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yoiOTE 6. ROME, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 22, 1851. NUMBER 33. TIIE ROME COURIER IS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY A. HI. EDDLEJIAJI, > ’ Two Dollars per annum, II paid in advance; Two Dollars and Fitly Cants If paid within Bix months ; or Throo Dollars at tho ond of the year. Kate* of Ailvortlelnir. Lanai. Advkrtiskments will ho Insortcd with strict attention to tho requirements of tho law, at the following rates: _ Four Months Notice', - - • 00 Notloe to Dobtors and Creditors, • 3 25 Sale ol Personal Property, by Execu-) „ ,, tots, Administrators, 4so. J Hales of Land or Negroes, 00 days, ? o 00 per square, J Loiters of Citation, ... 2 75 . Notice for Letters of Dismission, - 4 00 Candidates announcing their nnmos, will bo charged $5 00, which will be required in udvanco. Husbands advertising their wives, will be eharged $r, 00, ivrhitiH must always be paid in advance. All other advertisements will bo inserted at One Dollar per square, of twelve lines or loss, for the first, ahd Fifty Cents, for oaeh subsequent inser* lion. Liberal deductions will bo made in favor of those who advertise by tho year. ROME COURIER. B. W. ROSS, OENTIST. Rome, Georgia Office over IV. J. Omberg’s Clothing Store. January 16,1851. EEANCI0 M. ALLEN, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Dealer in Staph and Fancy dry goods and grocdries. (j!$. Receives uew goods every week. *459 Rome, Go., January 2, 1851. LIN & BRANT LY. WARE-HOUSE, COMMISSION ft PRODUCE MERCHANTS, Atlanta, Go. (^Liberal advances mado on any article in Store. Nov. 28,1850. ly — A. I>. KING & CO. COTTO Y-GINMANUFACTURERS ; Rome, Georgia. May 0.1S50. h.—err : ALEXANDER A TRA.KMELL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ROME, GA. Nov. 28, 1850. ly. (, ; 1 ...... ; ■9MAS lUanXBAN. H OIUaLUr.IIAHlI.TON. HAMILTON Ac HARDEMAN, - *‘<Facl/ors & MerehuU, ,*• ' SAVANNAH, GEORGIA In frtrftm- 1 ia,n * HARLEM r HAMILTON. }• ■{ THOMAS HARDEN IN _ • , II All DEM AN «c HAMILTON, Warehouse & Commission Merchants, MACON, GEORGIA. ot. 3,1850. 1 I2in. m.” " .—: _ ll PATTON k PATTON, ?TORNEl S A T LAW, ,Rome, Geoigia. LL Practice in all the Counties of tho Chero fsuit 48 Sept. 5, 1850. VATTON. • ' J. P. PATTON. W. P*. WILK INS. "TORNE Y A T L A W, Rome, Georgia, 1 P H6n. D- P. POUTER, CHARLESTON, S. C., Or AT CAVE SPRING, OR. j ? .Hon w; ir. underwood, home, a a. ' Hoii. WILLIAM HAZARD, DECATUR, OA. r IS, 1850. 41 ly G. W. BEALL, TAPER AND TAILOR, Broad Street Rome, Ga. !obol 10, 1850. J. D. DICKEIISOIV, 3GIST—ROME, GEORGIA. V / ■ 'wholrsalk and retail ukaler in 3S, MEDICINES, PAINTS, OILS, DYE- . . .. .STUFFS, PERFUMERY, 4cc. otpOer 10, 1850. Broad'Street. COULTER ft COLLIER, PTORNEYS AT LAW, Stef ,y, ' Rome, Georgia. \ 1851. m HOTEL," Hgg ROME, GEORGIA. IS, MARY CHOICE ierly of Dahlonega, has taken charge of tho SOTH2L, and mado extensive preparations ifort and convenience of those who may vlth a call. From her lohg experience, dently hopes to give entire satisfaction to t Visitors and Permanent Boarders, nbor 5,1850. 48 12m _'eraons will ba carried to and from [•pot to the Hotel, free of charge. EXCHANGE HOTEL, Romo, Georgia, James s. griffin, FORMERLY OF AUGUSTA. NG Roldoutmy entire interest in the EX' , CHANGE HOTEL in this place to Mr. James un,I lake pleasure in tecommending the for. and the travelling public generally, to patronage, as I feel confident that the ands of Mr. Griffin will bo well kept not surpassed by any Huuse in the City. A. E. REEVES. 26,1850. : IEKWOOD& J. IV. II. UNDERWOOD. j PRACTICE LAW nties of the Cherokee Circuit, (ex- “hoy will both personally attend nil , H; UNDERWOOD will attend . on and Habershnnt counties of the :.r Both will attend tho sessions of tho UR.T at Cnssvilie and Gainesville.— ted to them will be promptly and next door to Hooper 4s Mitchell, "Buena “ “ ne. Ga.-, at whioh placooneorboth, xrept absent on. professional •njaa The Cuban Enterprise.—One of the humbugs of the day is the attempt made by Quitman and others to make the attempt on Cuba, popular os a Southern.enterprise. The humbug is too transparent to bear inspec tion. In the first place, the headquarters, of the forces of the enterprise, was New York city —too far North to originate a fire-eating en terprise. In tho second place, Mr. John L. O’Sullivan, one ofthe" heads of the enterprise is and has been a strong anti-slavery man, and a special frieim of Martin Van Buren.