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VOLUME 3.
THE PLANTERS’ WEEKLY
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OH N C. R E 11),
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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WILL practice in the counties of Greene,
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MIS G KLLAKBOUB.
LINES.
ON THK DEATH OK G. P. R. JAMES.
Earth! wear a mourning garb,
List! how the murmuring breeze
Bears on its wings a nation's grief,
From lands beyond tho seas.
Powerless and weak, the pen.
And all unstrung, the lyre,
Vanished its'tones of melody,
Gone—its poetic tire.
For we are called to m-otint
Proud England’s gifted son,
The loved of countless hearts an l homes,
ller fondly cherished one.
Within tho land of song,
Beneath her glowing sky.
ili* gentle spin! passed awa v,
Borne on the sign.
Vainly he sought to find,
Amid the sunny bowers,
Her genial clime—and breezes soft,
Some health-restoring powers.
No healing balm was there,
Not all the fragrant breath
Os Italy's sweet orange groves,
Gould stay the invader—death.
Through memory’s silent halls
I'm wandering sadly now.
To girlhood’s happy, happy days,
E’er time had marked my brow.
llow, o’er the storied page,
I’ve hung in rapt delight;
While refilling there of bolted Earl,
Templar—and lady bright.*
Ilia was the power to weave
From licit historic mines,
Amusement, with instructive love.
Through fiction’s glowing lines.
But he has passed away,
And we, who linger here,
Still wo< p that genius, such as his,
Must grace a funeral bier.
Ah! let no marble urn
Enclose him in its gloom,
But tuiiie a laurel wreath to deck
His loved and honored tomb.
Hancock Farming—Letter from Da
vid Dickson.
We need notask the attention of our rea
ders to the subjoined letter of Mr. David
Dickson, of Hancock.
The accounts which, in the'unvarnished
language of a fanner, he gives of tho re
sults of his fanning, are-stteli as to seem
almost incredible to persons not acquainted
with him. To such persons, we will say
that we, and a large circle of his immedi
ate neighbors, emlrose without hesitation
Mr. Dickson’s statements. By all who
knows him he is known to be a careful,
cautious man in all that he says, and iu
no respect given to exaggeration Great as
has been the surprise created by the ac
count of his crops previously published,
this surprise will be increased by the pub
licatiou of to-day. Whila reading it we
are almost inclined to become juvenile;
throw np our hat and hurrah for old Geor
gia ! Think of it. Ponder it, and then
imitate it $5,451 income from four
hands !! What an estimaf e does tLis give
of Cotton, and land (bat will grow Cotton
even though it require expensive manu
ring and skillful cultivation. We are
obliged to “F. J. R.” for his letter, as it
has called out such communications as
those of Mr. Simpson and Judge Thomas
and Mr. Dickson, And rdinough we win
rnn. “ little untUi ine intimation ot “puf
fing,” auother splinter may be ran in the
same sore spot whenever we are assured
that it will be followed hr similar results.
| Eds. So. Cult.
Editors Southern Cultivator—l
have just read an article in the June num
ber of your paper from , ‘F. J. R.” headed
•‘AH is not gold that glitters—Truth is
mighty and must prevail.”
If 1 consulted nty own feelings I would
not reply to any part of his statements,
but I tun ever ready to do my friends jus
tice, and serve the good cause of Agricul
ture I shall not try to makeany display or
use any hard words, but if the truth that
“F. J. R.” says must- prevail, turns the
tables on him, I hope he will bear it kind
ly. For the truth of what I say l refer
to Hancock county. I will refer to each
poiut iu “F. J. R’s” article in as few words
as possible, and take them iu order.
“F. J. R.” states “An odern Mecca has
loomed up iu Hancock couuty, Ga., and
there me numerous devotees “of Agricul
ture, who with scrip and staff have desired
to make n pilgrimage t the shrine where
such wonderful virtues exist, and where
such linaccountable profits loom up upon
paper, so incredible to believe.” The
people oi Hancock know those reports of
i crops and profits are far below the mark,
j hut they can’t believe *.ho fifty lo one bun-
I dred white men story.
