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PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS.
WASIHNGTON, January 10.-Voluminous papers,
relative to tho Confed?rate emigration to Mexico
and tho plans of Messrs. MALEY and GWTN, were
preacntod in the United States Se.nato to-day.
Letters from Mr. ROSIERO, showing an under?
standing between tho traitors in Mexico and tho
insurgents in tho United State?, were produced.
In thc Senato WILSON introduced a bill fixing tho
peace establishment of tho army. It provides
seven regiments of artillery, teu regimonts of
cavalry, sixty regiments of infantry, each branch
to have a proportionate number of black troops,
officered by whites.
HOWE offered a resolution declaring that the
seceding States had forfeited their rights, and
mado a speech in which he said tho President
had no right to restore tho rebel States, bia duties
being only executive.
In tho House, WILSON, of Iowa, made a speech
in aupport of tho hill to extend thc suffrago to ne- ?
groea in tho District of Coluinbia. Ho said thc I
eocial oloment hero favored .secession, and mado a
lengthy speech on the subject.
JBOWTER opposed the lull ou thc ground that this
is a white man's government.
In response to tho Senato resolutions asking
why JEFFERSON DAVIS had not been t-ied, tho
President to-day transmitted a message, enclos?
ing a lcttor from Attorney-General SPEED, who
atates that the United States Circuit Courts havo
* not boon held in the late rf bellious districts si:ico
the termination of hostilities, and ho expressed
tho opinion that tho lato insurgents waiting trial
nhould bo tried only beforo tho civil courts, when
fully and actually restored, and has not thought
it proper, and advised tho Prcsidont not to causo
criminal proceedings to bo instituted against
DAVIS or any other insurgent in States or Districts
in which thoy were not active and present during
the prosecution of hostilities.
From Baltimore.
BALTIMORE, January 10.-The Maryland Legisla
toro mot thia day.
Governor SWANN, elected a year ago under tho
" "new Constitution of bryland, tookhin tjo&i.. -?..-,
From Europe.
HALIFAX, January 9.-Tho Canada, from Queens?
town on tho 24th, has arrived.
Tho Manchester market closed firm and up?
ward.
Thero was no market on tho 23d.
Picw York market.
J5NKW YORK, January 10.-Cotton dull, and has
decl'ccd hero from one to two cents $ lb., and is
qr.oted at from 49 to 50 cents $ lb.
THE FOLLOWING- is tho result of thc election held
?on last Monday, in Oraugoburg Distric^fjS. C., for
?Ordinary and Sheriff:
FOR ORDINARY. ?
Mcllichaol.467
FOR SHERIFF.
Dukes.221
Andrews.112
Shire,,...-.CG
?Carson..' is
8aUey. 18
?Watkins. 14
?hney. 13
-WilUams. 2
Nino polls in tho District not heard from.
Tho Orangeburg (S. C.) Tima of thc 10th instant
says: "Tho largo concourse of freedmen who
had come to town on Now Yoar'a day, having been
informed that the Government had no landa to
give thom, but required that they should make
contracts and go to work faithfully, as all free
people should do, departed quietly to their differ?
ent localities with fixed intentions to mark out
their dostinies with tho plow and hoe. But nows
was again spread over tho District that General
SAXTON would address tho freedmen at Orange?
burg on Friday, 5th instant, and it was generally
believed that scvenvl tlipuaand would again con?
gregate in town on that day-a supposition which
was not realized, for tho colored people aro evi?
dently disgusted with speechifying 'without
lands.' They have lost their 'faith,' by too much
work, not for want of 'works.' Consequently
only a few hundred of his sable brethron were as *
gambled to hear what tho General had to tell
them."
WE FIND tho following order published in tho
Chattanooga Gazette:
HEADQUARTERS POST CHATTANOOGA, TENN., j
Decombcr 30, 18C5. (
{.General Orders, Ko. 30.]
Owing to thc accumulation of r. great number of
freedmen at this Post, living without visible means
of support, and setting demoralizing example? to
those better disposed, it is hereby ordered that
all colored men who cannot give satisfactory assur?
ances of being engaged in some legitimate employ?
ment, will be arrested and confined in thc Military
Prison until employment can bc found for them.
All pistols, revolvers, muskets, or other fire arms
found in tho possession of these people, will be
takou from them and turned over to these Ilead
?uarters. Tho officer of the City Guard, ami
ieut. Libbald, Act. Ass't. Post Provost Marshal,
are charged with the execution of thia order. Dy
command of Wm. B. Gaw, Col Com'dg.
B. W. PE Ii Ki SS, Captain and A. A. G.
PROFESSOR AGASSIZ is pushing forward his ex?
plorations in South America. His party now con?
sists of four grand divisions, ono of which has for
ita field the peninsula lying south of the city of St.
Paulo, and between the Parana River and tho At?
lantic Ocean? The second division has the sea?
coast extending from Kio dc Janeiro to Bahia, and
as far westward aa San Fraueisco River. Thc
third division has tho interior, lying west of thc
San Francisco and between the tenth degree of
eouth latitudo and the tropic of Capricorn, Thc
fourth division, at the head of which is Professor
AGASSIZ himself, has for ita traci thc great Valley
of the Amazon, including its tributaries. This and
tho coast section are tho two most interesting, if
not the most important fields.
