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Counting House Calendar for 1866. - I -1 3Jj 4 5 6 1 4 56 7 7 8 9I1W01112j13. 81 91011! 12!13 14 4 11 i617 18119!i2i 15 1 - 17 1119 j20 21 ->3 4 6 27 2 2 425 2 7 28 -2 230131 -1- 2 30 1 - 1li 31 - - 1 2 .3 4 4 5 6 7, 8 91 10t 51 6 7 8 9111ulI 111 12 lS 14 15 16 17;: 12 13 1415 16 17 18 S18 1920 21 22'23 24 5 19 201 21 22'23 24 25 252f2t8 26!27.28129 .30 .31 - 2 126 27 2 - -I-1 4 56 7 8 9 10 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1113 15117 91- 1411 3 14 15 18 1920,21 22,23 24 16 171 1'1-0-21,22 2527 28 2913o!313 241 2 227 2 2 L 23 ) 28!29 1' 2 3 4 5, 6 r72 37 4 51 6 8 9110 11 l2 1l3,14 7 8 9 1R 11112113 516 1.18 1920 14 1516 17 18 19,20 22 23 24 2526 '78 21 22 -23 24 '2526 27 L12 30 -- - - 30 31-- - --1 1! 2 3 4 5 L i- - 1 21 61 7 81 9:1011,12: (i 4 5 6 7 8 91 .13 1 15 16!17 1819 11 " 13 141151i; 17 17 29021 213 24; 25 2 6 118 10 2(ji 1 22 2.1 24 L 127128 2 '- 22o!728293 45 7 81 9; 1 34 5 67 8 111 121]3 14 1. ! 91 11 'k415 -b 1 18 19i2;;2 2 1 0 1til417 221,2_ 2 72 26 27 2 3 2627 28 2 ife Leaves. The following poem is touchingly beaniful. Many an eye will be dimmed by a tear as it reads thesv lines, and the touits go wanderiug away to "memory's wild wood." The day, wiD.h is s:adsals (i)ped ii dew, Has passed through the evening's golden gates, And a single star in the cluudless blue For the rising moon in silcnce waiz ; While the wi::ds that sigh to the :anguid hours A lullaby breath o'er the folddc flowers. The ilies nod to the sound of the strean That % inde alonlg with ha11 lng flow, And either an%ake, or halt a artde, I pass through the realms of Lung Ago 1%hi'e faees peer with many a smile Trom the bowers of Memory's iangical isle. Taere are joys and sunsrine, sorrows, nnd tears That checck thze path of life's April niours, And a longiaag wish for the conaing years, That houpe ever wreatrhs with the lairest flowers; There are triendships guileless- -.:ve as bright Aud pure as the stars in halls ot night. There are ashen memories, bitter pain, And buried hopes and a broken vow, And an aching heart by the reckless main, And the sea-breeze fanning a pallid brow ; ,And a wanderer on the shell-lined shore, Listening for voices that speak no more. There are passions strong and ambitions'wild, And the fierce desire to stand in the van Of the battle of life--and the heart of the child Is crushed in the breast of the struggling man; But short are the regrets and few are the tears, That fall at the tomb of the banished years. There is a quiet. and peace and domestic love, And joys arising :rom hith and truth, And a truth unquestioning, far above The passionate dreaminigs of ardent youth ; And kisses of children on lips and cheek, And the pares.t's bliss which no tongue eau speak. There are loved ones lost ! There are little graves In the distant de-ll, 'neath protecting trees, Where the streamnlet winds, and the violet waves, And the grasses sway to the sighing breeze; And we mourn for pressure o1 tender lips, And the.ligbt of eyes darkened in death's eclipse. And thus, as the glow of the daylight dies, And the night's first look to the earth is cast, I gaze ineath those beautiful summier skies, At the pictures that hang in the hall of the past; Oh, Sorrow and Joy, chant a muingied lay When to memory's wildwood we wander away ! F7ron> Art emus Ward's Aew Volume. flora~ce Greeley's Ride to Placerville. When Horace Greeley was in California,, ovation awaited him at every town. lie had written powerful leaders in' the Tribune in favor of the Pacific railroad, which had greatly endeared him to the citizens of the Golden State, and therefore they made much of him when he went to see them. At one town the enthusiastic populace tore tuis celebrated white coat to pieces, and car ried the pieces home to remember hi mby. The citizens of Placerville prepared to fete the great journalist, and an extra coach, with extra relays of horses was chartered of the California Stage Company, to carry him from Folsom to Placerville-distance forty miles. The extra was in some way delayed,~and did not leave Folsom until in the afternoon. Mr. Greely was to be feted at seven o'clock that evening by the citizens of Placerville, and it was altogether necessary that he should be there by that hour. So the stage company said to Henry Monk, the driver of the extra, "Benry, this great man must be there by sev en to-night." And Henry answered, "The great man shall be there." The