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Ail letter* ahould be addressed to
J. H. KSTILI., Savannah, Oa.
Tlip Winnebago Radical* and Ex*
President Davis.
Wo hud given the Radicals of Illinois
credit for more good sense, caudor and
honesty than to nuppose that they could
be wrought tip to such an excess of tin
manly resentment, pretended or real, as
they are exhibiting at the invitation of
ex-President Davit* to deliver an agri
cultural address in their State. Ac
cording to the accounts that reach us
the jteople are in a fearful frenzy;
Uesolutious are published purporting
t'* have been adopted liy the Grand Army
of the Republic at Rockford, Wednesday
night, in which Mr. Davis is character
ized as ‘’This arch-tr"itor and coward.”'
Rut the excitement ia not altogether *.
fined to Rockford, A number of the
Winnebago county towns are already up
in anus, and resolutions of the most
threatening character are being passed.
A correspondent fiom ltoscoe writes to
the Rockford Gusu-tte : “Our people are
unanimous in condemnation of the insult,
uud have not been so stirred up by any
event since the closo of the war. The
farmers declare they will holt the fair if
Jeff. Davis comes.” The manufacturers
of Rockford declare they will send noth
ing to the fair. The Hoard of Directors
of the Agricultural Society were to meet
on Friday to reconsider the matter, when
they would no doubt withdraw their in
vitatiou to Mr. Davis.
Under the circumstances, it was per
haps indiscreet in the committee to in
vite Mr. Davis to address the Grangers of
Illinois, hut it would have been in very
had taste for him to havo declined their
invitAtion. He, doubtless, received it as
an overture of reconciliation, nnd his re
fusal to comply with the request of the
committee would, in view of recent events
and profoesionsof Northern men,have been
construed as a rejection on Ins part of
such overtures. We are unwilling to be
lieve that the manner in which his ac
ceptance has been received is prompted
by any real sentiment of vindictiveness
towards him personally on tlio part of
the farmers of Winnebago county.
Nevertheless, in their action we have n
mortifying proof that in Illinois sectional
hate is still responsive to the appeals of
the unprincipled nnd designing dema
gogne. We regard this unmanly ebuli
tion of feeling against Mr. Davis, so
utterly .inworthy of a ehivalrie and mag
nanimous people, not as an expression of
the real sentiments of the people of Illi
nois, but only as the response of the red
mouthod Radicals of Winnebago county
to the malignant falsehoods and incendi
ary appeals of that unscrupulous dema
gogue am 1 unprincipled political trim
mer, Oliver I’. Morton. In his recent
speech in Ohio Senator Morton again
unfurled tho “bloody-shirt” and sounded
the key note of the opening political
campaign. The Radical press and poli
ticians have tukon their cue from him
and tho insulting resolutions of the
“Grand Army,” tho bitter denunciations
of the Radical press and the malignant
howling of tho Radical rabble of Rock
ford is but tho prelude to the grand
chorus that is to drown the voice of
reason and patriotism and rouse the pas
sions of the Northern masses in the com
ing Presidential contest.
The Collection of Taxes.
The Atlanta Constitution says tho
Comptroller General, Goldsmith, has is
sued his instructions to Tax Collectors,
relative to the collection of taxes. The
poll tax will bo paid to the County School
Commissioners, for school purposes in
tho respective counties, instead of be
ing forwarded to the Comptroller or State
Treasurer. Collectors get no commis
sions on the insolvent list, aud the Re
ceivers no commissions ou the default
list. There is.no property exempt from
levy and sale for taxes. Collectors are
required to make a statement of the
amount collected from colored tax payers.
Managers of elections, or any other per
sou than the Tax Collector, on election
days, are prohibited from collecting taxes.
The taxes must be collected by December
15. Collectors are warned that the law will
be strictly enforced against delinquent col
lectors without a valid excuse is ren
dered. When tax is due aud unpaid by
a person having no property, in the em
ploy of another as a laborer, collectors,
under the law of 18(5(5, can serve a notice
of garnishment, and collect tho same by
fi. fa., as in other cases for taxes due.
Tho tax on wild lands must be paid to
the Stato Treasurer and not to the County
Treasurer. The State School Commis
sioner is authorized to give a draft on
collectors for the school fund, which
must be taken up by them aud sent to
the Stato Treasurer, where it will be re
ceived as cash. All papers necessary to
a settlement of tax accounts must be
sent alone to the Comptroller’s office, and
all money alouo to the State Treasurer.
Chaotic.
Attorney General Pierrepont was inter
viewed at Saratoga u few days since by a
New York Herald commissioner. Of the
result in Ohio he “really has no opinion;
every thing is in so unformed, so chaotic
a condition that it is impossible to give
an opinion that would be of any practical
value.” On the third term question,
however, his language is plaiu. "Gon.
Grant has been very outspoken to me on
this subject of a third term, aud I assure
you he dot’s not dream of another term of
office, and I am sure he would decline it
if it were offered to him." As to who
would be an available candidate for
President, or whether his party had
any ohance in the race, he gave
no definite answer, merely remark
ing: “I don't tliuk that the point has
as yet been reached when the public
iniud crystallizes. The public mind is
not settled at all.” He thinks the finan
cial question will be the all-decisive issue
next year, and that the Democrats are
badly fooled if they regard the Republi
can party as already dead. “ The South
is behaving very well indeed," the Attor
ney General said, with a gleam of satis
faction twinkling in his eye, “but it
would be impossible to predict even what
the South will ultimately do. (In a tone
of great candor), you see, it is really too
early, and everything depends on future
contingencies. Nobody can say anything
definite until autumn. (In a grave
done.) I shall regard the Ohio election
very important one: as a very im
■tftaut one indeed," *
,J. 11. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR,
The Oat Crop in the South.
The assertion of the New York Time*
that the South is unable to raise her food
supply, seems destined to meet with
ab'indant refutation. We have before
us a letter from a responsible planter,
residing in Monroe county, in the north
eastern portion of Mississippi. While
restricting his crop of oats to the supply
necessary for home consumption, and
invariably devoting his poorest land to
small grain, he has succeeded in raising
between seventy-five and eighty bushels
of oats to tl • acre. For seven years he
has planted the rust-proof quality,
which has never been known to fail
from any cause, and was killed but one
year—in 1873. His crop during the
present season cost for seed $1 25 per
acre, breaking the land 50 cents, harrow
ing 10 cents, harvesting sl, and hauling
twenty-five cents. This furnished him a
winter's supply of the best oats at less
than five cents a bushel, which All must
admit is somewhat cheaper than buying.
