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VOLUME XL1II.]
M ILL EDGE VILLE, GEORGIA, AUGUST 28, 18T2.
NUMBER 5.
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311*0 VOLli OWN CONCERNS.
Mii.d your own concerns, my friends,
For they are youis alone ;
Don t talk about your nei^hb^r’s faults
Rut ati ive to mend y*«ur own ;
What if he does not always lead
A trnly perfect life—
Supposing that he sometimes frets.
Or quarrels with his wife;
Don't meddle—let him know, my friend,
Your betier nature spurns
To act the spy on him or his—
fco inind your own concerns.
Miid your own concerns, my friends,
And presently vou‘11 find
That you are fuliy r*ccup ed,
And have enough to tniud.
What’s it to you if Snooks or Spooks
Should wed with Mrs Jones ?
What is’t to you if Lawyer Grab
A plump half mi lion owns ?
The money is not yours, my friend,
Though golden stwea he earns ;
So do not strive to count his wealth,
Rut lu’nd your own cencerus!
Mind your own concerns, my friends,
It were a better plan
Than al*va\ s to be spying out
The deeds *.f brother man.
Remember that nM persons have
Though hidden from the View,
Thoughts that to them in right belongs,
And not at all to you.
Also, bear in mind my friend
A geiio ous unt re never worms
A secret from another heart.
So mind your own concerns!
From the Farm and Home.
STOCK-KAIMING. J
Eroin the Cincinnati Commercial.
ITIONEIf, MONEY, MONEY!
Mr. Editor—The discussions in \ Grant's Bargain for Two Terms—Crush-
EFFECT OF COI.D
OF Till.It—COWS
T E It.
IPOX THE FLOV
ITA.YDING IN B A
Farmers do not obseive closely
enough all the influences affecting the
increase or diminution of the flow ot
milk in cows. It has been usual to
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Church Birectory.
BAPTIST CHURCH.
Services 1st and 3d Sundays in each month, at 11
o'clock a tn and 7 p m.
.Sabbath School at 9 1 -2o'clock, a in- S N Houghton
Supt. R -V. D K BUTLER, Pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH.
Honrs ot seivice on Sunday: 11 o’clock, am
and 7 p tn.
Sunday School 3 o’clock p m.—W E Fiankland
Superintendent.
f tin Sabbath School arc invited to visit it
um»y Soei«-ty, ’tuuiihly, 4th Sunday at 2p u
eling every VV’edne.sday 7 o'clock pm
Rev A J JARRELL, Pastor.
Fr
Sabbath
Prayeri
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
evr»y Sabbath (except tlie 2d in each mo
•rk a in and 7 p in-
Sctuad at 9 12 h in. TT Windsor, Supt.
cling i
v Friday at 4 o'clock, p m.
‘Rev C VY LANE, Pustor.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Without a Pastor at present.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock, a tn.
Lodges.
I. o. G. T.
nil!rdgrrillr I.njljjo No 115 meets in the Senate
Chamber ..I the State tlnuse ot; every Friday even
ing at 7 o'clock. G P CRAWFORD, W C T.
E P Lane, Sec’y.
Cold Water Templars meet at. the State House eve-
y Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
masonic.
Rrnrvoh ni l.od^e No 3 F A M, meets 1st and 3d
Sa.uiday cljlits ot each month at Masonic Hall.
G D Case, Sec'y. 1 II HOWARD, VV. M.
Temple Chapter meets the second and fourth Sat
urday nights to each luulitli.
G i> Uask, Sce’y. S G WHITE, H P.
71 i!ledgerilie l.oil^e of Ferfeclion A.'.A. A.'.
S.-R.'. meets evt-rv Monday nijjlit
SA.M’L G WHITE, T.\P.-. G.-.M.*.
Geo. D._Cask, Eec Grand Sec'y.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Mayor—Samuel Walker.
Board of Al.lermeu.—i. F B Mapp;
3 T A Carak; r; -1 Jacob Caraker; 5 J
6 Henry Temples.
Cierk ai.d 11 t-a^urer—Peter Fair.
Marshal— J B Fair. Policeman—T Turtle.
Deputy Marshal and Street Overseer—Peter Ferrell.
Sexton— F Beeland
City Surveyor—C T Bayne.
