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JACKSON HERALD. ROBERT S. HOWARD,/ Editor and Publisher. ) VOLUME I. Professional & iWuiess Cards. JOH* J. Sl ItK kLAM), A TTORX E V-AT-L A W, Daniki-svili-k, (>a., A\ ill promptly attend to all business entrusted to him. dec 17, ’BO. Dr. a it. NICHOLSON, GA., Tenders his professional services to the surround ing country. Rheumatism, Neuralgia and the dis eases of women a specialty. Feb. 13th, 1880. ly Howard thompno.% ATTORNEY-AT-L A YY r , GAINESVIUiE, Ga. Prompt and faithful attention given to all busi ness placed in his hands. WII.KV i\ ■KMYAIMb Attorne anil Cnn>*rlr at I.jw, JEFFERSON, GA. Will attend faithfully to all business entrusted (O his care. inchL QILMAA & THOMPSON, O ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Jefferson,G a, Will practice in Jackson and adjoining counties. ia’p! Iduertisemcnts. Notice to Contractors . WILL he let, to the lowest bidder, before the Court House door in Jefferson, on Wednes day, the ISth day of May, 1881, the contract for building the bridge across the Mulberry river, at the place known as the Lyle bridge, under the following specifications, to-wit: Said bridge to be built on a level with west bank of the river, with two spans—one a queen post truss fifty feet, the other common span length to suit length of balance of bridge: one arch, to be built in river upon a crib, length of same to suit heighth of arch and eight feet wide, with middle sill at the bottom, and of timbers 10x12 inches, notched into each other so as not to leave more than two inches space between, and pinned with two-inch pins at each corner and filled up with rock ; arch or trestle to be set upon said crib and fastened by banding over end of mud sill with three-inch bar iron, bolted into three logs of crib ; two main rods of iron, 1J inches in diameter, to extend from through middle sill in bottom of crib up through inud sill, cap sill aud one sleeper, and securely fastened with tap and washer ; two other arches to be built in the same manner and let into the ground at least six feet and filled in on with rock and dirt at each embankment. All sleepers to bo 10x12 or Bxl2 inches, anti to lap three feet over cap sills; uprights to trestle or arch to be 10x12 inches, tenented and morticed half through ca p sills and pinned ; cap sills 10x12 inches, 15 foist long; mud silks 12x14 inches, length to suit higlith *f arch; flooring 2x12 inches, 14 feet long; ban isters made of 3x4 scantling; uprights placed S feet apart, morticed through the lioor and keyed on under side and braced on outside; floor to be spiked down with 40-pcnny spikes, two in ei/tch end of plank, and right and left in intermedi ate sleepers. .Sleepers in old bridge down the river allowed to be used in crib and all flooring tha t is sound and suitable. All timbers to be good he art, and if hewn to be well and smoothly done. Bond, with two good securities, required in a sum double the amount of the bid, conditioned for a faithful ©omplyance of the contract, immediately after the letting. The work to be paid for when completed in accordance with the specifications, and to be completed in fifty days from the time of let ting. Full and complete specifications can be seem at this office. apll-5 H. W. BELL, Orct’y. Jackson County. Whereas, the road commissioners, appointed for the purpose of reviewing and reporting up on the public utility of establishing as one of the public roads of said county the road commencing:; near Pleasant Hill school-house, on the Gainesville and Homer road, and running the traveled way over the lands of YV. S. Crislcr and J. O. Browning, and intersecting atthc forks of the Gainesville and Gillsville roads, on the liall county line; also, the road commencing at the Jefferson and Monroe road, near Hancock's bridge, on the Jlulberr}- river, and being the traveled way by I. T. Austin’s, the Holliday mill place and intersecting with the Athens and Lawrenoeville road near Jamies Thur mewd’s. Said commissioners having reported said roads of public utility, an order will be granted, finally establishing said roads as public roads, on Monday, the 23d day of May, 1881, if no good cause to the contrary is shown on or by that day. Given under my official signature, this April 20th, 1881. 