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BY J. A. TURNER.
VOLUME I.
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John and Joan
>'.) plate haa John, and Joan no hoard,
l’.am folks in humble plight:
One only tankard crowned their board,
And that was tilled each night—
A'."ng whose inner bottom sketched
In j ride of angel s grace,
g,rude engraver's hand had etched
A baby angel’s lace.
.w, Ji.hn drank first, a moderate draught,
11m Joan was not like John,
yr \, !ie:i lierlips had reached the cup
bhc drank tih ah was gone,
j I|U j.fu u urged her to drunk fa>,
i-m she ne'er changed a jot;
g -i .vcd to see the angel there,
A: i therefore dra ned the pot.
W.. :: John found all remonstrance vain,
Another card he played,
A i where the angel stood so plain,
lie had tiie ldevil portrayed.
J miw the horns, Joa.i saw the tail,
Yet J. an as stoutly quailed,
A:, i w s.cu her lips iu«d reached the ale,
>'..c oicarcii it at a draught;
j, An blared with wouder jtctrificd,
li:s hair rose on his pate,
• \\ y do-t thou gu/.£le now." he cried,
••At ’ s enormous rate?'
•5.,.,. J lui, to John, "am I to blame,
1 can't in conscience stop;
Yo" sure, 't would be a burning shame
To leave the 1 evil a drop."
M. E. L.
Bogota. April 3th. 1533.
Mlisttllancons.
Editor Independent Press:
Enclosed you will find an article
from the Richmond Examiner. Please
give it an insertion in your valuable
j >nper. Respectfully,
Your well-wishing
SUBSCRIBER.
Nov. 27th, 185A.
Massachusetts Right Side lp.
This old Federal, Abolition, Hart
ford. Convention State lias nobly vindi
cated her ancient renown. Never,
since the davs of bu.rnin?; witches, has
she more faithfully displayed her true
character. It is said by one ot the
letter writers that “the Know Noth
ings have made a clean sweep of the
S»atc high and dry,’—another that
• - :t is conceded on all sides that .the
Know Nothings have made a clean
sweep of the State.” 1 hey have car
ried the election .of Governor, mem
bers of Congress, and Legislature of
the State. It is believed that the Go
vernor, members of Congress, and
nearlv all the members of the Legisla
ture are Abolitionists, Freesoilers, and
Anti-Nebraska men. This is the State
and these are people, from whom it
‘'osts the United Suites, twenty-seven
thousand dollars to return a slave to
his master in Virginia. These are the
people who murder their- own white
citizens for attempting to execute the
laws of the United States in behalf of
the Constitutional rights of Southern
men —the people-who require the mil
itarv and naval power of the United
States to be put in full force lo compel
the execution of the laws for the pro
tection of Southern rights, and to'pro
tect the personal safety of Southern
men in the civil pursuit of their law
ful rights—the people who settle all
the secret business of the Know Noth
jin«r Order, and among whom, it is said,
the headquarters and seat of power of
-this new politico-religious Order abide.
These people are in the greatest glee,
end most lustily rejoice over the fallen
advocates of the Constitution, law, and
urder. The very halls in which it
was proek.’mcd in the war with Great
Britain, that it was sinful and unbe
coming a good religious people (as
they were) to rejoice at th^victories of
the American arms over the English
arid savage forces on our exposed bor
ders, now resound with rejoicings over
the choice of men to office who will
resist the Constitutional right of the
,Southern people by every unlawful
means in their power!
In New York the poor Know Noth
ings were deceived by the leading
Whigs a few days before the election,
(under an order from Francis Granger,
to the effect that Whigs must stand to
their arms, —letting the Know Noth
ings come to them, and not they go to
the Know Nothings,) gild suffered a
great defeat. But it so turned out that
$9 J£now Nothings carried, through
% ciolrrliln JournaU-jpcliotcii to f itcnitiire, politics, anti ©rural Mistellituii.
