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A CHRISTIAN’S DEATH, V Then there was silence; and my chil dren knelt Around my bed—our latest family prayer. Listen—it is eleven striking. Then I whisper'd to my wife, “the time is short; I hear the Spirit and the Bride say, Come,” And Jesus answering, ‘I come quickly.’ Listen.” And as she wiped the death-dews from my brow She falter'd, “lie is very near,” and I Could only faintly say, “Amen, amen.” And then my power of utterance was gone: I fbeckon'd and was speechless; I was j more Than ankle deep in Jordan’s icy stream. My children stood upon its utmost verge, Gazing imploringly, persuasively, W liile the words, “Dear, dear father,” now and then Would drop, like dew, from their uncon scious lips. My gentle wife, with love stronger than death, Was leaning over those cold gliding waves. I heard them speaking but could make no sign; I saw them weeping; but could shed no tear; I felt their touch upon my flickering pulse, Tlwir upon my check, but: could not give Au answering pressure to the fond hands press’d In mine. So rapidly the river-bed Shelved downward, I had pass'd or al most pass’d Beyond the interchange of loving signs Into the very world of love itself. The waters were about my knees; they wash’d 3iy loins; and still they deepen’d. Un a weres I saw—l listen'd—who is He who speaks’ A Presence and a Voice. That Pres ence moved Beside me like a cloud of glory; and That Voice was like a silver trumpet, saying, “Be of good comfort. It is I. Fear not” And whether now the waters were less deep Or I was borne upon invisible arms, I know not; but methought my mortal robes Now only brushed the smoothly gliding stream’ And like the edges of a sunset cloud The beatific land before me lay. One long last look behind me, gradually The figures faded on the shores of time. And, as the passing bell of midnight struck, One sob, one effort, and my spirit was free. Bickehstetii. LOVE LIGHTENS LA2OR. A good wife rose from her bed one morn, And thought with nervous dread, Os the piles of clothes to be washed, and more Than a dozen months to be fed. There's the meals to get for the men in the field. And the children to fix away To school, and the milk to be skimmed and churned; And all to be done that day. It had rained in the night, and all the wood Was wot as it conld be; There were puddings and pics to bake, beside A loaf of cake for tea ; And the day was hot and her aching head Throbbed wearily, as she said, “If maidens but knew what good wives know, ‘•They would be in no haste to wed !” “JcniiSe, what do you think I told Ben Brown?” Called the farmer from the well; And a flush crept up to the bronzed brow, And his eyes half-bash fully fell; “It was this,” lie said, and coming near, He smiled, and, stooping down, Kissed her cheek—“’twas this, that you were the best And dearest wife in town!” The farmer went back to the field, and the wife In a smiling and absent way, Sang snatches of tender little songs She’d not sung for many a day. Aud the pain in her head was gone, and the clothes Were white as the foam of the sea; Her bread was light, and her butter was sweet, And golden as it could be. “Just think,” the children all cried in a breath, “Tom Wood has run off to sea ! He wouldn’t, I know, if lie only had As happy a home as we.” The night came down, and the good wife smiled To herself, as she softly said, “ Tis so sweet to labor for those we love, It's not strange that maids will wed!” Family Wine-Drinking. —Dr. Day, superintendent of the New York State Inebriate Asylum, recently de livered an address before the inmates of the institution, in which he stated that moderate-drinking families, more than bar-room or groggery, are the schools in which the fundamental principles of intemperance are taught. Among other things he said : It is my firm belief that no family accustomed to the daily use of ardent spirits ever failed to plant the seeds of that fearful disease, which sooner or later produced a harvest of griefs. In every such family you may find the scroll of the prophet which was written within and without with ‘mourning, lamentation, and woe.” It is here that the tender digestive organs of children are perverted and predisposed to habits of intemperance. From long observation I am convinc ed that one or more of the members of every wine-drinking fumily be come, sooner or later, drunkards. — Drunkenness, in every instance, is the simple failure of an attempt to drink moderately. m t t Out of all the Southern families that went to Brazil after the