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AUGUSTA WASHINGTONIAN. §1 % smsi sMmg^, *■* " V J ? . • • t .~*? ■ .. '. A --'''' i Vol. II No. 11.} i < 2Hir JSJasfttitQtotttatt WILL BE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAYj 1 3fOR>TYO, BY h JAMES MeCAFI-’ERTV, , At the low price of jjsK doi.hr per annum, sor 1 , a single subscriber, five dollars for a club ofj six, or ten’dollars for a club of twelve sub- 1 scribers — payment, in advance. ■ All Communications, by mail, addressed to the i publisher, must be postpaid to receive atten tion. By the rules of the Post-Office Depart- > ment, Po#nnsters may frank subscription; money tor Newspapers. f Advertisements will be inserted at the follow-; I in' r reduced rates: —For one square, notes-; roetWoir twelve lines, 50 cents for the first! insertion, and twenty-live cents for each con-, timiince, if published weekly; if semi-monthly j 3fi; and if monthly 43f con' s, for each con tinuance. Yearly advertisers 10 per ct. discount. From the Charleston Mercury. J*ucepsst«l Experiment in Corn Planting.’ On a recent visit to the farm of B. R.: Smith, Esq., near the race-course, I was gratified at his success in planting this important staple of our country, affording an additional evidence of the superior ad- j vantages of scientific culture over that ofj the common routine pursued for ages past by the Planters of our country. 11". Smith is not professionally a Plant-; or, but a Merchant, devoting his few leis ure hours to the cultivation of his farm. Differing from those who regard book farming (as it is called) as only another aim a for visionary speculations, he is a cmutant reader of Agricultural Journals— on leavers f» profit by the discoveries of others, and possessing a sound judgment, he is aV • to decide o;t such modes of cul ture "as are best adapted to the nature of tin soil'an 1 the plants he cultivates. O • the last year much surprise Was ex p-ess- 1 bv Planters that Mr. Smith should have succeeded in raising GT bushels and 13 quarts ofc'Corn to. the acre. He then s*a f eJ t'lht his experiments were not yet completed—that the ground, by judicious , management, would admit of still closer planting, and he hoped yet to succeed in raising KD bushels to the acre. He doubted the ckl theory, that what is called firing in corn was the result of close planting, but believed that it was occa sioned by the. poverty of the land; he believed that the hilling of the corn was not attended with benefit, and that if the land was thoroughly prepared, previous to planting, it required but little other at tepdanewthau that given by the improved plough called the cultivator. Tno land on which the present crop is , planted was originally poor and much exhausted by injudicious cultivation. It was thoroughly ploughed and manured with stable manure, in proportion of 00 ( single cart loads to the acre; the corn , was soaked in salt-petre, rolled in gyp- ( sum and planted on a flat surface in . double rows, the sterita eighteen iflehes , apart in rows of four feet. Very little, use was subsequently made of the hoe ;j, the cultivator was run through it a few ( times; the luxuriance of the growth kept | down the grass and rendered all further , culture unnecesrarv. The ears arc now , filled, and the crop is considered safe from , any vicissitudes of the season. The field i . t .... has the appearance, in its rich green fo liage, of a vigorous growth of a young forest. It is the finest field of corn I have ever beheld, and it is believed by good judges that the product will not fall far short of 100 bushels per acre. I request you to insert this notice un der a hope that the Planters in our vicini ty may visit the well conducted farm of Mr. Smith, examine and judge for them selves. An experiment has also been made on the same farm on the effects of calcareous manures, which may also be • seen to advantage. B. Charcoal as a Fertilizer. W e have been astonished at the enor mous increase of the Wheat crop in F ranee within the last eight or ten years, and have devoted some attention to the investigation ot the subject. It appears that charcoal—an article that can be ob tained here for a tithe of its cost in France—has been very extensively used, and with marked effect, in fertilizing the Wheat lands of that kingdom. A cor respondent of the New Farmer’s Journal, an English print, states, that during a sojourn in