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THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS By SMITH. WIKLE & CO.] [For the Standard & Lxpiesk. THE BROKEN PITCHER. TRASSLATKI) FROM THE GERMAN. rv Mist L. MOOS. COKUMS. WON DERFUI. DISPENSATIONS. Colin rtxic the name tiny to Grasse to the* High Bailiff. an<l returned early on the following morning. But Mr. Haut martin only laughed at that and reasoned away the mistrust of I Mother Manon, anti swore he would let his nose be cut otr if Colin were not obliged to pay three hundred livres for tlie broken piteher. He also went with Mother Manon to Father Jerome to see a Unit the mar riage ceremony, and impressed it upon him to place before Marietta earnestly her duty us an obedient daughter not to oppose the marriage and the will of her mother. The old gentleman promised this, although he only understood half of all that was screamed into his ear. But Marietta took the broken pitch er into her chamber and held it dear er than ever, and it was to her as if Paradise hail entered her breast, since it was destroy<dupon the pitcher. When now Monday morning came, j Mother Manon sjtoki* to her daugh ter: “ Dress yourself well, and carry this myrtle-wreath to Father Jerome; I he wishes it for a bride.” Marietta dressed herself in her Sun- ! day clothes, took without suspicion the myrtle wreath, and bore it to Father Jerome. On the way Colin met her, and greeted her in a friendly and timid manner; and as she mentioned where she was carrying the wreath, Colin said : “ I am going the same way, for I must carry the pastor the money for church tithes.” As they both went, he silently took her hand; then ! both trembled ns if they had to wards each other a great crime upon their consciences. “Have you forgiven me?” whis pered Colin anxiously. “Ah! Mari etta, what have I done that you are so cruel towards me?” But she could say nothing, except “Only be quiet, Colin; you shall have the ribbon again. And I will keep your pitcher. It really came from you ?” “ Marietta, can you doubt? See, would I might give you all I have. Will you be friendly with me in fu ture like others?” She answered not. But as she stepped into the parsonage, she glanced at him sidewise, and when she saw his beautiful eyes moist, she whispered to him: “ Dear Colin !” Then he bent and kissed her hand. Then the door of a chamber opened, and Father Jerome, with his vener able mien, stood before them. The young people were as if dizzy, for they held fast to each other. I know not; was that the effect of the hand kissing, or of reverence for the old man ? Then Marietta handed him the j wreath of myrtle. He placed i< on her head and spoke: “Little ehil-i dreti, love one another!” and now he exhorted the good maiden, in the most affecting and stirring terms, to love Colin. For the old gentleman, on account of his deafness, had mis taken the name of the bridegroom, or, on account of his old memory, had forgot ton, and thought Colin must be the bridegroom. Then Marietta’s heart broke under the exhortation of the old man, and with tears and sobs she cried: “Ah ! I have long loved him, but lie hates me.” “ I hate you, Marietta?” cried Colin. “My soul lives only in you; since you came to La Napoule. O, j Marietta, how could I hope and be lieve that you loved me? Does not all La Napoule adore you ?” “ Why did you flee from me, Colin, and prefer all my companions to me?” “0, Marietta, I perished in fear and trembling, in sorrow and love, if 1 saw you. 1 had not the courage to Ik' near you; and if 1 was not near you, 1 was still more unhappy.” As they talked thus, the g<K>d Father thought they were quarreling, lie placed his arms around both, drew them together, and spoke im ploringly: “Little children, little children, love one another!” Then sank Marietta on Colin’s breast, and Colin threw both arms around her, and the countenances of both beamed in silent rapture. They forgot the pastor, the whole world. Colin’s lip hung on Marietta’s sweet j mouth. It is true, it was only a kiss, : but truly a kiss of the most delicious ■ forgetfulness. Both were lost in each other. Both had so far lost their consciousness, that they, without knowing it, followed the delighted Father Jerome into the church and before the altar. “ Marietta!” sighed he. “ Colin 1” sighed she. In th * church many devout ones were praying; but with astonishment were they witnesses of Colin and Ma rietta's marriage. Many ran out be fore the completion of the ceremony, to announce right and left in La Xa poule: “ Colin and Marietta are married.” When the ceremony was complet ed, Father Jerome rejoiced honestly that he had succeeded so well and had met so little opposition from the bride and bridegroom. He led them into the parsonage. END OF THIS RK.MAUK.VHLE STORY. Then came Mother Manon breath less. She had waited long at home for the coming of the bride-groom. He had not come. With the last stroke of the clock, anxiety had driv en her forth, and she set out on the way to Mr. Hautmartin’s. But there anew horror had overtaken her. She learned that the High Bailiff had appeared with the police officers, had examined the Judge’s accounts, money-lvoxes, and records; then had had Mr. Hautmartin arrested in the same hour. “Certainly the wicked Colin has brought this about!” was her thought . Now she had gone hastily to the par sonage, to apologize to Father Je rome for the delay of the ceremony. Then, with the newly wedded pair on his arms, the good old man, smiling, and with pride in his work, stepped to her. j Now, in real earnest, Mrs. Manon los! thought and sp< ch, ok she com ; prehended what had taken place. But Colin had more thought and , speech now than in his whole life before. He began with his love and passed on to speak of the broken pitcher, and of the Judge’s falsehood, ; and how he had unmasked this i criminal in the police court at Grasse. Then he besought Mother Manon’s blessing because this had now taken place without any fault of Marietta or himself. Father Jerome, who for a long time did not understand what had happened, when he received the full ' explanation of the marriage by mis take, folded iiis hands piously, and exclaimed with uplifted look: “ Wonderful are the dispensations of Heaven J” Colin and Marietta kissed his hands; Mother Manon, out of mere reverence for Heaven, gave the young married couple her blosssing, but remarked at the some time that her head was as if turned. Mrs. Manon was delighted with her son-in-law when