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WKDSKSDAT OCTOBER 24.
The Cotton Tax--A Suggestion.
When the hill 1 cvyiti£ a tax on cotton was
liefore Congress, many of the ‘ablest men
in lx»th Howes opposed it on the ground
of its Unconstitutionally. If we are not
mistaken, some of tlie most extreme Radi
cals concurred in this view and cast their
votes against the hill. Doubtless they felt
that if tin; power was once conceded to
Congress to lay’ a specific tax on a single
.agricultural product, in a very short time
an enlargement of the power would be ex
ercised m the assessment of direct tuxes
upon other branches of agricultural indus
try. They feared that if the power to tax ;
co I.tori was conceded, the right to tax corn,
wheat, hay and bacon would, at no distant .
day, he claimed by the New England |
Representatives* of the cotton and woolen 1
manufacture* and the Representatives of j
, the great iron and coal interests of the !
Middle States.
The people of the West, of all parties,
afe deeply interested in this question.
VV hiie a large number of them are per
fectly willing to see the South oppressed to
the most grievous extent by the application
of heavy and onerous tax laws, as a pun
irhmcnt for their participation in the late
war, very few are so blinded by their re
sentment. as not to perceive that the prin
ciples of the present cotton tax may be
applied to their own section in a very short
time. The constitutional right of Congres
to make this direct assessment upon a
single branch of industry should be brought
before the-Courts, and a decision obtained
which would forever settle the question.
Ho far as we have seen, there has
been, at vet, no efforts made in 'the
Smith to bring the matter to an issue.
Perhaps this has been because of the
anomalous position of the Southern States
in their relations to the Federal Govern
ment. Southern planters have felt that 1
there was slight prospect for the proper
and legal adjustment of private rights in
the Courts of a Government which denied
to them any participation or voice in the
administration or enactment of the laws.
They have preferred to submit in silence
to the operation of this extremely burthen
some and unjust law, hoping that in some
way the question might be brought before
the Courts free from the predjudicc which
would attach to a case made by any one who
supported the late Confederate Govern
ment.
We learn that quite a considerable
amount of dotton has been raised in South
ern Illinois the present year, and we hope
that the] planters of that State will refuse to
pay the tax, or pay under protest, and
take the matter up to the Supremo Court,
of the United States. The ablest Consti
tutonal lawyer of the country, the lion.
Reverdy Johnson, has recently given his
opinion on tho subject to an Alabama
planter, in which he declares the law un
constitutional, and expresses the belief
that the Supremo Court will so decide.
’ We hope that a case will be mado, and
the constitutionality of tho act tested at the
earliest The ’people of
this State, and the entire South are deep
ly interested in the result. Tho amount
of taxes which will lie taken from the plan
ters of Geonnaunder the law willamountto
about /mu- mUliyus of dollars if there is even
half of the usual crop made. The planters
in the different States should at. once call
meetings and take steps to secure the as
sistance of Hon. Reverdy Johnson and
other leading lawyers in arguing the mat
ter before the Supreme Court. An agree
ment among the several planters to pay
one dollar, or even 50 cents a bale on all
cotton made this year, for the purpose of
scouring a fair test of the validity of tin
law, would insure the services of the very
host legal minds of the whole country.
Cannot some concert of action bo had
amongst us on this vital question? We
would be glad to hear from the Southern
press a full expression of their views on
this deeply interesting question.
la or out of tlu- Inlou.
Perhaps the strangest thing connected
with tho course of the Radical party in
their refusal to admit Southern repre
sentatives, is the fact that such refusal is
based upon the ground that the Southern
States are not in the Union—having by the
net of secession severed their connection
with tho United States. They went to
war and continued the contest for more
than four years, to prove that the Union
ei-Mj! 1 not be dissolved by the action of a
portion of the States, and as soon as ti.o
suee.-ss of their arms was secured, they
change ground and no v insist that the ef
forts of the Southern States to dissolve
the Union wore successful, although the
authority of the United States has been
restored over every State which formed a
portion of the Southern Confederacy.
The inconsistency of their position is
furtlu r shown in their legislation in re
gard to changes in the organic law. The
very Congress which denies representation
to the Southern States because they are
not in the l nion, requires these same South
ern States to pass upon amendments to tiro
Constitution of the United States, (of
which, according to the Radical majority
they firm no parti which amendments are
proposed by a body in which they have
neither voice nor vote. These Southern
States an' required to pass upon and shape
the organic law of a community of States
in whose government they have neither lot
nor share. Georgia is required to say
what the law in Massachusetts shall be,
and South Carolina is called upon to decide
for Vermont what changes in her funda
mental system will best comport with the
interests of her people.
If the Southern States are out of the
Union for one purpose they are out for all.
If they have the right to take part in shap
ing and adopting the Constitution of the
United States —the fundamental law of the
land —then they certainly have the right
to participate in such legislation as may
be necessary to carry out the provisions
and intentions of that supreme or fundamen
tal law. lfweare not in the Union it is unjust
to the States that are in to permit these for
eign Southern States to take any action,
whatever in fastening upon them anew or
changed charter of their Government. If
the Southern States are my entitled ro rep
resentation in the National Legislature,
what right have they to interfere with the
organic law of those States, which com
prise the Federal l nion. These are ques
tions which wo would like to have answered
before we consent to take any action outhe
proposed amendments.
The truth is, these Radical destruction
i>ts are not guided by any principle in the
stand they have taken against the Union.
Their sole object is to perpetuate their ill
gotten power, and they are wholly unscru
pulous as to the means they adopt to secure
their ends. It they were earnest and
sincere in their declaration, that the South
ern States, by the act of secession had dis
solved the l nion, why do they not sub
mit their amendments to the twenty-six
Northern and Western States, and declare
them adopted upon the ratification ot
three-fourths of those States. Upon their
view of the case the ratification of the pro
posed amendments by nineteen States
would secure their adoption as a part of
I the supreme law of the land.
Again, why were the Southern States
required to declare through conventions of
their people that the several ordinances of
secession were null and void. How is it
that an act null and void, that had no
force or effect —that never existed, could
have dissolved and disrupted the “greatest
Government on the planet." These are
, plain questions, and we would like very
much to have these Radical congressmen
and leaders enlighten us upon them.
The Articles of Impeachment.
Mr. Bingham, a member of
from Ohio, said, in a late speech made in
liis district:
“So help me God, I will neither give 1
sleep to my eves, nor slumber to my eye
lids, uplift shall have drawn bills cf im
peachment against Andrew Johnson.”
Utterances like this, made with due de-<
lils-ration, by the men who shape and guide
public opinion at the North, indicate very
clearly that there will be an attempt made
during the next session of Congress to car
ry out their threat of impeachment.
Whether such attempt will receive the
support of a majority of the House of Rep
resentatives remains to he seen. The Rad
ical leaders arc > seeking to prepare the
North for such an event, by daily pro
claiming their intention so to act. They
have even gone so far as to arrange the
different grounds upon which the impeach
ment will be based. The charges have,
been arranged by Wendell Phillips, and
embrace six different grounds, as follows:
First. Seeking to overthrow the Gov
ernment of the United States.
Second. Corruptly using the power of
appointment.
Third. Declaring peace without the con
sent of Congress.
Fourth. Corruptly using the pardoning
’power.
Fifth. Failing to enforce the Civil Rights
bill.
Sixth. Complicity in the New Orleans
riots.
! Phillips, Trumbull, Butler k Cos. are
| very much exercised as to the effect whicli
Ia mere presentation of charges would have
upon the President, pending their discus
sion and trial. Phillips contends that im
peachment would he more than a favor
if the President is allowed to retain power
as Commandcr-in-Chief of the Army and
Navy during the trial. Ilq fears that
President Johnson in command, and back
ed by the military power of the. country,
might play the game which Cromwell
adopted with the Rump Parliament. He
demands that during the progress of the
examination of tffp charges against him,
the President would occupy the same po
sition as that of a party on trial by a jury
for any other crime. To this view of the
case tho learned lawyer and brilliant Gen
eral from Massachusetts, B. F. Butler,
gives his assent. The latter declares that
as soon as the articles of impeachment arc
presented to the Senate, that body should
direct its Sergcant-at-Arms to arrest and
confine the President,'subject to the order
of the Senate. Being thus deprived of his
liberty, it Is further contended that he be
comes incapable of discharging the duties
of his office, and thus a temporary vacancy
is created which must be filled by the offi
cer designated by the Constitution —the
President of the Senate pro tempore.
