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BY J. A. TURNER.
OLtTME 11.
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The Flute Playing Ass.
A correspondent of the X. Y. Commercial Ad
■erti>er contributes '.he following to the columns
£ that valuable paper, remarking that thirty years
i£o he inserted it in au omnium gatherum of his
(oriiood, but whence obtained he docs not now
•collect. It is certainly worth re-publishing:
Whether wrong or right
lias just occurred—and quite
By chance.
O'er yonder pasture lawn
By hunger doubtless drawn
An ass was passing on
By chance.
A flute was on the spot,
Which Corydon, I wot,
Or Thyrs es had forgot
By ehauce.
The ass drew near to smell
When, miraculous to tell,
He snored in it so well,
By chance,
That the air which left his snout,
Made in its passage out,
A most melodious shout,
By chance.
The ass he thought, hey 1 hoy!
What music I can play 1
The folks, perhaps may say
By chance;
Yet without rules of art
An ass may get the start,
And act a clever part
By chance."
[UliSCtilitllfOltS.
I A a Inquisitive Fox and his Capture.
The following circumstance, given
| in an English journal, forms one case
j, at least in which it would have been
f well for the fox if his ancestors had
I taken the advice of that memorable
I -.ember or tneir fraternity, who, hav
[ ing lost his own tail, endeavored to
I persuade a convocation of his sage
I brethren, that it would be far better
I for them if they would all consent to a
I similar abridgement of this ornamen
-1 tal but very un-practical part. Not
| that we suppose that its absence would
I have prevented our hero below from
gratifying his inquisitive brain as to
the contents of the generous Earl’s
I larder, but we don’t doubt that his
; usual slyness would have found some
I means for escape, had not his “beauti-
I ful brush” offered so ready a mode of
1 capture :
‘‘On Tuesday morning last, the 12th
I inst., about half-past seven o’clock, a
I most novel and unprecedented occur-
I rence in the annals of sporting trans
f pi red at Clumber House, near Work-
I shop, the princely seat of his Grace
I the i>uke of Newcastle, under the fol-
I lowing circumstancesAt the time
I above mentioned, a fine fox was seen
■ to walk leisurely in the court-yard,
I and after a short survey his olfacto-
E ry nerves attracted him into the room
I of Mrs. Groves, the housekeeper,
I where a portion of the domestics were
I at breakfast. The window being open,
easy access was afforded to Master
Reynard, who, with a composed air,
! bolted through the open space, and iu
his descent knocked down several
flow’er-pots, much to the wonder of the
occupants of the room. Not meeting
with that hospitable reception on
which, perchance, he had calculated,
he exhibited considerable consterna
tion, ran up the perpendicular wall of
the room, made a bolt at the ceiling,"
and falling on the carpet, was captured
by Isaac Fairham, the usher of the
servants’ hall, who boldly seized and
held him by his beautiful brush, and
placed him in a box for safe custody
until the Earl of Lincoln had break
fasted. His lordship, on being acquain
ted with the circumstances, like a true
English sportsman, ordered Reynard
to be liberated, much to the amuse
ment and gratification of his sister, the
Lady Susan Pelham Clinton, and the
Ladies Hamilton who were on a visit to
Clumber House. The domestics ot
the noble duke’s establishment were
iho assembled to witness the release of
poor “foxey” from “durance vile,”
and who, on the covering of the box
being removed, leaped joyfully forth;
but ere taking his departure he evin
ced his gratitude by turning round to
his friend* and giving them a farewell
glance, as much as to say, “Good bye,
and thank ye,” and then swiftly bound
ed away over the green sward, right
glad once more to snuff the air of
freedom, and regain his woodland
home.
Quite Consoling.
Daniel Webster once had a difficult
ease to. plead, and a verdict was ren
dered against his client. One of the
witnesses came t© him and said; “ Mr..
Webster, if I had thought we should
have lost the case, I might have testi
fied a great deal more than I did.” “It
L of no consequence,” said the lawyer,
“the jury did not believe a word you
•aid.”
Wtili journal:—lHctiotcir to fittnitiirc, f olitirs, anti deiteral HJiscdlanjj.
Progress of Luxury.