— He is thus noticed^ the Boston Pest, of April 30th : “S. L. O’Sullivan, who is one of the filibusters nrrested, is a strong friend of an ex-president residing in New York and adop ted his anti.siavery views, from which the inference may be drawn that one object of the suspected expedition is to put a stop to the abominable African slave traffic in Cuba.” In the third plnce, tho special organ and champion of all enterprises against Cuba, is the New York Sun, one of the most rabid ar,d violent of Freesoil organs. In the fourth place, the leaders of the movement in the South are generally believed to belong to that class who think (ho Union as it now oxists n disgrace, reproach and nuisance. We suspect there is more disunionistn in this Cuba movement than anything else; nnd we are glad Fillmore has vindicated the laws ot the'.and and the faith of treaties by suppressing 0.—N. O. Rut. Mississippi State Union Convention.— This highly respectable body of patriot gen tlemen met at Jnckson, Miss., on the 5th inst. The following permanent officers were repor ted by a committee, and accepted by the Con vention : President—John Horn, of Wayne County. Vice Presidents—J. D. Cobb, of Lowndes, B. Pendleton, of Adams, Gen. Clarke, of Hinds, Dr. Rowe, of Holmes, Gen. T. G. Polk, of Marshall. Secretaries—John C. Abbott, of Lafayette Co, Gen. Greaves, of Hinds, J. Chiles, of Hinds. Thirty-three counties were represented by over two hundred delegates.. A. committee consisting of one from each county, to nom inate a Union ticket for State officers, was appointed, in the evening, Gen. Isaac N. Davis addressed the Convention in nn able and powerful speech. Alabama Iron.—Two tlatboats, loaded with about thirty tons of pig iron, from the foundry of Ware& McLanaiian. Shelby county, Ain, arrived at Selma on the 27th ultimo, for the Selma manufacturing company. The foundry turns out about 8,000 lbs of pig iron per day. A Silver Mine in Viroinia.—The Charlestown (VaJ Spirit of Jefferson says that there is every reason to believe that a silver mine has been discovered on the farm of Messrs. James nnd Dennis McSiierry, ol that county, situated on the east bank of the Shenandna river, and at the base ofthe Blue Ridge mountain The mine was discovered some months since, and a small specimen obtained and for- wardad to the Philadelphia mint to be assay ed. The Superintendent of the mint has re lumed the same, made into a ten cent pi ece and pronounces the ore as exceedingly rich. Missouri.—A tremendous June freshet is expected from this river. The last U. S' mail which came through to St. Louis, Utah, encountered snow to the depth of 20 feet, throughout the passage across the mountains which is more by several feet than has ever been known within the memory of the oldest frontiermen. A large nnd enthusiastic meeting has been held at Yorktown. Va., at which lion Daniel Webster was unanimously nominated as their candidate for tho Presidency in 1852 and they call upon the friends of the Union throughout theU. S. to rally around and sup port him. The meeting also expressed their deep gratitude to President Fillmore for the patri otic manner in which he had enforced the compromise measures, particularly the fug! tive slave law. Scotish Highlands.—The Editor of the Witness says: We understand that the evils under which tho Highlanders labor are in. creasing, and that some thousands of our very best people are about to emigrate in despair to other lands. Somp important in formation, we understand, will bo communi oated, at the meeting on Monday, by gentle men from the distressed districts. Washington’s Residence -—The depth of affection entertained for the memory of Washington is strongly spt forth in the fact, that for two hundred acres of grqjjjid includ ing thp Mo«nt Vernon residence, two hun dred thousand dollars have been offered by fiV| WILL YOU L0YE ME WHEN I’M OLD ? Will A flection still enfold mo, As the day of life declines,. When Oil Axe with ruthless rigor, Ploughs my thee in ftarrowed lines; Whsn tho eyo forgets its Beeing, And tbs hand forgets its skill, When the very words prove rebels, To the Mind’s once kingly will I When tho deaf ear, strained to listen, Scarcely hears the opening word,' And lh‘ unfathomed depths of Feeling, Are by no swift currents stirred ; Wli-n lond Memory, like a limner, Mony n line perspective ensts, Spreading out our by-gone pleasures,^ On the canvass of the Past! Whsn the leaping