T.ie New York World , of a recent date,
commenting upon this position of the
Massachusetts General says :
The assumption is, that an officer under
impeachment stands in the same relation
to the tribunal appointed to try him that
an ordinary criminal does to an ordinary
eourt. Because a court of justice never
tries a criminal unless it has custody of
his person, it is inferred that the same
rule holds in the trial of an impeached of
ficer by the Senate. The analogy fails in
consequence of a total difference in the
liability of tho persons accused. The con
stitution declares that “judgment incases
of impeachment shall not extend further
than removal from office” and disqualifi
cation to hold any future office. It is not
necessary for the Senate to have the
custody of the accused in order to inflict
this punishment. But an ordinary crimi
nal, on trial for theft, murder, or other
crime, is liable to be punished to positive
inflictions on his person. It would bean
idle folly to go through the form of
passing a sentence of death or im
prisonment if the culprit was beyond the
reach of the officers of the law. A porsou
impeached of a crime otherwise punishable
than by from office, is also
liable to the ordinary penalties of the
same crime by the judgment of the or
dinary tribunals. The impeachment,
having no other aim than simply to vacate
his office, can accomplish its purpose just
as well without the custody of his person
as with it. lie is summoned to appear on
the same principle that the defendant in
a civil suit is summoned to appear. If he
stays away, he only waives his opportunity
of defence. An officer summoned to ap
pear and answer to an impeachment has
these three alternatives, with perfect free
dom of selection, namely : he may appear
in person ; lie may appear only by coun
sel ; or he may decline to* appear at all.
In the ease of Justice Samuel Chase, of
the United States Supreme Court, im
peached in ISOS, the Senate, after organ
izing as a high court of impeachment,
adopted the following as one of its rules of
proceeding:
“10. The person impeached shall then
be called to appear and answer the arti
cles of impeachment exhibited against
him. If he appears, or any person for
him, the appearance shall bo recorded, sta
ting particularly if by himself or if by
agent or attorney ; naming the person ap
pearing, and the capacity in which ho up
poars. If he does not appear, either per
sona'ly or by agent or attorney, the same
shall lie recorded.”
It is clear from this w eighty and author
itative precedent, that the accusers of the
President are wholly wrong in their views
of the law. Instead of the President being
taken into custody and imprisoned, it de
pends on his voluntary choice whether he
will appear before the court at all. If he
appears, he is just as free to appear by
attorney as in person.
Judge Story, in his comcmtaries on the
Constitution, describes at length the for
malities observed in trials for impeach
ment. We cite the following passage as
corroborating the inferences we have drawn
from the rule of the eourt in Judge Chase’s
ease. If he (the person impeached) does
not appear in person or by attorney his de
fault is recorded, and the Senate proceeds
e.rparte to the trial ot the impeachment :
If he does appear, in person or by attor
ney, his appearance is recorded.
There have been in all five eases of im
peachment since the beginning of our gov
ernment, namely, that of Wm. Blount,
1709; John Pickering, 1S03; Samuel
Chase, 1805; James H. Peek, 1831; and
West H. Humphreys, 1862. The law of
impeachment trials, as stated bv Judge
Story, is founded on the precedents fur
rished by these five eases. The argument
in support of the position, that the Presi
dent must necessarily be suspended from
office during the trial, fall* to the ground
in the face of this uniform usage. But.
even if the exploded assumiftion of the
President s accusers were correct, the ta
king of the President into temporary cus
tody would not operate as a suspension
from office. If he should bo totally dis
abled for six weeks by typhus fever, we
suppose nobody is absurd enough to say
that he would cease to.be President during
his illness, and that the President of the
Senate would be inducted into the execu
tive chair. The government would, in
that case, be administered by the heads of
departments, and papers requiring the Pre
sident’s name would remain unsigned until
his recovery. That his office could not be
filled by another person during his tran
sient disability may be shown by a con
clusive analogy’. Suppose Chief Justice
Chase should be impeached, would his
office be vacant during the trial? If so,
the President could send to the Senate a
nomination to fill the vacancy. The idea
of his doing so is utterly preposterous.
The office can be vacated only after a, con
viction, and in consequence of a sentence.
To make the office vacant is the only pen
! ulty which the Constitution allows against
an officer impeached; and it is absurd to
suppose the punishment can date from
i the accusation instead of from the judg
ment.
If the President is acquitted, the filling
[ his office by another person during the trial
' would produce strange confusion. Ihe
new President might appoint anew cabinet.
He might break off negotiations in pro
gress with foreign powers. He might
revolutionize all the offices of the country
lby a sweeping proscription and new ap
pointments. When the acquitted Presi
dent returned to his station he might find
it impossible to re-instate his deposed ,
subordinates by a refusal of a hostile ,
Senate to confirm his appointments. The j
assumption that the Presidential office is
vacated during the trial, is therefore as j
absurd in Its consequences as it is untena- j
bio Tn law. ‘ T
The Columbia and Augusta Railroad.
We, in common with the great mas3 of
our citizens, regret the action of our City
Council in relation to the aid asked for by
this Company. We do not believe that
there is a respectable minority of our peo
ple who are unwilling for the city to lend
its credit to secure the completion of this
important work. The committee of the
Council, to whom was referred the appli
cation of the officers of the road for aid,
have made a report against the measure,
which has been adopted as the action of
Council. The .committee base their oppo
sition to the city’s taking stock jn the road
upon the ground that “it is inexpedient to
subject the citizens to any additional bur
thens, and to place any additional obstacles
in the way to an early restoration of the
public credit. ”
We deny that tho aid asked for involves
either alternative alleged by this commit
toe. The people of Augusta fail to per
ceive any additional burthens imposed
upon them by the issuing of bonds payable
at long dates, the interest of which is guar
anteed by the Company. The most intel
ligent of our business men fail also to find
any obstacles to the early restoration of the
public credit, iu the plau proposed by the
Railroad Company to secure the city’s aid.
If the refusal of Council is based upon
the grounds given by the committee, we
have no hesitation in saying that their
course is not justified cither by reason or
the facts involved. Our people under
stand this question ; and the adroit man
ner in which tho committee seek to pro
duce the impression that a subscription by
the city would entail burthens upon them,
or lose the credit of the city, fails to con
vince them that Council is right.
The proposition, stripped of its verbiage,
is simply this : The Augusta & Columbia
Railroad asks the city to subscribe for one
hundred thousand dollars of the stock in
their road, and they offer to receive in pay
ment therefor the bonds of the city, pay
able at the convenience of the latter, say
in 20, 30, or 40 years. The Railroad Com
pany, we learn, obligates itself to meet
promptly the payment of the interest as it
fall* due on the bonds.
Will the (jity. Cqunyil plgase inform us
how it is possible for the city’s credit to
suffer by such an operation, or how our
people have an additional burthen imposed
upon them by it. The Committee say
that “they are properly impressed with
the importance of the work"—they do not
say or believe that it will not he, upon its
completion, a paying road. Do they be
lieve that the stock of the road, when it
is finished, will not pay par? Certainly
not. It is, in their language, an “impor
tant road," and, with proper management,
must pay a handsome dividend upon the
capital invested. Then, how is it possible
for the city to lose by a subscription to the
stock in the manner now asked for? When,
or before the bonds fall duo, the stock of
the city, in the Road could be sold at par,
or perhaps a premium, as it is an “im
portant road,” and the proceeds applied
to the extinguishment of the bonds. Does
the city lose anything by such an opera
tion ? Will Council explain how such a
transaction would entail additional burden
upon our people or obstruct the restoration
of the public credit.
