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'V’ol. I. uTl)c tUcddg press. SATURDAY January 9, 1869 TERMS—Strictly in Advance : One Year, - - OO Six Months, - - » 1 35 Three Months, - - 7S Clubs of ten or more, - - 1.50 Advertisements inserted on liberal terms. The Augusta Weekly Press IS ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING, Aucl contains all the Latest News by Mail and Telegraph, full Market Reports, the Editorials of the Daily Press, Miscellaneous Reading, Poetry, Hints about Farming, Fruits, Stock Raising, etc., etc. Address all letters and communications to 0. R. IIANLEITER, Publisher, Augusta, Ga. wsxri.;i rxr »i■>i.uw.itwww«w»imiuwa»g» The Story of Blue Beard. EY TIIE “FAT CONTRIBUTOR.” A long time ago before the invention of hair dye, when a man had to wear his beam the color that nature made it, whether lie would or not, there was a man who had made himself enormously rich as a whiskey inspec tor, or something of that sort. I don’t know precisely where he lived, but think he lived mostly in the imagi nation. lie run a great castle, on the Euro pean plan, had horses and run them, and in fact run about everything in his neighborhood, including running for office and with the girls; for at the time of which 1 write ho was a gay widower. lie had great quantities of greenbacks, corner lots, oil stock, bonds and tilings, but be was hideously ugly, and had withal an enormous beard, frightful to contemplate, which gave to him the cognomen of Blue Beard, by which he was known to the country round about, as well as to the country that had laid off its round about, and consequently was in its shirt sleeves. Blue Beard grew weary of living in solitary magnificence in his lofty cas tle, and finding that ho Avas getting bluer and bluer every day, he deter mined to marry. Having been mar ried a dozen times—taken half a dozen raiv ones, as one might say—lie Avas instil rally, miserable when de prived of the gentleTnuuences of the sex for any length of time. *One of his neighbors Avas a Avidow lady, A\ r ho had tAVO beautiful and highly accomplished daughters. They could play the piano harp, and seven up, and Avork embroidery and plan cliette elegantly. To this AvidoAv lady Blue Beard ap plied for the hand and general anatomy of one of her daughters, leaving her to decide which one she Avould give him. Although the “stamps” he had pleaded loudly in his favor, as they do yet, although this was a great many years ago, yet that dreadful beard was against him, and neither of the young women desired to have it against her. Blue Avasn’t fashionable for beards; if it had been it might have been differ ent. One of them Avept bitterly be cause it Avould be several hundred years yet before hair dvc Avould be discovered, so that lie could have his whiskers colored. Another circumstance rendered them shy of him. lie Avas having a Avcd ding every once in a Avhilc at the cas tle, hut no funerals ! Wedding cake had been ordered from the confection ers several times, but no undertaker had had a job there yet. No matter lioav many times a man is left a Avid ower, if he correspondingly patronizes t ,omc respectable oAvner of a liearse ; but repeated Avcdlook Avithout fu nerals is certainly a suspicious cir cumstance. Blue Beard cunningly' invited the family and their friends to the castle, Avhere they passed the week so delight fully that the youngest daughter began to think blue Avas a pretty good color for Avliiskers after all, particularly when their possessor could keep up such an establishment as that, Avhere they had three meals a day, besides a lunch every morning from ten o’clofck until eleven. She looked with con« tempt on a red-whiskered beau of licr’s she used to think “perfectly splendid,” and actually asked liimAvhy lie didn’t “rub indigo into ’em.” The upshot of the business Avas, sho con sented to become Mrs. B. Beard, and the wedding Avas celebrated with great eclat. At the expiration of the honeymoon, .Blue Beard pretended to his wife that business of importance called him away to a distant city. He would bo absent for several weeks, and in the meantime she could invite company and enjoy herself as much as possible. Jle gave her a bunch of keys, enabling her at any time to open his safe, and feast her eyes upon the diamonds (he loaned money on “collateral,” some times), greenbacks, seven-thirties, rev enue stamps and receipted gas bills deposited there ; also giving access to the wine cellar, store room, picture gallery, billiard room, ten pin alley, corn house, etc., etc. But one little key opened a room in the basement that she must not approach save upon her peril. She promised, and he took a street car for the depot. From the time that Mother Eve disregarded the injunction against a certain tree in Eden’s orchard