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<M>> ~~"'^T"".'Z~ -:_ . ~^ Jji*^_ . ^W^X~' V'^" ' .u-**gjU~~^^? " '^.T^' ^ a I DEFERRED NEWS ITEJtS. | ^^^Iha Fa tart Po?tt)llitie? ql Cotton. . | A ffi?? Moti.?thejji?rmer3_flIJk|fisfi]csk^jhfcfyim^i^? i ' '" "' tim'" -1 t:^?^?^? See Atlanta and Die. Atlanta, Aug. 212, 1880. llavc you ever been lo Atlanta. Mr. Stokes ?? If you ln?ve not you have never been in Georgia. Atlanta is to the Qeorgian what Mecca is to tlio Maliamedan. The French say "see i'aris and die," and the Georgia has very much the same feeling about Atlanta. Whenever a man fails in any enterprise elsewhere, ho goes to Atlanta to retrievo his hopes, and if he succeeds ho goes there to insure his success. All the roads converge to Atlanta; all the ideas converge toward Atlanta or originate there. You can hardly go through Georgia by a railroad without going through Atlanta; and as , to seeing a man, woman or child in Georgia asvho don't know all abcut Atlanta is utterly out the question. Atlanta is the great cauldron in which stale politics and Federal politics are boilcdjup, for Georgia consumption. Atlanta, let Savannah, Macon, Augusta and Columbus ?ay what they may?Is the brain, sinew, steam locomotive power of the State. They can do things up thero in a style unknown to provincial cities. They can gel up a bigger cauard, the journalist can put it ore red in his brush and tly his kilo higher and keep it up longer than in any given locality under tho sun, moon and seven stars. Atlanta has been in a fearful Blew of late.? The state Democratic Convention of an out-audout Democratic State, mind you, lias been in session for some timo and has been uuabio to nominate a Governor?not because of any political shortcomings of tho candidates, but for purely personal considerations. The most vindictive, relentless war has been waged against Gov. Colquitt by the combined ctfoits of his opponents 0 ?for neither one of them alone could collect around his banner over a corporal's guard. They '? abused Colquitt because he was a christian, because he delivered lectures to Sunday Schools, ' ' beoause ho stood by his friends and would not curse his enemies. They ciroulated handbills against him and accused him of negligence, favoritism bribery, corruption, et al: The very at- j mospiicrc or Atlautu is anti Colquitt. So much for being an out-and-out Democratic State, of which Independenlism will be the fruit and a bitter personal campaign, tending, pcihaps, in the resurection of the lUdicnl Parly. VIGIL. ! Suicide in Greenville County.?Columbia, t August 25.?John Trammell, cf Greenville t County, attempted suicide on Friday night and i is expected to die. Cause unknown. t Nomination or tiie Hon. John S. Riciiaud- ' eoN.?Florence, August 25.?The Hon. John S. Richardson was unanimously. renominated for Cougress. George W. Dargau, Esq., of Darlington, was nominated for solicitor on the thirtysecond ballot. Imports or Specir.?New York, August 25.? 1 Tho following is a detailed statement of the ( amounts of specie which arrived at this port 1 to-day: Steamer Wiscomin, $130,000; Steamer " France, 180,000 ; steamer Jiatavia, $500,000 ; ' steamer Oellert, $1,080,700. Total $3,190,- s 700, all gold coin except $130,000 gold bars. 0 Tue Democrats or Kbrsuaw.?Camden, Au- c gust 25.?Tho Kershaw County Convention, held t to-day, was the most harmonious ever held here. E The congressional delegates chosen nre three for g Woodward, one for Erwin. Woodward's name y was received with outbursts of applause wheu- a ever inentioued. The Judicial Convention en c dorsed Judge Leitner first, Col. MoMaster next, c for solicitor. I . + . Malpractice in Cuicauo.?Chicago, August 1 25.?The dead body of a young wouiau about 20 " years of ngc, as yet unidentified, was found in ^ tho hallway of a house on West Madison strcot 8 this morning.