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Georgia Journal & Messenger,
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TUESDAY, OCT, 6, 1868.
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT.
HORATIO SEYMOUR,
OF NEW YORK.
FOR IKE PRESIDENT,
FRANCIS P. BLAIR,
OF MISSOURI.
(•TATE ELECTORAL TIURET.
FOR THE STATE AT LARGE :
JOHN B. GORDON, of Fulton.
JOHN T. CLARKE, of Randolph.
ALTERNATES :
\V. T. WOFFORD, of Bartow.
THOS. M. NORWOOD, of Chatham.
FOR TIIE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS :
6t District—J. C. NICHOLS, of Pierce.
Alternate —J. U. HUNTER, of Brooks.
2d District—CHAßLES T. GOODE, of Sumter.
Alternate —WM. O. FLEMING, of Decatur.
3,1 District— R. J. MOSES, of Muscogee.
Alternate—W. O. TUGGLE, of Troup.
4th District—A. O. Bi ,CON, of Bibb.
Alternate —H. WIMBERLY, of Twiggs.
sth District—J. B. CUMMING, of Richmond.
Alternate—D. M. DuBOSE, of Wilkes.
Ctli District—ll. P. BELL, of Forsyth.
Alternate— G. McMILLAN, of Habersham.
Tth District —J. D. WADDELL, of Cobb.
Alternate—V. A. GASKILL, of Fulton.
FOR CONGRESS,
Ist District— lion. A. H. UANSELL, of Tliomas
( county.
2d District--!lou. NELSON TIFT, of Dougherty
county.
3d District—Hon. HUGH BUCHANAN, of Coweta
county.
4th District- Hon. THOS. G. LAWSON, of Put
nam county.
Cth District—COL. WIEK BOYD, of Lumpkin
county.
Hon. O. O. Sparks.—From all quarters
we Lear good words of this gentleman—
the only representative the property own
ers and tax payers of Bibb county have in
the Legislature. He seems to have won
the cordial respect and esteem of men of
all shades of political opinion, both in and
out of the House. We beg to congratulate
both him and his constituents, upon the
fact.
An Important Witness.—Gen. O. H.
Howard, of the Bureau, has been telling
hi.-, experience after his recent Southern
trip. He stated, positively, that distur
bance! and riots were not the work of one
party alone, hut that both were to blame.
He also declared that in hi* ~*—J
two months and extending
through the most "rebellious” States, he
expressed himself most fully and freely
on all subjects, and in conversation with
all classes of our people, and received
nothing but courtesy and respectful at
tention from all.
Fee for Registered Letters.— The
Postmaster-General has ordered that from
the lirst day of January next the registra
tion fee on all letters registered in and ad
dressed to any part of the United States
shall be fifteen instead of twenty cents,
the same to be in all cases fully prepaid in
postage stamps, afiixed to the letter, and
cancelled. The present rate will continue
until New Year’s day. Ou Thursday next,
the first day of October, the Postoffice De
partment will open two hundred fifty-five
additional money order postoffices, mak
ing fourteeu hundred and sixty-three in
all. The amount of money transmitted
•during the fiscal year just closed is about
fifteen million dollars, as against nine
aiiliou dollars the nrevioua vear.
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The Medical College of Georgia.—
We direct the reader’s attention to the ad
vertisement of this old and honored In
stitution, found elsewhere.
its many graduates scattered through
Georgia and other Southern States, busily
and successfully engaged in the practice of
their profession, is the best eulogy upon
its merits, and the character and ability of
its professors. It has always maintained a
high reputation, and deserves all the ap
preciation and patronage so liberally be
stowed upon it; and there is less reason
to-day than ever that any Georgia student
of medicine should leave his State to fin
ish his education.
Anew feature has been introduced in
this College which deserves special men
tion. In place of the costly system of pri
vate classes, the faculty now require
weekly recitations, at which the lessons
taught during the four preceding lectures
are reviewed, and thoroughly impressed
upon the mind or tlie student.
—;
Difficulty at Jefff.hsonvllk. —A serious dif
ficulty occurred near that place on Friday last, iu
which two gentlemen were badly wouuded. It
seems that E. W. Crocker, Esq-, had purchased a
cotton gin of Mr. Wimberly, and called to re
move it. This was objected to by Mr. Boyn
ton, who fired at Crocker, inflicting a severe flesh
wound in the r'urht arm. Crocker fell, hut rose
again and fired a pistol at Boynton, which took
effect in his back. The wound is considered very
dangerous, if not fatal. We have not learned the
particulars sufficiently to state them further.
Dooi.y Supkhiok Court. —This Court which
should have convened on Monday, lias been pre
vented by high waters. The Judges and Solicitor
went to Montezuma, but were unable to proceed
further iu consequence of several intervening
creeks between that place and Vienna, which were
ut an unusual height, and may he impassable for
several days. The Judge attempted to forward a
message to have the Court adjourned till the
third Monday in this month, hot it is doubtful
whether it would arrive in time. In event of a
failure, it will tie adjourned to the next regular
term. Some mill dams are spoken of as being
washed away, and much other damages suffered
from the freshet. The Flint River was very high,
and impassible near Oglethorpe, except on the
railroad hr id gw—the ferry Hat having been swept
away.
The Late Rain—Destruction' of Profertv.—
The rain which fell here Saturday was the heaviest
aim the liith of April. It commenced about dark
Friday night, and continued with only short inter
vals uutil 12 o’clock Sunday.
The Oemuigee ro e 15 feet above low watermark.
AH tin creeks around the city, and indeed as far in
the country, as we have heard from, were swollen
to great heights. S' vcral counties down the South
w -t' -rn railroad report an extraordinary amount of
water as having fallen, and great numbers of bridges
washed away. The destruction of bridges around
Montezuma is said to be thorough and complete-
The track of the Southwestern and several other
railroads, was considerably damaged, aud the Sun
day trains were out of time. We have heard of the
Joss of no bridges on them.
But tin- greatest damage was sustained by the
■ cotton crop. It was beaten out of the boll and
greatly soiled upon the ground. It will make
much of it class far below w hat it would otherwise
have done.
Recovery op Stolen Bonds. —We take the fol
lowing from the Detroit Free Frees :
In tlic sjiring of I$H5 a number of bouds of the
Blue Kidgc H 'Uroad Couqxuiy of South Carolina
were stolen from the Bank of South Carolina, in
( harlcstou. by the Union soldiery. Since that time
detectives all over the country have been engaged
ill trying to discover the bonds, but until unite re
, eiitly uo clue to them could be found. A few
weeks ago a resident of Windsor called at one of the
banks in this city and offered two of the stolen se
curiliea foi ale. but tile ottieors of the bank de
clined to negotiate vvitii him, on the supposition
that ail was not right, ami informed the Chief of
Police of the circumstance. The person was ar
rested, but iieceeeh din eouviueiug the authorities
Unit he had obtained the I Minds of another jairty (a
temporary resilient of Windsor,) who had eotmuis.
-ioned lifiii to disjiose of them. This led to the ar
rest of the other party, who surrendered two of the
bonds of the denomination of *IOUU. These were
forwarded to the President of tll<- bank from which
they wore stolen, and yesterday the police depart
ment received notification of their safe arrival at
their destination. The circumataaee will doubtless
h ad to a discovery of more, and perhaps all of the
bonds. ■
MAKE HAY WHILE THE 81* SHINES
We invite the attention of cotton pro
ducers to the article from the Journal of
Commerce, elsewhere to be found. It con
tains food for much serious reflection by
all classes, and suggests one thought of
especial interest to the class above men
tioned. It is with reference to the abso
lute necessity for, and almost certainty
by, Congress when it meets in December,
of an increase iu the taxes to save the Gov
ernment from bankruptcy. With a defi
ciency of over $150,000,000 to makegood,
what else is left to save the credit of the
country ? The Presidential contest having
been decided, the successful party can ami
will forget its promises about lightening
the burdens of the people, and resort to
the most vigorous measures of taxation.
