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VOL. V.-THIRD SERIES. , SKgPBT. N. C DECEMBER18, 1873. NO. 14.-WHOLE NO 104. Fireman fBMyUHg J. BBUNEH, 1 Proprietor Mi labor. l ii Jul 1 I ' ''' J. J. STE W ART, Associate Editor. M BCRIPTION Ova iau, payable in advance. $2.50 ,i Months, 1.50 ft Copies to one address ..10.0 m 1 This unrivalled Southern Remedy is warrant sd set to contain a single particle of Merccky, er any injurious mineral substance, bnt is itaining those Southern Koots and Herbs, which an all-wise Providence has placed m U trir- where Liver Diseases most prevail. It viUCSve all Diseases caused by Derangement of the The Symptoms of Liver Complaint area bitter er had taste in the mouth ; Pain in the Back, lines or Joints, often mistaken for Rheumatism ; SW Stomach; Loss of Appetice; Bowels alter- sataly costive aad lax ; Headache; Loss of mem ory, with a painful sensation of having failed to mm mm sShins which ought to have been done ; Debility, Low Spirit, a thick yellow appearance j nf shs Skin aad Eyes, a dry Cough often mis taken for Consumption. Sometimes many of mm symptoms attend the disease, at others, very few ; hat the Liver, the largest organ in the body, ia generally the seat of the disease, and if set Regulated in time, great sunering, wretched ness tad Death will ensue. This Great Unfailing SPECIFIC will not be found the Least Unpleasant. Per DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, Jann- lis. Billions attacks, SICK HEADACHE, Celie, Depression ol Spirits, SOUR STOMACH, Heart Burn, Ac., Ac. liBBsift' Liver texilaUr, or Medicine, Is the Cheapest, Purest and Best Family Medi cine in the World! M AN UK ACT l' RED ONLY BY J.H. ZK1UN &CO., Macon, Oa. and Philadelphia. Price, $1.00. Bold by all lruggit. roR sale by theo. f. kluttz. Jane 19 tt. Salisbury N. C. COME ; TO THE BOOK STORE EVERYBODY. And get Bibles. Prayer Books, Hymn Books of1 any kind you want; Histories, Biographies. Music Books, Music, Novels of tha best authors; Blauk Books, Albums of tha most stfltsh kind ; Stereoscopes and Views ; School Books, all kinds in general ese. Slates, Inks, Writing Paper of the best eulity ; Wall Paper and Wiudow Sbadea ia great variety. Music Teachers for vocal, Pianos, Baujo, violins dec. WORD TO F Bay a few dollars worth of books every year for your sons and bauds and take a good wspaper, they will work better and be more I. Try it. A WORD TO F. You have something to be proud end to beast of. The fann is the keystone to every isdustriat pursuit. When it succeeds all preper; when it fails, all flag, Don't think yea can't be a great man because you are the son of a fanner. Washington, Webster aad Clay were former's sons, bnt while they Uiled they studied. So do ye. Buy a good book, ohe at a tune, reed and digest it, and then another. Call and see me and look over books. COME TO THE PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY, And Get a Good Picture. We will give you a good picture or not let you take It Sway ; for we don't intend that any bad work shall go from this office to in ure ua aad the business. Call and try. ! Up Stair $ between Parker and Mi$ jkfe If array's. Call and examine my stock of Wall Paper, Window Shadee. Writing paper, Inks dec. Mind I don't intend to ut under sold. Feb. 27, tf. H1RD WARE. Wh eh VOU Want Hardware at lOW m awawaws xssn am figures, eall on the undersigned at No. 2 in N. C. I keep no others. My wines are im GranUe Row. 1 ported and are of the best varieties as any jndge w . mmnT T D. A. AT WELL. ealisbory, N. C, May 13-tf. I sa r mV mm II v 1 BTSsTsWnw mZmmw .am nm btsbtst bT sm nnnm. Dr. J. Walker's California Vln eear Bitters are a purely Vegetable preparation, made chiefly from the nav live befbs fouml on tbe lower ranges of Its Sierra Nevada roountaius of Califor nia, mo medicinal properties oT which are extracted thorcfrom without the use of Alcohol. The question is almost daily asked. " What is the cause of the unparalleled success of Vinkgar Bit thus ?" Our answer is, that they remove the cause of disease, and the patient re covers his health. They are the great blood purifier and a life-giving principle, a perfect Renovator and fnvigorator of the system. Never before in the history of the world has a medicine been compounded possessing the remarkable qualities of Vjnkoar Bittkrs in healing the sick of every disease man is heir to. They are a gentle Purgative as well as a Tonic, relieving Congestion or Inflammation of the Liver and Visceral Organs in Bilious Diseases The properties of Da. Walker's Vikeoar