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VOLUME XLlY.j
Enion & § t c 0 r fc t r,
13 PUBLISHED WEEKLY
IN MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.,
BY
Boughtox, Barnes &, Moore,
At $2 in Advance, or $3 at end of the year
S. N. BOUGHTOIf, Editor.
the “FEDERAL UNION ’’ ami the “SOUTH
KRN RECORDER ” were consolidated Aogvst Rt,
187'-, llie Union be ing in its Forty-Third Volume and
the Recorder in it's Fifty-Third Volume.
MILLEDGEYILLE,
APRIL 8. 1874.
NUMBER 17.
ADVERTISING.
.—One I
nty-five'
Liberal discount on tli
-quart* of ten Hues for firat iuser-
•ach subsequent continuance,
•k will l»e uliowed on advertise-
Tributes ol Resp>
ct, Resolutions by
dominations for ot
it. ebarted as traits
Societies, Obituaries ex-
ce and Communications
cut advertising.
LEGAL
alPH. per 1c
ADVERTISING.
f ten lines, or less,....
pt
square,
til’ Administration,
(j i-.trdiauship,
is>i.>n trum Atiministration
(Juurdiaitsliip,.
to sell Laud,
aide prep- xty, 10 days, per square
legal advertisements.
*2 50
5 00
3 on
3 oo
3 oo
3 oo
5 00
2 00
3 00
5 00
I 75
3 00
1 00
• day oi -al"
tonal propel
t<» .Sic day.
Liti; 1. .v- . by Administrator*, Executors or Guar*
r ,.q::ii. li by law t<> be held on the tir.t Tuesday iu the
nvn'i ill.* iioiirs «•:' 10 in the forenoon and Sin the af-
t the l ..u House in the county in which the property
given in u public
must be given in
htate must be pub-
S ./ii * that applieation will be made to the Court of Ordinary
• ,, i. .'w to sell Land, fcc . . ’fit be puldiahed for oueuioiuh.
t,,r lctt* is < Aiiiiiinistratiou, Guardianship, Ate.,
jmhii.h ‘d j » davs— for dismission lroui Administration
J • .Tv time months—for dismiseiou from Guardianship 40
Rub - for foreclosure of Mortgage most be published monthly
• rt.. r m-'Uths—-or ett blUliinji lost papers lor the full .pace ot
mou nu \'x>scoton or Admin*
given hy the m-ueu.ud, the full
• will always b<- continued according to these,
theSS W ' ° zden ^
Book and Job Work, of all kinds,
PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED
AT Tiatw OFFICE.
r> A L T> W IN C O U N T Y .
Sale.
w
ILL hi
ho cilynf Milledge-
11 re l Tuesday iu
lhe Court House
nl hours of sale, the
to the estate of Mo-
I, in DaUlwin county, togellier
ments thereon. Said plantation
m
Ad'ninhl ratal
id iu
ille, on tin
Al’KIL next, Iw-for
,ioor. between the It
Plantation belongin}
„es S. West, deceasi
with ail the improv
eo'isist- of about
880 Acres I«and with 2 Dwelling
houses thereon,
And is one .■! the most valuable tracts of land in the
county. It is situated about 10 miles from Milledge-
nlle on the MiUedgeville and Macon road.
For particulars enquire of the undersigned, or of
Beni. W. Barrow,MilledgeviUe
WALTER PAINE,
Administrator de bonis non with the will annexed of
Moses S. West, dec’d. •
March 4.1874. 3- Ids
Gnardian’s Sale.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
1 ,V virture of an order from the Court of Ordinary
) for s ii i county, will bo sold at the usual place ot
holding Sheriff's sales in said county, within tue legal
hours of sale on the first Tuesday in Apnl next, the
following property to wit: one house and lot in Mil-
ledgcvilfe, hounded by John Jones’ Warehouse on one
side and Mrs. C. C. Mitchell on the other and fronting
on Hancock Street, it being the residence now occu-
pied bv Geo. liii-gland. Terms Cash,
E. E. ltENFhOE, Guardian.
March 1874, 32 tds.
Tobacco I Tobacco! Tobacco!
,ob 8ale chea>
AnmMtfarmer, and merchant, wil
nP-T?" «>* n ■*» examine my .took before purcha.
mg elsewhere. I also keep oo hand a full stock ol
family groceries
AND
'Awmi ivmzaa.
All of which will bo sold cheap for cash.
Irt Door North of Miller’s Jewelry Store.
Milledgeville,Ga!***5^
CHASE BEOS. A WOODWARD,
SBBDMXmr,
ROCHESTER N. V.
Will send their elegant catalogue
FREE TO ANY ADDRESS.
They send seed by mail at the lowest prices, fresh
and pure with the greatest proniptnesi
Catalogue and teat tbeir prices and sei
Send for tbeir
and seeds. 25 3m
250,000 Brick for Sale!
rpltK undersigned lias just finished burning a kiln
I of 27)11 000 Brick, of the best quality, wtiich he is
bow offering for sale.
Orders left at the store of T. A. Carnker. or with
at tlie Brisk Yard will receive prompt attention.
DANIEL CAUAKER.
Milledgeville, Ga.. Mar. 4th, 1874. 32 6m
Administrator^ Sale.
i,y vatee of nil order of the Court of Ordinary
I) of Baulwin County, will be sold before the
Court House door iu the city of Milledgeville, on the
Filst Tuesday iu April uexr, the following property,
o-wit:
One house and lot iu the city of Milledgeville,
known a- the property of Mrs. Elizabeth Washington,
containing one acre no re or less, being part ot lots
Nos. 1 and 2, in square No. 3i, lying on Wayne street,
opposite Mrs. Little's residence. Terms cash.
