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VOLUME X.?NO. 48.
Eeveray Johnson's Criticism of the Presi?
dent's Letter.
We print below the recent letter of Hon.
Ueverdy Johnson, of Maryland, addressed to
the New York Herald, in which he discusses
President Grant's "third term letter." Mr.
Johnson is one of the ablest statesmen and ju?
rists of the country, and his acute analysis of
this now famous epistle will be read with in?
terest:
Baltimore, Md., June 2,1875.
% the Editor of the Herald :
My Dear Sir :?One of your correspondents
informs me that you wish me to say to you
what I think of the President's letter of last
Saturday, the 29th ulk, known as the "third
term letter." This I proceed to do. There are
?several matters contained in the letter that have
no direct and a very slight indirect bearing up?
on the question. What sacrifices, if any, the
^President may have made in accepting his first
nomination or his second have nothing to do
with his election for a third term. And what
-ever abuse he may.have been subjected to du?
ring the time that he has held the Presidency
is equally irrelevant. Although it is no doubt
true that his conduct has been subjected in
some instances to harsh and unjust criticism,
yet, as he admits "in the light of subsequent
?events" his conduct on some occasions "was
?subject to fair criticism," he has not always
been unjustly dealt with. What those occa?
sions were he omits to say. Were they in his
recommendation for the passage of the rcForce
bill" and the suspension of habeas corpus, his
approval of Che conduct of the military at New
Orleans in expelling a portion of the Legisla?
ture of that State, and in the yet more flagrant
wrong, if one more flagrant could be committed,
in the recommendation made to Congress in his
Message relative to Arkansas, a recommenda?
tion in principle absolutely destructive of the
right of the people of every State to change
their constitution ? But these wrongs are not
pertinent at all to the general question of the
election of a President for a third term, except
as they bear upon his fitness for that office.
What the President says is this, that there is
nothing in the constitution to prohibit it, and
that it can only come before tne people by a
proposition to amend the constitution. The
precedents, no matter how long established,
and no matter what may have been the charac?
ter of the men by whom they were established,
as patriots and as statesmen of unsurpassed
ability, and no matter how universal has been
their sanction by the people, these precedents
should, in the President's view, have no influ?
ence upon the people now or hereafter or upon
the determination of him who may have occu?
pied the office for two terms. For he tells us
that "it may happen in the future history of the
country (and this may be the case during the
balance of the present term) that to change an
executive because he has been eight years in
office will prove unfortunate, if not disastrous."
It is certainly true that the people are at liber?
ty to elect to a third term; but until the time
of President Grant not only did no one of his
predecessors, who had held the office for two
terms, give the most distant hint that he wished
or would accept the office again, but, as far as
I am advised, no individual citizen or journal?
ist ever proposed or suggested it.
That a constitutional prohibition does not
exist is no proof that the usage of prohibition
is not and should not be considered as conclu?
sive. It is idle to say that in a government
like ours long and uninterupted usage can safe
ly be disregarded. The power of the veto ou
the part of the Crown exists in England, but it
has. not been exercised since 1692. And yet it
is a power which Mr. Justice Blackstone says
"is a most important and, indeed, indispensable
part of the royal prerogative." It may with
truth be said that now, when it has been so
long disused, that its exercise by the Crown
would produce a fearful ferment in the king?
dom. Such, in that law-abiding country, is the
conclusive force and effect of usage.
The idea of the President that the safety of
the country may demand the re-election of a
President for a third term, in my opinion, is an
idle conceit, having no other support but the
most eggregious vanity. Of this vanity he
himself seems to partake, since he says that he
"would not accept a nomination if it were ten?
dered, uniess it should come under such cir?
cumstances as to make it an imperative duty."
Who is to judge whether the duty to accept is
an imperative one? It can only be the man
himself. May he not well conclude that a
nomination by a convention is conclusive as to
the duty ? The safety of the country he may
really think requires his continuance in office,
and that his own opinion upon the point, if he
has one, is established by the action of the con?
vention, and by this process of reasoning he
may be re-elected for as many terms as life is
spared him. I think it may, with perfect jus?
tice, be said that if the convention which framed
the constitution had known the enormous ex?
tent of the official patronage which in time
/would necessarily be vested in the President,.
that they would have limited the official term
to six or eight years and have rendered the in?
cumbent ineligible.