war, only seven or eight remain. The “Has ting colony,” on the Amazon, has been reduced to a remnant. Those Seneca 18. Burr, Proprietor. VOL. 2. WIFE AND OLD MAID. THE RELATIVE BLISS OF WOMAN WITH AND WITHOUT THE WEDDING RING. . “A Spinster” writes the following salient passages to a New York litera ry joureal : Somebody says, “If you want to know to Avhat degree of pathos a tale of the affections may be carried, ask an old maid to tell you her love story.” I agree with the writer per fectly, with a difference. I say, ask a married woman to tell you hers; for of all disappointments, hers is generally the greatest. The old maid may adore the :uo ry of one who lieo LJiea-L thsrkrf - may watofc perpetually for the return of some sailor who went down with his vessel years ago in mid-ocean; or she may have been jilted out and out, or loved one who cared little for her; but nothing docs she know of the dis appointments of a disappointed wife. Perhaps I know a hundred mar ried women ; out of them all not ten quite happy. They may live in pala ces and wear purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day; but disappointment is written on almost every brow, while that of many an old maid is smooth and happy, or would be but for her envy of those who wear the wedding ring. If one is never queen, one never pines for a crown ; but to be a queen for a while and then lie humbled in the dust, crushes the very heart: — Every lover makes his love a queen in courting days. She is beautiful, she is good; her whims are law, her silliest speech wisdom. If she de sires anything greatly it must be hers; and he is always at her service, ready to do her bidding ; but in a year or two it is lie himself who tears oft* the crown and dashes down the sceptre his own hand bestowed. lie is tired of courtesy, tired of tenderness, tired ol love and respect. The lover who rises, phoenix-like, from the lover’s ashes, is the being from whom a woman almost always bears more coarseness, more bitterness, more cruelty, more sins of omission and commission, than from any other earthly being. You see a girl marry —she is rosy, bright of eye, fair brow, golden-hair and dimpled; ten years after, you meet her, she is lead-colored and dull, —her hair is grayish, her figure sharp; she has not good health ; and yet her home is a palace, her servants legion and her dress perfect. Want has not dimmed her beauty, nor great care. It is the death of love beside liev heartstone that has changed her What does lie care for her now —this man who was her life? Nothing. — The love-look is gone —the smile, the tender grasp of the hand; the wish to make her happy, the pride in her, the endearing confidence. He says little bitter things about her looks, about her manners, about her opinions, not knowing—for men are obtuse in sucli tilings —that it is this that has alter ed them; that had he been her lover always, the sweet smile of her girl hood would have remained to bless him ; the brightness of her eye, the rose upon her cheek —that, sharing his home, his name and his fortune, this poor woman is inore bitterly dis appointed than any old maid of them all, how great soever her bitter ness. Those women often try to hide their woes, but they peep out to plainly. — They will say, “I don’t go anywhere. Mr. can’t find timeand yon feel sure that not time but inclination is needed; and you catch them in dingy dressing gowns and slippers down at heel, and know by these tokens that nobody cares at home how they look now. Os course there are good husbands, who are lovers all their lives; and you know their wives by their young, happy looks, in a minute. I remem ber one dear old lady who used, at seventy, to put on her cap with blu j ribbons before her husband came home to tea, and never failed to re ceive a kiss on both cheeks when he did come —who made me, with her forty-five years’ experience of matri mony quite envy it. But, rather than be as wretchedly .disappointed as most married women, I would he willing to remain a spinster all my life, and end my clays working im possible shepherds in Berlin wool and writing sentimental verses to the young prince who never came oyer the mountains to marry me —a great deal rather; or even it would be hap pier to keep remembrance of one whose briof* life was all love —who passed away like a dream, with all his love about him—than to look up in a face once sweet with smiles, now either frowning or indifferent; and to know that there remained of those young love-vows nothing but cold duty —perhaps, not even that. . “So