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The Family Journal.—News—Politics—Literature—Agbiculture—Domestic Affairs.
GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING.
IbUSHED 1826.}
MACON, FRIDAY, AUGUST .28, 1868,
VOL. XLII.---M 45
[10 STAKE DAUGHTERS
DEPENDENT.
tot Chrutian Commonwealth.]
.fie saddest but commonest sights
? our eyes in society is helpless
irown upon their own resources
*rt themselves and families by
insertions. Almost every city
J!r e and neighborhood is full of
They have been reared, it
ia the lap of luxury, and every
,plied by a kind and indulgent
husband, but by some sudden
ie wheel of fortune, or by the
fthe father or husband, their sup-
lT e beeu suddenly cut off and
Rethrown upon the cold charities
’ relatives and friends, or upon
m exertions to support themselves
jeir growing expensive families,
ightml father, who sincerely loves
ijhter, can see these cases occur-
J around him and not ask himself
estion, What provision can I make
euch a calamity coming upon
,ved child after I am taken away
death? The usual expedi
te go work to accumulate wealth
it upon the daughter in such a
that it cannot be taken from her by
■digal or worthless hhsband. All
enee proves, however, that wealth
ngs, and that they cannot be so
or crippled that it will not fly
The best laid plans of entail and
ent are often futile. The rich in
eration are in nine cases out of
poor of the next, and vice versa.
uestion arises, then, what endow-
in a father bestow upon his daught-
can not be taken from her by a
|« executore or profligate husbands?
gift can he confer upon her that
t fade with her youth and beauty,
e wings and fly away when death
him from her as her natural
id protector? I answer, consist-
atian principles and a thorough
n. These have no wings, and
| uand by and remain with her
i all the vicissitudes of fortune,
i old farmer, who had been robbed
t soldiers during the war until he
| st little left, appeared in the office
■ President of one of our female
with his two daughters, and,
Dg a roll of greenbacks upon his
| said: “ Take them and put them in
lads of my girls, where soldiers can
[sal them, nor spendthrift husbands
them. I have been struggling
[tomake a fortune to leave them
fcj die, but the soldiers have taken it
/ all from me. Now I want to
..what is left in teaching them how
| care of themselves. I want you
[ ate them, so that if it is necessary
ay teach for a living, and if it is’not
iiy, the education that will fit
i successfully to teach, will prepare
brith honor to fill any position in
Lt which they may be called to oc-
He was himself an uneducated
|-but lie took a common-sense view
: matter. There is no way that a
r can make a daughter so thorough-
lependent as by giving her such an
Jotmt as will fit her to become a
j isr of youth, if it becomes necessary
r self-support.
Fiereare but four or five occupations
p are open to femalesinthis country,
piety is organized at present. She
;ieep a boarding house, she may con-
Ja farm, she may become a milliner
[-antua-maker, she may sew, or she
• teach children. Society ought to be
Organized that the range of woman’s
ppations could be greatly enlarged
unsexing herself. But we have
: society as it is, and not as it
at to be, or as we would have it. Of
i occupations named above as open
rowen, none is so useful, so honorable,
f 9 remunerative as teaching. A wo-
I- thoroughly educated ana qualified
l-ach the higher branches of a good
►ation can make herself respected and
in any society in this country.—
r^few of the vain and supercilious
■J affect to look down upon her, but the
s and virtuous and good, whose good
-*na alone are worth coveting, will
pjs honor and treat her kindly. Then
in# is no necessity for her to teach,
Mucation fits her for any society into
Jj4 she may be thrown.
Ue South and the West need hundreds
paale teachers, feared on the soil,
they now have scores. In fact
taghlv educated teachers, indigenous
soil, are the great need at present
I’-aese regions. Why, then, do not more
l*r substantial farmers and men in the
ie and higher walks of society train
daughters to fill these places?—
s is no way that they can make them
so independent or so useful. Think
ye farmers and merchants and pro-
j«al men of small estates ? How can
your daughters so self Teliant
independent as by giving them a
■’ough education and then allowing
1 to return to you, if need be, apor-
1 of the money expended in their edu-
-'ii by their own exertions in teaching
[it they have completed their education.
F Xew England plan is for the father
J,educate the oldest son and daughter,
[‘then make them pay back a part of
' money expended upon them to be
in educating the younger children,
eminent man of that section of the
remarked to me, some years since,
his father had seven sons, all of
® were educated at college, but the
educated only the oldest. The
tr one by teaching educated the second
the second the third, and so on
end. Iam not a very great ad-
of Yankees in general, but there
J^®ie of their customs which might be
’ by us with great advantage, and
1 ** one of them. It is only some such
?.** this that men of moderate means
' families can give a thorough
n'^on to all of their children. There
I. o “hy the fether should bear
expense unaided of the educa-
1 „ ? large family, when he has chil
li i sre able to share with him in
r “Qrdeng.
