BY A. S. JOHNSTON.
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
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COLUMBIA, S. #. MARCH 11, 183?.
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jroiaioe uazs.
JUST received a few bushels of this valuable
grain, fromThorbura of New York, weighing 50
lbs per bushel. Also three bushels of the eight that
Mr rocs of Chester raised from one quart of the
Potato Oats, -weighing 45 lbs to the boshel.
At the Garden ? Apple Trees, Pear Trees, Green
Gage Plumb Trees, Damson ditto, Peach do. Some
very rare Fig Trees ; Ornamental Trees and Shrub
bery ; 1000 Giant Asparagus Roots ; Chinese Olian
thus or Tree of Heaven, with_ leaves 4 feet long ;
Willow leaved Catalba, beautiful flowers ; Stercula
Ffatinafblia or varnish tree, leaves like a lady's para
sol ; Moss Roses ; Lady Banksea Roses ; Velvet do.
N.B. The subscriber ean always be found at the
Seed Store or at the Garden.
R. E. RUSSELL,
. jan 13 % Seedsman and Florist.
State of South Carolina.
UNION DISTRICT.
IN CHANCERY.
WilKs Benson, et aL )
vs. J BUI for Partition.
Elias Benson, et al.
r T appearing to my satisfaction that Elias Benson,
Gabriel Benson, Nancy Walker, Jeremiah Greg
ory and Theresa his wife, W. W. Stokes, and his
wife Elizabeth, late Elizabeth Foster, William B.
Stokes, Melinda Stokes, Hiram Tatum and his
wife Ellen, late Ellen Stokes, James Tiquor, and his
wife Eliza, late Eliza Stokes, Peter Stokes, John
& Martin, and his wife Rachael, late Raehae
Stokes, Rebecca Stokes, Nancy Stokes, and John
F.Stokes, defendants in the above stated case, and
Mrs al Law of Abner Benson, late of Union dis
trict, deceased, reside beyond the limits of this State.
11 is therefore, on motion of Dawkins, Solicitor for
hucants, ordered that the said defendant do
i answer or demurt to the bill in this case, within
tfctee months from the publication of this order, or
tie said Bib will be ordered proconfesso, as to them.
, Commissioner's Office, )
Union C. H. Jan. 10th, 1837. {
D. WALLACE, C. E. U. D.
January 31 ? 3 3m
Columbia, February II, 1837.
SmhuUt Manufacturing Co
Resolved, by the Board of Directors of
Saluda Manufacturing Company, That the
Bboks stall be opened on the 1st day of March
& Co., for an^addtoonal subscription of one
buodred thousand dollars to the capital Stock
of the Company. New subscribers will be
admitted into the Company on the same terms
and on the same conditions of original sub
scribers. Ten dollars a share on each share
of eoe hundred dollars, will be required at time
of subscribing, aud ten dollars a share at the
end of each and every sixty days thereafter,
until the whole will be paid. A failure to corn
ply with these terms, will mure in a forfeiture
of the stock for the benefit of the Company.
The Company having one fourth of the mill
fitted with machinery, and now iii operation, j
aad another fourth in progress of setting up. i
are able to calculate to a reasonable degree of 1
certainty, the value o i their undertaking. To i
make the establishment available to the full i
Extent of which it is capable, they have come
to the determination, provided they can sell |
the stock, to fill the mill from the basement to
the attic story. The citizens of our State, and
partiaiiariy the present stockholders, are called
upou to aid in an undertaking which will be a
credit to our State, and will mo6t unquestion
ably exceed in profitable or pecuniary results
any joint stock company within the State.
DAVID BVVART, President.
T
lion ti cell o Academy.
1HIS Institution, located in the western section
? _ of Fairfield District, will be re-opened on the
1st day of February next, for the reception of Stu
dents, under the charge of the Rev. Joseph Holmes
as Principal and Win. W. Holmes as classical assis
tant. Under their instructions pupils may recieve a
thorough Education and be considerably advanced
in a knowledge of the Ancient Latin and Grecian
language#.
In the choice of Mr. Holmes as principal of this
Academy, parents may have a guarantee that a
special reg?rd will be bestowed on the moral as well
as mental improvement of their children; and that
the pleasing and persuasive manner of the Teacher
in inculcating truth will lend a charm to subjects
which are too apt to be uninteresting and even be
come repulsive to youth. The building is large,
commodious, and has recently undergone a thorough
repair ; has four fire places, and is convenient to a
spring of the purest water. It is beautifully situated
in a healthy anddelighUul section of country, in the
midstofa community characterized by a high degree
of morality, intelligence, and refinement. No haunts
of dmjmuoft and vice, ? no "grog shops" are tolera
ted here. .
