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onvitr i /soils ’ vmJ?' wm- VOLUME 6. ROME, GA.. THURSDAY HOMING, MAY 8, 1851 THE ROME COURIER It) PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY A. BI. EDDLEiUAS. - Two Dot.i.Ans per nnnum, II paid t'n advance; Two Dollar. niitl Fifty Cent, If pnid wltldn «lx months | or Thrco Dollnrs at tlio end of the year, nates of Advertising. Leoal AdvbutISSmests will ho Inserted with strict attention to tlm requirements of the law, the following rates i Four Months Notice, - - • B-l 60. Notloe to Debtors and Creditors, ■ 3 85 Sale ol Personal Property, by Excen- ) 3 „« tors, Administrators, dec. ) Sales of Lnnd or Negroes, 00 days, > s DO per squure, j Letter, of Citation, ... 2 73 Motive for Letters of Dismission, • 4 50 Candidates announcing their names, will be charged $3 00, which will bo required in ndvunco. Husbands advertising tholr wives, will bo chnrged $3 00, w|iloh must always be paid in ndvunce. All other advertisements will bo insortud at One Dollar per square, of twelvo lines or less, for the first, and Fifty Cents, for cncli subsequent inser t|on, Ljberiil deductions will be made in favor of those who advertise by the vunr. ROME COURIER. 13, W. ROSS, DENTIST, Rome, Georgia Office over N. J. Ombcrg’s Clothing Store. January 16,1851. FAN CIS M. ALLEN, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Dealer in Staple and Fancy DRY GOODS AND GROCDRIES. Receives tiew goods every week. «£$ Rome, Ga., January 9, 1851. LIN & BRANTLY. WAR-HJ'JSF, COMMISSION’S: PRODUCE MERCHANTS, Atlanta, Ga. ^Liberal advances made on any article 1 in Store. Nov. 28,1850. ly A. ». KINO »V CO. COTTO V-GINMANIJFACTURERS Rome, Georgia, Mny 0. 1850. ALGXASDEn A TRAMmELL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, SOME, GA. Nov. 28. 1850. ly. NONAS UAODENAN. }• { OHASUtS V. HAMILTON HAMILTON Si IIADK3IAN. Factors & Co:n'ttissloii Merchants, SAVANNAH, QEORQIA Oot.'3, 1850, 1 12in IIAULES r HAMILTON. 1 < THOMAS HARDEM IIAHDBSIAN Ai IIAMII.TON, Warehouse & Commission Merchants, MACON, GEORGIA. ot 3, 1S50. I 12m. PATTON St PATTON, attorneys at law, Rome, Geoigia. ILL Prsotlco in nil the Counties of the Chen !6 Circuit 48 Sept. 5, 1850. A. X. TATtON. J. V. TATTON. W.P. TVILKINS. ATTORNEY AT LAW, p, Rome, Georgia. til TO k.*’ 1 Hon. n F. PORTER, CHARLESTON, S. 0 , Or AT CAVE STRING, GO. . ,Hon W. II. UNDEUWOOO, BOMK. OA. Hon. WILLIAM EXZARD, DECATUR, OA. July IS, 1850. 41 Iy G. W. IIEAL L, JDRAPER AND TAILOR, ?’■' ‘ Broad Street Rome, Ga. 1 ”-October 10, 1850. I ; J. ». DICKEItSOIl, DRUGGIST—ROME, GEORGIA. r i .’ WHOLESALE AtfD RETAIL PKALKR IN - uauas, MEDICINES, PAINTS, OILS, DYE- feu>.V STUFFS,.PERFUMERY, «fcc. i, n .October 10, 1850, Broad Street. COULTER & COLLIER. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ..13,1 Rome, Georgia. poicfifis HOTEL, ROME, GEORGIA. MRS. MARY CHOICE ncrly of Dnldoncgn, 1ms taken charge of the HO TEL, and mnde extensive preparations' rtliecomfort and convonlenco of those who mny her With a call. From her long experience, nfldsntly hbpes to give onrlro satisfaction to int Visitors and Permanent Boarders, cmborS, 1830. 48 12m Persons, will bo carried lo and from pot to the Hotel, free of charge. EXCHANGE HOTEL, Rome, Georgin, plAMES S. GRIFFIN, •PbRMEnLV OP AUOUSTA. VING sold out my entire InlercBt in the EX- IHANGE HOTEL in this place lo Mr. James jlms;! toko pleasure in lecommcnding the for- t,not turpassedby nny House in the City. Wri . A. E. REEVES, lee. 26,1850. KWOflD& J. W. II, UNDERWOOD. LL PRAC'l ICE LAW unties'of the Cherokee Circuit, m ■J. They will both personally nltend all J^J. \V, ll, UNDERWOOD will attend , of Jackson and Habersham counties of the oil. Both will attend tbo sessions of the . 30UUT at CaEuvilre'nntl Gainesville f^ntnisted to them will-he promptly and Mn. Fillmore and his Administration —We presume that the question of approval or disapproval of the course of President Fillmore and his Cabinet, during tho time tile administration of tho General Govern menf has been in his hands, will enter promi nently into the canvnss for members of Con gress that is fast approaching. It is true that there has never been an administration since the lime ofVVnshington that has elicit, cd from all parlies such general expressions of approval, nor ono against which there has been so little complaint. But we see now that the opposition is beginning to lear tho eflect upon their party of the growing popu larity of Mr. Fillmoro, that they are drawing back from their position of approbation, and preparing lo make an onslaught upon tho Administration. Lot them come on. It will he no easy mntter to lessen the confi dence of the people in tho integrity, modera tion, impartiality, and firmness in Mr. Fill more, that his course hos inspired.