one of the central departments of France, he learned that some of the most productive farms were originally very sterile ; but that for a number -of years their proprietors had given them a slight dressing of charcoal, which had re-1 • | suited in a large yield of Wheat ol an 'excellent quality. Since his return to 'England he has tried the experiment iupon his own lands, with the same happy jeffect. The-charcoal should he well pul verized and sown like lime, after a rain in a still damp day. Even in England, th# writer says, “ the expense is a mere jtrifle, in comparison with the permanant improvement effected, which on grass is truly wonderful/’ He states one other very important result from its liberal use. “I am quite satisfied that by using char icoal in the way described, rust in Wheat will he entirely prevented; for I have! jfound in two adjoining fields, one ofj which was coiled, and the other manuredj |in farm yard dung, the latter was greatly injured by rust, while that groxving in the other was perfectly free from it.” [Buffalo Com. Adv. Value of Piaster aud Ashes. Mr. Enoch Iloit, a fanner upon Horse Hill, in this town, informs us, that in the j summer of 1841, tour acres of pasture ! |l:ind upon his farm were ploughed for po btatoes—two acres for himself and two by 'iOnc of his neighbors. Both pails were* j planted with manure. At the time ol planting iiis own, a very small quantity of ground plaster was thrown in each hill; land utter planting, less than a gill of ashes j was thrown upon the hill as the potatoes came out of the ground. His noighboi made use of neither plaster or ashes. In the course of the season the difference in ' the potato tops was very plain upon oppo site high ground more than half a mile ; distant. Two row sos each part, side bj side, were dug at the same time; when ' the hills where the plaster and ashes were _ used produced two bushels for one of the ground where neither w as used. [Hill's N. H. Visitor. — ,£ , ..... Illack Pdtm<T or Turnip Worm. A late number of tiie Nexv Fanner’s Journal, states, that after a variety of un successful experiments to free a crop of . turnips from the formidable pest of the . black worm, he succeeded completely, by , taking large elder boughs with their so , liage, drawing them over the plants, and while they were thus swept upon the , ground, sprinkling caustic or fresh slacked lime ox*er the worm. It is probable the cabbage worm and other marauders might he destroyed in the same way. •- f* —— From the (Columbia, S. C.) Planter. “Onegood deed dying tonguele*«, Slaughters a ihousami waiting upon that '* . Shakspeare. lama subscriber and constant reader of ycur valuable paper, and acknowledge myself much benefitted by its perusal. I cannot, however, but regret that so few of our practical and experienced plantersare disposed to contribute to its columns the vast stores of information which many of them possess. Many facts, experiments •and results arc known, Which might be ; made public through the medium of your 1 paper, if our farmers could be induced to ' j write. But as it is, their good “ deeds ! die tonguelcss,” and much useful know- ' ledge is thus lost to mankind, which 1 might have been of incalculable benefit ' to the common stock, could it have been ’ made public. ' My own experience in agriculture, is too limited to allow me to flatter myself thafvour readers will be much edified by any thing I can communicate—l, never theless, write for the sake of example, and having “broken the ice,” I close by giv ing my remedy for Bots in horses. As soon as symptoms of Bots appear raise the upper lip of the horse, and with the sharp point of a knife, scarify the inner coat of the lip (beginning at the top) making a number of slight gashes, trans versely, causing it to bleed slightly. A case has never come under my own ob servation, (and I have cured many,) ini which this simple mode of treatment did; not succeed instantly. The most violent! paroxysms will he relieved in five min-j utes. What connection or sympathy there may be, between the lip and maw, I 1 leave to the curious and learned to decide.! You may hear from me again. Claremont. Sweet Potato toffee. Some time ago, we saw in a Memphis! paper, a recommendation of sweet pota toes as a substitute lor coffee. The freak took us a day or two since, to make trial of it, byway of experiment. Yesterday morning we drank of ‘the proceeds’ at breakfast, .and hope to do so i this merningj. A medium sized sweet potato was pared, and then, while in the!' raw state, sliced. These slices were then;I AUGUSTA, GA. SATURDAY, AUGUST 19 1813. cut across-wise, so that when the opera tion was over the pieces were square and precisely of the magnitude of ordinary dice. These were then |oasted slowly over a fire, as one does coffee. The moisture of the potato gradually evapora ted, ftnd in about the time that coffee would be prepared for the mill, the potato .substitute was ready for the same process. 