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CONSTITUTIONALIST.
attgkjsta, Q-a.
SUNDAY MORNING. SEPT. 29, 18 i?
11. It is the duty of the military author it s
in this District to secure to the -people the ut
most freedom of speech and of the press const 4-
ant with law ; not to restrict either. No sal ?-
f ictory execution of the late acts of Congress •'•>
practicable unless this freedom is secured a u
its exercise protected by the usual legal means.
111. No officer or soldier in this command
will hereafter interfere with newspapers or
speakers on any pretense whatever.
[Gen. Pope's Order, June 3d.
“ Fr eedom, of speech and of the press,
tion, equality before the law, and in politic d
rights and privileges, are the essentials of any
satisfactory reconstruction in the South.”
[Gen. Hope’s Letter to Gen. Grant.
The Federal Debt.
The New York Mercantile Journal thus
speaks of the Federal debt, and the dang er
menacing it from unfriendly legislation:
Bank presidents, and financial people in to n
eral, when the federal debt is mentioned, have
a clear, distinct entity before their mind’s eve ;
a something tangible and ascertained in the
shape oi certain sums of money due, and paya
ble in a variety of ways at a variety of times,
with such and such machinery at work to
provide for the payment. But the great mass es
of the nation have no other specific idea lie
fore them than that our direct indebteduc .s,
dating from Washington, amounts to neu. ly
$2,500,000,000, that our receipts are growing 1 ss
than our expenditures, and that we are tii't
mousiy taxed oa nearly every article of con
sumption, and every act of citizenship. The
dissection of the debt is something that only a
minority have undertaken, and consequently
only the most contused and incomplete con
ception of its workings prevails.
The debt consists of, or may be subdivided
into the four following series :
1. Obligations payable in gold.
2. Obligations and promises to pay bear! ig
interest in paper.
3. Obligations no longer bearing interest, or
such as having arrived at maturity, have not
been presented for payment.
4. Promises to pay cot bearing interest.
The first category was the old and usual na
tional debt and had its origin long before cur
civil war, when it amounted to the *46,000,( 00
of our consolidated debt. In 1861, 1862 and
1864, bonds were issued at 5 and 6 per cent, to
meet the growing exigencies of the war, and
among them, our famous 5-20’s, so well known
both home and abroad. These sums gradually
Increased until the close of the struggle found
us with *1,100,000,000 of obligations bearing
interest in specie,—an amount which has bten
greatly swollen by the conversion of diffen nt
values of the second class above mentioned ii.to
bonds at long maturity.
The *198,431,350 of bonds at 5 per cent, and
the *1,517,256,391 at 6 per cent bear about
$100,000,000 interest, annually, and the amount
is raised on the returns of our customs dn.-s.
The second category of division of the debt
is the one that puzzles our financiers the most,
because, while the bonds of the consolidated
portion are payable only in 1880 and 1904, the
floating debt must be liquidated in 1867 and
1868.
In the beginning of 1866 there were in
Certificates of temporary loans
bearing interest from 4 to 6 per
cent, in paper, and payable at
10 days’ sight *118,577,930
Certificates of Debt, with interest
in paper, and pnyaMc iu one
year 62,274,000
Treasury Notes, 5 per cent 8,530,900
Compound Interest Notes, paya
ble principal and interest at 3
years date 174,102,141
Treasury Notes bearing 7 3-10 in
terest in paper aud payable in 3
years 818,044,000
Total. *1,251,434,980
All this falling due within the next two years
amounts to something- that may well pre occupy
the minds of our best financiers, and the ques
tion arises, how is it to be met ? In view of
declining revenue siul incessant political trou
ble, the impending agitations of Congress and
the Presidential election, this inquiry becomes
most gravely and pressiugly serious for all
classes.
The Message)- Franco-Aniericain , which uses
the above figures tor n purpose similar to our
own, sees everything fair >->head and finds no
serious difficulty in the way Os this heavy
liquidation. It takes occasion to justly compli
ment Mr. McCulloch upon what he has already
achieved in paying $250,000,000 since 1865, and
thereby diminishing the total debt by nearly
one-tenth, and lor his conversion of $450,000,000
more into consolidated bonds, but we think
that it goes too fast when it predicts, as cer
tain, the disappearance of the additional $390,-
000,000 of 7-30’s and $85,000,000 compound in
terest notes before the close of 1808. The com
plications which increased expenditure, di
minished revenue and the disconcertment of
business by iueessaut political alarms are pro
ducing, are hourly rendering this result pro
blematical. The Measager, in its earnest desire
to see so bright a summer dawn on the winter
of our financial troubles, should unite its voice
to oar appeal for a return to political tranquili
ty. Otherwise we fear that it, with all the rest,
must feel the pinch long before the close of the
next Presidential election.
The fourth subdivision of the debt embraces
the United States notes or “greenbacks.”
fractional currency and certificates of gold de
posits which do not bear interest. This is the
common legal tender of the people, and the
whole community is too well iu6tructed in this
country by sad experience, on the dangers of
any inflation or paper currency, to desire its
extension beyond the time and limits absolute
ly necessary lor the public purpose under such
circumstances as snow weigh upon us.
If we can keep our revenue up to the pay
ing standard without fresh taxation of the toil
ing masses and operate the conversion that
Mr. McCulloch favors, iu the lace of the con
fusion with which we are threatened, on ab
stract and irrelevant questions, matters of
pride and pre-eminence and squabbles of au
thority, all would be fair, as the above analysis
6eems to make it; but if with the soil bringing
forth abundance, European capital waiting
and craving to pour iu hither lor investment,
and our own people held back by uncertainty
from a thousand new enterprises, we are to
give everything t,o party aud nothing to coun
try, and humanity in the total, pay day may
come upon us in 1868 like the crack of doom '.
Let There Be Light.—The Albauy
Argus says :
“ The day i 6 coming when the secrets which
now seem 60 mysterious 6hall be unfolded to
the public gaze, aud the people be astounded at
the impositions which have been practiced on
their patriotism. In the meantime, we con
cede that it is well for Republican journals to
keep up the rub-a-dub and invective which has
proved so beneficial to their party in the past
Uis the best they can do—but the light is com
ing ; it is surely coming 1”
Os Course. —General Pope protests
against the re-opening of the case of Gen.
Porter. If the decision be reversed, the
relative positions of the two commanders
will change It will then lie bottled Pope
Instead of bottled Porter.
Bearded in His Den. — Mr. Schuyler
Colfax is not a prophet in his own home.
Last year, it was Radical; this year, Dem
ocratic.
The Germans. —The Germans at the
North are wavering in their fealty to
Messrs. Sumner, Stevens & Co. Tie
Abend Zeilung, of New York, says “ the
Republican party, having accomplish d
everything it was organized for, is u< w
pining away for want of new issues.” It
likewise charges Congress with “ robbi tg
the people of their liberties and enlarge tg
theiralmost unendurable financial burden; .”
When the Germans desert the Radi< .il
party, its days will be numbered.
Sherman. —General Sherman gave his
opinion of negro suffrage in an address to
the returned soldiers at Chicago on the 9th
of July, 1865. lie then said:
“ I want those who have been in the South to
bear testimony »o the condition of these freed
uegroes. Mv own opinion is that they are not
fitted for the exercise of the franchise. |Lottd
applause. | I want them to get a fair price lor
their labor, but 1 do not think they are fitted
to take part iu the legislation of the country.”
[Renewed cheering.]
