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Death of a Sister of Charity. — The
following istlio first intimation we had
t'i'it a nn'ir.!" of the Sisters of Charity
, Hiity di.-i in this city. Jt is from j
,!„ -. !iv ,iimah Xcw* & Herald of Wednes
day :
Tiie remains of Mary Armstrong, a j
number of the Sisters of Charity, were :
l.rr. iirlit to t!iis city yesterday for inter- 1
inent. attended by her father and a few |
friends.
The deceased, whose religious title was (
tint of Sister Mary Koso, was born in .
Augusta, and from early childhood ]
evinced remarkable religious propensities. ,
Aliont six years ago she made known her :
desire to join a Catholic order, which was
stoutly resisted by her parents, although t
< atholies, on acco'u nt of her extreme youth. j
being then only about eighteen years of
age. All resistance proved unavailing, so i
determined was she on the subject, and
sne eventually had her wish gratified and
became a Sister of Charity.
About two years ago, while in the faith- |
fill discharge of her duties, she contracted
a violent cold, which daily grew worse,
having settled on her lungs; and at the
advice of her physician, she sought a
change of climate'. Growing worse, she
returned to the home of her parents in
Augusta, where she died last Sunday,and,
in accordance with her expressed desire
to be buried with the Sisters who had gone j
la-fore her, iier remains were brought to
this city for interment. The funeral took
i hi'-c yesterday from the Sisters’ College,
on Liberty street, and was well attended
by the members of the order and the resi
dent clergy. The exercises were very im
posing, tiic funeral procession being
attend isl by the clergy and their assistants
in ecclesiastical costumes. The deceased
was noted for her great religious ardor,
her cultivated intellect, and her mild and
winning manners, which has caused her
loss to be so deeply regretted by the mem
bers of the order and her former female
pupils, to whom she had especially en
deared herself.
Emigration to V f.nezuela. — Colonel
Rttdler lias handed us a circular contain
ing extracts from a Venezuela paper, and
a letter of ( aptain Johnson ;
“Orii>Ai> Bolivar, March 15,1K07.
“To-day an American vessel entered
tills port with emigrants from the .South
ern States of the American Union, who
come in search of agricultural occupation
.11 our neighborhood.
“We do not know to whom they arc di
rected. nor what recommendations they
bring; In Any case they are welcome, and
if they are animated by an inclination to
work, they will no doubt, in a very short
time, obtain situations which will tie en
vied by their countrymen.
“Gobi and fertile s >il in abundance is at
their disposal if this laborious and honest
emigration occupies itself to extract from
the heart of the soil the riches it contains.
'l'lic editor of the /loletin considers it his
duly to claim for these emigrants a benev
olent reception.
“iinr Government is highly interested
for civilization, mid our inhabitants hos
pitable and generous.”
I aplain Johnson writes ; “The schoon
er Mi abeth, with fifty emigrants for the
grant land made by the Venezuelan Gov -
eminent to Dr. Henry M. Price and his
a sedates, cleared from New Orleans on
Ihe -’bill of January, and reached ’<'iiblad
Bolivar’, miles from the mouth of the
Orinoco, on he lltli ofMareli, after a pros
perous voyage, and the whole party in
excellent health and spirits. The men
were most graciously received by the
Governor and people, ami everyprovision
no ale for their comfort .”
< apt. Johnson reports great excitement
in the country, on account of the discovery
of fabulously rich gold mines, which raised
the price of horses, cattle, and everything
else. The following is his description
of Ihe Orinoco river : “Our arrival at the
Orinoco river occasioned great rejoicing,
and we have had occasion to be more than
atislied with the very accommodating dis
position of tlm people.
“Our party were perfectly enchanted at
the little village of Buruncua, on the river;
the wonderful beauty of the site, tlioluxu-'
nance of the soil anil beauty of the foliage,
the magnificence nl the great Orinoco, it-s
clear, I'isteni-liko water, reUceting the
stars at night like a mirror, its innumer
able islands and hanks clad in unrivalled
foliage, showing evory shade of green, from
yellow to dark-blue, would puzzle any
traveller to make choice of a plantation.
The gay-colored and noisy parrots, mac
caws, and other birds, darting through tiie
air, and filling the woods with song; the
unparalleled sky at sunset, claiming the
attention of the most matter-of-fact parties,
all combine to make it impossible to de
scribe the scene, so 1 must not attempt
what I cannot do justice to.
“ I can only say, reports that I have
read have not been able to do this Eden
like country justice. On our arrival at
Guidtul Bolivar (March lltli, 1807), which
is a handsome, clean little town of about
,iion people---at present small on account
of emigration to iho mines—we wore very
cordially received by the people, theolli
eials vicing with each other in showing us
attention.
“ I had written to the President so as to
lose no time in waiting here. He mot me
with all the courtesy of a high-toned
Spanish gentleman, and discussed with
me, in the most fluent English, our views
and prosperity.”
The confirmation of the grant to Dr. H.
M. Price is now complete, and tho country
is open for settlement.
A vessel will positively leave New Or
leans on the -Dth day of May, 1 st>7, for
Orinoco and C'aroui rivers, Venezuela.
This vessel will touch at Brunswick,
G.i., on her way to Charleston, which placo
alio leaves between the Ist and sth of June.
Applications for passage can he made,
cither in person or by letter, to Col. A. E.
Kiiiller of this city.
“What's in a Name?” —Who said
that? Borneo or Juliet? Poverty and un
reconstructed ness have so confusod us
that wo really forget. Thero is a vast deal
in a name. What American (or English
man either, as for that) does not revere the
memory of Irving, and fool attracted by
the mere name of Van Winkle, the name
borne by old Hip, of Sleepy Hollow.. Van
Winkle is a charming and most respecta
ble name. But tho Van” Winkle wo have
to do with is not sleepy, like his prede
cessor, Hip. No, he is a very wide-awake
and go-ahead Van Winkle. 110 is the
famous Merchant Tailor and Clothes Mer
chant who lias been nourishing in Au
gusta ever since Ist.3. See liis card. He
says so himself; that is, ns regards the
ltd:’.. His clothes mado to order aro noto
riously elegant; his ready-mado clothing
no less so. We hope Edgefield will send
him many a dollar. 230 Broad street,
under Central Hotel. —Edgefield .Idr.
(»RT.KT.I!Y OPPOSED TO CONFISCATION.—
The Rome Courier publishes the brief
opinion below, written in reply to a busi
ness letter of'.). 11. Stevens, of Home :
I wish the South were as free from the
dangers in respect to famine and other
evils as from confiscation. Yours,
Horace Greeley.
Stolen Heath. —A negro man named
Nicholas, in the employ of Messrs. K. It.
Derry A Cos., fell down in the yard of their
premises about half past six o’clock Friday
morning, and died immediately. Coroner
Rhodes held an inquest over the body, and
the jury rendered a verdict that the de
ceased died of heart disease.
Tin: Christian Messenger. —The first
number of the Christian Messenger made
its appearance yesterday. It is small but
neatly printed, and contains sixteen or
seventeen columns of interesting reading.
The subscription price is only $2 per an
num. AVe u ish its proprietors, Messrs.
< .entry and Jefferson, a great deal of suc
cess in their enterprise.
The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette says in his letter of the
loth instant: “The Congressional Execu
tive Committee is receiving the most en
couraging accounts from the South. The
work of organization is going on with
wonderful rapidity. Virginia is the most
backward, and Louisiana the most forward
of the roliel States. In the latter the
influence of General Sheridan is felt in
the most positive manner, and in the
former progress is only assured by the
firmness of General Schofield. Those at
work lor the Committee report the blacks
in and around the large towns as a unit for
the Republican party; but in the back
country and in the smaller communities
they are, to a considerable extent, under
the control of their late masters. The
Committee is meeting with good success in
raising funds in the North, and nearly
every day agents are dispatched to differ
ent parts of the South. General Banks
may possibly make a tour through these
States, and an effort is being made to in
duce Miss Anna Dickinson to deliver some
of her lectures at the South.
Heavy Shipments.— The Mobile Jicg
isfer of the 14th inst. learns that no less
than 40,000 bushels of corn have been
shipped within the last three days to plant
ers in the interior.
Fatai. Difeutlty. —We regret to learn,
says the Montgomery .\faii, that a fatal
difficulty occurred near Mt. Meigs, in this
county, a few days since, between Mr. J.
Mitchell and a gentleman named Stanfield,
in which the latter was shot and killed
with a shot-gun.
The Brazilian emancipation decree lib
crates 2,500,000 slaves.
France has now fifty iron-clads— the
most formidable navy in Europe.
The Republican party in Maryland will
adopt a negro suffrage platform.
The printers in Chicago have not taken
part in the eight hour movement.
The Orphans on Wednesday.
The Annual Procession of the Or
pu.vn.s.—'The orphans of the Augusta “Or
phan Asylum,” in accordance with a cus
| tom which has prevailed almost from the
foundation of the institution, performed
the i imple hut touching ceremony of
' visiting the graves of the benevolent foun
ders of the Asylum.
The procession was formed at the- Asy
lum, under the direction of the managers
and officers, and moved down to the City
I Cemetery, t [ion arrival within this beau
| tifu! spot it proceeded first to the graves of
j the benevolent founders, Mr. and Mrs.
i Isaac Tuttle, and Dr. George M. Newton,
their foster son. The children then en
! circled these graves and sung a hymn.
Tiie Rev. Wm. If. Clarke offered up an
j appropriate prayer. Each ancTeverv one Os
: the little ones then advanced to the graves
and deposited upon them the beautiful
bouquet which each carried. This being
done, they returned to their respective po
sitions and again lifted their sweet voices
in a beautiful liymn.