History, which testifies to the fact
that luxury has heretofore proved the
bane of nations, will yet have to re
cord on her impartial pages the truth
that the United States afford no excep
tion to the general rule. The simple
habits and manners and the stern, in
dexible integrity of the illustrious
founders of our free and liberal insti
tuions have already passed away, and
exist only in the memory of those
who lament their decline. If we have
developed the resources of the coun
try, improved in the arts and sciences,
extended commerce and manufactures,
and increased in wealth and luxury,
with a rapidity hitherto unseen, it
is also a deplorable fact that the con
comitant vices incident to civilization
have been developed with a rapidity
! and to an extent even exceeding the
| ph} r sieal improvements. While as a
! people we were poor, we had the na
tional character of being honest, but
i as we increased in riches and luxuries,
| tastes and habits supervened, which
I have proved fatal to the prevalence of
virtuous sentiments and honest con
duct. Previous to the year 1828 such
a person as a defaulting public officer
was unknown, and when, in the suc
ceeding year, President Jackson caus
ed Tobias Watkins to be indicted and
tried for an alledged appropriation , to
his own use of four thousand dollars
of the public money, the country, from
Maine to Georgia, was shocked by the
enormity of the offence. Watkins
pleaded"on his trial that he was entitled
to the money, and went forth on the
world an acquitted ;md ruined man.
Since then crimes of this character
have increased astonishingly both in
number and in the magnitude of the
amounts embezzled, until the sums
thus acquired are now counted by mil
lions.
The public sentiment is diseased,
and there is needed judicious treat
ment to bring it back to its normal
state of healthful action. What that
treatment shall be, is the difficult
problem presented for solution.
Ojie of the most transparent evils of
the age is the rampant energy with
which the excellence of physical pro
gress is inculcated into the minds of
the masses. Under the operation of
this all prevailing passion, for such it
really is, the man who erects a magni
ficent mansion, establishes a- bank, or
builds a railroad, is lauded as a public
benefactor, regardless entirely whether
the funds with which it has been done
were the results of honest intrustry
or the avails of cunningly devised
fraud. Thus is the exhibition of
wealth made the type of merit and
the test of consideration. The result is
that life in the United States has be
come not a pursuit of happiness, but a
race for riches, in which all are strug
gling and straining every faculty to
come out ahead. — Louisville Journal.
Our Next Representative.
Judge Ilillyer declining to be again
a candidate, it behooves the Democ
racy of this District to select one to
represent them in his place. We be
lieve it will not take them long to
make the choice. So far as we know,
and we have more or less information
from nearly every count} 7 , the unani
mous opinion of the Democracy has
been that if Judge Ilillyer declined,
the Hon. Howell Cobb was the man
for the, time. That this is our opin
ion, we have no hesitation in avowing.
We need not tell the people of the
6th District what are llowell Cobb’s
claims and qualifications for the office.
They know him well; his name is a
household word among them ; and we
believe they will eagerly seize thisop
! portunity to repair the injustice which
has been done to him in other quar
ters, by showing that they at least re
member his services, and love his no
ble qualities of mind and heart.
[Athens Banner.
Public Discussion.
This is a discussion to take place at
the Court House on Friday night, to
which we recommend the attention of
all. Hydropathy versus Brandy
Cocktails. The motto of the one par
ty, we presume, is Bum vivirnus viva
mus, and the watch word of,tlu other—
Bum bibimus bibamus, while the non
committals, shrewdly occupying both
sides of the fence, slyly point to their
flag of alt colors, and cry Bum vidi
mus bibamus. Everybody should go
to the discussion of the prohibition of
juleps, versus the exhibition
noses.
What’s going to be made out of the
matter we are at a loss to determine.
Both parties of course will claim the
victory; nobody will be convinced
either pro or con, except those whose
convictions are already settled, and
the result will be the accomplishment
of a large amount of nothing,—
While we wish to east no reflection
upon any one connected with this
movement, yet we are constrained* to
say that modern radical reformers act
very much like the man.did who gave a
cross-eyed boy a dime to hold his sha
dow while he climbed a pine sapling
to look into thq middle of next week.
I Soum Western News.
EATONTON, GA., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1855.
General Wilson, of Massachusetts,
Still an Abolitionist.
