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1 PENFIEIJ), GEORGIA.
L. LINCOLN VEAZEY. Editor.
“THURSDAY MQRNING^^MARCH 25,
lx our notice of “ Grace Magnified,” by Bev
-11. E. ’Taliaferro, of Tuskegee, Ala., a few weeks
since, we omitted to state the price, leaving blanks .
for that purpose, to be filled by reference to the |
work which was not at hand at the moment of
writing. It is 2& cents for a copy bound in cloth, ,
20 cents for paper cover. It is published by the
Southern Baptist Pub. Soe., Charleston, ,S. C.
As will be seen from his advertisement in nn
f Mher column, W. B. Seals is now receiving and i
P§fening in this place a large and well selected
lot of new Spring Goods. We feel safe in saying
that a more handsome stock was never brought
to this market. Call and examine before supply
ing yourself elsewhere, and we are assured that
you can find something to suit you in his tasteful
and varied assortment.
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The Greenesboro (N. C.) ‘Times, comes to us in
a garb of mourning for its senior editor, E. W.
Ogburn, Esq. He was in the 57th year of his age.
The birds are singing, and their artless melody
awakens warm thrills of happiness in the breast.
Each note comes floating on the vernal breeze,
with a richer sweetness than the harp’s bright
chords ever awakened, or than ever fell from the
lyre’s strings when tuned to the dulcet measures
of love. . The flowers rapidly burst the winter
bands that have wrapped them, and unfold their
delicate petals, rs if to drink in the rich out-gush
ing sounds. The violet hath bloomed in its dell,
and the “balm of a thousand flowers” perfume’
the morning air. All nature seems filled with |
gladness, and this delightful bird music which
greets our ears, is but one expression of the gen- i
eraljoy.
The following young men from Georgia, have,
received appointments as cadets in the United
States Military Academy, at West Point: J. B.
Johnson, 2; J. S. Blount, 3; J. A. Alexander, 4:
E. C. Arnold, C; J. A. West, 7.
The figures designate the Congressional District
in whicVihey reside.
The vacancy in the Faculty of the Medical
College of Georgia, occasioned by the resignation
of Dr. Means, has been filled by the appointment
of Dr. Joseph Jonos, who now occupies the chair
of Chemistry in Franklin College. The selection
is thought, by those who-c information enables
them to judge* to be eminently judicious.
—
6kxtey’g Jau/j/’s Look, for April, is embellished
with,* lurge number of fine illustrations. Godov,
however, in common with several other ladies’
magazines, is devoting too much space to embel
lishments, to the exclusion of reading mattter.
We clip the following item firm the Macon
Crawford county, last week, Jas. Revel was re-
Uteaaengcr: “At the term of the Superior Court of
turned by the Grand Jury as guilty of the crime
lof murder, for shooting W. W. Hammack and
Adams. He was tried for the murder of
Wlammack, and found guilty, and sentenced by
Judge Lamar, to be hung on Friday the 7th of
May.
Revel is quite a young man, as were those who
were murdered. No circumstances were devel
oped in the case to show any serious personal diffi
culties between the parties, or immediate cause
for the suit. He attempted also to discharge a
revolver at two other persons, but the caps did
not explode. Not even tho common plea of in
toxication could be interposed in extenuation of
tlm crime, with regard to any of the patru s.”
Tmd.Wdi British //'•'<</;, for February, lias the
following table of contents: Stanhope’s History,
Walpole and Pultency, Naples, 1848-1858, Scot
tish Natural Science, Logic of Deduction-Mill,
Arnold and his School, Proverbs Secular and Sa
cred, Rambles of a Naturalist, &e., Capital and
Currency, Poetry—thcSpasmodists, Recent Publi
cations.
John Mitchell, in a letter to his paper, the
Southern Citizen, written from Vicksburg, Miss.,
in the following paragraph, shows the impression
which the great South-west has made upon him: i
“ How deeply and urgently this nation needs a ;
good rattling war! a war with some nation that is j
fairly its match—to occupy its mind, and give a j
career to its craving and impassioned youth. I •
tell you it is like Garloton’s tailor, blue moulded j
for want of a boytln; it will blow up, like any I
other high pressure steam boiler: and it is not I
insured.” j
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THE remark has grown into triteness, that there ;
are no boys in these days. They were an old ;
fashioned institution that existed among our poor, j
ignorant grandfathers, but have long since taken •
their'places with the things that were. Then, j
they had boys of fiftee l, eighteen, and even !
twenty; for not until their twenty-first birthday, i
was their shoulders invested with the toga of man
hood. Now, they are men before they should be
released from the discipline of the nursery, as
sume airs, profess a great knowledge of the world,
and blush at the fogyism of their fathers, who
cannot sympathize with the progressive spirit of
the age. Their first and highest ambition, is to
be considered “fast,” and to be pointed out as dil
igent sowers of the cereal crop, known as “ wild
cats.” They do indeed become “ fast;” so fast
that they “run through” tho fortune which the
misgtnaed kindness of their parents has given
them, squander in dissipation the heaven-be
stowed blessing of health, and sink prematurely
into the |rave, at what ought to be the flower of
their manhood. Such is the common history and
fate of those who, at fifteen, court notice by sport
ing a slender cane, cultivating a furze on the up
perdtoin the first-stages of incipiency, and wear
ing a large seal ring on the fourth finger.
