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planter’s Journal,
DEVOTEDTO AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE,
NEWS, MEMORIES OF THE LOST CAUSE,
LITERATURE, SCIENOE and ART.
HENRY MOORE,
A. H. WRIGHT.
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Letter from Hon. A, H. Stephens.
On our eight page will be found a
letter from this distinguished statesman
in reply to the article of “ Virginias"
in our last number.
The Mockery of Republicanism.
The present Government of the
United States is, indeed, the mockery
of Republicanism. It vaunts itself the
champion of Freedom, yet tramples on
Freedom at home. It scorns Ilespot ism, 1
yet wields despotic power at home. It I
sympathizes with revolution, yet crush
es out Revolution at home. It pro- ■
fesses veneration for the Constitution
yet tramples under foot, the -.>h<ne«t
precepts of that once sacred iustnuneni.
Its usurpations of popular rights be
come daily more daring and more
flagrant; and yet the people of the
Worth are so blind to the dangers
which are threatening their liberties
that they seem to take no heed of the
evils which are bo rapidly gathering
arouud them.
The military have been sent by the
Executive of the Government to over
awe the people of New York and other
States in their election; and the out
rage was tamely submitted to by the
people. It is true that the Governors
of New York and Pennsylvania pro
tested against any further perpetration
of the outrage, but where have there
been any popular demonstrations or
popular denunciations of these acts of
Executive usurpationt It is true that
Mr. Cox and other gentlemen in their
seats in Congress have, in eloquent
terms, expressed their feelings on the
subject, but all this amounts to noth
ing. It is in public meetings and in
public elections that the people must
give expression to their sentiments,
and to their determination to have
wrong righted and the Constitution
respected and sustained by every branch
of the Government. This is the way
to bring the erring servants of the peo
pie to a proper sense of their duty, and
to compel them to a proper perform
ance of that duty.
If something is not soon done to
change the present condition of our
National affairs our people may as well
make up their minds to take off their
hats to a “right royal government” ere
long, for we are assured that neither
Grant nor his party have any idea of
relinguishing the positions to which
they have been fraudulently elected, or
the power which they have so boldly
usurped. The former lias, in a recent
BANNER OF THE SOUTH aND PLANTERS-JOURNAL.
message to Congress, declared his ad
miration for the Imperial Government
of Prussia—a government in which
Republicanism has no place, and Im
perial power is swayed with Imperial
force. The new German Government
has challenged the admiration of Queen
Victoria also. It will receive the
praise and cheerful recognition of every
Kingly Government, as it has already
received that of the two above named.
What is the natural inference t That
our President, by his official acts, and
by bis official language gives evidence
enough of bis intention to change the
character of our Government and fash
ion it after those of “the European sys
tem.” It remains to lie seen whether
our people will quietly submit to this
change—whether they will yield up
their liberties without one effort to re
tain them—without one effort, at least
to protest against t heir destruction. For
this, there be no revolution, there need
need he nothing hut a firm expression
of popular sentiment at public meet
ings, in nil public places, and at the
ballot-box. These must he the fields
of conflict—the places to plant the ban
ner of Constitutional Liberty—the
scenes of Freedom's victories. We
need but the will to do, ami the courage
to dare—these will give us the power
to vanquish the enemies of our Liber
ties and the strength to triumph over
our political foes.
Lucerne.
Lucerne makes the earliest green
feed that can lie had, and happy is he
who has a little lot of it from which to
cut for his cattle and working stock.
Few persons in this section have ever
=own it. or seen it. hot f< nff that, it is
middle of March to the first of July it j
yields ijountifally the sweetest and;
richest green ami may be cut overl
close to the ground four or six times. ]
Once established in good soil it will I
last twenty years or more with the I
least po'sitiie attention.
Don't try it unless you have rich
ground, plenty of manure, and will
plough deep and pulverize. Its roots
are large and go deep. Drill the seed
shallow, ten pounds per acre, cover
lightly, and keep it reasonably free
front weeds and grass especially while
young.
Sow any time from middle of
January to middle of March. No
plant or grass can grow repeated crops
of luxuriant green, without rich and
deep soil to draw from. Lueerne
comes early, and is most grateful and
beneficial to all sorts of stock that
have passed the winter on dry forage.
For horses and mules it is a capital
alterative, and brings on anew coat of
hair very finely. For milch cows and
brood sows it pays in the abundance
of rich milk.
Lucerne is of the clover tribe and
likes clay or lime soils, but proper
manuring will secure a profit from it
on even very light sand.
Sow Clover and Grass with Small Grain.
From the middle of February to the
middle of March is a favorable season
for seeding clover and grasses, and it
can be best done at the same time that
Spring Oats are sown.
Immediately after plowing in the
grain sow grass or clover on the fresh
ground and brush, or harrow in very
lightly ; or, if it is likely to rain soon
the brushing or harrowing may be
wholly omitted. Avery little rain on
freshly ploughed ground will set the
seed sufficiently. To secure evenness
in sowing, mix the seed very thorough
ly with a quantity of ashes or sand and
then scatter as uniformly as possible.
