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r ♦ YOLFKE mvill.] MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, A P III L 28, 1868. K l T 31 B E R 39. BUUGHTON, BARNES & MOORE. Publishers and Proprietors. S. N. BOt-'GISTOX, Editor. (Luc « Jtberal Stnion ]s published Weekly in Milledgeville, Ga. Corner of Hancock if Wilkinson Sts., At $3 a year in advance. ADVERTISING. Trassiekt. One Dollar per sqcareof ten tinea for | gtory of Robert Bruce and* the first insertion, and seventy five cents for each sub- 1 J sequent contfu nance. Tributes of respect. Resolutions by Societies. (Obit uaries exceeding six tines, Nominations for office, Com munication. or Editorial notices for individual benefit,) charged as transient advertising. LEGAL ADVERTISING. Sheriff's sales, per levy of ten lines, or leas, 50 Mortgage fi fa sales, par sqdure, 5 0(5 •Tax Collector’s Salen, per square, 5 00 Citations for Letters of Administration, 3 00 “ “ “ “ Guardianship, 3 U0 Letters of application fordism’n from Adm’n, 4 50 “ “ “ “ “ “ Guard’u., 3 00 Application fot leave to sell Land, 5 00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 3 00 Sales of Land, &c., per sqnare, 5 00 perishable property, 10 days, per square, 1 50 Estray Notices, 30 duys, 3 00 K(,reclosure of Mortgage, per sq.,«acb lime, 1 00 LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. ShIcs of Land, o£<\, by Administrators, Executors or Guardians, are required by law to be held on the fii>t Tuesday in the month: between the hours of lb j in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at tire Court House in the Countyin which the property is situated. Notice of these sales must be given in u public ga. xette 40 days previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale of personal property must be jrjveu in like manner 10 days previous to sale day. Notices to tlie debtors and creditors of an estate must also be published 40 days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land, See., mnst be publish td for two months. Citations for letters of Administration, Guardian- ABOVT TKVIXn AGAIN. BY CHARLES H. WEBB. There are many good proverbs which had better not be followed. Chief among others, to my thinking, is that one which inculcates the virtue of always trying again, if a first at tempt prove unsuccessful. It has been dinned into childhood’s ears from time immemorial; tradition has been invoked, history ransacked, and even fables .coined for its support. The spider, in all its variations, is familiar to most readers. Sometimes the thread is spun for the Scotsman’s benefit, some times in behalf of Tamerlane; but no matter for whom—the moral remains the same. Try again! No old saw has been more frequently used nor oftener reset. The clumsiest hands are expert in its application, and all unite in its praise; it has the indorse ment of modern teachers as well as the sanction of antiquity. I beg leave to differ from these re spectable authorities—to dissent from the general verdict. I have a minority report to offer in the proverb’s disfa vor. Trying again is not the first thing to do after a failure; in very many cases it is better to sit down with folded hands, calmly and patiently study the situation, and wait for events to devel op themselves. When the bull attempt ed to butt the locomotive off the track and failed, was it worth while to try again? In my opinion this proverb has ruined millions of men and women who, but for‘the baleful lesson it in culcates, would have turned out useful members of society, and found honor- point, and discover after settiug out that he is in the wrong road, let him turn back and start anew. Persever ance in the path will nit help him; the further he jourueys, the further he Fr«.n the (London) Satardav Review. AAEBICA. The Republican party in tiie Amer ican Congress finds that it is compell ed, by a logical necessity, to adopt is from the goal; it is necessary to con-, more and more exceptional measures j consisted of colored men, of a few local fess to a mistake and undo what he has as its successive experiments prove to adhereuts of the North who are des- done, before success can reasonably be be abortive. Having imposed numer-1pised by their neighbors as renegades, hoped for. Eminence, which is but ous restraints on t lie constitutional j and of strangers whose recent arrival another name for fortune, is what all 1 power of the President, the majority white inhabitants of the South in ar rangements which are expressly de signed to create and perpetuate negro supremacy. The conventions have fur the full space of tinee inoutlia—forcinupelliit from Executorors or Administrators, where bend has been given by the deceased, the full space ot three months. Publications will always be coutiuued according to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise or dered. Book and Job Work, of all kinds, PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED, AT THIN OFFICE. Hi 1868. Fifth Volume. 