—North Carolina Newbcrnian. The Three-cent Coin will not he ready for uso before tho 1st of Mny, the Treasury Department having authorized tho mint to withhold the issue until there shall be un ac cumulation of half n million of pieces to start with. A Rich Begoar.—We feel it to be our duty to caution the public against a blind man vvho has been begging hero for some days. He gives it out that ho is on his way to Mississippi, and that it is lo raise the means to get there that he is appealing to the charity of the public. A gentleman from Hamilton, in Canada, informs us, however that he knows this pretended beggnr very well. He snys that he resides in Hamilton and owns considerable property there, and that he has often heard him sny ho owned slaves in Mississippi. It can not be said that such a “tvagranl” belongs to that class spoken of liy Sam Weller, who “hasn’t mnde a raise in their profession.” He should be taken up and punished for vagran cy. Begging Ims become so much n “pro fession’’ of late, that it is impossible for the charitable to distinguish between imposters and those who are needy —Sav. Rep. (j<5> The Greensboro’ Beacon of the 19th says that Dr. Tlatt Groom, mid Mr. Pleas ant May, who were engaged in most distres sing occurrence, in which Mr. E. W. Harris was killed, are still suflering considerably from their wounds. Mr. Muy’s case has been considered a very criticnl one,—though he is now considered measurably out of danger. Their situation, as yet, lias not been such ns to allow of their being taken to Eutnw — Though confined to their beds, they are strictly guarded, day nnd night, and will, we understand, he taken to Eutnw, fur legal in- estignlion, os soon as their physicians - think it at all safe lor them to he removed. In consequence of the limited appro priations for the Army, thoSecretnry of Wnr has been compelled lo dismount tho Flying Artillery, which did the country so much honor in Mexico. Fire out of the seven companies are to be di.mounted, and only two companies are to be left. The officers nnd men are to be transferred to the Infantry now needed in Texas and New Mexico. Bishop Hughes.—The New York Herald says that the members of tho Holy Council nt Rome, doubtful of tho policy of creating Bishop Hughes a Cardinal, applied to the Bishops in the United States for their opin ion upon the subject, and they have just sent over (heir objections, which will decide the question against Bishop H. in the Sacred College. Counterfeit Gold Dollars.—We learn Irom a very respectable hank clerk that there aro quite a large number of counlerfeit gold dollars in circulation in this city, which nre executed with so much mechanical skill us to render detection extremely difficult to those familiar with gold coin. By resorting to the jponns of a chemical process, or the : nlallible test offered by the most correct gold balances, any one mny he secured from imposition.— Let storekeepers, business men generally, and the police especially, look sharp.—Bal timore Sim. Important Decision.—.fudgo Buckner, of Kentucky, lias decided against tho law of that nnd the travelling public generally, to I Stale Uxin S insurance companies of other elr patronage, ns I feel confident that "Slates having t^nciey there. He snys the ftrLnof.urpoasvdbyany Houseln'the'city! conflicts with that provision of the ^edernl Constitution which declares that “the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in tho several States.” A Flag for the World’s Fair.—Mr. Lewis Duncan, of New Orleans, unfurled in the Hall of Independence, Philadelphia recent ly; n magnificent American flag, which he is about to take to the World’s Fair for exhibi tion, and thence to Palestine. The staff of the flag was cut by President Fillmore, at Vernon, and presented to Mr. Dun- From the Knickerbocker* The Farmer’s Elegy. On the green mossy knoll.by tho banks of tho brook, That to long and so often hath watoied his Book, The old farmer rests In his long nnd last sleep, While the witters a low lisping lullaby keep j Pa li"a ploughed his last ftp-row, has reaped his last grain ; No morn shall awake him from slumber agala. The bluebird sings sweet on the eny msplo bough j lie warbling oft cheered him while