Major Joseph B. Gumming then came
forward and delivered the following ad
dress;
We have come, our hands filled with
flowers; we have reverently laid them
upon these graves; these youthful voices
have been lifted up in song; the sounds of
prayer and of thanksgiving have gone up
to Heaven. In a few moments we shall lay
a lioral offering upon the monumental
marble. I think there is a fitness in these
ceremonies—such fitness that, were a
stranger to our purpose placed where he
could see and hear, lie would gather from
these ceremonies themselves their general
object. He would see here rejoicing as
well as sadness. Ho would observe that,
though we encircle these graves, we com
mit no one to their precincts; though our
hands are full, they bear not the emblems
of mourning; though we are here in the
crests of death, there is no voice of them
that weep. He would learn thus that we
were not here to commit to mother earth
the recent dead, hut to do honor to the de
parted. Observing, further, that the chief
actors in these ceremonies are little chil
dren; that tiie only symbols are sim
ple flowers; that here are ranged
no martial ranks ; that here is
led no masterless steed; tli At here
resounds no minute gun; this stranger
would know that we are not assembled
around the grave of the warrior, that we
celebrate not those deeds which makes the
orphan, but the memory of their coun
selors and benefactors : and such, friends,
is the truth. The hearts, now pulseless
beneath these stones, once heat with tin
mixed pity and love for their fellow-men—
purity and love uumingled even with the
desire of fame. Had they desired to lie
known among men, it was easy to attain
their purpose, and, at the same time, to
gratify the nobler promptings of benevo
lence. Some stately pile, dedicated to
learning or religion, might have thrust it
self upon the view of the wayfarer and
challenged inquiry into the name of its
founder. Some richly endowed professor
ship, bearing the nameof its patron, might
have wafted that name on the wings of
literature from laud to laud, and genera
tion to generation. But fame had no
allurements for these departed, whose
hearts glowed with love and pity. The
visions which rose to their view, were tho
sufferings of the orphan—the uplifted
pleading little hands, the bare and weari
little feet, the childish voices begging alms ;
the desolation of young hearts, strangers
to parental love; the sorrows of the orphan
life oppressed with poverty, and they said
in their hearts, “so far as we can effect it,
these lonely little ones shall have friends;
those hungry littleonosshall he fed; these
defenceless little heads shall be sheltered ;
these neglected minds shall have tho light
of knowledge shed upon them ; these
opening hearts shall he filled with the
teachings of religion; and so that wealth
which could purchase fame and a name
among men, was given in unmixed char
ity. But that which they care not for, let
us secure to them ; let ns keep their mem
ory green and their good deeds fresh; no
spring time should come without nurtur
ing sweet flowers to bo laid upon these
graves; no year should be added to the
lives of these orphans, without witnessing
tlieir pilgrimage hither. This annual
ceremony should be observed in perpet
uam meinoriam rei. The warrior’s grave
may he neglected, even the poet’s magic
words may lose their spell, but tho memo
ry of the benefactor of his race should live
forever. Eor this is no mean virtue which
we celebrate. It is god-liko charily, that
virtue most commended of apostles; that
virtue of which one of the old fathers has
said it is proxima dco —nearest to divinity
itself; that virtue of which our greatest
poet, speaking of it under another name,
lias said that man islikest God, when
he practices it; it is that virtue of which
another ol our poets lias written this a'.le
gory:
••Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe in
crease)
Awoke one niglit from a deep dream of
peace,
And saw within, the moonlight in his
room,
Making it white, and like a lily in bloom,
An angel, writing in a book of gold.
Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem
hold,
And to tho angel in the room he said
i “What writest thou” ? The angel raised
his head,
And, with a look made of all sweet accord,
Answered : /The names of those who
love the Lord.’ *
‘And is mine one ?’ asked Abou. ‘Nay not
so,’
Replied the angel. Abou spake more low,
But drearily still: ‘I pray thee then,
Write me as one who loves his fellow
men.’ .
Tho angel wroto and vanished. The noxt
night
Ho came again with a great wakening
light
And showed tho names of those whom love
of God had blest,
And lo ! Ben Adhem’s name led all the
rest.”
Here, then, wo have the testimony of the
poets—whose inspiration is onlyiessdivine
than that of tho prophets—that ho who
loves his fellow-men, even it it were
possible for such an ono to forget his God,
still stands highest in the favor ot Heaven.
Oh that these departed lovers of their
fellow-men had a worthier eulogist, this
God-like virtue a better expounder. Oh
that a voice might be raised here to-day to
melt these orphans' hearts with gratitude,
and to inspire those blessed with the good
things ot' this world to emulate these de
parted. To them might be promised that
bliss here on earth only such could have ;
such satisfaction in tho hour of death ns
such unselfish acts could bring—such last
ing name in the future as generations of
grateful hearts could secure.
Major Camming then read tho following
poem, composed for tho occasion, by Mrs.
Harriot C. Bean, of this city:
von the crm.njiKX of the orvhax asyi.oi. ;
The Silver Bell.
’Twas a fabled King of the olden time,
Who raised him a silver bell ;
And the tones that breathed from tho per
fect chime,
Os earthly bliss, were to tell.
The rich silken cord hung fast by his bed,
And lie waited, day by day ;
Uis heart muslm harmony be, he said,
So spoaketh the ancient lay.
He had his surfeit of earthly gain,
For his //old he might not couut :
An ancient escutcheon, without a stain.
And pleasure (lowed like a fount.
Yet the silken cord hung day by day,
Untouched by the kingly hand ;
Thorowas something wanting upon life's
way,
Xot found by the magic wand.
He sighed now for fame, to first waken the
' Troll,
Her music would perfect ho ;
•Men shouted his name—sought his glory
to tell.
But where was life's melody '?
It was not in fame —so in love ho said,
There will surely no discord be ;
'Twas an empty life, by fame to be fed !
With lore must blend harmony.
So he sought the heart he trusted well.
The maiden, the love of his youth ;
Allis for her perfidy ! sound not the boll,
For hapjdness dwells but with truth.
Ho soothed tiis tried heart with each kindly
deed,
With a willing hand he did give,
The needy to clothe, the hungry to feed,
. That was something for which to live.
Yet life grew more weary, 'till war's an
gry din
Arousett him from feverish dreams ;
In valor lie thought,sure life's prize I shall
win
Since love has proved not what it seems.
Tie soon won the day, and he thought of
the bell
So quick lie would sound now on high ;
The story of victory first it would tell,
Now surely the time must be nigh.
Yet still no! to-day — to-morrow, he cried,
More fitting perhaps it will be ;
But his life it wore on, and he sighed and
sighed
For the time that —alas! might not be.
So age came apace, and the wearied man
Lay down on his couch, but to die,
For pleasure was brief, and life just a span.
And tlie bell still stood silent on high.
So he watched the cord, as it idly lay.
And he thought of that silver bell
That had waited life's journey, yet not one
day
Os a king’s/tt/i joy could tell.
Then he listened to sounds of deep sorrow
without,
And voices of weeping within,
And he thought we all travel one weari
some route
In this sad world of grief and of sin.
I will bear with my people their burden
of woe:
And he asks. “ Can he givethem relief?"
And he learns 'tis for him that the heart s
mighty throe
Has hurst forth into passionate grte-f.
i “Do they love me?" he cried; “webless
you,” they say;
Kind heaven this’message to send,
And his doors were wide opened, and all
through the day
His hand fondiv pressed by some friend.
i "This is true joy," he said; “this is bliss
at life's close ;"
And his thin hand tiie faded cord drew,
While over death's chamber sweet har
mony rose,
I The silver bell sound through and
through.
t Life only is happy when death is the test
Os a holy and beautiful day ;
When blessing c-aeh other, the heart hath
found rest
In a treasure that cannot decay.
Atul now, sheltered orphans, a sweet silver
bell
Hangs over your lieautiful home ;
Os the hand that once touched it, your
| grateful lips tell,
From its sound uiav your hearts never
roam!
The hand of your Tuttle the silken cord
drew,
l’irst.waking the music so blest;
A Newton retouched it, with ecliyes anew,
May its tones upon earth ever rest!
Till the last tear of orphans God's hand ,
wipes away,
And the music of heaven begun.
The angels, rejoicing, will touch anew j
lay,
That the sad task of sorrow is done i
Harriet C. Bean.
U’pou the conclusion of the poem, the
procession was again formed and inarched
to another part of the Cemetery, to the
monument dedicated to the memory of
their benefactors, and proceeded to wreath
it with flowers. A hymn was now sung
closing the exercises. The children again J
formed in procession and returned to the j
Asylum to partake of a bountiful collation ;
of cakes, strawberries, cream, Ac., enjoy
ing to the fullest extent the good things i
provided.
The Trustees of the Institution, Messrs.
C. Baker, J. S. Bean, J. B. Bishop, E. W.
Doughty, B. Conley, L. D. Ford, J. C.
Fargo and E. Starnes, and the officers and \
managers, we failed to get), I
accompanied the children.
Washington News and Gossip.
“Leo,” of the Charleston Courier, j
writing from Washington on the lltli inst., I
says: j
Radical leaders are gathered here. Gen. j
Banks. Gen. Butler and the leading mem- !
hers of the Judiciary Committee —Bout- 1
well, Wilson, of lowa, Ashley and many
others have important reasons for confer
ence. ]
I learn to-day from sources entirely ’
trustworthy that the Senators have de
termined that Congress must assemble with .
a quorum of both Houses on the sth day ;
of July next, the day to which it adjourned.
