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1868. 1868
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“YINCIT AMOR PATRIAE,”
Editorial Correspondence
OF THE ATLANTA INTELLIGENCER.
A Trip to Wilkes county—A visit
to the Plantation of Samuel Bar
nett, Esq.,—lmproved Agricul
ture—lts Profitable Results
Athens, Ga., Nov. 16, 1868.
During a short visit to the de
lightful town of Washington, Wilkes
county, during Court week, I had
the good fortune to visit the planta
tion of Samuel Barnett, Esq., who
is so well and favorably known to
the citizens of Georgia as an emi
nent lawyer, an accomplished finan
cier, an able scholar, and a good,
benevolent and useful citizeu. Since
the.state of Mr. Barnett’s health
has compelled him to abandon the
active practice of his profession,
and to some extent has deprived
him of the enjoyment of books, he
has devoted himself to agriculture ;
and, applying himself to that pur
suit with the same ardor and sys
tematic perseveranco which he has
brought to everything he has un
dertaken, he has succeeded admira
bly ; and if he continues in the
way on which he has entered with
such good promise, Mr. David Dick
son, of Hancock county, will have
to look odt for his laurels as the
Napoleon of cotton producers.
By thorough preparation of the
soil and careful and timely culture,
with comparatively little manure,
Mr. Barnett has raised a heavy
bale of cotton to the acre on a con
siderable part of the land planted,
and on his whole crop will gather at
the rate of 80 to 85 bags to every
120 acres planted. The land is
good upland, but of the same qual
ity as the generality of the lands in
Wilkes county, and with th« aU
jrtowmg and after cul
ture would produce at the outside
about 500 or 600 lbs. ' f-seed cot
ton. lie used seed carefully selec
ted by himself, which from the
smallness of the limbs and the num
ber of bolls which grow close round
the stalk, I call the “cluster cot
ton.” equal in quality and length
of fibre to the best “Dickson,* cot
ton, and superior, in my judgment,
to any cotton I have ever seen in
the quantity it yields to the stalk.
Planted with the rows from 3) to 4
feet apart and from six to eight
inches apart in the row, it will
yield certainly on good land in an
ordinary year from 1,000 to 1,200
lbs. of seed cotton to the acre, and
with an application of 200 to 250
lbs. of “Dickson’s Mixturr” (Peru
vian Guano, dissolved bones, salt
and land plaster,) it will yield a
good bag per acre beyond a doubt,
provided the land is thoroughly
plowed, subsoiled and cultivated.
I was much struck by the perfect
system with which Mr. Barnett
manages his plantation. Every
field in cultivation is carefully sur
veyed and a map made of it for re
ference and guidance in the opera
tions of the farm. The fences and
gates are in perfect repafr. The
buildings are in good order. There
is a place for everything and every
thing is in its place, and a book is
kept of the daily M ork on the plan
tation, showing the proper mode of
culture for each crop with notes es
the latest improvements in imple
ments, way of using them, time, &c.
Mr. Barnett contemplates mak
ing some experiments with different
sorts of manure in various quan
tities and in different relative val
ues, which will be a very valuable
contribution to agriculture when
the result is made known, as he
never guesses at anything, or leaves
others to guess for him.
I regret that I did not see nis
plantation earlier in the season be
fore ‘chill November’s surly blast
made fields and forests bare,” but I
saw enough to warrant my making
particular notice of what I saw, for
the benefit of others that they may
follow his example and improve
their mode of agriculture. His
seed is certainly from one-third to
one-half better than the ordinary
seed of the country, and I would
recommend farmers, if they can,
to procure some of them for the fu
ture. I don't know whether Mr. B.
will sell any of them this year, but
if he does, those who are fortunate
enough to get them will find it
much to their advantage ; but they
must make up their minds to do
more than scratch their land with a
“scooter," and then tear the young
plant with a “shovel,” and be sure
to do all their deep plowing before
they sow their seed.
I know of nothing by which
newspaper writers can benefit the
public more now than by obtaining
and imparting reliable information
on matters relating to the material
interests of the people. To make
two bolls of cotton, or two stalks of
corn, grow where one grew before,
is a subject of far more vital inter
est at present than anything con
nected with general politics. That
we can reclaim onr waste places
and restore our fallen fortunes, if
we will only go to work, and culti
vate our lands intelligently, and on
the principles upon which success
depends in every other business, is
evident to every one who will visit
the plantations of Mr. Dickson or
Mr. Barnett, and of several other
intelligent planters, and who will
real what has been done by the
Athens Wheat Club On the old,
’ warn-out, red hills round Athens.
If we will insist on planting twice
and three times the number of acres
we can prepare, manure, and culti
vate, we must not blame any one
but ourselves if we find that plant
ing does not pay. But if we will
only plant as much land as we can
prepare thoroughly, manure abun
dantly, and cultivate perfectly and
at the proper time, we can make a
bag of cotton to the acre, with one
third of the labor it would require
to scratch over three acres which
together might produce 1,000 lbs.
of cotton “in a good year.”
