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Ftom tbe Germantown Telegrspb.
Hints f&r Fanners.
Mr. Feeas.— lf too think the following hint-* will
Ire of any value to my brother fanners,, they are at
your service.
The proposition that every farmer, ana indeed
every head of the family ought to have a Garden,
is. one tbe correctness of which is now almost univer
sally admitted. Where land can be obtained at a
- rate, sal of passable quality, the profit
one mav derive from th< cultivation of garden escu
lents, Will be greater, probably, than can be realized
from the same time spent in any other employment.
Beefs, carrots, parsnips onions, cabbages, and, in
short, every variety of vegetables commonly required
for the esraf>>rt of a family, may be produced in
‘ibaa dance, and set less tlian one-fifth the expense of
purchasing them in the market or of those who
make gardening a trade. “ Never purchase what
you. can profitably produce yourself,” ls a maxim
every one should observe, and more especially those
who are engaged in the cultivation
of the soil.
Onions.—lu a recent English publication, I find
the following rules laid down for the cultivation of
the onion:—
‘‘Take off about four inches of the earth on the
surface, the length and width of your Led, so that
the ground under, will be sound. Spread stable
dung well over, about four inches in thickness, and
then cover the same with the soil previously re
moved from the top. Sow your seeds rough, and
von are almost sure of an abundant crop; and the
land is best for carrots and parsnips the following
year.”
Hens. —Eggs and poultry, tltough, not strictly
indispensable, are yet very convenient in a family,
and when not produced on the farm they are often
purchased, and frequently at great expense. A
few hens should be kept by every housekeejxer. By
securing good breeds, and adopting a judicious sys
tem of management, they will be found a source of
considerable profit. It is sometimes desirable to pro
duce fowls for the market, especially in places where
poultry commands a good price; and when this is
the case, the sex is a matter of considerable import
ance, as male fowls are larger and more pofifctblc
than females. By selecting the long eggs, which
are marked with concentric circles on the smaller
ends, cockerels will be produced by incubation ;’thc
more round or oval eggs, always producing females.
This fact was known to tlxe ancients as long ago as
the days of Mago and Columella, the latter of whom
allndes particularly to it. This remark applies also,
with the same correctness to the eggs of other do
mestic fowls.
Potatoes.—Cuttings or slips are not so good to
propagate as whole potatoes. When one is not
compelled to it by scarcity of seed, the practice of
cutting should never, I think, be adopted. In my
own experience 1 have had the most complete dem
onstrations of its bad effects upon the crop. Whole
potatoes, of medium size, are much preferable,
though cuttings from those of large size, and per
fect development, are to be preferred to small pota
toes, uncut. The butts, after having had the eyes
removed from seed generally produce, when
planted, tubers of better size than are obtained from
cuttings. The plants start more vigorously, and the
vines throughout are larger and of greater strength.
Pasture Lands.—A good pasture is indispensa
ble to the farmer. If he keeps various kinds of ani
mals, the arangement of his pasture grounds should
l>e such as to enable him to keep the several sorts of
animals apart. Sheep, for instance, ought never to
be permitted to run with cows, or neat stock of any
kind. Owing to their peculiar habits, they foul the
grass, and no animal will crop the feed upon which
they reposed or trod. A separate enclosure ought
always to he provided for them, and this may be
the more hilly and barren portions of the farm. It
is an old adage that “short pastures make fat sheep,”
and experience seems to corroborate its correctness.
On hilly and rocky soils, the grass, though shorter,
is much sweeter than on lands where perpetual
moisture, and a greater abundance of humors, indu
ces a more luxuriant grow th. Water, however, is
a great advantage to tlxe flock, though the sheep,
from its habits of early rising, and feeding while the
night dews are still upon the herbage, as well as
from its own peculiar conformation an 1 constitution,
will do well and even become fat where no water
exists. The sheep requires frequent salting while
in the pasture. Salt and .ashes—say two quarts of
the former to a peck of the latter, are better tlian
pure salt. •
Grape Vines.—The remarkable ease w ith which
the propagation of the grape is effected, and the
singular economy attending its cultivation, in con
sequence of the small amount of land it requires, are
circumstances which should be of themselves suffi
cient to recommend it to the attention and favor of
every one. In the city of Portland, Maine, there
are to be seen, as you pass along the public streets,
numbers of grape vines of large size, growing in the
front yards of houses, where no more room is occu
pied by them than would be necessary for a pot of
foreign flowers. The vine has its roots in the soil
close to the house, and the tendrils are extended
along its front, or perhaps in the cellar, from which
it is conducted through the window, up the outside
of the walls, even to the third or fourth story ! Eve
ry man who owns a foot of land should plant a grape
vine. The fruit is excellent at all seasons, after
ripening.
Ice-Houses.—No establishment should be w ith
out an ice-house. The cost is small, and the ex
pense, including the price of the ice and storage,
would be returned, nearly, if not quite, the first year.
Meat often spoils, and milk becomes sour, in hot
weather. If an ice-house is at hand, these evils are
easily obviated. A good ice-house will last years
without repairs, and there are few localities where
ice cannot be obtained in any desirable quantity for
the trouble of cutting.
Whitewashing. —Whitewash, in some cases, is
preferable to paint. Cellars should be carefully
supplied with a coat of it every spring; so also
should the inside walls of sheds; and, in fact, every
place w here unhealthy gases are generated, or an un
savory smell is produced from the presence of una
voidable filth. The cost is a mere trifle, as the ope
ration can be performed at leisure moments, and by
3iiy one who can use a brush.
