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Agricultural Department. EDITED nr THE SECKETART OF THE UAUT COVSTT AOKICVLTIeAI, fff H'IETT. FENCES AND STOCK. At the request of many of our read ers, we herewith give the ftill text of the law of Georgia relative to fences and stock. From a carofbl reading of the same, we are of the opinion that there is nothing in the act making it binding or obligatory on a county adopting the "no fence” system to build a line fence. -4n act relating to fences and stock, and for the protection of crops. Section 1. The Legislature of the State of Georgia do enact as follows : That in each and every county in this State, which shall adopt the provisions of this act., in the manner hereinafter provided, chapter, eighth, part first, title fifteenth of Irwin’s Revised Code of Georgia, embracing sections 1456, 1457, 1458, 1459, 1460 and 1461, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and the hodtMlary lines of each lot, tract or parcel of land in said county shall be, and the same are hereby, declared a lawful fence. Sec. 2. That no horse, mule, cow or hog, or any other animal or animals, used or fit either for fo6d or labor, shall be permitted to run at large beyond the limits of the lapds of its owner or man ager. Sec. 3. That if any of the animals enumerated in the foregoing section shall commit any trespass or damage, or shall be found going at large on the premises of an\’ other person than the owner of such animals or stock, wheth er enclosed or unenclosed, and whether such animals wandered from the prem ises of the owner in the county in which the trespass was committed, or from another county, it,shall be lawful for the owner of such premises to impound suchanirmd and retain them until the owner thereof shall make full satisfac tion or reparation for the-damages com mitted bv such animals, including all costs and expenses, unless disposed of according to the provisions of this act hereinafter provided. Sec. 4. That in case any of the said animals shall be impounded under the provisions of this act, it shall be the duty of the party so impounding them to give them all necessary feed, care and attention, for which he shall have reasonable compensation as hereinafter provided ; and it shall also be his duty to give the owner, if known, notice of the fact of such impounding in twenty four hours, and if not known or ascer tained within three days from the tak ing up and impounding such animals, they shall be disposed of as provided by law in cases of estrays. except that in case any such animal or animals shall be sold tinder provisions or the estray laws or this act, the pro ceeds of such sales, after the payment of legal costs, including advertising, etc., shall be applied first to the pay ment of the damages sustained by the aggrieved party, including reasonable compensation for the feed, care and at tention, to he ascertained as hereinafter provided. Sec. 5. That if any person shall, under the pretext of the provisions of this law, unnecessarily, or out of mere vexation, take up and impound any such animal or animals, or after having taken up and impounded any such ani mal or animals, shall fail to give the notice required by this act, ot to estray them, in case the owner is not known or ascertained within the time pre scribed by this act, or shall fail to give the proper care or attention, as herein provided, or in any manner shall injure or maltreat any such animal or animals, such person so offending shall be deem ed guilty of misdemeanor, and, on in dictment and conviction before any court having jurisdiction of such otf enses, shall be punished by fine or im prisonment in the common jail, in the discretion of the presiding Judge who shall try said cause, the fine not to ex ceed one hundred dollars, and the im prisonment not to exceed one month ; and in addition shall pay to the owner of such animal or animals double the amount of damages actually sustained by a violation of the provisions of this act. Sec. 6. That in case of disagreement between the taker up or party claimed to be damaged, and the owner of such animal or animals, as to the amount of damages sustained on account of the alleged trespass of such animal or ani mals, or for expenses for care, feed and attention, as required by this act, flic aggrieved party may make complaint to the Justice of the Peace of the dis trict, and if no Justice in such district, Vn to the mo3t convenient Justice in . *dier district, seting forth the am Ov. *Tn ec ) whereupon such Jus amount cla:, „ lmtno ‘ nS) as in other t,ce shall issue . day 9 from suits, returnable wu M|- owner or the (iate thereof, requirid" claimant of such stock to appear ‘ time and place therein named, an which shall be served as other sum mons at least three days before the time of hearing, when such Justice shall pro ceed to hear evidence and give judg ment against such owner or claimant for such damages as shall appear reas onable and just, including the expenses of care and feeding such stock, and all legal costs, which shall be