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,J. W. BURKE & CO. iieorp journal & Messenger J. \V. lil KKi: Jc CO., Proprietor*. A. W. BEESB, 1 KdUor .. «. itesE, J ________ • HATES OF SLBSCHIPTIOA. DAILY. Ten dollars per annum. Five dollars for six months. Two doll sand fltty cents for three months. one dollar lor four months. WEEKLY. Three dollars per annum. One dollar aud fifty cents for six months. one dollae for lour months. J. W. BURKE & CO. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 16, 1868. WELL TO UO. Notwithstanding all our losses and the “tight times’’ we have been tiding over for two or three years past, our condition may not untruthfully, at this present wri ting, be described as above. VN e have had to start from the stump, and have toiled along with many slips, and flounders, and backsets, but we are on tolerable lirm ground at last, financially. We mean by this, that what we have made this year is in hand, and freer, than ever before, from pre-engagements on account of incidental debts. Wo don’t owe much, and what we do owe we can pay without much attain ing of pocket nerves, anil subtracting tiom needed and useful improvements. If our political ills were in as fair a way, we could oount, with great hopefulness, on a rosy future, (liven peace in politics, aud our pockets would soon overflow. It looks as if there was some doubt about oui being allowed to go on as we have begun, but we hope for the best. Nothing under thesuu but anarchy, or the most infamous mis goverument, can prevent our prospering. We are a hardier, more active, more ener getic people than ever,and we have learned some very useful lessons we did not know before. We are not bound, as formerly, to do one of two things with our surplus earnings—buy more land, or more negroes. Our changed condition lias developed new fields for investment —and investments, , too, that not only pay, but are permanent, filling the pocket, and gladdening the eye as well We have learned all these things by hard, sometimes very bitter, experi ence, but we have no cause for complaint with the results cs put down to our credit \ for this year’s work. What »re those results? Briefly stated, we may say that enough grain has been . produced in the South the present year to I feed its whole population, either in the shape of breadslutis or an equivalent of J beef and bacon. Beyond tills, it is esti mated that there will be a surplus for sale, consisting of, say, twomilliou and a half bales of cotton, one hundred and twenty thousand hogsheads of sugar, together with liberal crops of tobacco, rice, and j considerable quantities of other marketa ble products, all of winch, it is sup posed, will amount to the aggregate value ; of three hundred million dollars. Pretty good, that. Aud we believe, too, that the pr- ceeds of this snug sura total will, more than that of any other planting season, go to build up an active aud prolit able home trade, to promoting every safe home enterprise, and garnering up all the constituents that give elegance aud com fort to home life. We believe that the country, in its natural and artificial fea tures, will have more to show for it than in any former year in its history, and that our people, in their homes, their habits, and their business pursuits, will all reflect the blessings and advantages shining forth from the new era upon which we seem about to enter. So mote it be! GEOHUIA BEFORE THE RECOASTRIt TIOV COMMITTEE. The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Gazette, under date of the 11th inst., gives us this bit of news touching the progress of the trial of the criminal, Georgia, before f lie Radical jury at Wash ington. ' The Reconstruction Committee held a long ses sion to-day on the subject of Georgia, uuil were icry much divided in sentiment as to the power of Congress to perpetuate it* guardianship over a sovereign State. A member of the minority of the committee states that the committee will probably recommend that the Georgia Senators be allowed to take their seats, aud it is believed that such a recommendation will be controlling, as the under standing is general, that whatever the.committee shall recommend the same shall be approved by tlie two Houses of Congress. The discussion in the committee on theqnestion as to what should be done with the carpet-baggers who had dared to ex pel from the Georgia Legislature their colored col leagues, was for a time quite stormy to-day, and a great variety of propositions was submitted. Among other tilings it was proposed that the whole work of reconstruction in Georgia should be de clared a failure, aDd the State be again made a mili tary district and placed under military government until after the 4th of March next. On this proposi tion tlie committee adjourned over until ten o'clock to-morrow. The loss of Mr. Stevens, as the head of this “perpetual” committee, has destroyed, in a great measure, its decision and harmony. \ Good Bl ack to Move To.—A corres pondent of the Charleston Courier, writing from Greenville, S.C., last week, makes our mouth water with the following descrip tion of the manifold blessings attendant upon a residence in that vicinage. Why move 'o Texas, or auy where else, when such spots are within our arms length? The town of Greenville is np in cver>' respect to ; the progressive age. Business is very active, large numbers of wagons from North Carolina pour into the town daily, bringing apples, equal in flavor and size to any produced in the North, butter, venison, lard, bacon, and various other kinds of produce. While here I have, seen some of the finest droves of hogs ever brought to our market. I was told that droves of hogs, sheep and beeves were continually being driven from this place to Augusta. These is more money in the District now titan has been since the war. A splendid corn crop was made, and a moderate wheat crop, and more cotton was made in the District than ever known before. The money realized from the sales of these cow inodies has been stored away; no one being com pelled to pay their debts, and none have a disposi tion to loud money, recollecting the evils of the credit system. UNCOLLECTED TAXES AT THE SOUTH. The uncollected tax of the Southern States amounts to near $.‘1,000,000, which is a lien upon the real estate upou which it is assessable. Os this Commissioner Rollins says: The further postponement of this subject can relieve it of none of its embarrassments, and laud holders and purchasers are alike entitled to its early solution. Unless it is deemed wise, in view of the difficulties suggested, and of the impover ished condition of the South, to abate its uncol lected portion altogether, 1 would recommend the passage of a law allowing its assumption by the several States within a definite period, coupled with a reasonable premium for such assumption and authorizing and directing the internal revenue officers in ease of non-payment by the State, and upon anew basis of taxation, to proceed with the assessment and collection. Grant’s Cabinet —A Wager.