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* %>?innr. - ^rtr^wiw?i?wi .Muttfm?iim? myraurn>t?TO>rrw tirr nt jt? mnwim ^ w I iaw^nitm *? a^rjf u ?. bkmumn .. ?. t ,-n i:r_J?M ^ - r - , --u -.? j , ? n ?. , ^. ...^,^^rj,r, ^ BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY. AUGUST 27, 1809. VOLUME XVII?-N(X Is THE DAY IS DONE. BY H. \V. LONGFELLOW. Tlie (lay is done, and the dnifc'ioss Tulle from tlie wis?j?s of Jiiglit, Asa farther is waft <1 downward, From au eagle iu its llljht. I s?o the lights of the village Gleam through the roin nud the mint., And a feeling of sadness eouies o'er me, That my soul caunot resist. A fooling of 8adnc69 and longing, That is not akin to pain And resembles sorrow only As tho mist resembles the rain. Come read to me ?ome poeru, Pome eimnle and heartfelt l iy, That shall soothe this restless feeling. And banish the thoughts oT day. Not from tlie grand old master?, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through tlic corridors of timo. For like the att ains of martini music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavor, And to-night 1 long for rest. It>*nd from somo humbler poet, Whose eonga gusli from his heart At, showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids atart. Who through the days of long labor, And night J devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music, Of woudrous melodies. Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction Tlint fnlloirA flflur r?i-n * *?? Tlicn road from the treasured volume The poem of my choice, Ami lend to the rhyme of the pout The beauty of thy voice. And the night f.hnll be filled with music, And the c.irea that infe.t the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as ti'ently steal away. <!? False Packed Gotten. At a recent meeting of the Cotton j Manufacturers' and Planters' Nation-1 :il Association the prominent subject j of discussion poems to have been ! false packed cotton. Several of the members declaimed in unmeasured tortus against the general habit off planters in mixing water, sand, and j other foreign substances with thej cotton iti the process of baling. One person, an individual somewhat notorious in this scction on account of certain shrewd speculations in col Ion just after the war, a Mr. (laised, ofj Pennsylvania, staled that of thousands of bali-s he had handled since the war hardly one per cent, earn'} up to the standard. Another equally honest and truthful member is reported to have said that as a general rule planters threw buckets of water in the hales and pprinkled sand on the wet cotton while it was being packed. Similar statements were made by other members oi the Association. Wo notico that several of our Stale exchanges have copied this slander j upon the cotton planters without lit-1 tering a word of dissent, thereby, to j some extent at least, endorsing these wholesale aud utterly false charges. There is not a respectable man in the j South connected with the cotton1 trade?there is not a single respectable planter who docs not know that f.dse packed cotton, so-called, is a, mere incident of our primitive and deficient modus operandi in preparing the crop for market. Planters who j make from fifty to three hundred bales of cotton have but one gin house and run but one gin. The work of ginning is pressed with great industry so as to keep up that work with the picking. In a rainy season it is almost impossible to prevent mixing what is called storm cotton with the clean and better grades. This' mixing is accidental, and is a result! mainly of what wo havo already spoken of in relation to our very imperfect and and narrow facilities for bousing tho crop. "Wo venturo to say that out of tho twenty-five or thirty thousand cotton planters in Georgia, a well authenticated charge of intentional false packing, such as was alluded to and seriously commented upon iu the lato meeting of the : Cotton Manufacturers' Association,! ronnrtf Kn atmsmaaf till** I MV MUWvnokUlijr M1UUV ilgttiuoi; ODO dozen in tho entire State. Apy onp at all familiar with the jnode of gathering the crop, adopted from necessity by all planters, that it makes it cxtromoly difficult for q. "lazy man and brother" to put water," sand, or a few rocks in tho baskets while picking. These baskets are regularv overhauled and examinod at night when tho pickers come in from work, but where a number of laborers are employed this examination is more or i a jp? IUBD nujicruumi uuu iinpurxouu jx. lew baskets containing foreign substances will occasionally cscapo detection and ' *..eir contents dumped into the common