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VOL II (tynitmm jgeyorter. QtIITMAN : :o: _ THURSDAY AUGUST 20. 1875. Abroad in the State. CTTUBEUT. Too ttitirh raiu may prove dimis ♦ roll a to tile crops. If a man wants t> feel tho glow of patriotic, zeal and fall in love with his country, let. him come to Southwest Georgia and till up on milk and peach es. Cuthbert Ims a baseball club called the “Sugar Tits.” Dilson F. Sapp shot an officer lif ter being under arrest, inflicting an ugly wound in the right hand.—Mes senger. ALBANY. The Quitman Reporteh failed to get the News last w£ck. We can’t help it—'twiis put iu the Quitman bundle and duly mailed. There is an Ageut on that Mail route whose head would grace a basket. Pr. Arnold, look after him. Is he colored or steal ? Albany lias been challenged by the base ballists of Jacksonville, Fla. Hon. J. L. Warren was in the city this.week, spending some days with his kinsman, Judge L. I’. P. Warren. Ha honored our Sanctum with his presence, ou Tuesday, and we inter viewed him on the State finances, and and the Gubernatorial outlook. As to the former we are only permitted to say that startling developments will be made at the next Session. The people will groan, and cry alonud for -somebody's scalp. The canvass is low complicated by Gov. Smith's ■candidacy. He will give Colquitt and : lardemau trouble. “Stand up to the rack, fodder or ;i( fodder” —i lie business season is near at hand. Maj. Mayo is fattening several can didates for the convict gang. Dough erty will send up her quota this fall. The residence of Mr. Eaton in Mitchell county was destroyed hv fire ■>o Thursday night sth. Everything i:i the house perished in the flames, •ihe family being absent at the time. As there bad been no fire kindled in the. house for forty-eight hours, the theory of incendiaryisni is nu irresist ible conclusion. Albany whipped Americus at base trail last week, by a score of 45 to 10. The Americus boys were “white wash ed” seven time. There will be two moons this month. Seventeen years ago August furnished two moons. Mr. George D. Sylvester was crush ed under a train on the W. A. R. 11. lust week. He was "drunk and could not get out of the way, and the en gine couldn't go round him. It may be that our judgement is ut limit, but it is none the loss sincere in ■darning the Savannah News and Ad vertiser, the Augusta Constitutional ist and Chronicle, the Atlanta Herald and Constitution, the Macon Tele graph and the Columbus Sun and Times, as remarkably meritorious Dailies. Very few States can boast nine such papers. — News. am Kiticrs. The proprietors of the Sumpter Republican are making a last appeal to their patrons for answer to the query, whether the paper shall be con tinued as a Tri-Weekly or Weekly. They seem to have concentrated all their energy in the effort to get a fa vorable response for the former, but as yet they are unable to see “dust up the road.” The truth is it’s a bad time to put such hard questions, and we are afraid our friends will have to jog without a satisfactory solution of :he problem they so vigorously pro pound. An “old citiscu” wants the citizens to rally for tho Tri-Weekly, and Among other good reasons, gives this ouo. “Well do I remember when you (Col. Hancock) were the victim of the conflagration of 18G'2, you declin ed to leave Americus and go to Alba ny, with the inducement of a dwell ing and office added to the solicita tion, by a number of her prominent citizens," The knife is taking the place .of the pistol iu Sumpter. The Republican ' chronicles three cases of stubbing on I Friday, Gth—two oolored, and one white— school-boys, Bobbie Green htabbed James Bass at Westbrook# |Bchool-house. SAVANNAH. Another trot at the Tenbroek course. Lighting a liro with kerosene fur nished a funeral for Savannah. The Spelling Bee, to take place at the Isle of Hope, is attracting much attention. We beg to make a brief editorial note on the subject of law—sidewalk law. Always take the right side. If you do not, you arc u self-convicted I greenhorn. Never, under any cireuui ' stances, take to tile leftqTbe universal | application of this simple . ile, will save a deal of embarrassment which one aces every day, when, two persons meeting, they bob the same way, stop, bob the same way again, stop, and then fairly bob into each other. There is no excuse for such quandaries.