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THE TELEGRAPH.
MAOQN.FRIDAY, APRIL 0, 18b9.
Riell Against Poor lands.
Aa an abstract proposition there is no fight
between rich lands and poor lands in the way of
cropping. All other things being equal, we sup
pose it would be better to crop on inexhaus table
Mississippi bottoms at one thousand dollars an
acre, then to cultivate poor pine uplands as a
gift* But the -princple of compensation runs
through nature and almost every department of
life ; and, therefore, even in the halcyon days
of cotton planting, the comparative results of
operations on the Mississippi bottoms and good
upland cotton planting did not exhibit the start
ling contrast one would be naturally led to an
ticipate.
The Mississippi cotton planter lost his hands
by disease and frequently his crops by overflow.
Be could never have a home upon his planta
tion, and the cost of providing for the health of
his white family was a serious setback. Doubt
less, in a series of years, he ontstripped his op-
land competitor; but the sacrifice of personal
comfort taken into account, it is questionable
whether the upland planter had not the best of
the bargain.
The same considerations, since the downfall
of slavery, are operating with greater force
against the inexhaustible Mississippi alluviums.
It is hard to get and retain a working force of
freedmen there, and they cannot advantageously
be managed, as of yore, by hired agents and
overseers. Consequently, the proportion of
these unctuous alluviums which were once culti
vated but are now lying idle and unproductive, is
far greater than the proportion of open uplands
in the same condition. A friend tells us that
not one uuijrut *bceo sutunn alluviums
formerly cultivated is now under plough.
How this vast mine of agricultural wealth is
hereafter to be worked is a problem yet un
solved. We have, as yet, no satisfactory illu
mination upon the subject; but that ultimately
it will again be brought under cultivation by
some undiscovered agencies, wo have no great
doubt It is demanded by the interests of civ
ilization and commerce and the wants of the
people.
But, meanwhile, it is certain that these Nile
regions of the cotton crop, so rich as not to re
quire the annual application of fertilizers, aro
lapsing into disuso far more rapidly than the
poorer uplands which must be fertilized to com
pensate the labor and expense of tilling.
Wo are, in fact, disposed to think the light,
comparatively poor and considerably worn cot
ton lands of Central Georgia will, in the next
ten years, develope the cotton culture more rap
idly than perhaps any other section of the
South; for the simple reason that they seem to
conform more closely to the conditions of small
farm and white labor culture. The lands are
light, it is true, but they are easily improved,
and tilled, the country is generally salubrious,
and the climate agreeable. Nothing, in fact,
exists in thi3 section to prevent an entirely suc
cessful application of white labor to cotton
growing, and we hope by and by to see Middle
Georgia colonized by emigrant fanners, who
will, as in the North and West, apply their own
labor and that of their children to the produc
tion of cotton, os well as of the numerous other
crops to which the country is adapted.
But there is a very small proportion of land
in Middle or any other part of Georgia, which
it will pay to cultivate without manure; and, in
fact, it is hard to find land anywhere to which
the judicious application of fertilizers will not
prove a profitable investment. In English ag
riculture, for illustration, although perhaps eve
ry acre in cultivation would strike our planters
as abundantly rich, yet the annual investment
for commercial fertilizers in that small island,
far exceeds the sum paid in the United States.
Doubtless the present year in Georgia may
develop some unprofitable results from the use
of fertilizers. To some it will be a novel ex
periment, unintelligentiy and carelessly prose
cuted. Some will have made bad selections—
the seasons, to some, may be unfavorable. Last
'year, we know that in Middle Georgia the
drought was believed by many to have made
the application of cotton seed to com a positive
disadvantage; but, on the whole, wo do not
share our correspondent’s fears of a general dis
appointment, or any considerable abandonment
of the use of fertilizers. We believe, on the
contrary, that it will increase from year to year
—and that, what he calls the “intensive system
of farming " is the only one worth following. It
must be studied—it must be pursued intelli
gently and energetically; but it is nevertheless
true that a heavy crop is the profitable crop.
Farming which can live on light crops, will pros
per on good ones, and grow rich on heavy crops.
Sutler's Disability Bill
Requires the applicant to file a petition to the
TJ. S. Court with an affidavit that he believes the
Confederate General and State Governments re
bellious and treasonable, and truly repents of the
acts done in maintenance thereof. The bill is
intended, not to relieve, but, to perpetuate dis
abilities, by imposing a false and humiliating
test, which compels a man to forswear a mental
conviction.
Georgia and the Fdteenth Amendment.—
The New York Times of Monday, after showing
at length that the Fifteenth Amendment was
defeated in Georgia by the votes of the adminis
tration members of the Legislature, calls upon
Congress to consider these facts and be in no
haste to proceed to extreme measures of recon
struction.
Bond Tumbles from his Wires.—The Atlanta
New Era, of yesterday, says that Bond, the fool
hardy wire-walker, fell from his wire at Dalton,
yesterday and broke his right leg, as well as
seriously injuring himself internally. His inju
ries are very serious, if not fataL
Public Laws op the Last General Assembly.
Mr. Z. D. Harrison has issued a pamphlet edi
tion of the public acts, which is on sale at all
the book stores at $1 00 per copy. It i3 a
pamphlet of sixty-five pages, veiy neatly print
ed by Mr. Toon, at the Franklin Printing
House, Atlanta.
The Wheat Crop.—The Rome Commercial of
Sunday says that the wheat crop of that section
is looking fine. No accident occurring between
this and harvest, a full crop is expected. Up to
the presnt timo the fruit crop has not been in
jured. Farmers are planting com and with un
usual c&re. Cotton planting has not commenced
with ns. About the same area of land will bo
planted this as last year.
Episcopal Convention.—The annual conven
tion of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the
Diocese of Georgia will assemble at St. Paul’s
Church, Augusta, Ga., on the 5th day of next
May. It is expected several new churches will
be admitted to union with the Diocese at that
time.
Gen. Grant Tiyr..—Gen. Grant was ill again
last Monday. He is said to be much harrassed
by the politicians and office-seekers; and
another cause of chagrin is a quarrel between
Gen. Sherman and Rawlings, Secretary of War.
