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JOHN C. BAILEY, EDITOR & FBO'R. URKENtilJft .fiPPH CAROLINA, JI' V(|UUI?CS-NA n7
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M"> POETrtt. '
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Raiibow of #?ld- *
H Tf yon go to the foot of a ralobqw before
It fade away, you wTTt find a bushel of gold,?
[Legend of Fairy Love.
When I wai a child I waa solemnly (old,
When the rainbow appeared in the sky.
That andar its foot was a bnsbel of gold,
That any eoold get would they try;
Bo I ran whera (ha splandor coma down to tbo
ground, ' ^ *
But it floated as fast as I ran,
And with all ot my search it was nothing I
found;
Yot I'm doing the same as a man.
There's tbo rainbow of lore, when the efTco
tions are young.
iuu unguKjii, we mina, or 100 lot.
We follow to find it & thing of the tongue,
Or a foolish abstraction of thpught,
There's the rainbow of fame, with its amaranth
crown |
Wo chase It In ominous strlfb,
We roach whero its foot so enticing came down,
And find?wo have wasted in lif?.
Hope's rainbows are crer abroad in tho air,
Alluring us fools to pursue,
Wo follow and follow, and find nothing thero,
Save a sprinkle of glittering dew.
Earth's rainbows of promise, so fair to th?
sight,
Are but fiotions at best of the mind ;
Their gleams give at most unsubstantial dolight,
They fade and leavo nothing behind.
Thrn what of the rainbow that gleams beyond
H?th #
Then promise hereafter ! Who is there can
tell
If, after the pnrting of body and breath,
lie is sure under that rainbow all will be
well I
Can be certain it la the last bow to allure
The one that stoops down on the bnshel of
gold,
The gold A? at lost shall poaeose? Who is
sure?
Alas ! 'tis a secret wo cannot unfold,
HEMINISCENCES
PUBLIC MEN.
BT EX-GOVERNOR B. F. FERRY.
[CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.]
james h. hammond.
Governor Hammond was, I bavo
understood, bor i in Newberry
District, South Curolina, whilst
his father resided there aud had
charge of a classical school. The
father of Governor Hammond was
a native of New England, and a
gentleman of education and talents.
He was the class mate of
Daniel Webster in Daitmoth College,
and immediately after graduating
came to South Carolina.?
He married Miss Snann, a young
lady of Edgefield District, S. C.
Ho afterwards moved to Columbia,
and was connected in some
way with the South Carolina College.
Governor Ilaminoud graduated
in the South Carolina College with
distinction, and commenced reading
law and editing a newspaper
in Columbia. He acquired considerable
reputation as an editor,
and his style was tierce, classic
and chaste. Ilo was a bitter partisan
in our nullification contests,
and got info several difficulties.
An editor at Qamdeo, who was a
'mlll-uiapri ....... 1 ? *1 *
...V. W man, jiuuieu UUl 1116 VI
als of liia wrath oil Hammond in
8iicli a manner u to call tor per
sonal cast! gat ion. Hammond tv?nt
to Camden with a friend, and gflvo
tbo editor a borso whipping, aud
was shot at by the editor. Soon
nfterwards he became involved in
a difficulty with General Blair, a
member of Congrees front the
Camden District. General Blair
was a man of distinguished ability
aud wide reputation, Hammond
was young, just entering public
life, and be expressed some aoxie
ty to know of the General wheth
er he held himself personally responsible
fo&jvlfet hef had said of
bitn. ThA riAnAral r> ? /-??*. ?->?l
Ml uiviiiyur rv*
plied that lie would give any satis- I
faction he saw proper to demand.
Thereupon * challenge was sent
and accepted. The General, anti
cipaiiug * challenge, had made all
I bit arrangements for a flpocdv
I meeting. Thojr did meet on the
field of lienor with their sec onds,
I but mutual friends interfered and
I settled the difficult* ' *?,,m.
I In speaking to mo Abont this
time Ot the life of an
mood said, it would boveri nl *!
ant it all editors weie gentlemen,
and would observe that courtesy
which was duo between gentlemen.
The friends of Governor llaramond
had a very high opinion of
such men as Ool. William C. Piesgifted
and promising /oung roan
in the State. He was extremely
handsome irt Me younger days,
and sooi) married Miss Fitzsimmone,
tire sister of Col. Wade
Hampton's wife, and a lady of
vary largo fortune. Hammond
took charge of the estate, which
consisted of lands and negroes,
and managed it very prudently.