S. P. Q. R.— Donn Platt, editor of the
Ma-a-cheek Press (Rad.), favors the tax on
bonds, in spite of Wade. He says:
“Our friends need not trouble themselves
The day is coming when the bondholders will
march down t.> the Treasury in solemn proces
sion t > ask for greenbacks, and at their herd
they will carry a banner with the old Korean
inscription :
“ s. r. Q R.,
“ which reads— Specie Payments Quite Rare.”
The Freaks of Time. — Six years ago,
Hodden, of North Carolina, was a rampant
Secessionist; now, lie is a confiscating Radi
cal. .Six years ago, Goodloe, of the same
Stale, by adoption, was a ranting John
Brown Republican ; now, he is a Conser
vative. Holden calls him a “ copperhead
and rebel,” though he did not, like Hol
den. write odes to Calhoun and prose
piiiilipics against the Yankees.
An Unhappy Poet. —The Red Republi
can papers are very sarcastic in their com
ments upon the prize poem delivered at An
tietam. The Times says it is “ fearfully and
wonderfully made,” that the author is a
“ poick ” aud hopes Mr. Parton will not
fail to give him a prominent place in a
future edition of his “ Humorous Poetry of
the English Language.”
The Future Ticket. —The Chicago Times
has been speculating upon the candidates
of the future and suggests the following
ticket:
For President —Escobedo.
For V ice-President —Tchee-Fung.
For Senator—Cuffee Black.
For Dispenser of Pap—Rev. SUck Sneez
er, formerly of Massachusetts.
Gov. Orr. —The Charleston Courier dis
poses of Gov. Orr’b letter to Sickles in a
neat fashion, thus:
“That Gov. Orr expresses his owu sentiments
we cannot doubt. But when he undertakes to
speak in the name of-and on behalf of the State
in this respect, he L without authority as their
representative.”
Grant Pere. —If Grant, the son, is a
Radical, as Forney claims, Grant, the
father, does not endorse his offspring. On
tlie.2oth of September the old gentleman is
reported as speaking at a Democratic meet
ing in Cincinnati.
The Tickling Process. Escobedo
swears that he loves Americans amazingly.
Juarez & Co. are equally as complimenta
ry. They want to borrow fifty millions;
lienee this soft sawder.
[Correspondence of the Independent.
How Women “ Lobby" at Washington.
Leaning back in a deep chair, on one near
her, you see a fair woman, whose , beautiful
presence seems at variance with *the many
anxious and angular and the few coarse
women around her. The calmnessof assur
ed position, the serene satisfaction of con
scious beauty envelop her and float from
her like an atmosphere. We feel it even
here. Pale plumes droop above the lovely
forehead, velvet draperies fall about her
graceful form. We catch a glimpse of
alluring laces, the gleam of jewels glitter
ing on dimpled, ungloved hands. Look
long into this face; its splendor of tint and
perfection of outline can bear the closest
scrutiny. Look long, and then say if a soul
saintly as well as serene looks out from
under those penciled arches, through the
dilating irises of those beguiling eyes.—
Look, and the unveiled gaze which meets
you will tell you, as plainly as gaze can tell,
that adulation is the life of Its - life, and se
duction the secret of its spell. The beauty
would not blanch before the profanest sight;
it is the beauty of one who times her tongue
to honeyed accent, aud lifts up her eyelids
to lead men astray. She comes and goes in
a showy carriage. She glides through the
corridors, haunts the galleries and the ante
rooms of the capltol—everywhere conspi
cuous in her beauty. All who behold her
inquire, Who is that beautiful woman ? No
body seems quite sure. Doubt aud mystery
envelop liei like a cloud. “ She is a rich
aiid beautiful widow.” “ She is unmarried.”
“ She is visiting the city with her husband.”
Every gaze has a different answer.
There are a few deep in the secrets of di
plomacy, of legislative venality, govern
mental prostitution, who can tell you that
she is one of the most subtle and most dan
gerous of lobyists. She is but one of a class
always beautiful and always successful.
She plays for large stakes, but she always
wins. The man says to her, “ Secure my
appointment, make sure my promotion, and
I will pay so many thousand,” usually gets
his appointment, aud she her thousands.
Does she wait like a suppliant ? Not at all.
She sits like an empress waiting an audience.
Will she receive her subjects in promis
cuous assemblage ? No, if you wait long
enough you will see her glide over these tes
selated floors, but not alone. Far from the
ears of the crowd, in some ante-room, sump
tuous enough for the Sybarites, this woman,
as beautiful as nature and art can make
her, will dazzle the sight of a half-demented
and wholly bewildered magnate, and then
tell him what she wauts; with alluring eyes
and beguiling voice, she will besiege his
will through the outworks of his senses,
and so charms him on to do her pleasure,
lie promises her his Influence, he promises
her his power, her favorite shall have the
boon he demands. Thus some of the holi
est prizes in the Government are won. Un
scrupulous men pay wily, unprincipled wo
men to touch the surest springs of influ
ence, ana thus open a secret way to their
public success.
Gov. Orr. —Of the too many South Caro
linians who are ambitious to make them
selves detestable iu the eyes of honest meu
of their own generation and of all posterity,
Governor Orr has taken a step which gives
him the foremost position. He glories in
his own shame and the oppression of his
people. There was no species of humilia
tion and petty tyranny that the inflated
satrap, Sickles, did not resort to, to over
throw the rights and crush out the manly
spirit of South Carolinians. He insulted
and degraded them in every nja nner possible,
aud to this end, the military bills being in
sufficient for his diabolical purposes, he re
sorted to unblushing usurpation, that cost
him his position. The Government was
shocked by his outrages aud dangerous as
sumptions, yet this man Orr, instead of
mingling his congratulations with those of
his people upon the removal of the heartless
tyrant, absolutely runs after him as he dis
appears, throws himself at his fleet, thanks
him for his outrages and wrongs, and sheds
tears of “ regret” that an end has been put
to the sufferings of his own people. Where
must such men stand in history ? How
deep and damning the_ execration and con
tempt that roust come up to the measure of
their deserts! No roan in future will envy
the names of Orr and Magratb. We blush
for our race that it should have produced
such traitors to itselt— Macon Telegraph.
(From the New York World.
Lightening the Republicans
are acting like mariugralß a heavy tap pest,
who pitch ovorboaid.A great part or their
cargo to savadhe Blifp / 4Mgicrew. The first
bale of fteightSumbred into-tlie sea was the
liquor law in Massachusetts. All the pro
hibitory laws in, that State have been Re
publican measures* 4fd*dc»ted by Republi
can papers and stump-speakers, passed by
Republican Legislatures, executed by Re
publican constables, and opposed by Demo
cratic speeches, votes, lawsuits, invective
and ridicule. But the Republican State
convention, warned by-the sudden fell of
the barometer, have, declared tha* the Re
publican party must hot be considered re
sponsible for tfie.liqupr law ; trying to save
their ship by lieavittg: .feover, with some
dim hope that it will float of itself.
The next valuable piece of freight that is
to be flung into the devouring waves, is the
constitutional convention of this State.
The calling of the convention was a Repub
lican movement. No Democrat desired or
favored it. But since Maine and California
elections, the convention is seen to lie too
heavy for the Republican ship, and although
it has been decided by a caucus not to sacri
lice it, it is nevertheless certain to go. The
vessel careens so dangerously when this
heavy incumbrance is carried to the edge
of the deck, that there is nearly as much
peril in casting it over as in keeping it on
board ; but over it will go, even if at the
stern. It is a load the Republican party
cannot carry in the present emergency.
