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I %1HE GEIINViaE ENTERPRISE. 1 " " -' ~ T?s- 7 ... j;.?;.7T~: ?r??-j?-, mw >iii i>n*n i ? !" ' 1 *"!' ' 1 ' * -Denoted to 3 Ictus, Politics, 3nleUigcoce, onlr fye 2m ^ to u em cut t\)t Stole only Countnj. JOHN C. BAILEY, EDITOR & FftO'ft. ~ GREENVILLE. SOUTH CAROLINA, JULY 10. 187*. VOLUME X1X-N0. 10. IrtWOlfftl'), Two I>ol1,r? p,r iDnnm. _ | and Dotrerfnl Itirent in thnm ni'nn 1, I pmn nnJ o,nn?? ,,r. - P: ' -? *1?* ? *L* nvTBmi>a*?" ini#nw ( (M ItlCI ( on* dollar per square of twelve Minion lino (this liwi type) or leaa for the flrat inaortioa fifty oent* each for tho second and third Inter tione, and twenty-five cents - for snbseqoeq Insertions. Yearly contracts will he made. All advertisement* moat have the numbc of Insertions marked on them, or Chey Will b inaerted till ordered out, and charged for. tTnleaa ordered otherwise, Advertisement will invariably be " displayed." Obituary notices, and all gratters Inuring t to the bOnefii of any one, ate regarded si Advertisements. I POETRY. t ... T . ? 3 Beauties of Nature. Qu? upon the lofty mountain Glowing in the aun's I ait beam ; Io the valley far below it * Watoh the rippling mountain-stream. Contemplate the anow clad hill-tops, 'And, below, the fertile rale? Mountain, valley, striata, and woodland Tell the aamo grand, glorious tale. Look at nature anywhere? You will find that God ia there. Infidel, behold the boavons When the lamps of nature shlno? Moon and stars with light refulgent: Speak they not of power Divino? Oh, behold the land or ocenn When tho winds are caltn or high? When thoy toas tho foaming wators, Or through branch and bough they sigh. When his presence thus you see, Then believe, and bend tho knee. REMINISCENCES OF PUBLIC MEN. uiu. x ??iu 10 nun piaviuiiy there is an old adge, that " greal minds will think alike," but there are exceptions to this rule. Chancellor Dargan was as pnn a man as crer lived. lie was tu simple as a child in his manner* and deportment. Ho was tinpre tending and unambitious. In hit personal appearance ho was vorj plain and extremely homely? though I think he was a hand somer man than Chief Justic* Taney, in fact he was not uulik* Chiet Justice Tanoy in his tac* and person. And I might say therp was a similarity in thoi: talents, acuweuieuta and minds Chancellor jJargan was a profoun* lawyer ahdt a w^ll read gentlemni in every branch of learning. II was tUll and slender, with a lonj face, sallow complexion, thick lip *n<? Sffi&Mwr.V*- In cqjuroi sauoo nfHffl* peasant taming. ^ The MDhatieollbr became a flrn believer In Apirit rapping#, met meri?m, paveliology, clairvoyant ?fcc., &c., and was n very officien BY KX GOVERNOR B. F. PERRY. [CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.] GEORGE \Y. DARGAN. Chancellor Dargan was born jn the eastern part of the State ; graduated in the South Carolina College, and for many years represented his native District in the State Senate. Ho was a mpat dovotcd States Kights man, null i fier, secessionist and disunionist. His boast for manv vnnra ivoo ft,Of l.o ------J J ..V had never been beyond the limits of South Carolina, and hoped never to be under the necessity of going out of the State. In the latter part of his life I inquired of him if he had adhored to his purpose of never going bevond the limits of the State? lie said lie had once been out of the Slate, but lie kept it a secret as well as he could, and said nothing about ill lie jcgarded South Carolina as his country, his wholo ^ountry, and all beyond her limits as aliens and foreigners! IIo was devoted to the State, and to the State alone, her honor and her glory. lie onco said to mo: "You old fogies may be Union men,/and glorify the Union, because you have been educated aud brought up in that school, bi\t the rising generation will scorn that Union and sever it into fragments. Mark what 1 tell you." When I was admitted to the bar, I saw,fuf ihe first time, Chancellor Dargan lie was then a young lawyer of promise aud talents, rapedly rising in his profession, and his friends had great expectations of his future success and eminence. But I had no particular acquaintance or