-- Af lvcrliser. THOMASVILLE. Corn and Corn meal are high iu Thomasville. Mr. T. C. Bracewel! lias just execu ted a gilt sign for Mr. I. Rosen field, which would be a creditable job for any painter. It is the first of the kind ever attempted by Mr. 8., and that, too, without ever having seen that style of work done. The same paper says that the chain-gang at that place have recent ly adopted a code of laws, which is as rigidly and promptly enforced as those consigning them to the fetters. Ly ing, stealing, excessive tilth, etc, are among the tliigns prohibited, and the penalty, when convicted, is from ten to one hundred lushes, administered by one of the number elected as “strapsinaii.” On Sunday, regular court day. Quick and the strapsman were arraigned as violators, and, be ing convicted, anew executioner was chosen, who applied the leather belt in the true spirit of tile law. Thomas county will make enough corn for her own consumption this year. A revival is progressing in the Methodist Church in Thomasville. Pave Guyton, colored, of Thomas county, was killed by Reuben Slater, of the colored persuasion, recently. M. Horn, an industrious colored farmer in Ibis county, was he that brought the second bale of new cot ton to our market, which sold for Id cen t. Let the motto of our planters he to ! economize in grain. With care and ! proper economy, coupled with a big ] oat crop, wo will tide over the late droughth and its effects. Those portions of Thomas and Brooks counties, which should form a new county, with boston as the site for court house and other public buildings, contains probably some of the very richest and most productive lauds in said counties.— 'Time*. CAMILLA. AVe have been blessed with rains recently, but it. is too late for much of the cotton to recuperate. Cotton planting is certainly getting to boa precarious business. Camilla has received two bales of new cotton. The first brought by James Baggs, and weighed 450 pounds. The second was brought by I James H. Everette, and weighed 4GO. j Both hales were shipped to Mayan- J mill for sale. Mr. Ben Eaton, who lives some' five miles east of this place, had the mis ■ fortune of getting his dwelling and j its entire contents destroyed by tiro; on Thursday night last. Ho was from home, and his family had gone over to a neighbor’s to spend the night. At about 12 s’clock the fire was discovered, the building being completely covered in flames. The neighbors, however, succeeded iu reaching the place time enough to save the smoke-house and tlio horse, both of which were in great danger. This is one of tlio very lowest kind of incendiary fires, done solely for the purpose of robbery. The parties suc ceeded iu getting only a few dollars. As yet there is no clue to the perpe trators. — Enterprise. COLUMBUS. Abont 11 o'clock last night a white woman named Missouri Mote, an em ployee in the Muscogeo Factory, fell from the second story window of Bi denhour’s building, on Oglethorpe street, to the pavement below. The back of her head was cut, and she was badly bruised. She was complaining badly of her chest. A negro man, Aleck White, in Wuraraockville, last night was shot with a pistol by a white man, Bud Renfroe. He was shot in the chest. QUITMAN, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1875. The ball lias not been found. The physician, Pr. Griggs, did not probe the wound, and lienee cannot tell as yet as to where the ball lodged.—En quirer. BAINIIBIDOK. Ben Russell, of the Buinbridge Democrat, will shell out ten dollars in gold if a Decatur county grange wins the SIOO premium at Thomasville. ATLANTA. Gov. Smith.— The Macon Telegraph publishes, iu an airy way, what may he a solid fact before we get through with it: “Our old friend, the little bird that flies about so actively whenever the political pot shows any signs of get ting ready to boil, paid us a pop call yesterday. He had been up the coun j try to recruit up his health, and on his way back stopped over at Atlanta a few hours. "While there, lie learned j that Gov. Smith was by no means an uninterested spectator of the moves | now being made on the chess board in regard to the gubernatorial race next year. ‘ln fact,’ said the little bird, ‘I was positively informed that the Governor had agreed to leave his name with his friends to do with it as they saw best in regard to that office.’ And with a knowing wink, as if he saw fun ahead, the lit tie bird chirped hi, lu, and was ofl'for home in a tre mendous hurry.” MONTEZUMA. The Montezuma Weekly of the 11th, relates an interview with Mr. Max Coben, who was aboard the ill fated Schiller, and had just returned to his home iu Montezuma. It is a thrilling narrative of the wreck and his own adventures and rescue. He was afloat two hours with a life pre server, and then picked up by tire same small boat from which lie was thrown by a wave, and dashed about at the mercy of a rough sea till late the following day, when a lauding was effected ou a small island. Mr. Cohen's account of the horrors of the night, and the appalling results of the wreck, is sad enough indeed, but an lie says, it presents but ft faint picture of the disaster. FOKSVTH. A nearly successful effort was made this morning about day, to burn our court-house. The attempt was evi dently made by au incendiary, whom, it is supposed, is a negro, but uo one lias been arrested. The culprit en tered by a window, carrying straw, judging from tlio traces left, which was placed under each of three flights of stairs. Fortunately the intent was foiled, and we still have u court house. N. ST. MAISYS. Lieutenant Brain is running the “St. Marys River Brick Works,” loca ted on the Florida side of tho St. Ma rys River. A few days since he bad a difficulty with an employee by the name of Pollard, uud discharged him. Pollard took advantage him, shot him li m and fled. It w g supposed hi ho a fatal wound, at first, but the physi cian' says that it is not dangerous. Brain is a splendid-looking man. Over in Florida. The Union says the fruit upon the orange trees' is beginiug to turn from a beautiful dark green to yellow, and will soon present a very attractive ap pearance. They draw the attention of strangers quicker, perhaps, than anything that can be found in Flori da, mid are univarsally admired when contrasted with tho productions of the Northern States. Tho same paper says that oil Sat urday night last, train No. II (passen ger), which left Jacksonville at four o’clock in the afternoon, injured li colored man fatally about one and a half miles this side of Ellaville. He was aslcej), lying with bis head ou the track. Although not run over, his head was terribly crushed by the cow-catcher, so that it will be almost impossible for him to recover. Whis key is thought to bo at the bottom of it. The Floridian says that'the Mor mon woo has recently escaped tho halter by a disagreement of tho jury on a charge of complicity in the Mountain Meadow massacre —John P. Leo—visited Jackson, county, Fla., in 1871 or ’72, and carried with him to Utah a couple of Jackson county wo men—mother and daughter, we bc lievo—oue of whom, at least, was “sealed" to him as a wife. Perhaps the Courier can tell us all about it. Mr. Joseph Eiland, living near Brooksvillnge, Hernando county, while out hunting recently, was struck and instantly killed by lightning. On the same day a neighbor had three horses and several cows killed by the same agency. Jacksonville merchants nrc getting mighty mad with tho Now York schooners. A colored nigger lu Jacksonville cut his wife's throat the other day be cause she left his bod and board. I The immortal Cheney came near being struck by lightning the other I day. A lightning rod on n house in Jack sonville was broken up and melted by lightning on Sunday. And now the owner of that house wants to see that lightning rod man. Tallahassee expects a largo number of visitors this season. Quarantine has been laid on the part of St. Teresa. The Floridian goes into the conun drum business, as witness: Will the New South tell us what connection there is between mentioning the ef fect of a thing and the thing itself? The Floridian, a few days after the cowardly assassination of Senator Johnson, mentioned the fact that his death created a vacancy in tlie State Senate, to till which a special election would have to bo held, adding that Columbia is a Conservative county, and that the vacancy ought to be fill ed by one of that party ; whereupon the Now South calls it a specimen of “cool calculation.” And pray where in ? Is it the fact of tlio vacancy that is “cool,” or is it the mere mention of the fact? Suppose that Mr. Adams were to he suddenly taken off, and someone should a once say that his death lias caused a vacancy in the Jacksonville Post HI -o, and that Cheney’s chances v 111 b. good to suc ceed him, would that l.e “decidedly cool.” Go to, mat v u wanted