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TEE WEEKLY HP DH10H TIMES. Ipccottd to ^grirulturr, horticulture, siomestic (Sconcing, polite Jilcraturr, politics, and the (Current $cu;s of the pig. VOL. XVII.?New Series. UNION C. II.. SOUTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY l'.MSSG. NUMBKR 7. ANNUAL REPORT OF TilK County Commissioners UNION COUNTY, 1HK4 AND ?? o ?? A full and true transcript from .ile l)>ok of the office of the County Commissioners, of all claims against the couuty, examined and approved by tho Hoard during the fiscal year of 1884 and 188~?. as follows : 1885. Aug 11 108...J. L. Swink. Jr., repairing Thomson bridge $ 15 25 109... Walker. Kvans A Cogswell, supplies for County Commissioners oflicc 0 HO 110...J. C. Hunter A Co., supplies for pauper 17 45 111...Louisa Palmer, board orphan child 10 00 Sept 8 112...A. Jacksou, removing raft Bcnty s bridge 5 00 114....Tas. T. Douglass, cash paid for dispatch 1 00 115...Vardcy Gist, repairs ou Gi"t bridge 1 25 110...C. Gage, cash for oflicc supplies 1 50 117...F.K. Davis.building bridge public highway 5 00 118...David D. Bobo, trial justice constable 12 55 119...Preston II. Bobo, trial justice constable 2 70 120...Warren Barnett, repairing III.. A* K.;.l -.<? V\> 121..,11. F. Briggs, trial justice constable 2 20 122.C. Greer, repairing bridge ti 00 123...T. L. Hantes', cash advanced for work 10 30 121...J. G. Long, dieting prisoners 88 30 125... 120...Wm. Jeflcries, repairs on Dawkins' bridge 85 00 127...L. B. Tucker, repairs on Gist bridge 10 00 128...1*.C. Wliiscnant. trial justice constable 22 00 120...12. C. Vinson, trial justice constable 8 00 130...E. C. Vinson, trial justice constable 5 00 131...II. A. May, building poor bouse garden fence 30 00 182...F. .1. Davis, burying pauper 0 00 133...K. C. Vinson, trial justice constable 28 20 134...Lot Hill, right of way, new road 50 IK> i .? >.../men i\ .* 11icr, naming ballot boxes 1:1 uO 13t?...Wm. Smith, jury commissioner IT (> > 137...Jacob Rice, lumber for poor house 7 <V> 188...P. C. Whisenant, trial justic? constable 22 ? Oct. 13 13'J...John I'. Thomas, post mortem examination '? 00 140...P. 11. llobo, trial justice constable 1 t'5 141...1'. 15. 15obo, trial justice constable as coroner I! 23 142... James Turner, trial justice constable :1 03 113....las.II.Rodger .supplies for jail 20 73 1-14...Walker,Kvans & Cogswell, blanks,books,etc.,for clerk 12 00 143...Walker,llvans & Cogswell, seal for school commissioner "> 00 14G...Wm. A. Nicholson, lumber for poor house 3 13 117...I). 8. Lee,repairing Realty bridge 20 00 14S...George Douglass.post mortem examination at inquest 1<> (M? 140...J, 15. Foster, trial justice constable 20 10 100...J. II. Wilkins,trial justice constable 0 00 101...J. U. Long, dieting prisoners 121 r?o 102....I. 1'. Thomas, two post uiorloin examinations 10 HO 10:;....I. (\ Hunter, for l>ri Igo lumber 3 42 101....I. 8. Crocker, trial justico constable 03 00 100...N. 15. Morgan, on salary.. 100 00 100...1.8. Cregory.special coroner's constable 7 00 107....las. T. Douglass, drawing juries 10 00 100,..Henry A. May, coroner's special constable 2 no 100.. 1\ C. Whiscnant. trial justice constable 20 <m> 10O...K. C. Vinson, trial justice constable -to 80 M1...C. L. Allen, coroner's inquest (l'rcs. Vaughau I?'> 70 10-..A". I.. Allen, coroner s inquest (Adolph. Ahrams'J<i ? "> lb f,. Allen, coroner's inque?t (Sila< I'.i OO IOIm.I'. U. Mien, coroner's inquest (t hus. McKissick).. ."7 <h? 10A...C. L. Allen, coroner's inquest (Johnson Ilobson)... L'O 10 lbi;,..l?. J. Oavis, burying pauper ... 0 00 lt?7...1'ctcr Farr, whitewashing jail 1'-' oo 108...Wm. Smith, drawing jury 1 t oo 100...W. IV, Scott \ llro., post ing roads 1-0 ST Nov 10 170...M. \Y. Culp. post mortem examination and medical attendance to prisoners.... >' $ 70 171 ...Henderson McJunkin, l>oarl of pauper 1H 112 172...M. \V. Cnlp, medical attention to pauper .*>00 m. .toilers. supplies furnished beneficiary 55 01 174.JefFers, repairs on Thicket y bridge 1?~? IK? l""t...K. II. ( 'ou lit a, express on school cotnmi-sioner's seal 45 1 70...J. 0. Long, dieting prisoner* 105 10 177...J. <!. Long, ollicc ">11 CK.? 178...1'cter Farr. whitewashing jail ." tM> 170...Foster & Wilkins, store (county supplies) 112 38 180...Win. II. S. Harris salary t> 25 181.. A. II. Foul, supplying pauper 0 <K) 182...Jacob Uico, lumber for poor house well 2 0(1 1S3...M. A. Moore, ollioe for school commissioner Go 00 181...Hen (list, removing raft... 5 00 18.j...Kicc .V McLure, jail supplies 20 25 180...T. J. II. Smitii, board of Susie Keenan 50 00 187...0. L. Allen, coroner's inquest 12 00 188...K. Vinson, coroner's constable 2 25 iov...r. j. uavis. miry ing pauper 00 JliO...James Munro, clerk court lol JO lJll...Jeff Gregory, trial justice constable 1HJ l'.i2...1t. Macbeth, sheriff office fees 11 ">i 103...W m . Smith, repairing bridge "> 110 Nov 10 101...1-1. 