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SHERIDAN & SIMS, Proprietors. SUnSCItlPTION One Year.,.Sl.?O Blx Months.1.00 Ministora of tho Gospel.] .00 ADVERTISED KNTS. First Instertlon.S1.00 Euch Subsequent Insertion.,"?0 ' Liberal contracts niaclo lor y month and over. <JOJ3 OFFICE 18 ritEJ'ARKJ) TO DO AM. JCJNDSOK How to Mqke Manuro. Editor Orangeburg Democrat : At tho time you wrote me asking my views on Ammonia, the pressure of my farm duties prevented tue from writing, but the subject is of sufficient importance to interest every one en gaged in farming at any time. The questions asked as nearly as I recol lect were as follows: "Is ammonia plant food or a stim ulant? If food, does it develop the growth of plant, or increase quantity of fruit? What arc the sources at 7iand on a plantation from which it inay bo obtained, and how? If stable manure and cotton seed aro the on ly sources, and if others, how manage to utilize them in such manures as a farmer can afford ?" The farmer of to clay cares very little about a theory that practice does not bear ont. The ago is loo progressive and time too precious to deal in anything but the practical. Thousands of dollars have been spent pn this same volatile substance, am ! paonia, in as small a place as Orange burg County, and yet among the mass Of farmars very little is known about jt, but I think a happier day is dawn ing for us. When such questions as these arc asked by the fanners does it not show that a spirit of inquiry is alive among us, and that we are j seeking after the practicable and j available, something that will pay. This very question brought out a piece fiom "J. C. II." last week in j your paper that is richly worth a doz en years'subscription to any farmer in the county. If "J. C. 1J." had never written anything eke but this piece on ammonia, it in itself would place the Orangeburg fanners under lasting obligations to him. It is tine it took hin) a long lime to own up the corn, but he has manfully admitted ! it at last, where he says he uses all j the cotton seed ho can get and Btretehes it as far as it will go, even If he does not get more than five bushels to the acre. That is right,! Doctor, *lif a little will do goud, a' heap will do mo e." j Js ammonia plant food or a stimu lant? It is both ; It first stimulates! the plant to a healthy and vigorous growth, enabling it to send out its i roots in all directions in search of more food ; by an increase of lea!! growth it absorbs moisture and am monia fiotn-lhc atmosphere at the same time the roots are gathering supplies from the soil. We were t Id in "J. C. II.'s" excellent article that all plants contain ammonia ; and as nothing is self generated, they niUbl take it up from both, hence the neces sity of supplying it when soils are deficient in this necessary element, as a tadln L-nl quantity is net supplied by the atmosphere. If ammonia then is found in nil plants, and it is more ubundant in the seed than any other part, it must necessarily follow that it tonds to increased productiveness of fruit as well as healthy growth of plant. Stable manuro and cotton seed are not the uuly souices for supplying ammonia on a plantation, that are, available. What are these others and how managed? With stable ma nure and cotton seed as a base, the farmer has it in his power to create sufficient ammonia at home for all necessary farm purposes without pur chasing a single pound ; and a few weeks from now will be the time to commence operations. If you haven't stables or sheds for all your stock go to work and build them, no necessity for putting up anything line, just nnv thing that wilj do to turn water and j rain off your stock and their drop pings. Put into these stalls and tin der these sheds all the vegetable mat j ter you can gather about the place, j whether green or dry, rake and haul litter from the woods?don't fear you will get too much, have it two or j three feet deep in the stalls after it is I well packed by the stock, so that none of the droppings from them will leach through, buteverythin ? absorb ed and retained. As the top be comes foul add more litter, and con tinue doing so us often as it becomes necessary. Pen up all cattle, sheep and goats every night, and every morning let tho slops from the house be emptied in these stalls, and when hogs are penned for fattening shelter them too, put plenty of litter in their pens, and the quantity of rich manure they will make will surprise those who have never tried it. And now we have by Christmas a vast hulk of crude rnateriul rich in ammonia gen erating properties?but it is not avail able plant food in this condition. Ho fore it can be taken up by plants it must undergo decomposition ; as the food taken into the stomach under goes fermentation and decomposition before it supplies nourishment to the body, or can he taken up by the ab sorbent vessels, so this crude mass requires q change to become plant food, it must undergo