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FAIRFIELD HERALD 01 R. MEANS DAVIS, Editor, b W1oftsdy 'or ling June 16 18* 'hat was a prematur&gpp9uvQ,,, nont made some tlni.ago that La nar aa4Geu. Jhbtgn. 4ad bobn ap liiited to prominent )ositious in the 1 celebration of the Philadelphia Con. A tonnial. No appointments have, as yet, been mado. The Sumter Watchtnan says tha Gov. Chamberlain has appoin-ted lonq John N. FrieH'ti, Jury Comm'issione' of 43um'to-r'Oounty. This is an admir rab' a'ppointment, as it is a-n a kuowledgment thatthis is a 'oost rb' sponsible positi~on. With Yualgo Shaw on the bench, and Col. Frierson as Jury Commissioner, the peo'ple of Sumter, whito and colored, will hav justie dcalt to them impartially. Wondoll Phillips wants Grant for a third term. lailing in that, he believes Beast Butler the bost man for President. Admiral Somines declares that the South must do niand a repeal of the 14th amend ment that disfranchised certain of hor citizens, as a pro requisite to her participation in the Centennial. It would be a good thing to pit these champions again-t eoach other. Our spare change is staked on Setmmes. The Supreme Court of New llamp-. shire, comnrosed of two democrats and a republician, decided unanimously that the State Senate was the judge of the election of its members, and that there was a quorum when the two democratic Senators woreo do.. clared el-oted. This confirms the notion of the democrats. Tho secod ing re.publicans have returned to the Senate, and the Legislature is work ing smoot-hly. On joint ballot, Cheney, republican, was elected Governor. T-hus, by an obedience to law, a disgrticeful co'ntest 1as 'becu avoided. Uovornor Ohbnborlain and Rororm.' I It is unfortunate that a discusnion has boca commenced in the State papavs, as to whether Gov. Chamber lain is a reformer or an artful seheni or. His administration began so auRpiciously and hs already produo. ed so much satisfutin in th.) State. that we regret that any ocasion has arisen for a discussion a s to the in. teogrity of his motives. The only cause for discontent sooms to con sist in the delay in prosecuting ofli-, cial criminals. We believe that both sides in the dispute are err ing On the one hand the governor is do. niounced as a villain, and on th other ho is extolled ats a saint. Now the friends of the governor must admit that lie is an experiment, and is now on probation. Hlis record 'during the first six years of recon. st.ruct.ion, is had, (juite had. But, 'no has been nobly redeeming himself of late, and the people are in doubt 'now as to his ro.il character. IIis recent recordl prevents any one from 'denouncing him as altogether wick cd. Ilis past recordl prevents the dofonce that lie is absolutely good. So that any one assuming either of these .positions Is mnistalken. WeT must grant tlhe governor times. Rome was not built in a day, and all the thieves cannot be proscoutod in a month. Though the proseou tions be not swift enough to please overy one, it must not be assumed that the governor is shielding orimj, nials from the conJsequeb-oos of their sins, Yhile, however, the people should tbe willing to grant time to the gov.. ernor, 'he should take care that no indulgence bho requiredI, knowing that confidancc is a 'lilant of blow growth, and that he has'but 'recently inmplantedl it in the brcasts of the people, ho should uso every exertion to fost.,r it, sud remadvo all hoxiotta. weeds that would choke it out. lie should therefore push these prosoeu-. tioars,'fourlessly without favor. As' frionde -of the ,administ,ration we I anode this advice, both for Ida 'g6od - n thM. of -the peopla "in 'whoe e. half we are laboring. We are deeply interested in Ooy, I Chamberlain. We are anxious to I ieo a mianot his ability - prove him- t seIf worthy of tho -ta}lrnts intrusted i to him. But there is an element of d uolfishiness commingled with this inN al tercst. -Gov.Chambierlain is a no- ) cessity- lie, alone, in the State has tl power at resent :to ebook 'fraude, 'tl Istor h96sty an l restore order ut ch"aos. pile votoe. tre' terrible a ourges op the Looks 4f thieves, and b