1'. Macomson, ; salary trial justice IS 7."> 10">...H. S. lleaty. post mortem examination 10 00 100...Henry M. Gault. work on Poor House well 3 8G 107...D. II. Miller, building bridge (Fair Forest! 3<i 00 108...C. lb Hobo, trial justice sa ary (annual) L'.j OC1 lfjy...r. Whiscnant, trial justice constable 4 21? F. McCluney, post mortem examination o 00 '201...J. II. Fowler, trial justice constable '20 4-5 202...Thos. J. Orr, trial justice salary and holding inquest :> "> oO 20d...D. Johnson. Sr.. trial justice salary, twelve months UH) 00 204...It. M. Stokes, for county printing *>! 00 20o...Jamt.s Grant, work on public buildings 0 0<> 2< > ?... John l?. J cileries, supplies for county pauper 20 208...N. Smith, trial justice constable f.5 20'.'...Murphy & Smith, poor house physicians S l 00 2 lo... James 11. Itodger, cash box for treasurer 00 211 ...J. C. 1\ Jeter, trial justice salary, twelvemonth-' 26 00 111'J...James T, Douglas drawing jury .. t'0 '>0 lllll...0. A. K end rick, ^ 10 nio's) salary as trial justice 2<? St) 111 4...James II. Sims, trial justice's salary 11 16 1116...James II. Sims, trial justice holding inquest 8 60 llltt...Daniel lllack, lime for jail 1 60 111 7...Jack Mclvissick, Collin and burial of pauper 6 00 1118.. J. ( . Dice & Co.. supplies for beneficiaries 81 20 111'.)...J. T. II. Smith, halange board for beneficiaries 86 HHO...George Douglas, medicine ami attention beneficiaries 18 116 221...W. M. Foster, stationery fur s-hool commissioner. . 2 70 2211 ..It. T. Dailey bridge repairs I 60 22d....lames II. Helper, cooking stove for poor house :>1 7"> Jan. 7 2-4...John 11. Mintcr, supplies for pauper, (\ Young .1< CO 22*>....Ios. F. (list, supplies for treasury otlicc 2?> 00 220...James T. Douglass, cash advanced bridge repairs 1 ( Oo 227...N. II. Morgan, drawing jury 11 00 22S...W. S. Gregory. supplies for pauper D5 .'Id 22'.'...Spears & ITowell. supplies lor pauper dt. <>0 2dO ..Silas Kobinson, romoviug rail 1 7"> 2*71 #('. (iage, annual salary as trial justice I?H) DO C. tlage, annual salary ai? clerk hoard 2(>o (K) 2d2...(ieo. <\ May. .superintendent of poor house and supplying paupers M'? hd Amounnt of cash supplies to beneficiaries by the board, not reported above in this report, (outside of poor house 1 >0 ;>:t Total ^7.0-V.t U'J Kcspectfully submitted .IAMKS T. IKH GLASS, t'h'r n It. (', t\ U. ('. G k. ( lerk. ThisisaliQcwilhout.sjiaccs. The Denominational Colleges vs the South Carolina College. To (Itc. Et/ilor iif' the Jif.jisfrr :?The questions involved in this case are still uu der discussion, :md the controversy waxes warmer. As a patriot and a friend, if uot only liiyher, but of the hijlicst education, we regard with solicitude the agitatiou of ilia subject. It is just one of those questions of State policy on which it is so easy a matter to array the prejudices of the ignorant against the ciuse of truth and justice, that the temptation to do so is exceedingly strong. Even the most enlightened, patriotic and pious, who are directly interested in promoting the special interests of the various denominational institutions, are in great danger of allowing themselves to be carried away into selfish and uarrowuiiuded views of what pertains to the best interest of the whole commonwealth. And, on the other baud, it is quite probable that some who are most zealous in their advocacy of the State institutions, arc at heart cnc? 1 .1 < IIIIV.O iu an unzivius naming, mill llicrciurc disparage and flout the sectarian colleges from a feeling they would shrink from uvowiug We hold that religious training of the young is indispensable to sound progress and high civilization, and the denominational colleges constitute, in our opinion, the engineer corps of the militant Christian Church. We would, therefore, rejoice in seeing them ail more heartily cherished and more liberally sustained. .So far, the discussion of the <|iicstion before us seems to have bceu conducted by special partisans of the respective instituo !?.. .K:.-J ... i?1~ ?i<fua. uub vuuau id ? 