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60S M*ma > m i i / & 1 ^^.^l..ll^^.'.^.l^".<,?.*U^.unl^..l^??.l.^...^,H^H,??.l.?^..^?.?^?ll.^.....,..,?.',.."..,.?,'*.'",, t.i??i.?S?'..?.?'"'^t*fo?,H^''"''<''llMlM.?n.W^ EDGEFIELD, S. G.MANLTA?Y 25, 1872, VOL! JUE ))XU.-M), 5. J. W. CALHOUN, JOHNSTONES DEfOT, n * HAS always on hand a full and well selected Stock of HATS, CAPS, BOOTS, SHOES, Hardware, Pocket and Table Cutlery, GROCERIES and PLANTATION SUPPLIES, &c, &c, &o., All;of which I will sell at the lowest prices. Call en me before pur chasing elsewhere^ I can please, jrou, and will do so,.-if you will give-me a share of your patronage. a?* Highest Cash prices paid for COTTON and COUNTRY PRODUCE. J. W. CALHOUN. Johnston's Depot, July 9, ' tf 29 J. H. CHEATHAM -HAS Reduced the Prices -OF Dress Goods, Ready Made Clothing LADIES' HATS, &C. I AM now Selling my Entire Stock at Prices to suit the dull times. I prefer small profits to carrying my Goods to another season. J. H. CHEATHAM. July 9 . tf 29 G. L. PENN & SON, DEALERS IX TOILET ASS FANCY AETIC?ES, GROCERIES, TOBACCO, ?EGARS, ?}AVE now in Store foil stocks of all Goods in the Drug or Gro cery Kusine??, which are Fresh aid Genuine, and which we will sell 'as cheap as any other House. (Kr PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY COMPOUNDED day or night. MayY, tf 20 DAVID L. TURNER, Dealer in Brtp, Medicines, Groceries, &c., &c, &p., ?dgefiefd, S. C., WoULD respectfully state to his Friends and the Public Generally that he has purchased of Dr. W. A. SANDERS, his Entire Stock, and will keep on hand full supplies of n inn Vaiiey Goods, Foreign & Domestic Pesiamery, j -HAIR BRUSHES, ' COMBS, '""TOILET ARTICLES, Bathing and Surgeon's Sponges, Brandies, Wines and Whiskies for Medicinal Purposes, .^AIN?S* <JIL8; VARNISHES, GLASS -^JtTYi, Paint, Varnish and White Wash Brushes; FUI L SUPPLY OF ALL K?1YDS GARDE* SLEDS, -"^J l i ' ? To?r?tne/with a general assortment of GROCERIES, TOBACCO, LIQUORS, &c, Such as BACON SIDES, HAMS, SHOULDERS, LARD, MACKEREL, FfcOUR, MEAL, SALT, SUGARS, SYRUPS, MOLASSES, COFFEE, TEAS, RICE, CHEESE, MACCARONI, CRACKERS, Soda, Starch, Soaps, Candles, WINES, BRANDIES, WHISKIES, Ac. Fine White Wine and Apple VINEGARS, Chewing and Smoking TOBACCO and SEGARS, Citron, Currants, Raisins, Pickles, Jellies, Almonds, Pecan Nuts, Brazil Nuts, Walnuts, Buckets, Tubs, Brooms, &o., All of which will be sold at the lowest rates for Cash. A share of the trade solicited. Dr. Sanders will be on hand at all times to COMPOUND PRESCRIP TIONS at the shortest notice. D. L. TURNER. Jan 28 tf 6 Br. T. J. TEAGUE, .DRUGGIST, JOHNSTON'S DEPOT, S. C. JJ A VING just opened a Drug Store at this place, I take this method of informing.my friends and the public generally that I now have iii Store o full line of Drugs, Patent Medicines, Toilet Articles, Perfumery, . OJ,ASS,-PUTTY, ^(^B$fE OIL, ' S?M Tobacco, '??^?i??) > '? '? -I, In fact everything usually kepiiii? I)ru'g St?re,-all new nnd warranted genuine.'' "?" ..':> "-: ' : ' MY prices are as low as auch Goods can be sold in any market in the Ti J . $ TEAGUE, johnston's Depot, Feb 19 ly " 9 - A Gem from Fannie Forrester. Give me my old seat, mother, With my head upon?thy knee ; I've passed through many a changing scene Since thus I sat by thee. Oh ! let me look into thine eyes Their meek, soft, loving light Falls, like a gleam of holiness, Upon my heart to-night I've not been long away, mother ; Few suns have rose and set Since last a tear-drop on thy cheek My lips in kisses met. 'Tis but a little time, I know, But very long it s?env, Though every night I come to theo, Dear mother, in my dreams. The worldjhas kindly dealt, mother, By the child thou lov'st so well ; Thy prayers have circled round her path, And 'twas th err holy spell Which made tneir path so dearly bright Which strewed the roses there Which gave the light and cast the balm On every breath of air. I bear a happy heart, mother, A happier never beat ; And, even now, new buds o&hope Are bursting at my feet. Oh ! mother, life may be a breath, But if such dreams aro given, While at the portals thus we stand,' What are the truths of Heaven ? I bear a happy heart, mother, Yet, when fond eyes I see, And hear soft tones, and winning words, I ever think of thee. And then the tear my spirit weeps, Unbidden fills my eye ; And like a homeless dove, I long Unto thy breast to fly. Then I am very sad, mother, I'm very sad and lone Oh ! there's no heart whose inmost fold Opes to me like thine own ! . Though sunuy smiles wreathe blooming While love tones meet my ear, My mother, one fond glance of thino, Were a thousand times more dear. Murmurings From MIuda--ineffi ci eut Tax Assessor-The Negro .Uiiitia.. &c. For the Advertiser. MR. EDITOR,-Jt is a rare thing for us to see any thing from our sec tion, by way of news, in the Adverti ser. But the reason, we judge, is the great distance, and poor mail facili j ties. Although we live in the bauv woods, a good distance from the chan nels of busy life, still you will have to find a more retired place than here to be fr.