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THE GAZETTE.
ESTABLISHED 1859-
New Series.
A CONFEDERATE STORY.
The Letter that Caused a Desertion.
At a recent political gathering in Tus
cumbia, Ala., Gen. Cullen. A. Battle re
lated the following touching story in the
course of his speech :
During the "Winter of 1863-64 it
was my fortune to be President of one
of the courts-martial of the Army of
Northern Virginia. One bleakDeeember
morning, while the snow covered the
ground and the winds howled around
our camp, 1 left my bivouac fire to at
tend the session of the court. Winding
for miles along uncertain paths, I ac
length arrived at the court ground at
Round Oak Church. Day after day it
had been uur duty to try the gallant sol
diers of that army, charged with viola
tions of military aw ; but never had I
on any previous occasion been greeted
by such anxious spectators as on that
morning awaited the opening of the
court'. Case after case was disposed of,
and at length the case of “The Confede
rate States vs. Edward Cooper” was call
ed—charge, desertion. A low murmur
rose spontaneously fram the battle-scar
red spectators, as a young artilleryman
rose from the prisoners’ bench, and, in
response to the question, “Guilty, or not
guilty ?’ answered, “Not guilty.”
The Judge Advocate was proceeding
to open the prosecution, when the Court,
observing that the prisoner was unatten
ded by counsel, interposed and inquired
of the accused, “Who is your counsel ?”
He replied: “I have no counsel. “Sup
posing that it was his purpose to repre
sent himself before the Court, the Judge
Advocate was instructed to proceed.
Every charge and specification against
the prisoner was sustained. The prison
er was then told to introduce his wit
nesses. He replied, “I have no witness
es.” Astonished at the calmness with
which he seemed to be submitting to
what he regarded as inevitable fate, 1 said
to him : “Have you no defense ? Is it
possible that you abandoned your com
rades and deserted your colors in the
presence of the enemy without any rea
son V He replied : “There was a rea
son, but it will not avail me before a
military court.” I said : “Perhaps you
are mistaken ; you are charged with the
highest crime known to military law,
and it is your duly to make known the
causes that influenced your actions.”
For the first time his manly form trem
bled, and his blue eyes swam in tears.
Approaching the President of Court' he
presented a letter, saying as he did so :
“There, General, is what did it.” I
opened the letter, and in a moment my
eyes filled with tears. It was passed
from one to another of the Court until
all had seen it, and those stern warriors
who had passed with Stonewall Jackson
through a hundred battles wept like lit
tle children. Soon as I sufficiently re
covered my self-possession, I read the
letter as the defense of the prisoner. It
was in these words :
My Dear Edward : I have always been !
proud of you, and since your connection
with the Confederate Army I have been
prouder of you than ever before. I
would not have you do anything wrong j
for the world; but before God, Edward, I
unless you come home we must die! j
Last night I was aroused by little Eddie’s
crying. I called and said: “What’s
the matter, Eddie ?” afid he said : “Oh,
mamma, I’m so hungry.” And Lucy,
Edward, your darling Lucy, she never
complains, but she is growing thinner
and thinner every day. And before
God, Edward, unless you come home we
must die. Your Mary.
Turning to the prisoner, I asked:
“What did you do when you reeeived
this letter"?” He replied: “I made ap
plication for furlough, and it was reject- j
ed ; again I made application and it was j
rejected ; a third time I made application 1
and it was rejected, and that night, as I;
wandered backward and forward in the i
camp, thinking of my home, with the 1
mild eyes of Lucy looking up to me, !
and the burning words of Mary sinking :
in my brain, I was no longer the Con
federate soldier, but I was the father of
Lucy and the husband of Mary, and I
would have passed those lines if every j
gun in the battery had fireu me. I went j
to my home. Mary ran out to meet me, :
her angel arms embraced me ; and she
whispered, “O ! Edward, lam so happy; ■
I ana so glad yon got your furlough !’ :
She must have felt me shudder,- for she
turned pale as death, and catching her
breath at every word, she said, “Have 1
you come without your furlough ? O,
Edward, Edward, go back! go back!