Even that precious part of the cargo,
negro suffrage in this Stive, must go where
Jonah went in the voyage to Nineveh ; but
it is doubtful if any compassionate monster
will give it a subaqueous passage and
vomit it up on dry land. It may be said
that negro ouffrage will be necessarily lost
with the failure of the convention. But
this is not so. The article containing it
was long ago completed, and the Democrats
will generously propose to submit it at
once, as a separate amendment. In the
stress of political weather, the Republicans
will not dare to do this ; so urgent is their
necessity of lightening the ship. They wiil,
of course, contrive all sorts of plausible
excuses ; but whatever may be their excuse
for not submitting it, the real reason will
be that they are sacred by the certainty ot
its defeat.
The impeachment of President Johnson
is another part of the Republican cargo
that is destined to go overboard. Although
the President has more boldly confronted
and defied them since Congress adjourned
than ever before, we shall hear little more
about his impeachment, and that little will
be fainter and fainter. The party is getting
seriously alarmed, and the more discreet of
its journals are warning and exhorting it
against raising or reviving any issues on
which the party is not a unit.' All such
warnings are, of course, signal guns of dis
tress.
The President’s Charge Against Mr.
Stanton. — A dispatch to the New York
World says: Congress reconvenes in little
more than seven weeks; but long before
that time the President will have the charge
and reasons for suspending Secretary Stan
ton from the War Department ready for
submission to the Senate, as required by
the civil tenure-of-oftiee law. The case
made out by the President is an exceed
ingly strong one, and the Senate will find
itself enlightened in matters it little dreams
of when it receives the documents in the
premises.
Radical Responsibility. —Among the
items to be charged to Radical manage
ment, says the Chicago Times, are the deaths
of military men from yellow fever in the
Southern States. All these men were sent
there solely and purely to register negroes
for the coming Presidential election. Over
the graves of such men as Grillin should be
inscribed, “ Fell a victim to the Radical de
sire to elect a President in 18G8.”
A Radical Split in Kansas. —lt is
claimed that the Republican party in Kan
sas is much split on the questions of fe
male suffrage, temperance and the Sunday
laws. The Germans will have a conven
tion at Topeka on the 28th, to consider the
letter question, and the State Temperance
Society will meet in Leavenworth this
week, for the alleged purpose of looking
after the Germans.
The Democrats of Kansas have held a
State convention and unanimously passed
conservative resolutions, and organized a
State Central Committee,
Negroes Going to Ohio to Vote.—' The
Memphis Avalanche has information from
several responsible gentlemen who happen
ed to be at the State line upon different days
that they found there from thirteen to fif
teen cars filled with blacks who hail been
brought from Alabama, Georgia, South
Carolina and Southern Tennessee, and were
going northward. A majority of them did
not know where they were going to, but
said the “ Board was sending them some
whar to vote.” Some of the more intelli
gent ones said they were going to Ohio for
that purpose. They were to go through
Louisville without stopping, and all their
expenses were to lie paid by the Freedmen’s
Bureau. They were to vote as they wero
told, and were assured that the Bureau
would take care of them and see to their
getting farms for doing as they were direct
ed. This is a fair specimen of the manner
in which the people’s money is squandered
by the reckless Radical politicians, who
swarm in the South under the guise of
Freedmen’s Bureau agents.
The California Legislature. —Several
Radical journals have given currency to an
erroneous report that their party will have
two majority, on joint ballot, in the Califor
nia Legislature. The actual situation is as
follows: Tweutv Senators (fourteen Repub
licans and six Democrats) hold over, and
twenty (seven Republicans and thirteen
Democrats) have been elected, making the
Senate stand, twenty-one Republicans, nine
teen Democrats. To the House, the Repub
licans elect thirty members, and the Demo
crats fifty. The total on joint ballot, there
fore, is, Republicans, fifty-one ; Democrats,
sixty-nine.
Mr. Seward’s Little Bill. —The little
bill fills eight columns of the New York
papers, and - is one of the most formidable
documents yet spun by the interminable
Secretary. It recapitulates, with fearful
precision, the various losses to commerce,
reduces national insult to dollars and cents,
and puts our international relations on a
money basis. It appears that the Alabama
ravaged the high seas to the amount of
$3,790,000; the Shenandoah disposed of
$4,112,000 ; the Florida is credited with
$1,985,000; and the Georgia, whose bump
of destructiveness, is nos so largely devel
oped, only preyed to the extent of $318,000.
In all we are debited with $9,505,000, for
payment of which we are pressed.
The ingenious manner in which this ac
count is made up would thrill with profes
sional joy our young friend Ketchum, or
any experienced forger. Man is a cooking
animal* and this account is cooked in its
highest perfection. Great Britain lias every
thing possible put down to her debit, like a
tavern bill charged to a candidate. We are
first charged for the ships and contents,
then for the personal property, then for the
whole value by the owners, then for the
amount of insurance lost by the underwri
ters, then for the profits which the owners
would have liked to have received; in fine,
every item is crowded in which will swell
the total. Some men nobly scorn to sully
their fingers with a smaller sum than a
round thousand, others swindle systemati
cally, and down to fractions and cents, each
figure perking itself defiantly before the ter
rified British Lion. We should say the
whale fishery is a profitable employment, as
oue patriot, with an invested capital of
$35,000, claims a loss of profits for the voy
age of $218,125. He would perhaps be gen
erous and throw off the odd $125. If he
has been long in the business he must have
acquired considerable wealth.
[Montreal Telegraph.
A special dispatch to the Indiauapolis Jour
nal 6ays that Wilbur F. Storey, the proprietor
of the Chicago Times , has bought out the New
York Express, anti that the Times establishment
is accordingly for sale. He has been offered
$150,000 for It by prominent Democrats of Illi
nois, but asks $160,000. The dispatch further
states that Storey was offered a third interest In
the World previous to purchasing the Express
but refused to take it because it would not e-ive
him the controlling interest. B
By an act of the Nebraska Legislature, passed
.June 24,1867, women of lawful age are allow
ed to vote at the district school meeting. The
first elections under the law will be held in Oc
tober. The Omaha Republican suspects “ the
entering wedge is thus driven for universal suf
frage ip Nebraska.”
[From the JouiukLn'?Commerce.
The* Cotton Drop.
For a long series of years tlje editors of
the Journal of Commerce have been in the
habit of presenting annually, to their read
ers, at about this season of the year, such
information as*they have deemed reliable
in regard to the ■ maturing crop of cotton.
It is a Source of ho little satisfaction to us,
that for twenty years past the correctness
of this estimate has not been successfully
impeached. A very late frost and an open
winter have sometimes conspired to pro
duce a return considerabljr'beyond. the,
figures we regarded as the probable total ; !
and on the other hand a disastrous storm,
or an early frost suddenly checking all fur
ther development, have occasionally cut off
a portion of the expected receipts, and
brought the result as much wijhin our esti
mate ; but in no instance hEje we failed,
after the year has expired, »obtain the
general assent to this fact; that our state
ment was a fair and reasonable estimate of
the prospect at the date on \#tich it was
published. '
The last year was a very trying one to
those who sought only the truth. There
were large numbers of persons who per
sistently misrepresented facts v ‘ and multi
tudes besides who were themselves misled,
but who cherished their convictions witli
great pertinacity, and were .very severe
upon all who refused a reliance upon their
judgment. Our means of information are
very extensive, as our correspondence em
braces the entire cotton district, and we
have always endeavored to collect and pre
sent the facts thus acquired with discre
tion, and without prejudice or partiality.
