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CONSTITUTIONALIST. atjgkcjsta. ga, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOV. 11,1868 LET US HAVE PEACE." The journals of the South, with scarcely an exception, commented upon the election of Gen. Grant with moderation, dignity and good sense. Speaking for the people, they were disposed to regard his triumph as uo unmitigated evil. They were mag nanimous enough to assert that his past conduct was, to some extent, a guarantee of future conservatism. They were most willing to postpone all harsh criticism oi his motives or designs, until his acts as President should justify them in contrast ing the man with his motto. It is no more than just to say, that, so far, no regret need be experienced for this temperateness in re gard to the President elect, for he has borne himself with a modesty truly exemplary and worthy of respect. But, in violent op position to this pacific character of the Southern press and this unobtrusive mod eration of Gen. Grant is the conduct of Schuyler Colfax, the Vice-President to be. He is apparently not satisfied with the distinguished honor he is about to enjoy, but craves more notoriety. He evidently forgets that the canvass is over, for he took occasion, as late as the sth inst., to blan dish his painted sword, swathe himself in the theatrical habiliments of his war-rhet oric, an ', with a mouth full of damnation to rebels, strut and fume in a manner which must terrify the soul of Hampton and shake the Roman spirit of Robert Lee himself. The fact is, Mr. Colfax, with the smile upon his face and the demon in his heart, repre sents the Radical element of liis party, and is fatuous enough to believe that he pulled Grant through to victory, whereas, had the Radical party not abandoned its rep resentative men, in order to cower at the feet of Grant, its defeat in the recent can vass would have been assured, in spite of the amazing blunders of Democracy. Be this as it may, the silly and vindictive speech of Mr. Colfax, at Pittsburg, bodes nothing but evil for the future, unless, in deed, he should find it convenient, as An drew Johnson did, to change his tone, af ter throwing a preliminary bone to such hungry dogs as Wendell Phillips and bis crew. We have very little hope from him, however, for his hatred of the South and its people is a principle of his being, just as cowardly abuse of everything and everybody in this region is a necessity of his eloquence. All through this Pittsburg speech, which we publish elsewhere, this intense and sectional venom is displayed, and while the catchword of the party chief tain is trippingly on his tongue, the con tradiction of its sincerity is restless in his mind. If the utterances of Mr. Colfax mean anything more than the flap-doodle of a frothy demagogue, they mean that there shall be no peace in the South save the peace of Warsaw; they mean that an undying animosity is to be kept alive at the North for everything Southern that does not absolutely cringe and fawn to power; they mean that those who opposed Radicalism but cast their votes for Grant will be very much deceived in their tranquil estimates, in case Go .era! Grant should, in the order of nature or through a Radical providence, be superseded by the man who drags the holy emblems of peace through the charnel house and clamors for the abasement of eight millions of Southrons, whose civilization he likens to that of Italian banditti and East Indian Thugs. Perhaps it is all for the best that ultra- Radicalism, led by Schuyler Colfax should run its appointed course and meet its appropriate fate in some future contest. Meanwhile, however, what becomes of “peace,” “prosperity” and “plenty” which were so lavishly promised ? Will the sing ing by ten thousand voices of “Down with the Traitors and Up with the Stars,” in every Southern State, bring them? Will a perpetuation of ancient feud make them certain? Nay, this is a poor way of restor ing confidence. The Republican party, as foreshadowed by the Vice-President elect, is still hostile to us and averse to peace of any kind. One wing is inclined to some thing like fraternity, but Colfax is not of that wing. The future alone can tell whether Grant is on the side of Colfax or on the side of Peace. Everything at present betokens that he is sincerely de sirous of a genuine restoration, just as everything demonstrates that Mr. Colfax scorns it, and, had lie lived in the time of Noaii, would have snared the dove of the Ark and eaten her, olive-branch and all. If the dove of the Chicago Convention did not,as the story goes, break its pretty little head against a gas-jet, will not some enter prising Yankee secure it for the special purpose of appeasing the remorseless appe tite of Schuyler Colfax ? Our New York Correspondence. New York, November 4. Tiie result of the contest for the Presi dency is such as was anticipated in this correspondence the second week in Octo ber. The Democratic party has been again stricken down, because it refused to avail itself of the means proffered to it, for over coming its powerful and unscrupulous op ponent. What will strike the Southern Democrat most forcibly is the vast discrepancy be tween the votes for the Democratic Elec tors, and for the Democratic State ticket, and local officers. The latter represents the deep-seated and earnest hostility Which prevails against the Republican party; the former indicates the unwillingness to change at the present juncture the man agement of Federal affairs. It will be claimed that it is due to the personal popularity of General Grant ; but these claims cannot be maintained. The Demo cratic candidates were not personally popu lar, yet their ability, experience and integri ty, were respected. But there were certain elements active in support of them, which were regarded as reckless —wdling to sacri fice great interests to a mere conceit—un willing to accept favorable results, unless accomplished by certain processes, and attended with a certain eclat. In one of the first letters which I had the honor to address to the readers of the Co)„- stitutionaUst, I sketched a plan, detailed to me by a leading Republican, as a means by which his party expected to retain power. I may now recur to it. Before the war, he remarked, there were at the South four mil lion slaves, valued, on a low estimate, at fifteen hundred million dollars. What im mense money interest,centered in the hands of a few, controlled the whole South with out an effort. When a question affecting its safety arose, the South met it as one man. It could not be otherwise. And the same influence kept the North, to a great extent, divided. Now, he continued, the war put an end to that great and overshadowing in terest, and established in its place a public debt of three thousand millions, with a great system of private credit based upon it. Is it not reasonable to suppose that the great money interest thus created will con solidate public opinion at the North and divide that of the South quite as effectively as the institution of slavery produced the opposite effect ? The result of the late elec tion, and the feeble tone prevailing in Dem ocratic councils respecting the unconstitu tional reconstruction measures of the Rad ical Congress, afford the best answers to this question. There is, and has been, no tftlddle ground that was at all tenable, and the attempt to occupy one has been, for the present, fatal. * v The vote in this State is represented by that Governor. The success es Mr. Hoff man promeses to give a death-blow to Rad ical domination, by means of legislati|Uf commissions—seven over this city. Our Democracy, which, with our immediate neighbors, have given nearly 100,000 ma jority over Radicalism, will no longer be ruled by rural carpet-baggers, BUSINESS MAfTERS. The stringency in the money market, of which so much has been said and written, has been confined to Western speculators iu breadstuff's, and to stock operators, and other branches have felt it very little, and it is really of not much consequence; it has rather been beneficial to the South than otherwise, by breaking down the high cost of food, which threatened to be one of the