—A Washington letter to the Baltimore Sun, of Friday last, says: “To-day the wager of a cool thousand dollars was made by a niau that he could name the Cabinet of the incoming administration. Articles were signed aud the money deposited iu the safe of a leading hotel. The betting slate as made up is as follows : Secretary of State, Edwin M. Stanton ; Secretary of the Treasury, Senator Morton ; Secretary of War, Geu. J. M. 8 ihofleld ; Secretary of the Navy, Admiral Porter; Secretary of the Interior, Senator Con ness; Post master General, Horace Greeley ; and Attorney General, Matt. H. Carpenter. —A Jamaica professor predicts another earthquake for California about these days. “Meal,” But Not Right It seems to bo the settled determination of our city “blackhawks” to let no fair (unfair wo should have said i opportunity pass of pouncing upon those rural lambs of their owu color who visit our town, and ileecing them of the last dime of their hard earnings. Just so soon as Pomp or Dinah arrives, the load of cotton throwu off, and there is the slightest chance of the aforesaid green colored individual receiving an their employers, then straightway plots are fixed up by these city birds of prey for a swocp upon Cuff or Zilla, with ss view of gobbting up tlie proceeds of his or bur past summer’s toil aud trouble. Almost daily, we bear of ease* of this nature. The usual modus operand* is muchly after this style and fashion : City Hawk (approaching Black Lamb) —“Why, Pornpcy, my dear boy, how is you? Ise mighty glad fur to see you lu Macon once more. Say, old feller, how did you mek outjvid old Brown ? He’s a mighty cult; but yu no how fur to manage Yu want smri tings, and I reckin I can put JKt the way of gittin’ um fur almost nuthiir’.. How much tnunny yu got? An’ wat yu want? I Black Lamb, (considerably overcome by the con descension of his well-dressed city cousin) —Wy, Mr. Smit, I’se intirely obercum by vur condesen shun. I)e Boss he’s just gib me sum munnv fur tu by jist what Dinah an me may fancy. We waut sum tings, but don’t know how furdis munnv will go ? “Smit,” with the greatest pleasure imaginable, proceeds to count over Pomp’s pile. But, does he return it to his country friend ? “Not much as we knows of,” to use a can't phase. With his list fast upon Pomp’s money, he calls upon that lnuocent *o follow him, which, forsooth, the aforesaid indi vidual is bound to do, or see his money fart fading from his sight, as the hawk darts suddenly around the corner of tlie nearest alley. It may be, Pomp has been along “that road be fore,” and keeps steps to-the time of the “Rogue’s March.” Well, that only causes the Ilawk to change his tactics a little, aud instead of bolting the whole pilo, he takes him into some place where cheap goods are sold cheap, and Hawk being paymaster, our innocent mutton gets about half of his money back, in tin- rtiape of goods for which he has little or no use—for a “sockdologer” of the commonest sort of whiskey thrown in free, gratis, aud for nothing, slightly obscures Pomp's otherwise good eyesight and common sense. 11 may be that CulL disdaining the laying out of his loose change in “rags,” either for himself or “de old woman,” wants to invest in smoked hog meat. Straightway the friendly (?) offices of some Joseph, who happens to be Near, are tendered. The meat is weighed, and priced at current rates. Joe tips Jones county the wink, aud without saying whether they will take it, the trio march forth. After a short time, Jones county returns to the i meat merchant’s store, and asks, “whero is ray meat?” Merchant replies, “You did not take it; and 1 sold it. Have some more of the same sort, i how much do vou wish ?’’ Then it leaks out that the country lamb handed the City Hawk six hundred dollars to pay for eleven or twelve dollars worth of meat, and the upshot of the ma.ter is, greeny goes home with the boases’ wagon, minus meat and a month or two'* wages. Supposing tlie affair is mentioned to an officer, and he jugs the aforesaid Joseph. He is brought before His Honor, the Mayor, the next morning. The testimany is simply no testimony at all—but hearsay—Greeny, the only witness, being miles away—and Joseph emerges from tlie trial with w holer garments—but with not as pure a reputation —than he who left his in the hands of one of the Egyptians of the female persuasion a few years agotie. Friends, aud “countrymen those are facts. _ THE RADICALS STILL MAKING PEACE IN ARKANSAS. Memphis, Dec. 14.—The troubles iu Arkansas continue. The Liberty arrived here this morning with a uumber of fami lien who had fled from Augusta They confirm former statements in regard to the depredations of the militia. The steamer Desarc put her passengers off a few m ies beiow Augusta, the officers teariug to trust the steamer within their reach, aud re turned here. The agents of the White River Line have been instructed to hold all freight for Augusta and points above, to prevent seizure by tlie militia. The Avalanche's Little Rock special to night says, the outrages committed by the militia are so flagrant as lo provoke the condemnation ofall parties favoring peace and order. The Republican, (Radical organ) says this morning, that this thing of martial law is not only unconstitutional hut oppressive, inasmuch as the circum stances of our condition are not of such an alarming character as to justify a resort to such arbitrary, unconstitutional and ex traordinary measures as setting aside tlie whole body,of the civil law, aud we hope the Legislature w ill pass a law prohibiting the further exercise of this power. The Governor’s report to the Legislature to day, shows Upiiatn’s forces to be only one bundled and fifty. He had taken fifteen prisoners at Augusta, and says he will kill them and burn the town if attacked by the rebels. In the soutii-east the force is two hundred and fifty colored men. Martial la v has been proclaimed in Conway, be cause private letters represented half the population as Kuklux. He decline* to publish tlie names of tlie writers. — Tele - gram in Sashville Banner, loth. No Aspirant.— Blodgett is out in a card addressed to the Radical members of Con gress from Georgia, in which he declares lie will never run for the Senate unless nominated ! Very likely*. He also de clares as follows; “My only ambition ami desire i* that tlie law* shall be so' enforced iu Georgia that myself and familv, and others who, like myself, have support ed tlie reconstruction policy of Congress, cau live in our native State a- private citizens in safety and with peace and quiet.” The Savannah Republican enquires, who about Augusta is disturbing the “safety, peace aud quiet” of Blodgett, his wife and little ones? If called on for an explanation and the Lets, we think this little driveling mouutebank would be driven to tlie wall. Joshua Hill is a good Republican and Reconstructionist; if Con gress wishes to know how far Blodgett is in danger, let it ask him. A special correspondent of the New York Sun says: “ Senator Trumbull has called his Judiciary Committee together to act oil Senator Hill's case. There is uo doubt, from the Conservative character of that Committee, that they will report on Mon day or Tuesday in favor of admitting him to a seat. This will he resisted by Sena tors Coukling, Thayer and others, aud an -attempt made to overhaul the Georgia Legislature and Constitution. Mr. Hill is here, and incessant in his importunities with Senators to get admitted. His Dem ocratic colleague, elected in the same cum binati m of Demborats, is not here, but is waiting to see the effect of Hill’s work.” Robinson Crusoe’s Island. —Some months since we noticed the return of some shipwrecked Japanese by the Ha waiian bark Eagle. These Japanese were discovered on St. Peter’s Island, which is live hundred miles south of Yokohoma, by Captain Nye, of the William Rotcb, and by him taken away and finally put on board the Eagle and Ohio. This island is u barren place, without fresh water, hut io II of ala bit ross and oilier sea birds. 