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X S. MORSE. %siwU ft s»ffttir>ri TIIK 4 HOLEHA. When the cholera commenced its ravages in the East, creating such havoc among the Llo homme ian pilgrim* and devastating the east ern cities, it was the hope of all men that tho disease would bo confined to the Mediterranean basin. Such was the exptctation of many learned medical men, and such seemed like’y to he the result; for a certain chock seemed to be imposed upon its progress far inland, even when it was raging with the greatest violence c'ong the coast But this hope lias been dis appointed, and this theory overthrown by sub sequent facts. Italy, France, even to Paris, K ig'and and Spain are suffering, to a greater or lei-s extent, from the presence of the de etroyer, neither sea nor land having proved any barrier to iis advance ; Madrid has been especially under tliescourgo of this disease, it haviDg appeared there with greater violeuco i than iu any Western portion of E iropo, ov.ir g to the peculiarly unhealthy construction of that city. In England ils presence is felt as yet, iu a comparatively slight degree. It is not likely that tho Atlantic will offer more resistance to tho progress of the cholera than lias the English channe', and we may ex pect its next appearance here. Its approach may be stayed by tho cold ot winter, although that is no sure preventive the winter of 1830 having seen St. Petersburg suffering most ■tverely with the pestilence In England it broke out in the fall of tho same year, stayed its ravages during tho winter, and resumed them with frightful activity in the following spring and summer, arriving at this country iu June. This seems to be the general course, that oao which wo may expect to see followed iu this cate. It originates in the east, travels westward, and merely hibernates, not expires, during the cold season. Tho French govern ment is considering the purpose of attacking the disease at its original starting point, by securing surveillance of those crowed caravans uud resting place of the ' eastern pilgrims, and also of their great sacrifices from which so ninth corruption results. By proper sanitary measures, tho cistern nations corporatiug, the dt sited result might be obtained, at least in a great m< asute, and the gratitude of the world •would bo but slight recompensed for tho good which might be thus accomplished. But this will not bring relief iu the present danger. The cholera has started on its course and cannot be turned back. All we can do is to remove those causes of its spread which are possible to be reached, and to be ready to sup press its first attacks. The conditions raosi favorable to the development of the disease are, fortunately, well known, andean be easily changed. These are, if we may belieyo the statements of those who hare made it the sub ject of study and investigation, nothing more than variations upon the comprehensive theme, filth. Insufficient sewerage, neglected refuse and garbage, crowded tenements, un wholesome lorlgiugs, decaying animal and veg etable matter—those things, which arc shock - ing to a retined and healthy sensibility, pro pare tho way and aid the progress ot the dis ease. During the last cholera season iu Eng land, not a case occurred in the “model lodg ing houses,” where" cleanliness and ventilation was provided for and enforced, while numbers were attacked about them. But unless care be exercised thoroughly, there k ie no safety for any, the disease spreading to the cleanly and careful from its inception among the more filthy portion. There is no absolute security except in the entire removal of the existing causes, and a conotaut inspection over the whole ground. Without Buch precautions as will remove these “fever nests,” our larger cities, aud more especially such a seaport as New York, will present a ripe field for the harvest of death dnd in those of smaller population, the plague will be invited, aud life needlessly thrown away, If measures aro not tsken to search out and destroy those hiding places of disease which exist in every city. Better to tike unnecessary precautions than to find our selves defenseless in the power ot the plague. But should the cholera attack our popul iti< n ! as it will, in all probability, iu spite of those preventive luoasuies which will be taken and ■the many which will not be adopted, it is not so tenib’o but that it may be stayed if we check it at the first attack. There are two stages of the case, the first a mild, painless aud uualaruiiug diarrhea, which continues for some j ittlo time before the -latter fatal stag a of col upso commendes. Iu the first stage, the disease, it is said, can be checked by the oidi miry means of allaying diarrtie i. Acting upon these facts, during previous visitations of cholera, great good has been done and many lives saved in some English towns by the organization of committees whose duty it was to visit each house several times a day, inquiring for these premonitory symptoms of the disease, ami enforcing the application of the proper remedies. The result was that many dis’ricts were entirely shielded from the ravages of tho cholera, while many thousand cases ot pairless diarrhoet were treated. At pretest the same thing is btiug done to a large extent. Similar associations be formed iu this country to check the ravages of the expected plague. From the good accomplished in England, there can be no doubt of the propri ety of tuch measures lure. Thus we see that, altough there is c. strong j probability that by next summer, at the latest, we shall have the cholera at our doors ; tkete need be uo fear (or the re.