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THE MAID.
thf f.oH romcs a fragranco sweet,
r ,,il. i„T ,.f summer weald be complete
b “ lt ' c h the Bound of her coming feel.
— Old Sony.
.1 ; SCO whore morning zephyr blows,
nearly tints of the dawndiaclose
' Li.nni on the end of her rod. red noBo.
0 b “ ° —Ilawkcye.
arroBi the croBB-lot lane she sighs,
1,1 i , r0 B8 acroea—a glad eurprise—
i ,, i, . the croaB of. her cross-crass eyes.
—Ex. (forgotten.)
nc the stubble, against the storm
mo-ey., whistling through the farm,
bustle Blueg over her heckled arm.
—N. To Graphic.
flowers bloom brighter where «he stands,
‘i’d ark for neither gold nor lands
□j I sottiy press her warty hands.
—Norristown Herald.
if that maid were only my wife!
’ for into my peaceful life
|heM brin£ a big bustle, though she brought
ot «trife.
HOME to NEW YORK.
on the Georgia Railroad, Crops,
Good Rains, Charleston,
<ea Voyage, etc.
>rKAMER Gulf Stream,
August 18,1877.
I/W ,%n,-ier: The trip from Rome
Cliarliston is how made so quick
I pleasantly that one is hardly con-
ms that time has transpired at all,
t traveler leaves Rome at 5 a. m., ar-
ves in Atlanta at 91, at Augusta 5 r.
1; leaves Augusta at 8, and arrives in
(liarles at 7 next morning.
There is not much to say about this
rip, except that there is all along to
ugusta a most gratifying prospect of
le crops. Of course the crops are light
1 along from Atlanta io Augusta, but
his is merely because the land is too
and exhausted to make heavy
(rops under any circumstances, under
■ present exhausting and never recu
perating plan of farming. It is so
Itrange that men should think that
and can be forever productive without
being replenished. Nature has been
(especially liberal toward the lands of
Middle as well as Northern Georgia,
land if the cultivators of the soil would,
fey an energetic and persistent system
»f fertilizing, put back what common-
> would teach they must have, in
(order to retain healthy, producing
[quantities, then these lands, like the
[ old fields of Europe, would get better
'•nil better from generation to genera-
e in, and not be dwindling down to
‘ r worthlessness, as these lands are
-v doing,
i Your correspondent saw thousands of
acres of land in Italy, last summer, that
are known to have been in constant
cultivation for over two thousand years,
and yet they now produce as well as
they did when Cicsnr returned to Rome
a triumph, or when Paul preached on
,. u /r's Hill. The fertility of these lands
legus been retained by constant and per
cent fertilizing, and this fact is such
(■necessary and natural a conclusion
Hat no one ever questions it, and yet
r ”;ino-tenths of our Georgia farmers eith-
i ir entirely neglect to restore the neces
sary ingredients of productiveness to
heir lands, or else do worse by admin
istering artificial stimulants, the sec
ondary effect of which is to make them
less prod uctive than if no fertilizer had
“ a been used at all. If our farmers in
'' North Georgia desire to know exactly
■ what will be the productiveness of their
lands in, say twenty years, let them go
down through the middle parts of the
State and they will see it. It is just as
impossible for soil to retain its richness
while all the ingredients of produc
tiveness are being drawn out of it, as it
is for water to run up hill. And yet
not one farmer in fifty makes it a spe
cial and essential part of every year’s
work to make and save manures, but
they nearly all entirely neglect the rich
muck deposits to be found on nearly
every farm; the ashes that are annually
made, and the indefinite amount of
leaves and vegetable mould that might
be scraped up every winter in the for
ests. But I did not start out to write
an agricultural essay, yet the foreshad
owing of what our own'section will in
evitably como to, unless there is a
change in the plans of the farmers, is
so painfully dark, that I could not re
frain from uttering a word of warning.
There is one thing, however, that is
refreshing, and makes the heart rejoice,
even among the old worn out hills of
Middle Georgia, that is the fruit and
melon crops. I never saw such sights
of peaches, apples and pears, The'jjoor
old trees that have maintained life, in
spite of neglect and the ravages of stock,
are everywhere breaking down with
their burdens of delicious fruit Forty-
pound watermelons sell for ten cents,
and the sweetest little canteloupes that
ever tickled the tooth of an epicure for
two or three cents each.
There have been abundant rains all
through this section, even on to Charles
ton, and the crops are all as good as
they can be under the present mode of
cultivation.
There was one thing that happened
between Atlanta and Augusta that per
haps demands the attention of our leg
islators. Three times our train had to
slacken up on account of stock on the
track. Is it not true generally through
out the State that there is a careless
ness on the part of stock owners living
on railroads that ought to be punisha
ble by law. They seem to favor and
take a delight in seeing their cattle
roving around the track, hoping, no
doubt, that if the railroad will be so
reckless as to kill one of the creatures,
that they may get three or four times
its value. Is it not time for.the fact to
be recognised that railroads and the
le who travel on them have some
right to turn a herd of cattle on the
railroad than he has to place an ob
struction on the track ? Because it is
proverbially true that railroads and
| other corporations cannot get justice
from the juries of the country, is it,
hence, necessary to let a reckless disre
gard for human life go unpunished ?