™- A COLLISION AT SEA.
From the Galaxy for September.]
It was August, 1858, the month dur
ing which the Atlantic telegraph cable
was first successfully laid and the great
rejoicings took place in New York. I
was returning on my tenth voyage from
England to America. TheCunard steamer
Arabia, a safe vessel, as she has since
shown, but too crank in her build to call
for great confidence from sailors, and the
wettest of craft in rough weather, the sea
making a clean breach over her decks
whenever she stood head on to a full
breeze, had taken us merrily onward at'an
average of twelve knots an hour for. seven
days. The time had passed pleasantly,
for, besides the usual complement of clev
er people whose opinions nad been liber
alized by travel, there were on board a
troupe of Italian opera singers, very beau
tiful and very attractive, the toast of all
the gentlemen, and nearly a dozen scienti
fic men, professors and fellows of the Eng
lish and Scotch universities, bound on an
expedition to the Sierra Nevadas. We
had had concerts and conversaziones, dis
cussions and lectures, experiments upon
sea-weed and analyses of salt water, meas
urements of waves, observations of decli
nations of the compass, and an anatomical
dissection of a Mother Cary’s chicken,
which some ill wind had blown upon our
deck. Besides all this we had been at
tended for days together by porpoises
constantly gambolling and tumbling in
shoals, without once encountering the
storm they are supposed to predict—
had seen in the distance two black whales,
from the larger of which we had counted
five “blows,” before, lashing the water
into a foam, he had descended into the
depths—and had lowered our flag in
salute of two outward bound steamers
from New York. It had been, in fact, so
far, a voyage of a hundred—weather
mild, wind gentle and favorable, swell of
the ocean long and easy, speed satisfacto
ry, and appointments aloft and below all
the most fastidious could ask.
It was Saturday evening, our eighth
day out. We were nearing Cape Race.
For the two previous days we had run by
dead reckoning, the fog clinging to us
like a blanket, and rendering all observa
tions, solar or stellar, impossible. Every
thirty seconds, for eight-and-forty hours,
the hoarse steam-whistle, like* an ill-
omened bird, had screamed its warning
over the waters. Two sailors posted on the
bows and two in the rigging, besides two
officers instead of one, on deck, were on
the lookout for danger.* During the morn
ing, somewhere about ten o’clock, the fog
had lifted enough for us to discover two
large icebergs floating at the distance of
a mile or two to the leeward, but it had
closed around us again almost immediate
ly. The knowledge gained by the inter
val of clear sky was not assuring. In a
calm sea, hugged so closely by the fog
that a biscuit could be pitched out of
sight before reaching the water, the con
tiguity of ice to a steamship running at
the rate of twelve knots an hour, is not,
as Jemmy Rogers used to say, “comforta
ble to the mind.” The' fate of the ill-
starred Pacific, which undoubtedly ran
into an iceberg and sank instantly, was
too recent for us not to recall it, and fre
quent allusions in conversation at lunch
and dinner, to ships which had never been
heard of after clearing port, showed the
direction our thoughts were taking. Still
there was no alarm, or hardly anxiety.—
When there is no storm at sea, no matter
what may he the dangers ahead, it is im
possible to get up a panic on shipboard.
A few years ago, a vessel, on board of
which were two hundred and ten souls,
was drawn by the undertow, in spite of
sails, helm, and cables, right toward the
breakers of St. Christopher, with the cer
tainty, if relief did not come, of destruc
tion; and yet hardly a fear was aroused,
the captain having been obliged to force
the passengers to the boat; and Captain
Luce use to tell, with a shudder of horror-,
at the recollection,how, while hastening to
complete that raft on the Arctic which
saved not a single soul, the passengers
were calm, and even chatty and jocose,
up to the very sinking of the ship, in
whose whirl they went to the bottom.—
There was, certainly, no fear on board
the Arabia. Lnncb, dinner, and tea pass
ed; cards, chess, and backgammon en-
;aged those who remained below; our
Italian ladies coquetted with their beaux;
the savans measured the temperature of
water and atmosphere, and pronounced
the ice to have left our neighborhood;
and groups of smokers chatted and
laughed as usual in their rendezvous near
the forecastle.
