Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 22, 1875, Page 1

28, VOLUME OARRIAGES AND ROAD WAGONS [LINSSSSEe S s s CARRIAGES D Road Wagons, We beg to announce that our stock of finished vehicles, in VARIETT, EXTENT, and QUALITY, has never been equaled by any similar display, embracing thonewest designsin 1andaus, Landaulets, Bavonch- es, Grand Vietorins, Double- Suspension, Cabriolets, Vig-n-Vis, Phaetons, P-Caxts, ete. Including, also, every variety of the b “SAENSTERWACOL THE STANDARD FOR QUALITY, Special attention is called to our “Improved Side-bar Coup- ling,” by which we produce a PERFECTLY EASY,LEVEL- RIDING, HALF-SPRING WAGON, without increased weight or cost. BREWSTER & 0., OI BROOME-8T., Tifth-av,, cormer Bomrtcenthst, INEW TOREK. * TELEGANT CARRIAGES. J.B.BREWSTER&CO, OF NEW YORK CITY, (OLD 1OUSI OF BREWSTEN), Dex to inform the citizons of ODIOAGO that their CARRIACGES aro uncqueled, and in point of FINISH and DURABILITY havo no suporior, Fartioular attention in called to their PAT. ENT OROSS.SPRING and VBATIOAL STBHRL PLATH in AXLES, making their | dies? £ oLOVES: GLOVES. Held, Leiter & Co. STATE & WASHINGTON-STS., ‘Will opon, TO-DAY, May 22, NEW LINES Ladios’ English Lislo Throad Glovos, 1-button, 2-button, 3-button and Gauntlet; SILK AND LINEN MIX, 1-button, 2-bution and Gaunt~ lot; o Novelty in Fr. Lielo Soamloss and Silk-finigh, short and oxtira longths; PRENCH TAFFETA and GERMAN SILK, 2-button, 3-button ond Gauatlot; LACE MITS, full fin- gor, halt finger, and without fingers, vory handsomo and fashionabloj KID, DOGSKIN, and CASTOR GAUNTLETS, for Traveling and Driving, o very groat varisty; Chils dren’s Silk and Lisio, in all tho new soft shades; end FULL LINES Lo- ond Children’s BERLIN LISLE, 12%c, 16e¢, 200, and 25~ UNUSUAL BARGAINS. r————esnememee— GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS. COMPLETE LINES OF NS SUMMER UNDERWEAR In the following poods, now in atock, vis: 8ilk;, Balbrigran in Brown and Fancy, Lisle Phread in Winto snd Brown, Cartwright & Warnes's Merincs, Gavzo and Gossamer, Angola Flanno!, Linon, Jean, &o. Handling tho Iargost stock of these goods of any Rotail House in the country, encbles us to sell ot lowest pricas, end to give each quatomor tho goods ho vwants. WILSON BROTHERS, SEIRT MAKUTFAOTURERS AND MEN'S FURNISOERS, §7 % 69 WASHINGTON-ST, CHIGAGD. Pike's Opora ITouss, Cincinnati, FURNITURE. Chamber Scts Wo hevo o lorgo stock of FINE DRESSING CASE SETS, which wo offer at less than munufacturors’ pricos. Also, o fino assortod stock of MEDIUM CHAMBER SETS, much below retail figuros. C. C. HOLTON & CO. WINDSOR AND Brewster Wagon The casiest riding and the strongest wagon over built. Ordors may bo placed, at Now York prices {freight ndded), with PENNOYER & (0., 302 Wabagh-o ~ wiIND M1 AGENTS WANTED! u erery Coanly for 1 ECLIPSE WIND MILIR. a1 14 W heol W eri o oien iefereucen ron uired. - Addresm C.B,SALMON, Sec'y, ECLIPSE WIND MLk €O, BELOIT, WIS. IRON PIVE. WROUGHT-IRON PIPE, Steam Warming Apparatus, MANUFACTURED BY CRANE BROS. MANUFACTURING CO. __No. 10 North Jeflerson-st. ol MEDIOAL, "SAVORY & MOORE'S™ Best Food for nfants Resomblos Maher's Milk miors closely tha any other Kind"of Food, porfootly tuliiiiug ‘s abjest-ihat of pro: oilng ssegein sul heulih s oot LS i, an e X sad'the Medioal Trofossion rocominend It with the utmott contldence Aad cortainty of succors, Heo wedical cerfiicaics and opintons. Wiholesslo and rotallal o Ranfactuears, 1 NEW BONDGT., LOKDON, W& rougha n BAVORY & d ir adcBar tir’ aypoptic and reiailof ailchbmiste aud storvkos tates _and Cansda, wl a 0ONE'S DIGKSTIVE 00C04, gelicatopareons of all ages. CINOINNATI SANITARIUM. A permagsntly established fnvtitution fur the care, cus- fodz, sud trontrent of (ho dmane, licluding thes » g fru ep! gy, | A sophiate departiiout wud bl 1 foc patlota with Rervous disorio.s, aad for {nobiaias thoid addicied oo v3cauive U of npium el utice Barotlca, Far ciroular, audrers WILLIAM L. PHUK. :)"jn 2.. tuperiutendoat, Coliege Hull, Hawlitow County, REMOVALS, LS W. J. BARNEY, Tand Agent, bas zemoved fo 87 Tribuns Buildins, A A et PR ereta 18 Thma. thiacts, Mingous: R T (T 24 5000 o i S ertiiemans, o0 Tocdily Maale 295 & 227 State-st, OFFICES TO RENT IN THR TRIBONE_BUILDING. INQUIRE OF WILLIAM G DOW, ROOM 10. STORE FOR RENT. No. 201 