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Sericulture, Jtlnnufurturrs, sot.
The Farmer’s Weather-omeler.
Comprising General Indications and Local Predictions
respecting the Changes of Weather, gat! e cd during
Travels in America and Europe.
BY A RURALIST.
“ A rainbow in the morning
Is the Shepherds warning;
But a rainbow at night
Is the Shepherd’s delight.”
A rainbow in fair weather denotes foul—if foul, fair weath
er will follow. A double rainbow indicates much rain.
A predominance of the purple color of the rainbow, shows
wind and rain—dark red, tempest —light red, wind—yellow,
dry weather—green, rain—blue, denotes that the air is clear
'uig-
If the Aurora Borealis appear alter several warm days, it
Is generally succeeded by a cloudiness of the air. If the Au
rora Borealis lias been considerable, either an increased de
gree of cold is immediately produced, or bodies of clouds are
immediately formed.
If, in a very wet season, the sky is tinged with a sea-green
Color, near the bottom, where it ought to be blue, it shows that
rain will speedily follow, and increase; when it is of a deep
dead blue, it is overcharged with vapors, and the weather
will be showery.
When the sun appears white at the setting, or goes down
into a bank of clouds, which lie in the horizon, they indicate
the approach or continuance of bad weather.
When it rains with an east wind, it will probably continue
twenty-four hours.
The heaviest rains, when of long continuance, generally
begin with the wind blowing easterly, which gradually veers 1
round to the south—and the rains do notecase until the wind
has got to the west, or a little northwest.
While rain is falling, if any small space of the sky is visi
cle, it is almost a certain sign thai the rain will speedily cease.
If the clonds that move with the wind become stationary,
when they arrive at that port of the horizon which is oppo
site to the wind, and appear to accumulate, they announce a
speedy fall of rain.
A frequent change of wind, with an agitation of the clouds,
denotes a sudden storm.
A fresh breeze generally springs up before sunset, particu
larly in the summer.
The weather usually clears up at noon—but, if it rain at
midnight, it seldom clears up till sunset.
The winds which begin to blow in the day time are much
stronger, and endure longer than those which begin to blow
only in the night.
A hollow or whistling wind denotes rain.
If tho wind follow* the course of the sun, fair weather will
follow.
Weather, either good or bad, which takes place in the night
time, is not generally of long duration—and, for the most
part, wind is more uncommon in the night than in the day
time. Fine weather in the night, with scattered clouds, does
not last.
Violent winds prevail more in the vicinity of mountains,
than in open plains.
A Venetian author says—“ A sudden storm from the north
does not last three days.”
If it thunders in December, moderate and fine weather
may be expected.
If it thunders, at intervals, in the spring time, before the
trees have acquired leaves, cold weather is still to be expected.
Thundering in the morning denotes wind at noon—in the
evening, rain and tompast.
If in summer there be no thunder, the ensuing fall and
winter will be sickly.
If it lightens on a clear star-light night, in the south or
south-east, rain and w ind will follow—if it lighten in an eve
ning, towards the north, south or south-west, it indicates
wind.
Hot weather generally precedes thunder, which is followed
by cold showery weather.
When the wind is south-west during summer or autumn,
and the temperature of the air is unusually cold for the season,
both to the feeling and thermometer, with a low barometer,
much rain is to be expected.
Violent temperature, as storms of great rains, produce a
sort of crisis in the atmosphere which produces a constant
temperature, good or bad, for some months.
In a morning, if a mist which hangs over the lowlands,
draw’s towards the highlands, it is a sign of an approaching fine
day.
If in the evening a white miit spreads over a meadow
through which a river flows, it will be drawn up by the sun
in the following morning, and a fine clear day will follow.
When the dew lies plentiful upon the grass after a fine day,
another fine day may be expected—but if, after such a fine
day; no dew’ fall nor any breeze be stirring, it indicates that
the vapours are ascending, and will soon be precipitated in
the form of rain.
It is certainly a surprising phenomenon to see the earth,
after a long and abundant rain, to bo sometimes almost dry,
the roads quite free from dirt, and the lands to become quite |
arid and parched. This is a sign that the rain has not alto
gether ceased, and denotes a continued afflux of electric mat
ter, which, being renewed, carries with it, in the form of va
pors. all the moisture that falls on the earth. 1 here is some
times, however, a great deal of dirt, even after a very mod
erate rain, which, in thaFcase, is a sign of fair weather, be
cause it indicates that evaporation has eeased. Dry stones
and moist earth announce fine weather—dry earth and moist
stones announce rain.
If the flame of a lamp crackles or flares, it indicates rainy
weather. The case is the same when soot detaches itself
from the chimney and falls down.
It is a sign of rain when the soot collected around pots or
kettles takes fire, in the form of points like grains of millet,
because this phenomenon denotes that the air is cold and
moist.
If the coals seem hotter than usual, or if the flame is more
agitated, though the weather becalm at the time, it indicates
wind.
When the flame burns steady, and proceeds strait upwards, I
it is a sign of fine weather.
If the sound of bells is heard at a great distance, it is a sign ;
of wind, or of a eliange of weather.
The hollow sounds of forests, the murmuring noise of the
waves of the sea, their foaming, and green and black color,
announce a storm.
Good or bad smells when unusually, strong, seeming as if
they were condensed, are a sign of change of weather, eith
er because exlialations arise and arc dispersed in more abun
dance, which is a sign of an increase of elasticity—or because
the air does not dispel or raise these exhalations, which indi
cates that the constitution of the atmosphere is motionless,
light, and void of elasticity.
When the spider’s web and the leaves of trees are agitat
ed without any sensible wind, it is a sign of wind, and per
haps of rain, because it denotes that strong and penetrating
exlialations arise from the earth. r Wicse signs are less equi
vocal, when the dr}- leaves and chaff are raised into a vortex,
and carred into the air.
Beautiful Flowering Trees.- -In the tropics, veg
etation is generally of a fresher verdue, more luxuriant and
succulent, and adorned with larger and more shining leaves
than in our northern climates. The ‘‘social plants,” which
often impart so uniform and monotonous a character to Euro
pean countries, are almost entirely absent in the equatorial re
gions. Trees almost as lofty as our oaks are adorned with
flowers as large and beautiful as our lillies. On the shady
banks of the Rio Magdalena in South America, there grows
a climbing Aristolochia, bearing flowers four feet in circum
ference, which the Indian boys draw over there heads in sport
and wear as hats or hemlets. In the island ol *he Indian
Archipelago, the flower of the Ilafflesia is nearly three f ee t
in diameter, and weighs over 14 pounds.— Humboldt’ As- ‘
fee is nf Nature.
