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VOLUME XL1II.] M ILL EDGE VILLE, GEORGIA, AUGUST 28, 18T2. NUMBER 5. (it n i o n the & ^ecorbcr, is PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN MIi-L.EDGEVU.LE, GA.. BY BOUGHTOX, BARNES & MOORE, (Corner ot llaucock and Wilkinson Streets,) At $2 in Advance, or $3 at end of the year. S. N. BOUGI2TON. Editor. THE “FEDERAL UNION" and tlie “SOUTH- EKN KECOliDLIi” were consolidated August 1st, 1872 the Union being in its Forty -Third Volume and the Recorder in it s F dty-Third Volume. ADVERTISING. Transient.—One Dollar per square of ten lines for first insertion, and stveuty-tive cents fjr each subse queut coutihuance. Tributes of respect, Resolutions by Societies,Obit uaries exceeding six lilies, Nominations tor office,Com- lnuuications or Editorial notices for individual benetit, charged as transient advertising. LEGAL ADVERTISING. Sheriff’s Sales, per levy of ten Hues, or less,...-$2 50 “ Alortgag Citations tui Lid i aaies, per square 5 OV of Adiiiiuisliation, — dUO i4 “ Guardianship........... 3 UU Application for dismission from Administration, 3 00 14 “ “ •* Guardianship, 3 00 “ “ leave to sell Laud, 5 00 ‘‘ for liuiiiesleads, I 75 Notice to Debtors and Creditors,.............. 3 00 Sales ot Laud, Ate., per squaie, 5 00 4 * peiishubie property, 10 days, per square,-. 150 Kstray Notices,3u days, 3 00 >'oicCiosuie or Moi tgage, per sq-, each time,.... 100 Applications for Homesteads, (two weeks,) 1 75 311*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 LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sak s of Laud, Ate., by Administrators, Executors or Guardians, are required by law to be held on the liiM Tuea-iay inthe uioiitlt, between the hours of H i in t ie forenoon and 3 in the afternoon, at the Court SUppOS6 (licit WndtCVCT COWS plVItil*- do »•»«* be beneficial. Many zi-ite au «iay» previo^ it. Uie day oi »aie. have believed that a stream of water Notices lor the sale of personal property must be • . r . . i * j given iu like manner ID days previous to sale day. Convenient for COWS to Stand in during Notices to the debtois and creditors of an estate a portion of the day ill Warm Weather mu.st also be publirhed 40 days. r iii i u*i a. » , ,. • N T otic»- that application will be made to the Court of I WOUld 0(3 bentLlCliilj Iiot Ollly to their Ordinary for leave to sell Land, &.C., must be publish ed lor t wo months. Citations for letters of Administration, Guardianship, mast be published 30 days—for dismission from Administration monthly three months—for dismission from Guardianship, 40 days. Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must be publish ed monthly for four months—for establishing lost pa pers tor the full space of three months—for compell ing titles from Executors or Administrators, where bond lias been given by the deceased, the full space ot three months. Publications will always be continued according to these, the legal requirements, unlessotherwise ordered Cook and Job Work, of all kinds, PROMPTLY AN!) NEATLY EXECUTED AT TSIINi OFFICE. Agents for Federal Union in New York City GEO. P. ROWELL & CO., No. 40 Park Row. S. M. PETTING ILL &- CO., 37 Park Row. UTLM essrs. Griffin Hoffman, Newspaper A<1 verti>ing Agents. N« are duly authorized t< cur foicest rates. Adv ed to leave their favo i. 4 South St , Baltimore, Aid contract for adveit sen>euts at i Users in that City are request - i with this house ” (Li tn 3 ir tt o r ij. 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.”