to say something by v, ;. .hi helping to raise the “outrage md didn’t know well how to do it. The Climax Absurdity. In our own case we have for sev eral months .know: f ’their• threats of personal violent- . in addition to all their inarinfactma 1 out carefully propagated slanders upon our person al and clerical reputation, because of oar political attitude ; and our friends are so conscious of the danger oven to our life from these political con spirators, that they have not only felt it due to put us upon guard, but have thought it uocossary voluntarily to see that, we were guarded and protec ted iu all our personal movements, as they inform us. —Fcrnandtua Observ er. That a person can deliberately write such stuff as is contained in this extract, and be considered iu his right mind, is a tax on credulity. AVe have no idea that any person worthy of notice has threatened Dr. Hicks with personal violence, or that lie is in the least danger from any sourco whatever, either iu person or proper ly, life or limb. Prom tho ravings of tho Observer, as exhibited in tho specimen given above, that paper, editod by a man of peace, whose missiou should be to sow the seeds of goodwill rather than hatred aud distrust, is in a fair way of acquiring au unenviable pre-emi nence in violence of langnago and vituperative abuse.— Floridian. l)r ITicks is now enclosed in triple] brazen armor, gauntlets, greaves, casque and cuirass, bullet and dagger proof. By ingeniously contrived me chanism, lie can at will, and by a touch, cause sixty-six spears, each sixteen feet long, to protrude from crevices in his coat-of-niail, thus keeping his enemies at a safe distance. He carries in ouch pocket a recently invented mitrailleuse, capable of throwing a thousand bullets over a space of five hundred square foot, with each revolution, lie is provided also with a supply of patent torpedos, charged with concentrated gaseous poison, so terrible in its effects that lie will only use them, from consider ations of humanity, in the very last extremity. The upper story of his lofty helmet contains a powerful cal cium light, to be used at night, illu minating the darkness for a mile in all directions, and effectually thwart ing the evil designs of midnight as sassins. Iu addition to these sensible and necessary precautions, four hundred of the doctor’s personal friends have organized themselves into a body guard for his protection. Twenty of these are detailed each week for at tendance upon his person. It is their duty to accompany him wherever lie goes, and to warn him of impending danger. Ten mounted men scour the country in advance, and with tine field glasses reconnoitre every tree and coppice. ' Tlio remaining ten, armed with "Winchester rifles and trowel bayonets, surround the per son of the doctor, ready for any emer gency. Such a valuable life as his must lie preserved from the assassin's dagger and the bandit's bullet. Every' line of the above silly quo tation proves the reverend Doctor to ! he au unqualified ass and a stupen -1 dons idiot. — Jackson villi' Press. History Kepoiitiiig Itself. | Tlio condition of things in Groat Britain after the war, which closed in 1815, was strikingly akin to that which now prevails in the United States. We give it below, in the olo qnont langnago of its historian, Ar chibald Allison, Esq. : “These details of agricultural dis tress and the currency are almost as memorable for what they left unsaid las what was said in the course of l their discussion. Both parties were ito a certain degree right, and to a j certain degree wrong in the opinions they advanced. Lord Liverpool was j unquestionably right when lie nffiriu jed that tlio nation, and through it Europe, hud been saved by the sns ] [tension of the cash pay: icni : icing | the war, for but for it the armaments ! never could have been produced | which brought to a successful issue, j and that the rise in gold which took [dace iu the latter years was owing to i the increased demand for that article of commerce, to meet the exigencies ] of war ou the Continent, where hos tilities on ft great scale were going on. Ou the other hand, Mr. llomer ! was equally right when lie observed ] that the extreme issue of paper clu . ring the war was the cause of the rapid and extraordinary enhancement of prices, which then took place in every article, whether of trade or manufactured produce ; that the st ill i more rapid