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ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY, DEOEMEBR 9, 1869.
VOLUME 5.---N?; 24:
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ADDRESS OF GEH". HAMPTON AT THE
GEORGIA STATE FAIR.
It would give ns great pleasure to lay
before our readers the recent address of
Gen. Wade Hakptox, delivered at the
Georgia Slate Fair, held in Macon, on the
17th o? November last, but the lack of
variety in our columns for the past few
weeks admonishes us not to present our
ris&ders with too many long articles. And
yet the entire address of this gallant
chieftain and noble gentleman is worthy
a careful perusal by every man, woman
and child in this broadband. We have
selected, however, some choice .extracts
from tiiis speech, and fervently trust that
all will give, close heed to these manly,
enlarged views of a practical man, whose
devotion to country none dare to ques?
tion, and whose name is even greater in
peace than in the stormy annals of wer:
- I have dwelt, perhaps, too long oa the
importance of bringing here foreign labor
and capital, but this object seems to me so
essential, so vital to the prosperity of the
country, that it cannot be urged too
strongly. Let me now invite your atten?
tion to other modes of opening the re?
sources of the South.
Amoug them, one of paramount import?
ance is to give greater diversity to our in?
dustrial pursuits. I am aware that the
quick and large profits held out by the
cultivation of cotton tempts our people to
devote themselves exclusively to the pro?
duction of this great staple, but is it wise
to continue under the new system of labor
a policy which was injudicious even under
the old ? That it was a mistake for us to
employ, as we did formerly, not only all
our available labor but all our capital in
the cotton growing States in the produc?
tion of cotton, admits, I think, of not a
doubt; for we did so at the sacrifice of all
our other industrial interests. We did not
even grow grain enough to support our
laborers and work animals, while for all
supplies of food and clothing we were de?
pendent on others. If this system was a
mistake, when we owned the labor by
which we cultivated our fields, it will
prove doubly so now when that labor is
hired ; for the only profits which can now
be made by planting come from the pro?
duct of the soil and none fiom the owner?
ship of the labor. To mstke this labor
more profitable, we must give it greater
diversity than hitherto. This is necessary,
not only to prevent the unhealthy expan?
sion of one branch of industry at the ex?
pense of ail others, but in order to open
every source of wealth to the country.
It is doubtless desirable that the world
should have an ample supply of cotton to
keep its mills at work, but it surely is not
the interest of the planter to furnish an
unlimited quantity of the raw material
and thus bring down the price of his pro
? duct. His object should be to make cot?
ton enough to drive all competition out of
the field, while he keeps the price at re?
munerative rates. Tfie policy that would
induce us to throw all our labor into the
production of cotton would be suicidal,
for while we should be doubling our ex?
penses in doubling the crop, we should be
reducing the price in an inverse ratio.
The present crop of cotton offers a stri?
king illustration of this, for while it will
not exceed two and a half millions of
bales, it will be worth more to the South
than the largest crop ever grown?that of
1859. In that year 5,335,354 bales were
made, which at the prices then ruliug,
would have been worth about two nun
dred million of dollars, while the present
crop will command at least two hundred
and fifty millions. When the South is
able,-?s I trust she may be at no distant
day, to manufacture all, or nearly all the
cotton she produces, it will be time enough
to stimulate to its highest; capacity her.
production of cotton ; Dut until then let
us be content for the world to pay the
wages of that labor by which we now
grow our great staple, as well as dead
rent on those wide and fertile acres which
are now lying waste. In the meantime,
let us diversify, to the utmost extent pos?
sible, the industry of our people; thus
opening to honest labor every avenue of
lucrative employment. To do this suc?
cessfully, we must encourage our young
men, the future hope of the country, to
seek other avocations than those offered
by the learned professions. Teach them
that honest toil is honorable; that so far
from being inconsistent with it, it adds to
manly dignity and true greatness. Elisha
was taken from the plow to declare the
inspired word of God, Cinoinnatusto save
his country. Are not the names of Ful?