Jackson-st., lu the new Produce Mariiot, Very low rent, 0. I & G, 0, WALKER, DOCK TOR RENT. 230 foet viver front, near Twonty-socond.at, Bridge. Raflzad Tracks on the propesty. Apply to VA MLE, No. 43 Doasborn-st. TO RENT. Store 57 Clark-st., Ashland Block. Applyto D.w, \ll'ltf‘l ”Tl:}a‘ml’l.l:uk‘ LEZGAL. TETUNDING OF TAYES Orrick or TuR QouNTY TREAWULED AND ColLEcTOR, i Coak COUNTY, A Ctlicaao, May i, 1575, 1 Tn sccordance with au act yratidlng for the iefunding 26 ol the Hlate tas of 1374, whon vaid, Soc, B of sai contalas ameng othior piovirions tho following: by porsen us ¢ irpuration biavin 1d any portion of the Biate'ins sasestod Tor i yoar 194 n edcoss ot 0318 prosenting his vr its tax-reosipt for 1873 cov- to 1he Oounly Treasurer of ths county ouity rofun, o perean or corparation the amount by 18 10 sscons Of 295l 1ho Stat tax of 16718 contalngd in such n colpty au Toccl .. ke, 4 provides fors publle notico la ooe newspaper o ordancs 11l the same, notioe lllrl: Dn'nlon( I\I““:»In entitled ; X faby Eivan LAC bereo e 10 TeLinto BuASr fue law o bava (ho ssme by ApuLuE 8t tltsocic on and aftor the sty A T . County Treasuror of Cook Cout, 111, WIRE SOREENS, A R A e AR AARRRA "WIRE SCRBENS B ‘:&’,,'..‘.}“‘n'."“.%'c'ximg"l’gf.x'f: TR St Velthls e o A O Fribuap Bl ding, . CUICAGO, ATURDAY, i 1875.—TWELVE PAGES. s W ATCHES IEWERLRL, £8:.. .o s & Aroinvited to oxamine tho 8tock of FIND JEWLLRY, WACHES, OBSATS D'ART, GEMY, DIAMONDS, and othor Precicui flones, both sot and uaset, at our lfouse in Perts, 57 RUE DU CHATEAUDTR (Chansses C'Antin), Alzo to visit our Watch Mararfactory, TLAGE CORNAVIN Coer (e Railvoad Depad), GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, Taving combined tho Amorican method of using labor.saving tools and machinery with thoroughly skilled Izbor, ws are enabled to produce FINT! WWATOIIES asnrices which warraat a preforonce over ail others, FEANT & L0 UNION SQUARE, New York, WEDDING PRESENTS. A fresh, now variety of rich ond medium-priced noveities in Sterling and Silver Plate, for Wedding Gifts and Houselzeep- ing Purposes at extremely low prices. HAMILTON, ROWE & (0, 99 STATE-RT,, CORNER WASHINGTON COAL. BRACKEBUSH, DICKSON & €O, MINERS AND SEIPPERS OF Coaland Coke WILLOW GROVE. YOUGHIOGHENY (Gas Coal). HOCKING VALLEY. BLOSSBURGIL - - LACKAWANNA (all sizes). WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. Sxzclal Indncements made tolarguConsarers and Dealers, MAIN OFFICE: No. 1 W. Randolph-st. RAILROAD YARD: 8: W. cor, Oarroll and Morgan-sts, BIHIRES, SHIRTS! To order, of tho best fabrios in uso, Full lines in_stock of our own manulfacture. Wo re prepsrod to mako Shirts to oxder in eight ‘hours, when uecessary. LSON RS, MEIl'S FURNISHERS, 67 & 69 Washington-st., Chicago. Pike's Orern Houge, Cincinnati. ~ HATS. The Roushy Jat. Young Gonts, havo you seen it It {v il‘-u"mtns&rm‘mz,' Noblost Younr Mow's at yot ouf Aak to Sce the Ool, Bellors Hat. Doth those arg lato o, BARSTOW, 125 South Olark-st, __ BEDDING PLANTS AT SANDERS?, 93 MADISON-BT,, opposite Tribuna Buil d'g LAVA PRENS, whelosals 185 143 ro- S CRITCRBLL, E"‘IZE%E Insurance! Phenix Insurance o, OI' BROOKLYXN, N. X. Assets, $2,200,000. = ¥ e Assets, 341-00,_000. et HMA4ANCHEBTER, N. H, MEMPHIS, TENN, Assets, $400,000. Mihigan StaieIus. o Assets, $300,000. 100 LA SALEE-ST., CHICAGD. Apnplications for Insurancs by mall will rocetva aitention. PARPITS. Carpets. Féeld:—l&e@%e’w & Co. STATE & WASHINGTON-STS., Will offer on Xonday, May 24, a largo line of English and American At $1.75 and $2 per Yard. Algo, other grades of Carpets ot equelly low pricos. v Y. T ELATIVS Requests their customers to gend their orders for MILLINERY As carly as possible in order to gecure prompt attention before the rush. Goods sent on country orders may be returrod iff not natisfac- tory. Hall's Branch Stove, 346 West Madison-st " ExcnmsioN. UP THE CALUMET RIVER. TIIE:T;MEH BEN DRAKE LEAVES OLARKX.ST, BRIDGE SUNDAY AFTERNOON, AT 2 O'CLOOCK, FOR CALUMET RIVER. AUOTION SALES. . CARPETS ! . The attentio of DEALURS and HOUSEXUEPERS is invited o the sate of 40 KW MISTIT OARPE 80 N D CARPETS, bt shizhtly seed. 120 ROLLS OF NEW UARPD! in baudsutas Vol voir, lirussels, Tapeatry, 3 Ply, sod Jugcaln, & By 8, DINGEB & 00, Auctioncors, 80 and Mot Hons NEW AND USKD, T AUCTION THIS DAY, by 8. DINGRI & CO., AT