Read the proceedings, in another
part of this paper, of a late anti-slave
rvjuieeting in Boston--the speech of
Anson Burlingame, and its full en
dorsement by General Henry Wilson
—and it will be manifest to every,
mind that the first man eleeted by the
Know Nothings to the United States
Senate is the most fanatical and iinpla
cable abolitionist ever sent to that
body. lie endorses all that Garrison
or Abby Kelly Foster could urge in
opposition to Southern slavery, excep
ting the immediate dissolution of the
Union.
What does this mean? It. looks
like an alliance between the Know
Nothings and the Abolitionists. Is it
so? What says the State Council of
Massachusetts? Let them speak, or
forever hereafter keep to the North of
Mason & Dixon’s line. The case looks
as bad for the Know Nothings as Sew
ard’s re-election. In connection with
it, if effected, this manifesto of Wilson
as the Senator of the Massachusetts
Know Nsthings, makes them a sectional
party at once. The South can have
nothing to do with them. The Know
Nothing State Councils of the North
must speak on the slavery question,
or be ranked with the anti-slavery
coalition. They must repudiate Wil
son, or be themselves repudiated. The
existence of the Know Nothings as a
national party hangs upon this ques
tion of slavery. Their first elected
Senator is a boastful abolitionist of the
Giddings stripe. Is he a good and ac
cepted Know Nothing, or has he de
ceived them ? The Presidency is clos
ed to the order if they permit this
Wilson to stand as their exponent in
the Senate at Washington. His mani
festo will be a bombshell in Virginia.
Let Henry- A. Wise read it to the peo
ple as the proclamation of the Know
Nothing Senator elect from Massachu
setts, to the South.
What say the Massachusetts State
Council, and other Northern Councils?
If they are in league with the anti
slavery factions, their race is run. — N.
Y. Herald.
The Literary World.
The times every where seem to have
been unfavorable for literature, and no
season for many years has produced so
few noticeable books as the last. In
Europe the war has had a depressing
influence, and the presses of Baris and
London have furnished comparatively
few books, except on subjects con
nected with Russia, Turkey, and the
Eastern question. In thus country
publishers have und rtaken very lit
tle during the last six months. The
only books which have had a very
large sale in that period are the me
moirs of P. T. Barnum, Horace Gree
ly, Chevalier Wykoff, and a sister of
N. P. Willis, who, under the title of
“Ruth Hall,” has served up the do
mestic privacies of her family. Liter
ature has been dishonored, for a tem
porary advantage, by a few publishers
who have resorted to the George Rob
bins style of advertising. No respect
able author would regard any increase
of his income as a compensation for
the undignified manner iu which many
works are now brought before the pub
lic. The value of advertising may be
injured by its abuse, and experience
will soon teach people to avoid works
issued from houses by whose adver
tisements they have once been taken
in. The effect, thus far, has been to
secure for many miserable novels, like
the anti-slavery story of “ Ida May,”
for example, a sale until recently al
together unparalleled. No work by
Scott, Bulwer, Cooper, or any of the
great masters of fiction, was ever half
so “successful,” to use the language, of
the trade, as this dull aud common
place affair, by a maiden lady of Port
land, now residing in Cambridge, near
Boston. Nor has any production of
Miss Sedgwick, Mrs. Kirkland, Miss
Mclntosh, or Margaret Fuller ever sold
as well as Mrs. Apn L. Stephens’s
“Fashion and Famine,” the “Letters
of Jonathan Slick, of Slickville,” or
Mrs. Farrington’s “ Fern Loaves.”
The absurd advertising system is be
ginning tq.be understood. It is not
suitable for the class of people who buy
books. It will do better for Perham’s
Gifts.— N. Y. Ilerald.
Signs of the Times.
Philadelphia is not without its curi
osities. The Sun has eopied two signs
it has discovered there. One is paint
ed iu red Italics, and reads thus :
“ Shirts Retailed Here.”
This, we take it, is for the benefit of
bachelors. The other reads:
“ Hands Wanted to Work on Bosoms
For whose benefit is that ?
A Little Acrimonious.
In view of the great revival of relig
ion now progressing at Harrisburg,
Pa., the Philadelphia Argus indulges
a hope that-it may even extend to the
Pennsylvania Legislature, now in ses
sion at that place ; in which hope he
says he is greatly encouraged, inas*
much as a reyival fias sprung up i n the
M ary land Pen i tonti ary.
-«*wi»ai©wr ©a
Massachusetts United Slates Sena
tor.
