smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1867

We publish the annexed account
Of the trial Of a steam-plow, which
took place at tho grounds Of the
Mechanics and Agricultural Asso-
citation, Of New Orleans. Mr.. Max
Eyth, late engineer in chief to the
Pacha Of Egypt, exhibited the
machine, maneuvring it after the
manner Of the Egyptians, and
clearly proved the utter inability
of a freedman to turn up mud at
all, in comparison with this Won
derful invention. The planters
present at the trial are said to be
"enraptured" with the steam-plow;
so that we may expect to hear Of
a speedy decline in the price Of
mules and the wages Of freedmen,
in that section. Says the Crescent: i:


"The plow moves between two
engines with such ease and celebrity,
guided by one man, that the work
of forty ordinary plows, with all
the necessary hands and accom-
paniments, can be performed in
twenty-four hours, and every
moment Of favorable weather may
be improved with such prompti-
tude and certainty that no time is
lost in preparing the soil for what
ever crop may be designed The
advantages Of this wonderful i'm
provement need only to be seen to
satisfy all who are interested in
agriculture, Of it's adaptability to
our soil, and the economy and
practicability Of its working on a
large or small scale. 1t is such an
enterprise as should interest every
planter and merchant in the State,
and promises yet to revolutionize
the system ofSouthern agriculture.
We can i'll afford to let planters Of
Egypt, who have tested this
machine, surpass us in enterprise
in the culture of our great staple,
and with the advantages Of the
steam-plow, we may vie with the
world in wealth and productive
ness.
Year: 1867

The following briefly enumerates
some of the advantages of keeping
sheep:


Tney make the quickest returns
for the investment in them, being
ready to eat at three or four
months old, and yielding a valu-
able fleece at one year old, and
perhaps lamb also.


Their subsistence is cheaper
than that Of any other domestic
animals-grass and stock fodder
being all they will require at any
season.


They supply the family at all
seasons, with the most wholesome
and the most. delicious meat, OF
the most convenient size for family
use.


They present valuable products
in two forms, their wool and their
flesh, both Of which are adapted to
home consumption, and for sale,
and both of which are adapted to
either domestic or distant markets.


The transportation Of them to
market alive is cheaper than OF
any other live stock (not blooded)
Of the same value, and the same is
true also of their wool compared
with other and similar agricultural
products.


Wool may be more easily ana
safely kept in expectation OF a
better market, than any other and
similar product, as it is less liable
to fire, insects, rats or rotting.


An investment in them is self
enIarging, and rapidly so, by their
annual increase, while their wool
pays much in the way of interest
at the same time, which is not
true of many, if of. any similar
investments.


Sheep, here, have but one
enemy, the dog, and his brother,
iqnoramus legislator who, not
having the capacity to compre-
hend the whole subject, and to
explain it to his constituents, al
lows the dog to run at large unres-
trained by law, and thereby this
inestimable value is almost entire
ly lost to the State.-M0ryl0nd
Farmer.
Year: 1867

Many farmers do not commence
fattcning their swine till October.
This is not the best system Of hog
management. Hogs that are to be
slaughtered about the first of
December or January, should be
we'll fed, with scrupulous regulari-
ty, three times every day. 1t is
not best to "stuff'' fattening swine
in the former part Of the season,
unless they have attained desir-
able size. Hogs should be kept
growing rather than to allow
them to almost subsist on grass,
till within two months Of the time
when they are to be slaughtered,
and then crowd them by heavy
feeding. The quantity Of feed
should be increased from week to
week: as the animals will take a
larger amount. Furthermore, it
is infinitely better to have all kinds
of grain ground quite fine before
it is fed out. It is also an excel
lent practice, when feeding. fatten-
ing swine, toprovide three vessels,
each one to contain about as much
as is fed at one time. Then let
the meal be softened by soaking
in water about twenty-four hours
before it is fed. A still better
practice is to scald meal Of all
kinds previous to feeding it.-New