- -On her finger was a ring beariug v p the initials E. A. C. She is supposed to have p been the victim of criminal malpractice on the k part of a certain Dr. Earle. to whom clrcum- 1 stances point. Tile draining has recently been taken up ii with great industry by the Western States, its h benefits to agriculture having been established, a The drains are laid at au average depth of 33 e inches, and the cost of digging is ubout 15 to n 20 cents per yard, equal to $25 to $30 per acre, ii according to width of drains apart, but the increased yield of crops sometimes reaches 100 percent. In Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, 2 Wisconsin and Iowa there are now 1,140 tile 0 factories, instead of 400 in 1870, and last year 1 these turned eat l75,OOOfOO0 tiles, equal to Go,- P 000 miles of drain, at a cost of $2,812,600. o Vr-l t! Am Indian's Nkat RiiPArtK*.?Peuvor, Col, e August 26.?The commissioners have arrived >! <] the Southern Ute Agcnoy, and gone into camp. ^ They are delayed by the tardiness of the South. c ern Indians and the illness of Ouray, upon whose c death or recovery much depends. It is believed ( tho Southern Indians will be very slow about ( it. Chief Ignooto, on being requested to get his { Indians together as soon as possible, replied that t when he was in Washington the tongues of the t white men were as long as his arm, but now tlioy i were no longer than tho first joint of his fin* gee. , Thb Work or tub Flanks.?Philadelphia, A OR A l 1? ? -- ? * -? ou^uok ?? ur? vrufto ouv n an eony nour j this morning in (he flour mill of Wtr. B. Thorn- ( as A Co., corner of 13th end Willow streets.? , The flames spread rapidly and oommuni- j sated to thd store sod hollow ware foundry of | Btuart & Petersod, ?bsn 10 'b* *?*? building on ( fbs corner of 18lh snJ Hamilton Streets, occu- ( pied by Oumport? Brother*, manufacturers of I , cigars. The mill was soon io rufd.*? *n^ a'| 'be | .walls fell 1# the streets. The falling bricks < crushed in eastern sad of Stuart A Pefir* w son's foundry, end the flames dostroyed nearly *11 the patterns is the pattern room. The loss on lbs foundry is estimated at $76,000 and on (be will $100,000. Gumport A Co., employed ISO bands, sod bad 400,000 loose elftrs in stock. Their insurance is $2A,000, and that will oorer tbs loss. A number of email buildings adjoining irfff alto damaged by ike fire. , fU nrnuu mainsou, ot" lloston, with his woa- i derfnV skill iu the using ot facts to illustrate problems, shows, in a letter to the New York i Herald, that Cotton remains King of American products in a commercial point of view, lie i shows that the as yet undeveloped resources * of cotton will probabnbly turn out to be even , greater than those which wo now know and uso- ] IIo says : "The true forces now in action in tho i South are industrial forces ; the opportunities to i apply improvements and inventions, and for the I accumulation of widely diffused wealth by right- j ful methods. The true reconstruction and the j real union that arc now being consummated are < by meaus of these industrial forces, and in this i work cotton has been and will be the most po- 1 tent force of nil." Slavery, ho says, was econ- i otnicnlly wasteful, and its remnants still tend to keep ootton culturo iu a wasteful state. Yet there have been great improvements already, not due eutirely to (he abolition ol slavery of course, kni la m Urga Mmswio the fat tbst (In gi?r < ral impoverishment of the people has forced 1 them to give greater attontion to their crops in 1 order to secure tho utmost possible yield. In { this way, from careful selection of seed an l bet- ' ter culture, the plant matures earlier and has ! been inado more prolific, and a hand can pick much more iu a day and a season. Yet Mr. Atkinson thinks that what has been done is but 1 ft tlie of what remains : the present power of ' King Cotton is but the shadow of the substance yet to come." Tho value ot the seed, for in- 1 stance, is as yet an unknown quantity. If wo ( make six million bales, tho seed left over after j nil has been saved that is needed for planting l amounts to three million tone. In other words, j the seed outweighs tho "liut" that is separated [ from it more than two to one. If all this refuse ] were treated as n small part of it 19 at prcscul s in cottonseed oil mills we should annually have j >0,000,000 gillons of oil, 1,300,000 tons of oil t jako or meal, aud 1,000,000 tons of hulls, from t which it is supposed that 700,000 tons of paper > may be made. If tho hulls cannot be made into j paper they can be ground up with tho cake into 3 meal and fed to sheep, every ton being capable t n conjunction with the wild grosses of the South, t io keep five sheep during a year. Thus tho waste ? if (he cotton fields will fatten sheep enough to * tupply our woolen factories, while the sheep 1 folded on the cottou Golds would so fertilizo the ' mil as to double the crop of cotton, and the mut- t on could be sold abroad to the full extent of * my