enforced by execution, levy and sale as other judg ments of such Justice : Provided, nev ertheless, That a special lien upon the trespassing animal or animals, for the payment of such judgment, shall attach from the time of the committing of such trespass, superior to all other liens The Hartwell Sun. By BENSON & McGILL VOL 111—NO. 39. or previous claims, except public dues, and superior also to all exemptions un der the homeste:wl and exemption laws : And provided also, That if said judg ment for damages shall exceed the sum of fifty dollars, the defendant may en ter an appeal as in other cases in Jus tices’ Courts: And provided further, That in case of any litigation, ns con templated by this act, it shall be lawful for the owner of such animals to re deem or replevy the same by giving to the complaining party a bond, with good and sufficient security, condition ed to pay all damages and costs which may be finally recovered against him in such suit. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the foregoing provisions of this act shall become operative in any county of this State njwm the fol lowing terms and conditions: When ever so many as fifty freeholders in any county of this State shall petition the Ordinary of any county for the benefit of the provisions of this act, said Or dinary shall at once make known throughout said county, by advertise ment in the public gazette, if there is one published in said county., and. by notices at all election precincts and public places therein, that such petition has been filed in his office, such notice Jo be published twenty days. It' a yount,er-petitioa of freeholders is filed, amounting to fifty persons, then the Ordinary shall proceed no further. If such petition of freeholders is not met by such counter-petition, or, if met by such counter-petition, is supported by a petition of so many as twenty-five additional freeholders, then the Ordi nary aforesaid shall at once proceed to have an election held in such county, on the first Monday ia July following, in which the question shall be submit ted to the lawful voters of said county, of “ fence or no fence ;” said election to be held at the places and under the same rules and regulations as are pro vided for members of the General As sembly, and after thirty days’ notice at the most public places in said county. The returns of said election shall be made to ihe Ordinary of said county, and. afterexamining the same, and de ciding ii()Oii all questions which may arise out of said election, he shall nro Halm the result by notice as aforesaid. If the lawful majority in said election is for " no fence," then the provisions of this act shall take effect in such county w’itbin six months thereafter: Provided, Said elections shall not be held oftencr than one time in every two years. Txie Stock Law. Agricultural Editor The Sun : The Stock law is being agitated and discussed warmly, and I fear with too \ much bitterness. Now, dear friends, let us lay aside all strife and respect the opinions of each other. I propose to take a one-horse farm, and show some of the benefits that I would be realized if the stock lav; should be adopted. Every oue-horse j farmer ought to have at least fifty acres i of tillable land, in order to raise corn, I wheat, oats, cotton, &e. This would j make five ten acre fields, and would j take 4,000 rails to fence each field. 1 Putting the splitting and building at $1 per hundred and the timber at $2.50 per thousand and the five fields would cost $250. The fields will cost at least $5 each annually to keep fences in good repair. Add this to first cost, and your fencing costs $275. But, you say, I do the work myself, and the timber is mine. Well, if you do, labor is worth 1 money, and so is timber; if you don't think so, goto the contractors of the j Hartwell Railroad and see if they won't give money for labor. Besides if the labor thus spent was expended in mak ing manure, ditching and fixing up the j land so it would not wash away, the yield would be four fold in three years to what it is now. We never can make this county what it should be—the gar den spot of the State —until a thing of this sort is done. But let us see what it will cost to fence the stock on a one horse farm—say two milch cows, six hogs, six sheep and six goats. This is about all that most one-horse farmers have (and this number ought to bo re duced full} 7 half, for half the stock well pastured and fed will be worth more than four times the number half cared for). Well, cows, hogs, &e., make 20 head of stock to be fenced : now, every farmer knows that hogs will do better on one acre of land and half fed. than the' 7 woldd do to let them go at large. The sheep a.”d goats can be kept in ■rood order on five .acres of good pas ture and the cows on fivS acres. But, you .ay, we haven't got those good pastures. The old field sedge wi.t last two years, and in that time you can make clover patches and get grass seed and make good grass pastures. W hat is the cost of fencing your stock . SSO Take this from $260, first cost, and