A County Farmer
The Horse Known by his Ears.
The size, position, and motion, of the ears of a
horse are important points. Those rather small
than large, placed not too far apart, erect and quick
in motion, indicate both breeding and spirit; and if
a horse is in the frequent habit of carrying one ear
forward, and especially if he does so on a journey,
he will generally possess both spirit and continu
ance. The stretching of the ears in contrary direc
tions, shows that he is attentive to every thing that
is passing around him, and while lie is doing this he
cannot be much fatigued, nor likely soon to be
come so.
It has been remarked, that few horses sleep with
out pointing one ear forward and the other back
ward, in order that they may receive notice of the
approach of objects in any direction. When Ixorses
or mules march in company at night, those in front
direct thorn backward; and those in the middle of
the train turn them laterally or crosswise—the
whole seeming thxis to be actuated by one feeling,
which w atches their general safety.
The ear of the horse is one of the most beautiful
parts about him, and by few things is the. temper
more surely indicated than by its motion. The
ear is more intelligible even than the eye; and a
; person accustomed to the horse can tell, by the ex
pressive morion of that organ, almost all he thinks
or means. When a horse lays his ears flat back on
his neck, he most assuredly is meditating mischief,
’ and the bystander should beware of his heels or his
teeth. In play, the ears will be laid back, but not
so decidedly nor so long. A quick change in their
position, and more particularly in the eye at the
time, will distinguish between playfulness and vice.
The hearing of tlxe horse is remarkably acute. —
A thousand vibrations of the air, too slight to make
any impression on the human ear, are readily per
ceived fry him. It is well known to every huntsman,
that the cry of hounds wall be recognized by the
horse, and his ears will be erect, and he will be all
spirit ami impatience, a considerable time before the
rider is conscious of the least sound. —Tke Horse
and his Rider.
Ttility of Indian Corn.
But what gives to Indian corn its great import
ance, is the actual amount of nutritive matter which
it eontaiixs. It is said to be third in this respect,
wheat and rice containing a somewhat greater
amount, though many place maize second only to
wheat. We have the analysis of Indian corn, which
may be given as follows:
Silica, 38,4-5
Potass a, 19,51
Plios. of Lime, 17,17
Phos. of Magnesia, 13,83
Plros. of Potassa, 2,24
Carbonate of Lime, 2,50
Carbonate of Magnesia, 2,10
Sulphate of Lime and Magnesia, 79
Silica, mechanically found, 1,70
Alumina and loss, 1,05-100
making in all one hundred parts. In other words,
we may say, on the authority of Dr. Dana, of Lowell,
there are in it, of
Fat-forming principles, gums, Ac.. 88,43
Flesh-forming principles, gluten, Ac., 1,20
Water, 9,00
Salts, ‘ 1,31-100
A glance w ill show how greatly the fat-forming
principles predominate in the <me hundred parts. —
There is hardly any grain which yields so much for
the support of animal life. The difficulties and con
tingencies of raising wheat in tlxe eastern part of
Massachusetts have discouraged its cultivation, so
that w e may say that Indian corn is by far the most
profitable crop, especially as, when the offal is prop
erly managed, there is no grain which restores so
much to the ground. It is a fact, too, that it may be
cultivated longer in succession than any other grain;
and if kept dry, it may he preserved for an indefi
nite period without injury. The case and rapidity
with which it recovers from a drought is truly re
markable. Many predicted, during the last summer,
that the corn crop would be destroyed. The leaves
were badly curled, and there was every indication
that tlxe crop would greatly suffer. Every one re
members how speedy was its recovery, and how
rapid its growth after the change of weather.
Asa fattener for cattle, swine, and poultry, we
may say that Indian corn is unrivalled in utility.—
The analysis of Dr. Dana, as given above, is sufficient
to show, at once, how imporant it is for such pur
poses. Asa food for man, it is extensively used,
though by some thought to be too stimulating.—
Flint's Essay in Essex Agricultural Transactions.
The Peach Worm. —A friend has just informed
us that ho has found an application of coal ashes as
a preventive of the peach worm. lie digs away the
earth a few inches round, down to tin? roots, and
fills up the cavity with the ashes, and packs it. round
the tree some three inches above the ground. Our
informant says lie lias made a fair trial of it, by per
mitting other trees in the same plot to go unprotect
ed by the .ashes, and the difference was readily per
ceptible.
Os course this remedy ought to be applied early
in the spring, but it is not too late yet to prove
beneficial to the present season, in some degree. It
is, too, so simple, with the means of trial at the hands
of every one, that we hope tlxe experiment w ill be
made, and the result communicated to us.— Ger.
Telegraph.
Mange in Cows.— A correspondent of the Plough
man gives the following as a cure for this exit anc
ons disease:
Take of Hog’s lard, one pound ; Spirits of tur
pentine, 3 ounces; Flour of sulphur, half a pound,
mix them all together into anointment. All the
parts affected must ho rubbed with the ointment
every third or fourth day for three times. At the
same time it will be necessary to give the follow ing
drink:
Anniseeds and carraway seeds powdered, each
two ounces; Flour of sulphur, two ounces; Crude
antimony and nitre, each half ounce; Treacle, a gill.
Mix for one drink, and give it in a quart of warm
water.
This drink may he repeated every third day for
three times, or oftener if necessary. Tt will he
found to possess the requisite quality of promoting
the animal secretions, by which nature w ill be re
generated.
Potatoes planted below three feet do not vegetate;
alone foot they grow thickest, and at two feet
they are retarded two or three months.