1868. hip, &c.. must be published 30 dnys-for dismission.,^ tomb8t o»es a t least, instead of un- rom Administration, monthly six months—lor duunis I . ion from Guardianship, 40 days. j dlStlDgUlshablt? glHVt'S. Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must lie published j AllV fool Call try again, no matter ..ntuiy for four months—lor establishing lost.papers. ■ | 1( jvv absu rd the essay may be in the first place; hut it is only the wise and courageous man, a philosopher indeed, who can make up his mind to leave off aftei discovering his incompetency to the result sought. If a thing be be yond your reach, don’t stretchout your hand for it a second time. As well ascertain the hopelessness of the case alter one trial as after a dozen; better, for time is saved Persistency, which, after all, is but a polite periphrasis for obstinacy, is a popular vice, and deserves discounte nance and suppression rather than en couragement. To have attempted a thing and failed, nine times in ten, is the best evidence in the world that success had better be sought in some other direction. Yet there is a fatal fascination in the very failure; a desire is begotten to show that one can do what one set out to do; there is a false and foolish pride about confessing to a mistake; and so, persons are goaded on in pursuit of things to them unattaina ble, follow vocations to which they |are not adapted. The consequence is I hopeless mediocrity, if not wrecked for tunes and wasted lives. Of! The advisability and wisdom of try ing again, depends altogether on the amount of deliberation and careful weighing of chances which preceeded the first endeavor. Desire to do, orto be, is not the power; ambition does not always carry with it ability'. A hen, seeing a duck take to the water, might feel a longing herself to swim. If she followed the inspiration and got dis appointed only, instead of drowned, reaching the shore in safety, I question whether it would be worth her while totrv again, however spectators on the banks might, by precept and precedent, applaud her to a renewal of the effort. Doubtless, after due practice and discomfort, if no fatal re sult attended the first experiment, al most any lien might succeed in becom ing a bad swimmer; but would the game be worth the candle? In no event could she swim as well as the duck; while in laying eggs and scratch ing gravel, she would have all the ad vantage—no duck could compete with HIS her on her own ground. Because a man is emulous of a neighbor who happens desire to attain. If a man start for it byway of the bar or the pulpit, in a doctor’s gig or on an editor’s stool, and stumble at the outset, it is better to deliberate while down; to go blunder ing on immediately he gets up, is not the most judicious thing to do. There are other roads to the goal; the one he has taken may be one which his feet are not adapted to tread. Why, then, should he torture himself and others? A man may be ambitious to become a musician. If his first essay with a brass or stringed instrument prove that he has no ear for music, that his tym panum is not sensitive tosweet sounds, and cannot distinguish between one note and another, is not that enough? Shall he still go on beating the kettle drum, and deafening his neighbors, un til death mercifully arrest his arms? Better by far be pounding a lapstone; that were noise to a purpose, would willingly have avoided the dan gerous innovation of a political im peachment ; but Mr. Johnson is an obstinate man, and he feels that he is defending the spirit of the Constitu tion against tiie encroachments of Congress. It is only of late that the right of the President to dismiss his M itiisters has been called in question ; nor has it ever before been doubted that the Executive authority was en tirely independent of the Legislature. In dismissing Mr. Stanton, the Presi dent has clearly violated the Act of last session, but he has kept within the limits of the Constitution