Let me and my children go down togeth-1
er to the grave, but O, for heaven’s sake j
save the honor of our name !” And here :
I am, gentlemen, not brought here by
military power, but in obedience to the
command of Mary, to abide the sentence
of your court.’’
Every officer of that court martial felt
the force of the prisoner’s words. Before
them stood, in beatific vision, the elo
quent pleader for a husband's and a fath
er’s wrongs ; but they had been trained
by their great leader, Robert E. Lee, to
Head the path of duty, though the light
ning’s flash scorched the ground beneath
their feet, and each in turn pronounced
the verdict—guilty. Fortunately for
humanity, fortunately for the Confeder
acy. the proceedings of the court were
reviewed by the Commanding General,
and upon the record was written :
Head Quarters, A. N. V.
The finding of the court is approved.
The prisoner is pardoned and will re
port to his company.
R. E. Lee, General.
GEORGIA. OCT’R 21,1874.
During the second battle of Cold Har
bor, when shot and shell were falling
“like torrents from the mountain cloud,’
my attention was directed to the fact
that one of our batteries was being si
lenced by the concentrated fire of the
enemy. When I reached the battery
every gun but one had been dismantled,
and by it stood a solitary Confederate
soldier, with the blood streaming from
his side. As he recognized me he ele
vated his voice above the roar of battle
and said: General, I have one shell
left. Tell me, have I saved the honor of
Mary and Lucy ? I raised my hat. Once
more a Confederate shell went crashing
through the ranks of the enemy, and the
hero sank by his gun to rise no more.
• ♦
A prominent New York publisher told
us one day that when he casually re
marked to a bookseller, who had come
to the city from a distant part of the
country to attend the annual trade sale,
that they had often talked on business
together, but never about their souls'
welfare, the heart of the stranger over
flowed with gratitude at the mere men
tion of religion, and said that he had
long been waiting for someone to say a
word that would lead him to Christ.—
He had long been almost a Christian,
just on the threshold, without. going in.
The result was that the one word in tea
son led him into rest and triumph—-
When Lhingstone told the chief a
heathen tribe the story of Christiaiity,
the latter replied: “How long have iron
known this?” “Oh,” said the travder,
“my father knew it. ” “Then why did
they not tell me about it ?” was the re
sponse. The barbarian’s questions ap
plies equally well to Christian lapis,
where there are multitudes of people
who have been many years in connection
with the Church, and yet have rover
manifested a personal interest in the sal
vation of those nearest them in mam re
lations.
Activity Leads to Happiness.—Wp
should all live more healthful, more use
fill and longer lives, says the Philadel
phia Ledger, did we so employ our a cj
tivities to extract from them that enjoy
ment which is their natural and legit
mate result. Let every one be suie
that, if his work is toilsome, arduous
depressing, there is something wrong';
some of his faculties are restrain.; I;
while others are overburdened | somjof
his powers are exhausted, while ot}v |!S
i are dormant. It is n<*fr ros d 'so as
change tl.av, he need*?- not io-tJ.,, ■
his work and fold his hands
but rather to embrace other fields oiVrc
tion, hitherto untrodden. It will doubt
less be difficult to apply this to all the
details of practical life, but we shall
have gained one important step towards
it, if we appreciate and firmly hold to
the truth, that real , happiness can only
be attained by activity of mind and body,
and the more fully and harmoniously all
our powers are exercised, the fuller will
be our life, and the more real enjoyment
will it yield.
There was much excitement on Tues
day night on the trai bound south from
Charlottesville, Virginia. In the palace
car was a gentleman who had stepped
aboard at Charlottesville with a child
muffled from nead to foot in shawls.—
Before the train had gone far the occu
pants in the other compartments of the
car heard a child's cry, then another.—
Then came the angry tones of a man’s
voice, “You are not Ciraidie ; you are
Tommie; and if you make any more
noise I’ll throw you out of the window. ”
“I want to go to mamma ; I am her own
Charlie,” the child was heard to say.—
Then blows were heard, and screams,
and a passenger said, “It is little Char
lie Ross,” and a rush was made. The
man was dragged from his compartment,
and the ladies sprag forward and got
their arms about tbe child. They re
moved the covering from his face and
found that instead of Charlie Ross they
had in their embrace the wooden autom
aton with which the ventriloquist Wy
man is wont to amuse the public. Tbe
practical joker was Wyman himself, who
was on his way to Lynchburg.