ton, Whitney, Arkright, Watt and Ste
pbenson, worthy to be enrolled, not only
among the benefactors of mankind, but
among the great of the earth ? When
Ferguson, who, while tending his herds
on the bleak hills of Scotland, learned to
read all the secrets of astronomy, and to
find in the course of the planets that none
"but an Omnipotent hand could guide them
in their orbits; and Miller, who, working
at his lowly trade, taught himself to trace,
in the wouders of Geology, the finger of
the Almighty in the creation of the earth,
did they not give evidence that the high?
est intellectual endowments were not in?
compatible with the humblest occupations?
Examples such as these should be held up
to our youug men to teach them that
"Honor and fame from no condition rise ;
Act well your part?thero all tho honor lies."
Let them act welt their parts -t but to
enable them to do this, it is incumbent on
those charged with this sacred duty to
give them not only proper instructions,
but adequate means. They must be not
only fitted for the great battle before
them, but fully armed. Place in their
hands the mighty weapons forged by skill,
by industry, by integrity?burnished by
science and .-art," and then launch them
hopefully and prayerfully upon the arena
of life. As one of the most efficient
means to furnish weapons, I would sug?
gest the establishment of agricultural col?
leges and schools in every Southern State.
The most enlightened nations of Europe
are now giving to these institutions not
only the utmost attention, but the foster-,
ing care of their government!), and they
are reaping rich returns in the improve?
ment of their people as well as in the
great accession of wealth to all classes. Ger?
many especially, who owes so much to her
admirable system of education, has found
these schools of incalculable benefit, and
many of the Northern arid Western
States, profiting by the example of the
older nations, have them now in successful
operation. We of the South have been
and are wofully behind the age in this
particular; for, as far as I am aware, our
colleges, with two exceptions, offer no fa?
cilities for the acquisition of a practical
agricultural or mechanical education. One
of these exceptions is found in a most ad?
mirable college, under the superintendence
of Mr. Bowman, most fitly located on the
former farm of Kentucky's great states?
man, Henry Clay. No nobler monument
could be erected on Ashland to the geni?
us and patriotism of the illustrious man
who once owned it. The other honorable
exception is to be found in Washington
College, Va., where the hero who has so
often led a mighty army to victory, hav?
ing sheathed the sword never tarnished by
cruelty or dishonor, now dedicates his
nain';, his intellect, and the influence of
spotless virtue to the noble task of leading
our sons along the paths of learning, of
honor, and of piety. The civic wreath
well becomes the brow so often crowned
with the oak and the laurel, and sons of
the men who once fought on the blood?
stained fields of Virginia, reaping at this
college the rich harvests of knowledge
sown by the patriotic foresight of its Pres?
ident, will learn to bless with additional
fervor'The honored name of Lee. The ex?
ample set here is worthy of imitation, and
if agricultural colleges cannot be founded
in all of the Southern States, it would be
well to engraft on the curriculum of all
our existing institutions of learning a de?
partment similar to that just organized at
Washington College. The most striking
feature of this wider system of instruction
which it is proposed to adopt theie, and
which will, 1 trust, revolutionize our
modes of education, is that which con?
templates giving "thorough instruction
in: 1st. Agriculture. 2d. Commerce.
3d. Civil and Mechauical Engineering. ?
4th. .Mining and Applied Chemistry."
Could such a course of instruction be gen?
erally adopted throughout the South, and
the facilities for obtaining it be placed
within the reach of our young men, we
should find among those who are soon to
take our places men not only fully quali?
fied to develop all the resources of our
country, but competent to shape its desti?
ny for all honorable and noble ends. We
should not need, then, to send abroad for
our artisans, our mechanics, our engineers,
our manufacturers, or our merchants, and
ali the powerful agencies wielded by these
classes would be the offspring of the
South, all tending to increase the power,
wealth and tl e happiness of our people.
