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VIRGINIA.

New YORK, January GA Richmond
special says the convention fayors pay
ing the national debt. f
The County Court system of Virginia
will be remodeled on the plan of that in
the Northern States in lieu of the present
magistracy.
A Washington special states that Senor
Pujal has arrived, with full power to sell
the bay and peninsula Of Samaria to the
United States on easy and advantageous
terms. A majority Of the Dominican
people favor the sale.
A. K. Stewart, formerly Secretary Of
the Interior under Fillmore, responds
to an invitation to be present at a ban
quet on the 9Th inst, that he is dis
franchised has not the same privileges
of his negro servants, and says he will
be happy to meet his fellow.patriots
when the shackles shall be stricken from
the limbs Of Virginia and other Southern
States.
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Tur followinc anhorisms on love q

The following aphorisms ON love are
communicated to the GALAXY: Women
like men who Hatter them; but love those
who despise them. Every man, by the
general law, loves all women; all women
love one man. Men are by nature polyg-
amists women, monogamists. Magnifi-
cent lovers make wretched husbands, and
excellent husbands the worst of lovers.
Women become attached to men not for
what men do for them, but what they do
for men. Gratitude paves the way to
their esteem, but selfshness openS the
road to their love. The smallest tender
ness outweighs with woman the great
est sacrifice She will forget the hero
who would die in her behalf, for the mere
gallant who would give her care sses, and
nothing more. When womep's hearts
are touched they are all kindred the
merest dowdy then becomes the sister of
the proudest duchess. Women desire to
love, primarily, and men to be loved !;
hence women idealize, and men analyze,
the objects Of their affection. If wo-
man will not love you, make her hate
YOU and she is half yours; for hate is
too unnatural to her to last, and its first
rebound is tenderness, and the second
passion. Men love women whom they
do not, and women never love men whom
they do, understand. Forever in the
rhetoric of woman's affection, is sem
timental hvnerhnle meaning period vi
exactly two months.
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MEXICO.

New YORK, January GA Havana
special, dated the 9th, states that Vera
Cruz advices of the lst bring city o.
Mexico dates of December 3lst
Slegneir, with 1900 troops, had sailed
for Yucatan, to suppress q revolution
there. The expedition was under the
command of General Alatoore.
Juarez was inaugurated at an extra
ordinary session of Congress on the
18th ult.
In the duel between Colonels Mejia and
Garcia the latter was fatally wounded.
Colonel Barron had arrived to arrange
the affairs of the great Barron estate.
The Vicar of Cuernanaca had been
driven from there.
Morales, who had been kidnapped by
brigands, paid sixty thousand dollars for
his ransom. a M 5 bi
Congress was meditating measures to
surprise the brigands.
The English legation left the City OF
Mexico for Vera Cruz December 10th.
The American Charge d'Affairs has
taken possession of his office, and gave
a banquet to the American Legion OF
Honor ON Christmas day.
General vicanes is suspected of having
Influenced member of Congress to work
in favor of a general amnesty.
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SOUTHERN REIGN OF TERROR.
Three Million Whites and
Blacks on the Point Of STAR
vation-Rapine and Blood
shed Near Radical
Equality Doctrine Taking
Root.
wn.hinrtop Cor. N. Y. HeraId, 26th.l

