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" ?- * ' i,f . ^ *? /' VOL. IV TIL4: ltrOOKHT Til I N<? YKT. A Combination of Capital to Dictate tlio Price of Attricultural Products. Columbia Register. Ami now a scheme called (he Farmers' Co-operative Brotherhood of the Tinted States is afoot. The scheme involves an organization with an authorized capital of fifty millions of dollars, divided into one million shares. The author of this mighty project is fieorge A. Williams of Chicago, who was horn and brought up on a farm. The shares of the company are to be sold to the farmers at $50 to the share, no man to hold more than one, and this vast sum will be controlled in order to dictate the price of gtain. It is not proposed to indulge in speculation; the farmors will not run "corners" or bulge prices, the object being to secure to the tillers of the soil a reasonable return for tlicit labor and investment. Mr. Williams says that he does not see why the scheme should not he successful, lie says he is a practical farmer, horn and raised on a farm, and that it is not many years since lie left the farm. ILo says the farmer is the very poorest paid man in the world, and that he is the only man in the world who has nothing to say as to what his goods shall he worth; but when he has millions at his hack, when he becomes a cohesive political power, things will be changed. The Brotherhood is not to be a p? litieal organization, but when it gets fairly into operation it will make itself felt. There have been no steps taken yet beyond the fact of incorporation. Mr. Williams says big things move slow, ami lie does not hope to got the fifty millions at once, but that they will get half the amount, or twenty live millions, to be deposited in some strong Chicago bank, and used as the emergency may require. The idea is to control the corn market. It is said that as there are but live States which grow corn to any extent?Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska?it ought not to be a diflicult thing to control the corn market. With this vast sum of money in hand it would not be a hard task to dictate the price of corn so as to secure the farmer a fair return for his investment. Speaking of the constitution, Mr. Williams savs whilst it may bo amended, it is now what it substantially always will be: an organization the object of which will be self-protection?protection against monop olies and other combinations. The constitution provides that any one who is a farmer or renter or personally engage in farming may become a member of the organization bv paying one dollar. There will he a president, three vice-presidents, two secretaries, a general in chief, an attorney, a treasurer and board directors. There will be a different treasurer for each kind of grain?wheat, outs and corn?with a loan department, a storage department and a purchasing department, each presided over by a chief and all under control of the general in chief. The board of directors will have general charge and elect all officers. There is to be ii head man in each County in ever\ State in which the Brotherhood has a membership. This head man will report monthly the condition of the crops and the grain in the hands of the Brotherhood. This general in chief has superintendence of all the departments. Delegates from each County elect the board of directors. 'IMiis board of directors liv the price farmers should get for their products. Kvery member of the Brotherhood has the right to sell his grain to whom he sees lit, so long as the price is not lower than the minimum fixed and is satisfactory to the Brotherhood. Should the price be lower than that fixed, then the member is pledged to give the Brotherhood the preference at the price offered by others, or to l>orrow the money and hold the grain. It is not proposed that the Brotherhood should hold any more grain Milan can he helped, though it will have to hold some, and for that*purpose, it will establish elevators in the principal cities. A farmer's grain will bo bought only in ease that he is obliged to sell and does not wish v to borrow money of this Brotherhood in order to hold and the market. price is below the price fixed. When a member of the Brotherhood desires to obtain money on his grain and the market