this change. It iB true, it will, after long enough, become decomposed in the soil when placed there in tins crude state; but wo cannot wait for this slow process. We want \t in condition to be taken VP by the plant qt once. We want, it for the present crop?we cannot af ford to wait for another year to reap t-ho bene'.lt wo should get this. The following has been my plan for several yoars of utilizing this large mass of unfermented manure, and making it available plant food. I commence with a layer of manure, say one foot deep in large pens or walled up places, then a luyer of cot ton seed, and on this German Kainil or potash salt, then another layer of manure, cotton seed, and pota&l: salt alternately until the heap is about five feet high, and finish up with a thick layer or covering of coarse ma nure. These heaps can he built out in the weather as rains do not effect them. Care should be taken ?o keep the heap thoroughly dampened as it progresses. To this heap I add all the crude manure from horse-stables, cow-stalls, cow lot, hog pens and eve ry available supply about the place. On this mass should be poured daily all slops from the house (and this is not a small i em of ammonia creating material.) Occasionally a pointed polo should be run d.nvn into the heap to see that it does not get too hot. In case it does, water should be poured in these holes until the heap is cooler?in about six weeks or two months it will be ready for use. but can remain several months and lose nothing. When ready to commence hauling out the heap should be cut down perpendicularly, which will thoroughly mix it. While this mass is undergoing fermentation or decomposition Bulllcient ammonia is generated to permeate the whole, making it alike rich in every part. The potash salt certainly acts as an absorbent, as there is no escape of ammonia from these heaps when tho salt is used. That has heretofore been the principal objection to the compost heap. The heat generated by decomposition set tree the ammo nia and it escaped into the air, but if the above plan is adopted there will be no under heat and consequently no unnecessary waste of ammonia. All will be retained and the whole mass becomes rich in ammonia, and readily available as plant food; be-j sides il is light to haul out, thotough ly rotted, and c n be evenly distrib uted in the furrow. Another ndvnn- i tage of these compost heaps, there is sullloicut heat in this mass while un dergoing decomposition to destroy j grass seeds, and the seeds of all weeds that may have been brought ill by stock or thrown into these stalls. J. W. Suiimcus. June I2th, 1880. Grant in 1884. Colonel McCluro telegraph's to the Philadelphia T,\fiu'? from Chicago, "'General Gl ant tji.ielly slipped into the Palmer House this morning, and I never saw him look more gentle and composed, Me came unheralded, at least to the multitude, and witnesses j with complacency the profuse floral and bunting decorations of the Pal mer House rotunda and lobbies which were intended tq celebrate his nomi nation. He chatted pleasantly in passing his acquaintance!), walked] leisurely to the ladies1 parlor und the j outer (loots were closed ngainsl all ? when he entered. In half and hour he stepped but in the same unostenta- i tious manner, and the laces of'Camo ion, Logan and S orrs were visible ns tue lieutenants with whom he had ; been in conference. What trans pired in that brief council of war will probably never be known to the pub lic but alter Grant hid hurried oil' to the Milwaukee train both Cameron and Logan said publicly that Grunt would he nominated without opposi rion in 188-1. The conlidetit expecta tion ol Gen. Grant and bis leaders is that Gariield will he beaten in 1880, and that one term of Democratic rule under the inspiration o! the Confeder ate brigadiers will make the Repub lican paity shout a spontaneous call lor the return of its old commander, and that the country will elect him by the largest popular majority ever given to any President since Monroe. Gen. Grant is repulsed, not defeated, and he no more doubt- his election . to the Presidency if lie lives than he doubled his conquest ol Richmond win n his lines retreated in b'oody Confusion from cold Harbor. Interesting Figures. A diligent statistician professes to have compiled irom ufliciul sources the following figures in icgarto items Iof national expense: Salaries ol nil clergymen.SG.000.000 Cost of dogs.70.000,000 Support ofcrimbials.12.000,000 Fees ol litigation.35 000.000 Cost of tobacco and clgars..?iO.0u0.000 Importation of liquors.?O.OUO.OOO .Support of grog Shops. 1.600.000 Whole cost of liquors..'