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TUESDAY.
COLUHBUS:
FEBRUARY 3, 1871.
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tion of 0,000 sheets, to be distributed to
farmers and otiiars through tho Granges
and post offices. Otir mordiantn should
avail themselves of this opportunity to
lay their spring business before tho poo-
plo. Call with your cards.
The Democrats of Philadelphia have
reconsidered their first resolution to mako
a party nomination for Mayor, and have
determined to unite with tho Reformers,
They tirst noiuiuuted Oapl. James S. Bid
dle, uu a Democrat, but he declined, ad
vising against u party nomination. Tho
Domouratio city convention then ro te
solved, by a vole of 4H to 1«, to recoin*
mend to tho people of PhiJadelpbiu, with
out distinction of party, the support of
lion. A. K. McClure, uud Mr. McCluro
accepted a uomiuution thus tandered. lie
is a prominent und able Reformer, and
lias Hie support of papers of both politi
cal parties, the Press among thorn.
Tilt; Ptl'ITSVIMiR NT AX DA It l>.
This journal is being published at TottR-
vilJo, an ontorprising city in the licurt of
tho coal regions of Reqphyivuuia—a place
but little known by the majority of poo-
plo South. Yet, taking tho Standard at
an ovidonco of its prosperity, it must bo
one of tho most progressive places in the
(Juiou, for the journal referred to would
reflect credit ou aoyicit^j in t|ia # Uuiou
Mr. Audubon ^liu Odder, is ono of
the youngest ami ubl»4,t-jonriiHlists in the
country, lie was recently at the head of
Forney's J'ress, where he mode an envi
able reputation by his boldness and vigor
ous stylo. Tho Standard is u fearless,
independent organ, and dismisses the
issues of tho day from no narrow, part
sun stand-point. As such wo welcome it
to the field of logitiniato journalism, and
wish it the success it most assuredly do
serves.
HOME MAXtr.UTT HI XU.
It is always a pleasure for us to chroni-
clo Southern enterprise,particularly whore
it takes tho direction of ninnufacturo.
We have, and shall continue to advocate
tho eucouragemont of Southern manufac
tured products,for every cent spent b> our
people for them touds to keep money at
home, and this is the grunt object. The
is nothing uoodod that wo cunuot mako iu
the South, aud nothing, coffoo and some
mcdiciuoH excepted, that weeauuot grow,
nnd so whenever nu enterprise is started
that ill any way tends to develop our
sources, wo should encourage it to tho ox-
tout of our monoy and wants. Those
thoughts are called out by seeing at tho
olfioo of Ellis A Harrison, of this city, a
splendid stock of soap, made by tho Uoor
gin Soap Company, of Atlanta. This
company produces articles for scrubbing,
washing and toilet purposes as good, iu-
doed hotter than any wo know of in tho
Republic, and wo give them this space
without compensation, iu ordor to help au
enterprise that every citizen should foster
A FlXftiU I'll H I..
It is decided. As wo said seven months
ago, the price of a man’s life in Alabama
is fixed at five thousand dollars. It may
bo valued for loss, but five thousand dol
lars is tho limit. Thoro have boon nino
cold-blooded mtiTdcrs in tho four countic
adjoining Russell iu tho lust eight months
aud thoro is only ono of those murderers
iu jail. Wo could oxpoot nothiug better
iu tho district presided over by that weak
ost, laziest aud most iucuiuputeut judgi
that ever cursed a court or perverted jus
tico by his weakness. We have boon iu.
vostigating his ©use, and we propose to
say iu subsequent issues what we know
about Judge dtruuge. Wbeu this man is
so thoroughly iuooiupoteut it is uot to ho
wondered at if we find tho subordinate
judges ns ignorant of law ns a hog is ol
the sennetity of tho Sabbath. Rust wool
Judge Appleby, of Russoll was called ou
to preside iu the preliminary hearing of
a cold-blooded, murder. Applul
is particularly distinguished for the
versatility of his politics, his ignoranoo
of law and everything else, and his im
pudout self-presumption. This Judge
hoard the case and it was this :
A man by the name of Kilim 1 kcops i
store at Crawford, Russell county, and
ouo day last week a young man name
Davis, a rather hot-headed person, callo
ou Eilaud to arrange some business (pies
tion. The matter seemed adjusted aud
Davis was about walking out, when 1
stopped and aako 1 to buy a plug of toba
co. Eilaud told him that he v Davis') had
an unsettled bill lor two dollars and a half
aud ho wanted bitu to pay it. Davis
torted sharply that he had uovor he
dunned for so small nu amount, aud
the hot controversy that followed tho lie
was freely exchanged. Davis invited Ei
laud out of tho store to fight, and shortly
afterwards Davis again came to the front
of tho store and repeated his belligerent
invitation, saying, ‘T am uot armed, aud
will fight you like a man.” Eiland rau
out of his store aud rushing at Davis he
stabbed him in the breast with a dirk
knife. “My God, are you going to kill
mo : I have no arms,” cried the wounded
Davis. With a fearful oath Eiland again
plunged the reeking blade iuto the bleed
ing man’s body,and his fiendish blows wore
repeated till, covered with frightful gashes,
Davis fell dying to tho earth. The only
witness was a negro, aud tho above in ef
fect is the evidence as reported to us by
uuumber of geutlomeu w ho hoard it —all
of which we propose publishing.
Appleby presided at tho preliminary
beariug. and Eiland, ou whose bauds tho
blood of Davis had not jet dried, was ul-
ljwed freedom on five thousand dollars
bail. This is the story; and it adds another
to the long list of murders that we have
boon called on to chroniole iu tho past eight
months, and thoro is only one man in jail
for the crime. The others aro freo as the
air, nnd the heroes of the pistoled bulliea
who long since have ceased to respect
tbnt most sacred gift of God—a human
being's life.