There will be two sessions. The first ending on
the last of June. The 3d commencing on the first
of July and ending on the 20th of December. There
will be a public examination of the Students at the
and of each session; and occassional visits during
the year, by a committee for the purpose of inspec
tion and examination.
Boarding can be had at the rate of $10 per month.
The Terms of Tuition are, in the English Depart
Far Seeding and Reading, per session $6 00
The above with Writing & Arithmetic, 8
Do. do. with English Grammar & Gcog- ? qq
raphy,
Do. do with History, 12 00
Do. do with Latin and Greek, 15 00
' For firewood for the Academy 30
To the Monticello Society for initiation into ) . ^
the Academy \
Puptls will be received at any time, and charged
accordingly ; but no deduction will be made when
they leave before the end of a session.
Letters to be addressed to the Rev. J. Holmes. ?
go the direction of the Board of Trustees,
^ W. J. A LSTON, President.
Jan. IS 4t ~
Bry (roods, at Cost, lor Cash.
At No. 1, Cedar st., first door from Pearl, New York.
THE Subscriber is opening a new Stock of
Fresh Imported Fancy and Staple Dry Goods,
and will be receiving farther supplies from Auction
daily . For Cashj t win be an invariable rule to sell any
article at Cost.
The usual credit of 6 months will be given when
desired, and Goods solif at the lowest market prices.
H. B. FIELD
New York, Jan. 2Sth, 1837 6 tf
PROSPECTUS.
OF THE
Southern Christian Advo
cate.
AT the late General Conferrcnce of the Metho"
dist Episcopal Church resolutions were passed*
authorizing the publication o^ weekly religious papers*
on the same footing with the Christian Advocate
and Journal (ot New York,) and the Western Cris
tian Advocate (Cincinnati,) at Richmond, Nashville,
and Cliarleston. At Nashville, the paper thus au
thorized, has already been issued. The one intended
for Richmond, wiH, we doubt not, soon be put forth.
And the Georgia and South Carolina Annual Confe
rences, foe whose districts the paper at Charleston
is especially intended, have each taken measures
for its early publication.
The Act of the General Conference authorizing
these publications, was called for by the Southern
Delegates, on the ground of its being necessary to
an equal distribution of the Church's press to all
parts ot her communion ; and especially, in view of
the peculiar political aspect of the times. Within
.the ran^e contemplated for the paper at Charles
ton, leaving equal scope for t'ioee at Richmond
and NashvjHe, there are about fifty thousand whites
in the membership of the Church. Here then are,
probably, ten thousand Methodist families, and a
much greater number attached to the Methodists who
have no weekly paper published among them. ?
This, under any circumstances, might be held a
sufficient reason for the publication we propose ;
but considered in connexion with the feeling which
is known to pervade all classes of men on the sub
ject of our domestic institutions, it not only justifies
onr undertaking as one that is expedient, but strong
ly urges it as necessary to the Chnrch.
We propose, therefore, to publish at the city of
Charleston, as soon as the subscription list shall war
rant it, a weekly religous paper, to be entitled tho
Southern Christian Advocate, which shall be zeal
ously devoted to the promotion of good morals and
religion to give exprsession to the views and feelings
of our people, kindly, but firmly, on all subjects yf
bearing on the Church ? and in particular, to set for
ward the cause Christian benevolence, as embodiedin
the Bible, Missionary, Sunday-Scool, Tract anjl
Temperance Societies.
This paper shall be printed on an imperial sheet
of the same size and quality with that of the Chris
tian Advocate of New York with, new type, long
primer; and the typography in all respects, shall
closely resemble the New York paper.
The price will be three dollars, to be paid in ad
vance.
Subscriptions paid within one month after recei -
ving the first number, either to the publisher or an
authorized Agent, will be considered as in advance.
In any case of discontinuance during the year, the
subscription for the year must be paid, and postage
of the order to discontinue.
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tions, to the amount of ten dollars, must be post
paid.
Communications involving facts, or respecting
persons, as accounts of revivals of religious meetings,
obituary notices, biographies, <fcc. must be accompa
nied with the writer's name.
Communications may be addresed to the Rev.
William Capers,Charleston, or to either of the Pasto
ral Ministers of the Methoidst Episcopal Church in
this city, who are members of the Publishing Com
mittee.
The Itinerant Ministers and Preachers of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, are all authorized
Agents of the Southern Christian Advocate, to
whom payments may be made.
The proceeds of this paper, as a part of the General
Book Concern, will be equally divided among all
the Anmml Conferences, to be applied in spreading
the Gospel, and aiding distressed and superannuated
Ministers, and the Widows aud Orphans of those
who have died in the work.
WILLIAM CAPERS. Editor.
Publishing Committee ? Nicholas Talley, George F.
