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' ' ^ wjfidwtisers are requested to stnto, in <1 writing on their advertisements, the number of times they wish them inserted; or they will be continued in the paper until : ordered out, and charged accordingly. book |jn> job pRnrrnro KXVCtTTED vrtm NEATNESS AST) DESPATCH At this Office. ^ ewgggw" I POLITICAL. link of Hon. J. L. Orr V ^7 I Um <rf iMfcttd W a long L lEnU ?* ?i^tjr raiU of OtM d?U aE^iraaC"z: tr?tk ^af lh<9^ jKoury IweTlTw^hrr ?x>TT?TdcTit d^tinw r/nnvi ' or south carolina. i OA (A* Missouri Rail Road, delivered in the House of Representatives, on tht . 24th February, 1852. [concluded.] 1 believe Mr. Polk, while he waa a Member of Congress here in 1828, voted ibf r 14)1 similar to this, to sid iu the cona stratum of <sn?k Mr. McDuflle voted V tur such WUs, as you have already hoard 4 from some of the gentlemen who have preceded me in this debate. Gen. Cass, Mir. Douglass, Mr. Davis, of Minn?ami ik OslhoSk, orftT Mf. Hou4m< infl fsdt ike *We of those who are now or vrljA mere herdWfcrr tasked ?f to as the Uadsffs off' Are Democratic |mrtv, have advocate! and supportsd bills identical in prijKipU with the bill now upon your. / < tataF* >t h> not, therefore, anti-Denmcrntir. " & you ore te Amn iu* articles of With from the prin<^W -sad acts of it* high priests, you may tdke the vote by which tbe Illinois bill passed the Senate, or'lhe vote by which the Missiasij a hill poised, and you will find that a majority of the l>omocrsts voted for it, Upon the Masismpja bill there were but eight Senators of the entire Senate who voted against i?. 1 I think I shall l>c able to show that tbb 1411, as reported by the Committee on Public Lands, is infinitely a better bill fbi this Government than the Mississippi tall I will show them when I cease On , speak of tbe hill itself that is wet *e Ve . soouted from this Hull, first either upon Use pies that it is unconstitutional, or aef co4d, that it is anti-Republican or antiMAocratic. I do not credit it that either of ft?e pretext* will be available to drive the bill from tiiis Hall *, and the gentleaaMtfro? Tonnoue (Mr. /men) d??e* injwitto* to h*i own party wbea he makes Mi imputation ot that sort; for I take it tjfcjpfl?ren in this House therein a uajority of me member* of the Democratic party who will rote for the hill. ^tavfaqg disposed of this constitutional more by authority than by ar' gtiment, and having also disposed of the uiwtion of democracy, 1 desire to direct Use attention of the Homo to the advantage which ia to reault to Uie (iovempoent from the passage of theao land j^What advantage will the Government derive f The first is this: it will bring land. into the market which have been exposed to aale, and have not found a ydprhmtr for thirty years. The road for 1 th!s isetH?*! wU provide* a grant peases through a portion of the public lands in Missouri that have been subject to ante and entry from fifteen to twentv. TSWynw. Those lands have not been tali, jpd ?byl Because they are situaW *> remote from inario-t, *o remote j from all the oonvenieneea of life, so re noic from timber?for a large part of the la*l<?iffci?}fnreiri??that persons have ? h?e dhterred from occupying and settling rhetn. Otve them U?e facilities of a railroad; give them the npportuuity^t bringing timber to these prairies; give pan facilities for Mfdh| am produce to ufrki-t and you will frgltfre lands rmenrad to this Govern | oMBt aolifng rapidly at ffi.AO per acre, wtyp they have remained now in market farfwenty yea?> not bringing a dollar I and a quarter per acre. shepaaU ?otto? of the public landsb? Mfifn the two section* ot the public lauds ( etween the towns of (laonibial, on the Mi?A?ippi ytr?, and 8u Joseph, upon if tl^Qu?o?ri river. Kor a distance of UurtrHn waat of the Mi?Issipi river and [H ?east of the Missouri, the igablo nver* or of rail rondo, the public | lands arc taken up. Where these facili- | ties are not convenient, the public lands , lie idle?arc of no sort of use to the States ( or the General Government. In many j regions of the country there am public i lands, as I have already stated which have been exposed to sale for many years for one dollar and a quarter per