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The McDuffie Journal. A Bui live Country Taper. Published Every Wednesday Morning, by WIUTK «St COMBS. Terras of Subscription. «ne copy, one year One copy, six months i Ten copies, in olubs, one year, each.... l au Single copies <* ts. tcJ- All subscriptions m variblv in advance BUSINESS CARDS. R. W. H . NEAL, attorney at law, iXD JfOTAUT P C B I. X C, THOMSON, OA. WILL practice in the Courts of McDuffie and adjoining Counties. «“Coiiv«tasciso a specialty. H. C. RONEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW. THOMSON, GA. HT Will practice in the Augusta, North ern and Middle Circuits. nolyl PAUL C. HUDSON. A1 TO It -V I- Y AT LAW, Thomson, Gn. Will practice in the Superior Courts of the Augusta, Northern and Middle Circuits, and in the Supreme Court, and will give attention to all oases in Bankruptcy. Aug. 25, li7t. ts Central t)otel, BY MRS. W. M. THOMAS. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA R«plltf A1 O a day at home. Agents w»nted_ [ 4 Outfit and terms free. TRUE it CO., Augusta, Maine. JUDKINS & SHAW, KEEP SUPPLIED WITH FISH, OYSTERS, EINE, VEGETABLES, Partridges, Doves. Squir rel* Ducks, Chickens, Butter, Cabbages. Potatoes, Eggs NORFOLK OYS'EKS, K; 10, etc. >HrOrderH from the country promptly filled. Address JUDKINS A SHAW, Melntosh Street, nett to the New Post Of fice. B2a§ fe,\ STEAM BAGINES.STEAMWILHB. I MILL tiEARIN'U MADKJ Vha f tl* g. p ulleysa nd h anger? The UN EQUALLED JAS. IEFFEL DOU BLE i Address, POOLE & HUNT, MdamMaiiPiii^:ti*rewgaiU« Cl END 25c. to G. P. ROWELL A CO., New York, for Pamphlet of 10*1 pages, containing lists of 3000 newspapers, and estimates showing cost of advertising. SB HOTEL Charleston , S. C. Q. T. ALFORD <t: CO., Bates, $3.80 per day Proprietors. I, S. & P. c. TANTS’ Meat House, jsrftfys i Augusta 3a. Fina CAROLINA. TENNESSE and KEN TUCKY BEEF, Pork, Lamb, Veal. Mutton, Hog-hcad Cheese, Sausage, Mixed, or ALL PORK, as ordered, Corned Beef. Pork, and Tongues. A full stock always on hand. A CARD. I AM frequently asked bv my friends if I am doing a general practice, or only at tending inch calls as may be made in good weather or convenient to my offleo. In answer to the above, I would say to my former patrons and friends, that from this date I will enter upon the active duties ol my profession looking in part to those who may ask my services for my reward. Office on Main Street, in Holzendorf's JULIUS H. OPENHEIM, No, 143 Reynolds Street. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA., WHOLESALE DEALER IN IRON, METALS, RAGS and all kinds of Paper Stock, Hides, Wool, WAX, Etc- H2-a§ ALBERT HAPE, Non-Resident Dentist, QaN still be found ready to attend to the wants of old and new patrons, if desired, at their residences. Will also, as heretofore, practice in adjoin ing counties. Panic prices insured and all work warranted. Office at the residence of W. E. hpeir. Please address by letter, at Thomson, Ga. C 8 ts dh K dWin P er day at home. Samples $0 to -D-CI J worth $1 free. Stinson * Cos., Portland. Maine. (The actithli) journal. VOL. VI. To the Afllicted. IN CALLING THE PUBLIC ATTENTION TO THE Indian Compound COUGH MIXTURE FOR the cure of CONSUMPTION and all diseases of the LUNGS -and THROAT. I say that liothiug surpasses it for Colds and Coughs, and can be taken from old age down to the cradle with iinpu - nitv, and withont danger. But the profes sional world is so full of Ambiguousness and Egotism, that anything put before the public as a safe and reliable Remedy for certain diseases is scoffed at and pro nounced worthless and a humbug. I say try it before you condemn it. as I will give you the name of every herb, &e., that it is composed of. which you can examine at your leisure: Vitellus Ovi, Amygdaius Persies. Mel, Pinus Palustrus, Andromeda, Arborea. Arctium Leppa, Inula Helemutu, Marruhium Vulgare, Autennaria Symphy tum, Duichwachsener Wasserdost, Cepha lanthus Occidentals, Symphytum Offici nale It is prepared at my office, No. 56 Peach tree street, ATLANTA, GA., where it can he had in any quantity. If any one using it will say that it has done them no good, return the bottle and get your money re turned. S. T. BIGGEKS, M. D., Cls-f*. Atlanta, Ga. For sale by Dr. A. D. Hill, Thomson, Ga. Spring Time 1 Again! C L ES A N X T N ENT €mraim, BOOTS, S'IOES, HATS, AC, AC., AC. JUST received a large lot of Spring and Summer Goods of all kinds, which are use ful, good, pretty and cheap. We only ask inspection before you spend a dollar for anything in our line. A. J. Adkins, THOMSON, GA. The Me of Gannon. rPhis thorough-bred TENNESSEE BULL. | whose pedigree is well established