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THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE,
JAS. A. WRIGHT, AGENT.
CM I CIOTFIHIIfi HOUSE.
KENNY & CRAY.
WHOLESALE AND BET AIL DEALERS IN
READY-MADE CLOTHING
AND
SSH¥B‘ fUHUMIM
238 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
HYING l»ken special rare in the selection of our supplies of GENTLEMEN'S
READY MADE CLOTHING, we <io not hesitate to say that we are fullv
prepared to furnish our customers with the REST STYLES and MOST PERFECT
GARMENTS. Our stock ot
YOUTHS' AND BOYS' CLOTHING
la Dot aarpateed by any House in Georgia, and only needs an inspection to he fully
appreciated.
OUR MERCHANT TAILORING DEPARTMENT
Is supplied with EVERYTHING FASHIONABLE, and is presided over by Artists
of well established reputation, who will leave nothing undone to make our establish
ment THE FIRST CLASS MERCHANT TAILORING HOUSE OF AU
GUSTA. *sr We call sjjecial attention to our
FURNISHING GOODS,
Such as,
FINE TRAVELLING SHAWLS, BUGGY RUGS AND BLANKETS, BEAU
TIFUL DRESSING ROBES, WHITE LINEN BOSOM SHIRTS,
UN PER VESTS AND DRAWERS, HOSIERY,
HANDKERCHIEFS, GLOVES,the, Ac,
IST Gentleman preparing far XSfb TUu.k, will fin'd special
ities of REAL BEAUTY.
‘KENNY & GRAY,
JOHN KENNY, ) Under Central Hotel, Augusta, Cja.
ANDREW T. GRAY, f Nov. 2, Cm
C. C. DRAKE,
256 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA,
DEALER IN DRY AND FANCY OOODS, CLOAKS, SiO.
■ BEG3 moat respectfully, to inform liia customers and the public generally, that he has
JLB now in #tnr« one of the largest, and beat, selectedatocka of LADIES’ COVERINGS ever
Lroaglit to t4»i« city, comprising every variety iu Style, Quality and Price. Among the assort
ment may be found
BLACK AND COLORED CLOTH BASQUES,
BLACK AND COLORED CLOTH SACQUES.
BLACK AND COLORED CLOTH PALETOTS,
BLACK AND COLORED ULOTII CLOAKS,
BLACK AND COLORED CLOTH CIRCULARS,
An assortment of Water-Proof Cloaks, and a full assortment of Cloaks for Mia so*
All the above goods are entirely new, made up in the very best mariner, in all the latest and
most improved styles and shapes—the styles for the most, confined exclusively to this establish
ment
The Ladies are particularly invited to call aud examine the assortment before making their
purchase. The prices will he low.
DRESS GOODS, &C.--AT LOW PRICES-AT DRAKE’S.
Our stock Is now full and complete, comprising all the latest novelties in Poplins, Empress
Cloths, Rene, Paris Stripes, Marltai, Plui !a, Real French Meriooes, all colors, colored Alpacas, in
every shade, black Bombazines, Lupin's best make, black Alpacas, all qualities,all-wool Delaines,
every color and shade, every variety of Mourning Dress Goods. V
CALICOES—Every variety and make, now in store, at prices that defy competition.
FLANNELS—Of all styles and qualities. Canton Flannels. Long Cloth, Linen Diaper, Tow
elings, Huckaback, Domestic Ginghams. Hosiery^Shoes. A full assortment of Gloves, French
Corsets, and Gents Undershirts, Vests, £c.
Also, Silk Cravats, Belts, Ribbons, Braids, Embroidery, RufHings, Pins, Needles, Spool Cot
ton. Flax Thread, Ac. ®
Besides many other articles too numerons to mention.
!WT Agent for Bradley's Duplex Eiiptic Hoop Skirt.
C. C. DRAKE,
Nov. 16, 1866, 31 — 4 m 236 Broad Strket, under Central Motel.
L KAHN & CO.,
262 Broad Street, Augusta,
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS,
FOR FALL AND WINTER.
WE ARE now in receipt of » well .elected stock of »11 Goods in our line, and receiving ad
ditional supplies weekly, to whinh we invite the attention of our friends and the trade
enerally. ,o.ur Slock will compete with any in the Sooth both in price aud variety. \V« only
»k that those in want of Goods will call first, and examine our STOCK.
