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WKDMCHOAY MOIIM.YIJ. VKit-il SO
COMB, LET IS BE A SOS TOGETHER.
Among all thee maxims of the ancients
none expressed bo much in so few wvjrds a°, the
brief proverb— “ Whom the Gods wish to de
stroy they first make ma t.
That sort of madness once inspired the Athc
nians to make a law that whoever in the State
became eminent, either by virtue or vice,
fcbonld die. There are f<rw, perhaps, among up,
v;iio need fear death from the possession of
such virtues as might excite envy ; but yet, in
t ris more favored land than those
“Isles of Greece
Where burning Sappho loved and sung,’’
apparently the readiest wiy to excite hate and
auge.-, is to attempt to talk to the pi ople for
their good.
Locg. too long, have we Southern people
been a mutual admiration society, in which the
uniform rule was, “you tickle me and 1 will
tickle you.” From pulpit, stump, press and
rostrum, was eung the samtuold song of
seif glorification, and as we shivered with de
light over the brutal attack of a Brooks on [a
Sumner, or the latest bullying in Congress, or
the last tarring and feathering of some weak
minded clerk or drummer from New England,
we unconsciously pledged to ourselves the
toast told by Capt. Maryatt iu one of his ex
citing naval storie3—“The Barbadoes gentle
men :he hab but ;cme fault ! He am really
ton brave.”
We went into the war, and to use the Arkan
sas paraphrase ofwni / vidi! vici! “We went!
we til! we got whipped !” It is just as well to
remember that important historical fact—we
got whipped.
Ju short, there is a string of facts worth re
membering. First, peactable secession was not
at all peaceable. Second, we had a long and
fair fight. Third, the government we made for.
ourselves was ten times as tyrannical as the
one we attempted to put down. Fourth, the
whole laboring and numerous poor classes are
butter satisfied without conscription, and are
opposed to the next war. Fifth, wo volunta
rily gave up and relinquished all right to the
privileges and immunities of citizens of the
United States. Sixth, however the North may
deny the validity of the act of secession, we
are estopped, by our own voluntary acts, from
complaining at the loss cf rights and lack of
equal liberty. Seventh, that we are actually
ierrilwM in the Union, not States, for while
the right of any minority to take and hold the
territories of the Union under another govern
ment is denied by law and put down by power
yet no one has denied ns the right to give up
those rights, privileges and immunities which
benefit us alone.
In short, we may not steal or commit mur
der, but bankruptcy and suicido are inalienable
rights.
The South failed, and those of ns not burg,
orcapo from the policy or clemency of the
United States Government.
There is one great question boforo us. How
TO OKT HACK INTO TUB UNION.
“.Mistaken bouls who dream of Heaven”—
think that it is easy as cursing Yankees-or win
ning battles, or any other popular and safe
amusement, bo popular with these who for four
years woro brave and heroic—at home! The
traveler who sees the mirage of the desert and
ever presses foiwurd to the cool water that for
ever flies before him, is not mare fatally de
luded.
Alter civil law is established, if it ever is,
the South will be a military garrison for many
years. The public works aud forts would de
mand that, and we had United States regulars
hero before the war.
as the Convention is soon to as
nemble, let the people consider well a few
points.
First, what is the policy of President. John
son, aud what would ho have us to do, in co op
eration with his avowed friendship to us ? Sec
ond, will the Convention unanimously observe
their oaths, and “support” the Emancipation
proclamation by voting the Constitutional
amendment? Third, how, when, and by what
means aud on what terms, will Southern mem
bers of Congress be received at Washington ?
Fourth, what amendments arc needed to our
old pro slavery Constitution, in order that
Andrew Johnson and Congress may decide that
we ff jr for inspection—“A RtcecßLiOAN form
of Government”—and thus re-admit us as
States? Fifth, what men can take the Test-
Oath as Governor, Judges, Legislators aud
Members of Congress ? Sixth, is a pardon
retrospective, or only prospective iu its ac
tion ?
Ip short, when and how.shall we get back
hi to the sisterhood of Slates, and bo able to en
joy representation iu proportion to population
and taxation, aud have habeas corpus and tri
al by jury ?
To got these will take a higher grade es
loyally than tho mourners at the grave of the
dead “eocallod” have vet manifested.
Ext PS STOOP TO CONQUER.
The Defalcations in New York —The re
cent defalcations in New York startle the
country alike by their extent and the position
of the criminals. They ore fearful indications
of the demoralization of financial circles, and
of the danger of rash and extensive space hi
tions. They should not, and we hope will
not, produce a panic or a feeling of general
diatrngt, but they will necessarily and proper
ly ensure caution in the management of bank
ing i stitutious, and in the scrutiny of checks,
m well as of the business transactions of the
men who draw than. The thirst for sudden
acquisitions of wealth, expensive aud extrava
gant habits, and the ease with which, at the
worst, frauds are compounded by a suirender of
n portion of the spoil, hav<?\'ombined to make
swindling by far too common an offence.
Severe punishments should be rigidly enforced
against villains of this class ; a little of the
spirit of the old laws which hung forgers
would exercise a wholesome influence. The
protection of the community certainly requires
radical reforms in the practical management
of financial concerns.
Hon. A.. H. Stephens. —Personal friends of
Alex. H Stephens, who have recently been per
mitted to visit him at Fort WarreD, t represent
that his health is veny much broken down, and
that the only favor he wou'd ask of the Gov
ernment is to accord him a speedy trial. He
says be has no complaints to make as to his
treatment in prison, which is as good as he
could desire, but ‘.hat if he is kept much longer
in confinement, he feels that he Las but a
short time longer to live.
A Few Words to our Friend:. —The base in
sinuations and Infamous charges made by the
Augusta Constitutionalist, are false ; and they
will be shown to bsso when the opportunity is
offered to call those to account who bare given
psa. circulation, (
INCREASE OP CHS.ME
The alarming increase of crime in this coun
try has become painfully apparent to even the
most superficial observer. One has only to
take up almost any recent number of the me
tropolitan journals to become aware that crime,
in all its hideous deformity and effrontery, is
stalking abroad in the land. Murders, robbe
ries, frauds, assaults, suicides, and all the
frightful train of evils, find a place in the crim
inal record Is mankind deteriorating in mor
al stamina ? Are we, as a natioD, becoming
less and less olservant of those rules of morali
ty which should govern all well ordered com
munities and people ? Are the distinctions be
tween m°um and tuum becoming obliterated ?
