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AUGUSTA WASHINGTONIAN. & m 'ti&mmv&wsv* gt&kimMmtPSjll JEtetemiriw miraMip, Yol. ll.] WILL BK PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY j MORNING, BY JAMES McCAFFERTY, At the low price of one dollar per annum, for a single subscriber, five dollars for a club of six, or ten dollars for a club of twelve sub scribers — payment, in advance. All Communications, by mail, addressed to the publisher, must be post paid to receive atten tion. By the rules of the Post-Office Depart ment, Po3t masters may frank subscription money for Newspapers. Advertisements will be inserted at the follow ing reduced rates: —For one square, not ex ceeding twelve lines. 50 cents for the first insertion, and twenty-five cents for each con tinuance, if published weekly ; if semi-monthly 37J 1 and if monthly 43j cents, for each con tinuance. Yearly advertisers 10 per ct. discount. A-3a 10 f) LT 13 & [From the Southern Recorder ] Facts for Cotton Planters of Georgia. Will not the planters of Georgia en courage the use of bagging made from Cotton ? Listen to these facts and de cide for yourselves. The Cotton crop of 1839, by the pub lished statistics, was from Georgia 163,- 099,000 pounds. Averaging the bag at 400 pounds, this made the crop 407,500 bags ; this required, at 5 yards per bag, 2,039,000 yards, which at 20 cents per yard, is 8407,500. If the bagging made from cotton be used in place of hemp , every dollar of this money is retained in the State; whereas with the use of hemp, every dollar is carried out of it, ex cept the small items of transportation and commission. For safety sake we may say that 8300,000 of this amount is ta ken away from the State entirely. Again, to manufacture this bagging, each yard requires two pounds of raw ’ cotton, which makes an amount of 4,- 077,000 pounds. Now if we use hemp hugging , we add just the amount annu ally to the supply from the crop for man ufacturing purposes, and it tends to di minish the demand just so much. Sup pose we convert it into bagging, we fur nish a new demand for that amount; in other words, we withdraw from market that amount—diminish that portion of the supply—reduce the crop so much, which at 400 pounds per bag, is 10,102 bags, apd thereby increase so much the demand for our cotton. In addition to the large amount of cotton thus consu med, there is also a considerable quantity converted into rope and twine. Will not the farmers study these facts and take the hint? Read this article again and see how you like mv suggestions. May not we reduce the price of bagging to 16 or 17 cents, if we encourage entirely our own manufactures in making it, and save comTnissions, protits and freights now made by commission merchants, and ship and steamboat owners. PUTNAM. Mr. Slingluff’s crop of 851 Bushels Os Corn to the Acre. * Near New Windsor, (A/d.,) Nov. 22,1842. Mr. Skinner — Sir: —ln compliance with a request contained in yours of 14th inst. I will proceed to give you a sketch of the quality of the soil, and the mode of culture adopted by me, by which I pro duced seventeen and a half barrels (87£ bushels) of corn to the acre. The soil is deep limestone intermixed with blue slate rather inclining to be heavy, (owing probably to a superabund ance of allumine.) It laid about two years in clover and blue grass, and had ■become rather a stiff sod; had been fre quently manured for previous crops but never limed—it was plowed in October about eight inches deep, and laid till the first of April, when it was well harrowed both ways—then regularly spread over with manu e partially rotten, at the rate of nine loads (of about one ton each) to the acre—which was composed of stable manure, corn stalks and straw thrown to gether in the barn-yard, where it is con fined by embankments of clay, and the cattle were kept on it in the day time during the winter season. The ground was then stirred about three inches deep, and harrowed over twice again as before —then laid off at the distance of three It and a halt feet east and west; commenc -1 ed planting on the Bth of May, immedi* * ately after tne plough about four inches j# deep, four grains to the hill, put in dry, 1 and nothing in the hill with it; covered 9 if with the hoe—running the rows north I and south, the same distance apart as above—when the corn