Os that we have not a doubt. If the Rad
icals are successful, what product will they
load down first? What class will feel the
burden heaviest? Cotton, aud the cotton
planters. There is not a doubt of it. It
would not astonish us at all to see the tax
five cents per pound before Christmas Day.
They kill two birds with one stone by
such a measure, viz: Make good, in part,
the deficit caused by their own profligacy
and corruption, and in addition have the
sweet satisfaction of seeing it come from
the pockets of those whom they call
“rebels” aud “traitors.” It would be
such a savory reveuge upon these “ reb
els” for voting for Seymour aud Blair.
Now, as to checkmating these schemes:
With cotton at 23 cents a pound there is a
good margin for profits. Which is better
—to sell at that price, or wait for a rise,
and with the rise get a tax of $25 a bale?
We believe those who hold on run thm
risk, aud our advice Is to put their cotton
beyond tax reach. We may be wrong,
and the tax may not be imposed; but
don’t it look reasonable that there will he
in the contingency aforesaid ? We don’t
presume to advise the planters, however.
They of course know their own interests,
and will watch the signs for themselves.
We merely desire to suggest probabilities
many of them, perhaps, have not thought
of in connection with the present price of
cotton. With the general disposition there
is to hold on and get the highest figure, it
is safe to assume that less than one half
the cotton crop of the South will, for this
year, have left the producers, hands by
Jan. Ist 1869. It will be rather difficult of
course, to get at what has gone forward
with this tax, hut there lays at least 1,000,-
000 hales in gin-houses and warehouses
waiting for it. Twenty-five million dol
lars will do pretty well for the tax gath
erer, but we hardly think planters will
see it that way, especially after they con
sider how much of it could have been
saved to their own pockets.
Turn the matter nv»r J- ,o
noi within the range of chances that this
thing will be done. If so, figure out your
profits at 23 cents per pound, and see if
that is not really not the best for your in
terests. The sun certainly shines, now.
Wise people always take advantage of it.
Those who waitthat it may shine brighter
sometimes have to make their hay under
a cloudy sky, and with precious little sun
shine of any sort.
THIS MACON AND AIGISTA RAILROAD.
Correspondence of Journal and Messenger.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 2d, 1868.
Messrs. Editors: The sessiou is drawing
to a close, aud business is being rapidly
rushed through. A great number of bills
are being passed. Os the number, I may
congratulate your people upon tlie pasage
of the one giving State aid to the Macon
and Augusta Railroad. The hill origin
ated in the Senate, and was passed by a
good majority. In the House it met with
more opposition, and was warmly contest
ed by the opponents of State aid. But its
friends triumphed bv a vote <»f 55 to 38.
The Governor will sign it, and this im
portant road will now be completed, thus
giving Middle Georgia an outlet to the
sea without submitting to the exhorbit
ant rates of the Central Railroad. All
hail! we say, to the Macon and Augusta
Railroad.
Many important bills are yet before the
Legislature, and they will have to work
industriously to get them through. It is
generally conceded that the Legislature
will adjourn on the 6th inst. An effort
will be made however to prolong the ses
sion until the election. We doubt whether
this can he effected. B.
Packing Cotton.—We are again requested to
ask our planters to use more bagging in packing
their cotton. As they make at the least calculation
one hundred per coat, upon every pound of bagging
they put upon a hale of cotton, it is remarkable
how sparing some planters use it. Every inch
should be covered with the heaviest aud tlie best
that can be found. We notice many bales arriving
covered witli miserable old corn sacks, and not
more than two-thirds hidden even with that flimsy
material.
The ealeutation is this: A yard of best bagging
costs 26 cents; a yard will weigh 2% pounds.
Cotton sells for 23>£ cents. Hence a planter gets
about 55 cents for bagging he only paid 26 cents
for. He pays 9 cents per pound for Iron Ties and
sells them for which is more than one hun
dred per cent, profit.
Factors, buyers and shippers all prefer having
every bale so closely covered that not an ounce can
lie lost. And in view of these facts it is astonishing
any man would be so stupid as to put it up any
other way.
Southwestern Georgia Railroads.— The day
is not distant when almost every county in South
ern and Southwestern Georgia will have its rail
road. Tlie Savannah and Gulf Railroad, now run
ning to Baiubridge, Decatur county, will soon be
extended to the Albania line, either at Fort Gaines,
Eufaula or Columbus. And we see proposals ad
vertised to build the road from Albany to Thomas
ville, aud it is expected that line will be continued
to Tallahassee, Florida, uniting there with the sys
tem of railroads of our neighboring State. Thi»
project is looked upon by many of the best busi
ness men of this city as a direct blow against the
city of Macon, in that it will take from us the cot
ton and other trade of the rich counties around Al
bany aud send it to Savannah. This road will be
built, and the only way we can offset our losses by
it is to get it extended into Florida, and make up
by getting trade from that quarter.
( But no matter how these projects may work out,
we will still be upon the interior line between
Montgomery and Savannah, which, although it may
not be beneficial to our citizens, w'ill be eminently
so to our railrouds. it is next to impossible for an
Inland city I o concentrate railroads upon it and
gain their exclusive monopoly like a city by the
sea. In not many years hence they will be as com
mon as public roads were thirty years ago. All the
wealthy counties in the black belt will have at least
one. Who will blame them? A people in these
days of enterprise without a railroad are certainly
unfortunate, to say the least of them. We have six
long lines already either completed or iu process of
construction to our city, wfiich are all we have any
reasonable use for. Now, in our opinion, the next
grand move should be in the building of more cot
ton factories. Why not make Macon the Man
chester of Georgia V We can do it The little
wooden-nutmeg States of New Eugland make ten
times the amount of money manufacturing cotton
that we do raising it. All the raw material they
buy here nets them at leaat one dollar per pound.
And still we go on from year to year seemingly
contented with reaping one-third the reward we are
entitled to.
Macon and Augusta Railroad.—Georgia is
generous—proverbially so ! The aid voted by the
Legislature to the Macou and Augusta Railroad will
secure its immediate completion. We are glad of
this. The finishing of that line will open direct
communication with Charleston on the seaboard,
and will at once correct the discriminating tariff of
a certain other line against our city, so much com
plained of by our merchants and shippers.
It will also increase our grocery and general
trade in the intermediate counties between here
and Augusta, all of which are wealthy and heavy
buyers. We hope the Board of Directors will at
once revive the work upon the road and pusfi it
vigorously. They ought at least have it completed
by the timothe Bruuswick Road Is.
GEORGIA JOURNAL AND MESSENGER.
For tU6 Journal aud Messenger.
EDUCATION OF SOLDIERS’ CHILDREN.
Messrs. Editors: In common with many
other of our citizens, the writer has for
years been deeply interested in the educa
tion of the thousands of poor children,
especially the orphans, left in the State,
destitute of the means of education. With
out going farther back, the last Legisla
ture that met iu Milledgeville passed a
Common School law, which was to have
gone into operation the first of this year;
but which was prevented by the military
usurpation under which we were thrown.
No general plan having been adopted
for the accomplishment of this object, I
took occasion, recently, to publish a com
munication iu the Christian Index at At
lanta, in which, among other things, I
suggested the formation of a society, with
its headquarters at Macon. A gentleman
of your city, whose attention was called
to that communication, says, with refer
ence to myself:
“But lie has left it where nothing will ever be
done; because no one knows wliat to do; and no
one feels authorized to do anything. Let him ma
ture a plan of organization, submit it to a few dis
creet, sensible, large-hearted men, aud, if approved,
publish it, and push it to a consummation. If he
will begin, and begin so that tlie people see success
and practicability in the sclitMue, they will come
immediately to his help.”
I believe the people ought to do this
work, through the Legislature. But as it
is deemed inexpedient for the present
Legislature, “so-called,” to act ou this
subject (for a reason which will be hereaf
ter given), I submit a plau, which seems
to me both simple and feasible, promising
that, while I am not wedded to any plan, I
am deeply impressed that we are not do
ing our whole duty on this subject.