intimacy with him till we met as Senators in the State Legislature. Iu that body we served together several years?always opposed to each other, and becaino warm friends. When he was electcd Chancellor and resigned his seat in tlye Senate, bo came to where I was sitting to bid mo fare well, and said: UI was thinking, last night, that it was something remarkable that we had been so long associated together in this body, entertaining a high respect for each other, and both conseien lions met) as we thought out selves, and yet we had never voted to gether ou any great or important question which divided the Sen ... ? T . i _ ? / ii 8 sciences. I have seen him put a i, servant at the 'hotel in Columbia 'j to sleep with a waiter of dishes in his hands by sinrmly looking at T him I He told md Whad at home 0 a very simple negro boy who was ? a great medium. He called him ? up one day atid put him into a mesmeric state. The Chancellor pictured in his own mind the as* sassination of Marat b^ Charlotte Cordav whilst he was in.his bath. 1 He asked tie negro boy what he seen? The boy replied, he sftw a man lying in the water stabbed, and a beautiful woman standing over him 1 He said her name was Charlotte Corday 1 This boy had DAVfif hftfttm. th? ntwnnallAM " ?" -" * vruwuvVIIVl >1 HO well ^awtired- hp*r4 of f War at or Charlotte Uornny i , " On another occasion ho called up the spirit of an old negfo fellow who had been found dead in a ditch. It was uncertain whether ho had met his death by accident or violence.? Tho Chancellor inquired if he was murdered ? and his spirit roplied, through the boy above mentioned, that ho was! The Chancellor inquired who murder* ed him ? IIis spirit replied that it was ail over now; he was happy, and did not wish to tell tho name of the person who killed him! ? lie pictured'in his mind a faithful old negro woman who had died not long previously, and asked the medium il ho saw, any one? The bov instantly replied, he saw this olu woman, calling lior by name 1 Ihe Chancellor imagined her most fantastically dressed, and inquiredof tho boy what sort ot dress sho had on ? Ho answered : u a most beautiful dress, covered all over with shining stars I" It would be almost cudlcss if I were to mention tho many stories of this kind told me by tho Chancellor. No one who knew Chancellor Dargnn, would for a moment suppose he was capable of telling a falsehood. I uovor knew a more truthful or honorablo gentleman. In 6peaking of the necessity of employing a lawyer to draw up all legal papers, wills, deeds, <fec, tho Chancellor told me the following incident, which happened in his practice at tho bar an old planter possessed ot a large fortune, who came to hiin to draw his will, and asked him how much he would charge him. The Chancellor told him fifty dollars. The planter said it was exorbitant, and ho knew a man who would draw it for five dollars. Ihe Chancellor said very well, ho had better get this man to draw it, if his sole purposo was cheapness. The will was accordingly drawn for fivo dollars. The old man died, and his executors had to file a bill in the Court of Equity to construo tho will. Chancellor Dargan was employed in the case, and his fees amounted to fifteen hundred dol lars before the suit ended 1 This was independent of the costs of tho suit and tho counsel fees of the opposing lawyers. It was formerly tho habit of our Chancellors to hear a caso, tako notes of the evidence and argument, bundle up the papers and f carry them off to write out their decrees at home when they had perhaps forgotten all about the case. Chancellor Dargan introduced a new practice in this res-, poet. Ho delivered his decrees immediately atter the argument closed, or the next morning at farthest. He seldom took off a , case. 11 is notion was, that ho mi; derstood the case better, after it i was closed on the circuit, than he i could do two or three months afterwards. I lis decrees were de livored orally, and he required , the successful counsel to reduce its substance to writing. l' I have mentioned that Chancel' lor Dargan and myself never - thought alike in the Senate on po t Htical questions. Whilst practics ing before liirn on the