.....2,000,000,000 The internal revenue report of the United elates government for the fiscal year ending June, 1870, shows the amount of government taxation for the whole country for cigars, tobacco and snuff, during 187G, was ?39,792, IJ3G. Tho number ol cigars on which duties we?e paid in the same period was almost 2.000.000,000. Adding to these 110,000.000 of pounds of tobacco, manufactured for smoking 'and chewing, and wo have an amount of not less than ?250,000, 000 a year. Senator Ferry, of Michigan, who has been appearing in public at Washington for a short time with a black eye, is the last victim of Wash ington scandal. His friends, however, tell a clear story about his getting it, in fact two or thrqe stories, from which it appears that or. Ferry stumbled somewhere or somehow and received his black eye, so aa to speak, in the path of rectitude. Tho Defeat of Grant. Tho defeat of Grant last week at Chicago gives to vaulting ambition tho most severe rebuke that has ever been administered to any American citizen. In times of war, having been given credit for being the greatest military chieftain on the continent, and in times of peace, having been twice elected President of tho United States, this illustrious citizen, after a retirement from tho White House at Washington, made the circuit of the world, and was received at the differ ent courts and cities of ICurope with more distinguished consideration than has ever been accorded to any Ameri can citizen, and upon his return to the shores of Ins own country lie w>s received with the highest honors that, his- countrymen could bestow. Not content with the greatest mili tary and civil honors that have been conferred upon any citizen since Washington, he seeks further and greater honors than the Father of his Country would accept, and the coun try witnesses the spectacle of his ig nominious defeat in a scramble for a third term, While no Other candidate bus any cause for humiliation, except Which naturally follows defeat, our distinguished citizen has been remind ed that he is nut the autocrat of this Republic, and has received such a re buke at the hands of his countrymen as should put a quietus upon his un bounded ambition and m >ke the ex P res'dent bang bis head with shame. After hob-nobbing with Kings and FJmperor8 he no doubt had become drunk with the idea of being the first citizen to bold the Presidential office for a third term, ami perhaps forever. From a Democratic standpoint we are in doubt whether or not to be graltQed at the defeat of Grant and the nomination of Garfietd. There is ne) doubt that (Jen. Grant could or ganize a greater enthusiasm among the negroes in the South than could any other Republican candidate. While this is true, we believe it is also true that Gen. Garfield can com mand a much larger Northern vole than could Gen. G ant. With Gar field as the nominee we feel that we wilt not be so much disturbed in our local elections as wc would have been if Giant had been nominated. The result in our opinion iy, we will be mote secure in our local elections, while the Democratic nominee for President ?viM have a much harder light.?Press anil B inner. Love in New England. The surpassing loveliness of mod ern "progress" is well illustrated by the divorce statistics of the highly cultivated New England States. In Massachusetts there is one divorce to every twenty-one marriages; in Vermont, one to sev- Rlcen ; Rhode Island, one to fourteen, and in Con necticut?godly Connecticut!?one divoice to every eleven marriages. Twenty years ago the proportion of divorces to marriages in Massachu setts was only as *>oc to fifty-one? considerably less than half the pres ent rate. Massachusetts claims to he the most enlightened State in the uni verse?to represent the highest grade of "culture." If this claim be a jjusl one, the unpleasant conclusion is forced upon us that modern civiliza tion means the destruction of the mar riage relation, the disi uplion of all the social tics that bind the family togeth er, the overthrow of all that mankind in all ages has held most sacred upon eurlh. Massachusetts is still behind Connecticut in* this department of 'cub-haw,'' but. she is making rapid .strides toward the goal of perfection, which it is to be presumed will lie tcached when the divorces shall equal man ingc, and divorce be abolished by a constitutional amendment as "vestiges id' barbarism." Low-Country and Up-Country. The fact that all the State ticket was made up from Columbia and be low that city has been frequently re marked on by our people, but we pre sume that no special dissatisfaction will be developed on that account. The ticket is one composed of relia ble and worthy men, who will no doubt li!l the offices to which they have been nominated, with satisfac tion to the whole State. Abbeville is proud of having tho Chairman of the Stale Convention chosen from among her delegates. No man in the State has greater merits or more pop* ularily than Col. James S. Colhran. He is now one of the most prominent citizens of the State, and the people only need an opportunity to confer upon him the highest honors of the Commonwealth.?Press and Banner. Southern mocking birds well de serve the name. They imitate not only the songs of other birds, but hu man whistlers as well. A lady of Macon, Ga., relates that her pel ?mocking bird often deceive all the in mates of her bouse by its clever imi tation of the po '.man's whistle. They go out to gel letters, and find Juck on a spray, near the fence, blow ing his whistle and looking entirely innocent of any intcution to hoax the family. Fred Grant in red hot and cannot be muzzled. He swears that if father loses the election, the old commander will be solid for Tilden or any other Democrat. Who Shall Boat Garfieid? We have a slight dnalrb to form some wholsome Gonelus:on*^&Jto the man who can beat knock the ship oft* the Ohio statesman's h?ad.