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iflivonitk it f ratinet. I 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 I now ? 1