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itfiscE llaneoi; 87
THE VOICES OF THE BAIN.
BY M All ION UAKI.AND.
Authoress of **Alonea Virginia Xovrl.
Our balmy day—hast tliou forgot !
All April was the weather —
Wh*n frm the hoiu*ysuckli*d porch,
We watched the >ky together :
Through the thin. Hooey veil of cloud,
‘['he suu was mildly foaming.
And uiore in mist, than pattering show* r*.
The rain “as softly firc.'i Inina-;
Like a blessing oil the Verdant |lain,
Kell the gentle, gentle silver raiu.
Another time—thou wert away—
Twas the glowing month of roses.
When summer, wooed by ardent sun.
Her fervid heart discloses ;
There came a scroll, which bade prepare
For thee a speedy greeting ;
Smiling. I by tile easement sat.
With the welcome letter, beating
Time to the music, gainst the pane,
Os the laughing, singing, golden rain.
In storm and gloom our parting came,
That dark and Wretched even’
We could hut whisper brokenly,
••If not on earth —in heaven !**
At the Future, stretched so dim and lone. •
i >ur loving hearts were quailing—
Within, were looked and sighed farewell;
Without, the winks were wailing
A piercing, wildly sad refrain.
To the heavy.-steeping autumn ran.
What are we now ? we, who then vowed
Hut death our souls should sever ?
Within thy breast, the flame of love
Is. tjuci’ehcd and cold buever :
While, deep in mine, the t id* of Who
Keats, in its nnguKhed throbbing—
The I last against my windows breaks
In plaintive, fitful sobbing—
And my heart weeps in tears as\a.n.
With the bitter, bitte*, winter raiu.
Richmond, Virginia.
Journey Around the Tapioca Pudding.
Hr. nriiw backer folded his napkin, drew it
through the silver ring, laid it on the table, fold- ,
ed his arms, and leaned back in his chair, by 1
which we knew there was something at work in
his knowledge box.
“My dear madam,” said he, with a Metamora !
shake of his head, “there are a great many things !
to be said about that pudding.”
Now, such a remark, at a season of the year
when eggs are live for a shilling, and not always
fresh at that, is enough to discomfort anybody.
The Doctor perceived it at once, and instantly
added, “In a geoprapliical point of view, there
are many things to be said about tliat pudding.
My dear madam,” lie continued, “take tapioca
itself; what is it, and where does it come from ?”
Our eldest boy, just emerging from chicken
hood, answered, “85 Chambers street, tw o doors
below the Irving House.”
“True my dear young friend,” responded the
Doctor, with a friendly pat on the bead ; “but
(that is not what I mean. Where,” be repeated,
with a questioning look through his spectacles,
and a Bnshwbackiau nod, “does tapioca come
from ?”
“Rio de Janeiro and Paris'.”
“Yes, sir, from Rio de Janeiro in the southern,
and Par# in the northern part of the Brazils, do
we get our tapioca; from the roots called the
Mandioca, botanically tb o jatropha manihot, or,
as they say, the cassave. The roots are long
and round, like a sweet potato, generally a foot
or more in length. Every joint of the plant will
produce its root like the cutting of the grape
vine. The tubers are dug up from the ground,
peeled, scraped, or grated, then put in long sacks
of flexible rattan, sacks six feet long or more,
and at the bottom of the sack they suspend a
large stone, by which the flexible sides arc con
tracted, and then out pours the cassave juice in
a pan placed below to receive it. This juice is
poisonous, and very volatile. Then, my dear
madam, it is macerated in water, and the resi
dum, after the volatile part, the poison, is evapo
rated, is the innocuous farina, which looks like
small citunbs of bread, and which we call tapi
oca from Rio, which is, I believe, about five thou
sand five hundred miles from New York ; so we
must put down that as a little more than one
fifth of our voyage around the pudding.”
This made our eldest open his eyes.
“Eggs and milk,” continued Dr. Bushwhack
er, “are home productions; but sugar, refined
sugar, is made partly of the moist and sweet yel
low sugar of Lousiana, partly of the hard and
dry sugar of the West Indies; I will not go into
, the process of refining sugar now, but I may ob
serve here that the sugar we get from Louisiana,
if refined and.made into a loaf, would be quite
soft, with large loose crystals, while the Havana
sugar, subject to the sain.) treatment, would mal e
a white cone almost as compact and hard as
Eanite. But wo have made a trip to the Antil
i for our sugar, and may add fifteen hundred
miles more for the saccharine.”
“That is equal to nearly one-third of the cir
cumference ot the pudding we live upon, Doctor.”
