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TH E'JOUKNAL. 1 Camden, May 27,1809 ( PUBLIC LECTURES. 1 1 Wc arc very much gratified at learn- ^ ing that the intelligent and acconipiish- cd teacher and scholar, Col William Pinkney Starke commences in Cam- , den, this evening, his series of lectures, ! on Egypt, Palestine, &c , which have been so highly appreciated wherever ] they have been heard. ( Col. Starke is a ripe scholar, an observing traveller and most fluent , speaker and our citizens should not | lose so favoiable an opportunity to have depicted in living terms, scenes from ( the great dead past. , THE CROPS"- I The prospect is very discouraging 1 for the cotton planters of oar District. ! The cropjhas never been known to be ' as backward, and but few have more than half a stand. Un some plantations part of the co.ton has been ploughed up ' and the land planted in corn. The corn * crop is backward, and has been serious- ' ]y affected by the bug and worm.? Wheat is rather better than last year. . TIliriaKCTION. < The election on Tuesday for County i Commissioner and Coroner resulted in 1 favor of Mes-rs. James F. Sutherland ] and John S. Mcroncy, the candidates of ' the colored people. There being no regular opposition, but little interest f was manifested, and only about nine ; hundred votes were cast, of which near J seven hundred were polled in Camden j The Next Cotton Crop.?We extract as follows from a long communication in the Montgomery Mail, signed ( "Planter," in reference to the cotton | eropof the current year: The cotton crop of 1869 will be one- , third less than that of 1868. This may be startling, but it is never'hcless true. ' T 1 ?.? llm rnluinc fni" f>n t ' Pf III n. 1 JjUl U3 IUUR Ub tuv i iuvu.1 .v. . - - iog this belief. ! 1. The season has been most unfa- i vorable. The wet spring has retarded | the ploughing and preparation of ihe land, and in some in-tances prevented it altogether until lately. The same ' cause has prevented the same number ] of acres being planted as in 1808. The j heavy ploughing caused by continuous rains has greatly fatigued and worried the stock. The iu.perfect ploughing, given much of time, has a tendency to ' dwarf the cotton pi mt and make the crop grassy. # # I 2. The labor is much less in numbers j and effectiveness than last year. Experience teaches that every year takes ' from the number and efficiency of the 1 hands. The women have almost entirely left the fields. Many hands who [ saved money from last year's crop, arc this year spending it in the enjoyment of case. Of the others who saved money, some have gone "to farming to themselves." Now, these negroes, while valuable as members of society in their j sphere, do not produce as much cotton as when they worked with the larirc plant- ] er. They produce more corn, more peas, more potatoes, and less cotion than ' formerly. It is true they make as much and as good a support, as those who ( plant more cotton ; but they make less cotton. We may safely assume that fur every hand who "goes to himself," that e i nis proauciioil OI COllou ia Itssuinu um. half. Take the number of those who are "playing gentlemen," and we find quite a deduction from the force of 1Su8. Again, the natural decrease made by death, must be considered. The young men aud youths, who suddenly became masters, died away in large numbers from imprudence and want soon after the surrender. For instance, those at camp, just across the river; and ngai'i, we all know how fatal the small pox was to the negro, in the year 18G6. Disease and want have taken away the generation which should till the places of the old and those who die. The increase does not keep pace with the decrease. 