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The Greorgia "Weekly Telegraph.
THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27.18G8.
fVLI. HANDED A*DT1JIK TO QUIT.
A comiuirtee of the New York Union
league are out in a report anti address to the
people of the whole country iu relation “to
tde imminence of our tlitnger from the in-
tjeaaing detnoraliziiton of «>ur politics, anti
Jto imluce good citizens of all parties to com
"tine for tltu common protection against po
titical fraud and corruption.”
All good doctrine, hut coming oddly from
4 source which has laid the use to the root
Of the tree of political morality and purity
Is any -man so wild or so simple, as to believe
that eight hundred thousand voters, who
Cannot read or write, and liav^no intelligent
Idea of the cff. ct or die reason of a vote, art
going to cast their ballots und-r an eulight
died Sense of responsibility to God anti c om
try? Arc any reports, u ttlitsscs or legftla
Mon to deliver them front the contiol of tin
demagogue and the influence of corruption,
deceit and chicane ?
The bundsthese men who a l lress ns on
the all-important subject of the purify of tb*
ballot and political morality, are full of tie
tinges of iniquity. They have just securesi
4 popular majority for their presidential can
didate by the arts ot disfranchisement and
teconstructioi), in which they have trampled
flpder foot all the ancient maxims, principles
4nd securities of Republicanism and a free,
ibtclligeut suffrage.
Their affectionate admonitions remind us
4f the tale of a Southern humorist about Old
Bark und his five sons whom he had early in
iliated into the mysteries of poker. Bark
bad taken his sons to the races and all had
•et in heavily and come home with their
bats full of bank notes. Next morning they
Counted out their winnings, and Old Bark's
<fes twinkled and flickered ’twixt the flash
Of gratified avarice and the tear of penitence.
“Boys,” says he, “I'm gitten mighty old and
toe next world’s cornin’. It’s time to quit,
and l vote we quit now wliilo our hats are
fttl.”
Their penitence is too late. Generation?
cjhnot undo their work of demoralization of
Americao suffrage.
COXGitESSIOX AI, RBCOSSTKtJCTlONIK
GEORGIA.
*HK COTTON PLANTERS' CONVENTION
The President of the Cotton Planters’Con
ventinn requests us to call the attention of
tho press to his letter on the subject of the
meeting in Macon, the 10th proximo, and to
Wk a republication at their hands.
We have never seen the charter or consti
tution of the Cotton Planters’ Convention,
and therefore cannot say whether they would
fitbserve the ot>j- cts of the Georgia Agricul
tural Society—the main one of which is to
provide for an annual exhibition at Macon,
Of Mtch products of the soil, of mechanical
.industry, «nd of stock, from Georgia and all
pai'.'s ««l the world, as shall post our people
folly up' on the latest improvements in agri-
(tdture, boi' t ‘ cu l ,ure ) stock growing, the me
chanic arts ana the whole range of industrial
•nd household cc>' Dom F- Without some
thing of tbis kind, wc Si.'tll he everlastingly
behind the age. But as it is evident the chiet
expense and trouble of such an exhibition,
{which must be heavy,) will fall upon Ala
eon. the organization, though a State one,
must to some extent be shaped so as to give
US some degree of local power and concen
tration.
The meeting for the adoption of the form
«fa charter and constitution was postponed
by the Macon Committee to the 10th of De
cember, tor the exprtss purpose ot conferring
With the Cotton Planters’ Convention and
Securing their co operation in some shape to
the common object
‘•Ilrndi, I Win—Tall*, jonLoit.' 1
We ilo not propose to reason with the
original advocates of Congressional recon
struction ; for we suppose that every honest
man among them .-would be compelled, if
pressed, to admit that the whole scheme,
whether considered in its ^constitutional or
general aspect, is utterly indefensible upon
any principle of law or philosophy. Next to
secession it is the enormous political blunder
of tile century, and no man capable of mas
tering the A B C’s of the political -horn
book would utter a word in its defence, if be
were uncommitted to it. But it is dore,and
the legislation of the next fifty years, if con
trolled by any intelligence or patriotism,
will be devoted to mitigating the public dis
•isteis and mischiefs flowing from this terrific
p-*litiual iiluuder.
It is a sort of necessity in such legislation
os 'his to breed a corresponding or a wor c
practice -just as one crime necessitates
another. Hence the perpetrators of this
un asure have followed it up by the most dis
Honest artifices to carry it into practical
effect. Alabama reluseit to sanction it, and
yet in defiance of the stipulations of the act,
and in outrage of all the principles of free
government, they forced it upon her. Miss
issippi repudiated it and they are moving to
impose it upon Mississippi. Inappropriate
contrast, Georgia accepted it, and now they
are proposing to take it away from Georgia.
Whatever thepeople refuse to do under these
statutes, Congress will do—whatever they do
Congress will undo. Born of violence, it
mast be carried on by violence.
Upon the possible impending fate of Recon-
s'ruction, in Georgia, the Augusta National
Republican has the following:
Mas Gbokgia Complied with the Reconstruc
tion acts?—It Win bj remembered that oUring
ii.e sessiun of the Legislature the National R jpuii-
tican took the ground that Georgia had not com
plied with th- Reconstruction Acts of Congress.
Tho New York Times, Cincinnati Gazette, und
other lull ien i.it Northern journals, endorsed the
Republican, und a*ly snsiaiued our views. We
«av<- lint changed our opinion, but time and events
nave greatly strengthened us in the conviction that
we ar.- riant. The K-coustroctton laws were right
in Mi mscives, had they bem administered accord
ing to me honest nnailing ot their provisions, bnt
»n un.-Ciupui-ms and treacherous Rresiuenl step
ped iu D.-twei-n the will ot the people und the
peace of the country, at-d perverted the law, and
prevented its righteous cuds lrom being aecoiu-
Idished. The Legislature ol Georgia was never a
Jegil body in its true sense, because nearly one-
tourtb of its members were, and are, ineligible
under the Fourteenth Article. That article was
never legally ratified by the Legislature The
taming out of the colored members was a v ola-
tiou of their own construction o' the Constitution,
and oi everybody else’s construction ot it. I h* ir
action in reierei.ee to jurors was also another fit*
grant violation of the Constitution.
These things should be looked into. A usurp
ing Legislaiur has boldly thrown down the gaunt
let to Congress. They say to Oongiess, you have
made such aud such laws, and w<: have dismrardi-d
your laws, and now disregard your p -wer If
*• ngress b-cks down in tbis matter it can go home
and tell its constraints that while the combined
i on-ederacy was utter-} defeated and ovei thrown,
the Georgia Demo'-niey had rode rough shod over
the Congress of the United States. Tb interest
ing question is n >w, who will back down ?