TO, MERCHANTS WE OFFER OOODS AT A VERY LOW PROFIT FOR CASH.
so planters we will give the best advantages, and all bills exceeding SIOO will be furnished
at a very small profit above the Wholesale market
Our Stock consists principally of all kinds of DRY GOODS, Foreign and Domestic.
Notion.s, Hosiery, Gloves, Blankets, Shawls, Cassimeres,
Embroideries . Whiti Goods, Cloths, Vestings, Ac.,
BESIDES THOUSANDS OF OTHER THINGS TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION.
I. KAHN & CO.,
tW Agents for J. YT. Bradley's new patented “Duplex Eiiptic (or Dduble) Steel Spring
Hoop Skirts, - ’ • I November 2, 1866, 28—3 m '
WASHINGTON, WILKES COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 23,1866,
THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
Tkkms—Three Dollare a year, in advance.
THE FUTURE OF SOUTHERN LABOR.
We take the following from au article
in the New Orleans Picayune:
We cannot fail to see that all other peo
ple, situated as we are, have failed to re
ceive prompt aid to their industry, either
from emancipated slaves or from immedi
ate immigration of laborers from other re
gions. The West India Islands afford am
ple illustration of this. It is true, that in
the Island of Barbadoes, the negro works
hard and well; but there ho is encompass
ed by water, and the population is dense.
The better off of his own class, as well as
the white man, insists upon his supporting
himself By his labor or means, and this he
must do, or compulsion is used to induce
it, a rule which is applied to black and
white alike; but here, in this open coun
try, sr.d with institutions so excessively
free as ours, this is impossible.
This we say irrespective of civil rights
acts and constitutional enactments intend
ed to dignify and protect laziness. All the
orders of Banks and Butler, which were
infinitely more severe than the labor laws
enacted by Southern legislatures since the
war, could not get steady, uniform and
saving work out of the negro, nor can any
reliance be placed on his contracts for fu
ture labor. As it has been found in Ja
macia, Trinidad, British Guiana and else
where, year by year the old habit of work
will wsar away from the older ones, and
the younger will never acquire it, unless a
new system of employment be devised.
It is of this we wish to speak now.
The whole system of labor in the past
has been one of life, or, at least, j
employ of the laborer. We linve never
planted our corn and cotton as the Wes
tern and Northern farmer has bit cqrn am]
wheat, by laborers employed from njoalb (
to month, week to week, pr by IV. ■ j*j
We have nevyr thought it prajtkV.De »<• tmj
do. Yet ZheG -ouqfwt -m -ul2). J
tude of things which we hardly think of,
require, to the space cultivated, G- It***- »«
much labor ns docs ours, and the}’ get
along exceedingly well, though there art
more proprietors of the soil in proportion
to our population with them than with Us.
The objection made to this course among
us is, that large plantations cannot bo itiur
cultivated ; yet there are farms in the West
of over 20,000 acres in actual cultivation
and tillage, where labor saving machinery
supplies additional arms to twp hundred
ratn, who, from time to time, are there
employed. Yet, if it should prove true
that large plantations could not he so cul
tivated, can the labor be otherwise secured
to cultivate them ? Much the better plan
would seem to be to plant less land at less
risk of entire failuie or great pecuniary
loss, and thus be secure of some gain, if
it he not of fortune.
The chief end to be secured by short
terms of labor is, that this course will tend i
to make the laborer more honest in work.
If he does not do the work he is hired to
do, he will he discharged and another hir
ed in his stead. He will come upon the
land, not as a tenant, with an idea that it
is his home, whether he work or not, but
with the knowledge that he must work or
leave. Paid for his labor by the day,
week or month, as he may be employed,
his term ended, he mu3t go elsewhere, un
less he give satisfaction. He has himself
the same right to leave, if not pleased, and
no sullen, unwilling labor, diversified, per
haps, by chopping off the crop, or stealing
it from the ground, will render bis pro
longed stay an injury rather than a bene
fit.
The truth is, the effort to adapt free la
bor to the old plantation system makes the
employer the slave of the employee, and
the longer the former regards it as a neces
sity, tbs more dependent he becomes. But
if we so diminish our farms, or rather so
subdivide and thus increase them that there
are on the land more intelligent men, able
to use improved implements, in proportion
to the breadth in cultivation, than now, and
if we thus do away largely with the pres
ent demand for agricultural labor, yet keep
up it3 product, we shall soon be able to
increase our plantations in size, and labor
will seek them, instead of tbe plantation,
as now seeking labor.