“Vanilla,” continued the Doctor, “with which
this pudding is so delightfully flavored, is the
bean of a vino that grows wild in the multitudi
nous forest of Venezuela, New Granada, Guiana,
and, in fact, throughout South America. The
long pod, which looks like the scabbard of a
sword, suggested the name to the Spaniards;
rayana —meaning scabbard, from which comes
the diminutive vanilla, or little scabbard —appro-
priate enough as every one will allow. The
®p American Tim oil
beans, which are worth here from six to twenty
dollars a pound, could be as easily cultivated as
hops in tnat climate; but the indolence of the
people is so great, that not one Venezuelean has
been found with sufficient enterprise to set out
one acre of vanilla, which would yield him a
small fortune every year. No sir. The poor peons,
or peasants, raise their garahanzas for daily use,
hut beyond they never look. They plant their
crops in the footsteps of their ancestors, and if jt
had not been for their ancestors, they would pro
bably have browsed on the wild grass of the ll
anos or plains. Ah ! there are great many such
bobs hanging at the tail of some ancestral kite,
even in this great city, my dear, learned friends.”
“True, Doctor, you are right there.”
‘•Well, sir, the vanilla is gathered from the
wild vines in the woods. Off goes the hidalgo,
proud of his noble ancestry, and toils home un
der a hack load of the refuse beans from the trees,
after the red monkey has had his pick of the best.
A few reals pay him for the day’s work, and
then, hey for the cock-pit! There, Signor < >ld
fogie meets the Marquis dc Sliinplastcr, or the
Dad re Coreorochi, and of course gets whistled
earnings with the first click of the gaffs. Then
hack lie goes to his miserable hammock, and so
ends his year's labor. That, sir, is the history
of the flavoring, and you will have, to allow a
stretch across the Carribean, and twenty-five
hundred miles for the vanilla.”*
“We are getting pretty well around, Doctor.”
“Then we have sauce, here, wine sauce ; Tenc
i riff: L should say, by the flavor.”
“ from beneath tlie cliff
(>f sumiv-sitie Tvucrilb*
Ami ripened in the blink
Ol India** sun.**
“W e must take four thousand miles at least
Ibr.the wine, my learned friend, and say nothing
of the lest of ihc sauce.”
“Except the nutmeg. Doctor.”
| “Thank you, my dear young friend, thank
‘you. The nutmeg! To Spice Islands iu .the
! Indian Ocean, we are indebted for our nutmegs.
<ur oM original Knickerbockers, the wc%-footed
Dutchmen, have the monopoly of this trade.—
Every nutmeg lias paid 101 l at the Hague before
it yields its aroma to our graters. The Spice Is
lands! The almost fabulous Moluccas, where
neither corn nor rice will grow ; where the only
j quadrupeds they have are the musky crocodiles
j tJiHt bathe in the high-seasoned waters. The
, moluccas—
•* ■ —— 11) i*U*s
J * 1 f TrHDitf and Tidwiv. whence merchants bring
j ‘I Id* 1 •• sj.iot drugs*.”
“There, sir ! Milton, sir! From Tomato and
I Tidore, and the rest of that marvellous cluster of
: islands, we get oiir nutmegs, our mace, and otn
i l ines. Add twelve thousand miles at least to
! tlie circumference of the pudding tor the nutmeg.”
“This is getting to he a pretty large pudding,
j DocW'V.”
“Vis, sir. We have travelled already twenty
five thousand five hundred miles around it. ami
now let us re-circumnavigate and come hack by
lie- wav of Mexico, so that we can get a silver
spoon and penetrate into (lie interior,”
From tli*’ N. O. JV’tn.
The Duel Between McDuffie and Cumming.
Messrs. Editors :—I observe in a late issue of
the Weekly Delta, an extract from the Charles
ton Mercurv. purpoiting to he a correct account
of the duel between Gumming and McDuffie.—
This account is erroneous in several particulars ;
and although there is nothing in it that affects
the character of either of the distinguished com
batants. it is due to tbebistory of an event which
at the time, excited the intensest interest, not
only in the States of Georgia and South Caroli
na, but in oilier portions of the Union, to give
to the public a true statement of this bitter and
unfortunate controversy. The writer, who choos
es to remain incognito, claims to have possessed
peculiar opportunities of knowing the facts and
circumstances, as they transpired. He had but
a short time previous to the affair, studied law
in the office of Simkeiis A- McDuffie; enjoyed
the cordial friendship of Mr. McDuffie, is famil
iar with the causes that led to the duel, was fa
miliar with every incident, ami still remembers
with a vividness not likely to be effaced, the pro
gress and result of this per-oiial conflict, which
was protracted to the unusual length of some
five or six months.
