Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877, October 24, 1866, Image 1

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* i 't OLD BEHIES, VOL. LXXV. Chronicle & Sentinel. ii i:> iiv mooiu:, A. It. WIIKiHT. teujw op «rnM Kimox. WEEKLY. ’month. .. TS ; i <o 1 'km ; . 3 no J. K. IV. JOHNSTON , Dtutama Manner. Al Gl MTA. *.A !• 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.