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THE CUTHBERT
By J. P. SAWTELL.l
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CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 13,
1873.
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The London Standard on the Edin
burg Review's Critique.
Hidden JlatiJ.ootS,
Harrietr-Martineau tells how, when
she had grown.to he quite a girl, a
little one was horn into her home,
• and she would look and ponder, not
knowing what was to become of it,
she got a great terror into her heart
that the babe would never speak,
or walk, or do any thing that she
could do, because' she s:iid, how can
it, seeiug that it is so entirely help
less now? Hut she found when the
right time caino that the ieet found
tbeir footing, and the tongue its
speech, and everything came on in
its own right time; and then, in
stead of the babe, she had a noble
and beautiful brother, who was able
to take her-part and teach things to
her who had taught hitn. So the
babe became an illustration, when it
came to manhood, of a very com
mon latent fear in hearts—not of sis-
tei'S So much as of fathers and moth
ers—that the life that bus come to
them .and is their life .over again,
will not scramble, or grow, or wres
tle into its own place as theirs had
done. They have no adequate be
lief in the hidden manhood or wo
manhood that is folded away with
in the small, frail nature, and that
the man will Walk among men and
talic with men as a man; and so
they often spend the better part of
their time in trying to order afresh
\vhat our wise mother Nature has
ordered already.
Preservation of Furs.—As this
is the season when we put away our
winter furs, I will mention how-1
preserve mine entirely free from the
attacks of the moth. 1 fisst hang
them out in the sun for a day or
two, then give them a good beating
and shaking nj>, to be sure no moth
is in them already. I then wrap up
a lump of camphor in a rag and
place in each ; then wrap up each in
a sound newspaper and paste to
gether so that there is no hole or
crevice through which a moth can
gain entrance and my furs arc per
fectly safe. You will say that there
is no secret in this, and there is
none. Every lady can take care of
her own furs, if it is not - too hard
tcork for her, without seuding them
to the furriers, as many do.
Eggs.—Fresh eggs, according to
the Prairie .Farmer, afford great
nourishment, to the weak animals.—
It tells of a colt, which.to all appear
ances, was nearly dead, the breath
•of life being barely perceptible,
which was almost instautly revived
by giving it one or two fresh . eggs.
The same results have attended the
administering of eggs to "weak cattle,
and to feeble weak, lambs. The
remedy is a simple one, and far
mers would do well to hear it in
iniud.
Value the friendship of him who
stands by yon in a storm ; swarms
of insects will surround you iu the
sunshine.
The most interesting, perhaps, of
the articles of an unusually lively
number of the Edinburg Review is
one reviewing what' is, as yet, about
the best life of the great Confeder
ate .commander, and the best ac
count of the war in Virginia, that
has been published, and sketching
the later career and character of
General Lee. That career was, in
-a military point of view, so glo
rious, so full of military, achieve
ment and of merit more solid than
striking, so grand a lesson iu the
art of war and »in the qualities of
soldiership ; that character is, from
every,point of view, so admirable in
•its.moral grandeur, its perfect sim
plicity, its close approach to the
highest ideal of the Christian sol
dier and gentleman, that they com
mand an interest which does not
fade with the fading memory of the
keen excitement and often passion
ate sympathies of ten years ago. Ir
the story of. the Confederate war
.we read lessons of the highest polit
ical moment and of the profoundest
military significance ; in the charac
ter of the Virginia leader we have
a model of all that a hero of an en
lightened and Christian ago should
be t-han which no nobler example
can’ be set before the youth enter
ing on the temptations of military
life, or the trials and perplexities of
a great public career.