CHARLES W. SNEAD, Adrn’r.,
With the wiil annexed.
Fob 20ih, 1871 31 tds
Notice lo Debtors and Creditors.
A 1
LL persons having demands against the estate
ot lltzekiah Rogers late of Baldwin county,
deceased, are ri quested to present them in terms ot
the law, aud all pel sons indebted to said estate are
required to make payment to the undersigned.
March Dili, 187).
J. F. ROGERS, \
K. W. HALL, S
Adni'r..
33 6t.
NOTICE !
Wild Land Tax.
GEORGIA. Baldwin County.
Office of Ordinary in and for said County.
\ LL persons in said County owing Taxes ou Wild
Lands will please come and settle immediately,
or execution will issue against you for the same.
DANIEL 15. SANFORD, Ordinary.
March 9th, 1874. 33 1m.
Baldwin County Sheriff's Sale.
be sold before
riLI
w city of Milledgevi
5 0,000
For $1,00
THE FIRST GREAT SALT LAKE
Gift Concert, authorized by and under
the immediate supervision of the city au
thorities of Corinne City, for the benefit
and in aid of the
Public Free School,
The Owl, Free Schwel in Huh Territory.
Trailer>■ *f PaMic Free IcImIi
Capt. 8. Howe,
i< S. Gerrish u4 Alex. Toponce.
*3*0,500
TO BE
Distributed te the Ticket Holders
at A.
GRAND GIFT CONCERT,
TO BE HELD AT THE
Opera House, City of Corinne,
Search 31st, 1874.
Depository, Bank of Corinne.
500,000 TICKETS.
PRICE $1.00 EACH.
OR SIX FOR FIVE DOLLARS.
BT COBS1K LAWS ST. JOHN'.
T°’.?i2 rn I w «Wto. and the .an may shine,
Ana the heaven, be bine, and the day divine;
And the earth mad iky may sing together
W^ne glory and jay.of the summer weather.
Get it come with the cun, or come with the .bower,
It will bring in its roand the fetal hour
I prouiiaed to yield to a wife’s sweet claim.
My life * fierce joy. and its fevered aim..
To-morrow will come; and yet, and yet,
I tremble to eee yon golden sun set;
I tremble to *ee the dim starlight strengthen.
I tremble to eee the gray shadows lengthen.
And to seethe last lights burn low iu the sky,
And the shades and glooms of earth magnify'
More than all, I tremble to ask my soul why
It should shrink from a day that with Heaven should
vie
Her life into mine; like a Mitt moonbeam
That kisses the breast of a sullied stream,
To-morrow shall fall; and God only knows whether
Tuese lives,so anlike, shall mingle together.
Hers chaste and sweet as the seraphim's dream:
Mine so defiled it would almost seem
They never could blend, more than oil with the sea,
Though they flowed oa together through eternity
Sbe will yield on the inorrovr her snow-white life,
« ltli :ts gentle aims and its siuless strife;
Her heart’s first love, so deep and tender,
And her rich, young years unto me she’ll render.
And I, in return, shall give her ah ! What 1
All the evils that fall to the sinner’s lot,
A guilt soul, ami a deadened heart,
Where the impulse of youtli hath never a part.
When to-morrow shall come, aud in the dread calm,
As we stand before angels and men, palm to palm,
While the low wedding-chants high over us hover,
O then will my sonl its full shame discover !
And when her soft lips shall tremble and say,
“In sickness, iu health, in death—and always! ’
Humbled, abashed, by her pure, sweet trust,
My spirit shall fall at her feet in the dust.
Perhaps she would lift it; but then her white hands
Would gather the dust and the stains of tiie sands,
f) women who stand with men at the alter"!
Your pure sweet lips would tremble and falter
Did their sin-siained lives lie open like scrolls,
Or an angel in waitiug stand weighing your souls:
Yours, mounting upward, as if uuto God—
Their., sinking down like the dark foul clod.
argued that the indictment was defective
in that the contract, schedule or list of
estates were not set forth, and held that
the evidence was inadmissible in its char-
acted.
The District Attorney in answer stated
that the indictment had been drawn as
specifically as possible. The conspiracy
was the gist of the offense, aud everything
else might be left out, as it was clearly
shown they were not required to set forth
the contract in the indictment. They
had only to show there was a conspiracy
to defraud, aud the means taken to ac
complish it. The Court, read the terms
of contract and said the contract never
implied that Sanborn should receive 50
per cent, of the claims if he did not assist
the officers in receiving and collecting the
taxes! The counsel for the other side
wished to know under what law the in
dictment was proved Counsel for pros-,
ecution held that it came under the laws
of 1868. The argument was continued
at great length by both sides, and the
court adjourned without giving its decis
ion.
$226,500 In Gifts!
AS FOLLOWS:
Grand Cash Gift
$50,000
“ 25.000
“ 12,000
“ 8,000
“ 6,000
“ 5,000
- 4,000
“ 3.000
“ 2,000
“ $1,000 each 5,000
“ 600 each 10,000
«• 100 each 10,000
“ 50 each 10,000
“ 20 each 14,000
“ 10 each 6,000
“ 5 each 6,500
1 each 50,000
52 934 Cash Gifts, amounting to $226,500
ONE CHANCE IN EVERY NINE!
iie Masonic Hall in the
. ^ , L'ii the first "Rieoday iu
APRIL "next, witlfin the usual hours » f sale, the fol
lowing property, to-wit:
All that tract of land King in Baldwin county, about
eight miles wist of Milledgeville, known as the Joseph
Scogin place, consisting ->i .>00 acres more 01 lessfad-
ulining lauds of Thomas Humphries on the south-west,
aud lands of Butts on the north or r.orth-west and
also ailjoiuing lands of Harper and Barksdale levied
on to satisfy a ii fa in favor of J. lleall, tx r of \\ illiarn
Sanford, dec’d, vs. Joseph -cogiu. Property pointed
bvpifs att’vs. and def. liaant Jos. ph Scogin notified.
