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BY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON. S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 9, 1881 VOLUME XVI ? NO. 48. A Wo?derful Story of a Wonderful Mau. For>dayor two past, in fact since Wednesday afternoon, there has been stopping at the Grand Windsor hotel I a-reurarkable man. . There, is nothing particokr striking or that is very pecu? liar either.in his appearance or manner; Jet no one sees- him without lookng at im a second time and being directly im* pressed with the idea that there is some thing mysterious about him. He is well j dressed, though in a fashion somewhat] quaint, and he is as pleasant, as polite and as jovial as a gentleman could well ( be. He is not obtrusive, neither is he I retiring or un?uly reticent. He is well j informed on all subjects but the current events of the past years in our country, j but of quick intelligence, ho has managed to pick up a smattering knowledge of j even these. What first interested our j ? reporter in him, although he had looked at him time and again, and though there was something strrsge about the man, was a remark he made yesterday! that he had not heard of the. civil war between the. States until that morning, This was rather a starter. The man showed no symptoms of insanity, and I was a long way from being an idiot; he j . has ample, funds ana loves a toddy, as well as.the next one, and is lavish in or? dering them. To make a long story short as the gentleman made himself so pleas? ant our reporter determined to interview him and find oat if possible who he was and what he bad to say for himself, if anything. When approached on the subject, he smiled sadly and a far away look entered his eyes and be stopped as if in reverie. After a few mo? ments he said: "Well, I might as well tell you my story as not. It is a strange and interesting one ; so strange, so mar-1 velous that I doubt if any scarcely will believe it. I shall only give you a brief outline, for I-bavy got all my adventures, a perfect diary oi* every event of ray life for the past twenty years nearly, since the first of October, 1860, and will publish them as _-soon as 1 reach New York, where my friends and family live, who, while they cannot vouch of their own knowledge for the history of my life since I saw them, can vouch for enough to make my story believed." Here be be? came silent for a few moments, anc seem? ingly lost in thought, bat arousing hinsei/, he said: "It is meet aud proper . I think that I should make at least a par? tial statement of who and what I am and whence I came here in Dallas, as Dallas county is the first point on outer crust of the earth that I have seen or visited since the fall of 1860, over twenty years ago.'? This was a starter, and our reporter opened his eyes a little and looked around . to- see if there was a good way of retreat -incase the lunatic should become violent. Bat summoning up a courage he ventured to the questions: "What do you mean ? I don't understand you. Do you mean to say that you have been off the earth for twenty #ears?" "I see you are incredulous," thestranger replied, "but you need not be wonder stricken. It is not an impossible or un? reasonable story that I will tell you, when I tell.it all, but the people, in their 3 'ignorance of the real facts, will think I am a crazy enthusiast, a luny scientist, but they are mistaken and they will know it ere long. I mean to say that I have j not been on the surface of the earth for j a little, overlwenty years. I have not! been out in space, in the spirit world, up among the stars, or anything of the kind, bat simply ip the bowels of the earth, and . what I aay to yon now, and for publica? tion in the Herald in the morning, is a voice from m id-earth, is the solemn truth and the enlightened masses of the world will know it inside of a year. But let me tell you my story. My name is William'B. A mad ell, and I am a native of New York city. When a boy I had a great fancy to go sea, and secured a position as cabin boy on a Liver? pool vessel. I worked my way up from position to position, until 1860, at the age of forty 1 was as good a. seaman as ever walked the quarter deck of any ship. 1 I had served in several subordinate posi? tions in the merchant marine up to the place of first mate of a Liverpool mail steamer. In 1860, you know Capt. - Charles Frances Hall started on an ex? pedition in search of the remains of Sir John Franklin. He obtained passage cm a whaler commanded by Capt. Bud dington, and I went with him. The whaler, after we reached the artic region, became blocked up in the ice, and Cant. Hall and I went off to live with the Esquimaux. Capt. Hall remained with these kindly people two years, and we went on many exploring expeditions. On one of these I was lost, and after a long search in vain, Hall and his Esqui? maux guide gave me up fur los? for good, . aad returned to bis headquarters. From the day I last saw Capt. Hall and his Esquimaux friends in October, 1860, until Wednesday last, the 80th of March, 1881, I did not lay my eyes on the face of any inhabitant of the outer surface of the earth. The day I was lost I pursued a white bear far out on a floe of ice, and a section, of . which suddenly became de* tached, I floated out on it in a strong cur? rent directly to the Northward. On and on my floe went at an increasing rate of speed:, until, after what I supposed to be eight or ten hours, it seemed to me as though I was going down an inclined plane, and I knew that I was going at a fearful rate of speed. After a few hours I looked up and could see the North star above me and all the stars in the clouds, but they seemed to be so far away and there appeared around and about me a wall of waters as though I was in a vor? tex, but of immense, incalculable di? ameter. Directly it began to grow warm? er and my ice floor began to melt. The speed at which I was traveling grew 'slower and slower, too, until in a little while I saw a beautiful land before me, the trees all green, and every evidence of civilization arounJ, for there were neat houses in sight and growing fields, but the strangest looking people I ever saw. Boon'my floe struck the shore, only about half the size it was when we started, and I went out on the land. The people greeted me kindly and by signs snowed me that they were glad to meet me. In a little while I met several people like myself, from the outer world, and from them I learned that I was inside the earth, which was inhabited with a people just as learned, just as civilized and just as progressive as the people on the outside. They have schools, colleges, the Christian religion and churches, marrying and giv? ing in marriage, but they b ve none of the vices of the outer world. There is no swearing, no liquor or wine to drink if they wanted; no impurity of any kind ,* . no politics, no corruption. The people . live like brothers and sisters, and cbere is no want, no suffering, no sickness, and death comes only to the ex* trejoely. aged, in whom the fires of life have burned out by degrees and naturally. ' Thenatural products of this country are very similar to those of ours. Tbey have gold and silver and iron mines, cotton and woolen manufacturies?in fact, all the industries that we have, are just like we are in all repects, except they are purer, truer, holier, honester. They have no courts, no prisoners, no lawyers nor doc? tors. -Their government is a patriarchal sort of republic?well, more like the family government of a good father and mother over their children. All this no doubt nounds foolish to you, and will to your readers, but just as sure as the sun shines and the stars glow of nights, every word I utter is true. . The Newtonian theory in regard to the construction of the earth is l&lse, and this theory being the accepted one on earth, people will be loth to believe my words, but they will be enlightened shortly. The fact is John Cleeves Symmes, an American who died in Butler county, Ohio, iu 1829, at the age of 59 years, advanced the correct the? ory as to the earth's construction. He said it was hollow, and that there were openings at the North and South poles. This is true, though these openings are not quite so large as he estimated, that at the South pole being only about l/?00 miles and that at the North pole about the same. The people of China know this theory to be correct and carry on an immense trade with the people of mid-earth.- If it was not for the supplies the Chinese draw from these people, with their overwhelming population, they would starve. The people from the out? er surfaco of the earth I met in the inte? rior wer'' whalers, whose vessels were supposed to have been lost, but which in reality got into the current setting to the seas in the bowels of the earth, /and thus reached the happy shores where they now are. It may seem strange to you how I got here and I will tell you. I saw a mountain which I desired to explore. I bad already traveled all over the country, and when I started on this last. tour of adventure I was not exceeding two thou? sand miles from Dallas. I kept on my upward journey seeking tho top of the mountain, as I supposed it was. For weeks and weeks I journeyed upward, uever dreaming what the result was to be until finally Wednesday I emerged from the bowels of the earth through an open? ing in the left bank, of the Trinity river, about three miles from the city. The people who know of this opening, if any, of course think it a cave, and it is, but an enormous one, and if they will go on to its bottom .they will find a glorious country where people do not die until they are two or three hundred years old, and where no happiness out side of heaven is greater or sweeter. I knew at once I was on the outer surface of the earth, and my heart thrilled with joy, for I want to see my good old mother if she still be living and all my rel? ative and friends who may not have crossed over to the other aide of the river. I shall return before many months aud will take all my living relatives and w?at friends I can with me. I think I shall make the attempt to establish railroad and telegraph communication between the outside and inside, for commerce between the two regions would soon be immense. Aquitelius is the principal city ofthat country, and has 2,000,000 in? habitants doing an overwhelming trade. As it happened, I had about $l/'00 in gold dust on my person when I reached your city Wednesday, which Adams & Leonard very kindly gave me Ihe cur? rency for, and I have some diamonds worth fully fifteen thousand dollars, so I don't expect to be short of funds while I am on earth. I shall remain in Callas at feast a week longer, and will be very glad indeed to see any of the citizens who may do me the honor to call upon nie, and will take pleasure in telling them all I know of the new land. I would deliver a lecture if I had time, but I want to buy the land on which my cave is situa? ted, as a base of operations for my tele? graph and railroad schemes." Our re Eorter looked at the man aghast, but he as evidence of the truth of .his words, in strange flowers, metals, stones, md small bits of wood, We trust our citizens will call upon Mr. Amsdell, and would respectfully suggest to the beard of trade to get him to deliver a lecture. The gentleman can be seen almost any time sitting by the stove in the rotunda oftbeLeGrand, seemingly in a meditative mood, when be is not in conversation with some one. He is about nix feet high and heavily built, with iron gray bair, mustache and whiskers, and deep flashing blue eyes, that look at you with a keen, penetrative glance. He will be glad to see any one who will call for him and will entertain them- right royally.? Dallas {Texas) Herald. The Age of the Earth. ?The age of the earth is placed by some at five hun? dred million years; by others one hun? dred million years, and still others of later time, among them the Duke of Argyll, place it at ten million years. None place it lower than ten millions, know? ing what processes have been gone througb. Other planets go through the same process. The reason that other planets differ so much from the earth is that they are in a so much earlier or later stage of existence. The earth must be? come old. Newton surmised, although he could give no reason for it, that the earth would at one time lose all its water and become perfectly dry. Since then it has been found that Newton was correct. As the earth keeps cooling it will become porous, and great cavities will be formed in the interior, which will take in the water. It is estimated that this process is now in progress; so far the water di? minishes at about the rate of the thick? ness of a sheet of writing paper each year. At thin rate in 6,000,000 years the water will bave sunk a mile, in 15,000, 000 every trace of water will have disap? peared from the face of the globe. The nitrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere are also diminishing all the time. It is an inappreciable degree, but the time will come when the air will be so thin that no creatures we know could breathe it and live; the time will come when the world cannot support life. That will be the period of old age, and then will come death.?Prof. R. C. Proctor. Judge Matthews on the Bench. ?The Cincinnati Times-Star giveB a full account of the first appearance of Mr. Justice Stanley Matthews upon the bencb, which took place in that city Tuesday. The bar was represented by many leading members. Outside the railing the seats and standing room were crowded with distinguished citizens and others, drawn thither either by curiosity or friendship for the new Judge. Jus? tice Matthews made the following neat