“F. J. II.” is wofuily mistaken about
j the unaccountable profits looming up on
I paper. The profits have loomed up on
! broad acres of land, Negroes, Mules, tee.,
at the rate of eighty per cent, per annum,
- GREENESBORO’, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 22, 1860.
years.
“F. J. R.” says, “Middle Georgia, with
her worn out gullied hills, has almost, with
one accord, turned her eyes to the salva
tion held out by the Mecca in our midst
situated in Hancock county.” I will only
say, let the many friends from every part
of Georgia who have visited our county,
say whether they have been disappoin
ted or not.
The next allusion is to the “eleven bales
of Cotton.” Even that is below the
amount: Fifty five hands, in 1859, made
and gathered six hundred and sixty-seven
bales of Cotton, which is more than twelve
bales to the hand, besides one hundred
dollars worth of Corn, Meat and Wheat
sold per hand or fifty-five bundled dollars;
all white labor was fairly counted.
“F. J. R.” says “But just imagine, that
after being fully posted up by disinterested
parties, how utterly flattened out and com
pletely wilted I (he) have become, when I
have learned from good authority that in
one particular case, (where newspaper puf
fin” nao done tri'dfb) where eleven bales of
Cotton was made to the hand Os the
no account was given nor a Woid paid of
the fifty to one hundred white hirelings
in almost constant employment upon the
farm, sowing, reaping, mowing, mauling
rails, making gates and bars, scattering
manure, and doing every other kind ot
work except the actual planting and work
ing of the land.” Here he has been bad
ly gulled, and the worst part of it is, he
has endorsed his authority as good. We
know of no man so corrupt as to make
such an assertion before the people of
Hancock county.
These lands were once considered not
worth cultivating, and (lie people had from
a very small amount to no property at all,
but since “the Mecca lias loomed up,” they
have suddenly become rich.
1 wiil tell you by what sort of people I
am surrounded. They are as clever and
as wealthy as any man's neighbors iu
Georgia, and do not have to hire out to get
a living. There are twenty-nine of them
that join land with me on the outside ;
twenty-five slave-holders, having from ten
to over one hundred slaves each, and own
ing from two hundred and fifty acres of
land to more than eight thousand each—
several from one to three thousand acres;
four who do not hold slaves. All these
neighbors are surrounded by slave owners.
This little territory I have described is
nearly twenty-five miles long and more
than twelve miles wide. I know of no part
of Georgia where there are so few white
men compared with tho territory and
slaves—there arc from five to seven slaves
to one white person. It is too absurd, to
think that in a county with double the
number of slaves to the while population,
and that scarcely’ votes seven hundred,
one man could employ from fifty to one
hundred white laborers, for all the work
he has enumerated for the fifty to one hun
dred men, would not average one hand for
one month in each year. What a differ
ence in the estimates.
“F. J. R.” says, “Our (his) friends
make no boast of what they can do.” If
he dr as not. call the banter to Hancock
ev ainst the Goose pond district of Ogle
thorpe county, a boast, many others will.
Before Hancock will accept the banter he
must answev the following questions in
the affffiiAtiVd . “as your c n,, nty.!with
tifty-fivo hands on one plantation, produc
ed iu one year a crop of Corn, Wheat
Oats, Cotton and Meat, worth fifty-five
thousand dollars? If not, Hancock can
not accept the banter. Hid any planter in
Oglethorpe ever make in any one y'ear,
above all expenses, clear, the whole negro,
horse and land property ? If not, then
Hancock county cannot accept tho ban
ter. The writer has done it on Washing
ton county soil. I will copy from my book
the force at my Washington county place,
joining this, five miles off, and then give
the crop. If Oglethorpe has not done as
well, then do not banter ns any more:
FOB 1859.
