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®fff §?GJl£sf fbi'US. __ _ _ (jr . Jackson County Publishing Company. Pr. J. I). I,OXO. [ N. IT. Pendekgkaks, President. [ Gee President. T. 11. Niim.ack. Stcr'y Treas. Executive Committee. Vi. ( r . llow'aku (Vm. O. J. N, VVu.sox, f It. .1. Hancock, JEFFERSON, CFA-. KiTi upii Aic. ii, i *?r,. Some Figures for the Thoughtful. According to the returns made by the Revenue officers to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, it appears that the people of this Republic pay every year for liquors, bought at re tail shops, the enormous sum of $1,500,000,000. The public debt of the United States is about $2,- 300,000.000; and the public debts of the States added together, would aggregate about $300,000,- 000, which sum added to the public debt of the United States, would foot up $2,600,000,000. Now, in two years the liquor-bill of the people of this country would pay off the entire public in debtedness of the United States and of all the States, and thus relieve the icople of burdensome taxation ; and at the end of the two years, there would be left the sum of s4oo,ooo,<X>o to he spent in building railroads. And that snm would build and equip 10,000 miles of railroad, or more than 400 miles of railroad for every' State in the Union. Just think of it for a moment ! In two years the people of this civilized nation pay for alcoholic liquors a sum of money sufficient to pay the public debts of the United States and of all the States, and to build and equip 16,000 miles of railroad ! Now let us see what might be done with this sum of money during the third year, after all the public debts had been paid and 16,000 miles of railroad had been built with it during the first two years. $600,000,000 of it will build 120,000 church es, costing $5,000 apiece, and that will give one good church to every 325 inhabitants of the United States, including every man, woman and child, white and black. $240,000,000 more of it will build 120,000 good school-houses, costing $2,000 to each one, and that will give one school-house to every (10 children of schooling age in the whole country, including white and black. We may thou build 180 colleges, or about four to each State, and spend $200,000 in buildings, libraries, furniture and apparatus for each college, and the expense of all these will foot up $36,000,- 000. Let us next buy 200,000 good farms, or homes, for that number of poor families, giving $2,000 for each home, and the sum of their cost will be $400,000,000; and then let us sum up the cost of all these together : Cost ofl 20,000 churches $ 600,000,000 “ school-houses 240.000.000 “ 180 colleges 36,000,000 “ 200,000 homes 400,000,000 Aggregate $1,276,000,000 If we subtract this sum from the liquor-bill of one year, the figures will stand thus : Liquor-bill $1,500,000,000 1,276,000,000 Remainder $ 224,000,000 Thus, after building 120,000 good churches, 120,000 good school-houses, and 180 good colleges, and buying two hundred thousand good homes for that number of poor and homeless families, we will have left from the annual liquor-bill of the United States, the prodigious sum of two hundred and twenty-four million dollars, to be spent every year in sending the blessings of Christianity and civilization to the benighted heathen. Let us next ascertain what might be accomplish ed with this liquor-bill during the fourth and every succeeding year. Oar churches, school-houses and colleges arc already built, and therefore wc will put one hundred and twenty thousand good pastors in our one hundred and twenty thousand churches, giving to each one of them an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars, and their salaries will all amount to one hundred and eighty million dollars. We will next put two good teachers in every one- of our one hundred and twenty thou sand school-houses, which will require two hun dred and forty thousand teachers, and we will give each teacher an annual salary of twelve hun dred dollars, and the salaries of all of them will foot up two hundred and eighty-eight million dol lars. In the next place let us put twenty skilled professors in every one of our one hundred and eighty colleges, making three thousand six hun dred professors in all, and give to each one of them a salary of two thousand dollars, and they will thus cost ns seven million two hundred thousand dollars. We will then board and clothe one mil lion of school children, whose parents arc too poor or too lazy to feed and clothe them while they are going to school, and we will pay two hundred dol lars for the support of each one of them, and their expenses will thus amount to two hundred million dollars. Now, let us again this year buy two hundred thousand farms for that number of poor families, giving two thousand dollars for each farm—aggregating four hundred million dollars. Let us noM sum up for the fourth year’s expenses : Salaries of 120,000 pastors, $180,000,000 “ 2 40,000 teachers, 288,000,000 “ “ 3,600 