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? ?hc (Stiff Mu Pinion ?imts. 7 R. M. STOKES, Editor. UNION, FRIDAY AUGUST 3 1877. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. 1 <'opv, one year, in a ova sen, tn.oo 2 Copies one rear," " '?.S0 ? ' " ? " 11.00 10 " " ' " " , JO.OO ADVERTISING. fine ftqtiarc or one Inch, first insertion, - - - Sl.no l'-irli Hulnrqucnl inner! Ion, ------- 75 Liberal iliseount made to merchants ami other* a<l rrrllhiriK for six month* or by tin- year. Obituary Nolieea of tell lines or less, Inserted free. " " over ten lines,charged a* Advertise ^ taunts. ___ 0Clf Last Monday tbc lirick Machine turned Out 1,100 bricks in fifty-five minutes. - 8MX- Wo arc pleased to see our frieml McKissick once inore upon his feet and walking the streets. ? ? t'apt. .1. <\ Winsmilli, a ineuihcr of tlie Spartanburg bar, died at bis residence on Tuesday, last, of brnin fever. BtJ- ('. \V. Dwighl and corps will commence the experimental surrey of the Chester and Union Narrow tlunge railroad next Monday. Procure n bottle of Thrush's consumptive cure and lung restorer, and stop that dreadful cough. Trial, -r?Oc 5?1 HO. Sold by all Druggists, and by A. IRWIN & Co., Union. Itr^L Mr. (Irani is hauling rock for the foun dations of McNcace and Davis' new buildings while other contracts have been made to rebuild upon other lots of the burnt district. ? _ CtaST" On our first page will be found a ?Ie seription of a trip to Tryon Mountain. It i: worth reading. tin out fourth page is an account oflhcStrik ers' riot in Pittsburg. HM>. Right Rev. Itishop llowc will make hi? annual visit to this parish on the 17th of this month He will ndminfpter the solemn ordi itunce of confirmation nnil conduct Divine scr vices on (he Sunday following. ??? BlOX lion, fleorge lluist, who hchl (he olfic of Ordinary for Charleston District for twenty a wo years, and was ever held in the highest es iimulum liv all who knew k'.'" ' >".1 , i. 1.n %.5t>? ?ai> or i.t ypnr? K(3}? We regret to learn that Miss Mador Idttlcjohn, one of the uiost amiable young It dies of (bis County, daughter of the late Di Tbos. liulcjolin, died very suddenly last Weil nosdny night, near Ulundybiirg, aged about '2 years. 0*1*,. On Sunday last, in Columbia, the tliei moinetcr went up to in the shade and lit) ii the sun. On the same day the tlieriuouietc stood at '.I'd in the shade, at this place, and ? thought that was hot enough for all culinur purposes. -- - . . ttffX.. The news from the Knstern war is ver; unreliuhle, Itut there is little doubt that th Russians nre getting the best of the fight. Ther iu Mill anmn n I..... <!.?< P....I. ...I ? "ll" - K"*"" . fi11<4 it nercsxarv to take pari in it. If t>lie doe? ^ ^ u f liuvAnaon nAuritv IIMI. The Strikers, in the North ami Nortli (list arc returning to work. In the Soullt-we> they are still holding out, hut doing no ollie mischief. lu most instances where strikes ar ke}t up, it is suppcBC'l that the rioters drive frem Pittsburg are at the bottom of them. Mos ef the Railroads have resumed their regula trains. Most of the trouble is new in Ohio. j*r a how belowin^ ^'r- John Eison, hit lea by a mad dog on the 'JIMIt of .May, was at lucked with rabies on the 2'Jth of July?-jus two months?and died the following day. A valuable yard dog belonging to CdI. I. (1 McKissick of tliis town, was on Monday las discovered with symptoms of rabies? fonmin] at the mouth and glaring eyes?and shot. . - Through (he kindness of our promp paying subsciber, Mr. II. II. Rurgess, wc liaTi rri>*>iv4??J u snck of truly fine Flour, ground a Mr. John McCarly's Mill ? formerly known in the Dr. Ilerndon Mill?in Newberry County.? We arc truly pleased to find that (he mills o this and the adjoining countios are vieing will each other in the quality of the Flour lliey nuke thick to that spirit, gentlemen, and you will profit by it. ... ... CttY It is strange how many of the County and city papers htpm now to look upon tho Charleston AVics ami Courier as we did over two years ago. When wc attacked that paper for voluntarily stepping to the rescue of Cardozo,? then charged with the same offence for which he is now under $20,000 bond?most of the county Editors defended the course of that journal, and asked?4,if we can't rely upon the AVwi andX'yufitr, who can wc rely upon ' Change of Schedule. On and after next Monday tho Schedule upon the S. U. & C. and S. and A. Railroads will be changed ax follows : The up-train will arrive at l.'nion six minutes later, i. e., I , arriving at Spartanburg ft?. l'assengers will remain at Spartanburg all night and start for the head of the