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VOUME XLII.]
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, MAY 29, 1872.
NUMBER 44.
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Civil, I,AW IIV THE NOl'TII.
I.eltrr from Gra. Ilnnrorlt to Gar. Peaae
•f Texas—Defease sf General Order No.
40.
Headqr’s 5th Military Dis’t. >
New Orleans, La., March 9, 1868. )
To His Excellency E. M. Pease, Gov
ernor of Texas :
Sir: Your communication of the
17th January last, was received in due
course of mail, (the 27th January,)
but not until it had been widely cir
culated by the newspaper Press. To
such a letter—written and published
for manifest purposes—it has been my
intention to reply as soon as leisure
from more important business would
permit.
Yourstatement that the act of Con
gress “ to provide for the more efficient
government of the rebel States,” de
clares that whatever Government ex
isted in Texas was provisional ; that
peace and order should be enforced ;
that Texas should be part of the Fifth
Military District, and subject to mili
tary power ; that the President should
appoint an officer to command in said
district, and detail a force to protect
the rights of person and property,
suppress insurrection and violence, and
punish offenders, either by military
commission or through the action of
local civil tribunals, as in his own
judgment might seem best, will not
be disputed. One need only read the
act, to perceive it contains such
provisions. But how all this is sup
posed to have made it my duty to or
der the military commissions request
ed, you have entirely failed to show.
The power to do a thing if shown,
and the propriety of doing it, are of
ten very different matters. You ob
serve you are at a loss to understand
how a Government, without repre
sentation in Congress, under a milita
ry force, and subject to military pow
er, can be said to be in the full exer
cise of all its proper powers. You do
not reflect that this Government, cre-
of humanity and religion; proclaimed
it covered with disgrace, and vented
his eternal abhorrence of it and Ps
measures. It may, I think, be safely
asserted that a majority of the British
nation concurred in the views of Lord
Chatham. But whoever supposed that
profound peace was not existing in
that kingdom, or that government had
any authority to question the abso
lute right of the opposition to express
their objections to the propriety of
the King’s measures in any words, or
to any extent they pleased? It would
be difficult to show that theopponents
of Government in the days of the
elder Adams, or Jefferson, or Jackson,
exhibited for it either “affection” or
“respect.” You are conversant with
the history of our past parties and po-
itical struggles touching legislation
on alienage, sedition, the embargo, na
tional banks, our wars with England
and Mexico, and cannot be ignorant of
the fact, that for one party to assert
that law or system of legislation is un
constitutional, oppressive and usnrpa-
tive, is not a new thing in the United
States. That the people of Texas con
sider acts of Congress unconstitution-
oppressive or insulting to them, is
of no consequence to the matter in
hand. The President of the United
States has announced his opinion, that
these acts of Congress are unconstitu
tional. The Supreme Court, as you
are aware, long ago decided unani
mously that a certain military com
mission was unconstitutional. Our
people everywhere, in every State,
without reference to the side they
took during the rebellion, differ as to
the constitutionality of these acts of
Congress. How the matter really is,
troubles, leaving their works an ines
timable legacy to the human race.
These laws, as I am informed, connect
ed the civilizations of past and pres
ent ages, and testified of the justice,
wisdom, humanity and patriotism of
more than one nation, through whose
record they r descended to the present
people of these States. I am satis
fied from representations of persons
competent to judge, they are as per
fect a system of laws as can be found
elsewhere, and better suited than any
other to the condition of this people,
for by them they have long been gov
erned. Why should it be supposed
son and property, must be preserved.”
Will you question the truth of these
declarations? Which one of these
nifies the shortcomings of officials who
are perhaps as earnest and conscien
tious in the discharge of their duties
great principles of liberty are you as yourself: and a most unsound con
ready to deny and repudiate? Whoever ! elusion, that while any persons are to
Congress has abolished these laws
Why should any one wish to abolish
them? They have committed no
treason, nor are hostile to the United
States, nor countenance crime, nor
favor injustice. On them, as on
foundation of a rock, reposes almost
the entire superstructure of social or
der in these two States. Annul this
code of local laws, and there would
be no longer any rights, either of per
son or property here. Abolish the
local civil tribunal made to execute
them, and you would virtually annul
the laws, except in reference to the
very few cases cognizable in the Fed
eral courts. Let us, for a moment sup
pose the whole local civil code annull
ed, arid that I am left, as commander
of the Fifth Military District, the sole
fountain of law and justice. This is
the position in which you would place
me.