address after the court had been formally opened: "Gentlemen, it is to me es? pecially gratifying to begin my first offi? cial duties on the bench here in this cir cuit. I am, as you are aware, appointed to fill a vacancy caused by the resigna? tion of the distinguished and eminent Judge and gentleman who presided in this circuit. It is equally gratifying to perform my first judicial action in my native city, among the members of the bar where I have been raised and edu? cated, and where"?and here he paused a moment as if to suppress a feeliug of emotion?"I am best known. I am now," added he, "ready to hear any canes that the parties interested may be anxious to have disposed of, and where both sides are ready to enter upon. I shall not press to trial any others, but desire to announce my willingness to hear such as are awaiting and anxious for a hearing." The Revised >Tcw Testament and, the j Doctrine of Hell. If a translation can at all convey to i the English reader's mind the exact meaning of the New Testament writers, it is probable that the Revised Version just published is the one. The large number of religious denom? inations represented in the Committee on Revision, including the clergymen of the Church of England, Protestant Epis? copalians, Methodists, Baptists, Inde Sendents, Wealeyans, Presbyterians of cotland and America, Lutherans, Friends and Unitarians, readers any sec? tarian bias impossible. This version is the result of. the. com? bined judgment of fifty men.of;England and America. The revisers are cele? brated for their greaI: abilities, vast and accurate scholarship, integrity,, indepen? dent thought and piety. They have spent.teu years iu the work, and have received the^guggeationa of hundreds of scholars. Their conclusions have been reached with a.unanimity that is almost complete. In view of nil these considerations it must be said that what confidence we can not repose* in the fidelity of the present version we should have to deny to any which could be made. Much interest has been felt in possible changes of rendering which might affect doctrines long held by Christendom. For various reasons the chief solicitude has been concerning the doctrine of future punishment. The report general? ly circulated, though as now seen, with? out foundation, that the word "hell" would not appear in the revision,, in? creased among all classes the interest felt in the future status of that doctrine. Of course the better informed knew that if the word "hell" were stricken out, any other word put in its place would take the same meaning, unless the context were changed accordingly. This was hardly to be expected by any, while those who could read the Greek for them? selves knew it would be impossible if the translation was to be accurate. It is not our purpose to prove or dis? prove the doctrine of future punishment from the Revised Version ; but to com? pare the teachings of the Revised Ver? sion and the Authorized Version upon this point. The word "hell," if we may trust Cruden's Concordance, occurs just twen? ty-one times in the Authorized Version of the New Testament In the Revised Version the word "hades" is used in place of "hell" ten times, the word "hell" appearing in the other eleven places. But it is a noticeable circum? stance that "hell" is retained in every place that has been depended upon as a proof of future punishment, with one exception. A comparison of the proof-texts for future punishment as found in both versions will show whether that doctrine has been strengthened, weakened, or left in statu quo by the revision. Iu Matt. 10:28, the passage "Fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell," is the same in both ver? sions. The Authorized Version of Mark 9:43 reads, "into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched." The Revised Version of the same place is "into hell, into the unquenchable fire." If there is any difference the expression "unquenchable fire" is stronger than "fire that never ?hall be quenched." The forty-eighth verse of the same chapter is alike in both versions, and reads: "Where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched." In the Au? thorized Version this language form v. 44 and 46, both of which are omitted in the Revised Version. Also the words "into the fire that never shall be quenched," last clause of v. 45 of Mark 9, Authorized Version, are omitted in the Revised Version. But every ex? pression found in the Authorized Ver? sion is also found in the Revised. Version, (except the one which is strengthened iu meaning, v. 43), though not bo frequent? ly. So that taking the passage Mark 9:43-48, the doctrine of future punish? ment is strengthened rather than weak? ened by the Revised Version. It was stated that all the passages upon which the proof of the doctrine of future punishment depended translated "hell" in the Authorized Version were with one exception translated the same way in the Revised Version. We will now look at that exception. It is the celebrated par? able of the Rich Man and Lazarus, Luke 16:19-31. For "hell" in the Authorized Version we read throughout "Hades" fin the Revised Version. In v. 23, Authorized Version, "in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments;" Revised Version, "in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments." Since he is "in torments," according to both ver? sions, the failure of the revisers to trans? late the Greek word "Hades" into the Anglo-Saxon "Hell" will not bo con? sidered as weakening the sense. Authorized Version, v. 24, reads, "I am tormented in this flame." Revised Version reads, "I am in anguish in this flame," a more vivid expression than "tormented." Again, v. 24, Authorized Version, reads, "He is comforted and thou art tormented." The Revised Ver? sion has "He is comforted and thou art in anguish." Torment has its degrees, but, as Crabbe says, "Anguish isan over? whelming pain." Verse 28, of this chap? ter, speaks of "this place of torment" in both versions. Then those texts which have been thought inexplicable except upon the supposition that unbelievers are in im? minent peril, remain tbe same or are strengthened. John 3:16 is one of these and reads thus: "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son that whosoever believeth in (Revised Version on) Him shall not perish, but have ever? lasting (Revised Version eternal) life." With regard to the duration of future punishment no change is made, except to render the question more unequivocal. The great gulf mentioned by Christ in the parable of the Rich Man and Laza? rus is the same impassable gulf in both versions. Matt. 25:41, Authorized Version, read3, "Then shall He say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." The Revised Version is the same, except the words "into the eternal fire which is prepared," etc. And in the margin it reads, "De? part