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us like the crumbling remains of some
deserted ruin, the relic of Roman or
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SOLE PROPRIETOR.
3Prroa UP STAIRS, NO. It OBAWITE BOW
many waters” was pouring through tho
gStea, threatening to overwhelm us, has
our geiitjo yet lion-hearted cook, Polly,
•prepared, tor our solaceand refi eshment,
I a ppt full of the fragrant extract of Rio,
or £‘> u *bler of Smith’* extract of rye.
lardon my emOtion;>f..r ‘‘the old
nmes corries o'er me^- no .v,” and forbids
me to say morb than that l am, whether
m command or retirement, •
Yours, JOHN SMITH.
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W. H. a. WHITYI,
T^OL©^,
BROAD STREET. ATHENS.
Inn.1. 1351.
The Sailor’s Burial at Sea.
Dt MRS ANN S. STEPHENS.
Slowly—sadly, with slackened speed
Our ship moved over the heaving ocean.
With the stately plunge of a well tried steed
When the race is near, and his foe in motion.
Dark clondi hung low o’er the aorgi-.g deep,
The cordage sigh’d like harps strings broken,
As the wind went by, with a mournful sweep.
Like a funeral wail half wept—half spoken.
Then came the slow, dull tramp of feel,
And over the trembling deck they hnrehim.
Wrapp'dxiysc in his canvass winding sheet.
With ihe meu behind and his chief before him.
We gathered around the prostrate dead ;
Not a voice was heard—the wind seemed fall
ing, - _
While each sturdy seaman bared his bead ;
Then it swelled agaiu like a spirit wailing.
And with the wind rose a full deep tone—
A voice ’mid the tempest firmly rending—
Which blentnnd swell’ll with the ocean’s mnnn.
Till it rose to heaven, like an angel pleading.
A dull hoarse plnnge—a smothered sigh
As we saw the sullen waves receive him ;
And each seaman shrank with a mournful eye.
From the watery gulf as we turned to leave
him.
Then the tempest rose, with a wild sharp swell,
And onr ship rnshed on with a mighty shiver—
On—on—we fled from the tempest knell
ThBt moans o’er that ocean grave forever.
“ Boring it out,” returned the doctor. I hand, and most of them he carried in his
« Poriu it out,” said the patient, put- arms when they were lambs. Without
ting his hand upon and seizing hold of a word he turned back, and rushed up the
the augur. " Vat for you pore it out, I slight ascent that led to their shelter.—
ha ?” I The sheep, crowding together at the
“Hold still! ami ask no questions, I door, looked up at him so gratefully, that
you thunder-bird,” said the doctor, en-! he felt repaid fully for the peril he had
deavoring to continue the revolutions of I rau. As he threw open the way for
friends with his customary easy assu- called upon Governor Findley, then
ranee, he evidently.saw that all was not holding the office of State Treasurer,
right, as his most iiitimate associates of with the manuscript of a long letter
yesterday avoided speaking to him, or, which he had written to the President
nt most trnvA liim tLa :li. • .1 _ a x * . *
the augur.
“Holt still! mine Gott!” exclaimed
Donervogei, in great warmth and aston
ishment, sitting up and endeavoring to
wrench the instrument from the hands
of the operator, while the blood stream
ed down over his face, l.
“ Holt shrill! and let you pore mine
tliem,theyvu‘shed out, and fled down the
slope.
Hitherto his mother had not looked
back. But, at this moment, turniug her
eyes around to see if all her children
were safe, she recognized her son stand
ing at th« door of tho peu. anil the fore
most sheep leaping through. She stop-
head trough yust like one\blog of woat I ped, on the instant, with a cry of despair
Miscellaneous.
mit a lam lull augur! I no understand
it.”
Duckworth still held fast to the in- 1
strument, and insisted upon finishing!
the operation ; alleging that it would be bounding down the hill
a great shame to let a patient go through
the street with his cranium half bored
through. But as Donervogei thought |
the boring he had already had was quite
sufficient, and seemed not at all dispo
sed to submit to the further use of the!
augur, the surgeon d cm red some of the
bystanders to hold him while he finished
the operation.