- .We be gin with the acceptance oT. the fact that our quondam leaijj^of Gramer cy Park has retired to that sweet and consoling privacy which leaves him no longer worried in looking after the fortunes of the Democracy, aud that he will confine himself*for the future to . _ ?'Roses aud lilies and forge^ne?n&s." Leaving Mr. Tilden^tKcn, in the shadows of Gr a mercy Park, let us look mound for tho man tof>0 the work, for the greatest nojninee under the sun, who has dropp?clTn ugpn us as the bottom of "tho ,tub#>of the plumed knight of M-tMrt^And ""the greatest captain of the ^eV'^tni the great resumptionist dropped out. Who shall he bo who shall?jpluck sweet victory from o:!r. adv?rsity?j How do we stand in the list of'calfdi-1 dales? Here they are, im,*in a*row, j and alphabetically arranged: ? % 1. Bayard, of Delawat? 2. Knglish, of Indian,. *. 5). Field, of Californufa 4. Hancock, of Pennsylvania.* 5. Ilcndricka, of Indiana, - G. Payne, of ! - fr, 'jfrj- ? 7. Seymour, of NcvJ^^^vkT 8. Thurman, of Ohio. Let us see how many de legates will compose the Cincinnati Convention. These amount to 738. _ Now. with the two-thirds rule enforced, which it will undoubtedly be, it .u^kiives a vote of 402 to reach the nomiuulion. Let any man sit down with this list before him and ask himself vsliich of all these names is at ail likely to reach this vote of-102. Qihers may see the matter quite differently v*om us, but we think Seymour is the only man likely to do it. It is lni > hers said not to bo a candidate and lie may get only a nominal vote at fi-.it, bt\t when it conies to the pinch he wIU.be recog nized as a political neecvjily.. ? We do not follow any preference in this matter at all. "We la* only look ing at tilings as wo see* them llatly before us. The wires inform us the great State of Illinois endorses Sey mour. Suvely an intelligent wide awake State like Illinois, with such splendid Democratic possibilities be fore her, should she wet V. into line, lias not wasted her pre^j^oe. Wo, thervlore, may '?s wTTo^Ssntemplale Soyuiour as a political Tact in the race. And if Illinois presses Iiis nominal ion he will bo nominated, and with him we can surely whip the light. Illinois is more of a political possibility to the Democracy than Ohio; and should wc win back the Stato of Stephen A. Douglas, we be lieve she would, stick, and the De mocracy by her. At all events wc believe her counsels in I he Conven tion will be potent and he heeded.? Columbia Register. In only a few weeks the class of "80 will "cross the threshold'- and "enter the arena" and begin the "ba'.tle of life." Once more "night" will per form its grand annual spectacular feat, and will succssfully "bring out the stars." H will also bring out the cats, and likewise the bugs, but she? bless her pretty innocent face?will not say anything about that in her essay. "The mill will never grind with the water that has passed" again, just as it refused to grind with the same water last year. "Man" will again be "the arbitftg of his own des tiny," ajid'impersoha] people will be generally warned to "beware" of des perate steps on the assurance that ?Uhe darkest day" never hist through day aller to-morrow?a great conso lation for the man who has lost his lantern. IV unkind will be cheerfully told to Hope on, Hope ever, although what they are to hupe for, beyond the death of a rich and childless relative, is not very definitely set forth. TllE work of the l^iti.le revision Committee, so far ns concerns the New Testament is now substantially ended, and the revised text will pro bably be formally and finally publish ed during the summer, No more apt occasion could be selected, for the present year is the fifth centenary of the publication ? f Wyclille's transla tion of the Bible, printed in 1380. j The work has been going on simul taneously in England and this coun try. The appearance of the new ver sions will be one of the summer's sen sations. A change that, will strike the ordinary render *is the arrange ment paragraphs, according to sense, instead of the chapter and verse plan of the King James transla tors. Work on the Ohl '.Testament will hardly be completed before 1883. Jai'fkksox Davis' plantation nt Hurricane. Miss., ts leased by Mont goinery & Sons. The firm is com posed of four negroes who were for merly owned by a brother