It is nothing but “vanity and
vexation of spirit”—certainly the
latter—to attempt to carry on the
old large plantation system in the
old way. We must sell off the old
juuW-mml-W I — lr *»
good “pcert” animals. We must
set aside the old stumpy “scooters”
which break land about inches
deep on an average, and buy Brin-
Iv plows. We must give up plant
ing our old exhausted lands with
out applying manure, ami only
plant as much as we can afford to
manure liberally, and if we do this
and attend to our own business, not
trusting everything to an overseer,
even with freedmen, planting will
pay, and pay well. .*,*
From thf Madison Auditor.
To the People of Georgia
Farmers' Contention, at Ma
con, December 9th, 1868, Ap
point Deli gates.
The undersigned were appointed
a committee, at a meeting of Agri
culturalists held in the city of Ea
tonton, Ga, at the late Agricultu
tal Fair in Putnam county, to ad
dress you on the subject of Immi
gration, and to ask your co-opera
tion. It was agreed to hold a mee
ting in the city of Macon at the
City Hall, at 10 o'clock a.m, on
Wednesday, the 9th day of Decem
ber, ensuing, composed of one del
egate, at least, from each county
in the State, to advise and set on
foot the best plan for all the differ
ent sections of Georgia to promote
immigration from the Northern
States and Europe, as will furnish
the best labor on the best terms,
for the improvement and develop
ment of all the varied interests of
Georgia and Georgians. Touch
ing the immediate subject of emmi
gration, the committee deem it best
not to propose any plan of action
in this address, but to leave the
whole question to the Convention—
and we simply urge a full atten
dance at the Convention.
This, people of Georgia, is no
small work, nor is it a Utopian idea
And now is the time for the work
to begin. It has already been de
layed too long, and if deferred still
will only end in greater injury.
Farmers of Georgia ! the burden
rests mainly on your shoulders.
Others are to be benefitted in a cor
responding ratio—but it devolves
mainly upon you to ‘put the ball in
motion.’ Co-operation is what we
need. This is to be effected by full
and free discussion of the whole
question. This can be had at Ma
con at the time specified. We
cordially invite you, therefore, far
mers of every county in Georgia,
to appoint one or more deligates to
represeut your interests in the Con
vention at Macon, and to aid in the
work. We must not wait. There
is too much danger in delay. Too
much sacrifice in postponement.
Send the best men you can get,
and let the good work commence.
It will take months to accomplish
the first step in the enterprise. It
is all-important to begin right. One
false step may be productive of in
calculable mischief. Our present
labor, from the signs of the times,
will, in a few years more, be almost
worthless. It is not the sort of la
bor we need now. It is inadequate,
unskilled and unreliable, and be
coming more so every year.
Maryland is awake! Virginia is
arousing Missouri, Texas and Ar
kansas arc all moving Georgians!
we, too, must bigin, i - ' we would
save onr goo ’ old Stale, ourselves
and our children from abject pov
erty. Our invitation is ear nest—
the crisis is near; the results cer
tain and glorious, if we begin
right—begin in time, and act
throughout with wisdom. Let us
have representatives from every
county at Macon. And let us then
and there inaugurate a system of
labor which shall regain our lost
prosperity. It, and it alone, will
be our salvation.
The redemption of Georgia
from poverty, now upon her, the
improvement of her lands, the dc
velopment.of all her great and va
ried resources, is the work to be
accomplished. It can be done.
This work must have a bogining.
—This is the object of tlie Con
vention at Macon. There is not
labor enough in the State to ac
complish a tithe ol what may be
done, with ptoper management,
luaddilion to all the labor we
now have, we need hundreds of
thousands of skilled loborers from
abroad for this great work And.
in conjunction with this labor we
shall need capit ,1 and capitalists.
Let us invite them too, from the
&^^mns% r T£B« to
so.
Be not lukewarm upon this sub
ject, for this is the golden oppor
tunltyjto make a begining. No
work can be half so important for
us or our children.
B. T. Harris, of Hancock,
li. D. Capets, of Pu'ucru,
B 11. True, of .I/organ,
Committee.
Sparta, Ga., Nov. 10, 1868.
Think of the Poor.
How much of true religion is con
nccted with the poor! Christ
seems to have taken them under
his special charge. His Gospel
was preached to the poor; and this
was one of the signs which he sent
to John the Baptist in prison. With
His own blessed hands He fed the
poor by a creative act, having com
passion on them when they fainted.
His miracles, we have reason to
think, were, in a majority of in
stances, wrought upon the poor;
and ‘the common people heard him
gladly.’ The apostles at Jerusalem
were anxious that Paul shoud re
member the poor. And when
Christ shall sit on his throne of
judgment ho will make inquisition
concerning all we have done, or
failed to do, in regard to the hun
gry, the naked, the stranger, the
prisoner, and the sick, and will re
gard us as having done, or failed to
do, all this to Hitnself.