and can be traced buck through the purest stock for many years, is now standing on lny plantation four miles Nortli-cast of Thom son, near the old White Oak Campground. He possesses all the qualities of the finest blooded stock in the laud, is throe years old, of dark brown color, weighs about fif teen hundred pounds, a model form, per fectly gentle and well .Imposed. I am prepared to take care of cows sent from a distance at reasonable rates. A number of his calves may be seen at the residences of Messrs. T. B. West, Win. 11. Johnson, and others. Price of season $5.00, M. W. CURRY. May 10-6 m. 1870. I 877. GEORGIA DIRECTORY. ! First regular Issue now in preparation 1. WILL CONTAIN a complete Business Directory of every village, town and city in the State. 2. IT WILL CONTAIN a complete SHIP PER’S GUIDE to every point in the State. 3. IT WILL CONTAIN a full, classified list of all persons in the State engaged in any MERCANTILE, MECHANICAL. MANUFACTURING or PROFESSION AL pursuit. 4. IT WILL CONTAIN a correct list of State and County officers. 5. IT WILL CONTAIN a complete POST. OFFICE DIRECTORY of the UNITED STATES and TERRITORIES Also, an accurate list of EXPRESS STATIONS IN ALABAMA. GEORGIA, MISSISSIP PI, SOUTH CAROLINA and FLORI DA , prepared expressly for this work by Route Agents, and only to be found in our Directories. 6. IT WILL CONTAIN a revised and cor rect COUNTY MAP of the STATE of GEORGIA. 7. IT WILL CONTAIN, in addition to the foregoing special features, so much gen eral information that no business man can afford to be without it. Asan adver sing medium we think it presents its own claims, and we confidently commend it to the business public, hoping to receive a patronage commensurate with its in trinsic valne, and the great pains be stowed upon its preparation. BATES. One Page and Copy of Book, $25 00 Half “ “ “ “ “ 15 00 Third “ “ “ “ “ 12 00 Fourth “ “ “ “ “ 10 00 Price of Book with Inch Card 5 00 Name in Capital Letters, 1 00 WHEELER,MARSHALL* BRUCE, rCBLISHEBH, ATLANTA, GA. i, i. smmME, GIIiDhiR! LOOKING GLASS AND PICTURE FRAME MAKER. OLD FRAMES RE-GILT. OIL PAINTINGS CAREFULLY CLEANED, LINED and VARNISHED. 19 JACKSON STREET, AIJOtJSTA.GA, POETICAL. SOWING SEED. We are sowing, daily sowing, Countless seeds of good and ill, Scattered on the lovely lowland, Cast upon the windy hill; Seeds that sink in rich brown furrows, Soft with heaven’s gracious rains; Seeds that rest upon the surface Os the dry, unyielding plains. Seeds that fall amid the stillness Os the lowly mountain glen ; Seeds cast out in silent places, Trodden under foot of men; Seeds by idle hearts forgotten, Flung at raudom on the air; Seeds hv faithful souls remembered, Sown in tears and love and prayer. Seeds that lie unchanged, unquickened, Lifeless on the teeming mould; Seeds that live and grow and Sourish When the sower's hand is cold. By a whisper sow we blessings, By a breath we scatter strife; Iu our words and looks aud actions Lie the seeds of death and life. Thou who knowest all our weakness, Leave us not to sow alone! Bid Thine angel guard the furrows • Where the precious grain is sown, Till the fields are crowned with glory, Filled with yellow ripened ears— Filled with fruit of life eternal, From the seeds we sowed in tears Cheek the forward thoughts and passions, Stay the hasty, heedless hands, Lest the germs of sin and sorrow Mar our fair and lovely lands. Father, help each weak endeavor, Make each faithful effort blest, Till Thine harvest shall be garnered, And we enter into rest. "the great sea-serpent. THE TABLED MONSTER REAPPEARS. Wliat was seen from a steamer—A mar velous Apparition—An incredulous Captaiu—Why the t- kipper declined to join the Spectators. [ From Bombay Gazette. ] Steamship Hydaspes, March 22, 187 G. I must toll you at once that I write on one of the most worn and commonplace of subjects—the 'oyage of a Peninsular and Oriental steamer from Bombay to Aden. But I must ask you, before throwing this letter into tbo waste-paper basket, to read it through carefully. If it bo not published, one of the most ex traordinary facts iu this world's history may be absolutely lost; aud, in the inter est of truth, in the interest I may say truly of science, I ask you to make known wliat I now state. Asa missionary, I have traveled over a great part of the world, but I can safely aver that what I saw on Saturday, the 18th day of March, was incomparably the most mar velous phenomenon that 1 as ever met mv eves. We steamed out of Bombay harbor on the eveuing of Monday, the 13th of March, in the steamship Hydaspes, Captain Reynold. On Tuesday at 12 we had made 161 miles, on Wednesday at midday 429, on