Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BY E. B. MU?RAY & CO. . ANDERSON, S. CM THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST^T"?^ VOLUME XYT^--Wf>: 7: OUB F?BKEBS> PAST AND PKTUBE. An Xf-jtay. Pr JH*. *>. Iinnonn, of Volon Scad at tb? Joint Summer Meeting of tho Stat? Orango nnd Stat? Agricultural Boclcty at Uurllugton, Angttst 4, 1880. In referring to the past farmer I pre* sumo as useless to refer to the untiquity of agriculture. It began, BO to speak, vt ?th thc beginning. . 'Tis true our first parents began Ufe rather os horticultu rists ; but then they were precipitated into agriculture proper with about as little ceremony an some of na wcro at the close of our late unpleasantness. Agricultural pursuits have ever been heldin high/ estimation, and we arr- al ways told by our public orators nnd modest candidates when they come out to address the dear "bene and HM ww" of the country, -hov - honorable and inde pendent it is to be a farmer, and how they would love to live in. tho country. AH cf ?yrb?ob sounds Very 'well ; yet wo need n vast deal of educated faculties nnd live energies to fill tho bill.: Never theless, since tho day that plain old far mer Ciucinnatuo was cat lcd from his plough to lead the Hon.an legions to vic tory, it has been demonstrated that oven a farmer ,tn?y jbe found equal to greater things than simply cultivating tho noil. Though tho past farmer can boost of great ?otiniiity nnd of some honors, Inj improf?mOiltB: have lr.-.v. clow and tcdioui-Valways behind tho: other aita nnd sciences. You may turn your attention to that part of mankind, that "interested ihem selvcs in mechanics, and yon find them In the beginning with a yoke of oxen and a simple atnie. Now they think nothing of poring through tho Alps, cut ting ono sea into another, oinking a tour of tho world's hills, dells and valleys in hours where it onco took months and years," ami as oar plain old farmer goes to mill, with .his corn in one end of th? sack and tho rock Iii the other, he ls as tonished by the whistle of thc locomo tivo on tho summit of thc Rocky Moun tains. .Jhpse engaged in, navigation we ?i.:| first with a simple canoe. Yet they have utilized ovcry improvement in art or science Jh^t could aesist them, until to day they aro majestically riding ' the. ocean's wave, almost fearless of wind or storm, aboard the "Great Eastern," a dozen or more times larger than this house, and carrying millions of pound) of.'freight. ~ A cotton broker, anywhere .round the world will whisper tb tho telegraph^/irc what your cotton is worth, and in n few minutes the airer is knocking at your door. Yet our post jolly' old farther en joyed very much tho joke that went the rounds.of : tho country .ct tho time whoa some member of Congress asked for ah appropriation of ten thousand dollars that Prof. Morse might be able to dem onstrate tho feasibility. of. hts electro magnetic winjjt, and .como other member, saiu.ho could not volo for tho appropria tion unlc-r* one-half of tho amount was given,to parties then establishing tho science of mcsmorism, which killed tho bill.; ino. agricultural .?iatoiy o? ?ne ua ciohts, testen?over a period pf/ many centuries, maj*, in literary value or social estimation, (for they had writers like Homer and Virgil,) havo far excelled our own. , Wo find something about twelve yoke* of'oxen to:, One.' plough, hut wc Seekuh valli for-any aigii of teal pro gress. Wo find a practice that is careful, ex act and saving, but 'tia tho same year after year. You may sesrch every page for several ages, but there is no mention of any improvement in system or ad vance of any kind. It ?3 the same rou tine year by year, no now-implements advocated, ?o old customs abandoned, Qo to China, tho oldest, country in thc | world, and there agriculture is thc same for centuries, except they improve their land byin?noring. You find tho Chi naman who walks over.bridges built two thousands years ago, who cultivated the Bilk worm1 Before- King Solomon built his throne, who cultivated the cotton plant centuries before thia country was heard of, and ho has filty thousand" equaro miles mirang. Stfij|m^which aro called the . gMrfen^feSgpftraj and which ho?e been tillcu. ?ilesa con?rs?Qnii, sudare ns prouucuv? "now' os ever. Yet they have iaiprcved iasplcrr-cr.t cr im* proved culture. There ia no doubt that ! tho chief rcasoiiwhy the post farmer bas f been so slow of improvement is because ! bo has need very little brains iii connec tion'with hi*'business.-. It will not do. fur. ?s^occaslonnily to havo a German | Licbjg, or ??*6nph Ville, or un American niaVc-is-iri dayotC- mii?li nf their, time tri I Bcientlfic ngricuitural oxp'erimonia, but I farmers generally munt cult?valo their i brains aa well as their muscles. That! a roan can farm fmccefssfully on cur old lauds without somo knowledge of how to f improve them is ai fallacious os that any business of lifo coo bo pursued with n'jo ccss without capital. If there is ono amongst us who is without brains or money; what wo generally call good for n?.liiiig.^mu?y people seem to Imagine rv&WWWnL&lt spoiling, for if a enan e?arn-?da^MIglScw of course, ho can farm. ' In England when a tenant takes possession of a lease ho must not only bo capable, but.ho must bo ablo to ! show that ho has as much as $*50 per sere j in capital with which to carry on his business. How does this compare'with' your tenant who brid to come and get rations for breakfast tho" morning after you moved him lo your farm? Jtt ls a matter of history that our agriculture has nuvnncvu r?i?ro i? iub puel iwciiiy" yenra than nny half ccntnrjr previous. Th'c old story of the rock in ono. end of . the bag j Is fast being vxploded, farmers aro grad ually loaing-their antipathy to so-called "book'farming." What is this great . bug-bear book farming? What does it meen? Docs any ono understand It to mean that each day with book in hand th?Tarm?r shall go to his fioldu and read I his tenants a recitation ? Docs it : not rather mean that he shall stoto his mind ' with agricultural literature, with knowl edge ne to our soils and onr crops and ihcir need?? Wo should be so acquaint ed with Our coils os to know If it needs * ammonia, ? pho^nHor.o acid n.tro*-i-n 1 iimo, potash, ?ocia or salt, or aimo of each. Wo should know something of how crops grow and bow crops feed, and. having acquired this Information, tc bring'It into practice or "impart it to others. Another-difficultyin ibo w/.y of our past ia rmerja progress has boon tho want of association pr.comparison on the part of'farmvs. Our peculiar rabor' in? stitutlpn was.'