-e from Tax Collectors, Asses sors and negro militia. And as the acts of the first are so flagrant, and the others likely to become so, they shall form the theme of my commu nication. When the County Auditor made his announcement, that his office .voiild be open between certain dates, che good people of our section thought they would promptly attend his call. But in calling npon that ray cowie, mis gcntlem<ri>, they were told in a brief manner, filled with oaths, that he would send around in this section, some one who was a better judge of property than the owners seemed to be. Ol' course we haye learned to obey our masters, and lhere is not even a Tell-with us to protest. Tu due time the gentleman who was to be the judge of our property made his appearance. The following is an example of the assessment in the Huiet Township. A widow lady's house-old and dilapidated-roof all rotten, panes out of the sash, c 'Mug rotting from leaks,-the Assessor endeavored to assess at one thousand dollars, but finally put down at six hundred. A gentleman neighbor, who lives on one side, in the best and costliest huu.se in the whole Saluda country, was assessed on his house three hundred dollars ; while on the other side of this lady, a dwelling much better than hers, was valued at one hundred and fifty dollars. We know a gentle man, who was absent from home,' whose dwelling was put at fifteen hundred dollars, and his gin house, an old rotten thing that will barely stand up on its posts, was put at eight hundred dollars. No man in his right mind would say that this gin house was worth twenty-five dollars. Such has been the assessment of the man, who was to be the judge 0/ the value of our property. We would not complain at a lair assess ment of onr property, if - it were uni form ; although our taxes are high enough, considering its misapplica tion, to drive any but slaves to rebel lion. Now if there was uniformity, even in the Huiet Township, it would not be so bad. I am acquainted with the assessment of the Coleman Township, and I affirm that on some species of property the assessment is not more than one-fourth, and \\\ souie instan ces not more than one-tenth of the valuation in the Huiet Township. The valuation of the property of the Coleman Township is similar to the old assessment, and as far as I um able to judge, there is uniformity in the valuation of property. I hear it intimated that they intend to bring all property up to the highest valua tion of any man's property in the Township There will be as much injustice in this as there is in trying to make a sorry house worth as much as a good one. Some men's buildings are worth more than others, and good stock are worth more than inferior stock. What sense of justice is there in making a man pay as much tax on a houso 7/07th ?vig ?(uiusand doliarfl as.ona-iw?Vthiten thousand? :. We demand that t-Kr a?ge6sment for the'Huiet Township be made ?niform,' and the property be assessed lil?e t]i? property of- tjie oth.er T-otyuships'; and-we- are further 0f the Opinion' flint the present assessor should re ceive no pay for his malfeasance, if we may be allowed the use of tl word. We believe if he had bei permitted to have had his.own wa the value pf property in our Tow ship would have been estimated high this year as the whole of Edg field under the old assessment. M Editor, can you not suggest son remedy, and call the attention of tl powers that be to this- injustice ? So much for the Assessor, now fe the Tax-Collector and the delii quents. W e have been very muc entertained lately by the stir whic has b?er* made among our colore gentry by the Tax Executor. Tb levy on old blind horses, mules, ol buggies, and even bee gums, has bee .quite extensive. We are constantl amused by this new feature ; but it i very dear to the unfortunate negroei We are glad that they are made t pay their share of the burden, becaus it is through them that it is put upo us ; but we do not think that the( should be made to pay any more tha what i? just. Running a small ta of cine and two dollars to ten or fil teen, looks like down right robbery We do not believe in robbing a ne gro any more than robbing ' a whit man ; it is just as dishonest one wa; as it is another. We fear that somi of our own citizens are putting thes ill-gotten gains in their own packets For shame ! Let the radicals do al the. stealing ! yVhut right have wi to upbraid the negro government fo stealing from us, and we turn righ 'around and encourage^ stealing fron negroes? Honesty should prevail ii the management of all our affairs public as well as private ; and thii thing of swindling the negroes, if we encourage it, although their radica' friends ?ire doing it, will yet work u? untold evils. Already the ring al Edgefield disowus the acts ol theil agents, and their dirty doings. Ir that is hidden a trick. They know the negro has commenced to feel tin: effects of their dishonest government and are already devising ways and means to counteract its bad effects They want the negro's money as well a6 the