professors, 7,200,000 Support of 1.000.000 children, 200.000,000 Cost of 200,000 farms, 400,000,000 $1,075,200,000 Tf wc subtract this from the annual liquor-bill of the l nited States, we will have left four hun dred and twenty-four million eight hundred thou sand dollars, or nearly one-third of the whole amount; a sum sufficient to support three hun dred thousand teachers and preachers for the heathen, allowing fourteen hundred dollars for the support of each one of them. Now, let us figure it out in another way : One billion fire hundred thousand million dollars are spent for liquor in the United States every year. Divide that sum of money out equallv to everv man, woman and child, white and black, and it will give about thirty-eight dollars to each one of them. Those thirty-eight dollars will buy for each man, woman and child as follows : Ten bushels corn $lO qq One barrel of flour 8 00 One hundred pounds bacon 15 00 Coffee and Sugar "’ ’ ,5 qq S3B (X) Thus the money spent for liquor in the United States in one year, would buy bread, meat, coffee and sugar enough for all of the forty million of people of this country. No wonder that there is so much poverty, and so many homeless families. G. 11. Cartledge. IdF" An editor having asked an Illinois far mer for crop news, received this answer: “And now the reaper reapeth, the mower moweth, and the little bumblebee getteth up the busy Granger’s trouser’s leg and bum bleth.’’ “SMALL COTTON MILLS.” The writer of these lines has endeavored, in an humble and unpretentious way, since the commencement of this journal, to impress upon the readers of the paper—and especial ly those in the immediate and adjoining coun try—the importance of taking advantage of what nature has already done towards male- 1 irtg us a “free ami independent people.*' And in this behalf we now call to our aid the following article copied from a late number of the Columbus Enquirer, as showing and proving what lias been and what can be done by a combination of small means—by a con centration of the labor, energy and enterprise of those who, if left to themselves, could do very little or nothing towards'accomplishing the great aims and ends to be arrived at; but who, nevertheless, in a union of mind, of means, and of bone and muscle, could, as it were, “ remove mountains.” One of the most successful men in this sec tion of country, and one too, who is engaged in manufacturing to some considerable ex tent, remarked to the writer only a few days since, that “ what Jackson county —and what all the country round about needed and want ed, was more people.” “There is,” said he, “ too much land, too much water-power, and too man}' of the natural advantages with which we are benificently endowed, lying idle and running to waste. You need more peo ple—skilled labor and capital, to bring into use and dcvelope the hidden treasures of this, one of the garden spots of the world.” Of course, it is not claimed that these remarks applied really, to Jackson county alone—but to the whole section known as “ Northeast Georgia.” Then, how are we to induce this needed influx of people—of skilled labor—of good and permanent citizens ? The only answer we can give or attempt to give is, to open up new avenues of industry—create a demand for diversified labor and mechanism. And then, just to the extent that this idea is carried out, will hill and dale, town, village and hamlet resound with the “ busy hum*’ of machinery, and the land be peopled by an intelligent, enlightened, happy and indus trious yeomanry. But to the article above mentioned: MANUFACTURING IN TIIE SOUTH. Editor Enquirer : —ln the May number of the Rural Carolinian , the editor, in a sensible article on this subject, gives a letter from Mr. Wm, M. Lawton, agent in England of the •‘Georgia Direct Trade Union,” and a gazette published in London, which gives the names of thirty-seven cotton man ufacturing companies in England, price of the shares, the amount paid on them and the present value, and also the amount of the last annual div idends; from which we may learn an important lesson if we will rightly consider the facts as shown in the gazette. Of the thirty-seven compa nies named, twenty started with shares at £5 each, say $25, on which was paid from one pound to five pounds, and the present value is from £1 18s 6d., to £9 ss. ()d. Nine others started with shares at £lO, say SSO. One company—Melbourne—start ed with shares at £l5O, paid in that amount and the present value is £275 per share, and is paying twenty-four per cent, dividends. One company, “Central,” started with shares at five pound's, five pounds paid in; present price nine pounds, and is paying forty per cent dividend. Another, the “Grosvcner," paid in two pounds, ten shill ings; present value £4, 4s. Od. and and is paying forty per cent, dividend. All are paying from ten to forty per cent, and this from cotton which has been carried four thousand miles from the fields, an army of handlers having fed on it while on the route. Whyis