Washington Cor. N. Y. Herald, Bth.l
One of our travelling correspondents,
who has Just made an extensive tour OF
Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi, Ala
bama, North Carolina and South Caro-
lima, represents the condition OF the
freedmen as heartrending in the extreme.
10 all tie cotton districts Of those States
the great mass of the freedmen are not
only on the point ofstarvatioD, but possess
scarcely a sntficiency of clothing to,cover
their nakedness. At most Of the raaway
stations many colored children collect on
the arrival Of the trains, and enter into
competition with the famisbed swine and
dogs for the possession Of the bones
thrown by passengers from the trains,
while scores Of lazy negroes collect about
the depots as spectators. In the corn
growing districts the prospects OF a
famine are not so near, and whites and
blacks are on friendly terms. He declares
that the negroes are much more destitute
than under the old slave regime. In
many counties Of these States the forests
are filled with armed negroes. who hunt
game in day time aud make raids upon
planters stock at night. The reign OF
terror is general in upper Louisiana,
lower Mississippi, and the cotton dis
tricts Of Georgia and the Carolinas. The
destiiution, however, is not confined to
the blacks.
Thousands Of the white population
have not a months provisions ahead,
and no money with which to lay in
supply. many planters who were far
seeing provided years supply for their
families, but the starving negroes have
very generally pillaged their smoke
houses and granaries, and stripped them
clean. His estimate of the number oil
persons Compiled from the statistics
collected by the Executives Of the States
and olhersl Who will starye unless Con-
gress provides some relief, is three mil
lions, two-thirds Of whom are negroes.
The estimate embraces Louisiana, hlssis-
sippi, Alabama, Georgia and the Caro-
linaA He has no estimate Of the other
Southern States. Unless prompt action
is taken 70 provide for the starving
freedmen and whites, the piliaging Of
he whites will become general the lat.
ter viii resist. and bloody eonaict vill
be the result Planters are generally
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alarmed, and would leave the country,
could they raise the means to remove
their families. Hundreds are offering
their homes for mere song, but can
find no purchasers. Plantations that
hefore the war commanded as high rs
ffty dollars per acre can be purchased
for Eve dollars per acre, so general is
The terror that reigns and the desire OF
the owners TO save their families from
The outrages that are threatened by the
negroes, unless aid comes from the Gov
eminent or the people Of thu North.
On The way North he witnessed Q
striking illustration Of the effect Of Rad
;cal teachings. At Greensboro, N. O., a
marty Of negro emigrants entered the
cars. In the party were two very pretty
white girls. Investigation resulted IN
learning that they were the daughters OF
an English gold-miner in Guilford county,
and had voluntarily left theig bones as
The mistresses Of two coal black negroes
Thew are destined to Vincennes, Ind,
and Xenia, Ohio. Much Indignation was
manifested by the white passengers and
threats of lynching the negroes were IN
dulped in, but not carried out. ?
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A Ruined People,