The people of Augusta do not think that
its city government fulfils its whole duty
'by working the streets and keeping in its
employment a very large police force.
There are other matters quite as essential
to the welfare of cities as the proper con
duct of its police officers. Indeed these
are small matters compared to the great
and important interests which are neces
sarily involved in the proper administration
of tho municipal affairs of the city.
If our city fathers arc in doubt whether
the sentiment of our people would sustain
them in the subscription asked for, will
they not provide for the proper ascertain
ment of the people’s views at an early
period ? Let this matter be submitted to
the people, and it they are opposed to the
city’s taking the stock proposed we shall
be silent. But in the absence of such a
decision by the voters of the city we shall
continue to urge the Council to retrace its
steps and in some way afford the aid sought
by the Railroad Company.
Santa Anna and the Fenians.
The hero of San Jacinto, now and for
some months past residing in New York,
recently delivered a speech in the latter
city to and in behalf of the Fenians. An
exchange, speaking of this oratorical dis
play of the Mexican Falstaff, says:
“The General, we are informed, was in
the fnll uniform of a Mexican General, and
on his breast were several medals of gold
and silver.
The General addressed the crowd in
Spanish, which must have been very edi
fying and interesting to his listeners. It
is said by some that the Irish are descended
from the Phoenecians, and as the Pkoene
eia’ns passed by Spain, they may have
picked up a little Spanish, and in this way
the General may have been more intelli
gible to his audience than might be at first
supposed.
The General made some very original
observations; among other things, he said:
‘.Men that are in power arc surrounded by
flatterers, but very seldom by friends.’
The General took occasion to speak a good
deal about himself, a tendency often found
in orators, and which is usually more
agreeable to the speaker than to the
hearers.
The General, in the course of his re
marks. said enough (o convince even- one
that he was on good terms with himself.
The General promises on his return to
Mexico ‘that his vqice will be strong
enough to raise the dead.’
Should the General be able thus to fill
his ranks with the dead, it will evidently
be time for Maximilian to leave. Even
Macbeth did not fancy the idea of fighting
against supernatural beings.
It was a remark of Napoleon I. that
there was but one step from the sublime
to the ridiculous.
It seems that Gen. Santa Anna is anxi
ous to give a practical application of this
famous aphorism.”
Population of Chattanooga.— I The
Metropolitan Police Commissioner ordered,
sometime in August last, that the popula
tion of Chattanooga be ascertained. The
following is the results : Whites 6,870 ;
blacks 3,380. Total, 10,250.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 24, 1566.
Beast Butler and the Exchange Question.
There seems at last to be some feeling of
inquiry at the North as to who was respon
sible for the interruptions and failures of
the Exchange Cartel during the last years
,of the war. The constant allusions made
i by the Radicals to what they are pleased to
■ call the horrors of Andersonville, has
I awakened in the Northern mind the per-
I tinent inquiry whether their own Govern
ment might not have prevented these
alleged cruelties by the adoption of a pro
per system of exchange.
The statements whic-h have been made
by gentlemen of the South who were con
nected with the Exchange Bureau, that the
failure of the Cartel was attributable solely
to tho action of the officers of the Federal
Government, have caused the people of
the North to investigate the matter some
what. One of the results of their investi
gations has been to fix upon Beast
Butler tho whole responsibility for the i
failure to adopt a proper plan of exchange |
in the spring of 1804. This charge having ;
been repeated in the Western States to the j
damage perhaps of Butler’s aspirations for
the Presidency, this valiant Generalist) and j
Christum gentleman (?) in a speech which
lie made a few days since at Hamilton,
Ohio, denies its truthfulness and endeavors j
so fix upon General Grant the entire, re-!
sporisißlTify. * ‘ln tHafsp?ecETm sal3*
That while he never answered anony
mous newspaper attacks, he felt it his duty
here at Hamilton torefute a slander which
had been circulated from this platform a
few days ago by a gentleman of standing
in advocating theelection of the Democrat
| ic candidate.
He has chosen to say that I am responsi
ble for the starvation of our prisoners at
Belle Isle and Andersonville, by refusing
to exchange soldiers because the rebels did
not recognise the negroes in our service as
regular soldiers.
I don't propose to criticise anybody, or
to say who wairight or who was' wrong—
but j propose to state the exact facts, be
cause it lias been widely charged against
me that in order to rescue the negro sol
diers I preferred that 30,000 of our men
should starve rather than agree that the
negro should not be exchanged.
Whatever I might have thought itbest to
have done, lam onlv here to-day to say
that I did not do it. The duties of Com
missioner of Exchange were put in my
hands. 1 made an arrangement to have
an exchange effected—man for man, offi
cer for officer. I communicated my plan
to Gen. Streight, of Indiana, who is here
to-day, and who had then just escaped
from the Libby. I told him how I pro
posed to get our negro soldiers out of rebel
hands.
We had 60,000 or thereabout of their
prisoners. They had 30,000 of ours, or
thereabout. I don't give the exact num
bers, as I quote from memory ; but these
are the approximate numbers.
I proposed to go on and exchange with
the rebels, man for man, officer for officer,
until I got 30,000 of our men, and then I
would still have had 30,000 of theirs left in
my hands. And then I proposed to twist
these 30,000 until I got the negroes out of
the rebels. [Applause.] I made this ar
rangement with the Confederate commis
sioner. This was on the Ist of April, be
fore we commenced to move on that cam
paign of 1861, from the Rapid Ann to the
James, around Richmond. At that time
tho Lieutenant General visited my head
quarters, and I told hint what 1 had done,
Ho gave me certain verbal directions.
What they were I shall not say, because
I have his instructions in writing. But I
sent my proposition lor exchange to the
Government of the United States. It was
referred to the Lieutenant General. He
ordered me not to give the Confederates
another man in exchange.
I telegraphed back to him in these
words :
“Your order shall be obeyed, but I as
sume you do notmean to interfere with the
exchange of the sick and wounded?”
Ho replied : “Take all the sick and
wounded yon can get, but don’t give them
another man.”
You can see that .even with sick and
wounded men this system would soon
cause all exchanges to stop.
It did stop. It stopped right there, in
April, 1864, aDd was not resumed until
August, 1864, when Mr. Ould, the rebel
commissioner, again wrote me : ‘'Wo will
exchange man for man, officer for officer,”
and saying nothing about colored troops.
I laid this dispatch before the Lieutenant
General. His answer, in writing, was
substantially : “If you give the rebels the
30,000 men whom we hoid, it will insure
the defeat of General Sliorman and endan
ger our safety hero around Richmond.”
I wrote an argument, offensively put, to
tho Confederate commissioners, so that
they could stop all further offers of ex
changes.
I say nothing about tho policy of this
course; I offer no criticism of it whatever;
I only say that, whether it he a good or a
bad policy, it was not mine, and that my
part in it was wholly in obedience to or
ders from my commanding officer, the
Lieutenant General.
Col. Quid the Confederate agent for
exchange in a letter of the 6th inst, pub
lished iu tho New York Herald in reply to
one from E. A. Pollard says ;
I am quite confident taat my offer in
August, 1864, to deliver the Federal sick
and wounded, without requiring the de
livery of Confederate equivalents, will not
be denied. The fact that the United States
authorities acted upon the offer, ard at a
lateday dispatched steamers to tho mouth
of the Savannah river to receive their men
ought to bo sufficient proof, if any denial
be made.
Yours truly, Ro. Oui.d.
What will the Northern people think of
their government, now that Col. Ould
states most positively that he offered, in
August 1864, to deliver up all the Federal
sick and wounded, without requiring their
Government to, return any of ours then
in their hands ? Why was this offer re
jected ? Can any reason be given but that
the Federal Government thought the re
sources of the Confederacy were nearly ex
hausted and that by requiring us to keep
the forty or fifty thousand of their men
in our hands as prisoners of war, would the
sooner complete the starvation of our
whole people ? We say that the whole
civilized world will exonerate us from any
imputation of cruelty or inattention even
to the wants of the Federal prisoners when
they see this authoritative and undeniable
statement of our commissioner, that the
Federal Government refused to receive
from our hands theirown sick and wounded
soldiers, at a time when, they now allege
hundreds were dying daily from want of
proper food and medical attention.