of the cx Presideni of the Confederacy. They own plantations worth S75.000, hire several more and do a largo mercaur tile business at Vicksburg. Gen. James A. Garfieid, of Ohio, the Republican candidate for the Presidency, hns been since tho war a member ol Congress, and is now in the House. The present Legislature of his Slate being Republican, elected him to auceeed Mr. Thurman in tho United States Senate. Tilden and Grant. Tilden has been completely baulk ed in bis plans and purposes by tho defeat of Grant at Chicago. He sees there is no chance for him now. Even his money and skill as a mana ger cannot save him, and ho has re solved to retire from the contest, and make no further effort, either by him self or through bis friends, to -el the nomination at Cincinnati. This is a sudden giving way under outside pressure ; ?9 up to the nomination of Guifield lie was fully in the field, with a firm resolve to get the nomination if he could. We liSve not been fully infolmed aa to the particular bearing winch late events have had upon bis prospects which induced the change in his purposes, but there is evidently a reason, and a good oue too, for the course he has taken. The talk of Grant stock looming up in Dcmocrtic quarters seems to be not exactly nil tall;, and the idea of putting him forward with bis own consent seems to he gaining ground, ridiculous as it may seem at the first view. The idea of Grant being tho possible Democrats nominee will be scarcely realized or seriously consid ered until the first dash of surprise and astonishment has passed off This, ?hough strange ami startling enough, is not exactly new for the same thing was hinted at in 1SG8. It has been said by prominent Northern Democrats that this mov? is not more absurd and contradictory than was the nomination of Horace Grecley in 1872, and the chances of success much belter. The plea is urged, and with some shade of prob ability, thai Grant could carry tlio | South in a body, which would strike confusion and consternation into the: opposing ranks, and completely break and demoralize the. Republican line in the New England Slates, and di vide and distract the party tactics and purposes generally. The disalb'ded and disappointed, and their name is legion, might seize the occasion lb break out of party traces, and ignore the resolution binding them to support the nominee of the Chicago Conven tion. This may serve as the sensa tion of the hour, and be useil to al ract attention anel excite comment and speculation till ruled off the track by something else in the line of a new tiino days wonder. Althoughjrognrd ed by the great body of the Northern Democrats as a huge joke that no liorly for a moment believes, 3-et it is said to be much /discussed.? Palmet to Yeoman. The Nimble Cowhide. The excitement for last Monday was the public cowhiding of one col ored young ipau by another. A young colored girl was tho betrothed of a young man named Clinton, but, after the wedding day had been ap pointed and the bridal trosseau ar ranged, Clinton espied another dam sel upon whom he centred his affec tions. Last week they were married, to tho utlersurpri.se of sweetheart number one. Allen Crawford, a bro ther of the deserted gill determined upon revenge. Last Monday even ing bu met Clinton near the store of Messrs. Hunter & Hood and gave him a severe whipping with a cowhide. Bystanders say not less than a hund red lashes wore applied with consid erable energy. Clinton bore the ap plication of the lash with meekness and without resistance. Monday night a brother of Clinton took the matter up, but a co'lision between him and Crawford was averted by the in terference of spectators. It Is prob a'de the end 16 not yet.?Carolina RevU W. Wonders will never cease. Merc is the Philadelphia Grand Jury asking for the whipping post in its last pre sent men'., in the following terms: "Punishment should be severe, short and decisive. Then our prison ca pacity would, we feel assured, be sudluieiil to meet tiio requirements. We would, therefore, suggest the en actment of a law by the Slate Legis ture which would allow u mode of punishment subject to the will of the judges to criminals' for a second and subsequent offense, similar to that now in the Sla'o of Delaware, as the best mode of overcoming the present evil of overcrowded prisons." The Toledo Blade denounces the English sparrow as "a swaggerer, a boaster, a liar, ami a caucus-packer, a frequenter of free lunches, and a (lead bent generally. Ho has no do j mestic virtues, and is as devoid of public spirit as a defeated candi date aller a county convention. His appeal a nco in this country was a misfortune, and Ids continuance here is a nuisance that ought to be abated j by general legislation. T,he city of [ New York may want him to keep ' people out of Central Putk, but so far as Toledo is concerned, thy sparrow must go." TilK Commissioner of Agriculture is sending cut circulars,soliciting sam ples of the products of every county. They will be carefully arranged in the propei classes and plainly marked with the name of county and contri butor. Specimens of whentx corn, oats, peas, <fec, are wanted ; also any article used for Agricultural or ; Mechanical purposes, manufactured in tho State. Arthur's Record. The stint; of the ticket lies in the tail. 