law for protection. Forbearance, however, ceased to be a v&£ie, and she was con strained to invoke the aid of officers of tlie law in her behalf. NEGRO KNOCKED DOWN AND ROBBED. Yesterday, about 11 o’clock, a negro, whose name we were unable to learn, was knocked down by a white soldier, while walking along Cheriy street, south of Broad, and robbed of a watch. The alarm was raised, and a crowd of men, white and black, commenced pursuing tlie robber, but be escaped unhurt, and has not since been arrested. row in smoky. Three of the 16th Regulars were yesterday ar rested by the provost guard for creating a disturb ance in the classic precincts of Smoky. Tiiey were all drunk, and undertook the rather grand task of “cleaning out” the place; but, instead of doing so, they all found themselves in durance vile, in an hour after they had commenced “clean ing.” ANOTHER. Some soldiers of the 16th Regulars got intoxi cated and went into Smoky for the purpose of “going for” every negro they could find. One of them pitched into the wrong man, however, and got shot through the leg for his pains. BOY BADLY BEATEN. A warrant was yesterday sworn out before Es quire Patterson, against Francis Pritchard, who is charged with assault and battery. The charge is, that he beat a little boy,, whose name we are unable to learn, in a most cruel and shocking manner. The boy’s life, it is alleged, is in great danger; though ot the facts we are not aware, further than that the boy used some very insult ing language toward Pntchard. That, however, is no justification for an assault on a boy. THE “FORTY THIEVES.” Who has not heard of the forty thieves, a ju venile organization which has been flourishing for a year or two in this city ? The members are youths of from twelve to sixteen years of age, and they are perpetually committing depreda tions of some character—frequently operating beyond the corporation line, in order to escape the vigilance of the police. Recently, they have been somewhat quiet; but yesterday one of the recognized leaders of the gang—Jim Sullivan— stole some articles of clothing, in which he was detected. The owner of the clothes commenced pursuit at once; but lie fled. A warrant was sworn out for him, but at last accounts lie bad not been taken. BOLD THIEVES. We stated several days ago that Jas. R. Green, who lives on the Nolenssfile Pike; was robbed of a fine set of harness. C^FMonday night, a party of thieves attempted to make away with Ids horse. Mr. Green and another gentleman fired upon them, when they ran oft', but soon returned again, and were treated in the same manner. Considering that the business they were engaged in was a little hazardous, they left after the second attempt. We 4 lo not know who these bold villains were, but it is probable that they are the same who killed Hamlet, a few nights since, and who com mitted the depredations we narrated j'esterday. Is there no means of bringing them to justice? TO BE CONTINUED. We presume we shall be compelled to continue our narrative of villainies to-morrow, though we hope not. The Georgia Convention.—The fallowing notice of the late Georgia Convention, we clip from the Milledgeville correspondence of that old, able, and most excellent journal, the Wash ington City National Intelligencer. The wri ter is a gentleman who has won an enviable rep utation as a journalist in days past, and who, we learn, is now connected with the editorial depart ment of that paper. We allude to W. M. Bur- well, Esq., a name familiar to the Press, North as well as South. We cannot commend too highly the National Intelligencer to the generous support of our friends: As a body the Convention lias a highly re spectable appearance. There are a great many members new^o public life, but they are obvi ously the representatives of a substantial and in telligent population. There is an air of gravity, almost of gloom, upon them, unaccustomed to the trammels which a war of conquest has placed upon ihein. There is a disposition rather to as certain the limits of their action than to invite a collision with an authority with which they cannot cope. Hence, the discussions are short, pointed, and marked with neither passion nor declama tion. The object seems to be to comply with every condition, and adjourn. It happens that nearly tlie whole Convention boards at the same hotel. They hold two daily sessions, and go and come to and from the State House with the regularity of a school. There is no attendance from the adjacent country, and none of those recreations which usually solace the leisure hours of public bodies. The writer has neither