price is below the established figure, he will receive four-fifths of the cash price delivered to the order of the Brotherhood, the producer paying six per vent, on the use of the money. Vmm. ; \ _ c [should the price advance, half of J' the advj>.v~> goes ti> tho farmer and 11 the other half to the Brotherhood.!] The Brotherhood takes a hill of saleL of the grain us security, and will he ! considered us having ownership of the same as soon as the money is ad- 1 vanced upon it. * The Brotherhood will provide; suitable storage in all places where grain can In* shipped, and will see ' to it, that only reasonable rates of 1 transportation ^tre charged on shipments, a special committee being charged with this duty. Every member who sells his grain ^ io Home one eise man me isroinrrhood at a Icsh price than that fixed ' without giving notice to the I troth- 1 erhood, will be fined $5 for the first i offense, ?25 for the second offense,'' and forfeit half the value of the grain sold for the third, besides los- ( ing his lneinbership and its rights; 4 provided thai a member is not liable1) to a line if he has previously notified the Brotherhood of the intended sale and it is not in a position to 1 accept the grain. One-half of all interest receipts,!' profits on advances, etc., are to be I set aside to cover the guarantees of the Brotherhood on their bonds or j loans, < he same to be invested by the boards of directors in bonds or se- ' euritios or real estate. The of her j half will be used in building ware- i houses and elevators. Whatever balance there may be will be credited to fhe membership fund and paid to ( the members every five years as 4 earned profits. I All this looks very wild, but, in . view of what has been done by cooperat ive associaf ions in certain Kit-| ropean States, and what has been 1 done in this country by our labor 1 organizations, it is not an actual ini- 1 possibility. Vet it would seem that ] i to protect a thousand million dollars j i worth of grain with fifty million isr scarcely rational. It would be like | f a planter protecting the sale of a|{ thousand dollar's worth of cotton j ( with $50 in bank. Hut there is this , wide difference: that a great fund j made up in one effective aggregation is large enough to exercise an appro- 1 ciable effect at one given time, and upon the sale of produce as occasion | permits! the same held by way of . protection, may be repeatedly used .during the market season. If this scheme should avail any- ' thing, 5 per cent, of our cotton crop, i say of three hundred million hales, j or some $15,000,000, thus banked, | may protect the price of cotton in the market. Hut we shall see. Wliat nrc the Farmers to Do? j # J baptist Courier. Produce of all kinds is low, and ' I the markets are dull. There is more food raised than can be eaten by men aniTthe domestic animals. The re- ! suit is that the farmer doesn't get enough to pay his family expenses and his taxes. We hear the complaint on all sides that our business has ceased to be profitable, ami that that there is little prospect for any ' improvement in the future. The in- ' creased production of the necessaries . of life keeeps in advance of the in- ' crease of population. j We were talking this matter over | at the blacksmith shop the other ( dav. and it was ainii?in<r ilia -- , ; variety and contrariety of opinions. Some thought the trouble was with | the tariff, and that free trade would |be an unfailing panacea. Others ( thought there was too much farming | machinery, which enables a few men I to cultivate farms of one thousand i acres, and so glut the market. I I listened in silence for some time. At j 1 i last they asked my opinion. I frank* lv confessed that 1 hadn't, any to I *. * i * give. The facts are undisputed. We i I have been bringing millions of acres under cultivation within a few past ( years. It is virgin soil, and, of!, course; produces heavy crops. The | railroads push out into the'prairies ] to take the crops to market, and thus ( i encourage the cultivation of more I n i land. And so matters have gone ^ ion, and are going on, to increase our ^ surplus and depress prices. There j will l?f? it rnn/>tinn af oiling" II.. I.. - - - ./V ?? * X MWIVIij "fc * VUI HV . I I IIman affairs always swing