We have also an historical ques
tion of considerable importance
practically solved, for all those not
too prejudiced to accept a solution
which does not suit their fore-judged
conclusions; by the conduct of such
men as General.Lee at the outset of
the war. No one can read the story
of the Secession movement in the
documents of the time without see
ing that though slavery was theopcu
sore that kept the passions of North
and South in constant irritation,
and afforded .occasion for the vio
lent collisions of Kansas and Har
per’s ferry, which precipitated the
issue and made its decision by any
other arbitration than that of the
sword impossible, it was not
the issue itself. Slavery had no
place in" the councils which hurried
State after State out of the Union ;
for slavery was the interest of the
few, and it was by many that Se
cession was precipitated. The
Southern people resented Northern
dictation, Northern assertions of
superiority. Northern pretentions to
an exclusive right in their territo
ries, Northern intermeddling, and
Northern invasions, as the most'fu-
rious of English Dissenters would
resent the interposition of the Ho
man Catholic Powers in the ques
tion of Church establishment in
Engl and. "When tho seven South
ern States had withdrawn, the Bor
der States, which were most deeply
concerned iu the Northern attacks
on Slavery, still clung to the Union-.
Virginia, despite the piratical inva
sion of her territory and the mid
night robbery and murder, passion
ately sanctioned by her New Eng
land sisters, still refused to secede ;
and only when the treacherous at
tempt .of the Federal Government
to reinforce the fort it had promis
ed to evacuate, and surprise
Charleston with au aimed fleet, pre
cipitated the reluctant sections into
the war, and when Mr. Lincoln
forced upon her the choice between
fighting for Southern freedom’and
State rights or Northern ascendan
cy and Federal despotism, did she
throw in her lot with the Confeder
ates. Slavery, then was not . her
determining motive. Slavery made
no appearance-in the private letters
of-nien who, one after another, went
with their States. It is a remarka
ble fact, that while scores of leading
Northern men denounced the war,
not a single Southerner of high
character, education, aud ftifluence,
deserted -the cause of tho South.—
They* universally held that their al
legiance was due their native
States; and on that ground alono
they threw up career, fortune, fame,
and placed themselves at the dispo
sal of those who claimed their feal
ty. It is absurd to call such men
rebels ; they were loj-alists to all
they had been taught to obey, and
to all the principles recognized, up
to that moment, by three Ameri
cans in four. To General Lee the
Federal service offered everything
that ambition could ‘desire. He
was .its foremost man ; he was the
favorite of General Scott; he might
have had the chief command as the
price of treason to Virginia. His
leelings were divided; his interests
were all on tho Federal side ; but,
as his letters now published show,
he was convinced that his duty was
to Virginia, and he decided aecord-
iugly. With him, went Stonewall
Jack-fin, the two Johnstons,, every
Southern soldier in high or low com
mand. The cause that was so es
poused, and by such men, cannot
have been what- English ranters
and Radicals call- it. Good or bad
in essence, it was so strong in ap
parent justice that not one man of
character and weight whose alle
giance it pretended to claim de
clined to support it.
Its failure had nothing to' do
with its alleged demerits. The
South was crushed by weight, not
broken by’ weakness. Three things
determined the fate of the war—the
closing of her ports, the superior
wealth, and, far above all, file over
whelming numbers of the enemy.—
The North w as a corn-growing and
a manufacturing country, and had
opened to her the markets of Eu
rope; she had unlimited command
of all the resources of the civilized
world. The South was subject to
the disadvantages both of an agri
cultural and of a non-agricultural
country. She had no manufacto
ries, and yet she lived by manufac
tories and not by agriculture ; by
producing clothing, not by produc
ing food. Her wealth was at once
annihilated by the blockade, which
prevented lier fr.om selling her cot
ton, tobacco and sugar ; her sup-
plies were cut oft’, and she Lad a
bare sufficiency of food, and a latal
want of every other necessary of
life and war. She obtained powder
aud arms from tlie enemy ; boot's,
clothes and blankets she had to
want. Her finances broke down at
‘once; for her exports were her
wealth, and exports had ceased.—
But above all, she was crushed by
numbers) the *Nc(rth could recruit
at home four men for one, and
could hire the offscourings of Eu
rope. And it was this alone that
decided the issue. The Edinburg
Reviewer adds the want of disci
pline; but we believe that in the os
soutials of military discipline the
Southerners were always superior
to their foesyand that if the troops
of Grant and M’Clellan had been
tried as Lee’s were tried, they would
have melted like snow, or died like
rotten sheep. Lee won almost ev
ery battle lie fought and against
odds of from two to one to four to
one. What destroyed him was
Grant’s cold, cruel policy-—which
only a Yankee, a Napoleon, or a
Prussian could have deliberately
adopted of sacrificing men without
stint, whom he could replaee, to
wear out an enemy’ who could not
recruit. Uuder different circumstan
ces such a process- might last lon
ger. But a General who can afford
to sacrifice three men to kill one
must always end by leaving his en
emy without soldiers ; and therefore
greatly superior numbers, thus used,
must prevail in the long run. It is no
longer possible in wars between civ
ilized nations for prowess to prevail
against numerical odds of great
weight. And this terrible lesson a
state like England will ‘do well to
lay to heart. This, and this alone,
was the cause of the full of tho Con
federacy ; This is tho dark and pain
ful moral of tho Virginia campaigns.