-ultsif we but pre pare to lective it by removing such things us it feeds aud to break down its attacks at the first notice. This will require confide raole attention and labor, bat it should not be grudged. Cotton is Illinois. —A Southern liliro's cor respondent of the Cairo Democrat says the cot ton cr ip in ttat sectiou has beta exceedingly good—far better than the most sanguine pro dieted. RELEASE OF TWO DISTINGUISHED STATE PRISON ERS — lion J A Seddon late Southern Secre tary of W,.r, and Hon A G Magtath, late Gov ernor of South Carolina, have been released from Fort Pulaski by order of the President. Tiie Mexican Question — Thus far little las been said in Congress in regard to Mexico. • his much we do know, however, in regard to t! e policy and public opinion of United States on the Mexican question as officially express ed. In April, 18C4, the House of Uepresenta - tive6 of the United States passed the following resolution : “That tte Congrrss of the United States are unwilling, by silence, to leave the nations of she world under the impression that they are indiff -rent spectators of the deplorable events now occurring in the Republic ot Mexico ; and t l ey therefore think tit to declare that it does not accord with the policy of tho United Slates to acknowledge a mon irchical-govern ment, erected on the ruins of any republican government in America, under auspices of any European Power.” On the 4th ot April the above resolution was reported from the Committee on foreign affairs, and was put on its passage the same day. Dem ocrats and Republicans alike ppoke in its fa vor; and it passed, under tho yeas and nave, without a dissenting voice: yeas 109, nays 0. The next day, April 5, Mr. Morrill and several other members who had been absent when the vote was taken, asked to be allowed to record their names in tin affirmative. Tho Secretary of State, Mr. Seward, in send ing to our Minister in Paris, Mr. Dayton, a copy of this resolution, und°r date of April 7ih, wrote as follows : “T his resolution truly interprets -the unani mous sentiment of the people of tho United States as to Mexico.” He adds that “the Pres ident does not at present cotih mp late any departure from the policy which this Govern ment lias hitherto pursued in regard to rhe war which exists between France and Mexico.” Thus, while the Government of the United Slates, engaged in the late strugglo regained from any act which the Government of France would regard as cause of war, it recogniz j d the fuc* that tho unanimous voice of our people— the basis of all Government in a Republic—is opposed to the ere.clion iu Mexico of a monar cby under tho auspices of any European Power. The Position of tub United States on the Coi lie Trade.— An enterprising firm iu New Oilcans having nbundant means, extensive foreign connections, and familar with the bus!aeea of tho coolie tin do, conceiving tho idea of importing coolies to cultivate the until led and unoccupied plantations of the far South, which mußt become deserts if the labor of the fieodmenjs depended upon, recently ap plied to Mr. Seward, Secretary of State, to know whether the United States, would aid in or sanction the experiment. This communication was referred to the Bu reau of Immigration, which replied that tho coolie trade was prohibited by an act of Con gress ot 18G2. That Act makes itapeual of fence for registered United States ships to en gage fn what is eullcd the coolie trade ; that is, the deportation of Chinese from any part of China to any port, with a view of holding them to voluntary servitude, or for a term of years, as laborers. The same Act, however, provides that no obstacles should be made to the voluntaty character of such deportation ; it requires a certificate of the United States Con suls in China. Wo notice several prominent men of Louisi ana and several of tho New Orleans papers are advocating tho importation of Coolies to work on plantations. Tins Agassiz Expedition. —Professor Agassiz is continuing his triumphal progress thrcueli South America, or was at last accounts, news trorn such a distance * traveling but slowly. Ilis party started on the trip up the Amazon river on the 20th of August. The intention is that the whole party shall go up the river two thousand eight hundred miles, to the frontier of Peru, and then separate for a time, some going on to the headwaters and others remain ing nearer the South. In a scientific way, the expedition is a groat success. Tha de partment of ichthyolgy is receiving great ad ditions by the exertions of the explorers wham n the Amazon. Wibin three weeks they k. and classified more than three hundred entirely new species of fishes. The Indians of that country are a small, well formed, copper colored rnce, friendly and ac commodating, assisting the explorers while off on their -pedilions. The heat and mosquitos arc said to be something unkuowu to those who hive not experienced them, the former being so intense that no one venture out ex cept in the early morning or the evening. The ptofessor is very energetic and active, and is much encouraged at the suc cess of his expedition. The Chicago Abt&han Well.— The artesian well ai Chicago is represented to be the finest in the woild. In December, 18G3, the hole was commenced with a diameter of five inches. In J muary following, when at the depth of sixty-five feet, the tools got fast, and the well was abandoned. Another was started in a few weeks, aud when at the deplr ot ssven hun dred and eleven feet, an arch of rock suddenly give v.ny, aud the water burst forth in gr*eat volume and force. The bole bad been drawn into four and a half inches at the bottom, through which orifice the water flows at the rate ot 600.000 gallons per twenty-four hours, at a uniform temperature of 33 degrees Faiin reheit, and in the words of the President of the Company, “is as clear as crystal, as pure as the diamond, free from all animal or veg etable matter, and fioin aH injurious sub suiuCes. and its conn osition is such that it is better adapted for drinking fer health, than any other water known.’’ ThS French Universal Exposition —lt ap pears from official correspondence that Fre?i. dent Johnson takes ereat interest in the com ing Puru Universal Exposition for 1867. and thit this fact was communicated to the French Couneellor of Scute aud Special Commissioner. Minister Bigelow was instructed by Secretary Sc-waid to ask for an extension of tiie time within which the Commissioner of the United. Slat s will he required to present his.plan, to the 31st of January pext To this the Impe rial Commissioner assented, in a note to Minister Bigelow the Counsellor of R.ste says . “1 a:u glad to renew the assurance cf tiie very lively interest which I attach personally to see ing at kjast for the first tipe, your great na tion represented e.tVt Universal Exposition. I acid that I am in this only the interpreter of the desires of the Qppercr and of the Impe rial Coumififiop.” AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 6,1865, The South American Alliance, —Just now when anew war is breaking out in South Amer ica, involving one of the States which entered into the defensive alliance of last January, in the city of Lima, the tcrm3 of treaty, as appli cable to events now occurring, have a fresh interest. The States whi?h entered Into the agreement were : Salvador, Venezuela, Boli via, Chili, Ecuador, Peru, United States of Co lombia. These States solemnly bound themselves not to commit hostilities against each other; questions arising would bo referred to atbi tration, they would prevent by all possible msans the preparation or collection of mate rials of war within their territory, the enrolling or recruiting of persons, or the fitting out of ves sels to operate in a hostile manner against each other; they would not permit the transit of troops, arms or implements of war across their territory if designed for u«e against any one of them; they would not allow vessels or squadrons of nations at war with any one of those subscribing to the treaty to provide themselves in their ports with articles which are contraband of war, &c. These provisions amount; to iitlle more than the observance of a strict neutrality. They require nothing like forcible intervention, in any circumstances. Chile acted a prominent part in the Congress of South American Re publics, and her disposition to aid Peru—so strongly manifested in the recent difficulty be tween that government and Spain—affords good reason to believe that she has their warm est sympathy. What action the allied repub lics may take in the present emergency oan only be conjectuied. Affairs in Texas.—A letter writer who has passed over several counties in Eastern Texai where there are no negro soldiers, gives his obseivationa in a letter to the New Orleans Times. He represents freedmen as keeping contracts, attending to their woik, and says they will have, at the close of the year, money and piovisions. They and their children are healthy, la the larger places where there ate uegro soldiers they are crowded with freed men who have not kept their contracts, who congregate together in huts, and are without food or provisions. Many of them do not work, and numbers are dying, while their small children are, ia many instances entirely neg lected. He states that west of Trinity river the far mers were gathering in with the ireedmen a good cotton crop, lhey were doing good work. The small farmers ars all doing well. They intend planting half their ground with cotton. In five years they will be wealthy. These small tanners raise everything, make molasses rora Chinese and African canes, have cattle, earn and wheat to sell, and raise their rice.— In a year they will have the articles named and several bales of cottou each. The Condition ot Alabama.—ln a speech recently made in New York to a meeting, called tor the purpose of considering the giant ing of aid to the Southern States, Governor Parsons said that Alabama, having a fighting population of 90,000, furnished 122,000 sol diers to the Confederates ; 35,000 died in bat tlo or from wounds and disease, and a large proportion of those who returned, came back broken or disabled by wounds which renders thorn unfit for active service. The white pop ulation of that State was 325,000, according to the census of 1860, aud*at the time General Wilson invaded it, the Stale was feeding 138,- 042 wcnien, children, and others. Os the black force were 44 0,000 who were supplied with food and everything necessary for sub sistence physically. The State had appiopria ted eeven millions of dollars for the purpose of procuring relief for the whites. The wealth iest had but little meat. For want of atttn tion, and frem drought and the idleness of negroes, the State is now left with one-fith of a corn and small grain crops. Unless re lief was fnrnishpd there would be heavy suf fering. Largest Vineyard in the World. —It is said that the Buena Vista Vineyaid, in Sonoma County California, is the largest in the world. It consists of 600 acrSs, with 272,000 vine planted previous to 1865, aud 700,000 planted or to be planted this year. Last yeai the yield was 42,000 gallons of still wine, 60,000 bottles of sparkling wine, and 12.000 gallons o* brandy. One hundred men are constantly employed, and double that number during the vintage. There are 8,000 fruit trees, and large varieties of grape3. The wines of this celebra ted vineyard are becoming justly celebrated They can be had in this city of Messrs. Blair. Smith & Cos., arc tha agents for Georgia. The Mineral Resources of Idaho.— The dis covery of rich mines of cinnabar, or quicks'll ver, in Idaho Territory, is likely to bo impor taut, if present estimates of its value are con firmed. *A letter from Ruby City, says “the existence of a vast bed of cinnabar ore in the location before spoken of is beyond all ques tion.” Os one thing the world may rest as sured,' that New Almiden will ettjoy a mo nopoly of quicksilver mining no longer till the mines of Owyhee can be made to yield.” Sev eral new gold discoveries are spoken of, but the want ot facilities of transportation in Idaho is the great obstacle to mineral development. Americas Cotton Sckd in China. —Some months ago Mr Hanbury announced, through the lccaLpapers, that he bid obtained some American cotLn seed, and that he would dis tribute specimens cf it to those who might wish to experiment on its growth, a portion of this seed was planted by Mr. Yaucher in his garden. The result is a patch of cotton far superior to any China cotton. The climate ha- agreed with it, an 1 the plants are in ns flourishing a condition as though they had never bees from their nativcaoil. Coolie Emigration.