These and thousands of other questions in ref
erenre to the present demoralised oondition of
Boc’ety suggest themselves to us.
Our readers must have noted the painful
shock which the recent disclosure of gigantic
frauds among some of the gold speculators in
Wall street, New York, gave to business cir
cles in that and neighboring cities. An emi
nent firm, enjoying an unblemished reputation
for integrity and probity among its fellows,
suddenly falls from its “high estate.” Defal
cations to an almost (abuldbs amount are dis
covered as having been perpetrated by a son
of a member of Ihefirm; investigation 6hows
that, notwithstanding the immense interests at
stake, their business was most loosely and care
lessly conducted ; and tho consequence is a
diminished confidence in the honesty of busi
ness men generally. If such men are cheats,
they argue, wLom can we trust ? A universal
mistrust and suspicion prevails; every man
looks askance upon his neighbor ; everybody
is afraid of eveiybody ; and chaos reigns su
preme among the money changers.
Iu our opinion, one of the chief causes of the
prevalence of crime is the rage for specula ion
which pervades all classes, and callings, and
professions. This fever is one entailed upon
us by tho late war. It is one of the lamenta
ble evils which was warmed into vigorous ex
istence by that curse of tho nation. Everybody
was infected by it; everybody went into it
O'd men were startled from their 6taii pro
priety by it; young men went mad about it.
Living in a “fast” age, the heaviest expendi
ture was lequired to keep up to a certain stan
dard of “dash” and “style.” The funds
mud be forthcoming, by fair means or foul—
and alas, too oftt n the latter has beeß the
alternative, and crimes of the deepest dye
have been the inevitable result. One would
supnose that the frequency of crimes aDd tho
punishment that is sure sooner or later to over
take the guilty, would have a tendency to
lessen tho number of criminal deeds. But this
is not the case. To-day's revealed frauds give
place to morrow to the frightful murder,
which in turn gives place to the daring robbery
* seme other species of crime. There seems
to be a mania for wrong doing, which runs
through society like a disease. Are there no
moral doctors among us who can cure the
leprosy of the body politic? Is there not here
a wide field for Christians and philanthropists ?
Can they not stay the torrent of vice which is
sweeping over the land? Or have they striven
manfully, while their monitions have been un
heeded ? If so, lot them buckle on their ar
mor aud try again. A persistent and earnest
effort in so good a causo ought surely to bring
vi tory at last.
For our own part, speaking our individual
preference, if this is a “ fast” age—as appears
by tho present status—wo would choose to go
back a little. To make haste slowly, hoping
thereby to catch somewhat of the spirit of staid
soberaess and innate honesty which charac
terized more primitive times.
Operation of tub Mohrok Doctrine in South
America —The principle of the Monroe Doc
triuo seems to have infused itself into the South
American Republics. On the 231 of June, a
treaty was made between the republics of
Salvador, Bolivia, Columbia, Chile, Equador
Peru and Veneauela, by the terms of which
th< s:id States unite in an alliance for their
common defense against foreign aggression.
The treaty id to remain in operation for the
period of fifteen years, and during its existence
the Republics thus bau led toguthor are to
make common cause against the assailant of
any one of them. The intermediate object of
this alliance undoubtedly is to curb the inso
lence aud dictation that have lately character
iz:d the Freuch and Spanish Governments
towaulsthe States on the Pacific shore of
South America. The fleets of these two Eu
ropean powers have lor several ye'ars held in
terror the weak Republics referred to, none of
which were strong enough to defend themselves
against foreign aggression. By this coalition,
however, they will be able to protect thorn -
selves from further insult at the hands of
either Franca or Spain, aud in marchy will
thereby receive another check in Its advance
upon this hemisphere.
The object and aim of this alliance, is exact
ly according to the spirit of the Monroe doc
trine. It is intended to aid iu arresting “the
encroachments of monarchy on this hemis
phere,’’ and every man in our country who is
an adherent to this favorite American princi
ple, will be glad that our sister Republics in
South. America have taken a bold stand upon
this subject. There ought to be a more inti
mate relationship than there is between the
Republics of the two Ameiiran continents. It
is their £estiny to fight avainst monarchy, and
to vindicate republicanism wherever the two
systems come into collision, and it is impor
tant that a more thorough understanding
should exist between governments whose in
tetesls are identical, aud whose success is de
pendent upon ntufal opposition to despotism.
Thero is an ‘ irrepresible #inflict” between
monarchy and republicanism, on this hem
isphere, which sooner or later must be fought
to a settlement.
The Breaks in this Mississippi Levee. —The
New Orleans papers tij that the breaks in the
Mississippi levee weie caused by the militaiy
operations of the U. S. forces during the cam
paign along the banks of that river. They
olairn, on this account, that the U. S. Govern
ment should repair the same. As well might
one assert that all damaged done in every sec
tion of the South dutiug the war should be
paid for by the same party. The notion is an
absurd one.
RianTiNHis View.— Gov. Brownlow, id a
lato number of his paper is of the opinion that
Rev. Dr. Sehon will make a “good citizen frem
this time out.” The friends of the Doctor will
be much gratified to learn that he was well
leaved by The authorities in Tennessee. He
is a noble hearted gentleman, aud worthy of
all attention that may be 6hown him.
The steam marine of New York has been
immensely increased since the close of the war.
It now consists of 529 steam vessels, registered
at that port, representing 415,055 tons, of which
70 000 are employed in the coastiDg trade.
The New York Tribune says that Canada
ranks next to Illinois in the number of cattle
lorwarded to that market.
WHAT 18 NEkDEO
What is needed just at present in tho South
is skill and capital to develop her immense
resources We notice that several States have
already commenced encouraging emigration.
The North Carolina Lind and Immigration
Agency at Rale’'gh, is in full blast, and already
one hundred thousand acres of land, with
township and city lots, and sites for mills,
have been offered to it for sale upon very
reasonable terms, owing to the scarcity of
ready money in the State. Branch agencies are
in progress of formation at the North, and
the prospect is fair for a very l ar ge immigra
tion into North Carolina early tn the autumn.