To Correspondents.
We are in receipt, by mail, of a copy o f
the speech referred toby our correspondent
from Buckhead in his last communication,
and regret that its great length, together,
with the crowded state of our columns,
prevent us from laying it before our read
ers. The subject treated of is one of vital
interest to our people, and we shall
endeavor at some time when notso heavily '
pressed for space, to give some of the points
made to our patrons.
In this connection we beg to call atten
tion to the communication in to-day's issue
from Worthen’s Store. We know the writer
to be an intelligent, practical planter. He
gives good advice, and, in the absence of any
legal enactment on the subject, proposes a
system by which the people may relieve
themselves.
We again tender the use of our columns
for the publication of such views upon this
important question, as may tend to its
proper and correct settlement.
From Central and South America.
—The Henry Chauncey brings us dates
from Panama to the ’3d instant- The
news is unimportant, nothing of interest
having transpired in the Central Ameri
can States. The dates from Peru are to
September 22, and from Chile to Septem
ber 10. By a recent law foreigners in
Peru are required to pay sixteen dollars
poll tax. . .
A very strong opposition has arisen in
Peru against, Col. Prado, the present
Dictator, and some citizens have requested
Col. Balta to run against him for the Presi
dency. The latter is said to be a very
popular man, and may win the honora
ble position.
There had been a very base attempt
made to murder the gunner of the United
States steamer Dacotah off Callao, by
1 and row nine him in the harbor on the night
| of September 20, but fortunately the boats
j of the Kesquardo arrived in time to save
i the victim.
The 18 th of September—Chili s nation
al day—was duly celebrated with eclat at
Callao and Lima, in accordance with the
i decree of the Supreme Chief, Col. Prado,
making it a Peruvian holiday,
j The L nited Suites steamer Lancaster, un
der the command of Commodore Ridgeley,
sailed for Norfolk, A a.,,0n the 21st inst.
Capt. Davenport, formerly in command,
has been transferred to the Powhatan.
A poll-tax of sl6 per annum has been
placed on all foreigners in Peru, by virtue
of treaties of the foreign Governments.
' The Cordova Colony.— We had the
I pleasure of meeting yhstdrday, says the
New Orleans Picayune of the 3d, a gentle
man recently returned from
Mexico, where, since the close of the war,
he has been engaged in business. He te]ls
us that all the colonists are well with the
exception of General Price, who has for
sometime been down with a severe fit of
sickness, but when our friend left he was
convalescent. The restofMhe colony and
the employees onrtho railroad were in ex
cellent health. Their crojfs, moreover,
are good, and promise large returns. Many
of the colonists will make a good deal of
money this year. Their superior knowl
edge and tact have enabled them to realize
largely from the peculiar labor and cultiva
tion of Mexico. So satisfied are the colo
nists who remain in the country with their
prospects that none of them think of re
turning to this country. They receive
their supplies principally from New Or
ica us.
Stamps on Groceries at Retail.—
Acting Commissioner'HaTland has inform
ed a prominent merchant fliat under the
Act of July 13, 1866, every can, bottle or
other single package containing meats, fish,
shell-fish, fruits, vegetables, sauceg, syr
ups, mustard, jams or jellies
contained' therein 'and or scaled,
made, prepared android, or offered for
gale, or removed sos consumption in the
United States', on and after the Ist day of
October, 1866, must be stamped according
to its value, whether* the same have pre
viously paid an ad valorem tax or not. No
tax previously paid will be refunded, nor
will stamps be furnished free of cost to the
owner of such goods to be affixed to the
same.
Pickles, when sold by the gallon, and
not in glass packages, are exempt When
sold in gla# packages they are liable to
stamp tax.
The Developement oe the South
Retarded by its Unsettled Condition.
—A Washington correspondent says as an
j instance of the manner in which the pres
j ent unsettled condition of the Southern
I States retards the development of tl eir
i internal resources, it may be stated that
several gentlemen, actiftg as the agents of
French capitalists, have been for some
time in the city, for the purpose of invest
ing large sums in various Virginia enter
prises, among others, the continuation of
the James river canal to the Kanawha,
thus affording an additional transportation
route from the mineral regions in West
Virginia. They are unwilling, however,
to conclude negotiations until the future
status of the States lately in rebellioh shall
be positively determined ; and unless some
speedy solution of the matter is attained,
they will doubtless return to Europe.
Gen. A. Sidney Johnston and ms
Family. —The Texas Legislature has ap
pointed a committe of three—to come to
New Orleans and remove to Austin the
remains of the lamented A. Sidney John
ston. It was iiis wish that he should be
interred in his much loved Texas. The
Legislature has also passed a resolution,
directing correspondence to be opened with
Mrs. Johnston who, with her children, is in
destitute circumstances, in ■ California,
where she remained during the war, earn
ing a bare support by her own labor.
Should she wish to return to Texas and
live there, the Legislature desires to furnish
her the means of doing so, and of educating
her children. _
Colonization. —The American Coloni
zation. Society is unusually flourishing, just
now. It'has bought*a new ship, the Gol
eonda, of 1,016 tons burden, which will
sail for Africa on the Ist of November and
May of each year. In addition to many
who are seeking passage in the coming
spring, the applications received for emi
gration this fall include nine hundred and
ninety-persons, from the following named
localities: Knoxville, Tennessee, 200 :
Sparta, Georgia, 46; Maeon, Georgia, 288;
Columbia, South Carolina, 205 ; New
berry, South Carolina, 200; Bertie county,
North Carolina, 25 ; Abingdon, Virginia,
16; Albemarle county, Virginia, 12; Chil
licothe, Ohio, 6. Total, 998.
Gas in Pittsburg.— The Pittsburg
Gas Company, during the year ending
June 30, 18G6, manufactured 107,000,000
feet of gas (besides what they used at
their works), at a cost of $07,869, which is
ninety-five and a half cents per 1,000 feet.
“They report two bushels of coal will make
three bushels of coke ; that 100 bushels of
coal will make one barrel of coal tar,
From their published report, $19,552 38
was received from the sale of coke and coal
tar, being 51 cents per bushel, a feredit on
cost of coal, of which they consumed the
past year 340,991 bushels, and for which
they pay at their wharf nine cents.
A New Gunpowder. —A German has
brought to Paris an inexplosible powder,
which is certainly going to make a revolu
tion in this department of war material.
This powder, invented by Mr. Neumeyer,
of Leipsic, does not explode in the open
air when inflamed ; it burns up slowly like
so much tinder; but it explodes with more
explosive force than any other powder, in a
closed cavity. It is cheaper than ordinary
powder, and may be manufactured any
where, even on board ship. Experiments
are now being made in Paris with this
powder, and if all that is said of it be true,
everybody will be obliged to have it.
To Remove the Taste from New
TV ood. —Anew keg, churn, bucket, or
other wooden vessel will generally commu
nicate a disagreeable color to anything that
is put into it. To prevent this inconven
ience, first scald the vessel well with boil
ing wster, letting the water remain in it till
cold. Then dissolve some pearlash, or
soda in lukewarm water, adding a little bit
of lime to it, and wash the inside of the
vessel well with this solution. Afterwarus
scald it well with plain hot water, and rinse
it with cold water use it.
Important Dramatic Suit.— The trial
of the lawsuit by Miss Laura Keene,
against J. S. Clarke, in the Supreme
Court of New York, before Judge Jones,
last week, for damages for the performan-’c
of “Our American Cousin’’ without her
consent, she claiming to be the proprietor
of the play, resulted in a verdict for the
plaintiff for $2,168 6<. The Judge direct
ed that the exceptions be heard at the
general term, as the questions involved are
novel, and should have fuller consideration
than could be given them at that time.
