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YOL. 1-NO. 110.
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. HATH AND CAPS.
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FANS IN EVERY’ VARIETY;
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THE BROOK THAT RAN INTO THE SEA.
BY LUOY LARCOM.
“O little brook,’’ the children said,
•The sea has waves enough ;
Why hurry down your merry bed
To meet h s welcome rough ?’’
“I run for pleasure,” said the brook.
Still running, running fast;
“I love to see you bend aud look.
As I go bubbling past."
“I love to feel the wild weeds dip;
T love your fingers light.
That dimpling from my eddies drip,
_ Filled with my pebbles biight.•'
"My little life 1 dearly love,
Its shadows and its shine:
And all sweet voices that above
Make melody with mine.”
"But most I love the mighty voice
Which calls me, draws me so,
That every ripple lists, ‘Rejoice
As with a laugh I go.’’
“My drop of freshness to the sea
lu music trickles on;
Nor grandeur conld my Welcome be
Were I an Amazon." ;
"And if his moaning wave can feel
My sweetness near the shore.
E’en to his heart the thrill may steal
What could I wish for, more 5”
"The largest soul to take love in
Knows how to give love bo-t ;
So peacefully my tinkling din ,
Dies on the great sea’s ureast."
“One heart encircles all that live,
And blesses great and small:
And meet it is that each should give
His little to the All."
"The Hudson or the Oregon
May help his tide to swell;
Bnt when your l'ew bright diops are gone,
What has he gained, pray tell J"
THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI SECTION.
What will Kirby Smith Do 1
[From the New York Herald.]
We published on Sunday a proclamation of
the rebel General Smith, from Shreveport, on
the Red river, in the northwestern corner of
Louisana, near Texas border, in which pro
clamation he tells his army that with the sur
lendei* of General Lee “the hopes of the na
tion” (the Southern Confederacy) “rest upon
them that they “posstess the means of long
resisting invasion ;” that they “have hopes of
succor from abroad that if they “protract
the struggle, they will receive the aid of na
tions who already deeply sympathize with
them,” and that from “the great resources of
this department (Western Louisana aud Tex
as), its vast extent, the numbers (fifty thous
and, supposed to be), discipline and efficien
cy” ot bis army, great things may still he ac
complished, perhaps,-“under the providence
of God,” even the final success of their cause.
This was on the 10th of April. On the
26th, or sixteen days later, there was a pub
lic meeting at Shreyeport, in Court House
square, gotten up for the same purpose as
that last rebel pow-wow in Richmond, with
the return of Jeff.’9 peace commissions from
Hampton Roads—that is, “to fire the South
ern heart to fight to the last ditch.” At this
Shreveport meeting Governor Allen, the reb
el Governor of the northwest corner of Lou
isiana, presided, and made the opening
speech. He was followed by General Hays,
Gen. Hawthorne, Col. Flournoy, ot Texas,
and others, the last named border ruffian
“concluding his Oration with a glowing ptuie
gyriq upon Booth, the assassin .of Mr,_ Lin
coln, whom he compared to Brutus, the slav
er of Caesar, and predicted for Booth a like
and enduring fame.” All these speeches and
the resolutions ot the meeting, were franti
cally for continued war, in support of Gen.
Kirby Smith. The terrible fire-eater graced
the occasion with his presence, likewise Gen,
Price (“Monsieur Tonson come again”), Gen.
Buckner,Gen. Reynolds, the last rebel claim
ing to be Governor of Missouri, “and many
other distinguished gentlemen,” says the
Shreveport Sentinel—including, we suspect,
mo9t of the skedaddling rebel governors of
the so-called' “Confederate States.”
AU these proceedings at Shreveport, taken
together, running through sixteen days,
show a deliberate purpose and preparations
to continue the fight. The war, by the heavy
emigrations of rebel slaveholders from tbe'
slave States along the Mississippi river to
Texas, has probably increased the population
of that State to a million or more ; and if all
tbe rebel fighting men therein and the ad
joining Slates of Louisiana and Alabama
could be got together they would make an
army of not less than seventy-five thousand
men. But whatever may be the forces, re
sources and expectations of Smith and bis
followers, the news of the capture of Jeff.