OUR FOREIGN C?RKESPOJIDEKCE.
PARIS, December 18, 18G5.-I believe I mention?
ed tho death of Kiug Leopold in niylnst. Bnt if
I did, thero is sufficient reason tor recurring t-o
the theme in the fact that for tho last ten Jays I
have not taken np a singlo paper, Eaglish,
French or German, that has not had its thrco or
four columna a day on Belgium, past, present and
future, on thr character of thc lato King, tho cir?
cumstances attending his death, tho particulars
of his splendid and imposing obsequies. Thc
Journal de Bruxelles gives thc Emperor NAPO?
LEON'S telegram of cond. ?lonco to LEOPOLD II. in
tho following terxna :
"We, tho Empress and myself, take a very deep
intorcst in tho bereavement!)nit has just befallen
you. Your august father always manifested a
great deal of affection towards myself, which I
DATO over fully reciprocated. King Leopold was
distinguished "l'or ins wisdom ?md great intelli?
gence. Ho was ono of thc most justly celebrated
monarchs in Europo. I hop.; you will follow, upon
tho throne, tho great examples which- your illus?
trious predecessor has ?eft you. On every occasion
I shall bo happy to give you proofs of thc affection
with which you inspiro me.
NAPOLEON."
I translated this note literally, and with it shall
let the good King Luor iLD rest in peace. But,
en passant, I may remark that tin's telegram ol'
tho Emperor's seems to come from thc heart, and
puts an extinguisher to all those rumors of his
designs of annexation as rega??s I?olgium. Tho
young King, LEOPOLD IL, was born April 0,1335,
and in 1853 married thc Austrian Archduchess
MAIUE HENRIETTE ANNA. They have three chil?
dren.
Tho papers are exciting thc envy and jealousy
of every woman in Christendom by their frequent
enumeration of tho magnificent wedding presents
thc Duchess DE Monear is to receive. But these
must yiold, in point of attraction, to tho trousseau
of tho Princess ALEXANDRA, of Prussia, recently
married, in Berlin, to Dukb FREDERIC WILLIAM, of
Mecklenburg. Tho papers havo tho whole cata?
logue; nothing extenuated, nor ought-sot down
in other than plain vernacular. This trousseau
was exhibited to tho illustrious wedding guests,
according to an old German custom. It was dis?
played in a suito of four or fivo rooms in tho Royal
Palace-no doubt to tho groat delight of all tho
scrutinizing feminines present.
Apropos of this wodding. Quito a diplomatic
muss is threatened in consequence of a slight,
supposed to havo been intentional. Tho Court
Chamberlain, it appears, informed tho foreign
ambassadors, soveral days beforehand, that they
could not sit at tho royal ta^lo, which.was reserved
for thc immediato mombcrs of tho family and
their varions princely German cousins. So, di?
rectly after tho ce: c leny, thc French and English
Ambassadors, witt* Uieir wives and suite, left the
Palace in disgust, not ?.ven waiting to eat a slice
of the} bedding, skol. jGravo results . ar,e ..antici?
pated from thin momaitou8-a?^,'ami--{ljirj.Court
have tho wherewithal to chalk oiit wars, ahrioxa
tions, and what not all. It is considered particu?
larly unfortunate at this time, as tho Prussian
Primo Minister, thc Count of BISMARK, is very
desirous to gain thc good will of these two great
Western Courts, for his scheme of annexing tho
Danish Duchies. But I think tho whole affair is
mero court scandal and diplomatic gas.
Do any of your readers remember King Louis,
of Bavaria, and .li is dear friend LOLA? Tho pre?
sent sovereign of that German Brno tia is thc grand?
son of old'LUDWIG, and in many respects very Iflto
tjhis, his illustrious ancestor, rio has the same
rage for art,- and expensive building; and at this
time is being "managed"' by a cunning musical
composer, RICII.VI?.D WAGNER, who appears to exer
oiso tile samo influence on him that LOLA MONTEZ
did on his grandfather. The foolish young king
has already bestowed vast sums upon this favor?
ito, and is projecting thc most extravagant plans
for building theatres and opera housos,-ote., at
.the instigation of said WAGNER. Tho patient Ba?
varians will stand a good deal-but Mr. WAGNER
had better see that no tax bc laid on Lager Bier;
for if thc Schoppen is raised a farthing even, thero
will bo a rovolution in Munich, and this fiddler
will have to leave in a great hurry; perhaps not
havo time to go for his violin.
Before taking my leave of royal society, I will
add, and that with pleasure, that tho French Em?
press recently expressed her gratification at some
articles that had appeared in a Paris magazine,
deprecating thc reckless extravagance of tho pres?
ent stylo of femalo dress. Thc writer, ono of thc
loading Turin feirillitonists, happened to be at ono
of tho fetes at Compicguc, when tho Empress thus
complimonted him. It has boen the fashion so
long to quoto EUGENIE for everything outre fash?
ionable and extravagant in dross, that I am truly
glad "this point (Yappui is taken from our fair
friends. Her Majesty now Bets tho cxamplo of
greater simplicity, and wears less exponsivo pa?
rures.