seen nor heard of an instance of intoxication amongst the mem bers. There are several men of State and Fed eral distinction in the Convention. The charac ter of the president, Herschel Y. Johnson, for ability and worth is well known. Mr. Jenkins, chairman of the Business Committee,. a lawyer of high reputation, and a man whose private virtues have secured the affection and confidence of the people. He has been put in nomination bv his friends as Governor, and there is little doubt but that he wiil be elected. It is under stood that Governor Brown, his only prominent opponent, will unite in the invitation to. him to become a candidate. Mr. Seward, Mr. J. Hill v Judges Reese and Floyd, and other gentlemen have an extended reputation. There is a good deal of conversation in regard to the next Fed eral Senators. Among others who have been mentioned as proper to fill the last appointment are Governor Brown and the Hon. J. Hill, the latter formerly a member of the Federal House of Representatives. It is very gratifying to bear the terms in which the National Intelligencer is spoken of throughout this State. Its honest and conservative course is universally commended, and all look with pleas ure to its renewed circulation amongst them.— Several gentlemen mention that they had pre served files of the paper, and one who had lost the files for sixteen years by the military destruc tion of his property seemed to feel his loss en hanced by the sound and instructive political his tory which had thus perished. Milledgevtlle, Friday, Nov. 3.—In the Con vention, to-day, an ordinance was adopted de claring it the duty of the Legislature to provide for the widows and orphans of Georgia soldiers and for disabled soldiers, and ratifying the acts of <niardians, trustees, etc., during the war. The State of Georgia has herein acquitted it self of a sacred duty to the families of the brave men who, at her call and by her orders, gave life and limb to her service. * We long ago at tempted to awaken the State of Alabama to a sense of a similar duty, but we have not learned that the Convention took any action on the sub ject. Weliave been required to repudiate oar war debts—and a war debt is just as sacred as a peace debt; but we trust we shall not be expec ted to repudiate our living defenders, or the memories of our heroic dead.—Mobile Advertiser <£- Register. The Sun's Heat.—Professor Thomson as signs to the sun’s heat supposing it to be main tained by the appulse of masses of matter, a limit of 300,000 years; and to the period of cooling of the earth from universal fusion to its actual state 98,000,000 years. The Bridal Balloon Voymge* In the New York Tribune, of the 9th, we find the following interesting account of mid-air mat rimony : The* announcement that a bona fide mStmage was to take place above the clouds in Professor Thomas S. C. Lowe’s balloon United States, yes- terdav. at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, caused a great* crowd to assemble in the large inclosure whence the bridal party were to take their de parture from tliis terrestrial sphere. About 3,000 persons, nearly one-hall of whom were women, were congregated around the balloon, at the cor ner of Sixth Avenue and Fifty-ninth street, while probablv as rnanv more occupied positions on the roofs of buildings and lofty nicks overlooking the inclosure. THE BRIDAL CAR. At one end of the raised platform, over which the partially distended balloon, oseiliateu fitfully in the strong gale, was erected a pretty gate of woven evergreen bearing the motto, “Ever Thus,” through which tlie bridal party were to pass to the balloon. The bridal car was very handsome, the outside being covered witli gold and crimsqp damask, and the inside cushioned round with pale green silk, with a capacity for four voyagers. It was also elegantly tented with pink silks, bor dered round with drooping festoons of lace of bridal white. THE PARTIES CONCERNED. Miss Marv West Jenkins, late of St. Louis, Mo., was the blushing bride; Professor John W. Boynter, M. D., of Syracuse, N. Y., was the hap py and eccentric man. They had been engaged for some time, and, according to advertisement it was expected that they would be accompanied bv tlie Rev. F. Dewitt Talmadge, of Philadel phia, to the pure, untrammeled realms of space, and there united in tlie holy bands of wedlock, with the eternal stars for witnesses, the sun and moon for groomsman and bridesmaid, the fires of sunset for their hymenial torch, and the blue em pyrean for their domestic sphere. Of course, here was poetical novelty enough to attract throngs of sight seers, who, however, were com pelled to wait two drearv hours in the cold open air, keeping their feet and hands from freezing by incessant applause, and clamoring for the spec tacle to commence, as they had paid their admis sion fee in good faith. ARRIVAL OF THE BRIDAL PARTY. Owing to the accident which had taken place at the Manhattan Gas Works, Prof. Lowe was compelled to make liis own gas, which occasion ed considerable delay, but at about four o’clock the balloon was ready for her voyage, and soon after carriages containing the bridal party drove into the deep enclosure Irom the Fifth Avenue side amid roars of laughter and deafening cries of “Hi! hi!”