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A CHRISTIAN’S DEATH, V
Then there was silence; and my chil
dren knelt
Around my bed—our latest family prayer.
Listen—it is eleven striking. Then
I whisper'd to my wife, “the time is
short;
I hear the Spirit and the Bride say,
Come,”
And Jesus answering, ‘I come quickly.’
Listen.”
And as she wiped the death-dews from
my brow
She falter'd, “lie is very near,” and I
Could only faintly say, “Amen, amen.”
And then my power of utterance was
gone:
I fbeckon'd and was speechless; I was j
more
Than ankle deep in Jordan’s icy stream.
My children stood upon its utmost
verge,
Gazing imploringly, persuasively,
W liile the words, “Dear, dear father,”
now and then
Would drop, like dew, from their uncon
scious lips.
My gentle wife, with love stronger than
death,
Was leaning over those cold gliding
waves.
I heard them speaking but could make
no sign;
I saw them weeping; but could shed no
tear;
I felt their touch upon my flickering
pulse,
Tlwir upon my check, but: could
not give
Au answering pressure to the fond hands
press’d
In mine. So rapidly the river-bed
Shelved downward, I had pass'd or al
most pass’d
Beyond the interchange of loving signs
Into the very world of love itself.
The waters were about my knees; they
wash’d
3iy loins; and still they deepen’d. Un
a weres
I saw—l listen'd—who is He who speaks’
A Presence and a Voice. That Pres
ence moved
Beside me like a cloud of glory; and
That Voice was like a silver trumpet,
saying,
“Be of good comfort. It is I. Fear not”
And whether now the waters were less
deep
Or I was borne upon invisible arms,
I know not; but methought my mortal
robes
Now only brushed the smoothly gliding
stream’
And like the edges of a sunset cloud
The beatific land before me lay.
One long last look behind me, gradually
The figures faded on the shores of time.
And, as the passing bell of midnight
struck,
One sob, one effort, and my spirit was
free. Bickehstetii.
LOVE LIGHTENS LA2OR.
A good wife rose from her bed one morn,
And thought with nervous dread,
Os the piles of clothes to be washed, and
more
Than a dozen months to be fed.
There's the meals to get for the men in
the field.
And the children to fix away
To school, and the milk to be skimmed
and churned;
And all to be done that day.
It had rained in the night, and all the
wood
Was wot as it conld be;
There were puddings and pics to bake,
beside
A loaf of cake for tea ;
And the day was hot and her aching head
Throbbed wearily, as she said,
“If maidens but knew what good wives
know,
‘•They would be in no haste to wed !”
“JcniiSe, what do you think I told Ben
Brown?”
Called the farmer from the well;
And a flush crept up to the bronzed
brow,
And his eyes half-bash fully fell;
“It was this,” lie said, and coming near,
He smiled, and, stooping down,
Kissed her cheek—“’twas this, that you
were the best
And dearest wife in town!”
The farmer went back to the field, and
the wife
In a smiling and absent way,
Sang snatches of tender little songs
She’d not sung for many a day.
Aud the pain in her head was gone, and
the clothes
Were white as the foam of the sea;
Her bread was light, and her butter was
sweet,
And golden as it could be.
“Just think,” the children all cried in a
breath,
“Tom Wood has run off to sea !
He wouldn’t, I know, if lie only had
As happy a home as we.”
The night came down, and the good wife
smiled
To herself, as she softly said,
“ Tis so sweet to labor for those we love,
It's not strange that maids will wed!”
Family Wine-Drinking. —Dr.
Day, superintendent of the New York
State Inebriate Asylum, recently de
livered an address before the inmates
of the institution, in which he stated
that moderate-drinking families, more
than bar-room or groggery, are the
schools in which the fundamental
principles of intemperance are taught.
Among other things he said :
It is my firm belief that no family
accustomed to the daily use of ardent
spirits ever failed to plant the seeds
of that fearful disease, which sooner
or later produced a harvest of griefs.
In every such family you may find
the scroll of the prophet which was
written within and without with
‘mourning, lamentation, and woe.”
It is here that the tender digestive
organs of children are perverted and
predisposed to habits of intemperance.
From long observation I am convinc
ed that one or more of the members
of every wine-drinking fumily be
come, sooner or later, drunkards. —
Drunkenness, in every instance, is
the simple failure of an attempt to
drink moderately.
m t t
Out of all the Southern families
that went to Brazil after the war, only
seven or eight remain. The “Has
ting colony,” on the Amazon, has
been reduced to a remnant. Those
Seneca 18. Burr, Proprietor.