as it has been universally understood and inter preted. Even if it is true that every Act of Congress must lie considered valid until it is declared by the Su preme Court to be unconstitutional, the charge of high crimes and misde meanors consisting in the dismissal of Some men and women are commit- an insubordinate Minister seems to be idle to expect the co-cperation of the, fission of political doctrine. It 151 j experiences of the various member* all " ' * j wonderful that, after the experience of j , r , ;JV bs . benefited, and we know of no the most costly of recorded wars, sup- better vvay by which farmers can pro- ported almost exclusively by loans, a : , m iigate their different view in relation great nation should wilfully deprive ^ CPnera ] malLtis pertaining to the itself of the power of borrowing on t han by meetings of this kind. reasonable terms in future. Foreign- — — ers, unless they happen to hold Amer-j sai-ttsau iictteb ican securities, have no reason for ob- The Irish Farmers' Gazette, Dublin, jeeting to a measure which is at least j g ( ate9 tb at j) r> Cameron examined a involuntarily pacific in its tendency, j sample of cask butter, aud found it to and lax connexion with the State is described by the ingenious nickname of “ carpet-baggers.” The abstinence of the registered citizens of Alabama from voting on the Constitution is much more important as a fact than the theoretical question whether their i conduct was treasonable, or even fac tious. After the exclusion of all their ting slow suscide from the cradle to the grave. Mentally and morally, I mean, striving to do what they cannot, aud leaving undone that which they can do. Talk of sins of omission and commission; is there anything worse than this in the whole black list? A young person recently made her dibnt as a public singer, and failed— absurdly frivolous. As the House of Representatives has thought lit to pre sent articles of impeachment, the Sen ate, under the presidency of the Chief Justice, must try the case. The Amer ican Constitution has in this respect closely followed English practice, although impeachments have at ail times been the most unsatisfactory of miserably, wretchedly. As a natural j legal processes. For more than sixty consequence, she was deeply mortified, I years the form ot proceeding has, by rjiliE PROPRIETORS OK THIS WELL-KSTAB- 1 LISHED SOUTHERN MONTHLY anuource, <m entering the third year of its publication with a a patronage of several thousand subscribers,and with a corps of contributors unsurpassed upon this Conti nent, that it is their design to furnish A FIRST-CLASS MONTHLY ! Equal in all respects to the best Northern and English Periodicals. 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Uemittances at our risk may be made by Express or Post-office orders, or by Dr*ft. Address bCOTT PITTMAN, Atlanta. Ga. Jan. 20, 1868. M tf HAWLEY IS HERE Are Superceding all others! H AVING been engaged in the businena for 18 years in North Curoliua, South Carolina, Geor gia and Virginia, we feeloonfldent of giving ENllF-B satisfaction . REFERENCES: T. II. Farnsworth, Memphis,Teini. Gen. O. T. Beauregard, De Homergne, Secretary Marine National Fire Insurance Co., New Orleans. Tom King, Underwriter, Mobile. Glenn, Wright Carr, Atlanta, Ga. Dr. T. F. Green. Col. B. W. Frobel, Milledgeville. HAWLEY & LADD. Headquarters Atlanta, Ga. Milledgeville, Feb. 13tb, 18C8. 29 4m* Li ** Si MBti ifff Rods j to be a judge, it by no means follows " ,w> that he can attain eminence as a jurist. Each has his mission in life; but all missions do not lie in the same direc tion. And if, after reading law for two or three years, he makea hopeless mud dle of it before a jury with his first case, would it not be well to pause and sift his qualifications for the legal pro fession, carefully weigh the probabili ties ol bis attaining success in it, am 1 inquire if there be not some other walk in life which he is more calcula ted to adorn, rather than to try again and attain to the end of the chapter, ! turning out but a bad pettifogger af- iu all? Fortunately, there are many channels; those who cannot swim in one, may make very excellent headway in another. All the while that our friend was trying to be a lawyer, he might have sat in a high place, per haps, as an eminent shoe-maker a remarkable tailor, a great and good hotel-keeper, or a successful tiller of the soil. Each to his own. It is better to be a good compositor than a poor editor; a