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AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS.
FinnI Report of the Cotton Acreage of She
Season Of IS56-7-Extent Of Aban-
dOned dLands-COndItIOns of the
Crop, Etc.
From the Memphis Avalanche.

From the Memphis Avalanche.
II cur report of last month, while Civ
ing the total acreage Of cotton planted
for the present season, as we'll a5 short
account of the general condition of the
crop, the Avalanche promised its readers
to replace now by actual accounts those
figures, which were then only estimated.
On that occasion, owing TO the late
GverHows in the Mississippi valley and
other catises then accounted for, we were
compelled to estiifiate the acreage OF cer-
tain counties of various states-a profess
not by any means very satisfactory to us,
nor sufficiently interesting to those en-
gagged in the cotton trade; and in order
to fulfill our promise we publish this full
report, setting forth in detail the actual
acreage Of each and every state.
1t %ould, however, be 1etessary to
refer our readers, first of all, to Ottr last
months report, and more especially to
column five, of table GRE, showing the
acreage estimated of OverflOwed districts,
etc, viz: two hundred and ninety-seven
thousand. AT the same time pointing
out that in case said amount would all be
biattad IN cotton from then out it would
show total acreage of lime million five
hundred and eighteen thousand for the
years 1867, or equal to an increase of
about one-fourth per cent. over last year.
II will DC seer, however, by the present
report that the total acreage of cotton
planted up to the sixth inst. amounted
to nine million three hundred and sixty
two thousand, or equivalent to decrease
of about one per cent, compared with
last year, so that one hundred and fifty
six thousand acres originally intended for
cotton bad to be abandoned for that ptif-
puse. We need scarcely say more on the
subject now, as ot!r figures below Will
explain more fully all the details.
Regarding the condition of the crop we
have every reason to believe that the
stand, owing to late planting, is back
card compared with last year, more
especially In inahy sestions ef tbe west
ern cotton states. With that exception
crow news is favorable and encouraging.
We hear of few complaints about ex-
cessive rains, which, however, up to now
seem to have done little or no damage.
The weather for past three weeks has
been all that could be desired-sti'li-
cientlv warm, with occasional showers.
Nevertheless, until next fall, cotton
will have many enemies 20 encounter,
and we sLall endeayor, from time to time,
tu Keep otr friends sufficiently posted as
to the prospect and Developments of the
crop.
TABLE NO. l,
showing total acreage of cotton planted
for five. wears.
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HOUSE.

