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% WnkIt] /atnih} 3SBnt0paptr—fEtratrh in tip interests nf fyt National fntwrraftr ^arhj, libratarf, tlit Markets, foreign ntiit Samestir 30nns, &r. B. F. BENNETT, Editor and Publisher. “ Equality in the Union or Independence out of it.” TERMS—TWO DOLLARS a-year, in Advance. VOL. X. CASSYILLE, GEO., THURSDAY, OCT. 14, 1858. NO. 38. Jpkrtkmtnts. JOB OFFICE. The Standard Office being well supplied with a large variety of the best kinds of print ing materials, we are prepared to do all kinds JOB IP^USTTIHSTGr, in the best style of the art, and at short no- tice. . Having just received a large quantity of all kinds, and the latest styles, ot plain and fancy Cuts, Ornaments, Ac., and having one of “Hoe’s Lightning Hand Presses,” we can do as nice printing as can be done at any office :n the State, and at as low terms. Particular attention will be paid to the printing of Blanks, of all kinds, Blank Notes, Pro grammes, Hand and Show Bills, Posters, Ac. We respectfully solicit the patronage ot the E ublic, with the assurance that all orders will e promptly and faithfully executed. 1 B. F. BENNETT, Cassville, Ga. Publisher. Laws of Newspapers. 1. Subscribers who do not £.ve express no tice to the contrary, are considered as wishing to continue their subscriptions. 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their newspapers without settling all arreara ges, the Publisher may continue to send them until they are paid for. 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their newspapers from the ofTices to which they are directed, they are held responsible until they have settled the bills, and ordered a dis continuance. 4. If subscribers remove to other places with out informing the Publisher, and the newspa- C ers arc sent to the former direction, they are eld responsible. 5. It has been decided by the Courts that subscribers refusing to take their newspapers from the office, or removing and leaving them uncalled for, is prima facie evidence of inten tional fraud. 6. The Courts have also decided that a Post master who neglects to perform his duty of giv ing reasonable notice, as required by the Post- Office Department, of the neglect of a person fo take from the office newspapers addressed to him, renders himself liable for the subscription price. AND BUGGY-MAKING, AND Bl.A€K-3RI}1fHffl& l BY II. HOLMES, CASSVILLE, GA. I can put up any kind of Vehicle wanted, at short' notice, and in as good style as it can be done any where. All work warranted. Cassville, July 1st, 1S5S. H. SHOP. William Headden, CASSYILLE, GEO., IS prepared to make and repair Carriages, Buggies, Wagons, or anything in his line of business. He has one of the best BLACKSMITH’S and some of the best AY00D WORKMEN in Georgia. Thai.krai for past patronage, he begs a con tinuance of the same. .Work warranted. All those indebted to him for last year’s shop accounts are requested to call and settle bv cash or note, without delay. Cassville, Mch 25,1S5S—ly OF AT AUGUSTA, T HE next annual course of Lectures in this Institution will begin on the 1st Monday in November next, with an Introductory Lec ture by Prof. JONES. Emeritus Prof, of Anatomy—G. M. NEW TON, M. 0. Anatomy—II. F. CAMPBELL, M. 0. Surgery—L. A. DUGAS, M 0. Chemistry and Pharmacy—JOS. JONES, M. D. Institutes and Practice—L. 0. FOR0, M. O. Physiology and Pathological Anatomy—H. V. M. MILLER, A 0. Rateria Medic*, Therapeutics and Medical Jurisprudence —I. P. GARVIN, M. 0. Demonstrator Of Anatomy—ROB’T CAMP BELL, M. 0- Assistant Demonstrator—S. B. SIMMONS, M, D. jg „ Prosector to the Professor of Surgery—H. W. D. FORD, M. 0. .Curator of Museum—T. P. CLEVELAND, pickets for the whole Course, $106 00 Matriculation, (to be taken once) 5 00 Practical Anatomy (to betaken once) 10 00 For further information apply to any mem ber of the Faculty, or to the undersigned. Aug. 12—tlmn L P. GARVIN, Dean. REMOVAL. Dr. J. W. Kinabrew, THANKFUL lor the pa tronage of the past year, continues to offer his servi ces to the public, and will attend promptly to every ' call, day or night. Office next door south of J. A. \ Terrell’s, where he can be ■found during the day, at night at the residence lately occupied by Mr. Bohannon. Cassville, Aug. 12, 1358. JOS. DUNLAP, ATT0BNIY AT LAW, Kingston, Cass co., Ga. June 10th, 1S5S—ly. B. H. LEEKE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Cassville, Ga. B USINESS entrusted to my care will meet with prompt and vigilant attention, and monies paid over punctually. Feb. 1, 1358—ly. W. V. WESTER, ATTORNEY AT LAW. CALHOUN, GEO. W ILL practice in all the counties of the Cherokee Circuit. Particular attention paid to the collection of claims, and