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Year: 1867




How To RENT A FARM.-The correct
way to arrive at fair price for both
parties is the following: Add the value
of the cultivated lands and buildings
to the value of the stock and tools. If
renter has no benefit of wood land,
the growth of timber, and the inoreas-
ing value of the land, will be equivalent
for the interest on it. Now, If renter
agrees to pay to the proprietor, annual
ly, six, seven, eight or more per cent.
on the aggregate value of stock, imple-
ments and farm, and keep the soil in a
good state of fertility, and make certain
improvements every year, the proprietor
will receive better compensation
than the renter. A renter could not
make o decent profit OIL many farms
were he to hire them at six per cent;
while on others he could afford to pay
twelve per cent. The productiyeness of
the soil must be taken into the account.
Then, the per centage must be lessened,
in proportion as renter makes i'm
provements that willincrease the value
of the farm. If he rents a farm for a
term of years, and certain improvements
will benefit him as well rs the proprie-
tor, each one should share in the ex-
pense. ~


A written contract between the par
ties should require the renter to adopt
a rotation of crops adapted to the soil;
to allow nothing to be carried of the
farm that would make manure; to allow
no manure to be wasted by remaining
in heaps from year to year; to keep the
stock good; 10 keep all tools, implements
and buildings in good repair, making
allowance for their natural wear and not
10 damage fTuit or ornamental trees in
any way. The prices OF which every
thing is valued in different localities
render it quite inconsistent to do any
thing further than simply make sugges-
tiors on important points, by which a
fair contract for both parties may be
framed.


When farm is worked on shares, the
proprietor should so frame the contract
that hay, straw, eorn-stalks and other
coarse material shall not be carried of
the soil; and he who works il should
make and apply given amount Of ma
nure annually. Ifforeign fertilizers are
applied, the proprietor ought to sustain
small portion Of the expense, if he re-
ceives share of the grain. The con-
tract should not allow q man TO plOw up
the entire farm ut one time, so that
there will be no grass the next season,
either for pasture or meadow.


A USEFUL HINT.-The GardeHers
Monthly cautions its readers who are
about transplanting the raspberries and
blackberries, not to plant too deep, as
most of the failures result from this
canse. RasPberries and blackberries
will not root out from the cane, as most
things will from their stems, the buds
have TO come from the crown or roots;
and several inches Of soil TO come
through Is too much for the buds-they
will sosuer die first,
Year: 1867

Some of these very loyal gentlemen
are to-day using the money obtained in
that way from the best Inen of Tucker
county. There was about seventeen
hundred dollars obtained by this order
off of men that had no more to do with
the stealing in this county, than had the
very honest men who were instrumental
in the assessment, and who gave their
receipt for the money collected by them.
Some of these gentlemen will need some
of this money to defend their sons at
the next term of Court, on a charge of
pc rjury found by the grand jury at the
Ia st term of the Circuit Court. The
SO II, in his anxiety to please the father,
got himself into trouble-a great pity
for the boy: the curse will rest upon the
father. TICKER.
Year: 1867

S~-AAS --S4A-O'
The following simple little ballad is a
most eloquent and touching appeal to the
inebriate, and we envy no mans. .sensibility
who can read it without zemotions
Father dear father, come home with me now
- Inc clock IN the steeple strikes one;
lou saId you were coming Tiht home from the shop
as soon as your day 'sIFoflz was done.
Our IRE IS all out, our h0Seis all dark,
and mothers been watching since tea,
Win poor little Bennie soasick in her arms,
AND none to help her but me.


Come home come home ccue home


-fIease father, dear father, come home
Father, dear father, come home with me now
- The clock in the steePle strikes two
1Ie night has grown colder and Bennie IS worse
But he has been calling for you
I9aeed he IS Worse-Ma says he Will die,
Perhaps before morning shall dawn
and this IS the message she sent me to bring
Come quickly, or he viii be gone :


Come home come home come homei


Please father, dear father, come home
Father, dear father, ec1ne horne with me now
The clock in the steeple strikes three
The house Is so lone1y-the hours are so long,
For poor weeping mother and me
Yes, we are alOne-pOOr Bennie IS dead
And gone with the angels oi light;
And these were the very last words that he said
81 want to kiss Papa to-nght!n