In the house on the 18th, the join
resolution to modify the treaty with China
so as to restrict immigration was passed.
Bills introduced and referred-By Mr. Lord:
Joint resolution recommending an addition
al amendment TO the constitution, providing
that officers of the United states, such as as
SCISSORS, pOstmasters, marshals and collectors
except collectors of custom duties, shall be
elected for term of four years. BY Mr.
Raymond: Providing for the gradual re-
sumption of specie payment, and for the re-
peal of so much of the resumption act as
fixes the date for resumption on January /,
1879. Mr.. Clymer from the committee on
expenditures in the war department made n
report in the case of the charges against
Speaker Kerr. The report states that after
full inquiry into the facts, and after thor
ough examination of Lawrence Harvey, the
only witness making the charge, and also of
Aug. 7. Green and divers other witnesses it
appears that in 1866, while member OF the
house of representatives of the thirty-ninth
congress, Mr.. Kerr did, in the exercise of his
right or privilege, nominate Green for an APP
pointment in the regular army. The COM
mittee, however, found no difficulty il
reaching a conclusion that the charge as on
the payment of money to Mr.. Kerr was un-
qua1ifedlv false, and that Mr.. Kerr stood
fully exonerated from all complication af
fecting his personal honor or official integri-
ty. The committee has found nothing in Its
whole progress of investigation to impair or
detract from the well established reputation
for unquestiOned personal integrity and I'M
sulled purity. Mr.. Clymer remarked that
the conclusion was the unanimous judgment
not only of the committee but of the house
and country. Mr.. Garfield suggested that a
vote be taken OH the report by the members
rising. The suggestion was adopted, and
all the members, 2l0 in number, rose in the
affirmative; none in the negative. The
speaker pro TEN. laid before the house a let
ter for Thurlow Weed suggesting that Oscar
Lafayette, grand son of Gen. Lafayette, be
invited to visit the centennial as the guest
of the nation. Referred to committee on
centennial. Adjourned.
In the house on the 18th, Mr.. Roberts
introduced bill to reduce taxation on the
circulation of state banks to an amount
equal to that paid by national banks. Re-
ferred. Mr. Ferry from the committee on
military affairs reported back the senate bill
in reference TO the detail of army officers as
professors at the state military academies
and extending the limit from twenty to
| thirty. After discussion, passed-yeas, l22 :;
nays, 80. On motion of Mr.. Atkins it was
| ordered that no business should be trans
/ acted tO-dPy and tomorrow, except general
debate on the army appropriation bill. The
! house then went into the committee of the
whole, Mr.. Blackburn in the chair, on the
army appropriation bill, and was addressed
by Mr.. Wood (N. " Mr.. Lynch addressed
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Gen. Sherman has just received a very
interesting letter from Gen. Emory Up
ton, who, with Gen. Forsyth, the militia
~ secretary of Lieut.-Gen. Sheridan, are
now travelling on leave beyond the
seas" The letter is dated at 1'iffiis, Asia,
the headquarters Of the Russian Domln-
ions in the east. This is a powerful
stronghold in the Caucasus mountains,
midway between the Black and Caspian
seas. Here the two American officers
dined with the grand duke Michael, the
viceroy, at his palace. The grand duke,
the grand duchess, and their daughter,
all desired to be remembered to Gen.
Sherman, who had partaken of their hos:
pitalities on his tour, and sent several
messages to him. Gen. Upton gives an
interesting description of his voyage
from Bombay via the Persian gulf, and
his stay at Teherau, the capital ofPersia.
He and Gen. FORSYTH remained at Tehe-
ran for ten days by the express request
of the shah. The shah gave them mag.
nificent entertainment at his palace, and
invited them to a review of his army.
The evolutions were performed IN four
ranks, similar to UptOn's tactics: Gen.
linton saws the maneuvers reminded nm
yery much of one of our Old-iashioned
militia musters
The shah askel them great many
que stions about the institutions OF the
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as we'll as an extension Of the afea infect
ed. The following are the returns: At
Hiilah, in the space of five days, (frOm
the 9th to the 3lst of March inclusive
there were sixty-six new cases and forty
two deaths. At Bagdad, from the 2Sth
of March to the 1st Of April, there were
one hundred and forty-five new cases and
seventy-fve deaths, The plague in that
city has nov crossed from the right bank
OF the Tigris t5 the lett bank, Shifh had
been previously free from the contagion.
The epidemic had likewise made its ap-
pearancc at Meshed or Nedjef Ali, where,
from the 25th to the 29th or March, there
occurred five fatal cases, and also at Kut-
et-Hamra. A severe quarantine, we are
assured, has been established at Kournah.
st the confluence of the Euphrates and
the Tieris, Under the stiperintendence of
DR.. COfmar; and it is also stated that the
Petsiat gotetpmeit has, ordered that ar
tiva1s from MesoPotat1i Ia shall ditderg6
a quarantine of fifteen days before enter
ing the shah's territory.
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TIE two Presbyterian assemblies, one
sitting in Brooklyn, the other in Savan-
nah, took during the closing days of
their sessions long step in the direction
of fraternity. On Friday, May 26th, a
resolution was adopted in the northern
assembly in these words: "With a view
to the expression of the united and hear
ty wishes of this body that at the earliest
practicable moment we may see the es-
tablishment OF correspondence with the
other assembly, we hereby resolve that
this assembly reiterates its cordial desire
to establish fraternal relations with the
southern assembly on terms of perfect
equality and reciprocity as soon as it is
agreeable to their brethren to respond to
this assurance by similar expression"
To This a reply was sent on the next uay
from the southern body, declaring that
~ while condemning certain acts and de
Everances of the northern assembly, no
acts of deliveranccs of the southern as
sembly are to be construed or admitted
rs imPugning in any way the christian
character or standing of the northern
general assembly or of the historical
bodies of which it is the successor. -
This assurance was received by the
assembly in Brooklyn with great satisfac-
ton, and a resolution in the precise
terms of that from Savannah, with the
necessary change of the word northern !"
TO southern" was adopted, and ordered
to be Immediately tclcgraphcd. The
adoption of the resolution was followed
by the singing of the doxology. The
country will approve of the sensible basis
of fraternity adopted by these two
churches. Neither body is asked to sur
render cherished convictions, but with
the expression by the representatives OF
both of confidence in each other, the past
is left to settle itself, and the new life
begins
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EAST.