Thursday 707, and on Friday nearly 1,000, so that on Saturday morniug we were about 1,550 miles from Bombay. Nothing of remark had occurr ed up to Saturday. There were u monkey and a Persian cat among the passengero, which had caused some little amusement, aud thirty-two children, who caused ex treme anuoyauco to the male passengers j from constant screams that they gave l forth morning noon, and night. The weather was aool and nearly every one slept below, only one passenger, a Capt. Davidson, and myself remained on deck for the night. I was roused from sleep every morning at 6 by the men washing and scraping the decks, and on Saturday was roused as usual. I took my plate ol broken biscuits to the stern and sat there munching them and looking at the sun risiDg. I was quite alone, Capt. Davidson still sleeping in peace on the port side. There was a thick bank of clouds on tlie horizon, and as the sun rose from the sea, behind this dark bank, great masses of color—red and blue aud yellow—lit up the whole expanse of sky and sea. I was looking at a strange ruddy blot of red on tbe water right astern, when I saw apparently near the horizon, but in the red blot, a dark moving shadow. It did not seem to move with the other shadows on the sea, and this fixed my attention to it. Soon I saw that it was steadily approaching the vessel. I could distin guish no form, only a dark shadow, but I made out certuinly that it was advanc ing toward us and at a great rate. Fif teen minutes must have passed when I at last became able to distinguish the form of the advancing object. (I spoke to the captain afterwurd as to the distance the object could have been from us when I first distinguished it, and he told me I must have been deceived by the moving lights in supposing it near the horizon ; aud he guessed, from what I said, that it was then only three or fonr miles distant. Mistakes of a like nature, he said, are oommonly made by the inexperienced.) I oannot acurately describe my feelings ou beholding that hideous sight. At fi i-t I turned to call out, to briDg others to look on with me; but, before a cry could pass my lips, a second feeling of selfish pleasure that I alone saw that fearful thing, seized me, and I turned my eyes again to the sea, and kept them fixed there. Within a hundred feet of the stern of our vessel, not now approaching us, but simply following steadily in our wake, was this hideous thing. A great THOMSON, GA. JFJNE 14, 1876. mass of what looked like tangled seaweed, ou which a futile attempt at combing had l>een made, rose out of the water. This mass must have been twenty or thirty feet in' length, and ten feet iu width, aud as it tame ou it caused a wide ripple in the water that showed there must be a still greater part below the surface.. From the centre of this mass, raised juat clear above it aud facing tbe vessel, was a great black head. The top was quite fiat, in shape unlike that of a monstrous toad. A thick fringe of coarse reddi h hair hung over the mouth, quite concealing it. But the eyes were the most awful part of this fearful thing. They wore placed far apart, at either ex tremity of tluT fiat head, distant from each other at least three feet, I must here state that all the passengers and all the crew except tit* Captain himself saw the thing afterward, but that there were scarcely two who could agree as to the color and nature of these eyes. I can only, therefore, write ns they appeared to me. The eyeballs were enormous ; they must have been fonr or five inches in diameter. They scintillated constantly. Every one knows the extraordinary ap pearance of a surface covered with small alternate squares of bright red and bright blue, the quivering, uncertain, unfixed look such a surface has, the difficulty, the impossibility experienced by the looker-on to fix the color of any particu lar square. The eyeballs of this thing lmd such a quivering uncertain look ; but they wore not red, not blue, not red and blue; they were of ft bright, burningly bright, cop per hue ; they pained our eyes—and iu this we were all agreed—as wo looked at them. In the centre of each eyeball, a mere speck, but visible from its extreme brightness, was a po lit of light white liglit. It was impossible to tell whether these points were or were not material points of the eye, or merely oaused by reflection, but they were clearly defined, aud seemed to remain in the same place. The motion, however, of tbo thing was so steady that no deduction could fairly be drawn from their not changing their position. The appearance of this extra ordinary creature was so new to me, so entirely outside of all my previous exper ience, that