from me under a curse," a marginal rendering not found in tbe Authorized Version. In the forty-sixth verse of the same chapter, tho Authorized Version has "And these shall go away into everlast? ing (Greek aionion) punishment; but tbe righteous into life eternal (Greek aionion). Tbe Revised Version trans? lates "aionion" aUke in both cases, and reads: "And these shall go away into eternal punishment; but the righteous into eternal life." This translation is much less ambiguous to an English reader. The words "damnation" and "damned" do not occur in any place in the Revised Version, where they occur in the Au? thorized Version; but in their stead "condemnation," "destruction," "judg? ment" and "judged." But these words j have never been depended upon as sub j stantiating the doctrine of future pun? ishment; nor have they been intelli? gently used as Scriptural, but as theolog? ical, descriptions of that punishment? in which sense they may continue to be used. Proof texts from the writings of Paul remain substantially the same. In Eomans 2:5-6 we still read, "After thy hardness and impenitent heart treasures't up unto (Revised Version for) thyself wrath against (Revised Version in) the day of wrath and revelation of the right? eous judgment of God; who will render to every man according to his deeds (Revined"Version works)." Verses 8 and 9, "Unto them that are contentious (Re? vised'Version factious) and do not obey (Revised Version and obey not) the truth, but obey unrighteousness, (Revised Version here inserts shall be) iudignation and wrath, (Revised Version wrath and and indignation), tribulation and an? guish, upon every soul of man that doeth (Revised Version worketh) evil, of the Jew first," etc. II. Thess. 1:9, Author? ized Version, is, "Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord." The Revised Veraion read?, "Who shall suffer punish? ment, even eternal destruction from the face of the Lord." Hebrews 10:27, Authorized Version, has "a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation which shall devour the adversaries." The Re? vised Version has "a certain fearful ex? pectation of judgment and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries." Verse 29, of the same chapter, appears thus in the two versions : "Of how much sorer punishment suppose (Revised Ver? sion think) ye, shall be be thought (Re? vised Version judged) worthy, who hath," etc. Verse 30, representing God as saying, "Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense," is the same in both versions, as also is verse 31, as fol? lows: "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God." Whether these passages have been rightly interpreted as teaching eternal future punishment, we do not pretend to say. But it is evident that they have lost none of their force by the present revision, and some of them are not only clearer, they are also stronger than before.?Cincinnati Weekly Times. How a Oimtermnster Saved Lee's Army. Capt. R. E. B. Hewetson, foraerly a res? ident of Columbia, died last week in Charleston. Though a native of Ireland, and the son of a British officer, Capt. Hewetson was one of the first volunteers in the late war, and went with Gregg's Regiment to "Virginia, and par? ticipated in thirty battles without receiv? ing a wound. At the second battle of Manassas he commanded his company with conspicuous skill and daring, and was afterwards commissioned as Quarter? master of the regiment. Later in the war he was, for a considerable time, ac? ting Quartermaster of the brigade. It was while he was Regimental Qaur termaster that Capt. Hewetson, with the inspiration of the born commander, or? ganized a small force which repulsed the enemy and saved G^n. Lee's army. The circumstances are these: Capt. Hewetson was at Williamsport, immediately after the defeat of the Confederates at Gettys? burg. The Potomac was too high for fording, and the reliance of Gen. Lee was on the pontoon bridges. As soon as the Confederate fell back at Gettysburg, a strong body of Federal cavalry was pushed forward towards Williamsport, where there was believed to be uo con? siderable number of Confederate troops. In truth ~there were no soldiers there ex? cept some stragglers, and the sick and wounded with the wagon trains. There seemed to be nothing to prevent the ene? my from occupying Williamsport, des? troying the bridges and barring absolute? ly Gen. Lee's retreat. Seeing the dan? ger, Capt. Hewetson gathered together teamsters of tue army, armed them with muskets found in the wagons, and with this impromptu force, aided by a hand? ful of enfeebled and maimed soldiers, checked the enemy's advance, and gave Bujjprd's cavalry so warm a reception that the Confederates were supposed to be in full strength and the advance was aban? doned. The Battle of the Teamsters, as it was called, was the salvation of the shattered and worn Army of Northern Virginia, and of that battle, so momen? tous and so little known, Capt. Hewetson was the hero. Few old soldiers even, outside of the circle of his immediate comrades and acquaintances, knew that the modest and retiring Capt. Hewetson was the central figure in one of the most dramatic incidents of the war. Cau anybody tell why, when Eve was manufactured from one of Adam's ribs, a hired girl wasn't made at the time to wait on her? We can easily ! Because Adam never came whining to Eve with a ragged stocking to be darned, a collar string to be sewed on, a glove to be mended, "right away, quick now I" Because he never read the newspaper until the sun got down bebind tbe palm tree, and then stretched himself, yawning out, "Ain't supper most ready, my dear ?" He made tbe fire and hung over the tea kettle himself, we'll venture, and pulled the radishes, and peeled the bananas and did everything else that he ought to! He milked the cow and fed tbe chickens, and brought home balf a dozen to dinner, when Eve hadn't any fresh pomegranates and tbe mango season was over! He never stayed out until 11 o'clock to a "ward meeting," hurrahing for the candidate, and then scolding because poor dear Eve was sitting up and crying inside the gates. To be sure be acted rather cowardly about apple-gathering time, but then that don't depreciate his fetteral helpfulness about the garden! le never played billiards, nor drove fast horses, nor even choked Eve with acir^ur smoke. Ho never loafed around corner grocer? ies while solitary Eve was rocking little Cain's cradle at home. In short, he didn't think she was spec? ially created for the purpose of waiting on him, and wasn't under the impression that it disgraced a man to lighten his wife's cares a little. That's the reason that Eve did not need a hired girl, and we wish it was the rea? son that none of her fair descendants did? Jacksonville, Fla., is a very pretty place, and has many very handsome houses in it, and a number of very