Petroleum as a Motor.—A company
has been formed in Memphis to test the
application of petroleum to the uses of
steamboats. It is to be used instead of
coal or wood for fuel, and all the cooking
on the boat is to be done with petroleum
stoves. The boat is to be not less than
fifty horse power. If successful, it will save
one-third of the space of the boat usually
occupied by fuel, while the lightness of the
fuel will admit of much lighter draft, and
be of great utility in shallow waters.
Trial of Mr. Davis.— Concerning the
forthcoming trial of Mr. Davis, a AA ash
ington dispatch of the 10th inst., to the
Cincinnati Commercial, says: “It is
understood that at the Cabinet meeting
a decision was finally reached in Jeff. Da\ is
case. It is believed that he will be handed
over to the civil authorities for trial, and
thus be placed within the jurisdiction of
Judge Underwood's court.
Gen.J übal A. "*Eariy will spend the
winter in Toronto, C anada West. He has
j completed his history of his A alley Cam
paign, and has it now in press. It will be
j issued in a short time. It is said to be
[ written in good style.
the Augusta «fc MHledgeville Railroad.
We are pleased t. ’.nrn that the work
on this road ie progressing rapidly towards
1 completion. Iron has been .bought and
several hundred tons are now on the way,
which will be laid down as soon as it ar
rives. There is a large force employed in
getting out cross-ties for the road, and there
will be no delay in completing the super
| structure as rapidly as the iron is reoeived.
The lot of iron now on the water, it is
I thought, will be sufficient to lay the track
to or beyond Culvertou, and by the time
! thiscargo is laid down, another installment
will be here ready for tho continuation of
the work.
We are glad to find the present officers
of the road active, energetic, and zealous
in the discharge of their duties —and have
no doubt but that the enterprise will be
pushed forward as rapidly as the affairs of
the company will permit. The heavy rock
excavation between Culvertou and Sparta
has been completed, and there is nothing
wanted now but the iron to complete the |
road to Sparta. Tho rock work beyond
the latter place will be finished before the
track-layers are ready to proceed with their
work in thatsection, antlin a very short time
our Milledgeville friend's will find them
selves in direct communication with this j
city and Charleston.
We have-not learnedwhetFcr it TsWfieT
intention of the Company to push on the
road to Macofl, but we hope that no time
will be lost in making the connection with
the latter city complete. The road will
never answer the expectations of its friends
and projectors as long as the connection be
tween Milledgeville and Macon is made
through the medium of a hostile Company.
The interests of the people of this city and
this section of the State demand that the
Maeon connection should be made by the
Milledgeville and Augusta Road, and noth
ing short of this will satisfy the sharehold
ers or the public.
We believe that the grading is finished
between Macon and Milledgeville, and
nearly or quite all the trestle work also.
The only additional expense will bo the
cost of iron and the cross-ties; and the la
bor necessary ii; laying the superstructure.
The President of the road will doubtless
be able to secure the means necessary to
meet these expenditures, and hence we an
ticipate the completion of the road at no
distant day over its whole track to Macon.
The people along the line of the road
should come forward promptly and render
all the aid in their power to enable the offi
cers of the Company to secure its speedy
completion.
Georgia.
The people of Burke county are forming
an agricultural club.
The people of Waynesboro are organ
izing a Building and Loan Association.
A large number of negroes left Burke
county last week for the West. Another
lot are preparing to go soon.
The Times says an interesting revival
has been in progress in Waynesboro.
Twenty-two converts have been added to
the Methodist church.
Mrs. Persons, aged 99 years and 9
months, died in Columbus on Saturday.
The Rev. W. A. Hall has accepted the
call of the Presbyterian • Church in Co
lumbus.
The Covington Examiner says that an
old gentleman named James D. White,
while out opossum hunting one night last
week, feel from a tree and received inju
ries from which he died in a few moments.
He was a worthy citizen, and served with
credit' in the Florida war.
The same paper states that the Federal
authorities have been making several ar
rests of jayhawkers on South river, in
Newton county.
A line of steamers has been established
between Savannah and Baltimore.
Wm. A. Redd, one of the oldestaudmost
respected business men of Columbus, died
on the 10th.
The Savannah papers represent the
health of the city as rapidly improving.
Also, that business is reviving, with a
prospect, for an usually heavy trade.
The Rome Courier says that in that
county all persons who gave in the tax re
turns for freedmen, will be required to.pay
their taxes. Hence such persons should
secure the amount of such tax before final
settlement with them.
credit' in the Florida
The citizens of Meriwether county, in
this State, held a; public meeting at Green
ville recently, and passed resolutions, re
cognizing the impoverished condition of the
country, and declaring that no property in
that county should be sold by the Sheriff
for the payment of old claims.
The new fine engine in Atlanta was tried
a day or two ago with the following result:
Distances thrown through fifty feet of
hose, one inch nozzle, 225 feet: five hun
dred feet of hose, i inch nozzle, 204 feet
solid. With two streams she threw 175
feet.
lion. W. T. Wofford, Representative
elect of the 7th Congressional District of
Georgia, has resigned that unpromising
position, and Gov. Jenkins has ordered a
special election to be held in the several
counties of the District on the 2Gth of No
vember to designate another expectant of
a seat in Congress.
The State University is, we are pleased
to learn, in a prosperous condition. The
receipts of the College from the tuition of
the students are between §7,000 and $3,000;
and this, added to the SB,OOO of interest
guaranteed to the University by the State,
enables it to sustain itself very creditably.
We referred a few days ago to the murder
of Mr. Echols in Calhoun, by a party of
Tennesseeans who claimed a horse in his
possession. The Intelligencer says that
John A. Reid, ha.s been arrested as the
murderer and committed for trial. He
was taken to Milledgeville for safe keeping.
Capt. Duff was also committed and sent
to Milledgeville, but is believed to be
innocent.
White Slaves of'New England.—J.
B. Ham, Esq., has investigated the condi
tion of the factories in Massachusetts, hav
ing been appointed by Gov. Bul.ock to do
so, and reports some of the mills badly
ventilated, young children at work in them
in a deplorable ignorance at small wages,
and the Catholic parents opposed to their
education in the public schools. He re
commends fewer hours of labor; reading
rooms, and the prevention of the employ
ment of young children in the factories.
Cornered. —Logan was “cornered"
neatly the other day. The Cairo Democrat
says that during Logan’s speech at Car
bondale, he branded as a liar the man who
would say that he gave a cent to any man
to go to the Rebel army. His sister arose
in the audience and cried at the top of her
voice: “You did; you gave your brother
in-law money to carry him to the Rebel
army.” The General did not call her a
liar.
Claim Agents—lmportant Decision
—The following opinion has been given
by the Attorney General upon the right of
attorneys to appear for the prosecution of
claims in the various departments, and
forwarded to the Secretary of war : lam
of the opinion that you have no legal au
thority to exclude authorized attforneys
and agents from collecting bounties, and
that in the presentation and payment of
claims any claimant may act by attorney.
Gold in North Carolina.—A corres
pondent of the New York Herald , writing
from Portis, Franklin county, gives an in
teresting history of the Portis gold mines,
| their history and yield. He says that it is
\ undoubtedly the richest surface mine in the
world. A wealthy company, chartered by
i the State and investing a capital of $500,-
| 000, has been organized to work them.
Events of tlie Day.
The Saluda Factory has been rebuilt,
and will l>e in running order in less than
two months with tlie best machinery that
can bo imported.
The past summer has been the wettest
in Europe eince 1766.
Judge C. C. Clay, of Alabama, long
prisoner at Fortress Monroe, has-been on
a visit to Washington. The exact purpose
of his visit has not transpired.
! B-eakbone fever is prevailing in tlioeity
i of Mobile.
i The population of Texas is rapidly in
creasing by immigration.
One North Carolina corn field produces
i this year 10,000 bushels.
Every woman is in tho wrong until she
! cries, and then she is in the right instantly.
The city of Cincinnati is paying §3.25 for
gas which costs the Gas Company less tha;i
90 cents.
The reporters at the Roman Catholic
Council in Baltimore, are ’outdone. * The
debates are carried on in Latin, and pencil
and paper is useless to them.