2 E Trice;
II McComb;
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Judge M. R. Bell. Ordinary—office in Masonic Hall.
P L Fair. Clerk Sup’r Court, “ “
Obadiah Arnold Sheriff, “ “
O P Bonner. Dep ty Slietiff, lives in the country.
Justus Marshall Kee’r Tax Returns—at Post Office.
L N t allaway, Tax Collector, office at his store.
H Temples. County Tieastirer, otl;ce at his store.
Isaac Cushing, Coronor, residence on Wilkinson st.
John Wentrv. Constable, residence on Wayne st, near
the Facto: y.
MEDICAL BOARD OF GEORGIA.
Dr. G. D Case Dean. Dr. S. G WHITE Pres'dt
Regular meeting ffist Monday in December-
STATE LUNATIC ASYLUM.
Dr THOS F GREEN, Superintendent.
M R Bell, IT. & Steward.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
D B Sanford, S.-c'y. JOHN .TONES, Chief.
The M & M Fire Co. meets at the Court Room ou
the first and third Tuesday nights in each month.
SELliING OFF
determined to close out iny entire
Stock ot SHELF GOODS at Cost for Cash. Par
ties wishit g bargains must call soon.
C. B. MUNDAY.
July 10, 1872 50 tf
iAGCNTS-WANTED
rWANTS IT.
GtMiD>PKLD> EMPIRE PURLIsHlNG
HOUSE. Umciuuati, St Louie, NewOrieane,
or New York.
July 24,187*2 52 3m
Lumber! Lumber! Lumber!
rpHE undesigned takes plessnre in informing tli e
J citizens .-f Jli ledgeville and Baldwin Comity iha 1
they are prepared to furnish LUMBER at their Mil)
at ea.-nttsburo at the folloniug rates, until further
notice:
First Class. $10 50,
R uyh Et’ge. 5 50
Strips, -I lio:se load, 2 25
Blalis,5 horse load, 25c.
Second Class, $8 00
Strips, g horse load, I 25
Slabs,2 horse toad, 15c.
Pme wood per cord, 75c.
health, but to the flow of milk. The
effect may, and probably does, depend
much upon the temperature ot the
water. But it appears, by an experi
ment given in the Boston Journal ot
Chemistry, that standing in water in
hot weather, however agreeable it
may be to the cow, is not profitable
lor milk production. As many dairy
men have streams in which cows may
stand, we hope they will try and noie
the result and be able to avoid the
loss, il it should occur in shallow warm
streams. The tacts stated are as fol
lows :
“During the past summer, in the
hot days ot July and August, the ani
mals resorted to the lake to drink, and,
liter slaking their thirst, they would
wade into the water and remain some
times an hour or two with the legs
talf immersed. This habit, it was
bund, invariably diminished the flow
if milk at night, and in order to learn
the extent ol the diminution, careful
ibservations, were made. It was as
certained that standing in the water
m hour diminished the flow to the
■ mount of eight or ten quarts in a herd
>t thirteen cows. The loss was so
treat that whenever they resorted to
he water they were driveu away to
die pasture again at once.”
The witter ot the lake was, no doubt,
to much colder than the atmosphere
is to reduce the temperatnre of the
system rapidly, and, of course, employ
nore of the food to keep up animal
leaf, and thus lessen the material to
produce milk, and the standing in the
water would also prevent their feeding
is much as they otherwise would, and
thus reduce their supply of food-—
The effect of drinking very cold water
in winter has often been noted as del
eterious, and is avoided by many dai
rymen having cows in milk in winter.
But the question is, whether there
is not a proportionate loss in using
such cold water for cows not in milk,
and also for other animals. It must
require an extra amount of food to
supply animal heat. Thj same wri
ter says :
“We have learned that from simply
turning the herd into the yard upon a
cold day in winter, and allowing them
to remain lifteeu minutes, the flow of
milk was diminished to a serious ex
tent, and consequently the animals are
not now allowed to leave the warm
stable during the entire winter, except
for a brief period upon warm, sunshiny
days. Water is brought directly from
a well into a barn, and the drinking ves
sels are arranged so that the animals
have to move but a step or two to
supply their wants. The nature of
the water supply and the convenience
of access are most important points in
the management of milch cows. A
draught ol ice cold water taken by a cow
in winter cuts short the milk yield for
the day from one to two pints.”
