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TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. )? OOI3 .AJSTID OTTT* COTJIsTTIlY. -I ALWAYS IN ADVANCE. VOLUME 3. SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 28, 1869. NUMBER 28. [From ?lw Southern Cultivator.] Mr. Dickson on Immigration. Sparta, Ga., June 10,1860. Editors Southern Cultivator: I wish to draw the attention of the cotton planters df the South to tho subject of immigration. It is one of great interebt, and if successful, I think will prove ?destructive to tlio cotton interest. 1 do not wish my views to prevail unless they -are right. I wish both sides to be heard; tho other sido has been heard already, and wo have been taxed to promote this -cause. The State of Georgia is moving for oar destruction. The negro we have with us, and wc ?cannot get rid of him if we would. They %ill not die out, as most of our Northern .friends and many of our people think. Next census will show a large increase. 'The only way to make it tolerable fur thorn to live amongst us, is to give them ?employment. With full employnicut, they will steal less, he more law-abiding, and a lesa nuisance in overy way. Do we want more labor, and for what? The ?agricultural interest at the South is ?chiefly valuable for its production of cotton, tobacco and rice. Can we make 'more mo?ey by doubling the quantity of ?labor, than we cnu out of what we now have / Do numbers increase tho quantity ?of luhcr pro rata, or will tho dividends be greater for all concerned f Can the ?first million of people in Georgia, having the first choice ot lands to cultivate and the balance for pasture, make more or less than tho .second tii'llion, having tho poorest hulf to cultivate, and no waste ?land for stock to grate on ? Is tho ?second million likely to be mum skilful, industrious, law-abiding aud enterprising. *f? 7 I think history teaches us that a .population, with a plenty of room and land, are more cheaply governed than a ?dense population?can live better and ?crn have.more labor to spart* f r improve., --incuts. What country has built the .same ?amouut of Ruiln ads and Factories as the United States ? The I'nited States having plenty ot lauds to cultivate, by selecting the best, can, with one-half of ?its laborers, mako u plenty of.-ill the products of the soil, whilst the other 'half can build Railroads uud machinery ?of all kinds, and work them. The <3ottou Suites, with its present labor, ?can build mure Railroads, erect more factories, dovelope more mines, carry education and refinement to a higher point than if the population was increased fourfold. With cotton at twenty-five cents per pound, you have money to do whatever you wish collectively. In 1818 ?and '40, with 900,000 to 1,000.000 bales of cotton in Liverpool, cotton sold in Augusta at from 4J to 54 cents. With ?350,000 to 400,000 bales at preseut in Liverpool cottou is selling in Augusta from 25 to 29 ceuts per pound. Why ?do you wish to make the change? Our Northern friends say, if wc do not pro dace cotton cheaper, we will loso the trade I am willing to lose it, if it can only bo held by making cheap cotton. If they would take a little more interest in preventing the loss ofour liberty, instead ?of tho loss of the cottou trade, it would insure to the benefit of both sections. Give us our liberties and constitutional Tights, with our best men to represent us in all departments, and we can make as much cotton as the world wants, at fair prices, if it bo ton million of bales, without an outsido man or dullar. Good government would do more to develope this country thnu all the men and money in the world. Cotton planters, it is not to your inter ?est to sell your laud at u mere nominal price. How can you invest your money to any better advuntage. Lund must advance in price. In thirty years, with out a single immigrant, Georgia will have a population of two millions of people?the sons and daughters of the present population. Be patient?wait for the natural increase, and what may voluntarily como. Do not. spend your money to hasten an over-populated country. It will conic soon enough, and when it docs come, you will have no out let Some arc willing to cut their lands up in email lots, and give every alternate lot to immigrants, thinking it will more thin double the price of the balance. What do you care what your lands are worth, if you havo none to sell?besides, it would reduce the price of cotton more than one-half, and the land you would have left would not pay per acre one half of the dividouds they do now? reducing yuur profits three-fourths. Von have a plenty of native poor people to sell land to, if you wish to part with any. Do those who have no land, wish com petitors in lubor, and in the laud market ?