There are no solid rocks iix the arctic regions, ow
ing to the severe frosts.
The surface of the sea is estimated at 150,000,-
000 square miles, taking the w hole aurface of the
globe at 190,000,000 square miles. Its greatest
j depth is supposed to be equal to the height of the
highest mountain, or four miles.
(fljf iHWOTinTjIH.
Preserving Fruits.
The Horticulturist contains a mode of preserving
fruits which may be of use to house-keepers.
Send to your tinsmith and get a sufficient num
ber of tin canisters, very carefully and rightfully
made. They should be of uniform size; and the
shape preferred here is seven inelxes high by five in
diameter—uniform cylinders.
Select the fairest fruit—peaches, strawberries, or
what you please. It should be just ripe, but not
past the mature stage. Fill the canisters, place the
tin lids on their tops, and solder them down vejy
carefully. Only a small hole, of the size of a pin,
should be left for the escape of air.
The next point is to drive the air out of the can
isters of fruit, to prevent its decay. In order to do
this, take a broad boiler-pan, with a flat bottom,
place the canister in it and till it with boiling water
within about three-fourths of an inch of the tops of
the canisters. The boiler being over a gentle fire,
the water in it should now be made to boil. This
will drive the air in each canister through the small
bole left in tlxe top, as soon as the temperature ap
proaches two hundred degrees; and in order to know
precisely when it is all expelled, you must drop a
tew drops oi water upon this hole. When the bub
bles of air cease rising through these drops of water,
tlie air is expelled, and then you may pass a dry
cloth over the hole, and let a drop of solder fall up
on it. i his seals the canister up hermetically, so
that the fruit will remain unchanged for a couple of
j ears, or longer. Ihe immersion of the cans in the
boiling water does not impart the slightest taste of
their having been cooked to tlxe fruit.
The canisters of fruit should be left in a cool
! place. When want’ and for use, unsolder the tops
SSS” ®S©Bft IJL Clf nil.
with a hot iron, and the fresh fruit is ready, —having
been perfectly preserve! without the aid of sugar or
brandy.
nui-ww in iwwi ■
To Purify Water . —lt is not so generally known
as it, ought to be, that powdered alum possesses
the property of purifying water, A large table
spoonful of pulverised alum, sprinkled into a hogs
head of water, (the water stirred round at the
time,) will, after the lapse of a few hours, by pre
cipitating to the bottom the impure particles, so
purify it, that it will be found to possess nearly all
the freshness and clearness of the finest spring water.
A pailful, containing four gallons, may be purified
by a single teaspoonful.
It is found half an ounce is amply sufficient to ef
fect the purification of a Ixogshcad, containing one
hundred and thirty gallons and that to purify a com
mon pailful, as much as can be taken up on the
poifit of a common sized penknife is abundantly
enough.
The more complete is the pulverisation, the more
speedily and efficiently will it act. Impure water is
not only very ungrateful to tlxe palate, blit long con
finement to it, especially in hot, sultry weather, or
indeed, under any condition of the atmosphere, is
a fruitful source of disease. It is therefore advisa
ble to every oik; who cannot avail himself ofasup
ply of good water, to make trial of the above method,
and continue its practice as long as circumstances
render it necessary.
It would be well for persons having watering ves
sels to try this system of purification, or all others,
who consider their health.
Very Good Old-Fashioned Boiled Custard —
Throw into a pint and a half of new milk, the very
thin riixd of a fresh lemon, and let it infuse for half
an hour, then simmer them together for a few min
utes, and add four ounces and a half of white sugar.
Beat thoroughly the yolks of fourteen fresh eggs,
mix with them another half pint of new milk, stir
the boiling milk quickly to them, take out the lem
on peel, and turn the custard into a deep jug; set
this over tlie fire in a pan of boiling water, and keep
the custard stirred gently, hut without ceasing, un
til it begins to thicken ; then move the spoon rather
more quickly, making it always touch the bottom of
the jug, until the mixture is brought to the point of
boiling, when it must be instantly taken from the fire,
or it will curdle in a moment. I‘our it into a bowl,
and keep it stirred until nearly cold, then add to it
by degrees a wineglassfnl of good brandy, and two
ounces o-f blanched almonds, cut into spikes; or
omit these, at pleasure. A few hitter ones bruised,
can be boiled in the milk in lieu of lemon peel,
when their flavor is preferred.
New milk, 1 quart; rind of 1 lemon; sugar, 4 1-2
ounces; yolks of eggs, 14; salt, 1-4 saltspoon ful.
llow a “Woman Got Along on Beans.-“A friend
told us an incident relating to a woman in th<‘ suburbs
of this city,” says the Cincinnati Atlas, “which il
lustrates how much tact some people have in getting
along, compared with others. This poor woman
had seven children. Sh<* got out of money, out of
bread, out of anything to eat; and the question was,
how she was to get along. She had one thing left.
She had some liens. They laid eight eggs a day,
and she hit upon a plan. To eat these eggs, would
not support the family, and to sell them would nut
doit. There was a little grocery near by, and she
went there, and every day exchanged half a dozen
eggs for a halt-peek of beans. This was enough
for the family, and she got along till site could do
something. Now, there was not merely a tact in
knowing that it was better to exchange, than to sell
her eggs; but there was tact in knowing that beans
are more nutritious than any other vegetable, ami
that, consequently, she could do better with them’
than with flour.”