In California some yoars ago life was
insecure, and men wore shot down by
bullies without pretext. The laws were
too weakly administered to give justice.
So tho men in San Francisco aud through
out tho State organized, and in one week
they hung to tho lamp-posts of the cities
aud tho trees of the valleys the murderers
and weak and criminal judges, and since
that wholesome lesson California has been
tho most law-abiding State in tho Union.
Wo do not advise our people to resort to
mob law, tLough tho temptation be terri
ble, but wo cannot counsel peace where
red-handed murder, unchecked, stalks
through tho land. Men come to us, and
agreeing thut all this is wrong, bog us to
treat tho matter in a general way, and not
to he personal, or “go off half-cocked,"
as they elegantly phrase it. There is too
much treating crime in a general way ;
tho judges aud janes do that, to the por-
version of law and justice. Would that
wo could shout in tho curs of thoso who
have growu so familiar with the monthly
record of blood, “It is tho fault of the
citizens ! This murdering is cursing the
South, and tho small per-centago of mur
derers, in tho oyos of tho world, give
character to our pooplo, aud keep away
law-abiding men, who otherwise would
come to eurioh nnd devolopo our land !"
Sleep quietly, aud try to cover the
crimiuul with tho murderer s cant of “self-
defense.” Close your ears to the familiar
story of blood, forget tho murdered man
aud his dependents, aud thiuk of all the
murderer’s past goodness, to give a pre
text for his crime, and so pervert justice.
It is the old story, there is only tho shadow
of law. Kill a man, and you aro a hero.
Steal a mule, and the pooplo are ready to
lynch you.
l’oor Alabama; famine is preying oh
her cotton farms. A cursed system of
politics is cuting into her once generous
heart, as tho vultures devoured tho bound
Prometheus, and murder applauded is
desolating her hotnos ; and this will be
till the people rise us jurors and voters,
and hurl from thoir places such incompe
tents as this plethoric Strange, and such
farces aud adventurers as this insignifi
cant and nncouseieutiouH Appleby.
tiie ukaxui: u»:i:ti.\u a
NEALE, ALA.,
I’rWay, Jan. 30tli.
Tho Convention assembled at 1(H
o’clock. It is estimated that five hun
dred people were iu attondaune. Eleven
Granges wore represented by thoir mas-
tors and delegates :
“Gordou Grange," W. J. Howard,
Master.
Glonnville Grange, A. C. Mitchell,
Master.
Saudfurt Grange, John Chadwick, Mas-
tor.
Crawford Grange, Brinson, Mas
ter.
llurtvillo Grange, J. U. Bunks, Master.
UchuoGruugo, S.JS. Scott, Master.
Uatehoohubboo Grange, A. S. Glenn,
Master.
Jeruigau Grunge, Wm. Gatewood,
M Aster.
Ingram Graugo, John Buehaunnu,
Mastor.
Oswichoo Grango, , Master.
Boykin Grange, Boykin Jones, Master.
Kudins saug u song of welcome.
Masters of tho subordinate Granges
wore requeutod to take seats on the stage.
Col. Chauibors thou spoko twonty-fivo
minutes.
Walter 8. Gordou, Deputy for Third
Congressional District, was thou intro*
ducud by IIou. W. li. Chambers. Spoko
sonio thirty minutes.
Col. A. li. Calhoun was then intro
duced.
A groat many ladies woro present.
Among tho number and mombors of tho
Older, were Misses Miunio LowiB, Julin
Arnold, Mittio O’Neal, Bottle Alexander,
Mary Gordou, Lucie Keyos, Mary
Keyes, Lucia Keyes, Fannie Williams,
Kate Jones, Kiuiua Williams, Mol-
lio Wilkersou, Mollio Jones, Bailie Evans,
Rou Perry, Ida Henry, Sallio Quarles,
Fannie Hudson, Ida Stewart and lots of
others. Among tho married ladies were
Mrs. A. C. Mitchell, Flora of Stato
Grange, Mrs. Thos. Howard, Mrs. Walter
Anderson, Mrs. Ebcrhart, Mrs. Thos.
Paschal, Mrs. Dr. Pasclml, Mrs. lvonedy,
Mrs. J. H. Gordon, Mrs. Waddell, Mrs.
Ragland, Mrs. Norwood, Mrs. Dr. Wil
burns, Mrs. Thos. Hardwick, Mrs. Pitts,
Mrs. Bellamy,
Tho feast was spread on throe tables—
two ou tho lower lloor and ono in the
upper.
At o’clock tho Granges assembled to
organize tho council. The session was
exceedingly harmonious. Much business
of a secrot nature was transacted. After
which tho council elected officers for the
ensuing year : W. C. Clift ou was elect
ed President on the third ballot; A. S.
Glenn was unanimously elected Vice-
President, and Mr. Bass, of Glennville,
Secretary, aud Mr. Gatekoopor.
We have received two communications
furnishing sketches of the speeches,
which wo subjoin :
Mr. Martin :—It was our pleasure to
be present at tho mooting of tho Russell
county Granges, assembled at Seale, iu
convention on yosterday. Ool. W. H.
Chambers led off in a moat splendid
speech, in which he was pleased to recite,
in his usual forcible manner, the object
of tho Granges. Ho said ho wanted all to
realize tho virtues of the lodge aud its sa-
crod behests : that as a Society it had for
its objects tho handiwork of charity, the
interchanging of good fraternal feeliug
among all classes aud sections, making
hoine*what it should be—a haven of rest
for the honost, brave, toiling masses who
follow the honorable vocation of agricul
ture. The object of the meeting to day,
said ho, was to orgauizo a C rnucil to per-
feet the machinery of tho 6amo, so as to
reform the abuses of agriculture iu tho
South. What had become of tho money
realized in the past eight years from tho
South’s 23,000,000 bales of cotton, aggre
gating $2,200,000,000? It bad gone to
enrich the world and left tho South in
poverty.