The cost of labor seems exceedingly low,
but we caunot mistake his figures, and
the locality at which he plants is well
known. These prices would fix the cost
of -etall-fei <ling One animal a year at four
dollars and fifty cents. Equally abun
dant crops have been wade in the parish
of Tkr-,I Baton Rouge, ana the entire Red
river country. That crops could there
be raised at as low prices we very much
doubt, but if in the West this product
proves remunerative, surely our planters
can afford to cultivate it when double the
quantity claimed in higher latitudes is
readily produced. What the Houth abso
lutely requires more than anything else
is that her abundant resources be better
understood.— N. 0. Time*.
What has been accomplished in the
cultivation of oats in the low lands of
Mississippi, practical experiment has de
monstrate 1 can be accomplished in any
portion of our own State. Fine oat crops
have been made in Southwestern Geor
gia, and it is only necessary that our
planters should turn their attention in that
direction to make themselves entirely in
dependent of the East and West for their
supply of oats. Wheat can also be suc
cessfully raised in Georgia, and if our
planters, especially those in the upper
and middle regions of the State, will de
vote a portion of their lands to wheat,
• they will not only be able to supply their
own breadstuff's, but wi 1 have wheat
to export. As Southern wheat matures
several weeks earlier than that of the
North and West, our wheat growers,
by shipping their early harvesting to
the Northern markets obtain the best
prices of the opening market. Georgia
mills have for several years furnished the
finest brands of Hour in the Northern
markets, and the home production has to
a great extent supplied the domestic
consumption of our people. There is no
reason why Georgia should not raise not
only her own food nnd her own forage,
but also large amounts of both for ex
port.
We are gratified to learn that the
ncreage of corn this year in Georgia is
largely in excess of previous years. The
bolief is that our plauters have raised
abundance of corn for their own use.
This being the case thoy will fiud them
selves in a more independent and pros
perous condition this fall than they have
been in since the war. Whatever maybe
the price of cotton, they will not, as
heretofore, be compelled to sell many
pounds of cotton for a few bushels of
coru.
Hy thus diversifying their crops, by
planting more corn and less cotton, our
planters have made an important step
towards an improved agricultural sys
tem so much needed in our section. Now
let them make another advance by giving
more attention to coreals, such as oats
and wheat. The oat crop, so well adapted
for the support of stock, would greatly
relieve the consumption of corn,
which, with wheat, would constitute the
bread supply, while the surplus of both
would have a ready and remunerative
market abroad. Oats and wheat mature
early in our climate, and are cultivated
with much less labor and expense than
either coru or cotton, and while more
reliable than cotton, are next to our great
staple tho most remunerative crops that
can bo produced on our soil.
*
Mint Drops lor the Million.
As the time draws near for the begin
ning of specie resumption, there is much
interest manifested about the condition
of tho Treasury, and its ability to com
ply with the resumption act. There is
at present on hand, silver corn, bullion
and bars, amounting to $20,000,000. In
beginning the redemption of fractional
currency it is understood to be the inten
tion of the Treasury to call in all the
three, five, ten, fifteen and twenty-five
ceut notes issued since 1862, and which
it is estimated will require $20,000,000 of
ton, twenty nnd twenty-five-cent silver
coins to provide for the actual demands
of business, and make due allowance for
the hoarding of the new coinage, which
may ensue.
The fifty cent notes will then be called
in. The actual amount of fractional cur
rency to be replaced is, in round num
bers, but $30,000,000. More than one
fourth the amount originally in circula
tion has been destroyed and lost. The
mints have been busy with the new coin
age all summer, and the resumption of
specie payment for fractional currency
is now a fixed fact. It is announced that
the new coin will be disbursed at the
different sub-treasuries of the country, in
exchange for the fractional currency, and
that the Secretary of the Treasury will
give formal notice when the exchange
will begin.
It is confidently expected by the bullion
ists that this resumption of payment of
specie small change will delight the un
informed masses who, as they jingle the
niekles in their pockets, or hoard them in
their old stockings, will forget or, perhaps,
never kuow that for this little diversion in
favor of the mercenary scheme of the
bond-holding millionaires, the govern
ment will be obliged to increase the
amount of the interest paying debt ten
to twenty millions of dollars, or to the
full cost of the silver coin thus put in
circulation. For the bullion purchased
for coinage into small coin the
government will have to issue its
bonds, the interest on which must
be met by the tax-payers, thus
paying a handsome premium upon their
nickle change, which, for the purposes of
trade, will answer no better purpose than
the fractional currency now in use. An
other little item not to be overlooked in
calculating the cost of the contemplated
change is. that while the government
is at present a gainer to the extent
of one-fourth of the original frac
tional issue, the bills having been lost
or destroyed, every five, ten or twenty
cent coin that may be “ destroyed
or lost” will be a dead loss both to the
holder and the government, in whose
losses he is interested as a tax-payer.
Asa basis of currency, under ordinary
circumstances, gold and silver should
supply the monetary standard, bat in the
financial condition to which this country
has been brought by Radical imbecility,
prodigality and corruption, the attempt to
make gold and silver the circulating me
dium, or by contracting the value of the
existing currency to suddenly force it up
to the gold standard, is as futile as
suicidal.
s3ftunMk !leeMf f§us.
THE NEGRO TROUBLES.
I.Hirst from Ike Neene of ihr .Anticipated
Klot*— Specimen* of War I.lternlore —
I.elter* from the \r*ro Leaders—A Ili*-
toryof the .Affair—Oritrln of the Trouble*.
The city was pregnant Thursday with
rumors regarding the troubles which are
brewing in Washington oounty. and con
siderable excitement prevailed through
out the entire community.
About eleven o’clock it was reported
that a private telegram had been received
from Tennille announcing the arrest of
forty or fifty of the insurrectionists, and
stating that arrests were being - made
every hour. Two military companies
were out on duty, and everything was
reported quiet at that time, there being
no apprehension of immediate danger.
It was also stated that Judge Herschel V.
Johnson had issued bench warrants for
the arrest of two hundred and twenty
five negroes, whose names had been ob
tained from some of tne captured that
had confessed
Private telegrams were received by
several gentlemen here who have interests
in Washington and adjoining counties
and reliable news was thus obtained, cor
recting some of the sensational reports
which were in circulation,
I Considerable excitement existed at
points above and below Bartow, but no
serious trouble was anticipated, as a
military company was on duty aud pre
pared for any emergency. Quite a num
ber of the disturbers from Burke county
were arrested and lodged in jail.
Among these rumors was one that a
dispatch had been received by Colonel
Olmstead, dated Bartow Station, stating
that an attack was expected at night, and
asking if help could be obtained from
Savannah if necessary.
This rumor was followed by another of
authentic character, to the effect that an
attack was expected at night, and that
help might be needed. The telegraph
office was to be kept open all night.
The services of several of our compa
nies were tendered the Governor, and dis
patches received stating that should oc
casion require they would be called upon.
At eleven o’clock last night we were
shown a private telegram received by a
gentleman of this city, dated Tennille,
stating that everything was progressing
finely, and there w r as no danger of riot.