foreign demand. Vet tho soil now in cotton 1 n the South is less than two per cent, of the a irea of the Southern Stales, and the only limit 1 o the extension of its culture is tho power of * licking cotton. The future of cotton, when it % :an be secured as readily by machinery as the .vheat crop is now saved in Minnesota and Call- ] brnia, is simply something incalculable. In his connection Mr. Atkinson truly says that [ 'there never was so great a Geld suddenly opened 'or the introduction of now tools, new cotton pus, new presses and for every variety of irnplenents and processes." It is for this reason, nnong others, that Mr. Atkinson strongly urges , lie setting 011 foot of a great exhibition exclu- J ivcly devoted to cotton, in order to probe thoroughly "the secret of its kingship." What is e hat secret, he asks. Is it because cotton or s otlon fabrics "are almost a legal tender for all i he other commodities that tho world yields or u leeds ?" Two hands, with their children, 011 ;o ) l land, will make and pick twenty bales a 1 car, and another hand's labor will gin, bale ti nd move this cotton to mill, one operative will 1 onvert it into 8,000 pounds of coarse cloth, a tiougk to clothe 1,C00 Chinese or 3,000 Cast c vidians for a year. Thus the work of four I' lands per year on cotton supplies the clothing eeJs of four to eight hundreJ times as many ^ eople. These things can only be properly y hown by means of a great cotton exhibition, in ll irhich all the possibilities of the wonderful sta- P ile can be adequately displayed, and Mr. At- j inson calls upon the agricultural department, lie cotton exohanges, the Northern associations j f manufacturers and the Southern associations f Dlautera and f*rm?r? in m.nnn i? 1 r n ig about the much-needed exposition. There ^ as as yet been no such exhibition anywhere, nd one which should be adequately and prop- j rly got up would astonish tho world quite as j, lucb as it would bonefit the world's foremost ^ idustry. b North Wkstkrn Corn Crop.?Chicago, August j 6,?The Commercial Bulletin has replies from u orrcspondcuts from two hundred and fifty coun- n ies in the Northwest, from August 10 to the r, resent time, as to the condition and prospects 0 t" tne coin vi^.. re8?U 5s ?'' d'^rry . 0 hat the stories of the drought have bccu much '1 xnggerated, and that the frequent showers of s he past few doys will doubtless remedy a great it art of the evil froth drought. The crop will 0 ertainly be a large average, the damage being ? onfined to narrow limits. In some districts 1 h- Ml t- - iL. ft * * no orups win u? me mrgcsi on recor>i. tins is 1 ruo of Iown. The summary shows I lint twenty- 11 ivo counties report the condition as pooi ; 51 c eport it fair ; 109 good; C2 excellent. Illinois, v lie largest corn Slate, reports five poor, 10 fair, 19 good and 7 excellent. 8 The Mexican Bandits.?San Francisco, August 25.?A dispatch from Tucson, August 25.? A dispatch from Tucson, A. T., says: Sheriff C. Butner with a posse left here last night to inter- j ispt and arrest the Mexican briguid Reyes, who with his band were reported to be in this vioin- ^ lly. Butner met them about eight miles from j town and a fight ensued in which about fifty f iliots were fired. The Mexicans fled, leaving , several dead and wounded as well as their ani- ( mats and weapons ou the field. The sheriff fol- ( lowed but soou lost their trail in the darkness. The bandits are supposed to number about fifty. A company of United States troops is now in i pursuit of them. I A Silent Convention.?Cincinnati, August g3.wThe deaf mutes of America are holding here to-dey their first convsntion. Thero is a | fair attendance from all parts of tho United States aud Canada. Robert McUregor, of CinfiioMlU Wi# president, Jj county have organized n Planters' Proteeliv'eB Association, the ohjcct of which is to extirpated " and stamp out tho illogal mid dishonest traffic ^ in seed cotton. An executive committee, con- ' sisting of ono member from each township, in canvassing for members, and will offer a reward 0 of ono hundred dotlais for proof to convict any <; person or persons of violating I lie law regulating the sale of seed cotton. This is a wise move on o the part of the Edgefield fanners, and wo would c he pleased to see similar organizations formed f in other coituties of the State. The traffic in seed cotton after night has been and is yet a 1 great annoyance to the farming interests in many > sections of the State, and by all means should t be stopped wherever practiced.?Anaerton Intel- c fivjenctr. cREPUBLICAN EXTRAVAGANCE. 