The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • 1

rtesfl jl A IHFIFi OUISVHLLE JDAIEiY JOURNAL YOLUME XXXYI1I. LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1S68 NUMBER 31. REMOVALS. FOREIGN. NEW YEAR DAY IN NEW YOfiK.

A TABLOW IN 4 ACKS. LOUISVILLE JOURNAL FRINTRD ITTBI.rHD Ml LOUISVJ LLK JOURNAL OO. areeo (treot, between Third and Fonrth. C. X.

KA.I33LE, Importer anLMannfactnrer, AS removed from Lis old stand, No. 115 Jefferson street, between 4 end Fonrth, to hi Nw Btokk, wmi aide of FesHb.wbere ii continue to supply Lis city and ptry patrons with LADIKS PKKSS TRIM1TjS. FRINGES, lOllWSiTAOhUS. KITTONS, ZKPHIB WOOl, FMBRIHBKKKB SLIP iKRS AM) UhUlO.NS, And, general variety of Fancy articles. Society and military Trimmings Of every desrt-lptlon 194 aeti side lonHh atfeet.

betweeaUar bet mud Jefferson, LOmSVTTXF, gy. KINOS PATENT WKOUGJIT IKON tubuur men bridges TTAVE been in use throughout the XI Northern States for the last FIVE YEARS, nd are superseding ail other kinds for Turnpikes, County Roads, fit Railroads. HundredsbaVe been built and put up, and, without a SIN EXCEPTION, have fulfilled every condtrfmi and stood every test required of a GOOD BKilHJK. Being constructed. wholly of wnouaiiT mow, upon a plan combining In the greatest degree Economy, Durability, and Strength, they cannot fail -to recommend themselves to practical men The nudersigned, having acquired the 80LE RIGHT to manufacture and put up these Bridges In the States of Kentucky, Missouri, and the Houtbern States, is prepared to furnish them romptly.

ile Reliable and responsible agents wanted. Circa Southern Agriculture A Planters Experience. A Mississippi correspondent of the Memphis Avalanche gives the result of his experience in leaving a company of negroes to manage and cultivate his pfantation I have some lands of my own, but will report the result of a rented investment. Last year I ran the same farm, in connection with a regular superintendent, furnished everything, and gave the negroes one-third of the crop for their labor. At the end of the year they importuned me to allow them to run the thing themselves, most of them old family negroes.

I agreed to do so, really believing -they would certainly make rent. I rented the place for them, at a cost of from five to six dollars per acre, furnished thaar stock at customary prices, fed them, clothed them, and allowed them to proceed on their own hook turned them all loose to themselves. Up to the middle of March they did nothing, aud, as a c'onsequence, got a late start; put their crops in late; were behind Their neighbors all. the time, and made an average of just bale to the hand. It takes that and more to pay for provisions and clothes.

I got nothing for the use of the mules, feed, Ac. It will take all their corn to pay the rent. What must they The above may be considered very bad cropping in North Mississippi, but in Hinds it would have been voted splendid. Let us relate a Hinds county case: We employed five good hands (with their families counting thirteen supplied laud, team, corn meal, $60 worth of cotton seed, and everything else. The freed-men had the entire and exclusive management of the plantation and crop.

Between 1,000 and 1.500 pounds of meat were consumed, which cost us over $300. Over 300 bushels of corn were used, for which we paid between $100 and $500. Doctors bills, blacksmiths' bills, shoemakers bills, tax bills, Ac innumerable, had to be paid. And the outcome of the crop was this: One horse 1 dead, two bales of cotton, twenty five barrels ot mean corn, and five bushels of seed potatoes. These are actual facts.

And as if the climfix of the ridiculous had not been reached inyhe production of the crop, the two bales of co'ton were destroyed by tire on tfieir wayto market. llaymond O'azette. A REMARKABLE PICTURE. lithographs, aud prices seuL ou application, to JULIUS BARBAItOUX, r-HYDRAULIC FOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOP, Corner or Klojd and Washington Streets, S2dtf LOriHYlLLB. KT.

Kentucky Vinegar cojsiip A-IsAt. Sensible and Manly The Edi or of the Haysville Eagle thus notices the call for the Eighth of January meeting here. Like the editor himself, the notice is sensible and manly: In another column we publish a call for a meeting of gentlemen who belong to the conservative party of this State, to be held in Louisville, on January 8th, 1868. We regret that it will not be in our power to attend. The object of the call purports to be the union of all the elements opposed to radicalism in Kentucky.

In our opinion there is but one mode in which this can be effected, and that is by the conservatives fraternizing with the so-called Democratic party. The latter party has the power in this State, and it is not apt to listen to aDy terms of alliance with the conservatives, or to concede any of the conditions which they may prescribe as precedent to the union. If it is intended to merge the conservative organization that of the Democrats, it had as well be done frauklv and without parleying. As for the conditions, they are not worth a copper when conceded, as they will he binding ou the actions of none, and no one will regard them. For ourself, unless the Democratic candidate for the Presidency shall be a much shabbier fellow than we have reason to hope he will be, we intend to support hint with what ability we may have.

If any thing can be done by means of which we will have the company of all our conservative frieDds, we will be heartily glad of it. As for State officers, we are not prepared to speak, but in national affairs it would be criminal to risk the perpetuation of radical misrule by-distracting from the candidate of the national Democratic party any of the votes that might otherwise bo cast for him. Our owu wish is that the conservatives shall send delegates to the National Democratic Convention at its next meeting. For the Louisville Jourua). An Easy Moxet Market.

Men differ much- as to what constitutes an easy money market. While some men think the money market is sufficiently easy when the rich can borrow at 60 days at it to 12 per cent, it may be claimed that the money market is not easy enough unless any person of fair standing and character can borrow any day from one-quarter to one-half the value, in cash, of any property he may have at from six months to five years, as in Europe, at 3 to 3 per cent interest. It is in the power of Congress to give us such a money market. This currency we need, and Congress can give it, and thus save interest. It can give us more greenbacks, so that we may have money as plenty as in Europe.

By so doiDg, the taxes can be all. or nearly all, taken off. The greenbacks constitute a loan from the people to the peoples government without interest. Why should the Government borrow money at a high rate of interest when it can borrow without interest There is no need of issuing more bonds, nor has there been any need of issuing bonds so long as the people are suffering for currency. Then it has been proven that we can come to specie payments by issuing more currency that by partial resumption we can bring the paper currency nearly up to par, and thus supply the gold market and soon reach full specie payments.

Then let us have enough of the greenbacks to make a perpetual easy money market. This will give a great impetus to business. Prosperity will. roll in upon us like a Hood. Neither Congress nor hanks nor any other creature lias any right-to make and perpetuate tight money market for the purpose of preventing speculation or affecting prices, or for any other purpose what ever, but leave these things, as lu irope, to regulate themselves.