The Senators left the city in the full be
lief that a summer session would be uu- i
necessary, and that a quorum of neither
House wouid meet. Mr. Sumner and a j
few other Senators dissented from this i
opinion. But the objects for which Mr.
Sumner desired a session in July are en- j
tirely remote from those which now seem j
to render it unavoidable.
The financial question looms up into an j
unexpected magnitude. The Government
cannot go on during the recess under the
weight of appropriations with which it is
burdened. The revenue is falling off and
threaten to become gradually less in the
next fiscal year. The question now is
whether the Secretary of the Treasury
shall be permitted to use his discretion in
deferring the execution of the Bounty
Acts and a dozen other Acts calling for
large expenditures.
The laws of Congress, having in view
political objects of importance to the Radi
cal party, cannot be completely or satis
factorily executed in the crumpled condition
of the Treasury. The appropriations of
the Thirty-ninth Congress exceed so far the
promised revenue that the expenditures
demanded cannot he made.
The Radical leaders, therefore, have
determined that the Radical members ol'
the Fortieth Congress shall be summoned,
by their general committee and all their
organizations, to he present and form a
iiuorum of both Houses on the sth of'
•July. At the caucus then to be held it
wiil be determined what measures shall be j
taken.
The Secretary of the 1 reasury must be i
authorized to increase the debt, in order to j
pay the soldiers’ bounty and find money !
lor other Radical necessities. A loan |
must be called for. Besides this, the Radi
cals, now distrusting their success at the •
next Presidential election, must pass an |
additional bounty aid to secure soldiers’
votes.
The Executive Government is now
making advances toward Spain, and Pen
mark, and Dominica, for territorial acqui
sitions. From Spain we want, just now,
one of the Phillippine islands for the benefit ;
of our commercial marine. Whether in
peace or iti foreign war, such a possession j
is desirable, if not indispensable. Den- :
mark will sell St. Thomas for a good price, j
As to the Bay of Samona, in Dominica, I
Mr. Seward appears bent on obtaining it, j
but has been thwarted in the negotiation j
by the United States Senate. But Setta-j
tors have assured me that nothing can re- j
sist the present popular current in favor of j
territorial acquisition. Mr. Seward will j
ride this hobby as long as he remains in |
the Cabinet.
A Bill for an injunction against General j
Ord is to be offered on the part of the I
State of Arkansas: The question of prop
erty arises, inasmuch as Gunoral Ord has
seized upon the State Treasury. This j
ground may, it is supposed, he taken, and j
sustained in accordance with the argument
of the Attorney General. Leo. j
The Depopulation of Ireland.- -An
American sojourning in Ireland to
the Cleveland Herald depicting the miseries j
that afflict that country. With abounding j
resources, the strange jiaradox is presented j
of a population fleeing to a foreign shore,
the first object being to obtain the means
of subsistence. Every port is crowded
with emigrants, so that the steamers pro
vided are scarcely able to supply the de
mand for transportation. Nor is this
movement of population confined to those
who are common laborers, as was the case
in former years. The better class of
farmers, shopkeepers, '&c., form a.large in
gredient. “The truth is,” says the writer,
“a rayless despair lias cast its blackness 1
over the land,” and the liberal rewards of |
industry ottered in America, contrasted j
with the scanty earnings obtained at home, i
form a resistless attraction. Land, mo
nopolists, oppressive taxation (the avails
of which ure'spent out of the country),
and the ruinous system of absenteeism,
are the bane of the green isle. Upon this
last grievance the corrrespondent remarks
as follows;
Still another cause of the groat suffering
of Ireland is what is known here as ab
senteeism ; that is, the owners of vast
landed estates in this country spend their
immense incomes abroad, either ip Eng
land or on tho continent, and not in im- 1
proving and developing their estates. The |
amount of money thus wrenched from the j
hard labor of Ireland is usually estimated j
at from fifteen to twenty millions of dollars
annually. Most of this is spent in support of ;
aristocratie pretensions in England or |
abroad. Fully one-third of the best coun- j
ties of Ireland are iu the possession of ab- i
sentecs.
Those have resided habitually and for
generations out of this country. Many
have not visited their estates for years,
and of others it is related that they have
to write to their agents to know in what
county their lands are located. Many of
these estates belong to Kuglish noblemen,
and numbers of them have not known a
resident proprietor for centuries. Since
the union many Irish noblemen have gone
to England and left their estates in charge
of an agent. Lord Kosse, in Southern
Ireland, who owns the Lakes of ICillarney,
has an annual revenue of £85,000, while the
Marquis of Donegal owns all the ground
1 on which the city of Belfast (population
140,000) is built. In former years his
revenue from ground rents in that city
was a million aud a half of dollars. Itow
much now I have not been able to learn.
! This fact of absenteeism will explain in
part the utter sameness and dreariness of
many Irish landscapes. There are few
fine residences ; straw-thatched huts alone
greet the eye. Thus, Ireland lias no resi
dent yeomanry, but an absentee pro
prietary.
Reg i stration. —We are pleased to learn
from a special dispatch from Washington
j to the Cincinnati Commercial, that a dele
gation from New Orleans had an inter
view with the Attorney General on the 3d
instant, and were informed that the Ad
ministration intended to give the disfran
chising clause of the Reconstruction Bill
a liberal construction, so as to allow a full
registration. The Attorney General de
clared that the registers under Gen. Sheri
dan had doue wrong in refusing to register
city, county andtownship officers, of State.
He is also of the opinion that Congress did
not intend to exclude a man from voting
who had happened to take an oath to sup
port the Constitution, and then partici
pated in the rebellion, unless he had held
an office which required an oath of fidelity
to the National Government.
Condition of the South. —A news
paper correspondent, writing from a South
. ern city, says :
In the old flush times a passenger on a
river boat accosted a little negro boy with
! an inquiry usual at that day :
i “AY ho do you belong to ?”
“Don t know, sir,” ausweredthe boy.
; “Why don't you know ?'
“When I come abroad Iblongsto Massa
Sam White; but last night he went me on
two little par. an' de clerk ob de boate he
■ win me. Den Kunnel Smiff he beat de
clerk on a bluff, an lie bad me last, so I
' dunno. massa, who I blongs to till de game
i elose.”
The South is in the same situation.
The Latest' —A sharp youth of the
African species was scattering a lot of
auction hand-bills around the city on Sat
urday, when he was accosted by a brother
freedman thusly:
“AA hat you got dar?"
“Dese papers? why dis is Senator YY'il
son's speech.
“How much you ax for 'em'?"
“Three for a quarter—lem'me sell you
“All right —I warts to learn it —gib me
a quarter s wuf.'' and the trade was made
at once, the youth pocketing, with a seif
satisfied air, the supposed eloquent speech
oi the honorable gentleman from Massa
-1 chusetts !— At. Intel.
Editorial Correspondence.
Louisville, Ga., May 13th, 1867.
Chronicle if; Sentinel: The Spring
Term of the Superior Court of this countv
commeneed its session on Monday last.
Judge Gibson presiding, and will probably
adjourn this afternoon. There is not
much litigation in this, county, and con
sequently there are very few lawyers in
attendance upon the Court Among the
few who are here I notice Col. E. H.
Pottle, of Warren, and Col. B. D. Evans,
o, fcandersvdle; while from your citv I
only see- .Judge Hook and General Wright.
No case of importance has been tried
during the week, but a great many of the
old cases which have been accumulating
upon the Dockets for the past ten or
twelve years have been disposed of, which
gives great relief to parties, jurors and
: witnesses.
The crop prospects in this county and
i the adjoining portions ofßurke and Wash
j ington are said to be very good, though it
| is yet too early to make anything like a
; fair estimate of the probable amount of
I the crops of corn or cotton. The stands
j of the former are reported to be quite de
| fec-tive on account of the ravages of the
I bud-worm, and from what I have seen the
! indications are that the quantity planted
will Tie insufficient, even with the most
favorable yield, to supply the wants of the
- country. The planters of this section are
! making, in my judgment, a most serious
; mistake in devoting the largest and best
i portions of their lands to the production of
j cotton. It is, perhaps, too late to remedy
this now, but great relief might be afforded
by crossing the cotton row at the distance
of fifteen or twenty feet, and planting corn
in the cotton fields. Those who have tried
this plan say that while it does not lessen
the amount of cotton raised, it will secure
from five to eight bushels of corn from
j every acre planted in cotton. This is worth
i trying, and, in view of the probable con
j tinued decline in the price of cotton, and
j the quite as certain continuance of the
j present high price of corn, it would be well
i if all our planters could be induced to in
! crease their crßp of corn in this way.
] I find that very considerable crops of
i small grain have been sown this year, and
J learn that the wheat and oat crop is very
J promising. There is some complaint of
] rust in the wheat, but as yet its appear
| ance has only been noticed on the blades,
j which is said not to be very hurtful.
The people here seem to take very little
j interest in politics, but from what I could
gather from a pretty general interchange
| of views with them, I think that Governor
j Brown will be able to muster a corporal’s
guard in this county for his “Radical
j Stevens’ Party.” W.
Burglar Killed by a Woman.—The
Memphis Avalanclie gives the particulars
of the killing of the negro burglar by
Mrs. Syiinott, which the telegraph an
nounced a few days ago :
A lady named Mrs. Julia Synnott, who
lives on Union street, about a half a mile
from the Pigeon Boost road, chanced to be
left alone on Wednesday night, her hus
band having gone to Texas. This fact
was known to a family of colored persons
living about three hundred yards from tho
house of Mrs. Synnott, and, about ten
o’clock at night, Mrs. Synnott, who had
gone to bed, was awakened by someone
making a noise outside the house. She
got up and went to the window, and saw a
negro sitting on the fence. She asked
what he wanted, and he replied by asking
if some man whom he named lived there.
