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BY BREWSTER & SHARP. The Cherokee Georgian. M PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY BREWSTER & SHARP. *ATJES OF SUBSCRIPTION: (POSITIVELY IN ADVANCE.) Bing’ie copy, 12 months. $1 50 Single copy, 8 months 100 Stßglecopy 6 months 75 < femgle copy, 4 months 50 ADVERTISING RATES, Space | Im. | 2m. | 3m. | 6 tn. | 12 m. 1 .inch | F256T5850 | $4 sO'| $7 00 I $lO 00 jW* | 35 0 | 500 | 650 ; 10 00 | 15 00 iffisj 500 | 750 | 10 00 | 14 00 | 20 00 4 inc’s j 6 50| 900 | 11 50 | 18 00 | 25 00 «oL | fOQO | 12 50 | 16 00 | 25 00 | 40 00 col. |l2 50716 00 |2500j37 50 | 50 00 U col. | 15 00 | 25 00 i 35 00 [45 I coL ~| 20 00 |3500 |5O 00”| G5OO | 10000 DIRECTORY. STATE GOVERNMENT. James M. Smith, Governor. N. C. Barnet, Secretary of State. J. W. Goldsmith, Comptroller General. John Jones, Treasurer. Joel Branham, Librarian. John T. Brown, Principal Keeper of the Penitentiary. Gustavus J. Orr, State School Commis sioner. . . , , J. N. Janes, Commissioner of Agricul ture. * Thomas D. Little, State Geologist. JUDICIAL. BLUE RIDGE CIRCUIT. Nml B. Knight, Judge. (J, D. Phillips, Solicitor General. lime of Holding Court. Cherokee —Fourth Monday in Febru ary, and first Monday in August. Cobb—Second Monday in March and November. . Dawson—Third Monday in April and seeond Monday in September. ’ > Fannin—Third Monday in May and Oc- tober. Forsyth—First Monday in April and fourth Monday in August. Gilmer —Second Monday in May and October. Lumpkin—Second Monday in April and first Monday in September. “Mn .ton —Fourth Monday in March and third Monday in August. Pickknb —Fourth Monday in April and September.) Towns—Monday after fourth Monday in . May and October. Vnios —Fourth Monday in Mav and Oc tobar. COUNTY OFFICERS. f C. M. McClure, Ordinary. Regular court first Monday in each month. J. W. Hudson, Ckrk Superior Court. M. P. Morris, Sheri If. It. G. Gramling, Deputy Sheriff. John G. Evans, Treasurer. Wm. N. Wilson, Tax Receiver. Joseph G. Dupree, Tax Collector. Wm. W. Hawkins, Surveyor. 4 Wm. Ramplcy, Coroner. ’ JUSTICE COURT-—CANTON DIS. Joseph E. Hutson, J. P. K. F. Daniel, N. P. M. G. Daniel, L. C TOWN GOVERNMENT. W. A. Teaacley. Mayor. J. W. Hudson, Recorder. James H. Kilby, Jabez Galt. J. M. Hsr din, J. M. McAfee, Theodore Turk, Aldei nten. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. , James O. Dowda, President. . James W. Hudson, County School Com- missioner. Prof. James U. Vincent, Examiner. Joseph M. McAtee, Allen Keith, Joseph J. Maddox, John R. Moore. - Meetings quarterly, in the court-house. CMKROKER TEACHERS’ ASSOCIA TION. Jam<* O. Dowda, President. M. B. Tuegle, Vice-President. C, M. McClure, Secretary. J. W. Attaway, Treasurer. John D Attaway, Censor Moruin. < Prof. James U. Vincent, Association C r respondent. Regular meetings every second Saturday to each month, at 10 a. in. RELIGIOUS. , Baptist Church, Canton Ga., time of service fourth Sunday in each month. Rev. M. B. Tuggle, Pastor. M. E. Church, time of service, preachers to charge. Rev. W. G. Hanson, first Sunday. • Rev. B. E. Ledbetter, second. Rer. J. M. Hardin, third. MASONIC. Canton Lodge, No. 77, meets first and third Monday nights in each month. James A. Stephens, W. M. Jn*eph M. McAfee, Secretary. Bixkb Ixjimik. No. 282, meets first and third Saturdays, 2 p. tn. O. M. McClure. W. M. O. W. Putman, Secretary. GOOD TEMPLARS. Canton Lodge. No. 119, meet* every! Haturdav, 8 p. m. B. 1. Ledbetter. W. C. T. James W. Hudson, Secretary. *> ----- GRANGE. Canton Grange No, 225, Canton Ga. ■ * Jabe* Galt, Master. | Joeeph M. McAtee. Secretary; Y3 < i HiV J j SaiS! ♦ , Cljmmee woqjio. Written for The Georgian. I'M THINKING. I’m thinking, love, I’m thinking, Os the past, when ail wa bright— Os the days, the happy days, When our hearts were young and light. O these fond, these sad, sweet imm ries, How they linger around nay heart, Whispering still of brilliant hopes And joys we lhoug.it would ne’er depart. I’m thinking, love, I’m thinking, Os the long, the long ago, Painted now so strangcij.lair By Fancy's resplendent glow. I seem to hear thee call my name, In tones well known and sweet to me. Yes, though long years have passed away, I’m thinking still, ah ! still of thee. Remembrances of past scenes Ever come, come bAck to me, And, floating through each vision, Thy dear form and face I see. The fond adieu, the sad good bye, The many bitter, parting tear.