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(&d ? ;.it ?.?? , ,??. ,. k .?Alf .H .1 ?rjK^k i'til d k?a I -y .; ,. a. -??^i in IMife, gptataw, L;3jrMf?ifjt aai feral fnkJlIg*??. HOTT? OO.. Pr?brietdjrs. ANDERSON 0. H., S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 16, 1873. VOLUME IX.?NO. 15. -?JRJ--= uj ? > Banks and Banking-. . An (esteemed friend sends us the following extract-from the annual report of Col. Thomas JFrPickehs, the Comptroller!.'General: of the State, submitted to the. Legislature'in 18o3i Our .correspondent thinks this- article is appli? cable to the present' v times and circumstances, and requests its re-publication in our columns? which is r?^^f^^.^d"^[HUOT The banks which were in a state of suspeu tion at the last session of the Legislature, all resumed specie payments before the* close ?f She fiscal year with apparently Jess difficulty and stringency than was anticipated. The past his? tory ,q?. the* banking system of the country clearly illustrates the fact,'that these occasional suspensions of specie payments may be looked fur as periodical incidents inseparably connec? ted with the system. As the wrecks of ?be late financial tornado, which swept with resistless yiolenc'e1 throughout .the. commercial world^ are still around us, it may not.be deemed irrelevant to make a few general remarks relative to a system of: banking which, in ^the Opinion of many; contributed in a great ; degree to its in? tensity.. r'A comprehensive view of the wide field of'commercial enterprise and speculation would leave no doubt.that the -principal cause of the recent financial revulsions, which shook the commercial world to its centre, ?nd marked its. course .with desolating ruin, was the. too great' extension of the credit ,system through all .the ramifications of .trade and . specula? tion. As credit, the great rival , of cash, is principally regulated and controlled ,by the system of banking which has been adopted and inaugurated by the principal, commercial na? tions of the world, the banks consequently de? serve a full share of censure for the violation of known and acknowledged principles of trade and currency, which can never be1 long disre? garded with impunity. There are certain es? tablished.laws of trade and currency, as inva riableUnitheir operations^ as the -fixed -law*, which regulate the natural world. These laws have been elaborated from tbe crucible of pro? found thought and.philosophic.observation, by the ablest political' economist5;of past times; and, having been confirmed by the experience of all enlightened nations, serve, as signals along the. pathways Of commerce to guard against the rocks and shoals upon which thou? sands are wrecked. The great natural law of supply and demand, which usually promotes a healthy commerce between different countries in the interchange of commodities mutually needed, is frequently counteracted in its opera? tions by the expansive and elastic currency furnished by the oanks. When there is a foreign demand for any com? modity, and its exportation pays remunerating profits, the banks frequently, by expansion, furnish the pabulum for a speculative demand, which causes prices to rise so rapidly at home, that exportation soon ceases to be profitable, and imp^fcatjouV.c"on{inuing^:t^ade,;fe" turned from its?nat?raVchannel, ahd^reign'balances have to be. met with coin. By this artificial j system, promoted and fostered by a competition j for bank dividends, thousands engaged in legiti- J mate trade are ruined, and frequent opp'ortuni-1 ties are lost of adding to the productive wealth'] of the country. In countries where the circu- j lating medium is not liable to sodden expan.- j sions and contractions ' from being regulated j by the true principles of currency," where! there is a foreign demand for any commodity, ] prices in the home market rise so gradually, ] that the exporter of it.is enabled to realize cer- j tain profits, and at the same time contribute to the natjopal wesTthT One cause Of the varia? bleness- ortne amount off paper currency in circulation, which renders it such an uncertain standard of value, is to be attributed to a dis- j regard of the.established principle of currency; that a cheaper circulating mednim always ex? pels., one of greater vfdue from. competition with it in the same'channels of~tfade.r-' There is another invariable law of currency, that j if paper money is withdrawn from circula? tion, metallic money will flow in and fill the vacuum. It iserroneous to suppose that a convertible | paper currency only displaces the same amount of gold and ^silver, arid- that twocurrencies, ? differing so much in the causes of their value,! will produce the same volume of circulation..' The one has inherent value, and, as an article of commerce,-when not needed as a?circulating' mediu!ri,yeVters^ forgery info' "the arts* and man? ufactures.' -The" other, possessing' no intrinsic value, consists of mere promises to pay Some? thing valuable on demand.. A specie currency, as the representative of the labor and capital that produced it, can'pnly be increased gradu-: ally by the natural demands of commerce. - ] A paper currency, which promises to:pay on demand' what the banks frequently neither have nor can procure for the time beipg in the coun-' try, can be suddenly and rapidly expanded. No law* can be enacted-which will prevent the amoun?o? specie dii$a<5ed by a-paper currency from flowing out of the country, and seeking market where there is a greater demand for it. This natural law of currency has operated to such., an extent in the United States, that the bank statistics show a striking contrast between the superstructure of a paper currency and its base. Even from the best bank reports it must be admitted that specie acts but a subordinate part in our currency. It regulates the issue of bank notes to a certain extent, and affords a subsidiary currency in the retail trade. It also keeps the rate of exchange below the cost of .