York Times.
Year: 1867

We would have been gratified if
we of the South could have ig-
norcd politics altogether; but that


was, and is, an impossibility. We
could not, and cannot avoid talk
ing an interest in political affairs
which concern us so closely as do
| those Of the United States. Our
fate is in the hands Of the North
ern people and whatever they do
in regard to the South or to the
Union, must effect that fate for
good or for evil, Hence, while
our people very wisely abstained
from all interference or active par
ticipation in political affairs, could
not shut their eyes to events that
were transpiring around them;
and neither could the press Of the
South observe silence on the sub
iect. It is its duty to keep the
people posted in regard to every
thing that concerns them, and in
the performance Of this duty, it
became necessary not only to state
what was going on, but to endcav


or, by calm and considerate argu-
ment, to endeavor to soften the as
piration ofthe hour, and turn aside
the wrath Of our enemies. This
duty, the press of the South, with
but few exceptions, has fully and
fearlessly performed and because
it has failed to accomplish any
thing Of good, it does not neces-
sariIy follow that it has erred.


Now, however, change has ta-
ken place; and we can no longer
do good in the discussion Of poll
tics. A fate more severe than
that of Ireland, or Poland, or Hun
gary, seems to await US; and we
can only fold our arms in partial
resignation, awaiting that time
when ajust Providence will lead
US out Of the land Of bondage to
peace and security. Avoiding
everything that can exasperate
our rulers, yielding prompt obe-
dience to military orders and reg
ulations, and devoting ourselves as
far as possible to the development
Of our resources, we may lessen to
some extent the weight Of the
burthen which has been imposed
upon us. For we must remember
that it's not alone men who have
to suffer, but innocent women and
children; and, for their sakes, we
must make our condition as easy
as possible. Perhaps something
may soon arise to relieve us of the
burthen, and restore the Union,
as it ought to be. Let US be pru-
dent, patient and hopeful.


augusta Press.
Year: 1867

RAISE PRovIsIoNs.-The New
Orleans Picayune, in remarking
upon the policy Of devoting less
attention to the cultivation Of cot
ton and more to the raising Of
provisions, says:


In the name Of common sense
let our planting people grow their
own corn, and make their own
bread and meat. Do this first,
and give up the exploded idea that
"cotton is king" And when home
wants are supplied then grow
cotton, and the country will grow
richer.


If the whole South could be in
duced to adopt self-sustaining
policy by making their own food
and raiment, and give the balance
of their time to the culture foot
ton, no people on earth would be
as rich as we would soon be,


A season is past, and another
crop of cotton has been added to
the records but as far as it's visi-
bic effects can be seen on the wealth
of the Southern country, it had as
we'll not have been made. A mil
lion bales have been counted,
worth a ahundred millions Of dol
dollars. But it has gone-gone
glimmering to help other people,
and to enrich other pockets. There
is nothing left Of it. No more
money is in the South than before
it was gathered. Some may ask,
Year: 1867

No LITIGATIoN.-In these days
of excessive litigation it is re-
freshing to learn that there is at
least one community where there
is comparatively little suing. We
learn from a friend that this is the
case at Anderson. There have
been only about one hundred and
thirty cases entered there thus
far, and apparently there is little
disposition to enter more. The
Sheriff and Clerk are represented
as lounging in front Of the Court
House, and the lawyers as sitting
in their offices enjoying their otl-
nm cum dignHate. All honor to
Anderson ! her people have shown
themselves worthy Of all commen-
dation.-GreenUjUe Mountalneer.
Year: 1867

So BGEO n DEN TIST,


Would most respectfully
state to the public that he has moved in his
new rooms over Captain McFalI's store, on
Main street, and can at all times be found
ready to do any and everything in his line
for cash.


Mr.. Edwin Jones will work at one-fourth
price.


At the same time I would say to all who
are indebted to me, that they would find it
very much to their interest to call and settle
soon or they viii be.sUed. Feb l3 #
Year: 1867

A. DIFFERENCE. There is a very different
state of society among the colored people in
Richmond from, that existing in Lynchburg
and elsewhere in this State. Here we have
never had the slightest disturbance or ar be-
tween the two races. There has been no dis
orderly meetings or violent demonstrations Of
any kind among our colored population. They
! have shown no hostility to the whites, and no
disposition TO obtrude themselves into posi-
tions where they would be offensive. They
have been we'll behaved and industrious to an
extent highly commendable. The consequence
has been extreme Kindness and good will to
them on the part of the whites. But not!so in
Richmond, and some other places in this State,
where they have been under bad influences -
L7Dchbnr0 RepuJZscdR - 5+
Year: 1867