-, The last warm pressure u? thy lips, I’ve cherished thro igh long weary years. Thinking still ! In vain I try To sever each fond regret. Thoughts of thee, my loved and lost, Softly steal around me yet. We tasted love’s o’erflowing cup, Too deep, ah ! yes, too strangely deep ; For those who dream of bliss on earth Must wake again to sigh and weep. Still, by Hope’s unfading light, Pure Elysian realms 1 view, Where peace and love celestial reign, And each heart is good and iruc. No sorrows there to rend the heart, No parting tears are ever shed, No gnels'iiUks aa£-.'A».pP nr < ss the soul, No cherished hopes lib crust dead. “Over there” we’ll meet again, When this weary life is o’er; We’ll cross Jordan’s stormy waves, Aud meet on the heavenly shore. ’Neath Canaan’s bright aud sunny skies, O, dearest one, we soon shall m.el — With angels bow before the throne, And worship ever al His feet. [Odesa. What Thy Han i Fiudetii to Do. “Don’t take it so h.r 1, Rufus. I know it is a great disappointment to you We must all nave our dirk days; but the sun shine is always behind the clouds.” And Grandmother Ely laid her band upon the head of the young lad, and tried io cheer him. Such a sunny, pl-uisant breakfast-room I the latticed window thrown open, and sweet breezes playing in and out among the gar deu flowers. The untouched breakfast stood on the table. It made Grandmoihci Ely’s heart ache to s-.e her boy so overcome with grief. “Everything seems against me, grandmo ther,” sobbed the boy. “I want to do some thing to earn my own living. I have an swered no end of advertisements in the papers, but they don’t help me smy. Then you spoke ot Uncle Blish, thinking he might put me in the way of finding some thing; and now the letter comes this morn ing, saying he is very sick, and there's an end to that. It is an awful Lard thing, grandma, for boys to git started iu Lusinets with no one to help them.” “Well, Rufus, somet.mcs I thick that those boys who are the most self-reliant and have no one to help them, often make the noblest men. I low many of our great statesmen, and lawyers, and merchants; have commenced lift with only their own will and ability ! They have taken up the work just as it came to their hdißl, and worked on until they made themselves sue cessful by their untiring perseverance. You have tried nobly, Rufus, to find som-thing to do; but so tar you have been unsuccus ful. Suppose, instead ot wailing and wait ing for just the right thing to turn up, you just do the work which comes right to your hand, until something more agreeable comes to you." “What work, grandma ? I don’t see any work coming right to tny hand; nothing at all.” “Well, stop thinking about yourself, Ru fus, and what you want tv do, a: d I will toll you. You have been w ith me now ’ over six months, ever since your father’s ’ death; and your company has been very cl eering and pleasant io me. lam a wid ow, quite alone in the world, witii this pretty place of my own—garden, and meadow-land, amt wood-land. I have cattle, and sheep, and poultry. 1 have ac counts to keep, laborers to care for, and to pay. lam only an old woman, and not i very strong; and you have never offered in any way to relieve me ot one single care, or to lighten one single burden. I can get along without you; but you would be haj - pier, and so should I, if you employed yourself about something useful, patiently wailing for something to turn up. Pi rhaps vou hava never thought 'hat there is work for each of us doae at hand, if we will otfiy look for it and do it.” “Why, grandmother, you must think me a very selfish fellow a’l this while, that, instead ot trying to relieve you of cans, I have only added to them. Set me to work, and see what I can do." “No, Rufus,” answered Grandmother ; Kly, "‘set yourself to work.. Go round for day or two, and whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; and all I will aay w, I employ no laboier who is not worthy of bis hire.” CANTON, CHEROKEE COUNTY, GA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1875. intelligence--The Safeguards of Liberty. Breakfast was soon over, and Rufus put on his hats anti wruti-out, determined-to turn his* hand to something/ He 1 liacLhard ly left the garden-walk before he met “one of the bands” coming towards the house. “What is the matter, E>i?” said Rufus, i “I wai just g )ing up to see madam,” he ' said. “My wife is very sick, and I must go home. lam sorry, because we expected to get in all those oats to-day.” “Let me do your work, Eli. Only leave me your overalls, and you will see how good a day’s work 1 can do.” “It is nothing heavy, Master Rufus. You can bind the slieaves/or diSvl the team', or Leip unload. I’ll run aud speak to madam; and yo u are welcome to my overalls.” So Rufus went down