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Savannah Weeklii Qtm mJ f SAT I KDAY, AX'UUMT 14. l*7ft. RUMORIPTION*. "’l-fklv Nriv*, One Vrnr 99 0O k\ I'l'Uly Nf, S|, >|oiilh* 1 OO U’wMjr Ni ~ Three tlantha SO lisily News, otic year, |l<mk>; *ix month*, |r. mi; three month*, t'l 50. Tri-Weekly New*, one year, |6 00; *ix months, $3 00; three month*, $1 50. A:1 *nb*criptloii payable In advance. t'alter* by mail are ahi;i;x 'fi at the expiration of the time I*W for without farther notice. Httl*cril*:m will please observe the date* on their wrapper*. a :>r k iiTt *a* an t*. A HqiJAKK ia ten tie anured line* of Nonpareil of Tub Wkkki.v New*. T-ie h luaertlon, |l 00 per nquarc. Liberal rate* made with contract advertiser*. coHßßaeo* nBNeE. *torrea|K,ndenr e *olicitrl; but to receive at ten -1 ton, letter* miiat I*; accompanied by a re*poind' ole name, not for publication, Init a* ai'iwruntee of g<**| faith. All letter* should be address**! to .1. 11. KHTILL, Haviuinub, <•. The Slate Hoard of Health. Wo arc in<lel)to(] to Ir. J. (}. Thomas, Ohiiiruiaii of the State Board of Health, for a pamphlet copy of the proceedings of the initial meeting of the Hoard, re cently held in Atlanta. The pamphlet, in addition to the proceeding*, contains a very important addreu to the medical men of <;.orgia, the most important portion* of which will he found hereunto appended; “A great and important interest haw just been con tided to the medical profeg aiori. liy the passage of the hill inau gurating a Sanitary Commission for the Stnto of Georgia, physicians have been recognized a* an active and working elo •nctit in tin- government. A vast number of important facta, tranupiring heretofore wtl,.ut .i.*se.oid. are now to become the data from which the law* of iiealth are to be educed, and from which correct and reliable principles of hygiene are to ho established. Upon the faithful and cor dial co operation of medical men through out the State does the success of this all important and highly benevolent enter prise principally depend.” ***** “Wo are not unmindful of the difficulties and etn Imrrussmenta that will often attend your efforts to secure all information pro posed and required in the blanks sub milted. Hut whilst wo trust you will he resolute in your determination to make full mill complete returns in every case of birth and death, when practicable, still in thorn) cases in which you find your holvch unable to do ko, wu hope you will, nevertheless, make ns full answers as possible. Not a solitary cane of either birth or death Hhould be allowed to occur in your circle of practice without are turn of Nome kind, and to Home extent be ini' made, however few, meagre, and incomplete may bo the facta you may bo able to obtain. “And in thin connection wo beg to Hubmit tliut the great and important ob jocta sought in the creation of the board may be greatly facilitated, if you will liftvo the kindness, in your intercourse with the citizens of your respective neigll borhood, to impress on them the obliga tions that rest on them to make these returns of both births and deaths-—in nil cases when no physician is in attend ance. The twelftii section of the act of the Legislature that established the board expressly says: ‘That when any birth or death shall take place, no physi cian being in attendance, the same shall bo reported to the Ordinary, with the supposed cause of death, by the parents, or if none, by the next of kin.’ A like obligation to report is imposed by Jaw on Coroners in cases of inquest. The proper forms will at all times ho fur nished you, citizens and Coroners. And now a few words ns to the precise mean ing of some terms used in the forms, and as to the lust way of making answers, and we shall have dom? : hirst. In giving the “names” of “chi! ren born,” we ask that you bo particular to gfevf juiddle names in full, and so enter them oVa the form. Do not return initial lotters inWend of names. N.-comi In regard to “color,” state whether the child is white, black or mu loitto. ♦ Third!, in giving the “number of child of thi - motUerJ’state whether it is tho lif *, 'locoed, third, ere., of the mother* * I*'mirth. Whety you give “the place of birth,” wo wish to know whether it oc curs in a city or in the country. fifth. Instating “age of parents” or of “deceased persons,” give ago at last birthday. Sixth. In all eases of twins or triplets, state the fact. Seventh. In tho form for the return of n defttli, you will ftud just under the first question, within brackets, tlio following words; “if ununmed give the names of the parents." Those words apply to in fants that die before being named. Eighth. The propriety and object of tho eleventh and last question on this blank may bo illustrated by tho death of n person who has consumption—tho pri mary cause but who died of pneumonia, the secondary cause of death. In addition to tho foregoing, tho Chair man of the Standing Committees of the .Hoard, whose names are herein men tioned, earnestly request tho favor of prompt assistance from their professional brethren in furnishing data, tunoever brief, for the preparation of their several re ports, to bo made in October next. Endemic, epidemic and contagious dis eases, their extent of region, their char actor, the number of cases, fatality, and season of greatest prevalence, should be reported to Dr. Campbell. Hygiene of schools, prisons, and public inatituktuns. the military condition of with tho kinds and amount of diseases, and degree of mor tality, noticing also any points of excel fence or any obnoxious features incident to their management, should be reported to Dr. Nottingham. AH peculiarities of geology and topogra phy which may have a bearing on the health <>f the locality in which you reside should be reported to Dr. Little. All facts upon the subjects eontided to Uw> Committee on Poisons and special sources of danger should bo reported to Dr. Stanford. Report to Dr. Logan, Chairman of Special Committee, all facts bearing on vaccination and means of suppressing small pox. 'l'mt Tuiiivlations of Plymouth Church. Failing to raise by subscrip tion tho money necessary to uiako good the increase of llrothor Beeeher’s salary to jjt 100,1)00, so promptly and exultantly voted by the Plymouth Society at tho close Oi' the late trial, it is now proposed to mortgago Plymouth Church for the additional SBO,OOO. The St. Louis lie pub&cttn thinks this is the proper way to raise the wind. It says: “Plymouth Church has got almost everything else on . it except a mortgage, and the sooner thut is supplied the better. Still, when the cause of outraged innocence requires a mortgage for its assistance, the inevitable inference is either that the cause is painfully weak or the champions of it painfully poor. Whichever in fcrcnce is accepted, it rather tends to •take the feathers oil of ‘the great moral ■victory.’ ” >Ve would not now be surprised to learn that further proceedings to raise the money for tho increased salary had been postponed nutil after the new trial which **Ts to take place, with new and important testimony in favor of the plaintiff, in September. The Washington Telegram is pouring hot shot into the administration, and especially. that portion of it embraced under the district government. A few . days since it presented astatoment, giving facts and figures, showing that nearly every newspaper in tho district had beeu subsidized by the ring. It calls upon the people to carefully examine the figures and then determine the matter with whether sheets so corrupt are MSutitled to public support. J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR, Affairs In Georgia. The Greensboro Horne Journal thinks that Senator Norwood's presentation of facts and his deductions therefrom, in his recent alumni address, are, to say the least, injudicious. Hut, after all, that would seem to be a matter for debate. We have heard some very careful, cau tious and conservative men Applaud the very deductions and prophecies which the Journal criticises. What underflie sun does the Atlanta Grange mean when it talks about Hi Kimball’s “editorial superinjendency ?” It makes the cold chills gallop up and down our chine to imagine that Hi is ed iting a newspaper. Reports from Southern Georgia bring the gratifying intelligence that there bare been general rains throughout that section during the past three or four days. Wilkinson county is building anew jail. Cherokee county boasts of forty-eight puMie schools. Atlanta is ritilHViiar sonar* grotm-l, but a great change has come over the place since the reformed circus man related his experience; and it is a change that is obvious to all. Now, when a prominent citizen treads on a banana skin and slides off <m the roof of his hack, he merely gets up, straightens out his hut, feels in his pockets, examines his umbrella, and walks off with a sigh. Hix months ago he would have halted the first lawyer that eame along and entered suit ugainst the city for damages. Seven trees in the neighborhood of Irwinton were struck by lightning and set on lire one day recently. We have received the first number of the Cherokee Georgian, edited by Rev. P. 11. Hrewstcr and Mr. J. J. A. Sharp. It is very neatly printed and gives groat promise of success. The selections are judiciously made, and considerable atten tion is given to home matters. Crops in Cherokee county are very promising. The dwelling house of Mr. Jack Nelson, of Wilkinson county, was burned re cently. The hail storm which passed over Mor gan county recently was exceedingly destructive to crops. On some plantations corn and cotton were entirely destroyed. Mr. J. Macon Smith, a prominent citi zen of Wilkinson county, is dead. Richmond county hns 12,523 acres in corn and 5,480 in cotton. The Macon Telegraph says that Dr. Tucker, Chancellor of the State Univer sity, rofused to plead to the ridiculous charges tabled against him, and with a sublime faith exclaimed: “My trust is in God; lie will not deliver me into the hands of mine enemies.” Now, we would like very much to know if the foregoing is a verbatim report of the Doctor’s remarks on tlio occasion re ferred to. Mr. Jesse Perry, of Morgan county, made sevon hundred and sixty bushels of oats on forty acres of land. Journalism is such an important pro f<: :*{< n in <U *■ rot ,<r> enority that tlio fore man of the now paper, the Georgian, published at Canton, finds it neoessary to appear before the public in a salutatory. The value of property in Richmond county has decreased $507,072 23 since last year. Iu Canton they put even sohool-boys in jail for hugging school-girls. And it isn’t Canton, China, either. The Augusta negroes seem determined to get up a row in one way or another. The police, howover, have their eyes open. Mr. Malcolm Johnston, Secretary of the Georgia State Agricultural Society, lias returned from his Northern tour. A correspondent of the Augusta Con stitutionalist, gives an account of a very heavy hail storm that passed over Lincoln and Wilkes counties recently. Much damnge wits done to the crops by the hail. The crops of Mr. Thomas Martin and Mr. Aycoek were almost fatally ruined, niul those of others injured par tially. Mr. Martin said he expected to make thirty-live bales of cotton, but tha now he will not make one. There is not left hardly a leaf or a boll on the cotton stalks. The corn was beaten almost into threads, lie has become discouraged and discharged the most of his hands. He states that he could have gathered at his frout steps, when he returned from the church nfter the storm, at least a half bushel of hail stones. The outside por tion of the house has the appearance of having hiul a shower of rooks rained upon it. Some window glasses were bfoken. The hail stones in some places were piled up at dusk, and no doubt remained there for several hours after dark. Mr. Ayeoek suffered at least as much as Mr. Martin, though he is much more able,pecuniarily, to bear the loss. The storm covered an area of about five or more miles, but these were the only two farms seriously injured. We still desire to know whether Col. 11. Honeycomb Jones’s report of Chancel lor Tucker’s remarks upon a recent occa sion weie verbatim. We intend to see this thing out. . Montgomery eouuty claims to be the best sheep grazing country iu the State. Hon. A. H. Stephens is spending the heated term in North Georgia. It seems funny that Hargrove,of Rome, should know so much about Georgia Democrats. Two-thirds of an average porn crop will be made iu Montgomery county. We regret to learn that Mrs. A. W. lieese, of Macon, wife of Mr. A. W. Reese, of the Macon Telegraph, is ill. An old negro woman iu Gridin went to Mr. Van Patrick the other day and pro posed to be his slave for her victuals and clothes. The old darkey has evidently discovered that it is not all of freedom to be free. Racker McCrary was killed in Mouroe county recently by Pinkney brown. These individuals are suuff-colored by trade, and the trouble was about a female negro woman. Triplett, of the Thom&syiljs Times, heads the list with a poultry story. He says that a uestfull of hen eggs hatched the other day after having been deserted by the pareut bird for ten days. Base ball killed a nigger in Gridin the other day. Mr. H. M. Chastain, of Thomas county, has raised a sixteen pound beet. Dr. James 8. Lawton, of Forsyth, will remove at once to Atlanta, for the pur pose of assuming editorial oontrol of the Grunge. Tho artist of the Thomasville Enter prise makes out a pictorial case of sour grapey against the Albany If cm. Grady, of the Atlanta Herald, is a printer by profession, but not by trade. Tbe other night one of the forms of his paper was thrown into pi, and he wrote a hurried apology for the “scrambled” ap pearance of things. He was evidently laboring under the impression that the paper-would have to be printed from the pied type, no matter on which end they stood. Things have got to that pass in Atlanta that the hoarding-houses won’t take a man in unless he belongs to the church. And then they do take him in. A Macon man complains that they haven’t got any “luxuries” at Indian Spring. He evidently expected to get cocktails at ten cents a glass and peanuts at five cents a quart. It is funny how peo ple commence thinking about “luxuries” as soon as they get away from home. Thq Washington (Wilkes county) peo ple say they would rather be blown up by giant powder than by a two-horse power tubular trombone. The Atlanta Herald had to go West a reliable statement of what Senator >,orU wood said of the negro. The Atlanta Comtilution is still run ning with a comma in its head. Howbeit, it can claim that there is point in it. The Rome Courier now denies that it ever heard of a place called Kirkwood. Dr. Tucker, according to the Atlanta Herald, was re elected Chancellor of the Htate University by one vote after four ties. Who was his opponent ? Perhaps this result was brought about by Col. H. Hamilton Jones’s verbatim report of his recent speech. Home paper said the other day that Watson, of the Macon Telegraph , ought to take a few weeks’ vacation. And pray why? Watson has very little to do Benner’s bear hasn’t chased him up a treo in three months, and it is only on occasions of that kind that he can be persuaded to perspire. We hope our agricultural friends will not allow themselves to be deceived. The popularity of the long-fibre Japanese corn has tempted unscrupulous men to place counterfeits upon the market. The genuine is sold in pound packages which are ornamented with a highly colored map of the autographs of Colonel 11. Chickasaw Stephenson and Colonel J. Hackensack Randall, of the Augusta Con stitutionalist. Again we say to the un suspecting Granger, be not deceived. We call for an immediate assembling of the journalistic Board of Honor. W. Timpkins Christopher, of the Fort Valley Mirror, charges that M. Monmouth Bar ron, of the Franklin News, has appro priated one of his local