The Green Bay Adcocate having last
week entered upon its twenty second year,
the editor Mr.. CHAs. D. ROBINSON, thus
ruminates over the past twenty one years
Of the existence of his paper:


"NIany of our present friends, God bless
them, will remember when and where our
little craft set sail upon, what now proves,
its long voyage There were calm waters
then. The printing Office was mere shop
fronting on the sandy street. almost oppo-
site where we now are. There were no
here on that August of '46 sauntered up
and down through the yielding sand, max
ing no noise. The echoes of the hammer
a week, started out for the new settlement
semi; monthly, when all the people ran down
Steamboat Morning and evening, the
fife and drum stirred up a faint life at old
Fort Howard. The grass grew UP between
the planks of the two only docks in town.
And the languor of stunted youth had just
sleepiness upon Green Bay.


NneTC lHdt Ilttic olhcc Is SouC, VIC cdu-
not tell, Look where it stood and you will
see large and handsome stores. The sandy
street in front OF it is handsomely crowned
with the modern Nicolson pavement. The
line of the river is a continue us dock, beside
which lie steam and sail craft from every
where on the western waters The old Fort
is not there but depots and warehouses are
in its place. and the place is noisy with loco
motives. The vacant lands of the Astors
and Crooks are covered with houses and
busy with people. A population of more
than eight thousand fills with life and in
dustry the then quiet purliens of Navarino.
Astor and Fort Howard. New and large
hotels are full with strangers And Green
Bay is at last coming to her long delayed
fortune as one of the mistresses of the
lakes"
Year: 1867

YELLOW FEVER "A dispatch from San
Francisco states that the U. s. steamer
Resaca had arrived at that port from Pan
anna with yellow fever on board She re
ports sixty-eight cases and eighteen deaths
on the voyage up. Theldead were mostly
buried at sea. The sickness was confined
to the crew, one hundred and thirty FIVE in
number. There was not one case among
the twenty officers. Eighteen cases are re-
ported on board now. No communica ion
between the vessel and the shore is per
mitted.
Year: 1867

THANKs-The editor of the Plot ten
ders his heartfelt thanks to those friends
who have exhibited their good feelings to-
wards him in his present indisposition. -
The editors of the Chiffon Times, Daily
Wisconsin, and Green Bay Adrocate will
long be remembered for their kind SYM
pathy, and we trust it will not be
many days before he will be able to return
his gratitude in person.
Year: 1867

BG- Private letters from Washington
say the interest felt in that city regard
ing the Ohio election is extraordinary.
It is the subject of conversation in all
circles, and is considered the most inau-
entail political event that can happen
before the Presidential election.
Year: 1867

r6r A good many of the degrees in
Mobile hesitated about voting in the
recent election, as they we're under the
impression that all those who voted
would be liable to be drafted in the
army, which they believe is going to be
sent against Mexico.
Year: 1867

lowing advice to the Republicans of
Tennessee:


"The bitter feeling in Tennessee is
unfortunate, though not uunatusAl II
the Republicans there are wise, they will
make haste to restore the suffrage TO the
whites now excluded. They have held
one quiet election under their chosen
suffrage law; they have asserted aud
vndicated their position and they can
now afford to give up their proscriptiye
policy. Indeed, in our opinion, they
cannot afford to continue it. They have
enfrauchised the blacks, they possess the
control of the State; they will not de-
serve to keep it if they have not courage
and craftsmanship enough to take in all
the prescribed whites


In the above remarks the Post Is only
alongside the New York Tribune, Gin
cinnati Commercial and Springfield
Republican. How far such counsel may
weigh with the Republicans Of Tennes.
see remains to be seen. For our own
part, we have not been in the habit Of
looking for relief to that quarter.
Year: 1867

To steal in the lump from any one
person is disreputable and foolish,
besides rendering you amenable to the
law but so to conduct your negotiations
as to distribute a given loss (your pro.
ft) among the largest possible body of
constituents is the true theory Of com
mercial prosperity
Year: 1867

as that supplied anywhere in the United States.


