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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI.
Chronicle | Sentinel
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THE m;»h.
I ■ fogii Min inter**, Judges of the IT, H.
nie c-jurt, Army ami Navy officers,
■i Ujoiihunds of lesser lights, pai<l their
• -j.i-cts to the President on New Year’s.
‘ ln ■'<■••• l l >tion was a brilliant allair.
I iic recent .Supreme Court decision in
"M,diary Commission case,” has been
puljlished.
'I he Commandant of Port Phil Kearney,
oe of the late massacre, will probaßly
1 tried lor carelessness in the discharge of
his duties.
•Judge Magruder, of Annapolis,Md., was
, ,r,! I • N. Commissioner IJrooks, on the
charge of violating the Civil Rights Bill—
ri iusing to receive negro testimony.
A Creek ship has been sunk by the
'I urkish squadron, ofCandia.
The I.ondon Tun ex in its New Year’s ed
itorial, predicts that 18t>7 will boa year of
g.-reral pi an o anil prosperity. Bo mote it
'•’< -‘“ls b*arlngfhnUnited Statescolors,
v. ill be admitted to French ports free of all
navigation dues.
l!*i ;n< i was suspended in Condon and
I. \ i rpool mi tho Ist, out of reepeat to the
list of the names of Confederate offi
‘ pardoned liy the President, has been
‘ m 11 plri<•(!. Tho total number is 1315.
1 German Conference continues in
on. One Os the chief points agreed
ip a, n that of a Federal arrny. The
I effi-ctivc army will number 205,-
iic I’iipo invites Calliolic Bishops
tbroiighont tho world, to meet him in
Koine on tlie Ist of June, 1867, to celebrate
Mu martyrdom of Peter and Paul, and tho
eononl/aation of several martyrs.
Slope have been taken to compel Hon
duras to observe neutrality on the Chilian
question.
Joseph A. Voazic of Boston, has failed.
I.inhlmies half a million.
Thu Havana financial panic has almost
entirely abated.
in I.ondotiyesterday, C#!tedStates live*
thirties opened ut 735. In Liverpool cotton
opened firm.
< v. Cm tin of Pennsylvania, yesterday
cut :a re well mldiisto his Legislature,
in which fle puts llio debt of Ihe Stale at
thil 1,-' i\ milliondollars, and recommend*
Ce adoptimuifthe“Constitutional Atnend
i i ■ 11 ■ fiercely proclaims that it’would
b. monstrous to let tho South have any
vol iin the matter. 1
■ as liiurstho East, report a ministerial
crisis at Athens.
ihe Freach Emperor and the Italian
ii'T, in their New Year addresses, ox
re great hope for the futuro peace of
their respective dominions.
t he atoumer Xangatack has been sunk
in the Mississippi.
Yn inlirmary building at Lebannon,
Oliio, was destroyed by lire.
A threatened revolt at tho JolletPonitcn-
Ii i y Wiis nipped in tho bud.
There was a smash-up on tho Toledo,
Peoria and Waliash railroad. No lives
lost, but many persons badly seared.
Bestrucirivo lire at Mobile, yesterday.
I -oss SIOO,OOO.
SP uilirr h'eliptc exploded her boiler in
savanimh rivet’, Stinday, and sunk. Five
men killed.
’t he Missouri Legislature convened, but ;
no nr tailiration was eliooteil.
A paper mill at iJloomtiold, N. J., mils i
tl. flowed by lire on tiio night of tho Ist j
- ... i $25,000. Insurance fs,oo#.
.V bill has been introduced in the Now I
~V ~ ■ iistalhre ‘repealing the
Pa i ail road bill.'
I. -islature of M»lno assembled
v, and elected officers—all Radl-
Tin i L uei ul Assembly of Massachusetts
ic Maryland Legislature effected a
(. 'in in n-ary organization.
' rnor Cox, of Ohio, in his message to
i daturo of that State, comes out, o
. strongly in favor of the amend-
Tliroo hundred and eighty-four deaths
in New York last week.
Forrest has made his final exit from tho
stage.
\ Photographic Epitaph—“ Taken from
lire.”
Wearing female apparel is one of the
dodges of the New Haven robbers.
The Radicals already have their claws
in the Constitution.
Second-rate powder is not 2th powder.
An overbearing woman in Detroit has
jiii ruled her husband with four children
at a birth.
There are thirty-one candidates for Uni
ted s.a es Senator in Kansas.
The next thing to a ragamuffin has been
di oeied to bo flannel cake.
I put i -aid to have a strong odor by
the e who “smelt” it.
Punch anagramatizes A. Ward into “a
draw.”
The Radicals would change the national
to black and white.
Tho Theatre des Nouveautes in Paris
lin ii on destroyed by lire.
There is a law that every house in Ant
worp must be painted once a year.
Mrs. Mitchell ofGillapolis, Ohio, died a
few days ago in a lit of anger. Moral—la
dies should never get angry.
Marriage changes the current of a man’s
feelings. —[Kx. — lt also changes his cur
roncy.
Miss Sidney, of Islington, England, has
left a bequest to maintain a home for stray
dogs. Clover woman !
The Imperial Court of Dixon, France,
lias di eided that tho epithet “female”
applied to a woman constitutes an insult,
A gay and festive postmaster at Osage.
I \m, has been splurging on greenbacks
taken from letters.
“When alone, we have our thoughts to
watch : in our families, our tempers ; and
in i :y, our tongues.”
1 Edward Bulwcr Lytton is in Paris, j
ii; liio treatment of Dr. Trumbull, of j
\ a Y rk, and is getting |his hearing
A handsome young lady has been de
i... din St. Louis, in stealing valuable
-moinPrings w hich she disposed of to a |
j e.wu broker.
\\'o mi.-s the k s in the Richmond E r
"hat's b. k's Pollard has left.—A'. O
' ■ Holt posts a fellow who married
. o day and left tho next. He was
.H ..or at taking Holt than holding on.
Money in your purse will credit you—
ii ,<di>min your head adorn you—but both
in your necessity will serve you.
Barnum is out West, getting a lot of
lnj ;ui< with which to stock a “side show"
at the Great Paris Exposition,
A marriage notice in a Richmond, A ir
ginia, exchange, instead of the common
•;i> ...image. “No cards,” has “So tick-
\ " ty recently advertised for employ- I
i ’ i.i; i -lows :“A young lady*’ wishes to i
“ i a , nd a widower’s household, and
i 1 n,.. object to tlie supervision of a
•' . ■ Maretzek claimed twenty thousand
j , , j and recovered a verdict for one
. i, ... his libel suit against the New
... The Mercury appeals,
y, • -.mg lady who hail accidentally lost
ii ... and had an artilical one, jokingly
; „jd tliat it did very well except for
lag—she could no longer turn up her
at an acquaintance.
; Rosa Dilie, of Cleveland, Ohio,
asleep near her stove ou Thursday
< ,ni»g the 20111 lust ' Her cl °thes 10011
!uv. and she was burnt to a crisp.
We observe, by the Nashville Cnion and
1>; : . sch, Itbat the Rev. J. R. Graves is
ai ato remove the South-West Publish
ing House, of which he is the senior
partner, to Memphis.
The penal law of Alabama which pun
ches horse and mule stealing with death,
is to take effect from and after the Ist of
January.
Ul’B WASHINGTON COBRESPOADEMK.
| Christmas Day — lt* Ol*'> roue Star
i tling Opposition to the .ludkianj—Rad
kah'nn r*. the Snpftme (Jourt — R'.icv -
■ at of Absurd Reports •!/*/)'< Stanton s
Retaliation — Cotniri'-siine:’ Stir ton of
tjie Agricultural Jiur* ii—Slow Move
ment of the. Reogn struct yn Com hi ittn —
India h Affair* — Re-orgyio.'itlstii of IV, -
pin la—Negro ( andid/tte for Mayor —
Crime, in \Ya*hington, €‘ .
Washington. December 20.
Christmas day passed off yesterday in a
remarkably quiet manner,'and in noway
akin to the old fashioned, Holly, rtSfticking
i Christmas times of years a;{o. The feet is,*
the day doesn’t seem to lx; as much of our
institution here as it once was, and the
! people do not seem to enjoy it as wellpnl
j though there is no doubt but that theao
! sence of nearly ail the members of Coa
, gress from the city, together with other
prominent officials, gave the ‘lay a rather
dry appearance. Tl, e weather over head
was al) that could be desired: tie sky was ,
pure and clear, and the bright sunlight
danced and mingled iu rays everywhere,
of course everybody tried to be happy, and
many Huccenfed, though to my mind the
Christmas cnitiies were not rung out so
sweetly as in the days when/‘peace end I
good will, good will and peace, ’ was re.-o- j
nant in ei’ery striking of the hells; hut
Christmas has pa.--.ed, is as far off a ever, :
and next comes New Year’s day in Wash- j
ingtou.
It is a very good-commentary on free j
government, when onq hears uumarained i
arguments tirade in favor of the abolish- i
merit of the Judicial branch of it.