How to Measure an Acre.
Land. —3o 1-4 square yards make 1 square rod,
40 square rods make 1 square rood,
4 square roods make one acre;
650 acres make one square mile;
r 4840 square yards or 160 rods ’make one acre.
In measuring an acre by yards the usual practice is, to
trace off 70 yards in length and 70 yards in width; this is a
rough way, may be considered near enough for practical pur
poses, but as 70 yards either way makes 4900 square yards,
it exceeds one acre by 60 square yards. To determine an ac
curate acre it shall lx’ measured 70 yards in length, by 19 l-i
yards in width. The same result may be arrived at by mea
suring 220 feet in width, or by measuring 731-2 yards in
breadth.— American Farmer.
Smoking Chimney.— Col. Wm. Mason, of London,
in a letter to the builder, says : I have built many chimneys,
in all possible situations, and have found one simple rule al
ways succeeded, the secret being to construct the throat of the
chimney, or that part of it just above the fire place’ so small
that a man or boy can hardly pass through it. Secondly : im
mediately above this, the chimney should be enlarged to dou
ble its width to the extent of about two feet in height, and then
diminished again to its usual proportions. No chimney that I
ever constructed thus, smoked.
‘Glass Milk Pan’s arc coming more and more into use in
Europe. Their advantages dn the score of cleanliness must
be obvious. It were to be wished that societies or institutes
would appoint a standing committee and put aside a small
portion of their ample funds for the instant importation of
sample articles invented abroad, connected with agricultural
and rural economy. True it is, that, in general, this maybe
left to the vigilance and rivalry of tradesmen and manufac
tures; but many years may elapse before we get the benefit of
many things which might at once become profitably introdu
ced. The same reason and policy that prompt the offer of j
premiums for useful things of home invention, would warrant
the introduction of things which have been recently invented
and patronized by agricultural societies abroad; satisfied that
glass milk pans ton which the manufacturers should indicate
the capacity of the vessel) would be a valuable acquisition to
our dairy women, wc respectfully suggest the importation of
a dozen, and the offer of a premium to the manufacturer who
! shall first produce them in this country at a cost that will justi
fy their being brought into general use.
It has been seen in a very interesting and valuable “Essay
on the management of Holstein Dairies,” published in the
Farmer’s Library, that there the dairy women aro allowed
one dollar a year for “pan-money,” and charged for all they
break; yet they always “make by the operation.” Let us
have glass milk-pans.— Farmer's Library.
A Clover for the South.—' The Tallahassee (Flori
da) Sentinel has the following upon a subject which maybe
of int erest to a portion of our readers.
“ Some three years ago a small quantity of Chilian clover
seed was sent to Gov. Brown from the Patent Office at Wash
ington. Having tried many experiments in grasses and been
successful in none, he threw the seed carelessly into the
ground, altogether out of respect to the person who sent it,
and in no other expectation than that it would spring up and
flourish awhile and die so soon as it felt the sun of midsummer.
But contrary to all his anticipations it seemed to brighten with
the sun—to care nothing for the droughts*—and lias now been
flourishing vigorously, summer and winter, for three succes
sive years, without care or attention, and is, as we understand,
a foot or eighteen inches high. This clover, wc are told,
(for we have not seen it,) is more like Lucerne grass than the
English clover, but it is a tri-foil, and bears a blueish blosom.
In Chili, the custom is to feed the year round alternately upon
three enclosures, and so plentiful and cheap grazing does it
afford, that a horse in that section is worth somewhere about
ten dollars.
It is the opinion of Gov. Brown and others who have seen
this clover that it will do well in Florida, and furnish the
great thing needed to complete this as a farming country, to
wit; a good nutritious grass for stock. An effort will be 1
made to save seed from the little patch we have spoken of. but
as it seems to ripen at no particular time, there is difficulty in
doing so. Application should be made for more from the Pat
ent Office; but probably, if upon further observation there
should appear to be no good reason to doubt of the entire suc
c< ss of this grass in Florida, the better way would be to send
fora quantity of it to our Consul at Valparaiso, or the Uni
ted States Charge at Chili. If wc could only secure a grass
w hich would make us fat and cheap stock an il a plenty of it, and
serve as clover is made to do in the Northern States, as a most
economical and efficient fertilizer of the soil, we could fully es
timate the substantial value of the acquisition ! ”
(TV I'uitlOfluYjllT.
Domestic Economy.
Mince-Meat. —Stoned raisins, currants, sugar and suet, .
of each two pounds; sultana raisins, boiled beef (lean and ten- ‘
der) of each one pound: apples, four pounds; juice of two lcin- ‘
ons; the rind of one lemon chopped very fine; mixed spice a !
quarter of a pound; candied citron and lemon peel, of each 1
two ounces; brandy four small glasses. Chop the w hole very i
fine.
Mince-Meat Fritters.— With half a pound of mince
meat mix two ounces of fine bread-crumbs (or a table-spoon
| ful of flour,) two eggs well beaten, and the strained juice of
j half a small lemon. Mix these well, and drop the fritters with
a desert-spoon into plenty of very pure lard; fry them from
seven to eight minutes, drain them on a napkin, and send
them very hot to table; they should be quite small.
Syrup of Gum. — It is soothing and good for the throat ;—
Dissolve pale and picked gum arabic in an equal weight of
water by a gentle heat, and add the solution to twice its
weight of simple syrup; simmer for two or three minutes,
remove the scum and cool. Add one or two ounces of or
ange flower water to each pint.
Cream Fritters. —Take a quart of sweet milk and a tea
cup of cream, four eggs beat to a froth, half a nutmeg, or
grated lemon peel, and a teaspoonful of salt. Stir them with
flour sufficient to make a thick batter, dissolve a small tea
spoon of saleratus and stir in, then fry as above.