1 1 JOHN B. WALL, Sheriff.
March 2d, 1871.
73 tds
Postponed Baidu in Sheriffs Sale.
W7TLL he sold Oil the first Tuesday in APRIL next,
>1 between the legal horns of sale, before the
Masouie Hall, in the city of Milledgeville, two hundred
acres of land, more or less, in Baldwin couuty, alljoin-
in ) lands of the estate ot William A. Robson, deceased,
T. J Crowley and others, being the same tract ot
iiuid conveyed to iDleDtiant (J. A P. Kobson,) by
Thomas Brookins, Administrator of Benjamin Lrook-
ins, deceased; also a tract ot land, r.s property of de-
tendant, in said county, containing two hundred and
fifty-five acres, known as the J- 11. Lawrence planta
tion, adjoining lands of Rogers, J. 11. Lawrence, estate
Ot William Fields, Gilmore and others; also one iron
grey horse inuie, two hay main mules, o:.e sorrej hoise
Hud one buggy, and om*- set buggy harne.-s, all in pc..-
s --ssion of defendant .1 A. P. Rob-on. ’ihe first tract
of ia-id above described was levied on by Obadiab
Arnold, Sheriff of said county, on the 2nd of Novem
ber, 1871,aud the second described tract, levied on
iiy him November 18, 1871, and defendant duly noti
fied of both levies, and persona! property above de-
ser'.bed levied on by the .-aid Arnold, on November
17), 1871; the property was nil levied od to satisfy an
execution in favor of Mrs. P. A. Liudrum. Assignee
vs. J. A. 1*. Robs,>u, and duly advertised lor sale at
that time, but the sale was postponed on account of
legal proceedings undertaken at the instance ot De
fendant in ti fit and the same having resulted in favor
of Mrs. Liudrum, the property is again advertised for
saie as above sc-t forth
OBADLAH ARNOLD. Deputy Sheriff.
March 2Ct!i, 1874.
Also at the same time and place, one acre of land
with improvements thereon,on North Common of tbo
city of Milledgeville, whereon Robert llainmond now
lives, sold as the property of Robert Hammond to sat
isfy two fi tas iu favor of N. 15. Brooks. Property
pointed outby Plaintiff Levied on and returned tom«
by Johu Gentry, Constable
JOHN B. WALL Sheriff
March 27th. 1874. 36 tds.
The distribution will be in public, and
will be made under the same form and
regulations as the San Francisco and
Louisville Library Gift Concerts, under
the supervision of a committee of promi
nent citizens selected by the ticket hold
ers
Reference as to the integrity of this
enterprise and of the management is made
to the following well known citizens:
Sam. L. Tibbals, A. Toponce, J. Maish,
J. H. Gerrish—Members of City Coun
cil.
Judge T. J. Black, Ass t. U. S. Asses
sor; Maish & Greenwald, Proprietors Me
tropolitan Hotel; Eugene Moore, ^ City
Marshal; W. W. Hull, Architect; J. Kehoe,
Constable; J. Kupfer, Jeweler; Capt. S.
Howe, Contractor; O. D. Richmond & Co.,
Commission Merchants; M. E. Campbell,
Proprietor Central Hotel; Singleton &
Creath, Proprietors Pacific Stables; S.
P. Hitch, Merchant, Sandy, Utah; A. G.
Garrison, Helena, Montana.
We will also announce that each and
every person buying a ticket can at any
and all times examine our books and all
business transactions connected with the
enterprise; and as the drawing of prizes
will be placed in the hands of honest and
disinterested men, it will insure a fair
and impartial distribution.
6m4 BcapaaaiMa Ap»ti Waste*. Liberal
CtMbriw BI to we*.
*®“Money should be sent by Express
or by Draft on any solvent bank, by
Postoffice Money Order, or registered
Letter, at our risk. For particulars, ad
dress
E. W. MORGAN, Manager,
Lock Box 158, Corinne, Utah.
Tickets for sale in Milledgeville at
the Drag Store of Capt. B. R. Herty.
Jan. 20, 1874. 26 3m.
YOV& MISSION.
It yon cannot, on tlie ocean,
Sail among tlie swiftest fleet,
Rockiug on the highes-t billows.
Laughing at the storms you meet,
You can stand among the sailors.
Anchored yet within the bay ;
Aud you can lend a hand to help them
As they launch their boats away.
If you are too weak to journey
Up the mountain steep and high,
You can stand within the valley
As the multitude go by ;
You can chant in happy measure
As they s'onrly pass along ;
Though they may torg-t the singer,
They will not forget the song.
If you cannot in the conflict
Prove yourself a warrior true,
If where the fire and smoke are thickest
There's no work for you to do—
When the battle-field is sileut,
You can go with gentle tread.
You can bear away the wounded,
You can cover up the dead
If yon cannot in the harvest
Garner up the richest sheaves,
Many a grain,both ripe and golden,
Which the careless reaper leaves—
You can glean among the briars
Growing rank agaiustthe wail,
And it may be that the shadows
Hide the heaviest wheat of all.
If yon have not gold and silver
Ever ready at command,
It yon cannot towards the needy
Reach ever an open hand—
Yon can visit the afflicted,
O’er the erring yon can weep,
You can be a true disciple
Sitting at the Saviour’s feet.
Do you then stand idly waiting
For some nobler work to do,
For yonr Heavenly Father's glory
Ever earnest, ever true.
Go and work in every vineyard—
Work in patience and in prayer—
If you want a field of labor
Yon can find it anywhere.
aOSBABC.