&uch that an ordinary nlauter was ul?jost likO * satrap among hU vassals-r-ho lived, so to apeak, within himself. He. said to this one go ?nd ho went, and to that ono cortie and ho came/ Hit father bad cnrried ail bin pumpkins itt one end of the sack and why should : not tia Hfl (routed nono of your inno vation*}, nahe of yonV so tailed Iniprore nicnU. rJhonld ho try to be better than his father? Ilia only duty was to ?co that his next door neighbor did uni < tobe mi tho dall, Etroyod. .in forest d eu fatal f any overseer to have suggested any meaos for obtaining this end by improvements on the old lsndr it would have been taken as a sign of incompetency on bis Eart as lo.opening up new; ground. At rat it may seem as if ii' was' foolish to put five or ten dollars io fertilizers on an acre when a fresh aero could' lie- bought for tho carno money; but what bus been tho fruit of this policy ? A planter in my neighborhood preached th's doctrine to me when I commenced to farm. When out- labor institution i ?tas swept away as by thc stroke of the pen was not this, our part of this our Sunny South, almost a brcomsedge and piney old field ? Was it not necessary !0 own three acres in or der to have occ to cultivate? The casual reader of Ramsey's History of South Carolina will find thafwhuu tho, upper bolt of this Stato was settled, uullaio.-s were .so plentiful that three or four men with their dogs could kill from ten to twenty a day. Deer were more nume rous than rabbits at this day. Turkeys abounded on all sides; tbe waters abounded in beaver, otter and fish. There was great facility for raising stock from tho great profusiou of native grass md cane. 'Now I do not pretend to demand that our predecessors should have saved tho game for us, but I dp venture.'to de mand that their system-as it destroyed so many virgin acres-should have occa sionally restored one to its original fer tility. You have looked ort tho picture of a country in.its virginity, now look: on this. Waa not tho prospect gloomy,' in deed, when at Appomattox . Gen. Grant gave Johnny Ben a broken down horse -and told-hird to go borne, build up bis waste places, dc aomotbing for himself and bia country ? With a sad and heavy heart ito set out on that journey. Let us join bim ne. ho nears that home. Wo 'kuow it can't be far off by the broom sedge and piney old field. Hero on our right is tho fresh fields ; the trees and .stumps are still standing in it, yet it bas bald spots and gullies It has been sown in wheat, wo know, by tbe stripes of deeper green running up and down tho bills faraway, where the grain had fallen more thickly between the cotton rows. Yes sown in wheat to rest it; rest by making an exhaustive crop, and then : bo gestured by all the stock in the neigh orb?od during all summer and vir ter. And beru is tbe house. A rail fence has taken the place of tho once neat palings. Three-foot boards with about eix inches turning up towards the beans, makes a roof instead: of the onca close shingle. Several old quilts have takea the place ol the shining lights. You gain tho portico by stepping on various logs piled pro miscuously, having cut tho pigeon wing several times before you reach the floor. There ia every indication that the rude band .of war hrs been .'tbroad in the land. That ia tb-..'lot, and that must be '..'but is left of the stable:?, for we seo the bead ol a disconsolate horse.now and theu stick ing out between sundry fence rails, which ari jammed into tho rdoor. A wagoe body'is trying to got on tho fence, whilst tho running gear stands taking it coull; 'with its tongue lolling out upon thc 5pound. At tho gato stands equalling^ rn tern Uv of razor-backs, but they can'l get in at that gate,'for it is out ita "hiage; and propped hard abd fast with 'liait'.i dpson rails. From the direction a fen cow-frames ore taking it can't bo far tc tbe cup-pen on some bleak knoll, BO ai to bo high and dry ; no Bigns of mnnun hcap?ior.litter?ng'-what few toola;-then aro are lying around promiscuously-i takes half a day to.find them. Is thi: some fancy sketch, or cans?me places lik< it still be found in this South land evct in this late day ? But our Johnny, brav? in peace as in war, could not be uiscou raged, wont earnestly to work, and soot had old Ball EO that he could do a ful day's ploughing, when, one day, alon] carce Borne Fedcrnl sa'.aici? from tho gar rison at town, who, after, due examina tiotf, found tb? inevitable U. S. bram on Ball's foreslioulder,, and informel Johnny that that was a governmcii horse, and that if be did not go to to wi and pay for him ho would huve to civ him up. Tboy replied with, smiles wnei ho told them that Gen.-Grant had -give; him that-horse at the surrender, and s Bary Ann had to give up that little lc of gold she had 'bid away so cafely/fo the next war,' tbat Johnny had drawn I tho.breaking up. But, nothing daunted ho returned to.his plough. His exp? rianco in reverses -hau: benp pretty, thoi ougb. Our Johnny's first year -was*quit try iug. When tba Jupe and July sun carno he just thought ho could not alani it, ahd'sbghtly paraphrasing on tho gre? Wellington, who, ' in, his suspenso . .1 Waterloo, exclaimed :.\; "Would, th: hight or. Blueber.-w?ro .come," did oil Johnny, bitting beneath como ? coolia sb^de, nt tho end of his row, erelaim, ?1 ho fanned himself : "Would .that nig! or nigger, wore come." But b'.ir'.Johnti has solved tho problem, has exploded'th ? idea that bo could not stand our purnim, suns, that ho could not take the place < cur past farmer, that he could not COT trol free labor. Ho has astonished th 1 man that could not nor would not nccei tba'situation, who could only talk ?hoi how many negroes bo had lost and sig i.iuVery but: ".Wo ?re ruined J Wo^ai ruined 1 Oil, you can't make riot! : 'freo" negroes or whito labor ; tho co?rlti is gone to the devil, we are all ruined, I say he bas astonished those croakc with a crop of over five ana a half mi lions balea: of colton!- Hs bas dcmoi struted thc fact that within him lies tl power lo build up and recuperate- 01 waste-places, that by'guard drains, 1 prevent onr laud,from washing, subso ploughing, to resist drought, ailernatic green, vegetable mnlfcr, our old?Tab) may bo mudo to bloom and blossom equ to any of tho beautiful bills of Ohio 1 Pennsylvania. Our Johnny has snort the croaker who said ho was only fit ride and drive fancy horses, wear,: t ?loves and fancy clothes, keep an u: relia over bis eran!' -.? as he Went rout to make love to the fair Floras of tl land, that bo is about as near all hor and half alligator as waa ever old Da* Crockett, aud that ho can do as mm hard work in tho hot sundas anyboi else, regardless of any previous conduit of etrvitude, race or color; that as J him ?tud his. horse, they are going work this lifo'? problem out; ho bas 1 car on 'tbo track and ho is geing to ' ri lt through a bright future, Where flow? ?.?ooai and outers birds s*u&i p*e ja gob to bav? A home, ti cheerful, .'coay,. ?.?.1 -Portable nook, wherein if curious frica or strangers look they will find no po?; of wealth, no ponderous tono, but mus mirth and sunny air.o? a happy hon and ho is going to stand a rou na ou ho day, on ad excursion when lie lays with tho rcet of humanity,, with o c heait artd, no grntnbling, and a pocl .full of.rooks. Please, excuso tbat li expression, for I don't believe I will n\ ?gr?t these farmers to stop using slat Now, whilst I have au abiding faiih tho intelligent, wide-awska farmer wot jug out hi.