^hipping specie to meet foreign demands. But many assert that our paper currency rests on a sufficient specie basis, and that convertibility acts as a safe check on over-issues ; but, unfor? tunately for the truth of this assertion, there are frequent instances when specie, does not .commence to operate upon the paper currency until the evil of over-expansion has been con-' summated, and the banks are compelled to re? turn to a convertible position, through extreme pressure and suffering. Added to the misfor? tune is the fact that the banks are generally then in no condition to lend a helping hand to the innocent victims of their speculations, when they stand most in need of it. e The truth is, our paper currency may be said to be based, not on" specie, but rather on cotton, '-and the amout of all our exportable commodities, added to our foreign credit, produced by the sale of bonds, stocks and other securities. This was demonstrated in the great financial revulsion of 1837. In 1830, the circulation of the banks of the country amounted to something like $60,000,000, when they commenced giving a speculative demand to cotton by increased ex? pansion, which was continued until the com? mencement of 1837, when the expansion had reached about $150,000,000. The price of cot? ton commenced rising pari passu, from 9 and 10 cents to 17 and 18 in 1837, after a succession of full crops. The crop of 1830 sold for some? thing like $26,000,000, and the crop of 1836, only six years after, for upwards of $60,000,000. With the most delusive signs of prosperity, a splendid commercial fabric was then erected, which was the admiration of the world; but, unfortunately, it rested on an unstable founda? tion?for when the financial storm arose it soon toppled to the earth, and one of the richest fleets that any system of speculative value ever floated on ihc ocean of commerce went down ' amid ruin and disaster. ?The important fact was demonstrated at the same time, that a con? vertible -paper ?currenry is nota:safe measure of yalue, for the excessive expansion of it was not exhibited, either by a premium on specie, or ? ^rise in the rates of exchange, but by a general enhancement of the price of all com? modities; or, in qther words, the paper curren? cy was so cheapened by over-expansion, that it required a greater quantity thim usual to effect exchanges' of property. As paper money is cheapened on the same principles in all countries that have adopted it as the general circulating medium, a succession of fine harvests in England previous to 1837, which avoided the necessity of sending specie to foreign coon tries for the purchase of grain, induced the banks of England to join the banks of the United States in producing the flood-tide of paper money, which swept from their safe moorings hunaredr~of*the"mo3t sagacious and practical business men of both countries. As it resulted ruinously in 1887, so it resulted in 1857, and will continue so to result, as long as the vicious principles, inherent in the system, are retained. A period of only twenty years elapsed between the two memorable revulsions, which is just about the cycle of time that it takes for the dangerous machinery of modern banking to run down after being wound up. The general adoption of the prevailing bank? ing system of the country is to be attributed more to the brilliant intellect and fertile geni? us of the first Treasurer of the United States, than perhaps to any other cause. Mr. Hamil? ton brought forward all the varied resources of his wonderful mind to its support, and by connecting it with the financial operations of the Government, gave to it a controlling influ? ence over the currency and the commerce of the country, which has never been successfully resisted. Other great minds formed different conclusions. Mr. Jefferson, the great apostle of Republican liberty, said of the system, that: "In copying England, we do not seem to con? sider, that like premises induce like consequen? ces. The bank mania is one of the most threatening of these imitations, it is raising up a monied aristocracy which has already set the Government at defiance, and although forced to yield a little on the first essay of their stifength, their principles are unyielded and unyielding; . * * * * * * That paper money has some advantages, must be admitted; but its abuses are also inveterate, and that it, by breaking up the measure of value makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied. Shall we ever be able to put a constitutional veto upon it?" , As the present banking system appears to be the settled policy of the country, and has been for so long a tfme intimately connected and in? terwoven with the various interests of sooiety, very little hope can be entertained of any very radical .change being effected in it for years to come. Such being the case/all necessary and proper legal