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For the Organ,
• on,CAST AWAY SAD
THOUGHTS.
Ob , cast away sad thoughts, for they,
If of the past they are,
But shadows are, that something play
O’er memory's mirror Cair.
There's uo true heart, whose honest part
Hath been from falshood free,
That may not scape the bitter smart,
. - Though sad thoughts there may be.
Ob'! cast away sad thoughts, for they,
H o’er the future cast,
Are morning clouds, which melt away,
1 Before the sun at last.
And tho’ the cloud may thunder loud.
And full of storms may be—
The very rain-drops, there that crowd,
Fall down refreshingly.
The rain drops of adversity
But water life’s parched field—
Advance the harvest of success
An hundredfold to yield.
We wound the bosom of the earth,
It brings forth fruit and flowers-;
From wounded hearts , a crop of joys
Springs up in after hours.
He, who to sorrow gives himself
Leagues with n fiend that day,
When, had besought, he would have found
An Angel in the way.
Then cherish hope and energy—
They are of life the stay.;
And life well used is happiness;
Then cast sad thoughts away.
Tyro.
v 1 LOTE YOUR MEMORY.
I loved you when youth’s memory beam
Was sparkling iu your eye ;
I loved you when life seemed a"dream
Without a tear or 9igh;
I loved you when a sunny smile
Was lighting up your brow ;
That eye is closed, that smile is fled,
1 love your memory now.
I loved you when the bloom of breath
Was fresh upon your cheek :
(loved you when your kindly voice
In genlfe tones would speak ;
1 loved you e’er the baud of care
Was painted on your brow ;
Your voice is hushed, that bloom has fled :
1 love your memory now.
I loved you when I saw the row
Upon your cheek decay ;
I loved you though 1 knew its glow
Was passing faraway;
1 loved you when beneath life’s storm,
I saw you meekly bow ;
The storm is past and you are gone:
1 love your memory non.
I loved you when your flattering breath
Came bearing many a sigh ;
I loved you when in chilly death
1 saw you sleeping lie ;
t loved you whoa the tomb’s cold seal
Was resting on your brow ;
1 often wander near your grave ;
And love your memory now.
THE PRINTERS TOIL.
Blow ye stormy winds of winter.
Drive the <hilly drifting snow ;
Closely housed the busy printer,
Heeds uot how the winds may blow.
Click, click, his types go dropping,
Here aud there into the case,
As he stands so briskly popping,
Every letter in its place.
Heaven send the useful printer
Every comfort mortals ueed ;
For our nights were dull in winter.
Had we not the papers to read.
Sad would be the world’s condition.
If no prioter boys were found ;
Ignorance and superstition,
Sin aud suffering would abouud.
Yes, it is the busy printer
Rolls the car of knowledge on;
And a gloomy mental winter
Soon would reign if he were gone.
Money’s useful, yet the winters
Fill uot half as high a place,
As the busy, toiling printers,
Fingering lype b'feToie the case.
V
Yet while type they’re busy setting.
Oft some thoughtless popinjay,
Leaves the country, kindly letting
Printer whistle for their pay.
O, ingratitude ungracious!
Are there on enlightened soil,
Men with min Is so im-apat ious.
As to slight the printei’s toil! ‘’H
See him how extremely busy,
Fingering type before the case,
Toiling till he's almost dizzy,
To exalt the humau race.
Then long live the art of printing,
Here on happy freedom s toil.
And with joy that knows no stinting,
Heaven reward the printer’s toil.
JENNY KISSED ME.
Jenny kissed me when we met.
Jumping from the chair she sal in !
Time, you thief, you love to get
Sweets into your list, put that in !
Say I’m weary, say I’m sad,
Say that health aud wealth have missed
me,
Say I’m growing old—but add
Jjcffrtr kissed me ! Leigh Hunt.
■/ gr (cultural.
From the N. Y. Post.
