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responding will b? important, apd is urged upon all, as a part of the plan is not to commence tho publication of The Farmer until the whole amount necessary for tho purpose has been realized. The Farmer will contain sixteen pages 12.1-2 by 10 inches. Though local in name, it is by no means designed that it shall be local in its sphre of usefulness. On the contrary, it is intended for any and overy part of the State. Ono dollar will be tho subscription price of The Farmer for one year. Names of sub scribers can be forwarded through the mail to the undersigned, or left with Capt. Hamilton at his store. Single hints or receipts in an agricul tural journal not unfrcqucntly prove of much greater value to a subscriber than the co3t of the paper. We once saw in the Southern Culti vator a communication from a Geor gia farmer, detailing his plan of cur ing meat. Impressed with it as being a good one, wc adopted it, and 1 arc satisfied it ? has saved us many times over the subsciption price of the Cultivator. Had this plan been generally known and prucliced at the comnenccmcet of the last butchering season, the demand for Western bacou would not be quite so great as it is. Arrangements have already been perfected with the well-known estab lishment of Walker, Evans & Cogs well, printers, of Charleston, for the getting up of The Farmer. The name of these gentlemen is a suffi cient guarantee that thelf part of the contrast will be carried out to the let ter. Our aim has been to get up a paper at as small cost as possible, in order that wo could a fiord to furnish it to our subscribers at a coiresponding!}' lO'iY J?gurp, AH that we can hope to realize oVo? tH$ W'.Z expeuscs of publication, &c, will hardly amount to moro than a reasonable compensation for our services. With this however, we will be content; and will labor as faithfully and as earn estly in the discharge of our duty to our patrons, as if it amounted to a small fortune. AH wo ask of our brother farmers is their liberal patron agc. With this promptly exteuded, the plan for establishing The Farmer on a permanent basis, will certainly prove, as it is designed a safeguard against a failure of the en.crprise, und consequent loss to subscribers. Give us a trial, and if at the end of twelve mouths we can Gnd a sub scriber who can hold up his right hand and say that he had not receiv ed the full value of tho amount in vested, wc will not only return him his money, but will make him a pre sent of as fine a pair of pigs as the county can afford. We want three thousand subscrib ers, and as many more as we can get. Our friends throughout tho country, (and we hope their name is legion,) are earnestly solicited, not only to send in their own names, but to en deavor to obtain and forward at the same time scores of others. We want canvassing ngonts to op erate from the mountains to the sea board. If our enterprise is success ful, and they will certainly have it in their power lo make it smincnlly so, ?Lhey will be well paid for their ser vices. Besides, as their labors will be amongst a people renowned for their hospitality, they will be at little j or no expense. Thero are doubtless I those who from ill health, the loss of I an arm, or some other misfortuuc can I not well engago in any of the ordina I ry pursuits of life, but would find no ! difficulty in acting in the capacity of an agent. An extensive tour through the country, would doubtless, in some cases be far moro beneficial to ono in poor health, than all the medicine he cotdd take in twelve months. Agen cies with patties desiring it will be ' made permanent, as it will bo impor ! taut to canvass from year to year for j new subscribers, and at the same time I to collect subscriptions when due. Particular as to terms will be fur jnished upon application. A word in conclusion to our fair friends tho ladies. We have un bounded confidence in the influence and power of woman to accomplish whatever she undertakes. It is scl-i dorn that a causo in which she is en listed fails. With the influence and kindly offices of the ladies in bohalf of The Farmer we would feel assur ed of its success. Their aid in mak ing the enterprise a success will en title them not only to tho heartfelt thanks and lasting gratitude of the writer, but also to a claim upon The Farmer, which he will lake great pleasure in recognizing by setting apart certain of its pagc3 under the head of "Ladies Department," for their special benefit and pleasure. A. C.SALLEY. Orangeburg, August Cth, 1880. Boys. Get hold of tho boy's heart. Y on der locomotive with its thunder train comes like a whirlwind down the track, and a regiment of armed