He made fFne crops, and improved
the property very much. In tt.e
meantime be seemed disposed to
live like a gentleman aud enjoy
his fortune. He built himself a
I magnificent residence in Columbia,
and gave splendid entertain*
ments, not surpassed by those of
any gentleman in South Carolina.
He wrote a series of articles in reply
to the abolitionists of England
and Auieiica, which attracted
great attention, and endeared him
to the planters of the South as the
great champion of African slaver}',
lie was nominated for Congress
in tho District eotnpoeed of Barnwell,
Richland, Orangeburg and
Lexington,, and was elected..without
opposition. Col. Franklin T.
Elmore, afterwards United States
Senator, and President of theStato
Bank, was for a short time in tho
field against him, but withdrew
before the election camo oft*.
In Congress Governor Hnmntnnr]
mrtrfft fl cnoonli r\t\ fKn e1 n rrn
ry question, which was regarded
as the ablest vindication of the
South that had then appeared
from any quarter. He remained
in Congress only three or four
years, when he resigned his seat,
or declined a re election. He then
made the tour of Europe \fith his
family, and was absent a year or
two. On his return home lie was
a candidate for Governor and
beaten by Governor Richardson.
His friends put him in nomination
two years afterwards, and ho was
elected by a few votes over Governor
Allston, who was not a candidate,
and declared in the Senate
on the eve of the election that he
did not desire the office at that
time. Governor Hammond discharged
all the duties as Chief
Magistrate of the Stato with signal
ability and integrity. 1 heard Col.
Bcnuforii Watts say that he had
been tho Private Secretary of a
great tnauv Governors, but had
never seen one more accurate or
impartial, or more prudent and
firm. Whilst bo filled the Executive
chair be made war against
the Bank of tho State, and sent
the Legislature some very able
messages, urging that tho Institution
should bo wound up. Col,
!. ? T> :J?, i
xjiiuvi u| iuu x i cc1uuui ui ii1c j3tlhk^
replied to his argument in his annual
report on tho condition ot the
Bank. Governor Hammond told
me that he had spent weeks in tho
investigation of the Bank and
making his calculations, which
were submitted to tho Legislature,
lie said ho had determined to do
his duty boldly and faithfully, and
leave the responsibility with the
Legislature. The State was then
divided into two parties. Bank and
Anti Bank. But tho Bauk, with
its three or four millions of capital
to lend out, proved too much
for the Executive, and wae rechar
tored.
Governor Hammond was also
opposed to the State taking stock
in all the railroads which wero
chartered by the Legislatnre. He
wrote several able articles on th is
subject, which were extensively
ciroulated. But his opposition
proved unavailing, as it had done
on the Bank question. Whilst
Governor there was a mysterious
outbreak between hltn and his
most intimate friends in Columbia,
which caused him to leave the capital
immediately alter the expiration
of his term of otfioe, and he
did not return tor fifteen or twenty
years. Ho was brought forward
twice during this time as a candidate
for the United States Senate,
uui ins eupforrerB coma not pro
vail on Iiith t<> coino to Columbia
and show himself to the Legista
turo. lie seemed to be disgneted
with the State and everything in
It; and it was said, sought to
drown his vexations and di6ap
pointment8 in freo living.
When Judge IJutlor was elected
to the United States Senate, Governor
Hammond was-his opponent
and most zealously supported by
his adherents through good and
evil report. Some yoars after
<WHjnl?fw? brought for
ward bv his friends and elected to
the United States Senate. Aft$r
the election lie came to Columbia,
on his way to Washington, with
bis family. That was the first visit
he bad paid the capital since
the expiration of bis gubernatori
&1 term. 1 called at the hotel to
see him, and found him vory much
changed in his appearance. He
gentleman I had known1 him in
former davB. lie had grown stout
and looked old. I tooa a vfiry ac
tfve part against fijfti Jh the X-egia
latnre whin Judge Butler was
elected Senator, and I did not vote
for hliii when he was ultimafely
elected. Bht I had a suspicion
that his fYiends had, in some frieas
ure, mistaken ldb political views,
and would find themselves disappointed
!n his oourse in the Sen
ate, and I so expressod myself pub
licly. In reply to these remarks,
Governor Hammond wrote a long
letter in which he concurred with
me in the views 1 expressed, aud
said his purpose was riot factious.