Butler on the Sew Administration.
A Heralfl reporter has sought and obtained
an opportunity to pump Butler. Here is
something obtained at the interview:
Reporter—Well, General, what do you
think of the diction ?
Gen. Butler—It his turned out precisely as
it was intended it should by the Democratic
leaders, from the beginning. It was wbat
ihe horse jockeys would call a “throw race;”
for no political party was ever so completely,
so thoroughly sold out by the leaders as the
Democracy.
Reporter—How was that ?
Gen. Butler—I will tell you. The rank and
file and the Western Democracy were pledged
against the national debt, and against its
payment in gold and the high rates of in
terest. The chairman of the Democratic
National Committee, Mr. Belmont, was the
United States agent of foreign bankers;
thee is held abroad some six hundred mil
lions of dollars of tbe United States bonds;
payment in gold would make more than two
hundred millions difference in value. The
Democratic Convention was managed by Bel
inont in conjunction with other New York
politicians. I have long known their
tactics. It has always been of more
consequence to them to save tbe city
and State of New York than to save the
general government election. II they must
loose either they always prefer the latter;
therefore, they determined against Chase,
Hendricks and Hancock, fearing that with
them the Democracy would win in tbe na
tion, and they took up Seymour in order to
save the State ot New York, they made no
fight for Maine, the result of which would
have been the index of the contest, but sent
Pendleton there, whose notions are distasteful,
at least to tbe Republicans, lrom whom alone
they could have made gains. They had ill-
ready placed a Western man on the ticket
(Blair,) who of all men is the most obnox
ious to Western Democrats, he having been
an abolitionist and a violent Republican gen
eral in the Union army, although a man of
acknowledged ability. They arranged their
platform so as to revive all the issues of the
war and thus overshadow entirely all ques
tionsoi finance and taxation, on which la-tis
sues they never got a bearing duriug the whole
campaign. Of course this threw the vote of
every tiue patriot and lover of his country
against those who had ever been opposed to
them during the war. While the contest—
the only actual contest of the campaign—was
going on in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana,
it will bo observed Seymour did not take
the stump, although in the two last named
States less than GOOD votes would have
changed the result. When these elections
were found uncomfortably close the New
Yoik World and the National Intelligencer,
<>ne owned and tbe other purchased by tbe
Democracy, entirely demoralized ihe party
by the impossible prop, sition to change the
candidates. It thus being made sure tbat
the Democrats had no chance of carrying tbe
general election, Seymour immediately took
the stump tosaveNew York, Mr. Belmont
issued an address, and the played for result
was obtained. New York was saved toiler
politicians and the value of the bonds of Bel
mont’s foreign clients was enhanced.
- Reporter—In view of these facts, General,
what do yon think Grant’s course will be to
wards the Democrats ?
Gen. Bu ler—These same men are now pat
ting General Grant on the shoulder and en-
riravi ring to win him to ilteir purposes, but
Generul Grant is hound by every principle of
To all of which we have simply to say-- i honor that holds men in their action to carry
that, while there is no force in the allegations ■ out the reconstruction measures of Congress,
qf the Republican—while the Constitution J anf l to give suffrage to the negro und fully
protect him in its enjoyment. The very fact
was notoriously adopted by tbe Convention P ro '' T Ct “ im io !‘ S ! ?? T* r -
• • J w i that Louisiana has gone against him by 5a,-
IbK SOUTH iflSOHGlA AND FLORIDA
RAILROAD.
A note from Mr. Bower, the Secretary and
Treasurer of tbis road, dated at Thomasville,
the 18:h, says:
“The whole work is now let to good and
energetic contractors, and in less than twelve
uiontns from to-day, we will be in direct
Communication with Macon—an event long
desired by our people. We waot a more di
rect outlet for our syrup and sugar, with
which we expect to fill your stores and ware-
louses; and, in return, we look to you to sup
P'J us with flour and heavy domestics. I
think our road will conduce largely to the
interests of Macon.”
and ratified by the people with the clear un
derstanding that it did not confer the right
to hold office upon the negrois—and the
Constitution do*s not make them jurors—
while Congress itself has accepted the Con
stitution which makes the Legislature the
sole Judge of the qualifications of members
-i-wbile all this and much more may well be
said—yet we have simply tbis to remark :
Vre are in the bands of Congress and they
dan and will do as they please. The more
they boggle with it, so as to make it more
£uUy override the judgment and will of the
people, the worse it will be—the more evil it
will inflict—and the more mistakes and blun
ders to correct. They can e’en do a3 they
please. The people of Georgia will do the
best they can to have a tolerable government,
though it be in spite ot Congressional tom
foolery.
Discouraging.—An Alabamian doing busi
ness in New York expresses the opinion that
the hostile feeling of the North against the
(Southern people is four-fold greater now than
It was immediately after the war. That is
hard—bnt it can’t be helped. Go to work
—spend no money—earn plenty—sell every
thing—buy nothing—fill your pockets, aud
they will respect you to the last day in the
morning. A “rebel” with his pocket full is
just as good as anybody—but a poor rebel—
Ob, law !
Applying Manure to Wheat Lands.
Bibb County, November 5,1868.
Editors Telegraph: Your inquiry of yester
day in regard to “Applying Guano to Wheat
Lands,” and your suggestions in reference to
the same have been read. Your suggestions
are good.
My plan is this: After turning over your
land with a two horse Brinly or Dodge plow,
early in tbe fall, and leaving it for ten
twelve days, cross it at right angles
with a scooter. Now thoroughly harrow
your, fir Id and lay it off from east to west in
drills 2 14 or 2 1 2 feet apart. Sow your
wheat and manure in the drill with the fol
lowing mixture: 100 pounds guano, 100
pounds bone dust, 50 pounds salt and 50
pounds plaster to each acre. Cover your
seed and ro’l with a 5 1 2 or G feet pine
log roller. In the spring run your scooter
between each drill. Bibb Farmeb.
Augusta Municipal Election.—At
public meeting in Augusta the following mu
nicip&l ticket was nominated: Mayor—
Henry F. Russell. Councilmen—First Ward
John U. Meyer, Josialt Sibley, T. G. Burrell
(Second Ward, Win. S. Jones, J. V. H. Allen,
Jno. M Clark; Third Ward, Jas. T. Gardiner,
Wm. H. Tutt, Cbas. Spaeth; Fourth Ward
Win. E. Jackson, Wm. H. Goodrich, James
Qargan.
The election takes place Wednesday, the
8d December. The registry footed up Thurs
day night—whites, 1,500: blacks, 1,G64.
