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The Negro Imp«kasme\t Order. —'flic for
lowing instructions liii c irern published by
Adjutant General Cooper for carrying into ef
fect the 9th section of the act of 2Gth Watch.
1*63, “To rcgukfte impressments in respect to
labor on the fortifications and other public
works in states in which provisions have not
been made on the subject.”
I Tire 'Commanding General, or tin* Officer
Engineers in charge of the work, shall have
jmwer to decide upon the necessity for mak
ing impressments of j laves for this purpose,
after making Mutabe cubits to secure the nec
essary lalror l>y eon tract. lie must l>e satis
16x1 of tins necessity of the measure before he
resorts to it.
2. lie may authorize the impress neat of
male slaves between the age of seventeen and
fifty years, but before the first diyr of Decem
ber next shall abstain from in.pr. Hsing slaves
from plantations exclusively devoted to the
production' ol grain and provisions without
the consent of the owner, except in eases of
urgent necessity.
8. No impressments sisal! be made of the
slaves employed in the domestic aud lamily
service exclusively, nor upon farms or planta
tions where there are not more than threeslavoa
of tho age specified, am! not more than live
per cent, of the popnl itidn of slaves shall lie
impressed in any county at the same time, un
less the necessity is very great, and altar con
sultation with the Department or* the Govern
or of the State in which the impressment is to
lie made.
4. The ordinary period for impressment
shall he sixty days, Imt if Who owner of- spy
slave shall tail <o bring the slaves impressed to
tho place of rendezvous within five days after
the time appointed, tho slaves So withhold may
be detainee for ninety dajs, and for n longer
term ot ten days Coreveiy day of default, un
less a reasonable excuse he given for tho de
lays that have occurred*.
6. It siiall be the duty of the Commanding
General in charge of any lines requiring for
tification, to acquaint himself with ,the resour
ces of slave labor, within ids department, and
to consider with care thy m nner in wlih h he
may obtau control of whatever is necessary
for the public service by fair and equitable ap
portionment among the owners of such prop
erty. lie will consult with the Governor ot
the State and other State authorities da the best
inode of proceeding, no thatjbis Impressment
may cause the hast . mbarra xment to the in
dustiial pursuit a of the community
6. Notices aball be given of the number and
character of the .-.laves required, the .time and
placed' their delivery, the time for u!i eh the
service is required, and of the mrangement a
made for the ml sistonce, management niiil cus
tody of the slaves to required ; and if the
masters of staves shall rpruo to furnish subsis
tence for’their slave I ', and a suitable overseer
or agent to superinti nd the.rn. they shtll have
tho privilege of so doing llutsil*h overseers
tduill'be subject to the idilril of iho officers
In charge, and may t e ilismi ed for any mis
conduct by him
7. The sum of twenty dollars.per month lor
each slave dell)nod in pur nance t.> icqnisb
tion, and fifteen delta* ; per montli tin enih
slave held in consequence of fiiilmv of his
master to obey iv.quixiLioii m tde as herein" be*
fore pidviided, shah he paid l>\ the e’onn jotate
Mates, and • Roldii is' rations,, uiedn 'n'b and
medical attendance furni lied, and the value oT
all such slaves a.-: may die during their time of
service or thereafter froiii injuries rr, rived or
diseases contracted in sucif sen h.-e or may not
he returned, rhuil be paid by the Ouiiiederate.
StateV Such value-.ball he conclusively is
tahlished ly a forma! apptiliement by n Board
all injuries to slaves arbimrTfom the net. of the
public cnejavy or front alfv.inittry.arising from a
want ofdue Experts mutually agreed upon at flic
tiiueThe slaves are received into tlioContederate
service. Oompensatibn shall also lie made for
diligence on the pat tof the authorities of the
Confederate States, r ut the Confederate Juries
will not be liable for any slave not- returned
by reason of fraud or Collusion on the part of
the owner or hid agent, or the overseer selecteo
by him to superintend them, nor if bis death
should lie caused by tlic not ol God, or by dis
ease existing when the slu e is received by the
Confederate authorities.
6. Subsistence and provisions furnbhel by
the owner -ball l>e commuted lor at Hie rates
allowed soldiers in service. All Daves sent
voluntarily to the <’’onfederate authorities, and
accepted bysthem without othc r special cell
tract, shall stand on the same footing as those
delivered under roqdtistthin, and the oivnets of
all slaves delivered or talon under requisition
shall be.entitled to regard tbe Confederate
States as contracting vvilji lie m to comply with
tbe obligations and conditions herein express
ed.
!t. Incase there should ho any sliv-igreonient
on tlie su ject of the value of any slave im
pressed, or in case the impressing officer shall
not be satisfied of the af curacy of any valuation
or valuations, the appraisement shall he refer
red to the appraisers appointed under the sth
section 01 the act concerning th impressments,
according to the provisions of the act. of 0o.i :
gress approved ‘.’7th April, 1863. and published
Jn Ordenj, No. 53. current .-;eties.
Okn. Hu l's Taryino Audrkss —An exed is
the parting address of (Jen. D. II Hill to his
corps on ts' iug. leave of them :
Having b -eu relieved from duty with this
corps, tin* undersigned cannot part with the
troops whom he lias had the honor to command
in battle, without expressing his appreciation
of their h’'gh soldierly qualities and his honest
conviction that the corps’ has n j equal in the
service.
Your courage in the field, your patience on
the march, your subordination in camp, your
cheerfulness under privation, hardship and
trial, have challenged the admirat-on and won
the confidence of him who parts from you with
po much regret
Soldiers, may your part rireer be but the
earnest of a more glorious Future, may our ab
horrence of the Yankees, your faith in the jus -
tiee ol vour cause, your determination to he
free, grow in strength from clay to day. until
your heroism and your toils arc rewarded with
an honorable peace. »
Tuk Coxthderatb Loan is' Engl anil —The
London Herald of Oct 1, in speaking 6i the
State of the Confederate loan in England re
marks thus:
The stock of li.e .Confederate lean wa?on
September 30. quoted rather firmer in tue advan
ced hours of business, vie to 26 J discount;
very late it was even better tnan this price. A
variety of small iuve iments are being made,
which are giving strength to the quotation, and
bow the load may be considered as fatty paid up.
It id probable a further advance aw take place.