VOL. 2.
WIFE AND OLD MAID.
THE RELATIVE BLISS OF WOMAN
WITH AND WITHOUT THE WEDDING
RING. .
“A Spinster” writes the following
salient passages to a New York litera
ry joureal :
Somebody says, “If you want to
know to Avhat degree of pathos a tale
of the affections may be carried, ask
an old maid to tell you her love
story.” I agree with the writer per
fectly, with a difference. I say, ask
a married woman to tell you hers;
for of all disappointments, hers is
generally the greatest.
The old maid may adore the :uo
ry of one who lieo LJiea-L thsrkrf -
may watofc perpetually for the return
of some sailor who went down with
his vessel years ago in mid-ocean; or
she may have been jilted out and out,
or loved one who cared little for her;
but nothing docs she know of the dis
appointments of a disappointed wife.
Perhaps I know a hundred mar
ried women ; out of them all not ten
quite happy. They may live in pala
ces and wear purple and fine linen,
and fare sumptuously every day; but
disappointment is written on almost
every brow, while that of many an
old maid is smooth and happy, or
would be but for her envy of those
who wear the wedding ring.
If one is never queen, one never
pines for a crown ; but to be a queen
for a while and then lie humbled in
the dust, crushes the very heart: —
Every lover makes his love a queen
in courting days. She is beautiful,
she is good; her whims are law, her
silliest speech wisdom. If she de
sires anything greatly it must be hers;
and he is always at her service, ready
to do her bidding ; but in a year or
two it is lie himself who tears oft* the
crown and dashes down the sceptre
his own hand bestowed. lie is tired of
courtesy, tired of tenderness, tired ol
love and respect. The lover who
rises, phoenix-like, from the lover’s
ashes, is the being from whom a
woman almost always bears more
coarseness, more bitterness, more
cruelty, more sins of omission and
commission, than from any other
earthly being.
You see a girl marry —she is rosy,
bright of eye, fair brow, golden-hair
and dimpled; ten years after, you
meet her, she is lead-colored and dull,
—her hair is grayish, her figure
sharp; she has not good health ; and
yet her home is a palace, her servants
legion and her dress perfect. Want
has not dimmed her beauty, nor great
care. It is the death of love beside
liev heartstone that has changed her
What does lie care for her now —this
man who was her life? Nothing. —
The love-look is gone —the smile, the
tender grasp of the hand; the wish to
make her happy, the pride in her, the
endearing confidence. He says little
bitter things about her looks, about
her manners, about her opinions, not
knowing—for men are obtuse in sucli
tilings —that it is this that has alter
ed them; that had he been her lover
always, the sweet smile of her girl
hood would have remained to bless
him ; the brightness of her eye, the
rose upon her cheek —that, sharing
his home, his name and his fortune,
this poor woman is inore bitterly dis
appointed than any old maid of
them all, how great soever her bitter
ness.
Those women often try to hide their
woes, but they peep out to plainly. —
They will say, “I don’t go anywhere.
Mr. can’t find timeand yon
feel sure that not time but inclination
is needed; and you catch them in
dingy dressing gowns and slippers
down at heel, and know by these
tokens that nobody cares at home
how they look now.
Os course there are good husbands,
who are lovers all their lives; and
you know their wives by their young,
happy looks, in a minute. I remem
ber one dear old lady who used, at
seventy, to put on her cap with blu j
ribbons before her husband came
home to tea, and never failed to re
ceive a kiss on both cheeks when he
did come —who made me, with her
forty-five years’ experience of matri
mony quite envy it. But, rather
than be as wretchedly .disappointed
as most married women, I would he
willing to remain a spinster all my
life, and end my clays working im
possible shepherds in Berlin wool and
writing sentimental verses to the
young prince who never came oyer
the mountains to marry me —a great
deal rather; or even it would be hap
pier to keep remembrance of one
whose briof* life was all love —who
passed away like a dream, with all
his love about him—than to look up
in a face once sweet with smiles, now
either frowning or indifferent; and to
know that there remained of those
young love-vows nothing but cold
duty —perhaps, not even that.
. “So far so good,” as the boy said
NEGRO MASONS.