and partook of a Rhode Island pippin, thereby introducing various tilings into the world never before dreamed of, curiosity has been an absorbing passion with the fair sex, and we need hardly inform the intelligent reader that her husband Avas scarcely out of sight before Mrs. B. B. had unlocked tho door of the forbidden room. But Avhat a speetaclcle met her affrighted gaze ! There, suspended on hooks like so many gOAvns on a clothes press, Avere the bodies of tbe murdered Mrs. Blue Beards, whose' funerals had been indefinitely postponed, Avhilc the floor Avas clotted Avitli their blood. She Avould have SAvooned, but the phrase wasn’t knonwn at the time. Terribly agitated, she dropped the key on the floor, staining it Avith blood, Avhicli she Avas afterwards unable to wash out, even Avith the aid of a patent Avringer. Blue Beard returned unexpectedly, as every body might have expected, and tho blood upon the key told the story of his Avife’s disobedience ; for blood, you knoAV, “avill tell.” “ Must I,” be cried, Avringing his bands in anguish, “ must I again become a AvidoAver, and so soon ? Af ter one short month of wedded bliss (draAving bis cimetcr and carefully feeling its edge) must this latest and dearest one be torn from my arms,' and I left alone —alone ? 80-ho-ho hoo!” “Not if 1 can help it,” remarked Mrs. B. to herself. “ I never nursed a dear gazelle,” Blue Beard blubbered, as lie pro ceeded to whet his scythe on the slove hearth,“to glad me with its soft black eye, but Avhen it came to know me avclI —” “Now, Blue Beard, I 'don’t want to die.” “ Prepare !” veiled Blue Byard, en raged that she did not at once accept the situation. “•Since I must die,” said she, “ grant me a quarter of an hour in Avhicli to Avritc a farcAvell letter to the press.” lie could not refuse so reasonable a request, so he granted it, although he Avas not originally aGrantman. Going to her room, she told her sister Anna to ascend to the top of the tOAver and sec if her brothers (avlio, supposing Blue Beard Avas aAvay, Avere coming to smoke his segars and drink up his Avhiskey), Avere yet in right. There was a cloud of dust in the road, but it Avas only a flock of sheep on their Avay to the State Fair. “Time’s up!” shouted Blue Beard, Avho didn’t think much of Avriting letters to newspapers, anyhoAV. “'Only one moment more. Anna, oh, Anna !” she softly cried, “do you see anybody coining down iioav.V” “ I see two horsemen. They see me wave my handkerchief. It is— it is Sam and Bill!” Then Blue Beard rushed in Avith his drawn sword (he had drawn it at a gift slioav), and was about to dispatch her to the happy crokayiug grounds of her sex, Avhen her brothers Sam and Bill droA r c in and bIeAV old Blue Board’s brains out Avith double-bar reled hoAvic knjves. The AvidoAv 13. inherited his money, together AAutli the remains of liis other Avives, Avitli Avliich she enabled to set up a Museum of Anatomy, finally marrying a side shoAvinan Iler sister Annawas united to a gentleman by the name of Dominy, becoming Anna Dominy, though Avhat year this Avas I cannot say. Blue Beards Avent out with the eminent and excessive Avid- OAver of that name, and liavn’t been in since to my knoAvledge. + + +" —Koberts, the English billiardist, recently made a “break” of 104 in one of bis celebrated spot strokes— that is, each time lodging the red ball in the top corner pocket, and losing bis own in the opposite bottom corner. —The average age of the new British Cabinet is fifty, years and four months. The oldest member is Lord Clarendon, Foreign Secretary, sixty eight; and the youngest the Marquis of Hartington, thirty-five years old. Mr. Gladstone stands third on the list. —The Mobile Register says that Avithin the last thirty days cotton plantation acres have risen three hun dred percent, in value. The present crop Avill pay the planters all out of debt, and leave them such cash sur pluses as they never rejoiced in the old slave limes. —Concerning the suicide of Mrs, Dickens in Chicago, the Times says: “We believe that the wife of Mr. Augustus Dickens is still living in England, and has been supported by Charles Dickens ever since her husband came to this country in company with the lady Avhose decease is now an nounced.” —Miss Kate Fisher, the actress, narrowly escaped death in Richmond recently, by accidentally swallowing poison. She had been suffering from a severe cold, and taking a phial of tincture of arnica by mistake, .swal lowed a heavy dose. A strong anti dote was taken, and her life saved. —Parker Pillsbury, in a late num ber of the Revolution, the New York woman’s organ, speaking of Julian’s proposed amendment to the Constitu tion for universalizing the right of suffrage, declares war as follows:—• “General Grant says, ‘Let us have peace!’ Never, General, fts the Lord liveth, until this amendment to the Constitution, or its equivalent, is the law of the land.” -—The Washington Republican says Attorney General Evarts has not yet considered what effect the new procla mation will have upon the motion now mending in the Supreme Oonrt to quash the indictment in the case of -loss. Davis. There seems to have been some doubt whether it docs or does not relieve the court from the neces sity of disposing of this motion. ATTGAISTAx, GA.; SATURDAY, JATSTObYITY 9, 1869. SCANDAL LANE. HY AIRS. AI. A. KIDDICR. • R is not on the sign board, sir, , Go search both far and Avide; Or in the town directory, The map or railroad guide; And if you pump your neighbors, Sir, You pump, alas ! in vain, For no one e’er aclcnoAvledged yet He lived in Scandal Lane ! It is a fearful neighborhood, So secret and so sly; Although the tenants oftentimes Include the rich and high. I’m told they’re even cannibals, And Avhen they dine or sup, By Avay of change, they’ll turn about, And eat each other up! They much prefer the youthful, Sir, The beautiful and rare ; They grind up character and all, And call it Avliolesome fare ! And should the helpless Victim Avinco, They heed hot cries of pain ; These very bloody cannibals, That live in SChndal Lane! If you should chance to dine with them, Fray* never be deceh'ed, When they seem most like bosom friends, Tliey’reTeast to be believed. Their claws are sheathed in velvet, Sir, Their teeth arc hid by smiles, And Avoe-bctidc tlic innocent Who falls beneath their Aviles ! When they have singled out their prey, They make a cat-like spring; Dr hug them life a serpent, ere They plant the fatal sting ! And then they wash their guilty hands, But don’t efface the stain, These very greedy cannibals, That live in Scandal Lane! [From the Savannah News, Jan. 1. TUB OGEECHEE TROUBLES. Major Middleton’s House Reported Burned. Negroes Plundering Plantations! Public Meeting of Citizjns. The troubles on the Ogeechee plan tations continue, and appear to be gaining strength. The negroes are receiving reinforcements from Bryan and Liberty counties, and trust-Avorthy persons from that section report that they are plundering all the plantations and threatening destruction to all who dare to meddle Avitli them. They arc said to have throAvn up some sort of a fortification at Peach Ilill, and have all the roads and approaches strongly guarded. Mrjor Middleton lias been informed that after robbing bis house of its con tents, the negroes returned on Wed nesday iffght find burned tho dwelling. v v Noav that the families of the persons driven away are in safety in this city, there is no immediate anxiety on tho public mind, save for a vindication of the laAV, and the nipping of the dis order in 'the bud immediately, ere it has had time to spread further. The Gulf Railroatt train stopped at No. Id last evening as usual, hut brought no passengers from that sec tion. At No. ] all Avas quiet at that time. The negroes have sacked the barns and mills, and carried, off the rice. It appears that they have been urged to their present course of action by parties avlio have made them believe that they had been assured by Radi cal negroes in Washington that if the negroes once captured and held the country, they Avould be confirmed in possession of it. The regular hands employed by Messrs. Middleton & Tucker do not appear to be engaged in it; but the outrages are being com mitted by vagabonds avlio work for nobody. Soon after the return of the Sheriff and his posse on Thursday, Major Middleton issued a call for a public meeting, to take tho matter into con sideration. At ball-past I o’clock a large number of young men, and a fcAV old and prominent citizens, had as sembled at the Court House, to devise measures for -enforcing the law, and advising as to the best course to pursue. We arc sorry to say that the men most directly interested in tho matter did«not come out as they should have done on such an important occa sion. Major Middleton said that there was no necessity for a regularly or ganized meeting. He had called upon the citizens to come to the Court House to hear of the state of affairs on the Ogocchee. The newspapers had given a true account of it, but it was even worse than had been represented. The negroes wore found to be in strong force and well armed by the party which went down in the ) Morn ing. After consultation between the Sheriff and gentlemen who were present, it had been thought proper to return to town, and make a more terminable demonstration. He had no exception to make to the acts of any man in the posse. They all did their duty, and were willing to do anything that might be required of them. Some of them did not like being ordered back, but it was the wisest plan under the circumstances. The negroes had