'File grinding was carried on easily and perfectly, and the grains came out prettilv from the mill. The beverage was made! | yesterday by the french method of drip- j 'ping, and we have seldom drank a clip! i with greater pleasure. This potato coffee! ' is as strong and dark in appearance, as any other, and only differs in taste from “ Havana” by reason of a slight resem blance to cocoa. It takes very little su gar, and is a substantial, cheap, and no doubt, healthy drink. Who else tries-it 1 It is better coffee than we ever drank in North or South Carolina, Georgia or : Alabama, at any breakfasting house on a ‘ route, and we would particularly recom mend it to the landlady on the Southern • bank of the Roanoke. We hope to see our planter’s try it, and doubt not that many who live far from or inconvenient I to market, will do well to introduce it.- 1 Poor people in the city can make coffee for • a week, wit h a picayilne’s worth of sweet - potatoes.—[iV. O. Crescent. ' | - 1 o KILL WHITK WOK3I IN CABBAGE. i Strew the bed of Cabbage with the Nitrate i of Soda after a raiu-Vso says Mr. Mure, . of England. Soak the seed of Cabbages, Brocoli, and Cauliflower, in brine before sowing, 1 to get rid of the Bald (h üb, so destructive to said articles. . f “If there is any man who may cat his bread at peace w ith God and man, it is that man who has brought that bread out of the earth by his own honest industry. It is cankered by no fraud, it is wet by no tear, it is stained by no blood. : iS’fSWiT" A Story of the Revolution. The following is a bona fide fact, taken j without emendation from the life of a | mother in Isrcal. It will show that there was an anti-British spirit ill the women as well as the men qf’76. Late in the afternoon of one of the last days in May, ’76, when I was a few months short oflsyeat-s old, notice came to TWnsend, Mass., where my father used to live, that fifteen soldiers were wanted. The training band was instantly called out, and my brother, that was next older than I, was one that was selected. He did not return till late at night, when all were in bed. When I rose in the morn ing I found my mother in tears, who in formed me that my brother John was to march the next day after to-morrow morn ing at sunrise. My father was in Boston in the Massachusetts assembly. Mother said, that, though, John was supplied with Summer clothes, he must be absent seven or eight months, and would suffer for want of Winter garments. There were at this time no stores and no articles to be had ex cept such as each family could make itself. The sight of mother’s tears always brought all the hidden strength of the body and mind to action. I immediately asked what garment was needful. She replied, “pantaloons,” “O, if that is all,” said I, wc will spin and weave him a pair before he goes.” “Tut,” said mother, “the wool is on the sheep’s backs, and the sheep arc in the I pasture.” I immediately turned to a younger brother and bade him take a salt dish and call them to the yard. Mother replied, “poor child, there are; no sheep shears within three miles and a (half.’’ “I have some small shears at the loom,” | said I. “But we can’t spin and weave it in so ishort a time.” j “I am certain we can mother.” : “ How can you weave it? there is aj< |long weboflinen in the loom.” “No matter lean find an empty loom.” I By this time the sound of the sheep!; made me quicken my steps towards the Is yard. I requested my sister to bring me! 1 the wheel and cards while I went for the I wool. I went into the yard with my 1 brother and secured a white sheep, from, i which I sheared with my loom-shears half it enough for a web; wo then let her go s with the rest of the fleece. I sent the i wool in by my sister. Luther ran tor a t black sheep, arid held her while I cut ofl'f wool for my filling and half the warp, and: ! then we