twei,ty-ti've Whigs, and the \\ higs
carried through two Know Nothings
for Congress ?■ Thus defeated and ir
ritated, a portion of them resolved
that if they coiminot carry the elec
tions their own wajVthey could burn
a Catholic church ; an*l accordingly, at
Williamsburg, one of chy suburbs of
New York city, they mad\the attempt,
find went so far ms to stave in the door,
but the activity of the military and
police saved the church from the threat
ened flames. On Friday last a parcel
of irish Catholics, exasperated atuhe
conduct of the rioters the night previ
ous, determined to retaliate by tearing
down the Methodist church in North
Fif.h .strict. The Mayor, Ij <>wevcr,
having had timely notice of their de
signs, ordered out a regiment of mili
tia and a large police force, and arrest
ed the movement. lie stationed a
strong military force at several ot th
Catholic and Protestant churches to
protect them from destruction. Thus
the houses of Cod are protected by
the military power! In the course oi
the lirst nights of riot, a number ol
persons were wounded—some proba
bly mortally. We trust for the credit
of the South, that the Southern Know
Nothings will secede freffn the Chu.eh
burning and Abolition branches ol
the Order.
Q. Z. X.
Jealousy.
In order to beget hatred it only
seems necessary that two men should
start in the same path. They may be
friends at lirst, but in a very short lime
afterwards we are sure to find them
foes, the success of the one being gall
and wormwood to the other. Bo you
doubt this? Then look round you.
Wiio are the most unmerciful critics
of the works of art? Who tomahawk
incipient poets?—Poetasters. Moot
but a point on theology, and you have
straigniway reverend doctors abusing
cucii other with a heartlessness that
would do credit to Billingsgate, and
indicating in no disguised language
the future destination of their com
peers. Let a medical practitioner start
anew theory, and his brothers are
down upon him. He is a quack —a
rogue —an ass —an imposter. Even
though the life of a patient be at stake
they scorn to hold consultation with
one who is a disgrace to his order.
Better that Mrs. Jones should die un
aided than the noble faculty should be
profaned. Furnish rival tragedians
with real Andrae Ferrara—let them
tight it out in the last act of Macbeth,
and to a moral certainty one of them
wnl be pinked or hideously slashed.
Bid you ever know a reigning beauty
who looked kindly only anew debu
tante? If such a spectacle ever was
seen, you may be sure that there was
a mortal venom beneath the smile.
Men say that lawyers, as being con
stantly pitted against each other, are
the least jealous of all the profession
als, but we have heard of such things
as systematic snubbing from the se
niors. An early chapter in the book
of Genesis is suggestive of the reason.
The first murder arose from hatred
engendered by jealousy, and at the
present it is as active and vigorous as
ever.— Blackwood's Magazine.
A Democratic Parrot.
Mr. Editor: —Among the selec
tions in your paper of bust week, I
noticed an account of “A Mischievous
Parrot. ” That account has served to
revive the recollection of mv “Poor
Poll,” long since deceased. Poor fel
low ! he was a warm politician, and
withal a sound one; for lie was a thor
ough-going Jackson Democrat. In the
year 1828, we occupied an oliiee m
common in the county of Nottoway,
Va. Politics, you may remember, ran
very high at that period. The con
test was between tariff and no tariff;
Jackson and Adams. Nottowav was,
at that time, the banner county of de
mocracy in the “ Old Dominion.”
There were but two Adams men to lit
found among the von rs in the whole
county. The most staunch Adamsite
of the tw.o was a venerable old Major
M . On a certain (lay a number
of gent emeu were sitting chatting in
our office, when old Major M step
ped in. “Poll” turned towards the
door, and as soon as he recognised the
old Major, shouted exultingiy, to the
no small merriment of the company,
“Hurra for Jackson ! Hurra for Jack
son !” and then, most provoking])-,
joined in the laugh excited at the Ma
jor’s expense, “ Hadia-ha! Ha-ha-ha!”
Was not that' too bad, to be defeated,
then laughed at by a Parrot? —Albany
Patriot.
Swift was-one day in company with
a young coxcomb, who rose with some
conceited gesticulation, and with a con
fident <rr, said, “f would have you to
know,Mr. Dean, I set up for a wit.”
“Do you, indeed?” sard Swift, “then
take my advice and sit down again.”
“WITHOUT UJEkMR, I\iVOU OH JiFTJECTMO»Ii % ”
EATON i'OX, GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1854.
The know Nothings in Ohio —-Their
Prospects lor tue Presidency*
The delegates who met on Wednes
day at. Cincinnati, to transact the busi
ness ot the Native American Or
der and elect a chief for the w hole
Union had a perilous task to perform.