3. The seed are very bad this year Some singular fatality seems tc have attended the efforts of all who tried to save seed. Few planters have enough seed, some have onl^half enough. The delay and trouble getting seed has put back planting in some instances at least two weeks. The same cause, the rottenness of seed, will cause bad "stands," ? -...I l..t? An.na Thn rrnrms re-pia!iuu? uuu miu V?v|/W. A will get a lair showing. General Ellison Capers; chairman of the board, has made a report of the operations of the Greenville Pcabody Schools for the past 12 months. The donation of Mr. Peabody was ?>1000, and the individual subscriptions of citizen were 52300. With these funds three schools have been conducted : A primary school for beginners, an academic school for males, and an academic school for females, of which the expense was $2704. In these schools 2000 children have been taught, at an average cost of $4 05 per quarter for each scolar; and the board Ls persuaded that one third, at least, enjoyed educational advantages under this system which they could uot otherwise Imvc embraced at all. EXTRAORDINARY SUCCESS OF A SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE. We are pleased to sec Mr. J. R. Ste3er, General Canvassing Agent of that popular young company, The I'icd nont Life Insurance Company of Vir ;inia," is meeting with, merited success. We are informed by him that this comnanv was formed nineteen month* since r j svith i nc 0100,000 capital, and in that short time lias issued over 3,300 policies ?is now issuing over 500 j olicies per month?has accumulated over 8500,)00 assets, and has already declared 40 per cent dividend to its policy holders, i success beyond all precedent in the aistory of Life Insurance. Th?a company has also decided to establish a branch office in this State, tvith President and Directors selected from our own citizens, and investing: ill premiums received in this State, giving us the advantage of a successful home institution already established. Parties desiring to insure s'lould see Mr. Steger or Capt Wm. Clyrurn, ocal agent at this place, and examine :he peculiar merits of this company be Tore insuring. Peters' Musical Monthly forMaj s at hand, and well sustains the proud :it!e it bears?"The Prince of Musical Monthlies," for if there is any me periodical adapted to suit t he wants ?f ali Lovers of Music, professional or aulacur, it is certainly this Magazine. The May number comes to us overlowing with Choice New Music. There ire four New Songs, by Hays, Thomas, Danks, and Eaton ; three Piano Pieces; ind we notice a new feature in the shape jf six pages of Quartet Music, which vill prove a valuable addition ; also, a Jozen or more pages Biographical Sketchis and Reviews of New Music, that will be of interest to all Musicians, lieing largely engaged in the publication o: Sheet Music, Mr. Peters has always a fresh stock from which to uiakc his sccctions, and seems nothing loth to draw IVotit his resources to any required ex:ent to make the Monthly what it should oc. Besides the Musical Sketches and Reviews of New Music, each number contains no less than thirty lull-siztd pag s of New Music by ilie be.-1 wiiicis io the country. When Music is furnished so cheap, what Musician can afford to be without iUeh a publication? 84 woitli of good Music cannot be pici.cd up every day for 30 cents, and we f> el justified in s >ying that a sub.-c iption at S3 will give is much Music (and good Music too,) is you can buy for 8 0 This valuable M igizine is published oy J. L. Peters, 198 Broadway, Mew Sfork, (P. 0. Box 5429.) Removal of Soldi Kits' Remains. ?We learn from the Znicsvtlie (Ohio) Signul that an accui ot'Gcueial Bing natii, the chief <|Ua' tcrmaster of the department of lakes, is now in Columbus, ittending io the bodies of soldiers, botli Union and Confederate, lo the principal national cemetaries. The Con ltd.rate dead in ihc city, nineiy-tluvc in uuinbcr, and in the burying-grond at Lamp Dennison, thirty-one in number, wili be removed to the Confederate cemetery at Camp Chase. This will make i he number ol Confederate dead at Camp Chase something over 2 UOU, and will cot cent rate all the Cuolcdcmtc dead buried in (J"i> into the two cemeteries?