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4 14,~ 4 al Ae4: ,,-p na notivia' J7 p- ..-1g I V..O'l rj,I v Ir i - b.. T TIP Ej .TEENTIN~EL BY D. P. BRADLEY & 00. Twiaa of UimbentpfIe.. one ear $1 60 Six Months . .7. .5. .......76 Advertisement0sistUd tit the rate of $1 00 per square, of R) I l .PL2es, for the Anst I tioq, ad 6G s for each subse qi SIX OWrTWoLY. Advertiseme % te number of Iwtieis arked On tbsm,, ul be published uut1vbld and-bearged aoordingly.' These terms are so simple any child may. understand theA. '1e ;Ipsis a square ope 1ib, Itk every Instance we charge by tife Oe ocoti*gfd, i ight or ten lines cat b9 iIde to 6d60py four or 04e squates, as the ad04ftiet nay Aish, atnd 'is charged by the SAd*6rt'sers will tlease state the num beTrg ares they wish their advertisements usinet men who advertise to be bl tt, *ill bear In mind that the gt has a large and increasing cir otlaion,;and Is taken by the very class of p?rop*s whose trade they desire. Thd Southern Pool-the Farmer. *Aif We'. _eore" tb ,tate Press Association Dr. Bagby paid his compliments to the most common class of Southern fools-the farmers, Tule next form of Southern fool which I shall consider is the agricul tm-ai" foul-what I should call in Virgina the tabacc worm, but in iss State the Cottontot. Gentlemen, there are IIottontots and there are Cottontots. The oxides of years lie upon my geographic memory, and I am a little confgd as to Ilottentots and PAtagouians:, I only know that e they are extreme Southern pecple, and that neither are f,.mons as yet ftor intelgence Aie Cottontot be lohd t iefl rcafeih. A Cot tontut I take to be a peri n who, gr9Wi;Ag"j1thit1g but cottvn, has to bliy every etirtily thing that he uses * or constniie-; coiisequently, rarely, if ever,:.taves anything, and finds him self at the end of the year the prop erty of the Northern man, for you'll lteWiin vaini to fiod a business which does t*ot have a Southern ,ioodle at oneo end playing drudge for a. smart Yankee at the other. The ottontot, 1 say, tids himself th1e property of want him, wVon't have him at any price, and yet oau'i get-rid- of him without Ibank-r,iupting himself. A pretty exemplificaion. of the vicious betsiness cirble hl aroud, isn't ist * 'my friends, tdrn be twelve yeaI' that have elapsed since the war, at least 30,000,000) bale., (3,000, 090 a' yger,) of cotton have grown at thpBoojb. At. $60 a bale, a low edlTiaff, 'Iig amnounts to $1,800,000. What hei bedomdneot this enorsnous ~.amonet sof( nmeey)i What benefit hafe we deriVed from it, and where hasitiall g9aos Thianks to the cot tontot it has gone precisely where i' came froiis, and, bleyond a mere sup port, weo have d,riyed no benfit from 1t Is this to go on torevert Yes, 95 lopg hae the cottoniot policy is in tile aseendat. Beanse oOtton is our nemory crQp, andi because we have virtpally driven Eas India eetton oof the umatiet-M. Uivett Car nRe,ite cott$gn comnmissioner, having been foroed for lack of .cotton busi. nMa'fd go hnto the holy opium trade *-the. cototott is exclaiming, "Cot ton is King." Has he heard of the new Fyptiap corgon plant, the "Ba mial NE he and (f he heard he wbdtl4 fot beed. Well, . etton is king,han a sense. Bo is tobacco;, so is tar.-provided,fou halve' enough of 4 either and it will fetch a good price. If tar was $2 a gallon, and I held a million barrels, tar would be king, and I would be a prince. But if tar ruled at that price, there would be a corner in tar in 19ew York, and you and I and other Cottontots would not own enough to greae a cart whnnl. The 06ttoltmt It ?' *tM*rts 6ther wayd..4ru t W me6w, V'VItat' pie, of bh1in l6 M66. Th4d"dt be no pin6t SudIhes j*#JsUifon E than ttis-tbat wV1b," cuitied an de d yd" 0ip Ag e d ly , c o n im o n ii n s r ' eIa t yot shall drop bim insta , x and e al wilthim no m?re torqvet. i a that you abou)d nevqr fifrgetin4 tl never foRgive in thia ca ia Ad W'Us- a is tru*i,j bpsmeis,b equaly tra~re la RoAi%ics. '-not? YOW politioal liae, depends on your answer tothis quesp ' tion. But wht does your Oottintot do? Coming to town and 8nding ti some adventurer'Oth a lat of auc- iV tion goods or a compromise stock, he 0l q*its the old establishedhotises, well b known to him, and: