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WIIXUItT MOBHIN6, OCT6BKE 10.
Telegraph Monopoly—The Daily Press.
The I)a!1y Dress, in its issue ofyester ;
day, contains a long article leaded, “ Tele
graph Monopoly—A Dictator fob ;
Southern I’t in.n Opinion, in which it ;
seek* to convey tlw impression that the
Constitutirmnlist and ourselves bad, by 1
tin fair moans, obtained a monopoly of the I
telegraph dispatches for this city. Wc '
should not have noticed this splenetic !
effort of the Dress to prejudice tlie public I
mind against the course which we have j
thought proper to adopt, but lor the fact
that wc fear that our readers may be
in -led by the statements made by that
paper, that we really had perfected, or were
attempting to perfect, a monopoly of tele-
graphic news.
Wc state, i 1 reply to this charge of the ;
l'n as, that we have no connection with the ;
Telegraph Company, other than iat
which every one has who uses it as a means ,
of communication with di-tant pomt.-. |
We patronize the Telegraph Company
whenever our eorrcsjiondents and agent.-, j
at different points have an item of news of J
sufficient importance to warrant the ex :
pensc of that channel of communication. i
In this way tve have paid out large amounts i
lor special telegrams since our connection
with the ('hronWn <f Sentinel. Ihe I ele- ;
graph Company are under no obligations j
to this paper—neither are we under any to j
them. Their offices and lines are open to ;
the public, u'ou the satire and equai terms, i
livery one, whether a newspaper publisher >
or merchant, or professional man, or me- i
titanic, can procure the use of the lines by j
paying the prices which they demand lor 1
the transmission of it ws.
The “ihsi Atsurialiou. of which " :
are a member, is a pmaff corporation or
copartnership formed for the mutual bene
aCthoeopsr*- • ’• ’
it
iiie i'leno ,a, Ita.-. at, a., ,
important points in this country and J'lu- i
rojic, for the collection and transmission <>f
news, which is furnished to each mcmbci
of the association at a certain stipulated j
price. This n.-viciation has made arrange- j
meats with the different 'Telegraph Com- ;
paniesinthe Ciiited States by which the I
latter furnish to the agents of the firm at
the principal cities North and South, the |
items of news gathered by the agents of
the Associated Press at distant points. !
The Telegraph Companies transmit this j
news in the same way that private dis- i
patches are sent ov t their line.. Wc i
believe that owing to the large amount cf
business given to them by the “Associated
Press” they make arrangements to traits- !
mit message-: for the latter Company at a
less tariff or rate of prices than they do for
private dispatches, just in the same way
that a merchant sells his gtjods at a less |
price bv wholesale than lie does by retail, j
This is a true and full statement of the
connection which the Associated .1 toss |
lias with the Telegraph Companies.
The Daily Dress of this city, desirous of 1
participating .in the benefits which the
“Associated Press” confers upon its mem- !
bership m the early collection and quick |
and cheap trail, -mission ol’ news, demands
that it should be permitted to join the
“Association.” To this demand we re
turn a decided and distinct denial. In
connection with the (■onstilulionalisl, we
have made arrangements for the delivery
here to us daily of a certain amount of j
telegraphic news, both papers being mom- :
bers of the Association. By this'arrange
ment we have bound ourselves to pay to
the agent of the Associated 1 re ,sa ceitain
amount of money weekly for our dispatch
cs. When we entered into our contract
with the “Association, ’ the Daily Dress oi j
this city was offered a membership, we be
lieve, upon the same terms with the Consti
tutionalist and ourselves, and it distinctly
declined to enter the Association. Our ar
rangement for the Associated Press dis
patches was made at the beginning of
summer, and involved, us in a heavy outlay
during the dull and unprofitable months,
when newspapers, at least at the South,
very rarely are profitable. W e have con
tinued during the whole summer to supply
our readers with lull telegraphic news,
while the Dress relied upun our own col
umns for its telegrams, and often used
them without even giving us or the Con
stitutionalist credit for what it published.
Now, when the business season is about
to, open it seeks to receive the benefits of
the “Association” by becoming a mem
ber, and getting thereby its dispatches.
We arc not willing to admit the Dress as
a member unless it will agree to take the
dispatches for a year, and agree to pay to
ourselves and the “Constitutionalist" a
sum sufficient to repay us for the losses
which we have sustained in furnishing
“telegraphic news during the last six
months. To this, the Cress objects, and
turns to the public in order that wc may be
forced to admit it as one of our copartners.
We deny that the public has anything to
do with the management of our business.
1 i’wc do not furnish a paper worth the price
we ask for it, the public is not bound to
take iu If the people subscribe and read
our paper, they- thereby acquire no right
to control it. We are responsible for its
management, and shall submit to no
dictation from others. Whenever our sub
scribers do not like the paper or our man
agement of it, they can withdraw their
subscriptions. The miserable attempt of
the Cress to secure the sympathies of tlie ;
community by asserting that we or the
“Associated Press” arc persecuting it, is ;
'utterly untrue and contemptible. We
were willing that the Cress should become ‘
a member in the Association upon comply- I
ing with fair and emit,die terms; now, !
wo shall oppose its membership upon any j
terms. Iu its issue of yesterday, the Dnss \
says :
“The Northern \s» vuit ■ i Press produces
u supply of news at eertain established
rates. We, as consumers, are willing to
nay those rates, and have a right to eome
in under them ior a share of their produc
tions.”
Here is the assertion of tn'o facts, neither
of which is true. First, There us no Nor
thern Associated Pros, and the "Jh**
knew it when the above statement was
penned. The Associated Press embraces
in its metuhership nearly all the Southern
Dailies, and is not either in name or fae
“The Northern Associated IVess. X , ond,
Noone who is not a member of the Asso
ciation has any right to the news furnished
by it or its agents. The case put by the
l'css of anew merchant starting in busi
ness being required to pay a bonus to his
brother merchants before he could pur
chase from the same house, is not aualo
gous. livery merchant buys where he
pleases, provid'd kc /M.ys prices de
manded. If one house prices its goods
two high, lie goes to another, just as the
Press should do if it is unwilling or unable
to fay the re.. - which we of the Associa
ted 1 less demand. The merchant does
net, when the price demanded is higher
than lie is wil.ing to pay, go puling and
whimpering 1 store the pubheaud demand
mat the public should re-pure the party to
sell his goods lower, but at once seeks another :
party aud trades with him. ] /<t t j 10 p rcss j
do this, and we nor any one else have anv
right to complain.
The charge that Mr. Craig i> a Yanke'
and is attempting to set himself up a> t j K
arbiter of public opinion, may or may uot
be true. We have nothing to do with Mr.
Craig's nativity. We only know him as
the agent of an association, or copartner
ship. of whiedi ice' are a member. He is
managing the business of the Associated
Press for the benefit of the members com
posing tbe concern. It is his di-.fi/ to pro
tect our riehfs. and we shall expect him to
Jo so. The members of the association
liatf confidence in his honesty and ability,
and ne one else has any right to interfere.
Whenever lie fails to perform his duty, or
is lound to be unfaithful to his trust, the
■members of the association will act, without
ihe intermeddling of parties who have no
rights or interests m the matter.
The motives which prompted the re
ference to Mr. Craig g, a Yankee axe too
plain to be mistaken. The occassion is
seized now, while our people are sore and
humiliated by the results of the war, to
prejudice the publi: against this man
merely because he lives in a Northern
State. We despise and utterly contemn
the course of the Dress in this regard. M e
might say, as wic really believe, that the
Southern public will hardly take much in
teres tin a dispute betwe n parties, one of
whom, while living at the North, is not
S known to have urged war against us, and
j the other, while living in the -South an 1 cn-
I joyingthe protection of our law-, refused to
! fight for us on the ground that he was a
I subject of Great Britain.
Put wc have already said more than we
J intended. The g one is not worth the
1 candle.
Editorial Correspondence.,
j SwAiNSßoao. Emanuel co.. Ga. ‘
October 3, ItCG. )
Chronicle and Sentinel :
The .Superior Court for t hi- county is
now in session— Judge Hook presiding.
There i a considerable amount of business
on the docket, and I notice quite a nmii.jcr
of gentlemen of the Par from a distance
in attendance here. Among them, -Major
J. T. Shewmakc and Capt. Collin Stanley,
from Laurence: tjen. f i.swell, Judge Pen
ny, a nd W. A. Wilkins, from Imurence
vil'lc; J. N. Gilman, Esq., from Sanders
viUc’and Cant. J. P. C. Whitehead, Sol.
General, front Waynesboro. Ihe local bar
i, ably represented by Capt J. It. Pres
cott, P. B. Knight, and— Camp, Esqs.
There has been quite a large attendance
during the week of the citizens of the
county, and I am glad to know that the
people of this county are in a better con
dition as to indebtedness than perhaps any
other county in the State.
A. a matter of course all complain very
much of the hard times, and the distress
growing out of the collapse of the Con
federary; but the greater portion of the
people are hard at work, e„d<-.voring to
« ,nr. heir i and are in
r • •-.: ■ ~«4.j to find
h r. ns. - .vhm in Middle
; ’
j and the cotton is cut off fully one-half.
the TIMBER BUSINESS
here is good, and the people are very gen-
I ..rally turning their attention to this branch
i of industry, with a view to make up for
the loss of their crops. Unfortunately the
rivers now are generally too low for “ raft
ing,” and consequently a great deal of
timber is locked up in the country, waiting
for a “rise” in the water. This makes
money matters a little tight; bu't I notice
with pleasure that there is a more general
circulation of money here than in other
counties which I have recently visited.
