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BY E B. MURKAY & ?Q. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 9, 1881. VQIiUlKlE XVI - NO. 48 ? iiywiwiowr/ vi a TIWWCriHl JUD? Forjxdayor two paat, io fact sicco Wednesday afternoon, Ibero bas been stopping at the Grand Windsor botet , ?remurkhble man. - There, is nothing 5 particular striking or that i? very pecu \ liar either iu bis appearnn?o or manner, '? yet no ona se?? bins without lookng ai him a eecond time and being directly fm Sressed with the idea that there is some ting mysterious about biro. He ia well dressed, though in a fashion somewhat quaint, and he is as pleasant, aa polite and ea jovial aa a gentleman could weil bo. He is not obtrusive, neither is bo retiring or unduly reticent. He is well j informed on ail subjects but tho current [ ovonta of the past years iu our country, bat of quick intelligence, be has managed to pick up a smattering knowledge of oven these. What first interested our reporter in him, although he bad looked at bim time and again, and though there was something strange about the man, waa a remark he mauo yesterday that he bad not heard of the. civil war between the States until that morning, Tb ia was rather a starter. Tho man showed no symptoms of insanity, and was a long way from being an idiot ; he baa ampio funds and loves a toddy, as well as the next one, and is lavish in or dering them. To make a long story short aa the gentleman made himself so pleas ant our reporter determined to interview him aod find ont if possible who he was and what be bad to say for hiumelf, if anything. When approached on the subject, he smiled sadly and a far away look entered bia eyes and be stopped as if in reverie. After a few mo ments be said : "Well, I might as well . tell you my story aa not. It is a strange j and interesting one ; so strange, so mar velous that I doubt if any scarcely will believe ii. I shall only give you a brief outline, for I.have got all my ad von turca, a perfect diary of every event of my life for the past twenty yeera nearly, since the first of October, 1860, and will publish thom us soon as I reach New York, where ufy 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 ta make my story believed." Here he be came silent for a few momenta, and seem i??iy lost in thought, but arousing himself, he said : "It ?a meei cud proper I think that I should make at least a par tial statement of who and what I ara aud whence I came here in Dallas, os Dallas county is the first point on outer crust of the earth that I have seen or visited since the fall of ?8G0, over twenty years ago." Thia was a starter, and our reporter opened his eyes a lillie and looked around to i;co if there was a good way of retreat in case the lunatic should become violent. But summoning up a courage be ventured to the questions : "What do you mean? I don't understand you. Do you mean to say thal you have been off the earth for twenty .years?" "Ieee you are incredulous," tho stranger replied, "but you need not be treader stricken. It is not an impossible or un reasonable story that I will tell you, when I tell ft all, but the people, in their ignorance of the real facts, will think I am a crazy enthusiast, a luny scientist, but they are mistaken and tbey will know it ere long. I mean to say that I have not been on the surface of the earth for a little over 'twenty years. I have not been out in apace, in the apirit world, up among the stars, or anything of the kino, bn?ajcnply in the bowels of the earth, and , what I say to you now, and for publica* tion in the Herald in the morning, is a voice from mid-earth, is the solemn truth end the enlightened masses of the world will know it insido of u year. But let me tell you my story. My name ia William B. Amadell, and I am a native of New York city. When a boy I bad a great fancy - to go sea, and secured aposition as cabin boy on a Liver? pool vessel. I worked my way up from position to position, until 1860, at tho age of forty I waa as good a seaman as ever walked the quarter deck of any ship. 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. IOharles Frances Hall started OB an es pedifioo in search of the remains of Sir John Franklin. He obtained passage on a whaler commanded by Capt. Bud dington, and I went with him. The whaler, after we reached the artic region, became blocked up in tbe ice, and Capt. Hall and I went off to live with the Esquimaux. Capt. Hall remained with these kindly people two years, and we went ou many exploring erpeditions. On one of these I waa lost, and after a long search in vain, Hall aud his Esqui maux guide gave roe up for lost for good, and returned to bis headquarters. From the day I last saw Capt. Hall and his Esquimaux friends in October, 1860, until Wednesday last, lite 80th of March, 1881, I did not lay my eyes on tho face of any inhabitant of tbe outer surface of the earth. .Tho day I was lost I pursued a white bear far out on a Ooo of ice, and a section. of which suddenly became de tached, I floated out on it in a strong car rent directly to the Northward. On and on my floe went at an increasing rate of speed, until, after wbat I supposed to be oightovtcn boars, it seemed to me aa though'I was going down an inclined ?riane, and I knew that I was going at a barful rate of speed. After a few noun I looked up and could seo the North star above rn G ???d s?l the stays in tbe clouds, but they seemed to be so far away and there appeared around and about me a wall of waters as though I waa (n a vor tox, but of immense, incalculable di ameter. Directly it began to grow warm er and my ice floor began to meit. The sneed at which I was traveling grew slower and slower, too, until jo ? little ; while I saw a beautiful laud before Bte, tbe trees all green, and every evidence of I civilization around, for there were neat houses in sight and growing fields, but the strangest looking people I ever saw. Soon-my floe struck the shore, only about half the size it was when we started, and I went out on the land. Tho people greeted me kindly nod by signs showed mo that they were glad to meet me. In A little while I met several people like myself, from the outer world, and from hem! learned that I was insido thc earth, /hich was inhabited with a poople just j learned, just as ci vilized sad just as irog.