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Under the above beading the New York Tribune, has some pertinent reT marks which we present to our readers that they may. see for themselves tbe evidences of the financial storm which is now brewing. That paper O Of J o "As to the prospective action of Congress on finance and currency, - our guess'may prove quite erroneous; bnt it is our impression that the sum total of the doings of this session will be just about nothing at all. We judge that there is a majority in the House who would be gratified if further inflation and debasement could be covered by any decent pretext; wc trust that there is no majority in either House ready to venture upon it without a pretext. The Senate, we hope, would not vote to inflate whether with or without a pretext, but it lias yet not broken ground for prompt resumption; and does not allow us to forget that it originated the provision of last session whereby the Secretary of the Treasury was forbidden to make good the Government's greenback promises to pay. Until further developments, wc shall presume that proximity of the-4th of March and ur^enev of other business will Dre j ? b x -M elude decisive action on the currency ^ , ajtthis session, , Meantime.-Scp.itU- ,. t*~ ' ry McCo.locIi win go on wi.th his regular withdrawal and destruction of greenbacks at the rate of $4,000,000 per month. Thatisnotinuch,but it is better than nothing. "As to the various projects which look to the wholesale withdrawal of \ the notes of our-_national banks and h their replacement by greenbacks, wc regard them all with complacency, if not with positive favor; butwe insist that resumption shall be"thc h;\st step. Let us have no more systematic national falsehood. When our greenbacks were first authorized and issued, it was a distinct understanding that they should be convertible into inter* est-bearing bonds, at the option of the holder, and that they should be redeemed in coin at the earliest possible day. They were issued as-a gi a: . r*L i i lurucu lUciu, in fctuisnauuvn vi our imperiled Union's urgent imperious needs. The expedient scarcely differed, little in principle from, *uit was an improvement upon, that debasement ofcthc coinage so familiar to the despotic rulers of the middle ages. Its justification is Found in the national peril -wherein it originated, and which it powerfully aided to overcome. But, though a weary army may he marched five miles further on the stimulus of a gill of whiskey per man-, it by no means follows tliat its efficiency would be increased by keeping it drunk evermore. It is high time that we began to taper off for, though getting sober is a less delicious experience than that of getting drunk, it is decidedly more wholesome, and the lapse of time renders it indispensable. ""When the greenbacks were first issued, they were tacitly regarded as promises to pay asspon as we could? so soon, at least, as the stress of war should have passed away. Now that we have peace and are are paying off fhe national debt rather than incurring it, let us resume payment; at all .events, let us not multiply falsehoods -which have not even the doubtful merit of deceiving. Only let the . Treasury resume payment in coin, .-and then if there be an equitable <jnode of replacing our bank note currency by greenbacks, we have not ?he slightest objection. He who waits to do a great, deal of .good at qnco, will never do any. Boys, %jf you would be .honored men, take care of your conduct now. "Where is the east?" asked a > teacher of a very little scholar.?-! "Where the morning comes from," I -was. the prompt and pleasant answer. I r" k > afto? in? iwm i Tj :-gf N^icfe PAHSON'8 SPSECH^V Senator Parsons, of Alabama, delivered an address before the State Legislature on Friday last, in accordance' 'with a joint resolution of that body. . The Montgomery Advertiser says: The sppcch was a thorough dissection'of the*constitutional amendment. It was shown that ot;e .<eflfcct -of tllis measure-would be to day. the cohstitutonal foundation to.fiuthorize CongresTali'S ^ae'^-to^sXto re-iueethe r<?presehtatibnof Alabama from six to three members of Congress, and- operate in like manner on all the other States ; to elevate the inferior at the expense of the more intelligent and superior race ; and to produce a war cf races, and re-enact the horrors of San Domingo in thc?South. Much had been said about the Radical enabling act or tcrritorialization. This and its effects may pass away, but the constitutional amendment, with its obnoxious sections would be engrafted on the Constitution and would bind us and our children forever. . It was concocted in secret, and the gravest consequences depend upon the action of the South. It had been said that the amendment once accepted, the disabilities