In a letter he wrote afterwards be
said fits purpose was " to keep
South Carolina with the South,"
and that for this purpose " ho had
given a good mhrty votes which ho
he did not altogether liko."
Whilst in the Senate Governor
Hammond made a speech of great
ability on the Isbocs between the
North and South. This speech attracted
great attention North as
well as South. His views were
those bf a statesman and not a
mere politician. I received a letter
from Judge Evans, who was
the colleague of Governor Hammond,
immediately after the
speech was delivorp.fL Rn#?nlrii?rr
. 1 -1'-*- g
very high terms of (lie effort ho
had made in defence of the Southern
States and their institutions.
AVliiUt in Europe Governor
Hammond made'a rare and coBtly
collection of paintings and statuary,
which ornamented his house
at Silver Bluff,* and Were greatly
admired by his friends and visitors.
Many of them were originals
of the greatest artists in Italy.
He also had a tine library, and
was a lover of literature and the
fine arts. He was a very success
tul and scientific planter. In everything
he was pract'oal and wise.
Throughout lite he had a strong
conviction that it was the interest
ot the Southern States to separate
from the North ; but he was too
wise and practical to encourage
separate secession on the part of
South Carolina. IIi6 great object
was, as ho said to me in a letter
already referred to,41 to keep South
.Carolina with the Southern States."
lie wrote a lot tor to the gentlemen
of Columbia expressing the same
sentiments, which gave great offence.
Immediately after his election
to the Senate I received from him
the following letter :
44 RepCmffs, 31st Dc6., 1857.
44 Dear Sir: ? From the whole
of your remarks in the Mountain
eer on the Senatorial election, I
have come to the conclusion, thnt
although you opposed my election,
yon would cheerfully support me
in a course of action that would
accord with your views as to what
was best for the State and the
.South.
44 From what I know of you personally
and otherwise, I do not
doubt that .if ever the time arrives
that you think the South and South
ern institutions (i. e. slavery) arc
endangered by Northern and anti
slavery aggression, actually and
practically, you will show yourself
a tho ;h Southern man,
4 born to the manner.' I therefore
venture to write to you (not for
your paper, nor for print,) very
frankly, in tho hope of eliciting
equal confidence from you.
44 A mouth ago, at the time of
my election, I thought the South
in a more safe and honorable position
in the Union and the opinion
of tho world, than it had over
ibeen in my time. The U. S. Bank
obsolete, internal improvements
checked, free trade virtually installed,
and tho whole tone of the an
ti slavery party here ar.d abrond
lowered I and thought. oh an ? ?<-! T
; - " M.
diu think wo wore on smooth water,
and might safely and honorably
abide in tho Union and render
freely and cheerfully our mighty
contribution to its consummation
as the greatest and noblest Empire
the world has ever known. I
would gladly indulge myself in
this opinion yet.
"I was perhaps the most unfit
man the State could have summoned
to the Senate at this time,
for 1 have truly and entirely ig
nored all political aflairs for many
yean, in the belief that I should
never be called for again. I trust
you will bear testimony to the fact
that I said as much before the Legislature
saw fit to determine otherwise,
and that my presortt post*
tiou is not of ruy seeking, while
nndor the eirounristancee to refuse
it was impossible. . >.'
" X do not intend tn > ?
any course for mysolf until I reach
Washington, which I hopo will be
in Hie courso of the next week.?
But from what has occurred since
the opening ot the session of Congross,
it does soem to me, at this
istauce, that it may be that the
final and decisive crisis is close nt
I
, iiui.y, ttuivii ib iu ocme ynu aebiinv
i of the slaveholders of the South
; fareK&r. i. . -: *>
44 Under these circumstance*; I
solicit your confldcntial; opinion of
? affaire, and beg that you will coti*
! fide in me bo far as to write to rae
at W^iington what you really
i think on eaoli phase of affairs as
it cornea up. Shall the South make
, the LeOouipton Constitution an nl
I timatnm? Can we, the slave States,
J honorably remain in ,Lbe Union it
Kansas is refused admission be,
cause she asks it as a slave State?
; Do answer me these questions,
i and make whatever snggestloDs
1 may occur to you<"
I had occasionally published exi
tracts from the very interesting
letters received from Judge Evans,
' the Senatorial colleague of Governor
Hammond, and it is to tins
i that he good hntnoredlv alludes in
the following letter;
" Washington, Feb. 14,1858.