it that Englishmen can manufact ure our cotton and make these bewildering profits, while we can’t? The explanation may be found in the fact that these men are content to do things on a small scale, or rather to begin doing them m a small way and gradually rise to large. They start their mills with a few thousand pounds, and put the shares at a price within the reach of the small men, the men who are to run the spin dles and looms—the men from whose brain and muscle the wealth of the future company is to grow —men who can and will invest five pounds in the mill which is to employ them and their children for life, but who would be frightened off if the shares had been put at one hundred pounds; and when once they make the investment they become as much a part of the mill as the spindles and looms, thus securing a capital not only of machin ery but of skilled labor, interested in the results as an employer and stockholder, and success is hound to follow. Here we can’t think of a cotton mill with a capital of less than SIOO,OOO paid in by men who know nothing of the business, and to be managed by men who have no interest in the suc cess of the company except the salary they get, and by employees who look to their monthly pay days as the end of their engagements with the con cern. Now, arc there not hundreds of men in Georgia and Alabama who own good water pow ers that, with a few hundred dollars, could be made available; and are there not hundreds of men, women, boys, girls, skilled spinners, rcelers, warpers, and weavers who have saved and would save twenty-five or more dollars to invest in mills if they hoped such a thing would ever be in their reach; and can't we get these parties together some way and start up a hundred or more mills of $5,000 or SIO,OOO of capital? 1 know a number of beautiful sites where the cotton can be grown up to the door of the mill, healthy and every way desirable, where a few men might lay the founda tion of a fortune which would bless their children’s children, and at the same time help to solve the question of Southern independence. Men who profess to know, say that $4,000 will pay for all the machinery necessary to spin 160 lbs. of yarn per day; add cost of house and power and commer cial capital sufficient to buy one year’s supply of cotton, and we have a nice nucleus around which a Lowell may grow in a lifetime. Why can't we doit? It is the way the English have worked, until now they have more than one spindle to every man, woman end child in the realm, whose ceaseless hum is the voice of ever-increasing: wealth. This is our road to prosperity, and the building up of our loved South, made piain to us by our cousins over the water. Let us follow it. Respectfully, G y. The Enquirer in speaking “editorially” on this subject—“ small cotton mills—throws out the following suggestions which apply with the same force to any other suitable locality as they do to that of Columbus : The establishment of a number of small cotton mills by the means of the working people of the South, meets our views exactly. We have on previous occasions endeavored to show how this could be done, and we hope a little repetition will be excused if we make here a similar showing. There are, we believe, at least five hundred oper atives—men, women and children—working in the cotton factories of this city, who could easily appropriate $5 or $6 per month each to the accu mulation of a fund for the building of a small fac tory of their own. By these savings, in the space of sixteen or eighteen months they would have accumulated a fund of fifty thousand dollars, which is sufficient to build and equip a factory of very respectable capacity—notan Eagle and I Mice nix, it is true, but still a mill that would add many thousands ot dollars to the permanent wealth and resources of the neighborhood in which it might be located, and afford to the working owners as sured employment and support. Of course all of that number of stockholders could not be work ers in a mill of that size, but the ownership of *it would not compel any one to give up employment elsewhere. Neither do we mean to say that only workers in factories could profitably take stock. It would he a good investment for all working men. Ihe ownership of a large interest in it by factory operatives would be an assurance to other stockholders That it would, be intelligently and economically managed. The establishment of one such mill by people of slender means, and hy pay ments so easily made, would surely lead to the establishment of others. The idea that only men of large capital can build and own cotton factories is retarding their establishment in the South. Let it be shown by successful experiment that the monthly savings of hard-working people will soon enable them, by their associated means, to build and operate very respectable factories and to make money by it. and we would see others exerting themselves to do likewise. The incitement to saving which it would afford would also be bene