The State of Missouri Is making similar
efforts, particularly at New York, where there
is continually an enormous influx of Germans
from abroad. But many must be deter
red from immigrating to Missouri by the
outrages that have recently been committed
in that State.
Tennessee is also preparing to receive im
migrants Propositions are being made which
will tempt thousands to that commonwealth
in search of homesteads. Charter privileges
have been granted which will greatly facilitate
the settlement of certain sections of the State.
Louisania and Texas have also commenced
agitating emigration projects, and the
prospect new is that the population of both
States will soon be largely increased by hardy
toiiing men from other parts of the world.
No Slate can—soil, climate, and the vast
area of our uncultivated lands considered—
offer greater advantages to dtnigrants than the
State of Georgia; and it only needs that all
the facts be properly represented to insure us
our full proportion of the human tide that
must shorty move Southward. There are un
occupied lands enough iu our State to accom
modate tens of thousands more workers ; and
the more wo have, the greater will be our
wealth and prosperity.
The Southern States offer tempting fields to
young men of energy and enterprise ; fields,
In some respects, more tempting than aDy
which the West ever offered. The pioneer
work is done. The general features of the
country are known. Roads are constructed,
railroads are built; and though for a time de
molished, are being very rapidly put in running
order again. The inconveniences usually at
tendant upon settling in anew country, the
long and dreary journey in the emigrant
wagons, the uncertain explorations, the mde
life in a log hut, ths contests with wild beattg
and sometimes savage tribes, the at first un
paid toil of clearing the forests and breaking
he sod, the remoteness from market—all these,
and other difficulties with which the Western,
and the Californian settler has had to contend
the Southern settler will avoid. The country
to which he goes is known. A sufficiency of
his land he will find already cleared. His
first year’s industry will produce a profitable
crop, and the railroad and the steamboat are
close at hand to convey it to the best markets of
the world. In the history of America, never
has there been promised such speedy returns
to energy and enterprise as are now proffered
in the Soutnern half of the UnioD*
CUESII UP UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
We often hear able bodied men repining in
consequence of the share of vicissitude that
has befallen them in life, as though the lot of
all, however apparently favored, were not di
versified with misfortunes, “Man is born to
tiouble, as the sparks fly upward,’’ says the
inspired writer, and the universal experience
of our race confirms the wisdom of the sen
tence. Therefore, absolutely none need at
tempt to escape the common fate of humanity.
All we can do is to alleviate it as much as
possible by our exertions. That thes3 exer
tions are of some, nay, of great avail, every
day’s progress testifies.
Bat, exclaims many ill used members of
society, thero are men who seem to bo pur
sued by fate. They rise as early, work as
harcl aud as long ; try as earnestly, and are
qnite as enterprising and intelligent as their
competitors in the same line of business ; yet,
withal, to win seems for them impossible.
They even fail while their less laborious rivals
easily succeed. Luck.*eeems to go against
them. They appeared to be men marked
by an evil genius, or born under a
malignant star, wow we have seen such cases,
and are willing to admit the modifications that
circumstances of biith, health, nationality,
lineage, accident, station, etc, sometimes make ;
yet, upon close investigation it will always
be found that there has been a screw loose
soqgfcjiere, if not in effort, at least in judg
meinT The present constitution o| society is
to blame tor many evils that affect every one
of us; but we are getting along, correcting
and remedying errors aud defects every
day, and therefore have no right to fall back
upon that excuse.
Keep the head clear and the heart pure, and
delay, disappointment, nay even, apparently
total defeat will, iu the immensely greater
number of instances, but serve to enhance the
coming triumph. There are men who, by
observing these rules, develop the peculiar
faculty of the India rubber ball, and the
harder their fall only the higher is their con
tinual rebound. Some discover and adopt
this sound philosophy only late in life, but af
ter it ba3 come to them, that life seems new,
the veil that hid the, horizon is lifted, and
they behold the promised guerdon at last
close by them.
Then let us neither grumble at the troubles
ofcthe day nor in the bygone, but press on
ward from dawn until sunset with perfect
faith and earnest energy. Let us substitute
confidence for tlnidity, care /or precipitancy,
perseverance for impatience, and even while
we slumber after our daily labors, the goal
may be reached. But let each day’s work be
done to day and to the beat of all the sense
and talent we possess.
“Trust no futurs, howe’er pleasant,
Let the dead Past bury its dead,
Act! act I in the glorious present,
Heart within and God o’eihead !”
To the Public. —The assertion which has
been published in a city paper that the pro
prietor of this paper is concerned inpurchasieg
stolen cotton, is an untruth. Those who have
charge of our paper stock house have been
continually cautioned and imperatively in
structed not to purchase anything except that
which the parties offering have leave to sell.
And they have often refused to purchase where
thoee who .brought stock conld not give a
satisfactory account of the same.
Several cargoes of tobacco ashes from the
burnt warehouses have b.en shipped to the
truck gardens in the vicinity of Norfolk, and
it has proved more ifficacious for their pur
poses than even guano.
Near Liberty, Md , eight deaths are said to
have occurred recently in one family in the
course of three weeks, from dipth»ria.
After the first day of September next no
clergyman in Missouri will be allowed to per]
form the marriage ceremony unless he has
taken the oath prescribed by the new consti
tution. j
THE MINERAL RE&GURCES OF CEOHGIA. *
Several cf our contemporaries have discuss- !
ed this important and suggestive topic with
becoming earnestness and with a just apprecia- j
tion of the value of these sources of wealth.
It occurs to us, however, that their attention
is too much directed to the auriferous depos
itee of the Chestatee, the Chattahoochee and
their various tributaries. There is danger
that oar capitalists may the equally
valuable beds of coal, iron, copper and petro
leum which we are satisfied exist in numerous
quantities in the Northern portion of Georgia.
