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VOL. 11.
THETHOMASTON herald,
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\>etheresu t —Hunt s Merchants’ Magazine.
" After I begin to u'verfi-e my ironware freelv,
bnsinns increased with Mm izuig rapidity. For ten
yen n past I h ive spent £3h.iM)o vearli to keep r ny
I ni[n‘r('>r wires hes re the pub'ic llad 1 been timid in
n-lvertising, 1 never should have po-sessed rny fortune
of —McLeod Belton. Birmingham
*• idvcrtising like Midas’ touch, tu> ns everything to
gold 0. it, your daring men draw millions to their
coffers”—Stuart Clay
DVhst audacity is to love, and boldness to war, the
ikil'ful use of printer's i i lr , is to success in business.’'—
Hr Cher.
"The newspapers mode Fisk.*—.T Fisk. Jr.
IVirhn it the aid of advertisemen’s I- ou and have done
nothing in my p dilations. I have the most com pie’e
i fai hin ‘■printers’ ink.” Advertising is the “royal road
to business ” —Rarnutn.
Professional Pards.
|V*Y \b it NUNN \ LliY A'trnevs at
« f Liw, (iritfin. Ga. Will practice in all the c<>un-
'he Flint Judicial ('ircuit. nn<l in the
toimie*of Met!wether, Clayton, Fayette and Coweta.
ill practice in the Supreme Court of Georgia and the
I'i-oict Court ot the United states for the Northern and
N'Mih ern Districts of Georgia
X. U NUSNALLY. [lpllsly] L. T. DOTAL.
\ aLLFjN. Attor oov at L ; w Thom—
' HS, in. Ga. Will practice in the eonntiea c»m-
I' Hini; [h e Flint Judicial Circuit, and elsewhere hy
J'y ,lil . strict All business promptly attended to.
Ir ß in Cheney’s brick building. tnehll-ly
TU T R KEN DAI Aj offers his pr>‘fes
1/ sional services tc the citizen- of I homnsto'i ami
U i’ 11 "' 1 "- country. May be 'mind durin ■ tee day at
' Hardaway’s itore, at night at the former resi
<*<•l ' harles Wilson. jan 14 ly.
| hbl>l)i N<», At'orooy at Lw.
, Barrxesvil p, PiUe co, Ga. Wifi practice in the
el l>l ’ n M"' s '"g the Flint Judicial Cir nit, end
iii.ni i "ntrict AI t'lisim ‘ss promptly
Tin sti, l > ue ia Elder - building, over < hamher’s
<irc ' augti- y
I BE ALL Attorney ut L*w.
enit ( ’ a - w iH practice-in the Flint Cir
_ elsewhere by special contract a..g27-!y
J' L\\ Kit Attorney sit Low.
Courts n f th (i ft- Will practice in all the
contr i.-f e Circuit, and elsewhere by special
..June2s-l.v
fl V LL. Attorney and (bumsell r
th.. l-j ''r" l ''.. ".hi practice in the counties composing
in,| mo, , lr . cil 'b In the Supreme Court of <»eor ia,
Jin,,, ** h*trict Court <>f the United States for the
_ r n and Sou hern Districts of tieorgia.
11 "litston, Ga , June 18th. 187"-1y. .
T'biKPH 11. SMITH. Attorney and
p , ' °unsellor at Law. Offh-e Corner Whitehall and
, ..' rs sheets \tl .nta, Ga. Wll practice n 'he Su-
L" 1, Courts of Coweta and Flint Circuits, the su
-1 trr, V " l “t °f the State, and the United States’ Dis-
A .,; ""a. All coin unications addre-sed to him at
will receive prompt attention. aprll9- ly
LVNiMJRsoN it McCALLA. Attorneys
|1,,1 v Uw.Covln.Vm, Ceorgia. Will attend regu
l*ouu'de« n Craet'ce in the Superior Courts of the
Im.«J ,V r N ewtnn, Butts. II -nrv, Spalding Pike.
