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Newspaper Page TextBY J. A. TURNER, j VOLUME I. I'c ctri). The West,—l Love It Well. liY R. M. M'IURE. Oli. tiu.* Wen. the West, 1 love it well, With its blue and boundless sky; With its i>ntirks stretching miles away. Ami its rugged mountains high. with its silver 1 laKesftndflowingstreaiaß, An i the forests grim and old, Where the sunset clouds are gleaming with Their tints of burnished gold. Oh. T love it well, I love it well, And my heart leaps up with glee When 1 hear it named in foreign climes As the home of liberty For it is the kind that gave me birth, And wherever l may roam O'er the earth, my heart will still remain In my native woodland home. Oh-. 1 love its wild, enchanted dells, And its flowers that bloom and sp-mg tin the mossy margins of sweet bucks, And the birds that merry slug. In the tall, green pines that shoot their heads High upward to the sk;e-s. Or are beuaing o'er my cottage home, M:d tiie green wood's gorgeous dyes. Oh. 1 love it well, I love it well, For’lwas ther my father dad, Is; the days that tried men’s hearts and souls, On the land and ocean s tide, When the valleys rang with freedom s shout, And the tyrant's chain was river.; And t' e banner of the lrec unfurled To the glorious breeze of Heaven! Mfocclliiitcous. Ileur) Clay. Os all the mass of evidence widen this gentleman has lately laid before tiie public, in vindication of his cnar* aeter from the charge of conrupt bar gain and sale, the following extract of a letter from General Lafayette, dated LaGrange, October 10, 1827, can only be viewed as unexceptionable, all the other testimony being ex parte: “ I have received a 1 tu r from our friend Pointsett, and cannot but ob serve with him tiie general and espe cial attempts that have been lately di rected against the peace, harmony, ami institutions of tiie republican states of Soutu America and Mexico, it is very natural to see the republican minister of North America, opposed to those monarchical and aristocratical factions. That the imputation is giv en from Europe is not, I think, to be questioned; but l have received wit.i deep regret the part ol your letter al luding to a man whose glory, great talents, and hitherto experienced pat riotism 1 have delighted to cherish. Several painful it)formations had reach ed me, which, altogether, and many more besides, could not weigh so much with me as your own sense of the mat ter. 1 b<-g you to continue to write on the subject, and on every matter relative to public concerns, to my friends, and particularly to you who know my old, grateful, and siucete af fection. *• Blessed as I have la ely been with the welcome, and conscious, as it is my happy iot to be, of the affection and confidence of all parties, and all nun in every party within the Lnited States, feelings which 1 most cordially reciprocate, J ever have thought my-, self bound to avoid taking any part in local or personal divisions. Indeed, if I thought tuat in these matters my influence could be of any avail, it should be solely exerted to deprecate, not by tar, the . free, republican, and full discussion of principles ami candi dates, but those invidious slanders which, although they are happily ie lulled by the good sense, the earn I or, jknd domestic instances, bv the deiica* y *of the American people, tend to give abroad incorrect and disparaging im pressions. Yet that line pi conduct, from winch 1 must not deviate, exe pt iu eminent cases now out of the ques tion, does not imply a forgetfulness oi facts, nor a refusal to state them occa sionally. My remembrance concuis with your owu on this point; that in the latter end of December, either be- fore or after my visit to Anapohs, you being out of the presidential candida ture, and after having expressed my above mentioned motives of fin bear ance 1 by wav of a confidential ex ception; allowed myself to pul a sim ple unqualified question respecting your elections ring guess, a,nd \our iu- ? tended vote. Your answer was, that • in your opmioi, the actual state o, health of Mr. Crawford had limited the contest to a choice between Mr. Adams and Gen. Jackson, that a ela n founded on military aehievmcnts da not meet your preference, and that) had concluded to vote for Mr. A dams. Such has been, if hist the litera wo ing, at least the precise Sense of a co vernation which it would bave been im consistent for me to carry flllt,u * r A. »0t to keep a secret, while a recoil A Mlttliln leurnali-grtirtti to fitcratnrc, f olitics, anil dStntral UfouUatii). tion of it, to assist your memory, L should not now deny, not