Evidences op City Thrift.—We notice
onr local department yesterday set down as
•a evidence of city thrift that very little
property changed bands. New York would
make a poor showing, measured by that rule.
The troth is, activ*ty in real estate is among
toe beat evidences of local prosperity.
Hiatt Living.—One ot the Macon papers
aaj» tbe hotels of tbat city are all well kept
—the landlords feed their guests “on the top
Of the market.”— Intelligencer.
Tbat is not “high.” The market ia merely
• one story abed, with a good flat roof
adapted to the purpose.
Agricultural Club in Talbot.—The
Talbotton Gazette calls upon the people of
that oounty to organize an agricultural club.
Ho county could conduce more to tbe educa
tion and improvement of Georgia Agriculture
tftaa Talbot .
i
Tn ancient Palinurus of tbe Savannah
BapobUeaa aapa It is aad to see the Tblb-
®Uri veaturiag Its reputation on big potato
Aeries. Small potatoes make us sad—not
blgooea.
Tab Augusta Registry, on tbelStb, foot
ed np—whites, 1462; blacks, 1646; colored
majority 184.
000 majority, whole parishes not giving him
u single voie under tbe reign of terror which
existed there, where thousands of Republican
votes were thrown before, will impel him and
the Republican party to do this. The New
York and Belmont Democrats will get some
comfort from the financial policy to which
the new administration is pledged. I look
to see the action of the new administration
Radical apnn all points raised and settled by
the war, but conservative upon finance.
Reporter—What do you think, General,
will he done by Congress in relation to those
States vrh* re there have been disorders in
the Iat- elec’ions?
General Butler—I cannot doubt that in
every such case prompt and vigorou? meas
ures will lie taken to correct the evil as well
as overruling what has been done as in pre
venting such occurrences in tbe tuture. We
are obliged to give every State a republican
form of government, and tbat government
is neither republican in form nor fact where
every elector cannot discuss his political
opinions and cast his vote unawed and un
controlled either by violence, intimidation,
threats or purchase. The contracts every
where made in the South for the employ
ment of negroes on tbe condition that they
abstain from voting if their masters so <le-
strid, are as much purchasers of men as
were the purchases from the auction block
a few years before. No nu tuber of Congress
elected in any district where such means
were nsed will ever be admitted to his seat
by my consent or any electoral vote from
such districts counted.
A Vineyard on Every Farm.
Some day in the future the art rind practice
of wine making will be as familiar aad uni
versal among us as the manufacture ol cider
is now. And the juiceof the grape, properly
prepared, is greatly superior to that ot the
apple in strength and health-giving ele
ments. It is an easy matter for the majority
of farmers to provide ample supplies ot wine
for their household use at a comparatively
trifling cost. A half acre in each hundied of
cultivated land, set with vines of hardy
varieties, would be sufficient, if well cared
for, to furnish both fruit and wine for the
number of people occupying, on the average,
that area. Doubtless there are limited
regions in our country where grapes would not
succeed, but the area is vast where they
would thrive to a sufficient degree to
make the growing of them for family usi
satisfactory, although it might be far from
profitable to raise them for market. In any
neighborhood or locality where a. solita-y
vine does well, it is certain that enough rU»
era will thrive to supply the Wants ot the
population. By such auivers&l planting only
can we hop* to see the rural population < f
our land supplied with l'ruif and wine, for
the products of the favored, grope r> gioes.
where the culture is carried on extensively,
will be mostly absorbed by cities.
Let every farmer have his via* y«rd, a? well
as his orchard, not planted with a view to
selling its products, but to consuming them
in ills own family. It is pretty site to assert
that where appletrees will fl urisli some van
eties of grapes will do preity Well alongside
of them. The manufacture ot wiue for hoim
use should be conducted almost precis- ly like
that of cider. Have the fruit ripe and clean;
mash it and press the juice out with care.
Let it ferment a few days, like good cider,
then rack it, cleanse tliecasksand refil them.
Bung tight, and rack again early in the
spring, and the third time on the approach
of hot weather. Have sound, sweet casks,
keep them full, and store in a mean, cool cel
lar, and your beverage will excel in grateful
flavor and healthful, exhih-rating ifleets.when
the bard labor and hot sons of summer tempt
its trial. It is as easy and simple to make
good wine as good cider. Tbe yield of wine
would probably average tour hundred gallons
per acre from well cultivated vineyards of
strong, hardy varieties like the Concord,Ives
and Clinton.
Washington’s Wealib—The Mount Vernon
Estate.
The following exnaet is taken irom an old
book published by Russell & West, Boston,
in the year 1800, entitled “ Washington’s
Political Legacies,” and dedicated by the ed
itors to Mrs. Martha Washington.
General Washington was at onetime prob
ably one of tbe greatest landholders in the
United States. His annua' receipts from his
estates amounted to £4,000. His property,
at the same period, was estimated to be w--rth
£160,000, which is a very large sum in Fed
eral money, and was considered a very great
fortune in that early day in this country, tor
anyone man to possess. Hiscstate at Mount
Vernon alone was computed in 1787 to consist
of 9.000 acres of land, of which enough was
in cultivation to produce in a single year ten
thousand bushels of corn and seven thousand
bushels of wheat. In a succ eeding year in-
raised two hundred lambs, sowed twenty
seven bushels ol fl .-x- seed, and planted seven
hundred bushels of potatoes. He desisted, it
was said, lrom planting tobacco, which was
•lien exclusively raised in Virginia, lor iIn-
purpose ot settiug an example, by employing
liis extensive means in the introduction and
fostering of such article- of domestic use and
necessity as would ultimately tend to tbe
best advantage of his country. His domes
tics, at the same time, were industriously < m
ployed in manufacturing woolen cloth and
linen in sufficient quantities to clothe his nu
merous household, which numbered nearly
one thousand persons.
George (c-jlorid) on tri i tor arson belore the Su
perior Court o' Randolph county, ou Monday last
Grant’s Cabinet.—The Herald’s special
of the 17th, eajs:
From a military officer holding a high
rank in the army I learn an interesting point
relative to wbat Grant thinks of tbe C'abi
net hunting politicians, who, during his brief
stay in this city after his return from Gaiena,
beset bim ev«ry hour of the day. Grant, it
seems, has a wholesome disgust for the am
bitious statesmen whose modesty is no bar
to tbe pressing of their own claims. He will
have Done of them at any price. He quietly
er joys their plotting and relishes their daily
discomfiture. He expressed himself about
in these terms to the friend I have referred
o above:
“The idea of making up my Cabinet
now ! Why, General, I have not yet received
a certificate of election, and until I get that
little document I don’t think I will trouble
my head much about my future constitution
al advisers. No use to plan a campaign un
til you have a war, you know, General. No
use to expose your order of battle until tbe
moment of action arrives, eh, General? When
I get my certificate I will make my Cabinet,
and nobody is going to know of it until it
gets into print.” “Old Joe Bagstock is sly,
sir, devilish sly;” and 60 is Ulysses tbe first,
our next President.
