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«M)c £utl)bcrt Optical.
J. P. SAWTELL.l [H. H. JONES,
Proprietor*.
TERMS OP SCbScUIPTIONj
Three mon'li* f 1 0®
Hix n ft 00
One year W ®°
tv J‘"f*ri«bly Jo ADVAiccm.
WMIY.
If we Knew.
If we knew the woe anil beart-ocho
Waiting tor us Row n the road.
If nur lips euuld taste tbc vornwood,
If our backs could feel the 'owl,
Would we waste UmUjt in wishing •
For a time that ne'er can be 1
Would we wall In such impnlieflce
For cur ships to come trom sea ?
II We knew the baby Angers
1'ri'iM'd u|khi the window-pane
Would be cold and miff to-morrow -
Never trouble t*s again,
Would tho bright eyes of onr dafllng
Iktlch the Ifowu upon our brita !
Would tbc print of rosy lingers
Vex us ns they do now T
Ah! UicMTilth' Ice-cold Angers,
lluvv they |ssint our mewuric* luck
To the busty words nnd actions
Bircwu slum our hackwanl truck I
Ilow these little hands remind us,
As In snowy grace they lie,
Not In scatter thorns but rmea
For our reaping by and by I
Ptrange tre never prlie the music
Till the sweet-voiced bird has flown 1
Ftfcnge that we should slight tho violets
Till tho lovely flowers are gone 1
Strsnge that summer skies ami sunshlno
Never seem one-half «o fair
A when winter’s snowy pinions
tebaku their while down in tbe air I
Uiw, from which the seal of siKnco
None tail God cuu roll away,
Never blossomed in such beiuity
As Adorns the mouth to-day I
Aud sweet words Unit freight onr uictnorli
With Ws*ir beautiful perfume,
Come to us In sweetest accents
Through the portals of the tomb.
L6 ns gather up tbc siintieama
Lying all along our (Mill;
Lei us keep tho wheat and rows,
I 'oHting out the thorns and ehr.lt';
Let us And our sweetest comfort
In (lie bletwlngs of to-dnv,
Willi n patient hand removing
All Mhj briars from our wny.
« It would Hurt my Father.”
Two children, Frank and Charlie,
I'pon a Hummer day,
In a large uml pleasant garden,
Together were at iilsy.
Ueneuth a tree they lingurcil,
Whose brunches overhead
Were thickly hung with cherries,
bo tempting, ripe and rod.
Wald Frank, looking upward,
•• How nice that fruit must bet
Let us gather Home mid taste it--
There's no one neat to we."
" No, no,” his playmate answered
In u tirui, yet gentle. loan.
For you know my fattier jold us
To envy the Indt aloac."
“ Rut your father ennnot two us |
Am) oven if he knew,
IJo is tar too kind to hurt you,
bo let us pluck a Iviv."
fltlt Chm lie by t(:is reasoning
Could not be turned nslAi;
•• I Unow ho would not hurt me,'’
lie Instantly replied.
!• Iliit it would hurt my falbcr,
If l hIhmiH disobey ;
1 do not wish to grieve him,
So, Frankie, omno away.”
Then togeilu-r from temptation
The lilll'i children (ltd,
Ami left un'oucbcd the cherrle.,
8o luHckms, rlpo and red-
True love and true obedience .
By Charlie were displayed.
Let his behavior, children,
Ik* y our exannilo made.
Oh, may you coon nnneiulsr
The moral of my song,
Nor hurt your pan-ills' feelings
ily doing whul is wrong.
H'tnmng ffifdt.
No One Like a Mother.—A poor old
woman lay upon her nick bed in a close,
uncomfortable room, with a daughter
nnd little grandchild to take care of her.
lint whom do you think thw ngod wo
man called for nil the time, and longed
to have come and nurse her ?
It was "inothor’—her own mother.
“Oil, there's nobody Jibe mother to
tako cure of you when you ore sick,”
hIic said.
A penron preset uskod how long her
mother 11ad been dead,
“About fifty years, I reckon,” she un
sworn!.
1>., y • ill lliitik you will remember
your mother'll loving care for fifty years?
No doubt you will, if God spare* your
life. You may think but little of it now,
but you will think a great dunk of it
then. This woman's children had
grown up about Tier, but her heart
readied back over all that waste of
years to tho time when she was n child
at her mother's side.
It was for “mother,” “mother,” that
our poor boys in tent, and hospital, call
ed and prayed, when sick and wounded,
they Wcro laid down to die.
Oh, there is nobody like a mother in
love ffnd caro for us. What return are
you making her every day for all she
does you ? D.» your feet run willingly
to do her bidding os soon as it is known?