road, llcndcrsonv'.tln ?n'l A r. -1 - ?, ....? ..3nv<iuc, ni .j u ciock me next morning. This change is made for the convenience and eoinfort of passengers, who will he able to reach IloHdersonvillc and Askuville early the next day after leaving Charleston. Wo arc truly pleased to state that our Town Council have "broke ground" to form a tire department in this town. They have commenced digging cisterns on Main Street and intend purchasing a fire Kngine. Their intention is to build four cisterns thai will bold twenty thousand gallons of water each, and when the engine is purchased to form an efficient Fire Company.? If is never too late to do a good deed ; fiat it is generally believed that bad tliis work been done when we first advised it the losses by the two last fires would not have been the one-twentieth part of what they were, while the lower rates of Insuranoe upon property would, by this time, have paid all Hio expenses now to he incurred -J ?. Ul'l ! II I ? The Fenoe Law. Wc have given the discussion of the Fence Law to our correspondents this week. All we ask of them is, to make their communicatioiw I as short as possible?like that from "Farmer/* that they keep their tempera nnd refrain from personalities and abusive language. We have no idea that tho people are prepared to adopt the law at this time. It is a cfahnge from what they have been accustomed^ yi.Vi their livos, and South Carolina Farmery are J hard to turn from the old beaten path their daddies and grand-daddies started them in. They must be educated or forced to it, before they will give it countenance. Their education mustcoino from honest and fair discussion, nnd practical evidences of tho good which such a system has wrought in other sections. The force we allude to will be that of circumstances. Kxccpl where pine timber is abundant?and it is well known that pine lands do not nrodtfee p'^ne trees after once cut down?rail splitters are v<ry scarce and fences cannot be built and kept up much longer, unless at a casii outlay mm uiruiera ??nu?? stand. A few years more and the fencing of I'uion will not bo much more than shadows around the crops. The colored labor of the county is already hunting up all the easiest work, and labor is not so abundant that the farmers can dictate ?/{ the terrny toil. It ys gttting scarcer and more scary of hard work every ' year. At the same time the stock of the laborer is increasing in numbers so fast that in a fen years the land owners will cither have to fenc? in their whole lands to secure pasturage for theit s own stock. There is one other way by which the bencfiti of Iho Stock law may be practically shown:? Let a number of land owners adjoining com bine to fence in all their own territory, undei t one fence, fence up their own stock, nnd maki pastures for themselves, tenants and laborers ?both the latter assisting?save the manure o the stock, ami thereby show their neighbors th advantages derived from it. 0 We believe with our correspondent, "Clod hopper," that soiling would be found most prol liable as well as most acceptable to a large tna ; * * " - 1 JV unvc hod somo experience with lucern, as it soiling crop, and are satisfied that it would en k. able every farm, be it large or small, to devot r ? sullicicut space lor every head of stock Ihe l_ owjht to he kept upon it. We know that tlie mi <s mire from one cow will keep Iter in luccrn.All that is necessary is to set apart about on< quarter of an acre, prepare it well, lay off i drills two feet apnrt and sow about three pint 11 of luccrn seed. (lather the manure from th r cow carefully, put it under cover, and earl; c every spring scatter it beta-eon the rows am ^ plow it in deep. This will give you a soil ing crop that will last for forty years and kee y your cow in good order from early Spring nut c late Fall. Of course every farmer makes wintc food for his stock. y We have heard but one argument against th law which we think should have any force ; air I " -- ; - T . r.l vinicut, if not impossible to mako pastures Such cases, however, are rare, and can be mi t in most cnscs by the system of soiling, for sure r ly the owners of stock must live near enough t c water for their own use, and, by proper arrange a inent, only in dry spells would exist the neces it sity for hawling water for stock, r Like our correspondent "Tea Ridge," we liar no lack of argument for the Stock law, hut as th subject is so fully discussed this week, by otli era, wc will give them the field. t " A correspondent from this town to th oiinrieston Arwj ami t'ouritr, over the signatuy . #f It. W. S., deals some trcnchniit blows to th t