large hotels. Tho hotels are only opened in the winter, and then they are filled to their uttermost with travelers seeking a mild climate. The streets are well shaded with long rows of live oaks, which almost eutirely shut out the raya of the sun, thus making it pleasant even in the warmest weather. The streets are in a poor condition for carriage driving. I Upon most of them the sand is not less than a foot deep, thus making them very dusty and hard for a team to travel fast upon. The Reason Why. looked after the himself. He never Sbnll it be Oats? Thoughtful farmers must see that. no agricultural country can thrive that turns its industry, into a big cotton speculation to the neglect of producing its food. All tbe pencil work that can be done to prove arithmetically that it is cheaper to raise cotton to buy food won't work it out practically in the end. This is not tbe fault of the figures at all, but arises from a want of a full statement of the whole proposition with all the drawbacks and advantages on either side. One man says: "I can raise 150 pounds of lint cotton to the acre, and I can't make more than 10 bushels of corn to the same acre." Another says: "There is more margin in the increase of production in cotton than there is in corn." Another says: The seasons have changed and we can't make corn any more. I can remember in Colonel Buncombe's time when all the mu?ter beat made from 20 to 25 bushels round to acre, now 10 is more than we make." And so there is one reason after another assigned, which in some cases may be sound as to the comparative profit in raising cotton and corn. It should not be forgotten, how? ever, that the proposition is not the rais? ing of all corn against all cotton, nor in? deed the raising of corn for the general market, but only so much corn as each farmer or his neighbors, within ten miles of him, are likely to consume. Nor should it be forgotten with tbe labor and animals necessary to raise the market crop of cotton, or whatever else it may be, we may find it possible to interject a certain amount of food production at little or no cost. A planter who plants eight acres of cotton to tbe hand may find room at a certain period of his cot? ton cultivation to put in bo much corn without withdrawing an iota' of work from his cotton, and yet at some periods of conducting this cotton planting the whole of this force may be and must be necessary. This much, then, of this grain production, so far from its being a rival with cotton production, is a com? plement to it, an added production, always competent to a well-conducted cotton farm, which is a solid gain to the cotton production itself. If it be true that seasons have changed, which we doubt, or that tbe land has suffered such deterioration, which is likely, as to make corn production not actually worth the while with the ordinary run of season, soil and cultivation, of course it Is not common sense to follow tbe old rut and go through the mere motion of produc? tion, without and remunerative result. With the many other kinds of food pro? duction open to'us at the South, accord? ing to locality, such as wheat, oats, high land rice, peas, potatoes, and still other crops for feeding ourselves and animals, we are not put to the exclusive task of raising corn as our food crop, or it may be confined to a limited extent and tbe culture intensified so as to make it pay. Our attention has been called especially to the production of oats on certain town farms or lots in the State of Georgia, which show a wonderful production per acre in oats. In several parts of Geor? gia, in some of the oldest and most worn out lands, experiments have been made with the rust proof oat, known in Geor? gia as the "Bancroft," and as high as 123 bushels per acre has been raised. The land is thoroughly prepared and the seed sown in tbe Fall very thick, two or three times the usual quantity to the acre. This, it is said, prevents tillering, and t^us the heads ripen together and there i? little or no waste. So, too, tbe straw is said to make better fodder. Prof. Browne, of tbe Agricultural Department of the Georgia University, 6trongly advo? cates the gnat advantage of the oat over corn, both on account of the labor saved in the production of crop, as well as to its being preferable food for work animals. The fact of 123 bushels of oats per acre being possible in our climate is in itself a tremendous fact where we can stop and think. Such a yield per acre would afford from one acre nearly 11 quarts per day for the year round, besides the straw, to one animal. This is certainly a good average feed. We then have one acre feeding a horse for a year. By bedding the stall of an animal well with leaves and refuse straw a suffi? ciency of farm manure could be collected to make fiuch an acre richer than the richest river bottoms. With deep pre? paration and pulverization we can readily perceive how it might be that such an acre could bo made almost independent of season, especially if this high manur? ing was supplemented with the free use of the phosphate fertilizers and the ash element and pea vines turned under. Presuming such a course of intensive culture, one acre to horse might be readily enriched 18 inches deep; and if it is underdrained and kept untrampled by stock, there is no reason why it should not become richer and richer as the years roll, so as to be brought up to the most wonderful results. Nothing but climate and special seasons would restrain the result. And even these incidents would become so much modified as to be more or less under the control of man. The depth of preparation and free supply of ammonia would not only restraiu the effects of frost, but invite moisture from the dews and by capillary attraction from below. Such an acre to every work or pleasure animal should we bring it up to the best performance our climate admits, would no a six horse plantation give us six acres, say at 100 bushels of oats per acre. This crop could be harvested and a crop of corn planted on the enriched acres, producing say seventy-five bushels per acre. Here we would have on a six-horse farm G00 bushels nf oats and 450 bushels of corn which would be ample food for man and beast, and to spare; so that each locality would supply its wants and the acciden? tal shortcoming of its near neighbors from year to year. Now this small area of grain culture is only so much as can be readily interjected into cotton culture without being felt at all, and literally cost nothing but the hauling and distri? bution of manures. But these enriched acres can be passed on to cotton and potatoes, &c, enriched and carefully cul? tivated all the while to come back in the round to oats and corn again, and so on through years of growing fruitfulness and plenty. Some men who call themselves plan? ters think this is only a beautiful dream, suited to tbe editor's