TRIAL OF SANBORN.
A WORSE CASE THAN TWEEDS.
SEYMODR, TINSLEY 4 CO.,
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
aA.
Are prepared to fill all orders lor
Groceries and Provisions
At Lowest Going Rates!
ry SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
riLIT & CO.
CRESCENT SPECTACLES
Improve your sight.
Railroading at a High Elevation.
The BneDos Ayres Standard lately
contained the following account of a trip
made in a construction train front Are
tjuipa over the Andes. Among other
places reached was Yilbomyo, 11,533 feet
above the level of tlie sea. The newspaper
man has reached these high 'altitudes.
“As I write,” says tlie tourist, “there lie
before me copies of El Ciudadano, a
newspaper published at Puno, and of
Heraldo, a newspaper published at Cuzo,
both of them being well-printed sheets,
and both of them being published more
than 12,000 feet above the level of "the
sea. Nor is either of these the champion
dimbist of the newspaper world. At
Cerro de Pasco they issue a very clever
gazette devoted to mining aud the muses;
and Cerro de Pasco is 11,000 feet above
tide-water.” Of Yilcomayo, the writer
observes, “Here, aniid the supreme deso
lation of the Andes, and at a height at
which man in Europe does not dream of
living, was a genuine railway village.
There was an ‘American hotel’ two stories
high, and a ‘piazza’ and some forty or
fifty rooms for the accommodation of the
railway people. There were all the buiK
dings, station houses, machine shop,
engine houses, coal yards, required for a
large road. There were the cabins of the
laborers employed on the works,, many
hundreds of men, Chilians (the Yankees
of South America). Bolivians, Peruvians,
whites, ladinos, Indians—a motley mul
titude, but superior, both in respect to
capacity and conduct, to the average
‘navvies’ of Europe and the United
States. With the early morning a further
ran of an hour at good speed brought us
to the actual summit of the road, at 14,566
feet above the sea level, and we then
began to descend to the Atlantic slope.”
TAX JXOTICE.
I WILL commence receiving T flX Returns of
BaMwin county tor the ymr 1874,at C. B. Mondays
store (recently occupied by S. Evans & Co.) in Mil-
ledgeville on
Wednesday, 1st of April, 1874,
Where I will be i» attendance every day until 1st of
June uext, when the books will be closed.
I* nrmera are required to produce a list of fireodn
011 their places who are subject to poll tax, and also
return what protertv tfiey own.
J. HUNTER McCOMB,
R. T. U. Ualdwia Ooaty.
March 26, 1874; •* *
R. E. McRE YJYOLD&t
den
f J
T HE CRESCENT SPECTACLES now offered to
tbo Pabic ora goarantrr* superior to all others
in the market. For claanese aad distinctness of vision
they ore narivofod. the totol «b«-ce of pnsmaUc
ar® stsasssrashE*
Rubber and Steel Hum and will last many years
Wi i^.t^? bTQwr Agents. JAMES SUPPLE.
Jewels* «sd OpUetaa. is Sole Agent for Mfl
^EirNoneKenBine withoat the trade-mark stamped
Look for Trade Mark.
March 10th, 1874.
Ak
Ho peddlers Employed.
A^b^StcabbIwWTt^^^S ASU
iid Twenty-five OMRs for eae package of
I Aleatiak Cambag* £ei
CattammaMfct
NewY’ork, March 30.—The trial of John
D. Sanborn, Lucien Hawley and Alfred
Vanderworken, on indictment charging
them with conspiracy to defraud the rev
enue department was commenced to day
in the United States District Court, be
fore Judge Benedict, in Brooklyn. The
indictment sets forth that the parties be
ing officers duly appointed intended to
defraud the Treasury of 50 per cent of
sums of money due to it for taxes on leg
acies, succession and distributive shares
of estates on the 25th of March, 1873.—
The second account in the investment
charges that these parties on the 2d of
August collected 17.670 legacies, taxes on
the will of the late Richard Ellis, which
they did not deliver into the treasury.—
The United States District Attorney,
Tennay appeared for the prosecution, and
B. F. Tracy for defendant.
Sanborn could not have received the
money if Hawley and Vanderworken had
not entered. Vanderworken was in a
government situation receiving a salary of
$2,250 a year. He had charge of taxes,
and his business was to make returns of
legacy and succession, which he could
easily have done at the Surrogate’s of
fice.
Another point was that Vanderworken
fixed the assessments on these estates
himself. He called attention to the law
under which the contract was made, au
thorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to
employ three persons to assist the proper
officers in collecting this money which was
withheld from government counsel would
show that the money of these estates on
which money had been paid per contract
to Sanborn, were not settled, and that
some of the taxes were dne. The San
born contract, in its inception, was one
of the darkest pages of American history.
The charges against Tweed pales in sig
nificance beside these. Then, should the
doors of the penitentiary open on one and
close on the other. The people of this
land are tired and sick of being robbed
by their public officers, and call to justice
to see that the offenders should be pun
ished.
Those interested in this trial were not
the defendants only and the people of
Brooklyn, but forty millions people were
watching for the result with anxious eyes.
It was now for the jury to listen to the
evidence, and if they believed the defends
ants guilty convict them, but if innocent,
acquit them.
The first witness called and sworn was
Joseph H. Robinson, Assistant Solicitor
of the Treasury at Washington. He tes
tified to the proposal of agreement be
tween William A. Richardson, acting Sec
retary of the Treasury, and John D. San
born. Also a list of claims, which San-
boi» proposed to collect under the first
contract , ,
The defense wished to know what the
prosecution would prove by the witness.