It is to be hoped that the murderous
scheme concocted by a South Carolina
negro, doubtless at the instance of the
Radical leaders for political purposes,
has come to naught, and that the deter
mined stand taken by the law-abiding
citizens has had the effect of preserving
the peace and averting bloodshed. For
it may safely be assumed that had the
designs of these misguided negroes been
put into execution a fearful retribution
would have been the result.
A correspondent writing from Sauders
ville, under date of the 19th, says that
tho excitement throughout Washington
aud Johnson counties is unabated. On
Wednesday thirty*four negroes were ar
rested- it* Washington, John.ion and
Laurens counties, and lodged in the jail
at Sandersville, which, with the seven
already here, makes forty-one. More
were expected to be brought in on the
morning when the letter was written, but
the ringleaders, Cordy Harris, of Wash
ington county, and the so-called “Gene
ral” Morris, of Burke county, have so far
eluded the vigilance of the Sheriff and
his deputies.
In the search of Cordy Harris’s house,
the Sheriff found three letters amongst a
number of muster-rolls of colored military
organizations, which will be found hereto
aunexed. Under instructions from the
Governor, the Sheriff summoned the two
white military companies—the Washing
ton Dragoous and the Washington Rifles—
to his aid in making the arrests and guard
ing the jail. The Solicitor General of
the circuit, acting in behalf of the State,
not being ready, the preliminary trial of
the prisoners is postponed until Monday.
Governor Johnson, the Judge of the Cir
cuit, has written a letter intimating that
he would hold, perhaps next week, an
extra session of the Superior Court to
dispose of these cases.
The following are copies of the letters
alluded to:
LETTER NO. I.
Hon Mr Cordia Harris :
Dear Sir : I received Your kind Ex
press Communication all Right but sir I
Will say to You please to send me S3OO
more Dollars your convencion will be
very Emportance please to send it in a
private letter i Will get it I have envited
Genl P R Rivers from Aiken County
South Carolina with 2000 Mens With
arms I will send You the Minnies Right
away your convencion will hold two days
containing 19 counties.
Very ltespectfuley
Joseph Morris
Waynesboro Burke county Ga
LETTER NO. 2.
July 2d 1875
Mr Cordia Hariss:
Dear Sir ; Pit .se to send me word as
soon as soon as You receive the Minnies
I have envited 19 county to be present at
your conveneion please to send me S3OO
Dollars more as quick as possible to
Waynesboro Geo to Hon Joseph Morris.
LETTER NO. 3.
Atlanta Ga July 30, 75
Cordia Hariss r Tennile Ga :
Dear Sir: We are very much surprised
at the way you are conducting the Re
publican party. 4 You know you are
making the partj weaker and weaker by
your imprudence in leading as Y'ou do.
Be quiet at this time, now is not the time
to make displays. One of the commission
officers of the white military companies
of your County has ■written a long letter
to the officers at this and other places in
regard to the action of the Raticals Lead
ers is your vicinity we want to elect the
next President and you must advise all
your leading men to keep cool and stay
away from mass meeting for a while until
it is prudent if you dont the Republican
party is dead sure dont try to exercise
that that you have no authority to do. I
expect to leave to morrow to Washington
City and when I return will write you on
the subject and what is best.
Yours faithfully
Cominitty R. P.
. per 0. H.
The originals of these letters, as also
of the one sent us by our Wilkinson
county correspondent, are in possession
of Sheriff Mayo, of Washington county.
It is evident that “General" Morris wants
money regardless of what becomes of his
dupes. The writer of the Atlanta letter,
whose head seems to be level, while
deprecating Harris’s movements as un
timely, nevertheless creates the impres
sion that at some future day it may be
prudent to carry out their desings.
All this trouble in Washington and the
adjoining counties has been caused by
a notorious negro agitator named Joe
Morris, who figured extensively in Burke
Superior Court some time since, and who
not long ago called a meeting of colored
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1875.
companies in Sandersville, Ga., for the
purpose, as stated in the call, of electing
a Major General for the Eighth Con
gressional District. His career is related j
by the Augusta Chronicle : Through the
prompt measures adopted by the white j
citizens of Washington county, any
trouble was prevented at that time. Mor
ris next made a move in the direction of
Jefferson county, but that, too, fell
through. But the “Hon. Joseph Morris.
Mesayenger,” as he signs himself, con
tinued as restless as a lively mosquito,
and concluded to interest himself in the
tax paying business. A hand bill recently
issued by the African worthy, after call
ing a convention at Waynesboro, “to
nominate some proper and fit persons for
a Major General and Staff of Burke
county, to be commissioned by the Gov
ernor,” sets forth
“That we, the citizens of Burke county,
Georgia, who have been overburdened
with inflicting laws of this State, doth by
said convention and delegation go back
to the registration, and call for-the tax
receipt of every tax payer of 1968-70-72
71, and to make a final investigation, to
see what has gone with the rights of our
good laboring class for the last ten years,
that we cannot be recognized as all other
citizens of this government.”
The meeting called by this convention
was to be held to-day, the 20th instant.
Morris, in connection with the matter,
has been uttering loud threats as to what
he and his followers intended to do with
the white people of the county. These
threats were echoed by hi? chosen com
panions, the Captains and Majors of the
colored quasi military organizations. It
was known that the negroes were all
armed and that they were having nightly
drills. In view of the evidently impend
ing troubles it was deemed best to take
proper precautions. Warrants were
therefore issued on Wednesday morning
for the arrest of Morris and a
number of his accomplices. The
arch-conspirator, however, who appears
to be a very cunning fellow, managed to
obtain information in regard to the mat
ter and jumping into a buggy made his
escape. It was supposed that he was
making for Augusta, and a dispatch was
therefore sent immediately to Chief
Christian asking him to arrest the
fugitive if he should put in an appearance
in that city. “Captain” Hughes was
arrested on the- outskirts of Waynesboro
and “Major” Gray at his home.
The other parties for whom warrants
were issued fled. Deputy Sheriffs were
appointed and sent out to look for them,
and it is probable that the majority of
the fugitives were apprehended during
the day. A large crowd of negroes as
sembled at the depot in Waynesboro to
bid good-bye to Hughes and Gray. No
threatening demonstrations were made.
The white citizens of the county having
requested the three volunteer compa
nies, one infantry and two cavalry, to
keep themselves in readiness for any
emergency, a meeting of the three or
ganizations was held in Waynesboro
Wednesday afternoon to demise a plan of
action.
Hughes and Gray deny knowing any
thing about the offense with which they
are charged. Governor Smith sent tele
grams to Sandersville, Louisville, Ten
nille aud other places in that section on
Wednesday, ordering out the volunteer
companies there and placing them under
command of the Sheriff, with instructions
to the latter not to resort to arms unless
absolutely necessary, but not to hesitate
to use the troops in such a case.
A Blue-Mass Pill for the Centennial.