11. VV. BELL, Ord'y. | KOK(M, Jackson Count/. AVherons, upon application to me, in terms of the law, by one-fifth of the qualified voters of the *2ssth District. G. of said county, asking for an election to be called in said District, that the question of the restriction of the sale oif intoxicat ing liquors in said District m*y be submitted to the voters thereof— It is hereby ordered that an election be held in said District, at the usual place of holding elec tions in the same, on Saturday, th e 7th day of May, 1SS1; that those voting at said elections who favor restriction stall have written or printed •on their ballots the words, u For Restriction, v and those who opposeshall have writfc< :n or printed on their ballots the words, AgainstKestriction,” sind that the managers of said election shall keep duplicate list of voters and tallcy sheets, certify sind sign the same, one of which Shall be tiled with the Clerk of the Superior Courtofsaid county and the other for wanted without delay to his Ex cellency the Governor. 11. W. DELL, Ord’y. April 6th, 1861. Jackson County. Z. W. HOOD, 1 JacksonCf ourtofOrdi- Propovadcr of tle last j nary, April term, 1881. will and testament <f j Application for probate iStcvca jlson, dec'd, j- of will in solemn form vs. j and for letters of Ad- Heirs at law of said J ministratia n with the deceased. j will annexed. It appearing n. the Court that ooe of the heirs At law in the above stated case resides without -he btate, to-wit: Andrew Harris:; it is, thcrc lore, O rokukvi, That servioe or notice of the above application be perfected pon said Andrew Har is by publication of this order #:ace week for three m the -Jackson Hekjljld, a newspa? per published m said county of Jackson, prior to the hearing thereof e n the first Monday in May, •G"! h, 1881. Jl, \\\ BELL, or 4’y. A true citract from the minutes of tho Court f Ordmaij of Jackson county, G*Hr<ia. H, ISV? BELL apl 15 Et-Ofhcio Clerkfjourt Ordinary, Watches, Clocks, JEWELRY, do,, left in Jefferson with F. L Pendergrass, F. M. Bailey, 41 J. C, Whit el head, will be sent out to me, repaired and return*, pd promptly, Charges moderate^ April!—dm E. M. THOMPSON, A WAITED fosr the Best and rastest.Selling Pictorial B%j ks and Jlihles. prices reduced 33 per pent. National Publishing Atlant.% Ga, apl 1 3m M, WAPNER’SI pAFE iwirmiy M ot. lici’M, Wives, llauglilci's Sous, Fa tilers, AKiuisters, Teachers Itiisincss .lien. Farmers Mechanics AIJL should be warned against using and introducing into their ■IOJIES Nostrums and Alcoholic Remedies. Have no such prejudice against, or fear of, “ AVr ncr’s Safe Xouic Hitters.” They arc what they are claimed to be—harmless as milk, and contain only medicinal virtues. Extract of Choice Vcg* tables only. They do not belong to that class knonm as “ Cure-Alls,” but only profess to reach case s where the disease originates in debilitated frames and impure blood. A perfect Spring and Summer Medicine. A ThoronffißM Pnrifier. A Tonic Appetizer. Pleasant to the taste, invigorating to the body. The most eminent physicians recommend them for their Curative Properties. Once used, always preferred. Trial Size, tfOc. Full Size (largest in market) Rl. THEM.^j For I lie Kidney*, I Aver and Urinary Organ*, use nothing but “YVAR.YEK'S SAFE KIDNEY AND I AYER CURE” It stands UNRIVALLED. Thousands owe their health and happiness to it. BtaT’We offer “ War ner’s Safe Tome Bitters” with equal confidence. H. H. WARNER & CO., Rochester, N. Y. THE TRADE! A LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCK OF BLANK BOOKS and Stationery, LEDGERS, JOURNALS, LETTER BOOKS, WRITING PAPER, ENVELOPES , INK, MUCILAGE, INK STANDS, PENCILS, Etc. Churches and Ministers supplied with Books at publishers prices, by BURKE & ANDERSON, Feb. 25 Athens, Ga. ENCOURAGE HOMEJANUFACTURES. Maysville Shoe Factory. YVc manufacture all kinds of shoes ; mens’ Brogans and Boots, ladies’ High and Low Quar tered Shoes, childrens’ Shoes, HARNESS and BRIDLES. YYe arc prepared to make all kinds of tine work. YYe work the best material in the most popular styles, and Warrant our Work Equal to any Goods on the Market. YY’e have experienced workmen employed, for both coarse and line work. As we defy competi tion in quality, prices and service, we hope to have the pleasure of supplying you with Boots and Shoes. BROWN & RILEY. Maysville, Ga. fiST'We also keep constantly on hand a select stock of Groceries and Provisions. Bacon, Lard, Sugar, Coffee, Syrup, Dry Goods, Ac., Ac. Notice to Tax-Payers! I