roads were in an awful state, and du ring the first few miles out of Folsomn, slow progress was made. "Sir," said Mr-. Greely', "are you aware that I must be at Placerville at seven o'clock to night?" "I've got my orders," laconically replied flenry Monk. Still thme coaich dragged 2owlv f.r,rd. "Sir," said Mr. Greely, "this is not a tri fling matter. I must be there at seven!" Again come the answer, "I've got my or ders !" Bat the speed was not increased, and Mr. Greely chafed away another half hour, when, as he was again about to remonstrate with the driver, the horses started into a furious run, and all sorts of encouraging yells filled the air from the throat of Henry Monk. "That is right, my good fellow!" cried Mr. Greely. "I'll give you ten dollars when you get to Placerville. Now we are going !" They were indeed, at a terrible speed. Crack, crack! wenL the whip, and again that voice split the air. "Git up ! Hi! yi! G'long ! Yip-yip 1" And on they tore over stones and ruts, up hill and down, at a rate of speed never before achieved by stage horses. Mr. Greely, who had been bouncing from one end of the coach to the other like an In dia rubber ball, managed to get his head out of the window, when he said: '-Do-n't-on't you-u-u think we-e-e shall get there by seven if we do-on't-on't-on't go so fast ?" "I've got my orders!" That was all Henry Monk said. And on tore the coach. It was becoming serious. Already the journalist was extremely sore from the terri ble.jolting, and again his head "might have been seen" at the window. "Sir," he said; "I don't care-if we don't get there at seven !" "I've got my orders!" Fresh horses. Forward again, faster than before. Over rocks and stumps, on one of which the coach narrowly escaped turning a somer-snult. "See here!" shrieked Mr. Greely, "I don't care it we don't get there at all!" "I've got my orders! I work for the Cali forny Stage Company, I do. That's what I work for. They said, get this man through by 'seving,' an' this man's goin' through. You but! Gerlong ! Whooep !" Another frightful jerk, and Mr. Greely's bald head suddenly found its way through the r*of of the coach amidst the crash of small timbers and the ripping of strong canvas. "Stop, you maniac !" he roared. Again answered Henry Monk. "I've got my orde-s! Keep your seat, Horace !" At Mud Spring, a village a few miles from Placerville, they met a large delegation of the citizes of Placerville, who had come out to imeet the celebrated editor, and escort him to town. Thu e was a military company, a brass band, :md a six horse wagon load of beautiful girls im nik white dresses.representing all the Sta,tes in the Viton. It was nearly dark now, but the del-gation was amply provided with torches, and bonfires blazed all along the road to :,Iacervi!e. The citizens met 'he coach in the ou:..irts Uf Mul Springs, and Mr. Monk reined in his f,am -covered steeds. "is NIr. Greelv on board?" asked the chair inn of tile Co011nittee. 4-1e was a fcw miles back," said Mr. Monk. "Yes," he added, after looking down through the hole which the fearful jolting and the head of Mr. G. had made in the coach roof, "yes, I can see hin.-Ile is there." "Mr. G reely," said the chairman of the com mittee, presenting himself at the window of the coaeb, "Mr G3reely, we have come most cordially to welcome you, sir-why, God bless me, sir you are bleeding at the nose." "I've got my orders," cried Mr. Monk. "Mvy orders is as follers: 'Git him there by seving." It was a quarter of seving. Stand out of the way." "But, sir," exclaimed the committee-man, seizing the off leader by the reins, "Mr. Monk, we are come to escort him into town. Look at the procession, sir, and at the brass band, and the people nid the young women, sir." "I've got my orders !" screamed Mr. Monk. My orders don't say nothin' about no brass bands and young women. My orders says git him there by seving! Let go the lines! Clear the way there.