PLAN FOE EDUCATING SOLDIERS’ CHILDREN.
1. Let a society be formed in Macon (as
being a central point) of men and women,
without regard to Christian denomina
tion; the object of which shall be the ed
ucation of soldiers’ children, or at least of
their Orphans. Prominent gentlemen
would doubtless join in calling a meeting
for this purpose.
2. Let this society appoints Committee
or Board, which shall decide upon details,
such as: 1. That the children (or or
phans) of all poor soldiers, in Georgia,
shall be placed under tuition in any
schools convenient to them, or which may
be selected by their mothers or guardians,
Board to be responsible only for tuition.
2. What shall he the ages of those that
shall be eligible. 3. Fix upon a uniform
price for tuition, aud notify teachers dis
tinctly that they will be paid only as the
Board is furnished with means.
3. Let this Board appoint a General
Agent, (who might be both a collecting
and distributing officer,) who shall raise
funds; pay teachers’ accounts »nd pro
ike „au9c generally.
The foregoing plan is substantially the
one which has been iu successful operation
in Virginia for years past. To show its
feasibility, I state a few facts (without
giving his language) furnished me by
Rev. W. F. Broaddus, General Agent for
that State. In 1865 a committee was ap
pointed to collect funds by such means as
they might thiuk best, and place the chil
dren in the schools most eoDveuient to
the place of their abode, without regard
to the religious sentiments of either the
teachers or pupils. The contributions
were formerly sent to the Committee
through the mails, but the agent Is now de
voting his whole time to the work. Last
year they had about five hundred at
school; this year they hope to have fifteen
hundred. The people are alive to the
work, and tlie teachers are satisfied with
one dollar a month for tuition. They do
not propose to establish schools or asylums
of any sort, but to have tlie children
taught in any schools that may be in reach
of them.
While I rejoice iu the success of local
•ohoola so v tUouo uufoptuuuto oLil Jrcu,
like that near Macon and the one at Ma
rietta, such schools will never reach the
masses. My plan proposes to spend noth
ing fur laud aud buildiugs; nothing for
board aud servants’ hire ; hut to spend all
that cau he raised for tuition.
From the most reliable data at his com
mand, the writer has been brought to the
conclusion that there were at least sixty
thousand children in this State, at the
close of the war, destitute of the means of
education, of which not less than twenty
thousand were orphans. At least two
thirds of this number are growing up
without eveu the merest rudiments of an
education.
The writer would have petitioned the
present Legislature for an appropriation
for this object, but for having learned that
the new Constitution, “so-called,” has
placed a prohibition in the way of that
body doing anything for popular educa-
tion at its present session that does not
embrace colored children. Let the plan
proposed be modified, or another substi
tuted in its stead, aud tlie writer will be
content. But he can neither live nor die
satisfied while these poor children are be
ing so much neglected.
J. H. Campbell.
Thomasville, Ga., September, 1868.
A negro orator named George R. Wil
liams made a speech in Huntsville, Ala.,
iu which he held forth as a threat to
whites that the blacks had no property,
and could lose nothing by the application
of the torch. George is only repeating
what Joe Brown said at Atlanta.
Cotton at Twenty-Five Cents.—Cotton sold
in our market yesterday at 25 cents per pound
This is not only truly gratifying news to our plant,
ing friends, but it proves the correctness of tlie
views of this paper in advising them to hold their
crop und contend for that figure.
Tiiat conclusion was arrived at after a close cal
culation of the demand and supply, and however
much we may have been abused at the time the
view was published, we deserve a vote of thanks
now. With the price at 25 cents per pound, each
bale weighing 500 pounds will be worth $125. Suv
the crop of Georgia reaches 350,000 hales, which is
the estimated crop, then wc will receive $52,750,000
for it. The receipts at Macon wilt reach about
70,000 bales this year, which will sell for $8,750,000,
which amount of niouey will be put into circula
tion here iu addition to that already afloat. We
received last year 80,000 bales, which sold oil an
average at 17 cents per pound. For this amount of
cotton, 10,000 bales more than wc will get this
time, we received $6,800,000, or $1,950,000 less than
we will get for the preseut erop. The crop of 1867
of tlie State of Georgia sold for about $8.5 per bale,
or tlie 500,000 bales produced brought $42,500,000,
or $10,250,1KK) less than the crop of 1868 will bring
at 25 cents per pound, although there is an appa
rent deficit of 150,000 bales.
These calculations are useful iu that they exhibit
tlie healthy prospects ahead of us financially. There
is no reason why the South should not be the rich
est and the most independent country in the known
world.
Tiie Griffin and North Alabama Railroad
—The State, under certain conditions, has agreed
to loan this road SB,(XX) per mile. The following
officers and Directors have recently been elected :
W. M. Wadley, President Road.
W. M. Chapman, Griffin.
C. C. Peeples, Griffin.
John I. Whitaker, Griffin.
Thomas A. Grace, Newnan, Ga.
George E. Smith, Newnan, Ga.
George W. Camp, Carroll county.
It is desigued to run this road from Griffin, Geor
gia, to North Alabama, tapping the Memphis and
Charleston at Tuacumbia, and thus establishing a
new route to the North-west.
The Hanging next Friday—Tin- three negroes,
Gorman, Jenkins and Whitus, condemned to hang
next Friday, will be exeeuted privately inside the
high picket fence recently erected around the
Guard-house. But few persons will be admitted—
the officers, -Clergymen and perhaps the reporters
for the press. We make this mention by request,
iu order to tell people in the country to stay at
home that day, as they will not be permitted to sec
the revolting spectacle even if they do come to
town.
the romance of hop PICKING.
Hop Picker* and Who Ihey Are—An Army of Ho|»
Gatherer* 1.10,000 Mtroug—‘The Strife for Labor
er*—A Panic Among the Grower*—How Moth
Parlie* are Swindled by the Uroker*.
Correspondence of the Chicago Republican.
Baraboo, Wis., Sept. 20.
There is, perhaps, no region of country
in the United States, comprising so large
an area of arable land, which is so exclu
sively and completely devoted to a single
industry as is this portion of Wisconsin.
Nothing is produced in any quantity, and
nothing desired, seemingly, but hops.
Sauk county is the centre afMm hop
region, aud Baraboo, the capital town, is
the great hop market.
For many years the only hop yard in
this county was one of three or four acres,
owned by Mr. Canfield, in the village of
Lyons. In 1861-2 the people hereabouts
began to awaken to a knowledge of the
enormous profits to be derived from that
branch of agriculture, and, with a rapidity
almost beyond comprehension, the farms
and gardens of a hundred townships have
since that time been converted into hop
yards.
In Sauk, Juneau and Columbia counties
the number of acres to be harvested this
season exceeds that of any previous year
by more than 100 per cent., though the
product wi.l not make so great an increase.
“All the world and his wife”—aye, and
his wife’s “relations,” and his children,
and grand-children, too, are hop-pickers
here. No one remains at home who is
able to be out. Iu fact there are no homes,
and society is a mythical institution.
Thousands of homes are silent, deserted.
The shutters are closed over kitchen and
parlor and dining-room windows. The
curtains are close drawn. The ashes lie
cold on tlie hearth. No footfall is heard
on the threshhoid. A silence like that in
the chamber of death reigns there.
Yet no one wonders at this. “Hop-pick
ing, sir,” answers all curious questions.