blood grows sluggish, And the fire of Youth lia-b fled i When tho friends which now surround us, Half are numbered with the dead; When the years appear to shorten, Soarcely leaving us a trace j When old Time with bold approaches, Marks the dials on my face! When our present hopes, all gathered, Lie like dead flowers on our traok ; Whca tho wholo of our existence, Is one fearful looking back j When each wnsted hour of talent, Scarcely measured now at ail, Sends its witness book to haunt us. Like the writing un the wall! When the ready tongue is palsied. And the form is bowed with care; When our only hope is Hcavon, And our only help is prayer; When our idols, broken round us, Foil amid the ranks of men— Until Death uplifts the ourtnin, Will thy Love endure till thonl J*H0crU<uuou0, From tire Temperance Banner. Judge Lumpkin’s Letter. Athens, April 14th 1851. Dear Sir,—There are seasons when the strongest faith seems to stagger. Look at Abraham himself—the father of tho faithful. At one time his hand is uplifted to offer in sacrifice his Only son, not duubting that God was able to raise him up, even from|thedead. At another lime, in the country of Ablimc- lech, he was so overpowered by fear, that ho hesiia’ed not to havd recourse to falsehood, in order to save himself, not from a real, but an imaginary danger. At one moment we beheld Peter exhibit ing a courage that is truly heroic. At the command of his Master, he desoends the side of the tossed ship, in the midst of a tempes tuous sea, and commits himself boldly to the strong billows An instant after, the winds becoming boisterous, he yields to the most faithless fear, crying piteously, “Lord, save me.” But we need not go to patriarchs and apostles for examples. Does not-the faith of the friends of Temperance stand in need of being strengthened just at this period ?— Have not the soaring hopes of many been changed into gloomy apprehensions; the glowing joys of others into distressing cold ness nnd chilling indifference ? and what is better calculated to encourage those who would despond, than a brief review of the past ? What a mighty revolution has been wrought within a qunrter of a century ! Who doubt ed, twenty-five years ago, that alcoholic liquors were absolutely needful os a bever age ! and that much of the business of the world could not be conducted without them? Who believes this delusion now ? Millions in the United States, and multitudes in other lands, hare proved by experience, the best of teacher, that men are, in all respects, bet ter without them than with them! Is not this a great point gained ? Who can tell how much the suc ; al, civil and religious in terests of our country and the world have been promoted by the establishment of this single truth ? Again, it has been demonstrated, and is now universally admitted, that intemperance destroys a vast amount of property, and that it is the principal cause of pauperism and crime, disease, insanity nnd death ; one ot the greatest dangers of our free institutions, one ot the mightiest obstructions to the effi cacy of the gospel and all the means of grace, and that by its removal one of the deepest fountains of human sorrow would be dried up, and light, and love, peace and purity be increasingly spread throughout the earth.— By the sixth report of the American Tem perance Society, it was shown that the mon ey expended in one year in this country for liquor,‘would purchase 4,000,000 sheep 400,- 000 head of cattle, 200,000 cows, 40,000 horses, 500,000“ suits of men’s clothes, 1,000,000 boy’s, 500,000 woman’s, 1,000,- 000 girls, 1,200,000 barrels flour, 800,000 ditto beef, 800,000 ditto pork, 3,000,000 bushels corn, 2,000,000, ditto potntoes, 10,- 000.000 lbs. sugar, 400,000 lbs. vice, and 2,- 000,000 gallons molasses; and build besides, 1000 churches, support 2000 ministers, build 8,000 school houses, furnish 500,000 news papers and establish 8,000 libraries at six hundrod dollars each. These thrice, thrice astounding facts never can be blotted out.' And in view of them well may it be asked, “who in our land need to bo poor or wretch ed ? And what need to hinder this laud, as soon as its population might wish, from be coming, untier the Divine appointment, Im- mnnuals land, its peace flowing as a river, and its righteousness and blessings as the waves of the sea ?” Once more: the bottle is not only pretty generally proscribed from the public tables of our large and most respectable hotels nnd