. “Here they come!” “I see the bride!” “Look at the old man!” and similar ex pressions. A moment after two little girls, half clad in white musliu and cheap spangles, and shivering with cold, sprang from the foremost coach and scattered flowers along the platform, which was now densely crowded with spectators, whom the policemen, with all their efforts, were hardly able to keep from the narrow path which had been cleared for the passage of tlie bridal party, consisting of the bride and bridegroom, the two dauglitera of the latter and the sister oi" the former, with a few other friends. THE BRIDE AND BRIDEGROOM. Soon after the arrival of the party, it was given out that the marriage ceremony had taken place a few hours before, at the Fifth Avenue hotel, and that the only legal ceremony to be performed on high would be the signing of the marriage con tract. The reason given for this change of pro gramme was that the clergyman of the occasion had to return to Philadelphia by the next train ; but the actual reason probably was that the rev erend gentleman, accustomed to act solely in, mundane matrimony, had backed out at the eleventh hour, and tied the knot in the manner with which we groveling mortals are usually contented. “Wliich is the gal wliat’s to be yoked?” asked a vulgar fellow at our elbow. “That is the bride,” we replied, instinctively indicating a beautful woman of about five and twenty, who had just alighted from the carriage. She was tall and comely, with bright dark eyes, pale cheeks, and a somewhat nervous smile about her pretty lips, as she passed through the throngs with a step-daughter, hardly younger than herself, on either side. She was dressed in a plain, but elegant traveling dress of dove-col ored silk; her rich dark hair was modestly dis posed beneath an elegant bonnet of the latest style, and she kept her eyes cast down as if sad and dejected. Tlie “happy man” was a large, portly gentleman, about double the age of his uew wife. Tlie latter looked pretty and sweet as she was lifted into the gay cabin of the air ship; but as the husband stepped over tlio *dge of the car, there was a pitiless laugh from tlie crowd as though he had made that one step from the sublime to tlie ridiculous of which the poet speaks. Owing to tlie scarcity of gas, It was found impossible for Miss Lula Boynton to ac company her lather and step-mother, as was originally intended. Her place was therefore occupied by a little sister of the bride. Prof. Lowe then stepped in, and all was in readiness. THE START. Tlie ballast was on board. A dozen men were clinging to tlie unsteady car to keep it down. “Give us one good swing, boys, and then let us sail!” cried Prof. Lowe. The next moment there was a strong puff—a flapping sound", like that of wings in motion; the crowds below caught one more glimpse of the pale-cheeked bride, with tiie nervous smile upon her lips, and then tlie air-sliip was afloat and rising slowly on her heavenward way. She rose but slowly,how ever. The Professor emptied a sand bag just in time to clear the eaves of the little house at one corner of tlie inclosure. As it was, the car came squarely in contact with the flag-staff on the roof; but the slender mast bent like a willow and the next moment they were clear and rising rapidly, witli the Professor waving his hat triumphantly over the side of the car. tug bridal voyage was a happy success, and is thus described by one of the voyagers, who is evidently of a poetic turn: ^ * It was not near so cold as we thought it would be. Immediately after clearing the walls of the inclosure, the balloon seemed to become perfectly motionless, and the world sank from our feet like a peopled dream. The city was spread below us like a map, with its hundred spires and myriad casements gleaming in the last flash of sunset, which flooded the west with pallid gold, with here and there an island of white cloud. For a moment we seemed to be perfectly motionless, and then