Last year we fixed our estimate at two
million bales. We were immediately as
sailed with the grossest abuse from all
quarters. Newspaper critics and anony
mous scribblers we could afford to disre
gard ; but when gentlemen Os standing
and influence appealed to us to alter our
opinion, pleading the cruel wrong we were
doing those who were relying on our testi
mony and selling off their cotton to their
own great loss, in case the expected ad
vance was realized, we were a little stag
gered. We made further investigations,
and reiterated our first impressions. This
led to an extended correspondence with
prominent men in every section, many of
whom still refused to admit the fairness of
our representations. As late as December
one of them addressed us as follows:
To the Editors of the Journal of Commerce :
I had purposed sooner answering your
very complimentary notice of my last com
munication. Delay, however, has lost me
nothing, a6 it has verified my statements. —
Some of them, even by yourselves, in an
article on the poverty of the South, and
even the Messrs. Neil, whom you essayed
to indorse, have crawled down as gracefully
as they could from their high and false
estimates. This false basis of the estimate
of the cotton crop has lost to the South at
least fifty millions of dollars, which would
have enabled them to pay their recently
contracted debts and left the means to. raise
a crop next year. As it is, they will not
have the means to do either, and conse
quently the crop of 1867-68 will be a short
one, and the debt, owing mainly to your
own city, will be procrastinated so much
longer, if not totally lost. Had cotton at
tained 40 cents per lb., which it ought and
w’ould have, but for such false estimators
as yourselves and the Messrs. Neil, it would
have returned the South SSO a bale more,
and on a crop of one million bales fifty
million dollars, The planter has lost it,
even if it should hereafter advance, as his
necessities have compelled him to realize,
and any further advance will go into the
pockets ol speculators and rich manufac
turers ; but the trade and commerce of New
York suffers the loss to the planter, as he
cannot pay and cannot buy. I hope yon are
prepared to come down at least as grace
fully as the Messrs. Neil from your bold as
sertion of a crop of two million of bales, as
there is now nothing left for you to stand
upon ; come down to a million or one and
a quarter million, and you will be safe. My
communications are not intended for publi
cation, but to encourage an honest investi
gation. If you had done so on my last you
would not have tumbled into the ridiculous
assertion of two millions.
If there is any truth in the representation
here made that large numbers sold their
cotton in consequence of our publication, at
what we can see was a very high price, \ye
ought to have the benefit of the statement,
now that our figures are verified.' The year
closed with the first of September. Tiie re
ceipts are given by those who are regarded
as authority, at different totals, ranging
from 1,950,000 to 3,020,000 bales. We have
taken the compilation of the New York
Shipping and Commercial List, because this
has been for a quarter of a century the most
generally accepted authority in this city on
this subject. Their total is 1,951,988 bales.
Our estimate of two million bales is, there
fore, fully vindicated. Our corrcspodent,
in assuming that we were forty per cent, in
error, reckoned the loss to the South
through our influence at fifty million dol
lars. As it is now proved that we wqre
right, we should like to ask how much we
saved to the cqtton growers by our honest
faithfulness in clinging to the truth even
against a torrent of reproaches ? The fol
lowing statements of the movements are
compiled from the Shipping List :
COMPARATIVE PRODUCT OF COTTON.
1861. 1866. 1867.
Louisiana 1,781.599 711,629 702,131
Alabama 546,794 430,102 239,516
Texas 144,747 174,985 185,919
Florida 121,172 149,139 57,349
Georgia 477,584 263,373 255,965
South Carolina... 336,339 112,273 162,247
North Carolina... 56,295 64,559 38,522
Virginia 78,1:52 37,531 123,627
Tennessee, Jfcc,.. 143,424 211,58$ 185,712
Total ba1e5....3,656,086 2,15-4,476 1,951,988
The exports of cotton from the United States
in each of the last two years (ending Septem
ber Ist) were as follows :
1865-6. 1866-7.
To Great Britaiu ,1,262,271 1,216,262
To France 229,650 198,147
To Northern Europe 48,647 95,342
To other foreign ports 23,096 47,303
Total bales 1,554,604 1,557,054
The amount consumed in the United
States is given by the same authority as
854,039 bales for the year ending September
Ist, 1867. In, this connection we bring for
ward our statement of the total crop for
the last forty-five years, adding the esti
mates by the Shipping List for tlw period of
the war. The figures for each year are
given, as shown by the receipts at the ports,
according to our usual custom. The ac
tual growth in 1855-6 was generally esti
mated at less than a quarter of the supplies
which reached the ports then newly open
ed :
COMPARATIVE CROP STATEMENT.
Year. Bales.
1844- 2,394,503
1845- 2,100,537
1846- 1.778,651
1847- 2,347,634
1848- 2,728,596
1849- 2,096,706
1850- .......2,355,257
1851- 3,015,029
1852- ... ...3,263,882
1853- 2,930,027
1854- .2,847,339
1855- .3,527,845
1856- 3,939,519
1857- 3,113,962
1858- 3,851,481
1859- 4,669,770
1860- ~3,656,086
1801-3.. (est). 4,800,000
1862- (ee1).1.500, 000
1863- (esi). 500,000
1864- (w). 300,000
1865 6 2,154,476
1866-7 .1,951,988
Y ear. Bale 6.
1820- 431),000
1821- 455,000
1522-3 495,000
1823- 509,158
1824- 569,249
1825- 720,027
1826- 957,281
1827- 727,593
1828- 870.415
1829- 976,645
1630-1 1,038,648
1831- 967,477
1832- 1,070,438
1833- 1,205,324
1834- 1,254,328
1835- 1,360,725
1836- 1,422,930
1837- 1,801,497
1838- 1,360,532
1839- 2,177.835
1840- 1,634,945
1841- 1,683,574
1842- 2,378,875
1843- 2,030,409
Jn turning to the new crop we find the
accounts very conflicting, but not more so
perhaps than usual. The plaiting was
late, and the whole crop will average at
least three weeks behind the usuil date of
growth. But for this aud the ravages of
the worm the yield might be safely given at
three million bales. The loss by the worms
may now be reckoned, as their work has
ceased. The loss from late plaating will
depeni} largely upon the date cf the first
frost. The.2oth of- October Isa medium
period for this event. After that has occur
red the matured cgtton may be pcked, but
no more will ripen. After a snney of the
whole evidence within our reach we have
come to the conclusion that with a good
picking season the receipts for J 867-8 will
reaclj two and a half million bale*- A very
early frost will cut this down ne*rlv to the
product of the present year,
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•> Belles ” call a great many people to church.
So they are told by the Macon Takgraph.
A Burnt Oork “ Claude Melnotte "at Sara
toga.
A story is totd of a lion who roared here
for a few days, to the admiration of the
feminine guests, and was then suddenly
shorn of his name and king-of-the-flelds
dignity.-
Some weeks since a young fellow, who
was quite good lookiug, auii had coolness
and impudence which passed for style, ar
rived from New York, drank high priced
wines, drove a fine team, wore the latest
modes and large diamonds and created a
sensation. He was a well known Ethio
pian minstrel, whose troupe was enjoying a
vacation in town. Several young men,
salesmen in the city, who had been snub
bed by a certain feminine set because they
were not wealthy, conceived the idea of in
troducing the burnt cork musician to those
ladies as a gentleman of position and for
tune, anxious to find a wife. They impart
ed their intention to him, (he was staying
at the Clarendon,) and asking him to as
sume the name of J. Roland Mortimer, car
ried him off to the Union aud had him in
troduced as a fresh arrival from Paris.
The fellow, who enjoyed adventure, enter
ed into the spirit of the thing at once, and
in a few days the “ exclusive young ladies”
declared him “perfectly splendid.” He drove
them out, promenaded with them, flirted
and played billiards with them, until they
became furiously jealous of each other, and
indulged in every possible maneuvre to
capture him, having no doubt he was all
that had been claimed for him. They more
than ever slighted the poor salesmen, and
gave the latter to understand they knew
who was worthy of their attention and de
serving of their fascinations.