steamboats, but it is almost universally ban ished from our national festivities. And that is not all. Who composes or sings n Song now as “in the old rum days of yore,” in honor of the jolly and rubicund god Bacchus ? On the contrary, “Hail Columbia,” “The Star Spangled Banner,” “Soot’s wha hae,” Auld Lang Syne,” “Life lgt us cherish,” “Home,sweet home,” and all af the most beautiful, popular and patriotic airs, have been admirably parodied, and are chanted.with angelic svyeetness in praise, of cold water at all of pur Temperance meetings and jubilees. I Who has not seen a whole audience melte^ to tears'ailiateq i uig to;“ty[y Mojthsr’g Homa.’, when sung by the Smiths and other min strels ? I hsk is all this nothing? As well attempt to arrest and roll back the Alpine Avalanche, ns a moral reform which hasta- ken such a deep hold upon the public judg ment, cosncience find feeling. Finally, suppose that when Beecher and Ketiridge, Hewitt and Edwards, first buckled oh their armor to do battle with the proud Fhillistinos, they had found the church in the main purified from the poison, the bar and bench and' medical faculty bearing a strong and united'testimony against its ha bitual use ; the Press, that lever of Arche- mcdeSj that is moving the modern world, rendering itself the benefactor of mankind by publishing from time to time the most im portant information upon the subject, nnd thus becoming a most valuable instrument in forming a correot public sentiment, by speaking to multitudes who can bo address ed in no other way. 1 repeat, had these Calebs and Joshuas stood upon the vantage ground in the beginning, which we occupy, would trembling and despair haveseized their hands ? I would not he understood as intimating that the Temperance Reformation is already completed, or that it lias advanced so far that it will continue to go forward of itself. No Son or member should relax his efforts until tho last individual shall abstain entire ly from the use of intoxicating liquor as a drink-from the manufacture ofit,ortriffic in it, and from furnishing it in any way as a be verage to others. This is an arduous work, aud demands great and persevering toil.— But who will null or turn hack in rail veiw of the prize set before him—a sober world ? No, the work is not done—would to God that it was. But enough has been accom plished to demonstrate its practicability— who doubts that it ought .to.bndnnn? Let the whole reformed host do their duty and it will be finished. Onward then be our motto. “The drunkard from the pit to raise— To life restored— To home, to wife to childreu.” The Culiluriiits Bride—A Sketch - (roui Lite. Somo months past, an advocate’s clerk, placed in one of the first offices of Paris, and well esteemed by his employer, despairing of raising means sufficient to purchase a study, undertook the adventurous risk of tempting fortune in the new El Dorado. ‘Now,’ quoth he, ‘1 have no longer need to marry an heiress,’ and he addressed a young milliner, upon whom he had cast glances of affectiou for some time back.— Now, you see me despoiled to all conjugal ambition, 1 will marry you willingly, could you prevail upon* yourself to venture upon the1iazerdY)f the journoy ? ‘I accept,’ responded the milliner, with on intrepidity belonging to her social institu tion. It was arranged that the young clerk, who had already secured his passage on board a vessel about to sail, should go forward, and that she should follow him as soon as she collected in her debts due and made a pack age of her worldly wealth. She thus avoid ed the embarrassment of a new establish ment in an unknown country and on her ar rival would be received by her futuie hus band, and installed in a ready furnished lodg ing. The young clerk departed then in advance; the . voyage was prosperous ; tho deserter from the notary’s office, contracted in resources, but filled with abundant expecta tions, landed on the California shore. The greater part of his illusions wore quickly dispelled. He discovered the opu lent country already cleaned nut; that all the gold laying on the surface of the earth and concealed beneath the crystal waters of the streams had disappeared ; that the thousands of adventurers who had enriched themselves had left their successors a difficult means of support. There still remained treasures in California ; great fortunes could be made tit course of time there, but like elsewhere, the rich reaped the most and those possessing silver reaped a harvest of gold. One of the richest settlers, arrived among tho first in California, discovered to the new comer the condition ot the country. ‘It requires twelve years of hard labor to acquire one quarter of what I have amassed in the first six months from my arrival in this country. Thanks to a lucky commence ment, my business arrangements progress royally, and nothing is lacking to complete my happiness but a woman, a companion, a wife I’ ‘I daily expeut one to arrive,’replied the ex-clerk, who started io affright at this new subject of expense in a country where every thing was already too dear, ‘You are indeed blessed !’ responded tho California nabob. A few days after the milliner arrived ; the nobob, who was present at the disem- barkatimdrew the ex-clerk aside, and said to him— ‘What will you take to let me get married in your place ?’ 1 You are doubtless joking. ‘Not at all. First listen to me, nnd have the goodness to answer me. Hovy much do you calculate to earn in this country ?• At what figure do you set down n fortune ?’ ‘Ton thousar’d francs n year that’s the ex tent of my imagination.’ ■ ‘I’ll give it to you.’ ‘What say you ?’ exclaimed the bewilder ed student ? ‘I,’ resumed the nabob, ‘already haresomo millions, nnd I still desire more.—- Two hundred thousand ftancs are a mere trifle and I am charmed to purohase a wife at such a prioe,’ ‘Yes, hut my bride? She will accept,’ responded the California nabob, with an air of superiority tho fact of his being the .Croesus of the country In fact the milliner acceded to the propo sition. The ex-clerk returned to Paris i'^st month ; he gqve a, sumptuous banquet to, H ancient companiOns of the law, to celebrqie his happy consumatior ;e to Califoi ‘ From the Knlcketbocker Msgnxlne. A Dying Wife to her Husband.—The following most touching fragment of a Letter from a dying Wife to her Husband was found by him, some months after hor death, be tween the leaves of a religious volume, whioh she was very fond of perusing. The letter, which was literally aim with tear- marks, was written long before the husband was aware that the grasp of a fatal disease had fastened upon the lovely form of his wife, who died at the early age of nineteen : “When this shall meet your eye, dear G ,someday when you are turning over the relics of the post, 1 shall have pass ed away forever, and the old white s'.ono will be keeping its lonely watch over the lips you have so often pressed, and the sod will be growing green that shall hide forever from your sight the dust of one who has so often nestled close' to your warm heart. For many long and sleepless nights, when all my thoughts were at rest, 1 liaye wrestled with the consciousness of approaching death, un til nt last it has forced itself upon my mind; and although to you and to others it might now seem but the nervous imaginations of a girl, yet dear G , it is so ! Many weary hours have I passed in the endeavor to reconcile mysulf to leaving you, whom 1 love so well, and this bright world of sun shine and beauty; and, hard, indeed, is it to struggle on silently and alone, with the sure conviction that I am about to leave all forev er and go dowu alone into the dark valley 1 ‘But 1 know in whom I have trusted,’ and, leaning upon His arm, ‘I fear no evil.’ Don’t blame mo for keeping even all this from you. How could I subject you, of al! others, to such sorrows as I feel at parting when time will so soon make it apparent to you ? 1 could have wished to live, if only to be at your side whan, ynur time shot) nnd pillowing your head upon my breast, wipe the death damps from your brow, and usher your departing spirit into its Maker’s pres ence, embalmed in woman’s holiest prayer. But it is not to he so—and I submit. Yours is the privilege of watching, through long and dreary nights, for the spirit’s final flight, and of transferring my sinking head from your breast to my Saviour’s bosom!— And you shall share iny last thought, the last faint pressure of the hand, nnd tho last fee ble kiss shall be yours, and even when flesh and heart shall have failed me, my eyes shall rest on yours until glazed by death—and our spirits shall hold one last fond communion, until gently fading from my view—-the last of earth—you shall mingle with the first bright glimpses of tho unfading glories of that better world, where partings are un known, Well do I know the spot, dear G , where you will lay mo; often have we stood by the place, and ns we watched the mellow sunset os it glanced in quivering flashes through the leaves and burnished the grassy mounds around us with stripes of bur nished gold, each perhaps has thought that one of us would come alone; and whichever it might be, your name would be on the stone. But you loved the spot; and 1 know you’ll love me nono'the less when you see the same quiet sunlight linger and among the grass that grows over your ry’s grave.