ever,il( o evhko bowls of rage 0 Sda~ 'Igbjm orraption can o forever orippl6d. -Should Gov. Chamberlain once )se he mastery ,he,will, be. trampled a the dut, and with him will be a esirod'the last bartier that has f( eon reared againetoortre. during the ' 'ast six months. Ignorance, bestiali. e y and villain'y will usurp the thron., a ind rendered savage by previous p isappohi6tnients, will make the lit Itate of. South Car6lina worse than lie Irst. By losing th,) confidence f the honest people of the State, nd thereby losing the vote in the t Legislature which has heretofore v Irmly supported every measure f reform, this mastery will be lost 0 Py Gov. Chamberlain and While the Itate will be ruined, lie will be for vor buried in disgrace. b Every taxpayer will await with 8 inxiety the result of these prosecu- 0 ,iou&. Th6y must succeed. And very stop at present taken to P lvea'keb the power of tb'o Governor Pill render them more diffiOult of iucooss. The thieves, who are now badly frightenod, will again pluck ip courage, and by themselces rais ing the cry of "stop thief,' will so Eivert the public attention that they will succeed in escaping. Let us therefore, as friends of reform and justice, forbear from making any comments until the governor sh all have had reasonable time to carry his plans of reform into execution. Should lie then fall, it will be time to denounce him as an imposter. Columbia. In 1870, the city of Columbia went into radical hands. The Conserva tivos had previously succeed ed in electing Mr. McKenzie as Mlayor with oonservativo al dermen. But the radicals were in the heyday of their arrogance, and altered the charter so as bring in more r.dioal votes. In consequence of this the radicals triumphed, elect ing Mr. Alexander as Mayor, and a solid radical coundil. The conserva. tives have never succeeded in regain. ing control of municipal afairs. In the mean time the oity has been pteadily going to the dogs, each ro, ginio being, if pcible, more incom. potent or dishonest thani the one pre. ceding. The debt has been piled up until it amounts to over half a millionl dollars. The city has no credit, a municipal note, bigned with the great seal of the corporation, having, on more than one occasion, been given for a sum that even a poor marn wvould be ashamed to acknowledge himself unable 'to pay. Taxes are piled up mountain high, and are dissipated with criminal prodig ality. Altogoth"r, the aity oF Columbia in its corporate Onpacity, is in a bad way. This facet has b,een known to the bax..payers for some time, and o' late hey have become considerably exer :isedl over it. A public meeting was held several days ago, at which a comn. mittee of twenty was appointed to investigate the financial operations f the council. This eoummitteo has reported. The report presents a startling array of figures. Incapacity, ud frequently fraud has, eharaoter ized every board since reconstruction. T'ho bill for misclJaneous expenses (whiskey and segars, we presume) amounts to over two thousand dollars. T li books:were so loosely kaspt that it was only with the g'rG,atest difgioul,. Ly that the comizittoe could niako any thing c,at of 'them. WVhether this loonnss was~ the result of inea.. Poi~ty or-demsign, we leayo 'for others to 'judge. .To add to the otber complications, the city police are the subject of grave aedtistitiotns. Some time since,. a thief was captured by a ptlicetnsw. At the time of his capture, he had on his pera.n soveral 'valuxable articles, imong them a .liamonil pin. The policoman took these articles lb hargo, and claims to have '.olivered heiu over to his superior oilicer. After the.lapse of a fow days, when ~he stolen Mitlolosiwro .produced for dentification, the pin was missing. rho acefisation has piiblicdy -inade I hat-somo tuomber -f the-police foro' < ra the thief. And yet weelks I lapsed before the connoil or ties i 'oioe took-any steps to recover the in or discover t'h~ t'hie'f. At last, e ublic clamor compelled the counci'l a o'have -an investigation. But that r avestigation has not fixed tihe :gnilt r efinitely .