Tho French arc not remarkable as a church-go?
ing people. But they arc great admirers of fine
oratory,-yielding scarcely to the old Athenians,
in their appreciation of pood speaking. Thc
thoatro, it is true, is their preference. But they
aro willing to go to the forum and even to church
to hear a good orator. MASSILLON, BOSSUET and
BOL'RDALOTJE, each in his day, enjoyed a fame,
seldom awarded to a preacher in any other
country. Tho Catholic church, you know, docs
not generally encourage her priests to a great cul?
tivation of this method of instruction. Preachers
being few, good preachers must necessarily be
scarcer still. .So when a first-rate pulpit orator
makes his appearance, thc whole country rings
with his praises. Everybody now talks about the
IV rc HYACINTHE, who is preaching every night in
Notro Dame, on "Independent Morality." I went
to hear him thc other night; incited thereto, I must
confess, chiefly by curiosity. Thc Father is cer?
tainly a fine preacher,-and his audiohco, com?
posed of every class of Parisian population, seem
to hang on his lips. I am not siifliciently familiar
with French to do justice to an impassioned pub?
lic speaker, such as this priest. But I generally
gather enough, to*catch the sense. There is but
little of what our orthodox friends at homo would
call evangelical, in these homilies. They arc more
akin to Natural Theology. In short, he principal?
ly discourses on the beauties of morality; just thc
thing that will titillate the fastidious French?
man's car. I caught myself frequently looking
about mc, at thc strange and splendid old decora?
tions of this venerable cathedral, scanning thc
frescoes and statues,-utterly oblivious of thc
Father, and his ll?rale Ind?pendante.
They have been down on the doctora hero ol
late. Several of the journals havo been discussing
the necessity of a chango in the law regarding lu
natics. Under present regulations any ono ca
If "ked up in one of theso Maisons de Sante, on
Certificate of a nhysiciau ; and no court of jus
jan go behind said certificate Tho papers
tend that tho. doctors have neither thc capa
nor thc integrity lo bc trusted with such pov
that/in fact, on a question of sanity, they k
no more than other people ; and then give scv
little stories, showing that even doctors are an
able to tho influenco of gold, and aro, there
(and often have been) corrupted and bec
the instruments of cruel oppression. Of cour
do not acquiesce in tili? opinion, though I ai
that physicians aro very much like other poop
neither infallible nor incorruptible. Ii} lingi;
a doctor is responsible for his opinion in a eas
this kind ; herc, it would appear, ho is not.
thc victim is proved afterward never to have I
insane, the doctor gets off by saying he loo
mad, and perhaps he may have been niistal
and there is an end of ii. Tho aggrieved pr
can have no redress. The Se?alo of Franco
been memorialized for a chance of thc entire
regarding Ibis subject.
Tho Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of thc (
lego of Franco has received an address from
medical students herc, protesting against thc
pulsion ol' six or their number from all future
tendance on the "Academy of Paris,': for hav
beenmembersof the famous Student's Congres:
Liege. I do not think I have spoken, iii air
my letters to you, of that ridicul mu freak of ol
grown boyhood. Liege is a city in Belgium, :
thither carno delegates from various colleges t
universities in France and Germany, about twe
three months ago. Hore these youths held a a
sion of several weeks-, discussing all thc gr
questions of philosophy, nioruls, theology and
ciety; and of course settled them all after tb
notion of what the world ought to be. A let
was read from Vieron Hcoo, quite in keeping w
tho crazy red republicanism of tlieso ultra Jibe
boys. All this "Was very linc, and tho young g<
tlemcn went home, quito elated with what ti
had done. But tho avenging deities wore af
them with a sharp stick. Proceedings were itu
tuted against them at their various schools, a
discipline carno down with a tight hand. Th
dominics evidently did not know of it when tl
wcro"out." Thoro is scarcely a day in whicl
do not read some paragraph in ono papor
another about tho unpleasant results these you
men brought upon themselves by thoir ideal <
cesses at Liege.
A very interesting papor has just been road 1
foro the Academy of Music on tho evil effects up
public hygiono, producod by macadams
roads. Ho says that tho great provalenco
typhoid, typhus, and other malignant fevers
towns and cities of lato, is duo to tho poisono
emanations of those roads, which, during tho rai
season, aro a.lways moist, while the dust, duri
the dry woathor, cansos ophthalmias, bronchit
they are costly and of doubtful utility.
I forget whether or not I mentioned tho que
present sent by His Holinoss to tho widow of Gc
LAMORICIERL. ' To consolo her, ho sent her tl
skeleton of St. CnmsToruEE. Skeletons at on
becamo tho rage Now all tho fine ladies he
want their skeletons. Tho Pope is reported to 1
very much embarrassed at tho number of the
applications-not that there is any scarcity
skeletons income, but they aro not all St. Cuni
ToniEKS. If I am not mistaken, this is thc patn
saint of widows and widowers. So each fanii
may now como to have a skeleton closet in a mo
literal sense than was dreamt of by TUACKERA
who was so fond of this phrase
Tho members of tho poor exiled Orleans fami
in London have been living for a number of yea
at Claremont. This castlo belonged to lui
LEOPOLD, by his lirst wife, but it now reverts
tho English Crown, and tho French exiles w
have to sock lodgings olsowhero.