“ The Jeweled Daughter op the Pacific.”—
There are sixty-six vessels nowen route to Great
Britain from San Franeisoo, with cargoes aggre
gating 1,700,000 sacks of wheat, besides eight
vessels foe domestic Atlantic ports with 165,000
sacks of wheat, and ten vesselsTor Rio de Ja
neiro with 61,000 barrels of flour. The Califor
nia floor and wheat now afloat for Ciiina and
countries aggregates 1,000,000 sacks of
Tabled at $1,900,009.
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DENT, }-
O, 1868.)
The state Road Question Letter
from Col. Hulbert.
The Atlanta Intelligencer of Wednesday
prints the annexed letter from Superintendent
Hulbert to the Chairman of the Joint Commit
tee to investigate the condition of tho State
Road upon two propositions—the one to transfer
the management of the State Road to the Leg
islate, and the other to sell two-thirds of it:
Western A Atlantic Railroad,
Office Superintendent,
Atlanta, Ga.. November 10,
Hon. W. C. Smith, Chairman Joint Com.:
Sib.—I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of the preamble and resolution adopted
by your committee, relative to the removal of
the management of the Western <fc Atlantic
Railroad “beyond the reach of political influ
ences and complications,” and, in response to
the request therein contained, beg leave to sub
mit the following reflections as pertinent to the
question involved.
The two most prominent plans that have
been suggested and discussed are :
1. The appointment of commisssioners by
tho Legislature, empowered to appoint all offi
cers of the road.
2. The sale of two-thirds of the Rood, the
Stato retaining one-third.
The first proposition cannot fail to strike the
mind as impractible and entirely wanting in the
adaptation of means to ends, which is conceded
by all as absolutely necessary in conducting all
great works, both public and private, inasmuch
as it proposes to take from one man (the high
est officer known to our Constitution,) the au
thority now vested in him and transfer it to the
hands of three other persons, responsible only
to the Legislature.
It is a simple proposition to transfer the re
sponsibility from one man to that of an indefi
nite number.
Wherever, in the management of great works
of this kind, the experiment has been tried, it
has afforded a striking exemplification of the
folly of dividing authority and thereby shifting
the responsibility to a number of irresponsible
persons, who to say the least, are rarely if over
jjoia to uii HccountaUTllty fur any mal-auministra-
tion that may have occurred during their term
of office.
The present laws governing the road fix the
responsibility of the management upon the Gov
ernor and the Superintendent selected by him.
The success of his administration as a whole de
pends more upon tho successful administration
of the roadthnn all other causes combined.
Ho either stands or falls upon this question.
The people of GeorgiaJiave long since learned
to judge of the merits or demerits of an admin
istration by this test.
Tax-payers are keenly alive to their interests,
and it cannot, for a moment, be supposed that
they will consent to abandon a plan which has
heretofore largely relieved them from taxation
and adopt a doubtful one.
The present plan fixes the responsibility upon
the Governor, where it properly belongs.
The appointment of three or more commis
sioners by the legislature (a political body) sim
ply shifts the responsibility from the shoulders
of one man, in a position where every incentive
to honorable action and success in his adminis
tration imperatively demands of him a decided
success, to that of the control of parties who are
irresponsible to the people, and who, it is pre
sumed, in the absence of that direct personal
responsibility which is positively demanded in
the successful administration of public affairs,
would certainly be subjected to mnch greater
political influences than in the other case, there
by increasing, instead of diminishing the imag
inary evils sought to be avoided.
The present plan has been a success, has
largely relieved tne tax-payers, and been the
means of sustaining the credit of the State.
This being the case, why abandon it and adopt
one of doubtful expediency ?
The second plan, that of selling two-thirds of
the road and the State retaining one-third, has
been tried in similar cases in other States, and
the results have proven anything but satifactory.
In this case the interest held by the State
would be subjected to the dictation and absolute
control of interested parties.
So long as the State retains any interest in
the road she should own it entire. Whenever a
State becomes a partner with individuals she
becomes a sufferer.
This brings us to a direct consideration of the
question, how to remove tho road from “politi
cal influences and complications.” So long as
j* '•miiins the Drnpprty ^fifaffl, in wholn w
in part, it will necessarily be more or less sub-
jected to political influences.
A new administration, although of tho same
political party as its immediate predecessor,
would naturally desire to surround itself with a
cabinet of its own selection. This is natural,
and is a right that 13 freely conceded by all par
ties.
The Governor is responsible to the people for
the proper management of the road.
It is both just and proper that he should have
the appointment of the Superintendent, and he
in his turn tho appointment of all his subordi
nate (cabinet) officers, bolding the bead of each
department responsible for the proper manage
ment of tho same. •
This insures a proper administration in each
department, and a direct accountability that can
be obtained in no other way.
These appointments assuming a political char
acter would seem to be at first objectionable,
but experience has not demonstrated that con
clusion, but, on the contrary, quite the reverse.
What great public work has been managed
more satisfactorily to its stockholders (the tax
payers) than tho Western & Atlantic Railroad ?
Of all the roads in the State, what one can bo
named that is in a better or more flourishing
condition, or what one whose prospects for the
future are more flattering?
To sever the road completely and entirely
from political influences will necessitate the sale
of the State’s entire interest in it.
Are you prepared to recommend this to tho
people as the proper policy to be pursued, in
face of the fact that the road has for a long
term of years paid into the treasury annually
(despite political influences) a sum amounting
in the aggregated) hundreds of thousands, there
by relieving the tax-payers to that extent?
Ten years hence tho gross earnings of the
road will in all probability exceed six millions
per annum, and the net income be snfficient to
defray the expenses of your government, or, if
judiciously expended, sufficient to establish a
system of free schools in which every child of
the State might receive at least a fair English
education.
Is it prudent or wise to jeopardize the future
interest of the poople by a policy of doubtful
expediency?
The present policy has been a successful one.
Why endanger it ?
I am, most respectfully, your obedient servant,
E. Hulbert.
Candor compels us to say that wo think Cob
Hulbert is right upon both these propositions.
Long and close observation has satisfied us that
Legislative elections are the most corrupt pro
cesses known to our political system—that Leg
islative government is the worst possible gov
ernment, and that Legislative administration is
the most wasteful, injudicious, inefficient and
vicious of all administrations. We think the
partnership system also would rosult in a per
petual swindle upon the State. Tho only open
question is whether the Stato should not divest
herself of such property altogether, and sell ont
the road entirely. As a general proposition,
we believe State Governments should confine
themselves to the purposes for which they were
created, and when they undertake to run rail
roads or saw mills, or factories, or fisheries,
they are not only ont of their proper sphere,
but most commonly make a muss of tho busi
ness in one shape or another.