Against everything but sheer “ at
trition ” Lee was victorious.
Great as he was in war—and
surely no captain of any age ever
accomplished greater things against
au enemy of the same race, better
armed, better provided, and out
numbering him by two or three to
one on every battle-field—General
Lee alone greater still in disaster,
defeat, and ruin. The retreat from
Richmond was a masterpiece of
moral power and soldierly skill; the
surrender was elevated by its cir
cumstances and its spirlr into one of
the grandest and most pathetic
scenes in 'history. Lee was sur
rounded by tenfold numbers, all was
lost; but his mem were stanch to
the last ; and the temptation “ to
ride along the lines, and give the
word and end it all ” was strong in
deed. lie conquered it ; he “ did
his best ” for the men who had
loved and trusted hint so long ; and
he and his soldiers went back to
their desolate homes the ruined cit
izens o’f a ruined and enslaved coun
try 7 . How cruelly they were wrong
ed—how shamefully every pledge
given at every stage of the war, on
which virtually the Confederates
had surrendered, has. been violated
—our readers know. The Republi
cans clamored for a violation of the
military capitulations—for the blood
of tho General who had spared in
war to punish murder by reprisals
and devastation by requisitions.—
General Grant—it is his one title to
honor—put down the demand with
a high hand. But ho allowed the
Southern people to be wronged,- op
pressed, insulted, pillaged by negro
voters and Northern adventurers,
as never- nation was oppressed and
pillaged before. Perhaps till he
became President he had little pow
er to prevent it; at all events, he
did not try. Lee saw all this, and
yet, with a .breaking heart, exerted
himself to keep his people quiet.—
He has lost fortune aud home in the
war, by pillage and wanton destruc
tion ; he was proscribed; he de
clined to draw vengeance bn his
State by taking open part in her
polities; the commander-in-chief of
-a national army condescended to
the control of a military school, and
to a life of silence and obscurity.—
But all Southern eyes were fixed on
him, and his influence was used to
keep them calm and patient, and to
retach them, to the Union which had
conquered and was crushing them.
Even while their wrongs and mis
eries were wearing out his life he
checked eveiy utterance of resent,
meut, ei*ry expression of hope for
a future deliverance. “ We are all
Americans now.” He would allow
no toasts to the Lost Cause, no hon
ors to the Fallen Banner. He bore
his burden with simple, unaffected,
patient heroism. Other men may
have approached him in war and
achievement; none capable of deeds
like his ever rivalled him in endu
rance and submission uhder. hope
less defeat. A Cato would have
fallen on his sword ; a Brutus
might have conspired; Hannibal
endured only in the hope of revenge
and retrieval. But General Lee not
only cndu»ed, but submitted, and
that without suffering, his country
to entertain even the wish to renew
the struggle. lie had to eudure
for some weary years, aud-then the
release. The over-wrought nerves
suddenly gave way; he sank at
once from perfect self-possession
and apparent health into collapse
and speeclilessness, and died as lit'
orally “ of a broken heart ” as ever
despairing patriot or defeated sol
dier—more truly far than most
“ broken-hearted ” victims of private
grief. So he passed away from the
country he could neither .save by
his sword nor restore to happiness
bv his counsels, but which he had
crowned with glory in war, aud res
cued in defeat from useless strug
gles and deeper misery. He has left
behind him no rival of her love, no
object of equal pride and reverence.