* ngricnlturnl salvation; ho i nnd will have many. difficttUice to c< .vit.lt. There aro a great inna? y ! scripta in 'Uris army, home Esquire M J ry weather* left. : Rut let 'ja return tb trapmout lo ila-ugucuU4trc'i'- tho Cm: neal; tlicro improvement hasfSr/oxcei I ed our own. Something: tbsr.dojiVt deratand is tbat bur oldest farms are the moat worthier?, whereas their old farms arc thc most valuable. In England the population is 226 to tho squaro milo, in Holland about SW and in Belgium 030, whereas in South Carolina it is not much over 23 to tbe mile. In Great Britain every fiftwn acres of cultivated land supports about ten people. Now what woud become often persons on fifteen acres bf .average land in South Carolina? Seme years back fifteen to twenty bush els of wheat per aero was uot uncommon in thia country ; then tho average in Europe Was about the same. Now tho Utter averages from thirty to fifty bush els, while ours is reduced to from five to ten bushels. By an intelligent, system atic routine of manuring and cultivation they have been steadily improving, whilst wo hove been steadily going tho other way. An American traveller sneaking of European agriculture, says tue mind pauses in its busy whirl to linger with inexpressible delight on tho smiling beauty of tho gardens of Eurone. In the great plain of Northern Italy six teen nundroo thousand acres' of laoi display the highest stato of cultivation tn which modern ingenuity baa advanced. This vast area presents ono continual sucvession of green pastures, golden rice fields, loaded vineyards, neat cottages and magnificent villas, and tho surface .exhibits a complete net-work of canals and their tributaries, each losing itscll upon the bosom of tho placid Po, whose silvery waters swarm with crafts of cverj description. Tbe snow-capped Alps tc tho north rear their lofty crests in nilen majesty and the mellow sunshino- flasb ing from their dazzling summits dance: in gorgeous splendor, upon the sea b waving green and tho many colored ob jertft below. Tho whole scone seems Uki a lively dream or magnificent paoorarai of Elysium. But a glorious reality i indeed is, whero living men with lovini hearts work with unflinching energy am beauty and elevate life. Ittce, "wheat rye, corn, hemp, flax and vegetables o every kind and the .vine oro. what the; cultivate, not a siug?c thing but wbat ou own little old State will produce. You can pass over to England wh'er on every side you Bee "The lowing herd wind slowly o'er tho lea, and the picturesque dairy farms, in peac and plenty, smiling with satisfaction c tbe inquisitive Btranger. You aro astor Isbcd to find these farms yielding froi four to six hundred pounds of batter an five hundred pounds of cheese yearly t each cow, and that they supply tho larg cities a hundred milc3 away with fres roi.fc morning and cveniog.. In, Scotland you are struck with tb economy of labor everywhere exbibitcc in tho number of steam engines an labor-saving machines, and still moro E with tho nmazing sight of twenty thoi saud sheep grazing on a Bingle farii You next turn to Switzerland, ana afb I rummaging among its mountains we fie nt Hofwyl, the site of the first agrien tural school that the world ever sa\ which for thirty years annually sent oi ono hundred trained agriculturists fro i IB'Waller; and nt ovenrslep, both on tl Continent and in England) we meet wil those institutions, wheib by a bealthf variation of mental and "bodily excrci n lnrge number of boyaare moulded in food and useful citizens. But it ia relam? that the agricultural school sj tem is most perfect. In this email islai there are one hundred, and sixty-six far schools, with attachments of land var ing from ten acres to one hundred ai eighty, forming a gradual 'scent io tl central model farm,or highest Behool Gl&sn?vin, into which only the most ti culed pupils can enter. It ia, indeed Bad contrast, as. wo turu to tho compai lively desolato fields of dear old Sou Carolina.' But as I said before, I belie I seo a better day coming. I know the is life in tbp bid land ye* and with i ber faults we love her still. Bead wb 'ajriowing description. In tho ivett?* a Courier last week from Marlboro'. ? ;! Then, Mr. President, let us bo longer bound down by any particul .system or routine, but as individuals 1 us leam all about our Own business. \ can't go to agricultural schools now, I we can acquaint ourselves with our ag cultural literature by reading and stuc lng our agricultural books and pape And right itero pardon me for sac ing tl nothing staggered my faith; so i bligh! my hopes for tbe future pf Soufti Ca lina agriculture as tho Bbiiiheful. fact our farmers allowing such a magazine tho Bural Carolinian to go down for I want of support. A farhcr in n back neighborhood eastern New "?orkeomo twenty-five ye ago enhanced tho vttluo of his prone by elevating the Blaudnrd of agriculi by the means pf agricultural, periodic! HejjS^hscjribe? for (twenty copied of agricultural paper and had Hiera ihn to as many or his neighbors, select those in whom ho bad most hope, wroto to all, telling whsi hs had dc and saying ho .would'receive nothing tho paper tho first year, nt ihn cud which ff they did not copsidcr it wc the club price they could atop it and /orin bim of their decision. Some them were BO prejudiced tbat they wo not read them, but their children did J told tho parents what they had foil and finally all became interested i every oho subscribed. From the time the journal began tc read improvement in tho general fi practice commenced, improved inj] monta wero obtained, draining and tc lng ia grein crops .was introduced, Eroved fowls, improved cattle, Borksl "_ I- ?