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a- PM . .. .. _.L er VOL. 11.] ~ *I~ *... WNNSBO0RO, S. C., WEDNIESDAY MORNING ERAY316.[O3 - THE FAIRFIELD XERALD 18 .PIDLISIIED WEEKLY BY IESPORTES. WILLIAMS & (O 4Termis.-Tnh HRKtALD is published Week Jy in the Town of Winnsboro, at 63.00 in My in advance. All transient' advertisemonts to b paid in advance.. , Obitygry, N9tices and Tributes $1.00 pe snquare. -f From the Banner of the South. 'THE PROSTRATE SOUTH TO TH) RADICAL NORTH. BY PAUL U. HAYNEC. 'Mid the tumult, the hurry. the mfiadness Of the strifes that convulse you to-dayL Midthe echoes of frantidal gladholass. That. the Bvs is still higher o'er the GaAY-, Are ye deaf to the tempest which sunders . The last ties that bind us to faith, Aro deaf to the roll of the'thunders " 'Forruahning the blackness of death ? 'Tis true that they-bear but a distant Faint menace from lands of despair; Where the Spirit once proudly resistant, liath sighed its last gasp on the air; Bpt a. F4to mutters low i1 that garning, And the South-winds are ,laden with ddoin--; Aye ! ernali the wild omen with zoorning I Aye! dance on the verge of your tomb! Ye have swathed us with cloud..palls of sor rows, Your-brentlh was thebreath of Siinoons Yo have stolen all light from our norrows, And withered our freshest heanrtblooms But the Hates your blind fury bath planted, The dragon's teeth sown in your ire, As. from heat of Bell's furrows enchanted, Grow warm, and burst upward in Are I Armed warrior-denions of ravage, Unquelled by aspell or an art, Fierce, monstrous. untainnbly savage, And.thirsting for blood fiom the heart .YouiChearts thatare t'uddy and swollen, Not ours, so drained and so cold-, With' no food bitt those memories olden Of a tale that long since bath been told. Do ye think to escape. 0 ! my mast ers,- ? Do ye'say,'tis a dream ofaick thought-, ? A night.mnrt of plantasmalsdis'asters 0'o remain all unfcared and urawrought t 0 ! fools, an d 0! blinded I ye see not 'How swift.ly fate's cohorts unite, 0 ! fools, and 0 1 blind ! yo can flee not That wrath in its might I Not a drop of the life blood of heroes By your hireling Vandals laid low, DuL shall poison the sieep of the Neroes - Who caused the red torrents to.flow-; tot a pang of our wives and our daughters, Or slin, or all.inndened with doles, Xiut '! pierce tliro' h't' visions of slaugh. To t epth of your agonised souls I soon, s ye shall compass the anguish War' age beat near you, must. bring, The v ears that'nmoulder and langtish, T Vi pains that harrow and sting; y "3'Tour threslholds blanched, sorrowful - - faces, On yolr marts the guant figures of ere, Deep wallings in desolate places, Winged wild o'er the palI and the bier I With terrible woe that conies only )then Hope has been strangled in gore, Whoi distraught, and despairlng and lone. . y, Tou stand on a blood-deluged shore-, 4With thelact. frietid of Liberty' perished, Wiu t):iidst.,oalbhigof tapsor: t#done, Apd the fair face of Freedom, uncherished, LTing m'angled and stark in the sun: Wl ti he ,knowledge this fearful undoing hour and dfid'yo'irs only hat'h wrought, Till the blackness of dyrkness and rain Shall 1L 11kb u'iathdna'on thought; And yogt faint, and sink; down in dumb Ian - guo , Appalled, and accursed by your Past-, For the flames of God's infinite anger have searched you. and scathed you at last I [ From the National Intelligencora Te Azmiesty Proclamation-Message of the President, The President transmitted thme follow. ig message to the Senate yesterday : To~ the &nate of the United &ates*: The resolution adopted on the 5th inst., regnesting the President "to trans. mit to the .'3enate a copy of any procla mation of' amnesty made by him e-nee the last adjoturnment of Congress, and so to cotmnitct .toitiLn Senate by W h authof'ity:of. aw the1 same was atie," has been reived ' I accordingiy transmis herewith a copy of a proclamation dated the 25th of Decggheriast, Thiyaupori~ty of law by leIi&itwas uwdadeiy'1, th in th 0 rcgitmation'itsifvw ipn aesly a !i,jr h4 ii. s e rus of th 'po r 'n. tlit. e ested b ,thi nliatittlt n/a'n se na' e of th povdrein people th0 T'nited coffw: htt eservation, to ll V - ryjperson who6-drectly or indirectly participated in the late in . entratiprior ,rebellion. . a , fphi ,pardon Antfatub fdtlohe offee d. lriadao against the Unit edi Stateti, or of adhering to their or9lg tA. ' ug'gie: late civil war, wvitbhre oration~ of all hglits, been made in p ursantce thereof." atood&to be and is regarded' by the Ex. ecei,"a', A~~pr~~ifwof the land. Tige second section of article sec'tonfo v,mad pardons -fi -nV -againsb the Unmtad State, .reeptn; asde 4ot. 