only to you as my friend, but to any man m * sim* j ilar condition.” U - Pierre Soule, Was born at Castillon, m the Pyra nees, during the lirst consulate of Na poleon. llis lather had risen to the .auk of lieuteiitaiu-geiieral in the re publican armies, but afterwards return ed to his native mountains, and exer cised the office of judge, which was hereditary in. liis Uouily. PicITO was destined for the church, and in ibid was sent to the Jesuits College of Toulous, where the holy fathers soon remarked and appreciated his abiiites. Y:>nng Soule, however, became dis sati. tie 1 with his situation and left the college. He was sent to complete his studies at Bordeaux. At the age oi til teen he took part in the conspiracy against the Bourbons, and the plot having been discovered, he tv ns obligeti to take refuge m a little village of Na varre, where he remained tor more than a year, following the occupation of a sln pherd. lie was permitted to return to Bordeaux ; bui lie longed for a more exciting scene of action, and accordingly lpairtd to lk.ns. Here, m conjunction with Barlhelmy and Mery, he essabbshed a paper ad vocating liberal r publican semimcnts. i'his of course soon brought him un der the authorities and he was put upon his trial, llis advocate, on this occa sion was a friend named Ledru, who appealed to the clemency of bio court, m behalf of the prisoner oil the score i>f his youth. dhis line of defuse did not suit the piisoner, who rose from liis seat and addreased the eouit in an impassioned strain, denying the criminality of his opinions ami defend ing the rectitude of his conduct, llis loquence eli<l not save him from bt. P.dagie, whence he succeeded, with the aid of Borthel. my, in making his escape to England. Disappointed in his expectations of a situation which had been promised him, and finding Chili himself lone in a strange coun try, wholelv ignorant of the language, he returned to I'ranee, At Uavie tie met a friend, a captain in the h.encli naw, who advised him to seek an asy lum iu the United States, and ofL red im a passage in his ship as fat as St. Domingo. Soule accepti and the propo rtion, and arrived a; Port-au-Prince in S- ptember, 1b25. From this place *ie took passage to Bahiinort, and fi nailv removed to New Orleans m the Kail of 1825.N r . K Dutchman. Jerome Bonaparte. Jerome Bonaparte, son of Jerome and nephew oi Emperor .Napoleon, who was on visit to his cousin, the Emperor Lou.s NapoUon, is now in our city. While m France, himself and son, Lieut. Bonaparte, were bolh naturalized and made citizens of the French Empire. Tlie father had also conferred upon him the title of Prince, and the son was appointed to a lieuten ancy in the Fiyucn army. Our Balti more prince, however, scents to b ar his titled honors with becoming repub lican simplicity, lie assumes no airs beyond other ordinary citizens, and is see ll daily mingling m tne Vocations of business. The mam passion and pleas ure of his life appears to be the ui-lai - mg, training, anu cultivation ot horses, it i mistake noi, tie wouid rattier iiold the reins and unvc a span of noble animais, wait a handsome establish ment, man wear tlie imperial crown, lie entertains no political ambition, tuts never aspired to it, and proba iy never will, i saw him three uays working inten ely for some hours, en deavoring to break, one ot las line hor ses to harness. Towards tins end did he apply his physical and mental ener gies wuu uauniig assiduity ana iron will, as did tlie old Emperor m en deavoring to conquer Europe; and 1 must say mat lie succeeded better, ior Ills purpose was finally aeeouq lisneti, and die animal moved on quite ptiaitt iy. lie is a gentleman tngiily esteem ed, unosientudtrus, and a \ .unable ea.- /a’u. i aere is a probation), however, that he may yet take up iiisiiual aboiie Hi Franer, liioUgli uu owner ot a very beautiful ana valuable estate here 1 . IDs son, the lieutenant, an exceeding ly amiable and aecouipllsued young gentleman, never exhibited any extra ordinary talent, though circumstances m las new sphere ot tile may bring out and discover the hidden gem. Tooth Wash. Thousands of vials of what is called •‘Tooth Wash,” are sold every month, being “ warranted to remove all dark color, etc., from the teeth immediately, and give them- a pearly whiteness. It preserves tlie tee til from decay, len ders the breath sweet, prevents tartar from forming upon mem, ami being carried into the stomach, thus impiovcs the general health of the system.” On examination,* this alfuir is proved to eorisist only of water, with a little com mon muriatic acid (hydro-chloric