! K.wu-n I’ujiA.XTHROFY.—Thi- in a hackneyed
' ol*jset somewhat, yet it is not void oi interest
under existing clrcumstancei Thc-re are many
facts oonnectej with the slave trade which the
so called'* Earl Russell and his apologists
might remember with interest. The 00l ambus
Sun publishes the annexed list:
Slavery was introduced into this country by
Englishmen, acting under the sanction of toe
English parliament.
in 170*5, the committee of the House of com
inoris reported : ••the African stave tiado is im
portant. and ought to he tree.’'
The same committee reported, in 1711, that
the “American pluntaliots ought to bo supplied
with negrots at reasonable rates.”
The next year Queen Anne congratulated
Parliament upon her “success in finding, in
Spanish America, anew market for slaves.”
in 1729, King George li. granted supplies to
African forte, for the protection of ships engag
ed in the slave trade.
The petition of the Liverpool Merchants, in
17-18, reads : "The African slave trade is the
great pillar anil huppurt of the British plants- i
tions in America."
Between 170*1 and 1750 the British ports were
Ailed with slaves. And during this period of fif
ty years, over 1,500,000 negroes were kidnap
ped in Africa— or«; eighth of whom perish' I oil
the voyage to America. The bed ot the . jean
beneath-the slayer's track has been paved with
flic |iones of tho negro by Englishmen. ' *
Under the reign of William and Mary the
House of Commons resolved to open the trade
in negroes, “for the lietter supply ol the planta
tions in America.’’
The following sentence is found in England's
S'aluto hook.;; "The fsluve) trade is highly
beneficial and advantgaeous to the kingdom
arid colonies.”
England's Kings and Queens derived pin mo
ney' from the slave trade for more than n centu
ry and a halt, and royal decrees gave it support
for many years later. A full century of sueces
sjvc Ministries voted for it and gave it support.
in 1797, South Carolina made complaints
against the “vast importat on of negroes” by*
English traders. Governor Oglethorpe notified
the British Ministry tiiat “ifstaves were brought
into Georgia, lie must leave the State.”
In 1719. England removed the royal restric
tion on tbo slave trade, and it was- opened to
public competition -“for,” reads the Statute, j
"the slave trade is very advantageous to Great
Britain.”
Adout the saint' period oneot the highest civil
tribunals known in tho English Code decided
that “negroes were lawful merchandise.” It is
proper to state that this decision was made in
order that England could have the entire trade
to herself, as stipulated in tho treaties.
According to the Abolition Bancroft, three mil-
Horn of negroes were imported into this country
by tin century previous to 177(1; uud tiro hand
it<! ard/fly thousand uriu thrown into the
.Atlantic ocean while fit iransifu. Only think of
it, British ship owners, acting under the authori
ty of the British Government, have thrown into
the sea •more than bait tho population of Liver
pool, in Ali-lean captives! Tins is English “phil
anthropy.”
President Madison once said that the “British
Government constantly checked Virginia's en -
deavor to stop the slave trade.”
Compare these facts with Ear! Russel is late
- peechi's, ns itippired by Exeter Hall, aiul then
admire British consistency.
Oft a: v'tjovs Before C«ari.e3to.\—Kxw.niwifxT
xo with “GitEtK. Finn.” A letter in the New
'roik Time*, lioin Morris’ island, Rays:
A uumber of experiments with Gieek fire
have 1 ei n ieemtly made by Me. Short, the in
ventor, in presence of several offleeis ot rank,
j with a view of e ntradicting the impression
that the lie'll i roiita'inirig tile lire exploded pre
maturely. the gun was placed in position on
the bench, ntui pointed seawa and. Ten tin tubes,
eavh oi which is three inches i t leagi-h and three*
torn ihe *rtilt inch in diameter, and filled with
tnivteiiul composing tho Greek file, were then
dropped in a nuucji sit it ami filled round with
powder, 't he first shell* thrown exploded pre
mat.aivly.4n e msequence’. it is said, of a defect
in the tn-e. Tho shells subsequently tilled had
white lead placed round tho fuse-cap, and, with
perhaps one or twoVxeep imis,,!'ully accomplish
ed all that had been claimed foi them. A dozen
shells were tired, nine of which exploded at a
distance oi 1200 raids.
To -how the powerful effect of I lie Greek fire.
h number off ih'es wye ligated and submerged
in water, whore they w ere allowed to remain un
it! ncaviv horned, and then taken out. but the
bright idite llama was not extinguished. Other
tubes were lighted and completely buried in
moist > ind, which was closely packed, but this
also t.iih-d to quench the tire. 'I lie tubes burn
for about n inmu'e and a half. When first ignit
ed the. lire issues from oue end of the tube w Uh
a tierce, rushing sound, not unlike that which
accompanies the flight of a rocket, and extends
tbo distance ol a y ard, but it soon sinks down
Urn dt /.hug blue tlame oi'about two inches in
lenght, losing i's peculiarity of sound, and thus
continues to bum to the end. Ail ignited tube
in a basin of water gives the latter the appear
ance ot boiling. It emits a heavy sulphurous
smoke in large quantities.
SkcaKTAB? Ciiase on Foreign Affairs.—
At a I,tie great Repiihlican meeting in Cincin
nati, Secretary Chase made a king speech ill
which he allude. 1 to the foreign affairs of Fed
cfaldwu in the following sign!tic lot terms :
We are showing our strength to the nations
of the earth, and if we simply go on showing
our'strength there will lie no danger whatever
of intervention. There will be no danger, be
cause it will not pay. It, is true that Great
Britain has behaved very unneighborly. We
used to think this great Anglo-Saxon family
was to stand together the world over to estab
lish freedom of the press, freedom of the bal
lot -box. freedom of thought, freedom of speech,
and freedom for all; but of late years we have
seen manifestations of a very unkind and nn
friendly spirit: and sometimes l have felt as if
I wanted to take old mother England 'by the
ha l r and give her a mighty good shaking. 1
am not sure that this i« the wisest plan; but of
this I feel tolerably sure, :hat England will not
send ativ more pirate ships out against ns; and
I think that when England thinks the matter
‘nv.-r < ajroly when site reft* is of the Alabama,,
fitted out in a RritDh p..rl, manned by British
seamen, armed by Itriti.h guns, and ever since
roving i ver the seas, plundering meroh int ves
sels, without bringing a single one Into any
port—win n <he> eorne to look over these
things, they will conclude it is host to pay the
American merchants lor till tbe pillage the
Alabama bos done.