Not only the recent loss of life on the
Georgia Railroad, but frequent similar
accidents all over the State, suggested
these questions.
Charleston is brightening up a little,
and more improvements are now going
on than at any other time since imme
diately after the war, Hampton’s elec
tion has, to a large extent, taken the
arrogance out of the haughty carpet
baggers and conceited negroes, and de
cent people now have some assurance
of their rights. Thieves are at a dis
count, and honest people are at par.
There ie no yellow fever or other sick
ness here, and the prospect of a large
large trade this fall is excellent.
Our steamer, the Gulf Stream, sailed
at 8 a. m. on Thursday, and not on
Wednesday at 11 a. m., as at first ad
vertised. She is an excellent little
freight boat, with fair accommodations
for passengers. The officers are affable
and attentive, and they set the best ta
ble I have ever found on any of the
boats running between New York and
the Southern ports. There are about a
dozen passengers, all gentlemen but
one, and wh have had a very social,
pleasant time. The weather has been
delightful, and, with one slight excep
tion, there has been no sea sickness
aboard. M. D.
P. S.—Sunday morning we arrived in
New York Bay at 5, but were delayed
by quarantine officers not coming
aboard till 8 o’clock, when a landing
waB affected.
Pennsylvania Correspondence.
Reminiscences of tbe War—A Description
or Ligonier Valley—A Fearful Tornado-
Crops, Weather, etc.
Ligonier Valley, Pa., )
August 13,1877. J
To Editor the of The Courier:
Variety is said to be the spice of life,
and as we believe in that doctrine, we
will give your readers a letter of it this
time. After hearing a man eulogize
Gen. Sherman a few days ago, we were
led into th$ following train of thought.
When Gen. Sherman left Bridgeport,
Ala., to begin the campaign which ended
with the capture of Atlanta, his force, all
told was not far from 100,000 men
Gen. Joe E. Johnston was then in the vi
cinity of Ringgold, in North Georgia,
40,000 men. The advantages which
Sherman had over Johnstou, under such
circumstances, can be seen at a glance.
And yet it took Sherman four months to
march less than 200 miles and capture
the “Gate City.” Sherman was obliged
to depend on superior numbers, while
Johnston relied on superior General
ship and the unflinching gallantry of his
command.
Sherman was a good General; but the
circumstances prove Johnston to be vast
ly his superior. Sherman, like Grant,
accomplished the work with brute force.
Both Generals were opposed by superior
Generalship, and we defy successful con
tradiction. Let the intelligent, impartial
reader, therofore examine the facts be
fore pronouncing a eulogy upon either
Grant or Sherman. Our own opinion is
that Sherman was superior to Grant, and
that Johnston was in some respects su
perior to Lee. There is perhaps no man
in America as capable of conducting a
retreat as Joe Johnston, Lee was in
trepid and impetuous; Johnston brave
and cautious—both splendid command
ers; but Johnston, on the average, was
always our choice. They both defended
their cause manfully, for four years; and
while aged the veteran, Lee, has passed
away,his name,as well as that of Joe John-
ston.will live as long as gallant deeds com
mand the admiration of mankind.
Peace to the ashes of the former and
success to the latter, is our prayer. We
now come to a
DESCRIPTION OF LIGONIER VALLEY.
This valley is located along the eastern
border of Westmoreland county. Its
length is about thirty miles by an aver
age breadth of five miles. It stretches
ont from Donegal on the South to New
Florence on the North, and lies in be
tween Chestnut Ridge and Laurel Hill.
The soil is generally fertile, and adapted
to wheat, com, oats, &c. Farming is the
chief pursuit. School houses and higher
institutions of learning are scattered from
one end of the other. The people are
industrious, intelligent and patriotic, ex
cept the leaders of the Radical party, of
course they are not.
This valley is rich in minerals, especial
ly coal and iron ore, and some years ago
quite a number of blast furnaces were in
operation here. All these, however suc
cumbed to the pressure of hard times at
last This valley is watered by the Loy-
alhanna and Four-mile Run. The for
mer winds its serpentine way for many
miles along the foot of Laurel Hill, in a
northerly direction, finally discharging
its waters in the Connemangh riTer.
The Four-mile Run runs parallel with
the Loyalhanna for many miles; bnt
the Loyalhanna at last makes an abrupt
bend to the West and thus receives the
waters of the Four-mile Run. These
streams contain most of the varieties of
fish, from a large cat down to a small
chub. We were raised on the Four-mile
Run, within three milee of where we still
reside. We now come to speak of
A FEARFUL TORNADO
which swept through this locality on the
Tlmmnmml in the
region of tlaj^kes in the West, and.
reached, it is Skid, as far east as the Al
leghany mountains, demolishing bams,
timber and fences, bnt not generally
doing much damage-io houses.
It killed a large amount of Btock, and
had it occured in the day, instead of the
night, a great sacrifice of human life
would have been the consequence. For
tunately we sustained no damage,although
it passed Within eighty rods of ns, up
rooting trees and crashing things gener-
rlly.
The timber in many places reminded
us forcibly of the timber in Georgia,
after a desperate battle. We were in
blissful ignorance of the event until
the next day, and for once we most em
phatically gloried in our ignorance.