THE HEALTH
of this pine region is unsurpassed by any
section of our State. The air is healthful
and salubrious, and malignant diseases of
any type are scarcely known. There is an
occasional ease of “ chill and fever” in the
fall, hut it is very rare that a case occurs
which does not yield at once to a mild
treatment With “quinine.” This is cer
tainly not a good country for doctors. 1
was glad to learn that the subject of
EDUCATION
isrecciving proper attent ion and that schools
were being established in almost every
district in the county. .Mr. Camp has a fine
school- at Swainsboro, numbering over sixty
| scholars; and more are expected. Mr.
| Camp is amply qualified to impart a good
practical education, and the people seem
anxious to sustain him. At Summerville,
a pleasant, country seat about seven miles
from the Central railroad, the Rev. Mr.
Davis and Brother have an excellent high
school. The villagers are mostly gentle
men from Burke, who have established
temporary homes here in this healthful
pine region tor the purpose of educating
their children. Nearly all the families
here take children from a distance to board,
i and they thus have secured the services of
I excellent teachers, and have founded a fine
I institution of learning. Students here re
! ceive a first-rate classical education, and
! in addition are taught music and drawing,
| I learn that there arc nearly one hundred
| scholars itt attendant now, and that the
number will be largely increased in a few
weeks.
THE GRAND JURY;
| have Been engaged for ten days in investi
| gating the circumstances attending the
i murder of Cel. Ripley in this county last
I summer. They have summoned before
j them quite a number of persons, both male
i and female, and required them to disclose
j all the information they have in relation
!to the horrid tran motion. I hear this eve
! ning that the Jury have discovered suffi
cient evidence to support a true bill a«d
j that several persons will probably be im-
I plicated.
THE COURT.
will probably get through tlie business ol
i the term this evening. There lujs not
: been much business transacted, as both
i Court and the parties interested seem
anxious for an early adjournment.
COLONEL KtFLEY.
! Our readers will remember that we
j gave an account in our paper in June last
! ofthe cowardly and atrocious murder of
Colonel Ripley at his residence in Knian
| uel county, by a party of assassins, who,
under cover of night, enticed him
I front his home and shot him down iu cold
; blood. \\ e slated then that it was be
lieved to'hove been the work of a party of
horse thieves hailing from South Carolina
! and who had been deveefed in their rob
beries by Colonel Ripley and lodged in
jail, who; in retaliation, had imbued tiitir
hands in hisbiood immediately after hav
ing been released Horn the Savannah Jail,
where they had been confined. ,
Wo now leant that the Grand Jury of
Emanuel county, after three days' patient
and vigilant investigation, succeeded in
procuring sufficient evidence to found a
bill of indictment w murder against the
following persons : Darnel Coleman and
his son Thornton Coleman, of Emanuel
1 county, and John Fryer, aliasl’ink Hardy,
Henry llodge, alias Henry Johnson, and
llenry Padgett, alias Hoary 8011, of South
Carolina, h e learn that the tur.ee last
named are the individuals who Colonel
j Ripley had arrested tor stealing horses in
! the summer of 1865, and that they are
supposed to t» residents ot lv.lgefiehl Dis
j trict, South Carolina.
( The Grand Jury of Emanuel have per
! formed their duty well, and are entitled
! to the thanks of every true friend of the
, country for their energy and perseverance
i in ferreting out the authors ot this most
i foul deed. M •
—«a>ci»i ———
Hicu Piuce of Paper.— Many'persons
wonder why the pries of newspapers
books, ike., remains so high now that the
wav is over and gold has come down so lar
toward tlie old standard. They will learn
one of the principal reasons by the follow
ing paragraph from the Springfield, Mass..
leepitblican :
“The Crew Paper Company of South
Hadley Falls have declared a yearly divi
dend ot 100 per cent borides reserving a
fund sufficient to build an addition to their
mill. Last year the dividend was 1-0 per
cent.”
This simple paragraph tells the whole
story. If paper makers cannot be satis
fied with any thing less than doubling
their eutire capital every year and adding
“0 per cent even to that, thepeoplc must
try to be content with paying a high price .
for their reading. The remedy is, to build ,
more paper mills.
General Grant's pay is $18,628 per year,
and Lieutenant General Sherman's $13,-
'IS. Each is allowed fifty horses. A M;\jor
u ner.il gents $5,s ■“> per year, and is allot
>ed five lior-es. The pay of a Brigadier is
; $3,010 50.
J'jhn R. Tliompson, Esq., well-known
ln ,u ' rary circles, has arrived in New York
| on return from Europe
L aardW. Jerome is said to have the
Last horses, the handsomest box in the
the- e. the most convenient stables, and
the moustache of anv man in New
York.
lb«u ( harlcsH. -ptaslee, of Dy»4suiouth,
j V U " Jied recently while on a visit u>£t.
j Paul, Minn.
h. wavd Randall. Esq. brother to the
Hon. 8. J. Randall, died « Philadelphia
j on Sunday, after a short illness. Hit father
1 died only a little over a week ago.
Augusta and Her Railroad Connections.
The vigor riel energy- which are being
displayed in different sections of the South
and particularly in this and our sister ’
State of Alabama, in the reconstruction of
our old lines of Railroads, and the comple
tion of those which hat been commenced;
before and during the war, is a cheering
and significant indieau >n of the rora:- ra
tivc power ofthe Southern people. On eve
ry side of us, we see vigorous efforts being
made to prepare for, and control the trade
ofthe interior. The Railroad enterprises
set on foot before the war, designed to i
bring the North Alabama and Tennessee
trade to and through Mason, have received
anew impetus, and there seems to be but :
little dcubt now of their successful accom
plishment at no distant day. Atlanta is
algo moving
fyinc her air line railway by which she
expects to tap t'qe rich trade of North
Carolina. Georgia and Northwestern
South Carolina —a trade which far years
pa t lias naturally fallen into the lap of
thi city. If these contcm] luted roads are
built, every sensible man knows that they
will materially injure the travel of Augus
ta, unless some steps are taken to prevent
such a result. This can b. doncTby fin
ishing at once the Warrenton and Macon
ileal anl by pushing forward to oar'-y
complefion the Columbia & Augusta
Road.
By finishing the Warrenton & Macon '
road we open direct, short and cheap com- !
uiunicatio'i with Macon, and the rich cot- i
ton growing section of Southwestern G< ->r- •
gia. We also have alnewt an air-line, !
through Columbus, to Montgomery and
Mobile. This will bring to our doors much j
ofthe trade of Middle and- Southeastern j
Alabama, for there can be no doubt that j
the people of that region prefer to trade j
here.rather than go toSavaunah or Charles- |
ton. M iddle and Eastern Alabama were 1
settled principally by planters from Middle
ain’t EasternGeor'-ia "-bo before
from this State, lid and their trad in ,-r*
They are acquainted with our city am out'
old user font*, and will doubles,. fx »!a 1
to renew their old harirteas assodatmTfe
t with this place. Thus the ••ompletion at
i an early day of the Millodg-'viile A Wa.r
renton ,i. on., iSjojiuos a i,. at...i ol ~ic
; first importance. Wc are glad to learn
| that this road is now under the inanage
-1 ment and direction of a gentleman who is
not only eminently capable and industrious,
! but who is also energetic, active and zeal
ous in the work. Wc shall be much sur
prised, therefore, if the whistle of the loco
motive is not heard in the streets of Sparta
in a few weeks, and the work pushed for
ward to Millegdvillc by the first ofthe new
year.
The road to Columbia is one of the most
important links in the great line of rail- !
ways passing through this place, and it is
of the very first importance to the pros- :
perity of the city that it be pushed forward
to completion at the earliest practicable
period. This road was commenced about
the time of the breaking out of the war,
and was kept alive by the indomitable
energy and perseverance of its President
through the long and gloomy period of our
late disastrous struggle. We learn that
I nearly till the grading is finished, and that
with the aid of our city now-, in the way of
a liberal subscription, it can lie placed
upon a footing which will insure its success
ful completion at no distant day. The
; interests of our whole people are so direct-
I ly involved in this enterprise that we have
i no hesitation in earnestly recommending
| our city authorities to lend it such aid as
they may be able to do, in view of the
present financial condition of the city.
Our people are too poor to raise much
money from their individual resources for
the encouragement of railroad enterprises.
But if some plan could be devised whereby
the credit of the city could be obtained for
j the road, either in the endorsement of its
bonds, or by the issuing and sale of bonds
by the city, to be loaned to the Company,
or for the purchase of stock in the road,
wo arc very sure such a plan would meet
the hearty approval ol'a large majority of
j our people and tax payers,
j Wo suggest that the city subscribe for
oue hundred and fifty thousand dolla rs in
the stoi l of the road, paying in
lira- bonds, at par. These bonds coul c j b c
used by the company in the pureha ge 0 f
coin, and when they fall duo could bo paid,
)by selling the stock for which tli ov - aro
issued. No man who lias investigated »j, e
j matter will doubt for a moment that it
! will be a paying road if property ni a i-aged,
j and therefore its stock will bring par as
! soon as the road is completed,
j Os course wo only throw out these views
J for the purpose of calling the attention of
i Council ffl sonic plan by which the city
I may be aide in expedite this important
j work. 1 f another pin- shall be thought
i best, we shall lend it all our influence and
j support. Our object is, to secure the care
coin pic-ion of the work, and we arc not
j parficpl-r as to the manner by which that
| end shalj be ueppjnplishcd.
