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. . ~ - ~ t * "1~ 'A -('4 b & & V A ru14uri~ __ 6 VOL. XVI. PICKENS, S. C.. THURSI)AY. SEPTEMBER 1, 1887. NO. 49. MYSTERIOUS SOUN)S. THE CURIOUS EFFECTS TIIEY iiAVJ UPON THE MINI)S OF SOME 'ERSONS. The Oroundless Fear Experienced by tle Hearing of Apparently Inexplicable Noises-- rhe Origin of Midnight Sotnnle Generally to be Traced to Atmospheric Influe os. The ofieot of certain sounds upon the mind is oftepl very curious. We do not allude to the ordinary phenomena of speech, singing and music, where the sound-producing apparatus is tolerably familiar, and its distance from the hearer estimated with a near approach to aCcl racy. The effect is only "mysterious' when there is any doubt as to where the sound comes from, and hpw it was originated; the imagination then begus, and works itself up to very singular hal lucinations. Night, or darkness with )ut night, has much to do with this mat ter. When we cannot see the sound producing agent, conjecture is apt to run wild. Ghost stories ofteu depend on no beittor foundation than this. For in stance, certain sounds may frequently be heard at night coming from the air above, but from an invisible souree-- a kind of whistling or prolonged cry, the producers of which are known in cert:ti ps.rts of England as "whistlers." Sime legends make it out that these whistlers are ghosts, some evil spirits, som Wan dering Jews. But the truth is that the sounds proceed from birds, such as wild geese or plovers, which are in the habit of flying in flocks by night, either for ho purpose of reaching distant feeding 4 grounds or during their annual migra tions. The cry which is usually utt ered bs the "leader" during these nocturnal b'ird-tlights has, from ignorance of its cause, been regarded as weird and inys terious by superstitious folks, who asso ciate it with impending evil. Many a su1po:e(d ''man in tie house" turns out to he only tho noise of some door, possibly aflected by gr,elual changes of temperature, forcing itself open. Many a ghost story would rc ceivc its solution by a little attention to the sounds resulting from the expansion and contraction of wood-work, suIh as panels, wainscoting and articles of fIori tare. Heard at night, when all is still, the sudden creaking of furniture in a room is apt to be somewhat start.ig, until one comes to know that it is simply d.to the "weather." So nd, being genemlly mor indile Pt iu the da.ylimne, A oitei hose w"hio o)verl ok 'his Stpecially otedt ais ' " - "-iefn a' the toi times is produ.. , i_ hear it. 'T'he chirp of aem sparrow e, n audible to some persons; others, who can hear this sound, cannot hear the squeak of a bat; and all of u are at the mercy of a kind of tone deafness (aiido gous in some degree to l)r. )atk,n's color blindness) in regard to sounds of acute pitch. A singular ease of vi-ible but inaudible drumming occurred during the American War of Indcpend-nec. English and American troops were drmtwa up on opposite sides of the river; the outposts were mutually visible; and the English could see an American drummer beating his tattoo, although no sound could be heard. ''his is attributed to a kind of tone opacity which all'eeted tie air ever the river in a particular state of temperature and humidity. There is, to miost of us, much mrystery -in sounds when louder than we expecd to find thein. A well at Carisbrooxe Castle, Isle of Wight, has water at the bottom, andl when so small an object ats a pin is droppedl into the waiter, thre sound can be heard above, although the well is more than two hundred feet, deep. At St. Albain's Cathedral, it used to) be said, the tick of a watch could be hoard from end to end of that very long build ixng. Whether the recent restorations *Aave interfered with this p)henomnenon, sve do not know. I1t is a well-known fact that sounds can be heard over w~ater at a greater distance than over laud. D r. Hatton heard a p)erson readinug at a distance of one hundred and fort.y feet on thre Thlames, whereas he could only hear him seventy feet away when on the shore. Sounid can be heard over ice, also, more eaisily' than over hind. When Lieutenant 1'oster was wintering in thre arctic regions, lie found lhe eoubt converse with a man a mile and a <paur ter distant, both being on the ice. The human voice, it is asserted, has bcen heard ton miles oif by persons at Gibral tar-over thre water of thre strait, we pro sume. The whispering gallery at St. Paul's is always a mystery to visitors; ai whisper often becomes audible at the opposite side of the gallery, but not al intermediate positions. The lato Charler 'Wheatstone once mad(e a curious observa tion on sound at the Colosseum in thue Rtegent's Park, recently pullled down. Placing himself close to the upper part of the interior wall--a circle one hun dred and thirty feet in (diamneter he found that a spoken word was repeastedl .many times; that an exclamation ap. pgared like a peal of laughter, and thin the tearing of a piece of paper was liki the pattermng of hail. In