It may not be out of place or uninteresting to
state how the quarrel originated. It possesses a
moral that should be studied by tbc impetuous
of all classes, and shows ‘bat the most deplorable
and fatal consequences often flow from the most
trival and inadequate causes.
During a very excited canvass for tho Guber
natorial office of Georgia, between Gen. John
Clark and the lion. Win. 11. Crawford,an anon
ymous communication appeared in the Augusta
Chronicle, strongly advocatingthe claims of Gen.
Clark. Immediately afterwards, it was replied
to over the signature of Baldwin, in which Mr.
McDuffie, with much acidity of temper and as
perity of language, was accused of being the au
thor. Ilis name was not mentioned by Baldwin,
but his person and manner, and particularly bis
violent gesticulation and impassioned mode of
speaking at the bar, were so accurately describ
ed, that no one could fail to recognize the pic
ture. Mr. McDuffie,’- then entering upon tho
distinguished political career which soon placed
him among (lie first statesmen'of the Union, and
greatly incensed at the charge of having meddled
with Georgia elections, published a card, in which
he indignantly denied the accusation, and de
nounced his accuser in the most unmeasured lan
guage. This was the result of his impetuous
temperament, and is the point where his friends
lmd cause to lament his rashness, which doomed
him to intolerable personal sufferings, and a pre
mature grave, deprived his State and country of
much of the fruits of his patriotic heart and gi
gantic intellect. It was generally understood
that the author of the communication, denounced
by “Baldwin,” was a personal friend of Gen.
Clark, and a connection by marriage. It was a
source of profound regret that he did not avow
tho authorship, and prevent, the mischief that en
sued.
Col. Gumming was the author of “Baldwin.”
and on the appearance of Mr. McDuffie’s card,
and without tehdering any apology or explana
tion for tjie wrong he bad done, challenged the
latter gentleman to mortal combat.. I lie first
meeting, as stated Ly the Mercury's correspon
dent, took place at the Sister's Ferry, or,
more correctly, “The Sister’s Ferries.” Here Mr. .
“Prove all thigs; hold fast that - which is good.”
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 23, 1855
McDuffie softs not shot in the hip, as stated, but
received the fatal hall that embittered hi* subse
quent life and caused his premature death. lie
was struck about two indies fioiu the back bone.,
and so obliquely, that a trifle more, to the left
would have carried the hall harmless by him.—
Ilis surgeon, the late Dr. Fisher of Columbia, S.
C., on probing the wound, found that the hall
had penetrated to the back bone, hut could not
find it or trace it further; and singular as it may
appear, no attempt was made to extract it, under
a vague and fatal supposition that it might have
rebounded. Mr. McDuffie was pronounced in
capable of renewing the combat, and the parties
separated without an adjustment.
Whilst Mr. McDuffie was prostrate, under the
effects of his wound, Col. Cuimniug published a
pamphlet, in which Mr. McDuffie, among other
things, was accused of “playing’possoin,” to
avoid a second fire. This pamphlet, character
ized by the bitterest denunciation, was intended
to close the door of reconciliation, and was so
received. The challenge was renewed, and the
second meeting took place on the Saluda Cap,
at the point of the mountain where the States of
North and South Carolina meet. In consequence
of a disagreement between the seconds, (the late
Benjamin F. Elmore, representing Mr. McDuffie)
the meeting was protracted to several days,
and finally dispersed by the civil authorities.
The third and fourth meeting, which took
place at Camphelton Kerry, two miles above Au
gusta, resulted in nothing but a disagreement
about details, and a disappointment to those who
went to see a duel. On the fifth anil last meet
ing. at the same place, and at which the w riter
of these reminiscences was present,on the second
fire, Mr. McDuffie was shot through the left arm,
midway between the elbow and shoulder. The
parties separated witiiout a reconciliation, and
so far as I know and believe, no attempt was
ever made to restore them to their fomicr+Yiend
!y relations, except that related of Mr. John
Bones, the statement of which, by the Mercury's
correspondent, is substantially corref&The Corres
pondent is mistaken, however, as to the object
of Mr. McDuffie’s visit to Augusta. He was in
vited by his political and personal ft i-mls of Au
gusta, to address them on the subject of the pro
tective system —a subject which lie had studied
profoundly, and always handled with cousumate
ability. He died some years afterwards, at the
house of his father-in-law; (,'ol. Richard Single
ton. of Sumpter District.