Buckwheat Cakes. —Mix a quart of flour with a pint of
lukewarm milk, some prefer water, add a tea-cup of yeast j and
set in a warm place to rise. In the morning, if sour, add a
| tea-spoonful of saleratus, and a little salt. Bake as griddles,
and butter when hot Those are nice for breakfast, or with
j butter and sugar for tea. When you make them every day,
I leaver little in the jar, and it will raise the next.
A Rf.tired Baker’s Recipe for Bread. —Take an earth
j ern vessel, larger at the top than at the bottom, put in it one
pint of warm water, one and a half pounds of Hour, and half a
pint of malt yeast; mix well together, and set away in a warm
place until it rises and falls again, which will be in from three
I to five hours. Then put two large spoonfuls of salt into two
quarts of water, and mix with the above; rising, then put in
about nine pounds of flour, and work it well; let it rise until
light. Then make into loaves. New and runny flour re
quires one-fourth more salt than old and dry flour. Bake as
soon as light.
How to Make Coffef.—Parisian Coffee. —This is made
by leeching. Many prefer it to any other mode. It is very
easily made and requires nothing to settle it. Any fcommon
coffee-pot will answer the purpose, with a strainer formed to
fit the top. It is made inform, like a cup with a fine strainer
made by piercing the bottom full of small holes very fine, and
above that another not as fine, on which the ground coffee is
laid. Pour on boiling water, using the same quantity as in j
other inodes, and cover it close, when the water is all drained !
through, which will be in ten minutes or less, it is ready for j
the table. Some have biggins made in the French mode, but j
the other answers the same purpose, and is equally good. It
should stand near the fire while cooking, it will leave the
dregs tasteless.
To have coffee very good, it should be browned just before
it is made, though this is an inconvenience. Pick out the
stones, and bad grains, and lay in a dripping pan, or tin, a
Layer to dry. Set it in an oven after baking, or under a !
stove for a few hours, and then put it in a spider on hot coals
and stir it constantly until the color of rose wood, or black
walnut; stir in a small piece of butter, and put up, and cover
it immediately, as it evaporates fast while hot. Never grind
until just before using.
CnocoLArr.—To a quart of water, allow three spoonfuls of |
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scraped chocolate. Let it boil fifteen or twenty minutes, and
stir while boiling. Pour in rich cream or milk, and let it boil
up. Some like nutmeg grated over a cup, and think it im
proves the flavor.
Tea. —If green tea is good, it will look green when poured
into the cups. Black tea should have a fragrant flowery smell.
Allow one tea-spoonful to a parson, and one beside. Have
the water boiling, scald the tea-pot, and put in the tea
pot, and put in the tea as soon as possible; cover it, and let it
draw about five minutes; old Hyson requires longer. Black
tea should boil ten minutes. Have sweet cream and loaf su
gar, or the best common, crushed. There should be but a small
quantity of water used to draw’ the tea, and it should be filled
up afterwards. Black tea is healthier than green. Mixed
with other kinds half and half, is a good practice.
Cocoa. —This is similar to chocolate; but is more delicate.
It is much used by those who cannot drink coffee and tea. ’•
The directions for making, come with the article on the
wrapper.
LeiilOll PIOSi —We have tasted the value of the foliowing
recipe, but sugar is decidedly preferable to molasses in the pre
paration of the pie. One lemon, too, is rather a small allow
ance for two pies. —Madison Family Visitor.
“ In this year of scarcity of fruit, it may be desirable to know’
that a good pie can be made simply of lemon and molasses.
Press out the j uiee of a lemon into two tea-spoonful of molasses,
grate in the dried peel of another, cover a plate with a layer
of crust, spread over some of the mixture, lay on a thin crust,
spread aqother layer of the mixture, and over that lay a top
crust; bake thoroughly, and you will have an excellent and
wholesome pie. One lemon to two pies.”
Treatment of Butter.— Tins is an article of domestic
food, more of which is consumed in the United States than
in any other country on the face of the globe. Good sweet
butter, oh how delicious. It very often happens among fami
’ lies in our cities, that they will purchase good sweet butter at
the stores, and which in a day or two becomes vitiated in
taste. This is owing either to the manner in which it is salted
and packed, or the manner in w’hicli it is kept after it is pur
chased. Much butter is spoiled from using salt containing
lime and other substances which hasten its decomposition. Salt
can easily be purified by pouring upon it a little warm water
and allowing it to drain; it dissolves and takes out the lime and
other extraneous substances, and leaves the salt nearly pure.
The quantity usually added to butter is one ounce to the
pound. After butter has become rancid, It can be restored
and made nearly sweet by a very simple process. This is, to
wash it well in cold water, often changed, and after pressing
out the water, salt it anew and add a little sugar, say half an
ounce to the pound. This will be found to render it much
more palatable, although it may not entirely restore that deli
cate flavor peculiar to new and sweet butter, which once lost
can never be restored.
Butter should be kept in a cool, airy, dry place. The ma
jority of city pantries and cupboards appear to be designed
for the purpose of giving the butter kept in them, that pecu
liar odorous flavor (so agreeable to a Hottentot) termed ran
cidity.
(fljr tknorist.
‘•]>t dimpled mirth his temples twine,
With tendrils of the laughing vine.”
“Zat is my Trunk!”
A TRAVELLING INCIDENT.
BY THE OLD ’UN.
In the days of coaching over the Providence turnpike, be
fore railroad cars were in use, and baggage crates existed,
and when travellers had to keep a sharp look-out for their
luggage, some forty or fifty passengers had j ust stepped on
board old “Ben Franklin,” and got under way at Narragan
sett Bay. A gentleman, who had occasion to get some of
his wardrobe, laid just hauled out from an immense pile of
baggage stowed amid-ships, anew black leather trunk of
portly dimensions, studded with brass nails, when a little
withered Frenchman, of a mottled complexion, and ftudikma
bly dressed, darted from the crowd, and interposing between
our friend and his property, exclaimed, courteously, but pasi
tively—
‘l beg your pardon, sare—mais pardonez mai—you have
. gotze wrong cochon byze oreillo—zat is my trunk!’
Not so, monsieur—l hope I know my own traps.’
‘Rcstez tranquillo—hold on—dans un instant, l vill prove
my props?—aha ! you see dis key, eh V Applying it to the
lock, he threw up the lid, and then struck a triumphant atti
tude. ‘Mv key unlock you trunk—eh ? tell me zat V
‘Standout of the way!—it’s my trunk, I tell you.’