Hblding the plough And tho rabbins above him hop light on tho mould, For he fed them with crumbs when ihe season was cold. Von tree that with fragrance is filling the air, So rich with its blossoms so thrifty ntul fair. By his own band was planted, and well did ho soy, It would live when the planter had mouldered nwny, There’s ihe well diet he dug, with its water so cold Willi its wet dripping bucket so mossy nnd old ; No more from Its deplh ftom the patriarch drawn, For tho "pltoher is broken"—the old man is gone ! And the sent whero he sat by his own cottnga door, In the still summer uvo, when hie labor woe o’er, With Ids eye on the moon nnd ills pipe in his hund, Dispensing his truths like a sugo of tho land. ’Twus a gloom given day when the old furmer died The stout-hearted mourned, the affectionate cried, And tho prayers of the just Tor his rest did ascend, For they all lost a brother,a man, and a IViend. For upright and honest the old ihrmer was j His GOD he revered, ho respected the laws j Though fameless ho lived, he has gone where his worth Will outshine, like pure gold,dll the dross of this earth. tfUfticrlLmrouo. The Old Indian- HY THE HON. B. F. PORTER Among the vestiges which darken thesha- dows of the past, few are more interesting than the indian’s character. It has been the fate of this people to display very lofty traits, nationality and individuality, nnd to pass from men’s eyes like the phantoms of a dream They were the progenitors of a people, now rich in intellect, and glorious in civilization, only to retire before that wave of population which they themselves had invited. They were plant s, flourishing only in the shade, plants which expired in the full blaze of the sun of improvement. In viewing the degeneracy of a people who ftom a lofty condition have fallen into one of moral or physical slavery, as is the ense of the Greeks, our pity is mixed up with contempt ; but with the Indian tribes it is different. In their cases, we see a cour ageous and magnanimous nation, full of the revenge, but boldness of savage life, stepping hack from before a conquering, but not al ways very just people j submitting, reluc- Inntly, to the fate of wnr, and giving up their lands, in mnny instances only with their lives It is not our purpose to object to the destiny, which made our fathers the instruments of thoir settlemet nnd prosperity. Doubtless it was for wise purposes in the advancement of intellectual and moral freedom. But in the perspective of the picture which pourlrays their early trials, we also see the Indian — We see a wild, but hnppy people, content amidst their nn'ivetorest , suddenly deprived of their heritages, driven from their homos, tho bones of their ancestors dispersed with the plough, and they forced, either to seek a new shelter farther in the forest, from which n new invasion was presently to drive them, or to remain, nnd dwindle into insignificance, the victims of physical, moral and intellects al deterioration. The Cherokecs were the last to retire to the West. At n ball play with the Creeks they won thnt lovely country of green val leys and smiling hills, now covered by the Northern sections of Georgia and Alabama. There they lived contented ; and it was their boast that they had never shed the White man’s blood. A more noble race never ex isted. Manly, generous and brave, their forms and countenances displayed the charac teristics of n bold but magnanimous people. It was my lot, a day or two since, to meet one of them, who abandoned by his people, still lingered in tho noble country whoro he was born. He imparted to me some faint me morials of his race. He loved to dwell on tho history of his people, anti to point out various scenes where remarkable events took dace I met him at a romantiespot in Chero tee county, Alabama, known ns Blue Pond Blue Pond lies at the base of Lookout moun tain, a ridge which rises in Middle Alabama, and which, in a northeast direction, runs with greater or lesser elevation into the edge ofTenncssee. On the top of it, just above Blue Pond, are the Yalloo falls. The little stream of Yalloo, which produces these falls runs along the mountnin in a southern direc tion, and is surrounded with scenery sublime and romantic enough to rouse the coldest bosom to a lovo of nature. After flowing along, calm and unruffled ns one if those bright streams we often see painted on the eastern sky just before sunrise, we find its course suddenly interrupted by a range of broken rocks, which stretch