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Newspaper Page TextOLD SERIES—VOL. UXXII. NEW SERIES—VOL. XXXII. terms. ran DAILY CHRONICLE 4 SENTINEL, tho otdret newnpper in the Sooth, i* pabliehed dally, ex cept Monday. Tern*: Per yrer, 410;. *ix month*, JS; three month*. 42 SO. THE TRI-WEEKLY CHRONICLE 4 SENTINEL I* published story Tue*dy, The red*y end Satur day. Terms: One yoar, $5; six months, 42 SO. THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE 4 SENTINEL i pub lished every Wednesday. Terms : One yer, 42 six months, 11. BATES or ADVERTISING IS DAILY.—AII tran sient advertwemente will be charged at the rate of $1 per square for each Insertion for the ArM week. Advertisements in the Tri-Weekly, two third* of the rates in the Dally; and in the Weekly, one-half the Daily ate*. Marriage and Funeral Notices, *1 each. Spectal Notice*, $1 per square for the Drat publication. Special rate* will be made for advertisements running for a month or longer. SUBSCRIPTIONS In all cases In adraaee, and no paper continued after the expiration of the time paid for. REMITTANCES should be made by Post Office Money Orders or Express. If this cannot be done, proteeti'm against lessee by mall may be secured by 1 orwarding a draft jiayablo to the Proprietor* of the Cusoniolx 4 SxsTtxxt, or by sending the money In a registered letter. ALL COMMUNICATIONS announcing candidates for office—from County Constable to Member of C.mgreea—will be charged tor at the rate of twenty cents tier line. All announcements must be paid for in advance. Address WALSH 4 WRIGHT, Cbhosiole 4 Hxstiskl, August*. G*. Ctjromcle ant> smtinel. WEDNESDAY... BEPTBER 22, 1875. MINOR TOPICS. Dr. Mary Walker say* some ladle* prefer voluminous dresses, whilst to the pnli baek skirts, bill te for her, her trie" pnll-on kind or give her death. The pale, Bad-looking young men whom one occasionally moots in the street are not con sumptive, are not mourning the loss of a friend, and are not divinity students. They are breaking in tight boot*. How sweetly sang Shelley: We know not where we go, or what sweet dream May pilot through caverns strange and fair Uf far and pathless passion! liut wo do know that sliced cucumbers, im prudently indulged in, will often double us up qnito unexpectedly, and make us yearn, for a glorious hereafter. A ro|>orter paid his dentist in this way: “Dr. Crouse, the well known and popular dentist, whoso fame a* au ojierator upon the hnman tooth is as widespread as the heavens above, is about to leave his immense practice for a few days' shooting Inlndiana, where the sternly ami which has so often tom the stubborn molar from its resting place will direct the fatal pellot upon the gentle woodcock and fast flying snipe.” An exchange tells us that the new style of pantaloons to be worn this Fall will be large ouongh to tie hack. Also, that a modest man can't climb a ladder with a pair of 'em on. rtenator Ikmtwell is In speak in publio on the stage and, lifting the skirts of his reti oenco. so to spoak, exhibit the striped stock ings of his inner consciousness on the ourrency question. The editor of the Mohawk Valley Register had got into wator four feet deep when his friends succeeded in persuading him not to commit suicide. A man in a profession afford ing him so many facilities for working himself to death ought to he ashamed of such dastard ly impatience. Olive Logan writos that dresses at the North are growing shorter and shorter in front, to that extent that it is almost as impossible not to know what sort of hose as what sort of noso a lady wears. Huoh exquisite and wonderful patterns of hosiery as are displayed is quite overwhelming. The flouring mills of Minneapolis ground last year 6,592,500 bushels of grain, and the lumber mills in the same placo turned out in 1873, 191,803,679 feet of manufactured lumber and 167,753,006 shingles. One of tho flour mills is tho largest in tho world, and has a pro ducing capacity of 1,400 barrels a day. l’eoplu who arc aiUiotod with mosquitoos will bo pleased to know that tho buzzing wherewith the diligent iuseot onliveus tho night is tho way in which ho oalls his mate. He does not make this noise in sheer malice, but lie sings to his swoetheart, and those onrious creatures liateu to each other with their feelers. The snteuma vibrate to different notee, and so tho delicate croatures oommuno with each other in darkness. A Wostem man has invented a shell which deserves the immediate attention of Secretary Koboaon ; “It is filled with small shells, and when it burets among ten thousand soldiers, theao smaller shells aro scattered in all direc tions, and bursting in turn. Bond out still smaller shells, which travel around recklessly, and by the time tho miniature shells,contained in the third size explode, the army is nearly wiped out, and tho few men remaining want to go homo.” The Now York 7Vitome soems to havo a spite against colleges. Hoar the graduate of the tall tower relato his experience; If the colleges educate a few master minds for pro fessional and Itierary life, they also Bpoil a great many excellent farmers and business men. How many third and fourth rate law years, doctors and ministers there are who might have mado first-rate farmers and trades men if thoy had not goue to college and learned to look down upon their fathers' call ing I Mediocrity cannot be devlo|>ed into genius by a college forcing process any more than a dandelion under glass can become a rose-geranium. The experiment of shipping peaches to Liv erpool has proved a temporary failure. Through had calculation the supply of ice was exhaust ed when the voyage was but little more than half completed, and though the peaches kept in perfect order for soveral days after, when the vessel arrived at her dock they were too rottou to be of any value. The peach-growors ought not to be at all discouraged at this re sult, aiuce under tho oiruumstanoes none other could have boon and before the sea son closes they should make another trial un der more favorable anspioea. If ice is the only thing necessary to bring poaches sound into tho English markets we ought to be able to send them over next year in quantity. “ Young wife and mother, make yonr home a place of beauty,” etc., etc., etc. Do, my dear. Kiss your husband the minute ho comes home, and tnrn tho cat out of his easy chair. Him for the two S s (spittoon and slippers) and let the baby squall. Give him the best of the pudding and eat the burned part yourself. l*ut the mealy potatoes on his plate, and tell him you prefer the water soaked. He happy while he sits on two chairs and reads the paper to himself. Enjoy the smoke of hie strong tobacco, and if yon cough tell him that you left the yard gate open aud caught cold. Smile when he jerks off his shirt buttons, and pretend you think the washerwoman did it. Smile moro sweetly when he “wonders if yon will ever cook as mother did.” Talk a great deal about mother. Smile sweetest of all when he comes home from the lodge, walking sideways to keep the floor from striking him. Listen witli a beaming countenance while be praises the best looking girl of your acquaint ance, and asks you why you do not do up your back liair like hers. Shed all your tears in secret, when, after having helped him into his best white liuen suit, yon see him go off to the pic-nie with widow Smith, "who dreeeee so well, by Jove 1* If he offers you fifty cents when yon tell him Jimmy's shoes are won, out. remember that be always smokes the best cigars, ami—bless him. Keep bleesing lum, and when yon die you shall be—as quickly forgotten as yon deserve to he. Amen. I\ B—His name ought to be "Tommy, my love.” . The i>re]ratione that are making for the visit of tho Prince of Wales to India are of the most elaborate description. The London papers report that for some time (vast work men have been employed upon the Serapia, which was selected for the conveyance of the Prinoe to and from India, and although at the present time upwards of four hundred men are engaged upon the big white>hnlled trooper, the authorities have a somewhat arduous task to complete her ready for departure early in October. She is to be fitted out in the most gorgeous manner, and supplied with the finest water bottles, decanters, barometers, carpets, etc. The East India Bailway Company are constructing a royal train especially for this occasion. It is to consist of five carriages, ene or which is to be a state reception saloon, one a sleeping carriage, two carriages for the staff, and one for the personal attendants of his Koval Highness. The reception saloon and sleeping carriage are furnished and uphol stered in a very elegant style. Extensive al terations and improvements are also being ef fected at the Government House. A suite of apartments will be fitted up especially for the Prince’s private use, and the old throne is to be replaced by an elegant structure, the dra pery of which will consist of the finest crim son velvet, trimmed with gold and emblazoned with the royal arms. It appears also that the Nizam s Government is making preparations on a munificent scale for the reception of the Prinoe at the capital of the Deccan Very