*n any one, nor has it r*. p tilted in t,he recovery of that -pin. ill thede eircumsitanoes have rc(used e to .people, and'It 'is maogt :probable tl iat the aMd of theaw m lm be. i uked to brip' ibdit a'better state of Airs in. oU I 04Wcapital. W ope the A %tables will b teaused., Ex Gov.1R. K.8oe9t has addrevied letter to Lt. Gov. Gleaves, in on. wer toa requ6t "idi*bgttiVIrit4g >r an expressiod,un9 in og by the r GoverLor onthi i dti olored race. The letter Is teMiper- a te, 'and oontalns u.pris of- f o. retty falfil at;teil, snA imibgod dvioe to the blaoke,,whiolgp gwqg 0 p wise to heed. We will give a ynopsls of this letter. The writer- begins. hy, regrettilg ilat he ohnuot 'present a picture that M V ril1 altogeth ir meet tie hopes of 'lie olored man. IIe fears that the aol. red people have beOn too 1onlieti60 p the belief that t.ere is i,r the Jolted States a party or a cobsidera. ,le class of men *hd aid ready to Ustain them ierdly:beoause d.f thot a olor or of their presious bondage. le thus gives thb history of en%noi. ation : "You wll remernber that wheb he war began, there wap no organ zed party in favor of the unoondit6tv d I abolition of sliver ,Thdr were t few of the old aM1litionists who avored an emancipation policy, with. iut regard to its resilt tollhe count.ty. 3ut tihere was not a State cofivention, tor a County or Town meeting at the .4orth, within my knowledge, that did f iot adopt roisolutions declaring to a 1o South that, in their desire to A woree the seceding States into sub nission to the National Government, ,hey had no 'desire to interfere with he institution of slavery. Many t eading altolitioniats were rea<y ts pernii, the perpetuation of slavery by. t 3onsonting to a disolution of the i Union, leaving ..the South entire t power over slavery, and only detaud a og that they themselves should not I be held responsible for:its continued 0 .xistence. As the war progressed.it t was found that. the slave property of t the South was. the -most valuable of any in supplying. the Confederate o -rmy with the necebsary: tjqno for j 3arryingon the war. The proclina a Lion of camnipat.iovj and: the congo V quent enoumbranoe f iminn8e hum- I bers of emanioipated slaves, caused d their orfianiz ation - int an armed r force. I lat is tovayp tIto immnse - aumbers of oulaioipaWed iaves, flee. t ing into the UnIou' lib6s could not f well be provided for a private citi- f cens ; and, as it- was -necessary to fur Aish them with --some htoeana -of sub- u itence, they were Cnro lled as ,oldiers." r Ile regards the early rcoonstruo' ion acts as tniet.tkes. Had the general government ..been a9tuated ivith a desire to practically .>oqelt , tho South, it would have organised a provisional governmets,-economiual- v y adminiAtrod, and shbuld have - -stablished schools to aeduato the '' gnuorant, and especially the blacks, r antiI they were better prepared to overna themaselves. - Instead of doing V this, they laid a most pnerouis. tax >nl cotton, which took from ciach State p at sums of monoy from th. agricual- & -al cla.rs, to which the freedmen all t bolonged. -No means were provided 0 or the education of the freedmen, E dthlouagh ta o Unitod States, by t having: rogonzed slavery was as 0 slearly responsible for their igno ranoe as were the slave holders them-. eolves. lie snys of the ebfranchuisoment of 0 lhe blavks : -t ''o,as a matter of justI% to the aegro, nor because he wat b>elieved to. e able -and compet;ent to organisei ' nid maintain P;sernmaentj ia ti6'e. aeded 8tate.,, but as mnlta, 'Parhaps, * or the p.urpose of p1nishing the white non, who h,ad refusdd to accedeto the ~lan propoaed, as for the purpose of ~ maintaining RAepub liotn supremacy ~ n the secedd St4tes, Oongress passed 'nether law of recnstruction, enfran bhlaing tbo negro lan the acceded Stated, and conferring upon him the power of organiizing geornmea inder whioh allleclasses were to -hve the whole based upon the afsnmptlon* hat the white meon wouald quietly so-. luhesee in ha'ving -their recent slaves Flacod over 'then as'fawamnakers. 