Pierce, Bond English, Whiteford Smith jun. James
Sewel, John N. Davis.
Feb 24 8 tf
Beat this who Can.
?17 E do challenge the world to simplify or im
ff. prove the principle of Cooper s Tumbling
Shaft horse power. 1
It has only 2 small cast wheels, one with 29 cogs
and the other 9, with which any motion or power
that's required for Cotton Gins, horse Mills , turning
Laythes, Wheat or Rice Machines, can be obtained.
The cost is not half that of any of the old plans,
is much easier propelled, and more durable.
The said power is now ii: operation, in the lot of
William W. Purse, Cabinet Maker, near the Com
mercial Bank, where it can be seen ut any time.
?\r.y person or persons wishing to nurchase the right
for Machines or Districts, will apply to Dr. Frede
rick W. Green, our agent, just below the Branch
Bank, who will make conveyances for the same.
ROBERT M. MAUPIN,
JOHN W. LANGUORS E.
EJYTERTJiIJY*lIEJYT.
THE Subscriber begs leave to inform his friends
and the public generally, that he has taken the
well known Public House, south of the Court House,
Congress Street, YORKVILLK, So. Ca. (formerly
conducted by J. McNeel,) and solicits a share of j
public patronage.
This Establishment is in every way calculated to
render comfort both to the traveller and permanent
boarder ; every exertion will be given on the part
of the proprietor to accommodate those who may
favor hiin with a call.
A. S. WILLIAMSON.
Yorkville, S.C. Jan. 1st, 1837. 3m 2
&CT The Charleston Courier will publish the
above, weekly, for three months, and forward the
account to me at Yopkville.
Reward .
R AN A WAY, from Thos. Evans, in Augusta
Geo. , about four months ago, a negro girl named
SCILLA, or PRISCILLA. She is aged 21 pr 22
years, dark mullatto, about 5 feet high, very stout
make. She formerly belonged to Mrs. Izard, of
Chester district, now of Columbia. It is thought
she may have gone back to that neighborhood.
Having purchased the above described girl from
Mr. Evans, a Jew days a:;o, I will give Twenty five
dollars for her apprehension, and a further sum of
twenty five dollars on proof that she has been har
bored by any wbite person.
JOHN J. GRACEY.
Feb. 11, 1837 6 tf
Committed.
TO the Jail of Richland, as a Runaways a negro
man who calls his name WINSTON, and says
he belongs to George Daniels of Chester district,
So. Ca. Winston is about 37 years of age, five f<%t
four inches high, has lost all the fingers from the left
hand and several of his front teeth. The owner is
requested to come forward, prove his property, pay
chanresand take him away.
JESSE DEBRUHL, S. R. D.
February 22d, 1837 8
.Election .Votice.
RICHLAND DISTRICT.
February 2 it It, 1836.
THE Managers of Elections for Richland District
give notice, that by virtue of a writ from the
Speaker of the House at" Representatives, they will,
on Monday the twentieth day of March next, open
the polls for the election of a Member of the House
of Representatives, in the place ot D. J. M'Cord,who
has accepted a disqualifying office.
The po Is will be kept open one day at all the
country precincts, and two days in Columbia. On
the third day the managers will meet at Columbia ?
count the votes, and declare the election.
WM. B. STANLEY, ) Managers
ROBERT BRYCK, [ at
ROBERT WADDELL, ) Columbia.
j Feb. IS 3t 8
LAW NOTICE.
WM. E MARTIN will practise in the Courts
of Law, for Beaufort, Barnwell and Colleton
Districts. His oliice i? at Coosawhatchie.
Feb. 15. 1S37. 8
A DIRGE ? BY THK REV. GEO. CROLY.
"Earth to earth, and dust to dust !"
Here the evil and the iust ;
| Here the youthful and the old ;
Here the fearful and the bold ;
Here the matron and the maid,
In one silent bed are laid ;
Here the vassal and the king
Side by side lie withering ;
Here the sword and sceptre rust;
"Earth to earth, and dust to dust !"
Age on age shall roll along
O'er this pale and mighty throng ;
Those that wept them, those that weed,
All shall with tnese sleepers sleep,
Brothers, sisters of the worm,
Summer's sun, or winter's storm ;
Song of peace, or battle's roar,
Ne'er shall break their slumbers more :
Death shall keep his sullen trust,
4 Earth to earth, and dust to dust !"
But a day is coming fast, ?
Earth, thy mightiest and thy Inst !
It shall come in fear and wonder,
Heralded by trump and thunder ;
It shall come in strife and toil ;
!It shall come in blood and spoil ;
It shall come in empire's groans,
Burning temples, trampled thrones ;
Then, Ambition, rue tny lust !