closet and not the fields. Let them think what they please; we have tried it and know what we say is a practical fact. It is a crime against common sense and a crying shame on the agricultural industry of the South that it should buy an ounce of bread or j flesh from any other section. It is tho j result of idleness and ignorance and a I thriftliness that is beyond the apprehen? sion of a reasonable man. Man alive! if you can't grow corn, grow oats, wheat, rye, barley, rice, peas, potatoes, chufas, groundnuts, millet?make your bread and meat as you would live. It needs only the brain, the will and the energy, and it is done. Not only this, put the providence and thrift involved in tt ia an education in itself which makes a j planter worthy of his high calling, whereas otherwise he is little better than a cotton worm.?Columbia Register. Tue Whiskey Question. No political or social revolution has ever made such rapid progress or extend? ed so widely as the spirit of opposition to the manufacture and sale of ardeut spirits. It is confined to no race or color, to no class or condition, to no State or nation, hut finds support and flourishes wherever liquor is known and sold. It is not a new idea or movement, but it certainly has acquired a new vitality and form, being confined no longer to churches and temperance societies, to religious journals and tracts. The secu? lar press, the pulpit and the courts of justice unite in promoting the cause of temperance and in advocating the sup i pression of the liquor traffic, Its evils are admitted to be legion and they are por? trayed by legions of pens and^tongues. The murders, suicides and crimes of all kinds traeer.ble to its baneful influence, the domestic misery it engenders, the paupers and lunatics it creates, tho social and moral degredation it leads to and the irreligion it fosters are all daily placed before the public in multiform colors. Its evils have grown so great as to enlist against it not only the moral and religious class of the country, but a large retinue of its users and abusers. Peti? tions asking legislation to prohibit its sale and manufacture are circulated and signed largely by drinking men, and the female portion of the country is not only a unit against it, but is active work? ers in the cause of prohibition. The Legislature of Arkansas has re? cently passed by a large majority a bill to submit the question of prohibition to a vote of the people. A similar Act Las passed .the Legislature of North "^.rolina and the question is now before ... a peo? ple of that State. In Kansas the Maine law is in force, and in all the other States a strong contest is going on and there is a growing unity of opinion in favor of prohibition, manifesting itself in public meetings, in the election of dry tickets in towns, in more strictly enforc? ing the law against its sale on Sunday in cities and in the advocacy of local op? tion laws for counties. The movement is apparently unac? countable not only in the progress it has made and tbe wide extent of territory it covers, but also in the fact that liquor drinkers are in many cases among its strongest advocates and supporters, while in some instances temperance men and even preachers oppose it. This is re? versing the natural course of things, and it is unaccountable to see an infidel like Ingersoll denouncing liquor in tbe strongest terms language can use, while not a few doctors of divinity advocate self-control as the onty true and legiti? mate remedy, admitting they like a wee drop occasionally. The temperance boom now going on is the strongest evidence of the evils of intemperauce.. and the marshalling of intemperate men in the army of prohibi? tionists is tho strongest evidence that they feel they need legal protection from temptation. If its evils were confined to individual cases of personal want and wretchedness, however common and widespread, or to crimes engendered, or to the social degredatiou of individuals, it might well be said the government has nothing to do with the creation or pre? vention of these evils, or if it affected the general wealth and prosperity of the country only by its injury to individuals, who squander their time, money and muscle by its use, still should govern? ment interfere? These, however, are but tbe visible signs of a disease or poison, affecting the social, moral and political life of the country. They are tbe knots on the tree, indicating decay and rottenness of the bodv. They are the pimples and sores by which we diag? nose a system affected with a filthy and fatal disease. Admitted to be hereditary, passing from father to sop, and increasing with each generation in power and extent, its continuance betokens religious and polit? ical destruction. It is folly then to bold up the ghost of Radicalism and Radical government against this anti-liquor movement, for there is more danger in the continued increasing use of liquor to good govern? ment than in any party. Intemperance strikes at the foundation of society and good government, uprooting morality and tending constantly from bad to worse. In its increase there is uo hope of improvement in material, moral or intellectual growth. The future, with drunkenness constantly increasing, is altogether dark and hopeless. With the .prevalence of temperance hope will brighten the darkest prospect and de? spondency will yield to certain success. The questiou is not whether King Alcohol or King Radicalism shall rule, but whether virtue and intelligence, the pillars of republican government, shall rule or be destroyed? In such a war political parties sink into in significance and a large proportion of men who sell and drink liquor now because it is legal? ized, will not only vote for whatever they think most likely to promote tho public good, but will abide by whatever decis? ion is rendered at the polls. Wo believe that if prohibition prevailed throughout the United States it would not only prove more remunerative to those selling liquor now, but that the whole country in twenty years would be better governed and more prosperous than any one can conceive. The millions now consumed aunually in liquor, in injury alike to the purse, the health and mindof the people would be put into all kinds of improve? ments in agriculture, mechanics and machinery and in the better education and social elevation of the people. Such is our opinion and such we be? lieve would be verrified if tried. We are, however, free to admit that no legislation should be pressed on the people, looking to prohibition, until the public mind has been thoroughly informed and firmly concluded. We should avoid divisions at this time, and before any legislation in this State is adopted the question should be discussed before the people and their wishes known. Looking to the coming of such a period wo may advocate restraints to the liquor traffic, for the