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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-17
Cotton.

The re-enthronement of cotton is
rapidly progressing. The monthly
report OF the Department OF Agri-
culture upon this point is quite con
elusive. In it's estimates Of the crop
of 1865 Mississippi stands highest,
having raised the past year 100000
bales Georgia next, 100000 bales;
Alabama next, 2S5, 900 bales Arkan-
sas next. 265, 900 bales: and Texas
next. 2GO 600 bales. The aggregate
amount reaches 2,3S0,000 bales,
against 2,450, goo bales in 1861 and
1885 900 in 1866. Estimating 45O
pounds to the bale, and 50 cents per
pound, we have as the value of the
crop 1921 100000.
But this furnishes only a founda-
ton for prosperity in the South,
The original value of the cotton can
he quadrupIed, seXtupled and cen.
tupled by the industry ard ingenuity
of skilled labor. Let us take twenty
| thousand laborers from the field and
put the in the factories. Let us give
employment to thousands of men
boys aud girls. and lift them from
bcggary to independence. Ho:at
manufactures will enable us to eN
port goods, keep our money ut home
furnish employment to multitude
aud afford never failing home mar
kct to our farmers.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-17
History Of the Potato.

Anspach in his history of NewfouDd.
land, gives the following account of
the Introduction OF this eScu!ent into
Europe:
Sir Walter Raleigh proved one of
the greatest benefactOrs to his own
country. by the introduction of the
potato, on his return from America,
in the year 1914 This root was first
planted on Sir Walters estate at
Youghall, which he AFTERWARDS sold
to the Earl of Cork hut not having
given sufficient directions to the per
son who had the management of the
land, The latter mistook the flowers
for the fruit, and most valuable part
of the plant, and, on tasting them,
rejected them as pprniciOuS exotic.
Some time afterwards, turning up the
earth, he found ;he roots spread to a
great distance, and in cons dcrable
quantities, and from this stock, the
whole kingdom was soon after sup
piled with this valuable plant; which
gradually spread throughout Europe
and North America. Its name, pOta
to in Irish, paitcy, and in French pa
tate, is sail to be derived from the
original language of Mexico, of wlicl
country it is supposed to be native
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-17
A Fact for Farmers.

1t may not he generally known
that the seed of The sunflower is the
most infallible remedy vet discover
ed for the speedy cure of founder in
horses. The directions, which we
CLEAN from brief article on the sub.
ject in the Essex Banner, says:
Immediately on discovering that
your horse is foundered, mix about a
pint of the whole seed i'll his food and
it will perfect cure. Suntlowers
arc easily grown alongside of fences
and in ont of the way places, where
they take up but little room. The
seed when fed in small quantities to
the horse is very healthy, giving to
hair a peculiar gloss. It's ii diureIic
in its tendency. Fowls like it much
and thrive OH it."
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-17
Late Sleeping.
A NEW uILOSOPHY-LYING IN BED
BENEFICIAL-NIGU THE TINE TO
ENJOY.

The fact is that, as life becomes
more concentrated, and its pursuits
more eager, short sleep and early
rising becomes impossible. We take
more sleep than our ancestors, aud
we take more because we want more.
Six hours sleep will do very well for
IL ploughman or bricklayer, or any
man who has no other exhaustion
than that produced by manual labor,
and the sooner he takes it after his
labor is over the better; but for Il
man whose labor is mental, the
stress of whose work is on his brain
and nervous system, and who is tired
in the evening with Il day of mental
application, neither early to bed nor
early to rise is wholesome. He
needs letting down to the level of re
pose. The longer the interval be-
tween the active use of his brain aud
his retirement to bed, the better his
chance for sleep and recruitment.
To him an hour after midnight is
probably as good as two hours before
it, ami even then his sleep will not so
completely and quickly restore him
as it Will his neighhOr who is only
physically tired. He must not only
20 to bed later, hut lie longer. His
best sleep probably lies in the early
mornil g hours when all the nervous
excitement is passed away, and he
is in absolute rest.
There is, therefore, a good deal to
he said in favor of the late habits OF
modern life. 1t WAS all very well
fOI Engli>hmen to go to bed early
in the times of the Tudors, Plantage.
nets and Stuarts. Their lights were
bad. and 1t WAS expensive work to
make IL room light enough to be
Bi9' Tlhia hey ia rot iKH nSw "iE oH%
to do it as we know. Gas is respon
Slhle for II good deal of our love OF
the long evening hours. A London
honSe at this time of the year is never
so bright as it is after dark. When
the blinds are down and the shutters
are closed, aud the snug curtains are
drawn. and the room is flooded with
brilliant gaslight, and the bright
fire is stirred up in the shining glatr,
nobody IT grets the sickly dayliA hit
which all day long had been frebly
struggling through the fig and
smoke.
Why should a man wish to shorten
the brightest hours Of the twenty
four for the sake of an extra hour or
two OF toggy, Intellectual morning
1t IS not mere retaliation on our an
ccStorS; it is simply the adaptation
OF Their maNlmS to our modern needs
10 say that, for many Of us, one wax
ing hour after 10 o'clock at night is
worth two hours before 0 in TIE
morning We live double ut that
social evening time, and to waste
such hours in sleep when there is ii
spare hour IN the morning which may
just as well be spent in bed is an un-
wise substitution of the old maXimS
for new experience. No doubt the
Old mdXimS were wise, and would
still be wise if our conditions were
Of our great grandfathcrs; but while
the maXimS stand, the times have
changed, aud we have changed with
them. We must have society, and
we can only have it at night; we
must have ample rest, and we can
only take it III the morning.
The stress of life, with us, is on the
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-17
LOWEST CASH PRICES.
Miss. Machinery agency.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS ETC.
GOODMAN, MISS.