greatest obstacles to maintaining the price of cotton. The election of General Grant seems to have been “ discounted ” in the gold mar ket, for the premium is maintained at over 33 in the face of the announcement of that event. The political flurries in Spain and Cuba have had the effect to cause an advance in sugar. CHURCH CHOIRS IN NEW YORK. A subject which is of no little interest to the church-going citizens is that of the various choirs, the comparative merits of the tavorite sopranos being discussed in musical circles in much thesame.spirit as the voices and dramatic powers of antago nistic prima donnas. Almost everywhere, although more especially in the fashionable churches, great attention is paid to the music—for music draws, if not the soul to God, yet an increased crowd to the sacred edifice where a God is professedly worship ped—this no doubt redounding to the advantage, especially the pecuniary ad vantage of the church and its officiating clergyman. Consequently, much attention is pafd to the subject of the music. The soprano, of course, being the leading voice, is the principal attraction—receives the highest salary, and exectues by far the greater number of solos. Next in import ance and consideration comes the tenor, and lastly the bass and alto. Good tenors are rare and with difficulty to be found, and in consequence are estimated accord ingly. The same may be said of the altos —that style of voice being much more un usual than the soprano—nevertheless the alto is always secondary and receives a less salary than her more fortunate colleague who is gifted with a voice of higher range. Asa general thing, in the fashionable churches, a florid style of music prevails, requiring considerable skill and cultivation on the part of the soprano at least; but in these cases, as may reasonably be supposed, the salaries are liberal in proportion. Miss Minnie Hauck, who, previously to to her debut in Opera, sang for the edification of a large and wealthy con gregation, received a salary of nine hun dred dollars a year, we believe, for her services on Sundays alone. Some few churches pay their soprano singers as high as a thousand a year, but that is uncom mon, and in general, six hundred is consid ered a good compensation. The other singers, as a rule, receive somewhat less than the soprano, tlic organist most of ill. Many churches there are, of.course, which are poorer and smaller, and as in these instances, less is paid, less is pf course required, and hero the singing is neces sarily more simple, inasmuch as the sing ers are incapable of very ambitious ef forts. Sopranos here of moderate ability lead the worship of the Almighty for the comparatively insignificant sum of a couple of hundred dollars or thereabouts, being as sisted in their efforts by other voices of a like limited capacity. In «oiuc few churches choirs are volunteer, but those we pass by as unworthy of notice. A rule which holds always, is, we believe, that a thing which is good cannot be had for nothing—the price, or penalty thereof, must of necessity ! be paid for iu one way or another, qnd therefore we may take it for granted that volunteer choirs are but shabby affairs. The florid style of,church music has been carried to its utmost exteqt jq Bishop Southgate’s church, where one was coqfin ualiy reminded of the more unworldly strains of the opera. Jennie Landsman, who lias since left for Europe in order to con tinue Jur studies l'or the opera, was for some time the alto singer here, and the I place of soprano wiw previously filled dur ing a few months by Miss McCulloch, from South Carolina, who also made a debut upon lyric boards. So far, we haye said nothing in regard to choirs composed ol men gud boys, never theless they are much iu vogue and pre ferred by many. By the ritualists, particu larly, in which case they occupy prominent, places around the altar, and, wearing white robes, and coming out of the vestry in a procession with the officiating clergymen, bear considerable resemblance to the Ro man Catholics, towards whom they are ac cused by their opponents as having a highly reprehensible bearing. Choirs composed of men and boys are not, however, peculiar to the ritualists, for the great enemy and chief antagonist of the ritualists, Dr. Tyng, em ploys tills class of singers, not robed, how ever, nor allowed to approach the altar, but iu an organ gallery opposite. Some of the boys have voices which are* really delight ful and well repay the pains taken iu train ing them. The. highest style of church music, though, is beyond comparison—that which is peculiar to the Roman Catholic. The finest musical geniuses of Europe having, for years, directed their efforts to the com position of their Masses, Aves, and other sa cred pieces, productions of a high anil va ried order, have been, of necessity, tlip re sult. The same cannot be said of the mu sic made use of in the Protestant churches, and considered simply in a critical point of view, it is immeasurably inferior. The proper rendition of Catholic music indeed demands voices of capacity and a high de gree of training ; these qualifications being absolutely necessary for the proper execu tion of the difficult passages which con stantly occur. We may remark, cn passant, that, as a rule, the Catholic churches pay less salary and require far more of their singers than the Protestants. In Henry Ward Beecher’s church the singing is pure Congregational, and for that style is carried to a high degree of perfection. The organ, as every one knows, is superior to any in this city or Brooklyn, and plain Congregational tunes are led by a choir consisting of about sixteen singers. These are well proportioned as to the dif ferent parts, keep excellent time, and the congregation, or audience, whichever yon may please to term it, joining in almost universally, the swell of harmony is very fine. Willoughby. [communicated.] (hi thorpe County. Editors Constitutionalist: As the time will soon be at hand for the people of the sth District to cast about for a suitable person to represent them in Con gress, allow me through your columns to direct their attention to a young man of promise, fine mind, unspotted character and brilliant attainments, who, in the judg ment of all up this way, personally acquaint ed with him, would make us an excellent representative 1 refer to Jno. A. Stephens, Esq., of Taliaferro county. He is a nephew 'of the Hon. A. 11. Stephens, was an officer in the Confederate army, and represented his county in the State Convention of 1805. He is a young lawyer of promise, faithful to all business entrusted to him, and worthy of the highest confidence; and if chosen as a representative in Congress the interests of his constituency will be guarded with vigilance and defended with ability. Oglethorpe. The submarine tunnel between England and France has been the subject of an address pre sented to the Emperor Napoleon 111 by one hundred English noblemen, members of Parlia ment and other influential gentlemen. The Emperor is asked to support the project ns an eminently desirable work, and necessary to facilitate the social intercourse of the two countries, and to develop their trade and com merce. The realization of this enterprise, it is stated, would furnish a memorable example of concord to other nations. The young daughter of the Emperor of Rus sia, who will, next year, be Queen of Bavaria, is a slender y ■ \ . of medium height, with a very sweet aou reguiai lace, beautiful bands and feet, and long, dark-brown ringlets. She and her betrothed, the young King ot Bava ria, will be the handsomest couple on the Con tinent. Schuyler Oolfax. RECEPTION OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT ELECT Air PfTTSBURff— SPEECH OF MR. COLFAX — 1 ISBERTY, .JUSTICE' 1 and protection FOR ASm THE POLICY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. si * -Jit: f ..