-Whoo-ep! Keep your seat Horace!I-And the coach dashed wildly through the procession, upsetting a portion of the brass band and violently grazing the wagon which contained the beautiful young women in white. Years hence grey haired men, who were little boys in this procession, will tell their gaandchildren how this stage tore through Mud Springs, and how Horace Greely's bald head ever and anon showed itself like a wild apparition, above the coach roof. Mr. Monk was on time. There is a tradi tion that Mr. Greely was very indignant for a while ; then he laughed, and finally presented Mr. Monk with a bran new suit of clothes. Mr. Monk himself is still in the employ of the California Stage Company, and is rather fond of relating a story that has made him fa mous all over the Pacific coast, but he says he yields to no man in his admiration for Hor ace Greely. Men with unassuming wives never fail. It is the husbands of such women as Mrs. Dash and Lady Brilliant, who finds 'hemselves face to face with the Sheriff and certain mysgious docnments adorned with red tape and a water mark big enough for target exercise. The de sire of a New York feminine is to out shine her neighbor-not in mental acquirements, but in gingerbread ornaments and gold edged scuttles. If Mrs. Dash gets up a game sup per-woodcocks stuffed with gold dust-Lady Brilliant takes the wind out of her sails by getting up another, in which the prevailing dish will be birds of paradise swimming in gravy made of melted pearl-. It is this rival ry, and not "dabbling in railroad stocks," tiat brings ruination to the fast men of Wall street. The "ilfortune" of which they so much complain,. is no more nor less than a brainless wife. If they would come back to happiness, they must ~direct their attention, not to the fluctuation of the stock m1arket, but the ruinous absurdities of their own fire sides Thousand-dollars repast don't pay, while the mnercharnt who purchases one hun dred dollar handkerchiefs for a "dnck of a wife" should not wonder if the time eventual lv conmes when a "goose of a husband" lacks shirts, or be suplied with them. The wealthiest congregation in New York city, perhaps in the whole country, is that of the Church >f the Ascension (Episcopal) in the Fith A venue. Their aggregaite i' Ome latyear is shown by the oilicial retu. .sto The Women of the South. [Translated for the Courier faom the Courier des Etats Unis.] For some days past the Tribune, which generally possesses the virtue of self-respect, not knowing, doubtless, how else to give vent to its ill-humior at the turn of aairs, has lav ished insults upon the women of the South. It seems to us that a thousand reasons, not to mention the simple one of propriety, should restrain a Northern journal from such attacks. The Tribune should remember, too, the hero ism displayed by the Confederate women for their cause. Whether this cause were good or bad, the Southern women have sustained it nobly and with a force of character which recalls the ancient women of Sparta, and which h as everywhere commanded respect and admiration. - Not satisfied with attacking the Southern women, the Tribune instities between them Itnd the women of the North a comparisor as odious as it is unjust. "Our women," says Mr. Greeley's newspa per, "are everywhere a most cultivated class; the women of the South are more illiterate than the men." We dispute the truth of this assertion. There are at the south, as at the North, edu cated women and ignorant women, well bred arid ill bred, vulgar women. But we do not believe that the proportion is so unfavorable to the South. The ladies of Charleston, of New Orleans, and Richmond have shone in all the European saloons where they have ap peared, as brilliantly as those of New York and Boston. That the Southern women are less literary than their husbands is very -possible ; but we do not consider this surely as a reproach. We do not like learned wo men; we are repelled by women versed in latin and philosolhy, and, unlike Mr. Gree ley, take the part of Ienriette against Ar manda. A woman may be educated certainly but let her never become a pedant; and, above all, let-her never parade her learning. We do not see at the South such physical and phiosophical ladies; we see only too many of them at the North ; and what these gain in science, if science that may be called which consists in a great number of ideas, almost always confused and superficial ly understood, joined to enormous pretension, they lose in grace and attraction. We say this without intendit g any injustice to tiose charming Northern women who avoid the grotesque and ridiculous, and resemble in this their sisters of the South. Lct s Permit the Tribune to insist upon the "gross ignorance" of the Confederate Wu men and to refer to this ignorance their ener y arid constancy during the war. We at tribute the great qualities of which the South ern women have given nobie ozample to a higher origin. Ignorance, the Tribune has said it a hundred