Too much had been writton how to add
to the cultivation of cotton, and too little
said by scientific agriculturists as to how
best to increase tho yield of breadstuff's.
Too mauy worthless acres were allowed to
be tilled, wbeu economy demanded con
traction. Too mauy men lay around
cities and trusted their farms in tho bauds
of worthless agents. He considered tho
track of tho landholder, made in his daily
rounds, a most excellent fertilizer. lie
wanted everything reduced to a cash basis;
did not believe in Massachusetts sand as
a fertilizer, when manipulated by tho hand
of genuine nutmeg Yankees; wanted fre
quent mootings of the Grangers, nnd an
interchanging of scientific agricultural
ideas. As to politics, though tho order
was ‘ antagonistic to an introduction of
such matters, yet ho thought it would re
form the political abuses of party dis
cipline and correct some puritanical
misgivings, such as “Credit Mo-
bilior," salary grabbing Ac., &o.;
thought tho Grangers (iu foreigu par
lance) would bo tho balance of powor, and
they ought to use it to teach all
political parties that there was uot a
'higher law outside of tho constitution.”
The Colonel’s speech was recited with
marked ability, aud wo think tho subordi
nate Grnngos should be proud of Col. C.
for his efficiency and ability. Ho loavos
in a few days to attend tho Nutionnl
Grange, which will convene in St. Louis,
Mo., on the 10th of February.
Major W. S. Gordon, Deputy, followed
Col. C. in a happy speech of thirty min
utes, replete with mirth and sentiment,
lie possesses tine oratorical powers,and is
destined, at no distuut day, to become
one of our bust orators. lie possesses a
most splendid voice, peculiarly adapted
to tho audience—euphonies and brilliant.
Ho has labored assiduously for tho causo,
and alroady a goodly number of lodges
have been orgauized by him throughout
this district. At the conclusion of his
speech a shower of boqnets full at his
foot, and deservedly they were bestowed.
Buccoss attend him.
OOL. ALFRED R. CALHOUN,
ATS* ADDRESS
TO THE I'.VTtOMt OF II1/111,1 XOKY
Delivered at Opelika and Seale, Alu,,
My A. K. CALHOUN.
[Published by request of the Patrons of Hus
bandry.]
Patrons of Husbandry, Ladies and
Gentlemen—As au editor! have often felt
it to bo my duty to write on agricultural
mutters, uud i huvo frequently been
amused by the laughable comniunts of
some old farmer, wuo, iguoiing my ad
vice, wished to know “Whut I knew about
farming,” as if ho desired to contrast me
in this respect with Horace Greeley.
Now, if I wrote about fashions and the
proper way to dress, I must acknowledge
I would be wofully in tho dark—for a man
who is clean is to me always well dressed ;
aud if I wrote about the cure of infunts,
I would do it very blindly, for I must ac
knowledge to a complete ignorance of
even the first principles of nursing.
There are certain things that occupy much
of our thoughts and take much of our
money ubout w hich the very brightest of us
know but little, and there are certain other
thiugs about which we know a great deal,
but about wliioh we think but little origi
nally, preferring to follow iu tho paths
which a hundred generations have beuteti
out for us. Ono of those things is
farming. I have always thought that a
f-euso of farming was au iunato idea, for
from tho days ol Adam to tho present, I
question if tbero ever lived a man of cul
ture and intelligence—no matter what his
calling might be—who did not think in
his inmost soul that lieuvon gavo him pe
culiar qualifications for running a farm to
advantage, and that, above all things, ho
was eminently qualified to givo farmers
advice. One thiug is certain—tho major
ity of mankind wear rnoro vegetable than
they do unimal cloth, aud they eut more
vegetable than they do animal food ; and,
ns our principal aim is food nnd clothing,
I take it, it is natural that the majority ol
mankind should have more knowledge
about tho culture and products of the soil
than any other. Now, tho majority of
mankind aro bora iu the country, and iu
moments of grutitude to tho Great Futher,
I thank Him I am one of that number.
From my earliest memory to tho present,
I have been deeply interested in tho
subject of agriculture; uot that I
over purposed, or thut my educa
tors over intended, I should follow
it for a living, but h iving traveled over
much of the world, aud my childhood’s
training and subsequent education having
given mo a knowledge of practical and
theoretical agriculture, I huve tried to
add to that store of knowledge by my
own experience, aud I propose in what I
say to givo you my conclusions very can
didly. Tho majority of merchants and
r . nii lawyers, who look forward to retiring iu
tho legitimate father of two Columbus the f r ol J, #({0 to u fariu for eRse wh6n f h()) ,
sou9 (Suns), was selected to bring up the
roar, which ho did with his usual accred
ited ability. His language nt times was
boRutiful and sublime. Ilis delineation
of Southern character was truo to the
letter, and uttered in his usual open and
frank manner. Ho says, however poor
the land mny bo, thoro is ono thing pecu
liar : it novor fails to bring ono successful
crop—that in, a crop of “marlgages.”
We trust his home thrusts may bo of
advantage to this class of our citizens,
though we hope tho crop may grow beau
tifully less.
Colonel Calhouu mot a host of warm
friends, who made him the “lion of tho
day." We hoard mauy express tho desire
to meet him ofton. Such unions certain
ly aro productive of good, and wo trust
the Granges may provo a sourco of plea
sure as well os profit.
Aftor Col. Colhjuu’s spooch a beautiful
bequot was thrown him by one of Russell's
fairest daughters. We wot ho grew five
inchoB taller during tho night. Such cour
tesies shown an editor are peculiarly odi-
fyiug to him, and already he sings—hoar
him—
“May 1 constrno that flow
Au emblem, low, ol thin
While tlio thoiuo that glo*
,a beneath itspo
Ho much rosetnblui
Dinner was announced after Ool. Cul-
houu's speech, and ull partook of a most
sumptuous feast. Thoro was elegant music,
aftor which Col. Chauibors proceeded to or
ganize the Council,and Mnj. Gordon a now
Grange. As we were not a Granger “he-
yant the Feest," wo woro not admitted.