you have S2OO the advantage; then you save S2O annually in the re, pairing. I thing this is enough to cause all to vote for the law. But says HARTWELL, GA., WEDNESDAY MAY 28, 1870. the renter it is not to my interest. Now, stop : the interests of the !nus - owner and renter aru one and tlie same, for the landowner cannot do without the renter, neither can the renter do without the landowner. Just for a moment, think of the damage stock does under the present system. There are rumors going around that nine-tenths of the people in Anderson County are dissatisfied with the stock law. This is false. W. T. McLees, of Rock Mills, in that county, says nineteen-twentieths of the people would not change back for anything j and for himself he would not change for SSO annually—and he is only a two horse farmer. Under the stock law, we would get more milk aud ..butter from one cow than we now get. from four; one bog would be worth two. Where we now t kill hogs weighing from 125 to 250 ths, we would then kill them from 250 tj> 1500 lbs. Friends, think the matter over —look facts square in the face. We would lose our harvest pastures you sav. Rut now you lose more than you gain ; for stock to run on land wet and dry wears out tin; land faster than the crops. But, say some, we would have to build a fence around the county. This is denied by some, that say they know; I don't know, but hope Tuft i Sun will publish the act relative to the ! fence law—then all can see for them ! selves. Sroos. CLOSING SCENES OF THE GREAT CIVIL WAR. ■Ton the riiiiffilor.ili.' Kx-I*re*l<l<-nt n TrvHtril by Ills ■liiiiinnv Otplun— A Hvniiiilwriiti- or (he Aute-UecooMlruc tion I’irliHl. Charleston Xeus, June 30, 1866. On the morning of the 23d of Muv. bitter trial was in store for the proud spirit—a trial severer, probably, than has ever in modem times been inflicted upon any one who had enjoyed such em inence. This morning Jeflersou Davis was shackled. It was while all the swarming camps of the armies of the Potomac, the Ten nessee and Georgia—over two hundred thousand bronzed and laureled veterans —were preparing for the Grand Review of ii.o ncit morning, . wmefi, jui'otog in endless succession before the mansion of the President, the conquering mili tary power of the nation was to lay down its arms at the feet of the civil au thority, that the following scene wat-eti acted at Fort Monroe : Captain Jerome E. Titlow, of the 3d Pennsylvania Artillery, entered the prisoner’s cell, followed by the black smith of the Fort and his assistant, the latter carrying in his hands some heavy and harshlv-rattling shackles. As they entered, Mr. Davis was reclining on his bed, feverish and weary after a sleepless night, the food placed uear him the pre ceding day untouched on his tin plate near ids bedside. “ Well?” said Mr. Davis as they en tered, slightly raising his head. “ I have an unpleasant duty to per form, sir,” said Captain Titlow ; and as he spoke the senior blacksmith took the shackles from the assistant. Davis leaped instantly from his re cumbent attitude, a flush passing over his face for a moment, and then his countenance growing as livid and rigid as death. He gasped for breath, clutching his throat with the thin lingers of his mrlit hand, and then recovering himself ™w !v, while his wasted figure towered upto its full height—now appearing to swell with indignation and then to shrink with terror, ns he glanced from the cap tain’s face to the shackles —he said slow ly and with a laboring chest: “My God ! You cannot have been sent to iron me?” “ Such are my orders, sir,” replied the officer, beckoning the blacksmith to ap proach, who stepped forward, unlocking ihe padlock and preparing the fetters to do their office. These fetters were of heavy iron, probably five-eighths of an inch in thickness, and connected togeth er by a chain of like weight. I believe they are now in the possession of Major General Miles, and will form an interest ing re ic “ This is too monstrous,” groaned the prisoner, glaring hurriedly round the room, as if for some weapon, or means of self-destruction. “ I demand, Cap tain, that you let me see the command ing officer. Can he pretend that such shackles are required to secure the safe custody of a weak old man, so guarded and in such a fort as this?” “It would serve no purpose,” replied Captain Titlow; “his orders are from Washington, as mine are from him.” “But lie can telegraph,” interposed Mr. Davis, eagerly; “ there must be some mistake. No such outrage as you threaten me with is on record in the his tory of nations. Beg him to telegraph, and delay until he answers.” “ Mv orders are peremptory,” said the officer, “ and admit of no delay. For your own sake let me advise you to sub mit with patience. Asa soldier, Mr. Davis, you know I must execute orders.” “ These are not orders for a soldier,” Devoted to Hart County. “ Do your duty, blacksmith,” said the officer, walking toward the embrasure as if not earing to w itness the (lerforniuncc. “It only gives increased pain on all sides to protract this interview." At