M!ify Dear Sir:?I received
yours of tUo 8th ult.? am much
obliged to yon tor your kindness
and promptness", and al6o for tho
favorable maunor you have spoken
of me in yonr paper. You know
in what a vortex people live here,
and can imagine that, new to everything,
and especially my own
position, I have had enough to do
to look and listen and try to learn.
This is my excuso for not writing
sooner. Besides, they tell mo that
you will put iu your paper what
your friends write you. I own
that tbis has been a sonrco of much
amusement to inc, but I don't like
to amuse others in the same way ;
and not yet accustomed to write
or speak otherwise than straight
forward, and as I think I lack Confidence
in my own discretion in
writing a private letter for tho
public, I might get myself into
great trouble by it. So, for a time
at least, don't u trot me out" in
that. way. On this condition I
will give you some ideas that I
think 1 shall lay before the Senate
in a quiet way when I get the
floor." lie then gives mo pretty
much the substance of his intended
Nebraska Kansas speech and
concludes by saying: " But until
after I have made my speech don't
gut it by lettiug this get into the
papers. This is my thunder. I
am afraid to speak it to any one
hero. T in?.v r>lian<ra mo minrl a../-)
- ?J ??J * "**
not speak it at all, but such is my
present opinion. It 6ecms to me
to be the only solution of the per
verse conduct of men, and the prt^
sent unnatural state of things here
and in Kansas. I give it to you,
at all events, as a speculation for
your private amusement."
44 Washington, 9th April, 1858.
u My Dear Sir:?I have frequently
thought I would write to
you, but there was always something
on the cards just ahead the
result of which I wished to com
municate, and therefore I deferred
writing. I have come to the conclusion
this will always be the
case, and therefore, having a leisure
moment, write now. The
newspapers give you a very full
account of all that passes here,
and will enable you to form as
good an opinion of events and
their foreshadowing* as we can
here, and perhaps better, as you
do not get all the false rumors that
we do. The struggle here is not
for the good of the country, and
u.. *? i ? * 1
uj iiu menus iur uumuilliy. iVDolition,
pure Rnd simple, occupies,
the minds ot few find the hearts
of fewer, what is desired is j*ov>er
and tpoile, and this is very thinly
disguised. More thnn half the
men in both the Honses think they
have a chance for the Presidency,
and act accordingly, utterly reckless
of constitutional rights, principle,
or the country. * * * |
I know no iTorthern mau with any (
real pretensions to statesmanship ,
save Reward, who is alter all not ,
much. They are all lawyers, or
stump politicians or nothing. * * ,
Tell uie, when the thing is dispos- ,
ed of, what you think ought to be
done by the South. My view now ,
is to keep South Carolina with the
South, and I give many votes I (
don't liko, that we may not be con- ,
sidereck as we havo been, factions." ,
' . , , ' |
[cbXTTNUKD NEXT week.] (
It inay not be generally known, 1
says the Charlotte (N". (J.) Demo- (
crat, that a tfster (Hannah) of the 1
S'oat Daniel Boone, the pioneer of I
entucky, is living in Caldwell '
County, N. C. Sho ha9 romark- I
ably good health, is now eighty- '
five years old, and bids fair to 1
reach ItHfr 'yH.rrt rn1 , 1
!
mi
a nere is consulorablo excite- i
meet in St. Louis over tho deter- \
mination of Judge Cnllen to bring
gamblers to the auction block and ^
knock tbem down, nnder a State a
law providing that gamblers shall i
be treated as vagrants. j
rawar AND
?u i h i * ' he-??iv -i mm
Do not K eglcot taqyurpi^. .%$|p4-u
T*ew farmere^b >pjJiW (
? turuip patch of aoiue hind, but ,
tlicy too oh en nc^lyct to property
prepare; JHwL JoJpfwit,
eumcieut manure, and neglect the
proper after cij!tirat!otS, and they
loose money by the ueglect. Bad
farming doee not par, even in the
tUJrnjp pag^?. Froui fil* hundred
to eight hundred?under the mout
mvuraoie couauion, one thousand
?bushels of turnips can be grown
on nn Atfro of 1 ana. Why should
we be content with one hundi ed ?