times, can engender only vice arid meanness-and, if the Confederate women have been heroic, it is because they had faith in their cause. There are occasions in history when woman, whose mission in ordinary times, is to make the good wife, the tender mother, arid to polish manners by the charm and grace which she brings into all social relations, may rise above herself :and give examples of the highest virtues. These occasions occur when the sacred soil of her country and with it, (or through it) the do mestic hearth and the family are threatened with invasion. These high virtues the wo men of the South have practiced without Os tentation, without theatrical parade. They have borne all privations, they have defied all outrages by their proud and impassable atti tude. Soldiers drunken with blood, could outrage their bodies, but their victims re mained as pure as those Christian virgins whose memories the embraces of the execu tioner could not defile. All that is precious to women-dress, je wels, the luxuries ofhome -all these the Southern women gave up they did not even recoil before sacrifices still more painful-they (lid not fear to break their hearts by sending forth their sons to do bat. tIc for a cause, sacred in their eyes, like that, Lacedonian mother who showed a shield to her son and said simply-return with it-or upon it-do thy duty, or die. Do not expect such traits from ignorant women, from souls without elevation ! And wvhile desolation brooded over all the hearths of the South, while mothers had each day fresh tears to wipe away, yet bravely bore their grief, how were the women of the North employed ? In developing a costly luxury against which the Tribune itself cried out, calling attentionm to its scandailous extent, femmnine prodigality became more and more unrestrained. We know to what disastrous result this state of affairs had led. Some Ia dies, it is true, like Miss Anna Dickenson, gave tiresome lectures to promiscuous audi ences, others clamored for pretended woman's rights, and exposed themselves to the derision of the public and others siill enrolled themselves under the banner of miscege naition. Is it among these classes of wo men, whe defy good sense and modesty in public exhibitions, that the Tribune finds its ideal ? Let this journal then cease to insult these conquered women, of whom the defeat has not diminished the greatness; let it cease to embitter and dishonor its pen in sustaining an indefensible paradox. The North, like the South, has its contingent of good, graceful, eduented, and elegant bred women; it has, perhaps, a large number of that class who so little deserve the name of women, and for whom certain announcements are made in the journals; it possess, also, a greater share of learned and pedanitic ladies-but for these, will New Orleans not become envious of Bos ton ? As for good and well-bred society, it is the same everywhere; and the Tribune may be sure that a woman of the world, com ing from Boston, would not feel out of place in New Orleans (nor would the contrary be true). In calumniating the Southern women, Mr. Greeley has simply proved that he does not know them, and that he knows still less the common laws of propriety. Three venerable ladies still survive who were of the choir of young girls that dressed in white, reeted \ ashington as he entered Trenton, im 178, on a wvay to assume the Presidency, and who strewved his pathway with flowers. One yet lives in Trenton, another is the mother of the Ihn. Mr. Chestnut, formerly Senator from South Cairolinar, andl the third, Mrs. Sarah Hand, resides WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENUE. Special Correspondence of the 'Parletont Courier. AVASniNGTON, February 6, 1866. The President is prepared to follow out his principles to their practical conclusions. He gave the four Southern Senators elect who con ferred with him the other day, to understand that they would find every thing right before the end of this Congress. One of the Southern mem bers elect from Alabama feels now, as he informs me, very fully convinced that the President has the political game in his own hand. That is to say, the President will do his own duty, and rely upon the people to do theirs. The President still inculcates upon the Southern men the virtue of patience and forbearance, assuring them that "all will be right." They begin to think so too. You may divide, as a majority of the people of the North will, Senator