like a penjdulum. Hut will not very reaction ruin many of the* farmers? Those who can worry through until, by the operation of the law of supply anil demand, the production of cereals ! comes down to the consumption, or I the consumption increases until it J equals tne production, will do well enough. And the question is: How can we worry through? I see only one way. We j muet economize. We must keep out j of debt. We mmst raise all of our supplies that we can, and buy only what is absolutely neccsssary. if the butcher's bill is high wc must i " to V> ON WAY, S. C? _ ? - ? *aiso our own mutton; and s? with, uany other things. Wo have departed largely from the system of diversified farming which prevailed ifty years ago. Our futhers did not luive a great deal to sell; but t hey lid not buy near as much as we do. \ little money with thorn wont a great ways. The lived plainly, of ourse, but they kept out of debt, iiul gradually improved their farms md their homes. Wo have had sealitllk! <?f Vi nltilnuf it I n rlM?-v.. ,UMU n V1IMV 1 III |iiua|ni II )> lll*> liuvc tempted us to habits of extravigancc. Let us conic down to bed rock, be patient and saving for a rear or two, and all those matters n il! regulate themselves. The outmine does not depend upon Congress >r the railroads, but. on the farmers hemsolvos. Sknkn Smith. WHAT HOTAXY T1CACII ICS. rile True Difference ltd wren Fruits anil Vegetables. Among the infinite variety of forms into which the different parts ind organs of plants are developed, ive find some of onr choicest and most valuable fruit products. The haves )f many plants, like the lettuce, hicory, dandelion, parsley, etc., are I argelv consumed as salad or cooked r> . is greens. In celery, we do not eat lie leaf, hut an abnormally thicken'd petiole, or stock, and asparagus leads are the young shoots gathered icfore they develoji into branches. It is highly necessary for the preservation of a plant that its seeds j should la* spread widely over the ground, and we find that the fully leveloped seeds of many plants are unrounded by a pericarp of subdances attractive and palatable to i.. 1111 ma i ft. In (lie apple and quince, the calyx leaves and receptacle become altered mil fleshy, to form the edible part of the fruit. The stra\vl>erry is not a true berry at all, for the fruit is not ( ripened pistil, but an enlarged and lleshy receptacle, or extremity of the [lower stalk, thickly dotted over with the minute ripened o\arics containg the seed and usually mistaken for the seeds themselves. The tig, ilso, consist of such an enlarged re[jeptaee, but it has been, as it were, turned inside out and the seed-like ovaries are on the inside. A ripensd rose-hip shows the same structure in a lesser degree. Mulberries and pineapples consist sf the ripened products of many [lowers, placed on a common recep-1 tacle, which is itself a part of the j idible mass. The gaulthcria or jheckerberry is not a berrv, but the thickened calyx of the flower, which, incloses a dry pod containing the ieed. The true berry is a permanently closed, ripened pistil, inclosing the seeds. Familiar examples are the grape currant and cranberry, as well as the orange, pumpkin and gourd. The peach, plum, etc., are known as drupes, or stone fruits, in which the inner part of the pericarp >r riponod pistil is hard and bonelike, inclosing the seed, while out* ode of this is the fleshy, edible lay* jr. The raspberry and blackberry are not true berries, but are composed of i number of little drupes or drupjlets, placed together on an elongat- ; 3<1 receptacle. In the raspberry, the Irupelets, are readily detached from the receptacle, hut in the blackberry the whole coheres strongly together, md the receptacle is eaten with the rest of the fruit. A nut is a stone fruit, or drupe, in which the fleshy part is absent. The true seed is indosed within the shell, forming the .alible part. There are other plants in which the ripened pistil opens at maturity, freeing the seeds within. The pea and bean are familiar examples. The undeveloped seeds of the former delight our appetite as green peas, while the unripened pistil and weds of the boun are boiled together, md appear as string beans. The modification of roots also furnish many valuable vegetables. Most of