to prompt ly paying over the same when collected. Nov 2G, 1857—ly ANDREW H. RICE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Cassville, Geo. P RACTISES in the Counties of Cass, Cher okee, Cobb, Catoosa, Gordon, Gilmer, Fannin, Paulding and Whitfield. Prompt attention given to the Collecting bu siness in all of the above named counties. May be found in the office formerly occu pied by J. II. A A. II. Rice. June 17th, 1858—ly. THOMAS J. VERDERY, ATT0BOTY AT LAW 9 CEDAR TOWN, GA. W ILL practice in the counties of Floyd, Polk, Paulding, Carroll, Haralson and Cass. Strict attention paid to collecting. Feb. 18, 1S58—ly. M. J. CRAWFORD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, RINGGOLD, CATOOSA COUNTY, GA. TXTILL practice in all the counties of the VV Cherokee Circuit. Particular attention paid to the collecting of money, and to paying over the same when col lected. mhlfl, 1858—ly W offord, Crawford & Howard, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Cassville, and Cabtehsville, Ga. W ILL faithfully attend to any business en trusted to their care, in any of the coun ties of Upper Georgia. Wm. T. Wofford, J. A. Crawford, Cassville; J. A. Howard, Cartersville. July 23. E. M. SEAGO & GAAR, SUCCESSORS TO E. M. SEAGO, Wholesale Grocers, PRODUCE DEALERS, AND GENERAL Commission Merchants, SOUTH SIDE PASSENGER DEPOT, Atlanta, Ga. March is, 1858—ly. S. B. OATMAN, Dealer in American, Italian ano Egyptiam Statuary, ano Tennessee Marble, Monuments, Tombs, Urns and Vases, Marble Mantels, and Furnishing Marble, Atlanta, Ga. James Vaughan, Agent, Cassville, Ga. April 22, 1858—ly. SUMMEY & HURLICX, DEALERS IN MARBLE ITlpitiinicuts, Tombs, Urns, Va- SES, VAULTS, TABLETS, HEAD AND FOOT STONES, Ac. , .RDERS promptly filled. Address Marble e,,ve C P» * l,e bn 8 ,,te * t P 0rt,On . sllollld two : That while the envelop of Hal lev’s Comet is described as a hemispher ical hollow envelop, this shows more the | shape of a nebulous ring; there is a faint i misty light, of irregular outline, but not to be mistaken by even a casual obser ver. The equatorial, which, for more than three years, has been fixed on the me ridian, has been recently replaced in its The Comet. This remarkable object now presents a most striking appearance among the celestial host. In misty grandeur it ev en holds high rank among that class of heavenly bodies to which it belongs. It was discovered by Professor Donate, of! primitive condition to permit the obser- Florence, Italy, nearly four months since ration and examination of this wonder- and for a large part of the time since it ful bodr. was detected,has been steadily approach ing the earth, and in a direction so near ly coincident with the visual ray, that but for the reliable computations of as tronomers, might well excite anticipa tions of some fearful collision with our own planet. Indeed, throughout the present month it seems to have been plunging downward so exactly toward the earth that it scarcely changed its apparent place among the fixed stars by a quantity larger than two or three times the apparent diameter of the moon. It will reach its nearest app.oach to the sun in a few days. Its brilliancy will increase rapidly tip to the close of the first week in Oetcber, when it will put on its most spendid appearance, and will then rival in grandeur the famous comet of liallev, at its Iasi return in 183C. It is by far the most imposing object of the kind which has visited our system since the election of the Cincinnati Ob servatory. Owing to the fact that the direction of its motion is, or has been, so nearly in a line toward the earth, the el ements of its orbit have not been very accurately determined. The plane in which it moves is inclined to that of our earth’s orbit, under an angle o? about sixty-five degrees. Its observed positions are, for the pre sent, better represented by an orbit in the form of a parabola than by any one of an eliplic figure. The Comet will soon commence to change direction, at first slowly, afterward more rapidly,.as seen from the earth, when sweeping swiftly round the snti it will regain those distant regions of space wherein a vast propor tion of its orbit lies, far beyond the reach of telescoj ic vision. On the evening of the 25th of Sep tember the appearance of thetfcomet, in the great retractor of the Cincinnati Ob servatory, was especially interesting.