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VOLUME XX. WRIGHT & BECK, Attorneys at Law*. (OFFICE IN COURT HO RE.) JACKSON, - - GA. M. M. MILLS, Counsellor & Attorney at Law. Will practice in all the cour 8. Mo ey loaned <m r. al estata-at lo w rate of inter *st. Long time granted with small pay ments. Money obtaine lat once without dilny. (OFFICE IN COt'BT HOUSE.) J)r. 0. H. Cantrell, DENTIST. JACKSON, - _ GEORGIA. Cp stairs over J. If. Bun’s Ro k Corner. J. W. LEE, M. D. JACKSON, GA. ' Will practice medicine in its various branches. Office at J. W. Lee & Son’s di ug store. Hesidt ncc first house west of Mrs Brad \ V. JIG TKLS. DEMPSEY HOUSE. Mrs, A. E. Wilkinson, Proprietor, Board reasonab e and tab’e supplied with the best the market affords. (COKKKR PUBLIC SqUAUE) ALMANU * HOUSE First-Class Hoard at Low Rates. MRS. T. B. MOORE, Proper. STOP AT Tilt; Morrison House. EVERY THING NEW AND FIRST CLASS. Conveniently Located, Free Hack to Depot. MR?. E. MORRISON, Proprietor. W. It. YANCEY, SURGEON DENTIST. JACKSON, OA. Respectfully solicits the patronage of the people of Jackson and Butts county. Office up stairs in Watkins Building, room formerly occupied by Dr. Key. SATISFAC riON GUARANTEED. I’iiit. Brllliuiit, I ‘if i-r. Authentic living testimonials from dis tinguisl ed generals ami stitesmeu in fa vor of llav\ kes’ New Crvstalized Lenses over all others. Onr Nrxt IT. S. Senator Says: Mr. A. K. llawkes—Dear Sir: The pantiscopic glasses you furnished me some time since give excellent satisfac tion. I have tested them by use and must sav they aie umqualed in clearness and brilliaucy by any that I have ever w-rn. Respectfull.v, John B. Gordon, * Ex-Governor of Stitc of Georgia. Rualnros Mait'n Clear Vinton. New Y<-rk City, April 4, 1888. Mr. A. K. llawkes —Dear Sr: Your patent eye glasses reeivd some tims since, and am very much gratified at the wonderful change that has come over my eyesight since I have disc rded my old glasses and am now wearing yours. Alexander Agar, Secretary Stationers Bosid of Irade of New York City. All tyes fitted and the fit guaranteed by W. L CARMICHAEL, JACKSON, - - - GEORGIA. THE CONVENTION HALL At Minneapolis Thrown Opon to the Public. The republican convention hall of 1892 at Minneapo'is was opened to the general public Monday night with an event long and pleasingly anticipated in local mu sical circles—a grand concert by a chorus of 1,000 voices, supported by the second regiment band of Chicago. The vast audience, numbering over 12,000 people and filling every seat far as the eye could reach, surveyed the inspiring scene which bids fair to become a memorable political battle ground. Striking changes have been made in the interior appearance of the exposition building, which is the boast of Minneapolis. Chauncey Depew was the orator of the evening. The Debt Statement* The debt statement for May shows a decrease in the c ;sh balance in the treas ury during the month of $5,512,273, the net cash balance being $36,005,880; ag gregate of the debt, iuclu ling certifi cates sad treasury notes, $1,603,440,970; total cash in the treasury, $795,800,59J5; gold certificates outstanding, $171,765,- 729; silver certificates outstanding, $330,904,002; currency certificates out standing, $84,020,000; treasury notes of 1890 outstanding, $97,391,986. Convicting Mexicans. The Uuited States court, in session at San Antonio, has so secured twenty convictions of Mexicans who were guilty °f violating thp neutrality laws during the late Garza revolutionary affair on the border. -...... . ~ / \ v . . ' , . v IPllffe VAN WINKLE Gin and Machinery Cos., ATLANTA, GEORGIA. M A N U FA CTURERS. COTTON SEED OIL MILL MACHINERY COMPLETE. FERTILIZER MACHINERY COMPLETE. ICE MACHINERY j COMPLETE.