Tite Spotsylvania Ladles' Memorial As-
J sotiiitioit,
Wo lake pleasure in laying before our
readers the following circular, which we
| have i\t4yed from the “Spotsylvania
Ladies’ MeumibJ Association. ” Severn
of these good ladies we h&l the pleasure
of knowing at their homes in the Old do
minion, and secured from them, while cam
paigning there, many evidences of their
patriotism and fcenvy-4op.ee. The object
they have in view coiumeiids i-..v-!l’ to the
warmest consideration of every true friend
of the lost cause. The site selected by
; these good Samaritans for their cemetery,
j we kb.," from personal observation to be
i convenient and suitable. It is convenient
i to the battle fields of and
i is upon the ground where four p.f the
; hardest days’ fighting of the campaign of
i ’64 us! dope, by the glorious old army of
: Northern Virginia, There is hardly a
! county in this State that fcas not some of
• its best citizens lying in unmarked graves
jon this sacred spot. There was not a shi
j gw Georgia regiment in GencrJ’i L** 1 ’ 8
army that, did not leave some of its best
j men there. We cat! upon the survivors
I and friends of those fallen braves to render
some slight testimonial to their worth
: and services. We hope that every sol
dier who fuught over those bloody fields
will contribute his mite in aiding these
; dear ladies in the good work in which
they are engaged. A\ e feel a deep interest
in this matter, and will cheerfully under-
I take to forward all subscriptions which our
i citizens may feel able to make. Let every
i oue who has a relative or friend who pour
| ed out his litb on those bloody field-, con
. tribute something to aid iu rescuing his
, remains from the plough-share, and in
perpetuating his name and memory to
the end of time.
Spotsylvania Corr.Tiior.~E, Va, )
September eti,j
A large number of the ladies of this
county have organized themselves into a
body called “The Spotsylvania Ladies’
Memorial Association the object of
which will be to rescue from neglect and
desecration the remains of those who offer
ed up their lives in behalf of the "I. st
Cause. " It is intended, as far as possible,
to identify and remove the remains of the
Confederate dead who are buried in this
and adjoining counties, to a Cemetery, the
site of which lias been selected, and it is
, desired to make their last resting-place
worthy of ihe precious dust it shall con
tain. and of Virginia, who will guard with
: jealous care the dead sons of her bereaved
sisters, still suffering from the desolations
ofn cruel war. We are compelled to ap
-1 peal for aid lor the furtherance of our ob- i
jeet, to the patriotic ar.dgenerousfiricnds of
the South, feeling that each one wili es
teem it a duty and a privilege to shield
from obliteration the graves of those who
went from their own State—-it may be
from their own homes. Remembering
with pride what Southern women have ac
complished in the dark, sad past, we have
assiirauee that our appeal in behalf of our
pious work will not l>e made in vain. Anv
lady, by paying an annual Subscription of
twenty-live cents, may become an active
member of this Association. Any person
may, bv the payment of an annual -üb
scription of sl' or upwards become an
Honorarv. and any one paying sja or up
wards at any one time, may become a
Life member of this Association. Any
Societv of kindred character may become
auxiliary to this upon contributing not
less thaii SIOO to its funds, and shall b;
entitled to representation on the ha,is ot
two representatives to every SIOO so con
tributed. „
MRS. DR. A. J. BUtLV, A RE,
President-
Miss E. C. French.
Corresponding Secretary,
Mrs. R. C. Dabney,
Tresurer.
Mrs. John R. Samuel.
Vice President-
Miss Emily Browne,
Recording Secretary.
EitCcT'VE COMMITTEE.
Dr. Win. S. Alsop, c A. English.
Dr. F. J. Hancock,” John L. Andrews,
James L. Frazer, Ira It. Lipscomb,
R, C. Dabney, Joseph Sanford.
Department Sews.
DISBURSEMENTS OF THE TREASURY I
DURING THE WEEK AND QUARTER END
ING SATURDAY.
The following shows the disbursements of
the Treasury on account of the several
named Departments during the week and
the first quarter ofthe present fiscal year :
FOR TJIK wj:j:k.
War Department $2,391,348 I
Navy Department ’ 9G3.445
Interior Department 1,261,505
Total for the week 55,110 298
FOR THE QUARTER.
War Department $>,527,018.71
Navy Department -1,202,430.70
Interior Department 3,471,195.58
Total for the quarter $14,201,244.99
FRACTIONAL CURRENCY.
The Printing Division of the Trea
sury Department, during the week end
ing Saturday, is mol and delivered
to the 1 nited States Treasurer the
sum of $057,500. This is marly $209,-
0 -0 in excess of the regular weekly issue of
this currency. The object in Issuing this
large sum is for the purpose of filling a
large number of orders, which have reccntly
been coming in faster than the Department
could print. Efforts arc being made,
however, to satisfy all demands ofthe pub
; lie.
The shipments of this currency by the
Treasurer during the week were $350,000.
The amount of mutilated-fractional cur
rency redeemed during the week wass2(J6,-
2W.
NATIONAL BANKS ANDTHEIR CIRCULATION. \
Two new national banks were organized j
during the week just dosed. The total ;
number of these institutions now in opera
tion throughout the country is 1,653. j
Circulation to the amount of sslS,l7B was
issued by thu Acting Comptroller ot the
Currency during the week, making the
total circulation of national banks $293,-
052.903 less $1,203,092, which lattar is
the sum of mutilated national bank notes
that have been redeemed within the pres
ent year ; §833,710 in these note:; was can
celled and redeemed daring the month of
Tlie United States bonds held V Treas
m- r riiHuaor, in trust for national banks,
onj-h f^th, 'Stood as foW
A- security for ctrculal i:g ....
As security for public d-po-it... • 39.211.900
iu:..: '1,510,800
IMPORTANT CIRCULAR RELATIVE TO THE
NEW HOMESTEAD LAW FORTHCOMING.
The Commissioner of the General Land
Office has prepared an important circular
to give effect to the new homestead law
I passed at the last session of Congress,
j The . law haan immediate bearing on
' homesteads in the Southern States, al
though there is a principle in it of general
| application, reducing the fee to $5, or
homesteads for eighty acres, ol’ $i 25 per
acre of land.
! INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS FOR THE
QUARTER.
The receipts from internal revenue for
the first quarter of the present fiscal year
ending September 39, amounted to §98,-
[ 837,162 85.
Cotton. —An exchange remarks that
' few persons think how much money even
| a short crop of cotton will yield the South
this year at present prices. Estimating
the crop at 1,500,000 balds, which is about
| what it will be, at $l3O per bale, about a
i fair average price, the crop will produce
| $195,000,000 and yield the Government a
l revenue of $22,000,000. This sum diffus
i ed among all branches of trade and busi
! ness, will greatly relieve the present dull,
hard and stringent times. The cotton
money will soon begin to circulate, we
hope.
One of the largest and most important
religious meetings ever assembled on this
I continent, was held the Cooper Institute,
on Tuesday evening. A large number of
the first names in Methodism were pres
ent, and the centenary fund was aug
mented by a most extraordinary subscrip
j tion. James Bishop gave §50,000, Daniel
: Drew, Esq., $250,000, (Liver Hoyt, $25,-
000, C. C. North, SIO,OOO, two friends,
: $75,000, John 11. Oekcrhauseu, §22,000,
| &c., &c., to the amount of $613,450. Such
: a fact, says the National Intelligencer , may
| be taken as a positive evidence of the
vitality of the Methodist Church iu Ameii
\ ca,
Death op an Eccentric. —The Mont
i gomery (Ala.) Mail records the death of
: an old and cccrcntric character in Coosa
, county, named Howell Hose. By hoard
i ing his means for many 3-ears ho had been
! enabled to accumulate a property of nearly
$300,000, all of which passes by his death
|to the use of his wife for life. The Ma il
\ says : “After the surrender, a bod3' of
I Yankees went to the old man’s house in
| search of gold, and threatened to hang
j him unless he produced it. The old man
i cooly to);] them to hang, and that they
1 would find bis 3, pretty tougli old neck.
They hung him up' three times, but pro
| dttced no confession.
A Colored Preacher not Allowed
to Express iiis Opinions. —The Ope
lousas Haitml says that the Frccdtnen’s
Bureau there has ordered the Rev. Aruii
j stead Lewis, a colored Baptist minister in
that place, to abandon preaching, and lias
| suspended ltiut from Ins functions.- The
cause of tins is that Mr. Lewis declares
! that the Radicals are less the friends of
j the colored race thaii the Southern men
whom they wish to disfranchise, and ad
! vise his hearers to choose the latter for
; Rich' friends and employers. Louisiana
certainly construction!
ITncLA'ASEJ) MoNEvSuE WHO
’ Assisted in tub Capture ok tup Con
spirators.—The United States Treasurer
holds drafts for the following named per
j sons, who assisted in the capture ci the
; assassination conspirators, so-caued, no
I claimants having presented themselves
since the awwd.: were made by Congress:
i J ames W. Purdun, yitizcu, $2,878,78;
Privates Martin Kelley, Ifaviu *.ayker,
William McQuadc and IFrederick Pcitz,
oac.U $1,653.84. '#bu remainder ot the
awarded have all been paid oy the
• Treasurer.