these, however, are not true roots, but subterranean stems, as is ihown by the presence of buds, or icars where buds have previously formed and dropped off. The sosailed roots of ginger and sweet flag ire merely thickened portions of a nibterranean stem, called the rhino wtr Word, )>;/// TVork (turf >V , TIIU IIS DAT, "! mil, or root stock. Tubers, like the potato ami Jerusalem artichoke (which, bv the way, is not an artichoke, and did not originate in .leriiHalcin) are the enlarged bnds of these subterranean branches, in which a large proportion of starth has been ( depositeil. Kxamples of a similar | tendency to form tubers have been observed in the stems of the potato ( plant above tlio ground. A bulb, ( like the onion, is formed by the en ^ lnrgement of the leaves of an under- , ground stein, as shown by the scales ^ or layers of w hich it is composed. ( Solid bulbs, or conns, are not true bulbs, but all enlarged underground ( stein. , In the turnip, beet and radish the; upper part of the root itself shares in the enlargement, so that these vegetables are of a compound nature. The object of these underground enlargements is evidently to lay up a store of nourishment for the plant during the succeeding season. The cauliflower furnishes an example of the use of the undeveloped flowers of a plant as an article of food, and , in the true artichoke the thick, fleshy plant scales are utilized in the same manner. We have thus seen that there is hardly any portion of a plant w hich mav not lie so modified as to become food for man. We have J thus seen that the strawberry, raspberry and blackberry are not really berries, but that the squash and ( I.:. i -1 ii .. ]>u 111 |>mii are, wnne me potato, union ami llag-root arc not true roots* These are only a few of tin; wonder- , fully interesting lessons taught by '( the science of botany.-? /'o/mfor A't'ienci' A res. I ( l'er|>etuat i u^ (Jerry iiiaiidcrs. I Washington, April 21b?For | the third time in ten days the Rc i publican Representatives were in - caucus to-night t<> consider the ar- < rangenient of the order of business i before the House. The principle M subject of discussion was the Me- 1 Comas bill to regulate in part the I time and manner of holding elections for Representative commonly known as the anti gerrymandering bill. i Mr. McCoinas opened the proceedings by explaining the provisions of ' his bill and making a constitutional argument to justify the proposed ac- | tion by (Congress, finding warrant t for it under the clause conferring i upon Congress the power to prescribe 1 the time, place and manner of hold- I l ing elections for Representatives, lie i referred to the action of the Mary- < land and Ohio Legislature as indica- ; tive of the need for immediate aei tion upon the subject. Representative Lodge, of Massachusetts, endorsed all that Mr. Mo- i Comas had said, and seconded warmly his arguments in favor of the bill. Representative Kennedy, of Ohio, i opposed the bill. Mr. Frank, of I i Missouri, opposed the bill, because, < in his opinion, it was the exercise I of the constitutional power for the first time for party purposes, ami s could not be justified. It was retro- < active, and would be invidious and unpopular. It transferred to the i National Congress an odious species of gerrymandering, which now and then the States resorted to, without 1 effecting any purpose. In Missouri, < which was rapidly growing to be a 1 Republican State, it would tie the i hands of the Republican party for < ten years and permit Congressional i rule to remain with the Democrats . for that length of time. I he debate ran along for fully two; hour*. Several members, like Frank, feared that the hill would, if panged, prove to he a two-odgod sword, and ( might cut an heavily into Republican strongholds as into Democratic , cainpn. < Although it was apparent, without taking a test vote, that the hill ' had great strength in caucus, it was 1 finally |>ostpolled in order to atTord , opportunity to discuss the subject of j a service pension hill. < This came up on a proposition by , A f I ? ? ? " ? 