The undersigned respectfully informs purchasers
that he is prepared to fill orders at short notice and
ut nInutdc:uf ers' pIicrs, Crarspnitit addrd)
or all descriptions Of Steam Engines and Wood
and Iron Working Machinery: Cotton and Wool
GnIdmg Machreiy urne Water Wheels
Cotton Seed HulIers and OIL Mills Rice and Sugar
Cane Mills FIGURING and Corn Mills Atwood y
Carvers, Il l!ettS and Emery tins, the latter with
Wa hin Ditching aud Milking Machines; Patent
Churns and 'oums: Gin Castings: Fire Engines
and Fine Buckets; Stump Exra"tors; all the pat
ent Cotton P,e.Ses, including Brooks Wrought
Iron Revolving Portable Press, of which am sole
agent for Madison CnUnty Also all the popular
plowS. including Brinley Universal.
Havin" been engaged in the business for three
years. and being in correspondence with manutact
| urers of all the favorit. lahnr-saving machines in
vogue lie 1itters himself with Icing able TO furnish
my machinery desired. Apply to. or address witt
stamp, q. ID. BUafAMENTE. Agent.
Sent j. Am Goodman Miss.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-17
Industrial and Other Items

There is annually manufactured
in England from liz, 900 to $4,000
tons of superphoSpllatcs.
The 10000 miles of railroad in the
United States give employment to
100000 men.
Wild animals brought from foreign
countries are subject to an import
duty OF forty per cent.
2O,00o boxes Of oranges reached
Boston last month.
Georgia requires45, 600, 900 bushels
of corn yearly for the support of its
people and stock.
The orange crop of East Florida
The value ofpoultry yard products
IN the United States is estimated nj
over 800, 900 IL year.
In the United Kingdom $500. O0ir
bushels of malt were used to max
ale in 1867.
English oil manufactures purchase
all the cotton seed produced in Erypt.
During the ten years ending in
lS6S, England expended $S7, so, OOI
for educational PURPOSES.
The California wheat and flour
now atloat for China and other conn.
tries is valued at $I,000,00O.
A factory in Philadelphia has 500
hands employed in making balmoral
pctticOatS.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-17
The Beet Sugar Problem.

Beet sugar culture, of which we
have heard so much in these latter
days of Cuban insurrection and
sugar speculation bids far, according
to the Knoxville correspondent of
the New York Times, to have Il
thorough trial in Tennessee forth
with, Germany and France, as
everybody knows. have long been
able to nearly supply the whole of
their sugar, for many years, from
the sugar. beet; while single fac,
tory in Illinois, and that not n sue
cess, has been the only experiment
of the kind in the United States
The Times says:
Good Judges have pronounced
the climate of Virginia and Tennes.
see to furnish the right length OF
season for fully maturing the beet,
so as to give its richest yield OF
sugar and, rs to the proftablenesS
of its culture, it may be judged from
our correspondents estimate, derived
from good authority that the best
land will, after few years, yield
ten tons of beets per acre, which will
make from 1900 to 1000 pounds O
sugar.
1t is tine that the machinery l!
costly, and so is the skilled labor
and both must he brought at frs
from Europe. The enterprise alst
requires an abundant supply o
water; but with all deduction, ther
is evidently, in the figures just given
handsome margin OF profit =
especially since the price Of Cuba
sugar-toOd for catt.e, fcrtilizin
material for land, and so forth; an
the factory refuse returned to til
beet field may double the ensuin
yields.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-17
Canning Fruit.