Davis Will bring them to a realizing sense of
their forlorn situation. The government of
the late Southern mock Confederacy is
wiped out, and the confederacy itself east of
the Mississippi is extinct. All that is left of
it is Kirby Smith’s command, the fugitive
rebels Under hia protection, and the region of
country embracing the northwest corner of
Louisiana arid the great State of Texas.
Having, then, no longer even the shadow
of a Southern nationality to fight for, and
being still full of fight, what will Kirby
Smith db ? He and the inveterate fugttive
rebel chiefs and leading vagabond soldiers
that smrouud him will have learned before
this that they are not safe within the limits of
the United States under President Andy
Johnson. What, then, will they do? We
shall not be surprised if, as an organized
military force, gathering up all the horses,
mules, cattle, cotton and provisions within
their line of march, .they proceed through
Texas to Mexico, and offer their services to
Maximiliar, or upset him, and establish
themselves on the ruins of his empire, in the
government of the republic. It is their last
chance for a Southern and per
haps eyen now. they may be moving upon
this inviting enterprise.
Life of President Lincoln. —Mr. Arnold,
member of Congress from Illinois, during the
four Years Os Mr. Lincoln’s administration,
and his personal friend, is preparing memoirs
of the life and administration of President
Lincoln with a history of the important
Congressional legislation of the same period.
[From the Southera.Cnltivator.]
FARM WORK FOR MAY.
May is one of our busiest months, on the
farm and plantation; aud must be especially
so this year, as our winter was so severe and
our spring so" very late. He is a thrifty and
“fore-handed ’ tanner, infeed, who does not
now find himself greatly behind with his
work. But vigor and energy, immediately
brought to bear, will do much to retrieve our
backwardness. Look carefully over our
farm and garden bints for March and April,
and do at once any ueedful and important
work that you have neglected, or that you
were unable to do. In another month, or
eveu iu a few weeks, the scorching heats of
summer will have come, aqd it will then be
too late. So, do not lose one moment now,
but let master aud all hands gb to Wojk with
a will!
Corn at is well up, must be worked at
once, running around it close and deep with
along, sharp, narrow “bulltougue”or rooter
plow ; after which the middles may be broken
out, and the spaces between the hills or
plauts kept clean with the hoe. The surface
should be kept mellow, frequently stirred,
entirely free from wesds, and as nearly level
as possible. No hilling up is necessary—no
turning plow should be used in the late
culture ot corn. It is never necessary, ex
cept in cases where the weeds have obtained
such a foothold that they must be buried or
turned under—but we hope none of the
renders of the Southern Cultivator ever allow
their crops to get into that condition. In.
breaking up for corn, we cannot plow too,
deep—but, in cultivating the crop, the bar
row and sweep are the proper tools ; for, as
far as can be avoided, no roots of short-lived,
annual crops , should ever b,e broken. The
com needs all its roots, and requires rich
mellow ground to extend them in ; aud so
we again repeat—do not break Hhe roots by
plowing deep ; but keep the surlace open,
freely pulverized and frequently, stirred.—
This system will give you a good crop almost
any season. Corn may yet b» planted on
“new grounds” and favorable • spots, and
sliould be put into every spare rood ot land.
It is now our “great staple,” and no pos
sible effort shonlu be spared to, produce an
abundance. * ,
Cotton must be brought to a good “stand”
and scraped and moulded immediately.. It
is, of course, backward in growth this year;
aud we will have abundant time to attend to
the corn crop. ‘ Bill, after scrapihg your cot
ton, mould as soon as possible, so that the
young rootlets may not be exposed to the
scorching effects of the sun.
Oats, Rye, Wheat, and other small grains,
may, in some places be cut the last Os this
month or early in June, and the ground af
terwards manured, deeply broken up, and
planted in Corn, Cow Peas, or Sweet Potato
“draws.”
Cow Peas, to make Hay, may now be sown
broadcast or drilled, in well manured cr-deep
ly plowedlaud., Corn should, also, be. drift
ed, to cut green for forage. It wiH require
about 3 bushels of seed pel- acre—9ow thick
ly in broad, deep drills, 3 1-2 feet apart—use
all the manure you eau spare, and cut the
corn for your stock as soon as it. tassels. Lay
off your patch in rows, and sow at intervals
of a week or ten days, so that it may be cut
in ■ succession. Millet and Chinese 1 Sugar
Cane may be sown in the same way; and in
the present scarcity of forage, will be found
of the greatest value.