-reducing your wages one-half or inure? Do you wish a groat increase of money capital, reducing the rato of iutcrest to the standard of Europe, causing all prop erty to rise, in pyor. jrtion to the full of interest. Your wages arc fixed by the surplus of cotton you have to export, and the prico it will bring in Liverpool. Your prosperity flepeuds upon the scarcity of lubor nnd n high rate of iuiorcst. You Lave nothing but your labor?you cannot borrow money, even ' if it gets down to 2 per cent. The value of your labor boing fixed by the value of cotton in Liverpool, where interest is low, you can, by residing where it is high, acquire proportionally, much more iaud in a given time. To those who have land to sell, or inoro than can be worked, let me say tho very scarcity of labor will make oue half of y.iur lands bring in annually more money than if all was planted?the other half is worth 5 per cent to grow broom sedgo for grating, nnd will ad vance more than five per cent annually. Eor the safety of the manufacturing interest, especially in cotton, it is not prudent to push it too fast?not faster than markets can be found for the products manufactured. Just as sure as the winds return the wutcr, to be condensed and fall again above the shoals, the people here will possess tho money and energy and skill to put the water to work; and to effect this most speedily, we want a scarcity of labor, that there may bo a scarcity of cotton, und corres pondingly good prices. With cotton ut 20 to 2."> cts. per lb., we can in Georgia uppropriatereu dollars towards increasing our manufacturing interest with more case than one dollar, with double the labor, and cotton 8 to 12 cents. Where arc the laborers best fed and clothed3 Where labor is scarce. Whore docs land pay the bust profits t Where labor is scarce ; und the reason is, the products of the farm bring the best prie< s, under these circumstances. I am equally Opposed to begging for money to be brought to the "South, to bo invested. If capitalists come of their own accord, let them come, but it is not to our interest that they should. You now own tho property of Georgia?if you sell one-half of it, you will own but the other hulf. It is very difficult to transfer real property from-one country to another. The most you would get, would be the means to live, and dress fine for a few years. What we wnnt is a system of saving, nnd properly investing each year. We could and ought to save annually fifteen million of dollars, to he invested .in machinery. That would pay future dividends, to bo rc-invcsted. 1 am for more lubor too, but 1 want such as we may never regret acquiring. Accumulate ull sorts of labor-saving machines ; im prove your laud to n capacity double its present rates; improve your systems fully double of what they now arc. Learn to do fully fifty per cent more work, with the same labor than is now done, and with more case ; learn to apply your labor to greater advantage thau is now done?do all this, and more too which can be done, aud you will find your products ample, without an}' increase of populatiun. I um for non-act ion by Georgia?non-action of our people. Leave the subject of immigration to .time, and tho free will of those who wish to come among us, nud be of us. Wc owe our prosperity at this time entirely to the scarcity of labor?many negroes having refused to work ; others being employed iu repairing torn up railroads, and building new roads. If ull the negroes had gone to work on the farms, nnd done full work, it would have taken twenty years to roach our present situation. The scarcity of labor is the I only blessing we now enjoy us a result of the war. Tho scarcity of labor in the South, gives us the proceeds of the very l::bc some people wish to transfer hero. The profits of one hand in the cotton field, give us the labor of two in Europe. Transfer him hero, and lie will compete with the labor wo now have, or he will labor with those we now have to lessen their profits, and bring about a state of things, which will get np strikes. You must recollect, n strike in the cotton or harvest field, is not like one iu a cotton mill or on a rnilrond. If the mill stops, ' what has boon done is not lost?if the hands refuse to move any more dirt, what has been, remains. Not s> with wheat and cotton?all is lost, unless you continue to advance. The guano must be pumpod up into tho cotton bolls, and they must be gathered by uninterrupted labor. ?.? One moro point I will mention, and then leave the subject to be discussed fully, I hope by abler pens. Tho press of tho South has labored earnestly, to get tho cotton pluuter to make all his sup plies at home, urging it as being the cheapest policy. Now every cotton pluuter knows that nothing pays as well as cotton, and all the presses in the world cannot change his opinion. But if the press will strike at tho root of tho evil, they may do incalculable good. I will state what it is; I have always practicod it; both the true iutcrest of the cotton planter and patriotism, should mubo all adopt it. Apply one-half of all labor and land to the making of.full supplies of all kin.Is that are needed on the plantation, aud cuough to spare, for those engaged in other pursuits. Do