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An Independent Family Jonrnal?Devoted to Politics, Literature and General Intelligence. HOYT & CO., Proprietors. ANDERSON 0. H., S. 0., THURSDAY MORNING-, JULY 7, 1870. VOLUME 6?NO. 2, Editing: an Agricultural Paper. In the July number of the Galaxy "Mark Twain" relates his experience as an agricultu? ral editor: I did not take the temporary editorship of an agricultural paper without misgivings.? Neither would a landsman take command of a ship without misgivings. But I was in circum? stances that made the salary an object. The regular editor of the paper was going off for a holiday, and I accepted the terms he offered, and took his place. The sensation of being at work again was luxurious, and I wrought all the week with un? flagging pleasure. We went to press, and I waited a day with some solicitude to see wheth? er my effort was going to attract any notice. As I left the office, toward sundown, a group of men and boys at the foot of the stairs dis? persed with one impulse, and gave me passage? way, and I heard one or two of them say: "That's him I" I was naturally pleased by this incident. The next morning 1 found a similar group at the foot of the stars, and scattering couples and individuals standing here and there in the street, and over the way, watching me with interest. The group separated ana fell back as I approached, and I heard a man say: '"Lookat his eye!" I pretended not to ob? serve the notice I was attracting, but secretly I was pleased with it, and was purposing to write an account of it to my aunt. I went up the short flight of stairs, and heard cheery voices and a ringing laugh as I drew near the door, which I opened, and caught a glimpse of two young, rural-looking men, whose faces blanched and lengthened when they saw me, and then they both plunged through the window, with a great Crash. I was surprised. In about half an hour an old gentleman, with a flowing beard and a fine but rather austere face, entered and sat down at my invitation. He seemed to have something on his mind. He took off his hat and set it on the floor, and got out of it a red silk handkerchief and a copy of our paper. He put the paper on his lap, and, while he polished his spectacles with his handkerchief, be said : "Are you the new editor ?" I said I was. "Have you ever edited an agricultural paper before?" "No," I said; "this is ray first attempt." "Very likely. Have you had any experience in agriculture, practically ?" "No, I believe I have not." "Some instinct told me so," said the old gen? tleman, putting on his spectacles and looking over them at me with asperity, while he folded his paper into a convenient shape. "I wish to read you what must have made me have that instinct. It was this editorial. Listen, and see if it was you that wrote it: "Turnips should never be pulled?it injures them.. It is much better to send a hoy up and let him shake the tree." "Now, what do you think of that ??for I re? ally suppose you wrote it.'-' "Think of it? Why, I think it is good. I think it is sense. I have no doubt that, every year, millions and millious of bushels of tur? nips are spoiled in this township alone by being pulled in a half-ripe condition, when, if they had sent a boy up to shake the tree-" "Shake your grandmother! Turnips don't grow on trees P . "Oh, they don't, don't they ? Well, who said they did ? The language was intended to be figurative, wholly figurative. Anybody that knows anything, will know that I meant that the boy should shake the vine." Then this old person got up and tore his pa? per all into small shreds, and stamped on them, and broke several things with his cane, and said I did not know as much as a cow ; and then went out and banged the door after him, and, in short, acted in such a way that I fan? cied he was displeased about something. But, not knowing what the trouble was, I could not be any help to him. Pretty soon after this a long, cadaverous creature, with lanky locks hanging down to his shoulders and a week's stubble bristling from the hills and valleys of his face, darted in the door, and halted, motionless, with finger on lip, and head and body bent in listening attitude, No sound was heard. Still he listened. No sound. Then he turned the key in the door, and came elaborately tip-toeing toward me, when he stopped, and, after scanning my face with intense interest for a while, drew a folded copy of our paper from his bosom, and said: There?you wrote that. Bead it to me quick! Relieve me?I suffer." I read as follows?and as the sentences fell from my lips I could see the relief come?I could see the drawn muscles relax, and the anxiety go out of the face, and rest and peace stole over the features like the merciful moon? light over a desolate landscape: "The guano is a fine bird, but great care is necessary in rearing it. It should not be im? ported earlier than June nor later than Sep? tember. In the Winter it should be kept in a warm place, where it can hatch out its ycung. It is evident that we are to have a backward season for grain. Therefore it will be well for the farmer to begin setting out his corn-stalks and planting his buckwheat cakes in July in? stead of August. Concerning the Pumpkin.?This berry is a