The question which is now agitating the pub?
lic mind is whether President Grant shall be
elected to a third term. Does his letter solve
it? It may do so practically, because I believe
that he will not be renominated, or if he is,
that he will hardly receive the vote of a single
State. The voice of Pennsylvania, as spoken
-by her recent convention, which has forced the
President to write this letter, is, judging by all
the the signs of the times, concurred in by an
immense majority of the Union. The Presi?
dent, indeed, so far as he is personally concern?
ed, seems to regard it as a mere matter of dol?
lars and cents; and it may perhaps legitimate?
ly inferior that if the salary which he now
receives should be secured to him as a retiring
pension he would gladly leave the office at
the end of his present term and return to that
home "where the balance of bis days might be
spent in peace and enjoyment of domestic
quiet," and without any apprehension that the
peace and safety of the country are not as safe
in the hands of his successor as they had been
in his own, and this belief I have no doubt the
public will fully share.
I remain, with regard, your obedient servant.
Beyeedy Johnson.
? The New Orleans Bulletin is getting
thoroughly waked up and alarmed. It says:
"Newspapers are constantly receiving and be?
ing importuned to publish che most subtle and
dangerous assaults upon the great truths of the
Bible, and the fact is becoming more and more
apparent that we need our missionaries at home.
The clergy will have to buckis on their armor
and prepare to do battle for the faith for which
so many glorious men have suffered martyrdom
in the past."
? The death of Gen. Breckenridgo leaves
but four gentlemen living who have been elect?
ed to the second highest office in the United
States. They are Hannibal Hamlin, Andrew
Johnson, Schuyler Colfax and Henry Wilson.
The mortality among Vice Presidents does not
seem to be as great as that among the Presi?
dents. Mr. Johnson is the only ex-President
now living, and he was not elected to that of?
fice by the people. I
Ex President Davis on Gen. Shermain's Slan?
ders.
The St. Louis Times publishes the following
letter from Mr. Jefferson Davis, addressed to
Col. W. F. Mellen, a former Confederate offi?
cer, concerning certain allegations contained
in Gen. Sherman's memoirs:
Memphis, Tenn., May 27, 1875.*
My Dear Sir; Please accept my thanks for
your kind letter of the 19th instant, and the
accompanying copy of a St. Louis paper con?
taining an extract from the forth-coming work
of General W. T. Sherman, My absence de?
layed the receipt of your letter and this reply
to it.
The malice that seeks to revive the nefari?
ously concocted and long since exploded slander
which connected my name with the asiassina?
tion of President Lincoln is quite in character
with the man who so conducted his invasion
of the South as to render "Sherman's bummers"
the synonym of pillage, arson, cruelty to the
helpless, and murder of non-combatants, and
who closed his career of arson with a false
accusation against Gen. Hampton in regar to
the burning of Columbia, S. C.
But the question arises, why did General
Sherman, at the date of his reported conversa?
tion with General Josepe E Johnston, suppose
me capable of complicity in the assassination
of President Lincoln?
Gen. Sherman nev^r was personally acquain?
ted with me; and from those who knew me
either in the United States army or in evil
life, surely learned nothing to justify such
suspicion. In the conduct of the waV between
I the States, despite of many baseless accuss
I tions, we can proudly point to a record which
' shows a strict adherance to the usages
1 of war between civilized nations. On what,
then did the suspicion of Gen. Sherman rest ?
Was it not that, proceeding on the rule of
judging other's by one's self, he escribed to me
the murderous and malicious traits of his own
natu re ?
He reports a conversation with President
Lincoln, from which is to be inferred a desire
to have authority for departing from the course
which, as a soldier, he must have known was
usual arid proper towards prisoners of war.
Did he hope to get instructions for the slaugh?
ter of the Confederate President and Cabinet
officers, as set forth in the order of Col.
Dahlgren when he made his raid against Rich?
mond? If the good-natured characteristic re?
ply of President Lincoln taught him that
murder was not the approved measure, it seems
to have failed to inspire him with the generos?
ity and charity which are ever found in noble
minds, or with the chivalry which ever adorns
the character of a true soldier and gentleman,
i Among the articles of surrender of Gen. J.
I E. Johnston, there was one prohibiting milita?
ry expeditions in the country east of the Chat
tahoochee river. That was the best considera?
tion obtained for the surrender of armies, arms,
munitions, and manufactories in that section,
and it was in violation of that article that the
brigades of cavalry, by which I was captured,
was scouring the country and freely taking
from the unprotected peopie the little which
was left them for their future subsistence.
From the statement of Gen. Sherman we learn
that a story had been told to the effect that I
had beeu carrying in wagons millions of specie
to the South, and therefore we are left to con?
clude made that expedition in violation of the
agreement of surrender., Though the story of
the millions of specie is now admitted by Gen.