W-e have get a sort of new empire upon our
bor-leisin Mexico. Well , gentlemen, I ara not
much disturbed about th it. Empires will not
last long in Central America. 1 don’t know
how long this empire-—if it gets l>orn—will
last. 1 here was an attempt to make an empire
in Mexico some time ago, and, if 1 am not m’s
iakin was no .areal- success. Ido not know
fiat this Austrian Emperor will find his bed of
roses there, but 1 am strongly Inclined to think
I hat the roses will be very few mid the bed
verv hard. lam witting to trust to the future;
and I am perfectly Sure, taking all things into
consideration, that the European mouarchs
will. In ttie end, think it best to keep tneir in
stitutions at home. lam confident of this. I
do not propose any particular measures just
now. It is never wise to advance what you are
g, dug to do a great while in advance of doing
it; but I think the time will como when the
world will reconsider these thing--, and when
this Republic of ours will be established from
tbe Gulf towards the Pole, and from the At
lantic to the Pacific, based upon freedom and
liee tabor, gathering strength from our pres
ent contest, and rising from It grander than
ever.
AUGUSTA. GA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 11, 1863.
' Fr cvce axo thr CoTTO.x Suppi.v.—.Some of
1 the-principal French cotton manufactures, who
i have been greatly inconvenienced in oonse*
j qaenee of tire difficulty of obtaining raw col
-1 ton from the United Statesrineethecommenae
; riiant of the civil*war determined to seek tor
a supply elsewhere. With that view they Com
missioned M. DroUet, uu experienced traveler,
to proceed to Senegal, to ascertain the practi
cability ofculti vat mg cotton in that colony. M.
Drouet has executed his commission, and has
addressed a report to the Committee of Mauu
lactui es.
He arrived in Goree in October last, and
having obtained a gro it deal of information
from traders from the interior, lie left for rit.
Louis on the 11th of November. He commenc
ed operations at St. Louis by purchasinga small
quantity of cotton there offered for sale at a
high price ; and his appearance in the mar
ket induced many native grew era to bring fresh
supplies to ids house for su’e. The Governor
placed a gunboat at his disposal to eu ihlo him
to navigate the river Senegal, au ! ha commen
ced an interest!, g journey at the eud of No
vember, ascending the river as far as I’odor,
seventy leagues from St. Louis.
In the course of his journey he visited in
succession Richard Toll, the nursery of the
I government, in w rich there is a cotton plnntu
] tioijj the Island of Tood, in which a Europe
! an ius planted one hundred and twenty acres
| with cotton, :«ul is preparing to extend t he cui
; tivation annually ; Havana and Podor; huidiim
! places on the banks of river, and several viil.a
--t ges of which the chiefs promised to cultivate
j cotton, and to encourage others to do so. .ie
observed that wherever cotton had been plant
!ed it succeeded admirably. At Daker Bango,
near St. Louis, locusts had injured the cotton
crop this year, tint they seldom make tneir ap
pearance in that country more than once in tweu
ty or thirty years. Hitherto the natives on the
banks of the Senegal have suffered the cotton
plants to grow without cultivation, and having
obtained sufficient for their domestic purposes
they left the remainder to rot on the ground.
It has been ascei tained that the extensive pro
vince of Oualo in the neighborhood of fit.
Louis possesses immence plains of wild cotton.
French officers who commanded a late expedi
tion into the interior gave M. Drouet a veiy
encouraging description of the country, and of
its capability for producing cotton,
j M. Drouet is of opinion that the natives who
have already commenced thecultivation of the
plant ought to be encouraged by large pur
chases for Europe, otherwise they may become
disappointed and abandon it. M. Drouet re
tained to Goree in December, utter-having left
orders with agents to continue to make pur
chases of raw cotton at fit. Louis and ou the
banks of the liver o! Senegal. Hesuhscquont
ly visited the valley of Signofil in company
with the Governor of Goree. He recommends
thi.*; valley a fit place to cultivate cotton ou a
urge scale. lie also went to Joal, accompani
ed by the Bishop of Seneganibia, who lias es
tablished a cotton plantation about forty miles
by sea from Goree in a favorable position.—
Since the reception of M. Dronet’s report the
Minister of Marine and tho Colonies lias made
a grant to the manufactures by whom he was
employed of 3,500 acres of land, to be im
mediately cultivated by them, in the valley
of Signotfil, in Seneganibia.
Gk\. SiBOKi. on tub Win —Gen. Siegel, one
of the mouth pieces of the Federal ndajinstra
tion, has been making a speech ou tlie War at
Wheeling Va. Here is his opinion:
My friends, this is a sacred war -a war wag -
ed for the last hope of man. It is a war between
iroedom and slavery -between humanity and iu
humauily —bet wen progress and barbarism
Loving freedom as Idid in my-fatherland, and
having long known and felt that division and
discord was weakness and despotism, I shrink
horn the thought of seeing my adopted country
divided and made the pray of tyrants. The
same great battle for the onward inarch of free -
dom is being fought in America now that has
been repeatedly fought in the old world ; the
same that we fought ill England under Charles
I—in France under 'Louis XVl—in Germany
during Du* thirty years' war. It is the same
that was fought in Switzerland when the south
ern cantons of that now happy land r* belled.—
it is tltd same that was lately fought in Rely un
der the lead of Garibaldi, who broke down the
tyranny of the kingdom of Naples and drove,
but the hated born bon. The rebellion is the
Naples of America. There can be no. liberty,
to composute, no peace until it is crushed.
My 1 fiends, this Is the same war of 1771!. —
Thisiiation then went to war to estsbish the
rights of man. filie is now at was to maintain
them. It is not a plaything to put down Midi a
rebellion as this. lam afraid we do not all see
the full extent of the dangers that t ireaten u?,
and although it may Mot be policy in me to point
them all out. yet we should not deceive ourselves
in regaid to wliat may be in the future. This
gi'i'at republic, where ail o( us have so long been
free, and happy; and prosperous, is threatened
with more dangers than one. Look at England
—look at Fi ance—look at Mexico—look at Jeff.
Davis—look at the Copperheads in our midst.—
all are working to the same end ; all are in uni
on to destroy this great and good Government.
What means the editing of Maximilian a eeion
of the tyrant house ol llapslmvg, to Mexico?—
Does it mean liberty ? No ;it means white sla
very, just as Jeff. Davis’s rebellion means black
slavery. Napoleon who lias destroyed the lib
erties of France, ndw threatens ours. Perfidi
ous England, who lister dose anything boidly
nor openly :*s secretly at work in alliance with
the cotton planters of the South, filie is at tho
head of the scheme for establishing Maximilian
in Mexico.