favorite with the natives of the interior of New England, who prefer it to the gooseberry for the making of fruit cake, and who likewise give it the preference over the raspberry for feeding cows, as being more filling and fullv as satisfying, The pumpkin is the only esculent of the orange family that will thrive in the North, except the gourd and one or two other varieties of the squash. But the custom of planting it in the front yard with the shrubbery is fast going out of vogue, for it is now gener? ally conceded that the pumpkin, as a shade tree, is a failure. Now, as the warm weather approaches, and the gardens begin to spawn-' The excited listener sprang toward me to shake hands, and said : "There, there?that will do ! I know I am all right now, because you have read it just as I did, word for word. But, stranger, when I first read it this morning I said to myself, I never, never believed it before, notwithstanding my friends kept me under watch so strict, but now I believe I am crazy; and with that I fetched a howl that you might have heard two miles, and started out to kill somebody?be? cause you know, I knew it would come to that sooner or later, and so I might as well begin. I read one of them paragraphs over again, so as to be certain, and then burned my house down and started. I have crippled * several fcople, and have got one fellow up a tree where can get him if I want him. But I thought I would call in here as I passed along and make the thing perfectly certain ; and now it is cer? tain, and I tell you it is lucky for the chap that is in the tree. I should have killed him, sure as I went hack. Good-by, sir, good-by?you have taken a great load off my mind. My reason has stood the strain of one of your ag? ricultural articles, and I know that nothing can ever unseat it now. Good-by, sir." I felt a little uncomfortable about the crip? plings and arsons this person had been enter? taining him?ell with, for I could not help feel ing remotely accessory to them; but these thoughts were quickly banished, for the regular editor walked in 1 [I thought to myself, Now if you had gone down to Egypt, as I recom? mended you to, I might have had a chance to Set my hand in ; but you wouldn't do it, and ere you are. I sort of expected you.] The editor was looking sad, and perplexed, and dejected. He surveyed the WTeck that old rioter and these two young fanners had made, and then said: "This is a sad business?a very sad business. There is the mucilage bottle broken, and six panes of glass, and a spittoon and two candle? sticks. But that is not the worst. The repu? tation of the paper is injured, and permanently, I fear. True, there never was such a call for a paper before, and it never sold such large editions or soared to such celebrity; but does one want to be famous for lunacy, and prosper upon the infirmities of his mind ? My friend, as I am an honest man, the street out here is full of ppeple, and others are roosting on the fences, waiting to get a glimpse of you, because they think you are crazy. And well they might, after reading your editorials. They are a dis? grace to journalism. Why, what put it into your head that you could edit a paper of this nature ? You do not seem to know the first rudiments of agriculture. You speak of a fur? row and a harrow as being the same thing; you talk of the moulting season for cows; and you recommend the domestication of the pole-cat on account of its playfulness and its excellence as a ratter. Jfour remark that clams will lie quiet if music be played to them, wa3 superflu? ous?entirely superfluous. Nothing disturbs clams. Clams always lie quiet. Clams care nothing whatever about music. Ah, heavens and earth, friend, if you had made the acqui? ring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you did to day. I never saw anything like it Your observation that the horse chesnut, as an article of commerce, is steadily gaining in favor, is simply calculated to destroy this journal. I want you to throw up your sit? uation and go. I want no^ more holiday?I could not enjoy it if I had it. Certainly not with you iu my chair. I would always stand in dread of what you might be going to recom? mend next. It makes me lose all patience every time I think of your discussing oyster beds under the head of 'Landscape Gardening.' I want you to go. Nothing on earth could per? suade me to take another holiday. Oh, why didn't you tell me you didn't know anything about agriculture ?" "Tell you, you cornstalk, you cabbage, you son of a cauliflower ! It's the first time 1 ever heard such an unfeeling remark. I tell you I have been in the editorial business going on fourteen years, and it is the first time 1 ever heard of a man's having to know anything in order to edit a newspaper. You turnip! Who write the dramatic critiques for the second-rate papers ? Why, a parcel of promoted shoema? kers and apprentice apothecaries, who know just as much about good acting as I do about good farming and no more. Who review the books ? People who never wrote one. Who do up the heavy leaders on finance i Parties who have had the largest opportunities for knowing nothing about it. Who criticise the Indian campaigns? Gentlemen who do not know a war-whoop from a wigwam, and who never have