1111114 iiecjiiy concerned in tho issue, and our object in writing this arricle is to indicate that fact, and to express succinctly our individual views ? for what little they may he worth? in regard to tho momentous subject. For though wc arc rx. curio,1 In the multitude of counsellors thero is safety. ' We arc, though, an humble yet a sincere friend of both tho South Carolina College and of tho denominational colleges. And we are so because wc arc a true and zealous friend to popular education. Wc most ardently wish to sec the whole uiasa of our people morally and intellectually cnlight~ ened and rolined, and wc know that this can never be accomplished by any mere common school system, however well devised and lavishly prosecuted. Ther*? mu t be higher institutions of learning in the land to illustrate the great advantages and exalted power of education,and to inspire the mituls and hearts of our people with a due appreciation of intellectual culture.and with the disposition to make all necessary sacrifices to educate their children. To this end there cannot be too many colleges among us. Kach acts as a lighthouse beacon, radiating t.A.llllf r.C nf ( nl lt*il All.l U.k I. I..1IA *\l I UUtima \j? uiiKivviti; mivi uuiu^iiiiui rjiK imui | over its own vicinage, dispelling the gloom of ignorance ami guiding aspiring youth into the sure ways of honorable effort and eminent usefulness. Common schools, of themselves, can never begot a desire for knowledge that rises alnvj petty purposes and immediate pecuniary results. The desire?the burning desire?for glorious knowledge must always precede the nobler achievements of scholarship. A little learning is not only a 'dangerous' hut a positively evil thing, unless those who are but little learned are saved from arrogance and presumption by the near view of a greater degree of education that keeps them aware of their own ignorance. Nor will men generally and voluntarily avail themselves of such advantages as the common schools offer, unless they have beforehand been auiy impressed wuu a louy desire tor scliolastio knowledge by some institution far above tbc common school in the character of its work. The success of any system of common schools most certainly depends on the maintenance of a college sotncwharc in point-blank view. Men are moved to ac. tiou much more hy their sentiments than by their opportunities, and mental education is essentially a matter of voluntary exertion. It caiinit be force 1 on any ono. Therefore common schools arc the progeny, not the parents, of colleges, lint why is it. that the special friends of the denominational colleges object to free tuition in the South Carolina College? l>o they suppose that their pets could compete successfully with the State institution if it charged for tuition . a? they arc obliged to do? It would seem that such is their view of the case; but surely that is a mistaken notion. No part of a thing can be equal to the whole. And no more does the most numerous and wealthy and religious denomination of the State possess power and wealth equal to that of the whole State How, then, can any sectarian college en* tortain the idea of competing successfully, under any circumstances, with the State College? And since there is obviously no chance of successful competition, evon if the State College were t ? charge tuition, why uiakc such a pother about it? Tbe pretext i^ transparent. It is, at the same : time, both shallow ami short-sighted. We | verily believe that in proportion as the i State College elevates the standard of cd- i ucatiou, and diffuses by its superior in- i flue nee a desire for higher education I throughout the whole State and in the re* I gions beyond.' the denominational colleges i will be benefitted and their numbers large. < ly increased. Has any denominational col- > lege in the State a smaller number of stu- I dents at present than it had while the State /"1-11 1 1 J II' vjouego was suspenueu : ? o arc inucii < mistaken if every one of them Joes not now I boast a larger patronage tlnn before. This result is but natural. M nopoly in the I business of education would, if successful, i most effectually defeat its own end. Competition is no less the life of learning than ! it is of trade. The South Carolina C dlogo, as a State i institution, is maintained by the money of I the whole people : justice, therefore, re- 1 quires that her doors shall he thrown as r wide open as possible to all of her class, the < poor as well as the rich. That is obviously s a most paradoxical, if n >t a most absurd 1 positiou taken by the opponents of the Stitc 1 College, who in one breath denounce it as t a rich man's College, and in the next cla< t uior against its free tuition. Free tuition is clearly a greater boon to the poor than to 1 the rich! It would really seem to be but 1 an unworthy stratagem on the pirt of such ' persons to make the College the odious I thing they have unjustly stigmatized it. J Yet some who toll this self-contradictory 1 position towards the College claim to b : its ' fri.'