'tp pegehment&T ihe.prolamtan of tile .14ypor 3zetifte, and, cpaingl8 papers, is in ebnformity with the pirecedent estahiished by Wash. inetan in 1'795, and fallawed by Pt,=i dents Adams in 1800, Madison In 18l5, and Lincoln in 1863, and by the pres ent 10xecutivo in 1865, 1b07, and . 1868. ANDREW JOHNSON. WASIIIN.TON, D. C , Jan, 18, 1869. The copies. accomnpany ing the Presi dents answer to the Senato are as fol lows : 1. Proclamation of Gon, Washington, dated 10th. day of July, 1795, granting to citizens who had been engaged in tin. surrection (resisting collection revenue on .distilled smirits and stills) in- the Webtern countles of. Pennsylvania, ex. cepting certain classes described in proc lamation, a general pardon of all treas ons and other indictable offenses. . 2. Proclamation of John Adams, da ted 21st of Nay, 1800, granting a full pardon to all and every person (includ ing some except-d' in: W ishington's roclamatiou) engaged in.said. insurrec Lion ; whereby remedying and releasing unto all such persons all pains and pen. alties incurred, or supposed to be in. curred for or on account of the premi. i sea. 3. Proclamation of James Madison, dated 6th day of Feruary, 1816. Certain foreigners, flying from the dangers of their.pwn homes, and some citizens of New Orleans, "forgetfui of of their duvi,"'had co-operated in form ing an establishment on the island" of Barataria, near the mouth of the river Mississippi, for the pnrpose of clhndes tine and lawless trade,. The GoVern,. .ment pf the :United States c.ueed the establishment to be broken up, and pro. cedel to prosecutet~le offenders by in dicimenit, &e. - For reasons sot forth in ti proclama. . tidn, President Madison gants to the -offenders full. pardon of all offrtses con mittedi tgitist th alay orn toiching in tercunrse and . ymmnetce of the. U iinted Srates'with foeiih notions; snif the 1 President directs Iluit, indictments l and prortuLions. r i penalties, for s fitres, e .to .. discontiinued and v releasod. %' 4. 'ProatniationgfPresident-Lincoln, a dated 8th day of December, 1863, fa- e miliar to (lhe public, granting to alh per. t. sons (curtain classes excepted) who had participated in tha " rihelliu, full' pardon and -estoration of all rights of property, Lxcept as to slaves, and in propert.y cases where rights of" third parties shall have intervened. ' In this proclamatioin Mr. Linooln' be g gilns by. citing. the ,provisions in. the Constitution pnpovpring the .President to grant reprieves and. pardons. The law of Congres deblaring forfeitures, S etc., and authorixing the President to a issue proclamation of pardon and amnes. ty, with such exoeptions as the Execu- I tive may diem .proper is , the cued. Mr. Lincoln referring to this, agt, adds~ tl. ..I Whereas the Congressional -declara tion for limited and conditional par-don v accords with well established judcital w exposition of the paiddnihg powor i- o Therefore, etc. :' Proelamation of president Lincoln, L dated 26th of March, 1804, defining it cases in. which persons are entitled ii to benefits of the preceding- proclaia. lion. - 6. Proclamation of President Johnsoh, ti dated 29th of .May, 1865, similat- to the . Lincoln proclamation of December 8, i63, granting pardon and amnesty, ox cept in eaOfiR i.lmrAin nnmoptd. .7. ProeLlam'ition of President Johnison, dated September 7,' 1867,:extending fjell a pardon to certain -persdna -who wer'e en. gaged in -the .rebellion. 'lhispioclanma tion extends pardon to classes mention- s edl who were not pardoned by preceding r p~roclamnations. , '.* 8. Proclamatrons of fresident John. 'M bon 'of July 4 1868, ty.n'ing ganeral pardon andl aidesty to persons engaged a in the late rebellhan, .withe dertain' exc- a coptions and' res'ervatiolns, ~ PonEGraIxns A n, Orttnt OVan TwarxE YEARS O 'AGE.-a-While Mr. Bontwell i.s foroing, by act of dongres, negro stiffrage upon Ohio, Penn~ylvaniv, New York, apid other States, Mr. Brooks,'in order to symbobize and eqnal itle l'fr. lBoutweli% princles'proposes,. wd see, hot 'Oiltetd ehffditiehise foreind era new in thethfted States4. 