And now a word in regard to
crops, weather, etc.
The harvest is now over, and the
farmers are preparing the ground for
another ciop. The crop is an abun
dant one, and was put away in fine
condition. There will be plenty of
everything. The weather is splendid
—temperature seventy-five to eighty-
five. The gross-hopper is here in force,
bnt he put in his apperance late, and
will, it is thought, do but little damage.
That incorrigible, irrepressible bore and
pest, the ring-streaked, striped, spotted
and speckled potato “ bugger” is with
us, also. Key-Stone.
Letter from 'Washington.
Mr. Hayes’ First Message—A Commission
of Arbitration Between Capital and La
bor—Two Prominent Lawyers Under
Ball for Forgery-
We make the following interesting
extracts from a letter from Washington
city:
“It now seems taken for granted
that Mr. Hayes’ first message will be
largely devoted to a consideration of
the relations of capital and labor, os
found existing between great corpora
tions and their employees. It is known
that several members of the Cabinet
are in favor of legislation creating a
commission of arbitration. It appears
that Secretary McCrary, at the last ses
sion, urged through the House the
passage of a bill investing Congress
with a partial control of our great
trunk railway lines. It failed in the
Senate; but it is believed something of
the kind will bo recommended. Mr.
Sherman’s statement that four men
practically control^ the_£novement by
railroad of^*^ apple . <900 tons of
freight is certainly k jgg-jtlve.
“Messrs. Peugh and Grow,respectable
members of the Washington bar, are
under heavy bail for the grand jury’s
action for alleged forgery. In 1873,
Peugh, as attorney of one Tompkins, of
Georgia, secured an award of 81,343.86
by the Court of Claims for property
taken by the Government during the
war. Two drafts were issued, one for
SI,008.15, the other for $133.71, the
amount of fee claimed by Peugh, and
both payable to Tompkins. It appears
that Tompkins was slow to pay his at
torney, and he, to get the money, dis
posed of the drafts to Grow One was
paid last December, the other in Janu
ary, both endorsed by Tompkins and
Grow. The Treasury officials after
wards decided that Tompkins’ signature
was a forgery, and Grow refunded the
money. Grow now states that he en
trusted the drafts to a party who en
gaged to get them signed by Tompkins;
that they were returned to him duly
signed, and that he never doubted the
genuineness of Tompkins’ signature.
It is now claimed that evidence has
been discovered that the claims are ei
ther greatly exaggerated or wholly
fraudulent, and as a statute is said to be
in existence giving the Treasury ac
counting officers the right to review
awards, and to refuse payment under
such circumstances, it may, after all,
turn out that it had been better for the
trio had Tompkins promptly paid his
lawyer. The case is of great local in
terest on account of tho social and pro
fessional standing ef the lawyers, and
of some general interest because of tbe
novel points involved.”
The Meat Question.
Slops Worth 925,000,000 Annually!
Col. Aiken, agricultural editor of
the Charleston News and Courier, nays:
We believe the estimated population
of the Sonth is 12,000,000 sonls, one-
third of whom are negroes. Eight mil
lions of this population doubtless live
in the cotton belt, and purchase two-
thirds of the meat they annually con
sume. The Georgia Commissioner of
Agriculture says that State buys annu
ally $18,000,000 worth of meat. Allow
ing an average expenditure, based upon
this data, for each of the other cotton
States, there can be no question but
that cotton States spend annually
8100,000,000 for the meat they con
sume. This is allowing twelve and a
half dollars per capita for the annual
consumption of bought meat by the
men, women and children of the cot
ton States. If this were paid for in
cosh it would buy almost enough to’do
two years; but the bulk of it is bought
on a credit, and almost twice os much
paid for it as it is worth. We ore con
vinced that if each family in the
the South were to buy in October an
Essex pig (we have no pigs for sale)
that by the end of the twelve months
there would be enongh home-raised
meat in the Sonth to save one-fourth
of that vast amount of money, if these
jigs received daily the slope from the
ritchens which are now thrown away.
Think of it! The slops of our Southern
households, if properly utilized, are
worth about 825,000,000 annually. Are
they not worth saving 7
State Convention. ’* ^
( SYNOPSIS OF PROCEEDINGS. .
: Thirtty-sixthDay—Mondsv, Aug- 20lli.
After the usual introductory services,
motions to reconsider, etc., Mr. Disc sians cf the existmg Constitution of
mnko offered the following amendment f 1 " 8 State* and in accordance with the
, .. T - . A. . laws for enforcement thereof which
to the report on Legislative Depart
ment: ■ 0 • _ I * U ' : y
“The legal rate of interest in this
State shall not exceed eight per cent
ner annum, and the Generiu Assembly
at its' first session after the adoption'oi
this Constitution shall provide a law
for the enforcement of this article.”
The Convention refused to entertain
said amendment
may hereafter be so set apart at any
■time, shall be and remain valid as to
all debts pnd liabilities existing at the
.time of tbe adoption of this Constitu
te]*,--to the same extent they would
lave been had said Constitution not
been revised.” . . ■ •. •’ l.-
i On motion of Mr.Hammond, of Mon
roe, the additional section was adopted.