Do yon try to save her troublo, and
lighten nil her burdens ? Ob, nothing in
this world can do it so effectually as to
know that her children aro growing up
good, and nob'o, and useful in the world.
Girls.—There arc two kinds of girls.
One is tho kind that appears best
abroad—the girls that aro good for par
ties, rides, visits, balls, etc , and whose
chief delight is in such things. Tho
other is tho kind that appears best at
homo—tbe girls that aro cheerful and
u’cful in the dining room, sick room,
and ul! tho precincts at home. They
differ widely ia character. Ono is often
a torment at homo, tho other a blessing
Qua is a moth, consuming everything
about her ; the other is a sunbeam, in-
»p iring light and gludncs* on all around
h cr pathway. The right education will
inodily both a little, and thus unite the
good qualities of both io one.
THE ( ITHBERT APPEAL.
Vol. I.
Culhbert, Georgia, Friday, July Q6 S 1867.
No. 39.
Sent by Express.
Marian ltnrlnu was alutio In the
world—her mother just buried
Shu was a beautiful brown baited
girl, with soft, shy eyes of n Velvet
gray, and rosy lins compressed to n
firmness Tar beyond her years. For af
ter all, she was only seventeen, and so
Deacon Gray, was telling her, as he snt
by tho fire spreading his huge hands
over tho tardy blaze and asked :
‘Hut what aro you going to do to
'urn your bread nnd butter ?’
'I don't know—Mamma had an uncle
in Now York who -’
‘Yes, yes—Fro hoarn tel! nbout him.
He was mad ’cause your mother did
not marry just to suit him, wasn’t he V
Marian was silent. Deacon Gray
waited a few minutes, hoping she would
admit him into her secret meditations ;
but she did not, and the Deacon went
home to tell his wife that 'that Ilnr'nn
girl was the quocrcst creature ho had
over come across.'
In the meantime Marian was packing
her few scanty things into a little enrpot
bag, by the weird flickering light of the
dying wood fire.'
'I will go to Now York,’ she said to
hersolf, setting her pearly teeth firmly
together.
‘My mother’s unde shall hear her
cause pleaded through my own lips.—
Oh, I wish my heart would not bent so
wildly I I nn, no longer meek Minnie
Harlan; I am an orphan all alone in the
world who must fight life's battles with
her own single hands.’
Lower Broadway at seven o’clock, P.
M. What a Babel of crashing wheels,
hurrying hunuinity and conglomerate
noise it was. Minnie Harlan snt in tho
corner of an express office Under tho
flare of gas lights, surrounded by boxes
and wondering whether tho people ever
wont crazy in thin perpetual din and tu
mult. Her dress was plain—gray pop
lin, with a shabby, old fashioned little
straw bonnet tioil with black ribbons,
and a blue veil, while her article of bug-
gnge, tho enrpot bag, lay on her lap.—
.She had sat there almost two hours, nnd
was Very, very tirod.
'Poor little thing,’ thought the dark-
haired youngest clerk nearest her, who
inhabited n sort of wire cage under a
circle of gas lights.
'Mr. Evans,’
The dark-haired clerk emerged from
his cage with his pen behind his oar in
oliedience to the beckoning of hia supe
rior.
‘I huve noticed that young woman
sitting here for some* time—bow canto
•lie her ?’
'Expressed on, sir, from Millington,
Iowa,
As though Xlionie Harlan was a box
or paper parcel.
•Who lor?’
'Consigned to Walter Harrington,
Esq.'
•And why 1ms nho not been sent for?'
‘1 sent up Mr. Harrington's address
to notify him some lime ago. 1 expect
no answer every moment.’
‘Very odd,’ suid the gray haired gen
tleman.
•Yes, sir, rnthor.'
Sumo three quarters of an hour after
ward, Frank Evans came to tho girl's
side w ith on indescribable pity in his ha
zel eyes.
'Miss Harlan, wo bnvo sent to Mr.
Harrington’s residence—'
Minnie looked with a feverish rod up
on her cheeks, and her hands claspod
tightly on the bundle of her faded car
pet bog.
'—And wc regret to inform you that
he sailed for Europe at twelve o'clock
this day.’
A sudden blur came over her eyes—
she trembled like u lenf. In all her cal
culations, she made no allowances for
nn exigency like this. ‘Can we do any
thing further for you ?' be naked.
'Nothing—no one enu do anything
now/
Frank Evans Imd been turning away,
but something in the piteous tunes of
her voice appealed to every manly in
stinct within him.
‘Shall I send you to any other of your
friends ?'
‘I have no friends.'
‘Perhaps I can huve your things sent
to some hotel ?’