— The central portion, or nucleus, was ex amined with powers varying from one hundred to five hundred, without pre-' senting any evidence of a well-defined planetary disc. It was a brilliant glow of light, darting and flashing forward in the direction of the motion toward the sun, and leaving the region behind in comparative obscurity. But the most wondeiful physical feature presented was a port i>in of nearly circular, nebulous ring, with its vortex directed toward the sun, the bright nucleus being in the cen tre, while the impelled ring swept more than half way round the luminous cen tre. This nebulous ring resembled those which sometimes escape from a steam- pipe, and did not exhibit the appearance which ought to be presented by a hol low hemispherical envelop of nebulous matter. There was an evident concen tration of light in the central portions of the ring, while, in the case of a hollow O. M. MITCHELL. Cincinnati Observatory, Sept. 27, ’58. The Big Trees of California. Among the many remarkable natural curiosities of the land of gold, not the least that solitary group of gigantic pines known as the “ Big Trees of Cal averas County.” The group in Calaveras county are solitary specimens of their race. There are no other of their kind or size on the known globe. It is a singular fact that the group, consisting of ninety-two trees, is contained itt a valley only one hun dred and sixty acres in extent. Beyond the l : mits of this little amphitheatre the pines and cedars of the country sink in to the Lilliputian of the common New England pine—say a hundred and fifty feet, or thereabout/ The} 7 are situated in Calaveras county, about two hundred and forty miles from San Francisco, but may be reached with a couple of days of railroad and stage coach travelling. A Jew hunters, in 1858, were pushing their way into the unexplored forest, when one of them, who was in advance, broke into this space, and the giants were then first seen by white men.— Their collossal proportions, and the im pressive silence oftbe surrounding woods, created a feeling of awe among the hun ters ; and after walking around the great trunks, and gazing reverentially up at their grand proportions, they returned to the nearest settlements, and gate ac count of what they had seer.. Their statements, however, were considered fabulous until confirmed by actual mea surement. The basin or valley in which they stand is very damp, and retains here and there pools of water. Some of the largest trees extend their roots direct ly into the stagnant water, or into the brooks. Arriving at “ Murphy’s Dig gings” by one of the daily lines of sta ges either from Sacramento or Stockton, or by the Sonora coach, you are within fifteen miles of the celebrated grove :— and from here it is a pretty horseback ride to the “ Mammoth Tree Hotel.”— This has been erected within a year or two, to accommodate the many visitors; for the “ big trees” Itave now become objects of genera! interest. Adjoining the hotel, with which it is connected by a floor, stands the stump of the “ Big Tree,” which was cut down three years since. It measured ninety- six feet in circumference of solid timber. Theatrical performances were given up on it by tlie Chapman family in 1855. This monster was cut down by bouring with long and powerful augers, and saw ing the spaces between—an achieve ment of vandalism as ingenious as the ference at the base and forty-two feet in circumference at a distance of three hundred feet from the roots, at which point it was broken short off in its fall. The upper portion, beyond this break, is greatly decayed; but judging from the average taper of the others, this tree must have towered to the prodigious height of at least four hundred and fifty feet. A chamber or burned cavity ex tends through the trunk two hundred feet broad, and high enough for a per son to ride on horseback through ; and a pond deep enough to float a common river steamboat stands in this great ex cavation during the rainy season. Walk ing on the trunk, and looking from its uprooted base, the mind can scarce con ceive its astonishing dimensions. Lan guage fails to give an adequate idea of it. It was when standing a pillar of timber that overtopped all othei trees of the globe. “ To read simply of a tree four hundred feet high,” observes the “ Country Gentleman,” “ we are struck with large figures; but we can hardly appreciate the height without some com parison. Such a one as this would stretch across a field of twenty-seven rods wide. If standing in the Niagara chasm at Suspension Bridge, it would tower two hundred feet above the top of the bridge ; if placed in Broadway, N. York, at the head of Wall-street, it would overtop Trinity steeple one hun dred and sixty feet; and would be two hundred and thirty feet higher than Bunker Hill Monument, Charlestown, or two hundred and seventy feet above Washington Monument, Baltimore. If cut up for fuel it would make at least three thousand cords, or as much as would be yielded by sixty acres of good woodland. If sawed into two inch boards it would yield about three mil lion feet, and furnish enough three-inch plank for thirty miles of plank road.