costly furniture has been ordered through a European firm in Madras, to grace the royal banqueting hall to be fitted np for the occa sion. MR. DAVIS’ SPEECH. Mr. Davis’ speech at DeSoto, Mo., will commend itself to the attention of the readers of the Chronicle and Sen tinel. Radical partizans will hud in it nothing to condemn, and good men everywhere will find in it mnch to ap prove. The New York Tribune in com menting on this speech says that it “is to bo commended for its fraternal and hopeful tone, as well as for the good taste displayed in avoidance of those topics which mast have pressed most forcibly, under the circumstances, up on tho minds of both speaker and au dience; while the reflections and sug gestions in regard to the development of the Mississippi Valley are interesting as the ripe thoughts of one who has given the subject intelligent and careful consideration.” This approval from the Trilrune will be gratifying to the people of the South, who have the highest respect and ad miration for the character of Mr. Davis. Tho work of peace and reconciliation between the North and South will be hastened by the utterance pf such fra ternal and national sentiments os are contained in the address of Mr. Davis. The marked respect paid him by promi nent Republicans in Missouri shows that the —■** w#tiiuaaMi*g away. FEMALE EDUCATION. Education is an old, old subject, truly; tho theme of many a school girl’s com position and of many a youqg man’s first school address, but ever growing in im portance. Burke’s aphorism that “edu cation is the best and cheapest protec tion of nations” is os true and wise a sentiment as was ever uttered, and what is the best sort of education and tho most effective manner of obtaining or imparting it are questions which of late have been much discussed among those interested in the subject. Mr. Stephens’ recent address at a school in Hoaston county, published in the Chronicle and Sen tinel, has met with much comment and approval, thongh there aro still many teachers to be found in the land, prin cipally in tho rural districts, who go con siderably boyond the six hours a day which he insists is as much time as pnpils should bo required to devote to brain-work, or study in the school room. Wo agree with Mr. Stephens as to the evils of the excessive brain-work of childreu, but what we wish more par ticularly to calkattention to now is the kind of education which is given to the girls of the middle and higher classes in onr schools. There seems to us to be a radical mistake among peo ple of means in the general theory of female education. The public schools do not, perhaps, so much fall into it, but the majority of private academies, schools aud oolleges for young girls are constantly committing it. What wo allude to is the “cramming” system in teaching girls. A young lady leaves one of the children’s schools, and, at fifteen or sixteen, enters a fashion able city sohool, or “institute,” or col lege. She has but three years of study, for at eighteen, or at latest, nineteen, sho must “come out.” When her broth er enters college, or the university, she finishos. She has but three short years; and in them she must cram French, latin, algebra, geometry, rhetoric, natural philosophy, chemistry, logic, mental philosophy, history, “composi sition,” and mnsio, drawing, and em broidery. Sho has not at "those years the solid bodily vigor of a young man. She is “weighted,” moreover, with her accomplishments. Tho lad has no two or threo hours’ work in “practicing,” aud probably no drawing, and certainly no embroidery or tine needlework to do. Yet, she under takes to finish in three years what he only half accomplished in four or six. The programme before her is something alarming; yet she devotes herself hero ically to carry it out. She attempts one after another of these half dozen diffi cult and exacting studies. Being quick in faculties, and especially in memo rizing, she manages to make a good show at recitation. Sho passes a creditable examination, and after threo years of this undigested swallowing of all sorts of Btndies, receives her diploma and graduates. But what has she for it nil ? Iu all likeli hood a broken constitution, aud almost certainly a head ooufnsedly tilled with fragments of knowledge, and no healthy, solid, mental habitß. It is insuch training that the mistiness of women’s minds is acquired. So many seem deficient in clear conceptions. Their progress, outsido of their own sphere, is so olton deficient. Their oultnro is superficial. Such large num bers of them have not, in many cases, that pleasantest faculty of culti vated women—of appreciating. These orammed students are not found afterward leading society. They have not the indefinite charm of real culture. They caunot even teach or guide the teaching thoroughly of their own chil dren. Their schooling does not in the least fit them for practical life. They are not trained in the thoroughness and exactness which make a woman suited for many of the heavy duties of the world. If called npon to support them selves, they are not found to have a careful education for anything. We be lieve all this could be obviated. A young girl’s education ought to be, in its plan, as near as possible like a boy’s. It should be simple, solid, and slow. No excessive task should be allowed. Time enough should be given. The pareut or the teacher must remember that it is not given each person to kuow every thing, and that a little, thoroughly known, is a preparation for all other knowledge. Accomplishments, of course, and household duties must be picked up by every girl, and might be learned in the intervals of her regular course. The plan which we think she should be put upon would preserve her health. What was known would be known thor oughly. The intelligent woman would be interested in a man’s topics, while she would be fitted for her own sphere. Spkamxo of the charge of Judge H. % . Johnson and the acqnittal of the ne gro insurgents in Georgia, the Capital says: “Our contemporary, the Republi can, heads the announcement of this fact as ‘The Black Man Vindicated,’ whereas it is in truth the white man vin dicated—vindicated in the face of the oppressions of so many years, in the face of the old and new slanders which have been heaped upon them by the Re publican press, party and carpet-bag gers. The action of the Georgia au thorities has done more than any event since the war to enlighten the public and to lead the country back to the doctrine of legitimate State rights. We repeat, that it is the first fair opportu nity that a Southern State has had of acting in its own independent sover eignty in a case involving the antago nism of races, and the negro con Id not have received fairer treatment in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts." Dr. Shelton, of New Salem, Texas, went to his gate to see who was calling him, and was shot dead by an unknown assassin, who escaped. . Mr. Bryant has read the proofs of the first part "of his “History of the United States," and the opening volume will be ready before the holidays. ROCHDALE In the made at the meeting 0 County Council of Granjj^^ lß4 Saturday, onr farmer friends .J adera - a clasß with which, we are tho Chboni &.;•! pi •vlf.tr.- and f, ' u the live liest Jrang ’ l Qt 'Ut refer c.MHß*' • i!y particul Aiken. As many will r0:ld the vel 7 fl,ll re AND Hf.NTI 0f Rosney Chapel may no- concerning that system, the rules which to all co operativu^^^^l - They are: First. th® authority and protection of th e i aw —that is, get a char ter. Recount 0 ’ integrity, intelligence ahd qualifications in the manager, and not wealth or Let each member have Mll jy , distinction an ft ri&arfe, in', in. inl.-i nr.. , v ; , Look well fraud, when duly -SaSnss jSsmible, In the ftraf markets; or, it yon have the produce of your industry to tell, contrive, it possible, to sell it in tho last. Heventh. Never depart from the principle of buying and Belling for ready money. Eighth. Beware of long reckonings ; quarterly accounts are the best, and should be adopted when practicable. Ninth. For the sake of security, always have the acconnted value of the “ fixed stock ” at least one-fourth less than its mar ketable value. Tenth. Let members lake care that the accounts aro properly audited by men of their own choosing. Eleventh. Let com mittees of management always have the au thority of the members before takiug any im portant or expensive step. Twelfth. Do not court opposition or publicity, nor fear it when it comes. Thirteenth. Choose those only for yonr loaders whom you can trust, then give them your ooufidouce.” As to the wisdom contained in these rules thero can be but ono opinion. All experience shows the necessity of having the protection of the law. And it is equally clear that integrity, intelligence and ability are far superior as qualifica tions to wealth aud distinction. Yet how ofteu do we find these good qualities in poor men passed by, and men who simply possess piles of bricks instead sought out for officers. Rochdale is right in placing honesty, intelligence and ability above wealth or distinction. They know that it was men made up of