these words the blacksmith ad vanced with the shackles, and seeing that the prisoner had one foot upon the chair near his bixlside, his right hand resting on the hack of it, the brawny mechanic made an attempt to slip one of the shackles over the ankle so raised ; hut as if with the vehemence and power which frenzy can impart, oveu to the weakest individual, Mr. Davis suddenly seized his assailant and hurled him half wav across ihc room. On this Captain Titlow turned, ami, seeing that Davis hail hacked against the wall for further resistance, begun to remonstrate, (xiinting out in brief, clear language, that this course was madness, and that orders must he enforced at any cost.” “ Why compel me,” lie added, “ to add the further indignity of person al violence to the necessity of your be ing ironed?” “ I am a prisoner of war," fiercely retorted Mr. Davis; “I have been a soldier in the armies of America and ; know how to die. Only kill me, and ! my last breath shall lie a blessing on your head. But while I have life and strength to resist, for myself and for my people, this thing shall not he done.” Hereupon Captain Titlow cnlled in a sergeant and file of soldiers from the next room, and the sergeant advanced to seize the prisoner. Immediately Mr. Davis (lew oil him and seized his mus ket and attempted to wrench it from his grasp. Of COlireo mziama rtniiLl Loro h>H ae-issue. There wns n short, passion ate scuffle. In a moment Davis wus flung upon his bed, and before his four powerful assailants removed their hands from him, the blacksmith nnd his assis tant hud done their work—one securing the rivet on the right ankle, while the other turned the key in the padlock on the left. * This done, Mr Davis lay for a mo ment as if in a stupor. Then slowly raising himself and turning round, he dropped his shackled feet to the floor. The harsh clank of the striking chain seems first to have recalled him to his situation, and dropping his face into his hands, he burst into a passionate flood of sobbing, rocking to and fro, and mut tering at brief intervals! ‘‘Oh, the shame, the shame!” It may here be stated, though out of its due order —that we may get rid in haste of an unpleasant subject—that Mr. Davis some months later, when frequent visits had made him more free to con verse, ga\e me a curious explanation of the last feature in this incident. He had been speaking of suicide, and denounced it as the worst form of cow ardice and folly. “ Life is not like a commission that we can resign when dis gusted with the service. Taking it by your own hand is a confession of judg ment to all that your worst enemies can allege. It has often flushed across mens a ternpting remedy for neuralgic tortuc ; but thank God! I never sought my own death but once, and then w hen com pletely frenzied, and not master of my actions. When they came to iron me that day, as a last resource of despera tion, I seized a soldiers musket and at tempted to wrench it from his hands, hoping that in the scuffle and surprise, some of his comrades would shoot or bayonet me.” “A Crapping Mortgage.” Italeigh Observer. “ Don’t know what a crapping mort gage is ! To he sure you ain’t never liv ed in the country, then,” said an honest, hard-working and thrifty farmer ofsmall means, who lives in an eastern county, to one of our lawyers, as eminent for his honhommie as for his admirable talents: “ you a lawyer and don’t know what a crapping mortgage is? Well, I’ll tell you.” “I made one of them domed things once; the way of it was just this: You see I went down to the store at the forks of the road in my neighborhood, to buy a few articles that was needed at home, and when I got ’em in the cart to go home, my friend, Sbarpman, he is the merchant, you know, who keeps a little store down there —just a little country store —Sharpman, he said to me, “ Want is the use of bothering along with little things of this sort? Why don't you just make a “crapping mortgage,” and then you can get anything you want, and wont have to pay for it until your crap eotnes in, and tf>*n you can pay it shouted the prisoucr, losing all control of himself. “ They are orders for n jailor—for a hangman, which no soldier wearing a aword should accept! I tell you the world will ring with this dis grace. The war is over; the South is conquered ; I have no longer any coun try hut America, and it is lor the honor of America, as for my own honor and life, that I plead against this degrada tion. Kill me! kill me!” he cried pas sionately, throwing his arms wide o|>on and exposing his breast, " rather than inflict on me and my people through me, this insult worse than death.” 