speide -the #ery et thoney due to these houses in buyi e ing trash and shoddy from this ad- rg venturer. Finding himself cheated Wr again, he simply laughs, and says, al "I tell yon these ilaps are smart; ti they are keeners, they are; but if the e old established house so much as disappoint him, he damns it as "an to infernaA, unprincipled Yankee con- S cern." d4 Here, then, is the source of nearly T all our woes-this Cottontot devo- th tion to a single crop and the accom aIt panying over--emartness. The cure ti is plain enough; and it has been ad- al m1irably formulated by one of your te city papers i-i the aphorism, "Bread T and meat first; citton last." The irn mission of Sotithern j.urnalism is to ti put this motto at the head of every at paper from Noi fulk to Galveston b and to keep it tiere. I would print al it in indellible ink on the foreheads, im tattoo it iu the arms, and brand it in' b Ihe paLms 1f the Cottontt4. But the press has not been idle in this good a cause, for already we see the effect s4 of its labors. Mr. John Ot, one of b the ablest, and certainly one of the. 4 most useful, men in Virginia, turn- G ishes ns with the cheering fact, viz: ti "In 1876, the West packed 104,915,- ti 867 pounds lees pork than it did in Pt 1475. This is the reason assigned by Western journals: "The provisiomi a trade, owing to tailing prices during eC unost Of thbe, year, proved les prOta-- i ble than nega,l; grg ~tt of 6 th oliidchi carbp ic~o the 0 SoutdAnSate, Ele a r&dis- te tribution has been for several months e your excuse methiniks is somewhat ti thin; 've are raising our own pork; J that is the 'whole secret. $4ut will 9 t he cure jost indidicated siflice? I V doubt. It is a fact which the press II will do well never to forget that the I increase in our provision crop is due I much more to thae low price of cotto' .) than to the wisdom of the Cottontot, 4nd it cotton again touch 20 cents he * tobacco should accidentally'double in B value. There js, as I well kno~w 4 personally, no cure for folly, Bray 2 a Cottontot or a humorist in a tnor- * tar, he will be a Cottontot or hbimo- f rist still. A dispatch from Berlin announces t that the Russian squadron which re- 9 cently le,ft Ng .York with seded. A ordere' 'ill be Avild on1 theirm 'o rival in Europe, some going to Cron stadt and the remainder to be anch ored before Gibraltar, in of-der- to in. C tercept neutral ships snpposed to be i carrying arms and arnnnition to C Turkey. If those men of war have any such intention, they.will get into y trouble, not only with England but i with the United States, and other r maritime nations. Intercepting con- I traband of wal" an te Nigh seas, or r so many leagues away from the coast. e is a belligerent right; but that is a I diff'ercnt thing from anchaoring in the t waters of a neutral power in order t to intercept neutral ships which is s an act of war. The lik IWmu O . ei it0Qe4by; A. 8oueaste. &A ou03 of Repesentatiwe ef'ShtAe F BothOArWlifs, "w"Mbt ad eet% g 1IG.sralAlemn .y, td1 by. is'adtver4ty-ufttdne. I -In; 1 Agotrw t Thatk tik ot hb en i hWd 4 tInls Upls h eIe# 4611i&9 6t railfogiky f'tie.tNga sproprividobs to de'ay the cprreut spe ss of the govqrnmesem 4pr the sea rs coiangeneg Novewbq. 1870 - SRU.S.,Tat a tax #not to elceed ire tuills upon every dollar of!the slue of all taxable lprwpety In eweh I the 'everal count4ba In this BUO 3 and the same is hereby levied fdr J6uty pur>ddes, for thie fiscal year )Mmeneing November 1, 1876, the ite to be fixed by the County Com issioners in and for each county, id by them certified to the respec ve County Auditors of the said se. Oal counties. Szo. . That;all the proceeds of the xes levied for and on account of the tate is, as specified hierein, shall be Dposited and kept by the State reasarer,in such bank or banks iti e cities of Columbia and Charleston 1, in the judgment or discretion of ic financial board of the State, can Ford sufficient protection to the in rests of the State; and the S!ate reasurer shall publish in one or ore of the Newspapers published in ie city of Columbia a monthly atement of all the moneys received V him, and the amount paid out, id to whom, and on account of what ppropriation paid, as well as the