The editor of the Georgia Citizen, who
has recently made a trip to Southwestern
Georgia, says: From all that we can
gather, in late trip southwark, the
most deplorable state Of restitution and
prospective bankruptcy stares the peo-
pie in the face. Planters generally are
unable to pay expenses, and the mer-
chants will not be able to meet their liza
bilihes. The smallest amounts can not
be collected from parties who have
been accustomed to the Injuries Of
life, and we predict more suffering and
distress the ensuing winter and spring
among the poorer classes than ever be-
ipra witnessed in this section. As to the
eolored race, the prospect is still more
gloomy thousands viii be thrown out O
employment; while other thousands viii
not work if they can get work to do
They prefer IL live some other way
What will be the end thereof, the LORD
only knoweth."
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TIE New York Tribune says the Presi-
dent is winning all the time. 1t confesses
that Grant is aiding Mr.. johnson, and
calls on him to be one thing or another,
to 20 with Mr.. johnson CO resign: -.ccss;;gI. See See
what follows:
He (the President) removed
Stanton, and no word has been said.
Sheridan was banished to the Indian
reservation. The starless Sickles hob
bies up to the Canada frontier to COM
mand regiment. Pope and Ord are
stricken down with rumors of Rousseau
coming on the scene. The Senate-con-
firmed Rousseau, who went TO New Or
leans, to foment dissension under Sheri-
dan, is, it is said, to be brought back
from the damp and cold ATTITUDES of
Walrussia to execute the laws of Con-
gress." Why not? We have Tam
many Hall Democrat in New Orleans
giving us Tammany Hall administra-
ton. Why not Rousseau
The game goes on-the President win
ming ali the time. Nor do we fail to see
that the power which strengthens him is
that of General Grant. There is no use
of concealing or avoiding this fact.
General Grant is an instrument of Mr.
Johnson's will We believe he is SO I'M
willingly; but the country does not con-
slider that. The people only see their
General in the War office. All the
moral influence that clusters around the
illustrious name Of Grant is an element
of power to Mr.. johnson. When the
rioters in Paris wished to make an
attack upon the regular troops, they
captured mayor or q clergyman and
marched him at their head, crying: For
Heavens sake do not shoot the worthy
mayor, or this holy and venerable man of
God Do not be guilty of murder and
sacrilegeW The President has captured
Grant, and degrades him to the same use
as the Partisan rioters Grant may pro-
test, and fret, and explain, and beg not
to be forced into false position, but the
President holds himl We do not place
him in a false position. We see the
President behind him-conrolling and
maneuvering his official actions. IfGrant
is willingly in the War Office, we'll; if
unwilingly, then he should resign.
III General Grant has any
power, now is the time to use it. If he
has not, let some friend demand it for
him. II Congress fails, then he owes it
to his lame to leave the administration
of Mr.. johnson. The country is not
pleased to see the Presidents unpatriotic
work performed "by order Of General
GRAM"
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Planters have learned by the expe
rience of 1865 and 1867, that 1t is worse
than folly to continue to employ labor
at what II has heretofore cost EST
mating its value by its products, they
have paid double its worth; and in
many instances, have involved them
selves in irremediable bankruptcy
While they are convinced that a re-
duction in wages Of more than one
half is absolutely demanded by the
real value of the labor they employ,
the freedmen who constitute the bulk OF
the hireling population for planting uses,
are unwilling to submit to dminution
of their wages Although many. of them
the past season, in farming on their own
account, failed to produce enough to pay
for the food they consumed, they do not
seem to understand why planters have
| refused to contract for their labor in
| 1863 at the prices which they have hith-
erto paid. say from ten to fifteen dollars
per month for single operative, with
provisions, lodging, medical attendance,
etc, furnished.
The consequence of this disagreement,
occasioned clearly by the demand of the
lrce ua, no upH merForm "a that thou
sands of the former. though destitute OF
food and raiment, are out Unemployment,
and the latter In very many cases nave 'os
p.uue. LIZ oess' hn nuI,;rateJ Inv tha;r oSy n
white families.
This is deplorable condition of affairs
Under its innuence me suner,ng iro ~,
ex;ts omono The hacks mnst ;ncrease.
and the crimes of robbery and murder
which are resulting from it, will accumu !,
.h.e no one - m;Se , 1nvu" VII, bring
mon The countrv II ia not in the power
OF the planters to avert them. They
have cxhaustea their resources OF capital
anu oreua. ~ snen pa's a,oo oonnais .
reform in the matter of employing labor
ers.-Jackson Clarion.
If a practicable reform could be readily
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GOD SAVE IRELAND
The New York Herald's scrapo.

From the CONNER ial Advertiser.l
1t is on dit that the Herald has been
refused readmission to the Associated
Press, from which, it will be remembered,
it declared its intention of withdrawing
six months ago. The World opposed
the application Of the Herald to be adj
mitted. Last week large number of
the employees of the Herald received
notice that their services were no longer
reuuired--among them messenger boys,
reporters, correspondents and editors.
The expenses Of the establishment are
thus reduced several hundred dollars
per week, which may enable the Herald
to keep pace with its contemporaries in
the matter of telegraphic news. The
Sun will be published under the name OF
the Daily Sun, as a morning paper, by
the Evening Telegraph Association, "
which has large capital, a great por-
ton of which has been expended in the
fitting up of Tammany Hall as a news
paper Office, and in the purchase Of the
Sun establishment By purchasing the
Sun the Association became a member
Of the Associated Press, which it is pos
sible might not have been accomplished
otherwise. The paper will, it is said,
advocate the election of General Grant
to the Presidency, retrenchment in Gov.
eminent expenses, and the reconstruc-
ton policy of Congress.
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m We are fighting Republicans in
the North; we ask you of the South TO
! keep still---to endure but not indorse the
| power that would murder you and rob
| us. We have as Democrats--as people
no bitter words for the past. We are
working for the future, as our forefathers
did We ask you 10 raise corn instead OF
cotton. We ask you to endure, TO live
poor, TO support your families, to honor
your dead, to obey such laws as are in
force till the coming sense OF the land
will do away with illegal ones and make
better ones. We ask you to raise Tor
consumption more than export. III you
send nothing to New England except
negro paupers she will soon let you alone.
| would, ii had the power, blast your
cotton crops for the next five years. till
the hum of the cotton mills Of New Eng
land had stilled, and till her voice was
one of duplication for fibre to make her
machinery profitable. La Crosse Dem
ocrdt.
The LEDGER was the first paper several
months ago to make the above sugges-
ton as to cotton raising, We opposed
it, First because it would, as we be-
lieved, prove individually Improbable.
Second, because the raising of stock,
meat and breadstuffs, would make us in
dependent for the necessaries Of life, and
prove more profitable, in bringing
money at the same time to the whole
South and every individual man. And
Third, because it would give the North
to understand that we intended to be
independent of them as possible, and
that the less they oppressed us the better
it would be for themselves. We said we
would rather ten cents tax was put on
our cotton than that the two and half
should be taken off. And this, because
we knew that in no event would any
man pro, per here by raising cotton SO
well as he would do by raising every
thing else our soil will produce. We
predict that every man who raises cot
ton in 1868 will come out at the little
end of the horn; while every man who
raises cereals and stock alone, will be
comfortable at least, and stealth and
robbery aside) come out with surplus.
The idea that the falling off here will
raise the price of cotton is absurd. For
the increase of production in Brazil,
Egypt, India and China, and other
quarters is such, that full supply will
reproduced in 1868, even if not lock
is grown here. What is raised here may
depress prices. What we omit to raise
will not be perceptibly felt on the
market in any appreciation of present
prices.
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ER A great victory has now