among the oats, and worked with considerable pluck ; and the inch tlfSWglit He made “a 'first-rale bund.” At dinner-time he told hi« grand mother he had fwuud plenty of employment for several days. Ju the evening, when he saw her poring over aecdutots, he offered, to he relieved her very much. For several weeks Rufus continued to find work to do, and his grandmother paid him regularly. he told her he felt very contented, and thought best to remain and assist her about the work of the place. Al length she offered him a situation as steward for her, and assistant overseer with her about the farm. This seemed to give bi in a position at once; and, when a letter came f ont Uncle Blish, saying he would do his b st to tied a place for Rufus in some .U’»rpho tse in the city, if be desired it, he wrote in reply tiw.» had concluded to b-.come a fanner under GrancTmon’wJ’ Ely, and hopctl that he would eventually be come her right hand man.—[Early Dew. John Randoij’h in Cji^uch. —Mr. Ran dolph was a great Bible reader, and was deeply concerned with religious subjects, lie employed an excellent and eloquent man, Mr. Abner Clopton, jo preach every Sunday to his negroes in a Targe chapel he bad erected on Lis plantation. When at borne he invariably attended these services, .taking his seat by the preacher on jhe open platform from which the preacher conduct ed the services. On manj 1, occasions, while kneeling beside, the preacher, who was prone lb be carried away by the fervor of prayer, Randolph would slap him on the b .ck, and call out loudly, “Clopton, that rton’tdo; that's not sound doctrine ; Clop ton, take that back and, if Clopton re monstrated, Randolph, though keeping himself on Lis knees, was ready at once for an argument to maintain his point. No <>ne but Air. Ch jiton,*who knew the eccen tricity and honest motives of the man, could have borne with these irreverent in terruptions while in the midst, of prayer; ■ but Mr. Clopton, when he found Randolph determined to argue the point, either grace* Yu ly yielded or proposed to note the point and argue it al the djwellmgjiouse .To Visitors at the chapel—-iwl ilhcy were arnuy- ’liK'bc scum-e ? curi ous, tifi'iYrjni S (-firiies itbstirdh' ludicrous. — - A New Food for Horses and Sueep.— AJav >rite and rathe” new kindot mash for horses is coming into use, composed of two quarts of oats, c nc of bran, and half a pint of flax see 1. The oats are first placed in the stable-buci which is placed the seed ; add boiling water, then the bran, covering the mixture with an old rug and allowing it to thus rest for five hours; thru stir the mass well up. The bran absorbs while rela ting the vapor, and the linseed binds the oats and bran together. A great eraiuantity *of fiax-sesd would iu<ak,e the on too oily ana less relfslied. One feed per day is sufficient. It is easy digesti ble and is specially adapted to young ani mals, adding to their volume rather than to their height—giving substance to the frame. Prof. Sanson reminds us not to overlook the food in the nourishment ques tion in connection with the amelioration of live stock. He considers oats, as so gener ally given to sheep objectionable and ap proaching the unprofitable. Rams gener ally receive one pound ot oats daily, ewes half that quantity. Oats suited for rams! during the season when they serve ; but for ’ luvfemiig the de\elop:ne if ofybtihg sheep they only bail I up the bones, not the flesh, i A method of procuring fresh water from I sea water, through the direct action of the : sun’s rays, is among the late foreign inven-1 lions. Tbo- apparatus .consists of a box of | wood one inch thick, about fourteen feet i long, two feet wide, and of an average j depth of six inches. The upper part of the box is closed with ordinary glass, which ! has an inclination of an inch and a half. At thfi lower edge of the glass Were is a ! senii-Hrciflar channel, destined to receive ■ the inferior surface of the glass. The opera* ; lion ;s exceedingly simple. The salt waler ’ talet Wo 'tlie ’box fm alxigt str hcL in 1 depth, aud it L then exposed to the rays of the Sun.