\ GRIOU LTU RAL SC IE \C E—TH R
NATURE OF VEGITABLE GROWTH
Any great improvement in the culture
of the soil is quiterncoriceivable without
an acquaintance with the substance which
realy nouiish plants, and with the source
whence such materials are naturally de
rived.t It has been supposed that verita
ble mould, the product of the decay ol
other plants, acted upon by water is there
by rendered capable of being absorbed
by frfceir roots If it be. it must be in
some very altered form, for if a portion
of good mould be long subjected to the
action of water, that fluid will not dissolve
more than a hundred thousandth part of
its weight, the solution containing also
organic matters and the saline constituents
of the rain water that has fallen upon the
mass subjected to experiment. We
must look further for the true explanation
of vegetable growth. We have passed
through a season of most unparalled
drouth. Had water, regarded notsimplv
as the solvent of decaying rnonld, to be
taken up by the roots, but more than this
as directly absorbed by the leaves and
stems on which it fell from the clouds,
been so exclusively necessary for vegeta
ble vitality and growth it would not have
been only hall a crop that had been tak
en from us, but more nearly the whole.—
Mould can only rise fro n the decay of
plants,. No primitive mould can have
existed, for plants must have preceded
the mould which this theory assumes as
necessary to their existance. Whole
tracts of land in the green wilds of the
States, and immense woods and f#re?ts
in all parts of the world, receive no carbon
or which is the same thing, wood fib-re,
through the channel of artificial manure;
how does it happen, then, that the annu
al production of vegetation lor ages be
comes annually richer in carbon? In
other words, a certain quantity of carbon
is taken every year from an unmanured
forest or meadow in the form of growing
wood or grasses, and in spite of this the
quantity of carbon in the soil augments,
it becomes richer in vegetable mould, so
much so that in time the land will not sup
port the trees which stood upon it, they
fall, and the surface becomes a peat-moss
formed as all bogs and mosses have been
formed invariably. If plants give back,
as they evidently do more carbon to the
soil than than they take from it, it is plain
that their growth must depend on their
reception of carbon as food from some
other quarter.
And a most wise and merciful ordi
nation ol providence it is that it is so, not
merely in reference to thatsmall portion ol
the vegetable world which falls under hu
man care for our subsistance, in as much
as human means are totally inadequate
to furnish sufficient help, (supposing that
to be indispensably necessary to vegeta
ble existence,) but also asid more largely
in reference to the almost infinitely ex
tended portion of the \egetable creation
with which man has practically nothing
tojdo.
/It is not denied that manure, rightly
eftosen and applied, exerts an influence
upon the growth of plants; but it neither
serves for the production of the catbona
ceous woody fibre of the/stem, nor has it
any influence upon it, because we find
that the quantity of carbon produced by
manured land is not greater than that
yielded by lands not manured.
The discussion as to what manure real*
ly produces is not now the question—we
will take up that subject indue course.-
If the soil or artificial additions to it do
not produce woody fibre, we are driven
to look for it where only it is next natur>
ally and truly to be sought tor—the at
mosphere. Air contains carbonic acid:
it is an accidental ingredient, not chemi
cally its compounded and ne>
cessary elements. It is poisonous in
even a diluted proportion to the lungs of
all creatures. If the reason of its pre
sence in the atmosphere be not that, by a
species of vital chemistry it may become
decomposed by the leaves pf the plants,
and thus yield its carbon to plants to
form their skeleton, what other use can
be assigned for its presence in the ait? Be*
sides, the position is susceptible of direct
proof.
To animals the carbonic acid of the at
mosphere would prove poisonous, only
lhat the proportion of its mixture in the
air they breathe is very small, (another
wise provision,) yet taken into the stom>
ach it is grateful. Then too, which is
the burden of the proof, we know it to be
a fact that during the sunshine or day
light the leaves of all plants are continu
ally absorbing this very gas, on one sur
face, and giving oxygen Irom the other,
oxygen and carbon being the two chimi
cal elements which go to lorm carbonic
acid Now, it this vital chemistry, this |
work of decomposition, this absorption
of one of these two elements, be not
identical with a creation or growth, what
other explanation can be given?
Let us relate an experiment:
•‘Two hundred pounds of earth were
dried in an oven and afterwards put into
a large earthen vessel, the vessel was
then moistened with soft water, and a
willow tree, weighing five pounds, was
placed therein. Doting the space of
five years the earth was caretuliy water
ed with rain water or puie water. The
willow grew and flourisned; and to pre
vent the earth being mixed with fresh
earth, or dust being blown into the not, it
was covered withLmetal plate, perfora*
ted with a of holes, suitable
for free i r only. At
ter growing in the earth for j*t9 years,
the willow tree was removed and fOuid J
to weigh one hundred and sixty nine
pounds and about three ounces. The
peeves which fell from the three every
autumn were not included in this weight
The earth was then removed from the
vessel, agin"dried in the oven and af
terward weighed, it was discovered to
have lost only about two ounces of its
original weight. Thus one hundred and
sixty lour pounds of liguin or woody fibre
bark', etc. were certainly produced Jrom
the air.