Some of you complain that tfccFederal Govern
ment is tyrannical. lam of those who believe
it is too lenient. I am so because I see, the
gieat dangers which it has to meet. It must
s*ve itself from tin* hands of its destroyers. It
it cannot reason with them, it must arrest them.
Severe discipline is always a mercy ; it is always
good policy. Do not be deceived by those Who
cry peace in your ears. It is the effort of the
| enemy to break you down.
Federal Civilization. —The similarity of
tastes existing liewteen those humane and c-iv
liaed kin of Africa, governed by Fix
coi.N.’s .brethren, the Kings of A shanlee and
Dahomey, is fully illustrated in the warfare
carried on by the Yankee Government against
the Confederate States and tlie Western Indians.
The Yankees poison their bullets ; their Afri
can brothers, not so far advanced in science,
use poisoned arrows and spears. Tlie Africans
cut the throats of their prisoners, and drink
their blood Hie Yankees, it seems, are going
to kill and scalp some of theirs, whether taken
in battle, or as non-combatants. The following
paragraphs are from the Chicago T imes.
The Governor of Minnesota has offered a
bounty for Indian scalps. If any Indians ;re
Taken prisoners, he may find in Fox’s Book of
! of Martyrs ingenious methods of torture, which,
Kji" app ied, will be in happy aecord w-ith the
: scalping lie promises to reward. In adopting
: Indian me*hods of warfare, he introduces
?mong civilized people a barbarism which the
brture of prisoners would fitly illustrate. The
j Lincoln Administration, in ordering the.Hig
gensen and Montgomery raids in Florida adop
! ted the Sioux stjfe of war, In the murder of
j prisoners already commenced by the North, in
I this civil wai, how much are we behind the
I Sioux ? We are Christians,
i According to the Troy Whig, the United
States Government is engaged in manufactur
ing poisoned bullets.
Farther comments on such barbarities are
utmaawsary.
F.xpfkiknci: ix A Ebdkhar. Pri ot.—A Sottll.-
ei n goptidiian, who was on ids wav from Eng
land to Dixie, last summer, through the United
States, was air. sled in Cincinnati and thrown
into prison. In a lelttr to the London Index
lie gives his experience in a Federal prison.—
Some portions of his story are truly revolting.
Annexed will be found extract* trout his let
ter :
a H'\" Rout my sick couch f was escorted to
miJitai v prison, placed in the top or sixth
story ol an oh] furniture factory.
1 wo lamps were dimly burning in quite a
large room, where some hundred and titty oth
er prisoners were wrapped in sleep, Being ve
ry ill I was completely exhausted, having had
to walk nearly a mile with the guard. Enter
ing this horrible abode t was firs' awed at the
ghastly sight of human beings stretched pro
miscuously on a AoOr loathsome with grease
and fit 1 1 ; the odor, too, from the sleeping mul
titude, together with the stench from tlie adja
cent water closets, made the scene and feeling*
thus experienced Iho most her rid that imagina
tion can well picture. Escorted to my “berth.”
with the tiUVy Ho..j* for my ln-d, the same for
my pillow, 1 \v.» invited to "test.” Asking to
be excused from participating in this “hospi
tality,” I was allowed the privilege of resting
my exhausted person on a broken down chair
with three legs, which was the only piece of
furniture in the room. Placing the chair scant
agadwt a large support beam, I made it an
swer tin* double purpose of supporting my back
as well as the chair while watching for the
dawn of day. The stench of the room, thcfiltli
of the place and prisoners, by no means tended
to shorten tin* hours which counted as weeks
to me. At last (he dawn apnearod.
Several of tbo prisoners, half a bait and chain
attached to their legs, and one poor fellow, be
cause he refused to perform some menial of
fence, was'gagged 111 the foam came out of his
mouth in large quantities, and he finally rolled
over, supposed, by many to be strangled to
death ; he afterwards recovered, however,
though at the lime his life was despaired of.—
Poor fellow, he excited universal pity, even
horn the guard, as his mouth was forced open
and the gag placed tightly in it. Thought
are we translerml to the regions of demons ?
or are tiie awful tragedies of tho past to lie re
enacted in this once peaceful and happy oottn
* * * 'The history of this war, when it is
written, will prove that the “women catchers”
and the “women lightens'' have ptoved them
selves incompetent for any other business.—
Take, (or instance, Butler, Hooker, Mitchell,
Burnside, Milroy, Hunter, and a host ol other
more insignificant brutes, whose claims to gen
eralship or Christianity is hardly so just as the
baboon who claimed that because ite wore a
gentloni in's hat, ho must at least be a gentle
man.
The Effects of Lincoln’s Oppressive Policy
in .Missoultr.—The wtio are loyal
to the South have at last determined to bear
tamely tlie oppressive acts of Lincoln and his
satellites no longer. They have organised
themselves into guerrilla bands, aud are visi
ting upon the Lincolnites a fewof the miseries
which have licet visited upon them. A cor
respondent of the New York Tribune narrates
some of their doings thiis :
Meanwhile, Confederate guerrillas, bush
whackers and outlaws are having it pretty
much their own way throughout Missouri. Men
are shot down in their houses for no other rea
son than that they are l uion men. Morses,
barns, and even towns are burned. So general
and so common are these conflagrations that no
mention is made of. half of them. Due paper
in the Northwestern part of tin* State says
that tin* midnight sky is constantly illumina
ted by tbe Muz i of burning buildings. Out
side of St. Louis no Union man is sure of his
life flout one day to another. All sorts of
nameless acts are committed day by day, and
in many portions'of the State society is drift
ing into anew barbarism, tenfold worse than
the old oue which once shrouded the world.
The civil government is powerless and mak- s
no pretensions otherwise. Nobody fears it ;
nobody respects it; but everybody laughs at it
as the incarnation of imbecility and conserva
tism. The militai;y, though adorned with the
paraphernalia of strength, seems to make but
little progress toward the suppression of out-'
lawry and tlie rcstoiatjon of prime 11141 order.
When.tho Union men of Alissouri were mur
dering the Southerners, and plundering and
burning their property, the Tribune thought it
was all right, and cheered them on in their
fieniFsh ivoik. But now. “the boot being on
the other leg,” Greeley changes his tune, and
shrieks and howls most piteously. If the
Union men of Alissouri are robbed of all their
possessions, no one can be blamed but them
selves. Tney will simply have the measure
meted on! to them w.iieh they have meted out
to others.