There are powerful motives to
make us think of the poor. When
it is well with us, we should re
membed them; when we hear the
storm beating upon our habitations,
and yet are securely sheltered, war
med, fed, sitting over our books or
among our children, we should
think of the poor; when God has
stnt us some large or unexpected
gains, we should think of the poor.
If at any time, for a short period,
we are made to experience cold,
or pinching want, or hunger, or re
pulses from the proud, let us con
sider it an occasion for sympathi
zing with thousands who are suffer
ing something of this all their lives.
Reader, have you made this a
part of your religion, or divine ser
vice, ‘to visit the fatherless and wid
ows?’ Or is this part of your Cris
tian character defective?—Milwau
kee Church Register.
Black eyed ladies are most apt
to be passionate and jealous. Blue
eyed, soulful, truthful, affectionate
and confiding. Gray eyed phil»
osophical, literary, resolute, cold
hearted. Hazel eyed, quick-tem
pered and fickle.
[T. fl. MORGAN, Printer.
NO. 32.
Anna Dickinson la*
written a book favoring miscegena
tion, which was condemned by lie
sister, Mrs Cady Stanton in her
piper, The Revolution. For thi4
Theodore Tilton very properly takes
Mrs. Stanton to task. Now, we con
tend that the verdict pronounced
by the people in the election of Gen.
Grant,declared this a free country:-
everybody to marry as suits their
taste, a? the old lady said when she
kissed the cow ; and we hereby in
form Miss Dickinson, that she ha
a fine and a fair field in the South.
We have thousand* of buck-nigger>
who wouldn’t object to marry Yan
kee girls, and respectfully refe*
her to the Port-Royal Yanked
School inarms. The Rev. Theo
dore can also be supplied with »
Cold-black lloie, and ove will guar
antee that the Rebels will take n«
steps to prevent the course of their
true love from running smoothe.—•
Come ahead ! Miss Anna, and I ls
sec that you arc provided with a
husband of pure African scent an l
descent. Z. T.
Religious Denominations.—>
The Catholic Telegraph contains
the following table of Church sta
tistics in the United States, as fur
nished by Rev. Henry B. Smith,
D. IX:
Churehfu Coainuinie .n't
R-Hn.Nn fAiholid 3,309 4 000,000
Meth > list* 4 100 2,000,01) j
B«pti-tt 7 220 1 900 00*"
Preabjterian* 6,000 7 1 ( ! He*fJ”
Lutheran* 2,01-0 .vt-
Rrot. Kp-X'joonlian* 2.900 C>4
Gorman Ker-rmoJ I,){W annrfa
Dutch Reformed «° 80 000
Making the total communicants
9,414,200. ora li'tle more than
one-fowvth of the whole population
of the United States. Thus about
three-fourths of our population, or
25,000,000, makes no profession of
\jnrTsnanitT. The articl* rop* *wt
to show that although Catholics are
at the head of the list in the num
ber of communicants, yet the differ
ent sects, though severally less, are.
under their generic name of Prot
estant, in excess of them, and the
non-professing portion of the com
munity arc hostile to the Catholic
Church.
The Banner of the
This excellent exponent of South- 1
era Literature and Southern Senti
ment is edited by Rev. A. J.R a .
author of the Southern Poems en
titled ‘The Conquered Banner.'
‘Sword of Robert E. Lee,’ ‘Praye -
of the South,’ etc.
Avery interesting and pleas
antly written story—‘The Earls of
Southerland’ —Lein the pen oft»
talented lady of Georgia, is now be
ing published in The Banner.
This journal is published at Au
gusta, Ga, by L. T. Blome & Cos.,
at three dollrs per annum, or 1.50
for six monts, invariably in all
iance. The people of the South
should give it an earnest and liber
al support.
Wc arc requested to announe*
that back numbers of the Banner,
containing ‘The Earls of Souther--
land,’ can be supplied. The story
is a charming one, being one of the
most interesting and pleasing wu
have ever read,
Tanning —Some time since wa*
the inquiry, how to tan skins with
the hair on? Any one can succeed
in doing so by taking two parts
saltpetre and one ofalum, pulver
izirig them well together, sprerd
the skin careful, fur side down..be
fore, it has got dried apply the
nrxture evenly, being eareial to
touch every part in sufficient quan
tity to thoroughly wet the surlac"
after it dissolves, double the flesh
side and roll it up closely, put it
iu a eool place out of the way ol
frost, and let it remain three or
lour days, perhaps, according tw
the thickness, then unroll, and
when it gets nearly dry, with a
dull knife remove the tat that may
adnere iu spots, and a little rub
tiing may make it pliable and lit
for use. — Boston Cultivator.
James Buchanan’s meenmeat
is to be a solid block of italioa
marble five feet high 7’feet 1 inch
long and 3 feet T inches wide with
heavy mouldings at tbs top and
bottom and a rich carved wreath
of oak leaves-
The New Orleans Crescent say?
that Henry Ward Beecher was a
teacher in that city injlß42, and
was distinguished for his vigorous
use ol the biith.