< Ihe best system tor elevating cotton and distributing same direct to gins Many gold medals have been awarded to us. Write for Catalogue and lor what you WANT. Van Winkle Grin and Machinery Cos., ATLANTA, GEORGIA. WE AGAIN OFFER TO THE TRADE THE CELEBRATED GDLLET MAGNOLIA GINS, Feeders and Condencers. The GULLET GIN produces the Finest Sample shown in the market, and will generally bring from 1-S to 1-4 cent per pound more thanany other cotton. TtfE GLARK HARDWARE GO. Atlanta Ga., JACKSON Real Estate aid Rentii Apacy. D. J. THAXTON, Manager. SUCCESSOR TO H. O. Benton & Cos. Farm Lands, Business Lots and Residence Lots For Sale. ■BSHBnaKaMKRMHHBnmann FREE OF CHARGE, We Advertise Property in the MIDDLE GEORGIA AR GUS without cost to the owner. We are the only Real Estate Agents in Jackson, and hive in our hands quite a number of valuable and desirab’r farms in Butts an l other c unties for sa'e on the b;st of teriu<. Also City Property, Residence and Business Lots. If you have land te sell, put it. into our hands and we will fiad you a buyer. If you have houses to rent, we will fiad you a renter. If you wish to buy a home cal on us and Re will furnish team and driver. WE ASK ONLY A TRIAL. Jackson, Ga., June 9, 1892. JACKSON. GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 10. 1892. CYPRESS TANKS, WIND MILLS, PUMPS, ETC. COTTON GINS, FEEDERS, CONDENSERS AND PRESSES. THROUGH GEORGIA, Interesting Notes Gathered From Here and There Oyer the State. The Grady Hospital in Atlanta has i>ceo|formaily oDened for the reception of patients. The building was recently dedicated and presented to the city with imposing ceremonies. * * The Georgia Bar association met in Macon last Wednesday morning in their ninth annual session. Something over one hundred lawyers were in attendance from all over the state. The Southern Travelers’ Association, at their recent meeting at Indian Springs, after a discus9ioD, decided to take in as partners the merchants and manufactur ers, and to call themselves the Georgia Shippers and Traveling Men’s Associa tion. * * * Uncle Sam’s red boxes are upon the corners of the streets of Americus, and the free delivery postal service is in opera tion. Americus is happy over this pro gressive movement, for which she is largely indebted to the influence and ef forts of Speaker Crisp. * * * The tax equalization law is not very popular in Newton couaty. It is said that a petition will be sent to the next legislature asking for the repeal of the ( qualization and the local registration law. It is also probable that these two issues will be brought into the legislative race in the county. ac 9fC s)c The governor has received a lettei from Judge A. L. Miller strongly urging the offer of a reward for the arrest of Will Bell, the negro boy who kii'ed Deputy Sheriff B. F. Wilder in Macon some clays ago. The sheriff has personally offered SSO reward for the capture of the murderer, and Wilder’s brother has offered SIOO more. The governor issued a proclamation offering $250 reward. This puts S4OO on the murderer’s head. * * ~*• There will be no Chautauqua this year. That has been definitely decided. For this summer the beautiful Piedmont Chautauqua grounds will be unaccupied save for an occasional picnic party or for such exercises as the visitors at Sweet water Park may hold there. While this announcement will create no surprise, it will be read with regret by very many people through Georgia. The Chautau qua has been the means of much pleas ure and profit to the people of Georgia, and it is sincerely hoped that another season will find it continuing its good work. *l* T *■ The colored citizens of Atlanta are ar ranging for a big celebration next July at Piedmont park. Military companies from Rome, Macon and other places will visit the city, and will be reviewed at the park by Governor Northen. A prize drill between the companies will be the spe cial feature of the day, and SSOO will be given away to mil itary companies alone. There will also be good horse racing and a splendid barbecue. It promises to be a grand success, and no effort will be spared by the colored people to make it such. * * * The law providing for teachers’ insti tutes in each county on Saturdays, pro vided also for institutes to last one week, to be held at some time in the months of June, July or August. A large number will be held in June, and some [of will be very fine. The attendance of all the public school teachers of the county is required by law. The commissioner is arranging to concentrate the institutes for four counties at Athens. He has made arrangements for board at the Rock Col lege normal school at the rate of $2.50 a week. This is with the understanding that teachers will bring pillows and eheets. * * * The comptroller general is sending out county tax executions against the Cen tral railroad, the Georgia Southern and Florida, the Atlanta and Florida, the