Under this heading our cotemporary
of the Augusta Constitutionalist makes
some severe comments on the in
sult offered to ex-President Davis and the
people of the South, by the “Winnebago
savages” of Illinois. In the course of his
article, the editor says ; “The position
of Mr. Davis is peculiar and delicate.
He has one of two courses to pursue:
Either to withdraw from the unequal
contest and the rage of bigots aud block
heads, or else stand firm and compel the
committee of invitation to write him a
second letter reluctantly confessing tb‘ .
they cannot endure the outside pressure
and must ask him to stay at home. In
either event, what a pitiful plight must
these farmers submit to ! They will be
held up to the country as men who prate
of free speech and fail to practice what
they preach; they will be unmasked
as men who are over-anxious
to sell the South their provision
crops, but hate with an undying hatred
the men who purchase their commodities;
they will be self-branded as hypocrites
who sing Centennial hymns while their
hearts belie their voices; they will be
lugged to the front as individuals who
profess to “shake hands over the bloody
chasm,” while, in reality, they would be
delighted to cross (hat abyss upon the
corpses of Southern men and women.
Thank God, we know them at last, and
we will be the most sodden and con
temptible of fools if we do not profit by
our experience. Not by uncharitable
words, however, must these Western
farmers be answered, but hy deed* that
tell. It is in the power of Southern
planters or farmers, as well as Southern
commission merchants, to give those bar
barians a check they will not easily for
get, and one, too, that cannot fail to take
the wind out of their bravado, if it should
fail to exorcise the devil from their
souls.”
Attempted Fraud with Forged Tele
grams. Unsuccessful attempts were
made in New York on Saturday to obtain
#I.OBO from Mr. Perkins, Cashier of the
Importers' and Traders’ Bank, and S9BO
from Mr. Blenkenhorn, Assistant Cashier
of the Third National, by messages pur
porting to be telegrams from President
Buell, of the former bank, and Cashier
Jordan, of the latter, both of whom are
out of town, asking the recipients to pay
bills for jewelry which would be sent in
by well known Maiden-lane firms. The
bills were subsequently presented, but
suspicion having been aroused at the out
set and confirmed by inquiry, the present
ers were arrested. They gave their names
as John Benson, aged twenty-two, no
home, and Martin Brennan, of No. 63
Charlton street, and each professed to be
merely the messenger of an unknown man
who was waiting at the corner for the
money, and who had disappeared. The
bill in each case was made out on what
appeared to be a genuine bill-head, but
was otherwise a sheer forgery. Brennan
had two similar bills, one made out
against August Belmont, and the other
against F. F. Thompson. Both prisoners
were remanded for examinafion at the
Tombs. In each of the fraudulent mes
sages the word “informed” is used where
“notified" or “directed” would have been
wore suitable.
Affairs in Georgia.
The able editor of the Atlanta Herald
now desires Mr. Stephens to come out
and deny that he i9 a Republican candi
date for Governor. After a while, some
one will want Mr. Stephens to refute the
statement that he is the author of Paul
Hayne’s poems.
Fitch's new paper, the Newnan Semi
Weekly Star, has appeared. It is ex
ceptionally well printed and well edited,
and v 11 undoubtedly be well supported.
We have always had a weakness for Fitch
in spite of his political antics before high j
heaven.
A pretty little Newnan girl, ten years ■
of age, rides on horseback with the ease
and grace of a maiden of twenty sum
mers.
A Gordon man expects to make sixty
bushels of corn to the acre in spite of the
drouth.
Four Wilkinson county negro women
fought over a sick colored man the other
'lay.
Mr. F. E. Burke, of A.' i eric us, requests
us to announce that all the delegates at
tending the Sunday school mass meeting
in Dawson, Terrell county, ou the 20th
inst., will be passed ovor the Atlantic and
Gulf Railroad for one fare —full fare go
ing and return free. Application has
been made to the Central, Southwestern
and other roads, and doubtless they will
extend the same courtesy.
Stale cucumbers are weeding out the
prominent citizens of Atlanta.
Hanged if the gushing isn’t all on one
side. Hawley, who did the South more
injury in one campaign by circulating
Hayes’ lies than Jeff Davis did the North
during the entire war, is to visit Georgia,
where he will be cordially received. And
yet when President Davis is invited to an
Illinois county fair, there is a long and
loud protest. Waiter, fitch us a couple
of centennials on toast and a jorum of
‘ ‘conciliation. ” And be spry !
The circus fever has seized the Newnan
negroes. A female cook, who jumped
up and attempted to turn a flip-flap with
out any provocation, will be compelled to
get anew spine.
Corn in the shuck sells in Irwinton at
one dollar the bushel.
Some Jasper county larmers will make
fifty bushels of corn to the acre.
It is said that the finest timber shipped
to Europe comes from the Ohoopie aud
its tributaries.
Wilkinson county will make an average
crop of both com and cotton.
Mr. W. A. Butler, of Laurens county,
has raised an apple weighing a pound aud
a half.
The Columbus mills have worked up
739 more bales this season than they 7 did
last.
New Holland is to have a grand dress
ball on the 21th.
Dave Guyton, colored, of Thomas
county, was killed by Reuben Slater, of
the colored persuasion, recently.
Mary Wright and James T. Copeland,
of Rome, have been aryvftd for passing
fifty cent counterfeits.
Atlanta has had a shooting scrape that
didn’t amount to much.
Ridge Hogan, of Forsyth, well known
among the old maids, has returned to
Georgia from New York. •
Thomas county will make enough corn
for her own consumption this year.
A revival is progressing in the Metho
dist Church in Thomasville.
A man who used to be an Indian scout,
is driving a street car in Atlanta. This
ought to be a warning to small boys.
Ben Russell, of the Bainbridge Demo
crat, will shell out ten dollars in gold if
a Decatur county grange wins the SIOO
premium at Thomasville.
Crops in Clarke county are middling.
Bedell & Nare’s shoe store in Columbus
was burned on Monday. Loss about
$3,000, including insurance. The origin
of the fire is unknown.
Thotnasville Enterprise: Mr. J. R. S.
Davis sends us a sample of writing fluid
of his own manufacture, which we pro
nounce good. Also a twig from a peach
tree, containing seven peaches. These,
Mr. D. says, are a aample of two trees
which are well filled with the third crop.
Judging from their size, this will be the
last crop, at least this year.
The same paper says that the chain
gang at that place have recently adopted
a code of laws, which is as rigidly and
promptly enforced as those consigning
them to the fetters. Lying, stealing, ex
ces3ive filth, etc., are among the things
prohibited, and the penalty, when con
victed. is from ten to one hundred lashes,
administered by one of the number
elected as “strapsman.” On Sunday,
regular court day, Quick and the straps
man were arraigned as violators, and,
being convicted, anew executioner was
chosen, who applied the leather belt in
the true spirit of the law.