The whole affair was ono long to l»o ro-
inemberod, nnd we hope all wore satisfied
and profited by their visit to Seale.
Marcus.
IIatcueouuduee, January 30th.
Mr. Marlin: No doubt your roportors
havo given you full nnd detailed accounts
of the great gala day at Seale, on Friday
IH)th January. No doubt you are aware
of tho largo attendance on tho occasion;
of tho lino speeches made, and of tho
magnificent feast furnished by tho Pat
rons. Of oourso you will havo no kesi-
taucy in doing full justice to the able
speeches of lion. W. 11. Chambers and
W. S. Gordon, but ns Col. A. R. Calhoun
is connected with your paper, wo fear a
fooling of modesty will prevent you pay
ing him tho compliment his masterly
speech so richly merits. Thoroforo wo
leave tho task with you to describe the
“big day,” but for tho reason above
stated, we especially desire that you ul-
low us, through tho columns of your pa
per, to thank Col. Calhoun for
tho groat pleasure he givo us.—
Calhouu is indeed emphatically a man
of brain.
It was reasonable to suppose that, after
tho speeches of Col. Chambers ami Air.
Gordon, the subject was pretty well ex
hausted. But, like the grand old states
man of South Caroliua, whose name Al
fred R. has uot dishonored, no subject,
however much dissected, fails to yield
interest when probed by his magic toeguo.
Wo say it with all sincerity and candor—
for we can only deal in that way when
uro unfit for hard aud useful toil iu their
own vocations, imagine they can run a
farm instinctively and live nu easy poeti
cal kind of life. Even old sailors, tired
of the uceau, dream about spending thoir
declining days on u farm, when the truth
is there is no calling that requires more
labor ot' mind and body tkau that of suc
cessful agriculture. Now I desire here,
soleuiuly to protest that 1 never iutuud
retiring to a farm when I get tired of
newspaper work, for, to tell iho truth, 1
havo no sympathy with men who retiie
from tho work of thoir lives, and I hope
so long as God gives me strength to wear
the armor of my calliug, and to fight in
it the battle of life to tho death. No
man is happy who does not work, and his
happiness depends on his familiarity with,
and success in his calling, and the world
over, men and nations are successful who
work patiently aud intelligently.
You will say at once to this, aud you
muy frown at my presumption, “Then
the Southern States nnd the Southern poo
plo arc neither putient nor intelligent, for
they arc c« rlainly not growing richer!" 1
do uot say this, but I will repeat your con
clusion, “the Southern farmers nre not
growing richer;" they uro yearly growing
poorer, and it behooves us ns sensible
men to look tho causo squarely in
tho face aud suy why it is so. Just here,
a hundred men will bo roady to say the
real cause of our trouble is tho late war,
which, after having destroyed the flower
of our youth, ruined much of our proper
ty aud completely changed the old system
of labor to which wo aud our fathers woro
educated. I grant you this is truo ; but,
my friends, the war only hastoned the
ruin towards which the South was speed
ing, for her old system of agriculture
tended to impoverish the laud, and Was
only limited iu time by the number of in
closed ncros, and lior system of labor was
a greater curse to the whites than it was
to the blacks, for it tended to degrade
what God hud crowned with tho sweaty
diadom of glory, thut is the dignity of la
bor.
I abhor partisan politics, for they are
tho tools of office hunters, who live
by antagonising the people. I havo no
particle of respect for the haters of sec
tions, for in this laud we speak the same
language, aud somehow I never huve soeu
much difference in individual pluck,
though I will concede that never iu the
history of the world did mou work harder,
or with a more sublime faith, than did tho
private soldiers of tho late Confederacy
for the success of their land. Without
pay, ragged and starviug, the lines of their
march were more extended than those of
Alexander, aud the tields of thoir daring
were more glorious than those that laid
tho world at tho feet of imperial Rome.
Knowing this, I have often said to myself,
“If tho Southern soldiers worked one-
tenth as hard for themselves as they did
for the Confederacy, the sun iu his twen
ty-four houis course would not shine on
a land more glorious or successful.
To say tho brave survivors of tho war
did not work on their return homo would
bo a slander, for the best soldiers are to
day our most industrious and law-abiding
eitizeus, aud it would bo equally unjust
to say our planters, as a rulo, are lacking
iu euorgy, for it is notorious that they do
rnoro work for less compensation than
any agriculturists iu the world, and per
haps m food and rnodo of living they
have as few of tho comforts us auy class
of farmers, aud knowing this we should
diligently seek tho causo of their yearly
increasing poverty, and tho blight that
seems to hang over the cotton States par
ticularly. Since the war the cotton crop
has not decreased, while tho expense of
hired labor seems to have boon compen
sated for by the higher price which cot
ton has commanded. Never in any eight
years of cotton eultnro iu the South has
rnoro money been paid to tho produc
speaking of him—that Colonel Calhoun's 1 of cotton thau iu tho time named, and
never in tho history of this country have
values in realty declined more rapidly or
mortgages and liens been so resorted to
by our planters to hold their heads over
water. Iu eight yoars the effects of the
war should have disappeared to a great
extent, and our increase in wealth have
been manifest over sixty-tiv.’ : but sad to
J tell the country has been steudily growing
niers of Russoll. Socially, Col. Calhoun j poorer, and farming degenerating from a
iin* won hosts of friends among us, and nolj ' 6 profession into a game of chance.
speech was humorous, elegant, touching
nnd pathetic to the last degree. He un
derstands exactly how to address himself
to the occasion. He really seemed nnd
talked like ono of us, aud his frauk nnd
candid manner of speech will not soon
bo forgotten by the good old honest fnr-
The ladies desired to attest their appro- { cotton is raised that is uot peculiarly fit-
ciatiou of him socially, by sending to ^ or 8 row ^ corn, roots nnd
Mrs. Calhouu n basket of the choicest ^T ul *. n '’°vo any like area I know of. It
. . _ , . . , should be tho land of milk and honey,
fruits, cakes aud daiuties of tho feast, and By its rivers grow the fig, grape, peach,
much disappointment was Lit when they orange aud pomegrauite; and ou its hills
learned that he had gono home through tli0 a PP le » P ear » apricot, plum and cherry.
tho country, iu a buggy, before tho I P’? ““ d on , U ’ wheat, with
,, | horticultural products of endlosa variety,
seem to lmve fouud iu this regiou their
proper home. By tho slopos of the
Council adjourned.