'ell rAs.tho.,negroesgbnt.iso, gli ;h9 :wohi 9 and maids over tyvho years, of,, . p M4r. Brooks roesons, doubtless, that our g wives anid cbldrehn'.nn\ ad" 'muel"'a i, inbst plarutior!nogroeeain1 hre u&nell e qualified to vote. Wedlsliaill. look with o some curiosity for'a,consisto:t, action b~y Congress upon the i'nafte~"of'uii and EguArI bufflaged'hil thess'p'ontsb egnq4 but afrain ,te consjte,ove s f , 16 il 99 iean folw , t tamnestv.and - anll Ihmat'itridmjbh.L-a'tibut Jntell(L h1oog the. reuso General Aldge fail Rantds4'ha JAdugbk (~) of ,M pgroepegt~ ..g resumpt.nQ f'the . g will-be let to een of Qgtalis4-4igegiltaJ fiar seir'mthe extent of oisstllion of dolla,and the friends of the entrpti.s the*. ate sanguine as to ites anoans." . The- Panean Man-Milliner. A Paris'letter, dated the 21st ultiuw, says: A soandal of the hour is the entertain ment given by Worth, the uan-milliner, it his chateau In Suresnes, a village over looking the Bois do Boulogno. It did not arise from the insolent luxury of his cha. teau. This is unbearable to many per. 4M. The chateau consists of five buildings, I each added seemingly to the other as the master's wealth increased. The extensive grounds have almost as many capricious excuses for spending money as Stowe, the Duke of Dwokingham's estate. There are ltrraces, iumner-houses, bridges, pagodas, filled with bronzes, porcelains, old armor or summer-houses or pagodas, statues and rases for bridges and terraces. The tables of the house are covered with he most expensive cashmere shawls. The irms of the chairs are covered with the. Costliest laces. The scandal consists in his nviting the very same ladies invited to 3ompiegne, and in their accepting his invi ation; They durst not do otherwise. lad they refused he would have refused o receive their orders, and for a fashiona. de lady to go into society unattended by forth would be mortifying enough to drive ter to suicide. I do not hint fear. of his asking payment of bills had anything to do rith the alacrity with which his invitations rere accepted. But people with retentive nennries will recall the embarrassment ith which fnshionahle society was thrown ve or six years since upon the announce. ent. of Worth's retirement from trade, and i's suc'essor's intention to be paid all bills r bring suit on them. There were $000, 00 or $800,000 duo him. - Princess do Mettenich owed, so the scan. alous chronicle said, $60,000, and even uiet. t'rincess Clotilde appeared on the ooks as a debtor to the amount of $20,000. suspect. Worth was emboldened to this tep by the success of his tea during the sinter. le, has In a private drawing-room, ext to the trying-on-room, tea served every fternoon and evening. Ilo invites none to rater but the most ariitocratio .gustomers. his is an honor easily sought. At his chateau be has been inviting these rincesses and tarchionessos to tea at four ) 'clock P. M., (the new , fashion). lie re rived them wearing flexible boots reaching the knee, a broad bolt around his wvaist, loges with culls lgong as a dragoon's, and a Lxib)e hat under his arm. ; In his vesti ale were six fotmen dr essed as Chasseurs. v he t.a was served from silver urns in In evre' porcelain cups. I believe Worth is ri Englishman. Is It not odd an English an should be the arbiter of fashion in avis ? tix NATAL DAY or ItoiETt IstaN,.-On te 25th of January, 1859,. Robert Burns, hose poetry has.becomo a household word herever the English language is spoken, I as born.- It is'common for the Societies St. Andrew, wherever they exist-and here two or three representatives of the 1 'nd.o'C-ikes are gathered together, there a one in The midst - of them to celebrate 1 is day in a festive manner ; but we have eard of no such intenition on the part of the oelbt.y In this city. In New York the day ill be olbserted With more than usurl foa vity. . 'It is amusing," says Chambers, "'to am tHint Burns, when just emerging from becurity, joculiarly hnticipited that his a irthday wotld come to be ' noted among I lher'remakauw1 uvenims. In a letter to his irly patron, Gavin Hamilton, in 1786,' le iys: 'For my own affairs, I. am* in a fair 'igy of biecomingras qmitient as T'homas A. empls 61- iohn Banyah ; and you many rpect henceforth to see my birthday In >ribod among the wonderful even ts, an the por Robin and Aberdeen Aimaiiaoks, along ith Black Monday and the Battle of Both.. eli fBridg." 