Tho French Emperor must bo a bold man.
havo told you about tho Gardens of tho Luxei
bourg. Well, ho is obdurato, tho trocs aro to L
cut down, houses, gardens and fountains rasci
streets straightened, now housos built. Tho Tuil
rios will go next, so they say hero, hut moro i
sadnoss than by way of prophecy. The auspensk
of tho Hotel des Invalides is mooted; anothi
timo-honorod instiution. Tho Ministor of Finani
wants to retrench, savo money hero and mal
money there ; but what puzzles me. is to BI
how easily thc Emperor can lead all these tcrrib
street barricadera by tho nose Why, after all
have heard and road about tho revolutionai
element of tho Gar?ons de 1'aris, I am tempted I
believo it all bosh. They talk fiorcoly, and thc
sing threats and vongeanco, and then-they smol
thoir pipes. Ca ira.
Colonel MINNIE, tho inventor of tho rifle, rcce.ntl
submitted to tho Emperor, at Campiogne, som
improvement in his weapon. I hear His Majcst
is much pleased with it.
I am sorry to havo nothing moro interesting i
my letter to-day, but unless I had told you ai
about tho theatres and the charming creatures tin
exhibit there, I could not do otherwise than I hav
done
My next from Dublin. . In tho meantime, merr
Christmas. >ESCULA1TUS.
A Nashville paper says: "An agent was sein
1 South, some days since, to ascertain thc conditio!
of thc roads connecting with tho Nashville am
Chattanooga Railroad, and to gabi information re
lative to tho timo when the bridges on that road
injured by the lato high water-would be re
paired, so as to enable tho company to taki
freight coming from tho North. A rcpori
waa received fro"2 him yesterday, in which
ho states that the Western and Atlantic Road wi!
not be in a condition to receive through freight
before tho end of tho month, and perhaps not un?
til after that time The Nashville and Chattanoo?
ga Railroad has, at present, tivohuudredand four?
teen loaded froight cars at Chattanooga, and
it is but justice to say, that the president of tliat
road has made every exertion to have the block?
ade removed; but the Western and Atlantic Road
has not seen fit to adopt his suggestions. Presi?
dent BURNS has, therefore, been compelled to
turn this freight over to commission merchants,
at Chattanooga, until such time as tho Western
and Atlantic Road will receive it.
Thc Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser reports a
fight in that city between the police and over ono
hundred and lift j- negroes, in which the former
; got the worst of it, although tho latter were dis?
persed. Titree or four policemen were wounded,
i one dangerously, lt occurred by an officer's at
j tempting to arrest a negr i, when tho others ral
[ lied to-rescue him from the hands of thc law.
I About fifty freedmen are up in the courts.
Lake Fisheries-Their Risc and Progress
Tl ic Modus Operandi of Pucking, Etc.
Tho Detroit Free Press gives a very interesting
account of the history of this branch of commerce
in tho West :
Tho first experience in lake fish as an article of
commerce was first made by Mr. Barnabus Cam
pan, an enterprising merchant of thc olden days
of Detroit, who packed a few barrels and shipped
them to Buffalo, soon after tho opening ot tho
Erie Canal, which enabled thc pcoplo to procuro
salt at a much less expensa than previously. This
necessary article was before that timo mostly
brought hither by the St. Lawrence river and the
la^.j, and cost enormous prices. Mr. Canipau's
oaFrhnent proved unprofitable as a commercial
eni/rpriae, but ho continued to pack a cpiantity
y&tiy until his death, in 1845, and supplied
'tiik homo market with this excellent edible,
tim consumption of which was confined to
DtStruit ami vicinity. His fishing- grounds
were thoo" .> t Bollo lele, then known as Hog Island,
or I-?io au Cochon,-'ns tho French named it.
Ther* are now owned and carried on by Mr.
Alexander M. Capman, and are very proiitalo,
tliv "catch" this season amountiug to thirty
thousand dollars. Thi' is, howover, an extraordi
I nary yield, resulting from a lucky change in tho
wiiid^ which blew from thc eastward quito strong?
ly f ir several days, just as thc fish were migrating
j?xthe river, and drovo them back from Luke St.
Clair into the nests at Bello Isle. Tho early explor?
ers of this region of country make mention ot' tho
trout and white fish, thc luxuriousness of which as
an article of sustenacco they themselves proved,
and noted as well that they were much used as
food hy the aboriginal inhabitants of the forest.
Thu French settlers supplied themselves with them
in nbundance from the first .settlement of civiliza?
tion on the shores of the lake .region. They wore
lound a so of very great and substantial benefit lo
our soldiers in tho war of 18111, in tho absence of
other supplies. Tho Indians always supplied theta
tp the inhabitants during tho early nays of De?
troit, taking them with spears, and exchanging
them for rum and whisky-the "firewater" that
bas ever been thc desir.i and tho bane of the red
Sum, as it is alike the solace and destroyor of his
white brother.
Sn about tho year 1S30, when rapid emigration
to Michigan commenced, and increased to such an
extent in thc next few years, the fisheries of the
lakes were called upon for a large proportion of
the necessary sustenance not only for thc new
coiners,t but "for the old inhabitants. For, as is
well known, Detroit was for a long timo only a
trading post, dealing in furs and peltries, being,
as M. La Motto Cadillas said, a sort of door
through which to go into and como out of the vast
and rich regions beyond. Tho people having
given hut very little attention to agriculture up to
I this timo, depended mostly, like all primitivo
I races and tribes, upon limiting and fishing, and
tho consequent trade and traffic resulting there?
from.