Upson, Pike an Monroe.—The Bamesville
Gazette says wheat and oats are looking very
finely in these counties, and notwithstanding tho
unusual number of rainy days a fair propotion
of the com crop is planted. Mack, a corres
pondent of the Express pronounces a field of
eighty acres of wheat belonging to Blasingame
brothers, the finest in the State, and not to be
surpassed in Tennessee, Virginia or Kentucky.
Gen. R. D. Capers.—We are indebted to the
Ladies Memorial Association of Putnam county
for a pamphlet copy of an address delivered be
fore that association by Gen. Capers, on the
18th of April last.
Universitv of Virginia.—A-catalogue of this
institution just received shows that it has 452
students. .
The late steamboat conflagration at St. Louis
involved losses to the aggregate amonnt of
$210,000.
TEXAS CORRESPONDENCE.
Stole Election — The Convention — Stupendous
Bribery and Corruption—Carrying Arms—
Value of Texas Lands—Post Offices—Banks
—Elistments in the Federal Army—Casual
ties, etc—Candidates—Historic Hen.
Correspondence of the Macon Telegraph- ]
Richmond, March 26, 1SC9.
The election for State and county officers and
for the ratification of the so-called Constitution
comes off in July. It is to be hoped that the
belligerent course of the members of the Con
vention, during the last few days of the session,
will not be imitated by the electors when voting
for the ratification or rejection of the organic
act.
The last days of the Convention were most
disgraceful Bribery was not oven attempted
to bo concealed. Money was as openly paid for
votes as the same commodity was ever paid for
a horse in open market.
One member had $60,000 entrusted to him to
carry through some measure having reference
to immigration, (foreign, I suppose.) He
carried ms measure and had $15,000left for
his own use. The price of the votes he bought
ranged from $10,000 down to a circus ticket and
a drink of fnsil oiL If public men will be cor
rupt, they should be less open in their villainies.
If they will not get off the side-walk to practice
them, they should be kicked off. These men
have not disgraced the State. They were not
her representatives.
One member of the Convention, a man and
brother, in other words a big, black buck negro,
named Bryant, representative from Harris, was
expelled for the inconsiderable misdemeanor(?)
of violating the person of a piece of ebony,
thirteen or fourteen years old. You see when
the members got their pockets stuffed with
bribes, they soon began to put on “airs,” and
become a little particular about whom they asso
ciated with. But instead of turning the negro
over to the civil authorities to be dealt with,
and sent to the penitentiary at Huntsville, in
due time, they turned him loose, leaving him
to patch tiie matter up as best he can with his
colored constituents and friends. Can any one
pretend that the county of Harris, and city of
Houston, was represented in the person of this
brute?
A man was killed in town one day last week,
another victim to the folly of men’s going con
stantly armed.
As the case will be judicially investigated, aitc
neither of the parties being known to your read
ers, I need not particularize, and merely mei-
tion it for want of something better.
The average value of lands in the State fcr
which taxes were paid in 1867 was $1 63J »er
acre. "When men pay taxes for property it is
rarely valued at its actual worth.
There are 492 postoffices in the State. Tlese,
divided among 160 counties, give only an aver
age of three for each county.
This figure is evidently too low. I hope
Grant’s factotum in such matters will improve
our mail facilities. There is abundance of mar
gin for improvement.
There are four National Banks in the State.
Two of these are at Galveston, one is at Hous
ton, and another at San Antonio. Of private
bankers and exchange brokers there are twen
ty-four. Galveston again comes in for the lion’s
share, having five of this number.
Statistics are dry at best, but as I feel pretty
certain that a good many of your readers took
an interest in the sectional coldness that culmi
nated a few yeare ago in a little scrimmage in
which several of them took a part, it is not un
likely that that they would like to take a glance
at the numbers opposed to them. I quote from
Richardson’s Almanac:
“From official accounts we find the total
number of enlistments in the Federal army to
have been 2,829,980.—Total commutation $26,-
366,616—bounty $284,805,400, with $300,228,-
500 paid by the United States, making total
bounty money $588,028,900.
When tho war closed, there were in the field
on the 30th of April, 1865, 1,000,516 men, ac
tually in service and an enrollment of 2,245,063
men subject to draft. This would make the to
tal fighting force of the free States, between the
ages of 18 and 45, in good physical health, and
not including foreigners not naturalized, to be
3,245,579 men. The casualties are:
Deaths from wounds 96,089
Deaths from disease 184,331
Desertions 199,045
Ilonoral.ly Hiscbarged 17A,oic
Discharged for disability *....224,406
Dishonorably discharged 5,390
Resignations 22,281
Missing 7,002
Total 914,081
The above statistics, I suppose, were obtained
from the war office, and may be relied on as ap
proximating something near the truth. They
show the fearful magnitude of tho numbers
backed by unlimited resources, that were op
posed to us. These two never fail to tell in war.
It was not sacrilege in Napoleon when ho said
tho Supreme Power always favored the side with
the greatest numbers and the heaviest artillery.
The wonder is, not that tho South had ulti
mately to succumb to numbers and resources,
but that she resisted so long the pressure of the
mighty array and crushing force brought to
bear against her. It is perfectly overwhelming
to contemplate.
The names of several of the wealthiest men
in the State, are mentioned as - suitable ones
from which to elect a candidate for Governor;
one reason urged for this, is that being already
rich they would be less subject to bribery. The
argument is more specious than solid.
Poverty and honesty are not incompatible.
Texas has plenty of poor men that aro both
honest and competent for Governor. Still,
other things being equal, I do not object to a
man’s being rich.
In the days of her better histoiy, or in the
better days of her history, the sons whom she
delighted to honor were poor, and continued so
through life. Without being an approver of all
his political vagaries, I believe that a more hon
est man than Sam Houston never lived. He
was never rich; he never tried to be.
M. B. Lamar, another of her great men, whose
career reflects honor on the State of his birth,
and conferred such great blessings on the State
of his adoption, was comparatively poor, yet he
was as just as Aristides. David G. Burnet, her
first President, is another of her public men,
who, although not in destitute circumstances, is
poor. Hundreds of others might be named.
Par Fois.
Who is Cespedes?