These have become rather common within
the pustweek, and i have listened to more ;
than one prominent radical official (not in
Congress either,) assert that for all the
good which might result from its decisions
the HiLwaitue Court might very well be
done away with, and then Congress will he
the last arbiter of all litigations, claims, or
essential political differences. The decision, j
in the Ilowles-Milligan case has given very
great offence, and as it is determined that it ,
shall ho carried out to tho very letter, the
radicals, are not so certain of convicting all
who stand accused by them of various mat
tors, for which their trials by military com- |
mission had been set. This is particularly ;
the case with offences against the Freed- |
men’s Bureau, and Justices of the highest
Court in the laud, in making the decision ,
that they did against the illegality of mili
tary commissions and drum-head courts |
martial fiir civilians, gave that institution
a blow from which it seems vet/ hard to
recover. It is probable that the circular ol '
the Secretary of War on this subject, as
well as one with reference to the disposition j
of the Government on the _ course which
General Sickles is pursuing in his Depart
ment, or more particularly in North Caro- t
lina, will be issued iu a day or two. They :
will bo upon the direct orders of the Presi
dent.
An absurd rumor prevailed two or three j
days ago, being the one hundredth repeii- j
tion, that Stanton would retire on the first
of January. Nobody believes it, and your j
correspondent hazards the opinion and ex- j
presses it, that that official will remain iu
the Cabinet as long as President Johnson
does in the White House. The Radicals i
have little confidence in him, tior have the j
Conservatives. Yet tho assertion has,gone j
forth wit hin the past week, that the Secre
tory of.War is eminently moderate in his
views, and also that he cannot go the I’ < i- |
cal figure of one, and uiire. /> d%ull. ;;e j
to the blacks in this IF !i : ei. That, of j
course, stamps him a half rebel at once, j
taking either Sumner or Stevens, or even j
the lately converted Senator Wilson ns j
judge in tho matter. But do not look for |
the announcement of a vacancy iu tlie War ;
Department for ages yet. At present there |
are no indications whatever of such an in- j
! tontion on the part of its chief oflicer.
When Congress re assembles, they will
probably, shortly after the session begins,
inako a move towards the reorganization of
the agricultural department, a bill for the
purpose of which has already been intro- .
(lueed into the House of Representatives, ,
the main object is to’have someone ap- !
pointed, or rather elected by Congress, to |
fill the place of Mr. Isaac Newton, or ’’old
iiither Newton,” as he is often, more at- j
feetionately than elegantly, alluded to.
Applicants for that position, like thosedk ;
uU otlwr places, where) there is go and pay J
and not a groat deal to do, are as “thick as '
leaves in Vallambrosa.” Several delega-|
lions were here during the last session. ;
when radicals called early and often on the
President for favors, asking for Mr. New- j
ton’s removal, but he yet holds on, though
without doubt lie thinks there is noiv j
cause for fear, and trembling on account of j
his official head.
The Reconstruction Committee have not
made any progress since Congress left
Washington. They have only a sort of
sub committee left, and the sub does not
seem disposed to enter heartily into the
weighty matters which claim its attention. j
Even old Thad is said to bo derelict in his j
duties and prefers to keep Christmas
times rather than bestow all his mind at
present on territorial matters. They will [
not be able to patch up anything in time j
for their friends when they return from
tho pleasures and investigating tours down ;
South. It will not be surprising, speaking
seriously, if the joint Committee of fifteen
should not report a bill in effect to lessen
materially the authority and powers of the j
Supreme Court. It would be in direct con
flict with the Constitution of course, but
no one who is observant of affairs in Wash
ingtou, when Congress is iu session would
ever think of making very extensive ex
clamations upon that announcement.
The department of Indian Affairs intend
making instant inquiry into the reported
murders and outrages by the Indians on
the Western frontier, accounts of which are
received now nearly every day. The
country where these massacres occur, is iu
the department under General Sherman,
and that officer, after he returns from
his Mexican mission, will, no doubt, take a
tour to the frontier, and extend precau
tions against any further outrage.
1 learn that one or two gentlemen from
Virginia are endeavoring to have a hill
| prepared for the reorganization of that
State, on the plan proposed by the North
| Carolina “loyalists. John Minor Botts
| is said to he one of the parties, and it is
thought such a bill will be introduced early
i in the month.
j There seems to be no doubt but that the
I negroes, who are on the verge of being
I made voters in this district, arc beginning
j to look about them for a candidate for
j Mayor, at the next municipal election, of
their own color, but their white friends
j tuay prevail on them not to precipitate
1 matters, but wait awhile for that eonsum-
mation. The party most prominently
mentioned is a colored feed dealer ot this
city, who by industry and attention to
business, has made considerable money—
and wlio is generally known as “Lee, the
freedman.” The negroes talk of this fre
quently, and Lee, although the bill under
which his prospective chances for chief
magistrate of Washington city lias not yet
become a law, must feel, however, a little
elated at the compliment from his fclloic-
Orime is getting on the increase in
Washington, several burglaries have occur
red lately, and this morning an efficient
member of the police force was shot, and
dangerously wounded by one ot two sus
pected burglars, whom he had arrested
and was conveying to the station house.
The weather to-day i> quite cold with
indications of' snow when it moderates.
■* Arlington.
The Constitutional Amendment — Tin. .
Amount of the Week'a Discussion —
Radical Reformation of the Supreme [
Court —The End of the Line Sea rip
Reached—Electioneering for Positions j
Coder ih< Fortieth Congress—lron-Clad \
Nary Yard. Waskm rti .. Spok . f u
thaHDepi.it—Order Relative to Military
Commissions—The Fort Kearney Mas
sacre —A Modest Subordi, ate of the i
Tree ury Department—Maryland Legis
lature, etc.
Washington. December 20.
The Constitutional Amendment scorns to I
have been the single, all-absorbing topic of !
conversation for the past week, the ques
tion discussed being whether the Southern
States would be admitted to their proper
privileges even shoidd they adopt that plan
of admission. It may be remarked, how
ever, that no one, who has any idea of the
Southern people, or of their State pride,
imagines, for one instant, that they will do
so. Various individuals are here, and
have been here —a few from the South, and
many from the North —arguing with the
President on the subject, and remonstrat
ing with Radical Congressmen, without any
effect, and they go home again with the
gune assurances from Congress as to its
disposition towards the South as they come
with, and no more. The truth is. that at
present, no one can tell what will be the
result of things. Tho Radicals inufid
going to the farthest extreme, by which
time there is every evidence that there will
be a smash. They have dropped all talk
about impeachment of the President, and
begin to talk boldly and unequivocally
about re-organizing the Supreme Court.
1 have no doubt whatever, judging from
remarks made by prominent members of
the majority party, that a proposition will
be made early next month to amend the
Constitution, so as to do away effectually
with the Supreme Court. “Reform it
altogether” is the Radical cry of dissatis
faction. because it has been demonstrated
[ayd icitl be farther ye!) that the judicial
branch of the Government does not concur
with the legislative in stepping beyond the
iimits of the Connstitution. The five mem
bers oft he Radical party claim that theirs is
a party of progress. t That is a constant
theme. “We are of the progressive
order,” says one of the Jacobins, who is
anxious to progress so fur that the old
Union and its Constitution, by laws, and
statues at large, are to he left entirely out
,of r ight in less than ninety days. But five,
at least, of the nine Justices of the Su
preme Court differ very materially with
this style of profession, and it is confidently
believed that bef’ire the adjournment of
this Thirty-ninth Congress, other decisions
will lx made which will considerably chock
these wheelsof progression, which are carry
ing the country down hill to ruin so rapid
ly. But Stevens, or one of his features ,
proposes a remedy liir all this. It is simple
and eft'eciive ; only abolish the Supreme
('ourt. Put out of sight one of the co-or
dinate brunches of the Government ; as it
is proposed to put out of office the repre
seutatiye of another branch. The scheme
i ■ no wilder, nor is it an iota less practica
ble than those on hard to reduce teu States
to Territories, or co change and revolu
tionize the entire machinery of the Gov
ernment absolutely. This is a rock upon
which radicalism will be considerably
stunned, even if it is not split. We have
n ur tin - that the c things will
lx attempted, and as these is often found
a verification of the old adage “out of evil
comoth good” we may soon look for the
beneficent results of the radicals having
run nearly to the length of their line. *
It seems to he very generally understood
that the Fortieth Congress, which will,
without doubt, meet ori the 4th of March,
will continue in session for about two
months or ten weeks. If the present Con
gre:does not succeed in getting to the
la.-t extreme, the ultima thule of venom
and hate, the next will certainly accom
plish that endeavor. It will “out Herod
Herod” in respect to the “progressing”
business, and Ren. Butler will, in all prob
ability, lake the lead should Stevens he
elected fiom Pennsylvania, as both the
veteran himself and Forney thinks he will
ho There is already considerable agita
tion among the candidates for officers of'the j
next House; Colfax is certain to be re-elec- j
ted Speaker, at least, that is the present as j
peet. But with regard to the subordinate j
officers, there are doubts. Several candi- i
dates present themselves for Clerk-McPher- j
sou’s position—two of these being like him, i
ex members of the Thirty Seventh Con
gress, and for the other offices, there j
is the usual amount of competition. The
only talk of changing Senate officials refers
to the election of the present Postmaster,
Judge Edmunds, in the place of Sergeant
at-arms, Brown, who it is said, has in some
way made himself disagreeable to certain
Western Senators. Brown is clever per
sonally, and radical enough politically, and
it is surprising that the party who ousted
Colonel Me Muir iivc years ago to give tho
former a place should be dissatisfied with
their choice so soon.