I per. * * psi> n , Morgan, DeKalb. Gwinnette and Jas-
I dec 0-1 y
I M U«s,'Taibno Vll ‘ FW S. A»t Trie v tit
■ th,* ,'L ? n ' W BI practice all the counties
V •necial roiit rilc( ltla f>'>ochee Circuit and elsewhere by
K — _ decl*i-ly
Im Trilhut * LLIS. Attorney,*» sit Luw
I ouji nws | /jn, 'ia Prompt attention given to
I- declli ly
j t * )GFPE. Artnrnev at Low
I > n the (r n L,A ,"‘l' pntetice in the State Cour'B
■ ‘- &v annjih. i; a ' District Court at Atlanta and
I . dec 0 ly
1,7 • vi!, e U (t U a N Jj Attorney a r Low. Bsirrips-
I * hint i'j’ rc |... 'I 1 practice in ail the counties of
I T' — Supreme Court of the State.
If Law. fL hIHU NE, A rr.n-tiev at
■ K tr n 7 "f the practice in all the
■ •rther counties e 0 rcul1 ' ani * Upson and
| U—- dec!S-1y
I' ll c " r,fin " p rhe urnoticp
I Office at B. D. Hardaway’s Drag
ITVnr-r: d; ' cls - ly
B "ntify t h„ 'UNNAII. is nlonspif to
miff* «? he ««nt.inne
-O l " n . Ga ae n 1 18 various branches at
I s w •
| 4 i\<)a. V w? ER . Attorney tit Liw
B m the ITnitJa’ 10 * 1 ce in rirc,llt Courts o
■ ne Uaitfl d states District Courts.
J. G. KUTTS, | .1 \ MES F. WK-T
Ol Upson county, Oa. j Lato with F. L. Mathews.
BUTTS & WEST,
GENERAL
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
AND DEALERS IN
GROCERIES & PROVISIONS,
BARNESVILLE, GA.
W E v ' V ' ! ' 1, fr> the confidence
Tv of the people and their
o_a.su custom.
We shall deal for CABII. both buying r.nd selling.
Therefore we can sell Goods very cheap. With honesty
and promptness for our motto, we solicit, a share of the
public patronage. We cordially invite our Mends and
the public generally to call on us at Tooley’s New Rr ck
Building, near the Macon and Western Railroad Depot,
Barnesvllle, Ga,
TO THE PUBLIC.
I take pleasure in recommending Jas. F. West, who
has been with mein hnsiness for the last twelve months
T
ns being an honest, upright, nnd industrious young man,
and every one wi’l get what is due them by dealing
witli him.
may 13-1 rn FRANCIS L. MATHEWS.
ANDREWS & HILL,
MANTFACTUIiERS AND DEALERS IN
FURNITURE,
COFFINS, Sic., Sic.,
AT
.T. & T. G. ANDREWS’ Mill, Five Miles
Soul lx west of Thomaston, Ga.
\\J E WO uM rp-'rmotfnll v inform nnr
V V friends ard the public generally, that we have
established a
FURNITURE MANUFACTORY
at the r.bove named where wo manufacture and
keen constantly on hand stipe 1 i >r Furniture <>f all kire's,
varieties, and grides. We are prepared to fill all or
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with neatness and dispatch We fl itter ourselves that
we can please all that kn<>w good work when they see
it. t >ur facilities and advantages in preparing our own
Lumber and Manofieturing our own Work enables us
to otter anv quantity, better varieties, and decidedly
better bargains than other Furniture dealers in ihis
section of coun'rv. We earnestly request, all that are
in need of any thing in -mr line to c ill anti examine < ur
stock, as we feel satisfied that, we can give satisfaction
in Style, quality and price. All work warranteed to be
as repivsi ntetl. Orders solicited.
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written accounts of the heroic deeds of the Great Vir
ginian yet published.
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G \Y. M. BROWNE,
EDITOR,
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r n r S u i*onrl Vnliimo commences with
| November number. Now is the time to sub
scribe. Address, J. W. BURKE, .fe o*b,
octS ts Macon. Ga.
DR. THOS. A. WARREN,
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
OFFFRS his service's to the C’tizens of
Griffin and vicinity Special attention given to
the treatment of
CHRONIC DISEASES.
Those at a distance cancan consult him by letter.
Office over George Beecher &t o, iilStreet.
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WATCH REPAIRING.
rpilß citizens of Dnsno nntl ndjuccnt
1 counties are respectfully informed that 1 have
moved my stock to the store o' Mr Wm Wallace, and
am now prepared to execute work in mv fine of huM
n«ss, on the most favombl ferms. Kep iring of all
kinds done at thesh-.rU'Sl nmice and i ■ the neatest, mafi
ner. I have facilities h.r turning out good w .rk, and by
strict attention so btpdncss ho|ie to receive ft liberal
sba'e of patronage. Very respectfnllv,
aprilS ts WM L. BRYAN.