Common Baked Custard. —Mix a quart of new
milk with eight well beaten eggs, strain the mixture
through a fine sieve, and sweet* n it with from live
to eight ounces of sugar, according to tin* taste; add
a small pinch of salt, and pour the custard into a
deep disli with or without a lining or rim ot paste,
grate nutmeg or lemon rind over the top, and bake
it in a verg slow oven from t wenty to thirty minutes,
or longer, should it not he firm in the centre. A
custard, if well made, and properly baked, will lie
quite smooth when cut, without the honey-combed
appearance which a hot oven gives; and there will
be no whey in the dish.
New milk, I quart; eggs, 8; sugar, 5 to 8 ounces;
salt, 1-4 salt-spoonful; nutmeg or lemon-grate;
baked, slow oven, 20 to 30 minutes or more.
Eggs arc sold by number, yet recent experiments
in the weight have shown that a difference of nine
and a half ounces may be found in one dozen of
eggs compared with another, the highest weight
being twenty-four ounces, and tlie lowest fourteen
and a half. . In the one case, a fraction over eleven
eggs would equal the average weight of a dozen,
and in the other, it would require over eighteen
eggs to reach the proper weight. Yet the price for
both, by the mode of selling, is tlie same.
Lemon Syrup.—Take of tlxe juice of lemons,
strained, a pint; sugar 2 1-2 pounds. Dissolve the
sugar in the juice of lemons, with a gentle heat;
then set it aside for twenty-four hours ; afterwards
remove the scunx, and, if there be any dregs, pour
tlie clear liquor from them.
Syrup of Peppermint. — Take of oil of pepermiut
three drachms; proof spirit, a gallon ; water, a pint.
Mix them; then with a slow tire let a gallon distil.
(Tijr luuiinriot.
‘•Lot dimpled mirt.lt liis temples twine,
With tendrils of the laughing vine.”
SETH STOKES :
THE MAN AVIIAT KNOWS IIOW TO MANAGE TIIE WOMEN.
Well, here I am, a leetle the slickest critter you
ever did see; I travelled in all parts of this univarsal
globe, and I must say, it is wonderful to obsarve the
opperatuns of natur’ on a big scale, and there’s the
women, too, the dear little critters; ’tis miraculous to
sec how nicely they are dovetailed together. 1 don’t
know how it is they are always failin’ in love with
me; they are always on tlie giggle when I speaks to
’em; 1 expect it’s my elegant figure; I don’t know
what else.
I've hear’d some folks say the wimmen was a lee
tle contrary; well, they is a leetle so, but if you inan
age right—haul in hero, and let’em out there, you
can drive ’em along without whip or spur, jest
which way you want ’em to go. When 1 lived down
to Elton, there was a good many fine gals lived
there, but I didn’t take a likin’ any one on ’em, rill
Squire Cummins eoxne down there to live. The
squire had an almighty party daughter; I said some
ot the gals was tust rate, but Nance Cummins was
fust-rate and a leetle more. There was a good ma
ny dressed liner, and looked grander; but there was
something jam-up about Nance, that they couldn't
hold a candle to.
If a feller seed her once, ho couldn’t look at an
other gal for a week. T tuk a likin’ to her right off,
and we got as thick as thieves. \\,e used to go to
the same meetin’, and sit* in the same pew. It took
me to find the salms and hyms for her; and the way
we’d swell ’em out was a caution to hardened sin
ners. Then we’d mosey hum together,and the gals
and Filers kept lookin’ on n> fho’ they’d Jifo. to mix
in. I'd always stay to supper, and tlxo way she
could make Injin cakes, and the way I could slick
’em over with molasses and put ’em away, wan't no
thin’ to nobody, She was dreadful civil, tue; always
gettin’ somethin’ nice. I was up to the hub in
fore and was goin’ in for her like a locomotive. —
Well tilings went on this way a spell, till she
thought she had me tight enough; then she begin to
shownoff independent like. When I’d go to mee
tin’ there wa’ut no room for me in the pew; when
she’d cum out, she’d sneak off with another chap,
and leave me stagin’ my fingers at the door; yes, and
she kept enttin’ round with all the Filers, just as if
she cared nothin’ about me, no more—none w hat
somdever. I got considerable riled, and thought I
mhdit as well come to the end of it at oik*?. So
down I went to have it out with her. There was a
hul grist of felTers there; they seemed mighty quiet
till I went in, then she got talkin’ all manner of non
sense, said nothin to me, and darned little of that.
I tried to keep mv dander down, but it wa’ut no
use; I kept movin about as though I’d had a pin in
my trousers; I sweat as if I’d been a thrashing my
collar hung down jest as though it was hung over
my stock to dry; I couldn’t stand it, so I cleared out
as soon as I could, for I see it was no use tryin’ to
say nothin’to her. I went straight to bed, and
thought the matter over a spell. 1 hints I, that
gal's jest a tryin’ me, ’ta’nt no use of her playin
possum. I'll take the kink out ot her. If I don t
fetch her out of the high grass, use me for sassage
meat,
I’ve herrn tell of a hoy that got to school late
wance, and the master sax’s, “You tarnal sleepy crit
ter, what kept you so late ?” “W by,” says the boy,
“it’s so everlastin slippy, I couldn’t get along no
how; every step I took forwards, I went, two steps
backwards; and I couldn t got here at all it I liadu t
turned back to go t’other way. ’ Now, that s jest
my case; I’ve been a puttin’ after that gal a consid
erable time; now, thinks TANARUS, 111 go t’other way—-
she’s been asliglitin’ me, now 111 slight her; x\hat s
sacefor the goose is sace tor the gander. Well, I
didn’t go to see Nance no more. Next Sunday T
slicked myself up, and I due say when I get my fix
ins on, I take the coat-tail off of any specimen of hu
man natur’ in our parts. Well, about mootin’ time,
oft'l puts to Eltliam Dodge’s. Patience Dodge was
as nice a gal as you'll see ’twixt here and yonder,
any more than she wasn't jest like Nance Cummins.