T RSN t Parlor Suil Terey, and ilair Clot, ! raiy, aid Dini iariit, all to by snd eharges. ALERS AND TOUSEKGEPRRS_TSVITED. MISCELLANEOUS, A HARDWAR Aul Stive Blan, wha fs also a practical Tiuser, eral yeary! iy and couniry, wi S iatsat i iy Eisbibinent (403 ot oia Food cuniiey trads can e on N Teatoma s sdiary: Adiross NMOUAND, caro of Betat- Ball & Veroy, | Rt E Tan, Y with sove " to bee o ca =Y MARINE Glasssy, fine BWISS Drawtug Instrumsonts, Microseapes, sad other Optical Goads. Baakrupt atok Taast by out. 8 Blale-at, opp, Fleld, Later & Co.'s. SAVE YOUR WALLS. Light yastohes oo FTAR LINCTION AT Salsaies: B Svmleome st parlar, and of undisputed utility, Huo- , LININGTON 4 BRO., 1L Blato-at,y Cnihge. drads of thout THE SOUTH. What the Average Mississip- pian Expects to Gain from Politics. The Blessings that He Imagines Would Pollow the Elimination of Samba, Goneral Attachment of the Planters to the 0ld Credit-System., Its Enflucnce ay o Iicans of Impoverishiug Everybody. Form of Contract Under Which Labor Is Leased in the South. Teglcet and Misuse of Cotton.Lands.-- Worn-Out and Abandonad Plantations. From Qur Own Corresvondent. TVicxaouna, Mies, May 11.—Tho progress in Miesirmppi toward industrinl restoration, to coo accuetcsaed to the enorgetic LLrift of tho North, would scem scarce mara Lopeful thau does tho political sitnation. Ye: the conditions, indus- trindly o8 well au thoso political, sre euch as give PEOJMIET OF PROGRESS— aven if it bo thenugh olimination of the eloment that faces backward, both in politica and in planting. 1t s, doubtless, eomething gained that to-dzy thero are old Alimsissippiana who do ot look for relicf in financial affuirs aa well as for improvement in losal governmert to cuccess in a mavement proacriptivo of ovory colored man, nud the logic of which 18 that be bas no busivess to be er. It is doubtless alzo an {ndication of progress that to-dny thero ato somo planters who do not regard it ay uecessary that tho negra theuld be prastically enslaved in order that cot~ tun 10ay be grown; who now Biy that more cotton will bogrosn In Mississiepi, oud mose corn 2nd wheat also, this ssason than any yoar giteo tho War; who admit ¢bat it is no longer poetibls to conduct plantations euccesafully on tho sute-War system of noghgenco and credit advnuces, In courso of time that clegs who ad- sere to ante-War ideas will cesso to be land- ovnors, sud tho estates of such will pres mto the possccsion of men who bavo not altogetber antediluvian. As srothe ghtened moderates fn politics, theee on- lightened as to tke industrial eituztion are fow. Tho uverago Misslasippian anticipates usoum- bored blessiogs and unbounded prosperity from o poiitical victory over tho niggers that shall + climivate” Bambo from politics forever. And the average Mislsaippian etill conots on an cnormons jacome from bis plsntalion, mthout dolug any work bimeell, witkout tho exercise of ordmary business prudence, and without aban- donment of the most ruincus (to the dobtor) of all szetems of credit. Dut, without tho undoing of alf that bag beon donoin tho past fourtoen yenrs, it i3 not easy to sco what plsce is tett for TUT AVERAGE MISSISEINPIAN in American civilization, save as a pitiful relic of bygono era, Tao averago Misslesippian of all thingo growls most of taxes, whichhodoeen't poy till ho i so far in arreara that, as is the caso now, by actof the Leglalatore, on parment of the lagt lovy, those fu nirear for tho years (two 1 believe) previous are remitted. Of all taxos hie growls most nt tho Stato levy of $600,00 for echool purposes. Tho edueation of tho negro be regards e o farce, which is demoralizing the rising geueratiou ko that they srea’s worlh a cont—for cotton-fleld bands, of courze, Mo is of opinion that mobody bLut the negroos ean grow cotton in tho bottoms, The malaria is fatal to tho whito iaborers; that Is, to those who huve been imported, and thoro arono whites hera who would work 1 the cottou-flelds of the Lottom-lands even if they were proof agalnst tho malaria, Dolitics ina doue 2o mueh for tko negro, or £0 much kas been done for him as tho subject of politics, that Lo naturally loaes grest oxpectations on it. Wero ho etiminated from polities, tho negro mizht despair of realizing his great cxpectations, and work cheaper and harder, aud fall