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doing for the North. But up to the present time, his dreams have never been realised. Many private experiments have bgpn made with it, but with no satisfactory results. Some have concluded that it would answer the end contem plated, others say it will not pay to stop in mid summer to sow and plough in this Southern clo ver, and leave the cotton to the mercy of the grass. Thus the exhausting process goes on, and no ameliorator found to supply the waste. The truth is, the pea has never been properly tested as an ameliorator of the soil, and proba bly never will be, without an experimental farm. In order to such tests, too much precious time, care, precision, and trouble is demanded for any private individual, without being paid for it. A section of an acre would have to be selected, and carefully measured, the pea sowed, and turned in at different stages of its growth, and the succeeding year planted in corn and cotton — other sections planted without having under gone this process, and the whole product gather ed and carefully weighed, and this will have to be continued for several years before a just esti mate can be formed of its value as an ameliora tor of the soiL And so of every other experi ment involving abstruse and undeveloped ques tions in ag#cultare. In England they have farms of this class, con ducted by able men, who devote their whole time to them, and the results of their experi ments are doing more, it is believed, for the ad vance of true agricultural science on that is land, than the observations and experiments of all her farmers Insides. It was on one one of these farms that the exhausted tendency of partial manures, were fertilizers, was first de monstrated. Three tenths of an aero put in wheatj for fifteen consecutive years, and manur ed with the same quantity of a highly charged ammoniated manure each year, fell gradually from more than forty bushels per acre to less than thirty. While other plats, hard by, under the more judicious system, of always returning to the soil as much as was taken from it, contin ued to improve rather than deteriorate it. Les sons have been learned ,by those that it would take ages to develope by individ ual farmers, thrown upon their own resources, without the aid of an experimental farm; of this help, we can only gather up here and there, experiments, instituted by men who are dovoted to their calling, (many of them unsatisfactory,) and profit by them as best we may. Many are doubtless made which never have seen the light, especially of the class of failures, as men are slow to publish their own defects, although this class of experiments are quite as useful as the more successful. But these iudividual ex periments have comparatively little weight, un less they come from a source entitled to great consideration. This leads us to the introduction of several ex periments made in this county, with a view to ascertain the true value of salt as a fertilizer to certain plants. We tried it ourselves, on corn, during the last season, combined with ashes, and was very much pleased with the result; although no distinct memoranda were kept. B. T. Har ris, Esq., made a more interesting experiment in its application to cotton, which has treated won derfully to increase the amount purchased as a manure, by the planters of this county. We planted parallel rows of cotton, with and with out Guano, and with salt and Guano continued. The results was that the combination of the two, outstripped the others to.the eye even, of a casu al observer. We are sorry that Mr. Harris did not weigh exactly the products and give them in detail. His practised eye, however, was enough to satisfy his neighbors, for he is known to boa gentleman of fine judgement, not given to impulses, or easily carried away by new fanglcd notions. Such an experiment by some of our fancy men woidd have had quite a different effect from what it did. We hope that the result will prove quite as favorable to those who have purchased the salt in such quantities, as this adt has been complimentary to the gen tleman who instituted the experiment. The result of an experiment, made by the writer last fall with guano and salt, for the wheat crop, we give os follows: Three lands of very thin soil in our wheat field were sown in the fol lowing manner. First, with salt at the rate of two thirds of a sack to the acre. Second, with out manure of any kind. Third, with salt as above, and about seventy five lbs. of guano. We cut a trench twenty yards in length and eight feet wide, in each of these plats, equal to 480 square feet or 1-91 of an acre. The first or salted plat, produced five small sheaves which weighed eight lbs: the wheat measured 3} pints and weighed two lbs. five and a half ounces.