that kind of material or rather those qualities of soul that founded their great society, and built up the co-operative movement, and not men of wealth and distinction. It is also important and indispensably necessary that men should vote, and not wealth. The capitalistic institutions give votes to shares, and as a natural consequence the rich rule in the interest of themselves. Money stands supreme and linman beings are lost sight of. Rochdale co-operation keeps human beings in sight all the time, and makes wealth subservient to their well-beiDg. The principle that majorities should rule, if carried out as advised, will ef fectually prevent usurpation and every form of legislation not authorized by the society or people. Rochdale re quires every committee or representa tive to simply carry out the wishes of the body they represent, and in that way preserve pure republican rule. In money matters she requires a strict account of everything to be kept, and has a standing auditing committee to examine and insist on a proper system of accounts, and every three months these accounts are totalled in balance sheet form, so as to show the whole transaction with all essential particulars, and this, in printed form, is given four times a year to each member, besides being published to the world. The principle of paying cash for everything they buy, and requiring ftie same of others, is one of those kind of things that leads to the complete emancipation from all debt, and, if carried out nationally, would of course place a nation in the same independent position that a mem ber of the Rochdale society is in, and wipe out all the monstrous evils and burdens of the credit system. There is nothing more to be desired than the re lease of onr farmers froth- the thraldom of debt, and we note with pleasure all such meetiugs as that at Rosney Chapel, for it is at them that good seed are sown which we cannot bnt hope will produce in time the rich fruit cf emancipation and independence of our farming popu lation, without which our beautiful South can never attain that position to whioh her fertile soil and genial clime so constantly and earnestly call her. Unappreciated in Ohio and Maine, Morton has retnrned to his old stamp ing ground and made a speech at Rock ville, Ind., last Tnesdav, the burden of which was that tho States have no rights which a casnal majority in Con gress aro bound te respect. Of course Morton will modify his views some what on this subject so soon as the De mocracy gets control of both houses. In the course of his speech this Radical high priest said: I want the whole nation to believo that the great doctrine enunciated nearly one hundred years ago, that all men were created equal, is the true, the noble, the only safe doctrine. We cannot go to the South, they must come to us. I see that Jefferson Davis has been in vited to come to the Northern States to speak to them. I think this is a diseased state of public feeling. The Nashville American pertinently asks: “Now what would Morton have us poor ex-rebels do ? He says he can not go to the Sonth, we must come to him. But when a representative ex rebel makes a move toward him, on special invitation, Morton exclaims, ‘This is a diseased state of pablic feel ing.’ He will and he won’t. Wo are damned if we do, and damned if we don’t.” The Holly Springs (Miss.) South says: “With a heartless alien in nowise iden tified with the State as Governor; an ig norant, corrupt and drnnken Lieutenant Governor, a State Superintendent of Education shingled over with indict ments for criminal and penitentiary offenses ; a judiciary, with few excep tions, incompetent and wanting in pub lio confidence; a Legislature with a ma jority of its members profoundly igno rant of everything they ought to know, and wholly incapable of comprehending the wants of the State or their duties and obligations, and the condition of the State annually growing worse and the people poorer and poorer, what but the love of the loaves and fishes of office can attract to Radicalism, the governing party in Mississippi, a single person of sense and honesty.” The Kentucky delegation will nomi nate the Hon. G. M. Adams for the Clerkship, and in doing so it will act not merely as a unit, but will represent a universal and live sentiment through out the State. Mr. Adams retired from Congress at the close of the last session voluntarily, and after an honorable ser vice of eight years. He has sat since 1867 for a district composed of a tier of mountain counties, which in 1866 gave a Republican majority of nearly seven thousand votes.— Courier-Journal. The Massachusetts Republican State Convention will consist of 1,130 mem bers. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1875. SOCIALISM. A cable telegram in this morning’s paper brings intelligence of the spread of “socialism” in linssia, and of the in dictment of a large number of men and women charged with it. In the various forms nnder which so ciety has existed, private property, in dividual industry and enterprise, and the right of marriage and the family have been recognized. Of late years several schemes of social arrangement have been proposed, in which one or all of these ptinciples have been abandoned or modified. These schemes may be comprehended under the general term of socialism. The motto of them all is solidarite, or fellowship and mutual re sponsibility. Communism demands a community of goods or property. Four ierism, or Philansterism, is the system of Charles Fourier, who advocated the plan of reorganizing society into so many philansteries, containing each from five hundred to two thousand per sons, upon principles similar to those of joint stock companies ; the members to live in one spacious edifice, cultivating a common domain, the proceeds to be shared according to the amount of capi tal, skill or labor invested each. This system had at ouo time many dis whom was Mr. Greeley, bnt many efforts to reduce it to practice failed to achieve any decisive result. Saint Simonianism or Humanitarian ism is the system of Claude Henri, Count de Saint Simon, who thought that the present evils of society were to be remedied by a just division of the fruits of common labor between its members. St. Simon, early in life, was a soldier in the war of Afmerican independence, under Count Rochambeau ; ho then ac quired a fortune in certain commercial speculations, and expended it in ex hausting all the experiences that mod ern civilized society could famish. He gathered abont him all the scientific men, and learned from them what they could teach; ho plunged into the dissipations and debaucheries of fashionable life, giving balls, dinners, and festivals, to extend his knowledge of mankind; and finally, when his wealth had been scattered, he was abandoned to the most painful privations and miseries of a state of poverty. He was thus fitted, as he thought, by a trial of all the conditions of humanity, to be come their exponent and their reformer, and he contrived what he denominated anew Christianity, or a scheme for the reconstruction of the religion, politics, industry, and sooial relations of man kind. To each man according to his capacity, to each capacity according to its works; such was the grand formula of the St. Simonian gospel. But the author did not live to witness its propa gation. After his death his disciples formed an association, called the St. Simonian family, whieh, after the French revolution of 1830, rose rapidly into notoriety and favor. With the no tions common to many other social re formers the members of this association united the doctrine that tho division of the goods of the community should be in. due proportion to the merits or oapacity of the recipient, and the government of the society was to be Entrusted to a hierarchy con sisting of a supremo pontiff, apostles, and disciples of the first, second, and third order. Practical difficulties arose in carrying the scheme into execution, and, in 1832, the association was dis persed by the French Government on account of their immoral and licentious practices. It is perhaps because of its tendency to these that Russia is dealing so sternly with the socialism which the cable tells us is spreading in that em pire and lias its most ardent propagand ists in the upper classes. The New York Times makes the fol lowing excellent comment on Governor Ames’ effort to flood Mississippi with Federal soldiers : “ Attorney-General Pierrepont seems to reduce Governor Ames’ Mississippi ‘insurrection’ to very small dimensions. His advices are that there are no disturbances of any conse quence in the State, and his opinion is that such disturbances as exist must be dealt with by the Governor in. the first instance, aud until his power is absolute ly exhausted. This is good law and common sense, and is the position with reference to this class of questions which we have repeatedly had occasion to urge on the National Administration. The country will receive the expressions of Mr. Pierrepont’ with entire approba tion.” PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. A. T. Stewart has presented to his chief snperintendent a house worth $30,- 000. Rev. Dr. Alex. Martin, of Virginia, has been elected President of Ashbury University, Indianapolis. The Republicans of the Third Missis sippi District Wednesday nominated Finnis H. Little for Congress. Walter Grant, of Fitchburg, Mass., seventy-three years old, was congratu lated last Sunday as the father of his twenty-first child. George William Curtis, says the Al bany Argus, went to the Republican State Convention thinking that he was “going to a funeral.” Henry Wilson would be one of the saviors of the party in Massachusetts, the Springfield Republican thinks, if he had not a prior engagement. King Alfonso’s prospective wife, the Infanta Mercedes, is just fifteen years old. Her mother was only fourteen when she married the Duke de Mont pensier. Senator. Paddock has gone to Wash ington to obtain some death warrants for Federal officials in Nebraska who do not realize that there is no off year in politics.’ Leading Republican politicians of Pennsylvania admit that if Hayes is beaten in Ohio the contest in the Key stone State will be a mighty tough one for them. The Grand Duko Alexis of Russia, who incurred his father’s displeasure by a secret marriage, has been divorced from his wife, and is now happy in the Imperial forgiveness. Foley’s statue of Stonewall Jackson arrived in Baltimore on Thursday. It will be taken to Richmond and erected in Capitol Square, a short distance from the equestrian statue of Washington. Carl Schurz will speak for the Repub licans in Ohio, and Mr. Schurz has fine feline whiskers, which feel the drift of the wind far in advance of the coarser clay of the common politician.—Phila delphia Press. Mr. Kirkwood, Republican candidate for Governor in lowa, having been in terviewed by a delegation from the Fe male Suffrage Association, replied fear lessly that he was a “believer in the dis tant advent of woman suffrage.” Booth, Independent Senator from California, might as well be securing tickets of admission to the Democratic sanctuary. Otherwise he will be more ornamental than useful for several years to come. —Cincinnati Enquirer ( Dem .) Judge Pierrepont has been a sore dis appointment to the bloody-shirt shakers. They feel like exclaiming with the Phila delphia Times: “Pierrepont may be a better lawyer than Williams, but he can’t rnn an outrage mill. And here are elections coming off, and no troops. It is too bad.” It is with feelings of the profoundest j gloom that the sad duty is performed of j recording the death, from softening of j the brain, of the Indiana journalist who lately wrote: “I have seen swaying lily-like above the churn a beauty more perfect than that which bloomed full grown from the bright focus of the sea’s ecstatic travail.” PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY. RICHMOND COUNCIL OF GRAN GERS. An Interesting Meeting—Addresses by Gen. Colquitt, Col. Smith, Master, apd Col, Jones, Lecturer of the State Grange, Col. D. Wyatt- Aiken, and Col. M. C- Fnlton—A Large Attend ance—Mnch Interest Manifested— Arguments In Favor of Direct Trade —The Planters Told to Plant Small Grain. Pursuant to notice a meeting of the Richmond County Council of Grangers was held at Rosney Chapel, six miles lrom the city, yesterday. The attend ance was large. A number of ladies graced the occasion with their presence. At eleven o’clock the meeting was called to order by Dr. R. 0. Griffin, President of the Council, who state# that the ex ercises would commence with a song After the song a blessing" was invoked by the Chaplain, Rev. JED A. Duncan. An address was delivered _by the Presi dent of the Council, who, in conclusion, introduced to the meeting Gen. A. H. Colquitt. The General said therf IVas no doubt but that all those present were aware with what curious looks such meetings were sometimes regarded. Wives aud Sisters often tried td keep their hus bands aud brothers aw#. What do men go into Granges foffihey say. Do they learn anything by iw .The young man who .hagplanted his father ffnfletfM" I'li'Ui ~IW practical rarm er? He says, “What can I learn more abont planting turnips or using the plow. Don’t I kuow when to plant, whether in dry or wet weather ?” It is these skeptical sayings that often keep men out of the Association. And even some of tho good brothers who are mem bers of the Association are sometimes ashamed to say so. Some city man meets one of these brothers on the street and says “Ain’t you a Granger ?” The way iu which the question is asked is almost equivalent to “Havu’fc you been in the penitentiary ?” So the brother sometimes is half inclined to deny the Association, or if he doesn’t admits his membership in such a roundabout way that it would have been better for the Grange if he had denied it.— Now why should thero be any discredit upon farmers and farmers’ wives meeting together and discussing farming topics ? Do people throw dis credit upon Board of Trade meetings, lawyers’ meetiugs or printers’ meetings ? Why the difference ? Just as soon as the farmers propose to hold a meeting the cry is at once, “Who are they going to hit now ?” “What are they going to do with the middle men?” Well, no one can come to such a meeting as this with out learning something. The corn man and the potato man interchange ideas and each is profited. The potato man learns how to make as much corn as the corn man, and the cern man iearns how. to make as many potatoes as the potato man. Intermingling of ideas bene fits all. He wished to speak of that which would be of practical benefit. He did not care to speak of component parts of a soil, wliat gases were in it and what acids. He asked several far mers whether they raised enough corn to supply their wants. He was pleased to learn that on the Savannah river bot tom a surplus was made, but sorry that it had to bo purchased iu other sections of the county. Why can’t corn enough be made to supply all wants. The far mer is becoming nearer and nearer a bankrupt caoh year from planting too much cotton and not enough corn. He was convinced that the want of pros perity in Georgia to-day arose from the fact that the farmers did not seek to make themselves independent. All lines of railway brought corn into the State from the West. It would be a great thing if Richmond county should lead off in the reform movement of be coming independent. Let us establish the old time civilization for which we used to be famous. The world acknowl edged, whatever might be said against us, that the South, in the olden time, was virtuous, liberal and hospitable. What was the cause of this ? It was be cause the farmers were independent, had a plenty in the barn and in the dairy. There was a plenty in the land. One of the saddest results of the war is the humiliatibn of the South in that respect. The old time hospitality has died out. The hospitality of the olden days tended to enlarge our hearts and our under standings. Can we keep this up? We may restore something of our prosperity by economy,and self-denial, but if the ele ment of the old civilization is gone the very foundation is lost. It all depends up on the independent farmer and tho most dependent men we now kuow of are thj farmers. A neighbor goes to visit an other, ties his horse to a swinging limb and walks in. The farmer he goes to visit, meets him and says in a sort of listless way, “Won’t you have your horse put up?” It wasn’t so in the olden time. The horse was at once put up and fed, no questions asked, Of course the visitor says no. Hasn’t he seen the light shining through the chinks of the corn crib when he was two hundred yards off? Dosen’t he kuow there is no corn there ? Aud if he does say yes how agitating the host runs to his wife for the key to the dairy to get a little corn oat of the sack. And when he says “wife, I have asked Mr. Smith to stay to dinner.” What does she say, “What in the world did you ask him for. Don’t you know there is nothing to give him ?” Not that free handed hospitality of the olden time. There is much talk now about inflation and hard money. It was all hard to him. A man is inclined to make much of his troubles. But he ventured to say if he was made to change places with the woman, he would soon clamor to be put back in the field. We meet at the grocery and talk about hard times, chew and spit the while. Some man says, “I have made a heap of money, what has become of it ?” And some ' other man, who knows more than any body else, says, “Why, our wives and daughters dress too fine; they spend too much; onr grandmothers and our moth ers didn’t take more than ten yards of calico for a dress, now, with the apron fronts and polonaises, it takes twenty.” He ventured to say that if enough corn and meat were put on the place, made there, the wife would see that the old man from being cross and morose had become the sweetest disposition in the world. The fact is, the lords of crea tion don’t think enough about their self sacrificing wives. Time was when farm houses were pretty comfortable sort of places. Wbat are some of them now ? Lights all out; some stopped with old rags, some with paper ; a hole in the kitchen chimney big enough to pitch a pot through. This applies, un fortunately to all parts