I had no preconceived ideas with which to compare the thoughts it raised in my mini. So the impression it caused was vague and indefinite, aud I cau only : ay u ill me extreme horror and dislikel I had been so absorbed in the pleasing pain of looking at the thing, that I had quite forgotten the other people on board, and was first roused, by hearing Capt. Davidson step up oil the stern by me, give one look below at tlie water, and then hurriedly go back. Iu a sow minutes every passenger was crowding on to the stern, even the ladies appear ing, though iu unfinshed costume. Ex clamations of theextremest astonishment broko from all, aud then sileuce fell, as the crowd stared ut the hideous creature. The children, at the first sight, ran back below screaming, and some refused to come again on deck, though their nurses and ayahs—desirous of looking on them selves—used all possible means to make them. Some, however, returned curiosity overcoming fear,, but even these looked on iu a perpetual tremor of terror, and held theuta Ives ready at the first move | ment of the thing to rush away. I no ticed at this time that the Captaiu was not present, aud turned to an old Euro pean sailer by me and asked him to go and tell him. “Captaiu won’t come, no fear of that, Sir,” replied the man. I asked if he wufi navigating the ship. “No, lie was not navigating the ship," said the sailor, “but he would not come for all that; however, he would go aud tell him.” But though ho went the Captain would not come. We all re mained absorbed in tbe strange sight till tbe first breakfast-bell had rang ut 8 :30, when we had perforce to hurry away and take our chance of bathing at that late hour. Up to this time the thing had kept steadily in our wake, its movement continuing absolutely smooth and con stant, and the specks of light in the glaring eyes never changing a hair’s breadth from their position. At break fast I sot one removed from tlie Captain. We began, of course, talking of the thing we had seen, but the Captain for some reasonwu could not then under stand, seemed to dislike the subject and soon we abandoned it, falling then into absolute silence, for we could talk of nothing else. When we went ou deck again—wo were only a few minutes at breakfast—we found the thing still fol lowing steadily in our wake. The chil dren had in great measure got over their fear, and made a long line by joining hands, and the whole lot of them would now crouch down and then suddenly rise up, open their mouths at the thing, and cry out at it. No notice apparently being taken of this they grew bolder, and at last their cries increased till they shrieked shrilly. Suddenly the hideous creature seemed roused by these cries, it raised its head iu the air, uttered a strange bel low, and came forward at a great pace toward the ship. None of us could at first move from fear ; the thing r.eeemed to have grown in size, its < yeballs were more burningly bright; the chrildreu | fell on the deck crying, and some of tho I women fainted. But we who remained staudiug, suffering though we were un der intense terror, still could not, wheu we at last were able to move, retreat or even take our eyes off the thing. It came swiftly up to the ship, always uttering the same peculiar cry or bellow. Whan but a few feet from the stem, it sudden ly turned and name up closo ou the port side. Hero the side awuings had beeu put up to keep off the sun, but three of us ! rushed up to the awning and quickly got : it down that we might the better watch the thing. For myself I most say that while doing this I was still suffering from extreme fear, but my curiosity was so intense, so irresistiblo, that I could ouly act as I did, No sooner was the thing level with us than it raised itself with a sudden movement high out of the water, till its head was thirty or foriy feet above us. It still uttered the same peculiar cry or bellow. Under our in tense curiosity we stood out on tbe bul warks to follow its movements. It open ed a great mouth, cried more loudly than before, aud made three blows at the mainmast. Tho last of these touched it, : aud oaused the ship to sway violently, so | that we nearly cast off' into the water. When we again looked for the thing it had gone. There was no ripple, no dis turbance of any kind iu the water to show where it had beeu. It was gore absolutely. We looked constantly for it during the rest of that day, but not the slightest trace did we again discover. And now let me state shortly why I, not over facile in writing, or fitted for the subjeot. by knowledge, write this. At tiffin, of that same day, just as we were rising to return on deck, the