There never was a party which stood
more in need ol prudence and circum
spection. It rests with the leaders ol
the new body to decide whether the
work begun in so triumphant a man
ner shall be successfully carried oui,
or lgnomiuiousiy abandoned. No
party ever enjoy ill more brilliant pros
pects. The couhthss victories won
during the past year, happily capped
by llie sweeping vote in Massachusetts
and the scarcely less sigmiieaut defeat
in New 1 oik, indicate out too plainly
that the sympathies ol the bulk of tiie
people oi the Lulled Abates are with
Uic movement, lienee one of the
chief dangers which menace the young
party : toe danger ot uver-sanguiue
conniiehee. it inc native leaders im
agine that the popularity of their prin
ciples absolve J them from all obliga
tions ol eau fulness and discretion, a
terrible disappointment is m store tor
them, ll Lucy hit icy that, because
tln-y have Slates aim cities, the leaders
can now saieiy venture on imitating
the old parties and parcelling out the
votes oi the American people ill pri
vate* caucuses and uole-auti-corner con
ventions, they are laboring under a
most fatal uelusion. Noi. the least
among the causes ol tiie rum ol the old
whig and democratic parlies was the
corruption introduced uy tiie caucus
ana convention system. Bet the natives
lake warning, ana, m all they do,
avoid the i’auuest suspicion of under
hand wire-pulling, or corrupt b;rg till
ing for spoils among their leaders.—
Let the men they intend to bring toi
wurd for the -Presidency be lainy and
openly marshalled belore the public
su that every American may have a
chance of deciding according to the
best of his judgement who is tiie lit
lest man to rule the country. Witn
caution, prudence and skill, the na
tive party are sure of a brilliant and
successful career. They can carry all
the local elections next year; and with
the aid of the thousands of democrats
whom Pierce’s administration has dis
gusted with the old democratic party,
and who are now looking round lor a
new platform and new principles, they
can as certainly elect a President in
1856. Nor need their mission end Inn *.
A’ltli prudent management, they' may
nold power for many yarns lo et m ,
on the basis oi devotion lo American
interests and hospitality to the corrup
tion and trickery of tiie o and parlies.—
It rests with the chiels of the Know -
Nothings to secure for their party this
glorious career.
Calmly examined, there is nothing
whatever in the native creed that
wears a narrow or sectarian character:
nothing of which a liberal large-heart
ed man need feel ashamed. For
nearly half a century after the adoption
of the constitution foreigners were wel
comed to our shores : we gave them
work, land, food and clothing,
and only asked of them in return that
they should conform to our laws and
help advance the country. For near
ly thirty years alter the enactment ot
our present situralization laws, we
cheerfully granted them, after a resi
dence of live years, political priveleges
scarcely inferior to our own. Though
many of them had not in that period oi
time'either learnt our language or be
come familiar with our institutions,
and though hardly any had possessed
political rights in tlieir own country, we,
raised them to an equality with our
selves in the govennent, and shared
with them the sovereign power. It
was a perilous experiment to make ;
but we risked it, relying on the good
behavior and common sense of the
stangers, and expecting that, m return
for so great a boon, they Mould strain
every nerve to evince their gratitude
and good citizenship. For some thir
ty years, as was said, the arrangement
iahtul on this looting without! com
plaints on cither side. Tin Irish and
Germans forbore to render themselves
conspicuous by riotous or disorderly
conduct; and, so far as they could,
amalgamated with their native-born
neighbors. But a change was at hand
An intriguing politician, now a United
States Senator, tiie lion. William 11.
Seward, seeking to raise himself to
power bv the favor of local and sec
tional agitations, bethought himself oi
using the foreigners, and marshalling
them in seperale cliques distinguished
by their original and cast off mitioind
iiies. He it was who lirst seduced
Archbishop Hughes from his pulpit
and his altar and persuaded him to ad
dress an Irish meeting at Carroll Hall,
surrounded by grog-shop politicians.—
This drew the line between Irish
men and Americans. A. large por
tion of the former, it is true, resisted
the insidious advice of the political in
triguer, and steadfastly refused to iden
tify themselves with the erection of a
special Irish party. But others led
away by the prospect of inordinate in
-11 uence, jumped at the idea of belong
ing to two,nations at once, and preserv
ing all thejnejudio s, the habits and
the names‘of irishmen while they en
joyed all tho rights of American#.—
They liked being courted specially as
irishmen for their vote ; and haying
never dreamt of the smallest political
rights at home, relished the notion ot
making free American citizens cringe
belore them and, humbly solicit their
support. From the day the Irish
were thus organized as a seperate race
in America, voting on principles of
their own, and having apparently no
principles or feelings m common with
tiie American masses —a native reac
tion was inevitable. Seward saiv it
not, as tie went to mass, and encourag
ed the formation of Irish societies and
German bunds : nor did his imitators,
who. seeing his success, used the same
i Hurts in other States to invest the for
eigners with a lictitous importance and
array them in antagonism to the na
tives, suspect that a revulsion was at
hand which would utterly overwhelm
them.