‘Hold on von little minute! zose your shurrts, eh V
‘To be sure they are 1
‘Zose you drawaires, eh V
‘Certainly!’
‘Vait a moment—l vill prove mo props, sare,’ and the little
Frenchman, rummaging beneath a pile of shirts and socks,
produced a bottle, and said deliberately, with a hideous grin
‘Zat your bot-tclle of J)om-frees Ish (Itch) ointment, sare,
eh? Ave you got von leetie Ish? Zis you llemcde for ze
| lopros (leprosy,) eh ? Ah ! be tain ! I know it was my trunk?’
It is needless to remark that our friend immediately ‘open
| eda wide gap’ between himself and the interesting victim of
two of the most unpopular disorders known to suffering hu
manity.
CHIPS from Joe Miller’s BLOCK.
Sweet Girls.—The girls out west are amazingly sweet.—
A man travelling through that region on horseback, declares
the wind came to him so laden with fragrance, that lie
thought he was near a garden of roses. Ife discovered tlmt
it was only a bevy of girls going through the woods.— Ex
change.
That’s nothing, compared with the beauty and fragrance of
our down-east girls. ‘When they enter a garden, the roses
immediately grow pale and hang their diminished heads, and
when they sing the birds expire from very envy at t lie sweet
ness of their tones ! Fact.— Port. Times.
Talk of the sweetness of your western and down-east girls!
Why, gentlemen, we heard a great buzzing by our sanctum
window, the other day, and on looking out we discovered a
swarm of bees in pursuit of a number of girls, whom they mis
took, from their sweetness, to be a buckwheat field ! — Wash.
Pa. Rep.
Diodorous says, that among the ancient Egyptians one of
the conditions of the marriage contract was, “that the hus- j
band should lie obedient to his wife.” “I have often heard j
them speak,” lie adds, “of the Egyptian bondage, but never j
knew it had been carried so far as this before.”
There’s nothing like a nickname to make a man, sect, or
party ridiculous. The veriest dunce can fasten it upon his ene
my, but the greatest talents will not exempt one from the
derision it ensures. “ With so small a web as this, will I
catch so great a fly as Cassio.”
A negro’s idea of love, as given by one of the Ethiopian
Serenadors: “All nigger! I feel as if I was up in the clouds j
between two hot buckweat cakes, and all the angels were
pouring down ’lasses on me.”
“ There,” said an old lady, pointing to an angel and trum
pet upon Mr. Streeter’s church, “ you see what the principles
of them Universal!ers is. Only, see, they’ve got a feller up
there with a bottle to his mouth.”
An odd chap, who was cowliided in N. York a day or two
ago, chuckled with great glee after the operation was over, 1
saying that “ the other fellow had the hardest time of it, for he j
bail to work all the time for nothing.”
“ I am thought to be in a passion,” said Mirabeau, “ when Ii
| aiT * °nly in a pet.” ‘1 ake consolation from this nice distinction, J
I ye benedicts who have snappish-tongued wives.
Not long since, Dr. N. Rogers of the Medical Times,
i hcar.l a self-constituted physician in petticoats recommend
~ a dose of oil, ’ as it would “ grease the nerves.”
“ A nursery must be a great place for dancing, Simon ! ”
“4\ liy so ? “ Because it is.” “ I don’t see how.”—
“ Aint a nursery a regular bawl- room ? ”
1 here is a man in Troy so mean that he wishes his land
i lord to reduce the price of his board because he lias had two
! of his teeth extracted.
“ Mr. S ,is your customer; B , a man to be Irnst
°d • I know of no one more so. He is to be trusted
forever, he never pays.”
A cute professor down oast has introduced a material im
provement in the cotillion. It consists in kissing the lady
j in rwinging corners.”
Why are a handsome young lady’s lips like an unripe per
simmon ? Because the more you taste them the more they
pucker ‘em up.
A youg man recently having succeeded, after much per
suasion, in getting a kiss out of a girl, went and told of it.
One of her acquaintances met her and said :
‘‘So Sally, John says that you let him kiss you.”
“ Well, yes said Sally. “ l did let him after he had teased
me an hour, but it was a tight squeeze even then.”
“ So ho 1 ” exclaimed the other, “he did not mention that.
He only spoke of the kiss but did not say anything about the
squeeze.”
We heard recently a good story of an Irishman who had
never seen any of the birds of America. “ The first feathered
fowl,” said he, “ that Lever see when I kem to Ameriky,
was a forkentine (porcupine.) I treed him under a hay-stack,
and shot him with a barnshovel. The first time I shot him
I missed him ; the second time I shot him I hit hint in the
same place I missed him before 1 ”
Widow Grizzelliad an only sister ; that sister is a widow,
also. Her lord died lately of cholic. In the midst of his most
acute bodily pain, after the hand of death had touched him,
and writhing in agony, his gentle wife said to him: “ V ell,
Mr. Shylock, you needn’t kick round so, and wear out the
sheets, if you are dying.”
An editor out west who was recently elected to the Indiana
Legislature from Wayuc county, was so elated with his suc
cess, that lie caught liiinself by the scat of Ins trowsers and
tried to hold himself out at arm's length. It is added in a
postscript, that he would have accomplished the feat if he
hadn’t let go to spit on his hands.
“ Do you mean to insinuate that I lie, Sir? ” exclaimed a
fierce-looking, mustachioed gentleman to a raw Yankee who
hinted some slight skepticism as to one of his toughest state
ments.
“ Xo, Mister, not at all—only it kind o’ strikes me that
you are ’tarnal savin’ of truth.”
The latest slander upon the girls is, that printed declarations,
with the forms, arc used by such as have lovers too bashful
to propose. The ladies themselves, it is said, fill out the
blanks, and of course no single man, having a spark of gal
lantry, can refuse to sign them.
CO Y* l 151A I* riILK ITIES.
Scene —Sitting Room—Good fire, Wife on one side, Hus
band on the other.
Wife. What are you going to give me for a Christmas
present this year, dear ?
JL ishand. Christmas present, my love I —How can you
1 ask for such a tiling, when you know how much I am pushed
for money to pay my hotiost debts ? I told you this morning
| that I would be obliged to raise a large sum against New
I Year's day, and as yet know not where it is to come from.