Bittkrs are Aperient, Diaphoretic, Carminative, Nutritious. Laxative, Diuretic, Sedative, Counter-irritant Sudorific, AJtsxa- tive. and Anti-Bilious. ! tinteful i housaiids proclaim 7 ix egar Bitters the most wonderful In rigorant that ever sustained ta sinking system. j No Person can take these Bitters according to directions, and remain long unwell, provided their bones arc not de stroyed by mineral poison or other means, and vital organs wasted beyond repair. Bilious. Rcniittcnt and Inter mittent level's, which are so preva lent in the valleys of our great rivers throughout the United States, especially those of the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, Cumberland, Arkan sas, Hed, Colorado, Brazos. Iiio Grande, Pearl, Alabama, Mobile, Savannah, Ho anoko, James, and many others, with their vast tributaries, throughout our entire country during the Summer and Autumn, and remarkably so during sea sons of unusual heat and dryness, are invariably accompanied by ex tensive de rangements of the stomach and liver, and other abdominal viscera. In their treatment, a purgative, exerting a pow erful influence upon these various or gans, is essentially necessary. There is no cathartic for the purpose equal to Dn. J. WamvKR's Yixkgau BrrrKus, as they will speedily remove the dark colored viscid matter with which the bowels arc loaded, at the same time stimulating the secretions of the liver, and generally restoring the healthy functions of tho digestive organs. Fortify the body against disease by purifying all its fluids with Vinkgar BitteRs. No epidemic can tako hold of a system thus lorc-arntcd. Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Head ache, rain in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness of the Chest, Dizziness, Sour Eructations of tho Rjtonincb, Bad Taste in tho Mouth, Bilious Attacks, i'alpita tatiou of the Heart, Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain in the region of tho Kid ncys, and a hundred other painful symp toms, are the offsprings of Dyspepsia. One bottle will prove a better guarantee of its merits than a lengthy advertise ment. I Scrofula, or King's Evil, White Swellings, Ulcers, Erysipelas, Swelled Neck, Goitre, Scrofulous In Humiliations, Inuolrnt Inflammations, At urcUrial .A ilvctions, Old Soros, Eruptions of the Skin, Sore Eyes, etc. In these, as in nil other constitutional Dis eases, Walkkrs Vixmiar Bittkrs have shown their great curative powers in the most obstinate and intractable cases. For Inflammatory and Chronic Rheumatism, Gout, Bilious, Remit tent and Intermittent Fevers, Diseases of the Blood, liver, Kidneys and IHadder, these Bitter have na equal. Such Insaaats are caused1 by Vitiated Blood. Mechanical Diseases. Persons en gaged in Paints and Minerals, such as Plumber, Type-setter. Gold-beaters, and Miners, na they advance in life, are subject to paralysis of tho Bowels. Ta fruard against this, take a dose of Walkkr's V in KOAR Bittkks occasionally. For Skill Diseases, Eruptions, Tet ter, Salt-kheum, Blotches. Spots, Pimples, Pu.si.uies, Boils, Carbuncles. King-worms, Scald-head, Sro Eyes, Krysipelas. Itch, Scurfs, Decolorations of the Skin, Humors and Diseases of the Skin of whatever name or nature, are literally d up: up and carried out of the system iu a short time by the use of these Bitters. Pin, Tape, and other Worms, larking m the system of so many thousand, are euectually destroyed and removed. No system of medicine, uo vermifuges, no an thelmintics will free tbe system from worms like these Bittern. For Female Complaints, in young or old, married or single, at tbe dawn of wo manhood, or tbe turn of life, these Tonic Bitters display o decided an influence that improvement is soon perceptible. Cleanse the V i t i ated Blood when ever you end its impurities bursting through the skin in Pimples, Eruptions, or Sores; cleanse it when you find it obstructed and sluggish in the veirft ; cleanse it when it is foal ; yoar feelings will tell you when. Keep the blood pare, and the health of the system will follow. r. h. Mcdonald & co.. Druggiata and Gen. A eta., Su Vraaciaoo. California, and cor. of Washington and Charlton suu. N. T. 814 toy aOl Drwgglsts : Deaden. H. h. Mcdonald co., Profffriata and Qen. Aftta., Saa Pranciaco. California, aad cor. of Wahinton and Chariton Su.. K. T. soia ojr u vrttfl STAR SALOON. Persons wishing pure homemade liquors and .1 i ., : . i tan -,JL uie very ueaa impuneu wines can always una them at the Staii Saloon, on Main StrU,3 doort below the Salisbury House. All m. whtabtaa mnA RMni: AW.iwl direct from tho hMt and mml r-linKU tlatilUM f mav see bv on line and PTaminincr frr himv I J. A. SNIDER. Jane 19, 6mo. pd. The Host Remarkable Case uecora. 