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DECREASE OF THE COTFON CROP

NV
We find a statement of the total
amount Of the cotton crop, for the wear
ending August 81, 1856, as prepared
for the New York shipping list in De-
BOC for January, 1867. From this II
appears that >3e amount Of the crop OF
1886, was Z,l5l ,646 bales. This ex-
cludes the amount Of former crops that
bad arrived at u ports from May 4,
1860, to September !, 1866. Hence,
2,l5l ,646 Is an accurate statement of the
crop OF 1860, unless q larger amount Of
the crops previous to September, 1863,
were withheld from market until after
date, than the amount of the crOp of
1865 so withheld from market, until after
lst September, 1866. Thus, it is ascer-
tanned, Is practicable, that the crop
grown in 1866 was 2,l51, 646 bales.
The crop Of 1866 is v~ariously esti-
mated from 900, 600 to 100000 bales.
Assume it to be - 600 bales. From
this it would appear that the r grown
in 1865 (the last year Of the war under
many and great disadvantages, was six
hundred and iifty-One thousand bales,
or more than a third greater than
that Of 1856. But, even if It
be impossible to arrive accurately at
the amount of cotton grOwn in 1865 or
1856, this, at least, we are taught by the
statement from which we are Quoting,
and from various other authorities, that
the cotton crop Of 1854 and 1855 was
Two millions eight hundred and forty
seven thousand bales, and that Of 1859
and 1860 four millions six hundred and
sixty-nine thousand bales-at which
ratio of increase the crop Of last wear
tls66l should have been seven millions
of bales instead OF a million and a half
of bales.
In further explanation of the above We
will add, that 40, 600 bales Of cotton
reached u ports from the close Of the
war, May 4, 1855. to September /, 1866.
making the amount received at those
ports TO September 1, 1866, 2,571, 943 ;
from which deduct the 40 coo bales re-
up to September, !, 1865, and we
have 2,ljl 600 bales for the erop of 1865.
From all We could learn from the pa
pers aud from other sources, there was
. much larger area of land in cultivation 4
N cotton in 1866 than in IS65-Rich-
7lOgtd Enquirer.
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A NEW CURE FOR CoSsUMPTION.
raoapt Ioffar f-cr, D.-s

II ACNGhL AGtSci mum ATS 70 tue new
York EUeHiHg Post says:
M.Bsleguer addresses communication
to NJ. PiOrry, in lie COurTier Medical.
describing the properties Of a new oil,
that seems endowed with a marvellous
facility for traversing animal men,
bTanes- ia few drops are poured into
the palm of the hand, and the palm
rubbed with a finger, the oil is o seen
OOZing through the back Of the hand.
The same experiment tried on the fore
arm produces the same result. When
the oil Is saturated by a foreign substance
it loses none Of this remarkable power
for absorption, and can therefore serve
as a vehicle par excellence for the ad-
ministratiOn Of drugs. The experiment
has been = tried with cOpaiba and
with iodine, and with very satisfae-
tory results. When the oil, saturated
with iodine, vas rubbed upon the palm
Of the hand, and the back of the hand
wiped with a piece Of muslin, the muslin
was tinged violet. NJ. BaIeguer believes
that the efficacy Of iodine, if admins
tered in this oil, would be so immensely
increased, that a rational hope might be
entertained Of its power to arrest tuber-
culizatiOn in the lungs and prevent hem
Orrhage. Among the patients upon
whom he has tried this method, in the
first stages Of consumption, he has found
the physical signs of tubercular deposit
diminish, the respiration become freer,
~ezabOHpOuit succeed to smaciation, and a
general feeling Of we'll being to which
the unfOrtunates had long been unaccus-
toned, begin to establish itself.
NJ. Baleguer cOnceals the name ST this
wonderful oil, but he invites NJ. Piorry
to experiment upon it, and offers him
his assistance in the further calculation
of its characteristics.
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known, when their houses are robbed.
1t is thieves carnival, and as to finding
a policeman on an emergency, after
night you might as welllook for an hon
est man in the Congressional lobby. Sec
ond las the city did not rant and did
not employ these gentlemen Of elegant
leisure, we cannot conceive of any rea-
son why it should be swift to pay them.
The next proposition, if it does 80, will
be TO pay the wages of a regiment or
brigade Of negro militia quartered here
10 maintain order, which they will do
with about the same efficiency as the
N~rntrnnolitans catch thieves.
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NEW
REMOK4T

DTTTSBURg COAL AND FHeWOOD-R
i C. HITE hiss rem vi his Coal Office TO aJ9
natr street He has =Iecteu arrab gentuts bv
VII ch he can furnish the best OF ElcEnrv Ash
and OAK Wood 90 the lowest MAJ ket price. bv
the cord or cart load. orders for VoaI Or Wood
viii receive immediate attention. fA5 ne
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BECrOR

Collections made on al 0eresSi65e
points ss the SOWtAs'esf.
Excha &c fsr 'ale On principal cities
OF thlied States aEa On aii BFiE-
eiPal cites CT kurOp..
fsb2 6a
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Lost! Lost!