"Earth to earth, and dust to dust !"
Then shall come the judgment sign,
In she east the King shall shine ;
Flashing from Heaven's golden gate/
Thousands, thousands round his state ;
Spirits with the crown and plume ;
Tremble then, thou solemn tomb !
Heaven shall open on our sight,
Earth be turned to living light,
"Earth to earth and du-t to dust !"
Then thy mount, Jerusalem,
Shall be gorgeous as a gem :
Then shall in the desert rise
Fruits of more than Paradise ;
Earth by angel feet be trod,
One great garden of her God !
Till are dried the martyr's tears,
Through a thousand glorious years !
Now iu hope of him we trust,
"Earth to earth, and dust to dust !".
From the Georgia Scenes.
A SAGE CONVERSATION.
I was travelling with my old friend, Ned
Brace, when we stopped at the dusk of the
evening at a house on the road side, for the
night. ? Here we found three nice, tidy, aged
matrons, the youngest of whom could not have
been under sixty ; one of them of course was
the lady of the house, whose husbaod, old as
he was, had gone from home upon a land ex
ploring expedition. She received us hospita
bly, had our horses well attended to, and soon
prepared for us a comfortable supper. While
these things were doing, Ned and I engaged
thi other two in conversation ; in the course
of which, Ned deported himself with becom
ming seriousness. The kind lady of the house
occasionally joined us, and became perman
ently one of the party, from the time the first
dish was placed on the tabel. At the usual
hour, we were summoned to supper : and as
soon as we were seated, Ned, unsolicited, and
most unexpectedly to me, said grace. I knew
full well that this" was a prelude to some trick, t
I could not conjecture what. His explanation
(except so much as 1 discovered myself) was,
that he knew that one of us would be asked to
say grace,and he thought he might as well save
the good ladies the trouble of asking. The
matter was, however, more fully explained just
before the moment of our retiring to bed arriv
ed. To this moment the conversation went
round between the good ladies and ourselves,
with mutual interest to all. It was much en
livened by Ned, who was capable, as the rea
der has been heretofore informed, of making
himself extremely agreeable in all company ;
and who, upon this occasion, was upon his
best behaviour. It was immediately after I
had looked at my watch in taken of my dispo
sition to retire for the night, and the concer
sation turned upon marriages, happy and un
happy, strange, unequal, runaways," &c. Ned
rose in the midst it, and asked the landlady
where we should sleep. She pointed to an
open shed-room adjoining the room in which
we were sitting, and separated from it by a log
partition, between the spaces of which might
be seen all that passed in the dining room ;
and so close to the fire-place of this apartment,
that a loud whisper might be easily heard from
one to the other. f
"The strangest match," said Ned resuming
the conversation with a parson's gravits, "that
ever I heard of, was that of George Scott and
David Snow ; two must excellent men, who
became so much attached to each other that
they actually got married"
" The lackady !" exclaimed one of the ladies.
?? And was it really a fact 1 enquired ano
ther.
"Oh yes, ma'am," I knew them very well,
and often went to their house ; and no people
could have lived happier or managed better
than they did. And they raised a lovely par
cil of children ? as fine a set as ever I saw,
except their youngest son, Billy ; he was a lit
tle wild, but, upon the whole, a right clever
boy himself. Come, friend Baldwin we're
setting up too late for travellers." So saying,
Ned moved to the shed-room and I followed
him.
The ladies were left it silent amazement ;
and Ned, suspecting, doubless, that they were
listening for a laugh from our chamber, as wo
entered it, continued the subject with unabated
gravity, thus: "You knew these too men
did'nt you V3
" Where did they live?" enquired I not a
little disposed to humor him.
*? Why, they lived down there, on Cedar
Creek, close by Jacob Denman's? -Oh, I'll tell
you who their daughter Nancy married ? She
married John Clarke ? you knew him very
well."
** Oh yes," said I, "I knew John Clarke ve
ry well. His wife was a most excellent wo
man."
"Well, the boys were just as clever, for
boys, as she was, for a girl, except Bill; and
1 never heard any thing very bad of him ; un
less it was his laughing in church ; that put
me more out of conceit of him than any thing j
I every knew of him Now, Baldwin, I
-when 1 go to bed, 1 go to bed to sleep, and not
to talk, and, therefore, the time my head tou
ches the pillow, there must be no more talking.
Besides, we must take an early start to-moi>
row, and I'm tired." So saying, he hopped
into his bed ; and 1 obey-his injunctions.
Before I follow his example, I could not
resist the temptation of casting an eye through
the cracks of the partition to see the effect of
Ned's wonderful story upon the.- kind ladies.?
