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Newspaper Page Textftlje iutljbcrt Appeal. ELAM CHRISTIAN,] [JA3. P. SAWTKLL, Proprietor*. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Three month* ft 00 Six non the 00 Onejear 00 * 13T Inrarinblr in advance. THE CUTHBERT APPEAI Vol. I, Cutlibert, Georgia, Friday, December 7, 1866. J. No. 7. stiff' <fhitl)bcvt ^Vppcql. RATES OF ADVERTISING » One duller fter *qm»r* of len fine* for Ihta'flrat in action, and Sermty-lhe OenVrjiAr square for *rh Mibicqueut insertion, not exceeding three. Onoiquaro three tnonthe.... f 8 00 One square one year........ 20 00 Fourth of a column atx mouths. k ...v. $0j00 IlHlfcolutnn aix month* ,..>..•••• 7•.0*» One column nix months 10ft,on IP DflUf j&Ya LIMES TO A SKELET0M. Fifty years ago Ihe London Morning Chronicle published n poem entitled— “Lines on a Skeleton," which excited much attention. Every effort, even to the offering of a reward of fifty guineas, was vainly made to discover the author. All that ever transpired was that a poem, in a clerkly hand, was found noar u skeleton of remarkable beauty of form ttnd color, in the Museum of the ltoynl College of Surgeons, Lincoln’s Iun, Lon don, and that the Curator of the M use- um had sent them to Mr. Perry, editor and proprietor of the Morning Chroni cle: ♦ '[. a skull. llehold this ruin I 'Twu a Once of eternal epiril full: Thie narrow cell «u Itfu's retreat, Tbia apace «ra# though t'e myateriou* real, Wbat beauteous visions filled ihi* »pot I What dreamt ef pleasure long forga! Nor hope nor joy, lore nor fear, lie*# Ufl one tr«d* of record here. Itentalh thie mouldering eanrpr Oice tbor.e the bright and butr eye; lint atari not at the dituial void. If at«i*l lora that eye employed — If with no lawleaa Ore it gleamed, Rut through the dew of kindness beamed. That eye ahall be furerer bright, Wbcu alert and tun are sunk in night. Within thie hollow cavern hong The ready, swift and tuneful longue, If falaebood'a honey iediadtined, And whera it could not pr»i*e wae ctiaintd; If bold in rirlue'a cauee it apoki^ Yet geotle concord i ever broke, Thie ailent longue aball plead fur the#, When time unreila ateruity. Hay, did thiae finger* delve th* mine! Or with it envied rubies fhlne? To hew the rock or wear the gein Can little now avail to them. Rut if the page of troth they (ought. Or comfort to ike mourner brought, These hand* a licher meed rkall claim. Thus all that wait on wealth or fains. Availa it whether, bare or abod, Three feel the depths of duty trodf If from Ihe balia of ease they Oed l To aeek afllicvion'a bumble shad; If grandeur’* guilty bribe they epurnrd, And home to virtue's cot returned, Tbae* feel with angel's wing* shall via, And tread the palace of the aky, MISCELLANEOUS. THEY IAT. They aay—Ah! well anppote they do, Rut can they prove the story true ? Suspicion mey arise from nought Rut malice, eavy, want of thought, Why count youraelvca among tha "they," Who whisper what they dart not aay f They aay—But why the tale rehraree, And help to make the metier worse? No good can |oaaibly accrue From telling what may he untrue; And is it not a nobler plan To apeak of all Ihe beet you can ? They say-Well, If i! should be ao, Why need you tell the tale of woe f Will it the bitter wrong redreae, Or make one pang ef sorrow leas f Will it the erring one restore, Henceforth to "go and ain no more P They aay—Oh ! pause and look within, He« bow thine bead inclines to ain; Watch, leet in dark tampialion’a hour Thou, too, stj^uldeat sink beneath its power, Rut apeak of good or not all. Hour Aftxr Bcsixfss Hours.—The road along which the man of business travels in pursuit of com|H!tunco eahh not a macadamized one, BRITISH MUSEUM. Extract of a letter from Rov. Dr. Moore to the Richmond Times. I will now tuke you to what 1 regard a far richer place than the Hank of Eng land, tho treasures of which are abso lutely priceless. I despair of giving you even u notion of them, out will tell you n few. There nro so many that tho build ings. vast as they are, will not contain them, and some of the most valuable and recent nro stowed uway In boxes. Let us first look at tho autographs. Hero nro letters of Luther, Calvin, Molnnethon, Erasmus, Crnnmer, More, Wolsey, Knox <fcc., some of them referring to facts in their history well known ; also of Bacon, Sidney, Hampden, l’enn, Newton, Gali- loo, Descartes, Leibnitz, Voltaire, Dry- den, Swift, &o., dec.,; also 1'itt Burke, Fox, Byron, Wellington, tho last letter wriltcu by Nelson, and a sketch ho drew of tho battle of Aboukir ; and one of * Wellington's memoranda nt Waterloo. Hero is also the famous bill