WssniSGTON, November 2.—Sanford Cono
ver, alias Charles A. Dunham, was arrested in
New York yesterday and brought to Washing
ton to day. He is charged, on the affidavit of
Wm. H. Roberts, of having fraudulently pro
cured Roberts to commit to memory and swear
a false statement before the House Committee
on the Judiciary, implicating Jefferson Davis jn
the murder of President Lincoln. It will be
remembered that Conover gave secret testimo
ny before the Military Commission in the (rial
of the assassination conspirators.
J farm WORK FOR NOVEMBER.
< Cotton, at present prices is worthy ofex-
JYa attention. The crop should be en
ftively picked this month, as it is the last in
we can look for fine weather for sav
ing the crop—bad weather retardirg the
work and injuring the staple; and the gin-
Wn g< haloing, Ac., must receive special care.
Gomplaiuls are justly made by buyers
cotton imperfectly
I tied much of the cottOu leffjpar—
t dl> exposed. At the presen[, prices of
jsStoo and bagging, in selling his cotton,
i is planter more lhan gets hack the coat
(i [the covering. If it were not so, the-lmy
i would hot be justified in paying a full
1 !*ce forgotten so exposed to injury, «as I
i iucb that is brought to market. Let the
1 sles then, be fully .covered. Prepare for
t to crop nqxt year—planting only our best
■land in tho best manner, and using the best
■ id most prolific Reed. But, in trying to
cotton crop, do not neglect other
Egteatant things on the plantation.
''Wf* torn.crop is so deficient that it will
M|B||)t little tijne to finish gathering,
f lit*! may be completed in weather
Lilfssliablft for cotton picking, but should
lot lie rang delayed, or it will probably be
lathered without your assistance. Put up
four bread corn in the alipshuok to avoid
Ifeevil.
Sweet Potatoes, which the late rains
.VfeaGj’-benefitted, will, in most cases, be
. r 1" bofove this number reach
es our readers. If not, in localities where
"•* ■Mhßi'if “ot already killed, they may
m cufjfflrt secured for stock. We have
i|veu ffipts for saving, Ac., in previous num
>ers of fee Cultivator.
Grain, such as Wheat, Rye, Bar-
Ofits, Ac., should he sown
.cjßßv-. 4 And Uye and Wheat may
land for feeding
.•^JUptymwg. The crop will be
c *"<fci«Mßftykng^ n ‘' that sown earlier, hut
P--'"/’w*KW' fßevn forage it scarce. It
MtojiMSlLl Vh&At unless the t'toiliid
™ '*h»"lHlnittTed, deeply- plowed, finely pul
verized, i 0 „|| respects put into a first
s* 1 , ' ,> ii. Twenty (20) bushels per
tig t (q jj B where the condi -
t\oiiß ar o tcasonably favorable; and there
is little profit on a less yield than Ibis.
Hye and oats will do on inferior soils,
lint. >v!<nra manures are available, the appli
cation will pay. Try a little clover seed
among your wheat, on tho best soil, as an
experiment, and we doubt riot, you will be
gratified at the result. One gallon to the
aerp is thp quantity reqnied.
The plantation slock should now receive
attention. Provide gnpd shelters, and it
will bo far less expensive tq bring them
through the winter ill good plight, apd the
manure can all be saved in the best condi
tion’ Log shelters, well chinked, and cov
ered with split boards, will generally save
their cost the first year, if one wishes to
make stock comfortable in the cheapest
manner.
Ilogs should have been fattened ready
for slaughter the first really cold Bpell. It
is more trouldesomo to cut up neatly, hut
meat takes salt better if well rubbed in
while warm, and it is then spread, arid al
lowed to cool before packing in suit. This
hint may be of advantavo to readers in the
warmer portions “of our parish.” Meat is
safer if packed in tight tubs in salt as
usual, and then let a strong brine be pour
ed over the mass. We use but little salt
petre.
Begin now to start a big pile of manure.
Every thing that once formed a part of an
animal or vetetable, if it is capable of de
composition, will make food for plants.—
Ashes, leaves, bones, offal from slaughtered
animals, swamp muck, decayed chips, veg
etable refuse, house slops, soap suds, should
be applied to enriching our soils.
