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2 TIE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, DECEMBIR 27, 1872. NEW CRLEANS. Financial Matters--The French Population---Some Prom- inent Residents. Need of Evangelists---The French Cathe- dral and Market---Bowi~- Knives. Datler and 0'Reilly-French and Spanish Lonisiana-~-The Southwestern Desperado. How the Americans Made New Orleans---Creole Freaks. From Our Own Correspondent. NEW ORLEANS, Dec, 20, 1672 FINANCES. Now Orleans pays about two-thirds of all the State taxes of Louisiana, contributes chiefly. to railway-building, and has & municipal debt of sbovo 925,000,000 The taxationis outrageous, —in many cases greater thanrent. Five dollara and a quarter are assessed for Stato and city taxes, and {ke property is set down st its full ~eluation. In s few of our Northern towns the rates are as high, but we seldom are assessed ab above 20 per cent of the true valuation. The city tax alone in New Orlesns is $2.75 on the huedred. A good deal of the debt of Louisiana was in- urred before the war. Only the Texas & Mobile Tailroad hzs been since created. TAE FRENCH FOPULATION of New Orleans zro of little utility, looked at through American epectacles. A vast portion of the townis owned by rapecious spenthriits, who live fn France, and who anticipate their money beforo itis due. TEC DICHEST RESIDENT PERSONS are said to be J. B. Burnside and Dr. Mercier. TBoberi Wickliffe, who Bourbonized and voted for Grant, practises law at Bayou Sara, and is Tell off. Paul O. Mcbert, Wwho- now supports Warmoth, has an ostensiblo residenco at Iber- ville, but really lives in New York. ‘War- tmotl's lswy er, and the most succeseful practi- tioner, perhaps, in the Stato, is T. J. Semmes, 3 cousin of Raphael Semmes, privateer. The peo- ple of Mobilo scem to respect Semmes, and think it very queer he ehould work so hard and be poor, when he took g0 much monoy from the merchent captaing. Tke New Orleans Semmes is a Dblend gentleman, ageinst whom somebody burled & cerd, while I was in New Orleans, sod accused him of setting up jobs, decoys, and schemes of plunder, that ko might enrich himself by the ‘common ruin of parties and sceiety. I don’t be- lievo this. He looks too oily for it. When you sce WARNOTE AND SEMMES TOGETHER, a8 it was sy privilege to do, you see the defanct South and ke diseased North rubbing nosee. Thero was old ¥ir. Semmes, with his largo, bald- ish, benevolont, pricstly head, opening his pe- cunious eze o the glib whisper of the war moth. 2ORPHY. A great Now Orleans ckap in his time was Paul Morphy, the chess-player. He is now a lawser, with very moderate success, but a very exquisite costume. Nelvillo Soule, son of Pierro Soule, practices ow. Vhat great, adroit, and extinguiched mon .xvere those three,—so typical of New Orleans,— £OULE, BENJAMIN, AND SLIDELL! Slidell was the great organizer, Benjamin the genius, aud Soule the orator. But what remaing of either? Soulo, however, was the nobler hu- AN HpLAL, Gud me Lreibor ok Loast. Ranjamin was the cnemy of men, and Slidell the enemy of iy birthplace. LONGSTREET. Tho iafantile Confederates querrelled with James Longstreet for teking an honorsble Fede- T8l ofiice, while every mother's son of them will sorambie, like ® set of boot-blacks after & “{ghine,” at the mention of any sinocure place to lot. Besuregardis President of street-railroads 2t 210,000 & yeer; Harry Hays, of Texss, made 20,00 ns Sheriif ; General Gibaon has got into Cou -ess; and Dick Taylor is s2id to have made §10, 00 yeer by the lcase of the Pontchartrain Caual. Longetreet Eas filled soyeral positions homestly, and Lo hos a large family to pupport. He secms fo mo to havo tricd 'to bo right snd usofal _overy time, bub the times nroout of joint. And, if he Imakés s mistake 1n forming o new allisnce at the ‘Tmest inpuspicious moment, bo has had the man- Liness not to bo discomfited by jeers. - CASEY AND PACEARD. James T. Casey, Collector of the Port, is not he head of the opposition to Warmoth, for he 38 not o man of worldly foree. That opposition 38 led by Packard, the Marehal —a heavy, bil- Sous, moroso man, who ought to be sttending to %1is Dusiness. A good deal used to bo said sbout iho incorruptibility of Southern socioty; but, hen wo coms to politics, the South wil b found to hiuvo tho most mutinous, factious, and disor- tnized political sosiaty in this country. There Sre bankers end big rats jn_New Orleans who Tinvo been behind every swindie_of conssquence which tho Legisluturs s voted. EATING. Before T got to Now Orleans, I was told that I would gt nothivg (o eat. As my timo was lime fted there, and T wanted to see both sides, I oc- capicd twb Liotels at tho samo time,—one in_the Fronch querter, aud tho other, tho '8t. Charles. The food at both was as good s ono could de- sire, the clarer much superior to tavern-clarot in the North, and I hiave scldom seen more brilliant women than during meal-hours at the St. Charles. 1i THE WOMEN OF THE SOTTIX were conscions of their responsibilities, what in- ‘gt thoy not have for good over polit- blic morals, Bub_many of \omen are will tightivg out tho War, snd 1 ng the household circlo into a sort of grum- ling Ivceum. Tho word * Yankee,” however, Iias been erased from polite society in the South sud, after a whila. we shall have & nomeunclature heroin w cau all talk. I think that tho Bouth svanis EVANGELISTS, moral and religious evanyelists of tho old revi- <al kind, who can harrowthe hearts and disturb, the homes of theughtless and hate-making peo- plo. We need in this country a grand and gen- fine Week of Thanksgivisg, whero there may ‘be universal prayer fer more cheritysnd moro cheerfulness. 1T it were ot for the churches, there would be litt] ¢ Fociety in many parts of the United States. But THE PASTORS, 400 offen, aro the mere servitors of passion. A lcading Ticbel pastor of New Orleans, who kept Gpa great deal of fuse during the War sgainst the American flag, is said to be still di!%aying his gizzard in his sermons ; whilo many Repub- Jicans told mo that the Chaplain of Congross, Newman, whoso biogrephy I touched up last Sear, wag the same political fector around Gen- oral Cauby that Lo has since been pround tho President and Cabinet. A mnoble spirit in the eaching men humility and magnanimity, 15 Slvays lo borevered a8 o statesman, 68 svell as an apostle; but 8 Em’non keoping up strife, and hinting through his sormons at points of worldly controversy, ia a very unlovely ‘character. Noewman has behaved very well of late, and the prayer that ke made just after Greeloy's denth was a finely-cut and sterling tribute.” I said to Scnator Schurz that it was a fine thing. Yes,” said Schurz, * Lo is always eloguont.” THE FRENCH CATHEDHAL. I visited the Cathedral in New Orleans on my say to the YFrench Market, carly one morning. It is eighty rears old, and is called the Catliedral of 8t. Louis. 1t is in bastard architecture, mero -ation and Bpire without model, and on either Luildivgs .epparently of the samo ago, are used as courts, armorjes, ote, A very re, full of tropical blooms, is beforo Cathedral, in tho midst of which 55 thar prancing otatue of Jsckson which Clark Mills balanced in the air, o the Trost astonjchiment of unsophisticated people, £ io tho disguat of soulptors. I womt into e ol Cathiodral, and snw tho pricst come out, Fud tho boy riag the little hell, szd threo of to be the case ina Catholic church, as a Protest- ant church 18 suro to have a debi onit. I used to think that tho reason why s clauee in tho Lord's Prayer spoke about forgiving us our dobts was beeanse the Lord anticipated the con- dition_of His Churches. The Now Orlesns Cathedral had ono fino_old curate, & Spaniard, who was in active service horo for fifty years. BKET \ co, and is full of the eame kind of people, andis devoted to tho salo of stockings as well as of carrots. Here is = hint for our American shop-koepors. In all oxcept Anglo-Saxon countries, the markot-houso Lins been_ availed of by tradcsmen to sell any- thing, fabrica as well as fruits. 