will be at the following named places and dates, for the purpose of receiving your Tax Returns for the year ISSI : Randolph’s, April 4th, May 2d and 17th. House’s, April sth, May 4th and 18th. Chandler’s, April Gth, May sth and 10th. .banter Fe, April 7th, May Gth and 20th. Clarkcsborough, April Bth and 18th, May 9th. Human’s Store, April 11th and 29th, May 23d. William Grilt'eth’s, April 12th and 27th, May 24th. Maysville, April 13tli and 26th, May 25th and 26th. Harmony Grove, April 14th and 22d, May 12th. Nicholson, April 15th and 20th, May 11th. Center, April 19th. White’s Mill, April 21st. Nunn's Store, April 25th. Benjamin Atkins’, April 28th. Jasper N. Thompson’s, May 3d. Williamson’s Mill. May 10th. Apple Valiev, May 13th. Maddox’s Mill, May IGtli. DeLaperriere’s Store, May 27th. I will be at Jefferson every Saturday till first of June, at which time mv hooks will be closed. J. W. N. LANIER, Tax Receiver Jackson Ounty. MAN HOOD HOW LOST, HOW RESTORED! Just published, anew edition of DR. CULVER WELL’S Celebrated Essay on the radical cure of Spermatorrhoea or Seminal Weakness Invol untary Seminal Losses. Imi’WENCY, Mental and Physical Incapacity, Impediments to Marriage, etc*; also, Consumption, Epilepsy and Fits, induced by self-indulgence or sexual extravagance, Arc. The celebrated author, in this admirable Essay, clearly demonstrates, from a thirty years’ suc cessful practice, that the alarming consequences of self-abuse maybe radically cured; pointing out a inode of cure at once simple, certain, and effectual, by means of which every sufferer, no matter what his condition may be, may cure him self cheaply, privately, and radically. Lecture should bo in the hands of every youth and every man in the land, Sent under seal, in a plain envelope, to any ad dress, postpaid, on receipt of six cents or two postage stantps. Address the Publishers, THE OULVERWELL MEDICAL CO . 41 Ami &t M New York, N. Y- ; p. 0, Box. 458 C. JEFFERSON. JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1881. [From the Atlanta Constitution.] Bill Arp Returns to Questions that Interest the People. Winter has left us at last—a hard old winter—hard even on us in the sunny south and merciless on our northern brethren. For about seven months they have been snow bound and ice-bound—penned up in frozen homes, and the ice is just now breaking up, and great floods are overflowing them, and still they are afraid to move to this blessed land—afraid of ku-klux and barbarians. I'm sorry for ’em, but I don’t care enough about it to weep and distress myself. We can get along very well without ’em. We’ve been calling ’em kindly ever since the war, and given welcome to those who did come, and now I’m opposed to the calling business. I’m willing to saj’ howdy and make a passing remark about the weather, but that’s all. No more tatty, no more honey and sugar. We want to be honeyed some ourselves. It’s been a one-sided game long enough. We’ve sold ’em our sugar, and cotton, and rice, and tobacco, and syrup, and sweet-potatoes, and gubbers, and watermelons, and bought tbeir patent medicines, and fly-trap 9, and doll babies, and yankee notions, and picture books, and dime novels and Buttcrick’s pat terns, and all their tom fooleries and gone to all their circuses and monkey shows and paid out thousands of dollars to hear ’em peddle and sing and jump round and they go back and chuckle and tell their nabors how much they made off of us, and nov because Griffin expressed her indignation in an. egg splosive manner the whole yankee nation is mad about it. Our people have long since recognized slavery as a dead issue, and they needent be sending Uncle Tom’s Cabin down here to revive it and teach our children a lie, and I reckon the Griffin bo3*s took the most convinoin way of proving that it was an eggstinct institution. We are getting along pretty well and we want era to let us alone. It looks like them fellers up north just keep our people and our sunny land as a sort of nest egg, an.l if they come across a bad one occasionally they oughtent to grumble. If they cant get all that we make one way they will another for they have got the money, and money is a power that will buy or seduce most anybody. Now here is the great railroad combination—this tripple alliance that has run the Central and Geor gia stock away up yonder and the people say bully and look on and wonder and it's made some folks