. Plant Orchards, of all the finest Ap
plep, Pears, Peaches, Figs, Ac. Ac.; and
Vineyards, of such hardy Grapes as will
not rot or mildew. We have the finest
climate in the world fprFruit and Wine;
and tbe time is approaching when all our
“poor” hillsides, unfit for either Corn or
Cotton, will be covered with most profi
table Vineyards and Orchards. Why,
reader, if tbe people of Europe eould only
be made sensible of tbe advantages offered
by the States of the South, for the growth
of the Grape and Wine making, our now
neglected “old fields” would go up two or
three hundred per cent in market value at
once. Let tbe present owners of the soil
be wise, and avail themselves of all their
resources. And let no one say that we are
over enthusiastic in this matter; or that if
“so many people go into Fruitgrowing and
Wine making, tbe business will be over
done,” Ac. Ac. Os this there is not the
slightest danger. The demand for fine
Fruit, and good, pure wine, can Dot possibly
be supplied in the next fifty years—the
prices of all Agricultural and Horticultu
ral productions, are now three or four times
as high as they were twenty years ago; and
will continue to increase as long as our
population increases faster than our food
crops.— Southern Cultivator.
BANANAS IN BRAZIL.
A correspondent of the St. Louis Re
publican writes from Brazil the following
interesting facts concerning the growth of
the banana in that country :
“The most wonderful production of this
and all tropical countries, iu my estima
tion, is the banana and its congener, the
plantain. We havo half dozen varieties
—each with peculiar flavor aqd qualities
Some grqw only eight or ten feet high
Others twenty. •> The stalk* are from six-to
twelve inches thick, but almost as soft and'
succulent as celery. Each of them bears
one bunoh of bananas, and one only, when
it is cut down with p stroke of the ‘espada’
to secure the fruit aiid to give place to
other stalks; and thus they grow aud ri
pen perpetually all the year round. A
great traveler has calculated that the plqp
tain on ono acre of ground, will produce as"*
much food as one hundred and thirty-three
acres of wheat or forty-four acres of pota
toes. Tho fiuits constitute the principal
reliance of the poor, and is a luxury to all-
It is good raw, roasted, baked, and indeed
in every form, and equally relished by all
domestic fowls and animals j many devour
fruit; leaves, stalks and all, with the great
est avidity.
The banana, requires but a single plant
ing for a lifetime—putting in the ground a
single sprout or shoot from the banana
patches, at a distanue of twenty qr thirty
feet from each other, aud on ground that'
is always calculated to spare for that pur
pose, Imuwise it is impossible. Jo; .qxtirp*4e
the ißoj.
‘springing out from the sides in' the ground
perpetually—and in a few years covering
the intervening snaces, till the whole sur
face becomes a forest of fruit and foliage,
with scarce room to pass through the 000 l
over hanging arches. A banana or a ban
ana patch is a beautiful 3ight, with the
stalks and their produce in all stages of
perfection tho broad leaves waving in the
breeze and fanning in tho lazy repose,
while ihe bodies of the trees bend under
their lucious burdens, and wquld often
break down with the weight, except from
neighboring support. There are a hundred
or two of bananas on a bunch, like grapes,
and the bunches are generally as much qs
a stout man can carry. They should al-'
wavs be opt as soon as tl|o fruit is tpatftr
ed —but whi|e the skin is yet green—and
hung up in the pliacje to turn yellow, which
improves tbe flavor. It takes about a year
for stalk and fruit tp mature from the first
planting, but then there is never any more
trouble with the crop, scarcely any hoeing
or weeding, no culture only ‘slay and eat.’
Certainly it is the greatest boon ever bes
towed on the indolent tropics. A native,
swirging in his hammpek, with a hunch of
ripe bananas hanging on one side, and a
smouldering fire on the other, by which he
may light his little cigar without getting
up, is a most peifeet picture of content
ment,
The English Bench. —Here is an Item
for the bench, bar, and jury :
“The English bench lately decided at
Westminister, that it was a principle of
common law that a counselor, in question
ing a witness, should address him in ordi
nary tones, and in language of respect,
such as is employed by one gentleman in
conversation with another ; that such law
yer has no right to question tbe private
business or moral character of a witness,
any further than it is apparent they abso
lutely affect his reliability or touch tbe case
in hand; and that a witness is not bound
to answer questions put to him in an insul
ting or annoying manner.
A New Farm Yearlv. —Tbe Rural
Advertiser for June, in remarking on tbe
various fertilizers used by farmers says
there is one unfailipg source of supply with-,
in reach of every farmer. This is found
in deed plowing and a proper pulverization
of the soil.' In other words, "depth of
soil beneath their crops and fertilizing at
mospheric gases above them.” By plow
ing an inch deeper every year, anew farm,
so as to speek, is obtained, Os course
there is a limit to this, hut the trouble
generally, is that but few persevere till
they reach it.