restrictions should be thrown around 'it 'to''prevent, as"far aSposslbtertKe frequent recurrence' of 'excessive expansions and contractions. The specie basis should be enlarged by withdrawing gradually bills of small denomination from circulation, and pre? venting the banks from issuing more than three dollars of paper for one of specie in their vaults; which would still be a great advantage over individual lenders. Against such a course of legislation, the banks would have no reason? able grounds for protest and remonstrance; as by their charters, privileges and immunities are conferred on them which are repugnant to a just conception of repu! lican equality. The banks exercise some of the highest prerogatives of government?they coin money from paper, ana furnish the standard and measure of value in all commercial and financial operations, and the circulating medium for effecting them. They-also have conferred on .them the remark? able privilege of getting possession of the property ana credit of the rest of the commu? nity with billu of credit without interest, when their individual debtors, and all others, are re? quired to pay- interest on their promissory notes. By the power which the banks exercise, of enlarging and contracting the measure of value to suit their own interests, the value of the property of the whole community is placed under the control of monied corporations, which is a striking commentary on the worth of constitutional guarantees for the protection of properem a republican government. This is no fancy"iketch/ asJ the oank reports will show that one of our private banks, during the recent 'pressure, retired upwards of a millionof dollars of its circulation within a year. The advocates of our banking system may point to the rapid progress of the United States in pop? ulation, wealth, and all the arts and refinements of civilized life, as conclusive evidence of its successful operation j but it should be remem? bered that all the elements of a. nation's pros-' perity and wealth have been liberally scattered by an omnipotent hand through the length and breadth of our land; and although defec? tive systems may retard its progress to national greatness, they can never effectually counteract the fixed laws of its destiny. The Comptroller has been prompted entirely by a sense of duty in making the foregoing remarks, and not by the slightest feeling of hostility to any bank of the S?ateT"or its officers." He participates in the just pride which every patriotic Carolinian should feel, that the financial credit of the State has always been preserved untarnished by the ability and integrity of her bank offi? cers,* and cherishes the confident hope that it will be alike preserved in the future. - m, ? p. . Healthy Sleep.?Some one who evideutly knows whereof ho talks says: Sleep obtained two hours before midnight, when the negative forces are in operation, is the rest which most recuperates the system, giving brightness to the eye and a glow to the cheek. The difference in the appearance of a person, who habitually retires at ten o'clock, and that of . one who siu until twelve, is quite remarkable. The tone of the system, the clearness and sparkle of the eye and the softness of the lines 01 the features, is, in a person of health, kept at "a concert pitch" by taking regular rest two hours before twelve o'clock and thereby obtaining the beau? ty sleep of the night. There is a heaviness of the eye, a sallowness of the skin and an ab? sence of that glow in the face which renders it fresh in expression and round in appearance, that readily distinguishes the persons who keep very late hours. ? The Covington (Ga.) Enterprise says: "The following sentence, written out in full, was lately pronounced by a Justice of the Peace in Gwinnett County: 'let the prisoner Stand Up, sir, you has been found Guilty, & tried uv the Offense uv shutin at your Nabor. Yu shall then be took from the bar uv this court by the honorable baleef uv this court, and carryed into the adjined county of rock- j Dale, and thar you shall remain in Everlastin i banishment forever from the honorable county uv guiunett.'" ? Ask the veriest old bachelor that ever j sewed on a shirt button or tied a hole in a stocking, if it is not true, that he is sorry every day of his life that he did not marry and settle down while he was young. J The Farmers In Politics. The great awakening among , the Western farmers which is the most remarkable thing in the politics of the present year, better deserves the attention of statesmen aod politicians than any other political manifestation in this coun ! try since the close, of the negro cycle. In ! earlier periods of our history a seperate move? ment by the farmers would have been impossi j ble,.because, for the first half century after the adoption of the Constitution, we were a nation of agriculturists; the farmers forming a majority of our people so overwhelming that no other class or other combination of interests could be brought into com petition "with them in contests for political power. Those .were the bright and halcyon days of the.Democratic party. It was the agrico iturai population which gave the Democratic party its strength during the long period of its ascendancy. The manufacturing interests were always opposed to it; but the good sense and political suprem? acy of the farmers from the year 1800 to the year 1860 gave them the control of the Govern? ment. The