^ ' Wnt.BE TIIE FISH ABE SENT.
Tho great demand for tish at tho times noted
aausod several other fishing grounds to bo opened,
and tho business rapidly increased. Grounds
were opened in the Su Clair river, along U^shorc
'of Lake Huron, and several houses in tbfln be
?luuo extensively ongaged in thc t^tdcj^^Hniig
alargo number of men and se Yeral. vedJ^^H^u
?ively in tho business. In thc year I^^HOTC
were packed some 135,OHO barrels of tish (W^lKni?
f ere nt kinds, which amount increased to nearly
100,000 barrels within the next ten ar fifteen yoars.
Most of tho quantity taken is brought to Detroit,
whence the homo consumption is supplied, and
; large quantities shipped to Ohio. Indiana, Illinois
una omer parts of the country, thc demand ai the
Sooth having incroased,largcly,- and formed a con
lAldf ralde commerce af the .beginning of tho Ute
?War: TKo Mi of?nf l?ki#*go also to" New- York
and Boston, where they aro prized, as thoy ought
to bc, and even at Salem and Marblohcad they go
to'competo with thc fisheries of thc ocean, beard?
ing tho denizens of thc great deep in their vory
dons. '
rr.ErABixo ron JIABKET.
It is interesting to note thc processes by which
thc finny tribes aro seized and prepared for mar?
ket; the trades and occupations that aro brought
into requisition through all the branches of the
business from the time they leave unwillingly
their native clement and aro headed dawn, well
seasoned with Saginaw salt, in barrels made of
.Michigan pine, made by Miehigau artisans, and
our own merchants consign them to their various
destinations. Tho nets, pound or drag, ?uni gill
nets, aro often manufactured by thc fishermen
themselves during the winter or carly in the sum?
mer, and made ready for the catching season
when the harvest is gathered in, the take drawn
to land, and the skilled slight of hand and sharp
knives of '.he crew decapitate Hie piscatory game,
rip open their bodies, cutting through from thc
back, remove the internal viscera, all of which fa
done seemingly by* a single operation, and the tish,
with its rich, plump and juicy proportions i.
throwri upon tho pile. In thc meantime, thr
nearest availablo timber for the purpose is levied
upon, and thc woods resound With tho blows ol
tho axo and the cooper's hammer, in tho prepara?
tion of tho barrels or half barrels in which the tis!
are to bc pickled, as most of them arc until they
are brought to the packing houses, whore they
arc opened, inspected, weighed and salted down",
generally in half barrels, of one hundred pounds
each, filled witli brine of tho proper strength,
branded and made ready for market..
This branch of tho business is now going on at
several warehouses, along thc docks in this city;
tho men with their fingers wrapped up to protect
them from the cold brine and salt, by mittens ci
canvas or woolen rags bound around them. Thc
original packages arc opened by a professiona
cooper; the inspector or his assistant examinef
the quality of the fish as they are thrown with t
huge fork into the seale pan, until thc tick of th(
beam shows the proper weight, when thoy an
thrown upon the table of tho packer, whf
sprinkles them plentifully with salt, and placin*
them ono by one in tho barrel, pounds them dowr
with a huge wooden maul, till they nt" all in, am'
room left sufficient for inserting the head, whicl
tho cooper fits quickly, driving thc hoops anew
and supplying those that are damagod or broker
with new ones. Now and then thc inspector dis
covers a fish too poor or too small to pass muster
or perhaps an interloper is found-a white fish
muscalung or siskowit in thc trout barrel, or viet
versa, all of which irregularities aro thrown out
and properly disposed of. The water of "the Be
mot ' is pumped up into huge tubs, and tho brine
niado of the requisite strength, which is tasted bi
a salomoter ol tho most primitive kind, one o
which we saw at an establishment on thu docl
yesterday, being nothing moro or loss than a lingi
potatoo, which floated more lightly upon tin
buoyancy of the brine, according as the destin;
of thc fluid was increased, by the shoveling in o"
Port Austin, Bay City, or Saginaw salt.
The season for packing is nearly at its dose
there being, perhaps, not many more to arrive
and the season of navigation nearly closed.
The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel of the IOU
inst, remarks : The position taken by Gen. Tilson
the head ol'the Freedmen's Bureau hi this State,
"if negroes will not make contracts wo will maki
contracts for them," and what is better, conipe
them to work, has had a good effect. Those
freedmen inclined to bc idle, finding out that thc
have got to work any way, arc looking around foi
something to du. "Wo hopo after thc time Genera
Tilson has named for them to find places of em?
ployment baa expired, that ho will enforce hie
order atrictly. It will have a vcrv beneficial cffecl
upou tho class it ia intended for." He will bc sus?
tained in such a courso by every right thinking
man. ?
We arc informed that the plantera gcnerallv feel
much more sanguine of being able to produce fair
cropa than they did a few weeka ago, and we do
most ardently hope they mav not be disappointed.
Midsummer and carly fall will bring the teat, and
it is going to require patience, forbearance, and
sound discretion and timely and jadiciooa en?
couragement to weather the summer solstice,
when work drives and the sun burns. We think
the result will be mixed. Probably a good nntnv
will fail partially, and some altogether-so much
wdl depend on good management. If the plant?
ers can raise half a crop they will produce in
Georgia a value this year somewhere bctweeu fifty
and a hundred millions of dollars currency, which
will go far "to build up tho waste placea" and
make a fast bu-inosa.