acre, but remain unsold, nnd wilt remain unsold for | fifty years to coine, unless improvements i of this kind are projected, and the lands brought into market. I might speak of the lands in Florida, r The committee on public lauds will report p a bill for the purpose of constructing a ??:i_ i .1 ?. ' < - i ??nr> wu mcrr, exienuing truin eighty to one hundred miles in length, where there ' are 110 settlements at all. In my own State, a railroad was constructed from Charleston to Hamburg, passing through a pine country, where lands was not worth more than ten to fifty cents per acre.? 1 These lands rarely found a purchaser bei cause they were valuable only as range, i Since tho construction of that ;Ond, U16 I lands have increase in value along the line of the road from ten cents per acre to two dollars and a half and five dollars 1 per acre, not for the purpose of cultiva' tion, but ou accoontofthe valuable timl>er and turpentine these forests afford, the ' I road offering a cheap and speedy transit ; to" narket, that the lands had risen so | much in value. 1 undertake to say that i in Florida, the description of lands of I which I have been speaking, will remain | [ nnentered for one hundred years, unless j some public improvement of this nature is ; , projected and carried out. The Government, by making these donations, not on- | ly benefits the State and its citizens, but | it also l>enefits its-lf, and brings hundreds j of thousands of dollnrs into the treasury, | which otlierwinA w<>ul<l ?><"> I frotn the lamia. I suspect when you po to the West you wilt*ftnd in many place* valuable anil fertile lamia capable of proi ducing wheat and corn and cotton, which r are uot entered at one dollar and a quarter per acre. And why! Uecause they have not facilities for market. The increase if1 value of land in the new States , consequent upon the obstruction of works | internal improvement, wrill mj po-eater | . than in the old States! Add ?hy > I*e- I 1 ccuae the lands of the New States is bot[ ter. the soil more fertile, and consequently i the production greater. It is a virgin , soil' better than that of the Atlantic slope J^k^ot believe, from alt my knowledge of dflPhf^hat there is a c unwy upon the ' nBWf the earth that haa such an extent 1 of rich lands as the Mississippi valley? lands that will produce from a thousand 1 to fifteen hundred pounds of cotton per a, ere, and .from sixty to seventy bushels of J , o<>ru. Give the cotton planter or the far' mer facilities f* market, and is he nut i "better -afrle to pay one dollar and a quarter for land which was forty or fifty muni ii iiw niani-i, ?ikj wnerc in* corn I would m* bo worth more then five to ten ?nti a liwshel, mk) the cost of transporting cot tow or tobacco or flour from one half to owe ?mt per pound f The committee haav assumed, in framing thi* bill, that a* a -gfsveral rule, the land* lying within *ii mite* ow boili side* of a mil road will certainly increase in value lOO per cent. II tkkk I can bring mum- testimony thane ?Wk might satisfy the gentleman i Ah Al l \ vo rgia, (Mr. T tombs) that the con- | st ruction of railroad* 'increase the price of | lands, and that greatly. I desire to state, . (and if 1 do not state the fact correctly 1 hope th gentleman will correct inc) that in the Cherokee country, a region that twelve years ago had no facilities for market at all, their corn was not worth more than tea or twelve cents tier bushel ; ami hut little cotton was raised in consequence of the enormous cost of transporting it by land carnage to market. That country now teems with an industrious and | thriving population, and the former for. rests have K?en converted into beautiful, i productive and profitable (arms. The ; State of Georgia constructed a road there, > and in conversation with an intelligent > gentleman from that country, a day or ! two ago*; he said to me, that the ianus . had increased in v*lnn !! >? I , ' that road, for thirty mile* on both aides, ; from 100 to 2,000 per cent lire committor DHumwl that land lying along the lines of these roads for six miles would 1 certainly increase in value 100 par cent. It! (natty intUtncw. I have no doubt it will greatly exceed 100 per cent, and roach 600 