'this day one hundr~ed and ten years a go urmns was born Into' the world, while round- his peasarat fatheo-'s cot, by th ridge of Doon, the elements rage furiously rid the mnighty temnpes( howled: "Upoir a st orny .wint er night 3 'Scotland's brighlt, star first rose In sight; ; Beaming upon as wild a sky, As ever to prophetio eye. Proclaimed that natture had on hand Some work to glorify the land. 'Within a lonely cot of clay, 'That, night-naa OnMa? ORRatrOiW nAt P" jSavanah News. Rfog. KT GnANrTavZLL,, 8. C,-Within ze mile of Granieoville, 8. U., on Saturday ight Jast, a most, reprehensible and dis- I rapcefiy assautlt was inade upon an assem Irge of qisonas who, were eugaged In so- I a~l . (stivitieop Fpr. aoms, unexpli~mned ~~so,,several unknaowynpersona conceived c gvil purpose of brealdagup th,e party, rp~iostd eireckmnanner of-doing..ib tjiey elievedstgf ingbooigg, the .muslolan,.. his they acomplisheod,severely wounding, the bo)vels,'a Mr. Dinkins,rwho was act. tg yiolirislts for the oqgonelon.; Not content gIt)) this:flgnisib-Act, they. oospienced an Jnfgrimbai~tL frivng Into theansemlage, u!ing whgh3$)AIey,s~ho4 iidady in 'the thigh, fl4A fnj.q!..t. aW~u4 n Ibe ;ehouldetr'.f negim9$q aInnmd"'rescott, One of u1141Jgne efI MI leg,! although no6 auf. cleat to resutin his :oapture ,as yet,. .Auguela Press. . ~49arlonIem IS.'likelyd to beo an onneiba 14.h u fttiam9Iung It otb:elsp reeted tha, instead et a Je sl fee er township She p:4hl8af omn Ia wRI thu. lie so'ved; ue 1t5hgh pIest IroUAh1t down~ toan orGdMie taM-PAW RAnto.r.t QUARsLIo.--The Washing ton correspondent of the Now York Her.ld ruder dato of the 18th instant, says : Tho first fissure in the disentegration of the tadcal party was displayed to-day, in the wild writhings of the Pacific Railroad rings over the exposures of a Cinolnnati Radical paper of the conceded corruption in and out of Congress in regard to the granting of subsidies to Wosterrw road', and in regard to the attempted Rile of lands enough to form Whole tlates by the Interior Department, to certain speculators for a mre song. These swindles have been the object of General Grant's denunciation within and for the whole of a month past. They received attention ini Mr. Washburne's speech in the House, when he admitted that his party exceeded in corruption and scoun drels any other party ever born. These statements, fortified by proofs, 'a Western correspondent reproduced in the paper in question. That correspondent and paper, and the Now York Tribune, which copied hid letter, were made the viutims to-day over whose shoulders General Grant and Mr. Washburne were lashed in the most abusive and violent manner by the retained sona. Lora of the railroad rings before mentioned. t was an exhibition which shocked and startled the ninny Republican leaders who have sought to give a pause to the rank 3orruption characterizing their party on railroad legislation. For more than two tours did Harlan, Pomeroy and Conness inblushingly defend these' railroad grants tnd land sales which the President elect has icelared will, if contmnued, ruin the 1ppub ican party. Under the pretext of assailing iewspapors which have but sympathized rith Grant's desire to stop this torrent of Corruption, these senators foully assailed hat representation of the faqts for which )rant has made himself responsible to the ountry. The assault on the papers was inly a cover behind whibh were gathered all he force of the consolidated rings against ho purposes of the President elect. In rain did Trumbull, Conklin, and Morton, tud other senators try to silence the fetid y interruptions of other measures. The ailroad senators had their say out. ;defend d the swi ndles of the past and quoted hem as the acts of the purty and a the nets whileh would, mark its future. omeroy says there are twelve more rail ond bills, filled to the brim with subsides, rhich are to be reported and passed this ossion. These subsidies the best men in ho party are bent on defeating for, the par y's salvation sake. To.day the- gauntlet ras thrown down by the railroad Congress ten, that no railroad grants should be do. eated, but all should be added on to the ivisions which impeachment, civil fehure, egro suffrage, financial affairs and