aeul,) and its dray action upon the teeth is id dissolve oft a.portion of liiur sur face, which of course removes the daVk coatulg. ihe continued use of this wash would soon entirely cat away the teeth and destroy them, EATONTON, GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1854. Have we a Ccy Among Us? What, are we to do for boys? When we were a boy there were lots of boys, but 'hey have gradually grown scarce until now there is hardly a boy left. As we walk through the streets we read in shop windows —“Boy Want ed.” When we pick up a newspaper, the first advertisement that strikes our eye is—“ A Boy Wanted.” In a word everybody wants a boy. Now, in view of this great scarcity of boys, what are we to do? What shall wo do for a substitute to light our tires, sweep our offices, run our errands? The other dav a little fellow about fourteen years of age, (begging his pardon, we took him fora boy) applied to us for a situation. “ What can you do?” we inquired. “A little of almost ever. thing,” was the reply. “Are you quick at your errands?” “ Well, sir, I don’t l;*e much to do errands.” “Can yon sweep and dust well ?” “ Why, sir, young men don’t sweep any liow-a-davs. The, women folks have monopolised that branch of the business. It isn’t—” He was going to say •■veeping isn’t genteel, but lie hesitated to state liis conviction. “ How will von make yourself use ful ?” “Why, I’ll sit in the office and an swer questions when you *:>• on?.” “ Ami how much do you ask for this service ?” “In the ntVibor’m*>d, sir, of thr..* dollars.” “In the neighborhood?” “ Yes, sir.” 1 " “ What do vou mean bv ‘neVLbor hood?’ ”■ "Simply three «*>l!ars, *:r, —a trifle more or less.” “ And you can neither sweep nor run errands?” “0 [a little vesed] I could, but—” “But what?” “It ain’t exactly the thing.” “ Yet, at your age, we--” “Sir," said he, picking up his hat, Mid striding towards the door, “you don't take me for a hoy, do you?" Amused, but not astonished, we ask ed ourselves the question —What an we to do for Inn s? If' some enterprising Yankee would undertake to get up a lot of boys, he could make a large fortune in a short lime, for never, within our recollection, have boys been in such demand. In years a gone, Hatters used to ad vertise hats for boys. Now it is hats for young gentlemen. 'Then there were schools for boys —tailors for boys— sports of all kinds for boys. But as tlie race of boys ran out, young gen tleman took their places. Have we a boy among us?—that* the question. Courting in right style. “Get out, you nasty puppy; let me alone, or I’ll ti ll your pa!” cried our Beckie to her lover Jake who sat about ten feet from her pulling the dirt from the chimney jam. “I arn’t tech in’ on you, Beck,” re sponded Jake. “Well, perhaps you don’t mum to nutlier; do ver? ’ “No, I don’t.” “Cause you’re too tarnal scary, you long legged, lanterned jawed, slab-sli ded 7 pigeon-toed, gangle-kueed, owl vou—you liain’t got a tarnal bit o sense; get along home with you.” “Now, Beck, 1 love you, and you can’t help it. and of you don’t let me stay and court you, my daddy will sve your’n for that-cow he sold him t other day. By jingo, he said he’d do it.” ‘••Well, look here Jake —if you want to court in**, you’d better do it as a white than does that thing —not set oil there as if you thought 1 was pizen. ’ “How on airtli is that Beck? ’ “Why, sidle right up here, and hug n. 1 kiss me, as if you really had some of the bone and sinner of a man about ton. Do vou spose a woman’s only made to look at, you fool you? No; ttiev’re made for “practical results, ’ as Kossuth says; to bug and kiss and siel. like.” " “Well,” said Jake, drawing along breath “if I must 1 must for I do love you Beck;” and he commeinTd sidling up to her, like a maple poker going to battle. Laying Ins arm on Beck’s shoulder we thought we heard Beck say : “That’s the way to do it, old boss; that is acting like a white man orter.” “Oh, Jerusalem and pancakes! ’ ex claimed Jake, if this ain’t better than any apple sass ever was made, a darned sight! Cracke-eejj buck-wheat calces; slap-jacks and lasses aint no whar long side of you Beck ! dh, now I love!” Here their lips came togeth er, and the report that followed. wass like pulling a horse’s boot out dr the mire. A few mornings since, we were re lating to our family the fact of a friend having found upon bis, door-step a J)ne male infant, whop he had adopted, when one of the; “ branches” rernak ed : “ Pa, dear that will be his step-son, j won’t it ? Wo thought jt wQuld, decidedly. “WITHOUT FEtlit, MUt'OMl OH .iFFECTIO.Y ” Timely Paragraphs. The following