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. ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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A Weekly Jouraal—Reveled to Home Literature, Agriculture, Foreign and Romestie New?, Wit, Humor, &<?.
mSCKLLAH K OPS.
T!IE WORLD.
A paint sketch.
OH! ’tis n wretched world ! a den
Os savage beasts, in shape of men.
Where one half prey upon the other,
And brother persecutes liia brother :
Where varions are the modes of killing,
War, hemp, steel, poison, flogging, milling;
Where th little murderer’s doom to death,
And the great one gains a laurel wreath :
Where men, like hounds upon the scent,
On vice and folly are intent;
Well skill’d i’the art of money getting,
By pratihg, pimping, lording, cheating.
A world, where vice triumphant reigns,
While virtue suffers and complains :
Whero worth in want obscurely pines.
While pamper’d meanness round hei shines
Where power is law, and riches right,
And men for empire tug and fight,
(As boys for dirty halfpence scramble,
Thro’ mud and mire, brier and bramble :)
Where works the craft cf cowl and crown,
To chain mankind in darkness down;
In bonds of ignorance to bind
The free-born soul, tho reasoning mind :
Whore tj ranis reign, the rich oppress.
And where the poor have no redress :
Where millions toil to enrich the few,
Who fatten on the “swinish crew
Where war’s black game is play’d by kings
For crowns, and such like glittering things,
Who share mankind likefiicrds of cattle,
And murder men in fields of battle :
Where dark theology and taw,
And physic, with insatiate maw,
Prey on soul, bo.iv, aim estate,
Os” tho sinvjde and unfortunate :
Where bribe 4‘ interest conscience smother,
And one thief’s set to catch another :
Where vice in power doth virtue awe :
Where rogues in office rob by law.
Their foes destroy, their friends betray,
And hang less villains every day :
Where, from the king of potent rule,
To the lards o’ the shuttle, loom, and mule.
Down to the wretch of puny svvav,
“Enslave!'’ ’stbe watcli-word all obey :
Where soldiers (still a people’s hate,
The walking engines of a state,)
Aie at the prond oppressor’s beck,
And march the advance of right to check,
To enforce each petty tyrant’s law,
And keep the multitude in awe :
Where fortune’s fops (who yesterday
Crawl’d from their holes in ragg’d array,
Who, from their native hills of dung
Have, in a night, like mushrooms sprung,
Whose sjres hawk’d wares about the street,
And ballads sung in strains most sweet,)
Strut in the garb of pomp and power,
And trample on the poor their hour.
Beggars ! who, lifted up with pride,
On horseback to the. devil ride:
Where villains at fail virtue’s mark
Shoot, stab, and murder in the dark:
Where men their bravery display,
Who female innocence betray :
Where, to forget a foul affront
HntUfnol and coward stamp’d upon’t,
While they who shoot each other coolly,
For honour’s sake! are champions truly :
Where gold’s a i>< —; flattery’s a w ;
Truth starves, or begs from door to door ;
While Honesty, in courts not bred,
In some lone cottage rears its head ;
With Modesty, of blushing mein,
In towns and cities rarely seen.
O ! ’tis a wretched world! where fame
Resounds the hero-murderer’s name:
Where fell ambition fires the soul
Os him who wears a crown or cowl:
Where vice aud madness mark each scene
(Whether be the actors grand or mean,)
From brainless royalty in courts,
To beggary in her midnight spoits :
‘Where folly’s sons, to music’s sound,
In fashion’s circles flutter round:
Where Dulness rolls in splendid state,
While Genius staives at Luxury’s gate :
Where fools, to wealth and titles born,
On bumble merit look with scorn.
While scoundrels stmt in stars and strings,
And honor’s dealt ’mong knaves and kings.
Where foul adultery’s high-life fashion,
And marriage love ‘sa vulgar passion:
Where money doth or bless or ban,
And of the villain makes the man: „
Where beauty’s charms are bought or sold,
And love is sacrificed for gold:
Wl.ere friendship is a fleeting shade,
And favours in the wearing lade: -
Where oft proves false what most we prize,
And what’s most lovely droops and dies,
Wheic common sense and solid reason,
And independence are high treason;
While gorging, and stupidity,
And going to church are— loyal-y!