Sherman to have been a fiction, the admission
is made in such terms as would lead the reader
to suppose I had been traveling with wagon
transportation, and had a few thousand dollars
of specie in a valise. But neither supposition
would be true. I had recently joined the wagon
train, and was about to leave it when captured ;
my only baggage was a valise, which was packed
on a mule, and it contained no specie. The
few thousand dollars of specie were in a pair
of saddle-bags, belonging to Secretary Reagan.
Whether that money ever reached the United
States Treasury, Mr. Reagan, from whom it was
taken, may be able to learn after he shall have
assumed his functions as a Representative in
the United States Congress. ?
Should the course of the commanding gener?
al of the army in attempting, at this late day,
to resuscitate a defunct slander against the
President of the late Confederacy, and to which
slander not even suborned witnesses could give
the semblance of truth, be taken as the expo?
nent of the feeling of tha arm of the General
Government would seem to be ill-suited to the
taskj of late so largely assigned to it, of pre?
serving civil order, and of restoring harmony
among the peoples of the United States. For
public considerations it is to be hoped that the
ineradicable malignity of Sherman say be an'
exception to the prevailing sentiments of the
United States army.
Again thanking you for your friendly consid?
eration, I am very truly yours,
Jefferson Da^is.
The Ootton States Congress.
This body will meet in Raleigh, N. C, on
Tuesday, 13th of July, 1875. All the State
and subordinate agricultural societies in the
Cotton States are authorized to appoint dele?
gates. Correspondents from every State in the
Union are invited to be present, and are hereby
assured of a cordial welcome.
The representatives from the Cotton States,
heretofore assembled, were men who think and
toil in the peaceful pursuits of agriculture and
its kindred industries. The calamities common
to every section of the Cotton States gave
bearing to the Congress, and the continued
depression in, and disastrous results to our
farmers, trade and commerce preserves its ex?
istence. The great object in view, is the re?
covery of our national interests from their de
Eression, no matter from what cause this has
een produced, and to liberate them from the
dependence under which they now suffer, by
honest and persistent efforts, and by the intel?
ligent use of the means we so abuudantiy
possess.
This session bf the Congress will be a com?
bination of intelligent power, exerted by men
who know how to devise and to execute such
plans as are best lor the common good. In
the spirit of patriotism?an ardent devotion to
the interests of the husbandman ; to domestic
economy; to the happiness of our homes and
the hope of returning prosperity; to our fields,
workshops, trades and commerce?this session
of 1875 will convene and deliberate
It is fortunate that meeting is to be in North
Carolina. Every delegate and correspondent
will bring in spirit a centennial offering, to lay
upon the altar of his country; he will conse?
crate himself anew to her service, and. with
sublime devotion', pledge his life and sacred
honor to peace and prosperity.
D. E. Butleti, President.
? It has been demonstrated that farming
has paid since the war, and mere planting has
not. Men who have farmed correctly have
lived well and have money in the banks; those
who have merely planted have lost money.?
There is a vast distinction between a farmer
and a planier in the Southern country. One
makes Iiis place self-sustaining, and the other
borrows money to buy corn to raise cotton. '
Grant at long Branch.
Again the President has abandoned the cap?
ital, where the law supposes him to be always
present at the Executive Mansion and occupied
with official duties, and has regularly estab?
lished himself at the sea side for the summer
mouths, not to return to Washington until
October. This is the signal for a general exo?
dus of all the principal office-holders. The
example is infectious, and in a few weeks the
Cabinet, generals, admirals, assistant secreta?
ries, comptrollers, auditora, chiefs'of divisions,
and the like, will be scattered all over th?
country, taking their ease and making merry
at the public expense.
This pernicious practice, which seriously
deranges the public business and is often most
damaging to private interests, was wholly un?
known before the advent of Grant. He is ex?
clusively responsible for its introduction and
the mischevous consequences that have atten?
ded it for the last six years.
No former President would have entertained
the thought of quitting the capital for another
residence, or of renouncing his trust for con?
secutive months into'the hands of subordinates,
while seeking personal pleasure. Grant's pre?
decessors were generally content with two or
three weeks of relaxation in summer for health,
and some of them would not even indulge
themselves to that extent, under a sense of
duty which claimed their whole time for the
public.
Though in robust health and in the full vigor
of life, Grant has sought every sort of pretext
for gratifying his coarse tastes and indulgiug
habits which have brought discredit upon the
office which he occupies but does not fill. He
has been absent from Washington nearly half
of the time he has served as President, and
that, too, without ever failing to draw the last
cent of his pay and perquisites.