burned Mr. Haber sham’s house, where speaker) lived, sacked the barns, and taken all' his property. lie thought arrange ments could be made to overcome the negroes, without trouble or resistance. If this state of affairs were allowed to go on,it would spread from the Ogee ehee to the Savannah. He said the 2>osse did all in its power, but a largo force was needed. General Henry R. Jackson said the negroes had violated the laws, war rants had been issued lor their arrest, and the Sheriff attempted to execute those warrants, and had failed. He had appealed to his posse comitatus. Tn the eye of the law a posse comita tus is any number of men who may be about the Sheriff at the time of the arrest, upon Avhom he may call in case of resistance of his authority. The posse eomitatus hadjiassed, and Avhy ? The negroes were in large armed bodies, and occupy a large geopraphi cal position, and so far as they can assimilate to a force in the field, they arc one. This mischief Avould not be confined to the plantations on the Ogeechee, but would extend to the Sa vannah. And Avhat then becomes of the city of Savannah, surrounded on all sides by an armed and brutal mob. She Avould be ruined. Not. a train could pass out on the railroads, nor could people travel oiuthe roads. Cap ital, which has fed Os. -e people, A\ T ho are iioav deriving sustenance from plunder, Avould cease to be inA r csted here. We are Avaring against bandits, armed desperadoes, who arc ruining the city. The best moment to stop ti e mischief is iioav ! And avc must begin to effect that; meet organization by organization, force by force. Men and time and means Avere necessary ; also arms and money. The city of Sa vannah must fprnisfe these. We must act as .one man, and if avc do not identify ourselves with those more im mediately interested avc are not Avorthy to bo called men. He proposed to call a meeting for to-morrow (this) morning, to organize such a force, Avith sucli means as would enable us to crush out this insurrection. General Meade had refused the aid of the mili tary, and avg must prove that avc arc men enough to take care of ourselves. On motion of Gen. Jackson, it Avas resolved unanimously to call a public meeting of citizens, to be held at 12 o’clock to-day, at the Court House. The meeting then adjourned. Arrangements are being perfected, avc learn, Avhicli Avill ensure success in the next undertaking. From the Savannah Noavs, 2d. The state of affairs on the Ogeechee continues to be the all-absorbing topic throughout tho city, and people eagerly listen to all reports aird rumors, how ever Avild or improbable they may lie, Avhicli come from that section. We have from a gentleman, who came up yesterday morning, a con firmation of the report that the ne groes, in strong force, and thoroughly armed, Avere lying near the railroad, watching the movements of, and pre pared to resist, the Sheriff’s* posse Avhicli Avcnt doAvn on Wednesday. When the train unwed off dro says, some six or seven hundred negroes came out on the railroad, and the leaders went about cursing and saying, “The Avhite —Avere afraid to come and attack us, and have gone back for more men.” He says that there is a very large force of the ne groes at No. I, and that they arc de termined to resist any attempt to ar rest them. Another gentleman confirms tho report, and says that soon after the return of the train, a gravel train came along, and the negroes croAvded the track and would not move off. The train then went down the road again. A countryman from Liberty county arrived here yesterday with produce to sell. lie reports that the negroes have destroyed the bridge over the Little Ogccchec river, four miles this side of Chapman’s house. He was stopped by five different picket par ties,‘each gang numbering' eight or ten men. They told him to tell the white men of Savannah to come on— that they were ready for them. After questioning this man, they finally allowed him to conic on to the city, telling him not to come back again, or they would kill him. The negroes from the Augusta road were crossing to the Ogeechee in large numbers yesterday, and joining the insurrectionary bauds. The latest nows which we have from the scene of the trouble repre sents it as spreading, and that the negroes, by threats and intimidations, arc forcing those who arc disposed to remain peaceable to join thorn. So far their operations arc confined to the “neck,” west of the railroad, and between the two Ogeechee rivers; but if not speedily cheeked it is feared that it will extend into Bryan county. Alderman Burroughs, who was at his plantation on Wednesday, reports all quiet in that section, and his son re mains there in charge of the place. A letter received from a planter in Bryan contains the following : it is unnecessary for me