„ ■ ;• Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 5,1868. Hon. Schuyler Colfax, Vifee-President elect, arrived here tliis evening, He was met at the Union depot by an immense crowd, who received him with enthusias tic cheers, which he by bowing. He is here in fulfillment of a pro mised visit to Gen. Moorhead, who qnet him at the depot and took him to his resi dence, in the Eleventh Ward. Here Mr. Colfax was entertained at a sumptuous banquet, a large number of prominent citi zens being present. During the evening he was serenaded by the Tanner clubs and a great multitude of citizens. He made two brief speeches during the evening. He complimented the citizens of the county of Alleghany upon its magnificent majority for the right on Tuesday. He said there was a trinity of principles in Uie victory of Tuesday—liberty for all, justice for all, protection for all. By that sign we conquered. There was another reason why this young and patriotic party suc ceeded. It declaree that we ought to en- franchise rather than enchain, elevate rather than crush, build up rather than trample down, and because we bore our cause down to the humble and helpless, though denounced by all the enemies of right in this broad land, we went forward to conquer and to win salvation for the Union, and we gave emancipation to the slave— [applause]—when iu this contest we were the only party iu this broad land that dar ed to stand by the downtrodden and op pressed people of the South, the only party that denounced the outrages that dishonor ed us as a nation, and when upon our heads were invoked the blessings of those who loved our country. I know that you re joiced on the night of the election over the victory we won. I know how you rejoiced over the result; but some were rejoicing iu their hearts who did not show what was passing in their minds. These were the tried Union men of the South, who rejoic ed, not in their public squares, but hanging upon the outskirts of hostile crowds to learn whether they were to have protection or whether their dearest rights should be outraged; and when the wires sped the news that the majestic voice of vhe-people had spoken and said there should be pro tection to them, tlie loyal men of the South gathered round their hearthstones and thanked God that Ilis providence had pro tected them. [Cheers.] There were two sharply defined questions which have been settled by the voice of thp people. The De mocratic platform declared in that portion of It written by Wade Hampton that “the reconstruction measures of Congress were unconstitutional, revolutionary gud void,” and the American people trampled that platform under their feet as they had trampled the platform which, four, years before, declared the war a failure and de manded a cessation of hostilities. Tiie voice of the peqple f from whose de cision there is no appeal, has declared that the reconstruction measures of Congress are pot unconstitutional, revolutionary nor void. We have deplayCtl that the voice of the people is to be obeyed and the laws are •to be enforced whether rebels like them or dislike them. [Cheers.] The second prin ciple which has been settled by the popular vote is, that every man lias the right to go South, oy North, or East, or West, so long as he is devoted to the principle of our flag or be protected by it against outrage and wrong. [Cheers.] To-day the only place iq this broad land, where the people are prevented from singing tlje battle songs of the war, such as “Down with tije Traitor and Up with the Stars,” is the blood-stained field of the South, where your soldiers fell. You could ging those songs amoug the ban ditti of tlje Alps op thp Tfeugs of India. — The only place where you could not sing them is over the graves of dead soldiers. But we are going to have a land so free and so loyal, presided over by a man so true to ids country, that you may sing those songs anywhere. I speak of President Grant from his own utterances, you will find, before he wrote those magnetic word's, “Let us hgvp peace,’’ if yoii look back to his ac ceptance S|Jpec£) tylp.i) [be committee wait ed upon turn, gnd I remember Reaping tl|e words as I read them, that fie was for peace and quiet and protection everywhere; and what lie say* he generally means. [Cheers.] He will bring to the duties devolving upon him as President the same energy, the same ability, and the same ’will that pas hitherto characterized him ancl when lie says inpi’c gh.all be peace and quiet ancl protection everywhere, ipt tfgi toys beware, for he means what he says, and will carry it out. FA voice, “String up Wade Hampton.”] [ can tefi yoq one thing, my friends, this party that has been struggling for the supremacy and carried two North ern States—New York and New Jersey— by unblushing frauds, that has carried six Southern States by the votes of men who had qo sympathy with your flag, that party will never appear before you again until they have secured new leafieps—[cheers]— and they will have to get some new princi ples besides. Ido not think Wade Hamp ton will make any more platforms for the Democratic party; I do not think Vallan digham will nominate any more Presidents; I do not think Preston and Forrest will nominate any more Vice-Presidents. As for the future, under the administration of President Grant I look forward to an era of peace ancl prosperity, an ei-a of develop ment in all manufacturing and industries, which are the backbone of any nation beneath the circuit of the sun. With Grant’s zeal to stop every wasteful expendi ture of your Treasury and his opposition to every attempt to imperil your' business ; with Grant, who under a divine Providence has been called to fill the Presidential chair, I trust we shall have a future of unexam pled public prosperity. [Prolonged cheers.] The Average Southern Han. LET US HAVE PEACE. The Chicago Post celebrates the victory of Grant and Colfax in this fashion; Your average Southern man is a barba rian. He indy have some adequate concep tion of what is due to the social ceremonial which etiquette prescribes, so as not to be guilty of extremh yaucherie in his inter course with men ; he may have a varnish of bonlwmmie derived from association with his superiors: lie may pray, as a good friend of ours used to say, “like a house a-flre ;” lie may, by a rare possibility, live like a Christian in his house, though ten to one he has never provided these things for personal comfort and cleanliness, the lack of which would poison the life of a North ern tnan of like estate; he may speak the English language without the addition of an African pronunciation; and, if we strain a point, he may have some conception of the meaning of the great intellectual, moral, social and political movements ol the cen tury in w'hich he lives; but after all, he is, in an essential particular, just as great a barbarian as a wandering Bedouin or an American Camanche. Try him on tiie abstract question of human rights and their sanctity superior to human law, and so fatal have been the teachings of that infernal system of man-selling by which his moral sense has been debauched, that you at once cause him to reveal the barbar ous side of his nature, and to justify the langu ige that we use. This is the animal with which the Christianity and Demo cracy of the country are forced to deal. Mis reading and perverting the Bible, de spising the logic which includes the black man within the objects of the Democratic endeavor; steeling his heart against the summons of pity; shutting his eyes to the necessity of educating and improving the individuals of the proscribed race; hating all who do not hate the “ nigger ” as fierce ly as he hates him—he is an unfavorable subject Indeed. He has so long bought and sold, whipped and paddled, burnt and .branded, hunted and killed, despised and feared niggers—or he has sympathized with others who did these things—that.to now make him believe that, before law, the nig ger can be his equal, and that these varie ties of torture have come to an end, is to convince him that all the world has gone mad, and that he alone is sane.” A country surgeo?, who was bald, was- on a visit to a friend’s honsc, whose servant wore a •wig. After bantering him a considerable tithe, doctor said. “ You see how bald I am, and yet I don’t wear a wig.” “True, sir,” replied the servant; “but an empty barn requires no thatch.” Mr. Boebuck on American Affaire —A Cu rious Explanationi Mr. Roebuck made an election speech at Sheffield on the 17th nit., and