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ONLY.
And this in the eud of it all! It rounds the
year’s completeness;
Only a walk to the stile, through fields afoam
with sweetness;
Only the sunset light, purple and red on the
river,
And a lingering low good night that means
good-Cye forever.
Bo be it! And Ood be with you! It bad been
perhaps more kind
Had you sooner (pardon the word) been sure
of knowing your mind.
We can bear so much in youth—who cares for
a swift than) pain,
And the two-edged sword of truth cuts deep,
but it leaves no stain.
I shall go back to my work—to my little house
hold cares,
That never make any show. In time, perhaps,
in mj prayers
I may think of you. For the rest, on this way
we've trodden together,
My foot shall fall as lightly as if my heart were
a feather.
And not a woman's heart! strong to have and
to keep,
Patient when children cry, soft to lull them to
sleep:
Hiding Its secret close, glad when another
hand
Finds for itself a gem, where mine found only
sand.
Good-bye! The year has been bright! As oft
as the blossoms oome,
The peach with its waxen pink, the waving
snow of the plum,
I shall think bow I used to watch, so happy to
see you pass
I could almost kiss the print of your foot on
the dewy grass.
Jam not ashamed of my love! Yet I would
not have yours now.
Tbongli you laid it down at my feet—l could
not stoop so low —
A love is but half a love that contents Itself
with less
Than love's ntmost faith and truth, and un
wavering tenderness.
Only this walk to the stile; this parting word
by the river,
That fiows so quiet and cold, going and flow
ing forever.
“Good-bye!" Let me hearths Inst sound of
hie feet! (
Ah me! but I think in this life of our's the
bitter outweighs the sweet. )
[From the ColumtjMKhMgrer.]
Little
The Savannah » list of
counties that have so dele
gates to Atlanta, claii ,n majori-
this claim, the News pats down as
“against Greeley” every county that de
clared in favor of the maintenance of
the Democratic party and adherence to
Democratic principles, though the reso
lutions said not a word for or against
Greeley! For instance, Troup and
McDuffie are put down against Greeley,
though the Troup meeting expressed
its confidence in the wisdom and'modera
tion of the Convention to assemble at
Baltimore, and declared its willingness
either to fight the battle alone under the
Democratic flag, or “to form an honor
able and temporary alliance with all
those who arc willing to aid in rescuing
the land from unconstitutional legisla
tion and the evils of centralism,” and
though the LaGrange Reporter (fierce
anti-Greeley paper) expressed its dissat
isfaction with the resolutions adopted
by the Democrats of its county. The
McDuffie meeting, too, declined to give
specific instructions, but declared that
“there should be a union in action, and
the Democratic party should extend a
welcome hand to any and all allies, but
at the same time preserving inviolate the
principles of the organization.” We re
gard such resolutions as those of Troup
and McDuffie as not only leaving their
delegates at full liberty to accept the
Cincinnati nominees, but ns distinctly
suggesting to them that this may be
found to be the best and wisest course.
And such resolutions have been adopt
ed by a majority of the counties set down
by the News as “anti-Greeley.” We
shall see when the Convention meets.
How Bad Government Can Wreck a
State, is illustrated in the following
figures in regard to North Carolina :
Taxable property of the
State, 1860 $292,297,602
Taxable property in 1870... 130,378,622
Taxation for State purposes
in 1860 543,643
Taxation for State purposes
in 1870 1,160,413
Taxation for county pur
poses in 1860 * 255,117
Taxation for county pur
poses in 1870 * 923,624
Average cost for 1858, 1859
and 1860 137,977
Average coast for 1868, 1869
and 1870 576,738
Public debt of North Caro
lina in 1861 9,699,500
Public debt of North Caro
lina in 1871 34,887,465
Generations must pass away before
North Carlina can extricate herself from
this mountain of debt, if she ever does it.
BANNER OF THE SOUTH AND PLANTERS’ JOURNAL.
Farmers Proposing a Strike. —The '
New York Express contains the follow-1
ing:
We are in an epidemic of strikes.