Come hOmeI come home come home


Please father, dear father, come home!
Year: 1867

A Coop PREoEFr WELL ToLD.-The
Nashville Banner says: The following in
gelious arrangement of a word may be
read in over two thousand different ways
by beginning at the letter a. which will
be found in the centre of the diamond
Although it contains but one single word,
that word is a volume of suggestive hints
to men of ordinary intelligence, and it con-
tains the secret of success in business
Those who are ambitious to wear diamonds
on their shirt frills, may investigate this
one and follow out the Precept to their own
profit:
Year: 1867

The 26th Of April next. which is The an
niversary of the establishment Of the order
Of Odd Fellows in this country, has been
set aside by the Most Worthy Grand Sire
Of the order. as a day Of thanksgiving for
the return Of peace, and the preservation Of
the order during the war.
Year: 1867

SOUTHERN railroads are said to be in debt
10 the Government six and half millions
of dollars, for rolling stock sold to them on
a credit How much the Government des-
troyed for them during the war is not sta
toJ
Year: 1867

"ooTToN is no longer king, if it ever was
king. It is not hcir-aPparent or prime
minister. Bread is king meat is king
and until we have both bread and meat all
the glttering PhantOms of cotton will not
suffice to yield US real prosperity
Year: 1867

A LESSON OF TRUsT.-Some time ago
boy was discovered in the street, evidently
bright and intelligent, out sick. a man.
who had feelings of kindness strongly de-
veloped, went to ask what he was doing
there.


"waitiug for God to come for me-" be
said.


"What do you mean % said the gentle
man, touched by the pathetic tone of the
answer and the condition Of the boy, in
whose eye and flushed face he saw the evil
dence of fever.


"God sent for father and mother and lit
tie brother. "said he, sand took them away
up to his home in the sky, aud mother told
me when she was sick, that God would
take care Of me. have no home, nobody
to give me anything, aud SO I came out
here, and have been looking so long in the
sky for God to come and take care of me,
as mother said He would. He will come,
won't He ?-mother never told me a lie.''


Eyes, my lad, said the gentleman,
overcome with emotion, "He has sent me
to take care Of you


You should have seen his eye fash, and
the smile Of triumph break over his face
as he said:


Mother never told me lie, sir, bu
you have been soloug on the way"
) What a lesson Of trust, and how this in
cidsBtsbows the effect Of never deceivins
children with tales.
Year: 1867

A THRILLING INCIDENT" of the night
of the assassination in Washington, re-
eeives a shockingly prosaic TRANSLATION al
the hands of the witnesses for the defense,
examined in the Surratt trial on the 8th
inst. Somebody called the hour in front
Of Ford's theatre, just before the fatal shot
was fired; and Sergeant Dye, swore, with
positiveness, the other day, that it was Sur
ratt who did it. He had seen that face, he
said, in his dreams ever since. But another
man was on the witness stand yesterday,
and he swears that it was he who called the
hour, and that it was fOr no other purpose
than to notify an actor or ssnger who was to
appear in an interlude, so that he might
know whento prepare himself for the stage
The singer himself confirms this expla-
nation, and it is sustained by other evi.
dpncp
Year: 1867

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
people to be self-reIiant, and shall do what we
may be able to induce the establishment Of
manufactures in our midst for cur home pro-
ducts. To this end we viii pay special attention
to the COST and STATISTICS Of manufacturing
and exert ourselves to encourage the diYsrsif-
cation Of Southern industries and the develop
nent Of Southern resources.
Year: 1867

And kindred topics, we shall also give an ex-
tensive variety Of valuable and interesting mat
ter-the best adapted 10 the farming classes o.
our State. which will, in great measure. sup
ply the place Of family agricultural paper.
Year: 1867

There is in this city young married
woman who is very trungly afflicted
with mania for initiating the CROWN
OF the morning cock, while in state of
somnolence. We are assured that at the
hour appointed by nature for chantic!eer
to frighten away the midnight prowlers
from yawning graveyards, the fortunate
husband of the growing wife" on the
iirst night of his marriage, was aroused
FROM his slumbers by most lusty crow
ing. On opening his eyes what was his
astonishment to behold his better half
seated in the middle of the connubial
couch tapping her wings and growing in
loud and clear voice, stretching out her
neck IN the most approved rooster fash.
ion. Triee did she thus "herali in the
morn, and then sank back and slept on.
In the morning he spoke to her about it,
and was not more surprised than amused
to learn that she had been born in the
country, and that favorite Shanghai"
which roosted with his teatherd family
in the hencoop near the window of the





maternal bed chamber, frightened her
mother by his loud growing, and thus
the child was "marked" And ever since
she has been wont TO wake the echoes of
the coming dawn by initiating 'ye roos-
ter" and still she flaps her wings and
crows