1 iave made cfforts, whenever I have been in the Bouth, to find & genuine : BOWIE-ENIFE. Idonot want tho bowie-knife for any practical purpose but to sco what kind of a_thing it is. proposels are invited to accomplish this end. Evon in Arkensas, where everybody is said to carry s kuifo of this eort, nobody would show one. Albort Pike told mo that Lo once visited Wilson, the Speaker who Eilled Authony st his seat in the State Legislature of Arkan- sas. Mo said that Wilson lived some- whers in the Washita River, and that at the dinner-table, ho carved tho pig with bowie-knife. * And,” eaid Pike, #Iwasin o condition_ of stomachic distress Lecause I thought it might bo the same knife with which e cut out Anthony's bowels.” In New Orleans, there is said to be ono man killed for every dny in the year, and tho knifo is more silent and deadly than the bullet. CLUDS. New Orleans is full of clubs, and come two or three which I visited appeared to eulanco the outer social life of tho city, Aclub is tho only institntion which has but ene sex ; and, if it had the sama consistency as tte Lombardy popler, it would disappear. But, like the American bar-room, it secms to keep virility, and to go on to = eclfish longevity, slthough it atomes for its wholly masculino character by the redundancy of pictures of fe- males banging on tho walls. TITE FRENCH QUARTER of New Orleans is a reproduation of some of the drearicst faubonrgs of French ciiies. The houses aro built with anarchway and covrt- yard, but the heathen American has cut a side- door in many instancos, and bricked up the arch- way. 'The French ghops are small, as in Paria; and, in the book-shops, there are the freshest ijmportations from tho Parisien publishers. I bought thero Serdou’s pley, La Palrie, and, at an American book-ehop, picied up a dozen local histori-z, now out of print, for comparatively cheap prices. STATCARY. A largo and ugly statue of ilenry Clay, by Joel Hart, stands in tho busiest part of Canal strect. The breeches aro full of wrinkles, the hands full of curve, aud the expression full of blarnes. Ben. Butler had chisclied on tho pedestral of this statue, where it stiil remains, a senti- ment of Mr. Clay, whero ho cxpresses tho hopo that it may bo Lis privilege to Temove the atigma of Slavery from the United States. The Secretary of the METAIRIE RACING CLUB drovemo to tho grounds, in company with Mr. Sheridan, tho brilliant ofator who stumped tho Btato for Greoley and for Warmolli's ticket. No American city has such_an exquitite course and club-house within easy reach of all the people of the town. Ay eyo was feasted, at this placo, with the de- licious sparkloof Southorn leaves, the cxquisitely clear sky, and the spectaclo of langing oranges. roving In the air, while tho frost of the morn- Tog still touched tho ground. . THE JMATOR of tho city occupied a handsomo Grecian build- ing, snd was a well-ordered Northern person. He gave me tho names of the following railronds a3 rosponsiblo for much of the public debt: Tho Vicksburg & Shreveport, 100 miles buil Nevw Orleans & Jackson, 100 miles ; tho Netw Or- loans, Mobile & Texas, 50 milos; ditto, West Branch, 90 miles; tho Grosoetefo Railrond, 30 ‘milos ; tho Opelousas, 82 miles, T did not go to see any of tho CUSTOM-IOUSE GANG, but saw the Custom-House, which is an ugly building of Quincy granite, about 300 feet squate. Ttlooks liko o den of corruption, just as the Norw York Custom-Houso does, and it has neither ‘art nor beauty about it. Tho Freuch Opera has been suspended in the Crescent City, but_there is o Dramatic Club in & hopeful condition, snd tho theatres are numerous, BUTLER AND O'REILLY, The carecr of General Builer in New Orleans 18 very like that of the first Spanish Governor of Touisiana, Alexender O'Reilly, who began his caroer in 1769 by hmginfi a numberof the Creole Taadnre. Tt was ha who Duilt the existing towers of Hovens, and_his Hispano-Lrigl desceudauts livein Cuba. For seditious speech and writing, prior to the Spenish occupation, he sequesterad the property of tywelve Creoles, £hot six, and sent six to the Moro. Some futuro Gayarre may eay this of Butler, as the Rebel historian of Louisi- ana has gaid of O'Reilly : “Hig talonts 88 amilitery man, and 08 an ad- ministrator when discharging the functions of & civil officer, cannot be the object of a doubt. * ® % 'Bogthero is herdly an instancewhore bloodshed in & political cause, whatevermayhave beon the just and apparent nocessity of it at the timo, did not, soomer or later, riso from tho earth, to clond in the eyo of tho world, tho famo of the author or adviser of the deed. This has become an historical truth, and is confirmed by what O'Reilly's memory hus suffered.” WHAT FRENCI LOUISIANA AMOUNTED TO. There were 3,190 souls in Now Orleans when the Spanieh took possession, and all Louisiana 28 far 88 St. Louis comyrised only 18,533, of whom about balf were whites. French Louis- ijnna was a penal colony, and comprised alot of slayo-driving plantors hasty to mako fortuncs, and of oflicizls as greedy to steal them, with bits of good human nature interposing. After soven- ty years' possession, and an expendituro of 220,- 000,000, the exports of ell Louisiana wore only $250,000 per annum. EPANISH NEW ORLEANS. After the Spanish had held the city thirty-four yours, they gave it up to the Americans, iu 1803, Sith & population of 8,000, and with Louisiana advanced to 80,000 sonls, Tho exports had in- croased to $2,158,000, but Spain had oxpended upon the proyince $15,000,000. In her coloniel period, Louisiana produced Dubsyet, afterwards 2 prominent European Genoral ; Audnbon, the naturalist ; and four or five others less cclobrated. JACKSOX V8. WARNOTH. The social and political attitude of New Or- leans when George Jackson exved it from Eng- lish capture and £ack very much resembled tho presont_motly guiso of tho State ag pulled be- twoen Warmoth and Packard. Jackson repre- sented Warmoth, and was fined $1,000 by Hall, o District Judge of the United States and a sort of Judge Durell, for contempt of Court. Tho Creoles were gotting certificates of alineship from foreign Consuls, and Jackeon ordered the Fronch Consul out of the province, and drove the Creoles up to Baton Rougo en masse. TOE NEW ORLEANS DESPERADO. Tho desperato characters of Louisinna, who Lave been known there since tho American oc- cupntion, bogan in the days of privateering and irating under tho flags of the neighloring Epn.uisb Republics. Many of these, liko Lafitte, wero morely slavers and negro-kidnappers; aud the renowned Bowie and his brothers, associates of the Bowic-knifo, were also slave-catehers and slave-smugglers in Lpunisiena, until tho cause of Texan frecdom made James liowio a glorions de- fonder of the Alamo, and ho, Crockett, and Travis descended into the same comic almanac. Filibustering naturally succeeded the two former practices, ed was a logical fusion of tho slave- trader and Guif-pirate. New Orleaus owed Hovana a grudge o bundrad years old, and, to prova it, attacked soveral littlo Statas of Central Americs, as if tosny: * Wo'ro ouly practising on thoso little chaps, but directly we'll mako Memento Moro of O'Reilly's castle. "It was queer 1o see what curious nssemblages of men made up theso expeditions, all propelled somehow into them by the bewitching incendiary society of New Orleans. 