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V ^^n.TED APRII- IQ, 1876. ba1 -£S of subscriptions. yOK THE WEEKLY. tso> i! ■" w >gtbl . . * * ?ii d itricUy in adviknc*, the pnca of *Vn‘ LI $ s h® - tin »< 6,0 jF»«. modern poetry. 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.