whiskey hieving are participating within the party. IxciTnliixN' Auoso CoTToN CLAIMANTS. L correspoident of the Now York Ilerdlel rriting from Washington on Wednesday ist., says. Judge Hale, the special counsel for the reasury Department in the ctton caaP& efore the Court of CltIms; to-day offered n objection to certain testimony, wivioh as created quite a sensation hero, and rhich will, ifsustained, deeply affect real wners of banking houses in New York,who re the real owners of much of Ihe cotton or which payment is claimed. The objec iot is to the testimony of parties who sold 8 well as to that of those who bought cot on during the war, liensueh testirnony is ifered to prove ownership -at tiho time of cizure. by iSimon Draper and oilher agents . the 'f'reasury Department. 6hoid this hjectiont be sustailned by the Court, some our milliotis of' dlolars' worth of claims n11 be ruled out of Court, as proof of sale ad purchase by buyet andiselier is, in ilmost etety e ase, the only too fof'omtnet-. hip that claimants' counsel hiave to pro. Ince. Duncan, Rharman & Co., and other few York houses, originally represented in hese eases'hy ,Clarence Seward, and Mr. hvart, no* Attorney-Oenedw, 1.ronld be argo hosota, it is said, as they have adviano d much money on these claims, The "Adger B~uilding," at the corner of rarket and King streets, in. Ohmrleston, is o be cozlverted into a theatre by a Northern apitaliI,. 4. hog was kilhbd in Marion -county, last reek, which, when dressed, weighed'-601~ iottnds flofumfiaata Augumsta Rai'ifoi4 st ook sold n Charlestlon last week at $8 per .share. ['ho par value is &26. "dqams," says Voltaire, "arc like baards, den only get, them whmeni'they grow up, and romen never have any."~ 'A capit.alst.-of Washhigton, D.-O., wishes o pttrchase fity titousand Aeres of pitio and on' ors:uear the lie of the Wilmington ahd Weldon RaIlroad. 'This tention is' to istablish trateking and fruit .fahhts. T oAdh re hold h~ Paris at' i o rate of fify eats a desen. isanimal Is used for th. yrdteetion of diusya'rds Mtd 'gardet4 Ihom he'ayages 'of 'insebts that 'osc1pe thI 6 % ilV of Mr'dar aver nilei thie. ~ g mb tholv hands at ~ital~e wit some sa, ur4tia $ $$ite M tipg.pi0pesi oftbW~i r )nI~jg$dnsM . 'lv Railkea4'fiw abainged btegs p his bl Ut tie sea. Theq terribipa.gtila4 11itle o law ws MhthIUaA Ja mna Tne Daarn or xx.Gov, Picxcus.--N Only Ihrnughat.t thin and our sister Sta of South Carolnaa, but in every part of th land, where true worth, pure character a: noble manhood ate respected, will there I mourning for the great light which hi gone out forever, in the death of ox.Oo Pickeng. He died at his residence, I Edgefield District, South Carolina, after I exteaded liness, on the 26th inst , at I o'clook. It is not for us to refer to that fame whi: is co-extensIvowith the limits of our cou try, or speak of that man whose name ht for years been a synonym for all that is a ble and true. lie possessed those contro ling charnoteristics of mind and heart whic gave him much pro.ouinence in the affair of his State, and as her Chief Executive he nhaintained her proud position amon her Sisters, and fully sustained th.e presti which, in days gone by, she gloriousl won. He has gone to jdin the host of he oherished sons who sleep, some in distari lands, and some by the side of her own Pal mottoes, but his name, his example, hi memory, can not, will not be forgotten. "These shall resist the Empire of decay, Whea Time is o'er and worlds have pas'sei awayi Cold in the dust the perished heart may lie But that which warmed it once can "eve dio." A sugusta Constitutionalist. FnUIv AND VKOETAnLRs.--The Pomologi cal Society of Norfolk has published statetne t of the quantity of fruits and vege tables raised on the truck farms around Ilha city, and sent to the Northern tmarkets. 'This statement shows that there was ship ped in the season 1,000,000 baskets of Strawberries. 60,000 barrels of Potatoes. 40,000 barrels of Peas, 10.000 barrels of Snap .Beans. 060,000 heads of Cabbage. 20,000 barrels of Cucumbers. 1110,000 boxes of Tomatoes. 6,000 bat rels of Squashes. 2,000 barrels of Beets. 40,000 bushels of Radishes. 100,000 Cant elopes. 