white man's, and are de termined to get it. They intend tc organise the negro militia, for thc purpose, as their speakers tell them, to keep the white man under then thumb. This man, whi these tax executions, c cns ! democrat. If a negro ring at Edgefield and this man's not, they tell has no right to do it. believe this io bc true, a white men encouraging this tiing, we will have to bear the blame ol all their dishonesty. They, although responsible for these things, by or ganizing the militia, and with all their lying promises and disowning the work of their tools will still se cure the negro's favor and another term at the public crib. Is there no relief, Mr. Editor, for these grievances ? The most grinding thing about all of it, is the imperious manner of all the officers connected with this tax business. The Czar's agents cannot be more arrogant. Thc people of pur country have always been accustomed to having their office filled with gentlemen, and not by vulgar black guards as at present. But we must have something to say about the militia before we close. They are organizing their companies with us, with one David Graham, I believe, as their leader. They say they haye orders to shoot down any ' *t*4 who is known ever to have been 1 cfn?eqted with the Ku Klux. .But ( to what will this lead? Any white man who may offend th?m, I suppose, they cao shoot down, and then justi fy themselves by saying they thought he was a Ku Klux. The temper of the people is such, that the first man shot down, under any such order, the retaliation will bp fearful. With such leaders as the negroes have there can never be peace between the races in this country. Every thing is peacea ble and quiet. The rights of no one is infringed, and all would, remain quiet and orderly were it not for these demons who come or send emis saries among the negroes to stir up strife, and all for political effect. We would remind the authors of these things, that when the people of this State are once arcuised in earnest, it will not be as easily quelled as in Louisiana. Our people hkve at length came to the firm resolution that if the negro population again commence any of their extreme proceedings, that we will not bear it in humble submission as heretofore. The people feel that death is preferable to any more of this sh- meless degradation ; and they seem ready and willing to rise as a man and sweep the State at once. We have come to the conclu sion, Mr. Editor, that if the negroes permit themselves longer to be con ! trolled by such advice, and they j attempt again to lord {jj ?yer us hy hdr*to& o?": ?their numerical' majority ?nd boasted militia, that this State if too'sinall for both races. The final ! end must come Whether we wish it 1 or not, |t seems that all we. can dp, after ^ whaj vfe have 'dpn?, 1.? first to send a solemn protest to our masters at Washington. Lay before then? our actual condition, and if then they fail to redress our grievances, why our only alternative will be to take the . matter in our o?:n hands and boldb- meet the issue, * and let the consequences be what they may. . CITIZEN. . .-^.^T-& Railroad Speech by Dr. E. J. C. Wood, of Aiken. At a ' Railroad- meeting, held at Aiken, on the 4th, Dr?E. J. C. Wood spoke aa follows : The importance ot. the qnestioh which has brought yon .together to day can hardly be over estimated. There is not an individual in this county, no matter hew humble his position may be, whose future would not be affected by the construction of a direct line of .railroad passing through this place and connecting the great commercial Centres of the West with the seaports of tlie South Atlantic States. It is not alone those who may be employee! by. ?he Road, or those through whose lands the line may pass who wil? be benefited, but the entire community. Let this road be bu$t and properly managed and a spiritoff enterprise will spring up-and avendes of business will be opened-landi and produce will increase in value, jmd immigrants from abroad will settle among us. These ideas may appear wild and chimerical to those faho have not studied the subject, or.noted the signs of the times. What is the meaning of what is called the^Farmers' Party of the West? It id va mode of ex pression of the all pervading feeling of the necessity of an: outlet for and cheap transportation!of the surplus products of the immense fertile val ley of the Mississippi,' At first this movement may take a wrong direction, butifc'will eventuate in increasing the facilities for moving cheaply the grain and.meat and the manufactured wares bf the West to marts where they wal}, bring better prices. It is not an unusual occurrence for some of the Western"- farmers to use corn as fuel, as the cost of transpor tation .about equals the value of the grain when it reaches a market. There is not a through line from the large Western cities to the North Atlantic ports that has not become a power in the land by .means of the immense business which is done. As illustrating one of -the effects, thc population ot the city , of .Baltimore