had to run a foot-vace with a toma? hawk or pluck arrows out of the several mem? bers of their families to build the evening camp-fire with. Who write the temperance appeals and clamor about the flowing bowl ? Folks who will never draw another sober breath till they do it in the grave. Who edit the ag? ricultural papers, you?yam ? Men, as a gen? eral thing, who fail in the poetry line, yellow covered novel line, sensation-drama line, city editor line, and finally fall back on agriculture as a temporary reprieve from the poor-house. You try to tell me anything about the newspa? per business 1 Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omega, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands. Heaven knows if I had but been ignorant instead of cultivated, and impudent instead of diffident, I could have made a name for myself in this cold, selfish world. I take niv leave, sir. Since I have been treated as you have treated me, I am perfectly willing to go. But I have done my duty. I have fulfilled my contract, as far as I was permitted to do it. I said I could make your paper of interest to all classes, and I have. I said I could run your circulation up to twenty thousand copies, and if I had two more weeks I'd have done it. And I'd have given vou the best class of readers that ever an agricultural paper had?not a farmer in it," nor a solitary individual who could tell a water? melon from a peach-vine to save his life. You are a loser by this rupture, not me, Pie-plant. Adois." I then left. A Good Oste.?Old Judge Barbour, of Vir? ginia, after enjoying the highest honors and re? tiring to private life, was prevailed on to be a candidate for a local office. The opposition trotted out an illiterate, rough-and-tumble poli cian named Bill Maples, against the old man. In accordance with the strict rules of conduc? ting a political campaign in those days, Gov? ernor Barbour had to take the stump with Maples. But Maples could always beat him in abusive harangues. The final speech of the campaign made by Maples was abusive beyond all precedent. The following is Barbour's re? ply, which we think is the most complete thing in its way that we ever read. Said the Gover? nor : "Felhw Citizens: When I was a young man now nearly forty years ago, your grandfathers sent me us their representative for four terms to the House of Delegates, and I was chosen Speaker of that body. At a sub-sequent period I was twice elected Governor of Virginia. Af? terwards and for ten years I represented this re? nowned commonwealth in the Senate of the United States, where I was the confidante and perhaps I may say the peer of Macon, King, Gaillard, Pinckney, Van Buren. Mr. John Quincy Adams subsequently conferred upon me a place in his cabinet, and for three years I shared his counsels iu conjunction with Clay, Wirt and McLean. I was then appointed en? voy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the court of St. James, where it beuimc my duty to conduct negotiations with the conquer? or of Napoleon. Judge then, fellow citizens, of the. ineffable disgust I feel, after such a career, and in my declining years, at finding myself here to-day engaged in a low, pitiful county contest with such a-disagreeable litl le cuss as Bill Maples." -?> ? Ii. R. Butler, who got twice as much for his cadetship as Whittemore did, had the de? cency not to vote on the question of admitting Whittemore the other day. ? Logan and Butler arc accusing each other of being bribed, one by Cuba and the other by Spain. The Chicago 'Times suggests that it is just barely possible that, for once, both these gentlemen may be correct. ? A writer on school discipline says, "With? out a liberal use of the rod, it is impossible to make boys smart." The Colored Tote. The Charlotte (N. C.) Observer contains the annexed sensible article, which is nearly appli? cable to our own condition. We believe that individual exertions among the negroes by their white employees will avail much; if not at once, the fruit will be borne in due season, and we would advise the farming community to carefully teach their employees the truth in regard to Radical promises, excessive taxation and its effect upon wages, together with the villainies and corruptions under which all classes are made to suffer for the benefit of a few office-holders and their satellites. We pro? pose to put the argument from time to time be? fore the people, and it shall not be our fault if the colored people remain uninstructed by their friends and employers: It is an unfortunate thing that the vote of this country is divided to a great .extent on a basis of color. Up to the present time, how? ever, it is not be wondered at that such has been the case. The colored man would natu? rally vote for that party among whom he found his liberators, and then add to this the fair Sromises which were made to him and he must ave been something more than an ordinary man if he failed to lall into the radical ranks. But there is no reason for the existence of this state of things any longer. The colored man should no longer vote as a colored man, but as a man. All attempts in the past to secure any por? tion of the colored vote to the Conservative party would have resulted in failure, if they had been