All the stereotyped and stale objections to having enough money to make an easy money market, auL that are invented by the money lending fraternity for the purpose of seeming a high rate of interest. I warn the reader not to be imposed" upon by those who would claim that the issue of greenback currency for government indebtedness is like bank currency loaned out at 60 or JO days. The case is altogether different. Nor do.I propose to issue any more irredeemable currency, but to make it redeemable, using all the com in the control of the government, not as now, tor the payment of interest to bond holders, but lor the protection of the greenback currency to, as it were, feel our tray tn rpc ic juomen is through a-tial resupipt ton. At all events let us have aa easy intmey market henceforth ever more High iates and short time are only fur gamblers and speculators.

Farmers, manufacturers, and all persons in regular hi siness, want low interest aud tune to the borrower. hen will rulers learn that governments were not made expressly for the benefit ol moneylenders? It is time they were taught that it is a high crime to tax the people to tax them for the express purpose of paying interest to 1 money-ienders when it can be borrowed of the people without interest. Let them I is-ue greenbacks, but no more bonds, until the currency shall be so abundant a-, to bring interest on money as low as in Ivi-rope, say 3 to per cent throughout the country I know that the very thought will strike the money-lender with horror, but the pee pie can stand a plcu'iful money market tar better than taxes. Europe has stood it tor lo these many years and it in ruined yet. It may surprise many to learii, what is lie vcrtheless a fact, that tally one third of the whole amount of sugar consumed in the world-is manufactured from beets; and not only so, but immense quantities faw beet sugar are imported into England for their sugar refineries, competing vary eutcessfully with the cane sugar from I their own colonies.

While the soil needdd by the sugar beet 13 very different from the grape-growing soil, the requied climate is identical. Much money nas been sunk in abortive attempts to raise it in the Bntish Islands. But in California it finds a congenial home, and already San Francisco refines over 12,000 tons of raw sugar at with a present capacity in her tour refineries to greatly enlarge the production Others are taking up the cultivation and manufacture of this sugar for purposes of exportation. The California dT secretes about two per cent more of saccharine matter than the European plant, and every condition seems favor-The press out there is encourag- able VINEGAR, PICKLES, Distilled Water. rpHE Kentucky Vinegar Company, No SO ITourlb street, between Main and Che river, have always on band, in barrels, half barrels, ten and five gallon kcir, or in quantities to suit their owu make of Vinegar, of the following Pure Wlae Vinegar Tore Apple linegar; fare Oder Vinegar; Pure White Vluegar Also, in barrels, half barrels, teh and five gallon fc'us.

or in quamttieb to suit purchases, ovn putuugupoi Cucumber and Assorted ricklcs. TheseVInegars and Pickles are warranted of the purest kiadt free iroiu all huitful acids and poi ttoyous coloring matter, They are made aud put up It the manufactory of tlie Compsuy, In th.s cuy, and when sold are arranted to be what they aie represented. No one who wants a pure Vinegar or healthful Pickle need longer buy the poisonous articles nut-up abroad and senfhre for sale regardless of the well-being ol those who cuu-sunie tiiem. Kesincky Vinegar Compa ty offer for ale purest Vinegar and best Pickl es at lower pi ices 3ian thesaars or as good an article can foe bou ht at In any other market and placed here for sale. The Company also hae always on baud a Ure quantity of pure DISTILLED WATER, With which they are prepared to fill orders at a low price-.

They solicit orders-at their sales-room, No. 2 Fourth htreet. between Mala aud the river, Vinegar, Pkkles, and Distilled Water, which will be promptly tilled aud warranted as represented, clkdinn vises: vises: vises: rrilE UNION VISE COMPANY, of Boston, make Vises ot air kinds, for heavy and light qsork. Their Pipe Vises, with and wit hout extra Jaw, are equal to the heaviest kinds of pipers work. AIo, Htandard Milling Idasliines of improved construction atfd easy adjustment.

bend Price List. For sale bv dealers in hardware aud djd'hn C. ktTSKCUff. John ancbkwabtha, C. s.

mvroell. STANCLIFF AltCIIITECTS, Ha Hamilton 9 Building, dtf Corner Sixth and Mata a Falls ava.c. INDOW Caps, Brackets. Capitals forColn ns Chimney Tops, ModfUlons, and everything Vtalnlng to the ornamental decoration of build- cerne to me the loveliest of all Switzerlands beautiful little inland seas. It combines every species of beaaty, and is a very gem of nature.

Lucerne is twenty-five miles long, four or five wide, and is nearly of the shape of a cross. Ihe extremities of the arms are about fifteen miles apart Its water is a clear emerald color, and very deep. The most striking looking Alp and the nearest of the high ones to it is Mount Pilatus a- rugged, steep mountain, from which, tradition says, Pontius Pilate dashed himself down into Lake Lucerne, after he was banished from Galilee. It is some three from the mountain to the lake, and Pontius must have been a dashing fellow indeed if he got into it at one jump. L.

P. Jr To the Editors of the Louisville Journal The following article from the Cincinnati Times, which hasgenerally been more moderate and more honest than its radical compeers, is so fair a display of the animus of that bull-headed, negro maniac fanaticism which has ruined our country, that you would Ydigw your readers by its republication, with the comments which you may think appropriate: J. R. B. The Great Problem of The Age.

The Louisville Journal very much bewails the emigiation from many Southern localities of persons who have become disgusted with the political equality of the negroes; and it exhorts them to hold on if they can possibly live in tolerable quietude, and await that return of reason to the Northern people which will drive back the negroes to the proper place. The Journal feels sure that all the departments of the Government will soon be in the hands of the conservatives, and the indignant seeesh of the South will soon be gloriously delivered from all their The Journal, like all the so-called Conservatives, is shallow in its philosophy. Vhiie it often attempts to alarm the public in view of a merciless and unsparing war of races, it often runs into the inconsistency of opposing those very measures by which alone the war of races can be prevented. It is not supposed that the Gulf States, with Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas, are to be perpetually held in armed occupation. So certain as the military-shall be withdrawn there will arise a war of racer, whether the negroes shall be secured the right of suffrage or not.

It would require half a century or more of moral agitation and education 'to enable such a populatiou as inhabits those Territories, to live together either under the policy of political equality, or under that lf subjugating one-half to the control ot the other half. It is evident to eur mind that this war of races will be of short duration; because, in the one case, the terror inspired among the blacks by the whites would drive many of them away and scatter them broadcast over the country; while in the other case, the disgusted whites would leave, as they are et present -doing to some extent, and ultimately there would be left In the far South only the negroes, and such whites as can tolerate political liberty, and, under justice, lead quiet and orderly lives. Snch being the nature of the problem, the correct solution of it is now betoie the country. In the first place, if the negroes should he driven out in terror under the malice and brutality of the whites, it would be an outrage liaviug but few historical parallels even in the barbarous past. For this the whites would be exclusively to blame, and history would record it to their eternal shame.