— Advices from India speak of the coolie emigration as increasing. According to cue authority, the number leaving India is estimated at 10.009 per annum At last accounts no les3 than six French ships had been chartered to take coolies to Havana, and still another for Tariti. Heretofore the desti nation of th ; s class of laborers has been chiefly the British West India Islands, they are conveyed in accordance with requests from lh» governors of colonies. The Augusta and Macon kailroad. —The Mavor of Macon has called a meeting of citi zens “to consider upon the proper means to be taken to induce the completion ot the Macou & Augusta Railroad at the eailiest possible day.” The Macon papers are also urging tho necessity of having the unfinished part of the road laid at once. The distance is only thirty one miles, between Milledgville and Mayfield. The road between these points is already graded and needs only the superstructure. When this js laid you will have almost an air line from Augusta to Montgomery, through Macon. A line shorter by thirty od«i miles than the pres ent one via Atlanta. This line will consist of the Georgia Railroad to Camak, thence by the Micca & Augusta Road to Millodgeville— thence ’ey the Central to Macou—the Musco gee Road to Columbus, and so on. A glance at the map of Georgia will show the reader how direct this route will be, and what great advantages it will possess over the present one. An Important Proclamation from Gov Johnson. —Provisaioual Governor Johnson has issued at Milledgeville, a’ proclamation in ac cordance with an ordinance of the late Con vention, providing for the formation of one or more militia or volunteer companies in each of the counties of the State, “to act as "a police force to suppress violence, to preserve order, and to aid tho civil officers in the enforcement of the lavs, under such regulations ss might be consistent with the laws .of the United States.” The proclamation i3 a very important one. The organization of a militia force should com mence at once in every in the State. The unsettled condition of the country de mands it. Care should be taken to place them under the command of discreet and com petent officers. Agricultural Resouacss or Nevada. —The Agricultural Department at Washington has received a report from Oliver Hyde, Jr , a cor respondent, at Dayton, State of Nevada, dated i October 28, in reference to the condition of the crops in that section of the country. Refer ring to the great agricultural resources of that State, he says he sowed forty-two pounds of oats on half an acre, wnich yielded niue hun dred pounds ; five eights of an acre of barley yielded eighteen hundrel and seventy two pounds ; one-quarter of an acre of wheat yielded five hundred and fifty pounds. He has planted two aud three quarters of acres In po tatoes, which look very fine, and will produce fully eight thousand pounds per aore. The ground is new, and all this sewing and plant ing has been done since the second of May last Gov. Parsons Message. —ln his message so the legislature of Alabama, Gov. Parsons urges the adoption of the amendment of the consti tution of the United States abolishing slavery, and the passages cf laws protecting the negroes in their person and property. This coarse, the governor says, will secure the admission of representatives iu congress, and restore to the State all her political rights in the Union. He opposes a special code for the government of negroes, and recommends the adoption of a vagrant law bearing alike upon white and black ; and suggests that vagrant laws similar to those of Massachusetts be adopted. He also recommends that provisions be made for des titute white and black persons. Gen. Logan and the Mexican Ministership —A late Northern paper states that Gen. Lo gan will make his future home in Chicago ; that ‘ he will not accept the appointment as Minister to Mexico—at least for the present. He has bad no word with President Johnson since he was named for the place, and he re gards his appointment as simply a marked demonstration in favor of the Liberal cause. Gen. Log in says if the President will endotse hie commission as Minister to Mexico with an order for 20,000 armed men to accompany him to the capital of that country, he is ready to go at a moment’s warning.” The Alabama Planter’s Convention. —The planters’ State convention of Alabama assem - bled at Montgomery November 22nd, and was organized by the election of ex-Gov. B. A Moore as president : J. M. Calhoun, W. H Crenshaw aud T. B.,Coopjr as vice presidents and Dr, $L B. Cloud aa secretary. The disot genized labor system of the State will occupy the main attention of this body, and measures adopted looking to tho availability of the fre6d men to meet the want. Gen. Bragg was re quested to address the convention on the sub ject The Louisiana Sugar Chop.— A letter writer who has been traveling through Louisana says that the sugar cane iu that State has con tinued to improve rapidly under the rains and favorable temperature of the fall. [The present growing crop is truly splendid, and though cotton promised best early in the season, the sigar planters are now regretting that they did not attend better to their own proper cul ture. In the meantime, the planters are vig orously preparing for the grinding, which will not begin until late this year. Congreticnal Deleoation. — From the best information we have been able to obtain, we are led to believe that the following named gentlemen have been elected to Congress from this Slate : I Dis—Solomon Cohen. II Dis— Phillip Cook. 111 Dis—Joseph Buchanan, IV Dis—E GCabaniss. V Dis—J D Mathews. VI Dis—J H Christy. VII Dis—W T WoSord. Direct Steam hip Communication Between Savannah and Liverpool.