IV. 1 know you did my dear; but then you know a few
j dollars won’t make any difference.
H. Jane, you talk in a very ridiculous manner. Any
body else might say the same to me with equal justice, and
1 have many friends and poor neighbors, whom, if possible, I
feel it my duty to :i: ■ * at. this a nr.-u of the year. Now you
don’t really require any'i.iiv. You Lave everything com
fortable around you, as far ;:s ! can judge.
| IV. As far as y>u ■ ■ju . Let me tell you. Mr. Fen
| guin, that you have no judgement at all, in household affairs,
j Don’t you suppose I wish to be considered as respectable as
; those I associate with? Now I have invited company to be
here on New Year's day, and I want to let them see that
’ Jane Penguin can have as good a set out as they can. I
; called on Mrs. McSliow this morning, and she showed me the
; prettiest pair of vases that her husband gave her yesterday,
! and Mrs. Flare has got the neatest and most becoming stair
j carpet, and Mrs. Setall one of the most magnificent mahog
any extension tables I ever saw, and they took so much pride
in showing them to me, that 1 felft cheap to think my husband
couldn’t show as much attention tome as other gentlemen do
to their wives.
H. My dear Jane, you arc getting yourself in a passion.
IV. No I ain’t any such tiling, it is you who are in a rage,
\ because I asked you for a Christinas present.
H. Well my dear, as I said before, you need nothing, and
| I would feel myself really guilty, were I hi yield to your no
tions no this mjrhjqgi, which 1 son >t.> yj/'h’ in ri iluuin
-lof rivalry. Now if 1 had a few dollars to spare (which 1 have
not,) l would esteem it jny first duty to relieve the distresses
iof those whom 1 know to be in indigent circumstances. There
was poor Mrs. Grooly who has been sick for a long time. I
; called to sec how she was yesterday, and found the poor
‘ creature with her daughter, sitting up sewing without a par
: tide of fire to warm her chilled and attenuated frame with,
i and
IV. I suppose you opened your heart and sent her some
I wood, didn't you ?
j ’ J
! //. Yes, my love! 1 did, and felt a glow of pride and
i happiness thrill through me to think that 1 had been made
the bumble instrument of sending comfort to that hearth.
IV. And pray liow old is her daughter?
H. AVell—about seventeen, I should think.
IV. Is she pretty ?
H. I ncoinmonly.
IV'. (In a rage.) There I thought so. I guessed that
all this charity wasn't without some motive. Ah! you hypo
crite ! I see it all now. You the humble instrument. —
! You are the devil’s instrument. Where does this woman
live ? I insist, Mr. Penguin, upon knowing where she and
her vile daughter live.
11. You must excuse me from telling you, my dear, in
your present excited state.
IV. That’s right! Heap insult on insult. Add to your
villany by abusing your wife. But I see how it is! I won’t
live with you any longer ! I’ll quit you and go home, so I
will! I'll not be treated in this way any longer. You base
, man you! Exit wife in tears.
Husband solus. This is pleasant ! What a cursed fool
I was to get married, to be sure ! Exit to bed.— Boston Her
ald.
THE GEORGIA MARBLE
Manufacturing Company,
interest off!. Roberts in the above company lias passed into
■ the harideof John <!. Rankin and the company of Pinions, Hur
lick&Vaughn into the hands of YY 7 m. Hurlick—who has associated
himself with Atkinson & Rankin of the Georgia Marble Manufacturing
Cos. The business will hereafter lie carried on by Atkinson, Rankin
it Hurlick. All debts due the concern and liabilities against the same
since the first of June will be. settled by them.
We are prepared to do an extensive business ; our marble is excel
lent—and we are determined to offer work at prices which will keep
all Northern marble from the state. Examine our marble and prices.
Our work is all done at the mills. Address.
ATKISON, RANKIN & HURLICK.
1 Carnage villc, Cherokee Cos. Geo.
RAGS! RAGSIi RAGS!!!
TUB BOCK ISLAND FACTORY
IS prepared to purchase clean Linen Hemp nr Cotton Rags, and will
pay tl 1-2 cents per pound, for 100,000 pounds, delivered at the
Mills, on the Chattahochee River, (three miles above Columbus) in
quantities of not less than 100 pounds.
Merchants and Traders in the surrounding country, will do well to
draw the attention of their customers to the advantage of saving their
Rags, and exchanging them for their goods and wares.
Cash will always be paid for them at “Rock Island Factory.” By j
order of the Board.
GEORGE W. WINTER, Scc’y.
Columbus, Ga. March 21st, 1850. I—ts ‘
By/ If M ;
THE undereigitofUi;’'. just.completed their SPLENDID I
NEW STABLE • tie- r. i- v of Mulberry and Third j
Street**; nearly opposite th Floyd House, where they keep on j
band safe and well broke morses and every variety of I
Conveyance for the accommodation of their friends-and the
public.
Single Horses and Drovers will be attended to with the ut
most euro and on accommodating terms. As the Proprietors
have brit ONE STABL E.and can therefore give their per
sonal attention to their business, they feel confident of being
able to give universal satisfaction. £3jy” Board of Horse 75 j
cents per day. T. M. MASON,
M are!) 21,1850. WILLI AMDI li BLE. i
Will. Iv. deGRAFFENItEID,
Attorney & Counsellor at Law.
MACON, GA.
pß* OFFICE MULBERRY STEET, NEARLY OPPOSITE WASHINGTON
HALL.
March 21,1550. 1—
Os Macon, Georgia.
GRAND LODGE OF GA., A. Y. MASONS.
Officers. —Win. C. Dawson, M. W. Grand Master; John Hunter,
D. G. M. Ist District; R. L. Roddy, D. G. M. 2d District; James F.
Cooper, I>. G. M. 3d Distjict; W. S. Rockwell, D. G. M.4th District
A. A. Gaukling, S. G. Warden; Win. K. Kitchen, J. G. W.; Siinri
Rose, Grand Secretary; Joseph E. Wells, Grand Treasurer; Leroi Pa
tillo, S. G. Deacon; L. C. Simiwion. J. G. D.; Rev. J. U Simmons,
Grand Chaplain; Wm. B. Bower, Grand Marshal; Win. F. Brooks,
J. C. Johnston andC. E. F. W.Campbell, Grand Stewards; D. E. But
ler. Grand Pursuivant; Thos. B. Daniel. Grand Tyler.