This question of the economy in us
ing water of moderate temperature for
milch cows in winter is not left iu
doubt. There have been many
comparative experiments tried and
found always in tavor of mild water
and warm slops. The increase in the
flow of milk has been so material that
the expense of warming the water
with fuel has been found to pay well
on a large scale. It behooves the dai
ryman to study this question of water
supply, not only with reference to
convenience, but to have a reservoir
in the stable or in a warm place where
its temperature may not go below six
ty degrees.—Lire Stock Journal.
The reign of terror which was pro
duced iu North Carolina by the sys
tem inaugurated by the Radicals, is
almost incredible. A correspondent
writing to a New York paper says:
“Almost every white man told me he
would vote the Radical ticket. When
he found I was only a looker-on, he
always changed his answer, saying
that if he should openly say he
preferred the Democratic ticket, he
should be arrested on some frivolous
charge,and locked up until after the
election.” The locking up is now at
an end there, we hope.
We \%ill deliver any of the above Lumber at any
point within the incorporate limits of Mllledgeville fur
four doiltto per thousand, additional to above piieei.
All orders lelt with our Aqeiit, Mr. C. B. MUNDAY,
Wilt aecuie proiupt atteulian.
N. & A. CABMANNY.
^uly 3, lb?2. 49 4t
A broom with a heavy handle
was sent as a wedding gift to a bride,
with the following sentiment:
“This trifling uifi accept from me,
lt'e uae I would commend ;
In sunahiue use tlie bushy part,
In gtonn the other eu<l.”
the agricultural papers as to the prof
its and advantages of the stock-raising
at the South, and especially the arti
cles which have appeared in your col
umns during the past year, have set
many ot us farmers to thinking wheth
er stock-raising for market might not
be made a profitable business, and
even if this were not to be so, whether
it would not pay us handsomely to
raise on our plantations at least what
stock we need for farm labor and for
food.
I do not propose now to consider
the question of the profits of raising
stock for sale, though I might point
to living instances in Kentucky, Ten
nesse, Maryland, and many of the
Northern States where stock-breeders
have realized large fortunes by the
business. I intend to confine myself
to the consideration of the advantages
of raising what stock we need tor
home use and consumption.
In the first place, I insist that there
can be no “improved farming.” no di
versified industry, without a full num
ber ot live-stock, well kept and well
managed. Full crops cannot be grown
without a full supply of manure ; and
this is only attainable in quantity suf-
ficier t to maintain the fertility of our
land, from tlie stable, the cow-house,
the hog-pen, and the sheep-fold. The
commercial fertilizers are at best but
a make-shift to tickle the land into a
temporary good humor. If you want
to make it laugh loud and long, you
must have “barn-yard manure.” They
are so expensive that we can only af
ford to apply them in such small
quantities that they are of little or no
benefit beyond the crop to which they
are applied. At present, on very few
Southern plantations, is the manure
pile in the spring more than large
enough to enrich a moderately-sized
vegetable garden. The cotton-seed
pile is applied to a few acres of corn,
and the rest of the crops receive no
manure at all. Hence the painful fact
that except in the river bottoms, the
exhausting process is yearly increasing
the area of “worn-out” lands, the acre-
able production is diminishing, ami
we are becoming poorer and poorer
every year. We keep but little live
stock; what we do keep we keep badly,
and it is of a poor kind, and the manure
even of these few is to a great extent
wasted.
In the next place, we can never he
a prosperous people so long as we buy
from abroad tlie stock we need for la
bor and consume for food. The drain
of our means to purchase plantation
mules, alone is enough to impoverish
us, even were there not the other drain
for the purchase of a large portion of
the bread and meat that we eat. Few
realize the amount that is expended
and carried out of Georgia for tlie pur-
chase-of mules, and yet in many re
cent years since the war, the value ol
the mules transported over the State
road whs equal to a fourth of that ot
the entire cotton crop of the State.
In 1859 it was stated that upward of
thirteen millions of dollars’ worth ol
mules were sent into Georgia from
Chattanooga !