OUR Commercial Park Book was lost a few
DAYS ago. The Under y i'll rleaSe notify Us.
r. p. WALT d 4.
Lonl IL RrnlLeE klnck on tho Inraa
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against them by force. Kindness, con-
{ Citation, mercy, would long since have
achieved there what they would have
never failed to achieve everywhere.
Austria, because of a like stern policy,
has lost her German possessions, and is
soon, unless her treatment Of Hungary
is changed, to lose that county, which
might be made the ource of wealth and
power.
All these examples should lead us TO a
policy Of kindness, TO a proclamation Of
peace and amnesty, to a cheerful recep-
] ton into our political homestead Of the
brethren who, having strayed from it,
are anxious to return. This dsne-and
the sooner it is done the better--the DESC
lations the war has caused will be re-
moved, and the power Of the country be
greatly enhanced, its property enlarged,
and its ability TO meet the expenses the
war has entailed upon US placed beyond
ali doubt its credit consequently be put
upon as high if not a higher fo)ting than
that of any other nation in The world,
and we be again what God, / trust, de.
signs US to be, brethren forever, having
but one flag, the glorious obi stars and
stripes, " to fight for.
OF course these words of wisdom anC
warning fell UNDECIDED upon the ears o.
the Senate. The impollcy Of Force had
already been determined en-. What
profit will be reaped from it, remains tC
be seen. TERENCE, the old Roman play.
wright, said, two thousand years ago;
"Errat loage,
I Out !mparium credat esse gruvius auJ stabllius
Vi qucd III. guam i1ud quod amieitia adjungi'
tur"
ale greatly errs,
Who deems that government more strong OIL
stable,
By force imposed, than that by amlty ce-
Eented.'
England did not succeed in p%ersuading
the Irishman to love the Saxon, by threG
centuries of persecution, AMI a Union
purchased by the bribery Of members o.
the Irish Parliament. 1t is a thousand
times easier to create national hatreds
than to extinguish them; and it has
never been half as much by war as by
the legislation and oppression after vic
tory, that deathless hates hsve been eB.
gendered. But the human race learns
little wisdom in such matters by expe'
rience or from history, and will always,
we suppose, prefer the Gospel of Hate to
the Gospel of Love. 1t is easy to foresee
the lie of a people that has the STE
vENsEs and CHEEvERs for teachers.
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RlstOri-~-GreealaW opera House.

= ..71I1IT u HIUDUI MVe 1rf rDr~aT- =
ttt-9 me FSst Fam ", a. performed Al W.
49, meier NeW York. to crowded fa---,
upNaIls ol elsnty conseeutira ni-hlr -
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ADJUSTMENTS.
NEW MEMPHIS THBATBR
Lessee and Manassw. THOMPSON.
,Saa eaaaaee oiths Young hearflo1s sns
1leooeo actress Miss BLASCH a

VIII be presented Shakspearas -
comedy entitled As You No. esautiuI
w sns celebrated cuckoo song. aiss BisBSb
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T. ". SMITH, : ; President.
D. A. SHEPHERD, :: Cashier.
fanS 3rn
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Season Of 4 Nights. GRAU. Director.
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Mr. Grau has the honor 70 announces that
MADAME ADELAIDE RIsFORT-
Smyrna times., 1867-11-06
Woman Mnrries Woman.

