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8 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.”