It would be a novel and refreshing sight, to set
a real, genuine boy of the old stamp. IV e have
so many men who have been constituted such by
their own suffrage, that they have ceased to be
prodigies; but a hoy who thinks himself so, would
be a rarity. One who has not usurped the power
“to do as he pleases,” and who is not ashamed
to acknowledge that he is controlled by some
other influence than his own will; one whose re
spect for the individual whom common parlance
dubs “the old man” or “the governor,” is shown
only when the youngster’s pocket is rather short
of funds; one who does not scent the air as he
walks by day, with the fragrance of rich perfu
mery, and - 'by night with odors ot the dram-shop,
one who is alike ignorant of hair-dyes and mint
juleps, who cannot distinguish an “ace of spades
from a “jack of diamond#/ and whoso knowl
edge of “Euchre” and “Polka” does not extend
oven to tho names; one who is not hardened in
“ affairs of sle heart ”at fifteen, and fondly im
agines that he awakens love in the breast of every
lady who condescends to notice him. Such a boy
would be a sight worthy of seeing; but at the
present rapid pace of Young America, we have
.Tittle hopes of his over being seen.
I TANARUS) AIN has usually been classed as one of the ills
I JI of human life; vet, under the present consti
tution of our natures, it is one absolutely essen
! tial to our existence. Without it, we would not
j have that instinct of self-preservation, which
i causes us to shun everything which experience or
observation has taught us to be hurtful. We
could not, without constant attention, know that
the different portions of our bodies were safe,
which, of course, would be utterly incompatible
j with any mental or physical exertion.- A limb
j might be mutilated, and the mind remain utterly
• unsentient of the fact, unless informed by the eye.
j The slightest injury inflicted on any portion of
| the body, is now transmitted to the brain with a
; speed a thousand times more rapid than the
j lightning’s flash, and it is this which insures our
I enjoyment of health.
! The dread of pain is instinctive, being one of
: the earliest emotions which we experience. The
I infant, before its lips can syllable a word, will
j avoid with evident design, anything by which it
i has ever been hurt. In after life, it never be-
I comes a thing of reason. We shrink from the
! feint of a blow when we know there is no inten
tion of harm. In this, there is shown forth most
| signally, the benevolent wisdom of the Creator.
: Our reason is so slow in its operations, that had
. our preservation depended on it, we would often
i have been destroyed before it could have promp
i tod action.
! Physiologists, who have made the hitman frame j
; their study, discover no less benevolence in the
| degrees of susceptibility to pain which different
S parts exhibit. The sensibility to suffering, lies |
■in a peculiarly high degree in the skin. This is
| placed as an advance guard through which every
1 injury from without must make its way; and hence,
! it is important that it should be cognizant of the
slightest danger. The suffering from any hurt
inflicted here, is always lively and acute. Many
form their notions of pain from what they feel
| at the surface, and thence, infer that the deeper
| the wound, the more intense the anguish pro
j duced. This, however, does not accord with the
| facts as substantiated by experiment. When the
I knife has passed through the skin, the worst is
over, and the pain continually diminishes as the
; bone is approached. These parts are sufficiently
protected by their external covering, and to im
part to them tho same exquisite sensibility was
unnecessary.
Some parts of the body which are insensible
to one injury, are keenly alive to others of a dif
ferent kind. Thus, the tendons and ligaments
by which the bones are held together, may bo cut
i or pressed without producing any unpleasant feel
• ing ; but if they bp. twisted or drawn, they soon
i give warning of pain. A sprained ankle or wrist,
which almost every one lias had, will show how
excruciatingly agonizing a hurt inflicted in this
; way may become. Tho trachea, which closes the
, mouth of the windpipe, so that all our food and
• drink passes over it, allows the passage of volumes
of air; yet, if touched by a crumb of bread, will
convulse the whole frame. Tho colobrated Dr.
Harvey had an opportunity of exaxning a man
whose heart, owing to an abscess, could be both
; seen and felt. To his astonishment, he found it
insensible. When not looking on, he could not
toll that his heart was touched. Shielded from
all external violence by the strong outwork of
the diaphragm, it is not endowed with this spe
cies of sensibility; yet, the general consent of
mankind has here located the seat of the finer
emotions of our nature, our pleasures, sympathies,
j griefs, hatreds, hopes and loves. Cases are not
I unfrequent in which persons have dropped dead,
i from the sudden contraction or expansion of this
! organ under the influence of some great excite
j meat or strong passion.
i Accurate observation has established it as asci
, entitle fact, that the sense of pain in animals va
: ries according to the amount of brain or develop
ment of the nervous system. Man being superi
] or to all other animals in this particular, is there
’ fore capable of experiencing the greatest amount
of bodily suffering. He is so constituted, that
’ the mind and body mutually act upon each other,
• and every injury produces both physical and men
tal suffering. In the brute creation, it is differ
| out. Wanting the “discourse of reason,” they
are entirely free from any apprehension in con
; neetion with pain. Every animal will endeavor
| to escape from one more powerful that designs its
! injury. All the power of their bodies ate taxed
j to the utmost, and many exhibit a sagacity when
pursued, that has long been a matter of wonder
and admiration. This is merely the instinct of
; self-preservation, wljich is common to all animals,
: and is, we imagine, unattended by any such-euf
t faring as man would experience under similar
; circumstances. They have no conception of what
! their fate will be if taken. It is a principle work
i ing in them, flu* more sure than the deductions j
iof reason, but with none of its light. The ox,
placed in the stall, eats and fattens untU the day
: appointed for his death, in all the 1 nippiness
which an animal nature can enjoy. Could oue
glimmering light of the future meet his gaze, he
would languish and pine, in view of his destiny.
With philosophic troth has Pope said,
“ The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day.
Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ?
Pleased to the last, he crops he flowery food, j
And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.” ;
No animal has ever been found in which sensi- j
bilitv to pain is entirely wanting. Even tho ani
malcules, which can be seen only by high power
of the microscope, are thought to experience some
suffering when martyrized for scientific purposes.