(Jump Chase aud Govenor's Island. General L 'C ia regarded, s ?js a correspondent, us the exact exponent of the true idea of Suuiliern independence in the midst ot poverty an I defeat. He is coldly respect:ul and frigidly pn!ite to all conuccted with the Government, or who are united with the great political party i f moral ideas, and only opens the warm side of his heart to mourners aud friends of the deiunct Confederacy. He uc:s as though the famous motto of General Taylor were now the rule of Ids life, 'vl ask no favors, aud I shrink from no responsibility-" Speaking of the business before the Circuit Court in Abbeville, i,ho I'rtss says: "The new bills found by the Grand Jury involved no case-of very aggravated character. No bills were given out :._? il.i.cn oiiieons <if our D si rice niuov vitiHVM ? _ against whom charges ha-1 been prel'crred of complicity in the killing of Randolph. The Attorney-General Chamberlain, it is said, was expected up to attend to these eases, but dii not cuiue, and we have our doubts whether he ever will come. The Grand Jury'ignore 1' i he bill charging Dr. M. C. Taggart, A. B. Kennedy and John Brooks with t c killing of a uegro at White Hall, at the election lust tall." The Ptunttr* Ba nmr says the planters of Louisiana wid make as much again rice in 18G9 as they made last year, 'ihe crop last )ear was 321,011, 344 sacks. A suck Coulaius 100 pounds w?am?a?a?amB?oamaaam?m?Bia?B?*?*?*** I.MPulll ANT ' 'oilKt?l'ONDKNCK?1 he Memphis Christum At/ooculc contains copies of communications between tlic Bishops of the &1. K. Church North and the Bishops of the 10. Church, South, 'l i is took place last week dorii g the annual meeting of the Southern Bishops in St. Louis. The correspondence looks to a reunion of the two churches. The Northern Bishops opened the w y, and the Southern implied. The Southern Bishops reciprocate, in kind feeling, the proposals of their Northern brerhren, but disclaim having any iiuthoiiry to act in the case. They hold that mutual recognition and fraternal relations must precede steps to reJ union. Why could not these brethren have shown towards each other ticrciulore the same cautious and Cliristian spirit in their speeches sud writiup-? Wc are ylad to sec these si^ns of love and healing. Wc hope they will be continued until all may sec eye to eye. Yet wc doubt the expediency of a formal re-unioD.?Chrimian NtijhbotvThe D lily Phoenix, published at Columbia S. 0., usi-s Confederate bonds for wrappers.?Exdmngr. That's nothing. A few more years of' Radical rule, under the operations of the Schonck hill, and wo shall be able to send the Enquirer to subscribers, neatly enveloped in United S'atcs bonds, of denominations m-t less than 81,000 The chief traffic in "Government securities" will be in the hands of the ragdealers before A. D. 1875. Murk it, Ho ratio.? fin ciiiunti?jnqm rer. Potato speculators iti sonm sections of tin; country have been badly bitten, and arc unloading their st"i-ks at a sad sacrifice. A Michigan pap r nays that farmers in portions of that Stale are obliged to sell potatoes at fifteen cents per buMies, for which they refused $1 5b last fall, and they havca very large stock on baud. From the Charleston Courier. A THUNDKK SQUALL. A thunder storm, quite as sudden as severe, bnr?t over i ur city on Saturday afternoon last, inflicting considerable damage, though lasting lens than twenty minutes. During that space of time the wind blew its hardest, tearing its way along our house tops, rending and riving its it went, and making itsell terribly felt in our harbor. The metalic roofing of the new Custom House was in great part roll- d up like a scroll and torn away, and the occasional fragments of slate strewn nloifg the pavements indicate very rude usage to sun. dry private