far so good,” as the boy said NEGRO MASONS. We notice that the “Maaonve Monthly,” published in Boston, and edited by Samuel Evans, i3 leaning very strongly towards their being recognized in the white Lodges. These negro Masons have their au thority from what is called “Prince Hall Lodge,” once existing in Boston under a spurious charter. During the sitting of our last Grand communication, a letter was received from three colored persons, purporting to be Masons, belonging to Eureka Lodge,No. 11, working in Savannah, with a charter from Prince Hall Grand Lodge, and “asking coiutcT with regard to forming a col ored Grand Lodge in this State.” As this Grand Lodge knows of but one Grand Lodge in Massachusetts, the case was briefly disposed of. But to set the question of this “Prince Hall Grand Lodge” at rest, and show that it is entirely spurious, we will quote from an article in “ The Free Mason,” edited by Geo. Frank Goulay, Grand Secretary of Mis souri, and published in St. Louis. It is altogether the ablest Masonic pa per published in the country: Negro Lodges. —The question of negro Lodges of so-called Masons is again attracting attention in some of our Masonic exchanges, and the ques tion seems to be one that is intended to be forced upon the craft by cer tain parties, and the time has proba bly arrived when it must be met with that calm and dispassionate consider ation charateristic of our institution. In June, 1867, Bro. C. K. Peck, Grand Master of lowa, submitted in his annual address to that Grand Lodge, a strong recommendation to recognize the negro Lodges, but the proposition was emphatically laid on the tabffe by that Grand body. During the past year, Bro. E. A. Guilbert, P. G. M. of lowa, and ed itor of the Evergreen, has been strug gling in their behalf through his jour nal, but with what success among the craft of that State, we are not inform ed. This is sufficient to show that there is a combination formed to force this question on the fraternity by parties in interest, and we are in favor of meeting it squarely and fairly, with out any “if’s” or “an’s.” On the 24th of last June, one Lewis Hayden, claiming to be grand Master of “Prince Hall” Grand Lodge, of Massachusetts, (Colored), delivered his annual address. Who wrote the address for him, we are not advised, but presume it to be some anti-white Mason behind the scenes, who has more brains than lionesty, for the ad dress shows a total want of disingen uousness on the part of the author The text of the address was the re fusal of the Grand Lodge of New York to entertain the motion of con sidering the legitimacy of the negro Lodges, which Lewis Hayden denom inates, “Grand Lodge jurisdictional claim, or war of races.” From his address we quote : “In this connection, we also cite the following which will bear out our statement in reference to the origin and union of the Grand Lodges of Massachusetts: “The first Grand Lodge in America was lioiden in Boston, on the 80th of July, A. D. 1783, known by the name of St. John’s Grand Lodge, and descended from the Grand Master of England. The Massachusetts Grand Lodge (also hoiden at Boston), was established on the 27th December, 1709, rfhd de cendcd from the Grand Master ot Scotland. On the 19th of June, A. D. 1792 a Grand Masonic union was formed by the two Grand Lodges, and all distinctions between Ancient and Modern Masons abolished. “fins constituted the amalgama tion of the two Grand Lodges ot Mas sachusetts, which, prior to tne time ot their union, exercised separate juris diction, as we have beiore stated.” From this, it will be observed, that St. John’s Grand Lodge of Boston was termed iitty-one years prior to the formation of “Prince Hall” negro Lodge, which was chartered in 1784, aud that the “Massachusetts Grand Lodge,” chartered by the Grand Lodge of Scotland, in 1769, was formed fifteen years before the “Prince Hall” Lodge. It must be borne in mind that, at that time, the Grand Lodges of England, Ireland and Scotland, granted charters to in dividual Lodges, and appointed over them Provincial Grand Masters, and, in some instances, they held concur rent jurisdiction, as in Canada, Nova Scotia, etc., years ago, and these Lodges, under a Provincial Grand Master, called themselves “Grand Lodges,” in order to be distinguished from Lodges acting immediately sub ordinate to the Mother Grand Lodge. In 1784, the following charter was granted to certain negroes of Boston (whether Masons or uohhas never been proven,) a copy of’ which we quote irojn auuivrs? oi lauib iiuvucn ; GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 18G9. “A G. M. to all and_~’every, our Right Worshipful and loving Breth ren, we, Thomas Howard, Earl of Effingham, Lord Howard, etc., etc., Ancient Grand Master under the authority of his Royal Highness, Henry Fredrick, Duke of Cumber land, etc., etc., etc., Grand Master of the Most Ancient and Honorable Society of Free and Accepted Masons, sends greeting: “Know ye, that we, at the humble petition of our right trusty and well beloved Brethren, Prince Hall, Bos ton Smith, Thomas Sanderson, and several other Brethren, residing in Boston, New England, North Ameri ca, do hereby constitute the said Brethren’ into a regular Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons under the title or denomination of the African Lodge, to be opened in Boston afore said,” etc. Given at London, under our hand and seal of Masonry, this 29th day of September, A. L. 5784, A. D. 1784. By the Grand Master’s Com mand. R. lloyt, D. G. M. Attested, Wm. White, G. S. It will be observed that in the above address, no person is specially mentioned as Provincial Grand Mas ter, and consequently it was to come under the provincial control of the other English Lodges in Boston. — Now comes the most important fea ture of affairs. This Prince Hall Lodge was char tered as African Lodge, and not as “Prince Hall Grand Lodge,” as claimed by its disciples. Again, it is not designated as a “Grand Lodge,” therefore, placing it under either the control of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, or the Grand Lodge of England. What was the result? The Masonic Fra ternity of Boston, finding out the great wrong that had been done them probably unintentionally), by the Grand Lodge of England, remonstra ted against it, and the Grand Master of England called in the charter and struck “African Lodge” from the roll of existence. On either horn of the c i mma, Lewis Hayden’s claim falls to the ground ; for, if “African Lodge” was under the Pro vincial Grand Lodge of Massachu setts, it was ignored by it, and if un der the control of the Mother Grand Lodge, it was “wiped out” by it. So that, in either case, “African L >clg3’’ had no existence after the arrest of its charter, except by a clandestine copy of it, as will be seen by the fol lowing correspondence between the (then) oldest and most influential Grand Masters in the United States. Brother Tucker, of Vermont, wrote to Brother Winslow Lewis, Grand Master of Massachusetts: “It is sup posed to be true that on the 20th of September, 1784, a charter for a Masons Lodge was granted to Prince Hall and others, by the Grand Lodge of England, and bore the name of African Lodge, No. 459, and was lo cated in Boston. That Lodge did not continue its connection for many years with the Grand Lodge of Eng land, and its registration was stricken from the rolls more than fifty years ago.” Bro. Lewis, replying to Bro. Tuck er, says: “In reply to yours, I can only re affirm that the Grand Lodge of this State does not recognize the Prince. Ilall Grand Lodge, or any other Lodge of colored Masons in this State, and that no colored Masons have ever visited, or would be al lowed to visit, our Lodges; no white Masons, to my knowledge, ever enter ed a black Lodge, so far as I have ascertained. The blacks once had a charter from England, which charter (a copy being taken) was returned for alteration, and was never sent back to this country, and said copy is all the blacks now have. “Fraternally yours, “Winslow Lewis, “Grand Master.” This charter was not returned for two reasons : first, the Grand Lodge of England had no authority to plant a second Provincial Grand Lodge in Massachusetts; and secondly, this “African Lodge” would not be re cognized by the Provincial Grand Lodge then in cxistance, and the Grand Lodge of England had no al ternative but to arrest the charter and ignore its error. In 1792, the two Provincial Grand Lodges of Massachusetts, the Eng lish and Scotch, formed a union as the sole and supreme Masonic authori ty for that Commonwealth, and there has never been any other there than it, and the two Provincial Grand . . \ % ■ Lodges, out of which waff formed. A critic improves upon an idea of a Boston confrere, lie says that Mrs. Beott-Siddons “in per sonal pulchritude knocks Beau Ideal himself higher than a buzzard flies over Jsiwv,” SEMI-WEEKLY. LETTER FROM MR. DICKSON. Sparta, Ga., Dec. 5,1868. Jailors Southern Cultivator: There is touch confusion throughout the country as to the plan of agriculture I pirsuc—some using the solid sweep as i part of my plan. Let me say, I would not have one of them.