1 1 is rather a fatal island for Japanese naviga tors, several of their vessels having been lost there, and weary imprisonment of months and years endured by the survi vors. Captain Nye had gone on shore to procure bird's eggs, and was just shoving off when he saw iu the distance these Jap anese coming down the beach. They ap proached him with supplicating gestures ami low obeisance, and when assured that they couldgoon board theshipthey exhib ited great joy aud gratitude. They had been eighteen months on the island, sub sisting on fish, birds and eggs. These and other former shipwrecked men have con structed five cave houses in the rock. In their house the captain found hundreds ofegg shells filled with water, caught from the rains and preserved in these frail con tainers. Captain Menjerou of the Japanese navy, whom some ol our readers may re member by reason of his visit to Honolulu, was a shipwrecked tenant of this same island for many months. [Hawaiian Gasette. THURSDAY, DEC. 17, 1888. HOW SHALL WOMEN BE TRIED I The women of the Revolution school who go to mass meetings and clamor for tlie ballot, while their husbands go with out dinner aud nurse the children, have found anew sensation. They make tlie case of one Hester Vaughn, a servant gij'l who has been killing tier illegitimate baby in Peuusylvaaia, and has been sentenced to be hanged therefor (by an unfeeling male jury of course) a point lor a furious attack upon tlie present jury system. They demand that woman shall be tried hy bee peers. They say men are tried by men, and that women should have the same privilege—meaning, of course, that when a woman does what Hester Vaughn has done, her case shall be adjudged by twelve maids and matrons, instead of the same nutnber of “horrid men.” Th-:re may tie some force, and, if they like, wo will say justice, iu the piea. We | tell all such, though, that there will be more women hung and locked up, when j tried by women, than there are now. j Women are proverbially harsher iu their J judgments of each otiier than the sternest j men dare be; and female public opinion ; is invariably more inflexible iu its decrees ; than that of men. If a w raiaa slips from | the path of virtue, no matter how sort* j her temptation, nor how strong the attack, who clan:or for her crucifixion like her more virtuous sisters? If site adds the | ctime of infanticide to that of iucnnti ; neu e, what Woman’s voice is ever raised i to stay the hand of punishment, or still j the tongue of condemnation ? To an er ring sister women’s ears and hearts are alike closed. These facts are patent. They are to be | deplored to a certain extent, but are very natural, and subserve many useful pur poses We are not called to pronounce judgment upon them, here, nor shull we doit. We seek only to show how the.* unsexed agitators would defeat their own object. We have no reason to believe that they will ever be successful, but if they are, woe t i the erring. Feeling and not judgment, their own passions and not the law’s commands, will make up their ver dicts. Better, far, leave the matter where it is. Men. in this country, as a general tiling, while honoring woman, and at all times tenderly caring for her, honor the law aud their duty as citizens and conser vators of public morals, fuliy as much. They will see toil that while worn n have justice, there shall stiil be such a iiing a. justice left to be meted out to them when necessary. They often err from too much sympathy with female criminals b*->\iusi of their sex, but strike an average and their judgments are generally just. Let these women have the ballot, if they can get it, but when tlie law lays it* band upon them, let them a*k for a jury of men, if they wish to be let down lightly. 1 hat is our honest advice. NORTHERN -PEACE ANII *E< CHITA'." The execution of the Express robbers at New Albany, Indiana, by an armed aud masked mob, who shot the .Sheriff for trying to do bis duty, is a most apposite com men tary upon thejusticeand propriety of the Radical howl over the insecurity of life aud that genera! lawlessness charged upon tlie South. We are curious to hear how it will be gotten over and explained away. No such shockingoccurrence our annals, notwithstanding the provoca tion we have iiad to take the law in our own hands, during tlie last tiiree years. This contempt for law has its birthplace and securest citadel in that section, and among those people whose daily business it is to charge cs with every crime that springs from a defiance of all moral, legal and social restraints. Their charges are stunningly answered by their own bloody work. It may be very impertinent, p rhaps “disloyal,”—and of course calculated to do harm—to a-k the question, but we would really like to know what would probably be the length, and depth, aud strength of tlie howl, if these white men were “ioyal” blacks, and their execution ers “rebel” whites. N. B. We are still in favor of “giving Grant a chance," and of “p ace” and “moderation,” notwithstanding our querry. ■ **>♦ A SPECIMEN PET KAMI) LET LOOSE UA A RADICAL JIUGE. We published a telegram yesterday, announcing a decision by Judge L'nder wood, of the United Sta.es Circuit Court for Virginia and whose practical effect would be the turning loose upon society of every criminal in that State who had been tried before a Court, any member of which was disqualified from holding office by the Fourteenth Article. We publish, to-day, taken from the Richmond Dispatch, tlie particulars of tiie crime of the person, a negro woman, wbo lias been set at liberty by this infamous Judge. It may tie well to mention that of the Court that tried her only one memb r was proven to be dis qualified, a quorum of tiie full bench be ing fully competent. Says the Dispatch : 3-U.LV ANDERSON'S CHIME. Tlie particulars of Sally Anderson's crime may not be remembered by our readers. In March last she set fire to and burned to the ground tiie line suburban residence of Mr. Richard Magruder, at Fulton Hill, merely because Mrs. Magruder had given her a reprimand for her bad conduct towards a negro woman wiio had caught her stealing. The house was occupied at the time. But Sally Ander son’s soul is blackened by a stiil worse and more fiendish act. She made a deliberate attempt to burn Mrs. Magruder's infant hy first placing it on a feather bed and kindling a tire beneath it. By the merest accident the flames were discovered, and tlie helples* babe rescued ere it became a charred vic tim of the enraged negro’s malice. Os these crimes Sally Anderson was on a fair trial convicted; but the Court, desirous of giving her every opportunity to defend herself, granted a mo tion for a new' trial; which was had with the same result. She was then sentenced to be hung, but the day of execution was long delayed on account of her delicate condition. A HU H CORPORATION—PROFITS OF TELE GRAPHING. The Herald, of‘the 12tli, in an article strongly favoring the consolidation of all the telegraph lines in the country with the Post Office Department, the whole to be under Government control, tells us something of a well-to-do corporation in which we would like to have some stock— the Western Union Telegraph Company. It says : The Western Union Telegraph Company com menced with a capital of three hundred and sixty thousand dollars, at a hundred dollars a share, upon which the subscribers paid only twenty-five dollars a share. Its capital now is over foriy-oue millions. The stock has been watered irom time to time for the purpose of enriching tue managers and stockholders. Qf course this watering process knocked down the market price of the stock from two hundred and fifty ( the highest point it ever reached), in 1802 aud 1804, to thirty-five, which is the present value. But then the stock has been doubled and quadrupled over and over again In tho hands of the holders, thus piling up millions upon millions iu a roannernn paralleled in the history of j business enterprises. Large Receipts of Cotton.—The re -1 ceipts of cotton yesterday amounted to 4,1 --3 bales, being more than the combined receipts during the same time at Charles ton, Augusta and Mobile, and within 500 bales of the day’s receipts at New Orleans. | — Sav. News, 16tA. —Paris doctors are puzzled by anew dis ease, writer’s palsy, which they ascribe to 1 the use of steel pens. MACON, GA., TUHHH.V. DECEMBER IWW- PLAN FOR THE CROP OF lt»«t». Prudent farmers doubtless are begining to estimate what they can aff.mi to pay for ii«sct year, and to . rin their pTitns tor an other cron If the wisdom which ex|H»- riem-e taught them in tlie lesson of 18G6-7 | is not forgotten, they will first ofall deter mine to grow more largely than they have | yet done of provision crops- Notwitli ; standing their resolve last year to rely up ! on their own productions for supplies of graiu during the season about to close,yet I it is notorious that many of them calcula Led wide of the mark and were forced to I look elsewhere for the supplies they could ; have easily produced at home. We fear | that the same foll y will tie repeated tlie coming year in their desire to raise cotton, stimulated by the fair prices which it j* now commanding; and that from this spirit will grow ilic extravagant follies which utterly wrecked so many fortunes and