* A v?Ty at'ilve gitis, aud U isgbur.J. Wat a square .meter of i glass ' wril condense' \?ni’y the smbttnt of two gallors-oi' pure witter. King w r.is will keep old friends and make new ones. •Courtship in Texas. He sat on one side of the room in a big white-oak rocking-chair. She, on the other side.Tu a little white-oak rocking-chair. A long-eared deer-hound, snapping at flies, was by his side; a basket of sewing by : hers. Both rock, incessantly—that is, the i young people, not the dog and basket. He ' subs heavily, and looks out of the west i w'iadow at a crape myrtle tree ; she sighs ligbUy, and gazes out of the east window— at the turnip patch. At last he remarks : “This is mighty good weather to pick cotton.” “,'Tis that, if we only had any to pick.” The pocking continues. “What’s your dog’s name ?” “Coony.”' Another sigh-broken stillness. “What is he good fur?” “What is who good fur?” said she, ab stractedly. “Your dog Coony.” “Fur ketch in’ ’possums.” Silence of half an hour. “He looks like a deer dog.” “Who looks like a deer dog ?” “Coony?’ “He is; but lie’s kinder bcllowsed an’ gettin’ old an’ slow, now. An’ he ain’t no ’count on a cold trail.” In the ten minutes that ensued, she took two stitches in her quilt; it was a gorgeous affair, that quilt was, made by the pattern called the “Rose of Sharon.” She is very particular about the nomenclature of her quilts, and frequently walks fifteen miles to get a new pattern, with a “real pooty name.” “Your ma raisin’ many chickings?” Then more rOCfcjng, and, somehow, after awhile, the big rocking-(*ffilir an d the little rocking chair were jammed side fev side. “How many bits your ma got ?” ‘‘How many what ?” “Chickings.” By this time the chairs are so close to •getbsA that rocking is impossible. “The minks has eat all ours.” Then a long silence reigns. At last he observes. “Makin quilts?” “Yes,” she replies, brightening up. “Ive just finished a‘Roarin’ Eagul’ of Brazeel,’ a ‘Sitting Sun’ and a ‘Nation’s Pride.’ Have you ever saw the ‘Yellow Rose of the Pa rary ?’ ” “No.” More silence; then he says : “Do you love cabbage ?” “I do that.” Presently bis hand is accidentally placed on hers. She does not know’ it—at least does not seem to be aware of it. Tnen after a half hour spent in sighs, coughing and clearing of throats, he suddenly says: “I’se a great mind to bite yon.” “What you great a-mind to bite me for?” “Kase you won’t have me.” “Kase you ain’t axed me.” “Well now, I ax you.” “Then now, I have you.” Thon Coony drcams he hears a sound of kisses. The next day the young man goes to Tigerville after a marriage license. Wed nesday the following: No cards. Running a Newspaper. By some unaccountable misapprehension of tacts, says the Memphis Avalanche, there is a large class of people in the world who ihink that it costs little or nothing to run a newspaper, and if they buy a copy from the ncwslioy, when 100 far from the office to come and beg one, they are regular patrons and entitled to unlimited favors. Men call every day at newspaper offices to get a copy ot the paper for nothing, who would never dream of begging a pocket handkerchief troni a dry goods store or a piece of candy from a confectioner, even upon the plea of old acquaintance, having bought something once before. One paper is not much, but a hundred a day amounts to something in the course of time. But this is a small dram compared with the tree advertising a news paper is expected iodo. Some men who have paid two dollars at an early period of life for au advertisement worth four or five dollars, appear to think they are stockhold ers in the establishment for eternity. They demand the publication of all marriage and funeral notices, obituaries, and family epi- ! sodcs, for the next forty years, gratis. Speak of pay aud they grow indignant. “Don’t I patronize your paper ?” Yes, but you re- ' ceivc the worth of your pay.” "But,” says j the patron, “it will not cost you anything to put this in;'' which is just as ridiculous as to ask a mac to grind his axe on his. grind-1 stone, aud graciously tell him it won’t cost ‘ him a cent. It takes money to run a news- ! paper as well as any other business, no pa- i per will succeed financially that carries a dead head system. Any mention of the j peoples affairs that they are anxious to sec 1 in print is worth pacing tor, and when printed is generally worth as much as auy other investment of the same amount. The newspaper business is very exacting on all connected with it, and the pay is comparatively small ; the proprietor risk t mure money fur smaller profits, aud the editors, and reporters and punters work harder and cheaper than tl e same number ofmenin any profession requiring the given amount of intelligence, training ; n.l drudg ery. The life has its charms and pleasant associations scarcely known to the outside ' world, but it has its earnest worn, and anx- J ieties and hours of exhaustion, which also , I are not known to those who think the bus : iness all fun. The idea that newspaperdoin | is a charmed circle where the favored mem bers live a life of ease and free from care, and go to the circus at night on a free ticket and to the spring on a free pass in the sum mer, is an idea which we desire to explode, practically and theoretically. Business is busn< , 88, and the jourm l that sec ecds is the one that is ran on a square business tooting, the same as breaking or building bridges, keeping a ho.el or run. ing a L\e.