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Parties who attempt to get up clubs can send us the subscribers they receive from week to week, with $2,00 for each name, and they can select any premium in the list they choose after ^he requisite number of subscribers has been received at this office. Money caa be sent in Registered Letters at oar risk. Address all communications to R. II. HENRY, Editor TiROOKHAVKN LEDGER, Rreokhaven, Miss. I~ ' t I !•' „f i = — ' ^ My Country—May She Krer Be Sight; Bui Right or Wrong--My Country! VoTrX BKOOKHAVKN. MISS., TI1PKSDAV, MAY 18, 1870. NO. .{8. Ilitil Hsilty In Tuncnloo. The following bnrst of backwoods poetry lias been in print, but will bear repetition. In every respect it may be considered equal to anything in that line that ever camo even from the pen of Bret Ilnrte, mid it is far superior to mauvof the odd emanations of his brain. So you’re all the way from Kansas, And knew my Jennie there; Well, I’m mighty glad to sec you— Just take that vacant chair. You don't seem much of a stranger. Though never here before; Jack, take the gentleman’s beaver And hang It hind the door. What! live whole days on the Journey, Coinin' by boat and caw? Good gracious 1 who’d thought Jennie Could ever live so far Away from the Youghlogheuy, The farm, and the mountain blue ; I wouldn’t believe it of her, And that’s ’twixt me and you. tou say she’s not very lonely ; Then she don't feel the worst. What! Jcunle.hasguta habi? You should have said that llrfit. And now please repeat it over, I can't believe my ear; Just think !—my Jennie a mother: Pshaw, now, what’s this?—a tear? Here, Jack, run off to the kitchen. Tell mother to come quick, Let the bakin' go to thunder, Let her not strike a lick Till she hears the news from Kansas, Twill make her very vain 1 So you knew the little one's mother? Your hand; we’ll shako again. Perhaps you may think me foolish For making such a row; But you must excuse an old man— Mind, I'm a g.andpa uow. TTsvl! wa!I linw thp YAflTR film hV 11*. Silent ami swift ami sly ; For all the world like the white clouds Adrift lu a summer sky I But only in this they differ— We’re going with the years Into the harbor of old age, Up to <ho silent piers, Wheie each may discharge his burden Ancl furl his wrinkled sail, And thank the Heavenly Master, Who saved him through the gale. But what is the use in talkin’— I’m bustin' with joy; I believe I could whoop like au Injun !, And you tell me it’s a boy, And she called him for her father ? You see, she don’t forget The old man who used to uuiae her And play “peep” with his “pet.” Stranger, your story has called up A night long, long ago ; The night I came to this mountaiu Through blinding wreaths of snow. We came in a Conestoga— Only my wife and I; She but the bride of a twelvemonth, Sieuder and coy and shy. We started iu sbtuin’ weather; But then it blew up cold, And the snow fell thick and heavy And down the mountain rolled III drifts as big as the wagon;— Ah, sir, that was a storm 1 Each tree was decked off in feathers. Pretty, but not so warm. The snow kind of stopped our motion, Night hedged us all about, And then I began to wouder How we’d weather it out. Just then, as my luck would have it, Jane said she felt quite queer; Can you dream how I felt then, sir, And not a woman near ? The wind moaned among the branches, I thought it would pieice me through ; Said I, “Jaue, there’s but one of me— My coat may save you two.” She cried, and refused to take it— I i I-»» T liu.l mv unv Then on that mountain I knelt down. And oh, how I did pray1 Prayed for the night to he over, Prayed for a human form, Prayed for the i ather to shelter My pride and hope from harm. 1 think he heut down to listen. For, ’way up there ou high, Angels came out with little lamps And hung them in the sky. I cracked the whip over Itosln, Told Jim to git along, And then, with a rush, we started— I broke into a song; Not that I felt much like singln', Hut 1 had often heard Women in Jane’s way were Bkcery, So I sung like a bird. Well, I reached thia place ’bout midnight, And thanked Uod with a smile; Then ran to the nearest neighbor— And that was half a mile. At the door I kicked and pounded, And made my trouble known— You can bet vour bottom dollar I didn’t come back alone. The women-folks built a Ore, Ami I stood out iu the hall, And there I shivered and trembled Until there came a squall; It wasn't much of a holler, But then it gave me a start, And ever since that blest moment I’ve had a bigger heart. But pshaw 1 let us change the subject, You are too young a mau To grasp such delicate questions, Or yet to understand So I’ll not bother you further ’Bout Jennie’s babyhood; But anyhow, this I will say, She was pretty and good. What's the use of ksepln ,a secret ? She married 'gainst our will, A lad by the name of