— This will do for the product of one little seed, less in size than a trrain of wheat.” These trees are not the California red wood, as has been affirmed of them.— They are a species of cedar peculiar to the Western slopes of the Sierra Neva da. The growth, bark, and leaf are dif ferent from those of any other tree.— Botanists class them, ar.d probably cor rectly, among the ‘* Taxodinms.” For eigners will doubtless continue to re christen them after this or that Europe an celebrity. All who write or speak of them should avoid being thus led, and perpetuate the glorious name given shortly after their discovery.—the Wash- ingtonia gigantea. About Girls’ Names. If you are a very precise man, and wish to be certain of what yon get, nev er mairy a girl named Ann; for we have the authority of Lindley Murray and others, that “ an is an indefinite article.” If you would like to have a wife who one is “ one of a thousand,” you should marry an Emily or an Emma, for any printer can tell you that “ ems are coun ted by thousands.” If you do not wish to have a bustling, fly-abont wife, you should not marry one named Jenny; for every cotton spin ner knows that Jennies are always on the month wasn’t filled. Even the nourish ment nature provided, didn’t wholly sat isfy it, for it wasn’t as sweet as candy. I thought it was no wonder, if chil dren were taught even in babyhood that papa was bad, nglv, and unkind, that in vouth tliev should call him a,“ snob” and the “ old man,” and the mother whom they had learned by experience had no stability of character, and was capable of deception, not strange they should so little respect her as to call her the “old woman.” I shudder when I hear the frequent words from young lips, “O, I must not let father know that.” The father may be a stern man, rig id in his way of bringing up his chil dren, but be Jias a heart somewhere, and surely truthful, honest loving words from his own child, will find that warm place. So it is best never to deceive him in anything, hut keep his confidence whole and unshaken, and the whiteness of the soul unstained by that loathsome sin de ception. “ Father don’t allow me to read nov els,” said a young lady to me lately, “ hut mother does, and so we too read all we can get, and he never knows it;” and she giggled as though they were very cunning and worthy of praise, for so completely deceiving' poor good fath er. My soul sickened at the idea of a wife daring to teach her children to dis obey their father: of the daughter, vain and unprincipled, with such a mother to teach and guide her. Better for the world had she never been born.— Ohio Cultivator. o Works P. O., Pickens Co, Ga. James Vaughan, agent, Cassville, Ga. Fob 1st, 1S5S—ly. out the nails of criminals with pincers. It required the labour of five men twen ty-five days to effect its fall, the tree standing so near perpendicular that the at the outer edge. By micrometical! aid of wedges and a battering ram was measurement the distance from the cen- j necessary to complete the destruction.— DR, J. T. GROVES. [HAS removed to tbe office next door to A. C. Day’s shop, where he mar be found both day and night. unlessproiessionally engaged. Prompt attention given to all calls, by day or night, Cassville, Jan. 21, 1S5S. M. McMURRY, Dealer in Family Groceries, CONFECTIONARIES, Ac., Cassville, Ga. Feb. 1st, 1858—ly. NEW EME IXSIEI NEW GOODS! tral poiut to the circumference of the ring was found to be about 9,000 miles. This would give a diameter of eigbleeu thousand miles, in case the ring was en tire. Similar measurements, made on the evening of the 26th of September, indicated a decided increase in the radi us of the ring which was now not less Chinese refinement in cruelly of p.ulling! go. If you want to marry Belle, it is not necessary that you should be a sexton, just because you have to ring her at the altar. If yon marry one named Margaret, you may fear fur the manner that she But the immense mass resisted all effort will end her days, for all the world to overthrow it, until in the dead of the 1 knows that pegs were made for hanging. I fit, and the extent to which they should be cultivated. 8. The cultivation of Forest Trees. 9. The construction of Ice Bo.uses for domestic, use. 10. FarindGardcns and Orchards. 11. On Agricultural exhibitions. 