efficacy of any law looking to prohibi? tion, should any ever be passed, will de? pend largely on public sentiment. If it be opposed to such a law, the law would not only be feebly enforced, but it would be ! repealed at an early day. A failure ofj thif kind would retard ?nd cripple the | progress and ultimate success of the I movement more than anything else. It} tf.krs time and discussion to revolutionize successfully so great a reform, and its friends must bide the issue in patience.? Walhalla Courier. ? The situation in Ireland continues to advance in the wrong direction. Nothing could be more unhappy thau the condition of affairs as reported by cable. The coercion bill has resulted in j no good, but rather increasing the anger j of the tenantry, while the land reform j bill hangs fire in Parliament and makes j little progress, while it should have been ,1 the first business. Mr. Gladstone seems to have undertaken the work of reform wrong end first, instead of preparing the way for peace has made matters worse than ever. The outlook waa never worse than at present. DAVIS AND IIIS BOOK. I An Interview With a Friend of the ex President. i Chicago, June 1. ; The Times publishes the following in? terview with Mr. J. C. Wright, of the United States Marine hospital, who is an old friend of JefTersou Davis. Mr. Wright, in reply to an inquiry as to how long he had known Mr. Davis, said : "He w8? room mate and chum at West Point. 1 i'e both graduated in the class of 1828. Our attachment was extremely close. He was an ardent, impassioned boy, and, although he was not possessed of su? perior bodily strength, he was almont entirely without fear of anything. He was particularly tenacious of opinion, and asserted himself always in the most positive manner. He was a universal fa? vorite at school. During our stay at the school four classes graduated some three or four hundred officers, of whom but three are now living, excepting Mr. Davis and myself. Two of them. General N. B. Buford and General C. P. Bucking bam, live in Chicago, while the third is General Chatlotte Dray ton, of South Carolina. General Drayton is a son of the General Drayton of the revolutionary war, and he and Mr. Davis were the only ones of the five that were in the southern confederacy. After leaving West Point Mr. Davis and I met but a very few times, although wo have kept up a corres? pondence for the past fifty years, excepting the time of the rebellion. After it was over, I wrote to him to learn if all that was said of bira was true, intending, if he was not clean in his personal record, that the correspondence should cease. I was soon satisfied that much that was told of him was coined in times of excitemeut and hatred. For instance, that petticoat story. The truth of it is that Mr. Davis aud bis wife were not traveling together at all. He and a party of gentlemen were making their way toward western Texas on horseback, aud were far in advance of Mrs. Davis, who, with her sister and servants and escorts, were traveling in ambulances. On the night before their capture they had heard that they were being followed by banditti, who believed that they were carrying away with them all the confederate funds, and so they halted for the purpose of letting the am? bulances catch up with'them, which they did. Tents were then pitched, and the party retired for the night. Mr. Davis slept with his boots on, ready to jump up and mount his horse at any moment. It is true that be. had taken off his coat. Well, during the night Wilson's Mich? igan cavalry came up on one side of them and the Wisconsin cavalry came up on the other. Each mistook the other for rebels and they commenced firing. Mr. Davis was of course, awakened by the firing, and, knowing that it was im? possible for any confederate soldier tobe there, he jumped up. Knowing that he was captured, be thought he might effect his escape during the confusion, hut if he found that impossible, he decided that he would stop further bloodshed by giv? ing himself up. Just as he started to leave the tent, Mrs. Davis reminded him that be bad forgotten his coat, and an old colored aunty picked up Mrs. Davis's shawl and he threw it over his shoulders. Mr. Davis was much more feeble then than he is now, and, fearful of the chill of the air of the gray of the morning, he kept the shawl about him. He started out and tried to find his horse, which he j had left tethered near the tent. But be-! fore he left the tent the cavalry men dis? covered the identity of one another, and had surrounded the little camp with a guard. Of course everything was done in less time than it takes to tell it. Well, Mr. Davis found his horse, but it was mounted by a Wisconsin cavalry? man. He then determined to flaunt the shawl in his horse's face in the hope that he would rear back and dismount the cavalryman, and then be could mount him and escape. Just as he had removed the shawl from \m shoulders for that purpose he found that another cavalry? man was right behind him. Seeing then escape was impossible, he gave himself up. That is the truth about the capture; but so far as his being in Mrs. Davis's petticoats is concerned, that if simply ridiculous. "Mr. Davis is a very poor man; he is what is called land poor. He is living now on the property bequeathed Jo him by an old lady who died without natural heirs, but there were some debts on the estate, and as the devisee he be? came the executor of the estate and was obliged to pay off these debts to get control of the property, and he had to to borrow money to do it with. So the I bequest has really thus far been a burden i to him. His own plantation he has leased entirely to his old slaves, and they run it to suit themselves, and never make i more than a living off it, and he does not seek to compel them to pay rent. It was his poverty that determined him to write his book. It is now in the hands of Ap pleton & Co., the New York publishers, and he expects that it will be out in a very short time. It should have been out some time ago, and its non-appearance is one of his reasons for coming north at this time. He is to get a royalty on each book published, and is, of course, anx ious that sales shall begin as soon as pos , sible. COXELIKG axd HisTempeu.?Among the many reasons demanding Mr. Conk ling's defeat is his violent and vindictive temper, which keeps him at enmity with more than half of the prominent men in the Republican party. Just look over the list. Mr. Conkiing for years did not speak with Charle? Sunnier; he parted with Seward; he quarrelled and broke relations with Fassenden; he was on ill terms with Trumbull; he was mortal enemy of Grimes; he held no intercourse with Schurz; he openly quarrelled with Elihu Washburue and ceased to speak to his two brothers ; he broke with Brts tow and violently abused Attorney General Hoar and aided in forcing him out of