back into Lis old lot,—so the ararage Miswissippian tooms o arguo, which perhaps furnislies in part the ratiouale of the restoration of prospetity bo expeets whon thero shall boa Detnocratic National Administration such as ho oxpscts. Moanwhilo, thorefors, the averago Misstesipptan dovoted himsolf to politics, and, lis own phrase, **this conntry 14 going to the d—1," as it will continun to do tmfi pagses into the handa of the bllumslpginn‘u creditors, when anow deal must follow. ~ Aleanwlule, therefore, the average Miseis«ippian pursacs . TIL OLD CREDIT 8YSTEN, only now Iccosts him more, aud since Bambo gets his ehare for tho work, it costs probably thrice as tnuch as before to grow tho orop. At Mewmpbis I was surprised to learn that the plaut- crd nero ‘earried" the scason throush by the i r4 at the rate of 1 per cent per wouth on full prices for suppiles furuished. “At Littla Tt ck ubout tho same rato prevailod, in soms o- wionces probubly & higber one, Ab Jackson I medo {nguiries of the leading factors snd com- wmseion men, and learned that the customary rate charged was 25 per cenl per month from Jaunuary to August, inclusivo, or 20 por cent for 1hio soaton geuerally, if paymont wore not mada tiil Christmas, And at Vicksburg I was informed that tho actunl charge for credit supplice was nearer 25 than 20 per ceat. Though ultimately this {8 paid by the negro, it is paid out of the erop, and oy the nogro scldom owns anythiog to eecuro the advauces furnished Lim by ‘the plauter, whilo theso have to bo furnished for Lis support before the erop is grown, it must fro. quently happon that neither negro uor plauter lins much’of anything left afior the factor's or conunission merchaut's bill is pald, The slare svstem of planting is hittluin vogue here. Tho 1 miodo is known as TUE SQUAD LEABING, Tho folloning form (for alich Lam {ndobted to Alaj. Paston. of Vicksburz), gouerally ju use, glves tho torms of thedo leascs: “Chis article of agreciment Lotween P, party of the first. part, il —— oud olhiers Whosd Dumes ara sligueil hereto, parties of the secoud part, witueasel Tt o snld 1 bas leaved to tho said yarties of the Becouil part for the current yer — acres of land, bes Tug part of his plantation, for the anuual reut of 76 pounds of widdling liut cotlon for each acre of waid feased land, 20 be pald to the sald ou or befuro thy 13th day of November naxt, And wher thed of tho analstunce in thn or genctal sup 1t 48 spprelended that the sald rars d part, o oma 0f thetm, Tuay ue way Of teams, tools, forage, money, lice, o uld thewh fn the cultivation of xald leavedd prowmisce, aud that such ssalstance may bo given them by the said NOW fu sectire Tusl juyincut of s1id ront or s equivalent in gmouey, and ‘10 secure the punciust payment on or bee fore {bu 1:ith of Dxember boat of all fu- Qobteduesr, uote zccoding o the upgregits tha 3um of —— dollars, that may bave beeu herea ter contracted or iheurred Ly thy eald per of tho sezond part, 0F auy or cithes of thewn, fu U matters aforcusld, 1o tho sald s tho said partica of tho second part do bereby ive, grant, aud barsaia to o sald I, the fres ilen, having 'l the furco 0t a mortgage, on ull (Lo viop of coltou aud ecin tlat Tusy duringsald currout yor bo grown on thw siid Toaowd premiece : aind on all Lorwos, bulcs, and Jarm- {ug Lwpluneats tbat way bo furntshied by 'sald ——— NUMBER 271, 0F that mas otherwias during mid ¢ y arrent year be on ;}lll‘ I agod promizes the m,’:'m, of tus eald parties §.440 socond yart, or auy or elthier of then:, and par- T ek el ! 4 yartiea of tha second part do hereb watra in favur of the il 1tn and ciniing sdverze to ths ta == righa and prefereuces hereinbefors It jo further unfleratood and spree erent tho sald namies of |||.;~rnxr‘(§e;in‘31‘,‘n‘|x‘?rr'a?| #lckncan of other caune, be i defauit ar nesd of belp in the eultivation or gathering thetr erop, asistencs 103y Lo farniehed by 8144 ~—— at thie eost and for the t of tho partics of tho racond Jatt, ol utulor our Lisuds and scals on (a4 —— day The rental named [n tho above is 55 pounda peracre. Thero i no nutform rate, however § for thz uplands it rauges from 40 Lo U poutds [er aare, and for the bollow-lands from about 70 to 10 pouuds (the lattor being tho highest figure) per acre, according to quanty of iand, Latimating tho cotton at currcat rates, the reat per nere woull Ls from, say, £5 1o 28 for up- leudy, and from 210 lo £18, secordiag to quality of crop. Tho negroos, 88 o rulo, can furnish nothing eavo their labor. 