— The steamship Darien, el Liverpool, commanded by Csptain Haran, is at present in Savannah. She is the first of a tegular line to ran between St. Thom :.g. Savannah and Liverpool, belonging to the West India and Pacifi: steamship Company, Tho capacity of the vessel is 3,500 bales of cottCD. The agents in Savannah for the above company ate Messrs. Brigham, Baldwin A Cos. Cotton is Texas.— All advices from Texas concur is stating notwithstanding the diougLt the cotton looks well, but hands jo pick it are co scarce that it is thonght forty thousand bales will be lost from this cause. Mexico and her Ku>curc: s.— The Empire of Mexico is divided into 50 departments, with an area of 712.850 square miles, and a popu lation of 8,218,080 souls. It is more thau three times as large as France, four times as large as Spain, and about thirty times the size of Hol land and Belgium. It is in extent and inter nal resources a first class empire. No country on earth has as many natural advantages. Mexico is self sustaining in every way. She raises her own breadstuffs of every kind—her beef and pork—her coffee, sugar, and chocolate—her indigo, coebincal, and vajj nilla —her wool, thread and cordage, and is now producing a large quantity of her cotton. She produces wines, aguardieath, me zeal, and pui qtie, in the greatest abundance. In the North ern departments bordering on the Rio Grande, there is a fine grazing region. Here are ira mense herds of horses, mules, cattle, and sheep. The middle portion cf the empire is moro devoted to agriculture—to corn and wheat, and rye and barley, and oats. Here the Irish potatoe grows we!!. The Pacific and Atlantic coasts tire well adapted to sugar, coflee, tobac co, and rice, and all the tropical plants and fruits. In the extreme South, in Yucatan, Catnpache, Tehuantepec, Tabasc, and La guna, is the country for dyewoodsl mahog any, and the very bsst cocoa. Here also grow, in great perfection, the cocoanut and the. chirimoya, and every other inter tropical fruit.. The. lovers of natural history, will find here in their native forests, the noblest speci mens of animated nature. Oajaca produces cochineal and indigo in large quantities, while the high lands of Jalapa have monopolized, for years, the production of the celebrated “purgative drug.” The most valuable silver mines are situated in Tulancingo, Zacatecas, S*n Luis Potcsi. Guanajuato, Jalisco, Guerro, Sinaloa and Chihuahua. The copper mines of Chihuahua are said to be the richest in the world, and the pearls of Lower California have ever been in great demand. The silver mines of Real del Monte and Pacbuca, in Tulancingo, are but a short distance from this country, and are now yielding their owners large dividends. The mines of Guerrero are not only rich in silver and gold, but the streams abound in precious stones. The Mifit of Mexico has coined from 1800 to 1860, in silver §405,924,493 ; in gold $26,171,- 644. How much of these precious metais was coined before 1800, and how much was taken out of the country by Spanish Viceroys, by refugee Presidents and generals, and by that system of smuggling carried on so successfully for so many years, will never bo known. This is a vast empire of mountains and val leys. The valleys are exceedingly rich and productive, while the mountains are filled with hidden treasures. Two-thirds of all the silver In circulation in the wide world has bean taken from Mexico. Mexico is richer to day than shis ever was. New mines are daily discovered and worked with improved ma chinery. There are in her mountains ten thousand times more silver and gold than have, been taken out. All she wants is energy—en ergy-energy. Fejaks of Fortune — A lady of.Riehmond, of the highest respectability and afluence be fore the war, by oae of the vicissitudes of dame fortune become separated from her hus band during the early days ot the Confederacy. For years she heard nottiiDg of him, and at last the melancholy conclusion was accepted, that he was dead. la the meantime she be came reduced iu circumstances, and at the time when the Federal troops occupied the city she was compelled to dispose of her costly and elegant furniture. This she did, piece by piecg, until the last object which served to bind her to her former independence had been sold; and she began to despair. Only a few days ago she received a letter from a gentle men residing ia Mississippi, in which she was informed that her husband had lately died, leaving a fortune of ovn- sixty thousand dol lars, of which she was the oniy heir. A check for one thousand dollars accompanied the letter for her immediate wants, and she im mediately took her departure for the place where her unexpected iorluae awaited her. It appears that her husband having enlisted in the army, was discharged on account of illness, and owing t j the unsettled state of the coun try, preferred to remain iu the extreme South until the close of the war. While there he became engaged iu variou* speculations, and made a large amount of money, intending to rejoin his family as soon as peace was declared. He invested his luuds in cotton, and had just disposed ot it when death closed his career. He had w.itteu many letters to his wife, but. strange to say, none 01 them reached her ; the above letter being the first information she had been abie to obtain ns to his Rich mond Times. An Adventure in tue Oil Region.