Hon. Henry Wilson, whose election
to the United States Senate by the
Massachusetts Legislature, on the. 31st
ult., has already been announced,
takes the place vacated by Edward
Everett, and now occupied, by guber
natorial appointment, by Julius Rock
well. According to a published bio
graphical sketch, which we.find in the
New York Herald, Mr. Wilson is a
native of New Hampshire, and about
46 years of age. He went to Massa
chusetts iu 1840, poor and friendless.
He worked for a time as a journeyman
shoe maker, at Natick, devoted his lei
sure hours to study, became a politi
cian, and took the “stump” in 1840
for Gen. Harrison, and was known as
the “ Natick Shoemaker.” In that
campaign he was elected to the Legis
lature. In 1844 he was elected to the
State Senate, and again in 1846. In
1848 he w,as a delegate to the National
Convention, voted from first to last for
Daniel Webster, and, after General
Taylor’s nomination, he withdrew from
the Convention, returned to Massachu
setts and acted against Taylor, aided in
Van Buren’s nomination, became the
editor of the Boston Republican, and
the leader of the Freesoil party In that
State. In the coalition of 1850, be
tween the Democrats and Frecsoilers,
he was elected to the Senate, made
President of that body for two years,
gave up his paper, and finally returned
tp the shoe trade. In 1853 he was
elected a member of the .Constitutional
Convention, was -an active member,
and, for two years was the Freesoil
candidate for Gover. Since then he
has joined the Know Nothings, and
is now a member of ttie United States
Senate, and will hold his seat till the
4th of March 1859.— Sav. Rep.
Gunpowder.
The Liverpool (England,) Standard
says: “ Some of the effects of ignited
gunpowder are wonderful. When
gunpowder is heaped up in the open
air and inflamed, there is no report,
and but little effect is produced. A
small quantity open and ignited in a
room, forces the air outwards, so as to
blow out the windows; but the same
quantity confined with a bomb, within
the same room, and ignited, tears in
pieces and sets on fire the whole house.
Count Rumford loaded a mortar with
one-twentieth of an ounce of powder,
and placed upon it a twenty-four pound
cannon, he then closed up every open
ing as completely as possible, and fired
the charge, which burst the mortar
with a tremendous explosion, and lift
ed up its enormous weight. In anoth
er experiment Count Rumford confined
twenty-eight grains of powder in a
cylindrical space which it just filled,
and upon being fired, it tore asunder a
piece of iron which would have resist
ed a strain of four hundred thousand
pounds.”
Good Advice.
Here is something good from the
lowa Bugle, to every word of which
we respond a hearty amen, and com
mend to the readers of the Beacon.
Says that paper:—“ Dear reader, when
you go shopping, be sure you purchase
of those who advertise. You cannot
only buy much cheaper, but you will
get good, fresh, fashionable goods.
Those who advertise will sell at least
three times as much as those who ‘ can’t
afford it,’ and as a matter of course he
who advertises, can afford to sell for
the profit of the other, and never has
goods out of fashion, or half worn out
handling them. By making your pur
chases of those whose wares are ad
vertised you will get the worth of
your money and change back.”
Anecdote of Mr. Glioate.
At the trial of the salvage case of
the bark Missouri, at Boston last week,
the case in which a part of the cargo
was embezzled by the masters of the
two vessels on the coast of Sumatra,
one of the masters was examined as a
witness, and disclosed the plan of em
bezzlement, and stated the induce
ments that were- offered to him by the
other master. He said that he objected
at first, and told his comrade that they
would be found out and convicted, but
was overborne by the assurance given
him. Mr. Choate cross-examined him
strictly and particularly as to what the
inducements and assurances were. The
witness had the appearance of holding
back a little, butat Jasthesaid: “.Well
sir, he told me that if we were found
out, he could get Mr. Choate to detend
us, and he would get ns off if we were
caught with the money in our boots.”
It was not five minutes nor ten minutes
that. it required to bring the audience
back to a sober countenance. The
counsel on the other side paid a trib
ute, in his closing argument, to the ge
nius of Mr. Choate, the fame of which,
extending to the antipodes, was relied
upon as stronger than the law and the
evidence. — Imming Rost.
A Hint.
Wear your learning, like a watph, in
• ft'.private pocket, and don’t pull it out
nV@ a clock lSjtnll it.
[CORRESPONDENCE OF TIIE N. Y. OBSERVER.]