Mrs. Barney (it iu time to give their names)
was setting in a thoughtful posture ; her left
hand supporting her chine, and her knee sup
porting ner left elbow. Her countenance was
that of one who suffers from a slight tooth
i ache. Mrs. Shad leaned forward, resting her
i fore-arm on her knees, and lookiug into the fire
: as if she saw groups of children playing in it.
i Mrs. Reed, the landlady, who was the fattest
j of the three, was thinking and laughing alter* j
i nately at short intervals. From my bed, it
! required but a slight change of position to sec j
; any one of the group at pleasure.
! 1 was no sooner composed on my pillow,
! than the old ladies drew their chairs close to
gether, and began the following colloquy in
a low undertone, which rose as it progress
ed :
Mrs. Barneyx Did'nt that man say them
was two rnen that got married toono another?
k ! Mrs. Shad. H seomSte me SoT
Mrs Reed. Why to be sure he did I know. i
he 6aid so ; for he said what their names was.
Mrs. B. Well, in the name o'sense, what did
the man mean by saying they raised a tine
pacel o'children?
Mrs. R. Why bices your heart and soul,
honey! that's what I've been thinkin' about.
It seems mighty curions to me some how or
other. I can't study it out, no how.
Mrs. S. The man must be jokin, certainly.
Mrs. K. No, he was'nt Jokin'; for I looked
at him, and he was just as much in yearnest
as any body I ever seed ; and besides no Chris
tian man would tell such a story in that solemn
way. And did'nt you hear that other man say
he knew their d&'tcr Nancy?
Mr. S. But la' messy! Mis' Reed, it can't be
so. ft does'nt stand to reason, don't you know
it don't?
Mrs. R. Well, I would'nt think so; but it's
hard for me, some how, to dispute a Christian
man's word.
Mrs. B. I've been thinking the thing all
over in my mind, and I reckon ? now I don't
say it is 60, for I don't know nothing at all
about it ? but I rcckon that one o'lhem men
wasa woman dress'd in men's clothes; for I've
often hearn o'woman doin' them things, and
following their Trtfe-Iove to the wars, and be*
in' a waitin boy to'em and all sich.
Mrs.S. Well, may be it's some how in that
way ? but la'me! 'twould o' been obliged to
been found out; don't you know it would?
Only think how many children she had. Now
it stands to reason, that at some time or other
it must to have been found out.
Mrs. R. Well, I'm an old woman any how,
and 1 reckon the good man won't mind what
an old womao says to him ; so bless the Lord
if I live to see the morning, I'll ask him about
it.
I knew that Ned was surpassed by no man
living in extricating himself from difficulties;
but how he was to escape from this witl ?>
en tolerable credit to himself, I could n^t ue
vise.
The ladies here took leave of Ned's mar
vellous story drew themselves closely round the
fire lighted their pipes, and proceeded as feK
lows: . .. .. ^
* B. Jistljeforc me andrriy olil man was
married there was a gal name Nancy Mount
castle, (puff puff) I know'd her mighty well
? she dressed herself up in men's clothes ?
(puff, puff,) and followed Jemmy Darden from
Pankatank, in Kino and Q,ueen? (puff)
clean up Loudey.
Mrs. S. (puff, puff, puff, puff, puff.) And
did he marry her ?
Mrs. B. (sighing deeply) No : Jemmy
did'nt marry her ? pity he did'nt, poor thing.
Mrs. R. Well, 1 know'd a gal on Tar river,
done the some thing? (puff, puff, puff.) She
followed Moses Rusher 'way down some where
in the South State? (puff, puff.)
Mrs. S. (puff, puff, puff, puff.) And what
did he do?
Mrs. R. Ah? (puff, puff,) Lord bless your
soul honey, I can't tell you what he did. Bad
enough.
Mrs. B. Well, now it seems to me ? 1 don't
know much about it ? but it seems to me men
don't like to marry gals that take on that
way. It looks like it puts 'em out o' concait
of 'em.
Mrs. S. I know'd one man that married a
woman that followed him from Car'lina to this
State ; but she did'nt dress herself* in men's
clothes. You both know 'em. You know
Simpsom Trotty's sister, Rachael's son Reu
ben. 'Twas him and his wife.
Mrs. R. and Mrs. B. Oh yes I know 'em
mighty well.
Mrs. S. Well, it was his wife? she followed
him out to this State.
Mrs. B. I know'd 'em all mighty well. Her
da'ter Lucy was the littlest teeny bit of a thing
when it was born I ever did see. But they
tell me that when 1 was born ? now I don't
know any thing about it myself? but the old
folks used to tell me, that when I was born,
they put me'in a quart-mug, and mought o'cov
ered me up in it.
Mrs. S. The lackady !
Mrs. R. What ailui'ent did Lucy die of, Mis
Burney?