Chinese Sugar Cane, as a Syfup crop, may
still be planted, aad should be put in exten
sively, as heretofore directed. It will sur
pass common Corn in yield, on the same
land, and properly appreciated and managed,
is one of onr greatest resources.
Sweet Potatoes should be planted very
extensively every where, ’ Avery deep, wide
furrow, plentifully filled with manure, upon
which throw a mellow and somewhat broad
and flat bed—rake lightly the surface ot this
bed, make good large holes and set your
“draws” so that the bottom leaf is just above
the ground. If the roots ot the “draws,” up
to this leaf, are “groated/ or dipped in a
batter made by stirring woods-earth and a
little fresh cow-manure in rain water, and
then a gift of water poured around each
“draw” in the hole, covering this moisture up
with dry Calrth on the surface—they will
“grow off” without any check, as will also,
Tomatoes, Egg Plants, - Cabbages, or any oth
er vegetables we are in the habit of wailing
for a rain to transplant.
In dry weather,’it is best to set out plants on
this.plan, after 4 or 5 o’clock in the evening,
so that they may have the benefit of tne
night dews. If very hot, they may be shaded
with shingles. A handful of pine-straw or
Similar “mulch” may be dropped lightly on
each plapt before the sun. becomes scorching
the next day. It short of good “draws,” you
may extend your crop of sweet potatoes, by
using cut vines from your earliest
of the tubers.
If Millet and Chinese Cane , are already
vigorously growing, or put in at onco in rich
and well-prepared land, you will he able to
get several cuttings during the season. But,
if you wait to sow until hot weather, the
growth week, languid and unsatisfac :
tory. The weeds Will now begin to claim
your particular and constant attention.
“Nip them in the bud’’—do not let them get
a foothold—ent them down without mercy,
or they will be sure to choke out and des
troy your crops. Now, at the outset, is the
time to'choke them—if you wait a few days
or a week, it will be too late.
Go often over your farmsand plantations,
and diligently study bow you can make every
spot available arid profitable. Use your best
judgment, always, in adapfing your'•crops to
the most favorable localities, and bring all
you have of science and experience to your
aid— now, especially, in our time ot trial, and
impending wrint.
Do not tbink us over explicit or particular
in our directions—we freely admit that many
of our readers are capable of instructing us 2
in plantation and farm economy ; but these
are often very chary of giving their knowl
edge to the public, and we are sure that here
and there anew beginner will thank us for
our hints; and perhaps profit by them.
Juge Clifford, of the United States Supreme
Court, has decided that a man who has ex
pressed his joy at the assassination of Presi
dent Lincoln is not fit to serve as a juror in
the courts of the United States.'
-PRICE, 5 CENTS
■ THE BOOTH HOBtKSTKAb.
A description of the “Booth Farm” and iu
urroundings may not prove uninteresting.
seen by the .writer some few day 9 ago, it
mpressed him simply aud singly with this,
dea— “neglect.”
Nearly one mile from Belair, on the Belair'
ind Havte-de-Grace road, a rude lane leads'
m to what .was .the habitation of one of the
nost gifted and erratic men that ever lived ;
lown this lane, nearly a fourth of a mile from
he main road, on the left side after leaving 1
Selair for Havre-de-Grace, yon feme in vfew
>fa modern tin-roofed cottage house, two
itories high, facing the main road, with a
jackground of forest landscape. At right
uigles with the new house, and to the right,
s the old house in which the assassin John
[Vilkes Booth Was thorn, a rude' structure,
milt of logs and plastered, with the chimneys
mtsule of the house, in the Old Dominion I
ityle ; a barn again to the right, a few steps
iom the gable end of the old house, situated.
lown in a hollow. As far its 1 saw of t tie
tew house (which was begun by the oil gen
tleman and finished'by the sons) it was plaitt- 1 -
y and neatly furnished, but of the old house,
.vhich I am told'contains the wardrobe, fu# - -
liture, and books of the elder Booth, what
?an I say but the truth ? It leaks badly and
[ was told has ruined the treasures deposited
in the right wing thereof. , ~
The grounds and whole place wear that
Virginian look of. desolation and unthrift
that would lead you *o suppose an army hail
passed over it. I had some conversation
with.an intelligent, pretty young girl—a rose '
in the wilderness—who gave me the follow- *
ing information:—As long as she had been
there' the Bohths have not lived on the farm,
the place belug leased to a Mr. Heisler, '
whose son-in-law, Mr. King, and family, oc
cupy the premise?. She remembers John on
three occasions ; once when he was board
ing in Belair, aud came over to the farm ;
another time when lie rushed into the new
house, saying he had been fired on by the
Soldiers, and meant to defend himselt. After#
which, he went iuto the old house, got hia
rifle, and went off in the direction of the ‘
“big woods.’' u * ■ , ‘
Another, time she saw him in company with *
i brother, who came to the house with John. .