the Cathedra of Girgenti, Sicily, a whisp~or can bs heard theo whole length of the buli if the whiisperer places himself in thi focus of the semi-circular aPse at oni end. A story is told that long ago a confessional-box was inadvortently place( just at the spot near .the entrance to thu church, and that the authorities first ho -came cognizant of this awkward fact h' a ferment arising out of one particula: confeasion. There is no doubt of it, the fear ox pe rienced' by manny persons, especial' woLuen, on hearing sonme of these "miys teriouis sounds" is groundless, and exam jnation nearly always proves it. '[hi fear is largely p)revalent among tIe fe male sex. When alone they are apt t1 attribute each creak of the door to somw midnight assasin, each rattle of th window-pano to Ian incautious burglai This fear is greatly auigmenited by th~ imagination, wvrihi makes murderers (] rats and ghosts of cockroaches as the; glde about during the silent wvatches o .the night. Again, some persons hav an incessant horror of being clutched in the dark by som cold, clammy being who has the remarkable, superhuman power of coming in upon them through the koyhole. They live in constant dread, they toss upon their couches, and should they awake in the darkness of the night and hear the sighing of the wind, imagination weaves the sound into the breathing of seono ghoulish visitor, and drawing the covering over their heads, they await with bated breath and list'ning ear their coming doom. It is a silly fancy, an unnatural com position, that produces iuch dread. We are not living among vipers, whoso poi sonots fangs are drawn to strike upon every side; nor are wo sturrotnded by Sepoys, whose dark scowl and murderous leer are indicative of the trade of death, whose dirks ore ever clutched to plunge them into the flesh of brothers, whose fingers are aching to clutch some unsus pecting victim. Nor is this a Nihilistic country, where treason lurks in the very air, whero brotler suspects brother, where to-day you are broathing in se curity and to-morrow the seal of death is upon you. Such, thank God, is not the c:iso. Civilization is at its grandest height, the world is becoming socialized, and the influences of the law are tending to remove the dread of mau for mankind. Enemies are not going to pounce upon you at every turn, nor assassins hover over your slumber. So, ye fearful antici pators, go to your rest, unmindful of detrimenit, undisturbed by the moaning of the wind. THII V LEFT TilE HABY. A iold Uase of licartiess )esert1on by Two Unknown Vomeon. (liroin. !te Atlanta Constitution.) Maior Jackson and Mary Jackson, his wife, live at 161 Mangum street. They are both almost jet black negroes, but into their home came a white baby early yesterday morning, a beautiful, blue eyed, golden-haired boy. The parents of the child are unknown. Soon after ,Jackson left his home for his day's work his wife bogan cleaning up the dishes, and as sho was in the midst of the work a loud knock on the front door attracted her attention. At the door she noticed two white women neatly dressed. One of them carried a small bundle in her arms, and as she en tered the house the negro woman Saw that it was a baby. One of the women pretenled to be sick, and gave her ill *ness, which she claimed was very sud den, as an CxCUSe for entering the house. 'the old woman quickly provided I hem )oth with chairs, and as they sat down, one of tleu ;id: ''Auntie, please take the baby a in u e." helie old woman took the child and be gan catressing it. ''Sit down, please," said one of the prettiest baby m ael the woman who 6 all the talking. ..es, ma'am, he certainly looks dat way," said the negress, glancing at the child's face, which she had uncovered. "lIte certainly is, and he is just as g: od and sweet os he is pretty. You mttt take mighty good care of him while you ha.ve him, for you will be well paid for your trouble." ''Oh, din ain't no trubble,'' answered the old wonilt. ''Oh, sister, ileasa get me a drink of water," remarked t he woman who had not sloken. 'Canu you get me a glass of water, auntie," said the other woman. "fiartinly," said the negress, arising with the baby in her arms and advancing towards the woman. "'Just lay it on the bed there," saiid the woman pointing towards the bed. The oltd negro laid the chil on the bed tendlerly, andl started inlto the yard to1 draw a buscket of wter. She was gone three or four minutes, anid asu she re-eniteiedl the room, was sur-prised to findl the two women gone. Olanciu" towards the bed, however, she notie ti the child lying as she had placed it. 'Thie old1 woman couldi not understanud the situatiin, and hurried towards the front (leer to ask it from the women. As she reachied the (door she saw one of them enter a carriago, in which the other was sitting, just us the driver touched his horses with the whip. 