VOL. I.—NO. 8L
THE STOLEN GOODS FROM ARLINGTON,
A New York paper contains a telegraph
stating that the President has ordered the
delivery of tbe household effects left af,. Ar
lington Mansion, or rather the fr.aggjents
remaining of them, to be delivered to tbe
person authorized by General Ipea to re
ceive them. The paper s
“That ono? magnifleept mansion baa
been stripped us Ra pictures, library, furni
ture. and, heir-looms of almost priceless
value,sinqe they once belonged to Wash
ington himself. A few of these things
were rescued and placed iu the Patent
Office in Washington, where they were,
displayed and placarded as ‘Taken from Ar
lington in 18(12;' but the great bulk of the,
stolen articles have been taken, none but
the thieves know whither. It is a national
disgrace that these tfieivea not only wore
the uniform of our army, but many of them
were adorned with the insignia of officers
of high grado. An examination -of the
remains of the Arlington rel,io shows that
nearly everything of value, bad been sto
len. Family portraits were taken from,
their frames and carried away, and boxw
containing private papers aud letters were
-broken open, and contents stolen or.
destroyed. It was so every where in the
South; and, to-day, the bouses o( volunteer
officers, and of Chaplains especially, in al
most every New England and Northern
city and villisge, are filled with stolen,
plate, pictures, wearing apparel,
aud, in fact, everything from a piano to a
pap spoon, whinh qre proudly displayed as
‘rebel trophies,’ pr ‘confiscated’ property,
These things, in many instances, are worth
more to their owners than their pecuniary
value. They-iq-e heir looms and souvenirs
of friendship, and the owfiera ’•adverfee,
that they- are tu pay fpr their re
turn. Will nqt this jq,-' spec
ulation induce the purloiners to send tt»s*
plundered property back? It is a" part o
fire work of restoration in which the na
■“ - —ailittM...-. |L - n stnlan
goods to their rightful owners, and the
restoration cannot begin too soon.”
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Life too Short for Strife.— Charles
Dickens relates the following of Douglas
Jerrold :
‘Of his gonorosity I had a proof within
these two or three years, which it saddens
me to think of now. There had been es
trangement between us—not on any per
sonal subject, and not involving angry
words —and a good many months had pas
sed without my seeing him in the streets,
when it fell out that we dined, each
his own separate party, in the Stranger’s
Hoorn of the Club. Our chairs were al-?
most back to back, and 1..t00k mine after
ho was seated and at dinner (I am sorry, tp
remember), and did not look that way v ,
Before we had sat long, he openly wheeled,
bis chair around, stretched out both hands,
and said aloud, with a bright and loving
face, and I can see as I write to you :. ‘Let
us be friends again. A life is not long
enough for this.’ ’
Jerrold was not a obristain, but
duct in this case was worthy of a Christian
character. On a dying bed how insignifi
cant will appear many things about which
we contend in bitterness and wrath 1 Life it
too short, its inevitable sorrows are so
many, its responsibilities so vast and
solelmn, there is, indeed, no time to spare
in abusing and maligning one another.
Let not the son go down on your wrath.
Never close your eyes to sleep with your
heart angry towards your brother and fel
low sufferer. See him and be reconciled if
you can. If you cannot see him, write to
him. If he iB a true man and a Christian,
he will listen. If he is not you wijlljhave
done right, and your soul will be. bright
with tbe sunshine of Heaven.
Tea. —Mr. M. Jones, of Libe*t](, coun
ty, Ga., has written for the Cultivator a
communication on tfie culture of tea in the
South. Tbe editor of the Cultivator says,
'Our correspondent has furnished a sample
of the tea prepared by him. In appearance,
fragrapee and flavor, it precisely resembles
a fine article o.f Chinese Black Tea. If
our plantations can produce tea as finely
flavored as this, with as little trouble at
Mr. Jones states is required in the process,
it is the most profitable crop we can grow.
In conversation with him, another point
was elicited, to-wit: that when tea is raised
in localities near tbe coast, when the
plants are once established, nearly all the
labor cora«3 during the healthy seas,op of
the year, and after gathering, the planter
j can retire and sperid niost, of the summer
j jn a more healthy jfieality,* ™