W^can, it is true, make the one
hundred with less labor and leas
attention. Wo have but to oowpen
our Inclosure till ft shall be
trodden as bard as the public road,
scratch it with a "oooter" and
sow the seed broadcast. That's
not much trouble, nnd we don't
get " mnch turnips!" A litUfe
more labor, plenty of manure, and
six hundred bushels of turnips to
the acre (tb put it low) will pay a
great deal bettor.
For a good turuip crop, the soil 1
roust have a deep and thorough
preparation. Cow-penning land
for turnips is good on loose sandy
soils, but is not to bo recommend-1
ed for those which are heavy and |
Biin. in nny case, make the Boil
deep and mellow. Plough and
subsoil your patch ; where the lot 1
hns not been cow penned, spread 1
your stable manure broadcast, and
don't bo afraid of getting on too
much ; turn in the manure at once
by cross ploughing, running deeply,
as before. It this be done (as
it should be) several weeks before
planting time, plough once more
when ready to plant, apply a top
dressing of guano or snperphoa- *
phate, at the ra'te of from three to '
four hundred pounds to the acre,
and harrow in both directions till 1
the ground is thoroughly pulveri- 1
zed, and the fertilizer well mixed
with the soil. Throw up low bods i
if the soil be liable to hold too i
much moisture, otherwise plant I
on the level, making the rows, in
either case, abont two feet apart, k
and sow from two to two. and a
half pounds of seed to the acre.?
Pass a roller over the ground af- t
tor sowing. Thin out to about a <
foot apart, and keep the soil light <
and free from grass and weeds by i
frequent cultivation. (
This plan will make a heavy ?
crop with any kind of a season.? I
It may not, however, be the best
plan ever devised. Adopt a bet
ter 0110 if you can find it, but do
not, wo beg, negloct the turnip
patch, and do not cheat yourself
with the idea that you can make
a good crop without manure and
labor, and no stinted measure of
cither.
The Ruta Baga is the best keep
or, aud more profitable for the
main crop, wo think, than any
rough leaved variety, but it is of
slower growth, and other kinds
should be planted, in addition, to
come into use earlier. The
American Red Top, the White
Globe, the Norfolk, and the Yellow
Aberdeen, are good varieties.
The Ruta Baga should be sown
from the middle of July to the
middle of August, (or a little later
in the Low Country.) The others
may be sown from August 15th to
October 1st. It. is best, if practicable,
to sow just before a raiu.
[liural Carolinian.
From the Rural Carvliniu*.
Clover.
The "following letter will not fail
to interest those who advocate the
development of Southern Agricultural
enterprise. The time is
surply not far distant when the
can't grow clover party in South
Carolina, will be compelled to
strike their colors, for the advocates
of grass culturo and stock
raising are Increasing in numbers,
and cro long will ~ introdnco a stream
ot tour-footed immigrants 1
that will bring fatness to the soil,
as well as wealth to the State. <
In reply to the inquiry about fi
sheep, I can only say, I am attempting
still fo get up tbo Joiut 8
Stock Company, to introduce
sheep into the State, that was ?
spoken of a fegr ago. Some of 1
us have brought ,out a few during *
the winter, but if by September '
next enough subscribers can 'be
procured to warrant the under- T
taking, one of the best sheep c
growers in the Sontb has tendered 1
[lis services to go North, select the ,
iheep and bring them South, with *!
to further charges than fhc par* .
nout of his traveling oxpenecsASVilf
tny friend and otheas not Q
oin ns ?
ocikty Ilirj, S. (\ Jan. S91872. II
Col. D. Wyatt Aik&ti *ejjret
very mnch that yon did not ^
iee my clover aud other grasses f,
vhen yon wero here. A* I have ^
usl finished cutting, I must give *
BUCQCH.