Swa RD.-7
\ \v 1 • W -cadent says t#c?c is
A\\ ashmgton corns;. - w iU
authority lor stating that Air. .
soon retire from public life, from a u,
to obtain that repose and recreation which
his medical advisers inform him are abso
lutely indispensable to the prolongation
ol his life. Tiie_ Secretary thus advises
| some more of his intimate personal and
i political friends here, ..and there is no
doubt but that as soon as he recovers
from his present indisposition, he will lose
; no time in carrying his resolution into ef
' feet.
Banquet in Liverpool.—On Monday
| evening, October Ist, a banquet was given
in Liverpool to celebrate the success of the
Atlantic Cable. It. was presided over by
Lord Stanley. Minister of Foreign Affairs.
; During the festivities, Mr. Field’s health
was proposed by Lord Stanley and drank
amid great enthusiasm.
A dispatch, relative to the October cele
bration, dated Liverpool, October Ist.
0:30 P. M., was read at the office of the
Telegraph Company in Boston at 6:45 the
same evening.
They are working vigorously upon the
Columbia end of the Columbia and Au
gusta Railroad. It is to cross the Con
garee river below the city, and to cross
the Charleston Railroad a mile below its
depo*. and pass over and unite with the
Charlotte Read between its depot and the
Junction, about midway. It is hoped,
says the YorkviUe Enqn'rer, that next
May Day will see the road in operation.
In the Circuit Court of Baltimore, on
Saturday, Judge Alexander decided the
act of Congress, making greenbacks a legal
tender unconstitutional and void, as as
sumption of power nut granted by the
States to their agents, the General Gov
ernment, and the court in argument, puts
the important query—can Congress con
vert paper into gold and silver,
mu .g3u»—
Georgia Citizen. —One-half interest
in the above office is offered for sale on
reasonable terms, the owner of it desiring
to move to Texas. A business man is pre
ferred as purchaser, and in un forty to fifty
per cent, per annum on the amount in
vested is promised.
Hon. Alfred Iverson is about to adopt
Macon a* his home for the future.
Hon. J. P. Hale will be recalled from
Madrid as soon as a suitable successor can
be appointed.
Reform Medical College will be opened
in -November, for a course of Lectures, the
first since the war commenced.
Edward Craft, to e oldest merchant in
Boston, died on Sunday.
Gold in New York last night was quoted
4 liil “ * j
The Impeachment of the President.
The bold avowals of the Radicals Iqpvc I
no room to doubt that they are determined
to attempt the impeachment of President
Johnson at the next session of Ujngress.
They go so far as to paidtain that they can
divest lnni of authority, while the trial lor
impeachment is pfnding. and thus deprive
! bim during the time of trial, ot all official
power, whether or not tlsuroeed m im
peaching him. The Louisville Courier
justly remarks that the question is an im.-
l'Ortant one, and involves grave and serious
consequences. It has never arijtfn before
in the liistorj- of the GovcrnmelJ, and it
is not therefore singular that conflicting
views should be entertained, tebough it
would seem that an examination of tne
Constitution, and a little reflection, should
satisfy every intelligent man that the
President• necessarily excrci- s all the pow
ers belonging to his high office until the
: fact is established by a fair and impartial
trial that he has committed some offense
which, under the Constitution, authorizes
and justifies his removal. The arguments
by which any other conclusion is reached,
are necessarily- full of absurd contradic
tions, and eannot be sustained by reference
to the Constitution, or to the intentions of
! those who framed that instrument.
The constitution created a government j
with three distinct departments—the cxc- .
cutive, the legislative ami judicial—inde- ;
pendent of each other, and supreme within ;
their respective orbits. I; also established j
a wise system of checks tad balances, by j
which each of these departments was so- (
cured against any attempt on the part of j
the others to invadtj the precinsts of its j
legitimate authority. . the framers of I
the constitution believe! that they had
given to each department sufficient protcc-
I tion is well known, but a moment’s thought
will be sufficient to show that if the Presi
dent could be divested of his authority by
the mere presentation of articles of im
peachment, the executive department is’
without any. protection whatever, and is
always at the mercy of an aggressive con
i frressiom*.! Tn»v-v»*»ty v v 1 1 1 •
.
-h: ui-ie il aaif. jj. :xi 8$
the executive : ariich
iuipcatdnnent and ; s --ir obnoxiou;
measures during the ension oi .
powsrs. The trial eould i . uchc-as she
withdraw! an eq 1 i
President would then resume the exercise
of the authority belonging to his office, but
, in the meantime the measures referred to,
j and to secure the adoption of which he
was temporarily deposed, would have be
j come the laws of the land. This would
| make the veto power a nullity, without
: vigor or efficiency, and a useless feature in
the constitution. Indeed, the constitution
j and the government would be better with
j out it, for if it did not exist the President
i would not be compelled to oppose any legis-
I lation of Congress, and no conflicts could
| occur between him and that body'. But so
| long as it is a part of the constitution, and
the President is under oatli to use it in
certain specified cases, and its use will
tempt Congress to deprive him tempora
rily of his authority by mock impeachments
until the objectionable measures can be
passed over his head, constant collisions
are possible, and the country will be sub
ject to ever recurring periods of excitement
and tumults, and, perhaps, to bloody revo
lutions.
The fact that there is such a power cs
the veto reposed in the hands of the Presi
dent is conclusive against the proposition
that he can be deprived of his authority
before conviction, for if such were the case
it would amount to nodiing, and as we
have shown, be worse than useless.
Upon his induction into office the Presi
dent is required to take an oath that he
will, to the best of his ability, preserve,
protect and defend the constitution of. the
united States, and the veto power is
placed in his hands.to enable him to defend
the Constitution with effect against uncon
stitutional legislation by Congress.
Again ; it is a part of the same oat h
that he will fathfully execute the office of
President of the United States, and a« it is
clear that lie is the President until he is
deposed from office by conviction under
the articles of impeachment, it follows as
an inevitable consequence that he must
execute the office of President until ho is
convicted and ejected from it.
Besides, it is an established principle of
law, that a man must be considered inno
cent until he is proven to be guilty ; where
as, to suppose tiie President guilty-, simply
because offences are imputed to him, be
fore conviction, merely to deprive him of
the rights belonging to his office, would beat
war with one of the oldest legal maxims
and the soundest principles of justice.
But tlie Constitution, fortunately, docs
not leave the question in doubt. Section
IV, of article 11, declares that “ the Presi
dent, Vico President, and all civil officers
ofthe United States, shall ho’ removed
from office on impeachment for, and con -
viction of, treason, bribery, or other high
crimes and misdemeanors. ’ ’
It will be observed that, before tbc
President can be removed from Ills office,
he must not only be impeached, but be
must be convicted. It is equally manifest
that to deprive him of his authority is
fully- equivalent to his removal from office,
for the functions and powers with which
the President is invested aro the very
essence of the office, and without them lie
is nothing. If it is argued that, though
his functions arc suspended between the
time of the arraignment of the President
at tlie bar of the Senate, and the date of
conviction, ho is still the President, tve
reply that his oath requires him to execute
the office ofPresidentsolongas he is Presi
dent, which again upsets the theory tve are
endeavoring to controvert.
Jn any possible view iu which the sub
ject can be examined it seems clear that
the President cannot be divested of his
authority until he has been convicted of
crime and ejected from his office.
The Constitutional Amendment.
We republish below the full text of the
Constitutional Amendment, now before
the States for their acceptance or rejec
tion :
: JOIST RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMEND
MENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE
UNITED STATES.
I Be it Resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United
: Stales of A meriea, in Congress Assembled ,
(tvq-thil-qs of both Houses concurring,)
; i Li following article bo proposed to
j the Legislatures of the several States as an
I amendment to the Goijsritatjion of the TJni-
I ted States, which, when ratified by
fourtbs of said Legislatures, shall be valid,
! as part of the Constitution, namely :
i Article 14 —Section 1. All persons
1 born or naturalized in the United States
and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, arc
: citizens'of the United States and of the
State wherein they reside. Yo State shall
make or enforce any law ' which _ shall
, abridge the privileges oi" immunities of
1 cuLcrs of the United States: nor shall
any StWC deprive any person of life, liberty
pr property without due process of law,
i tmf deny to any person'wififiin its jurisdic
. «*«»! yroUSaon ql the
tion S«a4 hp ap-
Sec. 2. Kepi- -ijsuits^g.ccord
portioned among the Severn. “ -*>**«
ing to their respective numbers, coun,—
the whole number of persons in each j
State, excluding Indians not taxed. But j
when the right to vote at any election for j
choice of electors for President and 5 ice i
President of the United States, represen
tatives in Congress, the executive or judi
cial officers of a State, or the members of j
the Legislature thereof is denied to any j
of the male inhabitants of such State, be-;
ing 21 years of age and citizens _ of
the I. nited States, or in any way abridge
the right of suffrage except for participa
tion in rebellion or other crime, the basis
of representation therein shall be reduced
in the proportion which the number ot
such male citizens shall bear to the whole j
number of male citizens 21 years of age in
such State.