Where falsehood's current, truth’s a libel,
And parsons disbelieve the bible:
Where fair religion’s drest in gloom
By many who her garb assume—
Who drive her, as a trade, for pelf,
And make God pander to vHe self:
Where physic rears her royal schools,
For titled quacks, and learned fools,
Who with their nostrums, balm, and pill.
Their thousands dupe, their thousands kill:
Where law’s a fox, that plucks the geese,
A wolf that still the sheep doth fleece :
An ignis fat nits, which pursuing.
It lores the simple on to ruin;
An hocuspocus — juggler’* wand.
Which, at the magician-chiefs command,
Makes right be wrong, and wrong be right,
And-presto!-make* what’s black be white;
A thing, so puxxling and perplext.
So dark in comment and in text.
GREENESBORO’, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 5,1860.
That oft twelve heads together join’d
Its hidden meaning scarce, can fled ;
A jargon ’tis! so undefined,
In clause so twisted and so twined,
That, as its volumes they explore,
The Cretan labyrinth of yore
Was not more tedious to unravel,
Than is the maze these tcise-wigs travel:
Where justice is a rope of sand ”
That still eludes the sufferer’s hand,
Or, if a substance it b found,
It stands on such enchanted ground,
With quirk and quag so fenced about, •
So many lanes and turnpikes tq^’t,
The poor can’t pay them, nor get to it,
But at a distance wishful view it:
If with the great they e’er contend.
Or dare their right and causo defend,
Laic settles soon the point disputed,
And with injustice they’re nonsuited:
Still by the rich, thro’ bribe or fraud,
They’re sure to find themselves outlaw’d!
If in this world a bliss wo find,
’Tis where two heart in love are join’d ;
Short space of bliss !—for oh ! how soon
Dark clouds o’ershadc the smiling noon ;
Approaching grief the horizon streaks,
For death the fondest union breaks.
O wretched world !—yet sure “there is
Another, better world” “than this :
Where virtue its reward shall see
And vice shall justly punished bo !
Liverpool.
SOUTHER? IcENERY,
The following sketch is taken from the
Georgia Home Gazette of Nov. I7th, 1851:
It is related that one of a party of hav
eners, standiug upon the summit of one
of the mountains of Switzerland, was so
transported with the beauty of the scene,
that in a moment of enthusiasm he declared
that lie “had never seen the equal of such
scenery ; and he was sure that there was
nothing like it in Euiope, for he had visited
every country in it.” A German at his
side quietly remarked, that “he had never
seen anything so beautiful with but one
exception” —and he named a certain moun
tain in the Highlands of Scotland. Tho
first-named gentleman stated that “al
though he had been on that mountaiu often
he had never thought much about it.”
That mouutain wab on ‘his own estate!
How frequently is-this the case. “Dis
tance lends enchantment to the view.”
Scenery seems to be appreciated in propor
tion to the space traversed in order to be
hold it. There is no doubt that the South
ern States possess sections of country which
exhibit the varied charms of natural scen
eiay in the highest perfection—wild and
beautiful spots--grand and lovely scenes—
“ Mountains on whose baren breast
The laboring clouds do often rest”— *
glimpses of landscapes rivalling those of
Milton’s L'Allegro, filling the of the
bebolderwith an enchantment of beauty,
and gratiying every sense of the majestic
and sublime. Fortunately. Southern scen
ery is now better appreciated.—and hun
dreds who once flocked to Saratoga and
Newport, now seek pleasure and recreation
in the romantic regions of their own sec
tion. As the attractions of our home
scenery become more generally kuown,
few will wander off io foreign districts, in
quest of that which so abundantly deserves
inspection at their own doors. Let any,
who doubt this, examine the “Georgia Il
lustrated.” Burke’s “Mineral Springs of
Virginia, ’’ or Lanman’s “Letters from the
Alleghany Mountains,” and they will be
ready to admit that Southern tourists need
not make annual migrations to distant
countries to find tho appropriate temples
of Nature’s beauties and glories.
