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.-.y ~ ~ -~ .. C4 VOL iII. MANN~~ING. (IAREND()N ('(UNT. C., WE1)NESI)AY AU(WT1G .NO 5 THlE Gt4.11W!N Hu ON THE F1iiT o A-(;'.ST. Excellent Pro-pects l.A a Great Y:eld Of Cote:rTatVy ReduCtiol in the Condi tion of Corn--No Improvement in Sjr in Wheat--A P'otar Fr.it Crop. WASHINGTON, August 10.-The AEgUst report of the Department of Agncuilture gives the following facts and ngures as to the conditioh of the rowi ros thror~. -at the country: (TToN. The past month has been favcrable, except that the rainfall *as been un equally distributed in po timLe, drought threatening at one 'iod and damaging rains following. In the ut ern belt the excess of moisture precoi nates as a factor of depreciation. Tl ,. weed is therefore large and sappy, and the fruit fall appears in some serious, and some cases of rust api.e r. In Louisiana similar conditions ave prevailed, and only very partial Mississippi. Texas has been too iry, though the drought has not as yet beCn disastrous or severe. The prevalent status of the crop is very good for the 1st of August. While the reports re-!, cognize this as a critical time and fear 1 the effect of subsequent droughts on the H green and succulent condition of the plant, yet, in a compazison of ten i cars, the August condition is only exceeded by that of 1882 and 1885, the one pro ducing a large crop and the othi r an under medium yield. The generai tver age.condition is 93.3, which is lower, by,] over three points, than that of Jaly. The State averages are as follows: Vir ginia 94, North Carolina 96, South Car olina 95, Georgia 94, Florida 96, Ala- i bama 93, Mississippi 96, Louisiana 94, Texas 88, Arkansas 97, Tennessee .5. The first brood of caterpilltrs has p peared in several States, but is not erally mentioned in the returns. 17, is reported in Orangeburg and Berl., 1, ;. C., in Calhoun, Taylkr, Dooly and I Laurens, Georgia; in Hale and D..iass, Alabama; in Stark, Newton, Issaqueena 1 and Oktibbeha, Mississippi; in R-d I River, Bossier, Riehiland, Natchit hes and Iberville, Louisiana, and in S - p ens Camp and Jackson, Texas. Th. 5011 worm is much less frequently mentik n-d. j cEPEALS. The prospcet a month ago was f .r a very heavy crop of corn and the rate of yikld about the averge. Its conO ion in all the States of the Atlantic coat is now unimpaired and of very high i om ise. In Tcxas and Tennessee the codi tion has declined materially. J the central corn region, however, in the val leys of the Ohio and the. Missour, were< two-thirds of the crop is grown and the I commercial supply is procured, a v.ry heavy reduction has taken place, . !ich ( has made the national average 80.7 in stead of 97.7 last month. The can-' is the long-continued dreught, which has M boen severest in Kansas, Illinois, inai-! , Ohio and Michigin. hebrasa Las. been scorched on the southerly bei der, 1 and Iowa and Missouri ha.:ve (&.sqped! with comparatively light loss, as h.ave! ( the more Northra States. The ;-even corn surplus States stand as foljows: Ohio 8-2, Indiana 64, Illinois U5, .LUwa 90, Missari 80, Kansas 6(, Nebrada 75. The condition of spring wheat, which was reported very low last month, from I ravages of chinch bug, is not i'nproved.i in the August returns, but has falen off very slightly. The general average is 78.8, two points less than the August re turns of last year. Dakota has madec a slight change and stands highest in cn dition. The average for Wisconsin is73 Minnesota 70, Iowa 72, Nebraska7, Dakota 80. In the extreme east andt Pacifie coast the condition of spring wheat is high. There is no report oi winter wheat the present month, as it is f too'early to obtain results. In the oats crop there is no change.C A part of the breadth was harvested at last reports. The condition averages 85.6, which indicates a crop slightly un der the average. The barley crop promises to yield rather better than was feared last month.t The eastern product averages a higher I condition, but is reduced slightly sunce last reports. The average is 63. 2, mdi eating nearly an average yield.t Buckvheat appears to be practically the same as last year and averages abut 90.3 in condition. ToBAcco. The tobacco crop is in high condition in the seed leaf States, averaging nearly 100, except in Winconsin. The shipping and cutting district of the West make unprecedented reports of low condition --Tennessee 3t8, Kentucky 50, Ohio 55, Indiana 56, Illinois 52, Missouri 0. I view of the heavy reduction in acreage in fragments, the usual crop may be ex pectecd. An oillial investigation of the area now in progress will determine au- . thoritatively the breadth cultivated the present year. - There is a great reduction since the Jst of July in the condition of potatoes,< almost entirely the result of drought. There is no material decline on the -Atlantic or Gulf coasts, but the iniuryt is severe in the West. The loss during the mouth as reported is fully 20) pei Ii cent. of the prospective crop. FR~lT. Tho fruit crop is very poor. There will be few apples outside New England and New York. There will be a partial crop in Michigan. In the Ohio Rivet States the harvest will 1:e