Captain rose and asked, us to remain a few min , utes. Then he shortly referred to the strange sight we had seen that day, lsyiug stress on the fact, however, that he himself had not seeu it, aud went on : “Now, none of you cau doubt wliat you saw ; but I advise you not to talk about it. That was the sea-serpent you Baw. But I wouldn’t talk about it if I saw it. It only leads to making people laugh, aud it won’t do you any good. But then remember, I did not see it, so I’ve noth ing to do with this one. But, if yon take my advioe, you won't talk about it. Punch took up one sea-serpent, and that Captain never got over it—never. Re member, though, I didn’t see this ono,” You will see now, Mr. Editor, that if yon dou't publish this, a most extraordi nary foot may be li at to the world. This account, I may state, has been read over | by some of tlie passengers aud their dis agreement from wliat I have written is only wliat would necessarily, under the circumstances mentioned, be expected. To show that I have no fear of ridioule, I givo my name. Matthew Sthono. I may state that when the thing raised itself up and struck the mnst, it was apparent that the sea-weed-like mass was long coarse hair, covering a dark thick neck. But the thing could not possibly have been a serpent ; for, to raiso so prodigous a length of neck above tlie surface a huge body below the surface was, of course, required. [journal correspondence. ] Fountain, Juno, 9th, 1870. Editors Journal: the crops, to., tc. Thinking probably that you and your readers would like to bear something of the times and crop prospect around old “Fountain.” 1 have concluded to write you a brief letter. Small grain crops never was better, oats extraordinarily good, wheat better than it has been for several years. My worthy friend aud neighbor, J. D. McCrary, will make he says, 12j bushels for every one he sowed. Corn is looking well, but small, cotton better up to this time, aud generally clear of grass. I tell you people up this way mean business. They are straining every muscle to get out of debt this year, and I tell you thoy are “showing their faith by their works,” and if they don’t como out of the big end of the horn it won’t be for the want of industry and perseverance. Even some of the fttir young ladies have shouldgred tho weapon (hoe) aud gone to the cotton field, to battle against “Gen. Green,” and I tell j you where such perseverance is manifest ed, a great deal will be accomplished. I saw Col. Don. Willis about three weeks ago. He came through the field where I was plowing, with his gun. I have never heard or seeu anything of him since. 1 fear he has shot himself, if not I guess he has been cutting his oats, as I understand he has a fine crop of them. Should you see him, please tell him to come and spend the day with me, as I would be glad to see the face of any civilized human, also send me word when there will be another “Squsbsion” train to Atlanta. The people up here are all waiting for Ja-k Usry to come with his “Thrash,” to go': out their wheat. A. J. R. Tbo President has issued a proclama tion, reciting the joint resolution of Con gress, recommending assemblies of the people in their respective counties, and towns and cause to be delivered a Fourth of July historical sketch of the county or town, to be filed iu the library of Con gress and elsewhere, with intent that a complete record may be obtained of tbe progress of our institutions during the past oeutury of their existence. [JOURNAL CORRESPONDENCE. J Junk 9, 1876. | Dear Journal: Your very valuable paper is the moM j welcome visitor that comes to our little ' household. We read uot only the mis oellauy, uews, wit aud humor, hut eveu the advertisements. What has become of A. J. Adki .’s Irishman. He caused ;us to laugh and gro fat. I I sec that there is to be nn excursion ! j to the historical city of Charleston, for j !it has proven to he the Gibraltar of ; America, aud to the Southern people I a place ever dear. Heading the adver tisement carried me back over fifteen years, to the time when I sat under the sound of the first gun that was fired in the defence of our ever glorious South. I say it, and uot boastingly, there are but few of those soldiers left who first shoveled sand in the defence of our | common country. Nine out of ten are no more, but each day there are prayers | offered up for them, aud each year their ' graves are covered with the choicest j flowers by the beauties of our land. ! Here at Charleston was built the first j Irou Battery the world ever knew, and i the first rifle cannon over used in Amer ica ; and beio it was demonstrated be yond doubt, that sand was the