-^J-j-^-J ?J.j. -- machine ordered; and so on by degi there wac a general improvement in system of farming, and a corresponc increase in the market value of tho ll This liberal farmer Bold his farm went West, and he said bo was satis that the twenty napers donated five y before he sold his farm enabled hin realise fully $2,000 moro for it thai would have done bad he not given pettis to farm improvement by inda tho farolera torread.. It seems to i remember reading somewhere that w the Romans destroyed Carthage the < thing they considered worth saving twenty-eigbt volumes cn sgricaT' Then again I say let us read our agrl tural literature. We will find them i with interesting subjects. Some of greatest agricultural improvements 1 sen suggested by scientific men only hold viki theories for other me put into practice. I do not say that should blindly follow any partie work, for there are many humbugs often impractical things in our agr tural papers, hut let us take our com tense along with us and wo oro au and some gold in tho heap/- Let tm farewell to our past 'faim er and bl fogy, notions, and by union, OJU&B'U and corabinntioa in our egrloaltnra cietlca, by tbs contact put hy compel at our fairs vie..with each otho? In ; Ecrating'our worn lands, bttantifVitn, ornes, reconstructing our social 1 esta, and thus rea (ita 'Bomethlr.ft o brilliant possibilities of our nobie ing. .:'\\Mr. Past Worthy Maatef, I once dare to hopo and believe, thai Order of tho Patrons of Husbandry going to be bur grist agricultural ssc so to speak; that lt would ba tb? anti doto for many of tho evils under which we are and havcj'bccn laboring, nnd, sir, I believe yet it would have been a great' power to ourselves, of good and uot' pf evil, bad it been kept pure, no unworthy membership sanctioned and no departure from its noble pinciploo and lofty aims been permitted. Many of u& watched ita tremendous mushroom growth with won dering astonishment ; like the great Mis sissippi that has its beginning in so many little streams high up the stria, of tho Rocky Mountains, looking in tho dis tance Uko so-many silver threads as silently they wind their way down lo the valleys bc'.ow, gathering strength as they come, larger and larger until it sweeps n majestic current -s the Gulf below ; co from ton G rangt is formed in tho far Northwest in 18t>8 it onr?ad southward and eastward until in 1876 it numbered 20,000 Granges and l.WO',000 patrons. Well, why to n certain extent bas il failed? lt has never failed ; tho farmers failed, that war, all. It was simply a name for farmers when they came' to Silier to try and .learn something about eir calling and to improve their society, and tboy were not equal to tho occasion that's just all and nothing moro. Ono o tho drawbacks was tho case of those win went into it to make money ns the* thought. With that class when it firs arrived it was very - popular, theo wa no trouble about* getting the oh?-te: members. The tidings went abroa*-.; C yo I here is an order como down from tin for West ; they want you to join ; tho* have got all tho corn, flour and bacon and they want to almost give it to you Como one, como al), and buy wine nm C?l without, money and without price V/-jil, A came up and joined.- He Wa financially, morally and Bocialiy broke he bad failed to pay his honest dobts limo and again he had run off his cottoi when there was a lien upon it; ho ha? his laud so Bottled on his wifo and chil dren that his creditors could not get it his credit v.-"? entirely goncj and he wa in a bad old way, but this Grange wa tho God-Bend ; his troubles would BOO now nil be over ; so ho was put through so he got a certificate from the Graug that ho was in good ?'anding; his due all paid; had it signed by the Mastc and Secretary, and, of course, this woul make his credit all right, and he wonl go to tho store and trade, but when thi merchant rolled up the whites of hi eyes, spit upon the floor and said bo di not Bee what use ho could make of th: collateral, A went out and joined tli cormorants who. silteth on tho gooc boxes at tho street coi ners and damnct the Grange. Others thought that a they lind to do was to join and all thkii would bo well ; nothing more to d Some fc JW, or rather cor ld not exaell tell why, but somebody, way out yonde was going to tend to overythlng. nil yt got to do is to. pay your dues, 10 cents quarter; and yet, if you had asked th man when be bought ? plough or hoe, ho didn't just take it home and throw over tho fence into his field and'go awi and leave, ho would have thought y< considered him a fool. They looked f wr?at H d va uta n'es fro m the Order, b they never seemed to have realized tl fact that they would have to work tl advantages, out for themselves. Nc there was one thing these members d think that they had lo do, and that vi that they had'an eternal war to wage i all merchants, lawyers, in fact all pi fessional men and all railroads; t whole concern were a set of infernal ri cals and to bo exterminated ' root a bronc! whereas the fact was we rial had nu-fight for any ono. If wo w< attending to our own affairs *rc had timo for those other things. Wo want to buy from that merchant, with wbt wo could make thc best terras, and wh you had tho money there wan no ti oui about trading. When it caroo to c staple goods, we could combino our < dera, concentrate our business, and. ev hero at home ive would get thc advt tage of wholesnlo nnd car load rat knock some middle men from taw a cut off Borne commercial oxcrescen .that were feeding too much upon y Ab I said before, we had no war to Iii with any merchant, or anybody eli they had their line of business,' wh was just as essential to society.as on and moro than that, they being entir consumers and help to create the demi for all our produce. But in my humble opinion thc cro\ ing work'of this Ordor was to reform i moral and social evils, and to give u puro, refined and cultivated, soc! among onr country pcoplo ostcould found in our towns and cities. ^ ; know, how it is generally considered t country people are thought to bo a sc clodhoppers, and there is no oho td bli but ourselves. Did not our lato 'leave its heaviest footprints hero? you not find tho tongue of slander ker than n two-edged sword? Does nets ishncss reign oupreme? Is not gol evil caressed, while humble virtue Is observed? There cecine:1, to bc a maula tc pos our people to want to get money any ] or any way. Everybody gazes with miration at the rich, while they t away from virtuous poverty. Let a t mak'e ten thousand dollars, no ma bow, and he is a gentleman; evcryb KOBO, bind ward for him; but bo jj nnd honest and no one knows you. J and women have heard of your na and you may live at their elbow, they oro not very certain .about it, yet if you will show nie the man desires to make every ono around ba] and whoso greatest soliciludo is neve giv? ???irb ?i Ouc?v-J t? ?