The ffi--nial of the ballot to the negroes will not prevent each a calamity, because, from the very nature of the case, and by the laws ot nature that cannot be forever stayed, the agitation of the question will continue and increase until political equality shall-be established. When this consummation ehall be near at hand, the violence will arise, and the war of races will do its work of butchery, both of the negroes and those whites who advocated their cause, until the South shall be re lieved of the great mass of the obnoxious population, it will be no offense to agitate the question, because truth is at the bottom ol it, and the time is past for pronouncing freedom of discussion to be a crime. Such being the upshot of the policy of negro exclusion, t'he question then arises where will the negroes go' Nowhere welcome on the American continent there is no land of refuge for them. Tne conservatives, who threaten us with their dominion in all the Northern States, will not welcome them with much cordial it and to take them to Africa is not only impracticable (because the expense should come from those who desire to get rid of them, but it would be ruinousto them, because they couij not endure so suddeu a transition to an antipodal climate. So much as to the result of the conservative policy.

What ot the radical, or po htical equality policy? According to the Louisville Journal, and the Southern conservative press generally, the problem is now solving itself peaceably by the constant stream of voluntary departure by the disgusted whites. Could this enrgra-tion be largely encouraged for si few years, as it is likely to he under this policy, the solution may be entirely effected in peace, and the war of races may be limited to a harmless indignation against political liberty an iudignation that will relieve itself by emigration, provided a lew muskets be posted here nnd there to give it innocent vent in that direction. The beauty of this method is that the ertligrat-ing whites will be welcome everywhere with open arms and with many a fraternal bumper. Their going will not be forced by any wrong, because the wrong will ex-, ist only in their unfortunate prejudices and perverse pasfions. Ybat next? Just what the laws of nature will effect no mure, no less.

So ueb ol these Southern terrilories as may be necessary for their accommodation will, at no distant day, be almost excia-sivtlv inhabited by the blacks. The warof rae'es will force the negroes from those sections where they are largely in the mi-ncrity into those sections where their Irethren are largely in the majority. So also would many of the white minorities removd to the regions of white majorities: and thus, by thd interchange of the races, they would ultimately be separated, and both could live in peace. Those States in which the power shall be permanently in the hands of the negroes will receive large accessions of blacks frojn all the States, and at a very early period the Democracy might very properly unite in a jubilee in view of the eomiDg in of what they seem to consider the millenium of the separation of the races. Thus what they seem to anticipate through gunpowder, blood and extermination, will be accomplished peaceably.

It may be that they do not desire such a solution of the problem preferring the sport of hunting, shooting and exterminating the negroes. If this is so, the Congressional policy will disappoint them to the satisfaction offfioth races in general and the relief of the Democratic conscience from the responsibility for so stupendous a crime. If the people rightly consider these re-sulis, they will see how it is that truth and justice constitute the safest policy to pursue. The Democracy would solve it by crime and carnage, while the Republicans -would solve it by doing right to all classes and leaving the Almighty to work it out to his own satisfaction under his own laws of nature. We commend these hints to the study of our editorial brethren of the South, hoping they will see the wisdom of encouraging rather than impeding this harmless vent to the disgust, indignation, and hate of the Southern whites by emigration.

It is a good rule to do right and let those to whom truth is disagreeable, find a-resi-dence in more congenial localities. Under justice, both the blacks and the whites will find ample room on this continent, while under wrong, the blacks must go down either in bondage or in death. 1 Queen Victoria has just made her call of condolence on Lady Palmerston, is covered with grass to its summit. We hastened to our rooms and instantly ordered fires, but ware informed that there was only one stove in the house and it would take an hour to heat that, it being a great porcelain furnace in the Smoking room. There were no fire-places in the rooms, and we soon discovered that we should have to do without fires; so we sent our cloaks and the ladies' shoes to the kitchen to dry, while we took a hot rum After awhile they got the dry wrappings and shoes, but having no change of raiment with me I shivered on in my wet garments; and we warmed ourselves as best we could by racing up and down the passages in the great frame barn of a house.

By this time the sun had come out bright and cold, and before him fled the higher clouds, disclosing to our enraptured gaze a sight as gorgeous and sublime as ever the eyes of mortals Feasted on. Below the Rigi-Kulm, some thifffsand feet, a vast ocean of dense whir1 clouds hung to the mountain sides and stretched far away over the plain. Above this the gray masses of huge rock the Alpine tops rose like giant sentinels of nature, standing guard over the world, and on their heads rested glittering white helmets the glaciers. As the sun sank lower and lower, it made gold and silver of the clouds and precious stones of the mountains; and now and then, as the billowy mists were moved by the winds, we could catch glimpses of far off lakes and villages four thousand feet beneath us and scores of miles away. At length the last rays of the sun faded away, and dense fogs enveloped the suiffmit of the Rgi; and, turning towards our rooms, we drew long breaths, and shiveringly chattered to each other, Isnt it glorious? Yes, it is splendid; it is gorgeous.

Soon after, we had a poor dinner, and then quickly sought our beds, for next morning we must be up to see the sun rise. About day the shrill notesof an alpine horn waked the echoes and us, and though I had gone to bed with an ardent desire to see the sun rise, in the morning I couldnt help wishing that the orb of day bd slumbered a little later on this particular occasion. We hastened into our clothes as gxpediliously as we could, which was not very fast in my ease, for my right foot stuck half way down in my damp hoot, and then I went dancing aloutthe room on one leg, pulling away till Iwas nearly black in the face, and al-mosttearing my fingers off, all the time scaled nearly to death at' the thought that I shouldnt get out in tirhe to see the sunrise. I thought I never had seen day break so fast; but at last the foot went in, and off I put, on a long trot, to catch the others, who had already gone out; tying my cravat and buttoning my clothes as I ran. Out in front of the hotel, at the edge of the precipice, on a high and narrow point, I found 160 or 1k0 men and women of all nations, looking tewards the East, with red eyes, yawning and shivering in the cold, gray morning.

Heads were not very smooth, and toilets were not very carefully made, and the women hxiked like squaws, and the men like scarecrows, wrapped up in shawls, blankets, Presently old Sol stepped out and litt. up the mountain topB.and brushed away the mists, and burnished the lakes, and woke up the world, and in front of us we looked down over the steep precipice, and saw below us a dozen and a half or more of lakes, with as many or more towns, and for nearly four score miles over the low country. Behind us legions of Alpine' peaks, clad in their diadems of ice, and some of them seventy-five miles away. Tiie view in the morning was more extended than that of the evening before, hut, having seen that sunset, we could not expect to see any thing more grand, nor did we. Of a clear day the Rigi-Kulm commands a view- of about 300 miles of country, and is considered the finest in Switzerland.