nearly an en ire failure. T he hay crop is also greatly reduced. In the West the generail crop is 80. THE~ CHOPS IN TilE STATE. The Condition of Cottoni. Corna. Rice- an.: Other Cropsa. :as Repoa.rted to tihe D~e'art ment of Agriculture. The consohdtati'n of the crops for the month cending Au gust ist, from retons to the South Caruhna Deptaent of Agriculture, shows the Iollowing ier esting facts and figures: The estimates given are based up~on 271 replies, covermng every county in the ~3tte.Twohudre an tirten on respondents report that tie weter 1as been favorable niud forty-two ruifavor able. The crop was thou-ht to lt sightly injured b. the exct-sive het weather during a few days of the mnrth, but timely rains CnneI and the crop was re covering , when the heavy rains con tinuing have c:mised the cotton to shed f some of its fruit. The Cra ws two or three weeks earlier than last year, and therefore, has a fall bottom crop. Some of our corrspondeurs say that if the L saos contnue thrce weeks longerthat1 S full er p ih gather-:d, and that it ill be the larg' vield that has been d L:2tis State for seval years, s there a. Lmn c tat mat riA: be fo re the - naturt o heco I ad el e.1teriilar; whIch a ppeared sn la.ities, that it may, i our acxt repurt, materially change the aver ige for th:e State. The condition is reported in upper Arolina at 97 per cent.; middle Caroli i:t at 102 per cent., and in lower Carolina tt 9 per ceut. An averge for the State 'f !:' per cent., showing a failing of 2 n er ceItt. for the State since our last re iort; but, vertheles, the cro' is still r )etter tlan for years up to this date. i a cohn. The corn crop is reported general v to e c the best ever grown in the State. c Lhe early upland corn is matured aLnd U ecured fro=a injury. The late corn has eceived rains silficient to almost bring y t to perfection. The condition of the crop is reported ( n upper Carolicea at 99 per cent.; 2,id- n lie Caroiina 102 per crnt., and lower 1: ,arolina 97 per cent.; an average for the c tate of 99 per cent., against 94 per ( ent. for June, and 1; per cent. com- I >ared to the crop of last year. This tt )erccntage will be somewhat reduced ii >wing to the freshets, which has de- A troyed much of the corn planted en n iver and creek bottoms; but, with those t Irawbacks and the increased acreage and ield, the crop will be the largest ever r froduced. C RICe. The rep Ports for a large crop of rice fr I he acreage planted still continues favor lle, and if it is nut injured by the pres- d nt floods, which eanuot now be de- n ermiaed, will be the largest fur a -am >er of years. ti The condition is reported for uppaer r Jarclina at 91 per cent., midile Care ni 0 t 99 per cent., and lower Carolin:! at 0 S per cent. An averaga for the State of 7 per cent., the same as June report. 1 OTNER cnoP's. The condition of the other crops is eoorted a., foliow.: Sorghum, for upper Carolina at 97 . er cent., middle Carolina at 97 per C eut., and lower Carolina at 97 per cent., n average for the Suate of 97 per cent. sugar cane, for upper Carolina 83 per ent., raiddie Caroilna 9S per cent., and g ower Carolina at 97. an average for the ! itate of 92 per cent. Pease, for upper a 'arolina at 98 per cent., middle Carolina t .)0 per cent., and for lower Carolina at f( 5 par cent., an average for the State of g S per cent., and our correspondents re- c ort a large incse in the acreage over qrevious years. IiI potatves reported or upoer Carolina at 69 pser cent., mid- t !e Carolina at 4, per c(,'. end lower ti larolina at 89 per cent. Sweet potatoes re reported for upper Carolina at 95 e-r cent., middle Carolina at 100 per ent., and lower Carolina at 97 per cent. .n average for the State of 97 per cent. )ur correspondents repQrt this crop in I ine condition, and as the crop has been P ucreasea 2 per cent. in acreage the 3 ield j n aust necessarily >e very large. D'EAT11 OF A F.U'S U'NION SI'V. b 'ardaw Warsley. Whio Followed 31 sby t} a::dl Lee, is N p 3Mere. Pardaw Warsley. the "Union spv of 0 he Shenandoah," died at hia home at I roster Brook, N. Y., last week, aged C ixty-seven years. Beginning life as a n ancy goods merchant in Massachusetts, a: .t the opening of the war he raist a a omnpany of the Fourteenth Massachu- I etts Iheavy Artillery. He was soon d iterwards employed by Major-Genearal fl ~. F. Butler ini thie name of the United 1z ~tates to go into the British provinces to ti >ok into the system of blockade running 1 hen in vogue. . He was successful in P his mission, for Major-General C. C. 't< tugur, in his report of August 25, 1865, C ay s that it was through the instrumer.