The Southern tribune. (Macon, Ga.) 1850-1851, January 26, 1850, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTHE _ • • •» - »-. \.i ii ifiiiiiii w sSw . HHI It published erery S.l TL'RD.I Y Morning, In the Tiro-Story Wooden Building, at the Corner of Walnut and' Fifth Street , IS ‘HIE CIT V OK MACON, GA. ISy WM. Si. IIAUBISOX. T F. It M S : For t!u Paper, in advance, per annum, $2. if not paid in advance, $3 00, per annum, rfj"Advertisements will be inserted at the usual rates —and when the number of insertions de sired is not specified, they will be continued un til forbid and charged accordingly, (U J Advertisers by the Year will be contracted with upon the most favorable terms. [fT’Sales of Land by Administrators,Executors or Guardians, are required by Law, to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours often o’clock in the Forenoon and three in the Afternoon, at the Court House of the county in which the Property is situate. Notice of these Bales must begiven in apublic gazette Sixty Days previous to the day of sale. ETSales of Negroes by Administators, Execu tors or Guardians, must be at Public Auction, on the first Tuesday in the month, between the legal hours of sale, before the Court House of the county where the LettersTestamentary,or Administration or Guardianship may have been granted, first giv ing notice thereof for Sixty Days, in one of "the public gazettes of this State, and at the door of the Court House where such sales are to be held. 3j*Notice for the sale of Personal Property must be given in like manner Forty Days pre vious so the day of sale. to the Debtors and Creditorsolan es tate must be published for Forty Days. that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Ne groes must be published in a public gazettein the .Siate for Four Months, before any order absolute can be given by the Court, (fj’Citations for Letters of Administration on ,n Lstate, granted by the Court of Ordinary, must he published Thirty Days— for Letters of Dismis sion from the administration ofan Estate,monthly for Sir Months—fur Dismission from Guardian ship Forty Days. Qj=Rulcs for the foreclosure of a Mortgage, must be published monthly for Four Months— fir establishing lost Papers, for the full space of Three Months —for compelling Titles from Ex ecutors, Administrators or others, where a Bond has been given by the deceased, the full space of Three Months. N. B. All Business of this kind shall receive prompt attention at the SOI ’THERM TRIBUJVE Office, and strict care will be taken that all legal Advertisements are published according to Law. fT/*A!I Letters directed to this Office or the Editor on business, must he fost-faid, to in sure attention. ip o 1 1 1 Cca l. From the Augusta Republic. Soulhmi Convent ion at Nashville. We have as yet seen no sign in the po litical liorisnn which lias changed our views on the projirie'y of holding a Southern Convention at Nashville in June next. Are our difficulties settled ? Have the gloomy clouds which hung over our rights Been dispersed ? Is there any cheering sign in the Heavens? None, none that we have been aide to see as yet. What then shall bo done ? Shall Georgia be represented in the Convention at Nash ville or not ? Some action must be origin ited from some quarter if she shall bo. Ought not the members of the Legislature [to speak out upon this subject? We know the delicacy of their position. Man/ of them think that they were elected to make laws for Georgia, not to call con ventions, or recommend delegates to be sent to one. The great interests of tiie State are confided, for the time being, to those who are the honored representatives of the people in the General Assembly. We [hold that their powers are both legal and lequitable. It requires no great stretch of [ power for them to go a step or two beyond the law, to the grand and almost necessary exercise of the powers of equity. In our opinion a Southern Convention, which will declare its attachments to the * nion, at the same time that it demands ; justice to the South, will do more to check ilie encroach men’s of the North and ad just this great and growing difficulty, than any and all other agencies combined. lo produce the grand moral effect it "ill he necessary for the whole South to come together in one united and solemn consultation. The radieticeof truth should beam from its resolves and its determina tions. They should be no nauseous bra v'u!n, no waton, thoughtless declarations, by which she would not stand in the hour ot trial. But all should be done in a calm, him and determined spirit to which no ( Lie cant could be attached, nor a solitary i doubt of the decisive purposes of the peo- pie of this injured section. It is a solemn crisis, and solemn action is imperiously demanded. | We sincerely hope that the members of the Legislature of Georgia, will, in some ■Suitable way, respond to the wise and no lle action of the State of Mississippi, i -f the Legislature does not feel willing V assume the responsibility of calling a let them unanimously recom that one shall he held, that the peo- Georgia, in their respective con- districts shall meet together at ■nine specified