Travel through northern Georgia,
which nature seems to have intended
lor a stock country, and you will be ns
tonished how few cattle, sheep, horses
or hogs you will see in the course of a
day’s journey, though on every side
you will see an abundance of rich pas-
turagp, plenty of hay to be saved if vve
would only save it ; the finest water
imaginable, and a inild temperate cli
mate. If these lands were well stock
ed, we should have no need to send
away our mil ions to buy mules, beef-
cattle, and hogsheads of bacon, and
our lands instead of deteriorating in
value would become every year more
valuable. What makes the lands of
England and Belgium as rich and fer
tile as they are? The stock, the man
ure which they yield, and the skill
and care with which it is husbanded.
Then, again, it is no excuse to say we
cannot raise hogs, that the negroes
will steal and kill them. This may
be true if we turn our hogs loose in
the woods, but if we take the trouble
to plant and keep up a clover patch
close to our stable lot, we can fatten
1.500 pounds of pork on every acreot
clover, requiring but litte corn to har
den the meat, and this being under our
immediate observation there is no dan
ger of robbery.
Let us raise good stock, none other
are profitable. Keep as many as we
can feed well, winter and summer ;
gather and save the manure with dili
gence and skill, raise clover and the
grasses, millet, lucernce, turnips and
mangolds to aid the pastures, and we
will soon become prosperous and in
dependent. Thirteen millions of dol
lars spent in one year iu one State lor
plow mules! Is it any wonder we
are poor and always in debt ?
Baldwin.
Near Milledgeville, Ga.,July, 1872.
tug Revelations from Col. Forney—
Grant after Money when he Consented
to Run as a Republican CandidateJor
Pt esident.
Col. Forney has contributed to the
columns of the Sunday Chronicle ol
Washington a series ot interesting pa
pers, filled with anecdotes of the great
men with whom he has beeu associa
ted. In February last, one of his pa
pers related to the introduction of
Gen. Grant to the country as a can
didate for the Presidency. The Col
onel, at the suggestion of Judge D.
K, Carter of Ohio, and Senator Thay
er of Nebraska, prepared a five-column
article, the object of which was to
make up a Republican record for
Grant, and get him before the people
in the attitude of a Presidential candi
date. Forney and Thayer called with
the proof slips of this artic ! e upon
Gen. Rawlins, the Chief of Staff and
confidential friend of Gen. Grant, arid
submitted it to him. Rawlins, after
reading the article, carried it to Grant
and at this point tlie narrative be
comes so interesting that we quote
Forney’s recollections :
When Rawlins came back from Gen.
Grant with the editorial, he told us
with great emphasis: “Gen. Grant
does not want to be President. He
thinks the Republican patty may need
him, and he believes, as their candi
date, he can be elected and relected’,
but," said Rawlins, “what is to become
<>J him after his second Presidential term
—what, indeed, during his administra
tion ! He is receiving Irom seventeen
to twenty thousand dollars a year as
General of the armies of the Republic
—a life salary. To go into the Presi
dency at twenty-five thousand dollars
a year for eight years us, perhaps, to
gain more Jame’, but what, is to become of
turn at the end of his Presidency? He
tions and exactions to which it is may know what was ordered f Were
An indulgent father, who wanted to
explain to an inquiring little son how
trees grew and how they were always
getting taller every year, saw the
child’s face brighten up as he inquir
ed, “Papa, are you growing tali '/”—
No. dear; what makes you think
so?” Because the top of your head
is coming through your hair.” The
hair question was the next in order,
and the difference was not quite so
easily explained.
Many years ago tomatoes were called
“love apples,” and were considered
of no real value whatever. So says
a paragraph going the rounds ol
the press.
The Grant party, since the war,
have robbed the people of South Car
olina, Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana
of more than one hundred millions oj
dollart.
is not a politician. Ho does not as
pire to tlie place. Eight years from
the 4th of March, 18G9, he will be a-
b:iut fifty-six years old. Of course he
must spend his salary as President.
England, with her Wellington, her
Nelson and her other heroes on land
ami sea, has never hesitated to enrich
and ennoble them through all their
posterity. Such a policy is in accor
dance with the character of the Ens;-
lish Government, but in our country
the man who fights for and saves the
Republic would be a beggar if he de
pended upon political office; and mark
it, il Grant takes anything from the
rich, whose vast fortunes fie has saved,
after lie is President, lie will be accus
ed as the willing recipient of gifts.”