separate organization of the farmers as an.anti-monopoly party is favorable to the re-establishment of the Democratic order of ideas as the controlling force in our politics. The rise of a separate fanners' party is a transitional movement; and besides its great significance in other respects, it marks political? ly a stage in the development of the country to which the decennial census shows that we have been steadily, and, for the last few decades, rapidly tending. Our city and village population has been enormously increasing in relative weightsince the extensive use of labor saving machinery and especially since the era of railroads, and vast interests have grown up which bring immense accumulations of capital and prodigious numbers of people into distinct separation from the agricultural tone of feel? ing. The farmers' movement is of especial sig? nificance as one of the symptoms of this mighty change in the character and pursuits of our population. :.The farmers have felt com? pelled to organize for self-protection against encroachments upon their rights by other great and rising interests; This movement has its seat in the West where agriculture is still, and will long con tinue; the predominant pursuit It is located in a section of the country which, by mere growth of population, is destined to control the political destinies of the country whenever its people are tolerably united. The wide fer? tile region between the Great Lakes and the Alleghanics on one side, and the Rocky Moun? tains on the other, will contain a majority of our people long before the close of this century and probably before the close of this decade. This is true already of that part of the country north of Mason and Dixon's line and the Ohio River. Under the apportionment of the last census, the New England and Middle States send ninety Representatives to Congress, and the Northwestern States this side of the Rocky Mountains have ninety-seven Representatives. The new agricultural, anfi-monoply politics may, therefore, even now, control the country, if the farmers' movement sufficiently shatters and disorganizes the Republican party in the West. The great, similarity of interests be? tween the West and the South?both being mainly agricultural?insures the co-operation of the South an soon as the West becomes fully united against the extortions of the monopo? lists. Nothing could possibly be more opportunste than this great movement, which has taken such a stroDg hold on public feeling through? out the West. It differs from minor local agita? tions in the fact that it spreads through the most important and populous geographical division of the country; and as every great division has an agriculturrl interest, it enlists a wider and prompter sympathy than any new agitation which ever arose :in our politics. Its great promise and power lie in the circum? stance that it has suddenly diverted political feeling into a fresh channel and detached it completely from what poor Mr. Greoley, in let? ter of acceptance, called "wreck and rubbish of outworn contentions and bygone feuds." The political feeling of the West can never again find nutriment in any of the defunct questions which grew out of the war and the abolition of slavery. It is often the case that sentiments which have fallen dead in politics continue to retain influence as traditions. But the line of continuity has been abruptly broken by the farmers' movement in tha West, and it is a moral and political impossibility that the emancipated Western people should ever go back and feed on the dry husks of the anti slavery era. The issues on which the Repub? lican party was founded have ceased to.have any life or meaning in our politics; and the keen interest in a new live question which the farmers' movement has excited, has consigned the old issues to "the tomb of all the Capulets." It brings back our politics to the class of ante war questions?questions connected with the business, finances, and industrial interests of the country, a class of questions on which the order of ideas advocated by the Democratic party always won the favor and secured the in? dorsement of the people, so long as questions of that kind were the dominant issues in our politics. The farmers who are thus breaking away from the Republican party have a profound conviction that that party is the chief obstacle to their success. The grasping monopolies against which they have declared war have grown up under the fostering care of Repub? lican administration, State and Federal, and as they can expect neither favor nor sympathy from Democrats, they will all be arrayed on the Republican side. They can be effectually opposed only by opposing the Republican party in which they take refuge. The Farmers' Granges and the Democratic party have there? fore a similar tone of sentiment, common ob? jects, and substantially the same missions, and they must ultimately be found fighting side by side agaiust the common enemy.?New York World. To Cure Toothache.?A well known den? tist, who has tried the remedy on some nervous people who have old roots of broken teeth, and are too timid to permit an attempt to re? move them, makes the following public, for the benefit of all whom it may concern : To persons having a hollow tooth, allowing the air to reach the nerve, I would advise that they get some nitro and mix with alum ; saturate a little cotton with it and apply it to the cavity. If