12. Agricultural subjects other than the above tin. best-essav offered. tempestuous night it began to groan and sway like an expiring giant, and it suc cumbed at last to the elements, which alone could complete from above what the human ants had commenced below. Its fall was like the shock of an earth- than twelve thousand iniies in length.: quake, and was heard fifteen miles a- On the same evening I uotieed tbe fact J way—at “ Murphy’s Diggings.” There that the luminous envelop did not blend i fell in this great trunk some thousands itself into the head portion of the tail,j of cords of wood, and it buried itself 12 but apf eared somewhat to penetrate into i ft. in the mire that bordered the little this uehulous mass, especially on the up- creek near bv. Not far from where it per part, presenting the appearance of about 200 degrees of a spiral. The tail Jon the 25th wasdecidedly brighter and NEW STORE! NEW L0- better defined on the upper than on the CATION AND NEW ARRANGEMENT! Wm. Kay, Agent, lower portion, while on the evening of struck stand two colossal members of this family, called the “ Guardsmen ;” the mud splashed nearly a hundred feet high upon their trunks. As it lay on the ground it measured three hundred the 25th there was a much nearer ap- and two feet clear of the stump and bro- proach to equality in brightness, especi-| ken top-work. Large trees had been ally near the head, the tail presented the appearance of a hollow nebulous envel- HAS for sale, a large assort- ment of Books, Stationery, Musi- eal Instruments, Fancy' Goods, unde, the fom ofa par.b.l.id of cash rates. A share of the public patronrge is! revolution, the edges being brightest and respectfully solicited. we !l defined, while there was a manifest j and two bowling alleys of the hotel, the and forwarded return raanTraiiroad^ex-! fading away of light toward the central j latter running parallel a distance of press or stage. Please remember the place— 1 region. Through the vast depth of neb- ; eighty-one feet. depot^Atiante Geo. th ! ulous tna tter composing this wonderful j One of the most interesting of the snapped asunder like pipe stems, and the woods around were splintered and crushed to the earth. On its levelled surface are now situated the bar room Not a Fish Story. ~|yTT we are actually receiving a still larger laiminisnea ongnmess. | roresi. it is nun me mu i gate on this gigantic ob- j grove, rising to the height of three hnn- misty splendor, without a dred and twenty-seven feet, straight.and T. X Collectors Fi Fas. 75 oents per quire at the Standard Office. U appendage the faintest telescopic stare j group is that called the “ Mother of the shone with undimiuished brightness. i Forest.” It is now the loftiest of the No one can U supply of Fishing Tackle, Jointed Rods, i - , - Multiplying Reeds, Silk, Grass, Hair, Flax, and i Jf Ct ’ ‘. n a ,tS . I!>1S 5 r • . i, - r .. ' J Cotton Fish Lines, Virginia, Limerick and Kir- deep impression that the eye is resting j beautifully proportioned, and at this mo- by Hooks, Sock Dologers, Patent Grapples, 1 ^ a mass of nebulous matter precisely i ment the largest living tree in tbe world. SIS’ I .«b » U» «f UFtoii If is ninety feet in circumference. Into and Quill Floats, Spring Snap Hooks, Gut supposes to have been the primordial ’ this trunk could be cut an apartment as Loops, Tackle Books^Bait^oxesSportsmen’s I .jondition of our sun and all its attendant ! large as a common-sized parlour, and q'Stefn’, and Iv^ttdng iifthewayofj planets, and from which chaotic condi-, as high as the architect chose to make Fishine Tackle. At the ti^n this beautiful system of revolving it, without endangering the tree or m- Fishmg Tackle. JEWELRY A CLOCK HOUSE, of - VEAL A CO. June 10.1858. Caution. *TMUS public are cautioned against trading, 1 with any pedlers or other* representing themselves as our agents, in order to sell (bar 'trait Jewelry and bogut Watchet We have no agents ont st all. VEAL A CO., June. 17 Borne, Ga. tkm this beautiful system of revolving ; it, without endangering worlds bas been evoked by tbe action of juring its outward appearance. a single laMr.* tls-i i: ’ " * The only comet which bas presented an appearance resembling the one now yjaible, is the one known as Halley's Comet, as seen by Sr. Wm. Herechel But the dimensions of the whole group pale before those of the prostrate giant known as the “ Father of the For- est.” This monster has long since bow ed his bead in the dust, but how stu- and others in its return in 18S6. There pendous in his ruin ! The tree measures! thing had been fed on candy, almost, is this marked difference between flie * ' one hundred and twelve feet iu circnm- If you wish to succeed in life as a poi- ter, you should marry Caroline,and treat her very kindly, for so long as you con tinue to do this you will be good to Carry. The most incessant wiiter in the world is he who is always bound to Ad a-line. You may adore your wife, but you