The thieves at Washington evidently
have much to conceal. No resistance
having been made or dreamed of by Gov.
McEuery, of Louisiana, to the Federal
usurpation, there was no necessity for
one dollar’s expense by the War Depart
ment. But the instant the New Orleans
affair began, it Was announced by au
thority from Washington that it would
necessitate large expenditures by the
War Department (which was false and
known to be false) and compel a large
deficiency bill to supplement the appro
priations already made, which betrays
the swindling at Washington and the
expected gullibility of N- them Radical
voters. It is not the first time a thief
has put on a bloody shirt.
[New York World.
A New Orleans special says : On Wed
nesday a negro, who was being taken to
jail, at Hazlehurst, Miss., after being ar
rested for arson, was shot and killed
while attempting to escape from two of
ficers, who surrendered themselves to
the authorities, and they were lodged in
jail. Subsequently, the coroner, who is
a negro, decided that the men had been
murdered. Upon this declaration, the
colored people avowed their intention of
breaking into jail and lynching the two
men. The white people hearing of this,
armed themselves and prepared to de
fend the jail, since when nothing later
has occurred.
For ti e Gazette.]
“Titmouse.”
It is said that a man was once arraign
ed at the bar of justice for horse stealing,
and employed Lumpkin to defend him.
Through Lumpkin’s eloquence and sa
gacity, the criminal wa found abund
antly innocent, and he of course was
cleared. After it was all oyer, the crim
inal and the lawyers on both sides as
sembled to talk over the matter.
One of the lawyers told the men as it
was now settled, it could do no harm to
tell whether he did steal the horse or
Jiok “Well,” said the man, “I always
thought that I stole the horse, till I
heard Lumpkin speak on it; but his
speech convinced me that I did not do
it.’ You see the point. I always
thought the world turned over till I saw
your article ; but now I am thoroughly
convinced. Please excuse me for not!
bringing argument; for I am of opinion \
that the “best in my shop,” would be of ;
no grail in the contest. Of course in the i
scripture we find that Joshua command-;
ed the sun to stand still, and it did so;
but Ido not recollect where he com
manded it to go on again ; though I
guess when he let it loose, it commenc
ed itself and has kept on. True, we
hear people speak of the face of the
earth, the sides of the earth, the four
corners of the earth, etc., and once in a
while we hear one say the round earth ;
but I guess they mean round as a silver
dollar, which is both round and flat at
the same time. Your humble servant
used to think they meant round as a
marble, and not as a dollar ; but it is
plain now.
One more difficulty : The earth's shad
ow eclipses the moon; but then the
thickness of the earth may exceed the
diameter of the moon; so that difficulty
is closed up.
In Acts, 17 c.. 6th v., some accused
Paul and Silas of turning the world “up
side down ;” but as soon as they passed
away, the world Hopped back as former
ly. There are a great many companies
from all parts of the enlightened world
starting, and preparing to start, to see
the “transit of Venus” on the Bth of De
cember next, and they aim to make sev
eral important calculations, having for
their base the diurnal revolution of the
earth ; but you see all of those engaged
in those expeditions are idiotic. Almanac
makers calculate from the theory of the
rotation of the earth ; but you see very
jdaLVy that they cannot tell the time of
it .will bo part al
or total, neither can they tell in what
countries it will be visible, so they are
idiotic also. They pretend to tell the
rising and setting'of the sun ; but they
miss it sometimes two or three hours,
you know, so no doubt they are moon-
struck.