this, nud you will get more money, (take ten years together,) for the other half of labor and land engaged iu cotton culture, than if the whole was employed to produce cotton. If this is true, im migration is certainly not to our iutorcst, and why should not tho cotton planters cousult their interests as well as other people. Very respectfully, DAVID DICKSON. - in-mn hi Horrible Chicago. I think 1 remarked iu my last letter that I once met a Chicago lawyer who warmly advocated marriage, and who explained to me his reason fur hu doing. For such a man to du such a thing, was. to say the least, surprising. I listened with breathless interest while \o gave me a brief history of his expert nee du ring the Brst ton years of his residence in that oek'bratc,;: ?'i*.y. Said ho : "I fust came to Chicago fif teen years ago. Then I was youug aud innocent, which it is hardly necessary fur me to say that 1 am nut at present. 1 had a friend living here whom I had known while lie resided in New Volk, and conducted himself like a civilized cumtnunity. As he had written tu ine to visit himself aud his wife when I came to Chicago, 1 remembered the in vitation when I did visit that city, and immediately on my arrival proceeded to his houso. He was not at homo just at the moment, and so 1 asked to see his wife, whom 1 had known only a year be fore in New York. In unswer to my inquiry fur Mrs. De Vurse, a pretty black eyed girl came into the drawing room and received me quite warmly. "Well, we chatted very pleasantly to gether until my friend came up, and 1 really'felt myself beginning to experience a very affectionate impulse towards her. supposing, of course, that she was his niece, or cousin, or uncle, or something of that suit. But ia the oourso of the evening I asked him whether his wife was at home, and if so, when ho proposed to let me see her '.' "To my astonishment, he replied,? 'This lady is Mrs. De Vorse ! 1 thought you wore already aware of the fact.' '?Of course 1 blushed and felt horribly uncomfortable, and said that I was not aware that he had lust poor Emily. " 'Oh,' said he, 'Emily is well, anil has married a partner of mine. We were divorced, you know, about six months ago, and I married my present wife only last week.' "Well! I didu't feel quite sc- aficc tiouatu toward her after that, for I had been warmly attached to Emily ; but we said no mure about the matter, and I weut away, vowing never to get myself into such a scrape again by askiug after auybody's wife. 1 did not soo my friend's new wife fur about a month afterwards, until I one day met her iu a house of a mutual acquaintance, aud in the course of conversation said to her: 'By the way, might I ask you to say to your hus band thut I waul 'hint to come to my office some day next week ?" ?? '1 don't think you know my hus band,' she said smilingly. '? 'What do you meau ?' said I, getting rather nervous. "'W hy, my new husband is named Smith,'she answered. 'I was separated from Mr. Dc Vorse yesterday morning, and married Mr. Smith last night." ''I left that houso protty rapidly, and registered a second vow, to tho effect that I woulJ never, to my dying day. ask a Chicago lady about her husband again. Tho two mistakes 1 had already ax tn iMiii-.aj.ro wives uhd husbands made mo decidodly shy ofLthem. Hut the very next duy i wcnJ^^Do Vorse's store (euro, pork, nnd P^Hbioob-), and found him engaged in conversation with a terribly angular female, who looked like a compound of a New England old maid, a Western wouiau's rights lecturer, and an Arkansas sijtuittcts wife Of course I pitied my friend, and, when the terrible female had gone, tcmurked, 'I congratulate you on your^scapo; that horriblo female would have exhausted uuy man's patiene? in ten ulonionts' con versation.' What was my horror when he replied : *I must beg you to speak more respectfully ofthat lady; she is at prcseut my wife?a fuct of which you uro, of course, unaware, nsfwe were mar ried very privately lust night.' "I never said a word, but fled abrupt ly from his presence. Once more 1 swore ?and I went before a notary, who had tho biggest kind of a Bible, so as to make the oath more binding?that never, pever would 1 speak disparagingly of any Chicago woman to any Chicago man. Aftor that I felt better,* and for two weeks avoided mukiiig any more mis takes. At the end of that time, how ever, L met the new and ,'angulur Mrs. J)c Yorso, to whom 1 had' in the mean time, been iuti-oduccd, having tho live liest kind of a quarrel with n big, prize tightiyg looking fellow, who was ap parently on the point of knocking her down. Of course I flew to her rescue and demanded to kuow jf the fellow what lie meant; also if he was aware who that lady was, and who her husband was? To which he briefly, sontoutious ly, but, us it struck me, i<revcluntly re marked, 'Hell I' ''I paid no further attention to him, but turning to Mrs. l><^ Vorse, said : ?Madam! permit me to p: 'feet you from that ruffian's insolence' ' '?instead of thanking r?