The spirit of the Grant Administra-
t : on appears in this. Grant was in
fluenced by the incessant and foolish
flatterers about him to regard him
self as the savior or the nat on, and he
wanted a great deal of money for his
services. His chief of staff spoke for
him about tlie vast fortunes he had
saved; and yet if he accepted things
“after lie was President,” he would be
accused as the willing recipient of gifts.
This was a broad hint that before he
could consent to become President he
must have more money. The exam
ple of England was cited. Evidently
it was regaided as intensely mean that
our rich men had not poured their
wealth at Grant’s feet, and made a
millionaire of him.
As for tlie one term of the Presiden
cy—that was not worth the thinking
of. The honor and dignity of the of-
Ii :e of President—the grave duties and
responsibilities—the innumerable op
portunities for usefulness—were not
thought of. The only point of view
from which the office was regarded,
was how much did it pay—how
would a salary of $25,000 for eight
years compare with a salary of SIS,--
000 for life? So when Grant came to
be inaugurated he felt the responsibil
ities of the office,.but accepted .them
“without fear.” With his view of
the office what had lie to fear? The
salary and glory of tlie place were suf
ficient to insure a good time,
His Cabinet he organized as his
“start.” He made a complete mvste-
ry of it until the envelope containing
the names was opened in the Senate;
and when the Cabinet was announced
in that body there was a panic. There
was not a Senator who did not feel hu
miliated. Tho^e who are now among
the loudest for Grant’s election groan
ed and cursed in agony of spirit. The
Cabinet was the wonder of the age.
Washburne and Rawlins were made
Secretaries of State and of War upon
persona! considerations purely. Stew
art, Borie, and Hoar had contributed
cash, or its equivalent, to the Presi
dential purse or house. Cox had been
suddenly beloved; and when it was
found that he could not play'- the parts
expected of a personal favorite he .vas
ruled cut.
In New Y T ork those who had made
Grant presents secured all the offices.
In this city and' neigh hoi hood the
offices, large and small (with the ex
ception of trie Second District Reve
nue offices, and the Pension Agency
and Collectorship,) were parcelled out
according to the caprices of the Grant
family. The Postmaster of Newport
and the Assessor of the Third District
were promised the offices they receiv
ed, a good while before the inaugura
tion of the President.
In Chicago the offices were adjusted
to suit the President’s brother.
In new Orleans a brother-in-law
took the fat office. Washington City,
Western Pennsylvania, and San Fran
cisco were afflicted in the same way;
and personal and family favorites were
thrust into money-making places in
Louisville and St. Louis.
The young man Leet began to rob
the merchants of New York, aod is
doing it to this day, commerce being
diverted from that city by the deten-
subjected by the Leet and Stocking
gang, who owe their place to a private
letter written by the President, and
hold it by a power that has remained
unshaken through the exposures made
by two Congressional committee
of investigation, and the representa
tions that there was woful wrongdo
ing made to the President himself by
the best citizens and most eminent
merchants of New York.
Notwithstanding all this, and nine
more of the same sort, in the face ol
this most unpleasant record, the peo
ple of the United States are summon
ed to ratify the implied bargain ol
which Forney has told us.
Renovating Old Garden Soil—
Some years ago I obtained possession
of an old garden from which I expect
ed great things, but in this, as in
many others, I was destined to disap
pointment. At a loss to know how to
proceed, when I found my peas unpro
ductive, and that cauliflowers, cab
bages, and turnips became club-footed,
I resolved after two years’ trial and
failure, to first dispense with the ap
plication of any manurp, believing
that the soil had had a surfeit of fertil
izers. I soon perceived an improve
ment, but still not enough to be satis
factory. The next year, as early in
the fall as I could do it, I applied a
fair dressing of fresh slacked lime,
which I dug into the soil a full spade’s
depth, incorporating it with the soil
as thoroughly as I could. In the
spring the ground was again spaded,
aod another good working given it.
The result was decidedly encouraging.
The next year I gave it another dress
ing of lime, only a lighter one, work
ing it into the soil as before, but u-ing
this time a fork instead of a spade, as
by that means I was able to mix the
lime and soil better. I now reached
the desired effect. Club-foot vegeta
bles were no longer seen. All my vfcg
etables improved in character, and to
day I have as fine a kitchen-garden as
the most fastidious lover of good vege
tables could desire. The lime ap
peared to act as a complete renovator.