heap in the gin-house. If much wator is put in the baskets, when the cotton is thrown up in a bulk, a boating proco^s is brought on and th? reA suit is th:il the lint in the immediate vicinity of the wet cotton is injured. W hen this cotton is taken up by tlie luuul detailed to feed the CJ in, it very often happens that the inveterate habits of laziness which cling to the ' negro ps a freed man as strongly as when he was a slave, causes him to throw in the injured cotton along with the good. This cannot possibly be avoided by the most honest planter unless he remains all the lime at the Ciin and watches himself cveiyi I l--i /' .II _ - - * I uasxct iii11 as ib is uirown lino Kio hopper. The sand and rocks which may be thrown in the c-otlon while it is being picked to increase its weight, are separated by the (Jin from the lint and cannot gel into the lint room except in minute particles?notcnough to increase the weight but just! enough to injure the color of the lint. I The charge which has been most \ frequently made against planters by our cotton factors is not that they intentionally put foreign substances in the bales, but that they exorcise too little vigilanco in preventing diPerent grades of cotton being mixed in the packing pi'ocef-s. "When this is the ease they call them mixed cottons. Under our present system, and with oijr present facilities for housing and preparing the crop for market, this acci'Jcnt i.s likely to occur more or less frequently, in proportion to the personal attention the planter gives to hi*> ginning operations. When the 1 negro can be made industrious, honest, faithful and careful, then mixed cottons will no longer be seen in the market. Since the war false-packed cotton j has been somewhat more common j than previously. This is owing to, f wn vr*rwnnQ ( inn ^ 4l?of 4 \^ 1i v.. V v/iiv AO iJlitU LilVJ HIL^Il price of cotton has induced a class of men, not pLt uteris, to embark i:i its cultivation as a temporary expedient to make money rapidly. These people j rent land at high prices, give execs- J nivo interest to their factors for the j use of money to make the crop with, and promise high rates for labor. ; They are not lKTinancntlv identified 1 in interest or reeling with planters. ! They arc essentially cotton bummers,! ami carc little or nothing about the ' ? . : results of their operations so long as! Ili::y make money ami make it qu:c!:. T?cioro reclamations can be mu<le on ' lliem they are cither 1.0:1 at iuvtnl>ti. or if ibun-.l, have made fraudulent \ conveyances to cheat their creditors and avoid responsibility for their fal.se packing. The other reason why false packed cotton is now more Ire rpient than before the war, is found ' in Llio fact that, owing to impcc-unio?*- j itv, many planters have born compel- ; led to farm out their land-;, ov a por lion of them to negroes. Others j have been, and are bill! working, oil ; shares with ihein. In ino.-t- instances: where planting has been carried on"! under these conditions the negroes have had almost entire control of the preparation ol' the Crou for market. They have boon apt to lor.rn the | trick of false pat-king, and have, in many instances, escaped detection until the crop litis been divided and the planter's portion sent forward to j market. In tuch eases the planters , receive the blame for the misconduct ! of the laborers. But, making due and proper allow-! ahces for these occasional frauds, we j denj', and the books of Southern cot-j ton factors will bear us out in the denial, that anything like the ainonnt of false 'packed cotton mentioned by Garsed has been sent to market. Wo deny tlmt there is such a habit, and more especially that it is a general one. "We have felt bound to enter this protest, on the part of planters, against the wholesale charges made by such men as Garscd and his associates. The entire bod}* of planters, as a class, arc quito as honest, upright and houorablc as tho Cotton Manufacturers' National Association. Since writing the above wo have received a pamphlet copy of tho proceedings of tho National Association of Cotton Manufacturers and Planters, held in the St. Nicholas' Hotel, Now York, on the 30th of Juno last. Wo give below somo extracts from the debate on false packed cotton. It will be seen that Garscd asserts that of the thousands?we presume very many?of bales of Cotton ho has handled sinco 18G1, hardly one por cent, has eomc up to the quality of the sample. Every cotton dealer in the United Seates knows that this statomont is untruo: Mr. Gfirscd: I should like to know what Southern gentlemen here havo to say