rich all of a sudden, but the plain truth is the whole business is a selling out to the yankees—to northern railroad monop olies, for the stock in all these gigantic cor porations is owned in New York, or up there somewhere, and the tripple alliance hadent been made three days before the freight agents met in Cincinnati and raised the tariff forty per cent, at a jump. Pretty good raise for the first meeting wasent it, and I reckon they will meet again before long and we the people are to pay for it. The old rule was that those who dance must pay the fiddler, but these fellers dance all night and make the bystanders pay for looking on. Some times when I get to thinking about the greed and grip of them millionaires up north and how they keep insinuating their claws into our country, I get alarmed and wonder how long they will let me keep my land and live in peace and seclusion, and if they don’t git it by some hokus pokus before I die how long will they let the children keep it. But still I am hopeful—for they have got to die all the same like the rest of us, and death scatters things amazin’ soon for its a law of nature that a man who lives to make money and nothing else, raises a passel of children who live to spend it. Wm. H. Vanderbilt is an exception, but there ain’t many, and 1 reckon his children will make it fly if he has got any. The difference in the happiness of mankind don’t depend on the amount of money they have made by no means, and I never saw the day I would change places with A. T. Stewart, who worked all his life like a dog, and his greatest pleas ure was to break down a rival and break him up, too. and as soon as he died a man no kin to him gobbled up his fortune and some thieves come along one night and stole his bones, and nobody cared ; and, if that ain’t a sermon on striving after riches I never knew one, but you might as well preach it to a dead horse as to Jay Gould, or Jim Keene, or Armour, or any of them fellows who would see a nation perish to death for bread and meat if it put a few millions in their pocket. Corners is the word now. Get a corner on something—that is get the people in a corner where they can neither back nor squall. I saw the other day that they had got up a corner on peas—cow peas, and had bought cm all up on the sly and wag holding era at $2.50 a bushel by the car load. I maj' be mistaken but it seems to me a little higher grade of happiness to look out upon the green fields of wheat and the leafing t.reess and the blue mountains in the distance and hear the dove cooing to her mate, and the whippoor will sing a welcome to the night, and hunt flowers and bubby blossoms with the chil dren, and make whistles for ’em and hear FOR THE PEOPLE. Dropping into Poetry. “If you please, sir,” said the young lady timidly, as the exchange editor handed her a chair. “ I have composed a few Y’erscs, or partially composed them, and I thought you might help me finish them and then print them. Ma says they are real nice as far as they go, and pa takes the Eagle every day.” She was a handsome creature, with beauti ful blue eyes, and a crowning glory of golden hair. There was an expectant look on her face, a hopefulness that appealed to the holiest emotions, and the exchange editor made up his mind to crush the longing of that pure heart if he never struck another lick. “May I show you the poetry ?” continued the ripe, red mouth.- “ You will see that I couldn’t get the last lines of the verses, and if you would please be so kind as to help me—” Help her ! though he had never even read a line of poetry, the exchange editor felt the spirit of the divine art flood his soul as he yielded to the bewildering music. Help her ! Well, he should smile. “ The first verse runs like this,” she went on, taking courage from his eyes : “llow softly sweet the Autumn air The dying woodland fills. And nature turns with restful care.” “ To anti-bilious pills,” added the exchange editor, with a jerk. Just the tlrng. It rhymes, and it s so. You take anybody now. Half the people you meet are—” “ I suppose you know best,” interrupted the young girl. “I hadn’t thought of it in that way, but you have a better idea of such things. Now the second verse is more like this: “ The dove-ej'ed kinc upon the moor Looked tender, meek and sad; While from the valley comes the roar—” “Of the matehless liver-pad !’’ roared the exchange editor. “ There you get it. That finishes the second so as to match with the first. It combines the fashions with poetry, and carries the idea right home to the fireside. If I only had your ability in starting a verse with my genius in winding it up, I’d quit the shears and open in the poetry business to morrow.” ’em blow and see ’em get after a jumpin’ frog or a garter snake, and hunt heus nests, and paddle in the branch and get dirty and wet all over, and watch their penitent and sub dued expression when they go home, as Mrs. Arp looks at ’em with amazement and ex claims, “Mercy on me; did ever a poor mother have such a set! Will I jjver get done making clothes. Put these on right clean this morning and not another clean rag in the house ! Go get me a switch, right straight, go ! I will not stand it!” But she will stand it, and they know it—especially if I remark, “Yes, they ought to be whip ped.” That saves ’em, and by the time the swith comes the tempest is over, and some dry clothes arc found and if there is any cake in the house they get it. Blessed mother ! fortunate children! What would they do without her? Why her very scolding is musfc in their tender ears. I’m thankful that there arc some things that corner in the domestic circle that Wall street cannot biw nor money kings depress. Bill Arp. “Think so?” asked the fair young lady. *' It don’t strike me as keeping up the theme.” “ You don’t want to. You want to break the theme here and there. The reader likes it better. O, yes! where 3 r ou keep up the theme it gets monotonous.” “ Perhaps that’s so,” rejoined the beauty, brightening up. “ I didn’t think of that. Now I’ll read the third : “ llow sadly droops the dying day, As night springs from the glen, And evening twilight seems to say—” “ ‘The old man’s drunk again’ would not do, would it ?” asked the exchange editor. “ Somebody else wrote that, and we might be accused of plagiarism. We must have this thing original. Suppose we say, “ Why did I spout my Ben ?” “Is that new?” inquired the sweet rosy lips. “At least I never heard it before. I don’t know what it means.” “New? ’Deed it’s new. lien is the Pres byterian name for overcoat, and spout means to hock. ‘ Why did I spout my Ben ?’ means, Why did I shove my topper? O, don’t be afraid—that’s just immense!” “Well, I’ll leave it to you,” said the glori ous girl with a smile that pinned the ex change editor’s heart to his spine. “This is the fourth verse: The merry milkmaid’s sombre song Itc-echocs from the rocks As silently she trips along—” “ ‘ With holes in both her socks,’ by Jove !” cried the delighted exchange editor. “ You see—” “O, no, no ?” remonstrated the blushing maiden. “Not that,” “Certainly,” protested tho exchange editor, warming up. “Nine to four she’s got ’em ; and you get fidelity to fact with a wealth of poetical expression. The worst about poetry is, you can’t state things as they are. It aint like prose. But here we’ve busted alLthc established notions, and put up an actual ex* istence with a veil of genuine poetry over it. I think that’s the best idea we’ve struck yet.” “ I don't seem to look at it as you do, but of course you are the best judge. l*a thought I ought to say, “ In Autumn’s yellow tracks.” “ Wouldn't that do ?” “Do ! J ust look at it. Does tract s rhyme to rocks? Not in the Brooklyn Eagle it don't. Besides, when you say tracks and rocks, you give the impression of some fellow heaving things to another fellow who’s scratching for safety. Socks, on the other hand, rbj'roes with rocks and beautifies them, while it touches upon the milkmaid, and by describing her condition shows her to be a child of the very Nature you are showing up.” “ I think you’re right,” said the sweet angel. “ I'll tell pa where he was wrong. This is the way the fifth verse runs: “And close behind the farmer’s boy Trills forth his simple tunes, And slips behind the maiden coy—” “ And splits his pantaloons!” Done it myself; know just exactly how it is. Why, bless your heart, you—” Snip, snip. Paste, paste. But it is with a saddened heart that he snips and pastes among his exchanges now. The beautiful vision that for a moment dawns upon him has left, but the recollection in his heart of one sunbeam of life quenched by the shower of tears with which she denounced him as a nasty brute, and went out from him forever. — Exchange. “ The Man Who Went West.” A RACY ACCOUNT OF HOW IIE LIKED IT. It is stated that