We notice that the “Maaonve
Monthly,” published in Boston, and
edited by Samuel Evans, i3 leaning
very strongly towards their being
recognized in the white Lodges.
These negro Masons have their au
thority from what is called “Prince
Hall Lodge,” once existing in Boston
under a spurious charter.
During the sitting of our last
Grand communication, a letter was
received from three colored persons,
purporting to be Masons, belonging
to Eureka Lodge,No. 11, working in
Savannah, with a charter from Prince
Hall Grand Lodge, and “asking
coiutcT with regard to forming a col
ored Grand Lodge in this State.” As
this Grand Lodge knows of but one
Grand Lodge in Massachusetts, the
case was briefly disposed of.
But to set the question of this
“Prince Hall Grand Lodge” at rest,
and show that it is entirely spurious,
we will quote from an article in “ The
Free Mason,” edited by Geo. Frank
Goulay, Grand Secretary of Mis
souri, and published in St. Louis. It
is altogether the ablest Masonic pa
per published in the country:
Negro Lodges. —The question of
negro Lodges of so-called Masons is
again attracting attention in some of
our Masonic exchanges, and the ques
tion seems to be one that is intended
to be forced upon the craft by cer
tain parties, and the time has proba
bly arrived when it must be met with
that calm and dispassionate consider
ation charateristic of our institution.
In June, 1867, Bro. C. K. Peck,
Grand Master of lowa, submitted in
his annual address to that Grand
Lodge, a strong recommendation to
recognize the negro Lodges, but the
proposition was emphatically laid on
the tabffe by that Grand body.
During the past year, Bro. E. A.
Guilbert, P. G. M. of lowa, and ed
itor of the Evergreen, has been strug
gling in their behalf through his jour
nal, but with what success among the
craft of that State, we are not inform
ed.
This is sufficient to show that there
is a combination formed to force this
question on the fraternity by parties
in interest, and we are in favor of
meeting it squarely and fairly, with
out any “if’s” or “an’s.” On the
24th of last June, one Lewis Hayden,
claiming to be grand Master of
“Prince Hall” Grand Lodge, of
Massachusetts, (Colored), delivered
his annual address. Who wrote the
address for him, we are not advised,
but presume it to be some anti-white
Mason behind the scenes, who has
more brains than lionesty, for the ad
dress shows a total want of disingen
uousness on the part of the author
The text of the address was the re
fusal of the Grand Lodge of New
York to entertain the motion of con
sidering the legitimacy of the negro
Lodges, which Lewis Hayden denom
inates, “Grand Lodge jurisdictional
claim, or war of races.” From his
address we quote :
“In this connection, we also cite
the following which will bear out our
statement in reference to the origin
and union of the Grand Lodges of
Massachusetts: “The first Grand
Lodge in America was lioiden in
Boston, on the 80th of July, A. D.
1783, known by the name of St. John’s
Grand Lodge, and descended from
the Grand Master of England. The
Massachusetts Grand Lodge (also
hoiden at Boston), was established
on the 27th December, 1709, rfhd de
cendcd from the Grand Master ot
Scotland. On the 19th of June, A.
D. 1792 a Grand Masonic union was
formed by the two Grand Lodges,
and all distinctions between Ancient
and Modern Masons abolished.
“fins constituted the amalgama
tion of the two Grand Lodges ot Mas
sachusetts, which, prior to tne time ot
their union, exercised separate juris
diction, as we have beiore stated.”
From this, it will be observed, that
St. John’s Grand Lodge of Boston
was termed iitty-one years prior to
the formation of “Prince Hall” negro
Lodge, which was chartered in 1784,
aud that the “Massachusetts Grand
Lodge,” chartered by the Grand
Lodge of Scotland, in 1769, was
formed fifteen years before the
“Prince Hall” Lodge. It must be
borne in mind that, at that time, the
Grand Lodges of England, Ireland
and Scotland, granted charters to in
dividual Lodges, and appointed over
them Provincial Grand Masters, and,
in some instances, they held concur
rent jurisdiction, as in Canada, Nova
Scotia, etc., years ago, and these
Lodges, under a Provincial Grand
Master, called themselves “Grand
Lodges,” in order to be distinguished
from Lodges acting immediately sub
ordinate to the Mother Grand Lodge.
In 1784, the following charter was
granted to certain negroes of Boston
(whether Masons or uohhas never been
proven,) a copy of’ which we quote
irojn auuivrs? oi lauib iiuvucn ;
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 18G9.