ilance of moneys in hand. SKo. 4. That the County Auditors rid County Treasurers ot the weral cotities of this State are areby required, under the direction' rd supervision of the Comitruller eneral, to make the collection' of ixes levied under and pursuant to ce provisions of this act, in the man er and at the time and under the >nditions hereinafter to be provided; ind they are hereby fola bidden to ullect any other tax whatsoever for ce fiscal year unless heroi1 expressa r authorised so to do; and any State r county officer who shall1 fail. to :nnply with or evad4, or attempt to rade, the provisions of this aet, shall e deemed guilty of. a felong, and, pon conviction thereof, shall be unshed by7 a fine of not less than ne thousand ($1,000) dollars, nor 16o-6 than lve thonsand ($5,600) dol urs, and by impi-isonment in thce 'enitentiary for a peqiod of not less [ian one year, nor rpiore than five ears. SEc. 5. There shiall be assessed on 11 taxable polls in this btate, a tax f one dilar on each poll, the pro eeds of whieh taall shall be applied )lely tow educational purpoeds. Ev ry male cititen between the age of weity one and fty years., except IJOBe incapable of earning a support rows beig maikted, or from other aube, shall be deemed taxable polls; nd should any person fail or ref use a pay said poli tax he shall be deem d gusilty of a~ misdemeanor, and, on odviction thereof, before any Trial ustice or other court having juris liction of the same, shall be punished iy a fine of not less than five dollars, >r by imprisonment in the county ail for a term not exceeding thirty lays. SEo. 6. That all taxes asseSSed and cay able under this Act aball be paid n the followfong kind of funds, anid io other: gold and silver coin, United Itaetes currency, agd national bank totes; pirovided, that the receipts is, ned by the several.agents appointed cy the Governor in the several coun iee, under aned by virtue of resoln ion adopted by the House of Repre, entatives on the-day of December, L,. D. 1876, shall be credited by die dfte,t n ~W f by 'thi boldert ifio&, *benever he saine w4 b . Ail kes 'issued 'heris, Ma I e o aue ah4 '4jable in two eqq YnWiRents, as follows: 'The fAY, -41gAlQW,g ot bg dpe ar9f t4,* l4y 4(July, 184, And; teb SOQW4 iqIhll*t eks4A841e aod. poyaWe froma the let 4y of October tw4ber-1st da. of October, 187: Pfe"ded, That it shall be and is hereIy et to thbe *ption of any peU son, either to pay the amount of the flM instAlusent, at the time first gt3db mentibTied, or to pay the whole' amodnt at th time of the payment of t1fe second installment thereof: Provided, further, That if any per son or persons shall fail or refuse to pay his or her taxes due under the first installment, he, she, or they shall be charged with interest thereupon from the let day of July 1877, to the time of payment thereof, at the rate of one per centum per month; and the several County Treasurers shall collect the same in the manner pre% scribed by law, and give the receipts therefor to the several parties paying the same, in which the real estates paid on shall be briefly described, and the value of the. personal property pain on shall be stated, together with the time such taxes are paid and the amount of the same. SEco. 8. That the Conuty Treasurer, immediately upon receipt of the tax duplicate, frotu the C, unty Auditor, shall cause a notice to be inserted once. in two daily newspapk re pub lished at the county seat of the county, if two such papers be there pu6lished; It not, then in one such paper; it no daily paperbe publishd at such oounty seat, then in two weekly papers publhishe I at sich county seat; but it two sch weekly papers be nut published, then in one such paper; and if no paper be publisbdo in the county, then such notice shall be given in such nianner as the County Treasurer may direct, stating the 4'ate per peutun of the levy fer State pprpopq, and th#e rate per centum for all 9the,r pprpeees, on tLe duplicate of he presynt fiscal year; and if: an~y special levies has been made on the property of a school or other diatricta not affecting the eotire ciounty, the total rite ot levies in such district shall b0 stated in such notice. Smo. 9. Whent the taxes and assess mente