Sec. 3. No person shall hs a Sc-Eator or
Representative in Congress or elector ol j
President aud Vice President, or hold any ;
office, civil or military, under the L nited
States, or under any State, who, having
previously taken an oath, as a member of
Congress, or as an officer of the United
states, or as a member of any State Legis- ;
lature, or as an executive or judicial officer :
ol any State, to support tlifl Constitution ,
of the United States, shall have engaged j
in insurrection or rebellion against the ■
same, or given aid or comfort to the ' De
mies thereof. But Congress may. by a .
vote of tw -thirds of each House, remove •
such disability.
Sea 4. _ The validity of the public debt
ot the United States authorized by law,
inclining debts incurred for payment of
pensions and bounties for services in sup
pre-sing insurrection and rebellion, shall
not be questioned. But neither the unit
ed States nor anv State shall assume or
puy any debt or obligation incurred in aid
< f insurrection or 'rebellion against the
Umtr-d States, or any claim for the loss or
emancipation' of any slave : but all such
debts, obligations or claims shall be he.d
illegal and void.
Set. 5. The Congress shall have power
to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the
provisions ot this article.
Female Printers.— The Macon Citizen
is about to empl. v female compositors.
The Fif’d and Fireside is entirely set by
young ladies. The Editor says they belong
to the b st families in that State, who were
rained by the war. A number of girls are
also employed on the Moufyoutrry Ad
vertiser.
A coroner ia the County of Limerickthis
spring being asked Low could account for
the f.ari'ul mortality last whiter he replied:
“I do not know : there are a many
people dying this year who never died be
fore.”
Regulations for ttie Weighing and ?
* parting of Cotton.
The following traditional regulations con- :
cerning the weighing and marking of'
cotton have just been issued by the Com- •
injssioner of Internal Revenue;
Treasury Department, 1
Office of Internai. Revenue,
Washington, Sept. 25, 1866. )
. Since the publication of Series 2. No. 5, :
containing regulations concerning the
weighing and marking of cotton, &c., it
has been determined to provide a matalic
tag, to lx 1 used by the assessor, or under i
his oversight, at the time cotton is first
weighed, in place of the “tax paid” tag
heretofore used. It. has also been decided
; to appoint weighers of cotton in certain
localities. Consequently the aforesaid
regulations have been modified in several
important particulars, and the attention ofl
assessors and collectors is therefore directed
jto the following additional regulations
which may be attached to Series 2, No. 5.
j and used:
WEIGHERS OF COTTON;
Under the authority conferred by sec
| tioh Bof the act of July 13, 1866, the
Secretary of the Treasury will appoint
1 suitable persons to weigh and mark cotton,
at those designated places for weighing
, where the quantity of cotton and amount
j of labor may be so great that the assistant
assessors located at such places cannot
readily and promptly perform the work
| required.
DUTIES OF THE WEIGHERS.
The duty of the weigher will be as pre
scribed in Series 2, No. 5, to act under the
instructions and direction of the assessor,
to weigh each hale and mark its gross
weight thereon with marking ink or paint.
This duty, together with the duty of affix
j tug or inserting the metalie tag heteinafter j
! prescribed, min t be done under the direc- |
i tiott of the assessor or assistant assessor !
■ located at tile designated place of weigh- j
| ing.
In designated place., of weighing, where
1 several weighers may be located, it wdl be
i the duty ol'cuch weigher, whose weighing
| is done under the immediate eyesight of
1 the assessor or assistant assessor, to keep
j an accurate account of the number of
i bales, the weight of each, and tiie marks
1 thereon, and the owner’s or holder’s name
■ lot of cotton weighed and marked
and make a certified statement of
ino to the assessor or assistant loca
te place. J
FOR WEIGHING AND MARKING.
In be for weighing and marking cot
t i i,eluding the labor of inserting the
met dbc tog, will be fifteen cents per hale, un
•wise ordered. In special cases the
Commissioner may prescribe a different
fee; but in no case will *a greater fee be
allowed, unless the circumstances urgently
require it.. The fee, as fixed, will cover ail
expenses ofhandiing and marking the cot
ton ; and in no case, where a duly ap
pointed weigher is employed, will the
owner, holder, or producer ofthe cotton be
required to pay more than the established
fee. But where a regularly appointed
weigher is not employed, the owner must
—as directed in Series 2, No. 5, page 3
provide for the performance of the manual
labor connected with the weighing and
marking, under the immediate oversight of
the assessor or assistant assessor, who can
receive no fee and make no charge except
for necessary traveling expenses to plac es
not designated.
CONCERNING THE USE OF METALLIC TAGS.
As soon as the new matallic tags, order
ed by the Department, arc supplied, they
will be forwarded to assessors, instead of
to collectors as heretofore, and an account
of the same will be kept in this office with
each assessor, instead of with collectors,
as stated in Series 2, No. 5 page 8. On
each tag will he stamped a letter, a num
ber in figures, and “U. S. Internal
Revenue.” These tags will be put up in
packages of fifty, numbered in consecutive
order, as I to 50, 50 to 100, &c., as the
case may be, on each lot of cotton weighed
and marked. By the use of the stiletto,
which will be furnished for the purpose,
the tag must be securely inserted into the
bale, so that it will firmly inhere and ac
company the bale to its destination.
As soon as assessors receive their sup
plies, they must sec that the tags are used
and inserted at the time of weighing and
marking. The letter and number on eaeh
tag must be accurately entered in the
record kent by the assessor, and in the ac
count kept by him with each owner, holder,
or producer of cotton, and permits, whether
. issued by the assessor or collector, for the
removal of cotton, must clearly specify the
letter and number for eaeh bale, so that
there may he no trouble in identification.
When the numbers are consecutive it will
suffice to enter, both on record and permit,
the first and last- number. Thus, for a lot
of fifty bales, the entry may be, “Letter I
A, Nos. 101 to 150.” «
Collectors will be furnished with an in
strument by the use of which the word
“paid” is to be impressed ou the tag,
whenever the tax is paid on cotton pre
viously weighed, marked, and tagged ; but
until the new tag is furnished, they may
continue to use tlie .old “ tux-paid” tag, if
they have any on hand.
Assessors arc specially requested to send
to the Commissioner, without delay, esti
mates of the probable number of tags that
will be required in their respective dis
tricts, so that the necessary arrangements
may be made for their supply.
E. A. Rollins, Commissioner.
Approved.
H. McCulloch, Sce’y of the Treas’y.
What Results tVoiiid Follow the Impeach
ment or the President !
In a. recent speech at Cleveland, Jack
Hamilton discussed this question. Hear
him:
After declaring that the. President must
and will be. impeached, and brought to
trial before the Senate upon the re-assem
bling of Congress, he thus foreshadowed
the commencement of another civil war.
“What then?” lam asked. I can tell
you a part of it. The President, who
holds that this is pot the Congress of the
United States, but ouly a fraction of it,
will refuse to accept service of the writ of
impeachment j the Senate will declare that
Andrew Johnson, being impeached, can
in longer exercise the functions of the
office of President of tlje United States
until he shall have been, tried and ac-.
quitted. Under the Constitution the pre
siding officer of the Senate will become the
Acting President of the United States, and
all officers of the Government, civil, mili
tary and naval, will be called upon, and it
will be their duty to give ear and heed to
him, and to obey his orders. What then ?
Why, then, if Andrew Johnson should call
upon his friends to adhere to him, it will
be a question for the intelligence, patriot
ism, and love, of liberty of this great peo
ple to determine whether they will sustain
thair Constitution, their laws, and their
Government, or whether they will be the
supple tools in the hands of a tyrant ar,d a
usurper. [Long and loud applause.] And
if any military commander, no matter if he
be the highest in position and reputa
tion, shall respond to Johnson’s call, and
suffer himself to be used by him, he will
find that jie will then have to encounter
the whole power of 'the people of the great
West, and he will be unmade even more
speedily than he has 'been made. [ Ap
plause. J
liorf.iKG Poop for Hogs.—At a meet
ing of the New Pork Farmers' Club, Prof.
Mapsi jpade the following remarks iq j
regard to bo^ , ' j
“The proof of tiie saving ° j
boiling has been given here ; we may as
well have it. Mr. i\lason was a watch
maker in Camden, _N. J., and among ]
other fanaics, he liked to keep hogs. He
had his hog pen built ,)ust back of his shop,
so tliat he could sit at his window au4
watch his hogs. Every spring he bought
some pigs and fed them through the sea
son. Just opposite to Mr. Mason was the
store of Mr. Van Arsedale, and every
pound of food that Mr. Mason gavG so his ,
pigs he bought at this store. At the end j
of six months begot his bill from Mr. Van
Arsedale, and he always slaughtered his
hogs at the same time, so he knew exactly
how much his pork cost. For several years
it figured up at thirteen cents per pound.
At length someone advised him to boil
lus corn. He accordingly got a large ket
tle and cooked all the food which ho fed ,
to his pigs. Then his pork cost him four- ,
and a half cents per pound, we also had
the experience of Mr. Campbell, which
was about the same as Mr. Mason’s,
Henry EU.-wohli made some extensive
experiments ia tic svup thing, aud bis
statement is that thirty pounds of raw corn ,
makes as much pork as thirteen pounds of
boiled corn.
Provincial Morals. —From the arti
cle below, it wouid appear that the
American House of Representatives is not
the only deliberative body in the world
among whose members drunkenness is
rather common. (Jur neighbors es the
British Provinces seem to be similarly af
flicted. Oge of the Canadian papers
says:
Oh many occasions, during the late ses
sion, the House presented more the ap
pearance of a drunken brothel that the
legislative halls of a free and enlightened
people. Ministers of the ‘.Crown often
came to du-if desk- in a state of beastly
drunkenness, and acted more the part of
drunken sots or buffoons than confidential
advisers of Her Majesty’s reprentatives.
