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Txa:E post. WEDNESDAY. JUNE *ft, 1870. R. L. HICKS, EDITOR A XI) PROPRIETOR, H r . /*. llick* is the. regular agent for the J’O&T in John mu eon Mg, authorized to re- rtiD6 Ki'i- rlntvni*, ftreipt-for the mime, anil to nod - < •ntrarfftfor adee,Mining. All due* nliwihl hr pa id to him. W ill (lie <iovcruor A«-i ? Day by day as the law-abiding citizens of Laurens county reflect ilie enormityof the crime com- mint’d against law and order in our midst, the stronger grow# the belief thnl (lie State authorities cannot afford to allow it to pass unchalleng ed. Here wc have had a band of the lowest characters in the county to say the law shall not be executed unless the course of just ice happens to conform to their view’s. Von may at great, expense build court houses and jails, select, juries with as much care as you please, hire judges and set, up supremo t ribunals of jus tice, composed of the ablest, and purest men in our eomnibmvenHii; but what doeB it all amount to if the d< risions of tho highest courts must bo subject to reversal by an armed midnight mob ? It is not sufficient, for all good men to frown down snob lawlessness, Tlvcso law breakers inust bo punish- cd. No power but the (lovornor can effectually mob them; hence, the Governor cannot, without leaving ii slain on Ids administration, refuse to look into tho matter. The law breaker.- iirci doubtless using their best eHurls to blind Gov. Colquitt as to tho real facts and feelings of i be be - I oilmens in the case. AVe huvogood roasou for believing that thoir dmissurios have already boon to Atlanta. But Gov. Colquitt will surely not bo taken in by those wreekiMr. Edward Perry has raised Ids reward from *100 to *500 for I he detection of one or more of the parties who have spit upon tho authority of tho Sluto, and Imw tho Governor oun refuse to aid in vindi cating the honor of tho Stale which has so signally honored him, we can- not see. A Groat Newspaper, The Atlanta donut Uni ion cele brated its 12th birthday on tho lflth iiiHlaut h,V giving a big barbecue to all tho ntraplios of the paper and their families, numbering in all 350. 'i’ho employees alone numbor 80. Tho Constitution is a Southern newspaper that oonipuros favorably with the metropolitan. journals of the North, and comes nearer, per haps, than any other post helium enterprise in Dixie of representing tho true spirit and reflecting the true genius of tho Now South. It has done more than any other Southern newspaper to entomb the past and to inspire hope in the future. Possess ed of decided convictions with the courage to express and tho logic to nplitr.ain them, the -paper is neutral in nothing, but always champions the side it conceives to be rigid, and never tails to make its influence felt. Jamg live tho Constitution / Samuel U. Hill, who killed John ll Simmons, in Atlanta, for the seduotion of his wife, has been sen tenced to the penitentiary for life, lie would have been cleared but for the fact that his wife’s reputation be fore her acquaintance with Simmons was proved to be no bet,ter than it ought to lie. We are glad to see tho Albany News urging the building of little cotton mills—neighborhood mills, costing from two thousand to five thousand dollars, and propelled by water power. Such mills do not contain a loom. They are to spin, not to weave. If the South by means of such lit tle mills could t urn all of its fleecy produet into yarn, selling it only in that shape, a single decade would not puss before it would be the . neb*-i section ,-«f the eouutry. Wo have not capital enough to attompt much weaving, but there is not a county. whieh is not able to secure machinery with whieh to spin its own pmduot. Thoro is money in it to the spinners, to tho planters and io all others iutoreaiod in the welfare of die - nth. In the future we should mark, i our groat crop in the form of yarn, and to do that we need little mills at every water pmv, r.— Atlanta Constitution, 7VV- ; ■ \jSEv The Wirograss Country. Jin tekinurliU Dtsjutteh. We love to present, evidences ‘of the natural advantages of the wire- grass section, tho salubrity of onr climate, mid the independence of our people. On Thursday last Mr. Hardy Pjtts, who lives near the line of Dijuly and Worth counties cume uj» to Hawkins-" villc with a part of his “wool clip” of the present season. During the day we met Mr. Pitts and had a conversation with him. He is a hearty, robust old gentleman, sixty- four years of ago, and weighs two hundred and twenty-five pounds. Mr. Pitt s is the father of twenty child ran, fourteen of whom are now living, and the youngest is but ten months old. Helms lived in the wirograss, in his present neighborhood, for thirty- three yehrs, and informed ns that ho