“A G. M. to all and_~’every, our
Right Worshipful and loving Breth
ren, we, Thomas Howard, Earl of
Effingham, Lord Howard, etc., etc.,
Ancient Grand Master under the
authority of his Royal Highness,
Henry Fredrick, Duke of Cumber
land, etc., etc., etc., Grand Master of
the Most Ancient and Honorable
Society of Free and Accepted Masons,
sends greeting:
“Know ye, that we, at the humble
petition of our right trusty and well
beloved Brethren, Prince Hall, Bos
ton Smith, Thomas Sanderson, and
several other Brethren, residing in
Boston, New England, North Ameri
ca, do hereby constitute the said
Brethren’ into a regular Lodge of
Free and Accepted Masons under the
title or denomination of the African
Lodge, to be opened in Boston afore
said,” etc.
Given at London, under our hand
and seal of Masonry, this 29th day
of September, A. L. 5784, A. D.
1784. By the Grand Master’s Com
mand.
R. lloyt, D. G. M.
Attested, Wm. White, G. S.
It will be observed that in the
above address, no person is specially
mentioned as Provincial Grand Mas
ter, and consequently it was to come
under the provincial control of the
other English Lodges in Boston. —
Now comes the most important fea
ture of affairs.
This Prince Hall Lodge was char
tered as African Lodge, and not as
“Prince Hall Grand Lodge,” as
claimed by its disciples. Again, it is
not designated as a “Grand Lodge,”
therefore, placing it under either the
control of the Provincial Grand
Lodge of Massachusetts, or the
Grand Lodge of England. What
was the result? The Masonic Fra
ternity of Boston, finding out the
great wrong that had been done them
probably unintentionally), by the
Grand Lodge of England, remonstra
ted against it, and the Grand Master
of England called in the charter and
struck “African Lodge” from the
roll of existence. On either horn
of the c i mma, Lewis Hayden’s
claim falls to the ground ; for, if
“African Lodge” was under the Pro
vincial Grand Lodge of Massachu
setts, it was ignored by it, and if un
der the control of the Mother Grand
Lodge, it was “wiped out” by it. So
that, in either case, “African L >clg3’’
had no existence after the arrest of
its charter, except by a clandestine
copy of it, as will be seen by the fol
lowing correspondence between the
(then) oldest and most influential
Grand Masters in the United States.
Brother Tucker, of Vermont, wrote
to Brother Winslow Lewis, Grand
Master of Massachusetts: “It is sup
posed to be true that on the 20th of
September, 1784, a charter for a
Masons Lodge was granted to Prince
Hall and others, by the Grand Lodge
of England, and bore the name of
African Lodge, No. 459, and was lo
cated in Boston. That Lodge did
not continue its connection for many
years with the Grand Lodge of Eng
land, and its registration was stricken
from the rolls more than fifty years
ago.”
Bro. Lewis, replying to Bro. Tuck
er, says:
“In reply to yours, I can only re
affirm that the Grand Lodge of this
State does not recognize the Prince.
Ilall Grand Lodge, or any other
Lodge of colored Masons in this
State, and that no colored Masons
have ever visited, or would be al
lowed to visit, our Lodges; no white
Masons, to my knowledge, ever enter
ed a black Lodge, so far as I have
ascertained. The blacks once had a
charter from England, which charter
(a copy being taken) was returned
for alteration, and was never sent
back to this country, and said copy
is all the blacks now have.
“Fraternally yours,
“Winslow Lewis,
“Grand Master.”
This charter was not returned for
two reasons : first, the Grand Lodge
of England had no authority to plant
a second Provincial Grand Lodge in
Massachusetts; and secondly, this
“African Lodge” would not be re
cognized by the Provincial Grand
Lodge then in cxistance, and the
Grand Lodge of England had no al
ternative but to arrest the charter
and ignore its error.
In 1792, the two Provincial Grand
Lodges of Massachusetts, the Eng
lish and Scotch, formed a union as
the sole and supreme Masonic authori
ty for that Commonwealth, and there
has never been any other there than
it, and the two Provincial Grand
. . \ % ■
Lodges, out of which waff formed.
A critic improves upon
an idea of a Boston confrere, lie
says that Mrs. Beott-Siddons “in per
sonal pulchritude knocks Beau Ideal
himself higher than a buzzard flies
over Jsiwv,”
SEMI-WEEKLY.