A-Cuban correspondent of tho New York
World gives the annexed account of Cespedes,
the civil and military leader of the Cuban revo
lutionists :
Carlos Manuel Cespedes was bom about forty-
five years ago, in the town of Bayamo, Cuba.
The first twelve years of his life were spent
with his parents, who resided on a plantation in
the vicinity. With them he only learned the
first rodiments of reading, writing, and arith
metic, while at the same time ho indulged in
those hardy employments and health-giving
games which are consequent to a life in a coun
try naturally mountainous and full of forests.
His family having moved when he was twelve
years of age to the ■ town of Bayamo, Carlos
Manuel was sent there to school for the first
time.
A few days after the commencement of his
studies there, he gave proofs of an extraordinary
mental activity and intellectual talents, leaving
behind him the most advanced of tho scholars
in the school, and being recognized by them as
tho head of the institution. When eighteen years
of age, he went to Havana, with the object of
prosecuting his studies there for the law profes
sion. His great intellectuality was further de
veloped there, at tho same time that numerous
personal affairs gave him an opportunity to
show his active, courageous, and tenacious dis
position, giving an indication then that he would
be as “great in war as in peace.” Graduating
as attorney-at-law in Europe, where he went af
terwards, and receiving the greatest university
honors, he returned to Cuba and fixed his res
idence at Manzanillo. His powers of eloquence,
energy, and his knowledge soon made him the
most popular man in the vicinity, and entitled
him to rank as the first lawyer in that part of the
country. But of all traits in his character, gen
erosity marks an important one, and will give a
lustre to all his future actions. The fortune
which he inherited from his father, the wealth
which he amassed by his industrious exertions,
and his future prospects of increasing it, would
have secured him a life full of comfort and ease;
but his patriotic heart could not support longer
the sight of his country in nbnino ana the viotim
to the outrages of the tyranic&l Spanish govern
ment. Inspired by a heroic resolution, he gives
freedom to Ml hiB slaves, abandons his sugar
States to the merciless fury of his Spanish foes,
who burn them all in revenge, and, sacrificing
all on the altar of liberty and independence, with
the noblest motives ho inaugurates the revolu
tion in Caba at the head of one hundred patriots
—a movement which now counts in its ranks
the whole native population of the island.
Productive Laud vs. Guano.
Editors Macon Daily Telegraph :
By sheer dint of advertising, fertilizer dealers
have created a demand for their city-made ma
nures, and fortunes for themselves, with “unex
ampled rapidity.” Next fall let them .stand
from under, and gentlemen of the Bar hold up
their hats and cards: “ Special attention given
to resisting the collection of guano debts, on the
ground that the fertilizer was not as represent
ed.” ; “**•
So much money has been drawn from the
State during the past fall and winter by these
enterprising advertisers, perhaps some estima-
Tiie Franklin County (Pa.) Outrage.
The following particulars of the recent horri
ble outrage in Franklin county, Pennsylvania,
are taken from the Valley Spirit:
Our town has been in the most intense excite
ment ever since last Thursday. The cause of
the excitement is as follows:
On Thursday, about noon, a negro went to the
house of Mr. Wm. M. Oliver, in Gnilford town
ship, about two and a half miles from Chambers-
burg. Mr. Oliver and his wife, were both away
from horns. A step-daughter of Mr. Oliver,
named Ida Reinhardt, who is abont thirteen
years of age, had also been at a neighboring
honae, but at noon went home to feed the pigs.
She was in tho house getting the necessary feed
profits of three different forms, may not be de
void of interest.
And, in tho premises, it may be taken as a
safe rnlo that land almost destitute of lime will
not yield 200 pounds of lint cotton until at least
$20 worth of the average quality of commercial
manures is applied per aero, and cannot be kept
at that production with a less annnal expendi
ture than $16.
"Wo will first take a poor piney-woods place,
and attempt to run it. with free labor, under the
old sla^e system. For expenditures and the
crop, wj will have:
Say S00hcres....$1500
5 mules ind food. 1300
6 hands! and ra
tions * 1300
■Wagons,plows... 200
33 bales cotton..$3300
800 bushels com. 800
$41Q0
$4300 .
We estimate the fodder, peas, potatoes, etc.,
will abont “keep things even,” and allow tho
farmer who has few artificial wants, a scanty
living, until his land is completely exhausted,
and yet we have allowed a bale to six acres, and
hava no calculation for loss and damage to stock,
etc
We will not take the same farm and run it
according to the schedule laid down by Mr.
Guano. “Plow deep, manure heavily, and cul-
tvate like a garden.” Above, we calculated 60
teres to tho mule and 33j to the hand, but un
der the new system we must have, say:
300 acres of laud $1500
10 mules and feed 2600
to admit him. He pretended to be hungry and
demanded bread, threatening to bum down the
house if she would not let him in. Terrified at
these threats she opened the door, when the
black scoundrel seized her, threw her upon the
floor and outraged her person. The little girl
is pretty badly injured. Tho negro then took
with him from the house a razor belonging to
Mr. Oliver and a small sum of money, which
was lying on a mantel Mr. Oliver’s house is in
a southeasterly direction from the town.
The negro then left, and crossing roads and
fields, got around to the road leading from the
borough in a northeasterly direction from town.
About a mile from here a gentleman resides, by
the name of John Landin. The negro accosted
a little boy whom he saw there, and asked him
if there was any man about. The boy said no.
Just then a young lady named Lydia Detwiler
was seen passing through a field some distance
off, and the negro went over towards her, and
caught up to her about two hundred yards from
her father’s house, which is in Green town
ship. He attacked her at once, and accom
plished his purpose, the young lady resisting
him to the best of herabihty.
From here he went in the direction of Mr,
Jacob Fry’s house, and when within a couple of
hundred yards of it he met a young lady named
Miss Leliman. He attacked her also, and a most
terrible straggle took place. He struck her on
the back of her head with a dub, on the face so
that it is covered with black marks, and choked
her so as to leave black and blue marks upon her
nook. In the straggle he took a razor from his
pocket and drew it close to her throat, threaten
ing to kill her. She grasped the razor and broke
the handle off, which she still has in her posses-
Notwithstanding this heroic resistance,
18 hands andfeed 2700
Improved plows, eto 400 j ®? on :, , .. ,.