Mrs. Synnott told him. no such person
was there. The negro asked a number of
questions, and was told not to make so
much noise, as he might waken someone
in the house. This was said to deter him,
as Mrs. Synnott became apprehensive
that he would try to rob the house. He
said that lie did not care, and that he knew
that there was nobody in the house. Heim
mediateiy after picked up a brick and threw
it at the window. It broke one of the
slats of the blind. The place is some dis
tance from any other house, and Mrs.
Synnott became alarmed ; so going to an
other room she procured a revolver and
waited. The negro threw some bricks at
the window, and finally commenced tear
ing out tho slats of the blinds apparently
with intent to force an entrance. Mrs.
Synnott, not knowing what outrages he
contemplated, raised the pistol and fired.
The negro groaned and jumped back.
Mrs. Synnott could noc hear him, and
waited in momentary expectation of his
return, but she waited there until daylight.
When it became daylight, that she could
see, she perceived the negro lying on the
ground. She ran out a back way and
alarmed the neighbors, who repaired to
her house and picking up the negro found
that he had been shot through the heart,
and that he was quite dead. The negro
was found to be John McEwin, who lived
in the house close by that of Mrs. Synnott.
A coroner’s inquest was held on the body of
McEwin, and the conduct of Mrs. Synnott
entirely justified.
Internal Revenue Decisions.—The
sweeping of cotton presses and damaged
cotton, sold as paper .stock, arc subject to
the tax imposed upon cotton by section 1,
act of July 13, 1800. The proper tax upon
cotton, of whatever grade, must be as
sessed.
Official bonds of town and county offi
cer.; require a one-doilar stamp in all cases.
Any instrument of paper, unless properly
stamped as required by law, is void, and
cannot be used in evidence.
All persons, firms, companies, &c., en
gaged in the business or transporting pas
sengers or mails' (upon contracts made
prior to August Ist, 1S0G), for hire, are
liable upon their gross receipts accruing
from such transportation after August 1,
1800, whether usTng vessels which pay ton
nage duties or not.
Persons having the management of fer
ries, as well as persons having manage
ment of toll-roads and bridges. are of course
liable upon gross receipts of every descrip
tion. _
A Question of Caste!— On yesterday
two showily dressed colored girls, attended
by a black servant woman, got into the
street railway cars, and upon entering,
one of the girls ordered the “mauma” to
stay on the platform. A few minutes af
terward, the conductor approached the
“mauma” and requested her to take a
seat inside, but she declined, saying, “Oh
Lor’ bless you massa, no, missus would’nt
'low it.” The conductor then politely in
formed the mauma that she could not ride
on the platform, and must take a seat
inside, whereupon she sat down beside
her chocolate colored sister,-who appeared
quite indignant that black folks should bo
allowed to ride side by side with “ladies.”
Charleston Mercury.
Break up Hell Itself.— An old
preacher in Western New York, who was
being persuaded by some of his church
men, during the political excitement in<
that State, last fall, to join the Radical
party, said:
“No, my brethren, I can’t join that
party, because all the Abolitionists in the
country are in it; and Abolitionism, my
brethren, has done a wonderful sight of
harm among the people. It has hurt
many shepherds and scattered many flocks.
It got into the Methodist Church and
broke that up. It got in among tho
Presbyterians and split them in two; and
it got into the Government and broke the
old Union to pieces. And, my brethren, I
don't know of anything it is good for but
to break down and break up. And if you
have any enmity against the ‘old boy,’ I
advise you to send Abolitionism into his '
dominions, and it will break hc-ll up itself
in less than six weeks.
The Columbus Sun of the 12th, con
tains the following: “On yesterday after
noon the notorious G. W. Ashburn, who
left Columbus immediately after the abro
gation ot military law, and has returned
since its re-establishment, without warrant
or invitation walked into the law office of;
our young fellow-townsman, YY'm. 11. Den
son, Esq. Mr. Denson not knowing and
supposing him to be someone on proses- ,
sional business, invited him to take a seat,
which he did, and proceeded to open his |
budget He informed Mr. I), that Gene- S
ral Grant was a man of genius and General
Lee a mere creature of detail; that the first i
would live in glory, whilst the latter would
die in merited infamy. Upon being in
formed by Mr. D. that the latter statement ■
was a lie, he changed the conversation to
polities, stating that he was here for the
purpose of organizing a Radical party,
that in a few days he would lay his plans
before the citizens of Columbus, and that :
all who did not come to the high position ’
occupied by himself would be persecuted
At this point Mr. D. very properly knocked 1
him down, and proceeded to kick him out
of his office, down the stairway into the
street.
The Richmond Whig says that the fur
ther examination of the Bright Hope Pit.
the scene of the late disastrous explosion,
has shown that a fire is still burning in the
drift. Accordingly it was found necessary,
on Wednesday last, to_ close the shafts
again. The fire now. in all probability,
can only be extinguished by a rise of water,
or by pumping more water in.
Lord Lyons, formerly Minister to the
United States, has been appointed to sue
ceed Earl Cowley as the Ambassador of
Great Britain to Paris.
Crop I’ros peels. j
LETTER FROM MORGAN COUNTY.
Editors Chro .«f Ssninel: —As you
have expressed J ib-'ire to hear from dis- ,
ferent sections oi the State iu regard to ,
crop prospects, tc. • 1 write a brief letter
from this portion of Georgia.
The great leading question with our peo
i pie just now i- 1 t' ie question of bread.
, Never, in the history o! the oid county iff
Morgan, has there been experienced suc-h
scarcity and destitution. Many who have j
never in their liv- - known what it was to ,
want for anythin ' contributing to their
i comfort tiro now iiard pressed for the sneer
necessities of life. There has been no ac
: tual starvation. I think, in this county,
! but surely would have been had supplies
not comefrom the generous and benevo
lent abroad. .
There are signs of rust in wheat, but to
■no damaging extent as yet. There has
’ been ruston’small grain of all kinds, more
or less, for several years past. I trust a
kind Providence will avert any disaster to
this important crop; for should this great
calamity befall us the wail of starvation
will be heard from many portions of our
State.
Some farmers have been so unwise as to
plant more cottou than corn, but tilts is not
a general thing in this section, for I think
more than half the land is devoted to corn,
and I am well convinced two-thirds should
be. and that the best lands we have. Corn
will rule at higher rates this time next
year than at present. Mark that prodic
tion, and warn the people.
Speaking of relief, I wih state that we
think in this portion of Georgia that some
thing more than the bankrupt law is neces
sary to give relief to the people.
While it is to be sorely regretted the
wise and magnanimous reconstruction pol
icy of President J ohnson falls prostrate to
the ground under the new regime, yet,
it is to be hoped men will be chosen to the
Convention that will make laws to meet
our condition, and the present anomalous
circumstances under which we are placed.
The friends of relief, friends of humanity,
and friends of the unfortunate, should look
well to this, and a word to the wise is suf
ficient. A Farmer.
May 14th, 1867.
Mcßean, Richmond Cos., Ga. )
May 17th, 1807. j
Editors Chronicle d' Sentinel, Augusta ,
Georgia ,
In compliance with your request, that
your friends in the country would oc
casionally advise as to the condition of the
' growing crops, I will endeavor to give you
an inkling of planting prospects in and
about this locality. King cotton—as it
was wont to be styled— must, of course,
take the lead, as two-thirds of the avail
able lands in this section has been planted
in the staple, notwithstanding your re
peated advice to the planting community
f to plant corn. In spite of the cold snap
j of a week since, cotton is looking well
and most planters have a good stand
and are now busily engaged in
j chopping out. I saw, on Mr. Hughes
Watson’s plantation, in Dunce county, yes
! terday, cotton with fourteen leaves, which,
I I judge, is as far advanced as any in this
| section. We are trying anew seed this
; season, styled the “ Egyptian Cotton
| Seed, ” long fine staple, and so far it has
proved to be a hardier plant than the “Boyd
Prolific ; ” tho seed was obtained from the
Agricultural Department at Washington,
in the United States (according to Thad.
Stevens and Senator Wiison’sprogramme),
and, I am informed that it was brought
from Egypt on board the United States
steamer Swatara , which conveyed the
Radicals' victim, John 11. Surratt, to the
United States. Corn, as a general thing,
is a trifle backward, but has a good healthy
appearance, hut the majority of the plant
ers have turned their whole attention to
the cultivation of tho staple. The river
| swamp planters predict a large crop this
I year, providing the river remains within
! the banks.
| Query. —Suppose the corn crop in the
West should prove a failure this year?
What will corn be worth in Augusta the
coming spring ?
Will write you again as the crops pro
gress. Yours, &c., E. T. P.
Abundant Crops. —lnformation re
ceived by tho Agricultural Department,
Washington, confirms the previous re
ports from all sections of tho country con
cerning the prospect of the forthcoming
wheat crop. The indications are that the
yield of wheat in all the States where that
grain is raised will be much larger than
usual. Not only has more wheat been
planted, but the yield per acre promises to
be remarkably good. This is always cheer
ing news at this season of the year. The
chief dangers are past, and a pretty correct
estimate of the harvest can now be made.
If the prospect was unfavorable it would
have the effect of still farther depressing
business all over the country, but there is
never much occasion to fear hard times
when there is plenty of wheat coming in
from the agricultural regions. Other crops
aro also said to look well, with the ex
ception, perhaps, of fruit, which in some
parts of the Northern States, has been
somewhat damaged by the recent frosts,
though if there are no further mishaps the
crop will yet be an average one.