Sumner's two day's speech in favor of a negro republic in the South. But I mark from that it is the opening of a new era of agitation that will far exceed in evil consequences the vote stirring agitation. You will perceive that it will be a political issue on both sides. It may be thirty years before Mr. Sumner's ideal bl.ck republic shall exist, but it may be brought into existence, if the five millions of his black citizens shall grow into fifty millions, under the benign influences of a federal government that shall tax the whites to support a black lazzaroni in the South. The President will, in his very first demonstra tion, establish a white man's party in the North. I understand, as I mentioned yesterrday, that ex tensive arrangements are made to give it effect and success. LEO. WASHINGTON, February '7, 1866. The House passed the Bill enlarging the pow ers of the Freedmen's Bureau by a vote of 136 to 33. The Bill is somewhat improved by amend ments of the House, and it is a matter of regret that Mr. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, was not al lowed to make it as odious as he proposed to do, for then it would have been vetoed by the Presi dent. Mr. Stevens moved to give the negroes absolute, instead of temporary rights, to the plan tations temporarily assigned to them by Gen. Sherman. The House rejected it by a large ma jority, and, therefore, it is claimed that the House is disenthralled from the Stevens dominion -which is sheer nonsense. This amendment was introduced to defeat the Bill, provoke a vote, and expedite a quarrel with the President. Mr. Stevens knows that delay of the expected rup ture with the President will be potent to the radi cal party. Whether the President will veto the Bill as it stands, is doubtful. I think not. le may deem it inexpedient and mischievous, but not tinconstitutionai, and he may rely upon euch a change of representation as will rescind the law in the next Congress, instead of making it permane . f such a change do not occur, a veto woul e futile, as a remedy, now -r ..* time. Congress will bestow the title of General on General (rant. Politicians think that another title will become him on or about the 4th March, 1869. The report of the general officers of the army upon its organization has been made. There are many novel recommendations. They are in fa vor of a national militia-according to the once condemned plan of Mr. Poinset. The number of Cadets will be increased, so as to allow two Ca dets from each State, and half of that number will be also allowed for sons of the officers and soldiers killed in the service. The Southern States, upon their admission, will, therefore, have just as many Cadets at West Point, as Senators in Congress. Tise President to-day received the very impos ing delegation of colored men-men of African descent-some black and some mulattoes-head ed by Frederick Douglas. You will find the conversation reported in to-morrow's papers. I have heard from those present that the Preri dent was frank, explicit and decided, though exceedingly kind, in all his remarks to the dele gates. His admonitions will serve to warn the coun try, that if the blacks obtain what their pretend ed friends seek for them-suffrage-they must be exterminated in the collision that will be thus produced. Douglas remarked that, in his opinion, the col lision of race would occur if the African race were Dot admitted to the rights of citizenship. So, here, we have an issue at once-or between Andrew Johnson and Frederick Douglas; and more than that, it is an issue between Johnson and the Radicals, who seek, under a false pre tence, to rule the country for their own benefit. LEO. Doia WELL.-Tfhe Livingston (Ala.) JOzr nial, of the 20th, says: We have made it a point to inquire of our planting friends relative to the working of the freedmen, and are glad to lear n that as a gen eral thing they are conducting themselves well. Some report them working better than' ever before . We find that they are doing best where they have an interest in the crop. There is no doubt but this is the best way to contract with them. Eaeb succeeding day's work increases their interest in their work, and lessens the piobability of their abandon ing their contract. We predict that when "picking time" comes, and the hands realize that every lock of cotton is money to them, the fields will be picked cleaner than ever be fore. The freedmen have "a good thing," if they will only "save it." RAISE FktuT.