men might seek to arrest in in vain. It would crush them and plunge unheed ed on. But there is a little lever in its mechanism that, at the pressure of a man's baud, will slacken its speed, and in a moment or two bring it pan ting and still, like a whipped spaniel, at your feet. By tho snme little lev er the steamship is guided bitber and yon, upon tho sea, in spite of adverse wind or current. That sensitive and responsive spot by which a boy's life is controlled is his heart. With your grasp gentle and firm on that helm, you may pilot him whither you will. Never doubt that he lias a heart. Bad and willful boys very often have the tendercst heart hidden away some where beneath incrustations of sin, or fcchind barricades of pride, And it is youj" kuaUlfiSP at that heart, lieep hold of it by sympathy, H'1" ing in bim, manifestly working ouly for his good, by little indirect kind nesses to Iiis mother or sistor, or even his pet dog. See bim at bis home, or invite him to yours. Provide bim some little pleasure, set him to some iittle service of trust for yon ; love him?love him practically. Any way and every way rule bim through bis heart.?Sunday Shool Timrs. Laughing Off a Duel. "Speaking of tho Cash Shannon duel,'' said the Exchange fiend, put ting bis feet in the waste basket, "wo need a few nicn liko Judge Dooly. lie laughed out of duels with an au dacious wit that compelled even- the admiration of his enemies. You re memborhe said, when they threatened that if he didn't fight his name would fill the columns of a newspaper, that be had rather fill ten newspapers than one coffin, Once be went on the field with a man who bad St. Vitus' dance. His opponent was standing at bis post, his whole frame jerking nervous ly from his malady. Dooly, in the soberest manner, left his post and cutting a forked slick, stuck it in the ground in front of his opponent. '"What docs this mean ?' naked his opponent. '"Why,' says Dooly, lI want you to rest yonr pistol in that fork bo that you can steady your aim. If you sboot at me with that band shaking so you'll pepper me full of holes the first fire." "Then there was a laugh nil around and the duel was put off without a day."--Atlanta Constitution. The following, which we clip from the Camden Journal t certainly claps the climax: "Un Sunday last A. J. Clinton, colored, of liberty Hill, sent a letter to Horace White, also color ed, by his son. The letter was of an offensive nature, and ended by chal lenging him to a duel with pistols, at ten paces; and said ho only wanted a chance to put two bullets through his darned heart. Now, Horace did not want the bullets put through his heart in that manner, so to prevent it he came to Camden on Monday and bad a warrant issued for Clinton's airesl for sending a challenge." A Harmless Letter. The following letter, recently pub lished; in the Washing con Natianal Republican, explains itself: Qasu's Duvot, S. C., July IS. Gen. M. (J. Butler, Edgrfidd, S. G. General: I have seen your letter j of the 13th published in the Newa and Courier, and I believe every friend you have must blush for shaino at your conduct. It is the first time in the history of this State) and proba-1 bly the first, in any civilized land,) that one occupying tho exalted posi tion iu which the people of South Carolina have (unfortunately) placed you, has disgraced and degraded that position by making an unprovoked, uncalled-for, basely-falso and cow ardly attack upon a "private citizen, who has tamely and willingly sub mitted to the laws, awaits and courts a full investigation of his conduct and asks for nothing moro from his countrymen than a fair trial and even-handed justice. You, sir, have prostituted your high office to array public opinion against me and to have judgment passed upon me with out a hearing. Your course was "un provoked" and "uncalled-for," as 1 had never expressed* to any one the unbounded contempt I had for you. Your attack is cowardly, for you as sail me now when I am in the fetters of the.law. Your attack is basely and maliciously false,"1'for while' you profess to know nothing of the merits of the case, you carefully misrepre sent (and to my injury) the'facts you do know, and you have Hie brazen ef frontery to use the words "swash buckler" and "border ruffianism." Your.past record should severely ad monish you against the uso of such expressions. In addition to your othor qualities of heart and soul, ybtr may add that of tbc basest iugrali I'usaZ. A short time after you had completed your campaign as a ped dler of j bogus lottery tickets, you pit eously appealed to me to aid you in removing the barnacles and filth you had collected upon you in the foul wallow. You had no claims