- I aity of Mr. Warsley that the extensive s1 ystema of blockade-running from Badti aore and Wa shington was broken up.f tfter returning from this trip Warsley SI rent out as a spy up)on Mosby under. .ugur, though not until he had returned i o ioston and married Helen Isabelle t< ~rancis, who survives him. 0: Accompanied by his young wife, z Varsley set cut ostensibly upon a ived- ti ding trip through Virginia~ His ~realE ibject was soon suspected by Mosby, nda spy w'as placed upon his track. :'he spy was a handsome young ladyE r-ho was to be conducted to Washington y Warsley. The Union spy was too mart to be caught, and, instead of tsing hi pass through the Union lines, e conducted the lady through swamps t< .nd by-roadis until she became disgusted n rith the trip, and she returned to Mosby it ouvinced of the loyalty of Warsley. i.r losby was not convinced, and at one a ime~ placed a pistol to Warsle-y's head, n hreatening to blow his brains out. The o -oung lady interceded and Waisley' a1L ife was saved. After vards Mosby be- p ame his firm frihnd, LGLti~g a duel is tith a nephtew of Gieneral Lee because g ~ieutenant Lee had set a guard upon ti Varsley and had condemned him as a& a: py. On two occasions Warsley furnish-n d information by which the Federal t< orces were enabled to surround thea Louse in which Mosby was quartered, y mi the dashing Rebei cut his way out a: .nd escap)ed. On several occasions Varsley got information of intended ja: aids upon Washington in time to alow t, he authorities to mass their forces and ave the capital. l At the time of the assassination o1e ~resia~nt Lincoln War.<ey was givei ome~ad ofa squad oi detectivsa~ \hen Booth was kmed '.ar:.i y returac i Sprivate lije, and for years ran a p estaurant ii. the irialford oil hilds. WXilliamt :1ellwain, olored. was $ho houahi no0t aly. last NSamrd:3y nighi 1.f dr. W. S. 1I. Harper, while in: thi aL 0, o tealing watermelons from Mr. Harperi aicb in Lancaster.f l:IsA.:0 s( I:!G SC 1 E.F!. I m rkabl I roI I ( - et WN1i 0ch th Ger *.1 1kInp Chaemellor ik Sah! to Havre in View. Gra 'vat -. iilan[d. ( *0ca - it - New Y%1k Icr . FiA rKFOI.T, Augast 8.-By a ver; ucky coincidence I have just had iighly interesting conversation with 1 creiga diplomatist whose high positio !nables him to have as clear an insigh nto) the views and ultcrior amis of Priac 3ismarck as perhaps any man living cai Lave. The diplomatist in question wa: assing throu" F1rakfort on his wal o a fashiionabe German watering pilce .Id the fortune of travel placed us in th ame railway carrilag. I called the diplomatist's attention t( be report published by the iBruss-e iazette to the elect that the Gerrmai tail were complAetiLg me- ure b3 rhich in twenty-four hours some -100.00t rerman troors could be thrown intc oliand. The diplomatist said: "I hat report is so near to the trutl tat it is sure to be contradicted. Gou ian designs upon Holland, are, in my pinion, the key note of Prince Bis iarek's future projects. Prince Bis iarck, if he cloaks his acts, seldom con eais his opinions, and I have serious tasons that justify my conviction that efore long Prince Bismarck will, by an 1roit move, use Holland as the means, :rarge as it may seem at first sight, of menting friendship with France and. SacquiruIg a colonial empire for Ger. lanv. I remarked: "I don't quite understand ou. How could this be done?" "In this way. Suppose some day rany were to say to France, You tay have Alsace-Loraine back again rovided you will let Germany have irte blanche elsewhere and agree to eriany absorbing Holland and all the [olland colonies.' A proposition to re irn the lost provinces would be received i France with leaps and bounds of joy. .t heart the French and Germans do ot hate cach other nearly as bitterly as ie French and English do. "I firmly believe that Prince Bismarek rally contemplates such a move. The hancellor nev r follo vs well-beaten nes of diplomatic routine. His genius as indefinable as that of a poet, a )under of religion, or of an artist. His i.h'natic thunderbolts strike at one wmeut in Schleswig-Holstein, then in ustria and again in France. He is not ie man to have made such extraordiua F sacrifices to lay the foundation of erman calonization unless he felt sure reaping a rich harvest." "The Chancellor knows that every Crman who emigrates to Amelica iS )rever lost to German%. - The moment ermauny has colonies of her own this ist drain upon tw' Fatherland can not uiv be checkc -, ibut transformed into a riCeless source of strenagth. The vast >)hoies of Holland oflr exactly mshat ermany wants. They could bu at once ade profitable without spending a sin e thaler. Holland has sank milli..ns gulden and thousands of men in Java ad Sumatra. With Germa , organiza on and energy the Dutch Indies would >rm a sort of wedge or strategic vantage counl, dividing England's two great >lonial bulwarks-Australia and ILia. "Prince Bismarck feels that France :a Germany are natural :lies, and that ic real enmy of Cermany, France and assia is England. It is on this basis lat the future of Europe and Asia is to a settled-the Continent for the Conti antals; German- to cement lasting iendship with 1 rance by giving her ick Alsace-Loraine and thereby realize tr magnificent dream of colonial em Ire; and Russia, under the :egis of ermany and France, to secure the road, >t only to Constantinople, but to a uchi coveted port on the Indian Ocean, etween Persia and British India. "It is tv-day not France, but England, tat is the Chancellor's bete noire. verywhere he turns it is England that ?poses his interests. In the Balkan eninsula it is England that is straining rery nerve to create small independent ttionalities into bairiers against R~ussin id Austrian