I am now to protect all rights, and
redress all wrongs. How is it possible
for me to do it? Innumerable ques
tions arise, of which I am not only
ignorant, but to the solution of which
neither you nor I can dogmatically af-; a military court is entirely unfitted.
firm.
If you deem them constitutional
laws, and beneficial to the country,
you not only have the right to publish
your opinions, but it might be your
bounden duty as a citiz’en to do so.
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BAPTIST CHURCH.
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Supt. Rev. D E BUTLER, Pastor.
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SA.M’L G WHITE, T.\ P. -G.’-M.\
Geo. D.^Case, Exc Grand bec’y.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Mayor—Samuel Walker.
Board of Aldermen.—1. F B Mapp; 2 E Trice;
JT.vCaraktr; 4 Jacob Caraker; 5 J H McComb;
6 Henry Temples.
Clerk and treasurer—Peter Fair.
Mar.-hal—J B Fair. Policeman—T Tuttle.
D.-puly Marstial and Street Overseer—Peter Fen-ell.
feeitou—F Beeland
Lit) Surveyor—C T Bavne.
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ated or permitted by Congress; has j No less is it the privilege and duty ol
all the powers which the act intends, any and every citizen, wherever re-
and may fully exercise them accord-1 siding, to publish his opinion freely
ingly, if you think it ought to have
more powers ; should be allowed to
send members to Congress, wield u
militia force, and possess yet other
powers, your complaint is not to be
preferred against me, but against Con
gress, who made it what it is.
As respects the issue between us,
any question as to what Congress
ought to have done has no pertinence.
You admit the act of Congress author
izes me to try an offender by military
commission, or allow the local civil
tribunals to try, as I shall deem best;
and you cannot deny the act expressly
recognizes such local civil tribunals as
legal authorities for the purpose speci
fied. When you contend there are no
legal tribunals for any purpose in^to the merits of such a cause, that its
Texas, you must either deny the plain
reading of the act of Congress or the
power of Congress to pass the act.
You next remark that you dissent
from my declaration “ that the coun
try (Texas) is in a state of profound
peace” and proceed to state the
“ grounds of your dissent.” They ap
pear to me not a little extraordinary.
I quote your words : “ It is true there
no longer exists here (Texas) any au
thorized resistance to the authority ol
the United States. But a large ma
jority of the white population, who
participated in the late rebellion, are
embittered against the Government,
and yield to it an unwilling obedi
ence.” Nevertheless, you concede
they do yield it obedience. You pro
ceed : “ None of this class have any
affection for the Government, and very
few any respect for it. They regard
the legislation of Congress on the sub
ject of reconstruction as unconstitu
tional, and hostile to their interests,
and consider the Government now ex
and fearlessly on this and every ques
tion which he thinks concerns his in
terest. This is merely in accordance
with the principles of our tree Gov
ernment; und neither you nor I would
wish to live under any other. It is time
now, at the end of almost two years
from the close of the war, we should
begin to recollect what manner of peo
ple we are ; to tolerate again free,
popular discussion, and extend some
forbearance and consideration to op
posing views. The maxims that in
all intellectual contests, truth is
mighty, and must prevail; and that
error is harmless when reason is left
free to combat it, are not only sound
but salutary. It is a poor compliment
One would establish a will, another a
! deed ; or the question is one of suc
cession or partnership or descent or
trust; a suit of ejectment or claim to
chattels; or the application may re
late to robbery, theft, arson or murder.
How am I to take the first step in any
such matter? It I turn to the acts of
Congress, I find nothing on the sub
ject. I dare not open the authors on
the local code, lor it has ceased to ex
ist.
And you tell me in this perplexing
condition I am to furnish by dint of
my own hasty and crude judgment
the legislation demanded by the vast
and manifold interests of the people!