to say liow urgent the necessity is for immediate action, as the badly disposed negroes are all the time in creasing their force by intimidating those who would not join could they see any power to protect them. If action is delayed much longer I fear the mischief will extend. Dave Brister, » colored man in the employ of Major Middleton, who was friendly to .that gentleman, was driven away by the negroes. Dave ar> rived here last evening. Ho says that on Wednesday the negroes went to Southfield and uttered threats against his old cook, and demanded to know from her where the mules were. She did not know, and they then brought up some mules and carried off the carts. They then went after Dave, who took his two children and fled. He lay out in the woods, in the rain, all Wednesday night, and came in last evening, almost worn out. Dave con firms the statement that these disorder ly negroes are forcing the quietly dis posed ones to join them, and that if they are not put down they will mur der all who oppose their action. They have not burned any of the buildings thus far. On Wednesday the rioters took John Hogan (colored), one of Mr. Middle** ton’s watchmen, and the man who gavo shelter to O’Donald, and the wives and children of the while men who Avere beaten and driven from Southfield, and led him off. The last seen of him he Avas being driven in the direction of the railroad track, at the point of the bayonet, by a gang of the negroes. Nothing has been heard of him since, and it is not knoAvn Avhether lie Avas murdered or driven off When the Gulf Railroad train ar rived at No. 1 last evening, nothing unusual occurred. No negroes ap peared, but posted in a conspicuous place Avas a manifesto, Avhicli must have come from Solomon Farley. Planters Avho have seen his rude at tempts at writing recognize it, and as he Avas the only man arrested by the Sheriff on Tuesday, there is every reason to believe him to be the author. The paper reads as folloAvs : Ageecliee, Chatham County Ga To The Publick At Largo I has been ac cused in the midst of (17) or 18 men’s as a Capt. Avhicli cants not be approved for Stealing Tucker & Middleton’s Rice, the party lias Accused Me & Drawn me in for a Old Grudge, the Sheriff Arrested me and Brought me Some 4 or 5 Miles to Station No. 1. and tliciq Came up a Party of the' Loyal Leaguors. And Released Me in Re gard that there is no Stay Iravs Which Avill Give the Republican Party no Particularity. If it was they Avould not Stopped my going Avitli the Sheriff to Savannah. If you should not See Me I Avill make my Appear ance Just as Soon.as the laAV Being Essued for the Eight of all Classes & Color !!!! Yours, Ogeechee Until Death. The negroes appear to lie strength ening themsch r es, continuing their plundering, and awaiting a movement from this city. , Whether they Avill have to wait long or not remains to be seen. Whatever is to be done should be done quickly. ' BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT Drain an Address Delivered, Duriny the Com mencement Exercises of the Madison Demale CoUcyc , July 10,1868, by Bishop George Pierce. Much has been said of the intellectual equality of the sexes, and this mooted ques tion still arrays its combatants on either side. In this tournament I break no lance. The party which wins the victory grasps a barren sceptre. If there be inequality, the differ ence is not greater than among individuals of the same sex; and, in iny judgment, the whote theory of accommodating education to what is peculiar and distinctive in either boys or girls, to the exclusion of everything for AVhicli there is a supposed inaptitude, is impolitic if it were practicable, andimpracti cable if it were politic. Minds—all minds— differ in many respects. Some are tardy— some are precocious—in their development. Some reach their maximum of attainment and strength almost at a bound; others toil on, step by step, and arc accumulating for a life time. These peculiarities manifest them selves only in the progress of life and educa tion. They cannot be determined by the sa gacity of the teacher, nor foretold by the science of the phrenologist. Besides, if is the business of education to aid nature—to rem edy her defects—directing Avhat is strong, and strengthening what is Aveak. The truth is, that voluntary, earnest, persevering, pro tracted mental action is the chief secret of becoming Aviso and great. By it a feeble mind may be trained to energy and distinc tion. Without it a mighty intellect Avill de generate in imbecility. Tlie differences of aptitude and exhibition among men and women, are not strictly constitutional, but- referable mainly to their mental habits. Allowing, as I think is just and proper, a diversity of mental organiza tion, 3 r et I insist that all the elements of mind are common