The many years intense suffering, and the par
tial paralysis of his lower-extremities, justify the
conclusion that the hall which lie received in the
hack, lodged in the spinal column ; and in con
sequence of its proximity to the spinal mariow,
great nervous irilabilily was superinduced, and
was followed liv general prostration, great iras
cabilitv, indifference to friends and worldly in
terests, imbecility, and death.
At the filial iqeeting of the parties, the Tlon.,
i Richard U. Wilde, late of NeSt ‘Orleans, was
the second nf Col. Gumming ; and the Hon. A
I*. Butler, Senator in Congioss, was the second
of Mr. McDuffie,
A Nativk of Softii Carolina.
Dallas Cos., Ala., June, 185.5.
Escape from Fire.
The superintendent of the iJmidon Fire Brigade
has devised the following verv judicious direc
tions for aiding pci sons to escape from premises
on fire :
1. Be careful to acquaint yourself with the
best means of exit from the house both at the
top and bottom.
2. On the first alarm, reflect before you act. If
in bed at the time, wrap yourself in a blanket or
bedside carpet; open no more doors or windows
titan are absolutely necessary, ami shut every
door after you.
3. There is always from eight to twelve inches
of pure air close to the .ground ; if you cannot,
therefore, walk upright through tile smoke, drop
on your hands and thus progress. A wetted
silk handkerchief, a piece of flannel, or a worst
ed stocking drawn over the face permits breath
ing, and to a great extent excludes the smoke.
4. If you can neither make your way upwards
or downwards, get into a front room ; if there
is a family, see that they are collected here, and
keep the door closed as much as possible, for re
member that smoke always follows a draught,
and fire always rushes after smoke.
5. Oil no account throw yourself, or allow !
others to throw themselves from the window. If;
no assistance is at hand, and you are in extremi
ty, tie the sheets together, and having fastened
one end to some heavy piece of furniture, lot
down the women and children one by one, by j
tying the end of the lino of sheets around the ;
waist, and lowering them through the window
that is over the door, rather than through one
that is over the area. You can easily let yourself
down after the helpless tire saved.
C. Iff a woman’s clothes should catch fire, let
her instantly roll herself over and over on the
ground ; if a man be present, let hint throw her
down, and do the like, and then wrap her in a
rug, coat, or the first woollen thing that is at
hand.
An Affecting Incident. —A seaman of the fleet
before Sebastopol, whoso family lives at Polperro,
in this county, was ordered on shore for the pur
pose of assisting in burying the slain who fell
in a late attack of the Russians on the British
batteries ; and almost the first person he met
with on landing was one of his brothers, of whose
presence in the fleet he was not before informed,
and who had been severely wounded in the late
engagement. From him he learned that his two
other brothers were all serving in the naval bri
gade on shore ; and with him he remained until
he saw him expire. He then proceeded on the
duty for which he had landed, and soon discover
ed the bodies of his two other brothers, who had
been killed in the battle. His feelings may be
imagined as he assisted in laying these three
brothers of his own side by side in one grave. —
Cornwall Royal Gazette.
Bold'Ground.—Orestes A. Browrison, a some
what noted Roman Catholic writer, recented lec
tured in New Orleans. The Creole reports him
as follows on the destiny of the Romish Church :
“It must become the arbiter between the State
and tho subject. It must guard the man by in
terposing its flaming sword as a defence. It must
construe constitutions and expound laws, deciding
where is the limit of centralized power, and what
is its absolute duty to perform.”
[by request 1
Krnui Uic S a! of tlie S.-nl’i
Agricultural Education.
< ‘oi.rMC3,iloth Man'll. ISAS:
Uev. C. ]\ B. Mahtik: ‘ 4
Dear Sir : Your esteemed favor of the 1 Till
inst. has been received, 101 l will please accept
mv thanks f r t he concern w hich you are mani
festing in the pioinotion of the great agHmilun .ii
interests of the country. I think, your plan is not
only beautiful in theory. Inti well su ted to im
part valuable information, and perfectly practi
cable in its adaptation to the wants of the com: try.