Copernicus, Halley, Herscliel, Valz,
Hevelius, Pono, Dunn, Webb, Forster,
Bla.r, Gregory, Arago and Newton, all
agreed that the earth revolved; but now
we see what foolish men they were, and
how little of common sense they had
about such things. They were the veri
est monstrosities of imbecility, lunacy,
and idoc.y. Had they lived till now they
would have bee.l convinced that the
world stands fast and stands still. As
to Hart county men trying to force un
tenable theories on the enlightened citi
zens of Elbert, no one need have any
fears at all; for, just let them bo con
vinced that the world does stand still,
and they are the last men on the face of
the flat earth, that you would see armed
with handspikes and crowbars, trying to
move our earth out of its long-kept equi
librium. Davy Dolling
SUM TOTAL OF A LORD MAYOR’S TAL
ENTS.
King James the second, passing
through Colchester, it was resolved that
the mayor should compliment him on his
arrival.
It so happened that this chief mag
istrate was eminently stupid, which is
looked upon as no strange thing in Eng
land.
The town clerk was appointed to at
tend him at his back, and whisper what
he was to say to the king. When they
came into his majesty’s presence, the
clerk desiring to encourage the mayor,
whispered in his ear:
“Hold up your head and look like a
man!”
“Hold up your head and look like a
man !’’ did the mayor bawl to the king.
The clerk, astonished, whispered to
the mayor:
“What the devil do you mean ?”
The mayor bawled ou j:
, “What the devil do you mean ?”
The clerk sweating with fear and vex
ation, whispered •
“By heaven ! you will ruin us all!”
The mayor repeated:
“By heaven! you will ruin us all!”
The town clerk, then in a violent rage
said:
“Oh ! y/u blundering puppy, I wish
you had never come here!”
The mayor bawled:
“Oh ! you blundering puppy, I wish
yuu had never come here !"
The clerk, on this immediately took
to his heels, and the mayor followed
him, leaving the King in a violent fit of
laughter, though not without rage.
When a Maryland doctor spells it “accufot
tns,’' ia-it any wonder that a patient dies on his
hands?
The devil will never go to heaven be
cause he cannot die and have a funeral
sermon.
Vol. 111-No. 26.
AVERSION TO MANUAL LABOR.
The practice of educating boys for the
professions, which are already overstock
ed, or for the mercantile business, in
which statistics show that ninety-five
in a hundred fail of success, is fearfully
on the increase in this country. Ameri
cans are annually becoming more and
more averse to manual labor ; and to get
a living by one’s wits, even at the cost of
independence and self-respect, and a
fearful wear and tear of conscience, is
the ambition of a large proportion of
our young men The result is that the
mechanical professions are becoming a
monopoly of foreigners, and the owner
ship of the finest farms, even in New
England, is passing from Americans to
Irishmen and Germans. Fifty years
ago a father was not ashamed to put his
children to the plow or to the mechani
cal trade ; but now they're “too feeble,’
for bodily labor, one has a pain in his
side, another a slight cough, Another, “a
very delicate constitution,” another is
nervous, and so poor Bobby, or Billy, or
Tommy is sent off to the city to measure
tape, weigh coffee or draw molassi s. It
seems never to occur to their foolish pa
rents that moderate manual labor in the
pure and bracing air of the country is
just what these puny, wasp waisted lads
need, and that to send them to the
crowded and unhealthy city is to send
them to their graves. Let them follow
the plow, sling the sledge, or shove the
fore-plane, and their pinched chests will
be expanded, and their sunk cheeks
plumped but, and their lungs, now “cab
bined, cribbed and confined,” will have
room to play. Their nerves will be invi
gorated with their muscles ; and when
they shall have cast their jackets, instead
of being thin, pale, vapid cox combs,
they shall have spread out to the size
and configuration of men. A lawyer’s
office, a counting room, or a grocery ; s
about the last place to which a sickly
youth should be sent.
STARTLING SCENIToN A FERRYBOAT.