Macon and Atlantic, the Macon and Bir mingham, the Angusta, Gibson and San dersville and the Marietta and North Georgia. All these roads are in the hands of reaeivers, and they have failed to pay the county tax required under the recent decision of the supreme court. The taxes cannot be collected from re ceivership roads without an order of court, but the comptroller general is complying with the law in issuing the executions. The executions are sent out to the county tax collectors, with in structions to confer with the county at torneys, and get them to apply to the judges for orders on the receivers for the railroad taxes. * * *, The Georgia railroad has declined to pay the Richmond county school tax of 23 cents on the hundred dollars. This tax is levied on all property in Richmond county under the act of 1372, authorizing such a levy. When the railroad county tax act was passed in 1889, it provided a separate arrangement for taxing railroads by counties. The comptroller general was in some doubt at firßt whether he should include the railroads in the school levy, but Attorney General Anderson ex amined the ques'ion and said the Rich mond school tax was clearly a county tax, and the railroads would have it to pay. Since then the tax has been held up by the case in court. Now they decline to pay it, saying that they are under a sep arate arrangement. They also object to paying 7 per cent, interest on deferred payments of taxes. * * * The Georgia Editors in Texas. Texas is going to show the Georgia editors such hospitality as Texans can alone show when the press gang from this state goes westward on its annual tour. Within a fortnight the Georgia Weekly Press Association will meet at Rome in annual convention assembled. After transacting such business as may come before the editors, they will leave to take quite an extensive tour through the southwest. Their transportation has been secured over the states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, and they will go further up into the “big tree” region# of Lower Cali* foruia. While in Texas the Georgia editors will live upon the “fat of the land.” The city of Dallas has extended them an invitation to stop over and en joy an entertainment. * * * Spencer Exonorated. Just as everyoody at all familiar with the case expected, Mr. R. L. Spencer, the vice president of tne Merchants’ and Miners’ bank, of Tallapoosa, arrested for high misdemeanor, ha* been tried a’id found not guilty. Mr. Spencer was ar rested when the bank failed, charged with having borrowed too much money from the bank. There is a law making it a high misdemeanor for any bank offi cer to lend to one man more than 10 per cent of its capital stock. Mr. Spencer was not an active officer of the bank. Moreover, he had papers showing that the money he had borrowed from tin bank was borrowed from another com pauy and borrowed for the Georgia-Ala bami Investment and Development com pany, and further, that the notes were bought by the bank when chartered. Nobody ever believed Mr. Spencer guilty. He was tried several days ago, and was of course, released and fully exonorated * * * Georgia Melon Outlook. Georgia’s watermelons are ripening rapidly under these summer suns, aud within a week the first carload will start from the melon fields for the north or west. The acreage is estimated to be 25 per cent, short this year, but the out look for the yield is splendid uuless the present drouth continues. Mr. J. L. Hand, of Pelham, will probably be the heaviest shipper from Georgia. He has 600 acres planted. By June 25th the season will be at its height. The Nash ville, Chatanooga and St. Louis has made more thorough preparations to handle the Crop this year than ever before, and that line is said to be paying more attention to the melon business thau any other line eutside the melon-growing territory. The vegetable crop on the coast is im mense. Chatham county has thousands of bushels of potatoes ready to ship. One farmer, who has 100 acres planted in potatoes, expect to ship 6,000 barrels. Several carloads have already been for warded to Cincinnati and Chicago. * * An Important Decision by the School Com. missioner. The state school commissioner has de cided an appeal case which involved an important poirft, and one of ve>-y general application. It turns