Since the subject of locating the Navy
Yard, for iron clads here has been under
consideration, the authorities of the Navy
Department seem to bestow a great deal j
of favor upon it, and it will be brought he- |
fore the naval committee of both Houses, !
immediately after Congress re-asscmbles. !
The advocates af League Island and New j
London for that purpose are both bitterly
opposed to Washington being made the j
iron clad port.
The order of the President respecting in j
general terms trials of civilians by military I
commission is looked for with great interest
and its publication will be made about the
first of January. It will be issued by the
Secretary of War “by order of the Presi
dent.”
The recent Indian massacre at Fort Phil.
! Kearney has roused the Government to j
the sense of providing more_ effectually |
against such attacks upon United States
troops and civilians in tlie frontier vicinity.
The new Commissioner of Indian Affairs
will give the matter his immediate atten
tion. The Government is now, and has
been for a long time, constantly engaged in
making U.ciaic,s~made to be.broken often
Ty the Indians treated with—and other
wise at work in solving the mysteries ’of
the Indian question. The Indians in their
small numerical strength are an elephant
on our hands; but what can the negroes be
called? They will commence to go to the
wall as soon as the Radical Capitol is gone.
Mr. L. M. Clark who is at the head of the
Printing Bureau of the Treasury Depart
ment. is a very modest gentleman. He
has recently had printed a design, showing
the different style heads, and one or two
other engravings made iu the Department.
The picture, probably, being intended as a
nerw years gift to, possibly, some of the
lady clerks and others. Mr. Clark is the
subordinate official who figured in Mr.
Brook’s Investigating Committee expose,
some three winters ago. But the point of
this paragraph rests in a description of Mr.
j Clark's design. It represents the heads.of
the several distinguished and important
1 personages, as they range in a circle enclos
ing in the centre “the sacred bird of free
dom” with its shield and banner. The
heads are those of Washington, Grant,
! Sherman. Andrew Johnson, McCulloch,
and Clark him. rtf, and another subordi
nate officer of the Department. Clark s
vanity must he immense, but lie should he
! taught by his Radical friends that Lincoln’s
: picture had a better right on the engraving
at least, than his. When Clark put his
head on the five cent currency notes Con- j
i gress made a noise about it; but as the !
last example of his genius was not for pub- !
lie circulation, there may nothing be said. '
.Much interest is felt here in the session !
i of the Maryland Legislature, which meets j
' at Anuapolis on the 2d of January next, j
This will be the first meeting of the Legis- j
luture which is in session only once in ttvo
j years, since the Constitutional Amendment
I was presented for the consideration of the
i different State Legislatures. The feeling
; in Maryland is very bitter against it, and
! there is little or no doubt that the Legisla
| turo will reject it. A United States Sena
tor in the place of Mr. Cresswcll is also to
!be elected. The choice will probably, be
! Governor Swum;, who has arrayed himself
sostronglv in support of the President’s
; policy. The people of the State look to !
the Legislature to relieve them of some
1 very onerous burdens imposed by the radi
j cal Legislative Assembly of two years ago.
If Representative Thomas introduces his
’ bill for the re organization of the State of
Maryland, this Legislature will certainly
invite him to resign.
The weather tlie past three days lias
been unusually stormy and very cold. This
afternoon there is every indication of snow.
The destitute freedmen and freedwomen
hereabout, who cannot help themselves, are
to be taken care of. Postmaster Bowen,
who will be the freedmen's candidate for
the Mayoralty next Junc. is at the head of
the movement for their relief.
Arlington.
The Delegation op “One” So
called—A Tribute to the President.
—The New York Times refers editorially
to the reported conversation of Senator
AA’eatherley, of South Carolina, with the
i President, and .ays:
“ The President anticipates the defeat,
not the success, of the amendment; his
I influence is exerted to promote its rejec
tion. not its ratification; he looks to the
Supreme Court to sustain his policy as
against the policy of Congress, and he
counsels the Southern Legislature's to pur
sue a course that will aggravate existing
evils, and widen the breach between him
i self and the majority in Congress. "
This tribute to the determination of the
President to abide by the Constitution,
which he has sworn to support, comes from
| one of his most overt opponents, and is
: intended as a warning to the Southern peo
ple that he is powerless to help them, and
that with Congress alone we must make
our peace. The President, the Constitu
tion and the right are on our side, and we
may reasonably trust to time to ensure the
fruition of our hopes and desires. — t harles
ton Mercury.
The Fire in Vicksburg.— The late fire
in Vicksburg destroyed about one hundred
houses.
Two white children and four negroes
perished in the flames. Six negroes were
killed by accident. One hundred families
are. by this calamity, rendered houseless.
The fire originated through carelessness
in Mayer’s bar-room building.
The streets are crowded with goods and
dile'e The greatest credit is due Gener
erals AY ood and Dudley, and.their men, for
the superhuman efforts to arrest the pro
gress of the flames. Five or six buildings
were blown up to arrest the progress of the
flames. The Theatre buildings, Cathedral,
City Bank, and Telegraph office escaped ;
the former, however, was badly damaged.
The heavens were illuminated" for miles.
The t tal loss is estimated at two millions
of dollars, almut one-fourth of which was
insured. The fire raged till daylight.
Cleveland, Ohio, has been visited by a
freshet.
I
AUGUSTA, GA,, WEDNESDAY..-MORNING, JANUARY 9, 1567.
A Rojal Boar Hunt >ear Berlin.
The Marquis of Lorn contributes to
Land and Water the following description
of a boar hunt near Berlin .•
’ ‘One of the prettiest meets t>u,a seen
in Germany and at the same time, to an
Englishman, the most novel, is that which
takes place in the Grunewald, not far from
; Chariottenberg, near Berlin, on the od of
November of each year. Report said the
meet was to be punctually at twelve, so a
little after eleven I started. When I at
last came to a place where a large crowd
was assembled, I was told that the royal
party was expected there, but that tbey
would not come for another half hour.
There was, therefore, opportunity to have
a good look at the crowd, and a rude set
j they seemed to be. Carriages by the doz
; en tvere there, and a good many horsemen,
and these were incessantly, and not very
; politely, chaffed. It was a crowd that had
| evidently come to make holiday, and were
: determined to be merry. Several were
1 drunk, and these were often teased and ir
] ritated for the amusement of the rest; and
when they became quarrelsome or bumpti
j ous, were much set upon, and knocked
| about A plot of greensward was kept
1 clear for the ‘Herrschaffen’ by the helmeted
and mounted police, who did their duty
iin no very gentle manner; sometimes half
riding over those who pushed themselves
i too lar forward. In spite of this there
were no cries against the police. On the
contrary, if anybody was knocked back by
them, an immediate rush was made to
wards him, and a loud, laugh raised at Ida j
xpense. There must have been a thou
°aud or fifteen hundred people there to see
b he start. An orderly now gallops towards
us. A number of voices cry, ‘The King
is coining 1’ The hubbub hitherto indulg
! ed in ceases, and, all who can, line one of
| the Yvood ways to catch a glimpse of the
hunt Cortege. Here comes scarlet hunts
men, their collars bearing the black eagle
of Prussia on a white ground. With these
men are the dogs; good, strong-looking
hounds, but not very numerous. Then
ride in some police, then officers, and fol
lowing them, some jagers in green uniforms,
Yvitli black felt hats, their broad rims turn
ed upon one side and adorned Yvith a feath
er. A gleam of red is now seen through
the trees, and off go all hats as the ruler
of North Germany, the Crown Prince,
and behind them one or two hundred gen
tlemen of the court ride by. They are all
; in red coats and tops; in short, in English
I hunting costume, except that every one
[ wears a large white tie, and some have a
short hunting sword at the side. The
| King, looking like a gray old Indian officer,
| is mounted on a fine horse, and both he
| and his son seem none the worse for the
| campaign in which they have lately led
| their people to such Yvonderful victory.