of sale of “Parmliso Lost," nr.d others of Milton, one of Shnkspcnre, tho original of Mag- nu Chartn, and the original paper of de mand which was its basis. There is al so an autobiography of Hurr.s, and orig inals of works of Locke, Pope, Joijson, Rousseau, Bterno, Scott, nnd others, and many royal nutogruph letters of more or less interest, amounting to about ono hun dred and fifty; besides manuscript books that are very curious. Tho library is enough to givo n stu dent u fit of desp dr, as you may infer, when I tell you that it had about 80ft,- 000 volumes, and receives by law u copy of every new publication, so that it is growing continually. Ono ought to hnvo tho life of Methuselah, only to rend tho title pages. Tho basement has nowspa- porn running back for a century. I read tho articles on tho Revolutionary war, nnd they brought up our Into struggle with terrible vividness; nnd wo saw tho original letter of Junius ns they appear ed in Wood ful’s paper, nnd other curious things of tho same kind. Hy tho kind ness of our literary Richmond friend, J. R. T., Esq., we had access to tho rend ing room, and I may say hare that wo found hitn belter posted about London than many of tho nntivos, nnd unliko some of tho representatives wo had in England, ho has at once reflected credit ou us and on himself, nnd stands high in liternry nnd social circles hero, as fur ns I was ablo to ascertain. As a friend of his, I was highly gratified to loam theso things, ns I also nnt to record them for your gratification. This room is whero students come to uso the books, &c. of the library. It is n circular room, lit by a dome, with sonts radiating likon wheel from a centre, whore is tho catalogue of the books, itself a small library, and offi cials to get any book wanted. Tho reader (as those having tho entree nro called,) selects l.is book from - tho cata logue, and it is brougnt him by a porter, und ho has a desk, nil per, ink, etc. to study nt his leisuro. There wore from ono to two hundred nt work when we saw it, abotll a dozen, of whom were In dies, nnd yet nil was ns silent ns if but n single person wore using this vast study. After seeing the Library and tending room, it is no mystery to me how learn ed hooks are made by those who nro in reach of the British Museum, and I real ly feel ns if one could not write n book demanding research without coming hero. It made mo sigh over our loan and narrow privileges in Richmond, when I saw this mighty treasury of intel lectual woalth, nnd how readily any ono could have access to its riches if ho de sired it, nnd if nny of my friends think of perpetrating n book, 1 udvise them first does it ordinarily lend through pleasant j to visit the British Museum. It will ei- scenes and by well-springs of delight, ther cure them of authorship, or make On the contrary, it is a rough and rugged J them more fitter for it. The other rooms path, beset with “wait-u-b:t" thorns, ondj arc equally tnntalizing nnd exciting. Wo full of pitfalls which can only bo avoided. have in one room busts of Romans f und by the watchful care of circumspection, j j„ Italy, executed 2,000 years ago, those After every day’s journey over this worse 1 of Nero nnd Cnracalla proclaim their fi •ban rough turnpike road, tho wayfarer dulity. Those royal boasts must bnVe needs something more than rest ; he re- looked just so. Then, the Elgin marbles quires solace and he deserves it. Ho is from tho Parthenon in Athens, the very weary of tho dull prose of life, and a. blocks of marble that Pericles nnd Bo- thirst for tho poetry. Happy is the bus-J crates saw in that pccrle-s temple, nnd moss man who can find that solace and others equally ancient. Then older still, that poetry at homo. Warm greetings! the huge slabs that Mayard exhumed at from loving hearts, fond glances from ' Nineveh, that were old when Socrates bright eyes, the welcome shouts of chil- w as born, nnd yet look ns fresh in their dren, the many thousand arrangements j colossal nnd staring figures ns if carved for our comfort nnd enjoyment that si- yesterday ; nnd bricks, tiles, &c., on lently tell of thoughtful nnd expectant which are writton the nnnala of the city, love, the gentle ministrations that disin- and somo of which Joi;ah may hnvo cumber us into an old and easy sont be- road. Then, older still the gigantic mon- fore we nro nwnre of it; theso and like | uments of Egypt, so solemn and grand, tokens of affection and sympathy consti-Ion some of which Moses might have tuto the poetry which reconciles us to?gazed. Then older still, relics of prehis tho prose of life. Think of this, ye wives nnd daughters of business