Patrons.
mountains and in the valleys sheep, cat
tle, hogs and horses can bo raised profita
bly and in abundance. While spring and
river, refreshing vaius aud a genial sun
nourish alike the finest timbers of com
merce, and deck tho land from nature’s
hand with piyriads of fiowers that load
the air with tnoir delicious odor, or please
the eye with their ever-changing glories.
Hero, suioly, man should attain his great
est physical excellence ; here, surely, the
gaunt hand of Want should uever be seen.
But Waul has come, und in many of the
most favored parts of this heaven-blessed
land lean famine is to-day entering the ,
houses of the farmer?, and asking for the
tribute ol dcuth. Is not this tme ? Why,
iu this land, where the generous earth
never refused to ruspoud wbeu appealed
to for bread, there is net enough home
made food to day to supply tho local de
mand for three months ; and in many
cases there is neither money nor credit to
procure it, for there is a limit to liens,
and land only bears one good crop of
mortgages. Why is this ? A stranger
hearing of it would say, “There has been
a famine! the crops have failed!" Or
another might Bay, “Dread storms havo
ruined tho crops, or a pestilence has cut
off the lubor necessary to raise them."
But you, my friends, know both answers
would be wrong. Food has grown wher
ever it was planted. No general storm or
sweeping pestilence has come to us, and
even iu our great staplo that Providence,
so oltcu tempted, has continued His
goodness, for the cotton crop of tho year
just closed will bo up to tho average of
years called good. What, then, is tho
cause of the poverty of which wo have
heard so much ? Mauy men say the cause
is tho difference between fourteen and
sixteen cents for cotton, and you hoar on
every hand, “We would have good times
if cotton were selling for sixteen cents."
No doubt men who talk iu this way be
lieve whut they say ; but sixteen cents or
twenty cents for cotton this fall, would
only have postponed the impending dis
aster—strengthened for a moment tho
thread thr.t holds the Dutnoclouu sword
above tho impoverished breast of the
South.
Ye men who, under the impulse of pat
riotism, iiskod your lives for your coun
try or mid your loved ones heroic sacri
fice on livr altars, do ye know that it is ye
ami no: war, or unjust legislation that has
crushed and impoverished the laud ye
would die to defend! If there bo a man
within the boating of my voice, who owns
and works land, and to-day feels the baud
of poverty upon him, let him follow me
and I will show him the cause of his dis
tress, and if ho asks me for the author of
his calamities, 1 will point to his heart
and say “Thou art the man.” Lot him
leave this assembly with me, aud I will go
iu his own vohicle with him; it will be a
battered and uninviting one, it will bo
drawn by mules or horses so ill geared
and poor that you will be astounded to
learn they are mortgaged like the land
through which they drag a shovel-nosed
plow. Go with us as this man lends,
over poorly made roads, by farms, some
good, but tho majority delapidated, and
at last ho will bring up before a house,
without a particlo of ornament or attrac-
tivencss about it, and so large that his
family lives only in one half of it, and the
balance looks us if it were haunted by tho
departed spirits of good intentions. A
score of hungry curs will greet you as you
dismount, when hogs would pay a thou
sand times as well. Chips, played-out
tools, und a few ragged-tailod chickens
take the place iu the front yurd where
flowers should bloom. Fruit trees, there
aro none, or if any they look like the
ghosts of trees that died fruitless long
years ago. Where there are so many dogs
you will be sure to find a couple of shot
guns in the house. And if you moot the
good wife who has so hardly tried to do
her part, she will always apologize for the
attire of the children, and her own ap-
pearauco. No wonder women get pnlo
and prematurely old in such places. But
it is not the husband’s fault. Ho is a
sober, Christian man. lie loves his wife
and little ones, und ull his hopes and
dreams look to their huppiness. Follow
him on his farm. You will see no fodder
or hay stacks, no corn cribs filled with
golden ears, no pig pens tilled with fat
porkers, nu meadows embelished with
bloating sheep or lowing kine, no stables
with well-fed horses and mules, no barn,
no orchard, no evidence of thrift, only a
delapidated gin house, aud a cotton press
that looks as if it could hold up its ach
ing rheumatic arms no lougor. But ho
will point you out the graves of his hopes,
hundreds of acres of half cultivated,
pooly forced cotton land, over which cat-
terpillars aud worms have marched in tri
umph, und these acres are mortgaged, and
tbo crop that was uever made has against
it liens that cry out to be satisfied.
Is this a fancy picture? Do I exagger
ate? Can you not point to a hundred
such farms uud farmers ? Of Qourse you
can ; and when 1 ask you as sensible men
for the c.mse, you will, ono and all, as
truo men answer, “cotton!" Yes, cotton,
he is tho tyrant King that has too long
lived on the life-blood of his subjects,
who has impoverished them by dazzling
dreams of wealth, aud sickenod the hearts
of tho people by hope long deferred. I
will not, however, throw the whole blame
ou King Cotton, lie had, and still has,
allies nearly as dangerous. Oue is ex
travagance, the other false pride; and
still another called inconsistency, which,
whilo catering to the spirit of patriotism
iu the planter's heart, gives him, on the
other baud, a porfect contempt for South
ern enterprises, Southern manufactories,
indeed, for anything .Southern but King
Cotton himself, and, then, this Kiug is
fed by a food called fertilizers, which he
demands from liis subjects, aud the more
they feed him the thinner tho old King
gets, and tho thinner he gets the more
infatuated become his subjects, and to
feed the King ou fertilizers they rob
themselves of food.