\ she actually slapped my face, and s?jfjl: 'III teach you to interfere bctwc**r*^!k\h mid wife. That's my husband, and we've been mar lied three day. It's pretty hard thing if a wife can't stop in the street to speak to her husband without having some idiot come and make a muss ah >ut it.' "N'.w." continued the lawyer, "this is not only a true story, but it is a fair ex ample of the continued trouble that a man gets into who lives in Chicago, and doesn't know bow to bold his tongue. You now understand why 1 bate the Chicago customs, and why I go in lor indissoluble mat riages. I never made a mistake in asking n man about his wife the whole time 1 lived in New York, but here 1 have got into more awkward places, and hud more lights than 1 e.io count, just becuuse no man stays married more than a mouth at furthest." We drank weak lemonade together in solemn thoughtfulticss, and I patted from him with the feeling that bad as it is to be iudissoluhly connected with an unpleasant lliottior-itl-law, it is better than to be constantly but lu red by a change of wife.?Mobib Register. Attacked hy a Snaky..?On Tues day, the ltd instant, a black Ftiake. meas uring six fret in length, attacked a boy; about eight ye ns of age. while he was sleeping tinder a tree. The boy is a sou of W. Strickler of Cotiostogn Centre, who was out with his father mi the Korge Hills gathering blackberries. While the father was off some ten or twelve yards lit! was alarmed by a BCroani from his sou, who had lain down and fallen asleep ; and on going to see what was the matter, he found a suako coiled around tin- body of the boy. Mr Strick ler immediately dispatched the snake and rescued his son from his perilous situation. It is supposed that the snake Was on (he tree at the time the boy lay down, and that it dropped upon him when he was asleep. That is one of the peculiarities of the black snake, 'flic boy was considerably frightened by bis undesirable visitor.? Lancaster Intelli gencer. There is a girl in Schuylcr County, Mo., who "one night last summer at tended a ball, danced all night, went home in the morning, got breakfast, din ner, and supper for ten harvest bands, did a two weeks' washing, and the milk ing, made tt calico dress, practiced her music lessons, weut black berrying, gath ered n gallon, walked to town in the evening to attend a concert, und walked homo again before bed-time." Who says that woman is not entitled to the ballot? Tho Comet. Comets have always been regarded with terror, especially by the unscien tific. In times past, certain comets have created great consternation, such, for in stance, aB that of 1456, which appeared again in 1531, in 1607, in 1682, in 1758 and in 1885, aud, which astronomers say will reappear every 75 years. This was the comet that Pope Calixtus III ordered to be said, in connection with tho Ave Maria, "Lord, save us from the Devil, the Turk, and the Comet." Tho comet of 1456 hud a tail more than ninety-six millions of miles long. ^ Forty-three years bclorc the birth of the Saviour, a comet appeared which could be seen in the day-time, this comet rc-appcarcd iu 1106. There is a bare possibility that this planet may come in contact w:th a comet. Dr. Brew.sters, in speaking of this says, "The transient effect of a body passing near the earth, could scarcely amount to any great convulsion; but it" the earth were actually to receive a j-hock from one of these bodies, tho consequences would be awful. A new direction would be given to its rotary motion, and would revolve around a new axis. The seas forsaking their beds, would be hurried, by their centrifugal force, to the new equatorial regions; islands and c nti nents, the abodes of men and animals, would be covered by the universal rush of the waters to the new equator, and every vestige of human industry and genius would be at once destroyed." It will be seen from the following, which we clip from one of our exchanges that a comet of a dangerous nature, is stealing a liery inarch on us : "For more than ten years past, the most scientific astronomers of the world have told us, through publications in the magazines and otherwise, that dur*ng the mouths of July. August and Sep tember, this year. (1869), the most wou derfitt comet the world has ever known, would re-appear. They have also as sured us thut it would approach nearer the earth than any comet ever did before, and that either the earth or the comet would have to change its course or a col lision would be inevitable. As this comet is said to be many thousand times larger than the earth, and as it is a solid mass of lire, with a tail of tire that would reach round the earth more than I a hundred times, it is not at all unlikely that a collision with it would prove us disastrous to the earth as the late acci I dent on the Krie railrftad did to some ol the more unfortunate passengers. Ac cording to astronomers, it was this comet that immediately preceded the terrible civil wars in Greece, and was immediate ly followed by a