ficial. This is the way that the business has been started in other manufacuring communities—grow ing from small beginnings to gigantic proportions —and in this way we can soon add to the business of the South a vast industry which by many nat ural advantages rightfully belongs to our section. The Fall Campaign. “The canvass in Kentucky has ended as every! >ody knew it would end—in the elec of the entire democratic ticket by between thirty and forty thousand majority. The fight was made in regular Kentucky style, the two candidates for governor going throught the country together and speaking from the platform. The republicans put forward their best speaker and ablest man, and much was expected from Gen. Harlan’s efforts. The result shows that the democra cy of Kentucky have exceeded their vote in 1871, and probably carried the state by a majority of 40,000. Centralization is clear ly at a heavy discount in the state that has never wavered in steadfastness to the faith since she upheld almost alone the democratic banner in 1866.” • The above quoted paragraph is copied from the Atlanta Daily Constitution, and so en couraging and hopeful is the remainder of the writer's remarks on the same subject, that we are pleased to transfer them to our own colnms : “The latest victory was secured on a plat form that discarded all issues that do not pertain *to state politics. The currency, tariff and other questions that have no proper place in an election for state officers, were ignored, and the candidate was placed be fore the people as defenders of the rights of the state under the the constitution, and as op ponents of centralization and of any uncon stitutional interference with the local affairs of any state to any extent or under any pre tence whatever. On such a platform the party easily elected by an immense majority a full list of state officers, and anew legisla ture. “The next elect ion of the preparatory pres idential campaign will occur in California on the first Wednesday in September. This will be a scrub race with four entries—an in dependent and a temperance candidate be ing in the field, besides the nominees of the two great parties. On the second Monday in September, Blaine will try to carry Maine by a heavy radical majority in order to get a good send-off for the presidential nomination of his party. This brings us to the event ful second Tuesday of October when Ohio, lowa and Nebraska will strip for the fight, and friends and foes of popular liberty meet for a conflict of an importance that no man can measure.” The signs are all auspicious for democratic victories. Even in lowa the radicals arc badly scared. The times are hard, and the party that has been in unrestrained power for fifteen years will be held, and rightly too, responsible for the fact. Gov. Allen’s majority will surely be immense : .and this will, in November, powerfully influence the election in Pennsylvania. If the democracy carry these two states, their opponents may as well engage Philadelphia’s great elegiac poet to celebrate in touching verse the com plete and deserved political burial of both radicalism and Grantism. Thyy will occupy a common grave.” The Augusta Constitutionalist discusses the virtues of the lash. It is inclined to to favor the administering of a dose of cat-o'- nine-tails as an expiation of flagrant offences. It believes that if a majority of men know that they would get a sound chastisement, publicly inflicted, for rascally breaches of the law, they would hesitate before committing crime. We give the concluding paragraph of the moderate and sensible article : It is not a pleasant thing to witness the flogging of a fellow being, but neither is it pleasant to have the laws outraged with im punity. When we find Delaware, with her whipping post, a model state, and so many other commonwealths, without that aveng ing instrument, sunk into dominant disorder ; when the learned judges of England with an overwhelming approval, recommend a return to corporal punishment as a barrier to crime —it would seem that, in spite of the senti mentalists, there is a power for good in the lash which the highest civilization may well employ to preserve itself from rapine, insult and decay. Southern vs. Northern Cotton Mills- A few days since, says the New York Bulletin, we published the results of the ex periments made in cotton manufacture of the South, by which it appeared that the mills of Georgia had been able to run steadily and full, and to pay handsome dividends on the capital invested. Almost simultaneously comes the news of the closing of more of the New England mills on account of over pro duction and inability to find a market for their goods. Taken together, these are sug gestive facts and to the further inquiry of the cause at work which upon this showing would indicate a tendency to change in the location of this industry. It is not only true that machinery costs less now than that of most of the New Eng land mills, which were largely at war prices ; but the