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iXD JfOTAUT P C B I. X C,
THOMSON, OA.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW.
THOMSON, GA.
HT Will practice in the Augusta, North
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Thomson, Gn.
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Central t)otel,
BY
MRS. W. M. THOMAS.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
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A CARD.
I AM frequently asked bv my friends if I
am doing a general practice, or only at
tending inch calls as may be made in good
weather or convenient to my offleo.
In answer to the above, I would say to
my former patrons and friends, that from
this date I will enter upon the active duties
ol my profession looking in part to those
who may ask my services for my reward.
Office on Main Street, in Holzendorf's
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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.,
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Paper Stock, Hides, Wool,
WAX, Etc-
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wants of old and new patrons, if desired, at
their residences.
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ing counties. Panic prices insured and all
work warranted.
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VOL. VI.
To the Afllicted.
IN CALLING THE PUBLIC ATTENTION
TO THE
Indian Compound
COUGH MIXTURE
FOR the cure of CONSUMPTION and
all diseases of the LUNGS -and
THROAT. I say that liothiug surpasses it
for Colds and Coughs, and can be taken
from old age down to the cradle with iinpu -
nitv, and withont danger. But the profes
sional world is so full of Ambiguousness
and Egotism, that anything put before the
public as a safe and reliable Remedy for
certain diseases is scoffed at and pro
nounced worthless and a humbug. I say
try it before you condemn it. as I will give
you the name of every herb, &e., that it is
composed of. which you can examine at
your leisure: Vitellus Ovi, Amygdaius
Persies. Mel, Pinus Palustrus, Andromeda,
Arborea. Arctium Leppa, Inula Helemutu,
Marruhium Vulgare, Autennaria Symphy
tum, Duichwachsener Wasserdost, Cepha
lanthus Occidentals, Symphytum Offici
nale
It is prepared at my office, No. 56 Peach
tree street, ATLANTA, GA., where it can
he had in any quantity. If any one using
it will say that it has done them no good,
return the bottle and get your money re
turned. S. T. BIGGEKS, M. D.,
Cls-f*. Atlanta, Ga.
For sale by Dr. A. D. Hill, Thomson, Ga.
Spring Time 1 Again!
C L
ES A
N X
T N
ENT
€mraim,
BOOTS,
S'IOES,
HATS,
AC, AC., AC.
JUST received a large lot of Spring and
Summer Goods of all kinds, which are use
ful, good, pretty and cheap.
We only ask inspection before you spend
a dollar for anything in our line.
A. J. Adkins,
THOMSON, GA.
The Me of Gannon.
rPhis thorough-bred TENNESSEE BULL.
| whose pedigree is well established and
can be traced buck through the purest stock
for many years, is now standing on lny
plantation four miles Nortli-cast of Thom
son, near the old White Oak Campground.
He possesses all the qualities of the finest
blooded stock in the laud, is throe years
old, of dark brown color, weighs about fif
teen hundred pounds, a model form, per
fectly gentle and well .Imposed.
I am prepared to take care of cows sent
from a distance at reasonable rates. A
number of his calves may be seen at the
residences of Messrs. T. B. West, Win. 11.
Johnson, and others. Price of season
$5.00,
M. W. CURRY.
May 10-6 m.
1870. I 877.
GEORGIA DIRECTORY.
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POETICAL.
SOWING SEED.
We are sowing, daily sowing,
Countless seeds of good and ill,
Scattered on the lovely lowland,
Cast upon the windy hill;
Seeds that sink in rich brown furrows,
Soft with heaven’s gracious rains;
Seeds that rest upon the surface
Os the dry, unyielding plains.
Seeds that fall amid the stillness
Os the lowly mountain glen ;
Seeds cast out in silent places,
Trodden under foot of men;
Seeds by idle hearts forgotten,
Flung at raudom on the air;
Seeds hv faithful souls remembered,
Sown in tears and love and prayer.