will be surpassed in love wheu your wife is Dora. Many men of high moral principles, and who would not gamble for the Wbrld, still have not refused to take a Bet. No printer who expects to make any thing off his brother typos by the game of “jeffing,” should marry a Mary ; for the craft, generally, knows tliata “ mol ly” is no 'count. “ Don’t Tell Father.” The reader will pardon the severity of the language in this selection, for the sake of the excellent lesson which it con tains : There is many a good mother who plans the ruin of the child she dearly loves—teaching it the first lesson of wrong-doing, by simply saying, “Now don’t tell your father.” Surely moth ers do it thoughtlessly, ignorantly, not considering it is a first lesson in decep tion. I beard a kind, well-meaning moth er say to the pnny babe in her arms, “ well birdie shall have its good candy every day; bad papa shan’t know it; see how it lores it!” and the little thing whose reach of life had not a whole win ter in it yet, snatched at the red ' and blue colored poison, and made as man* glad motions, sis though it took its whole body to sock it with. The poor little and fretted for more whenever her Inaction a Sin. When the body is weary, rest is en joyed ; hut in no other way can ease give pleasure. They who think to find happiness in a life of ease are bitterly disappointed, and endure inexpressible weariness and disgust. The weariness of inaction is more in tolerable than the fatigue of over-exer tion, and is directly ruinous of all organ ized structures. Ease always produces disease. Ease and elegance are incom patible. Inaction and happiness are at variance. Action is necessary not only to the health of the body and mind, but it is essential to their very existence, so we can enjoy life only as we act, and uur enjoyment is propor.ioned to our normal activity. Muscular exercise gives positive pleas ure. Bodily labor is absolutely neces sary to health, and the highest enjoy ment ; for nothing else can give the pei- fect physiological development essential to the highest exercise of the mind, in tellectually and socially. It was a most beueficient Wisdom which compelled inan to work for his bread. When the earth was cursed, it was, in truth, for ■nan’s sake, as labor is as necessary a condition of health and happiness as it is a means of procuring food. Inaction induces loss, suffering, despair. It in vites misery, and all the hosts of vice.— But give life a purpose, something for which to labor, and one’s energies are called out, and according as all his fac ulties are employed, he is happy. He, is safe just to the degree in which he lias no time to parley with spirits ofdissaiis- faction, fear, and strife. lie is exempt from the corrosion of ennui and the hal lucinations of indoleuce. Is there not a proverb that “ he who will not work shall not eat ?” This em bodies truth ; for it is bv action only that tbe tissues of the body vast •, thus creating the sole demand for food. As it is a law which the whole force of the universe cannot annul, that bodi ly labor is necessary to l-odily health, and that as it is neglected the body be comes impaired, it follows that they who do no bodily labor are guilty ot physical sin. Sin cannot remain un punished, though the heavens were to fall. None can be righteous without bodi ly labor. None can be pure without it. Without it none knows how much he can enjoy. A part of eve r y day should be consecrated to bodily labor. It was the essence of Wisdom that placed maitain the garden “to dress and to till it.”—Life IUnstrated. Premiums for Agricultural Essays. The United States Agricultural Soci ety offer their grand silver medal and diploma for the best essay on each of the following subjects, for publication in the next volume of their transactions : 1. Agricultural Education, including the details of a system for an Agricul tural College and Experimental Farm. 2. The best proportions between the- value of land aud other capital, and be tween the amount invested in different departments ofa farm, naradiv: land, stock, implements and manures. 3. Meterology, in reference to its con nection with droughts mud floods, with suggestions for anticipating them and guarding against their effects. 4. Concentrated Manures, in reference to economy, improvements of land, in juriom tendencies, preparations, applica tion, Ac. 0. Depth of culture for different soils. 6. On the developement of latent pro perties iu soils. 