It is difficult however to anticipate what public
sentiment w ill approve, and it occurs to me that
it might he well to elicit expressions of opinion
by a little agitation of the subject before the pub
lic, and 1 therefore suggest the propih-tv oTpuh
lishing your letter, and tender to you tic | livi-
Icgc of the columns of I In’ Soil for Mich adoiti.ui
al thoughts as v<m may desire to offer, in support
of the plan. This will probably draw out others,
and in this way, the whole subject nitty he dis
cussed, and the public mind he prepared for its
adoption. 1 have not.(bought sufficiently on
the subject to very confidently offer an .opinion,
hut should he glad to have the question examin
es), and see some move made lor The training of
t lie young men of our country, to meal the emer
gency which our wretched systems of cultuie has
forced upon us. You will please excuse me for
not saying more on this subject now, as it is one
which concerns the whole country, and I hope
toil will consent to let jhan have the benefit iff
what either of us may have to sav.
1 am. very respectfully jo.nrob’t serv’t,
,lAmi.s M. ('II\\IIII.KS.
SvNoiin Ai. (An.t.i.i. it, April 20tli, 1855.
Con. ('iiAMitKiis:
Iftar Sir: Having reflected upon the sug
gestion of your note to allow mv letter to you of
March 1 Till to go into the Soil of the South, I
have coiicluded&to submit it to you for publica
tion, hoping that by so'doing, it may contribute,
at least.so tar us its suggestions are concerned,
to the awakening of Ihooyht and i/irjirr inhrist
among the people <>f the Stale upon the subject
of which it treats. Agricultural Education.
Your’s very truly,
('Aui.isi.i-: I’. B. Maiitis.
Col. J \mf.- M. t ‘n wtu .ns :
Jtiiw Sir: Tim iiitcn-t you have manifest
ed in effort-, to promote Agricultural improve
inent and t lie oppoiTiinit \- voar position as editor
of tlm Soil of the South lias given you to judge
eorrecllv concerning the practicability of the
plans which may be entered upon for that pur
pose, induce me to address you an 1 ask yottropin
ioti respecting the probable success of all enter
prise, w hich 1 have long desired to carry intoop
loration,Ioration, but concerni ig the success of wliicli,
: though all agree as to its ih'.'iriihbnfx.s and *-
fnines*, there has nevertheless obtained among
inv friends, to whom I have submitted my plan,
a difference of opinion. The enterprise, to which
1 refer is a scientific and practical school connect
ed with Agriculture. That voil may he able to
form a correct judgment concerning tlti; enter
prise, I will lay 11 jv plan before volt a little more
fully:
Ami, first, the Coarse of Study.
I. The English I.inh'.\gi:. —ln its Orthog
raphy. its Grammar, its Rhetoric, its Logic.
11. The Kauhi. —Its Geography, Mineralogy,
Geology, and Chemistry.
111. Nt Mnr.it and Qc amity. —Embracing A
ritlimetic, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry,
Surveying, Civil Engineering.
IN'. Natural and Moral Science.—Embracing
Natural Philosophy, .\h teorofogv. Botany, ('lo-ni
istrv, Agricultural (diemi-trv. Ethics.
V. intellectual Philosophy, Political Econotnv.
Second Item. — In connexion with the school
[ propose to have a Farm, say. of two hundred
acres of land, to be cultivated in the most care
ful and scientific manner, and every operation
of the farm to be made the subject of daily ob
servation and note bv the. student* of the school.
A regular note-lunik i- to he used bv each student
for the daily record of every operation, and an
hour each day is to he appropriated for farm-in
spection as much as for recitation in the school
room. < (bservations will also he made and notes
taken concerning the weather, the amount of
rain and other phenomena in meteorology.
Ido not deenj it necessary to enter into a mi
nute explanation of the application or the carry
ing out. of this plan in detail to you, for you will
at once perceive that it embraces the character
of the.-soil, the kind of manures used, and the
manner of prepariny them, as also the mode and
time of applying them, the manner of plowing;
the kind of plow; the time of plowing ; the time
and manner of planting; the culture ; the result.
‘l’lie carrying out of the plan just sketched
will be a scientific school , for all tne knowledge
acquired would be classified, science being class
ified knowledge; it would also be a practical
school for all the knowledge acquired would he
at once applied. Agricultural Chemistry in
some form or other would tie a subject of daily
study. With the smaller students, such a text
hook as Johnston’s “Agricultural Catechism”
would b used, and with the larger or more ad
vanced schollars Gray’s Agricultural Chemistry,
or some other of equal value, as Johnston’s, Lci
liig’s, Waring’s, Ac.
Ido not propose to make it a Manual Labor
School ; the labor of the farm i*to be performed
by farm hands aa on any other plantation. The
Farm and all operations are, so far as the school
concern ed, merely for observation, illustration
and experiment. It is to be the great laharato
\ ry of the school—it is to bo its cabinet and hcr
• barium. This being the case, you at once per
ceive that Botany, Mineralogy, Geology and ‘Ag
ricultural Chemistry will be taught practically.