In the course of it the following questions were put and replies given: Mr. Wilmot said he wished to pat a ques tion of great importance, not only to Shef field, but to the community at large. He should like to ask Mr. Roebuck if he did not use his utmost endeavors in the Ameri can conflict to bring about a war between this country ancl the United States [confu sion] in order to promote the slaveholders’ rebellion. [Cheers.] Mr. Roebuck. Sir, if you will allow me, I will go through that matter completely. The American rebellion broke oat, and all I did was—-and I had the sanction of as large a meeting in Sheffield [cheers] as ever was met together—all I nsked was that we should acknowledge the Southern States as sovereign and independent States. [“ Hear, hear,” and cheers.] Now I will tell you distinctly, I will make a frank breast of it, and you shall not mistake me. My belief is that the American people by ancl by will be so numerous that they will be all-power ful among mankind. I have ever found—l bag you to listen and think upon what I say—l have ever found that persons of des potic power—that is, of uncontrolled pow er—do not use that power as they ought to do. My object was to Drevcnt the Uni ted States from having that immense un controlled power, and I said, “Here is the opportunity; we can take it with perfect safety.” No war wouid have fol lowed—there the gentleman maxes a mis take. “ Here is an opportunity to acklowl edge these States, just as America acknowl edged Hungary when she was in rebellion against Austria; we haye the sanction of American example ; acknowledge the exist ence of those States.” The moment that acknowledgement had come, away would have gone the blockade of the shores of America. There would have been an end to the American civil war, very much, I believe, to the benefit of the several States themselves; and if that had been done I believe that mankind would have received au immense benefit. Gentlemen, if you will permit me I will tell you a story. After that meeting in Paradise Sq "are I went back to London, and iu a day or two it was a necessity of the case—for a member of Parliament there is often that necessity—to wait upon the Prime Minister. I waited upon Lord Palmerston. The moment I got into his room—he was standing writing at his desk as he always did—lie turned round and put <iut his hands, and said, “Roebuck, Roebuck, what a devilish good speech you made at Sheffield,” [Cheers and laughter.] I said, “ My lord, I am greatly obliged to you, and flattered for the kind phrase you have used about my speech”—though it was rather a hard opp, you know [laughter] —“I am very much flattered.’' r he said ; “ why, I am entirely of your opinion, but I dare not officially say so.” Now, that struck me, according to the old wo man’s phrase, all of a heap, that a man in power should say to me openly and without disguise that he was entirely of my opinion and lead the people of England directly the opposite way. That, gaid I, ig modern politi cal morality. [Laughter ] I did my work with the gay and pleasant old lord, and bowed my way out of his room. Now, I want to know if that is not a very striking cure ((instance, and that men should now now come forward and say that I did this for the purpose of creating a war to aid the slaveholders of America—l, who in my youth had done my utmost to fight the question of black slavery throughout the British dominions, who was as horrified as Uie gentleman qpposite can be at the idea of slavery, who haye really wept over the story of Uncle Tom’s Cabin—l, who feel, as he feels, all the misery and all the horrors ot that situation. But I had to look fur ther, 1 had to look at the poor creatures themselves; I had' to look at ttye destinies of mankind, and I thought for the destinies of mankind that we should’have taljen that opportunity of separating the United States. And nobody feels this more than they who govern the United States now. They are surrounded with difficulties ; they cannot heal the wounds which were then made, and I believe, if they dared to- speak the prijtl). tliey* would say they were sorry peace was not ifladp upon il ( p [pens that I pro pose. [Loud piieeis.J Mr. Wilmot differed from Mr. Roebuck gs to Us being impossible for. America to haye cjeclgred war with jtjngTamCaml ask ed whether, if lie were ggaiq Betqrued to Parliament,, he would bp prepared to pay the Alabama claim*. Mr. Roebuck—Certainly not without In quiry ; but if upon inquiry it shall be found that England is really bound, and ought to pay these claims, I shall be prepared to pay thorp. But I will not pay them unless our claims upon America lire paid Ejlsq, [From the Fall Mall Gazette. f ‘ Reconstruction.” AN ENGLISH VIEW OF IT. A remarkable paper appeared a short time since in St. Paul's Magazine, from which it appears that in the Southern Statis they gre trying a sort of double experiment, which, o far as we are aware, lias never been tried before in any country, unless, perhaps, fora brief period in France during one phase of her first revolution, that of placing all the powers of the State m the hands of avowedly the most ignorant and the poorest portion of the population—of those classes which have no instruction, and which pay no taxes. The facts and figures are simply these; they have been for some time published in America, and do not appear to Have been controverted : The condition of readmission into the Union is the adoption by each of the sece ding States of a constitution sent down to them from Washington, and its adoption by a convention chosen by manhood suf frage, without a distinction of color; by a majority of the registered voters, in short. Now tiie registered voters include every male adult negro, but not every male adult white; since from these are deducted (with deprival of tiie suffrage) all who held office during the secession, and all who refuse now to take an oath admitting secession to have been wrong. The result is that in the aggregate of the ten peccant States the ne groes, so short a time ago slaves, now con stitute a positive majority, and outnumber their masters at the polls. There are 670,000 colored men and only 630,000 white men on the register, in three only of the seceding States are the white voters decidedly the most numerous. In two the numbers are about equal, and in the remaihingjiye the colored race have a large preponderance. Now, let us see how this arrangement works in one of these States, the only one for whicli we have complete figures, the chief of the offending States—South Caro lina. There we find 80,000 colored and only 47.000 white voters. The delegates sent to the convention by this constituency to pro nounce on the proposed constitution were 121 in number, of whom more than three fifths, or seventy-four, were colored men. But this is not the peculiar feature of the case we are alluding to. It is well known that in the United States all the State taxes, as distinct from the Federal taxes, are direct. They have customs and excise duties also, but the produce of these goes to the General Government. Now, of the 121 delegates chosen, eighty-two, or two thirds are not upon the tax roll of the State, and pay no direct taxes or taxes to the State whatever. But further, after the constitu tion was adopted the constituencies pro ceeded, under its provisions, to e’ect their State Legislatures. The representatives thus chosen (including both Houses) arc (.155 in number, and of these 93, or nearly two-thirds, are men of color, while 91 of them—viz: 67 negroes and 24 “ mean ” whites, pay no taxes whatever. That is to say, the whole taxes of the State are im posed, levied and spent by art assembly, the majority of whom do not contribute to them a single farthing. There are two other features in the case which may he stated without comment. In America a very large proportion (in South Carolina nearly one-half) of the State ex penditure goes in maintaining the public schools. To these, according to the univer sal and, it would seem, unconquerable prejudice of color throughout America, since negroes go white men do not send their children. Os course the right thing to do is to get rid of such