His example has furnished an immunity to
others who have imitated*it, and the result has
necessarily been a demoralization of the whole
public service. Practically, the Government
is turned over to the charge of inferiors with?
out responsibility for more than a third of
every year. Direct supervision being thus
withdrawn, temptation offered to weak or
venal clerks, and collusion made easy, whiskey
frauds and robbery of the customs revenue
have flourished at a cost of millions annually
to the Treasury.
Through his own personal solicitation, the
President's pay was illegally doubled and the
emoluments of the office were increased beyond
all precedent. While the Republican Congress
which committed that outrage was driven by
public opinion to repeal the grab, and to restore
the former compensation of members, they had
not the courage or the honesty to touch that
part of the law which affected Grant, and Which
was, in fact, the pivot upon which the whole
iniquity turned.
The employees in the departments at Wash?
ington are allowed one month of absence each
year, without loss of pay. Every hour beyond
that limit is charged against them and deducted
from their salaries. But the Presideut and the
Cabinet, the Auditors and Comptrollers, and
others who established this rule for the clerks,
fail to apply it to themselves, and appropriate
without scruple to their own use a large share
of the time which belongs to the public, and is
paid for by oppressive taxation.
It is easy to understand, under a loose, prod?
igal, and reckless system like this, where rigid
accountability has been cast aside, restraint re?
moved, and neglect made the rule, how corrup?
tion has spread itself everywhere, and plunder
has become a recognized practice. Besides the
other evils which Grantism has inflicted on the
country, it is estimated that the mere money
cost of that atrocious system since 1869 has
been more than one-fourth of the whole na?
tional debt, by Rings and robbery.?New York
Sun.
The Treatment of Sheep.
I beg leave briefly to communicate to the
farmers and sheep-growers of your section some
facts of interest to them, as they have lost 7al
uable property iu sheep aud wool by skin dis?
eases and vermin peats, iu their flocks. For
the past ten years I have becu treating sheep
for this trouble. I used a variety of prepara?
tions, and made up solutions and ointments,
which were applied with little or no permanent
good effect.
About a year ago I was called to examine a
flock in Connecticut, badly afflicted with scab
and ticks. I told the owner I hardly knew
what to advise, as I had nothing at hand to
use, especially where the animals were in such
bad couditiou. As we were talking over the
matter, he drew iriv attention to an article in
Oolemm's Mural World, St. Louis, written by
a gentleman who was for a loug time engageu
in raising sheep on the Pacific coast, where the
skin diseases and vermin among the domestic
animals were very prevalent. He spoke of the
efficiency of preparations he had used in a very
extensive way, which only afforded temporary
relief, but he recommended an article called
"Kennedy's Hemlojk Sheep Dip," which he
had used with great success in the treatment of
scab and destroying ticks. The statement be?
ing made by so reliable a paper, gave us confi?
dence to try it. Not knowing the manufactur?
er, I went to the great medicine house of John
F. Henry & Co., who kindly gave me the ad?
dress of Mr. Kennedy, from whom I bought
five gallons at three dollars a gallon, I
used it I diluted each gallon iu fro o
eighty gallons of water, to make th r
degree of strength for use. This wash 1 ? i
in a large tank, i? which I saturated the ?iii
mal about one minute. The next day the sheep
were examined, and not a live tick could be
found; and all soreness and irritation of the
Bkin had ceased, and the flock in a short time
were much improved. With this I was satis?
fied, as it killed the vermin, and left the skin
in a clean and healthy condition, imparting a
silky softness and lustre to the wool such as I
never before saw, and the owner tells me that
the sheep will produce a quarter more wool this
year .than they did last. Knowing, as I do,
farmers who are interctited, I take the opportu?
nity to report the case ;ind name the treatment.
From the satisfactory results I have had from
its use in this and other cases, I am anxious to
call the attention of farmers to it as a cheap
aud valuable means of curing sheep afllicted
iu this way.
Very respectfully,
H. E. Boomer, V. S.,
88th st. and Third ave., New York.
? A lady conversing' with some frionds the
other day advanced the idea that a young man !
should not get married without a capital of'
$15,000, and one of the party, who was some?
what of the bachelor persuasion, took excep?
tion, saying that he thought if a young lady
had that amount it would not be necessary for
the young man to have any capital?just so it
was in the family it would be sufficient.
? A lawyer of Louisville, a few days ago,
found that a book full of valuable promissory
notes which had been stowed away for some
year* had been so gnawed by rats that the sig?
natures had all been destroyed, while the re?
maining parts remained uninjured.
'Trne Inwardness" of the Dreaded Cyclone.