Railroads in this State, for their unjust discrini r inntion in freights, ami to the merchants of tha city, for their blindness in not moving to pre vent it. It. \V. S. places the whole matter ii its true and strongest position. If t'harle^toi c desires the trade of the interior towns, the ave 1 lines from those towns to her market must bi ' as cheap and attractive as the avenues to othci markets. This driving business from points ^ along the lines of our railroads to the termini 1 of those roads, merely to compete with lines t< other points, it appears to us, is the most suici' dal policy that could be adopted, for nil con cerued. Tho idea of a railroad destroying ali business and prosperity along its line, and driving freight to where it must be carriod at tlie very cheapest rates, looks very much liko cutting otf the nose to spite the face. i?y- We would again call tho attention of tax payers to the law requiring all persons liable to pay a poll tax to make their returns to the Auditor. The law is very strick in the matter. A tine of Five dollars and costs is imposed upon ever one failing (o make siicli reFurn, and the Auditor has positive instructions to find out and report ciery man who attempts to evade the law in that respect. The tax goes to the education r.m.i .1 1 ? , ... nmvu muse ? hi) oniy pay a poll tax are deeply interested. Those employing laborers should inform (hern of ihe stringency of the law. to>' Our frieud J. 1*. Klkins, at Alston, has sent us a liberal specimen of his sweet golden Hutter ami fine Irish Potatoes, and after roasting ^a few of the latter and applying sorno of thi- butter to thein, we found they both agreed with our digestive organs admirably. Of his butter he says: "If you don't think I've got some tine cows to ?r//, just try the butter 1 get from them." .?. ? B?Qu. Major V..I. Pope, the Democratic i delate for the Legislature from Newberry, ami Messrs. Chalmers and Moffetl. the Democratic candidates lor Clerk of Court ami County Commissioner of said county, were handsomely elec-! ted on Friday. - I 8*?>.- A basket of fine fruit graced our table I last Monday, from our friend Jas. (irant. who we arc glad to say is getting as active upon his foct as ever. Me don't know what this town would do without Mr. (irant. LL-g- ?II 1 . . _ 11- . - I? " For the Time*. A Good Farmer Advocates the 8took Law. Cross Kkys, July, 1877. Mr. Kuitor :?Vou invite discussion upon th? Sleek law now soon to be voted on, and I avni myself of the invitation to give some of m; views upon this most important subject: We have now to decide whether we will in close our stock or fnnns, whether we will fenc .our own stpek ?'?, or any and everybody's stoc' out. I favor the stock law fyr a reasons : 1st. Because of the great amount of labo saved. 2d. Because of the preservation of our be; timber. Id. Because every man looks after his ow stock only. 4th. Because you arc not obliged to fence i ali, ; you only have to take carc of your ow stock, any way you please. f?th. Because you can sow wheat, or oats i any time or at any place, and have no fear "iter nennle's slock traini>inir and dcstroyii (lie crops, nnd injuring (he land besides. fitli. Because this Inw would wrong nobod You hare only (o attend to what belongs to y in your own way. 7th. Because of the benefit to the renter , laborer, lie lias yearly to do a great deal extra and useless labor in fencing, for which gels nothing. Now, if all this useless labor w turned into some paying business, it would c able many to purchase land and homes for the : selves. It would multiply small farms. 1 would have better stock ; wc would cultivi i better land?nil the good spots wherever foui . Our land would improve, and wc would lit - more trees and vegetation, and it is well kno r that where trees and vegetation is most abi c dant it rains more regularly. In the Mount region, where there is abundant woodland, th f is more rain, than in tracts of country all c down. And would not the leaves of trees s all vegetation absorb the tionting malaria f thereby cause the country to be more healtl [. I favor the stock law because it wrongs m and benefits the majority,?especially those v e arc tenants?for the land owner is bouud to I ? pasturage. Again, wc would have more time to make i 0 nurc and fix up conveniences about our lion ,( I know of men who have no slock at all, \ k. have lo fence a great ileal, while unilcr I his _ if they owned no stock, they would not hav ?. build fences at all. u If we had no pasturage at nil, oncacro in I 9 let or Lucerne would feed two cows, and c c that would be better than working every wii y in making fences that would prove insccur ,1 last. A. FAHMKI Skd'" From the most reliable sources the r of casualties during the riot of the striker: ' Pittsburg and Halliiaore, on Saturday and ? r day, the "Jlst and 2'Jd of last month, is suini up as follow : ? * Estimated dead Estimated wounded v _ ?.n.iuin* ? >. ...,iuir in Ilaltimorc '* Killed in Pittsburg, Saturday f Killed in Pittsburg, Sunday o Total..... " Wounded in Itaitimorc Wounded in Pittsburg, Saturday * Wounded in Pittsburg, Sunday e Total e Total killed and wounded tThe striking mania is getting round ?