on {.his question, of all others the most serious to the future of tho cotton business, I don't boliove one bale in fifty of "middling" turns oat the same ihsido as outside. Wo aro 1-1.1 !l _ - A A -i> il -a_ -- "* u?iu ii/ is a matter 01 ino overseer ana tho negro, but if wo givo short measure, it is our fault?no negro, no ovorscer for us. You can bring.a bale of tow from [ cxtrome Russia in bolter condition ' than you can bring a bale from any where. In China or India cotton, t one layer does not vary fro in another 1 one-tenth ol'a grain, and it all lias 1 marks insido by which it can be t traced ; but of the thousands of bales t uf cotton I have handled since 1801, n and I have kept a very close account, hardly one per cent.has been accord- u ing to standard, to say nothing of the c mud and dirt. Now will Col. Wesson a let us hear from Mississippi ? ^ Col Wesson : I cannot defend the 1 l cotton planter in all things. Indeed, 1 never do anything but what 1 think morally right. There is too much truth in what the gentleman says about false packing. It is done all around me, but it is very hard to catch the olfender. I tried last Summer, but did not succced. It is a common practice now to wet tlie cotton or to wet a pile of sand roll it in a fieece of eottcn, and put that in the middle of the bale. In the case where 1 detected it, the cot. ton was raised by one man and sent ^ to another man's <cin, and the negroes fe< put it up there, so we could not reach it. ' *1 There is a remedy which most of Ci you, gentlemen, may adopt. You a may buy your cotton in the interior 'c and save veiy much of the loss, the drayages, the insurance, and cominis- J'; s'ons fo which it is subjected in pas- ^ bing through the cities. Every time n' it is resold it is rosainpled. Somo of j ^ our folks apply the word '\slealing" I to it, and I don't know but that it is j ]" a trood word, lor it is l.'ilron nnt for ! 13 the purpose of gain. I have heard j of a man who made GOO bales of cot- 1 lv ton in one season by sampling. j Mr. Saunders, of Tennessee,: I i " should recommend to parties to biij' J ^ their cotton at the seaboard rather ^ than in the interior towns. Cotton '' cannot be examined well unless it is C!: bored clear through. Tho difference in cotton in the same bale arises frequently now from there being different varieties in the same gin-house. Under the new or squd system of 111 firming, caeh sqad puts its cotton tl by itself in the houso and they ; tc gin by turns. Under the old ; system, each grade, lirst, second and .;u la'rt picking, was ginned separately ; ' now a .cqi:ad may not have enough of'113 I'ithor one to mako :i s<-Ttfirni<? 18' i ' i and the different lclnrts arc put to- i L-ther. Pais? packing is much more cf common it! India, than in America. This J could show, if' I had time, '' from the reports of the Cotton Supply i m Association. If you bore a Laic well ,il' you will find if there is wet cotton or P1 too much trashy cotton in it. j Col. "Wesson: It i.; very important, ! n' this examining deep. They call it!'11 ' 'catching the coon," in Georgia, hul ; * (lie more directly you deal with the j planters the bettor. If you buy the bales of Mr. Smith, in Columbus or lM Jackson, and it is sent right to your mill, and you find it false packed. i-. Smith's honor is touched ; an explanation and reclamation follow. When 'a you buy at the seaboard, it has pas- li scd through eo many hands that you can't tell which 31 r. Smith is responsible. I have opened the past year d< twenty odd bales of cotton that had c: rolls of sand in the mipdlc, but it had | ti gone through too many hands. I ki could not toll which put the sand in. at Mr. G'arscd: I alluded to China, c: not India cotton. w -Mr. Saunders : Mr. Garsed will buy I ti? no more China cotton for many years, ' v< if ever. The past season China im-1 <*} ported from Great Britain 235.000,000 I ti yards of cotton good.