establishments. In sonu parts of the city the storm of rain, which was very heavy for the time it, lasted was accompanied hy hail. The residence at the N'orthca?f cor tier of Wentworih and Smith-street; Had some of the fencing laid prostrate by the fall of a tree; the Alston House at the West end of Tradd street had a portion of the fencing blown down, ami the broken limbs of trees could be scei in many sections of the town. I3nt tlic most unfortunate occurrence took place in the river where the witul had unrestricted sweep, and not will) standing the threatening appearance ol the weather for an lu-nr previous, se vera 1 boats wore caught unprepared lot dancer tint] in one case leading to at unfortunate tragedy. A Mr. Douglass and family, composer of his wife and three children, tngethet with two clorcd boat hands, left fhi wharf a short time before the squall it a very substantial ami deckel boat bound to Hull's Island, where Mr. D had been engaged to act as assistan keeper to the light house. This boa was struck by the b'nw below the city not far from Castle Pinekney, and beini unprepared for so heavy a blast, slit soon fell on Iter broad side, and fillet with water; one of the colored men for tnnately succeeded in celling into i small boat, which was towing astern and resetted Mr. Douglass and one o the children, a girl, the other coloret hand also keeping himself afloat unti taken up) but Mrs Doughs:# and he two sons-, who were below deck whet the accident took place, were not sect alter dil'igent search was made in tin vicinity bv small boats, and no trace o - >*i e. i |?_f ; llicm IIIKl UVI'M HillIIu ir|r K. ..... ... formation. This bout, in lie.r sutiIrei condition, was t..kon in tow by tlicpil. boat Willi (.'nt, ('jiptaii' .Jones and ta kfii to shallow water, where she was an chon d on Saturday aficruotm off tin Battery. A water boat was also cap sized off South Bay, but was afterward got into a place of safety at t'liisolm' Mill. Reports of accidents to otlie boats were Ireely circulated, but \vi could ascertain no serious disasterSeveral fishing boats in the harbor wcr overtaken by the s<|U.dl and caps:zed but the occupants were rescued by otlie small boats. The showering of the rain, the roar ing and hissing noi?c of the wind howl cd around the house tops, slainmci shutters, wrenched sign and sign-post from their fastenings, and both wim and riin with great vehemence iuine ding the horses and annoying tin- dri vers of the strei t cars. Near the intersection of Wcniwortl and Smiih-STrocts the lino of travel o the Street Railway was obstructed b the fall of a huge and venerable will . mange tree, whie.li stood on the premi n.iT n.-piiniod bv Captain F. I.m ni'.-iu. This iri'o was found to 3ii>M t ' the pressure of wind and laid its pro? trate form in sight of those whose di light it has often bccu to view its ma jC'UC branches and rc c ve pro'eeiioti I I.IV oin its outs n tched 1111. L?s ? During yesterday many rumors were i afloat of disaster* to yaehliug parties, t | but without foundation, as all the pel its i j have been heard from, and up to ;lie j h ur of'writiuo this no further disasters 1 had been reported. Vessels "nrrivins: I from sea jrc Morally experienced an ordi t nary tliumler -quail and the violence of I the wind prob bly moderated after pa-S; t tug out ol tne n irour. Tins Year's Southern Crops.? ' The North is calculating upon ado- I crease of corn and an increase in cotton < grnvn in the South. This is exactly ] as their demands and their interest prompts. Hence the Calculation?wdth I u decrease in the corn crop, thu South would Income the purchaser of the sur plus crops ot the West and be content. I With an increase in the cot ion crop, i Eastern ra iiiufacturers would be able to reduce its market price, and peihajis control the market. The South, without greenbacks to buy Western c- rn, . will be dependent upon the New \oik market for