After the numerous cavalcade came many
of the royal carriages. The Queen is in
the first Yvith some of her ladies, and
drawn by four horses. A halt is made,
and some minutes’ grace allowed to piggy,
while the red coats disperse in picturesque
groups among the pines, atid the restive
horses toss their manes, which are often
curiously decked with ribbons, and paw
up the moss with their hoofs. It is not
long before the King rides slotvly on, for
the hounds are now laid upon the scent. —
In another minute they have taken it up,
lull cry, and away go the cloud of scarlet
riders, and with them the officers and po
lice, Yvith sabres clanking at their horses’
sides. Away, Yvith a shout and a yell from
the crowd behind, who are mostly too fat
or too much Yvrapped up in fur cloaks to
think of seeing anything more. The boar
has put his best leg foremost, and leads up
a steep hill; then down, and atvay along its
crest; and always still beneath the firs,
far through the Yvood. There are no ditches
to jump, no bull-finelies to negotiate. It
is mostly plain sailing, except where a brok
en tree lies across the Yvay, or a broken
stump has to be avoided ; you may be can
noned against a tree, or your horse may
get ‘snagged,’ as the' Mississippi boatmen
Yvould say, but these.) are the only perils of
the hunt. The grfiund is often uneven,
and some heavy pAMeemen soon find that
they must pull upitheir horses to breathe;
but tho hounds are still in front—it is diffi
cult to see where, for the trees are thick ;
but. on we go. The King rides Yvell to them,
and it is not etiquette to pass him ; but as
the riders get scattered all press on, not
jstQgi.p>oai jus,lJMtotgwi
has now lasted fifteen minutes, and I find
myself with some others on the top of a
steep bank; there is a cry below and one
or two of the hunt are there. We half
slide, half trot down, and before we have
gono far the glimmer of water is seen
through the firs. There is a broad space
of open ground below us. Beyond is a
’lake stretching far to right and left. The
opposite hanks are high, and again dark
with forest. But the bay of the hounds is
loud, and we stare through the branches
to make out where they are. There, in
the lake, the water is disturbed, and half
way across are a number of Yvhite specks.
The boar has taken to the water and the
whole pack are swimming fast over after
him. We gallop to the bank, and by aud
by the rest of the hunt are up, looking
considerably nonplussed. It is not un
common for the pig to take to the wa
ter they say. But what is to be done now?
It is too long a journey to go round. Most
dismount and give their horses to red jack
eted men, who, with trousers rolled up to
the knees and with bare feet, have follow
ed fast on foot,, taking short cuts. Some
boats are procured, and the huntsmen are
ferried over to reconnoitre, and bring back
the hounds, with or without the pig. The
ladies in their carriages soon drive up. —
There are only two present on horseback;
and the seen on the shore is gay and pic
turesque enough, with the bright colors of
the men in the foreground, and, beyond
the lake, reflecting in its calm surface the
dark woods opposite. One would not have
expected to have found so fair a spot on
the sandy plains around the Prussian capi
tal. But now the last scene is at hand, for
all have again mounted, and gather on a
point of land, toYvards Yvhich some boats,
with the huntsmen, are making their way.
As soon as these touch the shore, the grim
old boar, Yvho has made his way so brave
ly through wood and water, is laid, stiff
and dead, before the King and Queen. A
Yvide ring is formed around, and the royal
huntsman steps out and blows the horn he
lias hitherto had slung behind him, and its
notes ring clear and loud through the echo
ing woods. The gentlemen wave their hats
and shout. All is over, and the court _ fob
lows the King. The long procession winds,
like a scarlet ribbon, through the green
gloom, homeward to dinner at the hunting
lodge, the buglers blowing merrily in
front.”
The Corporeal Punishment of Girls.
Dr. Morrill A\ r yman, of Cambridge, has
| been one of the most active in denouncing
the recent case of girl whipping in that
j city, and has published a pamphlet setting
forth the moral and physical reasons why
corporeal punishment should not be inflicted
upon girls, with great clearness and foice.
He says :
Why should not girls be treated as boys?
Because girls are not boys. Every parent
having children of both sexes knows that
I they have moral characteristics which at
| once distinguish them before they arrive
at the school age. They are weaker in
body and more sensitive in feeling, and are
more occupied with the impression they
! make upon others long before they know
its value. That delicate sense of propriety
which distinguishes the woman has already
its germs in the girl. They seem to know
instinctively that they cannot rely upon
; physical strength, and as instinctively cling
to others for support and protection. They
are gentle, docile, confiding aud affec
tionate. They exhibit these gentler quali-
ties at home and in school in a thousand j
ways ; they hasten to meet their teacher !
as she approaches in the morning ; they
run by her side, they seize her hand, and
evince their affection by kisses upon her I
cheeks and roses upon her desk. The
skillful and faithful teacher takes advan
tage of these qualities, especially of their
docility, and so moulds them that corporal 1
punishment is not only unnecessary, but it
is cruelty.
Physiologically she is different, and to
this 1 would most earnestly beg your atten
tion. Her blood corpuscles are smaller, her
nervous system is of a more delicate struc
ture. her brain is lighter, and her muscles
smaller : she is made for quickness and vi
vacity. but not for strength and endurance.
Ihe same reasons which prevent her from
sharing the rougher games and plays of
boys should protect her from suffering the
harsheT punishments of boys. She is more
sensitive to interna! emotions and external
sensations; and I assert, without fear of
contradiction, that no physician can be
safely trusted to advise for the preserya
tion of health, or its restoration, _ who dis
regards even in the child the distinction of
sex. The most eventful period of her
physiological life is spent in schools. Du
ring this period there is not unfrequently
mental uneasiness, irritability and depres
sion, easily mistaken for petulance and de
fiance by the unwise, and I greatly fear has
sometimes produced punishment for that
for which she is answerable to her urod
aloue.
AY’ith a rapidity of development unknown
in the other sex. she becomes a woman,
: witli all a woman’s refined sensibilities,
hopes and fears. She now awtinetively
knows that upon the Mod impression she
makes upon others Housed Jer hopes for
the future. If her physical organization is
, sensitive, her spiritual native is doubly
sensitive, and it is this whies makes her
what she is. It Is vain to eowit the num
ber and weigh the severity of the blows
upon her person, and note the hours that
elapse before their marks disappear. Her
spirit is wounded, she is disgraced and de
graded ; years may not efface the conse
quences. It is this that stirs the sensibili
ties and brings doYvu the censure of
the greater part of the civilized world,
and ’from none is that censure more
j severe than from cultivated women. Strike
not a woman, eY’cn Yvitn a feather, is the
motto of civilization, and it is h accordance
Yvith the spirit of Christianity also.
[communicated.] } |h
Street Railroad. \
Messrs. Editors : —I our short editorial a
foYv days ago in reference to t'*e Street
Railroad came in the very nick of time,
i for many of your readers, Yvhc fed a deep
interest in the early completion of this iru
i porcant enterprize had began '.o fear that
it was very near dead. It is useless to
refer to the eauses that have oo rsioned the
delay in commewing this worl wl4oh the
! community at large desire finis’ eases early
as possible. We do express tie astonish
ment however, that those of t tr citizens
who have money to invest and ho should
; be satisfied with reasonable dividends,
i should have neglected, amij
1 opportunity of putting tin ir capital is an ’
enterprise of this kina, which has not only
invariably paid handsome dividend ; to the
owner, bht also been the means of enhanc
ing the value of real estate Yvherever they
have been used. The list instance of a
success in building street railroads is in
Charleston, far beyond he most smgniue
anticipations of its projectors—a'.'.cl where
the people are so delighted that they are
amazed that they never lnd one before. I
cannot bring to my mini a single case
where a street railroad, properly conctruct
ed and energetically has tailed to
be profitable to the stockhnldirs, and popu
lar with the people. On the contrary, the
advantages and conveniences are so obvious
and numerous, that if the choice were
between gas and the street car they would
prefer the latter. And Mr. Editor, in all
the range of your acquaintance tan you find
a city better laid out for the successful em
ployment of their locomotion from one end
to the other of its long and wide streets,
than our own beautiful city of Augusta.
By the time a man has valked from
Hawks’ Gulley down to the East Boundry
ho Yvill be satisfied to pay 10 cents to get
back home. Yes, sir, ldo not hesitate to
say that after these street cars are running
through our streets, our people will cast
some very hard expressions on their fore
fathers—nothing snort of calling 4 hem the
veriest Rip Van Winkle fogies that ever
lived, for not having sooner put them into
operation. By all means, then, Mr. Edi
tor, let the Street Railroad be taken, at
once, Yvithout any further delay, out of
the pigeon-hole, where it has been so long
reposing so quietly, and ventilated at the
North, East or West, as it cannot be at the
South. With the people Yvho want to use
it, the place Yvliere the money is got to
build the road is a matter of no conse
quence—all they Yvant is to know that
somebody is in earnest about the matter,
and that this long-anticipated project may
soon be realized as a fact; yea, a moving
fact in our midst. To this end, stir up all
those Yvho have a hand in the matter, and
keep your readers constantly advised of its
progress, or why it lias not.
State Items.
The Marietta Journal reports that the
business of that once beautiful town, is
steadily improving, and its population in
creasing.
Saturday Yvas a cold, cheerless day in
Columbus. They had a mixture of Yveather
—sleet, rain and suoyv.
The southern boundary of the new coun
ty (Lee) through Girard and the neighbor
ing portion of llussell has been surveyed.
The line runs vary near and generally south
of the Crawford roads striking the river
just below the burnt “upper bridge” at
Columbus.
—Jfa. 'SiIas..ALAI
twifilty years, at various tunes, a police
man in Columbus, died in that city on
Friday, at the age of fifty-five.
At a late meeting of the Georgia His
torical Society, in Savannah, the Hon. S.