” But the man is alive and kicking,”
said one—.“what more do you want 1”
” That’s nothing to the case,” replied
the doctor. “As to his being alive—
any dead man might be that under skill
ful hands—but it is very ungrateful in
him to pretend to come to life before I
We are lost, we at e lost 1” she cried.
‘‘Oh! my son, how could you peril every
thing?”
But the lad, even as he spake, came
“On, on 1 Not a moment is to spare.—
I can still outrun you all. To the left or
you are lost.”
It was an awful moment. Poised on
high,like some enormous mountain, gath
ering impetus as it descends, the ava
lanche hung overhead. Then, with the
rush of a whirlwind, down it came carry
ing 6tnnes and even rocks with it.
For an instant the fugitives disappear
ed from sight. Nothing, indeed, was
seen hut a thick, impervious mist, as it
were of flakes of snow infinitely fine.—
Gradually this floated past like a fog driv
ing down a mountain side, and then the
voice of the lad rose in a clear, loud and
W. F. SAGE,
V lolestilo anti Retail Jeweler
No 7, GRANITE ROW, ATHENS.
Jan. 1st, 1851.
OJ CITS. HILL & SMITH,
Wholesale and Retail Druggists
AND DEALERS IN
PERFUMERY AND FANCY ARTICLES,
No. 10, SEW BBICK RANGE, ATHENS.
an.t,1351.
FERRY & C<£
WHOLF.SAt.il A Nil RETAIL DEALERS I N
Hats, Caps, Boots,
Shoes, Trunks, &c
No. 7, GRANITE ROW. ATHENS.
Jan. 1, 13.51.
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Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, &c j
No. 2, BROAD STREET, ATHENS.
Jan-1st, 1351.
T. BISHOP,
Wholesale and Retail Grocer,
NO. 1, BROAD STREET, ATHENS.
Jun. 13,13.50.
TI3MA3 H. WILSON,
l):til.in Dry fc Goods,Groceries,*
No l, COLLEGE AVENUE.ATHENS.
Ian. I At, 1350.
[Do MULL <S& ©@ 0
dealers in
SILK, FANCY AND STAPLE
WARE, CROCKERY,
RIES.&C.
No. 4, Granite
ATHENS, GA
GOODS, HARD
GROCE-
Row,
Choice Family Groceries-
J UST receiving a large and complete assort
merit of the very Lest
Family Groceries;
Hermetically Sealed FRESH OYSTERS
SALMON, CLAUS * LOBSTERS;
Assorted Preserves, Pickles and
—ALL KINDS OF—
Pepper, Spice, Extract*, Coomng
Wine, *c. > .
F»r»nlochenp tor cash by D. N. JCDSON."'-
Athens, Oct. 14, 1352.
No. 4, Granite Row.
B. m. hill & co,
\re selling rune regl French Printed tie Laine*
lower lit in thsy egg ha bought in New York.
Feh. 3d. ’53—If
F. Miller,
INFORMS the public lha
he has aliened a
TAILOR’S SHOP
Up over the Shoe
Shop olPatricar Barry,on
Main Street, where he will
be happy to receive orders
for cutting attd making all
kinda of garment*, or other
work in hit line of butt
■y VII nr lent promptly executed with neat
(»r*» and ditpaich.
Ww n, I me 24. 1352. . ,
Borina n Dnlrlminii-K *>Ititl!.
Ynccup Donervogei,a brui-ing Dutch
man, having one day got into a battle
with Barney O’Blutideibuss.iheHiberni
an, gave hi n such a blow nti|lhe sconce,
tlint bo was taken up for dead
Bn'ney in a great fright ran for ti t*
doctor.
I’ve kilt a mnn 1 I'v kilt a man, doc
tor!—rlane dead a- a door nail; and I
want you should > un and see bint instant
ly afore lie’s clane gone and past all re-
dimptiun. Orb! and a hone 1 that iver
1 should come to America to he hanged,
when there’s so much hemp raised in
ouhl Ireland."
“ Who is tho man?" asked the doc
tor.”
“And who should he be,” returned
the Irishman, "of nil the world, but
Misther Donervogei, the fight in Dutch
man, ’hat's for knocking ivery body
down that stands afore him! b«d luck
to him.”
“ ’Tis had luck to him, sure enough, if
you have killed him.”