Few states surpass Georgia in the wild
ness aud picturesque beauty of her moun
tain Hcenery. The hiinjed but beautiful
sketch, which follows, touche,s upon two of
her most celebrated mountain cascades—
Toccoa, ‘the Beautiful,” aud Tallulah, ‘the
Terrible.’ The sketch was written by one
of our nature-loving citizens, who passed
a portion of the past summer, ruralizing
among the mountains and enjoying the
rare beauties which meet the ej e at every
step, amid those populous solitudes. It is
bv no means intended as a description of
these water falls, or the scenery which
suaronnds them, but is merely a hasty
jotting-down of the incidets of the visit,
with no attempt at fullness of detail. We
only regret that it is so hurried. It is too
much so to bp satisfactory. We trust,
however, that the writer, who possesses
an observant eye, a cultivated taste, and a
polished pen, may favor us hereafter with
fuller sketches of the unrivalled sceneiy
of the mountain region of Georgia.
Clarksville, August 30th, 1851.
Having joined a small party who were
bonnd for the Falls, we sprang with light
hearts, lunch in hand, into our vehicle,
drawn by swifthorses, which were driven
by as good a whip as ever held the rib
bons. Proceeding on ‘our winding way’
foi three hours, we reaebed the Toccoa
Falls, and truly delightful was the sight.
All nature seemed to smile, for, ever and
anon the lights aud shades caused by oi l
Sol, struggling with the clouds for the
mastery, would alternately light up and
darken the beautiful scenery around. Tbe
cieek crosses the road about two hundred
yards above the Falls, when it dseends
one hundred and eighty feet, in the form
l of spray, into the chasm below. Then
gathering its waters together, “like the
faithless stream, which in its course dallies
with each flower upon its banks, it passes
on, and leaves them all in tears.” Hav
ing enjoyed the beauties of Toccoa to our
heart’s content, we took up our line of
march for Tallulah, eighteen miles distant.
As we attained the summit of the Tallulah
range of mountains, our driver said, “Here
yen have the ocean view;” —and how
beautiful the sight, and how faithful the
representation. So true was it, that it
only required a ship, to cause us to ay
that wc were looking upon water itself.
Old Currahee, standing alone, about twen
ty miles off. Wild, grand, and beautiful
—the scene seemed calculated to make
man feel his insignificance, arid inspiichim
with awe at the great wonders of the liv
ing God.
We then commenced the descent, and
down, down we went, for about a mile,
when we reached the house, and after ob
taining a guide, we proceeded to enjoy a
bird’s eye view of the different falls, and
returned to the house, perfectly charmed
with the wild romance of Tallulah. After
partaking of a splendid supper which
would have done honor to any br“ e ) j- a t j le
state, our party witnessed a cpiendid sight,
iho moonshouo out !u all its silvery sweet
ness. Ihe course of the river was dis
tinctly marked for miles, as it wound its
Way through the mountain gorges, by
clouds of spray, continually ascending and
forming mimic clouds, which rose higher
and higher, to fall again in the gentle dews
of heaven.
The next morning bright and carlj’, our
party made the various descents, and it
was resolved to take a hath in the cele
brated Hawthorn l’ool, —where the Rev.
Mr. Hawthorn laved his body for the last
time. This teritie feat performed, we re
lume 1 to the hotel dined sumptuously and
having ordered our vehicles, proceeded to
waids Clarksville, taking one long look at
the ocean view. We arrived at our hotel
about six o’cl >ck, fatigued, though much
gratified with our pleasant rambles.
J.C.G.
Henry A. Wise al Home in Princess
Anue County.
Gov. Wise, since the expiration of his
term in office as Gov. of Virginia, Las set
tled in Princess Anne county, in this State.