I do not now propose in this communication
any argument to show the advantages, distinctive
and characteristic, which must re-ult from an
education conducted on this plan. They lie so
apparent, it scorns to urn*, upon the very surface
i of the system, that lonly wonder that n'l the
schools in tint land have, not been mode-led upon
this practical idea. I will, however, simply add
the remark,That the dlstTnc: r. E citarat ieris
’ tics of the plan of education I propose, are on
: sf.f.vation, experiment and practical ai-;-i s
j cation. I wish to see a sjztftn ct’ cducai'.
1 established which shall develop more fully the
pow.-rs of observation, of correct reasoning, of 1
put analysis and of drawing correct conclusions 1
It.nil the facts observed and the an.dcfy* made.
And would not the system ‘1 am JayiLg. before
\oii accomplish these ends ? !it not I a*< and up
on the title Baconian I’liilnsophy. of'ntrodnetiun
of principles and practice from obs,.r*ed fact* I
Who call estimate the amount of useful knowl
edge a votllll would acquire in three or four
years, saV from fourteen to eighteen years of
age, under stieh a system of obit motion and tz
prrimrnt as I have mentioned ? Would he not
know arithmetic ? could he not survey a field !
Would he not he familiar with Botany, AfineraA
Inyy, (ecoloyy, Chemistry f Would lie not be
familiar with the composition of soils—and ma
nures (—of plant’ and grains ?
We have had exhibited in Georgia within the
part vear, a noble illustration of the high estima
tion ill which agriellltuial knowledge is held by
one of our ino*t distinguished citizens. I allude,
of course, to the liberal endowment of the Terrel
I’iofessorsliip in the Stale University for Agricul
tural Chemistry by Dr. Tntma of Sparta. I can
speak of this donation, so far as the animus of the
endowment is concerned, in none other than in
terms of the highest commendation, hut 1 cannot
think, however, that the mode of applying it is
altogether the most effective and ‘test calculated
to accomplish the end desired. Had the same
amount of money been expended in founding a
school such as I liavesketclied, it does strike me,
that it would have accomplished a vasl deal more
gond. It is true that a learned and competent
professor has been found in Dr. Lee, to fill the
('hair, vet we know, that what we learn practi
cally iu nil the sciences—hotanv, mineralogy.,
geology, chemistry, —which sciences are the
t'rouic work and soul of agriculture, is of infinite
ly more value to us than the demonstrations of
the lecture room, however learned and Iteautiful.
These, we know, are soon forgot pm, What, wc
most w ant to advance the liable science Iff agri
culture, is the blnaliny loyether of the demon
strations iif the lecture-quoin and the demonstra
tions of practice. Let. the student see the oper
ation as well as learn the fact.
Much good sense is found In a short article in
the January number of the Soil, taken nun the
World ay J'aninr, call'd ,“Agiiculltual Edm-a
tion.” Its recommendations tally with mv plan.
Please let me hear from you at your earliest con
venience. If I have failed to make myself fullv
understood, I shall Tie happy to write von again.
I am ju-t out of tied from an attack of Neuralgia,
and I am scarcely able to w rite at all.
Very truly, your obedient servant.
t.'Aiti.hu: P. B. Makitn.
Synodical Co/hyc, (irij/in, Lia., March, 1855.
ccMvcMi n:i>.
Griffin Baptist Church Lot Case.
‘Mn. KdM'.R : I ask leave to introduce the fiil
low ing correspondence by only two or three re
; marks I di-ire lo 1 e the rigl.t to sell fully test
-1 i’d in htw. for (he f.iiPrwtrtg mt*ow* : : d-t.- Tltctn—
I terest und convene nee of the Baptist Church in
I this place arc much involved in the issue: and 2d.
i NVlnie it is a common occurrence for .such donations
■ to he made to churehes. I have not been aide to
’ learn, after diligent inquiry, that the right to d’m
: pose of-uch donations in any Way they might see
1 j.i-oj.ee. lot* ever before been called in question in
i this eiMKilrv Ido not object to its being called
In quest j, hi hot I de-ire to see (In-principle tested ;
; hido-ving, a- I do. that churehes are not in the
■ habit of receiving lots under the restrictions said
to prevail in thiswise.
Ih-re follows my letter to Gen L L Griffin,
and hi* reply :
N> Griffin. G.v, June 28 1854.