paragraphs. Let this matter be thoroughly sifted. Fitch’s Newnan paper is to be a semi weekly. A negro was found dead by tbe road side in Henry county. A mule was grazing a short distance off, but the coroner’s jury, in order not to have too much said about the matter, brought in a verdict in favor of a congestive chill. Boston Grange (Thomas county) num bers one hundred and twenty-three mem bers. . An Effingham county correspondent says that only a half-crop will be made in that county. Some farms are entirely ruined. Those who planted early will make pretty fair crops. Judge Hoplrins, of the Atlanta Circuit, is still too ill to see his friends, though we are glad to learn that he is steadily improving. The drought has been so effectual in withering vegetation in Washington county, that an acre of corn that was expected to yield one hundred bushels will now yield next to nothing. Lee county has 30,070 acres in cotton, and 24,087 in corn. The Gainesville ladies pin sprigs of pennyroyal on their sweethearts’ coats for the purpose of keeping off the fleas. Could anything be sweeter ? Mr. A. R. Strother, of McDuffie coun ty, is unfortunate. Only a short time ago his house was burned, and now bo has lost by lire seventy thousand feet of lum ber, with which he proposed to rebuild his dwelling. We are glad to hear that the crops in Chattahoochee county are good. Chatta hoochee and Cherokee seem to be two of the exceptions. Our Boston (Thomas county) corres pondent writes that the weather has toned down considerably since the late rains which commenced at some points in that section on Friday and culminated in a general “season” on Sunday. A Lumpkin rooster has taken charge of a gang of motherless chickens and scratches for them with great assiduity. A Columbus bank cashier has gold and silver coins a hundred and fifty years old. The aggregate taxable property of Mus cogee county will be some six hundred thousand dollars less than last year. Mr. James W. White, of Griffin, has been offered a thousand dollars to play first base on a Boston nine. A correspondent of the Atlanta Con stitution proposes the name of Col. G. N. Lester for Governor. W e have no ob jection to Cob Lester. The only question with us is, how many bushels of corn can he raise to the acre V Anew evening paper has been issued in Atlanta. Where is the Commonwealth t The Holly engine for the Atlanta water works has been placed in position. It is guaranteed to raise fifty million pounds of water one foot high for every one hundred pounds of coal consumed, and will cost the city fifty thousand dollars. Alabama men come to Columbus, get drunk, and wheel each other home in wheel-barrows. Augusta has had her usually harmless shooting scrape. The com crop in Thomas county is cut off fully one-third. There are few 7 crop liens or guano notes iu Effingham county. Dr. Calhoun, of Atlanta, suggests that all who desire to use chloroform for the purpose of extracting their teeth should be accompanied to the dentist's office by a physician. A Forsyth firm has bought and shipped over forty barrels of dried peaches this season, Thomas oounty has 30,(i51 acres in corn and 20,‘,HX) in cotton. Dr. Wright, of Forsyth, suggests that the Middle Georgia Medical Society es tablish a Pathological Museum in that town. Liberty county claims to have developed a mad flog. Mr. Walter Sullivan, a yery promising young man of Rome, died repently at Poughkeepsie. Youug George Foy, of Effiugham county, died recently of typhoid fever. SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1875. McGinley, of the Kimball House, has got bis back up about balls. The Atlanta folks dance too much without paying for it. There are two hundred and twenty seven guests at New Holland Springs on the Air-Line Railroad. We recorded some time ago the killing of a young man named David Hudson in Twiggs county by a negro named Joe Redding. The Macon Telegraph gives the sequel of the crime. About 12 o’clock Saturday night, a party of disguised men, variously estimated at from twenty to sixty in number, went to the house of Mr. J antes T. Evans, sheriff and jailor of the oounty, entered his bed-room, with drawn pistols, seized him and demanded the keys of the jaiL He told them that if they intended to force him to give up the keys, he could do noth ing to prevent it, but that he had on]y, the keys, to the outer door of the jail, the keys to the dungeons being ■paired up in the large iron safe in the rj urt 11008$, and that Judge C. A. Solo •non, eU 'Ar. P. A. County Treasurer, were the only persons who Jjad keys to the safe. The party immediately blindfolded Mr. Evans, put him on one of their horses and proceeded to Mr. Finch’s residence, awoke him £nd took him with them to the Court House, when they procured the keys to the cells of the jail. Some twenty or thirty of them enfcyed the jail and brought out Joe Redding, then sent Messrs. Finch and Evans back to their homes. In about five minutes both of these gentle men heard six or seven pistol shots fired, seemingly about one hun dred or two hundred yards from the jail. On Sunday morning Mr. Finch and Mr. A. M. Smith found the dead body of Joe Redding hanging to a limb of a tree with seven bullet holes in his back and face. That is all the information we have been able to get of the unfortunate tragedy. No one about Jeffersonville has the least idea as to who composed the party of outlaws who did the deed. Men and horses were all disguised in white, and it is believed that they came from a considerable distance. The people of Jeffersonville greatly lament the occur rence. The negro was in the hands of the law, and would undoubtedly have re ceived such penalty as was due the crime which he had committed, and the law should have been permitted to take its course. The Irwinton Southerner says: Judge W. M. Whitehurst, of Gordon, exported to Liverpool last season, through C. H. Olm stead, the agent of the Direct Trade" Union, six bales of cotton, which netted him seventeen cents per pound. Freight, insurance, interest on advances, exchange, etc., amounting to a considerable sum, and, after they were paid, Judge White hurst received seventeen cents per pound for cotton that would not have brought him, at home, more than four teen cents. Our Granger friends should make a note of this and follow the ex ample of Judge Whitehurst, by sending a sufficiency of their incoming crop to test the question thoroughly. The fact is, our cotton . passes through the hands ,of too many middlemen before it, reaches the couK' uier, each ouee f whom receives a large profit, which naturally belongs to the farmer, and could be secured by him if he would, through the agent of the Direct Trade Unions, sell his cotton to the consumer. The farmer should look into this matter carefully. Irwinton Southerner: “On Thursday last, as Mr. Allen Dixon was coming to Irwinton, on horseback, when near the residence of Mr. N. C. Hughes, his horse stepped on a small pole, about four feet long, which fiew up and struck the horse in the flank and penetrated to an artery, inflicting a wound from which he bled to death in a few min utes. "The horse was a valuable animal, and his loss will be seri ously felt by Mr. Dixon. It is a peculiar characteristic of the horse to resist with his whole weight anything like a stick that presses against his body. Mr. Henry Brazeal, who lives near here, lost a fine horse for which he had just paid SI,OOO several years ago, in this manner. The horse stepped upon a hoe and the helve flew up and struck him in the stomach. The horse pressed against it with his whole weight, and it entered his stomach and killed him. Macon Telegraph: The semi-annual convention of the Georgia State Agricul tural Society will be held in Dalton next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The following is announced as the order of business: Tuesday—Opening address of the President; report (being the fourth) from the Experimental Farm, by Dr. E. M. Pendleton; Grape Culture and Wine Manufacture, by John Stark, Esq., of Thomasville. Wednesday—Address by Col. W. Leßoy Broun, President State College of Agriculture, etc.; A Year’s Operations on the Farm, by Dr. J. S. Lavender ; report on the Geology of Georgia, by Professor George Little; report of Committee on Fish Culture and Game Laws, by H. H. Cary, chairman. Thursday—Address on Agricultural Education, by Gen. Wm. M. Browne; the Science of Agriculture, by John C. Ragsdale, Esq.; resolutions, etc.; closing exercises. During the sitting of the convention, a superb gold medal will be presented to Hon. Mark A. Cooper, father of the Georgia State Agricultural Society. The medal was voted to Mr. Cooper at the spring convention in Thom asville. It has been made, and is now in the hands of Mr. Malcolm Johnston, Sec retary of the Society, and ready for de livery. It is a handsome testimonial to the founder of the society, and one who has been its fast friend at all times and under all circumstances Macon Telegraph .