We entertain no doflbt tn-. t the gold mines
of jpeorgia have been imperfectly explored, and
that with the help ot modem machinery, mil
lions of the finest gold might still be extract
ed.,*-The labor is here in abundance and euf -
ficient capital is only wanting to make the
banks of the Chestatee as famous as the valley
of the Sacramento
But while we consider all that may be fairly
claimed for our gold mines, we must insist that
ron, coal and copper, which underlie the
Northwestern section of the State, are vastly
more important. It is a well established geo
logical fact* that gold and silver exist
anywhere only in small quantities, and are
always conffced to limited areas. The most
prolific mines of Mexico, Peru and Cuba, at
the period of Spanish discovery have long
Bioee been exhausted. It is even said that the
best placers of California are beginning to faib
and that adventurers are now abandoning
them tor the more promiiug mines of Nevada
and Idaho.
How different with coal, iron, and copper.
The coal fields of England and Pennsylvania
cover large tracts of territory, and; despite the
evil prophesying of the timid, are likely to
prove inexhaustible. The copper mines of
Spain and Britain were worked anterior to the
Christian disp nsation, and there are now no
signs of exhaustion. Tho savage tribes, that
hunted or fished in the Lake Superior District
before the siege of Troy, fashioned their arrow
heads and their tomahawks from the same beds
of copper that now contribute so much to the
wealth of the Great North West. While,
therefore, we would stimulate by every possi
ble argument increased labor in gold districts,
we would urge likewise the atteut’ou of capi
talists, both foreign and demestic, to these
other mineral interests. The single county of
Bartow, in this State, would sustain fifty fur
naces and as many lime kilns for the next cenlu
ry. It ought to have a mining population of fifty
thousand, and would have under a wise sys
tem of State policy.
Two things it seems to us are necessary to
the speedy and liberal development of our
mineral resources. The emigration of expe
rienced miners and the influx of Northern
capital—these we are glad to know are already
flowing in this direction.
The streim, however, is eianty, but wo
cherish the expectation that its volume will
be augmented until it fills all the channels of
Southern trade and oaterprise. Asa condition
precedent, we must have quietness through
out eur borders. Capital is proverbially sen
sitive, and it will avoid those localities whoro
life and property are insecure.
Let then who desire the financial pros
j£the South, discountonance the
dawnin(f of every attempt to disturb the har
mony that now happily prei ails in this Com
monwealth.
FOKKIUN ITEMS.
The doctors specially devoted to the care of
cholera patients at Alexandria have tried a cu
rious experiment, the object of which is to as
certain whether that disease is caused by ape
culiar state of the outward air, as has been sup
posed. They sent up two balloons, one from
a villa je as yet untainted by the epidemic, and
the other from Alexandria. A quarter of
fresh beef was suspended to each balloon to
float for a certain time in the air. Oa making
t hese balloons descend the meat which had
floated over Alexandria was completely putri
fied, whereas that which had been suspended
over the healthy village was perfectly fresh.
The quarters of beef had been out off the same
animal.
The Queen of Denmark and the Princess
Dagmar have gone to St. Petersburg for a vis
it of about a month. The betrothed o£ the lale
Czarewich is very popular amongst all cases
of the Russian population, who buy her por
trait with quite as much eagerness as they
show in the acquisition ot those of members ot
the Imperial family. The correspondence of
the Independence Beige thinks that her mar
riage to the Grand Duke Nicholas >a not so
impossible as it has been represented.
Serious riots occurred in several places in
England during late election.
Brigands are still keeping everybody on the
alert in the environs of Rome.
The ydlage of Montrond, Savoy, has been
almost totally destroyed by fire. Several
lives lost.
The King of Siam has ordered several iron
clads to be built in France.
The attempt to compromise matters between
masters aud employees in London has failed
Rev. Dr. Goodeli, the veteran missionary of
the American Board, so loDg stationed at Con
stantinople, left his post on June 22, to r tum
to this country, with the expectation of spend
ing the closing days of his life h«r3.
The official list of the export of eborry from
Cadiz for the past half-year shows a total of
24,421 butts, against 40,419 in 1804. The
shipments of port wine from Oporto for the
the past half year show a total of 17,805
pipes, against 18,270 in 1804.
A Loudon paper states that Madame Parepa
is on the eve of her departure for America, on
a professional tour through the United States
The Chief of Police if Warsaw has forbiden
the Jews to wear their ancient dress and codif
fare
The London Lancet advocates writing pre
scriptions in English, and shows the intense
adsurdity of using Latin.
Which tel, the famous tenor, is engaged in
Berlin for six months, at a salary of ten
thousand thalers.
The extraordinary feat cf walking eight
miles in one hour has betn accomplished at
Brompton, England, by a pedestrian named
Spooner. He made the distance, without ex
haustion, within one minute and twenty-seconds
of an hour. He was walking iu a fifteen
mile match ; his opponent, whose name v.as
Miles, gave out at the end of tie eighth mile,
after which Spooner took the rest of the dis
tance at his ease. The wager was £25 a. side
and the charapionslrp.
The cultiv ition of cotton has been com
menced in Tahiti with every prospect of suc
cess. One planter has cleared and nlanled
two hundred and fifty acre*, and employs six
hundred laborers, chiefly Chinese coolies, who
are brought over in considerable numbers.
Another source of wealth lies also been
opened up in the Island. The valleys, which
divide the mountains, are discovered to be ad
mirably suited for the cultivation of cofß-e—a
crop of which is one of the most profitable that
can be produced, whether it is retained for
home consumption or treated for export.
Alfred Tennyson writes his American pub
lishers that he is in good health.
A “Raby Actress” is the latest London sen
sation. it is a female baby, net having
reached the age of two years, and is said to
be gifted with intelligence and power of mem
ory to a marvelous extent. In conjunction
with her. father she recites jßertain passiges
from King John, A Midsummer Night’s
Dream, See., with appropriate action and as
tonishing earnestness. A more wonderful in
stance of precocious intelligence cannot be im
agined.
The entire number of accidental deaths in
Great Britain, in 1863, was 13,777. The num
ber burnt to death was 2,766, mostly by acci
dents attributable to crinoline, which is said to
have caused the death of 40,000 women in fif
teen years,
XEWd SUMMARY.
Associations have been formed in London to
encourage the culture of window plants among
the poor, thus brightening their apartments
and softening their lot. The moral iclluence
of this measure is found to be excellent in
London.