beautiful passage, by Washington Irving, in liis “Home Book of the Picturesque,” might almost make a December day cheer ful: “And here let me say a word in fa vor of those vicissitudes of our climate which are too often made the subject of exclusive repining. If they an noy us occasionally by changes from hot to cold, from wet to dry, they give us one of the most beautiful cli mates in the world. They give us the brilliant sunshine of the south of Eu rope, with the fresh verdure of the north. They float our summer sky witn clouds of gorgeous tints or fleecy whiteness, and send down cooling showers to refresh the panting earth and keep it green. Our seasons ah are poetical; the phenomena of our heav ens are full of sublimity and beauty. “Winter with us has none of its proverbial gloofn. It may have its howling winds, and whirling snow storms; but it has also its long inter vals of cloudless sunshine, when t-lie snow - find earth gives redoubled bright ness to the day: when at night the stars beam with in tensest lustre or the moon floods the whole la.nd.scap' with the most limpid radiance; and then the joyous outbreak of spring, burst ing at once into leaf and blossom, re dundant with vegetation and vocifer ous life! and the splendors of our sum mer—its morning voluptuousness and its evening glory —its airy palaces of the sun-lit clouds piled up in a deep azure sky ; and its guests of tempest of almost tropical grandeur, when the forked lightning and tiie bellow ing thunder volley front the battle ments of heaven, and shake the sultry atmosphere—and the sublime melan choly of our autumn, magnificent in its decay, withering down the pomp and pride of a woodland country, yet reflecting back from its yellow forests the golden serenity of the skv. Sure ly we may sav in our climate ‘the heav ens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shovveth forth his handi work; day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night siiowcth his knowledge.’ I Lceck Euffeniiig ia the Human Thigh. Dr. Roe, of Cavan, mentioned a cu rious case of this nature at the Dublin meeting. He said that lie was called some time back to visit the daughter of a farmer residing at Drum, in the coun ty of Cavan. The girl hau been at tacked several days previously with inflammation of the thigh, and at the time of his arrival was labouring un derseyere symptomatic fever, with de lirium. The thigh was tense, red and shining, enlarged to nearly twice its natural si?e, and extremely painful. No cause could be assigned for the' disease, and lie was informed that, un til the occurrence of the present attack, she had always enjoyed excellent health. Having ascertained the exist ence of a collection of matter under the fascia, he made an incision and evacuated a bowl full of pus, mixed with what he considered to bo blood. II s attention was not directed to the contents of the abscess at that time; besides the room was dark, and he was anxious to give vent to the pus quickly as possible, as the patient was extremely restless. On emptying the matter from the bowl on a clean flag outside the door, the girl’s mother was surprised to find among it a leech, coiled up, quite alive, and moving actively. She immediate ly brought the leech to him, and it con tinued to live for several • ays aiter wards. On inquiring minutely into the history of the case, he found that some days before she first complained of the limb, she had been gathering water cresses in a ditch, and had felt hurt in or about the ankle of the in flamed limb, but did not pay much at tention to it at the time. On examin ing the ankle, he found a triangular cicatrix, such as that which might be produced by a leech bite. This fact would seem to prove that such animals can enter, burrow in, and pi* erve their vitality ill the soft part? of the human body. A member ask ed whether Dr. Roe meant to state that the leech had entered in tlie manner supposed ? Dr. lioe stated that he did not know any other way in which it could enter. The animal in question is what is called a horse leech, and which is generally found in ditches apd standing pools. —Medical Gazette. The Worst Ism. —“Harry,” in quired a friend the other day, “which do you consider the worst of the nu inerous isms now prevalent?” “Abolitionism?” inquired his friend, v “No.” * “Socialism?” “No." “Nativeisrn?” “No, no.” m “Then I must give it up,” replied he. 1 * W 1 iv, *R heuin at -i s in. ” There are sohio that live without any design at all, and only pass in the world like straws on a river : they do not go, but are carried. Inalienable Rights of Americans. The