“ He’s kill doctor, he’s kilt clane dead;
and that’s the reason I'm after ye in
such a hurry. 1 hope they won’t hang
me quite, sanin it was'nt done |with
malice alter afore thought, but in a jon-
tale combat, as one joutleman kills an
other the world round. Saint Patrick
he knows l did’t mane to kill him at
all at all.”
As the patient was no further off than
landlord Lovejoy’s tho doctor was in
stantly by his side. He WrtS lying in a
bar-room on the bench, without sence or
motion ; and the by-slamlers, of whom
there were a considerable number, col
lected, believed him to be fairly dead.
"Ah ! lie’s got his portion now.” said
one, “lie wont want another knock
down for one while.”
“ It’s just upon him,” said another,
he’s always bruising ami fighting, and 1
was sure he’d get killed at last.”
" Who struck first 1” asked a third.
“ The Dutchman,” said one.
“ The Irishman," said another.
“ No, ’twas the Dutchman," repeated
the first, “ for l see him with my own
eyes.";
“ I say ’twasn’t the Dutchman,” said
ihe second, “ lor I was looking on all
the rime aud see the Irishman strike
first.”
“ I tell you ’twas the Dutchman.”
“And 1 tell you you don’t know any
thing about it. Barny gin the first blow,
and he'll have to be hanged if either on
’em." -
Thus they disputed and were hear
coming to blows among themselves.—
As for Duckworth, as soon as he saw
the patient, lying mute nnd inutiouless,
and to all appearance dead, he declared
he must he trepan lied. No sooner said
than at it they went.,
" In the first place.” said he, flourish
ing a scalpel, “ 1 must denude the crani
um by s criss-cross incision.” Thus
saying he cut down to the hone, in the
fore, part of the head, and turned up the
scalp.
Now," continued lie, “the oexi.
thing is to bore through the skull; and
here 1 apply..the trepan."
** As he said this, he produced an inch
augur, aud applying it to the cranium,
began vigorously to turp it round and
round.
“ Do you call that a trepan. Doctor ?’.’
asked one.
bad fairly trepanned him—and for his 1 joyous hallo,
kicking and struggling, I desire that he It was answered out of the mist ahead.
may l»e kept still until 1 finish the job. by the voice of his mother ; and iinmedi-
Will one of y.ju assist me?” a’ely afterward she, with her little ones,
. . ely
Thai will I,” said Barney, stepping became visible. The avalnnche was still
forward ami seizing hold of the arm of I heard thundering downward, blit below
the Duchinaii; “ I’ll liilp you, doctor
dear, for 1 kill him, aud its no more
nor i iglit 1 should help to cure him; so
doctor yon bore away, whiles I’ll he af
ter holding his hands still.” “Dumler!"
exclaimed Donervogei, and springing
upon his feet, lie freed his arms from the
them ; and they saw at a glance that the
danger was past.
They had been saved, indeed, almost
by a miracle. The lofy and nearly per
pendicular cliffs. by which their dwelling
was surrounded, here afforded, for about
a hundred yards, asheltered corner, cous-
grasp of the Irishman, and wrenching I e( ] hy ihe overhanging brow of a preci-
the augur violently from the hands «»t
Duckworth, he struck him over the head
with the handle of the instrument, aud
would have laid him sprawling on the
floor; had he not been caught by the
byslanders. By a lapid movement he
next proceeded to knock down the irish
man; and by repeated blows would
hove dispatched him out right had he
not been ieized and disarmed Jj:
spectators.
Both the doctor and the Hibernian,
however, recovered without surgical
aid ; and the Dutchman having got a
shoemaker to glitch up his scalp with an
awl, was, in a very few days, ready fur
any new scrape into which his boxing
and bruising disposition might lead
him.
pice." The avalanche in its descent, had
passed oil both sides of this ledjje, car
rying everything before it that it met on
its way. Had the fugitives been a mini
ute earlier, or a minute later, they tyould
have been in its path. The generous act
of the lad, in pausing to relieve the help
less flock, had in reality saved the lives
of all.
at most, gave him the slightest possible
salutation. .•*.-*
Not being.however, very easily abash
ed, Baron M proceeded as usual,
to make his bow to the hostess, who at
once, as had been agreed, said to him,
“ Monsieur le Baron, may I request the
favour of a few words with you in pri
vate?”