*, and did not i'c export to Great Britain a fingle pound p< of cotton. India and China jointly ni imported 1,508,000 bales of cotton ni goods, and did not export over 1.120,- tl 000 hales of cotton. a^ Mr. Nichols: AVe labor under an e: enormous disadvantage. Cotton is cj put up at the South for export, prop- ci erly and in light bagging. "When it la is put up for a Northern manufactu- tl rer, there is tho strongest temptation tl to put on as much iron and heavy fn bagging as possible. Wc want the I united action of every Board of Trade si and of every community where cot- 1} ton is used. If New York and the B New England States can bo induced al to pass an cr.actmcnt suggested by si this Association (and they unquestion- ei tibly can be], it will be impossible to sc sell cotton without deducting ll?c tare. They cannot get it from the "1 Englishman, and thoy cannot get it tl from us. . d< It will bo seen from tho abovo cx- g< tracts that not only aro the planters tl charged with the goneral habit of falso packing Cotton, but an equally false and absurd charge is made by tl Mr. Nichols that planters prepare ti thoir Cotton differently for tlio Nor- 'I thorn and Foreign markets. Now c< wo vcntnyp to say that tho ontiro n crop of Georgia thero aro not a doz- ie on planters who havo the slightest m idea where tho crop will bo taken for a manufacturing, Tho idea that wo a attempt to give the Englinh manufac- X turer tho advantage over the Yankco p mill-owner is near akin to tho pre- t ended l?adieal opinion that we arc Judical* .still. Mr. Nichols is doubt-ess a political .Radical demagogue of he Butler-Sumner School, and wishes o wring into the discussions of the issocialion a little loil politics. Our space is too limited to permit is to follow this subject farther. Our tbjeel is simply to repel tho unjust .ml fnlso aspersion cast upon the iouLlicrn planters by those '-Lowell L.ords."?Chronicle tO Sentinel. 4 <G> 'EE YOUNG LION OF NEW EEGLAND. l Talk with Mr. John Quincy Adams? Sweeping tho Political Horison?The Plots ff Butler?'The Republican Party beyond Redemption?The Democracy's Path to Victory?Hoffman tho; Cuming Man-Chase odious to tho South?Tho Sleeping Lion. Few of tho renders of the Jfcws ave forgotten the young 'Massachuitts statesman, of historic name and neago, whose visit to our State, and necches hero durinsr the Prcsiduntiiil i impaign last full, created so rcmarkIjle a slir. This gentleman is now toming up conspicuously as a candiutc for the Democratic nomination >r Governor of liis native State, he convention which is to make the ominntion meets this week. The few York Sun publishes a long ac>unt of an intcruicw held by ono of s reporters with Mr. Adams, which quilo interesting. After eliciting ic views of Mr. Adams on Ihe local clitics of Massachusetts, in the course * which it was hinted that the notoOlIS Uutlcl' \\*?1S Ufliftiniitf In ? -v/ | enry Wilson's sent in the "United [ales Senate, the reporter asked : 2-a:i 3 0U tell me, Mr. Adams, iti what itiinatc General Grant is held by the ie Republicans of 2scw England?" A DULL IX A CHINA SHOr. Mr. Adams smiled and replied: They arc in a terrible fix. Thcyaro ortified, cliagrinedj disgusted with ' icir President, and don't know how 1 help themselves. They can't co'nol him; nobody can control him, id he lias no political power to eonol hinm'f. He is out of his element the Hxrcutivo ofiicc. and feels it. l.nlo niuttora nvo a tn Latesmcn and politicians aro not mgcnial companions to liiin. He :?liIces their conversation ami shuns , thus shutting himself out from the ' Ivice and information a President ways needs. Ha prefers ihe eommionship of horse-jockeys and rered merchants who have plenty of CillOV to sncnrl lmt wli? l'tif.if >iiil> ig of public a flairs anil caro hss. ( ho Republican party in Xcw Kng- | nd is an aristocratic part3% and dis* j Ices tho course General Grant is J; irsuing. But they cant help thonv- : 'Ives, and thoy- Joel the mortification 1 tho more keenly on that account." 'Glow do yon account for the sinini. ? I r foreign policy of his administraOii ?" I asked. 1 MR. FISH'S FOUKION TOLICY. "The foreign policy, so far us it is jvtloped," he replied, UI attribute ( cclusivcly to the influence and iliroc- , 011 of Mr. Fish. It is popularlytiown, I suppose, that tho President id all the Cabinet, with the possible vccption of tho Attorney-General, ere disposed to adopt, in our rclaons both with Spain and England, a . ? - I ;ry dangerous and threatening poliMr. Fish was firm in his oppision to such a course, and I think the isult will prove the wisdom of tho jliey he has stamped upon the adinistration. There was a time, imcdiately after their utterance, when ie whole country seemed carried .vay with Mr. Sumner's views as (pressed in his famous speech; but dm and deliberate reflection has mvinced the most of us of the fuley of those views. Mr. Fish had 10 sagacity to detect tho orror of icm at tho time, and the conrago to ec public opinion in opposing them. confess that I do not clearly undorand his policy in detail, and espocial his singular attitude toward Cuba, ut I have confidenec in his eminent jilitics as a statesman, and feel aslrcd that ho will inanago these deli no amurs so as to ovolvo a wise )lution." "Do jTou not think," I