DENTISTRY!
r unHorsiwned hoin.r pcmoncntly
£ located in Thomston. still tenders thier professional
services in the practice of Dentistry to the citizens of
Upson and adjoining eountfi s Teeth inserted on gld
silver, adamanti eor rubber. All work warranted and
a go. and fir guaranteed. Office up stiirs over WILSON
SA WYEK’a store.
dec9 ft BRYAN A SAWYER.
THOMASTON, QA., SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 10, 1871.
Miscellaneous.
Monthly Oration of the Thomaston Lit
erftry Society.
The following oTatloti was delivered by
J. C. McMichad to the Society on the
evening of the 7th instant :
MODERATION.
There is a e’ear and we’l defined pathway
leading from the threshold of everv man’s
existence. It passes through the blooming
and fragrant flower-gardens, along the
verdant plains, across the crvstal waters of
the stream of you’h. It leads on through
the rich foliaged forests of charming and
happv summer, traverses the sear and yel
low fi a lds of autumn, and finally wends its
wav through the bleak and frigid plains of
life’s winter, surrounded by shining mir
rors of concealed water, to the dismal shore
of this rude world. This pathway is pecu
liarly inviting to everv one in his earthly
pilgrimage, who is not burning with desire
to quaff the last drop from the cup of am
bition and wreathe about his name the
most extravagant garlands of gWy. Like
the roads and paths which check so beauti
fully and usefully the rugged surface of
earth, it is crossed and run into until the
traveling stranger is not unfrequently non
plused to foil >w the desired course.
While there are many difficulties in fol
lowing the thread of moderation through
its mysterious windings, we are at times
warned of the error of departure by the
burdens of excess and extravagance. The
impetuous youth with lightness of heart
and buoyancy of spirit, the tints of his
cheek unmellowed by the influences of time,
leaving the propitious roof of his fostering
parents, passing from the vision of an ever
vigilant and doting mother, unguided hy
the dictations of a wise and judicious father,
is lead from the sweets of moderation by
the enticing blaze of ambition. lie soon
becomes inflated witli his own merits, his
vision dazzled by the glittering temple of
fame, and imagining that it needs hut an
effort to grasp the sceptre of power at»d call
the world to witness his greatness, he won*
dors immediately from the walks of modera
tion, whose hedges are lined with the
choicest fl >wcrs of true happiness, and
whose silver streams sing the sweetest
nrmlodms and constitute the most delectable
draughts and turns t i the delusive phan
toms of consuming ambition. ’Tis then
that the soothing of moderation lulls
not his throbbing brain ; ’tis then his soul
is being surrounded by igneous fuel that
will never cease to burn until he brings
some proud Prince 4o “bite the dust,” or
lays down his own ashes to soften the foot
falls of all others who may be deluded by
the same vaporv phantoms.
The annals of time aff»rd innumerable
examples us such m°n hurled from the giddy
eimnerience of ambition into the deepest
abyss of destructi in. History points to an
intellect, massive, piercing and brilliant, a
keen and resistless weapon hy which the
passions hewed a way to conquest ; an in-
tellect that enabled Aaron Burr to strew
the r »sy path of the happy with flowers of
a still brighter line : to arch tie tr mbled
sky of the disponding with the rainbow of
hope; to conjure up before the wrapped
vision nf the avaricious, mountains of gold,
and to point out to the aspiring the shadowy
vistas of glory. But the lamp of life must
extinguish ; the burning volcano must ex
haust its molten bowels according to the
inevitable laws of nature. Thus did Burr's
lamp burn with increasing brilliancy, re
cuperated by the fuel of ambition, and the
winter of age brought no snows to c »ol the
lava of passion. The crater wore a bright
glow, until the hoarse muttering thunders of
disaster jarred the flood of extinction from
the clouds of annihilation and Burr was
swept away to the sea of ignomini ms obliv*
ion.