same may be said of all mill property. Water privileges, dams, mills and machine ry can doubtless all be bought and con structed at nearly, if not quite, half the ag gregate cost of many of the New England mills. Beside, the the South has virtually a protective tariff on its manufacture, both on raw material and goods, in the saving in transportation. And this advantage it will continue to hold until its production exceeds its home consumption when only it can be compelled to come into equal competition with the mills at the North. These facts must have an important influence for some years to come, no doubt, while the effects may very possibly prove permanent. At all events the dispositian certainly exists on the part of the Southern people to make a thorough experiment in the matter. Capital only is wanting, and that, doubtless, will be speedily supplied under the new era of pros perity which is evidently dawning on the South. ♦♦♦*♦♦- CdPlt seems almost incredible—but the telegraph says there was a slight snowfall in Nashville at two o’clock of last Monday morning.— At. Const., 6th. High Salaries. Some of the “ big brethren” of onr State press are discussing the above subject. M e like to see this—like to hear it—in fact, it’s refreshing, these hard times. Asa matter of course, we cannot believe that any “ pent up Utica” controls them in this laudable (?) un dertaking. True it is, the financial status of one or two poor men (we pity ’em, hope a collection will be taken up for them Sunday.) who, it is intimated cannot make “ buckle and tongue meet” on $3,500 per annum, lias been the starting point of all this ; but cer tainly these “ manufacturers” of public opin ion would not be so parsimonious as to con fine so good a thing to so small an area. Then the idea of “ high salaries” tallies so well with the present state of affairs, espe cially when taxes are so high; the two will work so harmoniously together— high salaries and high taxes! Yes, by all means let us have high salaries l Those farmers whose crops have been cut short will, we know, be pleased to hear that their salaries are to be raised; the day laborer, who pays 18 or 20 cents per lb. for the meat he eats—the factory hands, who have been working for the last two years at low wages and on half and three quarter time—all these will fairly dance with exultation at the prospect of higher sal aries ; and the poor Methodist “ circuit rider” (often the peer of the “ ermined” dignitary) who toils through wet and dry, heat and cold, sleet and snow, up in the buckeye and laurel jungles of Rabun —whose yearly salary will not go much above seventy-five dollars, with a jeans suit and half a dozen pair of socks thrown in by the good sisters—what bright anticipations will fill his breast as he reflects on an increase ! By all means, let us have “ high salaries !” but if lion, gentlemen can’t live on $3,500 a year, just let them step down and out, for “there’s nine men a’standin’ by, and they all say they’ll take sugar in their’n !” Seriously, however—let men be amply paid for their work, and let “ dignity” and high living support themselves ! LtPThe survivors of the Third Georgia Regiment, holding their re-union at Ports mouth, Ya„ had their annual election for officers on Thursday, with the following result: President, Col. Claiborne Snead ; Vice Presidents, Major Jno. F. Jones and Captain Stephen A. Corker; Secretary, Cap tain A. A. 'Winn; Quartermaster, Captain Alexander Philip. Johnson leaves a widow, two daughters and one son: Mrs. Patterson, wife of ex-Senator PatteiVm, the lady of the White House who received and entertained during her father's administration with such dignity and grace; Mrs. Brown, formerly Mrs. Stover, at whose.residence lie died; and Andrew Johnson Jr., of the Greenville Intelligencer. EdF’OvER a considerable portion of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri, it is conceded that the late unprecedented rains have large ly destroyed the wheat crop, reduced the corn crop below the average, injured the grass, and almost ruined the oat crop. Potatoes are rotting in the hills, and tomatoes and other vegetables are not ripening. And yet we are as dry down here as a powder horn. Rain water has been unevenly scattered thus far this season.— At. Const. PP 3 The convention has been called in Ala. bama by fifteen thousand majority. The people of that State have now an opportuni ty to make a constitution to suit themselvcs- Ilome-made constitutions are decidedly pre. ferable to the imported article, and we hope it will not be long before the people of Geor gia are permitted to try their hand at con stitution making.— Exchange. New Professor. —lt gives us special pleasure to announce the election of W. W. Lumpkin, Esq., to the chair of English Lite rature in the University of Georgia. Our distant readers may not know him. lie is a son of the late eminent Chief Justice Lump kin, and inherits much of his father’s love of learning. lie is well qualified to fill the chair to which he has been assigned, and will make his mark.