8eareh the Hill " of heaven above, the earth beneaait of 'Ahe waters under the earth, ear the "East -Carolina " cor res- i pondeotef tbe Peteisbarg Appeal, sad no sued ease has ever been adjudicated in a court, of supreme appeal. 1 our readers shall have it in extenso. It seeds no 1 ta: m.i. 8 late as, WmiasVinhhew. indictment for misdemeanor, tried be fore Russell, at Robeson Superior Court, spriaf tem, 1973. Defendant was Met Defendant was indicted for disturbing a sallfioas mmWmlg tkk ettdMOa anttally thia r dsafaadant tea of the church, be ataga ta aaoh a way aa to congregation ; at the end of each me a ' n aw .aa . sa t ms voice is neard alter all other singers have ceased. . One of the witnesses, being requested to describe defendant's sineine, imitated it by singing a verse ia the fens and man- ner of defendant, which produced a burst of prolonged and irreafistibie laughter, convulsing alike the spectators, tbe bar, tbe jury and the court. I occasioned by defendanfa singing was de- cided end aerioua t the effect of it . tn make one part of the eooereaation lausrh aad the other mad ; that the irreligious mmJk u.AiAM. a u c 1l:i. 1 vuu uiiumuo nirajci ma lull, iruiia those that were serious and devout were indianent. It was also in evideneii ( without ki. tionUhat the eonirrefatio. hmA been an mtii..h dietiirhttl hv it ih.t thai naikn, I lj j . ; a. I IMIU UWHIICT1 HI VCK TO UTIBUi ailU S II Ui I ... r . ap the nook without singing it, and the nreaidinp' eldnr had refiirtpd to nrpob in L. .i. u .f .u. u I occasioned by it ; and that on one occasion a leading member of the church, apprecia- ting that there was a feeling of solemnity n h. ,nr,,i;n ; nn.Mn.. c C7 o o 1 ee of the sermon just delivered, and tear-1 tng that it would be turned into ridicule, I went to the defendant and asked him not to sing, and on that occasion he did not I sing. It also appeared that on many occasions the church members and authorities ex postulated with the defendant about his singing and the disturbance growing ont of. it. To sll of which be replied : 'That he would woiihip his God, and as a part of his worship it was his duty to sing." Defendant is a strict member of the church, and a man of very exemplary de portment. It was not contended by tbe State npen the evidence that he had any intention or purpose to disturb the congregation, bnt on the contrary, it was admitted that he was conscientiously taking part in the re- ligious services. - . There was a verdict of sruilt v, iudement aad an appeal for the defendant. W. McL. and N. A. McLean, for the appellant. - Attorney-General Hargrove for tbe State. Settle, Judge : The defendant is indie-1 ted for disturbing a religious conereea - tioa while engaged iu divine worship, and disturbance is alleged to consist in sin- ging, wbieh is described to be so p s iliar as to excite mirth in one portion of tbe congregation and indignation in the other, From the evidence reported by his Honor, who presided at tbe trial, it appears that at the end of each verse his voice is heard after all the other si users have ceased : snd that tbe disturbance is decided and sen- .... . . ..! ous; and the church members and authon- tiea expostulated with the defendant about bis singing and the disturbance growing ont of it to all of which he replied that be would worship his God, aad that as a part of his worship it was his duty to sing. It was farther in evideoee that the defendant is a strict member of the church and a man of most exemplary department. - ' tt was not contended by tbe State upon the evidence that he bad any intention er purpose to disturb tbe congregation, but , oa the contrary, it was admitted that he wss conscientiously taking part in tbe re ligious services. 