> wnv. tin MfiniliiB 1...I il? 1 1 v . J ...ov I DC V.UIUI cu employee e tlie Chester mid Chcrnw Bailroad .struck c higher wages. They have burned nothing - their own lingers, as yet, and will go to worl ,t soon as hunger pinches, i. The liands employed at the brickyard at ( ti place struck for higher wages last Tuesday a They had contracted to work for the month i certain price, and after discovering they co t? not collect for the work already done unless ti r filled the contract (hoy wisely concluded to g i and bear it a little while longer. i , .Judge Kershaw has nppontcd Col. J. Hoyt, Editor Columbia Register, Iteceiverof 11 dy Solomon's Hank. Very good, anil we h< I the Col. will tell us something about tlie sell money of this county deposited in that conct ( by II. II. I). Byron, late County Treasurer. Qrjf" Gen. D. If. Hill lias sold the South* Howe, published at Charlotte, to F. M. McDowt Esq. The General has made the Home one the best and most influential papers at tlicSou i and our best wishes attend liirn wherever may go. ? , Fur the Times District Conforonce. The Spartanburg District Conference for 18 was bold at Mesopotamia, July 2">-20. Ear Congregations were present from ilnv in .t? and (he good order observed xml the close t (cntion given to the proceedings were in ll highest degree creditable, for the weather w intensely hot anil the exercises occupied ubo six hours daily. A fair proportion of dclegat attended, notwithstanding the distance of tl Church from many points of the District, at from railroads. There is reason to believe that the procccdin of the Conference and the religious services, n only gave pleasure but tnuch profit also to mat who were present. The following resolution, adopted unanimous and by a rising vote, was ordered to be publis JT4*: Hnolvf'l, That the thanks of tlio Conferen arc gratefully tendered to the citizens of Mes potamia for the generous and cordial hospital ty extended to us, and also for fiee transport tion to many of us. AniiKsr or Monitor tiik Lr.nronn Mrnnri r.RS. ?Frank Moss and William )teach, two mm parties charged with being implicated in t) murder of James Led ford, have been arre.stc within the last week. For I lie Times. Mi Something About The Fthco Law. I0, Mb. Editor :?The writer has been full} convinccd for several years that a law, requiring " stock of all kinds to be kept up, so as to pre1 vent them from invading the premises of any, y, ? save their owners was a tUrideralum earnestly to ?X be desired, for the following reasons; tf First. Such a law will do nw?y with the pres- ^ * cut cumbersome, unsightly, inconvenient, and e exceedingly costly system of fencing out stuck, cv in order to raise -orops. The present system of plantation fencing is a relic of barbarism, a irtf y proach to civilisation, and one of the grcat?4K N( and most unnecessary taxes upon the country. - ....? ,i.? ir How many persons nave mneu > ? pains to estimate the cost of a panel of fence? tIt Something like the following will bean npprox- tt ll imation to the cost : or Cost of tinibct per hundred rails 9 1 00 n Cutting ami splitting per hit ml red 76 ti, Hauling out, " " about 26 c, Putting up, " " 10 n, lt ti n Total S 2 10 1XI Making 21 cts. the cost of an otdinary panel of plantation fence, to begin with. Hut this is i? 'v not all. Kvcry panel will render valueless 120 wl sipiarc feet of land, or an acre to every dG7 pan- ,, lg els. This, at ten dollars per acre, will be about j; 21 cts. per panel, which, added to the foregoing, v gives 2511 cts. per panel. Hut this gives little more than half the cost of a panel of fence for, f, 911 say fifteen years. The repairing and cleaning p out fence corners will average not less than a cent 0 or per panel per year, making 110.] cts. per pmel. c . it will he nothing to the point to say that the t 0 fence need not be repaired and cleaned out every u lie year. The damage to the crops from the weeds, j, ?s briars and hushes in the fence corners, if neglcc>n. led, together with tlie depredations of breachy ^ stock, will amount to that much, or more,? j Hence, a tax of about 2^ cents per panel per year is about the cost of the ordinary plantation ^ ate fence. And the cost of fencing loan individual ul or to a community will bo the same were there j but one cow in each community running at large. 