Manure ... 4 650 tk® black scoundrel succeeded in accomplishing
’ I his purpose with this lady also. We understand
BY TELEGRi-FH.
q* 0 t a ] ] ^50 i that she is still confined to her bed from the in-
We will admit for argument the crop will bo
doubled:
66 bales of cotton $6,600
1600 bushels of com 1600
juries received.
Mr. Oliver has since seen the handle and blade
of the razor used in the last struggle, and iden
tifies it as his own.
On Friday morning Sheriff Fletcher arrested
a colored man named Cambridge Adams, often
called Norris, who corresponded with the des
cription furnished him of the villain, and lodged
him in jail. The prisoner, on being questioned
Total $8,200
Hero is a deficit of $3050, besides damage to
stock etc., to be covered by fodder (same as be
fore) peas, potatoes, etc. Gnided by careful-
enquiry, we estimate that the mostdesired kinds ; t°ld a straightforward story, and there was some
of commercial fertilizers cost, at present rates, i doubt as to Ins guilt, but furthor investigation
$15 50 per acre “in the ground.” (showed he had been lying. During Friday
We now take a farm of the same number of ; tiiere was great excitement, and even expres-
acres on Spring creek, in Early .county, where “°?“ 111 f a 7 or 1 l™* hlaw : °* oar bes *:
the land vrall produce a bag of cotton to two! citizens fe!t that an example should be made of
acres, without manure, with forty acres of com 1 this devil that would forever serve as a warning.
and cotton to the mule, for twenty years to
come. True, such land is held at high figures,
generally, but wo have seen it advertized in the
Telegraph at $5—though we do not believe any
quantity ever will be on maiket at those figures
—therefore, we will now value the
300 acres land $3,000
8 mules and feed 2,000
12 hands and feed 1,800
Never before in the history of Franklin county had
such a series of horrible crimes been committed
by one man. There was an intense feeling of
sympathy for the sufferers from tho brntal pas
sions of this inhuman wretch.
Tha sheriff, feeling alarmed for the safety of
tho prisoner, called on Captain G. W. Skinner,
commander of tho Housum Zouaves, for assist
ance in case of trouble. About 8 p. m. the fire
$7,100
The crop same as above, leaving a balance in
favor of the farm, besides the fodder, peas, po
tatoes, eto.
For the purposes of comparing the relative
profits, etc., of the three places, the cost of the
land should be omitted, else, kept at about the
same price, as after it is paid for once, we should
count only the interest on the difference of the
investments, which will give the Spring creek
place abont $1,000 advantage over the manured
farm, in addition to the above estimates.
In twenty years the first farm will have been
abandoned and grown up in scrubby oaks and
pines; the second, will have expended (i. e.
suffered a drain of) $93,000 for manure alone;
the third, will have produced $132,000 worth of
cotton, and be in as good condition for another
crop as farm number two is to-day.
There is a difference in favor of’Spring Creek,
of an annnal expenditure of
Feed of two mules, $120; interest,
at 10 per cent, on cost of same
$40 $ ICO 00
Hire and feed of six hands 900 00
Cost of manure 4,650 00
Cost of running improved plows 75 00
$5,685 00
From which deduct $105 for interest on dif
ference in price of land, and we have $5,CS0 in
favor of the Creek.
To follow the estimates a little further and wo
reach this fact as the result of a twenty years
race, between good land and poor land manured.
Tho one will have expended per year
Interest on land at 7 per
cent $ 210 00
For losses of stock, plows,
eto 350 00
Hire and feed of hands.... 1,800 00—$2,360 00
In twenty years $47,200, and have sold $132,-
000 worth of cotton. The other will have ex
pended per year,
For interest on land $ 105 00
Losses of stock, plows, etc 280 00
Hire and feed of hands.... 2,700 00
Manure 4,650 00—$7,735 00
In twenty years $154,700, and have sold
$132,000 worth of cotton.
We do not pretend to say the intensive system
of farming is not remunerative under certain
circumstances. In thickly-settled countries, or
near large cities where land is held at fabulous
prices, it may be, and often is, followed with
great profit, and where wonderful energy, pro
found sagacity, extensive learning and an abun
dant capital is happily united in one man, who,
by accident, becomes a farmer on poor land, bis
success, when compared with the extensive sys
tem on a similar character of soil, is truly as
tonishing. But this, we do say, unless these in
cidents are combined, disaster is certain; and
we do contend that, considering our surround
ings in this sparsely settled State and the little
scientific knowledge enjoyed by the vast major
ity of our planters, and the fact that there is an
abundant supply of very productive land, wait
ing a market at a price per acre less than the
cost of manuring with even the cheapest com
mercial fertilizer, it is madness for one seeking
a fortune as a farmer, to purchase poor land
with the expectation of making it and his fami
ly rich by manuring. M.
Sleepy Hollow, March 1869.
The Mode of Fighting in Cuba.—An eye
witness of the Cuban revolution, who has lately
arrived in New York, says that tho war is car
ried on more as a guerrilla war than by regular
operations. Whenever a force of Spanish
troops appears anywhere, the Cabans scattter
from its front, and seek, by ambuscading be
hind trees and in the thick woods, to annoy
the troops and diminish their numbers. The
great object among the insurgents in these en
counters is to get hold of the musket and knap
sack of every one they can wound or kill. In
this they will run extraordinary risks, threo or
four running out from the bush at every Span
iard who fail3. The Spanish troops generally
behave well in these ambuscade encounters,
and whenover forced to halt or form during
their march, they roundly abase their unseen
foes, styling them cowards, and calling upon
them to come ont of their hiding places and
show themselves.
The feeling among the Spaniards is very bit
ter indeed. They formed almost entirely the
trading population of the country, and every
cross-road and country-village was occupied
with their shops. These ore now abandoned
wherever the insurgents have appeared and
their owners have withdrawn to points held by
tho troops. Thus the country is bare of goods.
At first a lenient policy towards the prisoners
prevailed, but the Spanish volunteers have now
become so violent that they shoot nearly all
they capture, calling them leaders. No regular
civil government exists in the districts held by
the insurgents, and no formal attempt has yet
been made to organize one.