Seeds that lie unchanged, unquickened,
Lifeless on the teeming mould;
Seeds that live and grow and Sourish
When the sower's hand is cold.
By a whisper sow we blessings,
By a breath we scatter strife;
Iu our words and looks aud actions
Lie the seeds of death and life.
Thou who knowest all our weakness,
Leave us not to sow alone!
Bid Thine angel guard the furrows
• Where the precious grain is sown,
Till the fields are crowned with glory,
Filled with yellow ripened ears—
Filled with fruit of life eternal,
From the seeds we sowed in tears
Cheek the forward thoughts and passions,
Stay the hasty, heedless hands,
Lest the germs of sin and sorrow
Mar our fair and lovely lands.
Father, help each weak endeavor,
Make each faithful effort blest,
Till Thine harvest shall be garnered,
And we enter into rest.
"the great sea-serpent.
THE TABLED MONSTER REAPPEARS.
Wliat was seen from a steamer—A mar
velous Apparition—An incredulous
Captaiu—Why the t- kipper declined to
join the Spectators.
[ From Bombay Gazette. ]
Steamship Hydaspes, March 22, 187 G.
I must toll you at once that I write on
one of the most worn and commonplace
of subjects—the 'oyage of a Peninsular
and Oriental steamer from Bombay to
Aden. But I must ask you, before
throwing this letter into tbo waste-paper
basket, to read it through carefully. If
it bo not published, one of the most ex
traordinary facts iu this world's history
may be absolutely lost; aud, in the inter
est of truth, in the interest I may say
truly of science, I ask you to make known
wliat I now state. Asa missionary, I
have traveled over a great part of the
world, but I can safely aver that what
I saw on Saturday, the 18th day of
March, was incomparably the most mar
velous phenomenon that 1 as ever met
mv eves.
We steamed out of Bombay harbor on
the eveuing of Monday, the 13th of
March, in the steamship Hydaspes,
Captain Reynold. On Tuesday at 12 we
had made 161 miles, on Wednesday at
midday 429, on Thursday 707, and on
Friday nearly 1,000, so that on Saturday
morniug we were about 1,550 miles from
Bombay. Nothing of remark had occurr
ed up to Saturday. There were u monkey
and a Persian cat among the passengero,
which had caused some little amusement,
aud thirty-two children, who caused ex
treme anuoyauco to the male passengers
j from constant screams that they gave
l forth morning noon, and night. The
weather was aool and nearly every one
slept below, only one passenger, a Capt.
Davidson, and myself remained on deck
for the night. I was roused from sleep
every morning at 6 by the men washing
and scraping the decks, and on Saturday
was roused as usual. I took my plate ol
broken biscuits to the stern and sat there
munching them and looking at the sun
risiDg. I was quite alone, Capt. Davidson
still sleeping in peace on the port side.
There was a thick bank of clouds on tlie
horizon, and as the sun rose from the
sea, behind this dark bank, great masses
of color—red and blue aud yellow—lit
up the whole expanse of sky and sea. I
was looking at a strange ruddy blot of
red on tbe water right astern, when I saw
apparently near the horizon, but in the
red blot, a dark moving shadow. It did
not seem to move with the other shadows
on the sea, and this fixed my attention
to it. Soon I saw that it was steadily
approaching the vessel. I could distin
guish no form, only a dark shadow, but
I made out certuinly that it was advanc
ing toward us and at a great rate. Fif
teen minutes must have passed when I
at last became able to distinguish the
form of the advancing object. (I spoke
to the captain afterwurd as to the distance
the object could have been from us when
I first distinguished it, and he told me I
must have been deceived by the moving
lights in supposing it near the horizon ;
aud he guessed, from what I said, that it
was then only three or fonr miles distant.
Mistakes of a like nature, he said, are
oommonly made by the inexperienced.)