the pain extends upwards, upward toward the eye, or takes the form of neuralgia, procure some horse-radish leaves, take out the stems, wet them and apply on the face over the pain, and I think you will get relief. If you have no radish, try beet leaves; they may answer the same purpose. ? The Missouri Republican says of the panic : "We may as well prepare for a second shock at no very distant day; whether it comes or not; a preparation for it will destroy half its force. The preparation needed is a general payment of debts?nothing more, nothing less; and the sooner all classes of individuals reso? lutely set about this, the better it will be for the country." i An Open Secret* A Writer in our household department this week questions the possibility of so training a family of healthy children that their manners at the table will be good in the absence of company, and referring to a recent editorial article oh the subject wants to know whether its writer speaks from experience or merely gives vent to an untested theory. The subject is an important one in itself, and it involves also the whole question of family government ; wherefore we gladly come back to it. That it is possible, and not only possible, but extremely easy to teach young children per? fectly good manners, we know very well from personal experience; and the only thing about I the matter at which we are disposed to wonder I at all is, the extreme ease with which it may be accomplished. I A yonng child, whether it be healthy or oth j erwise, imitates the people with whom it asso I ciates in everything. All its performances are I copies. If. you speak grammatically, y?ur I child will learn to do the same thing. If you have a nasal twang in your speech, he will ira , itate it. And so it will be with everything else, j What the boy sees older people do, he will do, whether he be told to do so or not. Indeed, precept is almost wholly worthless in the train , mg of children, because they forget the pre? cept as soon as they hear it, or remembering, do not know how to apply it. It does no good to tell a boy that "the verb, to be, takes the nominative case after it," but we know a sturdy little fellow who never yet said "It's me," and that because he has always heard his parents say "It's I." He has never been told how to behave at the table but as his parents are always careful to be courteous and polite, not only to each other but to him as well, he has unconsciously absorbed the habit of courtesy, which no amount of direct teaching would have given him. If he is still at the table when gis' parents leave they ask him to excuse them, and he very naturally does likewise if he is compelled to leave before the meal is finished. And his is not a solitary case by any means, nor is he a morbidly good boy either. He simply imitates the people around him as all children and in a smaller degree, all grown folks do, The. whole flScret of child training lies in this one thing, example. Ill-mannered chil? dren are the children of ill-mannered parents, except in those cases which are, unfortunately, common, where the children associate more constantly with servants than with their pa? rents. If the child associates with servants, its manners and its morals too, will be those of servants, and in the present state of our civili? zation these are certainly not as good as we would wish. For ourselves we have no pa? tience with- domestic arrangements which leave no place for the little people at the family tabJ ', and in the family circle. Self-indulgent "nerves" have cost many a parent the purity of hi3- child. We may as well speak plainly on this subject as we do on all others. No lather has a right to consult his own comfort at the expense of his child's well being, and the father or mother who turns little rsceptive souls over to the ignorance, and worse, of hired nurses,. is guilty of a grievous wrong-doing. ! Your child has a right to your society. He has a right to sit at your table when you do, even though his presence crowds the table un? comfortably. He has a right to sit with you in the parlor when you sit there, and he has a right to the very best example you know how to set him. You exact of him obedience and respect, which is well enough , but it is of far more importance that you recognize his rights than that he recognize yours. He will be noisy now and then, but he has a right to be so, and you may easily restrain his turbulence when necessary?not by stamping your foot and cry? ing out, "Stop that noise instantly, sir," but by telling him a little story or otherwise recog? nizing him as a rational being, capable of being interested. Make your child your companion, and then behave yourself well, and.there will be no trouble, about his manners,?Hearth and Home, - > i? !The Futnre of Cotton Majptufactjire. Whobever there have been any figures fur? nished in relation to Cotton manufacturing in the Southern States they have served, to show that these States possess an immense advan? tage in this respect over any other section in the country. Comparatively few manufac? tories have as yet been set up in thesis States, but this can be readily accounted for* There is, in the first place, a lack of the necessary capital at home, and, in the second, a scarcity of skilled labor, The latter could be obtained without much difficulty, if the factories were ; established, but such people in the South as are able?and they are not