day, in their respective to elect delegates to district con ■‘-"'ions who shall appoint delegates to ■«'e Southern Convention. ■hutliern Convention should be held. But P - present themselves so forcibly to the H ow ! n ? patriotism of the Legislature, 11 w °uld be almost indecorous in us enumerate tliem. If we fail in this if this Convention be not held, ~». Xl i’’' as s he South is, with no imagitia < "it real and appalling danger, we shall M 1 Ducted to the ridicule if not the ■ °f the world. ■ " subject, we hope that no sickly 1 "is will prevent Georgians from acting P rom ptß, at a time when threaten [ » V‘S Qr tan be met only by prompt, | l ul, d undaunted defiance. THE SOUTHERN TRIBUNE. NEW SERIES— VOLUME 11. I.ifc in California. The following is rather the most graph ic account of the way things are done in “El Dorado” that we have yet seen. The description of the way justice is done is altogether “ unique.” And the Reverend gentleman peJdling patent medicines is an instance of the versatility of genius of the American people. But the Governor’s Aid from Georgia heating the bass drum at a dollar an hour, in front of an Auction Store to attract customers, is’the most per fect derivation of the mercantile phrase “ Dtummingfor custom” imaginable. We had heard the word “ Drummer” among merchants, hut never before knew its origin. The following is the exttact allu ded, to taken from the New Orleans Delta of the 11th instant, dated San Francisco, Dec. 1, 1849. YV ith regard to society here, it is ‘good of the kind,’ being all, of the masculine gender, and a more quiet, orderly city can not be found in the world, tha. San Fran cisco at tins time. It is a matter of great surprise, too, to persons when they first ar rive here, that there is so little drunkness, where spirits are retailed at every corner of the street. There are two Courts here —the Alcalde s Judged. W. Geary presi ding, and the Court of Fist Instance, where bis Honor, W. B. Almond, deals out jus tice by the yard; or rather, sends the jury into the back-yard to do justice. I hap pened in the other day, just as he was con cluding a brief charge to the jury in some civil action, w hich be wound up as follows, verbatim , ‘Gentlemen of the jury, you have heard theeHdence, heard the'plead ings of counsel; 1 have just told you the • law, or rather, the absence of any law on the subject, and now, you will please re tire to the back-yard, and do the ‘clean thing’ between these parties.’ ‘Mr. Clerk, what is the next case on the docket?’ This court-room is about twenty-five feet square, and is occupied for a debtor’s jail, calaboose, watch house, and Court of 1 1' iist Instance. The Alcalde’s court-room is only about half the size of this, and is used also us Record office. All the crimi nal cases come before this tribunal, and if there is not so much fair,there is more jm ticc, here than in the States; and, more over, less tardiness in its administration, 1 was greatly amused, the other day, while attending Court at Stockton, by a iemaik of Judge Belt, while a criminal case was being tried. The counsel for the defendant Was urging upon ilie Court the consideration of some question of law, when his Honor interrupted him by ouieL !y remarking: ‘What the Devil is the use, sir, for you to tell me w hat is the law*, when it conflicts w ith my ideas of justice ?’ The accommodations at the Custom house here, are much better than at the Postoffice. It takes about three days af ter the steamer arrives, to get a letter from the office. For a week after tiie arrival : of a mail, you can see a line formed at I daylight, from both delivery windows of j the office, stretching down the hill for a I quaiter of a mile, waiting their turns. 1 have seen a poor devil, who perhaps had not heard from home and friends for six months or a year, get ‘into line’ in (lie mor ning, perhaps, and, after standing there all day, without his dinner, find himself at night within a rod or two of the window, when the office is closed for Ihe night. It is not at all uncommon to see a man give someone who is pretty close up, five, ten, and even twenty-five dollars for his chance; and then perhaps not get a letter. It is a matter of speculation wiih some loafers, I to take a pocket full of bread and cheese and go into the file early in the morning, j without the most distant idea of getting a j letter, and then sell out their chance along | in tiie afternoon, and repeat the same j game, day af er day, during the ‘rush.’ The ! office is closed on Sundays, as will also be all the gambling bouses, afer this week, by special ordinance of the City Council. The are at present three churches in the city, the Episcopal, Methodist and Babtist, which are all well attended. It seems like my own New England home, to hear the sound of the church-going bell’ every Sabbath, and see the people gather ing to the house of paryer, where all sin ful thoughts are banished and all worldly passions bushed to holy rest. To see, in a rough country like tiiis, where tbeie is such a pushing and scrambling in the gol den race —where, it would seem lo you at home, time could not be found to attend to the affairs of the soul—to see devout heaits raised in prayer and praise to God —to sec eyes looking up to the bright heavens, full of penitence and humble faith, is indeed a Heavenly picture! There goes the rich speculator in city lots : see him enter the door of the sanctuary, con secrated to the worship of the great Crea tor and Father of us all. Now lie kneels, and from the secret altar of his heart holy aspirations are rising to the Throne of tho Eternal! Listen ! the voice of solemn prayer is heard, and God is praised by the music of many voices, attuned to divine harmonies. The word of inspiration is read, and the rich man listens with that earnest attention and devotion that would seetn to lay up every word as a Heavenly treasure in tho heart. Is his heart filled with humble penitence, and heavenly love, and holy rapture ? Does the sweet spirit of Christian charity btood over it 1 His MACON, (GA.,) SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 2G, 1850. eye glances out at the window. Do you see that smile of more than mortal pleas ure that now lights up his countanance ? Can you read tliat face and fathom that that rich man’s thoughts, all unholy desires, all mad and revengeful passions, and gras ping avarice, and sinful pride, and world ly vanity, are they not all hushed ? And is his heart not purified , w armed and melted ? \\ hat caused that pleasant smile, think you, reader ? I will tell you, for I know the man. He is thinking of the aurtion sale of city lots, that takes place in front of the Alcalde's of ice, in Portsmouth Srptare, to-morromforenoon! He is a rich man. When he came here, one year ago, he had but ten dollars in the world. Now lie is wortn two hundred thousand, ami is con sidered a good Christian, because lie help ed build tiie church. W here one man is thus successful, hun dreds—yea, thousands, lose all the means they brought with them to California, and and lose health besides. And, by the way, this reminds me that l saw the “ telegraph man,” from Baton Rouge, the other day. He tells me that when lie got on shore here, about five weeks ago, lie had but twenty-five cents in the world ; and what was worse than all—it was nearly sun down, and the cheapest lodging in the city was two dollars a night, and must l>c paid in ad ranee ! \\ hat do you think he did ? I w ill tell you. He bestowed a thought on home and the comforts he had left there, and on the warm friends from whom he had so lately separated, and this was his supper—and the briny drops that stole scalding down his checks were his drink ; and he lay down upon the cold ground in Portsmouth Square, and . No; he did not sleep ! but lie wept! wept in agnny his folly in coming to California ! He was up at break of day ; and a man whom he never before saw, bearing him inquire lor work, that be might earn iiis breakfast, asked him if he was willing to work, and upon being answered in the affirmative, the gentleman immediately bought a handcart, that was for sale, close by, and told the “telegraph man” to take it and commence making his fortune, and when he had got tlie price of the cart that he had no use for, to help the first poor fellow he saw, who was trilling to work! This was on Sunday morning—and in one hour he had earned five dollars, which paid his expenses till Monday, when lie commenced a regular business, as "the handcart man," earning from fifteen to thirty dollars pei day. I his, with a slight variation, would per haps, be the beginning of thousands who have come to this land of promise. I would say one word to emigrants who land here without means—Don’t he dis couraged because you do not stumble upon a fortune the first day or week of ymir ar rival, butgp? to work. There is a dignity ab ut labor here, that there is not in any other country under the sun. Why, al most the first man 1 met, on my arrival, was the Rev. Dr. Farley—under whose preaching 1 have sat for years—with a box under bis arm, peddling patent medi cines about the streets! lie has now got along so well in the world, as to open an eating house, and tells me that he is doing well. I also saw, a few davs ago, Col. Sanford, Aid to the Governor, and Solici tor General of the State of Georgia, en gaged, at a dollar an hour, heating a bass drum, to call the people together at ati auction! This is a great country; and, mark my words, there will be a greater emigration here next year than ever be fore. 1 lierchave been discoveries made in the miningdistricts, of the gold hearing quartz, that have not only startled everybody here, but will set the whole world in commotion. I should not he at all surprised to see one tentli part of the male population of the United States here, in the space of two years. The town of San Francisco is regular ly laid out in lots 50 varas square,general - ly six of which form a block, and now contains 30,000 inhabitants, and is rapidly on the increase. Tiif. Secret of Success. —‘Let them work hard and fare hard, and they need not go to California to get rich,’ said Uucle Simon, as he stood talking with a neighbor, about some friend who bad late ly left for the gold streams of California. ‘That is the secret of success,’ added Uucle Simon, as he thrust bis band under his frock, and turned on bis heel; ‘only let the people work as hard here, as they do when they go to California, and my word for it, they’ll soon get ahead anywhere, and no mistake.’ Mississippi Vallyy. —This valley con' tains as many square miles with more til' lable ground than the whole continent of Europe. It measures about 1,311,649 square miles, and is, therefore, stx times larger than France. And this vailey is as rich as it is extensive. It is the “fat” val ley. Never did human eye behold a finer soil, or more luxuriant productions.— The treasures beneath the soil are as pre cious as those above. The lead and cop per mines arc among the finest in the world. Iron and coal abound. Building materials of beauty and strength, adapted to make huts for the poor or palaces for tho rich, are not wanting. Nature has here furnishen in lavish profusion every thing for converting tho wilderness into smiling fields studded with populous cities. A Story with st >loral. [We invite attention to the following true story, from the Boston Chronotype. The moral it conveys is especially worthy of remembrance. The doctrine of charity cannot be too earnestly or too frequency inculcated. We are among those who believe that a large proportion of the con victs who crowd our Penitentiaries, might have been rescued from the downward path, had they, in early life, met wiih some benevolent, generous and kiud-licaited in dividual, willing not only to advise but assist.] About ten months ago, Mr. John M. Spear, upon one of his usual vtsits to the Police Caurt, one morning, noticed, among the prisoners, a youth, who was poorly clad, and, for some cause, was weeping. The philanthropist sat down by his side, and the following conversation ensued : ‘Why are you here, my son ?’ ‘I am accused of selling newspapers, sir, without a license.’ L\re yon guilty ?’ ‘Yes, sir.’ ‘Have you been arrested before ?’ ‘Yes, sir—twice.’ ‘W’hat for V ‘For selling newspapers.’ ‘ Wby do you persist in doing it ?’ ‘Because 1 don’t know what else to do to get a living.’ ‘Have you a father ?’ ‘No, sir; my father is dead.’ ‘ls your mother living ?’ ‘My mother is a drunkard ; she don’t take any care of me. I don't know where she is note /* As lie uttered these last words, the deep waters of the little fellow’s soul bust forth afresh, and he expressed his grief aloud. ‘ Where do you lodge ?’ continued the philanthropist. ‘Near Union street, sir; 1 pay nine ponce anight for my lodging, in advance, and I buy two plates ofbeans in the course of tiie clay, for which T pay as much more.’ ‘How do you spend your evenings ?’ ‘ I walk about the streets, or go into the auction rooms.’ ‘ Why don’t you sit down in the house where you lodge, by the fire, and read ?’ ‘Because the woman of the house is poor. She lias no room for me at her fire.’ ‘ Would you like to go into the country and work, if a place could be obtained for you V ‘Yes, sir; I would be glad to go and work for my living. 1 don't want to stay in Boston, but 1 have no body to get a place for me. I don’t want to go down to the jail again.’ The philanthropist now spoke to the Judge, respecting the prisoner. This seemed to worry Mr. Power, the petty tyrant and Clerk of the Court, who seems ever ready to throw frozen water upon any thing that docs not harmonize with the discordant music of his soul. He in formed Mr. Spear that it would be of no use to try to do anything for that boy, be cause lie had twice been sent to jail for the same thing before, and it did him no good * That is a good and sufficient reason,’ was the calm and determined reply of the philanthropist, ‘why lie should not be sent there again.’ After some conversation, the Judge re duced the fine to one cent and cost, which the philanthropist paid, and then taking the boy by the hand, they both left the Court. Now for the sequel. Mr. Spear took the buy to bis own house, and supplied him with food and clothing, and then obtained a place for him in the country. Last week, the day before Thanksgiving, the grateful boy, for the first time, came to the city, to see his benefactor. He had been steadily at work at place which Mr. Spear provided for him, and is still at work there, earning nine dollars a month and his board. Such is the lesson which charity teaches us.—Wo will not moralize upon the evil which would have pursued that boy, had he bee.i left to the mercy of the Police Court, but thank the generosity of him whose only wish is to heal the wounds of woe, and who always hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting pity, for his noble service in the cause of charity. Bad Company. —The associations young men are apt to form in large and growing cities, result in disgraceful and melancholy ends. Bad company is the pest of society, and while it ruins thousands, it likewise brings pain and misery to many a fond and affectionate parent. Youug men who are easily weaned from their once loved homes, must lack firmness of mind, and cannot be well acquainted with tho deceits of the world ; would they but listen to the voice of experience, and be more willing to obey the wishes of llieir guides, bitter remorse would be a strangerindeed totheir abode, and joy and comfort would reign in its stead. Barring a lucky chance now and then, an adventurer will find that in the battle of life, every man must be his own trum peter. Sound your own charge, and ride over every body, or somebody else will sound bis charge and ride over you. Petrified Forest on the Nile.