men ? Think tif the toils and anxieties nnd mortifica tions and wear that fathers undergo to secure for you a comfortable home, and compensate them for the trials by ma king them happy by their own firo sides Pay The Governor of Texas has ve toed tho stay Law recently passed by the Legislature of that State. Tho Houston Telegraph thinks it cannot be passed over the Governor’s veto, but thinks it will be modified in accordance to the sug gestions of the Governor, in which shape it will be passed. The Telegraph says without some process to stay the sacri fices of estates tho people will bo ruined. toric races, who knew neither iron nor, peril nos, firo. Then, older still, tho geo logical remains, that exhibit the petrified bones of uncouth monsters that tumbled and fought in ancient sens untold centu ries before Adam was created Then, huge meteoric atones, ono of which weighs 8,000 pounds, that may have come from the sun. Then VALLEY OF A OITA, SWITZERLAND. A correspondent traveling hero thus describee the scenery and tho people : Tho scenery of tho Val d’Aosto nnd the attractions of history nnd tradition nro brought into forcible contrast with its inhabitants. Satisfied with brr en dowment of beauty and sublimity in ev ery form in which they con bo suggest ed by natural objects, nature has here stayed her bond. She has granted to tho natives of the vulley only deformity, disease and want. More abject misery than is to bo found in this paradise of beuuty con nowhere else bo soen. The men nvo stunted and misshaped in body nnd dwarfed in intellect. They nro but littlo above their own cattle in the latter respect, nnd not equal to them in tho former. They speak a vile gibberish that no ono can understand but them selves, nnd bear with them nn odor that tells of dirt, squalor nnd degradation.— Their features are often hardly human either in form or expression, nnd thnt fearful disease, the goitre, disfigures them in new nnd aggravated shapes of de formity. Their clothing is ragged and unclean to tho Inst degree, nnd often is variegated with largo patches of n doz en different colors. The women in this valley shock tho stranger yet more than tho mon, for their degradation is contras ted more strong’}', nnd especially in tho mind of nn American. Feeble in intel lect, bent nnd distorted in. body, they drug their weary way along ns if group ing for death. Their features nro deep ly marked with tho Jtarrow of care thnt lias gono over them from their earliest days, nnd brought them, even in middle ngo, to this premature decrepitude.— Their hair hang down their backs in torn nnd grey shreds. Their faces are brown and soiled with tho dirt and sweat from their foreheads, nnd tho rheum from their cyra. Their long feet nro thrust into wooden shoes, white hats black with ago, nnd of tho coarsest straw, afford them nn uncortain shelter from tho storm and sunshine. Tho Val d’Aosta is noted not mere- ly for tho beauty of its scenery, but for its historical associations. It is now gen erally believed thnt Hannibal eftooted his famous passage of tho Alps by this route, and in more modern times it wit nessed tho march of the armies of Chnrlo- mngne, and nfterwnrds thoae of Napoleon on their way to tho victory of Marengo. Tho Carthagian lender crosaed by tho littlo St. Hernard, as it is called, which debouches into this valley, while the two latter tnndo uao of tho great 8t. Her nard, whero tho renowned monnstory is now situntod. Tho fouturos of tho for mer pass have been somewhat changed since Hannibal’s tiino, nnd with poculiur appropriateness the Italian government is now muking n lino military road over it, which is nearly completed. Yet, its general aspect, of courso, must bo tho snino in spite ol modern improvements, nnd tho tourist of to-day who comforta bly lolls back or. tho sent of a stuffed carriage, with a cigar in his mouth, und with languid curiosity contemplates tho allot whero Hannibal’s elephants floun dered through tho snow, or rolled their uncouth forms into tho nbysa below, may bo reasonably suro that he is not throw ing away his emotions on tho wrong site. There are tho precipices over which his soldiers fell nnd tho cliffs from which tho barbarians launched ihowors of stones unon them and crushed whole battalions. There is tho rock of gypsum thnt thwar ted his advance, nnd if nny ono. auks whero he found tho vinegar with which ho is Hnid to hnvo softened it, lot them oiico tusto tho wine of the country which the people drink hereabouts, nnd, unless he bo n very unrcasonablo man, his cu riosity will be very quickly satisfied.