Harris, the cotton picker, a man 1.0
Joe. a man 1.0
Clay, a boy 14 years old 0.6
Charity, a woman. 3 young children, 3
at the breast the first part of the
year, gave birth to the fourth and
nurseand that
Jane, nine years old, first year out 0.3
Lucy Ann, 8 years old, first year out. .0.3
Nicy, 10 years, and the smallest 0.3
4.0
All told of my own force amounting to 4
hands.
I paid ont not exceeding four hundred
and fifty dollars, board included for regu
lar bands only, which would have made
about three hands, about one-half of which
were white. Now for the crop.
Saved and hauled to a gin on one of my
places, and ginned and packed, ontside
of tho making fence, one hundred and
sixty-seven thousand pounds seed cotton,
at. the price of neighborhood, for cotton
in the seed.
167,000 pounds cotton, at $2.80c44,476.00
j 4,620 “ poik, at 8e 385.60
Corn. Oats, Fodder and Potatoes
I will put down low, hay 500.00
Six llevve*, at sls each. 90.00
95,451.00
’ (’an Goose pond district come up to tin*
above? If not, then Hancock cannot ac
cept the banter.
The above result was made without any
white man on tbe place to direct—tbe cot
ton-picker, Harris, coming once a week to
get his lessons from me, and the aid of a
hired negro, Harry. Harris had no au
thority to whip. I did not visit the place
the first time until June, then not mere
than seven times afterwards. The books
were kept by a young man on tbe place.
Messrs. Editors, your articles on Han
cock Farming, (called “puffs” by ‘F. J.
R.”) have created a greater interest in
fanning, from Maryland to Texas, than all
the articles you ever wrote, and are doing
more good, causing the people to read,
think, act and improve in everything ap
pertaining to Agriculture. You have, no
doubt, written hundreds of articles that
contained more science and thought, that
left the readers wiser, but none that crea
ted such intense interest as ‘ the Hancock
pnffs.”
In conclusion, I will say; that lam not
the only man in Hancock, by hundreds
that is making large crops and large divi
dends; and it ‘F. J. R.” is not satisfied
that a negro hand can and does make elev
en bales ot Cotton in one year, will ac
cept my profits, as more than one hundred
gentlemen iu Hancock will endorse. They
know what I had to start with, and what
I have now; the whole of the white labor
has been-paid for. None of my property
was bought on speculation ; it was purchas
ed with the profits of each year, afterwards
converted into gold.
If you consult my wishes, you vt ill com
mit this to the flames; but if you think it
will contribute anything to the noble
cause of Agriculture to publish it, then it
is your will, not mine.
Very truly,
DAVID DICKSON.
Sparta, Ga., June 12, 1860.
An Address.
[We are indebted to some unknown
friend for a copy of an address delivered
by Prof. I. N. Loomis, of Macon, Ga., at
the Commencement exercises of the
Woodland Female Institute, located at
Saulsbury, Tenn. It abounds with the
richest and rarest gems and pearls of
thought. Read what lie says with refer
ence to woman's literary attainments:] —
hit. Companion.
“Look at what woman has done in Lit
ciature, Art and Science within the. last
thirty years in this country and Europe.
Within that period, Hannah Moore, Ma
ria Edgewmth, Mary llowitt, Fredrika
Brewer, Joanna Baillic, Mrs. Homans.
Miss Landoo, Airs. Brownig, the Bonheurs
Airs. Sommcrville, Charlotte Bronte, Aliss
Bond, Airs. Sigourney, and a glittering
galaxy of others, have multiplied the sun
ny heights of wisdom annd extended the
flowery and smiling domains of Poetry,
Art, Science and Romance. They have
added hugely to tbe sum ofhuman knowl
edge and triumphantly vindicated woman’s
claim to citizenship in the Republic of Let
ters and to a niche of immortality in the
Temple of Fame. They have given new
impulses to all tho better and holier emo
tions of life, and spread a genial, glowing
influence, like a wave of light over the
world. They have changed the heart of
the world towards woman, and made it
fc“! !>er wants and acknowledgeher worth.
More than this, they have given us views
of woman’s world and woman’s life, ns
seen through woman’s eyes and felt by
woman’s heart.”