I oannot acurately describe my feelings
ou beholding that hideous sight. At fi i-t
I turned to call out, to briDg others to
look on with me; but, before a cry could
pass my lips, a second feeling of selfish
pleasure that I alone saw that fearful
thing, seized me, and I turned my eyes
again to the sea, and kept them fixed
there. Within a hundred feet of the
stern of our vessel, not now approaching
us, but simply following steadily in our
wake, was this hideous thing. A great
THOMSON, GA. JFJNE 14, 1876.
mass of what looked like tangled seaweed,
ou which a futile attempt at combing
had l>een made, rose out of the water.
This mass must have been twenty or
thirty feet in' length, and ten feet iu
width, aud as it tame ou it caused a wide
ripple in the water that showed there
must be a still greater part below the
surface.. From the centre of this mass,
raised juat clear above it aud facing tbe
vessel, was a great black head. The top
was quite fiat, in shape unlike that
of a monstrous toad. A thick fringe of
coarse reddi h hair hung over the mouth,
quite concealing it. But the eyes were
the most awful part of this fearful thing.
They wore placed far apart, at either ex
tremity of tluT fiat head, distant from
each other at least three feet, I must
here state that all the passengers and all
the crew except tit* Captain himself saw
the thing afterward, but that there were
scarcely two who could agree as to the
color and nature of these eyes. I can
only, therefore, write ns they appeared
to me. The eyeballs were enormous ;
they must have been fonr or five inches
in diameter. They scintillated constantly.
Every one knows the extraordinary ap
pearance of a surface covered with small
alternate squares of bright red and bright
blue, the quivering, uncertain, unfixed
look such a surface has, the difficulty,
the impossibility experienced by the
looker-on to fix the color of any particu
lar square.
The eyeballs of this thing lmd such a
quivering uncertain look ; but they wore
not red, not blue, not red and blue; they
were of ft bright, burningly bright, cop
per hue ; they pained our eyes—and iu
this we were all agreed—as wo looked at
them. In the centre of each eyeball, a
mere speck, but visible from its extreme
brightness, was a po lit of light white
liglit. It was impossible to tell whether
these points were or were not material
points of the eye, or merely oaused by
reflection, but they were clearly defined,
aud seemed to remain in the same place.
The motion, however, of tbo thing was
so steady that no deduction could fairly
be drawn from their not changing their
position. The appearance of this extra
ordinary creature was so new to me, so
entirely outside of all my previous exper
ience, that I had no preconceived ideas
with which to compare the thoughts it
raised in my mini. So the impression
it caused was vague and indefinite, aud I
cau only : ay u ill me extreme
horror and dislikel
I had been so absorbed in the pleasing
pain of looking at the thing, that I had
quite forgotten the other people on
board, and was first roused, by hearing
Capt. Davidson step up oil the stern by
me, give one look below at tlie water,
and then hurriedly go back. Iu a sow
minutes every passenger was crowding
on to the stern, even the ladies appear
ing, though iu unfinshed costume. Ex
clamations of theextremest astonishment
broko from all, aud then sileuce fell, as
the crowd stared ut the hideous creature.
The children, at the first sight, ran back
below screaming, and some refused to
come again on deck, though their nurses
and ayahs—desirous of looking on them
selves—used all possible means to make
them. Some, however, returned curiosity
overcoming fear,, but even these looked
on iu a perpetual tremor of terror, and
held theuta Ives ready at the first move
| ment of the thing to rush away. I no
ticed at this time that the Captaiu was
not present, aud turned to an old Euro
pean sailer by me and asked him to go
and tell him. “Captaiu won’t come, no
fear of that, Sir,” replied the man. I
asked if he wufi navigating the ship.
“No, lie was not navigating the ship,"
said the sailor, “but he would not come
for all that; however, he would go aud
tell him.” But though ho went the
Captain would not come. We all re
mained absorbed in tbe strange sight till
tbe first breakfast-bell had rang ut 8 :30,
when we had perforce to hurry away and
take our chance of bathing at that late
hour. Up to this time the thing had
kept steadily in our wake, its movement
continuing absolutely smooth and con
stant, and the specks of light in the
glaring eyes never changing a hair’s
breadth from their position. At break
fast I sot one removed from tlie Captain.