No example, of the millions that we
might enumeiate, demonstrates more strik
ingly the inevitable results than the King
of Macedon, who ascended the throne in his
twentieth year, charged with the highest
and blindest, electricity, prepared to execute
hia fathers projected invasion of Persia,
chastised the neighboring barbarians and
riveted the chains of the Greeks. Impelled
by reckless lust of victory, dominion and
fame he destroyed Thebes with the excep
tion of the house of Pindor, rout'd the
forces of Darius, reduced Asia Minor, t-ub
dued Tyre, Egpyt, penetrated Lvbia and
caused the Amenian Oracle to proclaim
him the son of Jupiter. P using awhile
from conquest, the spirit of cruelty and de
bauchery had become so predominent in his
nature that he burned Persepolis, to gratify
ihe courtesan, Thais, murdered his veteran
General Parmenio, and in a spasm of ine
briation stabbed his friend Clytus. While
reveling in the intoxicating and immoderate
enjoyment of the immense wealth which he
found in the royal cities of Susa. E batana,
PtTsepolis and Babylon, a fever, said to
have been caused or aggravated by immod
erate and excessive drinking, compelled
him to depart as all otfiers must go who
fail to consult and be guided by the spirit
of moderation.
Rome teMs the sad and melancholy story
of Julius Caesar’s departure from the happy
mansion of moderation. Impelled by the
same burning desire, he pursued the visions
of ambition o’er turbulent waters, sur
mounting the most formidable barriers,
crushing host after host and legion after
legion until he, so inflated with his great*-
ne*B, believed the stream of humanity
directed by his potent hand. But the in*
evitable consequences of such immoderation
must come. The scene is first augured by
the face of the cLuds darkening with wrath,
hurling fnrth their angry bolts and piercing
the darkest Caverns with their lurid glare.
Though the murky canopy of eternal night
was soon to extinguish his splendid career,
the radiant and burning disc of hope
was still visible in the misty distance. He
still pursues the phantasmic vision of the
imperial crown, and just as lie is electrified
with a faint vision of glory’s Elysian fields ;
just as his lips open to quaff the coveted
chalice, the raging assassin piunges the
pointed dagger into his heart, and his life
blood, so dear to Rome and to himself, paid
for leaving the paradise of moderation.
Innumerable examples might be culled
from the dusty records of history, but we
will indulge but one or two more Turn
;to the lonely island of St. Helena and you
see the very personification of grief, gloom
and melancholly in the star that rose from
the lonely island of Carsica, dashed up the
political and military heavens of France,
with the rapidity and brilliancy of a meteor
took its station among the brightest lumina
ries tis the day and dazzled the world with
its splendor. Such are the deplorable con
sequences when ambition leads us from the
path of moderation.
As an example worthy of imitation, ex
amine the couise and character of the great,
glorious and immortal father of American
freedom and independence. After leading
his people through a long and bloody strug
gle, and so endearing himself as to be the
first in their hearts, he had the way to the
crown open to him, but his soul was too
pure and the love for his people too great
to stamp the brand of usurpation on his
name and deprive posterity of the choicest
boon man can enjoy.
But let us pause for a moment and watch
our frail hark launched on the stream of
desires. At first it glides along moderately
unmolested by agitated waters, hut the
stream widens, and the current grows more
rapid until its waters move in wild and
seenrrngly frantic aginations, and we are
borne over the precipice into the boiling
vortex below. When habit has brought the
miserable inebriate where “one sip of wine
will bathe the drooping spirits in delight,
beyond the bliss of dreams;” when an
intimate- acquaintance with old Bacchus
the “j 'lly god of laughing pleasures” has
enabled him to quaff the “generous juice
by juggling priests denied,” and his eves
sparkle and grow T lustrous at sight of the
headed bubbles on the rine of the crystal
cup, reason and sense flee from his brain ;
memory is spoiled and be swims for a time
in mirth, fancying some divinity within
him breeding wings, wherewith, he soars
from world to world, and in this dim deli
rium. his soul is sacked and drowned by the
seas he has swallowed from the capacious
bowl.
What is a Gentleman ?—ln the course
of an address to the Y >ung Men’s Christian
As-ociation, delivered lately hy the Bishop
of Manchester, his lordship said :
S >me people think a gentleman means a
m m of independent fortune- a man who
has his clothes made in the height of fash
ion by the most expensive tailor, a man who
tares sumptuously every d«y, a min who
need not work hard for his daily bread.
None <»/ these things make a gentleman
not one of them. Nor all of them together.