— The second or manured plat produced four small sheaves weighing four lbs. the wheat measured 1J pints and weighed one lb. oz. Tho third plat manured as above, produced six sheaves weighing lbs. the wheat measured five pints full, and weighed 3 lbs. 15 oz. The section without manure produced at the rato of two bus els three peeks and two quarts to tho acre. That manured with salt at the rate of four bushels, one peck and six quarts. The last section man ured with guano and salt measured up seven bushels and a half peck, per acre. An estimato of the cost of the manure and the overplus of wheat shows that it baroly pays at the present low price of wheat. This is the second year we have tried guano on wheat with about the same result. • How does salt act as a fertilizer ? is an in teresting question' to the agricultural chemist, and one which has not as yet been satisfactorily answered. It has been suggested however that as it is an absorbent of ammonia it acts mainly in this way. letting off this nutritious and volatile salt to the feeders of the plant as they require it. If this be true we can see good philosophy in its producing such fine results in combination with guano. In fact may not this be the reason in part, why tho ammonia of guano is so well and so long retained ? As it is the excrement of sea birds, a co nsiderable portion of the chloride of soda enters into its composition. And may not this be tho reason why tho dung of sea birds is so much more powerful a fertilizer than that of our domestic fowls ? This would suggest that the admixture of salt with any of our amraonia cal manures, might help to retain the ammonia and at the same time add several essential in gredients to all good soils, viz: Chlorido of soda and sulphate oflime and magnesia, Sparta, Geo, P. - - - —i <►•+-Jim ■ Errors t» Grtowtyo Beans. —Lima Bean vines are Usually suffered to wind themselves around a polo twelve or fifteen feet high, and before the vine reached the top of the pole, some beans are already of a size to bo pulled, near its bottom. — Lima Beans should be pinched oft'when five and a half feet high, and will readily throw out side shoots well filled with pods, which will ripen before frost; whereas; when not shortened in, the beans on tho upper ends of the vino cannot perfect themselves in time to be saved. It is unfair to expect a gill of sap to travel through forty feet of vino wrapped around a pole, and make a perfect bean at the extreme end of it.— Exchange. SOtriWXBJSr ME® VXXSSXBS.- * . • ■5? [Written for the Southern Field and Fireside.'] Green Mt., Bcrke Co., May 21, ’59. Mr. James Gardner .—Dear Sir: struck with | the new title of your new enterprise, "The South- | ; era Field and Fireside,” thoughts long at rest in ! our own mind, have become a source of disquie- - ' tudo to us. No two subjects in the whole list i j of what is sublunary, ought to possess a greater 1 charm for the minds of men. Who that dwells on earth, eating of the produce of the field, and enjoying the comforts of the domestic fireside, whether merchant, farmer, lawyer, physician, or • minister, if endowed with common reason, ean ! not with me; welcome this new effort to befriend | man ? We wish you success to make earth’s surface teem with beauty and productiveness, , and the home of every son of Adam, to abound ; in taste, refinement, learning and virtue. We can contribute no mite to throw rays j j of light on what firesides are, or what they ought ! ! to be, in this country. For the present we shall j leave this part of your undertaking to older and j more experienced heads. The field shall be our j theme, as it is our vocation. Experience either j makes men worse, wise, or more foolish; and of : j it we claim sixteen years. Ten years have been j : devoted exclusively and enthusiastically to the j | farm. Like the majority of men, we have aimed ] to make money. What success has been attain- | ed we will only say, satisfied us. In our view there is no other branch of busi- j ness that men follow for a livelihood, on which j more erroneous opinions are held and practiced. ; than farming. The merchant makes an invest- ' ment of ten thousand dollars in goods; and to be j successful, ho maintains, he must get cost and j interest. The townsman purchases a house in | the city to let; and he calculated to get interest on cost, &e., for rent. Land owners, in Europe, frequently, and occasioaully, in the Northern States of our own country, let their farms on such conditions and work them themselves in such a manner, as to insure them interest. And why should not planters in the Southern States, look more closely to the intrinsic value of their lands ? If it pays anything in the way of per centage to work poor land, how much more re munerative it must be to operate on rich land.