_l .x>n --o- u , , l t Mr! Greer, of Jones, offered an addi-
Report on Bill of Rights was taken eonal sectio ’ ni ^ follows:
up to perfect certain sections. Para
graph 27 was agreed to as followB:
“Laws of a general nature shall have
uniform operation througbouithe State,
and no special law shall bo enacted in
any case for which provision has been
made by any existing general law. No
general law affecting private rights shaft
be varied in any particular case by spe,
cial legislation, except with the free
consent in writing of all persons affect
ed thereby, and no person under legal
disabilitp to contract is capable of such
free consent"
Thlrty-sixtU Day—Tuesday, Aug. 21st.
The number of survivors of the Mexi
can war is now estimated at between nine
and ten thousand.
The business of the day—report of
committee on location of the capital—
was taken up. After a lengthy discus
sion, the following ordinance was
adopted:
Be it ordained by tbe people of
Georgia in convention assembled :
1st That the question of the location
of the capital of this State be kept, ont
the constitution to be adopted by this
convention.
2nd. That at the first general el
hereafter held for mem Mrs
oral Assembly every voter-:
on his ballot “ Atlanta” or
ville,” and the one .of these places re-'
ceiving the largest number of votes
shall be the capital of the State until
changed by the same authority, and in
the same way that may be provided for
the alteration of the constitution that
may be adopted by the convention,
whether said constitution be ratified or
rejected, and that every person entitled
to vote for members of the General As
sembly under the present constitution
and laws.-of the State shall be entitled
to vote-under this ordinance. And in
the event of the rejection of said con
stitution, should a majority of tho votes
cast be in favor of Milledgeville, then
this provision to operate and take effect
as an amendment to the present consti
tution.
Mr. Edge, chairman of committee on
conventional expenses, made a report
stating that Gen. Toombs having ac
cepted the contract to furnish the need
ed money upon specified conditions—
Therefore, be it ordained by the peo-
jle of Georgia, in convention assem-
>led, and it is hereby ordained by the
authority of the same, That this con
vention accept tbe tender of General
Toombs, and instruct the Hon. Charles
J. Jenkins, president of the convention,
to proceed immediately to issue a suf
ficient number of bonds at 7 per cent.
; >er annum to run until the close of the
;irst session of the next General As
sembly, or sooner if funds come into
the Treasury, which can be made avail
able to the amount of one thousand
dollars each, os may be necessary to
defray the expenses of this body, and
deposit the same with the Treasurer of
the State, for disbursement under the
authority of the convention.
A resolution of thanks to Gen. Toombs
was unanimously adopted by a rising
vote, followed by long continued ap
plause.
Convention adjourned until Wednes
day morning.
Thirty-seventh Day—Wednesday* Aug, 22,
A number of motions to reconsider
occupied the attention of tho Conven
tion.
Sections I, II and III of the report
on homestead, as adopted by the Con
vention, were crowded out of onr last
issue. They allow a homestead of six
teen hundred dollars, against which no
decree or judgment of court shall be en
forced, except for taxes, purchase mon
ey of the same, labor done thereon, ma
terial furnished therefor, or for removal
of encumbrance thereon; but the home
stead can be waived except as to kitch
en and household furniture, provisions
for one year, etc., not to exceed in val
ue three hundred dollars.
A motion to reconsider the action of
the Convention in striking from the
third section of the report on the home
stead the clause which restricts the
right of waiver to the concurrent con
sent of the wife with the husband, was
agreed to.
Mr. Wright, of Floyd, offered the fol
lowing substitute for section III:
The debtor shall not have power to
waive or renounce his right to the ben
efit of the exemption provided for in
this article. And he shall not, after it
is set apart, alienate or encumber the
property so exempted, but it may be
sold by the debtor and his wife, if any,
jointly, with the sanction of the Judge
of the Superior Court of the county
where the debtor resides, or the land
is situated, upon application to him,
the proceeds to be reinvested upon the
same uses. The homestead herein pro
vided shall be in fee simple title to the
head of the family and shall descend
to his heirs.
This amendment was not reached.
Mr. Jenkins then announced that he
had received the sum of 820,000, which
he had placed to the credit of the Con
vention with Mr. Reafroe, as the finan
cial agent of the Convention, to be dis
bursed by.him without commission.
Section V was rend as follows:
Section V. The applicant shall, at
any time, have the right to supplement
his exemption by adding to an amount,
already set apart, which is less than
the whole amount of exemption herein
allowed, a sufficiency to make his ex
emption equal to the whole amount.
Mr. Bristow. That woj acted upon
and .adopted yesterday#
The President. That is true, sir.
Mr. Matthews. I offered an inde
pendent section as follows:
“Homesteads and exemptions of per
sonal property which have been hereto
fore set apart by virtue of the provi-
' “Homestead and personal property
to be exempted Bhall be set apart, and
'feftued by a commission of three free
holders of the county, one to be selected
by the applicant, one by credit
creditors, and the other by the or
»y, and an appeal from that award
be taken to a jury in the Superior
Court
The additional section was received,
and, upon motion, adopted as an addi
tional section.
The seventh section was adopted as
follows:-
“All property of the wife, in her pos
session at the time of her marriage, and
11 property given to, inherited or ac-
uired by her, shall, remain her sepa-
ate property land not be liable for the
debts of her husband.