increased 20,000 the year her great road was finished. Now, if you will take a map of the United States and place one foot of a p?.lr of.di videra ut Louisville, Kv., or St-. Lom's M , -..ni" - ril a fir cl ing equal-this: line crossing parallels of latitude, thereby exchanging the pr ul nets of different climes, haven decided advantage. The demand for tropical product**, such as coffee, sugar, etc., to supply tho farming population of the West, is immense, and had the Western ci lies d#eel. though connections with ?eaports south of Cape Hatteras, the railroads on stich lilies would be kepi well employed. But you may ask, what has al! this to do with nur Aiken and Ninety six or Aiken and Anderson Road? J reply th?,t this road, if properly lo caled, will btv one. of tjie links con necting thc West with the Southern Seaboard, .and being on the most direct line, must necessarily be suc cessful. Again, taire the map of the U. S., and draw a straight line from St. Louis to Charleston by the way of. Rabun Gaff, or from Chicago to Tort ; Royal via the French Broad gap, and you will see that we are on the most direct route. The Blue Ri'lge road* on which several uullions of dallara have boen expended has recently, by a decree of the Bankrupt Court, been placed in the hands of a receiver and must be sold. Whoever purchases it will do so with a view to complete it. The Southern Security Company will very soon complete the road from Asheville to Knoxville, and commit tee of the Asheville and Sparfcanburg Road, statt! that an additional sub scription of only ?200,000 is needed to ensure the building of that road. A -company is now being formed to build the Air Line Road Ire m Chica go to Port Royal. The country is in a ferment about railroads, and if we would prosper we must fal i in to line. Now we need a road to put us in connection with those points. But, you may say, let us wait until those Mountain Roads aie completed. I would warn you of the. danger of such a policy. Delays are dangerous. "I would point to you the result of a like policy, when the opportunity was offered us of having a Railroad to connect us with Columbia. A rote was surveyed from that city to Augusta, passing through Aiken, 1G miles shorter tuan the present load but our citizens were negligent of their interests, and we were left off the loute. Had we taken hold in earnest, thc road would have passed through our town. The connection between those cities once made, there is now no probability of another road. So will it be if we neglect this op portunity. The citizens of the up per counties are determined to have another outlet, sooner or later. They are now- moving earnestly yi thc ! matter. It wi.ttld answer their purpose just ? ns Well to have the terminus of their i road at Augusta, as at Aiken. The ! citizens' of Augusta are alive to the I importance of securing the ?Q?Qf?? ' prize, j It^s our policy, to co-operate with the people of Edgefjekl,' and, before iris too:hite\ take siich action as will ' lead Ehe road this way. We would urge the advantages can, offer.m the strongest terms; we should urge the fact that the route via Aiken ii not only the most direct, but also. . thal, the location of .the road would , I be more favorable- and less costly tc .? build ; that by following the Ridge we avoid all -bridgie^ and the heavy ' grading deseencnfigio and ascending j from Augusta. We should appeal j tjp.fche State pride tb keep^ the road within our owa borders, and, most important otywt, we should be pre pared-to gi verdaten al aid by a liberal i subscrir^?pn^' .' It wilrbe said'our people are too poor^to aid. Too poor ! with near $10,000,000 of taxable property in the"..two counties of ridgefield and Aiken to raise $200,000 to build a road flSrich promises such advantages as this does. If we show a disposition to help ourselves, and co-operate with others whose interests are allied to ours, we can succeed. On the other-hand, if we are indifferent and luke-warm the opportunity will pass away. It is the poor men who need the road, who will have to build it, for we cannot expect a few to work and give large sums.for the general bene Allowing^ we coulcf'get capitalists from abroad to build .the road we would loose a large portion of the advantages, for they would manage the road in their own interests with out reference to ours. No ; our own people should have a controlling in terest in the stock and elect directors who would develop the resources of this section. The building of tbi3 road would not only place us in connection withs the Mississippi Valley, but, would also connect us with the Mountain section of our own State and* Nor;h Carolina, and give us a most direct route to the North by extending the read to connect with Port Royal Road near the Runs; it would place us nearer to Savannah and Florida as j w.ell as Poit Royal. By affording' ?s a competing line, both East ard We?t, freights would be materially reduced. Then let every person present at thia meeting take an active ' interest in creating a favorable senti ment for this