conquest. And as to the >mination that Bisnmarck is trying to ing about in Egypt, England is the g in the manger that prevents iBis arck's policy of placing Egypt under rench or continental control. In Cen al Asia it is England that prevents ussia from devcloping southward-a >icy which was always felt by Bismarck be a necessity, in order to enable ermany to hold her own in Central urope. Everywhere it is England that ands in the Cnancellor's way." And here the diplomatist lightea a esh cigar, and added, with a significant nile: "In spite of these plain facts England, the p~resent naval maanoeuvres, seems have utterly ignored the possibility defence against a German or an allied rt neh, German and Rlussian tleet at eking her from the North Sea. The :itish naval authoritics seem to have ily 1:rovided for the case of French vaders coming from Cherbourg or oulogne!" Sai.J ones att Chau1Lttang ua. The lecture of Sam Jones on "Charac r and Character" is going on, and as I >w write in hearing of much he says, is clear that he has his audience weli hand and is playing upon the thou .nds who listen as the harper plays oen the strings of his instrument. As ten, on an average, as once a minute tere bursts forth the most stormy ap a~use. The mian is att his best, and this with him a field day. He has iistin iished between character and reputa on, character and orthodoxy, character ad professions asnd relations, and is >w picturing the relation of character temperance, igh-license, proh ibition~ ad a great many other interests of cactical life. lie is absolutely fearless, ad really he loves a shining miark. Hie ss no more love or revt rence for lords ad nobles, judges and bishoups, than for ampis, when iscussing questions i't ght and wrong. lie seems to be ob tious to everything but One, and to neentrate himnelf into a lightning boh >r tl~u' purpose o str'iking tihe on-:pois a ishes to hit lard.-Corresondee4 uindo Cou:-ier enka sa shai senti 0c(si an r illu'stratted bok suggest ing sae meanps eture. Address.irldI s a) ispensary "d'e:iI As-ociuion .' -lin street,Uut 1n N V 1:.~ 1,LY '1' ()1, 1 iS V1:01 IKA1IEI1111S. HmW TO Do PAYING WORK AT T;ITS Stiggtioit o .interedt. from an Anithori ta ive Source. (W. L. Jnes :n Southern cultivator ) August is usually a month of compar ative rest on the Southern farm. The arduous labor of cultivating the two most importaut crops is pretty well over on e well-managed farm, excepting, po-;sibly, in the extreme northern edge of our peculiar territory. Although July 1st is literally the midway station in the year's calendar, August 1As is eally nearer the dividing line between the work of cultivation and the labors of the harvest. Yet there may be some work that may profitably be done in the continued cultivation oi the cotton field. SHALL PLOWING CONrrs un? It depends on the condition of the plants and seasons. If the crop is in a growing condition, and fruiting, well, but is ratlier later in development than it should be, the cultivators, or shallow-running sweeps and scrapes, may be run over the fields every ten days, particularly after a rainfall suflicient to form a crust. Root-cutting and mangling must be carefLully avoided, as the effect will be to c:luse the t'lant to shed its fruit and then take on a new growth too late to amount to anything. The object now should be to prevent the shedding, of the sqiares already formed, and en-; courage their development into blooms and bolls, sinee very few that make their appearance after the tenth of the month will escape the first killing frosts of October. Late cotton should be en couraged to keep up a vigorous growth, not that the additional development of the weed will incresse the number of bolls by the formation of new equares, but that the squares and young bolls may be hastened to full size and earlier maturitv. Where sweeps and scrapes have been used during June and July, if cultivation be continued now, it is better to run the implement in the same furrow previously last run, and thus avoid plunging the plow into the ridges of soil cast up at the plowing. One furrow in the middle using a twenty-inch sweep, scrape or cultivator, will generally be all that is now required. 10PrIs COTTON. Many experiments have been made in topping cotton in the last forty years, I and the results and conclusions have been very diverse. Sometimes it pays; o:ten it does 11ot; sometimes it injures. No rule can b:e given that will always work. The usual object in topping is to prevent further growth of weed and forms after th plant has as -many as it can sustain, and when new forms would be too late to mature; the idea being to induce the plant to throw all its vigor into the effort to develop the forms al ready visible. The object, according to our observation, is rarely attained by merely removing the growing top of the plant, but may often be accomplished by topping or lopping off the growing ends of the branches, as well as the leader. In most cases where topping cotton re sulted in increasing the yield it migi't have been noticed that tue work was done rathier early-some time in Judy. Every one has observed that stalks of i cotton that were topped by