There arc many, however, in which this sense is
very slight. Some insects have been known to :
devour portions of their own bodies, with as much ;
indifference as if it were some foreign substance..
Others may bo mutilated—deprived of wings or |
legs, and even their bodies cut in pieces without j
seeming to have their energies in the least affec
ted. Leeches have been cut in two, while gorg
ing themselves with blood, and they continued
their suction, not seeming in the least degree in
convenienced. From facts like these, we must
conclude that the amount of pain which the lower
order of animals are capable of experiencing is
very iWnall.
.Some have contended, that bocause the bvute
creation are devoid of reason, they are therefore
I incapable of suffering. Such an idea is at vari-
I nnce with our observation, and with what com
! mon sense would of itself teach. Though doubt
! Ic&s free from mental anguish of every kind, we
i know that many animals arc acutely sensible of
j physical pain. This is so evident, that we could
! never think the man sincere, who professed to be
lieve them mere machines, moving only at the
1 behests of intelligent wills. But there are many
| who act as if they practically believed thus. Cru
elty to animals, often the more cruel from being
wanton and unprovoked, is by no means so un
common a vice as it should be. Boys rob birds’
nests for their amusement, and often kill the pa
! rent, leaving her unfledged young to perish: yet,
in these cruelties, they often only imitate exam
ples set them by grown up mon. Such conduct
is always indicative of badness of heart. Ho who
would, for sport, crush a fly or an ant, would, if
circumstances permitted, perpetrate the barbari
ties of a Nero on his fellow-men. Cowper speaks
the languago of true benevolence, which every
man of calm reflection will endorse, when ho says
“ I would not enter on my list of friends,
(Though graced with polished manners and fine sense,
; Yet wanting sensibility,) tho man
I Who needlessly seta foot upon a worm,”
To man, pain is a moral teacher to whom the
highest eloquence of the pulpit yields precedence.
; At its every throb, it warns him that his stay on
earth is but for a season, and bids him prepare
lor his journey to “that undiscovered country,
from whose bourne no traveller returns.” Kind
ly merciful in its task of love, it softly unwinds
the heart's affections from worldly objects, and
directs them to Heaven. llow blest is he to whom
death comes heralded by such a messenger! The
lightning’s flash, the earthquake’s shock, thebat
tle’s angered fury, or the raging dash of ocean,
have hurried thousands into the presence cham
ber of God, with all the rank pride of sinfulness
upon them. But he whom Pain takes kindly by
the hand, and leads quietly down the valley of
the shadow of death stands, not like the con
demned criminal with a shrinking back from his
horrid doom, but like the wise virgins whom the
bridegroom found with oil in their vessels, and
lamps brightly burning. And when death shall
come with measured pace, he quietly yields like
one
** W ho draws the drapery of his couch about him,
And lies down to pleasant dreams.”
The New York correspondent of theJNew Or
leans True Witness, say?: “A Turkish gentleman
is expected here soon, to make arrangements for
buying some ships of us. The “city fathers”!
have voted to spend two thousand dollars in doing i
honor to him—a silly step enough, as the Pacha
only comes on a trading expedition for his gov
ernment, and has no especial title to a public re
ception.”
The American people talk and write republi
canism quite enough, but there is very little of it j
manifested in their actions. They express tho j
utmost disgust at the doctrineof divine right, yet. j
exhibit the greatest pleasure in listening to the j
most insignificant trifles about the royal families j
of Europe. Every titled foreigner who lands
upon our shores, is lionized to an extent that is
supremely ridiculous. Is there anything more
inconsistent than to give a public reception to an
unaccredited visitor from one nation of Polyga
mists, while preparing munitions of war against
another ?
CLIPPED ITEMS.
A line may be remembered when a chapter is forgotten.
The people of Milledgeville are specula’ing
about building a bridge over the Oconee river at
that city. The former bridge was washed away,
we. believe, by the “ Ilarison ireshet” in 1840. It
is high time that our capitolino friends should
have a good and substantial bridge, and it might
not be unwise to so construct it ns to answer for
a railroad bridge. “A word to the wise,” Ac, &c.
A Constantinople letter of January 30th says :
“We have thus far the severest winter that lias
ever occtired in Constantinople within the memo
ry of the oldest inhabitant. The snow is more
than two feet deep on a level, and has been almost
continually falling for thirty days.”
Os all the mean and contemptible men in this
world, he that sneaks through life on tiptoe, with
his ear at the keyhole of everybody’s business,
except his own, is tho most to be detested.
Read our first page, you will find some capital
articles on Farming, Gardening, Stock, &e.
Nebraska is our largest Territory. 1t will make
about eighty States as large as New Hampshire.
Nebraska is about one-sixth the size of Europe.
A fool knows his own business better than a
wise man does another’s.
J. F. Mixon has retired from the Type of the
limes, of Covington, and W. H. Royal takes the
Editorial chair.
Mr. Choate delivered an oration on Hamilton
and Burr, in Boston, on the 10th inst., to nearly
three thousand persons.
John W. Noel has been nominated for Con
gress by the Democrats of the seventh district of
Missouri, in place of Mr. Caruthers.
A Kansas paper states that it is the intention
of a gentleman in Virginia to carry to Topeka,
earl}’ in the coming spring, two hundred thou
sand grape roots, embracing the most productive
and hardy varieties cultivated in his county.
Some men livo as if they were poor ail their
lives, in order to be wealthy at their decease—or
rather, as if they wished to carry their riches
with them.
Lord Derby is now fifty-nine, while his prede
cessor in office (Lord Palmerston) is seventy-four.
Lord Ellenborough is sixty-eight: D’lsraleli is but
fifty-three.
A Calculation.—ls all the United States were
as densely populated as Massachusetts, there would
be a population oi 446,000,000, nearly equal to
half the number on the whole earth.
