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Year: 1870

Sit by the window and look over
the Fay to your neighbours excellent
mansion which he has recently built
and paid for, and sigh out: 80 that
I were a rich man p


Get angry with your neighbor and
think you have not a friend in the
world. Shed tear or two, and take
a walk in the burial ground, contin-
uaLly saying to yourself: aWhen
shall / be buried there p


Sign note for a friend, and never
forget your kindness, and every hour
in the day whisper to yourself: aI
wonder if he will ever pay that noteY'


Think every body means to cheat
you. Closely examines every bill
you take, doubt its being genuine
till you have put the owner to a great
deal Of trouble.


Put tconfdence in nobody, and be-
lieve every man you trade with to
be a rogue.


Never accommodate if you can
/ POssIoly neip II. Never visit the
sick or afflicted, and never give a
farthing to assist the poor.


Buy as cheap as you can, and
screw down to the lowest mill. Grind
the faces and the hearts of the un-
fortunate.


Brood over your misfortunes,
your lack of talents, and believe that
at no distant day you will come to
want Let the workhouse be ever
in your mind. with ali the horrors
of distress and poverty.


Follow these recipes strictly, and
you will be miserable to your hearts
content-if we may so speak, sick
at heart and at variance with all the
world. Nothing will cheer or en-
courage you-notbing throw a CLEAN
OF sunshine or a ray of light into
your heart.
Year: 1870

A good, but We know not how re-
liable, a story is related of vener-
able doctor, of the experimental and


eclectic school of medicine. It was
one Of his rules never to have any
thing wasted; and therefore when any


prescription remained after the pa


tient had died or recovered he would


empty it into a bottle kept for the


purpose, that became the receptacle


of heterogeneous compound that
science coUldnot analyze. A young
er member of the faculty noted this
as a very singular fact, and asked of
him the reason for it. The doctor
hesitated a little, and then reDlied
that, though in ordinary cases he
knew what to do, there were instan-
ces when all his medical skill failed
At such times it was his custom to
resort to the big bottle, and leave
nature and accident to accomplish
the cure. "And, viii you believe
ltF said he, ''some of my most brill
liant successes have resulted from
itp'
Year: 1870

One of the German clothing
dealers in Belfast, Me-, recently sold
a man a pair of boots. A few days
afterwards the man returned with
them, and said that he went out in
to the barn yard to work where it
was a little wet, and the soles came
of. 'Mine Gott, mine friend. you
didn't ought to walk round to dem.
Day ish cavalry boots, made to ride
mitg'
Year: 1870

A wag recommends that when you
are walking on rainy day and you
see a tall man without an umbrella,
Won offer him a shelter, and having
Staken him in" hang your umbrella
upon his hat, and clinging to the
handle, swing yourself clear of the
mud. Of course he will be too po-
lite to say anything about it.
Year: 1870

THR Macon Beacon warns the
people against being too hasty in
receiving foreign immigrants the
scum and refuse of Northern
cities. but to be patient, go slow,
and import the pure-hearted
peasantry Of Europe. The Bea-
con is right.-Columbus Index


We publish this paragraph that
it may be seen that we are not
alone in pointing ont some of the
errors, or rather the abuses of the
present system of Introducing
laborers into the State. There
are bad and mercenary men every
where. And because we point to
one planter who has violated his
contract with his hands, it should
not he considered, as it is not in



tended, as an assault upon the
honesty Of the whole class. And
If we should say that certain
agents engaged in furnishing Ia
borers to planters, consult their
pecuniary interest more than the
good of the State, it does not nee.
essarily follow that we have made
an indiscriminate assault upon all
persons engaged in the business,
And if we should show that here
and there an immoral and
bad man had been brought to
the State, through the medium Of
these agencies, it should not be
charged that we declare that al
who come are bad and immoral
We simply point to these things
that they may be corrected. There
b no policy in the world so ruin
Gus, IS to shut your eyeA to sur
Founding evils, hoping because
lyou do not witness it thu lvorld
does not. The true theory is II
inject every issue upon itS merits
foster, what IL good of itand crubl
Tout II once what is bad.
Year: 1870

Two negroes in Rankin County
took a shoA ct each other a few
days since. One 1t Is thought
will in a few days stand in need Of
a pine box. The other, It Is
thought, viii complete his educa-
ton IN the penitentiary, OF give .
public performance soon on the
tight rope.
Year: 1870

being poured into the Northern
and Western States as has
been the case for some years
past.


