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ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”—Jefferson.
VOLUME XXII
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1. 1870.
NUMBER 22
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ATLANTA GEORGIA
Weinesdty June I, 1870.
I’khwiul.—We bad tbe pleasure yesterday
ol an interview willi Mr. J. C, Chbuj.—a
brother of the Mimk Kimball, who have
already in their enterprise done so much to
farther rhe prosperity of our city—who, with
his family, has removed from the North i<>
become a peim&uenl resident of Atlanta We
extend to the gentleman and his family, as we
leel every one in oar city who takes an inieiest
in ita primes does, a most cordial welcome
into o -i midst For the present and until tho
Bute Fair shall be over, we learn that Mr K
wilt direct his attention to matters pertaining
thereto, the improvement ol the lair grounds,
the erection ol proper buildings and so torth,
bringing to the important work the whole en
ergy ol his nature, and much practical experi
ence Such accessions to the population ot
our city will tie ever welcome to it. They add
to it (hi- wealth ol capital uj well as the wealth
ot labor and enterprise.
Woodhuli. & C^aflin’s Weekly—The lady
bank kks ol Wall Street, New York, who upon
U,or appearance as bankers and brokers there,
created tor a lime much sensation in financial
circles, have recently appeared “ as editors and
proprietors" ol a handsome weekly with the
above title. The number betore us which is its
second issue is full ol varied interesting matter,
aud the editorials display much ability, it is
published at No 21, Dark Row, subscription
price per annum $4. “ Upward and Onward ’
is its motto.
Fir. Howard's Card.
We are requested to stale, that not with
stand mg the card from Ca.pt. C. W Howard
withdrawing his candidacy lor the office ol
Secretary ol the hiate Agricultural Society,
which appears below, bis laliora to promote the
cause lor which the Society was organized,
will not cease, nor tie diminished, it being one
in which he has ever felt and still feels the
greatest poeeibte interest -.
A CARD.
The undersigned begs to inlorm his friends
in different parts of the State, who are mem
bers ol the Slate Agricultural Society that sell
respect requires a withdrawal ol his name as a
candidate lor tlie office of Secretary of that
Society. C. W. Howard.
Aaron AIprorla on (he Rampage In
Waablngion.
We are indebted to a mend in Washington
tor a copy ot the followicg handbill, which the
notorious “ Wahoo Bradley’’ had posted in that
cny some days betore the one upon which he
announced he would make his address and
challenge public debate. The day came, and
though an audience ol only some two score col
ored persons were in attendance, the nefarious
pest spoke his speech, displaying the same dis
regard of veracity, audacious impudence, arro
gant ignorance, aud malicious mischief, ot which
his riai tire is capable. We can well imagine
him a til ally of Bryant and Caldwell, hut bow
any Democrat can recognize him as such, we are
at a loss to comprehend. The lellow is a stench
to the nostrils ot honest, men Bat read his
Washington pronuuciamento, so illustrative of
the creature:
A NEW SYSTEM
OP
CHAIN-GANG SLAVERY
IN GROKOTA.
Lillie girls aud hoys under ten years of age
are sent to chain-gangs for three potatoes or
singing Shoo fly, with great locks and chains
around their necks; colored bogusly-oonvicted
women aud men are let out for ten cents per
day to do out doors woik that should be done
by honorable white and colored laborers at
$1 50 per day, and never permitted to vote alter
it. Any colored person can be convicted for
anything, and white men cannot be convicted
for anything doue to negroes. Outrages ot
whipping, beating, starving, and shooting to
death, are being putpetrated all ov< r the
Stale ot Georgia by direct orders Gov. Bullock
and Gen. Allred H. Terry The colored people
have petitioned President Grant, Gen. Sherman,
and the Congress ot the United States to relieve
them Irom Bullock's, Blodgett’s and Gen.
Terry’s wicked treatment on the Western &
Atlautic Railroad. If these men ai» p>r,udteJ
to continue, 100,000 votes will be lost to the Re
publican party in tbe United States.
Senators, representatives, editors, aud citizens
arc invited to atleud the meeting on Georgia mat
ters, at
ONION LEAGUE HALL—NINTH STREET,
On Wednesday Evening, May 18,1870, at 8 o'clock-
The gentlemen referred to aboye are in the
city, and are challenged to a public debate.
A. Alpeoua Bradley,
Senator of Georgia
Uoreraor ■allsek’i Letter.
A day or two ago, we laid before our readers
tbe telegraphic synopsis of a letter addressed by
Governor Bollock to the Republican Sena
tors and Representatives in Congress who sus
tain tbe Reconstruction Acts, giving oar readers
the reasons that influenced us ia doing so. Tbe
same reasons prompt ns to publish for their in
formation tbe u/fiole ot that letter, noiwithat&nd
mg the space it occupies in this morning’s
paper, ns we find it in yesterday’s issue of tbe
Em taken Irom the Washington Chronicle, &
paper not upon our exchange list. What we
said ot the synopsis which we published, we re-
pest of tbe letter as a whole, hut leave judg
ment to lie pissed upon it, according as it may
be decreed by those who, through these columns,
have tbe opportunity ot perusing the entire
letter.
Democracy lu iieorxls.
The Atlanta Intelligencer, in alludiug to
the reform movement going on in South Caro
lina, says;
“ In Georgia the party (Democratic) is in be
ing, bat not as in days ol yore when it presented
a uidt< d front. There are now Bryant Demo
crals, Caldwell Democrats, Alpeoria Democrats
who would dictate to the great mass of the party
the policy it should pursue, thus distracting it, aud
prevent!■ g that unity which is essential to sue
cess. We look, however, for the near approach
ol that period when the Democratic party in
Georgia will present a solid front, having lopped
off all such excrescences.”
Aud we would simply suggest in addition that
the Georgia Democracy may improve their
•• lr. mt ” by “ lopping oft ” tbe Bullock and
Blodgett Democrats, who appear still to claim
letlowship with their organization.—Savannah
Republican.
The foregoing ornamented one of the dull
columns of our neighbor, the “ Constitution,”
yesterday morning. Doubtless tbe editor o' the
Savannah Republican, when he perpetrated tbe
contused paragraph which is re-published iu
the “ Constitution," meant to be severe
upon those democrats, whom, because of their
refusal to affiliate with Bryaut, Caldwell, and
Bradley, the (lose being too nauseous for them
to swallow, he pronounces “ Bullock and
Blodgett democrats.” We know ot none such.