9 m m m m It would be seen that the defendat is a proper subject for the discipline of his church, but not for tbe discipline of the court. ' Per curiam. Venire de novo. r RANKLIN'G STBAM WaSKCB. Anomer leather nai seen ' VJ "VTasher. lat uiisnomisr nasjust awarded ,t the first premium. It is too well known and highly appreciated for anything that Z?L?M 1 f"8' .r.heNe.Z Tork South says: "It eertajnty will prove a great blessing to tbe women of the land. Daily Newt The Charloite Democrat says: Last week we noticed several wagon loads' of fruit trees beiug hauled from the N. C: depot. On inquiry we learned that they were shipped from Rochester, N. Y ., to this point to fill Orders obtained in this section during the past summer by North era agents. One gentleman told us that he thought there had been $5,000 worth of trees sold in Mecklenburg county alone. We have nurseries in this snd Yadkin coo n ties of choice fruit trees, better adapt ed to this climate thsn the northern vs- rieties ; and it is surprising that persons prefer purchasing from strangers an arti cle which can be procured at home cheaper and of better quality, everything consid ered. JPernaps our friends here lack the energy and do not advertise their wares sufficiently, while the Yankees un- derstana auvertisng and dramming to per feetioa. Salem Press. Right Of Search. Mr. Wheaton in his great work say : "The rich! of visitation and arh f neutral vessels at sea is a belliirernt right, essential to the right of eapturine enemy's propertr contraband of war. and vessels committing a breach of blockade, it is essential in order to determine wheth- ' er tbe ships themselves are neutral, and documented as ssch, according to the law of nattotm and treaties; for as Bvnkershoek observes 'It Is lawful to detain a neutral vessal, m order to ascertain, not by the tag merely, which may he fraudulently med. butbv th a at the documents themselves on hoard whether she is really neutral." J VUel rtssas, Lampredi, Klnber, Sir 1 ravers Twiss, asd the text writers i eially concur in this view. A MTLIcr I ASTR0H0MY THE JDUTO DOLLAR TELESCOPE We note, with no small degree of rrati fieation, that the project of a colossal tele- scope, which is to be the largest and most complete instrument that modern scientific knowledge eau suggest, or ingenuity devise, is actually in progress of elabora- Don. Tbe scheme of a "million dollar referred, and which has encountered such an earnest SUDDort amonir lara-e unmbera of the readers of our journal, is in fast to be carried oat; though whether it wilt be fnnn naM.. .A ". j w vcu m """ii w Skis Urge sum of money is not determined. It is known that the cost of the freat Waahineton instrument, which was to be I .50.000. has UOt amounted to a aam rpatir than StftO 000 a,,d lnM thr i. ! :u:i:t.. -u .t I pvroc-"win, j .ua. .lib uiliuuiuku w-ihui to i.i ... , .. . " I now contemplated may tali below tue large a??re?ate first nronoaod. 1 f .. . mAA-mm krM i,.n.,i;f.,.n;. Academy of Sciences, Professer George Davidson made the following remarks words which we are sure will find their wv tn fvorvnnnriMr nf tl.M oivili.p.t .nrM r i and engender the liveliest pleasure to every lover of science and her advance ment: "With a telescope of the largest size snd most consummate workmanship that American skill can devise, nronerlv located ten thousand feet above the sea in the clear skies of the Sierra Nevada, with every variety of apparatus commensurate therewith; with masters of observation and ingenuity in research ; with ample funds reserved to devise other instruments and methods which those instruments and the highest genius must suggest, we hope at tin Hiitint Ht (a bam aIvaH Inn mioiliiw problems of creation that are yet beyond our grusD. ouch an outht and such nro- vision nave been the liteloug objects of a , . a James Lick ; and after much earnest soli citation, I have overcome his shrinking from what he considers vain glory, and obtained his permission to announce to the Academy his intentions, which I have faintly sketched iu the preceding sentence. I There will be no let or hindrance in carry ng oat his views; the amplest means are provided ; the rarest skill has been mvok I ed, and the plans are taking definite and I practical shape. The Mining and Scientific Press of San Francisco, of which city Mr. Lick is one 1 of tha wealthiest denizens, notes that the scheme, as already indicated by Professor Davidson, is being quietly perfected, and that the geological, meteoro logical and other peculiarities of various sites of the mountain range above nimed are soon to be carefully scrutinised aad reported upon, A peak will be selected which, from its high altitude snd clear surrounding atmos- phete, will afftrd the finest possible view of the heavens throughout I he longest : I e .1. . . I .1 . I i penou m n.e yaM-, ou mere me iusrr- tory will be permanently located, How large the proposed instrument is to be is of course impossible to say, defi- nitely, nor can its probable cost be with any aceuraey ascertained. Experiments mast be made with glass, and the most careful investigation will be needed in order to determine the feasibility of eon- structing a lens of the