I repeat, sir, that you, and not Con
gress, are responsible for the mon
strous suggestion that there are no
does so, avows himself the enemy of
human liberty and the advocate of
despotism. Was there any intimation
in General Orders No. 40 that any
crimes or breaches of the law would
be countenanced ? You know that
there was not. On the contrary, you
know perfectly well that while “the
consideration of crime and offences
committed in the Fifth Military Dis
trict was referred to the judgment of
the regular civil tribunals,” a pledge
was given in Order No. 40, which all
understood, that tribunals would be
supported in their lawful jurisdiction,
and that “forcible resistance to lav*
would be instantly suppressed by
arms.” You will not affirm that this
pledge has ever been forfeited. There
has not been a moment since I have
been in command of the Fifth District
when th£ whole military force in my
hands has not been ready to support
the civil authorities of Texas in the
execution of the laws. And I am
unwilling to believe they would re
fuse to call for aid if they needed it.
There are some considerations which
itseems to me, should ciuse you to
hesitate before indulging in wholesale
censures against the civil authorities
of Texas. You are yourself the chief
of those authorities ; not elected by
the people, but created by the milita
ry. Not long after you had thus come
into office, ail the Judges of the Su-
dreme Court of Texas—five in num
ber—were removed from office, and
new appointments made ; twelve of
the seventeen Judges were removed,
and others appointed. County offi
cers, more or less, in seventy-five out
of one hundred and twenty-eight coun
ties, were removed, and others ap
pointed in their places. It is fair to
conclude that the executive and judi
cial civil functionaries in Texas are
the persons whom you desired to fill
the offices. It is proper to mention,
also, that none but registered citizens,
and only those who could take the
test-oath, have been allowed to serve
as jurors during your administration.
Now, it is against this local govern
ment, created by military power prior
to my coming here, and so composed
of your personal and political friends,
that you have preferred the most
grievous complaint. It is of them
that you have asserted they will not
be found wanting in affection or re
spect for Government, er yielding its
obedience from motives which you do
not approve, war and not peace is the
status, and all such persons are the
proper subjects for military penal ju
risdiction.
If I have written anything to disa
buse your mind of bo grave an error
I shall be gratified.
I am, sir, very respectfully, you
obedient servant.
W. S. Hancock,
Maj. Gen’l Commanding.
From the Country Gentleman.
She Art of Tarming 1 .
local laws or institutions here to be do their duty ; they will not main-
advocates would silence opposition by
force ; and generally those only who
are in the wrong will resort to this
ungenerous means. I am confident
you will not commit your serious judg
ment to the proposition that any
amount of discussion, or any sort of
opinions, however unwise in your
judgment ; or any assertion or feeling,
however resentful or bitter, not re
sulting in the breach of law, can fur
nish jurisdiction for your denial that
profound peace exists in Texas. You
might as well deny that profound
peace exists in New York, Pennsylva
nia, Maryland, California, Ohio and
and Kentucky, when a majority of the
people differ with the minority ou
these questions; or that profound
peace exists in the House of Repre
sentatives, or the Senate at Washing
ton, or in the Supreme Court, where
all these questions have been repeated
ly discussed, and parties respectfully
and patiently heard. You next com
plain that in parts of the State (Texas)
istin" here under the authority of the it is difficult to enforce the criminal
United States as a usurpation on their j laws ; that Sheriffs fail to arrest; that
rights. They look on the emancipa-1 grand jurors will not always indict;
tion of their late slaves and the dis
franchisement of a portion of their
own class as an act of insult- and op-
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Judge II. It. Bell, Oriiiaory—office io Masonic Hall.
F L Fair, Clerk Sup’r Court, “
Chadiab Arnold. Sheriff, “
L P Bmmer. Depty Sheriff, lives in the country.
Marshall, Kev’r Tax Returns—at Post Oflfc*-
L N t allawsy, Tax Collector, otiiue at liis store.
« Temples, County Tieasurer, office at his store,
lfiaae Cashing, Coronor, residence ou Wilkinson st.
John Gentry, Constable, residence on Wayne at, near
the Factory.
MEDICAL BOARD OF GEORGIA.
Dr - 0. D Case Dean. Dr. S. G. WHI TE, Prea’dt
Regular mectiug first Monday in December-
STATE LUNATIC ASYLUM.
