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W* Ijornhl. J. 11. I'AKK. - - - Proprietor K’.m. W ISA Visit, - - Editor. THURSDAY, JULY 8. 1875, Commissioner's Iteport. Wo are under obligations to Commissioner T. I’. Janes, for a copy of the Monthly Report of crops, etc. From this report we gather the following interesting particulars with regard to the grow ing crops ; The average condition of the corn crop is 2 per cent, below that of last year. This falling off is attri buted to the drought in Southern Georgia. The crop is reported clean, but small. The cotton crop is reported the same ns last year. It is late, but in a thriving condition. Fall oats 6 per cent, above an average, and spring oats 20 per ct. below. 'l’he yield of both, as com nared with last year, is 14 per ct. in excess. The Commissioner says: “It is well demonstrated that oats succeed better sown in the fall. It has al' so been demonstrated, that a good stand may be secured by sowing in cotton about the first of September, without plowing in. Planters should try at least a part of their crop this way next fall.” The condition of wheat, not har vested, on the 15th ult,,was 10 per cent, below last year; the yield of .that harvested was 8 per cent, above last year's yield. This crop -has been harvested in good dry condition. Clover is 10 per cent, below an averager The area devoted to corn forage is 20 per cent, more than last year, and the condition of the crop is 1 per cent, below that of last year. llh of July in Atlanta. July s.—The celebration of the 4th of July here to-day, called to gether the largest mass meeting since the war. Citizens and sol diers all participated. Gov. Smith presided. lion. A. H. Stephens, Orator of the Day, made a speech two hours long. The Declaration of Independence was his theme,— lie reviewed the causes leading to American freedom, and described the grand celebration had in Phila delphia, July 4th, 1789. He ask ed; Are these small matters to bring forth on this occasion ? Far from it. They are deep footprints o r truth impressed on our earlier history, fixing the character of our system of institutions, which asser tion can never obliterate, argu ment can never remove, time can •never erase, and which wars can •never destroy. They stick to the very fragments of the primitive mocks of our political formation,and only have to be dug up and shown ■with their unerring inscriptions to utterly refute all false theories to the contrary. This is the time and occasion to exhibit at least a few of them. Wc should ever discrimin- ate between principles] oT govern ment and the acts ot’ its administra tion : entire devotion to the one is not at all inconsistent with stern opposition to the other. This is a Centennial period. The grand dem onstrations in honor of the one hundredth anniversary of tbo de struction of tea at Boston, and the battles of Concord, Lexington, Bunker Hill, and the Mecklenburg Declaration, which have brought different sections into more harmo nious accord, are but a prelude to the celebration of the anniversary of the declaration which is to come off ■next year in Philadelphia. “The question is mooted whether we shall be represented in that cele bration. In reply I say with all the emphasis I can command, yes. What more fitting occasion could be planned for the gathering of the people ito consider the nature of their institutions and contemplate their workings in the past, especi ally when administered on the prin ciples on which they were founded.’ Tlr. Stephens closed with, “All honor now and forever to the men who, by their deeds in the council chamber and on battlefields,achiev ed our independence, and like hon or now and forever to the principles upon which that independence was founded.” Mr. Stephens was fre quently applauded for his patriotic sentiments.—[Press Dispatch. [foh tub iierald.] ••miOIA M3 KIVU BIT <Hiui.ii2 r ” We have read of disinterested kind ness, disinterested friendship, disinter ested love, and all this sort of thing, but that age is past; or, if ever seen at ali in this last day of progressive ideas, it is looked upon as an irreconcilable anomaly in man’s emotional nature, and the actor considered as more fit for a lunatic asylum than to move about loose in the common walks of life. These disinterested feelings may well be remembered with the “ things that were.” Our fathers may have told us of them, but wc have learned to be wiser, and, now, have rushed upon a broader platform, inaugurating anew era by introducing the higher, nobler principle of disinterested patriotism, Wo are all disinterested patriots, ex tremely anxious to serve our beloved country by holding—it is moro com monly called filling, but in truth it would be fitting to say emptying— some public office, purely for the honor and because we are conscious of su- perior qualifications and merits; salary and perquisites have no sort of influ ence in the matter. Oh! no, these golden charms do not effect us. It would bo