The deception went on for more than a
fortnight. The minstrel became the estab
lished beau and gallant of the hotel. The
women evhausted eulogy upon him, aud
considered him the most accomplished gen
tleman they had ever met. They were very
imprudent with him, indeed compromised
themselves, and it was supposed that he
was the accepted lover of a half dozen of
the most famous belles.
No doubt he could have married any one
of them, liad he been so minded. But lie
was not. He had his pleasure; aud the
time having arrived for his appearance in
New York, he left a note, poorly written
aud worse spelled, I understand, informing
them who he was and what his vocation.
He had engagements with all of them ;
but the next evening he left on the early
train, and che young women, as you may
conceive, were thunderstruck with the”
unexpected revelation. The salesmen per
mitted the ladies to understand that they
knew the whole affair, aud indulged in in
timations that confused and mortified the
damsels beyond expression.
The indignant creatures vowed then
brothers and fathers, and all their mascu
line relatives, should follow the scoundrel,
horsewhip and shoot him, and do every
thing tragical and terrible. But nothing
of the kind was resorted to ; for prudence
and policy demanded siience.
The minstrel is singing now at one of the
Broadway halls, and tells his adventure
over his morning, noon aud evening cocktail
with great gusto.— Saratoga Corrspondencee
of the Cincinnati Commercial J
Enameling Ladies’ Faces. —This is the
way it is done;
You first apply to the female face divine
a wash of elder water, which removes every
impurity. This done, you lave the face
anew with tepid water, then dry the skin
with fine linen till it is p >-fectly smooth
and velvety. You then apply to this sur
face a perfectly white, a pink white, or a
cream white enamel. The real Paris enam
el or, email de Paris, is slightly tinted. It is
a paste, and covers the surface smoothly,
making it marble-like. This artificial cov
ering, being thick, lasts a long time, but
the face must not be washed. In order to re
move any impurity from the skin, or rather
from the enamel, a small sponge dipped in
rose water is used and the enamel careful
ly restored.
Ristori’s face is enameled nightly.
The followers of this fashion are, in En
gland, Miss Burdett Coutts, and the fair
lady whose husband refused to pay several
thousand pounds for numberless enamel
ings.
The price of a “permanent enameling"
is fifty dollars.
If skilfully done, and the nljeeks touched
with rouge, with a little “ fixing up ” of
eyebrows, you cannot, at night, and a foot
or two off, tell an old woman from a young
one.
In America the fair Mrs. R. follows this
fashion so thoroughly that she coats face,
arms and neck with the pearly prepara
tion. She is kept in countenance by the
wealthy Mrs. B. and sundry others.
The ladies of the demi-monde, however,
are the most fervent of the believers in en
amel.—La Mode.
Facetious Bismarck. —A German paper
tells a story of Bismarck, which illustrates
his fondness of a practical joke. The auec
dote is as follows:
One day while he was dining at Frank
fort, at the table d'hote, he observed two
young ladies sitting opposite to him, who
were talking and laughing in a
tone. He soon perceived that they were
making fun of the company, and that their
remarks were especially directed against
himself, but he cquld pot understand a word
they were saying, as they spoke in the Let
tish language, evidently making sure that
no one at the table was acquainted with it.
Although the Count was iunorant of the
language, he had learned two or three Let
tish words during a recent tour in Cort
land, and he determined to use his know
edge so as to disconcert his fair assailants.
Turning to a friend who sat near him, he
whispered: “ When you hear me speak in a
foreign language give me your watch key.”
Meanwhile the ladies went on talking more
loudly than ever, and by the time the desert
was put on the table their hilarity had
reached its climax- At length, during a
pause after a somewhat heartier burst of
laughter than usual, Count Bismarck said
quietly to his friend, “ Dohd man to azleck,”
(give me the key). The effect was instanta
neous ; the ladies started as if they were
shot, and with their faces covered with
blushes, rushed out of the room.
What we have Gained. —The Chicago
Tiroes, in noticing a late speech of Mr.
Richard Smith in his canvass for Congress,
in Cincinnati, says:
“ If the Democratic party get into power,
we shall lose in peace what we gained in
war.” So says Smith. If this be true, it i 6
proper to count up our gains by the war.
We have gained an enormously high tariff,
which taxes the nation for the benefit oi
New England manufacturers. We have
gained an internal revenue system which
taxes sixteen thousand different articles,
and requires an army of office holders for
its enforcement. We have gained a Na
tional banking system, capable of controll
ing the capital of the country, to which the
people yearly pay $18,000,000 in interest,
which might be saved by the substitution
of National currency for bank notes. We
have gained a debt of several thousands of
millions of dollars, which is a mortgage
upon the property and labor of every man
in the country. We have gained a Con
gress and State Legislatures so corrupt
that the press of the same party with them
is compelled, from very shame, to denounce
their accessibility to bribery. Smith says
these gains will be lost if the Democratic
party gets into power. Smith intended to
lie, but he stumbled on the truth.
The California Wine Interest. —The
wine interest of this great State is destined to
reach gigantic proportions. We have, from
time to time, noticed its growing importance,
and given statistics from the census in refer
ence to its value. We have now before us
further interesting facts which we reproduce.
We learn that on an acre of land a thousand
vines are planted, which yield five hundred gal
lons to the acre, at the expiration of four
years; or, as is stated, half a gallon to the
vine. It seems that there is considerable dis
crepancy between the estimates of the county
assessors and those engaged in the trade, the
latter being largely in excess of the former.—
According to the San Francisco Market Re
view, the crop for the year 1866 yielded 8,369,-
768 gallons, exclusive of ihe yield of 3,000,000
vines in counties wbereiu the assessor gave no
returns. The aggregate value of the wine man
ufactured in the same year was $5,880,000
Such is the result of last year’s operations in
the grape culture, which is destined to assume
still vaster importance in that great State of
the Pacific coast.
Beecher is going to have bis prayers bound
in book form, and inscribed a “ few suggestions
to the Almighty.”
“Blaok Loyalty.”
LIT THE TRUTH OF HISTORT BE PBEBIRVBD.
Nigh a million of live* we have spent,
And three billions of dollars or more,
That each fetter in twain should be rent,
And the slave-born be heard never more ;
Full six years we have given to the Black,
And the thing was undoubtedly right—
Now suppose, just to alter the tack.
We devote half an hour to the White.
When the Honth in its hour of mad pride
At Fort Humter let drive the first shot,
Neck and heels our poor Bambo was tied,
And the North held one end of the knot;
But our hold we let go at the sound,
For both hands we required in the fight—
And tho war for the Black was then found
Quite a tough job of work for the White.
Well, we fought—aye, for four years wo fought,
Pouring out lavish treasure and life ;
Did the bLACK then aiise as he ought.
Cleaving Northward with torch and with knife!
All his masters were far from liis track,
Under Johnston and Leo in the fight;
There was nothing to hold the Black back
From assisting his champion, the White.
Did he aid us when bleeding we stood
To chase from him slavery’s dreams,
Or to Lee sent he clothing and food,
Harness, powder, equipments and teams 1
We qll know that in one i ingle State
A revolt would have ended the fight—
So no more of th ir “ loyalty ’’ prate,
For the Black rebs were worse than tho Whitb.