hopes in the years 1866-7. In 1865 cotton sold at from 85 tn4fl cents per pound The consequence was that planters were induced to furnish laborers with their pro vision* and pay the year round in 1806, from $lO to sls, and even as high as slß.a month. The crop f tiled, prices went down, a high tax was imposed upon cotton, and the money invested in the foolish adven ture was forever lost. Htill untaught, tlie desperate endeavor was repeated by niauy I in tlie same way in 1807, anil no other re course was left the unfortunate victims of of their owu miscalculations but bank ruptcy. Planting the present year ha* een eon dueled on a prudent system. Labor has been employed by a lotting to tlie laborer a share of tlie crop, or wages itt money at rates more nearly approximating its value, and this joined lo the wise economy of diversifying crops, and to the repeal of the tax, wi 1 leave every yne in a better con dition at the close of the year than at tlie commencement. The laborers are being promptly paid for their services ; accounts with merchants are being settled, aud m a majority of cases, farmers will have a balance to their credits for next year’s op era! i, us. But tliis will avail them noth ing, if they repeat the experiment of sow ing the wild oa's of which they reaped so bountifully in 1866-7. '1 hey cannot attbrd to pay higher rules for labor and take tlie doubtful chances o! a cotton crop next year, than they have done the closing season. No reliable cal culation can be made in reference to tlie yield of cotton with lie present disorgan ized system. The result is test entirely de pendent upon the caprices of the season to admit of a safe estimate. Besides, there are times that require extraordinary ef forts to reclaim the crop from grass, which experience lias shown cannot be relied upon with the sy-tein of voluntary labor with freedmen. if the season i.* entirely favorable, these t(Torts are not required; otherwise they are, and without them the crop is lost. Nor can any calculations as to high prices be trusted. Os one tiling all are convinced, it is that the South no longer enjoys such a monopoly of the production of cotton, as to enable her to regulate tlie supply. India produces three time* a* much cotton as site did iu 1851. Tb< in creuse In Lgypl Lu- been still larger. That country furnished E giaod in 1 L >1 with 41 .(Wi) Odd pou ml*. In 1865 with 177,- otNl.ti.Mt; and and lutitle*-, with the exception of fluctuations which attend all progres sive movement*. lie-increase v, 1 1 continue at a corrt-spondpig ratio until the immense capacities <.f that country for growiug cot ton are fully developed. Our cotton growers cannot be dill'*-rent ; to facts so significant as these. They can not pay fabulous prices for labor to pro duce an article of un> ertaiu yield aud still more uncertain price. But another enemy is to tie encountered in the prot able restore'kin of tlie oppres ive tax wiiieh absorbed the profits of tlie cotton crop the past two years. Disk’ wn that tins tax, which operated so destruc tively to liie interests of ail pursuits, and both races in the MoiPh, was repealed by a very desperate effort after much deiay hy the Radical rulers who opposed ii. Iu u s| toot .ll iMivsrei by Ben -*•*••!* *».r Ohio, at Cincinnati, on the lOrfe of Ociotier, j tile repeal of the tax on cotton is depreca ted ns tiie work of Democrats, and “soft headed Republicans,” and the intimatioo isgtveuout that it will certainly tie restored - by tlie next Congress. Go \Vade, more limn any ot he tnuii, the mantle of Thail. (Stevens has fallen, and hi* utterance* are not to be disregards- I Based upon his declaration, it is our firm belief that this ruinous tax will be revived. These consideration- should enter into tlie plans which our farmer- are forming for the coming season. —Jackson ClurifM. A CHAPTER ON PLANCHETTE. A “Reformed Biunehetti-t” make* the following revelations iu Harper's Maga zine : I have little more to sav, and surely j nothing further to confess. J have truth- i fully given ray experience, aud if it he of use to any of mv fellows, that knowledge i* guerdon sufficient. A reformed Pian ehettist, I cat better, drink better, and i sleep better than when pursuing my evil j practices. My cofiMknm i- more at rest, and I no longer have troubled dreams, i Let this encourage those who are still uo- 1 der tlie dominion of the destroyer to emancipate themselves. It is useless to tell me that there is any thing in Blanchette, or that by it* aid 1 every man may become his own medium ; 1 I’ve been there. \Vh n you can pat a ter rapit; on tlie back and get him to respond in Coptic with his tail, ’twi 1 lie time to persuade rue that a block of wood cun tie “charged” sufficiently to write sentences. Mine was charged (it stands charged against nrt, 1 believe, to this day.) bu> it would only write when I moved it, and then it wrote precisely what I dictated. That persons write “unconsciously” I do not believe. As well tell me that a man might pick pockets without kuowingit. Nor am I at all prepared to believe tlie as sertions of those who declare that “they do not move the l> ard.” I know what operators will do in such cases; I know the distortion, the disregard of truth, which association with tiiis immoral board superinduces. I have seen charming young ladies, whose word I would lake on anything else iu life, (even if they protested they wtre uot engaged,) who would not lib if you asked them if their curls were false, or if the red of their lips was natural, sit up with both hands on Piauchette—forti fied iu falsehood by the contact —and lie like lawyers. Bring me any two profess ors of the art—young ladies, for men are not to be believed under any circum stances—not too far gone to be sensible to some moral compunction, who will put one hand on Planchette and the other on the Bible—establishing a soit of galvanic connection between the negative aud positive poles of truth, so to speak—and swear (as Elia says the custom of resorting to an oath in extreme cases has introduced into the laxer sort of minds the notion of two kinds of truth) til it they do not write tiie messages they promulgate, and I will discuss whether they do or not seriously. Until then I do not recant one single ex prtssion, but stand firm by these confes sions. Foul Flay—Body or a Dead Man Found Near j tub City.— On Sunday morning, while some little ' boys weri skating on ‘Proctor’s Creek, two and a j half miles beyond the Rolling Mill, on the Mason i and Turner’s Ferry road, they discovered under j the ice the bodv of a dead man, witli the hair of the dead projecting above the icc. Affrighted with ] the spectacle the little fellows ran to the house us ] Mr. Starnes, and reported what they itad seen. An : investigation of the mystery at onee was hud, when the body was recognized by several neighborhood ! acquaintances as that of Mr. lliram Province. Mr. ! Thomas Kyle, the Coroner, was sent for, and about sundown an inquest was held. j The strangest part of this tragedy is as follows: j On the 26th of November last, Mr. Province, iu j company with Mr. Newton Aw try, left Mr. Weav- | er's wagon at Proctor's Creek, one and a half miles from Hie place where the body was found. That dav they were both in Atlanta. Mr. Province hav ing sold his horse for $75, took passage on \V eav er’s wagon for home—the wagon was driven by a sou of Mr. Weaver, aged about 14 years, who states that at the above mentioned creek Awtryand Prov ince left the wagon together. Since then, although search had been diligently made, nothing had been seen or beard of Mr. Province until Sunday morn ing, when his body was accidentally discovered by the little boys at play on the ice. Awtry, we understand, is now in jail, where lie has been some time, under a charge of stealing money. —Atlanta Constitution, lUh —The erection of a cotton factory is in contemplation by our Griffin neighbors. —The bridge spanning Broadway, near Fulton street, is being removed. \ the wife a ;ri;At * jttw poxst nr wihttikk.) >V%r T ■mifetVee VrWrtlltSAl and ti-adtii "i<i all who com'' before it, ti woman