^ Dr THOS F GREEN, Superintendent.
® R Bell, Ir. & Steward.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
® Sanford, Sec’y. JOHN JONES, Chief.
11 ^ ^ ^ Kire Co. meets nt the Court Room on
first Hint third Tuesday nighta in each month.
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MilledgeviUe, Ga., Feb. 6,1872. 28 tf
pression.
And this is all you have to present
for proof that war and not peace pre
vails in Texas, and hence it becomes
my duty [so you suppose] to set aside
the local civil tribunals, and enforce
the penal code against citizens, by
means of military commission.
My dear sir, I am not a lawyer, nor
has it been my business, as it may
have been yours, to study the philoso
phy ol statecraft and politics; but I may
lay claim, after an experience of more
than half a life time, to some poor
knowledge of men, and some apprecia
tion of what is necessary to social or
der and happiness. And for the lu-
ture of our common country, I could
devotedly wish that no great number
of our people have yet fallen in with
the views you appear to entertain.
Woe be to us whenever it shall come
to pass that the power of the magis
trate, civil or military, is permitted to
deal with the mere opinions or feeling
of the people.
I have been accustomed to believe
that sentiments of respect or disre
spect, and feelings of affection, love or
hated, so long as not developed into
acts in violation of law, were matters
wholly beyond the punitory power of
human tribunals.
I wilt maintain that the entire free
dom of thought and speech, however
acrimoniously indulged, is consistent
with the noblest aspirations of man,
and the happiest condition of his race.
When a boy, I remember to have
read a speech of Lord Chatham, deliv
ered in Parliament. It was during our
revolutionary war, and related to the
policy of employing the savages on the
side of Britain. You may be more la-
miliar with the speech than I am. If I
am not greatly mistaken, his Lordship
denounced the British Government—
his Government—in terms of unmeas
ured bitterness. He characterized its
policy as revolting to every sentiment
that in some cases the military, acting
iu aid of the civil authorities, have not
been able to execute the process of
the civil courts; that petit jurors
have acquitted persons adjudged guil
ty by you, and that other persons
charged with offences have broke jail
and fled from prosecution. I know
not how these these things are ; but
admitting your representations liter
ally true, if for such reasons I should
set aside the local civil tribunals and
order a military commission, there is
no place in the United States where it
might not be done with equal proprie
ty. There is not a State in the Union,
North or South, where the like facts
are not continually happening. Per
fection is not to be predicted of man
or his works. No one can reasonably
expect certain and absolute justice in
human transactions; and if military
power is to be set in motion, on the
principles for which you would seem
to contend, I fear that a civil Govern
ment regulated by laws could have no
biding place beneath the circuit of the
sun. It is rather more than hinted in
vour letter that there is no local State
Government in Texas, and no local
laws outside of the acts of Congress,
which l ought to respect; and that I
should undertake to protect the rights
of persons and property in my own
way and in an arbitrary manner. If
such be your meaning, I am compell
ed to differ with you. After the abo
lition of slavery, (an event which I
hope no one now regrets) the laws of
Louisiana and Texas, existing prior to
the rebellion, and not io conflict with
the acts of Congress, comprised & vast
system of jurisprudence, both civil
and criminal. It required not volumes
only, but libraries to contain them.
They laid down principles and prece
dents for ascertaining the rights and
adjusting the controversies of men in
every conceivable case. They were
the creations of great and good and
learned men, who had labored in their
day for their kind, and gone down to
respected by me, outside the act ot
Congress. I say unhesitatingly, if it
were possible that Congress should
pass an act abolishing the local codes
of Louisiana and Texas—which I do
not believe—and it should fall to my
lot to supply their places with some
thing of my own, I do not see how I
could do better than follow the laws
in force here prior to the rebellion,
excepting whatever therein shall re
late to Slavery. Power may destroy
the forms, but not the principles of
justice; these will live in spite even
of the sword. History tells us that
the Roman pandects were lost for a
long period among the rubbish that
war and revolution had heaped upon
them, but at length were dug out of
the ruins, again to be regarded as a
priceless treasure.
You are pleased to state that “since
the publication of (my) General Or
ders, No. 40, there has been a percep
tible increase of crimes and manifes
tation of hostile feeling toward the
Government and its supporters, aud
add that it is “an unpleasant duty to
give such a recital of the condition of
the country.”