Jackson, Whose father kept the mill. I thought him too young and shiftless Though he was big and strong, And I told my daughter, kindly, Ile'd never get along. I'll not goon forget her answer, ’Twas spoken like a queen. Said she, “I will take chances, Whatever comes between." What I said I don’t remember; My anger did the rest, And that night Jennie and Jackson Left for the distant West. No one can tell what I suffered— 1 walked around all day With a face as while as chalk, sir, And tried hut could not pray. Now a man can’t reach his Maker With a heart so full of scorn Against an honest f*»llow roan . Who for some good was bom. Yon ask did I forgive Jennie? My precious little kid! Big tears swept away ray hate, sir, Forgive ? of course I did 1 Git out ! do you think I'm ci aty ? Bill wasn't half so tail; Ilad a scar where Jake Hill hit him For bitin’brother Paul. Yes, under the beard bv Jingo I Forgive the words I sed When you and Jennie were coni tin’ A nd after you were wed, I wish I was out in Kansas— One day in ^uscaloo; 1 believe 1 d eat that baby— That’s jntt what I wonld da. Bartlkt Camrret.u ••ROBINSON CRUSOE'S MONEY." Si.ch is tlio title of a new work, by ifon. David A. Wells, of Connecticut, in which a pafhble, founded on the ex perience of Robinson Crusoe on his des solate island, is made the vehicle for exhibiting the true principle of com mercial exchange, the usee of money, and the value of the precious metals as the basis of currency. The subject is ono of universal inter est, intensified by tliepromiueuce of the “Currency Question," in our national politics, and is treated by Mr Wells in a manner at once so ingenious, enter taining and instructive that we do not think our space can be better tilled than with the following'sketch of the book, which we find in tlio Now York Tribune: Some time after landing, as the story goes, Robinson finds in one of the ship’s chests that had been’cast ashore a lot of pins, needlewand thread, -a pair of scissors, ten or a dozen knives, and several white linen handkerchiefs, be sides three great bags of money which finally came to light in the search. .From this episode in the life of De Foe’s hero, Mr. Wells deduces the max ims, that the pins, and needles, and other articles of commodity in the chest were of great utility to Robinson Cru soe, because they increased his comfort and happiness; that still they possessed no exchangeable value, because they could not be bought or sold; that they had no price, because they had no pur chasing power which could be expiessed in money; that money, which is popu larly regarded as the symbol of all wealth, had, under the circumstances, neither utility, value, nor price; and be cause the actual commodities were ca pable of being used to produce addition al commodities, they were all capital, which money was not, because it had no productive power. Hence it becomes a problem to show under what circum stances money could acquire value, be came au object of exchange, and con stitute a standard for establishing prices. The first element of progress was the addition of companions. First came Friday, then Friday’s father, then Will Atkinrand the English sailors. Here was a community. A now social order became inevitable. It was impossible that all should live in common as one family. For could each man supply all his own wants. It was best that every one should pursue a single occupation, instead of each eairying on his busi ness of a carpenter, mason, baker, tai lor, and the like. An exchange of pro ducts of services of some other man, would thus become the order of the day. Systematic division of labor and exchange of products arc thus introduc ed, and constitute the means of getting a living. In the first instance, however, all exchanges are made by barter. So much of one commodity or service is given for so much of some other com modity or service. Corn for cloth, furs and skins for knives and tobacco, so much labor in building a house for so much Rkillin constructing a canoe, are the. earliest attempts at the exchange of commodities. This is simple barter, which does not involve the use of mon ey. Hence there is no such thing as price, since price is the purchasing power of any commodity expressed in money. But Robinson, and his friends soon found that this would never do as a permanent arrangement. The dis covery was made iu this wise: “Twist, who was a tailor, and had made a coat, discovered all at once that he was out of bread; and being hungry, suspended work and went in search of Needum, the baker, to effect an exchange. He found him without difficulty, just heat ing his oven, and with plenty of bread to dispose of, but as the baker had all the coats he wanted, he had declined to trade. Needum, however kindly in formed Twist that if any fellow should call with any surplus grain or flour, he (Needum) would be most happy to sup ply him with all the bread lie needed in exchange; but as the tailor was neither a farmer nor a miller, and had neither of these articles, he (Twist) set off for the other end of the island, where there was another baker, to see how the lat ter was situated in respect to garments. On his way Twist was overtaken by Pecks, the mason, who had uo'coat, and, wanting the very garment which Twist had been making, had stopped work on a stone wall and had gone iu search of the tailor, to whom he proposed to exchange the coat for a new chimney. xsut as Twist mm aireaay two cmmneys to his house, and nothing to cook, and didn't want another chimney, the ma son was as unsuccessful in his effort to trade with the tailor as the tailor had been just before with the baker. At last, after much vexatious traveling about, involving great waste of time and labor, Twist found a baker who wanted to exchange bread for the coat, and fecks a tailor who would give a coat for a chimney; Needum having, in the mean time, shut up his bakery and gone in search of Diggs, the farmer, who was willing to sujiply grain for bread. But when all these different persons, each desirous of exchanging his special products or services, had been found, and had come together, a new perplexity at once made its appear* ance, and one so embarrassing as to cause |each man seriously to consider whether it were not better to return home and endeavor to produce every thing for himself rather than attempt to exchange anything. ‘For how,’said they all, ‘is the comparative value of our different commodities and services which we propose to exchange to be as certained?’ ‘How can I know,’ said Twist, “how many loaves I ought to re ceive for my coat?' ‘Or,’ said Pecks, I ‘find out how high and broad a chim ney I ought In make for my garment?’ Diggs, furthermore, got up a. little private dispute of his own with* Nee dum, growing out of the circumstauee that the latter wanted to make his en tire payment in bread to the former at once; while Diggs, who did not relish the idea of living on stale aud possibly mouldy bread for an indefinite length of time, wanted pay for his grain, from the baker, at the rate of one fresh loaf per day. As for poor Twist, he had be come by this time so humble through hunger that he had not the heart to object to the proposition to take o cart load of bread at once in exchange for his coat, although his house was so small he would have to store part of his ‘pay’ Jon the roof, where it would be certain to be eaten by others than his own family.” There wis an other incident which happened about this time which made much talk among the island community. ‘‘A man who had noticing to sell but his labor had been employed to load a ves sel with coal—a vein of Which had been discovered; and after working, faithfully all day, had received in pay for liis services a ton of coal. But as jt was moat, drink and lodging, and not coal (although the latter was great ly needed for some purpose,) which the. laborer wanted, there was nothing for the laborer to dojbut to attempt to ex change liis coal, and that, too, as soon ns oossible. in order to satisfy immedi ate necessities. Being too poor to Lire a horse and cart, he therefore bor rowed, a wheeldarrow, and, tilling it with coal, went search of persons who had a surplus of meat, drink, aud lodg ings to dispose of. But all of them happened to have all the coal they wanted; aud morning found the labor er still trundling through the streets, his most useful commodity uuexchauged, aud ready to sink with hunger' aud ex posure. A like experieuco befell also the journeyman butcher, blacksmith, carpenter{ and dry goods clerk, who re ceived for their day’s labor respective ly a sheepskin, a dozen horseshoes, a piece of pine timber, and two yards of redflaunel. All were in no condition, though bodily exhausted, to resume work ou the next day; and all also clearly saw that their condition would not have been much improved if each had received au entire payment in either meat, drink, or lodgings, in place of coal, skin, lumber, horseshoes, or cloth.” This trouble led to the adoption of some siugle commodity which all should agree to take iu exchange for their products or services. A great step iu advance was thus taken. The tailor was no longer obliged to go without clothes, livery man gave, his services for the commodity agreed upon, be cause that every other man desirous of exchange would do the same. The general name given to such commodi ties or articles as are accepted in ex change is mouev. This has greatly varied iu different countries and at dif ferent times. Among the North Amer ican Indians, wampam and beaver skins were used as mouey. The natives of West Africa employ certain little shells for the same purpose.