This subject is worthy of tlie thoughtful
consideration of the ablest intellects of
the South, and no talents, however great,
could be better employed among us, than
in giving impetus and direction to the
proper development of the resources of
our country, and practical education to our
people. It is a significant fact, one that
shows how wide was the range of the
genius of Napoleon, that in the quarter
of a century beginning 1790, France, not?
withstanding the gigantic wars she was
waging, made greater progress in agri?
culture than she bad ever done before.
This result was due to the wisdom of one
man, r;nd though to none now living is
given the mighty power to do good wield?
ed by bim, each one of us, in his allotted
sphere^ can promote the prosperity of bis
Country; on each does this solemn duty
devolve. In conjunction with these agri?
cultural colleges of which I have just
spoken, and as valuable auxiliaries to them,
the agricultural societies occupy an im?
portant position, and it is very desirable
that they should receive the warmest en?
couragement. Not only do they tend to
rouse a laudable emulation among plan?
ters, but they serve to give instruction?
to improve the breed of our domestic an?
imals, and to bring before the public tan?
gible aud practical results of scientific
fanning and mechanical ingenuity. They
serve for another purpose of no slight
consideration : that of bringing together
the people from all parts of a State ; gath?
ering as it were the scattered children of
the household around the family altar j
uniting all for the common good of the
old homestead ; settling all jarring inter?
ests aud softening by the influence of
brotherly love all discordant elements and
political asperities. Here all can find in
the welfare of their State a sacred bond
of bro therhood; a bond stronger, higher,
nobler than any which party ties can foige
or political intrigues' comprehend. The
pleasant intercourse among our people in?
duced by these reunions is not confined
solely to the citizens of one State, nor are
the courtesies^wbich grow out of them re?
stricted by State limits, as is proved by
this happy occasion ; for your Society,
with a catholio spirit worthy of all com?
mendation, has not only challenged com?
petition from all quarters, but extended
its hospitable invitations quite as wide,
and n is gratifying to perceive how many
strangers.are partakers of its munificent
hospitality. Not the least pleasing fea?
ture to me in this great meeting is pre?
sented by the fact that my own State,
though she has'been crushed to the earth,
has roused herself to meet the mighty is
e not? of the day ; has called to counsel her
: devoted sons; has reorganized on a firm
basis her Agricultural Society,: and through
that Society, which represents the true
men and.the noble women of the State,
Carolina, by the presence here of many of
her most patriotic and distinguished sons
and delegates, extends to her sister, Geor?
gia, her warmest sympathy, her heartiest
co-operation and her most cordial good
wishes.
I have ventured to throw out these
crude suggestions, for they are nothing
more, for your consideration ; the field is
too vast, the theme too comprehensive,
for me to do more. There are, however,
one or two topics to which I beg to call
your special attention, as deserving all the
care and thought you can bestow on them,
and as tending to that grand result we all
have in view, the prosperity of the South.
Wo are essentially an agricultural people,
and we must look tc this great interest as
the basis upon which to build up the per?
manent welfare of our country. To do
this we mnH use all the means which ex?
perience, guided by science, has placed at
our disposal. How shall this best be
done? The two points which present
themselves most prominently in this con?
nection, are firsl>;the labor by which we
cultivate oar lands /and second, the man?
ner of cultivation. The negro is un?
doubtedly better fittod from his long
training, bis physical configuration and
his adaptability to all the diversities of
our climate, to make a more efficient la?
borer than any other. Especially is this
true when the labor is to be performed in
the more malarial'portions of our coun?
try. Oar object; then, should be to de?
velop to the utmost his capacity as a la?
borer. To do this time is requisite, and
wo shall have to exercise great forbear- j
anee, constant prudence and steady kind?
ness. We must mako him feel that his
interests are indissolubly bound up with
ouraf that high prices for our products
insure high wages for him; that we have
no animosity toward him ; but, on the
contrary, that we cherish the kind feel?