bard to tell in these days the perquisites of office. True, after the position is obtained we become very greatly impressed with the fact that, owing to the responsible and onerous duties, the pay should be increased, not so much on our own account but, main ly from sympathy for our successors. The disinterested patriot never seeks any office, from Captain of Militia, Jus tice of the Peace, on down grade ns low as Governor and Congressman, without first being earnestly solicited thereto by numerous friends. How very numerous these friends often are, occasionally they amount to the whole number of one. These friends write lengthy biographies. They are written and published, not for pay, oh ! no, not they, but done through disinterested motives; it would be perpetrating a great wrong against mankind to allow the possessors of such exalted virtues to remain in obscurity. It is not because the noble, distinguished public bene faotor seeks position, by no manner of means; for it is known as a fact by all, that, if personal inclination was con suited, he would never leave the quiet retreat of privato life, he has a sort of horror of notoriety. (Pity, but the owlish tribe would continue to live in “ the wilderness.) But then the State absolutely needs his service*, and would fall in pieces without him. War, unfortunately, very often makos a great man out of a very small pattern, so in those times we find it not uncommon to hear some friends— “ Shout and sing, Oh ! humpty dumpsy, Colonel Johnson killed Tecumseh,” Some men go to war moved alone by ambitious motives, others from a sense of duty and love of country, the first are always a pest, the latter, although they may rarely be heard of after vic tory has been won, are an honor to the age in which they live. lienee the State owes these patriots special honors. We have at this pres ent time so many in Georgia, and they are as prolific as dog-fennel, whoso many personal friends are persuaded beyond a doubt that the favorite of each batch, should, without delay, be authorized to approve the acts of the Legislature, and issue thanksgiving proclamations, that the people are in an awful dilemma ; if they choose one, the others will be scandalously offended, and if all are rejected the State will bo lost. So if all can not be elected im mediately great damage will result to the dear people, if this can not be done, and they cannot wait a spell, I would respectfully suggest that each and all obtain a life insurance agency, and then go out into the wilds of the West and bunt prairie dogs. They would have no business bruising around in this locality. This would be largely better for the finances, inflation or no inflation. It would be hard to pay a proper man to much, or an unfit man too little. We now have more ways to manu facture noted men than was ever before beard of. Here is this interviewing plan, and if this does not stop it will ruin the country. They interview rob bers and murderers, politicians and Governors, and railroads, aud fast women, and everybody, and make fool* of all, and when once a man is inter viewed his fame is established, and he must have an office. “ Oli, wad gome power the giftie gie us, To see oursei's as others see ns ! It wad frac ruoiiie a blunder free us And foolish notions.” “’Tis true, ’tis pity; and pity J iis, ’tis true.” that we now have no fin! class men to serve as Governor, as in “ days of auld lang syne.” Men who instead of seeking the office, let the office seek them. Men whose personal histories, and public virtues, and ster ling worth did not need to be written by some fulsome upstart. We have gpt the men, and the con den nation will justly fall on their heads if they bury their talents, and do not lend a helping band in choking off the numerous little puppets who howl around the Executive Mansion. We wont no “ring-master” of any kind< “color, or previous condition of servi tude,” no plunderer, nor anybody who lias had any hand or partnership with plunderers. It would be better to have the shadow of our wise and good men to hover about our public offices, than have them filled by the uncertain stuff that makes up the character of many who now hanker after place. Let us write no more letters to this or that man to know if be will serve the State, but we will have an honest Convention of the people and nominate and elect by no mean majority one of Georgia’s noble sons. One of senso, ex perience, integrity and courage, and, though he may profer the shades of private life, where is the son of them that, with such an expression of confi deuce, would refuse to honor us as the Governor of our grand old State. J. The l.nml lor Homes. 