The Chicago Tribune thinks the weather re?
ports will not reach* anything like perfection
until "Old Probs" and his myrmidons can let
us know when the dreaded cyclone may be ex?
pected. It says "the instruments used cannot
yet register the exact intensity of the coming
atmospheric disburbances, so that occasionally,
instead of the wished-for rain-storm which is
to help the young shoots of corn above the sur?
face of the earth, the astonished farmer has
just time to say 'a blizzard, by gosh/ when a
whirling cyclone takes corn, earth, house,
farmer and family into the next county. Bliz?
zards?this new word is the Granger equiva?
lent for cyclone?are becoming altogether too
common, on sea and land." As a contribution
to the lack of knowledge on this subject, the
same paper gives an excellent synopsis of Mr.
James Mackintosh's learned article in the
, Popular Science Monthly, which we reproduce,
as follows:
"The cyclone itself is a comparatively sim?
ple phenomenon. When the air nearest the
earth becomes heated it rises through the
colder strata above. But instead of sifting
gradually up, it breaks through these strata in
a wedge-shaped column. This is because the
upward pressure is too great to allow any slow
movement. The column of hot air whirls up
and pours forth currents of air into the higher
atmosphere, while other currents rush in below
to take its place. If this were all, the equili?
brium would be quickly restoied, and the dam?
age done would be confined to an exceedingly
small area. But this is not all. When the
whirling column has once been formed it moves
forward, sucking up the heated air next the
earth as it goes, so producing a commotion
over a great surface of- country. Mr. Mackin?
tosh likens it, in this phase, to a chimney trav?
eling after a moving fire.
"The air which pours forth at the top of the
column expands, and in expanding throws off
heat. So much heat is lost that the vapor of
water carried up by the air condenses aud
pours back upon the earth in the shape of hail,
snow or rain.
"The tremendous energy of the cyclone
seems less explicable when we recollect that
the sun and the earth join their forces in order
to produce it. The suu is the furnace, and the
moist land and the seas of the earth are the
boiler.
"The phenomena would be the same, how?
ever, whatever was the source of heat. Fol?
lowing out his thought, Mr. Mackintosh draws
a sublime picture of the cyclone as a creative
force. When the universe was simply one
vast atmosphere, the gases of the same specific
gravity naturally arranged themselves in the
same stratum, until the whole mass was divi?
ded. The force that kept the particles of mat?
ter apart was heat. In order tu form worlds,
much of this heat must be got rid of. This
was done by a cyclone, millions of miles in
height, whirling through space. As it rushed
up, the vapor contained in it condensed at
different elevations into granite, iron, and
nearly every other solid substance. These fell
in a fierce rain upon the lower strata and
melted again. But the work had not been in
vain. A vast amount of heat had been trans?
ferred from the centre of the universe to the
circumference. The union of the particles
lying at the centro was now possible, and
worlds were formed.
"This is a magnificent conception of the
cyclone of the past. If it fails to fully com?
fort the sufferer from the cyclone of the pres?
ent, he. can at least rejoice that his lot is no
worse. Mr. Mackintosh informs us that Then
the primeval whirliug column was at v. ork,
'all kinds of igneous rocks, mingled with mol?
ten metal, chased?each other millions of miles
down through the fiery gloom.' The modern
cyclone does nothing as bad as this."
Cow Pens.
I It has been often said that a sheep never dies
in debt. In one way or auothcr it pays for
every mouthful of grass it eats during its whole
life. We have no inclination to call this asser?
tion into question. We. have no doubt it is
absolutely true ; but there are some other ani?
mals that can show as fair a record as the
sheep. The cow is the best and the most eco?
nomical of all the domestic animals, when a
little atteutiou is paid to her. In this climate,
for eight months out of the twelve, the uow
will live without a single mouthful of lood, ex?
cept what she can gather in the woods and old
fields. If she is kept at night in a pen during
the summer months, and in a stable during the
winter months, the manure which will accu?
mulate from her droppings, will be worth more
to her owner than tho food which she eats du?
ring the hard winter will cost him. Three
cows penned every night and properly attended
to, will deposit enough of manure to make two
bales of cotton. This is a mere random asser?
tion. We are willing to have it tested and
abide the result of the experiment.
Such being the facts in the case, every farmer
ought to have a cow pen. This, in most cases,
should b<" on some poor spot of ground, and
the pen should be small, ana moved occasion?
ally. The ground should be plowed up and a
few leaves or wheat straw spread over it, so
that the cows may be induced to lie down all
over it, and not in spots. With ten cows and
one hand with a cart or wagon, one day in the
week to haul leaves, a vast amount of good
manure might bo made at comparatively little
expense. This plan followed up successively
for ten ..cars, would have a telling effect on
the fruitfulness of our country. We sec that
some farmers allow their cows to lie before their
gates on the public road, and yet purchase large
quantities of fertilizers every year. Others
construct a cow pen on the side of some hill
where all the manure is washed away by the
rains. With a few cows it costs nothing to
make manure. All the expense connected
with it arises from the saving of it after it is
made.? Yorkvillc Enquirer.