81.50 Per Annum. WHOLE NO. 143. off with a halo of cotton or so.” ”It sounded mighty easy like, so I signed one of the cussed things and started off home with my load. Well, sir, them mortgages is curious things. I hadn’t mnre’n got up the red hill going Iminc Iwfore I commenced to think of what 1 needed, nnd the internal thing made me think of things that 1 must, have that I never had wanted before. You see I always had money on hum! to buy w hat me ami the old woman wanted, ami I had fought shy of debt all my life, hut all the neighbors was a trying their hands on " crapping mortgages,” and I thought I would go in for a Tittle too. Well, I did. 1 kept oil wanting things, and I kept on getting things. We all got along line, and Khurpinnn sold the old woman lots of nice things that wo uever had wanted before, but that we was hound to have after I signed the "crapping mortgage.” They breed wants, they do. “At last the crap came in. I sent j two or three bales of cotton down to the store to pay it off, as Sbarpmau said it would do ; but it didn’t. I then sent | down all my fodder ; but tlmt didn’t do it. I talked the mutter over with the old woman, nnd she got op all her ducks, I chickens and eggs, and I sent down nil the corn that 1 Imd made, and tlmt did 1 not do it; so I just got on my horse and J rode down to the store to see about it. I 1 looked at what we had bought come to all figured up, you know, and there was always what you call a ha lance agin me. So I just took out my pocket book that had had the mortgage in it all the time, ami paid off the mortgage and took the confounded thing and went hack home. Well, when I got there f thought I'd read over that paper that always man- i aged to keep a balance Hgiu me some how or other, nnd 1 done so. Well, now, what do you think there was iii that crapping mortgage? I hope the record ing angel ain't listening, hut I wish I may be d—d if that 'ere little crapping mortgage were'ut spread all over my land. My horses, my mules, mv stock, mv farming utensils, my household nnd kitchen furniture, even the dishrag was flung into it. I always thought that the things must have India rubber in ’em they stretched so. and they ought to j i.- -ii'i *• ■ , 1 ping mortgages, oughtn't they? Well,! let me tell you. Don't you never sign j one. You never will get through pay- j mg it, and when them store fellows tell you how easy it is to pet things now and j pay for ’em in the fall, you remember what I tell you about a crapping mort gage” j And having finished Ins description ot these little engines of oppression, he (Milled out his twist of home-made tr-j iiacco, that looked as rich nnd brown as walnut wood, cut off a chew with his horn-handle knife, put it into his mouth, put the knife and tobacco hack into his breeches pocket and walked away. lie turned round after walking a little way, and said reflectively : " Don’t you never sign one in the world ; if you do, you'll uever get through paying it off.” RUN HILL. A New York Knillrnl Journal on Mr. Hill's I.nle H|teeeh. Wnehiiigton Letter to llurhteltr Evening Expretr We have a good sent, to see him, and we have long wanted to hear him and see some miracle that he would work. lie is six feet, straight-faced, rather thin, firm set, and with an eye born to face any fortune. The man to his left is Butler of South Carolina; mxt is Beck, and round him press Eaton and others, who evidently look for a field day on their side of the hall-wfor Ben Hill is just now their ablest speaker—and one of their fairest-minded and rno-t plausi ble men. He is neat but plain in his dressand address. Davis, who is one of the possibilities of the Senate —and one of the pussyhellytes, too —turns round to face him. Robeson has come in from the House and has a seat next to Davis, and is nearly as large, though a hand some man of fifty or more. The whole Senate begins to mark the iron face of Hill, as he opens coolly and slowly with his hands clasped behind him. In this manner he speaks (<>n the great question now up) for ten minutes without a gesture, llis voice increases a little, and his forefinger comes foward to point at the Senator from New York, or from Maine, or at the smooth, fine head and form of Edmunds, from Ver mont, whose great speech was given the day before. The Georgian soon has his plan open, and presses on to a re view of the speeches of the three lead ing Republicans just named, and it is evident lie is in for a review of the whole of these, and the whole of the questions now up, and the whole of the late war. As he advanced he showed more and more of the real Southern man and orator. I have already said in another letter that he is a graduate of college, and he shows it in his clear cut, incisive words, never wanting to his thought, never misplaced, though his speech was ex temporaneous and continued over three hours. He was bold in his statements, well arranged with his books of refer- I ence Ire fore him j bold in gesture and voice, sometime* with one hand open j toward the other aide of the house— sometimes with both extended, and then striking the attitude in whieh Heny i Clay is pictured in making bis farewell, witii head and ahouldera thrown back, ' bis feet well advauccd, and both hands reaching out and downward in calm pgrace and dignity. I have seen Clay, but never heard him except In conversation. 