The District Attorney replied that they
nraoosed to offer to evidence the contract
3*le2,r of garetay ri tta
Treasury in relation to it, and would also
offer a eMe«Reg «»ntoiniMg a list ef thj
names referred to in the indictment. Ihe
defense apposed tire offering. of the con
tract for any testimony in regard to it in
evidence on the grounds that the section
of law under which the defendants were
it fc»th that xmrsnue officers
tor conspiracy
Fashionable Heart Disease.
Dr. Lyman lectured yesterday after
noon at Association Hall, in the Ladies
Course. She said:
Heart disease, among both ladies and
gentlemen, is the one most in vogue at
present. A synonym for pseudo heart
disease is indigestion. False modes of
dress, by crowding the heart, cause it to
beat irregularly. Remedy the dress, and
the heart will healthfully perform its
functions. The heart is almost the last
organ to become diseased, because it has
a great work to do. Nature made it strong
and supplied it with as few nerves as pos
sible. Women who faint as a rule, have
too small cavities for heart and lungs.
Fainting is a provision of nature for the
reinstatement of the body, by allowing
the heart a brief respite. When the stom
ach is unduly distended by food, the heart
is crowded and complains. Good, straight
shoulders are highly essential to woman.
If she possess an erect form, a woman’s
heart lias a better opportunity to beat
evenly and healthfully. Many mistake a
palpitating sensation of the muscular wall
of that portion of the stomach nearest the
heart for an affection of the heart. Adi
pose or fatty accumulation around the
heart will often render its beating labor
ed or heavy. The heart is not however,
diseased; it is only working under diffi
culties. Prostration also affects the beat
ing of the heart, causing it to pulsate
more rapidly. Strength will remove this
difficulty. It is a theory with some physi-
cans that in a natural life the heart beats
only a given number of times. If this be
so, running up and down stairs, intense
excitement, hurry, by increasing the num
ber of heart-beats in a minute, diminish
the length of one’s life. It is a well-known
fact that a race-horse is not long-lived,
because, having such a demand made up
on the action of its heart, the heart-mus
cles wear out sooner than they otherwise
would.—New YorkTribue, 20 th.
be found at his office over Canker 9 # «
« all times, where to wilt take greet f lto»to»Jo eoab
-*iUa K upon al ] w hn maY favor him with their kW A
jTjWiege, and will guarantee satisfaction in euopen-
25, 1873. fii
She Clove Trade.
Cloves, so called from their resemblance
to nails, and designated in all countries
wherever known and used by a term hav
ing this signification, are the product of
a gigantic species of the myrtle family,
which Rumpf, an intelligent naturalist of
the Molucca Islands, the native region of
this tree, describe as “the most beautiful,
the most elegant and the most precious
of all known trees.” This tree in its na
tive soil grows to the height of forty feet,
begins to bear the spice blooms in its
seventh year, and lives for one hundred
to two hundred years. The tr unk is per
fectly straight, the bark smooth and of a
bright olive color; about half the height
the branches spring out horizontally and
thickly, diminishing in length as they
ascend, so that the compactmassoffoliage
composed of slender laurel shaped leaves,
forms a perfect cone, supported by a clean
straight stem. The spice is not the fruit,
as is quite generally supposed,, but the
blossom, which is gathered before it is
quite unfolded, when it resembles a closed
up convolvulus bloom. The stem of the
spice is the calyx, and the head the un
blown corolla of these aromatic flower
buds. About a dozen of these blooms
form a terminal cluster at the extremity
of each twig and branch of the tree. Sing
ularly enough the Molucca Islanders, like
the Malays of Sumatra in regard to pep
per and the Japanese in respect to coffee,
make no use whatever of this spice, the
most famous product of their country.
Since 1605 the Dutch have monopolized
elove culture, having in that year driven
the Portuguese out of the Molucca Island,
cut down every clove tree growing there
on, enslaved the natives, and established
the culture of the clove in the island of
mboyna. Not only were the native clove
.jrestsof the Moluccas destroyed, and
every clove bush that chanced to spring
up there annually uprooted by armed
expeditions, and the death penalty inflic
ted upon evtoy native who planted a clove
tree or sold a pound of its spice blossoms
but also, down to 1824, a large portion of
the product of Amboyna was annually
o enhance the value of
thn hands of the sordid
The clove might
From Ihe Rural Carolinian.
Shall We Became Small Farmers
or Bankrupts ?
Then what must planters, farmers, and
white men generally do f We answer
go to work. What in the field ? Yes, in
the field. But the white race can’t laboi
in our hot climate. Bali—I admit the ne
gro can beat the white man working, at
well as sleeping, in a mid-day June sun.
but I am not disposed to admit that the
negro will do the most work in any term
of say thirty days. The intelligent white
man will be systematic, he will begin la
bor at sunrise, with a well cooked and
nutritious breakfast in the stomach; ht-
can stop at ten o’clock, bathe, take a nap,
eat a dinner corresponding in nutriveness
to the breakfast, and read books or news
papers till four, then he can labor till
seven, having labored say at least six.
perhaps seven horns in the field. Mind,
will, and muscle combined, with its usual
attendants of forecast and constancy, will
work out in five years, working only six
hours per day, incomparably grander re
sults than can be gotten fr om the negro
for love or money, though he may pretend
to, or actually does fitfully labor from
ten to twelve hours ,’per day. The negro
has almost an instinctive conviction pos
sessing him that tlie white man can beat
him at anything he goes at, and thinks it
is the white man’s education: but the his
tory of his race does not give us any in
stances of educated labor worthy of note.
Exceptional cases of pretty well to do
black farmers, I am told, occasionally
occur in the Western States, stimulated
by the example of the whites, and are but
exceptions to the rale, left to himself, to
make and sustain a public opinion. A-
mong his own race, education does not
incline him to agriculture, he seeks the
jobbing trades, portersliips, clerk ships,
and, notably in the reconstruction States,
every office he can get.