‘We have informa tion of a sad fatality by lightning, which occurred at Elam Church, about three miles from Clinton, iu Jones county, about two o'clock Monday afternoon. A protracted meeting was in progress in the church, and the casualty occurred during a storm between the morning and after noon services. After a vivid flash of lightning and a startling peal of thunder, Rev. J. \V. Butts, a young minister, was discovered to have been struck by light ning. He was found lying near a tree not far from the church. He was at once car ried into the church and a physician sent for, and after a prompt use of restora tives he soon returned to consciousness and was considered out of danger. His worst injury was a seyere contusion on one of his cheeks, caused by falling face downward upon a root when he received the shock. When Mr. Butts had been restored and the excitement caused by the casualty had somewhat subsided—this was nearly an hour after Mr. B. was found —the absence of Mr. Henry G. Mc- Arthur and Mr. John Phelps was noticed. They had walked out about the "same time that Mr. Butts ha l , and both were under the same umbrella. Search was in stituted for them at once, and not far from the church bbth of the men were found lying together, struck dead by the same awful flash of lightning. It seems, from app. arance, that the lightning had struck a tree near which they were standing, de scending it to about ten feet of the ground, when the current left the tree for the umbrella under which the two men were. Death was probably instantane ous. The umbrella was torn all to frag ments. The neck of young Phelps and nearly every bone in his body was broken. In the case cf Mr. McArthur no bones appear to have been broken. The shoes of both men were torn off their feet. It was a horrid fatality, and cast a gloom of sadness over the whole community. Tbomasville Enterprise: The address of Senator T. M. Norwood before the Alumni of Emory College, a few days ago, was another of his masterly orations, second only to bis famous great speech in Congress, last year, and abounding in the same scathing ridicule of the prevail ing moral, social and political evils of the day. His wit is not the two-edged sword cutting fore and aft, but the sweeping scythe blade, mowing down the whole forest of grain before him, and is all the more powerful and effective that it sweeps around the horizon panoplied in the electric polish of the orator. We would that he could repeat this speech in every town and hamlet of the nation, or that we had a thousand Nor woods to thnnder in the ears of a mis guided people, the dangers which follow in the train of loose moral and aggressive politics. Whan be comes to speak of the “cause of the war,” in his speech, he answers the mooted question with the wisdom and understanding of one thor oughly acquainted with the events, char acter and history of his country, one whose kaen penetration has sounded the very depth of the national heart and touched upon the secret spring which ‘ ‘fired the Northern heart”and set aside the Constitution to inaugurate a fratricidal hwar. A gain, when he comes *0 the consider- Sobu orTLe'Yiegro raeein th.. South. Mr. Norwood has shown a great superiority of understanding and wisdom over his cotemporaries. His delineation of the negro character, though exhibited in a very few sallies of wit and a few inferences to be drawn from the arguments, carries the conviction of truth to every intelli gent Southern man acquainted with the character of the race. Mr. Norwood reads the destiny of the race in the character of the individual,and while he is conscious of the unprecedented moral obligation their freedom has fixed upon the nation, he twit ters the Northern statesmanship that for a fruitless fanatical idea augmented the political power of the South with nearly a million voters, as plastic as the potters clay, in the hands of those upon whom the negro race must depend for support. Florida Affairs. The Union man calls for a watermelon torpedo. We haven’t seen a copy of the Ive Oak Times since the charges against Hicks. What is keeping Keep ? Can it be possible that he has been suppressed by Hicks’s attorney ? Ocala has five churches that she can count. Pensacola sometimes excurtsto Mobile, and wisy worsy. The Garden City Base Ball Club has thoroughly reorganized. The Florida editors are candid. The Press alludes to “the drunken vagabond and cowardly deserter, McLin, of the Sentinel," etc. This accounts for the range of the thermometer. Fort Myers has a man who pays taxes on lifts thousand head of cattle. It strikes us we have used this item before, but it is interesting at any time. Leon county hogs are giving way to cholera. The upper St. John’s is so low that a perch has to float on his fide to keep wet. Somebody asked Colonel Britt, of the Union, to play bottle-holder iu a set-to between editors, but the Colonel swears he never hqjds anybody’s bottle but bis own. Key West must have some sweet scented old plums to nils L.r. The papers there publish as a fact that all the open spaces between the city and the sea are covered with carrion. A colored man iu Gadsden county lias stumbled upon a banana tree growing wild in the woods. Competing counties should send in their returns at once. Lean Bear, chief of the Cheyennes, who attempted the life of two soldiers while on his way to St. Augustine, is dead. Mohmantee, a Kiowa Chief, and said to be a most remarkable man, is also dead. They were decently buried by the officers of the fort at St. Augustine. A rattlesnake eleven feet long was killed* on Crystal river recently. Crystal river thinks there has been too much gasing about the railroad between that place and Ocala. Atsena Otie is tucking up- her skirts preliminary to a basket picnic. The employes in Faber’s mills, on At sena Otie, are paid one thousand dollars a month. Gadsden county is suffering for want of rain. People are still investing in orange groves ; -i Marion county. The church at Atser.a Otie will soon be completed. Gadsden county is disposed to brag about her watermelons. Some Connecticut capitalists are en gaged in erecting a four story hotel at Green Cove Spring. Col. Honeymoon Hardee, of Jackson ville, in his anxiety to scare up a shower by concussion, came near killing an Irish man by tbe same process. The Jacksonville Press says that noth ing new has been developed in regard to the murder of Dr. E. G. Johnson. It is generally believed that he was assassinated by an enemy from North Carolina in con sequence of some old difficulty. Jacksonville is pining for a big town clock. Lake Monroe wants a boat that can run on a heavy dew. The Mellonville Advertiser says the drought now prevailing in South Florida is unparalleled. The Fernandina Observer has taken up the cudgels in defense of that lying old rip, Bishop Haven. Pensacola has got as far along towards the erection of her new hotel as to have photographs of the front