0 '.t iasth'on 'elesr to my mind that ho amon avho owned all the property,a aud possessed the largest intelligene)a vould never 'quietly submit to this node of establishinag go.verritnents~ ~or caould I"coneoie of any -intelhi.. eont 'class of men who wdduld 'not0 ave-given to-stloh a'tnodeo of sostalr.~ tahing 'govorait,sencs amongAt tem >erhapsl 25'violent oppouition 'a did ho whiteo mri of thea redonattuoctod states.' ' lHe claims also'that Cdaagteoicoe i mjustly toward the IUn,ion 'men df a he South, tvho were 'compdlled tb ft iganize the -go'veroments nad decoept, a ho resyonsibiity7of their 'aots.-L. ~roops were ,~wthlgawn *hile the $ rhites wemchafong ander- the noer ,e3 rder' of things. "No? did 'Congress 'e sqtn tb-carb yhMthd tieab govert.W sfuseal to tri4wsetves o4r a roblem so dHffiouluisfolgtios, i lie then puts 'In a -plea for thle 0 irpet-bag -governments by claiming * lat their acts wer mismerset. . who tled striven fot ema~ lIon Ii a qu&tr tre oga t qrKby ptt om . b whi, ' f eno 4 rpt. 8OT ." T athat I* re p It a , boi s ncess I th South, I' prov.ed a 'engross haVing adopted anuiesti bl,;4 n'qw ks p6liky would t6, 3stain itiowin work. Anotier dibioulty is that maoy tlkenibip, and havirefeu'ed jo tnakb elleve this is a ."hito ma's gov roment." Iff this class combines ith -othei '6oitile elsineitp, 2yob il[find a party1. the United $tates L1'fiviently itrOng-to, eliminate the olored man'entirely from any part ir influenco in polities.". The writer is pleased to see 'that it last the. Democrats of the South re adopting a conoiliatory policy war4s the bltsk, and be. believes, his polioy will be pursued. The true policy of the colteca Udn 3*to promote fraternal rel4tions with Ii olao" :of ,men, and to hreak ,wn their prejudices by convinoing hem that'he himself is m6tdt by 'do rejudioo when he toes his interests nd that of the whites identical. [a thus o'vludes: The laying aside of all prejudices hat grow out of your former rela. IoUs as mastOr and slave, must extab. ih nutual confidence and enable ou to put the control of public ffairs in the hands of the'boat men f both raes, tnd 'onnot bat lay he f6undation of a prosperous future hat will not be surpassed by any s6 iou of the United 8.9ates. whilst the 3aiitOiiance of A separate and din.. intorganization, based UPon color nd opposition to the ftmer- slave. olders, must eveIuualIy lead -to a o t Ite w'rebk of whatever pro"peri. y yodhaveattained-for time cer. 6ialy has developed the fact that ou ofanOt depehd'pon the influ rceof Northern politioianh to sus akn.you in ay confliot that may rise from you-r "race, color or pre-. ious coidition- of servitude." I ave. fKeuently .haard 'your people emnand politiol' rboognition and epresentution, in prop.artion to your Umbers, on the same ground that he adopted citizens of this country rom Ireland, Geratniy and other Droig6 countries claim it; In this pu forget that this fbootd-generation f Irish ahd Germasi kre Amenri. ens, Catid, have no peculat traits rhioh -distingush thelb from other Knmerican citizens. lint yur race lave been here for., more than 250 ears, and ttill they are Africans - nd, ihould you remain 1 900 years ore, You will still b( Afrio-ani, Ithough you wjIl be American citi. 31ns. You inust remember that you re a sepatah .and distinct typl of an, and that this country is full of ,i deepest .prjudioo against all ices other ta; the Oanotan. You should also rens,ember that tnny of the leading Reopublica ot e counotry, in the earlist history of it reoonatrneted State Governments, atoed through ti.e South, and, re irning t'o the N4orthm with the moist 3rrible statements of the ' opposition I' the Southern people to the Naition.j I G>vernment and their bitterner' >w~ar'ds the colored man, ass;umned as niost radical grounds in. nd out Congress for polit oal~ pur.poses.. .ud yet, after . th4 lapse of a few ears, the samio parties ha~ s'euisit. lithe Sou.2a, and have tet'urned to 'e Ni,rth presenting adother phase of so Viture, conf letely vindicating bes white nidb of the South and con emnidig the colored mnan. This evolbtion in feeling and judgment ano only be uniderstoodi as an indisa. on of the revolution that has taken ~acs ithe political opinion of the orth, which-is5 now ready 'to hold