With reference to a muck-threatened ep-
position in business, which they do not deem
probable, the Company hereby give notice to
their patrons and the public. that in case of
an actual competition they will supply their
demands at one-third, or
Year: 1867

An unfortunate man, who had never
drank water enough to warrant disease, wac
reduced to such a state OF dropsy that a
consultation Of physicians was held upon
his case. They agreed tapping was necess-
airy, and the poor patient was invited
to submit to the operation which be
seemed TO do in spite OF the eutreuties OF
his son, boy seven years old.


"Oh, father, fatherl do not let theu
tap YOU" said the young hopeful; "Du
not let them tap you'll


"Why my dear, it will do me good and
| shall live long in health and make you
happy.


"No father, no; you will not. There
never was anything tapped in our house
that lasted longer than woekW
Year: 1867

KILLING SHEEP FOR THEIR PELrs.-
We are accustomed to look upon the
killing of cattle in Central and South
America, for their hides, as q waste Of
food deserving the severest censure.
What we deprecate there, is now carried
on nearer home, substituting sheep for
cattle. During the excitement on the
wool question few years ago. the Wes-
tern farmers rushed into sheep raising
as the most profitable branch Of hus-
bandry, but now find, with the return
of lower prices for wool, and the high
prices of grain and hay, that there is no
money in their nocks, hence are reduc-
ing them heavily. Finding the returns
Of sales made here to no more than cover
the value of the pelts and expsnses lin
some cases falling much below, very
thin lots having been sold At less than
31 per head in our glutted markets
they have now commenced killing
them for their skins, being determined
upon a reduction. To such an extent is
this being carried that there is every
prospect of future scarcity in the very
places where they are now 90 abundant.
= Tribune. s. 1'es
Year: 1867

- y III


BY DR. J. q. HOLLAND.
Heaven is not reached by single bound.
But we build the ladder by which we iise
From the lowly earth 70 the vaulted skies,
And we mount to its summit round by round.
count these things to be grandly true,
That noble deed is q step toward God
Lifting the soul from the common sod
To q purer air and q broader view.
We rise by the things that are under our feet,
By what we have mastered in greed and gain,
By the pride deposed and the passion slain,
And the vanqushed i'll we hourly meet.
We hope, we resolve, we sspire, we trust,
When the morning calls to life and light;
But our hearts grow weary, and ere the night
Our lives are trailing in the sordid dust.
Wings for the angels, but feet for the men
We must borrow the wings to find the way
We may hope and resolve, and aspire and pray,
But our feet must rise or we fall again.
Only in dreams 10 the ladder thrown


From the weary earth to the sapphire wall
But the dreams depart and the visions fall,
And the sleeper wakes on his pillow of stone.
Heaven is not reached at single bound,


Bot we build the ladder by which we rise
From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies,
And we mount to its summit round by round.
Year: 1867

The New York Union League feeling dis
posed to eXpel Horace Greeley for having sign
cd Davis bail bond, sent him a notice to an
pear before them for trial. They will doubt
less wish they had let him alone, for in this
mornings Tribune he demolishes them in n
scathIug letter Of which we subjoin the con-
Guiding portion:


* I shall not attend
your meeting this evening. have an engage
ment out Of town, and shall keep it. do not
recognize ycu as capable of jud ging. or even
fully experimenting me. You evidently re-
gard me as weak senum 0falist, msled by
maudIin philosophy. l arraign you as narrow
minded blockheads who would like to be use
tul to great and good cause, but don't know
how. Your attempt to base great enduring
party Oh the hate aud wrath NECESSARILY e3
gendered by bloody civil war is as though
you should plant Il colony on an iceberg which
had somehow drifted into a tropical ocean,
l tell you here, that out of n life earnestly de-
voted to the good of human kind, your chill
dren will select my going to Richmond and
signing that bail>boud as the wisest act. and
will feel that it did more for freedom and hu-
manity than all Of you were competent to do,
though you had lived to the age of Methuselah.
| ask nothing of you, then, but that you pro-
ceed to your end by direct, frank manly way.
Don't side off into a mild resolution of censure
but move tho expulsion which you purposcd
and which deserve if any reproach whatever
All | care for is, that you make this a square,
stand-up fight, and record your judgement by
years and nays. | care not how many vote
with me, nor how many vote against me for
l know that the latter will repent it in dust
and asEcs before three years have passed
Understand, one for all. that dare you and
defy you. and that I propose to fight it out on
the line that have held from the day Of Lees
surrender