across its bosoin, breaking the unity of its waters into n thous and ripples. The detached slreamlets imme diately, below these rocks unite, and pour down a precipice of nearly two hundred feet,.kmen. dashing into ono of the wildest chasms we ever beheld, a broad river of snowy waves, and filing the whole basin below wi!n spray, and smoking mist. “Do you see,” snid the old Chief as we stood on the side of the gulf, “yonder ca vern,” pointing to a recess which had been washed by the stream, before a new channel had been worn to the left of it ; “1 will tel! you about that place. In the old time, long all before the step of the white man had been seen in this country, a friendly mbe of In dians pitched their tents or, this mountain.— The chief had rendered himself celebrated in the wars which used to be waged against the Creeks. IJ * — —■ 1 —— “ - c *-■- days, courage and darinl " w " HUXIM Hgtliuat sue eks. He was happy in the evening offliis s, in an only sbn, who bid fair, from his <- rival his father, in t l - Woonega was about ten years old, the Crooks had invaded the tents of his fathers peo ple. They were defeated and run ofi. In then hnste, thoy left behind a little white boy of the same age of Woonegn, nnd whom they had evidently taken prisoner from one of the lower Carolina settlements. The old chief resolved to mnko him the companion of his son ; and to this end, adopted him into . nn< ^ K“ vo him the name. Yalloo signifiing the red and white leaves in autumn. As the boys grew up, their affection twined around each other. They hunted the wild deer together, nnd tvero senreely ever apart, In progress of lime Woonega become enu inoured with the daughter of a neighbourip chief, the Rising Fawn. Her father livei far North on the mountain, and her name i notv living in connexion with n spot in Dade county Georgia. i o hunt in the neighborhood of the old chief, the lather of Rising Fuwn enme, with his family and warriors. They pitched their tents by blue pond, and there YVoonogn saw the lovely maid. Yalloo had,become throughly acquainted with the langungo and customs of the In dians ; and was, of course the confidant of Woonega, He became himself n victim lo the charms of tho liising Fawn. Tho time was approaching when the nup tials of Woonega nnd tho Rising Fawn were to be celebrated. The Rising Fawn was to be carried on an nrbour of flowers, nccom- pnined by maidens and young men lo the tent of hor lover, and there ho wns to receive her, in a tent lined with the soft skins of the game he had himself hunted and killed. Woonega hud gone far into the mountnin in search ofnspotled lawn,on whose skin the feet of his nffinneed bride were to rest. He reached the edge of the river, and stopped to rest on the highest point of the rocky wall which rose up from it. Far in the South, the blue ridges of the Talladega Mountains rose against the sky. At his feet the foam of the Fails boiled ns Id a great cauldron.— 1 he sun wns pouring long golden streams through the forests, and a tra-n of wild geeso wero seeking their homes with hoarse screams towards the Noilh. Suddenly two forms wero seen moving in tho midst of evening, in yonder cavern. How the heral of Woonegn throbbed against his sturdy breast how his head reeled, ns clnsped in each other’s arms, he beheld Yalloo his treach erous friend, and still more trcncherous bride; Tho first impulse wns to bury a arrow in the berosts which leaned upon each other in n union which seemed to make them one.— Leaning anxiously forward he loosened a rock, and was nearly precipitated into the roaring cnternct benenlh him. The detached rock went bounding from point to point be low, nml sturiletl-tlie'now -wretched lovers from thoir drenm of security. Rising in alarm, they saw the injured ana almost mad Woonega before them. Pouring from his eye the most indignant flushes, he looked al ternately from one to the other. Now rage seemed to seize upon his soul ; now love to soften nnger. “When,” at last cried he with choked utterance, “oh whiteman I did 1 break my faith with thee. You have said there is a Great Spirit who looks with plea sure upon good, and frowns upon evil. Let him judge between us. My people love to say, ‘We never sited the white man’s blood’: nor will I. Many long years inado you my brother. Go ! you love ono another.— May the Great Spirit make you hnppy. 1 turn my back upon you. I go to tho setting sun. When you see him set think of Woon egn. He goes down like the setting sun.