Ur. Dell, of Screven, offered the fol
lowing, which was adopted:
Be it ordained by the people of Geor
gia in convention assembled, and be it
enketed by the authority of the same:
11 That the article adopted by this
Convention on the subject of homestead
* exemption shall not form a part of
_ Constitution, except as hereinafter
lyided.
At the election held for the ratifi
or rejection of this Constitution it
Shaft be lawful for each voter to have
written. or printed on his hallot the
words “Homestead of 1877,” or the
words “Homestead of 1868.”
j 3/Tn the event that a majority of
ballots so cast have endorsed upon them
the words “Homestead of 1877,” then
said article so adopted by this Conven
tion shall form a part of the Constitu
tion submitted, if the same is ratified,
bat in the event that said Constitution
60 submitted shall not be ratified, then
the article on homestead and exemp
tions so adopted as' aforesaid by this
Convention shall supercede article 7 of
the Constitution of 1863 on the subject
of homestead and exemptions, and
form a part of said Constitution.
4. If a majority of tbe ballots so cast
as aforesaid shall .have endorsed upon
them the words “Homestead of 1868,”
then article 7 of this Constitution of
1868 shall supercede the article on
homestead and exemptions, adopted by
this Convention, and shall he incorpo
rated in and form a part of the Consti
tution so submitted and ratified.
Thirty-eigbtll Day—Thursday, Aug. 23d.
The Convention adopted an ordi
nance making provision for the judicial
circuits being equalized.
Report of committee leaving the pub
lic institutions of the State with the
Legislature, to do with them as it deem
ed best, was adopted.
Report of Committee on Insurance
Companies was taken up.
Paragraph 1, requiring all life insur
ance companies chartered by other
States, desiring to do business in Geor
gia, to deposit with the proper officer
in their several States a security fund
not less than $100,000, as a guarantee
fund to secure policyholders, was
agreed to.
Paragraph 2, requiring all life insur
ance companies chartered by Georgia
to make a similar deposit with the
Comptroller General, was agreed to.
Paragraph 3, that the General As
sembly shill require fire insurance
companies to make a reasonable de
posit with the State Treasurer, was
agreed to.
Paragraph 4, requiring all insurance
companies to make a semi-annual re
port to the Goveanor, was agreed to.
Toombs on the Homestead.
We clip from the Telegraph and Mes
senger the following speech on the home
stead node by Toombs in the Conven
tion:
The great rights of Englishman have
been Efe, liberty and dower for five hun
dred years. This is not a question of
either debtor of creditor, but of society.
If the homestead be fixed there can
be no wrong to the creditor, for he is on
notice and he who would wish to take the
property of an innocent party i3 not only
a dishonest creditor but a robber of the
poor—God’s poor. 'Underthis proposed
stem yon would tarn Ihe’women out in
io highways, from there to the poor
house. The poor house is to the sons the
road to the chain-gang; and to the
daughters, desolation.
You are called by Holy Writ to look
upon the goods of another not to con
sume them, but to protect them—to stand
up for the rights of humanity. It said
it isnot all of life to live, but oh! it is
still less of life to live only to make
money, but it is far far nobler to live for
your kind.
Look at your Comptroller’s report and
yon will see that your people have saved
about ninety cento apiece each for the
last ten or eleven. 1 shall not talk of
your great commonwealth.
State! They who rob yoa tell you
It is a lie, a lie! Yoa are a dying nation,
a nation dying of poverty. So, now, fix
a home for the penniless and dependent.
I will save them. I dare speakany truth I
choose, which is a troth. Yoa used to
puhish aune once, but nowyou have con
verted everthing to misdemeanors. For-
merly it was a crime to neglect the wifi
and children, bnt not now. The home
stead should be inalienable and in fie
simple forever.
The capitalist, the dealer, the grasper
would deprive the innocent women and
children of their little all. But I forbid
it, in the name of justice I forbid it, in
the name of truth I forbid it, and in the
name of the Cheat Eternal I forbid it!
Jefferson Davis.
Tbe True Story of Hie Capture—He was
Not Disguised in t. ny Way.
Memphis Appeal.]
We are in receipt of the August num
ber of the Southern Historical Society
Papers, which is exceedingly interest
ing, taken up, as it is, mainly with let
ters from - distinguished officers who
served with the great chief, upon the
causes of the defeat of Gen. Lee at the
battle of Gettysburg. From it we copy
? ie following upon the capture of Mr.
efferson Davis, President of the Con
federate States: . ■}'
' We regret to see that in an article in
the Philadelphia Times Gen. Wilson
reyives the stale slander that President
Davis was captured in a woman’s dis
guise. We hope to present before long
a full statement of the facte; but in the
meantime we give, Without alteration
the following statement of a Federal
foldier_who was present, and which
the statement of Gen. Wil-
io was not present at the cap-
JEFF. DAVIS’ ALLEGED DISGUISE.