~in Abyssinia tue common money of to-day is salt. In Chinese Tartary it is cubts of pressed tea. Until recently on the west coast of Mexico, small cakes of soap were used as money. In ancient pastorials na tions, money consisted in cattle and sheep, as it does at this day among the Zulus of South Africa. Hence money is prior to legislation. Nor has any article been adopted as money, which did not possess by reason of some val uable qualities, a natural purchasing power. In the absence of all laws de fining money, the adoption of any arti cle that requires no effort for its pro duction, would enable the shrewd and unscrupulous to tako from the rest of the community products representing value, or the expenditure of time and labor, without giving any equivalent in return. If, for example, dried leaves or pieces of paper bearing arbitrary stamps, were accepted^ as money, the result would have been to enable some body to obtain something for nothing, or to permit those who did not work to rob those who did. The effect of such an arrangement in producing an inflated currency is illus trated by the example of Crusoe’s is landers as follows: “At the outset they agreed to use cowries—a pretty shell picked up on *lie beech, and momnn oil fn llflVP and use as an ornament. These shells were not, however, plentiful; and, iu fact, it was found it required about ns much time and labor for a man to col lect a hundred of them as it did to grow a bushel of wheat. Consequently wheat regularly exchanged for cowries (as money) at the rate of one hundred cowries for one bushel, while the far mer with two thousand cowries could readily buy a plow, which was consid ered equivalent in value to twenty bush els. By-aud-by. some idle fellows that were in 'he habit of sailing, made a long excursion, and for the first time, visited a little island on the remote hor izon. When they lauded, they found, to their surprise, that instead of cowries being very scarce on the beach, they were very abundant,. They winked at one another, and said little; but each man proceeded to gather all the cow ries he could, and returning, to the main island, kept their discovery a pro found secret. The first thing of note that happened among the Robinson Crusoe’people was a greatjand unexpect ed revival in business. Money began to grow abundant. Societary circula tion was never so active. Everything that was offered for sale speedily found a purchaser, and, demand increasing, prices rapidly increased also. It was also noticed that a few persons who never did any regular work, but apecn. lated and gambled.nll the morning, and took pleasant Bailing excursions every afternoon, had, especially, plenty of money, which, os patriotic citizens, de sirous of making trade lively, they were always most ready to part with for other commodities. The shop-keeperH the farmer, and the 'merchanics, all also finding that they had more money than usual, all also felt impelled to buy something, and prices took a fresh start upward, so that a bushel of wheat that could previously have been sold for one hundred cowries easily brought one hundred and fifty, and even two hun dred. But, on the other hand, the far mer, instead of being able to buy, as before, a plow for two thousand cow ries, now found that ho had to pay double, or four thousand] or, in other words, tlic.cowries had only about one half the purchasing power they pos sess^! before. But for a time every hpd^was jubilant. Was it not evident that the yalne ol every man’s posses sion, measured in cowry money, had greatly increased—and what could be more natural than that the shrewd adventurers who had been (the authors of these golden days should be highly honored, invited to speak before cowry clubs in all parts of the island, and be even talked of for the chief offices, which still continued to bo filled by liobinsonJCrusoe and his man Friday? The continually anghmenting prices— nim. so/1 iti nmoriT mm 1 nr oil f't nil - modi ties, or, what is the same thing, the continually diminishing purchase iug power of the cowries, at Inst began to attract attention, and this in turn in duced distrust; so that the price of a bushel of wheat, which bad been at tirst one hundred cowries,'and then two hundred, rose to three, four, and even five hundred cowries. Another remark able circumstance noticed was that, as prices increased, tlie wants of trade for cowry money also increased proportion ably, which wants the adventurers who Lad been the means of giving the island its increased volume of money took care to supply by bringing additional quantities of cowries as they were need ed. It was also observedjtliat, as distrust increased, there was also a remarkable increase in society activity; for every body desired to change off bis cowry money for something else. Persons who were in debt made baste to pay tlieir debts, and everybody was