0 Washington, Aug. 9, 1880. * Tho Republican party has boon wont to r awfttin tlie Triiiiniiraii i mgh > pnaTth nf -f iddiug euoruiously to tho public bitrdeu, v and vaunts itself upon its economy in public 1 Expenditures. Au investigation of the ' claims of the Republican party may be of 1 jomc interest as well as surnrisc to somn nf pour readers. tj The war burdened the country with an n moruious public debt and a grievous system t( )f taxation. These matters demanded at si he bauds of fuithi'ul representatives in Con- g ;rcs?, a rigid and ei%eiivc system of reform it tnd retrenehmcub in the public expeudiure. With this immense debt overhang- " ng us and a burden of tuxaliou that it was ' ilinust impossible to pay, the Republican t? jarty having the Kxecutivo, and control of d >oth Houses of Congress on the 3d of March h 1873, the act eoinumnly known as the ''saltry grab" Was passed, the same being re- n juried by General GarGcld, then chairman tl if tho com in ittee on appropriations, lly n his measure the salary of the i'resident it vas increased from 925,000 to 950,000 )cr annum. Cabinet otlieers to $10,000 a tc fear. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court d o $10,500, aud the uiuc Associate Judges G o $10,000 a year oach, the salary of the I Speaker of tho ilouse of Representatives to g >10,000, aud that of each Scuator and p iicmbcr of the House to $7,500"?this upon he 3d day ot March 1873. Whoo Con- st ;ress was just expiring, the members of 111 vhich had already served their two years, ti it a Gxed salary of $5,000 a year, this ol ict was made retroactive, and gave to each " ncuiber of Congress $5,000 extra for the ti wo years just served iu addition to the tl 15.000 stated salary. The unjust and un- o] vurrauted measure w >s enacted when the it latiou was groauing under uu already cuor- h nous burden. Tho amount of this salary ;rab cau bo summed up as follows : ol >5,000 additional to 3GG members r; of Congress, ?,S3QJ100 "J Addition to President s salary,* $25,000 lai Vdditiou to the Judges of J$u* 'e prouic Court, $18,500 01 Addition to Cabinet officers, $14,000 11 Halting a total of these salaries ?1,887,000 g< Besides litis lite salaries of all the employ- u> cs of the House au J Senate were increased, o as to aggregate SCO.000. So tint the w ncrcuse in salaries made in 1871 and 1873 t(l uiountcd in round numbers to 82,000,000. tli The compensation of tho Senators and iz Icprcsoutntives in Congress was formerly xed at $S,00 per day and mileage. In ic 857 it was made $3,000 a year and utile- a| go. lu 18GG. both Houses and the Ex- a' cutive being Republican, the coittpeusaion of Senators and members was increased j $6,000 a year and milctge. In 1873 lie compensation was raised to 87.500 a car and ntiloage, but in 1874 it was resarcd to $5,000, but ouly done so to tipcase the howl of their tax ridden constitu- ^ nts. For many years the salary of the a!udges of the Supreme Court was $4,500, , ud tho chief Justice $5,000 per year. lu 'l! 867 this was iucrcased to $0,000 and $G,00. In 1871 to $8,000 and $8,500, and aI t the saino time nine Circuit Judgeships 80 fere created at a salary of$G,000 each, ai ggrcgating $54,000. Tho salary of tho 'resident was increased to $50,000, per year, . list at the expiration of Grant's first term, 111 iving him tho benefit of the increase on * oth terms of $200,000 in all. In the ^ leanwltile tho expenses of the Executive rc lansion under Republican rule from a P; tore nominal sum run to $75,000 a year, u> ..J en .i . .? m iju uiit* )uar hi vu.mi a aummisiraiiot) LDCV | cached 870,000. This is Republican fljL)- I my with a vcngcncc. The Presirii^flt | |u mcc cost toe country ?iud,uui? a year.? " 'his together with the large donation, and ubsidie9 received by tho Presidential Chair, a a flnanci il point of view, an enviable T no. Not only have tho expenses of our ;ovcrr.meut been g^atly enlarged under MC lepublican rule, but what is still worse c ho pure and elevated bearing and patriot- P sin that has formerly surrounded the Kxe- * mtive Chair has given away to greed, fraud, -ice and violence. " Tho above is but one of tho many expen- c< ivc luxuries of n Republican adininistra- t( ion.?CORDWAINBR, in Pickent Sentinel. * Potato Flour.?Potato flour, or the * tried pulp of the potato, is attaining great 11 mportance in the nrtn. It in stated that in k Lancashire, England, 20,000 tons of it are v mid annually, and it brings at prcseut in j4 Liverpool about double ns much in tho mar- ' cot us wheat flour. It is used for sizing n ind other manufacturing purposes, and u when precipitated with acid is turned into u itaroh. When calcined it in employed as a F dressing for ^ Tho Keokuk Gate City wishes to know t if n retired baggngo-mnster can bo appropri- i a tol it vnfupvnil I a n <a (Wa /ia ivi rtn n?'a aw < I f *??va w n9 ?uv vuuipaiij a l'A? * checker. t ? ?.. ?? I Man* a property owner is poor io purse 1 but rich in deed. XL e-civil engineer would like to be non- < dfrtpteTbll ho surveys. I JTh #y AAA VttJlSBUB AUKESSi | Coi4jmh\a, August 10th. 1880. T> W. lloUowry, E*q , l*resuh:nt I'inc ' Grove Greenback (Jiuh, Conulcn, >V- C'.: My Dkah Slit?I am iii receipt of yours >f 1 Gill inst., in which, on bchall of your lub, you inquire toy views : First, ^3oii tho fence question, nnd sccndly. %Wther I believe in workingmcn ontrolling tho government as well as suplorling it. With regard to whether the crops or the ive stock of the country shall bo fenced, it s a qucstiou purely of cost and convenience o those interested, aud to be answered by ach locality for itself according to the cirumstances that surround it. <Jcrtain cuuuics in the State nnd certain townships in tber counties have adapted the plan of enciug tho stock, and would uot willingly equr to the old system. Other countries tafcr. >*? fauctui; eLerop?-wrt*ic most concnieut and least ouidensouie plan to them, 'his is done under the State law, giviug he respective counties and townships opion in the matter. It appears to me that this optional fcaurc of the law is eminently wise and should ot be changed. It is a matter for the decors in each locality to decide for themelves, aud the wishes of the majority must ovcrn in this as in other matters under istitutions such as ours. If it is tho purpose of your qucstiou to lquirc my views upon the application of liis law to j*our township or county, I have i say that having neither property or resicticc there it is not my busiuess, auu 1 avc no opinion on the subject. To your second question I reply that owherc in the laws and Constitution of lis State are the people classed as working ICIl or idli? tm?n rir?l? n???r? r,i- ? uelligeut men or ignorant men, or in any iher mauuer than as electors and non elcc)rs. The qualifications of electors arc efincd irrespective of class, and the qualications to hold ?ffice is the same ag to vote, do not believe in class legislation or class ovcrnuient, but in the government of the cople by tho people and for the people. 1 have thus respectfully aud fully anivcrcd the questions you have addressed ic; but with your permission 1 will venire t j say a word more to the geutleincu f your club, which I trust will be received ) the spirit iu which it is lutended. The tie, "Grecuback Club" implies views upon ic currency. I pou this subject different pinions prevail iu the Democratic party self. Those differences the National party avc subordinated to the vital issues at lake in this campaign, and it behooves us f Eolith Carolina still more to close our inks. The Republican party will unoqkttdly make auotlw.^riuqfo lUii yaai. ria Tts sucrCSs means witn us this very class gislation aud government. It means, as ar experience has taught us, the predominice of vice and ignorance iu the State jvcrnment, aud the suppression of all that akes South Carolina fit for freemen to live i. The struggle for the life of that State il! be a hard one. Lot mo >uip!urc you i postpone until the victory is won all of lose minor questions upm which good citens may well differ. It will be a sad day for you and me wlicu can be said that through our differences id bickerings wc have remanded ourselves id perhaps our children's childrcu to the th of Radical rule. Very truly your obedient servant, Johnson IIauood. Another Home Enterprise.?Eight lars ago Thomas C. Gower, Otis P. Mills, irain L.McBrayer aud George ileldumii isociated themselves together under the rm name of Gower, Mills & Co., aud lunded the. West End Shoe Factory. They id not. find tho busiuuss a profitable one, id iu 1S78, the firm dissolved, and after >mc litigation, the establishment was sold, id Messrs. Mills <fc McBrayer. two of the iginnl owners, became tho purchasers, atives