loatus Eden, p Such a» sin; alone r«»loi'« it. Far larger life ami wiser aim* The farmer is her debtor, Who holds to Ids another’* heart Must needs be worse or better. ‘ Through her liis civic service show* 1- A purer toned ambition ; No double consciousness divide* The man a.id politician. |n party's doubtful ways he trusts, J Her instinct# to determine; ft tlie loud pollsthe thought of her Recalls Christ’s Mountain Sermon. * ******** 4nd If tlieliushaud or the wife In home’s strong light discovers ■ki' li slight defaults a* failed to meet fbe blinded eyes of lovers : fby need we care to ask ? who dreams . Without their thorns of roses, ‘»r wonders that the truest steel The readiest spark discloses. I tr still in mutual sufferance 11** The secret of true living; Lie scarce is love that never know* The sweetness of forgiving. I.NDEH THE O AK. Whf goes little Maude Pi the wood to-day, Wrapped jn licr mantle of •liver and gray, Trippbig along o’er ttet tailing leaves. ’NeatiLUis golden crown* which the autumn weaves? _ No» a mingled shower of red and gold Flecks her mantle iu every fold. Why goes little Maude to the wood to-day, In U<f cloak of red and gold and gray * Now -lie stays in her buried walk ’Neajh the shade of a giant branching oak. The iimshine kisses tier cheek so fair. And kdwjs I® her ringlets of floating hair An rttron rattle* upon her bead, 'Mid a shower of leaves the oak bough* shed. A nisible squirrel with shining eye Watyiii * her from a stump hard by. Now her dark eye brighten*, aud one small hand Fasteus anew the golden band. Whip! bind* her dark hair's shining flow Away from a throat and ueek of snow. The red lip* part in a happy smile. Tin- sitpiil foot beats to tin?tune meanwhile, A-she hum* a auatcii from an old, old •ung. Os “Love me little aud love m long Ah ! little Maude, with floating hair. And the red, red ii;**, and the face so fair, We read your heart iu that speaking *v> in Uisi .lushing cheek and impatient sigh. In that restless foot, and soft «ung tunc. And low word* murmured. “Why don’t he corns ?” We know why you wait’oeath the oak to*lav, Wrapped in y mr mantle of silver gray. WORK FOR THE HON I’ll. The goi.il farmer—out with those quali ties which, as Mr. Dickson very justly re mark*, would have made him a great general, if bred to the profession of arms —will eki*e up fuliy during tins mouth tlie work of the year. He will begin next year with uo incumbrance* of tlie present one hanging about his neck and clogging tiis movements. On tiie contrary if there must tie debtor arid creditor, lie w.il have ills work no far advanced as to make the new year in debt lo theold. Not only will bin f'rnps be all gathered, housed, prepared for market, <ke., his fall o»ts, wheat, doc , -own, hut it is turning plows wi 1 have n-en busy, burying in tiie soil stubble, weeds, grass, , that they may be sultieieutly decayed by spring to furnish food prompt ly to tiie growing crops. His compost heap will also be large, and so arranged as to prevent washing and leaching from rains, or “lire-fangiug” from over dryness. Will Ist filling bis barn* with corn and rC*| OxJ -1 “r ami buy. Joe,, for Itis homes, call I? aiuf .»< dfT he will not have forgotten 'hatTtf* land will jn«t as certainly need f mdnext year hh tlie nude that plows it. and tha! it is just as bad jsdiey to plow poor land witli a fat mule, as to plow rich land witii a j/oor mule. We take it for granted that the farmers who take the Cultivator net upon the-e principles, hut should any of our readers, from his ne gro*-*. turning politicians, or any oilier equally tincontrolahie c use, have fallen behind in his work, we would urge tifion him, by all means, to secure extn Labor, and finish up the year’s work with the close of the year, and take a good “run ning start" with the next crop. Winter ii-js now fairly set In —the fields and pas tures furnish i t.stitlicient feed tor stock, and they will require feeding and atten tion. Do not dela too long giving them tlie necessary attention. As soon as tlie postures h“ojn to fail, commence at once to feed at tiie barn, that your cattle may begin tlie witter strong and thrifty—give them shelter and dry beds to sleep on. Remember that tlie qualities < f our do mesticauima ewhieh rend rthem valuable lo us, are chiefly those which l ave been imparted to them hy the cate and protec tion of mat), and ’which, in their wild state, they possess in a very inferior de gree. If We treat them as w ild animals, leaving them to shift for themselves, ex posed to tiie weather, <kc., &>■., we may reasonably expect them to regain rapidly those qualities which characterize them in their wild state. We shall never have tine stock in the South, until we re cognize and act upon tlt is* principle. Importing fine stallions, bulls, rams, boars, <kc., will never accomplish much, when the treat ment of our stock is such a* to force them back as rapidly as possible into the wild state. Mr. Charles Dickens, in a recent num ber of his paper, AH (he Year Hound, says: “The part of the holding of a farm er or land owner which pays best for cul tivation, is the small estate within the ring fence of his skull. Let him begin with the right tillage of his brains, and it shall be well with his grains, roots, herb age and forage, sheep and cattle; they shall thrive and he shall thrive. ‘Prac tice with science’ is now the adopted mot to of the Royal Agricultural Society.” We fully endorse that sentiment, and would urge upon our readers to do a little “ head work” during the long wintereve tiings of this closing month of the year. Every one has made some experiments this year; let. the farm-note books be care fully scanned, and see if any useful results have been developed. As it takes a tchole year to make an experiment in farming, surely we ought to extrac from it ali the good we possibly can. It will not do to ‘jump to conclusions ” Where so many things are to lie taken into consideration, as is the case in the growth of plants, the utmost caution, the nicest balancing of judgment, must he practiced the matter must be .ooked at iu every light; the ac cidental unessential circumstances thrown aside—just as the gold miner washes away the light clay and sand—in order that the subtile, penetrating glance of intellect may search out and reveal every grain of truth even as tiie quicksilver does the , grains of gold. Ami let every grain of ! truth when discovered, be at once placed Ii„ the Farmer’s Cabinet— the Southern I Cultivator—So. Cultivator for December. A negro in Natches, Miss., bought his goods at the store of a Radical, aud pui cliased. among other things, ten pounds of sugar, because it was sold one cent per pound less than at other stores. He after wards boasted of how cheap he had bought I he sugar to another merchant, who asked him to bring him the ten pounds of sugar, which being done, it was found to weigh scant eight pounds, whereupon the crowd commenced to laugh at the negro for allowing himself to be cheated. The old fellow studied for a moment and then said, “guess he didn’t ciieat dis child much, for while he was getting de sugar I stole two pairs of dese shoes,’’ and he brought them forth from his pocket. A few days since a son of Dr. H. W. Hill, of Rowan county, North Carolina, aged about seventeen years, charged a musket tor the purpose of tiring at a flock of wild geese, but hiving unfortunately overcharged the piece, the concussion pro duced by its discharge Was so great as to disengage the barrel of the gun from the l stock, which, striking the young man i upon the f..rehead, inflicted a mortal , wound. Two of the wild geese were ‘ killed by the shot. s- i.A.Nni.NG COMMITTEE* OF THE UNITED STATUS HEN \TK. Tlie Committee to wiiieh was referred the commutation of tin* appointment of the Standing Cos mm it teen of the (Senate, (submitted their report as follows. : Foreign Relations—Messrs. Sumner, (Chairman, jFesuti den, Cameron, Harlau, Morton, Patterson, N. JL, Bayard. Finance Messrs, Sherman, (Chair man,) Morgan, Williams, Catteli, Hender son, Morrill, of Vt., Warner. Appropriations—Messrs Morrill of Me., (Chairman,) Grimes. Howe, Wilson, Cole, j Conk Hug BOekaiew. Commerce—Messrs, Chandler, (Chair- ■ man,) Morgan, Corbett, Morrill, of Vt., ! Kellogg, Spencer, Vickers Manufactures—Messrs. Sprague,(Chair* man.) Yates, Abbott, Robertson, Dixon, j Agriculture—Messrs. Cameron, (Chair* J inau,) Catteli, Tiptou, Welch, McCreery. ! Military Affairs —M* -srs. Wilson, j (Chairman,) Sprague, Cameron, Morion, j Thayer, Abbott, Doolittle Naval Affairs—Messrs. i»rimes, (( hair inan,)Anth >ny, ragin, Nye, Frelinghuy sen, Drake Hendricks. i Judiciary—Messrs. Trumbull. (Chair man,) (stewart, Frelinghuy.