extraordinary diame- tar snd fecal length required, Our contemporary suggests a 40 inch objective as of a suitable sise ; but it seems to us that, when this undertaking is began, nothing short of tbe grandest possible re sults should be aimed at. Hence the reaearahee should be made with a view of determining how large a lens can possibly be manufactured. We have already pointed out the capability of a twelve foot objective with a focal length of 120 feet ; which, with an eye pi. c of one twentieth inch focus, would give a magnifying power nfM ann mm I tha nrlM nf hndv Al.k U .U ... k.. nM. J fU J nsoet of the nebals which the great teleecopc 'oflrdRe has failed to resolve into stars are hot hrdroge0 it U possible that so ot a power ss above noted would render rWbla other clusters now totally unseen, and thus give to tbe eye the ability to into the sUr depths bilious of miles gaxe into the star deptns further than it has ever heretofore pene trated. The reader can easily calculate the aDDarent nroximitv to which the m m. at . I planets would be carried to our earth, and (also the laree visual angles which their spheres would subtend. Mars, for instance, I would, so to speak, be brought within I 4.000 miles of us. and would appear 100 - 1 limes as large as tbe moon, covering an I angle of 50. The magnitude of tbe dis I coveries wbieh mierht be made, while w are thus enabled to scrutinize tbe Martial surface mile by mile, cannot be estimated or even imagined. The problems regard ins the nhvsieal constitution of Saturn's rings, of Jupiter and his possibly inhabit . w .... ' . . , ed satellites, or the vagrant iniermercuns - 1 planet and others which will readily sng west themselves, will receive new light - 1 shed upon them, by which, doubtless, a clear path to their solution will be tound. I As for ear moon, let the reader seriously I think of having that satellite within eight - 1 mites of him ; so near tnai, u innaniiants I there be. he can see them. Even if no more astonishing discoveries be made, the eBMU ot oieanie action upon the win iorrn a proline held of study. About one rear ar when first otodos raf lbe idti of vast an instrensent a PUn bT tha wJt wbich even up to the P"1 l,me contmually called forth PwMiisot approval, coupled, freqoeut- wun OHer OI ascriptions from many of ear readers we said : "It ia imnnaajhU - mw www v ak- a - to sneeuute on what such a u aamn would discover m rt-eMrd to th nth.r planets or the vast regions of the irmat ment I let na lion that avaBB d aW. aaiouul P'ud necessary will he forth coming, on the most liberal scale, for tbe progress st tha most sublime of sll the seseooes." The day has arrived : tk pital ii forthcomine, and these ia everv favorable probabulty that, in less than years, one of the arrandeat en ternriaea of modern times will be successfully con- eummausu. scientific A , -,... . . . The Cuban Patriot and the Volunteers. Four years ego C espkdks. an able law yer and rich planter, raiaed the banner of insurrection, with 147 aen about him, armed with kuivea aad fowling An ,he had n "7. rtof 4000 . ln BWntl1 ono ',000. 1 o day he . - . or has r " m7 Pf . 80000. figbting Jrom Palr,otn nd entrenched in fastnesses that are simply imnrernable. . . , . , ZTT CtlV0 Jm7h7 of 150,000 free Vubaoa' Pwnted by s President snd ifAl,liore of thwr 0Wn election. Mean wn,le.bPa,n ,,M "trifised 100,000 lives me ncu ana lovely island may be turned over to a nack of mnrderona ant , , - laWS. W in flftv nt nnro Ihn uw, f Qol,. , . J. t- ul,Di a"u lmC laws oi uu manity 1 ue b,cp T? fo"ow- f Pctnre of the 0uban devils," as it . w government ot L.u0a, as a matter of fact, is that of an irresponsible mob. 1 he volunteers rule the land, defy tbe vapiaiuucnerai and eunmu tbe most brutal outrages upon Cubans, Spaniards -icns, nu Europeans alike. This wipo cuuBiBia ui du wv trans" ported communists and outlaws, who were captured and sent out to Guba soon aiier me insurrection ot 1863 against .. . Isabella. i hey were really Spanish insurgents who were given the alternative of being shot or "volunteering" to pat down tbe Cuban insurrection. 