of North Carolina, and noRsoswod a largo degree of the energy and thrift hich characterises the sous of the Old orth Stato, they at once commenced to [organize the factory, and place it on a lying basis. They employed skilled worken, obtained new aud improved machinery, id the business of the last year has becu ratifying and profitable. The work they nnufocture is considered of superior qualyf aud although their qiauufacturc does A embrace the finer quality of sowed work it they make eleven different styles and ualities of shoes for men's women's aud lildrcn'sivcar. Their goods are eagerly >ught after, and they supply as far as they an the growing demand in all the upper ortion of this State and in Western North aroliua. Every shoe made last year was >ld, and the demand was greater than the ictory could supply. Like all other well onductcd Greenville enterprises they have i increase and will enlarge their facilities i as to keep pace with the increasing trade. Vith improved machinery for pegging, and 'ax thread machines, for sewing and bindig uppers, and auxiliary instruments of all inds they turn out good, honest work, rhich is rapidly superseding the "shoddy" nd paper soled work of Northern factories, .'he factory is in charge of W. C. Smith, s foretnno, and every pair of shoes pass indcr his inspection before they are placed ipou tho market. Ten workmen are cm* .1,I .k?. ~.U? r.._4 IIVJCU) UUU HIU unilj piUUUl'V VI VIIU lUUiUTJ j n about sixty pairs of shoes of different ;inds. The yearly sales amount to over ten housand dollars, and with increasing denan d will ptobably this year considerably >verlcaptfcat amount. Tho leather used is aimed in Greenville County, and the facoryih padded much to Mie prosperity of ho Wost Knd.? OreeriviUe News. A?woman isn't fit to havo a baby who loosn't know how to hold it: and this is as :ruo of a tongue as of a baby. THE MAINTENANCE OF HONOUBKing Lear, battling with the storm without, can thiuk of nothing but tin: greater storm within, And so he tears off his clothes. We admire the conception ; there is sublimity in it. All for honour, like all for love, makes a good heading for a play, liut just below there is a single step, and if you take it the sublime will pass into the ridiculous. The following is an example : In the records of Chivalry there is a curious narrative of a company of knights and ladies "who bound themselves for love of ???i. ^?i,? f n - WI..V. w iuiiuw a particular code of usages, of which a part consisted of wearing thick clothes in summer, and thin in winter, to show that the p wcr of their love rendered them insensible to the difference of seasons, a vow which was maintained with such perseverance that the greater part of the devoted company actually died pof cow -- rrs . ? To ridicule Tlouour is bo part of reason. I am fur euough from ridiculing it when I bring forward such a piece of extravagant folly as that of the knights and ladies who dressed by a code. It is in advocacy aud admiration of honour that this little chapter and some others yet to' follow will be written. The '-Code of honour" itself coutains some things to be admired. Only, in view of some modern eases of men rendered insensible to moral differences, as the knights above mentioned were to the difference of seasous, it appears to be worth while to inquire. What is Honour? And I shall try to answer the question from uiy favorite position?that of an independent moralist. There is "honour nuioug thieves." So we arc assured by that form of common sense, shaken down and settled, which men call the proverb. Speaking then, uot from personal knowledge, in this case it would be hazardous, but speaking in the wisdom of mankind, let it bo repented, for it is proverbially truo ; "There is houour among thieves." Is that "Honour Bright?" Manifestly not, aud yet it is houour. How cau that be ? Dickens lets ns into ?r?mr> ?f rVi? ? V wvmuw V? VUU IIWI CIO of thieves in Loudon; and his readers will reinembcr that one of the greatest crimes in their estimation was "to blab," whi.