It soon began, however. Twenty
yi ars ago the native American feeling
was taking deep root in the country. —
l he American blood boiled at the lying
compliments which were paid and the
the fulsome adulation offered by poli
ticians and newspapers to the foreign
voters: not the less fiercely when it was
seen that such traitors as Mr. Seward
were the especial liivoites oi the for
eigners, anil that, whenever such a
thing was possible, the Irish and Ger
man vote was cast in opposition to that
of the American masses. For some
time the feeling smouldered in men’s
m arts ; but at last it burst forth, and
the consequence was frightful riots, de
struction of churches and other propel
ty, and a wide-opened proscription ot
rureigners. 'lire punishment, though
merely local and partial, was severe :
but accidental causes prevented further
dcvelopement of the ieeliug at the
lime. It was reserved lor Mr. Pierce
;o galvanize the old native feeling in
to new life by his desperate disregard
of his cutty to ins countrymen, and his
reckless appointment of incapable
worthless foreigners to oliiee. lie has
done the work well. First disgusting
democrats with the democratic party
to which he owed Iris elevation, and
tints providing the new party with a
splendcd batch of available recruits,
no has carried out the design to admi
ration by sending such men as Belmont,
Soule and Owen to Europe, and pro
viding the United States witU repre
sentatives who neither represent the
people nor live spirit, nor the the ehai
uoterof the nation.
Nothing more was wanted to com
plete the organization of the party
which claims that Americans are aim
to govern themselves without foreign
aid. That party will have a chance ol
trying the experiment belore long. It
will be time enough when it fails to
send to Europe for Irishmen or Ger
mans or Frenchmen to manage our af
fairs for us. —A . Y. Herald.
Russia Hard to Whip—the English
Housing Themselves.
.The London 'Junes seems to have at
Jast come to the conclusion that .Rus
sia is a more formidable opponent than
at lint supposed.' One entire season
has passed over, and. no impression
has made upi n die enemy. Fleets
greater than England ever assembled
m hostile array, before an adversary,
have been unabte to accomplish any
decided act which brings England
nearer to her object to put a stop to
the. territorial progress of Russia. In
tiie Crimea she has been the most suc
cessful in her operations, but even
tltere has accomplished nothing decis
ive, while her army is melting with
alarming rapidity. Os the I>O,UOO men
who left England for the seat of war
on the Black sea, she has lost by chol
era, by war, and other casualties,
14,0U0 men, according to the calcula
tion of the Liverpool Northern Times.
Her army has recently had a reinforce
ment of 1200 marines, and perhaps 2000
troops of ail arms, and with the 4,000
men which, are going out, the British
force may be increased to 20,000 or
25,000. The inadequacy of this force
to retain the possession of any conquest
made in the East against any of the
powerful countries of Europe begins
to press itself painfully upon the Eng
lish mind, and hence we see the jour
nals beginning to rouse the nation to
new efforts, to sustain the honor of
their arms, involving a vastexpenditure
of treasure. The Times anys:
“ We require an allied army of 200,-
000 men in the East, and it is vain
longer to deny the fact, or endeavor to
give a more favorable coloring to the
position we are really in. Fiance can
supply her contingent, and England
must find her moiety. Wc were in
hopes that diplomacy, backed by a
formidable warlike demonstration on
the part of the two greatest military
and naval {towers of Europe, would
have brought tlie Czar to some equita
ble terms. This vision has now pass
ed away, and the idea of' playing at
war any longer must be totally explo
ded.