Will He Do It ??"Whatever may be the
President's reservations, tho Republicans will
ghuHy relieve themselves of the dead weight
that has been hanging upon them for two years
by accepting his letter as a positive withdr;1
from the canvass as a candidate for re-not
tion. This being the case, why will not 1
dent Grant mark the closing portion of his tt_
by a grand and noble policy of justice toward
the South ; by rallying around him as his ad?
visers men of strong minds and honest hearts ;
by cleansing tho Government of its hideous
corruptions, and by a general patriotic and wise
policy ? He has yet time to do much for the
nation and to hand down his name to posterity
in connection wih those of tho best of the
American Presidents. Will he be equal to the
task?"?N. Y. Herald.
? Ben Butler said to a reporter the other
day who tried to interview him about the third
term, that he would not discuss the matter nor
talk on politics in any shape. "I renounce the
devil and all his works," declared the Essex
statesman. This is tho m jst marvellous con?
version of modern time0 ; but it m hard on the
devil, who will be at his wits' end to supply
Bcu'a place.
Defaulting Officials.
Within the past few months there has been
a general stirring up of County and State offi?
cials and' ex-officials. The current of corrup?
tion which all run one way for a long time, has
been turned, and is leaving exposed in its old
channel many that used to luxuriate in what
they believed would be a perpetual stream.
The political jackals^ who have been living off
the carcass of this poor old State since the
close of the war, are getting short of food.
The game of "addition, division and silence"
is not now played'so successfully as in times
past. It is not so profitable as it once was.
Money jobs are scarce, and the vultures who
formerly divided their pelf without any disa?
greement, are now in a state of turmoil because
there is not enough to satisfy the cravings of
their insatiable appetites. Those of the cor?
morants that were sharp enough to keep their
share of the proceeds of the game of "addi?
tion, division and silence" and still flourish,
excite the envy and jealousy of their more un?
fortunate accomplices, whose impecuniosity
make them desperate. The consequence is,
that every now and then stupendous frauds
against the Counties and State are exposed in
retaliation for some old grudge. Then we hear
a great deal of gossip aud newspaper specula?
tion about conviction, punishment, &c. The
people are worked up to the very tiptoe of ex?
pectation in their belief that their wrongs and
grievances are to be redressed. But when the
time arrives for the trial of these defaulting
officials, something to prevent the 'prosecutiou
of the charges against them is almost invaria?
bly in the way. The trial is postponed. We
are strongly impressed with the conviction that
that same old game of "addition, division and
silence" is played again, and successfully, too,
in many cases. There is a potency about the
old familiar game that is hard to resist by
those who have been accustomed to participate
in it. The attempt to punish the guilty has
been smothered to death in several instances in
this State by its influence, within the last year
or two. *
Indictments have collapsed as suddenly as
they originated, under the charms of party
fealty, renewed by former agencies. The per?
petrators of the most bare-faced stealing are
allowed to escape unwhipt of justice. Then if
the people or the press show any signs of im?
patience or distrust in the matter, they are
considered impertinent and officious. It is
natural for the people to feel anxious and in?
terested about the trial of the men who have
been pilfering them for so long a time. Any?
thing that looks the least like favoring these
criminals by the officers of the law, excites
suspicion that there is double-dealing going on
among them. The case of Niles G. Farker,
Ex-Treasurer of State, is an illustration of this
feeling. He is an old sinner against the peo?
ple of this State, and has eluded them for a
long while. He has been apprehended, and
the people demand a thorough and searching
investigation of the charges against him. His
case is Oeing closely watched. Give him and
the people justice.?Greenville Enterprise and
Mountaineer.
The Necessity of Grass Culture.?The
cultivation of grasses and forage plauts is an
indispensable attribute of prosperity. Why
are the lands of Kentucky and Ohio so much
more valuable than those of the cotton States,
when we can produce a commercial article of
prime necessity worth twice as much per acre
as their products ? It is because we disregard
rotation, exclude every other crop but cotton,
and base all our chances of success upon a sin?
gle card. In an agricultural point of view,
grass is the greatest boon ever donated to man.
It grows unceasingly day and night, wet aud
dry, cold and hot, and furnishes the cheapest
stock feed extant. I have had hogs from seven
to nine months old, weighing 250 pounds, aud
yet they had never tasted anything but grass.
