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Curias Meat.
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physicians as a had article to he used in
curing meat, being extremely injurious to
digestion; it is of so cold a nature that j
only a small quantity is sufficient to de
stroy life. In the article of saleratus, we
have an excellent, convenient and harm
less substitute, and should be used in the
same manner as salt-petre has been.
Meat has a stronger affinity for saltpetre
than for common salt. Saleratus has the
same power in that respect, and tfiereby
prevents the meat from becoming too I
salt; and the same quantity should be
used as of salt petre. There is this dif
ference in them, that the saltpetre dis
solves readily in cold water, whereas sale
ratus does not; it should he pounded and
dissolved before it is put into the brine.
Saleratus is composed of sulphale of pot
ash and pearlnsh ; and if any person is
disposed to proenre the sulphale of pot
ash at the shops and use it instead of!
saleratus, they will find its effects sub
stantially the same.
The usual way of saving hams and I
shoulders, is to cut them as soon as possi- j
ble after the hogs are killed. This
course makes the meat tough and stringy.
In cool weather they should he kept on
hand just as long as they can bo, and not
in any wise tainted. Then rub them
over with sugar or molasses, and let them
lie a day or two. Then put them into
brine in which has been put an ounce of
saleratus dissolved, for each ham or
shoulder; let them lie three or four
weeks in the brine. Smoke them in an
airy smoke house, and they will be found
tender and delicious. C. D.
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Vol. 11l ]
Cub Meal.
Messrs. Editors. —l noticed sometime \
since an article in vour paper--editoria|. I j
think—in which it was urged upon far-:
mers to grind their cobs, as the meal was !
valuable for many purposes on the farm 1
—particularly for poultry, hogs, and |
I stock.
On the strength of this suggestion, I
“ acted,” and can now assure you, so well
| satisfied am I with the result, that my j
I cobs will never, as heretofore, he “use
liessly thrown away.” As I grind rny
| colts with the corn, I cannot speak defi
i nitely as to the value of cob meal when
used in its pure and unmixed state, but I
am satisfied that there is a very impor
i Unit saving attained \>y economizing cobs j
jin the manner you direct. I have, during
| the last three months, fed cor'n and cob j
'meal to my horses, cattle, hogs, and
! calves, and as I have a large slock this i
winter, and have thus far fed them whol
| Iv on the products of my farm, the sa-J
| ving to me, from this simple suggestion,j
I has, I assure you, been of no small value |
as regards the purse. — Maine Cultiva-
I tor.
Feeding Fouds. —“A Subscriber” in-,
quires “which is the best grain for teed
; mg fowls, egiis being the object?”
Fowls require a variety of food. Grain
|of all kinds is good. Wheat screenings,
which can be bail at all mills where wheat
jis ground, constitute a cheap and good
| feed for fowls. Buckwheat, barley, oats,
\ and Indian corn, should also be given oc
casionally. They should also have smi
i inal food. This may he supplied from
the offals of slaughter houses. If they
! are kept confined they should have oc
-ionally some cabbages cut up and given
thorn. Potatoes and turnips will also be
; found useful.
| uVJd3©£iL!LiAii*i[S DUB.
From Hood's Magazine.
How* Jack Marlamt solved a very still'
I’iobleni.
Jack Marland was a happy fellow—at
least any one who saw him seated in his
I comfortable chambers in the Temple in
a vast easy chair, and enveloped with
clouds of smoke proceeding from bis fa
vorite meerschaum, as the hell of St.
Paul’s rang ten, would have said so.—
But Jack was not happy, or rather he
thought he was not happy. Jack had
got into his silly head that, in spite of his
; accomplishments, his cleverness, and his
handsome figure, he, Jack, was a cow
i akd ! and that, if ever his courage should
lie put to the proof, he should be lamen
tably wanting. This was Jack’s “ ombre
moir ;” this was the thought that embit
tered Jack’s existence; and at the time
which we introduced Jack to the no
j lice of our readers, he was in Iris afore
said easy chair, and under the soothing
influence of his aforesaid pipe, assisted
| by a cup of strong Mocha, turning over
in his mind the different methods by
which he thought it likely that he might
he able to solve the knotty question, “ Am
J I a coward ?”
Jack thought and thought, and smoked
and smoked, till lie was half asleep,
without coming to any correct or satis
factory conclusion; the idea had taken
strong possession of his mind and tor
mented him strangely; he, however, de
termined to seize the first oportunity
which might present itself of placing
himself in the way of grappling with
some imminent danger. We shall in
less than ten minutes see that the wished
: for opportunity presented itself, and in
rather a curious manner.