-The South is constantly de voting more attention to fruit raising. We hope this spin-it of improvement will centinue to increase until we shall be entirely indepen dent of importations fr-om abroad. In no de partment of horticulture has more interest been manifested than in grape growing. A little attention and expense would enable al most every family to sip the pure juice of this delicious and healthful fruit "wider their own vine and fig tree." Indeed, we hope to see more attention bestowed upon the culture of all the various fruits which flourish in this climate. It will prove highly profitable as a business, and assume great importance, in a few years.-Southern Cultivator. JOB'S TURKEY.-As the most of us are now very rich in poverty, and as the answer, "I am as poor as Job's turkey," is ringing in our ear on every hand, we ask from our learned friends an answer to these questions which have been propounded to us: In what consis ted the poverty of Job's turkey? Did it con sist in its being denuded of feathers, or in its being lamentably deficient in flesh? Perhaps one of our learned professors, who is to show us that ducks have teeth, and that certain snakes have feet, can decide these turkey questions. We expect and will communicate answers. Dr. Nott was President of Union College fot 62,vears. Letter from Arkansas. [Correspondence of the Louisville Courier.] HELENA, ARr., January 25.-As every body is anxious to know what is going on in the cotton region, I drop you a line to give you a few brief items. I have lately travelled through a considerable section of the river counties of this State and Mississippi, and have been able to form a very correct idea of the work going on toward the restoration of cotton culture. The feature which strikes every one, espe cially an old citizen, is the remarkable energy with which planters have gone to work to re build their lost prosperity. Planaations, aban doned since the beginning of the war, with the buildings of all kinds destroyed, are being occupied. The work of resettlement is going on, and everywhere can be seen the building of houses to the burnt chimneys, and corres ponding preparations for putting in a crop. Stock, furniture and agricultural implements crowd every boat,; while from the exhausted condition of the country nearly all are depen dent upon the same source for everything that is eaten by man o- beast. The quantity of land being prepared for cultivation is not so large as is generally sup posed. It appears very large when one con templates that it is almost like the original settlement of so great a body of land, but for the want of capital or of labor, fully one-third of the cotton plantations in the bottom will be idle another year. In this country, Phillps, which, before the war, was one of the wealth iest in taxable property in the count.y-its assessment list for 1861 amounting to $16, 000,000 (sixteen millions)-perhaps there is a more general revival of planting than any in the South. There is hardly a vacant plantation in the county, and with ordinary gocd fortune the cotton crop will be large, and will tend at once to restore planters to their former inde pendence. As a general thing, every one has sufficient labor, and although no one expects to get as much work from their hands as for merly, it is not seriously doubted that the ne groes will work enough to raise a crop. The system adopted in this country is that of giv ing a share of the crop, which is objectionable, but regard it as the best which could be effect ed undet the circumstances. I regret to observe statements in remote newspapers reporting the existence of lawless ness in Arkansas is as equally unjust and dn true. Everything is quiet and safe in this section, and I venture to assert that there is less of crime and lawlessness to-day in Arkan sas, than in many of the saintly ates. At this point there are quite a number of negro troops; but with all one's prejudice against them, it must be admitted they are as well behaved and disciplined a body of soldiers as any equal number of white soldierly I have .Pcn in the same service. There are some an noyances incident to a military occupation, but they are not as grevious as the same in Kentucky. In the county north of this, Desha, the same activity in planting prevails, Is also in Chicot, while in Coahoma, Bolivar and Wash ington Mississippi, similar energy is being displayed. In these counties, hire for wages prevails over the share system. In Mississip pi, State Legislatibn, and the hearty co-opera tion of the Freedmen's Bureau, is perfecting the system of labor more thoroughly than elsewhere. -- W.,AsHlINGToN, February 10, 1866.