— With this solitary exception, tho resour ces which Huunibnl had nt his command to vanquish tho obstacles of tho way were very scanty. Compared with those of Napoleon thoy were almost nothing, nnd every traveler nt this day who visits tho littlo Ht. Hernard finds now reason to ndmiro tho energy, tho perseverance, tho stragetic ability and fertility in de vising expedients which were displayed by the greatest enemy of Rome. Advkrtibiko.—Tho Louisville Journal never printed a more sensible paragraph than the following: Wo said tho other day, thnt" the mnn, who doesn’t advertise his business, adver tises that bo has none to advertise.'’— This wasn't said for the mere sake of epigrammatic point, but bccauso it is to a very gront extent true, nnd is generally reeeved ns truth by tho community. A person wishes to purchase articles where they nro advertised as for sale; ho doesn’t think it worth his while to hunt aroud for them at rundom among dealers, who, from not advertising them, are presumed not to have them. In all such cases, tho newspaper is justly regarded as tho best buisincKH guide-book. Brit-madf. Mr.x.—The good men in the Bible are nil God-mndo men : such but I j as Enoch, Abraham, Paul. It is the cannot tell you about the hundredth part had who are the self made men. When of what is there. It is enough to put i a man makes himself, he is not likely to one half crazy with vexation nnd delight! make himself wbnt God would have hirn to sec thorn—dejjght at what you can I to bo. Yet this phrase "self-made,” liko see, and vexation fur what you can't So j self-reliant, is oftcu heard from the lips I will close. of Christian men, as tho expression of . ,, m I something great and noble. “God made ! man upright, but they have sought out many inventions." BfK. A Washington dispatch states Mint Postmaster General Randall has fi nally agreed upon n postal treaty with _ _ r A young man recently wrote *o his rMr. John Strange was lately mar- Great Britain, Whereby postngo to und sweetheart as follows: There is not a ried to Alias Mary Story. Thu sequel to from that country is to be reduced to j globule of blood in my heart which docs the atrango story will doubtless be a littlo twelve cents, to be prepaid, each govern- not bear your photograph. He had it stranger. I meat to keep the money it gets. I very bad hadn't he. LAMARTINE 0M THE RELIC.ION OF BETOLU-1 TIONARY MEN. I know—I sigh when I think of it— i thut hitherto tho Frenoh people Imvo j been tho lonst religious of nil tho nations of Europe. Is it because the idea of. God—which arises from nil tho ovidehoo | of nature nnd from tho depth of reflec tion-being the profoundest nnd weight iest idea of which humnn intelligence is capable, nnd tho French mind being tho most unrollective of nil European races, this mind has not the forco nnd severity necessary to enrry far nnd long tho greutest conception of tho human under standing ? Is it because our governmenta have always taken upon themselves to think for us, to believe for us, nnd pray for us ? Is it boonuse wo are nnd hnvo been n military people, n soldier nation, led by kings, heroes and ambitious men, from bnttlo field to battlo field, making con- quoslit anlnovor keeping thorn, raving, I dazzling, charming nnd corrupting Eu- ropo; nnd bringing homo tho manners, vices, bravery, liglitnoss nnd impiety of tho camp, to tho fireside of tho people ? 1 know not, hut certain it is that tho nation has nn immonso progress to make in serious thought, if sho wishes to bo free. If wo look at tho characters com pared as regards religious sentiments of tho gront nations of Europe, America, oven Asia, the advantage is not for us. Tho gront mon of our country livo und dio, forgettig completely tho only idon for which it is worth living nnd dying; thoy livo nnd dio looking at tho specta tor or nt posterity. Open tho history of America, tho bis tory of England nnd tho history of France; rend tho groat deaths, the great martyrdoms, the groat words nt tho hour when tho ruling thought of life ro- veals in tho lust words of dying—and compare. Washington nnd Franklin fought, spoke, suffered, always in tho naino of God, for whom they acted; nnd tho lib erator of America died confiding to God tho liberty of tho people, nnd his own soul. Sydney, tho young martyr of patriot ism, guilty of nothing but imputicnco, and who died to expatiate his country’s dream of liberty, said to his juilor: "I rejoice thnt I dio innocent towards tho King, but a victim resigned to the King on High, to whom nil life is duo." Tho republicans of Crocnwoll only sought tho way of God even on tho field of bnttlo. Tlioir politics were their faith, thoir roign a prayer, their death n psalm. One hour, sees, fools thut God was in all the movements of theso grout poo- plo. But cross tho son, traverse La Mnn- chn, come to our times, open our annuls, and listen to the great words of tho gront politicul actors of tho drama of our liberty. One would think thut God wus eclipsod from tho soul, that his anino was unknown in tho language.