Nor is his fame confined to the
South. Wherever the English
tongue is spoken his name is revered
and honored—a name to which his
tory 7 furnishes few equal in milita
ry renown, none in moral grandeur,
the name of one who realized in ac
tiurl life the dreams of ideal chival
ry ; so great in victory that none
ever surpassed, so much greater in
defeat that none ever approached
him ; the patriot without a thought
of self, the hero without a shade of
affection or display ; the man who
would neither despair of his country
nor conspire against her conquer
ors ; ideal soldier and perfect citi-
.zeu, a Christian without pretensions
and a gentleman without flaw.
Ilore Cruel ISsan War.
A correspondent of the Kansas
7’imes revives a striking poem, of
which this is the history. A South
ern prisoner of war at Camp) Chase,
iu Ohio, after pining of sickness -in
the hospital of that station for some
tune, and confiding to his friend and
fellow captive, Col. W. S. llawkins,
of Georgia, that Ire was heavy of
heart because his affianced bride iu
Nashville did not write to hint; died
just before the arrival of a letter in
which the lady curtly biv,ke the en-
g- gement. .(Job Hawkins had been
requostej by; his dying comrade to
open any epistle which should come
for him thereafter, and upon read
ing the letter in question, penned
the following versified answer. The
lines wefe imperfectly given by the
Southern press immediately after
the war, and deserve revival, if on
ly for the sake of the corrections
requisite to do justice to their sen
timent and win for them a wider ap-
preciatiou :
MY fl'JEND.
Your legcr lady came too late,
For heaven had claimed its own j
Ah sudden change—from prison bats
Unto the great white throne!
And yet I think he would have stayed,
To live lor his disdain,
Gould he have read the careless words
-Which you have sent iu vain.
So full of patience did he wait, -
Throngl^many a weary hour,
That o'er .his simple soldier faith
Not even death had pqwer ;
And you--did others whisper low
Their homage iu your ear,-
As though amongst their shallow throng
Ills spirit had a peer t
I would that you were by me now
To draw the sheets aside
And see bow’ pure the look he wore
The moment when he died.
The sorrow that you gave to him
Ilad left its weary trace,
As ’twere the shadow ol the Crcvs
Upon his pallid face.
“ Her love,” he said ‘could change for me
The winter’s cold to spring
Ah; trust of tickle nmideuas love,
Thou art a bitter thing !
For when these valleys, bright iu .’ifay,
Once more with blossoms wave,
The Northern violet shall blow
Above his humble grave.
Your dole of scanty words had been
But one more pang to bear,
For him who kissed unto the last
Your tress of golden hair;
I did not put it wtiere he said,
For when the -angels come,
I would not have them find the sign
Of falsehood iu the tomb.
I've read your letter, and I know
The .wiles that you had wrought
To win that noble heart.of his,
Aud gained it—cruel thought!
What lavish wealth men sometimes give
For what is worthless all ;
Wbat manly bosoms beat for ttuth
In folly’s falsest thrall!
Y'ou shall not pity him, for now 7
Ilis sorrow has an end ;
Y'et would that you could stand with me
Beside my fallen friend ;
And I forgive you for his sake,
As he—if it be given —
Slay e’en be pleading grace for yoii
Before the court of heaven.
To-night the cold winds whistlo by,
As I my vigil ’keep
Within the prison dead-house, where
Few mourners come to weep.
.A rude plank coffin holds bis form ;
Y"et death exalts bis face,
And I would rather see him thus
Thau clasped in your embrace.
