Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1875 — Orange Culture in Florida. [ARTICLE]

Orange Culture in Florida.

li'“Little Ehody” has gone Republican Sby a largely increased majority. II Hon. B. F. Wade has positively de_ Iclined to be a candidate for Governor of 11 It is stated that the grasshoppers in ■ Kansas are hatching o&t by the quadpruplcd millions. II George Rnfer and Andrew Egner, the ■Cincinnati “tan-yard - ’ murderers, are to hanged on the 13th of July. |P Senator A. Johnson a to lay all personal feeling on the alter of his country. I The alter will groan under the load. Says the N. Y. Mail: There was one administration waich Mr. Johnson treats trith heartfelt respect. It began when Wilkes looth's work was done. It is reported that six hundred people trere killed and some three thousand grounded during the recent cyclone in Georgia and South Carolina. Good land can be bought in Arroos<ook county, • Maine, for fifty cents per acre. Bix,montlis of the year this land, while under snow, requires no cultivation whatever.. | Goldsmith’s Abdallah, one of the best horses in the United States, was recently killed at Paris, Ky. f by colliding with another horse, the sulky shaft entering bis breast. He was valued at 530,000. ? General Spinner's resignation is said *o have been received with general sadness arnoDg employees of the treasury. The Washington Republican says the women .clerks wept like children when he told them of it.

“Muttered menaces of the impeachment of President Grant” are enjoyed just now by the Southern Democratic press. But these menaces will not amount to much, we think, in view of the fact that his “usurpation” in Louisiana has been cordially indorsed by both Houses of Congress. The Indianapolis Sentinel, the leading organ of the Indiana Democrats, wants it understood that Fernando Wood must not be speaker of the House. It says: “He is wealthy, polished and able, and he may he honest, bnt he has a reputation that would damn the political prosperity of the Democracy in its present tender and delicate condition.” The following opinion of Attorney General Buskirk may be worthy of attention by all concerned: “He says that many lawyers are informing saloon keepers that permits obtained under the Baxter law will be good after the newlaw comes into effect.— This he says iswrong, as there is an i emergency clause in the new law which r will make it necessary to file a new application. I? In a space of three years not less than I two millions of British subjects have left their native land. Some went to | Australia, some to Canada, and more came Eto the United States. Until lately the p Irish emigrants were in access of the I English and Scotch. Since 1869, however, the respective nations are reversed. I During that year Great Brittain sent - forth eighteen thousand more emigrants ; than Ireland, and in 1872 this excess was even more marked.

The people of Rensselaer, if they ever p expect to get out of the rut into which the town has been for these many years, must pull together and to some practical purpose. An opportunity dow exists for taking such steps as will secure the construction of the C. & S. A Railroad through our place. This measure should be agitated and, if possible . brought to successful issue. Apathy, indifference, and a want of harmony among our citizens have injured us too much already, and we trust that the present apportunity will bo “taken at the flood and led on to fortune ” "When the humblest citizen in the land has his right of citizenship respected everywhere; when a man can express his - opinions, and vote as he pleases in the South as well as in the North; when the disloyal element of the South gives place to returning loyalty; when to love the Union and sustain those who believe in its perpetuity is no longer a crime; when peaee and prosperity take the place of strife and misfortune, and the last shadow of the dead confederacy passes from the regenerated Republic ; then it will be time enough to claim & that the mission of the Republican party is ended and its mighty task completed. But this work has not been completed. -When the last stone is laid the builder ean look for rest. When freedom becomes the acknowledged birthright of all, the party that fought for I justice may rest from its labors.

At a recent eoajintion of Florida? fruit growers, heldjwP*Jatk % some factswere presentedWhfeh show that the out* look to the settler who intends to grow oranges is not golden. The annual returns from a grove in good bearing condition may be estimated at from sls to S2O per tree, which is a large return for the capital invested. But the orange tree, in its early years, is capricious in its growth, requiring close study and careful attention, and it seldom bears until niue years old. The successful cultivator of a grove must learn to wait as well as labor. The following from Frank Leslie’s illustrated paper, one of the most ultra Democratic papers of the country, is a forced concession and will be read with interest: ‘The Republicon record during these fourteen years it is useless forus to discuss. — It has certainly been a brilliant one. — The party has carried on its shoulders a weight of responsibility .never before assumed by a political party in a free republic. It has been followed by the majority of the people of the North with almost religious ardor, and the negroes of South bless it as their, almost divine emancipator. It is impossible for an American, be he Northern or Southern, to contemplate the history of this great political organization without a feeling of admiration, however much he may oppose the principles, and however bitterly he may suffer in consequence of its success.”

A third Presidential term is not advisable ; it would be a disregard of precedents, and a bad practice to introeuce; but it is not treason, nor imperialism, nor Caesai’isno, nor anything of the sort. — Further it is no tangible form for the United States Senate to take notice, nor would it be a subject for the Senate if it had a tangible exlstance. Andrew Johnson dragged into the Senate the slangwhanging ofthe partisan stump, which charges upon the opposite side all sorts of monstrous designs. And this vulgar demagogue, who takes the earliest opportunity to show that he has brought all his low passions and personal sores into the Senate, and who thrusts himself forward as the stump champ on against the shadow of a third term, which exists only in fancy, is he who destroyed the fair promise of tranquil reconstruction in the south, and lifted again the spirit of Rebellion.