— | History will hnvo tho air of un atheist i when she recounts to posterity theso an nihilations rather than tho deuths ol cele brated mon in tho greatest year of Franco 1 Tha victims only have a God; tho tribune nnd victors hnvo none. IxKik nt Mirubouu on tho bed of death. "Crown tnc with flowers," said he, “in- toxicuto mo with perfume, lot mo dio to tho sound of music." Not a word of God or his soul. {Sensual philosopher, ho, desired only supremo- sensualism, a lust voluptuousness in his agony. Contemplate Mudtim Roland, tho strong-benrted woman of tho revolution, on tho curt that convoyed her to death. She looked contemptuously on tho besot ted pooplo who killed tlioir prophets nnd sybils. Not a glunco toward heaven ! Only ono word for tho earth—"O Libor- ty." Approach tho dungeon door of Gi- rondms. Their Inst night is a banquet; the only hymn tho Murscillniso. Follow Camille Desmoulins to his oxe- i cation. A cool nnd indecent pleasant- ! ry nt tho trial, and n long imprecation un the road to tho guillolino, were tho j two lust thoughts of this dying man on j his wuy to the lust tribunal. | Hoar Dnnton on tho platform of tho scaffold at the distance ol a lino from ! God nnd eternity. "I have hud n good time oj it—let me go to sloop." Then 1 to tho executioner, "you will show my, ! head to tho people, it is worth tho trou* j i bio." His faith, annihilation; his lust sigh, vanity. Behold tho Frenchman of this latter age. What must one think of tho religious 1 sentiment of n freo people whose great figures seem to inurch in procession to annihilation, and to whom thut terrible minister, death, itself recalls neither the throutenings nor promise of God. The republic of these men without n God has quickly been stranded. The liberty won by so much heroism nnd so ' much genius has not found in France a j conscience to shelter it, a God to uvungo it, a people to defend it against the athe ism which has been culled glory. All | ended in a soldier mid somo apostate re publicans travesties into courtiers. An atheistic republicanism cannot bo heroic. When you terrify it, it bends; when you would buy it, it would not sell itself.— Who would tuko hoed ? Tho pooplo and God non-exisent Bo finish atheist rev olutions. Facts to bk urmemberku.—The longest rivei on tho American Continent is tho Mississippi, being 3160 miles in length. Tho longest lino of Railway, is the Illinois Central, being nearly 700 miles long. Tho longest ridge is tho Victoria, which spans tho St. Lawrence at Mon- ireul. THE PAPAOY. Tho magnitude of tho blow which tho Papacy has received by tho humiliation of Austria, iB gradually becoming appar ent Attention is turned to the decn- dunoo of those countries which bow to tho sceptre of Romo, nnd their uttor want of ability to cope wjth tho vigor of tho Protestant natrons. It is some time since Spain conned to bo a great power, nnd Austria would now seem to do fol lowing in its wake. Franco nnd Italy are vigorous nnd bold, but both,have spurn- oil tho pupal yoke, although they hnvo not become Protestant. Tho consterna tion thnt prevails nt Homo is said to bo very great. Austria, ns nn ublo journal ist nas remarked, the lust of tho great ill- tramontane powers, hue boon hopelessly beaten. Tho now Germany that is ria- ing on her ruins is either Protestant or liberal Gatolic, and is rulod by n king who is almost fanatically Lutheran Tho world, as it appears tit tho Vatican, will bo divided between six great States, and of theso France will bo Voltairian, Prussia Lutheran, Britain, on all papal questions, Calvinistio, Russia, Greek uiul hostile, Italy Catholic but anti-papal, und Austria papal, but bound by tho evil prejudices of tho Hungarians. Tho changes, too, arc ho sudden and violent ns to lenvo no room for intrigue. Things nro worse than in 18-18, ulien, despite tho spirit of liberalism, tho Papacy had great powers behind her; nnd far worso than in 1800, when her calamities de pended on n single mnn. It is most in teresting to Protostunts to think<|}int in such countries as Bohemia nnd Ilungn ry, tho long crushed plant of Protestant ism has now somo chance of recovering its vigor, ns it has done in somo measure among tho Vuudoia nnd in tho north of Ituly. Thnt loss of prestige which has bufnllen tho Papacy, that rude dissipa tion of her mysterious glory which has hud such an effect in subduing men’s minds and keeping them subdued, may now, in Austria, as for somo timo past in Italy, awaken a spirit of religious inquiry and creato a thirst for tho word of God. While wo cherish such hopes in regard to tho issuo of tho wonderful events of tno past few weeks, wo are of courso not to bo bold ns approving of the means by which these events have been accomplish ed. Wherever injustice and violence have prevailed, God will tuko his own way of punishing them ; but not tho loss may he make tho ovontH themselves in strumental in preparing tho way for the triumphs of tho gospel.