The land should be well drained, and if not
sufficiently rolling to drain naturally, it must
be done artificially. Water must, under no
circumstances, be permitted to stand on land
devoted to grass culture, else, the grasses sown
will be destroyed iu such places, and "wire
grass'' will furnish a substitute as unprofitable
as it is undesirable.
The proper preparation of the land is of
prime importance. I would use a one-horse
turning plow, running at a depth of three to
four iuches, follow with a subsoil as deep as
the best double team could draw the same,
harrow well aud thoroughly pulverize the soil
by rolling or dragging as may be necessary in
order that the surface may be smooth and
adapted to the use of the mower. This prepa?
ration is not altogether necessary; in fact,
clover sown in the fall or early winter is more
certain to catch when sown on stubble, the
trash serving to protect it while young, yet
ttfis is not neat farming, and should only be
practiced in cases of emergency. Occasionally
we have wet weather in August and September,
and grass can then be sown in corn or cotton,
and by Christmas a good pasture will be ob?
tained, provided the ground is not too wet for
pasturage at that time. The most preferable
method is, however, to thoroughly prepare the
land as above described; the exceptions to the
general rule should only be used when better
preparation cannot be obtained.?Southern
Farmer.
The Trite Woman.?The time has been
passed when women must be pale and delicate
to he called interesting?when she must be to?
tally ignorant of all practical knowledge to be
called refined and high-bred?when she must
know nothing of the current political news of
the day, or be called masculine or strong-mind?
ed. It is not a sign of high birth or refinement
to be sickly and ignorant. Those who affect
anything of the kind are behind the times, aud
must shake up and air themselves mentally and
physically, or drop under the firm strides of
common ideas, and be crushed into utter insig?
nificance. Iu these days, an active, rosy faced
girl, with brain quick and clear, warm, light
heart, a temper quickly heated at intended in?
sults or injury, and just as quick to forgive:
whose feet can run as fast as her tongue ana
not put her out of breath ; who is not afraid of
freckles, or to breathe the pure air of heaven,
Mirestraincd by the drawn curtains of a close
carriage; and above all, who can speak her
mind and give her opinion on important topics
which interest intelligent people, is the true
girl who will make a good woman. This is the
girl who wins in these days. Even fops and j
dandies, who strongly oppose woman's rights, i
like a woman who can talk well, even if she is
not handsome. They weary of the most beau?
tiful creature if she is a fool. They say, "Aw,'
yaa-s, she is a beauty, and no mistake, but she j
won't do for me?lacks brains," of which com- j
( modity it would seem she could have little use '
I in her association with him. However, to
t please even an empty-hcaded fop, a woman
I must know something.
? A lump of gold was found buried in the
earth, about eight miles above Camden, a few
j days ago. by Mr. Judson Young. Its weight is
about twelve ounces, and has the appearance
i of pure gold. Its value is estimated at over
1 $200.
The Abstracted Bonds of the Greenville and
Columbia Railroad Company.
It came to our knowledge, about two weeks
ago, in a roundabout way, that a number of
railroad bonds had been abstracted from the
Comptroller-General's office by J. L. Neagle,
while Comptroller-General. The facts, in
brief, were these; After the war the State
Legislature authorized bonds of the Greenville
j and Columbia Railroad, endorsed by the State,
to be issued by the Comptroller-General in ex*
change for similarly endorsed bonds of that
Company, which were headed, "Confederate
States of America." It was made the duty of
the Comptroller to put the State guaranty on
the new bonds, date them, and issue them
when the old bonds were surrendered to him.
The process of exchange went on untfl only
$91,000 of old bonds remained unexchanged.
Some of the remaining old bonds-were presen?
ted for exchange at the Comptroller-General's
office, after the expiration of Neagle's term,
and after, we believe, the installation of Capt.
Dunn. It was then found that the $91,000 of
new bonds which should have been in the office
were not there. Comptroller H?ge had not
receipted to Neagle, hie predecessor, for any
such bonds, and they had evidently been issued
or abstracted by Neagle. This was a plain
case of fraud, and we demanded that proceed?
ings be taken against Neagle at once.
The attention of Comptroller Dunn was now
brought to the alleged theft of the $91,000 of
bonds, and be immediately notified Neagle that,
if the bonds were not replaced, he would be in?
stantly prosecuted. Neagle asserted that $10,
000 of the missing $91,000 had been lawfully
exchanged, and promised to return the rest.
This has been done. On Saturday most of the
?81,000 of bonds were surrendered by Neagle
to Comptroller Dunn, and the remaining bondb
are, also, virtually in his possession. Theques*
tion whether $10,000 of the bonds were legally
issued remains to be determined; but the $81,*
000 are safe.