We began, of course, talking of the
thing we had seen, but the Captain for
some reasonwu could not then under
stand, seemed to dislike the subject and
soon we abandoned it, falling then into
absolute silence, for we could talk of
nothing else. When we went ou deck
again—wo were only a few minutes at
breakfast—we found the thing still fol
lowing steadily in our wake. The chil
dren had in great measure got over their
fear, and made a long line by joining
hands, and the whole lot of them would
now crouch down and then suddenly rise
up, open their mouths at the thing, and
cry out at it. No notice apparently being
taken of this they grew bolder, and at
last their cries increased till they shrieked
shrilly. Suddenly the hideous creature
seemed roused by these cries, it raised
its head iu the air, uttered a strange bel
low, and came forward at a great pace
toward the ship. None of us could at
first move from fear ; the thing r.eeemed
to have grown in size, its < yeballs were
more burningly bright; the chrildreu
| fell on the deck crying, and some of tho
I women fainted. But we who remained
staudiug, suffering though we were un
der intense terror, still could not, wheu
we at last were able to move, retreat or
even take our eyes off the thing. It came
swiftly up to the ship, always uttering
the same peculiar cry or bellow. Whan
but a few feet from the stem, it sudden
ly turned and name up closo ou the port
side. Hero the side awuings had beeu
put up to keep off the sun, but three of us
! rushed up to the awning and quickly got
: it down that we might the better watch
the thing. For myself I most say that
while doing this I was still suffering
from extreme fear, but my curiosity was
so intense, so irresistiblo, that I could
ouly act as I did, No sooner was the
thing level with us than it raised itself
with a sudden movement high out of the
water, till its head was thirty or foriy
feet above us. It still uttered the same
peculiar cry or bellow. Under our in
tense curiosity we stood out on tbe bul
warks to follow its movements. It open
ed a great mouth, cried more loudly than
before, aud made three blows at the
mainmast. Tho last of these touched it,
: aud oaused the ship to sway violently, so
| that we nearly cast off' into the water.
When we again looked for the thing it
had gone. There was no ripple, no dis
turbance of any kind iu the water to
show where it had beeu. It was gore
absolutely. We looked constantly for it
during the rest of that day, but not the
slightest trace did we again discover.
And now let me state shortly why I,
not over facile in writing, or fitted for
the subjeot. by knowledge, write this.
At tiffin, of that same day, just as we
were rising to return on deck, the Captain
rose and asked, us to remain a few min
, utes. Then he shortly referred to the
strange sight we had seen that day,
lsyiug stress on the fact, however, that
he himself had not seeu it, aud went on :
“Now, none of you cau doubt wliat you
saw ; but I advise you not to talk about
it. That was the sea-serpent you Baw.
But I wouldn’t talk about it if I saw it.
It only leads to making people laugh,
aud it won’t do you any good. But then
remember, I did not see it, so I’ve noth
ing to do with this one. But, if yon take
my advioe, you won't talk about it.
Punch took up one sea-serpent, and that
Captain never got over it—never. Re
member, though, I didn’t see this ono,”
You will see now, Mr. Editor, that if
yon dou't publish this, a most extraordi
nary foot may be li at to the world. This
account, I may state, has been read over
| by some of tlie passengers aud their dis
agreement from wliat I have written is
only wliat would necessarily, under the
circumstances mentioned, be expected.
To show that I have no fear of ridioule,
I givo my name.
Matthew Sthono.
I may state that when the thing raised
itself up and struck the mnst, it was
apparent that the sea-weed-like mass was
long coarse hair, covering a dark thick
neck. But the thing could not possibly
have been a serpent ; for, to raiso so
prodigous a length of neck above tlie
surface a huge body below the surface
was, of course, required.
[journal correspondence. ]
Fountain, Juno, 9th, 1870.
Editors Journal:
the crops, to., tc.