8pain required soldiers in Cuba, but she needed still more J nd baTf6,'l lhfoaghs of Cadis, . ' " -'"b ",,UU1 ouc "Tc,i vu mho tuuacuj. iitsTcr wis mere such a body or mea organised iu a civil ized eounlry, unless it was Billy Wilson's New York Zouaves and the latter were not half SO brutal. These volnnteera. who are avowedly making the war upon Cespedes and his fellow Cubans, acknowl edge neither law nor authority. Self 's Motion Refused -No in- junction Granted. It will be seea from the opinion of Judges Bond and Brooks, published be low, that the motion for an injunction in the cine of Alkrkd Self et si. vs. Jen ¬ kins, Public Treasurer of Not th Carolina, has been retnsed. We copy from, the official records : "In the case of Self vs. Jenkins, Treas urer, we have concluded to announce the opinion of the Court without at this time giving our reasons tor the conclusions to bieh we have come. The pressure of the ordinary business of the term npon our time would prevent our aoiue so eauaiactory al tins mo a t s" . . s ment. We are of opinion 1st. That the acts of the General Assembly of North Caro lina of 1863-69, which authorised tbe issue of the Special Tax Bonds wbieh are the subject of this suit, are valid seta, snd that the acta of 1870-71 which were in- tended to modify or repeal the acts of 1868-69, are uncoustitut ional and void. being obnoxious to that clause of tbe Con stitution of the United States which for- bids tbe State to pass any law impairing the obligations of a contract. We are of opinion that a bona fide hoi- der of a bond issued under the acta in question is not precluded from receiving the ammount of bis debt, because the fact is that at the time of issoinr his bond the state Donas were not at par, nor by rea son of the nonfulfillment of any of the previous conditions imposed upon the Legislature before it issued the bonds. It is sufficient, we think, if the power to issue the bonds is given and was exer fMAJwl 'Fliia f jxrialntun. and nnl thn nor- re . . s i chaser. Is to sen to the fulfillment of tha conditions imposed upon the exercise of r ... ... We are of opinion. However, it is not shown in the ease that any irreparable injury is likely to occur to the complainant by reason of any proposed action of defen dant, and we shall therefore refuse the injunction prayed, and let tbe complain- . ant await whatever relief be may be enti- j tied to after final hearing. It will be seen that the Jadges decide that tho bonds issued in 1868-69 are con stitutional, snd that the subsequent legis lation repealing the appropriations are unconstitutional and void. Bat, inasmuch as no irreparable injury is threatened, the injnnetion is refused. We have only space to-day to express our gratification at that part of the decision whieh relieves tbe State Treasury. That portion of tha opinion touching the constitutionality of the bonds is only incidental. That point was not argued fully by the counsel th Trmrr hbbx Brandy brands the nft, of J1 mltO cannot govern their appetites. f . . . . i . rfr in the old World. from an address Before the Astral Club of New York, kg J. i Dodge athe DejmH- mem o Agriculture. . 1' Great Britain. England, Scotland aad Wales, known together as Great Uritaia, a maaaiaetariag and commercial country, ia which bat sis per cent, of tbe population are actually employed in agriculture, furnish aa exam pie of the cleanest culture, tbe moot rat ional processes, las moat ssa asin ase ef money iu permanent improvements snd in fertilisation, and tbe highest rate of acr duetlon knows to the industry of Karon and of the world In some of these resnects Holland is only ssseij eftf hify if ,t all. While the land ia held saa sssjM? la clutches ot tie dead and of the tails lies ing, h is gratifying to see that tbe people are wresting to their own see even tbe smallest parcels of it. While, aceordinr to the official en a me rat ion of 1870. onlv 46 per cent, of the ''boldmes" or farms exceed 20 acres each, they oconbied 91 per cent, of the total area returned : S8 per cent, occupied 20 to 100 acres each. and 18 pur cent, above 100 acre each In 1871 the area cultivated in koldinrs from one-fourth of an acre to 20 acres. was but 1.89T.000 acres, out of 30.833,- 000 or six per cent ; but they earned 1 1 per cent, of the cattle of the country, and 25 per cent ef the swine. It was found in 1872 that there ware 09344 bsldinrs of one fourth of an acre to an acre in ex tent, of which 67,422 were in England, and of that number 49,000 were allotments held by the agricultural laborers and workmen. This practice of al lotting land for the ase oC laborers is making rapid in crease. Tbe total area of Great Britain is 56, 964,260 acres, of which Eagland com prises 32,590,397 the whole is searedy equal to the area of two of oar Western States of average sise. The population to be supported, 56 millions, is one to rather more than two acres ; in England, 1 to H acres ; and yet little more than half of the total area, 31,000,000 of seres, is