The White rebels came with a cheer,
Their bayonets aslant and aglow ;
While the Black rebels slunk in the rear,
Assisting (and freely) our foe ;
Phillips, Sumner, and men of that school,
May click-clatter from morning till night—
But if Black or White Rebels must rule,
Then, by Heaven! count me in for the White 1
It would sicken a dog, this vile cant
That wo hear of “ black loyalty ” now—
And I notice the twaddlers who rant
On ’he subject were far from the row;
But since cold has latest gun,
And since Johnston stacked arms attcr fight,
We are told “ by Black valor we won ”
’Tis all humbug to laurel the White I
To the Black rebel glory and power,
To the White rebel chains and disgrace I
Oh madness, and worse, rules the hour,
We are false to faith, wisdo n, and racel
To my heart with you, Longstroct and mil,
Johnston, Lee—every man in the tight—
You were rebels, and bad ones, but still
You share my misfortune—you’re Whit* I
Miles O’Kkillt,
Late Private 47th Regiment, N. Y. Vol. Infantry.
Shop Lifting.— On Thursday evening, about
7 o’clock, while the clerks in the store of V.
Richards & Brother, were engaged in the back
pan of the building, a couple of treedmen walk
ed into the front door and helped themselves
to three or four hundred dollars worth of flue
goods. Yesterday the police ferreted out the
matter and arrested tho parties. One of them
is the notorious R >fe Knight, who has been off
the chain gang just four days. Rafe is a hard
case.
The Grand Lodge of Georgia.— The an
nua! communication of the Grand Lodge of F.
<fc A. M., of Georgia, will eonveue at the Ma
sonic Hall iu Macon on Wednesday, the 80ih
day of October. All Lodges and Brothers will
take due notice of the same. Such Lodges as
cannot be represented are requested to send
their return- and dues at the lime, or as early
as practicable thercalter.
Secretaries of Lodges, needing blanks for re
turns will make application to Simri Rose, of
Macou, immediately.
Conscience Case. —We have been put in
possession of the following case of conscience.
Like nearly.every case recorded in Washington
the amount is small:
Friday some persou returned to a certain
book store (Bleakley’s) in this city an arithme
tic, which was well worn, and on the fly leaf of
which appeared this writing :
“ i stoaled this book about it months ago, i
am sorry for it, and brought it back.”
Theft of Jewelry.— Thursday night last
while the family of Edward Thomas, Esq., was
at supper, a thief eutered the house through
the front door, which was not locked, and pro
ceeded to the second story of the building.
One of the young ladies, having occasion to go
up stairs, was surprised to see the thief, a tall
man, make a hasty exit byway of tbe door
which leads to thefront verandah; finding him
self some fifteen feet from the pavement lie
made the leap and succeeded in escaping. Yes
terday morning it was discovered that he had
abstracted a ease of valuable jewelry. The
empty case was subsequently found in a vacant
lot on Greenb street.
A Remarkable Invention—Justifying
Typery Machinery.—Mr. Charles W. Felt,
of Salem, Massachusetts, lias perfected a ma
chine for justifying type. Several inventions
have been made lor setting type, but the great
drawback has been the time expended iu justi
fying the lines by hand. After each line of
type |s set a space is always left at the end of
the last word, which has to be filled up by
placing thin spaces between the different words
forming the line. Heretofore this work has
been done by hand, and has proved very expen
sive.
After many years of labor Mr. Felt has suc
ceeded in obviatiug this difficulty. This is
something which has never before been accom
jdished, indeed never attempted, lor it seems
like endowing a machine with human intelli
gence. It has been tbe great difficulty hereto
fore in introducing composing machines, just
as the want of the method of applyingiuk with
tbe composition roller was the great thing that
prevented the usefulness of the powor press.
When that was at last supplied, power presses
were introduced with the most astonishing
rapidity and success. And now we may hope
that the opportunity is afforded for an equally
rapid and extensive introduction of composing
machines, of which many have been invented
and none have been put into operation.
Mr. Fell’s machine has receutly been shown
to a number of experts in this city, who say
it is a decided success, and that it will do the
work claimed for it.—A r . Y. Post.
Pedestrianism Extra—A One Legged
Rebel Walks from Vera Cruz to Mem
phis.—Mr. Henry DcMather, formerly a cap
tain in the Confederate army, under General
Sterling Price, went to Mexico after the sur
render of the Southern army, aud being of
French descent, as his name indicates, took up
arms with Maximilian. While in the Confede
rate States nrrny he received four gun-shot
wouuds, but they did not injure him to auy
great extent. After jotniug the Imperial army
be received two more, one of which was in the
ankle joint, disabling him for life and forging
him to use a crutch. Mr. DcMather, at the
time of the greatest trouble in and about Vera
Cruz, decided to return to Memphis, but being
without means it would have been utterly im
possible for a less courageous man to have suc
ceeded. To will and to do were the same
thing with him. Taking his crutch he started
on loot, aud in just 145 days this energetic
man, with his rnauy battle scars, arrived in the
Bluff City, having made in that time 3,190
miles, being a little over an average of 33 miles
per day; seventy-four hours of this time he
was ou one of those extensive plains so nu
merous in Texas, without either food or water.
Mr. DeMather is certainly eutitled to wjar the
belt.— Memphis Ledger, Ytth.
The Democracy of Vanderburg county,
Indiana, put the case very pointedly on the
legal tender greenback question. They resolved:
That it should be the policy of Congress to
pay the interest-bearing bonds of the Federal
Government as they become due, at its pleasure,
in legal tender notes, and stop interest, an
eating moth, destructive alike to the public
credit and to individual prosperity.
11 Resolved, That if greenbacks were good
I enough pay for the meu who risked their blood
in behalf of the country, they should be good
enough pay for those who only risked their
money.”
The Cotton Crop. —The past ten days have
wrought a considerable change in the cotton
rather, the army worm has. The
opinions of farmers are at variance as to what
is the extent of the damage done. Some say
the crop is cut short one-third, while others,
and a majority, say one-fourth will cover the
loss. We give the opinions of our planting
friends from the fact we deem them more ac
curate and reliable than ours, if we had nny.
We have visited several cotton fields in which
there was not a leaf left ou a stalk or a shuck
arouud a boll. The bolls, with the exception
of the top oues—probably a fourth of the en
tire number—are too well developed to be in
jured to any extent by the worm. We hope to
bo able to give a more accurate and favorable
account soon.— Panola (Miss.) Star, Sept. 21.
There is a church in Madison, Maine, which
it is said once caught fire high up on the wood
en spire by a spark from another building. A
bystander threw a snow-ball aud hit the exact
spot, thereby extinguishing the flames.
A Vienna actress, deciding to break a mar
riage engagement at the very last moment, sent
the professional excuse, “ Franlien Gallmeyer
is unfortunately hoarse, and cannot attend the
ceremony.”
The Retort Courteous— “ You’re a dull
looking set," as Sozodbnt said to the neglected
teeth. “We shall soon improve, under your j
auspices,” as the neglected teeth said to Bozo- j
dont. sepl»eod-3 i
Is Dr. Livingstone Dead? Who Knows?
We have alluded to the efforts going on in
England, Bombay, and elsewhere, to keep Dr.
Livingstone alive. The Dundee correspondent
of the Loudon Star , September 6, gives the fol
lowing details, which are of interest as describ
ing the efforts which are making to ascertain
his futc, whether his fate is proved to have been
death or otherwise. The writer says :
In to-day’s session of the British Association
for the Advancement of Science, Sir Roderick
Murchison made a statement on this subject.
In order to reach the south end of Tangnnyka
Livingstone took carpenters to prepare boats,
and was prepared to sail to the north end of
that lake to determine if there was an opening
there either to the Albert Nyan/.a or to the Vic
toria Nyanza, discovered by Burton and Speke.