she Learned to know his wealth, and especially when Mr. Hautmartin, together with his nose, was taken as a j>rG*»t>r*r to Grasse. But the broken pitcher was pre served in the family up to till- day as an heirloom and a holy relic. THE END. lOLIMBI S MINISTERS. All denominations in our city are supplied with able and God-fearing ministers, but it is a little singular there is hut one <'hristian among them. Wright, at tit. Paul’s, stands I out nobly in opposition to w rong. The Baptist pastor, by no means su perficial in his way of doing things, is a close and regular Skinner. The hearts and affections of St. Luke’s membership are unlocked by a Key. Wesley Chapel, though under Bond at present, seems to be in a fair way ! to be liberated from the thraldom of sin. The Episcopal Church has a Hunter , who is hunting up with some degree of success the lost sheep j of the house of Israel; and like Nim rod of old, we hope he will become a ; mighty hunter. We can’t make the names of Nutt and Culfinan jingle, but the men themselves will do.— Columbus Enquirer. DEMORALIZATION OF LABOR Every year the negroes become less and less reliable as laborers. Especial ly is this the ease about cities, where the colored mind seems bent on edu cation, church enterprises and benev olent societies. Many seem to have caught the idea that freedom means exemption from drudgery, and that in the new order all are to be “ ladies and gentlemen,” without visible means of support. We notice many males and females among the negroes large enough to earn the wages of full hands on plantations, wending their way to school, as if the future of the commonwealth rested upon their shoulders. Many of the girls dress themselves equally as well as the whites, and as a general thing have a very exalted opinion of their self-im portance, growing more averse to la bor. Some of them are also becoming very impudent. Now, we have no objection to freedmen receiving the benefits of a common school education; on the contrary, we think theoountry and society will to some extent be made better thereby. But while they are thus receiving the rudiments of learning and citizenship, we would endeavor to impress upon them that these things do not bring exemp tion from hard work, and the sooner they disabuse their minds of this idea the better. “Hewers of wood and drawers of water” are quite as indis pensable to the welfare of the State as are brains. Bone and sinew must be had, and if the colored people will not furnish them, they will inevita bly be rooted out by the strong and hardy yeomanry of Other lands. ( ol ored “gentlemen” and “Indies” who will not work, but prefer to trust their wits to carry them through, will soon find that the world does not need them. Chicken thieves and Front street nymphs are an incubus upon society; an increase of their numbers is not at all desirable. Colored parents will do well to impress these ideas upon their children. —Columbus En quirer. Railroad Signals. —One whistle of the locomotive means down brakes; i two whistles, off brakes; three whis- | ties, back up; continued whistles, danger. A continued succession Is the cattle alarm. The conductor’s signal, given by a sweeping parting of the hands on a level with the eyes, means j to go ahead. A downward motion of the hand, stop. A beckoning mo tion, to hack. A lantern raised and lowered vertically signals starting ; swung at right angles or across the track, to stop ; swung in a circle, to hack. A red flag waved on the track is a signal of danger; hoisted at a station is a signal for stopping ; stuck up by the roadside is a signal of dan ger on track ahead ; carried unfurled on an engine is a signal that another engine or train is on its way.—Ex change, TOO MUCH FOR THE DEVIL. This is Edward Hale’s story : A man had sold himself to the* devil, who was to possess him at a certain time unless he could propound a question to his Satanic majesty which he could not answer, he being allow ed to put three questions to him. i The time came for the devil to claim his own, and he subsequently ap- i peared. The first question the" man asked was concerning theology, to which it caused the devil no trouble to reply. The second he also answer ed without hesitation. The man’s fate depended on the third. What should it be? He hesitated and turned pale, and the cold dew stood on his forehead, while he shivered with anxiety, ner j vousness and terror, and the devil ! triumphantly sneered. At this juncture the man’s wife entered the room with a bonnet on her head. Alarmed at her husband’s condition, she demanded to know the cause. When informed, she laughed and said, “ I can propound a question which the devil himself cannot an swer. Ask him which is the front of this bonnet?” The devil gave it up and retired in disgust, and the man was free. WHAT TO READ. Are you deficient in taste ? Read the best English poets, such as Gray and Goldsmith, Pope and Thomson, . Cowper and Coleridge, Scott and Wordsworth. Are you deficient is power of rea son ? Read Chillingworth and Bacon ; and Locke. Are you deficient in judgment and good sense in the common" affairs of life? Read Franklin. Are you deficient in sensibility? i Read Goethe and Mackenzie. Are you deficient in vigor of stvle? Read Junius and Fox. Are you deficient in political kdowl : edge? Read Montesquieu, the “Fed j eralist,” Webster and Calhoun. ! Are you deficient in patriotism ? I Read Demosthenes and the life of ; Washington. Are you deficient in conscience ? Read some of President Edwards’ work. Are you deficient in piety? Read j the Bible. L A DIE S’ COLUMN. GEMS OF WISDOM. Prayer should be the key of the day, and the lock of the night. Holiness of heart is the jewel-clasp that binds humanity to heaven. He whose soul does not sing need not try do it with his throat. True living is not thinking what to act, but acting what we dare to think. It is best not to be angry: and best, in the next place, to be quickly recon ciled. The ungrateful are not so certainly bad a> the grateful are certainly good characters. Marriage, with peace, B the world's paradise; with strife, this life’s purga tory. There is no right which B enjoyed by man without involving, on his part, a corresponding obligation. True independence is to Ik- found where a person contracts his de-ires within the limits of his fortune. Nothing B so burthensome to us as self-reproach; and we are always glad to cast a part of its load upon the shoulders of other people. Few things are more necessary