imposed by the third section would be rqjooved. Was a political party ever knpwn to exist that pardoned and admitted to his place, a member of any legislative body, who it is known would turn and vote against the party that admitted him? The third section of I the amendment, obnoxious as it is, { cannot be compared in its consequences to the first and fifth. Tho enabling hct, would not, as is supposed, reduce us to a territorial condition, but would admit the African with a few whites, to the privilege of suffrage, reorganize the governments of thft States and.elevate the colored to the degradation of the white race. In this case Congress be accomplished, whereas in the case of the amendment, the States themselves would be the .instruments of their own disfranchisement and degradation. Senator Parsons did not believe the amendment affected the result of I the Northern elections; it and kind- J red measures was not discussed 'in the papers of that section, lie attributed that result more-to the fact that the public mind iiad not time to rc-act from the passions and excitement-engendered by the war. The j great desire of the President is to sus- i tain himseif, on the Constitution, un-j til there should be a returning sense ' of justice in the minds of tie N^th- j crn people; and he believed the Pros-! ident would be able to sustain him- j self and friends, and that some ad-' justment would finally end the coir-! test. The great desire of the Presi-j dcut is to adhere to the Constitution ; as it now is in letter and spirit.^ In conclusion, Senator Parsons exhorted to patience and perseverance, tlic repression of imprudent and ill? time speeches and expressions, justice : to the frecdmcn under tlic laws, and j kindness a^id forbearance towards [ them in'their new relations. As a' citizen of Alabama lie was proud that j her laws are right, hut human laws are not self-executing, and the people owed it to themselves to sec that they are always enforced. We should do our duty fearlessly and conscientiously. If our position be correct, no amount of traduction can make it false; and if it be wrong, no amount of assertion can make it true, ' t>? The Plue Ridge Railroad.?It will be interesting to our readers to learn that there is a probability that that portion of the Road in Tennessee will bo placed under contract in a short time. When the charter was obtained, the State of Tennessee subscribed $10,000 per mile, with $100,000 for the ^bridge at Knoxvjlle; .amounting, in the aggregate, to TA.. v-. / ? li A Irt of IAAOI An nf (JUW,VW. X/millg IJIW laon owoiuu ui the Legislature of Tennessee, $300,000 was given by the State, in addition to her former subscription. Besides, Blount County also made a liberal subscription, which is now available. The authority is good for saying that operations will bo commenced at ICnoxvillo, at an early day, for the completion of the Road in Tennessee ?a distance of fifty miles. And that it is confidently believed that the means will be obtained, ore long, to complete the whole Road. Pickens Courier. | 'JJ' | * --AMIIXIO^PERSONS StART?}^TO*f Death.?A Calcutta correspondent' of the London Times, December Jh givos sonrc pamful details of the recent! famine in the district of Griss.vfflrIndia. A Government commissione|j: has prepared' a report, of^wliich it isSfc said; A picture more heart-rend in more hideous, could not be, g^ecU'! The comrrsissionerestimatefe tKed^iw in Drissa 4lbn#?a$' 50.0]4A0jOOO^ondfoift, ' tliatr three-fourths of the population have been carried off. Orissa had 5,000,000. And the mortality of Midnaporc, which was as severely visifed ; of Ganjam afid 'Chota Nagpore, which were terribly, yet more mildly dealt with; of Calcutta, whose hospitals still tell so sad a tale, and of the other districts, where the serjueJce, at least of starvation, carried . off many, and remember that the deaths are still <roinrr on at the rate v o u of 100 a day, and you will agree, with the rough estimate generally accepted here, that the number of victims will-not he under 1,000,000. Long ago in Massachusetts, it was the custom for a person to go about the meeting houses during divine service and wake the sleepers. "He bore a long wand, on one end of which was a ball, and on the other a fox tail. When he observed the men asleep, lie rapped them on the head with a knob, and roused the slumbering sensibilities of the ladies by drawing the brush lightly across their faces. D > Castle Thundeji.?Of this celebrated "institution," the Richmond Dispatch says: This famous old prison for Confederate deserters, etc., is rapidly being fitted up by Capt. John II. Grcanor for the manufacture of tobScco?thesame purpose for which it was used before the war. It is an immense n? p:u'n:'g liluuIi 11iOry aTxH iiliiKiTtg CTn?s > arrangements