by watching the Central Park, directly beneath us, we saw that we were moving rapidly tow ard the north. “Then, as the wind began to weep A mnsic out of sheet and shroud, We steered her toward the crimson clond That land-like slept along the deep.” Our nervousness w r as quickly gone, and we were soon chatting merily. Lesser and dimmer grew the world as we soared and swept along over Harlem and along East River, with its hun dred Lsles, with the wide, glittering waters of the sound beyond, like a dazzling shield, and ham lets, hills and woods, the latter flushed with au tumnal purple and gold, resting far beneath us like the vistas of an enchanted realm. It all seemed strange and fairy-like. It brought to mind the “Day-Dream” of Tennyson. By but a slight stretch or the fancy, the bride became the sleeping beauty, newly awakened by her true- love’s kisses; by another stretch—quite a stretch, it is true—Professor Boynton became the fairy prince, “lighter-footed than the fox,” who bore her to his father’s ball3. It was the sweet Day- Dream of youth and love. And on her lover’s arm she leant. And-round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went, In that new world which is the old ; Across the hills and far away, Beyond their utmost purple rim. And deep into the dying day The happy princes followed him. Even as in the sweet Day-Dream, the happy, couple in the air-ship left the world behind mounted starward as though to make their bri dal home in some bright bower beyond the clouds. . , And o’er them many a sliding star And many a merry wind was borne. And.' streamed through many a golden bar. The twilight melted into mom. * * ¥ * + * * And o’er them many a flowing range Of vapor bnoyed the crescent bark, And, rapt through many a rosy change, The twilight died into the dark. We understand that the newly wedded pair will remain some days in New York before seek ing their house in Syracuse. May their days be of silver and their nights of gold! An Adventure in the Oil Region—A Highwayman Vanquished by a Parson.— The Rev. J. H. Stubbs, of Titusville, related the following at a prayer meeting in Ids own church one day last week, having received Ids informa tion from the hero of the story: On Tuesday last, the Rev. Mr. , of the Bal timore Conference, was riding on horseback from Pit Hole to Titusville. He had nearly reached Pleasantville, and was trotting quietly along, humming a psalm tune, when a man stepped into his path, and seizing his horse’-s bridle, presented a pistol at the parson and demanded his money. Nothing disconcerted, the traveler calmly re marked that-be was only a poor Methodist preacher and had but little money, but would give up all be had. The roblier made no reply, out maintained bis threatening position, and pa tiently waited for the Conference man to disgorge. The dominie eyed the freebooter pretty earnest ly, and remarked, with great Solemnity, “You can have my money, my friend, but for Christ’s sake and your own soul’s sake, give up this' busi ness of highway robbery.” The freebooter drop ped his pistol at his side, and' in a voice tremb ling with deep emotion, exclaimed, “You can pass on!” The Cronins Sweeper. The late Mr. Simcox, of Harboume, near Bir mingham, a gentleman largely engaged m the nail trade, was in the habit of going several tunes a t ear to London on business, at a penod when journeys to London were far less readily accom plished than they are at present. Or. one of these occasions be was overtaken by a heavy shower of rain, from which he sought shelter un- der an archway, as he had not any. umbrella w ith hint This continued for a long time with una bated violence, and be was consequently obliged to remain in his place of shelter though begm- nin.r to suffer from his prolonged exposure to the cold and damp atmosphere. I nder these circum stances he was agreeably surprised when tlie door of a handsome house immediately opposite tvas opened, and a footman in livery t\ ith an um brella approached, with liis master s compliments and that he had observed the gentleman standing so long under the archway that he feared he might take cold, and would therefore be o-lad^if he would come and take shelter in his house—an invitation which Mr. Simcox gladly accepted. He was ushered into a handsomely furbished room, where the master of the house was sitting, and received from him a very friendly welcome. Scarcely, however, had Mr. Simcox set eyes on his host than he was struck with a vague remem brance of having seen him before; but wfliere, or in what circumstances, he found himself alto gether uuable*to call to his