-ntlc M??* Iriinl PrAMi/lnnrt.! ?* .?? .1 .1!.. - ? ? | .ttwuuw* i *i?J UMlUVillUt" r? LI Ul'IIVC'l' * I South Carolina's grand oM College from < 1 the mischievous fingering of such /r!> n-h! i ( Kites arc unsafe keepers nf dovecotes, ami 1 the advice of a mortal enemy is to !? ? <iis- | trusted. The State authorities should be > allowed to manage the State College as they, in their wisdom, may deem best for ' its prosperity and usefulness. I It is devoutly to he h ?p-d that all pro- | fessors of our sacred religion who may do- ' bate this subject in the interests ol' their special institutions, will bo careful to do so in a spirit of candor and fairness that will save from reproach that cause which should be respected and cherished ah >vo ail secular interests. Let Christians of all denominations sedulously eschew the Jesu?> iciron that would use evi! means for the attaiuuient ol even laudable ends. Truth and right are things of common interest. It requires a constellation ol' coll *ges to produce. a galaxy of intellectual light. Ivach shines the brighter by the mutual conjunction aud reflection of their luminous rays. Calamus. Skilful Cultivation.?Skilful cultivation should be the aim of every one who raises plants and crops. To make gardening and farming profitable, it is necessary to have something in return for every stroko that is made, and for every dollar invested, liven when only a few house plants are eared for. we expect Co see growth and bloom in repay for our care; if not, our interest in them would soon be lost. We devote an acre of laud to a certain crop; it costs for the season the interest for a year on the investment made for it, besides the expense of preparation, manuring, cultivating, lurvosti g, marketing. Ate. Our crop is but half what it might he, or what good cultivation has proved might be obtained. The time and expense of preparation, of sowing, and of cultivation, have been as much as for a full crop, and the cost ol harvc-tim' and other exuenses but little less, but a part of (he laud was too wet, and the planting could not be done early, as it should have boon, and on the same account the manure that was applied, though there was not half enough of that, could only produce partial effects and so, from these combined causes we get back for our season's work, perhaps, the expense and a little more. The interest and expenses were fifty dollars 01 the aero, and our returns. all told, amounted to sixty dollars. , giving a profit of ten doll us. At this rate j per aero on the whole place, with what it , provides for the table he-ode, with great j economy, one may. pcrhap-. live along for a while, and the land is growing p >orcr, and | the value of the first investment is lowctcd j ?the place is running down, lint at a little more expense in preparation, perhaps ton dollars on the aero, enough to ensure the best result, making the whole sixty, in j stead of fifty d ?!lar?, a< before, and the ' crop is twice as or.-it, and perhaps laithcr i enhanced in value by its superior quality ! All of this success, then. i> profit?sixty i dollars or more, instead of ten?an amount that makes prosperity and sueeesi, instead of failure^? 17? .J/ /70 ,?7k. This has been the h rdest winter .Scotland lias experienced in twenty years. I>iki? or a Huokkx Ukaut.?Now Vork. Pcbiu iry 10.?Mrs Kate Parker, iged forty two years, of No. 101 St. Mark's place. entered (Captain McCullagh's >tation-hou<<\ at Fifth street anil First ivenue, shortly before uiitluii^ht Monday night and stood for souie moments before the desk panting for breath. Then she began to weep pitoously and informed the sergeant that her son Paul, sixteen years aid, was very wicked. She said that he did not work. but associated with corner IV 1 t * ruuiaus ana went Home amok every mgut. 'I won! I rather bo dead/ said she, 'than endure again what I have passed through these last six months. My heart is nearly broken. 1 have done everything for that boy. I've been a irood mother, and this is uiy pay/ 'You spared the rod and spoiled the child/ in id Detective Dissert. 