suggested, ,hat the country 83'mpathizcs with 10 Cubans in their struggle for frecom, and that the influence of our overnmont should bo exerted in icir behalf." TERRITORIAL ACQUISITIONS. "I hardly think," ho replied, "that io mass of tho pcoplo of this coun'y euro anything about that straggle, 'ho people of New England are not oncorned about it. Tho "West cares otbing about it. In New York there i considerable fooling on the subject, 'hieh is carofully nursed and kept livo by interested partios. Thoro re many Cubans rosiding in New ork, and that city has a largo and rofhablo trade with Cuba. Hence heir interest in this straggly. But ?wwb Muiuiim a?a?at?? ?go? tliat interest is by 110 means general throughout the country. It is true 1 suppose, that the country would like to acquire Cuba. That acquisitiveness is one of the bancs of our people. We not only would like Cuba, but we would like the greater portion of .Mexico, all of Canada, and perhaps other contiguous territory. It may be, too, that we are destined to possess all this continent, and more, too, for all I know. But I very much question whether so great territorial extension will benefit us much. T1IE SOUTH DE.VOCKATIC?HOW THE NE<;itOES AVI I.I. VOTK. ' You took a run through tl?e South last year, Mr. Adams," I remarked. 'What was tlio result of your observation* in that direction? Can the llcpublican party retain the control of that section of the country ? ' ' By no means," he replied. "As fast as the .States have restored to them their political privileges and right?, they will reassert, their independence of this ruling power. It is all nonsense to suppose that the labor of that section will l'orever subject itself to the control of a few adventu- j rei'S. At. llfPSPl.l llio npifiYipRnvo l.-i.iil I 1 o- " ~ '"-l'w in41 slate of political cxeilcmcnt and semi-antagonism to the Southern people fur partisan purposes, but really the negroes euro nothing about politico. If left to themselves they would scarcely ever assert their political rights, or restrained from exercising them; but it is not in their nature or dispositions to care for them. In the cities they may, and probably will always lake an active part in parly contests; but the mass of the negroes, as is well known, are scattered in small colonies on distant plantations, and after this unnatural excitement passes away, and they arc loft to themselves, politics will be the ler.st of their concern?, cxccpt once a year, when their employers will ask thein to the polls to vote. Then, of cjursc, they will vote whatever ticlcct their employers or overseers put into their hands. So the political power in that section will very soon lapse into the hands of those who have always wielded it. And the}* arc beginning to sec this inevitable t?nUutmy. lloiiee .their readiness to aeccpt reconstruction under the present plan. They know that while a set of carpel-lasers arc temporarily placed in power, it is L ?.t n stepping stone to their own restoration to po- > litieal supremacy." THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT. "What is ybwv opinion of the prospects of tlio adoption of the Fifteenth an:c.idmonl to the Constitution?" I asked. "I think," he replied, "that it will make but little difference whether it is adopted or not. It is inconsistent I with the former portion of tho constitution, and is therefore invalid. If declared adopted, when the Democratic party comes into power it will simply ignore it." ' Would the Supreme Court pronounce it invalid because of that inconsistency?" I asked. THAT FAHCE, T1IE SUPREME COURT. '/Our Supreme Court," ho replied, "is a farce. It has no independence. It is under coercion. It has forfeited the respect due it as a separate and and eocqual branch of the Government. Its judgments do not cany with them tho weight they did in former years. They avoid the discussion of constitutional questions under the dictation of Congress, and havQ really no control of such questions. In fact, Air.. Sheridan, our whole form of government has changed. Wo have a written constitution, It is true; but is almost wholly* ig-* norcd. It has been altered, patched, and amended until its consistency is all destroyed, and it is almost a meaningless instrument. Our legislation is not affected by tho restrictions of any organic law. As Mr. f l.addcus Stevens expressed it, our legislation is extra-constitutional, or outsido of tho constitution. Wo have ceased to he governed by the written fundamental law, but have adopted the English idea of an unwritten constitution, variable in its charactcr, and adapted