to success in life than decision of char acter. With it a man can rarely fail—without it he can rarely suc ceed. A soul conversant with virtue re sembles a fountain; for it is clear, ami gentle, and sweet, and commu nicative, and rich, and harmless, and innocent. It is a mistake to imagine that the violent passions only, such as ambi-, tion and love, can triumph over the j rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all. The blindness of the understanding f is as much to be pitied as the blind ness of the eyes; and it is neither laughable nor criminal for a man to 1 loose his way in either case. With some exceptions, commenta tors would be much better employed in cultivating some sense for them-! selves than in attempting to explain the nonsense of others. WAYSIDE UATUEMNCS. Pudding for lawyers—suet. The salt sea—looking through tears. Gamboling on the green—betting on the turf. An object of interest—a treasury note coupon. An improper fraction—breaking your neighbor’s windows. “ 1 speak within bounds.” as the prisoner said to the jailor. “ I’m soled again,” as the old boot said to the shoemaker. A doctor’s motto is supposed to be “ patients and long suffering.” Incendiary language—“ thoughts that breathe and words that burn.” When does a criminal resemble an old book? When he is hound over. The 1 ndians out West are collect ing poll-tax—they take it out in hair. Mrs. Malaprop’s last—lnviting her friends to partake of a cold relation. When does a husband appear most unhappy? When he is a sigher (sire.) The great unknown—people who never advertise. Tin* “ census,” it is said, embraces seventeen millions women. Who wouldn’t be a census? A cook advertised for a situation, and added: “No objection to dress ing children.” Horrible! William Shakespeare lives in Ala bama, and at the corner grocery heis celebrated as a niellow-drammer. The best way to improve the lot of woman is to put a good house on it, and a good man in the house. < >ne way of giving a man a chance of rising in the world—knock him ! down. “ My dear wife,” as the man said, when he looked at the last milliner’s bill. What class ought never to die with | consumption? ' Merchants with strong iron chests. The railing of a cross woman is like the railing of a garden, it keeps peo ple at a distance. What is that which Adam never saw, never possessed, and yet gave to each of his children ?—Parents. A traveler writes home from Par is : “The word I have stood most in need of since my arrival here is the French for damn.” Affairs in grease—fried oysters. Autumn leaves—when winter comes in. An old lady thinks the Bonds must be a family of strong religious instincts, because she hears of many of them being converted. A letter-writer, describing a ball, says the feature which made the deepest impression on him was the “ unusual number of very plump women foaming over the tops of their dresses.” “How sweetly Lydia will chir rup,” “ If ever I cease to love,” “ As the fire of Alexis’ diamond bracelet gleams in her eyes!” The young man evidently needs the watchful eye of a fond parent. Boys will be hoys. Dr. Greeley lately paid a visit to Danbury, Conn., and hearing that the villagers had just made 8,000 pounds of cheese from sixteen cows, started immediately for the slaughter house to witness the operation. “ Molly, shut the door; it’s getting awful cold in here,” was the remark of an Albany husband, as he hung his coat on a hitching-post and pre pared to retire on the curb-stone, un der the impression that he had ar rived at home. There is a girl in Boston who has been engaged at different times to fifteen different men, and calculates that the sum total of the kisses she received from them would amount to a larger number than there are dollars in the National debt. It i- often a pretty good matrimo nial firm that consists of three-quar ters wife and one-quarter husband. Debt is a horse that is always throwing its rider. Fools ride him him barebacked and without a bridle. That woman was a philosopher who, when she lost her husband, said she had one great consolation—she knew where he was o’ nights. Mother Goose has got after the Chi-* nose students for Yale thus: Thirty Heathen Chinese Riding on a rail; Thirty long-tailed freshmen Coming down to Yale. Should they read Confucius 1 nstead of morning prayers. We’ll take them by the hind legs And throw them down stairs. While an itinerant lecturer was describing the nature of gas, a blue stocking lady inquired of a gentle man near her what was the difference between “oxygin” and “hydrogin.” “ Very little, madam,” said he; “by oxygiii we mean pure gin; and by hydrogin, gin and water.” CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 7, IS7-2. CHILDRLX’S COLUMN. A Thrilling Occasion.—At a recent Sunday-School Union meeting in Brooklyn, eleven thousand child ren sang. “ Perpendicular !”—lt is related that a certain Sunday-School in Wales the children are taught very much by signs. The hand of the teacher sloped signified “oblique:” the hand held flat “horizontal;" the hand upright, “ perpendicular.” < ine of the \\ elsli bishops was preaching one day in behalf of the school, when observing several children whispering together, held his hand up in a warn ing manner, meaning thereby to impose silence, on which the whole -ohool, in the midst of the sermon, screamed out, “ Pernendicular.” “My son,” said a good mother to her young hopeful, “ did you wish your teacher a happy New Year?” “ No, ma’am,” responded the boy. “ Well, why not?” “Because,” said the lad, “ -he isn’t happy unless she’s whipping some of us boys, and 1 was afraid if 1 wished her happiness, she’d go for me.” HUE Pit IDF. A young man named Darks, from Worcester, entered the store of the Lawrences, in Boston, and found Ainos in the office. He represented himself as having just commenced business, and desired to purchase a lot of goods. He had recommenda tions its to character from several influential citizens of Worcester, hut none touching his business standing or capacity. The merchant listened to his story, and at its close shook his head. " I have no doubt, he s;tid kindly, *' you have full faith in your ability to promptly meet the "obli gations you would now assume, but 1 have no knowledge of your tact or capacity, and, you admit, you are just launching forth upon the sea of business, I should be doing you in justice to allow you to contract a debt which I did not feel assured you could pay at the proper time.” But Mr. Lawrence liked the appear ance of the young man, and finally i told him that he would let him have what goods he could pay for at the cost of manufacture—about ten per cent, less than the regular wholesale price.