The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-12-06

are two parties that have Il voice. In re-
pudiatlon only one party has Il voice, and
the debt will still hnng over us. morally
and legally. In a compromise both par
tips-thc debtor and creditor--huve voices,
and the result is honorable to both.
Shame! shame! that Reputation should
find advocates in the Volunteer state!
| see thai the Chattanooga Times. Attn
ems Post. and other papers, are for Chan
ccli0r A. ). Marks for our next Governor.
And you say: Judge Marks was our first
choice last wear. ana we intend 10 fight
under the same banner next year" In
aging he was ''our first choice last year.
you re in error Us TO date. The Home
Journal was tor Judge Marks rs II sllrces>-
or to GOV. John &. Brown. but it was I'M
quuliiicdly tor the recollection Of GOV. Jas,
d. Porter. who had made Il good Governor
and deserved the denomination he %receiy-
ed. A nobler man. or better. We never
had for Governor. and hope his successor
will he Judge 4. 5 MARKS. The Home
journal will coriiglly support the Demo
cratic nominee. OF course. but yigOr would
be given to its cXertion ii Albert :. Marks
should be nominated. A wager, right
here. too. that lr will be.
From Louisiana | have no news to
write, In this parish OF Terrebonne the
planters are busy grinding rAnc and snip
ping sugar. and ! have found much pleas
IRE in witnessing tlI. "mOdus OpsrandS' IL
making sugar. What, with the cane
brought up by machinery and fed be
tween two powerful iron rollers, aud the
Juice pouring into a sulphur machine.
Inen into larger jHice-h0Xes. aud then in.
to tremendous Kettles, five o. Xix in mum
Der. where it is bolicd and skinned, and
purified, until in the last kettle, called the
battery. il i cooked until the experienced
sllgar-mlkcr knows that it will turn t.
sugar when cUol-'tis "A pleasant -islt.
From this las, kettle the SYRUP is poured
into a large conduit which carries it 10 4
large box upon wheels. and from this box
the hot syrup j. drawn th"oagh 4 iinr
stivc into any number OF ion., wide, ,tecp
boxes, called coolers. When TIE syrup
cools il i%s-sngar. II is then pat into
hogsiieaus and barrels. and "ll0Wcd to
"Trip awerk or So, over ~ci-trrnS prepared
for the reception ofthrarippings. or. mo
ldrScS. You can scarcely imagine the
pleasure | tr"l in eating the syrup when
il is about half Ooi-haif- way turned i'll
10 sugar. This parish is the fourth one in
the State in the production of sugar. 1t
made 6.533 hogsheadS in 1874; 1905 in rs;
l0,SS3 in '7j, auu will make over II 900
this year. 1t is worthy of remark tnAt
this parish alone makes sugar enough in
one year to bring in over Sl~50OO,0Dp--0r
more money than the United States paid
France for that vast extent Of land " irh
at that time embraced what is now known
a. IOuisia u, Alabama and Mississippi.
This parish also produces about 5000 bar
rel' OF RE" each year. tut this is Il baga-
ttlle compared ot'r amour produced IN
tItp puri-luv at plunu.mipu. uI,ur,in
". james, ~. Charles. and Assumption.
However. il il Useless TOR me 10 write OF
these things, Tor ! opine that very few of
the Home journal readers intvnd to come
down here to raire either sugar or rice.