I have known, when I had charge of country
parishes, and when I was brought closer
into contact with working men than from
my changed position I am brought now
1 have known men of the roughest exterior,
who had been accustomed ail their life to
follow the plow and look after horses, as
thorough gentlemen in heart as any noble
man that ever wore ducal coronet. I mean
I have known them as unselfish. I have
kn >wn them as tender. I hive known them
as sympathizing: and all these qualities go
to make what I understand by the term "a
gentleman.” It is a noble privilege which
has been sadly pr .stifut°d. and what I
want to tell vnu is that the humblest man
in deeds who has the lowest work in life to
do, may yet, if his heart he tender, and pure,
and true, h°, in the most emphatic sense of
the word, a gentleman.
Advice of an Old Lady. — Now, John,
listen to me, for I am older than you, or I
cou’dn’t fie your mother. Never do you
marry a young woman, John, before you
have contrived n happen where she lives at
leas r four ,or five times before breakfast.
Y"U should know h >w late she lies in bed
in the morning. You should take notice
whether her complexion is the same in the
morning as it is in the evening, or whether
the wash and towel have robbed her of her
evening bloom. You should take care to
surprise her, so that vou can se° h»’r morn
ing dre'ss. and observe how her hair looks
when she is not expecting you. If possible,
you should be whpre you cu 1 I hear the
morning conversation between her and her
mother. If she is ill-natured and snappish
to her mother, so she will be *o you. f
on if. Bor if yon finfi her up and dressed
neatly in the morning, with the same
countenance, the same smile, the same
neatly combed hair, the sanre and
pleasant answer to her mother which char
acterized her deportment in the evening,
and particularly if .-he is lending a hand to
•ret the breakfast ready in good season, she
is a stunner. John, nnd the sooner you get
her to yourself the better.
The Josh Billings Pa|)ers^-KorU-
Korn is a serial, i am glad ov it.
It got its name from Series, a primitiff
woman, and inher day the goddess ov oats,
and sich like.
Korn iz sumtimes called maize, and it
grows in sum parts of the western country
araaieenly.
I have seen it out there 18 foot hi. (I don’t
mean the nktual korn itself, but the tree on
which it grows).
Iv rn haz ears, but never haz but one ear,
which iz az deff as an adder.
Injun n eal z made out ov k rn. and korn
dodgers is made out ov injun meal, and
korn dodgers are the tuffest chunks, ov the
bread purswashun, known to man.
Ivom dodgers are made out ov water,
with injun meal mixed into it, and then
baked on a hard board, in the presence of
a hot fire.
When you can’t drive a 10 penny nail
into them with a -ledge hammer, are said,
hi good iudge*>, to be well done, and are
reddv tew be chawed upon.
They will keep five years in damp place,
and not gro tender, and a dog hit with one
ot them will yell for a week, and crawl
under the barn and mutter for two days
more.
I have knnwd two days miself on one side
of a korn dodger with"iit produ>ing enny
result, and i think could starve to death
twice before i could seduce a k 'rn dodger.
They git the name of dodger from the
imrregiate necessity ov dodgeing if oue iz
hove horig »nfa!ly tit yu in anger.
It iz far better to be smote hi a 3 vear old
steer than a korn dodger that iz only three
boors old.
K 'rn was fust discovered hi the injuns.
but whar they found it i don’t know, and i
don’t kt ow az i care.
Jonny kake iz make out ov korn, so iz
hasty puddin.
Hasty pudfin and milk iz quick tew eat.
All you hav tew do iz tew gap and swal
low, and that is the last of the puddin.
Korn was familiar tew antiquity. Joseph
was sent down into Egypt after some korn,
hut hiz brothers didn’t want him to gn, so
they took pity on him, and pitted him in a
pit.
When hiz brothers got hack hum, and
«e r e asktd where Joe waz, they didn’t ac>
knowledge the korn, but lied sum.
It haz been proved that it is wicked tew
lie about korn, or euny ov the other vegeta
bles.
Tharc iz this difference between lieing
and sawng wood, it iz easier tew lie,
esp'*shly in the shade.
Korn haz one thing that nobody else has
got. and that iz a kob.
This koh runs thru the middle ov the
korn. and iz az phull of korn az Job was ov
biles.
I alwus feel sorry when i think ov Job.
and wonder how he managed tew Bet down
in a chair.
Knowing how tew set down square on a
bile without hurting the chair, iz one ov the
lost arts.
