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j J _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ JAU1 VUL.~~~'*' X 1 I'CK NS S.C.TIJS)YAUUT TilE GROWING CROPS, CONDITION AND (ENEIIAL OUTLOOK ON THE FJRST OF AUGUST. Excellent Proipccts for a Groat Yield of Cotton--heavy Reduction in tho Contli tion of Corn--No Iuiprovonent in Sj,ring Wheat--A Poor Fruit Crop. WASHINGTON, August 10.-The August report of the Department of Agriculture gives the following facts and figures as to the condition of tho growing crops throughout the country: corroN. The past month has bocn favorable, except that the rainfall has bcon un equally distributed in point of timo, the drought threatening at one period and damaging rains following. In the cast ern belt the excess of moisturo predoni nates as a factor of depreciation. The weed is therefore large and sappy, and the fruit fall appears in some iolds serious, and some cases of rust alppear. In Louisiana similar conditions have prevailed, and only very partially in Mississippi. Texas has been too dry, though the drought has not as yet been disastrous or severe. The prevaleit status of the crop is very good for the 1st of August. Whilo the reportu re cognize this as a critical time and fear the effect of subsequent droughts on the green and succulent condition of the plant, yet, in a compariion of ten e ears, the August condition is only execeded by that of 1882 and 1885, the one pro ducing a large crop and the oth r an under mediutu yield. The general aver age condition is 93.3, which is lower, by over tLree points, than that of July. The Stato averages are as follows: Vir ginia 94, North Carolina 96, South Car ihina 95, Georgia 91, Florida 96, Ala bauma 93, lissiSsippi 96, Louisiana 94, Texas 88, Arkansas 97, Tennessee 95. The Iir.t brood of caterpillars has ap peared in several States, but is not gen orally mentioned in the returns. 1 is reported in Orangeburg and Berk&ley, S. C., in Calhoun, Tayh r, J)ooly and Laurens, Georgia; in Hale and .Ia1lis, 1Alabana; in Stark, Newton, Issaqueena and Oktibbeha, Mississippi; in liLd itiver, Bossier, Rietland, Natchito:-hes and Ibervillo, Louisiana, and in Ste ph ens Camp and Jack::on, Texas. The boll worm is much less frcqucntly nntit nted. cEiEALS. The prosl)cct it month ago was i'-r a vEry heavy crop of corn and the r e of yield about the averago. Its condition in all the States of the Atlantic coa t is now unimpaired and of very high pc m ise. In ' ' ""' and Tennecseo the cindi tion h d materially, in the centre "' two-tin commerciai., heavy reductl,n h._ . .. has mltide the natiotnal average 80.7, in stead of 97.7 last imt ihtlt. 12 to cau t-a i, the lohg-continu td drought, which hsis been severest in Kansas, Illinois, I ndi ana, Ohio and Michig n. Nebraska has been scorched on the southerly boidlr, and Iowa and Missouri have esc ped with comparatively light loss, as :ave the more Northern States. 'ile beven corn surplus States staid as foil-.va: Ohio 82, Indiana 61, Illinois G5, Iowa 90, Missuri 80, Kansas 60, Nebraska 75. The condition of spring wheat, which was reported very low last month, froim ravages of chinch bug, is not improved in the August returns, but has fallen oil very .ihtly. The general average is 78.8, two points less than the August rc turns of last year. Da)kota has made a slight change and stands highest in con dlition. The average for Wi'sconsini is 7:3 Minnesota 70, Iowa 72, Nebraska 77, D)akota 80. In the extreme east and Pacific coast the condition of sw ing wheat is high. There is no report 0f winter wheat the p)resent month, as it is too early to obtain results. In the oats eropi there is no chanuge. A part of the brcadth was harvested at last reports. The condhition averages 85.6, which indicates a crop slightly uin der the average. The barley crop~ promnises to y' ield rather better than was feared last month. Trho eastern product averages a higher condition, but is reduced slightly since last reports. TIho average is 86.2, indi.. eating nearly an average yield. Buck wheat appj;ears to be practically the same as last year and averages about 90.3 in condition. TOInAc(o. .The tobacco cropi is in high conidition in the seed leaf States, averaging nearly 1(10, except in Wineonsin. The shipping and cuttimg district of the West make unprecedented reports of low coniditionm --Tennessee 58, Kentuck y 59, Ohio 55, Indiana 56, illinois 52, M~Iis-souri 60. In view of the heavy reduction in acreage in fragments, the usual crop may be ex peetedl. An ollicial investigation of flhe ariea nowv ini progrss will determine au thoritatively the breadth cultivated. the present year. There is a great reduuction since the J i of July in the eonidit ion (of juotates, almost entirely the result of drought. Tlhere,is no material dlelinuel on'the Atlantic or Gulf coasts, but the in jury is severe in the Wecst. The loisa duriug the month ias reportedl is fully 20 pl cont. of the prospective crop.