mind. _ The gentleman soon engaged in interesting and animated conversation, which was carried on witli increasing mutual respect and confidence; while, all the rime, tliis remembrance kept con tinually recurring to Mr. Simcox, whose inquir ing glances at last betrayed to his host what was passing in his mind. “You seem, sir,” said he, “to look at me as though you had seen me before.” Mr. Simcox acknowledged that his host was right iu his conjectures, but confessed his entire inability to recall the occasion. “You are right, sir,,’ replied the old gentleman ; “and if you will pledge your word as a man of honor to keep my secret, and not to disclose to any one what I am now going to tell you until you have seen the notice of my death in the Lon don papers, I have no objection to remind you where and how you have known me. “In St. James’'Park, near Spring Gardens, you may pass every day an old man w'ho sweeps a crossing there, and whose begging is attended with this strange peculiarity; that w’liatever be the amount of the alms bestowed on him, he will retain only a halfpenny, and will scrupulously return to the donor all the rest. Such an unusu al proceeding naturally excites the curiosity of those who hear of it; and any one who has him self made the experiment, when he happens to be walking by with a friend, is almost sure to say to him: “Do you see that old fellow there ? lie is the strangest beggar you ever saw in your life. If you give him sixpence, he willl be sure to give you fivepence-halfpenny back.” “Of course his friend makes the experiment, which turns out as predicted; and, and, as crowds of people continually passing, there are numbers of persons every day who make the same trial; and thus the old man gets many a halfpenny from tlie curiosity of the passers-by, in addition to what he obtains from the compassion. “I, sir,” continued the old man, “am that beg gar. Many years ago I first hit upon this expe dient to save me from utter destitution; and find ing the scheme to answer beyoud my expecta tions, I was induced to carry it on until I had at last with the aid of profitable investments, real ized a handsome fortune. And now, sir, such is the force of habit, that though I am no longer under any necessity for continuing this plan, I find myself quite unable to give up; and accord ingly every morning I leave home, apparently for business purposes, and go to a room where I put on my old beggar clothes, aud continue sweeping my crossing in the park till a certain hour in tlie afternoon, when I go back to my room, resume my usual dress, and return home in time for din ner, as you see me this day. Mr. Simcox, as a gentleman and a man of hon or, scrupulously fulfilled his pledge; but, having seen in tlie London papers tlie announcement of the beggar’s death, lie then communicated this strange story to my friend. ‘‘All! Sir, that Knock.” When I was vicarof F , I preached a sermon to a large congregation of persons, chiefly of the laboring class, on the text, “Behold! I stand at the door and knock.” That sermon was blessed above many that had been greatly blessed to the same congregation. Amongst others to whom “the Word” on that day was brought home with power, was an aged man, who had attended the church for sixty years, and who, up to this time, had been totally unim pressed concerning vital religion. He was a re markable man in liis way—particularly vener able said respectable in his appearance, and es teemed very highly as a sober, honest, industri ous, kind and thrifty person. He always sta tioned himself in tlie aisle at the door of the squire’s pew, which lie opened for him and liis family ; and there he remained during tlie whole of the sendee, sitting down occasionally on a step which was close by. While preaching, I had often watched his countenance, to discover, if possible, bow far lie felt interested in w'liat I said. I never could discover any sign of feeling on his part until tlie day when I preached from tlie text which I have mentioned. On that day he listened with the most marked attention, and, in a few days after, he, with ten or twelve others, to whom the same sermon was blessed, assem bled in iny study, and manifested the most in tense anxiety about salvation. This old man was to me the most interesting of the group. The tears streamed down his cheeks, and, before all present, he did not hesitate to express the deep emotions of liis soul, and how the arrow of con viction had pierced his heart. “For years and years,” said lie, “I have stood at the squire’s pew door and thought myself all right, or did not think at all. I never