b9 A great victory has now been
achieved, and an earnest given that white
men are to lie the rulers Of Memphis and
Shelby county henceforth. But, in the
s5diag, stker county elections are 10
come of, and there will be abundant
uses for efficient and permanent organi-
cation. There ought to be no delay in
this matter. Let us at once proceed to
organize a democratic white mans
party TO act as best it may, in conjunc-
ton with the great party Of the North,
and With reference to our interests at
home. The efficiency Of the Radicals
consists in their being unit The
whole mass Of blacks, being subordinated
to few leaders, act as a whole and obey
orders. We must have the same perfect
union, on a voluntary and intelligent
basis. And we cannot have an organi-
zation too soon. Much depends upon it.
We have taken one step towards good
government. We must take many more.
We must nos be satisfied with the glory
oe enc victory. We must advance. A
meeting should be called at once.
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Robert ], Walker on the Revenue-Abolish-
ment of taxation.

A letter from Hon. Robert j. Walker
TO a gentleman in Cleveland, Ohio, re-
ceived during the sitting of the Manu-
facturers' Convention. has been pub
lished, 10 which the writer says
my views on the subject Of internal
revenue and taxation have been already
very fully explained in my address TO the
American people of 3Oth of November
last. / can only repeat the opinion there
expressed that the whole system Of in
ternal revenue should be abolished at
once, with the exception Of taxes on ma
tional banks, on wines, on malt and spirit
uous liquors and tobacco. Our system
Of internal taxation is destroying the in
dustry Of the country, and should be i'm
modiately repealed. On this question
there should be no delay, as it has
already been so oppressive, and has pro
duced SO much dissatisfaction amoug
the people as--if longer continued--so
threaten US with reputation and all il
disastrous consequences"
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n@-The humane and practically wise
suggestion of General Hancock, that
authority should be given him to employ
idle negroes on the levees of Louisiana,
is taken up by the Selma Times. If the
government must support the negroes,
as seems now almost certain, it will be
better for them, as well as ali concerned,
that they should be placed on works of
public Importance. The Times makes
the following sensible suggestions
Should Gen. Meade see proper to COM
init the control and disposition of unem.
ployed negroes into the hands ofthe civil
authorities in each county, itwould result
in much good to both white and black.
1t is evident that the condition Of the
planters is such that they cannot, even
if they wish to, employ labor to the extent
that they did last year.
Setting aside the question of the price
to be paid for hire, it is plain to every
observer that there will be many unem-
ployed, houseless and homeless negroes.
We can see but three ways in which they
can be provided for. Either, first, the
Government must take them upon its
hands and support them in idleness; or,
secondly, they must subsist as best they
can by such transient employment as
they caa find, or, this failing them, by
depredations upon the property of others;
or, thirdly, there must be such police
regulations as will enable the local
authorities to employ them upon public
works, and in return for their labor furn-
ish them the means of support.
The subject is one that demands the
earnest attention Of those in authority.
On its proper disposition will doubtless
depend the comfort, perhaps the exist
ence of thousands Of helpless poor, and
il may be the peace of society.
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Grand and a. 7. stewart.