Nearly all trades have struck during the j
past month, and now we hear that the j
farmers contemplate following suit. In
Kansas, many counties have proceeded j
for an organization tw get their own pro
duce to market on commissions, and to
buy their supplies on similar terms. We
have before ns proposals of such a
scheme. It is, in substance, as follows :
The farmers of a Western county have
entered Into aleagneto trade only among
themselves, or through agencies under
their own control. The league has
chosen officers, and separate bids are in
vited for supplies of hardware, of farm
ing utensils and seeds, of drugs, of har
nesses, of groceries, pf lumber, of cloth
ing, and so on to the end. They ask
proposals for storing and shipping pro
duce, for the sale of butter and eggs,
for vegetables and fruit. The proposals
are to be based upon the supply and de
mand of 1,000 members, and of 2,000
members, the league reserving the right
to reject all bids. The effects of this
are two fold.
First—The trader becomes virtually
the agent of the farmers, doing their
business under a contract—if he has a
margin of profits that will be gained
from the consumers and not the pro
ducers. Secondly, the farmers form a
combination or partnership both as to
their purchases and their sales. On each
side, os consumers and producers, they
seek to absorb the profits of traffic.
All this looks very avaricious, but
when one considers how the farmers are
bled by the middle men, the movement
seems not only justifiable, but absolute
ly necessary to make agriculture,
afford a livelihood. So depressed have
agricultural interests become that men
are deterred from engaging in them, and
those who continue in them do so in the
almost vain hope of saving what they
have invested in land and stock. The
reason of this depression is not that farm
produce does not bring enough when it
reaches the consumer, but it is handled
by so many middle men, who live On its
traffic. 1 !! the producer ccuM get what his
crops are worth in their final market, he
could make his farm pay him well.
Hence the so-called “ strikes.”
Piedmont and Arlington Life Insur
ance Company vs. Park A Iverson —A
Matter of Interest to the AriF.XTa. nE-
LIPI JLNotIUXCE uompanies.— ln this
case the insurance company brought
their action in theSuperiorCourt against
Park A Iverson, to recover a balance of
about $2,000 in their hands belonging to
the compauy.
The plaintiff alleged that the contract
was that defendants, as agents, were to
receive as compensation 20 per cent, on
all premiums for the first year, and 7J
per cent, on all annual renewals.
The defendants claimed that they were
entitled not only to the above commis
sions, but that they were entitled to the
7J per cent, on annual renewals of poli
cies as long as the policies existed.
The defendants ceased to be agents
before the commencement of the action,
but contended that they were entitled to
an interest in the subsequent annual re
newals. The testimony was conflicting
as to whether defendants were to have
commissions on the annual renewals of
The that the com
pany owed them about $2,500 on that
account. The defendants claimed that
it was the usage and custom of life
insurance companies to allow to agents
the commissions as above claimed, and
proposed to prove sue!' custom ; which
proof was rejected by the court on the
ground that both parties relied on a spe
cial contract in reference to commissions,
and that they must stand upon the con
tract made, and no testimony could be
received to prove a custom.
The jury, believing the contract to
have been as stated by the plaintiff, re
jected the claim of defendants for com
missions to accrue after they ceased to
be agents, and returned a verdict for the
company for $1,986 21. principal, and
sl4l 91 interest—total $2,128 12.
Ingram A Crawford for plaintiff;
Moses A Downing, and Blandford A
Thornton for defendants.
The case oocupied most of the time of
the Superior Court Friday and Satur
day, and the verdict was read in open
court yesterday morning. —Columbus
Sun.
The Republic Insurance Company, of
Chicago, have gained a test case in
which they sought to recover from Wil
lius Bros. A Dunbar, bankers, of St.