elevation and ground plan. Captain P. B. Brokaw, a prominent citizen of Tallahassee, is dead. He was for many years Chairman of the State Democratic Committee. Dr. Oliver Bronson, a prominent citi zen of St. Augustine, is dead. Thus the Lauj . ity Reporter: We can not furnish a “fish” or “ alligator story,” but can give a r'osi remarkable, truthful “snake’ ! statement. A Mr. Adams, of this county, is the possessor of a dog which some two months ago had the misfortune to be bitten by a rattlesnake. By careful treatment of the wound the dog sur vived, and a few days ago the wound swelling to considerable size, Mr. Adams determined to relieve it by the application of the lancet, which resulted in the discharge from the wound of a round substance some two feet in length, with a head resembling a snake. Mr. A. hung it in a neighboring tree, and ' visiting it after the lapse of half an hour : found to his astonishment that it had assumed the color of the rattlesnake, and was endeavoring to change its position. Mr. Adams’ statement is sufficiently cor roborated by the evidence of his neigh bors, who witnesse ’ the operation and its result, to entitle us to give it with credence to the public. Jacksonville Press: In addition to the reward of one thousand dollars, offered by Nassau county for the arrest of the murderer of Dr. Johnson, the Executive has thought it necessary to offer a similar Amount for the same purpose. “Nil de morluis, nisi bonuin," is an ancient adage, and a very correct one, generally speaking. Admitting this, we do not care to parade the dead man’s faults, numerous as they were, but would simply ask what virtues I he had to warrant so high a price being placed upon his value ; to the community ? Now, we warrant that if a respectable Democrat had met ! the same fate, that his untimely end would have attracted very little notice, either from the Radical County Commis i sioners of Nassau, or the honorable Mar cellos. If a reward were offered at all it would be so small as scarcely to induce a constable to arrest the criminal. We think the State authorities offered $5,000 for I the apprehension of the person or per sons who shot down Purman some years ago, and a large amount for the parties | who attempted to kidnap a well known I railroad developer. The true tax payers of Florida would consider these men well sold at the same number of cents instead j of dollars. Marianna (Jackson county) Courier: Since our last report, fifteeu days ago, j the yield of all crops raised here have been cut short, owing to a continued drought for eight weeks. Indeed, near the Ochesee pond, southeast of this place, the trees six and eight inches in diameter are literally dead. The cotton, which bid fair for an enormous yield a few weeks since, is shedding, and while the stalk appears green, it is noticed the forms are dying. More particularly is this the case where manures, nave been applied; hence those who fertilised most ana receiving the largest yield have suf fered to the greatest extent. It is learned the worm has been seen, but owing to the excessive dry and hot weather, their increase is not noticed,and no fears are entertained as to a disadvan tageous result to the crop from that source. The corn crop is made, and a ve v short one too. From all parts of G**-county it has suffered —and while there are a few planters who will have enough to make their next crop upon,the majority will be compelled to buy or re duce their force. And with the present prospects they will pursue the latter course. Fodder-pulling has commenced, and with the present weather it will be well saved. The potato and cano crop will necessarily be poor. South Carolina Affairs. Col. J. Addison Morosco, of the Charles ton Neics and Courier, has invented a machine for breaking tbe backs of small boys, which he calls the street car Bo gardus kicker. He desires to employ active young men in all parts of the State to act as agents. Abbeville is to have a sauce factory. Abbeville county is exceedingly healthy, considering the weather. Newberry is to have a telegraph line. Tbe seventy-third anniversary meeting of the Saluda Baptist Association will he held with Salem Church, four and a half miles north of Anderson, beginning to-day. Mr. Marx Plegek, of Marion, has been admitted to the bar. Prof. R. 0. Sams, of Greenville, has been elected by the trustees of the male academy of Spartanburg to take charge of the school. Mrs. C. F. Lesesne, widow of the late C. F. Lesesne, of Clarendon county, died at her residence last week, of pneumonia. Andrew Thompson, a colored boy about fifteen years old, was drowned at Accom modation wharf, Charleston, on Saturday. Anew church is in course of erection by the Baptist Society in Darlington. Recently, while a colored man was engaged in blasting in the 'well of O. C. Smith, at Easley’s station, on the Air- Line Railroau, he was clown up and severely injured, one leg being so mu til ated that Dr. \V. R. Jones, of Greenville, left for the purpose of amputating the same. An illicit whisky distiller iu Pickens county fooled the revenue officers by as suming his wife’s apparel. A hail storm passed over Smith’s Ford, Union county, a few days ago, which did considerable damage. The house of Mrs. Porter, of Kings tree, was set on fire recently by incendia ries. On Saturday morning last, Croft’s mill, situated about four or five miles from Aiken, was completely destroyed by lire. The building was uninsured, and the loss is said to be about SSOO. Hamburg is getting forward in the world. A printing company has been established there with unlimited capital, and a company is skirmiehing around lo start a paper to be called the Hamburg Gazette. The Greenville News publishes a list of nearly one hundred new buildings in course of erection in that city, including thirty cottages for the operatives of the new factory. The saw mill of Shumate & Hunt, at Greenville, was burned down on Monday, and it was rebuilt and running again on tbe J riday following. By the new census the population of Aiken is 1,8G2. A Child’s Eventful History.— A Mas sachusetts paper relates the following: “Passengers on Conductor Johnson’s train on the Eastern Railroad have no ticed at a house close to the road, just beyond the North Beverly Station, on a piazza next them, a beautiful little girl of about three years old. She is always there when Mr. Johnson’s trains pass, as he is a near relative. She was born on board ship in the Pacific ocean. Before she was three days old her mother died. Before she was seven days old the ship was wrecked and sank. Her father, who was Captain of the vessel, the infant and one sailor were saved in a boat. The babe was wrapped in a blanket and kept warm, and the sailor paid every attention to her and kept her alive with biscuit soaked in water, and was hardly less at tentive to the little one’s' want than her father. Ten days after the wreck the three were picked up in an English ves sel and taken to Liverpool. Thence they came to this country, and the little one has been brought up at the house of her grandparents, close by the railroad near the North Beverly Station— N. Y. Times. The Yankee Outwitted. — A Yankee and a Frenchman owned a pig in copart nership. When killing time came they wished to divide the meat. The Yankee was very anxious to divide so that he would get both hind quarters, and per suaded the Frenchman that the proper way to divide was to cut it across the back. The Frenchman agreed to it on condition that the kankee would turn his back and take choice of the pieces after it was cut in two. The Yankee tamed his back, and the Frenchman asked : “Vick piece will you have—ze piece wid ze tail on him, or ze piece vat ain’t got no tail?” “The piece with the tail,” replied the Yankee. “Den, by gar, you can take him along, and I take ze oder one,” said the pleased Frenchman. Upon turning around, the Yankee found that the Frenchman had cut off the tail and stuck it into the pig's