Minnie opened the little leathern
purse nnd showed him two ten cent
pieces, with a smile that was almost a
tear. • |
‘That is all the money I have ia tho (
world/
So young, bo beautiful and so deso
late ! Frank Evans had been in New
York oil his life, but he had never inut
with an cxuct parallel case to this. Hu
bit the end of his pen in dire perplexity.
‘But what in the world are you going
to do V
‘I don’t know, sir. Isn’t there a
workhouse or Bomo such place I could
go to, until I could find something to
do ?’
‘Hardly/ Frank Evans ooold scarce
ly help smiling ut poor Minnie's simplic
ity.
‘They aro putting out the lights and
preparing to close the office/ starting to
her feet, ‘I must go somewhere. 1
‘Mine Harlan,'said Frank quietly,‘my
homo is a very jtoor one—I am only a
five hundred dollar clerk—but I am sure
roy mother will receive you under her
roof for n day or two, if you can trust
me/
'Trust you ?’ Minnie looked nt ldtn
through violet eyes obscured in team.
'Ob, sir, 1 should he so thankful.’
‘Ilow late you are Fruuk. Here give
mo your overcoat—it is powdered with
suoiv—'
But Frank interrupted his bustling
cherry cheeked mother, as she stood oft
tip too to tako off' Ills outer wrappings.
‘Hush, mother, there’s n young lady
down stairs/
•A young Indy, Frank ?'
Yes, mother; expressed on from Iowa
to old Harrington, the rich merchant,
and she is entirely alone. Mother, she
looks liko poor Bluuch, and I
knew you wouldn’t rcfitso Ijer a corner
here until she could fiud something to
do.’
Mrs. Evans went to the door nnd call
od cheerily out:
'Como up stairs, my doar, vou’ro wel
come ns flowers in May. Frank, you
did quite right.'
Tho days and weeks passed on, and
still Minnie Harlan remained an inmate
of Mrs. Evans' humble dwelling. ‘It
seems juntas though six; had taken our
dead Blanco’s place,’ said tho cozy little
widow, ‘and she is so useful nbout tho
house. 1 don’t know how I managed
without her.'
‘Now, Minnie you aro not in onrneat
about leaving us to morrow ?’
'I must, dear Mrs. Evans. Only
think, 1 have been here two mouths to
morrow ; nnd the situation ns govern-
ness is very advantageous.’
‘Very well; 1 shall tell Frank bow
vory obstinate you are/
•What secret is it that is to bo so re
ligiously kept?' uskod Mr. Frank Evans
cooly walking in, in the midst of the dis
cussion with his dark hair tossed nbout
by the wind and his hazel brown eyes
speaking nrchly.
'Secret I’ repeated Mrs. Evans, ener
getically wiping her dim-spectacle glas
ses. 'Why, Miunio is determined to
lenvo us to morrow.’
'Minnie I'
'I must Frank, I linvo no right lurth-
cr to trespass on your kimlnoHS.'
‘No right, eh ? Minnie do you know
that tho houso has boon a ditfurent one
since you e.amu into it ? Do you suppose
wo want to lose our little sunbeam.
Minnie smilled sadly, but her band
felt very cold and passive in Trunk's
graso.
'You'll stay, Minnie ?'
'No/ She shook Iter head determin
edly.
Then you must bo made to stay,’ said
Flunk. 'I'vo missed something ofgroat
value lately, uud I her- by arrest yuu on
suspicion us the thief I'
'Missed something I' Minnio rono
turned red nnd white. 'Oh, Frank you
never can suspect me 1'
‘But 1 do suspect you. ‘In fact I am
quite sure the article is in your posses
sion/
'Tho article V
'My heart, Miss Minnie I Now look
here; I loveyou .Minnie Harlan, and I
will bo n good and true husband to you.
Stay and be my little wife I 1
•So, Minnie Harlan, instead of going
out ns a governess, according to the
programme, married the dark-haired
clerk in Ellison’s Express office.
They were quietly uiarritd, early in
the morning, and Frank took Minnie
homo to liis mother, uml then went
calmly nbout his business in the wire-
cage, under the circlet of gus light.
'Evans I’
‘Yes, sir.’
Frank, with his pen behind his oar ns
of yore, quietly obeyed the behest of tho
gray-heuued official.
‘Do you remember tho young woman
who was expressed on from Millington,
Iowa, two months since?’
‘Yes, sir, I roinombcr her/
A tall, silver bulled gentleman here
interposes with eager quickness s
Where is she ? I am her uncle, Wal
ter Harrington. I have just returned
from Parts when the nows of her arri
val reached inu I I want her; she is tho
only living relative left mo 1’
Ah I but sir,’ said Frank, ‘you can’t
have her.’
‘Can’t Imvo her 1 What do you moan?
Has anything hnppcned ?’