The Three L’s.—Hall’s Journal of Health says it
is the three L’s Liquor, License, ancl Late Sup
pers, which slay the anual lietacombs of North
erners who visit New Orleans. Dr. Hall lived
there ten years, and speaks from professional ex
perience.
The Tennessee House of Representatives has
passed a bill, by a vote of fifty-three to seven,
submitting to the people the propriety of holding
a convention to amend the Constitution of that
State. Its passage by the Senate is confidently
predicted.
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the
company of vulgar people, because they have a
power of looking at such persons as objects of
amusement of another race altogether.
Trust not the flatterer. In thy day of sunshine
he will give thee pounds of butter, and in thy
hour of need, deny thee a crumb of bread.
We learn, says the Albany Patriot of the 11th
inst, that two different have been
arrested who are supposed to be Thomas W.
Thomas, was sentenced to be hung in Lee county
on the 12th instant for the murder of Joseph
Cross. The parties were mistaken —Thomas has
not yet- been arrested.
Vine Culture in the United States.
Considerable doubt seems to exist in certain
quarters as to the success of the experiments now
making in various parts of the country in the
manufacture of wine from native grapes. The fol
lowing extract from the News, published in Vevay,
Indiana, which was settled by emigrants from the
Swiss village of the same name, who were proba
bly the first to introduce the grape culture in the
West, states some of the causes of its failure:
“ We have always looked upon it as a settled fact
that any attempt to render general the culture of
the vine would result in ruin to the party attempt
ing it. Our seasons are too variable—one winter
too cold—the next too open and warm-—one sum
mer is too dry and too hot —another is too wet.
The truth is that land in the Ohio river valley is
worth more money per acre to raise grass and
wheat and corn, than it is to raisegrapes. We re
gard that any man who enters into the culture of
the wine without a capital like that of Mr. Long
worth of Cincinnati, will be ruined in ten years.
Wc are sure that the results of the chemical anal
ysis will slioiv that all the money Mr. L. has ever
made out of the vine culture, has been done by
adulterating the juice of the grape and making a
little go a good way. In support of our idea, wo
would refer to the experience of tho vine when
commenced, where at an early day large amounts
of money were expended in the preparation of
the ground and planting grape vines. Now, thero
is not a farmer who has any vines who takes
pains to do more than raise grhpes enough for his
family to eat, and to make enough to have a drink
or two in tho hot weather. Indeed, we may say that
in the vicinity of Vevay, where the vine growing
was first attempted in America, it has been aban
doned and men are raising hay, wheat and corn
Parody on Othello’s ‘^Farewell.”
“ O now, forever,
Farewell the tippling shop! Farewell the glass!
Farewell the gin-cocktails and brandy-smashes,
That make intoxication come. O, farewell!
Farewell, ihe boozy troop, and the shrill yell,
The spirit-stirring song, the ear-piercing oath,
The royal “ bust,” and all quality,
Pride, pomp and circumstance sos glorious Run !
And O, you mortal soakers, whose red noses
Will yet be fain to smell at dry bung-holes.
, Farewell ! Othello’s occupation’s gone!”
CHOICE SELECTIONS.
Beautiful Allusion. —What quality of human
nature is more ennobling, soul-elevating, more
benevolent than tho pure love of the parent for
its child ? and could this love be more charming
ly illustrated than in the beautiful allusion of La
martine to his parents: “I remember,” said he,
“to have seen the branch of a willow which had
been torn by the tempest’s hand from the parent
trunk, floating in the morning light upon the an
gry surges of the overflowing Soane, On it a fe
male nightingale still covered her nest as it drifted
down the foaming sti earn, and the male on the
wing followed the wreck which was bearing away
the object of hi3 love.”
What could express the attachment of the lov
ing parent for its offspring more eloquently than
tho foregoing? And how could the parent ex
press love for the child with more true and beau
tiful simplicity than did the plain, unschooled
man who had received his education principally
beneath the open sky, in the field and forest, and
w’ho had wielded an axe more than a pen, when
he remarked, speaking to his children, “The lit
tle chips are nearest the heart!”
A Royal Publisher.
The Shah of Persia is busily engaged in prepar
ing a magnificent edition of the Arabian Night’s
Entertainments. This edition will contain many
tales and poems not included in former copies.
A number of illustrative paintings, by the first
artists of ihe country, added to the exquisite
oeauty of the printed characters, will make this
work a unique book in its kind. The artists, under
the personal direction of the Shah, have been at
work on this edition for the last seven years. Some
notion of the splendor of the book may be sug
gested by the fact that its preparation lias already
cost in that country, where living is so cheap and
money so dear, more than sixty thousand dollars
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A Curious Wedding.—A letter from New York,
relates the following: An interesting wedding
took place a few days since, between a Mr. Henry
B. Melville and Mrs. Sarah K. Seymour. The
parties have both been married before, and each
have a family of seven children —those of the
gentleman comprising six daughters and a son.
and those of the lady six sons and a daughter.
The sons acted on the occasion as groomsmen to
their future father, and the daughters as brides
maids to their future mother. The whole four
teen children, dressed alike, according to their
sex, entered the church arm in arm, and ranged
themselves on either side of their parents, who
are both remarkably handsome, and looked su
perb. The bride is wealthy, and was richly dressed
in a pearl-colored moire antique, with costly laces
and a diamond brooch and bracelet.
The Value of a Good Book.