A nd. to their shame be it said, the drunken
antics wfi these besotted ministers elicited
applause, lias drunkenness, then, become
a virtue, that men should glory i;; jt?
It is further charged that during tiie
Fenian raid some of the Ministers were too
drank Rt the critical moment to attend to
important tuUU-i'i connected with the pub
lic defence.
- General Beauregard, who arrived in
New York from Paris by the steamer from
Brent on Thursdav, is stopping at the Sew
York Hotel.
ARTEMI S WARD.
His Second Letter to tlic l.omton Punch.
You 11 be glad to learn that I’ve made a
good impression onto the mind of the j
lan lord of the Greenlion tavern. He made
a speech about me last night, liisiu in tho
bar lie spoke as fullers, there being over
twenty individuals present: “ This North
American has been a inmatejof my ’ov.se -
o', or two weeks, yit he has’nt. made no at
test to scalp any member of my fam Tv.
lie has lit broken no cups or sabers or
furnitur of any kind. (Hear, hear j I
find 1 can trust him with lited candles
lie eats his wittles with a knife and fork. I
1 eople oi this kind should be encurrid xd
1 propose ’is ’cltb.” [ Loud ’plaws.] ~ 1
W hat could 1 do but modestly get up
and express a fervent hope that the At
lantic cable would bind tho two countries
j still more closely together? The lan’lord
j said my speech was full of orig’nality. but
his idee was the old stage coach was' more
sailer, and he tho’t the people would iu
j dorse that opinyitt in doo time.
| I’m gettin on cxceedin well in London.
; I see now, however, that 1 made a mistake
: in orderin my close afore 1 left home. The
- trooth is the taler in our little village owed
me fur a pig. and I didn't see any other
way of gettin my pay.
Ten years ago these close would no
and. ,ul it. have been fa.-li'u'ble, and perhaps
they would be ckaliy siiuTar-teuyears liens.
But now they're diil' rentlv. The taler said
he know’d they was all right, because he
had a brother in Wales who kept him in
formed about London I’ashins reg’lar. This
was a ini'amus falsehood.' But as the bnl
lud says (which i heard a gen’i’mau in a
new soot of black close and white kid
gloves sing t’other night,) "Never don’t
let us- despise a titan boeftusc he wears a
j Kaggid Coat!” I don’t know as we do, by
i the way, tho’ wo gen'rally get out of his
j way pretty rapid; prob’lv on account of
i the pity which tears our bosoms lor his
j unhappy condition.
This last remark is a sirkastic and with-
er! n thrust at them bletid pcple who live i
in giled saloons. I tho’t I'd explain
my meaning of my remarks. I
know one man—and he’s amanofvarid
eomplishments—who often recalls my ar- j
tides over 20 times afore he can make any
thing of’em at all. Our schoolmaster to:
home says it is a pecoolerarity of geneyue. |
My wife says it is a pecoolerarity of inter
nal nonsense. She’s a cxceedin practical i
woman. ‘I love' her muchly, however, and
hunter her little ways. It’s a rccldis fals- !
hood that she henpecks me, and the young !
man in our naberhood who said to me otic
evein, as I was mistening my diafram with
a gentle cocktail at the village tavern—
who said to me in these very langwidge,
“Go home, old man, onless you desires to
have another teapot throwd at you by
B. 3.” problv regrets ha via said so. 1}
said, “Betsy Jane is my wife’s front name, j
gentle youth, and I permits no person to
alood toher as B. J. outside of the family !
circle, of which I am it principally myself.
Your other observations 1 scorn and disgust !
and 1 must polish you off.” He was a
able-bodied young man, and remoovin his
coat, he inquired if I wanted to be ground
to powder. I said, “Yes ; if there was a
powdergrindist handy, nothin would ’ford
me greater pleasure,” when he struck mo
a painful blow into my right eye, causiu
me to make a rapid retreat into the fire
place. I hadn’t no idee that the ene
my was so well organised. But I
rallied and went for him, in a ray
ther vigris style for my time of life.
His parents lived near by, and I will
simply state fifteen minutes had only elapst.
after the first act, when ho was carried
home on a shutter. His mama met the
sullum procession at the door, and afrer
keerfully looking her offspring over, she
said, “My son, I see now it is distinc
tually. You’ve been foolin round a
Thrashin Masheen. You wont in at the
place where they put the grain in, cum
out with the straw, and you got up into
the thingamajig, and let the horses tred on
you, didn’t you, my son?” The pen of the
livin (Arthur could describe that disfor-
tinit young man’s sittywation more clearer.
But I was sorry for him, and 1 went and
nussed him till he got well. His reg’lar
original father being absent to the war, I
told him I’d be a lather to him myself.
He sin ilt, a sickly smile, and said I’d al
ready been wuss than two fathers to him.
I will here that fitein ortcr be al
luz avoided, cxcep in extreem cases. My
principle is, if a man smites me on the
rite cheek, I’ll turn my left to him, prob’-
ly ; but if he iminooates that my grand
mother was’t all right, I’ll punch his head.
But fitein is mis’blo bisness, gen’rally
speakin, and when any enterprisin coun
tryman of mine cunts over here to scoop
up a Briton in the prize ring, I’m alius ex
cessively tickled, when lie gets scooped
hissclf) wltcih it is a sad sack has thus far
been tho case—my only sorrer bein that
tother feller wasn’t scooped likewise. Its
differn’ly with scullin boats, which is a
manly sport, and I can only explain Mr.
Kamil's resultt defeat in this country on
the grounds that lie was’t used to British
water. I hope this explanation will be
entirely satisfactory to all.
As' I remarked afore, Urn getting on
| well. I’m aware that I’m in the great
. metrop’lis of the world, and it doesn’t
make me unhappy to admit the lack. A
| man is a ass who dispoots it. That’s all
j that ails him. I know there is some pcple
i who cum over here and snap and snarl
' ’bout this and that. I know one man who
says it is a shame and disgrace that St.
Paul’s church isn’t a older edifice ; he says
it should he years and even ages older than
it is; but I declind to hold myself responsi
ble for thcAsonduct of this idyit simply be
cause he’s my countryman. I spoze every
civ’lizcd land is endowed with its full share
of its gibberin’ idoits, and it can’t be hclpt
—leastways I can’t think of any effoctooal
plan of helpin’ it.
I’m a little sorry you’ve got politics over
here, but I shall not dislcus ’em with no
body. Tear me to peaces with wild omni
buy hosses, and I won’t diskus ’em. I’ve
has quite enough of’em at home, thank
you. I was at Birmington t’other night,
and went to the great meetin’ for a few
minits. I liandn’t been in the hall long
when a stern-looking artisan said to me ;
“You ar from Wales ?”
“No,” 1 told him, “I didn’t think I
was,” A hidgyis tho’t fiasht over me.
It was of that onprineipled taler, and I
said: “Has my clothin, a Wclchy ap
pearance ?’ ’
“Not by no means,” ho answered, and
thenhesed: “And what is your opinyiu
of the present crisis ?” >
1 sed, “1 don’t zactly know. Have you
got it very bad ?” _
He replied, - “Sir, it is sweepiti’ over
England like thecymoon of the desert!”
“Wall,” I said “let it sweep !”
He ceased me by the arm and said:
“ Let us glance at his’try. It itniow some
; two thousand years”—
i “Is it. indeed?” I replied.
“Listen,” he fiercely cried, “It is only
j a little over two thousand years since”—
■ t*. I 'Oh, bother,” I remarkt, “let us go
j out and get some beer.”
“No, sir. I want no gross and seusual
beer. I’ll not move from this spot till I
can vote. Who are you ?’ ’
I handed him my card, which, in addi
tion to my name, contains a clabrit de
scription of my show. “Now, sir,” 1
pyoudly said, ‘"you know me?’ 1
“I sollqmiy swear,” he sternly replied,
that I never heard of you or your show
in my life. ’ ’
“And this man,” I cried, bitterly,
“ calls lussetf a intelligent man, and thinks j
he pptop bp allowed to vqte! What a
hollar mockery ( u
I’ye no objection to every intelligent !
man vo*' n ‘ Je warits t - It’s a pleasant
amoosement, no • u ’' “ those
whose igranec is so dense anl loatnsum .
that they shouldn’t be trustid with an
ballit any more none of my trained ser
pia,fo sboqld be trustid with a child to j
play witfi. ’’
1 went to the station with aww of re
turnin’ to town on the cars. “This way,
sir,” said the guard ; “ here you ar, and
hc'pfofod t ) a fjrst-class carriage, sqleocke
pant or which was a raytlgir prepqssessin
female of'about 30 summers, '
*• No, I thank you,” I earnestly replied,
l: I prefer to walk. ’ I am, dear sir,
Very respectfully yours,
Artejius W aeb.