It was half-past eleven as I was about
quitting the deck to turn in. The cabin
passengers had been long abed, and state
room lights were all out. Save the sail
ors on the watch, the men at the wheel,
and a senior and junior officer on duty,
there was no one astir. Passing the com-
f ass on my way to the companion-ladder,
observed that the ship’s direction was
nearly west-south-west.
“So you have changed her course since
eight bells, I see, Mr. Jones ?”
“Only half a point, sir, and hardlv
that”
“And why ahalf point, pray ? Or why
change her course at all ?’
“To give the Cape a wide berth, sir.—
You see this dead reckoning, in the long
run, isn’t very reliable, especially with
such currents as we have hereabout.”
“Where away does Cape Race lie, Sir,
Jones ?”
■ “Just over the bows in the direction, of
the red light swinging from the halyard
yonder.” ' _ . }
My hand was on the guide of the lad
der (which alone saved a minute after
ward from being hurled overboard) as I
turned to go down, saying,
“Good-night rir. No more news of
the ice, eh r
The words were scarcely uttered, when
a **11 that sounded like the peal of doom
ptmn from the lookout forward.
“Bail, on the weather bow, sir!”
“Whew *way f’ instantly shouted
the officer in command. 1 VtjTHrl l
“Bat no sooner were the words uttered
(and before an answer could be returned)
than they were followed by orders so
sharp and imperative as to be heard
through the ship.
“Hard a-port! Jam her down, sir, j am
her down!”
In an instant the ship,.answering her
helm, began to siving from her bearings,
when, directly in the line of our bowsprit;
emerging from the mist, appeared the
black lines of an ocean steamer, under
full headway, and of such monstrous size
that it seemed inevitable shemu3t send
us to the bottom. It was the Europa
ibound from Boston to Liverpool, which
here in mid ocean, under full steam, had
met her consort, on this one parallel of
latitude of all others, as if to falsify the
prediction forevor, that the Cunard line
was bound to be lucky. Bow3 on, head
to head, the two ships rushed together.-
The shock was fearful. Our rate of
speed was nearly thirteen knots. Hers
was as great, so that at a momentum of
more than five-and-twenty knots an hour,
two steamers, each of nearly three thou
sand tons burthen, were hurled into colli
sion. Following the crash, that crumbled
oak timbers ten inches square as if they
had been chalk, was the stagger of the
ship like an ox stunned by the blow of an
axe, the lift of the huge leviathan almost
bodily out of the water, and the dash of
billows as she fell hack into the trough of
the sea and careened heavily on her side.
Of course there was not a soul on
board who was not aroused to apparent
instant death. Passengers, sailors, engi
neers, firemen, waiters, and officers were
for the first moment mixed together in al
most hopeless confusion, and as one after
another of various classes appeared on
deck, a continued series of cross purposes
ruled the hour. Order, however, is not
only Heaven’s first law, but the first law
of human beings in time of danger. In
less time than it takes to narrate it, the
captain was on the wheelhouse giving or
ders through his speaking trumpet to the
crew, and conversing with the captain of
the Europa across the space the steamers
had drifted apart; everything resolved
itself into rule at once. There could not
be discipline more perfect. Every man
was at his post. Not a word was spoken
beyond the orders given and repeated
and the “aye, aye, sir,” in response.
Slowlv, steadily, and calmly sails were
furled, rigging made taut, fire3 extin
guished, boats lowered and manned, lead
thrown, blue lights burned, and examina
tion made bv the carpenter and his men
of the damage sustained, and the danger
awaiting us.
Meanwhile the passengers, male and
female, steerage and cabin, whose slum
bers had been rudely enough disturbed by
a concussion that had thrown the sleep
ers from their berths, at the risk of limb,
if not of life, were crowding, half-clad,
upon deck. The frantic cries of our pri-
ma donna and her Italian maids, implor
ing the aid of the Virgin, pierced through
the ship. Anxious questions were asked
of each other, as the group thickened
about the stack-pipes, which none could
answer. No one was bold enough to
make an inquiry of an officer, and every
sailor was heedless of all save the authori
ty which kept him up to the duties of the
moment. Just over our bows, at a dis
tance of two hundred feet, more or less,
the huge bulk of the Europa kept ap
pearing and disappearing in and out of
the fog, her paddle-wheels moving back
and forth to free her pumps—for she was
leaking badly—her boats unshipped from
their davits, in readiness to lower to the
water, and blue lights flashing up and
dying away from her midships. Outside
of the frightened, semi-nude crowd on our
own deck, were the measured march of
the sailora manning ropes and hawser, the
shouts of the under officers to men in the
rigging, and the quick cheery reply, the
hoarse conversation carried on between
the two commanders from the paddle-
wheel boxes, the noisy rush of steam
blowing off through the pipes, and the
unlashing and swinging of tne boats over
the side, the pulleys and tackle made sure
to run free from knots and kinks.