— Remember the Indian loves mercy.” Say ing this ho bounded away, and had vanish ed long before the lovers had recovered from their surprise. Until a few years past a family of Half- Breeds lived in the valleys below. They were the descendants of Yalloo and the Ris ing Fawu. The Drunkard's Bible. “Mr. President,” snid a short, stout man, with a good humored countenance, aed n florid complexion, rising ns the last speaker took his seat,—“I have been 5 tavern keep- i> 1 At this announcement through tho whole room ; and an expression of increased inter est. “Yes, Mr. President,” he went on, “1 have been n tnvern keeper, and many a glass you, and to the Secretary dozens of others that I see have sold to there, and to here”—glancing around upon tho company. “That’s a fnct,” broke in the President,” many a gin-toddy and brandy-punch hnvo I taken nt your bar. But times nre changed now, nnd we have begun to carry the war into the enemy’s cainp. And our wnr has not been altogether unsuccessful, for we have taken prisoner one of the rumsellers bravest Generals ! But go on friend W let us have your experience.” “As to my experience, Mr. President,” the ex-tnvern keeper resumed, “in rum-sel- lins and rum-drinking, fori have done a good deal of both in my timo, that would bo mill ion long to tell to-night—and one thnt 1 ould much rather forget than relate. It makes mo tremble and sick at heart, when ever 1 look back upon the evil I have done, therefore, usually I look ahead with the hope of doing some good to my feilow amounted to throo or four dollars over his Saturday night’s pay, when I refused to soil him nny more liquor until it wns settled.— On the dny alter I had thus refused him, he camo in witli n neat mourning breast pin, enclosing some hnir—no doubt, l thought, uf n decenecd relative. This ho nflered in payment of what he owed. 1 accepted it, for the pin I saw ut once was .worth double the amount of my bill. 1 did liot think, nor indeed caro about tho question, whethi r lie wns the owner or not : I wanted my own, nnd in my selfish eagerness lo get it, I hesi tated not to take a little moro than my own. I laid the breast pin nwuy, nnd nil things went on smoothly for a while. But lie grnd- ually got behind hand again, and again 1 cut off his supply of liquor. This time he brought me a pair of brass andirons, n jd a pa r of brass candlesticks, nnd 1 took them and wip ed off the score against him. At las' he tirouglit n large, fumily Bible, and I took thnt ioo—thinking, no doubt, i could sell it for something. On the Sunday afterwards, having nothing lo do.for 1 used to shut my bar un Sunday, thinking it wns not respectable to soil liquor, I opened this poor drunkard’s family Bible, scarcely thinking of what I w as doing. Tho first place I turned lo was the family rocird There it was slated, that, upon n certain day he had been mnrricd to Emily , I hu'd known Emily , when 1 wns it young mnn very well, nnd had onco thought serious ly of offering myself to hor in ftfnrrinee 1 10- memhered her hnppy young face, nnd seem ed suddenly to hear n tone ot her merry iRughtcr. “Poor creaturo !” I sighed involuntarily, us n thought of her present conditiun cros sed my mind-<-a»d tiiou Tritli nu piensnm feelings I turned ove- another lenf. Thero wns the record of the birtli of hor four chil dren ; the last had been made recently, nnd wns in the mother’s hand. I never had such strong feelings as now came over me. I felt thnt 1 imd no business with the book ; but I triod to stifle my feel ings, and turned over severul leaves quickly. As I suffered my eyes to rest upon an open page, these words arrested my nltontion. “Wine is a mocket, slrcng'drink is raging; whoso is deceived thereby is not wise.” This was just tho subject that under tho feelings I then had, 1 wished to avoid, nnd so I referred lo another place. There I rend. “Who hath woo ? Who hath sorrow ? Who hath wounds ? Who hath babbling ? Who hath redness of eyes ? Thoy that tar ry long at the wine. Al lost it bitetb like aserpent, it stingeth like an adder.” I felt like throwing the book from me ; but once more I turned ihe leaves, and my eyes rested upon these words— WliU UIUU talus .ll>iU..£'vc»l> hi. noigLLor drink ; that outlest ihe bottle to him and makest him drink.” I closed the book suddenly, nnd threw it down. Then, for half nn hour, I paced the room backwards and forwards in a slate of mind 1 never heiaro experienced. I had be come painfully conscious uf the direful evils resulting from intemperance, nnd still more painfully conscious that 1 had been a willing in strument in the spread of these evils. I can not tell you how much 1 suffered during thnt day und night, nor describo the' fearful con flict that took placo in my mind, bolweon n selfish love of the gains of my calling, nrd the plain dictates of truth and humanity.