ou responsil9e for their own folly ad mistakes, and to unite with the bite men of the 8outh in your eliwi. aLien from the field of politios. Anrd >we find that all these men, who a ir years ago, were the most violent a favor of the negro, are now practi lly his most uncompromoising op ononto. This show., a want of nowledge of human nature. They 'ould have known at tihe time tbat iwas not poe.ible'to takre a man out i the cottonfisld and make him a stesmen, 'any more than -you can tako-ajust man out of those who lopt that line of'pbliey. With the pastand thmelpresent as have presented thenm 'before .you, hat is'the dtity'of'the colpred-pieople the 8outh in the future? .1 Vbuld ~y in'Wbs#dr, that -whaWever is 'to >urin,terest is aanqueselonably ydur ity. The-question, tRettfeto, Is-: hbet is yoaur interest ? I-'hold 'that >nr' twointer.eit is to atad s'lcof bm -dri pUlitiheal parties. 'Yuta* litle to hope or ox pect from a i0n 'trith say politicel 1 party, -any rlher thwa its e4An interest'oau be b0ervted by affiliating with you. ~ith 'tbib Odirtainty as to thim' port 1f y#ttr interest, aMid 'the -ab. Wo.)ty of the oppositios of trypli Wsa irho believes that hb s uoooe4 it Iii politiaasi diabitieQ tbqtu your aid,. 4 (ta he os$ ike nr by oppog than by cupt s qpiet yo,J jI. sbina9ois madeb wbo you are ' be sold odh, you wil mV esfatal lstake, .'It v0a fre 'to beo6nme the bjeQt,otbrit rep pdlitice dw% v ogti to bse Dome a party to the 1s06 yourselles. You ea0A4'ake b tteryetiwith your O'taik". .an '46 thi 614 .1.'0 Abol1. ontst for iftho* isak the 'sale, Snot it' the way of t t, you your. e6 r 'tojon b1ohatipu, You can reasonably hope to pe6dke soine share f politlal power abd Inluene 09Mely. a4..-.your. :posterity. 6 -Doi Ao'youlrselves to any party tri4oh wil -be cotain tqOa"rifoe you Vhefie it tkas a'obmplished -its own purpose.- but say to all partioq in the future that you will -upport in. n in dteild of.partieI.-;that you will sup. j ort the mn i "whose honor you ,94 tt:t, and who will guarantee the largest representation for your people, aIl iII whoa gh.rwteo 3"U una put the gre'ute-st trust for the proteotion of 'pur rigt, ai A merioai cit isene. Th .-nunrae will caule Uleb lt all i*atiis to auvi yei-r aupport and.in uilence. They will meet your people with a feeling of Iberality, and w ill concede to you subh a representation as' will be compatible with good government. I advise this policy be cause I believe it is for your beat in terest, and ulso for the best interests of the country. If you pursue a dif - forent course-if you unite your po litical fortunes with any party, and that party i*dbfeated, you can have no reuson to hope that the party I hih you oppose will -conoodo any. thiOg on the high moral ground of justie to your race. RIcent.eventa utake it highly probablo that great hanges .are likely roon to ooour, not only in the administration ol many of the 8tate Govern, ments, but in the adminlitra. tion of the National -Govoinient itself. The letter conoludes with expres. elons of frendbhips for the colored trace. We may comment upon this [letter at some other time. 1oMEUNICATED.] "What Oan Be Done at Rome"' Ur. ditor: A few days since, I read a letter from a South Carolinian settled InI California, advising the settlers bore to remain whore they are. The let. ter referred to is the PIonix of 29Lb of May. I was still thinking about that letter and wondering at the' ad. vice, or rather thinking that a young man could improve his oonditivn by t settling in a fiesh oountry ; but while still meditating on the subject, my business called me down the road by .IONtiello. Just after passing the ;iRtle dilapidtid village, I saw a wheat fold to my right. I reined ut. F and l'oked with wonder at that wheat. Thirty years ago, an old farmer liv ing 9 miles above, called the cotton grown on that same land, "bumble b ie cotton," because it produeed but ono bloom, and that on the top, where the bumble bee found the only place on tbe stalk to light. Such #mprove. ment on that land Is truly astol.;1sh. ing. The whout, I suJp-,,, ,;ill make 20 bushels to ti'.