Bui, disclaiming as the Republican recently did,
that it was a democratic paper, we should like to
know what right its editor has to speak for the
Georgia Democracy—what it “may” or may
not do? We say to it, and to the professed
democratic paper in this city which has taken
those recreant radicals, Bryant, Caldwell, and
others into its couucils, that when the “Geor
gia Democracy’’ shall speak, its voice will be
loud iu condemnation ol all who, proleasing -to
be democrats placed such men in the lead, voted
or sanctioned the vote given to one of them for
Speaker ot tbe House at its late organization,
and have since attempted to foist him upon the
party as a faithful ally and recognized leader.
The party will have none such, and however
much it may be opposed to Bullock and
Blodgett, it will, in the main, steer as clear
and as far away from Bryant and his radical
associates, as one would from the stench ot a
pestilence that would destroy his being.
Duperlmeut at AtcrlcuKure «C IVataiitua
ton.
We have received Commissioner Capron's
monthly r«q*irt ol his divisiou of the Depart
ment ot Agriculture tor the mouths of March
ami April, amt find in it much valuable informa
tion concerning the winter grains, the condition
and diseases otlarm slock, together with corres
pondence and ariicles ii|>on agricultural interests
ol a varied character. On page 110 wo notice
the following concerning our owu State.-
“ Forty counties,” it says “ iu Georgia have
made reports of the condition of whiter grain, ol
which but six represent the cr op as uupropitious
iu appearance, viz: Clayton,Chattooga, Macon,
Meriwether, Laurens, and Towns. As else
where, there is much that is small but Ucallby
and standing well. There is some evidence ot
winterkilling in places, aud a diminished area
iu otlnrs, in consequence ol the expeuse of ter-
tilizers, as iu Hancock, is indicated, while iu
Decatur mote than usual was sown In Murray
it was as “good as for leu yeai s oast;” in Co
lumbia “ lletter than lor years ” Tne crop gen
erally appears *• promising,” ‘'belter tiiau usual,”
oi “au average,” as in Butts, Bartow, Coweta,
Cobb, Decatur, Effingham, Fulton, Floyd, Gil
mer, Greene, Heard, Johnson, Newton, Ogle-
thor;*-, Pike, Pulaski, Pain am, Pickens, Rich
mond, Stewart, Sumter, Taylor, Talbot, Terrell,
Troup, Walton, and Walker The correspon
dent iu Carroll County, says: “Ou account of
the cold aud wet winter in March, the wheat as
a general thing, looks p«Htr ami backward ; but
the Tapp&haunuck wheat, obtained from tbe De
partment o! Agriculture, so tar excels all other
kiuds that it wilt eventually be tbe only kind
sown.” •
Ou the condition oi Farm Stock iu the State
the report sat s:
"In Georgia, the drought ot Iasi season re
duced both summer aud winter supplies, which
were supplimeuled, to some extent, by increas
ed stores ot cotton seed. Tbe Iwiu-i part ot
wiuter was cold, increasing the di6COmlort aud
sufferings ot tarru animals. Scarcely au aver
age condition of slock can, therefore, be claim
ed in this State. The < arn.ll correspondent
says: “Owing to the cold, wet winter, and
spring so far, cattle are iu a very jtoor condi
tion. Glass and vegetation ate almost one
mouth later.”
Since the foregoing reports w ir made to the
department, Irom all S'lnu.- ol mioimatloii
wubiu our reach, we are pleased u> learu that
the wheat crop ot the Siam i.rmius* s to be an
unusually excellent one, >out no i he condition
ol a in >i ek eeueiapy. im u |.iocnases made
and ihe caj*‘ thal low b. en lakcu >>l it, ha? gr. a!
ly improved notwithstanding the seventy ot the
weather since Fehruary last.
We thaok Commissioner Capron for the
copy of his report forwarded to this office and
lor other favors of a similar nature.
Personal.—Mr. Hughes, ot the Knoxville
A doer User, made a call upon us Yesterday He
visits Atlanta upon business connected with
the iuieiests of the paper he represents—sn ex
cellent advertising tntdimu, in East Tennessee,
tor the merchants and bnsiuc-s m-n at our city
—aud will remain here l.u u .lay >.i iw ., be
headquarters being at the Amciie.au Hotel.
We commend the gentleman Li the courtesies ot
our merchants and otheis upon w horn he may
Call.
Tbe Wheat Crop.
Official reports show tbeacondition of the
wheal crop of this year in the iollowing States
aDfl Territories:
Iu Illinois the soil is in a measure exhausted
from iucessaut cropping; but. on good land,
where tbe seed was sown by the 20th of Sep-
temtier, the crop looks about as well as in
average years. A great breadth ol land was
sown, and the prospects are that what is lost in
the fertility ot the soul will be made up in the
number ot acres under cultivation.
Very little winter wheat was sown in Wiscon
sin, but tbe reports concerning that little wre
favorable without exception—the early sown
being particularly fine.
Minnesota is without any winter grain worth
mentioning.
Idaho has scarcely a tenth of her wheat area
occupied by the winter variety. Ot this but
little complaint has been made ot winter-killing
or low condition, and an average crop is antici
pated.
In many of the counties of Missouri the crop
is looktog well. Some complaint of freezing is
made. In Lewis, Vernon, Taney, Howard and
Benton counties these complaints are most
numerous, and but a halt or quarter crop is
anticipated. But with advancing spring the
crop generally looks moie encouraging. Some
reports of the ravages of the Hessian fly are
received, but not sufficient materially to affect
the crop.
The reporis from Kausas are cheering iu the
extreme. Scarcely a complaint is heard from
any county. A very great breadth of winter
wheat was sown, and an immense crop is now
promised.
Nebraska sows but very little winter grain ;
but the crop, wherever sown, is in excellent con
dition.
Calitornia promises another excellent crop.
A comparatively dry winter was teared, but a
sufficient rain tall to secure a good crop was ex
penenoed. In Sacramento county the crop is bet
ter than last year. In Yuba county it was never
better. In Eldorado couuty it is 50 per cent
belter than usual. From Plumas from Meudo-
cino counties similar favorable reports are re
ceived. In Monterey and San Luis Obispo pros
pects are less encouraging.
Most ot the counties ot Feunessee report good
crops, many of them excellent, and very tew
unfavorable. Anderson, Campbell, Davidson,
Dyer, Hawkins, Jefferson, Lauderdale, Monroe,
Obron, Polk, Rbea, Smith and Uuinn counties
report “ above me average ” or “ a fine stand."
The crop generally looks well throughout
Arkansas A lair average is reported from most
ol the wheat-growing counties.
Iu Texas the best lands, and those particular
ly adapted to wheat, are given up to cotton.—
Where sown, diought interlered to some extent
with its giowth. But iu most ot the counties
where sown it is looking well.