A person was brought before the police court
at Syracuse, New York, the other day, on
charge of wearing male apparel while being
female, Of making love to the Syracuse bellies
"on false pretences," and marrying woman,
&c. There is no doubt of her teminlnlty,
though her counterfeit Of man is said to have
been perfect. She is English, is supposed to
be about forty years of age, went under the
name Of Alfred Clark, and received remlttan-
ces from England, part of which goes to the
aupport of sister in Syracuse. In reply to
the question, care you male or temale! she
answered, Your officers can tell you, or have
told you" She refused to give any more di-
rect answer to the inquiry IN relation to her
sex, and was committed for further examlna-
ton.
A few weeks since she assumed the garb of
man, and made the acquaintance OF young
lady named Miss Lewis After brief court
ship, they were married, and the parties have
since resided together as husband and wife.
The marriage ceremony was performed about
three weeks since, and the brides father sus-
pecting there was something wrong about his
son-in-law, obtained a private interview, and
| informed her of his suspicion that she was not
what she pretended to be. AT first she SAID
she was a man, but on closer questioning, she
admitted that she was female. She had
marked features, prominent nose, high cheek
bones, black hair, worn long (tor man) and
curling at the end, and apparently brushed and
oiled with care. She wears glazed cap, blue
coat, blue shirt, dark vest, utf-colored pants,
CATER boots, and a shawl over her shoulders
speaks with considerable confidence, but is not
very communicative.
1t is understood that when this eccentric
woman first came to the house of the brides
father, she was dressed in female apparel
and her clothing was changed to man attire
with the knowledge of the family. The lady
father was averse to the match, but the bride
still clings to her woman husband, and claim:
that the arrest is a conspiracy against them.-
They were allowed to meet in one of the ante
rooms of the police Office, and embraced eacf
other with the greatest marks Of affection.
Smyrna times., 1867-11-06

A SECOND ULYSsEs.-An old man of very
acute physiOgnomy, answering to the name Of
Jacob WimOt, was brought before the police
court in London, on one occasion. His clothes
looked as though they might have been bought
second handed in his youthful prime.
What business2 asked the Judge.
None; Pm traveller"
:" A vagabond, perhaps?"
You are not far from wrong. Travellers
and vagabonds are the same The difference
is that the latter travel without money; The
other without brains
Where have you travelled p
All over the continent"
g For what purpose?'
Observation"
"What have you observed?"
"a littl: to commend, much to censure, and
much to laugh at"
"What do you commendY'
"A handsome woman that will stay at home.
an eloquent preacher that will preach short SER.
mons good writer that will not write too
much and fool that has sense enough to
hold his tongue.
"What do you cenSure?"
" A man who marries a girl for her fi1e clo
thing youth who studies law or medicine
while he has the use Of his hands, and the peo-
pie who elect drunkard to office. "
"What do you laugh at?'
laugh at man who expects his position
to command that respect which his personal
qualifications and qualities do not merit"
Smyrna times., 1867-11-06
GPUBLIC-NO. IIO.l
An ACT to pay and discharge certain debts and

AN pay discharge certain debts and expenditures to
the corporation of the city OF Washington.
the House of Representatives Oi
the United States Of America In Congress assembled That Tho
Treasury authorized the
per authorities of city Washington, out Of in
the treasury otherwise appropriated the thirty
thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars and thyfour
full for all claims which the city OF Washington
against the United States account OF moneys expended
the alleys, public grounds IN the
city Washington repairing Of the bridges crossing
the Potomac prior May fifth, eighteen hundred and
sixty Provided That before payng the aforesaid the
mayor of Washington shall present to the Commits
Public Buildings embracing each item oil
charge which said against the United states for expen
to. which account the said Commission
e shall certify be correct and JUST Provided further That
no money shall be paid udr this act until after full
the accounting officers Of the trea
and proof under that the work done at fair and
s5nae prces provided further That before
shall be paid this the city of Washington shall file
of the United States receipt to the ehec
hat the city received the amount to be pad by virtue
III sct in m Of all claims against the for the
and constructing in the of said city
& dat of May, twenty third, eighteen hundred and sixty
| 'Snuroyed, March g. 1907,
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Somebody has nominated Mr.. George II.
Pendleton for President of the United, States,
and it is understood that the distinguished can
didates is building his platform, whereof the
chief planks are: /. A niger is not as good as
white man. 2. Not being as good as as white Te
niger is good for % nothing at a daSrb h.
let RggTr vote nc ~Il donr SSt pece of
green ore, naner 5. A promise to pay is binding
% 6nIv as long as it may be convenient to keep
it, it. 6. Free liquor. We have not heard who
hos been chosen to write the customary cam
nairn nal "Life " of the candidate, but we suggest
Pollard.
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[PUBLIC-No. 1O9.l
AN ACT to provide and compound