and disastrous fall of pri ces, which had taken place since the i peace was the result of the great j contraction of the currency, especial !iy of country bankers, which had re ; tired from the prospect of immedi ately resuming cash payments, in terms of the existing law, on the ter mination of hostilities, aud that by | far tbs greatest evil which confronted I tho country was the necessity of pay jingoffin a contracted, and, tliere- I fore, dear currency, during peace, j the debts, public and private, which | had been contracted during the low j est issue of a plentiful cheap currency i during the war * * * Butneith |er by nor bis opponents perceived I what is now evident to every reason | able person who acts from disiuteres- I ted motives, reflects on the subject, I lliut all those difficulties and dangers ! might have been averted, without ; either risk or detriment, by the sim j [fie expedient of taking the paper cur rency, like the ructalie, into tho hands jof the government, and issuing such lan amount us might bo adequate to the permanent and average wants of the community. Ho saw clearly that ] oscillation in the value of money, and ! consequently iu the price of every ar ! tide of commerce will amount to the : most grievous of evils which can af ; tliot society and established property, | aud liniko undertakings of every kind i insecure, and he thought ho would! ] guard effectively against them by lix i iug the entire currency on a gold ha-! ] sis, forgetting what ho himself at the ] ] same time saw, that gold itself is an ; ; article of commerce, and like any otli-! er such article, is subject to perpetual ! variations of price, and that from its ] being so valuable and variable, aud , I everywhere in request, it is subject to I more sudden and violent changes in ■ value than any other article in j ! existence. | Ho saw the impossibility of paying j j off’ the war debts iu peace currency, ] ] but it never occurred to him that the j : whole difficulty might have been J avoided by extending tho w ar curren-! | cy, under adequate safeguards against ! abuse, into peace. The Collection of Taxes. —Tho • Atlanta Constitution says the Comp- j troller General, Goldsmith, has is sued liis instructions to Tax Colloc-: tors, relative to the collection of tax es. The poll tax w ill be paid to the ] i County School Commissioners, for; school purposes iu the respective | counties, instead of being forwarded ! to the Comptroller or State Treasu- ] rer. Collectors get no commissions j on the insolvent list, and the Receiv ers no commissions ou tho defalt list. ’ There is no property exempt from j levy and sale for taxes. Collectors j j are required to make a statement of j the amount collected from colored j I tax payers. Managers of elections, jor any other person than the Tax j ! Collector, on election days are pro- ] | hibited from collecting taxes. The i taxes must be collected by December I 15th. Collectors are warm’d that the j j law will be strictly enforced against j ! delinquent collectors without a valid : excuse is rendered. AVlien tax is due j | and unpaid hv a person having no j property, in tlio employ of another as ! a laborer, collectors, under the law of 118G6, can serve a notice of garnish- ] ment, and collect the same by li fa, as ] in other eases for taxes due. The tax j on wild lands must be paid to the j State Treasurer and not to the Conn- j ty Treasurer. The State School Com missioner is authorized togive a draft i on collectors for the school fund, which must bo taken up by them and I sent to the State Treasurer where it 1 will be'received as cash. AH papers necessary to a settlement of tax ac counts must lie sent alone to the Comptroller's office, and all mom y i alone to tiie State Treastm r. That Sneaking, Skulking Mr. Jaskins. “Can I be protected hern Mister?” asked a woman yesterday, ns she en tered the office of the Chief of police. “ Yes’m.” “Can my family—my innocent childred—-also be protected?” she demanded, striking the floor with her umbrella. “Yos'm.” “If there is any law I want it,,’’ she went on, dropping into a big arm chair; “if there isn't, I propose to take a club to him." “Alv dear woman, this world is full of sorrow,” said tlio captain as lie looked up from his writing; “each one of us lias his own separate and distinct grief to grieve over. Tell me yours !” “Do you know' Jaskins?" she asked. “Jaskins? Jaskins? Seems as if