— There is scarcely, perhaps, a spectacle on the surface of the globe more remarkable either in a geological or picturesque point ofview, than that presenled by the foies! near Cairo. The traveller having passed the tombs of the Caliphs, just beyond the gates of the city proceeds to the south ward nearly at right angles to the road acros the desert of Suez, and after having travelled some ten miles up a low baren valley covered with sand, gravel, and sea shells, fresli as if the tide had reired hut yesterday,crosses a low range of sandhills which has for some distance run parallel to his path. The scene now presented to him is beyond conception singular and desolate. A mass of fragments of trees, all converted into stone, and, when struck by his horse’s hoof, ringing like cast-iron, is seen to extend itself for miles and miles around him in the form of a decayed and prostrated forest. The wood is of a dark brown hue, but retains form in perfection, the pieces being from one to fifteen feet in length, and from a foot to three feet in thickness, strewd so thickly together, as far as the eye can see. that an Egyptian donkey can scarcely thread his way thro’ amongst them, and so natural that were it in Scotland or Ireland, it might pass without remark for some enormous drain ed bog, on which the exhumed trees lay rotting in the sun. The roots and rudi ments of the branches are in many cases nearly perfect, and in somo the worm holes eaten under the bark are readily re cognizable. The most delicate of sap vessels, and all the finer portions of the centre of the wood, are perfectly entire, and bear to be examined with the strog est mangnifiers. The whole are so thor oughly silicified as to scratch glass, and to be cajiable of receiving the liigcst polish. —Bombay Times. Alloihcr’!) Entitle nee. The Rev. Rich ard Knill, in his beau tiful narrative entitled the “Missionary’s Wife,” which has been recently publish ed as a tract by the Presbyterian Boaid of publication, introduces the billowing touching allusion to his mother, whose pious influence had so materially contrib uted to shape his own course of life. ‘I have a vivid recollection of the effect of maternal influence. My honored moth er was a religious woman, and she watch ed over and instructed me as pious moth ers are accustomed to do. Alas ! I often forgot her admonitions ; but. in my most thoughtless days, I never lost the impres sion of her holy example had made on my mind. After spending a large portion of my life in foreign lands, I returned again jto visit my native village. Both my pa rents died while I was in Russia, and their house is now occupied by my broth er. The furniture remains just the same as it was when 1 was a boy, and at night 1 was accomodated with the same bed in which I had often slept before; but my busy thoughts would not let me sleep; I was thinking how God had led through the journey of life. At last the light of morning darted through the little window, and then my eye caught sight of the spot where my sainted mother, forty years be fore, took me by the band and said, ‘Come, my dear, kneel down with me, and I will go to prayer.’ This completely over came me ; I seemed to hear the very sounds of her voice ; I reccollected some of her expressions and I burst into tears rose from my bed and fell upon my knees just on the same spot where my mother kneeled.and thanked God that I had once a praying mother. And oh ! that every pa rent could feel what I felt then, I am sure they would pray with their children as well as pray for them.” A Beautiful Reflection. — l cannot believe that earth is man’s abiding place. It cannot be that our life is cast upon the ocean of eternity, to float for a moment upon its waves, and then sink into noth ingness! Else why is it that the glorious aspirations that leap like angels from the temple of our hearts are forever wander ing about unsatisfied ? Why is it that the rainbow and clouds come over us with a beauty that is not of the earth, and then pass off and leave us to muse upon their loveliness ? Why is it that the stars which hold their festal around the mid night throne, are set above the grasp of our limited faculties, forever mocking us with their unapproachable glory? And, finally, why is it that the bright forms of human beauty are presenod to our view and taken from us, leaving the thousand streams of our affections to flow hack in Alpine torrents on our hearts? We are born of higher destiny than that of the earth. There is a realm where the rain bow never fades ; where the stars will be spread out before us, like the islands that slumber in the ocean ! and where the be ings that pass before us like shadows, will stay in our presence forever ! Temperature or tiie Earth.