The long vacation arrived ; that time
so wished for, so looked forward to by
' the legal profession; the time during
which, &c.
Jack, like many other denizens of the !
Temple, packed on his traps sent his |
clerk for a cab, stuck a card outside his
door with this inscription, “ Return be
i lore the 2l)lh of October,” “shipped
j himself all aboard of a ship,” then of a !
diligence, and in due course of time
Found himself in Paris. One half day
was sufficient to enable him to find a good
suite of rooms; and now behold Jack
fully launched in all the gaiety, not to
say dissipation, of the metropolis of the
French. Jack, we should before have
mentioned, was a very good siiot with the
pistol, yet lie had never been guilty of
that height of folly, a duel; and, indeed,
had often been heard to say that he never
would. He, however, frequented many
of the pistol practicing galleries which
AUGUSTA, GA. JANUARY 11, 1845.
abound in Paris; ajid, amongst others, i
he had honored with his presence the j
j tir au pistol et of M. Lepage, where, ofh
course, he very soon became known as!:
j“ Ce monsieur Anglais, qui tire aussi bien ■
quun Francois.”
One tlav Jack, on to the zrr.llcrv .
of M. Lepage with one of his friends, 1
found it occupied by a young man well :
known as one of the best shots in Paris;
and most assuredly ho was a good shot.
He performed all t!i£fc:iis which tradi- !
lion assigns to the Chevalier St. George;
he each time hit the bull’s-eye of the tar- i
j get at the usual distance, snuffed the can- i
j die with the hall, split a bullet against;
| the edge of a knife, and drove a nail in- !
; to the wall by striking the head exactly j
;in the centre with his ball; and, in short, j
; by a thousand feats of his nature, proved i
himself worthy the name of a first rate i
shot, Ilis amour provre was roused by |
the presence of Jack, whom the alien-1
dant, in presenting him with the pistol,
had quietly said, was almost as good a
. shot as himself; but at each shot, instead
of receiving from Jack the tribute of
praise he deserved, he heard Jack, in re
! ply to the exclamation of astonishment
which proceeded from all in the gallery,
jsay; T
“No doubt it is a very good shot; but j
the result would be very different, I’ve a i
notion, if he had a live man for his tar
get*;.
This incessant calling in question ol
his powers as n duelist, (lor Jack had re
peated his observation three times.) at
first astonished the “ tirevr” and ended j
by annoying him; and, at length, turn- i
ing round to Jack, and looking at him
with an air half jesting, half threalning,
he said :
“Forgive me, Mr. Englishman, but it
appears to me that three times you have
1 1 made an observation disparaging to my
courage; and you will he kind enough
S to give me some explanation of the mea
-1 ning of your words?”
“My words,” answered our friend, j
1 “do not, I think, require any cxplana-1
tion; they are plain enough in my opin
ion.”
“Perhaps, then, sir, you will he good
i enough to repeat them, in order that 1
may judge of the meaning which they
will hear, arid the object with which they
have been spoken,” was the reply of the
■ Frenchman.
*• I said,” answered Jack, with the most
perfect sangfroid, ‘ when I saw you hit
I the bull’s eye at each shot, that neither
your hand nor your eye would be so
I steady if your pistol were pointed against
j the breast of a man instead of a wooden
i partition.”
I I “ And why, may I ask ?”
“ Because,” answered Jack, “ it seems
: to me that at the moment of pulling the
trigger, and firing at a man, the mind
would he seized with a kind of emotion
! likely to unsteady the hand, and, conse
quently, the aim.”
“You have fought many duels?” ask
ed the Frenchman.
“ Not one,” said Jack.
“Ah!” rejoined the other, with a
j.sneer, “then l am not surprised that you
suppose the possibility of a man being
afraid under such circumstances.”
“ Forgive me,” said Jack, “you mis
understand me. J fancy that at the mo
ment when one man is about to kill ano
ther, he may tremble from soma other
emotion than that of fear.”
“ Sir! 1 never tremble,” said the shot.
“Possibly,” replied Jack with the
same composure ; “still I arn not ai all
convinced that, at twenty.five paces,
that is, at the distance at which you hit
the hull’s eye each time—”
“Well! at twenty-live paces,” inter
rupted (he other.