'They aro sup= plied swath corn-mest and bacon (*rations™ drawn weekly), with the 20 of 25 per cent mdded &) tho price; with raules, with the like addition to the rrico; and witn corn and forage, with liko addition. 1f at the clue of the sesonthis negrochicoses, and v ablo 1 do o, bie can take the mulo ou payment of the cost of tha animal with tho intorast added 3 othorwise Lo is cinrged for ueo of the animal, which rewmaina the proporty of tho planter. Besides, the vegroes zro furnished with orders on the * etore " for what otber litile artictos aro indispensablo for um snd biu family during tho gesson, For thotn he pays not only the sauie ine tetest for tho credit, but the orizinal prices an a rulo aro as exorbitant 23 those comuonis clnrgad &t crosa-roads *‘stores.” In this way, €9, 0, o 100 acres nro usmally let ina lot, tho * fore- man,” o vezro of eomo credit, sud who recruits the squad, for his extre roward usually geiting the Ledy of tho laud to *“crop" for bLime w2lf nud siloting the rest to bhis fecllows. Under tuis systom the negro, after subsisting on corn-dodger and poris through the scason, has very litue left, which goes gencraily to supply the *‘extravazant” tasica bora of Lis freedom, ~-Lnya boots und Sunday-go-to-meeting clotlies, ete., —and tho nextrear, fu tho eamo faxhion, Le- gius over opain. The planters oupht to liave o silendid jncowe, but that their family supplies sad all that they consuwne aro obianed on the oo exbaget:ve credit, secured by trust doods on plattations aud morigages of srowivg crops. Bo they coms vut, often chough, wa foor a3 tho durkey nd, if they nace somothing left after th the factors, are exasperated on con- g5 16 with their iumensa proiits under tho slnve-tabor aysten, = Lo this em. adding not less than 25 per cent 1o the cost of gramng the ecop, 1o tho fact that the nhites den't work, and that the negra Lias £o intereat in such working of ths lands as will leave them in goud cunricion fur tho next crop, 13 evidently atiributabie in large part, it not altogether, TUE EXHACSTION AND ABANDONMENT OF PLANTA- TIOX3, which has extended til 14 ertimated st from 15 to 2 per cont of the uplands and trom 5 to 1 per cent of the boitom-lands, though nosie of these proper have boen abatdoued, kinea tho #oil 18 practicaliy inestinustiblo. Tho nsgroes work— 03 any otuer rational beinxs would—ruerait pay beet. Meuco thoir tendency to abandon tho ap- Jauds and fo agiregats tn the bottonm whero the furtitity of the 3oil, ond the fac: that they mo- popolizo the labor, cnavles them to do far betser for thomzolvca. Tom obsersation, and from tho reports made for factors and planters, an s rule it would geatn that the botioms at even 150 or 299 pounds of cotton rental per acre must bo cheaper thau would bo the upland at 40 pounds, tho luwest iguro, Honco tha abandoumont of tese lands, Eutering Mississippl by rail from Memphis, cno traverses an upinod couniry, ouce most fers til, Dow abomndicy 1u Gosertod plan- tations. Some of toeze have beon worn out Ly carcless ocuttivadon and by being plaated year aficr soar in cotton, without any Totalion of crop, tho applicatioa of manurea ur ferulizors, o other attompts to restora tho ex- hausted #oll, These plautations, it s statod, can be casily vestored, which, judging from their sppesranco, 8 trme. They will yield heavy crops of Bortanda grasa or mullet, aed the s when tarned under makea flue cotton find, With the application af fertilizers, thoy would now, it 18 stoted, yisld from oze-balf to two. thirds of o balo to tho acse, much for this re- pten Is reckoned o good crop, though they claim fn pute-Var times to have raized from three-fourths to ono bale per acre. Lut tho tn- variable regpoonso to inijuiry in that regard was, that novady bad trisd any of the fertilizzers, and that nobody experincnted in plauting graases, ‘The oaly crop cousidered * of much account" wasg, as vefora the War, cotion; when the wofl wau so much exhouated that it wouldn't pay to worls 1t fu cottou it was * turnod out,” aud the work was put onland where cotton could be #ronn, or, if pe 3 of & ficld wero still pro- ductive, thesc