— Moreover, there are other plans call ed Line, that I cannot endorse. I [will give my plan in a very few worts: First, drain the wet lands av lif you wish, or it needs it, ditch the hill sides —then deepen your soil: cha :ge it well with vegetable matter, ■rtlir by rest or sowing oats and ’King off the fields, sowing and ..U-Ang under pea vines, or clover and other grasses, where they will succeed, etc. Then plow deep, and sub-soil to the extent of your ability- Gather all the manure possible’ from previous crops, cotton seed, manure from stock, leaves, pine straw, and mud and other scrapings—and then add each year to each crop, corn, oats, cotton, wheat, etc, such soluble ammonia and bone, earth, etc., as Peruvian Guano, Land Plaster, Salt, and wood ashes may have in them— the latter if to be had, in any form, at a price that would warrent its use. Plant corn 8 inches below a level— put the manure within three or four inches of the seed, and cover about II inches deep Cultivate shallow— first plowing 11 inches deep; second, inch; and third, one half inch. I prefer a heavy sweep, 22 to 26 inches wide, either for torn or cotton. For mer communications will show how I prepare land for ton and corn. If you carry out this plan well as to order and time, it w ill never fail. One of your correspondents from South Carolina, in criticising my plan, says you cannot make corn without a wet July. I have nytde a first rate crop of corn with no rain after the 19th of June, and can do it every time. Below I will tell that gentleman and others how to do it. I have never had to resort to the ex treme there described, but it will pay. If you wish a fort to stand a hot and protracted attack, you must water and provision, as well as manure it in order that it may hold out un nlthe siege is rawed —remembering out* day unprovided for may prove fatal; so if you wish a cotton plan or a corn stalk to stand a hot burn ing sun, and a dry northwest wind from four to ten weeks, and come out safely, you must water and put in sufficient soluble food to last. How is that to be done ? Answer, by deepening the soil, plowing deep, subsoiling and filling it with humus, that it may retain the greatest amount of water. The soil is like a spoage, if too porous, water will sink through it; if too close, it will hold bui little. I find that humus clay and a due proportion of sand consti tute the best of soil, to succeed un der all circumstances, with soluble p! smt food in abundance. I will now give you a plan that will carry the cotton plant through eight or ten weeks of drought with safety, and enable it to get ahead of tbj caterpillar —the boil-worm may come too soon for a full crop, but one need not fear the caterpillar if they do come before the Ist of Sep tember. Always remember the soil must be good and deep, and sub soil ed six inches deeper, and furnished with a good supply of guano, dissolv ed bones, plaster and salt. A cotton plant to stand two weeks (always re member to use the Dickson Select £*eed) must have 4 inches of soil and 6 inches sub-soil —three weeks, 6 inches soil, same sub-soiling; four weeks, 8 inches and same sub-soiling, and for every week of dry weather vou will need an additional inch, with the same six inches sub-soil broken below. So, you will see, to stand a ten weeks’ drought, you have a soil sixteen inches deep, with six inches broken below. This plan will bold the forms and bolls during the whole time, and not give them up when it rains; but should you prepare right, and your supplies give out or surrender one week befor reinforcements come, much is lost, and it may be too late *0 start anew. If you prepare and carry out this plan well, you may ex pect from 400 to 1200 pounds of lint cotton per aero, according to the char acter of the land, locality, etc. Truly yours, David Dickson. A lady had a magnificent cat. Mrs. Jones, a neighbor, ordered her servant to kill it, as it alarmed her Canary. The lady seqt fnoUso traps to all her friends, and when two or three hundred’’ had been caught, she | had them put into a box which was forwarded to the cruel neighbor, who eagerly opened what she hoped was some elegant present when out jump' cd tho mice, toiler great horror, and filled the homo. At tho bottom of the box she found a paper directed tp her from her neighbor, saying, 1 “Madam, as you killed my cat, I , tqko tho liberty of sending you my FARM NOTES. The chief interest on a farm at this season, is to put everything snugly in to winter