Yes, air, something has happened ;
From tho Newuan lh-rald.
Letter From llritzil.
tla donates-—Productiont—A a intuit—
Mode of Lift—Habitt.
Bais-dripoi:, Ga., June, 1867.
Mr. C. T. Cunningham :
Your lottor of the 18th Inat, asking
for some information in regard to Bra
zil, came to hand somo six weeks ago,
I was in Brazil some six weeks, atld in
that timo I travelled somo two hundred
miles in tho interior, above Onntos.
There aro three distinct climates io
Brazil. That of the Amazon valley ia
altogether tropical, except that there
aro no dry nnd rainy soaaons; the nights
arc cloudless, but in the morning clouds
accumulate, and continue till tho after
noon, when torrents of rain prevail for
two hours mid all is clear again. Tho
climate of the interior, and also of Went
Brazil, is more varied—tho heat in tho
day sqpson being excessivo, while frosty
nights aro of frequent occnrronco. Of
tho climuto of tho Southern and south
western parts I shall give a more min
ute description, ns districts infinitely
more worthy of attention. These re
gions aro blowod with tho most gonial
climate in tho world. In tho summer
months of December, January and Feb-
rum y, the temperature corresponds with
that of Alubuma in tho months of June,
July and August, only the heat is not
so oppressive on account of tho sea
bt-uozo near tho const nnd tho regular
highland winds, which blow in the up
per count ties over the pluteau. Only
when tho winds blow from tho north
west, which in the summer seldom oc
curs, is the heat oppressive. Tho win
ter and u portion of the spring and fall
are so delightfully tempered, so adnp-
led to the comforts of white men, that
mere existence becomes a luxury. Tho
days then somuwliut resemble our Indi
an summer, only that tliu air is much
softer und tho trees nnd tho shrubs ull
retain their green foliage during the
your. The provinces comprised in
those salubrious nnd pleusnnt districts
are Rio ilo Janeiro, Banto l’nulo, Sunti
Catarina, and Banto 1’cdro do Sul, Rio
lies rather too much northward, and linn
a somewhat warmer climate ; but this
delightful olimute ia eminently onjoyod
by tho tlireo lust named provinces. All
European vegetables grow most luxttii
an ly, and the city markets are at all son-
sons well supplied with peas, beans, ns
phrugus, onuli-flowors, cubbugo, sweet
potatoes, eto. No country produces
such u variety of tropical, and ut tho
same time European fiuits, Tho-most
important of these arc the pluintuin nnd
bunann. This fruit is not like most oth
er fruits, used merely us an occasional
luxury, but rnthor as an established ar
ticle of subsistence Being long and
extensively cultivated, it has diverged
into numorous varieties, tho fruit of
which differs materially in size, flavor
nnd color. That of some is not above
two or tlireo inches long, wliilu that of
others Is not tnuuh short of a foot; some
sorts aro sweet and of n flavor not un
like nor inferior to that of a good mid-
low pear. They ere used either fresh
nr dried in the sun, in which latter state
they aro occasionally ground into meal,
and mado into bread. Tho sweeter
sort«Mire frequently pressed and driod
as figs aro in Europe, nnd whilo they
are not inferior to the Inst mentioned
fruits, they nro infinitely cheaper.
Tho piae apple nttnins the size of a
man’s head, and is perhaps the moat lu-
cions fruit produced there. Of oranges
there are different species; they are not
of the degenerate kind generally sold
and peddled out in our country, but
have a rich, sweet juice, which, when
the fruit is fully ripe, resembles boooy
more than anything else. The grape
comes to the highest perfection in tno
cultivated as well as tho wild state.—
There nro localities in Santo Patflb
where the wild grupo is extremely ubun-
dnnt. Tbe vines will climb up the for
est trees, and running from trunk to
Mia. linrlan «<u murriod to'mo this trunk,,form qraculul fiatoon., and tflen
morning.’
Wultcr Harrington started.
'Take tno to her,’ he said hoarsely.