^— It wns about nine o’clock, I think, on the some evening, thnt I opened the Drunkard’s Bible again, with a kind of despairing hopo that I should meet there with something to direct me. 1 opened nt the Psalms and read two ur three chapters. As I road on, with out finding any tiling directly to my case, I felt an increasing desire to abandon my call ing, because it was iujurious to my lellow- men. After I had rend the Bible, I retired to bed, could not sleop. 1 nin „uro thnt during that night I thought of every druken man to whom I had sold liquor, nnd of all thoir beg gared families. Iii the brief sleep that I ob tained, 1 dreamed that 1 saw s lung lino of tottering drunkards, with their wives and children in rags. And a loud voice said : “Who hath done this f” The answer, in a stili louder voice, directed felt, to me, smote upon my ear like a peal of thunder— “Thou art the mnn !” From this troubled slumber I woke to sleep no moro thnt night. In the morning, the last and most powerful conflict enme.— '['ho question to he decided, was— “Shall I open my tavern, Or at oncenbnn- don the dreadful truffle in liquid poison i” • Happily, I decided never to put to nny man’s lips tho cup of confusion. My next step was to turn the spicket of every keg or barrel of spirits,wine, beer,or cider., nnd let the contents escape on the floor. My bot tles and decanters were likewise emptied.— Then l came and signed your Total Absti But there is ono incident I will relate. For the last five years, a hard working mechanic, with a wife and seven small children, came regularly, almost every night, to my tavern, and spent the evening in my bai-room. He caine to drink, of course, and many a dollar of his hard earning went into my till. At last ho became a perfect sot—working scarcoly one forth of tho timo, and spending ” ho earned in liquor. His poor wife had take in washing to support herself and children, while he spent his time and the little he'could make at my bar. But his appetite for liquor was so strong, thnt his weeks' earnings were usually gone by Tuesday Wednesday, and then 1 had to chalk u; ;ainst him, to AGRICULTURAL. ■ s ** ee P Husbandry at the South- lifts subject is of sufficient importance to wnrrant fur more discussion in the Cultivator limn it has hitherto roceived. Whether the extraordinary efforts now put forth in Fin- gland lo substitute flux for cotton, in part, shall succeed or not. Sheep Husbandry is like y to be some day both popular and profit able m all tno cotton growing .Stales. We hove before us a short communication from ,„* r „ £'»“« Lee, an emigrant from Wes- 200o)n e T« YOrk ’ w° k f,?P s "bout n lox ? 8 .*. Wo will give Patent Office questions nnd his answers : 1. What breeds of sheep prevail in your district or section of country ? A. Chiofly Mexican, with n smalJ admix- turo o Merino, Southdown, Bnkowell, and lately n few fine German bucks have Icon introduced. a. VVhut is nbout tho nnnunl clip of woe I - por head ? A. Rarely 3 pounds; Mexican sheep yie d 2j; others (Southdown nnd Bake- well) 31 pounds. 3. Aro sheep healthy nnd prolific in young ? A. Mexican sheep nre prolific, but unheal thy; .Merinos and others healthy, qnd I think moro productive than nt the North. a 1 Mo tl,e prevailing disonses ? A. Ihe rot; n kind of congeative chill frojn 'vnnt ofsheltor ngninst “Northers,” nnd other wants in.summer. 5. Are tho fnrmors or planters of your re gion increasing thoir flocks ? A. Not much; owing.to the cold weather and bqtl grass this wini«r 0. Whero is your wool mnrketed ? . A. In Now York nnd New Orleans. 7. What is believed to bo the cost a head n year to keep shoep in your district ? A. I wenty cents; which go chiefly to pay for the services of shepherd, nnd for salt. 8. During how long n period in the winter must your sheep receive dry fodder ? A. Some years they are fed not at njl; in others two months, according, to the drought. 9. Wlinl nre your grasses and esculents for feeding sheep in summer ? A. Musquite or Muskeet gras grass. 