Young and old, rich and poor, of both
sexes,become harvesters for the nonce, and
would not be denied the privilege. A help
less limb is no longer a disability, and a
wee, dependent babe ceases to lie an in
cumbrance. Tlie cripple adjusts his poor
limb ou soft cusbious; the mother gets
rid of her intant
Tt is a matter of economy, of absolute
necessity. A competent nurse, employed
at from $2 tos3 per diem, will take charge
of a half dozen babies-in-arms, and save a
corresponding number of hauds to the
hop growers. That the crop be promptly
gathered concerns not merely the pro
ducer and the dealer, but every citizen to
an equal extent. The gold of the banker;
the goods and exchange of the merchant;
the lands aud homestead of the specula
tor; the pauper’s crust, and the poor la
borer's daily bread, hang on the vine-en
circled poles, and all these are equally
perilled by delay. Rust, mildew, aud lice
do not delay their ravages, wheu, unhap
pily, they appear, and a day of time lost
or saved in gathering the crop at such a
time, is a thousand fortunes simply dis
posed of.
Yet not alone is it this necessity which
attracts tlie women so universally to the
hop yards. Avery large share of them
go for tlie,wages. A cnn«Wcr*bl» number
are enticed by tlie certainty of enjoying a
season of roystering fuu, with plenty of
company. But, to complete the list, the
wives and daughtersof tlie wealthy go hop
picking, as they allege, solely for “the
benefit of their health !” The expression
has become a current joke amoug the
pickers generally.
Last year, as was estimated from the
most reliable sources, 40,000 people—the
greater number women—came into Hauk
county alone, during the hop-picking sea
son. At this time, tlie present harvest be
ing nearly twice as large as the last, it is
generally conceded that there cau be hut
few less than 75,000 strangers in this one
county, and from 140,000 to 1.50,000 in all
the hop-region.
This vast army of harvesters come to
gether from every point, near or remote
in the State, and from hundreds of places
iu Northern Illinois. Avery large ma
jority of ttiose who come only .from adja
cent comities, within a range of say fifty
miles in either direction, have been enga
ged by contract by some of tlie most ex
tensive growers since midsummer, or ear
lier, and many since the picking of last
year. There were agents who made a
point to travel through remote counties
east and south and secure hands in this
way; but they soon found that the ad vant
age of this course promised to he mainly
found on the side of the pickers, in view
of a decline in wages at harvest time, and
Uiry acctmllngiy uiuscu me cmn.race ousi
ness. Thirty cents per box was at that
time offered, then forty cents ; and many
thousands would have been secured at
that price but that they indignantly re
fused these terms, expecting fifty or sixty
cents, and willing to work for no less than
the former at any time. Ttiose who were
foolish enough to engage for less have dis
regarded their contracts since, and get full
pay. The hop growers are completely at
their mercy.
The growers become panic-stricken in
consequence of the thousand contradicto
ry rumors that are daily circulated, aud
flock to tlie railroads north and south, a
week before the time at which tlie hands
they may have engaged beforehand are
expected at the designated stations, where
they were to meet them, and convey them
to their respective fields of labor.
Tlie existing contracts referred to give
these poor, tortured people no confidence
or sense of security. Each one knows
that if he would secure the assistance he
requires at the coinmeucement of the
“pick,’, no matter how numerous hands
may be still later, he must grab and
snatch, aye and lie too, and trample on
opposition, humanity and all.
Well, here they are congregated, In
hundreds at first, then thousands. At
Kilbourn City, Linden Statiou, aud Port
age City on the Milwaukee and La Crosse
Railroad, aud at Mazomonie on the Prai
rie du Cbien road. Their farm wagons,
drawn by two and four horse teams, are
corraled like the empty supply train of an
army. Their distracted owners throng
tiie platform at the station, and stare witli
a longing look toward tlie east and to
ward the west, along the lines of cold and
voiceless rails, as if thirsting to conjure
from thence a familiar spirit that might
impart the truth, which alone can set
their hopes and fears alike to rest.
Day after day is passed in this way, aud
lie panic increases. Hundreds of plead
ing epistles from tiie pens of half-crazed
subjects Hood the postofflee, aud cram the
usually limp and liahby mailsacks for up
ward and downward-bound mails. The
agonized burden of these letters is the
same in character throughout. They en
treat “my set to come away with all possi*
ble speed, no matter if it is too early yet
by days, and be very, very sure to have
nothing to do with any other person
because he oilers a higher price. I
will pay more than any on ’em darst to
do, contract or no contract. Gome right
along, and don’t lail me for heaven’s
sake.”
What then is the legitimate and imme
diate effect of this state of feverish anxie
ty? Shrewder men than the unsettled
hop-growers take their cue therefrom, aud
manage to fleece tlie latter “to the buff."
They employ agents, who in the charac
ter of disinterested travelers pass to and
fro along tlie railroads and through the
country, circulating accounts which are
calculated to aggravate the existing panic
and to create more general alarm aud dis
trust.
They any to the hop growers, “You can
not get hands from abroad at the prices
yon offer. Why, sir, the day before yes
terday there were 1,500 or 2,000 women at
Watertown, who had started for this re
gion, many of them, perhaps one half,
under contract made iu the summer; but
they were promised fifteen cents per box
more logo to Juneau county than you
agreed to give In Hauk, and, sir, to Juneau
they went, to a man!"
To others they say : “It will be utterly
impossible for you to secure pickers
enough to gather the hop crop this year
by ten or twelve thousand—they won’t
come.” Then to the thousands and tens
of thousands of hop-pickers from abroad,
“The growers have already twice as many
hands as they require, and can get any
number at tweuty-five cents and thirty
cents per box—they swear they won’t pay
more than that.” Thus the ground is pre
pared for the brokers who deal in hop
pickers. These ingenious and unprinci
pled men, or their confidential agents, at
once repair to Madison, Columbus, Beaver
Dam, Watertown, in fact to every station
on each of the railroad and stage lines
and wait for their stock in trade. Nor
have they long to wait. A party of, say
300 women, hop-pickers, together with 30
men, pole-pullers, congregate at the sta
tion to take the train for Kilbourn City.
The wily broker approaches the party
and inquires where and for whom they are
going. The first answer will be that fifty
of tbeir number are under contract with
Mr. A., of Sauk county. Upon (tearing
this, the broker affects great pity and some
indignation.
“ Why,” he says to the lady, “ my dear
madame, I turned over to Mr. A. yester
day sixty-five hands that i had engaged,
specially for him, Norwegians, all of
them, because they will work for twenty
five cents a boa, and no one else will,”
“ Twenty-live cents!” they all exclaim
aghast.
“ Yes,” the broker replies, “ prices are
down, and no one gives more than forty
cents.”
“ But we have a contract for fifty cents
a box,” chime in a score of voices.
Mr. Broker laughs immoderately.
“ Why, my dear ladies, you surely can’t
expect any man to respect a contract with
women, when his pocket is to be damaged
by it! But, seriously, now, let mo make
a proposition—”
“ Just what half of them have waited
for these many hears,” blurts out some
joker not interested in hops.
“ Hush up,” says another, and gets the
silent thanks of a score of blushing dam
sels.
“Let me make a proposition,” contin
ues the broker, undisturbed. “I am en
gaging Not hop-pickers, for two large
yards in Juueau county, and one iu the
northern part of Sauk. I still want about
200 hands of that class, of course, and to
insure 50 cents all the time, aud
if they are independent and manage right,
up there, they cau easily get 60 cents aud
75 cents after the first week. Can I get
my number here?—don’t care a straw,
they are as plenty as dirt, only it would
save time.”
“Can’t you take all of us? We want to
go together,” comes in a flood of inquiries.
Broker seems to meditate a moment, then
says, yes, he will run the risk and eugage
the whole party. Poor dupes! he would
not have done otherwise for a hundred
dollars. He then takes charge of his com
pany, sees that they get tickets, aud lias
their baggage cared for.
Arriving at —Kilbourn City, we’ll say,
he disembarks his stock in trade, bundles
them all to some quiet place, where there
is no 'lunger of Mr. A. or Mr. B. finding
“their own” among them, and so spoiling
his game ; then hurries away to the crowd
of anxious hop-growers to open negotia
tions with them. He knows well how to
keep up the fever in their already half
crazed heads, and his task is an easy one.