Crops in Coosa. — We copy the follow
ing extract of a letter from the Mont
gomery Ma il :
“Many aro hard up, and the rain has
washed the farms all to pieces, and the
frost on the Bth has greatly injured the
cotton, and killed sonic Irish potatoes,
| consequently the people are rather down
lin the mouth. Wheat crops are unusually
j promising-sonic little rust, but none to
hurt yet. Yours respectfully, X.”
j Crops.— Wheat —Some complaint is
: made about rust on the blade, but we
! think the crop is safe, and the best yield
j will be bad this season that has been
realized for many years.
Cottou —Many farmers complain of bad
stands, and the recent cold snaps have
j made the plant look very sickly. We al
l most wish a frost wouldcotne and kill it all.
Corn —A good stand reported, and looks
well for the season. Those who plant
j plenty of corn, may “lass and grow phat”
next fall.— Griffin Star.
Prospects of the Cotton Crop.— The
■ prospects of the present cotton crop is any
! thing but favorable. The cold weather has,
we understand, cut it very short—in many
places not more than half a stand. In view
of the crippled condition of the country, as
well as tho scarcity of provisions at this
crisis, it would, no doubt, be a God-sent
blessing to every farmer that the whole of
the cotton crop could become extinct for at
least two years to come. We understand
that there are many farmers who have
heretofore lived independent upon tlieir
own exertions, that have not on hand a
month’s provisions—have no grain crops
in anticipation, and are failing in the effort j
to procure present sustenance by giving I
liens upon tlieir entire prospective cotton :
crops.— Henry County [Ala.) Register. \
The late frost did a good deal of damage I
in Tennessee. The Columbia Gerald say a: !
“Ihe cotton that was up has gone down, j
Corn in the bottoms is badly bit, but will i
come out if well worked. The wheat — j
the crop in which we feel the most in- j
terest —sofar as we can learn, is unhurt.” j
The Benncttsville Journal, of Friday
last, says that, there was a heavy frost in i
that place the day before, and that the {
crops, especially the cotton crop, were ma
terially damaged thereby.
'1 he fronton (Ohio) Register says: “Our
oldest farmers say they never have seen j
such prospects for all kinds of fruits as are ]
visible now on every hand. They declare i
also the same concerning wheat. In some j
localities it is a foot and a half high, and
very thick.”
Tiie Cold Snap. —Wc continue to re
ceive reports of great injury to cotton by
the late cold snap. Many of the most j
thrifty and forward plants were killed, and
aH of the young cotton bears evidence of a
narrow escape. Probably tho stand has ;
not been destroyed on most plantations,
but the crop, backward before this cold
I spell, has received from it another serious
j drawback. — Columbus Enquirer.
The Late Frost.—From all we can learn
notwithstanding the apprehensions felt
for the cotton crop of this section and the
killing of'a few plants by the frost of last
week, the c-rop hNs not been seriously
damaged. There is a fair stand left, and
the wilted plants are being re
i stored by the warm suns of the last few
: days.— Macon Telegraph.
The YY’heat Crop.—From all parts of
1 the South we have glowing accounts of the
wheat. As far as we have been able to
1 learn the crop never looked finer or
promised a better yield than in this and
adjacent counties. The harvest will afford
great relief to our people and a revival to
trade. , , , , ,
The season, though backward, has not
been very unfavorable for all crops; every
thing planted now promises well for the
farmer. —Marietta Journal, 17th.
I THE CROPS IN" BERRIEN COUNTY.
Berrien County, Ga. May 15, 1867.
To the Editors of the Xcics <£• Herald:
As you ask information in regard to the j
1 growing crop-, I will state that our cotton !
crop in mis part of die State is very sorry, j
owing to the’Spring dews and heavy rains. ‘
Corn"is very good, though rather late;
oats, the best ever known in the country:
wheat, scarcely raised here on account of
rust. The crops promise well in Lowndes,
Brooks and other adjoining counties, but
there has been rather too much rain far
the best. I will say to you that there is
more cotton planted in this section of
country than ever known before, and it is
cultivated almost exclusively by Johnny
Rebs. as we do not depend on the “free j
labor” system here to any great extent. P. j
Republican Party.
Please publish this, from the Baltimore j
Gazette, aud oblige Subscriber. >
If it is a blessed thing to be born an
American citizen, it must be glorious to
have lived in these days to man's estate
and to have the honor of being a member
of the Republican party. The beautiful
humanities that dignity and adorn the
labors of that party are finely exemplified
in its missionary operations in the South
ern States. At first those operations were
restricted to what might not improperly be
styled mendicant missions for supplies; but
the mendicacy was of that sort which was
illustrated some years ago in Prance—or
was it Germany ? —by the old =oldier by
the wayside, who presented his carbine
from the bushes at the passing traveller
and demanded alms in the name of God.
There is a limit, however, to cotton bales,
pianos, pictures, libraries of books, com
munion services and even to spoons, and
when due “conveyance” had been made
of these, one might have supposed the
victim would be secure from mo
lestation. But the party of "moral ideas
has a creed of its own in matters of this
kind. Its generous instincts teach it that
true chivalry consists in first putting your
adversary at your mercy, next plundering
t him, then pummelling him whilst he is
j down, and finally winding up by lecturing
| him on the heinousness of his offences and
his duties to the North.
This is what the Radicals call magnanim
ity 7. It is not exactly that sort of mag
nanimity which everybody used to admire.
It does not indicate manliness and a high
and fearless spirit. It has no touch of the
chivalric about it —no coloring of romance.
It does not carry us back, even in imagina
tion, to the golden age when knights errant
went wandering into far countries either to
succor the oppressed, or, in a joyous spirit
of adventure, to challenge all comers to
break a lance for love of fair lady or
honorable fame. The generosity and
chivalry of the Radicals are illustrated
after ati entirely different fashion. Their
ideals of knights errant are Senator Wil
son and Congressman Kelly. They, too,
have gone forth into, lands, strange indeed
to them. Not to pleasant joust or tourney,
but to stab by side blows. Not to unloose,
but to bind. Not for the purpose of incul
cating generous sentiments, but to foment
social and political antagonisms. Not to re
build where they have aided to destroy,
but to encourage further desolation. Not
to heal up half cicatrized wounds, but to
tear them open afresh. Not to atone for
past wrongs, but to menace additional in
juries. Not to counsel all classes of the
population to live in harmony with each
other and work together for the .common
good, but, liko Cadmus of old, to sow Dra-
f on's teeth among them, in the hope that,
y breeding dissensions between the races,
they 7 may end eventually 7 in a murderous
outbreak, and so give a further excuse .for
holding the white people under military
rule indefinitely. It is a mission entirely
worthy of the party which concocted it and
of the missionaries who have been delegat
ed to carry out its plans. Those plans,
too, arc so entirely philanthropic and so
completely unselfish, that if the whites will
only consent to disfranchise themselves
and the blacks to accept the leadership of
the Radicals, and become as ductile as
potter’s clay in their hands, we may then
hope to see —but not till then—such a.
happy family as was never congregated
together before outside the cage in Bar
num’s Museum.
But, to drop irony. What ineffable
meanness do these political missions dis
close ! What sheer cowardice ! To first
hedge a people about with bayonets and
then canvass for votes in their midst may
be smart, but it is not the less grossly dis
reputable. These Radical missionaries
well know they have the whole field to
themselves. They took good care of that
before they ventured on their errand.
They know, too, that if any prominent
Southern man ventured to reply to their
insolent assumptions of'superiority, to refute
their doctrines or to hold up to public
scorn their manifold tergiversations, their
treachery and perfidy, lie would be in
stantly denounced as disloyal and contu
macious, and his frankness of speech would
be used as an argument for the further
oppression of himself and his people. To
muzzle men and then berate them—to tie
their hands and then challenge them to
defend themselves —may be just, may also
be generous and chivalric, in the Radical
sense of those terms, but such things are
scarcely in accordance with those teachings
to which we were once accustomed, or with
the sentiments of the civilized world out
side the limits of the United States.
The Visit op Ex-President Pierce,
in reference to which a letter dated Portress
Monroe, May 9, says :
Considerable excitement -was created
here this morning by the sudden arrival of
ex-President Pierce on a hasty visit to
Jefferson Davis, and, it is understood, on
business of very deep interest connected
with the trial and future movements ot the
prisoner. General Pierce on landing from
the Baltimore steamer, moved quickly up
the wharf with a small carpet-sack in his
hand, and lost no time in beaching the
sally-port of the fortress, but he was here
challenged and refused admittance by the
sentinel standing guard, until the requisite
pass or documents from the commanding
general could be procured. In .vain the
ex-President expostulated; the sentinel
refused him admission, and he was com
pelled to return to the Hygeia Hotel, and
there await an answer from Gen. Burton
to .his communication, stating his desire to
see Mr. Davis, and requesting permission
to enter the fort. While engaged in thus
waiting, the Rev. Mr. Minnegerode, rector
of Mr. Davis’ church in Richmond, who
arrived here yesterday on a visit to the
prisoner, entered the hotel and was in
troduced to the General, and a cordial
greeting at or.ee occurred. Por more than
an hour the two personages walked up and
down the wharf, creating considerable at
tention and interestamong the crowd which
had gathered around the landing. Mr.
Minnegerode had just left Mr. Davis,
having remained in the fort last -evening,
and the information he possessed appeared
to be very interesting to the General.
About 9 o’clock Gen. Barton, tfye custo
dian of Mr. Davis, called on General Pierce
at the hotel, and accompanied him inside
the fort, and to Uarroll Hall, the prison
home of the Davis family. Here they
separated, and General Pierce entered Mr.