good farmer than a disqualified judge; a good machiuist than a poor preach and highly desirous of establishing her claims as a vocalist. Her friends ad vised her to try again, and she came to ask me what I thought about it. My advice was, no; decidedly no. It seem ed crutd, perhaps, but kindness some times comes in that guise. She had no voice. It was a mistake to appear in the first place. The result demonstra ted that most conclusively. “Try again!” shouted some. And so it ever is, never was a crowning act of folly contemplated that some “friend” was not found to encourage and cheer it on. Why “try again” in any instance, after one attempt, shows incapacity, if not utter incompetence? Does the perpetiation of a second mistake make the first one less painful? “Try again” is what lures the gambler on to bis ruin. To play once, and, having lost, to retire from the table, were not so bad; it is perseverance in losing, when the chances are all against gaining that proves disastrous. A man may try anything once; but, having failed, it is better to deliberate well before trying it again. 1 do not know that I would object to a man’s trying to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, or a whistle out of a pig’s tail; but, afterone attempt, I should set him down for a fool, indeed, if he pro ceeded to a second; particularly when other material for purses and whistles lay ready to his hands. And, in all cases, it is better to weigh the proba bilities well before trying at all. I should not advise a woman to make even one essay at singing base; nor a lame man to attempt a polka, however ambitious he might be to dance. And to make a long story short, saying in a few words what there was no necessity in the first place for spinning out into a chapter, the simple fact is this: there is altogether too much trying again in the world. It is time for the virtues of leaving off and abandoning hopeless attempts, without multiplying them to a sad and dreadtnl infinity, to be inculcated in schools and taught in high places.—N. Y. Leader. WEARY OF THE NIGHT. BV THOMAS BUCHANAN READ. natural leaders under the disfranchising Acts, notoneiii a hundred of the actu al white voters appeared at the polls ; and the most intelligent Republicans acknowledge that the measures of Con gress have produced perfect unanimity among the white population. The malcontents will not lie surprised to find that Congress effects by direct legislation the object which it had hoped to accomplish with the appnt- eut consent of the State. The pur pose of the dissentients has been at tained by giving warning that the new Constitution is imposed by the external force, and that, having no claim to the loyal support of the citizens of the State, it will be repealed on the earii-j ,!( '' ],>] est possible opportunity. If Alabama 1,1 ‘ ' 1 ' and the other States ol the late Con federacy are admitted to return Presi dential electors in next November, their votes will notoriously represent only the minority in each separate State. A year or two ago, the Repub lican leaders were anxious to postpone the readmission of the Southern States, in the natural expectation that they general consent, been abandoned in England, and the Senate will not be would support the Democratic candi- u more competent tribunal than le House ot Lords. The only penalties which can, in the event of a convic tion, be imposed on the President are deposition, and disqualification from holding office in future. As it seems not improbable that Mr. Johnson may be selected as a candidate by the De mocratic Convention in the approach ing Presidential election, the Repub licans perhaps hope to embarrass their adversaries by rendering him ineligi ble. It is surprising that they should lail to appreciate the inconvenience ol a precedent which can at I XATIOXAI. BEMOCKATIC COMMIT TSF-MII. BEL.tlOXTS (IKCIT.AR LETTER. The following letter was addressed to the members of theNational Demo cratic Committee by their chairman. It has got into the papers at the West, and wo therefore republish it, desiring especially to signalize to our readers the clear sagacity with which Mr. Belmont sees and states the issues up-Ul 11 on which and the methods by which !ti< the Democracy may win an easy victo ry in November: “New York, March 2, 1S63. “Dear Sir: I have forwarded to ! you the call of the DemocraticNation- j al Committee for the holding of the 1 next National Convention in the City I of New York on