Eph. Massey used to go to see her; he was a clever
feller, but he was dreadful jellus. W oil, I went to
meetin’ with Patience, and set right afore Nance. I
didn’t set eyes on her till arter meetin’; she had a
feller with her what had a blazin’ red head, and legs
like a pair of compasses, and she had a face as long
graco afore a thanksgivin’ dinner. I know’d who
she was thiukin’ about’ and wa’nt tlie chap with tlie
red head nather. Well, 1 kept Wing Patience a
lxxut a spell, and kept my eye on Nance, to see how
the cat was jumpin’. Tell you what, she didn’t cut
about like she did, and looked rather solemcolly.
She’d gin her two eyes to kiss and make up. I kept
it up till I like to got in a mess about Patience. The
critter thought l was goin’ arter her for good, and
got as proud as a lame turkey. One day Eph. cum
down to our place, lookin’ as wratlxy as a malicious
oscifer on a trainin’ day. “Look here,” says he,
“Seth Stokes,” jest, as loud a< a small clap of thun
der, “I'll be darned —” says he. “Hollo 1” says I,
“what’s broke ?” “Why,” says he, 1 cum down to
git satisfaction about Patience Dodge; here I've
boon courtin’ her ever since hist grass, and she was
jest as good as mine, till you got to goin’ alter her
1 and now I can’t touch her with a forty font pole, and
I’m daru’d if Pin goin’ to stand it.' 1 “Why,” says
I, “what on earth you talkin’ about? 1 lia’nt got
nothin’ to do with your gal, but s'pose I had, there's
nothin’for you to git woolly about if the gal’s taken
A likin’ to me, tan't my fault- —and if I’ve taken a li
kin’ to her, tan’t her fault, and if we’ve taken a li
kin’ to one another tan’t your fault; but T an’t so al
mightv taken with her—you may have her for me,
so you hadn’t ought to git wrathy about nothin’.”—
Well, now, thinks 1, it's my time to look arter Nance.
Next day down 1 went, and Nance was all alone; I
axed her if the squire was in; she said lie wan’t;
’cause, says I, (inakin’ b’leeve all the time,) ’cause,
savs I, our colt’s sprained his foot, and T cum to see
if lie won’t lend me his mare to go to town. Sh<>
said she guessed he would; better sit down till the
squire cumin. So down I sot; she looked sort o’
strange, and my heart felt dreadful queer all round
the edges; and arter a while, says I, “Are you goin’
down tol>ets Martin’s quiltin’?” Said she didn’t
know for sartin, “Are you goin’?” Sed I reckoned
I would. Ses she “I ’spose you'll take Patience
Dodge ?” I said I mout, and then agin I moutent.
Ses she, “I hearn tell you're goin’ to git married.”
Ses I“I shouldn’t wonder a bit; Patience is a nice
gal,” says I. Tell you what, that brought the tears.
Sez I, “.Maybe she’ll nx you to he bridesmaid;” and
with that sheriz right up, and I swow her face look
ed jest as red as a inletl beet. “Seth Stokes says
she; she couldn’t say no more; she was chock lull.
“Won’t you be bridesmaid ?” says I. “No,” says
she, and she hoo-hooed right out. “Will you be the
bride ?” says T. She looked up, and I swow to n.i
tur’, to Jehue, to kingdom to cum, I never see no
thin’ look so awful purty. 1 tuk hold of her hand.
“Yes or No!’’ says I,“right off.” “Yes,” says she.
“That’s your sort,” says TANARUS, and I gin her a buss, and
if you won’t say nothin’ about it, I'll tell you what
it tasted like, it was as sweet as new cider out of
the bung. — Dr. Valentine and Yankee Hill's Meta
morphoses.
From the Pennsylvanian.
Lawyer Butterworth’s Adventure.
W. R. Lutterworth, Esq. is one of those G 39
young attorneys who do a flourishing business in
the courts of pic pond re. Mr. B. boards in a family,
which for delicate considerations, we shall call
Mitchell, the real name being something quite dif
ferent. In this family there are two daughters —
Sarah and Nancy—neither of them very young, nor
very handsome, but one of them considerably youn
ger and handsomer than the other. Nancy, the
younger, uses a great quantity of Cologne, and Sa
rah, the elder, uses an equal quantity of snuff.—
Lawyer Lutterworth is partial to cologne, but abom
inates snuff- —he is engaged in a flirtation with Nan
cy, and lurs reason to felicitate himself on the pro
gress he has made in’ her favor. Coming home
rather late on Sunday night, he was let in by some
body whom he took for Nancy, (the entry being
quite dark,) and his gallantry prompted him to
give the lovely portress a kiss. Perceiving the sa
lute was flavored with snuff, and not with cologne,
as he expected, he discovered his mistake.
‘Bless my soul!’ cried lie, ‘it is Miss Sarah ! I
beg a thousand pardons; I really thought it was
Nancy.’
This apology, made in the simplicity of Mr. But
terworth’s heart, was infinitely more offensive than
the kiss itself. Miss Sarah took the kiss very sub
missively; but when the excuse was offered, she
showed temper, and signified her intention to have
redress.