Davis’ apartments, and the curtain fell
upon the scenes enacted therein. The in
terview and consultation of the two ex-
Presidents were quite protracted. Late
this evening General Pierce hid farewell to
Mr. Davis, and took passage on the Balti
more steamer en route North.
How Doas Kill Sheep.—The March
, report of the Commissioner of Agriculture
j dwells upon the ravages committed by
| dogs among the sheep in the United States.
! In 1860, five hundred thousand sheep were
; killed by dogs, and their value was
$2,000,000, The number injured was
; three hundred thousand, and the loss is
i estimated at $600,000, The commissioner
! says:
“The cost of keeping dogs, most of
j them utterly worthless, when calculated
| for the whole country, assumes startling
i proportions. The estimate made in the
| report of 18G3, of ten dollars per annum,
j or less than one cent, per meal, cannot be
considered extravagant, in view of the
[ price paid for boarding dogs, the cost of
keeping large numbers of them in cities,
i and their exclusive consumption of meat.
As to their numbers, it is believed by
many that they will average one to each
family, or seven millions in the United
States. In cities and towns that average
would not be reached, while many a pack
of hounds and assemblage of curs of low
degree might be found in the ownership
of single families. Possibly seven millions
maj' be too large. Ohio, with half a mil
lion families, is supposed by many to have
half a million dogs, although little more
than one-third of that number are found
on the assessors’* books. It may be
assumed, in view of all the data obtained,
as a low estimate, that there are five mil- 1
lion of dogs in the United States, and that
their subsistence involves an expenditure s
of fifty millions of dollars.’’
Bachelors’ Bi lletin'. —A New York
Sunday paper publishes a bachelors’ bulle
tin for the information of the young ladies.
Here are a few specimens:
Hamilton Fish, Jr., East Twenty-Second
street, son of Ex-Governor Fish. Ife is a
tall and gawky looking fellow of about
twenty-three. Thinks himself a lady killer
but has not quite broken the young lady’s
heart in East Twenty-Second street. In
come, five thousand dollars.
Another is thus photographed :
John Allaire Rockwell, ‘ resides at the I
Brevoort House, considered very hand
some in the dark. Thought to be a dan
gerous youth on account of his splendid
baritone voice and natural teeth. One of
the best amateur billiard players in town ,
Has an income, as per last internal reve'
nue, of seventeen thousand dollars.
And here we have a third:
Dr. B. A. Clements, of Greenwich Ave
nue,_ is about forty years of age, tall, 1
looking, and very fond of the ladies; nrc 1
fers widows. Heavy on the “Black
Crook, and was never known to go back «i
dol£ y ' W ° nh thousand |
Ordination'.— At nine o’clock yesterdav
morning the ceremony of Ordimhion took
P lace t at * he Cathedral Chapel, Qu£m
street. The recipient of holy orders !
this case was Air. Claudian p v, .> 11
who has spent several year^brAh7n ttds
country and abroad in preparation for the
priesthood, and who had already Lien 1
invested with minor orders. The ord“L“
t.on services were rather long, but of a
WW character, lit. Kev. Bishop
L offi . culin ?' This is the lirst occa
u?"vfo o r J UUfe a number of years past, on
which a Roman Catholic Priest has been
ordained m OU r eitv.— Charleston Courier,
lath.
President,’s Report.
Office Georgia Railroad Company, \ |
Augusta, 14th May, isOT. j i
lu the Stocholda's
Os the Georgia Railroad Company .- |
The business operations of the Road,
for the year ending 31st of March last,
will appear by the report of the Superin
tendent, and the financial condition of the
Company is exhibited by the statement of
the Cashier, hereto annexed.
The business of the year has been some
what better than anticipated in last year’s
report. As will be seen the receipts, both
gross and net, are about equal to those of
that portion of the previous year for
which an available currency was received.
The profits of the two years compare
thus:
Gross profits for 1565-’6(> .*.51,155,397 92
“ “ 1806-'(>7 1,130,141 95
Decrease in gross profits... $19,255 97
Net profits for 1565-’66 $.514,918 97
“ “ 1856-’67 513,(H1S 09
Decrease in net profits §1,850 28
This is very small decrease in profits for
the year, though it may be here remarked
that the previous year was made to com
mence on the I,sth of May, and in that year
no mail pay was credited.
It will be seen that in the 224 months,
from the 15th of May, 1805, to the 31st of
March, 1807, the net earnings of the Road
have exceeded 121 per cent, per annum
upon the capital stock. There is no mis
take or deception about these profits, and
if the money is not in the Treasury, or all
available for dividends, it is accounted for
by the payment of the debts of the Com
pany, and the restoration of the Road and
rolling stock, impaired or destroyed by the
war. It is known to the Stockholders that
the ample current effects of the Company
provided to redeem the current liabilities
of the Bank, were mostly absorbed in Con
federate currency, leaving the debts of the
Company, including more than one million
of circulation, unpaid and unprovided for.
The State Bonds and Treasury Notes, to a
large amount, were repudiated, and “bills
of other banks,” to the amount of near
$400,000, have also become almost worth
less. In fine, the ample means provided
by the Company for the payment of its
liabilities, both funded and floating, have
been swept away by the war and its inci
dents, and the heavy expense of restoring
the Road and outfit from a ruined condi
tion, and paying its liabilities, has been
thrown mainly on profits. The Stock
holders will doubtless agree that they
could not have been better appropriated
than to these essential purposes, and the
Directors have very reluctantly yielded to
the pressing wants of the Stockholders in
paying any dividends, before a complete
restoration of property, and the full pay
ment of the floating debt. Much has been
done toward these important objects, and
much yet remains to he done. Since the
return of peace the property of the Com
pany has been great! v improved.
Ist. By a more thorough ditching and
drying the Road bed—-a very important
work which had been much neglected dur
ing the war.
2d. By a very expensive, hut absolutely
essential, renewal of timbers, especially
cross-ties. In the last two years there
have been 283,900 now cross-ties put in
the track—an equivalent of material for
10 (4 miles of new Road! To this may be
added $72,4.89 for new Track.
3d. By two now and expensive Bridges
—one of iron—nine new Depots to replace
those burnt, and anew Machine Shop at
Atlanta.
4th. By rebuilding and repairing Cars,
and building new ones. The number of
Cars “in running order” at the close of
the war was about 70. It is now 399, a
large number of which are entirely new or
thoroughly repaired. This does not in
clude Passenger and Baggage Cars.
sth. From 12 Engines “in running or
der.” we now have 28 “in good order.”
Some of them entirely rebuilt and as good
as now, besides four others in a state of
forwardness in progress of reconstruction.
oth. By the purciiase of a very valuable
set of constructing and repairing Tools, of
Seller’s make. As labor-saving instru
ments these tools were very important, in
fact almost absolutely necessary, with the
heavy and increa..cd labor in the Machine
Shop.
These heavy expenditures have been
made and paid from the resources of the
Company, atul mainly from its profits. —
Not an Engine or a single Car has been
purchased or ordered—the policy of the
Company being, as far as possible, to give
employment to our own suffering laborers
and mechanics. This policy has been the
more readily adopted as, from close calcula
tions, it is believed to be consistent with a
sound economy.
The amount of expenditures for these
objects may be seen in detail elsewhere,
and they have been made and paid without
the use of credit, and without any increase
of debt. On the contrary, the debt of the
Company has been largely reduced. In
this connection, we may briefly refer to the
second principal demand upon the Treas
ury, to account tor the profits of the last
two years.
In May, ’(55, the bonded debt was $254,500
At the sairfe period tlio Bauk Cir
culation was 941,901
Bonds and Circulation.... $1,190,401
On the 31st March the
bonded debt was $380,000
On same date the Circula
tion was 185,095—571,095
. Reduction of debt since May, 1865 $625,306
Thus it will be seen, that wliilst tile
bonded debt has been increased only $131,-
500, the* circulation lias been reduced
§756,806, making an aggregate reduction
of debt of §625,300, as above stated. This,
too, is omitting any notice of deposits, and
large amounts of back interest on bonds,
the coupons on which were held back dur
ing the war. It may bo proper here to
state, that the company has declined to
issue any bonds, except in renewal, and to
fund the Bank circulation. This circula
tion being a large and immediate demand,
has been very embarrassing to the Com
pany in its crippled condition. It will be
seen that it is reduced to a small amount.
It now comes in slowly, and will not, it is
hoped, hereafter very materially interfere
with the financial policy of the Company.
The Superintendent refers in detail to
the ruined condition of the Road, its rolling
stock and other property, at the end of the
war. The heaviest and most pressing de
mands lor renovation and repair have been
met,, but other expenditures should not be
delayed longer than consistent with the re
sources oi the Company. A round-house
for tne protection ol engines, and a Freight
Depot at Atlanta, are pressing wants, and
will cost from $40,000 to §60,000, accord
ing to the plans that may be adopted. The
Superintendent also estimates that §60,000
per annum should be appropriated for new
Iron, until the remainder of the main line
Bindl Oe relaid. The rebuilding of the
Rolling Mill at Atlanta, of which there is
n - ow filtering, prospects, would greatly
simplify this important job, and reduce
the expenditure to the cost of rerolling
the old material.
A\ ith the aid of some effects (the re
mains of the old reserved fund) of uncer
tain value, all these demands may ho met
—together with small dividends, provided
tim profits of the last two years can be
maintained. Can they be relied on for the
future? All calculations are idle, in the
present condition of the country, in which
nothing is certain but uncertainty. Some
speculations, however, can do no harm, if
they do no good. The Superintendent re
fers to now and unexpected competition
from Atlanta to the Northern cities. Are
we likely to suffer hereafter as much or
more by this “unnatural competition?”