prejudices, which are not proper subjects of legislative en couragement. There they are, however, in enormous force; and the Southerners take it as a substantial grievance that while the support the schools almost entirely they cannot use them. At the same time they are so utterly ruined by the war that few can afford to send their children to private schools. Lately, the constitution we have described (equal manhood suffrage without distinction of color) is imposed upon the conquered States by the Northern victorious States, not one of which, will itself confer the suffrage on colored men except (in New York) under restrictions which virtually amount to exclusion, and not one of which would suffer their own white children to mix on school benches with those of colored men. Probably we have here the explana tion of those outrages in the Southern States of which every mail brings fresh accounts, and which betoken an exaspera tion that bids fair to end in a war of races. [From the Territorial Enterprise. The Islands of Pyramid Lake, Utah. A gentleman who has visited Pyramid Lake, and explored several of its islauds at the season of laying and incubation for the myriads of gulls, ducks, pelicans and other waterfowl that swarm ‘upon its water, states that at that time the larger islands are literally white with eggs, so -thickly are they strewn over the ground. The fowls inhabiting the islauds are described as being exceedingly tame; they hover and flutter upon the ground about their intru der upon their breeding ground, or circle and stream about, his head, aud with but little show of fear. This absence of fear of man is doubtless to be attributed to the fact that until lately that “feathered biped,’’ man, has never been seen by them upon their islands^ Owing to certain superstitious notions held by them in regard to the lake, the In dians hav? never, in the memory of their oldest chief, visited any of the islands.— Even were they not withheld by the fear of monsters in the lake and upon the islands, they have no boats or canoes, and know nothing even of that rudest of nautical arts—raft navigation. Among the islands of the lake are two small rocky ones, near to each other, and at no great distance from the shore of the lake, that are re markable from the fact that they arc alive with snakes. Huge and lazy old patriarchs of the island, with long strings of rattles upon their tails, bask in the shade of al most every stone, while younger and more active members of the tribe glide about in all directions, and the intruder upon these islands of snakes is often treated to a sere nade by a dozen sets of rattles of various degrees of power and shades of tone. Os course, neither whites nor Indians would care to-tarry long on these islands, nor to cultivate a # more than passing ac quaintance with their musical inhabitants. It supposed that the reason of these two islands being so completely alive and crawl ing with snanes, is that a few having got on the shore by accident, and finding con venient dens ill the rocks, they have ever since fed and fattened on the eggs aud the unfledged young of the brooding water fowl, unci have gone on increasing and mul tiplying with nothing to decrease or dis turb them. We have said above that the Indians have superstitions notions about the lake and islands. These notions appear to take more defi nite form than a vague fear of certain black monsters which they say inhabit its water, having been driven into the lake by the united exertions of the people ages ago, besides of their destroying the groves of nut pines. They declare that they have frequently seen the back of these monster animals protruding above the level of the water, far out ip 11;e lake. These stories are doubtless without the slightest founda tion in fact. The Indians are not much to blame for these notions, however, for by in dulging in them they do not exhibit a great er degree of superstition than is displayed by the while race in all countries. Beta short time since there was publish ed an account of three or four monster ser pents—a hundred feet long and some four feet in diameter —haying been seen disport ing themselves in Owen’s Lake—“causing its waters to boil like a put,” These Owen’s Lake monsters are vouched for by Col. Stc.ens, superintendent of a mining com pany at Lone Pine, by a party of Mexicans and by a party of white men. Such stories have been told about lakes in all countries, and the sea lias had ils monster serpent ever since the Chinese first discovered him, ages and ages ago. The monster or monsters of Pyramid Lake, however, as described by the Plates, are not serpents; they more nearly resemble the mysterious monster of Take Kprole Sartor, one of the vyestern Norwegian isles, which, at uncertain intervals, is said to arch its back above the lope waters'of the lake, and there remain lying like an islet, till it pleas ed to sipk again, drawing the waters from the shore as it went down, and creating a great commotion. The Piutes have several times tried to point out to white men, pros pecting in that vicinity, the Pyramid Lake monsters; we have met never with any one who was able to see anything more than the swell on t lie lake, blackened by the shadoty of a passing cloud. A Wonderful Liar. An Englishman traveling on the Missis sippi told seveptfl rather tough storing ahoqt some London thieves. A Cincinnati chap, named Case, heard these narratives with a silent but expressive “ umph,” and then re marked that he thought that the Western thieves beat the London operators all Itol lo\y. “How so?’’ inquired the Englishman with surprise. “ P r ay, sir, have you lived much in the West?” “Not it great deal. I undertook to set up business at Des Moines Rapids a while ago, but the rascally people stole nearly everything I had, and finally a Welsh miner ran off with my wife.” “ Gracious !” said the Englishman, “ and have you never foqnd her V” “ Never to this day. Ijut that was not the worst of it.” “ Worst! What could be worse thin stealing a man’s wife?” “ Stealing the children, I should say,’ said the implacable Case. “ Children!” “ Yes. A nigger woman who had none of her own abducted my youngest daugh ter, and eloped and joined the Injuns.” “ Did you see her?” “ See her? Yes, she hadn’t ten rods the start if me; but plunged into the lake an l swam off like a duck, and there tyasu’t a canoe to follow her with” The Englishman leaned back in bis chair and called for another mug of ’alf-and-’alf, while Case smoked his cigar. “ I shan’t go any further West, I think,” at length observed the excited John Bull. “ I should not advise any one to go,” said Case, quietly. “My brother once lived there, but lie had to leave, although his business was the best in the country.” “ What business is lie in, pray?” “Lumbering—had a saw mill.” “ And they stole liis lumber?” “ Yes, anci saw logs, too.” “ Saw logs ?” “ Yes ; whole dozens of black walnut logs were spirited oft - or carried away in a single night, lie tried every way to prevent it; had men hired to watch ltis logs, but it was no use. They would whip them away as easily as if there had been nobody there.