Thus then is the balance kept un, Ox
ygen is continually removed from the air
oy combustion by breathng by putrefac
lion each acie of
land which produces eight hundred
weight of wood fibre, gives annually to
the atmosphere about 2,000 pounds ot
oxyyen gas, to replace that which is lost
by the abeve three agencies.
‘These details many seem tedious, but
in truth they ate not they serve, as
they must, to prevent unseient fie and
needless expenditure ol money and labor
in putting useless or the wrong kind ol
manure upon our farms.
Many conditions are necessary for the
file ol plants and they require to be mos‘
accurately understood in their relations
not to be the mere tile, but to secure Ih*-
mcreased grow th, the artificial forcing of
such of them as by the art of man are
removed from a style of nature- We
musr re me iTiliert trff wheat, most of the
cereal grasses, potatoes and apples are
(to speak without profanity.) not the
things that the Deity made them. Each
kind required special conditions. If but
orient these foe wanting although all the
rest be supplied the object ol the cultiva
tor will be defeated.
There must be an adaptation between
the intention and the meant The maker
of straw bonnets requires strong straw
It will grow only in soil overcharged with
flint. The baker wishes for a fat ear of
corn, which cats only be raised in a soil
rich in animal additions. The one kind
of help will riot indifferently answer for
the other animal life a moth
er era ■ s Imr chi^^R^usive] y v*ih
root, it rickV-tty, it can
not make bone out of starch.* A towl
cannot lay eggs without lime lor the shell.
Tamers kesfCpoultry, and what is true
of a fowl is true of a cabbage, a turnip or
an ear of wheat. Mix wit ft the food of
fowls a sufficient quantity of chalk and
they will lay an increased quantity ot
eggs. Let farmers (ay such facts hr these
to heart, they are matters of common ob
servation, and transfer the analogy, a*
they justly may do, to the habits of plants
which are as truly alive and answer as
closely to evil or judici -us treatment as
do th*-ir own hordes.
IIIII® J3USS.
1 :-
As an old lady was walking through
the streets of Paris, at midnight, a pat
rol called out, ‘Who’s there?,
It’s only I, patrol/ she replied,
don't be afraid.’
A man travelling in the west de
clares the wind came to him so laden
w ith fragranee that he thought he was
near a garden of roses. He discover
ed that it was only a bevy of girls go
ing through the woods.
A short man became attached to a
very tall woman, and somebody said
that he had fallen in love with her
‘Do you call that falling in love?”
said a a,, olyjjl is more like
climbing up to it/
A young Indy once remarked that
there'was but one word in the Uible
she wished altered, and that was in
the passage—“ Whomever shall smite
thee on one cheek, turn to him the
other also,, She would have the word
smite’ changed to kiss.’
‘Do you think you are fit to die?’
said a step-mother to her neglected
child.
‘I don’t know,’ said the little g rl,
taking hold of her dirty dress, and in
specting it—'l guess so, isl ain'i too
diity.’
The queer people to
goto rnaiket. A friend at Canton,
| writes ‘Kemlieh Van Tassel!, lhat a
neighbor of bis had just laid in his win
ter’s provisions—a hind quarter of
a horse and two barrels o( bull-dogs.
The latter salted to keep.
Talking of the ‘Dutch of Amster
dam.’ our Jim wants to know what is
the difference between an Amsterdam
1 Dutchman and any other dam Dutch*
man. Profane question—can’t an
swer it —Boston Post.
’How are ye. Smith?’ Said Jones.
Smith pretends not to know him, amd
replies hesitatingly.
•Sir, you have the advantage of me.,
‘Yes, 1 suppose so, everybody has
lhat’s got common sei se ,
Cure for love—hide in a closet and
listen to a conversation between a
couple who have been rp.arried a year,
whhte* they think themselves unheard
‘WooJ is the thing after all,’ as the
man witlr.in oak leg said when the dog!
bit it.
The two neighbors who fell out’ get
in again. Neilhdc wa9 injured
S&*bne.—The crowded deck of an
American packet for California. Cal
ifornian to the Skipper—‘l kfrould like
a sleeping berth neow if yon “please. ’
Skipper—Why where have you b%en
sleeping these two nights since we left
California—Wal, I’ve been sleepinga
lop of a sick man, bu t Ire’s got better
neow, and he won’t stand it no lon*
g-r.’