The strike the musicians of the
orehrstras of ail the theaters of Paris, has been
followed by the orchestra artists of ihe opera,
who have addressed a petition to the director,
M Perrin, stating the impossibility of con
tinuing to fuifill their functions at their pre
sent salary.
A pamphlet on the extravagance of modern
French ladies, by M. Dapin, called ‘‘Ls Luxe
Effrene des Femmes,” is attracting great at
tention in high circles in Paris,
The English Congregationalist building soci
ety origiuat. and about fit teen years ago. It has
erected in and around London sixty five places
of worship, at an expense of a quarter of a
million sterling
The Hou. C. C. Cole. Supreme Judge of
lowa, has wiitten a letter in fav or of negro suf
frage. He was a Democratic leader before the
war.
In a season of ten weeks the citizens of Chi
cago patronized the opera to an amount of
nearly $90,000 la a Season of sixteen weeks,
the great city of New Yoik patroD'zed the
same institution to the amount of $87,000.
Several noted guerillas have recently been
caught in West Missouri and shot.
The Commissisioner of Internal Revenue
made the following decisions. A letter offer
ing to sell at a fixed price certain personal
property to the person to whom it is addressed
netds to b 8 stamped to be of auy value as an
agreement. B’i such a letter cannot be con
sidered an agrt ’-meat until the party to whom
it is addressed accepts the offer. In order to
constitute au agreement there must be a con
currence of both parties, an aggregatio men
tium, and until such coneurreuce the party
who makes the offer is at liberty to withdraw
it, unless there is some understanding to the
contrary between the parties. A parly of the
second part to an instrument may affix and
cancel the required revenue stamp, if the party
of the first part fails to do so, provided he
does so before the instillment is used.
The number of persons in Washington regu
larly and temporarily holding positions ot tiust
and emolument under Government, or who aie
paid for transacting business with the Govern
ment, is five thousand. Their average expeor
diture is one thousand dollars each, amounting
to the total sum of five million dollars a year.
A Detriot tfficer who was t iking a female
prisoner along from Saginaw in the cars, left
her for a few minutes to go into another, when
the conductor came along, and the woman re
fusing to pay her iare he put her off the train.
Ihe officer was not a little cbopfallou when
he learned how he bad lost his prisoner.
Bishop Johns, of Virginia, is in Alexandria,
Virginia, upon business connected with IhS
restoration of tire Theological Seminary there
ihe Government it is said has consented to
turn the property over to the trustees.
The Canadian revenues show a eieficit of
$808,931, as compared with the expenditures
Isaac Hail, West Clan, Chester county,
Penn., has a male calf two weeks old which
has a strangely formed head. The upper jaw
is double and has four nostrils : the lower sifijgle.
The front face appears double, united iu the
middle. There are three eyes—one iu the mid
dle of the face. It has two ears only, and they
stand much further back than is mual. Tho
calf is m good healtn, eats well, and bids fair
to live.
The Commissioner of luternal Revenue has
just decided, contrary to the previous ruling of
the office, that, where goons are sold through
brokers, the tax must be paid by both the
merchant and broker ; by the former in the
shape of license tax at the rate of one dollar
per thousand of sales, and by the fatter, on
monthly returns, at the rate of one dollar and
twenty-five cents on every thousand dollars ol
sales.
Discharged have it too fro
(luently impiessed upon them to keep their
discharge papers. The brokers and specula
tors who buy them for a song expect to sell
them back, at au immense profit, when Con
gress shall have appropriated lands to the use
and benefit to volunteers honorably discharged
tho service.
Fox Rud, of Buzlown, Pennsylvania, is
eighty-nine years old. He has lost nine sons
in the war. Eight were killed in battle, the
ninth died at Salisbury. -
A shooting case occurred in Rome Tennessee,
August 12, fckvoral persons were killed and
wounded.
Andrew Miller has been appointed Post,
master at Raleigh, North Carolina. Thu Ra
leigh Progress says he is the fii st man found
in Wake county who has not, iu any shape or
form, given aid to tho late Confederacy.
It turns out that tho terrible story, tele
graphed all over the country a few days ago,
that the negro laborers at Aequia Creek had
conspired to murder the while men in that
vicinity, was maliciously false. The difficulty
there commenced by the gross mistreatment of
a black man, and the b'acks did nothing but
defend themselves.
It is remarkable that the instruments used
for receiving tho signals through the Atlantic
cable, while it was being paid out, were so
delicate that they marked the oscillations of
the ship.
Paul Morphy, the champion chess player, is
iu New Yoik preparing an annotated volume
of his games.
Three lumbermen were recently murdered
for their money at Fort Ripley, Minnesota.
The Indians are committing outrages in
Northern Texas. #
Five hundred delegates were present at toe
late Teacher’s Convention at 11/rrisburg,
Pa.
Northern emigration to N/rlh Carolina
has already set in. People ai/> arriving try
the thousands from al! quarters.
A singular accident occurred in Summer
hill township, Crawioid county, Pennsylvania,
one day last week. Alonzo Wood, in cleaning
Ida rifle, turned into the barrel, say half a tea
spoonful of refined petroleum oil, putting
down a wad of tow on the end of the wiping
rod and pushing the oil out at the tube, lie
then put down a larger wad, pushing it down
within a foot of the breech, when an explosion
occurred which forced the rod into the thick
part of the hand, coming out at the wrist,
passing up and grazing the arm to the elbow,
the rod was three fourths of an inch thick at
the butt end. Tue report was similar to break
ing a cap, and smoke also issued from the
muzzle.
The oldest “paper’’ in the civilized world is
the Gazetc de Paris, which, in 1805, entered in
its two huudred and thirty-fifth year.
An extraordinary incident is related as hav
ing occurred at the fire which consumed Bou
tel’s Hotel, Bry City, Michigan, recently. A
lrdy who occupied rooms on the third floor,
became somewhat excited when the alarm
was given, and went down stairs to discover
where it was.Aeaviog her infant child, sleep in
bed. In the confusion she torgot it, until the
flames had complete possession of the hotel.
She then attempted to enter the building to
rescue it, but was prevented. The firemen
aud ethers, in saving the furniture, threw the
bedding out of the windows. This identical
bed was rolled up, thrown out of tire window,
and carried with other goods on to the bridge
for safety. Alter the fire, in removing tne
goods, the little innocent was found sate and
asleep.