following arc not enumerated in the Declaration of Independence: To know any trade or business with out. apprenticeship or experience. To rnarrv without regard to fortune, state of health, position or opinion of parents and friends. To have a wife and children depend ent on the contingencies of business, and in case of sudden death leave them wholly unprovided for. To put off upon hireling strangers the literary, moral, and religious edu cation of children. To teach children no good trade, hoping they will have, when grown up, wit enough to live on the industry of other people. To enjoy the general sympathy, when made bankrupt by reckless spec ulation. To cheat the government if possible. To hold office without being compe tent to discharge its duties. To build houses with six inch walls, and go to the funerals of tenants, fire men and others killed by their fall, weeping over the mysterious dispen sations of providence. To build up cities and towns with out parks, and call pestilence a visita tion of God. To license rum-selling, and deplore the increase of crime. A Singular Case. —A Shreveport paper relates the following: A woman calling herself Violet Lud low, was arrested a few days ago and committed to jail, on the supposition that she was a runaway slave belong ing to A. M. Mobley, of Upshur coun ty, Texas, who had offered through our columns a reward of SSO for her apprehension, On being brought before a justice of tiu* peace she stated that she was a white woman, and claimed her liberty. She asserts that she is the daughter of Jeremiah Ludlow, of Bike county, Alabama, and was brought from that county in 1858, by George Cope, who emigrated to Texas.' After arriving in Texas, she was sold by George Cope to a Doctor Terry, in Up shur county, Texas, and was soon af ter sold by him to a Mrs. Hagen or Ila gens, of the same county. Violet said she protested against each sale made of her, declaring herself a free woman. She names George Gilmer,* Thomas Rogers, John Garret and others, resi dents of Pike county, Alabama, as persons who have known her Dorn in fancy as the daughter of one Jaremia Ludlow and Rene Martin, a widow at the time of her birth, and as being a free ivhite woman and her father a free white man. Violet is about instituting legal proceedings for her freedom. We take the following from an Eng lish paper: A distinguished editor was in his study. A long, thin, ghostly-visaged gentleman was announced. With an asthmatic voice, but in a tone of stud ied civility, for otherwise the editor would have assuredly transfixed him with a fiery paragraph the next morn ing, the stranger said— “ Sir vour journal of yesterday con tained* false information.” “Impossible, sir; but tell me what you allude to.” “You said that Mr. M. had been tried.” “ True.” “ Condemned.” “Very true.” “ Hung.” “Most true.” “ Now, sir, I am the gentleman him self.” “ Impossible!” “ I assure you it is a fact, and now I hope you will contradict what you have alleged.” “ By no means, sir.” “ How ! what do you mean? you are deranged.” “ 1 may be so, sir; but I will not do “I will complain to a magistrate.” ‘ “ As you ph-i se ; but I never retract. The most that I can do for you is to announce that the rope broke, and that you are now in perfect health. I have my principles, sir, I never retract.” Who will make a good wife ? When you see a young worn m who rises early, sets the table and prepares her father’s breakfast cheerfully, de pend upon it she will make a good wife. You may rely upon it that she possesses a good disposition and a kind heart. When you see a young woman just out of bed at 9 o’clock, leaning ...with her elbow upon the table gasping and sighing “Oh, how dreadfully I feel,” rely upon it she will not make a good wife. She must be lazy and mopish. When you see a girl with a broom, in her hands sweeping the floor, with, a rubbing board or a clothes line in her hands you may put it down that she, is industrious and will make a,very good wife for somebody. When voiLsgjk.a girl with a ppyel in her left hand, land a fan in hyr right hand, shedding tears, you may be sure she is unfit for a wife. Happiness and misery are blfore you, which will you choose? FROM TIIE WASHINGTON STAR. Washington News and Gossip. Bennett —Bennett returns from Paris at war with every body, and par ticularly with every friend of the Ad ministration. llis principal grief" is his disappointment with regard to the French mission, which is now Jr lied by the accomplished John Y. Mason. What a figure he would cut sit that gay and polished Court as the Ameri can minister! While in England and France