I_he difference in line of Railroad is about
450 miles, and the difference in grades full
-10 feet to the mile! Many early calcula
tions on the capacity of Railroads to carry
buiky freights long distances have been
disappointed, but there are still some disad
vantages in competing with water carriage
that cannot _be overcome. What -has
caused this diversion of Cotton from South-
W estern Georgia, Macon, Atlanta, Rome,
and other points South directly to New J or!:
over the Virginiajand Western route ? It is
simply the power of capital. Business will
follow capital. This is especially true of
tae Cotton trade. Buyers will ship to al
mostany point where they can get advances,
lhe banking and business capital of Au-
| gusta was destroyed by the war. The
j same may be said of Charleston and Sa
| var.nah. Charleston, before the war, had
; large and increasing resources. Its ship
' ping was ample, and so was its commercial
capital. Its wholesale establishments fur-
I wished ample supplies to the country mer
chant. Cotton was largely sold there, and
supplies freely purchased. For this legit
imate business the Roads extending West
were the natural feeders and outlets, and
had no competition. The merchants West,
within reasonable range, sold and bought
there to a large extent, because they found
they could do better there than elsewhere.
There was ample business, and the Roads
running from the interior to the seacoast
had it at remunerating rates, because it
naturally belonged to them. All this for
the present has been changed by the war.
Two disastrous fires, and four years siege,
Lave destroyed the shipping—the commer
cial capital and the wholesale trade of
Charleston. In like manner the business
capital of Augusta has been swept away
by the effects of war and collapse of Confed
erate credits. In fine, the business attrac
tions of Augusta and Charleston have been
weakened for the present by the loss of
■ capital, and the tendency is to follow capi
tal directly North, from all points West,
whose location offers the least chance of
competition, even at great disadvantage in
transportation.
This unnatural competition cannot con
tinue long after the country becomes settled,
and trade falls into its natural channels.
The Superintendent truly remarks that
Charleston is rapidly reviving. Its loca
tion will attract to it foreign capital, so
soon as confidence is restored. Capital, :
like labor, will always be attracted to the
point where it can be most profitably em- {
ployed. The s%me may ijp said of Augusta, I
which, from its choice*)!' <|>orts and mar- 1
kcl.s, ha. always been known as one of the !
host interior cotton markets in the i
South.
This competition over 750 miles of Rail- !
road of high grades, against 307 miles of i
low grade, cannot continue long. It will |
cease when the capital and business attrac
tions are restored to Southern ports and
markets. These Northern ports are not
the natural Atlantic outlets for the cotton
even of Memphis—the great trade centre
of the valley 7. Hence the restless anxiety
of the energetic and able President of the
Memphis & Charleston Railroad for a road,
from Decatur direct by Kay of Atlanta to
Charleston. He is now running in con
nection with the Norfolk route, and finds
it tcill not do. In his last report lie again
calls the attention of his Stockholders to
the importance of the direct Charleston
route. He is willing to throw out the use*
of one-hhlf his Road, to give the other the
advantage of direct connection with a
I South Atlantic port. The report is very
able and very instructive, and oi especial
interest to every Stockholder in our Com
j pany. We have only time and space to
add here, that it ever the contemplated
line shall be built (of which Col. Tate is
confident) it will not only 7 pay*well itself,
but will permanently fLc the prosperous
destinies oj every Road constituting a por
tion of the line.
It may be safely assumed, then, that
this competition for cotton at Atlanta will
not continue long, for it won’t pay. If
! shippers persist in the wish to ship through
j to New York, this can be done quicker and
■ at a much less costoi transportation by way
! of Charleston, in connection with the boats,
than over the Virginia line. We shall not
likely suffer hereafter, from any cause, a
larger loss by reduced cotton receipts than
we suffered the past year. In 1860 the
road transported 219,774 bales. The last
year we carried 55,714! This great re
duction was in part owing to the competi
tion complained of, but mainly it is be
lieved from the very short crop in that por
tion of the country tributary to our road.
To say nothing of the effect of a change in
our labor system, and a season unfavorable
almost beyond precedent, it is known that
the section of country alluded to was
greatly devastated and exhausted by the
conflicting armies near the close of the war.
It has not yet recovered, but it is recover
ing, and it is not likely that we shall have
a less cotton crop to transport, at any time
hereafter, than we had the past year.
It may perhaps be safely admitted, how
ever, that we shall suffer still further by
competition for distant or “ llirough Trav
el.’’ Roads continue to multiply, and es
pecially in the Southwest, and the tendency
is to cut oft' every angle, and take the most
direct route between important points.—
This travel is already divided between so
many competing lines, that it is perhaps
scarcely worth the cost of competition. As
a general rule, the conviction is gaining
strength, that no road should be built as
an investment, unless its local business will
pay an interest on the cost. The only ex
ceptions will be a few great thoroughfares
—the_ shortest and most direct between
certain important points, and presenting
such advantages in distance and business
attractions, as to shut out all competi
tion.
Connected with this view, it is impor
tant to consider whether the focal business
of the Georgia Railroad will pay fair
dividends to the Stockholders ? With
anything like an approach to the former
prosperity of the country, no doubt could
be raised upon this question. A reference
to the business in past years, will clearly
show that tho local business would pay,
and pay well. In truth, the profits of the
Company for several years past have not
been large from distant or “through busi
ness. ” It is generally carried at low rates,
and against strong, competition, and often
costs more than it is worth. It is not likely
that the competition for the through travel
will he greatly increased. Taking the
Northern cities and New Orleans as points,
we have had the routes by Grand Junc
tion and by Atlanta to compete with. Tak
ing tho same cities and Mobile as points,
we have had the routes by Corinth, and
also by Knoxville ;ind Atlanta, to compete
with. Taking the same eitiesand Atlanta
as points, we have had the Lynchburg and
Knoxville routes to compete with. Taking
Charleston and Montgomery as points, we
had the route by Savannah and Macon ;
and with Augusta and Montgomery as
points, we had the route by Macon and
Columbus as competitors. On all these
competing lines the competition is close—
time and distance about the same—some
times rather against us, and it may bo well
questioned, whether for years past the net
profits of the Compaq 7 have been much
increased, if at all, by competing for and
surrendering its schedules to this “through
travel. ’ ’
But admitting all this, the Stockholders
have been sometimes discouraged, and the
price of the stock affected, by an appre
hension of reduced production in the
country contiguous to and tributary to our
Road. “Old Georgia,” it is said, is much
worn, and moreover, since emancipation,
great numbers of the able-bodied laborers
have emigrated to other parts, where labor
is better paid and more profitably em
ployed. This is true to some extent, but
do we not sometimes attach too much im
portance to these acknowledged truths?
An annual exodus o f the laboring popula
tion lias been going on for many years,
and yet the product and population have
continued, to increase. No doubt many
fine counties have suffered by wasteful anil
injudicious cultivation, and a certain class
of our restless people were constantly
seeking change and fresher lands. On the
other hand, the more judicious and ob
serving planters discovered, years since,
that it was more to their advantage to re
main upon* the old homestead, and pre
serve and improve the land, than to lay
them waste by shimming, and go to the
forest. The consequence was that, for
sometime before our civil troubles, some of
the oldest counties were increasing in the
cotton product as well as in all tlie ele
ments of material wealth. Though per
haps not so fertile as some parts of the
Southwest, Georgia lies within that belt of !
the temperate zone which Mr. Ellsworth ;
called emphatically “the Cotton region.”
In soil and climate it is especially adapted
to the nature of'the plant, and the planter 1
in this favored region has this advantage,
that with moderate fertility, and proper
and judicious culture, he will always make
a crop. Comparatively short it may be,
according to seasons, hut he will rarely fail
short of expenses, and may generally rely
on a fair interest on his capital. He rarely
met with those entire failures which so
often brought ruin on the planter of the
more fertile region of the Southwest.
This was the only secret which explained
the progressive wealth of the planting
interest of Georgia, beyond other States,
thought to be blest with a more exuber
ant fertility.
In years long past, the Stockholders
were occassionally reminded of the threat
ened decline in products, by the exhaustion
of the soii arid loss of population in the
region tributary to the Road. The best
answer to these apprehensions was found
in the progressive business of the Road ,
and in the statistics of the country.
The first year after the Road reached
Atlanta—say in 184G —the entire receipts
of the Road were $315,342, and the cotton
transported 56,821 bales. The receipts
continued to increase, and so did the num
ber of bales of cotton transported, with
trilling fluctuations, until in 1860, the last
year of peace, when the receipts were
$1,159,188, and the bales of cotton carried
219,774 ! This was a small increase over
the receipts of 1859, when 219,218 bales
were carried. And, but for the war, there
is no doubt that the quantity would have
continued to increase up to the present
time. The truth is, there is much life in
the old land yet, arid if we had peace, and
a government, with constitutional guaran
tees—giving assurance to the citizen that
he would enjoy the fruits of his labor,
there are many elements of wealth in
Georgia besides cotton, which would be
very rapidly developed.
a noted 1 jature in the cotton-culture of
the present year is believed to be a reduced '
area planted, but a careful selection of the J
best land and a freej use of fertilizers, j
With a fair season, thcr suit will probably j
be a good crop in proportion to land plant- j
ed ; and though it may fail much short in \
quantity, compared with average crops be- i
fore the war, yet the advanced price will per- i
haps bring as muejj money into the conn- 1
try as an average crop previous to 1860. 1
Such is our hope. Time alone can prove
whether our hopes are to be realized.
lAt present the businessis very small, and
what we have, grows out of the wants,
rather than the exchangeable wealth of
the country. The people are too poor to
travel, and the fragments of exports left
by the ravages of war, and the small crop
of last year, have been nearly exhausted ;
the little remaining is being expended for a
scanty supply of provisions, which fur
nishes at present the principal business of
the Road.