—The bil was made out and paid, and the clerk asked where the goods should be sent. “ I will take them myself,” said the purchiiser.” “ Vou will find them rather heavy,” suggested the clerk, smiling. “Nevermind; I am strong, and the stageoffice is not far away, and besides I have nothing else to occupy my time.” “ -But,” said theclerk, expostulating “ It is hardly in keeping with your position to be shouldering such pon derous bundles through the city.” “ There you mistake,” replied the young man with simple candor, ‘dis position just now is oik' in which "i must help myself if I would be helped at all. I am not ashamed to carry anything which J honestly possess, noram 1 ashamed of the strength which enables me to carry this heavy burden.” Thus speaking, he shouldered a large bundle, and had turned toward the outer door, when .Air. Lawrence, who, from his office, had overheard the conversation, called him back. “ Mr. Parks, 1 have concluded to let you have what goods you want on time. Select at your pleasure.” The young man was surprised. “ You have the true pride for a successful merchant, sir,” pursued Lawrenee, “and I shall hr much disappointed if you do not prosper.” Amos Lawrence was not disappoint ed.—Within fifteen years from that time Samuel Parks was himself established on Milk street—one of the most enterprising and successful mer chants in Boston. “ Now, children,” said a sumlav- School gentleman visitor, who had been talking to the scholars about “ good” people and “bad” people— “now, children, when 1 am walking in the street L speak to some persons I meet, and I don’t speak to others; and what’s the reason ?’ ’ He expected tin' reply would be, “ Because some are good and others bad,” but, to his discomfiture, the general shout was, “ Because some are rich, and others are poor!” OXE. One hour lost in the morning by lying in bed will put back all the business of the day. One hour gained by rising early is j worth one month of labor in the year. One hole in the fence will cost ten times as much as it will to fix it at once. One diseased sheep will spoil a; flock. One unruly animal will teach all others in company bad tricks, and the Bible says, “ One sinner destroys much good.” One drunkard will keep a family poor, and make them miserable. One wife that is always telling how fine her neighbor dresses, and how little she can get, will look pleasanter if she talk about something else. One husband that is penurious and lazy, and deprives his family of neces sary comforts, such as others enjoy is j not as desirable a husband as lie ought to be. One good newspaper is one good thing in every family DAM EL WEBSTER IX BOYHOOD. j Daniel Webster in boyhood gave j no promise of t he extraordinary pow ers of his manhood, and especially of his fitness for public life and speaking, j His growth was slow and solid, j not rapid or brilliant. The following record of his early years may encour age some of our younger readers: When about seven years of age his father kept a “ Yankee Tavern,” and young Daniel used to entertain the guests by reading to them some of the psalms of David. Even the rough teamsters, when they pulled up their horses, would say, “ Come let’s go in and hear a psalm from Dan Webster! ” His voice at that time was deep, rich and musical. But as a school boy he was no elocutionist, or rather I his sensitiveness was such that he could not practice. His first effort at fourteen was a failure, for the moment he began he was cm harassed and hurst into tears. He tried many times, preparing himself carefully, but when his name was called, and he saw all eyes turned upon him, lie could not rise. So much for this great orator. Li t no timid boy be dis couraged. On a recent declamation day ii* a New Jersey school, a promising young idea sin>t off the subjoined: “Our yellow hen has broke her leg, O! ne’er more she'll lav an egg; the brindle cow has gone plump dry, and j sister Sail has eat the pie; this "earth is full of pin and sorrow, we’re born to-day and die to-morrow!” A four-year old, being asked by his j mother if he would like to have wings and bean angel, replied: “No, ; ma, I’d rather be a hawk and live on chickens.” A person looking at some skeletons asked a young doctor present, where they were obtained. He replied ‘ 1 We raised them:” _ A Kansas paper informs the public that Mr.-, of Missouri, got to owning horses that didn’t belong to , him, and the next thing he knew he j couldn’t get his feet down to the j ground. MIS( ELLANEOI'S. THE GREAT WESTERN CANA I. The importance of this improve ment to Missouri and all the States ■ and Territories lying to the north, north-west and west of that Shite, as far as the Rocky Mountains, cannot at present in'conceived. The Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas River*, with their numberless branch es, all leading into one grand center at St. Louis, draining nearly the en tire country from the Reeky Moun tains and Canada, this- being the nat ural center of trade—the cheapest pos sible freight must be found in this di rection, hence the cheapest and best outlet to the ocean for St. Louis will be also the main outlet for that entire country drained by those rivers and their tributaries. Most of this vast territory and per haps the whole of it will compare well with any other section of the United States of £qiial exteut, and is sufficient for the formation of at hast fifteen states as large as ()hio or India na. This being the case, who can fully contemplate the amount of trade—the production of this fertile portion of our country? Li *us took for a mo ment at the production of one, and that anew State, Minnesota, and only at the one article of wheat: By the re port of the Census of 186 ft, the total production of wheat was only a little over two millions of bushels, but in 1869 the production was 18,600,000 to Eastern but in 1870 we find Gov. Austin, of Minnesota, plead ing for a better outlet to market be fore the House Committee on Com merce*, and said that from “ one-half ; to two-thirds of the surplus grain crop of 1860 in Minnesota still remains in the bins of her farms, or in warehous- j i es and elevators on her soil, because i the cost of moving it to the* Eastern j markets was so great.’.’ Now mark ; this, he was advocating the construe- i tion of a canal from some point high ' up the Mississippi to Lake Michigan, by which the saving in transporting | that one crop would amount to $1,600,- 000; then after reaching Michigan! that grain would have to be shipped over that Lake and Lake Huron, and Lake E r i e to Buffalo, then by the Erie Canal to Albany, and down to New York as the very best they could ' have. This route through the lakes, with a little variation is the principal one for all the productions of this vast fer tile region just mentioned—a general move from various points on the Mis sissippi to the lakes and then through the Erie Canal, and that canal closed with ice five months of the year. It is true railroads can be used for transporting grain and sometimes are, but unless there is considerable com petition their charges are enormous. Gov. Austin said that to move their grain by rail it cost from five to ten cents per bushel every 60 miles, which is from five to ten times common freight by canal. In recounting the inconveniences of that section respecting a highway to market, the enquiry is often made why they do not use the Mississippi; they formerly used 1 hat as their only channel of trade. The best manner of answering the question is to state a few facts in relation to this matter: Before the construction of the Erie Canal and other canals from the Ohio River and also from the Mississippi River to the lakes as a means to reach the great Erie Canal, the Western States were compelled to use the Mis oinoippj i iulf route, if auy except railroads, but after the construction of the Erie and its feeders, the southern route was soon diminished, the north ern route took more and more of the trade till in 1860 it was almost anni hilated. See the shipments from New Orleans from 1856 to 1860: 'Flour bis!Wheat bus! Corn, bus. 1856 ...251,501 .... 1,<)!)«,73,‘ V... . 2,941,711 1857 ... 428,436 ....1,353,430;....1,034,462 1858 ... 474,906 5%,442!.... U 81,117 1859 ... 133,1931 107,031 111,522 1860 80,541] 2,189 224,382 The above table shows conclusive ly that the Gulf route was virtually abandoned before the war, while Chi cago and other lake ports show an in crease, and that with all the inconve niences and delays, together with risk of being caught in the ice when late in the season, still the lake and Erie Canal route was preferred to that of the lower Mississippi and Gulf. All this goes to prove that the North-West is in need of a safer and cheaper—a better highway to market, an outlet capable of conveying far more than the Erie Canal with five thousand boats. It may safely be asserted that if the contemplated canal through Georgia in connection with the Tennessee River could be opened this year, that it would yearly carry more freight from the first than the great Erie ev er has, and if prosperity attends our country for ten years to come the ton age on"this line will be double that of the lake route, and that it will con tinue to increase as long as prosperity shall attend our nation. This must in the very nature of things be the result; there is no other center of trade within the limits of our entire country that will compare with St. Louis. It is a point of general, natural con centration of an extent of country nearly equal to the whole of New England, New York, Pennsylvania and all tiie States south of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi rivers, and which perhaps is not excelled in fer tility of soil and mineral resources by any equal extent of territory. This whole extent of country, vast in ex tent and boundless in resources, is now seeking a highway to market, and proposing to carry the produc tion and trade of this entire* country, or nearly so, through our county, by our doors, and I would ask if it be comes us to ignore their wants, or to | speak lightly of the enterprise, or to express a doubt of the completion of it if undertaken, when we should be the recipients to a large extent by the construction of such a work, and when vastly more is literally wasted Ivy the General Government from year to year. - Let us rather look up on this work as a sine qua non with the West, and a foregone conclusion, and think of the advantages we shall derive from it at home. A Georgian. Do not run away from your neigh bors because they are not just what you would have them to be; you may go further and fare worse ; you may jump from the frying-pan "into the fire. Better set about improving those around you, by your own con versation and example, and by induc ing them to read and think. A Western editor was serenaded a few evenings since, and in the issue of his paper complimented the sere nading part yon their “judicious mu sical taste in the selection of pieces.” He was informed by a listener after the publication, that they had played the “ Rogue’s March.” A married lady in Connecticut re cently fell into a river and would have been drowned except that her cries attracted the attention of her husband, who, mistaking her in the dark for another woman, worked like a beaver to get her out. A Norwegian lady has arrived in Milwaukee with some twenty of her children. She says therearesomany accidents she didn’t think it safe to bring them all on one boat, as in case of a wreck she wouldn’t have any heart to commence life in a newwL-oun try. She expects the rest of them shortly. Agrie-nl tura 1 Department. „ SEED €<Mt\. As the season will soon be here, a word or two on this subject may not be unacceptable to our readers, though we are aware there is danger of again exciting the cachinations of our At lanta contemporary, who Is disposed to ignore his rural antecedents. * In a country, to our shame be it spoken, so often dependent for bread upon the granaries of the Weft, a great desideratum is the introduction of some early and productive variety of Indian com. Experience has shown, however, that this extra early grain is very difficult to preserve in this climate, on account of the rava ges of the weevil. A small portion of the crop only, should therefore, lx* devoted to its production, still, a few acres on each farm would relieve the country from tui immense outlay of money, at a period of the year when accommodation can only be had (if at all,) at ruinous rates of interest. The department of Agriculture is distributing and recommend very highly, a species of corn developed in 1870, by 31r. G. (’. CtGley, of Manches ter, Adams county, Oliio, which is said to grow off and mature very rap idly, and at the same time produce's abundantly. 