Thinking probably that you and your
readers would like to bear something of
the times and crop prospect around old
“Fountain.” 1 have concluded to write
you a brief letter. Small grain crops
never was better, oats extraordinarily
good, wheat better than it has been for
several years. My worthy friend aud
neighbor, J. D. McCrary, will make he
says, 12j bushels for every one he sowed.
Corn is looking well, but small, cotton
better up to this time, aud generally
clear of grass. I tell you people up this
way mean business. They are straining
every muscle to get out of debt this year,
and I tell you thoy are “showing their
faith by their works,” and if they don’t
como out of the big end of the horn it
won’t be for the want of industry and
perseverance. Even some of the fttir
young ladies have shouldgred tho weapon
(hoe) aud gone to the cotton field, to
battle against “Gen. Green,” and I tell
j you where such perseverance is manifest
ed, a great deal will be accomplished. I
saw Col. Don. Willis about three weeks
ago. He came through the field where
I was plowing, with his gun. I have
never heard or seeu anything of him
since. 1 fear he has shot himself, if not
I guess he has been cutting his oats, as
I understand he has a fine crop of them.
Should you see him, please tell him to
come and spend the day with me, as I
would be glad to see the face of any
civilized human, also send me word when
there will be another “Squsbsion” train
to Atlanta. The people up here are all
waiting for Ja-k Usry to come with his
“Thrash,” to go': out their wheat.
A. J. R.
Tbo President has issued a proclama
tion, reciting the joint resolution of Con
gress, recommending assemblies of the
people in their respective counties, and
towns and cause to be delivered a Fourth
of July historical sketch of the county or
town, to be filed iu the library of Con
gress and elsewhere, with intent that a
complete record may be obtained of tbe
progress of our institutions during the
past oeutury of their existence.
[JOURNAL CORRESPONDENCE. J
Junk 9, 1876.
| Dear Journal:
Your very valuable paper is the moM
j welcome visitor that comes to our little
' household. We read uot only the mis
oellauy, uews, wit aud humor, hut eveu
the advertisements. What has become
of A. J. Adki .’s Irishman. He caused
;us to laugh and gro fat.
I I sec that there is to be nn excursion !
j to the historical city of Charleston, for j
!it has proven to he the Gibraltar of ;
America, aud to the Southern people I
a place ever dear. Heading the adver
tisement carried me back over fifteen
years, to the time when I sat under the
sound of the first gun that was fired in
the defence of our ever glorious South.
I say it, and uot boastingly, there are
but few of those soldiers left who first
shoveled sand in the defence of our |
common country. Nine out of ten are
no more, but each day there are prayers |
offered up for them, aud each year their '
graves are covered with the choicest j
flowers by the beauties of our land. !
Here at Charleston was built the first j
Irou Battery the world ever knew, and i
the first rifle cannon over used in Amer
ica ; and beio it was demonstrated be
yond doubt, that sand was the thing for
breastworks. It was here Beauregard
built his reputation, which will perish
only with the end of time,
j From Ft. Moultrie it was that
Col. Ripley filled one of Anderson's
shells and returned it, marked rice, for
it was well known that the garrison of
Sumter was on short rations. It was
In re that, after shoveling sand all day
aud naif the night, we wonld hear the j
long roll beaten, and the cry, ‘‘The j
Brooklyn is coming 1” and then the ;
booming of all Moultrie's guuß would be j
heard far out to sen. It was believed by j
the authorities of South Carolina that it j
was tbo intention of the United States to !