The brother was highly incensed at the sol-
Jier’s‘having cut down or taken his wood,
but John was very quiet; in tact, as the
oung girl naively said, “I always liked John
he best, he was so quiet and .nice looking.”
[t seems the soldiers here alluded to were a
party of Unionists looking after a local Con
federate company,-who eluded pursuit by' 1
hiding in the “big woods" before spoken of,
a tract of forest land nearly five square miles
in-extent—in fact a wilderness.
The Rebel “Home Guard" concealed in ‘
the wood, and the secession assassin, John
Booth, rushing into the old house, and with
his riffle going to the forest, also raises a
doubt whether Mr. Lincoln was the first man
murdered by him. The Booth family were >
always highly thought of by their neighbor*.
John was considered cruel and vindictive*,
in proof of which the toliowiug Is tolck;— A
poor coloredjman who lived near the farift
owned a very nice dog, which, as my infor
mant said, “Poor Stephen Hooper would not.,
have taken twenty-five dollars for, poor as
Stephen was.” John Wilkes Booth, the hero
of sensation novelists, who write accountsof
his dramatic death, this low-minded fellow,
sat at the gable window of the new house,
and with liis rifle or pistol, for no earthly
reason, shot the dog dead. Another:—A'
sow going near the barn on (he Booth proper
ty, John fired three shots in the animal, only
defending his conduct by sayihg that he
would not have strange animals come on'
his ground destroying things, which was not
the truth, as the hog was destroying • nothing,
of Value.
Many strange stories are current of the
elder Booths It is said that in one of his crazy
freaks he bought a piece of land near hi 9
furm that i9 entirely surrounded by properly ‘
oWnCd by other parties, making it an incon
venience, if not a matter of impossibility to
properly care for the land thus purchased.
At another time a favorite horse was dying,
and. he had the feather beds taken out of the
house foe the. horse, to lie on, and- made his
wife show her affection to (he horse by .kiss- (
ing ft. When the horse died be had it buriedh
with as muffii solemnity as if a huiftaribe r iig.
A colored man, named Hall; who, with a
dog, were his constant comrades during him
“ spells,” were called, oh to do service, the
man Hall playing the parson, Booth the'
clerk, and the dog the chief mourner. I am'
told that John Wilkes Booth was bora about
the time the father was most affected.
Act Peply,— A vetetan relates the follow
ing-. It happened that a mule driver was
engaged in leading an unruly mule for a short
distance, which job proved as much as he
was able to do, and .gave full employment
for both of his hands. As he was thus en
gaged, a newly appointed brigadier rode by
near h;in, in all the consequential radiancy
of his starlight, when the mule-drivOr hailed
him as follows:
“I say, I wish you would send a couple-of
men down here to help me manage this
mule.”
The brigadier, indignant at being so fami
liarly addressed, sternly,replied—
“Do you know what I am, sir
“Yes,” was the reply ; “you are Gen. ——,
I believe.”
“Then why do you not salute me before
addressing me?” inquired the brigadier.
“I will,” responded the M. D., “ifyou will
get off and hold the mule. ” .
The brigadier retired in good order. *•
(From the Selma (Ala.) Fedora) Union, May 1.)
Forrest Chokes Gen. Chalmers. —There
seems not to have been tbe greatest unity of
sentiment and action among tbe Confederate
officers in and around Selma at the time Gen.
Wilson came in. Gen. Fori est had a person
al skirmish with Chalmers, tbe general Who
burned the Cahawba bridge. The affair re
sulted in Chalmers , being so badly choked
that he had considerable difficulty in regain
ing the breath of life,..besides losing the stars
from hih collar.
It is said that the counsel for the prisoners
in the assassination trial are to be paid, it at
all, by money raised in Baltimore fol the
purpose. ’’