LETTER FROM MR. DICKSON.
Sparta, Ga., Dec. 5,1868.
Jailors Southern Cultivator: There
is touch confusion throughout the
country as to the plan of agriculture
I pirsuc—some using the solid sweep
as i part of my plan. Let me say,
I would not have one of them.—
Moreover, there are other plans call
ed Line, that I cannot endorse.
I [will give my plan in a very few
worts: First, drain the wet lands
av lif you wish, or it needs it, ditch
the hill sides —then deepen your soil:
cha :ge it well with vegetable matter,
■rtlir by rest or sowing oats and
’King off the fields, sowing and
..U-Ang under pea vines, or clover
and other grasses, where they will
succeed, etc. Then plow deep, and
sub-soil to the extent of your ability-
Gather all the manure possible’ from
previous crops, cotton seed, manure
from stock, leaves, pine straw, and
mud and other scrapings—and then
add each year to each crop, corn,
oats, cotton, wheat, etc, such soluble
ammonia and bone, earth, etc., as
Peruvian Guano, Land Plaster, Salt,
and wood ashes may have in them—
the latter if to be had, in any form,
at a price that would warrent its use.
Plant corn 8 inches below a level—
put the manure within three or four
inches of the seed, and cover about
II inches deep Cultivate shallow—
first plowing 11 inches deep; second,
inch; and third, one half inch. I
prefer a heavy sweep, 22 to 26 inches
wide, either for torn or cotton. For
mer communications will show how
I prepare land for ton and corn.
If you carry out this plan well as
to order and time, it w ill never fail.
One of your correspondents from
South Carolina, in criticising my
plan, says you cannot make corn
without a wet July. I have nytde a
first rate crop of corn with no rain
after the 19th of June, and can do it
every time. Below I will tell that
gentleman and others how to do it.
I have never had to resort to the ex
treme there described, but it will pay.
If you wish a fort to stand a hot
and protracted attack, you must
water and provision, as well as manure
it in order that it may hold out un
nlthe siege is rawed —remembering
out* day unprovided for may prove
fatal; so if you wish a cotton plan
or a corn stalk to stand a hot burn
ing sun, and a dry northwest wind
from four to ten weeks, and come out
safely, you must water and put in
sufficient soluble food to last. How
is that to be done ? Answer, by
deepening the soil, plowing deep,
subsoiling and filling it with humus,
that it may retain the greatest
amount of water. The soil is like a
spoage, if too porous, water will sink
through it; if too close, it will hold
bui little. I find that humus clay
and a due proportion of sand consti
tute the best of soil, to succeed un
der all circumstances, with soluble
p! smt food in abundance.
I will now give you a plan that
will carry the cotton plant through
eight or ten weeks of drought with
safety, and enable it to get ahead of
tbj caterpillar —the boil-worm may
come too soon for a full crop, but
one need not fear the caterpillar if
they do come before the Ist of Sep
tember. Always remember the soil
must be good and deep, and sub soil
ed six inches deeper, and furnished
with a good supply of guano, dissolv
ed bones, plaster and salt. A cotton
plant to stand two weeks (always re
member to use the Dickson Select
£*eed) must have 4 inches of soil and
6 inches sub-soil —three weeks, 6
inches soil, same sub-soiling; four
weeks, 8 inches and same sub-soiling,
and for every week of dry weather
vou will need an additional inch, with
the same six inches sub-soil broken
below. So, you will see, to stand a
ten weeks’ drought, you have a soil
sixteen inches deep, with six inches
broken below.
This plan will bold the forms and
bolls during the whole time, and not
give them up when it rains; but
should you prepare right, and your
supplies give out or surrender one
week befor reinforcements come,
much is lost, and it may be too late
*0 start anew. If you prepare and
carry out this plan well, you may ex
pect from 400 to 1200 pounds of lint
cotton per aero, according to the char
acter of the land, locality, etc.
Truly yours, David Dickson.
A lady had a magnificent cat.
Mrs. Jones, a neighbor, ordered her
servant to kill it, as it alarmed her
Canary. The lady seqt fnoUso traps
to all her friends, and when two or
three hundred’’ had been caught, she
| had them put into a box which was
forwarded to the cruel neighbor, who
eagerly opened what she hoped was
some elegant present when out jump'
cd tho mice, toiler great horror, and
filled the homo. At tho bottom of
the box she found a paper directed tp
her from her neighbor, saying, 1
“Madam, as you killed my cat, I
, tqko tho liberty of sending you my
FARM NOTES.