3y elder brother, who Lad como out of the quietest parts of Maryland, and hed but just graduated in medicine, fell into that voriex, and, ina few weeks, met hiy death in Nicaragun,—a country of which ho had robably never heard before. ~The do-rationaliz- 1ng influence of Now Orleauns is far greuter than its do-nationalizing influcnce. HOW THE AMERICANS MADL NEW ORLEANS. The Americans proved their town-making pover ia this city without loss of time. Thirty vears after they received it, the exports of the %ty had resched the dgure of $35,000,000, or all that Frence and Spain had expended. ' However, things were aiways fidgetty, between the public dobt, bank-susponsions, and apprebensions of negro-insurrection. A military barrack, walled mfirloop-holed a8 o citadel for resort if tho negroes should rise, still gives a Spanish look 1o the opvirons of New_Orleans; but tho Stato “hositated” &boyt building a Penitentiary, as her historisn eays, until 156, She never licsi- tated, however, sbout suspecting who woro ‘Abolitionists; and her Governor, Isaac Johnson, in 1850, enunciated tho following extravagant sentence on the subject in ome of his messages: ‘It is far better to bo Jewless than to live under lawless rule.” Goveracr Joe Walker succeeded John- Four ncgroes mako {heir gesuflcctions. It was £olemn as cathedrals generally are, for I nover wont into a catbedralin my lifo but some car- penter was driving nails' during worship, or ‘aomebody wpe PAIDLIng the ceiling. This is sure 2on, und got the public wind ready for secos- oy O Stle “Hobert, . Walkers successor, advocated tho Slibustoring or forcible -in_ i, the couso it was in danger of bocoming 3 free island by tho substitution of Coolio for Af- rican Jabor. Topez having failed, i . mob tho Spanish Consul in New Orleans, which was necordingly done. Betwoon 1530 and 1818, the Stato had 60 defuulters for public moneys. In 1855, it was modo Lnown that the Bwamp Leud Board hed redeemed 000 acres of overtlowed land at a costof ouly &156,000 ; whilo public education was described by the Governor 28 & filure, eshibiting the © bewildering confu- sion'of ¢haos.” **Know-Nothingiem " had great success in Louisiana, chietly becanse it was pro- seriptive of somebody, and Catholics wero as nmnerous in it a5 Protestants. Riots broko out, and Hebert, tho Governor, throwup the sponge, comparing the State, in his valedictory, to *the n.nnrchicu? Governments of South ~America.” The yellow fever interspersed theso go- cial and political smuscments with its frivolo-serious inductions. Robert C. Wickliflo, Governor up to tho John Brown raid, urged a moro stringont legal prohibition against masters permitiing slaves to their own time, and do- Tnanded that all free negroes be expelled the Btate, This scion of & first family of Kentucky Tas boen duly committed to history amongst its monstrositics, nnd the futuro negro historian will award bim his particuler cell. At the same time, ruflianism at the polls, or apathy, provent- ed nearly 3,500 citizens from casting their votes. Tom 2oore, sugar-planter, succeoded WickliTe, and the Secession Convention came on, the forts and property were seized, and the Stato came_to look into the faco of what it had been talking about so long: War! Iiwent into war withdebt and expenditure of $12,250,000,and 709,433 souls, nearly half of whom were slaves. She did it, says Gayarro, “ with eublime imprudence. Sho i8 now,” hie continucs, *tho seat of desolation,— the footstool of subjugation; the hoof of the congueror’s horse Las withered her opulont fields in the land which was once a fit residenco for her brave and freo in}mhfion of the Cau- casian race, and an Elyeium for her African bondsmen. HINTS. Thore is nothing out of Louisiana which used to Lo in it, cxcopt the whip and the fear of negro-insurfection. Thero are many new things chiof of which is wages. Future con- ditions in that State, as in all the South, aro roblematical upon tho African capacity to exert is encrgies without compulsion. God forbid that, baving made this poor human creature our slavd and chaticl three hundreds of yoars, wo ehould wish him ill when the despersto conten- tious of his cnslavers havo made lim free. And God forbid that we should wish evil to his formor master, who was really the victim of the enslaving. Tirero is ono great constitutional amendment necded all over tho South, but no Government can wholly enforco it. 'Fhe party or the raco which obeys it best will surcly conquer in the end. Itis this: “Do unto others e8 yo would that others should do unto you.” G, oot URITED STATES ARMY. List of Officers Rctired on Full Rank of Commana Jicld when Wounded. MAJOR GENERALS. Name. Joreph Hooker.... §. P, Heintzelman®. Thomas J. Weod. Thomns W, Sherman, Richard James B, ¥li Long. Gabriel R, Panl® John B, Mclntosh. 2883 Sses COLONELS, " 5 11310108 Henry W. Freet Theodors Yate: Jobn Tuif Albert W, Preston. T Thomas E, Nal Thomns 8i Robert Aves Robert C, Perry. Joseph C. Clark, Jr.. ‘Alfred Foot Samuel P, Lee Paul Quir] Geozge D. Hill D. H. Cortelyou, Fronkiin Yeaton' Wm. 8. Johnson. ‘Adam Badesu' Dennis J. Do John ¥. Cleghorn F. C. Von Schirach’ John M. Hoag . Jobn Eelliher i Alanson E, Nile: Thomas 11, Tiay. Jacob W, Kelles D.G. Risle Henry H, Kuhn! William P, Atwell George E. Judd Jawes B, Sinclair FmsT Edward B. Kuox Charles W. 5 $1,237.50 0 1,000 " $1,0:9.00 Keyes. General Meintzelman was originally retired as Colonel, Fe 1869, but by joint resolution, approved April 10, 1569, Congréss authorized his refirement with tho full rank of the command held by him when wounded— Major General. General Sickles and Captnin Badeau receive no army pay while they aro in the diplcmatic and cousular servie respectively, General Paul, having becomo totally blind from wounds received at Geltysburg, Congress nted him tho fall pay and ellowance of a rigndier General—$14,500 per smuum (Joint Terolution, April 12, 1870. In December, 1870, General TRoss, then Major, nnaesigoed, was examined by a Retiring Board at Nau Francisco, and found disabled for activo dnty, on nccount of wounds received in batile. No action was talen on the proceodings. of the Dosrd, ond he was Lonorably mustered out January 2, 1871. Tlo was reappointed Sccond Licutenant Soventh Infautry, Feb. 7, 1872, with tho viow of being retired, and on May 20, 1572, was re- tired accordingly as Brigadior General, by au- thority of n special act of Congress, approved May 10, 1572. Captain Franklin Yeaton, a graduato of 1869, was iucapacitated for aciivée service by wounds received in netion with Indiaus, Dec. 26, 1569, while in command of Troop T, Third Cavalry. Captait: Sinclairwas honorably musterod out Jan. 1, 1571, while Captain of the Twenty-third Infautry. 