80l I have heard Tom Marshall, who was said to he much like Clay in style and elo quence. I think Hill has studied both and with eminent success. He has no want of ideas, nnd marches fearlessly on to meet the armed foe shouting among the captains, like Job’s war horse. I hare beard many speeches, and must say, that, as a speech, this of the great rebel, for clear statement, fine language, strong declaration, well sns tained voice and argument, and for re search and apparent candor, is one of the liest I have ever heard, in the Sen ate or in the hustings or on the plat form. He is the kind of a man the South (nits into the fore-front of all their bat tles, in field or senate, and the atten tion this speech challenged from friend and foe shows that they had not’ mis calculated their man. When will the North learn to put their educated, bold men into congress, for it will take the strongest debuters we have to meet and master sneh speakers as Ben. Hill, of Georgia. I have only said what all sav-—that he is a very able speaker. OT.I) ZACn riIANm.KR on hand. He was so yesterday, and gave the democrats a lively touch of his fiery eloquence. He is just as ready to-day. There he stands, crying “ Mr. Presi dent," while the rebels, as he calls the confederates, are shaking hands with llill. "Mr. President,” said he again ; and went on to parry a thrust Hill made at him for saving before the war that a little blood-letting would be the only care for the secessionists. He said that Hill took good care of his precious self by getting shut up in Fort Lafayette, where he could not be hurt, (■handler pounds his desk, and pounds around on other desks near by. but lie is not the man to answer Hill at length. He puts powder under him and gives him a blast: but it will take a man of reading and rare eloquence to reply to the argument of Hill; from Madison, Webster and others he quo ted with lawyer-like comments. “ Are you dying P” asked an anxious friend of a wag, who was on his death bed. How can I tell ? I've had no experience in this tiling. I've never died yet,” was the quick reply. - ,**.* mm am luLiil.lVllj* Over 28.0fH) sheep were killed by dogs in North Carolina last year. Atlanta is to have anew daily evening paper, ycleped The Dispatch. A turtle weighing 105 pounds was caught in bake Marion, Arkansas recently. Cotton speculators in Montgomery. Ala., have made $1,000,000 in the pastO months. Atlanta now has a cotton exchange, and you can buy and sell cotton futures there. The Constitution says Hayes is no des pot—that he is any other kind of pot than that. Atlanta is making a strong effort to have the Chattahoochee river made navigable to West Po : nt. ‘ The first shipment of Georgia peaches this year was sent to New York from Ma con on the I till). The Atlanta Constitution is opposed to discriminations in freight. So are the peo ple. Whoop it up. A negro was sentenced to pay a line of $5,000 and imprisonment in the peniten tiary one year for marrying a white woman, in Indiana, on the 20th. Haves has more toes than any man in the butted States, counting his vetoes, lie uses an old rusty bayonet to gouge the corns out of the latter. Bluinc said in a recent speech in Con gress. that lion. A. 11. Stephens’ history is a mischievous hook. Yes, too mischiev ous for Blaine to get over. Rev. J. R. Graves, the celebrated Bap tist preacher that had such a religious com bat with Parson Brownlow. was exposing spiritualism in Atlanta last week. Secretary Sherman is thought to be tho most formidable of the Republican candi dates for the presidency, because of his fine management of the U. S. finances. “ Cities and towns are judged by the character of the papers published in them,’’ says the Savannah Recorder. Hartwell is said to be the prettiest town in Georgia. Ripe plums and blackberries in Augusta as earlv as the 19th. It is a common sight to see Bill Moore squatting on his *■ hunk ers” and cracking a plum the butt of his new shot gun to get the goody. A colored convention in Richmond, Va., on the 20th, recommended the negroes to organize societies for the purpose of peti tioning the legislative and judicial depart ments of the State for the full recognition of their rights as citizens, and if this is not accorded tlicy are advised to emigrate to other States or Territories where Hiere ia no color line. They aspire to be F, F. Vs. A terrible murder occurred near Pen dleton. S. C.. on the 19th. Wm. Fergu son. a white man. was informed that Mat tie 11 ntton. a negro girl, had charged that he had made an attempt to rape her. This so exasperated him that he took his shot gun amf went to the field where she and other negroes were at work. He asked her if she had made the assertion. She said she had, and refused to take it , hack. Whereupon Ferguson fired both barrels of his gun into the girl's head, kill |mg her instantly. The negroes were hor -1 rifled and scared at this brutal act and ned like sheep. The people of Anderson to. are doing their best to apprehend and bring the murderer to justice. At last accounts 1 tie had not been found. The people on the Georgia side of the Savannah should keep , a look out for Ferguson. A reward will be offered for his apprehension.