The next day —Lawyer Butter worth was notified
that his service were required at the office of a cer
tain Alderman. lie went, expecting to find a cli
ent —but ascertained that ho was defendant in a suit
for an assault committed on Miss Sarah, complaint
having been made by that young lady’s brother Sam
uel Mitchell, who was then in attendance. Mr. Sam
uel seemed to think he had performed a very cun
ning trick, by deluding the Lawyer with the hopes
of a professional job. Mr. Butterworth, however,
took the whole matter quite coollv. ‘ln this case,’
said he to the alderman, ‘L am the party accused. I
am am also retained as counsel for the plaintiff.—
My double position is somewhat embarrassing, but
I will endeavor to do justice to all parties concern
ed. As defendant in the case, I plead guilty of an
assault, on this young lady: (pointing to Miss Sarah,
who was present as a witness,) but I say, in mitiga
tion, that I assaulted, or kissed her, by mistake.—
Had I known what I was about, the event never
could have taken place. This is my defence. Now,
as counsel for the plaintiff-—I admit the circumstan
ces of mitigation, and in consideration thereof, claim
only one dollar damages for my client. Here is the
money,’ said Butterworth, planking the dollar, ‘and
here arc the legal costs,sixty-eight cents.’ Matters
being arranged thus tar, Mr. Mitchell, the plaintiff,
was about to leave the office, when Butterworth
handed a bill of §5 for professional fees, Mitcliell
saw that he was fin for it,’ —he had sent for Butter
worth as a lawyer, and was legally bound to satisfy
the demand. With an agonized expression of coun
tenance, he produced tire V and took B.’s receipt.
Butterworth, on posting the account, found that he
had gained three dollars and thirty-two cents by
the transaction, and had a kiss thrown in for a bo
nus.
Anecdote of Dr. Emmons.— The doctor it is
said, was no great lover of sweet sounds, and reli
giously excluded from his meeting house all instru
-1 mental music, except a little mahogany colored
wooden pitch-pipe of the size of an “eighteenmo”
book. A member of his choir had learned to play
the bass viol, and anxious to exhibit his skill, early
one Sunday morning most unadvisedly introduced
his big fiddle into the singing gallery. After the
first prayer was ended, and the doctor began to
handle his YV alts’, the bass violer lifted up his pro
fanation, and trying his strings, instantly attracted
the'doctor’s attention. lie paused, laid down his
hymn-book, took his sermon from the cushion, and
proceeded with his discourse, as rs singing was no
part of public worship, and finally dismissed the
congregation without note or comment. The whole
choir was indignant. They stayed after meeting,
and all the girls and young men resolved not to go
into the‘singing seats’at all in the afternoon, and
the elders who did go there, they bore the visages
of men whose minds were made up.
Services began as usual in the afternoon. The
doctor took his book in his hand, looked over his
spectacles at tbe gallery, and saw only a few there;
but nothing daunted, read a psalm and sat down.—
No sound followed, no one stirred, and the ‘leader’
looked up in utter unconsciousness.
After a long and most uneasy silence, the good
man, his face somewhat over flashed, his manner
rather stern, read the psalm again, paused, then re
read the first verse, and pushing up his spectacles,
looked interrogatively at the gallery.
The leader could bear it no longer, and*half-rising,
said decidedly :
‘There won’t be any singing here this afternoon.’
‘Then there won't be any preaching !’ said tin*
doctor, quick as thought; and taking his cocked hat
from its peg, he marched down the pulpit stairs,
through the broad aisle, and Out of the house, leav-,
mg liis congregation utterly astounded.
\Ye need not inform our readers that the big fid
dle was not used in the ‘singing seats’ afterwards.
A Bad looking Fellow. —Many years ago, w
certain jolly Judge in central Ohio was holding a
term of court, when ahorse thief of most vilainous as
pect, was arrainged before him. Horse-thieves in
tlio.se days were looked upon w ith especial disfavor,
and unfortunately for this particular culprit, he wore
a mighty bad countenance. In fact his face con
demned him at once. The judge was wrathful,
and thus addressed the prisoner at the bar, to tie
amusement of the court room — u Hold up your head
you cussed , omary pup ! look the court in the eye.”
mu —bct—-a——at
A Quark’s Remedy!
Jaundice proceeds from many myriads of little
(lies ofa yellow color, which fly about the system. —
Now, to cure this, I make the patient take a certain
quantity of the oca of eggs of spiders. These eggs
when taken into the stomach, by the warmth of that
organ, vivify, and being vivified, of course they im
mediately proceed to catch the flies; thus the disease
is cured, and l then send the patient down to the
seaside, to wash all the cobwebs out of the system.
Ciintcm Fell.— An ex-governor, relates a good
story of a man whose life had not been entirely j
unspotted, who applied to a worthy deacon for ad
mission into his church. Unwilling to offend him,
and yet not inclined to receive him, the deacon re
plied :—“The Church is full just now, when there
is a vacancy I will inform you !”
Liberality.' —A youth, who, it is charitably pre
sumed, had never “seen the elephant,” recently
found himself in company with three young ladies,
and generously divided an orange between them. — j
“ You will rob yourself,” exclaimed one of the |
damsels.
“Not at all,” replied the innocent, “I have three
or four more in my pocket.”
A few days since, a young man was boasting of
the fine accomplishments and naive appearance of
his intended, when he was interrupted by an old la
dy, who exclaimed, “well ’twasn’t so in my days;
folks was respected then for bein’ honest, and not
for bein’ a Knave.”