numerous?have little disposition to invest in cotton manufac? tories, while cotton manufacturers in the North are doing well enough now, and have therefore no desire to change their location, even if I thereby larger profits were assured them. Still, as one statement after another from such fac? tories as have been established in the South demonstrates more and more conclusively the I profitable nature of the business, idle capital, can not but be attracted to such a productive field. There is no reason why, in the course of time, the South should not be the great cotton manufacturing centre of the world, She has all the facilities for manufacturing, and the raw material lies ready to her hand. In com? petition with the European manufacturer for the trade of Europe, she would have the ad? vantage of the difference on the freight be? tween the raw and the manufactured product, and this would furnish a fair margin for profits. In her own local markets rivalry would be almost impossible, and with the addition of new factories at the place of production she could dethrone New England and command almost the undivided trade of this country. Lowell is one of the great seats of cotton manufacturing in the North. It costs the I Lowell manufacturer $9 60 a bale to transport I raw cotton to his factory, and something ad ! ditional, of course, to lay down his manufac? tured goods in New York. On this single item alone there is a difference in favor of a manu? facturer in Augusta, GaM< of $6 62, or nearly seven per cent. This is in the New York market; in the markets of the West the dif? ference is still greater in favor of the Augusta manufacturer. A statement rcceutlyjpubhnhcd by the Augusta Chronicle shows how profitable cotton manufacturing is in that city, A com? pany a number of years since purchased the "Augusta Factory" for $140,000, on ten years' time, at seven per cent, interest. Sixty thou? sand dollars was paid in as capital, and was nearly all expended at the start. The factory prospered from the beginning, and has been en I Inrged as occasion required, until now the I property is valed at $600,000 (that being the amount of the capital stock). It has com? pletely paid for itself, and besides, for the last eight years, paid a quarterly dividend of five per cent. During the five years and a half j ending June 7th, 1873, the sales of the factory amounted to $5,178,612 96; the wages paid were $909,401 21; the net earnings, $790,500 1 58, and the profits divided, $660,000.? Detroit 1 Free Frese. ' After the Grangers. A correspondent of the Atlanta Eerald} writing from Rome, Ga., over the signature of "Sam McKrakin," gets after the Grangers in the following unique style. We suspect that Sam is a near relative of Bill Arp, judging from his style of writing: The Granges are engaged in doin what we boys used to think a smart thing. They are tryin la plump the middle man out. That winds up the game quick. They say they are fixin up to hold their cotton till it will bring twenty-five cents a pound. This is what our Grangers are goin' to fix up to hold their mules for four hundred dollars apiece and their grain in proportion. The Ohio Grangers are goin' for a dubble price for their bakon and flour. The universal idea seems to be "to buy cheap and sell deer." It reminds me of a speech Mr. Fooshay made here about opinin' our river to Mobeel. He said that corn was worth fifty cents here and a dollar and a half in Mobeel, and if the river was open our folks could float their corn down there at a cost of ten cents a bushel and sell it for one dollar and a half. At the same time the Mayor of Mobeel was makin' a speech to the citizens of Mobeel in favor of opinin' the river to Rome, and he told 'em that corn was only fifty cents a bushel at Rome, and if the river was opened they could send their little steamboats up there and buy thousands of corn at fifty cents a bushel. This thing may work out all right, but some? times when I get to thinking About it, it makes my head swim. I hav' no doubt, however, that Major Den? understands it. I axed Mr. Tom Berry what he thought of the Grangers' move? ments, and he sed he was for anything that would enable the farmers to pay him what thev owd him. Mr. Berry are a mity smart man. I axed Cloudis what he thought of the Granges, and he sed it was a trick to run the poor man out of the country; that the rich men was goin' to club together and put up their money and buy a thousiu plows from Brinly, at seven dollars a-piece, and the poor man would hav' to buy 'em from Frank Air on a credit at four? teen dollorsi He sed that was the way it was goin' to work* I axd a middle man what he thought .of the Grangers, and he sed the whole thing was foundationed in a falsehood; that the farmers was made to beleeve they had been imposed on by the merchants, and that the merchants all got rich bjt keepin' the farmers poor; He sed that ninety-five out of every hundred merchants broke, and that most of the breakin' was ak kasioned by the farmers not payin' their debts akkordin to promise. He sed that the country -peepul dident like the town peephi because the town gals dressed finer than the country gals> I axd him if he dident think that fine dressin had sumthin to do With merchants breakin. He sed perhaps it did tq sum extent, and that all the trouble and develment in the world Was owing to one family trying to keep up or get a little ahead of their nabors*. Another