FAWXEY’S I.ESSOSS.
Fawney ventilatesbisunderstatulingof the
lessons of Grant’s election in a double leaded
tulminator published in the Philadelphia
Press of the 17th. Fawney says:
Sensible men to both sections realize tbat
many things doubtful before Grant’s trium
phant election are doubtful no mo r e. A thou
sand unsettled theories have received their
quietus. Repudiation is as dead as tbe Pha
roahs, and so is all saue hostility to impartia
suffrage. The race of State riuhts casuists
is extinct. All necessity for confiscation and
disfranchisement of whites or blacks has
passed away. Fraudulent voting in any
quarter is henceforth to be classed among
me dimes to be punishable by the se
verest punishment. Hereafter every American
citizen must be safe to travel through every
American State. Labor must be paid an t
protected. Manufactures will flourish side
by side with the cotton field, iron-bed, and
coal mine. And no man will dare arrogate
to himself the prerogative to interfere wi'h
the exercise of the inherent and Ood given
right of any other man.
These external maxims prevailed in the
late elections, if they had not prevailed on
tbe battle field ; and he who helps to support
them will help himself, and serve his race at
tbe same time.
ihu Jury, after deliut-r-tii g lor scver.ii hours, re
turned a verdict ot gui Ij, aud were dismissed by
his tlonor Judge Harrell, who then vacated his
seat.
Buhsi qut-ntly. learning that the punishment ot
the crime was death, the jury reassembled nu pe
titioned the Judue that tlu-y might be allowed o
retire and reconsider their tormi-r verdict. J udge
H trrcll decided that they might do so, a- d
suggest*d that they possessed the light to a rec
ommendation of mercy to the Court, which could
then commute the prisoner’s sentence to impro-
oumvnt tor lite.
The jury was then reorganized, and alter abriet
absence reversed the previous decision, and
brought lu a ve diet ot abso-u e acquittal.
This, contrary to Usage and precedent, tbe
Judge received in tbe absence of all the counsel
oi t .o Slate, anil immediately utter, the prLo.ier
who, under the laws ol tnv lnid, bad bteu dmy
convicted of tbe heinous cr.rne ot an-on, wa» turn
ed loo *- upon ttie community iu the darkness ot
lb*- night
The following morning Col Fitlder, couns I
for the Suite, d. nuudi*i the *x eu ion oi ihe firs'
and only law'Ui (hiding of the ja-.v, ami the iea -
rest ol tbe urii-oncr
Thistb Judge refused to permit, and as iu >u h
cases the 8'ate bur- no appeal, justice h- s ' eel*
cheated of its due -, and . h- atleuip-cd der-t.u. tiou
of-oir eity does m«t reeel-e* vena p—siue r. nuke
We forbeat comment, being couteiil with •
simple Stat-menl ot the faete ol h case, as v ueli
ed f ir tiy many of the mii-i prominent nd uprii It'
citizens'of tut* cojunnmtj. I d-e-i, tit \ ur
beyond ail doubt or question.— Vuthbcrt JppenL
Senator Miller Defines ms Position.
—Senator R. V. M. Miller has addressed a
letter to a friend in Washington city,in which
he says:
I placed myself in opposition to nearly all
my friends by frankly accepting the terms
tendered in the reconstruction acts. It speaks
well for their generosity and tolerance, and
is not a little gratifying to me that while I
actively and openly opposed them, I retained
their confidence, und they very well under
stand that I will, as a Senator, offer no fac
tions opposition to Gen. Grant’s administra
tion. On the contrary, so far as is consistent
with my dnty to my country, and n>y obliga
tions to the Constitution, I will sustain bim.
.Among other decisions in bankruptcy re
ceived at Washington ia one from Judge
Underwood, in the Virginia District Conrt
of the United States, that the assignees of a
bankrupt estate may set aside real estate
as a portion of tbe bankrupt exemptions;
bat only in cases where it will not injure the
tale of their real estate, or work adversely to
tbe interests of creditors.
Printebs’ Bills against the State.—The
Comptroller Genera! publishes the following
in the Atlanta New Era:
Comptbollbr General’s Office, )
Atlanta, Ga , Nov. 19, 1868. j
Persons sending in accounts against the
State for advertising, will please place there
on the following certificate, signed by the
publisher, or some duly authorized person,
to-wit:
“ I hereby certify that tbe within account
is correct; that the publication was ordered
by [here state the 'ffieer ordering it;] that the
regular advertising rates ouly are charged
and that neither the same nor any part there
of has been paid.”
By observing the above directions, parties
will facilitate the auditing and payment oi
tbeir accounts. Respectlully,
Madison Bell,
Comptroller GeneraL
Pork Purchasers Beware—Dbath in
the Pot.—We are informed tbat a number
of planters in the country are giving strych
nine to their hogs. Their purpose is to im
prove tbe health of the hogs and to protect
them from thieves. If the hog is killed
whilst fed on this diet, it will carry death to
the pot.
This may all be right, bnt we really think
all honest people should be notified of it.
Tbe only path of safety is to inquire strictly
into the title before purchasing pork offered
in the market.—Albany News.
Why may a drunken man fall into a river
with impunity ? Because he won’t drown as
long as his head swims.
Remarkable I ecxsion.—In the case of Moses
An Unfortunate >eg o.—In the lia;>t>y tiajs
ai slavery, wueu every dar.-y was tree t - Lave us-
minv wives as Frill e much aid. or Kintr vS.-li-
mon. Torn Clarke, a tteld-haiut tu Ch rloit-- count.',
wooed and won a lisrly irirl, named Caroline.
They lived together until June last without th<
pertormance of a marriage ceremony, when Toni
••urne tu Richmond, aud soon, fascinated by the
cotnely lace ol Lettie Brown, took her also unt*-
himself as a wite. With them, too, all *-as “merry
as a m image hell,” Caroline, in the m< aniline,
beint: intormtd hy letters, ala Phil ipx, oi the pro-
c -eilinES of her hush ind, though n* v ra word was
said ation- his new wife. At last her suspicions
wire aroused. She came to towa in search oilier
recreant sp- us--, and then he 1- arned the truth,
she was iu* eus* d, and going btfore a g mid jury,
swore to t'.e facts as above stut* *Y. Th* grand jur*
straightway brought in an indictment against
Thomas and Lettie, lor uulawiul.y eobabiting to
gether.