— Experience has taught this fact to all tillers of tho soil. The labor of cultivating rich land is certainly no more. Tho wear and tear of stock and implements are no more, (unless the lands are fresh lands) than that of poor land. And here allow me to say emphatically, the profit attend ing the cultivation of new lands, is not equal to that of old lands of the same fertility, where all stumps, roots and impediments of all kinds have been removed; for the reason of the great wear and tear and the impracticability of using im proved and labor-saving machines. With these facts before us, can we recognize the system of agriculture, generally practiced in the Southern States, as wise, economical and tho most profita ble ? Ever since we arrived at manhood, it has ap peared incomprehensible how men owning fer tile lands could sufl'er them to become impover ished—and that those possessing farms, exhaust ed by tillage and denuded by rains, could be contented to plant, cultivate and gather, year af ter year, without any effort to prevent the former and remedy the latter. To suggest some methods thoroughly practi cal, by which lands now productive, may be kept so—and those exhausted almost to sterility, may be restored to a state of fertility, and at tho same time give subsistence and percentage in money on tho capital and labor employed in working them, is the object of this essay. If in a single instance, this effort shall accomplish good results, the antlior will bo perfectly satisfied. He claims to have discovered nothing new—promises noth ing to supercede the necessity of effort, skill and industry; but something which will enable the young farmer, in the worn out portions of the Southern States —if he regard it attentively—to work successfully, and preserve the old home stead. And who is so unwise and so unpatriot ic as not to experience a thrill of pleasure at tho bare mention of home ? Who in his flourishing new domain in Texas, Oregon or the wide world, does not at times have a -longing for tho old home—the old, well tried friends—the associa tions of youth, and more than all else, for the places where bones of ancestors and friends re pose ? Young man preserve the old homestead from desertion—beautify and adorn it with or chards of choice fruit—lawns—flower gardens, with terraces, statuary and fountains—have those old fields around it to evidence more than their pristine fertility, and in after years, you will reap a rich reward. To make money should not be all the effort of life. This is noble ; but there is a higher and a more exalted work still. To beau tify and adorn what is uninteresting and defac ed—to render useful and profitable, what has well nigh gone to decay, is an achievement for which the wise of your own day will give you praise, and those to come in future ages will call you blessed. The first practical suggestion we shall make, is in regard to the preservation of fields from washing. It might appear useless to some minds for us to pen any thing on this subject, after so much has been by others more able, already promulgated orally and written. The same, however, might be urged against any other subject to which the human mind has been called to consider; because it is hackneyed.— Wo have full confidence in the efficacy of con stantly holding truths before the mind in order to have them appreciated. Hence the impor tance of the subject must be our apology for wlmt follows First in tho list of remedies, is Hill-side Ditch ing. We know from cxporienc-e (in some mat ters tile best teacher) that it is indispensible, and others of more scientific knowledge advo cate its great utility. Hill-side Ditches are no ornament, and are expensive, but in our view are more beautiful and economical than denuded hills and yawning gullies, and are richly worth all their trouble and outlay. We differ from many advocates who seem to think that mul tiplicity constitutes efficiency. A few ditches with sufficient fall, rightly located are far more advisable, than man}'. We are in the habit of dividing incline plains into two equal segments, by a ditch which conveys its own water from the field, or into another ditch coming from another direction and thence into another and so on. The rows of corn and cotton and whatever else may be planted, are made to run obliquely to the ditches, as much so as can lie, to have them empty their water into the ditches. Some very short declivities we do not divide, but pro tect by a ditch running along on their summits. Occasionally where the plain is very long and much inclined, it may be necessary to divide it into three or more segments instead of two. — • Wo find no difference between sandy lands and clay lands as regard tho number of ditches • needed; but we have learned that it is better on light lands, to have each ditch convey its own water as much as practicable, to prevent deop - ening. i What we practice more and deem no less salutary than Hill-side Ditching is dividing fields into plains, on patches, having each one as near a level as the nature of the surface will allow. — Tho more undulating the field, the smaller the 'T plains or patches must be made. In farming ! these plats, it is as great desideratum to have ! the rows of whatever is planted, run in as many i different directions as possible. The intention ! of this is to have the excess of water which the . earth cannot absorb, never to accumulate into , a large volume—never to acquire much momen tum and never to concentrate on any one point and thus each plain and even each row may be [ able to hold its own water. While fields thus treated, are under tillage we never allow’ the spaces between the plats, or the tumrows to be molested by the plough, and the hoes are only required to keep down