The Mad Stone Again.
Squire .Baugh,' an old and respecta
ble citizen of this place, (Bloomington,
liid.,) has a veritable mad stone, with
which he has cured many cases of
poisoning, among them, the follow
ing :
Lewis Mosier, of this county, was
bitten some ten years ago by a snake.
Ilis leg swelled, became spotted, and
pained him exceedingly before the
mad stone could be got. When ob
tained. the skin was scraped with a
sharp knife, until she blood began to
ooze out around the wound. The
stone was then applied, and adhered
firmly for ucar three hours. It was < hen
soaked in warm water and applied
again.' It came off sooner this time,
and still sooner the next, until at last
it would not adhere at all, nor discolor
the water in which it was soaked, on
which at first a greenish scum could
plainly be perceived. But with the first
application, the pain began to abate.
The man fell asleep and soon got
well.
A Mr. Stone, of Greene (the ad
joining) county, brough his son, 12
years old, who had the day previous
been bitten on the leg by a rabid dog.
The stone adhered so firmly that the
boy walked about the house freely
without jarring it off. But at each
successive application, its hold became
feebler, until it would not adhere at
all,
This stone has often been applied
without any apparent effect, refusing
from the first to adhere at all, or to
give any signs of existing virus. But
in these cases no harm has followed the
bite of the supposed mad do", and the
probability is that the supposition was
false. For the stone has never failed
to effect the removal of the virus when
certainly imbibed; and it always ad
heres with a tenacity proportioned to
the amount of the virus to be removed.
Often have animals and persons been
bitten by the same rabid dog; and the
persons, by applying the stone, have
lived, while the animals maddened
and died.
About the year 1830, a man name
Campbell was dog-bitten in New-York.
By bleeding and other means of de
pletion, he kept off hydrophobia. Bat
lie had to deplete almost to the limit
of life. For whenever he allowed
himself to regain a little strength and
flesh, he immediately found symptoms
of hydrophobia, and had to resort
again to the lancet. Thus he spent
nine years, when, hearing of this
stone, he came and applied it a great
number of times. Unlike other cases,
it would fasten on any part of his body,
and adhere most tenaciously until sat
urated. But the patient was cured,
and became a stout and healthy man.
To these and other cures, scores of
certiAbates*ean be procured from re
spectable people still living, who were
eye-witnesses of the facts.
" A gentleman near Norfolk, Va.,
gave this stone, Some fifty years ago,
to William Baugh, of Kentucky,
whose son, Joseph Baugh, of this vi
cinity still owns it. At his house, one
mile east of Bloomington, Monroe
county, Ind., it may at any time be
seen, and its virtues tested by any one
who has the curiosity to see it, or the
sad need of trying it. How it was
first obtained is not known, but its vir
tue is undoubted.
M. M. Campbell.
December 25, 1854.
An Irish Salute.
Two Irishmen were left in charge
of a ship while its officers went ashore,
and strictly enjoined them not to make
or permit any noise on board ; but a jug
of “ ould Irish ” one of them had, and
the opportunity for a “ bit of a spree ”
were too great a temptation for them
to resist. They indulged freely, and
as many of our public men have been
known to do, soon drank themselves
into a patriotic spirit, when "one says
to the other—
“ Be jabers, and let’s fire a salute.”
“ Agreed,” says t’other, “ but that
’ud make the devil’s own noise.”
“Tut, man,” replied the first, “we’ll
stop that.”
“Jest you hold a bag over the mouth
of the gun, me darlint, and we’ll have
a roarin’ salute without any noise at
all.”
Pat acquiesced in the arrangement,
and held the bag as directed, while the
other touched off the cannon. The
officers, hearing the report, hastened
on board, where they found only one
of the Irishmen, and every thing in a
great state of bewilderment. He was
asked what had become of his comrade.
“ Sure,” said lie, “Patrick was hould
ing a bag over the mouth of the can
non to stop the noise, while I touched
it off, and the last I seed of him or the
bag they were goin’ in a great hurry
towards" the shore, and that’s the last
account I can give ye.”
Paraphrase of the Bible.
An old man, with religion more developed than
poetry, tried to render the Scripture into verse, but
never finished'bat two lines:—
“ The Lord said unto David, 1 Sit thou on mv
right hand ’ —
Said David, with the greatest politeness, ‘ Thank
you, sir, fd rather standi ”
Daguerreotype Visiting Cards.
