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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI. Chronicle | Sentinel , hemiy moo it iT, a. it. Aviti<;inr. TUIt.MSOP M U-1< tuition. WEEKLY. ' A i’t.UHTA , <i A : '< UINKSDAV HORXIHi, JAMAH! !». 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&gtoai 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. ’ ’