'I he time i fast approaching when the South must cotno promi nently forward ns a land forhorae3. There is not ono Southern State that has, or ever had, one-fifth of its area under cultivation. From Virginia to Texas and from Mis souri to Florida, there are tens of millions of acres of the finest un occupied land in the world. Asa rule, it is very fertile, and its pro ducts are such ss ever command a market. There is an abundance of virgin forest, and the hills are fill ed with coal and iron. Tho cli mate throughout the greater num ber of the Southern States is une qualled for health and temperature. The rivers are never frozen, caltle can graze all winter, and there is not a month in the year that, tbe former cannot flow. With such advantages one would think the South was the heaven of farmers, and that others would flock into that section to fol- low the same calling Both these suppositions should bo true, but fortunately they are not. There is not to-day a more wretch ed system of agriculture than that pursued by the Southern “plant er,” as ho still delights to call him self, and we question if any farm ing people in the wcrld live more wretchedly or are more in debt.— This must not be attributed to the war, for the land and tho climate are left, nor to the depletion of la bor, for it all remains, but to the utter thriftlessnesß an_d want of pro gress of the people. Tho six mill ions of people in the Cotton States depend on the North-west for their meat and bread, and this with a soil capable of producing every ne cessary article of food in abundance. In truth, they buy every thing, and raise and sell but one thing, cot ton. Of course, they are poor,and, in debt, and discontented. In such a land tbe skilled and economical Northern or European farmer would grow rich in one-half the time he could in the West, and wherever a Southern man has adop ted a careful mode of agriculture, ho has succeeded. This surely should be the place into which a portion of the tide of emigration, now reaching our shores, should pour. The Southern peoplo claim to desire this; but here is the great stumbling block; all the good lands are held in large bodies by a few men. The farms, so miserably cul tivated, number often thousands ot acres each, when they should tens. The country is all owned by some body, and they live so far apart that the roads arc wretched,church es scarce, and schoolhouses nearly impossible. It is true, they are willing to have capital and labor flow South, but they hope in this to find customers for their lands,or cheaper and more reliable labor than the negro to work them. Of course, the inferior free lands of the Government will continue to be occupied, and the Southern States must drop farther and farther be hind in the great inarch of progress. It is to be hoped fbatthe South ern legislators will see the necessi ty for some vigorous policy, look ing to the encouragement of emi gration, and its subsequent pretec tion. If one-half the money spent on railroads and other swindling undertakings by all the Southern States since the war, had been used to transport emigrants and give them free farms, the South would bo far richer, happier, and with a more brilliant future to-day. We hopo jour Southern brethren will give this subject the thought it de serves.—[N. Y. Irish World, The Alee of the Times. If the beginning of anew centu ry of our national life should be marked by a revival of the early virtues of the people, such as sim plicity, frugality, and economy, in place of luxury, extravagance and prodigality, wo might reason bly boliove the next hundred years will witness our growth in prosper ity and powor, such as the present state of things givos us no right to anticipate. It will hardly be denied that os tentatious display is ono of the great vices of our times and coun try. The haste to be rich and to mako a show of what riches can buy, are the cankers of our social system, and will eat out the solid and enduring strength of any peo ple. Tho facts on which this state ment is made Jare apparent. In deed they are thrust upon our ob servation as the grand ebject of life, and wo are compelled to see them whether they disgust or delight us. It is in city and country alike Everywhere the disgust of the eye and the pride of life, flare them-* selves in the eyes of men. This is so much the fashion of the day that it has ceased to receive censure.and it rather commands admiration, as the thing to be done and desired.— The struggle of those who have not tho means to make the display, is to get them, and the more they get the more they want. This is hu man nature. It always was so.