middle man remarked that they Was goin to organise a society of "changers." That commodities had to be changed and exchanged, and since the foundations of the world middle men had dun it, and that these grangers were runnin again the order of natur. He sed they would raise a big pile of money and put it in some fellers' hands to go and buy their plows I and reapers and ?ewin' masheens, and that fel? ler would just step off with it to parts Unknown ?or he would put it in a bank, and the bank would defhlkatei Wallis Warren cum down to ax me whether he ort to jine 'era or not, aud I told him to iine; that if it was a good thing, all right, and if it was a bad thing he would find it out by jinin' quicker? than any other way. Vm anxious to see the masheen work. Reminiscences of Judge Ort* A writer in the Christian Neighbor relates the following stories obtained from Judge Orr, concerning his experience With Rev. James Dannelly, who was also well known to many of our readers: . I will attempt to give you one of his stories about that extraordinary man, Rev: James Dannelly. When the old preacher went to Anderson C. H., he generally found his head? quarters at Mr. Orr's hospitable house; For this there were, perhaps, two reasons: ihey were family connections, and no doubt the old gen? tleman?always an invalid?found the place both comfortable and agreeable. It was per? haps, Mr. Danneily's first visit after Mr. Orr's marriage; and as the guest was one of the most famous men in the up-country, and withal from Wdame's own district, she took all pains to entertain him with every comfort. The old preacher?a very common weakness among the clergy?was fond of good coffee, and madame plumed herself upon her skill in preparing the beverage. She roasted the berries herself, and gave them the precise tint necessary; sent for the mill, ground the coffee, and finally, with exquisite skill, finished the decoction. Being brought upon the table, it gratified two of the senses instantly?it was beautiful in color, and the aroma was delicious. The old gray headed guest received a smoking cup from the fair hands of the beautiful hostess and sipped it A slight cloud passed over his face, and the quick eye of madame perceived it. "Mr. Dan? nelly, does your coffee suit you?" The old man uttcrea a peculiar grunt?a bad sign of coming trouble?and screwing his voice up to its most querulous and pungent pitch, said, "It aint fit to drink /" Mine host knew his mnn-^ held him entirely above the laws that govern ordinary mortals, and was prepared to enjoy what he said at any body's expense; but you may be sure the old man's opinion of the cof? fee was a shell among ray lad) 's nerves. The trouble, however, was soon explained. They had two mills exactly alike, one for coffee and the other for pepper; the girl brought her mis? tress the pepper mill, and the coffee was ruined. - As the Judge turned the laugh upon Mrs. Orr, he balanced accounts by telling a story upon himself. He was a candidate lor Con? gress; had strong opposition, aud canvassed the district thoroughly; was going from morn? ing till night, and often from night till morn? ing; knew almost every man and woman in the Congressional District, and a great many of the children. The excitement and eating and driuking iucidontto the campaign fattened up Mr. Orr very much, and his face was quite a lively red. About this time old father Dan? nelly paid him a visit, and stayed three days, He was quite pleasant and agreeable. The time arrived for him to go, and with consider? able difficulty, oil account of his wooden leg, he got up into his sulky. At that lost moment, before parting, he threw Up his long arm, bring? ing his index finger within about au inch of his host's nose; and finally said, "Lawrence, you had better join the temperance society 1" and rode off without another word. ? The average length of a farmer's life is sixty-five years, while that of a printer is but thirty-three; hence the necessity of paying for your paper promptly; we have not long to live, and we would like to have a little money before we die. AH Sorts of Paragraphs* ? The Danbury Nev:s man s?ys that "parts unknown" is where they don't advertise. ? Many friends are like the shadows, which follow you only while the sun shines. ? Do not shorten the long nights by slum* ber, nor prolong the. short days by Wicked* ness. ? Bad temper bites at both ends; it makes one's self nearly as miserable as it does other people, ? A citizen of Laurens County offers a bale of cotton as a standing bid to any first class circus that will visit that town. ? Some men eat to live} while others live to eat. Which of the two is the more useful class in society ? ? Sincerity is speaking as we think, believ* ing as we pretend, acting as we progress, per* forming as we promise, and being as we appear to be. ? Newspaper men are not all "great guns f* but still they bear some resemblance to them, for they are apt to make a report when they go off. ? It is stated that General Longstreet is about to go into the iron business. He has been the subject of a good deal of irony lately from his former Confederates. ?? "John, ma says you must get up. Break? fast is over, and it's most time to go to school." "I don't know what you say. Don't you hear how I am snoring?" ? The prayer of the old lady for her preach? er, "Oh, Lord keep him humble, and we will keep him poor," is applicable to every class of business