English Workmen. —“An operative
1 who knows wtiat u is to have the
screws put on him” makes a curious
statement as illustrating the coercive power
of the workingmen’s associations of Eng
land :
Per myself* and sucli of my fellows as I
! coulfi name, if I durst, J may truthfully
avow that WO would not give sixpence for
the right to vote, knowing well that we
should stand as much chance of being al
lowed to exercise it freely at an election ;;
we have of using our discretion in joining
: or withholding ourselves from a strike, in
our trade. A word aljout that. Let a
skilled workman, with a wife and family
■ deneudaot on his exertions, receive notice
f that unless he coniorms *C til" l,r0 ‘
mitigated for his guidance by the managers
of the 80-and-so-strike, ho will be
on as a ‘''black sheep,” aqd dealt with
accordingly, and where is his indepen
deuce ? \V by, sir. it is a mockery and a
shame to talk shout it. We hold but per
haps, for a time, and then down go our
names and wc join. Some, perhap?, even
of the better instructed among u-. mav
think that this is all right; but v
maintain is, that we have no option given
us of declaring our real opinions. We
must yield to numbers. e
It must hare been of this
edbvfom !’ h °i uavin a 1)6611 nearly drown
•Ur fahinp a well, committed a very
v l 11611 s , he Pwuaiy and thankfully
w .n-u that only for Providence and an
other woman she would never have got out.
The German Confederation will be able
to muster aa army of 1,116,000 men.
THEE MPEROB JiAPOIEOS.
His A data with Mile Margot.
Iu the event of Napoleons’s sudden de- !
ttiise lam fer from believing that inline-;
diaie revolution will ensue. The govern
ment of the regency will go on silently,
until the first pretext comes for a battle,
and this will he precipitated by the repub- i
lican press and the republicans cf the
legislative corps. Then you shall see old
Paris, tirribly splendid in her awakening,
arise out of stone like one of Michael An
gelo’s brawny marbles, nor she never
stretches or gapes but from all corners .of
Europe the wild beasts beat their cages
and roar. _ .
The French master is now very sick at
St. Cloud, and his wife' and “whelp,’’ as
the Fanbourg St. Germain calls the prince ,
imperial, are en route to Biarretz. The
Empress has no element of a governess.
She belongs to the Josephine and Hor
tense type of a woman, gay dressers and
; sweet coquettes, but there is not a drop
j of the blood of Catharine de Medium or
j Marie Therese about, her. The prince int
| portal is as yet a doll finger, who nobody
j lies gauged. The Emperor himself, worn
! down by the excesses of a life, alternately
imprisoned and absolute, must bo nearly at
the end of his reckoning, and even now
“they whisner’ unceasingly that he is
drawing to the exit door. His reign has
j been to you, who see it from without, a
stately, heartless one, bad in, the beginning,
, but vindicated bv brilliant achievements.
To those who have looked upon it within,
| it is marked by worse than the elderly de
basement of courts, partaking at times of
the licentiousness of the stews. The affair
1 of Margot Is not yet stale, so that I may
| tell it to you.
Margot is a common lorctte, known at
t!ie balls of the Rue des Tictories. _ She
was beheld of the Emperor in the Bois de
dtt Boulogne. He dispatched after her,
and discovered her residence. \ isits were
frequent of evenings, no pains being taken
to appoint a more secluded rendezvous,
and with these the Empress, though well
apprised, made no interference, her habit
being to give all liberty to her supreme.
One night word came to the household for
the Emperor, Hue . He was found
there in a state between a spasm and par
alysis. They brought him home. Eve
rybody was alarmed, and Joufcert, his
physician, advised more abstemiousness.
As for Margot, the Empress sent to her,
persuasively asking that she be allowed to
defray her expenses out of France, at least
out of Paris. Margot saucily replied that
she had as much right, etc., and shouldn’t
be defrayed or pertuaded. Os course it
was not etiquette to broach the thing to
ihe Emperor, nor how could he so retort
upon ore whoso magnetism had been so
irresistible. Therefore, Margot, who told
the story freely, grew in great request, and
and American gentleman who danced with
her a few weeks ago, states that her heart
melted but a day and a week to the Ernpe
rial charms ; that she is still the same
susceptible siren, and able to keep her
voiture and driver..— Paris Sept. 4, Cor
respondence of the New York W orld.
California Cotton and Flax. —The
following extract is taken from a communi
cation, made to commissioner Newton, from
California:
In the year 1804 between four hundred
and five hundred acres of cotton was grown
in the various portions of the inferior of
the State. All of this cotton was planted in
June aud July, and the greater part of it
by the people who had not cultivated cot
ton elsewhere. It was planted as an expe
riment, nearly two months too late ; was
improperly irrigated, and in many instances
matured too late; yet the quality of cotton
grown was good, and the result considered
so satisfactory that most of the parties
have again planted—-almost all more
extensively than they did last year.
It seems probable that fifteen hundred
acres of cotton is being grown this year
in California. One party writes that he
believes cotton can be raised with white
labor at less cost per pound iu Californa
than it eau be in Tennessee, or any other
Southern State, with the exception of
some parts of Texas. Chinese labor can
be hired at one dollar per day, and cotton
requires hoeing but twice after planting,
as there are no stubborn weeds like the
crab and other grasses which are so preva
lent in some of the Southern Slates.
Flax has been grown for seed for at
least four years past. The seed was re
quired iu limited quantities for druggists,
and there was no sale of the fibre or plant.
This ilax was grown along the east side of
the Bay of San Francisco, where the cli
mate in summer contains very little mois
ture. Flax can, however, be grown any
where in the interior of the State, as it is
found growing in a wild state in the foot
hills of the Sierra Nevada. There is no
doubt in the minds of practical agricultur
ists who have given the subject their atten
tion, that flax can be grown as a profitable
crop in almost any section of the State
where there are mills to work the fibre,
within reasonable distances.
The lost of War.
The New York Mercantile Journal , in
an editorial on this subject, shows, by
1 statistics, the effect of this scourge upon
j the countries of Europe, and from which
| wc condense the following :
! According to the statistics of Mr. Ger
main Sarrat the number of men taken
from their families in France by war, be
| tween the yeafs of 1701 anu 18 1 4, amount
to the appalling number of 4,556,000.
The amount of money expended in war
by the English. Government, during the
same period, is set down at the enormous
sum of $4,075,000,000.
The amount of wry ten debts of Europe
incurred almost entirely for war purposes,
amount to $10,885,100,000, of which
amount Great Britain alone expended
| $3,338,000,000.
i _ The losses thus stated are only the sur
j I’ace estimates of the expenditures of life
and force, and if' the inquiry was pushed
into all the ramifications of private loss
and outlay, the totals would amount to
ten-fold the sums officially stated. If we
penetrate further beyond the bloody tin
scl veil called Glory, to gaze upon the moral
; and social residue of crime, shame, sorrow
and degradation that are literally the
caput nwrtuum of every war,' such a spec
tacle would meet our gaze as would chill
with horror and remorse any being but the
relentless arch-enemy of man.
More Inman Outrages. — Fort La
ramie, September 20. —Advices received
to-day from Fort Phillip'Kearney state
that the Indians were very troublesome,
stealing stock and attacking small parties.
On the 13th they captured a government
herd of mules and wounded two of the
guard. On the 14th, Private Johnson
and Ridgeway Glover, as artist for Frank
Leslie’s paper, were killed and badly
mutilated. They attempted the capture
of the pickets near the fort, but were
driven off with a loss of two killed. Two
men of Bailey’s mining party, while hunt- !
ing, were killed, after a severe loss to the
Indians,
Reports received from Fort Smith, I)a
--cotah, state that there are 500 lodges of
Sioux Indians in Tongue River Valley, all
hostile They are determined that the
new road to Montana shall not be traveled.
Government stock was stolen at Platt
Bridge, Dacotah, to-day,
Almost a Prophecy.—The National j
J'ntelligencer, say. : Mr. Calhoun, ns far
back as 1837, proclaimed a great truth 1
when he said:
“Emancipation itself would not satis- *
fy those fanatics ; that gamed, tho next '
step would be to rat-e the negroes to a i
social and polit ; calc>j:; .!ity with the wishes, j
and that being effected, wc should find the
present condition of the two races reversed.
They and their northern masters would ■
be the masters, and we the slaves ; the 1
eornliticn of the white race in the British :
West India islands, as bad rs it is. would 1
be happiness tqoqrs. Thar: the mother .
country is interested in sustaining the '
supremacy of the European race.” 1
“If Mr. Calhoun had b •• i a prophet, ;
he could qot more exactly have pro:lifted :
what is now taking p!.;„r.
vjr«j ■-> in i u;t: imi
sou river, between New York and Albany,
i j, infested with largo gangs of thieves,
who ascend the rr.er in Sinn., .samngel?.™,
j committing depredations on the route
the ba.,L.:. Stafford recently tjiqt
while attempting 'fo eseapii from Bing
Sing, was leader o'fone or these'gangs.
Reports reach us from up the river that
harness from stables, clothing, silver warty
. etc., from the dwellings are being frequent
ly carried away; and in nearly every in
! stance strange looking crafts have been
, in the vicinity where the robberies were
perpetrated the day previous.
A Goon Suggestion. —The Columbus
Enquirer has been requested by a planter
to make public the suggestion of a change
in a plantation custom, which he thinks
| will be found advantageous. It is that
planters should make the yearly terms of
. their superintendents (formerly j oyer
l seers) commence on the F-' : " ' •
instead of the first of January-. This
. ..‘.t = u ’ ■'“■>'-> would secure on the plan
tations the presence of the superintendents
i or . ov erseers during the Christmas holidays j
' u , en mos J of the negroes are apt to be
aosent, and some of them out on idunder
mg expeditions. It would, moreover, en
able the superintendents to acquaint them
seives with the arrangement or the planta- i
tions and the capacities and dispositions «f:
the laborers before the first of" January;
and thus informed, they could commence
more understandingly the work of the new :
year, TYo commend tho suggestion to the j
consideration of planters.