bushes, vines, and such weeds as we desire not to grow’. To the two preceding wo add another method of great value. All observing farmers are aware I how much greater quantity and more rapidly (a i great desideratum at a time w’hen rain desends | in torrents, as often hapi>enß in our climate) : water is absorbed by porous, than by hard, j compact earth. Hut for the great tenacity of j argillaceous soils, on account of their tardiness ] in absorption, they would soon liecome denuded. ; The reverse is true of silieious soils, because but j for their great absorptive powers, owing to a ; great lack of adhesion between their particles. ! they would never rest long in any one position. Wo have been able to discover no way of I remedying these defects more efficient and i conomieal, than the turning under and blending ! vegetable matter with the particles of earth.— ; In the former caso porosity, and in the latter I tenacity is imparted to the soil, whereby the liability to wash in both cases is greatly | diminished. ■ In the case of clay-land, other ad j vantages accrue as facility of culture, and in both instances increased fertility is added, but of this we will treat in another place. Fourth I but not the least important is deep, and thorough plowing. In farming, as in other affairs of life, he who skims the surface may float with ease, but can never accomplish great re sults. Without deep ploughing, all other devi ces will fail in preventing the washing away of the soil. So soon as the bed of earth, uprooted and pulverized by the plough, becomes saturated with water down to the hard pan beneath, the remainder of showers, must stay ponded, or move along on the surface to the lowest points, carring with it the soil, corn, cotton or whatever is planted. We honestly believe that were all lands well coated with a soil, to be broken to the depth of eight oM welve inches, washes now so plentiful would be much more rarely seen. If the proceeding suggestions are rightly under stood, and literally practised, the planter may safely rely on preserving much of his soil which otherwise would bo taken from him. As the foregoing prepares the way whereby the full benefit of manuring is secured to the husbandman, we shall now proceed to offer some practical suggestions on that operation.— The necessity of practising some system of fer talization on our exausted lands, it seems to me, no sane man can help discerning. The utility of such effort is more obscure for the want of practical illustrations around us. Reading plan ters know what has been done by a wiso sys tem of manuring in other countries; but he who can't read but would read, is left to grope in darkness, or practice a liberal credulity to ma dam liereßay. We truly believe, and sincerely hope that there is a day not far distant, when the true system of agriculture—returning to the soil the elements of fertility taken off by crops, so that its productive capacity shall not diminish will bo practiced in the Southern States. No other system than this but will end in barren ness and cause dosertion of old homesteads. The question will arise in many minds, is this the way to make money? We unhesitatingly answer this is the best, the surest way to ac cumulate wealth. To continue to plant and cul tivate lands which barely yield a subsistence without any per centagc on the labor and capi tal employed, can never build fortunes. To go to Texas, Oregon, or any other country where productive land can bought cheaply, is better. But in a move liko this one speculates with life, and fortune and has to bury all the finest and strongest feelings of the heart. If the posses sion of wealth were certain to be attained, the inducement might be considered quite sufficient; but facts show this to be a very variable result. For our own part, we candidly think that the amount of money invested in land, the money and laltor appropriated to building and improv ing and the quantity of labor expended in prepa ring the land for successful cultivation, if wisely used in fertilizing old land, would give greater and quicker returns of profit. Another argu ment against seeking after new lands is the ne cessity never ends. It is a fact well established that no lands except those subject to inundations but will become impoverished by successive crops and continued tillage. The most of our lands lose their highest fertility in from four to eight years, where no effort is made to have them retain their productive capacity. Then why seek new lands, when by the time money enough is made to pay for the land over and above a support, and to erect as fine and costly tenements for man and beasts as were left be hind on the old place, the necessity of moving again arises, if only land of virgin fertility is dstermined to be cultivated. Thus the seeker after new and productive land can promise him self only a succession of moves, an ever fixing yet never fixed condition. As hard and unpleasant as the above necessi ty may seem, there is but one way to avoid it on the one hand and starvation on the other, and that is I)}’ a wise systcqi of rotation and liberal