The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-12-06
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not DC an unpleasant visitor.
new Orleans is very busy Just now
IL Is the season for sugar and molasses
and game and fruits Planters are here
settling with their merchants and dis
cusslng the calamity that will befal
them II the duty on sugar should be re
moved Politics are made secondary Il
TINS question, and the inclination seems
TO be in favor of the Republicans, be-
cause 1t is generally believed that the
democrats. as a party, are for Free
Trade The planters argue, with much
reason, that they are only makinga lair
profit ',oW on sugar and molasses that
they are heavy purchasers of mules,
horses, agricultural implements, pro.
visions, DC, from Kentucky, Tennes-
see, am other States that if the duty
on sugar is taken off there will, inevita.
bly,, be general suffering; that the
planters Can no longer make sugar to
ad:asiliage, and their lands, which are
valuable only for sugar-rising, will be.
come worthless, DC. There is much
truth in this, and it Is we'll worth the
calm consideration or Congress.
Well, this is Thanksgiving Day, and,
verify, We have much to be thankful
10 for in the way of worldly prosperity
THERE'S no crop raised anywhere in the
Union that has not turned out well.
Down here nm told that never, for
more than thirty years, have been seen
such monster sugar.canes. Canes nine
to ten feet long and weighing eight to
ten pounds, are no novelty. Just to
think Of two hundred sugar-canes that
weigh one ton, which will give from 100
to l25 pounds of sugar-one-balf pound
OF sugar to the cane! And the weather
is 50 propitious. Think of planters
making from 200 to 1000 hogsheads of
sugar, equal to s2Q, 900 or 500, 900!
Of course New Orleans is gay. This
is the gay season. Already the shop
are filled with beautiful Christ
mas presents, but it is pitiful to see pow
erty'pinched faces pcering therein upon
lhings they are not able to buy. Oh
i, with the splendid crops this year We
could also have had u splendid crop off
happiness! If those who are happy
would only strive to make Others hap
,y; would only let their ovcrplus off
wealth bless the needy; would only give
1.-THE of that which they cannot carry
rom this world and which, in a little
while they must leave for lawyers and
leirs to squabble over-oh what
Genuine Thanksgiving Day this would
'el AS for myself, l am thankful that
live-am thankful that life, filled as it
with thorns and thistles, is no worse.
was very unhappy this morning l
cit as willing to travel towards one
'olnt of the compass us another-as in
lfierent us Childe Harold when he
ade farewell to his native land-but a
troll through the city-its markets and
usy streets, filled with opulence and
enury its thousands happy over food
n one day ahead, and thousands un-
Apply over the skeletons in their mag.
ificent homes-ah me-I came back
sit down and thank God that live !,
md when | see HIS prophecy fulfilled, u
do, in regard to the Jews, / wonder S
He will not keep up the good work
nd destroy, rs with u volcano, their
and the great church build
'gs Of all sects, that cost billions of
calth, and say to Christians, as He =,
'oke from Sinai, that all this extrava- l
,nce is sin, and that they have forgot
N the poor in order to display great
lies of brick and dazzling architecture.
is n puzzle to me, the way in which
ings in this world are ordered.
More anon. s.