-en, Edmunds, Conkling, Rice, Headrick* Pos.toflioes and Post Roads —Messrs. Ramsey (Chairman.) Couness, Pomeroy, Van Winkle. McDonald, Welch, Dixoi:, Public Lauds —Messrs. I’oiueri y, (Chair man,) Stewart, Williams, Tiptou, Osborne, Warner, Hendricks Private Land Claim* — Messrs. Williams, (Chairman,) Ferry, .Sawyer, Kellogg, Nor ton. Indian Affairs—Messrs Henderson, (Chairman,) Morrill of Mainp, Ross, Cor beif, 'Thayer, Bucitatew, Doolittle. Pens ons—Messrs. Van Winkle, (Chair man,) Edmunds, Fowler. Tipton,Hpencer, rtawyer, Davis. Revolutionary Claims— Messrs. Nye, Chairman,) Chandler, Poo , Patterson, of Tennessee, HauDiiury. Claims—Messrs. Howe, (Chairman,) Willey, Frelingiiuysen, Howard, Cole, Robertson, Davis. District, of Columbia—Messrs. Harlan, (Chairman,) Sumner, Patterson, of N. H., Rice, Harris, Patterson of Tenn . Vickers. Patents and tiie Patent Gtlice —Messrs. Willey, (Chairman,) Thayer, Ferry, Osborn, Norton. Public Buildings and Grounds—Messrs Fessenden, (Chairman,) Trumbull, Ferry, Davis, Whyte. Territories—Messrs. Yates, (Chairman,) Nye, TTugin, Fowler, McDonald, McCree ry, Nort n. Pacific Kail Road M'-.-rs. Howard, (Chairman,) Sherman, Morgan, Conuess, Ramsay, Stewart, Wilson Harlan, Drake. To Audit and Control toe Contingent Expense* of the -• -cut. Messrs, (.'ragin, 'Chairman,' Morrill, of Vt. Buckafew. I Bill* ■ i >« ,t-r. Chair man ,) sumner, Norton. Miner ami .Mining —Mc—os. Con ness, 'Chairman, i <.’handier, Anthony, Yates, Ross, Kaulsbury, Whyte. JOINT STANDING COMMITTEES. On Printing—Me-.i n Anthony, (Chair man,) Harris, Whyte. On Enrol!* J Bills—M --*srs. Jto-r, (Chair man,) Patterson of N. H., Dixon. On tin- Library—Morgan, (Chair man,) Howe, F- r-c-fii hoi. On lb-!reochineii! Edmunds, (Chairman.) William-, Patterson, of New Hampshire, Bu.-kaiew. To Keviscaod F ix the Pay of tlieOflioers of the Two Houses—Me**is. Fessenden, (Chairman,) Sherman, Buck tiew. (Select Committee to Inquire whether Improper or Corrapt Menus have been used, or attempted to be ti-< !, to Influence tlie Vote- of Members of tiie Semite in the Trial of the I mpeacliment of the President —Me-srs. Buekalew, (Chairman,) Morrill, of Maine, Chandler, Stewart. Thayer. Commit tee on 'Railroads—Mesa:#. Sher rr an, (Chairman, Chandler, Sumner, Buekalew, Ramsey, Slewar , Vickers. Committee on Revision of the Laws of tiie United States—Messrs. Cockling, tChairman,) Sumner. Cole, Poole, Bayard. PUKBIDEN I I AL PIE i A . * r* — ..... H hat Pretiocoti Kite Been Pfoot --Statement* of* Uoituß forreaponient-Only tine Pre#f* deu(. The New York correspondent of a Bos ton paper says: “ The fact that General Grant passed a Sabbath at W -t Point and lid not attend church, though tiie po-t chaplain officia ted near him. lias been commented on by the pre-.«generally. It is -la ewhat a sin gular fact that, a* far as it i- known, no President of the Unit I States, since the days of Washington, has been a commu nicant in a church. John Adams \va* the representative of the liiieral community of his day. Jefferson wa* styled a free thinker. An attempt was made, •when Jefferson was a young m * > to make the Epi- -opal Church the estab.i-ued religion of Virginia. John Belaud, a traveling Baptist minister, preached a -ermon in the presence > Jefferson on w .at lie called tiie ‘ incestuous c mnection of ihe church and state.’ Tiiis sermon c inverted Jeffer son to that doctrine, ri is p r- -tent oppo sition to a state religion caused him to be stigmatized as an iu idel. Mrs. Madison was a communicant at the Episcopal Church Her husband wa not. Monroe was a member of an Episcopal parish, hut not a communicant. John Quincy Adams, although a m-mberof a Unitarian parisli in Massachusetts, held a pew in the .Second Presbyterian Church in Washing ton. ot which lie was a trustee, and there he.worshipped until his d<-ath. In a vio lent snow storm I saw him walking to church, one Sunday, with the snow up to his loms, and he wasoue of tiie seven per sons who composed tiie congregation that morning. He never communed ru the church. General Jackson was a regular attend ant on Sunday morning. He worshiped in tlie Second Presbyterian Church until iiis quarrel with tlie pastor about Mrs. Hester. He then left for tlie Four-and-a half street church, and took his Cabinet with him. He always came early and entered his pew, which was on the right side of the church as lie entered. Earnest and devout attention lie gave to the ser mon. It was his custom, at tlie close of the sermon, to rise in his pew aud make a very courteous bo.v to tire minister, aud then walk out, the audience waiting in their pews till he bad reu'-hed the vesti bule. Van Boren’s home church at Kin derhook was reformed Dutch. At Wash ington, when lie Went to church, lie at tended 8t John’s (.Episco al) in tlie morn ing. Mrs. Polk was a devout and Chris tian woman, belonging to the Presbyteri rian Church. “Mr. Polk accompanied his.family eve ry Sunday morning to the Four-and-a-half street church. Mrs. Polk usually attended tiie Second Presbyterian Church in tlie afternoon, where she held a pew. Tlie President seldom accompanied her at the second service. "General Taylor was not a professor of religiou. When he attended church he sat in the President’s pew at St. John’s. President Pierce was a member of the Con gregational Society, in Concord, N. H., ; but not of the church. He was very reg- j ular in his attendance at the Presbyterian ; church on F street, nearthe Wliite House. ) Tliis was iiis religious home during his long senatorial life. He was not a mem ber of the church. He came to worship usually on foot aud unattended. His pew was on the side, about two-thirds of the way from the door. He usually walked up the aisle with a cat like step, went to the extreme end of the pew, curled him self up in the corner, and seldom moved till the service closed He rarely spoke to any owe, and hastened from the church to the White House. Mis. Lincoln was a communicant at the New York Avenue Presbyterian church. Mr. Lincoln was not. Hut he was a regular attendant at worship. Johnson seems to have no re ligious home, bur rather inclined to the Lutheran. Gen. Grant, is not a professor of religion. He is a trustee of the Nation al Methodist church at Washington, and is a frequent attendant on the preaching of that church Case of the Counterfeiters.— This case lias been again postponedforaiear iug, at the instance of \V. G. Dickson, U. 8. Marshal, until Friday morning next, at 10o’clock. , ~ , Frank McAnany, one of the couple ar rested, has turned State’s evidence, aud will appear as witness in the case. Marshal Dickson left last evening for Savannah, to advise with District Attor ney Fitch, in regard to the case. u y [Augusta Republican, 161/*. REM ARK ABLE PHENOMENA IN FIELD AND FOREST. Public attention has been so much ab aorbed by the remarkable political revoht ! tmtis of the si«pe, that natural phenomena which otherwise would have excited at tention aud investigation, have almoeten tirely escaped the notice of tiie pres*. Within a very few ye irs past, a botanical | stranger hai appeared in our State, and quietly taken pcs«ession of more of our lands than tiie “trooiv mil” have yet been able to seize, and with the promiseof more real and permanent advantage to the im poverished soil of the country than car goes of costly fertilizers would confer. That stranger Ls tlie Lcspedeza Striata (genus trifolium), a luxuriant clover sup- | pi* dto I. a native of China Japan, it suddenly and myst riousiy appeared in portions of this State, and is believed to liave simultaneously sprung up ail ovpf Hie .State. In theold fields and worn and exit; u.