[Here is another paragraph that is so
beautiful that it is almost holy :]
“No human being has ever fallen so
low as to be altogether insensible to the
beautiful. The rude, profane sailor, walks
the deck, too irreverent and forgetful of
God to “see the works of the lord and Us
wonders in the deep,” as be looks out
upon one of those beautiful sun-sets, seen
only at sea—masses ot gorgeous clouds,
crimson and jnjiple and golden, rising and
floating proudly like a king’s banner, the
Sea, and air all aglow with a thousand
varied tints softly hlqpding, the sun in
regal splendor sin king to his- rosy ocean
bed—tue spirit ofthe scene Bteals gently
into the hardened sailor’s soul; with a
melting heart he thinks of bis aged Moth
er and dreams of better things. The wild
bedouin of the Desert looks ont from his
tent upon tho midnight sky, in every star
he sees a glittering foot-print ot God,
where erst he walked to and fro through
the h.avene, “the sweet influence ofthe
Pleiades,” the low hushed voices of the
night, and the calm, still beauty of tho
scene come unperceived over his wild
fiery soul and his lips breathe “Allah
Akbar,” God it great, and lie is subdued
to the gentleness of a child.. Tbe stolid
inebriate looks upon the sickly geranium
his pale wife has placed upon tho window
of his squalid home—with bleared and
bloated eyes lie gazes upon the blushing
petals as they struggle to unfold them
selves to tbo sun-light, faint breathings of
the beautiful stray over the chords of the
heart long bushed; slowly, feebly they
vibiate, like a long forgotten dream, via
| ions of tbe past—of better days rise np in
memory; his once cheerful home, his chil
dren's gleesotn# play, bia wife, then beau
tiful with her smiles of tenderness and
! love, her winning ways and watchful care
I float dimly down the stream of time, frag-
ments of the godlike still buried in his be
sotted sold, resume their sway ; he wakes
from his dream of beauty with a deathless
resolve to be once more a man. Thus a
sense of tlie beautiful may kindle a slum
bering spark of goodness, or qnicken the
latent germs of strength in the most aban
doned heart 1 .
Early Courtship iu Ohio.
“If you can’t git them that you want,
you must take them you can git, and that
is how I eame to marry Patsey. Love will
go where tis rent, any how, and wo cant
help it, aud the harder a chap loves a gal,
the poorer chance he stands of gif tin her :
the thing is just here, the more he loves
her, the more shy and trembling he is, and
he can’t half-tell his feelins to her if lie tries
—while the careless and unfeelin chap,
that’s got no more love in him than a boss,
can have a dozen gals after him at once.
1 have thought the heart is like mud tur
tles eggs ; you dent the shell on one side—
a dent on the other side made in the same
manner, will bring all smooth again. So
with the heart; one gal makes a dent—it
remains bruised, til some other gal presses
it, pushing out the old bruise and caving in
anew one.
Well, well, accidents will happen; folks
will laugh—the world is more fond of fun
than logic—and they might as well laugh
at me as anybody.
So I agreed to tell )ou about my first
courtship. It wn’nt Patsey, but iny first
sweetheart was a proper handsome gal 1
worked for her father. Ohio was all in
the woods then, and everybody lived in
Lg houses except down in Cleveland, there
was a store or two. And my three bun
dred acres that is worth now one hundred
and fifty dollars an acre ; wasn’t worth
when 1 bought it, only throe dollars.—
Pshaw, pshaw ! how times is changed.—
Glad to git corn bread and gammon gravy
then— had to go thirty miles down to Cha
grin to mill. I always used to go for boss,
instead of himself, for I only ‘heafted’
ninety pouuds in weight and made a light
er load over a bag ot corn on boss back.
Let me see, 1 weigh eighty now.
Well, 1 w'as twenty-five years old, just
about, aud in love with boss’s daughter,
but always thought she felt a leetle above
me, for 1 was not any taller than I am now,
not quite as tall as she was any how, and
was working for eight dollars a month ;
had to dress into linen at that. You nev
er see one of them logging frocks, made
out of tow, didye? Well, I bought this
blue coat when I married Patsey tlii.ty
and five years ago. 1 never wore any but
tow—and if it wasn’t Sunday to-day I
shouldn’t had it on, I despise ’stravagance
new fangled flummeries and thingumbob
noodles’ round y’r big houses.