manuring of crops. Hence wo see various me thods adopted in different nations and even in different parts of the same nation for the preser vation and improvement of land. This diver sity to a great extent, is founded in wisdom. In Europe it may bo most economical and profit able to employ one class of fertilizers and one svstem of rotation; while in the northern states of this country another description of manures may be used and another system of rotation may be practised with the same result, contin ued fertility and liberal production. So too in the southern States have we not substances in abundance fit for manure not found in Europe or the North, and may we not have a system of rotat ion and manuring best adapted to our crops, climate and soils? There are, however, certain substances eminently adapted as food for field crops, found in common in all countries, for ex ample the excrements of all bipeds and quadru peds. and the residue of decayed animals and vegetables, In short, if there be a country, or a portion of laud in any country —except natural deserts, on the face of the Earth where the ma terials and the means of fertilization best adap ted to its wauts, are not to bo found, we have yet to see it. [to be continued.] *• i ■ — Bread Pudding.— Fill a four quart pan half full of light bread, crumbled fine; add milk so as nearly till the pan; let it soak two hours; then add two thirds of a cup of sugar, two eggs, two spoonfuls of sweet cream, a of salt, half a nutmeg. Bake throe fourths of an hour. [Written for the Southern Field and Fireside.] PLANTING ON THE MISSISSIPPI. Mr. Editor:—One part of this country is from one to ten feet under water , and the other part is parching up for the want of rain. We have fine stands of cotton, and it looks well. I saw a bloom yesterday, the 6th of June, and will have many in a few days. Bat if the refreshing showers don’t descend upon us soon, corn will immediately be ruined, unless it is the late planting. The water is slowly retiring from the cotton fields of Madison Parish,' and we are planting the overflowed land. We plant as fast as the water recedes—plant in the mud by throwing down the cotton seed on the old bed and tramp upon them. It is up in a few days, and strange to say, looks healthy. The water has left some plantations entirely; they are done planting and have commenced scraping the young cotton.— But other plantations, not so fortunatoly located are still ahnost entirely submerged, having plant ed from only forty to fifty acres, out of from four hundred to one thousand acres they have under. If the river falls too feet more, it will throw out thousands of acres. But at the rate it is falling now (one inch in twenty four hour) it will take it to the first of Juljwto get to that notch, and then it will be too cold to plant. So you may put it down as a fixed fact that the agricultural prospects of this country are gloo my enough. But if the water leaves us too late to plant cot ton, we will plant peas and make a No 1. article of pea-vine-hay. If this water and drouth con tinue, we will need all the hay wo can get, for our supply of corn will tie extremely limited. Now Dr. Lee, if you were here to examine this country a few days, you would go home and urge upon the planters, in stronger terms than ever, the necessity of improving their hills. Improved land in the hills, is in my opinion, tho most valuable land in the world. More anon. Yours truly. G. D. Harmon. Willikin’s Bend, La., June 7th, 1859. •»> [Written for the Southern Field and Fireside.] Augusta, Geo,, March 22nd 1859. Dr. D. Lee —Deer Sir: Though a Northern man, it is with much pleasure I this morning have noticed your prospectus, for a paper in part dovoted to Agriculture—this together with Horticulture, is a favorite occupation of my lei sure time. For eight years past I have spent six to eight months of tho year South, though ne ver before in this state, and having been but one month in it, and this having been an unfav orable one to see or know much of its climate, or of its agricultural adaptation. Yet one thing strikes mo as being adapted to both climate and soil. That is the culture of the Grape for Wine. Having passed some time in France and other parts of Europe, I was much interested in the culture of the Grape, and was at some pains to see and know tho “ Modus Operandi ” which 1 found exceedingly simple and profitable, though you no doubt understand it, yet few of your readers perhaps do, as it appears to ine if they did they would go into it, as I am satisfied that ten acres cultivated in either the Grape or the new Rocheller Blackberry, for Wine would pro duce more profit to tho vinter, than one hundred acres in any other crop, besides the vinyard once properly put out, is there for ages. I will relate a circumstance it being the time of the vintage, I went to see a vinyard a short dis tance from the city, on this vinyard I meet with a man some sixty years of ago—together with other enquires, 1 asked him how old the vin yard was; to which he replied ‘J’na sais pas’ Ido not know. He then informed mo that he had been on it