Complaints of ravag ges of the Colorado
beetle upon the potato vines have become
general throughout New England, as well as
i'll the middle states.
AnsOn Robertson, who has served twen-
ty years of a life sentence for murder in the
Rhode Island state prison, has just been
found to be innocent of. the crime.
According to the n ew York Evening
express, sixty thousaIl Ild men in one de-
partment of industry, thrown out of en-
ploymcnt in one day, with the certainty of
idleness for two month hs at least, and the
prospect of two months moro at the end of
that, is the feast of lear things at which the
public are invited to 10 * in Pennsylvania,
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VOL. XXI. NO. 81.

United States, its manufactures, agricul-
tural resources, machinery, etc, and
showed an acquaintance with our affairs
Which surprised them. He evinced the
most interest in asking about American
arms, of which he said he had beard -
great deal ftom military men during his
visit to Europe. lie said he would like
to have some Gatlin guns and breech-
loading rifles for his army, and asked
Gen. Upton to write to some of the prin-
ciple American arms manufacturers and
get them to send him price lists. The
shah also expressed great desire to open
diplomatic relations with the United
States, and asked the officers to write to
their government his request that an
envoy shodld be sent to his capital
Baltimore Sun.
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He was a very young man. A few
stray hairs upon his lips attested the fact
that he was engaged in a deadly struggle
with a mustache. He went into a
variety store on Main street, and said to
the proprietor: Have you Charles
Reade's Lost Heir ?" "No, l haven't"
REPLIED the storekeeper. But" he con-
tinued, looking into the young mans
face, "Pve something that will make
that mustache of yours start out like
boilS IN sIring time
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fl,a ItI,;ffaS m, III i-aI efot of- f{S
roE6Ted SeoSIp M q Ss5s I'd 3sse1f are
;iommitfee On the finSssSssIi sSTsestian. The
Committee then rose. and the no a1s
jOurned. @.sase ...-s-4ss<ss;
In the house, onthe 15tlf number OF
speeches were mad ale proce edings
were without EreetkL i in ere 81 ashe tele:
graphic bulIetiH lob - giving tlitsai
est news ff1flt Eiucin exs ftes y eElt
strong ATTRACTION US
rebithl iran zen, eiitleA were eagcrl& ktndleu
a1d q Seassed throughout the day 49,. x
-Tiier house on the went into COM
sslss.s., ,.s,..,,,, ~ .,,;,r,,,r;s.
~ w = { -.
u 19En m tnesc nslt: 9 y arr
1dfaents TO the bill were offered and
,feiee4ed. No S7HERm being present The
house adj burned. ssSssss.sg
In TIA 4iutisse;:ss on. thr ttafffs
a. Ssi.s II. -. u,
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Office, the United States consulate, two
banks, the docks, vessels in the river, por
ton of the bridge over RicRelieu river, ST.
Johns %oolen mills, stone thihaware rooms
and two hundred aud fifty store and houses
are reduced TO ashes
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-06-30

The deposits of bullion in the great
banks of England, France and Germany
now rise to about $3.50, 600, 600, and the
difficulty of investing capital safely has
rarely been greater. 1T is about a year
since the Collie failure and the national
repudiations began, and in that time the
shrinkage on the Egyptian, Peruvian
and Turkish debt held in England is re-
duced to about $50, 100000 The Lon
don News reports that small traders be-
gin to feel the effects of the depreciation
IN the capacity to buy, resulting from so
large default. and mourns anew that
English buyers. could not be persuaded
to touch " United States bonds, ten years
ago, when they we're selling at seventy,
bat allowed the Germans to occupy the
basement story on that investment.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-06-30