A correspondent asks a question
which came home to every one who
loves •sassingers.’ lime it is.* ‘Mr.
Eltvture: That what 1 wish to ax you
is whether stritehnine wot the poleece
gives io won i pizen the human
being after sassiugers have been tride.
Please to put in the paper how this is,
for if -tri hoine is pizen I go again sus
singers. Yours till pizened.’
The term grass widows, arises from
the (act their husbands are roving
blades.
Iwoger’s Stiver wort
and Tar.
FOR THE COMPLETE CUKE OF
COUGHS COLDS INFLUENZA
YSTII A BRONCHITS SPIT TING <F
BLOOD & ALLOTHER LUNG COM
PLAINTS TENDING TO CONSUMP
TION.
This preparation is getting into use all
over our Country. Thn numerous letter
ivp receive from our various agents, inform
ing us of cures efT cred in their immediate
neighborhoods, warrant us in sating it i
one of the best, if not the very b< st cough
medicine now before the public. It almost
invariably relieves and n<>t unfequently
eures the very worst of cases. When aii
>ther Cough preparations have failed, this
has relieved the p itient as Druggi-t. deal
ers in Medicines.ami'"Physicians can testify
\sk the Agent in your nearest town what
has been his experience of the effects of this
medicine. If he has been selling it for any
length of time he will tell you
IT IS THE BEST MEDICINE EX
TANT.
Below tve,give a few extracts fiom let
ters we have received lately regarding the
virtues of this medicine.
I)r, S. S. Oslin, of Knoxville, (Ja says:
1 have been using ymr Liverwort and
Tai very extensively iu my practice for
three years past, and it is wiih pleasure I
stite riiy belief in its superiority over all
other articles with which I am acquainted,
fur which it is recommended.
Messrs. Fitzgerald & Benners, writing
from VVaynesville, C. says:—The Liver
wort and Tar is becoming daily more pop
ular It) this county, and we think justly so.
All who have tried it speak in commendable
terms of it, and say it is very beneficial in
alleviating the complaints for whicn it is re
cotmnended.”
Our Agent in Pickens District, S. C. Mr,
S. R. Me Fa 11, assures us that he uses it
with great benefit in his own family, and
recommends it to his neighbors. He gives
au instances of a Negro woman, in his vici
nity, who had been suffering with disease of
‘he Lungs for years, attended with severe
cough, who was relieved by the Liverwort
and Tar.
Such are the good reports we hear of this
Medicine from all parts of the South. For
i report of the surprising cures it has per
formed in the VY’e-tcrn aud Northern and
Eastern States, we would invite the suffer
ing patient to react thepamphlet which ac
coicipatiies each bottle. To all, we say,
have hope, have hope!
TRY THE MEDICINE.
BE WARNED IN SEASON!!!
And neglect not that cough w hich is daily
weakening your constitution, irritating your
throat and lungs, and inviting mi that dread
disease. Consumption, when so soothing
and Healing a r rnedycan be obtained as
Dr Roger’s Svrup of Liverwort and Tar.
BEWARE OF COUNTERFEIT AND
BASE IMITATIONS!
The genuine article is signed Andrew
Rogers, on the engraved wrapper around
each bottle.
Price $1 per bottle, or six bottles for $5.
Sold wholesale and retail bv
SCOVIL & MEAD.
111 Chartres St bet.'Conti and St.
Lo'is. N. O. Sole Agents for the Southern
States, to wtiom all oiders and applications
for Agencies must be addiessed.
SOLD ALSO BY
E. C. Hood, Hamilton Ga.
J. A. Hunt, & co, Whitesville, ‘*
Bradfiebl & llarington, West Point, “
W. I. if .1. Nelson, .Mnuntville “
J. T. Reese. Greenville **
J. M. Noe!, LaGrange do.
D mforih & Nagle Columbus do.
Robert Carter, do, do.
W. YV. Wilson, Talbotton, do.
January 1,1855, 45v3
JEW DAVID,
OR MIMSitMIIV JR LISTER
THE GREAT REMEDY FOR
RHEUMATISM.
Gout. Pain in the Side, Hip, Back. Limbs
and Joints, Scrofula, King's Evil, White
Swelling, Hard Tumors, Stiff Joints, and
all fixed pain3 whatever.
Where this Plaster is applied pain con
not exist.