heard a knockout my heart before; but, tliank God, I have heard it now.” He departed that day somewhat comforted, but not quite satisfied, and for months he was kept in a state of great doubt respecting liis accep tance with God. I left the parish, and when I left, old Joseph II was one of the happiest and most consis tent of the Lord’s people in that place. In about a year after, I returned and stayed there for four days on a visit with a friend. The next morning after my arrival, almost one of the first persons I saw was Joseph. I called him to me, and gave him a hearty shake of the hand. His eyes filled with tears of gladness, and almost the first words he spoke, and all that he could speak, were, “Ah, sir, that knock! I shall never, please God, forget that knock.” Reader, do you know anything of this knock ? You would be ashamed to permit any respectable person to continue knocking at your door for any great length of time; and yet it may be that from your youth up to this present time you have permitted Christ, the king of kings, to stand at the door of your heart knocking, and you have never yet opened unto him. Oh, treat him no longer so, or the day may come when he will say, “Because I have called and ye refused, I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded; but ye have set at naught all my counsel, and would 1 none of my reproof, I also will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your fear cometh.” Now is the accepted time—open your heart to him now, and lie “will come in,” and “sup with you or, if happily you have opened it al- ready, then open it still more widely to him and let him always have free access to your affections, and you will prove the truth of his words: “Whoso harkenetli unto me shall dwell safely, aud shall be quiet from fear of evil.”—Sunday at Home. The Best Way.—When the honeymoon pass es away, setting behind dull mountains, or dip ping silently into the stormy sea of life, the trying hour of married life has come. Between the parties there are no more illusions. The feverish desire of possession has gone, and all excitement receded. Then liegins, or should, the business of adaptation. If they find they do not love each other as they thought they d*id, they should double their assiduous attention to each other, and be jealous of everything which tends in the slightest way to separate them. Life is too precious to be thrown away in se cret regrets or open differences. And let me say to all those to whom the romance of life has flecl and who are discontented in the slightest degree with their conditions and relations, begin this re conciliation at once. Renew the attention of earlier days. Draw your hearts close together. Talk the thing all over. Acknowledge your faults to each other, and determine henceforth you will be all in all to each other; and, my word for it, you will find in your relation tlie sweetest joy earth lias for you. There is no other way for you to do. If you are happy at home, you must be happy abroad; the man or woman who has settled down upon the conviction that he or she is at tache.! for life to an uncongenial yoke-fellow, ami there is no way of escape, has lost life; there is no effort too eostlv to make wliich «m restore to its setting uponthe bosom the missing pear! Interesting Discoveries.—At the last meet ing of the Academy of Sciences, M. Garret pre sented a note on the new epidemic in Savoy, in which he re-asserted the cause of the disease to be the carbonic oxitle produced by the cast-iron stoves. His nephew, M. Jules Garret, has proved tlie presence of tlie gas iu the room heated by a cast-iron stove. M. Maurand submitted an in strument which may prove - of value. He calls it a “Ready Reckoner \provnpt calcalateur*”) and it is inteded to reduce with ease and accurary the weights and measures of all nations to tlie French metric equivalents, and vice versa. A Politic*! Sermon, A correspondent of a Northern paper writing from the North-West says: “It is difficult to convey byword an adequate idea of the intensity of the rage with wliich the Republican party of the Northwest regard the recent course of President Jonnson and the poli cy which he has adopted. During a recent visit to Chicago and Wisconsin I had an opportunity to see the manifestation of this feeling in various aspects, not from the press alone, but from tlie pulpit and in social life. The revulsion of feel ing which has taken place in Wisconsin and Northern Illinois, during the hist four months, is perfectly wonderful. At the time that Mr. John son succeeded to the Presidency, I heard grave elders and deacons