had come up, put! on one handful of plaster to every four J hills, then run the harrow over it the same way it was planted—about ten days as- i j ter, commenced with the cultivator east \ | and west being careful to go as close to | the corn on each side of the row as possi | ble—about a week after went through the other way, observing the same care to go : close to the corn, which by this time was j about six inches high. I< About the 20th June commenced ploughing with a large shovel plough, as 1 1 deep as the first ploughing, close to the 1 1 corn—then through the middie twice ! with a long pointed double shovel plough, . from twelve to fourteen inches deep, which left the ground perfectly loose and tolorably level—no hoe was used—noth ' ing more was done except to pull away the suckers carefully, so as not to injure the stalks from which they spring. The corn was the common large grained white. Very respectfully, yours, ISAAC SLINGLUFF. [From the New England Fanner.] Sowed Corn* In 1839 and 1840, I sowed corn in drills for green fodder. The last and the present year, sowed southern white corn, broadcast , followed by the harrow and roller. August 6th, with I a careful hand cut and weighed the ] i corn on one square yard. The product , gave at the rate of 52 tons and a fraction ; ■ to the acre. August 19th, for the pur s pose of testing the correctness of the es , timate made on the 6th, and also of satis- j i Tying myself what might be expected i f from ground in proper condition to plant j for the grain—with a careful and judi- | 1 cious person to assist, we measured and weighed witji much case, and found the . production was at the rate of 65 tons and ! a fraction to the acre. August 22d, cut j , and weighed 229 lbs. September 24th, the same weighed 71 lbs.; loss 158 lbs., . or 69 per cent., giving, say, 20 tons of i dry fodder t othe acre—which, if well . cured, is considered by some equal to 10 . tons upland hay. From one half acre, I cut the second . crop, which was estimated of sufficient . value to defray expense of seed, and la- J i bor for the same. Three bushels of seed, allowing some for the crows, i* sufficient. It may be said that the quantity of : ground measured, was too small to make j : a correct estimate. I called the atten > tion of my assistant to this point, who I was satisfied that it gave a fair result, j and one within the reach of any farmer. Very respectfully, yours, i j George Denny. Westboro ’, October 6th, 1^42. [From the New England Farmer.] rtcan-Pods Poisonous to Swine. Mr. Beck— Some years ago, I had: j thrown into my hog pen, where there j 1 were six shoats, some Saba, commonly I called Civy, bean pods. When I came i from my work at noon, I found them all! Fj sick, vomiting and in very great distress. ! Not knowing then that the bean pods ! had been given to them, I went to dosing j , j them with such things as I supposed might j be good, but, in spite of all my efforts, in ; ! about one hour after my first discovery of i • j their being ailing, five of them were! ! dead. I opened and examined one of : them, and found that all of a liquid kind I was thrown up, and the potatoes with | which they were fed in the morning, to- j gether with whey, were in a hard lump, i ■ and the bean pods mixed in with them. I Some suppose that it is the spur on the; i end of that kind of bean pod which does the mischief. I am of a different opin ion, because those spurs, when green, are too soft to have any bad effect. I be lieve them to b 8 poisonous; my hogs were evidently poisoned. Every man who keeps hogs, and raises Civy beans, ought to know that it is dangerous t"; 'nve these pods to hogs, and that it may bt, more generally known, is the reason of this communication. Levett Peters, j Westboro', March 3,1840. To Chicken Kaisers. We learn that the sufferings of chick-!, ens in this region from the gapes “is 1 intolerable” this season. Large numbers < of them have died, and consequently, the i ] prices charged at our market4or such of j j these feathered delicacies as escape the disease are so exhorbitant as to make; buyers “ gape ” with horror and aston- i ishment. Now, as we like a broil chick. I en, when not too dear, we feel personal 1 | interest in bringing the following “ cure {! j for gapes” to the notice of our country i | friends: 1 1 Gapes in Chickens. —A