AUGUST 9th.\u2014NO news from the armies.<\/p>\n
Mrs. ex-President Tyler, who has already been permitted to visit her native State, New York, once or twice during the war\u2014and indeed her plantation has been within the enemy\u2019s lines\u2014has applied for passage in a government steamer (the Lee) to Nassau, and to take with her “a few bales of cotton.\u201d I suppose it will be “allowed.\u201d<\/p>\n
We have fine hot August weather now, and I hope my tomatoes will mature, and thus save me two dollars per day. My potatoes have, so far, failed; but as they are still green, perhaps they may produce a crop later in the season. The lima beans, trailed on the fence, promise an abundant crop; and the cabbages and peppers look well. Every inch of the ground is in cultivation\u2014even the ash-heap, covered all over with tomato-vines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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