has never had a ease of chills and fever in his family. He gut bored and sheared this sea son two thousand two hundred head of sheep, mid probably several more were left in the woods, and may yet bo found. On Thursday last ho sold in Mawkinsville four thousand two hundred mid seventy pounds'of wool, a part of this season’s clipping, for which he received thirty and a half cents per pound, Mr. Pitts doesn’t boiiovo in “carrying all liis eggs in one basket,” and therefore did not sell his entire clipping. Ho is not tho largest sheep raiser in the wiregross, but lie is both care ful and attentive to his stock, and follows them daily through the “range.” Thus he is .enabled to protect his sheep from their enemies ‘—dogs, eagles, etc. His annual “wool clip” sells for about us much us forty bales of cotton. The sheep find pasturage, both summer and winter, in tho “ranges;” They roam at will over thousands of acres, known as “wild lands.” These lands can bo bought for twenty-five oents per aero, and in many instances for I ess. The land is covered with a most niugniHcontgrowt.il of the finest yellow pine timber. When cleaved and cultivated, with the aid of fer tilizers, these lands yield bountiful crops of cbl’ii, cotton, oats, potatoes, peas, sugar cane, etc. There can bo no doubt that the wirograss section is dostmod to at tract tho attention of emigrants, and at. no very distant day wo shall see this section with double its present population. Then,, instead of trav oling ten to twenty miles, and seeing only a lone settlement of a few log cabins, wo shall find thrifty little farms, comfortable dwellings, school houses, church buildings, etc., as numerous as in Middle Georgia. Hut, before wo diop this brief sketch, lot us present to our readers onoo more the name of Geo. 11. Reid, Sr., of Wilcox. He is the owner of about four thousand head of sheep, and is opposed to a dog law. He says the sheep owners are in tho mi nority, and to impose a tax upon dogs would increase tho prejudices and enmities of the non-sheep own ers. Mr. Reid is seventy four years of ago, and is one of t he old settlers in the witregrass. His wool clip this season was about nine thousand pounds, most, of which reached this market yostorduy. Mr. Reid is just, ten years older than Mr. Pitta, hut is not so heavy, or, in other words, “beefy.” lie re tains his physical manhood to a re markable degree, and one day last week rode fifty-two miles on horse* baek. We present these facts to our readers to show that, the wirograss section has many advantages un known to the people of up|>er. Geor gia. Wo liyo in a healthy country, and a section that will soou besought by thousands of people looking for new homes. THE RECENT ERUPTION MOUNT ETNA, What is the matter with tho Southern exodus? There seems to be an ebb in the tide—a lull in the enthusiasm—« falling in the contri butions—a general stagnation m the business that oven tho eloquence of Parson Conway fails to revivify. What does.it mean? Have tho pnr- , ties to the scheme thrown it tip as too heavy a contract, or Is the laud of the oyolone losing its charms as a land of promise? An answer to all those questions may be found iu the sensible action of the Southern plan ters, the sober second thought of j their inoro intelligent laborers, and, i above all, in the roturniug common sensq of the North St, Zouis Ite- I publican. Tin; Earn! Covered AVitli Blade AhIioshihI the Mountain Vom itlngFIre. *, . r/.j ^ London Time*. On the night of May 25th there were continuous imirmiirings from Etna, but this not being an uncoil- inon occurrence, it attracted but lit tle or no attention. On the morning of the 26th these murmuring# in creased, and I called the attention of a servant of mine to the fact. Some body called attention to the glass rattling'in the window frames, and somebody else suggested an earth quake, a suggestion which was met with derision. However, at about 12:30 p. m., a dcuso cloud of smoke was seen to be issuing from tlm great crater of Etna. It was a broad cloud which stretched over the land and over'the sea until it was lost on tho horizon. It lmd a very red, or rather it might be described as of a burnt sienna color, and minute specks of ash began to fall. Wo eon Id trace it in its course far into the night, and, in fact, until wo all went to bed. Ou the morning of the 27th all seemed in repose—not a cloud was upon the mountain, save the fiat, cloud with a lump in the middle whieh often overhangs the crater in the summer months, and which the Sicilians call “tho Cardinal's hat.” Hut at half past eight a dense cloud was observed to issue from the earth upon the northern slope of the mountain as well as could bo judged about half way between Lingitagros- sii and Randazzo, but much higher up the