mouth. I Hobbxble Result of" Intoxication. William and Ann Jones, both of very dis sipated habits, became intoxicated yes terday afternoon at their wretched abode in the tenement house No. 162 Hope street, and fading in a drunken stupor on their little child Mary, aged seven months, smothered her. The fact having been discovered by some of the neighbors, was reported by them to officer Scullen, of the Fifth Precinct, who, on proceeding to the place, found Jones and his wife in b drunken sleep, \fiih the dead body of the infant under them. He took them to the Fourth Street Station House. — Brook lyn Argus. LETTER FROM EATONTON. Condition of the Crop*—Corn I.nid By— The “White 7lnn’ Day”—Cyclone oi Turnailo— A Confession. [Special Correspondence of the Morning New*J Eatonton, August 2d, 1875. “LAID BY.” Most people are done working their crops, though, if it should rain, some would go lightly over a part, or all, of their cotton once more. In spite.of the gloomy prospects occasioned by the drought, as soon as the work began to grow easy—which was a week or ten days ago—people who had been staying closely at home ail summer, leaving Eatonton silent and dull, commenced coming in to trade, or merely to recreate, and oui streets once more began to look a little lively. This will last for the short time that intervenes between now and fodder pulling, when plantation folks will be busy as bees. After that, there will be another brief slack-up; then cotton picking will be the matter to which men will most ‘Variously incline, ’ until the corn, guano and other bills will be falling due, and the bales will begin to pour in. Then our streets will present an appearance of business and bustle that will increase, day by day, till January. For a fortnight or so about Christmas everything will cul minate in a perfect carnival, in which the negro will play far the most eon spicuous part. Darkies with their ban jos, and dancing, crowding around bar room*, wheels of fortune, Japanese bowls, Ac., literally filling the principal thor oughfares, will present a scene at which one who looked upon it for the first time would stand amazed. After these children of Ham have spent all their money, they will begin to drop off to the plantations. The town will grow more and more quiet; only on Tues days aud Saturdays there will be a crowd till late in the season, when farming will grow more earnest, and even Tuesdays aud Saturdays will bring but few, till “laying-by” time approaches, when the number of visitors will once more in crease; and so on in the same round which, in this section, the “whirligig of of time” brings about. I have mentioned Tuesday as one of the set days for “coming to town.” 1 never knew the custom to obtain any where else, but it has been thus, here, ever since I could remember, and I have heard old people say it was so, long before I was born. It will be seen that we have our local peculiarities, as they do everywhere. Here is the way it happened; A long while ago, the mail came to Eatonton only once a week, as was the case nearly all over Georgia, and our post day was Tuesday. People got in the habit of com ing here on that day, and they have kept it "r r since. Tuesday is called here, “the white man’s day,” and Saturday “the negro’s day.” True, a good many whites come on Saturday, but it ia generally for the accommodation of their laborers, tbe darkies, who come to trade, and wish their employers to “stand” for thorn. It is very convenient to have a certain day every week on which to assemble, for it saves many a long ride. If a man who lives on one side of the county wishes to see one residing on the opposite, by oomiug here on Tuesday he will stand a very good chance to have his wish gratified, and save the trouble of riding clear across the county. NOT QUITE SO BAD. The drought has not been quite so gen eral as I at one time supposed, but there are neighborhoods that have suffered fully as much as I stated. Iu fact, their calamity is almost complete. There were partial rains on several days of last week, This moruing the city is entirely covered with clouds, and there have been several sprinkles. It seems as though a general rain is at baud. It would do corn an immense deal of good, even at this late day, and of course would be very beneficial to cotton. MARKETS. Watermelons were later coming in than usual this year, but when they did start, which was several weeks ago, they came with a rush. True, a few dropped in before, and sold for fancy prices; now you can buy a most excellent oue for ten cents, and so on up to twenty and twenty five for as fine melons as any one ever ate. Chickens are cheap, too. Tlieir price is the same as watermelons—ten cents for smallest frying size, and twenty or twenty-five for the very largest of present year’s growth. Eggs bring ten to fifteen cents per dozen; beef, eight and ten cents; peaches, apples, etc., wry cheap. The fact is, currency is so much scarcer here than anything else, that it is worth a premium in the way of all coun try produce. I think this section, to a man, would vote for inflation. NO CYCLONE SINCE. The papers stated some time ago that one of our distinguished statesmen said there would be cyclones nearly all sum mer. The result has been rather unfor tunate for his character of either scien tist or prophet, as J believe there has not been a very extensive cyclone since. By tho way, that gentleman, if I reco! lect aright, said these storms should be called tornadoes, and not cyclones. 1 suppose both words mean about the same thing. Cyclone is derived from the Greek kuklos, a circle, or say from the verb kukloo, or- participle kuklone (I spell the last two words so as to come as near the Greek pronunciation as is possible with English characters.) Tornado, according tq some of the dictionaries, comes from the root of the word turn. Spanish and Portu. guese tornada means return. I think, though, that Mr. S. was right, for the simple reason that tornado had been in use long before cyclone was invented, and it expressed the idea fully. Where, then, was the necessity for coining anew word ? CONFESSION GOOD FOE THE SOUL. One or two letters back I wrote that a certain tree was eighty inches or seven and two-thirds feet in circumference. I recollected the mistake very soon after 1 mailed the letter 'fhp tree eighty inches, but that is only sU and two-thirds feet. lam glad the types did not cor rect my error, for it will make me more careful hereafter. I intended to speak of this in my last, but forgot it. K. Cobnebed Him at Last. —A Georgia miller, in a recent conversation with one of our grain buyers, incidentally remarked that dealers in his section wouldn’t need any of our com this year. “Well, we haye raised it for you,” re plied the Fayetteville merchant, “ and you are bound to take it.” “ No, we are independent now —Geor- gia will have enough corn of her own,” retorted the miller, “Well, we’U feed it to hogs and sell you the meat.” “ We are safe there too,” continued the miller, “our people will furnish their own pork. ” “Nothing daunted, our Fayetteville friend discharged his Parthian shaft: “Well, we’ll make our com into whisky, and you can’t get around buying that.” Georgia admitted that he had him ther e.—Fayetteville Express. R • -g. A youthful clergyman who recently went forth to enlighten the ignorant, while dealing with the parable of the Prodigal Son, was anxious to show how dearly the parent loved his child. Draw ing himself together, and putting on his most sober looks, he dilated at length upon the killing of the fatted calf. The climax was as follows:. “I shouldn’t wonder if the father had kept that calf for years, awaiting the return of his son.’