The case was tried yesterday in the Hustings
Court. Thomas’s tawjer louinl that the first con-
pi.* tind never beeh married ludu -form, and ragely
advised his client to be married at once to lit- sec
>nd love, and thus escape conviction for unlaw nS
cohabitation. A lict-n.-c was immediately pmeur
ed, and tbe parties united iii an unjoining r--oni.
Tue lawyer rubbed hi- bands glrefu ly, and, walk
ing into thr court, in oriucd the bench when the
case was called that bis client and Lelll-- wer-
now man and wif,-, and off-red the lie* us*- and
certificate of a minister in prooi. Tue Common
wealth's attorn-.v scanned b tb, and tbm quietly
gave notice that Thomas would bu belo for bigamy
a- by an act of the Legislature, passed In Ft bmar*
1*60, all pairing then living together wen* dee ured
■nan and wile: ergo Thom is and Caroline Wire
man and wite. au*i Thomas was uow a big mist.
Thomas aDd Lettie Clark were tln-n convicted
and fined $50 each, for unlawfully cohabiting
together, and the former »as committed toj-iil,
whence he will be brought this morning to an.-wer
the more serious charge, which may send him to
the penitentiary.—Richmond Diupateh.
Corned Seefi
ure
mo
At the risk of being laughed at, we propose to
tell tbe readers of the Farmer how»to cure beet
Th * pickle should be made as follows:
To six gallons of water, nine pounds of pi
salt, three pounds of pure sugar, one quart ofi
ln.-scs, three pounds of saltpetre, and one ounce
pearlash. Let there ingredients be boiled and
carefully skimmed, as imparities from tbe sugar
and salt continue to rise to the surface.
“Knickerbrocker pickle. Jnst what everybody
knew before,” you say. But wait a moment, aud
ree if we don’t tell you something you did not
know before. Whan the water is ready to receive
tbe rest ol the material, put in tbe saltpetre only,
and when dissolved, tnd the water boiling, dip
your beef, piece by piece, into the boiling saltpe
tre water, bolding it tor a few seconds only in tbe
hot bath. When the beef has been thus immersed,
and becomes quite cold, pack it in the cask where
It is to remain. Pr* ceed with yonr pickle, as at
first directed, and when perfectly cdld, pour it
upon the meat, which ahoufd be ■ held down by
cover stone.
Tbe immersing of beef in hot ssltpetre water
contract# tbe surface by closing the pores, and
prevents the jnicea of the meat irom going out in
the pickle. The saltpetre absorbed by the coos
tracted or cooked surface will modify the salt tbat
paaaea through it, tbe whole producing the most
perfect reanlt.
Beet cured in this manner will preserve its col
or, aud ent almost as juicy and inviting aa a fresh
roast. It is unlike the hard, bine, briny, knotted
substances sold at markets, and frequently cur* d
at home, miscxlled “corned beet,” os a snrloin dif
fers from a steak eut three inches back of the
horns, and sold for Porter Honse. Try It and see.
—Xctc Ektgland Farmer*
'■ ’IJSSu MLtjV VM) nr.«,
As Described hy in Kx Officer of tiie
leretdman’s Bureau.
From the A'* »o Yjjrlc Sun.]
i'lie Uvt-rim iu, mi ar, lias been g* n< rall->
rtpr*sentf(i u- an eager, entliusii.sMt* Muriei.t.
or a jubilant Sunday sn'-n**i elii I* *, or a sk) n' ly
“aunty,” or deeply nffl uteri a* d rtsigtieo
*• unc.k”—all ol wbie.lt ia but pun ini jrgili,
uuri utter-y fails to give an uriiqua'e id-a >o
the ayqrnge darkey as tit*; intellig* nt uhsri.vfr
will find him. It is of course, natural tor
those wh.isolicit money for any work to pn
sent •Xjoeptioiiul ensue, urgent ine<ts; i*id
each time they must tell n more touching
8toiy, or 'ail to secure un <qu*f contribution.
Tiiur method is to wink up >» the w nsibtliins-
of the puh'tc, What should lie l>y-pl»y is
made tiie whole of tb** plot.' Win re i-ah <>ti*
find a keen, vigor us statement of Anglo ,
A'rioao character use* 1 as a basis of .appeal,
lor funds ? It Is important r<» attrset attention
and create interest; by fr*sho*ss of an.«c
dole, by vivid illustration, by the r -mani'*-,
tiie pathos, and tragedy oi negro life; bu*
alt this i*r.«*• broad views end just analysts
what tiie-ki'misl* lute is to ihe main body
,N*>'**', is not t Ik- pa li* spelling - pSaycd on-’*?
Are not the public anihtjie elmrehest inclined
to think lli-il they hav.- heard enough **t lit*-
old, old story o| the suffering, down .trodden
Irevfluieii, and that ij.m mid 8nl y Imd beitei
t«ke care of themselves? Is n<*t the bUok.
man shout tn follow tile led m:in lo ri.ie.liui
bo of torgetfulness and neglect. It so. it
wi'l ne because special pleading has* xpiained.
its* It, «•;$ the healthier, enduring energy ot
well arranged and well-urged facts has n**t,
b*en properly applied. Slavery and South
ern swmnps and brsvery in fight have given
the hla- ks sympathy and prestige, bur sut
trage will, perhaps, prove a terrible disfran
clnsenient. Only those will stand by them
then who are generous and just from percep
tion and principle.
Hitherto the iteedman has been uided be
cause of bis virtues and his misfortunes; the
former are by no means a working muj-ray
in him, and tin- latter have been sentimental
ized over rather than txamitied. If help is
to hold out it um-*i he *■* cured by making
people appreciate his true, dark, degraded
nature, and tliefeaiful p*-w> r of the c-ircuni
stances that are pushing linn toward se.rl<Ui(U
in spite of sufiYag*—n serfdom that will give
the land holders, wb*’> are nearly all ret-els.
with inbred contempt for the negro, rite
control of his vote, restoration to power, and
one more chance to plot wi'h accursed cool
ne-s and skill against the. life ot the riarii ti
We<-onfide in the plea for self preserve!urn, a
tremendous argument for tiie aggressive, up
building'work in tiie South, that shall pro
vitie walls of defence which cannot be un
dermined.