bench for many years, I never had a Judge 3 to concur with me so generally i and uniformly on all questions of i law. On principles of law we seldom differed, and in politics sel3 dom agreed. ' When he was first a candidato - fbr the State Senate, the Chancel lor told me lie was opposed b}' 3 Mr. Gregg, a brother of Colonel & James Gregg, of Colnmbiia. He 0 said his opponent was a most cxt centric man, and as a specimen of r bis eccentricity, ho mentioned this fact. ' Mr. (}fegg utterly renndi1 rated the doctrine of faith in salvan tlon, and contended that a man o conld bo saved by works alone.? K Ho and some of his Christian a neighbors had many exciting arI; guments on this subject. The old gentleman, when planting his corn, toought he would give (hem s it practical proof of too folly and absurdity of their doctrine. On one side of the road leading h_y t his kouee, he planted a flcld <? WI >a MMU OVMV>4 U LS a UUAI U VIS lUHl side of the read with the word "faith" painted on it in very large capital letters! On the opposite siae of the road, he planted another field of corn and stuck up a board on which was painted the word "ioorJrt," in equally large letters. The field labeled " works " was well cultivated, plowed and boed always in proper season. But the field labeled >( faith," he neither plowed or hoed, or did any manner of work in it. In thosfunmer it presented a most miserable and Itidi? ? ? ?- a ? uruuB ttppeurtwce, una no crop, ot course, was saved from it. But the other field looked remarkably well; the corn grew finely, an.d in the fall of the year yielded an abundant crop. The old gentleman, looking at the Appearance of the two fields, exultingly said : " If this does not convince the fools, nothing will." [continued next week.] I j.;' FARM AND HOME. Thoughts for tne Month. Where a crop has been well managed and properly worked up to this time, very little labor need be expended upon it hereafter.? Cotton will require a little hoeing to remove stray weeds and bunches of grass, and light plow| ings occasionally to keep the surface loose and mellow. All are agrcod that a cotton crop should receive light workings, as long as I they can be given without break I ing the limbs or knocking ofT the bolls. The reason is obvious.? The cotton plant does not mature all its fruit at once, as corn docs its ears or wheat its head, but successively. and it must. therefore in a working state ns long as the season will warrant.? During the last stages of growth, when any additional bolls started would bo likely to be cut off by frost, it is desirable to check owth and throw the whole energy ot the plant into developing fruit. At tliis point the plows may bo stopped, and sometimes the cotton topped to advantage.? About the 10th of August is the It however tho weather is wet and warm and tho plant disposed to grow very rapidly, it usually accomplishes little or no good, coity. Late corn should receive special attention?it needs more assistance thau tho early planted. The ground should bo kept clean and mellow, to enable it to withstand the excessive heat?possible drought. That planted after the middle of June, ought to have some stimulating manure like cotton seed, to make it mature well bofore frost. Drilled corn for forago may still be planted ; bottom land tor this purpose, is preferable to upland. FALL OATS. Our readers will bear in inind the uniformly favorable reports from oats sowed at the lost plowing of cotton. In tho very excellent Essay on oat culture in our April number of current volume, the cost per bushel of oats thus sown is estimated at only ten cents I Why should a Southern farmer buy western corn for his stoek if ho can raise oats at ten or even | thirty cents per bushel. Every successive year confirms us in a high estimation of the oat crop and particularly ot one sown in the early fall. TEAS., This crop is often neglected too much, because it i6 supposed to be able to take caro ot itself. On the contrary it is greatly benefitted by workings and ought to receive thern. When planted to itsclt it should be ploughed and hoed ns regularly as any other crop, until the vines take possession ot the land and exclude