Job waz a card : he had more pashuns
and biles tew the square inch than iz usual.
One hundred and twenty-five akers ov
korn tew the bushel iz considered a good
crop, but I have seen more.
I hav seen korn sold lor 10 cents a bushel,
and in sum parts ov the western country it
iz so much that thare aint no good law
against stealing it.
In tonklusion, if you want to git a sure
krop ov k"rn, and a good price for the krop,
feed about four quarts ov it to a shanghai
rooster,- then murder the rooster immejiate
and sell him for 17 cents a pound, krop and
all.
Biography Boiled Down.
Plutarch. —l only know the g-ntlemnn
hy reputation. He was always sp ken of in
the plural number. ’Plutarch's lives’ is a
common * but how many there
were of him I aru not prepared to say.
General Duke of Wellington.— An
officer in the British army Mr. L ngfel-
Inw makes honorable mention of him as
‘The Warden of Unique Foi.it ’ Cinque
means five principal points, usually denom
inated Five Points. He lived to a ripe old
age and died.
Julius C.rsar.—Son of obi man Cwar.
He was born in R one in his infancy, nnd
upon arriving at the siate of manhood fie
became a R mian. He was a fig iter and
warrior of some tlote. His friend Brutus
one morning him how many eggs he
had eaten f>r b-eakfast, and he replied *Et
til 'Brute ’ llis friend became enraged at
being called a brute, and stabbed CiC'ur
quite dead.
Mahomet. —Author of Koran, an excit
ing romance, which be wrote in Mammoth
Cave, at Mecca. He was the author of a re
ltgious creed, with which he stuffed
Turkey and trind to get up a boi! in Greece,
bur failed. Many of his early followers
suffered great per-ecutions. Some of them
were burnt at the stake He had three
temples, one at Mecca, undone un eacn side
of his head.
Guy Fawkes.— A warm-hearted, impul
sive Englishman, who believed the Parlia
ment too good for this earth and devised an
expeditious method of elevating the mem
bers to a better sphere. He was interrupt
ed in his good intentions, hut for the cir
cumstance he would have -made a great
noise in the world. He was <-x cuttu for
his disinterested benevolence and subse
quent’y burnt at a place called Effigy.
Bonaparte I.— A harem-scatem sort of
a fellow, who occupied a position of consol**
arable responsibility in the French nation.
The impression went abroad that he wa<
ambiti ois, which damaged his reputation
materially. He gained the* respect and ad
miration of the French nation because hap
pily, he was not a Frenchman. When
a-ked if he tb- ught hecmld govern France,
he replied. ‘Of Corsican.’ The close of his
life was not as bright as the beginning, but
there was some of it in a narrt w compass.
Peter the Hermit Pet<» was principal
ly notorious for stirring up a little difficulty
between the Christians and the Mahomme
dans, which exrended over a period of thir
ty years, resuiting in numerous excursions
by land and water, under the f urinating
title « f the Crusades. Trie Hermit was an
itinerate lecturer, and had he lived in our
day would have turned his attention to hu
mor, thereby saving a deal of bloodshed.
The Crusades turned out like the .author of
the creed they were intended to anihiiate—
a false prophet.
InUtK-ncr of Diversified Industry'.
From Mr. Greeley’s late speech before the
Lexas Agricultural Society, at Houston, wo
take the following :
Admitting that the South ha* grown, and
stili grows too much cotton—(and I judge
that three millions of bales grown in 1870
would have netted her as large a sum as the
lour millions she actually did grow) —I see
no way to counteract this tendency hut hy
introducing rew branches of industry
whereof the product will also c mm and
money. In vain do you exhort the average
planter to grow more ern and make pork ;
be is of en in debt, and chooses to produce
what will surely sell (or the money he s re
ly needs, lie is sure*cotton will do this;
he is not sure a* to corn aud pork. But
plant one hundred cotton and as many
woolen factories on the s >d of your State,
making a steady ca«h market here for wool
and meat, for grain and vegetables, as well
as cotton, and now your agriculture will
naturally and certainly divide its forces and
diversify its products. Farmers, will grow
all these if they know that a sure cash mar
ket is at hand. A denspr population, a
greater var’e y and range of employments,
these are pressing wants of the entire South.