made. The case is different now. The false promises that were made them have beeu proven false, and the fond hopes that they were taught to indulge in have vanished. The rule of their political friends in this State has not saved them from taxation, it has not educated their children and it has not made the old land to prosper, thereby increasing their wages and their means of obtaining a liveli? hood. On the other hand they are heavily taxed for their scant means, not one of their children has been educated at the public charge and their wages have been so small that thousands of them have been compelled to leave their old homes aud seek in distant States that New Eldora do that was promised them in this. These are facts, and they can be com? prehended and appreciated by every colored man in the State. Our farmers, in whose employ the colored people are, should press these facts home upon every one of their employees. The radical government of this State, as far as the interests of the colored man or of anybody else is con? cerned, has been a lamentable failure, it mat? ters not whether through corruption or incom petency, it has been a palpable failure and the party in power is responsible for that failure. The colored population are beginning to realize the situatiou, particularly in this county, where their 'former owners have been kind to them and careful that they had the enjoyment of all their rights, and at the coming election we shall not be surprised to find great numbers of them voting with the Conservative party. We will certainly gain large accessions from that quarter if our farmers will pursue the course which we have intimated, and we urge upon them to do so. Trial Justices.?It was mentioned in our columns last week that Judge Green had de? cided the office of trial justice to be unconsti? tutional. This we find to be inaccurate, as the decisiou alluded to had reference to the uncon stitutionality of the office of magistrate. It was called forth by a petition for prohibition, to restrain the Sheriff of Williamsburg county from executing a judgment for eighty dollars rendered by a magistrate. The prohibition was granted on the ground that the office of magis? trate is contrary to the constitution, by which instrument the jurisdiction claimed by magis? trates is vested in Justices of the peace, who are to be elected by the people and serve for two years. But if Judge Green's decision is correct, and we see no reason to think otherwise, it will ap? ply equally as well to trial justices as; to magis? trates. Both exercise a usurped jurisdiction, which belongs to justices of the peace, and de? rive their authority from a source not recog? nized by the constitution. Trial justice is mere? ly another name for magistrate, and in most instances the incumbents of the old office were re-appointed to fill the new one. It has always been a mystery why the name of the office was changed; but the explanation now seems to be tbat the Legislature desired the Governor to retain the power of selecting the presiding of? ficers of our inferior courts, a power which, under the constitution, belongs to the people. Since Judge Green's ventilation of their want of constitutional authority' to exercise any jurisdiction whatever, trial justices are placed in a position requiring them to act very cir? cumspectly. All that is needed to make their commissions mere waste paper is a test case, like that of the Williamsburg magistrate, pushed through the courts. And in the event that the authority they claim is decided to he unconsti? tutional, they will be held by the law personal? ly responsible for exercising it. In short, they live in a glass house, and it behooves them to ?be careful how they throw stones.? Yorkville Enquirer, Six Years with a Minnie Ball in his Brain.?In January, 1S04, Abraham DcBond, of Washington county, Kentucky, a member of a Federal regiment, was shot in the forehead by a minnie ball. When struck by the ball, he fell to the ground insensible, and it was at first supposed he was killed. He subsequently ex? hibited signs of life, and was taken to the hos? pital. The ball entered the forehead just above the right eye; and as there was an opening in the temple* just in front and slightly above the right ear, it was supposed that it had passed en? tirely through. The man so far recovered as to he sent home. The wound did not heal up, and there has been a continual discharge from it ever since. Re? cently, his sufferings have been so intense that he consulted a physician, who said that the pain arose from a dead bone, and that it would have to be removed before he could obtain re? lief. DeBond came to this city and placed himself under the care of physicians, who de? cided that it was necessary to perform opera? tions of trcpaning. During the progress of the operation, tliey detected the presence of lead, and with the forcccps extracted a minnie ball flattened into the shape of a chesnut. It had entered the lateral sinus and fractured the in? ternal table, and was resting upon the brain. It is supposed that a fragment of the ball had been clipped off and passed out through tho temple, leading to the belief that the ball had passed entirely through the skull. The re? moval of the ball