hand the suplings under the weight of
their clusters. These wild grapes, I
Imvo no doubt would muke excellent
Iomi’t'bo^pJiTtid’nmn'mToily rein-1 “ l,u>y b“ v, “ ' w “ et tbin
tire for inch a more whim.’ ■ I »". »“ d ", 8 ""> 11 P ul P; *PP'« “ re . 001
H wonder if lie culia the merringo .cr- 1 S™» " , lll “ •““'7. bul “ r »
vico nnd wedding ring inure whinin' 'mpoitcd from Euro|>o. Tho liruzilmnn
thought lionet Frank ; but ho obeyed • bl;ln »» (front n Tnrety on we do
in silence i P' nea PP‘ M - T lie poach tree nourishes
‘Minnie,' suid the old man, in Hotter- i ■<'" fl ult « inferior to the
ing accent.,‘yon will como to me and 'Joril' t morienu poach. 1 ho people of
be the daughter of my old ago l I nm »«• !"•«*» monkey,, and eeteeni
rich, Minnie, and you are ull I have in monkey pi.in great luxury | but 1
the world ’ I 8t> PP°® 0 an American would hardly
But Minnie ebilu bar bund through "!* k » an attempt to conquer Ida proju-
her husband 1 , arm. | di <* »*»'”« , lb » Brazlll.i, dint,an long
'Bearcat unde, ho was kind to mo: ““Id bo procured plenty of
when I was mi nt doaolato and alone, I, other good meet, mure familiar to hil
cannot leave my liuebulld. Undo Wul- [’"Into. 1 ut Iherii n unotlior dleh pecul
iar I love him 1’ mr P* Brant, which the lor.ignor would
‘Then you must both como and bo
my children,’said lie doggedly. ‘And
you must como now, for tho big houso
is as lonely ns a tomb.'
Frank Evans is no longer an express
clerk, and pretty Minnie moves in vel
vet nnd diamonds; ^but they are quite
as happy »» they wore in tho old days,
nnd that is saying enough. Uncle Wal
ter Harrington grows older and feebler
every day, nnd his two children aro the
sunshine of his declining life.
DP>„ A Paris correspondent estimates
the number of visitors at that city at
600 OOtFau I says they spend $1,000,000
a duy ou an average.
consider still more outlandish and dis
gusting, bul to which, upon trial, tho
greatest epicure could not object. This
is furnished by tho ‘ Lugarto," animal
two or three fuct long, from fifteen to
twonty pounds in weight, und of tho
sliupo of our common lizard. The meat
is of a pure wliito, well flavored and ten
der. There are fivo or six varieties of
pheasants, tho lurgcst weighing os much
us eighteen pounds, all oxoellont gumo
birds. Tho sea along tho coast furnish-
oa an abundance of fish and oysters,
and tho coves und inlets any amount of i
crnwli-h (ernmaroa) Tho oysters aro
smoker than tbo North American oys- j
tera Tho Brazilians call the large fish
“pescado,” and the smaller ones “poi'
SCO.”
Of domcRlio animals the tnttst useful
is tho mule. This ntmitul hot nlono
supplios there tho want of mil rends nnd
wugons, in bringing most of tho produce
Id innfkuti bill Is more generally usod
an u saddle nnlinul than the horao.—
Mules nro worth from ono bundled to
ono hundred nnd fifty dollars in gold.
No fine horses nro raised in Brazil.—
Some fine animals nro im)K)rted Irom
tho Capo of Good Hope, nnd other
parts. Tito cow about tho same sizo as
Ih other countries. How much milk
they give in comparison to our cows I
cannot any; still all tho butter con
sumed in tho country is imported from
Portugal and Knglund. Butter is sub
ject to an importation tax of 13 cts. per
pound, nnd is retailed at from 00 to 76
cents per pound in Rio do Janeiro. Beef
of good quality ia sold in tho cities nt
from six to ten cents por pound. Tur
keys nnd chickens aro raised in great
numbers; they form an im|torlatit item'
of Brazilian diot. Of snakes, bugs, in
sects, etc., tho country furnishes its
share. A real plague of tho country is
tho bnrntn, a speoics of cockroach. They
nrevoiy destructive to tho timber of
houses, and where tho houses nro old
nnd neglected they will soon rodtiootho
posts und fullers to mere shell*, ontitig
all tho wood inside. Bushels of this
bug might bo collected out of such old
houses. Phosphorus, when soon enough
employod, will cause them to desert
their liuunts, and put a stop to llioir
depredations. There nro also mosqui
toes nnd sandflies, but they are confined
to tho const. The yellow fever visits
ovury two or throo years the cities on
the boo coast, where it makes consider
able havoc among the whites and blacks.
In tho rare cases of sickness there is ul
ways somo old woman nonr, who,
with tho aid of herbs and roots, consid
ers herself equal to tho omorgency. If
all fuil—roots, herbs nnd old woman,
they resort to crosses and holy water;
and if they also provo unavailing, it iH
manifest that God wills the patient
should die. Even in tho cities the more
ignorant people will cause the priests
to make crossos over their doors, to
keep tho yellow fever onto! their hoifso.
Tho principal bovetngois coffee, which
by some process I um unacquainted
with, is made almost ns thick us syrup.