of the State. Now everything has to be bought—plow lines, plow stocks, all. Before the war all these were made on the farm. One of the saddest sights to him was the once independent farmer now so humiliated. What is the feeling of the independent man who has to talk any way so that he may eke out a little credit with the factor ? How is this to be remedied? Not by applying economy to bonnets and polo naises, but to everything on she farm. He could say a good deal about fertili zers if he choose, but he would only say that it was perfectly foolish to talk about buying fertilizers when so much was wasted on the place. Cotton seed permitted to go to waste when it con tains all that is needed—phosphate and ammonia and potash. But the farmer says, “Why that is only cotton seed; that isn’t compound phosphate ammo nia.” No; bat it is better. Commer cial men say Patrons of Husbandry can’t talk about direct trade; it is out of the question. The merchants labor under a delusion. They take up an idea that because it is done by the Grangers it is in opposition to their own interests. To hear them talk you would think there was some mystery about it. Why it is the easiest thing in the world to com prehend direct trade. Indirect trade is what is hard to comprehend. Let us come to direct trade. The planters of the South are paying one hundred and seventy-five dollars for what they get, when, if they had direct trade,' they could get it for one hundred and sixty dollars. Before the war not a voice was raised against direct trade. On the contrary great conven tions were held in Augusta, Columbia and elsewhere to effect it. And yet conld they effect it? No. And that’s the reason why skeptics nowaday’s say it can’t be effected. Why did those ef forts fail. Because it was all taken out in speeches and whereases. The diffi culty was that there wasn’t an organized body of men in the South. The conven tions were merely temporary, Mr. Mc- Duffie said that those who could do the most for direct trade, were the farmers. But he considered it a hopeless task be cause there was no organization among them. But suppose Mr. MeDuffie should rise from the grave to-day and be showed the thousands of Grangers in the States Sonth and West, he felt assnred that he would picture with his great elo quence the future of the South. We want to get our goods directly from the manufacturers; we want to get our products directly to the consumers. Why? Because of the cheapness. The Direct Trade Union would be very glad to have the co-operation of the mer chants. What the Patrons of Hus bandry wanted was direct trade. They didn’t care anything about the manner of getting it. They would be glad for the merchants to have organization and take hold of it. He had said in his speech in Atlanta that if the merchants would organize to get direot trade, the Patrons of Husbandry would co-operate with them. He, as President ot the Direct Trade Union, would resign and let a merchant take it. There was no reason for any prejudice. Everybody would try to get goods where they could get them cheapest. He had never heard an argument in favor of sending our cotton through New York, of receiving our goods through New York. If anyone was in favor of paying tribute to New York rather than to Charleston or Savannah, let him do it. For one he was not disposed to do it, and every cent he sent that way was sent grudgingly. Grangers said to him, “If I see you get along well, General, I’ll join in.” Now it would be a slow sort of team with only himself and Col. Jones in it. If every Granger waited until the wMHm ever Koompltshecf.' TmSS" from Boston comes down here and talks to a congregation like this and every body bends forward to listen to him. He is the man to lead the people out of their trouble. He had nothing to say against Yankee ingenuity. If they could make us hewers of wood and drawers of water by reason of their superior brains, let them do it. Let himself or Col. Jones come among them to speak of direct trade and men will say “why I knew his daddy, he was born in Geor gia.” He was not from Boston. He would say in conclusion “let us look forward to the day when as a mighty phalanx we shall stand upon the moun tains and the hill tops and a shout shall go up from a mighty and a disenthralled people. Gen. Colquitt was enthusiastically ap plauded. At the conclusion of his ad dress Dr. Griffin introduced Col, T. J. Bmitli, Master of the State Grange. Col. Smith said General Colquitt had pictured well the condition of this conn try. Let the farmers unite as one man and be up and doing. No one can fill the cribs and correct the vexed question of labor but the farmers. Be not ashamed to be a Granger. Ashamed of being a Granger! Where do you hail from you weak kneed man? Not from Richmond county he knew. He thanked Heaven that he was not afraid to get up, hold up his head and say, “ Yes, I am a Granger!” Some objected to the Granges because the women were in it. Didn’t they know they couldn’t suc ceed without women. The women were not ashamed of their connection with the order. Some objected to the Grange because it was a secret or ganization. Where was the busi ness in the world that did not have its secrecy ? What would be the result of a council of war if its se crecy was removed. Every other call ing co-operates. The merchants, the newspapers, and even the boot-blacks. An organization among boot-blacks ex ists in Savannah. There is nothing that can’t be carried out by a concert of ac tion. He regretted that there were planters in Richmond county who were halting between two opinions. One of the most prominent planters in Morgan told him he was not with the Grangers be cause he was opposed to them. He asked him to get up and state why he was op posed to them. He rose and said “the Granges claimed that - they could buy goods cheaper than he could, when he knew better.” All he had to say about this man was that he was very presump tious. Oould he have gone and pur chased a fertilizer for twenty-eight dol lars, when it was selling in his own city for fifty-five dollars, as the Grange had done. General Colquitt had pictured strongly the necessities of the country. Just so long as the South stuck to the suicidal policy of buying their provis ions, just so long would they be hewers of wood and drawers of water. Plant ing of small grain was the remedy for the evil. His great hobby was oats. Plant one-third in corn, one-third in small grain and one-third in cotton. Plaut small grain and it will give you not only bread but pasturage for your stock as well. It will give you fat beef, fat mutton. Just so long as you have high priced meat, high priced corn, you will have cheap cotton. What we want is cheap corn, cheajfflour, cheap bacon. The Graugers are not dead yet.— The farmers have to economize.— They can’t live like the people in the towns. Live on bacon, on bacon made at home, and don’t be ashamed of it. Don’t be ashamed of economy. Go to work. Let us decorate our homes. Let us have good houses. There is no use going to Colorado, our own State furnishes all we need. Educate the chil dren to love home. Competing muscle With brains will always suffer. Where is the two hundred and twenty-five mil lions of dollars the farmers make every year on cotton ? Payin'* tribute,not only to New York and Boston but to our Geor gia cities as well. An immense sum was spent in Atlanta last year for mules. Why cant’t Richmond and other coun ties raise mules? The country would starve without the farmers. One object of the Grange is to elevate the planter. Where are the bright eyed boys ? Are they between the plough handles? Far mers’ sons are leaving home; going into other business. Is that the way to elevate the class? Nothing is more important than the education of our youth; yea, for the simple thing of farming. They had in Atlanta a little sheet called the Georgia Granger scarcely able to live. Every farmer should direct its opinions, should take it and make it one of the most powerful organs in the State. All the speeches in Christendom can’t do the good that an organ can, going to all sections. We are not the only people who have failed at farming. Yankees and Englishmen have come to Georgia and tried planting. What has gone with them ? Gone back home, leaving us to make cotton. Just so long as they suf fered themselves to be duped, they would be, because it was to others’inter est te do so. They were ridiouled, farmers as they were, for presuming to get up direct trade. Why can’t we build vessels here and carry our cotton directly to the manufacturer ? He called upon Richmond county to warm up in the great work, cultivate unity, cultivate friendship, cultivate brotherly love; meet together, buy together, sell to gether, and you will be all-powerful. He called upon the women to urge on the lazy brethren; to make themselves felt. If the drones won’t go to work, turn them out. If there is anything in the Grange movement that was wrong, he didn’t know it. Let Richmond come up and illuminate the country so that every blind brother can see how to walk. Col, J. B. Jones, Lecturer of the State Grange, was next introduced. Col. Jones said : The