For more than an hour and three-quar
ters we stood upon the deck without be
ing able to learn one word of the real na
ture of our danger. To those of us who
knew anything of seamanship, there were
orders continually given by the captain
which indicated that the good ship must
be in a sinking condition, and yet we
hoped they were provisions, as they prov
ed to be, rather against a contingency
than a certainty. As a rule, the passen
gers behaved well. True, some werebois-
trous about the misfortune, some misera
bly selfish in the preparations they were
making to save themselves from drown
ing, and some ludicrous by the turn their
fears took. M. do G., husband of Mad
ame, our pritna, donna, whose excessive
fears kept her prostrate on the gangway,
imploring the aid of all saints, enlighten
ed such as would listen to his peculiar
sorrows. “Madam had an engagement
vor tree bunder pounds a veek at Co
vent Garden, but she would persist to
come to dia damn des Etats-Unis, all to he
cast away in dis miserable ship, and
drown-ed in dis foggy ocean, by gar!”
He never once made allusion to himself,
but laid the emphasis of his sorrow upon
the loss of the Covent Garden engage
ment, and the untoward fate of his poor
wife, “ by gar.” Of the four-and-forty
American, English and Scotch ladies on
board—some with children, some return
ing home, some making their first voy
age to the New World—there was not
one who did not behave with heroism.
Speaking of the contrast between our
Anglo-Saxon women and their BUters of
Italian blood in time of danger, Dr.
McClintock remarked the next day “ that
nerious matters aa heaven and hell were,
when one stood on the brink of eternity,
he, nevertheless, could not help entertain
ing respect for the man or woman who
met the inevitable with pluck, let the re
sult be what it might.” To which, with
a vivid memory of the shrill shrieks of
our Italian friends in fear of death, there
was a general response of “ amen,”
Dunns; the early part of the time we
were on deck, when it became nearly cer
tain that the Arabia held her own upor I grape. Consequently providence has fur-
the water, but that, nevertheless, all th< nished everything requisite, the kind of
boat3 had been put in readiness to bf grape most valuable of lill’others, the soil,
launched; most of the passengers hac
gone below to secure such valuables aj
they could take upon their persons, an;
to put on additional clothing. We ha;
made ourselves ready, in fact, to take tj
the boats, and there is no doubt, had th
emergency arrived, that the perfect hand'
ling the commander of the Arabia had o;
his ship would have launched every boat
put passengers and, crew safely on board,
and headed each craft for the nearest
land
The passengers, men, women and chil
dren, had now remained on deck, without
possibility of sitting or reclining, and jn,
a state if not constantly increasing, cer
tainly not of diminishing uncertainty for
nearly two hours. Not the slightest no
tice had been -taken of us by officers or
crew. For any apparent importance in
reference to the safety of the ship, we
might have been so many blocks of wood.
The Europa had made the circuit of our
ship at least a dozen times. All sorts of
lights had been burned from the bows of
both steamers, and all sorts of rockets sent
up, with no one to explain their meaning.
There was never a state of deeper mys
tery. Thank God! there was no suffer
ing from the weather. The sea was calm
as a lake. Not a breath of wind stirred.
The long swell hardly rocked the ship on
her cradle of waters. But over us, around
us, beneath us, as we gazed over the taff-
rail—tasted, heard, seen, snuffed up by
our nostrils, felt in every pore of our bod
ies, and wrapped all around us, like the
swaddling clothes of an Egyptian mum-
my—was~the fog—the thick, heavy, vis
cid fog, blinding the eyes, tickling the
throat, penetrating the garments—the un
stirring, lifeless fog, out of which came
no comfort, and from which there was no
escape,
the climate, timber in abundance for ar
bors, and in only remains to be seen,
whether we will exert a little energy to
reap the golden harvest held out to us so
invitingly. *
The average yield of wine to the acre,
in Europe, is from one hundred and fifty
to four hundred and fifty gallons, accord
ing to the locality, (that region approxi
mating nearest the climate of Florida
making the greatest yield.)
It has been proven by actual experi
ment, that two thousand gallons can be
praised upon an acre in this country on
our poorest land, without any great deal
of manuring. We will not hesitate to say,
tlat one thousand gallons per acre, may
bf relied on where sufficient care has been
tdeen, and the vineyard reached the pro
per age. The annual production of wine
hi Europe, at one dollar per gallon, will
exceed the entire debt of the United
Bates Government at the close of the war.