Mrs. B. Why, first she took the ager and
fever, aud took a'bundance o' doctor s means for
that. And then she got powerful bad cough,
and it kept gettin, worse and worse, till at last
it turned into a consumption, and she jist
nat'lv wasted away, till she was nothing but
skin and bone, and she died ; but poor creater,
she died mighty happy ; and 1 think in my
heart, she made the pretiest corps, considerin ,
of any body I most ever seed.
Mrs. R. and Mrs. S. Einph! (solemnly)
Mrs. R. What did the doctors give her for
the fever and ager ?
Mrs. B. Oh, they
b ^ ^ I
truck? I dont know what all ; and none of ciu
iielp her at all. But at last she got over it,
'some how or other. If they'd have ju.?,t gin'
her a sweat o'bitter yerbs, ji?t as the spell
was comin' on, it would have cured her right
way.
Mrs. R. Well, I reckon sheep-saffron the on
s i liest thing in natcr for the ager.
Mrs. B. I've always hearn it was wonderful
i in hives, and measly aliments.
Mrs. S. Well it's jist as good for an ager?
j it's a powerful sweat Mts. (Jlarkson told me,
that her cousin Betsey's aunt Sally's Nancy
was cured sound and well by it, of a hard shu
kin' ager.
Mrs. S. Why you don't tell me so!
Mrs. R. Oh bless your heart, honey, it's ev
ery word true ; lor she told me so Willi hci
own mouth.
Mrs. S. " A hard, hard bhakin' ager ! !".
Mrs. R. Oh yes, honey, it's the truth.
Mrs,ijk Well, I'm told tha| if you'll wrap
the inside skin of an egg roumtyour littlo fin
ger, and so three days reg'ljir to a young per^
simmon, and tic a string round! it, and every
day, tie three knois 111 it, ana then not go
again for three days, tJiat the Sger will leave
you. .
Mrs. B. I've often tiearn o* that, hut I don't
know about it. Some people dbn't believe in
?Mrs. S. Well, Davy Cbopefftwife told mo,
she did'nt believe in it ; but site tried it, and
it cured her sound and wel??t
? Mrs. R. I've hearn of many^bJk bein' cured
in that way. And what did they do.fbr Lucy's,
cough, Mis' Barney.
Mrs. &. Oh dear me, they gha* her a power
ful chance (Struck. 1 reckon^rsfcand last,
she took at least a pint o* ? 11
-Mrs. S%, ?nd Mfft ^
Mrs. S. Why that ought 'avi killed her, if
noting else. If they'd jist gin* hera little
cumfry and alecampane, stewed in honey, or
sugar, or molasses, with a little lump o' mut
ton suet or butter in it; it would have curcd
her in two days sound and well.
Mrs. B. I've always counted cumfry and
i alecampane the lead of all verbs for colds.
Mrs. S. Horehound and sugar 'a mazin
good.
Mr?. B Mighty good ? mighty good.
Mrs. It. Powerful good. I take mightily
to a sweat of snge-tca, in desperate bad cold-!.
Mrs. S. And so do I, Mis Reed. Iinieed I
have a great leai.in' to sweats of yerbs, in all
ailments sich as colds, and rhcumaty pains,
and pleurisies, and sich ? they're wondeiful
good. Old brother Smith came to my house
from Bethany meeting, in a mighty bad way,
with a cough. and his throat and nose all
stopt up ; seemed like it would 'most take his
breath away, and it was dead o' winter, and I
had nothin' but dried yerbs, sicli^ so 1 put
a hot rock to his feet, and made him a large
bowl o? catmint tea, and I reckon he drank
most two quarts of it through Hi? night, and
it put him in a mighty fine sweat, and loosen
ed all the jthleem and opened all his head ;
and the next morning, says he to me, says he,
sister Shad ? you know he's a mighty kind
spoken man, and always was so 'fore hejo n
ed society; and the old man likes a joke yet
right well, the old man does ; but he's a
mighty good man, and I think he prays with
greater libity, than most any one of his age I
most ever seed ? Don't you tliiiik he does,
Mis' Reed 1
Mrs. R. Powerful.
Mis. B. Who did he marry!
Mrs. S. Why, he married ? stop, I'll tell
.you directly Why, what does make my
old head forget so^
Mrs. B. Well, it seems to me I don't re
member like I used to. Did'nt he marry a
Ramsbottom ? >
Mrs. R. No. Stay, ^'11 tell you who he
married presently ? Oh, ^tay ! tvhy I'll tell
you who he married ! ? He married old daddy
Johny Hooer's da'ter, Mournin'.
Mrs. S.' Why, la! messy on me so lie did !
? M it. Br Why, Hoocr ! -
Mrs. S. Why, to be sure lie did. You
knew Mournin'.