-?siv& aa tho people on the outside. They have schools, collegee, tho Chri*tiau .elision and churches, marrying and giv ing in marriage, but they have none of the vices of tho outer world. There is no swearing, no liquor or wino to drink ! If ?.ey wanted ; no impurity of any kino ; io politics, no corruption. Tho people) ive like brothers and sisters, and here is no want, nb.'suffering, no Ickoeas, and death comes only to the ex? cjuely.aged, in whom the fires of life Avo burned out by degrees and naturally, 'he-natural produits of tils country are -similar to Ibosc of ours. They have Ja?d-'aiiver'sod dron mines, cotton J woolen manufactories-in fact,all the lust rles that we have, aro just like we i in all repecls, except they are purer, uer, holler, honester. They have no jnrls> no prisoners, no lawyers nor doc l?Their government Is a patriarchal sort or republic-well, moro like the .family government of a good father ead mother over their children AH thia no doubt sounds foolish to you, and wit! to your readers, but just AS sure as the sun shines and the stars glow of nights, ev^ry word I utter is truo. Tue txewtoiaau theory in regard to tho construction of the earth is false, 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 Symrocs, an American who died ia Butler county, Ohio, in 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 polos. Tit,s is true, though these openings are not quite so largo as he estimated, that at tho South polo being only about 1.500 miles and that at the North polo about tho same. The people of China know this theory to be correct sad carry on an immense trado with the people of mid-earth. If it was not for tho supplies the Chinese draw from these people, with their overwhelming population, they would starve. The peoplo from tho out ur surface of the earth I met in the inte rior were whalers, whoso vessels were inprosed to have been lost, but which in reality got into the current setting to the seas in the bowels of tho earth, ..and thus reached tho happy shores where they now arc. It may seem strange to you now I got here and I will tell you. I saw a mountain which I desire to explore. I had already traveled all over the country, and when I started on this lost.tour of adventure I was not exceeding two thou sand mil*(< from Dallas. I kept on my upward ji.-'irne" seeking tho top of tho 7"\iuntain, as i r&^-oseo] it was. For weeks atm 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 bunk jf the Trinity river, about three miles from the city. The people who know of this opening, if any, of course think ita cave, and it is, but an enormous one, ana 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 nc happiness out side cf heaven is greater or sweeter. I knew at once I was on the outer surface of the earth, and my heart thrilled Kith .joy, for I want to see my good ol?uiotbcr if ehe still be living and all my rel ative and friends who may not have ? crossed over to the other side of the river. I shall return before many months aud will take all my living relatives and what friends I can with me. I think I shall tnnke the attempt to establish railroad and telegraph communication between tho outside and inside, for commerce between the two regions would soon be immense. Aquitehua is tho principal city ofthat country, und has 2,000,000 in habitants doing an overwhelming trade. As it happened, I had about $1,000 in gold dust on my person when I reached your city Wednesday, which Adams & Leonard very kindly gave me the 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 aimil .remain in Dallas 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 rae, and will iake pleasure in telling them all I know of the new land. I would deliver a lecture if I had time, but I want to bay the land on which my cave is situa ted, aa a base of operations/or my tele graph and railroad schemes." Oar ro Korter looked at the man aghast, but be as evidence of the truth of. his words, in strange flowers, metals, atones, ana smallbits of wood, We trust our citizens will call upon Mr. Amsdell, and would respectfully suggest to the board of trade to get him to deliver a lecture. Thc gentleman ran be seen almost any time sitting by the stove in tho rotunda oftbeLeOrand, seemingly in a meditative mood, wher? ho ia not in conversation with some one. He is about B?S feet high and heavily built, with iron gray hair, mustache and whiskers, and deep flashing blue oyes, that look nt you with a keen, penetrativo glance. He will he j;'sd io ueo any one who will.call for him and wi!! entertain them- rigbt royally. Dalton ( Texa?) Herald. THE AGE OF THE EABTI?.-Tho ago of tho earth is placed hy some at five bun dled million years; by others one hun dred million years, and still others of later lime, among them the Duke of Argyll, placo it at ten million years. None friace it lower than ten millions, know ng what processes havo been gone through. Other planets go through the same process. Tho reason that other planets differ so much from tho earth is that they aro iu aso much earlier or later stage of existence. Tho earth. must be come old. Newton surmised, although he could give no reason for it, that the earth would nt ono time lose all ita water and become perfectly dry. Since then it has been found that Newton was correct. As the earth keeps cooling it will beer me porous, and great cavities will be form vi io 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 c* writing paper each year. At this rate in 6,000.000 years the water will have sunk a mile, in 15.000, 000 every trace of water will have disap peared from th* face of the globe. Tho nitrogen and oxygen in the atmospbero are aUo diminishing all the time. It is an inappreciable degree, but the time will come when the air will be BO thin that no creatures we know could breathe it and live; the time will come when tho .world cannot support life. That will be the oeriod of old age, and then will come death.