— They would steal them out of the cove and even out of the railways." “ Good gracious 1” “ Just to give you an idea of how they steal out there—did you ever work in a saw mill?" “ Mev,er.” “ Well, one clay my brother bought an allflred fine black walnut log—four feet three at the butt, and not a knot in it. He was determined to keep that log anyhow, and hirecT two canny Scotchmen to watch it all night. • Well, they took a small de mijohn of whisky with them, snaked the log up the side of the hill above the mill, ' built a Are, and then sat down to ploy kecrds, just to keep them awake you see. ’Twas a monstrous big log—bark two inches thick. Well, as I was saying, they played keerds and drank whisky all night, arfd as it began to grow light went asleep a straddle of the log. About a minute after daylight George went over to the mill to see how they were getting on, aiM the log was gone!” “ What were the Scotchmen doing ?” “ Sitting on the bark. The thieves had drove an iron wedge into the butt-end which pointed clown hill, and hitched a yoke of oxen and pulled it right out, leaving the shell and the Scotchers sitting a-straddle of it fast asleep!” The Englishman here arose, dropped his cigar-stump into the spittoon, looked at his watch, and said he thought he’d go on deck and see how far he’d be down the river be fore morning. ’ Curious Fact. —A Washington correspond ent writes : “ It is a singular fact that no Presi dent of the United States, up to the present time, has bad a child born in the White House.” He adds : “It is understood the fact will not exist long after the 4th of March next.” True Planohette. Malden, with those gray eyes set On the hesmshirpect ttiystery, Pray, what answer do you get To your question, may I see * Why I the paper’s just as fair As the small hand over It; Save a curl of lovely hair Drooping on it, as you sit. Maiden, watch and wait no more; Oracle far true# yet Lies Inside your bosom-door, Thau this mystery, planchette. To the left, now curve that neck, Lay that white hand on your heart, Quick it travels at love’s heck, Answers ere the lips can part. Counting Baby's Toes. Dear little bare feet, Dim ; -led and white. In yuur long night-gown Wrapped for me night, Come lot me count all Your queer toes, Pink as the heart Os a shell or a rose! One is a lady That sits in the sun ; Two is a baby, Aud Hires is a nun ; Four is a lily With innocent breast; Five is a birdie Asleep ou her nest. Prayer Throughout the World. Prom the 3d to the loth of January, 18(59, a week of prayer is besought, under the au thority of the Evangelical Alliance, over the whole world. The following is the Evangelical edict: Beloved Bkethken in Christ of Every Land : In prospect of the coming New Year, and mindful of the great blessings graciously vouchsafed by God, in answer to the united supplications of His people, the Evangelical Alliance cordially renew tbeir invitations to Christians throughout the world to ob serve a week of prayer in January next. Very gratifying reports have been re ceived of the observance of this annual week of prayer in different distant coun tries ; still there is reason to know that in many towns aud cities of our own and for eign lands Christians have not in this way been brought into sympathy with the uni versal Church of Christ. The Evangelical Alliance, therefore, desirous of manifesting the union of all true Christians, and of ex tending tite benefits which in various ways have attended these annual assemblies for united prayer, affectionately call upon the children of God everywhere to take counsel and to make arrangements for observing it in their respective localities. The Alliance feel assured that thereby the hearts of Chris tians will be refreshed tint! the hands of those brethren strengthened who in other places, at home and abroad, plead before God for the gifts of His grace and the out stretching of His arm to bless His Church and convert 'a perishing world. Fellow-Christians! Let’us with one ac cord, if spared to see the commencement of anew year, encircle the world with our faithful, fervent aud united prayers. Let us then gather around the throne of our Heavenly Father, forgetful of our different language, nation and ecclesiastical system. Let. us plead in the name of our one Lord, Redeemer, and Intercessor for blessiugs which the circumstances of our times show to be most needful, urgent and important. If two of you agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be (lotto for them of my Father which is in Heaven, O Thou that hearost prayer, unto Thee shall all flesh come. The following topics, among others, arc suggested as suitable for exhortatioh and intercession on the successive days of meet ing : Sunday, January 3.— Sermons—Subject : The Intercession of the “ High Priest over the House of God,” the motive and model of the united prayer. Heb. x, 19-22. Monday, January 4. — Confession of Sin and Thanksgiving for special and general mercies during the past year to nations, churches and families, Tuesday, January fl.—Nations: For their temporal and spiritual prosperity; edifying intercourse and the maintenance of peace ; for increased openings for the Gospel; for the removal of social evils; for the better observance of the Lord’s Day, aud for Kings and all in authority. Wednesday, January o.—Families: For children of Christian parents; for a bless ing on home influences; for all seminaries of Christian learning—universities, colleges and schools; for Sunday schools and pri vate instruction: for our youth abroad, and I for a blessing (Jitri^i.iatt literature. I Thursday, January 7.-- -The Church : For more knowledge of God’s Word and in crease of spiritual life; for sound and faith ful preaching adapted to rich and poor; growing lityp to Christ ( a more earnest love to Christians of varied name and all nations, and for the sending forth of more laborers into the harvest, Friday, January B.—Missions; For tha pQUyeysthfl at the heathen and Mohamme dans ; for the growth of Missionary zeal; for the removal of hindrances to preaching the Gospel among all nations; for recent converts, and for all who are suffering per secution for the truth. Saturday, January 9. — General: For the conversion of Israel; for the circulation of tite Holy Scriptu es; for Christian and phi lanthropic SQeiotiea, and flor the outpouring pf tfle Holy Spirit qu Christians and Chris tian churches throughout the world, Sunday, January 10. —Sermons t Subjeot —The duty of the Christian Ohurolt in re lation to the religious wants of the world. Aitj.yin'g Guano to Wheat Lands.—A Joins county correspondent asks : “Will you or some of your readers, in an early number of the Telegraph, give the mode of manuring wheat lands with guano?” Let our planting friends, who have had practical ex pc n Since ou the subject, send ns their answers to the ques tion. Awaiting these, we will give the plan we should adopt, in lj;p absence of a seeder or driller, whinh we hope our planters will pro vide tliemsclyos with at the earliest opportu nity. With the driller, the seed in the ground (the. latter properly adulterated) are applied at tbo same lime lu the drill with much more clll caeious and economical effect to the plant.— But assuming that we have no driller or seeder, we should proceed as follows: “ After breaking up the ground thoroughly to the depth of six to ten inches, we should lay it off in the usual fashion and scatter the seed with as much uniformity as possible, using, say a bushel or a bushel and a half to the acre.— Let’lie sower he followed at a short distance by the hand who applies the fertilises. If it is guano, it should he well pulverised and also thoroughly mixed with three limes its quantity of pulverised gypsum or land plaster, if you have it. If not, mix with ashes or dry pulver ized swamp muck, with Salt, or other fertiliz ing ingrediouts at hand, which may reduce the strength of the guano. When well scattered over the surface, har row in at once wilh the seed, aud if you will take the trouble to extemporize a light roller (out of a pine log) and pass it over the land af terwards, you will add much to the certainty of germination. Good farmers tell us that the harrow passed over the crap in early Spring, sa* the latter part of February or the first of Mami, and lol lowed with a top dressing of super-phosphate or any o'her good fertilizer, produces a splendid etlect. The harrow st Ira Iho earth, tears up hut very little ol the grain, and with the manure, gives the crop a wonderful impetus and a large ly increased productive power. This will do lor our answer, and now let the farmers give theirs through the Telegraph. — We shall he happy to get and to impart some information upon this interesting and import ant topic.— Macon 'Telegraph. Threatened Eruption of Vesuvius.