Certainly, Madame,” replied the Ba
ton, offering Lio arm, which'she declined
to take, and forthwith led the way to an
ante-chamber.
The countess feeling naturally very
nervous at the part she had to perform,
at length said, with some hesitation ; “ I
know not whethervou are aware, Mon
sieur le Baron, of the serious accusation
which hangs over you; and which, un
less you can remove or explain satisfac
torily, must forever close my doors
against you.” The baron was all atten
tion, as the countess continued : “ I have
been informed, upon what appears to be
undoubted authority, .ua. you are in the
pay of Monsieur Fouche—that you are,
in shot t, a spy.”
Oh,” replied the baron, “ is that all ?
I will not attempt to deny it; nothing
can be more true: 1 am a spy.”
“And how,” exclaimed the lady,
“ have you dared to insult me and my
guests, by presuming to presentyourself,
niglit after night, at my house, in such
Oil oi»vrortlijf milliner v*
“ I repeat,” said the baron with all
possible coolness, “that l am in the pay
of Fouche; that lam a spy; and in
this capacity, upon some snojects, lam
tolerably well informed, of which, Mad
ame la Countesse, I will give you a
proof. On the last pay-day, at Monsieur
Fouche’s, you received your pay, for the
information you had brought him, im
mediately after 1 had received mine.”
“ What 1” cried the countess ; “ dare
you insinuate anything so infamous ? 1
will have you turned out of the house
instantly.”
“ Softly, madame,” answered the ha
ron : “that I am a spy, 1 have not at
tempted to deny; that you are likewise
a spy, 1 have long known, and can rea
dily prove. We are in the same boat—
we sink or swim together: if you pro
ceed to denounce me, I shall denounce
you ; and there is an end of both of us
looked at each other. The same senti
ment moved the heart of each, though
it ft>und words only at the mother’s lips.
“It is the hand of G<«1, my children,”
she said so’emnly, fulling on her knees,
“To Him be all praise 1”
An hour after, the fugitives were safe
He saw It—his ntiltr ttpLoM mur I will upholu you,
and we shall go on as before.”
“ Well,” said tho lady, considerably
embarrasjed at finding that her secret
was known, Mwhat is to be done? 1
am in a most difficult position.”
“Not at all, madame,” replied the
baron. “ I will tell you what to do:
covering the whole ground of our foreign
and domestic policy, and especially the
principles and treasures of the demo-
octatic party. Mr. Findlay heard it
with,not a little admiration of its merits,
both as to matter and manner; but,
glancing at the paper, he observed that
the general had, in some hundred in
stances, written the pronoun I in little
with a pop over it; and sincerely desi
ring to inform it for the writer's sake,
and for the effect that it ought to have,
hut impressed, also, with his sensitive
ness to criticism which, in any way, im
peached his capabilities, he coaxingly
suggested the much desired correction
after this fashion: ‘ Au excellent letter.
General. A sound letter, sir; full of
most capital advice, which Mr. Madison
will be glad and proud to receive, and
thoroughly democratic in every senti
ment. A letter, General, that any man
might he proud to write. Views, sir,
that will make the administration equal
to Jefferson’s, if they are fully adopted.
But, General, they have a court custom
at Washington, a small matter, such as
you and I are not apt to treat with much
consideration—an indifferent little piece
of etiquette—a—.’ Here Mr. Findlay
began to stammer. The general’s keen
eye was on him, and he felt it.
“‘ Percizely 1 what is it ?’
“* On. nntkiwg,'looking over me pa
per as if it were hard to find. ‘ Nothing
at all, and yet, it would be oasily alter
ed. A stroke of the pen here and there,
merely.’ V. ;
“ • Pine-blank,’ said the general, ‘ what
is it, Mr. Findlay ?’
‘ Why. General, it has become the
custom lately, at Washington, to write
the propouu I with a capital letter.*
“The general was caught, and he
knew how he was caught, too, and he
must recover himself.
“‘ Percizely, Mr. Findiav,; all right.