npon me, but in pity for you I generously urged my injured friends to give you a fair hearing before you were con demned. They await that "hearing" now, General, but doubtless will wait in vain. Subsequent to this you cun ningly, adroitly and very politely so licited the privilego of inserting your hands into my pockets, hut I politely declined tho distinguished honor. Can that be the sore that chafes you now, Geueral? or has your intuitive sharpness enabled you to read my unexpressed thoughts, and that you are now my enemy, for the reason that you know I believe yon to be unscrupulous, heartless, totally sei fish, cruel and'eowardly ? I could not expect or wish, General, that a man of your soulless character could un derstand or in any manner appreciate the motives that actuate and sustain me in my present difficulties, nor would I hope for sympathy from a man who has recently boon branded in i ublic as a liar and who only sought redress by returning the of fensive epithet. As yon havcMiere tofore on ail occasions been for sale to friend or foe, Radical or Demo crat, the idea occurs to roe as to tho propriety of buying you for the pre sent occasion. Pleas'.', General name your price? E. B. C, Gas?. ? Gen. Butler's Rbply. A reporter of the Neivs and Cou rier called on Gen. Butler nt Edge field, and the following conversation occurred : Reporter, Uavo you anything to suy, General, in reply to tho charges which Col. Cosh brings against ycu? Gen. Butler. No, except to say that"they arc purely imaginary. Not a word of truth in any of them. Of course, I do not say whether his charge, that I am a coward, is true or not. It is never safe to pass judg ment on any man's courage. 1 have seen some peoplo terribly diappoint cd in that regard, and Col. Cash may And it so in this case, but we cannot always tell. , Reporter. Have you ever bad any moneyed transactions with him? What does ho mean by "tho privilege of inserting your hands. j# his pock ets," &c., &c. Gen. Butler. Why, it means that the man is erazy or something worse. I nover had a moneyed transaction, or endeavored to have one with him in my life, our kany other business transaction. So he bns drawn entire ly on bis imagination for this state ment. Nor did J ever "piteously ap? ply to him about the "lottery," as he calls it. My {own and Gen. Gary's connection with that business has been explained again and again, and was about tho same as that of Gcno. Bcauregard and Early with the Loui siana Lottery. The difference is, that theirs has been a success, ours was a stupendous failure. Our attempting such an enterprise, under the circum stances was a piece of ineffable stu pidity, but I had no occasion to ap ply pitcously to Col. Cash or anybody else nbcut it, and, therefore, his .state ment iu regard to it is without foun dation iu fact. Like every man who makes such a mistake, I felt disgust ed with myself about it, but I am not in the habit of complaining of sympa thy being withheld ns Col. Cash docs iu my case. Reporter. Ho says that you had "recently bden branded in public as a liar, and only sought, redress by re tnrniug the offensive epithet." Did such un occurrence ever take place? Gen. Butler. Never. There is not a word of truth in it. And I have only this to say as to that. If Col. Cash wiR produce one rcspeotablo or reputable man who will say that such a thing happened, if I do not., pr.oye that he lies I will make to him the most abject apology .for any grievance real or imaginary, that was ever made to man. And if be docs not do so, wlicro" will ho be? Oh, no, I have no objection to tho publicatiorrof the letter. Very hard things have been said about mo before, and J have sur vived them and trust I wili survive this. There are some thingB that 1 might say about the publication of my letter, but I shall not do so now ; nor shall I indulge in recriminations with Col. Cash, or throw mud at him but leave him to his own conscience, which I hope will cause him to feel ashamed of his letter. He was not in the "fetters of the law" when my letter was written, to my knowledge, and they do not appear to chafe much now. I have nothing to retract of my letter, but cannot sec why Col. Cash should fcol specially aggrieved, as no more mention is made of him than others con nee tied width tho duel unless the "cap fits bim" better than others, for which I am not to blame. I only expiessed my opinion about a public- transaction in which a number of persona were engaged. Why, have I not the right, to do that, It is suggested, in the light of George Eliot's recent singular mar riage, and the announcement of the Baroness Burdctt Contta's engage, meat to a man twenty-seven years her junior, that it is