His residence is about seve t miles from
Norfolk, by the regular route, but not
more than four in a direct lire. “We left
here about five o’cloc’.: this afternoon,
and though ti e dry was extremely hot,
the route was so well shaded as to dimin
ish very malerily the inconveniences
which would otherwise result to us. About
six miles from tlie c>’ty we entered by a
wooden gate, and proceeded in the direc
tion of the governor’s house, along a
straight avenue, lined on either side with
a crop of the most promising, and evident
ly the best cultivated, corn and oats in the
country. We- encountered some 150 a
cres of the former, and about 120 acres of
the latter all cultivated under his ow.i
immediate superintendence, and exLii.it
ing in their rich and well ordered uniform
growth the infaliahle indications of skill
ful husbanding. Before proceeding a third
of the distance from the gate to the gov
ernor’s residence, the darkey driver called
out to those in tho carriage, ‘‘.Vlassa Hen
ry is coming!” Every darkey in this le
gion calls him by that name, i put my
head out of the window of the carriage,
and true enough, “Massa Henry” was
coming. But in what a trim! 1 neve.r
knew him to dress. Whenever he does
make any appearance it is all confined to
the fixing of a scarf round his neck, which
is fastened witji a plain gold brestpiu a
cross his bosom.
I never could be persuaded that lie per
formed this branch of the toilet himself.—
It required a little more care and taste than
I believe Henry A. Wise would be wil
ling to bestow upon matters of dress. But
in this instance he was burdened with no
such thing as a scarf or neck-tie, nor even
vest. His whole dress consisted of aPana-
ma hat, and that by no means new; a plain
white Jinen coat, white “Russian duck”
pantaloons folded up at the bottom, and
a pair of shoes in perfect keeping with the
other portions of his dress. He had with
him, leaning on his left arm, an axe which
gave him peculiarly the appearance of a
backwoodsman who was ready for anything
from a bear to a higwavman. Everybody
who has seen governor Wise will say at
least that he is determined : but in this
instance, lio exhibited in his dress and
general outline, every element that could
heighten this expression.
On seeing the carriage approach, he hur
ried towards it, and recognizing your
correspondent, he received him with all
the kindness and civility peculiar to Wise
at home. 1 questioned him as to l*is mo
tive in carrying the axe and he answered
that he carried it to kill snakes, an Indian,
if by chance he should come this way, and
for many other pusposes too numerous to
mention. At onco an invitation was kind
ly extended towards all in the carriage to
accompany him to his house, which was
about three quarters of a mile distant.—
Bev*ral invitations were offered to him to
take a seat in tlie carriage, but to no par
pose as he seemed to prefer walking.
The bouse is in a few yards of Elizalioth
river, upon which tltc city of Norfolk iji
located, navigable for vessels, of 400 or
500 tones, up to the governor’s farm. Un
der the skill and the management of such
a man as the govevnor’s it will soon become
a charming place.
To say that ycur correspondent and
his companions were treated well by the
governor, is to state wliat every one fami
liar with Lis chaiacter in the domestic
circle kuows him4o proverbial lor. Speak
of all your “old Virginia gentlemen,” but
Gov. Wise is the most perfect specimen of
that character probably extant. Not one
word about politics it yon don’t question
him.
Singular Phenomena—Hume, (he Eu
ropean “Medium” Outdone.
A rather wonderful phenomena is said
to have been witnessed at one of our prin
cipal hotels, a few day’s since, which lias
created a sensation among certain fash
ionable “’circles.” The particulars were
related to us by an eye witness, whose
character for truth is unimpeachable, and
who is not a believer in spiritualism.
A ‘'medium” was directed by the spirits,
‘we suppose, to visit Newport. Among
those who signified a desire to test the
medium’s powers were Miss Hosmcr, Dr.