'The e1l woman called upon0 them to stop, btut the horses sprang away swiftly, andl and were soonu out of sight around the corlr.Th citrriage was the one in wihtewomen came wvith the baby. It had been left b)esidle the sidewalk when they entred the hous~e, bt the old woman han paid but little attention to it. After the carriage had driiveni away the ob(1 woman re-entered the house, and, picking up the babe, began looking at it. A glance showed that it was p)retty. Its clothing was neat, though not fine, but there was no mark about it to indi cato whence they came. 'The old woman was considerably mudtdled, and in her dilemama sent for an oflicer. Ed Cason, o)f the mounted depart ment, respondled, and from the 0old woman heard the story. Th'le two women were described to the ollicer. Bloth were apparently thirty years of age, and both were dressed in black. One (If thoem~-the one who asked for the water--was closely veiled, while the ether had no veil at tall. '[he carriage was not a street hack, and( Ollicer ('ascii could not traco it far. Th'le old woeman imanifested a reluct anice to give uip the child wvhen thme olilier suggested takitng chmarge of it, andl prom ised to care for it and give it tip when neCededl. A pretty N ebraskat widow who had ensnared the alflcetionis of mniy respiect able farmers living near Wyman was re c4mntly ordered1 to leaive the county by ai band of "'regulators" under penalty oIf ai - coat of tar and feathers. Nothing daunted by thme threat, thne widow houighit - a doublo barrel shotgun and awaited de( - velopments- When the "regulators" Sa proaocd the house to carry out their tzireats the sight of a loadled shotgun pointing from one of the windows de terred thmem, and one of the numiber, ini admiration of the" Woman's plluck, ad vainced under a flag of truce, prop'oe(d marriage and was accepted on tbe spot1 IThen a parson was calied In, the mar riago.was celebrated and the night wound upwith a round of etde.-Bto llE. WAS ONCIE lIANG;IS). DInrveoiuI ECenpso of a Negro Fromn a l)eath on the Gallowe. (From the Worcester Telegram.) Yesterday afternoon a colored man was taken ill on the common, and would have fallen but for the timely assistance of two bystanders. The man had been wandering about the common since morning, and had been noticed on ac count of the peculiar way in which ho carrird his head. It hung toward his right shoulder, and he seemed to take no pains to pull it into the position in which people commonly carry their heads. lie was respectably dressed in clothes that had evidently not been made for him, and his boots looked as if ho had walked a considerable distance. When he had been assisted to a seat ho fainted, and when ho regained con sciousness he clutched at his throat, tore away his collar and said appealing ly, "No, No! My God! Not again!" His embarrassment when he looked about him was marked. One of the gentlemen who had assisted him to a seat left when the colored ran had recovered, but the other remained and <luestioned him as soonl as he had recovered his composure. lie did not, belong in Worcester he said, and ho had never boon here before. He had walked from Now Haveu, beg ging shelter and food as he went, and had only got to this city in the early morning. He had no friends and he said he was not able to work. The man seemed weak and flurried by his faintness and the humane person who had remained by his sido took him to a res taurant and saw him properly fed. It was in a burst of gratitude and confi dence at being so well treated that the colored man told a tale so utterly mar velous as to be utterly unworthy of credence were it not corroborated by known fr.cts. It was sitting in the common after he had dined that he said: "I have had trouble with my neck and been subject to fainting spells ever since I was hanged in Arkansas." 'I'lie expression was Ltarthing enough to make anyone think the man was crazy; but he was circumstantial as to details of time and place, and it is a well known fact that a negro was legally hanged three years ag' in Arkansas for assault on a white woman and afterwards recovered consciousness. Tie case attracted much attention at the time. As lublished the negro was suspendd for 20 minutes after the drop of the old-fashioned ilatform gallows fell and the body was given by the sheriff to the fattier of the young man who. with some friends, was waiting near by with the wagon. It was the intention to takc him to the settkiment where he formerly lived and bu:y him there. This settlement was 1 miles from the county seiat, at which the hanging took phace, and was through a lonely piece of coun try. When the wagon was nearly at home the father of the supposed corpse and his friends were startled by groas coming from under the tarpaulin, thrown over the supposed dead man, and his struggles to got from under it. As soon as they had recovered from their fright they went back to the wagon, from which they had fled, and helped the legally dead man up, gave him a drink from the omnipresent jug of whisky and took him home. Instead of leaving the settlement at once, the hanged main stayed around his old home, and t lie -super titions colored people demanded his rearrest and the completion of the hanging. The case was taken to the governor, .and pending discussion as to the right of the authorities to take cognizance of the existence of a convict who had been pronounced legally dead, the man fled and has been a wanderer ever since. The story of the negro coincided with the ease as recalled, and there wais no room to doubt that he really was the Arkansas culprit. 