mountain. Tho cloud grow and spread, and became so dense that, tho whole mountain became per fectly invisible; the light became so obscured that it resembled the dark ness produced by a total eclipse of the sun, and a rail) of fine black ash, like powdered emery, commenced. •So heavy was the fall that the prom ontory of Naxos, but two miles dis tant, became perfectly invisible. This bl tek rain continued the whole of the day, loud reports could occa sionally be hoaid from the mountain, ami no doubt now remained that an fi'iijn it>ii mi ii grand COIll- rd. and my cars were blocked up ii it; the polished surface of my lie was ground away with grit. On tho road home I came across a priest enlarging upon the eruption to a select audience of contadini, and ventilating his knowledge by de scribing the destruction of Pompeii, and among other accuracies describe ed the scutinel at the Herculaneum gate eticking.to his post, through all, and being found with bis gun eight een hundred years after. At night the scene was magnifi cent; a tremendous stream of lava, many miles long, descended in tin apparent direction of Randazzo, while from the new craters great balls of fire were thrown high in the air ami. burst into showers of fire, like gigantic rockets, accompanied by thundering explosions. This morning the explorations are still go ing on, the stream of lava seems more active than ever, but the ash has much diminished, and although Trntieh of the mountain is obscured, it is by a cloud apparently of vapor rather than of ash, and this gives in dication of clearing away, when the whole scene may become visible. Perhaps any of us may soon bo able to take a Rip Van Winkle nap whenever we may choose. The Bris- bane (New South Wales) Courier has a long account of a new method of suspending animation, discovered by one Signor Rot urn, “whose research es into the botany and natural history of South America have made his name.eminent.” Some five months ago Signor Rotura called upon Mr. James Grant, a pupil of the late Nicolles, “of pre-eminence in his knowledge of the science of generat ing cold,” and tho owner of a freez ing chamber at Woolhara. “Signor Rotura averred,” savs the Courier’s correspondent, “that he had discov ered a South American vegetable poison, allied to the well-known woolara, that had the power of per fectly suspending animation, and that tho trance thus produced con tinued till the application of another vegetable essence caused the blood to resume its circalat on and the heart its functions. So perfect, moreover, inciM-i-d. Nobody could ascend ilie- was this suspension of life that Signor UHnuit^yf^iev such, eiiY»m<l«n.vs. R ujum had found in a warm climate ilecdmposition set in at the extremi ties after a week of this living death, and lie imagined if the body in this inert state wore reduced to a teinpet- atui’e sufficiently low to arrest de composition, the trances might be kept Up for months, possibly for years. Rotura and Grant have erect ed extensive works, in which they are exporilhontiug in secret, with a view soon to revolutionize the meat trade of Australia by shipping slice; to England while in this trance and reviving them for slaughter when landed. The correspondent visited this establishment and was shown tho freezing chamber, “a small dark room, about eight foot by ten feet. Here wore fourteen sheep, four lambs and three pigs, stacked on their sides in a heap, ‘alive,’ which Mr. Grant told ine bad been in their present position for nineteen .lays, and were to remain theio for another throe months. Selecting one of the lambs, Signor Rotura put it on his shoulder and carded it outside into the other building, where a number of shallow cemented tanks were in tho floor, having hot and cold water taps to each tank, with a thermometer hang ing alongside. One of these tanks was quickly filled, and its tempera ture tested bV the Signor, I meantime examining with the greatest curiosity and wonder the nineteen days’ ‘dead’ lamb. It was gently dropped into the warm bath, and was allowed to remain in it about twenty-three min utes, its head* being raised above the water twice for the introduction of tho thermometer into its mouth, and then it was taken out and placed on its sido on the floor, Signor Rotura quickly dividing the wool on its neck and inserting a sharp point of a small silver syringe under the skin and injecting the antidote. This was a pale greon liquid, and, as I believe, a decoction from tho root of the mtracharUs, found in South Amer ica. Tho lamb was then turned ou its back, Siguor Rotura standing across it, gently compressing the ribs with his knees and his hands, in such a manner as to imitate their natural depression and expansion during breathing. In ten minutes the ani mal was struggling