~ FuU IT. .The fruit cr01) is very poor. 'ilTre will be few apples outside blow .10nglau( and New York. There will he a partial crop in Michigan. In the Ohio River St-ates the harvest will be nearly an en tire failuire. The hay crop~ is also greatly reduced In the WXest t1 herl cr0op is 80. Tii IfOI'.-t IN T1IIiC STATE. "lho coundItio mu(f Cotton, (Corn, ie mid Other Oroj,x, as ieporitedi I q the D)epart meont of AgrIculture . The consolidation of the crops for the month cnding~ August 1st, from returns to the South Carolina D)epartment of Agriculture, shows the following inter esting facts and figuros: Thme estimates given are based upion 271 replies, covering every county in the Stato. T2wo hundred and thirteen cor respondents report that tho weather has been favorable and forty-two unfavor able. corrON. The crop was thought to bo slightly injured by the oxceFeive hot weather during a few days of the month, but timely rains oaino and the crop was re covering, when the heavy rains con tinuing have caused the cotton to shed some of its fruit. The crop was two or three weeks earlier than last year, and, thereforo, has a full bottom crop. Some of our correspondents say that if the seasons continue three weeks longer that a full crop will be gathered, and that it will be the largest viold that has been produce(l in this State for several years, if not the largest ever produced. But there are so many casualties that may arise before the maturity of the crop from coutiuuetd heavy rains, drought and the caterpillar; which has appeared in soeic localities, that it may, in our next report, materially change the aver age for the State. The condition is reported in upper Carolina at 97 per cent.; middle Caroli na at 102 per cent., and in lower Carolina it 99 per cent. An average for the State of 99 per cent., showing a falling of 2 ter cent. for the State since our last re Portt; but, nevertheless, the crop is still better than for years up to this date. conN. The corn crop is reported generally to be the b)est over grown in the State. lhe early uplind corn is matured aind secured from injury. The late corn has received rains suflicient to almost bring it to perfection. The condition of the crop is repoited in upper Carolina at J9 per cent.; mid die Carolina 102 per cent., and lo wer Carolina 97 per cent.; an average for thc state of 99 per cent., against 94 per cent. for June, and 83 per cent. corn- ] pared to the crop of last year. This t percentage will be somewhat reduced i owing to the freshets, which has de- , stroycd much of the corn planted on river and creek bottoms; but, with those I dirawbueks and the increased aereage and yield, the crop will be the largest ever prodceed. 1i E. The reports for a large crop of rice for the acreage planted still continues favor iblo, and if it is not injured by the pres ent hloods, which catnnot now be de termiied, w ill be the largest for a num ber of years. The condition is reporte-d for upper Carolina at 91 per cent., middle Carolina nt 99 per cent., and lower Carolina at 98 per cent. An average for the State of 97 per cent., the same as June report. (OTnEnl C1)01S.1 The condition of the other crops is reported a') follows: Sorghum, fer uppa Carolina at 97 per cent., middle Carolii a at 97 per cent., and lower Carolina '.t 97 per ec.ut., an average for the State of 97 per : cnt. :pper Carolina 83 per .arolina 98 per cent., and a at 97, an average for the or cent. Pease, for upper Carolina at 98 per cent., middle Carolina 100 per cept., and for lower Carolina at 15 per cent., an average for the State of IS per cent., and our corr'pondents re port a large increase in the acreage over p)reVmiouS years. lrish potatoes reported 1 for upper Carolina at 89 per cent., maid die Caruolina at 93 per cent., and lower Carolina at 89 per cent. Sweet potatoes are ieported for ujper Carolina at 95 p)er cent., middle Caro!ina at 100 per cent., and lower Carolina at 97 per cent., tln average for the State of 97 per cent. thir correspondents report this erop in line condition, and as the crop has been increased 2 per cent, in acreage the iecld must necessarily be very large. I ATil 01 A I'A3i01's INION si'v. P'ardaw War'sley, the 'Unioni syv of< the Shencandoahi,' lied at his homeu at ost.er Brook, N. Y. , last week, [aged(l sixty-seven years. Beginning life as a I fancy' g)oods mnerchnit in Massachusetts, I at the opening of the war he raised a