< -oe n then just beyond th,,t wheat 'field Is a large cornAeld -whiOlf 16khas'If every hill had a.etalk of-ibtrn in it. It.i., aboU' tee 'highr, and planted and 4rorked at odra ought to be planted and serited. This is on the road,and ~I a'mn told by two neighbors, who. 'know all about it, that west of this is where that farmer made his eorn and ootton, having bot tom land on a creekI that runs through his lands for over a mile, This land is ditohe.l, and so oom. pletely prepared'theit'uerop of'25 buah.. eli to the dere 'is a suare yield. If otr friend in' lifornoia were to se- thi, farry nd w i'ismnaflged, he would' be 'oonvinced 'that this'bid rohghliy treated'oontry'bf otrs 'is still the pldde *to rear up ehildren. 'Por al. I though dbr addiety i-a not what we dedite, yet it is far preferable to that found'in the rough Western States. And while I readily admit that all cannot'have a niddel fatn, such as the one 'I sawv, 'ydt all could wake I grst Improvements if they would .at try. And 'in a few years, by the e time otlt'polities ierdprove, let us have our Itrms Improved, and then we earn again be a thriving sihd contented a people, bidding deflance to the north west for obrn, wheat, pork, &o. Thoen when friends can call on u. with. but any 'neasihess how their horsed tare, od when wre can tark tboutouar wheat, corn, oats dhd hi g, -how pleasant 'It will be. Thfii. * *kdo, -~ for Ilone eijoyed such a life liti'not latOl) and perhapis it will -neVr be iny tot 'to enjoy it again, 'but'othere may'. -Itespectfutly, to - 0 We at i-tich lploaued 'to learn 'the a racte its'ted and to seo 'thb patriotto a mud hsapoft,l sedtiments ekprosada in he above letter. We -believe our n stute affords grbat adtantes to the F' ndustrious. iln this -oonnedtion we ippdnd a letter frtuin W.-5. eoyolds y Ehq., to the Sumtbr Watchman, A hbowing the progress made by Spring i 11i1 TdaWnshtp in that'County. Aite'r c* hebtio~ninig therby are at thie dios * ft thae ir, all of'8prinig kill was de. ii llroyeAl the ldtter .goev on 'to me-. ft ion retsarkable improvements and ai rea nterpflte'tml sk'Win nfarming. * .nam.ta..eet.d..d ,, ateI eehbreh. *lk, fee by' d 'orty, near the old site. The sp ts denomination have. bult a very )set ohurob edite I the vi6inity. rho freed wen have worshipped undet a shed, on the detlity of the hill j but they are now' engaged In bul ditg t ohuro , generoubly assisted by the wrbites. The Sons of ToiApeVnce, %bout one hondred and fifty in num.. ber, have ereoted a largo Hall, two Itories high, the second oor of which is occupied, alternately, by a Plant or's Grange, the Division of 8onfr, a6d a lodge of Free Masons. The base mont to be used as a carringe shop. Il the business season, we have had three stores, two Avhite and one ol.. cred, and several private -osidefieles hlve boon built on the H1111. And wvithin about the cirutuforonce of of three miles of 8priig Hill, eight or ten new gin houses have been built No.w, air, these are rather oxpon sive struotures for the ties, and as you -may judge that cotton is made hereabouts, I will stato that It ex citos no surprise hure when a man daya that he expects to make a bag to the acre. f.Many years back, these lands wore thought to be the poorest in the county, and only 6t for suner resi donces. The irst settlement made here, ftr health, was by General Zack Cao'ty, about sixty years ago, ion an 0lvi-tion a half mile from Sprini ffill. lie was succeeded in the unership by the lion. Evan Ben. b w. Alter Col. Bonbow's decease, ,%r. Ww. Burrows became the pure uha.er, and since the war M r. Bur A-ews planted tweuty-five acres on the (lill, anld.applie.1 guano, and to the l:upiisa of every one, it yielded wenty-six bagii, over an aver:ige of bale to the aure. Mr. Mackey Bar Reld owns the elegant Davis resi. ]ence on Spring Hill, and has uado )ne bag and a half to the acre. Dr. Danield Reynllds and Mr. Lafayotte imith made, the past year, over a Iva hundred weight bag to the acre D the highest point of the Hill, and >lanters in the neighbothood are &like successful, Capt. H1. E. L. vans and many others. 