the centre of population moves Westward at the rate of ninety feet a day, and is slowly passing across the south ern portion of Ohio. It is evident, therefore, that the “gorgeous East,” to which the Wc9t has hitherto looked for the literature and lucre, its manufactures and arts, its peda gogues and pills, its capital and culture, is fast losing its grip, and if it were to be sunk out of existence to-morrow, or raised out of sight in its own estimation, the West would merely pause to say tra-la-lu, and keep right on with its work. The loss of thirteen Con gressmen to the East and a gain of nineteen to the West, by the recent census, shows where the crowd is rushing, and iu ten years more the East will be taken under the wing of the West, and the West will see that no harm comes to it. We feel sorry for the East. It has always done as well as it knew how, and there has never been a time when it would not sell us dry goods and Yankee notions and take it out in wheat, or loan money on a farm at 10 per cent. If its people generally cannot yet regard the West as anything but a howling wilderness, where the Indian and the wild bison roam at will, instead of a land possess ing the refinements of enlighted civiliza tion, why then it is their misfortune and not their fault. No enmity can ever come between the two sections, for very many of the wealthy farmers of the West, who own broad and fer tile acres, will never forget that their early manhood was passed amid the steep and rocky hillsides <Jf the East, where corn was planted with a mallet and cold chisel, and after being washed out by rains a couple of times grew and flourished to the height of two and even three feet, with an ear on al most every stalk. No one who is worthy the name of a man ever forgets the scenes of his boyhood. But the cotton factories of the East are passing to the South and South west, where they will be nearer the source of the raw material; the publication of books, which nobody ever supposed could be done anywhere except in the East, has sud denly been begun in the West, and $2,000,- 000 worth were executed with neatness and despatch in one Western city alone in 1880; Eastern illustrated papers, reflecting the cul ture, humor, and police doings of the coun try, still hold their own, but their time will come; Eastern pills, which have drained so much money from the West and built so many palaces in the East, yet have a grip upon the affections of our people, but their influence is weakening, and pad factories are spring ing up and manhood is being restored right here in the West by Western firms; car fac tories are coming nearer to Western iron and wood every day ; our flouring mills, which already make flour enough for paste, are in creasing in number and capacity, and the woods are full of sawmills; we shall need Eastern oil aud coal a little longer, until a way is found to decompose water, and then we shall have no favors to ask, and the East must not recognize us when we meet on the street. — Peck's Sun. About Horses. The stomach of a horse has a capacity of about sixteen quarts, while that of the ox has two hundred and fifty. In the intestines this proportion is reduced, the horse having a ca pacity of one hundred and ninety quarts, against one hundred of the ox. The ox, and nearly all other animals, have a gall-bladder for the retention of a part of the bile, secreted during digestion. The horse has none, and the bile flows directly into the intestines as fast as secreted. Thi9 construction of the digestive apparatus indicates that the horse wa? r furmed to eat slowly, and digest con V TERMS, $1.50 RER ANNUM. ( SI.OO for Six Mftiths. ti mi ally bulky and innutritious food ; when' fed on hay, it passes very rapidly through' the stomach into the intestines. The horso can cat but five pounds of hay in an hour, during mastication, with four times its weight of saliva. Now. the stomach, to digest itf well, will contain but about ten quarts; and 1 when the animal eats one-third of his daily" rations, or seven pounds, in one and one half hours,'lie has swallowfid at least two stomach fuls of hay and saliva, one of these having" passed to the intestines. Observation lias shown that the food is passed to the intes tines by the stomach in the order in which it is received. If we feed a horse w'itli six quarts of oats, it will just fill his stomach ; and if, as soon as lie finishes