—Sunday Mnga- tine. A Bkautifut, Extract, -t- The follow ing eloquent passage we clip from tho address of Col. Manlove, of tho Vicks burg Herald, before tho Mississippi Btato Press Association, recently conven ed in Jackson: " Tho Boutboru Cross no longor glonms out 'ini (I tho wild light of battle ; tho sword of tho vanquished is sheathed, and tho laud is gloomy with iho'h i-mluss se pulchres of our martyred dead. But when tho last of tho present generation sleep with their fathers, and now forma throng the oldjfnmiliar plenum—when fac tion shall have hushed, und justice holds the scales—then, then, as bright as day, and ns freo from blemish and stain, will stand forth in bright relief upon tho scroll of historic fume, the record of tho Bouth, dearer to tho hearts of her children now in tho hour of sorrow, than when, on the march to victory, sho won tho ndmirution of tlui world. Pilgrims from other lands shall trend, with reverent step, nbovo tho spot whero moulders tho dust of our loved and lost; while those who are to follow cheerish as household gods, tho names of theso who, curving a way through tho F1EID AND GARB®. FATTENING PIGS. At n recent meeting of an Irish Far mer's Club, tho breeding nnd feeding of pigs being under consideration, tho lead ing speaker submitted the following sug gestion under tho luttor division of tho subject: In ordor to do this you will require dry floors, fresh air and cleanliness.— Foul air encourages disease; cold air consumes food in making heat that ought to make fat. It would not bo practical to put in a growing store to tuko fat, nor would it bo judicious to put in a conrso dwarf to inuke a good bacon hog. You must have a full grown, fair condi tion'd animal posso^sing nt least some of tho points to which wo hnvo already alluded, nnd with this and proper atten tion, it is not easy to conceive tho rapid ity with which a pig will fatten. There should not bo more than six pigs to ono sty. Tho furmer has five principal in gredients for this purpose, viz: grain, po tatoes, sweuca, mangolds n :d cabbage. The roots well boiled and well bruised, tho grain also Doilod : take equal parts of Indiun and oat meal, and any of tho grains you may have, as crushed beans, ponns, vetches, ryo or barley, with a littlo pollard and salt, mndo in thick gruel, added to tho roots, and left to ferment and sour, and always given in a luke warm state, at regular hours, three times a day. Tho less excitement or annoy ance tho better, nnd a desire for sloth and slo p encouraged liy watching his com forts, and tho words mndo applicable that theso are sometimes used with somo oasy going and quiet dispositions. "To cat nnd drink and sleep—what then? To eat and drink and sleep again." TOBACCO CULTURE. Tho cultivation of tobacco is not en tered into very extensively in tho West, and tlioro seems to bo an idea among many of our farmers that the labor ol raising n crop and tho risk of loss from early frosts are sufficient to render it n non-pnyins investment. This 1 deem a mistaken idea. I bolievo tobacco can bo grown as securely in tho West ns East, with tho same onto in getting it started, and with a quality very littlo, if any, inferior—Eastern prejudices not withstanding. Tho product of a smaM field of two acres this season has convinced ino that no crop, usually raised, can bo mndo to give returns equal to those of tobacco Tho Hood was procured from tho East. Whether this fact bus anything to do with tho quality,which is superior to nny I have seen hereabouts, or not, I cannot say. It was sown as early ns possible without hot bods, though I would re commend them, and tho plunts, us soon ns largo enough, were set out all at once, at tho first favorable timo. Delay in getting tho plants started is hero a common fault, and it dangerous ono, with our usual dry spells ut thut season. Tho labor of preparing tho grounds, which was well manured, of cultivating and securing the crop, if it had all been hired, would not have