He lias so many hop-pickers —No. 1 hauds,
say 100 or 200, as he thinks safest to state,
which he is taking Nortli; but if they will
give enough to pay him for his trouble, he
would not mini! letting some of them go,
as he knows where he can secure more, at
least as mauy as he will want. Bidding
at once commences, aud the broker in tlie
end get $4 or $5, aud when the excitement
is highest, $6 for every one of his three
hundred and more hop pickers. Mr. A
very likely gets the identical parties with
whom he lias contracted a month before.
It is too late to grumble —never mind, his
terrible brain-fever is brokeu up at least.
The brokerage business lias been con
ducted this season on a gigantic scale, and
large fortunes secured by and through it
In a word, it has completely controlled all
classes who are interested in the hop in
dustry. No less than twenty-five thous
and hop-pickers have passed over one line
of which oik* broker has control, in a
measure, and very few of all this number
but have been sold out by him, or his nu
merous agents, at from four dollars to six
dollars per head, and none less than three
dollars, under any circumstance*.
Thus it Is that the thousands upon thous
ands of acres of hop-yards have been sup
plied with hands for the harvest.
Capital H.
A REM \Rk IDLE TR 111.
Action In tin- t nlird "•late* Court ut Cleveland to
Recover the Property of a Murdered Man—Ver
dict for the Plaintiff for *3m.000
Prom the Cleveland (Ohio) Leader, Bept. 23d
One of tiie most remarkable cases in tlie
annals of any court was closed in tlie Uni
ted Btutes District Court, in this city, on
Baturday morning, with a verdict for tiie
plaintiff for tlie large sum of $38,415 99.
The hearing of tlie case occupied the Court
for three days, and tlie amount at stuke
and tiie singular circumstances connected
with the affair invested it witli a peculiar
interest. A detailed history of Hie whole
case would trespass too largely upon our
space, hut we present below, in brief, tlie
prominent facts as developed by the tes
timony :
In 1.863, William W. Treadwell was a
bank' iu Hudson, Michigan, with a fine
capiial and good business habits, temper
ate ami frugal. About Christmas he weut
with iiis wife to visit tier father, Samuel
Hester, living in Huron county, Ohio.
1 hey remained there till after New- Year’*,
wheu they returned to Hudson. From
tiiat time Treadwell was a different man.
He neglected his home, and his actions in
many respects were so singular as to ex
cite remark. Money was accumulated
from every quarter, from deposits and
from banks, until January 20th, 1864,
when he had collected the sum of $65,000.
Ou the following night he ran away, tak
ing witli him all tiie money in a small
black satchel, but witli no otiier baggage.
Tlie next morning the bank clerk found
tiie combination of the safe lock changed,
but by accident tlie combination was dis
covered, aud tlie safe was opened. It was
entirely rifled of all money, bonds, drafts
and papers of value.
On the Bth of February following Tread
well went to Mansfield, Ohio, aud stopped
at the North American House, where he
registered his name as G. Clemmer. Ou
the evening of the 10th lie was joined at
that place by his wife and father-in-law.
One of the witnesses in tlie case, Mr.
Palmer, testified that he had been, from a
boy, an intimate friend of Treadwell. He
met Treadwell in Mansfield, and the lat
ter showed him a large amount of money
In his possession. The next morning
Treadwell aud iiis wife were arrested aud
their baggage searched, but no money was
found. It was afterward ascertained that
Hester had gone to tlie depot by the om
nibus, taking witli him the satchel aud
money.
On the 12th of February Treadwell was
taken to Michigan and lodged in jail. He
was kept until the latter part of June,
when he was tried for obtaining money
under false pretences, and was convicted
on the first day of July. He was remand
ed to jail to await this sentence, hut that
night succeeded in making his escape, iu
company witli a noted horse thief aud
desperado named John Cowell, who occu
pied the same ceil with him. On the last
day of the trial his wife secretly conveyed
to him $2,000 in money, whicli lie secreted
about his person and had with him when
he escaped. Cowell was aware of liis hav
ing the money, and assisted him to con
ceal it iu his stockings.
The two men traveled together, going
south from Adrian into Henry County,
Ohio. In this county, on the 4th of July,
Treadwell was murdered and robbed in
the woods, nearly two niiles from any
house. By a series of singular circum
stances the murderer was discovered near
ly a year afterward. The body of Tread
well was accideully found by a mail pas
sing through the woods, who saw a flock
of crows feeding upon tlie remains. It
was identified by means of a ring whicli
bis wife had given him, and which bore
his name, aud by tlie teeth, which had
been filled by a dentist a short time pre
vious to his ‘death. The murderer, Joiiu
Cowell, was traced to Cleveland by means
of a gold, watch which lie had taken from
Treadwell aud disposed of to a notorious
courtezan of this city. The case was
worked up by the Police, and finally Cow
ell was arrested, brought to trial aud con
victed at Napoleon, Ohio, in May, 1865.
In September following lie was executed,
confessing iiis crime upon tlie scaffold.
In the examination connected with this
trial it became evident that the greater
Cordon of Treadwell’s money was in the
ands of Hester. Soon after the eouvic
tion of Cowell, Chauueey L. Tread well,
administrator of the estate of the murder
ed man, commenced action against. He
ster to recover the money, in the United
States Court iu Cleveland. It has been
continued from time to time until the
present. On the morning of Tread well’s
arrest, a traveler stopped at the house of
Solomon Laughlin, a horse dealer, living
about two miles from Greenville and
twenty miles from Mansfield. The man
had a black satchel bung on a stick over
his shoulder, bis feet were wet and muddy,
aod he seemed completely exhausted.
Ah-er supper he hired Laughlin’s two sons
to convey him to Greenfield. Just before
reaching the place the traveler lay down
in the bottom of the wagon, and got up
again after passing through the towu. He
remarked that be would not stop, but
would go on about two miles further
where he lived. He was driven to a cer
tain cross-road, when, pointing to a light
shining some distance off, he said there
was his home. He regretted that lie had
no accommodations, oriie would ask them
to remain all night. He then got out of
4he wagon, and the hoys noticed that he
started off in the contrary direction On
the witness stand Laughlin swore positive
ly to Hester and the traveler with the
black satchel beiug oue and the same per
son. A short time after this, a woman
having some work to do for Mrs. Hester!
called at her house, and found Samuel
Hester, Mrs. Hester anil Mrs. Treadwell,
with a large amount of money in their
possession, on Hester's knees, on the tied,
and in Mrs. Treadwell’s hands. The most
noticeable feature in the trial was the
chain of circumstances, from the lliglit of
Treadwell with the black satchel, to the
possession of the same black satchel in
the hands of Hester, closely connected
and strengthened by the contradictory
statements of Bumuel Hester on the cross
examination. The attorneys for the plain
tiff spent nearly two years in working up
this most singular case, displaying the
keenest skill and discernment. The jury
returned a verdict for the plaintiff, as
stated above, $38,415 09. Thecase through
out was one of peculiar interest and was
conducted on both sides iu the most able
manner.
From the Southern Recorder, ‘JBtli ult.
YVH YT IS V\ AC RE YVORTH t
W hen the Southern farmer, be lie a large
or small one, will rightly compute the
value of au acre, and set the proper worth
by it, we may then expect that material
and real wealth to the State that is only
now imaginative. We call ourselves an
agricultural people, and admit that the
wealth of our State lies iu its productions.
To a great extent, we may say altogether,
that as a people we are dependent upon
our cotton, rice and tobacco crops for
what money we make. As to our corn
orop, we hardly feel like counting it in, if
we judge from the thousands of bushels
that are brought from the West to supply
the demauds of our people, and the thou
sands upon thousands of dollars we semi
out of the Sta e for that article alone ; not
counting the millions of pounds of bacon
that wo buy also from the West.
Every mau that cultivates a few acres
of land, imagines that he must put half
or two-thirds iu cotton ; that cotton is the
only thing that will bring ready money.