the bite of the plow-horse early in the season are often made much more fruitful thereby. In such cases the effect of the early top ping was probably to push the branches of the stalks into more vigorous growth, causing a more rapid evolution of forms. On the whole, we have very little faith in topping cotton as a part of a regular system. PULLING FOD)DEn. The propriety of pulling fodder, i. e., whether it does not injure the grain more than the fodder is worth, to pull the blades as is usually done, is one of the quetions that has been long mooted, but never settled. Experimenters differ in results and conclusions. Possibly each is correct in the results of his ex periment, but wrong in his general con clusions. The only true condusion is, that pulling the blades sometimes does, and sometimes does not. injure the grain more than the value of the fodder so eured. It is commonly said, in comn-1 parison with the animal system that the] blades of corn are the lungs of the plant, by means of which the plant takes in nutriment from the air; and as an animal; will at once die if deprived of its lungs,i therefore the corn will be injured by re-. moving the blades-a very singular and] altogether unwarranted conclusion. If1 it is said that the plant will die if de prived of its blades-lungs-the similei would be perfect and the conclusion cor-1 rect. It is a fact in vegetable economyi that the ieaves or blades of plants con-I tinue gieen and succulent for a time after they have ceased to be at all neces-i sary to the perfection of the fruit or seed. Familiar illustrations of this law may be found on every hand. In the case of the corn plant, under favorable and natural conditions of soil and sea-. son, the ear of corn-the fruit of thei plant-is among the first parts to showi signs of niiaturity. The tassel and silk i pecrformu their oien, and are the first to < fade; ihen the hu.sk or shuck, and the enclosed train. This succession will bei noted particularly when corn is growni on fresh lands or soils abounaing in. humus. On worn and exhausted soils, -. or soils deprived of vegetable matter,. and easily, ini1aenced by drouth, theI blades often "dry up" before the graini is fully matured. In such cases it is un doubtly true that to hasten the stripping of the~ lades, without reference to the condition of the er, wouald result in 1 niore or l injury and loss of weight of grain. Of this every farmer must behi judge. iBe governed by the condition ofJ thie ,ar, and not the blades altogether,I in 'ecidag jaist when to commence pull ing.I ?ihere is nothing in the way of hay that is more generally relished by stock than Ii1cely cured corn blaides; and there are enl) a very few kinds i clovers and :aen itare mnore nutritious. OurI uorse's andl cattle are generally reliable juidge. ; an~d they turn from the best fenowIA hayI, and prefer corn fodder.1 ihe Northe rn and Western farmers do not appreciate the quality ot well cured corn blades, because under their system they do not pull the blades as we do, but cnt dnon sta nrd all and treat the stalk and blades, after removing the ears, as so much roughness, or "stover, fit only to be picked over by cattle, and the bulk of it trampled under foot into the manure. With their rich meadows and mowers they cannot afford the tedious labors involved and meagre re turns from the practice of fodder-pulling as ol lowed by Southern farmers. They are right, and we are wrong in this mat ter. If only the labor devoted to pull ing and housing corn blades in the South were employed in preparing *meadows and mowing grass the result would add millions of dollars to the value of our farm results. We woul1d then be encouraged to increase the ,rca devoted to grass for mowing to any de sired extent, until our barns would be filled with plenty for horses, mules, sheep and cattle, and the sorry sp-etaele of half-famished animals, shivering in the cold and rain, and mnoaning for their stinted and often forgotten allowance of shucks, would be batished from among us. To do this we are not dependent on the doubtful success or the standard hav grasses from abroad. We have our ow'n native-at least thoroughly naturalized -crab grass, crowfoot, Bermuda, and several species of paspaluns; besides several species of millet, Indian cori, clover, lucern, etc. Of course, if there is no other resource for hay, and nothing more profitable for the hands to do, the fodder should be pulled. A common field hand, costing say fifty cents a day, can save one dollar's worth of fodder, and possibly Dot seriously injure the corn-a very good operation. The plan of cutting the stalks down will not answer in our climate, and without other resource of better forage. wHAT MAY BE PL.NTED. August has sometimes been called a second spring, in allusion to the fact that many of the crops planted first in the earlier months may again be put in, but chiefly because it is the beginning of seedtime for all of the grasses and small grain. Many of the garden vege-l tables, including turnips, beets, beans, tomatoes, Irish potatoes, etc., may be' planted with reasonable prospect of sue cessful results. It is the main month for sowing all the roughleaved varietici of turnips. Success depends-more thun in the spring-on deep preparation, liberal manuring with well rotted stable manure, or quickly soluble fertilizer, and good seasons. With little effort, and reasonable weather, most of the garden vegetables may be had in plenty until frost. We have several times sue ceeded well in producing an abundant supply of tomatoes from plants gro wn from cutting off the old plants. A cut ting containing a vigoron's shoot, with a portion of the older stem attached, will readily strike root; and if set in a dee p ly dug soil and shaded for a few days it will soon come into bearing and continue until killed by frost. 