Mrs. B. Oh, might well; but I'd forgot that
brother Smith married her : 1 really thought
he married a Ramsbott m.
I Mrs. R. Oh no, bless your soul, honey, he
married Mournin.'
Mrs. B. Well, the law me, I'm clear beat !
Mrs. S. Oh it's so, you may be sure it is.
Mrs. B. Emph, emph, emph, emph ! And
brother Smith married Mournin' Iloocr ! ?
Well I'm clear put out! Seems to me I'm
gittin' mighty forgetful some how.
Mrs. S. Oh yes he married Mournin', and
I saw her when -she joined society.
Mrs. B. Why, you don't tell me so !
Mrs. S. Oh it's the truth. She did'nt
join till after she was married, and the church
took on mightily about his marrying one out
of society. But after she joined they all got
satisfied.
Mrs. R. Why, la! me, the seven stars is
'way over here !
Mrs. B. Well, let's light our pipes, and
and take e short smoke, and go to bed. How
did you come on raisin' chickens this year,
Mis' Shad ?
Mrs. S. La messy, honey ! I have had
mighty bad luek. 1 had the prettiest pa'sul
you most ever seed till the varnment took to
killin* 'em.
Mrs. R. and Mrs. B. The varment ! !
Mrs. S. Oh dear, yes. The hawk catch
ed a powerful sight of them ; and then the
varment took to 'em, and nat'ly took 'em
fore and aft, bodily, till they left most none at
all hardly. Sucky counted 'em up t'other
day, and there war'nt but thrty-nine, she
said, countin' in the old speckle hen's chic
kens that jist come off of her nest.
Mrs. R. and Mrs. B. Humph-h-h-h- !
Mrs. R. Well, I've had bad luck too. Billys
hound -dogs broke up most all my nests.
Mrs. B. Well, so they did me, Mis' Reed.
I always did despise a hound-dog upon the
face of the yea'th.
Mrs. R. Oh, they're the bawllinest, squal
lincst, thicvishest things ever was about one ;
but Billy will have 'em, and I think in my
soul his old Troup's the beat of all creators I
ever seed in all my born days a suckiu' o'
hens eggs ? He's cleau most broke me up in
tirely.
Mrs. S. The lackaday !
- ' Mrs. S. Well 1 reckon there niu^t be some
thing in the season this year, than an 't good
for fowls; for Larkin Goodman's brother Jim
me's wife's aunt Penny, told me, she lost
most all her fowls with different sorts of ail
ments, the like of which she never seed before
? They'd jist go 'long lookin' right well, and
tilt right over backwards (Mrs. B. TI.e law!)
a;id die right away, (Mrs. R. Did ever !) with
a sort of something like the blind st.iggcrs.
Mrs. IJ. and Mrs. R. Messy on me!
M s. B. 1 reckon the nust have eat some
thing did'nt agree wit Is .em,
Mrs. S. No they i'nt, for the fed 'cm
every morning with her own hand.
Mrs. B. Well, it's mighty ciiriouj ! *
A short jiau.se ensiled, which was broken by I
Mrs. Barney, with ? "And brother Smith inn r- j
ried Mournin' Hoocr!' It came like an < pi
ate upon i^y senses, and I dropt asleep,
i The next moi niug wlieir wc rose from our
! beds, we found the gtio<1 ladies .-it tin-: round
t the fire ilistas I left them, tor they rose io'er
before us.
Mi.;. HnineV was ju.-t m act of ejaculating;
'And biotli r Smith mairied Mournin' ? when
Jie was interrupted l?y our entry into the din
ing room. We were hardly seated before
Mrs. Reed began to vrrifV her promise. ?
j* Mr.? ? ,' said she to Net ?did'nt you say
fort night, i hat them was two men that get
married to one another
?Yrs madam/ said Ned,
" And did'iit-you s?y they raised a fine
pa -eel of children?' i?
"Yes madam, exccpt Billy. ? I said, you
know, that he was a little wild.*
?Well, ye-; 1 know you said Billy was'nt
as clever as the rest of them. . But we old
women, were talking about it last night after
you went out, and non&ofus could make it
out, how t liny cou!d haye children ; and I said
I n.cUou-d you would'nt mind and Old wo
man's cliat; and, therefore, that I would ask
you how it could be J I suppose you won't
mind telling and old , wotuaa -bow it was.''
-Certainly net, madam. ,wi? fcoUi
widowers before they fell in JoreariUi each
other and got married. '
?The luck-a-day ! [ wondef none of us
thought of that. And they (tad children be
fore they got married V
'Yes madam, they had none afterwards
that 1 heard of.'