eomlpaniy ol the Fouirteenthi Massachua- I setia I leavy Artillery. .le wvas soon11 afterwards employed by Mbijor-Gieim.al I 13. F. JButler in the nanie of the UnitedJ States to go into the British p)rovincts to look into the systemi of blockade running then in vogue. Heo was successful in I this mlission), for MlIjor-General C. C. t Augur, in his report of August 25, 1805, 4 sa,ys that it was through the instrumIleL-1 tatity oIf Mr. Warsley that the extenisive system of loc(kade-rtuming from B alti moIre and Washington was broken up1. After returning from this tripl Warsley went out as a spy upon01 Mosby under Augur, though not until lhe had returned i to .lo.ston and marliriedt helen Isabelle -I Francis, who survives him. Accompanied by his young wife, Warusley set out ostensibly upon a p)ed (lhng trip) through Virginia. His real obIjct was soon suIspected by Mosby, aimd a spy was placed upon1 his tracIk. i .lhe 01py was a handsome young ladyJ who was to be conducted to WashI ington 113 Warsley. The Union spy was too smairt to lIe caught, amid, mnstead of using his pass thrioulgh the Union lines, le conducted the lady through swamp.I)s anid by-roads until she became disgusted with the trilp, andt she returned to Mosbyi convinced of' the loyalty of Warshoy.i Mosby was inot conivined(, and at One time lacIed a1 pisto to Warsley's heiad, thrmeatexmng tol lo(w his brins111 out. Thle younzg hly interced ed andc \ WarsleCy's life w as save d. A f teriwards Mosbyj he came h is firma friend, 1igh tinug a' duet with aI nehew ofW (IGeneral Ien:i bcaiuee L iiiutenant I jC4 hal a:et a guard upon WVarsley anid laid conde,i ned him as a spy. Oin t.wo Iccainsi1 Warsley furnish edl informationi by which the Federal forces were enaled to surround the hous15 ini which M'osby wvas quartered, but the dashing Rlebel cut his way out and escapled. Ont severail occasnion Warsloy got informiation of intended raids uiponl Washington ini time toI allo(w1 the authorities to mass their forces ant save the cap)ital. At the time of the assasiinatioii el President Lincoln Warsley wa'is gives commiandc of a squad1 of detectives. When Booth was killed Warsley returardl to private life, and( for ye.Ars r a a restamrant in the Bradlford1 oil fieldis. 1WillIam MellwaIn, colored, was htuI though not fatally, last Maturday nih Ii -r Y. S. It. Harper, while In the att1 (i staln watern,elons from Mr. liarper'. HIISMRA1CK'S UI( SCiI EMI;. A ItuInarkable 'rojut WI ch tho (:osjnan Chaincellor 1 Saisl to Ifavu In view-. ormniany Wa nts Ilolrlati. (Special to the New York IIeraltl.) FRANKFO'nT, August 8.-]3y a very lucky coincidenco I have just had a highly interesting conversation with a foreign diplomatist whose high porition enables him to have as clear an insight into the views and ulterior aims of Prince l3ismarck as Perhaps any man livi g can have. The diplomatist in question was passing through Frankfort, on his way to a fashionable German watering place, :md the fortune of travel placed us in the same railway carriage. I called the diplomatist's attention to 'he report published by the Brussels Iazette to the oflect that the German itall were completing a measure by vhich in twenty-four hours some 400,000 lerman troops could be thrown into follaud. The diplomatist said: "That report is so near to the truth hat it is sure to be contradicted. Ger uan designs upon Ilolland, are, in my pinion, the key note of Prince Bis narek's future projects. Prince Bis narck, if he cloaks his acts, seldom con eals his opinions, and I have serious easons that justify my conviction that eforo long P'rinco I3ismarek will, by an droit move, use lollaud as the means, trange as it may seem at first sight, of emeuting friendship with France and )f acquirwg a colonial empire for Ger nany." I remarked: "I don't (uite understand eou. How could this be done?" "In this way. Supposo some day aermany were to say to France, 'You nay have Alsaco-Loraine back ag:min )rovided you will let Germany have arte blanche elsewhere and agree to Icrnany absorbing Holland and all the Iolland colonies.' A proposition to ro urn the lost provinces would be received n France with leaps and bounds of joy. Ut heart the French and Germans do tot hate each other nearly as bitterly as he French and English do., "1 firmly beliove that Prince Bismarck eally contemplates such a move. 'ihe Jhaitcellor nevtr follows well-beaten ines of diplomatic routine. His genius s as in(dolnable as that of a poet, a oun(er of religion, or of an artitst. his liplomatic thunderbolts strike at one nonent in Schleswig-Hiolsteiu, then in lustria and again in France. lie is Hot he man to have made such extraordina y sacrifices to lay the foundation of jerman calonization unless he felt snr >f reaping a rich harvest." ''The Chancellor knows that ev3ry lermal who emigrates to America is 'orever lost to Germany. 