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About The Washington gazette. (Washington, Ga.) 1866-1904 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 1866)
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.” -* 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,* ™