It h s been beneficial in cases of weak
ness. such as Pam and Weakness in ehe
Stomach. Weak Limbs. Lameness, affeev
lion of the Lungs in their primary stage*
It destroys iuflamntion by perspiration.
James L- Boyd. Pickens district, South
Carolina, testifi-s that, by its use alone ho
was cured of Rheumatism in both of h’re
knees, of-everal years standing.
The following was handed us by a res
pectable Physician in Georgia :
Messrs. Scovil & Mead, —Gents : t
| have been using your Liverwort and t'ar
Hebrew Plaster very extensively in my
practice for three yeers past, aod it is with
pleasure that I stale my belief in their su
periority OVER AIL OTHER ARTICLES, with
[ wdtich I am acquainted, for the purposes for
why-h'’ iey are recommended. The Hes
- PlasWvc, especially, is an tnsivEßSAfc
PANACEA for locaTplilnsT~Thavearotnrrf
it a most excellent application for Sprains
and Bruises. It gives universal satisfaction
wherever used. S. S* OSLIN. M. D.
Knoxville. Ga.. March 4th, 1853.
Beware of Counterfeits and base Im
itations.
The genuine will in future have the sigs
-of E. Taylor on plate en
graved oo the label on the top of each box-.
Purchasers arc advised that .i mean coun
terfeit of this article is in existence.
The genuine is sold only by us, and by
our agents appointed through the South-
ANO NO PEDLAR IS ALLOWED TO SELL lTi
Dealers and Purrh se>s generally are cau-,
lioned against buying of any but our regu
lar agents. otherwise they will be imposed
upon with a worthless article.
SCO VIL & ME AD.
11l Chartres Street. New Orleans.
S<de General Agent for the Southern
.Stales, to whom all orders must invariably
be addressed.
SOLD AI.SO BY
E. C. Hood, M D. Hamilton, Georgia.
J. A. Hunt. & Cos. Whitesville. do
Bradfield Sc Harrington, West-Point, do
W. T. & J. Nelson, Monutvilie, do
J. T. Reese, Greenville, do
J. M. Noel!, LaGrange, do.
Danforth, & Nagle, Columbus, do
Robert Carter, <1 > do
W. W. WiLon, Talbotton, do
GEORGIA, Harris County.
WHEREAS, I?;iiali Parker. applies t<9
me for Letters of Administration, ups
ou the Estate of John Satterwhite, late of
said County, deceased- ,
TJt~str *l%, {.-hiTcfortvtft- rite-niitf admon* ■
ish all and singular, the and cred
itors of s iid deceased, to-the and appear at
my office within the time pres< ribed by law,
to show cause, if any they have, why said
letters should not he granted to said appli
cant. Given under my hand at office, this
January, 29, 18.15.
Wm, 1. HUDSON, Or dinary.
GEORGIA, Harris County.
Elijah. Mullins applies
ff for Letters of Guardianship of the
persons and property of William F, Then
ford Mary L. D Thnfurd, and John W.
I’helford, minors of Charles Th< tford, de*
ceased, under fourteen years of age.
These are therefore, to cite and admen*
ish all persons concerned, to he and ap*
pear, at my office within the time prescribed
Itv Law, to show cause, if any they have,
why 1< tiers aforesaid, should not he granted
to said applicant.
Given under my hand at office, this Jan*
uary 29, 1855.
Wm. I. HUDSON, Ord’r.
House & Sign Painting.
JiNEW would respectfully announce
• to th citizens of Harris and adjacent
counties, that he is prepared io do any
kind of work in the
HOUSE and SIGN PAINTING. PAPER
HANGING aud GLAZING
business, with neatness and despatch, on as
moderate let ms as can be done by any oth
er parson. Ready mixed Paints in large
or small quantities, always on hand.
Prompt attention will be givento all or
ders sent to rny address at Talbntton, Ga.
ESTI*AY~
Clerk’s Office Inferior Court, )
Decern her 4, 1854. j
ALL persons concerned are hereby nos
tifi-d that D. VV. Snell, of the 770th
Dia rict, G. M. Tolls before Win. T. Smith,
one of the Justires of the Peace for said dis*
triel, as an Estrav. one certain dark mousey
colored mare mule, of medium size,
by Hartwell N. Harris, and D. R.
Ireo holder of said county and
worth forty dollars. jM
The owner of said cstray PH®
come f.irw aril, prove property®
and take sai<i horse
dealt w ith a- die i .aw
A ti no i Mfi.ri from
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