—ll, as is apprehended, another eruption of Vesu vius takes place, the London Daily News says the circumstance will indicate a condition of volcano differing wholly from anything that has been observed lor. the past eighteen cen turies. The eruptions in the course ot a year •are altogether unprecedented. The history of the mountain since the destruction of Pompeii shows a gradual increase in the rapidity with which one period of activity his followed another. At the commencement of the Chris tian era, Vesuvius had been so lorg inactive that it had come to be regarded as an extinct crater. Several eruptions took place before the date of the first catastrophe; but from 1300 to 1631 the volcano was at rest; the interior of the crater was overgrown with brushwood, and at the bottom there was an extensive plain, on which the cattle grazed. In • December, 1631, all these roads and pastures wefe blown away by a terrible explosion ; a rest of tbirty-flve years then ensued; but since 1666 Vesuvius bas never been quiet ten years together. This in crease in the number ol eruptions bas not been accompanied by any decrease in their intensity. The outbreak of fast Winter was remarkably violent and persistent. Since then the moun tain can hardly be Bald to have rested. BY TELEGRAPH. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. W asliington. Washington, November 8. Grant has arrived. There was no demonstra tion. Wade Is here and Colfax arrives to-morrow. Congress will merely meet and adjourn on the 10th. Washington, November 9. Grant is attending to rontlne of duty, had many visitors, and don’t seem to encourage conversation regarding his future actions. Two Congressmen and three Senators only are here. Rollins decides that liquor dealers, iu making returns, must draw oft iuto regular barrels what may he iu their stand casks, for proper ganging and stamping. State Department advices indicate litLle real progress in the Alabama claims. Seward, it seems, adds conditions to Johnson’s proposed settlement, add there is a dead lock. The Dyer ordnance court, composed of Gens. Thomas, Hancock aud others, convened to-dayj Hancock visited the President. McCulloch decides that imported tobacco, snuff and cigars do not require revenue stamps unless withdrawn from the Custom House lor consumption or sale in the United States. At Belviderc, Ohio, Grant addressed a Re publican procession, saying: “Gentlemen: I see many of you in uni forms. You laid them off three years ago, and you can uow lay them off again, and we will have peace. Good night.” New York. New York, November 9. The General Meade collided with the Mar mton, from Savannah, near Scotland light ship, cutting the Marmion below the wafer line. The Meade brought off the passengers and part ot the crew of the Marmion, hut the Meade ran on Jersey Flat to prevent siukiug. The Lhckawnnna gave the Marmion assistance. The Marmion sunk to her decks—has pleuty assistance. Buffalo, November 9. Bishop 8. V. Ryan was consecrated yesterday; 7,000 present. Delaware. Wilmington, November 9. The Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Pythias—delegates from New York, Pennsyl vania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Dis trict of Columbia, Virginia, Louisiana and Ne braska—met this morning, Supreme Chancellor Samuel Read, ol New Jersey, presiding. The order numbers 40,000 in the Stales represented. South. Carolina. Charleston, November 9. The Daily News has nearly complete returns from every county in South Carolina, giving a Republic uc majority ol 9,9oo—Democratic gain of 33,500 since the election for the new consti tution, in April last. Greorgia. Atlanta, November 9. Gov. Bullock issues a proclamation, offering a reward of live thousand dollars for the arrest and conviction of t .e person or persons who caused the death of Albert G. Rufliu, sheriff ol Richmond comity, who was killed in the elec tion riot at Augusta. Cotton receipts Saturday, 50 hales; quoted at 23 cents. Florida. Tallahassee, November 9. Nothing of importance has transpired si nee the report of Saturday, concerning the im peachment suit, against Lieut. Gov. Gleason and Secretary Alden. There are no indications ol disturbance. About half the arms thrown from the cars have been recovered in good order, and are in the possession of United States troops. All Judges of the Supreme Court are here, waiting action of the Circuit Court. T-jouisiaiia. New Orleans, November 7. Gen. Rousseau repudiates the phraseology, offensive terms and a portion of the substance of the late conversation reported as having oc curred between him and the Herald's corres pondent in a letter dated the 2Hth ult. Up to three or four days previous to the eleetiou it was his opinion, as well as that of every one else, that trouble would occur on election day ; hut upon the pledge Irotn Democratic Clubs to exert themselves actively tor the preset vation of order and protection of all voters, no further apprehension was felt, and the si quel has prov ed his confidence well louudcd. Kentucky. Louisville, November 9. The 'Courier an'! Journal have consolidated. The paper appeared this morning as the Louis ville Courier Sf Journal. Yrkansas. Little Rock, Novctnbci 8. Rogers (Democrat) is elected to Congress from the Second District. Second aud third doubtful. Martial law will he extended over Lillie Kook and Pulaski counties Monday. Foreign. [BY cable] London, November 9. The Madrid correspondent ot the Times says the Spanish crown will probably he tendered Espartero. Plymouth, November 9. The emigrant steamer Palmerston, from Harrisburg for New York, six weeks out, re turned to this port leaking. Marine News. Savannah, November 9. Arrived Yesterday—Steamships Gen. Barnes and Thames, Irotn New York. Cleared—Brig Medusa, for Liverpool. Charleston, November 9. Arrived—Scltr. Lavinta Bell, from New York ; steamships Saragossa, from New York, and Falcon, from Baltimore. Sailed—Bark H. E. Hussey, for Liverpool. FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. London, November 9—Noon. Consol6 unchanged. Bonds, 73j^. London, November 9—Evening. Turpentine, 295. Tallow, 51s. 9d. Liverpool, November 9— Noon. Cotton quiet; sales, 10,000 hales. Bread stuffs firm. Corn, 38s. 3d. Flour, 275. Tur pentine firm. Liverpool, November 9 -Afternoon. Cotton quiet. Corn, 3Ss. Gd. Lard dull a GGs. Rosiu, 15s. 9d. Liverpool, November 9—Evening. Cottou easier hut not qttotahly lower; sales, 10,000 hales; uplands, afloat, lOjafd. Corn firm. Frankfort, November 9. Bonds steady at 78%. Havre, November 9. Cotton, 139 on the spot; 135 alloat. Havre, November 9—Evening. Cotton quiet; afloat, 120 c. New York, November 9— Noon. Money in demand at 7. Sterling, 9%. Gold YM\£. ’6 2’s, 8% ; North Carolines, 65%; new 65; Virginias, ex-coupon, 55% ; new, 57 ; Ten nessees, 09; new, 68%. New York, November 9—P. M. Governments Arm and higher. ’G3's, 8%. Tenncssees, new, 69%. North Caroliuas, 65%; new, 65. Money easier toward close; plenty at 7. Gold active and excited at 135. Sterl it>g, >.-8 New York, November 9—Noon. Flour and Wheat dull. Corn a shade firmer. Pork nnsettledjat $27 75®38. Lard dull. Cot ton quiet at 35. Turpentine, 44%. Rosin dull; strained common, $3 35 ; strained, til 40@3 50. New York, November 9—P. M. Cotton dull, heavy and a shade lower ; sales .9oo bales at 34%®25. Flour closed dull; hold ers dkposed to sell superfine at $5 70 ; South ern dull; common to fair extra, $7 oO@B 65. Wheat closed favoring buyers ; amber Michi gan, $1 90@1 95; white Michigan, $3 40%. Corn closed drooping; mixed Western, $1 15 @1 17. Pork, $37 50®27 75. Lard heavy; steam, 15@17 ; kettl , 17@17%. Whisky firm er at $1 03. Groceries steady. Naval Stores firmer. Rosin, $2 85@7 50. Freights firmer Baltimore, November 9. Virginias, coupons, old, 54 hid, 57 asked; new, 57 bid; North Carolinas, 44>£ bid. Cot ton dull at 25. Flour active but lower; super fine, $0 50@7 25. Wheat dull; prime to choice, $2 10@2 30. Corn firm at Hl@l 15 • new white, 70@72; yellow, 80@91. Oats, 70 @72. Rye dull at 40. Cloversecd, $8 25@8 50. Pork quiet. Bacon active ; rib sides, 17>£. St. Louis, November 9. Heavy rains check business. Flour— small business ; superfine, $4 75@5. Corn declining new, HlGs@l 70; old, 74@75. Pork quiet at 123 25. Bacon—stock light; shoulders, 14- clear sides, 18X- Dud—demand light at IGUL Whisky dull ut HI 03. Cincinnati, November 9. Flour anil Corn dull; ucw, HI 58@1 59. Whisky declining, HI 03. Lard, 15X@10.