Novel Effect of Reoofstbuction.—A Wash
ington correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press says:
As an instance of the beneficial inflnenoe of
the Congressional reconstruction policy in the
South, it may be mentioned that the Pensacola
and Georgia Railroad of the State of Florida,
has recently been sold for more than a hundred
thousand dollars above its bonded indebtedness,
thus bringing the old bonds, most of which are
Waoons etc . ..... ’goo! bell was sounded, and men at once made up
5 ’ their minds that an attack would be made on
the jail The fire companies turned out, bat
tho crowd rushed to King street, toward the
prison. They were addressed by Sheriff Fletch
er, Hon. K. W. Rowe, T. C. Kennedy, Esq.,
Lyman C. Clarke, Esq., John R. Orr, Esq.,
Capt. G. W. Skinner, and others, who plead with
them not to injure the prisoner, but to let the
law take its course. Tho Housum Zouaves were
called out, and the true soldiers shouldered their
muskets, marched to the jail, and tho crowd dis
persed. The jail was guarded during tho night,
and has been since.
On Sunday last tbe child first attacked was
taken to the jail, and among other prisoners
pointed out Adams as tho one who had viola
ted her person. There is not the least doubt
tho prisoner is the guilty criminal, and. We hope
the remainder of his natural life may be spent
within the boundaries of the penitentiary.
The prisoner is as black as the ace of spades,
about five feet four inches high, of rather a
stout build, and possesses a most wicked coun
tenance. He is a son of “Titus Adams,” and
has been “down the road” at least once.
Tho threo victims of this fiend aro under the
care of skillful physicians, and aro in a fair
way of recovery from the injuries inflicted on
the’ir persons. ■
Troubles with the Chinese in Califor
nia.
The San Francisco Herald gives a gloomy
picture of Chinese morals in that city, which
hardly rise above the level of negro barbarity
in the Eastern States. It says:
There is a growing feeling of indignation in
this community at the utter disregard not only of
decency, but of all our laws, recently exhibited
by the Chinese. It is horrible to retie ct that pol
iticians are pursuing a course that renders it even
possible for these creatures to obtain a share in
our government—perhaps a controlling interest
in our elections. For a long time past they
have exhibited a peaceful, almost a submissive
spirit, rarely committing any graver offense than
pilfering exposed trifles; but suddenly they
have changed their conduct, and for months
past the courts have been burdened with in
vestigation of their crimes—investigations that
come to naught, for these people have no regard
for the sanctity of an oath, and perjure therf
selves by wholesale. They have introduced into
our Christian city all the barborous practices of
their native land—they do not hesitate to hatch
conspiracies, abduct and assassinate, and what
is worse, they employ an organized band of
braves to slay their enemies or rivals, and gauge
the reward according to the punishment that
may be inflicted upon them. A Chinaman can
be paid to assassinate, with the death penalty
staring him in the face, and can coolly stipulate
for the price of his neck, to be paid to his rela
tives in case he is hung.
Although a cowardly race, when pitted man
against man in moral tight, yet do they display
the most extraordinary stolidity and indifference
when execution is about to be done upon them.
In their own country a line of fifty criminals,
condemned to be decapitated, will sink upon
their knees without coercion, bend their heads
forward so as to expose their necks, and stoical
ly await the stroke of the executioner's sword.
They hear the dull, heavy thud at one end of the
line and see the ghastly head roll upon the pave
ment without a shudder. Sometimes the execu
tioner stops midway in the line to resharpen his
sword—thoy listen without a tremor, and, as he
approaches them closely and their turn comes
next, they adjust their necks more conveniently
for the stroke.
There is nothing about this of the spirit that
sometimes actuates a Caucasian criminal to “die
game”—it is simply brutish stolidity. Creatures
like these once roused to the commission of
crime, are evidently dangerous in a communi
ty, for the death that threatens them from the
law has no terrors to restrain them. It is said
they have carried their barbarous practices to
snch an extent in this city as to offer large re
wards for the heads of their enemies. "What
can be done with snch a people ? They are
soulless, conscienceless, devilish. Their vile
passions, long kept in restraint from submis
sion to tne moral influence of the white man,
are now breaking forth in barbaric fury—they
openly, defy our laws, and, with brazen inso
lence, insult our civilization. Let ns exhaust
all the resconroes of the law to restrain them,
and if they fail, let ns advise them to re tom
home. *****
. An Exoubsion Cab.—The hotel car that is de
signed to accompany the first through train from
San Francisco to the East has been completed
at the Central Pacific shops. It is thus described
by a California exchange :
It is divided into a large number of compart
ments—one lined with zinc, for meat, several
for groceries, vegetables, etc.; one with a wire
door for live fowls, large tanks for fresh water,
all arranged as neatly and compactly as can well
be imagined. At one end of tbe car there are
several berths for the accommodation of the
train hands. The car is strongly built, and,
having both rubber and steel springs, is proba
bly one of the easiest riding in the State.
Experienced miners are prospecting for gold
in the valley of the Rio Grande. Already some
Buccess has attended their examinations, and it
is believed by many that Texas will yet be
found to be a great gold field.
From Washington
WAsmnGTOx, April 1.—The removal of disabilities
is more muddled than ever.
Unless Butler’s bill is passed there will probably
be no action this session.
The Senate bill requiring applicants for relief of
disabilities to petition and swear to reasons for ap
plications was passed.
A bill reviving the grant of lands to the Selma,
Gadsden and Alabama Road, and confirming the
grant to the Selma, Rome and Dalton Road, was
passed.
Sumner introduced a joint resolution postponing
the election in Texas.
In Executive session there was a long discussion
over Longstreet’s nomination.
John Allison was confirmed as Register of the
Treasury.
Gen. Stonemanis relieved of the command of
■Virginia and Is ordered to the Pacific.
The Texas and Georgia delegations visited the
President to-day. Reporters were excluded. The
members of the Georgia delegation (Radical) say
the President in responding to tho Georgia Attorney
General, Farrow, said ho thought Congress would
take some action regarding Georgia before adjourn
ment; that he himself favored restoring the ne
groes to their seats.
It is stated that the Mexican mission will be ten
dered to Gen. Sickles.
It is thought that Grant will veto the Tenuro-of-
Office hill, as not exact in its language.
It is reported that Gen. R. S. Granger has been
assigned to the temporary command of Virginia.
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs have
unanimously agreed to report tho following: That
the people of the United States hereby declare their
sympathy with the people of Cuba in their patriotic
efforts to secure independence, and establish a re
publican form of government guaranteeing the per
sonal liberty and equal political rights of all people:
and that Congress will give its constitutional sup
port to the President of the United States whenever
he may deem it expedient to recognize the inde
pendence and sovereignty of Euch republican gov
ernment.