I'M,ml v is . lam now acting a* pa- tor of the
!hip'it Church in this city. Owi../to the fact
that business has taken tin- direction of the sits of)
nor mee-ing hnnse. and i. now crowding open tt j
so as to render our situation uncomfortable, the i
question has been raised whether we may not law j
luily sell off a part or the whole of the but given !
to in. by the Railroad Company, of which you was i
then IVesidnuf, art'! locate elsewhere. I must beg
you for ini rtnation. as to whether the chitruh lots
in this place were given to them os any contotion :
win h would prevent said churches from disposing j
of them, or any portion of them, provided their in- j
terest and the public convenience seem to demand
it ? . 1 shall take it a* a special favor if you will
answer this inquiry immediately.
Wit great respect.
- Your ob t. servant.
Jrs-.r. H. CAwrartL.
F.ownds c0.,-Barton, Miss , July 10, 1854.
Rev. .1 II Campbell :
Dear Sir: Your# of the 30th ult. was received
Ia few days since, and would have been answered
i earlier but for my feeble health. The inquiries
! made load to the disclosure of facts that would
1 probably never have been made public otherwise.
The must direct way to give you the information
sought for, will be to give the facts of the ease, so
that if I omit any thing, the parties there may
learn further particulars oy reference to Keoertw
and otherwise. . < *.
1 purchased the lands on private account from
Mr. Stell. at about six dollars per acre for the pur
pose of locating the city now known as tho city
of Griffin. M drew a map of the place after the
j survey; reviewed, selected and marked the lota
; for t! e churches,—Baptist, Methodist, Presbyte
j rian. Episcopal—two lot# for .Male and Female
! Academies, and squares for public uses. Daniel
Griffin drew fur me a correct map,’ marking the
donated property. That gentleman was then our
chief enrineer.\ He named the Broad ( ctreet, and
f named the others. The map thus marked wan
printed, I think, in the Messenger office, Macon.—
For the many offices of honor conferred on me,
from time to time by the people of Georgia and
the Company. I felt that I could give the ‘-pecttla
tion to the Company without injury to my feelings
I was then wealthy for that country, and no child
i ren to provide for. I proposed to the Directors to
j give th Company the speculation by their giving
, the Company s of,ligation for the purchase money
j in the place of mine, and “in tiii: name or rtti
i Company, to carry otx the above donation
| via nr bv me, and marked on the printed map —
J They agreed to do so, and did it, I being the I’rc
eid'nt signed the title papers.\Tlte coneMeration
: named in the deeds was small—whatever it was. I
! paid for the parties, that there never should he a
I plea of want of consideration, aa my purpose -.v..s
i a bona fide gift, fee simple,-f< religious an 1 lit?-
i vary purposes—relying upon the integrity -f she
! parties. fh W far'they have met my high-st and
■ mo -, fsnruinnry cxp~.:U' : 'ir,A.
n- The chief engineer ae 1 the directors m ,f . and
I was itifu:r.i"d that, on the suggesti ti of Vm-
I gineer. the Hoard Called the p acei C;ry of (bur
j fin. I directed the cashier, .lerctnia’- Je-ak t
have the deed’ recorded in the clerk's ”
. . : I
- ;:;!;..caseJy pro!, ib.-: ip.-cu.uti ei was. lhv.
. arryir j out its their nsni-ti nr rn.-ss Idu
Editor and FroprioM.
not believe the deed* have any provision for KTW
mo*, ns that would have prevented the partis*
improving the property—the opposite of my polity.
On the day of and before the vale, l pecesaUd td
tbs people a rmnrrn map. on which the donated
property wan marked a* above stated,
■r-Now, if the parties can change or eeQ the pro
perty to advantage, and use the prttceffie (locating
the same institutions within the prevent Sprite at
the city of Griffin.) soat accomplish merest thd
go si first intended for them to do 91 the wide*
ration for the gift, I feel that the Mniee wauld bd
acting in r.bborrAiTH; and, with the Ughts bated
me. I can t nee from whence a legal objection iwm
come.
The churches and schools have made the morale
and refinement of the city what it is. BaHWI
them ami give them latitude, and they will 40 to
trust. Your city stands without a place with
winch to be compared in many reaped*. Look U
your last Superior Court, two grand j erica empan
elled, serving two weeks, and in the city wad
county not finding one offence worthy at notice.
That is a nluco from which many blessings flow.
And I feel thankful to the Giver of all good that I
have keen permitted to ice my labor Mealed, IM
the people for whom it wo* intended enjoy ito ben*
etits. Any iuformation that I may have, may be
had by application.
I um yours, very respectfully,
L. L. Gmirria*
■■ - - ■ -
From tbs New York Sea.