men these times, ? Three things too much and three too little are pernicious to mau; to speak much and know little ; to spend much and have little; to presume much and be worth little. ? A sanguine Virginian is writing a pamph? let to prove that the Dismal Swamp is capaole of being reclaimed by drainage, and he predicts that it will at some future day be the richest district in the South. ? The nineteenth baby took the premium at a baby show out West. One Would have thought the pareuts old enough to have had a little more sense than to make such an exhibi? tion of their own hYsh and blood. -"A wise clergyman, now deceased, once said he had "learned to preach not only so that people could understand him, if they had a mind to, but also that they could not mis? understand him if ihey had a mind to." ? A Wag says he attended a fair last fall, and the show consisted of a calf, a goose and a pumpkin, and that it rained so hard the first night that the goose swam off, the calf broke loose and ale Up the pumpkin, a thief stole the calf, and that ended the fair. ? A respected resident of Richmond, Va., whose character for varacity is unimpeached, recently testified under oath that he hadn't been sober for twenty years; which puts fiirn considerably ahead of any other Congressional candidate in popular estimation. ? Alonzo G. Grant, the President of the European International Emigration Society and agent for the Florida Immigration Compa? ny, who is at present in Ireland, writes that he is hopeful of returning to Florida this Win? ter with seventy or eighty families of practical and experienced farmers. *- The Mew Orleans Time* has received the following poetical gem from a gifted correspon* debt: 0, wurist i luVed another gal, her name it wusi marier i but bctsy dere my love fur you iz 40 times more hier. ? The first premium on matched horses at the Oneida county fair Was awarded a resident of ?tica. As the judges Were tying the rib? bons oh an unsuccessful exhibitordemtirred at their decision, saying, "On what grounds do you give the premium to Mr. ?^-^'s horses ?*' "On fair grounds," was the witty reply, ? ? A#lady correspondent writes that she knows very little about the back pay question, but she is going to draw her back hair over her head according to the prevailing fashion, if it lifts her off her heels and endangers her equi? librium, and she should like to know What the newspapers are going to do about it. ? Female druggist clerks are largely em* ployed'now throughout England, and they are said' to prove very competent to compound medicines, the work not being laborious, but requiring accuracy, heat?ess and method. It must prove, moreover, a considerable mitiga* tion to the bitterness and costliness of the drugs to have been dispensed by prattv Women? ?. A Michigan butcher takes the pones out of his meat before selling it how. fie had a dream the other night, in which he found him* self at the celestial gate, but confronted by a mountain of bones, which an attendant spirit said were what he had sold to customers, and he must climb over them if he would enter heaven. ? Louisville has unwittingly committed it? self to u grand tempefance reform by voting to send drunkards home instead of to the lock? up. The worst cases are cured in this way. Tne men come out in a day or two with some? what less capillary adornmeht and a chastened look which tells of the refining influences of home. ? ? A report having obtained cUrfeiicv that a resident of* a city in Kansas had offered"$10,000 to any man who would marry his cross-eyed daughter, the hotels in the place were so over? run with visitors that the landlords had to roost some of them out on poles projecting from the windows, The excitement was somewhat al? layed when it was discovered that the daughter in question was "colored, not plain." ? Who can read without emotion the story of two little girls in Green Bay, Wisconsin ? The eldest was seven years of age, the youngest only five. A drunken father left them alone in their room for six days, with only a small loaf of bread for food. When the children were found, the eldest was nearly dead, having refused to eat of the bread so that her little sis? ter might not suffer. We hear a great deal of heroines. Does history furnish an example equal to this? ?.A new article, has been placed in the Pennsylvania constitution in relation to suf? frage, which provides that the voter must have been a citizen of the United States at least one month and a resident of the district two months, instead of ten days, as heretofore; and also that his taxes shall have been assessed at least two months and paid one month before the election. Each ballot is to be numbered and the number placed opposite the voter's name, ? The "Richmond Di*patch tells this story i Just after we left Roncevillc^ Judge C, of Ch?rlottesville, commenced his jokes, and soon had all the passengers in a roar. "I'll tell you what I can do," said the Judge to a correspon? dent of a New York paper. "You may think of any tune you please, whether I have ever heardof it or not, and by seeing you keep time with your fingers I can tell you what you are playing." The correspondent was skeptical. After thinking a moment he commenced piano playing on the back of his seat in front of him with the grace of Leo Wheat. "What em I playing now ?" he asked eagerly and with an air of triumph. "You are playing the ~? fool," replieu the Judge.