AS the business of the husband re-
4ulres him to rise very early, he is rather
pleased than otherwise to find his wife
possessed Of this additional ACCOMPLISH
ment, which dispenses with the nee essity
OF an alarm clock, though having heard
his grandmother say that the Growing Of
hen indicated bad luck, unless her head
were immediately ly cut off, he is in some
doubt whether, in order to secure
good fortune to his household, lie is
not in duty bound to stop his wifes
growing by severing her musical throat,
We advise him to let his chen" crow on.
so long as she does not "pcck' him


Some persons may question the truth
OF the remarkable incident, but we can
assure such that it is true in every par
tlcular, and can be vouched for by re-
sponsible parties who have known the
lady from infancy; and the moral Of it is,
that ladies who do not desire "crowing
children should not sleep too near the
nen oop--[Richmond (Va.,) Exam.
incr'
Year: 1867

by A CONSOLIDATION OF THE lash
WILLIE UNION AND AMERICAN and the
DISPATCH, and by the generous and united
support of the UNION AND DIsPATCH by the
patrons Of both the former papers. the Proprie-
tors are enabled to present Newspaper hiths-
to unsurpassed in this city or State.


IN FULLNESS AND ACCURACY
NEWS, our paper will compare favorably ith
the best in the entire country; and in saying
this. We only repeat the expressions of many
our patrons. who are most capable Of judging in


uch matters.
Year: 1867

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
people to be selfreliant, and shall do what We
may be able to induce the establishment Of
manufactures in our midst for our home pro-
ducts. To this end We will pay special attention
to the COST and STATISTICS Of manufacturing.
and exert ourselves to encourage the diversif
cation of Southern industries and the develop
pent Of Southern resources
Year: 1867

Every department of business has an imms-
date interest in the markets Of the country. and
in its financial fluctuations and condition. The
man who fasls to keep himself properly sd-
vised as to the rise and fall Of the markets. as
controlled BY the laws of demand and supply.
and the relative condition Of the currency. is
exposed to constant loss. and must necessarily
fall behind his more intelligent and enterprising
neighbOrs. In order to make our paper valuable
as well as interesting. we shall continue TO
make this SPECIAL FEATURE. Our Daily
Market Reports. domestic and foreign. by tsle-
graph. and our City Reports. gotten up at heavy
expense. have challenged the commendatioD Of
our best business men; while our current Finsn


cial Reports from all the leading money centre


of the country are fuller than have ever


published By any other journal in Tennessee.
Year: 1867

A lawyer is strongest when he fee.
best.


Affectionate times-When every
thing is as dear as ii can be.


Why is a married man like can.
die? Because he sometimes goes out
at night when he ought not 20.


When is young mans arm like the
Gospel Whom it makes glad the
waist places


Ladies should make good traders.
They never get shaved.


At u celebration of a marriage, q
large Mt tmber of young ladies were
present. The minister said "Those
wishing to be Joined in the holy bonds
of matrimony, will please stand up
and nearly all arose.


A lawyer is something of carpen
ter; he can file bill, split hair, make
an entry, get up case, frame an in
diccment, empannel jury, put them
in box, nail witness, hammer a
Judge and bore a court.


Mark Twain. a California humorist
about to visit the Atlantic States, in
the printed programme Of a lecture
he was lately to give in San Jose, pro
posed to illustrate the cannibal pro-
penslties of the ancient islanders by
devouring a child in the presence OF
the audience if some lady would fur
nish him one for the occasion. That
part Of the programme, however, was
necessarily omitted, no maternal rela-
tive coming forward with a spare in
fsut 60 tarry out TIE iliusSretfd5.
Year: 1867

Any enc can be supplied with this
wholesomeand palatable food, by get
ting good white wheat and washing
it, thoroughly drying it. Then grind
it in a coffee mill, kept for the purpose,
setting it to grind as coarse as possi-
BILE. Place it in a six-quart tin pail,
and pour cold water to cover it; set
this pail into a kettle containing six
or eight inches depth OF hot water
Set it to cook for four hours, stirring
occasionally, and adding more water
as the wheat swells. Before taking
up, stir in salt to your taste- Have
ready your moulds or dishes (having
first wet them,) and pour the wheat
iuto them. When cool, they should
turn out like jelly, and be eaton with
cream.
Year: 1867