The chief interest on a farm at this
season, is to put everything snugly in
to winter quarters, making all suita
ble provision promptly, that nothing,
whether stock or crops, may suffer
from the pinching of jack frost, or,
worse still, from chilling storms of
wind, rain or snow. One day’s ex
posure to a cold rain will take away
the profits of a week’s good feed
ing, and a cow giving milk will show
in the falling off 1 of her daily flow (so
experienced dairy people tell us) the
cost of such exposure. The cow is
not singular in this respect —she suf
fers under a general law.
STOCK-YARDS.
For reasons above suggested, give
the stock yard special attention, hav
ing a place for everything, and every
thing in its place. All cattle should
now be in good condition. The rich
pasturage of the fall months, the’
temperate weather and exemption
from flies and other annoyances, give
them opportenity for their winter
preparation. This thrifty state gives
great advantage in the wintering, and
with it it is simply shameful to have
them come out in the spring poor,
hide-bound with hollow-horn, and
other evils of poverty and destruction.
cows.
Such cows as give milk must have
comfortable stalls, entirely protected
from the weather, and be fed with
corn-fodder, clover, hay or other good
provender, with rteal and bran, and
roots of some kind. The profit in
milk will be proportioned to the
quantity of good food digested. Care
must be taken here, however, that on
any change of food it be over-done as
to quantity, but that the increase he
gradual up to the point of great
est profit. To adjust this properly
needs care and caution.
CALVES.
See that these are carried through
the winter, not with their lives, but
thriftily and in a growing condition.
They need not be fattened or forced,
but they should have a reasonable
increase of bone and flesh from three
months’ feeding, and go out to past
ure in spring with life and spirits
enough to make a profitable run
through the season of-grass.
WORKING OXEN.
These should have a seperate feed
ing place, and a due and regular sup
ply of food. There should be no
opportunity of their interfering with
other cattle, or being interfered with.
HOUSES AND MULES.
When these have regular work
they must have, of course, regular at
tention not only as to food and water,
but grooming and stabling. Es
pecially is it needful to-rub and dry
them oft*, and clean their legs and
feet of mud, «tc., when they come
from work. Boxes instead of stalls,
with a pair of work horses to each
box, would be a great improvement.
SIIEEP.
Sheep have better health for a free
range of the pasture grounds during
good weather. This food, which
should, therefore, be of such quality
as to tempt them. It is found good
economy to give a small quantity oi
grain daily, if done with proper judg
ment. A shelter must be provided
for bad weather, and when the sever
ity of winter come on it is well to con
fine them here until they have had
the morning feed.
IIOG3.
The stock hogs should be suffi
ciently fed with grain to keep them
in good order, and should have dry
| beds and comfortable shelter apart
from other stock. Especially keep
them away from heaps of manure,
which will give them a cough and
disease of the skin if they sleep in
them.
MANURES.
Use now at all times such materi
al as can be commanded, in making
compost heaps for necessary puposcs.
Be sure especially, that there he
abundant coarse matter to mingle
with the manures of every description.
plowing,
Take any opportunity that may
offer to plow such land as will profit
by exposure to frost, as clay and old
sward. All such work done now
puts forward the spring work in this
important particular, and in wet
springs, as the two just past, may ex
pedite very much the planting of the
crops.
FENCING AND GATES.
Get together, tvs opportunity offers,
material for fences and gates to be
got in readiness during the winter. —
Put a good gate wherever needed.
CURING MEAT.
As this is the season for hog killing
and of putting up other meats for
future use, the following receipt will
b.o found convenient to such as have
not a suitable one on hand, It is of
the best quality:
To 1,000 pounds of meat put 3
pocks of fine Liverpool salt and four
pounds of salt-pptre. Put neither
pepper, *ng*r, nor ijpolsw! with the
Terms.—S 4 a Year.
NO. 34.
foregoing. Pack iu’a cask,'the bot
tom of which must be perforated with
holes to allow the drip of bloody wa
ter to pass off. Let it remain three
weeks, and then smoke every morning
with green hickory wood, having the
fire as fur away from the meat as pos
sible, eo that the smoke may cool be
fore reaching it.