quarters, making all suita ble provision promptly, that nothing, whether stock or crops, may suffer from the pinching of jack frost, or, worse still, from chilling storms of wind, rain or snow. One day’s ex posure to a cold rain will take away the profits of a week’s good feed ing, and a cow giving milk will show in the falling off 1 of her daily flow (so experienced dairy people tell us) the cost of such exposure. The cow is not singular in this respect —she suf fers under a general law. STOCK-YARDS. For reasons above suggested, give the stock yard special attention, hav ing a place for everything, and every thing in its place. All cattle should now be in good condition. The rich pasturage of the fall months, the’ temperate weather and exemption from flies and other annoyances, give them opportenity for their winter preparation. This thrifty state gives great advantage in the wintering, and with it it is simply shameful to have them come out in the spring poor, hide-bound with hollow-horn, and other evils of poverty and destruction. cows. Such cows as give milk must have comfortable stalls, entirely protected from the weather, and be fed with corn-fodder, clover, hay or other good provender, with rteal and bran, and roots of some kind. The profit in milk will be proportioned to the quantity of good food digested. Care must be taken here, however, that on any change of food it be over-done as to quantity, but that the increase he gradual up to the point of great est profit. To adjust this properly needs care and caution. CALVES. See that these are carried through the winter, not with their lives, but thriftily and in a growing condition. They need not be fattened or forced, but they should have a reasonable increase of bone and flesh from three months’ feeding, and go out to past ure in spring with life and spirits enough to make a profitable run through the season of-grass. WORKING OXEN. These should have a seperate feed ing place, and a due and regular sup ply of food. There should be no opportunity of their interfering with other cattle, or being interfered with. HOUSES AND MULES. When these have regular work they must have, of course, regular at tention not only as to food and water, but grooming and stabling. Es pecially is it needful to-rub and dry them oft*, and clean their legs and feet of mud, «tc., when they come from work. Boxes instead of stalls, with a pair of work horses to each box, would be a great improvement. SIIEEP. Sheep have better health for a free range of the pasture grounds during good weather. This food, which should, therefore, be of such quality as to tempt them. It is found good economy to give a small quantity oi grain daily, if done with proper judg ment. A shelter must be provided for bad weather, and when the sever ity of winter come on it is well to con fine them here until they have had the morning feed. IIOG3. The stock hogs should be suffi ciently fed with grain to keep them in good order, and should have dry | beds and comfortable shelter apart from other stock. Especially keep them away from heaps of manure, which will give them a cough and disease of the skin if they sleep in them. MANURES. Use now at all times such materi al as can be commanded, in making compost heaps for necessary puposcs. Be sure especially, that there he abundant coarse matter to mingle with the manures of every description. plowing, Take any opportunity that may offer to plow such land as will profit by exposure to frost, as clay and old sward. All such work done now puts forward the spring work in this important particular, and in wet springs, as the two just past, may ex pedite very much the planting of the crops. FENCING AND GATES. Get together, tvs opportunity offers, material for fences and gates to be got in readiness during the winter. — Put a good gate wherever needed. CURING MEAT. As this is the season for hog killing and of putting up other meats for future use, the following receipt will b.o found convenient to such as have not a suitable one on hand, It is of the best quality: To 1,000 pounds of meat put 3 pocks of fine Liverpool salt and four pounds of salt-pptre. Put neither pepper, *ng*r, nor ijpolsw! with the Terms.