I now apply from year to year inod-‘
erate dressing of wellrotted manure,
and if any of your readers have sur
feited garden soil, let them try my
method of restoring them.—Lewis
Remsen, in the Journal of the Fann.
tlie men who perpetrated these outra
ges punished for disobedience of orders
or rewarded the highest positions in
the United States army? Who is
Commander-in-chief? Who Lieuten
ant-General of Cavalry ?
Who once ordered the total de
struction of every thing in the ValRy
of Virginia so that even the birds oi
the air could not find sustenance in
rhe desolated land ? Was it an officer
who found no favor in the Govern
ment or people, or is he now Presi
dent of the United States?
Will tlie Government dare, I say,
to show her secret orders, and th
prove that the intamous papers on the
body of Ulric Duhlgreu were excep
tional ; that they were given in the
heat of the moment, and that she after
wards repented of and was horrified at
them ?
When she does, the fairness and de
cency of this proceeding will be more
evieentto Caveat.
From the Southern Farm an 1 Home.
The Advantages of rvXulching.
Mr. Editor:—I see you advocate
mulching for garden vegetables. You
are right, but you do not attach as
much importance to it as I think it
deserves. Iam convinced that were
we at the South to mulch our gard»?n
crops and our orchards two or thee
incfies deep we could double and tre
ble our crops, and materially diminish
the cost of cultivation.
A short time since I visited a fruit
grower who raises fruit for marfcet on
a large scale, in the vicinity of New
Brunswick, N. J., and I found that: he
mulches h s entire orchard and keeps
it mulched all the year round. lie
told me that by so doing his soil is al
ways cool and loose, his trees are nev
er injured by heat, his fruit is larger
and better, and the quantity much in
creased. He told me that lie is never
troubled with weeds, and that conse
quently he saves a large amount of la
bor. He told me that last year in his
A Story for Yonng Ladies with Lit
tle Brothers.
The moral of the following, told by
the sufferer, is too apparent to men
tion. Yeung ladies will hereafter run
their brothers out when gentlemen
. It’s certain that I wish some
body would spank the young rascal.
We talked of mountains, hills, vales
and cataracts—I believe I said water-
alls—when the boy spoke up and said:
“Why, sister’s got a whole trunk
uil of them up stairs; papa says they
are made of horse hair.”
This revelation struck terror into
me, and blushes into the cheek of my
fair companion. It began to be appar
ent to me that I must be very guard
ed in what I said, lest the boy might
slip in his remarks at uncalled for
places; in fact, I turned my conver
sation to him, and told him he ought
to go home with me and see what
nice chickens I had in the country
Unluckily I mentioned a yoke of
calves, which ruined all. The little
one looked up and said :
“Sister's got a dozen pair of them,
but she don’t wear them only when
she goes up town of windy days.”
“Leave the room, you unmannerly
little wretch !” exclaimed Emily.
Leave immediately.”
“I know what you want me to leave
the room for,” exclaimed he. “You
can’t fool me ; you want to sit on that
mail’s lap and kiss him, just like you
did Bill Simmons the other day ; you
can’t fool me, I just tell you. Give
me some candy, like he did, and I’ll go.
You think cause you’ve got the Gre
cian bend that you’re smart. Guess I
know a thing or two. I'm mad at
you, any how, because papa would
ha ve bought me a top yesterday, if it
hadn’t been for gettting them curls,
dog ouyer. You needn’t turn so red
j in tiie lace, ‘cause I can see the paint.
There ain’t no use a winking with
that glasss eye of yourn, for I ain’t a
going out of here ; now that’s what’s
the matter with the purps. I don’t
care if you are twenty-eight years old,
you ain’t no boss of mine.”