—The Rev. J H Stubbs, of Titusville, related the following at a prayer meeting in his own church, one oay last week—having received his information from the hero of tho 'story : •On Tuesday last, the Rev. Mr. A., of the Baltimore conference was riding on hoiseback from Pit Hole to Titusville lie bad nearly reached PleuFautviUe, and wag trotting quiet ly along, humming ap3alm tune, when a man stepped into his path, and seining his horse’B bridte, presented a pistol at iho parson and demanded hi3 money. Nothing disconcerted, the traveler calmly remarked that he was only a poor Methodist preacher and bad but little money 1 but would give up all he had. The robber made no reply, but maintained hi3 threatening position, and patiently waited for the conference man to disgorge. Ho domined eyed the freebooter pretty earnestly, and re marked, with greatly solemnity. “You can have my money'Jfriend, but for Christ’s sake, give up th : e business of highway robbery.’’ The freebooter and roped his side, and in a voice trembling with deep emotion, exclaimed, “You can pats m 1” Straw3erby Culture in Connecticut.— The Rural American publishes the figures respect ing the culture of strawberries at Wallingford, Ot., as pursued by the branch of the Oneida community. We give the totals in brief : To tal expense of cultivation cf five acres and two-fifths, $1,578,38 ; expense of harvesting and marketing, $1,489.25 making a total of $3 068,21. On the other side of the account we notice 27,200 quarts of berries, bringing an everage of twenty-one cents ; total, 50,712. Add plants sold, $97 75, and you hive the han- Eome total of $5,809,75, yielding a profit of $2,741,74. The berries are mostly the WilsoD. An experiment was tried with the Triomphe d@ Grande, cultivated in hills in verv rich-soil, and it was found they yeiideda profit bf $663, 79 per aero, exceeding the profit of the Wil sons per acre $l5B. Eutthe year before the Trioipphes did not do as yell, and they are not as palatable. A Family cf Criminal-. -John J. Burkhold er, his three daughters, two sons and two sons in-law, living at and near Altoona, Pa , have all been convicted of stealing from the cars oT the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. By means of a f rc:ght car key, which one of them obtained as an employee of the road, immense quantities of goods were stolen from the cars | during the past year. Oa s thousand dailors I worth were found at the fiomg of the sona-in ; law, and large quantities were discovered con | cealed about the house, barn and grounds of I Burkholder, who owns a large farm and was in i no necessity of rtsartiug to this mode of tnak | ing a living The trial was- doubly imprea ] sire, inasmuch as it is the pratice in that 1 jadlc si district, to arraign a;i pet. as charged vyith the commission ot a felony It was a strange and painful f ;miiy reunion—eight per sons, from the gry-h*aie:l grandfather to the youngest eon of fourteen y eare of age. VOL. LXXIV.—-NEW SERIES VOL.’XXIV NO. SO. I OB'iHJ i ITEMS. By a Prussian law passed in 1844, no divorce case can be tried until the clergyman of the parish in which the unhappy Couple live has had an opportunity of reconciling them to their chains, in the year 1864 there were sev en thousand five hundred and ninety six couples who wished to part, and out of these no less than three thousand se/en hundred and seventy four were induced by the clergyman to give up their unttmiable intentions. In this way tho lawyers lost no less than forty eight per cent, of their expected business. By the death of the Earl of Strathmore, the life insurance companies have to meet a claim amounting to £200,000, or abont $1,000,000 The Bcotch insurance offices are those princi pally concerned, though several policies were affected with English companies. Rinderpest is the English for the cattle plague. Fourteen thousand head have been attacked. Twelve thousand have died, of which it is supposed five thousand were killed by quack remedies. There is a tempetanco revival.in England, based on the old Washingtonian movement in this country For the first time since the exhausting drain ittendant on the Crimean ear, a conscription as about" to be carried out in Poland. The cattle plague is still iu existence in England, but is far less destructive than was at first imagined. • It is estimated that the exaggerated reports of cholera kept as many as twenty thousand strangers away, that annually visit Paris by the last of October or first of November. The Russian Government has forbidden the Poles to use their own language in religious matters. For the future, all Roman Catholic catechisms and books of devotion intended for Polish use are to republished in Russian, and Russian is made the only language in which religious as well as secular instruction can be given in at I, even in primary, Polish schools, and in which sermons can be preached in Polish churches. An English paper says there are on board the privateer Shenandoah, thirty-six chronom eters, probably taken from American whalers’ large quantities of ammunition, seven large guns, and a considerable sum of money. The French government proposes to remove the duty on hopß from the United States. It appears from a report presented to the Norwegian Storthina that 100.0U0 children are educated in the district schools of that country at an annual cost of £BO 000. The Russian papers announce that the chole ra, which appeared two months since in the southern provinces ot the empire, is advanc ing north; and, notwithstanding the cold weather, it has arrived at Berdytchen, in Russian Poland, a town of 40,000 souls, mostly Jews. Tho leading physicians in Paris have come to the conclusion that one of the best preven tatives of cholera is rum mixed with tea, and that in consequence of this an immense con sumption of rum has taken place in France recently, one house alone in Paris has sold no less thau SCO puncheons ot rum in a week. NEVVHfUMMMIY. General Pillow has written a letter to the authorities, complaining that the Quarter master iu charge of the Government horse cor ral at St Louis, will not allow him to examine the stock there, to “ee if he could not idcutifiy some ot those once on his plantation near Nashville, but turned over by him to the rebel Government. He insisted that if the animals had been captured, be had the right, under his pardon to demand their rendition. Ex-President Pierce is dangerously ill from the effects of a disease contracted during the Mexicun war. A large company has been organized in Rouen, France, for the manufacture of fabrics from China grass and fur the disintegration of the fibre. According to the official reports for August, 5,170,825 Russian peasants have been freed Iroin every obligation towards their former masters, and 4 605,192 ar&still under contracts to the landowners. 