You will permit me to say that I
deem it impossible the first of these
statements can be true, and that I do
very greatly doubt the correctness of
the second. General Orders No. 40
was issued at New Orleans Nov. 29,
1S67, and your letter was dated Jan.
17, 1S6S. Allowing time for Order
No. 40 to reach Texas and become
generally known, some additional time
must have elapsed before its effect
would be manifested, and a yet f urther
time must transpire before you would
be able to collect the evidence of what
you term the condition of the country;
and yet, after all this, you would have
to make the necessary investigations
to ascertain if Older No. 40, or some
thing else, was the cause. The time,
therefore, remaining to enable you, be
fore the 17th of Jauuary, 1S68, to
reach a satisfactory confusion on so
delicate aud nice a question, must
have been very short. How you pro
ceeded—whether you investigated
yourself or tfirough third persons, aud,
if so, who they were, whxt their com
petency and fairness, on what evidence
you rested your conclusion—oi wheth
er you ascertained any facts at all, are
points upon which your letter so dis
creetly omits all mention, that I may
well be excused for not relying explic
itly upon it; nor is my difficulty di
minished by the fact that in another
part of your letter you state that ever
since the close of the war a very large
portion of the people have had no af
fection for the government, but bitter
ness of feeling only. Had the duty
of publishing and circulating through -
the country, long before it reached
me, your statement that the action of
the District Commander was increas
ing crime and hostile feeling against
the Government been less painful to
your sensibilities, it might possibly
have occurred to you to furnish some
thing on the subject in addition to
your bare assertion.
But what was Order No. 40, and
how could it have the effect you attri
bute to it ? It sets forth that “the
great priuciples of American liberty
are still the inheritance oi this people,
and ever should be.” “That the right
of trial by jury, the haJreas corpus, the
liberty of the Press, the freedom ot
the grave long before our recent | speech, and the natural righto of per
tain justice ; will not arrest offenders;
will not punish crimes ; and that out
of 100 homicides committed in the
last twelve months not over ten ar
rests have been made ; and by means
ot such gross disregard of duty you
declare that neither property nor life
is safe in Texas.
Certainly you could have said noth
ing more to the discredit, of the offi
cials who are now in office. If the
facts be as you allege, a mystery is
presented for which I can imagine no
explanation. Why is it that your po
litical friends, backed up aud sus
tained by the whole military power of
the United States in this district,
should be unwilling to enforce the
laws against that portion of the popu
lation lately in rebellion, and whom
you represent as the offenders ? Iu
all the history of these troubles I have
never seen or heard before of such a
fact. I repeat, if the fact be so, it is
a profound mystery, utterly surpass
ing my comprehension. I am con
strained to declare that I believe you
are in very great error as to facts. On
careful examination at the proper
source, I find that at the date of your
letter four cases only of homicides had
been reported to these headquarters as
having occurred since November 29,
1867, the date of Order No. 40 ; aud
these cases were ordered to be tried
or investigated as soon as the reports
were received. Moreover, the fact of
the one hundred homicides may still
be correct, as stated by you. The
Freedmen’8 Bureau iu Texas reported
one hundred and sixty ; how many of
these were by Indians and Mexicans
and how the remainder were classi
fied, is not known ; nor is it known
whether these data are accurate.
The report of the commanding offi
cer of th« district of Texas shows that
since I assumed command no applica
tions have been made to you by him
for arrest of criminals in the State of
Texas.
To this date eighteen cases of hom
icides have been reported to me as
having occurred since November 29,
1S67, although special instruction had
been given to report such cases as they
occur. Of these, five were committed
by Indians, one by a Mexican: one by
an insane man, three by colored men,
two women by their husbands, and of
the remainder, some by parties un
known—all of which could be scarcely
attributable to Order No. 40. If the
reports received since the issuing of
Order No. 40, are correct they exhibit
no increase of homicides in my time, if
you are correct that 100 had occurred
in the past twelve months.
That there hai not been a perfect
administration of justice in Texas lam
not prepared to deny.