to evonts aa they occur." Tllfc DAYS OP TUB REPUBLICAN PARTY NUMBERED. "This revolution has been wrought by the Republican party, you think?" I intorposed. '"Wholly so," ho replied. "Tho Democrats surrendered power in 1861. leaving fho rrnvornmonf innnt in its original form. Whatcyor changes havo occurred havo been wrougt sinco then, and by the party now in power." "How long do you think that party will retain power ?" I askod. "I think," ho ropliod, "their days are numbared . The signs of dissolution ara everywhere apparent in their ranks. The work of disintegration is going on. If tho Democratic party will bo wise now, it can certainly soon regain the ascendency." "What course do you suggest as advisable lor tho Democrats to pursue?" I asked. Tin: WINNING DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. "Well," lie replied, "suggestions < on that point might' inoro nppropri- ( ately come from older soldiers than myself. 15ut my own idea is that, if .mo iX'mocraia will adopt their platform to tho live issues of the day, except negro suffrage and the oilier inevitable results of the laic Avar, drop their old Bourbon loaders, and take up new men not tied to the doad past and ils obsolete ideas the path to victory is new open to tlicin." GOVERNOR IIOKFM-.N TO I.KAD THE DEMOCRACY. "Whom -would you suggest as a standard-bearer in such a campaign?" I asked. "John T. Hoffman, of Xcw York," lie replied promptly. "Mr. Hoffman has made a good mark as CJovcrnor of New York,'* said r. "Most admirable," replied Mr. Adams. "Ho has exceeded the anI ticipalions of his warmest friends, and is to-day tlio strongest, if not tho ! -1.1 *1 - ? : iiiw.ii, iiuiu mini in mu country. ' "I. see," said I, "Unit Tammany Hull lwis again nominated him." " Yes," replied Mr. Adams; "lie has the power of that singularly powerful organization at his back, with the prestige of success as Chief Magistrate of the Empire State, two points that almost insure his selection by the part}' and a successful result. Xcw York can dictate the candidate in 1872; and with such a candidate as Mr. Hoffman, the Democrats are sure of success." CHASE ODIOUS AND ADAMS TOO YOUNG. "Will not Mr. Chase be a candidate for the Democratic nomination?" 1 asked. " Mr. Chase undoubtedly would like the nomination," he replied, " but the South will never consent to his having it. He is odious to the Southern Democracy, and can never secure their Tl,!? r i ouji|iui -4- 11IO J. iiSWUi lillllWU LU Jliy perfect satisfaction last year when I ay as in the South." "I have heard your own name mentioned in this conncction."' I remarked. "That is all nonsense," he replied. "I am too young in the party to expect such a preference at this time, and moreover. Massachusetts has no right to present a candidate. "When we have have redeemed this State, as 1 !if I'lliinirn Iiiq lionn i.ii/inni.m<l and can name so distinguished and | able a man as Mow York names in Mr. ; Hoffman, we may with some show of propriety talk of presenting a candidate. At present we must confine ourselves to the work of overthrowing Radicalism in our own borders." THE FAREWELL .SUAICR. ".My dear sir," said .1 rising, " 1 have to thank you for this interview and for the information yon have given me. I leave 3*011 profoundly impressed with the idea that Massachusetts will be honored in you as her j Chief Magistrate, as the General Gov- j eminent will ultimately be in calling! you its bead and brightest ornament." JIc bowed, shook mc warmly by the hand, and bade me call again whenever I could find opportunity, for which mark of condescension I expressed many thanks and bade him farewell. T. ,U. C. State Taxation.?A correspondent informs us that the State tax which ho paid last year on a tract of land on (Jombahse llivcr was 890, while this year the tax on the same tract amounts to $008.50, the land , being assessed at over double the sum which would be taken for it in cash. Our correspondents asks whether this tax i=> constitutional, and whether its , collection can be cnforccd ? ( There has been much discussion and agitation in the Stato on the subject j of the State taxes, and, at one time, 1 it was likely that in many countios 1 tho people would flatly refuse to pay , tho increased assessmones. Now, ( however, it seems to be admitted that , tlicro is no hopo of redress through 1 tho courts, and that we must wait pa- , tiently until tho day comes when tho property in the Stato may bo assessed at its truo valuo, according to tho theory of the present tax law. In individual cases of oxeessivo assessment, something may bo gained by an application to tho Stato Auditor,, who, . in several instances, lias reauoca tne assessment. The increaso in the tax , demandod of our correspondent can not apparently bo accounted for by the change of system which came into effect this yoar, and ho is advised with ull others so situated, to make a representation of tho facts to the Stato Auditor. This can do no harm, and may do good.?Charleston Neics. * ^ Carl Schurz denounces Democracy nd the Christian religion. 