1 ' ^ .ncssrs. nooimiiihii, Cheat ham and ^ others to amend the Morrill service!, pension an panned u|>on hy the last { causurt so as to reduce the age linii- 1 I tat ion from 02 to 56 years. There i was a long discussion over this < amendment, and it was midnight j 1 when the caucus adjourned, having i compromised upon an amendment t which will reduce the ag<* limitation , 1 to 00 years. j < >/// Conn////." MAY 8, 1S<)<). I'll 13 HHHIKMT SVMHCATI-; () V KT. v | I \ CoriMH'atiou I'oi-iiumI to l.i^lit Two I loin isplicros. t I*iiIl.adki.I'Hi a, April %<?. I'iium- 11 dors in this city and in New York (| iave succeeded during the past week n placing stuck for the biggest syn- c licatc ever formed oil the face of the ' St jlohe. The syndicate cuihruccs in he plans of its prodigious enterprise i 10 less a feat than the lighting of wo hemispheres, and the requisite 'a.sli is now in hand ~ The incorporators of this great loncern expect to meet dining the ' oming week ami perfect an organi- ( lation under the title of the Anglo- i \nierican (las Lighting Company, a \rrangeineiits have already been ^ Olllpleted to list $o0,?00,00tt nf ' dock on .lune I on the IMiiladel- ( >liia and New York exchanges. The | lersonnel of the Philadelphia con- | ingent of the syndicate Iras a doeid- '' d "traction" aspect, all the leading ? ' u capitalists of that network of street ( ail ways tiguring prominent 1 v in th?? ('| gigantic amalgamation. They arc I reinforced by the leading spirits of '' he old (ins Trust, and by no less 1 important individual capitalists. W. W. (iibbs, I'resident of the I nited \ tias Improvement Company of this \ uity, is the leading spirit of the new | nerprise. I lis subscriptions uggre- | gate nearly $5,000,000. lie has been j it work on the scheme, which origi- ;i nated in his brain, for nearly eight \ years, and such has been his success , that he is alnady alluded to as the ? lay (lonld of I'liihidelphia. Might , years ago Mr. (iibbs was unknown i to local fame. Then he occupied a | miall oil ice in New York city as the | president of a company similar in | diaracter to the vast enterprise now |, mccessfully launched, but on a dosidedly miniature scale. Mr. (Jibbs j removed to this city, and his evtab- f <ir ii<> ??.*?? i i dmiiit iii \r i iii* i i ' M> I Illll'U M (las Improvement Company was attended w ith phenomenal sueeess. A number of loading citizens . wore among the ineorpnlors, including William (1. Warden, (leorgo I'hiller, Thos. Dolun, Henry ('. (libion, Williams S. HI kins, Ik A. I?. ^ Widener, .lohn Wanamakor, Henry ' II. Heu.slon and ('. A. (Jrisconi. I hiring its existence of nearly a dee- ' ido the tinted (las Improvement s Company has scoured ownership of the gas-lighting franchises of more than forty cities, the most important i>f which are Kansas ('ity, Omaha, 1 Dos Moines, Allontown, .Jersy City, I'aterson, Atlanta, Savannah, Columbia, Waterbury and Lew istown. When Knglish capitalists, following their lucrative experience with American breweries, began casting wistful eyes upon general American industries and examining their earn- , ing capacities, their attention was ^ ini'-kly at t raeted by t lie alert and en- , Lerprising (libbs to the I'nitedCus | Improvement Company. Knglish igents who are now in New A'ork ^ [jity v.cre sent out to negotiate with ( the Philadelphia and New York shareholders of the plant. They represented Sir Julian (ioldsrind, a London hanker, and the Imperial Continental (ius Company of London. Mr. (iibbs spent Friday and to day in close conference with them in New York, and returned to this L'ity this afternoon with all the formal negotiations closed and sealed. Southern ICditorH in Council. ( CilART.KSTON, S. ('., April 30.? 1 At the meeting of the Southern | Press Association, the following res- . Motions was introduced by lion. Patrick Walsh of the Augusta f'/ironic/*-, and unanimously adopt3d: ? Whereas, a measure is pending in ' Congress making the government a party to the general telegraphic scheme; and whereas this is a dangerous depart ore from t he princi- ^ pies of democratic-republican go\ 3rnment, as defined by Jefferson, which are best calculated to protect life and property, secure the libertics of the people ami promote the welfare <>f citizen#; and whereas a i tendency to centralization in the ad- j ministration of the government and t increase of office-holders ought to bo j shocked; and whereas to make the / handling of the