- Prof. Ii. C. Proctor. JUDOS MATTHEWS OH THE BENCH. -The Cincinnati Time? Star gives a full account of the first appearance of Mr. Justice Stanley Matthews upon the bnucb, which look, place lu that city Tuesday. The bar waa represented by many leading members. Outside ^the railing the seats and standing room were crowded with distinguished citizens and othem, drawn thither either by curiosity or.frinndship for tho nsw Juil^o. Jus* i tico Matthews made the following neat j address after the court had been formally j opened ; "Gentlemen, it ts to me ea- j poof ally gratifying to begio my first offi cial duties on the bench hero in this cir cuit. I am, as you are aware, appointed to fill a vacancy, caused by tho 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 io. my native city, among, tho members of the bar where X havo been raised and edu cated, and where"-and here be paused a moment aa if to suppress a feeling of emotion-"I am beat known, t am now," added he, "ready to hear any caaes that the parties interested may be anxious to have diaposed of, and whero both aides are ready to enter upon. I shall not press to trial any others, but desire to announce roy willingness to hear auch aa af? awaiting and anxious for a heating." The Revised Kev? Testament an ?. the lloetrin* of Hell. If e translation can at all convey lo the, Epglish reader's mind the exact meaniug of the Nen 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 pendents, Wesloyans, Presbyterians ol Scotland and America, Lutherans, Friends and Unitarians, reOjrfc?? any nco tarian bias impossible This version is the rejs^^ c/4|AuflPin< bined judgmeut of nftg^bMk'' and America. Tb? Aro.';cele brated for their great jgEHGK vpai. a,nd accurate Kcholnruliip, integrity, indopen dent thought and piety. ~ They have Bucnjjtep ?PAF???tho work, and have received thJM|iy^M)|kraa o! hundreds of scholars. Tb.e?r conclusioni have been reached with ? unanimity tlir-J is almost complete. In view of ali. these.cou^idti-ationa ii must be said that what confidence w< can not repose* in the fidelity of th< present version we should havo to deni to any which could be made. Much interest bas been felt in possibb changes of rendering which might afiec doctrines long held by Christendom For various reasons tho chief solicitud bas been concerning the doctrino o future punishment. Tho report general ly circulated, though aa now seen, -with out foundation, that the word "hell' would not appear in the revision, in creased among all classes the interest fel in the future status of that doctrine. 0 course the better Informed knew that i tbe word "hell" ?ere stricken out. au other word put in its place would tak the sams meuuiug, unless the coutea were changed accordingly. This wt hardly to oe expected by any, wbil those who could read tho Greek for thea selves knew it would be impossible if tb translation was to be accurate. It is not our purpose to prove cr dil prove the doctrine of future punishmei from the Revised Version ; but to con pare the teachings of the Revised-Ve aion and thu Authorized Version upc this point. xhe word "hell," if we may tru Cruden's Concordance, occurs just twei ty-on? times in tho Authorized Vensic bf the Now Testament. In the Re?>>?< Version tho word "hades" is used ; place of "bell" ten times, tbe woi "hell" appearing in the other clove places. But it is a noticeable eirene stance that "hell" is retained in eve place that has been depended upon as proof of future punishment, with 01 exceptiqn. A comparison of tho proof-texts ? future punishment as found in bo versions will show whether that doclri bas been strengthened, weakened, or li in statu qu? by the revision. lu Matt. 10:28, the passage "Fear H which Is able to destroy both soul a body in bell," is tho same in both vi stotts. The Authorized Version of Mark 9: reads, "into hell, into tho fire that no-. Bhall be quenched." The Revised Version of tho eatuo ph is "into hell, Into the unquenchable fir If there is any difference the express] "unquenchable fire" Is stronger tl "fire that never shall be quenched." The forty-eighth verse of tho sa chapter is alike in both versions, s reads: "Where their worm dieth nott the fire is not quenched." In the i thorized Version this language fora 44 and 4ft. both of which are omitted the Revised Version. Also tho wo "into the fire that never shall quenched," last clause of v. 45 of M 9, Authorized Version, are omitted the Revised Version. But every pression found in the Authorized "V sion is also found in the Revised Versi (except the che which is strengthener meaning, v. 43), though not so frequ* ly. So that taking the passage M 9:43-48, the doctrine of future pun meut is strengthened miLcr i.'uu wt ened by the Revised Version. It was stated that all tbe passages u which tho proof of thc doctrine of fal punishment depended translated "h in ti:e Authorized Version were with exception translated the esme way in Revised Verdi?n. We will nov/ lool that exception. It is the celebrated able of the Rich Mau and Lazarus, I 16:19-31. For "hell" in the Author ; Version we read throughout "Hades1 the Revised Version. In v. 23, Authorized Version, "in he lifted up bis eyes, being in termer Revised Version, "In Hades ho liftec his eyes, being in torments." Sine? is "in torments," according to both ' alons, the failure of the revisers to ti late the Greek word "Hades" into Anglo-Saxon "Hell" will not bo aldered as weakening the sense. Authorized Version, v. 24, read am tormented in this Hame." Re Version reads, "I am in anguish in flame," a more vivid expression "tormented," Again, v. 24, Autho Version, reads, "He is comforted thou art tormented." Tho Revised sion has "He is comforted and tho in anguish." Torment has its def but, as Crabbe says, "Anguish is an whelming pain." Verse 28, of thia < ter, speaks of "this place of torm?n both versions. Then these texts which have thought inexplicable .except upot supposition that u ti bel love rs are I minent peril, remain tho same o strengthened. John 3:16 Is one of and reads thus t "God so loved tho that He gave His only begotten sor whosoever bel lore th io (Revised V on) Him shall not perish, bat have lasting (Revised Version eternal) With regard to. the duration of 1 punish men t oo chango Is made, ? to render tho question moro un equi Tbo great gulf mentioned by. Cb the parable of the Rich Man and ms is the saine impassable golf fi versions. ' Matt. 25:41, Authorized Version, "Then shall Ho say also unto th the left band, Depart from me, ye c into everlasting fire, prepared fe devil aud his angels.'' * The R Version is the same, except the "into the eternal fire which Is prep etc. And in the margin lt reads part from mo under a curse," a ma rendering not found In the Ault Version. In tho forty-sixth verna ?f the chapter, the 'Authorized Versio "And these shall gb away into ev lng (Greek aionion) punishment the righteous Into lifo eternal I aionion). The Revised