As we climbed the mountain, our guides pointed, out Ted's Chapel, which is built upon the rock, on which Tell leaped when be escaped Geslers boat. Our path, sc me of the way, lay across a portion of the Bossberg landslip, which is -now coveted witjj grass, trees, and houses, and looks as quiet and harmless as if it liad neer hurt anything, though history records a sad story of it: On September P. 1V0G, a pifige of a mountain, l.i'Cu feet in length and 100 feet in thickness, slipped from a "height of 3,000 feet down into the valley below, covering up four villages beneath its ruins, and de-sliojing abcut per-ons. ft filled up about one-fourth of the lake of Lower, ai drove the waters with such force that it a column of water To feet high, which swept everything before it. burying in a watery grave some of those who had e-capcd tire land slide.

These slides have repeatedly occurred in the Alps, as well as floods of mud which sometimes gush from the mountain sides covering whole valleys. These two ioimsof disasters are distinct from the avalanches of snow that sometimes sweep down in the winter. After we had enjoyed the wonderful panorama below, and above, ahd around us. and laughed at the iusignifieaut railroad tixius down in the valleys, tliafclook-td no bigger than long black beetles running over a floor, and at the steamboats on the lakes, which looked like water-lev, Is, we dispatched a hearty breakfast ai mounted our horses for the descent. Fiona the hard exercise and the wetting of day before, we were all very and sore, hut our rough horses soon jolted the old aches out of us, replacing them with new.

The roathrwas like that of the day before, though steeper and narrower, and on the opposite side of the mountain. Sucn after leaving the Kulm we got down into the clouds aud for some time we could see nothing but objects very near us. At one place our road ran through a natural tunnel made by three vast rocks of a roundish shape two rolled close together, and a corner of the third wedged in between them from the top, leaving a passage below. Imagine three rocks, each as large as the largest dwelling-houses in Louisville, rolled together in this way, and you have an idea of this freak of nature. After san hour's ride we began to have superb views of Lake Lucerne and the snow-clad mountains around it.

This lake afforded us some of the loveliest pictures we have seen. The bright morning sun made its deep, green waters glisten, and while its polished surface was in some places mottled by cloud-shadows, in others streaks of light fell upon it, making it look for all, the world like a vast table of burnished malachite. Towards eleven o'clock we reached Waggis, the boat landing at the foot of the mountain, and soon after we were afloat on the charming Lake of Lu H.V JOSH BILUNGS. Ack Fust Enter a lap dorg carrying a boarding akool miss in her arms, about 16 hands high. It makes the dorg puff the dorg lays down the boarding skool miss, and orders mint juleks for two, with the usual suckshun.

The dorg begins to loll, the boarding skool miss tells him tew dry np (in French), -and the dorg savs he be darned if he will (ia Dorg). (Great sensashun among the awjance, with cries puvhim Finally a compromise is affected, the boarding skool miss kissed the dorg, with tears in his eyes. Konklu-sion1 Lap dorg discovers a wicked ilea at work on his tail pursoos him round and round they go dorg a little ahead somebody hollers out mad dorg! boarding skool miss faints standing the kurtin drops. Ack number 2 Curtin hists several blind men in the distance looking thru key whole one ov em sez he don't see it' A Sbat'ghi ruster corns out with epaulets cn and crows Yankee Doodle musick by the band. The Shanghi lays an egg on the stage about the size uv a wasp a nest, and then limps off, very much tired and redused.

Curtin sinks for second tinte. Ack number 3 Curtin rises slow'y big bolona sarsage on a table bolona sarsage lilt uj her head and begins tew bark band plays Old Dorg i'ray. Kat cums in kat's tale begins t-w swell bolona sarsage and kat has a lite thay fite 11 rounds the stage is covered with kata and dorgs. Konklusion tha awl jine hands and walk tew the footights, an old Bull arrier reads the President's, ca'lfor 300,000 more band plays 60 in Lemons a beii rings and kurtin witis. Aek number 1 A scene on the Eri Ka-nall a terrible storm rages the kanaj! acts bad several botes go down bead fust with all their boarders on board kant make a lee shore tha drag their ankers sorneuv the kaptins tri tu pray, but most uv them have the best luck at swearing -the water is strewed with pots an kittles -several cook mates swim ashore with their stoves 111 their teeth they hev tu draw off the kana.i tu stop the storm, lxouklu-sion men are seen along the banks of 1 the kanall pearing dead hosses and eels -band plays A Lite on the Ushun I Amid tremsnjous applause the kurt.n fal.s.

and the awjance disperse, single file, Ilow the Pauu.c Railroad is Laid. The speed with hich track is laid on the I nion Pacific lailroad is one ef the wonders of the age, and shows the power ot concentrated force and systematized combination. Let it be understood that the road is made, or graded, to the foot of the Black Hills fifty or sixty miles further, and that the soil thrown up is largely composed of loose red gravel and sand, as dry as dust, out of which peep short broad-topped slakes to indicate the desired level of the sleepers. First come twoinen carrying a long pole of twenty-six feet, measuring ofi the length of each rail and marking the position of the ties. Two other men make small mounds of loose earth, and, striking their shovels into atie, pla it ou the mounds, while a ma'n takes sight troui behind and directs the lowering sjr raising, the sleeper being in every case removed by means of shovels chopped into it.

The intermediate space; is quickly filled up sleepers by another setef men. who take them trom the side ot the road, where they are distributed by a string of mule trains. A man with pavier's rammer and a feck- shovelers level down the tits and ti.l in t'he earth. Then comes the low. heavy truck, laden with rails, coup-' ling bats, aud spikes, and drawn by a on the trot.

The moment it reaches the cud of the last rail, twelve pair of bra-1 arms six on a side sei re a couple of mils, dmw out and deposit them in their paces nt two motions The foreman shouts Go on, horse starts up, and ike process is repeated without interims S10n- Then follow the couplers wit bolts and splicing bars instead of chairs. hen the spikers, with ponderous sledges, fasten down the rails. Lastly comes the shovel brigade, who fill up and ballast the tiack; which is then ready for the ad-' viiuce ot the con.strucfion train, with its vast amount ol material and traveling, bearding, and lodging house for th.e hands. In the meantime the men with the long and t'cs are marking out "the inter- al.s halt a mile ahead. While we stool watching, a mile of tiack wag laid, and dm ing that day four arid one-sixth mil were accomplished, being the greatest day's work ever ine.