3D. Croley testifies that from seed planted on tin* 3d of May, the grain was harvested and converted into , meal by the 9th of August. One planter in Wisconsin raised a crop, and ground a portion of it into meal, j thirteen weeks from the date ofplant i ing. Another in 3iinuesota, from a pint and a half of the same seed, real ized fifty bushels of corn. The grain of this variety is white, and it isclaim-1 ed to be as prolific as any other de scription. It is a well known fact that seed corn from Northern latitude's ripens earlier in this region than the native grain, The writer remembers to have ! seen on the seaboard experiments i with the ordinary grain of commerce received from Baltimore, fully cor -1 roborating this statement. One plan ter supplied his farm with bread early in July, from a variety procured from Pennsylvania. As before stated, attention is called to this early seed, simply to eke out the provisions of the year after sea sons of scarcity. Crops of Irish pota toes, and the whippoorwill or speck led pea, are useful for the same pur pose. In the raising of a corn crop, the nature of the seed should depend greatly upon the character of the soil. Elevated ridges and thin land yield best when planted with white or vei low gourd seed, while the white, large grained Tuscarora or pure flint corn seems best adapted to swamp lands or alluvial bottoms. It is a curious fact that near the sea, every description of seed corn inevi tably turns into the flint variety, after the lapse of a few years. Farmers residing there who wish to raise a soft corn for feeding purposes, are compel 1- ed to renew their seed from their in terior every two or three years. Pure gourd seed will show even after the first harvest the small end of every ear gradually changing into the glaz ed and indurated flint. The writer, in common with all others on the coast, was always forced to select each year, Ins seed from the softer ears, shelling off the flint grains at the ends, to keep the whole crop from lapsing into flint. The latter variety makes better hominy or grits, and keeps lon ger, but yields much less flour when ground, and wears away the teeth ’of the stock fed upon it. The Baden, Peabody’s Early, and many other prolific varieties of corn ««*» re be found in, all narts of the country—some ot these average from two to four ears to the stalk. They will not do to depend upon, however, as before stated, as birds in the crib, play sad havoc with the grain, and render the seed difficult of preserva tion. The main point in ensuring a good , stand of corn is to look closely to the ' soundness of every ear before it is > shelled. A perfect grain will remain in the ground for many weeks, and then sprout with certainty after the sever est spells of weather. Soaking in a solution of coal tar and hot water for several minutes, B a sure protection against the ravages of birds, moles and squirrels. We have seen corn treated thus and thrown intothe barn-yard, remain ex posed on the earth for months, con stantly trampled under foot by hogs and poultry, and yet never a grain would they touch. The limits of this article do not al low us to treat of the cultivation of this valuable cereal. < )ur design is simply to call attention to the impor tance of procuring the best varieties of seed, before sowing. —Telegraph <l - IRISH POTATOES. From Southern Farm & llome.J We are indebted to our esteemed friend, Hon. David W. Lewis, Secre tary of the Georgia State Agricultural Society, for the following report of the mode of cultivation oftheacreof Irish potatoes for which Dr. B. Hamilton, of Dalton, Ga., obtained the premium at the Georgia State Fair. The i cr tificate of the yield has boon unfortu nately either mislaid or lias never reached us. We remember, however, that the yield was very large, and that the potatoes exibited were unu sually tine. “ Enclosed will be found certiiiieate j of the quantity of Irish potatoes I grown by me this year, on one acre of land, in Whitfield county, Ga., two and one-half miles from Dalton. The varieties grown were the Early Rose, Early Goodrich, Early Harrison, and a native seedling of our own State,: four years from the ball or seed. The land was second bottom, with a clay foundation, highly manured for years. I grew clover on it last year, which was not cut. The land was brohen in March, with a long scooter, cross plowed the first week in April, and harrowed both ways. The rows were opened with a turn-plow running both ways—giving a depth of furrow of about eight inches, which was idl ed half full of compost manure. The seed was cut—the large potatoi - in two and three pieces, the small ones planted whole. The rows were three feet apart, and the seeds placed one foot apart in the drills. The furrow was filled and well tramped in with rotten straw, then covered about one inch with soil, and the whole surface mulched with rotten straw from four to six inches deep. Nothing more was done until digging time. Yours truly, B. Hamilton. To Make <luorxn Peas. —Break the land well with a turn plow, run it off three feet each way, drop two peas in each check, and cover with a hot*. As soon as the crop is well up run around with rooter, and draw’ the dirt up with a hoe. Next time with a sweep, again draw ing the dirt up to the vine with a hoe. Put no dirt at all on the vines. The above w’ork is sufficient to make the crop. I think a small quan tity of good Superphosphate in each hill would largely increase tlie crop. The fifteenth is not too late to gather the crop. Plow up the vines just be fore frost, turn them over and expose the peas to the sun for a day or two, haul them in and put them under shelter, and pick the peas at your leis ure. Turn your hogs in the patch and they will get all you leave. Sandy soil'is the best. A Kentucky girl “don’t ’low no fellers ’round her that hain’t rid on the keers.” An old lady says of a certain pom pous clergy man,that he seemed fill ed with the divine iuflatters. ski its for tiik semi. One of the main causes of the fre quent failure." tis which we hear to raisefruit successfully in tin* Southern States, "ay-the rfoutheru Farm and I Home, is tin* want ofueurate knowl edge in the selection nftbe varieties which are> suited to our soil and cli mate. It G too often the ease that when we resolve to plant an orchard, or establish a vineyard, we take a eat ulogue ofsoine Northern nurseryman, and select the varieties which an* de scribed as the best, without, reflecting that trees whieh