The Paris correspondent who re
ports the fashions of that versatile
city for the New York Journal of
Commerce , states that anew style of
visiting cards has been produced there
which has created a great sensation,
and will, it is said, become the fashion
with those who like extraordinary nov
elties. Instead of the name printed on
the card, the small piece of pasteboard
has a photographic likeness of the vis
itor ; the face appears under different
aspects, according to the circumstances
under which the visit is made. For
instance, on ordinary occasions, your
likeness will bear the habitual expres
sion of your countenance ; on New
Year’s day, your face will be joyous
and smile your felicitations. If your
visit be one of condolence, your por
trait will be melancholy and sorrow
ful. To take leave, instead of the
symbolical letters P. P. C., the visitor
will be represented on his card coiffeed
with the traveling cap, and framed in
the window of a railroad car. The
art of photography has been so much
simplified, that the cost of these por
trait-cards is but small. One hundred
may be had for 25 francs or 5 dollars
and are handsomely executed and em
bellished.
A Fair Hit.
The Nashville Union says: A
speaker descanting a few days since
upon the absurdities of Know-Noth
ingism, said that the idea of danger to
American institutions from the influx
of foreigners, was as absurd as would
be the belief that the waters of the At
lantic ocean could be turned to milk
by emptying into them all the milk
pans of the country. “When I eat
chicken,” said the speaker, “ I don’t
become chicken. Chicken beco -esme !”
So it is, he continued, with the Irish
men and Gernians who pour into this
country —they 'come to the vigorous di
gestion of a young Republic, which
“swallows them as foreigners, but
turns them into Americans.” He told,
with effect, of the young snob who
twitted John Randolph on his “ home
education ” —to which tbe sarcastic gen
tleman responded thus: “The gentle
man reminds me of the lands about
the head waters of the Monongahela,
which are poor by nature, and culti
vation has entirely exhausted them ! ”
Usury Law.
We are truly pleased to find the at
tention of the press so generally direc
ted to the Usury Law. It is also grat
ifying to find them all in favor of do
ing away with it. It is an ‘old fogy’af
fair at best, and should be done away
with at once ; it does not suit the age,
this progressive age. We have long
since looked upon it as a curse. Its ten
dency, in our opinion, has always been
to contract the circulation of money at
times when greatest in demand. It is
to be hoped the next legislature will
blot it from our statute books. We
have never been able to see the neces
sity of legislating upon the value of
money ; there are times when money,
like corn, or any other article of val
ue, is worth more than at others. The
day is not distant when the citizens of
Georgia will be allowed to contract for
the use of money, as they do for the
rent of a house, the hire of a horse, &c.,
and that too without violating our laws.
[Mountain Signal.
President’s Message.
The British press has, it seems, es
tablished a court of criticism before
which all American State papers, most
especially President’s messages, are to
brought for trial. The presiding judge
is the vigilant, many-headed Cerberus
of the London Times, who hot only
blows hot and cold with the same
mouth, but in one and the same breath.
These learned Thebans pay special ac
tion to the propriety of certain words,
and the gramatical construction of sen
tences; and, in order to exemplify
their opinions, occasionally give us
specimens, not only of bad grammer,
but very questionable English. If
they cannot find fault with the senti
ment, they cavil at the mode in which
it is expressed, and resort to verbal
criticisms as sufficient ground for con
demning arguments they are unable
to confute. It cannot but be highly
gratifying to the pride of Americans
to see such special attention paid, not
only to their words and politics, but
their literature and taste. When
British oracles come to consider the
style and grammatical construction of
a President’s message of such conse
quence, it is a sign that what he says
is of some little interest to John Bull,
‘on whose dominions the sun never
ets.”— Washington Union.
<♦»♦ »» !-
A good old Dutchman and his frow
set up till gaping time, when the lat
ter, after a full stretch in the above op
eration, said :
“ I wish I was in heaven.” ;
Hans also yawned and replied:
“ I wish I vash in the still house.”
The eyes of Sally flew wide open as
she exclaimed—
“l pe pound for you, you always
wish Yourself in the best place,”
j tt Ej nnsmm 9
) A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
NUMBER 7.
Hog Ranges.