Meets annually in Macon on the last Tuesday of October.
WASHINGTON COUNCIL, NO. 6.
Officers.—J. E. Wells, T. t. G. M.; J. B. Stow. I. H. TANARUS.; J. 11.
Morgan, I. F. A.; G. 8. Obear, S.G.; G. J. Davis, P. C.; S. Rose, Re
corder ; G. McDonald, M. E.; A. G. Butts, Steward; Thos. A. Harris,
Sentinel.
Meet North Corner of Mulberry and 2d sts. every 4th Monday night.
CONSTANTINE CHAPTER, NO. 4.
Officers. —John B. Stow, M. E. 11. P.; J. H. Morgan, E. K.: J. M.
Bivins, E. S.; A.G. Butts, C. H.: O. F. Adams. P. S.; Gen. Jones,
R. A. C.; S. Rose, M. 3 V.; T. L. Holt. M. TV.; J. 11. Gillin, M. 1 V.;
J. E. Wells, Secretary; G. McDonald, Treas.; Rev. W. 11. Ellison.
Chaplain; Thos. A. Harris, Sentinel.
Meets 2d Monday night of each month.
MACON LODGE, NO.* 5.
Officers. —J. E. Wells, W. M.; Geo. S. Obe ,r, S. W.; Jolm H. Mor
gan, J. W.; W.S. Williford, Treasurer; Siinri Rose, Secretary; R. B.
| Lester, S. D.; I. V. Green, J. D.; T. A. Harris, Tyler.
Meets Ist and 3d Monday evenings, from Sept, to April; from April
to Sept, on the ist Monday.
m ET ATE ENCAMPMENT,
(LU [?*
Officers. —C. Catlin, M. W. Grand Patriarch; K. Trice, M. E. G.
: High Priest; I\ G. Thomas, R. W. G. S. Warden; H. P. Wescott. R.
W. G. J. Warden; W. M. Morton, R. W. G. Scribe, E. C. Granniss,
R. W. G. Treasurer; Geo. Patten, R. W. Rep. to G.L, U. S.
OC7IILGEE EHCAMPME\T, NO. 2.
Officers.—D. C. Hodgkin*, C. P.; E. C. Sherwood, M. E. 11. P.:
A. F. Sherwood, S. W.; Chas. G. Douglass, J. W.; Geo. Patten,
Scrilie; E. C. Grannis, Treasurer.
Meets Ist and 3d Monday nights.
FRANKLIN ENCAMPMENT, NO. 3.
Officers. —Win. Dibble, C. P.; Jas. A. Knight, H. P.; 4. F. Jtyi
stetter, S. W.; Lott Maulshy, J. W.; J. L. Jones, Treasurer; W. R.
Fleming, Scribe.
Regular meetings, 2d and 4th Tuesdays of each month.
FRANKLIN LODGE, NO. 2.
Officers. —Thomas P. Stubbs.’ P. G. ;David Tousey, N. G.; Harvey
Worthington. V. G.; John L. Jones, TA NARUS.; George W. Tahnage, R. S.j
Edwin Ives. P. S.; Joel It. Griffin, 0.G.; J. P. Shiver, I. G.
Time of meeting, Thursday night.
TRUSTEES.
T. P. Stubbs, Janies VanValkinburg, James A. Nnight.
Number of inenitors, ...... 143
Funds of the Lodge, ...... $4,000
UNITED-BROTHER’S LODGE, NO. 5.
Officers.—Charles (I. Douglass, N. G.; E. C. Sherwood, V. G.
Geo. Patten, P. S.; Sloan, It. S.; E. C f Granniss, Treasurer.
Meets every Wednesday night.
as
MECHANICS’ SOCIETY OF MACON.
Offcers.— Rolit. Findley, President; Charles G. Douglass. Ist A'.
I’.: W. O. Hurt, 2d V. P.; DavidToucey,Secretary; A. F. Sherwood,
Treasurer: Seinri Rose, Librarian.
Meets Ist Saturday night of each month at Council Chamber.
iHiP#
SONS OF TEMPERANCE.
OFFICERS OF THE GRAND STATE DIVISION.
Hon. J. J. Floyd, Covington, G. W. P.; P. A. Lawson, Griffin, G.;
W. A.; VV. S. Williford, Macon, G.S.; E.U.Granniss. Macon. G.T:.
Thos. Flewellen, Thomaston, G. I'.; John W. Burke, Cassville, G. S.;
Rev. A. Means, Oxford, G. C.
TOJSOGISK'SII DIVISION, NO. 1.
Officers.—D. C. Hodgkins, W.P.; C, S. Putnam, W. A.: P. A
Strobel, 11. S.; J. W. Benson, F. S.t J.G.Rogers, TANARUS.; 11. A. Wise,C
J. McNaueht. A C.t T J. Morgan, 1. S.; Joel Griffin, O.S.
Meets every Monday night.
Macon Section, Cadets of Temperance.
Officers.- —W. Cotton, W. A.; Geo. Freeman, V. A.: Edward
Holmes, S,: W. H. Ross, A.S.; John Holmes, TANARUS.; Henry Ellison, A.
TANARUS.; Francis Ellion, G.; Rogers, U.; Wm.Holt,W.; llmy Flint,
A. W.; E. Saulsb.iry, W. P.
3000 B 0 ABS HIWAR3, j
Reuben Rich’s Patent, Centre Vent, Water Wheel
made entirely of Iron with Iron gates—a-,
gainst Turbine, Hotchkiss and all other Wheels.!
w
I WILL give s.">oo Reward to any person who will prodticee a Pa- :
Atent Water Wheel, that will do as much business with the same j
quantity of water under any given head from three feet to thirty feet, i
or
I will give S.IOO to any person, who will produce a Breast Wheel un- |
der a head of eight feet or less that shall equal it, in saving of water, or j
I will give the same amount to any one who will pr xluee an over
shot or undershot, that will last with my wheel and not cost more mo
ney sooner or later, or
I will give the same Reward to any man who will produce an over
shot undershot or Breast Wheel, that will run as steady as“iny wheel, :
or
I will give SIOO to any one who will produce a wheel of any sort or
kind patented or not, that will combine tothe same extent, cheapness i
durability,power, speed or simplicity so easily applied in all situations
and so universally applicable to all purposes and every location, or
I will give SIOO, to anyone, who will produce a Hotchkiss ll’hrrl
that does not consume fifty per cent more water to do the same Saw
ing or Grinding.