What are the nature and the circumstances
of the freedmen for whose direct benefit w e
m*ke no plea ? The freed man is without in
dividuality—unlike the Indian, wlio is at
the oppns te extreme—a statement which
means enough to di-courage the stoutest-
hearted from attempting anything for the
negroes as a people, as a separate nationality
in America. Even »(forts at creating colored
municipalities, <>r small, independent com
munities, would ?e*m unwise; the bond ot
union, the basis <*f a true Democratic gov* rn
meat is wanting. There can lie enthusiasm
of race and eouiitrv yv ere there are not the
ch-ifacteristtcs upon which a I-road sei*tim«-tit
ol unity and patriotism is founded. The ne-
giots fei r »acb other, there is no mutual con
ti-fence. It is common for them to endure
great injury and irjus'ice from each otb*r
rather than complain. Often a freed man
will declare to the Bureau officer his unwil
lingness to < xact just claims, lest bis neighbor
burn bis house.
The freedmen have no language. They
borrow ours, and make poor work wirh ir.
The imitation they speak bears the stamp of
uegro character. A distiuct national lan
guage, binding up tr*ditions, containing sym
bols oi sympathy, affection, worship,, is one
of the coudirions and conservators of a per
manent, prosperous national existence.
The freedmen, in their religion and moral
ity, as well as in their language, are imitative.
In a Roman Catholic country they would
have been related to that faith as they are
here to Protestantism The form of their re
ligton is imitation; the spirit is therr own,
and under all circumstances would have been
the same. The slaveholder knew well that
this religion was halt heathenism—was there
tor* an instrument of power in bis hands to
mukc tbe slaves content in their unnatural
relations. Hence tbe five hundred thousand
liurcli members in the South, aud the indif
ference ct the whites to their indefinite mul
tiplication. Church m* mliershipmtans going
to church, and, among the women chiefly,
being thrown 'uto ecstacies mure or less*iem
o. strative. It means Irequetitiy. when the
regular s* rvic* is over, a “shout,” or strange
■-tiiilileol words, half song, uttered in weird
on* s in r* gular cadence-, und accompanied
tiy a peculiar slioffl ng of the fe* t in which
• aith-sixes mingle; an exhibition that, more
plainly than anything else, marks the hla k>
is » tit-graded race, and assimilates their re
:ft*in'to the titisli worship ot the western
shores of Atrica. The more intelligent treed
men are n**w ashamed of tins, “ehnura,” and
cany colored ministers strongly cond nin
fr*.»n tlo ir pulpits anything lieyus't sunsiW*
n*i na’urat roeponets to prayer or preaching.
Touching morals, there is » very unhappy
state of riiiugs, and even in the church It
Would set m a winking at wickedness. Tin
eligion ot the hl.icks iota-no-relation to mo
rality. When mi i-llici r inn s a regular com
municant as hostler, or cook, he expects to
lave the cust unary proportion of small arti
cles stolen, just a-* much as though tbe cook
or liostler never went to church. Some freed
m*-n are strictly honest, but not even a treed
tm-.n ever attempts to add to one’s confidence
in a colored man by stating that he is a
church member. Since slaves were first im
ported. what bus been done to teacli practical
Christianity ? Ol course, nothing, for vhat
would have been suicidal; why should they
not be heathen ? They meet and preach, and
xing of glory, of a blissful heaven, where all
shall be praise and freedom from sorrow for
ever. There is no notion of rational, every
day activity in the fulfillment ot God’s pla' S,
no conception of means as related to ends.
As in religion, so in politics, und in all ids
life, the darkey only dreams of glory. He
thinks he is even now about to step into the
highest positions in the land. Just so he
soars into the loftiest ecstasies of the Chris
tian faith, lightly skipping the pressure and
annoyance of morality. He steals and prays.
Lies and ballalujabs flow smoothly mingled
irom bis lips. The blacks have a sort oi
faith—in part, a belief that all will be well by
and hy—which led them to accept without a
thought of resistance the weight of ill that
the dominant race imposed upon them, and
which helps to explain the apathy, the con
tent even in loathsome poverty, the want of
self-respect, the crushed out nature of tbe
freedmen. Would that they were restless,
aspiring, as wretched internally as they are
externally! The poor people don’t know
and don’t want wbat they need. They are
altogether too happy for their own good.
The manners of the freedmen are invaria
bly courteous and their dispositions kind—
the best and pleasantest thing about them;
hut there is a latent ferocity in them common
to all degraded natures. All their feelings
and sensibilities are coarse; they delight in
grotesque, not in wit. Their vices are not
the refined wickednessess of the white race—
they are too simple-minded and kind hearted
for that. A high picket fence is a great pro
tection against a black thief; noue against
a white one. They have, like all heathens, no
idea of disinterestedness, and of course never
credit any with it. They are deeply offended
at a wrong from a Whiteman, which from z
colored man they would make but little of,
showing tbat their sense of justice is more
relative than absolute. They ape, so far as
they can, the customs of tbe whites about
them; strange to say, even imitating tbeir
cruelty. Tbe cruelty of negro fathers and
mothers is to-day appalling. Their children
are hired out until of age, or are virtually en
slaved at home. *.They are flagged unmerci
fully, and the worst cases of bruts! punish
ment create no shock’in tbe neighborhood,
excites no pubUc^entiment whatever. Ne-
grttes»re not pained at ihe--tying o! infant*-',
ni-*< rill lint Ktr* m tti hav*- :*ny tiding stir the
ttff-rii.g iif Inuti-s. Tbe surgeons of the
colored mrps u-fc'l to s»y that color rt sbl-
-irit.rs etiiioqfcji sqrgical opi'ra^ions, without
»’ m-i'heriufi, more patiently than white
i r* op . I'm y fii»y*T all 'vv inter in rags, gfv
ing ini signs of dis-rei-s. They do not feel'
lit* i-XTi-ines. oi lo-st and c-obl as, wbitt s rTo.
Tlir* .unhout the whole range of their pit tsical,
tu*tytnl und nmral sensibiliu*s there is dull-',
pus*, a 'certain ptu'dlng w ioh nature kindly
provided to meet tlfe terrible exigencies ot
■ butt situation; • ;
Thu -most obtrusively unpleasant cliftrac
p tis'ic of negroes is their tilth ; more than
Mt jthibg else it ke* ps tbun down in thu so
.r-fiii ' scale. It is very difficult to talk to
thetn ki'oht it. 'Then- nit>Bt be few who have
*Mliir*->seti ihem'wtio have not Suffered from
the * fleets, and yet sentd-ly a speaker evet
Ventures tn allude ti* the t*u juui. Bureau sur-
ed liss-»\ that their pr- scriprioU!} torfrisit wa,
ter application*, ar- u-ualiy'neglected, even in
serious cie-ck Tnore is apparent neatness
■enough or* i. tinriav-H in the fine looks ot starcli-
icd hill'll and go. d obi!)** s, t*ut iheie is no in-
>iitiet.qt cleMojiriev Ye', ,wpen fully\antler
ti.n'rtil, tu grin’s cap ea-iiy t e marie-to keep
efeiih; ns tt 'iK |.ru*t-*f with tiie colorerf troops.
