SOUTHEEN CULTIVATOR. 
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disposed to heap abuse on American slavery, and to boast j 
that they have no such thing as slavery. Let us inquire j 
for a moment if this is true. In passing through the | 
towns in England, you will, in different streets or sta- j 
tions, observe a soldier with a musket or bayonet, stand- | 
ing, or walking a few steps" to and fro, day and night ; | 
now this is only one of fifty thousand, whose duty it is to 
■obey orders as a slave obeys them, without being allowed 
the least discretion or liberty. 
He cannot leave his post or barrack, or be absent on the 
most urgent occasion, without permission. There are 
many laborers, mechanics and manufacturers, who think 
they do not receive a just compensation for their labor. 
This man of the bayonet informs them by his presence 
that they had better be quiet and earn their wages; this 
man is not only a slave himself all his life, to a despotic 
law administered by a despotic officer of almost unlimited 
power, but is willingly employed to suppress every act 
of the people that indicates liberty and freedom of opinion. 
Let it be remembered here, that the labor of every man 
and woman who earns bread, is required to furnish the 
means of his subsistence and clothing. Now, whatever is 
true in England of the military surveillance of the people, 
is especially true in France, xlustria, Prussia and Russia; 
we will therefore inquire how many of these defenders of 
liberty and the people’s rights each of the five powers own. 
We will set down England at 50,000 for the island; 500,- 
000 India and the colonies ; France, 500,000; Austria 
500,000; Prussia, 121,000 and Russia, 700,000. Added to 
gether you thus have a standing army of 2,370,000 slaves, 
who are not only absolute slaves themselves, but willing 
to keep others in the same condition. 
But if the Southern States require anything to stimu- 
late them in their great enterprise, let them look at Spain. 
Two or three centuries ago, the most wealthy and power- 
ful nation in Europe; her agriculture neglected, she has 
now no surplus to send abroad, save a little wine and 
fruit. Let them look at Turkey. At one time so power- 
ful as to threaten the overthrow of Western Europe; now 
so poor as to have no resources for the defence of her na- 
tional existence. Her fields are exhausted and worn out 
by neglect and bad tillage ; she has nothing to export but 
figs, some fruits and oil, and some of the light wines of 
the islands of the Grecian archipelago. To conclude this 
most unsatisfactory address, let the Southern people keep 
before their eyes the fact that there are no worn out lands 
in England, France, Prussia, Belgium. Holland or Switzer- 
land, and that these are the strong and stable nations of 
Europe. I am, gentlemen, most respectfully, 
your friend and servant, 
Wm. Terrell. 
Sparta, Ga., Dec., 1854. 
BUITEE AND LARD. 
Some very fine samples of Butter and Lard were exhibit- 
ed at our late Fair, by a lady friend of Tennessee, whose 
husband has obligingly furnished us with the following 
directions for making these indispensable household ar- 
j tides : 
“ The butter is six months old. It was churned as it is 
usually done ; the milk washed out of it, then salted and 
, set away in the spring house until the next day, when, 
! with a wooden paddle, all the water is worked out ; set it 
' in the spring house again for several days, when it is 
[again worked, and one ounce* of pulverized loaf sugar is 
1 added to each pound of butter; then put into a stone jar, 
1 laying a cloth over it, and salt on the cloth, and set in the 
i spring-house, where it may be kept through the summer. 
The Lard was soaked for twelve hours in water and 
then thoroughly washed in tepid (warm) water ; it is then 
rendered by cooking it until the cracklins are beginning 
to brown ; It is then nicely strained and set away in a 
cool cellar.” 
♦Remarks.— One-half or one-quarter of an ounce of the 
sugar would, we think, be sufficient. It should be rubbed 
up or intimately mixed with the salt before using. The 
sample sent by our friend v/as, in all respects, superior; 
only that the taste of the sugar was too perceptible. The 
Lard was equal to any we have ever seen. We have, also, 
just received from New York the following recipe for 
making the somewhat famous '‘Hutch Butter,” said to 
possess great richness and to keep one or two years. It 
is held as a secret and the recipe sold, but it will be seen 
that it differs very little from the plan pursued by Mrs. 
Lenoir. Both are worth trying; 
TO MAKE DUTCH BUTTER. 
1st. Be sure to work out all the butter-milk. 
2d. To each table-spoonful of salt, put a leaspoonful of 
powdered sugar, and to every 5 lbs. put a teaspoonful of 
I rose watar, and work then all thoroughly through the but- 
ter. 
3d. Use the best and finest salt, and not too much, as 
the sugar takes its place in a measure. 
4th. Look well to your packages [tubs, firkins, kegs or 
jars] and let them be well scalded and soaked [in brine 1] 
for a couple of days before using. 
We see nothing especially new in the foregoing, except 
the rose water, but our readers have it for what it is worth. 
— Eds. 
CHEAP FURNITURE AND ORNAMENTS FOR ROOMS. 
V'ctXXy windov^ seats, ottomans, , are easily made by 
taking a box of suitable size and shape, turning it bottom 
up, cushioning with cotton, hair, moss, hay or old wool- 
en rags, and covering it with remnants of carpeting or 
cloth to suit the other furniture. Almost every family has 
some boxes that miglU be turned to good account, making 
inexpensive seats that the family will greatly prefer to 
chairs, and giving an air of comfort and competence that 
will make home much more attractive. Do not make the 
seats too high or narrow or the cushions too hard, and if 
for common use cover with some modest color that will 
not show dirt readily. The boxes can be made with lids 
and hinges to hold wood, clothes, or other articles, if de- 
sired. 
Mrs. Cutler and others have from time to time given des- 
criptions of ornamental articles that could be made at home 
easily; to these we have a few to add. At the exhibition 
of the American Institute in New York, last fall, was a 
very beautiful centre table — home made. A thick plank 
was cut into a circle of the required size and mounted up- 
on a standard terminating in three feet. This was entirely 
covered with split acorns, put on in various faiic.ful de- 
signs, laid in glue, paint or utlier cement, and the whole 
covered with two or three coats of varnish. The effect 
i was very beautiful indeed. We have seen old picture 
j frames fitted up in the same style, that were really elegant, 
i An equally pretty and more delicate mode of ornament 
j is made from the fresh cones of the pitch pine. Separate 
j the scales and put on as you would acorns, overlujiping 
the scales as they are in nature. Pretty flower-vases, 
picture frames, &c., can be cut from pasteboard, then, 
if the cones are soaked in warm water, the scales can be 
sowed on with stout thread, ilien let the whole U var- 
nished before the cones bec<ime shrivtlletl, ano tliey will 
appear more plump permanent iy — O .io Cult. 
Sting of a Bee. — A pply suleracms v et. It is an excel- 
lent cure. This fact should be remembered when the 
stinging season comes on. 