■ Portland (Maine) Argus: “I am no
admirer of Jeff Davis. I am a Yankee,
born between Saccarappa and Gorham
Corner ; am full of Yankee prejudices;
but I think it wicked to lie even about
him, or, for the matter, about the deviL
I was with the party that captured Jeff
Davis; saw the whole transaction from
the beginning. I now say—and hope
you will publish it—that Jeff Davis did
tyot have on at the time he was taken
any such garment as is worn by wo
men. He did have over his shoulders
a water-proof article of clothing, some
thing like a “havelock.” It was not in
tho least concealed. He wore a hat, and
did not carry a pail, bucket or kettle in
any way. To the best of my recollec
tion, he carried nothing whatever in his
hands. His wife did not tell any per
son that her hnsband might hurt some
body if he got exasperated. She be
haved like a lady, and he as a gentle
man, though manifestly he was cha
rmed at being taken into custody,
or soldiers behaved like gentlemen, as
they were, and our officers like honora
ble, brave men; and the foolish stories
that went the newspaper rounds of the
day, telling how wolfishly he deported
himself were all false. I know what I
m writing about. I saw Jefferson
'avis many times while he was
ih_ Portland many years ago, and
think I was the first one who recognized
him at the time ‘of his arrest
it was known that he was certainly
taken, some newspaper correspondent,
Ii knew his name at the time, fabricated
the story about his disguise in an old
woman’s dress. I heard the whole
uutttr talked over as a good joke, and
the officers, who knew better, never
took the trouble to deny it. Perhaps
they thought the Confederate Presi
dent deserved all the contempt that
could he put upon him, I think so,
too; only I would never perpetrate a
falsehood that by any means would be
come history. And, further, I wonld
never slander a woman who has shown
so much devotion as Mrs. Davis to
her hnsband, no matter how wicked
he is or may have been. I defy any
person to find a single officer or
soldier who was present at the capture
of Jefferson Davis who will say, upon
honor, that he was disguised in wo
man’s clothes, or that his wife acted in
any way unladylike or undignified on
that occasion. I go for trying him for his
crimes, and, if he is found guilty, pun
ishing him. Bat I would not lie about
him when the truth will certainly make
it bad enough.
Jas. H. Parker.”
Elburnville, Pa.
The Cotton Crop of 1877.
Report or the Department of Agriculture.
Washington, Aug. 15.—The cotton
report of the Department of Agricul
ture make3 an unusual showing of the
condition for the month of August, no
material declines being apparent from
the status in Jnly. The general aver
age for July was ninety-three and four-
tenths ; in August it was ninety-three.
No State averages a stand higher than
in 1S76, except those of Louisiana and
Florida- The States of the greatest
iroduction, especially those west of the
liBsissippi, are those reporting the
highest condition. Estimates are as
follows: North Garolina 88, Georgia
85; Florida 93, Alabama 94, Mississip
pi 90, Lonisiana 106, Texas 96, Arkan
sas 93, Tennessee 90. On the Atlantic
coast there is frequent mention of infe
rior frniting, and in the Carolinas there
has been too much succulence of
growth in consequence of abundant
moisture. In Georgia and Alabama
there has been some injury from
drought, but the weather has lately
been more seasonable. It has been too
wet in much of Mississippi; some cot
ton in the bottom lands in Tippah
county has been abandoned from this
cause. In Louisiana the promise is
extraordinary. In Concordia parish
the best crop since 1870 is expected,
and in Union the best since 1860. The
prospect in Texas is marred by the ap-
jearance of the caterpillars. More than
lalf of the counties reported are infest
ed ; not seriously os yet, except in a
few cases. In Lavaca the bulk of the
crop is destroyed, and in Gonzales sev
enty-five per cent The crop is a com
plete wreck where preventions were not
used. Poison is successfully applied
by prudent planters. The caterpillar
has appeared in the parishes of St Lan
dry, Richland and Claiborne, in Lonis
iana ; in Perry, WilBon and Conecnh,
in Alabama; in Columbia, Florida; and
in Brooks, Geoogia.
Bemedy for Hollow Horn.
To the Editor of the Courier-Journal:
Ireland, Dubois Co., Ind., July 21,
1877.—My treatment is as follows: Take
about one pint of soft soap and rub it
around the horn on the upper portion of
the head, applying it freely between the
horns, thence along the neck down the
backbone to the tip of the tail, using ful-
‘ it of soap. On the third day after
ilication, if the animal is not con-
ily better, apply about half as
much soap as before directed. No fears
need be entertained that the soap will re
move the hair. I have used this remedy
for the disease spoken of for fifteen yean
and never knew it to fail.
Wm. H. Green.
Yon can detect counterfeit coin by
— it in water. If it swims it is
Geonriacs.
Hon. H. W. Hilliard left Tuesday
f« Brazil.
Peaches were selling in Atlanta the
other day at ten cents per bnsheL
The sign of a firm in Talbotton is,
“Come in; we are glad to see yon.
How are your folks?”
The cotton of Mr. David Clark, of
Thomas county, is so high he is afraid
to take people into it, for fear they will
get lost
The Svannah News says Toombs was
very much affected by the resolution
of thanks for money advanced by him
to pay the Conyention.
Dr. Mettaner, of Macon, recently re
moved over forty stones from the blad
der of Jndge Gamble, of Cnthbert.
They ranged in size from a buckshot to
the end of a man’s thumb. There are
strong hopes of his speedy recoveiy.
