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From the Carolina Planter.
Manures.
Mr. Editor , —As I think every one
should contribute his mite towards ad- j
vancing the improvement of Agriculture,
I am induced to send you a few remarks, j
which you may publish, if you think them j
worthy of insertion.
It is almost needless for me to say any ;
thing here, of the necessity of a greater ;
attention being given to manuring our
lands, as all who (like myself,) are in pos- j
session of exhausted lands, well known, i
But if I can suggest any means by which |
the production of this truly invaluable;
source of improvement may be increased,
I shall have done something towards
the prosperity of individuals, and of the
State.
It is a serious fact, Mr. Editor, that
many valuable means by which our ma
nure heap might be much enlarged, are
neglected, and the materials wasted.—
But few persons are aware of the quanti
ty of vegetable matter that might be fer
mented, and made available as food for
plants, by the addition of a little animal
matter, and hence so few make more than
one half the quantity they might obtain,
by greater care in supplying litter to their
stock and leaving no animal offal, that
can possibly be obtained unapplied. My j
object is to save every thing of the kind, j
und to this end I adopt means, which I
think are not very general among our
Farmers and Planters. In the first place,
I would say with the late Mr. Herbcmont,
“after you have thoroughly littered your
stable and cattle yard, with leaves and
straw, which we can ail easily obtain,
then go and litter them all over again.”
My cowpen is attached to the stable,
and is made concave in the centre. In
the Spring, these are cleaned out, and the
manure hauled, when the concave pa't is
filled up with corn stalks and leaves, and
a few loads of mud or earth taken from
low' ground, thrown thereon. The mar
gins are left barj, for the comfort of the
cattle, which are penned at night through
the summer , and salted, which is a great
inducement for them to come up, (they
are kept up altogether in winter.) These
margins are scraped every week or ten
days, and the droppings thrown upon the
litter in the centre, on which also the
stable manure is spread. It is my prac- i
tice throughout the year, to throw leaves j
and ashes into the privy and under the
roosts of the poultry house. I now have
these thoroughly cleaned out, and the
manure heap, with the sweepings of the
yard, wood pile, and such ashes as may !
be on hand, from the lye hopper, Ac.
There is always a pile of leaves, weeds
from the garden, Ac. in a corner of the
yard, upon which all the slops, soap-suds,
aud wash of the house, are emptied, and
the application of ashes to this pile, and
to the poultry house and privy, go far to-'
wards rendering their contents inodorous, j
and add much to the value of the manure. ;
These last may appear to many, a small!
matter; but sir, the ocean is made up of j
drops, and from the pile in the yard alone, j
i. c. leaves and sweepings, I have the past j
year made nine two horse loads of well
rotted manure, the soap-suds, urine,ashes,
&c. being very efficacious in rotting the |
leaves and weeds, thus converting to an i
excellent purpose, substances which are 1
otherwise lost, if they are not even allow
ed to become nuisances about us.
Throughout the whole year, as often as I
opportunity offers, the stable is cleaned |
out, and fresh leaves continually given to !
the horses giving them good beds, adding
to their comfort, and to the manure heap.
If the above remarks may induce any
farmer to adopt means he has heretofore
neglected, they will have answered their
purpose —but if you think they are all
now universally attended to, you can des- j
troy this paper, and not at all offend.
A YocNc Farme3.
Greenville District , .S'. C. Aug. 1844.
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Raising Chickens.
Have a lot of sufficient size enclosed j
50 as to keep your chickens in it, and keep i
it regularly ploughed up, to prevent any’
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grass at all from growing in the yard; i
set up some little forks in the ground,
about one foot high, and lay some poles
across them, upon which lay some brush; 1
it makes a tine arbor for the chickens to
run under from the hawks, and go under
them frequently to enjoy the shade. By
keeping the ground ploughed up, the
chickens never have the disease called
S the gapes, which we have seen ten thou
sand die w’ith.