W piented aod the rost was left uncultivated--1 _.:li statoment observation ehowed to bo trav, Many of the plantations have boen, in large pars, ruived boyend possi- ility of reclamation by neglect of the simplest precautios, Luown long ginco to be ncceusary, to provent the waslung away of ihe productive al- iavial soil: that i3, to plantin circulsr rows on tho littlo knollain the flelds. Iustead, the low was run straight across up and down the knolls. Such wero the cottou rows, and they woro cultivatod in tho eawo fashion. decpening e {urrows from top to boitom. Vory soou ths raiue began to cut theso, carrsing off tho light alluvion, Even theu it might bavo beon casily stopped, but it was noglected till notling s loft but tho gravel, in which, inwany places, gulchea 10 feot or muro iu_denth have been cut, loaving tho surface dotted with gravel pyramies about that beight, giving to shu wholo tlo appearanco not uuhke that of a tentod field or & mountain range in m:nisture, Iu the rolling Iands bo- tween Memphis and Grenada ara to be scen hun- dreds of acres of such sors, bosides thousands of ueres whers tho declivity was moro gentle, from which the total ailuvial formnation has been washod off. Drobably nowhero else in the United States, noless perlinps among the worn- out tobacco plantations of Virginia, can bo found evidancos of such total destruction of iine arabla lands, Ly shecr stumdity or nanton carolessness, Inttle, i at all, eioit of eriminal, BECLADIABLE LANDS. Thesa Iands for the most part, however, arere- claimable, and will bo reclaimed whon nnmigra- tion fotches thrift that pays its way as it goos, and a population which ehall be asiamed not of working. but of idiing, aud auch population must in the uaturo of things take possessron of this country to restoro and rale it. With proper cul- tura they wonld soon yiold an averaga of abont a Lalf-balo to the acre, or a product of from §40 to #05 per acre; and thoy couldbo boughtnow at from 85 t0 ¥12 por acre. 'Lhey scem admirably adapted for grazing lands and stock farma, and gonorally fruit-growing has proved very succesaful, They waro in sote-War timea cluotly devoted to stock- raizing, the stock being slaves, wha wero sold to the plautess in tho lovcreouns, Wihen you aak why they aro not worked now, tho respouso is, wihere's nobody to work them—tho mggers all flock to tho awamps (bottoms) ns faut ua thoy can” And without tho uiggers o work worth reckoning s dome. Froquently I awked why they weren't made stock (arms. Tho reply was to tho cffect that it was of 1o uso 1o ralsn etock; tho niggors would steal off the entire lot of cattle, particularly tho calves aud Loifers, +It's & gaod country Jur hogs,” said a plantor of Jarge oxpericnce, “*but you can't kuep a hog in this conutry, A nigser thinks uo more of slivot- ing oue than of shuotiug a 'possui, And then it’s hinblo to mako inconvenience for us. Our young tuen would get out of pationca at it, sud Very poseibly shioot o nigger or two, on whick, &1 1ike a8 not, the nigwers on a place would soma nighe leave." 'I'ho iucouvenionco of tho thing yather struck me, 1 coufeus; but, since the ne- groos work readily enongh,—in fact, do alf the work, and_get, at last, littlo for it,—I accepted with many resorvations tho statemout abous their thiovery,—the more go, wheu the Superiu- tendent of tho Fepiteutiary told mo that mora than nine-tenths of the couvicts wero nogrocs sent there for stesling; and, a1 everybody telly you when lio recounts the tribulations of Mis- Kisgippi, tho jury-service in the Stato is mainly dizehargod by negroos. TUE 1SDUSTRIAL SITUATION. Withal, the industiial situation ls batter than at any tima tinco tho War, Evorywhere, 1 way tobd, more land was under cultivation, and it was Deing better worked thau any season sioce iha War and that tho season had boen tost favors ablo'thus far. A tucrease of from U to § aud oven 10 por cant in cotton over tho avorage of shia past teveral voaru is anticigated in tho cot~ ton hroduct, whnla thero will bo o large yield, it is oxpeeted, in the coru-ciop. So that, hotwithe stanclog the enormous Bou-productivo popuia- tioo, tho high taxes, sud tho worst possible eredit system, geucral prosperity is reckoned ou wheu tho crup stall bo ready for markot. + Hansypa, THE CONTEMPT- CASE. Answers te