'I believe hat this Township will now rank Vith the most favored sections of ur county, both as a cotton region nd for material development. know that m ny of my.readers will >e attoni-hed at this statement of aota, but I will say that they are not uoresurprised than the writtr, who ived on the spot. H never expect. d to see such a ehange. I will try, now, to give the solu. ion. - I think there are two causes - irst, the people here have "accept. d the situation," and goue to work, 10lieving that emlaoipation has made ( a necesifty as well as the com nand of God, and that he who does ot labot at some-calling for u aup iort is a loafer fu society, whether to be high bred or low bred it n. era not. Second, the OJb-.rieston .hflsphates are perhaps b. tter adopt. d to this soil than a-. lan'l in the Ptate. I have he,-rd the - pinion ex. >ressed that o.. hundred pounds of luano ap'ied here, will make a uH 1otton as two hundred pounds ". (1he level lands below. I will nil tndorse that opinion, but the esti. ante may not be wide of the mark, I till mention here for the informsa.. ion of planters, that they generall, ipply litter fronm the woods with the iuano, &c." [Ori gina1.]3 LETTER PROM MISSISSIPPI. 8JJUQ.IAr.Ax blas.., June 6th 1875. hr. Edstor : Beiog a native of your Town but ow an adopted citizen o f M ississippi then;ht that a few brief remarkis om0 this qutarter of our 8ta*s would ut be amiaz, knowing you are always rilling and anxious to hear from the roplc of our State ad how they are >rogressinlg. So being at ,leisure his afternoon, I will endeavor, in as rief a manner as possible, -to give !oij tihe facts, both financially andi rolitical ly. As to the farming portiavi of this mmediate section of our State, the r.apecta for a good crop are very Lattering. However these fia tterlog trospeots may all .be obliterated by une dr'outh. The wheat and oat rop is excelleat> what tkrbre is lanted. Corn is lookring kne2 but i w sorry to say that there 'Is not nouSh of 'it planted to orbet -the resading deniands of the 'fauther tan ther yfear. Ootton 'is tall the go tre,'beintg.plntedalmost to the en ire exolu.ioa oif all other~ crops. taall-grain -lrdp~s aire don'redly ever lantgd hmdie to any tent a'lthongh is a good 'oihtbry 'for Wheat, ty e snd te- I 'vedtirre to say 'there is ot dune farmor in Ofty 'tho makos orn enough t-o roin him for~ wort eatr, odnsergdntly he is 'ec-tlrely ependent on his 'fne-oliht and thea orth-west for'bis 'next year's so p. lies. 'i'hi. -talways keeps himn ii ebt, and as he says, foroen 4iwa to lant cotton mtore largely the mer. sar In order to get odit of debt. .nd so'long as ho .pdr.flts in -plant. g eot,o to the exoltusion -ef ot,her 'ops he tvill forever be in debt and ~ n*eqatlbtly no bdtter off than be as the year pre'vidaes. !'he lands I pr, well *vdrked, 'generaN'y puroduce om 85 to -50 bushels of corn to the ire and there is always ready sale pridoes raing from -one dollar to ue'dollar twent.y-fve cents per bush:. *.Lands planted In cotton in thie onoen of the 8t6t.e generally 'pro. ies te aynt si ha i u..ed pon . o the aore, whibh in the fall will bring from 3 to 4 cents per pound In the seed. You can readily potceive that the oorn giyas the most profit besides being more easily oiiltivated and far less trouble and I 4ot soo why the farmer - could not relonee himself far easier by this menls than he con d by alw'ays planting ootton. And then by this means be would al. ways have fat atockiroun- dhi.w stead of a parcel of bones which suf. for all thro'uxh the Yqir*o ', ho thing to eat. A great imany aimers have tio sympathy for dumb brutes, and proper cate ,is tu .exe tion. Work animals a.-e .a bjjualiy 11o1i for the want of care atd ' peis ly of food which is notiuadttongey , And besid ee this if th,ro Wild loty of grainii made ther4 Wiuld be no ucessity for ordering fiom. Nortlru cribs and thi uonoy wou'ldlio l,I lu tie Coun,ty; If a 1iuohaut bu.* ti fui. nish corn to customuis he can-buy it here, thereby saving a- pe,r qent., ap well as keeping tihe usQoy, il our State limita. \o to the foin-Incilil capollity of our1 Stato. 