* A father fearing an earthquake in the region of his home, sent his two boys to a distant friend’s until the peril should be over. A few weeks after the father received this letter from his friend “Please take your boys home and send: down the earthquake.” ESTABLISHED 1850. # LETTER FROM MANATEE Cattle ItuiliiK In South Floriiln—lt (*ro fll* nml lt I.o**m*n —How to SurciTii— Wild Life in llie Kantru—.iu Intermtina Letter. iSpecial Correspondence of the Morning News.) Manatee, South Florida. ) July :10th., l,sr:.. , Previous to the war Manatee county, containing an area of about ten thousand square miles, was one vast cattle range. With the exception of a few wealthy residents along the river engaged in su gar planting, every m&n was a cattle owner, and followed that business exclu sively. At that time the stocks were very large for Florida, and the cattle roamed over the whole country, great herds to be seen in every direction, deer and cattle frequently feeding together, which uiav be seen now on the large prairies farther south. Five,ten. twenty and THIRTY THOUSAND HEAD OP CATTLE were respectively owued by individuals. The tan*;* magilmen t„ Um grass m owing and continuing green Th? V. round, and the steers attained great s>z<l I have been informed that Jacob Sum merlin at one time marked four thousand calves, which, at five dollars per head, made a pretty good iucouie, besides the increase in the steers. Since the war the cattle business in South Florida has undergone quite a change, and is now, to the people of this section, what slavery was to the South - ern. Every spate thousand a man could accumulate then was invested in a negro; every spare hundred here is in vested in cattle. At this time, in this county, taxes are paid on about 350,000 head of cattle, which, I presume, falls short of the actual number at least one fourth. The stocks vary from one hundred to twenty five thousand head. Three-fourths at least of the population depend on cattle for a support, and this interest has almost absorbed every other pursuit aud made it a complete and powerful monopoly upon the domestic industries of this section. The profit arising from an investment iu this property, particularly within the last few years, was so great anti so certain, carry ing with it so much excitement and freedom from manual labor, that it lias become the most popular, as well ns re munerative pursuit, until the odor of burning hair becamo sweet incense, and mutilated ears aud incised “dew-laps” a daily sacrifice. The business became a kind of sfocA-brokerage, and a man who, perhaps, did not own a thousand dollars worth of property, would purchase a ten thousand dollar stock of cattle, giving his notes and a mortgage as payment. If he was a shrewd, attentive business man, he would SELL STEERS ENOUGH IN THREE YEARS TO PAY FOR THEM. The Cuban war, for the last seven years, has given to the beef market of South Florida a financial individuality and independence possessed by no other industry. Owners of stock knew, and still know, that so long as the rebellion in Cuba continued they would have an unfailing market for their beef, and could hold their steers at their own figures. Texas tried to compete with Florida, but failed. While she offered steers much cheaper, the loss in transitu was so great, on account of tho longth of time consumed, that she hud to abandon the race. Florida v..c „ Havana iu two ami throe tlays, and the loss by death hardly ever exceeded five per cent. Iu 1808 the best steers we had could be bought here at twelve dollars; in 1872 they sold as high as twenty dollars. At this time tho price is fourteen ami fif teen dollars. During 1872, I think it was, it was estimated that over 50,000 steers were shipped from Manatee, Pease Creek and Puuta Itassa, Doubloons cir culated as freely as Confederate notes during “the late unpleasantness,” and a cattle owner would part with any prop erty before he would sell a “oow-beast.” Cattle, at this time, are held nominally at five dollars per head, but very few tran sactions in this line take place. As I have remarked, just so long as the Spaniards and Cubans continue butchering each other, cattle raising her 9 will continue at a premium, aud being entirely indepen dent of the fluctuations which occur in the cotton, sugar and grain markets, will number among its investors the bulk of our population, To make stock-raising a success, however, it has been rep.eatedly demonstrated that a stock of any consul erable size, personal attention must be given to the details, although a great deal of help is required in the marking and branding season, which begins iu March and ends in June. During this soasoD, one is compelled to be on the “cow-path” all the time, or the consequence will be that his more attentive and industrious neighbor will ap propriate his “Ileredecks” for him. The man who follows his cattle closely, not only gets all his own calves but frequently those of tho thriftless and negligent cow-hunters which, while it is legal, many have conscientious scruples about taking advantage of tho custom. Many parties in this county have accu mulated considerable stocks in this way, but they are usually < potted and do not enjoy a reputation as fair as Cmsar’s wife. There has always been an antagonism be tween cattle owners and ‘‘new comers,” as the necessary settlement and cultiva tion incident to the pursuits of the latter have a tendency to infringe upon the hitherto undisputed possession of the cat tle man to all the land upon which his stock ranged. Every one coming in to locate was considered in the light of a trespasser. Persons claimed as their own thousands of acres of the very best lands, when, in truth, they have never entered an acre; and any person buying a forty or eighty acre Jot for settlement, brought down on his bead]the wrath of the stock man. This system is rapidly changing, however, and the inevitable concomitants to a healthful, temperate and fertile country —occupation and settlement—are being aooepted by those of our popula tion who have heretofore been able to exclaim— “I am monaroh of all I survey.” The same conditions and iiatus, how ever, of cattle raising as a business con tinue, such as value, sale, &c., are con cerned. Persons, as a general thing, are now entering the land around them, open ing fields and putting in groves of fruit trees, while many are moving their fami lies from the isolation and solitude of the range and locating in the most populous neighborhoods and villages, where they can have THE BENEFITS OF SCHOOLS AND CHUBCHEB. A desire to educate their children is earnestly manifested by all classes, and an enlightened and cultivated, spirit seems to be infused into their desire. The cat tle man, financially speaking, on account of the continuous and certain sales of his 1 beef, enjoys a monetary popularity which is not meted out to his less favored neigh bor of the plow and ko.e, and I speak from observation when I say that it is a rare thing to find him contracting an obligation that he will not be able to meet at maturity, and he loves his “ four year olds” too well to place himself in a posi tion where the Sheriff is likely to adver tise his stock to the highest bidder. An intimate connection with the routine of legal cases, for the last seven yoars, places me in a position to stafe that during that time there has. not been entered on the civil or criminal docket a single case in volving the financial standing or personal reputation of a cattle qwnei' of respecta bility in the county, They are so fear ful of involving their property that they abhor debt; and a natural prejudice to paying large lawyer’s fees makes them studiously avoid doing anything that would involve them in criminal prosecu tion. I will not sit in judgment on fche ap parent conflict between cattle raising and I other vocations; but of one thing I | certain—take away the cattle interest of Mauatee county and you destroy { THE “810 BONANZA” OF OUB MONETARY CHANNEL. * So long as we have our cattle, the col 4pse of banks, brokers and railroad cor porations will affect our financial interest but very little. Wheu our hundreds of ' thousands of orange and other fruit trees come into full bearing, matters may