ings engendered by early associations and
old memories. Let us be scrupulously
just in our dealings with him ; letjis assist
him in bis aspirations for knowledge and
aid him in its acquisition. Try to .elevate
him in the scale of true manhood, of civili?
sation and of Christianity, so that he may
be bettor fitted for the grave duties und
high responsibilities forced upon him, by
his new position. In a word, convince
him that we are his best, if not his only
friends, and when we shall have done
this, we shall not only have placed our la?
bor on a sound footing, but we shall have
gained in the laborer a strong and zealous I
ally. On this subject I speak not from I
theory but experience, which has taught]
me that the kindest relations can exist
between the planter and his formorslaves,
resulting in mutual advantage to both
parties. My old slaves are cultivating
the land on which they havo lived for
years, and there has been a constant and
marked ' improvement in their industry*,
in each year since their emancipation,
though they have not yet attained the
same efficiency as laborers as they for?
merly possessed. 1 have promised to put
up for them a school house and church,
and to pay a portion of the salaries of
their teachers. Such a system, if gener?
ally adopted, woujd tend greatly to fix
the laborers to the soil, and would, by
adding to their content and enjoyment,
result in vast ultimate benefit to the land?
lord. ? That-kind treatment, just dealing,
and sincere ofForts to improve their con?
dition are not without effect upon them is
proved by the fact, gratifying to myself,
that I am now on my way to Mississippi
by the request of hundreds of negroes,
besides my own laborers, to advise them
what course to pursue in the approaching
election there. I am not of those who
bcliove that the mere possession of the
rudiments of education makes a people
stronger,.'better, or happier; "a little
learning is a dangerous thing," and un?
less moral education goes hand-in-hand
with intellectual, the seeds of knowledge
will be sown on a barren soil, or will pro?
duce but thorns and thistles; but I do be
jive, that in proportion as you make all
labor, other than compulsory, intelligent,
you render it profitable. If this is true,
we should educate the mind, the heart
and the soul of the negro, looking at the
question only in its material aspect and
leaving out of consideration altogether
those higher and nobler motives which
would prompt us to do so. A longer ex?
perience of his newly acquired freedom,
and bis acquisition of higher intelligence,
will teach him, not only his dependence
on the whites of the South, but the great
truth which no laws can change,
"?nn every soil,
That those who think must govern those who toil."
It is our duty to assist him in qualifying
himself for his changed condition; time
alone can show whether that change has
been for his bonefit. The South will look
with profound interest to the noxt census
to sec how freedom has affected the num?
bers of his race; for wo can tell with ab?
solute certainty what those numbers
would have been had no convulsion shaken
our entire system. Several years ago I
bad occasion to collect some data bearing
on this question, and they give the follow?
ing tacts and calculation*. Taking the
results of the census of 1840 and that of
1850, we find the ratio of increase amon^r
the free blacks to be 12 48 per cent., and
of slaves 28.82 per cent. By these rates
of increase, thore should have boen in the
United States >d
Free.- Slave. Total.
I860,,,. 48,872 412,796 4.616.616
1870....548.712 5,.17,427 5,866,130
1880....617,191 6,849,909 7.467,100
1890..,,694,216 8,824,052 9,518,269
These calculations showed one or two
other significant facts, which, as bearing
On an exploded system, might as well be
I placed upon the record to aid in the gen?
eral summary that will be made nt some
future day. By these it appears that
the deaths among 6lavos were less than
among free blacks, 83J per cent.; that
births among the free were 83J per cent,
less than among the slave; and that the
net increase of slaves was 130.93 per cent,
greater than that of the free blacks.
These statistics may bo valuable as enab?
ling us to approximate what will be, or
what should be, the numbor of negro la?
borers in the South during any year up
to 1890 and to ascertain what effect free?
dom has had on the mortality and the
ratio of increase among the blacks.
