Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-04-07

Union upon conditions which more than indem- |
mined the government The swamp. land grant was
justified, because ii 10 remove nuisance which
injured the public and the government as the propre
tor of the dlacen lands while The grants for inter-
nal improvements brought direct pecunary profit
to the treasury.
Your committee are aware that few instances can
be found where the action of Congress has been
limited to the principles which we avow but in our
Judgment these instances warn against them as
presidents of wrong. In extreme cases the laws are
SILENT but tie cases form rule In ordinary cases.
when the precedent is wrong it should be condemned
1t is always ungrateful task to refuse but when
Cuiy demands il your committee feel that they dare
not disobey. Our sympathies mpel 10 extend a
generous support towards most of the objects for
which donations of the public lands are asked. III
our feelings could control, should most cordially
do all that their friends could desire but we live under
government OF laws, and the merit of the object can
not justify the appropriation of means not own
Want seldom inquiries into the right of plenty give
its necessities are its highest law. The ability
of the general government naturally causes appl-
cations 10 it for assistance and without inuuring INTO
lis right to comply with their demands, the needy
press upon the government for support. TIC support
local institutions does not come within the scope for
which the general government formed /; and if it
possessed the power your committee can imagine no
policy more unwise. The public domain is a source
Of revenue In time of war, it is Of the most eff
fective means upon which the country can RELY it
will secure enllstments when money fails: and, in
destroy this important aid. The public lands are
watched with longing eye Your committee have
now before them, exclusive of the where there
is promise of compensation, applications for grant
Of land establish and support normal schools in
each State, 10 educate young teachers to
grant land 10 support deaf, dumb and lunatc asyl-
ums in the State of Wisconsin 10 grant lands for the
support of common schools in the different States 10
grant the proceeds of the public lands for the
purpose grant land to each incorporated college
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establish juvenile reform schools in the principal cities
of the Union grant, for the purposes of education,
the unsold lands in the respective States which have
been in market for number OF years; to grant to the
| old States large portions Of the public domain to
grant land to support a Protestant university to
grant land to support pri> ate military school 10
grant the site of Fort Atkinson for purposes of edu
cation; and one party asks for grant of aHd to
| able him to carry iron foundry. TO these may
be added the applications 10 increase the list OF SOL
ders to whom bounty land shall be given, amounting
in the whole 10 aggregate OF something like three
hundred millions of acres-equal 10 the whole amount
of public lands which have been surveyed since the
domain has been acquired. To this extent are the
applications now. Shall they be encouraged TO in
| crease Our land system has been well and happily
devised under it, injustice has been done TO none
but all ha We prospered. 1t has furnished moderate
revenue, without preventing the settlement and in
provement Of the domain New States have sprung
up on il, whose prosperity is the admiration of the
| world Industry has the price of the public lands
within its reach, and the policy which made it has
caused the wilderness not only to bud and BLOSSOM
but to bring forth fruit. The States have been
encoura ged the old States have had their interests
secured the spirit of our government has been obey
ed and it's duties kept within the limits of the law.
Shall all this be disregarded, and the system be
overthrown? For what?
If the prayers of the petitioners were granted, the
prodigous quantities of land which would be thrown
upon the market by competing vendors would deprive
| it of marketable value. The very qualification of
their wishes would destroy the objects they have in
view To make the grants would be to render them
of no avail.
Your committee conclude that Congress- without
promise of pecuniary compensation, has power to
grant portions of the public domain and if it had,
no policy could be more unwlse than to grant 1t for
The support of local institutions within the States
They therefore, ask leave to report adversely to the
indicated bill.
Cause.-The best way to apply guano to any crop,
we repeat for the seventh time, is it broad cast
after breaking all the Jumps, without any mixture,
and pillow it n the rate of 200 to 500 lbs per
Each 100 lbs will cost about So the land, and add
FIVE to ten bushels of grain TO the product. If you
cannot pillow it in, mix it we'll with the soil by har-
rowing. If you plow deep furrow for your Of
corn and sow the guano in the bottom and cover it
five or inches by another furrow, it will do well
Take that you never let it come in contact with
seed or plant.
: When coin is growing, you may pillow in guano by
the side of the rows. You may it upon growing
wheat, and harrow it into good advantage You may
SOW it upon grass and gain two dollars worth of hay
for every one spent Both wheat and grass and in
all cases when used top dressing, mix half a
bnsheI of plaster with each cwt, or make compost
with swamp mauck, charcoal, fine clay or loan. Use
200 pounds of Peruvian Guano to the acre. and you
will find it equivalent to fair dressing of stable
manure.
| Never mix lime or ashes with guano-never wet it
before using-keep dry, and it never loses strength
1t produces the best effect upon poor sandy land but
is good for any soil in need of manuring
1t is very valuable for garden vegetables, giving
them great size and good flavor and producing no
weeds It is excellent for any lady's flower garden
but she must sparingy as our old aunt used
10 be of her tea when she made it for hired men, and
boys and if they are careful never to make any
stronger it will not kill her plants pinch the size
of the same good old adys pinch of Scotch snuff, dis
solved in a tumber of water and used potted
plant will make it start into life like May shower
Guano is sold in bags of 80 to $50 pounds each
N. Y. Tribune.
EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN AN INDIANA COURT
The Richmond Palladium of last week gives the
following account of very singular scene which
occurred on the opening of the court in New Castle,
Henry county, Indiana:
At New Castle we found quite an excitemen, ex-
listing in regard 10 the Presiding Judge of this Cir
cult, Hon. Judge A.. The court met on Monday
morning. but before proceeding to business, men,
Der of the Henry county bar presented petition,
signed by every member of the bar in that court,
asking in most respectful terms, his honor to resign
his seat upon the bench. The gentleman VINO pre-
sented the petition stated, however that IN case he
would not resign the petitioners had agreed among
themselves that they would not do any business in
the court so long he presided Another gentleman
addressed the court, re-assertng the determination
thew had agreed to- and urged in very plain terms
4 the necessity of resignation. Another followed,