writer in tb&* ' Farmer’s Cabinet says, positively, that > i AUGUSTA, GA. SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1843. j the gapes in chickens, which caused so i many to die, are occasioned by worms in j i the windpipe; and that if the poulterer; ; is pleased to take a feather, strip the sides | : all off except a small tuft at the end, dip \ this in spirits of turpentine, catch the; > chicken, open its mouth, and just touch! ; this turpentine to the mouth of the wind-: pipe, which may easily be seen at the top j of the tongue and near its roots, the ; worms will almost instantly die, and the! chicken as instantly recover. He says I there is no danger to the chicken from! this course. The editor of the American Farmer j | agrees with the writer ty ’.'.e above, but says, “we deem it proper to add the rem edy which we have always found effectu al. Whenever we found our chickens laboring under the disease, we gave them each a strong solution of assafoetida, which invariably cured the disease, as we supposed, by dislodging the worm, which, we took it for granted, was the cause of the disease.” Cholic in Horses.— The American Farmer says, that a tea-cup-jfull of spirits | turpentine will give instant relief to hor ! ses laboring under this disorder. The J relief is said to be instantaneous. —The ; same remedy for cattle who are hoven t from eating green food, is recommended. j 1 ' 1 HI I —1... MIOiSEILILANE©!)®. ; -• ■ i =— Hope ami Memory! j A little baby lay in the (radio, and hope came and kissed it. When the ! nurse gave it a cake, Hope promised ■ another to-morrow; and when its young • sister brought it a flower over which it dapped its wing, and crowed, Hope told of brighter ones which ft would gather for itself. •* The babe grew to a child, and another friend came and kissed it. Her name was memory. She said, “look behind thee, and tell me what tliou seest.” The child answered, “ I see a little book.” and Memory said, “ I will teach thee to j get honey from the book, that will be I sweet to thee when thou art old.” The child became a youth. Once, when he went to his bed, Hope and Mem | ory stood by the pillow; Hope sang a melodious song, and said, “ Follow me, ; and every morning thou shalt wake with a smile, as sweet as the pretty lay I sung thee.” But Memory said, “ Hope, is there any need that we should contend ?”—He shall be mine as well as thine ; “and we shall i be to him as sisters all his life long.” So he kissed Hope and Memory, as he was beloved of them both. While he : slept peacefully, they set silently by his | side weaving rainbow tissues into dreams. 1 When he awoke, they came with the lark, to bid good morning, and he gave a hand j to each. He became a man. Every day Hope ; guided him to his labor, and every night ;ho supped with Memory at the table of j knowledge. But at length age found him and turn |ed his temples grey. To his eye the i world seems altered. Memory sat by his j elbow chair like an old tried friend. He ! looked at her seriously, and said, “ Hast j thou not lost something that I entrusted j to thee?” And she answered, “ I fear so ; for the '[lock of my casket is worn. Sometimes I I am weary and sleepy, and time purloins !my key. But the gems that thou didst give mo when life was new—l can re count for all—see how bright they are!” I Wnile they thus sadly conversed, Hope ! j put forth a wing that she had worn fold- : led under her garment, and tried its, ! strength in a heavenward flight. The old man laid down to die; when i j the soul went forth from the body, the | ! angels took it; and Memory walked with j it through the open gate of Heaven. But i Hopo a. v down at the threshold, and gently c>, i rod, as a rose giveth out her l&yt it? Oil ii - pattir-g »if b was like the music of a serai ed it into a glorious torrafolp said- •* “ ImmoK«? nafcipi'!' -s ! I ••bring thee a soul that I have Rd through the world. It is noiv time tha; J sus hath redeemed it.”— Mrs. Sigourney, lAving nptl .%lr- A queer idea has--ottf ow got abroad that periodical j opqi • urs, paper-ma-! kers, printers, pres jnfep, and all the mul-i tifatious viviparois, #3 m blooded ani mals connected with p, • -shing matters, sha/e the properties of'i s h« < imeleon.