More than lorly counties ol Kentucky report
favorably, many ol them promising more iliau
au average crop.
West Virginia makes a poor show owing to
late planting and cold weather. Fields early
sown look well.
A majority ot the counties of Ohio report both
wheat aud rye as unpromising, below au avernge
or not so good as last year. One causo ot the
inferior condition was late sowing. Very wet
weatber is also mentioned. While much com
plaint is made, tne injury is generally of such a
character as to be remedied by the favorable
weather of April and May; aud later rap rts
indicated that April has brought much of recu
peration in its genial weather.
indiaua reports below the average in a ma
jority ot the counties, ihough the injuries, as iu
Ohio, are mainly such as are reparable by due
proportions ot rain and showers during the
spring months. One correspondent writes from
Warren Couuty that, “in the spring ot 1864 the
appearance was most unfavorable up to the 1st
of May, and that year we had the best wheat
crop tnat I have seen during a residence of over
Kiity ytars in this neign nor hood.”
Iu Montana the spr.ng wheat is considered the
more certain crop, though the winter variety at
pie^ent looks well. It al?o looks well in Wash
ington Territoiy. From Utah reports are not
uuiKrui out generally favorable.
A Car4 to the Public.
Atlanta, May 24,1870.
Mr. Phillips, of Rchols county, fees proper to
publish again, after the withdrawal by me on the
19th iosL, of all I had said, except my original
card This I did not expect, whether he had or
did not have a reason tor it. As my understand
ing oi the agreement was noi fully complied
with, was it not my privilege to tall back on my
original proposition it I was atiiinc to bide the
consequences ? I think, however, 1 will be able
to satisfy tbe public iu this card receiving the
communications ot Mr. Price and Mr. Philli|is
that I was justified in wiihdraaiug all l had
said, ‘except my original card. I propose u*
notice Mr. Price first. He says the “ publication
in tbe Constitution lornu-d no part of the agree
ment between Col Hill and myself.” I ask,
wby did it not ? Did not Col. Gaskill, as admit
ted by Mr. Price, in bis communication, say in
oar presence, that it shall be published in the
Constitution ? Did I not go to yon, Mr. Price, in
presence oi Major Steele, after you and he
had read the article and insist that
it sbonld be published in the Contlilicn?
which Maj. Steel said was proper, to which you
assented, hut remarked you could only request
it ? Was it intimated in Mr. Phillips’ explana
tion that he bad ever requested its publication
in tbe Constitution, or that you ever culled on
the Constitution to do so? not oue word ! hut all
that appears in my very kind note, which the
Constitution, in its magnanimity, saw tit to call
Mr. Hill’s retraxit releasing Mr. Phillips Irom
further responsibility; and garbles extracts from
bis communication, to my disparagement. 1
then bad no evidence that Col. Frice or Mr
Ptiillips had requested the Constitutufh to do me
the justice which bad all the lime been denied
me by withholding trom its readers my defense
to the unjust attacks which had been made on
me in its columns.
Mr. Phillips says, “Mr. Hill may withdraw
the card, but he cannot withdraw the tacts. If
he can be satisfied with the silly course he has
pursued, the public can well afford to be. I cer
tainly can bare nothing more to do with one
whose conduct would ill become a child’s play.”
How very manly he grows on taking leave ol
me. “ Borne Generals however, are celebrated
for their inaterly retreats, but their laurels are
so cheaply won lhat every cowardly poltroon
claims to be their peer. It the gentleman bad
desired other than child’s play it was his privi
lege to make it so, and not trouble the public
with a bandy of words aud high sounding
is; ” even now it ha desires to do so, he
may take back all he has said about child’s play
and treat me as a man, responsible tor all I have
done to him.
But 1 will not trouble tbe public farther with
the “ Lame Captain,” only to give the action of
the Committee ol this date on this unpleasant
affair, which 1 herewith append. My note ad
dressed to tbe Committee, I handed in and re
tired trom the room. Alter being absent some
time, I was seut lor and informed that ihe Com
mittee had nnanimously adopted the' resolution
which appears alter my communication ad
dressed to the Committee.
Atlanta, May 24,1870.
lo the Joint Committee to investigate the affaire of
the Western and Atlantis Railroad :
Gentlemen : I published, on tbe 18th inst.,
a card in the Atlanta Intelligencer in which
I denounced as false, certain charges made in
the Constitution, ot this city, against me, and,
not knowing the author of the charges, I said
if the person who reported tne article which
first appeared in the Constitution, was not
present, then the Constitution was misinformed ;
f, however, he was present then he had
wilfully lied.
On the day my original card appeared in the
Intdlligencbr, Mr. A. W. Phillips, ol Echols
louoty, rose in the Committee and admitted
that he reported matter for the Constitution
which drew forth the article, but said tbe Con
stitution had misrepresented him, and com
plained of the severe language m my card.
The Committee then- called upon me to ex
plain, which I did, by reiterating and insisting
that all I had said in my original card was true,
and I read the charges one by one and said if
any member of the Committee disagreed with
me, I desired an expression to that effect; no
member replied lor they knew my original card
spoke the truth.
Mr. Phillips then explained by saying he was
misrepresented by the Constitution, and gave a
wishey-washey explanation of his conduct, the
snbstance of which he has partly published in
the Intelligencer. In bis explanation before
tbe committee, he evinced snch an anxiety to
adjust the affair, that I consented he should
publish his views as he had stated them and let
the matter pass.
My connection with this commit tee has been
pleasant and agreeable, and I have, to the best
of my ability, discharged my duties. I desire,
however, to relieve tbe committee* of any em
barrassment it may have in consequence ot my
being clerk, lor I assure you it would be very
disagreeable to longer serve you, it you believe
false tbe charges made iu my original card ot
h the 18th instant. If, however, you desire me
longer to continue your clerk, I shall consider
that you believe true all I said in my original
card. Please give an early expression ot your
desire as lo my remaining your clerk.
Respectfully, D. P. Hill.
THE M7WLLO.
[Extract from a Sermon by the late Bishop Elliott,
in Christ Church, Savannah, March 27, 1863,
entitled “ Samson’s Riddle.”]
Jvc-618 xiv: 14—“Out of the eater came forth meat
eon on of the strong came forth iwaetaesa.**
* • • • • rr • • *•
Before this war came upon m, the South al
most worshiped personal bravery and physical
courage. They were considered as the requisite
qualities of every genllMMh, and whosoever
did not possess them, was' willed and despised
even while he was tolerated No proper dis
tinction was made between tbe courage of mere
temperament and the moral courage ot high
principle. The duel was set up as tbe last of a
man’s pretension to this quality. And this arose
partly from the natural sprit ot our race, but
was, likewise, a remnant ot feudal usages^which
are certainly out ot place in our days. But this
war is teaching us what an universal quality
personal courage is, aud how few men there are
who are afraid oi death upon the battle field.