other growth.? If planted in corn it should be hoed and exclusive possession of the land given to it utter the fod~ der is pulled. Wo are groat ad vocates of a pea crop?having learned by long experience its very great value. SMALL ORATN. Oats should be promptly stacked or housed?it is supreme folly to mako a crop and then by a little delay or neglect, lose it.? Wheat should be threshed as soon as possible?the grain well sunned -and then the family, supply ol flour for the next twelve months, ground, sunned, sacked and pul in some dry, airy, place. Thus prepared we have lound it much easier to keep Hour than wheat.? ; A good plan for sunning wheat it to have a light elevated tressle i work rnnning out from the side o: 1 the barn on a level with the sec ' ood story, and n track extending 1 into tho barn laid upon it, so tha a truck with wheels may be run it f or out rapidly. The wheat placer uu ine crncK can Do carried out into the sun an boused again in a few minuted ff rain threatens.? With such 6n arrangement the trouble is taken once for many, many years; with the ordinary arrangement of cloths, trouble and a plenty of it has to be taken every year. ' SMALL OB A IN FALLOWS. Land intended for small grain next fall and not now in cnltiva tion, should be ploughed from time to time as opportunity offers. The time and labor will Hot be lost; they will tell on the orop.? For wheat, peas broadcasted and ploughed in now may bo ploughed under by the middle of September in lull time for sowing the /I - - . ? gram \msi OI V/CtODOr.) Preparation? should bt^in also for barley patches, in form of re {>eated plowings. If commercial erjilizere are to bo applied to tli'cm. the application may bo deferred till the timo of seeding, but if coarse, half rotted manure i9 to be used they cannot be incorporated with the soil too soon. Barley for grazing ought to bo sown early in September ; it the preparation for it is delayed too long, no proper season for ploughing the land may occur?failure may ensue, and the farmer grumble at fate and the unluckiness of his star. TURNIPS. The above remarks apply equally well to the turnip crop.? A clean fallow of many weeks i ought to precede tho sowing of the seed. Rata bagas may be sown during the present month? wo have nevor succeeded with early sowings of tho rough leaved varieties. OLOVKIt. Fall sown clever has succeeded ' admirably with us when sown cnrlv enough. From tho middle of Seintcmber to the middle of , October is tho best time for { sowing. Select red land, old land with ttie surface soil washed away and the led clay exposed, will if) properly brokeu uu and innnnrw) I make admirable clover. 1 ulverir.o the soil thoroughly. Now is W beM the profto !?? preparation, the seed and brush in very liyhtly, and then pass the roller over, us 1 the very young plant is liable to 1 perish from the surface getting too ' dry, if it is not pressed down < somewhat after being ploughed.? 1 Superphosphate is a specilic for ' the clover plant?but here as else- 1 where stable manure does ndmi- i rably. drilled gorit. | Corn may still bo 6own in drills for soiling tor hay. Sorghum and peas sown broad cast make also a large amount of excellent torage. Rich land is all that is necessary to insure success, if the weather is not too dry. On almost every farm however, enough land cau be found for such purposes, upon which the water from a spring or branch can be turned and the crop rendered independent of drought. [<&?. Cultivator for July. Facts for the Farmers.?Rain is cash to a farmer. The loot of the owner is the best manure for the land. Obtain good 6eed, prepare ground well, sow early, and pay very little attention to the moon. Cultivate your own heart aright; remembering that 44 whatsoever a man sowcth, that shall he also reap." Recording even your own errors will be of benefit. Ground once well ploughed is bettor tban thrice poorly. Weeds that grow unmolested around the fences, stumps, and stones, scattering their seeds ovor the farm, are very likely to grow. When you seo n fence down, put it up -, if it remains until to morrow, the cattle may got over. What to .bo done to day, do it; tomorrow it may rain. Farmer's