Cohen, was chosen to deliver an oration
before the Society at its next an
niversary, on the 12th of February,
18G7, and ho Yvas requested to de
devote the main part of his discourse to the
life and character of the Right Rev.
Stephen Elliott, late President of this
society.
The Savannah Jocky Club has been re*
vived.
A man lias been arrested in Savannah,
charged with shooting and killing in that
city, Martin Sclioeder, on Christmas day.
The steamship General Barnes , which
arrived at Savannah front New York on
Monday, experienced a heavy gale on the
2Sth and 29th ult. On night of the 28th
the ship was completely covered with ice.
Saved Capt. John Young, Pilot Edward
AVatson, and Messrs. B. Johnson and John
Lumberson, from U. S. steam tug Island
er, blown out from Fortress Monroe. The
tug was in bad condition, when the crew
was rescued.
A white man named Cohen, and tw°
negro women have been arrested inSavan
nah, on suspicion of being the muderers
of Airs. Mary Stevens, wno, disappeared
front her home on the 22d of December,
and has not since been heard of. The old
lady was about sixty years of age, and had
an only child, a cripple, and we believe
deaf and dumb, with her, besides a boy,
who done the chores about tlie house.
The woods and swamps about Savannah
are being scoured, in search of the missing
woman’s body. She was supposed to have
had a great deal of gold and silver.
Under the head of “Gubernatorial,”
the Federal _ Union, says it has observed
communications, nominating Speaker
Hardeman and General Gartrell for the
Governorship of this State, ana statements
to the effect that Gov. Jenkins’ “would
not consent to serve another term. All of
these assertions, we believe, are conjectu
ral or gratuitous. There is nothing very
desirable about the office at present, and
we do not suppose Governor Jenkins is
anxious to retain the office,_ but he is not
the man to desert his office in tho hour of
danger. If our present precarious rela
tions with the Federal Government con
tinue, we believe he will consent to stand
by the helm until he brings his beloved
State safe through the storm. The clamor
about his unpopularity lias been raised
chiefly by repudiators, with whom the
great mass of the people feel no sympathy. ’ ’
Milledgeville bad snow and hail on
Saturday. The thermometer remained at
30 degrees.
Under date of January Ist, Gov. Jenkins
has issued a proclamation, making known
to all whom it may concern, that the line
run and marked by Commissioners AY bit
ner and Orr, is the established, per
manent boundary between the States of
Florida and Georgia, from its initial point
on the AVestern boundary of the latter, at
or near the confluence of the Flint and
Chattahoochee rivers, to its terminal point,
at or near Ellicott’s Mound, on tiie St.
Mary’s river, from vjiich point said
boundary proceeds down the middle of said
river to the Atlantic Ocean. _ All citizens
and officers, judicial, ministerial and mili
tary, will govern themselves accordingly.
The great scarcity of seamen at Savan
nah. has raised advance wages, and able
bodied sailors are now receiving S3O for
New York and $55 for Liverpool in ad
vance. These rates are higher than have
prevailed for some time past.
The Journal & Messenger makes the
production of cotton, shipped from For
j syth, in Monroe county, in 1860 and 1866,
j the basis to predicate" a calculation on, as
i to the product of the present year, and
j arrives at the conclusion that the whole
i crop of the South will come under 1,400,-
j 000 bags.
The Tobacco Crop of 1866.—The St.
Louis Democrat publishes some statistics
ot the tobacco crop of the present season.
In Missouri it is reported at from 12,000
|to 15,000 hogsheads. This is far below
an average crop, but it is said that the
quality of the tobacco is unusually good.
t\ * r pnia the crop has fallen off one
third—it is reported at 70,000,000 pounds
1 ’ a , l^e best ever made as respects
quality. In some counties of North
Carolina, lands which had been previously
devoted to tobacco were this year planted
with cotton. The yield for that State is
i 3a,000,000 pounds. The yield in Maryland
is placed at 35,300,000 ; Tennessee at 39,-
SOO.WO ; Texas at 90,000; Kentucky at
61,000,000; Alabama at 270,000; Arkansas
at 1,700,000 , Florida and Georgia each
60,000; Louisiana 40,000; South Carolina
35,000, and the Northern States at 52,150,-
500 jxiunds.
I New Torfc Gold Room-—A Lively Pic
ture.
From a graphic description of the
gold room in New York, in the Chicago
Tribune , we select a few passage^:
THE GOLD ROOM A CURIOSITY.
In a little eourt-vard surrounded by
! four walls, and closed in with a roof, having
a circuitous passage-way from Broad
; street, may be witnessed, at any hour of
i the day, and six days in the week, a scene
which lias not its likeness in earth or
heaven. Whether its parallel can be
found in h —ll will not undertake to say.
Perhaps ft can, but the New York Gold
! Room, is to-day, the greatest curiosity in
the world.
Imagine a rat-pit iu full blast, with
twenty or thirty men ranged around the
rat tragedy, each with a canine under his
arm, all yelling and howling at once, and
you have as good a comparison as can be
found in the outside Yvorld of the aspect
of the gold room, as it strikes the beholder
on his first entrance. The furniture of the
room is extremly simple, it consists of
two iron railings and an “indicator.” The
first railing is a circle, about four feet
high aud ten feet in diameter, placed ex
actly in tlie centre ofthe room. In the
Interior, which represents tlie space devot
ed tq rat-killing in similar establishments,
is a marble cupid throwing up a jet of
pure Croton.
“lame ducks.”
The other railing is a semi-circle twenty
from This
outer rail fences off the “lame ducks” and
“dead beats” —men vrho liave once been
famous at (be “ratpit,” but bave since
been “tie tclouh” Being unable to set
tle their “and” xnecs” they are not al
lowed to come ivside. Solvency is the first
essential of tlie gold room. Nothing
bogus is allowed, io interfere with the
cerions biviua-s ii hand. Nei-ertheless,
these “lameu:iel.s’l rod “deadbeats” can
not keep away from the place. Day alter
day they come and range themselves along
their iron grating and look over the rat
pit with the strangest expression of iu
telligei t vacant.,; and longing despair that
can be found this side of purgatory. They
seem to ha a part offcheitfciiiture room.
While I Yvas there I did net see one of
I’m a move or speak, and when they wink
ed . was with much the c..me spirit that
?.u owl at mid-day lowers Ihe film over his
eyes aud hoists it again.
TIIE “INDICATOR.”
.Ti e “indicator,” which is the third
piece of furniture in the room, (or the
fourth if we count the “dead beats,”) is a
piece of mechanism to show the changes
in the market. It is something like an o’d
fashioned New England clock, seven or
eight ieet fogh, with an open space at the
top disclosing three figures and a fraction,
as at which the market stood when I
entered. The figures being moveable, a
slight manipulation will manifest any
change in the market. Connected witn
the indicator is a plain desk Yvith a book
on it, iu which are recorded all the move
ments of the indicator, Yvitli the hour and
minute at which each movement takes
place. The floor of the establishment is
rather a pavement Yvith circular steps or
terraces rising from the centre to the cir
cumference. “Neat but not gaudy” is
the general aspect of the premises. Os
course such an institution could not exist
without a telegraph office. Accordingly i
Yve find one communicating with the gold j
room by a row of windows, through which
dispatches are constantly passing.
THE SHOUTING.
Having given the external appearance
of the concern, we now come to business.
Three things seem to be in demand —lungs,
note-books and pencils. Wow-wow-wow
yvow-wow, yah-yah-yah-yah-yah, from
tYvcnty to thirty throats, around the pit,
all at once, and kept going from morning
till night, from Monday till Saturday—is
what it presents itself to the ear of the
beholder. Tho voices of the gentry around
the circle are for the most pert teno.i. Yvith
now and then a falsetto and a basso. I
shall not soon forget a basso pi of undo in
the ring, Yvho drew his breath at re, n’ v
intervals, and announced his desires with a
seriousness truly remarkable. He was a
thick set man, with capacious chest, shag
gy head, keen eyes, and rusty ■ whiskeys,
ourseif V-lAyyi)" li/,. inttro'.tt
'maxillary bone iu the most determined
manner. He cocked his head on one side,
thrust his chin as tar over the railing as
possible, and made himself heard every
time. He put in his B flat iu regular
cadences like the trombone performer in a
mill-pond of a summer evening, drowning
for the moment all. the fiddles in the frog
community—or like the double bass crashes
in the overture to Tannhauser, which, by
the way, might pass for “Gold Room Pot
pourri” without the alteration of a single
note.
BUSINESS.
Among the faces constantly swinging
around the circle there is a marked pre
ponderance of Israelites. * * * But
they do not, by any means, monopolize the
business. There are young Yankees here,
apparently not more than twenty-one
years of age, vrith doYvny cheeks and
shrewd eyes, wow-wowing and yah-yahing
at each other across the railing, and whisk
ing their pencils wi ll phonographic ve
locity, You sec no smiles in this ring.