-y stable. Strength of Character. A writer says: Most people keep too strong a bold of their personality to be able to forget themselves in their subject; they carry an unacknowledged self-consciousness along with them. If to be single-minded is to have an undivided interest in things, they are not single-minded. Beauties are aware that they are handsome ; clever people are in the way of showing themselves to advan tage, however little their subject lends itself to these considerations. The natural char acter is not by any menus blind to its good points nor ashamed to own them ; it is not bashful, but the thing under discussion is bona file the subject of thought; it has no feigned interest, not ministering t > self love by indirect means Naturalness is the gift ot unconsciousness of doing things without thinking or knowing how to do them, and perhaps we should add, doing them well. Under the charm of spirit we feel a sense ol liberty and expansion ; we breathe a purer air. One natural person makes many and inspires a confidence in human nature. And how stfJte.btfbrward intercourse becomes under these <Ji9Rditions! Thus thinking, thus “-L’J,' your wife if you will marry me”—though she presents a signal instance ot the circum stances that form the charmingly natural character. Prospero’s darling could have had no experience of flouting or discour agement. Half the rules of social inter course are accepted by us all on the latent un lerstading that men are not single-minded enough to dispense with checks npon a de sign and hi.tden motive, that spontaneous action of thought aud tongue would lead to awkward results. Selfi.-hness and vanity would grow intolerable without them. But neither selfishness nor vanity is a necessary cause of the artificial as opposed to the nat ural manner; timidity and subservience are enough in themselves. Every one whom we distinguish as natural has independence of mind. The judgment may not be correct, or founded on the wisest grounds, but it is what it professes to be —the man’s own opinion. No secret unacknowledged influ ences are at work. Hence no one can be natural without strength of character ; aud every one is natural when the occasion drives him out of the familiar appeal to some external authority and throws him on his innermost conviction. Reduce Your Wants.—This is the cheapest way of gaining abundance known among men. When onr necessities are few it costs little to supply them, and lay by a surplus. That which keeps us nnd the whole country poor—cramped for money— anxious and oppressed with debt, is the endless catalogue of our artificial necessities —the things which are not at ill essential to real comfort, health and happiness—but which the spirit ot < stentatkm, personal vanity and rivalry create a quasi necessity for. When we come to the hard pun of life, we find that good, nutricious food, shelter, a comfortable bed, fuel and clothing are about all that constitute the appliances |of maternal comfort, and these arc consis- I tent with very light personal expenditure. ’ It is w hen we must be fine as onr neighbors, antiotir pride will not suffir an eclipse, that we enter into the domain of unjustifiable and extravagant expenditure and take the road to bankruptcy and ruin. In these hard times let us abandon expenditure for show, and content ourselves with solid comforts. —[Macon Telegraph. No Heart.—What a thing it is for a man to have said of him, that he has no heart 1 No heart! Then he is hardly a human ! being. He is like an oyster, a potato, a stiik, a stone; like a lump of ice, only he is never in a melting mood. Such a man does not love his race, nor even his best Iriends. His Jove for his own immediate family is a sort of selfish feeling of possession. In reality he loves nobody ( but himself —and that isn’t love. ! And a woman without heart: can there be anything more abhorrent ? She seems j only to like a milliner’s stand, vitalized ■ r wood to hang dresses upon. i We bave no fancy for human icicles; we I - like men of heart. ; Josu 8.-lings says theie ain't anything that will fully cure laziness, though a sec- i ind w ife has been known to hurry it some, t VOLUME 1.