to both. The original combinations of these elements are endlessly diversified; but the characteristic results are not more marked as between men and women than betAveen men and men. The dissimi- larity, which 1 concede, if not created by education—the education of tlie fireside, the school house, and the world of social life—is essentially modified by woman’s social rela tions. The human mind is expanded or contracted, corrupted or rclined, waxes into vigor or wanes into feebleness, according to the subjects of thought with which it is most familiar, and if women are not capable of strong thought, of deep analysis, of pro longed research, it is rather from mental desuetude than original-incapacity. Com pelled by the necessities of her allotment to think much of little things; meeting all the expectations of society, as now constituted, without effort; and perhaps disqualified by a defective education Tor high and sustained mental action it is not marvellous that so few women are distinguished for great acu men and vigor of intellect. Even among men, those are most distinguished for power of thought ahd facility of expression, whose profession and pursuits most constantly tax the thinking faculty, on the high themes of statesmanship, philosophy, and religion. The deep thought—the mature judgment —the continuous reasonings for which the great among men arc celebrated, arc not natural or spontaneous—the facile, untrained working of Original powers. They are acquisitions—habits, the results of hard study and long practice; and, after all our boasted pre-eminence, very few reach high distinc tion in the departments we claim to excel.— Profound thinkers are rare the prodigies of their generation. The present age is wholly degenerate—the race of great men is nearly extinct. England has now no Pitts, or Peels, or Wellingtons; France,noMirabeaus, Tallcyrands, or Napoleons—or at most but one, and he isonly “the nephew of his uncle.’’ America has no more Calhouns, Clays and Webstcrs. Even in the world of literature, the chief actors have acquired notoriety rather than fame; like Pickens, by the quaint, outlandish titles of his books; like Thackeray, the strolling retailer of old court scandal; or like Carlyle and Emerson, by the most affected, arbitrary and unnatural use of their mother tongue, beguiling the world into the belief that they are deep, when they are only dark- -profound, because they arc unintelligible, in my humble opinion, there is more mind—more sound wisdom—more wise,practicaljideas in Hannah Moore’s Works than in all the ponderous tonics of the boasted German philosophy. The truth is, very great minds are rare in either sex, but the inference that all the rest of mankind arc constitutionally incapable of great improve ment, would not be deemed a fair conclu sion. Various solutions, natural, obvious, easy, can be found to explain the fact, without charging all the rest of us with mental impo tency. So 1 say in relation to women. Though not generally distinguished for in tellect beyond the circles of their liumlies and friends, yet the sex Is not without repre sentatives in all the walks qi literature. The reasons for this are to be found, first, in the nature of their duties and Hie subjects with which tiny are most familiar subjects which tend to fetter and thwart the mind, and duties which leave no time lor attention to anything beyond the graceful, the light, the imaginative. No wonder, therefore, that females figure most in those departments most accordant with the delicacies of their physical and mental constitution, and to wliicli they arc restricted partly by the ap pointment ‘of nature, but mainly by the 'de cree of popular opinion. Society lias not only denied to women the motives for strong mental effort-, by which the nmbitioif of men is roused to action, but it positively offers the temptation to rest in inglorious mediocrity, as the \nore respecta ble and attractive. The love of admiration is natural to the human heart, nor is the pas sion stronger Avitli women than with men, save that the former are more dependent for their personal influence on their personal at tractions. This common instinct of our na ture seeks its gratification in those modes Avhicli observation and inexperience teach to be the most direct—the best adopted to popu lar taste. While, therefore, girls are made to believe that there is no more power in a curl than in a thought—more witchery in complexion than in language— more attraction in grace ful motion than in general knoAvledge, just so long the conventional notions of the Avorld repress intellectual development and foster frivolities of character. The grave, the good, the great, are all parties to the policy which assures the female Avorld that dress, "figure, gracg,'as to their persons, and