A 4 k*p?lweMlM t i* 1
My t.\pcry#^55, Jm.JjWW, {
and thq^asaes date back, to the
PlittWWhSttJIBd LMWrl:'T'
oipt,
however, fcota. choice, for I am
fiWUtftfld tkiiVu lf taU ia.UjMH
riiriTitilMrIfl ffl hiil?Hi
I have one field of five ?i-m, i
one year old 4rom?the seeding, 4
from vrhicboi* pot sixteen fout^M
horse wagon loads, oqftafcto- elev~L11
flu tnAa MiMi*??*iMit Ml 1??? *i *
certamcd bv weighing one lofcd i
artfl-e?t!m&tfflk, tWe jTOTO.^T&te1 J
clover was uniformly over tho i
land nbout two nud half feet high ]
and as thick as it couid stand.? [
The land upon which it grew is <
what we know on the Pee Dee i
ltivcr as sweet gnra land,* very j
tiff add of * dark oolor. Such ;
lands when fre-jh are productive ,<
In cosn and cotton, but bfctbfne I
very hard andjjjff, and theKctbre i
unprofitable, requiring morartirae
and jafior than we ar&able togive
them ia these times.
That tJ ley are siill valnable is
evidenced by this growth of
clover, which was nnmnnnred and
the soil .very poor!/ prepared.
I had, also, rather less4ban two
acy cs outqjde of my embankment,
and immediately upon the river
bank, planted in a mixture of
clover, orchard grass, timothy and
herds grass, from which I got a
atill larger crop of what I think is
better hay than the clover aloneThe
viplH woo 1 I ?
cuetner they need summer fal- J
owing.
He must know the condition in
rhtch 'be jjfronnd must be plough- ^
id, so that it be net toe wet, nor .
uo dry. *
He must know how to put them
n'
Ho must know that it pay* to '
av? machinery tor aid as well as ,
lusclc. 11
lie meet know abont-stoek and
lanuree, and the cultivation of
and smatl fruits, and many
tlier things. In a word he must r(
now what experienced observing
irmers know, to be sure of sue- w
ass. Then he will not gnees? M
-ill not run snob risks. ra
^ MTV IUI 1UUI "II UI BU ^
loads of well cured hay ; but as it (
was net weighed, I cannot give ^
you the exact product, only it sur* (
passed my most sanguine expecta- (
lions. The grasses 6oem to. do |
quite as well us the clover, aud t
specially tho orchard grass, tnuch j
of which was four feet high. .
My success will induce me to
plant largely tliiB fall,- with the ^
liope of raising 6hecp profitably ; ^
and I writo now mainly to ask t
your advice as to how I can best
get twenty ewes and a ram of
pure Merino sheep. Yours,
truly, Sam. W. Evans.
The Coat of Poor Stock
Probably, few fanners think, a
(ays the Atntericari Agriculturist, j,
)f what it cost8 to "keep a poor t
iow or a land-spike hqg. They t
eadlly understand that a good c
:ow, or a hog that will dress 200 t
hs. at teu months old, is profits* t
jle stock to keep, but the fact that c
his grain is really the amount of
os8 on the poor stock, is rarely
soneidered. It a cow yields 200
bs. of butter in a year which
wrings $60, and another 75 lbs. ^
ichicb' brings $22'50, the loss on c
he poor cow is just $37.50. Tho
act is, it would be a more profits- t
jlc operation to give her away 1(
khan to keep her, lor s'. e does not
pay for her teed. The dairy busi- ^
noes of this country is not on a t
satisfactory footing by any means, t
und solely on account of the mnl- t
itude of poor cows, which arc
<ept year after year. This is a
natter which sliould be locked R
liter by the County Agricultural ^
Societies. Every one of these as- c
lociations should introduce im
jroved stock, by means of thor- e
Highbred male animals, into their l
ocalilie8. It is a good work to t
ilevate the ideas of farmers, and Jt
o foster a taste for improvements, ^
jut to the great majority of their t)
ilients tho possession ot such
itock, or the nse of it, is quite un- j
ittainable on account of want of a
lecessary means. By making
.his a special branch of their oper.ti-.no
flwv Jk*1 ^ - *
me jfocniiiTHJBB or rnese so- k
iictfea wonTd bo much increased, <]
ind their importance greatly en- r
lanced. t
What xuia Farmer Must Know. j
Hie fanner, like the business man, i c
nnst know what he ia doing ; he |
nuat have some pretty decided (
deas ot what he is to accomplish
?in fact, lie moat calculate it be* J
ore hand. . i *
lie must know his soil?that of
inch lot?not only the top, bnt the ^
ubaoil, to' ?it rrt"^ ?
lie must also know what grain
ind graaaea are ftdajrted to each.