thing for breastworks. It was here Beauregard built his reputation, which will perish only with the end of time, j From Ft. Moultrie it was that Col. Ripley filled one of Anderson's shells and returned it, marked rice, for it was well known that the garrison of Sumter was on short rations. It was In re that, after shoveling sand all day aud naif the night, we wonld hear the j long roll beaten, and the cry, ‘‘The j Brooklyn is coming 1” and then the ; booming of all Moultrie's guuß would be j heard far out to sen. It was believed by j the authorities of South Carolina that it j was tbo intention of the United States to ! aid Ft. Sumter by the carrying of men and provisions to her, for there was no Confederacy at that time. Each State was for herself. After six weeks of hard toil we were transferred to Morris Island and then another sot of batteries were to : be built. There was none hut the small one, used by the Cadets of Charleston in firing on the Star of the West, on the morning of the 9th of January, 18C1 ; and well do I now, after 16 years and six mouths, retnexiber the feeling which the sound of those guns produced ,upon us ; MOW every man wanted to go and do bis iduty, and iu discharging that duty so many were caused, in after years, to bite the dust. It makes my very heart ache to think of it now. In about ton days nfter we landed on Morris Island, and hud erect'd one or two large batteries, the government of the United States sent some 6 or 8 large war vessels to the j harbor of Charleston, (for what purpose we never knew) wluch was the ohief sea port of the Republic of South Carolina, but they were conteuted with taking up ; their station just inside the bar. aud out of tae reach of our guns ; and then commenced the marching of the troops : among the sandhills, anil along the j each, now iu sight, and then out of sight., of Mr. Yank, for we only had ouo . regimen' of -COO men, the Ist South | Carolina Volunteers, commanded by Col. j Maxey Gregg, who afterward yielded up his life on the same day that Gen. Thos. R. R. Cobb, and not more than fiity yards from where be did. Time wore on and in the courso of events ti e Iron , Battery is finished, more sand batteries . are erected, but uot any more troops, cx . cept artilerists, to man the cannons iu < the batteries. At last all is ready for , ; the bombardmeut of Sumter ; and how often have we been awakened from our short sleep allowed us, by some messmate crying in our ears “Fireing ou Sumter 1” Ou the moruiug of April lull, 1861, at 4 o’clock, the signal was given to couimonce the attack, but as it was my turn to sleep, I did uot see the rocket, but as the usu al cry of “Fireing on Sumter had fooled me so often, I only drew my blanket closer aud slept agaiu ; but when I was called for duty, sure enough, shot and shell «ere being exchanged without cer emony, continuing day aud night, until Saturday, 13th day of April, 1861, when Sumter was discovered to be ou fire, which soon got beyond the control of the garrison, aud help was asked for by the flag of truce being hoisted. All firing ceased as soon as the flag was seen, (which was not discovered for some time on account of the smoke) and terms of capitulation were entered into between the Republic of S uth Carolina and the United States. On Sunday morning, April 14, our troops marched into Sum ter from the Iron Battery, with Hon. Edmund Ruffin at their head, carrying the flag of South Carolina, to whom was also awarded the honor of firing the first gun at Sumt-r from the Irou Battery. But ou the 12th of April Haygood's regimeut came to our relief, and such a sight as some of them did present. One fellow is as plain before me now as the noon-day sun. With gun on shoulder, squilTel hunting style, hearer hat ull crushed in, one coat tail gone, as be stepped from behind the mountains of sand which heretofore had hid from his view the ceau exclaimed, “Good God, what a pond!” you 6bould have heard the yells that went up from the Ist S. C. V. as he was pointed out and the words passed from man to man. Ailroi'tlNbif; Hikcn. One square, first insertion f | Off Each s jbfieqneßt insertion-. 7,1 fine square three month*..-.....,-..- so iff One aqaare six mouths \r, no One square twelte month*.