How many tens of thousands ol soldiera are
there who, without any stimulus, save the sense
ot duty and the impulse ot patriotism, march
fearlessly up to the caunon’s moutli, literally
s|M>rt with wounds aud death, aud stand up. >□ the
outermost verge ol peril, and their cheeks ucwr
blanches, aud tueir step never falters. And is
this physical courage, wliiof* >so vahi d»- vrt-so
common, U> be estimated a^ive that moral cour
age, w bicli is so rare—that courage which will not
follow a multitude to do eviLwhich will breast the
world in arms tor principM which will restrain
the madness of the peopl^at eyery sacrifice ot
place, oi properly aud ot life? What we have
needed in our civil affairs in the past has been
this moral courage, and now we are learning in
this war how much more rare a quality it is than
mere personal bravery—such courage as made
our gallant Johnson—Sydney in name and Syd
ney iu nature —bear and sutler mere than mar
tyrdom, and then lay down in quiet dignity his
valued lile, that his country’s weakness might
not be exposed—such courage as led our own
heroic Tatnall to disappoint a natiou’s hopes,
and burn his ship rather man sacrifice Lis brave
aud trustiul meu lo a selfish and bubble reputa
tion lor daring—such courage as has qualified
our peerless President to face alt calumny, ra
ther than deviate one hair’s breadth from his
own clear perception oi his country’s good. It
requires brave men lo do these things No com
mon man can do them. Aud the longer the war
lasts, the more it will develope such character
istics, aud moral courage will rise in value, and
mere physical courage—that which resolves
bravery into brawling and dueling and private
recoutres—wilt sink into merited insignificance.
No people is more brave than the people which
can boast of Nelson aud L’ollingwood, ot Hill
aud Wellington, aud yet they find nobler em
ployment lor their courage than in wasting it
upon the field ol private .avenge. Aud it we
learn this truLh, we shall indeed gain aholher
morsel of delicious sweetness irom the grasp ot
the strong.
A Lion in Court.—We have heard of the
production oi odd evident* in court, like that
ol the ostler’s will mentioned by Mr. Dickens,
which was chalked on a stable door. We have
seen a baby offered in a delicate case to show
that it resembled its putative lather. We re
member a large door produced in a New Eng
land court as a. book ot original entry ; but a
subpeena issued to bring in a lion is a real nov
elty. This actually occurred in tbe Superior
Court at Cincinnati the other day, in the case of
replevin ior a lioness and her cubs. It was
argued that the progeny had been appraised at
too high a figure, and the couit ordered a view.
So one of the cubs was brought in with his
negro keeper, and demeaned himself with a
mildness and j meekness which should have been
ediiying to the lawyers. The judge looked at
the lion, and, like tbe first Daniel, was not
alraid, but decided that the young beast had
decidedly been overvalued —New York Tribune.
A Remarkable Story.—A few days since,
there was a colored man in the city with a scar
entirely around his neck. It is stated that dar
ing the closing days ol the late war he was tried
by~ a drumhead court martial, found guilty,
sentenced to death, duly hung, and pronounced
dead by two surgeons iu attendance, one ot
whom secured the body. He then restored the
hanged man to life. Although he was to all
appearances dead, yet the vital spark was not
quite extinct. The hanged man hid himself
until the war was ovet, »nd then settled on a
iarm within thirteen miles ot the city where he
is now at work. Tbe scar alluded to is but the
marks of the rope by which he was suspended.
The t xecution, it ia alb ged, took place in Ker
shaw county. It is also stated that the surgeon
who restored the man to lile ia now a resident
of this city.—Char Into* News,
Resolved, That we have received the cornmu-
nition of Col. D. P. Hill, Clerk, addressed lo this
committee, of this date, and while we regret the
unpleasant affair between him and R. W. Phil
lips, still candor requires us to say that tbe tacts
stated iu his communication, addressed to tts,
are true, and we desire him to continue Lo serve
us as clerk.
The foregoing sufficiently explains itself, with
out farther comments irom me.
D. P. Hill.
Another Death,
We regret to learn that Mr. Nathan Hawk
ins, an old and highly respectable citizen ot
MiUedgeville, departed this lile ou (Saturday
last. The deceased was oue ot the most ener
getic planters in Middle Georgia—beiore the
war one of the most successfui and prosperous,
aud was last recovering Irom severe losses which
he had sustained by reason ot tbe results ot
that disastrous conflict. He leaves a widow
aud several children with numerous friends lo
mouru al his departure irom this, it is hoped
aud believed, to a better land.
The funeral of tbe victims ol the recent Greek
massacre was one ol the most imposing ceremo
nies ever witnessed in Alheus. The solemn ser
vice was held in tbe English Chnrrh in that
city. All the resident ambassadors were pres
ent, tbe Archbishop ot the Greek Church and
the entire Bvnod. All the officers and ministers
oi tbe Greek Government, aud tbe King, who
never miugies with the muililude, atteuded —
The Queen, loo, was there, and in tears. Alter
he services at the church were over, Ihev all
followed the bodies to the cemetery. The King
and Queen led the procession, anil walked the
entire distance, an act unpeeedented in the his
tory ot Greece. About 8000 persons were col
lected between the church and the burial place.
The King, in a long military cloak and helmed
cap, witti leathers, walked immediately behind
the coffins, which were borne upon the shoul
ders ot the marines, and covered with the
national flags. The heads ot seven oi the bri
gands killed by the soldiers during the late en
counter were displayed, strung i > a line on a
scaffolding in the Champ de Mars, where crowds
ot people went oat to see them.
The New York Sun represents the newly en
franchised in that city as having been at the
recent electh n placed in a sad predicament. Iu
one ward “about 1.100 negroes registered; but
lo! when the newly enfranchised came to the
ballot boxes, judge ot their amazement upon
learning that white repeaters had already voted
upon marly five hundred >■! ;u*-«r um s 1 And
as au exquisitely ridiculous coiumeLiirv upon
the audacious proceeding, when a lew ui-gioes
subsequently tried to vote upon tueir owl names
they were arrested as repeaters.” It the “man
hood suffrage” is to be thns treated in tbe North,
the “lately enfranchised” will hardly esteem it
any big thing alter all I
Call on Congress! That’ll fix ’em.
Mercer University.