2,961,002 peasants possess the land they occupy as freehold. The crops have been so bad in Russiau Finland during the last three years that G.OOO persona have emigrated into Swedish Finland. Colored balls have been pronibited in Nash ville. General Fullerton, of La., loaves the fixing of the amount of wages between freedmen and their employers for the next year to be regu lated by the law of supply and demand. Col Johu S Mosby is practicing law in War renton, Fauquier county, Va. The secretary of the Stonewall Jackson statute association announces that the coias sal equestrian slaute ot Gen. Jackson is now ready for the founder, and only waits funds to carry it to completion. The association was crippled by the collapse of the Confedera cy, thus loosing what amount of bonds it had. The artist states that proposals have been made to him in Europe ior the purchase of the work- He has refused them, and waits to know if money can be raised so as to save it for its original purpose. The whole sum need ed is $20,000 iu gold funds, SIo,OQQ for present use and $5,000 alter the statute shall have been completed. Sue whole sum received by the government for customs from all sources for the month of October is something over $17,000 000 The amount received in New Yoik is $11,008,737- OS; Boston $1,248,100 12; Philadelphia $503,- 466 11; Baltimore $179,966 05. From all otner ports about $4,000,000. The quarterly report of Freeman Clarke, Comptroller of the Currency, shows loans and and soounts at National Banks at forty-eight million dollars; circulation was one hundred and seventy-one millions; individual deposits, four hundred and ninty five millions; circular tion of State Bank-, about sixty millions doll ars The liabilities of the city of Philadelphi in the year 1866 are set down at the enormous sum of $12,498,390 The sum set down to be raised by loan is $2,928,200 This leaves the amount to be raised by taxation $7,006,978. Adding the per centage for State purposes, the total rate of taxation will be $4 60 to the hun dred dollars. Robert Tyler, son of the late President, has been pardoned. Information from Washington indicates that Clement C. Clay will not bo paroled. The latest census gives 30,000 as the num ber of Freedmen in Richmond add its Buburb3. The lower House of the Miosuori Legislature passed a bill prohibidfig lailroad companies lrom collecting fares unieas paß3engers are pro vided with seats. Hon. John M. Butts, of Culpepper, and fjoa. John Miison, ot Noilolk, are spoken of for ike position of United States Senators from Yirgi ria. The hog cholera i3 prevailing in sections of Illinois and Juwa. Tbue wi.l be an extensive crop of sorghum in Connecticut next year, for the manufacture of syrup. M 11s for tbie purpose Lave been in successful operation in many tow>s the pre sent fail, and ttie product Is generally Jound to be a clear, rich e>iup. The win ui Dr recently deceased, gives to the American B,b:e Society, formed in Hew York in 181 G, and to the American Peace Society, incorporated by the legislature of Massachusetts, lue copyright of his quarto dictionary of tbe.Rt'giWD language, after the death of his wife. Avery comfortable house can be hired in New Yoik for $12,060 a year. The republicans have a majority of oqe hun dred and six in ine lowa l<e£:»lat'ure on joint ballot. Ine uve par cent one and two years treas ury notes failing due on and after .December I, wiii be pail at the treaadsy department at their maturity. A Rainoad between Chattanooga and Gin ennati is talked cf. IW rUHESTiXa ITEMS. The work room of James Watt.-the inventor of the steam engine, is just as he left it, in the att y\of his house, where he was driven by a scolding wife who didn’t like his musses and litter. The will of his eon required that the room should be left just as it was when his father went out of the door for the last time. I he door was recently opened for the first time la thirty years. It has been calculated that venders of roast ed chestnuts to the number of about 400 ar rivo in Paris from the south of France in the course of the month of September, and that each of them seils on an average forty bags of chestnuts, weighing 100 kilogrammes each. The bag of chestnuts costs about 331., and is resold in Paris tit from 50f. to 54f , leaving a profit of from 17 f. to j2 lf The vender con • trives out of this small profit to defray tbe expenses of his journey, to nay rent, and maintain himself during the winter. A New York policeman overhauled a couple of youny bloods wending their way home at a late hour, and amusing themselves in passing down Broadway, by upsetting ash barrels in the street. He gave them their choice, either to shovel the ashes back into tbe barrels, or go to the station bouse. ‘-No station house for us,” said the youngsters, and accordingly set to work, the policeman standing by to witness their labor. One did his work very reluctantly: tho other in the best natured manner possible. He politely demanded the officer’s number, remarking that possibly some day be might, require a recommendation to the street department.. A life of Samuel Adams is announced. In a letter from Mr Bancroft to the * publishers, hej»ays: “The twelve years from 