1.t was only after repeated urging, sweetened with promises of help to ler.ve the city in comfort, that he told his story in the dialect of a Southecrn field hand, somewhat tempered by residence in thec North. D)ivested of its quaint dialect, his tale is weirdly an tid p)erhaps morbidly interesting. "'I was locked uip," he said, "mere than six months, but I niever thought I was going to be hanged until the night before. Then 1 knew the gallows was upl and .[ got scared1. T1hey p.rayed with me all the time and tried to keep me f rom think ing of it, but I didn't hear what they pra&yed about. I was too exicited. I didn't go to sleep all the night before, and when they camne to fetch me I was so weak I couldn't stand up. T1he sher'iff gavo e a dLtrinik of whislky and then tied my elb'ows behind my back and took me along. 1 know there was crowds around when 1 went to the gal lows, but I didn't seem to sec 'ema. I heard somebody singing and I joined in. Then they pushed me up on t,he gallows, and I saw the rope andi got scared again and tried to hang back, bult they pushdled me ialong and made mno stanld lip straight. I recolket their putting the noose on my neck and dIrawing it up tight, but 1 was thinking of whether they were going to hurt me anId all at once I dropped. 1 had shut my eyes when they putlled a piece of eloth over m,y face, but I opened them then aind tried to get iiy hands up to tear the cloth oif so I coul see; but all at once I thought some one hit me a terrible bldow on the head and t lost my senses. When I woke upl I thought 801m1 01n0 was choking me and tried to get loose, bnt .1 couldn't. Then it seemed as if my head was bursting and I saw awful lights be fore my eyes, and my feet and hands seemed to be so heavy 1 couldn't stir them. Then great rings of all sorts of bright colors began at my eyes and wenit further and further off, growing biggir and fainter until I lost them. My hecad felt prickly all over and so did my hanidS and feet, and I couldn't breathe iand then I fintlied. Ouneo I knew 1 was be ing hanigd, but it was only for at second. "'When I woke up in the wagon I. wats woirso scaredl than before, and when I got out from uder the tarpaulin thought I had beeni dreaming. Then, when my noeck got to hurting me so, I knew what was the matter. For weeks afterwards 1 could halrdlly swallow, and I couldn't turin my head, and I can't now very much. 'lie cords arc all stinu oni One side andli drawn down." T1hie ma~n toldh his story ini ailmost corn mon place fashiion, butl whten lie spok of his life since it atlieted him. "I can never go home again." h aid, "and I can novor sco or hear of ny folks again. They were going to catch mo and do it all over again, so I ran away. I've been knocking around over since, principally in Canada, Now Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, but now I thought I'd come up hero whore I might get some light work I could do." The man did not seem like the brute ho must have been, and, in fact, ho had tho appearance of ordinary intelligence at least. According to his own story, ho has done little work in his wander ings, and has begged both food and shelter and clothing. "Sometimes," he said, "I have wished that I had never com to life again. That's been when 1've been nearly frozen and starved. I never go near colored people, for it was my own color that tried to havo me banged over, and I hate a black face." Asked if he wasn't afraid of being arrested for the old crime, ho said: "No, boss; I don't think they'll ever look for me as long as I stay away from there, and I'll never go back to Arkansas." The' Cot ton MlOVenlu nt. The Now York Financial Chronicle, in its review of the movement of the cotton crop for the week eiding on the night of August 17, says that the total receipts have reached 9,UJ8 bales, against 7,270 bales last week, 1,109 bales the pre vious week, and 2,581 bales three weeks since; making the total receipte since the 1st September, 188t, 5,223,t97 bales, against 5,337,618 bales for the same period of l885 6, showing a decrease since September 1, 1886;, of 114,521 bales. 'I'he old interior stocks have decreased during the week 1,618 bales, and were, Friday night, 22,664 bales less than at the same period last. year. The receipts at the same towns have been 805 bales less than the same week last year, and since September 1 the receipts at all the towns arc 73,258 bales lJcs than for the same time in 1885--G. 