60,000 Watermelons. The money value of these as no lea than $1,043,200, excluding the receipts from the sale of apples, pears, plhms, ehor. ries, &o., which would prolbably amount << twenty-five thousand dollars more. It is stated that pains were taken to make the report both full and correct ; but the esti mate is still thought to be considerab3 lower than the true figures, DUtroO(sis' LiQotis.-'i'he New Yorl World has purchased liquors from a utan her of well known druggists of thst cit3 and caused them to be subjected to a che latl analysis. The following reports of the result will tell the whole story : "Sample No. 6, of old port wine, was oh tained from the store of Alexnnder Hud nut, druggists, in tie lertald building. Tlc volume percentage of alcholitol wtas below the genuine average. Brazil-wood was present as a coloring matter, tannif noir was present, there was an odor of dyestuffm and distillation left a purple deposit. As c made *(nd "Specimen No. 2, of brandy, was obtain, ed from the pharmacy of C. (roll, east Tenth street, near Avenue ,13. It was bl little below proof, had an odor of burnt su. gar, and left a small brownlah.yellow dopo. sit. The presence of burnt sugar' woulk indicate an initatjon brandy." A firm in theo &ity of New York, who have lost. recently some $7,000 thmrough t he dlis honesty of their book keepect, have~ sued thc party who recommended to them the book keeper as a mlan of good choaa:er, fce th recovery of the fnonof. 'thle warlike preparations in. Prussia, in terruptedl sincr'the commen cement of' Octo ber, have been netively take-a in band - Correspondence fromt Wa~sat4'mentilonta all t he soldiers ott furlough have heni re. oalledl, and t wo huandred roubles bounty are given to all the disehmarged men who r'e.en list. - The Tr'i6hne has ane attkak~l ow the TRoy Samuel Osgood, D'. D. It says that wher he came to the old chw~roh of the M esslah irn Droadway, *a young parson,' ho fotohet with him from college a lot of sophlomoliea sermons, which now lie In smouldy graves whi'e their ghosts' seerm to hlaunt th- plac la-the shape of tawdry, glngei'-bread decor itlone. F'ie, for shamno. ThleGeorgia eorresoent& of the Nov YBrk Times says: "The oottont orop is good the relgtlont between, whitoe and the no grocla friendly, the formeor paying promtptl; cn al) their contraels for tvovk, and the 1at ter being satisfied withl the remiet. of thel labor. 'In no part of the world,' says the correspondent, 'Is the corresponding olasi oft laborers as prosperonis, fut a mater'ig sense, as these negroes' The NashvilloOanner.- pulilshes extr'act frorea a letter from Amos A. ILawrenco, o Massaohusette, In which. that emilulnt Nei Eg?and mnafacturer estols the advan 16os of the Souith, parttoalarly'i'ennessee for carrying on ootton'inanntetring.& Ms Lawrenoe teos 'a pvsaetioa vlew fo the subi ject, antl Uieges the workinfg of steallet farM and the employment of extra capitali1w man ufacturing~and .ming,. - Generut Grant Is na~ rnutng the gauni let in the way of redting~e polltieal ominit tees and delegations, .nd-with all his retl t1A.4 with Genral Graisie whiehi Iitimations to tbs opposing del9 frm sispr r ssdr Jt f Tue INAtU0URATIoN CEREMONIES-LETTE ta rox ITUE PaSsJDxNT ELioT.---The genera is committee for the management of the un d -official inaugural coremonies diligently to endeavored toprocuro a suitable building is and also carefully considered the subject o V. erecting one of duffloient eapac'ty for the a occasion, but finding the former Impossible a and the latter impracticable, applied to th< 0 Congress of the United States for the use of the rotunda of the old Hall of Represen b tatiea and such adjoining por tion of the I. Capitol as might be required for that pur in pose. The unanimous consent of the House )- was given, but the proposition was unex i. pectedly defeated in the Senate. Pending I the motion to reconsider, the following let -a ter was received from the President eloec by the eeoretary of the committee : SHJEIAQUATSan 0 AnY OF inn UNITED STAT~E, Y WABINUTON, D. C., Januasry 20th, 1869, r Thomas L. Tullock, Esq., Recreawry, 4c : t DEAR SIR:-Understanding that the cont. wittee of which you are secretary meet this 8 evening, for the purpose of arranging for the Inaugural Ball, I venture to drop you a line, to say that if any choice is left to me, I do not wish to disarrange any plans made j by my friends in the matter of ceremonies attending the inauguration, but in this matter it will be agreeable to mue if your r committeo should agree that the ball is unnecessary. With great respect, your obediont scr rani, U. S. GRANT, - General. 