“ You would iniss your man,” was the
cool reply.
“Sir, I assure you I should not,” an
! swered the Frenchman.
“Forgive me if I doubt your word,”
said Jack.
“You mean, then, to give me the lie?”
“ I merely assert the fact,” replied our i
friend.
“ A fact, however, which I think you i
would scarcely like to establish,” said ■
the tireur. ;
“ Why not?” said Jack, looking steady
at his antagonist.
“ By proxy, perhaps?” I
“By proxy, or in my own person, I :
care not which,” said Jack.
“I warn you, you would be somewhat .
rash.” I
“Not at all,” said Jack, “for I merely I
say what I think ? and consequently, my t
■■ ■' ■ —, . -m.
conviction is that I should risk but little.” !
“Let us understand each other,” said
the Frenchman ; “yon repeat to me a
second time, that at twenty-five paces I
should miss my man.”
“\ou are mistaken, monsieur,” said
Jack, “ it appears to me that this is the
j fifth time that I have said it.”
“ Parbleu !” said the Frenchman, now
thoroughly exasperated ; this is too much j
you want to insult me.”
“Think as you like, monsieur,” said
Jack.
“ Good !” said the other, “ your hour,
sir ?”
“ Why not now?” said Jack.
“The place?” said the other.
“ We are but five steps from the Bois
|de Bologne,” replied Jack.
“ Your arms, sir ?”
“ The pistol, of course,” was Jack’s ,
! answer; “we are not about to fight a
| duel, but to decide a point upon which
I we are at issue.”
The two young men entered the cabri
olets, each accompanied bv a friend, and
drove towards the Bois de Bologne. Ar
rived at the appointed place, the sec
onds wished to arrange the matter. —
I This, however, was very difficult; Jack’s
adversary required an apology, whilst
Jack maintained that he owed him none,
i unless he himself was either killed or
wounded ; for unless this happened he
(Jack) would not have been proved
wrong. The seconds spent a quarter of
an hour in the attempt to effect a recon
i cilialion, but in vain. They then wish
led to place the antagonists at thirty pn
jces from each other; to this Jack w add
j not consent, observing that the point in
question could not be correctly decided
if any difference were made between the
distance now to be fixed and the distance
at which his antagonist had hit the hull’s
eye in tiie gallery. It was then propo
sed that a louis should he thrown up, in
order to decide who should shoot first;
this Jack declared was totally unneces.
jsary—thnt the right to the first shot nat
urally belonged to his adveisary; and
i although tho Frenchman was anxious
that Jack should take advantage of this
one chance, he was firm and carried his
point. The “gurcon” of the shooting
gallery had followed, and was ready to
charge the pistols, which he did with the
same measure, the same kind of powder,
and the same kind of balls ns those used
by the Frenchman in the gallery a short
time before. The pistols, too, were the
same ; this condition alone had Jack im
posed—a sine qua non. The antagonists,
placed at twenty paces from each other,
received each his pistol; and the seconds
retired a few paces in order to leave the
combatants free to fire one afier another,
according to the stipulated arrangement.
Jack took none of the precautions usu
al with duellists; he attempted not to
shield any part of his body, by position
or other means; but allowed iiis arms to
bang clown by his side, and presented his
full front to his enemy, who scarcely
knew what to make of this extraordinary
conduct. He had fought several duels,
but it had never been his lot to see such
sangfroid in any one of his antagonists;
he felt as if bewildered; and Jack’s the
ory occurring to his inind, tended bui
little to reassure him; in short, this cele
brated siiot, who never missed either his
man or the bull’s eye of the target, be
gan to doubt his own powers Twice he
raised his pistol, and twice he lowered it
again. This was, of course, contrary to
ail the laws of duelling; but each time
Jack contented himself with saying:
“Take time,' monsieur! Take time!”
A third time he raised his arm, and, feel
ing ashamed of himself, fired. It was a
moment of most painful anxiety to the
seconds; but they were soon relieved for
Jack, the instant after the pistol had fired,
turned to the right and to the left, and
made a low bow to the two friends, to
show them he was not wounded, and
then said coolly to his antagonist: “ You
see, sir, I was right!”
“You were,” answered the French
man; “and now fire in your turn.”
“Not I,” said Jack, picking up his hat,
and handing the pistol to the garcon ;
“ what good would it do me to shoot at
you ?”