lie was avoided as a common leper by all Americans. In vam did lie prteitd -mtintastcm into rimfrefo*.. ble American society in Europe by promising to call off the blood hounds of his own polluted press. All men shunned him and despised him. lie forged a conversation with Mr. Buch anan, which never took place, repre senting him as assailing the Adminis tration, and when the falsehood was blistered on his forehead, he sank un der it. lienee, all honorable men re coil from liis presence least they too may become victims of his want of honesty and truili. His hatred of John VV. Forney, is his revengeful nature. We are often asked the reason of this hatred. Our junior having been associated wish Mr. Forney in the man agement of the Philadelphia Pennsyl vanian, can speak from the book on this su bjeet. Some fourteen years ago, while a citizen of Lancaster, Pennsyl vania, Mr. Forney delivered a lecture in Philadelphia on the “Duties of the American Press,” to immense audien ces, in the course of which he descri bed the terrible rebuke of Bennett by Daniel O’Coniiell. He showed that a man who could assail the dead and wound the character of the living, who betrayed all confidence, who rejected the truth, who never did a just or man ly thing, deserved the awful condem nation which Bennett received from O Connell. From that hour Col. For ney has been pursued by Bennett with the scent of a bloodhound, and the malignity of a fiend. That bad Scotchman never forgives or forgets. He hated Jackson alter he had be trayed him. There is scarcely a pub lic man dead or living, whom he has n t traduced for some real or imagina- ry cause. As to the truth, he never rises to that. Falsehood is his vocation, and he revels in it. Take for instance, the Herald of Wedtiesclay last. Alter abusing Col. Forney in regard to the letter received by him from Mr. Buchanan, and of which Benuett has published a false and malignant ver sion, he goes on to say that Mr. Buch anan purchased the Philadelphia Pennsylvanian for Mr. Forney. Al though Col.F. and Mr. Buchanan have been devoted friends from* the boy hood of the latter, and political history exhibits few instances of sucii unfaultering devotion as one has shown to the other in every stage of Mr. Buchanan’s brilliant career, this assertion of Bennett is a monstrous lie. The Pennsylvanian was bought by Col. Forney himself, out of the hard earnings of years. Ihis we know. And here let us add, in bare justice to Col. Forney, in all our associations with him, we never found a more hon orable or high minded man. Instinc tive) li<? shrinks from those low little things that Bennett gloats over, and makes this principal stock in traue. — Bennett says “Corney is consistent.” — Jle is consistent in his devotion to his friends. A more generous heart nev er beat; a warmer or more constant friend never lived. In reference to Mr. Bennett’s re mark, that Mr. Sickles elected Forney to the clerkship of the House of Rep resentatives, we will say that if Ben nett had been here just before the commencement of the present Con gress, and had seen the number ol distinguished gentlemen, of all parties, from all parts of the country, who look a deep interest and were active in bringing about Col. Forney’s election, hardened in crime as he is he would have hesitated before giving publicity to such a statement. Mr. Sickles was and is Mr. Forney’s devoted friend, and the result will show it; but we need say no more on til is subject —we have already exposed the other falsehoods of the Herald. Editorial Labor. —An exchange paper says: In preparing a small pa per, which contains all news in the greatest compactness and condensation and saves the busy, reader’s time, while giving him ail that is worth knowing, the editorial labor is propor tionably much greater than in prepar ing those large sheets, in which the news is printed as it comes to baud, with all its irrelevant and impertinent circumstances, and with all its waste of unprofitable words—and which thus, while they supply the reader with no more information than the smaller sheet contains, fatigue his at tention and waste his time.” These observations apply still more strongly to a weekly paper. John Mitch el has written a letter to a Know-Nothing acquaintance in which he gives it as his opinion that our naturalization laws require a change. ; but at the same time he denouoes the proposition to prevent naturalized citi zens from holding office. j TERMS, $2,00 A YEAR. NUMBER 36. Spaying JTlileh Cows. Spaying of cows, at a certain period of their life, oilers immense advan tages td the agriculturist and consu