-A com mittee from the L .gislature of Virginia had an interview with the President to-day, and presented the resolutions of that body en dorsing the policy of the President. The President replied, thankir>g them for their visit, and expressing his gratification at their sentiments. He declared his determination to follow the principle he had pursued throughout the war, that the Union could not be dissolved. Hie responded cordially to the sentiments of the resolution, and trusted that the time would soon come when they could meet under more favorable auspices than at present. He stated that he would not be forced to the position that any State is now out of the Union. The interview is regarded as a very impor tant one. At the conclusion of the Presi~ dent's remarks the members of the Commit tee were personally introduced, and expressed their pleasure at the President's address. EArTIFUL EXTRACT. -The lov'ed ones whose loss I lament are still in existence; they are living with me at this very time; they are like myself, dwelling in the great mansion of God; they still belong to me as I to them. As they are ever in my thoughts, so, perhaps am I in theirs. As I mourn for their loss, perhaps they rejoice in anticipation of our re union.-What to me is still dark, they see clearly. Why do I grieve because I can no longer enjoy their pleasant society? During their lifetime I was not discontented because I could not always have them round me. Ii a journey-took them from mie,I was not there fore unhappy. And why is it different nowl They have gone on a journley. W hether they are living on earth in a far distant city, or -in some higher world in the infinite universe o1 God, what difference is there? Are we not still in the same house of the Father, like lov ing 'orothers who inhabit separate rooms? H-ave we therefore ceased to be brothers? [ Raman. Corn planting commences this month, in the climate of lower Georgin, and when early planted, makes almost invariably the besi crop. Do not let the mania for cotton grow ing prevent your putting in a beautiful, cror of corn. A half crop of cotton will bring i more money than a full one, and to raise a fullco of cotton this year, would compel theprhs of all our food another year. The facilities and rates of transportation will not begintohstif this. Plant, then, plenty of orn an plntearly and on deeply pre pared ground, so as to prevent, by the early maturing of the crop, and by a full supply 0' moisture in the soil during its periods 01 growth, the casualties to which it is subject, under other conditions, ini our summnei dr~oughts.-Soutkernf C'ultirator. A teacher ini a negro school, in Farmville Va. named J. W. Davis, got nicely thrashed a d.rv oi two ago, by a sensible Federal soldier, nanmec Ailan, for uittering seditious speeches, telling the negroes they were a-s good as the whites, if no~ bhtcr. Sei-ed him rizht. PROPOSED RE UNION OF TGE TWO VIPGINIA. The Legislature of Virginia hag taken the first step toward attempting the restoration of the ancient boundaries of the Old Domin ion. We learn from the Richmond paper that the resolutions in favor of re-union which ha-ve been reported from the Select Committee of the House of Delegates, provides for the ap pointnient of Commissioners to proceed forth with to the seat of government of West Vir ginia , for the purpose of communicating with the Governor and General Assembly of that State, with authority to treat on the subject of the restoration of the State of Virginia to its ancient jurisdiction and boundaries; with authority, also, to treat with the authofitiVs of West Virginia for the adjustment of the public debt of Virginia, due or incurred pre vious to the dismemberment of the State. A Northern paper mentions that the offi cers of regiments discharged at Camp Cad wallader, near Philadelphia, have generally brought with them from the South young cd ored men, who acted in the capacity of ser vants. Most of the officers, upon being mus tered out of service, left for their homes, with out inakirg any provision for the "contra band." The latter have been hanging idly about the camp, and the officers in charge complained to the police. Eighteen of the blacks were taken into custody. Their ages range from fourteen to twenty-seven year. Alderman FITCH sent the party to Moyamen. sing prison as vagrants. - A Ricn BALE OF CoTrTo.