"-^ Palgrave'? Arabia.
A young officer in Uie British Army, a first-class
prize mau, fresh from ono of tho English Univer?
sities, where he was equally distinguished for
success in athletic exercises and in college studies,
has plunged right into the hear'Aoi Arabia, and
?ahod out a new country, with % population of
near a million and a quarter of inhabitants
1,219,000, as ho rockons. That is to say, he
has proved that a region, twclvo hundred
miles long, and eight ? or nino hundred broad,
which alf tho world had for ages agrcod to
consider a hopeless sandy desert, inhabited
by wandering Bedouins, contains an inside
country as largo almost as Prance, inhabited
by a settled population of ono of tho finest f acea
of men to bo met with. Tho Bedouins ho looks
upon with contempt, as thievish, cowardly and un?
civilized, and by no means representing the true
and pure Arab race, or else they have grf atly de?
generated and picked up scmo low habits in their
wanderings. Certain it is, that Mohamcdanism
has not lost all that sort of powor with which it
once inspired tho people who held it in Arabia, as
well as elsewhere, and theso moro Bottled races in
the fertile lands of the interior seem never to have
been altogether reached and subdued cither by
Christianity or Mohuinedanism ; so that manv of
them still continue to worship tho Sun, as did their
ancestors, probably from long before tho timo of
Abraham.
Two things havo contributed to iaolato thom
from the rest of tho won l-they havo not a singlo
river that runs anywhere to tho sea; their sircaras
all sink into tho sand. Heneo navigation, that
great source, not only of wealth, but of inter?
course, has boon cut from between them and thc
outside world. In tho next place, they aro sur?
rounded, absolutely and on cvery ?ide, by a sandy
desert of tho most formidable charactor. Nojed
Kassem and D'obcl Simmer form ono of thc moat
delightful regions of Asia, and also ono of tho
most fertile. They aro olevated plateaus. Thc
climate is cool and invigorating. Tho streams
enable them to irrigate tho fields. B.it above tho
fertile cultivated regions riso up precipitous chalk
cliffs, fivo or six hundred feot, and then como ta
blo landa covered with grass, where multitudes of
tho very finost hoares aro raised. Then other
rocks of limestone, and then othor table tanda,
and uo again until at last granito ridges crop I
through. Tho higher you go, the less fertilo tho |
land, and tho lesa water, especially in autumn.
lu fact, Mr. Palgravo admires tho .settled popu?
lation very much moro highly than the Bedouin
in every respect. His horses are as much superi?
or to ail other Arabian horses as Uiey aro to thc
common herd. Upon tho camel, tno Bcdouin'u
aor.vant, ho looks with about aa much contempt as
upon tho Bodouin himself. Ho ia stupid, revenge?
ful, incapablo of being attached by kindnoaa, and
only useful becauao ho poascsaes so little know?
ledge.
How ONE PLANTER FILLS HIS PLANTATION.
Momphis paper has tho following:
One of our planting frionda, who was a very large
slaveholder boforo tho war, has developed to us a
plan of operations for tho ensuing year, which
.ooma a "atep in tho right direction." It is the
plan which he has himself adoptad, and ho is san?
guino that it will work successfully and advantage?
ously to both himaolf and his employees. Hie
plan is to contract with auy number ol hands, to
tho extent of tho requirements of his vory large
plantation, assigning to each ono tho number of
acres ho may wish to cultivate-say fifteen, ten, or
a less number of acres, to bo laid off and desig?
nated. Tho omployer furnishes all tho necessary
animals and implements at a fixed valuation, and
supplies all necessary clothing and provisions at
the cost price-a fair account being kept of such
of.either as may be drawn during the yoar.
:Mtr>?tipnlates further, -that if any laborera should
uegicel his cror^j as_t*> endanger it, ho retains
tho right to summon a jtiry'rir'vicw, selected from
his fellow-laborers, who may, if they lind his crop
going to waato from slothfulness, declare his claim
to it forfeited, and tho employer may then re-as?
sign the plat of ground, with "ita growing crop, to
any industrious laborer who will cultivate it and
Have it. At tho end of tho year tho crop pro?
duced ia divided oqually between tho employer
and tho employee-thc "latter paying out of the
proceeds of his share tho account "which ho may
havo created for his food and clotliiii*. He may
also, if ho wishes, tako to his own account tho
mule, plow, and other implements with which ho
worked during the year, at tho valuation price
agreed upon, to bc deducted from histiharc of tho
eiqj, or return them to the proprietor.* Tho em?
ployer takes upon himself tho selling and realiz?
ing tho value of thc crop, and a division of thc
proceeds, Wiihont other' charge to tho laborers
than their proportionate charge of thc costa of
shipments and tho usual ^hargu. ??