upon the right of a county school board to use its discre tion in apportioning the school fund among different schools in a school dis trict. The Stephens High school, of Orawfordville, has received, heretofore, SSOO a year from the school fund. That was the whole of the amount allotted to that school district. This year the coun ty Hoard of eduoatluu saw fit to give $125 of this money to another school. The management of the Stephens High school objected to this, and appealed from the decision of the county school board to the state school commissioner. He says the law is very plain. It re quires that there shall be at least one school in each district, and there may be more, if the board of education thinks the interests of education demand it. The matter is in the discretion of the local board, and the state school com missioner will not interfere. * * * Kailroud Hum blinds. The deepest interest is taken by all con cerned in railroads in this inspection trip which Samuel Spencer is making over the Richmond Terminal’s properties. Drexel, Morgan & Cos., are approaching the work of reorganization in a mauner so differ ent from that of their predecessors in the undertaking, that it demands attention. Their very first move is to send their fi nancial and railroad expert out over the systems to examine their physical condi tions, and to form a general idea of their earning capacities. The Olcott commit tee may have obtained official reports from the general managers and traffic mauagers and treasurers of the systems, but the public is not aware of it. Mr. Spencer’s report will contain inter esting reading every one believes, and both the Danville and the East Tennessee officials are wondering if he will have much to tay about consolidation. Plenty of guessing is going on as to how the 42,000 shares of Central stock will figure in the reor ganization. Mr. Olcott’s committee put down $220,000 of Central stock as owned outrignt by the Terminal, and 4,000,000 controlled “through the ownership of the Georgia company’s collateral bonds and stock.” Some think that the Ter minal will make a deal and wash its hands of the Central stock. Others pre dict the opposite, and expect to see the Terminal route that majority block of stock. THE DANVILLE VICTORIOUS In One of Its Legal Bouts with the Centrai. Judge Speer, at MacoD, Ga., Monday, rendered a most important decision in the Central-Danville litigation, and the Richmond and Danville, in practical re sults, drew the first blood. A claim was presented of $25,000 for crossties against the Centrai. Judge Nottingham, the master, held that the Richmond an Dan ville was a necessary party defendant, because it bought the ties while operat ing the Central. The Central’s attorneys claimed that the Richmond and Danville, should be made to pay for the ties. Coun sel for the Danville had bought the ties, yet the receivers of the Central had used them, and should therefore pay for them. This position was fully sustained by Judge Speer, and he signed an order striking the Richmond and Danville from the record as a party defendant to this intervention. The effect of this de cision is to relieve the Danville from liability for more than $250,000 of sup posed claims against it. North Carolina’s Crop. The North Carolina state department of agriculture prepared, on Monday, its crop report up to June Ist. It is as fol lows, showing percentages of the condi tion, and is based on reports of 1,200 cor respondents: Wheat 93, oats 69, rye 89, rice 84, cotton 81, corn 93, tobacco 94, sweet potatoes 94,clover 92, fruit 60. The quality of farm labor is reported at 80 per cent THE SOOTH IN BRIEF The Hews of Her Progress Portrayed in Pithy and Pointed Paragraphs AND A COMPLETE EPITOME OK HAPPEN INGS DF GENERAL INTEREST FROM DAY TO DAY WITHIN HER BORDERS. The confederate Memorial Day was ob served at Norfolk, Friday, with a bril !ant military and civil parade. A Montgomery, Ala., dispatch says: State Auditor Heggic died Saturday morning at hs home in Marion, Ala., aft:r an illness which has extended over the past year. He was elected first in I3ttß, and was just finishing his second term. Near South Carrollton, Ivy., Monday, a regular north-bound passenger train on the Nashville and Owensboro railroad collided ,vith an excursion train filled with negroes. Hugh