Every wheel set to turning on a Southern
water-fall, every manufactory of edge-tools
or farm implements, started in any of your
cities or villages, is certain profitably to di
vert labor from your cotton fields, as naked
preaching never will. There is hardly an
acre of Southern land which would not he
doubled in value if S mthern farms were
mainly cultivated with Southern made im
plements, Southern backs clothed in South
ern woven fabrics, and Southern d'■veilings
filled with Southern-made furniture and
wares. And, now that slavery has gone
out, it is high time that the useful urts were
steadily and rapidly coming in.
Am I inculcating what would injure my
own section ? Not at all. The more you
do for yourselves, the more Vou will require
from abroad. The State of Arkansas has
more inhabitants than the city of Boston ;
yet the latter, while the focus of an immense
' interchange and consumption of do
mestic products, .buys and consumes far
more of the productions of foreign lands.
Our purchases are limited, not by our needs,
hut by our means. A thousand times ic
has been predicted that we should destroy
our foreign commerce by protecting home
industry, and a thousand times this has
been proved a fallacy hv increased imports
under high duties. If Texas were expend
ing four times as much as she is, per an
num, in the purchase of home-made ware
and fabrics, she would buy far more from
abroad than she now does. If she had a
dozen ax factories in full operation, she
might import fewer axes than now, hut her
imports of steel, iron, and a hundred other
articles, would be swelled beyond computa
tion.
I hold the naturalization of new and the
extension of existing manufactures among
the most urgent wants of this State, as of
nearly every young community. Hence, I
hold —not that you ought to pay a high
price for a poor article because it is home
made—not that you should forego the grat
ification of a legitimate want because tho
article it contemplates is not of Texas
growth or fabrication— but that each of you
should give an intelligent preference, oilier
things being equal, to whatever is made on
your own soil—should buy your harness,
or saddle, or pail, or broom, or plow, or ax,
of your neighbor’s make, in preference to
one brought from abroad—should take and
pay for some first-rate Texas journal before
looking aborud for a better. Having thus
done your doty by the community whereof
you are a part, if you are wilTing and able
to take a second journal, I might possibly
aid you in finding a good one.
Crops in the Wk-t. —The recent cold
snap which extended slang the Ohio Valley
and through Illinois and Missouri, has done
great injury to the crops in that section.
Over a wide belt of country the thermome
ter sank below the freezing point, and in
many sections the fruit crops were entirely
destroyed. Grapes, pears and cherries on
both sides of the Ohio were destroyed, or
greatly injured ; the most of which was
very promising will he curtailed, and, worst
of all, the tobacco plants nearly all peri-hed,
arid the early wheat was seriously injured.
It is true that with tlie exception of the
fruits this damage is not irreparable, hut it
will seriously efT-ec the farmers. Tobacco
planters will be able to get more plants, but
this necessity will delay setting out, and
expose the crop to all the vicissitudes of a
late season.
Throughout a large portion of Kentucky,
and in other localities along the Ohio, there
has been a long drought.
A gentlemen, one evening, was seated
near a lovely woman, when tho company
weie proposing connundrums to each o f her.
Turning to his companion, hS said : “Why
is a lady unlike a mirror?" She gave it
up. “Because," said the rude fellow, “i»
mirror r* fleets without speaking; a lady
sp-aks without reflecting." ‘ Very good,"
said she. "Now answer me. Why is a
mm unlike a mirror?" “I cannot tell
you.” "Because the mirror is polished, and
the man is not."
"Two weeks ago, Mr. Samuel Loverhill.
of Newark, N. J., seventy-four years old,
was married at Waterloo, to Amy Barclay,
of Michigan, aged seventy-three. The
officiating clergyman was ninety years old
and married the bride to a former husband
vr.ure than half a century ago. Two of the
bridesmaids were seventy-three aud feven
ty-seren years of age." Really, it seems if
folks never get old enough to “quit their
loolishne.-s."
A bacuei/’R says that all he should ask
for in a wife would he a good temper,
sound health, good understanding, agree
able physiognomy, pretty figure, good con
nection, domestic habits, resources of
amusements, good spirits, conversational
talents, elegant manners aud plenty of
money ?
The inhabitants of a tuvvn in Minnesota
recently took a notion to remove their
cemetery. In digging about the hones they
came acr- ss the body of a woman who was
buried thirteen years ago, and found it to
ho as hard as stone. Several other bodies
were found in the same condition.
NO. 27.