Miss Emma Rhodes, daughter of E. W.
Rhodes, of Griffin, is dead.
The rust is wearing away the young life
of the cotton in Houston county.
A promising revival of religion is going
on in Fort Valley. Twenty-six persons
have joined the Methodist Church during
the past two weeks.
Bob Alston and Pierce Young, both
good Confederates, can make speeches all
over the North, but until President
Davis can address the people in any pan
of the country without being subjected
to insult, we shall never feel like shaking
hands across the bloody chasm.
Macon county is without a Sheriff, and
the office, according to the Montezumi
Weekly, is no longer sought.
A lady of Washington county found a
Guinea fowl’s nest the other day con
taining sixty eggs. The fowl is still
alive.
Amerieus received her first bale on
the 17th. It was raised by Mr. J. H.
Ray.
Thus the Augusta Chronicle: The At
lanta Herald having asked for “straw in
the wind” on the Governor’s race has
received three replies. An “Old Straight”
living in Campbell county has met “four
men in a store, every one of whom was
for Colquitt.” The same Old Straight
met “nine more during the evening, and
every one was for Colquitt." Per contra,
in Covington seven votes were polled—
three for Cartrel, two for James, one for
Colquitt, and pne for Stephens. The
most sensible election was held in Rome.
Four hundred and fifty men votad; four
hundred and forty “didn't care a cent
about the race,” and the other ten
thought it “too early to talk about it.”
A little boy, named Frederic Garrison,
was killed in Atlanta the other day by
falling into a culvert.
Fourteen Montezuma men killed three
hundred doves the other day.
P. R. Rivers, colored, in a communi
cation to the Augusta Constitutionalist,
denies that he advised war in Washing
ton county.
Mr. Stephens gave the Atlanta re
porters the cold shoulder the other day.
Judge Tompkins ruled in Griffiu the
other day that a juror might form an
opiuiou in a criminal case, but if he had
not expressed it he was competent to
serve.
Two Columbus men crossed over into
Alabama the other day, and banged each
other out of shape.
The Sandersville Herald remarks that
an excellent farmer who has tried it, says
that one acre of productive land planted
in the early varieties of corn usually cul
tivated for roasting-ears. will produce an
abuudance of forage—coru and fodder —
to feed a horse one year. The way he
does it is this: He makes the land rich, of
course. Plants early and cultivates well.
When the corn is about ready for the
fodder to be pulled—getting a little hard—
he cuts it down and stores away coru.
stalk and all together, and thus feeds to
his horses. The forage is better, he con
tends, and horses thrive well upon it.
After this crop is secured the land can
again be planted in peas, or some other
late crop, and made to pay almost double
what it will when planted in the usual
way.
Fort Valley Mirror: Sunday evening
Rev. Jeff. Wright went to a mill pond
near his place to administer the ordinance
of baptism to some members who had
recently joined the church, leaving his
old mother alone at home. During his
absence two negro men called at the
house and impudently demanded some
thing to eat. She immediately left tho
house aud went into the kitchen to get
something for them, when one of the
black scoundrels, who bad a large stick in
his hand, grossly insulted the unprotected
old lady, whereupon she got a knife and
threatened to go for them. They became
alarmed and left in short order. One was
a short, chunky negro, and the other was
a tall and very robust fellow.
Macon Telegraph: A young friend
writes us from Forsyth giving the par
ticulars of an attempt made to fire the
Court House of that county. About day
light yesterday tho alarm of fire was
given, and after some delay the fire was
discovered to be in the Court House.
The fire was discovered in time to be ex
tinguished before any considerable dam
age was done, except to one flight of
stairs. An examination showed that a
most deliberate attempt had been made
to burn the building. A pile of straw
saturated with kerosene had been placed
under each of the thin flight of stairs,
and then tired. It was soon after discov
ered that a similar attempt had been made
to fire the store of Mr. White.
Newnan Star: The following case is
reported to us by a well known citizen :
Soma time last year a church difficulty oc
curred in a certain country church in this
county, and feeling ran high. A well known
member was expelled from the church,
and soon after died. After he had been
dead some time his friends got the church
to restore him to membership; but the
opposition rallied their forces, and at a
subsequent conference of the church they
turned him out again. We would like for
some promising young theological stu
dent to expound to us the condition of
that dead man’s soul during the period of
his restoration to the church. Was he in
glorj, or the other place t Or was he on
the outskirts waiting for his church in
Coweta county to settle his doom ?
Thomasville Enterprise : What about
the Road ? Persons frequently ask
us this question in reference to the
Thomasville and Monticello Hail
road. We answer that neither of the
towns interested can afford to let the
project die out. The “hard times” are
temporary and have nothing to do with
it. The scarcity of money will be brief,
depending, in our case, upon our industry
and economy. Whenever we make good
crops we have plenty of money, because
we have something to sell, and we cannot
honestly get it m any other way. If there
was ten times as much as at present
in the hands of capitalists, it would
make times no easier among the
masses. It is the general industry that
must prosper in order to make times
easy. Every man must make something
to sell. These things should not materially
affect our public enterprises, especially
one in which so much of our future
growth and prosperity is bound up.
While we labor for present necessities we
should also be careful to keep the ave
nues open to future aggrandizement.
Our present investments in city property
will be of slow growth hereafter if we sit
down and wait for time and population
to make them pay. We must open up
the way for that population and take
time by the forelock.
Sandersville Herald: One of the most
successful planters in Georgia gave us,
some time since, the secret of his always
having a smoke-house well stored with
good bacon. Said he, “A few years back
I found in the spring that my stock of
hogs would be insufficient for my next
year’s supply' of bacon. Early in the
season I planted an acre of good, pro
ductive land in speckle peas. These I
cultivated well, and as soon as the peas
began to harden I turned my hogs upon
them for an hour or so every morn
ing. I never saw hogs improve as fast
in my life. This pea patch, together
with the pasture after my oat crop
had been harvested, lasted until I could
open a field where the corn had been
gathered. After my pastures, peas, pota
toes, etc., had been eaten out, I put my
fattening hogs upon corn for a short time.
The result was, that instead of being, as
I feared in the spring, short of meat for
one year, I made an abundance of excel
lent bacon for three, years, and better
meat I never raised in my life. I have
now increased my pea patch as you see,
(pointing out the patch of luxuriant peas
upon which his hogs were then feasting,)
and I find it pays wonderfully.” When
bacon can be raised so easily and at so
little cost, is it not strange that so many’
smoko houses upon the farms of Georgia
are empty one-half the year ?
We are indebted to Capt. C. E. Carnes,
of the Irwinton Southerner, for the fol
lowing copy of a supplement to his paper.
Captain Carnes learned at Tennille that
•Jerry Waters, Jake Moorman and “Capt.”