nine teenth century has developed many won ders, both in heaven and earth. Nations, by means of the electric chain, can talk to each other face to face. But there is no wonder that is so well calculated to add to the happiness of the.human fami ly as the order of Patrons of Husband ry. Starting at the nation’s capital, it has flown over the country with the speed of the cyclone. It is to-day the basis of the dependence of the agricul-. tural classes. We have always needed cordial co-operation among the planters of this country. All other classes have always had organization, but the farmer has been laughed down. One of the great causes of this has been want of confidence among the planters in them selves. There has never been pertinaci j ty, tenacity enough among them to hold Ito themselves. He was very frequently i asked what the Grange movement had i done. It had left its footprints in every j business in this country. Had lawyers, ! had the Legislature ever done anything ! for the farmer until lately ? He was ; credibly informed that the great bequest ! of land by the National Government 1 was brought about by a Northern poli | tician because he saw the tendency of | the country to impoverishment through i ignorance. He wanted an institution | where planters could be taught : the higher branches as well as | lawyers and doctors. The State of ; Georgia now had an Agricultural Bu i reau at Atlanta, which was destined to : achieve great results. The people or j the State did not well enough appreciate | the head of this Bureau. He had told j them through a circular that in onehnn ■ dred and ten fertilizers analyzed, a large number, under different names, were identically the same. One planter bought one at fifty dollars, and another at seventy-five dollars, when they were exactly the same, because they were too ignorant to know that they were one and the same. Dr. Janes told them that if they would follow out the advice given in the circular they Would save money enough in one year to run the Bureau one hundred and fifty years, at ten thousand dollars a year. Could such a bureau Wave been established fifty years ago ? No. And why ? Because law yers and doctors then controlled the Legislature. Now the planters had representative men in the Assembly. The Grangers had brought all this about. They owed Governor Smith many thanks for what he had done for the establish ment of the Bureau; he was a noble, wise man. But his favor would have availed little if the planters hadn’t stood up in solid phalanx for it. Another thing the Grangers had accomplished was the abolition of the city tax on cotton. A few years ago every bill that went to a planter for cotton sold contaiued the item of tax. Nobody said anything against it then because they knew it would be no use. It took two years to discuss the question, great an outrage as the tax was, before the bill repealing it could be passed. It would have been kicked then but for the fact that the Granges controlled the Legislature. Their co operation had gone into every trade; it had brought down prices. It had re .iuftetL machine from one ifundfed and ten, eighty and seventy five dollars, down to thirty, forty and fifty dollars. This showed that the sellers had been making seventy-five and one hundred per cent, out of them. The Patrons of Husbandry had brought down the price of shipping cotton to five per cent. He never knew until he came into the Patrons of Husbandry that the iron cotton tie business of this country was in the hands of au English monopolist. In 1872 the price of ties went up to thirteen cents per pound. To circumvent this there was formed in New Orleans the American Cotton Tie Asso ciation, with a branch at Chattanooga. But an injunction was put upon the house by the English monopoly. But this English house knew very well that there were breakers ahead. That was the reason—the fear of competition— that had brought down the price of ties to five and a half, five, and four and a half cents. The Direct Trade Union did much to keep down the prioe of ties. The same applied equally well to other things. Archimides said if he had a fulcrum upon which to rest a lever he could move the world. The fulcrum the Patrons of Husbandry needed was con fidence in themselves. Had they ever sat down to think seriously about the outrage practiced upon them in the de duction of cotton. No man cared for the loss of cotton, be it one or fifty pounds, if the scales said so. But de duction was another thing. The city crop of New Orleans last year was 20,000 bales—made up of pickings and sam ples. All of this was the loss of the poor, impoverished planter. Arkwright Factory, in Savannah, was run last year with sample cotton. Think of that. A poor young man in Augusta, when he was about to be sworn in as weigher and was asked what salary he asked, hesitated a mo ment and then said he would take the deduction in the city of Savannah for his salary. In seven-tenths of all the cotton weighed in Georgia actual de ductions of from one to ten pounds are made. Who don’t know that cotton will absorb as well as give off, but it always gives off for the planter. To talk about a mixed bale of cotton being false packed is a lie. A bill was intro duced in the Legislature and adopted to set the planters right in this particu lar by discriminating between mixed and false packed cotton. When the bill was published its author was actu ally damned in the' streets of Augusta. Now its provisions had been adopted by the National Gotton Exchange. Weigh cotton like gold and give us what it weighs; that is all we claim. When you weigh corn you weigh it like gold; when you weigh rice you weigh it like fold. Weigh cotton in the same way. tand by the flag you have raised and march on in the way of progress. Come into the Granges, men and women, and stand up to the good cause. Farmers who did not call upon their sons to come into the Granges were not true to their country, neither were the mothers, farmer’s wives, who did not persuade their daughters to go to the Grange meetings and listen to their fathers. There is more money in hay in Geor gia than there is in cotton. Cultivate the grasses, quit cotton. The idea of sending up to the editor the first form, the first bloom aud first boll when this is the very thing out of which the man ufacturer makes his gold dust. Worse than all calling in all the neighbors to gather a pitiful few hundred pounds of cotton from a thousand acre field as the first bale. The State Society should offer a prize of a tin cup with a jack ass engraved on it for the farmer who each year sends forward the first boll or bale of cotton. Dinner. At the conclusion of Col. Jones’ re marks the President announced that the meeting would now take a recess of an hour for dinner. The audienoe then proceeded outside where several long tables were metaphorically groaning with the substantiate and dainties pro-- vided by the ladies. If, as is often said, the way to the heart is through the mouth the ladies certainly captured all the lords'of creation present. After dinner the audience returned to the Chapel when the President intro duced Col. M. C. Fulton, of McDuffie. Col. Fulton said he would be pleased to talk to them but they had heard so much in the morning, they were desirous of hearing from Col. Aiken. There was great power in the Grange movement. It was an earthquake. It was destined to break up rings. It resulted from the combinations of numbers. With the co operation of the ladies the Order would become iuvinoible. How anybody could be lukewarm was a mystery to him. He wanted to know who was friendly to the Order. Would the ladies and gentle men present in favor of the Order, please hold up their hands. He was glad to see such a good showing. A Granger must learn to make his living at home. He must practice economy. The order had its origin in the idea that all pro ducers wanted a direct intercharge in their products without the intervention of middle men. It is expressed in its demand for bee line trade. They didn’t want to go to New York, to Bos ton. The great and leading men of this country have considered and talked over this subject, but the day when it could be accomplished was not until the Grangers were organized. The Grang ers are destined to save this country. The motives which actuate any man in this great work are higher than those of any politician. The Grangers will never ask for anything that is not for the good of the country, that will not advance the material interests of the country. The first time in the history of this country have men come over from Eng land in the interests of direct trade. To whom do they address their circulars ? To the Grangers. The co-operative warehouse more than paid expenses last year. This year, one day it received more than half of the cotton received in Augusta, another day fully two-thirds. The Grangers despise frauds,, despise shows, despise cheating their neighbors. The Grange is founded upon the principle of helping your brother, helping your sister. It doesn’t wish to oppose anybody. Who build up co operative English stores and banking houses? These propose to sell you a hat that sells for five dollars here at half the price. The secret of our depression is that we are paying double what we ought to pay, because we haven’t direct trade. The English have the laboring people who can put small sums into these co-operative associations. They want the co-operation of the Southern people. They want the South to sub scribe to erect warehouses here.