The people of Macon bid $125,000, iu city
bonds, for the location of Mercer University in
its midst. Should the generous bid fail to se
cure its location there, then the Mayor and
Council ol that city are requested to devote the
same amount, and as much more as can be at
tained trom other sources, to the erection of
suitable buildings for, and the endowment of
a first class male college there. Bully for Mar
oon.
White Men uua» Rocfc America.—Negro-
mania is only the madness ot the hour. It will
give place eventually to sounder principles.
The fanaticism which has fraudulently invested
the negro with the right, of suffrage, and which
now seeking lo place him upon a plane ol per
fect equality with the white man, will yield ere
long to the more quiet, but stronger, conviction
which is forcing itself upon the thinking men
oi the country, that the only saft'y ior free in
stitutions is in keeping the absolute control ot
them in the hands ol the superior race. He
would have been denounced as a madman even
three years ago, who would then have declared
lhat, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hnndred and seventy, we would have
negroes at the polls, negroes in the jnry box,
negroes in the State Legislatures, negroes ap
pointed to prominent positions ot public trust,
and a negro in the United States Senate. The
march ot this fanaticism has been very rapid in
deed. And now, the people stand appalled at
the terrible mischiet which their uniaiinlul rep
resentatives have wrought. They see these
same political schemers who have imposed the
“Fifteenth Amendment” upon the country by
chicanery and traud, appealing to these uew
sufirageist to sustain their tottering party. The
Radical leaders recoguize the fact—too patent
to be ignored—that the best men everywhere
are disgusted with the doctrine that the negro
is tbe equal oi tbe white man. Hence their
trantic appeals to the negroes to “vote solid,”
to “remember their iriends” and to be “true to
the great principles of the Republican pary.”
— Valley Spirit, Chambersburg, Pa.
Correspondence ot the Courier-Journal.
Shooting Affray—Young Lady Wounded.
Stefhenspobt. May 19,1870.
Our town was thrown into qnite an excite
ment this morning about 9 o’clock, by the re
port of several pistol shots fired in quick suc
cession. It seems that the facts connected with
tills sad affair are about these: A state of un
pleasant feeling baa existed tor some time be
tween a Mr. George Hawkins and James and
Ed. Brashear. of this place (troth parties doing
business here), which culmiuated this morning
by a meeting of tbe parties near the brick store
of the Biashear Bros., in which some words
passed between tbe parties, when au indiscrimi
nate firing commenced, in which a young lady
by the name of Perigo was shot through the
arm, near the shoulder, causing a painful
Ihough uot dangerous wouud. This is the
more to be regretted from the tact that the par
ties are broiueis-in-Iaw, and all ot the higbes
standing iu this community.
Comparative M£armth of the Rexes.—The
Schenectady Star is puzzling itselt over the con
undrum why girls can dress as lightly as they
do and slill keep warm, and relates the follow
ing startling experience: “We once rode with
a girl in an open cutter, fifteen miles, ou one of
the coldest nights in wiuter, and while we sat
frozen nigh as stiff as a stake, our teeth chatter
ing like castiuets, she kept up an animated con-
varsaiion, every now and then exclamiog : “Oh
isu’t this delightful I Don’t you enjoy it ?”
When we arrived at our destination, notwith
standing we were dressed a great deal warmer
than our fair companion, she had to lift us out
ot the cutter and conduct us to tbe tropical
atmosphere ot the kilcheu of a farm house. On
tbe return trip we were frozen to death, and she
drove the corpse home. It must be lhat girls
are tougher than we men people.
Corn and Cotton.—Commenting upon the
cultivation of corn aud cotton in this region,
the New York Herald says:
“Before the war it was the great mistake of
the South to be obliged to buy from year to
year the actual necessities of fife aud rely for
payment thereof upon the growing strip e* and
when the crash came she was like an uu pro
visioned garrison, filled with brave men with
empty stomachs. I !>■• *fomh must rely more
upon her own fi ld= lot her breadstuff and pro
visions aud lea? Upon Hie gra :: a . i u of
the gisat West. It a lesser bread>u >u cotton
be planted the price ot the staple wiii be cor
respondingly increased, in consequence ot a
diminished supply, and in any event, provided
in tbe meantime plenty of com and grain be
planted, they will have plenty of food lor man
and beast, without paying five fold tor the same
to the West and California. The danger of
the Sontli in the iutnre lies in having too much
cotton and too little corn.
The Manufacturer and Builder says that most
ot tbe salad oils now brought into the market
are made of cotton seed oil, refined and
bleached. Among all Ihe substitutes for tbe
genuine olive oil, none is better than cotton
seed, since we are able to get it fresh; while the
genuine olive oil often shows, from its age, a
beginning, at leaat, of rancidity.
From the Calcutta Bngiahman, March 3.
Cattea Culilraiies Is the Casual Prov
ince* of InSUn.
So rapid has been the extension of cotton
cultivation in this country that the latest returns
from tbe Board of trade in England show that
more cotton has been imported from India dur
ing the past year than Irom her great rival—
America. From America 1,038,811 bales were
imported, and from India 1,469,674. The
American bales are heavier than the Indian
hut, it equalized, the result is still in favor ot
India by about 200.000 bales. Another favora
ble feature in ihe return for India is, that a
much larger quantity of it is used on the Con
tinent ot Europe, and the demand for this
market may almost be said to be in its infaooy.
According to the latest returns, however, from
ihe central provinces, the cotton crop oi the
present season from that part of the country is
likely to be both bad in quality and deficient in
quantity, notwithstanding the increased area
cultivated. The increased produce ot the
northwestern provinces—nearly double that of
the previous year—may help tc make up the
bulk of the crop to tbe same quantity as last
year, but the brat Indian cotton ia the pioduce
oi the central provinces, and a deterioration in
its quality is likely to prejudice the other descrip
tions of Indian cotton. The cotton crop in the
aLjJpvinces has suffered during tbepast
year "Irom several causes —damp, rain, iST fly
and boll worm being the principal. Tbe damp
and rainy weather in December, just as the
plants were iu holl aud in blossom, spoiled the
plants and knocked off the blossoms. More
rain followed at the beginning of the year, and
again ou the 17lh ol January, which fatther in
creased the damage already done. During the
damp weather tbe process of cotton cleaning is
also stopped, and by this delay tbe color is in
jured. lu many parts the cultivators estimate
the loss ot the crop at fifty per cent, but Mr.