'I'he moment _ermany has colonies of her own this ast drain upon the Fatherland can not )nly be checked, but transformed into a )riceless source of strength. 'I'he vast olonies of Holland olbir exactly what Germany wants. They could be at once nade profitable without spending a sin le thaler. 1lollar.d has sunk milli,ns )f gulden and thousands of men in Java ind Sumatra. With Germa ( organiza ion and energy the Dutch Indies would 'orm a sort of wedge or strategic vantage round, dividing England's two great olonial bulwarks--Australia and Ii id in. "P.'rince I3ismiarek feels that. France nd Germany are natural allies, and that he rcal enemy of Germany, France ad {ussia is England. It is on this basis hat the future of Europe and Asia is to o settled--the Continent for the Conti ientals; (eirmany to cement lasting riendship with France by giving her aek Alsace-Loraine and thereby realize Icr magnificent dream of colonial cm )ire; and Russia, under the :egis of iermany and France, to secure the road, tot only to Constantinople, but to a uch coveted p)ort on the Indhian Ocean, etween P.ersia and British India. '"It is to-day not F"rance, but England, hat is the Chancellor's bete noire. very where he turns it is Enuglanid that pposes5 his interests. In the Ba~lkan 'eninsula it is England that is straininig very nerve to create small independlent ationalities into barriers against h(ussian ud Austrian conquest. And as to thle lomaination that l3ismarek is trying to ring about in EIgypt, England is the og in the manger that pirevents A3is tiarck's p)olicy of placing Elgypt iunde~r "rech or continental control. Iu Ceni ral Asia it is England that prevents Cassia from developig southiward-a olicy which was always felt by Blisnmarek o be at necessity, in ordler to enlable Aermany to hol her own in C~entral 'Aurol)e. Everywhere it is Enigland that tands in the Chancellor's way." And here the diplomatist lighted a resh cigar, and added, with a signxileanut mile: "'In spite of these lin facts Enigland, ni the present nava,l inutumvres, seems o have utterly ignored the posiilit y >f defence against a Glermnan or an allied ~r<nch, German'and liussiaun 1leet at ac'king hu-r from thme North Sea. The 3ritish naval authorities senm to have m111y p'rovided( for the ease oif French nvaders coming from Cherbourg or 3oulogne!" The lecture (if Siam Jones oin "'Charac er andl Cliniracter'' is going on, and as .1 tow write in hearing of maclh lie says, t is clear that lie has his audience well n hand and is pilaying uponi the thu anids who listen as the harper pllays ipon the strings of his instrument. As >ften, on anm average, as once a h mit< here buirsts forth thie most stormy til >lause. Thle man is at his best, and this a with himi a 11ield day. .1He has Kistin fuished between ch arnete~r and~ reputah icon, character and orthodoxy, charaetet Liol professions and relations, anid is iow picturing the relation of charac'iter o0 temjperanice, high-license, pirohtibition mid a great numy other inIter(sts of >ractical life. HeI is absolutely fearless, mdo really lie loves a shii i~ningmrk. He ias no more love or reverencee for lords md noble10s, judges and bishops, tIhan for ramps, when diseuising <pietstionis (i -ight aind wrong. Heo seemis to be 01b ivious to .everythiing but one, ad to soncenttrato hi iuelf inito ai lightning be~h for the purpoPse of stiikinig lhe (oio point hie wishes to hit bard. -Corresponene t hilflo h Coiurier. >ak -cs sli'-ild senl 10 (emits iln -1tamp1 of (lure. Addr<i . Wor''ld' Ii)ispen1sar) \letel A'soilioni, 3 Matin strcet, Ibit falo, N. YV 'I L'11 TIOPICS Ik)R FARMERS. 1OW' To 1o 'AYN(3 WORK AT '11(IS SEASON. Suggestiuts of Intere.st, fromu an Autlori tatltve Source. (W. L. Jones in Southern cultivator) August is usually a month of compar ative rest on the Southern farm. The arduous labor of cultivating the two most important crops is pretty well over on every woll-managcd farm, excepting, possibly, in the extreme northern edge of our peculiar territory. Although July 1st is literally the midway station in the year's calendar, August ltt is really 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 of the cotton field. SnALL 1'LowING CONTINUE? It depends on the condition of the plants and seasons. If the crop is in a growing condition, and fruiting, well, but is rather 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 sufficient, to form a crust. Boot-cutting and mangling must be carefully avoided, as the effect will be to cause the plant to shed its fruit and tleni take on a new growth too late to amount to anything. The object now should be to prevent the shedding of the squares already formed, and en courage their development into blooms and bolls, since very few that make their appearance after the tentll 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 1 the weed will increase the number of bolls by the formation of new squares, but that the squares and young bolls1 may be hastened to full size and carier maturity. 