“ The troops stationed in our colo
nies must be brought homo, and the
defence of our distant possessions left
to the loyalty and patriotism of our colo
nists. Recruits must be obtained, and
no means .of offence or defence left
longer to take case of themselves. All
that is now being done is well enough
as far as it goes. But the Ottoman
dominions have still to be protected,
and the blood of civilization lias to be
avenged. We can no more think of
retiring from the Held while these du
j ties remain to be performed and
crowned with victory, than we could
think of abandoning our homes and
lu-arths to a Russian invader. Experi
ence has already shown us what the
nature of the present contest really is,
and to neglect another day to prepare
fjr what lias to follow, would be high
ly criminal. On-: hundred thousand
British troops, and the same number
of French must, route qui coute, be
sent to the East without delay. With
the fall of Sebastopol, our present in
tense anxiety may cease, but with that
event the war must bo considered as
only just commencing.”
| The New York Ilciald cn Caleb
Cashing*
It is proposed to remove Mm cy
from the fetate Department. Good,
lie has been the Marplot, the Micaw
ber of the whole concern. It is pro
posed to put Gushing-—General Caleb
Cushing—in his place. Very well.
Reduced as the Democratic party now
is, it would be difficult to find a more
available stick of timber. Cushing is
a remarkable man. A gentleman in
liis manners, a scholar by education, a
Puritan in his looks, a diplomat from
experience, a soldier from discipline,
am , perhaps, the most elastic and un
scrupulous demagogue in the United
States, Cushing is the man for Premier.
He thoroughly tinders lands the party
polities of the country, for he has be
longed to all parties —“everything by
turns, and nothing long.” He has
been the pride of tiie whigs, the lor
lorn hope of Captain Tyler, the right
arm of Colonel Polk, a leader of the
free soilers, and tile champion of the
South; and at present he is very like
ly a master among the Know Noth
ings. And, as in our party polities he
lias been everything, and knows eve
rything, so in diplomacy, he has liter
uliy accomplished the circumnaviga
tion of the globe. Yes, he has sailed
round the world. As Commissioner
to China, he went out via the Medi
terranean, the Red Sea, Bombay and
the Indian Ocean; and having made
his famous treaty with the Imperial
Commissioner of the Central Flower)
Kingdom, lie returned via the Sand
wich Islands and Mexico. The theo
ry of Columbus was, that from the ro
tundity tis the earth lie could make a
trip to the East Indies by a Western
passage. Cushing, reversing this theo
ry, actually made a trip to the West
Indies by going East all the time.
And if Columbus opened anew world
to civilized man in his discoveries, so
did Cushing in his Chinese treaty.
Furthermore, in the event of a
bloody rupture with France and Spain,
the. active experience of General Cush
ing in our late glorious Mexican war,
will be of immense practical service
to him in the State Department, in the
quitter of our warlike operations by
land and sea. Asa scholar, a politi
cian, a diplomat and a soldier, there
fore, the vast learning and remarkable
experience and flexibility of Cushing
will render him a highly desirable ex
change for Marcy as Premier. The
gen tit man from Massachusetts, too, has
been promised the place for a long
time; and he has been waiting long
enough. Let Marcy go out, and let
Cushing go in, at 1c ist by the middle
of January.
Mrs. Swishelm on Dandng.
The following remarks are from the
piquant pen of Mrs. Swishelm : “ One
curious tact we have observed with re
gard to dancing. This is, the more
deeply a church or individual profes
sor is steeped in the spirit of money
grabbing, or intemperance, the greater
their abhorrence of dancing. This
appears to bea kind of convenient scape
goat, on which the sins of the congre
gation are laid, that they may be born
in the wilderness. Let the preacher
at any time submit, to a gag, which
shall on some special occasion, forbid
his opening his mouth for tue dumb, or
reproving a wealthy distiller, or fat
usurer, who grinds the pour to pay pew
rent, and forthwith we get a fresh an
athema. on dancing. Show us a weal
thy deacon’s wife who will haggle
with a widow lo get washing done for
twelve and a half cents a dozen, and
then pay her in trade, or give two dimes
and four coppers for twenty-five cents,
and we will show you one who will
take a spasm over the iniquities of a
cotilion. We never knew the rule to
fail, and have watched its workings so
long that whenever any one begins a
lecture on dancing we suspect him or
her of being a worshipper ofMummon.