Tucker, were arrested on the 10th, and
are now in the Sandersville jail. Caudy
Harris escaped arrest by hiding himself,
but will be fortunate if he eludes the
search that is now being made for him.
The following is a correct copy of a letter
brought to Irwinton to-day (16th) by Mr.
B. Hall. The original was picked up at
Williamson's old store, Washington coun
ty, after one of the nightly drills of the
negroes. Its genuineness is vouched for
by the Rev. Mr. Baker, of this place,
whose certificate was attached. Comment
is unnecessary. Let our people be ready
for the conflict, but do nothing rashly:
“Aug. 6th 175.
“Jerky Walters: You and your com
pany must start to killing the whites on
Aug. 20th. Kill every one you can find.
Tell Harrison Tucker to kill all the whites
that, he can find, and go towards No. 11
station, and there will meet you General
Morris and his staff and General Rivers
aud his staff.
“You do as I tell you and Captain
Tucker. This must be a secret. You
tell Brother Jake to kill every white man
and get every gun he can. Make out to
the white men that you are sorry they
think we will hurt them, and if you know
of any man that has got money make
them give it to your Treasurer and we
need it.
“Have all your companies ready. Kill
with axes, hoes, pitchforks, and get gun
powder and shot as you kill. So I close
to depend on you.
* “Caudy Harris, Sr.
“By order of Gen. Morris and from
Gen. Rivers.”
To the incendiary letter signed by
1 Candy Harris, which we printed vester
i day, the Macon Telegraph adds the fol
lowing: After the letter was found the
white people sent a spy to one of the
! negro meetings, who, upon his return,
confirmed all that was in the villainous
document. The spy had no knowledge
whatever of the existence of such a letter.
A lady living in Jefferson county was
warned by a negro man to seek a place
of safety, as there was going to be trou
ble pretty soon. The lady took his ad-
I vice and got away. This is further evi
deuce that the missile meant the worst
kind of mischief. A gentleman living in
Jefferson county telegraphed to Macon
last Saturday to ascertain if guns could be
had for the use of the whites in defend
ing themselves. Guns and ammunition
were promptly sent down. A dispatch
was also sent asking if they needed any
men, and they answered no. They
thought they would be able to take care
of themselves if they got the arms. In
answer to a dispatch, Lieut. Walter T.
Ross, of Macon Volunteers, Company B,
received the following communication
yesterday:
Sandersville, Ga., >
Sunday Night, Aug. 15, 1875. i
To Lieut. W. T. Ross: ■
Your dispatch just received. lam in
hopes the telegraph operator replied im
mediately, as he did not send me the
telegram until after nightfall. We had
considerable excitement here last Friday
night, as a report reached us that tlio
negroes intended taking the town aud
killing every white man, woman and
child if they met with any resistance. If
such was their idea they decided it would
not be a prudent step for them on that
occasion, as news reached them that the
citizens were prepared for them. Our
town was guarded through the night by
the military companies All is perfectly
quiet now. In behalf of tho military and
citizens of Sandersville, I must render
thanks to you and the Macon battalion
for the interest you have manifested in our
welfare, and if at any time we have any-
thing like a riot, aud need assistance, we
will certainly avail ourselves of your kind
ness, and notify you to that effect.
Very respectfully, your friend.etc.,
. F. A. Guttenberger,
Lieutenant Washington Dragoous.
Three of the leaders of this insurrec
tionary movement were arrested on Mon
day, and a note to a merchant of Macon,
received last night, says the most intense
excitement prevails in Washington
county. Other arrests will be made ns
the parties can be found. With the
ring-leaders in the hands of the legal
authorities, the people will probably
have no cause for further apprehension.
From the best information we can get,
we are satisfied that there is no filmy
bugaboo in this matter, but that it is an
affair of real concern, betokening a most
distressing state of society. We have no
idea of what there is to incite the ne
groes to such a step, but a woeful day it
will be to them if ever they attempt to
execute such an infernal scheme. We
hope the whites will act prudently in the
matter; aud let such of the leaders as
have been or may be arrested, receive
proper punishment at the hands of the
law. Let there be no unnecessary vio
lence, but the utmost patience with an
ignorant and illy taught race of people.
Florida Affairs.
The Union says the fruit upon the
orange trees is beginning to torn from
a beautiful dark green to yellow, and
will soon present a very attractive ap
pearance. They draw the attention of
strangers quicker, perhaps, than anything
that can be found in Florida, aud are uni
versally admired when contrasted with
the productions of the Northern States.
The same paper says that on Saturday
night last, train No. 3 (passengc-r), which
left Jacksonville at four o’clock in the
afternoon, injured a colored man fatally
about one and a half miles this side of
Ellaville. He was asleep, lyiDg with his
head on the track. Although not run
over, his head was terribly crushed by
the cow-catcher, so that it will be almost
impossible for him to recover. Whisky
is thought to be at the bottom of it.
The Floridian says that the Mormon
who has recently escaped the halter by a
disagreement of the jury on a charge of
complicity in the Mountain Meadow
massacre —John D. Lee--visited Jackson
county, Fla., in 1871 or ’72, and carried
with him to Utah a couple of Jackson
county women—mother and daughter,
we believe—one of whom, at least, was
“sealed” to him as a wife. Perhaps the
Courier can tell us all about it.
Mr. Joseph Eiland, living near Brooks
ville, Hernando county, while out hunt
ing recently, was struck and instautly
killed by lightning. On the same day a
neighbor had three horses aud several
cows killed by the same agency.
Jacksonville merchants are getting
mighty mad with tho New Y T ork
schooners.
The County Commissioners of Marion
have appointed a committee to examine
the books of the county officers. The
Danner says that many startling rumors
of the discoveries made aro in circulation,
but nothing official is known.
Jacksonville wants to get up a snapper
excursion.
Judge Wright says Palatka is improv
ing. This is gratifying.
We shall have to inquire into Pratt’s
politics. Recently, when there was no
election, he was a candidate for Mayor on
two tickets.
A colored nigger in Jacksonville cut his
wife’s throat the other day because she
left his bed and board.
The immortal Cheney came near being
struck with lightning the other day.
Alluding to the Captain Leib recently
mentioned in a letter from ourWashingtou
correspondent, the Floridian says that
the aforesaid has not put his foot in this
State since the fall of 1872, when he was
here as an agentof the Post-Office Depart
ment, and spent his time traveling up
aud down the railroads examining the
mail bags in the interests of the Radicals
during that political campaign. He was
in the State a year or two before that
time as a Treasury agent, but was soon
dismissed from that position, as he was
from the other. The last we heard of
him he was taken to Washington from
somewhere in Pennsylvania on a serious
charge. He is a very proper character to
waive the “bloody shirt.” His own
record here as a first-class liar, lacking
the smallest amount of regard among his
own party adherents, admirably fit3 him
for such a role. No one in Florida would
believe the man on his oath, and he can
only impose his lies upon the most ig
norant.