This we call "a very simple process
when rightly understood. We al
ways have an abundance of the
small fruits put up in glass jars We
think the trouble less. the fruit bet
ter. and less expense, than by the
old process of preserving i'll sugar,
pound for pound. We use the Spen,
cei with II japanped cover, and Il
rubber ring around its edge. We
heat the fruit to II boil in u bright
tin pan; have the jars filled with
quite warm almost hOt) water to
warm them; pour out the water,
and dip the boiling fruit rapidly into
the jar, until it comes slightly above
the shoulder in the inside of the neck
of the jar. The end of Il string. about
one-eighth of an inch III diameter,
is dropped inside Oh the fIuit. re
tanning the other end in tie hand.
Now crowd III the cover down on to
the shoulder, at the same time with.
drawing string and the work is done.
ANY extra Juice or air will follow out
with the string.
! Those who fail in putting up fruit
to keep, do not exclude the air. This
is done by having the fruit hot, and
by being sure to fill the jar, SO that
when. lbs. c0Ier iSoRuShsp N9Wl1h
the fruit or not, us yon please. 1t
is not necessary in order that it may
keep. Neither is it necessary to put
the fruit into jars to boil. 1t neces
states extra trouble, aud often loss
by the breakage of the jars.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-17
OBJ f1m Il Coarocr1,
TIE GRASS.

From tbs scuhvru FaFulerl
The grass, the grass, the beautiful grass.
Tint brightsus this land OF ours,
OA, why d, We rudey let II pass,
Aud only praise the dIwcrs1
The blossoms Of spring small Jays would bring
Aud the sumner bloom look sad
Were the earth not green, and thu distant scene
In its emerald robe not clad.
Then sing the grass, the beautiful grass,
That hughteus this hand Of ours.
For there j. not blade by nature made.
Less perfect than the nJwers.
The grass. the Grpss. the feathery grass.
That waves in the summer wind.
That stays when the flowers all fade and pass.
Like dear I'd friend behind;
That clothes the bills, and TIE valley fills,
When the trees are stripped and bare;
Oh. the land would be like wutry sea
Did the grass not linger there.
Then sing the grass, the bonny green grass,
That to all such charm can lend;
For It's staunch and true the whole yea
through,
And to all faithful friend.
The grass, the grass. the bountiful grass.
Oh, may the gift ondue,
That never was meant Tor creed or class,
Bat grows for both rich and poor;
Long may the land be great and grand
Where the emerald turf Is sp.ead;
My the bright green grass. when from the cart
pass,
lie lightly DER each head.
Then sing the grass, the bountifnl grass,
Tint stays like dear old friend
Pr. whatever oar h;cI.i kindly waits.
Aud II serves ~ to the end.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-17
To Make Cows Give Milk.

A writer who says his COW gives
all the milk that is wanted in q fami
ly OF eight persons, and from which
was made two hundredsand sixty
pounds OF butter in a year, gives the
following as his treatment. He says :
=" If you desire to get large yield
of rich milk, give your COW three
times day, water slightly sailed, in
which bran has been stirred, at the
rate of one quart to two gallons OF
water. YOu will find, if you have
not found, by this daily practice,
that your COW will gain twenty five
per cent. Immediately under the effect
If it, and she will become so attach.
ed to the diet as to refuse to drink
clear water unless very thirsty, but
this mess she viii! drink almost any
pail full every time, morning, noon
and night. Your animal will then
dc her best at discounting her tactical.
Four hundred pounds of butter are
often obtained from good stock, and
instances are mentioned where the
yield was even at a higher figure"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-17