and ministers there declare that they could see tlie hand of God in the re moval of Mr. Lincoln, because they feared that he would have been too lenient toward the South, and that God had raised up Mr. Johnson to be the Joshua in the place ot the gentle Moses who had departed. Mr. Johnson’s little finger was to be thicker than Mr. Lincoln’s loins, so far as harsh measures toward the South were concern ed. How changed are the notes of these same ministers and deacons now ! Two weeks ago 1 heard one of these political teachers, in his Sun day morning speech to his congregation in the temple of God, compare the President to the wicked kings of Israel who caused the aneieut peo ple of God to wander after strange gods, aud to give point to his discourse, he read that chapter of the Old Testament which denounces curses upon the Israelites because they had not rooted out and utterly destroyed the inhabitants of the land which they had conquered; and the appli cation of his discourse was, that now that God had delivered tlie inhabitants of the land which we had conquered iuto our hand, that if we did not exterminate them, we ought at least never to admit them to a participation in tlie rights of citizenship, until they consent to admit the ne- f roes to a full participation in the same rights. _ud he warned his hearers that the judgments of God would be visited upon us, if we do not cut down the groves and break all the images in all the land that we had conquered; that is, if we did not root out and abolish all the old established customs and forms of worship at the South, and substitute, instead of the Episcopal, and Catholic, and Baptist, and Methodist Churches of the South the Puritan Churches of the North.— Three or four months ago, he said, strong efforts had been made to root out tlie false teachers at the South, and to supply tlie Southern Churches with godly men from New England and from the Chicago Theological Seminary. But in an evil hour President Johnson had ordered that good work to be stopped, and the Southern Churches were again in the hands of the South ern people. A Big Game—A Fallen Priest Turned Confidence Man.—Some years ago Dennis O’Neil was regularly ordained a priest in the Catholic Church, and for a time served in that capacity with credit to tlie church to which he belonged and honor to himself, but, alas! he be came tired of a life of that kind, aud lie drifted into the whirlpool of frivolity, and soon the robes of the clergyman were laid aside for the fashion able dress of the world. From the social wine glass to the flowing bowl, step bj' step, he sunk, until at last the church took cognizance of the fact and he was expelled from the same, lie then mixed iu tlie fashionable world, and his means became exhausted, he had to resort to some plan to replenish his pocket-book. Too proud to work, and having lost the confidence of all who knew him, lie had to resort to the dodge of the swindler in order to carry on his mode of living. At different places persons were victim ized out of considerable amounts by this clerical gentleman, but in all instances, from some cause or Other, he evaded the vigilance of the law and never fell into the clutches ofthe officers until he reached this city, where he was arrested by officers McGuire and White. We will give a sketch ot the operations of O’Neil in our city; Some four months ago he came to this place, reporting himself as one of the priests, and by that means imposed upon many. He paid a visit to the Orphan Asylum in the upper portion of the city, where lie repre sented he had some fine wines to sell, and ob tained an amount of money to purchase casks to put the same in. At another time he canvassed the city, taking up subscriptions as lie said lor the school at New Haven, and by this means beat some of our citizens out of money, one of our regular police officers being caught in the trap. In a number of other ways did lie impose upon the confidence of those with whom lie be came acquainted. He left the city and returned a short time since for tlie purpose, no doubt, of resuming his game here. We understand that the case will be investigated before tlie Police Court this morning. General Forrest and Telegraphic Cor respondents.