The shilling Testament, purchased in N. Orleans
previous to the Mexican war, not only saved the
life of the possessor, but was the means of saving his
soul. It was in this way. A young Illinois girl
purchased a small testament for four dozen eggs
at three cents per dozen. When her brother was
about to start for Mexico, as a volunteer, she put it
into his vest, pocket. There it remained, wrapped
in the same paper and same pocket, until tho
battle of Buena Vista, when the wearer received
a wound through the Testament, which broke the
force of the bullet, which lodged in his breast, and
sent him to the hospital. There lie read his bo i>k ;
and the last time I saw him, he was in an Illinois
college, preparing for the pulpit, or rather for a
missionary field in the Methodist church.
A Start in TnE World.—Many a parent works
hard and lives sparingly all his life, for the pur
pose of laying up enough to give his children “a
start in the world.” This kind of worldly wisdom
is great folly, especially where it lqpds to tho neg
lect of their moral training. Nay, it is often fol
lowed'by the most ruinous results. Setting a young
man afloat with money which he never aided in
earning, is like tying bladders under the arm of one
who has never learned to swim. Ten chances to
one he will lose his bladders and sink to the bot
tom. The true policy is to teach him to swim,
and then he will not need the bladders. The pa
rent who gives his child a good education, who
trains him to industrious habits and bases his
principles firmly upon the great laws of truth and
duty, leaves hint an inheritance more valuable
than the wealth of the Indies. This sort of “ start”
makes “fast young men,” who not only soon ‘ stick
fast” by the way, but. become utterly worthless to
themselves and others. —Spartanhvryh Express.
An Irish Legend. —On the west coast of Ireland
near the Cliffs of Mother, at some distance out in
the bay, the waves appear continually breaking
in with white foam, even on the calmest day.
The tradition among the country people is, that
a groat city was swallowed up there for some great
crime, and that it becomes visible once every
seven years. And if the person who sees it could
keep his eyes fixed on it till he reached it,it would
then be restored, and would obtain great wealth.
The man who related the legend stated farther
that, some years ago, some laborers were at work
in a field on the hill-side, in view of the hay:
and one of them, happening to cast his eyes sea
ward saw the city in all its splendor emerge from the
deep. He called to his companions to look at it :
but, though they were close to him, lie could not
attract their attention. At last he turned round
to see why they woukl not. come, but, on looking
back when he had succeeded in attracting their
attention, the city had disappeared.— Blackwood.
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The Monkey and tue Hawk.—The cook of a
French nobleman, whosechateau is in the south of
France, had a monkey, which was allowed the free
range of the kitchen, and which was so intelligent
that by pretty severe training, his natural propen
sity to mischief had been subdued, and lie was
even taught to perform certain useful services,
such as plucking fowls, for instance, at which he
was uncommonly expert. One fine morning, a
pair of partriges was given the monkey to pluck.
The creature took them to an open window of
the kitchen, which looked directly upon the park
and went to work with great dilligenee. He soon
finished one, which he laid on the outs r ledge of
the window, and then went quietly on with the 1
other. A hawk, which had been watching his
proceedings from a neighboring tree, darted down
upon the plucked partridge, and in a minute was i
up the tree again, greedily devouring his prey.
The consternation of the monkey at this unto
ward adventure may be easily imagined. lie
knew he would be severely whipped for losing it.
He hopped about in great distress for some min
utes, when suddenly a bright thought struck hiVn.
Seizing the remaining partridge, lie went to work
with great energy and stripped oft’the feathers.
He then laid it on the ledge, just where he placed
the other, and closing one of the shutters, con
cealed himself behind it. The hawk, which by
this time had finished his meal, very soon swooped
down upon the partridge; but hardly had his
claw touched the bird, when the monkey sprung
upon him from behind the shutter. The hawk’s
head was instantly wrujjg, and the monkey, with
a triumphant chuckle, proceeded to strip'offthc
feathers. This done, he carried the two plucked
fowls to the master, with a confident and self-sat
isfied air, which seemed to say, “ Here are two j
birds, sir; just what you gave me.” What the
cook said on finding one of the partridges con- j
verted into a hawk is move than wo are able to i
toll.
■
Artificial Precious Stones.—A very curious i
and interesting report was presented to the French |
Academy of Science, a short time since, bv an in- :
genious mechanician, M. Gaudin, on the result of ■
many years’ experiments, having for their object
the production of artificial precious stones. After j
twenty years labor, M. Gaudin has succeeded in
fabricating imitation of jewels so perfect as to de
ceive tho most practised eye. The imitation of |
the ruby—the most precious of stones—has readied !
a rare degree of beauty and utility ; for it is pro- j
ferred by competent watchmakers, ns pivots for j
watches, to the real ruby, being eqally durable, |
and much harder. M. Gaudin expects by means j
of recently discovered process, to be able t i pro-j
duce the ruby and sapphire of a sufficient size to
be used in the manufacture of chronometers and
clocks.
An old gentleman, who had dabbled all his j
life in statistics, says lie never heard of more \
than one woman who insured her life. Ho ae- 1
counts for this by the singular fact of one oi the j
questions on every insurance paper being, hat j
is your age ?”
A Sister of Charity. —Tho Richmond corves- j
pondent of tlie Petersburg Express writes:
It is not perhaps, generally known that the j
Hon. Edward Everett has a sister now perform
ing the sacred duties of a Sister of Charity; yet, j
such is the fact, and she is about to take the po- .
sition of the Lady Superior of St. Joseph s berm
nary in this city. She will probably arrive nearly J
at the same time with Mr. Everett, who is coming i
to deliver his grand oration on the character ot j
Washington,
! ~ LADIES’ 01,10.