Many of the operators are smoking, but
they have no time for conundrums. Com
mencing betimes in the morning, they
must buy and sell gold enough before night
to pay tor Chicago twice over. Putting
the purchases and sales together they will
not unfrequently amount to one hundred
millions of dollars. In a few cases only
is the gold actually delivered. Business
is settled Yvitli gold certificates. The
existing method of settling the busi
ness of the day is by giving checks—each
man drarving a check for each purchase, or
receiving one for each sale.
But what does it all amount to ? I had
almost said that the gold room regulates
all tlxe prices in the United States. It
does not regulate, but it records them.
The gold room is itself regulated by the
outside world. Each movement of the
“indicator” is the resultant of all the
forces at work in America, Europe, Asia,
and Australia, which can possibly affect
the value of United States currency or
United States bonds. It follows that the
operators in the gold room should be, at
tlie same time, the best informed and the
most intelligent business men in the coun
try. They must not only have the best and
latest information, but they must be able
to determine instantly what is the effect of
any given facts which may come to tlieir
knowledge. They must be able to solve
the most complicated problems in mental
arithmetic without a moment’s hesitation.
Now and then the prices will run up
wildly upon a given state ot facts and run
down as rapidly when it is discovered that
the facts arc not having the effect which
was generally expected by the operators.
They are pretty cold and accurate in their
calculations, but the atmosphere of the
gold room almost inevitably perverts a
man’s judgment, and brings him to grief
in the long run.
CONCLUSION.
The stock board is provided with a
moderator and two reporters, thus having
the semblance of parliamentary law for its
government. The gold board has nothing
of the kind. It is a ceaseless jungle, a
whirlpool of voices, without order, without
umpire, referee or stakeholder. Yet as it
spins on, millions upon millions’are bought
and sold, the* prices of all goods, wares,
merchandise, produce, bonds, stocks and
property generally throughout the country
are marked up and down, obediently to the
inexorable “indicator” in the gold room.
How these men can understand each
other and avoid making mistakes is a
mystery.
Now and then the noise flags, and almost
ceases. While I was there, it ceased for a
moment entirely. The smokers placidly
puffed their blue wreaths upwards, and
! the murmur of the little fountain became
audible. In ten seconds Bedlam had
broken loose again, wilder than ever.
“Market excited ’ said my friend, to whose
; politeness I was indebted for an introduc
tion to the room ; and almost immediately
the indicator rose from 141 to 141 J. The
idea that'these twenty or thirty men were
"the market,” and that when they ex
changed views a trifle more vociferously
| than usual, “the market was excited”
struck me as being so droll that I laughed
immediately. It was nevertheless true.
These men were the market, and the mar
ket was excited. Some spark of informa
i tion had just come from some quarter of
the globe which warranted the operators
in believing that United States legal-tender
notes were worth a fraction less than they
were ten seconds before. The gold room is
as sensitive to news as the “thermo-electric
pile to heat.”
CLASSES OF OPERATORS.
There are two classes of operators in the
gold room—commission men and specula
tors. The former buy and sell for others.”
With them it is, “heads I win, tails you
lose.” Their commission is a certainty,
and if they can resist the temptation to
do a little on their private account! they
make money. The speculators make none 1
Rich to-day, poor to-morrow, is the rule
with them. Those who make money can
not get away. When a man makes a mil
lion Tn the gold room, it is as though he
had swallowed a gallon of salt water at one
draught to quench his thirst. He must
have more. So he stays and loses it. If
he loses more than he has, and cannot pay
his difference, he must take his place at the
outer railing. Even then he cannot drag
himself away from the place. The evil
genious of gambling has possession of him.
It holds, him fast. “Yonder,” said my
companion, “is a young man who might
have gone away with two millions of dol
lars. He was worth it once. He is now
among the “dead-beats.” as poor as any
o.f them. They have all been rich in their
time.
USES OF THE GOLD ROOM.
To say that the gold room is not useful
would be altogether wrong. It is not only
useful but necessary. I should not wish
any friend of mine to do much business in
K, but it must be recognized as a necessity
ot the times. Its method of doing busi
ness was. novo. ' iveuted by anybody.
Men slid into ~jr i < men slid into the
practice of using gold r od silver for money.
It has been found that the work can be
done more economically and expeditiously
by the rat-pit mode than any other. If it
could be done any faster or auy cheaper
by the operators standing on their heads,
they would do so.
Letter from a Reformed Radical.
Columbia. S. C., Decernlier 10,1866.
According to promise, I address you from
this place of desolation. During my busi
; ness tour through the South, 1 had the
opportunity of learning and witnessing
much that is taking place in these States.
While the clouds are dark and threatening,
I do not . believe there ever was in the
world’s history a people who bear their
afflictions with more philosophy and Chris
tian fortitude, than these unfortunate peo
ple. know the dangers, and their
wrongs. Yet, amidst it all, they are
cheerful. If any one had told me what I
ha\ r e seen, since I last wrote you, I would
not have believed it. I have seen many
little orphans, whose fathers fell iu what
they thought a good cause,. but what we
know to have been a very mi l .taken one;
whose widoivs, some of whom are young
and beautiful, but a close observer
will see care and suffering depicted in
their countenances. Many are pennilesss
noYv who were nursed in the law of luxury.
They toil day by day to support these lit
tle ones, who have committed no sin, who
are the sufferers for others errors. Asa
Radical, I always lent a willing ear to all
stories of Southern barbarity. With a
feeling of hate, I took delight in circula
ting all kinds of absurd falsehoods about
these people, and thought I was doing God
service. 1 acknowledge mj r error, and am
determined hereafter that no hypocritical
preacher, no politcal demagogue shall ever
lead me again by the nose ; and unless the
Northern masses arouse themselves, these
same madmen who are now ruling in Con
gress, Yviil not only make this, but the
Yyhole North a hell, worse than any revolu
tion the world has ever seen. Political
preachers have always been, and always
will be, a curse to any country, wherever
they reside. Instead of preaching Christ,
they preach the Devil; but how can any
thing else be expected, when Divine grace,
with all its beauty and holiness, is far aivay
from their hearts ?, During my tour I have
not heard one disloyal word from any
Southern man, nor have I been treated in
auy other than a respectful manner.
It is all a falsehood about Northern
men being persecuted, as thousands of
honest men from the North will testify.
Such lies are gotten up to prevent the re
construction of these States, and to hold
them under military rule, but while they
are injuring the South they are doing the
same to their own section.
Governor Worth, of North Carolina, has
recommended, in order to settle the negro
question, and to give them justice and
equal rights, to immigrate all who aro
Yvilling to go, to Noyv England. Why
should the j saints object? Why, to be
consistent, they should gladly aid in this
enterprise, in order to give the poor freed
men equality. Bring this subject before
the people, and ask New England to do
these people tlie good she has promised. I
will let you hear i'romme again. In haste,
yours, respectfnlly,
A Northern Man.
P. S.—l am glad to see in the gallant
loaueqtkp Mhe-C o *****.™'
fives and Democrats are moving for a great
Convention, to inaugurate a movement by
which a National Convention of all the 36
States shall take place to consider what is
best to be done. Kentucky is following in
the great movement also. It must take
place. If such a Convention is postponed
many months, all is lost. It will be too
late. — Correspondence of tlie New York
Express.
Shipwrecks on the Coast of France from
1802 to 1805, Inclusive.
A Central Society for saving life in ship
wreck has recently been formed in France
by several eminent personages, and the
Empress of the French has assumed the
patronage of it. This Society has just
published the statistics of wrecks from
1862 to 1865, and is the first work of the
kind that has appeared in France. On
that account it is exciting considerable at
tention.
In the four years from 1862 to 1865, in
clusive, the number of wrecks and casual
ties recorded amounts to 986. The vessels
concerned presented a total of 80,264 tons,
and were manned by 6,328 sailors, of whom
853, belonging to 193 vessels, perished.
In the three years 1863, 1864 and 1865,
the casualties comprised 31 steamers, 49
three-masters, 110 brigs, 54 brigantines,
135 schooners, 4 doggers, 89 sloops, 126
luggers, 76 shallops, 312 coasters, fishing
boats and other small craft. The burthen
of eight vessels was over 600 tons; of 25,
from 600 to 301; of 147, from 300 to 101;
of 235, from 100 to 51; 408 were under
50 tons.
In 1862, the number of vessels wrecked
was 227, with the loss of 185 lives ; in 1863,
312 vessels, and 270 lives; in 1864, 198
vessels, and 93 lives ; in 1865, 249 vessels,
and 305 lives. The average annual less is
therefore 246 vessels and 213 men ; or 1
vessel out of every 1,108 entering or leav
ing the ports of France, and 1 man out of
every 7,290 forming their crows.
One of the most instructive parts of the
statistics is the classification of the casual
ties according to the causes which occasion
ed them. 508 were caused by foul weath
er, 107 by negligence or bad seamanship,
240 by defection in tbe building, rigging or
loading of the vessels.
After noticing the frequency and the
character of the casualties on the different
parts of the French coasts, the writer of
the summary enumerates the available
means of preventing wrecks and their
consequences. These means comprise, on
the one hand, the establishment of stations
with life-saving apparatus; on the other,
the placing of proper beacons and buoys
' wherever required.
