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PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, BY JAMES McCIFFEKTY, MACrtTOSH-STKEET, OPPOSITE POST OFFICE. Terms of Paper. —For a single copy, one year, Two Dollars: for sircopies, Ten Dollars; for thirteen copies, T wen ty Dollars, payable in advance. Advertisements will be inserted at 50 cents per square for the first insertion, and 25 cents for each continuance — Twelve lines to constitute a square. A I liberal deduction to yearly advertisers. rj* No letters taken from the Post Office unless postage free. Officers Augusta VV. T. A Society.- Dr JOS. A. EVE. Pkbsiuent. Dr. DANIEL HOOK, i Rev WM. J. HARD, > Vice Presidents HAWKINS HUFF, Esq. ) WM. HAINES. Jr. Secretary. L. D. LALLERSTEDT, Treascrer. Managers: James Harper, E. E. Scofield, Rev. C. S. Dod, James Godby, John Milled^e, SSBS I . " TN£ {FARIMIEJS. Hints for Trausplautiiiß. 1. Many persons plant a tree as they would a post. The novice in planting must consider that a tree is a living, nicely organized production, as certainly affected by good treatment as an animal. Many an orchard of trees, rudely thrust into the ground, struggles half a dozen years against the adverse condition be fore it recovers. 2. In planting an orchard, let the ground be made mellow by repeated plowing. For a tree of moderate size, the hole should be dug three feet in di ameter, and twelve to twenty inches deep. Turn over the soil several times, and if not rich, mix thoroughly with it some compost, or well rotted manure. In every instance the hole must be large enough to admit all the roots easily, with out bending. Shorten and pare monthly, •with a knife, any bruised or broken shoots. Hold the tree upright, while another person, making the earth fine, gradually distributes it among the roots. Shake the tree gently while this filling is going on. The secret lies in carefully filling in the mould, so that every root and even the smallest fibre, may meet the soil, and to secure this, let the operator with his hands spread out the small roots, and fill in the earth nicely around every one. Nine-tenths of the deaths by trans planting arise from the hollows left among the roots of the trees by a rapid and careless mode of shovelling the earth among ihe roots. .3. When the hole is two-thirds filled, pour in a pail or two of water. This will settle the soil and fill up any little vacuities that may remain. Wait until the water has sunk away, and then fill up the hole, pressing the earth moderately around the trees with the foot. The moist earth, being covered by the loose surface soil, will retain its humidity for a long time. Indeed we rarely find it ne cessary to water again after planting in this way, and a little muck or litter placed around the tree, upon the newly moved soil, will render it quite unnecessary. Frequent surface watering is highly in jurious, as it causes the top of the soil to bake so hard as to prevent the access of air and light, both of which, in a certain degree, are absolute necessary. 4. Avoid the prevalent error (so com mon and so fatal in this country) of planting your trees too deep. They j should not be planted more than an inch deeper than they stood before. It they are likely to he thrown out by the frost the first winter, heap a little mound about the stem, to be removed again in the spring. 5. If your soil is positively had, re move it from the holes, and substitute a cartload or two of good garden mould. Do not forget that plants must have food. Five times the common growth may be realized by preparing holes six feet in diameter, and twice the usual depth, en-1 riching and improving the soil by the plentiful addition of good compost. — Young trees cannot be expected to thrive well in sod land. When a young or chard must be kept in grass, a circle should be kept <|ug around each tree. But cultivation of the land will cause the ! trees to advance more rapidly in five j years than they will in ten, when it is i allowed to remain in grass. Curing Iltef. This being the proper season for curing beef, we furnish our readers with the fol lowing directions on the subject: Beef. —The best pieces for corning are the plates, ribs and briskets. Pack the pieces in casks, giving a very slight sprinkling of salt between each piece. Then cover Jhe meat with a pickle made by boiling together, in 4 gallons of water, 8 lbs. salt, 3 lbs. brown sugar, 3 oz. salt petre, 1 oz. pearlash, for 100 lbs. of meat. Keep a heavy flag stone on the meat, that it may be well immersed in the pick le. Beef packed in this manner will keep a year, and will rather improve than grow worse. Another mode recommended by a gen tleman oflong experience in the packing AUGUSTA WASHINGTONIAN. A WEEKLY PAPER: DEVOTED TO TEMPERANCE, AGRICULTURE, & MISCELLANEOUS READINGS. Vol. III.] of beef and pork, is the following: For 100 lbs. of beef, take 4 lbs. brown sugar, 4 oz. saltpetre, and 4 quarts of fine Liver pool salt—mix all intimately together, and in packing sprinkle it evenly on the meat. Add no pickle ; the dissolving of the salt, &c. with the juices of the meat, will be sufficient. Keep the meat close ly pressed together by a good weight. W e are assured that this is the best mode of packing beef when the quality of the meat is unexccptionably fine.