which will enable him, if necessary, to turn out 1,000 pounds manufactured tobacco per day. A walk over the old factory brings to mind many recollections of Confederate times. Here, in the fourth story is the gable window from which leaped the spy Webster, with his irons on; there the steps on which he was borne on his-way to execution; there,, on the lower floor, arc'the apartments of his wife and-Dr. Mary Walker, and other females whose name became notorious during the war. The dungeons, which used to be tobacco sweat houses before the war, remain as they were left by the authorities, and one of them lias a hole cut through the eighteen inch brick wall by some enterprising Conferatc. Every part of the building has some incident connr^tnd with it. At this window, a prisoner was shot dead for putting his head out against orders ; in this alley, a petty officer of the Confederate navy was instantly killed by the (guard for fooling with him; and in that dark underground place, the prisoners used to tunnel themselves out into open air, or into a'close dungeon" if caught. Lying dismantled in a loft formerly used as a hospital is the old flag-staff from which floated the O .4 colors that were followed hv so many brave, men during the four long years and which now lies furled forever. Sensible.?The Augusta (Georgia) Constitutionalist very wisely j discourages the Southern passion for emigration as follows: "To those who search abroad for the liberty, happiness or sustenance tliov deem impossible at home, we wish God-speed. For the industrious, hopeful and courageous, who perfer, or are compelled, to cling to their country, we have ineffable sympathy. Loth have rugged paths to travel, and to both, we trust, a noble destiny will be given. We are asked in what respect can the prospect be more gloomy abroad than at home. Isolation, separation from friends, , uncertainty, lack of sympathy.?-these arc some arguments for the wanderer's reflection. Fanaticism cannot last forever. 'Reaction is bound to eventuate. The radical party perforce go the full length of anarchy, or die; and the end of anarchy is political death for the disturbers ' of public order." Southern Relief Fair in St. Louis.?The treasurer of the late Southern Relief Fair at St. Louis, publishes a statement, from which it '-''.'-i..'-? -JJ? ajpjjeswHfotfr the total receiptB5&ffae:grand fair amounted to $,136,756.66; expenses to $10,643.58. .-balance. '#be credited to the charity, $126*;. ^8.88. .Of this, $124,^43,63 warrand to the. distributing'commit^, i|ifir'uraa4ndcr"-being applied to th? rblief of-applicants,, or sent in goods |^k^Sthr . ' . ' 'v. a rv fd aks'srted this before, and it is, as most meft admit, only a question of time for fulfillment. While we do not hesitate to make declaration of an evita'ole fact, it is but'fair to qualify what might otherwise.seem too general an opinion. The division of large estates Tvill not, of necessity, compel planters to turn market gardincrs.? On the contrary, we believethatplanting on a largo scale will and ought to be pursued by those who can afford it. Numbers, possessed of the requisite means and ability, will thus cultivate broarf acres, but not in the same profusion as of yore. Superior energy and talent must accumulate landed property, just as the same qualifications gather merchandise or gold. Hue the number of these great D ^ O proprietors cannot he so formidable as under tbc slave system. Laborsaving machines, such as steam or buggy, ploughs, reapers, threshers, cct.,-render immense estates still possible. It is well that they should not b? wholly annihilated, for there are..no better schools for enlarged ideas of state craft or private enterprise. Administrative ability o'f a high order is requisite. The common slang about, "keeping a hotel," as-evidencing peculiar traits of. governing, apply with tenfold force to the management of a fine estate. Much of their eminence as the breeders of statesmen or politicians has sprupg from these habits of the Southern ^jThOi S^^Si^er^i^^^^stsyslcSf it? labor. It is objected to the division of large plantations that this eminence may be surrendered. We think not. There "will be a sufficiency of plantations to create a superabundance of statesmen, and it may be matter for congratulation that the supply is necessarily limited.?Thus, too, there may be just as much force of character necessary to regulate matters on a modest farm. We feci assured that poverty will compel the great body of Southern youth to manifest the noble qualities of courage, fortitude, patience and industry which, ranning in a different grove, made them splendid gentlemen and incomparable, heroes. " The South has much to learn, and she knows it% Experience may he a fool's teacher, but it frequently transforms felly into