Barely, fireman of the excursion train and three negro< s were killed and twenty-five injured, several dangerously. The fourteenth annual session of the Woman’s Board of Missions, Methodist Episcopal church, south, began at Lex ington, Ky., Tuesday morning. The venerable president, Mrs. Juliana Hayes, of Baltimore, Md., p r esiding. Delegates were present from all the eastern, western and southern states. It is a fine body of women and matters of interest to the whole church will be legislated upon. The Augusta, Gn., Cotton Seed Oil company has received an order for 100,- 000 tons of cotton seed meal to be shipped to Russia. This meal will be reground, so as to renderit of a fine grade. The order is placed for this pro duct to be used in supplying food for the people in the famine-stricken districts of Russia. The company will ship the stuff as rapidly as it is able to start it from the mill. A Knoxville, Tenn., dispatch says: Frank J. Hoyle has been appointed re ceiver of the Morristown and Cumber land Gap roaJ, through the orders of Judge Key, of the United States circuit court. A bill was filled Saturday by John Coleman, of Louisville versus the Morristown and Cumberland Gap road and Allison, Shaffer & Cos., contrac tors, asking for the appointment of the receiver. A special of Tuesday from Cleburne, Texas, says: On Sunday night a cyclone, struck this place, demolishing forty-two houses. The wiud was accompanied by a drenching rain. Dr. Frescott and his wife were fatally injured, being crushed by their falling house. Several other persons were injured. Crops of all kinds sro Kndly (Lmsjjw). Mineral Well and Lewisville were also visited by a storm and considerable damage was done. Alliance President Polk has a leading editorial in the latest issue of the Pro gressive Farmer , accompanying his letter withdrawing that paper as the organ of t h e alliance. He says that he withdraws because the executive committee of ths state alliance did not like his advocacy of the third party. He declares him-elf unreservedly for the third or people’s party. He declares further that nine teuthfc of he alliancemen in North Carolina will support the third party. A Jackson, Miss., special of Saturday says: A glance at the list of delegates elect ed to the state democratic convention, to meet on the 18th, shows that the repre sentative men of the party took a lively interest in the primaries to select dele gates. The alliancemen as a rule took part in the primaries, an 1 are steadfastly standing by the democracy. In only one county did the Ocalaites capture the meeting and vote down resolutions pledg ing the support of the meeting to the Chicago nominee. SEVEN BILLIONS INCREASE l.n Valuation of Property in the United States Baring Ten Years. The census bureau on Friday i-sued a bulletin on the subject of assessed valua tion of property in the United States in 1890. The bulletin sh'>ws that the as sessed value of all property, excluding railroad property, excepting certain specified states, has increased from $lO,- 902,993,543 in 1880 lo $24,651,585,465 in 1890, an increase during the tie cade of $7,748,591,922, or 45 84 per cent. Should it be found upon the completion of the inqu ry in relation to the true value of all property in the United States that the same rela'ions ex ists in 1890 between the assessed valua tion and true valuation as existed in 1880, the absolute wealth of the United States according to the eleventh census, may be estimated at $68,648,000,000 or more than SI,OOO per capita, as against $514 per capita in 1860, S7BO per capita in 1870, and SB7O per capita in 1880. Owing, however, to th-* fact that in some states, properly is assessed at its full value and in others at only a fraction of its value, comparisons of the wealth of states is quite impossible. L'sts of all kinds of taxable property vary greatly in different states. A RECEIVER DEPOSED. Judge Speer’s Injunction Dissolved by the Court of Appeals. The United Suites circuit court of ap peals, at New Orleans, on Tuesday, ren dered a decision deposing Receiver Plant, and Atlanta will soon get back the con trol of the Atlanta and Florida railroad. An official copy of the decision will be carried to Macon and the usual motion will be made to make it the jugment of Judge Speer’s court. Then Captain Gar rett will be