The Pearson Pumeer affirms; “It is
reliably asserted aB a fact that within
the limits of our sister county of Irwin
there is neither lawyer, doctor, nor
Methodist preacher to be found, and
bnt one store, and yet ’tis said the
people are happy.
Let onr farmers’ wives and daughters
read the following, and then go to work
and make a fortune: A prominent
merchant of Macon, Ga, told the Tele
graph on Saturday that his house had
ed to date two car loads of dried
es, and were still at it. He also
gave it as his opinion that the crop this
ear would be worth at least one and a
alf million dollars to Georgia.
Merriwether county is the land of
“peach and honey.” There are four
teen stills in follbla8t Brandy is so
abundant that even the water drank
by a few of the people tastes of it. The
“national air” of the county is said to
be,
Hare coffee grows on white oat trees,
Here rivers flow with brandy,
Here rocks are overiaid with gold.
And girls are eweeter than candy.
ieggara’ Lice.—Capt. E. T. Davis, in
his able essay before the late Agricul
tural Convention, speaking of tins new
forage plant, declared that all kinds of
stock prefer it to clover, corn fodder,
—- vine or other hay, because it con-
s more saccharine matter than any
them. He also maintained that it
was superior to any. other growth as a
fertilizer, mentioning as a proof of the
fact that he had made twenty-five bush
els of com to the acre on laud which
would not produce ten bushels before
its introduction.
CONTRACT BITES OF A
OieiqoaMone
One vqinrsihr
Onoeqnereliz
One equare twelve months.
^-fourth eolomn one ir
On>-lqprtV coining three
Ons-feorth cotsa*. ,; x mu
Onedourth column twetw __
One-hslf column one month
One-half eelnma three months.
One-half Wnhrmq fly yvmOiy ,
One-hslf oolumn twelve montt
One eelnma pan smmth.
Cue column three months..
One oolumn «ix months
Oas column twelve months^.....
1 The foregoing retoeero for oithorW-Mkl/
or Tri-Weekly. When published in both pepers,
per cent additions! upon tshle rates.
Telegraph t
mnt Nellie
death of old Aunt Nellie Scott, better
known as Nellie Ballard, at. the Wes
leyan Female College, August 10th,
who cooked first dinner ever served at
the College, and had been on dnty there
a large part of the time ever since.
Many a pupil of the college will be
saddened at the death of this good old
darkey. Her funeral wss well attend
ed by white and black, a number of the
professors and friends of the college be
ing present The Rads ought to make
a note of this unfeeling demonstration
toward a “cullud pusson.”
Russia’s Fiendish “Tit” for
Turkey’s Cruel “Tat”
At the beginning of the present war
in the East, Russia had the sympathy
of most of the civilized world, on ac
count of Turkish cruelty to the Christ
ians. But on the score of cruelty it
seems to be a uoyt of “tit for tat” busi-
iness, as the folTlY.Ing, telegraphed by
a correspondent of the Times from Zee-
Saghra, will show:
I went with the Turkish army on the
14th to Cbain-Baghz, at Laneli, two
horns and a half from the Pass, I saw
the bodies of 120 persons who had been
murdered by Cosamks and Bulgarians.
Among the victims were two women—
one very beautiful and young. She bad
been lolled and then thrown, naked,
into a pool of water. I saw families,
including children, who had been
thrown into a well. The hands of these
pie, and the handsome embroidered
ses of the women, showed that they
had been rich. In one of the houses
the women and young girls had been
shat np and subjected, during ten days,
to outrages by Cossacks and Bulgari
ans. The Bulgarians, when they heard
of the arrival of the Turkish army at
Chain-Baghz, carried off the Turkish
women and children from three to thir
ty years of age, and fled to the Balkans.
The victims of whom I spoke above
were all collected together and mur
dered in succession. Many more were
butchered, but I have not had time to
go and see.
Cincinnati Communist*.
Xbep Nominate a State Ticket and An
nounce a Startling Creed’.
The State Convention of the Work-
mec’s Party was held in Cincinnati the
other-day. It was a small but very earn
est affair. Most of the delegates were
from Cincinnati, and ticket nominated
was almost entirely • Cincinnati ticket,
CoL L. H. Bond is at the head of the
ticket for Governor. Here is tbe plat
form adopted:
Reached, That in ths-comiag political
campaign we invite the co-operation of all
voters who believe that to the laborer
justly and of right belongs the result of
his labors in the following demands:
First, the payment of yagesto the labor
er in the lawful money of the country,
and at intervals of time not greater than
one week, and that suitable penalties be
provided for failures to do so; second,
eight hours for the present a normal
working day, and legal punishment to all
violations; third, strict laws making em
ployers liable for all accidents to toe in
jury of their employees; fourth, prohibi
tory lawB against the employment of chil
dren under fourteen years of age in in
dustrial establishments; fifth, prohibition
of the use of prison labor by private em
ployers; sixth, abolition of all conspiracy
laws; seyenth, sanitary, inspection of tm
conditions of labor, means of subsistence
and dwellings included; eighth, gratuit
ous instruction in all educational institu
tions; ninth, labor statistics in all States
S well as by the National Government- -
e officers of these bureaus to be taken
from the ranks of the labor organiza
tions and elected by them; tenth, tiie re
peal of the patent and all other laws or
charters giving special privileges to indi
viduals or companies to the detriment of
labor; eleventh, the repeal of all tariff
and other acts which provide for the col
lection of the public revenue by indirect
methods, and the substitution thereof a
system of direct taxation graduated in
proportion to the amount of property or
income to be taxed; thirteenth, railroads,
i, and all means of transporta
tion to be controlled by the Government;
fourteenth, for the purpoees of abolishing
the wages system, all industrial enterprises
to be placed under the control of the
Government as fast as practicable and
operated by free co-operative unions fir
i good of the whole people; fifteenth,
t the Constitution be so amended as to
that all officers of the General
State Governments shaft be elected
by a direct vote of the people..