in cultivation, nearly 24,000,000 of which is in England proper. A key to agriealtur al prosperity is fonnd in the fact that not exceeding one-third of the occupied acre is allotted to exhaustive crops, as tbe cereals, while two-thirds are given to re storative crops, ss roots, clover snd grasses in rotation, and permanent pasture. The proportions last season were, for the whole country 30.9 per cent, in rrain crops, 11.6 iq green crops, 14.5 in clover and grasses, and 40.6 in permanent pas ture. The production of meat ia the firat ob ject of Britain agriculture ; the growing of wheat is the consider stssa of next impor tance. Both- cattle and sheep are well known to excel all others in meat produe won. attaining greater weignt in s given time than continental animals. Tbe official average of net weight of carcasses of Britaiu cattle of all ages is 600 pounds ; of eattle imp wted, 600 pounds ; of British sheep and lambs, 60 pounds ; of imported mm mm. a , . ou pounds. 1 be present tsssoveaev is to the increase of live stock and tho diminn tion of the lire grain area. ' There has been a decrease, since 1850, in the breadth of wheat, oatp, peas and beans, and an increase in barley, roots, clover snd per manent pasture, the reduction in 'white crops, which now average 7,500,000 acres exceeds 1,250,000 acres ; wheat now oc cupying a litllfe more than 3,000,000, or about one sixth of our wheat area, although the product sometimes exeeeds ond-third of ours. 1 he decrease has been about 10 per eent. iu 20 years, not in product, bnt in acreage, the yield having increased 1$ bushels, and 5 bushels in 100 veers, being now 28 bushels, the largest national average. The supremacy of turnips has therefore not weakened in the least, and the importance of sheepi which suffered ' some decline during the area of low prices for wool in 1867, is now steadily advanc ing. There are now about 28,000,000 ! sheep to 30,000,000 acres of prod active area. It was recently assumed, on good grounds, that one fourth of the eattle were - annually sold, st the rate of X 16 each ia j England, 14 in Scotland, and c10 in Ireland ; that one third of the English sheep and one-fourth of tbe Scottish are annually sold at about 35 shillings each, ' The tendency has since been to still higb- er prices. Not only is the proportion of stock large, both to area and population, but the extra sise of animals and extra feeding contribute both quantity snd quali ty to home resources of fertilisation, and afford a valid reason for enlarged produe tion. Ex U- 8- Senstor Ri' HARD Y ATES, Illinois died suddenly in 8t. Louis I last Thursday. He was a Kentnckian J lav Kirtli sanst by strtn and removed ia early life to Illinois where he rose rapidly to d is auct ion, serving in the Legislature, in tbe national House of Representatives, as Oovemor of Illinois, snd in the United States Senate. He was a maa of ability but convivial habits. It may be said to his credit that he Was not implicated in any of the jobbery and corruption in which so many of his political associates become involved. Some staid and Puritanical Senators, who appear to think that ab stinence from grog gives tbem fall license to do anything ihat will enable tbem to put money in their purees, were greatly scandalised by 'Mr. YsTta's habits and turned him the cold shoulder. He had bis revenge, snd enjoyed it. We remem ber seeing a letter or speech from him about tha time f the Credit Mobilier or exposure in whien as referred , saintly Senators who sporned hi hich he referred to those be sometimes crauk too much, bat j at the same time feathering their nests at ' expose oi n puuiic. on-worni the Whig. Agriculture in the old World. I The War SarUkau.. via iuc vuicago irwaac SB that are as tealoaa .w .i a indignant over tha atraciuet VoUnteers I A careful rTiiinalisu win show that tbe leaders of a are divided mainly into two classes bankrupt poli ticians aad bars ted speculators. Ju the former class will be found tbe balk-pay grabbers, tbe Credit Mebitter cevraatien isv tbav aasaat hag advawtareaa, 4be lob byists seeking for spoil, and. all who nave Dean engaged in the hands aad motions and dishonest tt-anaaeiiona w ....... e afhidiag tbairews to get up n foreign war f la the Us ass excitement which most follow, their transgressions will be forgotten", sad if they nan tide themselves ever the next ailna of Congress, they are safe. Every Congress man who has taken baah-pey, er forward pay, every politiciaa who baa been engaged in jobbery, subsidy, aad speculation, is an ardent war man snd is egging an the people to demand a declara- of war, aad as tha time for Oesarress draws nearer, they will el amor bsaisn and ouder. Tbe other class is coarboased oi brok en down stock snd gold speculators, who see ia this war fever an ODDortuaffv u retrieve their loeses bssaiisi Mam tbe a aweaaaa at I late panic. 