'J he Republican party has too many men of Vice-Presidentia' cali bre to be put on with the nomination of Chester A. Arthur. That gentle man has been prominent in politics of tho country for some years, but not in any enviable way. Perhaps no name known to newspaper readers, except that of Mr. Cornell, calls ftp readily and so offensively the idea of; the machine which has disgraced the party in New York and serves as a text for the denunciation of civil set vice reformers all over the country. General Arthur is a machine politi cian in almost every su.'ise of the word and to the extent of his ability ho was set up as a boss, subject only to the orders of his bosses, who are Conk ling and his Lieutenant, Cornell. It canot be forgotten that Iiis candi date for Vice-President has served in this capacity, and that in this ca pacify he boldly violated his obllga-i lions to conduct in the public interest the Federal oflice entrusted to his keep ing. Mis prostitution of the civil aervice to partisan ends went, in fact, to such a length that a Republican administration was obliged to take notice of it and call him to account. Nor did bis partisan virulence stop there for he took issue with tho ad ministration, defied its authority and wa3 foremost in the battle for the spoil system, which was one of the most notable events in the early his tory of the Hayes administration, it will not edify honest Republicans to read what Secretary Sherman said of Mr. Arthur and his associates in sup port of the attempt to remove him. In putting Buch a man on bis ticket, without any regard to the general lack of qualifications for se> important ! an oflice, the Convention humbled it self in the dust at the feet of the Ross of Rosses and gave him a sweet re venge upon the influences which com bined to defeat the third-term con spiracy. Harmony i4* dearly bought ' at such a price.?Philadelphia TimnrA A Princess' Romance, About the tccent marriage of the Princess Frederica of iIanover there was not a little romance. '?Here,'' said a London correspondent, "is a Princess mairyiug a private secre tary ; a descendant of the Hanovari ao Kings marrying an undisiinguish eel Baron, doing it against the will of her brother, making her friends, the Cambridges,furious, and calling forth the sneers of the Imperial family in Germany. She is encouraged by the Queen of England who applies to the Emperor William for her dowry, anil braves the wrath other family to satisfy the will of her ralative. The Princess Frodrrioa has loved the Huron R?umungen for veaTs. She sought long ago for permission to make him her husband. For his sake she had refused more than one advantageous match. Il is said when Prince Leopold began to siiow some thing more to her than a mere friend ly attachment she determined to ap peal to him as the favorite son of the Queen. She told him her story and asked Iiis aid. Like a Hue knight, be devoted himself to her cause, lie urged his mother until she caught some of her son's enthusiasm ; he ar ranged matters which without him would have been difficult ; he turned her clitics into her partisans ; and so it comes about that a sister of n crown less King is able with even something like pomp to marry for love." A better day is drawuing in Auro ra, Nevada, for a Gospel preacher is wanted. The local editor's soul is touched, and with a vexed spirit he dies out: "We are sorely in need of a preached ; we don't want any cheap trash. We want a good muscular Christian, who can calch sinners by the scruir of the neck and drag them howling up the plane of righteous ness ; one wtio will not drink more than Tie can bold. Such a man will get a right smart lay out here. If he can play the fiddle for the regular j weekly dance it will augment his [salary Bomewhal." Texas papers say that last Septem ber the wife of Mr. B. H Davis was supposed to have been drowned while bathing with a parly of friends at Gulvcston. Her death was announc ed in the obituary columns of the pa pers, and her funeral sermon was preached at the Baptist Church in Bryan. It has just been ascertained, however, says tho Times, that the lady was not drowned, and that she has since becu living in New York city, having eloped with a pyclended friend of her husbrnd. J A Southern paper quotes a gentle ' man of the colored persuasion as say ing : "No, parson, I problyTI never jgit courage to jine de church. When , a poor darkey's spiritual' viscr tnkes i him down in the riber and says, 'I capsize thee,' and then ducks under, I ii's time dat darkey looks after his self. You don't play none ob dem games on me, old