That there has not been such wau-
ton disregard of duty on the part of
officials as you allege, I am well sat
isfied. A very little while ago you
regarded the present officials in Texas
the only ones who could be safely
trusted with power. Now you pro
nounce them worthless, aud would
cast them aside.
1 have found little else in your letter
but indications of temper, lashed into
excitement by causes which I < eern
most imaginary ; a great confidence
in the accuracy of your own opiuions,
and an intolerance of the opinions of
others ; a desire to punish the thoughts
and feelings of those who differ with
you, and an impatience which mag-
the Pennsylvania delegation in the
National Convention, has issued a pro-
nunciamento demanding the sacrafice
of Colfax, and the selection ot a more
available man. Mr. McMichael, no
doubt, speaks “by authority,” and
consequently Colfax stock is below
par
Indiana Democracy.—The Yevay
(Ind.) Democrat, an able and earnest
exponent of sound principles, thus
closes a splendid article on the so-call
ed reformers : “Let Greeley bow
down to Grant, apologize for and re
tract the slanders he has uttered
against him if he chooses. Democrats
will battle under their old colors for
good government, and, if defeated,
they will, at least, have the satisfac
tion of having done right.”
A terrible account comes from the
West. A train of supplies near old
Fort Lancaster was captured by In
dians. Seventeen persons were killed
or wounded. The atrocities were hor
rible. Several were tied to wagons
and burned alive. Some were shot
and scalped, and others had their
brains dashed ont. The band consis
ted of one bundled and twenty-five.
Tiie ELEfTORAi, Vote of 1872.—We copy
from the Chicago Tribune tbe following table, ex
hibiting the electoral vote in the election of 1S72,
with a statement of the popular majority in the
same States in IStiS :
A man posesses a farm, the land bein
of average fertility, which medium state
means it is half worn out or only exhaus
ted of half its plant food, and thus has the
power of growing half crops. If this
man goes on lowering the condition of
the land, he is a had farmer; if he does
not weaken the soil further nor improve its
capability to grow heavy crops, he will
be a nonprogressive one—a kind of milk-
and-water farmer; hut if he manages so
as steadily to increase the fruitfulness of
the whole extent, till, in the eud it becomes
sufficiently rich to grow as heavy crops of
every variety as can be brought to per
fection, he is a good farmer, and one the
country should honor; he has not hidden
his talent under a bushel.
It is easier to farm well than ill. The
man who makes two blades of grass grow
where one only grew before, and makes
every kind of produce double, too, is a
happier man than the one who poles on
doing neither better nor worse than the
average; while the miserable man who
impoverishes his land must feel how do-
graded a position he stands in, and his mind
must sink lower and lower with his prop
erty. If a report of every farm through
every parish in the Union was made once
in seven years, and the improvememt, the
impoverishment, or the non impoverish
ment of each was published, it would
give the country at large a better idea of
what is going on in agriculture.
It is no use of denying facts, and the
truth is starting from the east, the land
is robbed of more than half its fertility,
and still as population moves on so does
the exhausting system. If when a parish,
a county, or a 8t tte is half iinpoveiished,
a stop can he put to the debilitating pro
cess, why not stop at the beginning!
Why not reimburse from the start?
Land is seldom too rich, and when it is
said to be “in the highest state of fertili
ty,” what a pity to bring it down ! Yet
this is the custom, the tashion, and the
example set bv all. This kind of poli
cy carried into other lines of business
would cause men to say the guilty parties
were insane or fools. Land cannot throw
up immense crops on water and air;
therefore if these crops are sold off, the
land is that much the poorer, but science
and common experience proves that there
are stages at which some of the produc
tions of the earth can he taken away
when nothing has been abstracted to
cause injury, and if, at this period of the
crop's growth, it is turned into manure,
the land is benefited without any f<reigu
aid. Thus by having intervemug crops
of this kind, there may he things sold one
year that may be replaced the next by this
renovation. This is why the four-course
system, or some other suitable rotation,
is insisted upon in Bugland. Poor land
is brought to be rich, aud good laud is
kept up on the best estates, yet there are
annually great quantities of fat cattle and
sheep sold from these farms, and wool,
cheese butter, etc., continued to be pro- ' J
duced, because there is an art in doing this
so as to improve and increase the stam
ina of the soil.