As the Hoboken ferryboat Chancellor
Livingston was on her seven o’clock trip
from Christopher street, last evening, an
incident took place which spread wild
alarm among the passengers. The cab
ins Were full of people, and as the boat
neared the Jersey side a stalwart man,
abcut twenty four years of age, rushed
through the cabin to the forward part of
the boat, brandishing a large knife and
making lunges at several persons, shout
ing in a wild and incoherent manner, and
threatening to kill every person he met.
Some flew out of his way, others rushed
into the cabins, while several of the la
dies, imagining that something more se
rious had taken place, screamed with
fright and ran excitedly through the
cabin. Several men endeavored to grasp
the hands of the infuriated individual,
but he sprang, tiger-like, from among
them. Then, making a desperate plunge
toward a man named Edward Crushell,
he aimed the weapon at his breast. Cru
shell dodged, but was not quick enough
to evade tbe blow, and he found the knife
buried in his left arm. The maniac
dragged forth his murderous weapon
and set his eye upon another person in
the crowd, when several passengers, real
izing the plight in which they were plac
ed, fell upon him, wrested the knife from
his hands, after a sanguinary struggle,
and held him fast until the boat reached
the slip.- The captive then grew quite
calm and was taken into custody by a
policeman, who conveyed him to the sta
tion house, followed by a large crowd of
people. The prisoner gave his name as
George Kolb. He is engaged in the
oyster business, and resides on First
street, Hoboken. His frenzy is ascribed
to liquor, of which he had freely partak
en in New York. The knile, which he
bade fair to use so destructively, could
not be found. Crushell w&s removed for
medical treatment. The prisoner will
be arraigned before i lie recorder to day.
fN. Y. Herald, 6th.
Reduction of Freights.— The authori
ties of the Georgia Railroad, says the
Chronicde & Sentinel of the 11th, have
reduced the tariff of freights on that
road from Covington to Conyers, Litho
nia, Stone Mauntain and Decatur to Au
gusta. from sixty to forty five cents per
one hundred pounds. On and after to
morrow the freight on cotton from Spar
ta to Augusta will be reduced from fif
ty to forty-five cents per one hundred
pounds.
The easiest and simplest remedy for
chapped hands is found in every one’s
kitchen closet, and is nothing more than
common starch. Reduce it to an impal
pable powder, put it in a muslin bag and
keep it in the table drawer. Whenever
you take your hands out of dish water or
suds, wipe them dry with a soft towel,
and, while yet damp, shake the starch
bag all over them and rub it in. The ef
fect is most agreeable.
The Ross Child Abduction.— The re
ward of $20,000 in the Ross case is still
in force, and Allen Pinkerton announces
that the same will be relinquished by
him and his force to parties who shall
give information which shall lead to the
recovery of the child and the capture of
the abductors.
No man can read about all these bur
glaries without a determination to have
liis wife sleep on the front side of the
bed.
When the devil praises thee, remera
ber that he is “the Father of Lies.”
THE FENCE LAW.
The “no fence law” is in operation in
four townships in this (Mecklenburg)
county. The law went into effect iu
March, when the people were busy pre
paring to plant the present crop. Near
ly all succeeded in getting sufficient pas
ture fenced for the stock kept on their
premises.
The law works admirably. The thought
of never again having to scratch our
hands with briars and thorns, and tangle
our feet with grapevines while mending
our old dilapidated fences, is too good
to entertain one moment without almost
shouting for joy, While those who work
on the old plan of fencing up their fields,
will be busy this winter making rails,
hauling and building them on their crazy
fences, we wi.l be e’eaning up our rich
fence rows for a luxuriant crop another
year. And while they are paying out
their money for these repairs) wo are
spending the same in compost heaps,
clover lots, rye lots, and fall and winter
plow ing.
instead of being a disadvantage to
croppers, it has proved the very reverse.
The land owner sees that it is to his ad
vantage to provide his croppers with a
sufficient amount of pasture* for all their
stock. If, however, any one should fail
to do this, his more just and wise neigh
bor will have the refusal of his hands.