cuircncy, to realize on their cotton, wherewith to make tho'purcha.ses of Western produce, and New York would control the exchanges and thrive, and (he West be content with a new market to sustain drooping prices, and the South suffer I'rum low the price of cotton and high-priced grain and bacon. This is tire plain English (it our farmers can sec it) of the following article which we clip from tiie New Yoik Express : "There wi 1 be increased crops of cot* - * i tt . fun, rice.aiid sugar, but tc>s c ?rn at nit Smith. A diversion of at feast ],0UU,OUU of acres from corn to cotton i* pro dieted, and an titer- used use of guano and fertilizers. 3.000,0u0 bales, in , place oT 3,G(JU,000 bales are expicted; the average before the war We misfit have more, were it not for the fact that the i.egr c- have in p it abandoned tlie pi >w, while a strong lure is fevorcd to rice an ! cot ton 3 000,000 bales of co*ton will now be raised, and 200 U00 hogshead of sugar. Last year, although ' the crops were less than the \ear before the war, (he aggregate sums realized 1 from rrcj, cotton a id sugar at theSoath, after conversion into gold, exceeded the ! returns of 1860. The rice eri>p may ' exeeed oar our lucil wants, and if not ' t"0 high, be exported In sugar, of 1 which we consume 1,3000,U0U pounds. our crop will not supply a fifth of the ' consumption. As for cmtmi. the stocks must nearly be exhaus'od by July, and ill's must, for the present tend to sustain prices, hut by the autumn may wc Hot well an'icipnte an accession id 300.llOd bales from increased growth in 1 India and Hni7.il, and 50(1,000 bales i from our Smnhcin States ? An accession of ^Ot),000 bales might riot serious ly depress prices, except in the promised ' completion of the Suez- Canal, in Octo her, which will reduce the passage to . France, Spain, England, by propellers ' through the canal, in place of ships by I the Cape, at. least four months. The i cotton of Hoiiibay can take this route, 1 " - ' ? ' - ?! .% .1 ..I t ?i <?* ? r?l I ti/lt'i ami win ncceier.nu mu uunn j ........ > cotton four months, which will lie crjuiv| ulciit. to adding tor the first yeai onethird to the deliveries from India, s;fv f 600,000 lodes. It' we tip* correct in . t his, we may expect to f? c cotton decline ; below I wet-ty two cents by the close of i the year, niid then tike at least u twelvenioiitli to recover." Correspondence of the Richmond Dispntc.i. " THE GREAT MEETING OF THE TLINKERS OR DUNKARDSDot etouut County, Va., May 21. The meeting of Dunkards now in t progress in tins c >uoty is, as I am int torni'-'l, seven a years' convent ion, in . which all parts ol the United iSt>t"Sare I repies -iite I. The |>rcp .rati 01- Ibr it on i the pa Ft of native members of the soei1 ety in Dotetourtand Koanoke were upon - a scale that Would surprise any who are i not familiar with the.proceedings of tile . people on such oucusions. The mini f her of D unkards expected as delegates I and visitors from other parts ef the conn 1 try was bv some set down at ten tlmu r said and by others at Hi teen tlm"sand i It is certain that the road lending up I the Valley has passed a hires nuttiber, > some of whoui were from Maryland and f i'ennsy Ivania, and that tlx- otlnr Kail - roads li-.vc delivered a great multitude. i.l.i) I',, I J50MU0.- (.If accooi; iliMIIII IUIIO |M?>< l??? V* ?... f tli>- iik 111 b-rs of their |i culler * :??, the 11 o - p i l a I i y ul the I'unkards t'kes into account l lie wants of their fellow eii izon.u of ot her denominations who may vi?i' ihciu duiiu? the progress of the nn-et ing. A ?