A Liberty county man has fifteen thou
sand acres of land, which he proposes to
sell at ten cents an acre. Some of these
lands lie on the Apalachicola river. Set
tlers couldn’t ask for better inducements.
Monticello will soon be in telegraphic
communication with the outer world, all
through the efforts of Mr. Taylor.
The Quincy Journal remarks: We have
learned from Col. S. Hamblen, tne census
taker for Gadsden county, that he has so
far enumerated something over 6,000
people, and out of that number has re
ported but forty-five deaths for the past
year. There is about eleven thousand
people in the county, and at this rate
there will be about eighty deaths ia the
ESTABLISHED 1850.
year, including white and colored, old
people and children. "We venture the
assertion that there is not anot her county
in the State, or in the United States,
that can show so sinall a death rate for the
same number of people. If they cnn. lot
them do it.
Thus the Macon Telegraph: W. Watkin
Hicks, having joined the hi rant gang in
Florida and received his reward there
for in the shape of a $3,000 per annum
oflice, is now howling “intimidation"
and “violence" as lustily as any of his
brother carpet-baggers. He says the
Democrats are thirsting for his precious
gore, and that his friends lias. to gmud
his personal movements. Well, we are
rather obliged to Hicks for s> fuU\
verifying our diagnosis of his case made
when he was living in Macon He is just
exactly where we prelude! lie would
eventually land.
The Monticello UohsUtutia-. says Unit
on Saturday last u negro woman, thirty -
three years of age, measuring only three
feet in height and weighing seventy t ight
pounds, was in that town. She was
really a curiosity, possessed of unusual
intellect for one of her race, and had good
use of herself. We understand that
Judge Dell made an effort to secure Lor
services as one of the curiosities he in
tends to place on exhibition at the Phila
delphia Centennial, but failed.
The same paper says that the citizens
of Jefferson have concluded to postpone
all further efforts for a County Fair the
present season, and will undertake tin
enterprise next year, and have a fine dis
play in the fall of 1876. This will give
the planters and others fall time to make
necessary preparation and create an ani
mated competition.
The Floridian goes into the conundrum
business, as witness : Will the Few South
tell us what connection there is between
mentioning the effect of a thing and the
thing itself? The Floridian, a few days
after the cowardly assassination of Sena
tor Johnson, mentioned the fact that his
death created a vacancy in the State Sen
ate, to fill which a special election would
have to be held, adding that Columbia is
a Conservative county, and that the va
cancy ought to be filled by one of that
party; whereupon the Few South calls it
a specimen of “cool calculation.” And
pray wherein ? Is it the fact of the va
cancy that is “cool," or is it tho mere
mention of the fact? Suppose that Mr.
Adams were to be suddenly taken off',
and someone should at once say that bis
death has caused a vacancy in the Jack
sonville Post Office, aud that Cheney’s
chances will be good to succeed him,
would that be “decidedly cool.” Go to,
man; you wanted to say something by
way of helping to raise the “outrage
flag,” and didn’t know well how to do it.
. Monticello Constitution: “Jonathan,”
the correspondent of the Feruanrtma
Observer (supposed to be the llev. John
Tyler, of Tallahassee,) issues a libel
against all tho wives and daughters of
wlmt he is pleased to designate the Bour
bon Democrats of this State. Well, let
us consider the source. Some men by
nature are so base and contemptible that
theirhbuse i.s preferable to i heir praise.
Quincy Journal: We have heard,!but
do not vouch for the truth of the folioiv
ing: mafl,
crease pi ntation,
one his wife, living in the same bouse
with him, the women got to quarreling;
he took the part of the lewd woman,
against his wife, and choked and boat
her so that she died from the effects of
the same. After her death, which we
understand occurred the night after the
choking and beating, he look tho other
woman and loft for parts unknown. We
have not learned of any inquest or other
legal means having been taken to ascer
turn the truth of the above story, though
it is true that the woman is death- aud
that she was choked to death, as her
eyes were nearly popped out of her bead,
aud her neck aud body swollen terribly,
and dreadfully bruised, and also that her
husband and tho other woman Las run
away—fled from j istice. Since the above
was put in type, the man, whose name is
Joe Goodsou, has been arrested and
lodged in jail in this place.
Judge A. O. Wright, in the Union: I
saw this morning a curiosity in the way
of an orange tree, in the yard of Mr.
Thomas Shally, the former Sheriff and
Tax Collector of this county. In the fall
of 1871 I was residing here in Palatka,
when the big cyclone passed over the
country, carrying destruction in its path.
In my yard was a very thrifty sweet
budded orange tree that had been
planted by Mr. Shally, several years be
fore, when be owned the place on which
I was living. Well, this tree was drowned
out by the rain which fell during that
cyoloue, and, although I dug about its
roots, it began to fail early the
coming spring, and nil the 1< avos dropped
off. Instead of new leaves it puts out a
myriad of orange buds, which completely
exhausted its vitality, and it died by
inches apparently. Seeing that I could
not save it, I called in Mr. S. and told
him he might have it provided he would
give it back to me again if it survived.
He theu told rqe what trouble he had
had with the tret?. lie said that several
years before a neighbor’s now got into
his yard one night and cat off a portion
•of the bud, and then ran over and split
off the bud from where it had been put
in, and the bud, probably then an inch
in circumference, was hanging simply
by one-quarter of an inch of bark
two feet below where it had been
budded. He laid it carefully back
again and bound up the wound with
string and waxed cloth. It grew into
position and no sign of the injury was
apparent. He dug the tree up when 1
offered it to him, saying that he had an
affection for it, and believed he could
save it, and found a honey-comb of rot
tenness for over a foot from the trunk
upward, where there should have been a
tap root. There was probably a dozen
small feed roots hanging upon one side.
He got all tne decayed wood out and
filled the cavity with wax and compost.
It was then transplanted into his own
yard in a shaded place, and thoroughly
fertilized. This morning when I saw it
the bud above ailuded to was eight
inches in circumference and fourteen feet
in height, with several oranges on it,
and it is the most vigorous tree in his
grove.
Soiilh Carolina A flairs.
A project is on foot to build a railroad
from Barnwell Court House to the village
of Elko, on the South Carolina Railroad,
some eight miles distant.
An election will be held for Intendant
and Wardens of Lancaster county on the
21st inst.
Only one death in Columbia last week.
Population fourteen thousand.
The municipal election in Anderson
ville on Monday last resulted as follows
under the cumulative system of voting:
For Intendant, John li. Cochran : for
Wardens, John McGrath, S. M. Pegg, G.
F. Tolly and J. N. Brown.
The third annual fair of the Greenville
Agricultural and Mechanical Society will
commence on Wednesday, the 20th of
October.
Maj. Arthur A. McKenzie and Mr. Wil
liam L. Grist, two respected citizens of
York county, died last week.