Five-Twenty Bonds.—The five-twenty '.
bonds having reached the limits of SBOO- i
000,000, intended to be issued with inter- i
est payable in 3lay and November, here
after bonds issued in exchange for seven- (
thirty notes acJ other securities will bear i ,
interest from July J, 1800. I i
Protestants In Prussia.
In 1564 Prussia contained fi»v Gu--<«—-
tWe -ve million Pro
thf. ha'ancp d of'i, Te sevcn Catholics*
tin T t C! ' Population (19,
the Rhine Proytaoe, f«™ “
arge majority m I oson (tbrnierlv Polish);
r i Fil f e,l r y equal the Pro
testants. L.m where they are few The
ate acquisition of territory it ’
Klecleml »***. HJwßSjk”®.
sau, the State of Frank fivn u ’ - ,
»ntl Schtewi'k-HolMehf’il! ml* "Jhe
total number of inhabitants to sixteen mil
lio Protestants and somethin" than
eight million oi Chatholics. The 1 Totes
tants. therefore, who are now to the Catho
lics n Prussia as five to three, will then, in
the extended dominions, be m the propor
tion of more than two to one. A London
I paper says:
“It will he seen that Prussia becomes in
i a much larger proportion than therefore
•Protestant, through these conquests. li ut
! those who would found on this circumstance
any views of altered policy on her part
| would probably he much mistaken. Neither
the temper ol the Government nor that of
the people is in any degree favorable to
sectarianism, ine Prussian Government
i has dealt equitably and liberally with the
Catholic minority in its dominions; nay,
j ever since its ill-advised steps against the
1 Archbishop ot Cologne m IS. IB. even with
guarded forbearance. And althou.h the
I old division between Catholic and Protes
| taut still occasions its strifes and heart-
I burnings among the German people as else
; where, it. is singular hor completely sub
ordinate these have hitherto been to the
j excitements occasioned by mere political
I causes. Quarrels about press freedom and
| Government, interference with public dis
cussion ; quarrels about Austrian or Prus
sum hegemony ; quarrels about naii inr.U
ties, such as that with Denmark—all these
appear hitherto, during their prevalence
to have had the effect of effacing complete
ly for the time religious differences, and
arraying the adherents of different coni’.
sl uus side by side with each other, unite
oblivious of the Pope and Luther.” ‘
Darkness for Fattening Animals.—
All animals fatten better in the dark than
in the light, and this can only be account
ed for by the inceasad quiet.. Iu the dark
the animal remains perfectly quiet, while
in the light the reverse is often the case,
feonic kinus of stock which are the most,
irritable in confinement, as turkeys aud
geese, are found to lay on fat best when
confined in the dark, and fed only at sta
ted periods. There is no surer proof that
a pig is doing well than to see him eat his
nteal quickly, and go to bed to sleep till
feeding again.— Germantown Tcleijroph.
Ancient Remains. —Much interest has
been created by a recent discovery in the
valley of tiio Mississippi, near New Or
leans, ol an immense bed of pure rock salt,
almost as transparent as crystal, which lies
some thirty feet, below the surface. Speci
mens of salt, have been received by the
Snisthsonian Institute. The most singular
fact in connection with this valuable deposit
has been the discovery of the remains of
an elephant, twenty feet below the surface
of the incumbent earth, bene-th which
has been found basket work formed of reeds.
Photographic representations of this an
cient hand-work are in possession of tho
Institute.
The Boston Pilot, the leadi tg Irish pa
per in this country, likes the bold, frank
manner of the President in addressing the
people, and says;
He does right todefend himself and his
policy against the rude and brutal attacks
?! 1 ii ~ , Congress, press and mob.
He talks plainly to the people, and they
understand him. I’igniativt-ly, when fie
speaks, thirty million of people listen.
Single handed and alone, with truth, sin-
I cc re love for the Union, and reverence tor
j the Constitution, and determination to en
j force the laws, he can meet and overturn
ns enemies We are thankful he has seen
fit, to take this course, and cute-tain the
firm belief that the results of the Presi
dential tour will operate for substantial
good.
The Chicago Bank Swindle.—
J lie i rod lice rs. Hank swindle grown
worse as new developments arc made.
It appeaas that the bhnk really had no
capital at all. The $200,000 named a.s the ’
capital, consists of four bogus notes of
$25,000, neither of which can be found.
Only about SIO,OOO of assests canbefound,
jjl' J piost oi these are good for nothing,
ihe deficiency is_very nearly 100,000. A
meeting of the victims was held this after
noon, hut it being understood that a broth
er of Doolittle had arrived, who proposed
to do something, the meeting, after ap
pointing. a committee, adjourned. The
following arc the losses of the Chicago
bankers : Bank of Montreal, $15,000 ;
Third National Bank, $10,000; Mer
chants National Bank, $5,000; Fourth
National Bank, $4,000 ; Sturges & Buns.
SIO,OOO ; total, $45 000.
South American Items.
The wet season still continues, hut there
is no_ sickness prevalent. No news from
the interior has been received.
Don Jose Joaquin l’crez has bean re
elected President of Chili. The port of
Valparaiso will soon he defended by one
hundred and fifty cannon.
The relations between the Allies is daily
growing more friendly.
Matters in Peru are progressing favora
bly, and President Porado still enjoys the
confidence of tho people.
Business on the coast is active and cot
ton growing is increasing.
1 lie return of the Spanish invaders is
looked lor, and the patriotism of the peo
ple has received a fresh and powerful im
pulse.
i Desiutution in Alabama.— The Gov
| ernor of Alabama recently adfiressed a
unto to the President, representing that
i great destitution existed in that State,
and requesting that the issue of rations by
the Freedinen’s Bureau be continued after
October Ist (the day of stoppage by the
provisions of circular No. 10, Bureau R.
1., and A. L.,) as the State authorities
were unable to provide food and shelter
for indigent persons. The President re
erred the matter ‘o Major General I toward,
lominissioner of the Feedinen’s Bureau,
who informed the Secretary of War that
from / 0,000 to 80,000 people in Alabama
arc in great destitution, and recommended
an appropriation of $40,000 per month for
three months for their relief, which was
approved by Secretary Stanton, and Gen.
• wayne was authorized to send a bonded
officer to furnish the supplies.
j National Express Company. —The
property and assets of (he Company are
estimated from SIBO,OOO to $200,000,
which, with the five per cent on the last
call, if fully paid in by the stockholders.
Will reach, it is alleged, about $500,000
assets, with, it is stated, about $175,000
liabilities. The New York papers state
however, that j*. W. Joslyn, one of the
directors and stockholders, has applied for
: an injunction in that city- against the
| Company, prohibiting them from collect-
I ing further assessments on the stock,
j and asking.that a receiver be appointed.
' The regular meeting of the Board of
Directors will take place in < Ictober, when,
j it Ls understood, an effort will be made for
, a thorough re organization of the Coin
: party. — Virginia Pupir.
New York at Present. —Says a New
\ °rk letter : “It is a long time since the
' ?*ty was animated as it is at present. There
j is no running out of town now. on Sfttur-
I days, the Hot weather being disposed of,
| and for the first time m a long while the
mansions of the rich talks in the up town
! avenues arc thrown Open for parties, re
| ceptious and tfic like. Next week at least
half a dogen fashionable weddings are on
' f j ie tapis, arni Brown, the Gratte (,’hurch
hex ton, says he ... k. i»t. as busy as a bee,
night and uay, preparing cards, sending
put invitation:, a great dvul is mak ■
! of Madame Ristori, but as vet nobody
nas been fortunate enough to induce her
, to accept an invitation to ‘spend the even
i ing- ’ ”
A HI'MAN Skcit.—A human skull vtas
.atoly found in Calaveras county, California,
i at the depth of one hundred and fifty-feet,
I in what is known by geologists as the plei-
I cence formation. This discovery is one of
! the most important ever made fw jfovFvo
and will create a greatsem-aton in the lerff
; tied world. It scemes to establish the
i that man existed or this planet edfitltless
; ages before the time designated by any of
j our traditions respecting Ids first appear
ance here.
1 Lim Hallenbaek was called as a witness,
j ;; Ho Youknowdliishor.se, Mr. Witness!”
! ”lcs, s | r | oWil ,d him formerly.”—
I “ W'liat's your busine- “ '
l • ' i am the
i city sexton.“ “For what reason did you
jsell him?” “Why, the truth is that ne
j was too slow inr my business, ands let
| him go to a livery-stable man.
; | Wife Murder in Massachusetts.—
1 About three o’clock last Monday morning,
i an intoxicated man, inamed Fallon, murder
ed his wife. She was asleep when lie enter
,ed the house, and awoke her. High words
1 ! ensued, when he .seized an axe and struck
her with it instantly killing her. Ho has
been arrested.
‘As I was going over the bridge the
I other day,’ said a native of Erin, '£ met
FatHewins. Tlewins,’ says I, ‘how are
! .vou ?’ ‘Pretty well, thank you, Donnelly,’
! says he. ‘Donnelly:’ says I,’ that’s not
my name. ‘Faith, then, no more is mine
tie wins. fto with that we looked at aicli
; other agin, an’ sure enough it was nayther
ot us. And where is the bull to 'that
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