When this law first went into effect,
many of the freedmen threatened to leave
the township ; but they are here yet, and
until it can be clearly shown that the
negro has an unconquerable dcsiro to
maul, haul and build rails, we think ho
will very likely remain where he is.
Nearly all the trouble we had was on the
line. Some said the fence would be
burned down ; others that it would bo
thrown down and not allowed to stand;
but as far as we know, not a single tres
pass on it has bien made. Outsiders
kept up the fence to save their stock
from the penalties o l the inside law.
Insiders kept it up to save their crops
from the depredations of outside stock.
Main j*;rsons feared that in fencing
up pastures, country roads would be ob
structed by gates ; but, on the contra
ry, it has almost totally annihilated the
gate system. No wise man will make
his pasture on both sides of the road,
knowing that the first careless traveller
may cause stock to run at large on his
own farm.
County roads can he so arranged by
the generosity of land owners, as to
shorten the former routes of travel at
least one-third. When a farmer wishes
to drive his wagon over his premises, ho
is not troubled with the old system of
laying down and putting up fences. By
cutting a few bushes along some of those
places we call grades (which before were
not worth fencing up,) he can mow loads
of hay. Hundreds of acres can now be
cultivated, which before could not bo
profitably fenced. A poor man can now
buy a piece of land and live comfortably
on it, although there may not be a rail
tree upon it.
[Charlotte (N. C.) Democrat.
CAPABILITIES OF AN ACRE.
J. M. Smith, a market gardener of
Green Bay, furnishes the Horticulturist
some interesting statements of his exper
iments in high culture. He has found
the rule invarible, that the more ho has
spent in cultivating and manuring, the
greater have been the net profits per
acre Last season he cultivated fourteen
acres, and began with a more thorough
and expensive cultivation than ever be
fore. The result was, that although
there was a “terrific drought”—one of
the dryest seasons ever known in that
region—after spending S3,!)BG or $384
per acre, he had a better balance than at
any previous year. Ho appears to re
gard constant cultivation, especially
through drought, in connection with co
pious manuring, as tJI important. Sta
ble manure is the standard} with such
use of superphosphates, piaster, lime,
ashes, and other v: anures, as experience
and good sense point out. “Aster you
have learned how to spend money to tho
best advantage,” he remarks, “a large
profit may be made by laying out s3'oO
per acre than with less. After the sec
ond year, if your land docs not pay all
its expenses, taxes, and ten per cent, on
SI,OOO per acre, there is something
wrong somewhere. I have some acres,
of land that did not pay expenses for two
years, but for a number of years past
they have rot failed to pay ter per
cent, on at least $2,000 per acre. I ex
pect my whole garden to do more than
that in a short time.” Ho adds, that ho
is now aiming at 1,000 bushels of onions
per acre, then a crop of carrots or tur
nips, or 500 bushels of early potatoes;
or if strawberries, 12,800 quarts, or 400
bushels per acre. This amount of straw
berries is not wholly impossible, as wo
have known, under our own observation,
this rate on two-thirds of an acre.
Colorado has found the right man, and
if it will only put him in the right place
all will bo right in Colorado. Ho an
nounces himself as a candidate for Con
gress in the following pithy paragraph ;
“I promise to have a switch put in at tho
county seat in fifteen minutes after my
election; I promise to unravel the Beech
er mystery; I pledge myself to produce
rain whenever needed, thereby avoiding
the necessity of irrigation ; I will banish
the grasshoppers from our land, and ren
der this Eldorado of the West a Garden
of Eden; I will Work for nothing and
board myself. Have pity on an orphan
forty-two years old, and elect tho undcr
siglied to a sent in Congress. Flake
Magilder.” Fluke’s promises to his con
stituents are marked by the average hon
esty, and his opportunities for redeem
ing them are doubtless as good as candi
dates generally are. He is a promising
politician and Colorado ought to try him.
The Savannah Advertiser says tho con
test for Governor lies between Col. Har
deman and Gen. Colquitt. The Adver
| tiser favors Hardeman, and says that he
i will receive the support of tho First
• Congressional District in his candidacy.