Version lateo "emuloo" alike in both case reads: "And these shall go awi eternal punishment; but the rig Into eternal life." This trans?a mach less ambiguous to an ? reader. T> a words "damnation" and "du do not occur in any place in the I Version, where they occur in tl -,horlred Version; but in tbeiT ("condemnation." "destruction,'' ment" and "judged*" But thew have never been depended upon aa aub* stantiating the doctrine or future pun ishment; nor have they been intelli gently used ss Scriptural, but aa theolog ical, descriptions of that punishniout in which sense they may continue to be used. . Proof texts from tho writings of Paul remain substantially tho same. ID Romans 2:5-6 we etilt read, "After thy hardness and impenitent heart trcasureet 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 men according to his deeds (Rovi|;ej?hV*r8lGn works)." Verses 8 and 9, "Uoto them that are contentious (Re visodSSsM^e factious) and do not obey (Korited ????.Version and obey not) the truth, Uutouoy unrighteousness, (Revised VeraioU bore inserts shall be) indignation and wrath. (Revised Version wrath and and indigestion), tribulation and an guish,.upon every soul of man thatdoeth (Revised Version worketh) evil, of the Jew first," etc. II Theas. 1:9, Author ised Version, is, "Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from tbe presence of. tho Lord." The Revised version reade, "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 judgmont and fiery indignation which shall devour the adversaries." The Re vised Version bas "a certain fearful ex pectation of judgment and a fierceness of fire which shall devour tho adversaries." Verse 29, of the same chapter, appears thus in the two versions : "Of how much surer punishment suppose (Revised Ver sion think) ye, shall bo be thought (Re vised Version judged) worthy, who hath," etc. Verse 80, representing God as saying, "Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense," is the same in both versions, ns also is verse 81, as fol lows : "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Whether these passages have boon rightly interpreted as teaching, eternal future punishment, we do not pretend to say. But it is evident that they have lost none of their 'orce by tbe present revision, and Some of them aro not only clearer, they are also stronger than before.-Cincinnati Weekly Tima. How a Quaterruastcr Saved Lee's Army. Capt. R. E. B. Hewetson, fomerly a res ident of Columbia, died last week tn Charleston. Though a native of Ireland, and the son of a British officer, Capt. Hewetson was one of the first volunteers in the lato war, and went with Gregg's Regiment to Virginia, and par ticipated in thirty battles without receiv ing a wound. At '.ho second battle of Manossas be comr landed his company with conspicuous skill and daring, and was afterwards commissioned as Quarter master of the regimont. Later in the war be was, for a considerable time, ac ting Quartermaster of the brigade. lt was while he was Regimental Qaur tcrmoster that Capt. Hewetson, with the inspiraron of the born commander, or ganized a small force which repulsed the enemy and Raved Gen. Lee's army. The circumstances are these : Capt. Hewetson vras 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 bridgie. As soon as the Confederate fell back nt Gettysburg, a strong body of F?deral cavalry was pushed forward towards Williamsport, where there was believed to be uo con siderable number of Confederate troops. In truth,*thero were no soldiers there ex cept some stragglers, and the Bick and wounded witb the wagon trains. There seemed to bo nothing to prevent the ene my from occupying Williamsport, des troying tho bridges and barring absolute ly Geo. Lee's retreat. Seeing the dan ger, Capt. Hewetson gathered, together teamsters of tbo army, armed them with muskets found in tho wagons, and with this impromptu force, aided cy a hand ful of enfeebled and maimea soldiers, checked the enemy's advance, and gave Buford's cavalry so warm a reception that the Confederates were supposed to be in full strength and the advance waa aban doned. Tbe Battle of the Teamsters, ea it was called, was the salvation of the shattered and worn Army of Northen) 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 piquaiutances, knew that the modest and retiring Capt. Hewetson was the central figuro in one of the most dramatic incidents of the war. The Reason Why. Can anybody toll why, when Eve was manufactured from one of Adam'a ribs, a hired girl wasn't made at the time to wait on her? We can e- ily ! Because' Adam never came whining to Evo with a ragged stocking to be darned, a collar string io be sewed on, a glove , to be mended, "right away, quick now I" Because he never read the newspaper until tho sun got down behind the pa?m tree, and then stretched himself, yawning out, "Ain't supper most <eady, roy dear?" He mado the Oro and hung over the tea kettle hf ri j?! f, we'll venture, and pulled the radishes, and peeled the bananas and did everything else that bo ought tel Ho milked tbe cow and fed the chickens, and looked after the pigs himself. He never . brought borne half a dozen to dinner, wheo Eve hadn't any fresh pomegranates and the mango season waa over ! He never stayed out until ll o'clock to a "rard tweeting," hurrahing for the candidate, and thea scolding because ftoor dear Eve was sitting up and crying aside tho gates. To be sure be acted ; rather cowardly about apple-gathering , time, but then that don't depreciate bia Enoral helpfi'.iuess about the garden! e never plr.yed billiards, nor drove fast horses, nor aven choked Eve with a cigar smoke. Ho nevix loafed around corner grocer ies while solitary Eve was rocking little Cain's eradlo at nome. In short, he didn't think she was spec ially created ftv the purpose of waiting on bim, and wasn't under the impression that it disgraced a mao 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., ia a very pretty Elace, and has many- very handsome cuses in it, and a number of very Urge hotels. Tho hotels are only opened Tu the winter, and theo they are.filled to > their uttermost ?