The advantage of sowing with small
grain is that the clover and grass is
shaded from the sun while it is very j
young, and gets a good hold before i
the grain is cut. In reaping, leave a j
good stubble and do not pasture the
first year at all. Some may consider
tbe loss of pasturage a great item, but
it is not so, in comparison witli the ad
vantages of a good field of clover and
grass. It is the prettiest crop a
Farmer can grow, and the most profi
table for fet'd and forage, and for
manure when turned under, and it is
the least expensive of all crops to
cultivate. In fact once set it needs no
cultivation.
Clover will/do well on any sort of
clay soil and the day is past for saying l
it won’t pay in Georgia; it has been
tried by hundreds, and it does not fail
under any reasonable conditions.
Tbe best forage and pasturage per
haps will L. had from clover and
orchard grass mixed. One gallon, or
say 10 to 12 lbs. clover seed and 15 to
20 lbs. orchard grass for one acre.
Orchard grass alone is a valuable
crop, and will do well on almost any
uplands in the South. For low lands,
herds < fe or red top, as it is some
times 1, is best suited. Any
bqO > t spots in the fields that
car. cultivated may be sown
wit! Foss, and yield handsome
hay _ ’th no labor but cutting;
and cui
llov ittle labor and expense is
neccss secure valuable crops of i
that v, 'e always want, forage, I
and the and sweetest too, from
grasses ai. ’over. And yet so few
persons will •• outside of the old j
routine of co o Jo it;
Cotton P nd Potato Plow,
K jogh the i
ir rii if bv wr designed,
a el in some
of its points, ret ap] re so simple
and * efficat on- for tin -ork it is
designed to >, ti, - r likely to
prove of gret'l value Our nowledge
o graph and
ex; i i Mr. Brinley
h f Tht; vorkc parts are
built upon a light strong sled or
sleigh frame, .coving on runners, and
carry the opt ning plow in front, the
seed or Guar a hopper in the middle,
and the cover in rear. The driver sits
on the sled, ii view of all his gearing,
and may easil carry his bag of seed to
replenish tl 3 hopper. The same
machine may be easily converted by
substitution < f other tools into an im
proved cultiv tor, or to the purpose for
which it was first designed, a potato
cleaner and ligger. If the runners,
will as Mr. Irinley claims, carry the
machine snn othly over the ground,
with much lighter draft than on
wheels—if it will only go easily, it
promises to 1 e a valuable implement.
His sled fra ne might be adapted to
carry many t >ols, and become equal in
utility- to his universal plow-stock.
W e may ulclljift >rd to encourage so
promising aw invention, and hope it
will prove all 'that the inventor desires
or claims for it. Our Planters would
be greatly b nefited by the saving of
i labor, and th ■ crops be better planted
I and cultivate 1.
j Mr. Brink y will exhibit bis machine
I perfected at the next Cotton States
; Fair in Aug sta, Ga.
Peace has been made bet ween Prus
| sia and Fit ice—that is, France hav
! ing been conquered accepts the Peace
j and conditirtis offered by Prussia.
Mineral Fertilizer, so-called—A New
Yankee Swindle.
The “Stevens Mineral Fertilizer, ’
and the “Grafton Mineral Fertilizer”
are new Manufactures, from Lisbon,
and Graftan, in New- Hampshire, and
are simply and only the Granite rock
of that section of the Granite State
ground to powder, and represented as
containing highly valuable ingredients
as manure.
l)r. Nichols of Boston gives the
following analyses ofthe two articles, in
his Journal of Chemistry.
GRAFTON MINERAL FERTILIZE!:.
Silica 30.30
Protoxide of iron 6.27
Lime ; 20.60
Magnesia 11.17
Carbonic arid 32.11
100.45
LISBON, STEPHENS MINERAL FERTILIZER.
Silica 90.00
Lime 3.27
Oxide of iron 3.06
Alumina 13
Magnesia 39
Carbonic acid 1.85
Water 1.06
Alkalies a trace
Good solid plant food truly ! It
would be as unreasonable for a baby to
turn away from a diet of cast iron, as
for the grasses and cereal plants to
reject such delectable nutriment as is
here afforded.
Written for the Banner of the Houth and Planter*'
Journal.
Harvest Gleanings from an Autumn in
Lurope.
IIY W. 11. WADDELL, UNIVERSITY OF
GEORGIA.
NO. 8.
LONDON—(continued).
MADAME TUSSAUII’s WAX WORKS.