-ted ianda of the up country, even to tiie very spurs of the Blue Ridge, it ex tends, springing up spontaneously, anil covering the soil with a rieli grow tli, tis-. teen inch's iir height, choking the weeds and grass, affording excellent pasturage, especially for sheep. Like the- red clover (trifoliumpratense), and unlike some of the grasses, it is easily managed, and when turned under witii the plough, renews tiie soil, furnishing the pabulum required by more profitable crop*. Twenty years ago, tlie planners in tlie up country applied money arid labor on a large si ale to l lie cul ture of the red clovtr.witli tiie double pur pose of se uring pasturage and improving their lands. Their experiments failed i all tliepr efforts were fruitless ami were filially abandoned, with the reluctant conviction that there was something In the soil dr ' climate fa*al to the clover. Taking fresh courage, however, from the appearance and spread of the Chinese clover, they | have renewed their efforts with tiie red | clover, and met with the most gratifying success. The experience of twenty years ago having been uniformly unsuccessful, would have doubtless discouraged any further attempts iu the same direction for generations to come, but for the mysteri ous appearance of this !>otauicai volunteer. How or whence it came, uo oue can tell. To ascribe, its introduction to the straw packings of uujsitred goods, or the deposits of migratory birds, is by uo means satisfactory, as such explanation would not account for its simultaneous ap pearance in places remote from trade, and which are unvisited by strangers of the feathered tribe, and where it covers au immense area, and iu quantities which preclude the supposition of auy deposit of **<-ed in tlie niaiiuer suggested Ly such the ories. Botanists, horticulturists and sci entific observers generally, confess them selves at fault in ali their attempts to solve the mystery. The fact is so conceeded ; tiie ciover covers the land, arid is welcom ed everywhere; r has suggested aud in duced the renewed aud now successful culture of other varieties, so important to the stock raistr, tlie dairy farm, and the owners of tliiu aud feeble soils ; but how ; or whence it came, and why it appears and flourishes spontaneously in a country where twenty years ago uone of the family could be induced to live, withal the en couragement which money, labor aud skill could afford, remains a phenomenon which bailies the curious ami learned alike. Another fact, equally inexplicable, is the fatality now abending the chestnut. These trees, which have always thrived in the mountain districts, .subject only to tiie universal law of decadence, iu which, however, nature always provides for her own renewal by following tlie decay of one tree with the springing up of another of vigorous growth,) are now dying out in acres; miles of forest you ug trees and old trees alike die. without uuy visible cause. The chestnut crop is too important to be lost without concern. It furnishes passtime, pleasure and pay, aud tlie only labor is the luxury of harvesting. The tree* are valuable, ami their loss will Le felt, and yet their loss stems inevi table and sweeping. Nature seems the same as when they flourished, aud yet they can tio linger draw from the bosom of mother earth the nourishment on wiiieh Uieir lit** d.q**-i*o- *-;-| —s r r On /‘i- - exhausted that peculiar aliment vitally essential to their growth, and they die--- apparently without cuu~e aud without hope. Other trees may glow up aud the forest stiil be there, but no chestnuts grow iu the place where the chestnuts used to be. Probably these phenomena will have to remain just what they now are, facts acknowledged and curious, aud even wonderful, and yet unexplained. Nature moves in cycles, aud write* her annals in intervals of time in which a certain suc cession of events or pheuon;ana are com pleted, and then returns again aud again, uniformly and continually in tiie same order. Iu cycles the seasons come back again, and that w hich hath been, how ever, long deterred, is that which -hall be. Periodical spaces <d tone, markt and by pecu liar occurrences in the beavensand on the earth, are forever recurring, aud man is obliged to admit that ihe volume of nature pre-ents mysteries as inexplicable lo hu man reason as auy contained in the book of God. The ponderous machinery of the universe rollson, unimpaired in its general harmony by the meteoTs flight, the tor nado’s rush, or volcanic convulsions ; and nature avoids tlie samene-s and tameness of monotony, by giving to the student a volume whose every page unfolds some new wonder, present- some new picture of loveliness to be admired, or some new field of thought to iie explored. Perhaps the cycle theory must ior the present remain the only solution of the remarkable incur sion of (lie Chinese clover, and of the equally remarkable mortality now attend ing tlie chestnut forests of the Blue Ridge. —Charleston Courier. NEWSPAPER PRINTING IN COLORS. An improvement upon the ordinary flat head cylinder press was exhibited yester day at the office of Messrs. French A Wheat, No. 15 Park row, by wiiieh it is feasible to print in seven or more colors at one revolution of the press. .Small cylin ders are made to revolve upon a segment of tlie periphery of the main cylinder of the press. Attached to tlie face of each of these small cylinders is a portion of the metal plate of the picture which is to be printed, each section of the plate being so nicely adjusted in iis place as to make the picture perfect on tiie paper when it passes from tlie press, aud each cylinder repre senting a distinct color. Tlie specimens of the work shown yesterday were novel enough, and give promise of usefulness for the invention. The proprietors do not claim for it that j it will supercede the process of printing in j colors by baud. On the contrary, the in- j ventiou, even when it shall have been thoroughly perfected, can only be made available for printing " cuts” and plates” j in large quantities. It would prove too expensive for ordinary small jobs, but j could he used advantageously, for instance, on weekly papers of vast circulation, and would, doubtless, prove greatly attractive j to their patrons. A short time since a pa per in Boston issued an edition with col ored engravings to its subscribers. The entire quantity printed—4o,ooo—had to be run through sixteen hand presses, once i for each color, requiring the setviees of a j man to each press night aud day for two weeks. Under the new process as good j work can be done by the single press iu forty eight hours.—A'. Y. Times. The Cotton Worm.—We have received a communication from A. T. P., in refer ence to a plan published in the Courier j some time ago, by which these destructive insects could be killed. The writer states ! that a large planter on Edisto adopted the ! i plan proposed, viz: burning the stalks, and that his cotton was nevertheless de- 1 stroyed by the caterpillar. Os course we do not vouch for Tie eihoacy of the burn- 1 | ing of the stalks, but we suggest that it , have a fair trial. Let the roots and stalks be burnt, and let everybody in the neigh borhood pursue this plan. There can , hardly be a fair trial unless everybody in the neighborhood burn their cotton fields, and we suggest that this be done. Good j ; may result—harm cannot. — Charleston Courier, loth. ., • Bankruptcy.—Petition to be admitted to take the oenetit of the bankrupt act was yesterday filed by James 15. Cargill and John 8. Cargill, of Columbus; B. A \ Thornton, Attorney. A pe’itiou for tinal discharge was filed j by E. Kerniker & ( 0., of Columbus. | [Savannuh Sews, Itith. VOL. LX., NO. 40, MKHCAXTILK IfiEXClp. V\ lierr they Get their OeHcat- lnß>rn>siion. (From th» New York tost. i Fash country merchant or sbop-fcWper wlio, with a capita of five thousand dol lars and an unlimited quantity of enersrv, does a of a hundred * thousand' a year, finds It necessary to buy nwn* goon than he can pay for inuoetitrtteJv m ear . ami comes to Isew 'i'r.i k ottering to ''few art. Claflin, or to anybody who will trust: him, Iti«« notes or three, sx or eighteen months for the silks an I ca-icoes, h* needs, it is, thetjifore, indi-pct -aide u i in character-forindustryap-: integrity ht-uld be naimpeacbabie; and to tl > ottic • of rex oiti go ibe city mere! tie errant? the cent \vfW|hh|{.s credit. Her t tit Fetef.Bl»ith, of Yuba Dam,:- liatup f «hftr, isftbirty-fiv ■ . »,r ,rr;eij, und Iras two chihirer. ; b.n }.