— Albany Cultivator. Hilling Potatoes. Several years ago we made an experi ment to ascertain whether hilling pota toes was of any advantage. We left two rows with the ground level—those on each side were hilled in the usual mode. At harvest time it was found by careful measurement, that the two rows left yielded most —how much more we have forgotten. Since that time we never “ hill up” potatoes, unless the ground is too wet, and we wish to turn off the water. An inch or two of earth over the tubers will keep the sun from injuring them, and that is all that is needed. | We see some one, who signs himself “ An Old Farmer,” gives the result of a like experiment in the N. E. Farmer. He left two rows in the piece unbilled— or only gave them a little earth at the first hoeing. At harvest he measured the produce of the two unbilled rows, as well as that of the two rows on each side, and the unbilled rows gave five peels more (and largpr potatoes) than either of the other rows. He argues (and reasonably) that by hilling we deprive the crops ofthe | benefit of moisture. He says potatoes j need a mellow soil, but this cannot be ! well secured by increasing the size ofthe hill after planting.— lbid. From the Chcraw Gazette. A New Enterprise. —lt will be seen by a-communication in another column, that the Marlboro’ Manufacturing Compnny, j propose to the public the establishment of a new company to be engaged in the manufacture of Cotton Bagging. In a conversation we had a few days ago with Mr. Townsend, the principal stockhold er in the present Company, he assures us that, by the outlay of about $2,500, and cotton at the present low rates, he could manufacture Bagging, weighing two pounds to the yard, for 15 cents it yard, or if twilled, a somewhat lighter article, but equally strong at the same price. This reduction in the price of Bagging, it appears to us. would of itself be a matter of some consideration to the planter, but more especially when it af j fords an additional and no inconsidera ble market for the consumption of the lower grades of this staple production. Let us enter into a calculation and mark the result: If cotton could be used for all bagging sonsumed in the Southern country —and we know of no reason why it shonld not —say to cover 2,500,000 hales, at five ynrds to the bale and two ! pounds to the yard, it would require 12,- I 500,000 yards of bagging, and 25,000,- 000 lbs. of raw cotton, say, in round numbers 62000 bales—considerable more i than the whole crop of the Pee Dee country and its tributaries. But this is not all; the poorer qualities, which are ! now scarcely worth preparing for ship ment, would thus find a ready market at home, and of course to this extent relieve the .foreign market of its superabundant supplies, and still further, by diverting the labor of a portion of our operatives into a new channel. Besides these con siderations, the South would be saved a heavy and exhausting drain upon her re sourci s, which at the present time cannot amount to much less than $2,000,000 per annum. Interest and patriotism both point to the line of duty, and we trust that those who feel an interest in this en terprise, (and who does not ?) will not al-; low the present opportunity to slip with out trying it in a tangible form. Another! —We take advantage of this > opportnnity to state, that our enterprising fellow-citizen, Mr. James W. Burn, re- 1 cently expressed to us his intention of cs tablishing*a Factory on Juniper creek, about seven miles from this town, where he has already Grist and Saw Mills in successful operation. Mr. Burn is just the man to succeed in the undertaking. He is a practical mechanic , intelligent, industrious, enterprising, and with suffi cient means, earned too, by the sweat of his brow, to commence the undertaking without involving himself in debt. We : AUGUSTA, GA. FEBRUARY 15, 1845. have no doubt as to the result—he must —he will succeed, if life and health are spared him, and no untoward incident oc curs. He asks no other protection or en couragement. than that which a free and unshackled trade will afford him. Smoking Hams. —We are assured bv an intelligent farmer that hams are effec tually preserved from the attacks of the 1 fly, while their quality is not at all in jured, by throwing red [*pper upon the fire in the smoke house, during the latter part of the operation. II ounds on Cattle. —The most aggra vated wounds of domestic animals are easily cured with a portion of the yolk of eggs mixed in the spirits of turpentine. The part affected must be bathed several times with the mixture, when a perfect cure will be effected in 48 hours. Laughable Story. The following is a laughable account of the misfortunes that befel an Ameri can gentleman upon a visit to a lady in Paris, to whom he bore letters of intro duction. After relating a number of lu dicrous and amusing mistakes upon his entrance into the presence of the lady, he thus proceeds: “The ordinary routine of a French dinner commenced. A regular scries of servants appeared each instant at elbows, inviting us to partake of a thousand dif ferent kinds of wine, under strings of names which I no more understood than I understood their composition, or they did my gaucheries. Resolute to avoid all further opportunity for displaying my predominant trait, I sat in the most ob stinate silence saying out to every thing that was offered to me, and eating with the most devoted application, till my fair neighbor, tired with mv taciturnity and : her own, at length herself began a con versation by enquiring how I was pleas ed with the opera. I was just raising a large morsel of potatoe to my mouth, and in order to reply as quickly as possi ble, I hastily thrust it in, intending to swallow it hastily. Heavens! It was as hot as a burning lava. What could Ido ? The lady’s eyes were fixed upon me, waiting a reply to her question. But my mouth was m flame. I rolled the burn ing morsel hither and thither, rocking my head from side to side ; while my eyes, which involuntarily I had fixed on her, were strained from their sockets.