-Many cotton bales arriving in New York have to be over bauled, dirt and stain cotton thrown out, and then rebaled. The other day, two laborers, - in the discharge of this duty, fouud, in one of - the bales, $27,000 in gold. One of them pro posed to the other to divide and keep mum, but the other said he would report to the "boss" The purchaser of the cotton claimed the gold, and the seller claimed it, because the cotton was not delivered, and for other reasons: and probably the court will decide to whom this rich mine belongs, The purcha- - ser gave tue two laborers $400 each in green backs. GROWTH OF TUE CATHUoLIcS.-The Catholic World says that within the last fifty years no Church has been so prosperous in the United States: "About two thousand churches and c4apels have been built; an increase of one thousand and eight hundred clergymen-mostly from abroad-one hundred and sixty schools estab lish ed for tho u' 7 -JVVU girls. Moreover, there existed in 1837 sixty-six asylums, with 496.q orphans of both sexes; twenty-six hospitals, with three thousand beds; four insane as ylums, besides many other charitable institutions, all estab lished and supported by the private charity of Catholics." Tt has been decided by the Secretary of the Treasury that it is the duty of the maker of an instrument to affix and cancel the stamp required thereon. If he neglects to do so, the party for whose use it is made may stamp it before it is used ; but in no case can it be legally used without a stamp. An instra ment subject to stamp duty, but issued and used unstamped. prior to August 1, 1865, may be rendered valid by stamping it as re quired by section 163 of the act of June 80, 1864 ; if issued since, the case falls under see tion 158 of said act of March 8, 1865k Riusr of GEaRaN EMIGANTS TO Atac. 80,000 Gernaans emigrated last year, via Hamburg and Bremen. About 15,000 mio:e, it is calculated, left for the same destination, by way of France, England and Belgium. Tbe Hamburg-American Steamship Company are just doubling the number of their ships, ex pecting a like influx of passengers in the im mediate future. If political dissatisfaction re Imains as strongly pronounced in Germany as it now is, their anticipations will, no doubt, be fulfilled. Contrary to what was formerly the case, when very poor people would lay by a few thalers to carry them over, a considera ble portion of emigrants now consist of small farmers, with a thousand or two of thalers in their pockets.-&BrliaL C'or. -London lime., iJan. 16. ABSENCE OF MIND.-A remarkable caae o absence of mind occurred at the residence of one of our most hospitab'le citizens last eve ning. A friend of well-known bibulous pro pensities had no sooner entered the room than he was asked to take a drink. "Thank y6u," said the guest, throwing his hat into the fire and quietely placing a quid of tobacco on a ta ble near by. This is the most remarkable case of absence of mind that we have ever been call ed upon to record.-eersb-rg E.rpres#. A letter from San Francisco speaks of clus ters of the Tokay grapes there last year, weigh ing eight and a half pounds each. One man raised one hundred and sixty- three varieties of grapes last year. A pples jifteen inches in circumference and weighing twenty ounces, are frequently seen, and the writer asserts that he saw a sample lot of Bartlett pears on one stem grown on a graft put in last Febru ary, by Daniel Flint, of Sacramento. This cluster weighed just twelve pounds, or one pound each on the average. A wicked "Coprperbead" sends the follow ine resolution to Congress, as an embodiment ol those offered by Sumner:-Resoieed, That the Government was established for the bene fit of Massachusetts and the Republican par ty: that no one else has any rights that we are bound to respect, except gentlemen of African scent. At one of the Paris theatres the spectator is shown the mode of dressing from the Crea tion to the present day, anid living models walk out of a huge book of fashion to illus trate the different peri.ds. *a i The steam ship London-, for Mulbourne, had foundered at sea. T wo hundred and seven ty lives, were l..t, and only nineteen saved. IThe A bheville "Pi ess" s:iys that the Gen eral Board of(Commui-sioners of Roads assessed the rond anud bridge tax of thatt District at $1:2,000! ~ ~ 4i~ ~e oise