1764 to 1776 were the greatest years in tho life of the town of Boston ; and iu these years Samuel Adams was unquestionably the foremost cit zan of the town It is quite time that his life should be brought before the public in at fit ting manner, as well as for tho fame of the town of Ro6ton as his own.” Mr. Samiml Bowles mentions as art excellent feature of banquette at San Francisco, “the serving of hot beef tea, with just a smack of claret in it, as a constant refreshment during the evening. A poor worn in named Barlow has given birth in London to a child with two beads. The baby, five weeks old, is a deep affliction to its parent’s family, having been bom with a second head attach! and to tho first in suoh a manner that the smallest twist or sadden movement would cause immediate death. The poor mother is unable to lay it down without fear, and unnb'e to dress it without the assist ance of another person Mr. B iwits of the Springfield Republican, who has broil over the route, gives this advice to overland Cal forma t-av filers ; “Those who would visit (he Pacific States under the most favorable c rcu instance-, for seeing all the.fr natural beauty, arid studying all their improved resources, would do best to come around by sea in February, and return home overland in September or October.” In lowa there is a general revival of inter est ou the subjebt ot railroads. Old roads are being extended and new ones projected with unusual energy. About 10,000 barrels Western apples have been received in Boston within a week’s time over a single rood. The disputed title to tbe United States Hotel property, Saratoga, has been finally disposed of so that, there is no obstacle to rebuilding. A bale of cotton at the Cential Mills, South britigo, was opened a tew days ago and found to contain four shells, one loaded, and weigh ing fifty pounds in the aggregate. San Antonio Express says an nnparalleled drought prevails in that, section of Texes. Mediua River in the mountains, is dry for many miles, a thing never belore known. Stock are dy ing all through Western Texas, and the rivers are very low. San Antonio River is a foot lower than ever known. lhe Bangor Maine Whig reports the mercury to have been at zero on Sunday November 12, and tha Kenduskeag River covered with ice to its mouth. The merchants of Now Orleans propose to es tablish a steem packet lino between that port and Texas. A letter from Champaign, 111, says tbe price of corn rules so low that some of it will go in to the stoves for fuel. A foreign vessel, loaded with German emi grants, arrived at New Orleans a few days ago, the first for several years. Thomas J. Carver, a bonded agent of the Treasury Department, has been tried by Court Martial at Mobile, Alabama, and found guilty of altering the marks on cotton bales, thereby enabling private persons to claim whrft had been tbe properly of the Confederate govern ment and consequently belonged to tbe United States. He was sentenced to pay a fine of $90,000, and to be imprisoned in the Nashville Penitentiary for oDe year. Adams’ & Co’a Express Company has loaned $2,000,000 of its accumulated capital to eev - eral of tho Southern Railroads, and has thus enabled them to resume operations. Crime in St. Louis is on the increase. Two men were recently ki.led in an encounter with highway robbeis. The Collector Messenger of the United States Savings Aer jciatlon, hav ing $35,000 on his person, was knocked down on ODe of tha mad; frequented streets, and the money seized “e Collector fired his revol ver at the retreating robbers, who dropped the money and escaped. The hanking bouse of Messrs. Benoist was also robbed of $7,000, and no clue baa been bad to the robbers. The apple crop of Michigan was mainly bought up by the speculators at S3 per barrel. Persons from the Western plains report that the late enow storm was terribly destruefive to stock, some trains losing so many animals that large quantifies of freight will have to be stored aium: the route during this winter. A New York correspondent fays that there ore $40,000,000 unclaLm and deposits in the Sa vings Bank ot that city. Bayard Taylor has "brought home from Eu rope the seed of the real Latak'a tobacco which he planted, and this year he raised a few plants, probably the first ever grown in this country. It is a distinct species, with a pule yellow biOsscm'and a broad veiv-dy leaf. Next year he will distribute the seed. Immense quantities of cotton and naval stores are now blocking up the wharves of Wilmington, awaiting shipment to New York and other points. Twcn'y five hundred barrels of turpentine arrived there in one day. Seed wheat is reding at two dollais per bushel in Nashville. Avery large amount of wheat has been planted in that State during the present autumn. The Cubans are expecting anew captain general next month, in the person of General Lersundi. The First National Bank of Macon Ga.,waa organised during the p«at v/e.-k by the election of Messrs, Wil-iim B. D -more. II B ‘Plant, E. Johnson, \*. ii. Ivors, W. L. Lighrfoot, Homy L. J< welt, u.jU I. I . Plant. Dirertorp. The other officers are 1,0. Plant,' President, and W VV. \Y rlgley, Cnainnaa The new in stitution wilt, we learn, commence business about tue fief of December next. A permit has beeq secured lor the establishment of a second bank, hut if any preliminary -n-ps have been tak-n we ate not an vis-id of tha fact Ail the wire, necessary mater'a s, &c , for the comp etioc of the Uueea American tele graph, via B hriug'a S r-.-its, have teen con tracted for iu Paris, ana wili shortly be ehip p> and to this country. TLecensu* of Tvlassachupalts shows a popu lation of 1.267.329 this year, an increeae of 36- 243 since 1850. Tfig present number of voters is 246 037 ■ RockwelPs Bank, at Elknorn, Wisconsin, was cnee) by on the night o No vember 6th, the sale blown open ana $70,000 taken therefrom, Rhode Island baa *ihurawn her war claims (or revision,