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 fur ow previously :est run, and thus aviid plunging the plow into the ridges of soil ] east 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. ' olPl'INO COTTON. Many experiments have been made in topping cotton in the last forty years, and the results and conclusions have been very diverse. Sometimes it pays; o;ten it does not; sometimes it injures. No rule can be given that will always work. The usual object in topping is to prevent further growth of weed and forms after the plant has as many as it can sustaii!, and when new forms would be too late to mature; the idea being to induce the plant to throw all its vigor into the efkort to devOlop the forms al ready visible. 'TIhe 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 mc-t; cases where topping cotton re sujed in increasing the yield it miga,t lave been notieed that the work was done ratler early--some time in duly. Every one has observed that stalks of cotton) t hat were topled by the bite of tie plow-horse early in the season are often made mucIl more fruitful thereby. In such catses t lie effect of the early top- t ping was probably to push the branches 1 of the stalks into more vigorous growth, 1 causing a imore rapid evolution of forms. On the,v;hole, we have 'very little faith in topping cotton as a part oif a regular systeld.] The propriety oif pulling fodder, i. c., whether it does not injuiro the grain mo(rei than the fodder is wvorth, to pull the blades as is usually done, is one of the <1uiestionis that has bieen long moote,(1 liut nev'er settled. Experimnenters diti'er< iln resultIs anid conclusions. Possibly ('eh is co rrect ini the results of his~ ex peient, b)ut wrong inl his general eon einsionis. Thle 01nly true conclusion is, that pull ing the bilades somietiimes does, andii sometinmes do)es not, injuare the grain mol(re than the vailuie of the fodder se curied. It is conuni.only said, iin com paison50 With the animal system that the] bliades of corn are the lungs of the plat,4 biy means of which the plhmt takes in I nuitrimenit from tIhe air; and as an animal; will at once die if dleprived of its lungs, therefore the corn will be injured by re moving the blades- a very sinuguilar and altogether unlmwarranted conicliusioni. .f it is said that the planut will die if de.. pirived oif its blades tiungs the simile would lie perfect and( the conclusion cor rect. It ii a fact in vegetable economy that the leaves or blades of plants con tinue gleenl and suicculent for a time after they have ceased to bie at all neces3 nary to the perfletioni of thme fruit or sed. Lamniliar illustrations of this law may lie moiund onl every hiand1. In the case of the corni plant1, undler favorable and1( naturald conditions of soil and sea sonl, the (ar of cornii tile fruit of the plant.- i among thle fir4t parts to show signs of ni at urity. 'The t.iissel and silk performl thueir ofhlis, and are tIhe first to tadle; then the husk or shuick, and1( thme enclosed gra'in. ThIis uiccesioniI will lie nlotedh pamrtienhiurly whien corn is grown on1 fresh InamIs or soils aboundinmg in hinnus4. Onu worni and1 exhausted soils, or soils deprived oif vegeitabhle maltter, and easily influenced by (IrouthI, the b ldes ofitein ''dry up'" b efore the u raii is fillly matiu redl. InI i,ich cases it is im doubltiy true thlat to hastenm thle st ripping of thle bid(es, withuout reference to the coition of1 ithIle car, would result in 'nore or less inujury anid loss (if weight ol grin. Oft this every farmer musut be his judoge. lie goivenied b y the condition 'if thle ce, iand Iniot the il ades al togeth er, in Occ idin4g just whlen to commuuenco pull1 img. there is nothling ini thle way of hmay thiat is more generally relished by stock than niicely lere cora 1,lades ; and there -tre (nly a very few kinds (clovers and ulcern) that are miore niutritious. Our horaes anid cattle are generally reliable judges; and thley turn from the bet mewadow hay, and prefer corn fodder. I'ho Northern and Western farmers (d( not appihreiato the quality of well cured aorni blades, becauso under their system thley dlo not pull the bhles as we do, but cut down stalk ndmi and