to free itself, and, when iclcused, skipjxx] out through Etna is so enormous and so precipi tous and rugged that a voyage of in vestigation in such a rain of ash and such darkness would have been al most an impossibility. All night this black rain went on. About midnight huge fires could be seen looming tho doiiso clouds. In the morning a most extraordinary scoho presented itself; the, whole face of nature was black,-the hills and the plains wore black, tho seashore was black, tho usually dazzmglv white roads wore black, the roofs of tho houses were black. My garden is just now a mass of flowers, but every leaf, every petal, every cup was loaded with black, the edges of the petals giving a bright line of tho color of the flower. If a breath of wind passed, a black shower fell from the trees, anil still tho black rain wont on. The effect upon tho mind was most depressing. This ash pen etrates everything; it is found in closely shut linen drawers, in close boxes; it is all among my papers as I write, and it scorns to take delight in inserting itself in ono’s food—for two days I have been chewing grit. The effect of trees and figures in this universal black is very strange, the colors standing out with startling brilliancy. At two o’clock in tho day I started on horseback to lhcdmonte to try and gain some positive news, and heard that three craters, euch about a mile apart and situate like the points of a triangle, had opened in a valley about six miles above a postal station called Pussapescaro, a plaeo nearly midway on tho road between Linguagrossa and Randazzo— a most difficult place to roach, as lodging of any description could not ho obtain ed within fourteen miles, over pro clpitous and rugged ground, with every path obliterated by the ash, and general consternation everywhere. The lava was said to bo flowing, hut ouly its reflected ligiU|eould bo soen at night as it whs iu a valley, which, as far as 1 can ascertain, must be next the “Valley del Rove.” My eyes were most jminfnliy in flamed by tho flue ash as I returned, as were those of my horse*. My pockets were full, my boots full; it was down my neck, in my hair aud the dd&r, and went gamboling and bleating over the little garden in front.” The Signor’s experiments lead him to believe that it is im material whether the suspension lasts weeks or years. He is negotiating for a felon under capital sentence, upon whom he wishes to operate. Ex-treasurer John Jones is going to apply to the Legislature for relief. He thinks the jury would not givejt ta him. Mr. Sam II. Hush, of Pike comity, recently died from a shell wound in the shoulder, received during the war. The production of butter and cheese in tin's country is said to be four times greater in value than the total value of our gold and silver mines. Garbaldi says ninety-six out of every hundred Englishmen would vote for Queen Victoria for chief ex ecutive of the British nation if a re public should suddenly be proclaimed there. It is announced that Miss Mildred Lee, daughter of Gen. Robert E. Lee, who is now traveling in Europe, is to be married shortly to a promi nent merchant in Birmingham, Eng- and. A Washington correspondent says “Mr. Hill put a flea in Hlaine’scar.” Hut the question is, did the Maine man know it? Our opinion is that Blaine’s ear will hold as much as a clothes-basket.—Ex. The champion sea turtle has just been landed in New York. It was caught off the Delaware capes. It is eight feet long, about six feet wide, weighs about 1,200 pounds; and is of the species known as “leather back.” The last slave sold in the confed eracy was in 1865, near Richmond, a negro man, who was bought for nine hundred heads of cabbage. The cabbages at that time were worth one dollar a head, which would pan out nine hundred dollars for the negro. Macon Telegraph says “it is in tended by the State Agricultural Society that the annual fair for this year shall be on. a grander scale than ever before, and that sufficient in ducement shall be offered in the way of attractions for the drawing of a large crowd to Macon. The Ilarrisbnrgh Patriot learns with regret that Virginia has ceased to be the mother of Presidents and now bolds the lead in the culture of peanuts. It says: “Ohio is at pres ent the Presidential mother, but wc arc compelled to say that we prefer the peanuts to what she has thus far given us.” England has been of late years without a serious war, and has to turn back to the Crimea to find a conflict worthy to recall. The Zulu war, however, promises to eclipse that of the Crimea. The loss of the English at Islandula exceeded those of Alma, Halaklnva or Inkermann, and the English force now in Africa exceeds by several thousand the British contribution to the allied army in the Crimea. A woman named