It is said that Bamum is at present in full chase
after a chap who helped his own wife at a dinner ta
ble, in preference to another lady who sat near him.
lie is considered the greatest curiosity extant.
A sleepy Deacon who sometimes engages in pop
ular games, hearing the minister use the words “shuf
fle off this mortal coil,” started up, rubbed his eves
and exclaimed, “Holdon, it’s my turn to deal next!”
“You are rather late this morning, William,” said
good Mr. Risewiththesun, to a laggard apprentice,
who came into tin* the office at a late hour, “Yes,
sir; but ‘better late than never,’ is an old saving” re
plied William. “Better never late” said the master
“is an axiom of far more worth, though it may not
be so old.”
Logic. —A gentleman asked a country clergyman f>>r the
use of his pulpit for a young divine, a relation of his. “I really
do not know,’’ said the clergyman, “how to refuse you but if
the young man could preach better than me, my congregation
will be dissatisfied with me afterwards; and if he could preach
worse, I Aon’t think he's fit to preach at ally
A Matter ok Taste. —Two abolition editors contending
about the amount of humility which they possesses, the one
boasts that he never passes a colored man without speaking to
him; while the other claims precedence on the ground that
he not only speaks to every negro that he but he abso
solutely kissed a colored lady at a camp-meeting!
“Shall we take a ’bus up Broadway ?” said a young
New-Yorker, who was showing his country cousin
the wonders of that city. “O dear, no!” said the
frightened girl, “I would not do that in the street !*’
“If angels have any fun in them.” says Walpole,
‘How much we may divert them!”
A quack advertises to cure, among other incura
ble diseases, Marcobozaris, Abdelkades, Hippopota
mus, Potato rot, Hydrostatics, and all kinds of An
niversary.
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Executed with Neatness and Despa tch,
AT THE •‘GEORGIA CITIZEN*’ OFFICE.
MILITARY INSTITUTE.
Blue Licks, Ky.
BOARD OFVISITORS.
r F n “ GENERAL, together with five fit persons, to he
annually appointed by tbe Executive, to attend examinations at
least °nce a year, according to law.
g'jkCul.-f
Incorporated with alltlie powers, and rights exercised by the True*
ter* and EneufUj of any other College,
CO I- T. F. JOHNSON, General Superintendent.
*COL. E. U\ MORGAN, Joint Superintendent and Professor of F.n
finerrinff ami of .Yahtral History.
*LIEt T. COL. B. 11. JOHNSON. Professor of „\ 'ahem) and Fiver
mental Philosophy.
fMAJ. W. IV. A, FORRES. Professsm- of Mathematics.
RICHARD N. NEWELL, A. M. Professor of .Innet aiut A/Wfi-t
J.llltfroaercs.
JAM Erl G. BLANK. A. B. .ftfatnef Professor of Ij}u*ruaper.
REV. J. R. HU IFF, A. M. Professor of Ethics an,l ftclies J.cttrer,
JAMES 11. DAVIESS. Esq. Professor of/Attr.
REV. 11. V. D. SEVIL'S,A. >l. Principal of the Acadtmu.
CA FT. C. K. MOTT. Teacher in the .leadany.
CAIT. \V . VV. GAL NT, .Idjatart of the Institute.
* Educated at West Point.
♦Educated at tlte Virginia Military Institute.
Two hundred and thirty Cadet*, from fifteen dlfTerent States, have
entered this Institution since it was organized, in 1817. It is ewtir* •**
ly tree from the control or domination of anv sect or party, either po-’
litieal or religious. Economy in dress, by ‘the adoption of a cheap*
l niturm. for Winter and Summer, w rigidly enforced. Every studci.l
is required to select a College guardian, with i\ horn all fund* brought
or received must lie deposited,and no debt m ist be contracted without
the consent of such guardian.
An Institution combining the science of the West Point Academy
and of Polytechnic Institute*, with the classical literature of our best
Colleges, addin 2 the modern languages, ;uid superaddins practical
school of Law and Engineering, nearly realize* the Jotut-hU desper
ation ofa university able to meet the wants of Western progress a
university where ail may select a course of steady to suit their time/
means oral professional destination.
Mr. Davos*, the Professor of Law, is known is the various
| Courts as a practitioner of great nidify, varied learning, ion” experi
ence and exalted character. Hi* eminent qualifications, the whole*
some exercise and discipline of the Institute, and the convenient ob
servation of the forms of judicial proceeding, offer unusual induce
ments to those who are earnest to achieve distinction as sound Lawyer*
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Wiß be ttoronohlj and praeticallg taught in the Western Military In
stitute the Professor, Col. Moroa v. being one of the most skillful and
experienced Eng its ers in the Ended States. All the instruments con
i Dieted with that department, have been procured at considerable cost.
and are of the best qualify.
Die Superintendent rakes the liberty of stating that lie is now ollcr
ed.?7.> per month, for compel ant assistant Engineers. One of hi* for
j mer pupils receives at tins time *.\500 per am.um.as Principal En
, grocer of a Railroad now under eonsrrtirtio, m Kentucky—whilst
others oft be same class are receiving in diff rent purs of the lulled
Hates, 3d,000, $ 1,500. or *l,2oft a yearns Assistant Eritimr.
The time is rapidly approaching when tin-re will I*- a great demand
for such as have been prepared for that rrws.ti, at the Western M.l
itarj Institute. Nothing is hazarded m saving that they will readily*
command Sl.-’O® or #l r ,oo |>or annum. Every man of observation
must sec that the gigantic enterprises already proposed, will give birth
to hundreds of others, tributary to them. The rapid advancement of
onr whole country, and the eagerness of our people, for exploring the
hidden resources of the new States and the newly acquired territory..