Now, I might go on indefinitely speak
ing of our present and past condition, but
mooting, as wo hope, for consultation, it
would bo time foolishly spent, and tho
only use in considering tho cause of our
present poverty and depression, is to en
able us tho better to lay successful plans
for the future, and realizing thoso plans,
“Let the dead past bury its dead."
The argument iu favor of all cotton
is tho most insinuating sophistry wo
know of. It states its syllogism in this
way : With tho same amount of work a
mau can raise three times ns much cotton
in money ns he can corn. He needs
money; therefore he shonld raise cotton.
Ibis sounds very well; but if the cotton
crop were a mathematical certainty, as
corn is, we might cousider it. To illus
trate : It is just as if a geueral with lim
ited transportation, on the eve of a cam
paign, woro to say, “With the same
amount of transportation I can bring to
my command more men than provisions.
I ncod men, therefore I will use all my
transportation to bring them to tho
front.' Tho man who made such an ar
gument would uot be a general, but a
fool; for provisions are just as necessary
as men, and hi should transport them in
proper proportions, and it is better to
have ten thousand rations too much than
fifty men too mauy.
To continue this figure of speech, wo
would say he was a bad commander who,
having the certain means of keeping his
supplies near him by a little more lubor,
should, for tho sake of visionary ease, put,
them away two thousand miles from h:s
reach, where the merest accident would ,
cut them off. Yet this is what the plan
ters have been doing. They have used
all their carrying power for cotton, aud
thoy havo got so far away from tti6ir base
of supplies that, instead of finding them
in their own camps, they have their corn- (
cribs in Iowa aud their smoko houses in
Illinois.
If tho case of the Southern planter were
hopeless, it would be useless to talk or
discuss tho causo of his poverty ; but,
seeing plainly a remedy, I, as their friend,
feel it to be my duty to cheer them in
their new departure, ou the road of com
won sense, with the goal of Buccess iu
sight; and this, iu my opinion, is what
should be done.
First, There should bo a thorough or
ganization of the farmois for mutual pro
tection, improvement, aud consultation,
and this end the Granges of the Patrons
of Husbandry will realize. This organi
zation is as legitimate as u board of trades
or chamber of commerce, and much more
essential, in that it protects the interosts
of a greater number of people. Its se
crecy prevents imposition, its meetings
create sociability and woik a valuable
interchange of thought, while its advice,
if followed, must result in tho elevation
of the farmer, and the formation of a
brotherhood limited by no State line, and
so generous in its formation and pure in
its purposes that woman graces its meet
ings with her presence, and cheers it with
her joyous co-operation.
Second, Tbero should be a determined
resolve in the breast of every plnnter to
sell more than ho buys, and where he
buys to keep tho monoy in his own sec
tion by purchasing, as far as possible,
articles of homo manufacture. Certain
groceries, and luxurious articles of dress,
cuuuat be raised or manufactured bore ;
but I remember during the war Southern
girls felt a pride in their home-made
dresses and palm-leaf hats—and this to
make the South independent. Why can’t
they evince the same self-denial and econ
omy to make the South prosperous ? They
were certainly as sweet aud kissable then
in their plum attiro, and much better
qualified to be good men’s wives than they
are now iu dresses which their fathers
cannot afford, and tho profitH on which
go to enrich New York.
Third, There should be a better system
of agriculture thau lhat which now pre
vails. 1 know you w ill argue that the old
farmer, who has grown up with bauds fa
miliar with the plow should know more
about farming uud its necessities thau the
young mau who in his life nevor turned a
furrow. This I would confront by a sim
ilar argument, and ask if tho laborer who
digs a cut or works ou a railroad bridge
should know more uboot railroading thau
the trained engineer who could control
the whole work from his office. I say,
without fear of sensible contradiction,
thut there are not five hundred docent
plows iu the 8tute of Alabama, and thut
out of these not ono halt of them plow
ns deep us they should. Our farmers
hive been tickling the land with little
shovel-nosed plows, for nearly a hundred
years, aud now they wonder why God
d.es not make tho laud smile with a har
vest as He did iu the days gone past,
when tho fact of it is the lund is too old,
dry aud shriveled to be tickled as it used
to be iu its virgiu days. Now I believe
there is a subsoil yet untouched, aud there
nre thousands of rich farms covered by
tho played-out surface soil, that for one
generation has bet^p sick and exhausted,
uud now it is nearly dead, and guano nnd
patent fertilizers are not going lo revive
it, uot even if you transport to the South
all the Chinchu Islands. The best fertili
zers in tho world, aud those found to work
best in Europe, where such things are a
study, are green manures, clover, peas,
buckwheat, or auy other thick-growing
nutritious vegetable that can bo relied
uud plowed uuder deep. Two years of
such cultivation would rej uviuate the land,
particularly if after being plowed in well
it were allowed to lie fallow for six
mouths each time before planting. More
caro should be taken in the saving of farm
manures, and every stuble should be con
structed so that the drainings would flow
to a compost hoap. The land is very
much like the mule that plows it, it will
produco iu proportion to its care aud food
und it should be fed regularly and intelli
gently. You might us well expect u mule
to grow fut by rubbing corn ou his back
as lund to be rich by scattering on its sur
face guano, or anyjother fertilizer. Tbo
food of tho laud must be plowed in deep
where the soil cun digest it.
Fourth, You must make farming hon
orable, aud tho only way this can be done
is to show a love uud respect for this, tho
noblest of callings, and tho best way to
show your respect is to work yourself.