Kivelt Carnac is inclined to take a more favora
ble view ot the out turn. The cultivators, he
says, spread these reports to raise the price, and
many ot them are iu a position to be able to hold
their produce until prices rise, and as this is gen
erally the case towards the close of the season,
it accounts lor the quantity already sent to mar
ket being so much smaller than at this time last
year. Up to the end of Jauuary the amount
sent forward was only 23,391 bales, against 70,-
175 iu 1869. Although there may be some force
iu Mr. Caruac’s argument, it appears just as pro
bable that the deficiency in the crop has had
as great an effect as tbe desire lor high
prices, lor the returns from all tbe districts
are unfavorable, and Mr. Carnac will not ven
ture to rive au estimate ot the probable out
turn. What the borer is to the coffee planter
and the shenka poka to the rice grower, tbe
boll worm appears be to tbe cotton grower. It
prefers corn, but if corn is uot available, it at
tacks the cotton ; and as the corn crop is gen
erally carried betore the cotton crop, it always
has to fall back on the latter. Like the borer
and ihe shenka poka, it is also extremely diffi
cult to get rid ot—in tact, the only r-inedy sug
gested appeal's to fie to let tbe land lie idle lor
a year, exposed to the sun and rain, which de
stroy- the eggs. Auotber peculiarity ot the
worm is that in a wet season it attacks the in-
degenous plants and in a dry season the exotic
varieties, as each description in nnder special
circumstances the weaker. In America all
sorts of devices, such as planting alternate
strips of corn and cotton, keeping the former at
a distance from the latter, ploughing up the
ground several times and exposing tempting
baits in tbe shade ot molasses, cobalt and vine
gar mixed, have been tried, but without suc
cess. The only remedy appears to be that pre
scribed ior the shenka poka, to burn tbe affect
ed crop on the ground, and let the ground lie
fallow for a certain time. This is more than
the cultivators can afford, aud the Ootton Com
missioner should encourage any experiments
likely to eradicate this pest of the cotton
growers.
BY TELEGRAPH.
NEW TORS ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
EVENING DISPATCHES.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, May 26.—Revenue to-day
$582,000.
Faragut addresses the graduating class of the
Naval Academy.
Butter has returned.
It is supposed that the Georgia question will
soon be resumed.
The President is sick.
Boutwell orders the Custom Houses of Balti
more and Philadelphia, to be closed on Monday,
in honor of the decoratiou.
The President has nominated A. I Larkin
Marshal, of North Alabama, postmaster; F,
Beamont, Port Larvic, Texas; Mr. McHenry,
MaCon, Miss.; Thomas M. Hogan, Columbus,
Ga.; George Louder, Fayetteville, N. C.;
Major Buddingloa was assigned to the duty
connected with the indebtedness of Southern
railroads to the Government.
The River aud Harbor bill was repotted to
day. It gives Upper Mississippi for dredging
and removing snags $36,000; Rock Island Rap
ids $150,000; Itinois river $100,000; month ol
the Mississippi $300,000; the mouth ol the SL
John’s, Florida, $5,000; the falls of the Ohio
$250,000; the Mississippi, Missouri a^d Arkan
sas rivers $150,000; the Ohio river $50,000;
Mississippi, above the falls, and St. Anthony,
$50,000; Tennessee river $400,‘*30: Galveston
harbor $25,000. The Secretary ol War is au
tborized to make mauy surveys in Southern
waters.
SENATE.
A bill to aid in carrying tbe mails between
the United States and the west coast of South
America has been reported. It gives $31,000 to
the North American Steamship Company for
each round voyage, between New York and
Valparaiso, via 1‘auair.a.
a bill was reported requiring tbe New Or
leans and Chattanooga Railrod to maintain a
drawbridge over the chauel ol Great River
let It makes the width of the draw 150 feet,
The navagatibn bill was reported with
amendments.
Appropriation bill coutiuued, and amend
ment adopted limiting newspaper publications
ot laws to important measures The bill will be
disposed of to-morrow.
HOUSE.
A Resolution granting additional sudsidies
and the right to mortgage land to Northern
Pacific Railioad. Passed yeas 107 nays 85.
Committee on biil to enforce loth Amend
ment agreed to 70te tomorrow.
The bill to revive American commerce was
resumed, and tbe substitute discussed^ A mo
tion to lay it on the table was lest. Yeas 61
nays 105
SPAIN.
Libb jn, May 26—The Emperor did not al
lude to the emancipation ot slaves in his ad
dress to the Brazilian Cortes.
A Boston “Emotion”—Strange Story.
The statements in the following ate worthy ot
a Parisian invention, but stranger things have
happened here A young girl living at the
South end had expressed a wish to attend a ball
under the escort of a youDg gentiem in residing
at the time as boarder at the house. Her re
quest being retoBed she flew into a pas
sion, and said that if she was not allowed
to go with her lover she would go with the
devil himselt, if he would take her. On the
evening of the ball she slipped oat of the house
alone and unobserved, and to her surprise met
her lover in the street. He accompanied her
to the ball, danced the first dance with her,
took ber down to supper, and ended by escort
ing her to her own door. As he bade her good
night, he gave her a very beautiful pearl-handled
penknife, and told her that whenever she used
it to think of him. With these words he
vanished and the unhappy girl on enter
ing her home was told to her dismay
that her lover, instead of having, as
she had supposed, accompanied her to the ball,
had been in the house the whole evening, and
that he was at that moment sonndly asleep in
his bed. Terrified at this announcement, which
she seems to have implicitly believed, she re
tired to her own room, and in the course of the
night, committed suicide by opening her veins
with the fatal knife given her by the mysterious
stranger. Tbe girl must have mistaken another
man for her lover, or the la* ter had a double
who took this means to test tbe girl’s sincerity,
and terrified her into suicide by a wicked prac
tical joke. The detectives have had the pearl-
handled knife in their possession ever since the
tragic aflair, but no clue has been obtained ot
the man who presented it to the girl who was
bound to go to the balL The girl’s lover pre
tended to be entirely ignorant of the conspira
cy, and exhibited great grief at what had hap
pened. Of course, this aflair created great t x-
citement iu the immediate circfe^kere it occur
red, and the authorities succeeded well in keep
ing the particulars of the suicide Irom the pub-
lic.—Correspondence Chicago Evening Journal.
A Motherly Rooster.—I have long wished
to record the admirable behavior of a certain
Shsughai rooster, once belonging to a relative
of ours to the West. This fowl was old, but he
was tender; be was ugly, but he was virtuous,
as you shall see. Oae of the hem ot his flock
died suddenly and mysteriously, of too many
family cares, perhaps, for she left a brood of
twelve hearty, clamorous young chickens. Old
Shanghai stood by, and saw her die with a tear
in his eye. Perhaps he received her last instruc
tions, her dying bequest. If so, never was a
legatee more burdened with responsibilities, for
Irom that hour, the good rooster adopted all
those chickens, and devoted himself to them.—
When the fowls were fed, |he [guarded their
portion; he watched over them when hawks
were hovering near; he scratched aud fought
for them, and stalked around alter them all day,
and at night, alter leading the other fowls to
roost, he would di see ml irom the old pear tree,
gather those poor, sleepy little things under
him, and do his best to brood them His legs
were so long and stiff that it was a difficult job.