*eiilleiiiuu icfuiim-d rue that s a liiend of his was pressed to go home r with one who had alr-ady about iil'leeii l- vehicles, with their loads, movii g tu his - house. it Tiic camp-ground of the mcetingdis, plays a last array of tents, and the iiur iiu-iise tallies are provid d with a number deacons, who have been chosen to serve . ihem. The store of piovisi-itis collect. ed beforehand may be judged from one J or Uo items, in the aiti. leol bee' eat s tie fattened to the numb, r w.t< seven y 1 to eighty, and a tisuor who siw tliijoi i he to e tne slaniilver had t-rgun declared thai he never san a latter and finer herd. As to cilice, the ipiantity prepared is j, .-aid to have b en >o large that gical |- out-dor oven- were iii;icI?- to r> asi n in .. over liu e log lires, and a grain mill j wa.-lurid lor the purpose ut grinding i. lint the arr in?cment> for washing the u fret i f the tli.-ciple* 1 cannot j-pcak pari ticiilirly Wl.cn it is considered that cadi one the jjivat congregation has to receive this evidence of brotherly love lie iina-jiiiutson of ri.-c render will hav&\ imple scope iu picture tin* natuic un?rancty of Hie ablutions,and the quan^ ity of water, basins, and towels requ red . in tlic prem kc-. It is equally impossible to d? p^ribfe. 1 :be great uiuli itudc and variety i>$ tlx^r iisi'B ??f cliariiy wlncli take plac-oii^' Lite occu-iuii J t -r with meeting sissos, f .nu parting kisx<s, and the kisses that j iraiispire during the various rclt.tous 1 erviccs, it is liardly extrav .gain to say that ifbo woods and li id-, arc vo al Witli In: notes of uscullatioii, suine so la nt as liardiy to be perceived, some a little xpiessive, and'-otiio demonstrative aTiiJ' p olong' d. This tfetvtnoby is strict y jiiiiHiicd 10 tne sexes.to * Incn tin: |mi?' Licipants belong, men kiaaiug.uicuai'd, women kissing, women. Having found i'_ inipbssibo'Vo v'si'1' , the great nieeifug I cannot give y<?ir any iiio'c p .rticularsjbut these y u may rely upon as >n the main correct..*.; f,ry VuCKAlJOE.. *" ' ' ' -tr. 'i " The question ol Chunse labours is b?-iiijr considerably 'iJi-eussc'l not <>iil\ on the Pacific tjlopo, wlti'Tof!oo'itfs K^rh' an extensive fool hold, bill in Tut as n ltd elsewhere To I In: "States" The half, billion of Celestials could il?.rotf off annually twenty millions emigrants without l"Ss. and have'already sent over t" the Pacific slope a lipriiiklitrg nf about 1UU.00 pigtail adventurers, merely it* , show what tln-y could do if they were to "el in earnest. f They are. entirely relied on in California T-ir grading railways and opening roads, and are engaged largely in mahy other employunli'S. Tltvtr p'lt.ctce and economy,'arc saiJ.lo make ihem very efficient ami cheap laborers They inn peculia'K adap'ed for te .ding machinery and manufactuirug. The strperintendentsof th.. ....?r.\n ..rot vrrvih-n inills oil till' Pacific prefer the' Chinese to all other <p<T.itivis. They deem tliemselvc?wj.dl remunerated by w .gcs on which English operatives could iff keep thenoeU e-out of theponf-housc They will w irk we are inf..run d, twelve or fourteen hours o day, without even asking Idr Sundays, and are patient, subinis>iv\ enduring an J tea liable. Some look for a conflict between rho Ease and ilte West, after a while, growing oit? nf Chinese imtnigra tioti. The great .Slates of the Pacific slope will not easily forego thcadvantugc which enables* tliem to undersell Massachiisetts, Rhod" Island and IVnnyslvania in the. markets of the continent, and even England and Belgium in tlie I markets of the world. Many other iiu stious grow out of the mbjeei', when considered ' in vhw of the proportion whien it may one day, b. fore long, assume. Should the question of negro labor remain much longer iinsntt-lac* forily settled, owing to the bad teaching of our Radical politicians, who, by using (lie colored to place themselves in office, are rendering them useless us laborers, the probabilities of successfully adapting Chinese labor will soon receive serious attention. It was long ago de nionstrated in California that Chinese laborers are cijual to any others and wholly reliable. There they are rapidly supplanting byth whites and blacks, and the constantly increasing demand for their services