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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