Important Decisions.—’ Two appl cations un
der xyrits of habeas corpus have recently been
made to Chancellor Inglis, on the behalf of
persons held by the enrolling officer of Marl
borough District, S. C. as conscripts, for dis
charge from custody on the ground that the
applicants hiul heretofore been exempted from
service upon furnishing substitutes, in each of
these cases Hie substitute was not within tlie
age of ((inscription when mustered into the
service, but, has become so by the extension of
the age, and is embraced within the hut call
of the President: The Chancellor refused the
applications and remanded the petitioner in
(Rich case to the custody of the enrolling offi
cer, holding the permission given by; Congress
to render militai y service by substitute is a
mere indulgence, and necessarily upon condi
tion resulting from the very nature of substi
tution, that tile Substitute does not himself owe
the service which he is rendering for another ;
that the 9ih section of the Act of April 16,
18G2, containg tbe grant of the indulgence, up
on a proper construction of its terms, affirm
this general principle, aod the several Genet al
Orders of the Secretary of Mar on the subjec’,
beginning with No. 37 ol May 19th, 1862, more
clearly roitente it, and that, theiefore, when
ever one acling’as a substitae, tier I ones from
any cause in lrs own right bound to the service
which lie is rendering t (| r another, although
when received he not liable lor duly, the sub
stitute must instantly cease and the principal
being r.o longer exempted by reason of the
substitution must fulfil his uncompleted term
of service.
In one of tfie cases it is said further ground
for tlie continued exemption of the applicant
was taken, that tlie substitute is a free negro,
and *o “not liable for duty." The Chancellor,
while holding that upon the evidence before ,
him ho must regard the substitute as a tree
white roan, signified that, if it were otherwise,
he should feel compelled to treat the substitu
tion as void, as in his judgement, free negroes ■
could not legally bu received as substitu’es. j
Official Vote for Governor. — We give be
low the official vote for Governor of Georgia.
The entire' vote cast is 62.293 iu the counties
reported, which exhibits a large decrease from
the last vote polle i for Governor. The coun
ties of Fannin, Gilmer. Camden, Charlton and
Emanuel, not having reported up to the time
the following official vote was received by ns,
it is not likely they will come in at all.
'The following is the vote :
County vote—Brown, 21,95 T ; Hill, 12.684 ;
Furlow. 0,562.
Brown’s majority over both, 2,738.
Army- vot'—Brcwn, 13,454; Bill, 4,664;
Furlow, 2,797.
Brown’s majority over both, 5,992.
majority for Brown oyer both,
3 " Zte-—.AiUnta Intelligencer,
Awcdoti sor Guv b'oisKcsr.— the Atlanta
Confederacy publishes tin* annexed anedotes
about Gen. Forrest :
AX' OLD WOMAN CDAKGRS OX It EX FORREST.
It is well known tiiat lor ten davs previous
to the battle oi Chickaraatiga. General Forrest
was busily engaged, in skirmishing with Ilose
cranz’s advance forces ns far South as Tunnel
Hill. At lliis pcint Crittenden’s command, 15-
000 strong, was feeii *g its way cautiously, and
being constantly picked off from trees on every
hill.
Just above Tunnel Hill a large body of-Fed
erais moved up. and Foin stj who Lad at the
time only 400 men with him. ordered them to
fail back in double quick. Here they met sin
old woman, riding a gray “critter,'*’ who, feed
ing indignant- at wluit she considered a father
hasty back step of tho rebels, pulled off her
sun hornet, and galloped up to General For
rest where he wqs phicing.some men in ambush
and railed out. Stop! Stop I yon cowardly ras
cals. Why don't you fight? Where are* you'
running to ? Who ate you afoard of !’’
The General seeing and hearing (lie old lady
soolUlug so haul, said in his quiet, cool way,
“Madam, you had better ride back . yon may
get hurt.”
“Hurt I Dont care if do. 1 wont run. 1
wish to God Ol I Fun eat was hole', lle'd make
you stand, and light too.”
fio saying, she dashed on in the direction, of
the Federais, who soon came in range of the
guns of the men who had just been concealed,
when down came four or five of the Yankee
advance. The old lady tacked, and came gal
loping back and in a half cry said, “ My God,
1 never did see the like I them men are just
killing one anotlrcr-like dogs !”
“Every body will get killedand on she
rode, but a few paces when her critter received
a shot in the n ck, and was dead in a few mo
ments. The old* lady, by the assistance of some
soldiers, got her bridle and saddle off. and
shouldering them put out for homo on foot,
crying as she went' "gracious me : every body
will get killed.”
GEN, FORREST A It A If. SPLITTER.
Many plantations have been ruined, and
much .unnecessary 'damage done to farms all
over.«the country where troops luive been en
camped, in consequence of the too thoughtless
an I often real wanton burning of fence rails.
Not long since, General Forrest’s command
encamped near a nice and well enclosed farm.
After night, the General, as is his custom 1
took a little s roll around and among tlie camp
tires, where he discovered large piles of good
rails brightly burning, ■ and this, too, in the
immediate presence of two. Colonels and alt the
Captains. He observed it all, but said notliing-
A significant smile played'over his stern fea
tures which the boys interpreted to mean, pile
'em on, and the rails were brought with
alacrity, ami the cheet'ul blaze was much en-
joyed.
Early the next morning tho old farmer came
out and discovered his rails were nearly all
gone, and were still being offered up as a
burnt offering. lie sought tlie ; resenpe of
’General Forrest, and being justly indignant,
exclaimed, ”1 have hearn of you a heap, and
that you was a good general, and a good tar
mer, hut you are neither. No good man would
burn his neighbor’s rails.”
The Genera! said but little, and all his boys
were surprised at bis not pitching into the old
man, who used language plainer than was com
mon for anybody fou.se to tlie great fighting
man of Die army.
After exhausting himself, the old man re
turned indignant and in disgust to his resi
dence.
On the-thhd morning the last rail of a twen
ty acre field was ill ashes, when an order was
issue,l for a detail of men to press axes from
the surrounding country. It was a strange ri
der. hut was obeyed, and by 13 o’clock hun
dreds of axes were in camp. Order No. 2 tin'll
came, which ordered every man and officer,
under (lie immediate supervision of the two
Colonels, to take a hand in felling trees and
.splitting rails, in twenty-four hours a bran
new ten rail fence, well put up, enclosed the
plantation.