There are at present 35 life-boat stations,
two rocket apparatuses of great range, and
17 coast-guard stations provided with
Delvigne’s apparatus for throwing lines by
means of arrows. Os the above-mentioned
35 stations 23 are complete, and 12 in course
of installation; 26 have been founded
within the last eighteen months by the
Central Society, and nine belong to local
societies. There are 19 stations on the
Channel, 13 on the Atlantic, 2 in the Medi
terranean and 1 on the. coast of Algeria.
The statistics of wrecks are terminated
by a list of the rewards given in 186 p,
either by the Minister of Marine to French
men and foreigners, or by foreign powers
to Frenchmen, for service rendered to
shipwrecked seamen.
Rich Men's Sons.— H. Ward Beecher,
in a sermon delivered at Plymouth Church,
last Sunday evening, produced the follow
ing picture of rich men’s sons :
Men seem ashamed of labor, and
often you shall find men who have made
themselves respected in labor, have built
up a business and amassed a fortune who
turn to their sons and say : “You shall
never do as I did; you shall lead a differ
ent life; you shall be spared all this. ”
Oh, these rieh men’s sons! They are to
lead a life of elegant leisure ; and that is
a life of emasculated idleness and laziness.
Like the polyp that floats useless and nasty
upon the sea, all jelly, all flabby, no mus
cle, no bone, it shuts and opens, and opens
and shuts, and sucks in and squirts out
again, of no earthly account, influence or
use. Such are these poor fools. Their
parents toiled and grew strong, built up
their frames of iron and bone ; but deny
ing all this to their sons, they turn them
upon the world boneless, muscleless; sim
ple grizzle, and soft at that. What if you
do get your time reduced to eight hours,
and wages increased to five dollars, does
that educate you.
A speck of war appears in the Mediter
ranean. The Italian Government has di
rected the arming of two vessel* to enforce
the demand made by Italy on Turkey in
regard to the afiair of the mail steamer
Prince Thomas,
A German woman Helmere was j
arrested in Alton, 111., on Inday, for at
tempting to cut her husband s head on j
with an axe while he was sleeping, Queer
to state the man himself bailed the butch- J
eress out of jail.
NEA\ SEBIES, VOL. XXVI. NO. 2,
Tax on Cotton.
At the last session, of Congress an act
was passed levying an internal revenue tax
of three cents per pound on all cotton
grown in the United States. This is equal
to an assessment of twenty or thirty per
cent, upon the cost of production—a bur
den Yvhicli would be altogether Yvithout ex
cuse if it were to rest upon any home in
terest. This is so apparent, that those
who have defended the tax have based
their argument upon the ground that
American cotton was without rival in the
markets, of the world, and therefore such
an exaction could not interfere at all with
its foreign consumption, and must be paid
by the alien purchaser.
To show the error of that position, a
committee of the Ncyv York Chamber of
Commerce, consisting of five eminent citi
zens, drew up a report, Yvhich Yvas perfect
ly unanswerable iu its conclusions, aud
was unanimously adopted by that body.
The committee Yvas .attenvards instructed
to prepare a memorial to Congress urging
the abolition of the tax. This document
was prepared and presented foradoptionat
a special meeting ofthe Chamber recently
called for that purpose. To the ‘astonish
ment of those YY'lio ordinarily attend the
sessions, of this body, the meeting
on this occasion ivas packed with
a class of political partisans, who
have done so much during the last
three or four years to destroy the represen
tfo ; character of , this Board of Trade.
~ made in *nppo.sifion to the
me forial by some gentleman who were far
more zealous than well-informed, and by
others from ivliom no such opposition could
have been expected. Sneers were uttered
against the committee who had prepared
the report although one of them, A. A.
Low, Esq., who is also president of the
Chamber, was absent from the country,
and might have suggested a different
course toivard one who had given the sub
ject so much attention. Sharp criticisms,
with more ill-nature than point, were
made upon the statistics prepared by the
committee though these were furnished
from his own records by the ivell-known
Matthew Maury, Esq., who was one of
the “fathers” ofthe Chamber in the days
of its Yvidest influence and grea test useful
ness, before it had degenerated into a po
litical machine. In short, after treating
the subject with the flippancy peculiar to
the performances of a juvenile debating so
ciety, the majority present laid the memo
rial Yvitli its belongings upon the table, and
the whole matter was thus indefinitely
postponed. This was a singal triumph for
the friends of the tax, and Yvas brought
about by the usual gathering of those
members whose faces are only seen in the
Chamber on such special occasions, and
whose names arc not much known in con
nection with the “companies” of New
York.
Tliis.probably closes the history of the
memorial, but ic by no means disposes of
the question thus summarily dismissed
from the attention of that assembly. With
all proper deference to the gentleman who
were in such haste to satisfy their record
and disown the former deliberate action of
their body, made after consultation with
the wisest heads ofthe country, we venture
the assertion that the tax on cotton will
prove to be a very serious mistake. It is
true, as that committee asserted, however
unpalatable the truth may be, that Ameri
can cotton does not hold the position in the
necessary supply of the world which it oc
cupied before the war. The spinners did
not simply learn to do without it, but
they provided, to a great extent, a substi
tute for it in the growth of other countries.
This production was everywhere stimula
ted by the eager demand and the enor
mous prices which were paid, until, at the
close of the rebellion, the largest supplies
came from othe- countries ; and if our
fields liad never yielded another bale the
world would not have been greatly dis
tressed by the failure.
In the two years which preceded the war
the European markets took 86 per cent, of
their supply from this country, and but
15 per cent from all other quarters. This
Yvas so tar changed that after the close of
hostilities it was found that other countries
produced 60 per cent, of the cotton thus
used, Yvhile America furnished but 40 per
cent, of the supply.
'The theory then lxeli] by some that the
foreign was used only because American
could not be obtained, and that its use
would be abandoned the moment a supply
was offered from our fields, has not been
sustained by further experience. . The
foreign staple has not been obliged to wait
for a market until our crop was exhausted,
nor has its price depended upon its relative
proportion to the yield from the States.
The cottons of Brazil, India, and Egypt are
noYV produced in large and annually in
creasing quantity, and have established a
recognized position in every important
market. When it became apparent two or
three months ago that the crop of Ameri
can cotton Yvould fall below the larger esti
mates which had been current, the conse
quent advance in prices at Liverpool was
far greater in India cotton than it was in
cotton from the United States.
In vieiv of these undeniable facts, it
would seem to be the dictate of sound
policy to recover, if possible, the prestige
thus lost, and restore to American cotton
the lead of European markets. There
never was a more in-opportune moment for
the imposition of a tax upon its production.
The South itself was impoverished and
desolated, and needed every encourage
ment as a stimulus to its industry. The
planter had a more formidable competition
than he had ever before encountered,
backed by large capital and the accumu
lated profits of an undisputed market,
while he was required to commence anew
witli an exhausted treasury, and an un
tried system oflabor. Just when he needed
most the husbanding of his resources, and
the untrammeled use of all that could aid
him in his struggle, this unexampled bur
den was laid upon him. If it was penal
in its design it was certainly most ill-ad
vised, for the South had a thousand vul
nerable points where rebellion might have
been punished with far more hope of
reaching the guilty without involving the
innocent aud inflicting an irrevocable
damage upon every material interest com
mon to till sections by offering a direct
bonus to the growth of this great staple in
other countries.
Divested of all associations of political or
partisan feeling, and placed solely upon
economic grounds, the imposition of this
heavy tax at such a crisis is wholly inde
fensible. Even those most interested in
promoting tbe growth of cotton in com
peting fields, are amazed at this exhibition
of reckless folly. Unfortunately for all
concerned, the idea has been so sedulously
cultivated that this measure is one of re
tributive justice carrying in some way to
Southern homes the penalties of treason,
and thus its more important bearing upon
the vital question's which interest every
State alike are in danger of being over
looked or disregarded. —New York Journal
of Commerce.
The Southern Orphans’ Fair. —The
Baltimore Sun states that the Southern
Orphans’ Relief Fair in that city is largely
attended nightly, the sales and . re
ceipts being quite large. At one of the
tables it will he seen that busts of General
11. E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson have been
received, die first from Mr. E. A. Poole,
and the latter from tbe sculptor, a Con
federate soldier named Donovan. At
another table is a cane, the head and ferule
of which are made of seven silver half dol
lars paid by Jefferson Davis to his cavalry
escort at Atlanta, Ga., and a very hand
some liquor stand of rosewood, fitted up
with French cut glass decanters and goblets
of the most elegant design, besides many
other articles of use and beauty. At a meet
ing of the Association, held Monday even
ing, the old officers were re-elected, after
which Messrs. Laurence Sangston and
Samuel G. Miles were chosen a committee
to assist the Treasurer, Mrs. E. A. Mears.
Mrs. Dr. J. P. Richardson was elected Re
cording Secretary, and Mrs. C. "V. Baxley
Corresponding Secretary.