: will give ample scope for ages to come, to the skill and enterprise iff
; the Engineer, the Geologist, the Mineralogist, the Purveyor and the
| Architect. Vomg ui.-it who have a* aptitude for the Mathematical
j and Physical sciences will hare a wode field opened to them for enga
ging in un honorable, a healthful and a lucrative pursuit, for whirl*
they may be thoroughly and practically qualified, in a short time, aud
; excuse, at the Webleni Military Institute*
TERMS.
iiSr 5 ’ .* .- .- .•sett*
For Music-and use of Arms and Accoutrements 3 up * a
For Fuel - - - . 2 „„ *
BOARDING can Is* had in private families, nr from two to two and
a hall dollars a week. When iti Barracks, it is designed to furnish
Commons at a nudonn rate. Students from a distance will tie require
ed io hoard at the Institute, aud have no couiuiunication with the
town, except as allowed by written permits.
£ y Tlie next session will commence on the first of September, and
continue ten months.
March 21st, 1850. , f( -
THE GEORGIA MARBLE
Manufacturing Company.
IbiE interest ofG. Kolierts in the above cotapany has passed into
l.ie hands of John Rankin and the company of Hintons. Hur
lickis V aughn into tin- hands of VVjn. Ilurlick—wlto has aw*s'isted
himself with Atkinson St Rankin ofthe Georgia MaeVe Mnnufartnriuo
(o. Th • business .will hereafter be carried on by Atkinson, Rankin
k: Jfurlick. All debts due the concern and liabilities against the same
since the first of June will be settled by them.
We are prejiarctlto do an extensive business ; our mar Me is exceb
ent—and we are determined to offer work at prices which will keep
Northern marble from the state. Examine our marble ami prices,
r work is all done at the mills. Address.
ATKISCN, RANKIN i: 111 lU.lt K„
Ilaniagevißc, Cherokee Cos. Geo.
M A CON
Candy Manufactory.
j 1 HE stii! continue.- to manufacture C.\XI)Y of every
i *- variety, next •< r below Rons i. (Vs, onCnttnt Avenue. Uav-
I increased my facilities and obtained addUs.nal Took, 1 an’ now- prrpar-
I put up to order, CASPIKi*, of any variety. am! warranted equa
I'o manufactured in the Smith. I also manufacture a sii|icri<.r ar
i title of Lemon aud other SYniTS, ODRDI.AI.S. PRESKUYKts &r.
| AH my articles arc well [ticked, delivered at any [mint in this City
: arranted to give satisfaction.
11. C. FREEMAN, Afwnt.
j March, 21,1850. j_„
llillll’S
Kt mu mmM.
TIIE nndersijmcrl have just completed tin ir SPLENDID
NEW STABLE on tlie corner of Mnlberry and Third
Streets, nearly opposite the Floyd I louse, M litre they keep on
hand safe and well ki'.okf. horses and every variety of
Conveyance for the accommodation of their friends and tlio
public.
Single Horses and Drovi-rs will be attended to with tlie ut
most care and on accommodating terms. As the Proprietors
have but ON E STAIL E.:md can therefore give their per
sonal attention to their business, they feel confident of being
able to give universal satisfaction. Board of Horse 7Tv
cents per day. T. M. MASON,
March 21* 1850. WILLIAM DLBBIE.
GUNS .
& z fils k a
HAVE now in sncc. n[>eration one of the most extensive
and complete Manufactories of COTTf IN GINS in the South.—
The materials used are of the best quality. The machinery is all new
and constructed on the mart approved plans for the manufacture of
Cotton Gins.
The machinists and workmen employed in the establishment are
skillful and experienced in the business; and they have made such •
improvements in the mechanism and construction of the Gins that
they feel certain, in every case, to furnish a Gin which will perform.
admirably well, and give the purchaser entire satisfaction.
ZW~ ORDERS! ran lie sent to F,. T. Taylor It Cos. by mail, nr con
tracts made with their Agents who are travelling through the country,.
GINS will he sent to any par; of the country, and in all cases war
ranted to perform well.
Persons addressing the Proprietors by mail, will direct their letters
to Odumbus. Ga..
A sample of Cotton, just as it came from one of theirgins, ninnufnr-.
tured for a planter of .Muscogee county, can bo seen at the office of the
“Georgia Citizen,’’ Macon, to which the attention of Cotton Brokers
and Planters is invited. N. Oustey it Son are agents in the same
place, for the sale of these superior Machines.
Columbus, March :11st, 1850. 2 I v
WASHINGTON HALL
STABLES.
NEW ARRANGEMENTS.
-V.C. tIORKIIIUBE having purchased the interest of Thos„
\ A. Brown, in the above establishment, the business will
hereafter be carried on under the firm of
MOREHOUSE & HARRIS,
who will be happy to serve their friends and customers on the shortest
not ice and in a satisfactory manner.
A CARO.
r undersigned having sold his interest in the Washington Hall
A Stables to Mr. A. C. Morehouse, would solicit for the new Con
cern, a continuance of tlie patronage so lil>e rally bestowed on the old
firm of Brown & Harris. THUS. A. BROWN.
April 4, 1850. 2—ts
NEW OMNI BUS.
Mason & dibble's oh mb us win can for ps
sengen in any part of the city, op notification being given at the
[ Floyd House or at their Stable.
I April 11,1*50. 3r~f