rs producing an immense increase in immigration. Tt must he remembered that tile lomjdelion of the Pacific Railroad will enable Coolie* to i i 1 . i ..s?n nc umugm nca- in L-i^in viHi.i i.....I Wm... Frrnoisco; and our colored laborers many a* well prepare to fnee the fact that tftbey will imt do the work others will soon bo ready to step it> ami do- it for thoin.?Mmp'iii Ao'tfnuc/ie. A fJovernnierrt officer stationed at Richmond, V? , writes here thnf negro lab'ir is at a discount in that porti'ii of Virginia. The extensive sales ol land io sto ill portions to white immigrants, who ate cuM iva iIi?r the land fFiemscFves, renders it iieeu??iry for colored lab rers in ?o further South in oid>-r to seek employment. Over three hundred colored people have gone South by rail from Virginia io the last month, indications are that the number (Turing the present month will Fie greatly in excess of last month.? Washington h I grnm?N 7. Inbuilt. The report from Richmond about a devi loping tend' ncy of negro emigrat-i n southward may be premature or exaggerated;. Hut the influence of the recent white settlers on small parcels of land in that State cannot, he mistaken. The iiegroe< most either prenure to se ure similar tracts of laud l -r then selves or go further South. The system of cultivating great plantations by large gangs of hired negroes is approaching its curl in Virginia. Small farm.", labor by tin* owmrs of tlie soil, improved til .'aire, and consequent prosperity, ?re the I u Hi re of the Old Dominom. The tic^ruiji there who are capable of taking their place in thi> movement will share this future. The rest of them are likely to tend southward. E>iitnrinl-?iV. Tribune. 1 Sixotrr.ar Coincidence. ikTrue. ? An ejt.'i.Hiige says: ' Y*ar* ago a Pi im-ylvania farmer sfahhed his young wife in a lit of dun ken insanity and fled t" the West supposing himself to be a murderer The woman recovered, I and after five years of solitary life iimr| ried again. Her second husband died in a few months, and she a'sn went \Ve>f. There she met a prosperous and wealthy merchant, was wooed and w< dcd ; and upon disrobing in ttic bridal chaiiib'T the bridegroom saw upon her neck the senr of the wound ho himself had made, and recognized his wife of vcars beforo." ? I'JllO^ABJuh: DEATil OP PKESIDE NT Olt A NT/ The Judical party nominated for Vic(;-1Jra^Jont the man Collax, in anticipation of the removal, by impeachinent ei W death, of U. 8. Grant.?'Wo waiflt no mi ire doubtful Vice PreVtdeina." was the warning of Wendell Phillip*. The party dvnn-d that Wendell 1'inliips was authorized to rsnne the word of c^iiHim*?if?wl lUeu proceeded t-? ril.oy it. Circumstances compel us." they reflc-t'd-^'bftid our ^ck-ev wrtjr a Sjid eliliss sphyiX J but even the w*wcmr be-re???0V?d-y a**d We lUUSt(ha/TCy for the ?S<f'd'*Pli,Ce' a man uf' t'ur uftrti N^ikwrfigv A"n<l the (jJuiicc ,Cey on. ppr.sjuip&rii, The probabjfi^a that ra'nt will fid 11 m i > yed.bji -1 hi pou eh liictit ace d i pi in is Ijiiij* in pnijj'urtioii as the prbbabfiilW hf fits rcnWpl by death arc increasing. Private advice* Iruu Wasliingtrrrrindi" cam ihjH .Oraiitj> jiiiltpi: ill bea-Uh ,*crjr W|.id&- kjjB live ti? jireb'Vfli J he presidential fu?c iloiiV ;i')C;ir; allhVjlijjhMie maVnbt bet'ord rliltt tifne b iii^Mrf grf?tj. Tlnsmahidy umftT . wh?i li lacix suffering, is ?fc tker kind1 thuj,kd}s t|ie:rjfl''d bel'prc tiie bu4jf dies, aU[liou^|| llie death pj ^bc fyody-,i^y eviuiblj fyili'/WS. ' . " ? The symptoms'in'' Grants case ar<Jr Iiotfi anil physical sUfferi H* has: liftii to "sh{in4p vliap^;jJ*<titt?e?l^ ready in sis many weeks. "lie ittrlo^ipg fienJi.'V: y,?i>"ori?1cot?plaiii. of Jiiy/bi.