They should be fed upon dough which
is made up of buttermilk, and sometimes
grease may be put in to an advantage.
Southern Planter.
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“ Look w here you are Going.”
This was a remark we heard vester
| day as we passed along Chartres-street,
; addressed by a mother to a beautiful
, child, about five years of age- The little
follow had iiis hands full of toys and hU J
j head full of wonder. lie was looking
iat the glittering and attractive articles j
| in the numerous show windows, and with
; Iris eyes devouring their beauties. He
did’ut see the streets nor the persons pas- ;
sing—not he—his soui was filled with
something else besides the mere idea of
how or where he was walking. Without j
his mother, he certainly would have been
run o» er by the whirling drays or trodden
down in the careless crowd—as it was, j
he ran some risk, as his mother's “ look
where you are going,” seemed to indi
cate.
W e were much interested, not only in
the child, hut the mother, who was a no-!
hie looking creature, with large black
eyes, a high forehead, a cheek quite
roseat for this climate,and a most bewitch- i
ing form. Her carriage was graceful,
j and she stepped as we imagine Hebe did ;
| when she served the gods at their ban
quet. We lost sight of her very soon,
however, but her remark, “ Look where
you are going,' has been ringing in out
ears ever since. Could it have been on i
account o f her voice ? We were charm
ed by its music, but have listened to tones
far sweeter. We know not what there
was about that single phrase to attract
l us, save the deep philosophy which may
| Iki drawn from it, and the practical mo
; ralitv that may Im* educed.
‘ Look wiiv-r** you are going !’ An ad
monition, how universal in application—
how simple in practice—how important
in result! There is no situation in life
so low that it cannot tie improved by it,
nor none so high that may scorn it with
impunity. The child needed it to keep
him out of the street where danger was
rife—the monarch on the throne requires
it to preserve the integrity of his councils
when the popular will is threatening.
j Reader, if you are a merchant, when :
I business is exciting—prices brisk and the ,
| market active—when farmers are confi
dent and speculators ready—when ras- j
cality is hidden by the cloak of morals,
and insolvency lurks under silken robes,
remember and 4 look where you are go
iing,’ follow not this man because he pro
| mises you a fortune—trust not that one
because he wears a saintly face—confide
not in a third because he agrees with you
in opinion. “ Look where you are going,’
and take care of the main chance.
If a young man, and pleasure, beckon
! ing with her rosy hands, invites you to i
| her luxuriant retreats, take no step to-!
| wards those enticing grottoes ere vou !
i 4 look’where you’re going. The faro-table
'and the dice-box—dishonesty to your j
j employers—a ruined reputation and per- j
haps an ignominious death, may be the i
consequence of a refusal to 4 look where
you’re going.’ If the world followed!
this simple advice, our jails would be |
tenantless, and our gibbets of no use. ! 1
If you intend to marry—if you think
iyour happiness will be increased and
jyour interest advanced by matrimony, i
| be sure and ‘look where you're going.’ ■
(Join yourself in union with no woman
i who is selfish, for she will sacrifice you i
— with no one who is fickle, for she will i i
become estranged —have nothing to do!*
with a proud one, for she will despise i
you—nor with an extravagant one, for j
she will ruin you. Leave a coquette to j I
the fools that flutter around her—let her i -
| own fireside accommodate a scold, and j <
j flee from the evil one. 4 Look where I
j you're going,’will sum it all up. - <
| Young ladies, when you are surround- <
jed by dashing men—when the tones of ;
; love and words of compliment float out <
| together—when you are excited by the t
'movement of the whirling waltz, or >
'molted bv the tenderness of mellow mu-]'
AUGUSTA, «A. NOVEMBER 23, 1844.