— There can be no gree ‘ ' mistake than this. ’Whatever t 'icojvs|||' exist upon 1 ! the subject, it is a well ascertained fact j that none of these classes of people are j exempt from the ordinary laws of hu i manity, but are compelled, in order to ; preserve their vitality, to repair the waste of nature from time to time with substan | tial aliment. But this zoological absufd | ity is not more preposterous than another; j dogma which seems to obtain among i I some of bur delinquent agents and sub- I scribers. They seem to think that ape- I riodical is one of the lower order of veg i etables, which, when once planted, grows I and flourishes of itself, and drops its blos j soras and fruits at their door without any expense of care and culture. How such a stupid belief can obtain currency a ,mong people so enlightened, we are : wholly at a loss to determine; but we earnestly hope that every one of our sub , scribers to whom the suspicion attaches of sharing such laughable ignorance, will at once exonerate himself and prove his undoubted intelligence by forwarding the ] • funds, which will enable us to go on; ; cheerfully, administering to his enter- • j tainment and delight in these columns. An Interesting circumstance. : Gen. Dearborn has communicated the ; | following to the Boston Courier : When I entered the room at Concert , Hall, on the morning of the 17th, where ■ the members of the Society of Cincinnatti were to assemble, for the purpose of join ing the procession, I found several old soldiers of the revolution, who had come j there by mistake, instead of going to the .! State House. [ While in conversation with one of the • members of the society, I w'as surprised [ to hear the notes of a fife in the room, | and turning in the direction from whence • they proceeded, discovered an aged man | seated among the old soldiers, who was • performing on that instrument. limme , diately went and took a seat beside him ahd listened until he had concluded play ing Washington's March , when the fol lowing conversation ensued. , Were you a fifer in the revolutionary . army? ‘I was.’ In what corps?— ‘Nixon’s Regiment, and Nixon’s Bri gade.’ How long did you serve ? ‘ Three years. I was in the campaigns at the Jerseys, and I was present at the execution of Major Andre.’ How old are you ? ‘ I am in my 83d year.’— Where do you live? ‘ln Springfield.’ What is your name? ‘Thaddeus Ferry.’ He then played Yankee Doodle and re markably well. He had a grandson I with him, who appeared to be ten or twelve years old, and who had accompan , ied hi 3 grandfather, apparently to take , care of him, as the veteran was feeble, ; and so deaf as to render it difficult to i converse with him. How remarkable, that after the lapse of time which had intervened since the close of the revolution, there should be heard, in the Society of the Cincinnatti, on the 68th anniversary of the Battle of ■ Bunker Hill, a fifer of Washington’s ar my. playing the inarch of that illustrious patriot, and the spirit-stirring national air of Yankee Doodlt, which had so often cheered the American camp, during the glorious struggle for liberty and national independence.” [From the Baltimore American.l U. S. Flying Artillery. Perhaps the most prominent object of i attraction at the late Military Encamp ment at Frederick was the splendid corps of Light Artillery under the command of | Major Ringgold. The extraordinary degree of perfection to which thi3 corps has been brought, in the precision and wonderful celerity of its drill and man oeuvres, is well known to our citizens, j and the impressions made upon the ad miring spectators at Frederick appear to | have been as strong and favourable as they have been elsewhere. The editor of the Virginia Free Press, who was present, thus speaks on the subject: The Frederick Encampment.