Urowe and lady of St. Louis, and several
gentlemen attending the scientific conven
tion. It was currently reported that the
“medium” in question could rap out tho
contents ofsealod envelopes. Thcskopti
cal personages above referred to proposed
to write three names of deceased persons,
enclose them within an envelope which
was to be put into anothe-r envelope, to
prevent tho possibility of seeing thiongh.
then sealed up with a number of private
seals, and another party who did not know
its contents to visit tho medium; if two of
the three names were revealed without
opening or disturbing the seals, a certain
amount was to be paid lcm, and his “pow
ers” acknowledged The airangerneut
was agreed to, and the committee of two
laid the envelope on the table before the
medium. After a few contortions, raps,
&c., the medium's hand grasped a pencil
and wrote backwards and bottomsidc up
with rapidity the following :
“Gaudeo facer quod vis —Zenobia Po
cahontas. Yours truly’, Robert Hare.”
The party’ who wrote the names were
summoned, examined the seals aud envel
opes and pronounced them undisturbed.—
They acknowledged the names correct
and the Latin appropiate, but before open
ing the envelope desired to see the third
name given, whereupon the medium pul
led up his sleeve when the name desired
immediately appeared, writen in blood let
ters upon the arm, the flesh appar
ently raised up under the letters, like a
welt. The party acknowledged their as
toishment, paid up and retired, satisfied
that there were some things in heaven and
earth not explainable by their theories.
Since the above occurred, tho same or
similar phenomena has been produced by
the same inediumat the residences of some
of i ur most, prominent citizens, who are all
equally astonished—and the more so as
the “medium” is Mr. M. V. Bly, the cele
brated exposer of spiritualism, who does
not claim the aid of spirits and professes to
be able to impart the “power” to others.
We have been present at one seance,
and thephenomean is certainly astonishing
to the uninitiated.—[Newport News,
Aug. 21.
The Englishman and irishman,
Judge Haliburton, after exciting the.
mirth of our English cousins by caricatu
ring the peculiarities of Yankee character
and life, and rooting in may minds false
ideas which will never be eradicated, is
holding them up in turn for the merrimet
of others. We give a spechnent, taken
from the Season Ticket just published by
Bartley :
The Irish can’t eat nothing but later,
and drink nothing but whiskey, aim talk
nothing but priest and patriots, auctions
and repeals. They don't know nothing
like nobody else. Their coats are so long
they drag on the ground, like the tail of a
nantucket cow, which is so poor that she
can’t hold it up, and their trowsers are so
short they don’t reach below their knees,
with two long strings dangling from them
that are never tied, and three buttons
that felt like an eyelet hole; and wear
hats flint have no roofs on ’em. The pigs
are fed in the house, and the children beg
on the road. They won’t catch fish for fear
they would have to use them in Lent, nor
raise more than they eat, for fear they
would have to pay rent. They sit on
their cars sideways, like a gal on a side
saddle, and never look ahead so they sec
but one side of a thing, and always act and
fight on one side; there are no two ways
about them.
And yet, hang me if I don't like them,
take them small aud targe, better than I
do the English, who qre as heavy and stu
pid as tLo porter they guzzle all day—
who hold their chins so everlastiu* high
they don’t see other folks’ toes they are
forever a-treadin’ on—who are as proud
as Lncifet, and ape humility j as rich as
Croesus, and as mean as a Jew; taking
from one year’s cud to another of edeua
ting the pocr, and wishing the devil had
flown away with I)r. I aortas before he
1 had creV invented, types ; praising us for-
Terras--$1,50 Always in Advance.
ever, and lamenting Columbus hadn't gone
to the bottom of the sep, instead of dis
covering America ; talking of reform from
July to eternity, and asking folks if they
don’t wish they may get it.
Agricultural Progress olNorlh Caro
lina.