'I'he total sales for forward delitery for the week are 312,000 lales. For im mediate delivery the total sales fool up 9,259 bales, including 4,185 for export, 5,074 for home consumption. The exports for the week reach a total of 27,171 bales, of which 24,650 were to Great lritain, 150 to France, and 2,371 to the rest of the continent. The imports into continental ports for the week have been 10,000 bales. These figures indicate an increase in the cotton in sight of 72,706 bales as compared with the name date of 1 86, an increase of 53,027 bales as compared with the corresponding date of 1&85, and a decrease of 317,800 bales as com pared with 1884. The total recwipts from the plantations since September 1, 18i;, are 5,198,023 bales; in I885 t were 5,:31;,310 bales; in 1884-5 wer.1 4,746,090 bales. Although the receipts at the outports the pest week were 9,61) bales, the actual move ment from plantations vas only 8,G6S bales, the balance ieing taken from the stocks at the interior towns. Last year the receipts from the plantations for the .ame week worn 7,81-1 bales, and for 1885 they were 3,580 baken. 'I'he foregoing shows the weekly con suniption in Europe is now 140,000 bales of 400 pounds each, against. 138,000 bales of the same weight at the corres ponding time last year. The total spin tirs stocks in Great Britain and on the contineit have decreased I:3,000 lah.t during the month, and are now -17,000 I bales in excess of last season. The Chronicle says that cotton for fu- I ture delivery at New York has been quiet for the week under review. The ab sence of active influences-or rather with active inl1uences nearly balancing each other--has prevented any wide iluctua tions. The dominant spirit of the cot ton exchangc has beCen bearish; and yet but a small imipulse was required to cause the ''shorts" to cover with sonme appearance of eagerness. It wals not, howvever, until Wednesday afternon , whouei the full business for export and home conisumip-ion on that day was re ported1, that tihe bulls showed any degree of coultidenice. Thlen the continued small receipts at interior townst, the small stocks South, and the rapid reduac tion of supplies in Newv York, together with the growing belief that New Eng land( spinners narc carrying but small' stocks of cotton, causedt a quick advance, with comparatively free buying for Sep-. tenmber. Thumrsdlay there was very little change; tihe speculation was sluggish, but the distant options attracted moure aittentioni. Friday the market opened dull, but soon became act ive tand buoy ant on a better closinig at i veipool and the strung statistical position of our home markets. Cotton on the spot has ahw a good degree of activity, the buying having been quite free for ex pIorts as well as for home conumption. Quotations were reduced ce. on Monday and advanced 1-I1(c. on Thursday. Fri dlay there was again a l,iberal busincs for export, with steady bunying for spinners, anid the market cloused firm at 1) 11l-16c, for middling uplland1s. Thelm Chreonicle's wveather repiorts, wvhich are very full1 and ace- irate, indicate that over a very large pnortion of Texas (drouth has camused considemal>lo damage, and that ini somne sections of other States in jury is result.ing tlhrough worms, rust and shedding. lin the remanin g dlistricts, however, and in the Atlantic States in pairticulai, the crop condition continues quite satisfactory. Piceking is niaking good progress. II 5Ihould be GAenierall KI~inow~ n ThIal. thle mu ltitudei c odiseas-es of a scro fuiltu nai li tr gennerlly pnrnie-ed from a :1tor Sidt conition ofi t1 1e liver-. Th'le blood be coenss limpm hie eausnie thle liver dues aol act propl)tiy ntd workn off the po)tin fromi the sy:d,tn ma unthe IcetaIin results arn tumis l,ei ,i mal'h kindtrnd ifections oir st-l i ng in thle lnungmv. 1111ptistiiiti tit-i:rd <hinh tisiues, unft nil(erantion, break ing d >wl, l -ioutionl 11 is estabhni( .will. bty nun uponI tiheln liver andt punrity ing tihe bhlisid, elite ali tihe'e diseases. Ai Ijit he ic ofrhe AXn ephlitun of murderis andl sinihls Ihs preveaii'li in th. pirt if St~ enuni'l coun'y duri in thd pI few~ day.s. A an shotni in wiI nd hi hnimsel f at W\est. tirbainn. l'inltny, te<t a Suticidll death, it is'said. WHITE SLAVES IN MASSACIIUSEFrTS. how Iguorant Forelgners are (apturc(1, Sold and Starvod. (From the Now York leralu.} Up in Massachusetts, in the conf: es of the beautiful Connecticut Valley an;i on the slopes of the green hills that shelter it, many farms of fifty, sixty or one hundred acres each arc now being 1 wok;ked by a strange people-uncouth immigrants, ignorant of the English tonguo and strange to Yankee ways. I They aro Poles, Hungarians, Magyars, Danes and Swedes, with whose ignorance z the farmers put up because they are a cheap, strong and capable of doing hard < and steady work on little food of the coarsest quality and used to living in the c most squalid (uarters. Some run away, leaving their senaty i baggage, all they brought from Europe. i Some are wise enough to stick out the s year, learn all they can and make their r own terms then. Sonic don't know what a they can do and go on shdidly and sul lenly ''grinding in the prison houses." a A Herald reporter heard some of them c last week in the Connecticut