To night your home may shine with lights,
. And ring with merry song,
And you be smiling, as your soul
Had done no deadly wrong ;
Your hand so fair that none would think
It penned these words of pain ;
Your skin so white—would Gud, your heart
Were half so free from stain.
I’d rather be my comrade dead
Thau you if life supreme ;
For yours the sinner’s waking dread,
And his the martyr’s dream.
Whom serve we in this lita, we serve
In that which is to come ;
He chose his way ; you yours ; let God -
Pronounce the fitting doom.
He is truly a man, who is full of
enterprise; who is perpetually plan
ning new works ; who is constantly-
acquiring new thought; who is all
the time opening new chambers;
w)io is every day furnishing the
rooms of bis mind with new pic
tures and new furniture; who is in
cessantly spreading for himself a
new table with noble aspirations and
endeavors, as the sign of soul life.—
Every Man who really lives is liv
ing by a generous use of the future.
“Be content with what you have,”
says the philosopher. But suppose
you have the itch 'i
liupm-iiiii! to Iloiiiers.
In response to a resolution recent
}y adopted by the New York Rub-
lie Health Association, I).i. Jacoby
submitted the following schedule of
directions concerning antile diet
in Summer. The physicians present
agreed unanimously that if printed
copies of the schedule were distrib
uted much good would result from
it.
Over-feeding does more harm
than aiything else; nurse a baby
of a month old or two every two or
three hours; nurse a baby of six
months and over, five times in twen
ty-four hours, and no more.
When a baby gets thirsty in the'
meantime, give it a drink of water
or bariey water. In very hot weath
er, mix a teaspoonful of whiskey
with a tumbler full of water; (no su-
gar.)
Boil a teaspoonful of powdered
barley (grind It on the coffee-grinder)
and a gill of water with salt for fif
teen minutes. Strain it aud mix it
with half as much boiled milk and
a piece of loaf-sugar.Givo it, luke
warm, through a nursing bottle.
Keep the bottle and mouthpiece
in water when not in use.
Give babies of five or six months
half barley-water and half boiled
milk, with salt and loaf-sugar.
Give older babies more milk in
proportion.
When the babies are very costive,
take oatmeal instead of barley, but
be sure to eook and straiu it.
When 3 7 our breast milk is half
enough for the infant, alternate with
bread aud food.
Iuhot Summer weather, dip a
small piece of litmus paper into the
food before feeding. If tlie blue
paper turns red, add a pinch of bak
ing soda to tho food.
Babies of six months may have
beef tea or beef soup once a day by
itself or mixed with other food.
Babies of tem or twelve months
may have a crust of bread .and a
pieee,o£ rare beefstake to suck.
No ckikl-under two years ought
to eat froffwjtfer table.
The Summer complaint comes
Irom overfeeding aud ho.t aud foul
air. Keep doors ami windows open.
Wash your children with cold wa
ter at ieast twice a day. Ten times
is not too many in the hot season.
When babies throw off and purge
give them n'othing to eat for four to
six hours, but all- the cold air you
can. After that, you may give a
few drops of whiskey in a teaspoon-
ful of ice water every five or ten
minutes, but no more antil the doc
tor cOmes. When there is vomiting
and purging give no milk.
Give no laudanum, no paregoric,
no soothing syrup, no teas.
Wit from tiie PuLriT.—It is re
lated of a certain New England di
vine, who flourished not many years
ago, and whose matrimonial rela
tions are supposed not to have been
of the most agreeable kind, that one
Sabbath morning, while reading to
his congregation the parable ’ of the
supper, in which occurs tbe’passage,
“And another said, I have bought
five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove
them; I pray thee have ine excused.
And another said, I have married a
wife; and therefore cannot come”—
he suddenly paused at the end of
this verse, drew off .his spectacles,-
and looking around on his hearers,
said, with emphasis : “The fact is,
my brethren, one woman can draw
a man farther away from the king
dom of heaven than five yoke of ox
en.”