Az invention has been successfully APP
piled in Liverpool to the printing ma
chine, by means Of which newspapers
may be printed upon an unbroken roll
at paper without the necessity of previ-
uusIy stereotyPing the pages and mould
ing them to the shape of the cylinders to
which they are affixed. The details of
the process have not been communicated
further than that the type itself is fixed
on the cylinder referred to, but, with
the exception that it has been yet found
impracticable to apply the auto matte
folding process to the machine, the plan
is fully successful. The advantage of
the invention is that while giving the
highest rate of speed, it will save the cost
of stereotyPing, which, except in case of
very large Impressions, is otherwise un-
necessary.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-06-30

DowN in South Carolina they smole
ghastly smiles when they read about
"the economy of Providence in the re
publican platform.
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TIMELY TOPICS.

THE cotton factories which Ii Hung
Chang-the virtual ruler of China-in-
tends to establish at Ningpo may prove
the beginning of an industrial movement
which will deprive Great Britain of one
of her best customers for textile fabrics.
MEXICO is suppressing tho insurrec-
tion which a few weeks ngo appeared to
be so formidable and threatened to de-
stroy the government. The decisive
victory over the revolutionists near
'Queretaro, May 81, in a battle in which
they lost large number of men and
arms, has practically ended the trouble.
The government deserves congratulations
on its success, and can now rest in the
sweet assurance of enjoying profound
peace for sixty days, unless another rev.
olution happens before that time, which
is not unlikely.
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A QUIET BIT or SCANDAL.

when cennital saSages after fight
Make feast of tie bSd'es ot those they have
bea ten,
The grisly replst yields a keener delight
From the knowledge that every unfortunate
Would have deemed it the deepest disgrace to
he eaten.
Though the custom is fast dying out in Feejee,
AS The influence of western example increases,
In civilized countries you often may see
A circle of fdends in the highest of glee,
klI bttsily Pickitg soute rteighbOr to pieces.
And ths best Of IL is the neighbor is not,
AS ia islands barbarics a person deceased;
His flesh has been baked in no cdldron or pot;
They don't even trouble to serve him up hot;
For the victim still lives in the midst OF the
feast.
Some good natured friend, p'r'aps, may make
Of the nature of these hungry monsters i'm
plOyment;
And though in reply he may stou'ly declare
That such vivisectiCn won't hurt him hair,
Yet he writhes al the thought Of their hendish
enjoyment:
Sttii one c5miort teinaiiis In the isle of Feeiee
No possible veifg, ailce is left for the victim;
He's cooked and defunct. But IN Europe he's
free
To seek satisfaction and Sometimes We see
That he wounds in exchange for the wounds
which have prickcd him.
Then beware, Mrs. Smiti beware. lovely Miss
Brown;
Young Jones, whispers nothing that isn't faite
true;
Pc little mere careful Of others renown,
With Miss Green, and is quietly cutting up
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1t begins TO seem as if the American
continent were built upon asubstructure
of defunct mastOdons. The tusk of an
other was unearthed at YOlO county,
California, last week. 1t was seven feet
long, and eight inches in diameter at the
larger end. It was found protruding
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How the Mississippi Wears Away IFS
Banks,