1:011 TOO3IS'S DEIUI -He Isoatuded Into the Arena Like a Ilack-M3aned Nunildian Lion." (From the Louis-ville Courier-Jourinal.; The first evidence of the coming power )f this remarkable man was exhibited at Willington, a small village in Abbeville listrict (as the present counties were ien called), South Carolina. General Greorge McDuffie, the only representa ive of Demosthenes in this country since Pairick Henry, lived near there McDuffie was harnessed lightning. He Eorged the chain of logic at a white heat. Etc was the most nervous, impassioned mai thrilling tribune of the people of hat day. He demonstrated the political problems as Euclid did geometry, while loaming at the mouth and screaming ike a painted Creek Indian. He had narried the only daughter of Dick Sin gleton, the celebrated millionaire turf nan and rice planter, and he owned four .mndred slaves and made eight hundred >ales of cotton a year. He had been a nember of Congress, governor of South Darolina, and was afterwards United States Senator. The people, before naking up their minds on any politiclI luestion, would say "Mr. McDuie is zoing to speak at Morrow's old lield two reeks from now, and I will waii till I iear hisr.," and there they would conme orty and fifty miles, and camp out the iight before to hear him, and his speech w'ould decide the politics of the entire :cuntry once a year. On this Willing ;on occasion it was said that "the ever-i asting mouthed B3ob Toombs was~ :oming over to meet him." Four thou iand people were there when that rash roung Georgian crossed the Savannah :o meet the lion in his den, to beard the D~ouglas in his halls. Toombs rode a iorse, and it was remarked that his shirt >osom was stained with tobacco-juice. Eet he was one of the handsomest men hat ever had the aeal of genius on his >row. His head was round as the celes ial globe. His abundant, straight, >lack hair hung in profusion o-er hisl trmple, marble forehead. ise had asl nany teeth .as a shark, and they were rhiter than ivory. His eyes were black is death and bigger than an ox's. His. tep was as graceful as the wild-cat's, nud yet he weighed two hundred pounds. uis presence captiv'ated even the idolt-' :ors of George McDutile. He bounaded nto the arena like a black-maned Nu nidian lion from the unknow;n deserts >f middle Georgia, to reply to the )lympian Jupiter of the up-country of he proud Palmetto State. It was th e nost memorable coverthrow thatl e D~ullie ever sustained. Th's was in the larrison-Van Buren election of N i. uis argument, his inveetive, h's over' >earing torrent of irreverent denuncia :ion, is a tradition in that country even iow. McDullie said: "I has e heard rohn Rlandolph, of 1Roanoke, auj. iet ['ristamn Burgess, of Rhode Island, las his wild Gecorgian is the Mirabeau e: his age." Axter that South Carulini tdmitted that Georgia was some iiu nore than the refuge of Souths Carolio. :ugitives from justice. This was the be ~inning of Toomib's inmmortal S'outhcr:. ame. Since the recent death .of ex-Seuato: LI. M. T. Hunter, of Virginie, Senato Ileagan, of Texas, and ex-CGoveinor T. d. Watts, of Alabama, are the only :ur -iving members of Mr. Davis's cabinet. Leagan was postmaster general and Watts attorney general. At Montgome -y, Ala., there was a secret -session ci he cabinet to see whether we shoulo >ombard Fort Sumter. Toombs wa. hen secretary of State and was regardte& ts the most rash, headstrong and violent1 nan in the Confederacy. While in the the seet pave the.ir opinioius in fzvor ot bombardment, teMr. TLombs was, a. . asi cu-'m, paciiig the floor. W hen it emae hi: turn to exoress his opiihoi, to the amzement of all lie vehemcntly opposta the attack, and made one of the .-iost remarkable spe0 of. all his i Fe in Opposition to it. le said it would be the doom of the Confederaev. Ht aid: "Let Charleston . Give ip Sumter. Let it be pro visond. but never explode the volcano th'at is unde'.r our feet." Ie said it wash suicide and madn. ad would lose us mr riend in all the North, and ex IIt Libited atll his Lagni ieent powers n opp.itiol' to the attack. .He said: "Mr P dnt, will wantonlv strike at horLse: i that **is tile North fromi oc'a ot *e", a~d li.oouis~, now quiet, .,i t.o s*ht" us to death. It e ts us in the wrong; t it is ftal." :!d so wit tas. Toombs was the wise-st and he greatest of all the stan:men "f the Southern Confederacy. -; l F.j17iON DAVIS 1EPLIES. Governor Curtin and the Story of the Pro- e To the Editor of the New York World: e My attention has been called to a letter of ex-Governor Cnrtin, published in the i Herald of the 12th inst., in regard to an t alleged cotpliceity on his part with a purpose to aasinat me during the war between the States, and also to a i letter from W'kesbarre, Pa., on the e same subject publithed in the World of t the 18th inst. I solicit the use of your 0 colunins to make a brief statement of C the facts, so far as they are known to me. 