the Intorrogatorics Put to Aldermen and Coungel. Wodnesday Belected for the Argue - ments. ‘Tho rule {esued agaiost the Aldormenand thole counsol to show eauso why thoy ehall not bo com- mitted for contompt was returnablo yestorday moming, and, consoquontly, Judge Willlames® conrt raom was crowdod with people anxiousto Lear what was to bo eaid. The only Aldermen prosent wern Woodman end ftout, aud of connael, Mr. Panco, for the Citizons' Astociation, and Judgoe Dickny, roprescoting tho city, wors tha only ouoy In attendance. At tho request of Judge Dickoey, ho waa ale Iowed *alittlo time ™ to complete tho ausvers to tho interrogatories filed by tho complainants, A DAY FOR ARGTMENT, After half sn hour had elapsed, Mr, Penca arusa and said: Iuesmuch as we havo not scen tho anawors and do not kuow what thoy sre, I would 2k tho Court to set the caae for hearing on Tucsday morning, believing that that day will suit tho counsol on both sides. The Court—It might suit you botter than it would o, You are raining tho businoes of thia court almost by this constant interfepence. I cannot take up otber mattera o nccount of it, _r. I'enco—Judge Lawzenco is sngaged ib the United Htates Cour?, and it is impossibls for lum 2 ba hero this morming, I do ot teslize that it will interfera with your Houor's business to bava it go over for ndayor two, Perwonally, I am ready to go on with the hearing ; but. not know- ing whal the auy:vors are, & consnliation may bo nocosmary with my sueoviats, I linvo had no op- portunity to learn what the othor side will say. At thi3 juncture, Judge Dickey came into tha room, sud The Court said to Lim: I understand from M. Pei: , *hat, not baviag soon your agmwers, 1o prot /M. +nt ba abf Lo take up this mat- ter thir S0/ ~ I desiro to go on with otber L. o, “ime 13 very grensly broken up v, 2 JO.gp, e got and nog Licard. RN i Judge Dickey—~1 iften, 1 U2g ,asd that mome of my nesuciates have with 3r, Pence, and that ho said Tucaday muding would be a good tims for taking it no. Jr, Pence—It would snit us. Judgo Divkey—ivell theu. with that arrangs- ment wo vill file oar anawerd in tho course of an hour. . Tho Court—I do not thinkI can toke itup Tuesday. . Mr. Pence-—Monday, then? Flhio Court—I tbinlk it will Lave to go ovor une odneadey. That day waa satinfacto they theréfora loft the Cout ANSY UNarL. The counssl answered the interrogatories pros pounded ta them substantially as follows : For answer to the Srat Interrogatory ewh of them ; Comman Council, bt that ko wan smployed by thu City Comptruiler, with the approval of tho Mayor in Lehialf of he eity, 10 2asist tho Corperation Coutiecl in all tho Lifgstion which led been commencod, or that might ariso in reqard to tho iucorporation of “the City of Clicago under the act of 1813 £04 they were not eiliernice employed to advise the dofeudants u this cause Wit reference to said suit or to defend the mame. For anewer fo the mecend futerrogatory, esch of tnem rays that the Mayor of the City eabmiitted to T, Lyle Dickey, the Corporation Cuunsel, Franzis Adaws, Amsietant 10'the Corporaticn Couneel, and thiezo ror ipoadents, certain queations of law, and asted thou 1o furnish’ written opiulona ther. i, cul to sddres them to the Common Coutcll 3 xud, In pursnanco of such requests, opinfons uron fho questions of law 8o rubmitted were prepared and sigued and deliverod to tho Mayor. {Then followed the opluions heretofora publistiod,] ‘They deny that they, or any of tew, wers cmployud e of giviog any particular or to o Cooncil In & violation'of the injunction, They gava o _advice upon the anbject Lecausuauch a question was ot submittel to them, and ea~h of them exprosily deaicn that ho oeuisted in the violation of the injunc- ton, Thoy fnwlst 1hat i} was their duty to give opine font upon questions of law subunitted o them ; that it wax not their duty to advixe tio Councll to abey a vald injunction, Ii wonld have Leoa impropar for Lawsers for tho clty, to udvige ths Comrion Council, {n the exercise of ita pawe:rYas to the wis- dom or propriety of theiraction, They iuaist that counsel £re 1ot respontiblo for tho usoa client makes of Lia legal ighis, o fox the propricty of bis pernonal conduct, Esch and all of them denles that thera wss ony intention on bLis part, or, lo bis Ynowledge, on the part of ° cither