If he was alive he must have passed to Albert
Nyanza, from which he was to descend the
Nile. Should he accomplish that object he
would then certainly be the most glorious of
all explorers in African geography. | Applause.J
Having traversed and retraversed Africa several
times with black men only, and once before not
having been heard of for a year, there was no
occasion for anxiety, although he had not been
heard of. If he had escaped, they might de
pend upon it he would go on fearlessly, and
on getting to the centre of Africa a long time
must elapse before he could be heard of. As
to Mousa’s testimony of his death, it stood
alone; for none of the other Johanna men
were present at the alleged murder, and Mousa
was not only a liar but a thief, and had, when
examined by the Bombay Sepoy who had
accompanied Livingstone on a 'part of his
journey, given a totally different version
from what he had given to Dr. Kirk, having
staled to the latter that he was murdered I y
a blow of a hatchet, and having stated to the
Sepoy that he was shot to death by arrows.
As to Mousa’s story that the Johanna men had
recovered the body of their leader and buried
it, he did not believe that so great a coward as
Mousa, who stated that he had concealed him
self when his leader was attacked, would have
had the heroism to go and make a search for
the body. But whatever should be the (act, he
felt, as President of the Royal Geographical
Soei tv, that it was their botindeu duty to
make a search for Livingstone, and he had ac
cordingly urged on the Government to send
out an expedition to determine the truth in toe
matter. To the great honor of her Majesty’s
Government, this proposal Iras been most cor
dially responded to, particularly by Mr. Con v
and tbe authorities of the Admirality, and the
details ol the expedition had been most zeal
ously worked out by the hydrograpber of tbe,
Admirality, Capt. Richard. As leader of the
expedition, they had chosen Mr. Young, a war
rant officer, who had spent two years on the
Zambesi with Livingstone, who knew tbe ui
tives well, and was perfectly competent to
manage them ; and who further entertained the
hope that he and other did that Livingstone
might be alive. The object of this expedition,
which reached the cape on the 15th of July last,
was to reach the north end of Lake Nyasea,
about thirty miles from which was the spot ol
the alleged murder. If Liviugstone was dead,
the expedition party was 6ure to fail in with
memorials of him—his clothes, his apparatus,
or, above nil, his notes, for to written docu
ments the natives attached immense impoit
ance, and all these would be sure to iind thi ir
way down the lake in the course of native
trading. Every article belonging to the Ger
man traveler Roeher, who was killed in a quar
rel with the natives, had been recovered. The
journey in Africa would take till the end ol
November, and it was hoped that by Christmas
the result would be knowu iu England.
[Paris Correspondence New York Times.
A Great Secret Divulged.
THE NEW PROCESS OP PETRIFYING HUMAN
FLESH.
Not long ago I spoke of the lost secret for
petrifying human flesh, of the persevering at
tempts made in Italy to rediscover It, and of
the discovery, while making these researches,
of another method of preserving flesh, perhaps
quite as valuable as the lost one. At the Great
Exposition, Dr. Burnetti, ol l’adua, the finder
of the new method, was honored with a gold
medal, and with the true spirit of a man of
science, he came forward tbe other evening at
one of the meetings of the International Medi
cal Congress, now in session at the School of
Medicine of Paris, and divulged his secret.—
The great amphitheatre of the school was
crowded with distinguished medical men from
all parts of the world, and when the Italian
savant had concluded his speech he was re
warded with an ovation .which musthnve been
a full compensation for any losses he may suf
fer from having his secret passed into the pub
lic domain. The following details are sufficient
to enable any anatomist to avail himself of this
important discovery :
The process of Dr. Burnetti, which he ex
plained iu French with method, and in a pure
and elegant diction, comprises several oper i
tions, viz: 1. The washing of the piece to be
preserved. 2. The degraissage , or eating away
of the fatty matter. 3. The tanning. 4. The
desiccation.
1. To wash the piece M. Burnetti passes a
current of pure water throughout the blood
vessels and various excretory canals, and then
ho washes the water out by a current of
alcohol.
2. For destroying the fat he follows the
alcohol with ether, which he pushes, of course,
through the same blood vessels and excretory
ducts ; this part of the operation lasts some
hours. Tbe ether penetrates the interstices of
the flesh, and dissolves all the fat. The piece,
at this point of the process, may be preserved
any length of time desired, plunged in ether,
before proceeding to the final operations.
3. For the tanning process M. Burnetti dis
solves tannin in boiling distilled water, and
then, after washing the ether out of the ves
sels with distilled water, he throws this solution
in. s .
4. For the drying process Dr. Burnetti places
the pieces in a vase with a double bottom,
filled with boiling water, and he fills the plnci s
of the preceding liquids with warn, dry air.
By the aid of a reservoir, in which air is com
pressed to about two atmospheres, and which
communicates by a stop-eock and a system of
tubes, first, to a vase containing chloride of
calcium, then with another heated, then with
the vessels and exoretory duets of the anatomi
cal piece iu course of preparation, he establishes
a gaseouß current which expels in a very little
time all the fluids. The operation is now
finished.
The piece remains supple, light, preserves its
size, its normal relations, its solid histological
elements, lor there are no longer any fluids in
it. It may lie handled without fear, and will
last indefinitely. Tbe discovery is a raagnifieeut
one, and the sooner medical schools are pro
vided with full cabinets of natural and patho
logical pieces the better.
Milk Diet in Diseases op the Heart.—
Under the head of “ milk cure,” we some time
ago brought to the notice of our readers a full
account of the curative effects of the continued
use of the milk regimen in the treatment of
many diseases—dyspepsia, dropsy and affec
tions of the breast, <fec., as described by Dr.
Karell. There is now additional testimony on
this subject, especially as relates to morbid en
largement of the muscular structure of the
heart, scientifically called hypertrophy, as pre
sented by a French physician, Dr. Pechalier, of
Montpelier. This gentleman tells us that in
the embarrassment of the circulation arising
from this state of the heart, associated with
obstructions of the valves, the milk diet, to
gether with the use of digitali, and sometimes
without it, will relieve the distressing symp
toms. Eventually there will ensue an absorp
tion of the enlarged muscular structure, ending
in a cure. But to insure success the patient
must follow strictly the injunction laid on him.
Under the influence of this diet it is found that
the impulse of the heart diminishes together
with the palpitations and the congestion or im
perfect circulation of the blood in the face,
brain and lungs. Even where a enre cannot be
hoped for, there will still be a palliation of the
symptoms.— Phil. Ledger.
Female Waiters.— The Round Table , in an
article on female waiters, makes the following
candid confession of its own experience with
this class :
“ There are not many restaurants iu the city
where female attendance is the arrangement,
but wherever we have met with such a plan, it
seems to work very well. Many of the girls
employed in these places arc Irish, but we have
noticed that a great number of them are from
the New England States. They must not be
confounded with the *' pretty waiter girls ” of
the concert saloons, being lor the most part re
spectable and industrious girls. Among those
who come from the New England States, how
ever, there is often to be observed a kind of
prudery that approaehness rudeness, and this
is suggestive of a healthy education and sweetly
innocent mind. Because a customer applies
the epithet of* dear one ’to one of these Phil
llsses, it Is by no means necessary that she
should curl up her nose and toss her chignon,
as though some improper overture were
meant, and yet we have often observed such an
action on the part of these down-east damsels
when thus carelessly addressed.”
How Executors are Fleeced bv the
Radical Organs. —General Pope has made a
good thing ior his Radical organs in compel!- ;
ing public officers to advertise in them, and
prescribing no limitation as to price. ’They
have taken advantage of this omission, and
piled on from 50 to 63 2-3 per cent, on the cus
tomary rates of the country. An ordinary
writes ns that for citations dismissory he is ,
charged $lO, while he has been accustomed to
pay heretofore only $6. We suppose there is
no remedy for this imposition. It is necessary
in order to support Radical newspapers in the
South, and the public interest is not to be con
sidered.— Macon Telegi aph. 1
BY TELEGRAPH.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
from "Washington.