I was in love thirty-five years ago, head
over heels and never dared to say a word
about it. Her name was Jerusha, I long
ed to tell her how my heart swelled and
burnt for her as it thumped agin iny
“ehist,” but I could never screw my cour
age up to the pint—buttho’t I would some
day—or souse other day Id been alone
with her many a time and had resolved
and re resolved on popping it right out—
but tho, stillness was as awful on them
’casions as the roar of the Niagara, and
my heart would feel all over like your
little finger does wlieu you hit your elbow
’gin a thing accidental, a tarnal tingling
fullness.
Cuss nty luck, said I to myself, and Sun
day night, as I cum hum from mill after a
three day’s ride. Jerusha had a bran—a
chap from town, dressed as smart as a dan
cing master. Aly heart jumped into my
gullet the minute I see him. I felt down
in the mouth, for 1 knowed I was a gone
teller. He had on broadcloth. Talk of
your new fangled Gossop and Greshan
houses now, but folks in them days didn’t
have but one room down stairs, and ladder
to go up stairß, puncheon floors was good
enough below, and oak shakes split out by
band kivered tlie chamber floor. It >vas
so in boss’s bouse, and I slept up chamber,
I want you to imagine two wooden books
fixed up to hang a guu on right over the
chamber beam : 1 want you to remember
my tow shirt and I wont you to iningiuc
my feelings that night after 1 went to bed
for Jerusha aud the dandy chap had the
hull room below to themselves, with a
rousing bright fire to spark by. 1 couldn't
stand the temtation to want to hear what
they lad to say for themselves. Whisper,
whisper, whisper.
You may laugh at it, but it’s the naked
truth that lam gomg to teD. I have
laugbt myself at tlie same since. When
I beard something pop like a kiss, by gin
gei, I could stand my great heart-thumps
no longer. Curiosity and jealousy got the
uppei-hnnd or. me; I wanted to see for
myself; so I slid out o’ bed, sitting flat
like a tailor on the floor determined to
hitch up fust as I sot, inch at a time, to the
opening over the hearth where the beam
and gun hooks was. A cat couldn't been
no stiller arter a mouse, ; but iny heart
thumped louder every hitch, just hs it will
wher. a mail goes to do what ain’t right.
Well just as I had gained tho right pint to
look over at'eui, up tilled the peskey floor
—down I went tow shirt lo guu hook—and
there I hung blind-fold, like a squirr.d
half skinned, right over my rival and
swtellieart—ready for basting. I muldnt
see st all arter tbs’ and ‘twa* more thsn
Terms—sl,so Always in Advance.
ten minutes before the old hoas awoke to
tear me loose, dangling round the fire.—
What; said he, got a spear rib, ha! Let
me down, said I. I got pretty well baked
an}-how, and liain’t been quite so raw
since in love matters. Lord, 1 never look
ed Jerusha in the lace from tliat day, nor
a girl in the neighborhood, for I cculd
swear she told ’em all. That accideut
got my grit up to make a fortin. I went
off a few miles and married the first chance
I got, just out of spite—and Patsey is
worth all on ’em, arter all—and marying
is a lottery business. Then don’t bang
yourself as I did) because you can’t get
a particular girl but recollect your heart is
like a rubber, it will stretch a good way
and not break.
Personal Appearance of Literary Peo
ple.