A Blush.—What a mysterious thing is a blush,
that a single word, look, or thought should send
| that inimitable carnation over the cheek, like the,
| soft tints of a summer sunset! Strange too that it •
is only the lace,—the human face—that is capable |
;of blushing. The hand owtfbot does not turn red ;
with modest}’ or shame, more than the glove or
i sock which covers it It is the face that is heaven !
i There may be traced the intellectual phenomena j
j with confidence amounting to certainty.
| 1 know that if women wish to escape the stig- [
j ma of husband-seeking, they must act and look 1
I like marble or clay—cold, expressionless, blood-
I less; for every appearance of feeling, of joy, sor- i
row, friendliness, antipathy, admiration, disgust
i are alike construed by the world into the attempt j
!to hook a husband. Never mind ! well-meaning
; women have their own consciences to comfort
’ them, after all. Do not, therefore, be too much
| afraid of showing yourself as you are, afVeotiom
I and good hearted fdo not too harshly repress
j sentiments and feelings excellent in themselves,
i because you fear t hat some puppy may fancy that
! you are letting them come out to fascinate him ;
do not condemn yourself to live only* by halves, j
j because if you showed too much imitation, some 1
’ pragmatical thing in breeches might take it into
| his pate to imagine that you designed to dedi
cate your life to his inanity. —June Eyre.
i Lovers Taught Engineering.—From .Smiles to
! the Station at Kisses is live hundred sighs; from
| Kisses to Pop the Question is one thousand five
hundred sighs: and from thence to the Terminus
! of Pa’s-Consent is two thousand five hundred
sigh.-—making a grand total of four thousand
i five hundred sighs. To arrive at Pa’s-Consent,
however, the engine of Love has to ascend a steep
S incline, the gradients of which are enormous —
; two in three—causing a vast number of sighs to
be heavily drawn in reaching it. Some senti
mental surveyors have, therefore, proposed to fa
: eilitato the communication between Pop the
| Question and Pa’s-Consent (which mav easily be
‘done, if they can sufficient .capital,) or,
failing that, to form a loopline to Mas. Being
personally interested in the undertaking, we
wish ii success, with all our heart. The esti
mated saving is not far short of a thousand sighs.
j Boston Pox/.
o
There often a ripple on very deep streams,
and a dimple on the waves of the mightiest oceans.
The eagle does not pursue a direct course through ,
the upper ether ; she
•■Screws the night heaven till lost in the blue.”
j The leviathan “(avgheth at tlm shaking of a spear,’’
! and the horso neighs amidst his tremendous gal
lop. This curveting, carolling, rejoicing, is a sign
of strength, not of weakness; of earnestness, not
of indifference ; of enthusiasm, rapture, arid en
! ergy. Just as a man who I:as done a manly day’s
; work will sometimes sing at its close, or as one
; who has climbed a mountain often leaps and
dances in delight, so .Rogers, with Paschal, C'ole
| ridge, and other thinkers who have reached lofty
altitudes, sometimes express their feelings at the
far-stretching sight by shouts and lively laughter
| —laughter, however, speedily suosiding into seri
• ousness again—as they see the “clouds anddark
: ness ” which mingle with, and shade the pros
| poet from every vision.
— —-
Controlling her Temcer.—The husband of a
lady of fiery temper says, that before their mar
! riage he was warned of her fiery disposition, and
! to test the accuracy of the information, one eve
ning, as he sat next to her at dinner, he man
aged cleverly to jog the servant’s elbow, as a plate
of mock turtle soup was oHerod her, which of
course was upset over the young lady’s white
dress of tulle lace. No complaint, nor even a
frown being evinced, the delighted suitor conclu
ded that what he had heard was a mistake, and
(he marriage took place ; but soon the lady’s real
character displayed itself, as is always the case af
ter marriage, but never before, and his wife like
a human Stromboli, was subject- to fiery eruptions
every ten minutes upon an average. “ How is it,
my dear,”said the happy husband, “that having
such a bad temper, you stood the ordeal of soup
so well?” “ Why,” answered the,lady, “L may
have appealed indifferent at the time, but- good
heavens ! you should have only gone into my room
a little while afterwards and semi the .marks of j
my teetli on the bed post? ”
j Literary Hex and their Wives.—l do main- j
! tain that a wife, says Sarah Coleridge, whether j
| young or old, may pass her evenings most happi- !
j ly in tlu 1 presence of her husband, occupied her
self, and conscious that lie is still better occupied,
though he may but speak with her and cast his
eyes upon her from time to time—thit such even
ings may be looked forward to with great desire, i
! and deeply regretted wityn they are passed away
j forever. Wieland. whose conjugal felicity has ,
i been almost as celebrated"as himself, says, in a
! letter written after his wife’s death, that if he but
; knew that she was in the room, or if at times she i
I but stepped in and said a word or two, that was
| enough to gladden him. Some of the happiest
j and most loving couples are those who, like Wie
land and his wife, are both too idly employed
! to spend the whole of every evening in conversa
i tion.
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1 Hasty Marriages.—The newspapers have of
j late given frequent accounts of dashing bigamists
j who have made themselves particularly notorious, i
! It is rentalkablo, in almost every instance, that
j these scoundrels arc almost invariably married on
! a very short acquaintance.
The lesson which this conveys should be that,
j not only should careful search he made into the
j antecedents of all men proposing marriage, but
| that in all cases some months at least should
! elapse, during which inquiry should be instituted
| relative to the. early life and connections of men j
| who have thrust themselves, by ready address :
i and plausible stories, into respectable society. -
Nothing is so common n< to hear of some exposed
| adventurers. “Well, who would ever have thought
| it? Why he talked about the ary first people as ,
| if he were perfectly, familiar with them !” Os
; course—it is apart of the stock in trade. Who
| is there that has some experience in the world
who cannot recall the impression made, and the
I influence acquired, by some shallow rascal who
! had simply learned the art of repealing a list of
| first class names ?