— Perhaps it always will be so. But it never did mark the upward pro gress of the people. It is the sign of culmination and decline. It be tokens those views of life—luxury, effeminacy, tinsel, glitter, veneer ing, shams, show, froth, folly, van ity and vice—that cannot co-exist with the stealing honesty, simplici-- tv, purity, sobriety, and religious principles, on which true greatness and permanent prosperity are built. To draw the line between the right and wrong in this matter is not for us : oar fathers, the foun ders of the republic, drew it. There is but one of the distinguished men of tho revolution to whom extrava gance is imputed, and he was Ben edict Arnold, lli- greed was the incentive to his treason. We know how silly seems the at tempt to say a word against the ex travagance of the times ; as indi cated in the style of living, the equipage, the furnitnte, the enter tainments, in which the rich, and those who wish to bo considered rich, but are not, indulge. We aro laughed at for our pains, and regarded croaking when the world is singing for joy. But the day of reckoning comes, to nations as well RS individuals, and then “whose shall all these things bef” Who, of all those that pride them selves on costly displays, contrib ute anything of wisdom and power to the republic ? How ft .7 of tnc-m leave children whose example is of any service to the country ? The sons of men who waste thrir sub stance in luxurious living, amount to nothing. Such families soon run out. Those who endure, per petuating their names and their in fluence through successive gener atons, are the sober, frugal, steady, conservative people, whose highest ambition is to do thir duty to God and to their country. We shall see these (ruths bro’t to the front in the discourses which the centennial will produce, and well will it be for the country, and so for the world, if the truth be so sent home to the understanding and conscience of the nation, that we shall have a revival of those domes tic and social virtues which indi cate solid worth, and assure the ex istence and influence of those pub lic virtues * which are essential to permanent national life. [Ex. A lesson of wisdom seems to have been drawn from the calamity at Holyoke, by the Legislature of Con necticut. A bill, which orders that the doors of churches and other public edifices shall in future open outwards, has been introduced into that Legisla ture. It is expected that it will hecom* a law. Grout EartliQUUke HORROR UPON IIORROR. Most Awful Calamity minor the Creation off Iso New York, July 4. Later mail advices from different places in Colombia more than con firm the horrors by the earthquake in May. A letter from Salaza, dated May 2Stb, says: “Cucuta is a pitiful sight. Everything is in ruins. Not a house remains stand ing. Thieves and robbers from the surrounding country have swept down on the ill-fated city, and hardly a single safe has been saved from the custom-house. Four hundred mules were killed in the streets, and as there is no one to remove them the stench is becom ing frightful. The villages of San Custobal, Farina, Guassinjo, Capa cho, San Antonio, Lobatera San Juan de Urena, Reosario and San Cayetana are completely deet-oyed. The store houses at Fuerte de los Cachos was sacked and burned by the bandits.” A letter from Ocana, dated May 30th, says: “Ten thousand peoplo were killed in Cucuta, in addition to other thousands who were seri ously wounded and bruised. Death and desolation reigned everywhere. A great number of haciendas have been destroyed, and hundreds of houses in the country have been overthrown, leaving the people homeless and,consequently, in pov erty. Many of the trees were torn up by the roots and small hills were opened like a melon. The cause of the great catastrophe is, of course, unknown, as well as the precise place of its first manifesta tion. Some suppose that the vol cano of Sobotera, which was in ac tion in 1848, again breaking out, while others say that anew volcano has appeared in. the hills of Gira cha.” forelgnitems. The Pope of Romo received eight hundred congratulatory telegrams on his last birthday. The workingmen’s society of Paris have opened a national subscription to provide for sending a delegation to the Philadelphia exhibition. London, June 29, —A despatch from Buda-Pcsth to the Standard says a furious thunderstorm passed over that city to-day The lightning was inces sant, and hail fell in such quantities that the roofs of the houses and the surrounding hills were covered two feet thick with ice. The waterfall was extraordinary. Torrents swept through the streets of Buda, carrying men, ve hides and everything moveablo down into the river. Many houses were sud denly flooded and destroyed before their inmates could escape. Five hun dred of the inhabitants are missing, and at least one hundred have been drowned or killed by falling walls. All tin railways are interrupted. Latest. —London, June 30.—The Standard’s special despatch from Pesth reports that the loss of life by the tempest of yesterday exceeds the first reports. One hundred and twenty dead bodies have been found in the Danube, and many more must have been carried away by the current. London, June 28.