sous had better learn to hold the plow and toed the pigs, than measure tape and cut but tons. IIavr a Garden.?A small garden spot, sa)s the Planter's Journal, will furnish throe fourths of the i food tor the family for six months,' and the moat wholesome nod pal-1 > atable food, in all varieiies, at J' that. But many farmers or plant , era, have 110 tiuve for such bnsi. uess, being always over run with i work in tliu tield ; and a few pole i beans and onions, and long-legged collards arc all tboir gardens af i ford through the summer. These are the same men who r have no time to save the manure from their lots and cowpcns, nor t to litter stables nor to mend brok t en gates, and 44 no time " for any?? ) thing but dilapidation and shift1 Icssress. Fbuit Them.?Look through the frnit trees find sec If there are any cacoons or excrescences on the branches ; if so, take them off and burn them at onoe or the warm sunshine will soon produce in them living insects, to prey upon the tender foliage so as to expand and check the growth and productiveness of the trees. A wash of snds made of carbolic acid, soap and water should be applied to the lower branches of the tree with a stiff brush, to destroy the larvae of ?n?h inoonta on ??>? have made lodgment in the interstices ot the bark. A healthy troe should present a clean bright smooth bark. Remove all grass within one foot of the stem and keep the soil poms. The above remarks will apply equally to grapo viues. - Grass Lands.?The proper management of grass lands wiil be, before long, if it is not now, the key to successful agriculture in America. ' Wfc :find a difficulty in maintaining the productiveness of our meadows and pastures even with annual top dressing of barnyard manure. There needs to be something more. Not only abundant artificial resources are necessary to maintaiu perennial vigor, but the mechanical process of harrowing and rolling are needed. These destroy moss, loosen and open the roots and prevent the foundation ot tufts and herbage, which in time would render the surface uneven. By these, means grass lauds have been kept productive for ceuturies in European countries. Itow Mircn.?IIow much better is your farm than it was a year ago ? IIow much better arc your iin I'l Villon lO I IIow much better is your stock ot horses, of sheep, of cattle ? Now is the time for reflection. How They Stand on the 'Question of PeaoeThe fact is worthy to be mentioned, not as reproof to any one, but nevertheless as a tact replete wild icd rTftToTJuiuurn-ui unto wneu there was real fighting to be done, find when the sectional controversy was being settled with powder and ball and shell and shot, are all opposed to a straightont nomination on impracticable issues of the presidential election, and are in favor ot the adoption of the pence programme declared at Cincinnati. Let us submit a few examples in each of tho reconstruct ed States : In Lousian a?Beauregard, Longstreot, and IIays. In Texas?John B. Hood. In Mississippi?Fcathcrston, Walthall and Humphreys. In Alabama?Pettus, Morgan (John T.) and Raphael Semmes. In Georgia?Gordon, Benning, Woflbrd and Wright. In South Carolina?Hampton and Kershaw. In North Carolina?D. II. Hill and Ramsey. In Virginia?Imbodcn and T>? -I-- 4 4. x ickoll. In Tennessee?Forest, Bates, Cheatham and Brown. While these soldiers of the u Lost Cause " aro rallying under the banner of peace which has been entrusted to the keeping of honest Horace Greeley because he has steadily advocated universal amnesty since the close rtf the war, and has gi\en the highest evidence of personal example of the taitli within him?the rank and file, whom they lead, aro forming around them an invincible phalanx, to win a victory in peaco second only to the glories of the record in war. |\ Jackson (Jfigs.) Clarion. ? - ? IAlabama Nominations.?The Democratic State Convention of Alabama made the following nominations : For Governor, Thomas H. Uerndon ; for Lieutenant Gov. ernor, E. ri. Moren ; for Secreta ry of 8cate, J. J Parker ; for Attorney General, J. VV. A. Sanford ; for Auditor, E. P. Burnett; for Treasurer, J. F. Grant; for Commissioner, E. T. Comegys. A gentleman whoso daughter had