by the Senate and House of Representatives O
the United States of America in Congress assembled That
purpose edeemng and retiring compound interest
notes outstanding the Secretary OF the Treasury hereby au-
tOrZe certificates the
prescribed by section four of the entitled An
United states notes and for the
and for funding the floating debt
the United States approved February twentyf eighteen
hundred sixytwO bearing interest rate not exceeding
three centum principal an interest payable in
lawful demand said certificates temporary loan
may Constitute be held by national bank holding
ing the Of the provided for in sections
thirty the act entitled An act to provide
national secured be pledge Of United states bonds,
and to provide the circulation redemption thereof
proved June three eighteen hundred and sXyour Provided
That not less than wOhs the entire Of such bank
shall consist Of lawful OF the United Staes And prOyd
ded further That the amount such temporary certificates at
time outstanding shall exceed fifty millions OF dollars
Approved, March 2.l 1867,
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Peculiar Advantages.
Specialities.
MEDICAL TREATMENT.

Calculations on extensive and reliable data, show
@ecreased rate of mortality uuder what is known
:he Homeopathic system Of medicine. Therefore
make deduction of ten per cent from table rates
lpnn each payment of premium by those habitualy
using this mode OF treatment. In of medical
pracIIce being changed, thereafter full rates Will be
charged In order that injustice may be done to
tho prelering other schools of medicine all apPor
iOhBent Ut profits under reduced rates, will be sepa
:aIelY made.
Smyrna times., 1867-11-06
POET r Y
The Two Brides.

/ saw two maids at the kirk,
And both were fair and sweet;
One was in her bridal robe,
One in a winding sheet.
The chorister sang the hymn,
The sacred rites we're read
And one for life to life,
And one to death was wed!
They went to their bridal beds
In lOveliness and bloom;
One in a merry castle,
One in u silent tomb.
One to the world of sleep,
Locked in the arms of love;
And one in the arms of death
Passed to the Heaven above.
One to the morrow woke
In world of sin and pain;
But the other was happier far,
And never woke againl
Smyrna times., 1867-11-06

An honest old lady in the country when told
of her husband death, exclaimed:
WELL do declare, our troubles never come
alone 1t amt a week since lost my best
hen, aud now Mr.. Hopper has gone too, poor
manp'
Smyrna times., 1867-11-06

A LADY's OPINION OLA LADY's MAN.
Mrs. Stephens, in her monthly magazine, gives
a certain class Of men, the like Of whom are
seen in every community, the benefit of her
opinion as follows:
Our own private opinion of the lady's man
is that he is thoroughly contemptible-a sort
Of life hardly worth thinking about-a nutshell
with the kernel withered up-a handful of
foam drifting over the vine of life-something
not altogether unpleasant to the fancy, but of
no earthly use. n woman Of sense would as
soon be put to sea in man OF war made of
shingles, or take up her residence in card
house, as dream of attaching herself to lady
killer.
Women worth the name are seldom deceived
into thinking our lady man the choicest
Of his seS. Whatever their ignorance may be,
womanly intuition must tell them that the men
who live for great object, and whose spirits
are so firmly knit that they are able to encoun-
ter the storms OF llfe-mcn whose depth and
warmth of feeling resemble the powerful cur
rent Of u mighty river, and not the bubbles on
its surface-who, if they love, are never smit-
ten by mere beauty of foam or feature-that
these men are more worthy even of occupying
their thoughts in idle moments than the tops
and men about town with whose attentions
they amuSe themselves. 1t We were to tell him
this he would only laugh, he has no pride
about him. although full of vanity, and it mat
ters not to him what he may broadly affirm or
quietly inSiAuate.
Soft and delicate though he be, he is as i'm
perViOus to ridicule as a hOd carrier and as re-
gardlesS Of honest contempt as city alderman.
Were you to- hand him this article, he would
take it to some social party and read it aloud,
in most mellihuOus voice. as homage to his
own attractions.
Smyrna times., 1867-11-06