We have too many bosses, and the best
bossed farms South aro thoso that pay the
least to their owners. Your hands will
work better if yon work yourself, for it
will raise their lubor to the dignity of the
muster, aud they will not grumble whero
they see their employer so willing to work
himself. But you must show your res
pect for agriculture in another way; teueh
your children to bo proud of thoir father's
calling, and to show their prido by fol
lowing it. Instil iuto tho xniuds of your
boys that it is better, more manly and
useful to stand with bronzod face behind
a plow than to stand with white hands be
hind a dry goods counter. Show them that
it is rnoro honorable to be a good farmer
than a bad lawyer, and thatau indifferent
young doctor boars no comparison to a
stalwart young cultivator of the soil. Lot
your girls marry farmers and thus ruiso
up tho true aristocracy of the South,
which must over be distinguished as an
agricultural region. Do this aud ton
yoars will not have passed before farmers’
sons, now starving or wai'ing for soft
places at beggarly salaries in tho cities,
will return to their homes to work.
Fifth, Make your homes attractive.
Beautify them with fruit and flowers ;
raise as great a varioty of fruit and vege
tables as you can to give variety to your
tables and health to your bodies. En
courage your children to read, and lot
them have seasons of rational enjoyment.
Make home tho most desirable place in
the world by its being the most comforta
ble, aud your sons aud daughters will
not sigh for tho city. It may not become
me, as a newspaper publisher, to suy eti-
conrago your children to road, and road
yourself, not only by procuring the best
papers, but also by securing au abudant
supply of good literature.
Sixth. Get out of debt as quickly as
possible, for the man in debt is the slave
of his creditor, and nu honost man loses
his independence in the presence of a
man whom ho owes, and once out of debt
resolve, with God’s help, that you will
never purchaso another article that you
caunot pay for, and you will soon see the
effect of this resolution, if you earn’ it
out.
Now I might go on categorically aud
fl dd sixth, seventh, eighth, and so on iu-
difinitely, but I would only repeat what
you all know just as well as I do ; and I
have no doubt there are men within the
hearing of my voice who will coincide
with me, and express to their friends tho
opiniou that my head is level; and some
ot thoso men imagining that they have
level heads themselves, aud just us shrewd
as the shrewdest Yankee, will say to them
selves, “Well, all my neighbors are in for
‘hog and hominy’ aud I will make by cul
tivating every acre in cotton," and tho
poor fools rise iu their own couceit, but
they are simply, by their cunning, paving
tho pathway to ruin.
I My faith in the future of tho
j South I have tried to Bhow by
; casting my lot with her. I see in tho
no distant future the South freed from the
: thraldom of New York aud her plauters
freed from the slavery of debt and the
bonds of ignorant culture. I see a South
ern port obtaining tho money our section
now gives to the great metropolis, and
foreign ships whiteuing Southern ports
with their anils, as they come to beur
us the produce of their lands, or the la
bors of their shops, and take back in ex
change that fabric for which tho civilized
world opens its purse—cotton. But the
day is nearing, if we be but true to our
selves, when, instead of shipping to for
eign or Northern ports the I
we can send them with profit m *****. I
the manufactured article T ° Ur «elv*
time, though I may have J Cau tt»
ond you and your decendota aw »>
State ©ml the cotton States of’th^ n ^
will be tbe recognized home of It ? lb
of m.tnifnctnro; aud wten i
cotton being King, cotton S 0|
subject and the whole world , * «* 1
nee, for the world needs n "'''M
with intelligent labor, wo caun^ 8 ,b *' I
The day of drenmere, the d av 8 , tu ? 0r ‘
gogues and politician., i 8 uaL U (i 'M
the day of earnest, honest ; '’■« I
cotne, and it is for you, the f«T,„ r "
in the hearing of iny voice ?"' ""t-
whether you will lu^fo fiee ’ “ ‘Mt
Follow out the coarse yon have l
suing and your
bled by visions of mortgages >
p, irsuo tho pathway of honest, a u V'“'
■non sense, and you will live to i.' 0 ?' I
South prosper; her mines worked H
factories smoking with the
dnstry; her fields well tilled” her 0 ^I
eating home-made food Md wM
home-made clothes, while their
charity nre open to world. nea, l»n |
IN MEMORIAE!.
A Tribute to the Memory of Mri. MARIov
DEU CUAPPKLI,, wife of homer Cliappo'n fc
nnd daughter of Mojor und Mrj, M j „'
formerly of Columhue, Oj. ' " U "
“Stars have thoir time to sot lljs I... 1
And flowora rn without the North . I
BUt D^“h|M a,t for “■’as „o, J
Never do we so fully real xe tho nnntter
ness of death a. when some yonn* 11*,*,“
initsmorulng-tlmoof youth und |m>ml lt _|!
tltul In hope and huppiness—!s luddsul. p
“from earth away." Never do wo so fcl ,* d !'
noss of the “Valley . f Shadows" », , *
pure face, bright with the reflex or no uncj*!
heart, has loft us forever, and Income but m
memory of a smile! lk *
The subject of these brief lines, la wlio.odaao
nm:iy loso a cherished friend, and a Bolls h.!’
their brightest household spirit, was lha l M | „
name—the last of a family euch member el vrhi b
father, mother und sister, hud within the put l ,
years precede 1 her to tlm tomb-sad sUaladi'.!
recently com. Iron, l.or Western homo in im„|,
bo.ltfa, and to visit tho relations of her b„*J
when a brief llluess was followed by |, er d
which occurred on tho morning of the xad inn,,
ut the roBldonco of the lion. A. It. Chappell.
sad event was rendered muro palnrul by th.
nemo of her htmbnnd.