4 The Baby's Drawer. There's a lilllo J rawer in my chnmbcr Guarded with the tcndorcsl euro, Whore the dainty clothes arc lying, That my darling shall never weur. And there, while the hours arc waiting, Till the house is all !it rest, I sit nnd fancy a buby Cloec to 1113* aching breast* My darling's pretly, white garments 1 I wrought them, .sil:iitg apart, While his mystic life was thiobbing Ur.dur my throbbing heart. /iuu ouen my nappy Urcuming Break.; in 11 little song, Like the muvuiur of birds nt brooding, When the duys arc warm and long. J I finished the dainty wardrobe, And the drawer wai almost full Willi robtsof the finest muslin, And robes of Ihe finest wool. I folded tlieiiull together, Willi a rose for every fair, Smiling, and saying, "Gem fragrant, Fit for my priucc to wear." And, the radiant Summer morning, So lull of a mother's joj"! "Thank (Jod, lie is fair and perfect, My beautiful, new-born boy." Let him wear the pretty, white garments I wrought while sitting apart; Lay him, so sweet and so li'dpless, Here, close to my throbbing heart. Many and many an evening I sit, since my baby came, Sayinir. "What do tlio nn<?i.U #>?u J*? For lie died without a nn:?e ; Silting while hours nrc v/aiiing, And the house is all at rest, Au 1 fnuey a baby nestling Close to my aehing brenst. THE COTTON SUPPLY. Review by the London Times. Tho London Times, of the 14th instant, lias an cditoriiil on the subject of the cutton supply, which was transmitted by cable on Saturday, wherein it suys: A curious aspect has just been given to tho question of the cotton supply. Just as the association fur yro niuuiig imy oi.'jcct is Holding its usual meeting, a merchant writes us that Manchester alone is responsible for the scarcity it suffers. With all its wealth, enterprise and confidcnee, it has never invested a penny in the cotton #e!d. The conclusion of the out.iide world obviously is, that those who know most about cotton-planting can never pay. Their caution acts in others, and cotton culture is discouraged. If the Manchester spinners would establish a cotton company, with a largo capital employed in the heart of India, things would be diiTercnt ; but they stand aloof and refuse to risk their money in adventure, and when cotton comes to them they drive it down to a losing point. The association urge the establishment of large cotton fields in Ethiopia. but the recommendation, though interesting to growers, has little effect to cause more cotton to bo grown. Cobdcn and his friends maintained it was not the duty the of manufacturer to concern himself with the South, but merely to offer a sure and steady market for the produce. If India 1111 dci-sold America by a farthing in the pound on equal quality, eho would command tho Lancashire market. The policy of the manufacturer was to keep tho market open and give preference to the best cotton*. How these doctrines ended we need no't say, but the singular complaint of our correspondent lends illustration to argument. He resents the practice of the manufacture in driving down tho price. It is not natural for the buyer to cheapen tho article. I)ocs not the remark strengthen the argument that tho same people ought not to bo buyers and sellers? Jlis liguro state that the average India cotton, formerly bringing four penco per pound, now brings ten pen20, and may be many years before it is lower than seven pence would remunerate and satisfy Lancashire, tho mighty ipiestion may be near its solution. Kcmcmbering that the cardinal question is price, and cotton stuffs can bo sold to tho markots of tho world, and that tho money to recompense tho grower and spinner comes from tho pockets Df the weaver, it is useless to grow and spin if it cannot bo sold in quanity and at price to remnnorato all concerned. Up to tho timo of tho American war theso conditions wore fulfilled. Tho South produced and Lancashire manufactured so choaply that tho article commanded tho markets of tho worljl. The prico of India cotton is now two and-a-half times greater than formerly, which is enough to demolish tlxo whole trade. No wondor that looipB aro idlo. Cheap goods and . dear cotton