There is no mystery whatever in the case,
for here is a field of barley, say grown after
roots; this barley, probably sixty bush
els por acre takes away considerably
from the soil, though being a quick grow
ing grain not so much as other sorts, but
clover follows, having been sowed with
the barley. Every body knows when clo
ver is cut young the ground is beuefitted
by producing it, therefore, if it is mowed
twice and cut each time when coming into
full bloom, there will be from the two
mowings tons per acre of matter to bo
manufactured into manure, which has not
weakened the land it grew on, consequent
ly. this is a renovating crop, aud has done
more in adding fertility than the barley
didin abstracting; next comes wheat, aud j G}rOCeriC8 <$* PtOlisiOnH
that takes more away than the barley '
did, but then Comes the intervening root and at such rates as will not drive a man to the Bank
crop, which puts far more in to the soil by rupt Court in a few year8 ’ 0ur “ l “ beinK
Electoral
Rep. Maj.
Dem. Maj.
State* Vote 1872.
1868
1368
Alabama
4,280
• •••
Arkansas........
. 6
3J.74
California
514
f . 1
Connecticut
3,054
Delaware
....
3,357
Florida
....
Georgia
11
....
45,688
Illinois
21
51,150
....
Indiana
14
9,572
Iowa
11
46.359
Kansas
17,030
• •••
Kentucky
12
64,301
Louisiana
.. 7
46,962
• •••
Maine
. 7
23,030
Maryland
....
31,919
Massachusetts....
13
77,069
*•*•
Michigan .........
11
31,431
....
Minnesota,.......
. 5
15,470
....
Mississippi
6
....
....
Missouri
15
25,883
• •••
Nebraska
* 4,290
Nevada
1,262
....
New Hampshire...
. 4
6,967
••••
New Jersey......
....
2,880
New York
34
• •••
10,000
North Carolina....
10
. 12.136
....
O.iio
22
41,423
• •••
Oregon
. 3
• •••
164
Pennsy ivania
.28
23.393
• •••
Rhode Island
4
6445
....
South Carolina...
7
17,064
Tennessee....
11
30,446
....
Texas
8
....
V-rmont
4
32,112
....
Virginia
11
....
• •••
West Virginia...*
5
8,719
....
Wisconsin........
10
24,447
....
Total
.357
574.142
1158,309
Necessary to a choice 179
158,309
415,833
MACON
CARDS
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Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
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E 1
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CREDIT OR CASH!
W E wish to remind our friends in BALDWIN
HANCOCK and PUTNAM Counties that we
are still iu tbe market for
beiug consumed than the wheat has taken,
and so this easy, plain system is a fair
exposition of all those which are devised
to enable farmers to make mouey while
sustaining their land.
The Richmond (Ky.) Register tells
this : “At u dance given by L. Coyle,
in Kingston, a lew nights since, there
were a number of married ladies pres
ent who brought their babies along.—
Feeling inclined to trip ttie ‘light
fantastic’ a round or two, they left
their progenies in an adjoining room
in charge of Mr. Coyle and Joe Maun-
in, wiio had kindly volunteered to be
mamas to the inuoceuts ad interim.■—
During the absence of the fond par
ents, Tom and Joe concluded to swap
clothes, and in a short time every baby
sported him or hersell in toreign ha
biliment. Tbe mothers, after an hour
or so’s devotion to terpsichoreau de
lights, took each their baby vestments
and the dear little forms therein con-
taine 1 , and retired to their respective
and once happy homes. On preparing
the little ones for their crib, sexes had
changed—girls were boys and boys
girls—and with one universal yell the
outraged maternals set out on a baby
hunt. At last account most all had,
by ‘the strawberry mark,’ succeeded
in recovering their lost heirs ; but Joe
and Coyle are said to be non est when
any ot those mothers are in or about
Kingston.”
The Grant Radicals iu Pennsylva-
via have recently given a stunning
blow to Collax. It is evident that
they do not want him on the ticket
with their favorite chieftain, and they
are now loudly clamoring for the
nomination of a Pennsylvauian in his
place. Morton McMichael, the editor
of the North American, who heads
rupt Court iu a few years. Our sales being large
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