I sic, arrest yourself in that rosy atmos-j
i phere of delight, and ‘ look where you’re j
I going.” When a daring hand is press- j
jing vours, or your delicate tresses are i
! lifted by him you fancy loves you, when
the moonlight invites to trusting, and the
i stars seem to breathe out innocence, 1 is- 1
ten with caution to the words vou hear
—gaze into your heart unshrinkingly,;
and * look where you’re going.— N. O.
Picayune.
From the Satuulay Visitor.
More Scones after Battle.
At Heilsburg.—Glance first at the
battle itself. “ The cannon,” savs Wil
son. “thundered, and the musketry roll-;
ed, illuminating the darkness of the night 1
with continued flame, till gradually the I
combat relaxed, and the Russian lines;
reascended to their position. A little he
fore ten, a deserter caine over to the
| Russians, and informed them that anoth
|«r assault was prepared from the wood.
Suitable arrangements had scarcely been
! made, when the dark bodies of the col
i umns were seen sweeping forward. A
(gain the batteries were opened, and the
! fury of the battle again raged; but the
'assailants unable to force their wav. fled
i back wretched, and almost annihilated.
The action soon became more foeble,
and about eleven o’clock the enemy
j shouted along their line, arratez le com
but, (cease the action,) when this scene
j closed, the massacre terminated.
The cessation of the tumultuous np
i roar of war. however, was followed bv
ja more melancholy din—the groans of
itlie wounded, who anticipating the mor
row’s renewal of the fight, or tortured
| with pain, vainly implored removal, re
lief. and even death. When the day
dawned, the French were arrayed in or-
I der of battle; but a spectacle indescri
bably disgusting, engaged altomion moie
j than the hostile dispositions. The ground
; between the wood and the Russian bat
teries, about a quarter of a mile, was a
; sheet of naked human Indies, which
I friends and foes had during she night
mutually stripped, not leaving the worst
rag upon them, although numbers of
these bodies still retained consciousness
of their situation !
Another illustration, among countless
thousands, of the havoc which war makes
of character, turning men, even civilized
men, into monsters!
At Medellin, —“I turned,” says
Rocca, “to the town of Medellin, n little
before night. Silence and quiet had suc
ceeded to the activity of battle, and the
shouts of victory. In the plain, the on
lv audible sounds were the groans of the
wounded, and the confused murmurs of
the dying as they raised their heads in
prayer to (iod and the blessed Virgin.—
On every individual with whom the
| ground was strewed, death had stamped
the expresion of the passion which had
animated them at the moment of the fall.
Some broken amunition wagons, with
their teams of mules left to themselves,
still marked the position which the Span
ish army had occupied. Here and there
lay wounded horses, whose legs, being
broken by the shot, could not stir from
ttie spot on which they were soon to per
ish ; but, ignorant of death and equally
so of futurity, they lav gazing on the
field as far as their necks could reach.”
lIIENICUS.
Encourage your own.
Cist's Advertiser expresses its mortifi
:cation that it should have been thought I
| necessary to send east for a fire Engine ]
I for City use, passing by our excellent
! mechanics. We heartily concur in the ■
! opinion that our own industry should first t
commend the attention of those having :
I occasion for its products. Mr. Cist gives
the following as productive of the mor- '
bid feeling sometimes found in favor of ,<
all things made abroad. It hits it off
weli.— Cincinnatti Gazette.
“Not many years since, a carriage s
maker, well known here, having ascer
tained that an acquaintance was going <
on to Philadelphia in a few months for s
the'purpoke, among other things, of buv- ?