This great bugbear, and scarecrow of
the unhealtliiness of laboring whites, needs
some examination. It is much more
frightful in prospective, than when ap
proached. It may be doubtful whether
the white man can live and work in a
highly malarious region, as can the negro;
but be must live as a white man ought,
and work only as a white man can—that
take all the advantages which liis
superior intelligence affords him. Com
bread and bacon, and the latter fried
crisp, often till the gravy becomes almost
corrosive, is regarded as a laborer’s diet,
or tlie basis of it. My observation as a
medical practitioner has taught me that
no man, wliite or black, can labor long
in our climate on such fare, and be heal<-
thy. Chronic, or sub-acute inflammation
of the mucous coat of the stomach is no
more common with the laboring whites,
than blacks, the latter suffer greatly and
almost universally with it, when confined
to bread and bacon diet. I have thought
that if any man ought to live on com
bread and bacon, it ought to be he who
does nothing, or does light work in the
shade, and if any one really does require
beef, mutton, fowls, eggs, milk, butter,
and the most nutritious pastry, to sustain
and strengthen him, this one is the man
who labors in the field. Such diet, with
the observance of the common laws of
health, will rob manual labor of much of
its terrors as respects disease.
But it may be asked, what are large
landholders to do with their lands ? Sell,
in small tracts, when it can be done at a
remunerative price; then rent and tenant
the remainder, and this brings up the
subject of tenantry. Of whom ought we
to make tenants ? Shall we make “dis
tinctions on account of race, color, or
previous condition of servitude?” Cer
tiiinly we ought not to do such an unlaw
ful act; but we should be careful to select
honest, industrious, and well behaved
men, such as will be likely to stay from
year to year, till they are able to pur
chase land from you or some other
person. Then we ought to select such
as will split proper rails and not bean
sticks ; not leaving more rejected timber
on the ground than is made into rails,
that will make a lawful fence to keep out
stock without the aid of dogs and' gun;
that will, when settled in a small piece of
valuable wood land, stay in the woods,
using the timber economically, and not
cut down, and waste an acre each year
for a patch, until they again live in the
middle of a field and too far from fire
wood. Then again, we ought, when we
can, select such tenants as will probably
prove good neighbors and good citizens,
and such as can be persuaded to vote for
honest men for office.
For it is clear if farmers permit tlie
present waste of timber, fence rails will
go out of fashion, and an oak log fire on
a cold winter day quite a rarity in too
many places; indeed it is probable, if
statistics could be accurately tabulated,
for comparison, there is a broader area of
land striptof timber annually, now, than
in the days of slavery. Some planters
appear to get along quite smoothly ^ they
always have plenty of “hands’ and house
servants, make large crops, drive fine
stock, and ride in tasty vehicles; yet,
since we have all grown so wise as to
know that nonff, or at least but few of
these men, can be saving any money, an
acute observer can plainly see in the bad
fences, and great destruction of timber,
with its inevitable attendants, scarcity of
provisions*-hogs, sheep and cattle, that
they are yearly growing poorer, are
really “ripping up the goose (their planta
tions) that now gives them golden eggs,’
but will not a few years lienee. Land
being our only fixed property, it should
be carefully preserved for ourselves and
those who are to succeed us to the battle
of life.
It is probable that some planters have
been seduced into carelessness of timber
ed lands, by the hope of a “fence law,
so much talked of, but which I sincerely
hope, for their sakes, they may never see
enacted, and if they do will soon join me,
in wishing it abolished. I much prefer
to have my crop protected by a fence and
the law, as is now the case, than by the
law alone. The matter is more subject
to my own will, in keeping my neighbor’s
stock out of my fields, by a lawful fence,
frh-.Ti to trust him to make and fceep a
secure fence to keep them in. The fence
law would take away from me my most
certain protection. I am aware that
much can be said on both sides of this
“fence law” question, but as the discusr
sion of it is not the object of the pic-spit
paper, I give it only aa incidental notice,
hoping some abler pen will take it up in the
RckaI) Caeolhuah.
Allendale, S. C. J- W.G.
Horttomltoral Hints tor April.
As there is now little danger to be ap
prehended from frost, except, perhaps, to
the most Northern belt of the Southern
country, all the tender species of vege
tables and flowers may be planted with
safety, during the month. If snap beans
have not been planted, put them in at
once, and where plantings have already
been made, more should be planted to
keep up the succession. They should be
planted about once in two weeks during
the season. Beets and carrots may still
be planted if more be needed than were
got in last month. It will still do to
plant lettuce, in tlie upper country, but
here, it will seldom succeed. Perpignan
is a good variety for late planting. Man
go and tanyah may still be planted,
though they ought to have been put in
last month.
So soon as settled warm weather can
be relied on, plant Sieva beans, or, if
preferred, large Lima. The former are
Iretter suited to our climate, and more
productive than the latter, but perhaps
not quite equal to them in quality. It is
best to have tlie ground prepared some
what in advance, and the poles set before
planting. The ground can hardly be
made too rich, provided the manure be
deeply dug in and well distributed and
mixed with the soil. The soil must be
very deep, so that the plants may be able
to withstand the drought. The dwarfing
system, several times heretofore referred
to in these pages, is a good one where
poles are not easily obtained, as in cities
and towns.
Fresh, heating manures must not now
be applied to the garden. If well rotted
composts are lacking, use guano or a
good superphosphate, putting half tlie
quantity to be used in the hill or trench
at the time of planting, and reserving the
rest for top dressings. Weeds glow
von - rapidly now, and unless the surface
of the ground is kept moving, we shall
soon have an extra and very unprofitable
crop to attend to. Grass and weeds, if
taken in time, are easily and rapidly kill
ed with an iron toothed rake or the prong
hoe.