the4th of July next, i You will please confer with the State Central Committee of your State to | the end that she be fully represented the Convention by the num-l egates to which she is enti-| tied. “The National Committee is very desirous that an earnest appeal should be made to the conservative element throughout the Union which has not heretofore acted with the Democratic party. “We call upon every Democratic voter to unite with us in our efforts to save our free institutions from the law less despotism which now threatens the very foundation of our Govern ment. “It is only by the united action of all who love the L T, 'ion and the Consti- contaiu eight per cent, ot salt! That paper justly adds: “It is a penny wise and pound foolish consideration which induces so many farmers to incorpo rate excessive amounts of salt with their butter. This practice increases the Weight of butter, the gain is more than neutralized by the deterioration of the article which ensues.” Where butter is designed lor immediate cou- 1 sumption, it does net require more an a quarter of an ounce to the pound, but if intended for keeping or shipment, double this amount will be about right. The salt should be pure and of the best quality of rock. Its use is essential in consequence of the presence of casein or curd, which it is difficult to separate wholly from the butter, and whose tendency is to ran cidity unless counteracted by salt or its equivalent. date for the Presidency; but th change which has taken place in their i policy proves that they are confident of packing the constituencies for their | own purposes. It is fur Americans to j . , , , • , 1 * , •• , T >, „• , tution that we can hope so drive Horn ludge whether a possible Demoeiatic ; . . ■ j i i _ J P . . , ... power in the next Presidential elec- maionty in the Northern btates will L , x , ,. , . ; ,i J m-.. u . . , . tion the Radical party, which, by its allow itself to be out-voted by a com- . J J . ... , c J . c' representatives in Congress, has at- munity which, under a free system of i 1 . f ° r .• + i lti . . J . . . .. , tempted to usurp the function ol the. election, would undoubtedly inciease . .J. , 1 ’ XT ,. vi r ; judiciary and executive branches ot its own strength. No thoughtful poll- - r , ,• , . .... e • 1 Government, and which, by pronigacy tician blames Congress for the irregu- , . . .. ’ L ... , . “ • ... • and corruption m ttie management ol unties aud innovations winch areiu-t .* . . .... ; our national finances, continues to lveuience oi iseparable from au essentially revom- , , , . . m .. , ; . 1 , . .. u * i „n burden our people with a system ot . „ , , ... ,*“7 f f be ‘““■y, "ng; but the leeden ^ ‘ m „ st end in pi bHc ,„ d followed by a majority. Iu subatauoe of tue, dominant party seem never to e | esg arrc ‘ ted by a Mr. Johnson la impeached for diflenng | have appreciated the difficulty of the , ^ S()ui]J a|u| economica | po l iey such as a Democratic administration is sure to give us. “I iiope you will lose no time, in or der to cause such measures to be taken in your State as will briug to our aid in "the contest before us the combined strength of all those who are opposed to Congressional usurpation aud ne- and who wish the res- peace and unity between task to whicu they undertook. To create self-governing communities, and to prevent them from governing themselves according to their own pleasure, is a problem which can only be solved by an artificial distribution of internal power. An aristocracy may administer authority under the direction of an external protector, but. a popular government can scarcely be ! = 10 ® u P re ™ ac }> maintained in opposition to the wil, of, „ , 8eeti '„ s of our common coun . a majority which » also a superior h blessings of the laws and race. The secession ot 1SG1 may per- - . . e ° ~ ~ . - , . |. . . . , e ii f , the Constitution, for which our brave terms of any written document bn a haps not prove togave been, final, but , di and 5ai , org shed ,l leir blood criminal prosecution instituted by the after four years ol war and three years , d h n „ ion d it8 trea s. innovating party against the chief ad- of peace the internal rent lias riot I 1 herent of the ancient doctrine is in-j been repaired. j Ur< \t AuGUST Belmont, Chairman.” musically harsh and unjust. The! There is less excuse for financial dis-. The issU es of the great contest at most important question which will I honesty than for the political miscar- haad are and should b< T these , antl these be raised by the impeachment relates | riages which have occurred in an em- ! on j Q1 . cb ; pt ] y . 