—The great attraction of the Encampment and the Field, —the “ observed of all observ • ers”—was the company of U. S. Flying Artillery, from Fort McHenry, com manded by Major Samuel Ringgold, aid ed by his accomplished lieutenants, Churchill, Tompkins und Wise —lt may not be out of place here to say, that Ma jor Ringgold is a son of the late Gen’l. Samuel Ringgold of Washington county, I (Md.) who was for many years the rep ! resentative of his district in Congress. But we set out to notice the parades of his corps. To say that the sword exer cises were as perfect as practice could make them, would perhaps be saying all ' that is necessary. Every body wbs grat [No. 6. v -, ified, and that is enough. When mount ed, then was manifested the approbation of thousands. But when careering over the field, with eighty-four high-mettled | steeds, conveying theif cannon and am- I munition wagons from point to point with i a celerity and regularity hitherto un known to plain “ country folks,” the | shout of admiration burst forth from j every tongue. When the order was given to take post at an opposite point, the sound of the bu gle put each charger up to his mettle, and in an instant the field was traversed, the guns were separated from the fore wheels, eight rounds were fired, the parts were ! re-united, and the horses remounted by the gunners, (five to each piece) all in the space of a single minute time! The last feat, however, was pronounced the best. The cannons were taken from their carriages, the wheels from their ax les, and the men were quietly seated up on them, as if at rest. The order being given, and the bugle sounded, every tiling was rejoined and refitted, and each of the four guns fired off, in forty.seven !seconds! Dissolution of the Charleston Irisli Re peal Association* O’Connell’s broad side was too severe for the “Repealers of Charleston.” At first, some were inclined to regard it a forgery, but it had too much of the genu ine impress about it to gain currency for this opinion. The result of our inter meddling with the relations between England and Ireland, as predicted by tho late Mr. Grimke, some fifteen years ago, when Bishop England, (“ peace to his ashes” !) assayed to “ bring Out Charles ton in style ” was brought forcibly and unwelcomly to the minds of some indi viduals in the city, who favored tho movement, by O’Connell’s placing for himself, and for all his associates, in the Ecclesiastico-Politico crusade, Abolition and Repeal, upon the same footing—and the consequence is, as true Americans and true Southerns, the Association we are credibly informed, met on Thursday night 20th ult., deliberated, and acted— taking care as judicious men, before they committed a felo de se —to make a dispo sition of their funds—the one half to tho “ Sisters of Mercy” and the other half to the “Ladies Fuel Association;” so that the Irish Catholics stand about as good a chance of being benefitted by it, as though it had been sent through the hands of Dan to its original destination. We have no fault, no not the least, to find with this procedure—nor would we say a word to the wounding of any indi vidual, who, from patriotic, and pure, I and benevolent motives, were inconsider ately drawn into the meshes, thrown for them by the wily Daniel, and his equally wily coadjutors—the descendants of Loyola. But they have all learnt a less on which they will not speedily forget. [Charleston Observer. Mineral Wealth of Wisconsin.—■ The Davenport Gazette, in speaking of the mineral wealth of the North West, says, the steamer Amaranth has just passed down the river with 7,500 pigs lead, 20,000 lbs. copper, from Mineral Point, and 1,000 hides. Last trip she i carried down nearly 13,000 pigs of lead. | The steamer rapids left a few days before ; having on board 13,000 lbs. copper from j Wisconsin. The latter mineral, we understand, is mostly destined for England, Every boat that descended the Mississippi is more or less laden with lead. Last year the Galena mine alone produced upwards of a million of dollars. Handsome Women. —Everything a really handsome woman does is so na turally graceful, that one cannot help fancying, there may be in them a capa bility for a kind of pleasure which ordi nary mortals cannot enjoy, a pleasure arising from an intuitive harmony of mo tion. At all events we have imagined an ineffable spirituality of enjoyment in the existence of angels, intimately con nected with their supposed perfection of form ; and it will but be one step farther to suppose the same to belong to a love ly woman who surely is in the next de gree of being to the angels. A Yankee. —The following humortals description of a Yankee is from a poem read at a late historical celebration at Hartford, Connecticut. He would kiss a Queen till he raised a blister, With his arm round her nock and his old felt hat on; Would address the King with the title of‘Mister’ And ask him the price of the throne that he sat on