aid Ft. Sumter by the carrying of men
and provisions to her, for there was no
Confederacy at that time. Each State
was for herself. After six weeks of hard
toil we were transferred to Morris Island
and then another sot of batteries were to :
be built. There was none hut the small
one, used by the Cadets of Charleston in
firing on the Star of the West, on the
morning of the 9th of January, 18C1 ;
and well do I now, after 16 years and six
mouths, retnexiber the feeling which the
sound of those guns produced ,upon us ;
MOW every man wanted to go and do bis
iduty, and iu discharging that duty so
many were caused, in after years, to bite
the dust. It makes my very heart ache
to think of it now. In about ton days
nfter we landed on Morris Island, and
hud erect'd one or two large batteries,
the government of the United States
sent some 6 or 8 large war vessels to the j
harbor of Charleston, (for what purpose
we never knew) wluch was the ohief sea
port of the Republic of South Carolina,
but they were conteuted with taking up ;
their station just inside the bar. aud out
of tae reach of our guns ; and then
commenced the marching of the troops
: among the sandhills, anil along the
j each, now iu sight, and then out of
sight., of Mr. Yank, for we only had ouo
. regimen' of -COO men, the Ist South
| Carolina Volunteers, commanded by Col.
j Maxey Gregg, who afterward yielded up
his life on the same day that Gen. Thos.
R. R. Cobb, and not more than fiity
yards from where be did. Time wore
on and in the courso of events ti e Iron
, Battery is finished, more sand batteries
. are erected, but uot any more troops, cx
. cept artilerists, to man the cannons iu
< the batteries. At last all is ready for
, ; the bombardmeut of Sumter ; and how
often have we been awakened from our
short sleep allowed us, by some messmate
crying in our ears “Fireing ou Sumter 1”
Ou the moruiug of April lull, 1861, at 4
o’clock, the signal was given to couimonce
the attack, but as it was my turn to sleep,
I did uot see the rocket, but as the usu
al cry of “Fireing on Sumter had fooled
me so often, I only drew my blanket
closer aud slept agaiu ; but when I was
called for duty, sure enough, shot and
shell «ere being exchanged without cer
emony, continuing day aud night, until
Saturday, 13th day of April, 1861, when
Sumter was discovered to be ou fire,
which soon got beyond the control of the
garrison, aud help was asked for by the
flag of truce being hoisted. All firing
ceased as soon as the flag was seen,
(which was not discovered for some time
on account of the smoke) and terms of
capitulation were entered into between
the Republic of S uth Carolina and the
United States. On Sunday morning,
April 14, our troops marched into Sum
ter from the Iron Battery, with Hon.
Edmund Ruffin at their head, carrying
the flag of South Carolina, to whom was
also awarded the honor of firing the first
gun at Sumt-r from the Irou Battery.
But ou the 12th of April Haygood's
regimeut came to our relief, and such a
sight as some of them did present. One
fellow is as plain before me now as the
noon-day sun. With gun on shoulder,
squilTel hunting style, hearer hat ull
crushed in, one coat tail gone, as be
stepped from behind the mountains of
sand which heretofore had hid from his
view the ceau exclaimed, “Good God,
what a pond!” you 6bould have heard the
yells that went up from the Ist S. C. V.
as he was pointed out and the words
passed from man to man.
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Each s jbfieqneßt insertion-. 7,1
fine square three month*..-.....,-..- so iff
One aqaare six mouths \r, no
One square twelte month*.—jo no
Quarter eofninn twelve months 40 00
Half column sit months fio W
Half column twelve months 75 no
One colnnrn twelve months 1?S Ist
•W Ten lines or less considered s square
AH fractions of squares are coanted as full
qnare*.
NO. 24.
Now dear Journal, here also was
i iron enough thrown rtt Sumter during
- the year* of ‘63-64 and '65, to have built
, a railroad from Augusta to the end—,
i It was here that the Uni tel States se t
! nil of her mighty war vessels to awe ns
i into submission—among them the Iron
j Sides and varions Monitors ; it was here
j that Rhett, in April, 1863, drove beck
j the Ironclad Fleet o’ the Yankee nation;
011 same day Wagner sunk the Keoknk ;
it was here that the 1 little Torpedo boats
caused monster ironclads to become
worthless by exploding shells nnder’
tliem ; the remainder of the fleet useless
only for blockading the port, which wee
not effective ; and from those torpedo
boats did many a poor fellow And a wa
tery grave. Often wheu the storms of
heaven were raging did Mr. Yank, think
ho wotijd surprise Sumter, and as often
was he surprised liy being taken priso
ner without the firing of a gun, but by
brickbats alone. around the walls of Sum
ter.