1. Opposition to Congressional usur pation. 2. Opposition to negro suprema cy. . Immediate restoration of the unity from the dominant porty in Congress, and the same course may be adopted against a Republican President when ever the balance of power is altered. If the Senate declines to enter into the constitutional character of the Act of Congress, it would seem that Mr. Johnson must be inevitably convicted. The great increase of the power ol Congress may perhaps have been le gitimate and necessary, for it is impos sible to regulate the whole government of a great country for ever by the to the probable demand for the pro-! barrassiug crisis. The most sagacious visional suspension of the President j statesmen might have failed in the at- from the exercise of his functions.— | tempt to reconstruct the Union, but The Constitution is silent on the sub- t i ie United States are at least as well ject, and suspension would seem to confer on the prosecutor the power of passing a severe sentence before the case has been heard by the proper tri in that opposition and this demand. FARMERS CUBS. MR. JAMES SUPPX.E, THE SUBSCRIBER having been burned oat by the late fire, i Las opened hits shop in the east room of the Masonic Hall, next door to P. M. Comp ton's store, where be can be found during business hours, aud ready and willing to attend to all calls iu his line of business. March 23d. 1868. 34 3m Blacksmith Shop. riMIE undersigned have opened a Blacksmith Shop j d". _ 1 at the old stand opposite the Livery Stable, for- jf, be discovered to each man merlj occupied by Mr. Jamas Sherlock, when- Horses! . r k ^ ,• w:M be Welland carefully Shod at $1 50, for Cash. his Sphere, COIlUlie 111111 tO It, alia tie They are prepared to do all kinds of Blacksmith j -,i m therein easily atld BUCCeSS work . Axes. Axels, Buggv and Carnage Springs ro-I NV1U vv ,, fully; but to flounder awkwardly on, in an unnatural one, can result neither to his own advantage nor that of his fellows. If a mau desire to • reach a certain paired on as low terms as such woik can he 'lone in this part of thecountry. L#"A!1 work warranted They respeotfnlly ask a share of public patronage. FRANK BEALL, (known iu the Country by the name Frank Beecher.) JARUATT MITCHELL, (worked with Mr. Sherlock last year.) MilledgeTille, Feb. 13,1868. 29 3m The shiidow of the miduight houre Falls like a uiautle round my form ; And all the stars, like Autumn flowers, Are banished by the whirling storm. The demon clouds throughout the sky Are dancing in their strange delight, While winds unwearied play—hut 1 Am weary of the night. Then rise, sweet maiden mine, arise, And dawn upon me with thine eyes. The linden, like a lover, stands, And taps against the window pane— The willow with its slender bands Is harping on the silver rain. I’ve watched thy gleaming taper die, And hope departed with the light; The winds unwearied play—but 1 Am weary of the uight. Then rise, sweet muiden mine, arise, Aud duwu upon me with thine eyes! The gentle morning comes apace, And smiling bids the night depart; Rise maiden, with thy Orient lace, And smile the shadow from my heart ! The clouds of night affrighted fly, Yet darkness seals my longing sight, AU uatuie gladly sings—while I Am weary of the night. Then rise, sweet maiden mine, arise, And dawu upon me with thine eyca. There is scarce any lot so low, but there is something iu it to satisfy the mau whom it has befallen ; Providence having so ordered things, that iu every man’s cup, how bitter soever, there are some cordial drops—some good circumstances, which, if wisely ex tracted, are sufficient for the purpose he wants them—that is to make him contented, and if not happy, at least resig n ed.—Sterne. He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it.