'I Governor Curtin makes two mistakes : in his letter. First, that I had made h public accusation against him and that I had alleged that he was to pay $100,000 t to a dcsperado for my assassination. All c this, based on a new.spaper article pur- f porting to be the report of an "inter view" hehl with me for publication by a newspa.per correpondent. Such was n not the case well-known historian t proposcd to write my biography, at. i asked me to give him for that purpo-e an acecetut (, attempts i made during the h war to a Limate me. is I toi hima in ihait connLection, and fIr t that pan a1 lnonymous lette1 0 of warng, hd been set to Me from Piladelphia to the etfect that the gcv. Is ernor of Pnisvivania had relea.sed from n the C-itentiary a notorious convict ouli Condition that he woutld go to the South g. and assasieate me, and i, successinit, he 8 was to receiVe a.- a reward i100,00. it Though the lt did ue the name of i Governor Czrtu, I Oritted it in m U-t statrent of the subtance of the ettCe, ; a and as the writer did not btate how the' I money premised was to be raised, 1 did t iot attere't to suppy the omission. I Indeed, it was uniie ur portant to me C, whether it cst- from a secret servie P lund, from he- pite i are of the go'-| ernor, o- Vas contr iut-d by oihers who, ' with i~kte zeal, niL'e the iLattle fro, i afar and cried oXn oc. si The rnonvmious 1etter acqinredan in-s portunee it would not otherwise hav a posneSd .-I the iz- tiat aout thi b time of its r, ece r, wh o'- i to my residece- at th ! a f aw a u1' p P crouc i *- d h 1 .: ie t :'ll o" i - the p 'of the.kD1 a '-a art-ce aad luoking in tn towsans te gate a ou hee. In- P stad o pr eing t the .at I turncd ,.V and Went --w.r the crouching igure. " As he wL- ara.* he rose, lied and t escaped], The I:porance thms given to t the aunrm:ais letter 1indd me to L elc-se it to the Uon. V. B. leed, o(f t: Philalelphia, with i rcouest that L:!tc would make such inquiry s to him di might be p~ractica'ble it di.< over theb writer, and to veriiy or disprove the statemients. Governor Curtin's "emphatic contra aiction" of the accusations against himlP pertains net to me, but to the writer ot the letter, who is unknown to me, and rc for whom I have not vouched. The avowal of Governor Curtinof seal to mialiain the governm?enit byI honorable warfare, antd the denial the lie "ever re-:rted to such means for thei aonduect ofthe war." mark a commend ble approiarion of the obligatiots of b eivilized war, and it is a pity' tt there L should be ituythin~g to initerrupt the eur- t?~ cent of hiis s.Y*-laudiation. 'The letter -i from WVilk-esbarie, already referred to, lertainit reveals conduct not very dii~er- i hd ent from that allEged by the nucnihond t letter-writer. it ticreby appe'ars that. Governor Cxr da received an application, Id ipicentlty frota the- Lied States war o 0 epartmienit, for theo release from tL- at P'ennsylva.nia penitentiary of .a notorious onvict, that he- n'igt -oe sent over the ex ines for a pcic~ purl)ow " On this J sind otier like repse-sentatio.: it appear' that an order was issu'edt by the govertoa 1or the rceea-e oft'thecnviet. ai not eC hown tha the govenor knew or te !houghat - .p to ingaire for what at spY-cial servic e gnrloI the army " regui'red. a convietd crimi-al; that the aut that L.: wa s tobeetpieCd at the :het mmo "ui "aual have ariseu of :or .~ - rop'r dnty with the army; can st: t conviet - lticul.rly <lui.ie.d' In T :heU-- abter ofI iI'i'orm. oa that point to i h ael: a-onably Sulpposed of :h..t the ..,eide - proe" was~ to do an: e-t wich a --'ierworthy of the nanme ct udnot perfiorm.- nssa imigh-to * eule t.r t, n the aptplie ttioL to or relea-: hv ben ostponed fo'r of urhe if"ruati' and refused unle-ssu t'h shold e .,a'h as would juOstiy coua- jsu i Ic ''-'rin--n" 'th"rt ,-e" within hec pale of L h, Jable war." ht .hsEmteG. rmeio ol liekui-d th Let ,1:.: huli and the U nitead Statec m: urdamc u a.reatdy belid! to :bat th fg h-er v ire geiiiena would iudi : tha '-It was not a i-ur- if 1l4 c acludi, I r.- eea that, in statiaj. u :L dt uee . th .anonymfrs lett if -eevd 0m : -- th tt'endiant cir- t I~: e . Lt.-lsa ii:tnedto accu'- ei' a. e:,: :\,.e 'vea-:lri; nIeither w:sa -e ?tema~~ mo- fori. a newspaper- u, r'e* amad *. u-ion preece'denlt It-r uath-i iV',tt - a wee iposeLdupon t ts pb.leui' I-ven- in the p'ropamed jI. JiiI lsoNx DAXms. -K -Al mI ma beC inl perfect 1:caihi er mdi- t rI bI'ie lokiU: w~eli. Terrible to all e hznd liv CARTLOADS OF MONEY. rulE A3OUNT OF sIONEY IN THE NATIONAL TREASURY. 4omne Startling Figures About the Quanti ty of MIoney in the United States Treasu ry-The Public Debt Half Paid. WASHINGTON, August 7.