—Statements have often found places in public journals with reference to the conduct of General Forrest, which have not the slightest foundation of truth. It was recently asserted that he was so odious in the neighbor hood of liis plantation that he could not live there in safety; that his life was threatened by those whom he had wronged white tiie war pro gressed ; t hat lie had said that bribery would se cure a pardon when all other means had failed. There is not the semblance of truth in any of these statements. He spends most of liis timein this city, is persistently devoted to business, and avows, at all times and under all circumstances, his acquiescence in the established order ot things; and is to-day, as lie was years ago, a staunch friend and adherent of the Presidents If the Press telegraphic correspondent who disseminates these baseless stories as regards Gen. Forrest would have an item of truth, let us say to him that Forrest was the first general officer of the whilome Confederate army whom wc heard say that tlie Union was restored. He used this expression at Meridian, Mississippi, when he heard of Lee’s surrender. He lias never uttered a word or done a deed in contravention of the proposition then advanced. He asks it not at our hands, but we only do him simple justice in making tlie above statement.—Mem-pins Bulletin. The Speed of the Pen.—A rapid penman can write thirty words in a minute. To do this he must draw his quill through the space of one rod—sixteen and one-half feet. In forty minutes liis pen travels a furlough ; and in five and one third hours a mile. We make, on an average, sixteen curves or turns to the pen in writing bach word. Writing thirty words in a minute, we must make four hundred and eighty-eight to end. second ; in an hour, twenty-eight thousand eight hundred ; in a day of only five-hours, one hun dred and forty-four thousand ; in a year of three, hundred days, forty-three million two hundred thousand. The man who made one million strokes with a pen in a month was not at all re markable. Many men make four millions. Here we have in the aggregate a mark three hundred miles long, to be graced on paper by each writer in a year. In making each letter of the ordinary alphabet, wc must make from three to seven strokes of the pen—or an average of three and a-half to four. Properties of Chmi*Mal.—Among the many properties of charcoal, may he mentioned its power of destroying smell, taste, and color; and, as a proof of its possessing the first quality, if it be rubbed over putrid meat, the smell will lie destroyed. If a piece of charcoal be thrown into putrid water, the putrid taste or flavor will be destroyed, and the water be rendered com pletely fresli. Sailors are aware of this; for, when water is bad at sea, they are in the habit of throwing pieces of burnt buisenit into it t.* purify it. Color is materially influenced by char coal, anil in a number of instances, in very ir regular way. If you take a dirty black syiitp and filter ft through burnt charcoal, the color will be removed. The charcoal of animal mat ter appears to be the best for this purpose. You may learn the influence of charcoal in destroy ing colors, by filtering a bottle of port wine through it ; in the filtration it will lose a great portion of its coloring, and become tawny'; re peat tlie process two or three times, and you have destroyed it altogether. He Saw her but a Moment.—She wore a handsome crinoline on tlie day when first we met, and she scudded like a schooner with a cloud of canvas set. As she swept along the pavement) with a grandeur fit to kill, I saw her but a mo ment, yet methiuks I see her still. Tiie wind was on a bender, and as saucy as a witch, and it played the very dickens with dust, dimity, and sich! The gaiters were delicious whicli her feet were made to fill—I saw her but a moment, vet metliinks I see lier still! She scotted round the corner, and streaming out behind, lier crinoline and calico were romp ing in the wind. To have kept them in position would have baffled twice her skill. I saw her but a moment, yet metliinks I see her stilt! I shut my eyes treineajus, for 1 did’nt want to see a display of pretty ankles when it wasn’t meant tor me; and till I lose my senses, I am sure I never will. I saw her but a moment, yet metliinks I see lier siill! Nervous Philosopher.—Tlie celebrated “J. N.” is rather heavy on the “nerve.” Recently meeting an entire stranger in a railway car, tlie following dramatic conversation occurred: J- N.—“Mj r friend, are you a man of nerve ?” Stranger.—“I don’t know, 1 rather think I am.” J. N.—“Well, sir, do you object to tlie appli cation of a test ?■’ Stranger,—’“By no means.” J. N.—“Well, sir, (in a loud voice," so that all in the ear could hear hint,) have you got the nerve to give me a two-doilar greenback for a one ?” The stranger “came down" instantaneously, pulled out the two-dollar green-back, and re ceived from tlie immortal philosopher a “one” in exchange.