project. . Let us wafter this meeting adjourns continue to agi tate the subject and urge our friends and neighbors to aid to the full ex tent of their ability. In determine the amount a farmer should subscribe, let it bc borne in ininti thot thc whole sum wonid not be required in reidy cash'at one payment. Installments probably ol 5 per cent, per month would bc called for; thus extending the time for nearly two years. Others might help by subscribing cross, ties, materi als, labor or land. Within hw miles ni ,i road fifty wini it bona-tide subscription on the part ol' ?he c itizens ol' Edgefield and Aiken comities of $200,1)00 to $250,000 the cor;-:: rue; iou of one or the oilier of several projected tines .J!' mids can ne secure! by co-opera- J ling willi others who arc interested in schemes to connect the northwesl with the South Atlantic seaboard. Mr. Wood also explained his yo- j marks by reference to the map, and 'bowed e;.:;eii.-i\v.;y that Aiken and Niuety-t?ix wert* in thc direct lino, ii 'thu road is brought through this j State. niriy i otlfiU .'t Loss t . Kvvry Ones One singular feat-urn in this sea son's trude demands attention of our cotton produce! -. Ti.o nommai quotation of the price oj' American cotton at liverpool is based upon thc grade middling. Tlia,fc has fallen slowly lor some months, and is now Sid. for uplands, 9?d. for Orleans. Wo may call tho average price ol middling up lands for the last three months yd. ft is questionable if the average cotton spinning of England would not have been without profit, or at an actual loss, on the prices ob tainable for their mill products, if all gr.ides of American cotton had this season been priced in their usual re lation to middling, and that is at 9d. .But iu the crop, of lST'2-73 was an immense disproportion ot' low grade dusty cotton, the greater part o* wh'ch lound its way to England. In trinsically worth to a spinner, who could use it ar tt'l, nearly as much as middling, except tho loss by greater waste in use (probably not more tuan :{d. per pound in average of all that portiou not very dusty.) it has been freely selling at Gd. to. 7-]d., while very dusty bales sohl down to 4d. to 5id.; the'bot ter sort lid. to 3d., and the very dry 3id. to od. below the price of middling. At least one-half (an average lid.) of this annual dill'erence has been a clear profit to the spinners, and as clearly a loss to the planters, except in those cases whore tho pl inters' loss was divided with unfortunate exporters. In every crop there is some loss by bad hand ling of the cotton, in picking, ginning, and especially in packing it for mar ket. . When the portion ol su h cot ton in a crop is small, it will soil foi nearly its true relative value. But when that portion is large, as in thc crop of 1S72-73, and the crop other wise below the usual average gracie, the excessive supply of low cotton, ; however good its staple, is forced down to'compel it ion with tho poorest and cheapest cottons in parkes, such as those oi Madrt^ bengal and Bom bay. Th*, depreciation in England j forces a'corresponding depreciation of I lbw and dirty cotbn elsewhere-at j homo, on the Continent, or wherever j it linds use. It is not extravagant to i estimate a loss ol' lfd. por pound on ! 1,000,000 bales of the crop of 1872 j by thia gVti/.e misfortune or fault o? j ihe planters, and that amounts to I over $11,000,000 in gold. Thc entire : lofts by the depreciation consequent \ Upon the average low grade ol' the crop, an,'} upon bad handling and packing, i-he greater part of which Wight have boen prevented without material reduction in quantity, hat more likely been equal to 12,000,OOC or more to the producers and 8,000,' I i OOO to exporters or others to when: > j the cotton was first ?old, while thc i j amount of 'reclamations for mixed ! and dust packed bales, and the trou trouble to factors and dealers caused ?thereby,' are" altogether something . ' frightful to the contemplation of the ' latter class of marchants.-Financial Chronicle, 2d. _ * Thc ?franges iu iowa, Correspondent X. Y. Woi'ld. DAVENPOK&IA., July 24.-The following tacts' and statistics, as rn i the working of the grangers and the results which they are accomplishing by co-operation will be of interest, and are derived from official sources: The State headquarters are at Des Moines, where resides the Secretary! Mr.