-h means to betray ouc anotlnr to the police or public. Faithfulness to one nuothcr, thou, must be one form by which honour among thieves expresses itself. But this is Fidelity, aud is closely related toTruth and Honour. Then, besides, there is a slang word iu our language?we kuow uot whether it comes from the thieves in Loudon or not, but it probably docs?and that word is "to crib." The "cribbing" of something is understood to mean the dishonest concealing ot it. Now, strange it is, but true, that .grunt nrimn aiiinnn ll.in. ni in it.. concealing of ill gotten gains from one another. The commonwealth is the only wealth of their community ; plunder kept back from the general hoard is robbery. If a thief should steal from a thief in the same gang, he sins agiinst honour. If lie should steal only fiom an outsider, he is a man of honour; that is, as honour goes among thieves. . Once more, insubordination is a gre'?t crime among such people, because they make laws aud respect laws, even while they break laws. This curious fact was remarked upon years ago by one of the wisest men thac ever lived. lie says : "It is a pleasant thing to consider that thorc arc certain people in the world who, having renounced all laws of God and Nature, have yet made some for themselves, which they strictly obey, as for example, robbers, &c." i lie couo which thieves make for themselves is of the nature of a compact. To disoley, for instance, the orders of the principal, or to act contrary to one of their own regulations, is to violate the compact; and it is a compact of much greater realistic value than that other of tho old fashioned Socialists. To violate this compact is disgraceful. criminal, fatal; to observe it faithfully, is honourable conduct among thieves. And all this is Honour. Its presence and influence, such as it is, cannot bo denied. Where, then, lies the difficulty ? I answer: Everything depends upon who are the judges of Honour. Such honour as thieves make for thcmsqjpcs and such standards of right and wrong ns they raise and follow will not do for honest people. Honour is not always "Houour Bright." It may exist; it may be even a prominent feature iu the const it utiou of u society ; but if that society be uot true to human society at largo, if it be uot (rue to human nature, to morality in its entire round of duties and virtues, thou neither will its hou our be true ; it will bo imperfect, defaced, smirched, it will not be "Honour Bright." I would say then, that the only honour worthy of the name is to be looked for among honest people. And why not? Any schoolboy will tell us that honour nnd honesty couie from the same root in the Latin ( Onus, honor, honos, honestas ) Some reader perchance, will think this is departing altogether from tho subject, and may even be tempted to put dowu this paper with a shrug, or an ahem! of compassion, as much as to say, honesty, ns we understand it now, is quite another thing; a thing of a certain socially distinct kind and description. Let honesty be looked for among good, average, honest people. We aYiiill nltvtuu IaaL Ua?a??i * iwn U'l (IWIIU U1 UUIWII^ {^CUil ; men. Ah my friend, not so fr.st. You and I ought not to differ or diverge bore, for dc wo not both wish to bo nnd to continue honest nnd'gjntlemen ? I shifll hnvc some thing to say in another paper about the gen tleuicu. Hut, for the present, you will d< well to hoar a few words from one of nr oldest authorities in morals, Cicero. !I< says : "'The hon^sttim (literally the hones thing itself) is the tesult of, and inheren to, all tho virtues." "Whatever is good i commendable. Now, everything that ii commendable is honest, therefore whatevoi is good is honest." Good becomes com Iioii.-st, because it is denirablc, agreeable, estimable, (or, as wo moderns say, honourable ) 'Whatever is honest is cither virtue uself, or tnc effect of virtue ; and when human life conforms itself in all those respects, und preserves a harmony with the virtues, then we are to look upon it as being upright, honest, faithful aud agreeable to Nature." 1'lainly, the Latin identifies the honest with the houourablc. and the Kuglish of a few centuries back almost did the same. Tt would bo vain to force the identity now upon modern usage, fur no doubt, it has its owe reason for being as it is. But, ut least, the close relationship between the two words should he remembered and maintained. The conclusion reached thus fur would appear to be, that honour may exist, and even be fostered, within tho lines of a close corporation, without ever realizing its proper -ideal. It docs pftea exist with the basest (tWmt.v^iroo. To f>u'flllH* our has bccu many a time dishonestly dealt with by its reputed friends. It could be said of Honour, as it has been said of Liberty: Alas ! how many crimes have bccu committed