sixty years, and that ho knew not how old it was when he went upon it. It was not a large vinyard perhaps .eighteen or twenty acres, this man did the work, except at the time of the vintage; at that time men, wo men and children are employed on the vinyard. A frame is put up, some forty feet long and fif teen to twenty wide—the length depends upon the size of tho vinyard—this is open except that it has a thatch roof of straw, at one end. There is a room called the fermenting or wine room, this is enclosed sufficient to keep the rain out, on each side of the frame are shelves, or a shelf, running the length of the frame or building of a height convenient to work, two to three feet wide; through the centre a plank platform eigh teen inches high of a width to set the Tubs or as they are called Tuns. These tuns are made a little flaring or largor at the top than the bot tom of oak staves. About six inches from the main bottom a strip is nailed round for the pur- , pose of supporting a false or movable bottom, this is of plank, which is perforated with holes, about half an inch made perfectly smooth: it is then covered over with a cloth made of horse hair, a piece of rattan sewed to the edge, this covers the false bottom, it is then set into the Tun. tho Grapes are picked and brought in and put on the shelves, then the children pick them from the stems, culling out every unripe or im perfect grape and putting them aside, the per fect and ri])e are then put into tho Tuns, in small quantities at a time; when this is done the men stript themselves naked, wash and step into tho Tuns. A blanket for the purpose, with a string to draw or gather it around the body is put over the Tim, the object of which is to keep the heat of the body in, this causes the fermentation to commence sooner, tubs on rol lers are set at the end of this platform, all be ing ready, the men step into the Tuns—a man with a violin, commences to play, the men to dance, the girls to sing, and the AVine or Grape juice to ran. These Tuns are of convenient height to admit of the men placing their hands on the edge to support them. As the Tubs are filled juice is drawn into tlie AVine room, there it sttfnds to ferment; this is the critical period as in case of a storm, tho fermentation may be delayed and the AVine become sour. If all is fav orable, in few days the scum that has passed the strainer will riso to the top, soon it liegins to crack, and a light froth appears, it is then care fully skimed off and the AA’ine is transferred to the casks, as they are filled the bung is set on lightly; for some days you hear a bussing noise —each day the bung is driven a littlo with a wooden mallet, when tight it is placed where it is to stand until the second fermentation take* place which is usually in March. At this t«ue tho wine is carefully decanted and placed i* “ ar ‘ rels for shipment, or bottles, to preserve t*® wine; before tho barrels are filled a piece fi linen, a strip say one inch wide is dipped ln sulphur melted, it is then held in the cas* at the to fumigate it, this preserves tie wine from lie eoming acid. After the first casks in which the fermentation took place have stood to dry, they are opened by taking out one of the heads , they are found to tie coated with a scum or incrusta tion, this is then cleaned out, and this scum ta ken care of. This is known in commerce as the red or white argols, used in dying, or for the purpose of making the Tartaric acid. (I am a little too fast, and must go back to explain an im portant point in economy) The unripe and defective grapes, (Brandy drinkers, now look sharp) the pulps or skins and seeds, the scum that arises in fermontation, any Wine that may become afcid, are put into vats of water, there to ferment. Then the Wine of this fermentation goes to the still for making the Brandy, or the Wine is reserved for Vinegar. After the vintage, the stock which produced the Grape is cut close to the ground leaving three or four of the scions of the season’s growth to remain for the next years crop, the vines that have produced are cut into lengths of five or six inches, placed in an iron cylinder and charred. These are then arranged in sizes, put up and sold, these are the Crayons used for drawing. You may here see that every part is turned to account—so that in fact, the Wine or Claret costs little in a fruitful season. I notice the vintage of the past season was very good, and that the wine was selling at four cents per gallon. Now Mr. Editor, I trust this may lie the means of inducing some of your planters to look into the subject, and turn their attention to it. I think it may not only prove a profitable business, but banish from your society the use of that a bominable beverage, called whiskey. Ybungmen take an interest in the cultivation of the vine.