A daughter is almost always right^
when she endeavors to imitate her
mother ; but we do not think the
mother is- equally right, when - at a
certain period of life, she tries all
In her power to imitate her daught
er.’
Two members of the Legislature
being noisily drunk on a railway
train, the conductor remonstrated.
One of them pompously demanded,
“Do you know, sir, that I - am a
member of the Legislature?” The
conductor quietly replied, “You’ve
got the symptoms”
A three hundred pound poetess
is telling a Western paper what she
ironl.l ih> “if she were a suu beam.”
Sharks ssa fi’ioriria Waters
Their Exploits iu Han
lHating 7 .
In a letter from Florida to the
New York Suu, Mr Amos Cum
mings writes: The water fairly
boils with sharks. I counted 112
within tho space of an acre, none of
which were less than 8 feet long.—*
Indian river people say they have
seen them 20 feet in length. I saw
one that measured over 17 feet.—*
They would frequently break under
the bows of our twenty-one foot sail
boat, careening her to one side and
ut times half lifting her from the
water. They flocked about the
boat by dozens, and cast hungry
looks at tho huge yellow dog on tho
forecastle. Atone time I struck a
twelve-fpot fellow over the siiput
with a heavy boat pole, lie made a
great swirl through lhe water as if
surprised, but saucily darted back
to the Craft to see what had hit him.
Occasionally boa'lme.n -plunge lily
irons into them, and tow them about
the river against wind and tide foi*
miles. Some of the natives declare
that they .are man-eaters, while oth
ers deny it. Jim Paine, of Fort
Capron, told me that ho had stood
in the water for hours while these
big sharks were nosing about his
legs, but Dr. Fox my guide, seemed
afraid of them, aud declared that he
had known them to pull an estima
ble young lady from Savannah out
of a boat while she was dragging
her.hand behind the stern. She
was.cut into mince meat iu five sec
onds. During tho war, it is said
that a boat containing 14 men was
upset, iu Jupiter Inlet, about 20
feet from shore. There was a foam
ing of the waters, and in a half a
minute 12 of the If men disappear
ed. The water tinged with blood
marked the spots where they had
been drawn under. Two of tho
sailors got ashore, hut so bitten and
in shreds that they died soon after
ward.
I was told another story of four
men who started to walk up tho
beach from Capo Florida to St. Au
gustine, They managed to get
across New Inlet upon au improvise
od laft, but on arriving at Lake
Worlhlnlet they attempted to swim
across. Three of them were gob
bled up by sharks.' The' fourth
reached the shore, and traveled on
to Jupiter Light, where lie told of
the'fate of his comrades. These re
ports show that many of the sharks
are man eaters. The most of them
are of the shovel-nosed variety. As
they' are more lively and voracious
in the summer than in winter, it is
probable that they would attack a
man in July or August when they
would not touch him in December
or January-.
A' lawyer, having some.legal bus
iness to transact with a widow lady,
took occasion to inquire her age.—
The matron, who had long since
doffed the “widow’s weeds,” attempt
ed to look prim and much younger
than she really was, as she replied :
“Thirty-five, sir.”' Then turning to
the daughter, he said : “May I be
so bold, miss, as to inquire youtf
age ?” “Certainly; I am a little
past thirty-two—most three years
vounger than mother,!?
An old' bachelor said : “There’s a
darned sight more jewelry worn
now a days than when I was young,
but there’s one piece I always ad
mire that I don’t often see now.”—
“What’s that?” asked a young la
dy. “A thimble,” was the reply.—*
He was regarded with contempt
and scorn by every lady in the
room for the rest of the evening.
An eccentric old fellow, who lives
alongside of a graveyard, was asked
if it was not an unpleasant location.
“No,” said he. “I Dever jined
places iq all my life with a set of
neighbors that minded their own
business so steady as tli^ 7 do.”
• He who cannot abide the storm
without flinching, lies down by the
wayside fio be overlooked or forgot
ten.
Not to “improve the occasion”
merely, but to know the ocoacion to
ill.. I I'll Aot