—I know you’ll go often alone there, when I am laid there, and my spirit will be with you then, and whisper among tho wn<’ing branches. ‘I am not lost but gone before I’ Bear Hiinlliss in Lonisiuiin A correspondent of the New Orleans Con ner, writing from the backwoods, concludes his letter with the following graphic descrip tion of the chime and capture of a brown bear, a native and denizen of those “dig gings “The Brown bear is no stranger in tho par ish of Livingston. The chase isfvery excit ing. Though not easily overtaken by the dogs, as he generally makes for the most im penetrable thickets, cane brakes nnd stvnmps, yet wlton brought to bay he makes n regular “knock-down and drag-out” affair of it with the dogs. He is n shy and timid animal, and will never fight until fairly “driven to the wall,” and then with his back against a tree he will keep nt arm’s length half a dozen dogs, flinging out his brawny nrms with elec trical force and rapidity, striking right and left, here breaking the back of one, there tearing out the entrils of another, and often destroying the whole pack. It is whon this fight is going on—a tumult of fierce growl ing, yelping and agonizing screnms—that the hunter, often miles behind, makes prodigious efforts to “como up.” A horse is out of the question. He cuts his way with his “butch er-knife” often lor miles through a dense for est of cane, or plunges up to his middle- through morass and lagoon, swimming riv ers, and leaping from time to lime, with wonderful activity, the huge trees that some hurricane has stretched along his way. Of all field sports this requires the greatest ex penditure of'wind and muscle, nnd he who is not sure of his capacity, had better never undertake to be in at the death of a bear! One night, wlion we were sleeping in the cabin of a worthy settler, between the Tick- law and Amitij, the sudden squealing of a hog was heard! and the old man leaping out of bed, seized his rifle and rushedjto the res cue. There he found a monstrous hear tear ing huge mouthfuls from the side of his fa vorite grynter. Approaching within ten pa ces he hltized asvay, when the infuriated ani mal, slightly wounded, turned upon his as sailant. Dropping his rifle, our Iriend made for a tree, and just ns he had bent himself to spring, the bear, with a desperate clutch, seized him by the seat of his breeches. Fortunately they gave way, and his life was suved. The bear made oft - with his trophy, and when we went out with torches to the old man’s relief, it could not bo said that he was “more honored in the breech than in the observance,’’ for he was literally naked.” It has been calculated that if those who have gone before us to death, were all living, nnd distributed equally over the surface of icth, the United States would contain j a ipulation of at least three thousand milUoi Farmer* Beast This. The American Agriculturist, in answer to the inquiry, IVImt are birds good for?” relates the following ; In connection with this subject, wo will give an anecdote related to us last winter by Gov. Aiken, of South Carolina, of the rice birds. These little creatures gather round tho rice fields at harvest- time m. countless myriads, and of course consunieconsiderahle grain. Some years ago it was delermined'to. mnke war upon them,.and drive them out of the country, and the measure was in some degree successful, as far as geltihg rid ot tho- birds. ‘What are birds for ?’ The rice- plant soon found out; for with tho decrease of birds, the worms increased so rapidly that, instead of a few scattering grains to feed (ho birds, the whole crop was demanded to- fill the insatiable maw of the army that came ra consume every young shoot ns fast ns they sprung from the ground. Most undoubtedly, the birds were invited back again with a hear ty welcome. A few years ago the blackbirds in the northern part of Indiana were con sidered a grievous nuisance to the farmer. Wholo fields of oats were sometimes des troyed, and the depredations upon late corn tvero greater than can be believed, if told. The farmer sowed nnd the birds reaped. He scolded nnd they twittered. Occasionally a charge of shot brought down a score, but mado no more impression upon the great sea of birds than tho removal ot n bucket of wa ter from the great salt puddle. A few years later every green thing on tho land seemed destined to destruction by the army of worms. Man was powerless—a worm among worms. But his boat friend, the Imtchet blnck-hird, came to his relief just in time to save when nil seemed lost. No human aid could have helped him. How thankful should man be that. God has given Inm i'or. L*« oumpnntono - and fellow laborers, in the cultivation of the earth, those lovely birds. ‘The laborer is worthy of his hire.’ Why should we grudge the little share claimed by the busy little tel- lows which follow the plow aud snatch the worm away from the seed, that it might pro-* duce grain for his and oqi sustenance ?— Tho Horticulturist, for January, contains, among other valuable and intersting articles, a communication from William Hopkins, of Buynswick, Rensselaer county, in relation to the Curculio, which has proved so destruc tive to fruit, particularly Plums, throughout the couutry. He alludes to the great utility of birds and fowls os follows: 1 have put the totlowing questions to the oldest people in the neighborhood, and re ceived, invariably, about tho same answers: “Are your apples ns sound now os those you raised thirty or forty yoars ago?” “Oh, no ! they’re gnarly and wormy now —the seasons ain’t as good ns they used to- bo.” “Are the birds as plentiful as formerly?” “Oh, law, no ! they used to make noise enough to deafen you, when I was, young.’’ “Do you raise ns much poultry ? ’ “Why no ! guess not, we get more butch er’s meat now.” It will be readily observed by the first re ply , that those persons have not the least idea of the present cause of failure. (I do not insist that the Ourcu|io is the only trpu- blesome thing.) 1 know of a solitary apple tree, in a forty acre field, where every„futlen fruit shows several crescent shaped punc tures. Paving under the trees, or white washing the fruit, may save the crop, but both plans are expensive; and even when we havo done it, the greatest vigilance is neces sary, because they nre still surrounded by tho enemy. Nothing short of total extermi nation should he the aim of tho fruit grower; let him explain the nature of this insect to every one who owns n tree, to every man, womau and child, on his premises; let him be a grower of poultry, as well ns n grower of fruit; let him give accomodation and en couragement to the birds of the air, in every possible way; lot him petition the proper au thorities, that stringent laws may bo enacted for their preservation ? that all disIWost per sons may be prevented trom coming on our land to shoot or injure them. The word dishonest may appear loo severe for ibis place—let it pass. Those who fed ’the birds, (namely, the owners of iheroil,) have a special claim to their services, and no straggling sportmau should deprive them of it. Preserving Struwborrics. Messrs. Editors: If you will not think it presumption, in a poor forlorn old maid, to presume to tell the Editors of The Soil of the South, how to preserve Strawberries, I will give you my method. 1 opened a bottle recently-, (hat had been bottled eight years, and they wore as sound as when first bottled. Take a pound of good loaf sugar to a pound of Strawberries, dis solve the sugar in os little water as possible, cook the fruit about eight minutes; now skim thorn out, nnd boil the syrup eight min utes longer; now bottle them in strong bot tles, drive in the corks tight, and seal them well, and put them in a cool place. They will keep for years. LUCY.. Diplomatic Correspondence.—■ Mr. Bug- gin’s compliments to Mr. Muggins, and re quests that Mr. M.will take'measures to prevent his pigps from trespassing any far ther on the grounds of Mr. Buggins, [reply.] “Mr. Muggins respects to Mr, Buggins’ nnd requests that in the future, he will not spell pigs with two gees.” [no. 2.] “Mr. Buggins’s acknowledgements to Mr. Muggins, and requests that he will make the addition of the letter e to the final word of his communication, so as to represent Mr. Muggins, wife and family.” [reply.] “Mr. Muggins declines further cor res p dence, nnd returns Mr. Huggins’s last - r * unopened. The impertinence which tains is unequalled save by its vulg Milk, so nutritious when t