Thirty years ago North Carolina aban
doned the. growtli of cotton, owing to cno
ses not very clearly defined, but such ns
that the season was too short, the “snring
too backward,” soil too thill, etc,, but lias
returned to it with vastly increased energy,
producing a greater yield in one countv
now than iu the whole State formerly.—
And it is making the cotton growing dis
tricts rich, signs of which are seeft in the
improvement of lands, of buildings, and the
geneial condition of the population.—’
Twenty years ago the salvation of the
State depended mainly on the culture of
tuipgntinc; but, though a great business
yet, it is giving away to the former —tho
operatives therein returning to the cotton
field. Corn and tobacco both figure largely
in North Carolina. Bothof the latter are
to be considered paying crops. Cotton
planting, however, appears to bo gaining
on all other kinds of agriculture, and should
the low lands ol the eastern sections of the
State answer the purpose, ns expected, it
will not be long before the yield will be
enormous. There ere nlrcady planters
who make n thousand bags, which, at fifty
dollars per bag, is fifty thousand dollars ;
and,ten years ago, the, same men did not
produce a bale! Do mack for tho mania
for cotton—though it would seem to lie
madness that has “method in it”—and may
there be more of it, as it adds to the com
mon prosperity of the country, entering
into the revenues of the Northern man
equally with the Southern.
Why Children Die. — Reflections for
Parents. —The reason why children die,
says Hall’s Journal of Health, is because
they are not taken care of. From the
day of their birth they are stupefied with--
food, choked with physic, sloshed witlr
water, suffocated in hot rooms, steamed in
bedclothes. So much for indoor. When
permitted to breathe of pure air, once a
week in summer, and once or twice during
the colder months, only the nose is allow
ed to peer in daylight. A little later,
they are sent out tilth no clothes on at all
on the parts of the body which most need
protection. Bare legs, bare arms, bare
neck, girted middles, with an inverted um
brella to collect the air arid chill the oth
er part, of the body. A stout, strongman
goes out on a cold day with gloves and
overcoat, woolen stockings, and thick
doubled-soled boots, with cork between
and rubbers over. The same day a child
of three years old, an infant of flesh and
blood, and bone constitution, goes out with
shoes as thin ns paper, cotton socks, legs,
uncovered to the knees, neck bare; an ex
posure which would disable the nurse,
kill the mother outright, and make the
father invalid for weeks. And why l To.
harden them to n inode of dress which
they are never expected to practice. To
accustom then, to exposure wicli a dozen
years later would be considered down
right foolery. To raise children thus fox
the slaughter pen, and lay it to the LorcL
is too bad. We don’t think the Almighty
had any hand in it. And to draw comfort
from the presumption that Ho had any
agency in the dcatli of the child, is a pre
sumption and profanation.
A Lady Bitten by a Rat. —On last
Thursday morning at about 1 o’clock, a
lady residing in Church street, next door
south of thu Planter's Hotel, was awoko
from sleep by a great noise made in Lor
room by a rat when sbe set a small Poodle
dog that slept at her bedside upon it,,
which was very soon conquied. The lady
anxious to escape the apparently infuria
ted thing, attempted tq jump into be-d.,
and while in the act, the rat quit its hold
upon the dog. and flying at her, seized,
with his teeth the sole of her right foot
near the two small toes, and iuflieted a,
gerere would, but on Friday morning,
there were such strong evidences of Te
tannus appearing, that Dr. Fraser was sent
for, and under his care she is doing very
well, though not entirely out of danger yet.
Her husband, who is a policeman, caste
home just about the time she was bitten,
and with a stick, succeeded, after a hard
encounter, in killing tbe furious animal,,
whose body measured thirteen inches.-
Charleston News, Aug. 20th.
Gen. Tom Thumb, out of whom liar
uum coined gold, is now twenty-tjhrce
years of age. Tlie liberal showman en
gaged loin at first for a month, at eight
doliai s a week ; then for seven j cars at
seven dollars a week ; and all charges of
living and travel, and raised It to twenty -
five dollars a week ere the year .wss out.
When he took him to England ho gave
him fifty dollars a week. The little gen
tleman has made various exhibitions on
his own account, and lids said to he now
worth fifty thousand doMars, which he se>
perfectly able to take esVc of.
\sr The ladies never looked plumper
than they do this season, yet every one of
j these dear creatures aru reduced t* a skel
eton
NUMBER 86.