Most assuredly—l knew—pine-blank—
you’re right. No question of it.’ By
this time he wns ready. * Look here,
my dear sit,’ laying his hand on Mr,
Findlay’s shoulder, as if to re-assure
him, for the embarrassment was all on
the one side now. ’You see, my dear
fellow, 1 had a design in it. When l
write to a small pattern of a man, l make
my capital l’» two ijisbca lung; wnon, l
write to my equal fellow citizens, such
as yourself, for instance, I make them
Here is a beautiful-paragraph which *
we find in one of our exchanges:
“If thereis a man who can eat his bread
in peace with God and ^man, it is that
man who has brought that bread put of
the earth, or won it by hishoneat-indus- >
try. It is cankered by no fraud ; it ia
stained by no blond.”
“ Sophia Maria, did you receive mv
letter?” * ' : >
“I did, Frederick.”
“ I wrote it in hope of raising a flame.” -
“ Well, Fredrick, and you succeeded,
for I put it immediately on the fire,”
The latest case of absence of min'd is.
related of the, foreman of a grand jury in
Missouri. After administering the oath
to a beautiful woman, instead of handing
the Bible, he presented his face aud said,
“Now kiss the book madam.”
A waggoner passing a store, was ask
ed what lie had in his waggon. He re
plied:
Three, fourths of a cross, and a circle complete.
An upright where two semi-circles do meet;
A rectangle triangle standing on feet;
Two semi circles, and a circle complete. * r
Three foui tIi8 of a cress is aT. A cite
cle complete is an O. An upright wlierer"
two semi-circles do meet is a B. A tri
angle standing on feet is an A. Two,
semi-circles are CCand a circle ig;"©;
TOBACCO is what was in the waggtjgL.’
in a iieighhor’s cottage, having found an j ,a ke my arm, and we will teturn to
ok! path which had escaped the track of j gelher to the drawing-room, wheie you
. * * • * toil n tmminrn t nfl f TV. V f'Vltlf
The Avalanche.
BY CHARLES J. PETERSON.
“Hark 1 what is that ?” .
The speaker, who was a woman, about
the middle age oflife, at work in the com
mon apartment of a Swiss dwelling, sud
denly paused at her occupation, and with
a pale face and quivering lips, gazed
around on her children, who at these
signs of alarm, gathered in terror to her
side
••T-To-L !*» .t._ —:.l .0.:.. i-.t—
little tines began to cry. “Be still, on
your life, till I listen.” And she held up
her finger.
Tht-io was a dead silence at these
words—a dead silence, we mean, within
| the avalanche.
From Chambers' Journal.
The French Spy System.
Among the many families which ruse
into notice under the empire of the first
Napoleon, few held a more distinguished
j position in the Parisian society of the
day than that of the Countess B .
Her house, at the period of which we
speak, was the rendezvous of all the
celebrities of the time—marshals of
n mivv« WMnvvuiyUt • I --A «••••
ters, alike crowded to her saloons. The
Baron M—— was one of her most fre
quent guests, and had the reputation of
being as witty and arousing a personage
as could be met with ; in
consequence,
the room ; fot without was heard a hoi- I his company was very generally sought,
low, ominous sound ofawful significance. I even by the highest circles, in which,
“It is an avalanche, cried the eldest of though but little was known of his fam-
the children, a lad of aiHiut fifteen sum- ily or connections, he had found means
will announce that my explanation has
been satisfactory.”
The countess, seeing there was noth
ing else to be done, determined to make
the best of it, and as she advanced into
the room, said, with one of her sweet
est smiles: “lam delighted to tell you,
that Monsieur le Baron has been able
to give me an explanation, which.though
1 cannot divulge it, is in all respects
perfectly satisfactory to me, and there
fore, I am sure it will be so to you.”—
The guests were at once relieved from
a weignt oi anxiety, xne evening passed
off with the utmost hilarity, and the ba
ron regained the good opiniops he had
lost. It was not until long afterwards
that the real facts of this singular histo
ry became known.
mers, breaking the slillnes. “Quick,
mother fly.”
The mother instinctively snatched the
hand of her youngest child, and turned
towards the door, the whole family fol
lowing her.
“Oh 1 if your father was hut here,’
she said, as with hurried steps she cross
ed the loom ; “What shall we do? If
the avalanche is near we shall be over
whelmed, or if we even escape at first
we*8hail he lost on the mountain, for I
know none of the paths.'