Every gang iskept up to the mark, there is no lagging, aud eiu man seems anxious for the early completion of tt.e Pacific tailroad: he uvirngw progress is two and one-half miles per day. London (Jorrcsp ieio'e. CHINESE I we remc mber have not until very recently coined any gold or silvi The small change uf toe untry ha- been the copper worth one tenth of our cent, or thereabouts, wh.le the oniy t-ilvircoiu in circulation was the Mexican dollar, which in time became to seme extent the standard of value tv.Iver was generally made into what '13 called bycees the metal being swelged or pounded into the shape of Vi clu'ny shoe, the pieces fitting one into another ke so many saucers, and being dealt out by weight, as cur banketsand brokers buy ard sell biiPion. Gold was I.ttle used, and not coined at all. Of late, however, the Chin -e are coming gold, and samples are exhibited here as cuiiosities.

These, coins are in the main like the copper cash with which every Californian is familiar. having a square hole inthe middle, polished rim around the edge without pulling, ar.d raised characters between the raised disc and center. The gold appears to be entirely pure, or alloyed differently from ours, being of a bright, yellow hue, aud lucking wholly the red'tinge obseri able in our com, and the weight is equal to about $3 Hi of our coinage. The ex 1 ct value of the coin we do not know. It i net e.jual to our com in finish, but is nt a ertl.elrss quite a handsome coin.

San E.ar.citco Alla California. COLD COIN. Tightly, the Chinese GENERAL NEWS. Fitz Greene Halieck is to have a monument at Guilford, if Lis friends can raise the money. Many of the Fifth avenue New York houses have their upper stories unfinished.

Their owners the same F.x Minister Bigelow is about to go to press with Franklins autobiography. He tcund the SS. in Paris. Sir David Baxter has given $5,000 toward founding a professorship of engineering in the 1 Diversity of Edinburgh. 1 Lomas Jenkins, of Saco, Me gives a reception on bis 100th birthday, which takes place soon.

Mr. Eugene Hayward, of Pensylvania, owns eixty-two thousand acres oi land. He is out twenty-two. After January 1, mails will he sent and received hourly between Boston and its suburban towns. Ad Indiana man, seeing his dog in danger of an approaching train, rescued him the expense of his own life.

During this year Plymouth has lost $50,000 in the codfishing business. But half a dozen vessels paid expenses. Last year Cleveland, Ohio, imported from Canada 1 1,450,000 laths. 1.45,000 shingles, 29,000 bushels wheat, 99,000 do. barley, cords wood, 10,000 pounds butter.

The famous Menken now has in prcy3 Moxon's, a volume of original poems, which some say is to be dedicated to Dickens, and others to Swinburne. So soon that is fairly out, she intends to pub lisb a volume- of correspondence, which will cause even a greater sensation than her beauty or her bare-backed steed. Almost every great man, every distinguished man, every literary man of both conti nents, has written letters to Menken, an I she has carefully preserved these epistles, and, in good time, will give them to the world. The letters of Abelard and 'He-loise will then be lrpassed, and Mrs. Yel-verton herself eclipsed.

HOW SAI.A MADE CALLS. George Augustus Sala has a paper in 1 the January Broadway upon New Years Day in New York. Ws quote a portion of the article: 1 think I lived an cinqume at the Bre-yoort, and that I commenced my visit-paying campaign at about eleven A. but from as early as nine in the morning my attic story was invaded by successive groups of gentlemen dressed in their Sunday best, wko, coming, some singly, some in pairs, some in threes, grasped my hand, said it was a line day, but rather cold, wailed amicably, grasped my hand again, and hurried down stairs, probably to repeat the same ceretffony With' the Giuda they possess on- the fourth, third, second, or first floors. As I was on somewhat a familiar footing with the last batch of smiling hand-graspers, I went down with them, and prepared myself for the labors-of the day by partaking, at the bar of the Brevoorl, ot some warm stimulant, in the composition oT which, so far as recollection serves me, there entered nutmeg, sugar, eggs, milk, and a liquor they call rum.

The hour was young, but there was a cold snap ahput, and I had a hard time before me. As my visiting-list included some ver.y aristocratic families as aristocracy is understood under a Republican dispensation 1 had taken care to array myself in full evening costume, patent-leather boots, and lemon kid gloves. If, in thus sacrificing to the Graces, I erred agaiast American etiquette, I humbly beg pardon of the shades of General Jackson, John C. Calhoun, Rufus Choate, and other Fathers of their Country. Under the circumstances, 1 felt as though was going out to a funeral at which there was to be a champagne lunch a kind of genteel wake, in fact.

Then entcoased in the corner of a hackey and wrapped up in a fur cloak (for the cold was intense, and my ears would have been truly grateful for the discarded I sealskin cap) 1 proceeded to pay my visits. 1 think my first call was ia Washington Square not many yards from the Bre-voort; and from my coach windows I 1 could see that the sidewalks were crowded by gentlemen, beneath whose great coats peeped symptoms of evening dress at the which I felp- reassured. I observed that while in the street these gentlemen pre- served a solemn aud almost rueful mien as mough bent on some momentous mission; but as they emerged from houses where they had made a call, it was with a'placid and joyous expression of- countenance, and -that they chuckled as they walked, until they recollected that they were near another door at which a call was due, and so begin to Took solemn again. 1 the gamut of polite conversation ere 1 pulled at the first bell. 1 was never a morning caller; and before the candles are lighted am generally nervous in the society of ladies.

What would be the best thing to say? I asked myself. Should 1 observe that this was a great country, or that my name was Norval? Should I make any reference to the-man-' ner in which the ancient Romans were ac Lcustcmed to keep the first day of the New Year? Should I merely ejaculate, Hail Columbia, or say something newt nd appropriate' bout the Star Spangled Banner On-reflection, 1 determined to confine myself to innocent remarks about tbe-' weather, and subsequently to get out of the scrape as best I could. 1 found, on experience, that I had much exaggerated the difliculties before me. Bit ond the utterance ofa' few incoherent compliments usually ending with, suie I was required to say. nothing at all and 1 discovered that the less 1 said tbe better pleased the ladies seemed tobe.

I found, however, that the -best way to get on was to grin amazingly, and, having seivcd a long apprenticeship to the horse-collar, 1 grinned accordingly. Grinding, in fact, On an American New Year's daV' is contagious. The tonsor who -barbed n.e in the morning grinned like a Cheshire cat: the-Irish waiter who brought me my bieaklast gtiuued like the late Mr. Grimaldi, the ordinarily saturnine driver ot the hackney-coach grinned like a comic mask as I entered his vehicle, and tjie 'darkey splendidly got up in a striped jacket, a white neckcloth with a bow as lug as a bouierang, and Berlin gloves who admitted me to No. Washington Square, grinned as only a nigger can Abatno dtsre omnes One call was very much like another.