allowed her to go with the re maining part of the fleece. The rest of the narrative the writer would abridge by saying that the wool thus obtained was duly carded and spun,: washed, sized and dried; a loom was found a few doors off, the web got in, wove' and cloth pro paired, cut and made two or three hours before the brother’s departure —that is to say, in forty hours from the ;commencement, without any help from modem improvement. i The good old lady closed by saying, “I i ■ felt no weariness, I wept not, I was serving imy country. I was relieving poor moth-! i er, I was preparing a garment fol* my dar-* ■ ling brother.” “The garment being finished, I retired j ) and wept till my, overcharged and burst-! ! ing heart was relieved.” i This brother was, perhaps, one of Gen.! r Stark’s soldiers, and with such a spirit to' i! cope with, need we wonder that Burgoytie - did not execute his threat of marching l through the heart of America ?—Green ■> ' field Mercury. t r. ( ’I lie Horrors of War. Description of the arrival, at Dresden , j. of a remnant of Napolcoji's army of ‘ Russia. I was lately an eye-witness of a terrible I scene. The regiment of body guard that - acquitted itself so manfully at Minsk, has, e in returning to Moscow, been altogether !, cut up, mostly by the frost. Os the whole regiment, only about seventy remain.— , Single bodies arrive by degrees, but, in the main in a most pitiable plight. When they reach the Saxon border, they are as -1 sisted by their compassionate countrymen, who enable them to make the rest of the 8 road in some carriage or waggon, s On Sunday afternoon I went to the t Linxe ’ seen Bad, and found a crowd col . lected round a car, in which some soldiers 3 had returned from Russia. No grenade or grape could have disfigured them as 1 ! beheld them, the victims of cold. One cf them had lost the upper joints of his ten fingers, and ho showed us the black stumps. Another looked as if he had been , in the hands of the Turks, for he wanted , both cars and nose. Most horrible was 3 the look of a third, whose eyes were fro s zc »; the eye-lids hung down, rotting, and the globes of the eyes were burst, and t protruded out of the sockets. It was i awfully hideous, and yet a more hideous object was to present itself. Out of the! r straw in the bottom of the car, I now be- I icld a figuro creep painfully, which one could scarcely believe to be a human be ] ing, so wild and distorted were his fea r tures. The lips were rotted away, and » the teeth exposed. He pulled the cloak | away from before his mouth, and grinned .on us like! a death-head. Then he burst . out into wild laughter; began to give the , command in broken French, in a voice . more like the bark of a dog than anything , human ; and we saw that the poor wretch . was mad from a frozen brain. Suddenly , a cry was heard—“ Henry! my Henry!” and a young girl rushed* up to the car. The poor lunatic rubbed his brow, as if ; trying to recollect where he was—he then . stretched out his arms towards the dis tracted girl, and lifted himself Up with his whole strength. A shuddering fever-fit [ came over him* Ho fell collapsed, and ; lay breathless on the straw. The girl was removed forcibly from the corpse. It was her bridegroom. Her agony found vent in the most horrible imprecations against the French and Emperor, and her rage communicated itself to the crowd around her—especially tho women, who were assembled in considerable numbers: they expressed their opinions in language the most fearfully frantic, I should ad vise no Frenchman to enter into such a mob; the name of the King himself would help him little there. —[Reminiscences of the year 1813, in Germany. Ingenuity of Birds. Thrushes feed very much on snails, | looking for them in mossy banks. Hav ing frequently observed some broken ! snail-shells near two projecting pebbles jon a gravel walk, which had a hollow between them, I endeavored to discover I the occasion oftheir being brought to that [ situation. At last I saw ath rush fly to the spot with a snail-shell in his mouth, which he placed between the two stones, and hammered at it with his beak till he had broken it, and was then able to feed on its contents. The bird must have discov ered that he could not apply his beak with sufficient force to break the shell while it was rolling about, and he therefore found out and made use of the spot which would, keep the shell in otic position. When the! [One Dollar a Year. - : ' < - lapwing wants to procure food, it seeks for a worm’s cast, and stamps on the ground by the side of it with its feet; some - what in the same manner as 1 "have often done when a boy, in order to procure worms for fishing. After doing this for a short time, the bird waits for tne issue of the Worm from its hole, who, alarmed at the shaking of the ground, endeavors to make its escape, when he is immediately seized, and becomes the prey of the inge nious bird.