1fc was reappointed Sccond Licuten- ant of tho Sixteenth Infantry Mareh 9, 1871, and retired with the runk of Captain July 1, 1871, baviug been wounded at Bull Run July 18, 1861, whilo in command of a company of the Sevonty- ninth New York. LIST OF OFFICERS TETTED OF THER OWN ATPLICA- TI0N AFTER THIETY YEAKS' SERVICE (SECTION 4, ACT JuLy 15, 1870) 1 Name, Rank when retired, Colonel 1st Cavalry. .. Coloncl 15th Infait Colouel 1st Infantry. |Colonel, unarsigned Colonel'4th Cavalry, Colonel, unassigned, Colonel 14th Infant; Colonel, unasstgned Colonel'3d_Cavalry. Professor Mil. Acad Lt. Col, 5th Artillery. Lt. Col., unassigued. . Lt. Col. 12th Infantry] Lt. Col. 34 Cavalry, Lt. Col. Ordnanc Lt. Col. 17tk Infaniry| 1 |Lt. Col, 3d Artillery.. LEBEESER & EEEERBEE Hayman. A. G. Gibeon. @ —Tho Rev. Charles D. Nott, s grandson of the celebrated Dr. Nott, has been called to the Sec~ sonoxstiop oF purchasp of Cubs, bo- ond Presbyterian ohmph of Davenport, Iowa, e e e e ——e—————————a HORTICULTURAL. Northern 1liinois Iforticultural So= ciety The annuai meeting of ! beld at the now Court Hou: port, Jan. 21,23, 2% s Socioty will bo City of Free- i, 1873, Lyary per- on ntercsted in a....iural pursuits is in- vited to bo present. Kindred Societics through- out the country are requosted to send delegates. The Socioty will organizo on Tucsdsy, Jau. 21, 410 8. m., in rooms in tho now Court Houso. A Committee on Business will be appointed, who will proparo npd submit for each’ duy subjects for discussion, which will bo annonnced from tho 'Chair, and also published in _hand-bills. The discussion and eseays will ombrace topica of the grentest interest in _ Horliculturo. Tho Droparation and revision of lists of fruit, forest, and shado trees, will receive the attention their importance demends. Tesays on flowors and flowor culture aro ox- pected from persons eminent in this depart- ment of Horticnltural Science, and hsts of or- namental shrubs, roses, and flowers will be pro- pared and discussed. i Gentlemen emiuent in all that pertains to the various branches for which our Sacioty was or- ganized, from Obio, Indiona, Michigan, Wis- Gongin, ' Tows, and Minnesota, have slrend signaled their intention to bo presont, and wil fiu'a us tho benefit of their experience and owledge. o . Specimens of cions, seeds, fruits, flowers, ci- der, wines, &c., oro requested. - Papors on many now topics of literature are solicited. . Contributions may be addressed to D. Wilmot Scott, Corresponding Secretary, care of L. K. Scofield, Freeport, LI, Reduced rates of railroad faro have been ob- tained over the Illinois Central, Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy Reilroads, and will be over the principal connecting roads in Northern Tllinois, which will be announced in the horticultural pa- pers about Jan. 1, 1875. Triends of horticulture! Wo earnestly invite you to attend this our annunl moeting, and waken to your interests. Unsheltered homes, oxposed to'the cold of winter and heat of sum- ‘mer, the lack of timbex belts for the protection of stock and crops, the increasing demands on the timber regions of tho North, assuring .their total annihilation within the next quarterof o century, the constantly growing wants for tho uscs of jumter in building, fencing, railroad purposes, &c.,—the increasing frequency of fornados over our treeless prairies, carrying des- truction and death in their track,—ell call for us to arouso awaken with renewed interest and incrensed zeal in the canso of tree planting. Let us make thiss revival meoting, ond tho work we do, tell, not, only upon the ln%‘gard.s of to-day, but for all time, to the ecd that thoso who come after us, and dwell upon these beauti- fulnfimirios of the great Prairie State of Illinois, shall point with pride to the beautiful groves and sheltered homes &8 the work of their fethers. The membership fee has beon reduced from £2 to £1, catitling the person to the published copy of Transactions for 1873. Lewis ELisworTH, President. D. Wiwor ScorT, Cor. Sec’y. Howa State Horticultural Society. Tho sixth annual meoting of this Society will bo beld in the City of Davenport, on Tucsdey, Wednesday, end Thursday, Jan. 21, 22, and 23, 1873, commencing at 10 o'clock on_ the morning of_tho first day. Tt is to be hoped that there will be a large at- tendance of the livo horticulturists of our State, 88 well as from other States, who are cordially invited to meet with us, and to take an activo part in tho great interests of fruit and floricul- turo, trees for ornament and for. timbor, hedgos, etc., the great need of our prairie homes. Hor- ticulturisis ore requested to briug essays upon theso subjects, and if thoy cannoé bring them, send them. The following railroads have consented to give the usual reduction in fare, by prescnting certificate from the Secrotary on_their return : Davenport & St. Paul ; Rockford, Rock Island & St. Louis ; linols Central ; Chicago, Clinton & Dubuque ; Chicago, Dubuguo & Minnesots ; | }Buflington, Cedar lapids & Minnesota ; Central owa. Our Society hag now become one of the per- manent institutions of the State, having, through the liberality of the last Legislaturo, ro- ceivod an anaual amepriation to assist in car- rying out its usefal objects, Co-oporation and _association is the advice to tho industrious producers of our country. Let us meet together for our mutual benefit aud that of the public, Ly the interchange of information and vatugble cxperience of each ono. Persons wishing to become mombers of the Bocicty and tio unablo v atteud, can do 8o Ly sending their names and SI to tho Sccretery, and they will be catitled to s copy of tho trans- actions, when published, vEL FosTeR, President, Muscatine, Ia. DupLer W. ADaxs, Secretary, Waukon, Ia. CUBA. The Government of Colombin Propos- ing the Joint Mcdiation of the Ameri= can Republic in Favor of Cuban In- dependence---A Favorable Answer from San Salvador. BogoT, Sopt. 26, 1872. To H. E., the Minister of Forcign Ayjairs of the Repub- tic of Satvasior : So It is now four years that the Cuban people, after having poclaimed to the world their dotormination to be free and independent, have been eugaged in mortal strife with the mother country for the purpose of completing tho work of emancipation which they undertook. So far there is no sign of su end to this most bloody contest. All that is known is that day by day thestrife is more merciless andmore ruinous. Its progress only increases its horrors, end of tho beautiful island, yesterday o oxuberant in its wealth, nought will be leit but ruin and desola- tion when once the vitality of its productive. forcesis dostroyed. If & war of ikis nature be further prolonged— & war in which every element of extermination including the bullot, tho torch, confiscation, and tho ecaffold has been freely used—that which to- day may o o mere approhionsion born of a fra- ternal hond of sympathy, will to-morrow be s frightful reality. Neither of the belligerents show_any disposi-~ tion to lay down its arms. Spain is stretching every nerve to rotain possession of her colony, at ono time replacing a8 bost_sho may tho daily losses in the ranks of her pacifying army, at au- other by depleting her treasury for tho presorva- ticn of her army, whilo Cuba neither counts nor 'measures tho eacritices by which she trusts to effect her complete liberation. Face to face with such a state of affairs, and witnesses as wo aro of so desperato a strife, it is not to be expected that the people of this contineut, who hayo en- dured, liko Cuba, the life of & colony, and who, ‘beforo she did, made the same secrifices that sho is making o conquer, a8 they havo conquored, & pleco among mations, should romain unmoved, A like couse end a com- mon origin, eversthing in fine that cau bind one people to another in_ the closest Dbonds, nnd tlat is capable of kindling sympathy for their mutual fate, all unito to awaken among tho poople of the American continent a hearty interest in the cause of tho beautiful Antilla. And on this ground these nations, while remain- ing within the limits of