^uioneness, and many of them of txis. temper. He has wholly, ceased '16 fe'ei?iVo vis'tors'at night:' The few- wire-set* Him wiili his&iirilylspciilt of hiiu as appears ' ing to be.I l?oroug!)ly /*ggthJ out L\y ejjcJf day's. round of. work, die snipkcs . jnecssaiiily, and stta for hours with hyi llli ile girls h ??d in his own, not tittering ? wind, and never Rallying'except whetr his wife uhns<i anxiety '.n nccouutofUteeui.ditioii is ill diegBised;", Medical geiillojycii^ wilj, <jvcp , frojy this Uriel doseripiioii of the syinp{bihsy n-adily reeogtiizc' the malady which i* rapidly u fitting? Mt (Jrrvnt for mental1 rtf.nt ofaoy kiiiU,;atid -hfwtening hii? surely to t!tc grave.-. Insanity, ,ui any of the,more common phases, is probably not hereditary Ini the Grant iannly. Hut that hiss of reason wi.ieh r^-ni k1 froth w hat is culled softening of the brain is uof, prpptxly speaking, a form of insanity,; but rath; r the ifle-t of a physical disease, that in y i e-ult from a great niahy different causes Exeeasivc inJcnij era. ce1 "iir drinks, or in habit that exhausts tlnr . ......... - ot inn . ij, it vnro r.i'i 1)1 fir* Hiitwr.. uijn ,:,-v mi:"*s-.rr": tThe iu-cmpi raje use pf opiuuinr :obt? o?? has i he s.iiuc < ffect. Oidimifily. tliir effects ol-'usin^ these poisons arc' tidfc visible, or do riot exist, Until Some Other" elmieiit io.ibronglit into combination.* ju>t as tlic clement .oxyacoia ncuewijry t.? the combustion of phosphorus. Xnr Mr. Grant's ease, the vast icspons:liiIfly ol the prisidfiitial ..fficc, and the unu*trnl exciei-cs of his mental faculties ? hie*!* it involves, havo dOubib ss supplied the clement which, ill a system already .pr0' pared for its entrance, has developed! tie lata! disease. Asa writer tersely cxpresses it, the presidency has proven"too much for him." traclr is Mr Grant's state of health1 th it the country need not be surpri.-ed it lie should be disqualified to pcrforur tlie dtrtic- ?d" President before tlie next meet nu of Consnns. Whether, in that ea??e, Congress would proce d iiu udeiatc'y to inaugurate Mr. Colfax or notwuu d perhaps, depend upon jthc opiirbins of medical experts as to Gie possibility of Grunt's recovery: The reasonable presompi ton, however, is,- that theon y hope of his recovery is in his retirement tn a private and perfectly quiet lite. As I'res'di.'iit of ihe United S'atcsr the indications elcarty arc that hetaov not live to (He ena ut ins (erm. . "? ? A Missouri editor demolishes ex-Sc<v reiaiy Stanton in the following ferocious miinncr: "Stanton, the Irog-soufei h)cna hearted, fiendish executioner of Mrs. Surrutfc and murderer of Writ*, was lately baptized and taken- ioto ? 'loyal' church at PitL-burg. If ten thousand baptismal washings; vea, if being nnc'or-d, with a millstone ffetffo'hts neek. in mid oi-cnn, for a century, willj save Stanton, the devil, nmid all-hbeulj uiary siiniei-cookingapparatus, needu't I desj air." . i. ] i It has been mccrtuined that, out of j every hundred women in Great. Britain- f, | ahovc tin- age of rwenty, fifty seven arc I wives, thirteen widows, and thirtyfpi?~ I iters. Of a little under 3,000,000 wej men between twenty ami forty, in Eng- I land and Wales, 1,248.000 wercunmar- t I ried. A wholesale immigration Of wo men t<i the Unrt-d States is recommend- 9 ' ed ; but this plan will hardly work, as ^ ' there is excess of women in this coun- 9 | try too ? Mnsj-aehusetts alone, ina^pop- ? ' - ? -win nnn W.r (M ulailun oi j,zuu,uou III UIU lagv wu having 40,000 more women than men. 'fj? A Minnesota judge has decided when ? a man is ''legally drui k." He saj*: '"It H is not necessary that a man should Be H wallowing in a ditch, or bumping his K head against your posts, that'you may i know him to-be drunk; but whenever : , In- begins to tell the saiuo-thing over ; ^ ; twice, then he's drunk." In T8G7, there were imparted info ' *J? Great Britain 11,272,651 cwts. of raw I cotton from a If countries. In 1868, H the importations were 11.857,893 cwts. H The proportion of the United States re- H ceipts to the total imports was larger in ./M 1868 than in 1867, being above forty I five per cent, of tbe wbole supply. H