—S 4 a Year. NO. 34. foregoing. Pack iu’a cask,'the bot tom of which must be perforated with holes to allow the drip of bloody wa ter to pass off. Let it remain three weeks, and then smoke every morning with green hickory wood, having the fire as fur away from the meat as pos sible, eo that the smoke may cool be fore reaching it. Another receipt, perhaps equally good, prescribes eight pounds of salt, two ounces of saltpetre, one and a half ounces of potash, two pounds'of brown sugar, or one quart of molas ses, and one ounce of red pepper, to be dissolved in five gallons of water for every one hundred pounds of meat. —Jialit more Sun. [Fro-n the V-i'th G*o gin ririx-n THE SHERIFF OF PICKENS COUNTY MURDERED AND HIS DEPUTY SERIOUSLY WOUNDED. We learn that the Sheriff of Pick ens county was shot dead on Sunday last, aud his deputy seriously wound ed, by a desperado from Tennessee named Joel Ritchie. The circumstan ces, as we gather them from Mr. J. A. Nelson, of Murray county, are these : On Friday evening last Ritchie came to the house of Mr. Gcoge Terry, liv ing in the upper part of Murray, from the direction of Tennessee, riding a mule, which he succeeded in swap ping to Mr. TANARUS., for a small bay pony, and immediately left in the direct on of Pickens county. The next morn ing two men rode to the house of Mr. T. in pursuit of Richie, whom they described, stating that he had stolen a mule from one of them, and asked him if such a man had passed that way. Mr. T informed them such a man had stopped at his house the evening previous, and had traded him a mule, which, upon examination, proved to be the one they were look ing for. The two strangers, Mr. TANARUS., and several of his neighbors, immedi ately went in pursuit of the thief, who they could hear of all along the road leading to the town of Jasper, which place they reached about 11 o’clock on Sunday, where they learn ed that the man they were in pursuit of had left a few hours before in the direction of Dawsonville, and was then supposed to he at a house about 4 mile? distant. The Sheriff of the county and liis Depu’y, b lug in town at the time, were called on by tlie pursuing party to aid in Ritchie’s ar rest, which they proceeded to do. But before leaving, the sheriff pre vailed on the party to remain behind, or some of them were known to Rich ie, who, being on the lookout and seeing them, might give them the dodge, lie was found at the lionse, at which it was thought he had stop ped, sitting at a table shaving himself. The sheriff stepped into the room, and placed his hand upon his shoul der, told him he was his prisoner, and to follow him. Richie replied, “You will let me finish shaving first won’t you?” to which the sheriff assented. The desperado then stooped down and commenced strapping his razor on his boot, and rose up with a pis tol in his hand, which he jerked from the leg of his boot, and immediately placed the muzzle of it against the breast of the sheriff and fired, killing him instantly. The deputy then rushed in aud was fired on twice in rapid succession, both balls taking ef fect in his arm and shoulder, .disa bling him. The desperado then rushed from the house and made good his escape in the direction of North Carolina, on a large, fine, fleet horse belonging to our informant, Mr. Nel son, which the sheriff bad rode to the house. / COTTON KING AGAIN. The New York Commercial Adver tiser is of opinion that cotton bids fair to mouut his throne again. Assuming that the crop will realize to the South between $200,000,000 and $300,000,- 000, it says that this sum will not have to he made over tp factors who in former years took the lion’s share It will not have to be expended ibr doctor’s bills, incurred by sick and infirm negroes ; or to maintain a large and floating population of slaves in comparative idleness .Until the plant ing season again begins. Huge store bills will not have to ba met as in other days, when planters supported large bodies of slaves? The whole amount can be appropriated to the recupera tion and regeneration of the region desolated by the iron heel of war, and in a very few years at the farthest the Soutli will be on her feet again. Cotton is (Jhus once more become King, a ting with free subjects, rich and powerful, and independent of all foreign dynasties. Tho Southern people can now, that slave labor lias disappeared almost indefinitely, in crease tfcefc cottoq resources, And to this end they should do all iu. their power to attract Northern capital t>is thither, who, bringing with them Yankco energy, enterprise, and re sources, will prove of invalurbb aid and assistance in developing and F * \ HOARDING GOLD, AND INVEST MENTS IN STATE SECURITY. The Constitutionalist indulges in some practical suggestions upon tho subject of hoarding gold in Georgia, and estimates that about twenty-five millions in gold are lying idle and unproductive in Georgia. We do not know