in thy name ! If then upon looking around over all classes of society we should find men of hones ty, fidelity and integrity, let these be our true mcu of liouour. But if we see others having a reputation for honour among the men of their own circle, but rated as having little reputation beyond that circlc-^knowu to bo breakers of their bonds and words, reck'essly incurring large debts to mniutain a sty lc of living beyond their means, lying to trades people and merchants, betraying sacred trusts and sacred tics of the home aud the family?their honour beiug only of the class kind, should be esteemed no better than that among thieves. It will not prove equal to that of tho old Stoics ; it will Dot be "Honour Bright," or iu any sense worthy of the name. Iu fine, the definition required by my owu terms is, that the Maintenance of Honour moans the maintaining of such a standard of moral priuciple in respect of law, order, justice, manhood, womanhood, truth, courage. purity, fair-dealing and decorum, as will alouo make the individual worthy to he esteemed by himself, aud to be held iu good reputatioD by society at large. CllAMPION. USES FOR STALE BREAD. 1 . Make dressing for meat : crumb it fiue, turn hot broth over it, season, ndd butter nnd a well-beaten egg, or uiorc, accordiug to quantity. 2. Make bread puddiug : soak I wo hours in sweet milk, thcu beat eggs, sugar aud spices and bake. I sometimes add vuit. . 3 ..Miiha liiMaiUtwslrWBf MffftviAsofir ? milk, mash fiuc wiih the hand, mix in your biscuit for breakfast, adding salt, lard and soda. They arc better than without the stale bread. 4.. Make pan cakes or gcuis : soak over night in sour milk, add well beaten eggs, corn meal or graham flour to niakea batter, and soda and salt, aud bake on a griddle or in gems pans. 5. Cruuib fine and put then in the next omelet you make. 6. Toast your bread : set a pan of milk on the stove, but do not remove the cream from it, add butter and salt, dip the bread in this and scud to the table for supper or breakfast. 7. Cruuib fine and ptlt in your tomatoes when you are stewing thcui. 8. Pound fine, season, and roll oysters or fresh fish in them, and fry in nice lard. Mortgage.?lu the whole range of sacred aud profane literature, perhaps there is nothing recorded whicb has such staying properties as a good mortgage. A mortgage can be depended upou to stick closer thun a brother. It has a mission to perform which never lets up. Day after day it is right there, uor docs the slightest tendency to slumber impair its vigor in the night. Night aud day, on the Sabbath, and at holiday times, without one moment's time for rest or recreation, the biting offspring of its existence?interest?goes on. The seasons may change, days run into weeks, weeks into mouths, to be swallowed up in tlic gray man of advancing years, but the mortgage stands up in sleepless vigilance, with the interest a perennial stream, ceaselessly running on. Like a huge nightmare eating out the sleep of aouic restless sluuibcrcr, the unpaid mortgage rears np its gaunt form ir. perpetual torment to the I miserable wight who is held within its pitii less clutch. It holds the poor victim in the relentless grasp of a giant; not one hour of recreation ; not a moment's evasion of its hidcou9 presence. A general savage of mollifying aspect while tho interest is paid; the very devil of hopelessdestjyoetion when the payments fail. Florida is Democratic?Florida is not now Republican, and never was, when tho voice of its people could be heard. Under the armod heel of reconstruction the State of Tennessee was in ilcpublicnu hands, although it has a clear Democratic majority k.o aon c!? .11 ?l. a?v .> uivi Wu,uvu. t>u mm ii11 iiic ciuaini'rn States, mid Florida was uud.r the domiuation of the carpet-baggers, supported by the ' bayonets of the army, who grounded arms.in the vory halls of the State Capitol. It will be admitted that the claim of Florida being * '' > Republican in 1870 most rest upou the su1 perior numbers of the black population. Ijook nt inc census ot IH7U and balance it - by this supposition, and it will be seen that > in 1870 there were 96,057 white inhabitants J to 91,089 black, showing n majority of over - 4,000 ot the white population, and uccea9*t rily a majority of white voters. ? Tt has boon proved |Mi kindling his ? firo n miccr stuck a cork inJJfettozKld of the r bellows to save the little wind that was left - in it. f