1>C It is stated that one shabby scrub cow was for a j wn time the only animal running at largo in a cerin tain community in York County, yet the keep- , ing up of over a hundred dollars worth of fen- ; cing was necessary lo protect tlie crops 01 mc cre community against that cow. The frecdman who cut owncil her acknowledged tlint lie had lost fifteen md days, in ull, hunting for lier, for which ho could . have gotten fifteen dollars at work; while the m cow never would have brought more than ten y* dollars. Here was a shabby cow tnatlc to costa one community considerably over a hundred dollars, rho when with a small patch of lucent she might r have beea kept tat in a stable or small lot all urailllliiicr* Hut ptit the matter upon a purly moral basis; ma- what right has A to allow his stock, many or tcs. few. to run upon the lands of It. to the detrivj mcnt of the latter? Or, under what moral obligation is It to incur any expense to fortify 'nw himself against the incursions of A's stock ? None e to whatever, in either case. Hence, the present system of keeping stock involves a stupendous dil- wrong. I'.ut the objection to the new stock law comes ve" up as follows: "What are tenants who own iter stock going to do?" "What are small farmers e at K?'"K lo l'?? who have no lands to spare forpasj turage? ^ At first sight, to those who have never devoted list thought to the subject, these seem to be forls miduble, insurmountable objections; But wc ' think it can easily be shown that they amount Inn- to nothing: ined ,w 'he stock owned by tenants. It is well know, tbat tbis stock is, upon the whole, quite a small affair, both as to quantity and quality.? M Now let any person put the comparatively few Hi? aftjybhVc.l' wnml by tcuauts on one ^ that stock on the other?an expense many times I he amount of the valueofall such stack?then ask yourself, is it right, is it politic, to burden ilie ! country with such a heavy tax, merely to keep (;i hi existance an insignificant amount and quality ' ^ of stock, which, at best, does oven its owners i ?j hut comparatively little good ? Is it not time to ! UK) '"k? 'n,? consideration the necessity of remodel- I |h?g a tenant system so expensive to the country U?J '!' Bc,,er'h ? The same principle is applicable to ' 'he small farmers who have not laud for pastur- 1 >jM aKc- The question ie, has a tenant, or anybody ! "* pIsp. flip niiirnl rwrlit #4-* mm t, ! ..p... V..... ciui.It, ur unj oilier | commodity, which he is not nhle take care of this himself? Or has a tenant, or any one else, the s of moI'n' '''J?'11 10 own stock or other commodity, if the owning of such stock or commodity involve ^or other in inconvenience or expense without re hut muneration? Moral science would inevitably : as return the negative to each of these questions. The present system is therefore unquestionably a violation of moral law, and it would he better for the country if all poisons not able to keep .? stock were prohibited from owning it. than that it a the country should be burdened with the presujtj sent cumbersome, expensive, annoying system of plantation fencing ; for no moral law can be vi- j l,c^' olatcd with impunity, either by individuals or j : rin communities of individuals. Hut do not understand me as suggesting, as ! i the remedy for the evils of the present system, I the abolition of the ownership of stock to any 1 extent whatever. The remedy suggested is the i inauguration of a new state of things, which ! >1'? can much more easily he done than to continue 1 ool the present system, a state of things wliich would i M.n do away with the evils and expenses of the < present, and enable both landlord nnd tenant to < own more and better stock. The remedy is not * the keeping up of stock and pasturing them.? t r/" Few persons have lands adapted to pasture, and ' I ill, fewer still could spare such lands for pasturage, i f of even where such lands are found. The remedy. I ll( is in soiling of stock. This is far from being a I ' Utopian scheme, tlie merits of which have yet t 'ie to he ascertained. We write from actual, per- 1 sonal observation, to say nothing of information l concerning the practice as derived from other a sources. It consists in keeping up stock in a i small enclosure convenient to water, and in food- u 77 ing them upon green food raised for the pur- ) nose This milt/ /mnsid ..r I'..