First, be would drop one wing down, to shelter
them ; then, seeing that they were exposed on
the other side, would let down the other Then
finding that he could not keep both down at
once, he would try to crouch lower, and would
sometimes tip himself entirely over, it was a
laughable sight, 1 assure you. But somehow be
managed to keep them warm, to feed them, and
bring them up in the way they should go, and
I hope they always loved him, and never made
Inn ot their gaunt, ungainly old guardian, when
they giew up and went among the young peo
ple oi the farm yard; especially when chatting
with the loieign lowl-s, ihe proud Spanish hens,
and the pretty Doikui pullets.—Grace Green
wood.
A Fearful Crime.—At Jacksonville, Weak
ley county, Tennessee on tbe 16th instant, Dan
Hill, aged seventeen years, shot his brother,
Biock Hill, to death with a pistol Brock Hill
lode t* e colt hefoi.giu.il lo I'an H 1!, which so
tor . . J the latter mat be swme he - ould kill
his brother on sight In a e*L ms Brock Hill
returned to tbe house, the residence of their
father, and was met by Dan, who immediately
fired npoa him, shooting him through the heart
and killing him instantly. The fratricide was
arrested and committed to jail to answer the
charge of murder. The parties are of good fam
ily and well connected. Great indignation and
excitement was created in the neighborhood on
account ot the mnrder. So far from repenting
the terrible deed, Dan Hill declares that he does
not regret it, and would do so again under like
circumstances. The brothers were on good
terms up to the time when the sad affair occur
red, and no reason can be assigned or the rash
act except violent passion and utter recklessness
with reference to the value of human life, and a
total disregard for tbe natural ties ot coman-
guinity.—Memphis Avalanche,
CUBA.
HayaNA.. May 26—The Steamer Columbia
has arrived. Spanish vessels are watching the
coast of Cuba to intercept, fillibusters.
Six persons were burned in tbe steamer sun
beam at Valpraiso.
West Point special to the Sun says a negro
cadet from Mississippi has arrived, creating a
great comthotion. Tareins refuse to entertain
him.
CANADA.
Toronto, May 26 —The Fenians are retreat
ing from Pigeon Hill, leaving everything behind
them. No loss of lile on the Canadian side.
Huntington is now point of interest. Every
preparation is made.
LONDON.
London, May 26.—The Times says the Ca
nadian authorities must have no tenderness.
Invaders must be treated as robbers, ruffians and
murderers.
The Morning Post is confident that the action
of the President of the United States will place
the Fenians before the world in light, as ene
mies of mankind.
Bullion in the Bank of England, has increas
ed nearly a half million sterling.
OUBJHANY.
Berlin, May 26.—King William, in closing
Rucbstag, said its action would go far to assure
foreign people that confederation is a powerful
agent for the preservation ot universal peace.
NEW YORK.
Malone, May 26.—Four regiments of Fe
nians crossed Front River, and are now moving
on Huntington. Col. Cleary commands. Cols.
Smith, McWade, Thompson and Campbell,
commands regiments.
, VERMONT.
St. Alban9, May 29.—Col. Spear, of past Fe
nian fame, has arrived.
The Fenians are scattered. Arms and accou
trements are scattered about tlie countiy. In
the engagement three were killed and fifteen
wounded. One is in jail at Burlington.
ILLINOIS.
Chicago, May 26.—The Fenian headquarters
are crowded. Several parties have departed in
different directions, some going to Minnesota.
Francis Train has arrived from Minnesota,
and reports that a tribe of Indians ha9 joined
the Fenians in the Winnepeg expedition.
north Carolina.
Raleigh, May 26.—The latest news lro«n
Yanceyville, where Slate Senator Stevens was
murdered last Saturday, still leaves the matter
enveloped in mystery. The attempt to foster
the perpetration of the tragedy upon any politi
cal parly is countenanced only by those wishing
to make political capital out ot the horrible
affair. The citizens ol Yanceyville, irrespective
of party, held a meeting on the 23d inst, de
nouncing the outrage, all t be prominent Demo
crats ot the place taking an active part in it.
VIRGINIA.
Richmond, May 26 —The municipal election
is progressing quietly.. The friends of Ellyson,
the Conservative candidate, claim that bis suc
cess is undoubted. Both parties are bringing
out all they have
Later.—The municipal election resulted in
the election ol H. K. Ellyson, Mayor, aDd tbe
whole Conseivative city ticket, by a handsome
majority. The Conservatives are marching
around in a pouring non to the d ffereni news
paper offices, cbeciing fo» Uieir success. In
Norfolk, it s estimated that the Conservatives
have carried the city by fifty majority.
OHIO.
Cincinnati, May 26.—The Reformed Pres
byterian Synod voted 10 for 25 against the pro
posed basis anion. Proposition lor the new
anion is completely defeated.
KENTUCKY.
Louisville, May 26.—In the Presbyterian
General Assembly yesterday, the sutject of
most intense interest was the reception of dele
gates from tbe Northern Presbyterian church
consisting of Rev. Dr. Backus, ot Baltimore ;
Rev. Dr. Vandyke, of Brooklyn; and Hon. W.
E. Dodge, of New York. They presented reso
lutions of that assembly expressive of fraternal
record, and followed them with remarks, in
Which it was stated that they came not to ask
for re-unlon, nor to ask for immediate corres
pondence, but to ask the appointment of a oom-
mutce to meet a similar committee appointed
by the Northern Assembly, and confer respect
ing the varied matters and questions of jurisdic
tion and property rights between the twoassem-
bhra,and to secure, if possible, the adjustment
of all differences between the two bodies on a
basis just aud honorable to all parties and wor
thy of Christian men. White they were speak
ing breathless interest and deep emotion formed
a scene that will not be forgotten. The kind
words of the speakers evidently found r lodge
ment in the hearts of those to whom they were
addressed. Overtures were referred to the Com
mittee on Foreign Correspondence, which' was
directed to prepare a well considered reply.
MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES.
NEW YORK.
New York, May 26.—Judge Daly in Court
ot Common Pleas, decided tnat the custom of
brokers and merchants must govern transactions
during the panic of September.