-Few persons, >crhaps, who read the frequently pub ished reports of the fiscal operations of he government give any consideration o the vastness and significance of these 'perations. We read of the hundreds ,f millions of gold and silver in the reasury, but how few persons have any ntelligent idea of what is embraced in he nine figures required to describe the labilfties and assets of the government? t i. only when the auriferous contents f the treasury vaults are weighed and aeasured and placed by the side of arti les and commodities that are daily andled by the masses that an intelligent omprehension can be obtained by the eople of the financial strength of the reasury and the great extent of the gov rnment's fiscal operations. I find by reference to the latest pub shed statement of treasury assets and abilities that among the assets was 281,096,317 in gold and nearly $250, 00,000 in silver, including 34,000,000 f trade dollars and fractional coins. 'aking up this $281,000,000 of gold and lacing it on scales, I find that the gold eld by the treasury weighed 519 tons, ad if packed into ordinary carts, one )n to each cart, it would make a pro ession two miles long, allowing twen ,et of space for the movement of e orse and cart. The weighing of the silver produces much more interesting results. Ennning iis over the scales I find its weight to e 7,396 tons. Measuring it in carts, as i the case of the gold, the silver now eld by the treasury would require the rvices of 7,396 horses and carts to ansport it and would make a procession ver twenty-one miles in length. The surplus about which so much is dd in the daily newspapers amounts to early $47,000,000, an increase of 3,000,000 since July 1. Counted as ld this surplus would weigh eighty x and one-half tons. Counted as silver would weigh'1,385 tons. Each million of gold adds 3,685 pounds > the surplus, and each million of silver ids 58,930 pounds. Applying cubic measurement to the 'easury gold and silver, and piling the vo metals on Pennsylvania avenue as )rdwood is piled before delivery to the archaser, I find that the gold would easure tiirty-seven cords and the silver )2 cords, and that both would extend om the treasury department- to 41 reet, or from the treasury to the pen on olice in a straight line, and forming solid wall eight feet high and four feet oad. Extending these calculations and com risons to the interest-bearing debt, tually interesting results are obtained. Le )ublic debt reached the highest >int in August, 1G5 -just twenty-two irs ago-when it was $2,381,530,295. bie general reader will better appreciate .e vastness of this sum when informed at it represents 70,156 tons of silver, lich would make a procession of carts at would extend from Richmond, Ta., a point twelve miles north of Phila siphia, the distance it would thus cover ~ing 266 miles. The interest bearing debt is now (not cluding the Pacific Railroad bonds), ,001,976,850, showing that the sum dd has been $1,379,553,445, or more an one-half of the total amount, and presenting 40,637 tons of silver dollars, .iicih would extend 154 miles if packed carts containing one ton each. Reducing these figures to a basis aere they may be intellgently comn ehende~d, and that the rapidity with aich the government has reduced its >nded debt may be fully realized by e general reader, I find that the reduc )f has been at the average rate di 2,606,965 each year, $5,225,581 each onthi, .i174,186 each day, $7,258 each iur, and $120.47 for every minute of e entire twenty-two years. Pursuing the calculatioh to the smallest visible space of time, the bonded debt the United States has been decreased the rate of $20.07 every second, or for cry swing of the pendulum, for the tire period from August 31, 1865, to dy 31, 1887. This is an exhibition of recuperation .a material progress on the part of the untry and of sterling honesty and in grity on the part of the government dl people that is without parallel in the >rld's history. Negroes and~ Sunstroke. The physicians of the Pennsylvania spital assert that they have no record a colored person suffering from sun *oke being admitted to that institution. iis is a remarkable fact. It is enough make white folks envious in this sort weather. MIost people would imagine that lored people were far less apt to be ercom:e by the heat than their Can sian brethren, but it is rather strange learn that, in a hospital where scores sunsiroke eases are attended, not a igle case can be found of a black man ustruck. In the first surprise at this informa in one might imagine that a good way e people to avoid being overcome by e torrid heat of summer would be to ike liberal applications of burnt cork their skins, There is something so nylec and easy in this suggestion that, it were not fur appearances, it might experimented with by the whole pop Ition! of Philadelphia. It muight if it were not for the fact that e records of other cities, particularly in the South, show that negroes a suttruck. This is rather bewilder ;. I t is, as one may say, dazing. d theu conclusion to which it leads is at Phiiladelphia darkies are peculiarly rticular in hot weather to avoid hard >rk and keep out of the sun.-Phila Iphia News. [t iiny a iquenion of preference whleth yo ev yu eyw you die, or