this, we feed him the above ration of seven pounds of hay, he will eat sufficient in three quarters of an hour to have forced the oats entirely out of his stomach into the intestines. As it is the office of the stomach to digest the nitrogenous parts of the feed, and as the storaachful of oats contains four or five times as much of these as the same amount of hay, it is certain that cither the stomach must secrete the gastric juice five times as fast, or it must retain this food five times as long. By feeding the oats first, it can only to re* tained long enough for the proper digestion of the ha}'; consequently it seems logical,- when feeding a concentrated food like oats* with a bulky one like hay, to feed the latter first, giving the grain the whole time between 1 the repasts to be digested. The digestion of the horse is governed by the same laws as that of a man ; and as we know it is not best for a man to go at hard work the moment a hearty meal is eaten, so we should remember that a horse ought to have a little rest after his meal, while the stomach is most active in the processes of digestion. —Southern Planta ti( n. American Crop News. A letter to a New York commission firm from a wealthy Georgia gentleman whoso intimate acquaintance with the planting in terest extends over a period of perhaps forty years, says that the condition of the wholo cotton country is far worse than two years ago. “In fact, at no time since the war were planters worse off than now. And why ? Simph' because they run on cotton and neg lected corn and meat, and now they have liter ally no bread and meat, and to pay for it (from the West) the cotton money is insuf ficient. Planters have run on credit to the merchants until many a merchant is broken, and the planters are flatly refused farther credit. Well, it has reached a point that they must raise their own provisions or starve. What will be their conrse ? Well, they must naturally change their tactics, and make corn and meat raising their first consideration, and that means less planting of cotton. There are locations where they did raise cotton enough, but those areas are small. I consider the big crop of the past3 r ear due to excessivo planting, and the earliest crop I ever knew. The picking season was good until November, and after bad, hence so much poor cotton. * * * There can be no doubt of ono thing, and that is that the planting this year cannot exceed the last, but is likely to fall below it. Then we can hardly liavo an early crop like last 3'ear (as it was unusual). Then we cannot hope for so favorable a season as last year up to November. So far we are fully two weeks behind all usual time. I consider that the probabitities are that the next crop will fall below the last one a million of bales, and yet be an average fair crop.”— Cotton. A Fresh Water Spring in the Atlantic. One of the most remarkable displays of nature may be seen on the Atlantic coast, eighteen miles south of St. Augustine. Oflf Matanzas Inlet, aqd three miles from shore, a mammoth fresh water spring gurgles up from the depths of the ocean with such force and volume as to attract the attention of all who come in its immediate vicinity. This fountain is large, bold and turbulent. It i9 noticeable to fishermen and others passing in small boats along near the shore. For many years this wonderful and mysterious freak of nature has been known to the people of St. xAugustine and those living along the shore, and some of the superstitious ones have been taught to regard it with a kind of reverential awe, or holy horror, as the abode of supernatural influences. When the waters of the ocean in its vicinity are otherwise calm and tranquil, the upheaving and troubled appearance of the water shows unmistakable evidences of internal commotions. An area of about half an acre shows this ttoubled ap pearance—Something similar to the boiling of a washerwoman’s kettle. Six or eight years ago Commodore Hitchcock, of tho United States Coast Survey, was passing this place, and his attention was directed to tho spring by the restless upheavings of the water, which threw his ship from her course as she entered the spring. Ilis curiosity becoming excited by this circumstance, he set to to examine its surroundings, and found six fathoms of water everywhere in the vicinity, while tiie spring itself was almost fathomless* —Savannah ( Ga .) Neves. NUMBEIt 11.