light conversation, frothy common-places, and their vapid inanities about beaux, court ships, and marriages, is about all that is ex pected of them, and that she Avho excels in these is the belle of the hour. Even Aviso men, in their gallantry, talk nonsense to women, as though politeness required .them to condescend to those of loav intellectual estate. Under the fallacious views Avliich prevail, the young people in their social intercourse and at every. festal gathering seem to luwc conspired to ignore knowledge, taste, ideas Avorthy of our rational nature, and to have resolved the charms of society into idle prattle, as unmeaning as the chattering of swallows. This abominable fashion docs gross injustice to both parties. Men degrade their intellect, in compliment, into umvorthy estimate of themselves. This style of ad dress, though intended to please, is actually an insult, as it implies an to ap preciate anythin”' more sensible and.exalted. Instead of listening, avcll pleased Avitli the twaddle of their obsequious admirers, 1 wish that Avomcn Avould resent this imputation upon their good sense, and compel the lords of a grand creation into a more rational conversation. I Avould as soon look to find the Garden of Eden Avith its fruits and tloAvers, on the icy shores of the Circum-polar Sea, as to expect the emancipa tion of the female mind from the disabilities, of the ruling fashion, unless women them selves pioneer the reform. But, ladies, in resenting the indignities which are perpetu ally offered in life’s daily walk, you must learn to discriminate. Amid the crowd of attendants who Avait upon your smiles, there are some with whom there has been along, long famine of ideas. There is but a hand ful of meal in tlie barrel, and a little oil in the cruse, and no prophet in the land to bless the scanty store. ‘‘They give you all, they can no more, though poor the offering be.” Sparc these and keep your wrath for him who voluntarily makes a fool of him self because he is talking to a Avoman. A Nice Sum in Suit.—Another old Dutch Avill has turned up in New York, involving the right to forty or fifty millions of property.- It is said that Rip Van Dam, a very wealthy old Hollander, died about one hun dred and tAventy-five years ago, it Avas supposed without a Avill, and his property was disposed of according to law. Recently his Avill has been "dis covered, and his heirs have employed able counsel «to get possession of the immense fortune of Avhicli they have been deprived. Some of the* most valuable lots on Broadway and Four teenth streets, valued now at thirty or forty millions, and much other property arc in question. <*■ •«***• Plan For Connecting the Waters of the Great Lakes and Rivers.— At the last meeting of the Connecticut Scientific Academy, in Noav Haven, General B. S. Robcrtr, United States Army, brought fonvard tlie plan ot a great national undertaking about to be introduced to. tlie public by t,he Chicago Board of Trade. It" is a plan to connect the head waters of the Mississippi, the Illinois and Ohio Riv ers Avitli the Avatcrs of Lake Superior, Lake Michigan and Lake Erie, and leveeing the Mississippi from Cairo to its mouth. The Disci clinic of the Birch. — Some time since an effort was made in the Board of Education of Troy to abolish corporeal punishment in the public schools under their charge. It did not succeed, and bad boys and girls in consequence occasionally suffer from the infliction of the rod. The Saratoga Board of Education, when it Avas established two years ago, doomed Avhipping inexpedient, and passed a resolution forbidding the infliction of corporeal punishment; hub they have, found the plan does not Avork aa*ell, and have rescinded the resolution. “John, what is the past of see ?” “Seen, sir.” “No, John, it is saw.” “Yes, sir; so if a sea fish swims by me it becomes a ante-fish when it is past and can’t bo seen .” Teacher —“11cm ! yes. Now, John, you had better go home. Ask your mother to soak your feet in hot wafer, to prevent a rush of brains to the head.” —A Rhodo Island horso financier, who thought lie knew a thing or two, recently swapped a white horse for a cream-colored one, paying something “to boot.” More lately ho traded off his cream-color for a beautiful glossy coal-black horso, paying “hoot” again. Very soon however, the coal black grow rusty, and, in spite of all his ef forts, has turned into the identical white horse which he first traded off. —The origin of the game of billiards is credited both to Franco and to Italy—the date about lotto. The fa mous C. Cotton, who was the Moyle of his day, writing in 1074, informs us that billiards were at that time so popular in England that few important towns wore without public tables, and many private families had them in their houses. The