ready to lend cowry money, to start all sorts of new enferprises. A company was organized, for examule, with a capital of ten million cowries, to explore the wreck of the original ship which brought Robinspn Crusoe to the island; andthough nobody knew exactly] where tile wreck was, or what was sup-1 posed to remain in it, it was advocated] us affirdmg great opportunity for labor, j Anotbar project, for which a company j with fifty million cowries capital was started, was to build r. system of ca nals across the island, althc ugh the is land bad a width of only about ten miles, with a remarkably safe ocean navigation all around it. Finally the L'oerrl flm n'ltulu rrrii/Innllv leaked out. Other people besides the original three shrewd fellows found out where the supply of cowries came from, and made haste to visit the remote island, provide themselves with money and put it iu circulation. But the more money that was issued, the more was needed to supply the wants of trade until at last it took a fourhorse wagon load of cowries to buy a busbel of wheat. Then the bubble bursted. Stock companies all failed. Trade became utterly stagnant. The man whom Kobinsou Crusoe had made secretary of the island treasury thought he could help) matters by issuing a few more cowries, but it was no use. Some very wise persons were certain that every thing would be all right again if people would only have confidence; but as long as the people who worked and saved were uncertain what they were to re ceive for the products of their labor— something or nothing — confidence didi’t return. Everybody felt poor aud swindled. Everybody who thought he lad money iu savings banks woke up all at ouco to the realization that his money was nothing but i> lot of old shels. Everybody had his bags, his tills and his moneyboxes filled with j,shels, which he had taken in exchauge for commodities which had cost him vah.able time and labor.” At last the pieople on the island came to understand that property is the re suit of some form of labor; tuat capital ss that portion of the results of pioduc tion which can be reserved ''and made available for new and futher produc tion; that money is an instrumental ity for facilitating the distribution and use of capital aud the interchange of products and services; that production alone buys production*; that when one bujs goods with a paper representative or symbol of money, the goods are not paid for until the representative is sub stituted by a value of some sort in la bor, or money, or some other commodi ty; and, finally, that a country and its inhabitants increase in wealth or abun i jauce by increasing their products rather than by inordinately multiply ing machinery for the exchange of pro ducts. Coming to gradually realize, also, that one of the first requisites for an increase of trade was -that confidence should exist between the buyer and the Belter, but that such confidence never wotild exist so long as the representa tives of value, or other entermediate agencies made use of for facilitating ex changes, were of an uncertain, fluctu ating character, they also came finally to'the conclusion that there was no economy in using cheap money; or, in otjher words, that the loss and waste in evitably resulting from the use of poor to^sls (money being a tool) was many \ - " ' v times in excoss of the interest accruing from any increased cost of good tools. So reasoning, gold, or undoubted promises to pay gold, gradually came once more into use as money on tho' island. Senator Alcorn’s Acres. Col. L. J. Du Free, of Memphis., wrote a letter to the New York World not long smee, descriptive of lion. J. L. Alcorn’s plantations. We make some interesting extracts: “To-day I rode with Senator Alcorn, of Mississippi, over his Jonestown es tates. These are in the lowlands of Coahoma county, fourteen miles east of the Mississippi river, and elevated four or live feet above its flood tide. The Senator has bought one adjacent tract after another until his Jonestown plan tation consists of t welve thousand acres, and a few miles farther r-ast lies anoth er of eight thousand acres. Swan Lake, nine miles in length and threo hundred yards wide, abounding in trout, and in fall and winter flocked with countless water fowl, defiues the north-western side of the broad cotton and corn fields. Along the whole northern front of the estate there is a plank fence seventeen miles in length. At intervals of a mile or less there are collected from four to a dozen white cottages. Each has two rooms, fourteen feet square, and an open piazza along the whole ten feet wide. Of these cottages there are about two hundred and fifty on the es tate, occupied by about eleven hundred uegioes. Negroes are eminently gre garious, and therefore whenever the Senator would have a dense forest swept away, he erects a few of