Valley, and c set out to investigate the stories, to 1 learn how the innigrants fresh from I Castle Garden get so speedily into Mas- t sachusetts, two hundred miles away, and t how these individual farmers who never i saw Now York get these men under such a iron-clad contracts, lie fhuid that the f fine old city of Northampton, Mas., l where philanthropy and education walk t hand in hand under the giant elii trees, l was the place where the largest jobber r im contract immigration farni labor known to Ca'tle Garden had his "'oflice," e a so-called intelligence olice. t lie is Charles '1'. Parsons, a Maple t street farmer, a large, stout man, with d light brown hair and board, and an over- t shrewd, even foxy, face of a New Eng- e land type. He went into the business s seven or eight years ago, at the time of the proat floods in Hungary, when so n many men left that desolate region for i this country. t But tho authorities of the Garden be- i came distrustful of his methods and L waork, and for two years they have re- 11 fusesd to have anyt.hin- to do with Iliai i of to allow him within the Garden. ie s has in consequence of late secured his t immigrants in ''Little Castle Garden," t at No. 32 Greenwich street., Fitzpatrick's intelligence ofliee. t Fitzpatrick secures his customers by i force, ;ue might say. H is henchmen, c lazy, tunguey immigrants who would rather live by their unscrupulous wits t than by labor, hang around the Battery r as the newly arrived imuigiant.s stroll l out of Castle Garden. These new coners I are too im)atient after their l.,reed con- 1 finement at sea to wait a day or two till< the Labor Bureau finds them work. t They fall a ready prey to tlhene ru1nr, I who volubly claim to come from ihe I i same province or even the same vill:ge, I and overflow with the milk of human i k:ndness as they steer them a'traightiy I to Greenwich street and land them dex terously in the disamal looking intelli gence office. l Out comes the contract-it is filled out; the hapless immigrant half dazed i ''touches the pen' or makes his mark, t and he, with his family, if he ha: one, is i sold outright to this jobber in human I labor, to be transferred to the Massachn- ( retts farms. This is the h bor contract they sign: i Ni1:w1"oit.,- --, I'8-- . In consideration of the eiuploynmnt. furnished us by Charles '1. l'arsons, of Northampton, Mass., not over six iours' ride distant, we agree to work for him, or where lie places us under this con tract, for--months, at $----, less cx ienses, , payment to be nmade at end of time, excepting what we nleed fr necessaries. Understanding further , bagge to bs hiolden for all money ad- ~ vanded, and if we fail to fullill this cona tract we (10 not expect our wages. 'The ~ said eniployer also agrees, if we doC well, at the expiration of the time to give us I extra- -. Signed, - - -- Witness Interpireter, - On the back is pirinited blank fotr in dorsemient of the transfer of the cia tract to the efTect that ''Mr. ac-.ji cepts the withiui contract as miade by the e saidl P arsons, his agent." When twenty or- thirty people aire a piicked up and the contracts are squeezed'is as low as poessible, they aire packed uap I. and shipped to Northampton. Then the farmer-s call and make selections. T1. laborers are sold1 to aniy putrchas~er. The farmer pays geaierally a fee of 810) a head for his help. The agent in thais city rm ceives M2, and Mr. Parsonas pays the lab oror's fare aand pockets the b alne,I about $1, ais his fee. Then tarmeri, by his contract, can make the laboaer- pamy inii work for the cost of his transport111tion I The prices at which able-bodiied meal can b)o secured vary, but doC not execeed a $100 a year. Women need be paid but at $50 a year, while children work for their board and clothes. As farmers have to pay American hanada 18 or 820) a mont ha, they are glad to get strong and haealthy I foreigners inuared to hard work for 88 or lessi a month. In the circular whaich P.arsonas sei n 1 out to thae farmers in seaarch of cus,tom - era are those statements: "PI atienace is niece.ssary, esp)eciailly wihen you want to use0 them (the greean hlands) allele. Oar best help has been D)anes. We, fromn choice, mix tie dilferenat nattionaiiilt.i(s. Iin~g poo)r amid iganorant of our hinaguage ndwy,they expeIct to work cheap; to' some ths is n disadantage i act,w know edge of 0our laborers, so1me of them, for sucha wisdom often proves foolishneses to their empljoyers. "Pce' of the haelp, ab)out 310 or 1 for thea ;easo: , 815 foar Jun le anmd Jluly', 86i for fall and wiiit(r, $mo to 612 a year, d1epiend'ing uapons capafcit y. bhitw l ear-la v' a y (i ek. "'If you ha, a tetneament --two roomiiia will geaierially a isweir--a fani is imeh i the chapels t, as you can pay inim far<nt thec farm; thaey Ire amore aipt to sita; wife anmd childr'.n will wvork in; prie frm .n3 15 to 825; hoard I heniwelves. I aI house servaat is wianted man iandl wife , are the cheapest if you have work for I him." 1 If you are looking for a beauliful! place to spend the rest of