Accounts of the wheat crop are uni
versally favorable, and reports from the
cotton prospect are not discouraging. An
ample supply of provisions of home pro
duction, and a fair crop of cotton, would do
much to change the present state of affairs,
and revive the business of the Road.
Pressed by the urgent wants of the
Stockholders, the Board has declared two
dividends from the profits—the one of V,
and the other of 3 per cent. These
dividends were perfectly legitimate, as
they were fully covered by the profits and
reserved fund, notwithstanding the heavy
depreciation of the investments of which
the reserved fund is mostly composed. But
for the consideration named, however, it 1
would have been a sounder and more com
mendable policy to pay no dividends until
the property of the Road shall be restored
*-° it ß former condition, and the floating i
debt of the Company fully paid.
A detailed statement of the assets and
liabilities of the Company may be seen in
the Statement of the Cashier. From this it
w,ll be seen, that every demand against the I
Company may be met, even at present
***
h. IU- tlio Board.
President.
The Situation in Mcrfel,.
cannon planted on fim, 0 pieces of
but lad an i d i Uilß above
inst. The °? tho ls *
somewhat relieved h-ir 10 • ty t- a< * boen
city and Havana hnf^° VlSron 'i tllis
for ins' and s'ciinL-’ 3 " r 9 at 'Fal of suf-
The beriegcrf also W* 6 * yet.
sickness in thei’r cam™ t great doal ° r
sorely for want of supplied WerC Suffering
the same Conditionvf J ® ry much
Liberals were before it win? ,9™' Tl »'
and Marquez, who defends t 7 3 * ? cn ’
about the same number,
have been compelled m , woultl
; ago. He still heTd out lung
the Liberals say with v’erv ~? er ’ tbou g“
for the future. The faetionUu
are so given to misrepresentation MGV? 0
enemies that we do not put irm i, P • i he,r
in these stories. When thS
and 4 era Cruz actually fall into th>
woie ,hi " .»r» a nd„:
!». f Yi" n
Queretaro She reports that' MarfmS
made an attempted sortie onthef/j?
He is said to have had 6 000 “
have left 4,000 behind thel*°
At first he took the Liberl by Jr pr y ‘
and gained advantage over them Tu ’
afterward got possession oU pan ofte
city, and then retired within their old lines
These reports are wholly through Liberal
posed'lhM M h °' V ’ bat we sup
posed, that Maximilian, though wTtlmni
hope of re-establishing his empire i no ,
and has not been, so closely P pressed «
has been reported by his enemies
A man with 10,000 followers in s Uc h an
open and exhausted country as Mexico
safe anywhere, and needs not Mr Seward's
swift messenger to save him. As lbr tlio
so-called siege of Queretaro, it is no more
a siege than that of Vera Cruz, or that of
the city of Mexico. Vera Cruz is
open on the Gulf side, and is constantly re
ceiving supplies from New Orleans and
Havana. The city of Mexico has a doze
way sos egress and ingress, which cannot he
shut up except by a far larger army .than
the Liberals can bring against it. A more
proper inode of operations would he to as
sault it. So as to Queretaro, the Im
perialists are not shut up in the city., nor
cau they be. 1 hey occupy a range of hills
outside, and the Liberals another range
2*,, * jlie campaign is one principally” of
field strategy.— New Orleans Picayune.
Bailed Ora.—We are pleased to an
nounce that Mr. Hopxins, who was indict
ed for the murder of the woman, Anna
Gardner, was brought before liis Honor
.Judge Fleming, yesterday, and entered
into bonds m the sum of $15,000. The
bail was readily given.— Nor. Adv., \~th.
Rosie.—The papers state that a lot of
colored men in Rome having attempted to
organize themselves into a military com
pany, were promptly disbanded by the
officer m command of that post, with 'the
assurance that any furtlLr attempt of that
kind would lead to their arrest.
A Wisconsin editor says that, after an
extensive tour through t in; State, especially
the Northern part of it, he is satisfied that,
although the season has been unusually
backward, the crop and fruit prospects
were never better. It is also stated’that
tho breadth of grain sown is likely to be
unparalleled, the fanners never working
with more industry tliab during the present
season.
Scientific writers inform ns that wood,
when continually exposed to a very mode
rate heat, such as that of steam and hot
water pipes, will, in a space of time vary
ing from eight to ten years, become so in
flammable that it will take, fire at a tem
perature very litte over that of boiling
water. Tho wood undergi.es a slow pro
cess of charring, and it is said only awaits
tli/4 admission of air (which it gets by
shrinking and tracking) to burst out into
flame.
A good sort oi a man in Maine was re
cently asked to subscribe for a chandelier
for the church. “ Now,” said he, “what’s
the use of a chandelier ? After you get it
you can’t get any one to play on it.”
China never had a slave or a feudal sys
tem or a pauper peasantry.
The suffering in lowa and Minnesota,
on account of the lack of food, is very
great. In Cerro Gordo, Kossuth, Worth
and Winnebago counties, lowa, the new
settlers are in great destitution. The old
residents have divided with them until the
stock of food is nearly exhausted. From
the southwestern part of Minnesota the
cry for food and aid to enable the getting
in of crops_ is emphatic. From Marion
county, it is estimated, one-third of the
population will be able to pass through the
season without assistance, another third
will need assistance, but cun give security;
another tlnr 1 can give no security and
require donations. A correspondent of the
St. Paul Press, writing from Tenhassen,
Marion county, says: “ There are families
in this town that have lived on nothing
but rutabagas for a week ; others on noth
ing but a little corn ground in a coffee
mill while two-thirds have not a hit of
meat to eat.”
A Washington dispatch -states that the
Postmaster General has decided to dis
pense with the official publication of the
list of letters remaining uncalled for in
postoffices. This news will be pleasing to
most newspaper publishers, for the amount
paid by tho Government for the advor
tising of the list was from fifteen to t hirty
per cent lower than it cost the publishers
to have it put, into type by the compositors.
The New York Herald, Philadelphia
Ledger, Nashville Banner and every
other prosperous and prominent news
paper in the country have time and again
refused to publish it. It was a popular
fallacy for a long timethat “the newspaper
having the largest circulation” in any
town or city, always got the list, hut this
will now bedone away with.— Chattanooga
Union.
Destitution. —The pitiful cries of the
destitute come up from every portion of
the country. It is appalling to behold the
enormous want in our midst. Our streets
are visited daily by poor destitute women
and children in search of food. From the
best information that can be gathered there
are about one thousand persons in the
county, in an actual state of want.
The Inferior Court lias succeeded in
borrowing a small sum of money to buy
provisions for those who are willing to
grant a lien on their coining crop. While
thi- will only relieve the necessities of the
people to a limited extent, they will he
compelled to pay aboutper bushel for
corn thus purchased. —(lrcrnrsboro ((la.)
Herald, 11 tit.
Judge Force, of the Cincinnati Common
Pleas, has decided in a case involving in
heritance, that a marriage in Ohio without
; the statuary ceremony is legal and binding.
The parties had lived together fifreen
years, seven children being the fruit of
their marriage; but, bolding that mar
riage was not a sacred thing, and that the
“ceremony of jumping over a broomstick
was as good as any,” the parties had
never been formally married. The and ei.sion
of Judge Force entitles the widow to dower
and the children to inheritance.
Disease Among Stock.—There has
been a disease called glanders prevailing to
a considerable extent in many localities.
Some planters have suffered fearfully from
it taking nearly one half of their mules.
The disease is preceded by a dullness and
■stiffness of the animal, by the time nostrils
commence running, it has so far advanced
that cure is almost impossible. But few
cases have recovered in this community.—
Albany News, 7th.
The Pay, the new London daily, does
not think highly of the present state of
i the fine arts in England. It says : “We
have no painter worthy to compete with
the men of France and Belgium ; no
sculptor at all ; no musician worthy of the
name. England has no high class poet;
her novelists, when i hey do m i imitate tho
French, are tame, and liei- when
they do. We are beaten on the turf by
France, on the waters by America., and in
learning by Germany. We cannot cook —
we canuot talk, and as for our thinking—
bah! ’ ’
The Courier de Saigon reports some
extraordinary items <*f natural history
from the land of the Anamites. There is
a certain fish called Oa-ong in the language
of the country, which has distinguished
itself to that degree that the King has be
stowed upon it the proud title of “ Nam
hat dui bnong (/nan,” which, as every
body knows, means “Great General of the
South Sea. ’ ’ It appears that this laudable
fish is in the habit of quietly paddlim
round the ships near the coast until some
body tumbles overboard.
All True. —The Pittsburg (Pa.) Pont
meets the whole question when it says that
the object of establishing a military gov
ernment in the Southern States was simply
for the purpose of forcing negro suffrage
j upon them in the hope that thev would be
! mad «- b V th ‘ S pro , c , es \ Republican in
I P° htlc / S ' was all If the South had
come back through a Radical delegation to
Congress, there would have been no hesi
tancy about the admission of its 'Repre
sentatives either to the Senate or House,
It did not so present itself, and there was
no prospect that it would if let alone, so
force was resorted to-ihe Union was
broken that Radicalism might be saved and
kept. Dittyoit Dr pc Dress,
1 hineas T. Barnum advertises his resi
dence at Bridgeport, Ct., for sale..
The suspended City Bank, of New Or
leans, has commenced paying depositors
pro rata. 6
It is proposed to celebrate the tercente
nary of Rugby School, in England, which
will full in this year.