Paul, Minn., stockholders in the com
pany, the balance of eighty per cent,
remaining unpaid on each share owned
by them, aud the Tribune remarks :
“This being the first case involving
the question of liability of stockholders
in fire insurance companies tried since
the fire, will be regarded as one of
freat importance by the public at large,
t is claimed that this decision renders
it certain that the losses of the Repub
lic Insurance Company, amounting to
nearly $1,000,000, will ultimately be
paid in full.” r
' Why Pork Declines. — The Cincin-
I nati Price Current says :
The large number of hogs coming into
the leading markets in the West have a
: depressing influence upon the provision
trade, and not only this, but in this
■ matter the trade is much disappointed,
; because it was supposed by most, if not
‘ all, engaged in the pork business, that,
after the regular pork packing had been
ended, the country would have been
pretty well clear of hogs; but, as the
sequel has shown, this was simply the
reverse of what was the case, and the
' number of hogs then held by farmers
i exceeded far that of any previous sea
! son. Thus, the receipts of live and
dressed hogs at Chicago, from March
4th to May 20th, reach 522,118 —an in
crease over the corresponding period of
last year of 276,572. The receipts at
Cincinnati, from March 9th to May 25th,
reach 105,017 —an increase of 58,291
over the corresponding year. Here is
an increase of rather over 100 per cent,
for the time, not yet quite three months,
the aggregate receipts at both places
being 657,135.
Leaf Tobacco Prohibitory Law.—
The Baltimore Sun, of the 11th instant,
says:
The tariff and tax law, as finally passed
by Congress, exacts from retail dealers
in leaf tobacco a tax of five hundred dol
lars annually as a license fee, and obliges
them, besides, to pay to the Government
one-half the amount of their sales over
one thousand dollars in a single year.
This, of course, was intended to destroy
the retail trade in leaf tobacco, and it
does so just as effectually as if it bad
made it a penal offense, punishable by
heavy fine and imprisonment. It abso
lutely prevents a person from selling,
and hence any person from buying, leaf
tobacco in quantities less than a hogs
head at a*time. The effect of this law
is to confine the trade in leaf tobacco to
the large dealers, and to exclude every
person from the cigar manufacturing
business who cannot afford to buy a
hogshead of leaf tobacco at one time.
California Cashmere Wool. —A Cal
ifornia correspondent says:
The Cashmere goat of California is
very healthy, and as the wool is fine,
more lustrous and longer than that of
the sheep, and commands twice as much
per pound in the marketthe fleece
Wirrwmt ST nettry; fiopesare ehtenaaaaa
that it will contribute much to the
wealth of the State. It is similar in size,
form, and general appearance to the com
mon goat—save the color is white, and
the hair, instead of being coarse aud
short, is fine, and from tour to eight
inches long. The wool, taking the de
sirable qualities of length, fineness, soft
ness to receive delicate dyes together, is
superior to any other, and commands a
far higher price, not having been less in
the United States at any time than $1
per pound, and sometimes Laving been
sl6. The expense of obtaining the goat
is great, a single one costing from $l5O
SI,OOO.
Surgical Operation. —A very impor
tant and difficult surgical operation was
performed in San Antonio, by Dr. He
riff, on Friday last, on the person of a
girl about eleven years of age, brought
from the Brazos. The child was disfig
ured from her birth on one of her cheeks,
by a singular piece of flesh, which occu
pied some three or four square inches,
and which was covered completely with
stiff bristles, the roots penetrating to
the cheek bone, and deep in the flesh in
the aperture directly below the eye.
The foul flesh was removed entirely, and
another healthy piece taken from be
low and cut to fit the wound, was turned
and brought up so as to, when healed,
preserve the figure and beauty of the
face. At last accounts the girl was do
ing well. —Democratic (Texas) States
man.
Old Editor —Mr. J. N. Cardoza
called on us yesterday and informed us
that that was his birthday, and that he
was eightv-six years of age. Mr. Car
doza is probably the oldest living editor
in the United States, and is still in the
possession of all his faculties. He is
the last representative of his immediate
family—the rest having preceded him
to that bourne from whence no traveler
returns—and, with the exception of
slight indisposition, his health is good,
and he looks as if he was likely to last
some years vet. We congratulate this
patriarch of the press on being spared
so long, and trust that he may live to
enjoy many more retnrns of the 17th
dav "of Juue. —Savannah Republican,
18?A.
The Stallion and the Geldino Prize.
—The firm of Miller, Morrison A Cos.,
harness and saddle manufacturers and
dealers of 596 Broadway, New York,
have made a set of harness, with gold
plated mountings, which, together with
a complete set of elegant horse clothing,
are to be presented to the horse or geld
ing making the fastest trotting time pre
vious to October 1, 1872.