terrible contagion in Persia and other eastern countries, a most dreadful plague that in a few weeks swept from the face ol the earth more than one half of the people ol the coun tries visited by it. Some years after, this COIUCt appeared again, and was pre ceded by a most terrific ei\il war in Koine, ami followed by a plague, or <courgc, that piled tho dead up iu heaps in the streets ol' that proud, but corrupt city, until there were scarcely enough persons lclt alive to bury the dead. That is the comet that is paying its re spects to old mother earth again. It has been much talked of, and its visit much dreaded by those who teel that they have good reason to dread, not only the tire works they may be compelled to witness in this world, but the real ami consum ing tires with which they are threatened in the next. A Stinging Protest.?The Free man's Journal, one of tho best friend? of the South, thus protests aud warns: We hope the people of the States on the lower Mississippi will not make the mistake of encouraging an influx upon them of the scum of pagan China, and dream that honest Christian Kurojienns will go near regions thus infected. If the devilish spirit of making money anyhow has so degraded the ruling ele ments iu any portion of the South as to make them willing to accept Chinese residents, with all the rights >ecured to them by the Burliugame treaty, then these States or regions, thus besotted, are very good places tor European emi grants to keep away from. The effect of manuring with green crops, or vogetablo r^nure, is to render the soil loose and mellow Heavy, sticky clay soils are changed b) its process. A Terrible Calamity.?A terrible calamity occurred in the town of Cald weil, New Jersey, not iong since. A young man named Stephen Pierce was walking home from the Methodist Epis copal Church, in company with a young lady, when they were overtaken by. a violent storm, which was preceded and accompanied by thunder and lightning. The entire village was suddenly illumi nated with an intense light, aud Pierce and his companion full to tbc ground. The -lady was stunned, but she soon re covered, and screamed for help. When help arrived, nothing was found of the young man who had accompanied her but mangled remains. His boots were stripped from hie feet; hie limbs were severed and laccrat"d, and the features were not recognizable by those who had know him in life. The unfortunate young man is said to be tho third one of his family who has lost his life by the same cause. lie was about eighteen years of age, and was respected in the neighborhood where bo residwd. Chief Justice Chase Favoring a New Party.?It is said that jnst after the result of the Virginia election be- i came known Chief Justice Chase wrote a confidential letter to n prominent poli tician in Tennessee, an old friend of his wherein he expressed much gratification at the defeat of the bitterenders in Vir. gint:;, and rpjoiced over tho success of the Conservatives. Tho Chief Justice expressed the hope that results similar to that in Virginia would be produced in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Texas, and strongly hinted that in his opinion the Republican party bad served it? day, and the tin.e was nt hand when a new Conservative party should be formed which would embrace the moderate men of all existing parties. This letter was kept very quiet for some time, but .after the Tennessee election the gentleman to whom it was addressed seemed to con sider the seal of secrecy removed aujd showed it around quite freely. Tie re fused, however, to give it to the pres?. A COOL PrOCEEDINO.?A married couple in this county, says the Kvans villc (Ohio) Courier, who bad been liv ing together for something over n year, separated'recently in a very peculiar manner, and to say the least of it. uudcr unusual circumstances. We know noth ing about their married life, whether it had been happy or otherwise, but sup pose it to have been very agreeable be tween the parties. The husband came home to dinner one day, ns usual, and while eating his wife said to him, "Stephen, you had better eat a hearty dinner, for it is the list that I will ever cook for you." lie enquired what she meant, when she informed him that she had just received a letter from a young man (a former beau) whom bhe loved better than any one else in the world ; that she was going to leave her husband and go to him ; mid thatcho never loved (Stephen) her husband. After dinner was over she attired herself neatly, and soon after a hack culled, her trunk (al ready packed) was placed on it. the wo man got inside, tho driver cracked his whip, and away went the wile froift home and husband forever. Stub are the cir cumstanccs'of the case as they have beeu tol 1 to us. "Pi/.eu Hill, hunter ;md Prospector," of Klk Mountain, Wyoming Territory, is down on the Pacific Railroad, fie says : "It skates of the gaim ami drives of the fraters and bulwhackers and pilgrims, and brings down all prises of things. If a