1 was ushered into one gilt and splendid parlor after another, there to find a group of ladies in full dress and blazing with jewelry. I made my best bow, grinned ray best grins, and was then aiked if would take seme refreshment. 1 was nothing loth. I think that 1 began to refresh about tyjon, and that conviviality continued until half-past live P. as ou may imagine, I had nd very great appetite for the sevem oclock dinner to winch I was bidderr'at But as 1 subsequently attended a "stag party an entertainment attended only by gentlemen- where a conjurer performed some nMoupdir.g feats of liankey-pankey, and finished the evening wdth a carpet-danc hi West I ourtvenlh street, I dont think I took anj very, great harm by indulgence in the "refreshment-.

Years cat. They were on the most gorgeous and never failed to compri-e oysters. it is. said that wd.cn the late amiable Earl of was in the btates, his attention was ot.e evening attracted to an inscription on the doorjambs of an underground salt ou in Broadway, Oysters in every style. The Earl then Lord Morpeth entered the shelly catern, Give me oysters in every style, he said to the attendant bervitor, ami the night was well-nigh spent ere the British noblemau was "through" with the successive relays brought him cf oysters -stewed and oysters fried, of oysters roasted and oysters steamed, of oysters pickled and oysters, scolloped.

We had oysters in every style on New Years day, and, in addition, pates de foie gras, turtle, venison, canvas-'tack duck, terrapin, chicken salad, dispatch and bashawed lobster, latnbon en surprise, aud other good thn gs, 300 numerous to mention. When to these you add topaz sherry, and Madeira of the Smoked. and Sunny-side, and Governor Pish" varieties, with perhaps an occasional smile of-" vety egridus old Bourborf whisky, you may imagine that lunching out on New 5 ars day in New York is an enjoyment r.ot unfraught with peril to the dyspeptic. A TOUGH STORY Jake McGinnis lived out in Donega, and is noted for drawing the, long bow. A)ne day lie had just stepped into the bar- tioiu for his customary glass, when he was asked for a yarn.

At first he declined, saying he cotrid not think of one; but the oiler of a drink sharpened his memory, and Jake related the following stretch- er:" Are you aware, he began, that my father did a little in the drovers line, and I very often went with him to help him? he once had a hundred cattle, and about twice as many turkeys, to drive three-hundred miles. They were a very awk-Vard drove, as you must know, and as he needed my assistance I accordingly accompanied him. Well, we drove them-three hundred miles in four days. Whats that? said one of the loafers, three hundred miles in four days? That's too much of a good thing, Jake, that would be seventy-five miles a day. Jake, after a moment's reflection, thought his statement was rather steep, so he said, But you see we drove and day, But, interrupted another loafer, did you have no trouble with the turkeys.

says Jake, only they would go to rcost every evening a little before dark. 4 But, continued the interrogator, how could you drive night and day when the -turkeys went to roost before dark? 1 hat's rather mixed, Jake. Jake perceived that be had mads1 a Wutder, buT, nothing' dauutedwlie continued You didnt hear me out. I didu't tell wbi re they wet to roost Where did they roost, then inquired the loafer. Why cn the cat'les back, oT course, arswcicd Jake, without even a sm.L.

To theEdilors oj the Eouisville Journal: Lake Lucerne, Sept. 8t18G7. We left Munich on the cars at 6 oclock in the morning, and dashed away over the country to the little town of Landau, where we arrived at one oclock, and took a boat across Lake Constance, which is a very pretty lake, with its beautiful emerald colored water and banks of green hills Snd smooth meadows crowned with their cottages, and vineyards. This lake is called by the natives Boden-see, and is forty miles long and nine or ten wide, anJ in some places is nearly 1,000 feet deep. The day was beautifully clear, and in the distance we saw the white tops of some of the Alps.

All through Switzerland we found the cars very delightful, being made after the plan of ours, and vastly more comfortable for summer travel than the English coaches. On the way to Zurich we passed through a beautiful country, and as we sped through the green valleys the far off mountains were in view. Zurich is a nice little town at the end of Lake Zurich, or Xuricb-see, where the river Limmat runs out, and has a population of thirty orforty thousand. Besides the Limmat a little creek called the Sihl runs through the town, but joins thefLimmat soon after. Our room at the Hotel du Lac looked down on this little stream, which is twenty or thirty feet deep, but so clear that you see the pretty fish swimming and playing far down on the bottom.

After dinner we hired a row boat and went out on the Zurich-see, which is more beautiful than Constance. It is walled in with grand mountains, at whose feet nestle lovely villas, and neat villages of pretty houses, with flower gardens, orchards, and vineyards surrounding them, and, as on Lake Constance, you see snow-capped mountains afar off. The evening was of the most delicious temperature, aud the lake was a smooth as a sheet of glass, save where some savage old trout made a stampede amongst the mild-mannered shiners by unceremoniously attempting to dine upon them, when there would he a little splashing in the water, and small ripples would run out in circles and die away and it looked as though the old lake was smiling at the troubles of his finny children. That night we went to sleep listening to the murmur of the rapid Sihl as it scampered over the rocks just below our window, and at nine next day we took cars for Zug, little village on little Lake Zug, and thence to Arth, on one of those dapper little steamers that always remind me of a little teal duck. From Zug to Arth we found the scenery grow more and more charming, and, as we drew near Arth, it grew grand and w-ild.

Arth is a very small village, with not more than forty houses in it; blit, from being at the foot of the lligi, where tourists procure horsey, guides, to ascend the mountain, it is a place of importance. From the boat ue went to a little tavern, where we were quickly provided with the necessary outfit for ascending the mountain, which con-si -ted of a stout saddle-hoise for each of us and two J'guktes, who were not necessary, except to attend to the horses and to take them hack when we gave them up. The horses werfe quite large' and strongly-built animals, and their rigging similar to that in America, except that the saddles were se-tured from slipping by breeching, as well as cruppers; and the ladies saddles were provided with a sort of railing running tioni the pftmmel around to the back on the right side, which is a great support, as well as useful in keeping poor riders from slipping off. Our ladies needed no such safety arrangements, i'or you know all Southern women iide well, or think they do. We started off very merrily, notwithstanding a light rain that was falling, and for half an hour our road la in the valley.

The ladies' saddles were cxtrtmcly large, and the ladies, as ou know, rather small, and, the horses being very rough walkers and taking very long step's, the little women slipped about in their saddles, and their heads and shoulders daited forward and backward as yon have seen a chicken's head go when lie is walking. As we began thajfcent of tin mountain the rain increased, and the higher we ascended the haider the rain can.e down; so that by the time we reached the summit (at five oclock) all ol us were dsinp, and several of us (I "amongst the rest were well soaked in very cool water. TLe road runs in a steep z.igzag up the mountainside, and is, in most places, quite smooth, and wide enough for two buses to pass each other. Sometimes it only wide enough for a single horse, aud you were on the edge of precipices, over which, if you. had stum-bltd, you would have gone hundreds 5f fict down to the rocks or valleys below.