ing a family carriage, and confident from t
his knowledge of what the gentleman t
would like, that he could make oho him
self to suit, set to work accordingly, and t
having finished it some ten or twelve r
days before his acquaintance was to start v
off, offered it to him as the article just r
answering his purpose. “Oh,” said the c
other, “ that would never do for me; t
there is no such finish about it as you rl
see in the Eastern coaches. I’ll show
you when I get back the ‘difference.” < v
The carriage maker improved the inter
val by torwarding on his carriage; the
j body properly boxed up, and the running
i gear cased in straw, to the principal deal
er in carriages in Newark, N. J., with
instructions to sell on commission, and
authority to charge him extra if he sold
;itto go west. Our traveller, to make the
story short, bought this very vehicle, a
brass plate bearing its makers name,
having been removed to receive the name
of the establishment at which it was sold,
and repacked in the very boxes and straw
which protected it in its journey east, the
carriage arrived in due time, and by the
order of its owner was sent to the very
I shop in which it had been built—to be
| put together there. “ Ah.” said the
j owner, “there is she article. If you
i could have furnished me with such a piece
1 ot work as that I should have patronized
you. Bring out yours and we, will see
the difference.” The coach maker cool
ly replied. “there can he no difference,
for this is the very one I offered you, and
failing to sell to you, sent it out to Ne
wark market. “Here,” added he, “is a
draft I received by this morning’s mail:
for the nett proceeds; and now, my dear
fellow, had you bought at home what you
could have got as wa ll as abroad, you
would have saved me paying commissions
and yourself freight, to say nothing of the
mortification you must feel in the case.”
Upright Dealing.
The assignee in bankruptcy of the es
tate ot the late firm of the estate of James
Read & Co. having completed the liqui
dation of said estate, has notified the
creditors that ho shall this day pay a final
dividend. 'Fhe amount which this firm
owed at the time of its failure in the
spring of 1842, was about §(850 000.—
Flie sales and collections by Mr. Morey,
the assignee, have produced nearly #BOO,-
000, by which he is enabled to pay the
debts proved, within an amount somewhat
over #50,000. Such a result as this has
rarely happened in the settlement of a
bankrupt estate. Both parties received,
some time since, a full and honorable dis
charge, and we now learn that the active
partner, James Read, has added to what
has been realized from the assets of the
concern a sum exceeding fifty thousand
dollars , lining the earnings of a prosper
ous commission business during the past
two and a half years, hv means whereof
every creditor of said firm will receive a
hundred cents on a dollar to the amount
of his debt, as proved by him against said
estate, and ullowed by the court.
When we consider the great amount
of the debts of said concern, and of the
cash realized from the assets, being nearly
#BOO,OOO, and also the large sum now
voluntarily furnished by Mr. Read, being
the whole of his subsequent earnings,
acquired, too, by intense application to
business; and when also, we consider the
extraordinary success of his efforts in ac
cumulating so great a sum. since the date
of his misfortunes, and his willingness
now, a second time, to dispossess himself
of property, for so honorable a purpose,
we must pronounce this a case almost
without a parallel in the nistory of this,
or any other mercantile community.—
Boston Courier.
of Literary Men.
Johnson used to bite his finger nails to
the quick, an intimation of his dogmatism
and crustiness.
Addison was remarkable for the irreg
ularity of his pulse, but his heart “ was
believed to be in the right place and of
proper dimensions.”
Rope was of a frame so feeble that he
was accustomed to brace himself up w-ith
stays padded with cotton. He occasion
ally found time also to lace his enemies.
Hume, the historian usually composed
while reclining upon a sofa. He did not
search forfame, but she came to visit him.
Menage, while science covered his head
with laurels, used to cover his feet with
several pairs of stockings.
Ben Johnson used (o set silpnt in learn
ed company, “and suck in,” as Fuller
says, “ not only his wine, but their sever
al humors.” Like Shakspeare, he held
the mirror up to nature, but chose some- ,
times to look into the glass himsalf.
Magliabechi, librarian to the grand i
duke of Tuscany, and a very learned .
man, was fond of pelting spiders, the ‘ j
webs of which he would not suffer to be ! £
molested. He seldom left his books, ate, s
drank and slept among them, thus imi
tating the domestic propensities and in
dustry of his strange favorites. r
Rousseau used to knit lace strings \
when in a company of illiterate people, a
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[No. 19
lor the purpose of concealing the uneasi
ness Vvhich their gabble gave him. He
preferred his lace strings to their long
years.