(W ?iiv, ni will show you a gentleman ny nature practice, though he may saver 1 worn a suit of broadcloth ncr over h of a lexicon, nnd I am proud to cay the honor even of our so-called clod per, that there are tboso nmongst i number in. every throb of whoso 1 there is a solicitude for tho wdfat mankind find whwo overy breath is fumed with kindness. It wa? in Order that the ladies of tho land c and would have a benign influence this was the only ordor of man in n abo was equally received/ and ali noticed it were forced to seo that picaciiv? cut? O?TB? vulgarity and bi guardiom from tito meeting, and i evory atron feel that he was a ] and butter man for. est'i day. spen his Grange, it our futuro farmer the society I ask for him, she ?dl? to bo the mainspring of it all. Of c wo look iip to her ; wo know that she purest, molt unselfish part, of hume thal tho not only sings, tho mi in music but . tho ' melody in bumdn lifo. Acting .and. llvin puro aiid true, li fe, under the i m pi of hjgh motives, if you will bow. no ger to false godv but demand thats snail be a mari V. jfiwe ho shall bo associate do what you eau to catablis ter social Values so' that aman shall for ? man however poor and htimb may .bo,anda bruto obeli pass fojf? however rich and, high. Then ?1} moko high lifo nannie to all, and ; tho low nfc of tho world to do it {io If tho first apaimodio work of thsG ' waa a failure, so to speak, in ma nj ] lion?, tho ?toady reaction <wNP j healthful and it Is doing a gc Ia helping our young farmer very mate rially, and if you bava uo Grange where are your agricultural societies? Should every county, if not every neighbor hood, cave ono? Other classes ot men have their cotton exchanges, grain ex changes, boards of trade, trado unions, and why should yon think, thai you are so clearly designated as the "howers of wood and drawers of water," that you (Var to join an assocUti -u ' which will .avance you iu the three departments of life-inteller' - il, social and business? It is ngalnat y ... interest lo meet once a quarter, or even ouco ayear to comp?re notes and rub your intellects together? Out of so mony some new idea may spring. We are too far advanc ed now to attend auy other school, but we can make this more profitable to us than n collegiate course. Is there any thing wrong in meeting your neigh bor hero, or --wending a pleasant day with bim, if norning more, --'boreas you j have been in tho habit of only meeting liini in thc big road?- 'Tia not one br two great favors itt a- lifo time that makes you a friend, but. the many little every tiny-kindnesses, too small to be mention ed singularly, but which bind you to-, gether as with' hooka of steel. Is lt to ?our disadvantage to-combine and save undreds of dollars in the purchase of your heavy domestic goods, of which you arc large consumers vlf:: your wagons, gunnos, bagging arid ties/ iron and ma chinery? Kid -not tho Iowa State Grar.go purchase tho patent for the V/Arron Harvester, and were ablo to furnish it to their membcra 'for ,$ 140, whereas they had always been paying $300 for the same machine? Brit6vsn? if you don't make anything in the way of money out of your association, if you don't even get back your initiation feb, if you have dorie something for your day rind, generation, you should feel richly rewarned if you shall have made your self and neighbor better men or women. If, Mr. President I had possessed, tho ability to so write thia whole bumble papcr.it would havo been on oiir farm er's domestic lifo'; for. slr, 7 havo tho bolicf that our farmer should havo just as comfortable, lust as convenient and ss handsome a home, and jost aa pretty a wife, if be can get .her, as just Anybody else. Then, BIT, I do want to see cur young farmers do something more tban as (\ farmer reid in. my neighborhood^ Stay at home, make corn, and eat it like another hog. Moke yourself arid influ ence to i be- felt throughout your wholo Bnction. As your part in putting down vice and corruption in tho land aid in toning up the publie conscience ?inlil it willi be - fatal for a man to betray tho fiublic confidence, to call his fellow out nto n field and slay bim, or io steal from tho publie' treasury, instances of which we nave in even this Democratic age of purity and-honesty. Po your part in'putting down'corruption in olflcn and out of it. . Post a guard round tho sanctity of virtue, and crush out. ovcry social evil. Would riot tho conscious ness of performing tmcb' as these bo something of a reward? Would it cot bo something to recuperate and beautify * I-1_"f X.I r?- on. tt.-l . T?" *."- - -"*. .?itv-.-.--"?.-,j - -...?v twenty years from to-day you will not have Bomo upstart of a farmor, like your humblo essayist, up hero before the Darlington Society^ abusing tho past farmer for-mining our. beautiful Sunny South? Georgia Twins. There nro twin brothers Hying :n this county BO nfuch alike that it is hard to distinguish one from tbe other. One of them tells a laughable incident that cc- ! curred when they, fitstbr.me to this part of Gcorgin. They stopped in Cuthbert to mukee*me purchases./ One of them walked into a hardware establishment to buy pots, skillets, and otberutoneils in dispensibiQ in a well-provided kitchen. .Tho articles wero bought, paid for and left in tho care of a clerk until called for. The purchaser.walked out. and in a few minutes his brother went into the. atore to make similar purchases. Tho clerk politely informed bim that ho had just mado a purchase of the articles, and they were then in the store. The second purchaser told bim ho guessed he was mistaken, aa bo bad never been in tho store before. The clerk was. astonished. Ho looked at him'i'n'amazement ; but tho brother was in sober earnest, and re peated that it was bia first Visit to the store. .Seeing,that it was perfectly useless lo try to convince his customer that he had been in the alore before, tho clerk dwin dled into silenco and (?old his mao tho. very rame cooking'utensils, the gooda were delivered, and some time after the second brother's exit tho first brother entered the Store- and asked for the goods he had bought. Tbeclerk was confound ed. Stepping from behind tho counter and rolling up his sleeves, ho exclaimed ; "Stranger, I have had enough of your confounded.foolishness,, and I am tired of it. You havo mado fun nt me long ss I intend to put up with it, and now yeo, have got to stop it. You think you are mighty smart, and if you fool with mo two"-. At this critical moment the second brother stopped into the store, and, seeing how matters were, made n hasty explanation, when all three enjoyed n big SvHEcnLESs.