Tip United States, especially the South-
eri portion of it, can and ought to exceed
Europe in the production of win*. So
faj from importing wine, we should ex
port in every direction. We can produce
itjnore abundantly and cheaper than any
other people. *
MODE OP PROCURING CUTTUrGS.
These should be rooted by placing the
vne—where it can be brought down to
tie earth—in layers—throwing dirt upon
them at intervals of about two feet apart,
is soon as they become well rooted, cut
tie buried vines apart from the main
tine. Leave them undisturbed until you
iviah to put them out in December, Jan
uary or February. Some heavy object
should be placed on the vine where it is
covered with dirt, to prevent them from
being tom up. It also keeps the dirt more
* “ siOR&gZtgssi
the wheelhouse and came toward us. All, attended to by the tot of July; yet
much more valuable information can be
procured elsewhere upon this part of the
subject under consideration. We will
say something, however, about the man
ner of gathering the grapes, and obtaining
the juice, as these things are done in a
different manner than from other grapes.
Wait until the grapes are fully ripe—
place a forked stick under the vines and
shake down upon a cloth spread for the
purpose. If you only wish to make a
small quantity, put them in a tub and
mash them with a light maul. Throw
the mashed grapes into a vat or cask with
one head out. Let them remain over
night—pull out the spigot at the bottom
of the cask, and leave it out until the pulp
an!d hulls drip dry. If however; you wish
to make a large quantity of wine, con
struct a couple of rollers, from any kind
of wood, to Be turned by a crank, placing
a hopper above. The juice can be : ex
pressed in this way rapidly and with ease.
We forbear to say more for fear of being
tedious. Ike importance of the subject
requires that a great deal more should be
said and written. Our people are too in
different about anything that promises'to
pay in the future. We must arouse from
this lethargy, if we expect Gadsden coun
ty to be what it is the province and privi
lege of the citizens to make her, the most
populous and prosperous county in the
State. Jesse Wood.
A,Salk with Shaddeoa Stevens,
AH!
eyes were bent upon him. He was a man
of cold temperament and few words; hut
what he said was usually to the purpose.
It was unmistakably so how.
Passengers, the Arabia has collided
with the Europa. This ship is not injur
ed. The Europa leaks, and will put in-i
to St. John’s. We shall toilow her. You
can go to bed.”
Can our lamps he lighted ?” asked a
passenger—for, by a ship’s rule, the lights,
ouce out, may not be relighted.
Yes! Steward, light for fifteen min
utes.”
Can we have the saloon for a prayer
meeting?” asked an active Connecticut
parson, who, having been busy distribut
ing tracts with very hopeless results dur
ing the voyage, looked upon the opportu
nity now presented as providential.
“ Prayer-meeting!” exclaimed the cap
tain, using an interjection that shoAved he,
at least, needed to be prayed for;
“prayer-meeting! why, bless your soul,
it’s past two in the morning. Better go
to bed, and hold you prayer meeting by
daylight.”
The Europa put in to St. John’s. The
Arabia did not; but made her way in a
disabled condition for New York, it hav
ing been ascertained, after the steam was
got up, that her machinery was damaged
by the concussion, and would need the
help of the Novelty Works to fit her again
for sea. .
This is not the place to discuss nautical
rules. Nothing can be more abstruse.—
No two navigators ever agree upon their
pplication. They are not unlike meta
physics, as defined by the Scotch dominie:
He that’s listening does na’ ken what he
that’s talking means, and he that’s talk
ing does na’ ken what he means himself.”
You should have put you helm a-star
board, and not a-port, Mr. Jones, and then
this cursed misadventure would never
have happened,” said the captain of the
Europa, when our boat boarded her.
“If I had,” replied the officer, “your
bows would have struck the Arabia amid
ships, and every soul of us gone to the
bottom.”
The Cunard Company was too wise to
have the question argued in the courts.
By the Admiralty rules each ship should
have put her helm hard a-starboard. By
the higher rule of self-preservation, the
order “Hard a-port” on the Araflia could
not have been wrong, since the ships and
those on board were saved. The Cunard
Company pocketed the loss and promoted
the officer. N. S. Dodge.
Treatment of the Scuppernon? Grape
REPOET TO THE GADSDEN COUNTY AG
RICULTURAL SOCEITY.
F>’o:» the Quincy Commonwealth.]