* They propose to advance mpney on cotton at not more than five per cent. They ac complish all this because there are so many of them. Where there’s a will and energy there will always be a way. The Georgia Legislature has shown how it yields to the Grangers’ requests, and it is going to do more for the farmers than it has done. What is the conse quence of all the the wail of woe that that has come up from the North ? It is because the labor of the South has been disturbed. We must have some sort of certain, reliable labor. The planters can never recover from their de pression until they learn to live within their income. There was a chorus (a parody) he wanted the ladies to learn; “O, who is there among us, The true and the tried, Who'll stand by his colors Who’s on the Orange’s side,” The President introduced Col. D. Wyatt Aiken, Of South Caroline, j Col. Aiken said the patienoe they had manifested and the vote they had been pleased to take showed that their hearts Were with the Granger’s cause. If he were to ask what was the Grange not a man present would answer as his brother. Perhaps some would say it was a good co-operative buying and selling institu tion. Bnt the idea he wished to convey was something higher and grander than that. It was a social institution. The farmer was necessarily isolated from the world, was selfish. Men in cities always tpet each other in the streets and talked over the things of the day. Did the farmer have this opportunity. No. So With the ladies. The farmers all say they haven’t time. Did you ever see one who didn’t have time to go to town for a plug of tobacco, fora drink ? There Was not a country man or a country wo man who isn’t at once pointed out as snob. Perhaps they don’t pull back so much. The whole thing is the want of polish, the want of social in tercourse. The Grange proposes to remedy this. It says lay aside all other things and meet together at least once a month and bring your wife. And why bring your wife? Because then you will be in decent company. The Grange is particularly adapted* to the country. It is meant to elevate the farmer social ly. And as it elevates him sooially it gives him refinement, it educates him mental hoW many count the planter among the number. How many farm ers did you ever know could get up and give a practical good speech of any sort ? They have never been educated to it. But of late years farmers had been able to get up in the Grange and speak as well as anybody, deliver themselves in telligently. Bringing them together in the Grange was like striking flint to steel. It resulted in debate. He never saw a cotton plauter who didn’t think that he knew it all. It came, this ar rogance, from his isolation. It was natural. He was monarch of all he surveyed on his plantation. But the moment he comes into a Grange he hears the ideas of Others and can dis card all that is erroneous. . The true ideas upon which the Grange was first organized, was first the social idea. It originated with a man named Kelly in South Carolina, who was the candidate of the people in that State and wished to devise some means to bring about a social intercourse. He spoke of it when he went back to Wash ington and a woman suggested the formation of the present Patrons of Husbandry. The first idea was social advantages; the second 'educational ad vantages grew out of it. And don’t the farmers want education? How many farmers are there who are not able to even write their own names. When the war oaine on young men left the school houses and patriotically went into the Confederate army. When the war ceased and the whole coun try was broken up these men had to go to work and let education alone. Now the Grange proposed to give these men an opportunity to educate them selves. They were obliged to study, they were obliged to read. They could take agricultural works. A farmer who did not take agricultural works was like a banker who did not keep his accounts in books. Well, if the Grange gives yon social advantages, if it educates you and your children, is not that admirable, does not that do all you ask ? But in ad dition, there is the co-operative idea that saves your money, that puts money in . your pocket. Why go to a merchant to bny plows, why not go to the man that makes them ? But take it for granted that you buy from the merchant. You go to him to buy a Brinlev plow. He asks you six dollars. But if you buy six he sells them at five dollars. There is the wholesale idea. The same is done by co-operation. Suppose again you go to the manufacturer. He sells you one for five dollars or six for four dollars each. There you save again; wherever there is co-operation you can buy what you want at a living price. You go by railroad stations and you see nice houses going up. Ninety nine times out of a hundred these are not built by the farmers but by men who are mak ing money out .of them. He had on his farm to-day wagons which he had bought three years ago at seventy dollars for tenants. Twelve mouths ago he bought the same kind at fifty dollars each. He chartered a single car at Dubuque, lowa, that laid the wagons down at Greenville at five dollars each. Three years ago the freight was ten dollars each. The Grange said pay cash for everything. It was credit that that was raining the country. He conld go to Augusta and buy hay at twenty five cents less per hundred for cash than he could for credit. There are probably men in this house %ho have given mort gages on‘their, crops or farms for flour. They pay twelve dollars whilel pay eight, cash, per 'barrel. A mortgage of this kind reminds him more of the old nig ger pass than anything else. This mort gage system was the ruination of the whole country. The cotton crop wasn’t a paying one; it took too long to make it. The man who fol lows out the idea of diversified industry will never see a month in the year that he doesn’t have something to sell. It will be corn, or butter, or a pig, or mut ton, or something else. We have the best labor in the country. Some men talk about the confounded nigger. Let them go to the Northwest and look at the white labor. The labor here is in finitely better. Do you hear anything about strikes in the South ? Never. And they come as regularly as the equi noxes in the North. The best labor in the world is right here, but it is not utilized now. The Grange proposes to utilize it. There isn’t au acre in Georgia that, if it is plowed np and let alone, will yield not more money from the hay cut from it than can be made off it from planting cotton. Go at it systemati cally. There isn’t a man in Georgia who has an acre of red land who can tell him what it costs to make wheat on it. It costs nothing but the wear and tear of muscle. There is more money in your pocket from the produc tion of wheat than cotton. If they wonld take his advice they would plant this Fall one acre in wheat for every child and five acres for every mule, and then plant as much cottou as they pleased. The Northwestern fanner is always pleased because he had enough bread. There is more money in the South than the Northwest. Follow his plan, and one of every four mules can be discarded. What is the necessity of planning com to feed mules when they can be fed on oats, which cost less ? He feeds his mules on oats and his family on wheat. Ground that won’t make wheat will bring crab grass hay that will sell for more than timothy. Colonel Fulton had tola them that the Rochdale scheme had grown into an im mense power, commencing with a wheel barrow full of goods. The idea seemed chimerical, bat it was true. Twenty men at Rochdale conceived that they were paying too much for goods. Each put in five dollars and sent to London for goads. These were put in an old wagon house. The twenty men ascertained what the merchants made—twenty per cent—and they bought from themselves at the same rate. Thus the goods sold for one hundred and twenty dollars. They kept on in this way, and the association was gradually enlarged. These men now came on here and said, “If you will subscribe five dollars a piece to the amount of five hundred thousand dol lars, and 00-operate with us, you can do what you please with it. We will sub scribe the same. You elect twelve di rectors, and we will elect one English director to serve with them. In Eng land we will elect twelve directors, and you can elect one American to co-operate with them. The moment you subscribe 8250,000 we will put two ships on the water to carry your goods. When you subscribe 8500,000 we will put on four ships, and so on.” What we want is free trade, an aboli tion of tariff. While the constitution of the Patrons prohibits politics it is the most powerful political lever in the cotmti-y, because it educates the masses. The bottom rail has been on top long enough, bat ere long