Rev Br King, in a late discourse, said that
at one time when a most ferocious meb had
surrounded his house at Athens, Greece, and
were determined to kill him, and in fact were
just on the point of doing si, he went to his
study, brought forth the old flag, ans in front
of his house uuluried it to the breeze. When
seen by the mad and brawling mob, they
cowed under it and slunk away until not one
was left.
The amount paid in St. Louis as United
States income and License Tax in 1864, was
$757,385.71, and in 1865, $1,811,270,38, mak
ing an excess for the latter year of $1,053,384.
The inconpe returns for 1864 have just been
published. Among them are the following :
Henry Ames, $299,400; Edgar Ames, $299,400;
R J Lackland, $138,553; J A Londerman,
$171,917; S McCarney, $104,400; John J Roe,
$470,541; Alexander H Smith, $129 203; R
Ulrici, $136,568; Francis Whittaker $173,110.
Rrig. Gen. Biker, Chief of the Detective
Bureau at Washington, has reched Cincinnati,
to commence his investigations of fraud and
coiruption in the Western States.
Queen Victoria travels as the Duchess of
Lancaster in Germany, i
\KWB SUMMARY.
The convention of freed tnen at
protested against tho admission ol Teni.c •
into Congress, unless the .States act.- < n
position of the ireedman- Tho in viiug was
numerously addressed.
All official report of the organize a
colored troops iu Kentucky, shows tSs.'.t E v
State has furnished 28.818 black men I<> * s
army. They have been retained in the an
vice, and the first eight,hundred ordered to
Texas.
There is a strife over tho St. Louis po-t o-.ffiv.
appointment between tho Gr uz Hi own m j
and the Blair party,
The Lincoln monument will be cr- v 1 ■ ere
hi-) remains at Springfield, 111 ; the gum and
$40,000 has been raised
A man near Kansas City, recently kill 1 ire
son by knocking him on tho head with a ciub.
Champ Ferguson, the guori.la, admit.-. Lav
ing killed fifty men.
Gen. Graut arrived at his homo iu Galena.
111. August 15.
There was a proposition the other* and .v, in
Raleigh, North Carolina, for a dinner * to be
given by Ihe people ot that city and county
to friends recently iu the Coak-dmate so r v.Jfc
General Rogers put a stop to it
On August 7, there was a severe hailsUv. i
extending through Sank, Cr«.w;o-.d, Rio'd.;.-
aud lowa counties, Wis , wilting and . ■ ov -
ing large fields of wheat. Two bandied 1 rere
were laid waists, with a loss of Irom S3OO 000
to $400,000
A Richmond correspondent of the New York
Tribune says that Gen. Terry was openly iu
suited by being hissed while riding through
the streets a lew days since.
a number of Northern capitalists have fa
ken hold of the James River and Kanawha
Cana!, and intend to have that important ar
tery of trade open for business iirtuau to In ing
to market the eomingjatrops cf the Yegion of
country tributaiy toss;
The Circuit couit just closed at Springfield,
111., granted twenty-one divorces.
The Fame laws of Illinois were suspended
by statute August 15. Crowds of hunters arc
making their way to the prairies.
James T. Bacon, editor of the Edgefield S. C
Advertiser, has b»en arrested for saying sunn
tliiogs he ought not.
John Morrisey, priz i fighter, reports an in
come of $50,700 last year.
At the request ul the Quartermaster General
the pay of mueuty officers beiogiug to u cciem
troops has been slopped by ihe Faymi-rer
General, until they vender to the Qu.u'Utm re
ter’s Department returns ot account required
of them by law and army regulations.
A stalwart young Irishman, in a .aide state,
a few days since made his entree in o tho so
ciety of some young ladies, who were Bunted
in the parlor of a New York merchant’s resi
dence at. Raven wood, L. 1 , can Tug the tr most
consternation by his abrupt appeal vice under
the circumstances lie refused io depart mud
he had been furnished with clothing, which the
ladies, to rid themselves of the presence of Ism
daring ruffian, supplied him irom tlie waidrubo
of the merchant. It gaems that this uawdc -mu
•visitor had escaped from Bkickweii’a Island by
swimming.
A smart shock of earthquake occurred at
Ottawa, C. W., on the morning of August 3,
Among the hundred crimes duiiy reported iu
New York, we read ol' a elmgymail being
knocked down within a few steps ot a police
station by a gang of thieves who robbed him
of his purse, watch, shirt studs and b; ok-
Missionaries are sadly needed in Gotham
The city of Springfield, Illinois, >s so over
run with blacklegs, burglars,, ganoters aid
harlots, maloaud female, who have congrega
ted to rob the soldiers as they arc paid ell - and
nfustored out, of theirjiard-caiucd wu- ■/. Scat
the Mayor, unable to stay tho liood of ecu ire.
has requested Gen. Cook, with military
force under his command, to uudeitake ihe
government of the city, and to deal with tho
villians in a summary manner. That city ss
therefore now under martial law.
At a late Congregational Convention in Bo
ton it was voted to raise $750,000 for the
“ evangelization of the West, and Smith.”’ O
this sum $300,000 is for the Homo Missionary
Society; $250,000, for the American Mis
sionary Association and $250,000 lor church
building.
Every foreigner who has honorably served
in the United States army one year, is eni-u. I
to be at once naturalized wiihou previously
declaring his intentions.
A ferocious bull diove his horns into the
breast of Mrs. Geer, in Clinton, Mich., recently
and kdled her. fcihe had a red shawl on.
War is losing it features in Virginia. Hos
pitals and camps are disappearing, alter the.
troops.
John Morrisspy, the pugilist, last week, guv*
a prominent lawyer of Troy, a diamond nin
worth $2,000. John himself wears a slo.yoo
Jewel on his shirt front.
Mineral “oil” or crystiPz-l petroleum ::
found in Western Virginia It is thou.-t. i,
be the result of the gradual oxidation of li
quid petroleum that has been forct and tut arx!
injected into this by some violent convulsion
of nature.