—Charkon. able as any country in the world to keep faith with the national creditor.! aud e ol the nation. The uncertainty which attaches to the j Tj]e method of v j cto ry is to com- i American character for integrity Min-: bine t | )e strength of all those, wbat- bunal; yet, if the majority in Congress dicated by the price of securities which j eyertheir past ])arty t j e8f w ho unite insists on the suspension, it will t»ejrnay be bought to pay an interest of 1 1 - ... supported by theCommander-in-Chiet,: between eight and nine per cent., and, in case of need, by the army. | while English Consols pay three aud a According to the modern theory of!quarter. The credit of Spain is as | Ag a al tlliftg farmers as a,. f American legislation, nothing would ; measured by the infallible gauge of the | j are ° not atiy too well posted un I ho P® of be easier than to pass an Act ol Con- money-market, somewhat better than i. j. c<r . ir d t 0 their ~ gress to provide for a case omitted bv I that of the United States, although , . . the Spanish Government is not geaer- | , • ally considered a pattern ot houcRty.. imp ® veIBents go ing“on all Capitalists were aware that nearly all . iu farmi as they ollght the Northern dates with the respect- | ghouW under8tan d their business able exception ot Massachusetts, had tho ,,| v; but too often it is just delrauded their foreign and domestic ° — creditors by paying off their debts in a What Poor Farmers can Afford. —There are certain improvements which the poorest farmer cau afford, and which he cannot afford to neglect. He can a fiord to thoroughly till and enrich his lands. He can afford to plant the best variety of seeds, and keep and breed tiie best animals. He can cillord good, convenient tools, and employ good help, lie can afford to read and pay for good agricultural books and papers. He can not afford to permit his land to become less pro ductive by tilling. He can not afford to grow crops that will not pay for production, or squander his resources by commencing labors that cannot be completed. Governing himself by these simple axioms he will soon find himself in a position to gratify every desire instead of being bound by the stern demands of economy. Farm and- Fireside. inm <P — — TS32*; PRONPE€T. Hard winters, with large snow-falls, have often been followed by summers remarkably productive. The year 1S(3S is likely to prove no exception. The winter broke about the 4th of March, and the spring has advanced rapidly ever since. In warm lands a good deal of ploughing has been done as far north as Albany and Boston. In South Jersey the gardens and truck patches have been planted, and many of the potato fields. It was so dry throughout the West last fall that much less winter wheat was sown than usual. This is particularly true of Missouri, Illinois, Kansas and Ne braska; hence, in those States there has been an unusual quantity of spring wheat put into the ground. A hard winter, such as we have just been through, is always favorable tor spriug wheat, for snow water contains con siderable ammonia, and when it melts, a good deal of tliis invaluable wheat fertilizer is carried into the earth. This is, no doubt, one reason why Southern latitudes, though they pro duce a fine quality ol wheat, are not properly wheat-growing regions. The ammonia is extracted from them much more rapidly than from soil that is covered with snow for several months every year. There will be a large amount of corn planted North and South. With regard to the potato crop a good deal of discourage ment is felt. The crop pays well, and j farmers have fertilized their lands in the framers of the Constitution. The prospect of a Presidential elec tion also accounts for the eagerness of the Republican party to complete the nominal restoration of the State of Alabama to the Union. It was pro vided by the Reconstruction Act, in the while to. They accordance with general practice, that j depreciated paper currency; and it the State Constitution to be framed by I seemed not improbable that the same the Conventions should be accepted ! constituencies, in their Federal char- by a majority of the whole number of voters before they were returned to Congress for approval. It was hoped acter, would be equally acute and un scrupulous. It is true that the better and sounder class of Americans strong- that the disfranchisement of the best I ly denounce the proposal ol paying part of the white population, andtbejthe principal of Five-Twenty Bonds extension of universal suffrage to the iu greenbacks, which may perhaps, on negroes, would ensure the enactment j the expiration of the term, be worth of the Constitutions which would give j only a fraction of their nominal value, the Republican party the control of Mr. M. D. Conway, in an article pub- the South. The Conventions have not listed a week ago in the Foiimgh/ly j ^"‘g^ouVd be more free and comntu- disappointed the hopes of their pro- j Review, repudiates, on behalf ot j native with each other; meetingto- moters, but the white citizens of Ala-| Republican party, with excusable i • (rom t j me to time, at each bama have rendered the Keconstruc-j Warmth of language, the charge ofj Gther >s} louS es, for the avowed purpose tion Act inoperative by the simple and intended dishonesty, as urjust an<1 0 f mutual instruction and benefit. In . 