intornational comity, have mado numerous demonstrations in favor of ) . Tven Governments over-circumspect when questions like that Letweon Spain and Cubn aro Deing eottled by thesword, have shown that they wero neitherdisinterested nor indifferent to what 18 happening there. Tho world knows how earnestly the Government of the great American Tnion endeavored’to induce the mother country to put a stop to the conilict by recognizing tho goli-government of tho colony. Scarcely & year baod transpired after the declaration of Yara, when the illustrious soldier, who then was and still remains at the head of that Government, stated in Lis message to Congress of December, 1369: “ The poople of the United States eympa- thize with all peoplo struggling for liberty and gelf-government. _* * * For more than o year a valuable province of Spain, and a near neighbor of ours, in whom all_our people cannot but feel s deep interest, has becn strug- gling for independence and freedom. Tho peo- plo &nd the Government of the United States en- tertain the same warm feelingand sympathies for the peoplo of Cubain their pending struggle that they manifested in the previous struggles between Spain and Ler former colonies in favor of the latter. * The United States, in order to put & stop to bloodshed in Cuba, and in the intorest of a neighboring peo- o, proffered their good oflices to bring the ex- isting contest to & termination. The offer not boing accopted by Spain on the basis which we believed could be received by Caba, it was with~ drawn. It is hoped that the good offices of the Tnited Statos may yob prove advantageous for the sctélement of this unbappy strife.” Noither the words nor tue action of the head of the Washington Cabinet can be considered uncalled for. In the present condition of polit- ical beliefs, no one can deny to any people on the earth the right to constitute itself into a na- tion, if it feels and can prove that it has the fiower 80 to do, and Cuba has proved that she as the power. Her tenscity, her Eertinmty, and the powerful resources which sho has de- \'eloyedr:this gigantio stzife, abundantly testi- f5 to her capability. Tho world, thereforo, owea hior not only ity sympathy with ber ceuse, but renpect for and deference to what sho declares to bo her unchangenblo will. Commingled with these powerful and elovated rentions for recognizing Cuba's right to self- governmont, is another and still mors_elovated consideration, both in virtue of its direct pur- pose and the general interests attached to it. uba, when seated on the beuch of natious, does not solely mean enother nation inscribed on the list ; it moans also the finul and alsolute disap- Sen.rnucn on this continont of that stigma so isgrocefal to the whole human race, slavery, the cause alike of tho shame and opprobrium of the civilized world, and a disturbing element to tho freo labor of thesc countries. The Government of Colombia, therefore, Jeoms itself perfectly justified in proposing, a8 through mo it does propose, to your Excellency, the acceptation of this Americin idea—thet all the Governments of Spanish America, in unison with that of Washington, should inaugurato o common action to entreat from Spain that she recognizo the self-government of Cuba; that for this purposo such Govornments o8 have diplomalic sgents nccredited to_ Washington should forward to them instrnctions to this effect, and that such Governments as have no such agents shall accredit such for the purpoge. Spain may oppoeo an obstaclo to hor meeting the views of the meditating Governments in the chapo of the enormous losscs to her treasury which have accrued from her endeavors to ter- minate the war, and should this be the case, tho obatacle car be casily removed—Ilot these samo Governments eubscribe the necessary sum pro rata. Such a course will have no further mean- ing than a desire to effect the proposed object, because the perfect right of Cuba to constitute herself into a nation onco admttcd, any price paid for its ransom is devoid alike of reason and justice. All the peoples of America musi necessarily cdleem the cause for which I solicit the protection of iheir Government as_essentially their own, and the assistance which I have indicated, which is certainly far from being the most efficacious which could bo rendered, 18 simply the help of brothers to abrother end, of course, could exact no repayment. Nevertheless, were it indis- ‘peneable, Cuba,which is still rich enough, might, at no distaut day, repay the debt thus contracted with the mediating Governments. Should this idea of mediation be accepted, as the Government of Colombic_trusts it will be, the first step will bo to regulerize tho war by abolishing confiscation, the scaffold, and al other mcans unadmitted in legitimate warfaro ; for a8 the negotiation for the termination of the strife may be more or less protracted, no small good will have been effected if, meanwhile, the war shall have been humanized. Such, sir, are the ideas on which my Govern- mont wishes to deal with the Cuban ‘question, andjimbued, as it is, with them, it likes to be- liove that it will meet with decided help from those which it addresses, for it is no part of ‘brothorly and Chrisiien peoples to stand quietly by and contemplate unmovad o work of repres- slon o cruel and devastating 28 the one under considoration. Very respectfully your Excellen- cy's servant, Jin CoLuNIE, Seeretary of State. NATIONAL PALAGE, SAS sn.v.mon,} Nov. 12, 1672. The Honorable Secretary of Foreign Afjairsof the United States of Colombia 3 Sre: Lhad the honor to receive your Excel- lency's despatch of the 26th of September last, in which, after depicting in vivid terms the situa- tion of the Cuban people in their heroic strife for their independence, you propose the emi- nently American idea thai tho Governments of this new continent should request of the Span- ish Government the freedom of Cuba, oven pay- ing her an indemnity for tho war, to be su scribed pro rata. I have informed tho citizen President of this Ropublic of the matter, and ho has instructed me to reply to your Excollency, os I have the satisfaction to do, in the following words : Tho Government of Salvador, which has recognized tho belligerencyof the Caban patriots, viowa vith pleasuro the steps initiated by the =t of Colombia,—an action thoroughly with its glorious traditions in favor of the indc:enderce and liberty of tho world of Columbue.” " .o Government of Salvador, ever animated L', a0 samo philanthropic and purely American feelings as those which your Govern- ment so worthily expresses, joyfully declares ita adhesion to the noble idea, and will instruct its Minister Resident in Washington to place him- self inaceord with, and unite Lis eiforts with those of the other Ministers of American Go ernments residont in Washington, in order suc- cessfully to carry ont the negotiation with the Cebinet of Madrid. Congratulating the Government of Columbia and your Excellency on eo happy an idoa, I heve the honor to subscribo myself, with the highest consideration, your faithful ‘and obedient sor- vant, MaNUEL CAcERsS, Secretary of State. OBITUARY. George €azlin. From the New York Tribunc, Dec. 24 The art circles of America and Europe have lost one of their oldest snd most esteemed mem- bers. George Catlin died yesterday morning at half-past 5 o'clock, in the Darcy Duilding, Jer- sey City. Ho bad suffered for meny years from disense of the kidneys, which finally overcame his strength, and gradusally sepped bis long and useful life. Afr. Catlin was _born in 1796, at Wilkesbarre, Luzerne County, Penn., known in olden times a8 the Valley of the Wyoming. His father sent him to Reovos' Law School, in Litchfield, Conn. There young Catlin_romnined for two years, bending oll his energics to the mastery of law. Then he procoeded to Philadelphia, whero ho practiced in his profession for two years ; but notwithstanding his legal studies, ho had for soveral years devoted his leisure moments to the art of painting, for which ho had_slways enter- tnined a passionate admiration, long beforo Lo left his father's roof. Art was his idolized profession. So strong did his passion for art becomo that ho finally aban- doned the law, and came to New York, whero he was soon_engaged in_tho Eniuting of portraits end miniatures. In 1829, being then 33 yeors old, Mr. Catlin had his attention called to tho fack that the pure American race was disappeat- ing beforo the march of civilization. He thore- foto resolved, if possible, to rescuo from obliv- jon tho types and customs of the unfortunnto Indians. From that moment dated the commencement of his life-study, to which ho clung through tho remaining years of his existence, in good or evil fortune, From that day George Catlin was & public bonefactor, and his scbsequent carcer was devoted to the cause of arl and Listory, to which Le Las added a chapter that canuot bo undorvalued. In 1831, Mr. Catlin, though discouraged by his friends and by the Government, accompanied Govemor Clark, of St. Louis, then Superinten- dent of Indian Affairs, in a Western tour pmong the Winnobagos and Menomonics, the Shawa- nos, Secs, and Foxes, nnd with these interviews began the series of lus Indinn paiutings. After tho close of the * Black Hawk War” he visited Black Howk and fivo of his warriors, prironers at Jeffereon Darracks, where be paiuted their portraits. In tho following year ho descended the Mis- souri River, from the mouth of the Yellowstone to St. Louis, in & canoe, with two men, & dis- tance of 2,000 miles, steering it the whole way with his own paddle’; and in that campaign vis- ited and painted tho Mandans, Crows, Blackfeet, K'nisteneux, Assinneboing, Minatarres, Reccar- Tees, Sioux, Puncas, and Towss. Daring theso Joyages ho was the correspondent of the New York Spectator. Theso letters and others written during subse- quent trips to the Weat wero collected and pub- lished in 1841, the voluma being entitled ** Cat- lin's Life Among North American Indisus.” The artiat's anxiety to procure faithful and complete portraits of all the Indian colobritics, and of representatives of every well-known or obscuro tribo, led him into many dengers, and he travel- led thousands of milesin o bark canoe and on horseback. Ho visited nearly every State in the Union, and wae, doubtlese, the best-informed man in the world on Indian life and customs. He married and went to Europe in 1840, taking with him his collection of paintings, which he exhibited in London for threo years. Ho after- wards went to Paris whore his wife suddenly djed, leaving threo dangbters whojare yet living, while the French Revolution turned him out “neck and heels,” as he expressed it in his ‘book. In 1852 ho sailed to Vonnz\le!at and for soveral years was employed in exploring the in- nermost parts of South America, intciviewing scores of tribes of wild Indiaus. 4 Last Rambles in North and South America,” from his pen, is a graphic description of his lifo in tho wilderness of those countrics, He ealso wrote a little book entitled, *Lifted and Suab- sided Rocks of America,” based on his opera~ ticns made during his travels. A very valuable work, ‘North American Folio," Containing twonty-five plates of hunting scenes, was pub- lishod by him in London. "As an suthor, Mr. Cotlin was peculiarly talent- ed, and his books all exhibit nnusual merit, As an artist, he excelled, nnd tho fidelity of his drawings was highly commended by Lewis Cas Humboldt, Scnoolcraft, and others. His pei h?:z'" spirited and accurate, the portraits bel remarkable likenesses, while the innd- scapo viows aro porfect ropresentations. Ut within two years, Mr. Catlin has resided in Brus- ecls, preparing his socond gallory of Indian characters, and also several books which were published in London. Laost outumn his collection, comprising 500 portraits, was _exhibited_at the SBomerville Art Gallory in this city, and was visited by thon- sands, whilo the preys deservedly praised its ex- cellenco. This collection is now at the Smith- sonian Institute, and a petition is awaiti g greas for ita parchags. Lo 18 swaiting Con —_—— A SPANISH MURDER. A ]Tl_flt Malker of Barcelona Killed by !n.u Servant and Her Lover-Cut in Pm;;::i and Scwed up in Mats, om the Imprente. of Barcelona, Spair . Tho presontstate of the case, which 1a now be- ing triod by the Judge of tho District of San Baitren, in‘relation to_tho marder of Pedro Batllori, & mat-maker, in_the streot of Conda del Asalto, permits us 'to loy the following de- tails of this horrible crimo bafora tho public : Podro Batillori was divorced from his lnwfal wifo, Josefa Mas, £omo_twonty-two vears ago. Ho hiad no children by her, and his only relative was o brother. - Ho was possossed of some prop- erty, which ho had_ willed away, after his do- censo, to one Gregoria Foix. in payment of ser- vieea' which H!f been rendered him, This vill was executed on tho 7th of September last. Theso two, Pedro Batllori and his sorvant, Gro- goria Foix. lived alone in tho mat factory. Gre- goria hied had for some time criminal relations With a privato of the Corps of Engineers, Victo- Hiano Ubiernay Guilarto by name. » man_ about y0ars of age, robust, tall, an ceit ot co{;l‘:gix;ance. AL i hien Ubiornn's regiment left for Madri about tho end of Scptesbor, he ecorsad s s mained in Burcelona. From that date Grogoria Foix took caro of him ‘and supplied him with money. She first tried to get him a roors, in tho Gracia, but the people would mot receivo him there because he had no_pupers. At last she procuted a lodging for him in thé Louse of oue oso Rigat, at No, 20 Sun Joronimostreet. Thero she possed bim Off us bor brother, carried us meals to bim evory day, end became responsible for the rent of his room. _About this time Gre. gorin had coneeived the iden of killing her mas- ter, and sho proposed the crimo to her lover, 8ho assured him that when the old man was oub of the way, thoy could get married, set up a store, sud live lappy. Victoriano could not long, however, resist tho machis nations of this mfernal woman (bis own words), and she dragged him to his perdition. She hid him ono night in tho factory; but his cournge failed kim, and ho left the house the next mora- in vithout having been seen Ly Batllor, Sight days after this Gregoria went to Vie- toriano's, in San Jeronimo street, and taking him with her, hid bim in & emall room alongside of tho ono in which sho slapt, aud which was im- mediately over the room of Pedro Batllori. At the usual hour the unsuspecting mat-maker shut up bis ehop and went to bed. 1t was proba- blo that ho slept very soundly, for there ap- pears to be but littlo doubt that Gregoria geve him a strong dose of opium, which she had Dought that vory dsy in a neighboring_ drug- storo. When Batllori was asleep, Gregoria went down stairs, lit a lamp in the kitchen, and pro- ceeded to boil some oil and honey in & small carthen pot. Her intention was to - pour this down her master's _throat; but this part of her devilish plan was not executed. Sho then took eome nshes in a piece of papor and went up stairs to call her