getting to be roally fashionable for women in tho "best society"?which sometimes means tho 'poorest?to marry men younger than thomselves. We sespeot that the possession of a substantial amount of cash by the lady is rather essential in a match of this kind, if the differ ence in years is very marked, And oven I hen tho young man is quite liko ly to repent ut leisure for bis folly. An old darkey being asked if be thought Gurfield would be elected) said : "Well, yon see when wo used to have so mucb fun, long ago, down on tho river fishing we always flung away all do Gar-Fish we cotcb, and 1 don't think you will hear much about dat Qar-Fisb man artcr next Novem ber, caso he'll be dun tho'd away too by dat time,1nark what I say," uTi|k Republican party" says the Tribune ^a. about to take oil its coat," Just so ; and tho Democratic party is about to lay on the hickory gad. )\4A sQpery ?n the Code. " Me?sws. Kditqrs X am a strong .. advocate of the code of honor, and think ith-*be-propei^r?ie^nd-fplde-^jf-~ conduct' for' ^ntl?nfe?:' ? "regard' = water and,cannot brook an insult. "Now, I And* 'on inspection of 'l'he?J' records (yes, it is .r^n-dea against me) of a case ipe ^ten^ers' JSank of Fairflet? against me.on a' no&wfir* money loaned .me, and wt|ioh j? greater defended, in what isjoailcd'tae.^4ej*iv ? ation, the followiug vydrids'of 'me "<iiie''' ' defendant s fffl <Se ^{a^^ffi?0 * not regarding: bis ft%W,ftevertf p?on?4tA j sco and undertakings,- rpAdp In fpsni-j aforesaid, but wmftivtog %ftd Jfratffli^,,,^ fcn?fy intending: cra/tily m$ u to deceive and defrctjid the gajd )plain- 1 tiff, Ibas not as yet paid,the said j oev-,. eral num.". of money, or. cither of JJgpV>j or any part thereof, to lhe: eai^.plfdn-.. , tiff, although Often requested , do.. , "The question I wish to ask you (for of course you will agree that tins'' was an insult of the most aggravated character) is wliclueiv?twerity ! one years having elapsed since 1 thhV Vile slander was perpetrated?I can \\o\7 properly challenge the bank ; and, if so, what particular officer shiil I chril-' lenge? Again, if the proper officer bo dead, can I challenge his admiuistra tor? ? :' '' ?1i 'S u*m too II iJ liatw ? "Youra truly^ B. Fueioso. ii.VlV-S. and N. B.?This is a.private a) noill Olli '?'..i .ui tr Juii letter and not,for nublicatiou." We can Und no information on this point in onr'cyelopedia/f TTOJlf&tft^' of limitation might be pleaded, unleee the maxim "nulluni tempua ?courrit regt" applies to the Code. ' A3 the form in question was printed, the printer might be held responsible. The death of $p Planters' Bank is an Obstacle, but the Receiver got its assets and ho skoAld Staisfy all claims certainly this one, it he make* him self pvlvy* by collecting the moneys Otherwise; the Winnsboro National Bank, as scccessor, comes in. Wo would not go for an administrator; administrators have a rough enough time anyhow.? TPwwisoorn tfeuja. and Herald. Garfleld on the Road. Presidential combinations on the road have hitherto been an unbroken succession of politioal disasters, and General Garfleld should have otudied their history carefully before starting out on his present starring tour. It is true, that there was urgent necessi ty for a general council of war by t^o Republican chiefs. Chairman Jewell's flank movement under Gen. Weaver in Alabama, resulted in a most dis graceful 1 out, and closed the cean paign in tho South for the season. Maine in now trembling in the bal ance and is threatened with .Capture by the same fusion that Jewell and Weaver tried, in; Alabama, and if 1 Maine shall falter in September, it will carry every doubtful. State with it in Noveu.iber. |t was not expected that Gon. Qurfleld could give valua ble counsel to the national committco about carrying the debatable States, but tho critical nature of the entert i'.enoy doubtless made the managers feel anxious to have their Presiden tial candidate take a full sha.ro ofin dividual responsibility: for a battle, that may bring irretrievable disaster. It would have been vastly belter for Gen. Garfleld and his cause if he bad remained quietly at Mentor, Instead of imitating tho many exhibitions of the Presidency on tho road, ail of which arc romerobcred wlth'regret, No Presidential candidate of the last half century or more, with the einplo exception of Mr. Tilden, has been ablo to manage or wisely direct the p/dicy of his own campaign, and Gen. Gnrlield is a pointed illustration of the truth of the statement. h\ able, eloquent, scholarly and one Of the moat experienced of our public, men; but the Presidential nomina tion has dwarfed him until ho is uri ab'o to utter a bravo sentiment v?ith o\d> qualifying it.?Phila. Times.