-Ith travelers seeking a mild climate. The streets are well i shaded with long rows of live oaks, which almost entirely shut out the rays . of the sun, thus making it pleasant even in tho warmest weather. The air?ete are In a poor condition for carriage driving. Upon mos. of them tho sand ia not less ' tbau a foot deep, thus making them very j > dusty and hard for e. team to travel fast > i upon. Shall lt be Oats? Thoughtful farmers must see thRf n0 a^.icultu^ co^try csu. thrive that turo? ,ta 'Td^Tfiltir * h'r cotton epecuUtlqn to tnoAefj^t of producing its food. Ail the p?pcU work that csa bo done to prove ar.ithmetlcaUy that it ls cheaper to raise cotton to buy food won't work it out practically In the end. This is not tho feu?t of the figure* at all, but arises from a want of a full ?talement of the whole proposition with all tho drawbacks and advantages on either aide. One man says: "I can raise 160 pounds of j lint cotton to the acre, and I can't make { moro than 10 bushels of oom to the acre." /..lother says: "There ls more margin In the Increase of production in cotton than there ls In corn." Another says: Tba seasons have changed and we can't make oort any mora. I can remember In Colonel Buncombe's time when all the muster '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 comparativo profit in raising cotton and corn. It should not be forgotten, how ever, that tbe proposition is not the rais ing of all corn against all cotton, nor in deed the raising of cora for tbe general market, but only so much corn aa each farmer or his neighbors, within ten miles of bim, are likely to consume. Nor should it be forgotten with the 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 bf food production at littlo or no cost. A planter who plants eight acres of cotton to tbe band may find room at a certain poriod of bis cot ton cultivation to put in BO much corn without withdrawing tm iota of .work from hin cotton, and yet ut some periods of conducting this cotton planting' the whole of thia force may be and must be necessary. Thia 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 tho cotton production itself, if it be true that seasons have changed, which we docbt, or that the land baa suffered Buch deterioration, which is likely, as to make corn production not actually worth tha while with the ordinary run of season, soil and cultivation, of course it Is not common seuse to follow the old rut and go inn aga 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 otbei crops for feeding ourselves and animals, we aro not put to the exclusive task ol raising corn as our food crop, or it ma; be .-endued to a limited extent and thc cull ure intensified so as to make it pay, G?t attention bas beeu called especial!; to tho production of oats on certain town farms, or lots in the State of Georgia, which Bbow a wonderful production pei acre in oato. In c'dvoral parts of Geor gia, in COMO of the oldest and most wore out lands, experiments have been made with the rust proof oat, known in Qcor gift as tbe "Bancroft," and as high as 121 buahsla per acre has been raised. Th; land ia thoroughly prepared and tho sect sown ir? the JFfljl very thick, two or tbrci ti mn? tha nanni nnantttir tn ?he SOTO This, it is said, prevents tillering, am thus the beads ripen together and ther is little or no waste. So, too, the straf ia said to make better fodder. Prol Browne, of the Agricultural Departmcn of the Georgia University, strongly advo cates the gr. at advantage of the oa over corn, both on account of the laba saved in the production of crop, as wol as to its being preferable food for wor animals. Tho fact of 123 bushels of oat per acre being possible in pur climate i tn itself a tremendous fact where we ca stop and think'.' 'Such a yield per ncr would afford from one acre nearly 1 quarts per day for the year room besides tho strtw, to one animal. Tbi is certainly I, good avcrago feed. W then have ont acre feeding a horse for year. By bedding the stall of an aninr.i well with leaves and refuse straw a sufi ciency of farm manure could bo collecte to make such an acre richer than tl richest river bottoms. With. deep pr paration and pulverization we can readi perceive how it might be that such i nero could he made almost independo: of season, especially If this high manu ing was supplemented with the freo u of the phosphate fertilizers and -the a element and pea vines turned undi Presuming such a course of intens! culture, one r.re to horse might 1 readily onrichou 18 inches deep; and it is underdrained and kept untrampl by stock, there is no reason why it shot not become richer and richer as tboyei roll, so as to bo brought up to the mi wonderful results. Nothing but climi and special eeaaons would, restrain t result. .And even these incidents wot become so much modified as to be mt or less under the control of man. T depth of preparation sud free supply ammonia would not only restrain I effects of frost, bet invite moisture fr the dews aud by capillary attraction fr below. Such an acre to every work or p! animal should we bring it up to tho b performance oar climate admits, would a six horse plantation give ns six acres, i at 100 bushels of oats per acre. This ci could be harvested and a crop of ci planted on the enriched acres, produc say seventy-fivo bushels per aero. H we would have on a six-horse farm < bushels ?t oats and 450 bushels of o which would be ample food for man c beast, and to spare ; so tbat each local would supply its wants and the accid tal shortcoming of its near neigh I from year to year. Now this small a of grain culture ls only so much ss < be readily interjected into cotton cult without being felt at all, and liten cost nothing but the hauling and dis bution of manures. But these enriel acres can be passed on to cotton t potatoes. &c^ enriched and carefully < tivatei all the while to comp back in rourk? to oats and ebra jfriln, and so tbr?%byears of growing?ruitfulness i plerity.r ?omornen who call. themselves pl tars think this is only a beautiful dra suited to the editor's closet and not fields. Let them think wbattbey/plet we bave tried It and know" what wean a practical fact. It Is a crime ega vOiwr??H ?cato ?nu a crying; onumo the agricultural industry of the So that ft should buy an ource of brest fleih from ?ny ?ther s*Alon. It le result of. idleness and ignorance an tbriftllness that is beyond the appr?t sion of tr reasonable man. Man ali if you can't grow ?oro, grow c wheat, rye, barley, rico, peas, potst chufas, groundnuts, millet-make 3 bread and meat as voa would live, needs only ibo bratts, the will sud energy, and it is done. Not only t tint tho providence and thrift involve t is an education in itself which mab .planter worthy of his high calling, who (otherwise bo is little better than a co Worca.