All apprehension ot Feniau raids has
been dispelled in the minds of the Cana
dians, and the home government lias been
notified,that no more troops are needed.
The agents of General Santa, Anna are
Said to be at work in Texas recruiting for
a raid on Matainoras. It is said they are
not very well received.
- The- *ha aevicufou-.
ral and mechanical fair, last week, were
about §75,000.
Many Virginia farmersare boiling water
melon juice into molasses.
The banking house of E. H. Gruber A
Cos. has failed, with liabilities of about
§250,000, and assets of §75,000. It owes de
posits of §95,000. There is much excite
ment. Tho loss falls on tho poorer classes.
The Universalists have recently held a
General Convention in Illinois: Denun
ciation of the President and his policy, arid
extravagant praise of Congress and the
Radicals, was an important feature of their
proceedings.
In former dgys Hebrews were'strictly
excluded from the inferior of Russia, but
the present Emperor lias greatly modified
tlie restriction for tho purpose of attracting
Hebrew immigration.
A public meeting for tho moral and ed
ucational improvement of the ,colored race
was held in Baltimore lately, at which
Chief Justice Chase presided. Judge Rus
sell, of Boston, Henry Ward Beecher, and
General O. O. Howard tirade speeches on
the occasion.
. The cholera is on the increase in Chicago.
In the twenty-four hours ending at mid
night on Wednesday sixty-six cases were
reported, seventeen of which proved fatal.
, A matched game of billiards for the
championship of Missouri took place at St.
Louis on Thursday evening. Phillip
Pierce, of St. Louis) won‘the cue.
There was a great Union demonstration
atNew Albany, Indiana, on the 6lh inst.
Tho next session of the Mississippi Press
Association M ill be held at Vicksburg, on
the first Monday in November next. Ofli
cers will lie elected for tho ensuing semi
annual term; an Oration will be delivered
by Col. T. B. Manlove, and an Historical
Address by Col. Giles M. Ilillyer.
A young lady named Sarah Owens, re
siding near Spring Grove, in Laurens Dis
trict was found dead, hanging by the neck,
on tho morning of 9tli inst. It is supposed
that she took her own life in a fit of men
tal aberration, though no indication had
been given by liter of such an intention.
Ground was broken'3 on the Charleston
Street Railroad on Monday. The Courier
says the Road will start from the Exchange
(or old post-office,) its down town termi
nus, and pas3 up Broad to Meeting, up
Meeting to Calhoun, up Calhoun to King
and through King to Shepherd-st., its' up
town terminus. There will be a double
track along the entire distance. Besides
tho main route, there will be a braueli
road diverging from the double track at
the corner of Meeting and Wentworth
streets, and proceeding through Wentworth
and Rutledge streets to Rutledge Avenue,
and thence to the corner of Spring street.
The branch road will consist of but a sin
gle track. By the Ist of January, the road
will be completed, and infull operation.
The Merchants’ Union Express Compa
ny is an entirely new organization, which
commenced business at No. 194 Broadway,
New York, on Monday last. The capital
stock of the Company is §20,000,000, which
is distributed among about nino thousand
merchants and shippers of freight through
out the country. In Chicago nearly four j
hundred of tho largest business houses are j
interested; in Cincinnati there are three |
hundred ; in St. Louis between three and
four hundred, and so in proportion all over
Western and Eastern cities.
Yale has the following number of stu -
dents entered in the different departments:
Theological 29, law 23, medical 31, scien
tific 134, academic 492, total TOO.
The large cotton factory at McMinnville,
burned in 1803, by ordorof Gen. Rosecrans,
has been rebuilt.
A party of what is called guerrillas
threw the pay car of the freight train off
the track near Bowlipg Green, recently,
and robbed the railroad' paymaster of
£lO ,000. The passenger train was delayed
in consequence and did not reach Nash,
ville until six o’clo< k the same^day.
A building located on a spot near Chat
tanooga, known as ‘..‘Hell’s Half Acre,”
was destroyed by tire a few days since.
Loss, £5,000; insurance, $3,000. Tho com
munity rather rejoices than laments the
destruction, as the locality was infamous
for its crime and debauchery.
A Post’s Washington sp’ecial says that
tho Chn onicle insists that the President is
about to change his policy, and it is under
stood two members of the cabinet have ad
vised him to declare in favor of the consti
tutional amendment.
A company of capitalists is examining
the falls of the Coosa above Wetumpka,
with a view to erect an extensive factory
at that future Lowed of the South. This
will be but the pioneer of others, for
the situation at Wetumpka being once
developed, nothing can prevent that vil
lage from becoming the manufacturing
seat of Alabama.
Great destitution is said to prevail in
the counties around Tuspaloosa. Many
good planters were compelled to mortgage
their lands to raise the means of ..cultivat
ing them the present year, and having
made nothing this year, they will be sold,
out. Sales of this description, are already
being made, the first Monday in every
month, at one-fourth their value.
In California, a Chinamen cannot testify
against a white man or a negro.
A tornado at Franklin, Tnd., demolished
twenty-six buildings. One person was
killed and two others were fatally injured.
Count Baciocc-lii died at the Tuilerics
last month. He was the son of Princess
Eliza Bonaparte and the princess of Lucca, j
and, by consequence, cousin of Napoleon
111.
Wells, the solicitor who brought the fa
mous crim. con. suit against Lord Palmer
ston in behalf of Mrs. O. Kane, was arrest
ed in London last week as ati habitual
drunkard and vagrant, and sent to jail for
three days in default of five shillings fine.
.Ju-tice Strong, of Philadelphia, lias
granted the two injunctions applied for
against the Union Passenger Railroad
Company running cars on Sunday. This
company has been running on Sunday for
several months past as carrier of the Unit
ed States mail..
Mrs, Elizabeth Cady Stanton announc
es herself a candidate for Congress, in the
eighth district of New York. She writes a
half column letter defining her position.
A special dispatch from Philadelphia,
to the Cincinnati Trines, says: The election
in this city has ruined John W. Forney.
His influence is worth nothing at all. He
has no chance fur a complimentary vote
for Senator, and he will be kicked out of Ins
Senate job by the next meeting of that
body. He has done the Republican party
more harm than good in that city.
| The Ration report for September states
j that there were Issued to freedinen 2-5,302
! rations. The number of freedrnen schools
is 19 • teachers 20 ; scholars, 1,487 ; officers
on duty, 38.
Several valuable mines have been dis
covered in Honduras, and a decree lias
been passed regulating the right to claims
Ac. The principal mine is said to be at
Erandique.
SIJIIIES, <VOL.\X "V. *. 44.
■-'Viiruan^~aM.'.;.a^y» - ■ — •>« «■
The Harvests la Circa! Britain i;a
Use Continent;
It is a remarkable- cirvumsttinre that tl,
mouths of August and September I*, a •
be marked rains, both jn Eu
rope and America. Tn this country the
rains do not much injure the small , !fons
Wheat and barley w< re >v: tired 1.-f-ti'iv li e
rains commenced. Nor did the ya: •-a
much; Cotton was .injured, and ci: ;i'n
some places beaten* down ; juf, .rt '•
whole, the rains were in no ca-e ah , ...
disastrous. Not so al-fyafl. if is
settled that the crop in
iiuaily short, With regard to - lie
Fall Mall Gazette gloonfily conforms tl
the harvest is unusually latetlu- weather
at the tfiost critical time lias h- i ‘defo, re
able: .Throughout the country a ~
amount of corn is still both'ym aYried qnd
uncut, and whatever .may be- thq r, suit as
to quiUitify. thc*quahty Loth < .-' v,l. at and
bar'ojf. especially tlie. latter.' has been very
seriously injured. The worst Hat are >
the ease, however, is that we.aft font ar
rived at a critical period when day s"'
rain inflicts irreparable uan.a.c.'Vfoind tire
weather shows no indie uio : • Os ijp, ►.• l
ament. lfos no extravagant gstiintflc that,
each wet day mrw costs the cOumiyriud a 1
million sfoiriri!?. . so .