-NUMBER 18. ITEMS OF INTEREST. In spite of grasshopper*, Minnesota will be able to sell 25,000,000 bushels of grain his seaso.i. A society for the propagation of Bad<J hism throughout the world has been formed in China. T. H. Willingham of Dougherty county, Ga., plants 6,000 acres—two-fifths corn, two fifths cotton, and one-fifth oata. One man in Colorado has a ranch 156 miles long, and 26,000 cattle, which cost only $7 apiece. Where was Abraham to this? One ot the most extensive raisin growers in Sutter county, California, has made a shipment of 500 boxes of raisins, of M pounds each. One hundred and five Mormon mission aries are to be sent out this winter to preeeh the gospel of polygamy to the 63,030 super fluous women in Massachusetts. The quantity ot pepper produced annu ally is 75,000,000 pounds. It comes from Java, Sumatra, Borneo, the Malayan pen insula, the Moluccas, and various regions lying on the east coast of the Gulf of Siam. From one and a half acres of well im proved land, without any fertilizer what ever, a Troup county man made 105 bush els of corn, eight loads of pea-vine hay, and fodder and peas in proportion. The two great express companies of the United States, the Adams and the Ameri can, employ about 8,000 men, 1,900 horsey 1,200 wagons, and use 3,000 iron sates. Their agents travel more than 100,000 miles annually. The wheat yield per acre, In Great Brit ain, varies from 23 to 34 bushels, Recording to the season, the average being about 29% bushels. In this country it varies from 8 to 40 bushels, making an estimated averag of about 7 bushels. A Brooks county farmer has sold 1,000 bushels of corn this fall for over ona dollar ’ per bushel. In addition to this he mad* four bales of cotton, and raised hogs, pota toes, pindars and cane iu abundance. Thte was the product of a two-horse farm. It appears that there are 3,000 paper manufacturers in the world, employing 80,- 000 men, 180,000 women, besides 100,000 employed in the rag trade. Thera are 1,800,000,000 pounds of paper produced a»- nually. One half is used in printing, a sixth in writing, and the other for packing and other purposes. There are in Egypt 113 navigable canals and 75« smaller ones used for purposes sf irrigation. In Upper and Lower Egypt there arc 500 steam pumps used for ths dis tribution of water. The ancient modes of raising water are still in general use, bnl in time will no doubt give way to the im proved methods of civilization. The Ohio river is the greatest coal car rier in the world, notwithstanding the feet that it is frozen up during most of the win ter, and nearly dried up a larger portion of the summer. A “run” of coal was mads during the month of July last, when 375,’ 928 tons were shipped in forty-eight hours. It would have loaded over 87,000 eight wheeled cars, which would have had iota made up into about 1,000 heavy freight trains It is no small affair to hold ths offics of Lord Mayor of London, England. A man of moderate fortune can not perform the duties of the office, as in addition to tbs (SXOOO allowed him to pay his “expensee,* he has to spend as much more from his pri vate purse to pay for all the banquets and balls he is in duty bound to give, besidee disbursing largely to public charities. About SIOO,OOO will just take hie Honor through the year. Os the 295 members of the next Honto, but 108 were members of the Forty-third or preceding Congresses, thus leaving 184 who have never served in the National legislature. Os the 108 who have been rs elected the Republicans have 68 and ths Democrats 40, but among the latter ars several whose term of setvic* exceeds that of any member on tho R< publican side. There are forty-three standing committoss in the two houses, so that in the control of the House the Democrats may have an sx pcricnced member on every important committee, for there are but thirty of tbs 1 committees that are really connected with i the general business of Congress. Colonel D. 11. Hardaway of Thomas county, Georgia, writes to a contemporary: ‘lt gives ine pleasure to promptly answer your question as to the cost per ponnd raise cotton. I give you the cost fcr sevm years, to-wit: 1866, 14.50; 1867, 12.50; 1868,12 25; 1809, 10 90; 1870,8 60; 1871, 13 61; 1872, 10.77. The average is 11.88. This includes interest on value of land, re pairs, interest on team, taxes, fertilizers, labor of cul .’vating, picking and packing but nothin; added for personal supervisto®. The latter would be bard to estimate. This year’s crop has not been marketed, but will not exceed ten cents I keep a record of my crop annuahy, and it simply required he copying, as the calculation was already made and entered on my memoranduM book.