amounted to more than tiny dollars, to which may bo ad ded twenty fivo or thirty dollars for strip ping nnd packing, making less than sev enty five dollars expenses. Tho yield of tho two acres will safely bo two tons, tho value of which has boon estimated by tobacco dealers from samples, nt from fourteen to sixteen coats per pound, mak ing a return on the two ucros of about five hundred dollars, deducting exponses of cultivation. For tho first venr tho cost of sheds in which to dry ’it, will, of courso, lessen tho gain of tho crop, but thoy will not fiery path of war, have written their names .. ... . . .. ... where thoy can never (Ho. The principle of the crop, but Urey will not for which aonwnyhh] down th!»r litcs | h " vo to bo bt.iit ngnm fora number of mey not be recognized until their names T"’} "" J , lll ° u “° of them when not hnvo grown feeLlo on the tongue of| h»e,l fm- tobnero, they only bemg eo elm friendship, nnd been dropped, lik? deed j' lT l 7 r h- " I ” f 8o P lol "7 _:i .1 A* i.i u..» till tho last of November, pays for tlioir silence, from tho ear of tho world. But it will stugglo h ick from tho hollow bo som that oiioe bled for it, nnd ascend the heights of government. And when tho faithful historian shall descend into tho vaults of tho dead past, in quest of trndi- lions of liberty, ho will then discover to whom the world is indebted for their perpetuation. Important to Maimed Bold!Mrs — We nro requested, says the Macon Tele graph, by Dr. Bly, tho contractor with tho Stftto for Artificial Limbs, to suy that all persons who receive orders for limbs should communicate to hirn ot Macon, giving their address plnnily writton, so that ho may commumcute with them and send blanks for measures, ns it will be necessary to have them in order to con struct the limbs. No one should visit tho manufactory until tho limb is partly made and ready for fitting, of which due notice will ho given to each applicant. Editors throughout the Stwto will do our maimed soldiers a favor by copying these instructions. till tho last of November, pays for their building. Tho piece of which I hnvo spoken was fully rlpn and cut by the middle of Sep tember, before tho frost, which visited us hero so early thut corn was considerably injured by it, proving thnt fears of frost uro no more to bo ontortuined in relation to tobacco than nny other crop. I liuvo given merely tho result of nn attempt, nn I ask if attempts with other crops have turned out more successfully than this ? There mny be greater risks in raising tobacco than corn and wheat, but I bolievo it small; nnd oven if not, I claim that a failure every other year avould leave still a profit in rawing.— Phil. Horn Weekly. God’s Plan or tour Life.—Never complain of your birth, your employ- ment, your hardships; never fancy thut you want a great deal better than you do. What you call hindrances, obstacles, discouragements, nro probubly God’s opportunities; nnd it is tho medicines, without any proof that they are poisons. No, a truce to such impatience. Choke that envy which gnaws ut your heart bo- cause you are not in the same lot with oth ers. Bring down your soul,or rather,bring it unto receive God's will, mid then you shall find thut your condiiiou is never opposed to y«mr ‘good, but consistent with it.— J)r. Bushncll. Tun Pork-pack ixo Beahon.— The Now Albany (bid; Lodger of Tuesday enysof tho condition nnd piospects of tho coming hog-slaughtering season around tho falls of the Ohio, thut "not n single contract has been mndo either in New Albany, Louisville, or Jeffersonville. There will bo n largo hog crop the pres ent season. There is nn abundance of the best corn to feed them on, and for this reason, feeders are not likely to crowd the niurket until their supply of corn is pretty well exhuusted It is believed thnt nearly four hundred thousand bogs will bo slaughtered in tho cities around the falls during the packing season of 1860—67. There uro no prices establish ed, tho views of packers being widely dif ferent ns to what should or will bo tho opening rates. The price it is believed, however,will ho between six and nhttlf nnd seven nnd a half edits. These figures uro, however, tho more guesses of packers. Tho probabilities arc thut the opening price will.be the suuio as nt Cineiuimtu HUMOROUS. A lady once naked Clinrles Lamb how ho liked laibies. "Hof—boiled, madam," Was his reply. Lamb must have looked sheepish idler thnt feat. Artotnus Ward says: “Let us I er happy, and livo within our menus, even if wo have to borrow money to do it with. Wefe you guarded in your conduct while in New York ?’’ said a father to his son, who had just returned home from his visit to the city. " Yes, air; part of the time by two policemen. “ Now, papa, what M humbug ?” said ft littlo four year old Johnny. " It is," replied papa, “when mamimi pretends to bo very fond of me, nod puts uu buttons on my shirts." Well, Annie, how.did you get along with that rtnphMflVor <>l yoursV Did ym succeed in getting lid of him 1”' “ Uld yes, I got rid of him easily enough. I married him, and have no lover now." " If there is*any body under tho can ister of heaven that I hnvo in utter ex- Qretujonee,” says Mrs Darlington, " it is the slanderer going about like u boy con structor, circiilitting Ills calomel on hon est folks." » Bob, you say that you bolievo inoat diseases are contagious, liow long liuvo you entertained such n lions?!’ “ Ever since I sat alongside of a lihie eyed girl and caught the palpitation of tho heart." A Indy nt the Louisville and Nashville depot, tho other day, started every body by crying out, "I’ve got the chol era!" A -fine boy soon mule his advent into the word, and it proved only to bo a now kind of cholera infantum. For a lieutenant, call Jilin captain; for n mi Idle aged lady, kiss her, and say, that you mistook hur for her daughter; for a young gentleman rising fifteen, ask his opinion respecting the comparative morits of a razor; for young ladies, if you know their color to bo natural, accuse them of painting Major O. nod I\ were having n jolly good time over n glass of wine when I*, got off n good joke ut O.’s expenso, mid at this O. became very much offended, and stepping up to P. and looking him closely m the face, said : " Call you toll mo the difference between you and a fool ? " “ Yes," said F. taking onepUep backward nnd pointing his finger at O. “ just about three feet." Of couFse O. dried up. Russell, the singer, wns once singing in a provincial town. The GambUr s Wife, and having uttered tho word, " Hush I ho eomoH not yet I —the clock strikes ono," ho struck ttic key to imitate tho deported hour, when a respectable dressed woman ejuculnted, to the astoish- ment of every body: " Would’t I liuvo fetdhud hi in homo I" Tho Rov. Mr. A- won more emi nent in his day for tho brilliancy of his imagination than tho force of his logic. At ono timo ho was preaching on " The Ministry of Angels," and in the.perora tion he .suddenly observed : " 1 hear a whisnorl" Tho change of tone startled tho doaeon,who sut below, from n drowsy mood, and springing to his feet, ho Raid; “ I guess it is the boys-in the gallery." Mr. Lover tells n good nnecdotoof nn Irishman giving the pass word nt the 1-nttlo of Fontonoy, atwhiehtho great Buxo was Marshal. “ Tho password is Bnxo—now don’t forgot it, Pat,” said the colonel. " Hacks! Fuith nnd I will not. Wusu’l my father a miller?" “ B Who gous there?" cried tbe sentinel, after ho had airived at his post. Put was as wise ns un owl, nnd in n sort of whispered howl replied : " Bags, yor honor!" A gentleman had conferred n favor on a friend, nn undertaker. Bays tho latter, “ Brown, 1 am under great obligation to you, nnd allow me to say that your kind ness is keenly appreciated, and I hope I may be able to do you n good turn some day or other. If you ever want a coffin, call on me. I should bo happy to bury you or any til your family nt short notice, ut greatly reduced rates ’’ His friend re tired, satihtied that the undertaker hud an cyo to Imsiuuss, and wus not lacking fo gratitude. " My dear fiiends," said ft returned missionary at ono of the lato anniversary meotings, " let us avoid sectarian bitter ness. The inhabitant* of Hindoostan, whore L Imvo boon laboring for many yenrs, have n .proverb that, though you bathe a dog’s tail in oil, nnd bind it in splints, yet you cannot g*t fbe crook out of it.’ Now a man's sectarian bias is sim ply Ihe crook in tho dog's tail, which can not be eradicated: nnd I hold that every ono should he allowed to wag his own peculiarity in ponced Tho country parson has contilmL'd an artielo to Frazer’s Mngazing “ Conner iiiag tho Advantages of living tt Cantank erous Fool, with somo Thoughts on tho Treatment of Incapacity." He should have added to the title " A leaf from tho experience of A. JC. Boyd." Keen Jlcmm has reached its twelfth thousand in England, and the publisher has already paid tho unknown author of the work 830,000. Rumor nmv points to Richard H. Hutton tut i's author. Mr. llnttou wns formuily a Unitarian, nnd a regular contributor to the National Ro- view, but' is uow r Bro.d Cltutelutmn of the Nauricc school.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Cuthbert appeal. (Cuthbert, Ga.) 1866-1884, December 07, 1866, Image 1