The Detroit Advertiser sayr, that there is a
great rush of emigration to the ' Norlkm-,
Counties of Michigan, particularly m the le
gion about Grand Traverse.
There aro several thousand of tiro Kcrd:m
brotherhood in Cincinnati.
One of the larg.st and finest rolling mi!':
in the United btates is already in operation in
Chattanooga, Tenn., which is daily turn’:-.-
out the best quality of railroad iron, A blast
furnace is in contemplation, and a copper l oll
ing mill of $1,000,000 capital is soon‘to be put
up in the neighborhood. A large blast fur
nace will be commenced in the fail on the
Tennessee river above Chattanooga. S•. i,,l
coal companies ate only waiting for machinery
operations in dill‘rent localities
-around the place. The old coal mines are br
ing reworked and new ones opened.
Hon. H. C. Burnet, of Ky, has been par
doned.
Affairs between the whites and negroc, In
many sections of South Carolina are growing
worse daily.
A smuggler named Conrad has boon con
victed in a Michigan Court .and sentenced to
pay a fine of $5,000 or le iru; iironed for two
years.
George Wood won $25,000 at Faratog;;
lie determined to try his luck “just otter
more.” Asa consequence, ho lost that amount
and all his savings for some years
Joseph Crockett, of Danville, Maine, has a
hen which recently laid a vdry largo egg. On
breaking it open, another small egg was feu !
within, fully formed and enclosed inti slndi.
Ou breaking this small egg still another war
found, and so on, till it appeared that, in lay
ing this egg, hirldy had laid five eggs of ire
treating dimensions.
The receipts of Now York canal tolls'frota
the opening of navigation to the Ist 0 f August,
were $1,330,910. The receipts for the same
time last year were $1,769,880. Comparative
loss, $438,970.
The Houston Telegraph says that *a we’l
known lady in Washington county has already
made a contract with a number of .Germ o
families, over a dcssn we believe, to cultivate
one of her plantations next year Tr ey arc
to occupy the houses heretofore occupied b\
the negroes, and to pay her four do jars an
acre lor the rent of the land. They w 11 doubt
less raise cotton, es well as buffi Meat < or i, etc ,
and make money at it; and she wii: realize a
handsome income without expense or trouble.
She is acting in time.
D. D Field, of New York, on commence
ment day, gave William College $25, Mu,
a graduate of more than fifty years standing
gave also SIO,OOO.
The plan to manufacture sugar from beats,
in Illinois, which at first failed, it is said, be
cause the works were small, is to be tried
again, the company having increased their
capital.
A person who has made the complete four
of the watering places and summer morn,
informs the stay-at-heme public that there i
no danger of having the gout from high living
at &ny of them.
Col. Harding of Nashville, an owner of two
hundred slaves before the war, told Gen. F.. k
that he would pay hi3 blacks wages, but they
could have no school on his estam The Gen
eral went on and opened a school neverthe
less.
The follpwing statistics will give a cornet
idea of the extensive boot and shoo inter-: tj of
the New England Stages : Number of di
lishments, 2,438; capital Invested, $10,9/7,- j
113 ; number of male employes, 24,282 ; co;r i
of labor, $17,499,136; and annual value of pro- j
dactions, $54,815,948. j
ItEWS SUMMARY.
i 1.-r -■■■!.■ v>ui Office ia Wisconsin,
vre: 5; TO ces of public lands in July
- " . e-.'ic-mo; t. The cash sales at the
■re in at month amounted to $1,494,-
-'■■■ - : -cret i' y -f tfu Navy his directed that
•- p - ‘y and Ensigns of the Regular Navy, and
; v . K. . v ing on boat and any naval
.mo, will h-uecd-Vr bo height thoroughly
tl. • duty of steam engineering
1 ’ < . ■ n cion »his y.-ur in tho soul hem
re 11 ”' a t c ll'.it uis is looking well. Thousands
ot .v i . ' hi ve i o -> planted, and tens of thou—
t- ii,. ■ ■ i refugees fiuT employment.
kook I '• -ml, Illinois, now to be converted
«norient depot rr arsenal, contains
ah; ni 900 acres.
•V. i.>. l- us. □, of l*.rs z v,ft),. Texas,
1 on a visit to his .dis
fuign shoo brother, the President, of the Uni
ted .**tato lie w..* strongly opposed to se
( ■ 9m, and had two sons iu the National
army.
V. u*fi lUneational inslitntions aro
i.'.uut .o ; nev.’ ope itioi’s. The ancient Wil
' -m rud Miry College at Williamsburg, and
i Iven ly of Virgin!-) at Charlottesville, will
co-.umeuo • their v gii'.-ir se-siona this fall.
Ik ' >'.;ng in C-unffia iu favor of annexa
' . to the Fairi'T State.-: is slak'd to increas
ing.
Mre M ircizi'k bus arrived in New Yoik
v.’iii; a huge umut-er ol European performers.
Eire Torres' opens (ho regular season at
Nib-oV on the 15th of October.
Aim'e Com Mi watt Ritchie receives
$25,000 lor an engagement of eight months.
It is stated that Edwin Booth will play an
r'gag. mre.it at Walnut street Theatre, Phil
a leiphia, this winter.
The oil /. us of*ii . Louis have collected $40,-
obo as a ; rei ell* lor Gen Sherman.
Measures are being taken to cucotlrage emi
gration ki Kansas
The l’ittsburg, Fa., coal miners are again on
a sis ike.
The Lredsvi’de Journal speaks ol the abduc
tion ol Sandeis sw petty larceny.
The Trustees of Lexington college at Stan
ton Aa, have, vesoiv I'd to 'tender General Lee
the Presidency of the same.
Ex-Governor Lelcher, in a letter to a friend
In Lynchburg, says that l’resident Johnson is
not ire v ndict.vi* towards tbo South as soma
have sn; p .sed, and that, lie' has only to be
c -tviuci qffhat. rhe South recognized lim “ex
is' ing state of nff.iivs, regards slavery as dead,
and sustains the Government,” and he will do
all that the South can «xpeck.
The body, of a young iady with head, arm, •
and teg cut off has been found iu a mill pond
near Opelika, An. No clue to tho perpetrators
ol the ati »us deed has yet been discovered.