The world is easily humbugged in many ways,
i but in none, perhaps, more readily than by lend
j ing faith to what people say of themselves. It is ■
j a peculiarity, however, of this, more than of any
| other country, that girls who regard themselves ;
as shrewd enough, can here he induced to stake
their happiness, and thatjof their friends, at a few ’
hours or days notice, simply on the stories which
a man may choose to tell himself. In large cities,
where human nature is a little better understood.
; there is less of this: but after all, the amount
i of such credulity which criminal courts bring to
! light is reallv remarkable.— Xus/tAlfc Ecceftc.
■
No family is perfect without a daughter or sister
lin it. A round dozen of great big brothers will not
| compensate for one soft-eyed, sunny-hearted girl,
i Such a treasure, ntunbere I in the household, has
j a humanizing and civilizing tendency—better to
a rough, ungainly follow in boots and wiiisa a's
! than to season at a dancing school, or a year at
college. One can almost in variably select atom i ;
I that has no sisters to bless li m. He is awkward j
1 as an auk, and one of those fellows t hat wproverbi
j ally “afraid of the girls,” and blushes like a caul .
! iflower at the sight of one. And yet it is not be- • ,
! cause he is modest, but because ho is a sort of
! unblanketed savage. Blessed :s the circle that has
1 a sister in it. There is something lovely m the ;
| name and its utterance never fails to call up the ;
’ warm affection of the gentle hear,. She is a gem i
of mildest light, calm astlie mellow moon, and j
set in a coronet of pearls.
j s Father Here ?” —A young man came into !
a city station house yesterday afternoon, and in
quired: Is father in here?” “I do not know—!
what is his name?” said the Lieutenant on duty. |
The name was given, and the record exhibited !
with “ drunk and disorderly” attached as the j
j charge.
“Can 1 see him a moment—he is my father?” 1
was the response, and the young man was con- i
ducted to the iron cage where the father had been 1
confined since morning, now sobered and in his ;
right mind. “ Father,” said the visitor, “ Janets I
rlead!'■’ And the young man choked at the sen- j
tence, while the strong-nerved father vented his j
grief in tears and loud expressions of sorrow.
While the sister and daughter lay upon her
dying bed the father had indulged in liquid po-;
; tations that dethroned reason, and had been ar
rested and confined in the station house. The
son asked for his release, and the kind-hearted j
officer opened his prison door, and with a word
of comfort and warning, set him free. Such are
some of the daily scenes a “ Local” meets with in
| his daily rounds,— Cincinhatti Gazette, >
FARMED ’S COLUMN.
t’OTIHEMCtiU.
Avgusta, March 22nd. — Colton.— Sales’ to-day KBout
i goo bales, at verv irregular prices. The market closed
for Middling Fair lip but very unsettled. The
j tendency is downwards at present.
Charleston, March 20. —Cos lon. 1 lio maiket, at
orening to-day, showed decided symptoms ofweakness,
j and prices were all of }(§.}c. lower, and buyers, alter
the advices were made public, were demanding a fur
ther concession. The sales were limited to I.SOO bates,
■ and were made on the iollowing terms, viz : 59 bales at
10; 4 rt 101; 23 at 11; 000 at Ilf; 55 at Ilf; 44 at
i 114 ; 27 at 113 ; 200 at Ilf; 31 at Ilf : mid 263 bales at
12c.
1 Savannah, March 20.—Cotton.— 811 hales sold to-day
at the following particulars: 32 at 81; 7 at 10; 9 at
! 10} ; 85 at 104 ; 2 nt 11: 18 at Ilf; 400 at Ilf; 6 at
11} : 35 at 11: ; 120 at 11 3-16; 2 at Ilf; 31 at 12.
Augiida Trices Current.
WHOLESALE ntICES.
BACON.—Hams, q* !b 10 @ 10}
Canvassed Hams. q* lb 13 (gi 14
Shoulders, qt ib 9 @ 10
Western Sides, q* lb 10} Cu) 11
1 Clear Sides, Tcnn., q} lb 11 @ Ilf-
Ribbed Sides, lit lb n (3) 00
Hog Round, new, q* lb 10 (a) 10}
FLOUR.—Country qi bbl 450 (y C, 00
Tennessee q* bbl 475 @5 60
City Mills $ bbl 550 @7 50
Etowah q>, bbl 500 @7 50
Denmcad’s r> bbl 500 @7 00
Extra bbl 700 @7 50
GRAIN.—Corn in sack q* bush 65 @ 75
Wheat, white bush 1 10 () 1 15
Red qj Ib l oo @1 05
Oats q< bush 45 (a) 50
Rye qt bush 70 (o) 75
Peas r (A bush 75 @ 85
Corn Meal ft bush 10 Q) 75
IRON.—Swedes q* lb 5} <<( 5J
English, Common, qt fl> 3} Os)
“ Refined, ft lb 32 (<4
LARD.— Ulb 10 (g) 11
MOLASSES. —Cuba ft gnl 26 (5; 28
St. Croix fl gal 40
Sugar House Syrup gal 42 @ 45
Chinese Syrup qd gal 40 (o) 50
SUGARS.—N. Orleans ft tb 7} (a) 9
Porto Rico -ft lb 8} (a) 9
Muscovado Ulb 8 (a, 8}
Refined C I?- lb 10 @ 11
Refined B lb 10} (3) 11
Refined A qt lb 11 @ 11}
Powdered ft lb 12 () 13
Crushed lh 12 @ *l3
SALT.— ft ? ack 90 (ft 1 00
COFFEE.—Rio V lh 11} (a) 12V
I Lnguira qi ft> 13 @ 14
Java q> lb 18 ( ii) 20
Manure Maxims.