—jo no Quarter eofninn twelve months 40 00 Half column sit months fio W Half column twelve months 75 no One colnnrn twelve months 1?S Ist •W Ten lines or less considered s square AH fractions of squares are coanted as full qnare*. NO. 24. Now dear Journal, here also was i iron enough thrown rtt Sumter during - the year* of ‘63-64 and '65, to have built , a railroad from Augusta to the end—, i It was here that the Uni tel States se t ! nil of her mighty war vessels to awe ns i into submission—among them the Iron j Sides and varions Monitors ; it was here j that Rhett, in April, 1863, drove beck j the Ironclad Fleet o’ the Yankee nation; 011 same day Wagner sunk the Keoknk ; it was here that the 1 little Torpedo boats caused monster ironclads to become worthless by exploding shells nnder’ tliem ; the remainder of the fleet useless only for blockading the port, which wee not effective ; and from those torpedo boats did many a poor fellow And a wa tery grave. Often wheu the storms of heaven were raging did Mr. Yank, think ho wotijd surprise Sumter, and as often was he surprised liy being taken priso ner without the firing of a gun, but by brickbats alone. around the walls of Sum ter. Now, as I have taken np more space and time than I set ont to do, let every man, woman aud child go ou this excur sion, for another such opportunity may uot present itself soon. Cannot the Managers have one more day 1 Say leave Atlanta Wednesday morning 21st and return as per bill, for there are many places that wonld be of interest to the visitors if allowed time, to-wit: Ft, Johnson, Batteries Yates and Glover, New Liues, Ft. Pemberton, Morris Is land, and view the ground made dear by so much blood being (mured out on it. Don’t fail to visit Wagner aud Gregg, also the “Swamp Angel” ; for from the lutter was hurled the first shot that fell in Charleston. In bnildiugthis "Swamp Angel” the commanding Officer of the Yankee troops told his Engineer to make requisition for anything he wanted and it should be furnished. He asked for men 18 feet high. I regret that my business is snob I cannot leave. Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to visit again these ouce familiar spots. May success attend the Managers, and the visitors be well re paid for time aud money spent. Go ev ery one. Yours Truly, Ur-CoUNTBrMEN, [Special Correspondence McDuffie Journal.} The Crops, ac. Cl a* Hill, Oa., June 13, 1876, .I fe*«r* Dditore : I have an oat cio;> report to make from Lincoln, as follows: Mr. P. C. Dill has a small piece of old field ground, cleared up three or four years ago, planted in oottou last year, aud not manured sinoe the cotton was planted. The lot contains only 4 acres, and produced 177 shocks of oats, each shock having 14 large bundles. At a very moderate calculation Mr. Dill’s friends think the field will produce from 140 to ISO bushels of clear oats; and ! some think it will make not less than 40 j bushels to the acre. ! Got that muoli ground in McDuffie j that will beat this patch ?* All oat orops are fine throughout Lin colu. Wlioat generally is good, but in some places not first class, having beeu injured by both cold and rust. Wo have had pretty good seasons, and corn and cotton are looking well. Lincoln Ims always compared favora bly with adjacent counties, so far as the fertility and productiveness of its lauds are concerned ; and os to “rough ness,” car uot be beaten, but can be equalled by either McDuffie, Wilkes or Columbia, for I have seen all parts of all these oounties, and can testify. Yours, Ac. P. 8. “If yon skin a Georgia inde pendent candidate, you will find him to be a regular, old-fashioned scalawag. ” Chronicle & Sentinel. ♦Everything considered, particularly the absence of fertilizers, the oat report ed by onr corresponent shows to good advantage, and is n heavy blow to the “all cotton” folly. For a sample of the McDuffie county oat crop, we refer with pride to the report of Judge Smith’s crop, in our Agricultural column, oil the fourth page of this issue of the Jourpal. “Got that much ground in Lincoln that will beat this patch ?” If you havo, let us hear from you. A German scientific journal contains the following receipt for sharpening edge tools : “It has long been known that the simple method of sharpening a razor is to put it for half an hour in water to which has been added one twentieth of its weight of muriatic or sulphuric acid, then lightly wipe it off and after a few hours set it on a hone. The acid sup plies the place of a whetstone by corrod ing the whole surfaoe evenly, so that nothing further than a smooth polish is necessary. The process never injures good blades, while badly hardened ones are generally improved by it, although the cause of improvement remains unex plained.”—Remarks.—The cause of this improvement is simply that those parti cles which are softer contain less carbon, are most attacked by the acids, and tbi s removed by them ; while the harder par ticles—the more perfect steel—is richer in carbon, which causes it to re ist the action of the acid better and they remait j