- " , ....y wnaioi *ii griH'ii t orn, i Jlarley, Clover, Millet, or Luccrn ; but at the i ^' head of llie list stands l.ucom. To show what li lt" can be dono with Luccrn alone, we refer to an ex- r lie periment made by by Dr. tilenn, near Alston in t a8 Fairfield county. He has been successfully sow- j (J ( ^ iup; various grasses, with clover and luccrn du- p ring the last two or three years, and lie has be- r es come enthusiastic on the subject. He has in ii lie his garden a patch of luccrn, one sixth of an t 1(l acre, planted year before last. He cut it seve- n ral times last year, but itisstili better this year. He commenced to e it it early this Spring, an- f 8" has been feeding three horses and a hog regu- li ot larly. and we believe a mule or two, giving to the t four first named animals little of any other feed, I and they keep fat?the two horses working all l! the the time. Slock of all kinds arc very fond tl !y of it and thrive on it almost exclusively. Now, o Ii- if cne-sixth of an ncrc will keep four animals, r as in this case, it is easy to sec what one acre of r such luccrn would do. h Lf> And whether (he recent fence law be adopted o- by the people or not, the method herein sugges- b Ii- led for raising and keeping stock should tie tl adopted. It is the method chiefly pursued at a the North, ns we are informed, where they I laise more and better stock, more milk, butter i a and cheese by far, than we do. The late Win. j ii a- Walker, of Spartanburg, author of several mus- | 1 r,. ic books, told the writer that while staying in I Philadelphia, since the war, superintending tlx- ( < publication ol" one ol bis books, be spent an I ? evening with Mr. T K t.'ollins, author of the j " j "Timbrel ot /ion,' w ho at milking time invited J? g?*a-l L. . r. Walker to see his cow. He found in a neat feith stable attached, quite a hue cow. A tghter of Mr. Collinsv seating herself beside ) cow, took from the hittei* quite a quantity of > finest richest milk. Mr. C. informed Mr. that this one cow was all that any ordinary ed family would need ; that ho did uot think keeping but one milk cow at a time. This w was kept up in that lot and stttblo, soiled iring theauirraer upon green food, audgrodmca ery morning like a horse. e practice of let ting enttloTUn^^U^^^j!^^'^^ use of the waste it involves. He contends at a cow kept up will yield, u ton per year oi' fertiliser, equal, if not superior, to a ton of dinnty commercial fertilizers, which is cvisntly true. Hut instead of this our farmers let icir stock rim in mrge, ivuct mciu um ui mc ops, getting l?y no menus nn over supply of ilk, butter anil beef, and buy commercial f?r* lixers nt ruinous prices, wliilo, by keeping up oil soiling tlie stock, eacli cut* would supply a in of excellent fertilizer, with milk and buttor esides. Hence, if we reduce the question tb ne of fertilizing alone, we find that stock kept p and soiled, will more than pny expensesiA rlilizors alone, to say nothing of the increased iold and quality of milk and butter. As to tenants' stock, landholders can well ufc jrd to arrange for the keeping and soiling all lie stock owned by tenants. Barring the saving f the cost of plantation fencing, it will be de- >. iiledly to the advantage of landholders to do his, lor tlie reasons just indicated. Self iatcrst alone would prompt this, independent o?^^ The whole matter may be thus summed up : .'o keep stock and soil them will result in the 'allowing advantages : First. The heavy tax of fencing out stock will >c abolished : Second. The loss of slock from straying and heft will cease almost entirely. Third. The damage to arabb lands, resulting 'roin stock running thereon, will be prevented.^^^ j Fourth. The losses resulting from bad fcncc^^^ ind the consequent depredations of broach^^^ ? n-III l?n iirAvonlnd. Fifth. The foolish quarrels and lawsuits growing out of the depredations of stock will be prevented. Sixth. More and better stock can be raised and kept, by keeping up and soiling, than by allowing stoek to run at large, or even upon the fields of their owners. Seventh. Cattle kept up and soiled will pay or more than pay, the expense thereof in manure hlotie. t liighth. Hundreds of acres of valuable hedgerow land around old fields could be utilized, which otherwise will remain valueless. Ninth. The time and labor necessary to keep up the present cumbersome and expensive system of plantntiou fencing, could be directed into some profitable channel. This article is already too long, but the importance of the subject to the country in general is our only excuse. In conclusion, we