the summe; with family or friends, yell cannllot lil better than to visit the famous AIl-I eal ing Mineral Springs of Giastoii county, North Carolina. Th'le ladles wvill lhe interestedl to kanow thaat t the bustle 18 of 14rsIan ortIgn. S. l'i;LO ANi) ItLAChitI:AItt). ( :tra ltmt I)".eti p< u of- a V 'ritable iltttttlntoL'ti i'aruisus. (F'roin i h li ett, Ga (Itzro to.) e islani of apolo, lying just with )ut the louth1 of the Altamaha i\ver, onl tle( Gcorgia coast, is ertainly one of the most beautiftl in ;he whole coast chain of islands froni the ay of the (hlesapeakle to the ifloridat apes. It Oceuipitionl ntul gettleuent by he F'reich nobility daute back. to that of t. Augustine. TIto litnal desceudauts are still in ('irct possession of the islaInd and its oral titory. Au old fort at its mtter extromity, tlto ruins of whih ai'( till cofF1picuO11S, bears witness to the lutractw anel pr, cautionarty and fore ight of its tir t settlers. ' welve im ihs nt length1 by three in width, it reucht s long the cUast. A narrow arm of the Cu divides it on the north from Georgia lain, while its sotthern shore stretches way for miles, a snowy expanse of 'tve-wiashed nind - untc(ltttaleud this, by ny fretiuented beach along the south rn coast, save that at Fernandina, in xteiit. HeCrte it most litutitf picture recnts itself. Oi the4 I)'1e bind, the r eadl \tiitie, sveejaing fur out to miect. lbe sky; on the other, huge live oak r'e's, graty w it Ii iigt ad1(t hanging moss lny a i,aint, tmonug them statndls, whoSu) rrnis, ont:,tretchcd ltw, iitrk a circun rene( of Iweo ildretl 1 et iod more et\\ve't thiem, a:; if to guarid ageinlst !ir nitutar rlr tx p ro , lieu, the glistening' and of ialt. II ere the "'league-long ller thuniering oin the beach," and the 'moving whisper of huge trees" is never nding. here the deep sea turtle conies > deposit her eggs, and here, then, Il(rC is rtre sport for the vigilanton ti ark of the looli. TIo diauond-bV'k irrapin is here, aiid to be had for the atehing -less thn with )ehuoniio, it ixteen tlt lrits a dozen. lkeyoiid, close in, but separated by a arrow chat"., lies ;lueklcbard. 'i'iis hltud deterves iore than passing mein (iti. Onie ihe rienvlchoVUs of .Black ad, th irt'ate, (a c ittemporary of are' buliedct l;), i!I-totlenl lu b o1y, ant''d cru, , lun t h thte tlide i retsure Lt'kt'r.: 1:ace lIett ..u itlt tech iit us tg({. ieir ii ' el \itl a: t al) ti c tilt hIohc bey dag. Tilhis blltd 1a(bt t he p tac .ro1 t iy o,t bite govt:,unwnt it for sutine yi ( 4 a i:ast, Iitl a thein'nuut \oodn iuval ships wae. oltsid( ert e , eci,l!y voLhmu tbli e Io ' itS - it( ('t il t , \ci - 4 t,1 iihti: 1 Cxt tu 1t5t4 :t i nl . i aO 14 t4 1' *i , iit ita,)1 i iI ceuui t iiiv < , t t S it f, r l' l u i etein - oig Ih(i thro ulhiis .t mti' r.11 t It l as tl m ght, uit vi-k i et n.lit, m.t sOlli: fl (! o(1 l t i t hc,1glti 11on1 l .il. a res <41 the si tered w ! ater .i Ii, 4 iihlii d c: ' ii'n' i'i..2ifgl i i ai I p iCtt i)aitt it') t ese5 ri t lose \\iit' t ;reen brirs and l:i1gin \vinus, ilbtui uein 1 ih, thte r lor ti ih y in g. It'ie <n ilrtntii e t s iti n for Ihi;s letm ai,' Dt)b y iS onl this islld(. Bt to eit 'u1.n. 1114pelo light, u'l thie i:ahin 1 1reti i, (o! >osite )ohut?, ~na ta thet tntr:ance t' hii-, the p:ort of I):'r . hb; us of ui' ttiic115 pa:5 iII l oiutt t by thi is i l tgi errii awny ii ithi th(rita i t l utu in .i ' r iat \tlo ife ind Iii t! l l irt l t11: hIo (e l. C e:,twi v\5'lrt\r" ci i're ':.i ." u hu " has n1nhe . ltt.e nlatrly Ilhreu- nit -el ,a t chO' net. 14 , teit s Ina t u 111 u(tlit. :, t i r , " I alil ly, t tl Oi ii t a l e mereilltlt ' i'aft th>a,,lt; ii iit!tl: i f t ni\ s lt t:try, lit in t ttiii al o ilttt h 1tin itle, hal'. tiiiitable skill of' the Ame(ria.t:1 s11ip - niler. T h int(.ie r of ua 1 l tr tlesenb on, ye k brivci e 44 ii d )1t 41ll litiO ;I .us, it:. venues and11 -jii tieas, 'ined ith tail lone44 rInug4i t break:11 the ilauness itit 1 > the scene;they tell o thepoi'o ieinc fherli 411':. 14 A erambl i'ing w 'h ii sj><> whro tli : Ir'l t wais te o '9 u ii al,"i wileo goriig ind labot all( Wilyh ecery to Aholiand liingra Sinmabund eaom OIt. A NOTED LADY GONE. MrH. Aidrow Jackson, Jr., Onco Mistreis of the White House, ireatbes Her Lait at tho Age of Eighty-one. NASuvILLE, Tenn., Augst -28.