We would not have a word to say about
planting cotton, if each acre planted
brought a bag; but when we know that it
takes from three to four acres of our worn
lauds to make a bag, we feel that it is la
bor and money thrown away, and that the
farmer has never for a moment sat down
and calculated tiie worth of au acre well
mauured and well worked.
Au acre of laud well mauured, well
taken care of, is worth from SSO to SIOO.
Au acre that will bring twenty-two bush
els of wheat and thirty bushels of corn
the same year, is worth SIOO per acre ; and
any-pains taking farmer can make an acre
produce that. The manure dropped in
stables or yards by horse*, cows, hogs,
sheep, &c., will mauure oue acre well.
We speak of the small farmer, the mau
with but little stock. Care aud economy
is all that is needed to save manure; but
so long as we drive along in our slip-shod
way of making aud saving manure, we
may expect but poor returns from the soil.
! If the small farmer could be induced to
i take half the pains the New England
farmer does on his place, there would not
be a farm In Baldwin couuiy that would
j not be worth at least S2O to the acre.
But what we desire to call the especial
attention of our farmers to, is the Impor
tance of manuring at least oue acre Well
and planting it in something that will
bring him SIOO clear. It can be done,
and done easily, but there must be *yst< iu
about it. la*t the small farmer who reads
this, look at the nearest Oily or town to
which be trades, and see what article of
provisions sell readily. Take for instance,
sweet potatoes, every body eats them,
aDd they find a ready sale; they keep
well and can be sold by the wagon load or
bushel, at from fifty ceuta to $1 00
A farmer knows how many bushels an
acre will bring, and he knows that lie can
get SIOO to au acre even at 50 cents per
bushel. Take the ground pea; it will
sell readily aud bring a good price. Take
onions, take Irish potatoes, take (a-as. Put
the acre in anything but cotton, aud it
will bring more money than cotton would.
Mucli manure is sometimes saved aud
wasted by trying to manure 10 to 20 acres,
when in fact it should have beeu put on
one or live. Farmers get discouraged and
say, it won't pay to save manure, because
they have tried it, and their crojw were a
failure; and failed because they tried to
do too much with too little, just as a fool
ish house wife would attempt to make oue
blanket cover three beds.
Reduce manuring to a system ; make a
calculation how much one bushel of ma
nure will manure well ; how much one
horse loads will manure well, and then put
it on accordingly. Don’t guess at the
matter, but go at it like sensible men, aud
iu a few years, with deep plowing, you
will liud your lands doubled, quadrupled
<•> value Take one acre it* time; see
that it pays for the manure put on it, and
make it so rich, that you can always say,
there is one acre that will pay me well, if
no more ; but it is as easy to make teu do
it, or twenty or fifty. Turn under in the
fall the green crops of peas or the rank
weeds, and much has lieeo already ac
complished; but our smalt farmers need
not expect ever to improve their lands so
long as they plant cotton aud it takesabout
four acres to make a bale. Their lands
will wear out and they grow poorer every
year, and when they die, the farm is Dot
wortli two dollars per acre.
Remember, that au acre of land is worth
sso when well mauured, and will be worth
SIOO if kept well manured, for it will bring
provisions to that aniouut any time. Will
our small farmers act upon the suggestion
hereafter? We know of two acres iu Mil
iedgeville that produced 47 bushels of
wheat, and the same year produced .84
bushels of corn. It was manured from tiie
stable, but well done, and well plowed.
What would teu such acres be worth to a
small farmer.
; The Current Yeah.—A few days ago we called
| attention to the fact that while the partisan orators
: on either side were disputing as to which could
■ promise most of relief to the taxpayers, the Treas-
I ury was in imminent danger oi bankruptcy. We
proved by actual statistics that, whichever party
succeeded in the coming election, the public debt
must be greatly increased during the year unless
very great additional burdens were laid upon tbe
people immediately after the reassembling of Con
gress. There is no escape from this conclusion.
The Pendletons and Shermans, Democrat and Re
publican alike, would do well to touch lightly up
on the greed of the “bloated bondholder, for the
public creditor must be called in before this tiseal
year expires to bridge over the gap iu the national
tinanees, without a very short turn is taken in tho
course of those in power. In fact we do not see
how it is possible, with the strictest executive
economy iu the Department, unaided by an early
and thorough reform in legislation, to" avoid the
breakers now lying directly before us. The author
iz'd expenses for the current tiseal year, including
remains of old appropriations which have not
lapsed, exceed five hundred and fifty millions. Wo
think a very' moderate estimate of ihe sum actually
culled for will be considerably in excess of four
hundred millions, and we do not see how it can
fall below four hundred and fifty millions. We
understand that the estimates of experts at the
Treasury Department carry it up to four hundred
and seventv-tive millions, but we wish to be with
in a safe limit. We cannot figure the receipts under
existing laws as high as three hundred and fifty
trillions. We do not think a safe estimate will
give them more than three hundred and twenty-ip-c
millions. The Treasury exports place them at throe
hundred and twenty-one millions. Here we must
have a deficit in the current year, as we showed the
other day, of over one liuudred million dollars,'and
it is more likely to be one hundred and forty mill
ions than a less amount. The balance of cash in
the Treasury at the close of the current six months
cannot be over about thirty millions, aud part of this
will ho trust funds not available for disbursement.
Nearly or quite all tho ordinary appropriation for
the War Department for the year ending next June
has already been drawn for, and the balance of
former authorizations will be needed.
We are not writing for political effect. As we
said before, and now repeat, neither party can alter
these facts, and neither can promise the poop e
either any further relief from taxation, or even a
continuance of present immunities. Mr. Atkinson,
who has been figuring largely to show what finan
cial wonders have been performed within the last
seven or eight years, may now turn his skill to
account, and show a deficit in the Treasury of over
one hundred millions, directly staring both parties
in the face, can be overcome by figures of rhetoric
in a stump speech. The problem will be too hard
for the politicians, hut our burdened people will
find a way of escape. The resources of the country
are not exhausted. The bocretary has authority
under tho act of 1866 to borrow upon the issue of
bonds, and a reimposition of the heavy taxes re
moved by Congress for political effect, w ill once
more bring the balance on to the right side. But
there is no poetry iti the situation, and we intend
that it shall not be our fault if the people do not
understand it. Hurrahing for party will not till the
Treasury. Promises of immediate retier to bur
dened taxpayer are all for buncombe, and cannot
be kept. The wheel is setting heavily in the rut. of
debt, aud only sturdy shoulders cun give it an on
ward- motion. Tliis work must come upon tho
toiling millions of the country, vote as they may
m the election now before us — Juunutl of Cbm!-
mercc, Jfoth. * •
mS r t?, T IN p r EN a Radical
meeting in Lancaster on Tuesday an aflrav
occurred between members of the opposing
parlies, in which clubs and stones were
freely used. The fight lasted more than
an hour, during which large numbers of
persons were injured, though the mayor
had employed a large number of special
policemen to assist the regular force to
preserve order. These officers failed to
stop the disturbance. Stones were used
freely, and the shutters of the windows of
most of the business places in several
squares were closed to prevent the glass
from being broken.
t When the Democrats are plucky enough
to fight, they carry the elections—that
being the only argument the Radicals
appreciate.]
THE (TRANGKR OX THE HIM..
BY T. BUOHAgix KEEP.
Between broad fields of wheal and corn,
In the lovely home where I was born,
The peach trees lean against the wall,
Ami the woodbine wanders over all;
There is the shaded door w ay still.
But the stranger’s foot has crossed the sill.
There is the barn —and still as of yore
I can smell the hay from the often door,
And see the busy swallows throng,
And hear the peewee’s mournful song ;
But the stranger comes—ah ! painful proof—
Ills sheaves are piled to the heated roof.
There is the orchard —the very trees,
Where my childhood knew long hours of ease,
Amt watched the shadowy moments run.
Till my life had imbibed more shade than sun;
That swing from the bough now sweeps the air,
But the strauger’s children are swinging there.