Thjj was frub&hea on thaw2l <t m last
month, with regard to tho Contsut: a ,
crops, the'same f.4per says :
Abroad—at least t!irot*gii'Y\ t a ern Gu~ 1
rope—nearly the sahn- Ji-avrons
has prevailed that vre h ive been .vui . ••
with- here.. In France and ftzerfcuid *
especially the summer has been I-th -.@i!d. .
mwrt ' ‘inh'H'!* hmmi imOfrairfiw ♦
Yere-lyfoimf the trifle wnl jib of very kifo-tj
rwr quality. The j ,ato un-ease lias re
appeared "in a bad form’ifl many di -trietx '
jn several 'partSjpf Franco the grain c, ; ■ I
are said to he seen upon, the mound.'and f
in a deplorably damaged,, eoudita-o.
France will have to be an importer yt |
wheat this year, and to. a very com e fora-*
ble amouiiv. -The cf ops have fun ;w> a
most in usual* almost imprc ijdcut and ex
tent 1n tlie Western States of Anna > u. ;■ so
that from that quarter o#r most habitual
source of supply; we must look for ► chw.-e-
Iv anything. In UusJ-.a, a ml- la
the Thinubian I’roVinqfts, ou tin- crin-c
trar?, the, harvest a; pen;, to .have
been plentiful and excellent in efoi
ty . Front the'biitek jm.r. thercforA we
‘shall have tp draw 'our main
tions! U'ii a.- our c nimcri
i wit If Russia are on;'a far more restricted
■'scale than with many other countries, es
pecially Fra net; and the United Stare- a
. great proportion of the supply v,v oid.ttni
from her trill have to be paid in ; ■■ Id, an 1
may, it ms possible -'ctiongli. or; ■' *"■ '
temporary inconvenience and fm-aui-i-auey
in our money market.
Shis is a gloomy picture, but is not quiff
true so far a- tjifo country is cmsffvu M.
The wheat crop in certain of the Yi '.-tern 1
States was injured, but tie at-. r fate yield, j
taking 4he whole country toe ether, v- a
fajr one. •' We can spare sonic of our fori- '
nactous food, if tho pcojflc efGn-nt !uv. in >
are willing to pay high cnougit hr it. \Ye
may not export notch, blit thahhh p>.k-o ;
in Liverpool insures a ertriv-ptm k:gh j
price here. This is a piajUer of a.c- '.!
deal of moment to i'anm-rs in thi,; country, i
Our farmers .have' not .au ns-urnn. ■ of
another prosperous season, a fact which
will stimulate industry of all kinds, cud.,
necessitate high -wages- for tho* working
classes. ,
Interesting Statistics of the Unite i Slates.
The following interesting statistics were
prepared’ in .the United (State- Census
Bureau, Department of- the Interior,, and
taken from a report in reference fco the
area, population and density of population
of the United States :
The land and water surface oi.UJie‘l niU.S
States arcequal t 0,3,240,000 rquliviiides—
land 3,010.370, waterabOnt YkUltJO square
miles. The Stales embrace 1,83 1,3yl
square miles,of ‘landed am lace add the
Territories 1,200,(119 miles, as exhibited
by thq eighth census Os J 800. Tim' dum
ber of inhabitants of the United Stat s re
turned in 1800 ■ was 31,443.321 —in the
States, 31,148,1146, and 2j5,2l 3 in the Tov
io.v bus shoe -I, ill AX’ 1 -.6n-
"'inhabitants 16 each squfir phiii'e in the
States', while hi the Territories there
are lour . juare i.dh;?,.to,,quell im ■
and exclusive of (lie• District' ‘Oi Utiufim'.-a
the territorial area would represent fire
and onc-fiftK square miles to"each inhabi
tant. In 1860 Massachusetts had 157,
Rhode Island 133, New York 82, dud
Pennsylvania 62 inhabitants to the square
mile, which rate applied to the United
States would give 472,000.000 in
chusetfs, 400,000,000 in Rhode 1 iand,
240,000,000 in Niw Itork, and UH,Pv;.<- '
in Pennsyhaiiia. Belgium, i'.nginn-L nun
Wales and France ni 1 - ->5 h ! 39 V.iq,
and 176 inhabitants to the square mile re
spectively. If the Unife’d States
densely populated as France our population
would number 528,000,000, or ii populated
as densely as England and Wale 92 b049,-
000; and if according to Belgium's dca.-ity
of population (397 to the square »m!oj tho
Unhed States would contain 1,195,tit a ),()00,
which is 110,086,000 more than :eo entire
population of the world in 1866.
Senn itj of Northern Men.
Lewis I>. Collins, Esq., Collector of Inter
nal Revenue for the Third District off Am-*
Liana, addressed a letter to the l
recently held in New Orleans to refute
Governor Wells’ statement that l.nion
men are’persecuted. He says;'
“I desire to give my to timnm in the
most positive manner tt> the peril et y
rity of the people and property of N .; .n
--ern men, to the love of law and or V-r, ;nal
to the best disposition to promote Ii rmony,
between tho people of both section;-. Since
the surrender 1 have traveled in Ai 1 ama,
Mississippi and Louisiana. audlqiv im-t
as many-Southern men, and liad a- much
persona! ‘evidence And practical exp •riciiie
as to the state of public sentiment as j.- r
lwps any Northern man. Asa Govern
ment officer 1 have been all over the north
ern part of this State, have convcr.- d,<tnd
done business with thousands of its citizens,
and I have yet to receive the first- in ult or
feci the least insecurity on account of my
Northern and Union antecedents.
Respectfully,
JLkwis B. Coi u.vs,
Collector of Internal Revenue,
* 'ThirdDistrict of Louisiana.
An appropriate address was framed and
adopted, and the meeting adjourned.
Railroad Stocks.—The great rise in
railroad stocks is one of the consequen
ces ortho i (resent and pro;-;-eel:ve glut of
paper money in t’nc commercial
The price will, the Washington flntel
ligence)? ’ supposes, be* run up to tl - x
travacant rates of ]864. as the Vpe.-ulat.-m,
for some time confined to bankers and
cliques, Jttsg now been enhanced by tlifl
commercial public. !\ cyjuoto ;
“It noy rages as an epidemic, and will
continue to do so until the managers of the
machinery can sec a profit in Jetting oown
tho stocks to their natural icvoL - Thou
sanda of people will l.e caught under the
wheels of this juggernaut. Also to the
railroads; they are, no doubt, of bnnif-riee
value to the country, and to the 1 on pm;, -s
owning them. They arc, uo doubt, to he
very profitable, when evur tin y are w< ll
conducted. litey can stand ae. ' and •! of
mismanagement, and ev n fraud and ' -
predation. It is to our great train
tion system that We owe the m tan
by the country is able to bear t! .
of taxation. The receipts ofruiin . :;,-
England, for the last year, wa re ihr;.,
■lions of pounds sterling, ofwhi !i, it is
that one-half was profit.”
A paper in Germany, case- 1 the {> '■
Zeitung, has been confiscated, an a cn
of printing a i.araxrapx y, hitv < ■ ' •
sive to Count ILsmark, in re; .. I t -
official position. The paragraph _
iu a very innocent artielewlm h tmi /. • •
copied from the Cohgnc <. 1 '
tunatSy, the words “trntz po.flA ■] yu'
of alliance.) in the original, v. <
ed “trng politik (policy of frAui :. ami
although the mistake was obvious, tno
magistrates decided that the cuar oa , t
the newspaper was proved.
A few days since ag; nfleman 1-1
upon some lady friends, and Was thorn
into the parlor by a servant giri. b'i*c
asked him what name she should announ :e,
and he. wishing to take them by ,-nrpri- .
replied’ “Amicus" (a frieri l . Tim girl
seemed at first alettle puzzled, Lutqui k!y
regained her composure, and in the blind
est manner possible observed, “What
kind of a cus did you, say sir?”