gave great and immediate re? lief, and DeBond is now at an infirmary with the prospect of a speedy and perfect recovery.? Louisville Courier-Jourual. Mr. Hoar expects to return to the practice of law in Boston in the falL Prof. James S. Henderson. It has seldom been our duty to record an event, which has excited such painful emotions, as the announcement of the death of this em? inently good, gifted and useful man. Although his friends have indulged no hope of his resto? ration to health fcr several weeks, and were therefore somewhat prepared to give him up, yet his death produces such a vacuum in his peculiar sphere of action that it is hard for those who appreciate his loss to refrain from indulging unseemly regrets and complaints. But the God in whom he trusted and to whom he has gone, " doeth all thing swell." He was born in Rutherford County, Ten? nessee, March 6th, 1862. He was the first pupil of the Institution for the blind at Nashville, where he remained six years, and took a thorough course of instruction. At the age of eighteen, he had attained such proficien? cy in his studies and discovered such strength of intellect and excellency of character, that he was appointed one of the teachers in the Institution. He possessed a remarkable talent for music, which was cultivated with great care, and was one of the principal sources of pleasure and profit to him during his life. In 1855 he came to Cedar Springs in this District, and commenced the school for the blind, in the State Asvlum which had previously been es? tablished for mutes. He continued" to fill this position, doing an untold amount of good, un? til the exercises of the Institution were suspended in 1867. In the fall of that year he opened a common school in this place, and with the assistance of his accomplish? ed wife, built up a large and flourishing school. In the following spring he was in? duced to emigrate to Missouri, where' he spent a year teaching school with his usual success. But the extreme coldness of the climate there, effected a complete wreck of his naturally weak constitution, and a few weeks ago he returned to his old position at Cedar Springs, indulging with his friends the vain hope that his broken health might be repaired, if not restored. But it was too late, and on Sunday the 19th instant, the darkness through which he had been gro? ping his way on the earth was suddenly dis? pelled as the blazing glories of the celestial world flashed upon his new-born vision. Prof. Henderson was in all respects, one of the most remarkable men we have ever known. His blindness seemed to have intensified his other faculties both mental and physical to such an extent, that what appearea to be his most serious affliction, was transformed into a real blessing. He was possessed of unusually' quick, clear and lively perceptive faculties, a large and retentive memory, a strong, sound judgment, an indomitable will and untiring energy. With such endowments highly culti? vated, and at the same time duly restrained by a sensitive conscience and a pious devotion to its dictates, it is not at all astonishing that he attained to such an eminence of usefulness. By no means the least remarkable of his traits of character, was his uniform cheerfulness. We have known him intimately for fifteen years, and have seen him suffering severe bodily 1)ain, and surrounded by circumstances calcu ated to depress the stoutest heart, and yet we have never known him to murmur. His chris? tain charity was his crowning virtue. He had cultivated such an equable temper, and was so filled with love to God and man, that he never allowed the most provokiDg circumstauces to draw from his lips an unkind expression. His Saviour was at ouce his priest and pattern, and we have no doubt that to-day he is "like Him" for he "sees Him as He is," He has left behind him a large number of warmly attached personal friends, who will al? ways cherish his memory as a precious treas? ure. The unfortunate, sightless children of the Stare have all been orphaned by his death. The Institution over which he presided quivers from the shock which has stricken down its Boaz pillar. The Baptist church, of which he had been an active, zealous and consistent member since his early youth, mourns the loss of one of her most useful members. The cause of religion, has lost one of its strongest advocates, and bright? est ornaments. The State has lost a citizen, whom she delighted to honor whilst living, and whose virtues will be embalmed in the memo? rial cenotaph of her great and good. His be? reaved wife and orphaned children share the sympathy of our entire community.?Spartan burg Spartan. Death op an Ex-Congressman.?Francis Brockholst Cutting, Esq., for many years the recognized leader in questions of commercial law of the New York bar, died yesterday morn? ing at his residence in this city. Mr. Cutting was born in the year 1805, and was consequent? ly in the 65th year of his ag#. He came of a long-established and respectable New York stock, and was educated at Columbia College. He was called to the bar in early manhood, aud rapidly rose to a commanding rank in his pro? fession. Some fifteen years?from 1840 to 1855 ?Mr. Cutting was retained in nearly or quite every leading and important