treat th 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 afl'ord the tedious labors involved and meagre re turns from the )raotice of fodder-pulling as followed 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. Wo would tlion be encouraged to increase the area levoted to grass for mowing to any de aired extent, until our barns would be Filled with plenty for horses, mules, iheep and cattle, and the sorry spectacle )f half-famished animals, shivering in he cold and rain, and moaning for their tinted andi often forgotten allowance of hucks, would be banished from among ts. To do this we are not dependent on he doubtful success or the standard hay ;rasses from abroad. We Iave our own zative-at least thoroughly iaturalized -crab grass, crowfoot, Bermuda, and ;everal species of pamspalumls; besides ;everal species of millet, Indian corn, ,lover, lucern, etc. Of course, if there s no other resource for hay, and nothing noro profitable for the haudf; to do, the odder should be pulled. A common held hand, costing say fifty cents a day, an save one dollur'e worth of fodder, md possibly not seiously injure the orn-a very good operation. The plain if cutting the stalks down will not onswer in our climate, and without other esource of better forage. WHAT MAY IE PLANTED. August has sometimes been ca:led a second spring, in allusion to the fact hat many of the crops planted fist in he earlier months may again be plut in, mt chiefly because it is the begiuning )f secdtime for all of the grasses and ;mall grain. Many of the garden vege ables, including turnips, beets, beans, ;omatoes, Irish potatoes, etc., may ho >lSnted with reasonable prospect of sue essful results. It is the main month or sowing all the roughlcaved varieties )f turnips. Success depends--more than I the spring-on deep preparation, iberal manuring with well rotted stable nanure, or quickly soluble fertilize rs, mud_ goo(d seasons. With little eflort,, mnd reasonable weather, most .of the ;arden vegetahles may be had in plenty intil frost. We have several times sue "eeded well in producing an lundant iu)ply of tomatoes from plauts grown 'rom cutting off the old plants. A cut ing containing a vigorous shoot, with a p)ortion of the older stein attached, will readily strike root; and if set in a deep y dug soil and shaded for a few days it will soon come into bearing and cont'inue until killed by frost. 11011 TO OMi1S'S 1Eltt I. "Ii, iotuiu,lu<l Into tI he Arcnani I,' i IlIInck-Lai N t i tumidian lit,n.'' (Firom (lie Louisville (ourier.Juiariial.) ' The first evidence of the coming power >f tli. remarkable man wats exhiib ited at. Willingtoi, a small village in Abbeville listrict (as the present counties were hen called), South Carolina. (Ie'neral leorge \cl)ullie, the only repr(1eltat ve of I)enosthenes in this comuntry inco Pat rick lienry, lived ne(ir thu ri'1 fIc)ullie was harnessed light:iig. I I( orged the chain of logic at a white Jieu.. ie was the most nervois, inlpa)sfsiomi d nd thrilli.g tribune of the pie ile of hat day. lie demonstrated the poititcl )roblems as Euclid did geoneity, while 'oaming at the mouth and screituing ike a painted Creek Indian. lie Imdl narried the only daughter of D)ick Sin ~leton, the celebrated mail lionaire turf nan and rice planter, and he owned four mudred slaves and made eight hunidred >ales of cotton a year. lIe had bseen a ncmbier of Congress, governor of South Jarolina, and( was afterwards Uni~itedl states Senator. '[he pecople, besfore uiaking up their minds oni aniy polit ial luesitioni, w1old say "'31r. All)utliII is going to speak at \lorrow's oldI field tuwe veeks from nowv, and 1. will wvait t ill I ineur hinm,"' and there they woul comeui orty and fifty umiles, and camp out the iight, before to hear him, and his spseech vould decide the polities of the nut.ire mcuntry one a year. Onm this Willinig on occasion it was said thaut "the eve'r asting mouthed IBob Toomb)iis wash ~oming ever to meet him." Fouler thou and p)eople were there wheni that r-ash foumng Georgian crossed the Havmmhl 11 ,o meet the lion in his deni, 1.o heard the IDouglas in his halls. Tcoomb. ro-ie a iorse, andl it was reniarkied that hiis shirt >osocm was stiniIed with tobaccieo-juiee. Vect lie was one of thle hiadsomiest mn hant ever had the seal of geniuis 4on hiis i>row. 11is head was rountd as; the ciib s ial globe. His abuniidant, Straiighit, >dack hair hunmmg ini procfuisioni over hiis uinple, nmarlo forehiead. lie hund ias naniy teeth as a shark, and theiy wie vhiter than ivory. 11 is eyes wcere black s deathl and bligger than an1 on '. II is tep1 was as griacefuil us the w ild-easta, md yet he weighed two hiundredt1) iondst-. Iis presence captivated eveni the iudola ors of George McDuflhie. 