eE The tea plant is in successful
cultivation some ten miles from
knoxville, on the farm of Capt. JAS.
Campbell, where it has been grown
LOT about ten years. 1t is said that
East Tennessee tea drinkers can
easily raise their own tea with very
little cost or trouble. The plant is n
deep evergreen shrub, and grows
abOnt five feet high 1t is hardy.
and needs no protection from frosts.
1t bears an abundant crop. with
beautiful fragrant flowers, in Oc,o.
Der. The following season it ma
lures seed, somewhat resembling
the seed of our native hazel, and
grows up readily. The vigOr and
hardness Of this plant, and its adap.
tation to the climate, have been test
ed. The tea produced from the
leaves of the plant very much re.
sembles in flavor the tea from the
Young Hyson plant.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-17

brain and nerves; and they can only
bear the pressure by being allowed
to sleep it out. For ii man whose
work is Intellectual to have sleep
violently cat short every morning
would be half equivalent to suicide.
True wisdom teaches us to adapt
does not change and what was good
for our fathers is doubtless goo for
/ us, provided the conditions are the
same. But when this is not the case,
we must not allow their example to
become tyranny. Modern habits
are not more readily indulgent than
the habits of earlier times, aud they
best suit modern needs.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-17
Useful Recipes.

Managers should he low, and sta (
bles well ventilated and we'll lighted. /
Many horses are made blind by be |
ing kept in the dark.
The Utica Herald gives three rules
for rcuovating old pastures. l. La
winter, lime them in the wet places.
.. In summer, NOW them where
bushy. 3. Keep sheep Oh them, and
feed the sheep with beans and oil
cake.
A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman gives 27,430,G13 as the
number of seeds in husheI of clover
seed 81 ,S30,417 as the number in a
huShel Of timothy seed.
Lemon Sponge Cakc.-Take ten
eggs, separate them, a pound of
granulated sugar, half pound Of
flour, the grated peel Of two lemons,
aud the juice OF one beat the HolllS
with the sugar, and the whites alone;
then add them, and slit in the flour
by degrees; beat well, and bake with
quick heat.
Cream Pie.-One pint of, good
sweet cream, one egg, one table
spoon even full of flour, one pinch of
salt, flavor with lemon and swcetcn
/ to taste. Beat the egg light, then
aud the -four and stir into the cream.
The above is for one pie in a baking
dish, or what suits YOU better, aud
bake like pumpkin or potato pie with
only an undercrust. Put the lemon
on the sugar.
! CultirdtiRg Orchards -There is an
excellent example of the benefit re
Sultlrg from cultivating apple or
charCls, in the ease of w. Lombard
of Augusta, Maine, who has some
one hundred and seventy trees, most
~ old, well cultivated, the soil stirrct
about as far as the limbs extend
and the ground mulched with refuse
straw. One Talman Sweet tree
yielded six barrels, which at So pei
barrel, brought $50. The whole or
chard, in one year, yielded S613 il
, fruit sold; and the present, not
bearing year, 5000 Hort culturist
Sugar GLADSTONE cup of bntter
one cup OF sugar, ore egg, tlavo
with nutmeg wet, soft as you ca
roll, and bake quick.
Yeast CdbeS.-A single handful o
hops, six medium sized potatoes
three pints Of wafer boil one-thir
away, mash the potatoes. add on
cup of flour, strain the hop water OF
the flour scalding hot: when coz
add half a emp of good Yeast, or
teaspoonfuI each of sugar and gingel
the following day add Indian meal
make into loaf, cut into slices ha
an inch thick. dry on plates in a coz
place, turning frequently.
r Pork PHddiRg.-Onc coffee cup FL
Of fine ly chopped salt pork, two cur
' of water, add enough flour to mol
: it, roll thin, cut it so as to make tw
$ rolls, steam one and a Guarter hour
= eat with sauce same as for app
. dumplugs. IT you wish spread wit
&. fruit before rolling up.
}, Sicect Potato Pie. Boil the pot
= toes very soft, then peel and mas
/ them. TO every quarter of ponn
$ put one quart of milk, three tabl,
S spoonSfull of butter, four heatp
eggs, together with sugar and III
a meg to the taste. 1t is improved |
:. il glass of wine.
y The Scientific american says it h;
- been found by experiments that
stream of electricity derived from
powerful electro magnetic machin
n driven through solution of brow
e unrctinCd sugar, will bleach it, elc
II tr;ciiy being thus made to perfor
II The function of charcoal.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-17
Virginia and mississippi.