When you speak to a cotton plant
er about raising his own meat, and
enough to supply his doctor, mer
chant, blacksmith, &c., he will without
hesitation tell you, that it will not pay.
Ho can make more by planting cot
ton, even if he has to buy his own
meat, or the greater part of it. This
we admit is true, when cotton ranges
at better prices than at present, provi
ded he has to feed his nogs exclusive
ly on com and peas. But we do not
admit the necessity of this process of
making bacon. There is a much cheap
er process than this opened to all the
planters of this countr} T ANARUS, and a better
one than to make cotton, and pay
freight to Savannah, and then paying
freight on hogs from Tennessee. Some
of our cotton planters have long since
got a partial insight into this plan, and
the result has been that they are much
better off than those who buy their
own bacon. The most thrifty planters
in Hancock, are those who raise their
own flour and pork, at the risk of rais
ing less cotton, and yet there is a plan
by which they can raise it much cheap
er than they do.
Every farmer should have a hog
range attached to his farm. It should
have a good stream of running water,
and might embrace from ten to one
hundred acres according to the amount
of pork to be raised. The major part
should be a forest, which would an
swer the double purpose of raising tim
ber for wood and rails, and acorns for
your hogs. All the undergrowth
should be cut out and burned. The
dead trees cut down and split for wood
and rails, as well as all the thick
growth of saplings, pines, gums, dog
woods, and in fact all but oaks, hicko
ry, walnuts, mulberries, persimmons,
&c. The oaks should not stand thick :
but let in plenty of air and sun,
and they will bear much better. One
oak standing thus isolated will bear
as much as half a dozen crowded. Par
ticular attention should be paid to per
simmon trees in saving all that might
bear. They v ill prove of immense
value.
Now for the orchard part. As ma
ny as you please. Plant plumb trees
that will ripen in May, June and July,
and some even later, in squares about
six feet each way, and they will soon
cover the ground. Set out peach trees
ten feet each way, of such kinds that
will ripen from June to October, and
try and plough them twice a year if
possible, and you will have fruit that
will gladden the heart of a porker.—
Farmers who will begin this spring by
transplanting all the volunteer peacli
trees, about their premises, will in
three years have a fine orchard for
their hogs.
With such a hog range, the farmer
would have but little need to make
drafts upon his crib, only in quantities
to keep his hogs tame. The acorns,
hickorynuts, &c., would keep them du
ring the winter, and spring, and peach
es, with the gleaning of the oat and
wheat fields, would keep them till fall.
Then the pea crop and persimmons,
would bring them up to acorn time
again. Potatoes, groundpeas, turnips,
mulberries, blackberries, muskadines,
&c., would help, and the result would
be, instead of sending off hundreds an
nually to Kentucky and Tennessee for
pork, it would return into your own
pockets in various ways. You would
not only save your bacon , but you
would increase the value of your farm,
just the amount that such a farm
would bring over and above a worn
out cotton farm, with no such appen
dage. Who will try it ?—Central Geor
gian.
Where are They The Federal
Union is very solicitous about the old
Whig party, and asks: “Are there
no Whigs in Georgia ?” We are soli
citous, ourself, for the whereabouts
of a certain other party, and if the Fed
eral Union will come to our relief we
promise to go to his: Where is the
Southern Rights party that lived and
flourished not many moons since ? If
the Federal Union will light its lamp,
straddle its nose with the best magnify -
ers to be had, and go with us in search
of the latter, perhaps we make strike
upon the track of the former. Come,
blow up the dogs, neighbor ! Wilkes
Republican.
Col. Bentou on the Pacific Road.
A Washington letter records the
following. Considering that the Colo
nel made a great speech himself
against this very railroad project, it is
pretty good : % *
Col Benton is in a spasm on ac
count of the almost certain defeat of
his favorite project of a Railroad to
the Pacific. On this subject he was
to-day heard to remark : The Pacific
Railroad, sir, is defunct, (from defungo ,
to get rid of,) yes sir, defunct in the
abstract! Congress has killed it,
sir—killed it! They are the most
stultified body in the world, sir—-yes,
sir, (from stvltus, a fool, sir,) all of
them sir, except myself, sditary and
alone,sir! Iff had my*way with
them, sir, I would expunge their
names from the rolls of the House
(from expunyo, to blot out)- yes, sir,
every mother’s son of them, sir.’’