charged against any p)arty or property on the doplicate for 31 present fiscal year, shall not be paid on or before the 31st day of Octob>er, 1877, or when the remainder of such taxes and assessugents shall not be paid on or by the said time, with i'nterest at the~ Vatrf pne per centum per month as aforesaid: the County Treasurer.shall proceed to collect the same by distress or otherwise, as may be prescribed by lawr, together with a penalty of fifteen per Gentum on th amount so delinquent; and if the amonnt of sudeh delinaquent taxes, as sessments, and penalt ies shall not be paid on or before the 15th November 1877, or collected by distress or oth erwise, thme same shall be treated as the delinquent taxes arid such real and personal property, and shall be collected by the sale of such real and personal property as hereinafter pre' scrided. SE~c. 10. All personal property -subject to taxation shall be liable to distress and sale for t he paymnt of taxes and aAsseets hereurder; and at any time after any taxes or assess ments shall become due, according to the provisions of this Act, t he County Treasurer, by himself or Deputy, may distrain sullicient personal property of the party against whom such taxes or assessmients are charged, if the same can he fund ini his county, to pay the taxes or assessments, so due, with any penalty chargedarl- cha able th6e*nj %bd'tft IIe alid thEi costs that msay accrue, and shall lf medI(tely a$hivflgthe sAh lhthlee 6f the ost IbIle plackfin tho town or ward or'distict in which nsur prop?rty wii' t- distrained, stating ie timeand place, in such town, waror, district, wijen, and whei c s4oe 4q?erty will be sold; and if tic taxe. asspasments and penalties, for whicli sul property was distrained, together with the oosts of the proceed. ing, shall not be paid before the day appointed for suoh sale, (which shall not be less than five ad more thau ten after posting up such hotice ol sale,) such Tresurer or bis deputy shall ptoceed at the time and plac meintlohd in such n6tices, to iel idtch property, or so. much thereof as may be necessary, at public vendue, to the highest bidder; and it such property, or a sufficient amount thereof shall not be sold at the time and place aforesaid, such Treasurer shall retain the same in his possession, and ad vertise and offer the esame for sale, in manner and form aforesaid from time to time, until the same shall be sold. SEo. 11. All real property return ed delinquent by the County Treas urer, as herein provided, shall be ofi fered for sale by the Treasurer on the first Monday in December, 1877, af ter due advertisement as now provid ed .by law, and thereafter from day to day until the whole amonnt there of is included in the delinqent lis shall be sold; and except as in thii section provided, the County Treas urer shall proceed in reference to thi sale of such delinqent real estat< according to ue forias and with th conditions now prescribed and. ro quired by law. Sio. 12. That all acts and parts o acts inconsistent wiMb this act be and the samearehereby 'pealed. Cure for Hydrophobia. Elecampano root, boiled in swee1 milk, is a cure for mad-dog bites! se says a well authenticated statemehk going the rounds of the papers. Il seems that an old GermaD in Vbestei county, Pennsy lvania, made the die covery long ago, and not much faitt was had in his eure; but tithe and circumnstatuces have shown that th4 old German was about right, if th< sta'ements are to be relied on. Elecampane (inula hielenium) is shrub introduced into America fronr Europe, but is now common, grow Lng wild ini many parts of the North erni States. It will grow as well ini the Southern 8tatea, and is easily propagated. It has an aromatic odor when dried, somewhat like that of' camphor, and when chewed, hai a warm and bitter taste-, water and alcohol ext ract its pecnliar pro perties The powdered root is nsed in medi cine as a tonic or stimulant. It i used for chronic diseases of th lungs. The statement says it was univer sally believed that the old Germai never failed to prevent or cure by droph'obia. In one case the spasm had begun before the first dose wa given. "The medical properties of ele campanie are very p)owerful. Mii itself is a