There bubbles the shady spring below.
With its bulrush brook where the ii axels grow;
’Twas there i found the calm us root,
And watched the minnows poise and shoot.
And saw the robin lave his wing—
But the strauger’s bucket is at the spring.
Oh! ve who daily cross the sill,
Step lightly, for I love it still,
Ana when you crowd the old barn eaves,
Then think w hat countless harvest sheaves
Have passed within the scanted door
To gladden eyes that are uo more.
Deal kindly with those orchard trees;
And when your children crowd your knees,
Their sweetest fruit shall they impart.
As if old memories stirred their heart;
To youthful sports still leave their swing,
And iu sweet reverence hold the spring.
The barn, the trees, the brook, the birds,
The meadows with their lowing herds,
The woodbine on the cottage w all—
My heart still lingers by them all;
Ve stram'ers on my native sill,
Step lightly, for 1 love it still.
HOGS FOR THE KOI TH.
There are too many laying blame to
black thieving as an axcuse for not rais
ing bogs. We well remember, someUiirty
eight years ago, the reason assigned why
ho mucli corn was bought from flatboats—
“the climate was unfavorable to corn.”
We know there is bog stealing going on,
Itecause we have had some experience iu
it within a short period, and we know it
has ever been so since we kuew tire negro ;
and if it ever is different, there lias to be
more fear of Uod than there ever was of
plantation laws. The matter is reduced
to this—tiie Bouth must raise the pork
consumed or quit eating it. The cost is
UK) great. The luxury a poor man cannot
afford.
Prepare for a few, a small clover lot near
the house ; provide water abundantly, at
least for drinking ; a shed U) protect from
the sun in summer, aud au abundance of
litter in it for a warm bed in winter. Pro
vide a squash patch—of course, too late
now—for housing for winter food. The
summer squash makes a good feed; Bos
ton Marrow, tiie Hubbard, tiie Potato
.Squash, better; pindars, pumpkins and
corn. The latter tiie most costly aud tiie
least needed, if an abundanceof the cheap
er will be provided, especially tbeSwedes,
(Ruta Bags,) hogs will eat this turnip and
fatten ou them, and we endorse KXK) bush
els per afire, under a bountiful supply of
mauure aud good culture. Turnips can
yet be provided, aud it is a certain and
cheap food. Os course, if fattening for
pork be the thing, best to cook with corn
meal. It is cheaper to buy corn at $l5O
per bushel, and raise hogs, than to pay
fifteen to twenty live cents per pound for
bacon. Provided, however, there be a
proper economy iu feeding, using but lit
tle corn, mostly of pindars, peas, pump
kins, turnips of the Ruta Baga, aud also
provided the proper tiog be selected.
Which is tiie best hog for Dixie land?
This is of no small ini|>ortaiiee, Mr. H. W.
L. Lewis, President of Washington (La.)
Parisli Club, lias a sow bought of ourself,
which be will testify lias had no better
fare, if as good, as the common native
hogs ttiat are with her, and while she is
fat enough for pork the balance might
make a shadow in tiie suushiue, but could
not make much grease.
We saw in Jackson, Miss., in Baton
Rouge and in New Orleans, La., speci
mens of the Cheater county hog*, and we
have been casting a longing, lingering
look for a pair. We hesitate not to recom
mend these hogs to tiie careful feeder.
The Buffolk, another white hog, smaller
titan the Chester, requires for good health
and ability to get about, more greeu food
and less corn. The best of the Blickney
importation that we ever had, if fed high
ou corn when they are young, give way in
their feet. Rones are too small to carry
the fiesh.
Our lavorite hog for the stable lot, con
finement, exposure to eun and to cold, is
the Essex, black, and always black. If
any white be admissible, it may lie* white
foot and a little white on bush of tail; a
spot ou the body is very suspicious, very.
If the Bouthem firmer will not take the
trouble to take good care of his hogs and
feed well, it is a waste of money to buy.
Better go to your ueigbbor and buy two or
three pigs, which he gives you for $2.50
each ; they will do to waste corn upon, by
tossing out to them on the bare earth or in
tiie mud a few nubbius.
We have fed hogs on cooked food for
some thirty years, and have tried by
weights and measuies, and had we capital
to o|»en an insurance olliee, we would in
sure more pork from 500 bushels of corn
and the Chester county pig, or the Essex
pig, than any man can make from double
or treble the number of the “rooters” and
1000 bushels of corn. This is the strongest
proposition we have ever made, aud we
are worked up tosecession poiut. We will
secede from these grumbling farmers, un
less they cease to quarrel at the improved
hog, or when they have one made a pres
ent to them, they attend to it in a proper
mauuer. The Essex, or Chester, or .Suf
folk caunot live on air, or on pine burs,
though they might live on pine roots.
They need good attention and generous
food, and they will pay for food ; the com
mon bog will not.
Fifty-six pounds are said to be one
bushel of corn; we say, make it into
thoroughly cooked thick gruel, add a little
salt, and it will make more grease than
seventy pouuds of corn tossed in the mud
and thrown to the hogs on the ear. We
say again, and defy a successful refutation
—though a worthy friend by the name of
H. proposed to feed the pure landspike
against our proposal some ten years ago—
that the same quantity of corn fed to the
same weight of Chester county hogs will
make thirty-three per cent, more pork
than if fed 10 the landsbarks.
We beseech our frieuds to buy good
stock aud feed high. It is true economy,
and we cannot honestly advise you to any
other course. —Southern Farmer.
FEARFUL TRAGEDY AT SKA.
The Paris papers of September the loth,
give the particulars of a scene of whole
sale slaughter which occurred on board an
Italian vessel.
The Theresa left Macao on the Oth of
February with 206 Coolies aud a cargo of
silk, tea, etc. At the end of sixty-two
days she arrived iu sight of the shores of
New Xealaud. While the crew were oc
cupied in the forepart of the vessel the
Coolies rushed to the cabins and seized
the arms lying there. They then attack
ed the crew, and in about ten minutes a
dozen sailors (Italians) were killed, hack
ed to pieces, aud flung into the sea. The
second mate, who defended himself brave
ly, received the contents of a gun fired
close to him by a sailor who was forced by
the Coolies to commit the murder. The
boatswain’s mate received 10 wouuds and
was put in irons. After eight davs of hor
rible tortures (nails being driven* into his
head,) he was killed about forty-eight
hours before the vessel arrived off the
coast of China.
Now follows the most appalling part of
this drama. After having exterminated
nearly the whole of the crew, the Coolies
began fighting among themselves, aud
fifty of them were killed The victorious
party then proceeded to decapitate the
dead, whose heads, packed in boxes,
were stowed away in tbe bold. At tbe end
of sixty days the stench exhaled by these
remains Became almost uusupportable.
The unfortunate wife of the captain, who
was confined between decks, suffered
dreadfully from it, aud was otherwise sub
jected to the most cruel treatment.
The majority of the Coolies were pirates,
and were perfectly acquainted with the
use of the compass and with the charts.
They compelled the captain to steer for
the port of Tim-Pack. On arriving there
the Theresa was pillaged by them, and the
Mandarins aided in stripping the vessel.
In this condition the vessel, abandoned
by the pirates, returned to Macao, having
on hoard tlie remainder of the crew, con
sisting of eight sailors, and the wife of the
captain.
The Way it is Going in Southern
Ohio. —At a justice’s election held here
last week Pomeroy precinct gave George
Lee 199 majority against 20 majority for
Thurman last fail—a Democratic gain of
169 in one precinct. A proportionate gain
all over the couuty will give the county
to the Democracy by 65s majority. Go in,
boys! we will clean them out this time.
-— Fomeroi/ (Ohio) Fanner.