10 Whnt is the winter feed of sheep- green or dry ? .. ■ A. Green. It is not often thnt we aro favored with more condensed answers to inquiries than our correspondent has given to the above ten questions. Mr Beck writes on the same subject that: i‘l have never seen n shelter thnt the rot alluded to by Mr. Lee, is owing entirely to the want of shelter.’” Nothing surprises a Northern mnn so much, till he gets accustomed to it, as the * grass, and sedge ncnco Pledge; and what is better, never rested until I had persuaded Ihe man whose Bible had been of so much use to me, to sign the Pledge likewise. And now, Mr. President, I urn keeping Temperance Grocery, nnd am making restitution as fast ns possible. There are at least a Iralfa dozen families, to whom l fur nish a small quantity of groceries every week mnny cases equal to the amount that used to be spent nt my bar for liquor. Four of my oldest and best cnslomers hnvo already gned the pledge by my peisuusinn, and I am not going to rest, until every man 1 help ed to ruin, is restored to himself, his family, and society. A round of hearty applause followed this address, and then another of tho ref-rmed drinkers took the floor. Sales»n Califorma.— We notice sales a considerable shipment of sundries to California, which turned out as follows.— We quote from n northern paper. “Thus wo find that $533,50 of proceeds ess $533,36 of charge yielded the sum of fourteen cents nett proceeds, which, with 36 cents more of good money, was swallowed. iayiag the. ,40 cents.; post! little ntlcntion pnid in the South to the con struction of comfortable sheds for neat cattle, mules, sheep, nnd hogs.. Tho variations in temperature nre ns sudden nnd great in the Southern as in the Northern States; and cold rains nre moro copious and trying in the Southern than in tho Northern climate.. It is foolishness to disregard the laws of health, or of latitudes. The fact that a kind Provi dence has done so much for the people of the South, inclines too many to do next to nothing for themselves. If tho United States heat the world nt its grand Fail in London, in flue wool, by actual measurement, as we think more than probable, the premium sam ples will be the native products of a South ern State. Might not the Editor of this journnl be proud of such n victory ? While ho aims to talk plainly, never harshly, to his readers, he desires to let the world under stand the invalunble resources of the South ern half of this vast Confederacy. Wool is an important staple, the annual consumption of which increases much fuster.than popula tion; and whereas land is impoverished by exclusive cotton culture, it niny be economi cally improved by combining sheep husband ry with tillage. We know well that one branch of agriculture can bp managed with less care lo tho owners of a plantation than two or three branches; hut all tilinge and no stock, no forage crops, nor cheap manure, rapidly detoriorato the soil. The most rigid experiments have demonstrated that a farm in good hands, which keeps a sheep to the acre, will produce more wheat in 20 years than it would without nny' sheep, and culti vated in the usual manner. The manure made by a sheep in nyear will produce more vegetables than the shoep consumes. This providential gain in fertility provides for on increase of the ovine race; and where 'one docs not wish lo increase his flock, he has the raw material at hand to increase his crop of cotton or grain. We say distinctly to our readers, that the experience of agriculturists since Cain tilled the earth, has shown that husbandry and tillage should go together Of the two operations, husbandry is the more natural, hut certainly not the more useful. Provide sheep with a good enclosed pasture, and in a few years they will provide you with a field that shall produce a double har vest, by roason of their having run upon it. The host crops of potatoes, corn, when' and Imrley, wo have ever seen, in a not unobserv ing life, were found on old sheep pastures, broken up nnd properly cultivated. We are not ignorant of the fact that sheep sometimes injure lund at the South; the blame, howev er, is in ihe husbandman, not the sheep. To feed n field loo closely is like running it down with colloii. A mnn must have some judge ment to be a skillful farmer, no matter* where lie lives. Tlie fact that a gentleman frpm l\ estern New York, has embarked in sheep husbandry, in Texas, without providing good shelters for his sheep, is a mark against him. Tho popular idea of subsisting nn the sponta- neons fruits of the earth without labor do for savages not for a civilized s -- Barns, nnd stables, and sheds nri ry as .dwelling houses. Tin as hats, shoi shoi ” ' '