Another receipt, perhaps equally
good, prescribes eight pounds of salt,
two ounces of saltpetre, one and a
half ounces of potash, two pounds'of
brown sugar, or one quart of molas
ses, and one ounce of red pepper, to
be dissolved in five gallons of water
for every one hundred pounds of
meat. —Jialit more Sun.
[Fro-n the V-i'th G*o gin ririx-n
THE SHERIFF OF PICKENS
COUNTY MURDERED AND HIS
DEPUTY SERIOUSLY WOUNDED.
We learn that the Sheriff of Pick
ens county was shot dead on Sunday
last, aud his deputy seriously wound
ed, by a desperado from Tennessee
named Joel Ritchie. The circumstan
ces, as we gather them from Mr. J. A.
Nelson, of Murray county, are these :
On Friday evening last Ritchie came
to the house of Mr. Gcoge Terry, liv
ing in the upper part of Murray, from
the direction of Tennessee, riding a
mule, which he succeeded in swap
ping to Mr. TANARUS., for a small bay pony,
and immediately left in the direct on
of Pickens county. The next morn
ing two men rode to the house of Mr.
T. in pursuit of Richie, whom they
described, stating that he had stolen
a mule from one of them, and asked
him if such a man had passed that
way. Mr. T informed them such a
man had stopped at his house the
evening previous, and had traded him
a mule, which, upon examination,
proved to be the one they were look
ing for. The two strangers, Mr. TANARUS.,
and several of his neighbors, immedi
ately went in pursuit of the thief,
who they could hear of all along the
road leading to the town of Jasper,
which place they reached about 11
o’clock on Sunday, where they learn
ed that the man they were in pursuit
of had left a few hours before in the
direction of Dawsonville, and was
then supposed to he at a house about
4 mile? distant. The Sheriff of the
county and liis Depu’y, b lug in town
at the time, were called on by tlie
pursuing party to aid in Ritchie’s ar
rest, which they proceeded to do.
But before leaving, the sheriff pre
vailed on the party to remain behind,
or some of them were known to Rich
ie, who, being on the lookout and
seeing them, might give them the
dodge, lie was found at the lionse,
at which it was thought he had stop
ped, sitting at a table shaving himself.
The sheriff stepped into the room,
and placed his hand upon his shoul
der, told him he was his prisoner, and
to follow him. Richie replied, “You
will let me finish shaving first won’t
you?” to which the sheriff assented.
The desperado then stooped down
and commenced strapping his razor
on his boot, and rose up with a pis
tol in his hand, which he jerked from
the leg of his boot, and immediately
placed the muzzle of it against the
breast of the sheriff and fired, killing
him instantly. The deputy then
rushed in aud was fired on twice in
rapid succession, both balls taking ef
fect in his arm and shoulder, .disa
bling him. The desperado then
rushed from the house and made good
his escape in the direction of North
Carolina, on a large, fine, fleet horse
belonging to our informant, Mr. Nel
son, which the sheriff bad rode to the
house. /
COTTON KING AGAIN.
The New York Commercial Adver
tiser is of opinion that cotton bids fair
to mouut his throne again. Assuming
that the crop will realize to the South
between $200,000,000 and $300,000,-
000, it says that this sum will not
have to he made over tp factors who
in former years took the lion’s share
It will not have to be expended ibr
doctor’s bills, incurred by sick and
infirm negroes ; or to maintain a large
and floating population of slaves in
comparative idleness .Until the plant
ing season again begins. Huge store
bills will not have to ba met as in other
days, when planters supported large
bodies of slaves? The whole amount
can be appropriated to the recupera
tion and regeneration of the region
desolated by the iron heel of war, and
in a very few years at the farthest
the Soutli will be on her feet again.
Cotton is (Jhus once more become
King, a ting with free subjects, rich
and powerful, and independent of all
foreign dynasties. Tho Southern
people can now, that slave labor lias
disappeared almost indefinitely, in
crease tfcefc cottoq resources, And
to this end they should do all iu. their
power to attract Northern capital t>is
thither, who, bringing with them
Yankco energy, enterprise, and re
sources, will prove of invalurbb aid
and assistance in developing and
F * \
HOARDING GOLD, AND INVEST
MENTS IN STATE SECURITY.