commercial case which came before the courts of this city, and his reputation as an advocate became in the end national rather than local. In politics Mr. Cutting early took sides as a Democrat. He was returnee! to the Legislature from this city in 1836 and 1837, and he served fora term with distinction as one of its Representatives in the years 1853-55. It was during this term of ser? vice that Mr. Cutting became involved in a per? sonal difficulty with Mr. Breckenridge, of Ken? tucky?afterwards Vice President of the United States?which for a time threatened to result in a duel, and attracted the general attention of the country to the parties concerned. After the close of his Congressional career Mr. Cut? ting gradually retired from active connection with Iiis party, and during the civil war he was a leader of the small body known as the "War Democracy." In his profession Mr. Cutting accumulated a handsome propertv, which was greatly increas? ed towards the encl of his life by the rise in value of a considerable landed estate which he inherited from his family, and which, with great prudence and forecast, he had carefully preserved and watched over. In social life he was esteemed and admired as a man of fine in? tellectual gifts, of graceful and accomplished manners, and of a most kindly and courteous temper. He loaves a widow and several chil? dren.?JV. Y. World, 2.1th ult. ? That was a pretty thought of the old sav? age, Red Cloud, when he said : "Our nation is melting away like snow on the side of a hill when the sun is warm, while your people are like the blades- of grass in the spring, when summer is coming." ? Nature, in the lineaments she gave to the son of Jerome Bonaparte and the Baltimore belle, put a recognition of his descent that even the Emperor Napoleon could not nullify. Na? ture has done the same thing in the disease he died with. He died of cancer?the family dis? ease of which the first Napoleon was a victim. ? It has been discovered that by grinding tea in the same manner as coffee, before infu? sion, the quantity of exhilirating flfiid obtained is Dearly doublea. A Story with a Moral. To the Editor of the New York World: The paragraph in your paper of this morn? ing from a Greenfield journal, which recites the shocking circumstances attendant upon a re? cent railway disaster on the Rutland road hard? ly does full justice to the subject. Permit me to state on the best authority sundry facts which put in a still clearer relief the inhumanity and the ignorance of the region in which this ca? lamity occurred. The gentleman killed, Mr. Alfred Field, was one of the first engineers in New England, a man holding several positions of great re? sponsibility. The wife of Mr. Field went at once to the scene of the accident, and it is from a gentleman who was present when she arrived that I have my information as to the state in which she found her unfortunate husband. It was then the second day after the accident. Absolutely nothing had been done for the suf? ferers. The railroad company had provided neither surgical aid nor comforts nor succor of any kind. Those whom the carelessness of its servants had struck down it left to die where they lay like dogs. The place where the disaster occurred is near to populous towns and well-to-do communities. These sent forth crowds of curious and inquisi? tive spectators to the scene of blood, but not one charitable soul. The people came from miles to gaze on the exciting show of human agony, but they brought with them neither oil nor balm to heal the wounds of the sufferers. When Mr. Field lay dying a man had to be stationed before his door to keep these people from pressing in to stare and gape about nis couch. And this in moral and pious New England, the home of Mrs. Stowe, who gropes in dead men's graves to surprise some guilty secret in their hidden lives; the home of Wen? dell Phillips and of Sumner, who could not sleep in their beds till slavery had been stamp? ed out in blood! I, who listened to this shameful story, could not but remember the very different scene of which I was an eye-wituess, last February, in the "rebel" State of Mississippi. I was travel? ing on the Mississippi Central Railroad, to New Orleans. Near Oxford, in Mississippi, the train just preceding ours had run off the track and plunged through the trestle of the road. Some twenty persons had been killed or wounded. The district was poor enough. It had never, I suppose, been rich, but it had been thoroughly harried by the soldiers of Grant and Sherman, and it is none the better, as you may suppose, for their visitations. The nearest house was several miles away. But in a few hours after the accident occurred the woods were alive with people, hastening, not to stare, but to save. I saw wagons with mattresses and beds enough to move twice the number hurt, sent up to carry the sufferers to the homes of the nearest plan? ters. Wines, spirits, and food were sent in quantities. The next morning the railroad company had a fresh train brought up from a distance of nearly one hundred miles, and when we reached a station where food was obtainable, the detained passengers were fed at the cost of the company. Now that it is still the fashion in some quar? ters to revile our