LACK OF THRIFT.'-At the close of the war, a
Wealthy citizen of Amherst, accepting tho results
of our "defeat in good faith, entered into an en?
gagement with the negroes on his plantation, by
which he hoped to retain them in his employ and
raise a crop. They were to work tho farm on
shares, the proprietor furnishing money for all
necessary expenses till tho crops wcro gathered,
when it "was to bo refunded from tho common
stock. Notwithstanding this favorable arrange?
ment, the I'recjuent warnings and urgings of the
farmer, the efforts of the soldiers sent to
seo that they did their duty, and every?
thing elso that could bc brought to
bear upon them, when tho producta of, thc
farm wero valued, it waa found that there was not
enough to pay tho cxponscs incurred iii their pro?
duction. Astonished that indolence had not
brought forth from tho earth as great a yield as
industry had previously drawn from her fertilo
bosom, they came over in a body, and laid their
complaint before tho agent of the Freedmen's
Bureau. Captain Lacy, after investigating the
case, dismissed them with the intormatir . that
they had foolishly wasted their opportunity to
turn their labor to good account, and liad eaten up,
in idleness, moro than they had mado in the few
hours work which they could bo induced to per?
form. Tho decision waa necessary and just, be?
cause it waa true; but tho facts of thc case are
significant of tho difficulties in tho way of re-es?
tablishing the labor of this country.
Lynchburg Virginian.
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CoNornoN OF AFFAIRS IN 6?AI^.-The Madrid
correspondent of the London Times reports thai
the condition of affairs in Spain is daily becoming
more alarming, and that the pcoplo there are liv?
ing in a state of chronic terror. Tho health of thc
Queen is represented as being seriously impaired,
and suspicions were afloat that abo was being
slowly tiikeu ' off by poison. Thc treatment pur?
sued in her case by tho court physicians is de?
nounced as so prodigiously absurd as to bc
hardly explained on the score of ignorance or in?
fatuation, and it was veiy positively asserted that
she had become so reduced as to render it ex?
tremely doubtful whether she will go 6-ifcly over
her forthcoming delivery. It is further declared
that not only is thc Queen, extremely unpopular,
but that this unpopularity has extended of late
years to every member of her family, so that sho
could not be set asido without imperilling thc rights
of tho Bourbon dynasty. A day later th? same
correspondent writes that extraordinary precau?
tions had been ordered to be observed at tho bar?
racks ; that changes fn the garrison were going
on, and that regiments were being brought hi
from tho provinces, whilst those that were previ?
ously in Madrid were being sent away. Thc story
eounds somewhat sensational.
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Also eurea SALT RHEUM, ULCERS, CHILBLAINS, and
all ERUPTIONS Ol' TUE SKIN. Price 50 ceuts. For
sale by all Druggists. Hy sending CO cents to WEEKS
fe POTTKB, Solo Agenta, No. 170 AVashington-street,
Boston, Mass., it will bo forwarded by mall, free of post
ago, to any part of the United States.
November 8 Gmo
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tacles, to strengthen, and improve tho sight of old and
young, by ?ay or night, with rano and comfort to the
eye, without tho distressing results of frequent changes
Thesu celebrated glasses ara too well known throughout
tho South to speak of their superiority over aU o licrs.
Don?le and singlo Telescopes of immense power and
flold. Catalogues sent free, hy inclosing stamp.
SEMMONS, OCULIST-OPTICIAN,
C69K Broadway, under Lstirgo House, N. V.
November ll 2,310
jfi ft waumu.
In Georgetown, S. C., on 21st December, by th?
BOT. Mr. Munni, Miss MARY E. DAVIS, of Charleeico.
8. C., to Mr. 8IM H. RUSSELL, Of Augusta, Ga.
Augusta papers please copy.
OS- The Relatives, Friends and Acq Hal rit?
an ce s of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. BAGOETT, and Mr. and liai- '
Z. B. OAKES and family, are respectfully invited io at?
tend the Funeral Services of Mrs. J. H. BAGGTHT, at
tho Residence No. ll Butledge-street, Thu Haming, ot
Eleven o'clock._-? January 12
?S- The Friends and Relatives of Slr. and
Mrs. D. H. Srxcox, Major s". B. Russru?vtnd Mr. -,
and Mn. JA3. SILCOX, arc invited to attend, the Fune- j*,
rzl Services of tho latter, at residence No, 28 Franklin- -2
Mtreet, at Ten o'clock, J'Ai? Morning. . , ; . . ;
January 13 ' . lfi '? ., ;
---?- ? ? 1 ' "d
JtS- '"he Friends and Acqaaintaneen OT
Mr. and MrJ. WM. W. DROWN" are respectful])- .ia vi ted
to atteadthe Funeral Services of the former, ai Tbxco
o'clock, Tki)_ J/uracoU) from Amcrlca-etrcet, .acAx tho
Mall. ~'l*' january 12
OS- The Relatives, Friends and Acquaint?
ances o? LYDIA MORRISON (colored) aro mvttea to at?
tend her funeral, at No. 44 George-streot, west end, at
Thrco o'clock, P. M. 1? Jan nary IQ
SPECIAL NOTICES.
esr NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.-THE BRIG
AMBROSE LIGHT, from Baltimore, is This. Day dis?
charging on North Atlantic Wharf. AU goods remain?
ing uncalled for at sunset will bc stored at risk and ex?
pense of tho owner. WILLIS 4 CHISOLM.
January 12 1
esr CONSIGNEES* N O T I C E.-THE MEB
0HANT8' Regular Lino Schooner N. W. SMITH ' -ill
commence discnarging cargo at Adger's Wharves Tlx ic
Day. 'AU goods not called for at sunset wiU be stared at
their risk and expense. WILLIAM ROACH,
Corner of East Bay and Adger's Wharf.