Wiiile it .is ea.-y et>ou*.’h to get b tredlnlan
to ilo an* thing, tout even to keep him up to
the work, it Ik in-x'-to iinjHiSKible to tstahtish
in him a priMpple -pi action. When the
pleasure is removed, lie relapses to‘his old
condition. Not ov*r of-e third of the able-
bodied laborers are good workmen; about
oner third am worthless A negro takes no
pride in a piece of work well thine When
iris task or j *h ts completed, he looks at his
employer; if the la'ter is satisfied, the
daikey is, too, without regard to the charac
ter ol the work. He is a parasite—loves to
wait on the white man. The typical darkey
srunds with a white apron on, holding a pair
of shiB’ng boots, nnd moist with the oil of
g la-1 ness
Those who know much about colored peo
p‘c, know tbat to a large extent they are a
poor im tariun of a very bad example. The
most easily moulded of ail human beings,
tiie negroes have been cust among the potv-
erlul forces of our Civilization- and to* day
we s* e the product. What should we, a pri
art, expect ? Naturally, something inferior
to th* fret-dmeu ot the South. Southerners
have n*> right to comp am for a moment ot
the petty annoyances to which the unsteady
labor and tbh-ving propensities of the fretd-
men subject them. They had tbe training ol
them tor two hundred years, aud should be
thankful that their former slaves behave so
tveli. It is their invariable testimony, in
deed, that the colored people are doing far
better than they had reason to expect.
Negroes live on tacal and bacon through
out the year; fish aud vegetables enter but
little into their bill of fare. It is amazing
how most of them do live. They* are enor
mous caters when opportunity offers, yet they
can starve along, month after month, on al
mosi nothing—and always seem happy. Their
almost unvaried diet, otten very meagre in
quality, and usually ot very poor quality,
cannot build good muscle; their fibre is not
tough anti solid ; they move slowly ; a negro,
no matter how urgently called, never goes
out «ii a walk in obeying the summons. Quick
movement is abnormal. The body is siug
girii, tiie mind is apathetic, lor botlt have to
draw upon greasy Imcon for support. The
first tiling iu civilizing the freedmen—in or
der of time, not of importance—is to feed
them weil.
There is a certain vagueness in the negro’s
mind which a mental stagnation of ages has
created. They may learn rapidly at school,
may appear like brilliant scholars sometimes,
yet many such will become nothing, for clear
ideas precede strong purposes, and clear ideas
of lite and its relations are Very little taught
in schools. This suggests the remark that
tne present methods of teaching treed chil
dren, as a general thing, are far irom proper.
They are not based*on accurate study ot ue
gro character and needs, but are the matter
of course methods used elsewhere. The de
rirable plan would be uot to cram the s-hol-
j.rs’ memories, but to quicken tbeir tnind-*,
get them to thinking. Mental activity, spon
tam-ous with the Northern white children,
is entirely wanting.in the young negro. He
is playful as a kitten, because be thinks no
more th*iu a kitten does. He needs to be
taught by tumiliar conversational lectures,
questions and answers being constantly ex
changed. Obj ct teaching would be a vatu
able method. The school should be drilled
at the blackboard
In view of tbe very fair success which has
attended, so far, the experiment of colored
suffrage, in which-we fully believe as a neccs
-ity, a protection for the blacks, we mu9t ac
knowledge that it takes little or no education
to make a desent voter, provided thero-is
good faith in him- and a certain shrewdness
in detecting enemies and friends. These the
freedmen largely have. His heart is true to
the Union; and the slaveholders spent most
tif their livts in making such indelible im
pressions mi his mind that even in theconfu
t-ionat d distress of emancipation, it has not
lieeD difficult lor the freedmen to learn who
bis friends are. He' has had the sense, or
ra h*-r tbe instinct, to stand by them Bur
toe pressure of serfdom iD favor of the South
ern landholders may overcome much of his
loyalty to the Union by a substitution of
loyalty to interest.
We must be up and doing. We have not
only the finest, highest, most difficult mental
•nd m«ral work to do fur the freedmen. hut
-list* the coarse, rough, disagreeable work of
civilizing—to ciean and clothe aod teach
good habits. The reality of negro life is a
dirk picture; a close scrutiny is somewhat
discouraging, sometimes disgusting. A lit
tle of the freshness, the inspiration ofhatteries
and columns would he welcome relief from a
continuous, high moral endeavor, where tbe
ideal ami tbe reality are so widely, painfully
s-parated. There is a ring alxutt “Forward,
guide centre!” that one fails to find in die
taring “dog” and “cal” to a stupid speUc,
even though Gabriel smile on the latter opera
tion.
The army and the Freedmen’s Bureau are
necessary evils. The morn important they
become, the worse off is tfcn country. Let the
army and the military eicment of the Bureau
—not its education--be speedily furnished
through, reconstruction with a good reason
for withdrawing. Let the religious aBd char
itable societies be supported, not only from
sympathy with freedmen as such, but from the
conviction that we'shall he helping the na
tion most essentially to preserve itself by cre
ating counter currents of pure, enlightened
influence to the tide et prejudice and reckless
bate tbat swells in the bosoms of the “chiv
alry;” a tide not to be despised, for tbe
Southerners are educated, capable, with no
thing to lose and everything to gain, desper
ate, yet rendered prudent by reverses. It is
the old battle of ligbt with darkness, of Mi
chael with the dragon.
In spite of some noble-minded gentlemen,
lately officers of the rebettftrmy, who fought
through the whole of th«rar, but now con
duct themselves in a way to command res
pect, it is still true tbat the South detests the
civilization of the North, and would drive
out every trace of it but the currency, tor
which its esteem is so profound as to be very
amnsing. Large occasion for this hostile
feeling, and much excuse, Be in the fact that
the “Yankee” delegation to the South has
been, on the whole, a wretched representation
ot our countrymen, inviting—necessitating
the contempt of all sensible men. Would
tbat the “ carpet-baggers” might be entered
into by some vagrant demons, and caused to
rush into tbe sea and perish in the waves.
How they have cursed this 8tate.