A correspondent of the Springfield Re
publican gives the following pen-and-ink
sketches of prominent literary people :
“Emerson looks like a ruined farmer,
meditative and quiet ; Longfellow like a
good-natured beef-eater ; Holmes, like a
ready-to-laugh little body wishing only to
be “as funny as he can.” Everett seems
only the graceful gentleman, who has been
handsome ; Beecher, a ruddy rollicking
toy. Whittier the most retiring of Qua
kers ; and thus I might name others. Not
one of these gentlemen can be called hand
some, unless we except Beecher, who
might be a deal handsomer. Mrs. Sigourney
the grandmother cf American “female”
literature, in her prime (if wo may believo
her portrait) was quite handsome. Kathe
rine Beecher is homely; Mrs. Beecher
Stowe is so ordinary in looks that she has
been taken for Mrs. Stowe’s “Biddy.”—
Mrs. E. E. EUet looks liku a washerwo
man. Margaret Fuller was plain. Char
lotte Cushman has a face as marked as
Daniel Webster’s and quite as strong; so
has Elizabeth ll'ackwell. Harriet Hosmer
looks like a man. Mrs. Oakes Smith is
considered handsome. Mrs. Ward Howe
has been a New York belle. Francis
S. Osgood had a lovely, womanly face ;
Amelia F. Welby was almost beautiful;
Sarah J. Hale, in her young days, quite
pretty, unless her picture fibs. The Da
vidson sisters, ns well ns their gifted moth
er, possessed beauty. If we cross the
ocean, we find Madame DeStsel was a>
fright ; but Hannah Moore was handsome;’
Elizabeth Fry, glorious ; Letitia Sangdon
pretty ; Mrs. Hemans, wondrously lovely;”
Maiy Howitt, fair and matronly ; Mrs.
Norton, regally beautiful. Elizabeth
Barrett Browning, her phisique, is angu
lar ; and though she lias magnificent eyes,
her face is suggestive of a tombstone.—
Charlotte Bronte has a look in her eyes
better than all beauty of features. But if
we look at British men of first-class crani
uins, Sliakespear and Milton were hand
some. Dr. Johnson was a monster of
ugliness ; so were Goldsmith and Pope.
Addison was tolerably handsome ; Rnd
Coleridge, Slierly, Byron, Moore, Camp
bell, Burns, all were uncommonly so.—
Sir Walter Scott locked very ordinary, in
spite of his fine head. Macaulay is home
ly ; Bulwor, nearly hideous, although a
dandy Charles Dickens is called hand
some, but. covered with jewelry, be can
but look like a simpleton.
Death of a Noted Glutton.
Oil Wednesday morning last, says the
Baltimore American of July 6th, a colored
man named Thomas Thomas, well known
in the eabtem section of the city as eating.
Tom, died at his licuse on Pip-penny-bit
alley, near Eden, north of Baltimore-
Street. Hr had- partaken the previous
evening of a large quantity of cucumbers r
and on rising early on Wednesday morn
ing drank immoderately of ice water. In
consequence lie was seized w-ith violent
paius from colic, arid notwithstanding the
efforts of Dr. llealy, expired in two hours.
He was iu the 88th year of his age, hav
ing been born in 177-2, four years before
the Declaration of Independence. In bis
early life lie was engaged as a stevedore,
continuing that occupation nntil his ad-,
vaneed age compelled him to quit it. Ho
has been known to eat a moderate sized
ham with vegetables, fee., in proportion,
at one meal. Six large loaves of bread,
with more than a quart of coffee or tea,
would.tearo,el}- suffice for bis breakfast or
supper. A good sized goose or turkey
would disappear from sight in a shoit
space of time. His daughter would pre
pare a plum pudding at statod
and cook it in a bushel hag This would
serve him and two others as a desert. A
number of instances wherein bis voracious
appetite lias been tested ln.vc occurred.
At other times be would be content with a
more moderate share of edibles.
Haw to df it. —One of the wi iter’s school
mates was always behind with his lessons
upon one occasion h : s teacher, ii an aca
demy iu which he had managed to obtain
an entrance, was eiideit''oring to explain a
question in arithmetic to him. He woa
asked ; “.Suppose you had one hundred
dollars, and were to give away eighty
dollars--how would you asrettain bow
much you had remaining!” His reply set
teacher and scholars in a roar, for, with
hit own peculiar diawling tore, le ei.
claimed “Wbv J*l eouot it,’’
NUMBER 34.