They are now on exhibition at Fleet
wood Park.— )\~it/:cs Spirit.
A Georgia Baptist Minister in Mem
phis.—Rev. G. A. Loftin, recently called
to the pastorate of the First Baptist
Church in Memphis, Tenn., preached
his first pastoral sermon in his new field
last Sunday to a large and intelligent
audience. The Appeal says, of the ser
mon and the preacher :
It is not enough to say the congrega
tion was attentive. The interest mani
fested was profound. The subject,
“Temptation,” thrillingly presented
from the words “ And Lot pitched his
tent toward Sodom,” was sufficient to
indicate the position the Doctor will oc
cupy among the Christian ministry of
our city. Judging from this maiden
effort no one wul fail to accord to him
pnlpit abilities of a high order. Though"
a young man, Dr. Lofton comes not
among us a novice in the ministry. He
is from Georgia—a State remarkable for
the number and ability of its sons en
gaged in his high calling, among the
foremost of which he has already taken
position, if, indeed, he was not at the
head of his denomination. Our com
munity gains much in securing the set
tlement of such a man in our midst. _ A
ripe scholar, fluent speaker and active
worker, he will not be long in making a
name and influence for good in our
midst.
A Brutal Outrage. —From a gen
tleman who came in from Dale
yesterday, we get the particulars of "a
brutal attempt by a negro man to out
rage a little daughter of Mr. John A.
Morris, of Clopton, Dale county, a
merchant and large planter in that sec
tion. On Saturday last the hands on
the place were out in the field dropping
peas, and Mr. Morris’ danghter, aged
about twelve years, went out to amuse
herself for awhile with the hands, and
took along her toy bucket to carry the
peas. At dinner time the hands started
back to quarters, but the little girl loit
ered behind, but soon started to the
honse, when, in passing the bam where
the peas were kept, she was hailed by a
negro man eighteen or twenty years old,
who told her to enter the bam and refill
her bucket. Suspecting nothing, she
went in, and the brute immediately
seized her and threw her on the floor,
and began to choke her. Fortunately,
her screams were heard by a colored
woman who ran to the bam in time to
prevent the fiend from accomplishing
tin-direction of this city, but had nut
been captured up to a late hour yester
day afternoon. —Eufaula (Ala.) Times.
An Unprecedented Wheat Crop.—
From all parts of this county, the grati
fying news is that the wheat crop will
exceed in quality and quantity that
of any year for a quarter of a century
past—^even the famous yield of 1857 not
excepted. And what is true of Knox
county seems to be generally true of
East Tennessee. The quality of the
wheat is certainly excellent.
Last year, our wheat crop was pretty
much a failure, as was the com crop,
and it is gratifying, that with our pre
sent exuberant yield, the market opens
so encouragingly. We have always
mentioned sales of choice crops at 31 50
per bushel, for delivery on the Ist of
July. We hear of large orders from the
North being received in our city for
East Tennessee wheat—some say for
200,000 bushels—but we have not learned
satisfactorily that this is true. In our
county, we have heard of no wheat that
has been impaired by the rust, and the
fine weather now prevailing assures
safety in gathering the grain ready for
threshing. —Knoxville Press and Herald.
Tnoopp Ordered Oct of the South.
—As the habeas corpus clause of the
Ku-Klux law was not extended, and as
no pretext exists for sending United
States troops into the Southern States,
the War Department now orders all
available men to the plains, to prevent,
if possible, an Indian outbreak this sea
son. Many of the regiments now on
the frontier are far from complete, and
all recruits are being used to fill these
regiments up to the required standard.
Nearly every day a hundred recruits or
more are ordered to the plains.
More Aid fob Gen. Cooper. —Gen. R.
H. Chilton informed us yesterday that
he had received a letter from Gen.
Bragg, which stated that in Mobile some
five or six hundred dollars had been
procured in aid of Gen. Cooper, the dis
tinguished Adjutant General of the
United States and afterwards of the
Confederate States, who, since the war
has, in old age, been reduced from
affluent comfort to uncomplaining pov
erty.—Columbus Sun.