But there is no mistaking tbe fact ot clear
ly opposed moral forces. A long and deeply
important struggle is before us, wherein only
those who work in the line of God’s provi-.
dence will succeed in the end—a straggle
that can be shortened greatly by a hearty co
operation with the well organia|0i bodies that
are already promoting the cause *oi education
and religion in the Sooth. These societies
don’t need barrels of old clothes an decant
moneys given conditionally; they newrfbtl
treasuries, to bo drawn npon according to
their own tutored judgment. It is wisdom
to, Concentrate our henevoientefi^ 7
U'y® 1 be ffdership to able men. Iti, ,! ??. d
economy and Safety to respond liu J, lIlc
the calls of our various missionary aad >ZJi°
men s aid associations. * aa treed.
The Cultivation „r Tobacco.
Editors Telegraph: Although TobaecVi.
in almost universal use, I doubt if jou ]
many readers who understand the aTe
raising it. Our soil., is too light jtosSf
iully plant it, but, nevertheless. I w
c Pe to be
able to make an interesting co n trit M ; 0n t
your paper, by detailing the mode «f pl “
ing, cultivating and preparing it forgS
The tobacco belt of the United States l ”
gins at Norfolk. Virginia, and covers
extending two hundred milts South 0 f tri
latitude of Washington, and turning
to the Ohio river. It thus spreads
States of Virginia, Tennessee, and the N,,^
t rn half of North ’Carolina, and the Soothe
portion of Kentucky. South .ofitfiSJ
country (he, land 13 too poor, and N,rib 0 ?
Virginia the climate is too cold, t0 stccess-
fully raise it. It ft very exhaustive to t u
soil, and will in a few years make the flcW
land very poor, by extracting an undu* J
portion of alkali from it. Hence th. p m _
dent farmer rarely ever puts the same
field in tobacco for more than two yeir 3 | c
succession.
It is a crop on one’s hands from oueyew
to another. In the month of February aspot
of ground not over twenty steps wide and
long is selected in a woods lot. Upon tbis
a large log-heap is made and burned for the
purpose of killing out all other seed or
roots which may be under the surface. It i s
then ploughed up and the earth pulverized
as fine as possible. The seed is now sown
upon the surface and very lightly “brushed”
in. Then the “plant bed” is covered with &
thick blanket of leaves aDd brush and left
alone until about the beginning of April
when the brush and leaves may be removed •
great care should be taken however to guard'
against a stray irost. The tender little plant
may now be seen raising its head.above the
ground.
In tbe meantime the fields, or, as they are
generally called, “tbe patches,” mud be in
process-of preparation. As above intimated
nil new ground in tobacco countries is set
apart for it, together with all the other best
land on the place. It will not do well at all
on poor ground. It ft generally broken up
with a heavy two-horse plough ami afrer-
wardsrun over and all the clods broken with
a smaller one. Brush and stumps, roots and
stalks, should all be removed. Lastly, the
patch is run off like a checker-board, with a
light plough making turrovre four feet apart,
east anrl west, north and south. The bauds
now follow the furrows, and with a hoe
throw up at each intersection a small hill—
a bill half the size of that usually made for
the sweet potatoe.
About the 15th of April the plant is taken
from its bed and set out in the pitch. It is
absolutely necessary, however, for the ground
to he moist, and lienee the fanner must wait
for a good rain. The pn cess ot planting is
not unlike that of transplanting the cabbage.
A small hole is made in tbe hill, either with
a round stick or the index finger, into which
tbe infant stalk is placed and the dirt pressed
around it. In a lew days it will begin to
grow and spread, and so ■will the grass
which abounds in such soil. The patch must
be gone over now with a single horse plow,
followed with the hoe, and each hill cartlhl*
ly. “scraped” of the grass.
When it has grown one foot and a half
high, or about the be ginning of June, it is
attacked with the Tobacco Worm, its worst
and most remorseless enemy. This worm is
generated by a large fly, the size of the mus-
quitto hawk, known as the Tobacco Fly. It
flits over the patch between sun down and
dark, lighting here and there and depositieg
underneath the leaf a small white egg, whit h
it firmly glues to it. One of these flies will
lay three hundred eggs one evening. They
come each year—they never fail to do so.
The egg hatches out tbe worm insixty bouts,
which immediately commences to <at the
down upon the leaf’s surface, and then at
tacks the leaf itself. Three of these worms
are competent to destroy a plant in a few
days.
To destroy them and save the crop it is
necessary to go over each patch twice a week,
examining every leaf, and pud off «nd kill
the worms. This is very tedious and labori
ous, as is almost everything else connected
with rafting this luxury. The plant must be
topped when it gets about three feet big -
It will then spread into large, fan-like leave*,
but at the root of each leaf a “sucker wi
come out. They must be broken off, which
is done at the time of worming. This work
is called “worming and suckering.” The
plough must now be withdrawn, for the
leaves would be broken off by the hotse walk
ing between the rows, and the remaining
work done with the hoe.
For two months, or until the latter parto
August, the tedions work of hoeing, worm
ing and suckering must go on. About
fifteenth of August, the plant will commence
ripening and will be ready to cut m
about
two weeks. This is done by slitting tbestalk
from the top to within four inches ot tbe
ground and cutting it off two inches Delow
the split. It is laid upon the ground and
wilts under the sun in half an hour, ft
now removed to the scaffold and hung up° n
sticks five feet in length and suspended upon
parallel beams. In a few days it is taken to
the barn and suspended in the same way*
These barns have no floor, and * 6
ground tranches are dug in which fires sro
built. The smoke from these furnaces pe r "
meates through and cures it By tbis means
it receives that golden, brownish bue w« see
upon it when offered for sale. When anm-
cientlycured. it is taken down, stripped °
its stalk, placed in hogsheads twice tbe aw®
of that of bacon, passed and sent to t •
manufacturer. The manufacturer unpacks it,
strips it of its stems, and with powerful ma
chinery compresses it into the boxes
In our storerooms.
Destruction of thb OmoSTATiiLtw 4 ^
Asylum.—Coivmhu*, Ohu>, EovemEtr^
lire broke out in tbe east wing of the F* ^
fire broke out m *ne «=<-
Central Lunatic Asylum “*? ut °.L*d,
The fite was near tbe roof, and rapidlv
me nre was own m \ .. • firemen
notwithstanding the exertions of the flreo^
who were promptly on hand. 1 de _
the entire building w as on fire, wa** th8
stroyed with the exception of
middle wing end the machinery^ ^ T^ tiectI
are standing firm. wsrewcov-
were smothered, but toe bodiee fomst*
ered. The fire ia still burning.
barobeenremoved to
tions. No other who
were some- narrow flt«
difficulty.
The Qtnfrra Herald comes to «
type. f^Zea^ew five do,lar gold P* 3 *
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