-CWwuAfa RegUier. The Whiskey Question. No political or social revolution bas tver made such rapid progresa or extend ed so widely as the spirit of opposition to the manufacture and sale of ardent! spirits. It ia confined to no race or color, to no class or condition, to no State or nation, but finds support and flourishes wherever liquor Is kvown and sold.: It ls not a new Idea o; movement, but it certainly bas acquired a new vitality ned form, being confined no longer to churches and temperance societies, to religious journals and tracts. Tbe secu lar press, the pulpit and the courts of justice unite in promoting tho cause of temperance and in advocating tbo sup pression of the liquor trafilo. 1 - evils are admitted to bo legion and they are por trayed by legions of peos aud;[tongoes. The murder?), suicides and crimes of all kinds traceable to ifs baneful {nfluenrM. the domestic misery it engenders, the paupers and lunatics it create?, the social and moral degredation it leads to and the irreligi?n it fosters are all daily placed before the publio in multiform colors. Its evils have grown so gre?., as to enlist ogainBt it not only the moral and religious class of tho country, but a largo retinue of ita users and abusers. Peti tions asking legislation to prohibit its sale and manufacture are circulated and signed largejy by drinking mon, aud the female portion of the country is not only a unit against it, but is active work ers In the causo of prohibition. The Legislature of Arkansas has re cently passed by a largo majority a bill to submit tho question of prohibition to a vote of tho people. A similar Act has passed .the Legislature of North Carolina and the question is now before tho poo file of that Stale. In Kansas the Maine aw 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 publie meetings, in tbe electiou of dry tics-eta in towns, tu m*>ro strictly enforc ing the law against its sale on Sunday in cities and in tho advocacy of local op tion laws for counties. The movement ia apparently unac countable not only in the progress it bas nmcie and tbe wida extent of territory it covers, but also in tho fact that liquor drinkers ara 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 naturel course of things, and it is unaccountable to see an infidel like Ingersoll debouncing liquor in the strougest terms language can use, while not a few doctors of divinity advocate self-control as the only true and legiti mate remedy, admitting they like a wee drop occasionally. The temperance boom now going on is the strongest evidence of the ovils of intemperanr and tho marshalling of intempera' .ieu in the army of prohibi tionists is JO strongest evidence that they feel i buy need legal protection from temptation. If its ovils were confined th individual cases of personal want and wretchedness, however common nnd widespread, or to crimes engendered, or lethe social degredation of individuals, it might well be said the government has nothing to do with the creation or pr? vention of these evils, or if it affected tho general wealth and prosperity bf the country only by its injury to individuals, who squander their timo, mnnoy and mufcfe by its use. still should govern ment interfere? These, however, ore but the visible signs of a disease or poison, affecting the social, moral and political life of che country. They are the knots on, tba ?i$?, indicating decay r.nd rottctH-.. r of tlySfcdv. They are the pimplm^ud sores fey'.which wo diag fatal djpmr>T '- : . " Aloi?btn to .bo hereditary, passing fron father to sap,"anil^?ereaaing with each generatlnn.ia rjprv$r..a?d oxtent, its continuancei betokens tellgious and polit lcd destruction. It is folly thea to bold up the ghost of Radicalism and Radical government against this ami-liquor rrovement, for there is more danger in tho continued increasing use cf liquor to good govern ment than in any party. Intemperance strikes at the foundation of society and gcod government, uprooting morality apd tending constantly from bad: to worse. In its increase there ia no hopo of improvement in material, moral' or intellectual growth. Tho future:, with drunkenness constantly '.increasing,', is altogether dark and hopeless. With the prevalence of temp?rance hopo will JjJ?gbtcn the. darkest prospect and de spondency will yield to certain success. Tho question is not whether King Alcohol or King Radicalism shall rule, but whether virtuo and intelligence, the pillars of republican government, abai! rulo or'bo destroyed? In such n wnr political parties sink into in significance and a Iorgo, proportion of men who eel 1 and drink liquor now because il 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 polia. ' Wo believe that if prohibition prevailed throughout tho United States it ?r?a'd not only provo moro lemunerative lo those selling 1 liquor now, but that tho whole country in twenty years would bo better governed and moro prosperous than any ono can conceive. The millions now consumed annually in liquor, in injury alike to the purse, the health and mind of the pooplo would ba put into' nil kinds of Improve ments in agriculture, mechanics and machinery and in the better education and social elevation of the people Such ls our opinion and such we be lieve would bo verrified if tried. We are, however, freo to admit that no legislation should be pressed on the people, looking to prohibition, ?n t *>o public mind has been thoroughly informed and firmly concluded. We should avoid divisions at thia time, and before any legiaiiuio,i in this State is adopted thequeation should be discussed before tho people and their wishes known. Looking to tho coming of such a period . we may advocate restraints to tho liquor traffic, fer the efficacy of any law looking to prohibi tion, should any ever be passed, will de pend largely on public sentiment If it bo opposed to such a law, the law would not only be feebly enforced, but it would be repealed at an early day. A failure of this kind would retard and cripple the progress and ultimate success of tho movement more than anything else, lt takes.time and discussion to rovottitionizo successfully so great a reform, and its friends muse bide ibo issue tn patience. Walhalla Courier. - Tho situation in Ireland continues to advance in tho wrong direction. Nothing could