FINANCIAL EFFECT OF THE RECON
sTRUcTIoN LAw.-While the recon.
struction measures were passing
through Congress, an accidental furry
in Wall street put up the price of gold
TO 140, and the National Intelligencer
instantly sounded the alarm that such
a policy would ruin the business ofthe
country. The Journal of Commerce
told-a wonderful story of some Eng
lish gentlemen who had come here to
invest two millions sterling in the pur-
chase OF cotton lands, but who "aban-
doncd their purpose, in view of the un-
certainties of the future, since the dc
signs vf certain radical politicians
became moro fully disclosed " The
rapid decline in the price ofgold since
the passage of the act is showing the
foolishness of the attempted scare, and
proving that what is really wanted is
the settlement ofa policy. Confidence
will now have a solid foundation to
rest upon.
Year: 1867

+ An old swindler. convicted over and over
again. once more makes his appearances
through the columns of the Tribune In the
service of the monopOlsts. We mean the
often refuted assertion that the price of
goods is not increased by high tariff on
them. Doubtless, there may be instances
where reduction in foreign prices takes
place at the samn time with an increase in
our own tariff; but it cannot be the general
rule The argument of our opponents is
that competition is introduced, and thus
prices are lowered. They argue as if all
manufacturers in other countries form one
great consolidated company, maintaining
high prices, instead of being, as they are,
individual competitors, striving against
each other in every country and in the
closest rivalry, using every possible econo-
my and contesting for pre-eminence so
keenly that new invention, by which a
saving of a.quarter of a cent on 2S yards of
cloth is made, will give afortune to the
manufacturer who is first to adopt it and
ruin those who are left behind. As to the
differences of prices under a high tariff,
perhaps nothing would prove it to the
Tribune so well as journey to other
countries, even although it went no further
than the British Provinces.-N. Y. World.
Year: 1867




We have had occasion more than once
recently to remark upon the extreme de-
preston of the shipbuilding interest of this
port. Nothing whatever is being built,
and thousands OF skilled workmen will
soon be compelled to seek other pursuits,
or localities where shipbuildmg is not bur-
dened with the difficulties which crush 1t
here. nfi


In Maine, whose navigable interests are
a leading source of her advancement, the
same depression is experienced. Nearly
half Of the State tax is paid by this branch
OF industry, and the National taxation
drains it to the verge of ruin. The
true protection of American industry must
be sought through other agencies than
prohibitory legislation. The shipbuilders
are not alone in their depression, nor are
the causes from which they suffer peculiar
to themselves. The whole community
groan under the load of taxation and high
prices, and the attempt of special in srests
to save themselves from the mishaps of all
around them, will prove as futile as they
are unjust. The true remedy lies in what
ever tends to tighten taxation and thus to
reduce the price of commodities and labor.
1t is because prohibitory tariff will pro-
duce the opposite effect--will add to the
burden of taxation by increasing the price
of every article made or sold in the coun-
try-that its enactment is most earnestly
to be deprecated. The countryis sick from
the operation of excessive and unequal
taxation, and our, wise men propose 90
effect cure by increasing the dose.-N. Y.
Times (Repub.) .......- .r....
Year: 1867

eral Constitution that Georgia was, and accord
Consequently Georgia was never out of the Union
believe that the doctrine OF secession is ialacy.
that State can't sccede. and that after Georgia
laid down her arms, and her people submitted
to Federal authority, she is entitled to
her representation in Congress Radicalism is
making this Nation of macontents, and destroy
ing the faith of the people in the justice and sta
bity of Republican Institutions. And it will
require the united cxertiOns Of all good men who
love Country before party to bring the Govern
ment back to Constitutional basis.


We have given the people good ticket. We
hope to see it triumphantly elected. The resou-
tions Of both the State and County Conventions,
are patriotic, and breathe spirit of peace over
the troubled waters.


Democrats and lovers of your Country, rally
TO the rescue, do not have it said that the great
principles which the Party have set forth were
lost by your inexerton. See that every Democrat,
every opponent Of Chinese immigration, every
man who does not wish to see negroes voting and
holding office, every man who don't like the Reg
istry Law, every man who is in favor Of a reduc
tion Of the taxes, see that they all go to the
Polls. And when the sun shall set on the next
4th Of September, let it set on complete and thor
ough Democratic victory.