Those who doubt can visit the Coweta Falls Factory in this city
and they will see my whqel, driving all their machinery without a
Governor, where a French Turbine made in the great city of Lowell
failed to do the business at all. Orifthey will visit Pleasant Macon's
in Macon county Alabama they will see one of my wheels, only 2 feet,
8 inches in diameter, under a head of !1 feet, grinding 9 to ten bushels
of corn per hour. Or in a short time I will show at Winter’s Mills in
this city, one of my wheels 3 1-2 feet in diameter, grinding, 10 to 60
bushels per hour with two pairs of stones. In the State of New York
there are at least 500 of my wheels, Grinding, Sawing and Manufac
turing in a style never yet done by any other. With sufficient head I
can turn 5000 Spindles nnd 100 Looms w ith one of my w heels but 2
eet in diameter.
Gindrat & Cos. at the Montgomery works Alabama, who arc manu- i
factoring my wheels, will execute orders for them, and deliver them in ;
any place South of the Potomac, and furnish directions for putting i
them to their work, with models if required. Post paid letters addres- i
sed to me at Montgomery care of Gindrat & Cos. or at this place care of |
G. W. Winter Esq. will meet with prompt attention. In all cases j
when the Purchaser is not fully satisfied with the performance of my !
wheel, the money will lie returned.
REUBEN RICH. Patentee,
from Oswego County New York.
CnlunibusGa. March 21st, 1850. - 1—
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M A CON
Candy Manufactory.
r I ‘'he Subscriber still continues to manufacture CANDY of every
1 variety, next door lielow Ross k Co’s, ont.'otton Avenue, ilav
incrcased my facilities and obtained additional Tools, I am now pre|ar
ed to put up to order, CANDIES, of any variety, and w arranted equal
to any manufactured in the South. I also manufacture a superior ar
ticle of Lemon and other SYRUPS, CORDIALS. PRESERVES. Sit.
All my articles are well packed, delivered at any point in this City
and warranted to give satisfaction.
11. C. FREEMAN, Agent.
March, 2J, 1850. 1 ——ts
MILITARY INSTITUTE.
Blue Licks , Ky. j
BOARD OLMTSITORS.
f T ,,!E ADJUTANT GENERAL, together with five fit persons, to We
annually appointed by the Executive, to attend examinations at
least once a year, according to law.
WAt UJLT Y a
Incorporated with all the powers, and rights exercised by the TV**-
ters and Faculty of any other College.
COL. T. F. JOHNSON, General Superintendent.
•COL. E. V\ . MORGAN, Joint Superintendent and Professor of Alt.
ginerring and of .Yatural History.
*LILI 1. COL, B. K JOHNSON, Vrvfcssor of .Witural and v r ptrr
mental Philosophy.
+M AJ. W. VY. A. FORBES, Prufesseor of Mathematics.
RICHARD N. NEWELL, A. M. Professor of .indent and .Voder
J.anguagrs.
JAMES G. BLANK, A. P. .idjunct Professor of Imngucgtt.
REV. J. R. SWIFT, A. 51. Professor of Kthirs and Relics LsUra *,
JAMES H. DAVIESS, Esq. Professor of Jmw.
REV. H. V. D. NE\ lUS, A. M. Principal of the .lcadoinu.
j O.AIT. C. E. MOTT, Teacher in the Academy.
I CAPf. W. W. GAI NT, .Idjutant of the Institute.
•Educated at West Point.
tEducated at the Virginia Military Institute.
Tw o hundred and thirty Cadets, from fifteen different States, bar*
| entered this Institution since it was organized, in 1817. It is entire
: Iy free from the control or domination of any sect or (tiny, either po
htical or religious. Economy in Iress, by the adoption of a cheap
I inform, for Winter and Summer, is rigidly enforced. Even- student
is required to select a College guardian, with w bom all funds brought
or received must lie deposited,ail no debt must be contracted w ithout
the consent of such guardian.
An Institution combining the science of the West Point Academy
■ and of Polytechnic Institutes, with the classical literature of our best
Colleges, auding the modern languages and superadd.ng practical
schools of Law aid engineering, nearly realizes the fong-telt deader
ation iff a university able to meet the wants of Western progress—
university where all may select a course of steady to suit their time,
means odd professional destination.
Mr. D.vv izsg, tlie Professor of Law, is known is’ the various
Courts as a practitioner of great ability, v aried learning, long expori
ence and exalted character. His eminent qualifications, the whole
some exercise and discipline of the Institute, and the convenient ob
servation of the forms of judicial proceeding, offer unusual induae*
incuts to those wnoaro earnest to achieve distinction as sound Lawyers’
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Will lie thoroughly and prr.rticaliy taught in the Western Military In
stitute—the Professor, Col. Mukhin, being one of the most skillful and
experienced Engineers in the United States. All the instruments con
nected with that department, have been procured at considerable cost,
and are of the best quality.
The Superintendent takes the liberty of stating that he is now olW
eds7s per month, for cninpetant assistant Engineers. One of his for
tiier pupils receives at this time $--V>0(l per annum, as Princqal Kn
gineer of a Railroad now under construction in Kentucky—w hilst
others of the same class an- receiving in diffirent parts of the United
States. $2,000, SJ.IOO, or $1,200 a year as As.-istant Engineers.
The time is rapidly approaching when there will lie a great demand
for such as have been prepared for that vocation, at the Western Mil
itary Institute. Nothing is hazarded in saying that they will readily
command ?>--<si •>’ *i.vuo jut annum. Every man of observation
must see that the gigantic enterprises already proposed, will give lurtb
to hundreds of otheir. tributary to them. The rapid advancement of
j onr whole country, and the eagerness of our |>eople, for exploring tbs
j hidden resources of the new States and the newly acquired territory,
j ‘ vin k'ive ample scope for ages to come, to the skill and enterprise of
I the Engineer, the Geologist, the Mineralogist, the Surveyor and ths
Architect. Young men who have an aptitude for the Mathematical
and Physical sciences w ill have a wide field opened to them for enga
ging in an honorable, a healthful and a lucrative pursuit, for wluoh
they may lie thoroughly and practically qualified, in a short time, and
at small expense, at the Western Military Institute.