— So. Watch. OPMr. W. 11. 11. Thompson, son of our fellow-citzen, 0. B. Thompson, acquitted himsfelf in fine style at the late commence ment in Athens. W. H. distinguished himself while a student of Martin Institute, Jeffer son, Ga., and bore off the prize. We are more than gratified to chronicle the success of our young friend. —Gainesville Southron. OPThe victory in Kentucky is more com plete than first reported. It is now believed that Col. McCreary’s majority, will reach fifty thousand—a gain of thirteen thousand over Governor Leslie's majority in 1871. IdPTiiE Columbus Enquirer says: “The re-election of Dr. H. H. Tucker as chancellor by the trustees, creates immense satisfaction. This section has never had any sympathy in the war which has been made upon him by a few editors and correspondents.” Wilmington, N. C., Aug. 7. —Returns re ceived during the past two days leave the result of the election still in doubt. Both parties claim a majority of delegates, and it may be several days before the result is definitely known, as several extreme western counties are yet to be heard from. It is not probable that the majority will exceed two either way. Rome, Ga., Aug. 6.—To-day at Shu gulak, Mississippi, a white man named McGraw had his throat cut by a negro man. The negro resisted arreet, and was shot and killed. McGraw’s wound is not considered fatal.— At. Const. Death of Col. Wm. 11. Jackson.—The remains of Col. Wm. II Jackson, father of Judge Jas. Jackson, now of the Supreme Bench of this State, reached Athens on Monday evening last, and were intered in Oconee Cemetery. We have not learned the particulars of Col. Jackson’s death, and only know that he died at the residence of his son, in the city of Macon, a few days since, in the ninetieth year of his age. Col. Jackson was one of the most vener able, esteemed and distinguished citizens of our State. “Peace to his ashes.”— N. E. Georgian. STATE NEWS ITEMS. A colored female in Wayne county recent ly gave birth to a baby weighing twenty-four pounds. The first bale of new cotton was sold in Augusta on Monday at twenty cents per pound, and classed middling. This is high er than the price offered for Savannah's first bale. A negro made an attempt to outrage the person of a daughter of Mr. James Davis, of Fayette county, the other day. lie was caught, and it is to be hoped lie is now or namenting an oak tree. Floyd Chapman, a negro boy 20 years old, was playing base ball outside of Griffin, caught a ball which struck him on a finger and drove the nail up. He went to town, drank ice water, took a congestive chill and died. The Dalton Citizen of the sth inst. reports a rise in the price of wheat there, caused by the advance in the Northwest. It is now selling at $1.05, an advance over last week’s quotation of 10 cents, with an upward ten dency. Mr. William Terrill, an old eitizen of Greene county, died the other day, to all ap pearances, and preparations were made to bury him. When these preparations had gone on about as long as he thought com fortable, Mr. Terrill rose and objected, and succeeded,after some argument, in convincing his friends that he was still alive. There are 231 organized companies of military in Georgia, only 58 of whom are armed—4s infantry, 11 calvary and 2 artille ry. Georgia's quota of arms from the United States is sufficient to arm three companies per annum, and the Legislature of Georgia very properly refused to make an appropria tion to arm these 173 companies that have not weapons. Gen. B. T. Williams, of Rome, was play ing with his wife at home, a few days ago, when his foot slipped and he fell to the floor, breaking his right thigh bone. The G ainesville ladies pin sprigs of penny royal on their sweethearts’ coats for the pur pose of keeping off the fleas. Could any thing be sweeter?— Sav. News United States deputy marshal Findley captured thirteen prisoners, four stills, three oxen, one wagon, one horse and a bar-room and fixnres in Franklin county. —Gainesville Eagle. The last of the lichees died in Pulaski the other day. 11 is name was Indian Sam. It gratifies us to learn that Governor Smith has appointed Colonel Peterson ThWeatt to take charge of the State archives remaining at Milledgeville. Max Cohen, one of the survivors of the Schiller, has returned home to Montezuma. He was in the water about 10 hours. The busiest chicken in town is an old rooster, belonging to Mrs. R. F. Watts. He has kindly taken the place of a hen that was recently killed by a dog. He carries a gang of motherless chickens and hovers them with tender care. The only difference the little chicks seem to notice is the [rough manner in which he does His scratching. They have to keep their distance when he is on the track of a worm, and when one ventures in reach of his toes he get s kicked clear over the trash pile.