- W. Duane Wilson, and tho Treas urer, Mr. M/L. Devin. Tiere are 1,750 granges in. Iowa, of which fully 1,000 have been established this year; the total membership^ is 90,000, and the voting strength from 65,000 to 70,000. Apart from political consideration the farmers have derived much bene fit socially from the granges. Their discussions and literary entertain ments do much towards making their home-life pleasanter, and it is estima ted that the result thus- far has been an increase of at least one-quarter in the number of papers taken and books read by members! The principle of co-operation has ^been applied extensively to all mat ters of business affecting the farmer, especially in the purchase of agricul tural implements,# sewing machines, ?cc, the profits upon which have al ways been large, and accrued invari ably to the local agent. When the grangers proposed to deal directly with tlie manufacturers, the latterre ! fused to sell them any goods whatev er unless the orders came through the local agents ar Juli prices. Dut the former held out and refused absolute-, ly to purchase any goods cf such Jinns, and the manufacturers yielded. NQW the grangers have'a perfect or ganization for purposes ol trade, com prising a general State agent, agen cies for shipment on each of tho rail roads, purchasing agen tsin each coun ty, agents for? the sale ol stock and produce in each county, and general I purchasing and selling agents at Chi cago. The grangers send io the pur chasing agent- lists of whatever they require-groceries, dry goods, sew ing machines, cultivators, boots, pi anos, anything-and he' buys for them, lumping all the orders for one class of goods, buying thom ut whole sale orices and shipping them by the j ons articles' purchased, ?-.nd special ' pri?es : I Sewing machines ?50 logf? to .?.:.:. Superior machine.? 70io05 J'Jio57 I Organs IT? to RMI 135 to SOO ! Scales Ml i.> LOO -it) to 50 I Wasons Kn) to Kal SO to Jil I ConV-sheUcrs U3?to5o? 275to4'? I Cultivator* :;:{[" '."> ?ito:>0 I l(avi<ows >2 to If] ifto 12 I KicM-i-..!io;\s 4StoO(l :;<;t.> ?s iPloughs?S cultivators irito?i?5 5on?h!(? Mower, I Kl to 120 S5to!U) j Pnnnlng-millH 30 to sn 21 to 2J Hollers 25 io ?'o 1* to In brief, from 25 to 30.per cent: is saved to the farmers on everything ihn. they buy. The manufacturers, too, seem satisfied with the system, as ir reduces the expenses of their business and gives them cash. The farmers have not yet " got into the I hang of it," most of them having been accustomed to credit account.*, and being short of ready money. So patent, however, arc the advantages of " cash and co-operation'1 that by next y"u- wo" shall likely see the whole, business of rural iowa trans acted, by a singh' agent. In one important respect the far mers are gainers by the-system of co operation. Should any dealet under take to palm OiTiuferior articles upon the purchasing agent, or make repre sentations which are not berne out, the various local agents are notified by circular, and his business is over forever, so far ns the whole rural pop ulation of Iowa is concerned. Thus the dealers ??ave -every incentive .to dca! honestly with the grangers and sec ti fi their immense and easily-han dled order-Hi and. ibo formers lind themselves getting better goods than ever before at lower prices.* The effect ivpoii the home business of the State has been what, might have been expected. There have, been a number of small concerns obliged to close up, which was no great loss, because the business war suffering from over-trading and over-competi tion. Tho larger and more solid deal ers, relieved from this opposition, are enabled to do business on a more ra tional and remunerative basis, and as it is the policy of tho grangers to encourage homo dealers when the goods can bc obtained at nearly thc same price as in Chicago, freight and time being considered, no small amount of business is done with merchants at Des Moines, Davenport and Dubuque. The railroads, by vpay of retalia tion on the graders, refuse to give them the ape?iai rates accorded to large shippers, but otherwise treal them courteously. A Des Moines correspondent quotes an instance where a car load of reapers had been left bv accident at a side-station, while'the grangers to whom they were consigned were waiting for them to begin harvesting. The superin tendent, ou hearing tho facts in the pase, ordered a special engine out to bring up the car, and sent the gran ! gera home rejoicing, j The principle of co-operation as j applied to sales of stock and produce has not yet come into such general j adoption as to justify any criticism, 1 In'several counties, however, the far j mers are doing away with the mid I diemen, who have been in the habit 1 of scouring the country to pick up cattle and hogs in small lots and shir them in droves to Chicago. Now the local agent makes up a drove and i sliips it to the packer, and lhe mid i dloman's profits are shared by the fanners. The practice ot' contract . "ing in advance with the agents Tor [, tue wlvole crop or stock of thejc ; ; granges has come into vogue, and is ! ', popular with Toe packers, j -Despite this, the grangers do not ' feel either discouraged or- annoyed ; by the action of the railroads. They . are certain to control the Legislature ! at its next session, and then will have it. in their power to balance accounts : with the railroads. At the same time ' : it is "a hopeful sign that the grangers j do not manifest any desire for vin j dictive legislation, nor any inclinar , tion for such a complicated and use less railroad act as~has been, passed in Illinois. A fair, simple, and oon j stitutional act is what they desire, and will undoubtedly pass. Brigham's Divorce Suit. A correspondent of the New, York Herold