specific fur many poisons and while the medical faculty kno' no cure for this terrible disease, w~ should open every avannue of lig1 into the dark subject." Two ounces of elecam pane root, t be boiled in a p)iIt of' new milk, an to be taken in the morning after th patient has fasted all night. ile to continue fasting of taking it, an the does is to be repeated three tina on three successive mDornings, soon as possible after the personnJJ 'been bitten. If the maideni State is Miss., atl the religious State Mass., the sice State is surely Ill. 6 Wow Bearph for Char1e Aoss. The - begotiationi between P. T. irdnim and ChriUtin K. Ross, tho father of tho kidnapped Charloy, by which the former is to offer $10,000 for the return of the child, and the latter to promise not to attempt any prose4 oution of those bringing him back, were finighod in thii; city yesterday. Mr. Barnam's original proposition was that ho should offor the reward, and, if the boy was secured, some ar% rangoment should be made for oxh i biting him, by which Mr. Ross should have a large share ol the profits, and thus, perhaps, restoro his estate of $860,000 which he has spent in the search. Mr. Ross made no answer at that time, but returned to Philadelphia to consult with his wifi and her broth. ers, who are wealthy, and met Mr. Barnum in the .Iaynes Iouso yoster day to accept the offer, with tho con dition that, if the boy is found, it shall be disoretionary with the family eith or to reimburse Mr. Barnum or ar range for the child's exhibition. The railroads and telegraph companies have given Mr. Ross the free use of their facilities, but lie has neverthe less spent all his means, and is prac, tically bankrupt. The family cling to the hope that the child is not dead, and base it largely on the ascertained fact that he was living at the time the abductors were killed on Long Island, five months after he was stolen. Mr. Barnum has published tho fol lowing: I will pay $10,000 in crih for the delivery to me alive of the kidnapped -hild Charley Russ, or for information that will lead to his recovery. I most Siolemnly and sacredly pledge my e word of honor and my reputation as an upright business man not to at tempt for mysdlf tW.disoover the iden f tity of the person negotiating with me in this matter, nor to convey to any other person any hints or clows by which any accusation, or oven suspi cion, shall be directed against them. The parents of the child unito with me in this pledge, and agree, ifr their darling child is by this means restored to them, to abandon all attempts to Spubish any person connected with h iA abduction or concealment; they *agree never to appear angainst such parties, and with myself will use ev cry endoavotr to shield them from cx% posure. For the last three years these ,parents have suffered more than death and, now that the real abductors are dead, It is hoped that the persona who have the child in custody will be wil., ling to accept this reward and imnmu% nity. The reward shall be paid in current money as soon~ as the child is identified by its parents. As an ad-. ditional security to the person A>ring, lng him, a reasonable time shall elapse between his dclivery and the publiG announcement ot the fact, that the [ parties delivering him shall have ev-e c ry opportunity to avoid discovery. P. T. BARNUM, Bridgeport, Conn. A story is tclrt of a shrewislh Scotchiwoman who tried to wean her husband from the pubil house by Semploying her brother to act the part of a ghost, and frighten John on said way home, "Who are yout'* sad h guideman as the applarition rose before him f rom behind a bush. "I am auld Nick," was tho rely. "Come awa,' man," said John, nioth ing daunted; "gie's a shake of your h andl; I am married to a sister of it At a prayer meeting in a Provi.. dence clhuirch recently, Deacon 0 arose and expressed himself thusly: d "My friends, wvith great sorrow anid 0 regret I have just learned of' the do' IS cease of our beloved Brother-. d Let us now sing "Praise God fromi a whom all bledeings flow.' Is .. . as Shakespeare asked "What's in a name?" If lie had been stuldying Easterni war' maps he would have id found that thirty-five cmnsonnts et and three vowels were in miost of Sth'em.