'Thr/s my ease exactly,' replied the wojian, wringing her hands. 'I never lilted inger to him. I always allowed him to nave his way. Now he doesn't mind mc, ind when 1 tell him not to associate with ;vi 1 companions he turns on mc like a lavage, lie thinks I ant his enemy, and lis evil associates he belives arc his firm riends. I'm afraid to sleep with hint in he house. IMoase let a policeman coutc .villi mo to arrest him,' she concluded. The feelings of Detective Dissert, who las a family of boys, were touched, and lie volunteered to accompauy her home. The jroken hearted mother thanked him and followed Dissert out of the station-house, she couldn't walk very fast, as she had ivorked all day. When she was about o go to sleep, she said, her drunken son entered the house and disturbed her. She Loid the detective as they walked along that tvitli a view to his reformation she had sent liim West, and made an effort to get him ^ood positions, but ho returned to the city uid led a dissipated life. When the woman and the detective had reached Seventh -tr t, two blocks from llie station-house, Mrs. Darker stopped, placed her hand o:i h r heart and crying, 'My t.Iod, my heart i? I; il.cn/ fell, and when Detective Dissert stooned to raise her he fouud she was dead, lie summoned assistance and llie body was placed on a stretcher and was taken hack to the stationhouse. where the p dice surgeon pronounced her dead. Rome one suggested to the defective that it would be of no use to arrest the disobedient son, in view of the circumstances, but tbe detective thought otherwise and and went to the house in Rt. .Mark's place, where lie arrested I'aul, who was asleep. When Uissert informed the two other sons an 1 two daughters of their mother's death there was a heartrending scene. The daughters were almost frantic in their grief and I'aul was bitterly reproached. Thero was no no id of that, however, for ho now realized that his conduct had been the cause of his mother's death. The stout detective had to run to keep up with I'aul on the way to the station-house. The sons and daughters were following them. In the station-house I'aul throw himself across his mother's body and piteou.sly pleaded for forgiveness. 'Mother. wake up ami speak to me!' he moaned. I want to confess how wicked I've heeii and what a good boy I'll be heroafter. I will never cause you any pain again. You won t havj to cry and sit up nights for me any more. Oh, mother, look up and speak! Then tlie other sons and daughters entered and ther" was another affecting sceno. I'aul wa-n't 1 nrked up, as it was thought lie had been punished enough. I'aul was takon before Justice Ihtffy, at llssex Market, yesterday, where his conduct was sov -rely denouccd hy tho magistrate, An older brother interceded for him, and Justice Duffy allowed him to go on hirecognizance until after tho funeral. ? Cn.mknt foit (!.\sr 1 uon.?A correspondent r.f the Mechanic fays thai he used the following recipe with tin greatest success lor the cementing of irm milling top-, iron gratings to stoves, etc. and with such effect as to resist the blow! of a slcdgo hammer : Take e?jual parts o sulphur and white lead, with about a sixtl of borax, incorporate the three so as to forn one homogeneous mass. When going t< apply it. wet it. with strong sulphuric acii and place a thin layer of it between tin two pieces of >ron, which should then b< ..?,-.,...1 i., n l ?hi t I'l Wfiuu in nvi; iiiijrn it Will Ut perfectly dry, all traces of the cement having vanished, mid tho iron will have th< appearance of having boon welded together ? The weather has been so severe in Pick ens that trees were split and opossums fro /-en. lie sure and make your returns befon the 'Jt'th of the present mouth. Alter tha f 11111* flit? ''(I nor n.inilfi.' will domestic recipes. A Pi.ate op Cake.?The following receipts are sure to he good. l>egin a scrap book at once for the rules which will be < 1 . . I . _ - I - . A I A - 1 1 rounu m (.ins column. contriuuicu ny an experienced cook. All housekeepers arc iuvitcil to send tested receipts, especially those for various kinds of bread, rolls, muffins, etc., also short rules for cooking meat and full which will help others to make .something healthful and appetizing, for the inevitible three meals. Si'onuk I'akk.?Three eggs, one cup of sugar, ouo cop of flour, one toasn ionful of cream-tartar, one-half teaspoonful of soda, one desirtspoonful of vinegar. ('ftk v m Sl'ii.nuk Cakk. ? Beat two eggs in a enp, and till up the cup with sweet