The following is the full text of
the act authorizing the submission Of
the Constitutions of Virginia, Mis-
sissippi and Texas, to the vote of
the people and authorizing the cleo
ton of State officers provided for by
said Constitution, and for members
of Congress, as approved and signed
! by the President on the 10th inst: |
Be it enacted &c, That the PreSi- I
dent of the United States, at such
time as he may deem best for the |
public interest, may submit the Con
stitution which was framed by the |
Convention which met in Richmond,
Virginia, on Tuesday the Sd day of
December, 1861, to the registered
voters Of said State, registered at the
date Of said submission for ratifca-
ton or rejection, and may also sub
nit to separate vote such Irrovi-
SonS OF said Constitution as he may
deem est. Such vote to be taken
either upon each of the said prOvi-
SionS alone, or in connection with the
portions of said Constitution as the
President may direct.
Second. That ut the same election
the voters of said State may vote for
and elect members of the General
, Assemble of s,id S-,tn and MI thn
nf1;.nrs Of tho St,ta nrovid,l for Inv
tln s,id Cnnstitntion and members
+ of Congress and the officer command
, in, tia district of Viroini, shall
,.,nSn tho IistS nf rauistnrn,l vnters or
s,iL St,to 70 ha revisnd onl,rooI
| and corrected nrior tn such elnrtion
;, ,ccor,lin~ tn law and fin, tb.t mr..
nosp NAV annoiut such rroist,;,rs rs
liz n,y damn uncass,rv and S,iI
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G. Sims of tl,r SAM. rs nrnvid.J in RI,
IN first section of his act. TO = srnarnt,
vote and n. the SAM, election IN,
voters NAV vote for and eject th,
members of tIe Lruisl,ture. and nj
State officers provided for in sal,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-17
LVThc amount of matches mad

LVThc amount of matches made
aud broken is enormous. Austria,
he principal matchmaker of the
Old World, produces 40 less than
two thousand five hundred tons OF
them every year, for expectation
II erely. In this country we use, it
is computed. between three and four
hundred millions of matches daily
or at the rate OF ten per day for each
unit OF the sum total of Onr popnIa
ton. In England the individual
average Is only eight per day-but
then we are such Tremendous smok
ers.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-17
Patent hIatallic White Clothes LINES

fEhlE un!'r~'Eu"d agent of the American Wire
Il Company OF New York, wonld he Q leave tn call
'he "t'nH"h OF the hpnsekeepers al Madison
county. I" their Patent Natalie Cothps Line
wh'ch has been found to he the only article suita-
be Tor clothes line, except the old fashioned
r"p" which always causes 80 much annnynnce aud
'rol'e Nv nenkrng, rotting out and di>cnlnring
c,"he' ana hr being obliged to put it up and take
it down every lime used
"IiA this I'ne y"n have none Of those anuoyan.
ce@' ana when 1t Is once put up it gives no more
P'tce, b cents per foot
Specimens can lie seen ut tho Dr,,r stare Of
Moebv 4 Richards.
MtY2 Il. II. GOULD, Agent.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-17

" Lord Byron's valet, Lindsey
who was present at the poets death
and Immediately thereafter, is now
u cripple III a Western hospital. He
was in Abraham Lincoln's company
in the.Black Hawk war, and served
throughout the late conflict in the
sixty first Illinois Regiment. He is
in great dcstitution and distress.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-17

GREEN CORN -Green corn NAV
be kept the year round by picliling
it with the husks on, in brine strong
enough to preserve cucumbers, care
being taken to keep it covered with
brine. Boiling it in good supply
Of water, will freshen it sufficiently
OF the table uso.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-17

EYvA farmer in Southwestern
Georgia plants Que row of rice with
every hundred of cotton. 1t ripcns
in caterpillar time, and attracts the
birds, who eat the catcrpiIars, and
thus save the cottou.-NeW OrleddS
Crescent.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-04-17
CharlcN Nathan. Contract

The new No Clipper vessel. ELIZA STEy-
EMS now IN port VIII leave for Rio de Janeiru
direct on the 9Th of April, 1869
A limited number If Passengers will he arcnm.
odlrrd liberal amount of baggage and aerirul-
tural impiiments free ot chorge. Price OF Pass
aye $50. currency, for adults, children Under 10
years half price.
Ggricnltafnli~ts preferred Mr.. Nathan has
already adVrntlscnu,ly located $50 Joulhern Emf.
grants Ia BAIL. NJ lSAACKS, Agent
M. 10 Uno ST.. New Orleans
FH- Ee;ers by permission. tn Andrew Foster
Elliott E.1.. b all.l4n Consul. ls6 Common s.
New O!lCans.