Marceline Guiot, 26 years of ago, has just been con dom mod to death by the court of assize of the Vienne, in France, for one of the most abominable cyimes on record. She forced her step daughter, a little girl of 8, to take with her soup sixteen pins, two nee dles aud some pieces of wood, and the unfortunate child expired in the mo it horrible torments. There could be no recommendation to mercy even from a French jury in such an atro cious case. The Nihilists propaganda in Rus sia is reduced to all sorts of expedi ents to defeat the vigilance of the police. There was a time when prb- hilrted journals and tabooed manu scripts could get across the frontier in cotton bales or in plaster busts of the Czar. But now bales of cotton are opened and plaster busts are smashed by the custom officers. The revolutionaries have, therefore, been fain to seek for something better, and being men of inventive minds have found it in sardines. Sardine boxes may be weighed and charged for, but they cannot bo opened, aud this delightful little fish has become an instrument of sedition so formidable that it is seriously u qncstion of a prohibitory ukase upon them. It AVns Not Mr. Hill's Fault. Baltimore Gazette. The New York Times heads one of its Washington dispatches with these lines: “The Georgia Senator calls Mr. Blaine a liar and defends his own acts as a rebel.” In point of fact, Mr. Hill defended himself from tho accusations of having voted for the ordinance of secession by reading the record and showing that - lie voted against it. He then, after eloquently declaring his devotion to the union, remarked that any man who charged him with lack of devo tion thereto “was a liar and the truth was not in him.” Then every body looked at Mr. Blaine. Now this was not “calling Mr. Blaine a liar.” It was not Mr. Hill’s fault when ho mentioned the word “liar” everybody innnmediately fixed the eyes of recognition on Mr. Blaine. It was a mere coincidence. Rev. T. DeWitt Talinage’s Re ception in England. London, June 16.—The Rev. Dr. T. Dewitt Talmage preached to-day at the Islington Presbyterian church, Colebrooke road, to an enormous congregation. Much curiosity was evinced by the people to see tho famous American preacher. A dense crowd blockaded the streets leading to the church. The enthusiasm was immense. Half a mile before the Presbyterian church was reached tho carriage was lifted from the ground and carried bodily to the church. It was one of the most tremendous ovations ever paid to an American minister in London. Tilden Calmly Waits. New York Tribune. Hendricks is spitting mad at Til den, Bayard, is sulky mad at the cau cus, Thurman is sniveling mad at everybody. Great men don’t get mad. Tilden nevor does. Without passion, without bowels, with ono glazed eye resting patiently on bis talented wire-yankers who continu ally hump themselves under this un comfortable encouragement, lie sits in Godlike and clammy serenity and waits. Congress Should not Wait. New York Star, f Xffi' ~i- It is as there is anything to stick for, hut there is no. the slightest reason \vj*y congress should wait to see what Mr. Haves is going to do with tho appro priation bills. He would feel the responsibility of vetoing them a great deal more if e&qgress were to adjourn and go home. Equality of the Sexes. Washington Post, Woman’s rights arc bettor nndei stood and move generally guarantee, in England than in the Unite States. Not only is the highest offic in the realm open to woman b birthright, justice treats the sex wit rigid impartiality. One English wc man has just been hanged forkillin her husband, and two others ai about to meet the same fate, eue for the murder of a woman. Tilden in Georgia, Covington Star. It is at least gratifying to tho friends of Mr. Tilden that the press of Georgia are almost unanimous in their choice for that geiitloman’s re- nomination for the presidency. It is a “string of points” m his favor, to begin with, that cannot be beaten by any other candidate in this state. Tho Darien Gazette wants Gover nor Colquitt to pardon Kate South ern. If the Gazette would do a ser vice to the woman convict, he will not agitate this question; for, un doubtedly. she is more comfortably situated than she would be at homo. Most women prefer sewing to plow ing.— Wilkinson Appeal, Census. The census of Cochran, as taken by Mr. W. D. Martin, gives us a pop ulation of one thousand and one. The whites about double the eolored in numbers. Tho white males of all ages exceed tho number of females by 25. Send us, somebody, a couple of dozen girls to balance. We don’t mean the “balauco all” in a dance, but to keep those extra boys straight. Susans and Charlottes not excluded. —Cochran Enterprise. Never judge hastily. A encumber isn’t often os green as the man who