If I bad a Donkey as wot wouM'nt go
Do you think I'd acknowledge him,
r>; »
Then a\v»y to .Tartey-V
No reader of Dickens will fait to re
member “.Tarlev’s Exhibition in the Old
how the iuunkabk- drolk. ry - .t) «idch
the Wax-Works are presented therein,
has tended to throw ridicule on such
exhibitions everywhere! I am sure, I
should have thought, Indore I learned
better, that a man was wasting sadly
valuable opportunities, who could dedi
cate a whole evening to an inspection
of Madame Tussaud's Wax-Works in
London. And yet lam confident that
a coup doeil of the long Saloon, by
gas-light with the figures all tastefully
arranged and with the gorgeous dresses
and jewelry- all flashing in the blaze of
hundreds of chandaliers, is one of the
very finest spectacles a tourist ever
sees. Judge Longstreet, in one of the
Georgia Scenes, has contributed liis
quota of ridicule in the description of
some home-made Wax-Works in a
backwoods village of Georgia. An
omnibus, bearing a plac 'd of Tus
sauds Wax- Wo r ks, Baker Street,
soon earned us up Oxford street to the
intersection of Baker, where a few
minutes walk to the right hand, soon
brought us to the Baker Street Bazaar
and to the finest exhibition of wax
figures in the world. In order to enter
into any description of this really ad
mirable place of entertainment the
reader must divest himself of all pre
conceived ideas of the tawdry finery,
Turkey red robes, fiercely-colored
cheeks and glittering glass eyes which
have been the inseparable concomitants
of all of the Wax-Works he has hither
to seen. Madame Tussaud was a great
Artist ! and sheemplyed none but first
class artists to execute her work. The
consequence is that these figures of
hers are as far superior to those seen
anywhere else as an execution of a pro
fessional Sculptor is to a village tomb
stone. In truth I cannot imagine why
the art of moulding the human frame
in wax and coloring it with the tints of
life should not elicit as lofty purposes
and enlist as high talents as any em
ployed in working in clay or in can -
ing marble. Be the reason what it
may, Madatne Tussaud lias shown the
world that this is an art, capable of as
perfect development and calling for as
rare abilities as its much-vaunted sister
arts, painting and sculpture, both of
which are necessary to its own exist
ence.
The short Winter day of London
was fast drawing to its close. The
streets were rapidly brightning as lamp
after lamp and store after store threw
tbeir brilliant blaze of light upon the
thick folds of the fog. The chandeliers
in Madame Tussaud's vast Saloon had
just flooded the apartment with their
brilliant rays, when I stopped at the
entrance door, from whence I could
take in the whole scene at one glance.
The effect was absolutely indescribable.
I seemed to be standing upon the
tbreshhold of an enormous apartment,
wherein were gathered gorgeously ar
rayed ladies and gentlemen of all coun
tries, times, ages, sizes, sorts and de
scriptions. It appeared to be a species
of fancy-ball at which were represented
men, women and children from every
clime under heaven—of every period
of the world since Adam—of every age
and size of humanity, and of every class
and condition of society. I strolled
along down the room, winding my way
through the masses of this strange
glittering multitude of voiceless figures,
and, as I became immersed in the
crowd of living visitors and dead visit
ed, I actually lost, for the time being,
the power of discrimination between
the two, and fell into a waking dream,
embracing figments of the imagination
whereof I was myself a component
part. To show that this is no mere
individual fancy, I was standing near
a group of British statesmen, one of
whom was the great William Pitt, and
perfectly absorbed in the contempla
tion of the figures, which stood in a
circle of which I was myself one, when
I noticed a nursery maid near by, in
convulsions of laughter, at a question
of a bright-eyed little girl who was
gazing at me still witli the mingled ex
pression of wonder and doubt with
which she had asked as she pointed at
me—
“J3 TIE WAX ?”
The incident reminds me of an oc
currence somewhat similar which befell
a visitor before me, who, with cata
imaged in trying to find out the name
of a figure T an old woman seated in
a corner, lib difficulty was enhanced
by the absence of any ticket upon the
figure,, the number upon which would
have had attached to it, in the cata
logue of the Wax-Works, an account
of the particular piece to which it was
attached. While staring at it with all
of his eyes, in search of the ticket, lie
was struck dtfmb by the supposed wax
figure, brei-k'ng out witli—
“ Well, cuss your itnperence, I hope,
you'll ktunc me next time you see me f
And, with these words the old lady,
who had taken a retired seat to rest
herself jerked away in high dudgeon.
The figures have been, in every in
stance where it was possible, moulded
from life. They are, in such cases, so
closely copied from nature as to seem
to be, what Judge Longstreet's char
acter called them—viz: “ginootcine
flesh and blood!" In other cases the
costume has been most carefully adapt
ed to the times in which the character
lived, and every incidental circumstance
possible lias been added to give an ap
pearance of reality to the particular
subject exhibited.
A group, consisting of waxen effigies
of ex-Presidents Lincoln and Johnson,
and President Grant, must be mention
ed to be emphatically excepted from
tbe praise-worthy objects above alluded
to. Three more horrible earricaUires
could not be imagined. Johnson looks
like a prize-fighter; Lincoln, like his
own ghost; and, as for Grant, if there
is anything in, on, or under the earth
which he does look like, I could not
discover it.
A striking contrast was presented by
the representations of the Royal Fami
ly of Great Britain. They were ar
ranged in Court dress, as if at a recep
tion, and the effect was exceedingly
imposing. Every figure was an abso
lutely perfect reproduction of the origi
nal and very little exercise of the ima
gination was required to fancy yourself
in the midst of the splendid parapher
nalia of Royal presentation.
HAMPTON COURT.
I should fail to notice the most
charming day’s excursion upon English
soil, if, in these random recollections, I