be more unhappy than the condition of affairs as reported by cable. The coercion bill has resulted iu no good, but rather increasing tho auger of the tenantry, whil<j the land reform bill hangs fire lo Parliament and makes little progress, -?bile it should have been tho first business. Mr. Gladstone seems to have undertaker: the work of reform wrong end first, instead of preparing the wsy tor peace baa made mattera worse than ever. Tbe outlook was never worse, than at present' ." DAVIS ARD MIS BOOS. An Xutenrliw WUh m Friend or tb* President. CJIIUAGO. June 1. The Timn publishes the following in terview with Mr. J. O. Wright, of the United States Marine hospital, who is kn old friend of Jefferson Davis. Mr. Wright, ia reply to an inquiry as lo how longue bad known Mr. Davis,said : "Be was room mate and chum at Weat Point. Wo both graduated In the class of 1828. Our attachment was extremely close. Ho waa an ardent, Impassioned boy, and, although be was hot possessed of su perior bodily strength, ho was almost entirely without fear of anything. He wa? particularly tenacious of opinion, and asserted himself always In the most positive manner. He was a universal fa vorite at school.. Dunne: our stay al the school four classes graduated .some three or four hundred officers,'of whom but throo are now living, excepting Mr. Davis and myself. Two of them, General N. B. Buford and General C. P. Bucking ham, live in Chicago, while the third Js General Chai lotte Drayton, of South Cnrolinn. General Drayton 'is a abo bf the General Drayton of the revolutionary war, and bo and Mr. Davie were the only ! ones of the five that were in the southern confederacy. After leaving West Point Mr. Davis and I met but a vu.-y few time's, although wo have kept un a corres ponder-? e for the post fifty year J, excepting the time of the rebellion. After it was over, I wrote to bim to learn if all that was said of bim was true, intending, if j ho was not clean in his personal record, ! that tho correspondence should cease. I was soon satisfied that much that was told af him was coined io times of excitomeut and hatred. For instauce, that petticoat story. Tho troth of it is that Mr. Davis and bis wife were not traveling .together st ! all. - Hu and a party of gentlemen were making their way toward western Texas on horseback, aud were far in advance of ! Mrs. Davis, who, wl?b her elster and servauta and escorts, were traveling in ambulances. On tho night before their cantare they had heard that they were being followed by banditti, who believed that they were currying away with them all the confederate funds, and so they halted for the purpose of letting tho am bulances catch up wit'a them, which they did. Tents were then pitched, and the party retired for tho night. Mr. Davis slept with his boots on, ready to jump un ana mount bis horse at any moment, lt iatruo that be. bad taken off bis coat. Well, during tbe night Wilson's Mich igan cavalry carno up on ono side of tnco and the Wisconsin cavalry carno up on the other. Each mistook tho other for rebels and they commenced firing. Mr. Davis was of course, awakened by tbe firing, and, knowing that it WOB im possible for any confederate soldier tobe theil, ho jumped up. Knowing ianthe was captured, he thought he might effect his escape during the confusion, nat if he found that impossiblo, ho decided that he would stop further bloodshed by Riv ing himself Up. Just as he started to leave the tent, Mr?. Davis romiuded hid) that he bad forgotten bis coat, and an old colored aunty picked up Mrs. Davis's shawl and he threw it over his shoulders. Mr. Davia was mach more fcebla theo than be is now, and, feat "ni of the chill of tho air of the gray of the morning, be kept the shawl about him. Ho started out and tried to find bis horse, which he had left tethered near the tent. But be fore be loft tho tent the cavalry men dis covered the identity of oho another, and bad surrounded tho little comp with a ?;uard. Of course everything was dono n less time than it takes to tell lt. Well, Mr. D?vis found hts horse, bat it was mounted by a Wisconsin cavalry man. He then determined to flaunt tue shawl in his horse's face in tho hopo that he would rear back and dismount the cavalryman, and then be could mount him aud escape. J natos he had removed tho shawl from bis shoulders for that purport ho found that another cavalry man was right behind him. Seeing theo I escape was impossible, he gavo himself up. That ls the truth about the capture ; but so far as his being in Mrs. Davis s petticoats is concerned, that is simply ridiculous. '.?Ir. Davis ia a very poor roan; he is what is called land poor. He is living now on the property bequeathed .to him by an old lady who died without natural heirs, but there.were some debts on the estate, and as tho devisee be be came tho executor nf tho estate and was obliged to pay off these debts to get control of the property, and he had to to borrow monoy to do it with. So the bequest has really thus far been a burden to bim. His own plantat' in he hoe teased entirely to hi? old slavey and they rnn lt to suit themselves, and never make more.than a living off it, and, be does not seek to compel, them to pay rent. It was his poverty that determined him to write his book. It is now in tbe hands of Ap pleton dc Co., the New York publishers, and he expects that it will be out in avery short time. It should have been out eenie time ago, and its non-appearance ia one bf his. reasons for coming north nt this tima. He is to get a royalty OB, e?cb book published, and is, of course, anx ious that sales shall begin as soon os pos sible. CON ELI Nf i AND HWTKMPEH.