would say to that class of tenants who may have taken up the notion that the new stock law is an infringement of their rights, to disabuse their minds of all such groundless notions, l.ook at t icsubjcctns itreally is ; consider the advantages that must ncruo to every class of the people if the stock are kept up and soiled (not pastured) and fencos dispensed with. And those who arc favorable to the adoption of the fence law should loso no opportunity to explain the nature and ndvanta ges of the proposed, system. Call meetings, have speeches, and by every proper means endeavor to create a wholesome public opinion on the ?u)ijq<;? The t!m?? lias arrived when a change !??imperative. The oTTT dices and suicidal practices, which have already well nigh ruined the country, by destroying the forests, skinning the soil, leaving the greater portion of the surface barren or washed into gullies, must be abandoned and superceded by uu intelligent, system of management, adapted to the present slate of tilings, or the country will yet be ruined beyond redemption, despite the ousting of the carpetbaggers and (lie inauguration of the Hamilton regime. The physical and political salvation of the country depends upon the intelligent and well directed industrv of the people. CLOD II OFFER. For the Ttiuca. Argument for tho Fence Law. l'lnnu v'v Stiiiii. Oftll. 1UTT * - - - '""J ? "?Mil kititon ;?For .ionic lime I liavo been oon<teuiplating mi article for theTimks- upon the- ' proposed change in our fence system, anil as we- * arc having a fine rain, anil in jusl tlic right time,. I nm at leisure and will make the effort. Alii : ' radical changes incel with more or l^t^ogposi'tion, and to overcome this, which is considerable' in portions of the County, 1 give you my views,, which 1 think arc sound, based us they arc upon; simple and even-handed justice to all. It ishardly worth while to go into a statistical analysis of the cost of fencing our crops ; it is enough to say that it takes 700 panels of fencing to eaolu lineal mile, the first cost of which will be, in round numbers, tjiLOo. I'pon this it is easy to. ice that to enclose one section it will cost $420. Sow find the square miles in the Comity, and loublc for cross fences, and sec if half a million lollars will cover the cost of fences ip Union; L'ounty alone. The fencing of our crops, as ?v* Jry one knows who has it to do, costs in fivo years lie value of the land : to prove which I bring porth the fact I liar, to have cleared, fenced and i cabin and cut-buildings erected upon twenty-, iveneres of land, (the land owner furnishing 'hA ituber,) a tenant will demand the whole of the irst three crops? by far the most valuable the ntid will overproduce,?tinmanurcd?and worth lie price of the land. The garden, oiit-hoiiscs uul dwelling, and much of the fencing will need, epairing the f? urth year, when you receive it, iiul from thence forward the expense increases 'early. When wo take into consideration the ncrcasing demand for timber, caused by our nerensing miles of rail way, the demand for iiiildiug purposes, carriages, wagons, ngricultual implements and iin'ohftiiiiw' in it i? well o consider and see il" we arc nol a set of Vandals, lot lis and Huns, in respect of limber wusl?, csiccially as we waste it without one single sound, irnetieal reason for it; and the generations cony ag on will say, if wc continue this system, (IumH heir forefathers were simply a set of consumlatc asses?and they will say justly. i Then, throwing aside the nnjlist and uncalled or losses entailed upon railroad companies, in ; lie wrecking of engines and cars by cattle upon > heir property ? am! strange to sny, the cost of ho cattle, too?we have, in the trespass of catle on the right of way upon our roads one of he greatest and most freipicnt causes of the loss f human life known to civilization, rendering nil road travel ten limes more dangerous, ami otnnling schedule lime to the annoyance and I i>ss of time?which is money?to the public. lly allowing cattle to run at largeot least onecnth of the crops are destroyed yearly, causing I he killing of one-tenth of the stock unnually, ml one-tenth more to be spent in law suits.? lien feu (Is spring up among neighbors which y re banded down from father to >on, in many (Stances CAii-ing bloodshed ami even the unnililatinn ?.f whole families by violence. H Starving cattle break in'o fields of corn, cot>11 <>r wheal ; ilu v are abused or killed ; tbo w iii"i (ay* >1 n you, build up your fences, thorn* iher replies build yours, aisl tlicre's die rub, '|S >r lliere i< ijot t-j day live consecutive rods of w il J