TUB AHBAHSI.YATIO.Y OF UE.YKR tl. IIIMtYI \v
The Memphis A]>]>eal, of tiie 2fnh ult.,
gives tiie following additional particulars
of the assassination of General T. C. Hind
man, alluded to in our telegraphic dis
patches a day or two since :
Tiie city wasstartieil yesterday hy a ru
mor, at first vague and undefined, but
which soon assumed all sorts of shapes,
some of them tangible enough and bearing
the impress of truth, that General 1 ( .
Hindman had been assassinated at or near
Helena, Arkansas. Early iu the after
noon it was currently reported that the
deed had been done by a man named Rob
ertson, who was a pttssenger on the slimi
er Slireve, aud that he hud been arrested
and sent Lack to Helena by tiie police of
this city. Tiie fact that Col. Beaumont
did cause the arrest of a man by that
name, on the Bhreve, and sent him down
the river iu charge of au oliicer, gave some
color to the rumor, but ou closer investi
gation it turned oat that Robertson was
arrested oil a totally different charge.
From a private telegram to a relative of
General Hindman’s family, who is in this
city, which we are kindly i<erniitted to use,
we learn tiie following facts, which can be
relied on as correct, in relation to the af
fair :
“Bhortiy after tea, while tiie General
was sitting with tiie family iu the supper
room, a shot was tired through the win
dow from without, and lie fell riddled
with slugs and balls, two of which passed
through his breast. He was immediately
attended upou, but survived only eight
hours after receiving the wound, dying
about four o'clock yesterday morning.
The shot and the outcries of the General’s
family brought neighbors to the spot im
mediately, but though every exertion was
made, up to the date of the dispatch (yes
terday evening) the murderer had not
been caught. A half Inch rope and a short
shrift will certainly be his portion if he is
captured within the next few days.”
From information that we have received
otherwise, there is not a shadow of doubt
but that tiie deed was tiie work of tiie
hellish Loyal League. General Hind
man has-been, since tbe ciose of tiie war,
an ardent supporter of tbe Democratic
cause, and a bitter foe and deuouucer of
Radicals aud Radicalism. They have now,
uo doubt, wreaked tiie vengeance that
they have so often sworn, and in a true
Radical manner—by the baud of au assas
sin. More blood smokes upon tiie altar of
our desolated Boutb, aud cries aloud for
vengeance.
corio.v
%n Kufoursifing Prospfrt for thr
From the New York Oct, 1.
With ail the drawbacks to tiie cultiva
ttion of cotton, compared with the means
and facilities just before tiie war, tiie crop
of tire present year is large 41111 very Y’alu
able. It is now generally estimated at
two million five hundred thousand bales;
and it must be remembered that this is
not the estimate of cotton speculators,
who are often interested in misrepresent
ing the facts, but of the planters them
selves and of those who prepare careful
statistics of oar productions. The cotton
generally is of as fine a quality, too, as iu
the most favorable seasons. This year’s
crop, therefore, will be w’orth, if tiie’ pres
ent price be kept up, about two hundred
and fifty millions of dollars. There is
reason to believe the price will be sus
tained, or that it will decline but little.
Tbe stock of our American long staple on
hand in Europe is very limited and there
is a large demandat home. The crop will
realize, probably, more than any previous
one lias realized; for when it readied four
and live millious of bales, as in tbe years
just before tbe war, the market value jar
pound was not half w hat it is now.
England has been riiaktDg extraordinary'
efforts for many years past tostimuiate the
growth of cotton in India, Egypt and oth
er parts of the world, iu order to make her
self independent, to some extent at least
of the United Btates for this article, but
the truth is that our Houthern .-tales are
the only reliable cottou producing region
yet discovered in tbe world for the liesl
qualities,and there is no fear ofother couu
tries rivalling this in that production.—
Only think of cottou alone —that single
! production—which, as au article of exjior
lation, to pay for the balance of trade
| against us, aud our liabilities abroad, is
worth three limes over the gold produced
in.ail the States and Territories of the Re-
I public, to say nothing ofils immense value
to our own manufacturers.
_ However much the Bouthem people
may be condemned for the suicidal act of
attempted Secession and the terrible war
in which they involved the country, or
lor their folly since, we must say ‘they
have shown remarkable energy and power
of recuperation. From tbe lowest state of
depression aud under tbe greatest difficul
ties they are rapidly rising again to w ealth.
This is characteristic of the American peo
ple. The courage, industry and persev’er
ance of the Southerners under the most
trying circumsLauces, should induce
among tiie people of the North forgiveness
of tiie pa«t and make them proud“of such
fellow-citizens: for they are of the same
race and the same llesh atid blood.
We notice at the same time with ibis
reviving material prosperity of the South,
a general revival of business throughout
the country, and both an abundant supply
aud activity iu the money market. The
flow of currency to the West has almost
ceased, the people there have obtained
nearly all the money needed to remove tiie
crops, aud Hie return tide w ill soon set iu.
\ ery soon, too, we shall have tiie produc
tions of the Bouth in our market, and our
merchants and tradesmen may expect a
considerable demand forgoodsand expen
diture of money from that section. Alto
gether, the country is in the best condi
tion and lias the finest prospect before it
as regards its material interest. If the
Government will practice economy and
t»ie i>oliticiaus let tiie country gov’ern
itself, we shall soon recover front the ef
fects of the war, the debt will w aste away
and hardly be felt as a burdeu, and a glo
rious future will be opened to the republic.
Important to Farmers.—The Norfalk
1 trginian gives the following important
item:
We have been informed by a gentle
man well posted upon the subject, that
all farmers who will be forced into bank
ruptcy during the coming fall and winter
can save their growing crops by filing
their petitions on or before the loth of
October next; otherwise the said crops
will be included in the schedules of prop
erty. This is a matter of much moment
to our agricultural frieuds, and we trust
that they may avail themselves of the
warning in time to receive the benefits.
Remember the day when the privilege
expires by limitation, and be governed ac
cordingly.
The Workings of the League.—A
gentleman gives us the following iu re
gard to the strength of the League iu sev
eral counties in Alabama, aud their inten
tions : On Sunday they met at Mrs.
Comer’s place, below Hateheechubbee,
well ar med, numbering about six hun
ijmi ere j 8 another League at Spring
Oil], numbering three hundred; another
at Fuon, numbering four hundred ; anoth
er in the neighborhood of Silver Run,
numbering five hundred ; another at
Union Spriugs, numbering eight hundred-;
and oue near F.ufaula, numbering one
thousaud. They are thoroughly armed
aud equipped, for tiie purpose of taking
the polls in these localities on the day of
election. The scoundrel Speed, we under
stand, is the chief of t lie concern, and di
rects ttieir proceedings. They have is
sued, as we are informed, a placard to the
effect that if any negro or person belong
ing to their League is found missing, they
will bold tiie people of said neighborhood
responsible. This is the beautiful work
ing of Radical reconstruction. “The col
ored troops fit nobly.” “ Let us have
peace !” — Columbus Enquirer, 1 th.
The Georgia Cotton Crop.—a corres
pondent of the New York Timet writes :
From all I have seen and heard I do not
believe that the cotton crop of Georgia for
this year will exceed 360,600 bales, or less
than half the crop of 1860, while there are
many intelligent and well informed per
sons who think that my estimate is too
high by 100,000 bales.
Macon —Its Improvements—lts Attractions.
—ln our editorial peregrinations we were in Macon
last week, and were surprised at the evidence* of
wealth and enterprise now exhibited in the im
provements com pie ted arid now underway in that
city The Hollingsworth block near the Passen
ger Depot, just finished is one of the finest, if not
the finest hr lire city. The Planters’ Warehouse
near the Depot is also a line building, and every
where we went during our short sojourn there, we
saw signs of improvement indicating a sanitary
financial condition.
New buildings going up, stores crowded with
merchandise, streets blocked with the wagons and
carts of those who come to trade. Macon present
erl a scene of animated activity which reminded
ns of Lang Syne. Asa Provision Market Macon
offers inducements as a center of trade which our
Planters would do well to remember .—Samir rsrilie
Geo'ryiait, 30/A ult.