the receiver. He was ap pointed by Judge Marshall Clarke. Judge Speer had appointed Mr. Plant before, but the first bill for a receiver was the one presented to Judge Clarke. Want of jurisdiction was the ground upon which the appeal was sustained. Cholera Ravages. Cable dispatches of Tuesday from Cal cutta, India, report that, since May 7th, there have been 2,460 deaths from chol era at Serinagur, in the vale of Cashmere. All Europeans in the place beeame alarm ed s< me tim i ago at the fearful ravages ol the disease, and left the city. NUMBER 23. THREE-CENT COTION. TDK EVIL EFFECTS OF COMMISSIONER NIS UITT'S STATEMENT POINTED OUT BY EX -COMMISSIONER BENDER BON. To the Farmers of C eoroia: Having < utered the race for Comnn-siencr of Agr’culture, I propone in this letter to lay be ft ic the farmers of Georg.a, my views in re gard to a matter of vital importance to them. I refer to the cost of mis ing cotton to the av erage farmer,and to the bad policy (to give It uo worse a name) of promulgating to th world erroneous views as to the cost of raising the fle cy staple. In lvs interview of March 13th, published broadcast through the laud. Commissioner Nesbitt states in effect, thru cotton c tn ho raised in Georgia at a cost of from 3 t 0.3 1-3 cents p r pound. These astounding statements, widely copied and quoted, caused comment and discussion a 1 over the state, and not only in the state, but over the United States and the world in all otton circles. Here comes the official agr - cultur il head of the greatest cotton growing state in the south, and says that Georgians can and do raise cotton at 3 1-2 cents per pound, leaving in it,even at present unprecedentedly low prices, the handsome profit of 100 per cent, to the grower. Had such a statement come -from a ring of speculators on the Cotton Exc ham e in Wall street, bent on “ bearing ” the market f3o as to make a profitable dexl for themselves, the world would have understood their motives and laughed at their statements; but,coming from the Commissioner of Agriculture of Georgia, the world is bound to hear with respect and credit th > statement; credit it, ye , the speculators will cred t it, the spinners and manufacturers of New and Old England will credit it; they are eager and anxious to credit it; it means largely in Teased profit* and handsome dividends to them* Hut wll the farmer of Georgia credit it? Ho who counts in his humble home the cost of his cotton finds, that after denying him self and family all luxuries and many neces sities, that ho is still heavily in deb*, and the mortgage is still upon his farm, bis house, his mule, his cow and the meagre furniture in his cottage. Pathetic words those, when one com prehends the whole situation—“the cost of a pound of cotton.” But not only does the farmer take alarm when he hears the words of ill-omen come from the Department created by h*m and for h s protection, but our public-spirited mer chants and cotton men raise a note of alarm as soon as the unfortunate statement comes to their ears. As soon os he hears of it, Mr. Samuel M. Inman, the well-known aid suc cessful cotton buyer—identified with cotton interests all of h's business life, an honored citizen of whom his city, his statu and section are proud,—he writes a letter to Mr. Nesbitt and tells him that this statement, comiug as it does fiom one in his important position, “carries a weight and responsibility that is of vast important” It wi l be telegraphed to every important cotton market in Europe and America, and used in cotton circu are and re ports. It will be a ‘bear’ argument for still further lowering the price, and Will lo quoted as n authority for years to come.” Itds hard to calculate the damage done the farmers of Georgia, the merchants and others holding cotton, by this ill-advised assertion of the Commissioner, this season; but the end is not yet, it will be used by the spinners and speculators to bear down the price of the grow ing crop about which the hopes of the toiling masses now cling. He has “btiilded better thn bo thought,” If It w is his purpose to kill off the only money crop of his people, but I, have the charity to believe that lie knew not what he was doing. Mr. Inman then asks Mr. Nesbitt for the fig ures on which he bases the remarkable state ment he had made. When called to “taw” by Mr. Inman, Mr. Ntsbitt begins lo lay stress upon the fact that it will require years of i are ful preparation of the soil, of intensive f arm ing and heavy fertilizing, before 3 1-2 cents cotton can bera’sed. He then gives the figures of the State Experiment Station on a little garden plot highly manured and backed by ail the wealth and resources of the nation. He also gives the figures and experience of Cap tain Corput, a wealthy farmer, who pays cash for everything he needs, who has by intensive farming brought up his land to a high state of fertility, and in consequence makes a fine crop and a handsome profit. Co'onel Nesbitt is telling the farmers of Georgia nothing new when he te Is them that big crops can be raised by the intensive system of culture. It has been “ding-donged ” into his ears in season and out of season by the agricultural journa’s and so cieties, by the general press and by (he De partment of Agriculture under my adminis tration, for many years past. But now comes Sir Oracle, and with the air of a man promulgating anew and important fact, informs the world that from a bale to a bale and a hal* per acre can be raised in Geor gia, and at a cost not exce idinq three and A HALF cents per pound. Statistics.— ln compiling the “Common wealth of Georgia,” as far back as 1885, I pur posely retrained from giving the cost of pro duction of col ton then selling at about 10 cents perp und- I had figured thecof-t a‘ that time at about 8 1-2 cents per pound, but refrained from giving it, believing it would h wean injurious effect on prices. (Sei Commonwealth of Geor gia, page 360). At the same time I used every effort to show the farmer that the intensive system would pay handsomely. See in the same book, page3 361 to 365, instances of heavy returns on farm crops of every descript'on from all parts of the state, under a system of high culture. See also on p 'ge 167 the report of the committee of which I was chairman, in awarding the prizes in the contest for the best acres of corn and cotton offered by the Geo. W. Scott Company. In that contest the highest yield was 3 1-2 bales per acre, the lowest 1 bale per ar re, the high est yield of corn being 116 1-2 bush' Is per acre, the average b in? 81 bushels. Whilst the com mittee commented on the handsome profit to be derived from such high culture and urgsd it upon the farmers, they took care at the same time to show that the farmers hroughout the state only raised a bale to 3 1-2 acr s. No, Mr. Editor, the farmers of Georgia k now these facts just as w 11 as the Hon. Commissioner himse (\ he is not telling the farmer anything he did not know before; but that farmer is doing the best he can under the severe condi tions of life upon him, under the burden of time prices for everything that he needs to make bis crop; usurious interest charges add ed to the unjust bnrd-ns of the robber tariff make it impossible for him, strain every nerve as he may, to change his method or to make more than one-third of a bale to the acre, or to make R at a less cost than 8 1-2 cents per pound. Shepperson, the groat cotton statisti cian, writing in Nov. 1831, stated that cotton selling at tbat time for about 8 1-2 cents was undoubtedly below the cost of production. No, the average farmer of the country cannot ra ; se it for less, and God forbid that tho e who should befriend and protect him, should try to beat down and cheapen the products of his labor by putting the world on notice that he can raise for 3 1-2 cents what costs him 8 1-2 cents. I can hardly believe that tha great wrong ag inst the farmer of Georgia is inten tional on th 9 part of the Hon. Commissioner, but if not intentional it is surely a blunder, which is little less than a crime. Respectfully, John T. Hbkdkrson, A Railroad for Sale. The Illinois Central has an option un til June 18th on the Louisville, New Or leans and Texas Pacific. President Fish has called his stockholders together to decide whether they shall buy. He says tbat the system can be bought on a bas s of paying for all securities, $5,000,000 in money, $20,000,000 of Illinois Central 4 per cent bonds, being part of an issue by a pledge of the purchased securities. The remaining $5,000,000 of bonds to >,o retained bv the Illinois Central Always advertise your gooa , ana jour business will increase.