these comfort able cottages in its midst. The houses are left open to trespassers, and home less nomadic blacks are soon ensconced within. They must need have bread and bacon, and soon appear at the of fice of Mr. Jones, the Senator's facto tum. A contract is made, the negroes are paid for their labor in food and money, and trees are ‘deadened,’ and the dense undergrowth is swept away and within a brief period cotton and corn grow luxuriantly about the conger ies of white cottages not long before hidden in the foliage of the matted vines and among great towering oak and cypress trees. * * *. * “Plantations are adding annually to the expanding Jonestown estate. It thus happens that Senator Alcorn pays oue uiuth of all the taxes of the rich county of Coahoma, and if he lives ten years and no unforeseen calamity be falls, he will own, on his own terms, the broadest and richest and best culti vated estates in America. ‘Sandhill ers’ and ‘poor whites’ from the upland distTcts pick his cotton at seventy live cents per hundred pounds. The pick ing of a bale worth $(>;) (as prepared for market) thus costs $12, f>iul its whole production not more than $21). In no process ami mode of agriculture is there broader margin for profit.” Beatitudes—Political and Social. 1. Blessed is the man that holds no office and wants none, for he shall not be disappointed. 2. Blessed is the man unfit to hold office, for he is sure to want one. 3. Blessed ore all those who seek af ter office, for they shall be called loaf ers. 4. Blessed are those that are mem bers of the Legislature, for they shall be caressed by the offiet • teekors, and. receive dead-head tickets ou all the railroads. 5. Blessed is he who is President of the United States, for he shall receive many gifts. 6. Blessed are the poor who have no money, for they will have no friends, and will not be importuned to lend. 7. Blessed are the poor members of the church, for they wiff receive but few visits from the partor. 8. Blessed is the man who does not want to marry, for no one will have him. 9. Blessed is the man who marries an orphan, for he shall have no motheri-n law. 10. Blessed are all the women that are unmarried, for they will have much fuu in courting the men during leap year. 11. Blessed is the man who has an axe to grind, for he is sure to find some 12. Btesaed are all those who hunger and thirst after office, for they shall be filled—in a horn.—Ex. A Man Killed by a Mouse. An extraordinary occurrence was brought to light at an inquest held on the body of a mail in South London. In a workroom, where many young girls were at work, a mouse suddenly made its appearance on a table, causing, of course, considerable commotion and a general stampede. The intruder was seized by a young man *lio happened to be present, but the mouse slipped out of his hand, and running up his sleeve, came out between his waistcoat and shirt at the neck. The unfortunate man had his month open, and the mouse, looking out for some convenient place of concealment, entered the man’s month, and he, in his fright and sur prise, swallowed it. That a mouse can exist for a considerable time without much air, has long been a popular be lief, and was unfortunately proved to be a fact in the present instance, for the mouse began to tear and bito inside the man's throat and chest, and the result was that the he died in a short time in horrible agony. Several witnesses corroborated the above facts, and medical testimony as to the cause of death having been giv en, a verdiot of accidental death was re turned. TIip (lame Law. AN ACT for the preservation of Game, Animals and Birds in the State of Mis sissippi. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Leg islature of the State of Mississippi, That it shall be unlawful in any place in this State to catch, kill or injure, or pursue with such intent, any wild buck, doe or fawn, between the fifteenth day of May and the fifteenth day of Septem ber; and it shall also be unlawful to catch, kill or injure, or pursue with j such intent, any quail, sometimes call ed partridges, between the first day of April and the fifteenth day of Septem ber; and it shall be also unlawful to catch, kill or injure, or pursue with such intent, any turtle-dove, sometimes called mourning dove, or any starling, commonly known as field lark, between tlw first day of April and the fifteenth 1 day of September, nod tt shall be un j lawful at any and at all seasons to catch, kill or pursue with such intent, the mocking bird, cat bird or thrush. Seo. '1. Be it further enacted, That no person shall destroy or rob the nests J of any wild bird whatever, excepting crows, black birds, blue jays, hawks, owls, and other birds of prey. Seo. 3. Be it further enacted, That it shall he unlawful for any person to j purchase, have in his possession, or ex pose for