Four children of J J Dumas, of Opelika, La.
were struck by iUitniug recently. Two weie
Tib; ;I, and two will recow r.
lire b.-nti.eky -Slat.. Fair will be held at
f/vaLvule this year, commencing {September
13th, and continue tour days.
An an has been lined ten dollars in Utica,
for havi no visible means of support.
A man named Frank N Case was recently
arrested j: Cedar Falls, lowa, for bigamy.
He committed suicide. Ten women weie
mscle widows.
C an. ILu'dce at last accounts was stopping
in Mobile.
A.recc'ut revenue dec'-b n ohlb-es G virti
meut- employees to pay •. re- ; . t x « a ;f o
ex ra ailowances they in,.: i--reived. Tlds
iui« is correct, and app'. v, TANARUS: npial fotce
io those instances when- • re -.m and in
dividual employe!ft have il c war mado
grants to their chirks in cousidvratiwa of the
enhanced expense of living consequent up
on the lise iu the value of gold.
Tho partition of Virginia during the war Is.
likely to had to a lively controversy 'respect
ing tho Count:- sos Berkeley and Jefferson.
Tboso Ci unlit a were not included within the
original boundaries of West Virginia, but were
aft'.".ward JbiU'txed, wo believe, by an act of
tho 1.; gii laturo. They aro now claimed by
U:<l Virginia. T.;o dispute will bo carried to•
Congrus;-:, whun we may expect tho whole
question ot State division and creation to be
liiccussod, and it is not improbable that lha
final HeiUcment of tho matter in controversy
will bo left to tho Supreme Court.
‘‘The Town,” an obscene publication, has
been iff'p" ssn-d in Now You k.
Anew disease is killing the hogs in Western
Pennsylvania rapidly.
I'heexporlaof petroleum, Rom January 1,
to July Tl, of tho present year, were 13,338,-
217 gallons ; ioi same time*iast year, 5,441,094
gallons.
rise owners of the Bangor Democrat have
sued for thirty thousand dollais damages for
tbo destruction of thuir establishment by a mob
in 1881.
D was stated, at tho temperance convention,
at Saratoga, that the names of thirteen huu
d cd rich mi n’s da i’liters, in New York are on
the 1 st of applicants for admission to the Asy
lum lor liu.lniaks at Binghamton, iu that
Side.
One thousand persons wers added to the
population of Great Falls, New Hampshire,
in ib ire weeks, by the iidlux of factory opera
tives.
Tho Missouri Emigration Board has distri
!>ut‘ re. 15 (i ff) documents throughout the Eastern.
■ - > , arm Europe, ch signed to attract popula
tion to that State.
The (.';m'ortn’iies have yielded from the
beg i uni- - g $30,000,000 in gold.
Tho Haitimov: American, in an editorial on
lb.? Ini', oo ot war, gives the following figures r
'•ini the dire-reraU: onc/unter -at Chickamanga,
R i eei .kx.' ii:;t 115.851 men, and at Murfreesboro
15,085; at Pitishura Landing Grant lost 13,573,
at Vicki'O'.ug 9,875, and at Mission Ridge
7,000; at G lines’ Mills. Feach Ot chard, Savage
Station, Glendale, While Oak fHwainp and
M iin-rn Hid, McClellan lost 70,000, win! at
Antietarn il 120; 11 inker lost in bis campaign
in the Wildmio: s, 20.000; Burnside, at Fred
sricksbueg. 12,01)0; and Grant’s united losses
from the time .of cros.-,ing the R ipidan, in his
final campaign, to the surrender of Lee, ara
computed at 99,000.
In Wilt;-Lire, England, tho aulhoriestl
adopted a singular method of keeping the
p at the elections. They picked out two
hundred of Use worst rowdies and made them
special constables tor the day to keep all tho.
other people i-> order. The “roughs'’ were de
lighted wish tin j >b aud with the pay attached
to it (iive shillings each ) The chief constable,
got them all together, rjiarched them to the
public bait and there locked them up till the
-Mention va : over. The consequence was that
evi-iything passed k»(F. without disturbance.
Tho N. Y State Fair, to be held at Utica
about the middle of September, is said .topro
nn.ie a grand xii: play and a brisk competition
among and mechanics.
The whe it crop ia Wisconsin is the best seen
there f. i : x years. Odes rue falling and will
not command forty cents a bushel.
Y. B Read, tne poet, is giving readings at.
Buffalo, Niagara Falla, &c.
In E. T n- s-e where there aro no troops
anarchy Outrages of.ail kinds
a-, b ing com*tied. Mob law is the order of
I! - day. And Northern men are being driven
off.
the moi iality cf Buffalo tor July was 181
against 1 69 for the same month last kear, and
again? t 116 for the last month of June.
Bare-i ■ v:- !, of B; rnstead, NH , is one
h <! six years of ago, and has never
tii-i•••!< ir.'oxicariug liquors nor used tobacco
in bis ii•». Hr has never worn spectacles,
i-rid his eye.-'-ght has been perfectly food till
within a year, lie has mowed gta.-s every
Humtner nee h-s was twelve years old till the
present, and has never had a phvsician but
three times, and these lately. His wife is
living in go -1 health, at tho age of ninety
six .
The Chicago Journal understands that an
inv uOon'hus h. en made by a citizen of that
city that will work a revolution in steam en
gines. i docs nv/ay with steam boilers al
together, the propelling agent bt-Wg genera
ted by a shower bath failing on hot iron plates,
a.)y passing directly into the cylinder of The
engine ' ~
It is staled that General Longsfreet wil,
ake up big };om-- in Texas.
Gee. UoLooti l:ai again assumed command
of (Le E n D . net of Kentucky, heat*quar
ter? in Lexi .-lon. He relieves Gen. Wadi.
A ri'.‘: comp in y is to be form and ia 1! i-t<n,
to sup; y pure mirk at five cents a qur-t or
six! en cents per gallon.
‘J he T iladM; hiu Ledger i . v j ft*
anlfct-. cite c- al piodnction this * —o- from ail
soar- tv, as far a -ported, i- 4,- 51,f-£S tons,
linst 5,761,2-52 tons to corn /uning time
iu&t year, showing a loss of 1,099,204 tons,