— Young ladies do all you can to aid and encour age it; you can do much, and your peace com fort ami happiness in this life, if not for eternity, will bo greatly enhanced. Oh! how many of your sex, with as fair prospects as you may now have, have been made to weep and mourn. The yohng husband, perhaps in some unguarded hohr has been induced to partake of the empoisoned cup, thence his courso has been downward to the gates of death. I will not venture further, your own imagination, together with the facts that have come under your own observation, can readily fill up the picture. You may say, wine intoxicates, true! yet if the pure juice of the grape, the man who should, or could become a drunk ard, would be lienoath the brute. I will here relate a case, the truth of which, I think I can vouch for. One year since, I was travelling in N. 0.; while stopping at a hotel in one of the lower counties a gentleman from a short distance in the country r came in to the town to order a coffin for a young man; after he went out—one of the persons present, related the following : The father of this young man for whom the this house of the dead was order ed, was an old genleman upwards of eighty years of age ; a short time previous to his death, ho (the old gentleman) had purchased a barrel of whiskey ; ho died and little was thought of it, further than that ho had lived to a good old age, and departed in the course of nature. At the sale of his effects, the young man, (his son) purchased the barrel with what remained of the whiskey; in a short time—l do not remem ber the exact time it may have been—one or moro months—this young man died suddenly —as he had been a healthy man, this caused some notice to be taken, and some experiments to be made. The physicians thought there were some indications of poison—a committee was ap pointed and instead of a post mortem examina tion of the young man—the remains of the whis key were examined, then the cause was discov ered. This committee stated as the result of their examination, that the remains of this whis key, after having destroyed two persons, con tained strychnine enough to destroy some twenty more. You see hero how the lives of worthy men are trifled with by the unprint-ipled manu factures and dealers in this abomination. Young men taste not, touch not, handle not; for in such a day and hour, as ye think not, death will come. There is another article for a delicious wine, that is the black/terry ; a neighbor of mine has the past season, made from the new Rercliello Black bury sixty barrels of wine. I understand ono house in h T ew York had made him an eft’er of $2.00 per bottle, for the whole of it; this 1 think is the product of ten acres. Make the calcula.- tion and see if one hundred acres of cotton will make this sum. Now from either of these wines can be made a champaign of superior quality, without tho use of any deleterious substance. I have myself the past season mado wines and champaigns from na tivo grapes. Blackberries, elder berries, apples and tomatoes, make a fine champaign. Traveller. [From the Genesee Farmer.) DOMESTIC RECEIPTS. Walnut Puffs. —Two tablespoonfuls of flour, two ounces melted butter, two ounces sugar, two ounces hickory nuts beaten fine. Bake in cups j well buttered. Cold Custard. —One quart of new milk, one- - , half pint of cream, four ounces white sugar, a . glass of water in which an inch of washed ren- | net has Been soaked, and nutmeg. Biscuit. —One quart of buttermilk, two spoon fuls of cream, two teaspoonfuls of soda, one tea- ‘ spoonful of salt. Use flour enough to form a stiff dough, kneading it well. ] Rice Custard. —Boil three tnblespoonfuls of rice flour in a pint of milk. "When cold, add three eggs, two ounces of butter,, and a teaspoon ful essence of vanilla. Sweeten to taste. Buttermilk Pie.—Three pints of buttermilk, two eggs, four table-spoonfuls of sugar, a tea spoonful of flour stirred into the milk, and half a nutmeg. Stir well together, and bake like a custard pie. Sponge Cake, —Sift one pound of flour, one ( pound of loaf sugar, beat ten eggs very light, mix the ingredients well, then add the juice of ( one lemon. If baked in one cake, two hoars is necessary. No saleratus, soda, or tartans need ed. ■} A Nice Tea Cake.— Beat the whites of four eggs to a light froth, beat the volts of the same ) with a cup and a half of sug» r > one C '*P ®f sour cream, half a cup of batter; flavor with lemon. A little soda; flour to make a stiff batter. Tomato Marmalai*- —Take full grown toma toes while quite grre D > cut out the stems, stew them till quite sod, nib them through a seive, set the pulp on die tire; season highly with salt, pepper, pounded cloves, and stew all together till thick. It is excellent for seasoning gravies, and keeps wed- To Make Red Current Jelly.— Put your currants in a jar in the oven, and let them remain /ill the juice is all out of them. To a pint of syr up add a pint of white sugar, pounded, and made quite hot. Before the sugar is added, boil the sump very slowly for two minutes; then add the sugar, and boil it ten minutes. To Clean Green Currants. —An expeditious way of cleaning green currants from stems and grit, is to rub them well and bard in a handful or more of flour, then rub them in a seive, wash them well in several waters, spread on papers to dry, stir frequently if drying in an oven; but they are better dried on folded cloth in the sun. 0 % 31