Turning, now, from the laborer to Iiis
work, we have to consider what system
of culture is the most productive?and
here I have no hesitation in saying that
the system which calls to its aid the ap?
pliances of skill and science, will always,
other things being equal, prove the most
successful. 1 do not propose to enter in to
the.,dotails of cotton planting, nor to give
the best plan for its cultivation, because
the same rulos will not apply to all locali?
ties, and because time will not permit me
to do more than touch on the grand fun?
damental principles which should govern
all intelligent planters. The problem for
our solution is how we can obtain the
minimum cost. We cheapen labor by in?
creasing its productiveness, for while we
may in doing the latter bavo to puy high?
er wages we receive for tho work done
larger profits. Our object should be not
to enlarge the acres of cultivation, but to
make every acre, cultivated yield to its
highest capacity. The labor with which
we cultivate one aero producing from 600
to 1,000 pounds of seed cotton, costs as
much as that which would make that same
acre bring 3,000 pounds. Is it economy
to use labor, which is now money, so that
it will only make from ten acres what it
can as easily make from five ? If our la?
borers cultivate ten acres to tho hand, is
it not best to plant only half that quantity
in cotton, working our crops under tho
improved system which experience and
science have taught, and to devote the
other moiety to grain and grasses ? The6e
propositions do not admit of a doubt, and
the question then arises, how is the pro?
ductiveness of our lands to be brought to
its highest pitch ? Here, again, I refer
you to your own great authorities in
Georgia, only saying that the prime secret
of success in planting is in thorough pre?
paration and careful culture. A crop that
is properly planted is already half made,
and its subsequent cultivation is compar?
atively oasy.
But in order to prepare and cultivate
our land properly, we must use all the
means which modern skill and recent
science have offered. Thisskill has placed
in our hands improved implements of
husbandry, while science teaches us how
to use them, what fertilizers to apply and
the best mode of their application. It
was by meansof her labor-saving machines
that the North wus able to keep up her
agricultural and mechanical intervals du?
ring the war, notwithstanding the heavy
drain of her laboring population. Eng?
land has increased the yield ot wheat four
bushels per acre by the use of tho steam
plow, while McCotmick's reaper performs
the work of many men in harvesting the
golden sheaves. Jt should be a source cf
pride to us that these two great labor
saving machines, which are revolutioni?
zing the agricultural' operations ot the
world, are the inventions of Southern
men; for Billinger, the inventor of the
plow, was a South Carolinian, and Mc
Cormick a Virginian. If we hope to keep
pace with the enlightened farmers of other
countries, we must hasten to employ the
means that givo them success. Every ad?
vantage of soil and of climate is with us,
and if wo fail in the great ruco the fault
will bo ours. Let us then, my brother
planters, strive manfully for that suprem- :
acy which our kind mother, Nature her?
self, intonded us to enjoy. Let us prove
ourselves worthy of her beneficence; let
us leave to placemen and partisans the
troubled field of politics to seek peace,
recreation and happiness in those more
congenial, more alluring and more honor?
able ones given by her.
"No! for the fevered city's glare and noise
Change not your purer Heenes and calmer joys.
On the glad fields, if bounteous seasons pour,
In golden harvests, wealth unknown before,
Adorn your homes?with taste and skill impart
New charms to nature by the help of art.
Teach plants of other climes, and stranger flow?
ers,
To breathe their fragrance on your native bowers.
With fairer hords the dairy's wealth increase;
On growing flocks beslow a finer fleece.
Give to the courser wings to sweep afar.
Your country's pennon through the fields of war.
Enclose, drain, till, with nicer hand, prepare
Field, medoaw, orchard, with increasing care,
i'elp, with more open hand, the neighbor's need.
On with the plow, each generous feeling speed.
The genial board prepare with fresh delight
Yet warmer make each hospitable rite."