Only those who knew her boit nnd wboconli
claim, lilco tho writer of tbi«, her '
kiutlly friendship, can know how uoble themiLi
and heart which illumined her charuct r wia,
two-fold radiunco. Gifted, beautiful, i„y*|j
form and 'aco, (a fuco that seemed ever to tuii
captive so:u« gentle thought), uaturu gave to bit
a fairy dower of beauty und grace—but, brighter
than these, brighter than f.tncy'a fl ub 0 r rp U &i/,
ray, wsh that purity of heart which i< r «llw
“blessed," the peace of the spirit.
Her life was a broken wreath of IRireri, wktti
Hope’s hand hud woven tho purple "luorniD;.
glories” until Death took up the uufluished wrut!
aud laid it on a grave !
“Friend after friend departs;—
Who has uot lost a friend?"
Aud yet, tho’ goue lienoe, forever gone, tlmr
ory, like their heavenly spirits, luve “putouia
mortality.”
“They do uot die,
Nor lose their mortal sympathy,
Nor change tc ui, although they change.'*
II.C.C.
Ivj Men, liusiell county, Ala., Jan. 31.*/, 1874.
Prices Reteet lo Slit Mi
Sash, B#nds and-Doors,
8x10 Bush v
lux I'd “
12x14 “
12x16 “
12x18 “
12x20 “
12x21 “
nd glazed 20c per light
14c,
16c,
18c,
Lip eash 2c por light additional.
BLINDS 60c PER FOOT, measuriug iougtb ill
three feet wide. **
2 panel door*, \% in. thick, 3x7 feet, plain, $.'3
* “ “ “ 3x1 « . .3);
Fifty cents per side for moulding doors extra.
R. R. GOETCHIUS & CO.
Corner St. Clair and .Jackson Sti.,
, , f , COLUMBUS, GEORGI A
Administrator’s Sale.
A GREEABLY to an order of the IIouoiaI !<• *!
Court of Ordinary of Muscogee count.*,*'
bo (old before the auction house of El.'is A IU”
son, iu tho city of Columbus, on tho llratTucs-i.
in March next, between tho usual hours ofir
lota number* 216 and 216, in tho city of Columk
und county of Muscogee, each containing one-Li
of au ucree, rnoro or lctm, Haiti property Doinge
roal estate belonging to Mathias Iturringor. ti
tied.
feb3 c
sv4t
HUGH KELLY, Adrn'f
G eorgia — muscoqek county.-wi.
It. F. Thoiuussou 1ms applied for Letter* *'
Administration on tho estate of Fleming B. N»t
dec- aaed;
These arc, therefore, to clto and admoniilu
nud singular, tho kiudrod and creditors of *■
deceased, to be and appear nt my office within tb
time proscribed by law and show cause (if anyth*
have) why said letters should not bo grauted.
Given under my baud uud official signature, tU
February 2d, lb74.
feb3 oaw4t* F. M. BROOKS. Ordinary^
Muscogee Sheriff Sale.
U 1LL be sold on tho first Tuesday in April wR
betwoeu tho logal hours of talc, before tlf
auction house of Ellis A Harrison, Uroad itr*
Columbus, Ua., the following deocril-cd properi?
to-wlt:
Ail that tract or parcel of land lying andbdst
in the county of Muacogcc, und iu tho North*'’-
Literths and adjoining tho North Co inou*of 'b
city of Columbus, and known in the plan of it*
Northern Liberties us lot number forty fi«- 4
fronting on Jackson street 147 feet 10 iechr*,« ;
tunning back cunt 147 feet lu inebu- 4 , uu-roor **•*■
hs tho property of Hampton Bentou, tiuatcc, dti *-
Agues lb nton. Fold by virtue of n mortg»K« 6 “
issued by the Superior Court of the ceoutj ‘ , -
Muscog<e.
Also, at the same time und place, ull flat in'
or parcel ot laud lying aud being iu thef".’■
Columbus, In Mild county, and known i" the pin
of said city as lot number ouo hundred and thirl*
five, (136) contuiniug oue-nuartor of au act*,
or loss. Levied ou ah the property of A. H. L***
trustee, by virtu® of u mortgage fi fa issued *•
Superior Court of Muscogee county.
iob3 oawXm II. 0. IVEY,
Muscogee Sheriff Tax Sales
W ILL be sold on tho first Tuesday io
next, between the legal hours of
front of the auction house of Ellis A ll»rii>
Uroad Htrcot, Columbus, Ou., the following den'
ed property, to-wit: . .
One hundred nnd seven acres of land iu th*
outh district of Muscogi-e county, as the prop*
ot 1*. M. Morrison, to satisfy a U f» issued l*»r
paid Mato and county taxes for 1873. If
Alto, nt same t»me and place, the north h*".
lots of laud 347, 348, 72 uud 73, iu the city of *
lumbun, fronting on Jackson street, tw the
erty of John D. Carter, to satisfy a d h* >° r “ B1
tux 01 for 1872 und 1873. .
fob t oaw4t H. 0. IWi 91,cr
Muscogee Sheriff Sale.
u 1I.L ho soM on tue first Tnvstlay i» J*"':*
>> n xt, b itwo n the legal hour* of \
front t)f >71]Iw A iUrrlaon’s auction room, t”
street, Columbus, Ua., tho following dw fn
Ono hundred shares of stock iu the
Homo Building, nud upon the land U P 0U -T,
standi, os the property of Johu L.
Property pointed out by said Mustaiu.
Also, upon a certain lot, with in;pr°
thereon, said lot known iu the plan of
ColumluuHs lot number two hundred auu /,
seven, (227) ns the property of 8oab«r
ceased, fcuid lot poiuted out by Fca 1
ning, adu.iuistn
ig. administrator of Soaboru Jones, dt»c ' ' .
11.0, at the same time aud pines, the o 10* ‘
d to-wit • All that tra t or parcel **“ ...
, lyirg and being iu the county of Mj*“
isistiug of all that portiou of lot
H. G. 1VKY, 8h* r>s