'nip. NExr CROr.-Cotton.is a royal arti ele in the world's commerce: at present, it - connands a royal price. We deem it pro. - per to throw out a suggestion upon the next crop. From all we can learn, more than ever, our planters have in view to plant cot ton almost exclusively. It is a dangerous experiment. Every planter should, at least, have in view to raise hit own bread stuffs. The scarcity of corn andi bacon en hancos the price of labor. Labor, for tho last twelve months, has advanced tat least 20 per cent. in value. 1he iiegriO is distp pearing, nobody know-, whore, and white labor does not, as yet, take his place. The white man will pause before ie comes, as a laborer, to a country not well supplied with beef and grain. Even at the present price of negro labor, the Nlhito liaboe'r wouhl.i not be willing to compete. If labor is to con tinue scarce, and the price of labor to ad. vance steadily by the inoreace of the rur. face in cotton, it is doubtful if the planter will be remunerated, suflioiently, by ihe probable advance in the price of the great staple. In all probability, the price of the bulk of the present crop is the maximum the staple '-ill attain. 'rte single article of bacen now exhausts, to a large extent, the wanges of the colored laborer and the profits of the enloer. These matt era should ho well-considered itn t'ontection with pitching another crop.--. It should not be forgotten, too, that the cat erpillor, for two years, has been developing no a tetrible destroyer of the plant. In IS6g, this worar was two Weeks in ad 1 ance of his advent in 1867. If, in 1819, he is ten days earlier than last year, the crop in t is region would i c a dead failure. Laurenstille JIerald. IDEctoN IN REGAUD To TiUE INCoME-TAX LAw.-In the case of the United States against William E. Frost, indictment for t false income return for 1800, the jury have tt ined a verdict of not guilty. It appear ilg that Mr. Frost's return for that year showed an income of about, $1O.000. The Government claimed that there outght to have boon returnedl about, $8,000 in addi tion. The defence set tip was that this som was exempted from taxatom as had debts. The case turned on a law point. Judge Drumamond decided that a man was not bound to retane as income debis of promacse to pay, bnt was only rettuiredl to return the gains, profits, or income of Ihis buciness ac tually received, 'lHe thought. that it, would be unreasonable on the part. of the Glovern maent to require a man to pay a tax on a promise to pay or a more debt, when noith er might be collected, espoohiy as the par. ty would haio no feonrse upon the Govern m tont to recover the amount so paid.. -The t:Lourt instructotl the jury that they .would be justifled in Ainding the party not guilty under the opInion which he had IntImated, . lthotrgh he dosiredl so to qualify lt~ as to state that, if a person had a note or an ao count duo him, and he neglected to collect it when it matured, or refused the money when tendered, or if he received other pro patty inwixchange for thme sum due andl in liiquidation of the indebtedness, then he would be liable.--OicagqoPoat. Looonas.--t is now hard to find a eol ored jpan in Macon willing to take a situa - tion in the cuatry. They have all made their preparatdas and gene to the planta tienu. The sehiroity of labor is even now soroly felt in Georgia. We know of no nieighhor llood which has as many hands as it, wants. ' Platifers are here evwery~day asking for mere -help, but without tonoh eploess. Year by year the pegre laboring population is fast disappearing. The catdies are well known. *The fbot being conceded, our plantu tre ' deepiy ititerosted in the vital - question of s upplying.theirpape,--alfacon Telegraph. AI*A*SAs.-.T4 Littls Rook N'ds~e biya that there a're its the lower Hodsesof tihe Art. - kease5 Llatpirq S8 members; of when)#~2 . WR adhl*and I aDemoorat. 