Now, as I have taken np more space
and time than I set ont to do, let every
man, woman aud child go ou this excur
sion, for another such opportunity may
uot present itself soon. Cannot the
Managers have one more day 1 Say leave
Atlanta Wednesday morning 21st and
return as per bill, for there are many
places that wonld be of interest to the
visitors if allowed time, to-wit: Ft,
Johnson, Batteries Yates and Glover,
New Liues, Ft. Pemberton, Morris Is
land, and view the ground made dear by
so much blood being (mured out on it.
Don’t fail to visit Wagner aud Gregg,
also the “Swamp Angel” ; for from the
lutter was hurled the first shot that fell
in Charleston. In bnildiugthis "Swamp
Angel” the commanding Officer of the
Yankee troops told his Engineer to make
requisition for anything he wanted and
it should be furnished. He asked for
men 18 feet high.
I regret that my business is snob I
cannot leave. Nothing would give me
greater pleasure than to visit again these
ouce familiar spots. May success attend
the Managers, and the visitors be well re
paid for time aud money spent. Go ev
ery one. Yours Truly,
Ur-CoUNTBrMEN,
[Special Correspondence McDuffie Journal.}
The Crops, ac.
Cl a* Hill, Oa., June 13, 1876,
.I fe*«r* Dditore :
I have an oat cio;> report to make
from Lincoln, as follows:
Mr. P. C. Dill has a small piece of old
field ground, cleared up three or four
years ago, planted in oottou last year,
aud not manured sinoe the cotton was
planted. The lot contains only 4 acres,
and produced 177 shocks of oats, each
shock having 14 large bundles. At a
very moderate calculation Mr. Dill’s
friends think the field will produce from
140 to ISO bushels of clear oats; and
! some think it will make not less than 40
j bushels to the acre.
! Got that muoli ground in McDuffie
j that will beat this patch ?*
All oat orops are fine throughout Lin
colu. Wlioat generally is good, but in
some places not first class, having beeu
injured by both cold and rust. Wo
have had pretty good seasons, and corn
and cotton are looking well.
Lincoln Ims always compared favora
bly with adjacent counties, so far as
the fertility and productiveness of its
lauds are concerned ; and os to “rough
ness,” car uot be beaten, but can be
equalled by either McDuffie, Wilkes or
Columbia, for I have seen all parts of all
these oounties, and can testify.
Yours, Ac.
P. 8. “If yon skin a Georgia inde
pendent candidate, you will find him to
be a regular, old-fashioned scalawag. ”
Chronicle & Sentinel.
♦Everything considered, particularly
the absence of fertilizers, the oat report
ed by onr corresponent shows to good
advantage, and is n heavy blow to the
“all cotton” folly. For a sample of the
McDuffie county oat crop, we refer with
pride to the report of Judge Smith’s crop,
in our Agricultural column, oil the fourth
page of this issue of the Jourpal. “Got
that much ground in Lincoln that will
beat this patch ?” If you havo, let us
hear from you.
A German scientific journal contains
the following receipt for sharpening edge
tools : “It has long been known that
the simple method of sharpening a razor
is to put it for half an hour in water to
which has been added one twentieth of
its weight of muriatic or sulphuric acid,
then lightly wipe it off and after a few
hours set it on a hone. The acid sup
plies the place of a whetstone by corrod
ing the whole surfaoe evenly, so that
nothing further than a smooth polish is
necessary. The process never injures
good blades, while badly hardened ones
are generally improved by it, although
the cause of improvement remains unex
plained.”—Remarks.—The cause of this
improvement is simply that those parti
cles which are softer contain less carbon,
are most attacked by the acids, and tbi s
removed by them ; while the harder par
ticles—the more perfect steel—is richer
in carbon, which causes it to re ist the
action of the acid better and they remait j