accomplice. As tho couple reached Tatllori's room Victoriano, threw himself on the mat maker, seized him by tho throat, and en- deavorod to choke him. Batllori awoke in terror, and af the same instant Gregorie threw the ashes fLis oyes, Sho then huried harself upon her vietim, striking him in_the most sensitive parts of Lis'porson, and. striking him until she killed As goon as Batllori was dead, his murderers returned to Gregoria's room end went to slesp 88 if nothing had happened. Before retiring, Gregoria was anxious to reatore strength to her lover, and for the purpose she offered him a cup of coffee, into which she had soraped the phos- Ehoms of a bundle of mntches. Victoriano, owever, suspecting something, refused to drink it. On the following morning, the door of the shop was opened at the usual hour, only it was the servant, not the master, who opened it. She then sent out in quest of & person, whom it is now impradent to name, with whom, in consid- eration of & sum of money, she madp a borgain that he should help her in cutting the body of the unfortunnte mat maker. In this operation the wholo of the next dey (Sundsy) was spent. In tho evening Gregoria again went out to find 2 man to carry off some bundles for herin a band-cart. She found onein the stroet, Arco del Featro, and the two went together to find & eart. Gregoria then took this men to the house in Asalto street, in order to show him the place to which ho was to go with the hand-cart on the following mamin%. At 6 o'ciock on Monday morning the cart was in front of the mat storo. Three bundles sewed up iu mats and corded were ready. One con- tained the truuk, snother the arms, feot, and hends, and the third the thighs of the poor mat maker. The head was wanting. This Gregoria Foix had carried in her arms over night to the gardens of San Beltran. Meanwhile Victoriano and the unstspecting hauler of the hend cart medo their way through Estrells, Ssn Paolo, and Tonda streets to tho gate of San ‘Antonio, on the Hostafranchs road, where, leaving the bundles, YVictoriana gave the cartman sixty conts, and took Ia:v?hot him‘.l t’l‘gnt same afterncon a oung girl happened to bo gathering egg plants Tnthg gardens of 8w Deliran, and & bundlo done_up in coargo cloth caught her eye. She called somo pooplo neas b hand, and they, undoing the cloth, were horrified to find a hu- man head. The _Judge of the district was summoned, but no clue to tho mystery conld be found. Tho head was then talken to the Santa Cruz Hospital, nnd on the following day was publicly exhibited with & view to its identification. Itwas identified the naxt day. Meanwhile the other remains of what in life bad been Pedro Batllori had been discoy- ered at the San Antonio gate, Gregoria_was ar- rested, but sho stoutly denied_all knowledge of the crime, 2nd stated that Batllori had gone out on Sunday to collect a certain bill, and that he had not returned. At this time the Judge learned that a certain barber, D. Caystano Floronsa by name, had bled a porson in San Jeronimo street, on the night of Monday. Florensa appeared at once beforo the Judge, and disposed that while he was shaving a civil guard, o woman came into his shop and exked bim to go and bleed o man; that while he was finishing tho shaving ho eutored into con- versation with her. She told him she had a messago to give him, which was that ho should g0 to the mat store at No. 26 Asalto street, which she owned. Florensz went with tha wom-~ an to the house, 2nd found there » man stretch- ed upon g cot, who kept his face covered, and who hold out his arm to be bled. He says ho noticed other people in the room, all of whom seemed very despondent, and that ho saw theroa towel covered with blood, As soonas the bleed- ing was performed, Gregoria (for this was tho woman in question) handed him s quarter. Ho left, telling the people to take care of the sick man, who was Victoriano Ubjerna. As soon as Florensa heard of the murder of the mat seller iu Asalto street he thought he had solved the mystery through tho matter of that bleeding. HG informed the Judgo of what ho had don and seen, and, principally through his fustrumontality, Juatios o Likely t6 be metod ot to tlio perpotrators of this barbarous crime. e e GENERAL NEWS ITEMS, A compauy in New Orleaus Las shipped to Chicago this season aheut 0,000 barrels of arti- ficial asphalt, for £O0fng purposes. A Tormer in Shelby County, Towa, raised, this season, from 81 acres, over-1,000 bushels of wheat. Tho first crop paid for the quarter sec- tion. —The Burlington (Eans.) Patriot says, eince September_last, somo_ cight or nino women in and about Burlington have died from the perils of maternity. —General Sherman tells the dismay of = frontiersman when told there would not be an Indisn war thatyear. *“\Why, good God,” said ze, “in case of peace what shall we do wit™ our o "Y o Delaware Indians live in rame houses, wear cut-away copts and gte=u-up collars, fail in ‘business, and co r.m'ete b ,fiozcgmfi on the dollar, and are e<tting quite civilized. s, A e o mderiaker ndvertises: Get s Doliday coffins of J. Waterhonse. Don’t go up ordown Shawnee sircet without seeing my stock of caskets and coffins.” —3frs. McGuire, of Dodson Station, O., broke the head of a young man who insisted on wooing her daughter. ’D.\ou&!: dead, he cannot but be congratulated upon this early escape from such & mother-in-law. —The mnewsboys’ lodging-house, under the cupervision of the *Children's Aid Socioty,” in Now York, has lodged, in soventeen years, 10,033 different boys, besides conferring numerous other charities to boys, —The past year 25,000 barrels of beans, of four bushels each, were shipped from Brockport, . Y. The average price was £2.00 per bushel, and the income $200,000. About 700 acres were dovoted to the crop in that vicinity. —A 14-year old boy in Syracuse, N.Y., put two bullets into & hack driver last weok, and Niagara Falls tallk of erecting a monument ta the boy on Goat Island. ~—The Inspectors of tho Magsachusetts Stata Prison at Charlestown will probably recommend its removal in their report to the Legislature, in which case the building, which has cost tha State some 2133,000, will probably be purchased by tho Eastern Railrosd Company. —Tho reported burning of old Fort Kearney is acanard. The old Fort still exists, with its beautiful parnde ground, surrounded with lofty and beautifal trees, and is still & living remem- brance of the past military glory of the place. . —The Great Eastern Circus wassoldat auction in Bcima, Aln., s few days ago. The jelophant was bought by Mr. DeHaven for $10,000. Six bay horses bronght £8,400. The den containing the lioness and cubs, £6,085. The Bengal tiger and leopards, 36,000, The bufTaloes, $100 each. Tho ring horses soid ab trom €300 to S1,000 each. _—From a New England town comes tha starte ling intolligence that ‘‘matching coppers” ig the favorite amusement at parties and recep~ tions. Not long since s Professor’s daughtex won $3.50 at ‘““twenty-deck poker” in n single sitting. This domesticating “ tiger” bodes 20 good. —The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company (from Oswego to Lewiston) have, it is said, de- termined to cross tho Nisgara River at tho site of the Leviston suspension Lridge, now erect- ing, but which is Iocated at the most availzblo point for crossing. The construction of this road will give life to the two deadest towns on the continent—Lewiston and Queenstown. —Tho total amount of currency bonds issued forthe State of Georgin is 5,633,500 ; gold bonds, $2,508,000; total