The fact that an excellent article of
wine has been made at Mt. Pleasant, in
this county during the last ten years, by
inexperienced persons, without must scale,
acidimeter, or any of the apparatus usu
ally employed by wine makers, establish
es the superiority of this grape for the
manufacture of wine.
And if we take into consideration, that
surpasses all other grapes for hardi
ness of vine, freedom from rot or disease,
and adaptability of soil and climate,
and that a vineyard can be erected and
kept up at much less cost than from any
other grape, we will come to the conclu
sion that the people of Gadsden—or many
of them, at least—have no conception of
the immense source of profit that would
be disclosed to the State, and more especi
ally to this county, from the cultivation
of this grape. It would increase vastly
the density of our population, and add to
the already proverbial healthfulness of the
county bv the free use of pure and una
dulterated wine. This grape is not only
American hut is emphatically a Southern
grape. It may be grown anywhere South
of Virginia, but as we travel Southward,
increasing in the size of the berry, and in
the richness and aroma of the must. Bat
Gadsden county with veiy little excep
tion, is peculiarity adaptea in soil as well
climate' iai thei production of the
we have known young vines to root well,
covered the middle of August.
MODE OP PUTTING OUT VINES.
Dig holes (the larger the better) thir
ty-five feet each way; set up a stake and fill
the hole half full with any good manure.
Throw upon the manure top soil to with
in four or six inches of the surface, cover
up and pack the dirt well around the cut
ting, leaving the surface lower than else
where. "When the vines begin to grow he
certain to keep all the shoots broken off
but one, which must he trained up the
stake by being kept tied to it, or (which
is much* better) by having a hard twisted
cord to extend up and down the stake.
As the vine grows; untwist the cord and
let in a tendril, which will hold the vine
securely.
MODE, COST, ETC., OP ERECTING ARBOR.
This will depend entirely upon the lo
cality, both as to mode and cost. In
most places in this county, where pine
timber, and in some places cypress is so
abundant, the best and cheapest plan is
to get lightwood or cypress posts; place
them ten or fifteen feet apart, as vou
like, with railing from one to another.
The amount of railing may be very much
lessened by the use of brusn for the young
vines to run upon. Where timber is
plentiful and convenient, all’of the arbor-
ing for the second year (first year only
requires stakes) can be erected by hiring
all the work done, at a cost of fifteen dol
lars per acre. Most farmers can make
them at leisure times without scarcely any
perceptible cost. The cost will increase
every year a little until the arbor extends
over the entire ground. The time neces
sary for this to be accomplished will de
pend upon the attention paid to the vine
yard. We think it can be done by extra
care and attention to enriching the soil,
watching, &c., in five or six years. Where
timber is scarce, other modes will occur
to the vine grower, and if at a greater
cost, perhaps, he will feel compensated by
the improvements in neatness of appear
ance. A nice arbor could be erected at
no very great outlay of money, with tele
graph wire. But we are not prepared to
speak advisedly as to the risks from elec
tricity. We unhesitatingly make the as
sertion based upon an experience (though
upon a small scale) of twenty-five years,
that extension is the “one thing needful”
for scuppemong vines, and utterly con
demn anything like pruning, lapping, or
anything of the sort, except to procure a
single stem from the ground to the rail
ing of the vineyard; then let it run in ev
ery direction—merely endeavor to keep
the vine in a horizontal position, by con
tinually enlarging the arbor. It is ex
ceedingly wonderful to see the area of
ground that a single vine in a rich place
will cover.
SLAKING THE WINE.
We will give the opinion for what it
may be worth, that with all- the advan
tages of apparatus for ascertaining the
amount of acid, sugar, &c., and suitable
cellars for keeping the wine that wine
makers elsewhere nave, that the must of
the scuppemong grape will make a wine
that cannot be excelled in any part of the
world. This, of course, is a mere opinion,
hut it is based upon the factj that in our
simple way, we invariably make a superior
wine. Our plan consists simply in press
ing the juice from the grapes, adding from
one to two pounds of sugar—filling up a
vessel and keeping it full during fermen
tation by having some extra juice on
hand for that purpose. After allowing
fermentation to go oh from ten to fifteen
days, bung up tightly, so as to exclude all
possibility ox air entering the cask, and
leaving it undisturbed until the wine is
made. Some close up the bung tightly
at once, after abont ten days, others close
it up gradually within the time mention
ed. No doubt but that it would be much
better to exclude the air entirely from the
beginning, by means pf a crooked tube
with one end fastened in the bung of the
vessel containing the must, the other end
of the tube extending into a vessel contain
ing water. It is, perhaps, unnecessary for
me to say more upon making wine, as
The Girls of the Yresent.