HORACE GREELEY.
Year: 1867

Whatever opinion may be entertained of
the incapacity of the Mexicans to carry on a
republican Government, or, indeed, Governs
ment in any other form, few will be sceptical
OF their fighting qualities. Most especially
do they shine with an ominous lustre in civil
wars. They did not greatly do nor dare in
the contest with the United States, but that
was because they were so hopelessly over
matched, that there was no hope of any other
but the issue which overlook our antagonists.
But any one who has paid attention to the
inveterate strife between the Mexicans and
their foreign invaders, must have had feel
ing of admiration for their tenacity bravery
and patriotism. They fight bitterly, brutally:
they fight to kill they kill prisoners after
the battle as well as armed foes in the hot
blood of battle. Gen. N. B. Forrest would
have made himself a favorite, not that he
would slay prisoners in cold blood as thev do,
but that he had in him the warrior zeal
which makes these Mexican battle fields SO
bloody. Forests speech at the head of his
troops was always about to this effect =
There is the enemy you are to fight; and
fighting means killing. Charge 20 We are
in the habit of regarding the Mexicans as an
inferior, certainly, and perhaps an effeminate
race; but either the accounts of their fight
ing are fabulous, or else the estimate is incor-
rect. Maximilian had with him several thou-
sand picked troops at Queratero from the best
regiments of Europe, but he was compelled
to succomb to assault upon an advantageous
position. He did nOtseem wanting in general
ship or in personal prowess, but he was out
fought by his opponents, whom he probably
did not appreciate till it was too late.


We have no idea that any permanent settle.
ment has been attained. The word perma-
nence has scarcely any place in that latitude
AS soon as Maximilian is disposed of, the mill
tary chiefs will antagonize with Juarez the
civil head Of affairs. Every thing, of course.
depends on the disposition Of the army, and
1t is not likely to strike for criterion. There
fore, no matter how shrcwd or able Juarez
may be, his tenure of office must be exceed
ingIy Precarious. Other people might get
tired Of fighting, and SO give up even to the
slender claims of Juarez to the Presidency,
but not so the Mexicans strife is their life,
as much as evil is the good Of the great ruler
of the under world.


Perhaps the intcrna! condition of Mexico
which springs as much from the mixture of
different races Of men as from any thing else,
may warn us Of the danger to liberty from
that quarter. 1t would seem, however. that
all warnings were in vain for the preservation
OF free institutions. Fanaticism is too strong
for history and philosophy, aud her scorn of
right and justice springs from the conscious
ness Of her power being irresistibIe.-U Vest
GBl South.
Year: 1867

Next to the sin of referring at all to heaven
as a subject of delightful contemplation. is
that ofregarding it under false aspects. The
Mahomedan thinks of it as a paradise of SEN
sual delights and many a nominal Christian
has no ojuster view of it. To some it is mere
release from pain, from the annoying cares Of
lite, from prosecuting enemies to others
mere escape from hell; =; and others think of it
only in seasons Ofpetulance, when thoir world
ly wishes are crossed. The heaven of most
men is but an Imaginary place, without one
essential attribute of that glorious home in
which Christ has prepared mansions for his
people On the contrary, the devout believer,
while he is not inseusiblo to the yalne Of
heaven as rest from toll, as an escape from
WORLDLY sorrows, es an exemption from hell.
most highly estimates it as the perfect reunion
of God and his soul as bringing him near to
an ever present Saviour whom he prefers 70
all others, and as a final escape from sin. Sin
Is uow his burden, the source of his heaviest
griefs. There he rejoices to believe Satan is
never permitted to enter to inject into his soul
his foul suggestions; the world will forever
have lost its power TO divert his attention and
fill his mind with vain thoughts. and his flesh
will be SO refined rs no longer to be subject to
hateful lusts. His happiness in heaven wilt
consist in entire freedom from sin, and in nm
clouded and uninterrupted communion with
his God and Saviour.