0 etting large returns. Barn m, „ , U ,U I vard manures applied to the potato voca lon - 1 } | Helds have produced disease, which is ttnprove themselves, ami so fatal that not Knoweidire ot the various! , i . ■more than half a crop was raised last year east of the lakes. In the black, heavy soil ot tiie West the potatoe does badly, but notwithstanding these drawbacks, the esculent is such a uni versal favorite in this country that it will be largely planted, but it must not be put into fiat, clayey lands, nor should barn yard manures be largely used upon the potato field. The bean is attracting an unusual degree of at tention this spring and very properly. Every considerable farmer should have several acies of them. The bean is subject to very few diseases, is but lit tle affected by drought, requires but little manure, but it does demand clean culture and frequent stirring of the reverse. There are thousands of farmers throughout the country who who are so wedded to the old systems, that they will not take an agricultural paper, and some begrudge the time their children take in attending school, which should not be, for a boy who intends to follow farming for a voca tion m after life, should have just as good a chance to get a thorough education, as if they were to live a professional life. What is needed is a radical change the social habits of our farmers. perfectly legal process of abstaining from voting on the acceptance of the Constitution. The leaders of Con gress, irritated at the natural conse quence of their own oversight, angrily denounce as a treasonable conspiracy the exercise of a right which the Act of Congress expressly recognized ; and both Houses will probably pass a measure for admitting the State of Alabama under the Constitution which has beeu framed by the Convention. The repeated necessity for patching and darning the Reconstruction Acts proceeds in part from legislative care lessness, but in the main it must be attributed to the inherent difficulty of a novel and paradoxical task. It is malicious. By this time he has pro bably discovered that his anticipations were too sanguine, for the Financial Committee ot the Senate has reported a bill for reducing the interest from six to five per cent., in direct contra vention of the express terms of the contract; and another bill will pro bably be passed for the partial repeal of the exemption of the bonds trom State taxation. A late election for Congress in Ohio was determined in favor of the Republican candidate on no way can this be better accomplish ed, than by the organization of farm ers’ clubs in the various townships throughout the country. Very little trouble will be had in organizing such a club, if a few energetic men take bold of it in earnest, and thereby in fuse some of their own life and vigor into t!ic : r neighbors. Let the main object of the club be to gain all the intonnation and instruction possible in relation to the latest improvements in husbandry, thereby gaining such a his pledging himself to suppo.t f un( ] Q f information in all that pertains payment ot the Five-Twenty’ Bonds to farm matt ers, stock, <fcc., that each in paper, and the Republican Conven- afld e member would consider in- tiou of Indiana has formerly included Yaluabl( / {he j lint s and ideas he had the same iniquitous scheme m ns pro- ioed there f rora . i n listening to the the soil. On the whole we think next fall will give us ample supplies of the cereals. We expect to see spring wheat Hour selling for ten dollars a barrel, and perhaps less. Our hard working, overtaxed, low-spirited la boring class will begin to see better times, and greenbacks will be moving in the direction of gold when a barrel of sweet substantial flour can be bought with less titan a week's wages; when beans are two dollars a bushel, au i potatoes less than a dollar. [.V. Y. World. Here is an Oriental maxim, just translated:—“If a man knows, and knows what he knows, he will lead a happy life. If a man does not know, and knows that lie does not know, he may lead a tolerable lile. But if a mau does not know that be does not know, he will lead a miserable life!”