hus been interviewing the di vorced wife of the Great Prophet, Brigham Young, and the following is her story of the wooing and wed ding of the too much married man : ' JtER GRAPHIC RTORY. I was'living. on my father's farm in Little Cottonwood, when, in the sommer of 1SG7, Brigham Young in forined my hither tint- he wanted wc for a wife. Brigham, with a number of the apostles and elders trout "t!ii.s ciry, was visiting- Cottonwood on a Sunday, and held two meetings for preachings. It was at the close o? thc forenoon service on that occasion he walked up to mc and said, "Had I not better accompany you^iorue ?" -I" said: "Certainly, if you wish to." On the way to my father's house Brigham asked me it' I had had any proposals of marriage since I had ob tained a divorce from my first hus band. I answered him, "Yes, that I had had several proposals." Ile then asked if there was unjj one ot them that I wished to accept. I said, "No," on which he said that he would like co give me a little advice. LR lu li All "GIVES ADVICE. Ile advised me not- to wait tcf mar ry a person whom I loved ; but to marry some good mau whom I could res* ect and look up to and receive good coun-el from. I I thanked h?u for his, counsel, and i as my home was so near co. the place of meeting the conversation abruptly terminated. I thought nothing fur ther of it. His broth u* Joseph and George Q. Cannon joined us at the dinner table, and while there Brig hara .ind the others remarked how v.vrl. r.l T li...I. f i . -. .a?iu? ?tim tai ked forat- leasttwo hours io him about me, and toid him how that he lcd watched me from my infancy, saw me grow ?ip to wo manhood; and always loved me and intended to marry me, but having ta ken Amelia just alter the law was passed in Congress prohibiting poly gamy, he feared ro take another wife so soon after, lest it should mike rroublo, or he would have taken me then. My marriage with a vonni' man w<is unlooked for to bira-, an>< when he was made acquainted with it lie di I not just like to stop it, he s dd. arid: so he let it go ph, btu al ways hoped that the time wouldcoin? when i:c would have me. THE OLD SINNER SETS HIS TRA P. He wanted father and- motlier to use all their influence with me, as it would bettie best thing I could do. He asked father if a good house, wei! furnished, and $1,000 a year pocket money would bu enough for mo, ami lidded that if if not enough ] should have more. Father Answered ?v.\'. he tight itrwouldbesnflicient. Brigham stood two horns or ni -n with lather, and kept the whole o: the carriages that conveyed the party standing waiting till alter sun-down, and lillie did I think that I was "the object ol' interest." HORRIFIED AT? THE PROPOSAL. When father came home he told mother by herself; then they told me. I cannot, describe my feelings. I was. frightened : thc thought of it was a perfect horror. I thought father had gone crazy, and I would not believe ?his statement tor hours. Wheu ? re alized that it was a tact I COULD DO NOTHING BUT CRY. The idea of an old mau, sixty-seven years ot' age, the husband of abou> twenty wives living, asking me, at twenty-two. to be added to the nunt? ber filled mo with the utmost abhor rence, and when I saw that my pa rents were nuder his influence and sustained his proposition, 1 was ready to die in despair. Uh! the horrible hours chat 1 spent in crying and mourning no tongue can pic!ure. When lather saw that I took it so badly he told m.- that I would not be forced into ir, . bul if I could b.ing ?nv feelings to it anil aeeepr. Brigham ic wouh1 bepleasingtobim, and moth er favored ii in the same way. TUE LAD? MEETS THE PROPHET. About a mouth after this 1 was,in the city with an intimate lad.)- friend, and as we were walking near to Brig ham's house ho caine to the gate and waited for our arn\>L \Vhen I saw him I thought that I would get up courage io toil him that I would not marry h m, bul I could not say it. That PECULIAR IX?LUENCE thar ho throws over everybody when ho has a purpose to effect completely overcame mc. He did not allude to the subject at all. I shook hands and passed on. I BRIG rt A M IN A PECKSNIFFIAN ROLE, Ho became very kind tp my parents, and saw father frequently. He sent . for me to come ;o the city on severa occasions md met me at ray father ? ; ; city residence, and talked to meaboul i ! marriage,; told me how pure his feel i . ings were, ami.that l.us only, motive ! I was to do me good, save me in th< 1 Kingdom aud make me a queen. Al . tfiat h ad nffe?l ec t upon me; it only; i disgusted me the more. $n ! t;;" fear ; tbat I daren not resist him never left m"e. This continued for ne^dy^ear. ., My eldest brother had son#business i : traiisaptions with Brigham and one (of his sons, which resulted in trouble ; i and ultimately in financial injury to I my brother. Brigham had'been very j angry with him and threatened to cut 1 lum off from, the church, i heard o? those threats and bcli??g ai that* time in Mormonism, F nea rd them with deep sorrow, and conley that, in hopes of turning Binghams anger away from my brothel began to en tertain the thought that I would yreld to his request. I argued as r~an' in experienced persons do, that as 1 had had a sorrowful life my hear; was crushed, my future life was nothing, and if I coud sacrifice myself for .