direct indobtedness, $91,296,500. The amount of contingent debs - regarded valid is £3,138,400, making the total direct and contingent debt £11,411,900. The total assets of the State are 33,018.800. The to- tal tax for ordinary purposes is 21,117,869 ; esti- mated ordinary cxpenses for 1872, $800,000: leaving = balance of 2317969 for payment of losns and interest. The Common School Fund, independent of the foregoing, i 85:1,492. - —James Lanigan, about 22 years old, emploged upon s branch of the Alleghény Valley Railroad, Lilled & comrade named Robert Joues, in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, on Friday, by stabbing him in the breast with a butcher-knife whilo en-~ gogedin o drunken altercation. On Saturdsy n}sm, Lanigan reached Brady’s Bend aand stole o ride upon o coal car, arriving in Oil City Sunday morning. His sullerings with tho cold during. the night were intense, und his limbs were frozen 80 that he had to be assisted from the trein. On Sunday evening ho confessed the murder to tha police. —The silk manufacture at Paterson, N. J., is seriously embarrassed by & striko affecting from 800 to 1,000 operatives. The great csteblish- ment of Tilt & Sons has reduced the price of weaving twilled goods from 50 to 40 cents per yard, the wages amounting at tho former rate, &y tho employers, to about $3.50 per day. This industry is carried on by men who take the silk to their homes and weave it on hand-looms. The reduction did not at first produce & strike, but one was precipitated by the giving out of some work to apprentices af 25 cents per yard. Tho men employed on these goods in andther establishment have also struck. Public feeling is beightened by the arraignment before the grand jury of two men for “conspiring ” to de- tain another from working. Tho sewing-silk shops are not affected. _Altogether, it i8 s seri- ous drawback to the leading industry of Paterson. Happily, there are now very few strikes in pro~ gress thronghout the country. —There i8 & hack-driver in Vicksburg who, Dby the sublimity of his extortions, has cast tho hack-drivers of all other cities into the shads. He got hold of an emigrant, the other day, aad charged him $125 for transferring his bagaazo from the depot to the ferry-boat. Not content with this, he personally pounded the cmigrant ¥ for declining to pay the money. He wax this brought before s Justice, and flned 25. At the last accounts he was in jail howling to | tho Justice to remit the fine, which ho refused ’ most emphatically to do. \When this Jehu geis upon his box again, it is supposed that he wil have n mitigated idea of tho valuo of his profes- sional services. —YWo indignantly read of & benat of o manin @rass Lako, Mich., who, becanselis horses canl 1 not draw a heavy Ioad, Kindled s fire under them just to stimulato their exertions, whereby they were grievously burned. He has been locked ' up, and shonld be kept so until Mr. Bergh cen have aa opportunity of showing him that his conduct was foolish as well as cruol. —A nice_reformatory the jail in Kalumazos - must be. Miss Clara Underwood. who had beex for some months confined there for larcony, be- ing diecharged, went npon ber wey rejoicing 3 nd well she might rejoice, for she managed to off with her tho sheets and biankets from the bedin her cell. She may have wanted this l drapery of her couch for & nemento of her tem- porary home ; bu: the stern jailer weat nfter tho_public properts, and when he brought it back be brought back Clara with him. —We_confess that we aro rather than else shocked by the sccount of a funeral which wo find in & Massachusetts newspaper. Ilere it is: *The funeral exercises were conducted Rev. Mr. Woods, Methodist, and were very & emn and affecting to the numerous relatives and friends present. The Doctor looked per- fectly natural as be lay in his cofiin, secmiug tc goy to his old friends, ¢ What's all this fusa about >—I am happy.'” This beats the story of the fine old Irieh gentleman, all of tho oldor time, who declined to remain dead in his cofiin while such oxcellont whiskey was travelling around the board. —— e PERSONAL. Mrs. Gould, an American lady, has & achool of 200 pupils at Rome. —Dr. Haight declines his election as Bishop of Massachusetts on account of ill health. —Jolin Russell Young is onthe staff of a Lon- don paper, sad intends to stay there, —Captain Ciriaty, Treasurer-elect of Towa. will make Judge J. D. Ingalls, of Warren County. his Doputy. b —Ths Kev. A. J. Patterson, pastor of the Uni- vorsalist Society at Boston Highlands, was une-~ Dle to proach on Suuday, and his wife occupied his pulpit. —Warren F. Leland has purchesed tho Trim- ble Opers House, at Albany, N. Y., of Alrs. A. Trimblo, and will leas» it t6 Edwin Adams. —The students of the Michigan University concluded not to pay Henry Ward Beecher 31,000 for one lecturo, sceing that said sum would pur- clmgo 20,000 glasses of beer and other braiu- meldng material. —The famousorgan builder, Eberhard Friedrich Walcker, who made the gront organ in Doston and tho ‘celebrated instrument in the Cuthedral of Ulm, died recently at Ludwigsburg, in Bava- rin, whore his factory was sitnated. It is stated that tho privato fortune of the ex-King of Naples will be returned to him on tho condition that he will abstain from ull politi- cal intrigue. —L. U. Reavis, Sceretary of the National Cap- ital Removal Committee, is now corrosr with leading men of tho country ip ~oren: to renewing the agitation, and cslLug & couvention for the furtheranco of the movement. > —Miss_Cobbe, an Engleh femalo adept It © ‘mental philogophy, lias lately published lons #nd well-written articles in two London magizines, in which she contends that dogs, as well asmen, Dave immorts] couls. —Phwbe Couzins excluded the nanshif naughty men from ber lecture in Des MV OF « Licensed Sin,” though girls n® ¢ €10 & 0HH7 to listen to a spoech dese-0ing female immor] 7 Dr. Georga W, Lavrence, the resilent physician_a¢ ot Springs, Ark., was recdutiy Emlced in macriago at Little Rock, to Clara E- Lillienthal, of New. Orleans. Dr. Lewrenco is ono of the most widely-known and populer gen: b i tlemen of the South, and Miss L‘xll.ieufi " Al attained & prominent place in Southerr circles. Tho nowspapers of Arkan=3 0 Orleans contain a succession of~>ASTHEY —Judge Duroll was borp. & DU, ) and is o son of the late Feniel M. Durell, o Dlace. | Ho wont tn monisisaa & short tino Pors tho war, i vas mado 8 Judgo by, Tr Qont Tinersd for want of better timber. - Fo w1 Setlve & cotton operations at the close of th placo who were burned out conflagration. F —President Grant lately visited his zged f5t) er, the Postmaster or Covington, K., and they. are ramors in that town that he will appoiri wood Miller speciel agent in place of Mr. 735 ijc sllowing Jesse R. Grant to continne ¥ ] 28 Postmaster. Mr. Miller is chief clof¥ office, which position he has filled £07 of years. .. _has showt M. Paul Janet, o Fronch writex %0 o) that sinco the year 1789 there haye o ™, corg e different governments in Frawte to 0" gjit duration of which has been frott years. Fr::fi“: the marriage, ml: cisco, of Flora, oni cDer- Maim, ofBortemonth, 8. My t0 C. - 1E0C ‘mot, of San Francisca the bride TEPT o0 by hor father with 531,000, snd bY A6 005 4 ith $100,000, in addition to BUMErOTR T st inst., in Sa8 2 ghiter_of Charles . l | those who are in the anuual habit of visiting | bishop Alemass, Cal o costly presents frgn other i:\g.;e:: b‘_'r‘ulfi’ e Taony was doubly performed, A3t by tho o Horatio Stebbins, ni;;;&m, and then by i