These are the calm and pure pleasures
which agriculture holds out; thescarothe
duties it oxacts from its votaries. Our
duty to our country doraands that we
should devoto all our energies, our hands,
our hearts, ottr souls to the restoration of
prosperity; to the ro-ostablishmont of law
und order; of smiling pence and tranquil
happiness, throughout all tho limits of our
beloved South. Let us lift her up from
the dust, and show that she still has loyal
and devoted sons. Let us cling with rev
eronce?a reverence made deeper and
holior by hor misfortunes?to this our na?
tive land; let no promise ot Wealth or ad?
vancement tempt we to forsako her. When
the barbarian horde destroyed Rome, and
her sons in despair and sorrow were about
to forsake the eternal city, wo are told
that tho impending doom wasnvorted by
a happy omen. AConturian passing with
his company to relieve guard whore the |
' sad concourBe were deliberating on the
proposed removal, gavo tho usual word of'
i cdmmand: "Jmsign, plant your colors j
we will remain here/* The Senators rush?
ing from the temple, exclaimed: "The
Gode have spoken; we obey." The pop?
ulace took up the cry and rent the skies
with shouts of ''Rome forever!" Let us,
my countrymen, as we stand amid our
ruins, plant our colors on the graves of
our ancestors, and invoking reverentlv:
the protection of our God, shout with
more than Roman patriotism, with one
voice, "The South now ! the South forev?
er 1" ? liftJ: .
Mr. President and gentlemen of the
Committee, the agreeable task assigned
to me by your kindness is done, and per?
haps I should here pause;; but may I
crave your indulgence and that of the
audience for a very few words more??
Standing here, as 1 have done for the
last hour, and looking over this vast
throng I have seen many faces which
have met me in other scenes than this,
and my ear, if I mistake not, has caught
tho tones of voices heard often before
amid the fire, and rising high above the
din of battle.
These sights and these sounds have
stirred my heart to its depths, and I would
not, I cannot, go hence without extending
to my dear comrades-iri-'armo one word of
cordial and heartfelt greeting. < Mon of
my old command, brave soldiers, true
friends, you know that I have not forgot?
ten you; looking into your, own hearts,
you feel that I can never dp this. The
ties that bind me to you are graven on
my heart .with a. pen of fire. Looking
on you again, after years of absence,
memory carries me back to those years
of heroic strifo, when it was my pride to
lead yon.' I recall with the profbunde^t !
emotions your deep sufferings, your cori
stunt privations, your dauntless courage,
your devoted service, your cheerless biv
otiacs amid the snows of Virginia, your
trusty picket posts on tho Potomac and
the Ruppahannock, your solitary watch
fires which have blazed on nearly every
hill and valley in Virginia, your heavy
marches, your battle-fields which stretch?
ed from Gettysburg to the Savannah, all
crowa on my memory as I stand among
you once more. I recall to that scone in
the dark woods of North Carolina?who
of you has forgotten it?where as the
earliest rays of 'the last, sun that shone on
tho Southern Confederacy, lighted up. the
forest, the old '-First Brigade'?first al?
ways in the fight?first in all noble ac?
tions and honorable enterprises?first ev?
ery where, save in retreat, were marshaled
before me for the last time. The Banners
they bad borne so ofton proudly to victo?
ry, wore furled?the sabres which were
wont always to gleam in the front of bat?
tle, hung idly in their scabbards, and in?
stead of the glad shouts Which nsed to
herald the welcome approach of battle,
in deep silence, with' dejected eountcn
ances and drooping figures tho men elus
tered around me to say and hear that
saddest of words,''farewell!" While on
many a cheek bronzed by the smoke of
moro than a hundred battle-fields, the si?
lent tear told more eloquently than words
could do how deep was the affection that
bound us together.
These recollections come thick and fast
as I greet again my gallant old soldiers of
Georgia, and I would be false to }-ou and
false to every instinct of my nature were
I not to bear, before this dudiortec of your
kindred, where the virtue, the intellect,
the patriotism, tho manhood and beaut}'
of Georgia's noble State are so largely
represented, willing and heartfelt testi
mony to those high soldiery qualities
which made your career in our noble ar?
my of heroes second to none.