T had heard the name somewhere.” "Alan with a limp—one eye gone red neck sandy liair —got a skulking, sneaking way with him,” she said. “And lie in- "ten your poultry, oh ?” “Poultry? \iw 1 li s 'Verse than poultry—it’s next to murdei or arson !” . “Go on, madam—go into the par ticulars I” “Well, lie boards next to me. I'm a widow. Reen alone these fourteen years, and if I do say it myself, I’ve always had the respectublest kind of name. I've a daughter Jane. She’s sevouteun. She’s a good girl.” “Yes, madam.” “And that sneaking, skulking Jas kins is after her I” she exclaimed. “Possible I” “He just is ! AA'as after me first. For weeks and weeks he’d hang around our gate and smile at mo and inquire if I wasn’t lonesome, and scud up strawberries, and look his lovingest out of that one eye.” “And then.” “And then, when ho found I wold n’t marry him to save his neck, and that he couldn’t get my property to run through with, wliat d’ye suppose he done ?” “Cut his throat ?” “Naw I He turned right around and went to loving Jane 1 He has sent- notes to her in those long, pink envelopes; he has sent her bouquets and eoeoaiiuts, and perfume aud cher ries, and lie’s skulking around yet! I’ve talked amfl talked, but it don’t do no good. It’ southin' ain’t doue I be lieve JanoTl marry him!” “How does she act?” “She’s grinning and looking soft and loving like, and sho won’t mind half 1 say, aud is getting notes and writing answers and—and —!” Aud she broke, down. Sho wiped her eyes, softly rubbed her nose, aud after a moment, jumped up aud de manded. “Is there any law? “Lots of law—dead loads, madam 1" “And you’ll put the law to him ?' 1 “I will, madam. I'll make this 1 town a volcano for him before lie’s a week older I” “And you’ll break up tho match ?" “Either that or break his back!” | “Good! Tho police are worth suu-j thin after all !” If you say you'll wait on him and toll him he’s got to ! back right down or go to jail, I’ll chain Jane to tho table leg and sit by ] her four weeks, but what I’ll make; her forget him.” “I'll do it, madam." “Think of uiy Jane marryin a man ! with one eye! and a rod neck I aud a limp ! O-li-h ! when I think of that j skulking Jaskins sneaking around my • innocent Jane to make her his wife, 1 could t-e-a-r his houso down.” She sat down, aud they fixed up a , idan, and Mr. Jaskins had best leave ! for the AYost this very day. A Fish Stoby.- A Florida corres pondent of the Atlanta Herald, in the! course of an interesting communica tion regarding Florida fisheries, says:! “Tho best fishermen in Florida are; the pelicans and ospreys. A pelican consumes about a peek of fish a day. They flock about tho straits and in lets by thousands. Supposing there are 2,000,000 pelicans in Florida— anil there are certainly more than that —they would oat 500,000 bushels of fish each day, or 182.503,000 bush per year. The millions upon uillions of white aud blue cranes, herons, curlews, gulls, fish hawks, kingfishers, and other water fowl,'devour thousand of bushels of fish every twenty-four hours. Ail experi enced cracker estimates that 700,000 bushels of fish a day are required to feed the birds of Florida alone. This would make 225,500,000 bushels each year. Add to this tho billions of fisli swallowed by sharks, bass and others, and the sum total will roach nearly 2,000,000,000 bushels destroyed by feathered and finny (fishermen on the peninsular in twelvemonths. At first glance these figures appear enormous, but let any man make his own esti mate, aud carefully figure it up, and he will find them under instead of over. How to Keep Meat Fiiesh a Lono Time. — AYo have for authority the Inter-Ocean for saying that the Allow ing receipe is worth tho subscription price of any newspaper in tlie land: As soon as the animal boat is out of the meat, slice it up ready for cook ing. Prepare a large jar by scalding well with hot salt water. Mix salt and pulverized saltpetre in the propo tion of one tahlespoonful of saltpetre to one t-. acupful of salt. C'overi the, bottom of the jar with a sprinkle of salt ami pepper, l’ut down a layer' of meat, sprinko with salt and pepper, the same US if just going to the t able, and continue i:i this manlier till tlio jar is full. Fold a cloth or towel and wet it in strong salt water, in which a little saltpetre h dissolved. Press th<’ cloth closely over the meat and set in cool place. J’. sure and press the cloth on tightly as each laver is removed, and your meat will ts.