January 12 1
esr NOTICE -APPLICATION WILL BE
modo to City CouncU of Charleston, after three months,
for tho ronowal of tho following amounts, standing is
tho naroo of S. N. HAUT, $7950; ISABEL HABT; $3910;
Hr.KRiETTA HABT, $*20G.89; C. E. HABT, $6001.03; H. N.
HABT, $n33.33; S. N. HABT, in trust and administrator,
$5060.87; JANE LEVY, $600-tho original Certificates of
' the forogoing amounts having been burnt in Columbia, -
IS. C.
January 12 lamo3?_S AML. HABT, Benr. .
esr THE BC ABD <*F COMMISSIONEBS OP
MAIN ROADS of St. Philip and St. Michael will elect,
on the 23d of this month, a SECRETABT AND
? TREASURER, and a SUPERINTENDENT. Letters of
application must be handed in to the Chairman, Dr.
RICHARD L. NOBTH, on or before the 22d instant
Januarys 4m5
esr THE FLBST NATIONAL BANK OP
CHARLESTON.-CHARLESTON, 10th January, 1866.
The stockholders of this Institution are hereby notified
that an instalment of TEN DOLLARS PER SHARE is .
required to be paid at their Banking-house, by ??ha 15th
ln3t- ^? WM. C. BRzlEsE, Cr Thier.
Jimnary'^P^ ^ ' 4' *
?-NOTICE TO COTTON AND NATAL; :
STORES SHIPPERS.-The uriaershjuod is prepared ta .
ranko faU CASH ADVANCES on -ahip.iionte cf Produce .
to first-class Houses in Now York and Liverpool.
WILLIAM H. WESSON,
At THADDEUS STBEBT'S, NO. 74 East Hay, and at W. C.
BEE & Co's., corner ot East Bay and Vanderhorst'a
Wharf. December 28
esr OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES DI?
RECT Tax Commissioners, No. 20 Broad-street (rear of
Law Range). Taxes received between the honra of 10
o'clock, A. M., and 3 o'clock, P. M. November 14
,esr NOTICE TO LOTHOLDERS.-IN. CONS?
QDENCE of the depredatir-s being committed on the
Grounds, no ono will bo aUowcd to attend to any lot ex?
cept thoso employod by the Company.
J. J. 8TROUB,
December 1 Secretary.
JOS- THE WEEKLY BECOBD CAN BE PUB
CHASED at H. P. RUGG'S, Market-street, and M. M.
QUINN'S, King-street, at which places newsboys can bo
supplied.
e?- o papers will bo sold from the Office in Hayne
stroot. ". . December 16
J9S-NOTICE TO THE CITIZENS OF C fl ABLES
TON.-Dr. WM. L. FOSS offers his PROFESSIONAL
SERVICES to the citizens of Charleston, and calla their
attention to hiu tr?atm?R of Chronic Diseases generally,
especially Chronic Cutaneous Diseases, delicate affec?
tions and Carbuncle-as his treatment in those diseases
is far superior and entirely different to tho old mode of
practice, and based on a successful experience of mora
than twelve years' standing. No mercury, arsenic?
iodine, caustic nor acids used, and no particular restric?
tions requisite as to diet.
I have been practising medicine in Barnwell District tor
sixteen years, andam well acquainted with the effects and
treatment of that protean and morbific agent, miaam
also typhoid fever, convulsions, chorea, and other dis?
eases to which the human system ls liable; and have
cured inveterate cases of cutaneous diseases in a lew
weeks that had existed for years and baffled aU previous
treatment
Office and reoidonce, No. ?S3 KING -STREET.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
December 6 mwf 17* WM. L. FOSS, M. D.
jft-T OFFICE CLERK QF COUNCIL, JANUARY
C, 1856.-Ill accordance willi tile Instructions received
at thu last meeting of City Coiiilcii, Hid Mawing Beso
lutlon is published for general information:
Jtisoleed, That pubUc notice bo given that if any per?
son intends to erect a building in the burne districts, he
shaU first apply to CouncU and ascertain whether or not
tho city intends widening said street.
January 0 W. H. SMITH, Clerk of CouncU,
AST PUBLIC NOTICE.-OFFICE CLERK OP
COUNCIL, JANUARY 10,18G6.-Thc foUofting ordinance
is hereby pYolished for general information :
STATE Or SOOTH C ABOLIRA.-C ITT OF CHABLESTOK.
An Ordinance, to Regulate the-Lintels of Buiutinys in the
City of Charleston.
Whereas there is great danger, in eases of Aro, from
woollen lintels extending across the fronts of buildings:
Therefore,
lie it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen in City
Council assembled, That hereafter it sliaU not be lawful
foi auy person to build, *rect, or put up, auy Untel ex?
tending across the front of any house, store or building
wiwin the limits of the City of Charleston, of wood or
other combustible material; but any such Untel so reach?
ing or extending across th ! front of auy such house,
store or building, shall be of stoue, m-.tal or other in?
combustible mai erial; and any person offouding herein,
shall, upon conviction, pay a line of five hundred dollars
for each offence, and in addition thereto a fine of twenty'
dollars for each and every day that such lintel shaU rc
main, after notice to tako thc same down from the Mayor
or some olficor of the poUce.
W. H. SMITH, .
January ll 10 Clerk of Council.
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