-^-Thcro ls a singular case of .ipecchlcMuess near Fort Smith. A married lady of education and rofiOei ment, of excellent family, who has riot Bprken. withiri^fifteen monthr, [Hero is holcT her; longe.] There Ts rio known cause tor her /teasing to speak, at least it is not known to tho public, who sup pose domestic trouble to be the cause. The lady writes to some of her friends and nays sbo ia not dumb, but that tho time has not come for her to-speak. Some snppbso her to bo under a vow not to speak for such a length pf time, etc. O' course the wildcat suppositions are vom? on this mystery. Tis indeed singular that any woman w'th sound mind, as this lady apparently has, should live entirely atone a mite or two from town (from choice), and never speaking to her ncar ?vi fricn?s. oveu when entreated io do cO. . Her. husband is absent from home on bur'neas neatly all tho limo in St, Louis, or travelling for a St. Louis house. Hs is a gentleinan highly respected in this city, and. tho r/.ost indulgent of h'us riauds,. . - A colortjd mao was busily engaged in sawing some wood for ? Galveston gentleman.' Tho "man and brother" had a largo\ ^soriic breastplate on his shirt bosom. ;'Do you courted Masons and white Masons affiliate ?" "Don't fitlyste wuff a cuss." "What's tho ro&Uqr?" "Esnno, boss, hut I's? tried it. Dar is A bnrkcopor in dis town what toted ..dis teak berry. Barn o emblem. I was i n <1 i a . tress; hadn't bad ? dram alt dat morn ing, I cum In and gebe do distress sig nal." . "Did ho respond ?" "Ho didn't respond right He made a motion at the doab wld one bend aftd reached rindor thc Gar. I m:tde the sign once moah and he fPtchcd mn between do shoulders with do bung>-ot?rt<)r, jess as X r-ias gottin' ? ttf da doab?' ''' - ' ? ' THE LAST OF Till? ?$R?%8$. r.ynclicil by VlrcllRtitco gevcu YcariS-twA -? Vlctorcaquo Account ;<>f tito rm*ull, Caytaro and Execution. A correspondent o? tha Chacato, ?ff mes who waa ono of Ibo rattly, ?xplodcs (bc recent story of tho capture of tho Benden by giving on recount of their >xccution by vigilantes, immediately after the dis covery o7 their crime? io 1873. In thc meantime a vlgilauco committee had been formed. Thia move waa taken with ilia greatest secrecy, and nono but trusty men admitted to tho organization. The utmost circumspection was used, for the reason that in a new community, ilk? tula the doubtful assistance of euspicious characters was . a thing to bo dreaded, The vigilantes did not number more than on? hundred men all told, bul thoy meant business, ss tho scaned proved. It wat my good or bad fortuno to be ono of thc elect. . Scouts went out In all directions, and within forty-eight hours cf tho do f?arturo of tho Bcnaora from their cami p titi nest county, the fact was reporte1 t?o us.. ! About forty of us organized into n pur suing porty and started after tho butch ?rs. Once on their trail, we hod no dif cnlty in following lt. Tho murderoui quartet had taken to tho open country west of the river, but w?ro keeping with in convenient distance of'the thick tim ber that grows hi tho x tiley watered b] this stream. The/ were expecting pursuit -and hoped to escapo by losing themselves lu this timber, if it came to the worst As wo proceeded tho trail freshened, ant ore long we came ocrosa the half con 'sumed wagon left by tho Benders in thc! flight', h rom tho dir-ctlon they wer taking, it became evident to tho mind o those acquainted with the country tba they wore pointing for THAT PARADISE OK CTJTTHROATS located near the mouth of tho Bed Fori of the Arkansas. Tho country hereabout is a bleak nnd desolate region, iufeste by horse thieves, half-breed Creeks, Paw ucea and Cherokees. Once there thc knew they would bo safo from pursuit Even the-United States troops have neve been able to .penetrate that tetra incognito It is a eafo retreat for the border romani and ia known to ba euch nil through thl section ol tho country. This haven, fe thc wicked, ls distant about ono bunche and forty miles from tho point where tb . Verdigris Biver enters Indian Territory ! Tho murderers had about forty mites t travel beforo reaching the boundary < tho. territory, and they were probabl twenty miles boyond tho Hue when OUT. ?CGuID CA??HX 5??UT Or THE* Burdened as they wcro with niue cumbrous baggage, they had used over ?ossiblo effort to put ppaco behind then t was about 8 o'cock ou. a hot sultj I May afternoon: that we carno in sight < tho porty. They saw us os 60011 as v como from cover abandoning - every thit they broke for tho forest. They pl ung? into the woods and scattered. We we: close upon their heels, however, nnd thc did not succeed in eluding us long. ? Ti old man and his wife and Koto wcro ui d?r ??rr?-*? In le?? IbsD.su. boor. Jo-i Jr., was moro fortunate than tho otb members of tho tribo, for ho contrived evade us for and hour longer, hut hew: at length run to cover abd forced to su render. EVERY OHE OP TI! RM SHOWED PICH but with tho exception of Kate they i weakened when it came to tho aerate This charming border beauly cmpti every chombor of ber revolver into o faces, but her aim wo - bad and abo d no serious damage beyond maiming c pf our horses and clipping a lock ot bc frow my temple. Tho bullet raised ridge along tho skin, the work- of whi shows to this day. She finally succumb to superior strength, but to thclost mai fained tho samo dare ttevil, reckless c mennor. ] Tbopriaonpre weroaccordingly nrroig ed and ASKED WHAT THEY HAD TO SAY in their defence. Tho old woman s sullen and ugly, but the two men show signs of faltering. Hod they been 1 to themselves, they wouldhovo madof confessions, beyond n doubt. The om bio Koto perceived this, and, thinking wrmld please tho vigilantes Ino much hear confessions, abo fell, to cursing i brother nnd father for their cowardi ? Fouler labguago was.nevcr uttered tb came from the lips bf this fiend. . ! term was too vile lo apply to her relativ They took it sullenly ot first, but BC Eometbiag of tho reckless spirit Irtftti them, arid they too joined in tho tiro The choras.of blasphemy that. went, from that hardened lot ca-.iscd a gt?tdi to run through our porty. With dei staring thom'in tho face, they united cursiug us and lamenting thier inobil to db us harm. Such malignity Ino saw equalled. Even tho old won: clipped in occasionally, and her rippe anco indicated that Bite wholly, appro of Jtho family' demonstration; When charged with the murders I nt their door, the. answer wos ? cu followed by more cur^f.'jind then a * ley, ft fusilado of cursed and rib abuse. Our court went i through r thc'form prescribed and then, pronou eda sentence of death. Tho annour ment was received with leers from hardened criminals, who Sad dctcrn ed to brave it out to Ute last It decided that tho murderers should bo al as it would TAKE TOO MUCH TIME TO HAJ?O Tn The sun was already nearly down, : tba ah odo tua nf annrnt?Mnii ???ght ? deepening. There on tho Borders of forest tho cruel killers were tied to < lings and told to prepare fer death. < ot our number, who had not quito for ten his carly education, undertook toi prayer, but tho lovely Kate spit in his ? while ho was addressing Ino thron? grace, and be quit right In tho mb I of a sentence and drew off in disgust The four . ; DipJtp WITH f*UR8KS Ol* THEIR UP hardened and unrepentant to tho There in that lonely, dismal ?pot, a beyond the confines of civilisation, ' met a righteous retribution, and t souls, black with crJme, were sent to i tho great Judge. Their executioners ti ed them bettor than they treated I innocent victims. They wore k ?uickly and painlessly, not butch ratal ly. To bo sure, not mnch timo waa wc ia burial, but it was growing late, th? vigilantes hod a long vit them. A hole, mado by .the dlspl tuent of the roots of a fallen cotton* was made ft little larger and deeper, THE. BODIES THnOVS^uVvi; and hastily covered with loose ei rocks;, ana. brushwood. Thia was ibero WAS lo tho .funeral , YOn rcacjiit?g the Isvcl ?gain tho el of tho Boudera wore stacked and bc ?a an offering to heaven, i Wo then fwd rd northward wparatlng before r< jag tho eotU.ernvOta, caen aecklnj h?mo quietly..' There lias no blow ; about our achievement*, each mud lng his own counsel. ' Tho secret w?u kept, and it waa weeks before outs stopped prowling around ra Bearch < T !. * 1 nr.