You will pardon, Mr. President. I trust
this digression from my legitimate theme
when you consider how strong are tho
ties with which men who have for years
shared together common dangers, com?
mon sorrows and common glories are
bound to each other, and oven those who ?
were onfe'e tfur t'a?s can sympathise, I am
sure, with the feelings which prompt an
old commander to yield a just tribute of
praise to the brave men who once follow- ,
ed him.- To you riay old friends, I beg to
offer a feW words of counsel, for I feel
that I cun speak to you with authority,
not that authority with which accident
once invented me, but that given by af?
fection. In bygone years you never re?
fused to hear me. I never called on yon
in vain.; 1 never appealed to you thatyou
did not respond, tfnd I would fain hope
that my words will not now fall unheeded
on your ears. Let mo adjure you then,
to be true soldiers in the cause of peace,
as you were iu that of war. Dedicate
yourselvc to the service of j'our State,
and aid in advancing her in the noble ca?
reer she is entering. March on bravely "
in the lino duty points ouft, shoulder to
shoulder, as you used to do amid the
roar of battle. Resort to no violence to
redress public' wrong, but eeek to remedy
them by pcrtcefnt agencies Help each
other along the path of life; extend the
kindly hand of charity to your disabled
comrades, and forget not the widows and
orphans of our dead brothers. For my?
self, I ask you to keep a place for me in
yorir hearts as I shall do for you in mine,
and believe that I utter no idlo phrase
when I say that 1 pray God to keep ami
bless you I
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? In Nevada specie is so scarce that a
jingle of a half a dollar can he heard from
one ond of tho State to the other. It is
so scarco rn this Sta^e that we can't oven .
hear tho "jingle."
? "Mamma," said a promising youth
of about four or five years,"ft If all people
are made of dust, ain't niggers made of
coaldust?*'
? No person over got stung by hornets
who kept away from where they wore. It
is just so with habits.
? John Foster, says of somo one that
"his memory was nothing but a row of
books to bang up grudges upon.'1
A Country Without Trees.
The New York Sun thinks there is dart*
ger that before many years have passed
tho United States will become a country -
without trees. And this probability is a
danger in the full sense of the word,- for
a treeless country is the equivalent of an
arid desert land, in which agriculture is
an impossibility. The Sun says:
"Throughout the Union Umber is being
cut in order to supply the enormous de?
mand, without any rogard to the effect of
thus denuding the country, This is par?
ticularly true of the Atlantic States. As
trees disappear especially from the heads
of the great water courses, whence much
of our lumber comes, the rivers lessen in
volume, the annual fall of rain through
out the cleared district diminishes, and as
a consequence the agricultural product is
reduced. Perfectly accurate statistic
shows such results us these in European
countries, lrom large portions of which
the standing wood has been swept away,
"Should the destruction of timber in this
country continue with ifSpresent rapidity;
and no provisions bo made for the plant?
ing of forests to replace the loss, all the*.
States will probably become a rainlessro
gion like Arizona, where crops can be"
grown only by the aid of expensive arLi->
ficial irrigation of the soil. The present
consumption of Wood in the United States
is enormous. One hundred and fifty
thousand acres of the best 'timber is cut
every year to supply tho demand for rajj-f
way sleepers alone. For railroad build?
ings, repairs,und cars, the annual expen?
diture iu wood is thirty-eight million of
dollars. .In a single year the locomotives'
of the United Status consume ,fifty-six
mijlions of dollars worth of wooov1 .There
are in the whole country more than'four*
hundred thousand artisans in' woobT^'-ah'oT
if tlie valuo of their laboris ono thousand
dollars a year, the wood industry of the*,
country represents an amount of'nenrly^
S500.??0,000 per annum, it will be seen/
therefore, how extensive are the interests
dependent upon the production of timber/
Probably laws will have eventually to be
enacted by State Legislatures to prevent
such destruction of the forests as will be
likely to result in material injury to the
country, and it may be necessary to en?