“But sir,” said his adversary, “you
have the right, and I cannot permit it to
be otherwise; besides, I am anxious to i
see how you shoot.” 1
“Let us understand each other,” said
Jack, “ I never said that I could hit you;
I said that you would not hit me; you <
have npt hit me; I was right; and now
there is an end to the matter.” And, in |
[No. 26
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WASHINGTO-XIAN
TOTAL ABSTINENCE PLEBGE.
|
J We, whose names are hereunto an
nexed, desirous of forming a Society for
our mutual benefit, ami to guard against
a pernicious practice, which is injurious
!to our health, standing and families, do
pledge ourselves as Genti-emen, not to
drink any Spirituous or Malt l.iquors,
Wine or Cider.
j spite of all the remonstrances and en-
I treaties of the Frenchman, Jack mount
ed his cab, and drove off, repeating to
his friend, “ I told you there was a mighty
' difference between firing at a doll and
firing at a man 1 ” Jack’s mind was at
ease; he had solved the problem, and
found that lie was not a coward.
** ashiiigtoii.
America has furnished to the world
the character of Washington! And if
our American institutions had done no
thing else, that alone would have entitled
them to the respect of mankind. /
Washington! “First in war. first in
; peace, and first in the hearts of his conn-
Itrymen!” W ashington is all our own !
1 he enthusiastic veneration and regard
in which the people of the United States
I hold him, prove them to be worthv of
; such a countryman; while his reputation
abroad reflects the highest honor on his
country and its institutions. I woidd
cheerfully put the question to-day to the
intelligence of Europe and the world,
w hat character of the century, upon the
whole, stands out in the relief of history,
most pure, most respectable, most sub
lime ; and I doubt not, that bv a suffrage
approaching to unanimity, the answer
would be—Washington.
This structure, by its uprightness, its
solidity, its durability, is no unfit emblem
of his character. His public virtues and
public principles were ns firm as the
earth on which it stands; his personal
motives as pure as the scVene heaven in
which his summit is lost. But indeed?
though a fit it is an inadequate emblem.
Towering high above the column which
our hands have huilded, beheld, not by
the inhabitants of a single city or a sin
gle State —ascends the collossal grandeur
of his character and his life. In all the
constituents of the one—in all the acts of
the other—in all its titles to immortal
love, admiration and renown —it is an
American production. It is the embo
dvment and vindication of our trans-At
iantic liberty. Born upon our soil—of
parents also horn upon it—never for a
moment having had a sight of the old
world—instructed, according to the modes
of his time, only in the spare, plain, hut
vvhnlrsome elementary knowledge which
our institutions provide for the children
of (he people—growing up beneath and
penetrated by the genuine influences of
American society—growing up amidst
our expanding, but not luxurious civiliza
tion—partaking in our great destiny of
labor, our long contest with unreclaimed
nature and uncivilized man—our agony
of glory, the war of independence—our
great victory of peace, the formation of
the Union and the establishment of the
Constitution—he is all—all our own!
That crowded and glorious life——
“ Where multiludes of virtues passed along,
Each pressing foremost, in the mighty throng
Contending to tie seen, then making room
For greater multitudes that weretocoine; —”
that life was the life of an American
citizen.
I claim him for America. In all the
perils, in every darkened moment of the
State, in the midst of the reproaches of
enemies and the misgiving of friends—l
turn to the transcendant name for cour
age, and for consolation. To him who
denies, or doubts whether our served lib
erty can be combined with law, with
order, and the security of property, with
the pursuits and advancement of happi
ness—to him who denies that our institu
tions are capable of producing exaltation
of soul and the passion of true glorv—to
him w ho denies that we have contributed
anything to the stock of great lessons and
great examples—to all these I reply
by pointing to Washington !— Webster's
Bunker Hill Address.
Beautiful is the love of a sister, the kiss
that hath no guile or passion ; the touch
is purity, and bringeth peace and satis
faction to the heart. Beautiful is the
love of a sister; it is of heaven, and sheds
its peace upon the earth.
Drop Cakes. —One quart of milk, a
large tea spoonful of salseratus, dissolved
in a cup of cream ; to which stir in flour
very smoothly until a thick batter is form
ed. Then dip your spoon in rnilk, and
with it place your batter at short dis
tances in a buttered pan. Very delicate
made entirely of cream, either with or
without eggs.
Butter is improved hy working the se
cond time after the laps of 24 hours,
when the salt is dissolved, and the watery
particles can be entirely removed.