In truth the tender mother was over-
<El)e /arm,
Bailing and Fattening Hog*.
Mu. Editor :" J am trying, the fol
lowing plan to raise and fatten Hogs';
In every field of corn I have planted one
acre in potatoes to every twenty-five or
thirty acres of corn, ^uot among tho
corn, but to themselves.^ In the com'
1 shall plant .peas, the usual way, and
ahout the first of October, I expect to
pull a field of corn ; then select such
hogs as l intend to slaughter .next vvin-
the usual length ; but, sir, when I' ad
dress myself to ns great a man as Mr.
Madison or Mr. Jefferson, l always make
them as small as possible with a pop
ovet them, percizely.
I need hardly say that the General
walked straight to his room, and raised
every letter of them to the dignity re
quired by the rules of grammar, and
the etiquette of Washington city, before
he despatched the epistle.”
The article of which this story is a
part, we must pronounce one of the
best we ever read in a magazine.—
Home Journal.
to obtain an excellent footing.
One evening, in the winter of lS05,a
brilliant party was assembled in the gay
saloons uf the Countess 11 , when a
gentleman well known to all, arrived in
breathless haste, and apparently much
excited. He made his way as quickly
as possible to the countess, and all
crowded round to hear what great
piece of intelligence be had to commu
nicate.
We are all, I think,” said he, “ well
acquainted with Baron M—-, who is
so constant a visiter here. I regret to
powered. for the moment, by the respon-1 say that 1 have just learnu^, in the most
sibilitips of her situation. But, at this
juncture her son came to her relief.
“Never lear, mother,” he 6aid, like a
S trung hero. “If we only escape being
lined, I’ll find a path, for I’ys not heeu
out with father for nothing.”
As he spoke, he flung open the door,
positive manner, that he is undoubtedly
a spy; he has, in fact, been seen to en-
tei and to leave the cabinet of Monsieur
Fouche.” s
The assembled guests were thunder-
struck at this unexpected announcement
each ono endeavoring to recollect what
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“ Don’t disturb the operation by
foFlish questions,” returned ihe doctor,
still vigorously playing the carpenter’s
tool.
“It looks to ine,” said one, very
much like a common pod-augur, and if
’twasn’t in the doctor’d "'hands. 1 should
soy'’twas one ; howsomever, the doctor
knows best.”
" Hush! hush yqur gabble 1 said the
docp>r-7-“ there now! you’ve made the
augur—trappan T would say—slip; by
-your confounded talking.”
Whether it whs that he was roused
by the agitation fiig brqjn Tpcpiyed float
the nugur, or whether he was re-called
to his sense bv the returning powers of
nature, one thing is certain, that in a
very short time Donervogei, who had
merely been stunned, opened his eyes
and exclaimed—'“ What te tyfel is you
tain mit mid headt ?”
and courageously stepped forth the first, indiscreet expression might have passed
His glance was immediately directed to I his lipsinthe presence of the treacherous
the rigljt, where the Aipine summit rose I Baron; and all, natutally enough, feel-
usually distinctly defined, high iuto the jing extremely uneasy at the possibility
heavens. But now the outlines of the I of being called upon to answef for some
mountain were lost in a white, shadowy long-forgotton words, spoken, as they
mist, that rushing raptdjy downwaru,|thought,inthesecurityofp'rivatesocie-
seemed as if it would, the ne*t moment, I ty. The hostess, of course, was most
envelope the dwelling in its fatal ombra-1 indignant at the insult which had been
cea, 'fuq well he knew what that awful I put upon her, and could hardly believe
cloud portended. It was the avalanche 1 j in the truth of the accusation.
“Ran, tun for votir lives!!’ be cried, J ; However; something must he done
stid pushing his mother and her children I the baron was momentarily expected
out, as he spoke, he leaped after h®r like I and unless he were able to clear him-
a young chamois,.
self from this seriqua imputation, he mas*
The terrified family needed no incen-1 he at once expelled frqm the society.—
tiVps, however to flight.- Even the yoqng»| After isome discussioti,ther*pore, it was
est comprehended the-immiiiency of the j decided that, upou the arrival of Bqron
peril,-and all breathlessly rushed down M , the countess should request a
thh ^ ** v '
few minutes’ private conversation with
&iqj£-4hi ' ^ ' *
s ^ . othertlK ^ ,
minded, that the flock, their almost .sole what he was accused, should ask if he
Suddenly the lad heard the bleating of ] liim; that she should take him into an-
eheep. He had forgotten, until thus re- other room, and hnving told him of
A Good Story.