Illicit Trafic ox the Mr.
xicax Dor
deb. —An officer of tlie army stationed in
Texas informs the authorities that smug
gling is in a most flourishing condition
along the Mexican border, and that goods
can be purchased* iu Texas as cheap; >- as
they can in Mexico. The principal leak is
between the* mouth of the Rio Grande
river and the town of Brownsville, Came
ron county, Texas. By this route quanti
ties of goods arc smuggled into the country
iu wag ms.
| . FROM TUE PLAINS.
fi ox i- ixiUct the
i Lc-aycnwOnh ceiaT from 'Montana, rc
|H>rtß(ieti. ghcrmnlfji dispatch tiomDo™
Indians, Who are daily oommiitii £ uLr'ui
Mwcdn .l^wuler- 1, -A i io.
i 1 wore is uaroly a*nuio i’{t* ha.-s it' ii<‘\vly
jrade grave to fell of a recent murder.
1 nty men were killed in davA i’< «». ;
arc compelle'd t.T light ag.dißt te* lit s
tC'-ir number flf s&yagea, and* no <
died or'iuore.' Tb,' upoii'tlfe
war path in t it-e, with their si. . ic :
volvxiAsami riD;- obtained lium the tru y
conned at £,a,xmiP. i
There arc onlv two hundred an*! lift’y
Jiiounfed mciial Fort Reno an 1 tho ludinis
krtoiv this; ajiiap,. w i;h i-,' ■ ....
s-.oek by thi. whcj« ifo burning train ; ~'l
ehfigftaits. One i tu, merced
MAMS'thirtVi’seven arriw-f t..,.
.1' i’nf oil'.,i,J 16> V.<.• v’:m;m
gded.. Weud; .-eendiil.gth souri
riverwerq eapturod, killed an#«se: i dbv
fb;o.jr n;;i ■ w, '■ ■;... f
■3tx..Efq.h-u > 0;' Minin. ■■■;.. ..mi-Q, W.
L .teg ij.
tiiiuge 4?harman - # ye t;- day .
hero If* K-.wtvAi y. n.ie
; .i ah . ‘ciuyT.AUniii:.;.-, .
'
, tliOir home in hi4liu,o x-rh t"' i . .bn,
isc!iip(*d, and l.’U’hel iln'lr j s?l:£rKi. Tl. ;.hr
i>r ttml > i/H. > -.wr • J.-'. • I;.*!
earfi-ed info captivi'.yj *t. *i the
most)cruel »lKj Wii'.i+L/, *..Sn:;sfliv ft. -
living-at tfitican?);. thq'.Vrr .vc> e
knocked setisolvws with & ,V j-e;v ’
: 4 .. a
■! in ibis- 1. 111.1 -a: or ;h\ t v « . t
day. \
Ort heaving Mi their condition,tie w. *
mahutivi.mficer oiki'ort lkiti* . not'ixni;.*
su^fefj force to ixe-cuo Horn, x.Z ;.k
$
irorn,.their terri’-le suffering wliljo the
Indiarrcautpk The officer set* to frrau .n
foNthoir*raiisoiu, Captive kuod-.-d -
dow*t thrcbAbiu s-and vio'iatcd. ♦ * *
I GretWe and the OHwnian R<m- <v—* he
: l);ij*oi-the “*Sidf Man’* Xtimi ret.
| hL^ajutaC'tind"he l^T;''ui:it n h.rt'lo . l q
i»Cributc.l t<> him ;. mi his 1 “King
hi' aij the i.'ifllknev.’’ jmd fa I ing 1; art.
jjlhtf interests ol‘ all the spattered ihigmotJs
of what was Plico tiicGi 'oiali iiiilX.ii, Were,
in. ajj'i,pinb.il. by,’ t; ver m .k Tho
KiiiWtau-t !>« Tiflly. i v.;.v .
‘deitjhet.fiutmeial *k.f moral art ii: ( > cnlitffi
: in her favor the. t!ii- woplfl,.
and u> ( liable her to provoke a colh.-Toii
witli tlie QRomaiL Kmj-iro. .Tlie only
inatfer pf uncprlaiidy i.-- H \ m.-i ontont
(fiat aMonarpli may be a- e tot-on
trotthe impetuosity rtf hi - 4'- ' . r it’
st* ms that' Greeks from* 'kb
kingdom have been at Uie h. . I of the
t Vetnn in-urg- -fits outs . q:. 1 tha
with ammunition have been c -.i'.r'-. and to
Crete from, the Greek hr.;her at' Syra. <
Notwitiistaii'bng those pcityi xi; . j ni
scftsioii, we thi liilh as vat I'. * iiu-lin- dto '
believe in ri.- pnsriidiity of .-eiidns
rii-midei-statidiiig'l twe.’-u Uie (V t ;:t. of
Athens and ConscaminoiilN-nor dffiwe. ap
.preheud any immediate-...elution of that
most puzzling of huniaii uroblouts, the
Eastern question. Inevitable as ilfat dilu
tion may lie, and at ho distant jt
will always be wise-to put it ofidts long
passible. . There • are • few men at the
present day at a 10.-s lmw to pul a •>- j» r
value on the respective merits, of (duck
and Thrk, aud as to <v.>ry subjet-A of fli; -
pute between The'question is uif .
longer one of iuistlb.u rrt • exoe-'i l ;i;:y ;
not of sympathy, but cf policy, , is
little dcu'ia as to Urn days of the Tu 4 h
Embird in ■’ 0.-p huwbercdj it
is not quite e'-.-itr a ■ \ t h-«w A’myllka; left
by the-expubioii, oF tlip Niosien* is to U:
filled up. itds mit-King Geor tau mas
uiiui j' t [.he k’O(L‘ J y,tM, -C-luMy;”.
fflnip l rant™WistetuvfrnSrf ™'tW '
ship of tho Straits. There are none of the
I Bowers of‘Europe prepared to face that
[terrible Eo.-teni qaertion at the , -- .x
momoit. ft i# very' qtioetiOnah
they will ever attempt to nirl.o r y ..
it. It is sure to break upon them of a
‘it will always tak(* thoworld by Surpri !
The fact is,* the hcttlemont of ques
tion involves a grave general Europ- an
pacific or diplomatic solution. It v. ill
have to be referred to the ultima rath.
’Can it be a matter of wonder ii' statesmen
show-the utmost anxiety to ward of the
evil liniment'? “ HufficimiE for tie;;!-- is
the evil tpcrco?,” they say. “ The.delage
our time. ” —London Times, Sept: 20.
Tho Rio Grande Courier of 2-ith says it
imperialism, but tho contrast be tween
M ija and his Libera! successors is too
strong for him.
- During the Regime of the so-called empire,
tbc General commanding the l'nc of the
T ' ”; .
werainfrequent anti well se.-v: a-q bib af •;
property air.-.rd. and by thc_ str^toat
robbery now prevalent, what i T • c : -
| HC , (UC .|“
■
I stmits.” ‘
Eachdri ter dfae . and a bit
: fVonj 1 tl;o'''emicr;:th-n' o!' 'V* ••-'• ■s
ito this side, that :T f ■n.i'.'tJF’s via he
V •
j lerey." If lie starts, wo are j.r .-pared to
[remote than the Camtal of Tatnaulipa^.
~ —— !_ i";
The Modi ter \ ..n h. 21 aoji.
j The Pat/ic states tE-k there are at the
|
[ ranean QuestionY in wbicli tl . rfl r,
s j,; n o sjpPy (’ra-vs tho (
Tart.-an than an Eastern que-tion.
, The article continua l Hiu
‘‘Let us not lose ours.-h ~jnt'r-int
ricacies oftho East.rn (iu hr.-.. Ik lus .
Vie fir.-i, b.v the j ffirefog ffi ; the V'tii
aboiilvo by the prompt jiaciScafiou of
The grand ball was the largest and most
or.ihn.-i display of beauty, ever seen even
tu kontucky.
t<> redeem Its outstanding circulation, ;...
desires that the holders of it not- «.1
necessary for their redemption may be a•-
certained. This registration may -‘aj m.v :
| in. the absence of a present.;; .*u u.a
A Tribunes^ Washington - ltd
j anything startling to occtu.