<■' .aged in tint trade seven year- an dieved to t>e hoi.eel; hasa vtorkioir cu; : . oi *•->,- 000. owns a homestead worth sl,gt>Q, and has “great expectations” that his wife’s uncJe Billy, who is old and | ..rah tie, v , . soon visit his ancestors, leaving to p.-ter'- wife the nice little sum offlQ.CMiin United States bonds. Suiitti s ciedit >■ thc-t-.- fore, pronounced to be “good,” and Mr. Merchant lets him have a thousand dol- lars worth of calico, taj»e amis ooi e jtton. to be paid for at the end of six or mi c months. Or, it may be that Mr- i- Kit is not known to have any trio: ey,» set et that which ttia wife Poliis in I,* r own name: that lie Is extravagant aiul immoral, and so, of count*, may not he teemiin eim.-d : j a buyer on tnrrc -t:»>Ui w r.lJwHSctrj* po : litely bowed out of the warehouse, to gee! 9- > credit where the secrets or ina “record” are not known. But In what way is information con cerning traders in distant places obtained, and how do we know that the Ollive of Record or Mercantile Agency contains a true anti trustworthy register of the char acters and property of our country cous ins? There are two ways of compiling the register—a thorough one, such as that adopted by Broadway & Cos. and Done Brown; and another, much used by the inferior offices of Ketchum & Chest ham and Kiilbim <st Sprat. In cacti village or hamlet, however small, there are, of course, a back smith, a liquor-de-der, and an attorney, and these are the men who furnish the material for compiling the records of second or third-class cilices.— The attorney is appointed co respondent, receiving as wages Harper’s M <c zine or the Ledger, xvith the promise of any legal business which may arise, and gives his opinion, with a medley of the go-ip ob tained at the smithery and tavern. This statement of facts i-sent to New York, and on it depends the reputation of the shop-keeper and the amount of credit that he may command. But the better elm-sos agencies are conducted by their proprietors with liberality, and aim at eonif >rfab! - ness, intelligent clerks being employed aud paid handsomely. Instead ot depending on the letters of “shysters.” the superintendents sc and edu cated men of skill to every village, and to each of even the most retired cross-road- : and application ia generally at first tu-ide to store-keepers personally, who scidoru refuse to give accounts of them . -. which are afterward veryified or modified by bank presidents, county clerks, men i>f kuown wealth, etc. By th.s means a re cord is made up _>s accurately as it is hu manly possible to make anything. To conduct a first class agency properly, a large number of cierks are neee-.-ary ; reporters, canvas-ers, recorders, copyis s, reader-, etc., being numbered by score and hundreds, whose salaries ra. p - fr : . twelve to sixty dollars a week, g to proficiency ; while the picayune imita tors ordinarily pay live to eigh t dollars to their penmen, or a little mote to those who write from b a. M til! 11 p. m,, and 'if* not too often fall asleep over their work. >u!»- scrihers to these agencies pay from seven ty-live to three bundled dollars'a ytc.r, according to the number of "inquiries ’ each may make. Prominent merem-t !>, asCiafliuor s-tewart, may have private “agencies” of their own, wnere ii- of their customers, with i iographieai sketch vypate WOjffpwso ww* min>"i sihip ----- the names of bogus firms th v.h are likely to go up iirb-t balloon, and of young men of promise who i,pv r p-sy. TRUTH sTRA.X4.KK IHV\ I K , 1..\ The wonders of tiie magnetic teieg r..; b were evidently foresh„<' >w ' n .re < turiesagoin the following singul-r set n . Strader gives an a< e corresfiundence between two in - the help of a certain loadstone, widen had such virtues in it that if it touched two seveial needles, when one of the needle touciied began io move, theother, though at ever so great a distance, moved at ttie same time, and iu tUe same manner. lie tells us that the two friends being »-,,cl of them possessed of one of these made a kind of dial plate, Inscribing it with tiie lour and twenty lein iu same manner as the hours of Die uay au, marked upon the ordina y didl plate. They then fixed one of the needle - on each of these plates in such a manner tha* i? •could move round without !iup‘-diajeut,s:> as totou ii any of the four and twenty let ters. Upon their separating f; n < ,ean other into distant coumrit-, t y t,' i to withdraw themselves punctn *t!y inb their closets at a cei tain hour of the -. v. nd to converse wilhoneanother by means of this, their invention. ordi . . when they were some hundred mil- -un der, each of hem shut hiiusoh up in his closet at the time apj>oiuied, and fiumeci a.ely cast bis eye upon his dial plate if he had a mind to write anything in Id friend, he directed his needle to every let ter that formed the words which he had occasion for, making a little pause at the end of every word or sentence, to avoid confusion. The friend, iu the oieauw hiie, saw his own sympathetic needle moving of itself to every letter which that of hi correspond -nt pointed at. By this no art they talked together across a whole conti neat, and conveyed their thoughts to one another iu an instant over cities or moun tains, seas or deserts. — World. LARUE AXU S.M ALL t ARMS. Bometime ago the Richmond Dhq-aMt contained a very judicious estimate ot this questiou, which we regarded at .ire time as incontrovertible. Some thinkers are apt to “run in the ground,” as the phrase is, anew tiling, and tliis matter of small farms iso:.; • them. But what Die Dispatch said <- them is true. In iilustiation of this, w . have recently seen an extract from a pr i vate letter contained iu the Ncwb. ru Journal of Commerce, which is to the point. The writer says : "I traveled for two weeks with Dr. R. I\ Ashe (formerly of Wilmington, N C., now of the city ot Stockton,) through the great agricultural region of the San Joa quin Valley. Dr. Ashe is the second largest farmer in California. His crop of 1 grain this, or rather next season, win D ! about 7,000 bushels, if the season is a i .n - I one. "I was on one of iris farms, Tin :n re in extent, upon which lie had fiv- n h employed iu plowing aud poilin ; iu ■-* v 1. He told me lie would u-t employ over seven laborers until iiarv.st, and expected to raise 20,000 bushels grain on that arm. All this struck me as very strange—2,MUiO -bushels grain and only seven men to do I the labor; but when 1 looked at his gang plows pulled by six or eigb. horse-, hi sowing machine on a two-horse wagon, scattering the seed sixty b et Wide, aud so adjusted as to sow forty-five, xi.\;y, or seventy five pounds to the acre, one man being able to sow fifty or sixty a re p. day; and then to his reaping machine, that goes through his fields taking tin heads ofi'them, leaving toe straw Vi. ing, the machines being accompanied by wagons of huge dimensions, and tiiakim alt opening twenty or lweuty-li\e wide, throwing the grain f. ’ and upon wagons, which deposited it ; . received in some c uveniout pi... i- . -iy ! far the thrasher, which mes alouu, 1 worked liy either horse or steam power, which thrashes and bags ft-a hi T”"> t., , 1,500 bn-liels per day ; lw as do longer astonished. Seven tee i bundled acres ! this farm will be seeded an-•■> wUi giam; 4tH) acres will be a volunteer crop/ Here we see that a large iaiai is cue vated by comparatively it v bauds, cy lie aid of labor saving maebims, and, i, • doubt, all the latest improved a-., ultur.u 1 implements. —Petersburg Express. —Piiiladelphia is eight and a half mil* 1 lions better off in real estate than last year.