aro incompatible. Until choap goods aro produced trade cannot revive. If the average of seven pefaoe pays the grower, thoro is no reason why industry should not rovfVe. A protective tariff will not alt ways prevails. *'ft the prices spoken of will satisfy Oonraimsers and remunerate producers, there is nothing to prevont j tlio speedy revival of prodnclion and consumption. I>ui between the spinner and Itio grower mnst necessarily exist ordinary eonimcreial antagonism. Cotton is now at ten pencc in-? stead of fo;ir penee, beeauso American competition i'j reduced. Tiio price can only be abated Ly a return to largo and mora regular supplied, it' Jndia bo our l'ecder it can only bo on terms of free and open trade. Cotton-growers must be prepared for a rcvhal of American industry and the competition of tbe wholo world. In such a raee Jndia would bavo great advantages, M'iiieh if measured by the judicious action of the govern mcni, n is probable that Indian agriculture aui Jiritish industry might bo established on broad a!. 1 permanent prosperity. the old Dominion. General Caiiby and the Iron-Glad Oatli. A "Washington letter to the Baltimore Sun says: Politicians h'n-o are not disposed to place much roliarce upon the lvporb telegraphed from JJk'imond that General C'unby will i --sue his proclamation, in ten days declaring t Jie result of tho election, convening tho Legislature, applying the iron-chid to members, and giving the seat <>f a member who cannot lake the oath t<> (he candidal? receiving the next highest number Oi" votes. The Viiginiti JJadieal*. it is thought, are ready lor desperate measure.-*, and a resort (o any reckless scheme to gain possesion of the Legislature and . cure a L'nitcil States senator, and ibis dispatch. it is said, is thrown out as a ' i'jcler.'' While General Canity doubtless sympathized with the Wells party. ho is not prepared to violate all the sense of poiitieal propriety and go to t! o extreme lengths indicated in this dispatch. A gentleman here, who is in his confidence, and who was as anxious as any one eke before the election for tho success of General Wells, ? says he docs not believe that General Cauby has indicated to any human being an authoi ixalion make such publication as the above. JJat in all tho discussions of I lie matter tho President snwl (i-.I i> ^v..viu? * ?.? ? Kfj Ji.nu UCUU onI3" mentioned as having control of the subjcct when the fuel is tlial. under the reconstruction laws. (?'enerai Sherman has something to say ami do about it. In its groal desire to ]:: vo 3I>. Johnson shorn ol* as much ol' hi* power a* possible, t:io it*t !i Congress gavo the general of the at my almo.-t yiipreme control over these rocor.stniction measures'. These Jaws havj never yet nil been repealed, end it is possible that Uencrnl .Sherman may 3-el have much to say in the matter, and it is not believed that ho will permit such action as that indicated in. the dispatch above quoted. Xor do wellinformed gentlemen believe that tho President himself will countcnanco what is suggested. ii i; disposition seems to he rather to plucc confidence in the Virginians and allow them t<> reconstruct their State 011 the bassis indicated by their last eledion, when the people spoke plainly in favor of a conservative policy for the State. The people say they acted and voted in good faith, and the President is believed to be disputed to giv^their sineerily a fair test. The New York Board of Health report the .summer is closing with unusual promise of health fulness, and tbat the death rate has been steadily diminishing during each week for the past month. For this favorable exhibit, the Tribune says, they should return many thanks to Providence and none to themselves. Tho people in the upper part of the State are deeply interested in the success of tho proposed railroad from Spartanburg S. C., to Ashville, N. C., and assert that tho project has many advantages over the costly Blue Ridge Railroad. In Louisiana tlioy havo settled tho question of Chineso suffrage. Seven Chinamen hjjve registered in a single parish. A negro and a whito girl wero married in Washington City, Tuesday, by a magistrate. The parties avo represented as having come from "NYarrenton, Va. Four companies of California militia have boon mustered out of State ! service for refnaini* *r* ?r? gan Francisco Fourth of July procession -with colored men. " . . The Richmond JDitpalth says: "Gon^ oral Canby has dccidcd that a fcwclvo months' rosldonco in the Stato is ncocBsary as a qualification to senators and members of the llonso of I)elo gates, ^ j v. j? tf i . .*Z J, 4