Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1864-01-30

to maintain negroes for that purpose.
1--WE have taken TO raising cereals, aud,
have succeeded so badly AS TO make it "a
matter of doubt whether we will not have
eaten everything before the time of graens,
which, when boiled with jowl are So priced
by the First Families of Virginia.
In the meantime, the production Of cot
ton is slipping away from us, and we have
| already slipped away into unknown depths,
and arc drifting 10 fearful and TO IN TN
certain future. Let us turn, then, as advised
by Gil Bias when he assumed the practice
Of medicine, to see what other practitioners
are about
"Our readers may or may not remember
distinctly that when the renowned DR.. San
grado, owing to his extended practice, i'm
parted, in a few words, the whole art of
curing, it consisted in cOpious draughts of
hot water and blood-letting. The acutc
Gil Bias, soon after (thcn young practitioner
was much perplexed at the want OF success
which attended his efforts, and urged upon
the venerable doctor that, as every one
died who came under his hands, apparently,
rs it appeared, to throw discredit upon his
system, 1t might be well to do Us the other
doctors did, use chemicals and trust to a
more favorable result, as a more fatal one
because he had written book TO show that
il Il patient died from disease it was simply
because the physician had either not bled
him sufficiently or administered hot jraughts
in susuiiicient quantities We are not
however disposed to adopt the course Of
that eminent practitioner. We have writ
ten book bat we see that lacts prove its
error. We are willing to write another
which We hope will prove true IL the
negro will not raise enough to feed himself
and his master, what is the use Of the negro
If we are not permitted to avail ourselves Of
the high qualities of the negro, and found
asupCrior u civilization upon lin, why should
we not accept the civilization which belongs
to people in general, founded upon the dig.
nifty Us well as the usefulness of labor?
The people Of the North live comlorta-
bly,; more so, indeed than the majority of
the slayc-Owners in the South. They cdu-
cate their children and tell them that there
Is no dishonor in employing either their
hands or their heads; and say boldly even
against our prejudices, think they are right
in that.
1--WE know that the turnip crop of Eng
land is now by FAR more valuable than any
other cultivated by the English, although il
has become so recently. In regard to the
comparative productions Of the people of
the North and of the South, as given by the
Census Report, we observe in those common
to both regions that the widest divergence
exists in regard to mich cows.
IN the North the ratio OF increase Of
mich COWS was slightly in excess of the
ratio Of increase OF population between the
years 1850 and 60. In the South there was
an actual deficiency in the ratio above stated
of 43l,50l In proportion to the ratio OF
increase Of population tie chivalrous state
OF S0utl, Carolina is deficient in mich cows,
Gi,7G6 AS her decadencc is far greater
than that OF any other state, and her def
cheney Ill the ratio Of mich COWS TO the pop
ulation Is the greatest, may We not suppose
that either the deficiency indicated, or some
cause cO-incident TO it, has been the ruin OF
that state
people must drink something. II they
cannot get milk, naturally they t4ke 10
whishey, and we may well lament the result.
The subjOined tables show plainly that the
decrease of iailcE cows in proportion to the
population INDICATES IA precarious condition
of society and it has not led directly to the
rebellion, the causes of the decrease Of mich
COWS are coincident and analogous, at least
to il.
All 1it st0Nt StuNcS, l1DulNlGN III lSUU,
there Was a mich COW to every 81 persons.
In the free states, tabulated one for every
81 persons. In 1860, in the slave states, one
Tor every persons, and in the free states
one to every Sc persons, or Il slight gain of
the proportionate number of mileh c.ws.
The want of good meadow lands in most
"f the slave states, the poor and insufficient
quantity of food usually given milch COWS,
the un>hetored condition in which they are
kept, and the Neglect ot them by the negroes
would make the yield Of milk less than one
half per each COW Of those IN the northern
states. This appears 10 be shown by the
aMcunts Of butter and cheese produced:
fols. amount of butter
pI2ducgl IN ten free
states IN 1860. 3o1,700,77i pounds.
Or about - pounds per year for each COW.
Total amotflt OF butter
produced in ten slave
states in 1860, 53oG0,5 pounds.
Or about 20 pounds per year 10Y each COW.
Average yield of cheese
per COW in ten Tree
states in 1860, go pounds.
Average yield of cheese
per COW in ten slave
states in 1860 0.2 ponds.
I'VE see in the shove our road 10 pro
gress cotton has failed or will iail Us the
negrn has failed or viii fail us il is Idle To
hope lungeg 10 enjoy peacefully the proceeds
OF his labor when u, this moment eighty
Thousand @! his color are organized and hold
arms IA their hands 10 tree their faliow,-
The longer the war is prolracted the nor.
violently will slavery DC destroyed. For
two years and halt we have wgged W.r,
sad lost more than half the territory over
which we asserted jurisdiction; the supply
OF cattle no longer comes from Texas, nor
does cotton esscape longer tsom the ifaplier
10 furnish us supplies, The Mississippi
bears a hundred gunboats, halfof thu mon.
c'ads, that ciioctually prevent oar occupation
" gny point along iis entire cgprse, or sven
the passage Of IL except uadeT ooycro dark
ne,s aud 10y stealth,
The fruitful valleys Of Kentucky aud OF
Tennessee have been desolalel hy war, and
are held lay the enemy, Arkansas, a large
pert gF Louisiana, Of Mississippi, OF North
rsrpllna and OF Virginia have hecn held or
ais now held by the eneuy, and have been
exhausted by the supplies dr1wn hy tAs
coriendlng hrets. MOI can Ne leggrd Ala
banla, Georgia, South CsTollaa, 90 Texas
exempt lfum the march OF heavy Armies
nos organizing loF paFposcs 81 ingasion.
"lila EAeslleney fgcsldsnt Davis gFaNvly
lells toagIcss, Ia Lis niessage, that hr has =
neans ~ gniofcgg the Tespect ul nations,
pafllfulATlF that ol lifasl Britain aut sll.l.