--. ? ? : ''.' ?..! . '1' '! " -? Benders. Thone immediately concerned ycry speedily lost interest in tho chase, . ho' T.vcr, and though nothing was said on thc subject, lt came to bo tacitly un fls?ift?ud through Labctte and Moutgoia , cry counilc& thatH would bo a waste of time to proaticul? inquiry further. This ia the ihiebf^v of the fato ol tho Bendcrf, Andi Mfa, In the future, you bear of die aprehensi?n cf aoy'of thc irilw, you ruo put it down as a,canard TJIK GROWTH OF TilE^O^P^ Kollih'.K Kl Ul rr BemOiknulc or IM?afU ' ral; :,: WASHINGTON, August 14.1 The most uotable development of th< Bast week has been the outbreak of th? ??publican organs with charges of who!.'1 Kale frauds in the census returns, in tm from tho South. Their .disappoint ment at tho showing is very great For? years they have been predicting that thc cenaua of 18?0 would ?abo* but little growth in the South as agains largo gralus in the North, mid that th< Congressional apportionment hosed upo; it would consequently greatly dimluis. tho strength of the forcer, section, bot] ib the lower branch of Ciongrjees'nd iu tb ?lectoral College. Disgusted nt the dis covory that the growth of population, ha been about as rapid at theSouth as in th North, they insist that there is Bomethin wrong nbout the figures, and ?labor?t articles are constructed to show thatcher must lure been gross frauds. Fortunate ly f-.ir the country Ute Superintendent c tho census, OB?, FEANCIS ?. WALKB3, , ia not tho cort of man who will lend bi aid to any attempt at making party ear. ital out of a great national work/ A It< publican in politics, ho ia entirely iud) pendent, and his first aim in taking th eensuB ja to. ?ct full and accurate return not to make & good showing for tho pari to which be belongs, and the section < tho country where ills' homo1 happens 1 be. He has already thrown cold wat? upon tho Republican organs by dcclarin that he. bas thus Tar found no reason I supposo that tho census has not bet honestly taken .'n tho South; and by rh {culing tho idea that- wholesale fraui , bav? been perpetrated,- Tho papera whit mako these charges seem to havo entir ly forgotten the fact that much tho larg Eronortion of the supervisors ir tl; oath are active Republicans, aud tb if there baa been conspiracy to swell tl returns throughout that section, man pror":ent Republicana u?ust havo bet privj"'it. They overlook also tho o viouB Consideration thatsuoh frauds cou not possibly be perpetrated and esca] detection. Each enumerator had but small territory, and if tho r?turno fro: any county should appear suspicious, special agent provided with duplicates tno returnc could easily discover whet er hames had been fraudulently added the list. INTENSIVE FBAL'^S, such as are now charged, would invol the complicity of hundreds of minor ot 5?SJS? SS rfcU BS ihc zupervissr. ; x, penalty for tempering; wita tho retur ts imprisonment in tue: penitentiary f as long n term na two years and it appe; utterly unreasonable t&eupposb that hu drees of men have deliberately ruu t risk of Ruch punishment.. For these r? sous'Jen, Walker takes no stock in t current charges of fri ad j THE OBOWTIl OF THE SOUTH. There is really nothing, BO, raioarkn! in the fact that the South bas grown rapidly ns the North during tho past < eade. There is an old and homely pr* orb which recites that, you cannot i ?our cake and keep it. A. great ma Ibrthern people seem to havo forgoti this fact. For years they h?vb bi complacently regarding ! the rr.pid crease of population Li tho far Weat a tho Northwest, and figuring out the ga which the north, os a section, would j rive from the growth Of Kansas^ Neb? ka, Minnesota and other States in t region. They havo not reflected t the great bulk cf this increase has bi drawn from New England, th?- Mid States mid even tho nearer cf tho W< ern States, Uko Ohio, Indiana and 1 noise, and that tho North asa section not gained by thia tra?tuar of pet from cast of the Mississippi River to west of that stream. Tho older BU could not eulTcr this drain without -f ing the effect, and the returns show'! some of thom, like Maine. New Hal shire and Vermont, have remained most stationery during tho past ton ye while oven New York sud Fennsylvc have not made gains, and sumo aiati of tho nearer Western States hnvo loa much by emigration still farther .V that they C-outnIn fewer people new t in 1870. It is true'that tho ^Norih gained much moro than the South 'inmigration from abroad, but in cou erins tho enormous proportions wi th?B Immigration baa reached in the f?w ??cn tbs peeble forget that it drcj off in tho years of depression which lowed tho panic of 1873 to less than its former proportions, and in 1877 fallen SB low as ouly 138,469 eouls. other thing which Northern pcoplo fe is tho fact that the natural in cr?ai population ia larger in tho South thc their own section. THE NEGE0E8 aro proverbial for. fecundity, and ar the whites large families are much o er found than in t'le NoTth. The fi numhorof children in tho Eastern fan has attracted tho al?intian nf all et* ciacs and good ministers in Now En{ have beon known to preeoh to their pregations upon their neglect to fulfi Divine command "to replenish thees Thediffercnce In . thia respect bet tho North and tho South is eo mc that it cannot fail to attract tbotrave attention, and this isa mo?t vital eic in the problem. Moreover, this rel advantage on tho sido of Ino Soutl been even greater than usual durinf past decade. Tho North suffered i moro than the South from the pani the hard times which followed lt. 'extensive interruption cf manufacti the general upsetting io business and tho depression caused thereby felt much moro keenly in tho upper in the bwer half of tba country.' .population of the South, nspporh most cutircly by agricultural ir.dust. ?ol oxperieneo the difficulty in obti : even A hare subsistence which befell "clauses In tho North. Now, no f moro coticlosissly proved by sta ihnn-th>>t hard times greatly dimin THE S?ltr.E?l ps 5?AUMAOE and materially reduce tho birll Not only, therefore, is the natur , crease .among a million people r a?*'.v ;?