The Constitutionalist indulges in
some practical suggestions upon tho
subject of hoarding gold in Georgia,
and estimates that about twenty-five
millions in gold are lying idle and
unproductive in Georgia. We do
not know upon what premises he
bases so large an estimate —but, he It
smaller or greater, his suggestions up
on the disposition of it are worthy of
reflection. W e quote:
At a moderate, estimate, the people
of Georgia have in hand 125,000,000
in gold as idle and unproductive cap
ital. For all the real good it accom
plishes it might as well be sunk in
the Savannah river. Conceding that
the people of Georgia have $25,000,-
000 in gold subject to employment
but withdrawn from the market, wo
can safely estimate the entire State,
Municipal and Railroad debt at
820,000,000, two-thirds of which, say
$14,000,000, must be held outside
the Commonwealth. On the debt is
annually paid an interest of about
$1,000,000. Here we have a period
ical drain keeping us constantly im
poverished while abundance seems to
prevail among the people. These ob
ligations of our State, cities and cor
porations are now selling for leas than
their face-value in greenbacks. The
millions of dollars of the gold now
buried would approximate fourteen
millions of dollars in currency.
With ten million of the capital now
useless, the debt of Georgia could be
bought up and kept at home. With
a few more years of prosperity, there
is no reason to doubt that this debt
will be paid in full in gold. The
large amount of interest saved to the
commonwealth could be invested
in fresh enterprises and give an impe
tus to Georgia that would make her
beyond rivalry the empire State of
the South.
Let us see how the interest would
work to the benefit of the individual.
We suppose a farmer to have one
thousand dollars in gold over and
above his probable wants for this
vear. He sells his gold fox 25 per
cent, advance, which would net him
$1,350. With $1,350 he buys Geor
gia State Bonds at 90 cents on the
dollar. At this rate, he makes the
Sate his debtor to the tunc of $1,500.
On this sum he will receive an an
nual interest of $lO5 ; and, at the end
of six years, without taking into con
sideration the compounding of the
interest, his account will stand thus:
One thousand dollars in green
backs, $1,350.
Greenbacks invested In State
Bonds, amounting to $1,500
Six years’ interest, 030
Total, $2,130
If this statement be correct, and
we have taken precaution shall.
be, every man who lias surplus gold
can see in it an investment at once
beneficial to himself and to the pub
lic credit. Planters, merchants and
manufacturers would consider it a
nuisance if compelled to support an
idle hand—an expensive idler wlios«
keeping costs SIOO per annum. Ami
yet some of these very men will bury
SIOOO in gold, which costs them yeai*
ly this very sum.
llow a Farmer May Lose
Money.— By not taking one or more
good papers. Keeping no account of
farm operations; paying no atten
tion to the maxim, “A stitch in time
saves nine,” in regard to the sowing
of grain and planting of seed at the
proper time. Leaving reapers, plows,
cultivators, etc., unsheltered from the
rain and heat of the sun. More
money is lost in this way annually
than most persons would lie willing
to believe. Permitting broken im
plements to be scattered over the
farm until they are irreparable. By
repairing broken implements at the
proper time many dollars may be
saved —a proof of the assertion that
time is money. Attending auction
sales and purchasing all kinds of
trumpery, because in the words of
the vender, they are “very cheap."
Allowing feuces to remain unrepair
ed until “strange” cattle arc found
gracing in the meadow, grain field,
or browsing on fruit trees. Disbe
lieving iho principle of a rotation
of crop, before making a single ex
periment. Planting fruit trees with
out giving the trees half the
tion required to make them l ,r ° r v|r
hie. Practicing economy by .dc--
priving stock- of shelter
winter, and feeding them un
sound food, such as half rotjtim and
mouldy hay or fodder. T y>eping an
innumerable tribe of rats on the
premise*. and two or three big buy
dogs, whomever tho vermin.
Spending rainy dajg m groceries and .
bar rooms, #f being at bom©
putting things to rights, when
hove leisure.
Something for Cuts.— lt » n<*
generally kr.owu that the leajßjk
geranium, are an excpiiffcA applica
tion for cuts, whore the sms is rub
bed off and other wouads of that
kind. Onpor two loaves mpst be
bruised and. applied
tho wound wjll. bo, cio«trivdr.
short sun©.
J t , ,
Fifteen years a gentleman ,
sold a lot of land>in Dos Moines,
lowa, lor five hur*ds4, dollars. A
week ago he bought the same
lot the same persoi^t: ijhom b«
sold u. and paid t won*r-seven tftotyfr
fU'd dojhtrs. It is unimproved *S>.
cepf by the growth of '