At the same time it may be
well to explain to them the
great profits which would ac-
crue from their labor here, as
compared to the same profitsin
other countries; and that, to-
gether with our genial climate,
[ think would not have a little
to do with bringing them hith-
erward,


Labor is now what we need,
and any man, coming from
weatever country he may, if he
comes here to labor in our fields
should be welcomed by u.s.
Much has been said, and isstill
being said of the emigration of
the Chinese to our country as
laborers, and I ain in favor of
encouraging that enterprise as
much as possible; but then I
do not understand that we are
not justifiable, in the present
emergency in looking to other
sources for labor.


After having obtained quite
an abundance of laborers, then
[ think it will be time enough
to complain of their coming !;
and even with a superabance,
| would suppose that we might
easily select such as may suit
us best and discard the others.
In the times Of slavery, | do
not believe that our country
had half the labor which it was
able to sustain, and what its
deficiency is now, is left for
Others to say. .. .aa,rH


Gf the numerous advantages
which our country would reap
by having plenty of labor. I
Supposed may not speak as
that is SO well understood by all
of us. SoUTHERNER.
Year: 1870

The Macon Telegraph and
Messenger contains the follow
ing noble and pathetic letter
from this distinguished states
man


/ am now a little better than
| have been-am able to sit up,
read and write a little; but I
cannot walk or even stand with
out assistance. -1


Please accept my thanks for
the interest you manifestsin my
well-being, both physical and
spiritual. Be assured | am per-
fectly resigned to the will Of
God in all my afflictions. I en-
deayor, with the patience of
Job, to bear whatever awaits
me under His dispensations,
and with a full faith in His
mercy, through the atoning
meditation of the Redeemer !;
and also further, with a firm be-
lief that "all things work to-
gether for the good of those
who love God'' and put their
trust in him.


A leading object with me for
years, indeed from early youth,
has been so to live-so to con-
duct myselfin all things-so to
discharge, by the assistance of
Divine Grace, all the duties of
this probationary term, as to
be ready to leave this sphere of
existence for another, a bright
er and a better one, whenever
the summons for my departure
may come. This world, how
ever much [ may have been en-
gagged in its active scenes dur
ing my day, has never had any
real attractions for me. / have,
it is true, taken a deep interest
in them, but at all times more
from a sense Of duty than from
any other consideration.


[ now feel a deep interest in
what is going on in our State,
and, in reply to your inquiry on
this subject, all / can say is.
that if I utter no word to the
public, and take no part, even
feeble as | am, it is only be-
cause I do not see that any
thing | could say or do could
possibly effect any good. God.
in His Infinite mercy, only
knows what is to become oi
this country anditsinstitutions
A. Ii. STEPHENS
Year: 1870


Chafed and worn with worldly care,
Sweetly, Lord, my heart prepare;
Bid this inward tempest cease;
Jesus, come, and whisper peace
Hush the whirlwind of my will
With Thyself my spirit fill;
End-in calm this busy week
Let the Sabbath gently break.
Sever, Lord, these earthly ties
Fain my soul to Thee would rise,
Disentangle me from time -
Lift me TO purer cline;
Let me cast away my load
Let me now draw nigh to God:
Gently, loving Jesus. speak
End i'll calm this busy week.
Draw the curtain of repose,
While my weary eyelids elosei
Steal my spirit while rest
Give me dreanIings pure and blest;
Raise me with cheerful heart
Holy Ghost thyself impart;
Then the Sabbath day will be
Heaven brought down to earth and me.
Year: 1870

Patience is always crowned
witlrsuccess. This rule is with
out an exception. 1t may not
be a splendid success, but pa
tience never takes anything in
hand that it does not succeed
with in some form. ,
Year: 1870

So much has been said about
the white, or Caucasian race
being physically unable to la
borin our cotton and cane fields,
that [ am apprehensive that
the impression has gone abroad,
extending even to other coun-
tries, that white people are not
able to labor in our climate.