Of this quaint vssenco of coffee, ns it
may be called, one fourth is added to
three parts of boiling cream ; and when
this iH well sugared you linvo a rich
beverage that will certainly gratify your
pulntc. In tho publio codec houses cof
fee is taken in very small cups, without
cream, and well sugared. In spite of
tho warm climate, port wino, and other
heavy wines are preferred to claret, and
tho quantities consumed of the former
muon exceed those of the luttur.
Tho monl hours in Brazil nro not tho
snmo as ours. At sunriso tho servants
will bring to your bod, on a tray, u bowl
of choooluto, coffeo with cream, or somo
dish made of oggs, milk, sugar and spico.
This refreshment tho Brazilian tnkes in
lied, perhaps nn hour before ho dresses.
The breakfast is served up nt 10 a. m.
and dinner nt 4 p. in., and nt 8 p. rn. tea
is taken, with perhaps a few si ices of
enko. In the cities tho tabic is well
supplied with fish and crawfish, besides
beef and fowls, ltico is n never failing
dish on the dinner ns well ns breakfast
tublo. An Irishman to whonf enrneseo-
ca (jerked beef) nnd farina (tnnndiocu
monl) was served out complained thul
tho wretches intondod to feed him on
solo leather and sawdust. This mnndio-
ca moul resembles indeed, sawdust very
much, nnd although a dish which is nev
er wanting on tho table of the rich or
poor, I never learned to liko it. Other
cheap provision! nro beans and pork.
The climate of Brazil is highly favor
able to the cultivation of coffee, the trees
ridding nearly double those of tho West
ndics. The plant is on evergreen, from
six to twelve feet high, and the stem ia
ton, twelvo and fifteen inches ia circum
ference. \jtyien ft is full grown it much
resembles in figure on apple treo of eight
or nine years standing. The lower
branches ordinarily bond when tho tree
begins to grow old, and extend them-
selves into a round form, somewhat like
an umbrella ; und the wood is so very
limbor and pliable that tho cuds of thu
longest brunchos may bo boat down
within two or three feet of tho ground. It
continues green all tho yenr, and the
tree Is never without leaves, which are
rangod almost opposite on each side of
the uough, and at a distance from each
other. Nothing is more singular in its
kind than its productions; for ulrnost in
any season of tho year bIo*soms and
green and ripe fruit muy be seen on tho
same troo nt the same tune. When tho
blossom fulls, there remains in its place,
or rather springs from each blossom, n
small fruit, greon nt first, but which ho
comes red us it ripens, and is not unlike
n largo cherry, anil is very good to ont.
Under the flesh of tho cherry, instead of
tho stone, is found tho bean or berry
wc coll coffee, wrapped round in a tbin,
fino skin. The borry is then vory soft,
and of n disngroonbln tasto ; but ns tho
cherry ripens the borry in the inside
;rows harder, nnd tho dried up fruit,
icing the flesh, or pulp of it, w hich was
before eatable, becomes n shell or pod
of u doep brown color. The berry is
now solid, uud of a cloar, transparent
greon. Each shell contains one borry,
which splits into two equal parts. The
coflcc treo is most productive on hills
und slopes where its root ii almost al
ways dry mid its head frequently wa
tered with gentle showers. The plants
nro Inserted at distances of six or eight
feet asunder and in holes from twelve to
eighteen inches deep. If left to them
selves they would rtao to the height of
sixlcon or eighteen foot; but In exten-
sivo plantations the trees are topped
and stunted to about fivo feet, for the
convenience of having the fruit within
reach of tho gatherer. They begin to
yield fruit the third yonr. By tho fifth,
sixth or soventh yenr, acoordmg to tho
nature of tho soil, they ore uMtnll bosr-
ing r and coutiuuo for upward of twenty
years.
If you should tnnko up your mind to
visit Bruzil, I would recommend you to
Mr. Bonnett, an intelligent Englishman,
who has erected a boarding houso nbout
eight railoa from Rio, (tho placo called
Tyi'oaA It ia not advisable to carry
much unggnge; novelnl articles will
prove nonrly worthless, such ns heavy
clothing for instance ; nnd many goods
can bo bought ns cheap iu that country
ns in tho Unitod States.
I visited tho American settlement,
about forty miles from Cntnpcnus, nnd
found a great many Americans. They
wcro busy doing nothing, but wcro do
tormined to tnnko the host of their con
dition, blessed ns t..ey nre with the pos*
session of land that tho world cannot
beat. Those that remain there will
have to contend with nil tltoso troubles
incident to the frontier life; remoteness
from market, with imperfect roads nnd
no vehicles for transportation of sup
plies, pack-mules being mostly used. I
only saw ono plantation in tho Ameri
can settlement proporly cultivated, and
that belonged to Mr. If. Hall, of Colum
bus, nnd Mr. Daniels, of Alabama.—
They had a good crop; tho cotton, 1
was told by Air. Daniels, would produce
a bale and a half to tho acre.