Southern fellow citizens as the most hard-hearted and inhuman of mortals, think it may possibly do good to lay before the public this simple but expressive centrast be? tween the Pharisees and the Samaritans. New Yor!:, June 25, 1870. A Patriotic Cabinet Officer.?The Washington correspondent of the New York World thus ventilates the disinterested patrio? tism of a prominent official: Secretary Boutwell is very much concerned about the" measure now before Congress for creating a department of revenue, inasmuch as in the event of its passage the patronage of the Secretary of the Treasury will be so- very ma? terially reduced as to deprive that official al? most entirely of his power to bestow office, and will, consequently, while detracting from his official importance in that respect, retard ex? tremely all efforts of that Cabinet minister to? wards obtaining the next Presidency. It is very evident that for some time past Mr. Bout well has been, so far as the thorough sympathy of the President and Congress are concerned, working rather up hill. Congress has not adop? ted any of the chief recommendations proposed by the Secretary, while the President no longer ago than the past week signed the bill creating the new Department of Justice, not regarding the strenuous objections urged by Mr. Bout well. Those emanations, taken together with some others, prominent among which are said to be the indifference of the chairman of the Senate Finance Commmittee to the financial views of the Secretary of the Treasury, and the hostile attitude of the Commissioner of Inter? nal Revenue, who is naturally anxious to have the Revenue Department bill passed, and who is not lacking in Presidential support, have very much strengthened an impression that Boutwell will shortly resign. Hs is a rival of Grant for the next Presidency, and takes no 1 pains to conceal it, while manipulating the patronage of the great department over which he presides for his own support. It need not occasion great surprise should he intimate very decidedly his intention of resigning, unless Congress" gives some better indication than has already been shown of satisfaction with his manner of conducting the finances. A very promiuent Republican asserted last week that Mr. Boutwell would resign within thirty days. The Present Condition of the South.? The New York World h? a leader upon the Cresent condition of the negroes in the South, ased upon information received from an ob? serving gentleman who has just returned from a residence of seven or eight months in a Gulf State. According to this testimony emancipa? tion "Is not regarded as an evil by the owners of the Southern plantations, and they heartily ac? quiesce in free labor. The negroes, he. says, are reasonably industrious, and are improving ev? en* year under the wages system. Moreover, he says: The social problem would be no problem at all, if it were not for meddlesome carpet-bag interference. A law has been passed by the Legislature of Louisiana giving negroes equal rights in schools, theatres, hotels and public conveyances; but this is something which the negroes themselves do not care for and have never demanded. It is repulsive and odious to the whites, and in their present temper they will never submit to it. They will willingly be taxed to support separate free schools for the black children ; the street railroad companies in New Orleans are ready to give up every other car to the negroes ; but association and contact are repelled as indignities, and as a general rule, the. negroes do not claim this kind of equality. The attempts which have been made to enforce it have utterly failed. Every law of that kind will he a dead letter, as there is no possibility of executing it. ? A Western lady is writing in favor of limited marriages, for a given time, ranging from one to three years, with the privilege of renewal by mutual consent. Political Notes. Dick Busteed is a candidate for Spencer's seat in the United States Senate. The Vermont Constitutional Convention fin3 ished up its business and adjourned in six dayau Thurman, of Ohio, continues to he talked about as the Democratic candidate f?r the Presidency. Five hundred members of Radical Leagues in North Carolina are in jail for various offen? ces. Ex-Senator T. L. Cli?gman, of North Caro-: lina, indignantly denies that he has turned Radical. The friends of Judge Bingham are making a move looking to his appointment as Minister' to Italy. The Albany Argus thinks that with proper exertions the Democracy may carry 22 States in 1872. Vermont pays her Governor $1,000 a yeaf, and there are a baker's dozen of applicants for the posish. Governor Geary is, moving heaven and earth to secure the Republican nomination for the. Presidency. Governor Reid, of Florida, vetoed nearly all the acts passed" by the Legislature at its recent special session. General Cobb, who has been member of Con? gress from "Wisconsin for six or eight years, de3 ijlines re-nomination: Southern negroes complain that the Radicals so fix things that colorea voters have "no say", in the nominations. A Southern Governor is credited with veto3 ing a bill passed by the Legislature, "for bad' spelling and nonsense generally." Newport is filling up with federal office-, holders