AS I see no necessity at pres
ent for referring to whatever
may have originated that idea,
I shall at once proceed to state
some facts which will prove
clearly enough, at least to my
own satisfaction, that that idea
is erroneous. til


In the times of slavery, | saw
many Irishmen at work, during
the months of summer, in this
State, on the levees of the Mis-
sissippi river. 9


Now that is supposed to be
one of the most malarious dis
tricts in the South, and yet
those Irishmen labored there,
seeming to suffer far less from
sickness than the same number
Of negro laborers would have
suffered under similar circum-
stances. H4 osj


While travelling in Western
Texas, in a latitude as far South
as that Of Baton Rouge and
even that of New Orleans, |
passed through some German
settlements" which term to ex-
plain, it is only necessary for
me to say, that they are tracts
Of country of variable extent,
almost exclusively, ifnot entire
ly inhabited by the Germans.
L found those Germans to be
what might be strictly termed
a farming people, relying al
most entirely upon the proceeds
oftheir farms for a living; and
differing altogether from that
class Of Texans who depend
chiefly upon stock-raising for a
support. Those Germans were
cultivating their fields with
their own hands, and yet / do
not remember to have seen a
more thrifty, and at the same
time a more vigorous and
healthy looking yoemanry in
any latitude.


Every country gentleman of
observation, will upon refec-
ton remember some old South





ern gentleman, at least one or
more, and for myself, l know
many, who now own comforta-
BILE homes for their protection,
and broad cultivated fields to
yield them support; and that
very property was earned by
their own bodily toll in the
fields of this latitude.


[ see no need of further evil
dence to establish any opinion
on this subject, and will now
suggest that | believe the time
to have arrived when it is
greatly to our interest to have
those impressions which 1 con-
ceive to be false, corrected
first with ourselves, and then,
if possible, with our Northern
neighbors and the Europeans.
IF we can make them under
stand that they may labor here
with aslittle risk to their health
as in the North, / see no reason
why much if indeed, not the
greater part of the European
emigration may not be directed
to our country, instead of IFS
Year: 1870

York and other large cities. 1t
is only through the latter that
we can reach the Northern ear,
and until we do reach it and
convince our Northern friends
of the vile personal character of
the meH who have come here
from all parts Of the country,
not to make a livelihood as good
and worthy citizens, but to
spoliate and live upon the sub
stance of those who are good
and hard working men we can
not expect them to interfere.
The good people of the North
and West do not know that the
scum Of the country have come
down here, and by their impu-
dence have succeeded in reach
ing the higher posts in our gov
eminent. They. do not know
that our best men have been
disfranchised and otherwise
forced into retirement, and that
these vile adventnrers who
have taken their places, have
undertaken to make laws forla
people they know nothing


y
about, a people who disown
them and their doings, who do
not acknowledge them as their
lawful representatives, and do
not recognize them asrespecta-
able men either in private orin
public. The good people of the
North do not know that that
these men have taken a mean
and cruel advantage ofo mis-
fortunes, that they use their
power as Legislators to enact
laws for one purpose alone, and
that is to extract money from
the people, that they are the
companions of the vilest por-
ton of society, that no scheme
of plunder however monstrous
but finds favor among them,
and that they stand ready all
the day long to enact law and
measure, any specializing pro-
ject which is acco npanied by a
sufficient bribe.


tits time that these things
should reach every. fireside in
the North, and to do that we
must avail ourselves of those
publications which are read
there. ~sf


We very much fear that the
query which heads this, article
"Will They Heed Our Remon-
STRANGE" must be answered. in
the negative. You might as
well demonstrate with q band
of professional thieves. You
might as well expect confirmed
criminals to pause in their ca
reer as expect men who are lost
to every sense of honor (aqualT
ity they never possessed) to
change their course at the very
moment they are aboutto real
ize the fruits of their miscon-
duct, Still the people of New
Orleans have now placed them
selves in an attitude to Justify
them in taking. further meas
ures should these reasonable
complaints not be heard and
the evils corrected. We would
not have had them act other
wise than with moderation and
continued forbearance. We are
now in the right and will stand
acquitted before the country If
compulsory measures should
hereafter be adopted.-[ Ne,0
Orleans Bee.
Year: 1870

INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS. TO
dream Of small stone around your
neck, is sign Of what you may expect
If you get an extravagant wife.


