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eration is prominent, and 1 involuntarily
followed his example, as did most of the
company, when they stood in that vast,
still, solemn-looking chamber, with its inter
minable aisles, its pictmes looking dimly
down from every side, its subdued and mel
low light coming in through the stained-
glass windows, its numerous altars and pul
pits, its immense height of ceiling and gal
lery. One gentleman, however, failed to
doff his chapeau, seeing which, the attend
ant quickly snatched it off, casting upon
the offender a look of withering rebuke.
We walked about for a long time, look
ing at the numerous paintings, and altars
dedicated to different saints, listening to
what our attendant had to relate of the su
pernatural—or fabulous ?—history of each.
The large window of stained glass, at one
end t*f the building! is sixty seven feet high,
and twenty-two ioet wide. No description
can give an idea of the beatiful light that
conies through it, and I pass over this, as
over too much else, with a mere mention.
Ho w I wish 1 had had time to jot d >wn
some of the naratives we heard concerning
the different paintings and altars.
Having finished the main body of the
church, we went up into one of the two
tall towers. One was sufficiently fatiguing.
In that we saw such a bell as does not
greet the eye anywhere else on this .conti
nent. It weighs 29,400 lbs.
We looked at the immense tubulai
bridge then in process of construction
across the St. Lawrence river, and won
dered at man’s perseverance and power.
In the evening, I started for Quebec,
leaving all my acquaintances in Montreal,
and seeing them only once more, for a
few moments, during the progress of oyr
tour. w. w. T,
Salt.
Mr. John H. Traylor, in a communica
tion dated Whitesville, Harris County, Ga.,
Sept. 27, 1862, addressed ‘To The Coun
tryman,’ through the Columbus Daily En
quirer of 3d inst., says :—“ Having noticed
your communication inquiring for Mr.
Stubbs, and, supposing you wished to
know something further about his recipe
for saving pork by an economical process,
L have concluded to give a safe and eco
nomical one which lias been tried in my
neighborhood with very satisfactory results:
To 5 gallons of water, add 7 pounds salr,l
pint syrup, and 1 teaspoonful of pounded salt
petre. After the pork is cooled in the usual
way, pack in barrels, and cover with the
above mixture. Let it remain 4 or 5 weeks,
and hang and smoke in the usual manner.
THE COUNTRYMAN.
This plan was tried last winter by Judge
Alex. B. Huey, ot Harris County, Ga., in
saving his entire crop of pork, with perfect
success, lie having saved 4,500 pounds of
pork with only 84 pounds of salt. I have
eaten of the bacon, and have no hesitation in
saying it is as well salted as any I ever saw.’’
For Mr. Traylor’s own, and Judge Hu
ey’s reliability, my correspondent refers to
various persons well known to the country,
among them Dr. Lovick Pierce, cosmopoli
tan, John E. Morgan of La Grange, Hon.
D. P. Hill of Hamilton, and others, all of
whom are endorsed by the Enquirer.
I am much obliged to Mr, Traylor for
bis communication. Its value to the coun
try is incalculable, and lie gives good en
dorsers. Dr. Lovick Pierce, for instance,
ought to understand the salt business : for
if the old gentleman isn’t decidedly saline
in some of his discourses, then uncle Jiin-
! my Danielly never was. And the way he
knows how to row evil-doers up salt river,
is decidedly emphatic.
But Mr. Traylor himself has a salty
name : for one of the saltiest fellows I ev
er knew, was a man by the name of John
Traylor, formerly of this county. At any
rate, my correspondent is a good Traylor,
for lie has trailed up a secret worth mil
lions to the countiy, though he has failed
to trail up Rocksalt Stubbs.
I do not think Mr. Stubbs should fail to
respond to the call made upon him. Won
der if lie is any relation to the man who
makes Stubbs’s London Twist Shot-guns?
If be is, 1 wish he would undo his twist,
until he twists himself from his hiding-
place, and again appears before the public.
I I have tried to twist him out, until 1 have
despaired of ever twisting him down to
the Stubbs. I fear I shall have to quit
cultivating this field of enquiry, and leave
it a 'Stuhb le field, unless the proprietor of
the Stubblefield house in Macon sboald
volunteer to proceed with the enquiry.
But failing to find Mr. Stubbs, I am per
mitted to say* by Mr. M. Dennis of this
county, that about the winter of 1828, if
he remembers correctly, he tried Mr.
Stubbs’s plan. That is to say, he had his
brine in an iron pot, aud while boiling, be
dipped his meat in, let it remaiu a minute
or two, and immediately hung it up, and,
smoked it. Before putting it in the brine,
all the bone was removed. The meat was
plenty salt, and quite good.
The winter in which he tried the exper-
ment, was quite warm—so much so that it
did not kill the cotton : and he gathered
from the old stalks remaining in hie field
where corn followed cotton—he gathered
from these old stalks 4 or 5 bales of the
staple. Everybody who knows Mr. Den
nis will bear witness that he not only knows
how to save his bacon, but is a perfectly
truthful, reliable, upright, and honest man.
From the various experiments reported
bv reliable men, it may be safely inferred
that with the proper management, meat
may be saved with one fift h of the salt usu
ally employed. Our people would do well
to begin, early in the season, to kill small
portions of their hogs as they became fat>
aud test the various experiments for saving
meat, on a small scale, before they risk
their whole bacon crop upon any novelty.
The subject before us is one worthy of the
best efforts of us all.
In conclusion, I would observe that the
funny part of this article is only designed
to make attractive the useful part.
Since writing the foregoing, I have come
across another recipe for curing meat, which
is as follows : ,
'* An old farmer, residing in the, vicinity
of Petersburg, gives us t he following recipe
for curing bacon to publish foi the benefit
of all who may wish to put up pork this
winter. He says lie has known the value
ot this recipe for the last 40 yeais, and pro
nounces the bacon cured by it to be equal
to any he lias ever seen or tasted. It
keeps pure and sweet tor a«y 7 length of
time, and entirely free of skippers. In view
of the scarcity of salt, present and prospec
tive, we recommend a trial of this recipe.
To 1 part salt add 2 parts good green
hicki.ry oroak ashes (by measure :) mix and
rub well around the joints and elsewhere .
A Haunted Preacher.
“ In the volumes of Dr. Sprague, on the
Baptist Pulpit, Governor Briggs communi
cates a very interesting letter on Jolm Po
land, which contains a very full account of
his personal habits and manner of preach
ing. He was little inclined to be supersti
tious, says Gov. Briggs: indeed, bis practi
cal sagacity and startling common sense
kept him from any tendency in that direc
tion, but he had some peculiar experiences
of the supernatural, as the following inci
dent testifies :
While I was at liis home, I inquired of
him about a remarkable noise, which I had,
when a boy, heard that he and his family
had been annoyed by r , when they lived in
Virginia.—He gave this account of it :
His family, at the time, consisted of him
self, wife, and four children. One evening,
all the family being together, their atten
tion was attracted by a noise which very
much resembled the faint groans of a per-