At a late meeting of the Farmer’s Chib of the
American Institute, Mr. T. W. Field read a'pa
per on manures, in which he said :
The whole subject of manure may be stated in
this proposition.
1. Manure does not waste so long as it is unfer
■ merited, or undissolved, and these conditions may
bo effected by drying saturation.
2. Fresh manure is unfit.for food ibr jdants.
• i 3. Fermenting manure, in contact with inert
-.! matter has the power of neutralizing vicious pro
• I perti . such as the tonic acid of peat, and making
• j it a fertalizer.
4. Manure wastes in two ways —the escape ofj
gas, and the dissolving of its soluble salts,
j o. The creative power of manure, mixed with
other mu stances, is capable of multiplyiiu
ii value many times.
j 0. The value of manure to crops is in proportion
!to its divisibility through the sor. This golden
’ value of farming should be small quantities of ma-
P 1 liure thoroughly divided and intermingled with
the soil.
-
How.to Cur Glass with a Piece of Iron.—Draw
with a pencil on paper any pattern to which you
| would have the glass conform; place the pattern
j under tun gku’ r hoi in both togeiher in the loft
hand, (for the glass must not resi on any plain
; surface,) then t. ke -a common spike or some sim-
I ilar piece of iron, heat the point of it to redness,
| and apply it to the edge, of the glass; draw the
: iron slowly forward, and the edge of the glass will
| immediately crack: continue moving the iron
| slowly over the glass, tracking the pattern and
1 clink in Hie glass, will follow at the distance ni
| about half an inch, in every direction, according
!to the motion of the iron. It may sometimes bo
■ found requisite, however, especially in forming Cor
ners, to apply a wet finger to the opposite side of the
| glass. Tumblers and other glasses may be cut. or
! divided very fancifuFy by similar means. The
1 iron must be reheated as often as the crevice in
’ the glass ceases to flow. —Scientific American. .
Lime for Potatoes. —A correspondent—Smith
Groom, of New York—informs us that his expe
rience in the culture of potatoes has convinced
1 him that about a handful of dry slacked lime,
| placed in each hill, tends to pi event the potato
rot. The lime, lie s'atis, brings the potato to ear
lier maturity, and imparts to them a vigor which
resists the at tacks of the disease. An experiment
with lime can be conducted by any of our farmers
! at a small expense, and if it does not prevent the
potato rot, the lime will certainly enrich the soil
for other purposes. —Seicntifie Amerleau.
Grafting.—'drafting is performed in the spring.
The last of March is the proper time for plums
. and cherries: and April for others. In grafting,
thrifty young stock should he preferred. The
i operation is simple and consists in cutting oft’ the
stock at the point where we wish to insert- the
1 scion, and splitting the stock down the centre:
the scion is cut at the lower end, in the ionn of
a wedge, and inserted in the split in the stalk :
the outside hark of the scion should tit nicely the
bark on the stalk. A salve made of one pound
] of beeswax, six of rosin, melted with one pint of
j linseed oil, is then used to cover the seams made
in the operation, so as to vender the whole aiv
tigiit : the salve should be looked to occasion
ally, and kept smooth and tight on the seams, for
it sometimes gets open and lets in the air, which
; will destroy the scion. Scions should be of the
last year’s growth, and have upon each two or
three buds.
(Tttixi; Grafts.—Scions for grafting can be
cut at any time during the winter or spring, and
if properly pres nod, are in a better condition
than when permitted to remain on the parent
tree until the bud have begun to swell. It cut
when the ground is frozen, they can be preserved
in the cellar in saiid siightiy moistened oceasion
i ally : or if the ground be not frozen, they can be
stuck two or throe indies into the soil, and loit
, there in perfect safety until needed.
Vv'e find it to he a good plan to stick the scions
in the ‘'round at the bottom of the tree from
which tiiov are taken, by which the name is safely
retained. We have never found cold weather fol
lowing the cuttingof scions and partially cover
in’- them with earth, to bo the least detriment to
them. — i it r/iH>ilti'W>i I ‘eyraph.
To Preserve ll.vms tiirough the Summer.—Make
a number of cotton bags, a little larger than your
h.:m; after the hams are well smoked, place
them in the Vans; then get the very best kind
of sweet, well made hay, cut it with a knife, and
with your Uqnds press it well around the hams in the
bag: tie the bags with good strings put on a
card of the year to show their age, and then hang
them up in th§ garret or some dry room, and
they will hang live years, and will be better for
-b-'iiing than on the day you hang them up.
This method costs la t lit tie, as the bags will last
for years. No dies nor bugs will trouble the hams
if the hav is welt pressed around them ; the
sweating of the hams will be taken up by the
lmy, and the hay will impart- a fine flavor to the
hams. The hams should be treated in this man
ner before the warm weather sets in.
To Raise Extra Early Potatoes.—Cover the
bot tom of several shallow boxes with six inches
of equal parts stable manure and\loam and put
an early variety of potatoes over kite jfhrf&ce two
or three inches apart: then covPr th'emuvitfi six
inches of the compost. Nail slats W an open
cover over the top, and bury in the side of a fer
menting manure bed, the warmth of which will
soon start the potatoes into growth. If the heat
should be too great, remove a portion of the ma
nure from the,top, and admit air inside the box.
When the weather will allow planting out, re
move the which will contain a mass of
roots apd whitish colored stalks. Leave them in
the open air for a few days to harden off, and
having watered them.copiously, take out the po
tatoes with as much earth as possible, undis
turbed about the roots already formed, and trans
plant in rows. You will then have potatoes at *
least two or three weeks earlier than when planted
at first in the open grounds. The middle or lat
ter part of March will be a proper season for put
ting them in the compost heap, in this latitude,—
American Agriculturist.