cream, one cup of white sugar one and one-half cups of Hour, one toaspoonful of cream-tartar, one half teaspoon ful of soda, and fl ivor with lemon. RntmiN f VKK.?Two and one half cups of sugar, one small cup of butter, four eggs, one cup of sweet milk, two to ispoonfuh of cream-tartar, and one toaspoonful of s > la, sifted in two and one-half cups of II ?ur, or three sreint imiih Hivide the mixture into three parts; to one port add one cup of raisins, ami one half cup of citron, out line; spice as you like. ISake in a shallow tin. flavor the other two part", one with vanilla, the other with lemon. When bake 1, place the one with fruit between the other two, spreading a thin layer of jelly between them, frost the whole, when cool. fiiucui.ATK (l.VKK.?One cup of white sugar, two cups of Hour, one-half cup of butter, one-half cup of sweet milk, three yolks an I one white ol an egg, o to teaspoonfu! ol cream tartar, one half teaspoonful of sod i. Hake in three tins. filling for the same: Heat together ono cup of sugar, the whites of two eggs, and three tablespoon fuls of grated chocolate. Flavor with vanilla, and spread between the cakes while they are slightly warm. Minutk Loaf Cakk.?Threo cups of flour,one and one-half cups of sugar, one half cup of butler, one cup of milk, ono cup of raisins, one egg, two teaspoonfuls of cream tartar, one tcaspoonful of soda. SNowlhtnr Cakk. ? The whites of ' five egg", two cups of sugar, 0110 half cup of butter, one cup of sweet milk, with onehalf tcaspoonliil of soda dissolved in it; three cups of flour with one teispoonful of cream-tartar sifted in it. Add citron if liked. This makes two loaves. Tiik 1'hioiiiiv or bum? A Bin Susiik-Crow. ?The l.ien I .aw agitation in this State since its adoption in IttftO has had an nauual paroxysm. The subject of its repeal lias excited statesmen in the (iencral Assembly at each annual session since the date named. What will we do with it ? was silenced at t'to recent session by what is called the "priority law." We propose to show brictly that there ueel be no luguhriousnesA on ilie part of anybody by reason of the recent enactment. The original > Act, lSGb, Section "J.d'.G, General Statutes, gave a lien on ftll crops to secure advances for agricultural purposes; Acts of 1H78- SO, (Jen. erril Statutes, gave to the landlord a "prior anil preferred lien" for rent ami advances ; Act of lHti'j, Section '-'.OS.'!, General Statutes, gave the laborer a "prior ' lien on all crops raised upon shares or other valuable consideration. Thus ntoo<l the Statutes until the legislation of the General Assembly of The law has been construed uniformly so as to give the landlord his rent an l payment for supplies in preference to all other claims on the crops raised on leased lan Is. The laborer, , wherever he has sought a romedy, has had his lien next enforced up the crops, as against any party making advances. In ono caso at least ' this construction has boeu put upon the Statutes. and the decree by one of our ablest Circuit Judgos, enforced without appeal. Now. if we ftre right in our view of the law , as it stood when the Legislature recently con enf'l. tliere has been no new departure,' no scintilla of change, and the contortions of cer, tain of the Representatives, who cry out that ^ our agricultural system is to be revolutionized, is unwarranted The recent Act can only be construed as declaratory of the law as it stood, 1 or its introduction, discussion and passage was i intended by its supporters as a decoy to those i who appeared "fatally bent" 011 repealing tho f whole business. The party making advances ( has the same rights and remedies as hitherto afforded, Resides, if the Lien Law is to stand 1 on the Statute Looks, it is as it should be.? J The landlord ought to be secured his rent un1 lees it he resolved that none shall own agricul> tural land except to the extent he can cultivate , with his own hau ls. The laborer should ba secured, unless it is determined that he should be driven from the country. In cases where the landlord is a farmer, which implies that ho 3 ami family perform the farm labor, t ho risk of making advances is not great. Wnorc advances arc made to a tenant, as in the case of a non-occupant landlord, the advancing party - should look well to the amount of rent claimed. We only proposed the task of showing that (hero has been no change in the Lien Law, with the hope of silencing the cry of "wolf,'* that 1 may do harm to the landlord, tenaut and laborer.? LaurrnsvilU 11 rail.