We were hero informed thit our horses
were in waiting, and we bid the good ladies
farewell.
BALDWIN.
PARAGRAPHS UPON HEIGHTS**'
Height of i folly. ? To getdfonkr cud lie
across the rail road to obtain repose* v ' '
Height of Inqiiisiihcness. ? To climb the
housetop, and look do***) the chimney tp sec
what one's neighbor has fo* dinner.
II fig lit of Dignity . ? To rui> against a poet
in the street, and then beg paraoo for the
encounter.
Height of Galan try. ? When intoxicated, to
reel along the street, with a lady under your
arm to cscort her safely home.
Height of Uulhjism. ? To castigate with
whip or cowhide a man whose openly avowed
religious principles forbid his fighting e?en in
self-defence.
Height of Honor. ? To defraud one's land -
lord or tailor for the sake of discharging ?oe's
gambling debts.
Height of Temperance. ? To keep one's skin
constantly soaked in ardent spirits, Without
ever getting drunk.
Height of I m prude rice. ?To quarel with
all your neighbors, who will not agree with
your own views and notions of things*
Height of Benevolence.?' To tumble down
the staircase and break your head to avoid
stepping on a kitten tha*. is reposing oo the
stair.
Height of Charity.? To give a poor beggar
a dollar, and at the same time threatening lc?
horse-whip him if he ever troubles you again.
Height of the Ridiculous. ? After being tum
bled down a precipice in a stage-coach fii'l
of passengers, amidst the shrieks 98d groans
and fainting, to hear a lady, with team in her
eyes, inquiring for her band-Box.^
. Jfi 'jAPiL-J hggfc i" fiftiii itwmm* Tn
forget that you ahf married, while abroad, and
pay your addresses to another,
Height of Chagrin. ? To pick up a reticule,
dropped by a lady of very genteel figure and
appearance, walking before you, and upon
her turning round to receive it from your
hand, behold a set of features as black as
ebony.
Height of Mortification. ? To make an offer
of your hand to a lady, and learn, for the
first time, that she had been kmg betrotlied tcr
your partner. ? Boston Post.
TENNESSEE SILK.
We have been furnished with several pieces
of silk grown ana manufactured by Miss Eas
teuly, of Cocke county in this State. This
young lady merits no small share of applause
for her mgennity, perseverance and industry
in thus furnishing to the counriy^iieaojgg&igI*
live proof of the superior adaptation of East
Tennessee to the silk cultures branch' Of busi
ness which we have no doubt, is destined, at
no distant period, to be ranked amongts our
most profitable employments, and to confer on
the country, and especially -on the laboring
cla^s of females, -incalculable benefits?' . The
specimens of silk left with us are, we believe,
the produce of the wild mulberry, reeled, spun
and woven by Miss Easterly on the imple
ments in common use, 'for cloth of other mate
rials, yet not withstanding these great disadv
vantages, they are highly creditable to the
ingenuity and industry ofthe fair manufacturer
and prove conclusively that under moifc
favorable circumstances she wonld be amply
able to compete with the forergn manufactu
rer both in the beauty, strength and texture
of the products of the loom. We arc happy
to learn that a zed for the extension of the
silk culture is rapidly diffusing itself througfr
ou East Tennessee, authorising a well-found* d
belief that in less than five years the prodact
of East Tennessee silk will form on item in
the list offier productions by no means incon
siderable. In addition to some public-spirited
individuals, wh<J fiorn nertives of patriotism
and plrilanthrophyyirc extensively engaged in
the cultivation ot the White and Chinese
Mulberries, we hear of a great numberof indi
viduals who are engaged m the same business
on a smaller scale, solely with a view Jb
individual profit. All have our best wishes
for their complete success, to which we shall
endeavor to render the Farmer a useful aux
iliary . ? Tennessee Farmer .
EXHIBITION OF SILK GOODS AT
NANTUCKET. . -
The Nantucket Inquirer contains an account
o-'au exhibition of silk manufactures at the es
tablishment of the Atlantic Silk Company at
i hat place, last week, which was attended by
upw ards of two thousand persons ? allef whom
expressed their surprise and gratification at
the perfection of the works, and the beauty of
the products. The following is an enumera
tion of some of the articles : ?
Raw silk. ? Samples of the kinds imported
by the Company from Bengal, Canton, Smyr
na, Naples and Calabeia respectively? aoineof
the skeifts measuring when opened, near thir
ty feet in circumference ? U14J winding of
which required the construction of reels espe
cially for this purpose : Samples ot American
Silk! reeled in W ilminglon, N. C. in Worcee
ler County Mass. at New Bodfprt by J. Rotch,
and in Nantucket. The three latter
specimens art' decidedly the best, and were
indeed of a quality superior to any others ex
hibited.