who get from three to four dollars a dav salary. How can they afford the fun. The Colorado Radicals will hold a Territorial Convention at Denver on the 18th of .July to nominate a delegate to Congress. The prohibitionists of Michigan are to hold a State Convention in Jackson on August 3 and 4 to nominate a ticket for State officers. With the present session of Congress the terms of twenty-three Senators will expire^ of which twenty are Radicals and three Demo-? crats. The Massachusetts Legislature adjourned last week, having made the longest session (six months) ever known in the Commonwealth. The Raleigh (N. C.) Standard (Rad.) thinks that the signs of the times are more ominous of civil strife than they were in June, 1860j The Rhode Island Legislature, at its recent session, passed an act fixing the time for hold? ing elections for Congressmen in November. William A. Graham, who was a candidate for Vice President on the Scott ticket in 1852, re? fuses a nomination for the State Senate of North Carolina. At the recent election in Independence, Mo., notwithstanding the introduction of 120 colored Radical votes, the Democratic majority was larger than ever. The people of Tennessee are endeavoring to form a party which shall look to the interests of the Slate by softening old animosities and inducing concert of action. Hon. Bailie Peyton, who many years ago was a conspicuous member of Congress, is announc? ed as a candidate for the House in the Nash? ville District of Tennessee; The Radical soldiers of Indiana are com? plaining of the ingratitude of that party in ex? cluding them from the various tickets to be vo? ted this fall. It is all negro, no white soldiers. There never was a time in the history of the country when a political party was so troubled by independent candidates as the Radical party now is. This shows disintegration. A bill has passed the Mississippi House pun? ishing, by a tine of $1,000, public carriers who make a distinction on account of race or color. It also provides for a separate action for dama? ges Massachusetts is talking about following up its importation of shoemakers by the employ? ment of 5,000 coolies in cutting Cape Coa Ca? nal. It. will ask Congress to pay the cost of the work. A Southern Democratic paper states that "it confidently believed that Montgomery, a negro, formerly the property of Joseph Davis, brother of J. D., will be appointed Sheriff of Warren County, Miss." The Courier-Journal saysJ "It must be" a pleasant thought to Mr. Robeson that the tears to be shed over his retirement from the Cabinet will be amply sufficient to float any navy that he knows anything about" The St. Louis Democrat says : "For to-day and henceforth do truly national policy is pos? sible except one that shall consider, first, the interests of the heart of the country, the great producing States of the Mississippi Valley." robik80n Crusoe.?On last Monday morn? ing as the steamer Carrie, on her way to Savan? nah from Augusta, had reached a point on the river, about thirty mlies above there, those on board discovered a man standing in the marsh, on the Carolina side of the river. He waivea his hand for assistance, when Captain Johnson immediately headed the Carrie in that direc? tion. The man, whose name we did not learn, was a German, and was unable to help himself on board from utter exhaustion and starvation, having occupied the position iu the swamp, in which he was found, for several davs, without a mouthful of food. After being taken on board the steamer, the only information that could be derived from him was to the effect that he had come from Grahamsville, South Carolina, to Savannah, to see the parents of some girl he in? tended marrying. It appears that he had walk? ed all the way, and was ferried across the Sa? vannah river, from the Carolina to the Georgia shore, by a colored man, in ft batteau. Upon his return to the point of the river where he was to meet the colored man to take him across again, he was inable to find him, and so un? moored the boat and undertook to navigate himself. When he had nearly crossed the river the boat was snagged and its occupant precipi? tated into the stream. He managed, however, to reach a pokt of marsh where he remained until taken off by the Carrie, but for the prompt arrival of which, the man would no doubt have perished, as the main land on the Carolina side was between two and three miles from him. On his arrival in Savannah he was placed in a wagon and sent to the hospital.?Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel. ? "What's whiskey bringing ?" inquired a large dealer in that article. "Bringing men to the gallows and children to want," was the truthful reply. ? "I never shot a bird in my life," said a gentleman to an Irishman, who replied: "I never shot anything in the shape of a bird but a squirrel, which I killed with a stone, and it fell into the river and was drowned." ? A new minister at New Bedford tool, a stroll before breakfast on the first Sunday he was there, and after walking a dozen blocks was accosted by a shabby-looking individual with "You needn't look any further, there ain't a d?d saloon open." ? Promises made in the time of affliction require a better memory than people comaocly: possess.