There is no doubt about tho soil and
climate suiting tho pooplo of tho Bottlh,
The free negroes hnvo tho sutno politi
cal rights ns whites; then tho negro
custom house nnd polico officers uro
very arrogant nnd supercilious ; whilo
the whites uro immoral, licentious,
shameless, nnd wofully corrupt; having
no more respect for a woman titan for
any female animal of a lower order, to
nn extravagant appreciation.
1 do not think it ia the country for
the American people, and 1 for one, Imvo
got Well of the Brazil fever, and am
purfecily satisfied to remain In tno United
States, where
"livery prospect pWw*,
Anil only mail Is vijo."
1 oura, truly, W. G. D. TuNt)*,
fcljc £ull)bcit 'TVppcal.
HATKU OF ADYKRTIHf.VO -.
One dollar persc|nsre of fen titles Ittr tbo first Ih’
nerlion, nnd Hevenly flvfl Cents per for each
*ubfoqm>nl Insertion, not exceeding three.
Oneetfimre three months.,,. t ft On
One equnre one year 90 00
Fmfrlh of n column six months so oo
UnlfcoHimn six months To 00
Ono column six months 100 0<i
For the Glrln—Ilow to get n
II unbuild.
From nn exoollont communication
published in thoColumbiia (Mississippi)
Index of Juno 8, wo copy tho folloing
“expressly for the girls :
Being old nnd therefore allowed licetue
for teuaing tho girls on mntrimoninl
subject*, I consult them about their fu
ture prospects ofton, nnd futd that opin
ion obtains with them, that tho young
men wore never so slow in proposing ns
in these days; which, wo must admit,
gives them a good, not to say, all power
ful reason for not taking a husband.—
Now, young Indies, tho whole secret
with nine tenths of you, of not being
able to get off your parents’ hands, ia
simply this; you don’t know how to
work. You can’t tnako a pair of brooch
es. You can’t toll, for tho lifo of you,
tho difference between bran nnd aborts or
which cow givoa tho buttermilk. Tho
young men generally enrae out of tho
war “with the skin of their tooth,” with
no fortuno, I might spy, but their ward
robes of gray and their canteens, and to
marry with them now, rest assured, re
lates more to muking a living with tho
assistance of a loving, industrious help
mate, than indulging in opera music,
moonshine and poetry. Do you know
what they say of ono of your butterfly
young Indies who has held them in the
pallor engaged by the hour lislaoiog to
"elegant nothing?” Ninoteon times
out of twenty, is this—“Well, she is all
right for an evening’s entertainment, but
■he will not mako a good wife ?”
There is no possible objection to,
tho accomplishments of music, painting
and tho like, as such, but the idea is to
bo ublo to sot tlieao parlor amusoments
aside for tho period when tho stern du
ties of married lifo call for your practi
cal knowledge. Show tho young men
that you can do your part of uoublo
business ; that you can cook & triad's
victual* on a pinch ; that you can sweep
up, and dust, and darn old stockings,
and save a penny toward nn accumu
lated pound; that you will not bo n,
dead oxpenso to him through lifo.—
Bclivo me, young frionda, as many truo
heroic, womanly hearts bent over house
hold duties an flutter bcuoath tho soft
light of u parlor chnmlclior. Your kisa
is just i h aweot, your smiles iust ns
bright, your heart as happy ana tender
after u day’s oxerliou in a sphere worthy
of truo womauhood, as In places of dis
sipation, frippery un<i silly ntnusemont.
Have an ambition to do your part in
life; cultivate industrial habits, and lot
tho parlor accomplishments go with tho
higher accomplishments I liuvo roughly
cnurneruled It Is astonishing how soon
a young lady is found ont nnd appreci
ated. It is heenuso shu is such a rare
exception to tho genora! rule.
"Pwlopbna-”—An exchange says
this werd signifies, in its common use,
‘'friendship’s forfeit ” It is a Greek
and Latin compound, and literally inter
preted, signifies ; ‘T love thu penalty.”
HUMOROUS.
Wlmt trade irf a clergyman aEa \y<Jd j
ding? A join'-hor.
A henpecked htisbmidsnys tlmtffin-
sfencf nf himself artd wife hoing one,
they nro ten j tor slio is 1 and to) itt 0.
An enfranchised otfizert mot a gentle
man tho other dny and said : “Boss kitf
you tell tnc wlmr do cullord bIuvcb rlg-
iBter hero ?’’
One matr asked another why hi*
board was brown ottd bin hair wliito ?
“Because,Bnid ho, “ono f« twenty
years younger than tho other.”