It is terribly significant of the present
state of things when in’en are free to write
as they do of the women of their own
nation. Every word of censure flung
against them is two-edged, and wounds
those who condemn as much as those who’
are condemned; for, surely, it need hard
ly be said that mep hold nothing so dear
as the honor of their women, and that no
one would willingly lower the repute of
his mother or sisters. It is only when
these have placed themselves beyond the
pale of masculine respect that such
things are written; when they become
again what they were once they will gath
er around them the love and homage and
chivalrous devotion which were then an
English woman’s natural inheritance.
The marvel in the present fashion of, life
among women, is how it holds its ground
in spite of the disapprobation of men. It
used to be an old-time notion that the
sexes were made for each other, and to
set themselves out for that end. But the
girl of the period does not please men.
She pleases them as little as she elevates
them, and how little she does that, the
class of women she has taken as her mod
els of itself testifies. All men whose
opinion is worth having prefer the simple
and genuine girl of the past, with the ten
der little ways and pretty, bashful modes
ties, to this loud and rampant moderniza
tion, with her false red hair and painted
skin, talking slang as glibly as a man,
and by preference leading the : conversa
tion to doubtful subjects. She thinks she
is piquant and exciting - when she..thus
makes herself the bad copy of a worse or
iginal, and she will'not see that, , though
men laugh with her, they do not. respect
her; though they flirt with her, they do
not marry ber. She will,not believe that
she is not the kind of thing they want,
and that she is acting against nature and
her own interests when she disregards
their advice and offends their taste. We
do not see how she makes .out her ac
count, viewing life from any side; but all
we can do is to wait until the national
madness has passed, and our women have
come back again to the old English ideal,
once the most beautiful, the most modest,
the most essentially womanly in the
world.—London Quarterly Review.
What Railroads do for Fanners.
The American Agriculturist says:
To hawl forty bushels of cOro ; fifty
miles on a wagon, would cost at least
twelve dollars for team, driver and expen
ses. A railroad would transport it for
four dollars at moat.* Allowing an -aver
age of forty bnshels per acre, the' crop
would be worth eight dollars more per
acre, or eight per cent, on one hundred
dollars. As the relative advantage is
abont the same for other crops, it is clear
that a railroad passing through a town
would add one hundred and ten dollars
per acre to the value of the forms. A
town ten miles square contains sixty-four
thousand acres. An increase of one hun
dred dollars per acre is equal to six mil
lion four hundred thousand dollars, or
enough to build two hundred miles of
railroad, even if it cost thirty-two thous
and dollars per mile. But two hundred
miles of road would extend through twen
ty towns ten miles square, and cost but
ten dollars per acre, if taxed upon the
land. These figures are given merely ‘ as
an illustration. If the farmers had taxed
themselves to build all the railroads in
this country, and given them away to any
companies that would stock and run them,
the present increased value of their lands
would have well repaid all the outlay.
Bradley is a stink in the nostrils of
all well-bred gentlemen, and if the disunion
press like the smell of the animal they are
welcome to him. Take him, gentlemen, he
is yours. Neither white nor colored Repub
licans have any claims npon him. We only
rejoice that he has found his level at last.
[Atlanta Bra.
This is a case of abandonment that can’t
be tolerated. The Radicals must take care
of their own offspring.
A Mobttftihg Fact.—Senator Doolittle
said recently, in a speech at Racine, Wiscon
sin:
Just about one year aim, my friends, I was
at Frankfort-on-the-STaine, In Germany.—
While there our bonds, bearing six per cent,
told at seventy-three in gold, while the bonds
of Brazil, bearing only four per cent, sold
for men than ninety in gold. This Act
which I stated elsewhere, 1 can never bring
to mind without fading my cheeks burn with
shame and mortification.
MT A colored Democratic speaker was
shot in the back did mortally Wounded in
Hammond, Louidtm*, the ojflier d«y,bjaome
Radical negr
A correspondent of the New York Tri
bune published an account of an inter
view with Mr, Thaddeus Stevens about
two weeks before his death,, from which
we extract the following:
Dropping politics and the impeachment
question, we came to speak of the course
of the newspapers toward him, and the
vaBt amount of vituperation which had
been poured on his head He remarked
that he did not fret at that, it was all he
could expect, “for you know,” he added,
“that I have, always been a plain speaker
myself.” This lea to my asking some
thing in regard to his eariy life and his
tory. As I used the word “history,” he
glanced at me quickly, and I thought ra
ther suspiciously, and directly said, “You
newspaper men are always wanting to get
at a man’s history. As I said to a young
girl who came to see me some time ago to
collect materials for a biography of me, I'
have no history. My life-long regret is
that I havelived so long and so nseless-
ly.” ' ^
I ventured to suggest that his friend* .
were not disposed to agree with him in the
use of the word “uselessly,” as applied to
his Congressional achievements.