-T-p for months. It is a good [dan to let the meat lio over night after it ii slicod, before packing. Then drain off all the blood that oozes from it. It will be necessary to change tho doth occasionally, or tale it oil' and wash it ! —first in cold water then scald in salt and water a.s at first. In this : way farmers can have fresh meat the 1 year round. “I have kept beef’ gays the writer, “that was killed t 1 12th of February till tie 21 s t.lu , .... I packed a lev i.ir ji . same way during i ,i...... j.. j it kept six v. U • I’’i iN MILLS. : P - o American says they "'•m 1 1 oi ked up at the South tor ti: following reasons : 1 " ibor is cheaper at the South th; . at. the North. In consequence of n milder eli niiito ti e necessary expense of living is 1 -•-• ■ ■re thm in New England, ns is 1 1 •’ o- heating factory build ings, etc. 3. t '-il ; -a’> ndanf. in the South, and cheap \ . , r res raft bo obtained in every direct iv'i. 4. The pnreh.is !’ i material direct from the producer sales tlie producer, saves the profits ..f numer ous middlemen, the cost of several building aud long transportation. l’o these advantages the writer says still another of great importance can bo added. The Southern factory should buy the cotton in tho seed, gin and then spin it without packing into bales. Some of tho advantages of such a system would be : 1. The yarn would he stronger. Baled cotton cannot be prepared for carding without beating, and thus weakening the fibre to a greater or less extent. 2. There would be less waste.—- Frequently much cotton is discolored and otherwise injured byloreigu sub stances that have been [lacked with it. At the Nortn and in Europe it takes from 10.8 to 115 pounds of cot ton to make 100 pounds of yarn ; and although the waste is not so great at the South, il is nevertheless consid erable. Tho cotton need would bo press sed at thi> same establishment, iWid the oil and oil cake sold. 4. The interest on gins and gin houses, which now are idle tho great er part of the year, would bo saved to planters. 5. The raising of cotton on small farms would be encouraged. The plantation system is not adapted to free labor, and is steadily breaking up ; but until cotton can be readily sold in tho seed, few small farms will bo opened in the cotton section, for the reason that a man cannot afford to buy and operate a gin if ho only plants a few acres of cotton. The Oukiin of the Bin-Back Punas, Mrs. Jiulv O'Flanuigan was an Irish lady, with limited menus and n good constitution. She, therefore, liko a sensible woman, used the latter to preserve the former by taking in washing, and soon became noted as a purifior of soiled linen. Airs. Judy was a widow, having buried her “dear Alike" a few days after his return froln a fair with his head broken in seven places. “Small loss,” said the widow to herself, yet she waked him in a manner worthy the O’Flunnigans in olden times. Now July lived in that modern Babylon called Loudon, and it chan ced oilo day that Madatno la Afodo, a noted French modiste, while visiting “pertide Albion,” required tlio Ser vices of one of her craft, and being recommended to Judy, called and found her busy over her tubs, her ample skirls well pinned back, and her person resembling a huge clothes pin with a sheet tied around it. Aladamo was charmed ; to her it seemed a novel sight, ns they always do things differently in la belle France. There tho washerwomen are not troubled with long skirts ; besides they generally use the river for a wash tub. Siie immediately felt in spired with tho birth of anew fashion, and on her return to Baris produced tho dress called the “Blaiichisseiise,” which, meaning simply' washerwo manjKlid not suit on this side of the water, and the one now in uso was adopted in its stead. A party of ladies iu Louisville, Ky., were recently overheard enthusiasti cally discussing a baptism. One re marked : “Alamie looked perfectly splendid in a magnificent mauve-col ored dress.” “Alauve-colored V” ejacu lated another, ‘why, who ever heard of any-ouu being baptized in anything save white ?’ “Oh’ well," said the other, “white will be well enough for some people, but Alamie never expects to be baptized but cnee, and sho thought she would get up something stylish. lam sure'nobody lias any right, to complain at such a tiling, when it probably will happen but ! once in one’s lifetime.” NO £<S.