Grant's Cabinet and keeping him off the Supreme Bench. Ho quarrelled viciously with Zach Chandler, and for some reason begged to make it up. These are a few of the notable enmities that are scattered along Mr. Conkling's peaceful pathway in the past. At pres? ent he holds no intercourse with John Sherman; has openly broken with Gen. Hawley; is a vindictive enemy of George F. Hoar; quarrelled with Gen. Burnsiae twice; will not speak to Ferry, of Michi- j gau; refused to speak to Senator Win- j dom because he voted to confirm Merritt, | and treated Senator Kirkwocd the samo | way. Both those gentlemen have since increased their offence by going into | Garfield's Cabinet. Wo mention the j long-standing eumity with Mr. Blaine only to remark that in the sorrowful shade of Mr. Conkling's displeasure the secretary of State has abundant and dis- i tinguisbed company. ? Hudson River Tunnel at New York is progressing favorably. The south tunuel is now out 450 "feet under the river, and the north tunnel about360 feet. ? It is expected that the tunnel will be fin? ished, ready for the travel, bv the sum? mer of 1883. News and Gossip. ? Boston wants a World'? Fair in 1885. ? Ideas are like beard; men do not have them until they grow up. ? The Georgia Legislature will meet in Atlanta on the 13th of July. ? Mr. Beecher and Professor Swing endorse the revised New Testament. ? A twelve-year-old Jersey cow waa sold- in New York recently for $3,000. i ? Mr. W. W. Story's statue of Prea cott will b? unveiled at Bunker Hill, Juue 17. ? The merchants of Columbus and Atlanta, Gh., are sending out female drummers. ? "Spoons" Buttler has a nephew who is sentenced to be hung in Colorado on the 17th for murder, ? Dr. B. M. Palmer returns to th? Theological Seminary in Columbia, in place of Dr. Girardeau, resigned. ? Simon Cameron says that General Grant is out of politics, and will not be a candidate for President in 1884. ? Mrs. President Garfield, who has been very ill, has so much improved aa to be now considered ou: of danger. ? Ex-Senator Conkling is said to be worth between $200,000 and $-100,000, and ex-Senator Platt about $200,000. ? Butter was first made by the Scyth ans and Thracians, and was at first used as an ointment for baths and a medicine. ? Gen. Longstreet'a son, Robert Lee Longstreet, recently declined a Georgia appointment to a cadetship at West Point. ? Postmaster General James has stopped star route stealings to the amount of nearly half a million in less than three months. ? A Portland womau has been arrest? ed for cruelly beating a three year old child because he would not say hi* prayers. ? Ex-Senator Bruce (fO'ored), who was recently appointed Register of the Treasury, ha? a large number of lady ^ clerks under him. ? Mrs. Conkling is opposed r'\ husband's going back to the f \ She is anxious that he shall reti/ politics altogether. ? A newspaper man in C A who has been paralyzed all his i Jm type with his teeth, and makes Jgm editorials as he goes along. . AmSa ? The production of cotton pei4PP? is greater in North Carolina than i? any State in the Union. Georgia is next in the scale of productiveness. ? The Chinese of New York have raised $2,000 to prosecute the murderers of their countryman, Ley Teep, who was recently killed in a barbarous manner in that city. ? Tho Protestant Sunday Schools of Brooklyn, N. Y., had a grand parade on the 25th ult. There was in the proces? sion 8,741 officers and teachers, and 51,500 children. ? The slave trade is flourishing in Egypt, where tbe Viceroy and his min? isters are its most zealous supporters. Eighty thousand is tho yearly averago negro exportation. ? A party of twenty-five or thirty men broke into the jail at Morganton, Georgia, and released a number of pris? oners who were confined for violation of the internal revenue laws. ? The old belief that beauty and brains never go together is well founded. Beauty prefers to go with the numbbead who will pay for carriages and theater tickets and soda water and ice cream and such. ? The Comptroller of the State of Tennessee has been enjoined from exe? cuting the provisions of the act of the Legislature, providing for the funding of the State debt at par and three per cent, interest. ? Secretary Blaiue is informed that the French delegation to the Yorktown Centennial will consist of no more than ten gentlemen, descendants of Lafayette, De Rnchambeau and other of our allies in 1781. ? Jefferson Davis hits gono toCauada, in order to be on British soil on the day that his forthcoming history of the Con? federacy is published in London, and thus have the benefit of the English copyright laws. ? Over six huudred delegates attend? ed tbe International Convention of Young Men's Christian Associations, which met in Cleveland, Ohio, on the 25th ult. The Convention will meet two years hence at Milwaukee, Wis. ? There is a great demand for Ken? tucky horses. Two year old farm horses of f?ll blood, it is reported, selling at $500 to $2,000. Colts of fine racing stock have been sold for $10,000, and the supply is not equal to the demand. ? A cruel miss: "There is my hand!" he exclaimed, in a moment of courage and candor, "and my heart is in it." She glanced at the empty palm extended toward her and wickedly replied : "Just as I supposed ; you've got no heart." ? Mr. John W. Mackay, the great Bonanza king, recently received a letter from a man asking him to furnish one hundred million dollars to buy up all tho goats in the world. The writer hoped in this manner to secure a monopoly of tho kid glove trade. ? Arrangements have been made to effect the removal of about 70 of the North Carolina Cherokee Indians to the Indian Territory. This, it is thought in the Interior Department, is the first step toward the removal of the entire tribe, numbering about 2,000, to that Territory. ? The General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church met re? cently at Stauuton, Va., and continued in session for ten days. The introduc? tory sermon was preached by Rev. T. A. Hoyt, D. D.. of Nashville, Tenn. The Assembly will meet next year in Atlanta. Georgia. ? The International Grand Lodge of Good Templars was in session last week at Topeka, Kansas, and reports of the officers show the order to be in a pros? perous condition, including seventy-eight Grand Lodges and 31,014 members. It was decided to bold the next session at Charleston, S. C. ? A cruel blunder was made in an? nouncing the verdict in a St. Louis mur-' der case. The foreman of the jury handed the clerk several slips of paper, and the clerk read : "We find the pris? oner not guilty, on tho ground of insan? ity." The culprit's face lighted up with delight, and he exultantly shook hands with his counsel. "There's a mistake," said the foreman to the clerk, "you've rend the wrong siip. The one that's signed is our verdict?guilty of murder in the first degree."