Since that big rail splitting, the General's
command always look around in the woods for
fuel.
oi.pTUk our Troops—Provide for their fami
lies—A correspondent of Ihe .Richmond En
quirer in Northern Virgiania writes thus about
ou soldiers and their families;
Os course the men are well fed, and, in she
main, com’ort ibly clad—the only articles need
ed being shoes and blankets. The first article, I
am told, is much needed, and I hope a lull sup
ply w ill soon be sent the men by voluntary con
tributions’from those portions of the country
which have suffered least and made the most.
Let not the brave defenders of our country's
honor be made to feel the biting severity of
frost and snow upon’their unproteced feet in a
land ahouning in plenty, and they -themselves!
fighting for a people whose em'y misfortune is a
super abundance of means. And let not our peo
ple wait to see the foot tracks cf their brave de
fenders imprinted upon the snow, and ice of this
rigorous climate ;but let contributions pour forth
at once—contributions that may be grateful to
the soldiers, creditable to the donors, and hon
orable to the country. Shoes are needed, and
we shall soon see if shoes are' forthcoming. Blank
ets, too, are ingreat demand, and the need must
increase as the weather grows colder. Tho no -
hie women of the count)y ought to send for
ward at once suph supplies of these articles us
they can gather. Especially, ought they to do
this for those who, like Hays’ gallant Louisian
ians, faltered not. though cut off from home and
Iriends and kindred—There is another subject
which, though a home matter, yet, as it concerns
the army, I will venture a word in reference to
it—l mean tlie question of taking care of the
families of soldiers during the coming winter.
Jtisa question of deep ami vital importance,
and oi.e that should claim serious attention. It
is idle to expect that our soldiers, brave as they
are and patriotic as they have been,-wifi bfe
cheerful or bold if tlie wives of their bosoms,
the children of their loins and tlie parents of
their infancy are permitted to .uT'er, whilst they
themselves are uobl v doing and daring to save
the cause' and the substance of those who are
hoarding their wealth, ami enabled to protect
it by the sacrifices of the men in the field. Now,
more than ver. to be successful, this mu t he a
c .nun.>li r-nuse, or cl -e all may be lost -'J he for
mer air i Ihe merchant, whose property has l ecu
plotectcd and whose coffers have been tide I,
must divide with the wives of the soldiers who
have been lighting without money and without
' price, for the liberties of the country, or all
must be involved in hopeless ruin.
Brownlow Again. —Brownlaw is again in the
field, with another letter. The bitterness of
this old renegade appears to increase with his
age. In a recent manifesto he remarks thus :
'The meditation 1 advocate is that of tbe can
non and theswojd: and let there be no armis
tice, on sea or land, until all the rebels, front
and rear, North and South, are subjugated or
exterminated. And then let condign punishment
lie speedily rneeted out to the surviving lead
ers of this unholy crusade against civilizatio i.
My motto is, Greek fire lor tfie masses and bell
fire for the leaders. And none but the loyal
should be consulted in the great casting up of
these accounts. ,
Hog Cholera.— Speedy and Effectual (/are. —
Tar and grease mixed in equal proportions is a
certain antidote for this prevalent and fatal
disease. The made of trea ment is as simple as
the remedy itself. Catch the infected animal, turn
it upon its back, gag it, and drench it with
; nearly a gill of the mixture. The effect is almost
instantaneous. In a few hours the animal re-
I gains its appetite is seen busily engaged in
quest of food.
, \OL LXXVIf—NEW SERIES VOL. XXVII. N 0.45
| Directions fop. CoLLEt’iTNis axu DnYtxit Med
i ICI.VAL SI’BSTAXCtj.OK THE VEGETABLE KIXUOO.MC
Dr. J. I’. Porcher. in his Botanical Resource*
give* the annened directions, for collecting and
drying medicinal substances of the vegetable
kingdom :
All leaves, flowers and herbs should be pre
ferably gathered in clear, dry weutlnT. in liie
morning, alter the dew is exhaled.
The roots of medicinal plauts, although more
advantageously gathered at certain periods, to
be hereafter specified, do not lose their medicin
al virtues in consequence of being dug in mid.-
snmmer. It is .probable that most of those im
ported are tints collected by savages of ignorant
persons, when the plant is in full leaf, it beiitj
then more easily recognized.
Plants, Annual, should be gathered at the
time when vegetation is most vigorous, which
is generally from the time they begin to flower
until their leaves begin to change.
Plants, Biennial, should, in most instances,
be gathered in tlie second season of their growth,
and about the time ot flowering.
Boots of Annuals are to be gathered just be
fore the time of (lowering.
Boots of Biennials are to be gathered aftei
the vegetation of tbe first year has ceased.
Boots of Perennials are to lie gathered in the
spring, before vegetation lias commenced. Boots
should be washed, aud the smaller fibres, qnlue
they arc the, part employed, should be thense
parated fi'om the body of the.root, which, wessh
"of any considerable size, Ts to be -cut in saves
previous to being dried.
Bulbs are to be gathered after tbe new bulb
is perfected, and before it lias begun to vegetate,
which is at the time, the leaves-decay. Those
which are to be preserved fresh should be lurried
in dry sand.
Barks, whether of the root, trunk or branches,
should be gathered in tlie autumn, or early in
the spring. The dead epidermis or outer bark,
and the decayed parts, {should be removed, t>f
some trees (as the elm) tlie inner bark only Is
preserved.
Leaves are to be gathered after their full de
velopment, before tlie fading of flic flowers.
The leaves of biennials do not attain I heir per -
sect qualities until tlie second year.
Flowers should, in general, be gathered at
the time of their expansion, before or immediate
ly after they have fully open; some-as the
Rosa Galliea —while in bud.
Aromatic Herbs arc.to be gathered when in
flower.
A Scene for ax Artist. — A . correspondent
of tae Atlanta Intelligencer sketches the fol
lowing impressive scene:
A few nights ago we bad a fine sermon from
the chaplain of tlie sixtli Georgia, Bov. Mr.