Old Christian in his longjourney, dan
ced for joy, but the man with the
muck ralce was two busy. Nothing
appears better calculated to contend
with the hard, money loving spirit of
our age, than music and dancing. It
tends to melt the hard crust which the
dust of ledgers forms around the hearts
of our people, and there is no plaee to
which we should go with a subscrip
tion paper for a charitable object with’
more hope of success than a social par
ty‘where all were dancing to the mu
sic of two good violins and a trom
bone,” \
Onstir Pacha.
The most popular military man in
Europe, at the present time, is Omar
Pacha, the Cominander-in-Chief of the
Turkish army. He is generally re
garded as the Savior of the Turkish
Empire.. Ilis firmness, judgment, cou
rage and military skill sustained and
protected “the sick man” in the time
of greatest peril. He triumphed over
dangerous cabals at Constantinople,
defeated the schemes of diplomacy by
his vigorous measures of defence," and
not only stayed, but drove back the
invading hosts of the Northern Auto
crat. Omar Pacha’s campaign on the
Danube is a brilliant page in his histo
ry. Its events and incidents are re
cent and well known, and we need not
here repeat them.
Omar Pacha is a native of Croatia,
and consequently an Austrian subject
by birth. lie was born in 1801, and
s still in the vigor oi life. His family
name is Lattas. liis father was Lieu
tenant Aministrator of the circle of
Ogulini, situated thirteen miles from
Fiume, the only seaport of Hungary':
At an early age Omar < Titered tiie
school of mathematics of Thurm, near
Carlstadt, in Transylvania, and having
completed his studies with distinction,
he joined the Austrian Army.
In 1880. in consequence of a diffi
culty with his superiors, he left for
Turkey, and embraced .Lslarnism.—
Chpsraw Pacha, who was then Seras
kier, took him under his protection,
procured him admission into the Turk
ish army, ami atta lied him to his per
sonal staff. lie even gave Omar his
ward in marriage, one of the richest
heiresses in Constantinople, and -the
daughter of one of the Janissaries,
whose head he had caused to be cut
oil in 1827, when that corps revolted
against tho Sultan Mahmoud. Omar
continued to advance in the Turkish
army, until the Syrian and Albanian
insurrection in 1848 gave him an op
portunity to distinguish himself, and
attracted to him the attention of the
Sultan, lie was sent to Kurdistan,
and succeeded in obtaining the sub
mission of that province. In 1848 he
was named to the command of the
army sent to the Danubian provinces,
then placed under the double protec
tion of Turkey and Russia. In this
capacity he showed great prudence
and superior administrative abihtus.
In 1851 lie was named Commander-in-
Chief of Bosnia, the principal chiefs
of which had refused to recognize tiie
new organization of the Empire.—
W ith an inferior force he triumphed
over the hostile beys of that country.
In the organization of the army
Omar Pacha has displayed great activ
ity ; and the fruits of that organization
have been seen in the present war.
After the Hungarian revolution ho
undertook the defence of the refugees,
whose extradition had been demanded
by Austria and Russia. He proeee
ded to Schurnla, made the acquaintance
of the principal refugees, and on his re
turn to Constantinople, zealously plead
ed tlieir cause with the Sultan. He
took several of them with him to
Bosnia and Montenegro, and confided
to them important posts. They have
proved themselves worthy of his con
fidence, and some of them have since
distinguished themselves in the service
of Turkey.
Omar Pacha is rather below the
middle height, but Ins a military mien
and expression of countenance, lie
speaks, with equal facility, several
European languages, and is beloved by
his soldiers, lie pays the utmost at
tention to their wants, and treats them
as his brothers. Many incidents are
narrated illustrating Ins humanity and
generosity. During the Bosnian cam
paign, the rebels at Jaitz had forced
the Christians of the surrounding vil
lages, as well as the town, to bring
everything they possessed money,
provisions, household utensils, and
other moveable property —into - the
fort; and when they evacuated it they
carried all this away with them. Most
of the women and children had been
icmoved from the town to the more
distant villages, for safety; and they
now returned half-starved* to their ri
fled homes, where they found no
means of subsistence. Omar Pacha
distributed among them 30,000 okas
of Indian corn, and 50,000 piasters in
money. When this sum was exhaust
ed, he gave them 100,000 piasters
more; and an equal amount was sub
sequently divided among the Chris
tians of Bania Luka, then similarly
situated. In both these cases, lists of
their losses were .taken, and Omar
Pacha made the rebels refund them,
bv levying an idemnity from all those
chiefs who had signed manifestoes and
proclamations calling on the Sapiiis to
take up arms.