A Rabid Cat. —ln Macon, a few days
since, a house cat bit Mrs. J. R. Rogers
on the finger, which at once commenced
swelling and grew intensely painful. At
last the pain was so severe that it threw
Mrs. Rogers into convulsions. Medical
aid was called in, and the lady was re
lieved from her sufferings. The cat
died in fifteen minutes after it bit Mrs.
Rogers.
A Formidable Weapon. —We find in
a late number of the Washington Na
tional Republican the following :
Yesterday, Capt. J. V. Meigs, of Low
ell, Mass., fired his fifty-shot 50-calibre
magazine gun, which he has been pa
tiently perfecting since 1871, before
Commodore Case, Chief of Ordnance,
United States Navy ; CoL Benet, Chief
of Ordnance, United States Army ; Com
modore Reynolds and Capt. Pearson,
United States Navy ; and Capt. Metcalf,
United States Army. The gun was fired
at short range, from the shoulder, with
out material change of direction, and
the magazine was emptied in abont
twenty seconds, every shot striking with
in a space not larger than a man. It was
shown that it could be fired on the run
as rapidly as from the shoulder, and
with equal precision.
These officers expressed themselves as
highly gratified, saying in substance that
it was the most formidable weapon that
they had ever seen, and that, armed with
it, a small body of men could hardly be
dislodged by many times their number.
It was then taken apart by the removal
of two screws, and the pieces laid in the
palm of the exhibitors hand, so that
each could be separately seen.
Type-Setting Invention. —The Al
bany (N. Y.) Times announces that
Dexter Reynolds, a prominent member
of the Albany bar, has invented a type
setting machine, which, having been
pronounced a complete success by type
founders in Boston, New York and
Philadelphia, has been Bold for $1,000,-
000, to a combination of New York
capitalists. The machine is said to be
exceedingly simple in construction and
easy of operation, with capacity of set
ting 2,000 ems of type per hour. This
is about the equivalent of four average
compositors. Other type-setting ma
chines, it should be stated, have been
invented, proving only partially success
ful, and impracticable in competition
with the machinery of nature.
Rome Female College. —The com
mencement exercises of the Rome Fe
male College, on Thursday last, were
L highly jLtdesting. Col. Thomas Harde-
Trfll(1 ua*ingcTnis. TfTsedasa
gem of eloquence and pleasant sarcasm.
The (Baccalaureate address of Mr.
Caldwell was sensible and pointed. The
class of graduates was composed of the
following ladies:
Miss Lizzie Caldwell, Greensboro,
North Carolina; Miss Maggie Bailey,
York District, South Carolina; Miss Ab
bie Fewell, York District, South Caro
lina; Miss Maggie Wallace, Soddy, Ten
nessee; Miss Martie Anderson, Henry
Court House, Virginia.
The Lee Monument. —The Richmond
Enquirer, in a description of the memo
rial monument to Gen. Robert E. Lee,
the model for which has just been com
pleted by the sculptor, Valentine, of
that city, says :
The impression made upon the mind
is one of pleasant surprise at beholding,
as it were, the reclining warrior, not
dead, but sleeping—peacefully dream
ing, with a smile upon his lips—and so
perfect is the illusion that one imagines
he can see the figure move and breathe.
It is as he was in life. There is nothing
of the repulsive or awful presence of
death about the face, the form, or the
position. The triumph of the artist is
complete.
Arrival of Remains of Confederate
Dead from Gettysburg. —We learn from
the Richmond Dispatch that one of the
steamships of the Powattan Company’s
line arrived in that city on Saturday,
having on board 708 bodies of the Con
federate solders that were previously
buried at Gettysburg, Pa. Three hun
dred of these were members of Pickett’s
Division. The bodies will be escorted
to Hollywood early this week by the
First Regiment Virginia Volunteers.
Horace Greeley Contributes to
Build a Church in Georgia. —From
the Newnan Herald we learn that the
Methodists of Palmetto are striving to
build anew house of worship and have
by letter solicited contributions from
those they thought likely to contribute.
One of these letters was addressed to
Horace Greeley, and recently by due
course of mail came his reply, enclosing
five dollars.
A good sort of a man was recently
asked to subscribe for chandelier for the
church. “Now,” said he, “what’s the
use of a chandelier ? When you get it
you can’t get any one to play on it.”