Imperial Asparagus—Cultivation,
&C.—We have received from our friend
William Parry, of Cinnaminson, some
samples of the imperial asparagus
grown by him, and are free to say
that, so far as size, tenderness, jniee-
riess and flavor aie concerned, it is cer
tainly a little ahead of anything we
have seen or tasted. This improved
variety, an engraving of a stalk of
which appeared in this journal last
year, is of recent introduction, and
is to be regarded as a decided acquisi
tion to our list of first-class garden es
culents. Mr. Parry, who, as most of
our readers are aware, is an experien
ced horticulturist, says of the cultiva
tion of asparagus as a market crop:
“Having^ grown asparagus pretty
largely for over thirty years we have
found it to be one of the most profita
ble crops preceeding strawnenies and
raspberries. The cultivation issintple
select a piece of light rich soil, open
the trenches with a large plow, go
ing several times in each to the depth
of eight or ten inches, and place the
roots about three feet apart in the bot
tom, put on good manure two or three
inches deep, let the trenches be five
feet apart and filled about half
full of earth, and as the asparagus
grows, the ground can be made level
with horse and cultivator. In this
manner a field can be planted with
asparagus as readily as with potatoes,
and will last for twenty years; the
common Giant yielding from two to
three hun Ired dollars, while the Im
perial will yield five hundred dollars
per acre. The young arparagus
should not be cut for two years; the
third year it may be cut a little, alter
which a full crop may be taken with
out injury. It will require about
3000 roots per acre.—Journal of the
Farm.
The North Carolina Negroes.—
Another Outrage in Fayetteville.
—The Wilmington (N. C.) Journal, of
yesterday, publishes the following ac
count of a negro demonstrate in the
! city of Fuyettvilie :
, . , Advices from Fayetteville by the
garden he more thandoubled Ins crop boats Tuesday night give us informa-
of tomatoes and English peas by-
mulching, and that this year he ex
pects to do still better, because he
planted out earlier. My own expe
rience in my vegetable garden on a
limited scale with English peas, toma
toes and second crop Irish potatoes,
fully bears out the correctness of the
views of my New Jersey acquaint
ance. Hortictlturist.
Secret Archives—Outrages Lurie?
the War.
To the Editors oj the Richmond Dis
patch :
Gentlemen—In several of your re
cent issues you have noticed at some
length the publication at the hands
of the United States Government of
what purport to be the secret ar
chives of the late] Confederate Govern
ment. The authenticity of these pa
pers is denied; and it is asserted that
they have been trumped up for use in
the Presidential campaign ; yet, even
if they arc authentic, I would ask if this
proceeding has precedent in the His
tory of nations? I would like to know
even one reason in favor of the decen
cy and fairness of it.
The United States Goverment, as the
administrator of her dead enemy’s es
tate, makes public such portions ot
these secret papers as she deems fit to
suit her attempted purpose of black
ening the memory of that enemy.
With a mock-virtuous indignation she
says: “See what a wicked, black
hearted people we had to fight.;
see their diabolical plans for the huru-
ing and sacking or our defenceless
cities.” In the name of all honor, fair
ness and justice, will she dare to show
her oun secret archievesl Will any na
tion on the earth do it? Ought any
Government to take this dishonorable
advantage of another, even though it
be fallen? Will the United States
Government dare to put her secret
archives side by side with those oi
her late foe ?
Authentic or not, no act of the Con
federate Government or any of its a-
gents proves the authenticity pf these
papers. Unpublished or not, the fires
of Columbia, Soutli Carolina, and from
the valley of Virginia throw a damn
ing light into the secret chamber at
Washington.
The moan of the widow, turned out
of herburniug home in the bitterness
of winter to die, the sob of the starv
ing orphan, re-echoed from Heaven,
tell the story what was done. Is it
necessary to show her papers that we
tion of quite a riot ou the part of the
Radicals, which occurred there about
12 o’clock Monday night last. This
was the occasion of the Caldwell jol
lification demonstration. There was
quite a large procession, there being
about a thousand negroes in town for
tlie occasion. In moving through the
streets the processionists became quite
excited by bad whiskey, and as a con
sequence were violently turbulent.
They amused themselves while passing
‘ through the streets by throwing stones
into the residencesof citizens. This was
kept up without a check until when
they were in the neighborhood of
what is known ns the “Half-way
Bridge,” when a citizen becoming ex
asperated by reason of stones thrown
into his house, went to his front door
and fired into the crowd.
This was a signal fora general law
lessness on the part of the shrieking,
drunken rabble, who had alieady
made the night hidieous with their
yells and depredations. They return
ed the fire and continued in violent
disorder for sometime. During the
riot, a white man by the name of
Black had his head cut open with a
stave ; another white man was shot
iu the leg, and a Mr. Powell had his
shoe torn of by a pistol boll. There
were but few white people out at
that hour, but these few in defending
themselves fired back into the crowd
and sveral negroes were killed. But
for the late haur and the fact that
most of the white citizens retired, the
bloodshed would have been much
greater.