Tiie Two Blessings. —lie that loses
his conscience has nothing left that is
worth keeping. Therefore be sure you
look to that. And iii the next place,
look to your health ; and if you have
it, praise. God, and value it next to a
good conscience; for health is the se
cond blessing that money cannot buy,
therefore value it,.and be thankful for
it.— lsaac Wallori.
Till ways of nature, like those of:
God, sre past nwm’s finding out. j
| TERMS, $2,00 A YEA
NUMBER ;S:5.
•Aiiriuiltiin!.
Preservation of Manure.
Several articles have been published
in this paper during the current year
in relation to the preservation of ma
nure from the wasting effects of winds
and rain and sun, by means of some kind
of covering or shelter. The N, B,
Agriculturist lias been lately urging
the importance of the same mode of
management. Among other reasons
why farmers should bestow more care
than they usually do upon the pro
duction and preservation of all sub
stances Capable of being employed as
manures, some especial stress is laid
upon the fact that more than usual
difficulties are now being felt ii; obtain
ing guanos and other portable manures
in sufficient quantities, and at reasona
ble rates, and, we may add, in a condi
tion sufficiently free from the possibili
ty and probability of being fraudulent
ly deteriorated or adulterated. As re
gards the production of manures, eve
ry vegetable or animal product is cal
culated to swell the manure heap. An
imal products'are, from their contain
ing a larger per centage of nitrogen,
more valuable than vegetable products.
Hence while no vegetable matter
should be allowed to run waste, all
animal matter connected with the farm
and all that can be cheaply obtained,
should be carefully collected and add
ed ‘.o the manure heap. Carcases of
animals that die, blood, slaughter
house cleanings, refuse of fisheries,
and anything of like nature, should
be added as there may be opportunity.
Where such animal matter can be ob
tained, some dry peaty matter from
ditches, or sawdust, or sand, or clay,
should be mixed up with it to absorb
the liquid and also to retain the ammo
nia which exhales from it.
j But neglect nvthe preservation of
| farm-yard manure is more common, or
j at least more palpable, than neglecting
j substance s to form a large manure
heap. The yards are generally so ar
ranged as to permit, not only rains,
; but also the drippings from the roofs
of the a jacent buildings, to fall upon
the manure and wash out of it much,
that is valuable. AY ho so very fortu
nate as not to have seen, either in his
own barn yard or in those of his
neighbors, brown streams issuing forth,
carrying with them the gold of the
farmer, only in a way somewhat differ
ent from the usual form? AVhere this
can be prevented by making the barn
yard concave, or deepening it in the
centre, it may be done by laying down
dry peat earth or dry mould to absorb
it. It should never be forgotten, says
the X. B. Agriculturist, that the urine
of animals is the most valuable part
of their excrete, and where not absorb
ed by the litter, should, in some way,
be prevented- from escape and waste.
But fertilizing matter escapes in
other ways than in the liquid form.
“ Loss also accrues from the escape of
matter in a gaseous form.” Ammonia
or hartshorn, which is now generally
know as one of the most valuable, as
well as one of the most volatile of ele
ments entering into the composition of
fertilizing matters, readily passes from
the exposed manure in the farm-yard.
“■When fermentation rises to a certain
height, this escape is constant.” To
keep the fermentation in check and to
fix the ammonia for retention, should
be the study of the farmer. Here dry
peat becomes a valuable auxiliary, and
also dry mould. Some have advocat
ed the adding of gypsum; it is howev
er, found in practice not to answer the
expectations which were at one time
formed of it. “No better substance has
yet been recommended,” says the N.
B. Agriculturist, “than dry peat or dry
mould. Sawdust, where it can be ob
tained in sufficient quantities, makes
an excellent addition or covering for the
manure heap. A good rule is, all farm
yaid manure should be applied to, and
mixed with, the soil as speedily as pos*
sible; but during summer, at least,
this becomes all but impracticable.”
Under such circumstances there must
be los3 and waste, a leaking away of
what might be converted into golden
treasure, it* the manure does not get
some-kind of covering, and be mixed
with some mailers v liioh will absorb '
t’ie liquids and eilialatious.-— American
Cotton Plant*'-.