The Alaska brings advices from Darien that
the survey to May 16 had reached twelve miles
inland. The highest elevation reached was 11$
feet. Heavy rains retard operations.
*»*•■»• for Ba.lnea. Men.
W hen a business, mana^aches the point where
he thinks that he cannot spare any time to ex-
amine sources of financial and commercial in
formation, he may safely conclude that his busi
ness is not well managed.
When a business man fiuds himself in a finan
cial situation so embarrassing that he cannot
afford to possess every publication that would
throw more light upon his business transactions,
he should not delay making arrangements with
an auctioneer to close out his stock to the high
est bidder.
Tbe above maxims are taken from the col
umns of the New York Mercantile Journal,
which is the best, as welt as one of the largest
mercantile newspapers published in the United
States. Its market reviews, and carefully re
vised lists of jobbers’ prices, embracing almost
every quotable article ot merchandise, together
with its judicious editorials, fill more than thirty-
five (35) columns every week. The subscription
price is only $5 00 yer year, (less than 10 cents
per week, and less than cents per day.) Par
ties desiring this valuable publication, should
aff dress The N. Y. Mercantile Journal Co ,350
Pearl street, New York City.
A New Theory ot Finance.
An exchauge publishes tbe following, and en
dorses the views therein expressed. We sub
mit it for the consideration of our readers, with
out comment:
“ In the interchangeability (at tbe option o
the holder) of National Paper Money, with
Government Bonds bearing a fixed rate of in
terest, there is a subtle principle, that will regu
late the movements of finance and commerce as
accurately as the motion of the steam engine is
regulated by its “Governor.” 8ach paper
money tokens would be perfect measures of
value, which gold and silver never have been.—
The use of gold, or other merchandise, as mon
ey, is a barbarism unworthy of the age.—'Wal
lace P. Groom.”
Leap Year Eternal,
We do not know a privilege that seems to b9
more popular with the girls than the one which
custom premils them to enjoy on Leap Year.
How it would be if that privilege were to be
made eternal, as it is among the Cossacks of
Ukraine, we shall not undertake to say. Of
them, it is said, that when a young woman feels
a tender passion lor a young man she seeks
him at the residence of his parents, and ad
dresses him as follows : “The goodness I see
written in your countenance is a sufficient as
surance to me that you are capable of ruling
and loving a wife, and your excellent qualities
encourage me to hope that you will make a
goodhusband. It Is fh this belief that I have
taken the resolution to come, and beg you,
with all due humility, to accept me for your
spouse.” She then addresses the father and
mother, and solicits their •onsent to the mar
riage. If she meets with a refusal, she declines
to leave the house, and snch conduct is usually
crowned with success. The parents of the
man never put the young maidens away, if they
still persist in their suit, believing that by doing
so they would bring down the vengeance of
heaven upon their heads.
We do not object to the Ukraine custom,
and doubt much whether many of oar fair
readers see in it anything more objectional than
the having to conceal their “tender passion”
tor four years after it has been conceived, wait
ing for leap year to come before they can make
a revelation of it. She who never tells her love
but
“Lets concealment, like a worm In the bed,
Feed on her dim&ak cheek.”
must suffer greater torture than the fault, if it
may *> be considered, of loving deserves.
Yankee Girls.—Miss Olive Logan, lecturing
lately on “ Girls” in New York, described the
“ Yankee girl ” as one who could “ make a bed
or demonstrate a proposition with equal facility
Her mental philosophy wonld never interfere
with her pumpkin pies.” “ The Western girl
was the very opposite ”—“ nothing but the
Yankee girl let loose.” “ The strong-minded
girl ” was in private life “ as gentle as a child,
and as self reliant as Joan of Arc.” “The
fashionable girl ” was always ready to ask the
question, “ How do you.like my dress?” “ The
fashionable girl, and something else,” felt the
“ emptiness of fashionable life.” “ The beauti
ful girl ” overrated her beauty, and underrated
everything else.
Cotton-Tbe Great Question.
The great question of more or less production
of cotton,says the New York Mercantile Journal,
is still pending at the South, bnt tbe opinions of
the brat informed business men are decidedly
with us, viz: That if cotton can be produced,
now, as we heat it alleged, at reduced expense,
the more we have ot it the better. It is the
cbieLstaple upon which we have to depend for
relief from our mountainous debt and grinding
taxation.
The Journal ha3 been misinformed. Cotton
is not, and cannot be produced in the South, at
a reduced expeuse. The labor system is not,
and cannot be so regulated as to brmg about a
result so desirable in the manufacturing dis
tricts North. Negro labor fa the main, we may
say. the only dependance the South has for the
production of cotton, and this fa failing instead
ol increasing every year.
Highland Ancestry.—A dispute arose be
tween two members of the clans Campbell and
M’Lean upon the never ending subject of their
ancestors. M’Lean would not allow that the
Campbell had any right to rank with the Mc
Leans iu antiquity, who, he insisted, were in ex
istence and a clan from the beginning of the
world. Campbell bad a little more biblical lore
than his antagonist, and asked him if the clan
M’Lean was before the flood. “ Flood I What
flood?” said M’Lean. “The flood that, you
know, drowned all the world except Noah and
his family and his flocks,” said Campbell.—
“Pooh 1 pooh! you and your flood.” Pooh!
you and yonr flood,” said M'Lean, “my clan was
before the flood.” “I have not read in my
Bible,” said Campbell, “of the name ot M’Lean
going into Noah’s ark.” “Noah’s ark 1” retort
ed JrLean, in contempt, “who ever heard of a
M’Lean that had not a boat of his own.”
Cheap Luxuries fob the People.—Oppor
tunely, at the time when the cost of living fa
enormous, a new article appears in the market,
affording an unprecedented amount of delicious
and wholesome aliment, almost for a song. We
refer to the patent Sea Moss Fabinb, which is
now, by virtue of its extraordinary cheapness,
taking the place of all the gelatinous articles ot
food manufactured from maize and grain. Tbe
raw material of this nutritious and fattening
agent is the free gilt of nature: a marine moss
growing in prodigious quantities on the Irish
Coast, and known as Canageen. Cleansed, des
iccated, concentrated and reduced to powder by
a patent process, this wonderful plant yields a
larger quantity oj pure, palatable aliment in pro
portion to ita weight, than any snbstance pre
dated irom the gieat agricultural staples. Ar
tistic cooks pronounce it the finest article for
custards, puddings, soups, sauces, <fcc., that has
yet been discovered, and tbe Sea Mom Ferine
Co., oi New York, who own the patent, find it
all they can do to keep pace with the demands
for the new staff of life; may22 d6twU