-.; At;j ihaulhe'eanie humber North in ordinary.times hut tbs pondcrenee-on tkbp'artot the Sou even been even greater than usual <! ? this last decade,- ' It must bk? k mind, also, ibat ; while thcto hr, next to no emigration from thooto tho North ?ioe? 1870, there .hc^ i 'largo movement of p?pui**i>ri tho way. Nbfca Seutboru Slate Tint ? ceived many Northern colonies, i several the galos from ?bis bowra foen very large,; I THEELEMENTS OP THEPROBLEM. It is obvious, rVetefove, that there is' noibingsuaniclous in tho,'showing, mode by tho SOu'h. The eleinenUi of the prob lem are very pimple. In 1370 tho form er s?avo States' contained about fourteen ' milllona'ofpeople, and-tho North about twenty-four. I%ree millions is an esti mate of tho number of immigrants from abroad din ing tho decade. If tho South I had received r. third of flits number tta''?;-?*^l j Increase from {bia toured woidd bo about .. i ^t?tat as tho other; two raillions would produce? . among tho . alqioat t'wico ai"7. V.'' [argepopi?aUcn.o_ftho North. ThaSouth . ?as not rccoiyofl; feny wh^re ncitrn third, but the deficit h?s Iferg?W b?on marje hp by emigration ii? . Sorib. ' Tho ' growth of ten or e:Jven tatt?lon& in Ibo countryVpopul?tion'come ch lesly, from the natural fncreo?o ' of thirty-eight m?? lions who were in it ten years ago, and ' when i'. lu considered that ibis natural increase ?3 always faster is who South than ',n the North, and has been relative-, ly e'en fasto? than Usual in thci ia?,t ton y cs .??, any reasonable man would oxpect . t to uuu thpfc thia gain' counterbalanced tue advantage which tbs North.obtained from larger foreige. immigration,'cud' that tho population of tho two ; had grown in aboot thc H??J?C proportion. . And this ls just what the figures r.l '. I find that I have neglected to Uon ono important circarttitanco after all. That is tho fast which 1? now no torious and confessed, that the census of , 1870 was untrustworthy as regnrds tho South. The wort.was'undcr tho charge of United States marshal?, who employed their deputies as enumerators, men often Ignorant, careless and utterly unfit for so delicato a&d - responsible ar duty. This yea? ono hundred and fifty snoerviaors v.cro appointed throughout the country, men representing botli political pal ties nomiuated by a RepuHeao President and only confirmed after careful ezr-nination by a Democratic Senate. The supervi sors for'each Slnte varies with it oiio. Tho supervisor B?lects tho enumerators Sad I ti a agreed that a very good class mon bas been selected.' Each eoum tor lind n comparatively email dtstric. to over and ho ia held to th?, stric test reeponniblly for it. Under thia ?yetem an, nccurnte aceouui? ls insoredi , ?hero ton years ago a very, careless' ondi-v as made, which undoubtedly failed to credit tho'South..rdth as many ini tents as ' it Actually contained.' ( Walket is extremely well satfaficd with the appearance of tito returns from all Sorta of the country, and is confident [ist t??s prsTC??t vv???u? will on rar ntipe rl?r tb any previous one. THF "4O8T blB?OURAa?KG FEA I of tho wbolb census discussion io tho scarcely: disguised dlanpp??ntmeiit and disgutt of tho Republican organs at tho proofs of tho South's prosperity. For years they have been iusisting that slavery waa always.' a' great drawback to that'seotion, and that under free labor it ives certain to grow rapidly, in wealth and population.*-. The. census hus now been taken for tba^ first full ;dccadc:oi\. ircCvisrr?, ar?C s??On'i- ???? -f/foin: growth. Yet the Republican Organs stead of rejoicing at this verification.of their fheory, waxloud.ln.lhch'--indigna* . lion, and declaro that tho South camiot possibly bavo grown na they have proving oil along that it mt changed labor conditions. Nothi been seen- in partisan joitrnaliuui moro thoroughly discreditable aod^ropugnant io every partrlotio sentiment than tlvo touo of tho leading Republican organs in discussing tho growth and prespcri tho South. It ia o strange idea of A can citizenship which moko aman i nant.at the discovery that one-half u country hos been growing os last 'a* tho other half, and that tho future prom! equal prosperity ..to nlViections. People wno wonder, that tho South .is sol;d for . the Democratic party might belter try to answer tho inquiry why it ihould sup- . port-Ibo Republican party when th party is found -busing* it for its very P ros p?n tj, Tho S?nth and t??? ?iii?a??i WASHINGTON August U.t TU^s are uasaistaksbro slgu? thai Um Rad?ftfll jftadora intng^ fctv i?j gsd-fc?CC S - i new enumeration of tho cens?a tu several I of the Southern States under tai plea that gross frauds "or irregularities" hove boen practiced. In expectation that thc South would show a considerable increase: ovor tho census of ton years ago, tho Re publicans many month? before the census euporvisora were appointed storied tho cry. that there, was a conspiracy on foot ..among, tho Democrats to secure lergcr i representation under the new apportion? mont tbati they wera justly entitled to by meoiis of ? fraudulent rmuraoratlou. ?Now that the return? of tho centaw South aie coming in freely and showing ?ery heivy ineriaso in many localities tho Ko- * publicans renew their cries bf fraud., and. I demand that a new enumeration shali b^ taken. A prominent officeholder said to-day that he was id vised that thor, ident was con vi need, that some of the Southern States aro not entitled to tho largo increase shown by. tho present ccu sus, and that etepa truant to bo taken to rectify tho matter. This'-'wealdseem ?a a willing instrument in tno hands of rte-; publican leodora to dispute tho returns sent here. Of1 course nothing c j done at present, but the complete retorna will , hove to ba examined ot thc cen bureau before any definite potion can t?k?? iii tho k.-iwUci. !?. :? W??iy S*- poso bf tho Republicans to try aud eprivo tho South of tho heavy goons m her population, but there ia not tho: slightest; doubt that they will Bigtially fail to accomplish their ends.-S^cml to Baltimore Sun. - ^. 00R2D OP DRii?K.iKa.--"A . young i friend of mino was cured of an inaatlaWo thirst for liquor, which had so proatrattd him that ho waa unable to-do anvbual K-Sas. Ho Was entirely cured by the use of Hop Bitters, lt oilayoa ell that burning thirst; took away the o?p??lf for liquor; made his aerves rt<*dy, and ho hos remained a sober ?sod etcady man for more than two ycart, and hos no desire to return to his cups ; I know of A number of others that havo bceu cured of drinking hy it."-Froni o leading ?t. R. Official, Chicago^ Ill. -r-jf?Rtv, - An English firm sold 8,000 fire proof safes In Tcrkoy. before it T/OA .v ccrtolned that the filling was only sar dust. - It ls thought that Ireland .will Jj rapidly dcpopnhMed by etrngrat'." \t*a than 100,000 young ?xpeae? tofarrlvo in America tno ? Westward before the nest - A colored proschtfr ot ^f.^.^rzw,^ RalaW. When bia membera hara ?0? tu took ( and j endo corop