Steele constantly preached economy
to others, but forgot to practice it himself.
He was always in debt, and once pulled
the nose of an acquaintance who hesita
ted to lend binr a large sum of money.—
Certainly a curious way of obtuiuiug a
draft.
Bloomfield wrote most of his poem, the
“ farmer Boy,” with chalk upon the top
of a pair ot bellows —a wind instrument
until this time probably unknown to the
choir of the Muses.
Ihe following beautiful passage, as
true as it is beautiful, is from Jamus’ nov
el, “ The Gypsey.”
“ Bound the idea of one’s mother, the
mind ot man clings with a fond affection.
U is the first deep thought stamped upon
our infant hearts, when yet soft and ca
pable ot receiving the most profound im
pressions, and all the after feelings of
the world are more or less light in com*
parison. Ido not know that even in our
old age we do not look back to that feel
ing as the sweetest we have through life.
Our passions and our wilfulness may lead
us far from the object of our filial love;
we learn even to pain her heart, to op
pose her wishes, to violate her commands;
we may become wild, headstrong, and
angry at her counsels of opposition; but
when death has stilled her monitory
voice, and nothing but calm memory re
mains to recapitulate her virtues and
good deeds, affection, like a flower bea
ten to the ground l»y a past storm, raises
up her head and smiles amongst her tears.
Round that idea, as we have said, the
mind clings with fond affection; and
even when the earlier period of our loss
forces memory to be silent, limey takes
the place of remembrance, and twines
the image of our dead parent with a gar
land of graces, and beauties and virtues,
which we doubt not she possessed.”
American Hail Hoad Iron.
A bar ot Railroad Iron, manufactured
at the Mount Savage Iron works, in Al
leghany Co., in this State, has been de
posited in the Rotunda of the Exchange
fi»r the inspection of the public. Simi
lar specimens, we learn, have been sent
to Philadelphia, New York and Boston.
The above mentioned rail is very similar
in form to that last imported from Eu
rope by the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road, called the U rail, only that the iron
is thicker, and the hollow part not so
high, hut much stronger. The rail road
leading from Mount Savage Works to
Cumberland, which it is expected will he
completed by the fifteenth of next month,
will be laid with rails of this description,
made at the Works, and we also learn
that the Company have concluded a con
tract with the Fall River Rail Road in
Massachusetts for furnishing one thou
sand tons. Tiie price, we learn, is about
fifty-nine dollars per ton.— American.
The Dying Hoy.
‘Lest he might feel ill at ease in my
lap, I laid him down upon my cloak, ami
kneeled by his side to watch the grow
ing change in his features. The present
now was all to me; the future I knew I
should no longer reck. Feeling my
breath close to his cheek, he half opened
his eyes, looked as if, after long absence,
again suddenly recognized his father,
and, putting out his little mouth, seemed
to crave one last token of love. The
temptation was too powerful; I gently
pressed my lip to that of by babe, and
gathered froig it the proffered kiss; life’s
last faint spark was just going forth, and
I caught it on the threshold. Scarcely
had I drawn back my face, when all res
piration ceased, his eye strings broke, his
features fell, and his limbs stiffened, for
ever.”
Payable at Sight.. —“ Bob, have you
seen Mr. Brown lately ?” “ No, Jim, I
haven’t, why ?” “ Why, I have a note
of his, and being short of funds, should
like to find him.” “The note is good,
is it not ?” “ Oh, yes, good as gold, I
suppose; but there’s a difficulty never
theless. It reads ‘at sight,’ I promise to
pay.” ire. Now I don’t say any r thing
against the note, but blow me if I have
had a. sight at him since he gave it to mo ;
and probably won’t have again as long
as I live.”
There are three things with which a
man should always keep on good terms—
with his wife, (ifhe has one,) his stomach,
and his conscience.