11 etl' I have saen itiu a better coidi 'in. It is almost orushed- to the dust, by oppres. '4ve ..an%tioll. I tell yoli Mr. Ed.tor, it is fearful to thlik abouit it., yt, in the lamtulnge of somle of our'.tart fitien, "We inust turn our backs on tihe past, stand on tihe prosobt, antd look hopefully to time fu'ure.'' Tie cliumato of Nliiipi is very fite and uniturp-ismed for health. The furtiliLy of hor soil is beyoud do. seplti,in, with beatutifui flow"rs and bubbling b ouks ever3 where. 1) 4i ious fruits, gig,'o. fret;ras of valuable Htimber, everythinmg to please the tust6 amid delight tho eye is here. - It ol iites of'ore lie buried boteath her tNi tio .oil. Tia Sitto hkas attrautious ufolimato,' soii, tmi. peraturo aiiI miner .1 restouro., usl :-upassed in the known world, as to Onl e acmqi:ainted wit.h the ilteo on denmy. Il iisippmi-hlma agriciitu ril and mimufacturing audvattisg4a f.r superior to a great. Jmanly otlIr over rated states. The . aivantages we have here over the frontier stute.-, is that tihe soil i- just as good, more easily to cultivate, is its a better .,tatu of improvemetit, with bill, .,)Is ollurches amid publio -bi.ldin..s iad above all good society, witiob you 41 & n-t flnd in a front ier State. I wo iiI I advise mill who are comting West t, stop in) .Missideippli all we IjV muj- lihi greater advantages here t m in they have on the frontier. We in et-igration hero frout the 6rth J.st amid 'Ves4t to the c0tt'". growing orange, gritin aimd gro i tions of tihe '-Sun 4 ..Ui." . extend a cord,i .eluoem and enerous gr,,,iin, to a11 Who may .O ill it' .C1g us to ex-titi ie tihe lit trael..t, we hive tried to dese iqo to 'OU. In addition to all o-her ad. vant-ages we beo-iet st 'a high- degree of Umorality, and' a pore-dillmmminance elf o)tjAstvetive tnd lIw abiding ule mnent-9 of society with at great desire for' odmiotimnml udvantogos that you do .ot i.d in other a-ntejo. We le.W oipital, rkilled agrioulturi..ts, good while labor imiproved. systemis ef culiv.tion, botter control of la bor, and above a.ll, we need all kinm.s f tmanur'.iotor je,. We wi,h toRauv.mtse the immmigmation canI e. But it is unreasonm eble for us to oxpeet a tide of itamigration aimonmge't us umulessi we mianmfest, a wil.ine.,s to Wedotane anid iOeette ilhem. \\'t, are not unmwillinig to receive thmem, but our.people hamve been dept ee, e I anid deafpondenit Aid lack enermigy mn the miatter thamt sehould obara.nterize ani imnxiouis p opioe. ' We sho~uld-aaml work toge'ther ndi do all wve e mn t pron.ote the eauwe if imm iligraltiiin, it i, time only amlv.irion for thlisi boeaut*fmul, fertile aind gensial clime. It was the pride the ornamen'tt, tihe admiration of time world. But m-,w euder .ihe influencei of tmliuie; radicalia.m, ear pet-bagis., it lhas beeni degraded anid downtr.>ddenm by the foil muv.m der. WYe trust by mroder-stionm, by - a change oft gomver'imnmt, amud by eon servatisem a'wd a'- rednmtion otf taxes, to riue I'lUoix hk.-, ft .mn our ashes andI buffet the wav'e., of mii s rule tvit'h 'one hmemid~ -nn.i withI thme othi or .plant to the bree ze the banner of pare )enmoorrtray aend the constitutionl asuitwma-n t'ha days of WVashing-% ton. Th's can 'be made a -lan.d of peaceadvd prosperlty, if the itnm4. grdtion plan 'cao be-earried out pmron erly I-ndmree whit e men f rom -evei-y State'toiiome~ here ammd settleo amnorg uO and'onitivate is fertile, iempmov.. od la4nd,that Is now only. in a p-artial die aure it well cumltivate'd.- -it would p r'od'ttbI mnore te tiIh 'bore 'than .yotur beut mand beasted 'J'za hrnd. 'I find I am enauoaoihing upon -your spmwe and will 'doe with but onme rm'ore mention sof thme 'ead'idate-of onrt Starte. Our Ilgislatori a reo prinioi' a pally nlegraibs amnd thd'ir infer'iors the Datmpe-baggd~(ra, Who do -pretty -much en thdiy.pk'i,se. 'Our Governmor.is the Non-tin law of the Nartiona-l -Spoon rhidt and imported. trotns Nleassachu ette. Our~ midaft eovernor rn -a mu itto bamiber' frotxlTen36see *ho is the . >est Itiamn -of thew'mo defd more highly stueeed than AdelptateAnes. __T. R. WOte itSON, - trial Justtee. PIOI4 IN REARy OF' cOUirS IOUdro O Att business es ntru,led to his wil rSeleve promuapt attenit Ion. TORNEYs - AT1 LAW, Nr~ O.6 NtTh E, OLNA