sale, any of the birds or game mentioned in Section 1 of this Act, dur-: ing the season when the catching, kill- ■ iug, or injuring the same is prohibited,! Seo. 4. Bo it further enacted, That; it shall be unlawful for any railroad j company, steamboat or carrier, or pri-1 vute individual to have iu possession, j ox receive fur transportation or carriage. : or for any other purpose whatever, any of the birds or game mentioned iu Sec tion 1 of this Act, during tho season when the catching, killing or injuring the same is prohibited. Seo. 5. Be it further enacted, That any person or persons violating the I provisions of this Act, by killing, sell- i ing, or offering for sale, or having in ! possession any of the birds, or game j mentioned in this Act, during the sea- - son hereby prohibited, or any fresh ven-; ison, during £he season mentioned in Section 1, shall for each pf tho birds ; and each head of game, and each piece j of fresh venison so killed, sold or ex- j posed for sale, or had iu possession, on : conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a \ hue of not less than three nor more than : ten dollars for each bird and not less j than ten nor more than twenty dollars | for each buck, deer, doe, or fawn, or i piece of fresh venison, and three dollars I for each nest of eggs destroyed as afore-j said, together with costs of prosecution. ! Sno. 6. Be it further enacted, That' nny violation] of the provisions of this I Act may lie prosecuted before any Jus j tice of the Peace, or nuy other officer or. Court having jurisdiction of misdemean ors, and tho judgment of such Court shall be enforced in like manner as iu 1 other cases of misdemeanor. 7 ... ..'iM.,.1 upon collection of any judgment record; for violation of this Act, one-lialf of such fine or judgment shall go to the informer, nnd the other half shall go to the Common School Fund. Sf.c. 8. Be it further enacted, That it is hereby made the duty of all Slier-1 ill's, Constables, Market Masters, Mem bers of Boards of Supervisors, and po lice officers, to arrest all persons violat ing any of the provisions of this Act, and take them before a Justice of the Peace, or other officer having jurisdic tion to hear and try complaints for the violation of the provisions of this Act. Snc. 9. Be it further enacted, That if any person or persons shall take, catch or kill any of the birds or animals mentioned in this Act, upon the lands or premises of any owner, wdio has post ed the same, forbidding such trespass, unless he or they shall have first obtain * ed the consent of such owner or owners j or other person or persons in charge of | such land or premises, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and fined not less than ten nor more than fifty dol lars, to be recovered in the same man ner and appropriated as other fines un der this Act; Provided that this Act shall not apply to any one shooting birds on his place to prevent them from depredating upon his vineyard or gar den. Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, That i this Act shall take effect and be iu sorce from and after its passage. Appproved, March 31,1876. Ingenious Trick. An ingenious bummer has invented a new way of getting his liquor. He puts two pint bottles iu his pocket, one full of water, the other empty. Then he goes into a saloon and asks for a pint of gin, handing out the empty bot tle. When he gets the gin ho puts the bottle in his pocket and tells the bar keeper to “hang it up.” Barkeeper naturally objects, and demands the cush or gin. Bumrnor reluctantly hands him the bottle of water and goes out mut tering about “some people being so confounded particular.” Letteks directed to Horace Greeley are still received frequently at the Tri bune office. They may reach him eventually by way of the dead letter office, however. It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play. We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment. Ant work, no matter how humble, that a man honors by efficient labor will be found important enough to secure respect for himself and oredit for his name. I-™ groohbavcu ^cdgcr. Adrertiaing lialca. One square, first insertion. $1,5<J; each subsequent insertion 73 cenis. One square one year,$13; twosquarmi one year, $ga. One-fourth column one year $0”; one half column one year $lou\ One column one year $IkC. i-ocal Notices twenty cents a line. The space occupied bv a square is one inch. Marriage notices ami deaths, not ex. (•.ceding six lines, published free. All over six linos charged for al regular ad vertising rates. The Sext Colton Ci-oy. Wo have reason to ti »j>-‘, though scarcely daro believe, that tii i ■ will be a decreased cotton proluetiou this year. Tho planters seem to bo so in fatuated with the staple that nothing can prevent them from planting it in excess. However, their experience, during tho season just coming to a close, has been so severe that many will be checked by disinclination to repeat so profitless an experiment, while ar large number aro totally disabled fo operations, even on a small scale. In this connection, we give the reasons of of a leading cotton factor, of New Or leans, why we should iook for a short crop: 1. Too much rain to properly prepare the ground. 