telegraphic business of the newspapers of the I ni-' ted State# dependent 011 the good- < will of employees, subject to party > ontrol, would be an infringement I Wl f (ho liberty of (lie pros* and sub ersive of (lie best interest of tin tenplc; t heroforo. be i I. Itesolvon. That we, member* of lie Southern I 'res* Association, our est I v ret p uvs t our IJopresonlativo* ml Senator* in ('nntMvxs n> < <" ~rs' - ' " heir best endeavors Insecure the efeat of this ini<|uituus measure. Resolved, That this action be ommnnicuted to the Senators ami tepreseiitati\os by the president ami L'cretarv. s S. I >. I'ool of the New Orleans ' iiiir.s I>< int roduced I lie folnving Resolution relative to the ovcrniuent improvements of the lississlppi River, which was adopt il after some discussion: Unsolved, That it is the sense of he members of the Southern I're.vs association that the maintenance of n etticieut system of levees on the 1 i > > i - - i p p i b'iver is a matter of naionul concern, and that the govern iient should take all necessary t? ps o build and sustain such a system. Oxperience has shown that the penile living along the banks of the iver are unable to bear the burden f taxation necessary to support such , system, and it is not right that hey should be required to do so. The Mississippi is essentially a naioaal river and its llnoris should bo est ruined 1 > \ the national governncnt. Dr. Oliver \\. Holmes is Hie West inter of society \er-e ami ilinner ei'HO that our count rv lias ever lia<l. le is a delightful old man of more lian eighty, and with a singular recti! inn of his tfifls both in prose aid verse. lie writes with a eliurin hat is very pleasing* and lie i- one if the aired who do not' seem to irro\\ ?hl. I lis heart is fresh, and lie writes f heinir old with a vienr and <rrace hat are womlroiislv attractive. W e ike this genial, jrifted New Kmramler, wlm is not known to nurture lis enmities against the South to nop them very warm. In his poem milled "Alter the Curfew," a most deasant performance, lie savs playally and yet how touchiiigly: Plie play I* over. While the light Vet lingers in the darkening hull, come to >sy a last good n'ght lie fore t he I i 11:11 exeuti' all. i\'e gathered once, a joyous tlirouir: Tin* jovial toasts wont gayly round; Vitli jest and laugh, and shunt and song. Wo ni.'idi' tin* llowers and wall- resound. V(' coiho with fooblc Steps and slow, A little hand of four or live, .eft from tin* wrecks of I out? ago, Still |>l as d to find ourselves alive. Uive! Mow living, too, are the\ Whose memories it is ours t > ?duir ! ipread the loin; table's full array; There sits a ghost in every chair! * * * * + * ?o ends "the hoys," a lifelong play: We, too, must hear the prompter'* call i'o fairer scenes ami brighter day; Farewell! I let the curtain fall! * The Sub-Treasury I'lan. ... Charleston World. Kditor of Tit k Woiti.n: There is me tiling thai some of ear people vnnt, which is, I am afraid, ver\ (liferent front what I hey think it, i-; hat is the "ttub-Treasttrv Plan." 1'ho l.ill will not bo passed, and fhe\ lad I id I tii* thank llu-ir stars that it an't I)*- A great many see the bait, mt tho hook just under the bait hey do not nee, or else they would lot try to out their own throats. If he government could do all that he "plan" calls for, why are we tax also heavily? Surely the govern neiit would not need the money thus aken from us by heavy taxes; surely ve need all we can get. The governuent can help us by being satisfied vitli lower taxes, and on the other land, if Mie government debt isfoureen hundred million dollars, how onId we, spare so much money to mild ware houses and Wd money >esides at a lower interest than it mys now on its own debt? A. L. Kwiiank. If you feel uiiHblu to do your work, aid have that tired feeling, take l)r. [. II. McLean's ^arsuparilhi; it will lut'ko vim bright, active and vigor* mis. For si;!o l?v I )r. 10. Norton. Too many women who Mipport heir hiishauds. Too iiianx liars. Too many bores. Too many tiresome plays. Too many -no, there are not too nanv babies, ami while there are dentv of babies and plenty of love, here will always be plenty of haplinens in this world.