Tn an advertisement for young gentleman
who left his parents, it is stated that 1t mas
ter Jacky will please return to his dlscons0late
"arents Svl he shall not be sent to school, and he
shall sweeten his own tea.
Smyrna times., 1867-11-06
IPUBLIC-NO. 1881

enacted by the and House of Representatives
the United States Of America in Congress assembled That if
person shall rob another kind description of
sona property belonging to the United States shall
carry away the person offending SHALL
convictions be punished by fine exceeding five thousand
dollars by Imprisonment at hard labor not less than
than by BOTH at the discretion of the court
March b
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From Cabel Court House. via Tudges Greek Porers Mill
From Petroleum, via California House and Oil Rock to
From Peryyle, via Clear Fork to Ting River Post Office
From Petroleum Station, via California House and Oil Rock
TO Running Springs -
From From Mnw3ukie n via New K9elg to Paynesyle WI, oh
Royon% % ad Norhpaqp & hMSqpfS& New pdSn Little "O North
KANSAS.
From salina salina County Ottawa County the Saline
From Saline the Kansas Salt COMPANY Works. Oakland
6 jf Gts River Valley via
Ne91da Eurc c%0dS Coan a Madison 'aneV and
hnce o%S M F & GoT snc % Of S%h a Pe Gree Of to B m
mSnsh 3 IN Wilson County, thence to COyvile ,,...,
ellis Mills. to Hoton in Jackson COUNTY.
From Wam9so, patawaome County, by of Allen, Wa
From Burlington Cofey County Belmont, Woodson Coun
From Hawatha Brown County, Muscatah Grasshopper
From Usage Mission Neasho County via Sherman Salaman
ca Petersvie Cherokee County to Neosho Newton County,
From Lawrence via OskalOOsa, to GrasshOpper Falls.
From Topeka by way OF Hoon and Sabetha to Nebraska
From Mound City Linn County, Kansas by of Trading
Post, Linn County to Pleasant Hill Missouri o. o.. l..
From Manhattan Riley County, by of Clay County, to
PottaWatoms County to Council Grove anu
From Paola Rockville, by way of Miami Village New
maj Firm & Fort ss3t & ya Cato to MoPmq1th and rEeeky
weekly from Council Grove to nterect Santa Fe mail near
From Topeka HoltOn jackson County, Kenneku, Atch
son County and Troy, Doulphan County.
From Mound City Linn County to Cherokee city Cherokee
From Fort Scott Baxtes Springs via Pleasant Vea
PgterSye CAeF4kee county % pos do.do Fort A.
From Topeka Shawnee County, Burlington Coey
From Perryvie, Jefferson county, Osaoosa Jefferson
route from CARLYLE Allen County to ALLEN county
B9%6S1 1G eGSnty to aTre & IT, Anderson f2ny
Approved, March p 1861
Smyrna times., 1867-11-06

FFIC IAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at the First Session ofMs 7Hirty-Ninh
CONGRESS.

PUBLIC RESOLUTIoN-NO. 2Sl
JOINT RESOLUTION section five act entitled An
act to increase duties imports and for other
proved June hreth thousand eight hundred ana Sixty
four.
Be it by Senate House of of
the United America Congress assembled That the
paragraph of section five of an act entitled An act to increase
duties and other approved June thr
tieh eighteen hundred and sxtyOur follows, to wit On
lasng mOhair CLOTH silk, twist wool other manufactured
cloth patterns of such size shape and
in such be TT Shoes slippers bOotees,
CATERS and buttons exclusively combined with india rubber
ten centum ad vaOrem be- and the is hereby
pealed.
SEC And be it further enacted That from and after the
OF this resolution machinery for the manufacture
beet and imported for that purpose solely shall be
empted from duty.
Approved March 2, 1867.
Smyrna times., 1867-11-06
Non-forfeitures of Policies.

c. mnOn ltfe and endowment policies nOnIor- |
feiIabe 10 the amount of premium paid after three
annual premiums have been paid.
The Tenprenliunt life and endowment policies
are on-iOrleItable after two annual premiums have
been paid 10 the amount of as many enIhs of the val
ue oi policy, as the number of annual premiums paid
POLICIES SINCONTESTIBLE.
AL policies issued by this Company, are by their
terms incontesti6Le al the expiration of years
against any in the statement ofappcaiIon Thus
guarding against the possibility OF loss by litigation
after death, is frequently the case.
Prompt Payment of Losses.
All losses are by the terms of the policy made pay
able imediate teLy upon satisfactory proof OF loss and
not as usually The at the expiration Of slIty or
ninety days.
Policies Secured by pledge of
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In addition to all the advantages herein before set
forth the Atlantic MutuSl presents feature looking
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By special enactment OF Inc Legislature Vi view
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the Atlantic Mutual Lie Insurance company may
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Prompt Payment of Losses.

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able Immediately upon satisfactory proof OF loss. and
not as is usually The at the expiration Of slrty or
NINETY d1ys.