To see apples in dream betokens
wedding, because where you find apples
you may expect to iud pears.


To dream you are lame, is token
you will get into hobble.


When young lady dreams ofa coffin,
it bctokeas that she should discontinue
the use of tight stays, and always go
warmly aud thickly shod in wet weather.


To dream OF FIRE, it is a sign that--if
you are wise you will see that the lights
in your houses are out before you 60 to
bed


To dream that your nose is red at the
tip, is an intimatiou that you had bet
ter leave off brandy aud water.


To dream of walking baretooted, de-
notes a journey that you will make boot
less.
Year: 1870

BEAUTIFUL FIGURE.-Two painters
were employed to fresco the walls of a
magnificent cathedral; both stood on a
rude scaifolding constructed for the pur.
pose, some eighty feet from the floor
One of them was so intent upon his
work that be became wholly absorbed,
and iu admiration stood off from the
picture, gazing at it with delight. For.
getting where he was, he moved back
ward slowly, surveying critically the
work Of his pencil, until he had neared
the end of the plank upon which he
stood. At this critical moment his
companion turned suddenly, aud, al.
most frozen with horror, beheld his i'm.
minent peril another instant and the
enthusiast would be precipitated upon
the floor beneath; if he spoke to him il
was certain death-if he held his peace
death was equally sure. Suddenly he
regained his presence Of mind, and seiz.
ing wet brush, flung it against the
wall, scattering the beautiful picture
with unsightly blotches Of coloring.-
The painter flew forward and turned
upon his friend with fierce inpreca.
tions but, startled at his ghastly face,
he listened to the recital of danger,
looked over the dread space below, aud
with tears gratitude, blessed the hand
that saved him.
Year: 1870

How poor, even in this beautiful
world, with the warm sun aud fresh air
about us which alone are sufficient to
make US glad, would be life, il we could
not make the happiness of others.
Year: 1870

A little boy who sat listening to some
gentleman conversiug at his fathers
table, heard one of them quote the we'll.
known line, ian honest man is the
noblest work of God" when he said he
did not believe it, for his mother was
better than any man that was ever made.
Year: 1870

The present generation of men are get
ting old. The dark hair is getting gray,
and the smooth brow is becoming wrin-
kled. Beauty is fading. The rose is dis
appearing from the cheek, the vermillion
from the lip, and even the skin is assuming
the sallow, bilious hue which indicates the
approach of age. There may not be any
marked change in the vital energies Of
some, but they are, nevertheless, wasting.
The progress from the cradle to the grave
is still kept up. A few years more and
there will be many vacant places at the
table and family alter, and familiar faces
will be missed from the daily walks of life.
In the days of our prosperity and in the
pride of our strength and manhood, we
should not cease to remember that the
present generation Of men is rapidly pass
ing away.
Year: 1870

Millions of dollars, says q writer, are
annually expended for manures that ought
to be saved, for with adequate painstak..
ing, farm whose stock is rightly proper
toned tothe number of acres titled, will
furnish all the manure necessary to keep
the farm constantly increasing in fertility.
Barns should be so arranged as to shelter
and save all the manure, both likuid and
solid; then, as load of solid manure
from the stable to the "ordure room,"
there should be thrown over 1.-two or three
times its bulk of refuse straw sods, weeds,
leaves bean and peayines, mulch swamp
muck, tanbark, sawdust and shavings,
pouring over the heap as much liquid
manure as the compost will absorb. BY
the constant repetition of this process,
there will be created an enormous amount
of fermented manure, sufficient to supply
all reasonable demands of the farm. ~


If eight or ten hogs are fattened, by
means of the same process, the hOg-pen is
made to furnish bountiful supply Of ma
nure for the garden and large field Of
corn. Any farm may thus be made to
manufacturer all the manure for the crops
grown upon it, except potatoes, and those
should have plaster instead of manure, as
the latter increases their tendency to rot.
Potatoes should be planted on dry piece
of land, after buckwheat, and the land
we'll sown with plaster, Or the planter may
throw a handful of plaster into each hill
Ashes do very we'll as q substitute for
plaster; popatOes are not liable to rot
plated with either.