The observation is made by hec)us, in
his work "The Earth" that the Mlssls-
cippi river seems to contradict the law OF
Of thinning water, which IN
oftbe motion of the earth on
its axis cause all streams which flo"
north or south to hug the west side OF
their valleys. But Mr.. &. w. r. Bailey,
in a paper published in the Journal OF
the American Society of Civil Engineers,
shows that the anomaly is an apparent
one only. "The river" he writes, "docs
wear away its weastern shore-line more
rapidly than the eastern, but it cannot
do otherwise than gradually excavate
circular bends, of from twenty 10 twenty
five miles in circumference generally,
and then cut them off, leaving them TO
the westward. There has been, always,
an excess of overflow and of scdimentary
deposits west, and by far the largest num-
Der, as well az the greatest benes when
cut off, have been left to the west. The
western portion of the valley Is every
where well filled with alluvion, and the
swamps west have firm bottoms through
out the valley. Below Baton Rouge,
where the river tends to the southeast,
the swamps on the east are bOggy and
not well filled with deposits, and the
large spaces covered by Lakes Maurepas
and Pontchartrain are left untitled.
"If the Mississippi had been a river of
clear water (instead of being sedlmenta'
ry), traversing a valley not alluvial, 1T
would probably occupy the western side
of its valley like other streams flowlng
toward the equator; but, as it Is, 1t
lcvees or embanks itself to the eastward
by an excess of deposits west. 1t hugs
the bluffs on the east side, down to the
last one ut Baton Rouge, for the reason
that it could not be forced any farther
eastward; but Immediately below tho
last bluff, the excess of deposits wea'
crowded the river channel eastward stu
father; the general direction thence tt
the present mouth being southeast. 1h'
mouth Of the river having now reached
very deep water in the Gulf of Mexico
and having advanced a little beyond th'
filling up of the gulf west, and beyon'
the southern limits Of the western high
linds. the tendency is to flow westward
by the Southwest Pass, which is now tn
largest channel, conveying about one
third Of the whole river to the sea"
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THE Softas, of whom so much has of
late been said in connection with the de-
position of Sultan Abdul Aziz, are said
10 be like no body of men now existing
outside of MOhammedan countries. In
Charscier 1they most nearly approach
the mixed crowds of university profess
soTs and students of Europe during the
middle ages. These seemed at that time
10 be theOlogiaps, rs the Softas now seem,
but the theology was then the accepted
basis of science and was necessarily fol-
lowed by all who aspired to culture.
The Sofas are the cultured classes, or
would be if there were such classes in
Turkey, as there are not, except in COM
parison with very low civilization in
all the others.
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THE defeat of the Spencer crowd of
carpet-bag swind!ers in the Cincinnati
convention, while the work Of the Blaine
men for their own purposes, was very
severe thrust at the policy of Ger.
Grants administration, since ne has
ever sustained that class of thieves and
only recently appointed Chas. f. Mayer
to be the United States marshal OF Ala
bama, because he knew Mayer was an
unscrupuluus politician, who would dse
his Office for every nefariOus purpose of
the party, and work hand in hand with
Spencer and his crew of carpet baggers.
Moreover the convention which elected
the Spencer delegates to the Cincinnati
convention was pronounced to be the
regular republican organization by
Senator Cameron and the republican con-
gressional committee. These bummers
ere distinctly informed, however, at
Cincinnati, that they were grossly irreg-
ular, and it would certainly be an ad-
vantage to the sDuth il this sudden moral
development in the republican party
would continue to cast out the robbers
and swindlers who represent IT in Ala
bama, Louisiana, and South Carolina.
But this cannot be cxpected.-CourifT
JopTna,.
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THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR VICE

The REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR VICE
PRESIDENT William A. Wheeler, the
republican nominee for the vice presi
dency, is native of New York and a
lawyer by profession. For several years
he was district attorney OF Franklin
county, New York. He was member
of the New York house of representatives,
in 1850 and 1851; president pro Il m. OF
the New York constitutional conven-
ton in 1867 and 1868. He was a mem
Der of the thirty forty-frst, for
ty-second and forty-third congresses, and
was re elected to the forty-fourth. He
was the author of what is known as the
wheeler compromise" by which quiet
was restored in Louisiana.
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THE Mexican Diario declares that if
the United States "invade Mexico on
any pretext, the government will defend
the soil with energy" The sOlicitude of
the Mexican for his native soil is so great
that he habitually carries a large guam
tity of it around with him, in order that
he can have it right where he can defend
it in an emergency.
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TABLE NO. >,
WESTERN STATES

showing increase and decrease OF acre
age, separating eastern from western
| states :,
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a NEXICAN who claimed to be a
snake charmer recently attempted the
capture ofa large ratllesnake near Cor
pus Christi, Texas. As the snake lay
coiled up, the Mexican made a grab at
his neck, and caught the reptile too far
back, the snake turning his hea and
fastening his fang in the second joint of
the fore-finzer. from which he dangled
until shaken loose by the performer.
Simple remedies were used at once, but
the finger continued to infame and the
flesh to drop off, until amputation be-
came necessary 10 save the Mexican's
life. The snake-chsrner has retired from
the charming business to the more gene
ral-MeE1can ayocation OF monte. dealer.