Thompson. An empty flour barrel served as
bis pulpit, and the broad expanse bis boose of
worstin' By the dimly burning faggots jf our
camp-fires *he read his text and hymns; the
pale rays of a silvery cresenfc hanging in the
heaven high, now and then crept through tbe
heavy I'oiloge of the swamp ; tile stream wind
ing round our camp murmured tnusieallp as it
hurried itself on to the sluggish waters of tin'
-Obiekamauga. The men were all squatted
tailor fashon on Ihe ground, in a circle round
tlie uvnister, and our horses were tethered near
clcse by, tlie drowsy sentinel paced his weary
beat—at once a soul-stirring* hymn broke forili,
and for tlie first time, perhaps, the pi ice re
sounded with the notes of Christian worship,
ft was a novel uud inpressive 'scene, and one
that would have furnished a painter a prett v
job.
What Abolitionmji ms nose for the Nobth.
The Chi*ogo ’limes in remarking about the
“fruits of Abolitionism” sums up what Abolitio
administration has doiwt foj* the North thus :
Tb* first abolition administration lias sup
plied us many things of which we were never
before posssed. It lias given us thousands of
widows and orphans ; filled our streets with
manned and broken huma’n beings ; erected for
oitr accomodation numberless military prisons ;
furnished us lavinhTy with military authorities,
spies and informers, after ihe manner of Aus
tria; has blessed us with an army of tax
gatherers and hungry officials, who consume
the substance of the people ; entailed upon us
a nat’onal debt to which that of England will
soon be a mere circumstance ; lias demonstra
ted that America can excel the world iu
thievery and corruption, and lias finally en-‘
abled us to realize the beauties of a military
conscription.—These are a few only of the
favours for. which we are indebted to Ibis
abolition administration. As an offset to the
desirable gifts.it lias relieved us of the habeas
corpus, tlie right of trial by jury, and other
medieval superfluities, for which we .-Jiould all
be still more grateful.
Decision of the French TrilUsai. in the
Case of the Alabama.— The following highly
important official decision in regard io-ihe Con
federate steamer Alabama is taken from a.
leading French journal :
In the eyes of France, the Northern. States
and the Southern States of the American Un
ion are belligerents, that is to say, two nations
in a state of war.
The Union not having accepted the decima
tion of the Cutgress of Paris abolishing priva
teering, has a right to issue letters-of-niurque.
The vessel Alabama, carrying the Hag ol the
Southern States, cannot be regarded as a pi
rate, but merely as a privateer, since she rep
resents neutrals, and makes use of force
against none hut the enemies of tho Confeder
ates.
Hence, the burning at son of a ship and the
merchandize it contains, constitutes an- act, of
warfare for which the insurers are not respon
sible without a special, agreement.
Receipt- for Dyking. —Take red oak hark
sufficient to make four gallons of very strong
dye, boil very strang, then strain it, and add
two table spoons full of blue stone, then dry
your thread in the dye, then in strong lye, re
peat it for four times, then-hang out and let it
get half dry, and rinse in clear water.
Blue Dye. —Take one quarter of a pound of
j extract of logwood, pul in to four gallons of wu
j tt-r. lioii oue half an hour, add two table spoons
full of bine stone, put in your thread or cloth,
| boil one half hour more, tako it out and let it
air fifteen minutes longer, take out and wash
out in warm soap suds, thou rinse in dear
water.
Black Dyf,. —But a quarter of a pound of ex
'.lacto logwood in three gallons ot water, boil it
thirty minutes, add two table spoons lull of
copperas, put in your thread, boil fifteen min -
utes, take out, wash in strong soap suds, then
air and rinse in clear water.
Yellow 1)yi:. -Take of each ajlot of sassafras,
swamp bay, and butterfly root, j.nt in four gal
lons of water, bail until’strong, then strain and
put in your thread or cloth aiid'ljoii thirty min
utes, tako out and air fifteen nt incites then rinse
in clear wa er and let it dry.
Five pounds of thread can be dyed in an y
of these. _
Cure for Chills ash Fever. -Mr. km l ’)...
Bv inserting the following receipt lor -Ue one
of chills and fever, in your paper, you c in
fer a great benefit upon the piiolu-. ‘ -
a remedy I hare used lor years, « •<! gve
found it in many cases more ettKaumt
quinine. ,
‘ Receipt.— Mix with a wine glass of viii«ga>
the seed* taken from the pods oi three red
peppers and drink one hour before the ei.poct
£d return of the chills. A Physician.
Gen. Armstrong is to take command ca the
division lately commanded by Gen. forrdst in
Bragg’* army.'
! PCPCLATIO 1 Au. I'ROi CCIR V F UtCOnQiA.
Tlie Comptroller General, in his report, cflvya
tlie following valuable statistics : White’popu
lation. 596,998, being sn increase of 75 42g
over the census of I860; slave population’
168,540, an increase of 76,358; total 1,055,538;
an increase of 149,353. The population of- !t
--‘vanunh. 22,292, an increase of 6.258; August ,
12,843, an increase of 740; Go! uni bus. 9,621, an
increase of 2,679; Atlanta. 9,554, an increase ol
0.892; At aeon, 8,247, an increase ot 2,597. 1 his
was the status in 1860. fiince that time, the
populat ion ot the cities have been affected by
the fortunes of war. Some are larger and some
are smaller.