—La place concludes that the mean heat of the globe cannot he altered by one degree of Reaumur, since the time of Hipparchus; inasmuch as the dimensions of the globe would he thereby changed in small amount, its angular velocity he increased or dim inished, and a sensible difference he made in the length of the day—which difference does not exist. BOOK AND JOB PRINTING, Will be executed in the most approved sty t c and on the best terms, at the Office of the SC’JTHEP.IT TPJBTJITE, —BY— * WM. B. HARRISON. Don't Become Kich Again. BV SIRS. SIGOtItXRF. ‘ 1 ve lost my whole fortune,’ saida mer chant, as he returned one evening to his home : ‘ we can no longer keep our car riage. We must leave this large house. The children can no longer go to expen sive schools. Yesterday I was a rich man. To-day there is nothing I can call my own.” ‘ Dear husband.’ said the wife, ‘we are still rich in »each rather and our children. Money may pass away, but God has given us a better treasure in those active hands and loving hearts ’ * Dear father,’ said the children, ‘do not look so sad. W e will help yotT to get a living.’ ‘What can you do, poor things.?’ said he. NUMBER 3. ‘You shall see, you shall see,’ answered several cheerful voices. ‘lt is a pity if we have been to school for nothing. How can the father of eight children be poor ? We shall work and make you rich agaift.’ ‘ I shall help,’ said the youngest girl, hardly four years old. ‘I will not have any new things bought, and I shall sell my great doll.’ The heart of the husband and father, which had sunk within his bosom like a stone, was lifted up. The sweet eftthbsi asm of tlio scene cheered him and his nightly prayer was like a song of praise. 1 hey left his stately house. The ser vants were dismissed. Pictures and plate, carpets and furniture were Sold; arid she who had been so long the mistress of the mansion shed no tear. ‘ Pay every debt,’ said she ; let no one suffer through us, and we may yet be hap py-’ He rented a neat cottage and a small piece of ground a few miles from the city. With the aid of his sons, lie cultivated vegetables for the market. He viewed with delight and astonislimentthe economy of his wife, nurtured as she had been to wealth, and the efficiency which his daugh ters soon acquired under her training. The eldest one assisted in the work of the household, and also assisted the young er children. Besides they executed vari ous works, which they had learned as ac complishments, hut which they found could he disposed of to advantage. They embroidered with taste, some of the orna mental parts of female apparel, which they readily sold to a merchant in the city. They cultivated flowers, and sent bo quets to market in the cart that conveyed the vegetables ; they plaited straW; they painted maps ; they executed plain needle work. Every one was at her post, busy, cheerful. 'The cottage was like a bee hive. * I never enjoyed such health before,* said the father. * And I never was so happy before,’ said the mother. ‘ We never knew how many tilings we could do when we lived in tne great house/ said the children: * and we lore each other a great deal better here; you call us your little bees.’ ‘ es’ replied the father, ‘and you make just such honey a3 the heart loves to feed on.’ Economy as well as industry was strict ly observed ; nothing was wasted. Noth ing unnecessary was purchased. The eldest daughter became assistant teacher in a distinguished female seminary, and the second took her place as instructress to the family. ihe little dwelling which bad always been kept neat, they were soon able to beautify. Its construction was improved ; vines and flowering trees were planted around it. The merchant was happier under his woodbine covered porch in a summer’s evening, than he had bet-n in his showy drawing room. *We are now thriving and prosperous/ said he shall we now return to the city V *0 no, no/ was the unanimous reply. * Let us remain/ said the wife, ‘ where we have found health and contenttnent.’ * Father/ said the youngest, * all we children hope you are not going to be rich again; for then,’ she added, *we little ones were shut lip in the nursery and wo did not see much of you or mother. Now we all live together, and sister who loves us, teaches us, and we learn to be indus trious and useful. We were none of n* happy when we were rich and not at work. So father, please not to be a rich man any more. Surface Drains. —Examine the sur face drains in your grain fields, and bo careful to have all impediments to the free passage of the water removed, as there is nothing which more tends to prevent the winter-killing of your grain than the keep ing it free from flooding through the win ter and early spring. Keep your grain beds dry, and the danger of being killed is hut trifling. With deep tillage and w-ell constructed surface drains, you will bo able to avoid loss from this cause. Fs?” A Yankee orator out West, vindica ting his native Connecticut against slan der which had been uttered against her said ;— * As to the Connecticut boys manu, facturing horn flints and wooden nutmegs- I plead guilty to these charges, they did manufacture wooden nutmegs, but they, had to leave the State before they could find purchasers.’