'Thre are r 948004dt i the 8taitbof whofn0,00 ,of beA inl e*4 Puch bawbe the .trad and impositios prt' upon the i ,.1., that the Legisla te ost Vrbol. lyarne. The Wreokers, The ship is wrecked, and they whom we see conspicuous on her deck, are no portion of her crew, but a reckers. By their false lights they have lured her among the breakers and they are now receiving the price of their perfidy. In such a state of things, what course ought we, Southern men, to adopt? Since all is lost, ought we not in self defence to join the wreckers? Many a Southern politician, we know pe:fectly well, has asked himself a question similar to the above, and some, we grieve to say, have answered it iu the sfirtuative. Let, us see what is meant by joining the wreckers-that is the Radical-mzons gre: party. Let us imavine.a Southern man en tering the party as a poltlci~n seeking his personal advancement; the only possible motive that can take any sane 'man into such a party. Our new convert will find it neces sary to out.-Terorl Herod, or he will soon be distanced in the race for the spoils. He will at unce become a loud mout hed glorifier of t he.early abolition ists, the Garrisons, Phillipses and Sum. ners ; endorsing their life-long abuse and villi'leation of Southern men and women. W ith tte spirit of a devotee he will cworship the memory of the aifamouj John Brown, and exult over the inno cent, Southern blood spilt by that fiend and his fellow criminals. He will f.ry in Sherman's marth to the sea, and <..ap his hands for joyl at. the thought of blazing Southern homes, of rvihlied women and starving children. He will spit with contempt upon the tomnbstone of Stonewall Jackson, and curse him as a rebel while lie extols Ueast Budler as at patriot. He will speak aip)ruvingly of the :OWta ndy treat ment inflicted upon. Mr. Davis. Above all, ho will nsrv.ur 1se an op pori unity of arguing in favor of the jnis. tice, states:nanship and magnanimite displled by Congress in reconstrnwtting the South at ti point of the bayonet, swallowing wvitlh aveii.y all the wurda he ever uttered, as a white mati, against the cowardly and brutal outrage. He will place himself on terms of so, cial- equality with the negro members of his party, making no distinction, socially or politically, between mn - on account of race. All t.hose things he must do, or he will find that he has sold his birthright for counterfeit money; that his efforts to rise to leadership in the party he has joined will prove unavathnr. No Southern man can do such thilia and retain his self-reapect, or that bf his neighbors. What then shall we do ? Nothing. Have nothing more to do wihll polios under a government that rules uis by the bayonet and a corrupt ballot box hi the hands of a hostile majority, Let us devote our whole time and energies to the development of our coun try ; making use for that end of what facilities the horde of robbers that have swooped dowvn upon uis, have thought proper to leave us, "lime at length sets all thhiugd ovesn" Timo 01ll bring a poriod-to the' state of things that exist'a Co-ay. The atl archy that. we sea around us is not per man'nt, for anarchy navor' is.' Out 6f'it. Iwill be born a dli'potismn, or it wvIll seover - the eo-called Uniion- into vantous> frag m ients. In the mean tim'e let us develop our natural resources, so that wvion the op portunity arriver, and it will, weo may have the strength't'o ertush' to deth the slimy reptiles that have coiled -about onr social and polit ical systeome.-Mfobilo Tribune. TaEnRin.Ec DiATJ.-A colored man met with an awful death, i the ineigh borhood ot tie w Paris, 1y., afew nights since. A neighbor, a white ian, had killed his hogs and -left them out at night.. The negro undertook to, stetd one, and wa's in such a lyirry to ,secure the pork that he forgot to remove theo gambrel stick. To reach his holng i w ias nocessary to cross- t ferne', -i1t doing so he placed the hog on the top. rail, and it, is supposed that 'it .alippad at any rate, the negro's head was oaught in the opening of the hind leg andhi neck was broken by the stick. Hie was found next morning dead, tihe 'hogl on' one side of the fence and ';he on the other, with his head fast as' Moscrib ad, . WHY~ THERE l8 Ti NE NttI !AUGUk vTION EAUi.-Know, thenrthat the :real reason or atopping this jobi~h imp ascertained thait, the negr,oesof ~~hi triot, ahd vfeinit~'-male and femal.1 had detertnined 'ic 'bd ~r~nt'aG hatsar~ds, whether the ' lAlnwai~ d 41k the: "rotunda of the oapitolfl;.r sese baom. to roost."- Wafa nytl ,44e-7' .BatimOT Gazele., ~ T~atii.nthe8apfWt* fon ~*b~dase fo titeates and United St t'es notes, or greenbaoks, are exempt from State tamtin,