Washington, September 27.
.i j raß s?j Trenholm <Sc Co.’s case has been set
, e terms “re unknown.
Gen. Crawford’s command has left Louisville
for Wash! igton.
• Tl, c special says the Union Leagues
in Virginia are being abandoned.
for week ending yesterday, *4,108,-
Revcnne to-day, *441,000.
Professor Ferguson, of the United States
Naval Observatory, is dead.
The Consul at Palermo reports the continu
ance of cholera, but of a milder type.
There was a Cabinet session of two hours •
all present. ’
Secretary McCulloch has issued a circular
forbiddiug subordinates from communicating
Treasury news to correspondents.
from Richmond.
Richmond, September 26.
Judge Parker, of the Circuit Court of this
State, has rendered a decision that the old
banks, making assignment under act of Febru
ary, 1806, cannot give preference to any class of
creditors; that note holders have no preference
over depositors, and that deposits in Confeder
ate money are to be treated as debts of the
bank to the extent of their value at the time of
deposit.
A considerable majority of the journals of
Virginia oppose calling a convention.
"Mi ■ —i
From New Orleans.
New Orleanl, September 27.
Interments from yellow fever, to six o’clock
this morning, seventy-seven.
The Republican has a full return of votes to
day in the Ist, 2d and 3d municipal districts in
this city. First district, 2,540; 2d, 2,253; 3d
2,297; total, 7,090. Nearly all the votes cast
were for convention ; the number of registered
voters in these districts is 24,235. The Repxib.
lican expresses the apprehensiou unless the
vote is heavier to-morrow, iu proportion, for
convention it will fail. The law requiring a
majority of registered voters to vote or the
election fails.
From M^obile.
Mobile, September 27.
Nine cases of yellow fever are reported for
1 twenty four hours ending six o’clock vesterdav
' evening. Five the day before.
| Three negroes who committed the outrage at
Dog River, were hung to-day. Immense crowd
j but no disturbance.
; From Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, September 27.
Political excitement is increasing.
! Hancock, Sheridan and Sickles are in the city,
j j“j,® *' lt - v Council extended hospitalities to all
1 Dr. M. V. Gorman, Nat Revelry and Caroline
v Herron have been arrested with a large amount
of counterfeiting apparatus.
Prom. IST ashville.
Nashville, September 27.
Thomas holds a conference with the authori
ties to-day. It is stated Gen. Cooper, in a se
. cret meeting, said there were three ways to
. meet the emergency—bullets, bayonets and
[ matches.
Prom New Y”ork.
New York, September 27.
t The Evening Express says the feeling in cot
! lon is very gloomy. Private telegrams from
f Liverpool report a further decline—some quo
. tatiouß as low as 8% to 8%. There are fears of
more failures.
j No cable news to-day received. Laud wires
, not working. All such dispatches must have
been of yesterday’s date.
—i I
Marine News.
Wilmington, September 27.
Sailed—Pioneer, Philadelphia ; W. P. Clyde,
New York.
Savannah, September 27.
Arrived—Steamer Virgo, New York; schoon
er Las Veldren, Boston ; schooner R. Caldwell.
New York.
Sailed—Brig Resolute, Baltimore.
Markets.
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
London, September 26.
Bullion has decreased £50,000.
Liverpool, September 26—Evening.
Cotton heavy and drooping throughout day ;
declined % ; middling uplands, 8% ; Orleans,
9 ; sales, 10,000 bales.
New York, September 27—Noon.
Stocks feverish. Money, 7. Gold, 143%. —
Sterling unchanged. ’b2 coupons, 13%. Vir
i ginia sixes, 50.
New York, September 27 — Noon.
Flour quiet. Wheat lc. better. Corn 2@3
lower. Rye steady. Oats lc. better. Pork
quiet at. $33 95@24. Lard quiet at 13%@14%.
Whisky quiet. Cotton drooping at 22%@23.
: Turpentine drooping at 58. Rosin easier;
strained common, $3 75.
New York, September 27—P. M.
Money, 7. Gold, 143%. Stocks active. ’62
! coupons, 13%.
New York, September 27—P. M.
Cotton lower ; sales, 1,022. Flour unchanged;
amber State, 87 55@10 75. Western mixed
Corn, $1 27@1 30; Western, 81 76. Mess Pork
heavy at 823 37%. Lard active at 13%@14%.
Whisky steady at 38. Sugar active ; Musco
vado, 11%@12%. Other groceries dull. Naval
Stores dull. Turpentine, 55@58%. Rosin,
83 75@8. Freights active. Grain, by steam,
6%.
Baltimore, September 27.
Flour unchanged and prices well maintained.
Cotton dull and nominally lower, especially for
lower grades; low middling, 22; middling, 23.
Coflee remains quiet. Wheat steady. Corn—
stock light; white, 81 27@1 28; yellow, 81 30
@1 45. Oats range from 58 to 73. Rye, 81 45.
Provisions entirely unchanged. Sugar firmer.
Cincinnati, September 27.
Flour unchanged. Corn dull at 81. Whisky
irregular. Provisions nominally unchanged;
holders refuse offered rates. Lard, 13%.
Wilmington, September 27.
Spirits Turpentine quiet at 53%. Rosin dull
at 83 25@6 50.
Mobile, September 27.
Cotton—Sales, 450 bales and closed quiet;
middling, 19 ; receipts, 1,085 bales; sales for the
week, 2,000 bales; receipts, 4,613 bales; exports,
1,152 bales ; stock, 9,158 bales.
New Orleans, September 27.
Cotton—Sales 300 bales ; prices %c. lower ;
low middlinsr, 19; receipts, 422. Flour firm;
superfine, 810@10 12%; double extra, fll.
White corn, 81 40. Oats, 80. Pork quiet and
firm at 827. Bacon—shoulders, 15; clear sides,
19 ; sugar cured hams, 24%@25. Lard—prime
tierces, 14%. Gold, 144%, Sterling, nominal,
56@59. New York sight, %<§)% premium.
Charleston, September 27.
Cotton declined %c.; sales 172 bales; mid
dlings, 19 ; receipts. 852 bales.
Savannah, September 27.
Cotton flat; middling, 20 ; receipts,”s67 bales.
Augusta Market.
OrriCK Daily Cokstitiitionalist, f
Friday, September 27—P. M. \
FINANCIAL
GOLD —Brokers buying at 142 and selling at 144.
SlLVEß—Buying at 132 and selling at 135.
COTTON.—Private telegrams from Now York,
backed up by %&. decline from London, has so un
settled us that we can hardly bo said to have any reg
ular market. Sales of the early part of the day reach
ed 107 bales, on a basis of 18c. for New York mid
dling ; since noon, however, we have heard of no
transactions, and in the present unsettled condition
omit quotations. The following arc the sales: 99 at
18 and Bat 1814. Receipts, 308 bales.
Cobrkotion.— There were two errors In our report
yesterday. We incorrectly reported 275 bales at 19c.;
it should have road 75 bales. Wo also gavo the total
of the day’s sales 490 bales, when it should have been
190 bales.
WHEAT—Red, $2 20®2 40; white, $2 25(5)2 76.
CORN— White, |1 00@1 05; yellow and mixed,
|1 45(5)1 50.
BACON—Shoulders, 16X@17; R. sides, 19; C.
R. sides, 19)4 @2O; C. sides, 20@20)4 ; hams, 22@26.
Rivs* N*ws.—The Swan arrived and the Julia St,
Clair left for Savannah. River, 4 feet at the bridge,