Celery, if not sowed last month, should
now be got in. Choose a cool, moist,
shady spot, (but not under trees,) scatter
the seeds on the surface of the soil, which
should be very fine, press them in with
the back of the hoe or trowel, and water
if the soil be dry. The north or east
side of a tight fence is a good place. As
soon as the plants are large enough to
handle, prick them out, keeping them
still on partially shaded ground.
Full crops of okra, squash and melon
should be planted, and tomato, pepper
and egg-plant transplanted into the open
ground. Another planting of sugar corn
may be made, also common com, which
withstands the worm better. In the up
per country cabbage plants may still be
set out with advantage, provided the
soil be rich, deep and moist. Green
glazed is best, where worms are trouble
some.
Flower seels often fail when planted
in February and March from cold and
excess of moisture in the soil. In such
cases replant in the early part of this
month, watering and shading if necessa
ry. Lily and gladiolus bulbs and dahlia
roots may also still be put out for late
blooming. Hyacinth bulbs may be taken
up when their leaves have faded, put in
paper bags with chaff or some material
that will not heat, and kept in a cool
place till fall, or they may be left in the
ground undisturbed. We have tried
both plans, in this climate with little dif
ference in results.
Crap (2-vines will throw, out extra shoots
and suckers, which should be rubbed off
at once. Young peach trees should be
looked after for the same purpose. Mulch
newly-planted trees and vines to keep
the ground moist about the roots. This
is better than watering.
Strawberry beds must be kept free
from runners, if you desire fruit rather
than an increase of plants. It is better
to cut than to pull them off. Mulch and
water the plants, if a long bearing season
be desired.—Rural Carolinian.
•’rom the Courier Journal.
Preparations tor the Weddin;
White House.
at the
Clean Teeth.
If you will only keep your teeth clean
they won’t decay. The wonderful den-
trifices which are sold at fabulous prices
are greatly inferior to a simple mixture
of soap and prepared chalk, with a little
something like orris root; but the essen
tial articles are soap and chalk. The
druggist will prepare you enough for a
quarter of a dollar to last a long time. When
you go to bed, with a broad, soft tooth
brush go Chrougli the mouth thoroughly.
If disposed to a bad mouth, you may
repeat the dose in the morning. But
the principal article for keeping the teeth
clean is a toothpick, a soft goose quill,
which you must use after eating, no
matter though it is a piece of apple, and
if convenient, after the pick use a mouth
ful of water to rinse from the teeth what
the toothpick may have left.—Dio
Lewis.
Charleston Strawberries in Hew
■Fork.
Growers of this fruit in and near Sa
vannah . will observe by the following
from the New York Daily Bulletin of
Saturday, the 28th instant, that the first
shipments are meeting a paying demand.
The Manhattan, from Charleston, on Sat
urday, took some twenty-five hundred
quarts. The Bulletin says: “This deli
cious fruit has again made its appearance
on the market. The last Charleston
steamer brought about one hundred and
fifty quarts, which realised $2 50 to 2 75
per quart The steamer due ou Saturday
afternoon is expected to bring a larger
supply. As is usual with first receipts of
delicacies, the fancy fruit dealers are ea
ger to pick them up and pay, in most
instances, very extravagant figures for
them. Now that they have commenced
we may expect a fresh supply from the
South by every steamer, and before long
hey will be plenty enough to send daily
by rail.”
And now it is rumored that Miss Gr rnt’s
wedding is to be hastened, and tl. m anes
of her bridesmaids are given. T es* are
the Misses Borie of Philadelphi , n ices
of the ex Secretary of the Nai y; Miss
Drexel, daughter of thePhiladelpl la l ank
er ; Miss Kittie Cooke, daughtc r o! the
ex-banker Henry D. Cooke; ai.d Miss
Anna Barnes, daughter of the Surgeon-
General. I have not yet heard the mimes
of the groomsmen. Of course Co onel
Fred Grant will be Miss Kitty Cooke’s
groomsman—she is liis fiance. It has
been thought best since the arrivtl o. Mr.
Sartoris to allow the marriage to take
place next month, instead of waiting un
til October. The secret of the engage
ment was well kept until the aiiivtd in
Philadelphia of Mrs. F army Kemble, who
is Mr. Sartoris’ aunt. She mentioned the
fact first. When the elder Mr. Sartoris
and liis son met Miss Grant on the steam
er coming from England last October
year, they were on their way to Michigan,
where Mr. Sartoris owns lands, ;md he
intended to locate this his second son in
that State, for him to earn liis own living.
The sudden death of the eldest st l took
place wlfile they were traveling n the
West, and a telegram was sent to .'resi
dent Grant to learn their whert il ■ juts
and inform them of the sad new . Of
course they returned to England ir me ii-
ately upon the receipt of ibis intelligence.
Now that the young man has such differ*
ent prospects, he will not cultivat the
wild lands in Michigan, but take his ■>. de
to his ancestral halls. I wonde. if
there is as much sorrow felt when a le th
is so advantageous to the brother as
there is among our plain folks, where
all tlie children have equal advantages?
Every day or evening lunch or dinner
parties are given to the happy young
couple. They were present at a lunch
which Mrs. Admiral Lee gave in honor
of Mrs. Preston, prior to her departure
from this city. Gen. Babcock gave them
dinner party Saturday evening, to
which many of the leading young ladies
and gentlemen of the city were invi
ted.