courage the planting of forests to meet
the demands of the future." ,
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A Romance of the Bar.?Who has;
not read the memoirs of Richard-Swivel;
ler, Esq.. who always h?mJ that there was*
a young lady Having up for him. and who
finally.justified his own prophesy ?by pro?
moting the "small servant" to the mi|
nificent rank of Marchioness, and iftfP
mately educating her for the matrimonial
honors within big gift ? If there lives the
man who has never read that, we hope;
for the sake of his innocent family^ that
he is either blind or a Chinaman.1 The*
rest erf the world, being more fortunate*
in their literary recollections, will reCOg*
nizo in the following little domesrie ro*
mance a strong likeness to glorious Drck'S
happiest move, and enjoy it none theles*
on that account. Years ago, there arrtv
ed in the city of Louisville, Kentucky, a
young man who sought employment, and!
was ready to accept any honest livelihood-.
Having neither business experience nor'
recommendations, he could not gain a po?
sition in any of the mercantile houses,
and so was obliged at last to take the sit?
uation of barkeeper in a popular hotel.
Thither came, bright and early everjf*
morning, a little girl having mint for saley
who was always so neatly dressed and
smiled so sweetly*, that the cKiyalrjjus
minion, of the bottles "took &'M immetffate'
interest in her. Learning, "?p?u ih?jtiiry,
that she wan an orphan, earning ? living
by selling mint and working for neigh?
bors, he forthwith formally adoptetTher
as his sister, and set apart a portion of
his earnings for her benefit. Greatly
prospering ic his calling by dint -rA' atk?
veloped genius for concocting the n,o>t
ravishing of juleps and cobblers, he was*
presently able to* send diis littio Antmmtns
to school. Then he sent tier to a fashion?
able academy to learn all the accomplish,
incuts of a .young ladyhood. Years went
by and this Keutuckian Swivelter became?
master of a hotel of his own, and ,hud
friends among the best in the city, Ara/
minta, in tho meantime, had grown to*
lovely womanhood^ aiud regarded her"
benefactor with such genuine well foun?
ded devotion as it is the fortune of few"
men, especially ex-barkeepers, to inspire
in the bosom of a refined vrrgHf. Ho, it
need scarcely be snkl, doted upon her, and!
bo, like Sir. Richard Swivel ler and the5
Marchioness, they were married. . At the*
present time tho hero of this true story is*
one the richest owners- of real estate in
Louisville, while his clntrmiffg wife, the
former mint girl, moves in lofty social
circles and is tho mother of dtvora young?
marquises and marchionesses.
_"I wont in to b?U*e,v said a Yankee,
??but before 1 was long in the water I saw
a huge doubh'-jawed shark making rapid'
|y toward mo. What was to be (fone?
When he was within ?yar.d ofr?e,. 11?? eif
round, dived under the shark, ari^ taking
a ki.if'e from-n>y pocket, ripped1 tire in. u
ster up.* "But did you bathe with your
ciotltes onfT. asked an nsioiiisbedlistener;
"Well," answered the story teller, re?
proachfully, "I do think you needn't "be
so tarnation particular."
7?- "ifa civil wortl or two wilt retider'a
man happy," sarif a French King, ?'he
must be it wretch indeed who will not
give it. It is like lighting another ?wrw"s
candlo by 3'our'ownv which loses nww of:
its brilliancy i>y wha. tho other gains." If
all nnjiv twled upon tbw principle, the*
world wotrltf be much happier than it is,
? Mrs. Partingtoir, in illustration of
the proverb, "A soft answer tumetb away
wrath.' say* that ''it is better to speak
paragorieally of* a person than to bo all
I the time fliu,giug epitaphs at uioV'