married a man by the name of Price, was congratulated by oue of his friends, who remarked : " I am glad to see you have got a Price lor your daughter." B. Guat/. Bmown says: W? - ? r% i ?? ? - *. l _ want a 1'reeiuent wmiout n par ty j a Government without cor* rnptiou ; a Cohgreaa witboui price; and a judiciary witbou polities. July 4th was the ninoty-eixtl anniveraary of the Declaration o American Independence. Mr. Daris Declines the Columbus nomination. Cuicaqo, June 27. The following is a copy uf a letter sent by Hon. David Davis to the President oi the Colnmbns Convention, declining the nomination for President: Blooming-ton, Jnne 24 1872. Hon. E. M. Chamberlain, President of the Colninbus Convention, Boston, Massachusetts : My Dear Sir?The National Convention of Labor Reformers on the 22d of Febrnary last honored me with the nomination as their candidate for the Presidency. Flavine re garded that movement as the ini? tation of a policy and purpose to unite the various political elements in a compact opposition, I consented to the use of my name before the Cinciunati Convention, where a distinguished citizen of Now York was nominated. Under these circumstances I deem it proper to retire absolutely from the Presidential contest, and thus leave friends who were generous enough to offer me their vol untary support free to obey their donvictions ot duty, unfettered by any supposed obligation. Sj'iupalhizing earnestly with all just and proper measures by which the condition of labor ma}' be ele vated and improved, I am, with all due respect, your fellow-citizen. David Davis. Cotton Manufacturing at tub South.? According to carefully prepared statistics, says the New York Shipping List, cotton can be manufactured where it grows at from seventeen to twenty per cent, less cost, when ready for market, flian in tho factories of New England. These aro a few of* ttiM HikSol. : ~ - w?W ..V. . IllVlltJ capital and labor from tho Northern States and from Europe. To these may he added the saving in transportation bv the reduction of cotton to net weight as yarn, in damage to'bales, in dirt, and commission and profits of middle men. These would pay for the cost of more careful packing giv en fo yarn, and leave a handsome profit. It has been clearly shown a -*..*'?? *j ?i Hirer nearly ten cents per pound in currency tnoro than the planter receives for it. Weaving is a separate business from spinning, and requires more skilled labor. To spin, however, is a very simple business. Tho South could probably compete with the English at once in spinning , in weaving she could not. Yarns are recognized as a separate subject of commerce, and are regularly quoted in market reports. Those who have paid no attention to the sub ject would bo surprised in following American cotton from the I nlantntinn 1a H!nolmwl Hiul tlinnon to its final consumption, to learn how much of it goes from England as yarn to all quarters of the globe. A Christian Statesman.? When the entire North was excited with anger and revenge in ? i f consequence of the assassination of President Lincoln, Mr. Greeley wrote the following manly letter : OFFICE OF THK '1 RltWNE, New York, Ma)' 16, 1865. My Dear Sir: I have yours of the Sth, for ^hicii I thank you.? I heartily concur with your view of what should he our natural policy, nnd am doing my utmost to have mercy and magnanimity its ruling attributes. Only let the late insurgents join with us in saying slavery is no more, and 1 think we shall gradually mould the public will to our views. Just now the assassination of President Lincoln has made the North furious ; but we shall outgrow that.? T olioll n< >t 11 no i I ntn tn lnK/\t? otirl x dii.h i ii"v iivoi i c?i v> iv iuuui auu suffer reproach in the service of Heavon-blessud charity and mercy. 