Inimitably done is that article in the
last Putnam, entitled, “General Ogle,
a Character-" It refreshes the soul like
a mountain breeze, The General was
one uf those strong, clear-headed, self-
instructed, dexterous, efficient, invinci
ble men, who, taking up the task of civ
ilizing the country where the backwoods
man left it, carried the work forward to
the era of railroads and telegraphs, then
consigned it to men of the Morse, Col
lins, Law, Fremont, and Grinnell stamp.
He lived and died among the Allegha-
nies, in Pennsylvania. He used to pro
claim, and with perfect truth “ I’m
the father ofthe county. For forty
years 1 have done all its thinking, and
managed all ita business. I projected
your public roads, and every great im
provement in the policy of the commu
nity. I have made you happy at home
and respected abroad. I know every
man of you, from the acorn - up to the
scrubs that ye are. I know mere law
than your lawyers, and mare divinity
than your preachers, 1 can teach your
merchants in their own business; and
there isn’t one in a dozen of you. that
doesn’t owe your good luck to my ad
vice, and your misfortunes to neglecting
it. Ism the oldest major-general in
the United States, except Geueral Jack-
son. I want nothing from you: I be
long to myself, but l want you to know
what is f»r vour own good, percizely.”
The General was by no'means
book-learned man. On the contrary
quite the reverse. And upon this cir
cumstance, is founded the capital story
we are about to copy. . Here ft i s
“ Probably (says the writer) not one
man in a hundred can learn to write his
own name, spell February, or to hit-he
cases of the personal pronouns, after
From tho Journal & Messenger.
Interesting Ceremony! Presen
tation of a Cane!
The crew (Bob Jones), and the cook,
(Foliy,; oi atr-unro ednav ooatr the
Polyannthus, recently presontoJ Ita Op-
tain with a cane, as a testimonial of their
regard for his qualities as a man, and
for the intrepidity and courage which,
as a commander, he had uniformly ex
hibited in every vicissitude, and every
danger, attending the perilous naviga
tion of the raging canal. We find in the
Cleveland Herald the following corres
pondence upon this deeply interesting
occasion, which has forcibly reminded
us of a somewhat similar occasion, on
which we had the honor to be piesent
Wa Lok.Oio Kanal Klevelan, J
April 1,1853.
Hon. Capt, Smith, Esq :
The undersined in beliaf of the Kru
and Cuk, of- the bote Polly-Ann-thus,
present you with a baswood Kain razed
upon the Peuinsula, that spot maid clas
sic ground by being the home of Jeems
Brown, Esq., author of the “.coiners
ade. Notes by the Weigh, Altered Bills?’
aud other works of general issooand
circleashun: After being kut, the stick
was taken to “ Tinkers Crick” and peal
ed, and then to “ Jonny Kalk loc” where
ft was butifly mounted anda hossand
too linekarved on the top of it. Such
is the simple and affectin history of. the
weapon which is presented to^ytrasa
relick of the affecsbun which WilMollow
wherever the arduous dooties of asalers
life raa kali yu, For Krue and Cuk-
liis
BOB x JONES,
mark. ".
days then pull
turn in as above, and so on until through
gathering time. About the middle' of
November, I intend to select one third
ofthe beat hogs and put them in a close
pen; then by cooking all the food, %
expect, in eight or ten days, to have’ ..
them fat enough for slaughtering. Aft-
ter which take another third in the satq% ,
way and then the other. *
By having the coin atu!potatoes Iq
several different fields, l think hogs-wUt
fatten faster.with less waste of feted,’riff.
I design trurning in the stock hogs as
fast as the fattening hogs are removed "
from each field. I think the potatoes
will be preventive against any iujury
from the peas, and one acre in potatoes. -
will yield as many bushels as ten in corn.