114 ie ouned nito the arena like a b)lack-maiIned Nui nidlin lion from the unknown deesi If middle Georgia, to reply to the 3)lympian Jupiter of the iup-coouitry of lie pIroud PahI netto) State. It was the niost menmorable overthrow that 31e L)ullie (ever sustinied. TIhis was in I hi larrison-Van B3uren electioni of IS 1i. lis argomnenit, is iinveetive, his (over >earinig torrent ofi irrever-ent (denuniea ion, is a tradition ini that country eveni .ow. M1ellio said: " have heaurdh Johnu Ranlph(Ijl, (If Rloanoke, and11 met( l'r.stama I urgess, of Rhlode I slandl, but1 iiit wild( GeoIrgin is tI ~h lirabeut ofi his age.'' Alter that Siouthi Cal-Irna idimitted that Georgia was someithlin[ muore thaln the refuge of South Carolinai fugitives from justice. Th'lis was the he gininmg of TIoomba's inmorbu M~ouatherni famea. Since the recent death of ex-Heinatoir it. 31. TI. H unte.r, of Viiginia, Seinatoi lieigu, ofTexaos, aindi ex-Goi(vernocr TI. ii. Watts, of Alabanmn, are the( only surti viving members of Mr. IDavis's caineat. Reagau was p)ostmnasten general andl Watts attorney generai. At Montgomie ry, A br., there was a secret unasion oi 11he cainelit to see whether we should bomrd( F'ort Sumter. Toomb,t was theni steretairy of Mtate and was regarded is the miost rash, headstrong and violent mian in the Confederancy' Whil in ti( prer'e1co of Mr. Uavis, the b"lancc of the alinet gave their opinioni in favoi of IIe bombardm:ntt, Mr. ToOmbs was, as wtas his customl, pac;..g t,he floor. When it cano his turn te oxpress his opinion, to the amatzemo:t of all he veheuently opposed the attack, and made one of the moat rcnarkal speeches of till hil life in opposition to it. lie iaid it would be thu doom of the Confederacy. lie said: "Let Charlestoit go. (ivo up Sumter. Let it be pro visioned, but never explode the volcano that is under our feet." lie said it was suicide and mnudness anud would lose us every friwnd in all the North, and OX hibited lnil his nagnillcei.it powers in t)p)llositit'on to the attack. lie said: ''Mr. President, you will wantonly strike a hornlet's ne:t that fills the North from ocean to oceiui, and legions, now quiet, will swarm out to stilg us to death. it. is tnlllt'csii'y ; it puts us in tle wrong it i, fttlai.'' Antd so it. was. Toomlbs was the wisest. ant the greatest of all the ;tatestuun of the Southern Confederacy. .1)'1Fi i",oN t),A I l(Elm'LIiES. (iuvt l'nor- ( urlin taul Ihe Story ot tite 1'et Itt..ted tn A t.sa u tatot,. 'To the .litor of the Now Yo 'rk Worl: Mly attention hatts he n ciled to a letter If 'X-( it,vernlor (''llt, puiblished in the Ilerald of the 1'_'th inst., in regard to atn .tillged t OmplicitV <m his part with a pu11rjiu to asia- sate Inc during tin. war betwit ii tlie tatesit, and also to it letter fruin \\ilkeslharrc, Pa., on the iittle siibjeCt, Itulisi;hed in the World of the .1 8tlh inst. I solictt the use of your Loluilns to iake a I'rid statement of the facts, so ar as te ty nre known to mit. Loveinor Curtin uikes t.wo mistakes in his letter. F1ist, that I haid male public accusation against lia ntutil that I Itad alleged that, he wait to pay 1)I0,0l1 to a desperadlo for my t:ssassination. All this, Ibatsed on a newspaper article pu1r. portilg to lI) the r'port of ati ''iii te view'' held with ine for pIubliettion iby iiewiSWliper corresipotident. Such Wat not the e'1.. A well-knoWn historian pr) o ?J0' to w' \ritt myv biographly, andlt .Iaktl ltue to i.w't hint fir tlutt iuipo-e l]) i nt i tt 3t atttempts ilatdu dIuiing. the Warl to".: a "iat rm . 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Some Startling Figures About the Qu*antI. ty of Money In the United States Trae. ry--The Public Debt Half Paid. \VAsIUNG'"ON, August 7.-Few persons, perhaps, who road the frequently pub 'ished reports of the fiscal operations of the government give any consideration to the vastness and significance of these operations. We read of the hundreds of millions of gold and silver in the treasury, but how few persons have any intelligent idea of what is embraced in the nine figures required to describe the liabilities and assets of the government? It is only when the auriferous contents of the treasury vaults are weighed and measured and placed by the side of arti cles and commodities that are daily handled by the masses that an intelligent comprehension can be obtained by the people of the financial strength of the treasury and the great extent of the gov ernment's fiscal operations. 