Before the riot terminated the ne
groes tore down the fences around
the residences of Dr. S. J. Hinsdale
and Bl-ijor J. C. McRae, which were
near the scene of tlie outbrake. That
same night they went to the stables
of Uaptain W. C. Troy, the Senator
from Cumberland and Harnett, took
his horses out and were about to burn
the stables, but were persuaded from
accomplishing their design by Mr.
John Reilly, the Radical Auditor
elect.
When our informant left Fayette
ville, (early the next morning,) the ne
groes were going about the streets
with clubs in hands. More trouble
was apprehended, and it is anticipated
that it will end disastrously to the
rioters if the citizens are once thour-
oughly aroused.
— ♦ —
Chattanooga has elected two negro
constables
The tomato was kuown in England
and in parts of this country perhaps
sixty or more years ago; but; as late
as 1820 it was regarded here more as a
curious garden plant than as a vege
table fit for the table. About 1S25
the idea became prevalent that the
tomato was wholesome as food ; but
even then, many old fashioned people
believed it poisonous. By 1830, tlie
tomato had crept somewhat into favor
as an esculent, and by 1840 it became
fashionable to cook it, as well as to eat
it raw. Since that time books have
been published to demonstrate its ex
cellence both as medicine and food—
some writers going so far as to insist
that eating tomatoes is a pleasant sub
stitute lor the use of calomel. One
empiric made a sort of fortune by
manufacturing tomato pills, and cook’s
have made a reputation by manufac
turing recipes to make tomato sauce,
etc. As a matter of fact the medical
characteristics of the tomato amount
to very little, but the culinary merits of
the tomato to a great deal. The to
mato, when ripe, constitutes a satisfac
tory and wholesome dish, whether
sliced up with onions iu vinegar, or
eaten raw with a little sugar. In the
hands of an expert, the tomato makes
a sauce that is incomparably the best
put on the table, and has this advan
tage over the Worcestershire, that it
does not destroy your taste for food
without it. Very few people, how
ever—very few, indeed—know how to
stew tomatoes properly for the dinner
table. Properly stewed they are cer
tainly delicious. As stewed at the
restaurants and at many private tables,
they are simple vegetable slops.
All over the country w T e have sig
nificant evidences of the Republican
strength which is supporting Greeley
and Brown. In Monroe county, New
York, the Rochester Union contains a
call, signed by over five hundred Re
publicans, to ratify their nominations.
They embrace the leading men of the
party. About the same time, the
Bath Advertiser had a call for Greeley
and Brown, to which it appended the
signatures of five hundred Republi
cans in Steuben county, New York.
The Albany Argus says there are fifty-
nine counties in New York to which
those counties are by no means excep
tions, that others will do equally as
well, while some will do better.
The Rich Man’s Entrance Door.
—That passage from the New Testa
ment which reads, “It is easier
fora camel,” etc., is familiar to all
readers, and has perplexed many good
men who have read it literally. Yet
the explantion of its precise meaning
is very simple. In Oriental cities
there are iu the large gates small and
very uarrow apertures, called meta
phorically “needles’ eyes,” just as we
talk ofwindows on ship board as “bulls
eyes.” These entrances are too narrow
for a camel to pass through in an or
dinary manner even if unloaded. When
a loaded camel has to pass through one
of these entrances it kneels down, its
load is removed and then it shuffles
through on its knees; he must krie»-l,
and bow bis head, to go through the
“eye of the needle,” that is, the
low, arched door of an inclosure; and
thus the rich man must humble him
self when he enters the gates of heav
en.
The Issue in Texas.—Political ad
vices received in Washington from
Texas state that one ot the issues of
the present canvass in that State is
the election of a Legislature which
will impeach Governor Davis n^xt fall
of high crimes and misdemeanors. Ac
cording to all indications, a Legislature
of that character will be overwhelm
ingly elected. Governor Davis’ term
does not expire till iS74. The same
advices say the State will be carried
for Greeley and Brown i)y at least
twenty thousand majority.
“How many are there ov ye’s down
there?” Bhouted an Irish overseer to
some men in a coal pit. “ Five,” was
the answer. “ WelJ, then, half q;
ye’e corae up here.”