The Cuba Junta and ita Aflkixa
If rumors which reach as from New Orleane can
be credited, and we have no reaeon for discredit
ing them, the Cuban Janta have got meat outrage
ously swindled in their late eAorta to aid their
brethren in Cuba in effecting a revolution. Oar
readers arc generally aware that the Junta is the
legitimate organ of the patriotio petty in the In
land of Cuba. It is entrusted with the direction
of their affairs in the United States, and through
its agency the people of Cuba have sought to pro
cure the arms necessary for a revolutionary strug
gle.
The Junta went energetically to work, aoeosd
ing to the plans arranged in Cuba, In preparing
for the grand cricis which they believed to be at
hand. It was considered necessary to the socceac
of their operations that a force gathered, bat not
•intended to he definitely organised in this coun
try, should protect the landing of arme for
the Cubans, and, ns the rumors we speak of aver,
Gen. Quitman undertook, foro large omuideratiou,
to direct and carry out this programme. Retired
officers in the United States army, it ie laid aaw
ciated with him in the enterprise, and their remu
neration was agreed upon. Some, it ie alledged,
received as much as ten thousand dollars in hand*
and they, no douht now consider themselves among;
the mure fortunate.
A (fairs seemed to progress favorably, and the Juß*
ta was in high spirits. They and their fellow ex’
ilcs would, they thought, soon be on their native
soil battling for its freedom, aided and encouraged
by brave American hearts. Their store* of ana*
were provided ; in their General they had every
confidence ; their friends in Cuba were anxhmaiy
awaiting their arrival to raise the cry of “Death
to the Oppressor, and Liberty to Cuba;” so>r a*
gent*, who Imd charge of the chartering of veeeelv
and other arrangements connected therewith, had
engaged two steamers, and the day of the rwliw
tion of their hopes drew nigh. They dreamed not
of deception or Ireaehery, but both toon fell sud
denly upon them like a thunder-clap.
According to onr information, the two itWMV
were chartered under the following strange oeadt->
tions: SSO,(*JO on concluding the agreement, $60,-
<.nh> within thirty days thereafter, SSOOOO when
the captain reported himself ready to eail ; the
whole amount to lie forfeited if they did not atari
j in thirty days f.uiu the time the ship* were report
|ed ready lor sea. The payments were made ia
■ g'iotl faith, when, 10l within the time allowed tot
railing, the Government was informed (bjtheooa
! trading parties it was supposed) of the State of
matt, rs, and the plans of the Junta were thrown
into confusion. The Government had their mere!,
and the Cuban authorities soon bed it also; and
*150,W0 were swept away by one fool, atrociooa
piece es treachery.
\Yc should like to read the charter contract
through which the Cubnns were swindled and dn*
fcated. We should like to have the world knenf
who were the contractors and who the traiton.-
With but vague rumors, though evidently no#
without foundation, we refrain from speaking es
persons or giving names. We think the Cabas
Junta owe it to themselves, to the pubfie and to
the cause for which they have labored, anddll#
cease to labor zealously, to avail
transaction. Feeling a dMjp sympatbylMPP l
preset! Cubans, w* have a strong interest in anil”
ing at the truth in this matter. The Cuba Ja
ta, who have been misrepresented M wall aa Via*
timized, ought to expose the truth boMly. Tb*
American public will applaud and thank them for
doing so. , ’ *_L -
ft is said, toil, that the Junta has, in Hogmts
separated from or dismissed the Cinir, who H
to receive a million of dollars when ha hfd fHpjfct.
liehed Cuban independence. Is
dear bought experience which JCdDanaoHE
had will not, we think, be TkJJF
will not b likely to tract fMpPcause hereafter to
generairxfid ariatocmnrraUer* who have no
alst sympathy with them. They will seek their
friends among the elase who love freedom, and
who will fight for it from other than mercenary
motives. Their cause is still hope inspiring, and
i their prrspect.* arc far from gloomy; bat they owa
; Vr. to their eauec and to their true friends among
| the American people to show how they have been
| -windlcd and betrayed.
I Orica Eaiind. —Among the aril practice#
j abroad it this community, opium eating deserve*
I to lie mentioned, both on account of its extent,
: whk'lt i*.Ui ich greater than is generally suppoe-
If.], ni. ISs pernicious influence. We happoued
to know, pother day, of a drug
krtfhud six r< gul.ir opsUiiriflMjflKjja,
--naHßagi- - - r-s--’ qybve
AtsuH
, without exception.— X. Y. Journal of (bn*
j *-rce. Ljyythi
NUMBER *9