4 Yours, Horace Greeley. There are the views of a Christian statesman, who was ready to suffer reproach, and did so in stemming the tide of indignant passion then surging through the country. A man who is always fprepared to do right, no matter iow his personal interests may be effected, is fit for President, and the people in November will so 1 decide. Tom Scott has invested $150,000 k in saw-uaille at Analachicola. Flor ida, to get out crosaties from cyj proae and juniper, winch will be chemicalized in bqiho way to bo , rendered fire-proof, and used on t (he Southern 1'acific .Railroad. I ( A lake has just been discovered among the Cassade Mountains, in i Oregon, which is surrounded by a f perpendicular wall 2,000 feet high. Letter from Horace Greeley. The following ie an extract from a private letter to a gentleman in this State. Though it was never intended for publication, the gentleman to whom it waa addressed lias deemed it of sufficient interest and importance to justify its publication. New York, June 11,1872. * * * I have no possible claim to Democratic support, and never made any. Tho Democrats will, of course, be governed by ft wus.u?.auvii ??i ineir cwn interest. It is nowise proper or probable that they should be influenced in making their decision by any consideration personal to myself, and if they could bo I do not desire it. Ilenco I have eaid nothing to any Democrat nnless he first addressed mo, and, even then, I have gone no further than to say that, if I should be elected, I would treat all those who supported me alike, not asking whether they had been in the past Republicans or Democrats. * * * Yours, Horace Greeley. [Hartford Times. The Gettysburg Dead?South Carolina Soldiers Interred at Hollywood.?The following is a list of the names of the South Carolina soldiers, whose remains have been removed from Gettysburg, and interred in the Holly-" wood Cemetery, Richmond. Vn Lieut. G. II. Meyers, Co. II, 8th Regiment; Lieut. II. W. Worthier, Co. II, 8th ; Lieut. W. C. Hodgen, Co. B, 7th ; Lieut. W. C. Barmore, 7th ; Sergt. W. L. McCurry, Co. D, 7th ; Corp. W. II. Mathc\v6, Co. I, 7th ; M. C. McKull, Co. 1\, 8th ; li. McL., Co. G, 8th ; J. 11. Broach, Co. A, 8th ; C. Bai ting, Co. A, 8th ; B. Adkinson, Co. B, 8th ; J. M. Mcintosh, Co. G, 8th ; A McPherson, Co. II, 8th ; J. D. Rhodes, Co. F, 8th ; T. N. Pres8ley ; W. Dickson, Co. D, 8th ; ThnrN ing, Co. I, 7th ; S. C. Ridgowa3'; M. McP., 8th ; B. R. Smith, Co. M, 7th ; J. Iv. Easter ling, Co. G, 8th; J. B. Bobbins, Co. I, 8th ; A. McLand, Co. G, 8th ; II. 11. Adams, Co. G, Sth ; A. J. Jennings, fepW/Vuf? A " " *"' Items- . A liundred men are employed two hours every morning in sweeping off tho dirt accumulated hv the Boston jubilee. The strike among the washer women in England is spreading. Ttiey demand seventy-five cents per day and an allowance of beer. Senator Sutnncr is reported to be preparing another speech on the subject o f our national finances. Researches in Chinese archives show that the architect who designed and the engineer who built the great wall were women. Florida is the otdy State in the Union without a daily paper. It has two tri-wcekly, one semi-weekly, and twenty ono weekly, and one monthly. Of governments, that of the mob is the most sanguinary, that of the soldiers the most expensive, and that of civilians the most vexatious. The treasury department has commenced the payment of claims for horses lost during the war, Congress having made an appropriation for that purpose. The public debt was reduced in June $2,081,035. Coin in tho j treasury $88,149,108 ; currency, [$15,321,680. Coin certificates, $32,086,300. Jacob Dodd's pork establish! merit at Buffalo, N. Y., is burned, boss seventy-five thousand dollars. The hogs in the upper stories were burned alive. The Apaches recently attacked a party of citizens between Fresco! t and Skull Valley, Arizona, riddling their carriage with balls, and shooting Joseph Goldwater in the back. In a quarrel over a two-year old horse trade, Benjamin 11. Wrav killed his brother in law, and then himself. The affray oo enrred near Brownsville, Teuu.? The parties are respectable. * A DlKilll'li vi ** puiuii section of Lancaster County a few days ago, destroying about fifteen acres 01 cotton upon tho plantation of Mr. E. B. Mobley?literally parching it to cinders. During a recent severe thunder storm, the Hon. D. S. Hammond, r\4 I I OTi AOOt' 111 l^rcf KA AAA IViliiw# Ul iinuvv vi ^ ?in) vu? t/v)vvv j . trout, valued at $3,000. It in te: lieved that they died from the effects of the lightning.