apparatus of “Rescue Hook and Ladder Company” arrived at Colum bus, from New York, on Monday, and consists of five ladders, whose total length is .about 150 feet, ropes, drag chains, axes, four bin torus and all im-> pliinents used by such organizations, j Its length is forty-seven feet. ISTo. 2. —Charleston is growing riclr in manufactories, which are springing up on all sides. * ' ' —Reuben Pattisoii, of Memphis, who was wounded in the leg by a sky rocket, died Friday morning. —Chicago gets a revenue of SSOO from its licenses from shoe blacks and newsboys. —The bent of a man’s mind used to be the thought important; now it is the bent of a woman’s body. —Alaska contains about 370,000,000 acres, and was purchased at a little less than two cents the acre. —The little Abyssinian Prince Theodore is at school in the Isle of Wight, England. —The Nerw York Mail says that Vermont and Maine will both grant suffrage to females this winter. —lt is proposed to make anew State, to be called “Superior,” out of the upper portions of Michigan and Wisconsin. —Two boys in Holmes county, Mississippi, wont to school all summer, and raised $250 worth of cotton by working on Saturday. —Dennis Hewitt, for forty-nine years editor of the Hillsborough (N. C.) Recorder , retired from that posi tion January Ist. —One of Seward’s dispatches to Minister Adams, last year, cost this rich and out-of-debt country sis,(too in gold. —A New York surgeon wishes to introduce the Paris practice of 1 remov ing the little toe of children and adults as a preventive of corns. —The Siamese twins are divided on the question of Ll»cir ?livision. Eng is a secessionist, but Chang insists upon “ the bond.” —Peach speculators arc already preparing for next summer’s campaign by announcing that the cold weather lias had a bad effect on flic trees. —lt is understood that the honors oL‘ Chief Justice Chase’s mansion will be assumed this winter by Miss X. Chase, Mrs. Senator Sprague giving way to her younger sister. —Rev. Mr. Gallaher, of Louisville, has accepted a call to the rectorship of Trinity church, New Orleans, vaca ted by the election of Dr. Reekypilh to the bDhoprick of Georgia. -—Charles Oak l ord, of Detroit, who calls himself the champion skater of America, will soon skate sixty con secutive hours without rest on the new skating rink at Providence. —One of the San Francisco papers lms added anew feature to it* birth, marriage and death column —“ Di vorces.” This column is as well sup ported and as much a public conveni ence as its companions. —President Johnson, it is under stood, intends retiring all army officers over sixty-two years of age, among whom are Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas, Paymaster General Price and brigadier General Phillip St. George Cooke. The Atlanta chain gang, forty-three, in number, have been hired by con tractors to work on the Brunswick Railroad. ’ In Albany, on tile 20th ult., one negro knifed another to death, for robbing him of the affections of his so-called wife. Superintendent 1 Hilbert, of the Western it Atlantic Railroad, has donated the city of Atlanta with ten car loads of wood for the poor. The Athens Hanna' has seen sights, a chicken with but one leg ami an other with thvcc. The “berries” from which these spniugmust have got mixed. The Directors of the Atlanta Na tional Bank have declared a semi-an nual dividend of ten per cent, on the capital stock, to he paid on and after the sth instant. Mrs. Cyrona A. B. Stone, wife of Colonel A. W. Stone, formerly of Atlanta, but now of Savannah, died at Sheldon, Vermont, on the 16th of I )ecembcr. The iron rails for the Whitaker street (Savannah) Railroad are ex pected from Philadelphia shortly, and the moment they arrive that enter prise will be commenced. In Columbus, the receipts of cotton to December It, 1867, were It, 021, ami to December 12, 1808, were 24,040 bales, showing a falling off of , 20,884 bales. Mr. John B. Peek, of Atlanta, late Master of Transportation on the State Road, lias gone to New Orleans as General Agon# for the “Palmetto Line,” between Charleston and that city. The Rome (Courier reports the fol lowing as the Mayor and Council elect of that city: Mayor, Z. B. Hargrove; Aldermen: James Noble, Sr., J. C. Rawlins, l)r. J. M. Gregory, J. J. Cohen, Thomas J. Perry, J. C. Pem berton. In Macon, the Telegraph says, the cotton receipts of last year, from the Ist of September to the 27th of De cember, 1867, wore 50,157. This year, to the 21th of December, they were 50,989, showing a falling off, so far, of 10,1 70 hales. The storehqusefof L. Doan, grocer, in Atlanta, was broken open on the night of 80th ult., and SOSO stolen therelrom. Two negroes, Jesso Foster and George Washington have been arrested tor the crime, and $2Bl of the money secured from the former,