In conclusion would ask all Democrats and
conservative men, TO labor hard for the whole
ticket. But let no man vote for me who expects
me to use my vote. in favor Of Chinese labor. Ne.
gro suffrage, or Railroad swindles. ForI cannot
represent hisviews. Yours respectfully.


GEO. 4. MASON.
Year: 1867

LET US LAueH.-It may be asserted BY
some that the fidelity which accompanies
amusements is not consistent with the dig,
nifty Of man. What do you mean by digni.
tyr | understand dignity to consist in
moderate right use Of every faculty that it
pleases God to put into the making of man.
II God had not meant me to laugh, be would
have made me like an OK or an ass, incapa.
bic Of laughing. In making harp ! would
not put in string that was not to be touch,
ed, to be temptation to the harper; and on
making man, God did not put IN one appe.
tite, or passion, or social attribute, or ele-
ment Of taste, mirth, or reason, or moral
sentiment, that he did not mean should be
used. Indulge in laughter, only let it not
be frivious; let it be something that springs
from your higher nature. Lift up that which
distinguishes your manhood in distinction
from animalsm. If you have mirthfulness.
cousecrate it and employ it for the sake Of
manhood. DO not suppress it. Do not
quench the light which God gave you, with
Which to be guide aud cheer to wayfaring
men.
Year: 1867

A Coop IDEA.-We lately noticed in the
advertising columns Of the Gold Hill News
an argument for the election Of certain can
didate for the Office Of Town Marshal. We
think that it would be good idea il it were
the usual custom for candidates to enjoy the
aid of newspapers only through their adver-
tisino columns Oakland News.
Year: 1867

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
peo2le to be self-reliant, and shall do what We
nav be able to induce the establishmsnt oi
manufactures in our midst for our home pro
aucts. To this end we will pay special attention
70 the COST and srATIsTIcs of Manufacturing
and exert ourselves to encourage the diversln-
cation Of Southern industries and the develop
usnt of Southern resources.
Year: 1867

Translated from the German Of Won Krumma-


cher.


The Angel Of Death and the Angel Of
Sleep, linked in brotherly embrace,
wandered over the earth. II was even
ing, and they laid themselves down on a
hill, whence they thoughtfully surveyed
the dwellings Of man. A holy quiet
prevailed, and the last toll Of the even
ing bell had sounded from the neighbor-
ing village. Still and silent as their
wont, sat both the benifcent spirits in a
friendly embrace, when the beautiful
night drew on. Then raising himself
from his messy couch, the Angel Of
Sleep scattered with light hand the in
visible grains Of slumber, which the
evening breeze waited to the still abodes
Of the weary husbandmen. Sweet sleep
steals over the inhabitants of the cot
tages, over the old man who leans upon
his staff, and over the young child in his
cradle. The sick forget their pain, the
mourning their sorrows, the poor their
cares All eyes are closed But now,
his employment ended, the benevolent
Angel Of Sleep turned toward his more
serious brother.


When the morning light appears"
cried he, with incessant joy, men will
give thanks to me as a friend and bene-
factor. Oh, what joy to bestow good in
secret and unknown2 How happy are
we, the invisible messengers of the Good
Spirit ?" So spake the friendly Angel
of Sleep.


The Angel of Death answered with
quiet sadness, while tears, such as the
immortals weep, stood in his large dark
eyes. "Ah," said he, would that l,
too, might receive those joyful thanks
The world calls me its enemy and the
destroyer of its gladness. At my APP
preach the mother holds her babe to her
bosom, aud frsntically curses the power
that robs her of the treasure of her life. "


Nay, my brother" replies the Angel
of Sleep. "Will not the good at their
awakening acknowledge thee as their
friend and benefactor, and gratefully
bless thee2 Are we not brothers and the
messenger of one father p


Thus he spake and the eyes of the
Angel of Death cleaned more brightly
as he tenderly embraced his brother
spirit.
Year: 1867

THE President is about to be taken to
task for his late alleged conversation
with Gen. Halpine, in which he limited
at reputation. Congress will have a
bigger job on its hands than it has any
idea of if it attempts to stop the mouths
of those who will be in favor of repudia-
tion-unless things change very much.