will do very well in Northern New York, or in "Pennsyl vania or New Jersey, may be wholly unsuited to the soil and dimateof the Uarolinas, Georgia or Tenia-oee. Fre quently, also, we select our trees from the gorgeously illustrated album of some Yankee tree peddler who does not own a tree or a foot of ground in the world, but depends for the fulfill ment of the orders he receives on the purchase, at cheap rates, of the refuse seedlings of some Northern orchard. The recent meeting at Richmond, \ a., of the American Bornological Society, devoted much time to the discussion of the fruits G'st adapted to the Southern States. As the or chardists and fruit-growers of the South were well and ably represented , in that body, we may safely conclude that their selections have been judi ciously formed aftermuch experience and. attention. In regard to-am* va rieties there was a diversity of opin ion* The Hale’s early peach, for in f stau<*e, was said by Berekmans . of A u gustu, Ga., to be an excellent early j peach, whileJLangdon, of3iobile, pro nounced it a complete failure. Butin the great majority of eases there was perfect accord of j udgment. We give : below the names of the varieties of peaches, pears, grapes and strawber ries which have been found to succeed well in the Southern States: Peaches —Hale’s Early; Early TilJ otson; Crawford’s Early; Large Ear ly York ; Stump the World; Susque hanna; Columbia; < ’hinese <’liug; Lemon (’ling; Oldmixon (ling; Heath Cling and Grosse 3fignouuo. Pears —Bartlett; Belle Lucrative; Doyenne d’Ete; Anjou; Duchess d’Angouleme; Lawrence; Clairgean and Seckel. Crapes —Hart-fort; Clinton; Neup pernong; Iona; Concord: Ives; Del aware and Norton’s Virginia. Sfrmi'bernes-\V ilson’s Albany: Tri omphe deCand ; Longworth’s‘Prolif ic; President Wilder; Downing and Boyden’s No. 30. We can state from our own experi ence that Halo’s Harly, Early Tislot son, Crawford’s Early, Stump the World, Chinese Cling, and < lldinixon Cling, are excellent peaches, and thrived well in the neighborhood of Athens. We have heard many com plaints of Hale’s Early in many lo calities, in Alabama particularly; and vve also hear that it does badly in West Tennessee and 3lississippi." The principal eause of eomplaint is the rotting of the fruit before it matures. <>f pears, we found the Bartlett, Belle Lucrative and Duchess d’An gouleme first ela-" fruits. <>f grapes, the Concord, Ives and Scuppernong did the best; and of strawberries, though we experimented with a num ber of varieties, we found none wort h garden room but the* Wilson’s Albany and the Triomphede Garni, the form er being incomparably tin* best of all. —Nashville t nion <V American. SPUING BlUMiqs. Clutchewof chickens turned out in February and 3larcb will prove un profitable unless protected from cold wind" and rains and are* regularly fed and properly housed. For four or 1i ve weeks young chicks should be fed lerinr.; qml (lif. food should be fresh and sound. Stale dough will produce diarrhea, and too much raw dough will induce hard crop. Boiled eggs, milk and bread crumbs, stale bread, and small por tions of cooked fresh meat, with a moderate supply of green food, cut up, will produce flesh and strength. The I chicks should be fed late in the even ing and early in the morning. If the weather is cold, a warm breakfast of oat porridge will prove highly accep table. Whole grain, unless well soak ed, is not desirable for young chicks. A variety of food, well seasoned with popper, red or black—is always best, and when given at regular hours, in moderate quantities, is the best pres : ervation of health. Care should be taken to protect all fowls against ver min, and to do this, flour of sulphur ; may be freely used both in sitting boxes, and in coops, with good results. ; —Southern Planter & Farmer. SAGACITY Os TUB COW. We have been told of instances of sagacity in these animals, quite sur prising. A friend had a cow that was very fond of biscuit with sugar on it. She would stay in the yard all day, bawding, before she would go off to grass, unless a biscuit was given her with white sugar. She would reject common sugar. She seemed to have her feelings hurt if this little point of etiquette was not attended to properly —and it was really her due, for she gave gallons of rich milk every day. Near Hartford reside two old maids, who had lived alone thirty years, un der a vow of celibacy, all that time milking one cow, when both us them fell sick, and it was found that the brute would not submit to he milked, as she evidently eon -trued the act into a robbery of her mistresses, for there was no way of getting her to compre hend that they were in the house sick. At last stratagem wa-reported to. A young man in the neighborhood dress ed in the clothes of one of the sisters, and went out to milk. He got along well enough till the wind blew off his bonnet, when the cow happening to look around just then, saw his short hair, and detecting the fraud in an instant, kicked tie* pail and themilk er over together, and galloped off. HOW TO MAKE A CITY CAROLS. Take barrels and bore holes around the middle, and one hole large enough to admit the nose of your watering pot. Fill the barrel with stones as high as the rows of holes, and fill in with good, rich, fine earth to the top, in which plant cucumbers, melons, squashes, tomatoes, etc. One barrel will he enough of each kind. Be sure to have one flat stone lean over the large hole, where you will pour in water until it runs (ait of the holes you have made, and which will prevent the earth from filling this large hole up. Range the barrels around vour yard, and plant vour -mis. Keep the barrels filled with water up to the holes, and you have all the requisites for rapid, healthy growth,—air, heat, and moisture. You can raise all the vegetables you will need, in the greatest perfection, and they will last until late in the au tumn, as they can easily be covered on frosty nights. Cucumbers and to matoes may ruing over the barrels, cutting them off when they reach the bottom. Melons may lx* tied to the wall fence. The stones have an im portant service in holding up the earth and absorbing the heat during the day, which they give out at night, keeping the water at an even tenrqier ature. You will be astonished at the result if you have never triedit.