The value of improved land, $7,948,292, an
increase of $1,569,818; unimproved land,
818,055,866, an increase of $1,612,956; cash
value of farms, $154,683,981, an increase of
$58,930,536; value of farming implements amt
machinery, $6,682,137, an increase of $687,-
987. Number ot horses, 128.744, a decrease
of 22.557; ot asses and mules, 100,722, an in
crease of 43,343; of milch cows, 293,669. a
decrease of 40,554; of working oxen, 73,620;
an increase of 334; other cattle. 619,199, a
decrease of 70 820; total numher of cattle,
936,488, a decrease of 111,040; of sheep, 500,-
971, a decrease ot’ 59.464, of swine, 2,001.004,
a decrease of 157,618: value of live stock,
$37,161,884, an increase of $11,433,468; bush
els of wheat, 2.506,702, an increase of 1,418-
168; bushels of rye, 105,374, an increase of
51,624; bushels of*lndian corn, 30,213.819, an
increase of 133,720; oats. 1,’215.627 bushels, a
decrease of 2,604,417; 58,377,613 pounds of
rice, an increase of 19,426,922; 925.093 pounds
of tobacco, an increase of 501,169; 697,935
bales of ginned cotton: 400 pounds each, au
increase of 198.544;»914.916 pounds of wool, a
decrease of 75,103; 1,733,023 bushels of peas
and beans, an increase of 596,612; 289,568
bushels of Irish potatoes, an increase of 62,189;
6,511,105 bushels of sweet potatoes, a deereaso
of 475,333; 15,176 bushels of barley, an in
cieasc of 3,675; 1,590 bushels of bn*k'vheat,
an increase of 1.340; value of orchard pro
ducts in dollars, $175,066, an increase of
$82,290; 26,476 gallons ot wine, an increase
of 25,680; value of produce of market gai
ilens. $191,271, an increase of $114,771; 5,296,-
603 pounds of butter, an increase of 656,014,
J 4,813 pounds of cheese, a decrease of 32,133;
3,159 pounds of flax, a decrease of 2.228; 110
bushels of flax seed, a decrease of 672; 8,236
pounds of maple sugar, an increase of 3,187;
932,000 pounds of came sugar, a decrease of
7)0,000; 269,746 gallons of molasses, an in
crease of 413,586; 64,690 pounds of beeswax,
an increase of 15,756; 944,885 pounds of
honey, an increase of 201.205; value of tome
made manufactures, $1,445,682, a decrease of
$333,280: value of animals slaughtered, sll,-
031,788, an increase of $4,695,026; acres of
land returned, 83 345,299; aggregate value of
bind returned, $161,761,955; average value ot
land $4 85 per acre. This comparison is made
between the returns of 1860 and 1850. l'be
exhibit contains find tot* reflection. It demon
si rales that the capacity of Georgia has never
been fully tested’for producing food crops.
The number of acres of improved land in ten
. years increased but 24 per Cent., while the in
crease in the value 01 tarns amounted to 6i
pet* cent. Tho production of cotton increased
39 per cent., juvbile tiiat of com was not quits
one halt of 1 per cent., Cot beginning to keep
up with the increase of population, 16 per cent.
Although the production of peas and beans in
creased' 52 per cent., rice 49 per C? ll *.,
wheat 130 per cent., there was a decrease *.T
■all animal food used for the support of man,
swine decreasing near, 8 percent., and cattla
II percent, the increase of slaughtered aui
mats was 74 per cent., but a part of them were
brought from other States. The increase in tlie
value of live stock of 74 per cent., was due to
tlie decrease of the number of live stock.
Horses decreased 15 per cent., and mules in
creased 75 per cent., showing that the pe .pla
bad neglected the raising of horses and mules,
and bad purchased largely of the tatter front
Kentucky, Ohio and other States. With every
facility of soil and climate to raise all our
bread amt meat, we have been guilty of the
stupendous folly of making cotton and depend
ing upon others to supply us.
Thu Report contains also a mortifying expose
of the manner in which the State Income Tax
lias been dodged aud evaded to such an extent
as lo whittle down tiro anticipated revenue of
$1,500,000 or 2,000,000 to some $500,000.—-
This disappointment lias been brought about
I)3’ manufacturers and dealers adding their
profits to theii capital stock, and thus making
out a fraudulent or deceptive return of their
taxable profits. Tbe law taxed tbe profits of
of woolen aud cotton goods and
leal her, distillers of spirits, dealers in merchan -
cjize, provisions, &c., according to the following
schedule : Profits of 20 per cet., 50 cents on the
$100; of 30 per cent., $1.50 ou the $100; of 40
per cent., $2; of 100 percent,, $5 on the SIOO,
Ac. But it seems that most, of the business thus
tax'd has avoided just returns in the manner
above indicated—by exhibiting an increase of
capital stock commensurate with their profits.
Tlie Comptroller instances three factories, whoso
capital stock was returned in 1562 at $25,908,
$162,531, and $4.4,462, respectively. 'lhcir
profits this year have been $70,000, $450,190,
and sßß,ooo’ respectively, which, upon the same
amount of capital, would have exhibited profits
ranging from 97 to 270 per cent. But they
avoid the payment, of taxes upon such enorEI Q BS
profits, by ret irniDg their capital slock for this
year at $118,238, $1,500,458, and $150,000, re
spectively.
The Comptroller pertinently remarks that this
great increase of capital stock is rather remark
able, considering that we have had a blockade
nearly all the time, and that even had the fac
tories needed and desired a double or treble
supply of machinery, &c., they could not have
purchased it.
To show the wonderful irregularity and dis
proportion of profits and capital stocks, we copy
those of a few counties from the report :
* CAPITAL PROFITS TAX
Bibb - 3,297,581 1,388,302 40,174
Chatham . 2,870 423 1,234,328 48,412
Clinch 89,881 127,357 50,597
Decatur 68,392 33,062 01,224
Fulton 1,807 800 991,450 81,280
Muscogee 6,550,938 2,426,965 59,213
Newton 278,188 266,684 19,719
Richmond 8,433,175 3,149.460 132,876
Cobh 2,330,066 840,323 1,975,394
Spaulding 806,958 363,442 1,053,461
Bryan, Camden, Colquitt, Eelxils, Fannin.
Glynn, Harrison, Erwin, Miller, Milton, Pierce,
Stewart, Tattnall and Wayne counties made no
retntu. There are. four default cases, viz: one
in Clinch, one in Decatur, one in Fnlton and
one in Richmond, and each have been charged
$50,000 for being in default..--Atlanta Register,
Sorghum: Syrup. —Some of our larmers ap
pear to have been in too much of a hurry in
fre tting their syrup into market. The specimen
we have examined are quite rrudo, and refiects
but little credit on tho manipulator. They savor
strongly of the vegetable acid, and are coveted
with fioth, which is. full of specks and small
nieces of tbe cane. These are defects which
might he so easily corrected, that our friends
will take it kindly if we submit a few simple
directions in the matter.
ft is absolutely necessary for the good keep
ing of the syrup that the acid should be neutia
lizi-d : and every firmer has tbe means at hang
lor doing It. While the syrup is boiling, pour
into it from time to time a small quantity of ley,
which is to he repeated as long aa there is any
effervescence or foaming—skimming each time,
so as to reject tlie matter that rises to the surface.
And continue to boil until the syrup becomes
thfek. ’This may be ascertained by taking up a
small- quantity in a spoon it .and letting it cool,
when the-desired consistency willbe readily ap
parent. Better to have ten gallons of rich, thirst
syrup, of "golden color, than'twelve, or even
fifteen ol a watery consistency, which no one
will buy as long as be can get a superior article
— Pet. Ex, •