be come different In speaking of the little inclination that parties owning stocks have to selling i tßem, I do not wish to be understood to i mean that they do not change banda. ; There are persons who will sell at reason able figures, but the disposition to do so is hot so great as with most all other kinds of property. Persons desiring to ' come here and invest in the business will j find it a lucrative investment, but he i must make up his mind to come in con tact with all tho exposures and denials of | personal comfort that are incident to the life of a cattle man, aud to acquaint such i with the faetd, I will give a true picture of LIFE ON THE COW-PATH. Cattle owners in tho marking, brand ing and herding of their cattle, and par ticularly in the sale of them, have certain customs and traditions, handed down “from time immemorial,” which are con sidered as sacred among each other as "holy writ, and woo be to him who breaks tho rules; he is at once read out and thereafter hath no lot or parcel with the rest. When a vessel comes in for cattle, a contract is made with some leading cattle dealer, who is usually’ also owner of a stock, who agrees to furnish the required number on board the vessel, on a day specified, aud at a price agreed upon. This person then makes his arrange ments with the most prominent stock owners, who agree to fup uisli him the desired number, some times at a dollar less per Lead than ha receives. Notice is duly circulated to all within reach who rendezvous at a certain point, ami >T >, #ach owner is allowed to finish a nu m- * her in proportion to the number hunting or to the number of hunters ho may have along. But wheu tho number hunting have not each of them a sufficient num ber of steers gathered to make up the bunch, a large stock owner is allowed to make up the deficiency. But, however small the stock of any of the hunters may be, he has an equal chanco with his wealthy neighbor if his steers sre gathered on the drive. Perfect equality is observed between rich and poor. They all hunt iu ooncert, but go out in squads, iu different di rections, at night, each party retum mg to the same pen, and all tho steers put together. Next day the cattle are “held out to graze,” some of tho hun ters minding them,and tho hunt continues until the number is gathered; sometimes, and indeed usually, more than the num ber are gathered, as some of the steers may get away, or be rejected. During these hunts, it happens frequently that man’s life hangs on a hair. Going like tho wind after a steer, as fleet as the wind, over logs, palmetto clumps, holes and other things that may be in the way—horso and rider both ani mated with the spirit of the chase—one false step would bo almost certain death to both rider and horso. The least slip or stumble would result in a broken ueck. Frequently, while a hunter is in full chaso after a steer, he will stop suddenly and turn upon his pursuer with the fierceness of a tiger,and before the panting charger could’ bo reigned iu his sharp horns will have been lunged into his body the full longth, aud the life of tho rider put in great jeo pardy. Strength, activity aud reckless abandon are necessary points to a suc cessful cow hunter. Long and continu ous praotioo make him as much at homo on the back of a horse as the Comanoho Indian, and until he becomes thus ex pert he is of but littlo service on a hunt, which always requires great celerity of movement. But to return. When tho necessary number of cattle arc collected they are DRIVEN TO THE VESSEL in a body, aud driven between two fences <m board, where they are placed in stalls on deck, or let down into the hold. One man receives the money; the marks aud brands are taken by an officer and re corded in the clerk’s office, open inspection all concerned; wharfage- CApensea mro/ladi'cied, and each hunter receives his proportion of the purchase money. Then ami there all little arrears between part.es a j promptly settled; each one ins his doubloons or greenbacks to the bottom of Ins ample pockets, and an adjourn ment to the stores then takes place, when the bland aud smiling merchant relieves each ore of the of his cash in a remarkably short tiafe. And thus is willingly and hon -stly■kid out by the cattle man the and ilaiiM. rously earned inomyW: l-bor of days . u lii'vcd retained, and he is Going homo to spend a few their famijioa and to get a fresh horse and renew their supply of rations, they are ready for another tramp, and thus it gees during the season .of cattle driving. These men are among our best and most worthy citizens, as well as the wealthiest, who are inured to all the privations ana dangers of the cow path, but who really lovo its peculiar excitements, and aro never so well satisiied as when on a hunt, expatiating on the one engrossing ject cattle. “ Third terms,” “ Kmma” mines, and “whiskey fraud® give them but little thought. Two huS died words of the English vocabulary enough for them, and the words cow, steer, bull, mark aud brand, consti tute about every third word of their conversation. They are healthy, happy ami contented with their mode of life, aud do not seem willing in many in stances to exchange it for any other. Jiut to see them in the saddle for days, weeks and moDtbs, in rain, sun r.71l cold; in the rainy season frequently® “’b'ht piling lightwood knots to their bodies out of the water; somra® going for days on n s, uty supply musty rations, and in the dry season ® DIGGING HOLES IN THE MUD FOB WATEB- Oue cannot but wonder how they can endure it, aud even seem fascinated with the mode of life. I say all honor to| these men who, while we sleep in rJ*A comfortable beds, are far away silent woods gathering that prop'll which distributes money to rich and poor. Captain F. A. Hendry, our present worthy State Senator, is the owner of tha largest stock in South Florida, wlrch numbers about 25,000 head. Jacob Summerlin, Esq., comes next, with about 20,000 head. John Whiddon, Joel Knight William Alderman, Ziba King, WillLtu Whitaker aud the Messrs. Curry, of Uite" place, all own stocks of from two to live thousand head each. Perhaps it would not be out of place to give the names of successful individuals who have accumu lated large stocks within the past few years by close attention to the business, and which may serve to be of encourage ment to any of your young, enterprising men who may be tired of their present pursuits and wish to embark in the cattle business, WHAT CAN EE ACCOMPLISHED BY PLUCK. Two brothers, Locklear, began oattle rearing a few years since, by splitting rails for their first. They now pay taxes on over three thousand head of cattle. It is but a short time sinoo that Willing Vauderipe purchased a small stock on time. His stock ia now valued at eighteen % thousand dollars, and he lives in one of I the handsomest residences in th? villager Dr. Hough, and his sons and brother:in® law, about seven years since all their cash, a few hundred dollars, cattle, and they now have large stocks of horses, cows and hogs; are getting rich as fast as any men in the county, and are among our most comfortable livers, producing abundance of all kinds of farm produce. Mr. William B. Hen derson, one of the leading merchants of Tampa, began with a small stock, and now has three thousand head of cattle in this county. I am informed that Samuel Mitchell Esc;., purchased a stock on notes and mortgage. He has paid every dollar his stock has largely increased in nuns’ bers, being several thousand head and he is now one of the most enterprising cattle contractors in this county, and m rapidly becoming independent. But I must close this communication and subject, which I foar will prove tame and monotonous, in its details But ** the matters of the subject have never been given in full, I shall hope *tW tnat this truthful and unvaried count of our important sou Voe of weakh may give some at le<K, au its workings. In my next I will wrlteof umniat. a Nattve op Savannah.