of thery, to commit o contempt, or o adsise that & cons tempt be committed, or to treat the Court, or fia pro- ceas, or tho Judge wha ordered tho wHt to issuo, with any disrespect whatever; but each of them says posi- tively for Limeolf and upon belief an to Lis sasociates 4liat They, and each of thetn, were influenced and cons trolled by houest canvictiona in tho discharga of their duiy en couneol, aud that they belleved it tn be a duty Dot 10 bo avotded to furnish the opinfoun given o tha Mayor and read tothe Common Council: and, upon aerfous re-exzaminativi of the subject winco they tuulst thero was uc error in such opinfons. TiL ALDELMEN, in anawer to the ninelconth interrogatory, pro- teating that they are not bound to auwer it, sy that, while tho opinions roferred to in the ju- terogatory did not advise the Counell to procoed and canvass tho returny, they considerod tho opinions ouly a8 giving & correct statemeot of tho law, aud that the Connetl hnd tho legal right to proceed with such canvas,notwithstandiog the injunction, aud they waulld not have canvassed the same except for such opinion. ALD. HILDUFTE, wundor advice of couusel,” respectfnlly declined to auswer the sixieentls interrogatory unleay re- quired by the coust, bocause the fuguiry was im- pertinent and immnterinl, and he could not bs compelled to answer for words spoken as an Al- derman in tho diseussion of any matter pending in tbe Council in tho open seesion of that body. . ALD. CAMPEELL, X, also under the advizo of counsel, declined to an- wwer the reventoenth intorrogatory, for the sama Yensons aseignod by Hildrotl, as did Ald. Woods man tho cightoenth. Flis claim [s ret up in tho anawer that the steps takon by the complainauta o haviog tha supplemantal bill dixmissed constituted a waiver of the allegod contompt, aud thesoforo the rula shionld bs cizchiarged. HARPER, The Bondsmen of That Worthy Wit Ofter Their foclot-Boolis as o Pas cuntary aund Vicnrious Sacrifice tho Moment ‘Fhoy Iavo 1o, Svectal Diapateh to The Chicaco Fridune. Sraniorieep, 1., Msy 21.—The Itailruad Come misslonera received the followiug letter in ro- sponse to a demand mado by them to come for- ward aud eettlo up tho deticst of W, 11, Harpor to tho Htatos Trowa, D, My 1%, 1875.~Ilon, J. M, Pearson— Dean H18: i received your niole fu yeference o tha Tarper matter, but a3 Yet have had 1o time to talk with the other’ bundstaen. 1 Bave examined thelaw angd the bond it vopaldersbio cere, and am of the Spinion that thie lew did 1ot contemplata & boud to se- Chre tho psyweut of any mouey Wiat might coma futo Harper's bands over io the Warehouss Comunise sloliers, ot t auy other oificer of the State, but that it Sras given stmply £oF 1he socurity of persons daauged by franduleut fuspection. 1do not think, therefore, 180 sccurity fa llable> What tho other bondemen may think L am uot auvised, As faras Iam personatly concerned, If you wish tlie matter teated in tae courti, 1 would 1nake an agreed caso and_submit it, This, iu y Judiginent, would bo tho best way. Very truly, 1, G, IeeRsoLL, ‘I'is condition of Ilarper’s bond is that e will faitbfully wnd strictly dischargo tho dutloa of Ins ealil ‘ofiice of lnspectar according to tho law o tho attornoys, and ond therules and regulations prescribing bis . duties, and that Lo will pay &ll damages to any person or persons who msy be injured by reason of Lils negloct, refusal, of failure to com- ply with tho law snd rules and rogulations afore- sald, It will bo seen thut 1t is nowhero coudi« tioned specttically in the boud that Harper shall pay over auy wonoyd in his hauds (o his euc- cessor in ofico or any other oflicer, but it woys ho shall bo govoromed by the yulos and regulations prescnbiug his dutles. Oue of the rulos adonted for the gov- erument of the grain 1spoction is to the offect that the Chief Inspeotor shall turn over all moueys to his succersor. The attoraeys of tha llnwf have advised them that thera i3 no doubt, s this o was ju forve at the timo the bond was mado and signed, that it became o pare of sho bond, and thery i uo escapiug the rospous wibility which attachies under ic, Under adving of counsel sn sgreed caso will bo submitted, doubtless at tne mext term of tho Buprewms Coust st Mt Yeruon, that e wan not retafued by 3 cummitteo of the " KA R ;¢ TR e SRR P