wisdom.?Constitutionalist. The oldest stove in the United States, if not in the world, is. that which warms the hall of the capitol of Virginia, irr Hiclimond. It was made in England, and sent to Virgiin 1777, and warmed the house of the Burgesses and the General Assembly for sixty years before it was removed to its present location, where it has been upwards of thirty years. It has survived three British Kings, and has been cotcmporaneous with four monarchies, two republics and two imperial Governments of France. The great republic of America lias been torn by civil war, the breaches partly healed, and still the old stove has remained unmoved in the midst-of all. Woman's Part in tiie World.? It is the keeping alive for men certain ideas-, and ideals, too, which would soon pass out of the world in the push and hurry of material existence, if they were not fed and replenished by those who arc able to stand aloof from the worry anU vexations of active life. "When .society ceases to have the means of creating its own ideas, it must decay. Civilization is nourished by imaginativewealth that the world possesses and renews for itself from time to time; and those treasures of imagination which we-call ideas arc mainly dependent on the social position occupied by. women. Ideas of purity, unselfishness and devotion, in the words of the poet, are tho--. hinges *of tl^p gate cf life; and, if women were to become as men, the sacred firo would soon become extinct. The heathens of old fitly expressed this truth by the image of the eternal flame of I I . Vesta, "which the -duty of her priestesses tovmaintam .'unimpaired'^ and oh the /M^rvation. of "which' < the welfare of iiome herselff depen-- ; ded. H 11 ' ' , I ! .'* Counsel FOR .-TALE-B^$ERS-.? jffevei|repeat-a story .utileesrypii'; are /certa^pit" is corrupt, and eve#' hot then- unless sotaethihg is to he gained, jpipor tan| tice, and he who indulges'hi it' .grows fonder of it in proportion as he is successful. If you have no good to say of your neighbor, rfever reproach his character by telling that which is false. He who tells you of the faults of others, intends to tell others of your faults, and so the dish of newf is handed- from one to another, until the tale becomes enormous. A story never loses anything," it is wisely, remark cd; but on the contrary, gains in proportion as it is repeated by those who have not a very strict regard for truth-. ' Truely, "the tongue is? an unruly member, full of deadly poison." Farmer.Not to . ee Trusted.?A distinguished-merchant, a great judge of character, once said, "When I see one of my apprentices or clerks riding out on the Sabbath, on Monday. I dissmiss him "such a one cannot .be trusted." Remember this boys, and from the habit of keeping the Sabbath, not only because God commands it?which indeed should be the. chief reason?but also because -it will be j for your best temporal interest.' ? Bill Simpson's Lecal Experience.?Many years ago the Legislature of Tennessee passed an act to organize the county of McNairyj ' alias Snake. 'v At that time the country embraced in the limits of Snake occupied fry jLgturd^j i F , . >, courts, jails, uuuuty-assembled at the appointed site for the purpose of cutting logs, making boards, < etc'., to build a court house and The only theme of conversation, when the men- were assembled; was the court, etc. None of tlierii "had ever seen a court in session, as yet develoned. Each one would give what1 * i n his idea was of a court, etc. None, however, were entirely satfactbry, until Bill Simpson was called on to give his ideas. He said lie knew all about a court?that he'had a law suit in North Carolina. One of his neighbor's hogs kept* coming whefc he-fed his hogs until it got fat. One morning he got so mad. that lie shot the hog. lie thought it would not do to throw it away, so he cleaned and salted it. Shortly afterwards his neighbor and a man came to his house, examined the smoke | house, and took him to town and put i him in a. little office. About threemonths after that, this man came and took him up to a large room. A large man sat upon a high bench?a man was sitting at a desk?about a dozen fine dressed men sat in a place that was puled around. The man put me in a pen just behind them. He then called in twelve men, they took seats in a box in front of the fine dressed men. The man that was writing gave the twelve men a book and said something about Bill Simpson and State. -Then one of the fine men read something about Bill Simpson and the hog, and he and another one of tlhi fine dressed men had the biggest quarrel you ever heard?I thought tfiey would fight every minute, but thcydid'nt. It was Bill Simpson and the hog, and the hog and Bill Simpson; and sometimes Mr. Simpson, but seldom. After they quit quarreling, tho big man