— Jesse’s Gleanings in Natu ral History. “tl! sitings.” ! A Story of Little Lollotte—By Abbot. Once, as I was returning horn” from | France, there was on board the ship a lit | tic French girl, named Lollottc. She had five fingers on each hand. Wc were all very much interested in 1 little Lollcttt; but one reason was, she was the most disobedient child we ever knew. She gave her mother constant ■trouble, and Would not mind anv thing she bold her. One day we saw, close to the ship, a Portuguese man-of-war. This Is ft kind ,oi fish that can sail on tho top of the water! It looks, in shape, as an egg would deal ing, only it is about three times as long, jit has n little sail stretching ovej the top, and long strings of various colors, hang ing down from the bottom in the Water. ! One of the ladies washed to examine this curious little Creature. So a sailor let down a bucket and caught it. When it was laid on the deck, ail the passengers (gathered round to see it ; and little Lol lotie broke away from her mother’s hand and ran close up to it. Her mother cried to her not to touch it, and the sailor said. “No, no, don’t touch it, for it wall sting.’’ Hardly had this disobedient child heard tho warning before her hand was upon it. In an instant her cries of agony filled the ship. “O, how it stings! O, how it stings!” For a long hour every ear was pained with her distressing cries, 0 how it stings! O, how it stings!” And there was not one on board who pitied her. All felt that she deserved it all for her disobe dience. My young friends, sin will at last bite like a serpent, and sting like tfn adder.— \ ou may disobey your parents, be unkind to one another, and use wicked words, but by-and-by you will cry, “O, how it stings! O, how-it stings!” Wilt not each of you my young friends, offer the prayer of David, “ Remember not the sins of my youth,” and come aud make the Saviour your friend ? The Hell and Kittens. An Extraordinary Fact.—A few weeks ago, I was at the residence of Mr. Barney, pastor of the Congregational Church, in Scekonk, (R. I.) He invited me into a little shed, and there showed me a very extraordinary example of animal instinct. It was a hen w T ith a litter of four kittens. In all respect, so far as they could receive it, she gave them the same attention as she would her own brood.— She scratched vermin and other things for them ; called them to partake; she cluck ed for them and brooded over them night and day, as they had need. It is true, they could not enjoy the food thus offeifed them, neither could they follow her in her wanderings, as chickens would do. * Tho little things lived as do other kit tens, by sucking their real mother puss. They obtained this privilege by the assist ance ot friends, or in tho occasional ab sence ot the hen. When the hen was present, puss could not come nigh her kit kens, for though she was much stronger than the hen, yet she shrunk, as mam ...... ...w vv out. large animals do, from her noisy threats. Occasionally, in the absence of the hen, j puss would come and steal her kittens, and earn- them by the neck to another .i place, to oversee them herself. But very soon the hen would find them, and take possession of them as before. You are doubtless all inquiring hew j this happened. I asked the same question, iand was told that puss had her nest near the hen while she was setting upon her jown eggs. When the cat first left her j kittens alone, the hen hearing their infant j voices, probably supposed them to be her own. She therefore left the nest, with her eggs un hatched, and took possession ol tho nest of kittens. Having first pilied, she next loved them, and continued to watch i'or their welfare. One hundred and eighty-three persons are said to have been struck by lightning in the U. States during the year 1842. Set a x'aluo on the smallest morsels oi knoxvledge. These fragments are tho dust of diamonds.