The restitution of the stolen bonds, for stolen
they were, is satisfactory, no doubt, to the
Greenville and Columbia Railroad Company,
but it is not enough for the public. Neagle's
offence is not atoned for by the surrender of
the bonds. The crime was committed, and by
giving up the bonds Neagle acknowledges his
guilt. This is a proper case, therefore, for such
a prosecution and conviction as will teach
public officers that, in the long run, honesty
pays better than Parker's Hauls and the like.
Such a case will give the Attorney-General an
excellent opportunity of airing his patriotic
rhetoric. The facts are before him! What
will he do about it ??News and Courier.
Putting Things Away.?Do women ever
think how much time they spend in picking up
and putting away? Of course we do not mean
to intimate that it is wasted, or that all this
work is done unnecessarily. Women have a
vast amount of such work to perform, and few
men realize its extent, or its necessity until
some accident or circumstances brings it home
to them.
A married man said once, that he never
realized the amount of work done in bringing
things out and putting them away, until he
happened to sit idly watching the operation of
setting the table?"getting tea," as it was called,
at a neighbor's house, washing the dishes and
clearing them away. It struck him, for the
first time, how much real labor had to be
in lifting and carrying between table and pan?
try and he determined to lesseu such labor in
his house as much as possible^ by construct?
ing a kitchen in his house with every facility
and convenience. He thought, with a sort of
consternation, if one "tea" requires that
amount of labor, what must the work of a
house for a lifetime amount to? A very pret?
ty problem which we should like to have an?
swered.
It is a fact, however, that "putting things
away" becomes a sort of mania with some
neat housewives, and not only gives them a
vast amount of trouble, but sours their temper,
and is a source of annoyance to every member
of the family. From a habit probably of be?
ing upon one spot all the time, eternally seeing
and doing the same thiugs, it becomes a sort
of mania, and is in fact a symptom of disease.
We think a good pian, in such a case, would
be, for the husband to insist on his wife ta?
king a journey, making a visit home, or spend?
ing a c?pie of weeks at a watering place.
The change of scene, the breaking up of the
monotony of life would do her a world of good.
Her ideas would become enlarged; her
thoughts travel out of their accustomed
routine, and when she returned she would take
up life less as a burden, and more as a basket
of flowers, from which it is possible to extract
beauty aud fragrance.
Tyranical Fashion.?Probably no charac?
teristic of the female mind is better developed
than the docility with which women accept the
fashions of the day. Be they beautiful or hid?
eous, becoming or unbecoming, comfortable or
torturing, they are the "fashion," and must be
worn. Take, for example, the hair. This,
"the crowuing glory" of a woman, can be worn
as she pleases, and what work many make of
it! Now a coiffure called the "Grecian knot"
is coming into fashion. Of it a recent woman
writer says: About one woman out of twenty
five has a head and features of the shape neces?
sary to make this style becoming; given a
broad, half-high white foreheod, rather straight
nose, well-rounded face and throat, and the
careless knot of hair low in the nape of the
neck, with a pure white part in the centre of
the head, from which the hair ripples naturally
over the temples and ears, is beautiful, making
the wearer a Greek goddess at once, or, what is
better nowadays, a charmiug American woman.
But to take the remaining twenty-four women,
who have have all kinds of foreheads and fea?
tures, and who are stately with their hair mass?
ed on the very top of their heads, or braided
and banded smoothly neither high nor low, or
bewitchingly coquetish and girlish with a
Chatelaine braid and a curl or two, finger puffs
above the forehead and little rings falling over
it; put the severe Greek knots low down on
these heads, draw the hair over the pretty pink
ears, narrow the temples and cheeks by almost
obscuring them, and what is the result? The
stately woman looks prim and belittled, tho
bright coquettish oue is ten years older, and in
many cases startling defects of features or odd
expressions never before noticed by those who
knew them best, and to whom they were once
pretty, are developed by the change.
? A tramp entered a hotel in Wheatland,
Cal., sat down at the breakfast table, and speed?
ily demolished a [hearty meal. He then or?
dered another beef steak, and on its being
placed before him, he suddenly covered his
nasal organ with his hands and started for the
door, apparently taken with bleeding at the
nose, lie passed through the hotel and across
the street to a pump, from whence he soon
bolted down the track and made ofT.
? He held the old shirt up by the neck be?
fore discarding it forever, but be wasn't mourn
ing for the garment. He only said thtisly:
"I wish I had all the drinks Again that
have gone through that old neckband!"