The President has nominated Post Masters J. O.
Hawley, Warrenton, Va.; Josiah Daloach, Mem'
phis, Term.; Henry Ransom, Marshall, Texas.
Boutwell has ordered tho dismissal of the special
IVeasuiy agents.
The debt statement enters fully into the dotail
of various items included in the Government in
debtedness. The decrease in the debt is nearly
two millions six hundred thousand dollars (coin.)
Balance, $104,000,000—$215,000,000 being repre
sented by certificates of currency—balance $7,000,-
000. This statement embraces only the receipts
received up to 12 o’clock, h., 1st inst-. It would bo
reduced some four millions additional, had it been
withheld until the Gth or 7th, as heretofore.
The Treasury disbursements duringMarch amount
to twenty millions and a half.
Congressional.
Washington, April 1.—House.—The House is en
gaged on Mississippi.
The Reconstruction Committee talked abont But
ler’s bill. The Democrats think it imposes humilia
ting conditions. The Committee heard the Texans.
The Election Committee considered the Northern
contests.
The Ways and Means Committee was directed to
reviso tho tariff laws and the laws in relation to cus
tom-houses and bonded warehouses, and to sit da
ring recess at such times and places they deem best
and take testimony.
The bill in relation to the transportation of mails
over tho railroads was adopted.
The consideration of tho Mississippi bill was re
sumed. There was a long and acrimonious debate*.
Mr. Marshall said the Democrats did not oppose
the bill from any love of military governments, but
preferred even that to handing over tho unfortunate
people to the tender mercies of a set of robbers,
who represented no people, but merely sought to
prey upon the people of Mississippi.
Messrs. Davies, Farnsworth and Schenck, who
spoke in opposition to the hill, are reproached as
becoming conservative. Finally tho bill was post
poned to December next by a vote of 103 to 62.
House adjourned.
Senate.—After the business reported at noon, the
Indian Appropriation hill was resumed and discussed
to adjournment, without action.
From Louisiana*
New Orleans, April 1. — Tho Governor and
Auditor difficulty has resulted in a conflict of
authority between tho Fifth and Seventh Dis
trict Courts, which are courts of concurrent juris
diction. Warmoth’s appointee was enjoined by tho
7th District Court, and Auditor Wickliffe by the oth
District Court. Wickliffe was yesterday sentenced
to imprisonment forty-eight hours, for contempt, by
the 5th District Court, and subsequently released on
habeas corpus by tho 7th District Court.
The whole affair has got into an inextricable mud
dle. The Governor and Auditor bitterly denounco
each other as thieves and rascals.
$20,OQj
15,000
From Cuba.
Havana, April 1.—Two volunteers were convicted
on Sunday and sentenced to exile and imprison'
ment.
New York, April 1.—Tho Herald's special from
Key West asserts positively that the Peruvian moni
tors are in interest with the Caban revolutionists.
The volunteers at Caibarian seized Raphael Fale-
so, and Francisco Jewcnez, as they landed from tho
steamer John F. Davis, and shot themT The cap
tain and crew were imprisoned. Two steamers and
two schooners have landed men and arms at Cape
Mary, also the steamer Cricket and two schooners
landed expeditions on the Northwestern shore.
Foreign News.
' Madrid. April 1.—The Cortes voted a new loan.
Conscription hostilities continue, and a new outbreak
is apprehended.
New York, Ajiril 1—The Alaska brings $350,000
in coin.
The Minister of Foreign Relations of Colombia
is reported being against Cushing’s treaty for the
Isthmus Ship Canal.
The yellow fever is spreading south on the coast
of Peru, and appeared on the United States steamer
Tuscarora- Paymaster Cashing is dead.
_ _ Thb Princess of Wales has been married but
owned by Northern men, up to par, while the ! six years, yet she is said to appear at least
road has snfficient funds on hand to pay the ac- twenty years older than at the wedding. Her
cumulated interest since the issue of the bonds, husband leads her & sorry life.
The Book Which Made Johnson a
Great Man.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commer
cial had an interview with Andrew Johnson at
his home in Greenville, Term. We quote:
I mentioned his own case as an illostration of
the American system which afforded a chance
to all, and told him I had been around to see
the tailor shop, where he had first got a start in
the world.
“Yes,” ho said laughingly, “the old shop is
there yet, but a great many things connected
with it are lost. My old, original sign, together
with one or two benches or tables, I had in the
cellar, but when the Southern troops made a
hospital at my house they destroyed them. . I
also had a pair of the best shears for the pur
pose of my trade I ever saw. Thoy were large,
and so arranged that a man could use them half
a day at a time without tiring his hand like
other shears. I was very careful of them, but
they went the way of my other things. The rebel
troops used my house as a hospital, and convey
ed off or destroyed everything movable. I regret
the loss of my books. They were not valuable,
in one sense of the word, but dollars and cents
cannot replace them.
There was one in particular that I believe
formed a turning point in my life; that is, it
caused my thoughts to take a channel which
they might not and probably would not have
otherwise taken. This book was a volume of
extracts from the speeches of Pitt, Fox, Bnrke
and other English orators. When I was learn
ing my trade at Raleigh, North Carolina, a gen
tleman used, to come into the shop and read
aloud, and seeing that we tailors enjoyed it so
mnch, he used frequently to oome, and finally
f ive me the book, which was the first property
ever owned. How many times I have read
the book I am unable to say, but I am satisfied
it caused my life to take a different turn from
what it otherwise would. I also had a grammar,
arithmetic and geography, of which I became
the possessor sometime afterward, and which I
f rized very highly. Of all my books that I left,
have never heard of but one. The ■soldiers
made away with them all. A few yean ago,
while I was in Washington, a gentleman in Vir
ginia came across one of my old books, and
knew it by my name being on the fly-leaf. He
sent it to me, but requested that I let him keep
it, which I did.” ■
The Conrt'llcase at City Hall Tirf,.,
Being ever ready with “a reason for the f a j t i
that is in them,” tako pleasure in spreading
fore the people the data on which they base
their judgment that the location of tho Court.
House at the City Hall will save forty or fift
thousand dollars, or even more, to the count *
Thus i ’’
The County Treasury has in hand—
Cash from sale of old Court-
House lot
Cash from taxes this year.
County 20 year bonds, deemed
necessary to complete Court-
House on Mulberry street, by
old Commissioners. Adopted
by last Legislature
In all.; '.