feller wants to go any whares they raze bcl if he bnngs gun into the kcarfl an to take it an put it in the baggage kear and nock the sites outcu place. The grate nashnul hi wa is a grate cuts to the koutry, bekase it brings in ohyoees wuu wa an yaokya the uther." It is furthermore his opinion that the Powell expedition is drowned, as the Colorado cannon is liable to drown anything except a fish. Tho Norfolk Virginian of Thursday says:?"We have good reason to believe that a telegram wus received in this city yesterday evening to the effect that the President had given instructions to (Jen. Csnby to install the Governor elect with out delay; but inasmuch as there was no pressiug business for the Legislature to convene, that tho meeting of that body would bo deferred for the present." The hops are all destroyed in the hop growing regions in Wisconsin. Pomkkoy oh Buti.er.?Bri<? roy does get off a good thing sotuctiawa. We are not ordinarily an admirer $f his. His red-hot politics is Iiis cool Stock* trade?tho inventoried capita! of V* business. He has made money out" afrit, and he expects to mate more. Cohiuina of his editorial matter pruned 4om%*? their pith arc simply very ingemo4tt4afi diversiGed abuse, withoat much idea bt* yond undisguised hostility to what fie is pitching into. But the following isi ly said and contains a true thoughts The right honorable and distingaii Benjnmin F. Butler, of Massachai9Mp? has offered an opinion in the caae of Vir ginia, and his opinion is to the effect thai those officers elected, who cannot ta*e the test-oath, because of their partlci?tV tion in the rebellion," should be aside, and those whozi they defeated *aV initted. Once there was a time it this country when the thief was not permit* ted to express an opinion in the cose of homcst men, and a time when honest men were in position of trust, instead of plunderers and speculators. ' Tfc?a? times have gone. Then there was *a?4b> er time, so many year* ago, whea a aaofe put Christ upon the cross and cried that Barnbbas, the thief, might -be saved, and those times are returning. A Western paper relates this story i "Deacon B., of Ohio, a very pious ma?> was noted for his long prajere, especially in his family. One Monday morning the deacon aud his wife alone, and.as wa^ his custom, after break fact, a prayer was offered. There being an unusual amount of work that day, the de-aeon's prayer was short, and seizing his hat and milk pail he started for the barn. His wife being deaf did not notice his_ ab sence, but supposed him to be still e gaged in prayer. On ?ii? return milking, he was surprised to sec her still kneeling. He stepped up to her and shouted 'Amen,' when she immediately arose and went about her work as it ao?_ thing had happened." A Brilliant Whitewash*?When wc wish a wash of this characftJ#y we wish an article that will be durable, and wc arc willing to be at a little more, ex pense if wc can get it. We have it ia tho following recipe: Take clean lumps of well-burnt lime, slackened; add to five gallons a quarter of pound of whiting or burnt alum pulverized, half a pound of loaf sugar, one quart and n half of rice Hour made into a thiu aud well boiled paste, boiled out in water. This may be put on cold within doors, but hot out side. This will be as brilliant as plas ter of Paris aud retain its brilliancy for many years.? Western Farmer. Strawberry- Fertilizer.?*A Lan? taster, Pa., correspondent of the .Small Fruit Recorder says : "Au experiment made last year by myself may not come amiss at this time with those who grow strawberries. I procured a half hogs head, filled it with raiu water, and put into it one-quarter pound of ammonia, aud one-quarter pound of common niter. When the strawberry plants were' blos soming out, 1 gave them a sj>rink?s:g of the solution at evening, twice a week, until the fruit was full size. The result was double the amount of fruit oa those where the liquid was applied to what was obtained from those vines right along side of thoso where none ef the liquid was applied. Let us all give it a trial." A drunkcu German in California, who had borne patiently many iusults from a young man w ho was making game of him, at last turned, and assuming mach digni ty, thus addressed his tormentor : flrees ter, mind vat Isay.l he's drunk, aud you he's sober: but veu I vants a shentjeman, den 1 wouldn't swap mit you ; ven I vants a man. den I woldn't swap mit you; bat vent I vants a shackass den I swaps quick." N p* A Good Hit.?An editor who seems to have last his temper, gets off tlio fol >wing well merited hit: Those fellows who don't take their home paper, watch them I they are al ways on the alert on publication day, tad when the papers come aroaad aa yeur place of business, are the first to snatch it up; failing in this, they read, it over your shoulders, too impatient to demean themselves in a respectful manner. Spot these fellows. They are the. snmll souled, stingy-hand-ful, who go through the world With other folks money,