(ty brother's interest aud please my pa rents I would at last submit. Finally BRIGHAM NAMED THE MARRIAGE DAY and informed me, through my father, that what fi? required in preparation for my marriage he would furnish ; but I would accept nothing. A day before the marriage hejibrought to me three dress patterns-one silk and* two merino-and handed tom? a purg? with a $50 bill. Oh the - April, 1868, I waa mar?~ ried io him. in the Endowment House Ly Heber d. Kimball, his FiretCoun sellor. My lather and mother were ' present and others. Brigham's broth er Joseph also took to himself a wife, at ene same time. After the ceremo ny I walked over with him to the conference, and in the evening I i'e turne?A?. my' father's house and re mainedr;fher?. for a mouth. THE PROPHET'SSLOVE OF SHORT DURA TION. For the first few mouths I had con siderable of ids attention.; .his. visite I wer^n'reqtiL-iit ; alter that his busi i.tss cares so occupied him, he s?id, that he could only call about once ia three months. After that he caine '.just as it happened." t The iilacT rropiici. Correspondence of thc Charlenlou X- ws. SPARTANBURG, August 8. . For the last two years ? negro preacher by the nauie of Bobo has oeon rite spiritual head and adviser ol' one of the largest negro concret g?tions in this ^county. Iiis church is situated about twenty miles south of this place, in, a dense negro settle ment, and so great was his fauie. as a minister of the Gospel that his mem bers were found on ali tlie neighbor ing .and KOOLI;, distant plantations. ' ' - .' - . .G " ?t?i?raan .. fei M -?ed . ... . . . ? ..' ?? "?>'U-:. us po^ci . :" qn?l?tiss aw : lei der o? h:.: peonb. l>t will see how ii..- used his peculiar talent. During the last month a !:ind ol revival has been in progress in Moho's church, and a few days ago it culminated in one of the greatest re ligious demonstrations ever seen in this*country. Bobo, from preaching ! Ohri t , went to preaching him self as " th.1 new prophet high in f;-vor." Elis doctrine was that the Lord had commanded him io call together the children of Zion, and lead the i to che promised land, distant bul one hundred and sixty miles, and where ?hey won!.! have wings and could fly. After much exhortation and ::rany mid-night orgies, he said thal the command to march had been f. ueiv sd, that his disciples must sell all they had, and without script or sword follow him; He thus persuaded s.ome fifty or sixty to obey him. The poor deluded creatures sold crops, - ock, and everything they had. at a great sacrifice. One man sold his crop, said cb be worth six hundred dollars; for one hundred and fifty dollars ; an other soUI*a cow and calf for one lollar and fifty cents. Nothing ould lissuade them from their purpose.. They said it was. the command of the 1 -ord. and they must-obey, j n.-t be fore, they started, the prophet said :here was vet one more thing to be lode. It was necessary to the suc cess of the journey the oldest" person imong the faithful must be sacrificed because he being the oldest can tell the Lord most about any of us. On examination the oldest person was found to be a woman. ?She was ta ken and confined in Jn old on*house until a sri ck'of peculiar growth "ould be found, with which she must be killed. She did not seem to mind her danger, but rather to rejoice. .She certainl) would have been a mar ty)- iuid it not been, for tim neighbor ing whites, who had to use some show of violence to release h?r. '. his was a damper on the prophet and Ms fol lowers, bul did not divert ti.' . from? their purpose. Placing their small est children and a few provis'. .as in a two-horse, wagon they sel out on their march. On thc march -t-veral attempts wer'1 made to dissuade them from their folly, but wi:'.; ii v .ming to the right or left, with eye ; .?i turn ed they went on without making any answers. The last heard of them they were crossing the mountains in the direction of Tennessee. This may ? seem like fiction, "but it is true ; the^ witnesses are here, and I have writ-' ten no more than what to-day can be heard in any crowd or in'any i .imily circle in this county. The exodus is thc graud theme of conversation and tho wonder of the people. WITNESS. J.**" A colored debating society , in Trenton, Tenn., ha.'i just debated the question, 44 Which is tho most profit to man-money or education ?" One of the debaters argued that if it had not been for education the world would not have been half so large as it is. This clincher was met, however, by tho irresistible argu ment that "if 'twan't for money how you gwino to ride on do k}rars ?" It was at ouoo decided in favor of money. A Darby widow keops the e-kull of her deceased husband in a glass case. She once remarked to a friend, who was viewing the remains, " Alas! how often have I banged those boones with a broom J atickj"