In addition to the above I have plants
ed out three thousand peach trees,
twelve feet apart, and so Selected as to
be ripening from the middle of June to
middle or last of October* one third of
them will bear this year if we tmve%» -
cold ; among -ihe trero l Intend to sow"
peas about the middle of ibis month*
(April,) when my hogs get most - of tho
small-grain 'from the harvest fields,- I
expect to put them into the orchard;
(which will be about the last of J nnd;)
where they will remain until I gather
corn as above stated.
I expect by pursuing the foregoing
plann to raise double the quatitfty-of
meat necessary fpr ray family, with only
five months’ feeding from the corn-crib,
since I believe the. peas and" potatoes
will he sufficient (br iny stock hogs until
Christmas.—Soil of the South, .
forty years or age. -- .
fared something by his lack of fot m a
training in his youth, which ear-marketl
liis Style of speech and composition
while he lived. An amusing instance
will illustrate a slight defect of this sort,
and his masterlv skill, in extticattng
himself, which never deserted him m
any such exigency. Immediately after
Madison's second election, the general
The General suf-
support, was penned up, and would he had aiiy explanation to offer, as other-
ovei whelmed if left to themselves. But wise she should ; be obliged to signify to
it he delayed to release them, his own him, that he must discontinue his visits
lira ...... .lv ’ i :
life might pay the forfeit. Every sec
ond was prec'ous. He hesitated still,
when there came another bleat. The
piteous cry went to his heart. Every
In the midst of the invectives which
were pnuredforthon the head of the un
fortunate baron, that worthy made his
appearance. Immediately all was silent];
1 one of that flock had eaten, often from, liis l and though, he advanced to. gjreet his
, Cleveland, April 4,1853.
; -With a hearl boiling over with born
ing emotions I accept, your beautiful
Cane. It deluges my soul with a .flood
of darling recollections of the time when
working, “ living add loving” together,'
in top inspired language of. the Poet,- . ^
“ We shared each other’* gladness,
And wept each others tears,”
When transporting the “black dia
monds,” from the howling wilderness
and.dark caverns of the interior, to the
metropolis ofthe Takes, at the “ witching
hour of night," surrounded by the perils
of canal navigation, have 1 looked to you
for support. How often have you, Bob,
without chart or Compass to guide, steet-
To Renovate Old Laud,
Messrs. Editors : Being a sudsevi-
ber to. your most valuable paper, and a.
well wisher of the South, 1 feel it my .
Idpty 'to cast in my lijtle mite, thinking
that dt .may perbapr t 'be-tȣ i '8erviqq. ,to
same of my brother farmers. My ob-
jectis simply.to suggest.q plan fay which
our opce rich but now exhausted .lands
of Georgia, may be brougHt back agaip
to their former rich and abundant pro-
pnctiOQB, The time is not far distant^ •
yea, it has already arrived, when it be-1
comes the duty of every farmer to-pre
serve and to improve his'lands; instead
of suffering them to be swept off by-the-
repeated. showers that, fall upon/..them,
I ‘thereby leaving hinvan exhausted nod
worn out plantation to cultivate -all 4>f
his life, or else he must, abandon it and
emigrate ‘ to ■ some. new-country. J’rcen
onlv say to my brothet farmers,, lot us
be 'satisfied, where we are, and if w®
have "not yet commenced a system of
improvement, let us commence at once.
X will now give my plan oCipg|nv£
ment, and hope to see a belter onq laid
down by some one else. 1st, fill up and
stop all the gnllies we can- 2d . ditch
wclKwitb. hillside ditches. We are%$«r'
ready for the operation We propose,,
first, to sow do\vn one, two or three acres,
tp-eaeh/hand ih the fall, with some kind
of small grain, that will stancLthe win
ter; and then in the spring sow peas
broad cast over the small grain crop,
and turn tho whole over with a turn
plow ; let it remain until the peas nja-
tui.e, and then again sow the small grain,
ed our gallant craft through the thicken- and then turn the whole underas before,
ing gloom which boded tempest and dis- This, with the asststence of all the rn r
v . t A t - !a ...i♦ Lniivft t
aster, while 1, and I write it without
vanity, stood at the bow, prepared to
snob her
And how, when within the walls ofthe
nure that we can raise otherwise, wobld
soon enable us to say, hail, >e r Jf n I G
bid. Georgia- ^
Miriu-cther Co., MKWWR t -*