—Special tele grams to the Times say 900 persons perished in the flood at Toulouse alone. The outbreak of an epidemic is feared. It is believed that 2,600 houses have been 3wept away in the town and envi rons. The damage there is estimated at from £12,000,000 to £15,000,000. The Paris correspondent of the Times makes an appeal to British charity in behalf of the sufferers. The Daily News’ special telegram says the lowest estimate of deaths in the flooded dis tricts is 2,000. It is proposed to bom bard and destroy the St. Cyprien quar ter of Toulouse to prevent danger from the crumbling walls of the houses that yet remain. The Standard publishes reports of fearful inundations in Bohe mia, Corinthis, the Tyrol and Banat, with some loss of life and great destruc tion of property. Many bridges have been carried away, thousands of cattle drowned, and crops in several districts are totally ruined. Later. —Paris, June 29.—The dam age to property by the inundations in the cities of Toulouse and Agen alone exceeds $24,000,000. The heaviest losses are in the Departments of Haute- Garoane and Lot et-Garonne. The de struction done in the Department of the Hautes-Pyrenees is comparatively light. Contributions for the relief of the sufferers are pouring in from all parts of France, Switzerland aDd Bel gium. 1 i €i ” mm 4* & LOOKING GLASS & PICTURE! FRAMES PATRONIZE HOME I INDUSTRY l o THERE is no necessity to send North or elsewhere to have Looking Glass and Fintuyo Frames Regilt and Repaired, when they can and will be done by the subscribes at as LOW A PRICE for the same work as in any city in the United States. PORTRAIT FRAMES of all sizes and styles made to order at short notice, LOOKING GLASSES both French and German, of all sizes, furnished. OIL PAINTINGS, Cleaned, Reliucd and Restored. CHROMOS of every dcscripbiea always on hand. Send on ycur work and SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. June 10, 1875tf *A4O Broad StAugusta* CJa. QEO. a. OATES. Dealer la School and Miscellaneous Books and Stationery and Everything’ Usually kept in a first-class Rook Store. 10 I.rouil St., Adsuist.l, Gtt. Piano Poriesl PERSONS wishing to buy a superior PIANO FORTE at a reasonable price, will de well to call on the subscriber, wlio is the oldest dealer in Georgia : and the owners of hundreds of Pianos that he has sold, will testify to their durability. lie lias made arrangements with the celebrated makers, Guild, Church & Cos., of Boston, whereby he can sell a first-class Piano at a low price, part cash, and the balance in instalments. No Pianos with fancy names sold, hut all have the makers names and warranted for fire years. He is also agent for the celebrated mannfacturics of Steinwny k Son ; Bacon & Karr, (formerly Bacon & Rowen,); andStieff & Son's, all of which will be sold at factory prices. He is also agent for the most approved CABINET ORGANS. GEO. A OATES, 240 Broad St Augusta, Ga. [X?”Pianos Tuned and Repaired. June 10 187fnf BANKRUPT SIM! GREAT INDUCEMENTS OFFERED!! Having recently been appointed Assignee of TOICItICKT X ItItOTII- Elt, Bankrupts I will close out their entire Stock of Goods in the City of Greeneshoro’ JAT COBT. The Stock of Goods are H32JBT.W And consists in part of Candies, Nuts, Raisins, .Jollies, Preserves, Brandy Fruits, Pickles, Catsups, Sauces, Flavoring Extracts, Spices, Baking Powders, Toilet Soaps, Perfumery, Crackers ’ Scotch Snuff, Crockery, Pipes, Cigars, Candles, Matches, Paper, Ink, Eu_- velopes, Canned Fruits and Vegetables, Sardines, Oysters and Lobsters Also Fancy China Vases ami Toilet Sets, Pocket Albums, Photo- ' graph Albums, Fancy Boxes, Walnut Writing Desks, Toy Books, Paper Dolls, beautiful China and Wax Dolls. China Tea Sets, Violins, Violin Bows and Strings, Tamborines, Accordions, Toy Drums, Wood" Carts, Wagons and Wheelbarrows. Also a good assortment of Pock et Cutlery, Razors and Straps, Pocket Books Lead Pencils, Jewelry, Pins, Needles and Thread, And mail}’ other Articled too numerous to mention, I respectfully invite all to eali soon and make a selection, feeling assured that they will be ASTONISHED at the LO W rRICF.S. Win. 11, KRAACH, Assignee, Greenesborongh. Ga., June 23, 1875—2 ms BUY THE BEST ! THIS IS TIIE ON LY QUALITY OF WHITE WM LEAD MADE BY JEWETT & FOR THE LAST SIXTEEN YEARS l Oils, Colors, Varnishes, Glass, Paints* Brushes. All in full Assortment. J. 11. ALEXANDER, AUGUSTA, OT-A-. A full stock of DRUGS and CHEMICALS, Garden Seeds, etc. All goods sold at lowest prices for Cash". MAGIC CURE for Chills sent by mail on receipt of price, One Dollar per box, Mav 20, 1875—tf J. H. ALEXANDER, Manufacturer ol Cigars, AND WHOLESALE AND RETAIf DEALER IN TOBACCO, PIPES, Corner orilllis and Mclntosh Streets, r “CTS , E?.^ = i ■ O-aCSO-lA may 20, 1875—3m0 * PAINT AND OIL STORE ! 53 Jackson Street, Augusta, Georgia. THE BEST OF TrtTcLES 5 ALL FRESH AMD NEW I WHITE LEAD. ZINC.PAINTB, COLORS, LINSEED OIL, MACHINE OIL, GIN OIL. J^Terms— CASH ON DELIVERY ; or approved city acceptance GEO. D. CONNOR, 53 Jackson St., near Bell Tower, Augusta, Ga. may 20, ISlo-Omo J. F. TAYLOK, FASHIONABLE BARBER AND HAIR DRESSER, Main Street, over J M Storey & Bro., may2o,’7s-tf Greenesboro’, Ga BRUSHES. VAR NISH. PUTTY, WINDOW GLASS, KEROSENE OIL, Eto., Etc. Col. Jas. A. Thornton Is our duly authorized Agent to solicit and receive subscript ions to the Herald, and re ceipt for the same. AND Smokers’ Articles Generally.