- AV/e )'<>! / S'////. The molt popular liniment, is the ?bl reliable, I )r. .1. II. M< Lean's /oleanie Oil Linnuent. Lor sale by )r. K. Norton. s no. xttiii. I'll i: SAN Tin: |{OAI>. Canvassing ISoi'koloy Comity ? Last Not in* I hsikmI. Mr. .f. 11. Morrison of McClellanvilie, one of the Berkeley county committeemen in the mutter of the const met ion of the Mount Pleasant, Sun tee uml Little Uiver road, urrived in the city yesterday, and had a conference with Mr. Killian, the agent of the company. lioth of these gentlemen, it is stated, will shortly make a tour through that portion of Berkeley in which the . new road is to he located, for the purpo-e of obtaining the grants of laud promished in aid of I lie enterprise. The following notice was issued hy the corporation a few days since: ''The Mount Pleasant, Santee and Little Uiver railroad is projected to run from the t'itv of ( harieslou through the counties of Berkeley, Ueorgetown and Horry, in South Carolina and ( olumhtts, Hrunswiek, in North (.'aroliuu, to Wilmington, New Ilano\cr county, with the view ol a probable e\tension to liichmomi, Suffolk, or Norfolk, \'a. "The county is now being exuininod for the purpose of developing I lie most practicable route to build the railroad upon between ( hurlcston, S. and Wilmington, ami also to ascertain what donations ami land can he scoured to the nii'road company, provided the railroad is built. M >11 account of the Undeveloped condition of the counties through whicl) the railroad is projected, there is not at present suflicierft busim s.s to maintain a railroad and warrant a return of interest for the money required to construct the railroad; hut if the citizens of (leorgctown county will donate to the railroad company as much of their land us they may afford, the railroad company will, by the natural increase in the valuation of the lands donated, caused by the const ruction of the railroad, consider such increase in valuation of lands an indirect return of interest for the money expended in building the railroad. "I'ersons donating lands will not he asked to surrender their donations until the railroad is graded or built or in operation from and to such points us may be mutually agreed upon. "I'urties donating lands must understand that when they make the railroad company joint* owners with themselves in the lands of the county, it will be to the mutual advantage of both parties to develop the country as fast as possible. "The construction of the railroad will tiring additional population and new enterprises. The lumber intereats will be revived, fanning lands will be in demand, mo< hanics, worknieii and business men generally will be seeking locations and places of busiiu \SS. 9 I'lie operating of t he railmail will cause new towns to be built, will give quick and easy cominunicatinn with distant points, and put new life into the country between Charleston and Wilmington; it will increase the valuation of lands dtm per cent,, and reduce individual taxation railroads being assessed at a valuation of $<5,000 per mile. The following statement of distances will show the advantage to he gained by the .Mount IMeasant, Santee and Little ! vi vor rail road: Front Charleston 10 Georgetown, 50.1 miles; Georgetown to Wilmington, N. (., K)0 miles; W ilmington, to Norfolk, g 1 o mil Norfolk, to Wilmington, I >el., miles; Wilming ton, IK'!., to New York, 11 <5.0 miles ?from ( Imrleston to New York, 701) miles; making n difference in distance in favor of the proposed road between Charleston and Now York of 1)1 miles less that that of anv present route." ? (] htih'.rton World. ?? Many people habitually ondwro a ' feeling of lassitude, because they think they have to. If they would take l)r. .1. II. M<d .can's Sarsapari lla this feeling of weariness would give place to vigor and vitality. Cor sale by Cr. K. Norton. How are things going?" asked a West sider of an ohl friend w hom lie had not met for sumo time. "Tough," w as the reply. "How so?" "Got. arrested by mistake Iti.d had to prove I was an honest man." "That's had." "Mad? I should say so. I never had such a hard joh in mv life.? ( '// fro(/o Tri/mnr. The higher and more consecrated the individual life, the clearer will probably bo its recognition of its dependence upon and guidance bv tbo Clod who is acknowledged in all its wavs. .('ttt/iftt r/iimf I*ri'shytri'i(tn.