The carriage which conveys the happy
young couple Around attracts much
attention. It is drawn by four superb
looking horses; the harness is of silver,
with glittering chains and ornaments,
the long reins are white and the liveries
of the servants are as handsome as possi
ble. Fisk and Helmbold brought such a
display into such bad repute that various
comments are made by spectators. Inas
much as no modem President has at
tempted such style, it would have been
better for the family, considering what
a year of suffering this has been to thous
ands, and while many consider it indeli
cate in the President to retain the extra
twenty five thousand added to his salary
after Congress was forced to reduce their
own pay, to abstain from this daily dis
play of their imperial magnificence.
Inventions.
Reading something in an exchange a-
bout inventions, reminds us of one that
Gen’l Wayne, during the war, told us had
been submitted to him by a correspon
dent. The man proposed to surround
Milledgeville with a circular wall, and
just mside of the wall to construct a rail
way, so that, in the event of an attempt
at storming the works, a train could
be started going round the circle, from
which train long, sharp blades, sometliing
like scythe blades should project, reach
ing just above and across the wall, cut
ting off the heads of all who should at •
tempt to scale it.—Eatonton Messenger.
An Atlanta correspondent of the Aus
gusta Chronicle says: If rumor is to ba
credited, the noble science of duelling, a3
Col. Hercules Diogenes Lofty, M. D. r
would proudly remark, is about to have
another illustration at the hand of two
Atlanta gentlemen. The recent card of
H. Potash Farrow, denouncing the edi
tors and proprietors of the Herald, you
remember, was admitted to the columns
of the Constitution on the basis of an
advertisement. This action of the proprie
tors of that paper, it is said, was pro
nounced by Col. Alston, of the Herald,
as vindictive and cowardly, and, feeling
himself aggrieved, he, it is understood,
sent a note day before yesterday to Col.
E. Y. Clarke (managing editor Constitu
tion), demanding of him an absolute nd
unconditional retraction of Farrow’s c~ d.
Clarke sent word that he would sen . a
reply this morning; but as yet, notning
further has transpired. Col. Alston is
reported as having said that he shall .sr-
mit mo evasion; that there must be ei her
a square, full retraction, a manifest 1 ick
down, or a fight.
Com is bought occasionally of the pi li
ters of Lowndes, for from eighty cents to
one dollar per bushel, delivered at Yal-
dosta.
" A wherertoiffl* it gtonnif pHriecttoatotohfc
toff*
Man* 15. UN.
1 % — f. ——— - . lrgrnia re
cently passed a law “to prevent the own
«W of hogs from running at large.
Foreign axd Native Grams.—When
the Grand Duka Alexis visited Si Louis
he was admitted an honorary member of
the Park of Fruits Association la re tom
for compliment he has just sent to
tbs Association a collection of too hun
dred
grape
varieties.
- «
- wax to jpevtot
vines gi
equal to
and wife. . _
possess, special American vines will no
doubt soon be a powerful competitor to
foreign.
Bale of the Steamship Virgo
By an item in the New York papers we
learn that the steamship Yirgo, formerly
of Murray, Farris A Co.’s line of steam
ers, of which Messrs. Hunter A Gammell
are agents, was recently sold to a newly
organised company to Halifax, and will
hereafter ply between Halifax, Cape Bre
ton ports and the Western shore. The
place of the Virgo will be taken by the
steamship Cleopatra, belonging to ihe
fitm. The time for which the Cleopatra
was chartered on another line having ex
pired, the company had more steamers on
their hands than they had use for, hence
the side of the Yirgo. The Cleopatra
plied to this port in times past, and is
well known to the travelling public.
[Sav. Adver A Rep.
I
Memphis Avalanche: “At the even ng
meeting of the Cotton Exchange Tuesi ay
two females, representing White’s Op :ra
House Variety Show, entered with a v ew
to selling tickets to some entertainm jnt
soon to come off at that place. Foi a
moment the members of tlie Exchange
present—twenty or more—looked sur
prised and bewildered, and then, with one
accord, made for the rear entrance, and
tumbled into the street like gymnasts,
leaving the Exchange in sole possession
of Secretary Toof and the females. What
took place within, our reporter failed to
learn. His attention was held outside,
where the affrighted members were con
gregated in little groups, or took su jar
in theim’ at the saloon next door. It
seems they mistook the visitors for m im-
bers of the Ohio Temperance Praying
Band, and trembled as to consequences.
It was just awful the way those men ion.
What a horrible idea is the following
considering the present sensible temper
ance movement:
“ If ever I marry a wife.
I'il marry a lautllorii's tlavgliter;
And then I can ait at the bar,
And drink old Bourbon and water/ 9
“ Prayed out of town,” are the words
nnilad on the doors of several saloons at
Xenia, Ohio-
One thing, said an old toper, was ne ver
Men coming through the rye, and th it’s
the kind of whiskey one gets nov-a-
days.
It is no longer the vulgar title of
‘chunkeuBeflB,” but rather the polite md
expressive tide of “dipsomania” by wliich
evil to now to be known.
A stock-keeper toys he 1m never foiled
to relieve a choked animal by raising its
head as if for drenshing “and fhn
down its throat a broken hen's egg,
^
says the young women tome
per cent, better on the examination pa-
| pers than the young men.
The King of Masindy, in Upper Eg^pt,
having died, was lately buried, his w ves
being interred alive with him. A nun ber
of prisoners of war were taken to the im
grave; their limbs broken, and
their mutilated bodies flung on the dead
king and his wretched widows.
Each ant in an ant hill knows his < om-
iiMitoiL Mr. Danrin several times cai ried
* 1 '— L m to another, inbabite lap-
ofantobat
- -i—i jH bo t
odor by which thqy were recognto-
putwmetotolrre n a very largo
pest into a ~
perfumed with
after twen-
ty-fltar hours. At first they were threat
ened by their companions, bat soon re
cognized and allowed to pas»