— She regarded my grimaces, of the cause of which she was ignorant, with an ex pression of amusement and surprise, at which I can laugh at now when I think of it. “ Monsieur is ill!” at length she gently ; and in an anxious tone inquired ; I could jbenr no more. My mouth was flaying with intolerable pain; so quietly aban. jdoning the point, I opened it to the ut j most, and out dropped the infernal brand upon my plate. Not the slightest ten dency to risibility ruffled the impertura ble politeness of the lady. She sooth ingly condoled with me on my misfor tune, then gradually led the conversation to a variety of topics, till exerting the j magic influence that true politeness al ways exercises, I began to forget even :my own blunders. Gradually my cheeks burned less painfully, and I could join in 1 the conversation without the fear that every word that I uttered shared the fate of the action I attempted; I even ven tured to hope ; nay to congratulate my self, that the catalogue of calamities was completed for the day. “Let no man call himself happy be fore death.” said Solon, and he said wise jly. The Ides of March were not yet lover. Before us stood a dish of cauli flower, nicely done in butter. This I naturally enough took for a custard pud ding, which it sufficiently resembled.— Unfortunately my vocabulary was not extensive enough to embrace all the tech nicalities of the table, and when my fair [neighbor inquired if I was fond of chor fiuer, I verily took it to be the French for custard pudding, and so high was my pan egyric of it that my plate was bountifully laden with it. Alas, one single mouthful was enough to dispel my allusion. Would to heaven that the chorfiuer had vanished with it. But that remain ed bodily, and as I gazed despondingly on the large mass that loomed almost as large and burning as Vesuvius, my heart died within me. Ashamed to confess my mis take, although I could as readily have 1 | swallowed an equal quantity of soft soap, ! I struggled manfully on against the moun : tainous heap at its base—and shutting 1 my eyes and opening my mouth to inhale as large masses as I could without stop ping to taste it. But my stomach soon began intelligibly enough to intimate its intention to admit no more of this nause ous stranger beneath its roof, if not even expelling that which had gained an un welcome admission. The seriousness of the task I had un dertaken, and the resolution necessary to execute it, had given an earnestness and rapidity to my exertions which appetite could not have inspired, when my plate, having got somewhat over the edge of the table, upon my leaning forward tilt ed up, and down slid the disgusting mass into my lap. My handkerchief, unable to bear so weighty a load, bent under in its turn, and a great portion of it landed safely in my hat. The plate righted it self—as I raised my person and saw as I glanced my eye around the table that no one noticed my disaster, I inwardly con gratulated myself that the nauseous de ception was so happily disposed of. Re solved not to be detected, I instantly roll ed my handkerchief together, with its re maining contents, and whipped it into my pocket. The dinner table was at length desert ed for the drawing room, where coffee and i liquors were served round. Meantime I i had sought out what I considered a safe hiding place for my hat, beneath a chair in the dining room, for I dare not carry it any longer in my hand, having first thrown a morsel of paper, to hide the cauliflower, should any one chance, in seeking for his own hat, to look into mine. On my return to the drawing room, I chanced to be again seated by the lady by whom I had sat at the table. Our conversation was resumed, and we were in the midst of an animated discussion, when a huge spider was seen running up her arm. “Take it off—take it off,” she ejacu lated in a terrified voice. I was always afraid of spiders; so to avoid touching him with my hand, I caught my pockethandkcrchief from my pocket and clapped it at once upon ihe miscreant, who was already mounting over her temple with rapid strides. Gra cious heavens ! I had forgotten the cau liflower, which was now plastered over her face like an emollient poultice, fairly killing the spider, and blinding an eye of the lady—while little streamlets of soft butter glided gently down her neck and bosom. “ Mon dieu ! Mon dieu !” exclaimed the astonished fair. “ Mon dieu !” was re-cchocd from ev ery person’s mouth. “ Have you cut your hand ?” inquired one. “No ! no!