upon what premises he bases so large an estimate —but, he It smaller or greater, his suggestions up on the disposition of it are worthy of reflection. W e quote: At a moderate, estimate, the people of Georgia have in hand 125,000,000 in gold as idle and unproductive cap ital. For all the real good it accom plishes it might as well be sunk in the Savannah river. Conceding that the people of Georgia have $25,000,- 000 in gold subject to employment but withdrawn from the market, wo can safely estimate the entire State, Municipal and Railroad debt at 820,000,000, two-thirds of which, say $14,000,000, must be held outside the Commonwealth. On the debt is annually paid an interest of about $1,000,000. Here we have a period ical drain keeping us constantly im poverished while abundance seems to prevail among the people. These ob ligations of our State, cities and cor porations are now selling for leas than their face-value in greenbacks. The millions of dollars of the gold now buried would approximate fourteen millions of dollars in currency. With ten million of the capital now useless, the debt of Georgia could be bought up and kept at home. With a few more years of prosperity, there is no reason to doubt that this debt will be paid in full in gold. The large amount of interest saved to the commonwealth could be invested in fresh enterprises and give an impe tus to Georgia that would make her beyond rivalry the empire State of the South. Let us see how the interest would work to the benefit of the individual. We suppose a farmer to have one thousand dollars in gold over and above his probable wants for this vear. He sells his gold fox 25 per cent, advance, which would net him $1,350. With $1,350 he buys Geor gia State Bonds at 90 cents on the dollar. At this rate, he makes the Sate his debtor to the tunc of $1,500. On this sum he will receive an an nual interest of $lO5 ; and, at the end of six years, without taking into con sideration the compounding of the interest, his account will stand thus: One thousand dollars in green backs, $1,350. Greenbacks invested In State Bonds, amounting to $1,500 Six years’ interest, 030 Total, $2,130 If this statement be correct, and we have taken precaution shall. be, every man who lias surplus gold can see in it an investment at once beneficial to himself and to the pub lic credit. Planters, merchants and manufacturers would consider it a nuisance if compelled to support an idle hand—an expensive idler wlios« keeping costs SIOO per annum. Ami yet some of these very men will bury SIOOO in gold, which costs them yeai* ly this very sum. llow a Farmer May Lose Money.— By not taking one or more good papers. Keeping no account of farm operations; paying no atten tion to the maxim, “A stitch in time saves nine,” in regard to the sowing of grain and planting of seed at the proper time. Leaving reapers, plows, cultivators, etc., unsheltered from the rain and heat of the sun. More money is lost in this way annually than most persons would lie willing to believe. Permitting broken im plements to be scattered over the farm until they are irreparable. By repairing broken implements at the proper time many dollars may be saved —a proof of the assertion that time is money. Attending auction sales and purchasing all kinds of trumpery, because in the words of the vender, they are “very cheap." Allowing feuces to remain unrepair ed until “strange” cattle arc found gracing in the meadow, grain field, or browsing on fruit trees. Disbe lieving iho principle of a rotation of crop, before making a single ex periment. Planting fruit trees with out giving the trees half the tion required to make them l ,r ° r v|r hie. Practicing economy by .dc-- priving stock- of shelter winter, and feeding them un sound food, such as half rotjtim and mouldy hay or fodder. T y>eping an innumerable tribe of rats on the premise*. and two or three big buy dogs, whomever tho vermin. Spending rainy dajg m groceries and . bar rooms, #f being at bom© putting things to rights, when hove leisure. Something for Cuts.— lt » n<* generally kr.owu that the leajßjk geranium, are an excpiiffcA applica tion for cuts, whore the sms is rub bed off and other wouads of that kind. Onpor two loaves mpst be bruised and. applied tho wound wjll. bo, cio«trivdr. short sun©. J t , , Fifteen years a gentleman , sold a lot of land>in Dos Moines, lowa, lor five hur*ds4, dollars. A week ago he bought the same lot the same persoi^t: ijhom b« sold u. and paid t won*r-seven tftotyfr fU'd dojhtrs. It is unimproved *S>. cepf by the growth of '