7. New Crops, with their relative prq- Deep Sea Soundings. Some persons are surprised at a state ment that the water upon the telegraph ic plateau between Trinity and Valen- tia Bays is from two !o three miles deep in its deepest parts, having been told that there it is comparatively shallow. A comparison of deep sea soutidings will show tiiat the idea of its shallownem is correct, when measured by the almost incredible abysses to which the plum-, met has been sent. Lieut. Beiryman, in 1853, made a sounding in the Atlan tic ocean 39,600 feet in the depth, equ al to a little over 7 1-4 miles; and Capt. Denham, of tiie British Navy, has ob tained soundings of the vast depth of 46,236 feet, or 8 1-2 English miles.— The highest mountains upon tlie globe might he bulled into these immense chasms, and still leave a vast ocean a- hout their tailesl peaks. Tbe giant Himalaya, that overtop all other moun tains, would he swallowed as easily as the Alps. The highest peak of the chain is only 28,178 feet, above the sea level, and its summit might he submerged a- trout three miles at the point of Captain Denham’s deepisl soundings. Wash. Star. Educated Farmers. Educated Farmers are said to be a want of our country ; but notwithstanding the general dissemination of knowledge, we see no prospect of this desideratum being sup plied. There are many young men wbo are receiving high educationaUadvantages, who can succeed but poorly by their wits. They have not tbe ready shrewdness, tbe keen, searching powers of analysis, and the bold eloquence that will fit them for tbe bar;— not the accurate scholarship and skill in discipline which fit for th« school.room, nor the aptness to teach and sanctity of lift which is requisite for the pulpit. Vet, with out qualifications suited for the learned pro fessions, they have good sense, would make excellent farmers, and, in that capacity, would make useful citizens. But, instead of entering upon vocations to which tbeir capacities are adapted, they prefer being third or fourth rates in professions at wbieh they can scarce make their bread. Many young men wbo have attended col leges or high schools tliiuk it humiliating to attend to all the details of farming in per son. They would be glad to have well stock ed farms, fmuished with all tbe applianoes for making money, bat they would want them on scales large enough to authorize the employment of managers If one of them has the means, he buys a farm, fur. nishes it, employs an overseer and then goea with his family to the nearest village for the sake of society. Theie, though nomin ally a member of a profession, be is, in nine cases out of ten, a mere lounger about town, aud is fortunate if he escapes the foulest contaminations F-ven those who live on their farms are at but little pains co becomo fully acquainted with the details of their business, and still fewer to introduce im provements They never think of analyzing the soil and trying differ-ut systems of ag riculture. Those who have an ambition to accumulate wealth, employs what are term ed rubhing overseers, who are instructed to make large crops at any risk. This, ia a few years, reduces their land to the red clay, and they are compelled to move to tbe West, there to renew their destructive pro cess. While this is the history of thousands, some are content to move on more elowly, but less surety . for what of their ignorance and negligence they scarce make a support and keep their iuheriled property together. . Agriculture is not a business for which mind is so entirely non-essential as somo suppose. The day a man could turn the fruitful giebo. plant*- loosely cultivate and gather, has passed in ail the older States. Anybody could farm then, even tho* he were but a remove or two from idiocy — This is the case no longer. Now, he must bring to his aid a science far from easy of comprehension, if be would pursue this vo cation with succpss and profit. Those wbo follow the extreme anti book system of cul tivating the soil of our worn out hills, may expect to change tbeir condition only by be coming poorer. We need educated farmers to renovate our wasted lands, and reatON them to pristine fertility. But so long as every man of intelligence and information crowds into some profession to the-total neg lect of farming, bo long will the agricnita- ral advancement of our country be retar ded — Temperance Crusader. A Law Abiding Feo-le.—The citizen of Milwankie are tbe most law abiding peo ple in tbe world. We asked one of them why so many people were drowned in the river, and he replied is was on aceoant of an ordi nance of that city, which forbids swimming within the city limits. When on of thorn slipped in, he recalled the ordinance at one, and rather titan violate ia went ebeerfnlly to the bottom without a straggle • Hew long did Adam remain in Paradise, before he ainssd F swd an amiable spouse toherhnbaad. »Till he got a wife,* calmly answered tho bugbaud. ~