2. Tho partial efforts in that direc tion destroyed by storm and frost, and the heu -y -j..n on past season's planting operations. 3. Tho compulsory withdrawal, for lack of moans, of a class, (small plant ers) who contribute largely to tlie pro duction of cotton, and consequent re duction of acreage. 4. The demoralizing and disorganiz ing influence of a political campaign. 5. The fact that a load already heav ier than anticipated can not be increas ed without disastrous results. These are formulated from a combi nation of facts, set forth by him at (kmvdiMovoIiIo lonrrlli oinl u'ifli rrrnr.f force of statement, but after all, with a favorable season, propitious as last year, tho crop of 1870-7 may be tlio largest ever grown, and if so, the price will fall so low that Egypthtfi and In dian cotton will be driven entirely out of tbe markets of the world. This must react on the price of labor tor produc ing American cotton auil the laborer must work for about what ho did iu slavery, that is, food, clothes and med ical attendance. Then whatever fluc tuations there may be in tho price of cotton, labor wages, in the ordinary course of events, never will rise again. Tims time and the law of compensa tion, which is ns inevitable in its ope rations, will bring about an equaliza tion. and in spite of immense crops, cotton will prove remunerative. It cannot be said that there onn be an over-supply of cotton, while ha'.f the world go n"ked. All that can be pro duced can be consumed if the price of the manufactured article is low enough, and we believe the industries of the South have begun a career of di versification, which, with a monopoly of cotton production will make her rich and independent. But for imme diate relief, wo want a small cotton and a large luteal crup. ThJB season is cer ta n to entail great financial distress among all classes of our people. I’icty in Texas. There is a saloon-keeper in this town who is yerv conscientious iu his observ ance of the Christian Sabbath. ies terday morning two exquisite y dress ed young gentlemen dropped into this identical saloon, eu route to church. Possibly in anticipation of a dry ser mon, they called for liquid refresh ments, which having disposed of, one of them said, “Gimme the die, I want to shake.” But the barkeeper sighed, and said: “You can’t desecrate the Sabbath with my dice as long as I yearn for a bliss ful future beyond the grave.” “Why, ole fel,” responded oueof the youths, “I only wanted to shake with Tom to see who will have to furnish the quarter when the plate is passed around.” “That’s a horse of another color,” was the mollified reply ns the dice-box was produced. “I thought you wanted to gambol on Sundays, and I'll be hanged if yon can come that game on me as long as I have got a soul to save." —San Antonin Herald. “Old Hickory.” The following story, which tells how Gen. Jackson got the title of "Old Hickory,” is related by Capt. Win. Al len, who messed with him during the Creek war: During the campaign the soldiers were moving rapidly to surprise the In dians, and were without teuts. A cold March rain came on, mingled with sleet, which lasted several days. Gen. Jnek son got .a severe cold, but did not com plain, as he tried to sleep in a muddy bottom among his half-frozen soldiers. Capt. Allen and his brother John cut down a stout hickory tree, peeled the bark oil-, and made a covering for the General, who was with difficulty per suaded to crawl into it. The next morning a drunken citizen entered the camp, and seeing the tent, kicked it over. As Jackson crawled from the ru ins, the toper cried: “Hello, Old Hickory! come out of your bark, and jine us in a drink.” The Helper in Death. It was not a little curious that almost the only printed page found in the far off Polar seas when the relics of Sir John Franklin were discovered, was a leaf from “Todd’s Student’s Manual, with this dialogue upon it: “Are you afraid to die?” “No.” “No! Why, does the uncertainty of another state give yju no ooncern?” “Because God has said, ‘Fear not; when thou passetli through the waters, I will be with thee.’ ” The poor victim perhaps treasured the page, read and re-read it, and gazed at it until the mists of death crept by. He was not found, but the page told those who were searching, how one man at least had died. We shonld never play with favor; we cannot too closely embrace it when it is real, nor fly too far from it when it ia false.