Deduct amount for building
Jail
Leaving cost of Coart-House ou
Mulberry street
PER CONTRA.
The necessary work on City
Hall—adding another story,
new front and stair towers...$15,000
Add amount for building Jail. 20,000-
Saved directly to the county... - scoivv
But that is not all: Using the
money already in hand, we
have no use for the $50,000
in bonds, and thereby save
interest for 20 years, which is 70 ^
Added to the above, makes $100w
Which is the ultimate saving to the country
fected by the selection of that point, as opp^i
to the location to which the Mulberry «tng
ticket are understood to be pledged.
Bat the Woodruff plan, costing $35,000, mif-
bo adopted, in which event $20,000 of
bonds would be used.... §20,000
Interest for twenty years
Total
Which, deducted from the $100,000 abou
leaves still $52,000, as tho ultimate saving k
the, .county and the pockets of tho people.
This, it will be seen, is much more th;
enough to drain the swamp below the ckt
which, according to accurate survey, will a
quire about $30,000, but, as this sum is not
than saved by a judicious selection of a Cob*
house site, that work will not cost the tax pn.
era a cent. Hence, all the spouting of ourci
ored opponents, under whatever prompting
against drainage and taxation, is entirely thror.
away. This, it mnst be said, presents a mt
of the case different to what may have b«:
supposed correct. It is none the leas tr.;
however, and a serious responsibility rests rj
the voters on Saturday. That the’y may pe;
der well the situation, and act on their h-
judgment, is all that is desired of them by
M. S. Thomson, Virgil Powers,
E. Crockett, Geo. H. Hazlehnrst.
A. B. Ross, Jacob Russel,
P. W. Doyle, J. C. McBnmer,
T. C. Nisbet. E. Isaacs.
Health and Economy Again.
Editors Telegraph.—The reading public vi.-
doubtless amused at the appearance of two r
tides in this morning’s issne of the Telegrap
rasping Quidam, whose name appears mi
an artide in the papers of yesterday.
“Young Enterprise” insinuates that Quidc
is the organ of the Mulberry street ticket,
attacks that ticket through him. Quidam bd
leave to state that he is identified in no
whatever with the Mulberry street ticket,
lives in the country, and is simply “a looker-
in Venice.” ‘Young Enterprise” boasts
“ground will be broken long before the
tumn winds of 1869 have breathed upon t
while, on another page a regular nominee
tins burlesque ticket on health and eco!
tells the public “we can afford to let the sirazj
question remain in abeyance. ’ ’ Quidam pi
by Young Enterprise withont further conum
as the people know what Young Enteraii
means on “All Fools’ Day.”
As to the other article, the gentleman
into the fight with an unknown enemy with
the gallantry of r. volunteer, and whila we
mire his pluck, we regret that his judgment i|
so extremely poor, or that he is so badly bli:
ed by resentment.
He tells the people that “ the contempist
improvement of the City Hall, at the
Messrs. Woodruff’s plan was drawn, was $7
400 in round numbers, and adroitly concede?
fact that this plan was rejected by a com:
from the grand jury and the city, as it tc
notbe sufficient to accommodate the
and the plan of Mr. Wilson adopted, as *
cheapest and bestand Mr. Wilson’s app
mate estimate of cost was $70,000, not inch
the cost of the removal of the market-honse.
Quidam has not seen Messrs. Mi
plan, and reluctantly accepts the version gh
But he has seen Messrs. Woodruff’s plan of:
jail, and the cost of that is $55,000; and’J
payers can easily approximate the relative >
of a jail and the enlargement of the City 0
The gentleman tells us that “the CityHaij
located where it may be seen from eveiy-’
leading into the city,” and there it will res
in “statu quo.” The gentleman wants
splendid tower” on the City Hall, and
wants to know, if it is so conspicuous as t
seen from all parts of the city, then wbj"
secondBdbeB
The gentleman urges as an argumentinf*'
of the City Hall that, “ten thousand peopled
hear our public orators.” Quidam has b
jection to such assemblages at the CityHC
his idea of a Court-house is, it is a place
justice should be administered calmly,
and firmly,and wants no demagogical bant?
or political gerrymandering there.
The gentleman denounces the site on M-
ry street as unhealthy, and emphatically dee
that any board of health would “denote^
site in unmeasured terms.” No local “
can be shown, for sickness, unless g»
think that the pure cold water to be
through the building to remove all garb»?
breed sickness. If so, will the gentlen^j
pose an antidote ? What does he
healing efficacy of & little Bwamp nn>d?_
gentleman asks, “ how mnch land comes *
shape of a donation?” Quidam gives fad* r
he can substantiate: 1st. The lot on tie &
of Mulberry and Second streets, knows *
Grantland Lot, with a front of about b;*
and 3 inches on Mulberry street, and 60
Second. 2d. The lot adjoining on SecosO»
known as tho L C- Plant Lot, with «
about 30 feet on Seoond street, and
depth with the first.
3d. Fourteen feet front, and same
above of the Weed lot adjoining Plant s,t^
104 feet and three inches on Mulberry •-
and the same on Second street. v
For the information of the pnhlio
would state that the old building com-'
have an agreement sealed and deliver* 1 - ;
gating to sell to Bibb county any nwr«
it may need from the vacant land adjoin
nominal price. n .
This “health and economy ticket,’ ®
the gentleman is a member, comes
on the swamp question, and tells A 13 J.
“we can afford to bear the swamp 0 nes "
abeyance.”
Gentlemen, you have shown your c
at last. You had better leave =
question in abeyance, for it is nuadjll
start, and the less it is stirred the
the reputation of some gentlemen.
Macon, April 1, 1869.
A Card.
Messrs. Editors: In the contest nowS'j
for the location of the Court-house,
have been extensively used, and an iPr
has been made that we have recently
plans, and are publicly advocating »
cality. j.
This is not true. The plans referred 10 J
communications which have appeared J
pared more than two years ago,
tions from the Joint Committee of th* ’
QCS»>
it car
County, for remodeling the presen
We have prepared no other plan,
vooating no particular plan, or specie
We are committed to no party. We
txei in the matter, and by virtue of oar
must remain m, . j
We are making the study and
chiteotnre a speciality, and axe preP* 1 *; ,
der our professional service^ in b*h^
and all who may faror wrwUh th®*^
*\WoowrciT