mer, in producing much augmentation of milk and meat. In this way the animal escapes a host of losses, sus tained in consequence of her at times when it is inconvenient or im possible to gratify her. Spaying of cows, Professor Bouley says, creates 8 new race, sterile for breeding, but pro ductive and valuable for the purpose jo£ yielding milk for the dairy and meat For the butcher, spayed ev,va- ; yield annually, for the first two or three years at least, a third more milk than they were in the habit of giving before the performance cf the opera tion. A cow spayed thirty or forty days after calving, or at the time she is giving the most milk, continues to yield, if not for the remainder of life, at least for many years, the same large quantity of milk, and sometimes more than she gave at the time of perform ing the operation. French veterinarians have, for many years, had their attention directed to this subject; and each year their ex perience, as well as that of agricultu rists, leads them to speak more and more favorably of the practice. [French Work. A Rich Letter. —The Troy Daily Times states that a clergyman of that city married a young couple one eve ning last week. After the ceremony had been performed, one of the grooms men styly handed the Reverend gentle man the following note, containing a ten dollar bill as his “ fee ” for tying the knot: “My Very Dear Sir.—You did me up brown this morning, and I thank you for the very agreeable manner in which you performed the service of either rendering me one of the happi est or one of the most miserable and unfortunate beings. I sincerely trust and believe the former will be the case. My wife, that is Mrs. , is also duly grateful for your instrumentality in making her what she has so long desired to be—a wife; but sbe says she don’t care a tip whether she’s hap py or not —she’s got a man now, and that is enough. “Please accept the enclosedslobill, the tightness of the money market prevents a heavier remittance. I will, however, enter into an arrangement with you. My wife and myself intend to see what can be done in the way of assisting along Barnum’s baby show, next summer. If we get the prize we’ll divide the profits with you. Yours, matrimonially, Fish and Fishing. The editor of the Georgian tells a fish story, and enters on it by stating that he does so with a great deal of diffidence. Well he might, for he he does net advance far in his story before he shows that he is very defi cient in his knowledge of the art pis catorial. liis remark is, that “An up country Georgia angler would require to be informed as to the modus ope randi, before he could comprehend how ten, twenty or even fifty fish at a time may be drawn from the water with one fishing-line.” What!- not know what a “trot line” is! Wby any smart “litt’e nigger” up here, not more than seven years old, can give you its whole history, uses and capabilities. Not know what a trot line is indeed! Hid you ever fish with a sledge-ham mer? Gome up here and we will show you how it is done. A trot line can’t hold a light to it. In connection with this subject, it may not be out of place for us to state, that recently, some time of the week before last" it was discovered that a large Convention of the finny tribe had assembled in a small space in Flint River, a short distance above the Flat Shoals. The bipeds got an inkling of the gathering, and went to work with hook and line to make captives. One tale tells us that e.ght hundred fine fish, mostly sun perch, were abstracted from the river in one day. So hun gry were the fish, that aftei; the worms (the common bate for perch,) were ex hausted, they bit equally well at rab bit, squirrel, or indeed any thing eat able that was put down to them. An other story goes, that there were five thousand fish caught within a short cir cumference. Our readers may believe either of the tales, as we have them both from better authority than usual ly attends fish stories. That Georgian man must not talk to us about fish or fishing. AVonder if he has any fish philosophy about him ? Can he tell us what all those fish assembled in that hole lor in this season of the year 7 W hat was the attraction ? Was it a civil, military or religious meeting. Did the}'go up to be taxed or com plain of grievances? Was it a meet ing of gratulation on account of Mr. Stanley’s new Female College, or of rcmonstrnce against the projected fac tories and their villainous dye-stuffs r [Jeffersonian, The citizens of Tah-le-quah, in the Cherokee Notion, met on the 28th October, and declared the military post ut Fort U ibsonfa public nuisance.