A BtTUxLRTsffc Ridplb.—Why was
Evo tho firt-i Ritunfistic convort ? fte
cftuso she began by being ofa IWgolita'r
and ondod by taking to vesetments.
Prentice says : ‘Trn a pity that the
elections in the South cannot take filfkco
nt this time, for nlfhoffgfr tho negroes
nro strong now, they wi ft be strong-'
or in tho dog days,
There f s always tmo consolation, Vvfiof'
over ottr misfortttfto, it might bo worsrf.
Mere lifo hanging on a thread, it would
bo a comfort to know it wns not hang
ing on a ropo.
An indiHdrfttf who fras Bonf fo jail fbf
marrying two wtvos, cSensed himsmby
saying that when ho hail one they ftinghl
him, but when ho had two they fought
each otlior.
“Snftv, nro yon one of the Bottfficm
-hivnlry?^ _
“No, mnKsn. I's ono oh do Sonflneflt
shovelry. 1 shoveled dirt nt tho Dutch
Gap Cunul." , , ;
Tho editor of the Charlottesville fYa.)
Chronicle says htrehpt iff a ttmttt <bitft
a farmer tho other night, who kept (theft
a grunting thnrt he asked Lifti whether
ho had tho tootlipche. “No,” ho said,
'but ho was afraid thowbeut would rrtst/
"Whirl brought you to prison, iffy col
ored friend ?”
“Two cuustablos, sah."
Yes, but I mean, hud intQinporpjico
anything to do with It ?’’
“Yes, sah; doy was bole of era (frank.’
“I say, Sambo,- does you know w)iat
makes do corn grow so fast .when you
put tho mumiro on it ?”. “.Ko, X don’t#
hardly.” ’‘Now# I f Iljust tcllyo. Wliun
do corn-ffMtfll to flnjeH do Minnaro, it
don't like do funici'y, and barrios out
of tho ground.” , . ; S„ ,
“My son,” said tho elder Bpcigglo* to'
Sprirggles junior, thinking to onlighten
tho boy on tho propagation of fho hen
spocics—*’ffiy son, do yofl know that
cliickons como out of eggs f’ “Do they,”
Baid Bprigglos junior# as ho licked hm
plato; “1 thought oggH caino out of
chickens.” Thus ended tho first Won.
A good story is told of an old Virgin
ia plnntor who was missing corn from
his orlb. One night ho told n colored
boy to set r. trap in tho crib. Tho next
morning tho boy como runlng to tho
bouse, oxcluining : “Bross God, Mobsh,
if there inn’ a wliito follah out there at
tho corn crib, shaking hands wid dat
steel trap.”
Grttino an Invitation.—Tho Rutr. Mf,
, had traveled far to preach to ti
congregation nl — After the ser
mon, ho wnitod very patiently, oxpoct'
ing somo ono of tho brethren to invite
hitn bomo to dinner. In this, he was
disappointed. Ono after another depart
ed, until tho houso wns almost nn emp
ty as tho minister’s stomach. Summon
ing resolution, howovor, lie walked tip
to an olderly looking gentleman, ami
gravely said:
“Will you go home to dinner With
tno to-day, brothor f’
“ Whore do you live?’*
“ About twenty miles from this# eir.”
“ No,” said tho man. coloring# " but
you must g® with mo.”
“ Thank you—I will, cheerfully.”
After that time, the minister wns rnJ
more troubled about his dinner.
Aon ok Maboxby.—We find aft item
taken from a Glasgow paper, stating
that 8t. John's Lodge No. :J. of that
city, has recently celebrated tho 810th
anniversary of tnoir existence, it having
been croutod by • chnitur from King
Muloolm in 1067. Wo should liko t<*
see tho muster roll of that lodge, begin
ning more than eight hundred years
ago, and running along with tho ages
to the present timo. What Kings and
Kingdoms have rison and fuile^ since
tho gavel was fyst sounded in its east.
Ilow tho world bus changed, nnd what
progress has been tnndo in science and
art. Eight hundred yeftra In tho lifo-
timo of a lodge I
8&T That is a bad religion, which
makes us liato tho religion of other poo
plo. That is a bad setit of Christians
which encourages its mombort to think
contemptuous^ of all other sects of
Christians.
BGT A bridal dress ia 1'uiis cost 12,-
000 francs. It wnH whltd silk, scpllop
ed, bordered, srtttnud, flounced, laced,
trimmed With puurlu, and made with u
poplutp.
IgU'Equestrianistfl’ is tho new name
for hurst) stealing in Minnesota.
*@r*Ix»uis Napoleon paid $2,000 fora
puir of pistols in tho Exposition.
fi®»Tho Queon of Spain’s daughter is
said to he the hoinliust gi.l i t Europe.