talked a while to the twelve men, and they Trent out and staid a short time, and came oacK j -.ind said something to the man at the j desk. The man on'the bench said something to the man that put me in office, and he took me out and tied me to a persimmon tree and commenced fighting me with a cowhide, and it made me so mad that I shook all the persimmons off the tree. Winchester Home Journal, | In a Hurry.?A curious wedding is reported to have taken place some j days since, near Bay City, Michigan, which reads like this: It seems that a ! father lost his wife by death, and' that said wife died early in the morning. The father did not appreciate being left alone in the w.ovid, and ere . jiis wife's cye3had closed in the. sleep j r .j I 11 " I ' that kno^ norwaking, he-^terinined to marry again... pitching-' up; his tfem, he takes his 9eira|[|;:girl and . , goea'l^Ba^CitytoJ^y garments'for the|death. WhiiejKm^ fie .married fthe*giri;%n<f >e|^^F%:^is;:lt<n^|ry v the same night vrfth hig second w?fe> so,.- by Actual count, he -was widowerHwelve'bouts. The new appeared^at the funeral rie^ft dfcynh 7' d^/bbfci^and was oneT'of the yrin- .?- ? . gg Another Cotton Fire in New York.?A disastrous fire occurred in the cotton warehouse No. 17, Albany street," New York, on. Saturday evening, the building being completely burned out from the ground floor to the roof. -There were fifteen hundred bales of cotton stored in the place at the time of the fire, which were total- < ly .consumed, causing a loss of about fifty thousand dollars. The building was owned by Mr. Charles Nayior, on/1 WOO /loTYin **A/1 +A +ll A Avf AT** 4* ' c"javt w ci/o tu calciib vjl tv/ll thousand dollars. . A gentleman from Northern Ohio, always regraded as a spleudid busi- . ness, manager tried a plantation in Mississippi this season, and reportsthat licis. out ofpoclcet about $12,000over his crop, and to use his own language has "letout." He says the "colored men may fight nobly, but they .jdon'fc work worth a?bad word-." ? --.<? ?- ??.? , i Maryland.?The Lower. House of the Maryland Legislature has passed . the enfranchisement bill which restores to full rights of citizenship thoso who have been disfranchised for disloyalty of participation inthcrebelion A .Menagrie .of Topers.?Tfio. following homily we give as we found it, leaving our sober fellow-citizens to < warrant fort-fafnith man can cot into is to cet drunk.-In O ? - O . " drunkenness every man shows his Stongcst arid most ardenf passion.?r There are six kinds of drunkards, and if you will go into a city drjnkingplacc where there are a dozeir men under the influence of liquor, you will. be sure to find these six different characters representing different animals. . The first is ape-drunk. He leaps," and sings, and yells, and dances, making all sorts of grimaces and cutting up all sorts of "monkey shines" to excite the laughter of his tellows!?* Terribly silly is the drunken clown. The second is- tiger-drunk.-. He breaks the bottles, breaks the chairs, breaks the heads of his fellow-carousers, and is full of blood and thunder. ' ' His eyes arc fired with vengeance, * and his soul raves with fury. Of this sort are those who abus\thcir famiilics The third is hog drunk. He rolls in the dirt, on the floor, slobbers and . X ? n v. 1-1 /.A! M rtl 1 n +1 1 A f ! Artffl gl'UIllS, UUU ?Ullig 1"uv: OMVCH makes bis bed in tbe first ditch or filthy -corner he may happen to fall into. He is hca'vy^ lumpish and sleepy, and cries in a grunting way for a lit> tie more to drink. The fourth is puppy drunk. Ho will weep for kindness, and whine his love, and hug you in his arms, and kiss you with his slobbery lips and proclaim how much Jie loves you.^ . You are the best man he* ever saw, and he will lay down his money or his life for you. ? The fifth is owl drunk. He is wise in his own conceit. No man must differ with himj for his word is law. He is true in^politics, and all matter must be taken as. authority. His arm is the strongest, his voice the sweetest, his horse the fleetest, his turnips thft: largest, his town the finest of all in. the room or land. The sixth and last animal in the menagerie is the fox drunk man. Hs is crafty, ready to trade hprses ana cheat if he can... Keen to strike a bargain, leering around with low cun-' liing, peeping through'cracks, listening under the caves, watching for some suspicious thing, sly as a fox, creaking as a wolf. He is the^meancst drunkard of them all. Through Freight.?A train of cars came through on the Virginia and Tennessee airline on Saturday, carrying six hundred and fifty bales of (jotton; It went through to Norfolk We learn that there are sixteen thousand bales at KnoxVillc, ywhich have been receipted for, and arc now waiting for transportation over this line. Petersburg Index. * . . s i