—die spider—monsieur is killing the spider.” “ What a quantity of entrails!” ejac ulated an astonished Frenchman, uncon sciously to himself. Well might he be astonished ; the spray of the execrable vegetable had spattered her dress from head to foot. For myself, the moment the accident occurred, I had mechanically returned my handkerchief to my pocket, but its contents remained. Darting from the spot, I sprang to the place where I hud left my hat; but be fore I could reach it, a sudden storm of wrath was heard at the door. “ Sacre! bete! sacre!” the rin the first syllable being made to roll like a watchman’s rattle, mingled with another epithet and name that an angry French man never spares, was heard ringing like a fierce tempest without the doors. Sud denly there was a pause, a gurgling sound, as of one swallowing involuntarily—and the storm of wrath again broke out with redoubled fury. I seized my hat and opened the door, aifd the whole matter was at once explained ; we had exchan ged hats—and there he stood, the soft cauliflower gushing down his cheeks, blinding his eyes, filling his mouth, hair, mustaches, ears, and whiskers. There he stood astride, like the Colossus, and stooping gently forward, his eyes forcibly closed, his arms dropping out from his body and dripping cauliflower and butter from every pore. I staid no longer; but retaining his hat, I rushed from the house, jumped in to a “ fiacre,” and arrived safely home, heartily resolving that, to my last hour, I would never again deliver a letter of introduction. WASHINGTONIAN TOTAL ABSTINENCE PLEDGE, We, whose names are hereunto an nexed, desirous of forming a Society for our mutual benefit, and to guard against a pernicious practice, which is injurious to our health, standing and families, do pledge ourselves as Gentlemen, not to drink any Spirituous or Malt I.iquors, Mine or Cider. [No. 31 From the Raleigh, N. C. Standard. Mr. Holden :—lt has been denied in some of the northern papers, and else where, that the Siamese Twins are real ly married, and that they are in our State. I have taken the pains to inquire of one of the Honorable members of the Legislature from Wilkes, in this State, and I am sure the account must amuse your readers as it it did Your faithful servant, JOHN WHEELER. Dec. 20, 1944. Sir: I will now satisfy, or try to do so, the anxiety you seem to have about the Siamese twins—the fact of their being married, sir, you need not doubt. They are married. I have often seen their wives, before they were married, and since. Adelaide and Sarah Yeath were the names of the ladies they married.— They have each one daughter, whose names are Josephine and Jane-ersyler. The ladies they married were in posses sion of considerable fortune, and of a great many personal accomplishments; quite delicate and handsome. Their children are a complete model of them selves. As to the precise time that they married, I cannot state. They were mar ried by Rev. Colby Sparks, Minister of the Baptist Church, who I am well ac quainted with, and who has often told me all about the circumstances. The ladies were born and raised in the county of Wilkes, and there arc no ladies in the county with whom I am better acquainted. The twins live within 3| miles of me. They live in quite splendid style, and have all things neatly arranged abou. them—the former to considerable extent They have a splendid assortment of far ming utensils, and seem to have superior knowledge of how to use them. They keep several hands to work; and I know of no family who appear to enjoy life with more delight. In short, their situa tion is as near complete any person I ev er saw. And from every appearance, it seems that they nre the very men who ought to have married. In politics they vote the whig ticket in full, and advocate the whig principles. Their manner and custom at home is quite polite and accommodating, and their company very engaging; so much so, that their house is often crowded with visitors. They sometimes give parties and Christmas dinners. Capture ot a Desperado. The Cherokee Advocate contains a let ter from Mr. Daniel R. Coodcy, giving a detailed account of the capture of Bean Starr, a notorious outlaw and murderer, who, with his brothers, has been for six years engaged in the commission of rob beries and murders in the Chocttvw and Cherokee nations, and on the Arkansas line. Learning where Starr was, he, with nine Cherokees under his command, followed him, and, while engaged in searching a house in which they sup posed him to be, Starr came riding up at full speed. He was within fifty yards of the house, when he perceived the party, and immediately turned and fled. At that moment, and a few seconds there after, ten shots were fired at him, three of which took effect, two in the right arm and one through the body. After pursu ing him a mile or so, he was taken prison er, and carried to Fort Washita, where Col. Harney received him, and he was placed in the hospital. Mr. Coodey and his party recovered ten horses and mules, which had been stolen by Starr and his comrades. The Cocoa Nut in Ceylon. —Nearly all the domestic wants of the Singalese can be supplied by the cocoa nut tree.— He can build his house entirely of it.— The walls and doors are made of cajans, the leaves platted ; the roof is covered with the same; the beams, rafters, &c.« are made of the trunk. He needs no bed, as he can use the coirope made from the outside husk. If he wants a spout, he hollows the trunk split in two. It al so supplies him with many of his house hold articles. He makes his oil from the kernel; and the hard shell supplies him with spoons, and cups, and drinking vessels, and lamps, and water buckets; the refuse of the kernels, after the oil is expressed (called vunak) serves for food for fowls and pigs; the milk from the kernel is used in his food. In short, if a man have a few cocoanut trees in his gar den he will never starve. Arrack, a strong spirit, resembling whiskey, is made from toddv. the juice of the flower, and brooms are made from the ribs ( irita ) of the leaflets.