A Neorophiust. —The Louisville Cou
rier is informed, on reliable authority, that a
certain physician of that city has for some
time past been acting as a claim agent, and
has been taking fees of from five to ten
dollars from negroes who have been dis
charged from the Federal army. He rep
resents to these unfortunate Africans that
he is able to obtain lor them the one hun- i
dred dollars bounty allowed by Congress,
very well knowing that theyare not entitled
to one cent of it Several instances are
known in which this man has taken five
dollars from negroes, kept their discharges
in his desk for several months, and then
told them that their claims had been disal
lowed at Washington.
The London Daily News declares that
Spain must apoloize to England for the
unlawful seizure of the British ship Torna
do, in October last, and indemnify the
owners.
Beast Butler Forever.
Beast Butler do what he will, i s doomed
toan mimortahty of infamy. Whenever
he offends another man, another crime is
brought to light. See this ;
“Gen. Sehenler’s letter, it
will soon be published, in connection 6 with
other matters concerning certain profitable
cotton speculations, while Butler was in
command at Fortress Monroe. The deeis
ion that was arrived at by the court mar
tial upon these alleged speculations, it is
held, was reversed by the heavy payment
of a heavy per centage of the profits. It
S^w Ch A rSe n that i? ffi f ia ! P a P ers was an
tedated after Gen. Butler’s removal; but
even the above does not include all the
charges upon the black list that has been
p epared, and which is threatened to be
published. I here is also included in the
charges an allegation that a very large sum
of money was placed in a bank in Paris at
lr < L tl “Vi heSe I s P ) ecula i i ?ns were in pro-
_ The whole affair wears a most
damaging aspect, and the parties who
at’aVnl 13 °® c,altlocula ents will not scruple
at all about makiug them public.
The Dayton (Ohio) Empire of Friday
last makes, editorially, the following state
ment :
But a few days since we were assured
by a very respectable and intelligent gen
tleman, a New Haven, Oonneeti
wU^’lc ’ t^‘R hcr f- ,o 0W tan Kiu« on the
TOlls' or'Beast Butler, ah Lowell, two
magnificent pictures—‘Christ on the Cross, ’
and Mary at the Sepulchre, ’ we think he
stated painted evidently by some great
master, winch are certainly of SI,OOO value
each. Ihcy were plundered from one of
the elegant mansions of New Orleans—the
niansmn of one of the wealthiest men of
the South—which Butler confiscated, and
appropriated to headquarters purnoses
and as a receptacle of stolen goods. ‘ Our
informant was a correspondent at New Or
leans when these pictures were shinned
and saw them on the vessel in the har-
The Newspapers of New England.—
A list 9! the newspapers of New England.
those of Boston, is published in
the Advertiser s Gazette. In Maine there
are, it appears, 43 journals of all classes ;
in New Hampshire, 34; in Vermont, 30 ;
in Massachusetts (excluding Boston,) 82;
mllhode Island, 10; and in Connecticut,
üb. Total, 252. Adding the estimated
number of journals, periodicals, Ac., of all
dasses in Boston—7s* ii, all—the aggregate
would be 3-7. 1 las figure docs not include
the weekly, semi-weekly and tri-weekly
journals issued from the offices of the daily
papers. J
Os the 43 journals in Maine 21 are Re
publican and 9 are Democratic. The others
aio neutral, independent, religious, ngri~
cu.tural, literary, commercial, &e. The
classification in the other States is as fol
lows: Republican journals in New Hamp
shire, 15; Democratic journals, 7; other
journals, L 2. Republican journals in Ver
mont, 23; Democratic, 6: others, 10.
Massachusetts (except Boston,) Rcpubli
can journals, G 1; Democratic, G; “Con
servative, 1 (the Chelsea JSiditfin) ; other
journals, 14. Rhode Island, Republican
journals, 5 ; Democratic 1, (the Providence
tost); neutral 7 ; others, 3. Connecticut,
Republican journals, 1; Democratic 10;
all others, 7. The total number of Repub
lican journals, as above is 140 ; Democratic
journals, 39.
Spanish and Italian Ecclesiastics.
Tin;. clergy ol the cathedral churches of
Spam consists of 53 prelates, and one co
adjutor bishop, 52 deans, 431 titular can
ons, and 756 prebendaries, the salaries of
whom amount annually to 24,404,250
reaux. The parochial clergy is composed
°i 19,311 cures, 156 perpetual vicars, 986
officiating vicars, and 3,904 coadjutors, at
a yearly cost of 79 millions ol' reaux. The
religious houses endowed by the state
number 4,726, and the payments to them,
added to those of 791 almoners and 799
priests, amount to 8,401,240 reaux.
The Gazetta di Firenze gives the follow-
the net revenues of the church in
Italy: Religious corporations about to be
abolished, 11,035,575 lire; mendicant re
hgiuus
mercy, 163, ,77) bisnops salaries, 5,555,-
394 ; seminaries, 3,225,011 ; chapters and
prebends, 8,558,780; and various other
sources of revenue, amounting in all to
75,841,439 lire.
More Puritanism.—Most of the cler
gymen in Norwich, Con., have signed a
circular protesting against the practice of
having funerals on the Sabbath, believing
that it is an evil, inasmuch as it involves
much servile work, and therefore, when
not necessary, is a violation of the fourth
commandment, keeping from the house of
God, those who might otherwise attend.
The great moral reformers are going to
institute anew order of things, reverse the
whole face of nature and if possible, pre
vent births on the sabbath. It will soon
become compulsory for every body to at
tend church and listen to political liar
ranguos on the beauties of Radicalism, and
the enormities of dying or being born on
Sunday. Look out for the old Blue Laws,
witchcraft and ail that sort of thing. We
are a progressive people, we are.— St.
Joseph (Mo.) Vindicator.
W. 11. Milburne, the blind preacher, is
going to Paris to consult an oculist. He
lias hopes of recovering his sight.
The London subscription for Quebec
amounts to £IB,OOO, ofwhich £16,000 is al
ready rendered available by telegraph.
One thousand men are repairing the
Great Eastern for her trips to and from
New York to Brest, during the French
Exposition.
President Johnson repudiates the pub
lished account of lus interview with Rep
resentative Eggleston, of Ohio.
Swecden has already sent her goods to
the great Exposition. The first in.
The lady teachers of Detroit are on a
strike.— Hr,. (That was a habit of the lady
teachers when we were a boy.]
Crinoline is in a state of collapse, and
will he succeeded by a straight narrow skirt
clinging to the figure, and a long sweeping
train.
E. A. Pollard, author of “The Lost
Cause,” is working on anew book to be
called “Lee and his Generals.”
The school census of Minnesota, taken
in October, shows 163,518 persons between
five and twenty-one years old, against 37,-
244 last year.
Mr. McHaffie, commercial editor of the
London Times, is at Nashville on a tour
through the Southern States, looking into
their commercial prospects.
Reports are made of wonderful rich
quartz gold mines as recently discovered
near Denver city.
An eminent member of the House is said
to be preparing articles of impeachment
for several Judges of the Supreme Court.
The city of Iloustonis about to subscribe
half a million of dollars to complete their
connection by railroad with New Orleans.
Beard, the celebrated animal painter,
has just begun a painting illustrative of
the saying, “It rains cats and dogs.”
Thomas Parrott, of Boyle county, Ken
tucky, startedfrom Texas nothing ago, with
four hundred and sixty horses, and was
robbed of nearly half of the number belore
reaching Kentucky.
A Saxon lady, a barrister’s wife, lately
committed suicide, in order that her hus
band should get her life insurance money
and free himself from his debts.
| A cotemporary thinks the millenium is
j very near when the Government not only
I makes good, wholesome laws for the people,
I but also manufactures first-class whiskey.
The Gazette anew evening paper, lias
! made its appearance in New York. The
: aim of its conductors appears to be to
j make it a talkative tea table paper, notice
j ably similar to the Boston Transcript.
I At a school in Connecticut a pupil owed
; his teacher S2O, and as a receipt for S2O or
over requires a two cent stamp, the man
j gave the boy a receipt for sl9 99, and gave
| him back one penny, thus saving one cent,
i President Johnson made a donation of
SI,OOO lately to the Methodist Enisconal
Church (Dr. Ryan’s.) Himself and
family worship there.
Prof. S. F B. Morse, now in Paris, has
sent his cheek for $7,000 to his brother B
C. Morse, Esq., to purchase Alston’s
Jeremiah, for presentation to the Yale
school of the I me Arts, and the picture is
now the property of Yale College.
Hon. John Y oung Brown the eloquent
young Kentuckian, is announced in the
Louisville Courier as a condidate for Con
gress in the Second District of Kentucky
*£,&,*'* ***• of *»»“»»*>
Mrs. Burdel Cunningham, who was re
ported among those lost on the Evtninn
Star, is at present residing in San Francisco
where she, seven years ago, married a gen
tleman named Hayes.
Alabama.—The Montgomery Advertiser,
noticing the return from YVashington of
Ex-Governor Parsons, says:
“He is decided in his opinion that the
State ought not to adopt the Constitutional
Amendment, and is hopeful that, by con
tinuing to deal justly and fairly with all
classes and interests in the community the
Northern people will yet take a more’cor
rect view of the situation ami restore the
State to political equality in the Union. ’ ’