Romance and Reality.
We learn from the Charleston Cour
ier that the following is an account of
Q. D. Hayne, colored, State Senatofcdu-
ring the Palmetto State’s radical and
capet-bag regime. The account is with
a Columbia bookseller, and was duly
paid ont of the contingent fond of the
Senate:
j. Woodruff for <7. D. H., to Bryan <fc
McCarter, Dr.
One Jack Hinton 8 75
One Arthur O’Leary 75
One Charles O’Malley 75
One After Dark 75
One Stoel Mask 25, one Queen’s
| Revenge 75 1 00
One Hide and Seek 75, one light
Foot 50 1 25
One Mad Monk 50, one Dead Se
cret 50 1 00
One Man and Wife 1 00
One Vicar of Bullhamdtsn 1 25
One Phineas Phinn : 1 25
One Harden 75
One Dictionary 10 00
6 83
8heep More Profitable
than Elsewhere.
here
There is more profit, an the average,
in keeping sheep in this country, than in
any other country on the globe. With
the exception of Holland and Belgium,
the nnnnnl weight of flesh in America
exceeds that of any other country. In
these two counties the average weight is
sixty pounds; in America it is fifty-two
pounds. But owing to the higher price
received here far wool, the annual reve
nue from each sheep here is just double
that in Belgium, and nearly double that
in Holland. The annual revenue here is
82.16, on tbe average; Australia is next
highest, 81.50; Spain next, 81.45 Only
five other countries exceed one dollar, and
in Russia and Greece the revenue is only
forty-two cento. The average weight, as
well as the price, will be largely increased
when the vast flocks of coarse wooled
sheep in the West have been breed up to
the condition they undoubtedly will be in
a few yean from now.—Ohio Farmer.
A New Dae for the 6. Hopper.
The grasshopper has been a muds
abased bird; bnt really it looks now
as if he was to be pot to a very decided
use. The information that he is be
coming a favorite article of bait far
anriiinew, superceding the cod roe,
which has heretofore been used for that
purpose, will, if true, open far him a
new field of usefulness. We may soon
expect to hear that some enterprising
Yankee has started a manufactory out
West for packing grasshoppers for the
European market, and that he is driv
ing a lucrative business therein.—Sav.
News.
Total 817 33
Rt~ived payment,
i>v\s & McCarter,
FcsR-S. Gilliland.
Columbia, Feb. 27, lS7iY
Keely Outdone.
Atlanta Constitution.
Mr. J. W. D. Eckles, a mechanic and
farmer, of Jackson county, Ga., has suc
ceeded in inventing and patenting, af
ter twenty years of constant and labo
rious study, a most ingenious contri
vance for propelling, called an “At
mosphere Bafometro Hydraulic Motor.”
It is intended to supplant the steam en
gine for propelling railroad and street
cars, canal boats, etc., and after several
trials has been pronounced by expert#
(unlike that great humbng, the Keely
motor) a success. Mr. Eckles says of
it, that “the power maybe generated by
an automatic and self-operating mech
anism, and if arranged under favorable
circumstances, which may be done af
quite a moderate cost, the same can
never be exhausted or overcome; and
since there will not be either boiler oi
engine to carry, tire car or boat will
be taxed with bnt a few pounds of ex
tra carrying weight”
The SouthCaroxina Senators hi]
Wash, cpacial to Cm. Enqoiror.
Gen. M. C. Butler, of South Caroli
who is considerably exercised
ing his admission to the Senate. _ C
bin, who antagonizes his seat is
Europe. Corbin was elected by tfa
Chamberlin, and Butler by the Han
ton Legislature, before the fusion of 1
two bodies was had. The chances i
nine in ten that the Senate will decid
that neither is entitled to a seat, 1j
cause the Legidatjve bodies electit
them bad no legal or recognized exi:
ence. This will leave the selection
a successor to Senator Robertson in
hands of the present Legislature,
Butler is apprehensive that in "
case he will not again be chosen,
among the probabilities that if \
Hampton has Senatorial aspirations
can be chosen to fill the vacancy wb’
the Senate will, withont doubt, de
to exist
How THE BA8HI-BAZ0UK3 1
Lying.—-Three Bashi-Bazouks the i
day, in their wanderings, came I
body of a Russian soldier. They <
mined to bury it, and were on the ]
of placing it in a hurriedly-dug g
when the Russian came to Ms senses, I
observing their intention, remarked .-
he was not dead. They looked at.’
for a few seconds, when one of then
marked, “Really, you Russians are |
horrid liars tlurt it is impossible to
anything you say. We found yoi
dead, so you must he buried,” and
buried him.