-Among the many reasons demanding Mr. Conk ling's defeat ia bis violent and vindictive temper, which keeps bim at enmity with more than half of tho prominent men in 'ho Republican party. Just look over >,Iio list. Mr, Conkling for years did not speak with Charles Sumner; ho parted with Seward ; he quarrelled and broke relations with Fcssenden; he was on ill tv,.mo with Trumbull; he was mortal enemy of Grimes '; he held.np intercourse withSchnrs; he openly quarrelled with Elibn Wasbburuo and ceased to speak to his two brothers; he. broke with Bris tow and violently abused Attorney? General Hoar and.aided in forcing him out of Grant's Cabinet and keeping him off tho Supremr. Bench. Ho- quarrel led viciously with &.cb Chandler, .and for some reason besged to make it up. These aro a few of tba notable enmities that arescattered along Mr., Conkliog's peaceful pathway In the past. At pres ent' he bolds no intercourse with John Sherman; has openly broken with Gen. Hawley;is a vindictive cnorny of Qeorgo F. Hoar; quarrelled with Gen, Burnside twice; will not speak to Ferry, of Michi gan; refused* to. speak to .Senator Wiu anm because ho voted to confirm Merritt, and treated Senator Kirkwood tho same way. Both -those gentlemen have since iuereased their oflenco' by going into Garfield's Cabinet. We mention tho long-standing' enmity with Mr.1 Blaino only to remarie that in tho sorrowful shado of Mr. Cbhkting's displeasure the secretary of State has abundant and dis tinguished company. --- Hudson River Tunnel nt Now York ?lt progressing favorably. Tho south tunnel is now out 450 feet under the river, and the north tunnel about 8?0 feet. It IseVpected that the tunnel will be fin ished, ready for the travel, by the sum? mer of 1883. ? Xews and Gosaro. i - Boston want? a World'? Fair tn ? - Idea? aie Ilka beard j me? dc not have them until they grow up. - The Georgia Legislature will meei in Atlaota on the 18ib cf July. - Mr. Beecher and Professor Swing endorse the revised New Testament. - A tr jlve-y ear-old Jersey cow waa ?old in New York recently for $8,000. - Mr. W. W. Story's statue of Pres cott will bo unveiled at Bunker. Hill, June 17. - A JO merchants of Columbus and Atlanta, Ga., are sanding out feraalo drummers. - "Spoons" Bultler basarienh?-? wil ls sentenced to be hung in Colorado on the 17th for murder. - Dr. B. M. Palmer returns to tb? Theological Seminary io Columbia, in place of Dr. Glrardcau, resigned. - Simon Cameron says that General Grant is out of politics, and will not be a candidate for President in 1884. - Mrs. President Go.?eld, who has been very ill, hos so much improved aa to be now considered out of danger. - Ex-Senator dookling ia said to be worth between $200,000 and $400,000, and ex-Senator Platt about $200,000. - Butter was first mode by the Scytb ans and Thrar'ins, and was at first used as an ointment for baths and a medicine. - Gen. Longstreet's son, Robert Leo Longstreet, recently declined n Georgia appointment to a endetehin nt West Point. - Postmaster General James hna stopped star routo stealings to the amount of. nearly half a million in less tban three . mouths. - A Portland woman hat? been arrest ed for cruelly beating a three year old ebild becauso be would not ?nv his prayers. - Ex-Senator Bruco '(to'ored), who was recently appointed Register cf the Treasury, hus a large number of lady clerks under him. - Mrs. Conkling is opposed to her husband's going back to tho Senate. She is anxious that he shall retire from politics altogether. - A newspaper man in California, who bas been paralysed ell bis life, sets type with his teeto, and makes up his editorials as ho goes along. - The production of cotton per aero is greater in North Carolina than id any State in tho Union. Georgia is next in the scale of productiveness. - the Ohineso of New York have raiseo $2,000 to prosecute thc murderers o' their countryman, Ley Tcep, who was recently killed in a barbarous manner in that city. - Tho Protestant Sunday Schools of Brooklyn, N. Y" had a grand parado on the 25th ult. There was in the proc?s-* sion 8,741 officere und teachers, and 61)500 children. - The slave trade ia flourishing in - Egypt, whers the Viceroy and bis min isters are its most resfous supporters. Eighty thousand ia tho yearly average negro exportation. - A party of twenty-five or thirty men broko into the jail at Morganton, ueorgie, and released a number of pris oners who were confined for violation of the internal revenue laws. Tho old bolief that beauty and.. brains never go together is woll founded. Beauty prefers to go with the numbbead who will pay for carriages and theater tickets and soda water and ice cream and BU cb. - The Comptroller i" tho 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 Binino is informed that the French delegation to the Yorktown Centennial will consist of no mrte than . ten gentlemen, descendants of Lafayette, De Rochambeau and other of our allies in 1781. - Jefferson Davis bas gono to Cauada, in order to be on British soil on the'day that bis forthcoming history of the Con federacy is published in London, ' and thus have the benefit of the English copyright laws. - Over six hundred delegates attend-. ed the International ? Convention of Young Men's Christian Association?, wbieh met ip 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 bf full blood, it is reported,, selling at $600 to $2,000. Colts o! fine facing stock have been Rt/ld for $10,000, and tho supply is not equal to tho demand. - A cruel miss : "There is my hand I" ?he unclaimed, in a moment of courage and candor, "and my heart is iu it." She glanced at the empty palm extended 1 toward ber and wickedly replied : "Just '. as I supposed ; you'vo 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 bey up all the goats in the world. Tho writer hoped in Ulis manner to secure a monopoly of tho kid glove trade. I ''^ Arrangements have been made to , effect the removal of about 70 of the North Carolina Cherokee Indiana to th? Indian Territory. This, it is thought in the Interior Department, ia the ?rat step toward the removal of tho cptire tribcf - numbering about. z,???, to that remtory. - The General Assembly. ef the Southern Presbyterian Church met re cently- at Staunton, Va., and continued Ja , session for ten days. The introdue tory sermon waa presorted byJRev. T. A. Hoyt, n. D., of Nashville, Tenn. The Assembly will meet next year in Atlauta, Gcorr'.c. - Tiie International Grand l/>dgo of Go?d Teuinlar* was in session lart *eek ?fr: j?fopekfi*, Karwas, sad reports of tba ???icws ahp?r the prior io ?r? m? puja' pe -ona condition, including seventy-eight urand Lodges and 31.014 members. ? was dedded to bold the next se??n at Charleston; S. C. - A cruel blunder was lasdo ia an nouncing the verdict in o Et. Lon** f?urr dot ce&e. The'foreman ot ta*- jury handed the clerk several oUp-; and the clerk read; -"Wa find the ;pits. ??er not guilty, na tho????.^^X Hy." Tim culprit's face lighted ?P delight, and h? ekoltantljr s&oek^ands wltrfhls counsel. "There '?.a ^jstaks, ?aid the foreman-to ">JLc"-cr*' ySlJS read tho wrong .?Bp. Th? ,nVJ. signed is our verd ct-guilty of ?u Jnthsiimdsgtes.0 ^