MY. Correspondence Philadelphia Ledger.l
One Of the morning papers having
announced that A. T. Stewart had in his
possession a letter from General Grant,
in which that distinguished officer had
given bis views at considerable length,
on the various questions Of the day,
your correspondent, 10 the course Of the
day, waited upon Mr.. S, aud inquired
whether the statement was correct, aud
IL so, whether he would not be good
enough to let me make a copy of the
document for the Philadelphia fedqer.
Mr.. Stewart said he was quite bJB
Just thea and had not the time to talk
about il. Your correspondent gent y
intimaied to him that be did not CONF
10 talk, bot simply TO ascertain whether
General Grant had Or had not written
the letter, but the great merchant only
repeated that be bad no time to talk
about il just then.
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weare iust upon the eve Of 1868, and
two years and nine months have passed
since the war ended. In all this time the
Radicals have been in power. Ia all this
time their policy has prevailed North,
South, East, West, everywhere. Ihey
have expended hundreds Of millions
yearly, and taxed the people $500, 900, 900
to raise the money. They have governed
the South by military dictators and freed
mems bureaus. They have, by their
policy, deprecated lands, prevented the
cultivation of crops, broken down man
ufactures, prohibited immigration, ere
ated debt, and retarded all forms Of labor,
contentment and prosperity. And now,
in the closing hours Of the year, we put,
even to the candid men of the dominant
party in Congress, the question which
we also put to the public; What good
has been done to the white race, to the
country at large, or to any State in
the country?" The wretchedness which
this day pervades nearly the whole sec
ton of the Southern country is evidence
OF the failure Of your policy. 1t is writ
ten verywhere-sometim in letters of
blood, sometimes as by fire and sword
that you have nearly ruined the land.
Nearly three years of suspension from
hostilitles, and yet there is no peace !
Trade languishes, taxes increase, the
cost aud burdens Of State weigh heavier
than ever, and yet these incapables still
demand prolonged power, and are now
adding new burdens to the South in order
to maintain it. Every hour, in the ligh.
of such policy, the duty of conservative
men becomes more plain. 1t is to over
throw these inoapables and to demand
the repeal of the obnoxious measures
which are at present so many barriers in
the way of all peace and all substantial
good.-New York Express.
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Profits Out of the Misfortunes Of Others.
The following from the Savannah Re
publican, tells its own story:

publican, tells its own story:
HISEsv1LLE, LIBERTY CO., Ga, Dec. 10.
A sale has taken place at this county
seat that so we'll marks the extreme de-
preston in the money market that /
send you the particulars. Colonel
Quarterman, of this county, deceased,
and his executor, Judge Featter, was
compelled to close the estate. The
property was advertised, as required by
law, and on last court day it was Sold
A handsome residence at Walthour-
vile, with ten acres attached,
out-houses and all the necessary APP
pendages of frst-class planter s
residence, were sold for sixty dollars.
The purchaser was the agent of the
Freedmen's Bureau. His plantation,
four hundred and fifty dollars sold to a
Mr.. Fraser. Sixiy-six acres of other
land, near Walthourvile, brought three
dollars; purchaser, Mr.. w. d, Bacon.
These were all bona fde sales. 1t was
court day, and a large concourse OF
people were present. The most of them
were large property owners, but really
had not five dollars in their pockets, and
of consequence would not bid, as the
sales were for cash.
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r1- Count Bismsrck's yearly income
since he received the gift from the Prus-
sian Parliament, is between forty and
fifty thousand dollars. He lives very
economical, and, according to a cor
respondent, said some weeks ago to
Rothschild that he had no doubt that be
would by-and-by become q millionaire,
Until 1865 he was heavily in debt.
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s9- In St. Louis, Thursday night, as
Mr.. Henry Stiegel, German druggist,
whose place Of business is on the south
west corner Of Ninth and Biddle streets,
was returning to his residence. be was
attacked BY an unknown man, who APP
preached him from behind aud struck
him blow with Ratchet on the head,
inficting a very serious wound.