At the last extra term of court in Lan
caster county, says the ledger, jury No.
2, composed of nine intelligent white
men and three colored men, was presided
over by an illiterate colored man, who
could neither read nor write, by direct
appointment of Judge T. J. Mackey.
Henry Hein, a baker in the employ of
Mr. P. W. Kroft, of Columbia, was
drowned in the Congaree river on Satur
day.
Mr. Tom Blackwell, Deputy United
States Collector, reports having destroyed
two distilleries, 2,000 gallons of mash,
seized one still and cap, 100 gallons of
whisky and four prisoners, in York
county.
The property of George F. Mclntyre,
late Senator from Colleton county, was
sold by the Sheriff at Walterboro’ re
cently.
Mr. Benjamin Capel killed a rattlesnake
on Mr. Tbos. E. Stubbs's plantation,
Marlboro’ county, last Friday evening.
It was six feet long, seven inches around
the body, and had thirteen rattles and a
button.
Olive Cade died in Williamsburg coun
ty on Wednesday for want of medical
attention.
The census of Greenville City shows
the population to be 5,499—viz: 2,76."
white and 2,734 colored.
The recent rains have caused a rise of
fifteen feet in the Peedee river at Ckeraw
last week.
The llev. Edwin A. Bolles, District
Superintendent of the American Bible
Society for the State of South Carolina,
will attend the anniversaries of the fol
lowing named county auxiliary Bible
societies: Greenville city, September 12;
Walhalla C. 11., September 1!); Anderson
C. 11., September 2i>.
The Lancester Ledger states that a
negro scoundrel, near Fort Mill, wrote an
insulting note to a respectable young lady
one day last week, proposing a confer
ence. The young lady handed the docu
ment over to her fatlior, who appeared
upou the spot designated and emptied
thirteen buckshot iuto the villain’s car
cass. The negro is not yet dead.
The office of the Republican Printing
Company of Columbia lias been closed.
N . wherry College at Walhalla will begin
Us first session September 2. During
the past year the institution has had
more than one hundred pupils on its roll.
The professors are thorough nnd untiring
in tin• discharge of their duties.
Two colored boys wore drowned in the
EJisto river, near Howe’s Pump, recently.
The Horry Ifeuis is informed that a
twin ;aster ship of the Henrietta was built
at Brewer, Maine, for Captain David
Nichel , and the “Henrietta” built at
Bucksvillc, South Carolina, cost from ten
to twelve thousand dollars less than the
Brewer ship. The tonnage of both ships
is about the same, but the model of the
“ Henrietta" was changed only on the
clipper order.
The Fort Mill (Work county) Grange
have submitted their annual report and
award of premiums. On tho thirti two
farms embraced in the jurisdiction, there
are 2,100 acres planted in cotton, 1.227
acres in corn, 450 acres in oats, 200 acres
in wheat, 25 in potatoes, 23 acres in
clover. The various members of the
Grange have sold 1,01(5 bushels of corn,
and bought 745 bushels, leaving a bnlance
in their favor of 271 bushels. They have
sold 2,500 pounds of (lour, and bought
22,000 pounds. They have sold 2,000
pounds of bacon, and bought 15,000
pounds. They have sold 110 pounds of
lard, and bought 1,450 pounds. They
live sold 385 pounds of butter, and
bdught 15 pounds. The premiums were
warded as follows : For the best culti
-1 vated farm, A. 8. White; best self-sus
taining farm, Hugh Gelstein.
Mr. John A. Moroso will hereafter cor
respond with the ’ Charleston A'ctrs and
Courier from Columbia.
i M • <* ou ” ts ‘ut
tain bis position as secretary and treas
urer of the Spart artburg/ and Union Itail
road.
The third session of the cjuarterly con
fererice for the Lexington circuit will be
held in the Methodic., Church, Lexiug
ton, on the 11th and 15th inst., at which
time the new Methodist Church will bo
dedicated to the worship of God by ltev.
Wm. H. Fleming, 1). D., presiding elder
of the Columbia district.
Fodder pulling time has arrived, and
the farmers in the vicinity of Aiken are
hard at work.
Last week, while a wagon loaded with
a boiler, weighing some five thousand or
six thousand pounds, was crossing
Black river, near Manning, the third
bridge gave way just as the mules and
fore part of the wagon cleared the bridge,
the rest going into the river.
Mr. I. Edward Rhodes died last week
at the residence of his father, in Darling
ton.
Mr. Joseph Griffin’s barn, Old Cam
bridge, Abbeville county, was burned last
Saturday night at an early hour, together
with one hundred and fifteen bushels of
corn, forty bushels of oats and a lot of
fodder. Incendiary.
The Treasurer of Abbeville shows nearly
SII,OOO in his treasury for various county
purposes.
A Mrs. Quick was brutally murdered
last week by unknown parties, near Clio,
in Marlboro county. Two parties have
been arrested on suspicion.
A gentleman from Fairfield .-dates that
in eight years there have been eleven
burials of whites in Winnsboro and one
hundred and forty-sc von of negroes.
From the 2Hth of April to the 10th of
August there have been twenty-four kids
and fifty and a quarter beeves sold in the
market at Darlington.
General Vogdes’ eldest son, W. M.
Vogdes, twenty-three .years old, died in
Charleston on Saturday, ami was buried
in Magnolia Cemetery.
On Monday morning lasi a colored
man, named Charles Pope, while at work
on a fall at Captain Bell’s mill, near
Beaver Pond, of Aiken, was seriously in
jured by the caving in of the dirt.
Mrs. W. 11. Epperson, of Sumter, died
in that town on last Sunday.
Isaac Weston, colored, was shot near
Grahamville, S. C., by W. S. Bennett,
white! Weston attempted to take the
life of Bennett’s child. Bennett pursued
Weston and overtook him on the public
road; Weston had a large knife n his
hand. Bennett shot Weston ,ith a
double-barrel gun: he died the next
morning.
A card from Benuettsville states that
twenty-seven joined the churn, with
about thirty conversions, the result of
the camp-meeting recently held near that
place.
Mr. S. J. Bradford, of Sumter, is no
more.
Ferman Harris, a colored man, while
hunting in Captain Ragsdale’s field on
Sparrow swamp, Darlington county, last
Saturday morning, killed a rattlesnake
which measured five and a half feet in
length and had eight, rattles on its tail.
A statement has been prepared show
ing the amount of State, county and mu
nicipal indebtedness of all the States.
The Philadelphia ljedger says that the
total amount is eight hundred and sixty
four million seven hundred and eighty
five thousand dollars.
The Prince of Wales must have felt
gratified at the following remark of Brad
laugh, which was recently cheered by
1(K),000 Britons: ‘tXhis Prince of Wolei
for whom our money .is spent, is no Prince
of ours: he is Prince of the wealthier
classes. 4