Once or twice my horse stumbled, and he had, besides, a disgusting habit of walking on the outer edge of the road, apparently j' to see how near he could go without pitching over. Several times, when we gut to frightful places that would have made an ordinary goats head swim, much a low country mans, like miue, and I g'unced doMu below, and saw the peaceful herds feeding and the honest husbandmen laboring in the fields, I thii.ght to myself, Suppose my horse should tumble me over on to some ot those poor innocent creatures, it might kill them! The appeals of my heart to my ofter nature overcame me, and I yielded to the calls of humanity and dismounted. I felt very much safer ou my own.hgs than on the horse's back; and though, at the foot of the mountain, when I looked up at it, I felt the insignificance of man when compared with nature, yet when I got away up in the clouds, on the brink of a villainously high precipice, and on top ot a horse, I felt painfully large. I neer was so unpleasantly conscious of my size before. I felt top-heavy, like a tall candle in a little candlestick.

According to ttye books and our guides, the views on this ascent are very fine, but we hare only their word for it, as the rain and clouds cut us off from the lower re-gior I. All that I saw was very unpleasant pill we neared the top, when the rain cessed, and we saw the dun-colored cattle ar.d the goats feeding on the green mountain sides, and the white cataracts jumping over the bluffs, or dashing down their rocky paths. We passed several hotels on our way, and at each one the horrid people inside, dry and warm, would rush to the' windows and stick up their eye-glasses at us, and poke one another, and smile aud giggle, as if they had never seen any wet felks before. At last we reached the hotel on the Rigi-Kulm, or very top of tHie mounta-n, which is something over five thousand five hundred feet high, and DEO. D.

PRKRTKK, I JOHN L. HIBHY. 1hlrf Lw.l, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1868. The Meeting at the Court house tomorrow. We that in some quarters there is an impression that the action of this meeting is intended somehow to control or affect the nomination of candidates for the city offices.

This impression is erroneous. The sole purpose of the meeting is the appointment of delegates to the Twenty-second-o'f-February Convention. This is the sole purpose expressed in the call; and it is the sole purpose with respect to which the meeting will act. A Literary. Treat.

We are authorized to announce that Dr; Cox, of Emi-nence, will deliver a course of three lectures in this city, beginning on the night ofTuesday the 14th instant. The subject of the first lecture is The Necessity of Intellectual Liberty; of the second, The Limit to the Authority of Society oyer the Individual; and the third, The Nature and Authority or Public Opinion. The course, short as it is, embraces the whole field of human progress, which, wide as it will he illuminated froin center to circumference by the genius and learning of the lecturer. lie is equal to his great themes. Dr.

Cox is a brother of the late lion. A. M. Cox, who, it will be rememberqH, represented the Jlaysville District in the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Congresses. He is intellectually one of the very first men in the State; and he displays his fine powers and rich acquirements to peculiar advantage ou the platform.

Nowhere, says a distinguished friend of his in a piivatenote to us, is he more at home than in the 'character of a lecturer, when the wealth of literature, history, and philosophy is at the disposal of a prodigal. We can safely promise our citizens that the lectures of Dr. Cox will he among the most interesting and instructive that have ever been delivered in Louisville. They will be indeed a literary treat. The public will receive timely notice of the "place in which the lectures are to be delivered.

SF" A correspondent calls our attention to an article from the Cincinnati Times, to which we in turn call the attention of our renders. It will be found in another column. We shall not spend many words on it. According to the Times, as we understand it, a war of races in the South cannot be averted; whether the conservatives or the radicals shall control the government a war. of races must other words, the Times-avows that a war of races is the inevitable effect of the past policy of the radical party.

The only choice left, if we correctly understand the Times, relates to the issue of this inevitable war, which saay bo either the expulsion of the blacks by the whites or the expulsion 'of the whites by the blacks, hut must be one or the other; and the Times, whilst asserting that the conservative Tiolicy will bring about the former issue, avows that the radical policy is intended to bring about the latter. That 13 to say, the radical party, having brought the country to -a pass in which a war of races is inevitable, takgs the sid.e of the black race against the white. The Tiroes confesses that its party has brought ou war. of races and intends to make the black race victorious in the war. It confesses that its party has been working from the first ard is now working for the extermination or expulsion of the whites of the South by the blacks.

And it rejoices in the A more damning confession was certainly never made. And it is none the less damning because it is not absolutely true. Under the conservative policy, a war of races would not be inevitable. Quite the contrary, notwithstanding all that the radical policy has done to render it inevitable. Let the general government repeal the reconstruction acts, recognize the existing and le-gitiroate governments of the Southern States; withdraw all unconstitutional interference with them, and protect them, it Lecessary, against domestic violence, discharging its own constitutional duty, in short, aud letting them discharge theirs, and there.

would be no war between the two races, and -no emigration of In that event, the white race would spring back to its position of natural supremacy, while the black race would fall hack to ii3 position of natural subordinacy, and both, after perhaps a temporary confusion glowing out of the present inversion of their just and lawful relation to each other, would live together in peace. This is the true solution of the negro and there i3 ho other solution. The so-oalit solution of the ralicals, to say nothing of its unnatural atrocity, is a farther complication of the problem. Instead of solving, the problem, it would go-far to render it forever insolvable. jQne or the other of these solutions, however, the people must take.

They' must take either the Constitution, with lasting peace, and a long train of priceless blessings, or the untrammelled will of the radical party, -with a war of races, ati'd an 'endless train 5f the bitterest curses that ever inflicted and destroyed a fiee people. Vfhat their choice will be we cannot permit ourselves to doubt. tThurlow Weed, thh New York Times says, ill not undertake the task of writing the memoirs of his life until after General Grant is elected President! This we regret to hear. The work undoubtedly would throw light on many obscure parts of our political history. It would he all but invaluable.

The country can ill afford to lose it. We trust that Mr. Weed will reconsider his rash determination. SPIt is hardly worth while for the radicals to talk any more about the confiscation of Southern lands. Those lands are as good or as bad as confiscated already.

They sell for a mere song. A nimble nigger in a favorable location can steal enough- property over night to buy forty acres of ground early the next morning. At Columbus, a freedman named Wallsaid that the blacks were better than the whites. Thereupon a white man kicked him. Not the white man's hand writing, but his foot-writing, was on the walL a Gen.