“I Rave achieved nothing to Congress*
Until the war began I washplodder with
out influence, ana since it began I have
been so Radical that I had no control:
over anybody. Some of the papers call
me, 'the leader of the House.” I only
laughed atthem. Head them, yes; but
they never follow me or do as I want
them until public opinion has sided with
me.”
“No,” he added, after a pause of a mo
ment or two, “I’m not over proud of my
Congressional career. I like my State
seryice better. I think and feel, I hope
.without vanity, that the crowning utility
of my life was the adoption of the com
mon school system of Pennsylvania. .
“That is the work that I taken most
pleasure in recalling, except one, perhaps.
I really think the greatest gratification of
my life resulted from my ability to give
my mother a farm of two hundred and
fifty acres, and a dairy of fourteen cows,
and an occasional bright gold piece, which
she loved to deposite in the contribution
box of the Baptist Church which she at
tended. This always gave her great pleas
ure, and me much satisfaction. My mo
ther,” he suddenly added, “was a very ,
extraordinary woman,' and I have met
very few woman like her. My father”—
he hesitated a moment, and several times
commenced the sentence before pursuing
further; it was evident he was trying to
make a confession he did not like. At
length the innate love of the truth and
plam speaking got the better of him, and
he continued:
My father, you see,” he said, “ was
not a well-to-do man, and the support and
education of the family depended on my
mother. She worked night and day to
educate me. I was feeble and lame in
kny youth, and as I couldn’t work on the
farm, she concluded to give me an educa
tion. I tried to repay her afterward; but
the debt of a child to his mother, you know,
is one of the debts we can never pay.
Poor woman ! the very thing I did .to
gratify her most hastened her death.—
She was very proud of her dairy, and
fond of her cows, and one night, going
ont to. look after, them, she fell and injur
ed herself so that she died soon after.”
I had heard the fact mentioned that
Mr. Stevens had on one occasion given
$100,000 to the poor of Lancaster county,
and I asked him about the truth of it.
“Oh! it was hot true,” he said. “I
have never been able to do any such
thing. I have been a failure in every
thing. I have foiled financially three
times. The first was through going bail
and security, and it broke up a very fine
practice I had in Adams county. The
second'was through the carelessness of a
partner in. some iron mills. Notes were
presented to me for payment which I had
never executed or known of. I went to
my partner and asked how it was. He
explained that he had been losing money
for some time, hut as he had induced me
to embark in .'the enterprise, he had not ‘
the courage to tell me of the losses, and
had signed the firm’s name to notes with
out consulting me. 11 Well,* I said,
what’s to be done?* He began to make *
a piteous month, but I cut him short. '1
don’t come to upbraid you,* I said, ‘I .
come to get at the facts.’ I looked over
the books and saw that we were deeply
involved. Then I said to him, “ You
take the works andpay all claims, releas
ing me entirely.’ He declined, and I at
once said: 'Then I will;’ and it was
thus the iron works near Chambersburg
came into my possession. The third time
I failed was when the rebels burned these
works. My friends in Lancaster and
elsewhere raised about $100,000, which
they tendered to me, but I declined it,
and it went to the Poor Fund; but I did
not give it. I managed to get through
my trouble, and have never taken advan
tage of a bankrupt law yet.’ '
He evidently had some feeling on this 1
subject, and I asked him his views on the
bankrupt law. _
“Well,” he said, “personally, I feel
that my creditors are entitled, among my
other worldly goods, to my labor until I
am dead. If my debts are not paid, then
the bankrupt law of another world will
cancel them.”
Pittsbubo, August 30.—Eppe T. Lanier, a)
delivery clerk in the employ ot the Pitta-
burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad
Company, died at hi* reaidence, yesterday,
in Alleghany, under circumstance* which
have given rise to a rumor that his death was
produced by poison. The coroner wifi in- .
vestigate the case to-morrow. Lento leaves
a wife but no children. He waa fonairlj a
resident of Macon, Georgia. ■».
At noon to-day it was reported that Mrs.
Lanier, wife of the deceased, wan lying dan
gerously HI with the same symptoms as those
of her husband. Report has it that she ad
mitted to her physics that oha ^ad take*
band. The whole affair jUk unc iMjiiBMttaod
ia mystery. . ■ ' -
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