— The Prairie Farmer. Ditching and draining, where not already completed, may still go on, and too much of this work can hardly be done on most of our plantations. The flower garden soil should not be too rich, hut must be thoroughly pul verized. Timothy Hay. of Tennessee* has a stack of 15 children and wants no i mower. At a late concert, a testyokl Allow, who had suffered much annoyance from the incessant coughing of hB neighbor behind him, turned around with. “ Thar is a very bad cold you’ve got, sir,” which met with this gentle reply: “ 1 am sorry for it, sir. but it i< the best ] have.” A gentleman who had conferred a favor upoivan Irishman was thus ad dressed by him: "Long lifo to you, sir. With the blessing of God, muv you live to eat the hen that scratches the gravel on your grave.” The Grand Jury ufttpalding county postponed a decision on the county Court question until the Septemln r term, instead of deciding against the j system, as was report'd. PEMILIZERS: Hickson's Componml, SOLUBLE PACIFIC, Waiido Mining nut Maitactiriiii Cos.. CAROLINA ATLANTIC PHOSPHATE CO.. 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PARTIES wishing to go West will find it to their nterest ,o call on E. V. Johnson, No. Kimbttli House, and procure clieaptniigrant Lets. declim AGENCY GEORGIA LOAN & TRUST COMPANY I*. W. K. PEACOCK, AGent. CARTE RSVILLE, GEORGIA. OFFICE in the Store-room of A. A SKINNER & CO., Main Street. Money received on Deposit. Exchange bought and bold. Advances made on Cotton and other Pi< Juce. dec. fl-sw (A EoltGtA— Bartow Cernty.—James W. H Templeton has applied for exemption or personalir, and I will pass upon the same at 1U o’clock a. Ji.. on the 2nd day of March, 18(2. at my othce. Xki*. Uahday of February, 1872. i A J. A. HOWARD, i Feb. aa-St. Ordinary. VOL. 12—NO. :i Tin* Oeateru Antidote ! McCUTCHEON’S CHEROKEE INDIAN BITTER?. This highly valuable Indian Remedy is too well known, whenever if hna been used, to require special notice. Those who are unacquainted with its won deiTul operation upon the- lystein will find it a certain remedy in all Disgasbs of t'lT Kidney?, Bladder and Urinary Organs. It is very useful iu Rheumatism, Liver C\ m plaiut, Agur-C'ako Dysentery «ui>t other eomplaiuts. It warms the stomach uVI bowels; cures Colic an l Obstructions of the Breast: sustains evced ro labor of both yo dy and mind: ohroc1 ! c files, promote* the Appetite, assists Digestion; prev.'irs ~r-ploasant ploasant drram«nndfrights: str-.-g* • t.- the judgment; cure? Nrrvr.es, Asthmeh-al and Hysterical Affections; ren n-s all the dis orders of weaknes and debility ; pui ;hes the Blood; cures Neuralgia and D.spi., -'.a to gether with most Diseases pern!.to i e malcs, tMil and young,mid ami female, have been gr' iitly ben'fitted tty it? use, »- hundreds o. i letters from nil parts of the Taitol “P>tatos will certify. Let those ua me unac quainted with Mr<h r: wr.urs "Utnoltf In dian Bitter-," before ■‘SvlSi'T this is too much, try a bottle, • 1 ail who do so will unite in testifying that the Isn't iia mu him told. Chtroko Fniiiaa Fliltr* jc s- •-.-tea an ener gy which seems to cntmiiunicftte new life to the system, and renovate the feebly', fainting powers of nature. Its operation upon the tissues of the body dees net consist in’ Meet ing the irritability of tho living fibre, 1.. t,n impartial/ a sound and h-althy siimtfhis to trie Vital Organs. It strengthens substantially and durably the living powers of the n turns! machine: is entirely innocent and liari.ib -s : may he ad ministered w.th impunity to both t- ; <•* and all conditions of life. There is no disease of any name or na ture, w hether of young or old. male or fe male, but that it is proper to adniin : sier if, ingly it will have n good elf. ct. It is per fectly incredible to those unacquainted with the Bitters, the facility with which a heal thy action is often in the worst case testor ed to the exhausted organs of the sysikm ; with a degree of animation and desire for food, which is perfectly astonishing to all who perceive it. This Medicine purifies ihe blood, restores the tonic power ol the fibre*, and of the stomach and uigrstive or, am ; rouses the animal spirits, and substantially fortifies and reanimates the broken down constitutions of mankind. Indians are the most healthy ofihehumar race. They take an abundaec or _ physical exercise, breathe pure air, and live on siir plc dirt. When sick, they use no mineral poisons, but select roots, herbs, and plants “from the great drug tore of their Cr-u --tor." McCctcheon's “ Chkrokkh Bittcbs” is a combination of these vege'a blc substances which render it entirely in nocent to the constitution of the most de’i cate male or female. The wonderful power which these “Bitters" are known to pos sess in curing diseases, evinces ot’he world that it is without a parallel iu the history I (if medicine, and afford additional evidence that the grc.it benefactors of Ihe country are not always found in the temples of wealth 1 nor the mnzy walks of science, but among the hardy sons of .Nature, whose original, ! untutored minds, unshackled by the forms of science, are left free to pur-tie the dic tates of reason, truth aud common sense. Since the iutrodil ’den of this remedy in o the Unite 1 Stales, thousands have; been raised from beds of affliction whose lives were despaired of by their physician* and pronounced beyond the reach of medicine McCutcheoa's “Cherokee Litters” has driven the most popular medicine- of every name, like chaff before the whirlwind, from every city, town and village where i: has ! been introduced, and is d<*«tin“d ere long to ; convince the world that the red man’s rera ; edies are the white man’s choice. For dis : eases peculiar to the female s<x there is i nothing better. Old and young, male and : female, have all been greatly benefitted by ! its use. Hundreds of certificates, from all ; parts of the United Stales, which are enti ! tied to the fullest confidence, sprak of i: in 1 the most favorsble manner. These are no ■ only from persons who have been cure i t y it, but also from some of the most eminent physicians and druggist who- have success fully tested it in their practice, and volun tarily offer their testimonials in its favor For sale by all Dealers. Speciai Notice. —Merchants”and drug gists doing business at a distance front the railroad, when ordering my “Cherokee In dian Bitters,” will please si ate the depot to 1 which they have tlieir goods shipped, bv so doing, I can sometimes supply their wants much earlier. Address all orders to R. H. McCUTCHEuN’, -Marietta, Ga. Who alone is authorized to manufacture the original and genuine, oct 26—ly ill. uj