1 Sey are also urging on the people, manipulating public mtinlins. and filling tbe air with wild rare or, hi popular sxcitemewtinto of their maneavatinsT aim read in their recent dupe tea air ing Gov. H svoaicxs, of Indiana, to send the New Yorh meeting "a stnnning dia pacta" upon tbe subject of Cuban atroci ties. In the eras! of war with Spain, they see sn opportunity of running wold up and advancing the prices af sloesSS. V ithout such a war, there is very Kttle prospect that their balloons ess be inlsted again snd est flying. It mrtieri little to tbem bow many men are killed, bow much suffering is caused, provided the stock list goes np snd profits eosse in. It matters little to tbem that, after sack war, the country must suffer a worse financial crisis than tbe prases t one, son sequent npon s still further dos true ties of property. the Ratal New-Yorker. Srsix St. Clair Smith lows to the Poultry Bulletin : ' The idea having suggested itself to me daring the past spring, that tbe eggs of moat dnmm tic fowls might be batched by same aim- pie and inexpensive process of artificial incubation, I determined to make tbe ss periment : having succeeded, even beysmd my own expectations, I have eoodndad to send yon a brief account of my motWid, wbieh is not s patented affair, aad which any one eaa easily anderstand and con struct for himself, if se disposed. Berate pre rawfrag to give an accoant of my simple iucooato it may not be amass to say that at one time I placed within it ninety eggs, and got therefrom el gig five chicks. At another time I deposited within forty eggs and got thirty chicks ; snd st another, eighteen turkey egg1, which predated fourteen turkeys, tha most af which art now thriving and doing well. Indeed, my incubator has produced for me a rather laigc per centum of chicks than my have bnt it required to be very ly aad carefully looked after and tended ; for here, as to almost every other hi pursuit, sueeeas is tbe reward of industry and wstchfulness. "Well, now for my simple coatri vanes t I took an old cane seal chai the back was removed and made with tbe seat. After removing tbe ving tbe csae paa (saab. g dishes) sard 1st thesbs. bottom, I took a Urge housekeepers use for washin( passed it down into the seat af tbe I then placed four round pebbles, abei tbe sate af a large wnlnat, on tbe bottom of tbe pan, snd then upon these I pleaed a round tin pie-pan, inverted, the paa be- e a . a a . ing almost exactly tne same sese as mm bottom of tbe lsrge dish -pan, aad reeUag steadily upon tbe little pebbles. Upest this inverted pie-plate I made a bed af a dozen or more thicknesses, af eld ssssaVS sheeting, eat round to fit the paa and Isjkk smoothly upon tbe bottom. On this bee I placed tbe eggs for batching, snd amooi them I placed a thermometer. Over th' top of the large pan I spread aa old en blanket, several times folded. I lighted a small kerosene lamp and place it on tha fear, immediately under th eenter of the large paa. I next taraed w tbe iame gradually until she msrsary W tbe thermometer rase to 109 ; and at th point I strove to keep the temperature fo three weeks, aad generally succeeded. Bat st one time, owing to a defective barns tbe temperature rose to lt0 sad ass troyed vitality ia almost all tha eggs. other tisaee to fell as low as 90 aad 94 degrees, but the eggs generally bit chad at the accustomed season. This inetssa tion io tbe beat generally occ erred at night, and was attributable either to oaprsasssas in the atmosphere or irregalarity af com bustion in lamps which generated the baa fjr my incubator. My eggs w era sprink led occasionally from about tbe nsvaath day after being placed in tbe iucabater till the period of hatching. It is rsmsored that a gentleman wss rail bed a law miles above the pkaa, aa fMt Providence road, on a sight last week. It is stated that his horse was sained upua tbe road by a party of negroes and bin demanded, which be gave np, wh- a . permitted to pars oo bis s way.- . Farmers going to rair ket should j selves. I sine aster v. La I j . -xlm, .. .
Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
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Dec. 18, 1873, edition 1
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