He mu$( know the condition in |
vhich tho grounds must be, when > ,
s the beet tune to work them, I J
little
attention is paid to the procuring
Uiftti to eapect to do as naocU work
with their poor tools AS with oood
UNMFWstbi ?Ijr bam flaaiw>hMia
jthihsiphliKfc otoaawf?dwMhe
fariner."Wh0i?M be as careful to
beep aW the tools he need* <m-the
farm in ae good order In -?N respects
as the tneclianic does his.?
More work Can ho accomplished,
and with much greater ease wlieto
proper attention is given to this
subject. ^It never pays to use a
poor scyrne, ror instance, when a
z< 0<T one can bo procnred. A
good Workmen d6uTa cut enongh
ijore grass in a day'or two to pay
for tbe new scythe. This remark
will apply with equal force to
>tber implements that are used on
L 1JLJJLLJ LJUJ-l.-ii-LiL ;
A Prominent Pact ,
The "Wilmington Star remarks
[hat, the press for many years has
been a power in the land, but
lever, we believe, such a power
is it is right at this time. An editor
is candidate for President on
lie people's ticket. On the same
icket is an ex editor, candidate
V?r Vice-President. Prominent
Western editors had a hand iu engineering
the Liberal movement
hrough to the nomination at Cinsinnati
of the ablest editor in the
United States. The editnra
loine halt dozen journals liavo
lone more to reconcile the discontent
to the ticket that at one time
unquestionably existed in certain
quarters, than all the other agencies.
And editors spoke and helped
urn the fifth Avenue conference
nto a Greeley ratification meetng.
For what Carl Schurz, an
;x editor, Horace White, Henry
IVatterson ai)d J. Forsythosaid in
hat parlor consultation, had the
jfl'oct of crystal izing the Greeley
strength preparatory to his uomilatiou
at .Baltimore.
The moral power of the press
s very great. It is the greatest
)olitical lever of the present time.
L'he leading editors of the country
ire fast becoming its leading poliicians.
Who knows so well the
hrobbing of the grand heart of
he people, as the able and practi:al
journalist Whose business it is
0 make a diagnosis of tho sympotTi8
at every stage, and to apply
.xcitants or palliatives as the case
equires ?
A Curious History.
A Frenchman with a history
lied the other day in San Fran16C0.
His name was Grandillct,
nd his age was sixty-five. At
he age of twelve ho embarked as
1 ship boy upon a brig, and theren
DAti.?-n) *
.. !??? du>vi ai voyagCS 111 tllC
3biua seas. lie next took 6ervice
is chief cook iu a Dutch tJjreenastcd
6r*.boone^r and sailed on
wo or tbreo voyages to the coast
>f Atrica. This vessel, be it stated,
was a slaver, and on one occaion,
when pursued* by a crniser,
t wn9 run ashore by its crew, who
iscaped into tho interior. In this
ixtremity Grandillet was captnr;d
by the soldiers of a petty
Yfricun King, who ordered him
0 be baked and served up for the
oyul supper, But, fortunately,
Irandillet obtained clemency by
mnoiuting himself as a cook, and
iromisiug the King o touch of
European cookery it his life
hould be spared. II is offer was
accepted, and a native prisoner
pas handed over to him, who was
1 furnished forth " a la Marengo.
[tins saved by his culinary skill,
irandillet became the Vatel of
lie African chief, to whom he
anght the secret of how to pickle
neats. The King became so ad*
licted to pickled dishes that he
ionstantlv called tor them at his
ncals. In order to satisfy his ap>etite
in this direction, he even
indertook a war. and ordered all
he prisoners captured by his solliers
to be pickled. But or.o day
lvnnrl;lU? J-J *
" u.iiui Butcwuea in escaping,
tnd, picked up by a passing vessel,
vas landed at San Francisco,
vliich be afterwards made his
lonio. Among his papers was
ound a detailed narrative of his
jonrn in the dominions of the
Cannibal Kiug.
-1,0^1 rx?;?* y ;
Wk don't know who Hiram
xmeu is, but his head is level.?
iucently be said this :
All the diilercuce i cau see beween
the late A r tenius Ward
nd U. b. Grant is, that Artemus
Vard was wtllmfc Mto sacrifice all
is own and bis wife's relashuns to
ftve the country, while U. S. G.
i will in' to sacrifice the country
> save all his and hi* urifio'o
jlashttns.
Thnflrat qualities wntid in nil who deal
ith the edneattoa of children?-patience,
If control, and a youthful heart that r??
embers tU own early day*.
*