1 find by reference to the latest pulb lished statement of treasury assets and liabilities that among the assets was 6281,096,317 in gold and nearly $250, 000,000 in silver, inoluding 31,000,000 of trade dollars and fractional coins.0 Taking up this $281,000,000 of gold and placing it on scales, I find that the gold hld by the treasury weighed 519 tons, and if packed into ordinary carts, one ton to each cart, it would make a pro eession two miles long, allowing twenty feet of space for the movement of each horse and cart. The weighing of the silver produces much more interesting results. Running this over the scales I find its weight to be 7,396 tons. Measuring it in carts, as in the ease of the gold, the silver now held by the treasury would require the services of 7,39t; horses and carts to transport it and would make a procession over twenty-one miles in length. ''he surplus about which so much is satid in the daily newspapors amounts to nearly $17,000,000, an increase of $5,(t00,000 since July 1. Counted as gold this surplus would weigh eighty six and ont -half tons. Counted as silver it would weigh 1,385 tons. E;ach million of gold adds 3,085 pounds to the surplus, and each million of silver adds 58,930 pounds. Applying cubic measurement to the treasury gold and silver, and piling the two metals on Pennsylvania avenue as cordwood is piled before (elivery to the pl)urchaser, 1 find that the gold would nuasure tLirty-seven cords and the silver 492 cords, and that both would extend irom the treasury department to 4 street, or from the treasury to the pen sion oflico in a straight line, and forming a solid wall eight feet high and four feet broad. Extending thoso calculations and com parisons to the interest-bearing debt, <Iually interesting results are obtained. The lpublic debt reached the highest ploint in August, 1865--just twenty-two y cars ago-when it was $2,381,530,295. The general reader will bitter appreciate the vastness of this sum when informed that it represents 70,15ti tons of silver, which would make a procession of carts that would extend from Richmond, Va., to a point twelve miles north of Phila d ,lphia, the distance it would thus cover being 206 miles. The interest bearing debt is now (not Iincluding the Pacific Railroad bonds), 3l,001),976,850, showing that the sum paidl has been $1 ,379,5i53,4456, or more than (one-half of the total uamount, and rep)resenting 10,637 tons of silver dollars wvichl woul extend 154 miles if p)acked in ca(rts containing one0 ton each. Redlucing these figures to a basis where they may be intelligently comn lrchendeil, and that the rapidity with which the government has reduced its bonded debt may be fully realized by the general reader, 1 find that the reduo lion has been at the average rate of 6$t2,600,905 each year, $5,225,581 each month, $174,186 each day, $7,258 each hour, and $120.417 for every minute of the entire twventy-two yearis. Pursuing the calculation to the smallest divisible space of time, the bonded debt of the United States has been decreased at thes rate of $20.07 every second, or for every swing of the p)endulum, for the enltire period from August 31, 1865, to Jiul 31, 1887. 'Ihis is an exh.ibition of recuperation and material progress on the par, of the country anid ol sterling honesty and in tegrity on thes part of the government and p)eop)le that is without p)arallel in the world's history. Thes physicians of the L'ennsylvania hospital assert that they havo no record ~ of a colored person1 Suiferning from sun siroke being admitted to that institution. This is a remarkable fact, It is enough to manke white folks envious in this sort of weather. Most people1 would imagine that colored peopl1 ~e ro far less apt to be overcome by the heat than their Cani easiani brethren, but it is rather strange to learn that, in a hospital whore scores of sunstroke eases are attended, not a single case can be found of a black man stinstruck. In thes first surprise at this inforna lion oe might imagine that a good way for peCople to avoidh being overcome by the torrid heat of umnmer would be to miakc liberal applications of b)urnt cork to their skins, 'Thoro is something so simple and easy ini this suggestion that, if it were not for appearances, it might be5 exp,erimnented with by tihe wvhole pop hiat ion of Piladelphia. It might if it wro not for the fact that thoe records of other cities, particularly sities in the South, show that negroes aro stunstruck. 'Thlis is rather bewilder ing. It is, as one0 may say, dazing. Imnd I le conclusion to which it leads is that Ph iladelplhuia darkies are yoeculiarly oarticuilar in hot weather to avoid hard york and keep out of the sun.-Phila delphia News. 1t1, luly a1 qjuesthi of p)reference wvhelb. '('r' yu ieaIve your money when you dlIe, or idlow youri money to leave you while you lIve.