TERMS.
In the Academy ... S3O 00 per annum.
In the College - -40 00 - •
For Music and use of Arms and Accoutrements 3 00 “ *
For Fuel - - - - 2 00 ““
BOARDING can lx- had in private families, at from two to two and
l a half dollars a w eek. When in Barracks, it is designed to furiusb-
Commons at a uniform rate. Students from a distance will to require
ed to board at the Institute, and have no communication with the
town, except as allowed by w ritten pciuiits.
The next session will commence on the first of September, and
continue ten months.
March 21st, 1850. ( t s
Sf RGICAL OPBRATIOYS.
DI. JAMES WEAVER. (Memphis Tenn.i proposes to perform all
Surgical Operations of every description, anil is well prepared
with all necessary instruments to perform every description of opera
tion that is performed ill any of the northern citb-s. He o(ierats suc
cessfully vn all affections of the eye, as well as all other rasas, and
will insure a cure in all cases of cross-eve, (strabismus) and will guar
antee success in every case of flub or Reel-Foot, iloxartbrus) or con
trarted tendons in any jxirtion of ike system causing deformity.
Tkstimosiu..—Tlie following is given as one of many certificates of
->rn—>n •T-imern vrnten navr recn rumisnea rrrm-ssor vv savor
by his patients.
From the Memphis Enquirer, Jan. 30th 1830.
CJn!> r Uocl JFool Cured.
Mr. Editor—DearSir: Please publish the foil-,wing case in yonr
valuable (x-riodical, that those who may be laboring under a similar
deformity may know where to obtain reiief. My feet were both rol
---ed or clubbed from birth, the toes turned inwards, the bottoms turned
backwards, and the tops f<irward. which threw me on the outside of my
feet, on which f walked up to the time of the operation. There was
a large lump on the outside of each foot, where 1 rested the weight of
my body in walking. I applied to Professor Ja mes VYeavfr. of Mem
phis. Tenn. who is distinguished for liis surgical skill, and on the 28th
day from the time of the operation, he put straight shoes on mv feet,
they being straight before me and flat on the bottom*. I can now
walk on them very well and am improving daily and exjicct in a short
time to nm and jump equal to any neighbor. There is no pin atten
ding the operation but w hat can to easily stood by any one, and dur
ing the whole o[>eration there is scarcely any blood lost, and no sore*
or in tin mation, as ns-st persons might supjuise. There is hardly any
sum that would induce lue to exchange my straight feet foiUhe crook
ed ones 1 had six weeks ago. 1 won id advise all persona who are la
boring under that deformity, to cal’ on Dr. Weaver, who w ill cure
them with certainty.
E. T. PETTY.
March 21st. 1810. [( jfj
‘MZd-fUj'D
or tiii:
WAR-PATH AND ITS INCIDENTS.
-A Slop)’ ot tli<* C rci’k I iKiiiui Difilurimii*
CCS of I$G>G.
BY W. C. HODGES.
A supply of this new and interesting novel In a talented
young gentleman of Columbus, Ga. lias been received and
will be kept for sale {Wholesale and Retail) at this office.
Also at the Book Stores. Persons at a distance w ill have
three copies sent by mail or otherwise, on receipt of kl. Sin
gle copies, 40 cents.
Macon, March 21, ISSO ] ts
OtdH LGEE Iron un<l liras*. FOIYDRV
AND MACHINE SHOP.
TIN Hi-; Oemulgee Foundry lias been enlarged and furnished with a
new and superior stock of tools, which w ill enable the subscriber
to furnish work at the shortest notice, in bis line, of a superior char
acter. and at prices as low as can be furnished elsewhere. Th- atten
tion of Milwrights and Machinists is earnestly requested to examine
this establishment. lam prepared to furnish
SZ3A.IC EUSIHIS,
from Ito GO hr, r .~- ,y<rr<jr. for saw mills or other purposes; Screw
Cuttings from 1 inch diameter to 2 foil, 10 foe* i— c , v,t ixittings;
Turning in all its branches; Finishing of all kinds of Machinery.
IN THE FOUNDRY
we are pro|*arr>d to furnish all kinds of Castings of Iron or Brass; Milt
Gearof'all kinds, of the m st approved patterns; Bevel, Face and Spur
Gear; Oast-Iron Water Wheels ; Gin Gear of all iiatterns, and size* to
suit; Cotton Gin work: Press Pulleys; Hand Railings. Fire-proof
Doors ane windows. Cemctry Railing, Gudgeons. Inks, Mill Hpindlss—
in fact, work of any description that is done in an establishment of the
kind.
Persons interested in Rie business are repuested to examine this
concern. CHAS. P. LEVY.
Oemuigrc Faun try, Ist St. hie it Miam Western Railroad. I —ts
Second Sale of Lots
IN THE TOWN OF
nrt t ts mhi n n p ts
If UR ul .1. il Hik K Ms
\S numerous applicalions have been made to the Subscriber to
-purchase Lots in the town of Oglethorpe, at private sale, in order
to supply the demand, and give all who wish to buy. a chance for the
most desirable Lots, he has determined to have A SECOND PUBLIC
SALE, which will take place on the
f/TA dm <Di
Commencing at 10 O’clock, A. ill.
ty THE LOCATION of A DF.POT AT OGLETHORPE, is now set
tled beyond Dispute! In regard to the Completion of the Road, the Board
of Directors, in their late Report to the Stockholders, on the 14th ulf.
say. they are ‘aware of the importance to the Coinjiany and the Pub
lic of having the Road in operation to that point in time for the traae
(Kirtation of the next Cotton Crop, and will use all reasonable means to
accomplish that object.’
All who wish to prepare for the Business of tlie Ensuing Season,
will do well to purchase Lots at this Sale.
TWO STEAM SAW .MILLS, one to run three single and a gang of
ten saws, and the other two single saws, will soon to in o(,eration in
the vicinity of the place.
COiA a
One-fourth cash, and the remainder fti two equal instalments, on
payable Jan. 1, 1831, and the other Jan. 1852.
E. G. CABAN CSS.
March, 21, 1850. I—*