Guano is good and valuable for farm
use; but every farmer should save from
the dropping of the hennery enough for
home use, instead of buying the imported
article. Privies should be so constructed
as to readily yield up their accumulation,
either from tight box, so hung as to be
easily moved, or from a sliding drawer,
when the contents should be conveyed to
a heap or vat of absorbent refuse, which
should also be the receptacle of kitchen
refuse and bedroom deposits. A compost
heap is thus formed sufficient to enrich
garden to the higheat degree of fertility,
and by the use ofchloride oflime, or some
other disinfectant, all offeusiveness may
be avoided. aJif


The following deductions, drawn from
years of observation and experience, are
worthy the attention of farmers: -5


lst Farming cannot be proftably con-
Quoted without careful reference to the
laws of waste and supply. ia1


I'd. The nature of the waste must be
understood, and the proper remedies ap-
piled. 1't1aq@7 g


Sd. All these supplies should be drawn
from the resources of the farm under cul-
ture. -. Maryland Farmer.
Year: 1870

DON'T buy piano for your daughter
while your sons need plow.


Decent, substantial clothing for your
children make them think better of them
selves, and. keeps the doctor away.


Don't become security for him who
waits for the sheriff.


Buy farm wagon before a fine carriage.


If you have yoke of oxen don't be
ashamed of them and give your note for a
spa of horses.


Don't leave to memory what should be
written; it makes law suits.


Cultivate the habit of giving but never
give up.


When the labors of the day are past
take good books and newspapers and the
youngsters to the setting room.


DON'T ask an editor to trust you for
your newspaper but pay in advance, it
saves much growing.


DON'T think you have right to the ben
eft Of educational and religious institu-
tions without yourself contributed in word
and deed to their support; fol- you would
justly be called a shirk.


Don't ask your minister or your school
teacher to work for less money than you
would be willing to work for if you were
in the place of either; it is a violation
of great commandment.
Year: 1870

Pete Milestone, of Arkansas, was once
travelling on horseback through the inte-
riOr of the State, and called one evening
to stay all night at little log house near
the road where entertainments and post
Office were kept. Two other strangers
were there, and the mail rider rode up
about dark. Supper being over, the mail
carrier and the three gentlemen were In
vited in a small room furnished with a
good fire and two beds, which were to ac-
commodate the four persons for the night
The mail carrier was little, dirty look
ing wretch, with whom none of the gentle
men liked tho idea of sleeping. Pete
Whetstone eyed him closely, as he asked


"Where are you going to sleep tu night,
my lad 2"


"Pll thleep with you, I reckon" lisped
the youth, "or one of them fellers, don't
care which,"


The other two gentlemen took the hint
and occupied one of the beds together inn
mediately, leaving the other bed and con-
fab to be enjoyed by Pete and the mail
boy together as best they could. Pete
and the boy commenced>hauling off their
duds and Pete getting into bed first and
wishing to get rid of sleeping with the
boy, remarked very earnestly:


"My friend, I'll tell you beforehand.
l've got the itch, and you'd better not get
in here with me for the disease is catching.''


The boy who was just getting into bed,
too, drawled out very coolly.


"WOl, reckon that don't make bit
of difference--I've had it now nearly this
seven years." and into bed he pitched
along with Pete, who pitched out in as
great hurry as if he had walked up q hor-
nets nest in the bed.


The other gentlemen roared, and the
mail boy who had got peaceable posses
sion of the bed to himself, drawled out:


"Why, you muth be a set o. daned
fools; mann and dads got the itch worth
than | is, and they thlep in that bed lath
night when they wath here quiltin."


The other two strangers were now in a
worse predicament than Pete had been
and bouncing from their nest as if the
house had been on fire, stripped, shook
their clothing, put them on again ordered
their horses, and though it was nearly ten
O'Clock, they all three left and rode SO YER
al miles to the next town before they slept,
leaving the imperturable mail carrier ia
the bliss of scratching and sleeping alone