things will be turned topsy turvey and matters righted. Before the next five years the Patrons of Husbandry will control Congress. His heaters bad no idea of the magni tude of the order. Why last year send ing off at one time agricultural docu ments to Granges took sixteen hundred dollars for stamps. Another instance. He had an order for knives, and went to Fairfield to see what a manufacturer would sell them knives for. What will you make ns a thousand for ? said he. “Sixty cents apiece.” “What will yon make five thousand for ?” “Fifty oents apiece.” “What will you make us ten thousand for?” “Thirty-seven and a half cents apiece.” “What will you make us twenty thousand for ?” “See NUMBER 38 here, Mister,” said the astonished manu facturer “you must deal in nothing buti. knives.” , The little picayune merchant who was afraid the Grange would injure him, must get out of the way. The great Juggernaut car of the Patrons of Hus bandry was coming along, and if he did Sot get out of the Way it would crush im, Col. Aiken concluded amid storms of applause. . Colonel Smith Said Richmond county had had a rioh feast that day. He wanted to know who was in favorof standing up to the Grange movement. He wanted to see how many would do it. Would they stand up. [There was a unanimous rise of those present.] Now he wanted to know what then present would increase their grain crops after hearing what had been said. [A large number rose;] He was glad to see this. He hoped that they would do another thing which had beeu done in 001. Aiken’s section; have an inspection of their crops at certain seasons. The meeting theu adjourned. GEN. SHERMAN. An Interview On the Subject of His Memoirs. [Special Correspondence of the Cincinnati Ga zette.] Indianapolis, September 8. ,At au early hour Tuesday morning I called at the house of his host and found him alone, but ready for callers. his “Memoirs” became the topic ofoon versation. At once he began berating General Boynton, the Gazette's able Washington correspondent, most sound ly, and assured me he didn’t care if I conveyed to him his words. “You have read General Boynton’s criticisms, then ?” I remarked. “Oh, yes; every one carefully; and I assure you he don’t know what he is writing about. He shows himself to be a most profound ignoramus, so far as military move- - ments are concerned. I was surprised that a man of his ability could show himself off to such poor advantage. But the fact is he is trying to whip General Howard over my shoulder.” “But I noticed in the Gazette's Washington correspondence yesterday (Monday) morning that you contemplated revising your book, and had written certain offi cers promising to correct some errors. Have General Boynton’s criticisms in duced you to do so ?” “I have not thought of getting out a revised edi tion. In two or three instances I have got the names of officers confused. For instance, I have written Beard when it should be Ward. Similar mistakes have occurred elsewhere, the result of hasty 1 proof reading, except in one instance, and then I wrote the name wrong. These errors will be correoted in the next edition by simply cutting out the wrong name from the stereotyped plates and inserting the correct name in type. Mr. Appleton tells me this can be easi ly done; but I shall not change a single sentence. As yet 1 know of none td change. The book is meeting with a large sale—much larger than I had any reason to anticipate, and adverse criti cisms, espebially such criticisms as Mr. Boynton’s, have aided rather than re duced the sale.” “How many copies have been sold ?” “I don’t know. I keep no account of the sales. The publishers have entire control of that. But lam told the sales are steadily increasing.” “Have you had any correspondence with Gen. Logan since the publication of the book ?” “Oh yes. Some of his friends think I t spoke slightingly of him, but I didn’t. ‘I simply told the truth. He was and is a politician, and when it became neces sary to select a successor to poor Mc- Pherson, I thought it best to select one who was a soldier by profession and not by accident. Our whole future depend ed on this correctness, in all things, of his military record. Logan was absent from his command often. Once or twice he was canvassing in Illinois. This was all well enough for him, but it wasn’t for me, upon whom Mr. Lincoln and the country placed the responsibili ty of carrying out our plans successfully. A corps commander always ought to be at his post. When not engaged in bat tle, he is needed, and for a month be fore going into battle he should have an eye upon everything. For these reasons I selected Howard instead of either Lo gan or Blair. I di'd’nt write my book to eulogize any one, but in speaking of my reasons for selecting Howard I was com- Selled to give my true reasons, which I id. Personally, I have a high regard for Gen. Logan. He’s a good man, and was a brave, earnest officer, and one of the finest looking fellows I ever saw on horseback. What I have said about him in my book is certainly not to his in jury, and I do not think he regards it so. Our relations are very pleasant.” “Are they so with Gen. Grant ?” “So far as I know. They were the last time we met.” “What do you think of Gen. Grant’s criticism on your book, os pub lished in the papers eight or ten weeks ago ?” “To what one do you refer ?” “I have seen but one,” I answered; “and in that, it is said, he closed your book, after reading it, remarking, ‘heretofore I thought I had something to do with the conduct of the war, but' from Sher man’s book I find I did not.’” “I don’t believe Gen. Grant ever said any thing of the kind. Tt'isn't dike him.” “Did you ever resume friendly rela lations with Secretary Stanton after the. ‘cut’ at Washington on the day of the grand review of tile troops ?” “Before he died we were very friendly. He saw he had made a mistake and apologised, and our friendship was restored. Sfan ton was ambitious. During the war he was determined to conquer the South and did everything to accomplish his purpose. But when he saw we had them iu our clutches he began casting about; him to see who was as popular, or as likely to be the next President as he was. He fully intended to succeed Lin coln in 1868. The thought never entered his tnind that Grant wanted or would take it, and be determined to break mo down. I didn’t know what was his in-' tention when he visited me, soon after my arrival at Savannah, but I learned so afterward and was. on my guard.— The soldiers knew it, too, and when I stepped on to the platform in Washing ton on the day of the review, every eye was upon me to see if I had the grit at such a time to resist such an insult. I believe Stanton respected me more for it, and I’m sure the boys did. I men tioned my trouble with him in my book simply because it was a fact in the his tory of the war. Had I ignored it I should not have been true to the pur poses which I intended the book to sub serve. It would have been far more agreeable, I assure you, to have made no mention of it. Hie same is true in regard to selecting Howard instead of Logan or Blair. Personally I preferred not to give my reasons, but the very na ture of my book compelled me to do so.” “ You wrote most of your Memoirs in Washington, did you not?” I asked. “All of it there.” “What first suggest ed such a work?” “The need of it. While in Enrope several officers and gentlemen asked me to publish an account of my campaigns, and in this country I was repeatedly urged to do the same thing. The history of many movements and engagements was unknown, and the future historian would be obliged to rely upon files of newspapers. Many of these articles were necessarily imper fect. My idea, therefore, was to give a correct outline of movements and the reasons which led to them. Most of these reasons no one knew or could know but myself. I conceived them and retained them, as they became apparent through my orders. It was not my in tention to write a history of the war, or that part of it in which I was imme diately interested. I had neither the time, nor probably the ability. I so stated in the preface. Bnt there are many people who profess to be profes sional critics it seems, who never look at a preface. So I have been blamed for omissions and other sup posed errors which the scope of my book was not intended to include.” The General talked very freely for up wards of an hour. He said he had come to Rockville because it was near to St. Louis, and was a country town. Out of more than 100 similar invitations, he had been obliged to decline all but those of Rockville, Utica, N. Y., and Des Moines, lowa. Iu October he should take a trip into the Indian country, aud would have no opportunity to be pres ent at reunions held in that month. He enjoyed being with “the boys,” but preferred attending reunions which were held in the woods and groves. A city was the poorest place in the world for such a gathering. The Troy goats have taken to eating newspapers off front stoops. Cyrus L. Pershing, the Democratic candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, was the son of poor and honest parents, and bravely paid his own way through college.