-Mrs. Sarah Jackson died at the HeriAitage to-day, aged eighty-one, leaving two children, Colonel Andrew Jackson, of Wcst Point, who as an artillery offio,r in the late war on t111outhern side and made reputation, and rs. Dr. John Lawrence. One son, 8 el, was killed .:t Chickamauga. Mrs. Sarah Jackson, now embered by few people, was for Ion ears-or acsrly four years--the most p went lady of the laud, the mistress \Vhito house. About the common munelmeniunt of General 'Jackson's second term, his adopted .an, A drew Jackson, Jr., muarried Miss Sarah York, of Phila delphia, a young lady of accomplish mlents, of good family and groat person al beauty. The adopted son, who was a nephew of Mrs. Jackson, brought his young bride to the Vhitu 'Iouse, where she was received by the President, who was a widower, Mrs. Jackson having died after his first election and before ho became President. Sho proved to be a most devoted daughter and loving wile. (oneral Jak'1o+n was a peculiar man. The loss of his wife four years beforo had changed his whole life. All his lettors-letters to members of the family and friends -showing that during his lirst term he was grieving over his great loss. But when tho time expired, the old General came back to the hermit age. in time ho died, leaving to his son and the family a fine estate. This was lost and the family were in straitonod circumstances. The 011 died in 1867, and yesterday the once beautiful bride, the uistress of the White HIouso-tho old hero's greatest comfort and solace in his ol( age-passed away at the ago of eighty-one. Il;U1(lN O' A L,ONG-LOST SON. .1 'oni )Iii; a who Vent. ta Var Found A ter I1 aing lourned a 1l)oad, To,tto, Ohio, August 23.-Hugh i'hompson, of the Fifteenth Ohio, was a resident of Van Wert county, near hero, before the war. At the l'attle of Chick amanga he was struck on the head by a gral)eshot and seriously wounded-his comrades thought mortally. They laid him under a tree, and a few minutes later wore forced to fall back. Thomp son fell into fho hands of the enemy, and was never heard from until a few weeks ago. During all these years he has been mourned as dead. H1e is married, is living in Kansas, and is tle father of a number of children. lie renemlero that he was in the army, ihat fromn the battle of Chickamauga to the great lire in Chicago, all is a blank to hui. lie does not know where he 'Vas or whiit he did daring all that time. lii the (xcitcment of the lire ho partially regained his senses, but could not locato his 01(1 lione. Hie wcnt to Minnesota and was married there, an'd wont thence to Kansas, where he took ip a claim sutl is farming for a living; and he re menlbers the (leth flt his mother, which took 1)laOo when he was thirteen years oid; that his captain's name was Updo grove, and that le was in a Confederate 1>rison. ''he reitinder of him early life is a blank. But his eji'trudcs, many of w homt live in \'un Wed , r eogliizo him. The sar1' miuade by the gr'neshot is on his head. A scar on his riht leg, made by a severe cut by an axe when the was a buy, is another strong p'oii in proving his i(lentitfy. lie wwt, away a black haired boy and returnis a gr.y haired man, but his father, who is tottiring un der t he weight of niearly four score yes, m iys it is IlughThmso, i hangr lest soni.Ilnpo,hi M\oniey was rised here and ucent to 1K 2waiz toa hear te exptense of Th'lomp .soni's trip) to t.his place to ttend a regi moa i t euniiion next week, lbut before thke remjit bu ce arrived his 1Kansas neighi hbirs had0 d1onated to Iiie sarao putrpoHe, and by their generehi noya i, at his old homie, which lhe left du~ iag the war. 'II Ili -eare or4? a, gI~a angintg. If those are to lie believed who, having been more or less haniiged, htave boon ro susc~itated and1 have narrated their ox periences, the mu chi-comm niscmated victim of the law's extreme penalty is not whollhy miserabhle. .It would seem that aeyen death "'sus. per celI.'" has its amielioratinig coinditionis or circumstances. Onie sufferer ini the religious cause in h ranice 1s said to u -- "complained'' be ('ause lhe was calle d back to conscious iiasfrom an ( eecee of sutrpassing th-lights, ini whieb lhe eiijoyed the pleas lire of gazing ulponl the most b)eautiful reenJe(ry. 'Ths nurinediato sensation of 1pain is miomuentary ; andit it would appear not untlikely that, in our anxiety for the ai.voh danee of neeleass annloyance to hose we put to death judicially, we may be aictuially increasing their suffering and hunmnshinig their pileasure. Th'le instan tuneious (deaths have all the pain and lit le or none of the paleasure. Slowly in duced congestion of the biraini may be th leasict paniful; and if only the blood press-ure be effectually raised at the centre that sees, the beautiful light and * lhariniig scenery are enjoyed in the highesti( perfection. Tihe subject is a grin (tie, and we are not sure that the new view of hanging experience Wtos ma ike the decath penmalty increag ily o terratit; but it is right that both sides a <jilestioni whichi the late Mr. Whall oncee excitedl the merriment (if the Hion of Comminons by dlescribing as '"a pO nuan's tiuestion"' shioul be carefully sitlered at all costs, Lo(ndon Lanct aJohn Bostwvick, onie of the blo citizens of Morgan, earn the ether daiy. En't route Mr. enco)tiuntered1 a lay out of frog which the( IKgyutian ptlagno pales ithat there was an acre of frogs, eachi sijuar' inch conitained4 fhay were all hopping ini oaK To lhodlin Camp we are in\ cialculation which showved. u > frogu for the single acre. 'lr' eounty has become a great fr to spea1k. - -Waltoni, (Ga., Ne~tws "A ugust us, tdear," ' stad the landI. ly puhtingiji him trom I mitonlig'hi ttloed the hasy:whi they werie staningi, 'I think y [tir try smiie aothir htir-dye; yoe aste lk upenntine."