— Lumpkin Independent. Messrs. Bell, Sturtevant & Cos. yesterday sold the first bale of Florida cotton that lias been received in this city, in front of the store of Ph. Dzialvnski,to Mr. John C. Rowland, for 14(e. — Sav." News. The school teachers of 1871 will receive about 50 per cent of their claims from the taxes first, collected in the fall.— Southron. Mr. T. Allen jr., son of Major Thompson Allen, of Banks county, left the city yester day for St. Louis, his new home.— At. Const. 7 th. An old negro woman has sat on a rock in the sun fishing ro long that the heat of the sun has addled her brains. Chicken cholera is cured by smoking them with pine tops, tar and feathers. —Hamilton Visitor. Serious Accident. F. G. Colley, Esq., of Wilkes county, while riding a vicious mule, was thrown by the giving away of the saddle girth, and fractured his skull. The fracture extends through the frontal bone, passing through that portion of it which is cover ed by the eyebrow, runs up half way of the fore head. and then passes back on the side of the head several inches, to a point behind the ear. It then runs downward behind the ear. and then for ward again, just over the ear. meeting the point first mentioned. There is thus a piece of bone, near the size of the hand, broken loose from the rest of the skull. How many splits there may be running oii' through the bones from this central break, and how many smaller fragments there may be. it is impossible to tell. Besides this ter rible fracture, the check bone, called in science the malar bone, is broken and crushed in. There has been no delirium, no stupor; no want of con sciousness whatever: no paralysis, none of the usual symptoms accompanying injuries to the brain, even when slight. Ilis appetite is pretty good, he sleeps well, talks rationally, raises him self up, sits up. and even walks across the floor occasionally, contrary to the advice and wishes of his physicians and friends. All the functions seem to be properly performed, and in a healthy manner, and he does not appear to be in any way seriously sick. The only unfavorable symptom about him is the character of his pulse, which is unnaturally slow and irregular, showing disturb ance about the brain. It is very remarkable that, with such a terrible fracture, there should be no more unfavorable symptoms; and the only way in which the physicians account for their absence; is that the fracture is simplv a break through the bones without their being driven in upon the brain substance. Thus there is no compression of the brain by the bone, and there cannot have been any internal hemorrhage to produce pressure by the formation of a clot of blood within the cranium. Washington Gazette. “Dem’ Publikins.” There were three of them sitting lazily upon the platform, looking like cast iron tobacco signs. “Dere’s goin’ to be anoder ’publican pa ' per here purty soon, cle folks sav,” said one. | “An’ we all niggers got to subscribe, kase de ’lection is coming nigh unto hand,” said another. “’Scribe nuthin’ !” said the third one, as he loosed up his cotton suspender; “I’m done wid dis ’publikin business. I is. Didn’t I hear the preacher readin in de Bible bout de ’publikins. Why, when de Lord hisself was on de yeartli dey used to set in de high places at de front gates of de towns and take up taxes and ’sessments from de fokes. And now dese publikins doin’ de same’ting, dontyer see? Now dey don’t git no more : sessments outen dis nigger fur no ’lections, scribins and nothin’! Dat’s de kind o’ free ; Afrikin I is—l'm a talkin to yer !” And he seemed to feel greatly relieved. - Parker Escapes. —The ex-Treasurer of South Carolina lately tried and found gulty of embezzlement and fraud, has escaped from jail—having been assisted by others of the ring to which he belonged. COTJUsTTPUST GLIMPs^. Mr. Editor: —In accordance with vious notice, the Grangers' Pic-nic came off Beech Creek on Saturday last, and was eminent success in every particular. As early as 8| o’clock, a. m., the immr. k throng, estimated at from five to six hundre ■ began to assemble, nor ceased to arrive t noonday. TIIE ADDRESSES. The first speaker, Col. R. D. Win* Gwinnett, began by saying that he loved\ people of Jackson—that it was the conn', i of his nativity, that he had always met a * come and hospitality here which greeted hi, nowhere else. In eloquent terms he to the pleasant memories and associations the past, lie then branched off- V Grange, its'beauties, objects, etc, and clog, The next speaker was our efficient coi] lf School Commissioner, Mr. J. G. N. WiV He was perfectly at home in the discusskJ of the benefits of the Grange. He also <r, a brief synopsis of our Educational lie stated that there were 50 schools in ,T ftot ! son Cos., with an aggregate attendance 2000 pupils. The speech was well deliver and well received. Then came that ever welcome annonu ment dinner. And it was a dinner. There was p or , mutton, ham, fowl of various kinds, cakeif well, there was eyerything good. We wej so busy about this time that we took notes. About the close, we heard E Johnson hallowing at the top of his voiJj “if there’s a man, woman or child here n hasn’t had dinner, come this way !” Besi having an abundance of the more subst. tin! things of life spread upon table, lie hibited a dozen or more melons, from his c I ebrated patch, to which his numerous frier * did ample justice. And here we are digre> ing somewhat, and must go a little faith I still. It is positively asserted that Mr.bf Johnson and Gen'l Reeves killed a wh< drove of sheep on Friday, preparatory tot | dinner. It is also hinted that our esteem friends, Messrs. Hinton and Thompson, hi feathers for sale, the result of the last weel fowl {foul) killing. HON. 11. 