Grant is the father of the reconstruction scheme. Let him stick to it. Let him fight it out on that line. MURY Ol' JOHN CA RTER, A 1U1 IO 1 THE Visitors to Williams A- Everett says the Boston Transcript, will find there an gxquisite little drawing, which they will attirst be pretty sure to mistake for a fine engraving. It represents the Village Ratcatcher and his dogs, and tells its own story at a glance.

i he picture maybe regarded as quite perfect. But it is more than a work of art it is a wonder, for it is the chefdoeun of an untaught, poor, crippled silk weaver, who drew and paiated it with his mouth alone, without assistance. It is one ot the results of Jiis artistic impulses and constant, patient, unwearying experiments and diligence. This seems incredible: but such we are assured is the strange fact. It has always been owned by the English gentleman who has put it.

as a curiosity, on free exhibition. It came into bis hands as a gift, and there is no doubt of its genuineness or the truth of its origin Besides this, only four ot John Carter for that is the artist's nainei productions known to ex-st. an one of these is in the possession of lctoria John Carter the son of a common Inboter in Coogcshe Essex county, 'England. Ilis only instruction the rud, mints ol rending and writing was obtained at the parish school. He never had a lessen in diawing of any k.nd In May, lt-36, in company with dissolute companions, with wliwiii lie was then a hale lellow.be went on an expedition lo steal young rooks on th estate of Osgood Banbury, a banker of London.

He acci- dentally fc-11 trom a fir tree forty feet irgli. This casually entirely deprived him of the use of his iimbs. He was, until he died, in D53, hardly more than a useless trunk, without power of motion and without feeling in any part of his body except his head and nei k. A visitor, about ayear aftertbis disabling paralysis, loaned him a book containing an account of a young woman who, losing the use of her hands, amused Lerselt by drawing with her mouth. This account interested Carter, and lie determined to try and do the same thing After long continued c-ilorts he stii c-eede 1, by slow degrees, in becoming marvellomh efficient.

Resting upon bis couch he had his paper fixed to a desk, which was place 1 almost pei pendicularly before, and ia close proximity to his face. With his I head inclined towards the right side, and 1 with his hair pencil between his teeth, be I produced by the means of fhe motion of liis neck, assisted by his lips and tongue. I the most beautifully turned strokes, rival- 1 ling, in fact, the greatest proficients in the 1 art of drawing. Ilia wife or sister assist ej him only by fil'ing the brush from the palette with India ink, and placing it be- tween Ins bps. He continued to, twirl it rapidly round so as to brirg it to a fine point for use.

He first outlined or sketch- e-d his composition, and then Idled in and I shaded it attc-r the manner of a fine en- 1 gravtrg. 1 Had we space, much more could be told 1 of this markable case. Carter wa-, as well he be, an object of great in- I tercst to the medical protession and the leading artists of Great Britain, who knew ol his condition and his works, and it is safe to say that any one the latter might be very glad to claim, if he coul 1. the Old Ratcatcher" as his own. The reader may think have unconsciously exaggerated the worth of thi3 picture, Such is net the fact, if we can trust the testimony of Landseer and other painters, and cf engravers who Lave mistaken it for a line engraving.

A Wonderful Rose. There is now on exhibit ion at the nursery of Mr. Frank Morling, No. 2 North Eutaw street, a species ot flower, termed the Rock i.ndisa gieat horticultural curirsity. It is a native of Lower California, and is called by the Mexicans siempre rice (always nltve).

It has no except when it blooms, which occurs bat once 111 twelve months, and theu a delicate s'em arises from a center.of emerald, formed by closely lapping leaves, which spread cut Leer the ground, almost horizontally. 1 Ins stem rises to the height ofa few inch es, aud hears on its apex a cluster of delicate flowers, sometimes of white and sometimes of a scarlet color. The plant can be kept from the soil for any length of time, and by placing it in a bowl of water they will spread their fan-like leaves, and resume their natural green. Professor Bush, of New Haven, has had one of these plants in his possession ten years, and it still retains all of its original vitality. A New York correspondent enlightens the readers of a contemporary with regard to fashionable wreddings in that city, lie states that, owing to the fashion of making rich and costly presents to the btide becoming so general, and also to the tact that it is now expected of people accepting an invitation to attend a wedding that they should bring presents, the number of regrets" has increased to an alarming extent.

To remedy this state of things the custom is now being introduced in New York of putting at the bottom of invitations, No presents will be received except from relatives. There is an establishment in New York that makes a business of renting out to wed-dmg parties silver-plated ware and other articles, to enable the bride to make a becoming display. Gold, lead, copper, coal, iron, salt, and amultitude of other valuables are said to exist in large quantities in Chinji, and, soon as the Chinese will allow railroads to be built into the interior of their country. some Yankees will make splendid fortunes. A Nevada judge has recently added to the stock of law at present governing that Territory a decision, that stealing quartz from m.t.es cf gold and silver is not a crime, 1 ecaue a mining ledge is real estate, and real estate cannot be stolen.

I I I 1 I I I 1 I I 1 a at at as fgs. Interior or exterior, modeling to new designs I adopting the designs of others if preferred. Jm prepared to do work lu my line cheap with -tfltspath, and for design and execution defy com petition. P. BA NNON, tuay 11 diy Bth A Walnnt A 15th A Portlaod av.

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Bradstreet A Sou. Louisville, Ky IVIURM BIIOS CO, Ccmmission Merchants, 47 Fourth street, between Main and Water, KY. ORDERS AND CONSIGNMENTS feOLICi TED, Asentfe Tot Inrtl Oil BEFEBINCM: Morton, Galt. A Co Bankers LoitNville. Tucker A Baukers Edgar eedbani 4 J.

K. Morris A Sons 8. Lltbgow A to tieorge W. Wicks A Co Iorn. Bark house, A irg the xtndertaking at large throughout ti 8tate, and the assistance asked from legislation is simply a continuance jof the present exemption from customs and taxation of imported -machinery for a few years.

This looks well: but our friends must not fall into the same mistake here thst has brought their wine-making into disfavor of late. Haste makes waste, and careless manipulation will spoil the finest material. A certain ijotfor when called to children, no matter what might be the symptoms, always prescribed for one and the same malady woTms. Being summoned one day to the bedside of a little boy, he gravely sat down, and, having felt of the patients pulse, looked up gravely through bis spectacles, and said to the mother in a solemn tone: Worms, madam, worms." To which the mother responded: I tell ye, doctor, the boy hain't got a single worm. He stumbled over a stick' of wood and broke his leg; and I want it set quick.

The doctor, not at all nonplussed, but still determined to vindicate his theory put on a very solemn look, as he said: Worms, madam, I assure you worms in the wood. Inventions frequently occur simultaneously in different parts of the world. Thus the American art of discovering bullets imbedded in the flesh by electricity, is also claimed by the London and Paris physicians, who prove that the invention in all three instances was suggested by the case of Garibaldi when he was wounded at Asfromonte. A report reached this city by the train from Opelika last night that an affray occurred at Dadeville, Tallapoosa county, yesterday, between the whites and blacks, in which several persons were killed, and that a squad of soldiers has been sent from Opelika to quell the riotous spirit of the negroes. Columbus Ga.) Sun, 29 th.

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