man.'' Gkn. Judson Kilpatrick, of New Jersey, was quite unanimous for Gi ant at Chicago. Considering the General's own estimate of himself, it was for tunate that he was not required to go farther west, lest the country night j tip up, V'nstward. Light on Garfield. Tbc New York Sun 6heds light upon the Republican nominee, as follows ; "The character of Gen. Gar Bcld can be judged by the following conspicuous facts: When, in 18,72, the Credit Mobilier bribery and cor ruption among members of Congress were first exposed, Gen. Garfield wan one among those accused. He imtne? diatoly published a letter expressly and positively denying that he had any share in it. Next, on January 14, 1873, he appeared before the com mittee of tho House of Representa tives, and under oa'h declared : "I never owned, received, or agreed to receive any stock of the Credit Mohi? lier, or of the Union Pacific Railroad, nor any dividends arising from either of Ibera.' "But on January 2Gth next followr ing, the Hon. Oakes Ames was exam ined before the same committee, nnd proved by record evidence, partly iij Gen. Gat field's own handwriting, that Gen. Garlicld had had stock in tho Credit Moodier, and that he had re reccived dividends thereupon. Mr. Ames also testified that Gen. Gar field hail visited hiin subsequent to the commencement of the investiga tion by the House, and had endeavor ed to induce him to swear before the com mi tec thai money thus paid him as dividends had been delivered to him as a loan,' anJ yet, at the very game lime that lie had endeavored to procure this false testimony from Mr, Ames, Gen. Garfield had called upon Mr. Ames to pay him an additional sum of money on account of the Credit Mobilier, claiming that the dividends he had aheacly received had not been as large as they should have been. "A perjurer, and a man who at tempts to suborn perjury, is not fit to be President. ' One other important feature in, the history of Gen. Garfield is his re lation to the De Goyler paving con tract. One De Goyler bad made a coo tract with tho Shepherd Ring in Washington to put down a quanti'.y of patent pavement. Gen. Garfield was Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations in '.he House of Rep resentatives. In order to pay for this patent pavement an appropria tion was needed from Congress. The sum of live thousand dollars was paid to Gen. Garfield on behalf of De Go\ Icr, aud appropriations to the amount of millions of dollars were thereafter grauted to the Washing ton Ring, the appropriation for the De Goyler pavemcpt being included therein, "These ore gome of the facts in the public record of James A. Gar field for Piesidedt of the United Stales." The Whirlpool of Journal torn. Oh, tin8 great absorbing, cavernous hissing, roaring, foaming, maelstrom of journalism 1 How it sucks in lalect genius, earning, brains, hopes, ambi tions, aspirations ! Of the hundreds who are called, how few aro chosen 1 What infinite variety of ability it de mauds 1 What tact, knack, care and industry 1 We must speak well of each other, old friends, for nobody else will have much to eay of us. We are to ihc temple of fame as curbstone brokers are to the legitimate ex change. We must content ourselves with making all the noise possible while we ate living, for very little noise shall we make after we have finally departed. I Little Edith (who has heard her mamma speak of blighted affections,) ??Mamma, and you think if a person J is really and truly in love it would be wicked to deprive her of tho object of her affections?" Mamma : "Why, eertianly, E.'?lh, dear ; but whero in ! the world did you learn all that?" ! Edith: "I heard you tell it to Mrs. I Jinglejaw to-day Aud, nA&mma, I'm awfully :n love with piece oi I cake in the cupboard." It in need less to Hay that Edith and the object of her affections wero immediately united. During, the session of the Chicago Convention on Friday, when the reading was concluded and the chair rapped in order to put the question on the adoption of the majority re port, a North Carolina colored dele gate, who had been taking a nop, roused himself and sung out, "Sbavo jsir?" This caused some exhibition of good humor, and was quite a relief to the usual condition of acrimony. During his speech in the nomina ting ol Grant on Saturday, Conjutrtg [ had the massive cheek to. say of j him : "Without bureaus, committees, ollicials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his fftvor, without in tiiguc or effort on, his part, Qran.t hi I the candidate w hose supporters ^svo I never threatened to, bolt, as they eay j he is a Republican, who never wa ' vcrs." j ?An hones.t politician has been discovered, in the person of State I Senator Duivid R. Mm ray, of Han jcock County, Kentucky. Senator I Murray was abitged to visit Lend jville, Colorado, during the session of the Legislature and upou his return ; refused to draw from tho State Trei 'sury 8105, to which he was legally j entitled.