11. CARLTON’S ADDRESS, was the speech of the occasion, and was and I livered in that eloquent, earnest, cand i manner so characteristic of this true | gian. A1 way's the champion and outsjiok defender of Right, regardless upon who> | head the blow falls, he is winning his wav; I popularity among the masses, as few Votr 1 men of his day are. He said that ourresor I ces must be developed through the unis of the young men of our country—this | the lever power of our success. He oppos | the policy of State legislation to induce Jr.l migration—let it come of its own aceor | He said that a man who had corn to sell hi-l money to lend. He advocated the policy making more corn and less cotton, in aim I terly style—making direct home appeal 1 We do not pretend to give even a synops I of this solidly pract’ca effort. We wanttL-jjH Dr. to visit Jackson often. Her people 1 I him. and he will always be made to “feel® home” when he comes among them. L. I but by no means least, we must not I L o mention that that high-toned, public spir l ed Old Roman, Col. Robt. White, wasprtfi ent, introducing the speakers and givir* shape to affairs. To look into his Irish face is at any time a real pleasure— 'M indeed and in truth, is he a true represent* tive of the “Old School.” “Prof.” Bill Hunter, with his “goot Icm I ale” was present, and “refreshed” the crons from early morn to dusky eve. Refreshingly, Tcgmuttox. I - For the Forest News, j “ Letter from Harrisburg.” Mr. Editor:—’Twas very kind in yon | grant Mr. “Myrneh” the privilege of be I heard through the columns of your vain: l .' I paper ; but had I been in the gentleman I place, in speaking- of the “ model farmers" Harrisburg, I should have mentioned w § than one. For had I been confined to ok! frankly confess I should not- have km*® what name to mention. 1 think there will® more than seven thousand bushels of ccfl made on Parks’ creek this year, exclusive® upland ; of course, it will not all lie made* the two gentlemen whose names are menti l | ed in “ Mymeh’s” letter, but bv them ■ % others. Now, friend “Myrneh,” it may wrong in me to write this short letter; 1* ; speak the honest sentiments of m3' heart, vfij they come as free as water—when you v ... for individuals, applaud them to the skicj they deserve it; but when you write fa® District do not write as though there not a half dozen men in it whose names I serve to be mentioned before the pul m And in speaking of schools, you write r wc had but one teacher and his pupils ' : m patrons whom we delight to honor. Tr® dear “Myrneh,” makes other farmers, ® chanics, teachers, pupils and patrons very small (which many' of us are) in thee.;* of the readers of the Forest News. b spoke, in your letter, of enlarging; du * ‘Mvmeh,” if you write for Harrisburg-' §j don’t enlarge on individuals. Orsekvw* Harrisburg , Aug. 9 th. 1875. For the Forest News. The Crops, Cotton, &e. Mr. Editor:—Many writers have sh that crops were fine, very fine, indeed; 5 it was thought by nflhiy farmers and sp lators that the cotton crop would be b< than it had been for many years; quentl}' we were in fine spirits, especially a neighborhood—hoping to have plenty ol ton and moneys too, in the fall. But alas the farmer —he is disappointed again: drouth having, I consider, cut off the 1 nearly one-half. I, like many others, b ; > very fine crop three weeks ago ; it was 1 ] good for the land—indeed I thought it best I had raised on the land. It was £ ing rapidly and forming well, and I pbj my crop at 20 bales ; now, I put my erv ten bales. My cotton had stopped gr°" until it rained on the third of this month squares and bolls were dropping rapidh i still continue to drop. While exawj my cotton to-day, 1 noticed it was she' 1 off the fruit to a great extent; where the cotton was manured the hea' has this been the case, because in these -V it was “fired” the worst. Iver much fear that many farmers making cotton for the benefit of other p fl Let us watch and see if we do not lose ! even under the most favorable circuinst^ 1 , unless we make our “ supplies” at h olll ®\| man can afford to make cotton at P r j|' prices in the south, and have his corn-efly meat-house in the western States. ht er onr farmers learn this important and make everything they eat at homy- 1 1 we will not be alarmed by short or hah' g of cotton, such as many of us will 1 year—according to my judgment. Jackson co.. Aug. 9th. A J