— Bacon—shoulders, Wilmington, November t*. Spirits Turpentine—sales at 41}£. Rosin— sales at HIGO@3 75. Turpentine—sales at $2 G 5. Tar—sales at H 2 GO. Cotton—sales at 21 @23. Mobile, November 9. Colton—Market quiet and steady ; sales, 1,100 bales ; middling, 22%@23 ; receipts, 1,283. New Orleans, November 9. CotlAn irregular and closed % lower ; mid dling, 28}£; sales, 3,500; receipts since Satur day, 8,393 ; exports, 2,332. Gold, Ster ling, 45@46. New York sight, % discount.— Sugar firm ; receipts of new increasing; lair, 12%@12% ; prime to choice, 14>g@14)((; yel low clarified, Molasses—high grades firm ; fair, 70; strictly prime to choice, 80@90. Flour dull ; superfine, HO 02%; treble, H 7 50; choice, H 9 50@13. Corn scarce and little do ing ; ucw white and yellow, 95; old, HI 10.— Oats scarce and advanced to G 5. Bran, HI 25. Hay scarce; Western. H30@31. Pork dull aud nominally |B2 50. Bacou scarce aud firm; shoulders, 14%@15 ; rib, 18%@19 ; clear, 20. Lard dull; tierce, 17; kettle, 21. Coffee— prime Rio, IG)£@lG% ; fair, 14@14)£. Charleston, November 9. Cotton dnl! hut steady and stock light; sales, 250 hales; middling, ; receipts, 915 bales. Savannah, November 9. Cotton opened steady and closed dull; sales, 450 bales ; middling, Augusta Markt.e Ok/ick Daily Constitutionalist, ) Monda v, November D—P. M. ( FINANCIAL— GOLD—Buying at 183(3)134 and selling at 155@130. SlLVEß—Buying at 180 and felling at ISB. COTTON—The market to-day line been very dull wi h no demand. Offering stock large. We quote Middling nominally 22X. Sales, 1M hales. Receipts, 400 baies. BACON—We quote C. Sides, 18.’f ; C. R. Sides, 18; B. B. Sides, I7>s ; Shonlders, 15@15,W ; Uan.-p, 10(5.23; Dry Salt Shoulders, 14; Dry Salt C. R. Sides. 17. CORN—Firm. We quote white, $1 20; mined sll6, from depot. WHEAT—We quote white, $2 25©2 61; red, .ft 80 @2 25. FLOUR-City Mills, $lO 60@13 00 ; at retail, $t -fP barrel higher. Country, $lO 00©12 00, according to quality. CORN MEAL —$1 16 at wholesale, and $1 25 at re tail. OATS—BO® 85. RYE—sl 60. iii • mm «— Croup aud Diptheria. In the Journal lies Commaissances of Medi cales, of Parts, Dr. Ozeuam publishes an inter esting paper on the treatment of diptheria, at tended witlt the formation of ndveutitiomv membranes. The specific which he uses is bromine, which lias an elective action on tho pharnyx, the eelum pendulum and the larynx ; so, also, has bromide ol potassium. Three German experimentalists, Frantz, Schmidt and Toube, were the first to prove that bromide in troduced into the respiratory organs caused false membranes to be formed in the larnyx of pigeons. From this they concluded, according to the homoepathic principle— similia similbus curantur — that this element would cure croup and membraneous diptheria. Dr. Ozeuam took the matter allopathicully, and by experiment found that bromine first hardened the adventi tious membrane, and then reduced it to d’jst. This led him to conclude that both the honor putbic principles of medicine coincide in cer tain eases ; but, letting this question alone, his rescarchett have gone further, anil show that bromine destroys contagion as well ns eholoi ine and prevents the spreading of epidemics. This, tact, of course, became a stepping stone to using bromine as a curative medicine, and nearly alt the cases treated with it have tieen successful Asa preservative from epidemic diptheria, Dr. Ozeuam administers front ten to twenty-live drops of bromine in the course of the day in sugar and water, iu the proportion Iron, twenty-five to fifty gilts, of the latter This liquid solvation must he kept in the daik, since light would cause the formation of hjdro bromic acid. The vial must he kept well stopped, and its contents must be changed as soon as the light amber color has disappeared. To the patient the solution is administered in drops, hourly, in a table spoonful of sugar and water, so as to give from one to two grammes of the former iu the course of twenty-lout: hours. In eases ol croup, Dr. Ozeuam prescribes fumigations of biouiine. A basin with hot water is placed belore the pa tient ; a large pinch ot bromide of potassium or else common kitchen salt is throwu iu, amt then, in the course of live mAnutes, three tea spoonfuls of the above btomided solution arc ail.led. The patient inhales the vapor of bro mine thus evolved through a glass luunel. By this means tho author has cured upward ol 150 eases of croup, or diphtheria, with only five failures. Nearly all the European armies are now sup plied with breech-loaders of one pattern or another. In the North German army the in fantry of the line aud the guard are all armed with needle guns, of which there is also a suf ficient supply lor the reserve anil lor the garri sons. Tho arming of tho whole of the Lanil wi-.hr with converted uoedle guns was also de cided upon last June. Os the South German troops, those ot Hesse, Baden and Wurtembcrg are all armed with the needle gun, while Bava ria only began a lew months ago to supply the Werner gun to her army. Ausiria had armed 300,000 men with the converted Wanzl last July. The whole of the French army may he regarded ns being supplied with the Chesscpot since last Spring. In Belgium the Alhini gun was to he placed in the hands of every soldier of the. line by the first of October. In Italy, thirty-two battalions of bersaglieri were armed last July with a rifle similar to the Prussian needle gun, with slight modifications. The English army has, since the beginning of tho year, carried the Snider. The arming of the Danish army with the Remingston rifle is also complete; and Russia makes the greatest ef forts to hasten the supply to her troops of Carlen needle guns. Ot the other States, Hol land, Sweden, Roumania and Servia have only just Introduced breech-loaders into their re spective armies, while in Turkey, Spain, and Portugal the soldiers still carry the old musket. Debts in Virginia.—No real estate can be sold to pay debts until all the personal proper ty is exhausted, and not then If the rents and profits of the real estate lor five years will pay the debts due upon it. In such a ease, the land has to be rented out, and the debts paid out of the rents aud profits. The following is the provision of the law to which we refer, vide Code "of Virginia, ISGO, chapter 18G, section 9: “ The lien of a judgment may always be en forced in a Court of Equity. If it appear to such court that the rents and profits of the real estate, subject to the lien, will not satisfy the judgment in five years, the court may decree tho said estate, or any part thereof, to he sold, and the.proceeds applied to the discharge of the judgments.” So that all parties owing debts under the present slay law, the rents and profits ol whoso real estate will discharge their dchls within five years, will get that time, even after next Janua ry, in which to pay them. [ Fredericksburg Ledger. A London paper says that it is not generally understood how the all-alive, full sized train passes along (lie stage in the railroad scene in "Under the Gaslight.” The other night, at the Surray Theatre, the audience were en ligbleued. The engine met with an obstruc tion in the middle ol the stage, stopped dead, and the following carriages and tei der rushed on with the momentum, and shot one after the other into the engine, ami closed up like a tel escope. It was very effective, and, as a rail way accident, was quite as remarkable as tho running-over business. A Printer "Sets Up his own Obituary. Strange an this may appear, it is nevertheless true. The Prairie du Cbien Union contuius a notice of the death, by consumption, of Judsou Hurd. About a week before ho died he was ordered by his physicians to quit work, and ho did his last type-setting on a notice of his own death, eontnihiug his history, &c. The Union finishes the notice with a high compliment to the deceased as a printer and a man. Sugar Cane Crop.—We are pleased to be able to report favorable of this important crop throughout this section. The frequent rains of the past six weeks and the lateness of the ad vent of the Winter season, have been greatly to the advantage of sngar cane. While tho crop Is not so good as it was Inst year, it is nevertheless, excellent, and will yield a large quantity of sugar and syrup, approximating nn average number of barrels according to tho number of acres planted,— Dainbridge Arg us.