per cent, and in some favorite localities roach even 1,000 per cent. But six miles is aasumed by the committee as the distance upon the average of either side, and that the increase in value will at least reach 100 percent. I think the settlors in the new 8tat?s ought to be liberally treated by this Government, for it requires a bold and enterprising man to give up and renounce all the convenh enncesand luxuries to be met with in the old States?to take leave of the home of his childhood, the friends of his youth, and the oompankrtB of his nurturer years to plunge into a western forest. All this require* courage aud enterprise. These people deserve generous consideration, from the government, and are especially i entitled to reoetvs it, when the Govern- < moot does not ininre itself or the other a... * .i /i t-1 ?? ?.?i!? ouw ?f ui? uwmuericy oj exvciiuinjr j it> have but liitl? capital there aim i tfflS one reason why these doostions i Vdtld be made. When persons eroi- ' grate to the West or Bouthnest, as a i general rule, all the capital they cany i with then is thelf industry and enterprise. < If to J give them these bads, so aa to ea- < able theM to par Anas CMl (far the eon* < traction of ra(lru??l* to be foe Kami by a sab of the bad, their bihblti niif boom , itlUk tlin UI?1S Now, lK Apmkcr, I mkk lo iM * I ' few remark* mxm eome of tbc dettft? of' 1 w , \9tr ? ? this bill. It ia provided that where the lands have been taken up within the six miles by entry, the company shall be allowed to go a distance of fifteen miles for the putposc of making up this quota. Well, that feature, I am free to acknowledge, did not meet my approbation fully, but I hwtc waived the objection. The Government is amply compensated by allowing this extension from six to fifteen miles. In the first place, it is provided that the mails shall be carried over these roads, not at such prices as the Company and the Government shall agree upon, ??. ?: ^ * uuv ?m,u jiruct u von^rew limy nx? leaving it almolutely under the control of Congress. I suppose every gentleman on this flooi familiar with the operations of the Post Office Department, knows the difficulties that arc encountered now by the Postmaster General in making contracts for carrying the mails over the railroads of the country. There is scarcely a railroad company in the United States, that does not avnil itself of the opportunity presented, to extort from the govern' ment a larger compensation than it is justly entitled to. Put by this bill you reserve to yourselves the right to say at what price the mails shall Iks carried.? That is one great point gained. The distance from St. Joseph to Hannibal is about two hundred miles, and the cost of transmuting a heavy mail, being within the first class, over a railroad between those places would be three hundred dollars per miles. There would be sixty thousand dollars paid out by the Government for the transporlion of the mails over that road for one single year. That is more than it is worth ; and Congress by adopting this policy can apply a corrective, and vote to these railroad companies ?a fair compensation. Put there is another advantage to the Government in this bill, which was not included in the Mississippi bill or in the first Illinois bill. It is this, the bill provides that the troojw of the Uuited States shall be trans|>orted over tncsc roads throughout all time without charge and also tfiat munitions of war, and property of the United States of every description, shall be transported free of charge. Now look nt this Missouri road. It r>oiiit.i 'n the very direction when you are chin polled V? go in i raveling to Utah.New Mexico, Oregon, and California. again let me ask, gentlemen, how lung are you to have an Indian frontier Isitwcen those remote States and Territories on the Pacific and the western border of Missouri! It will be, perhaps, a hundred years before the red man of the forest is exterminated, and during the whole of tho time it will be necessary for the Government to Jccep up troops and stations upon the frontier to guard a^a'nst the incursions which these Indian may make. Now take the transportation of the mails and public property over these roads for fifty years' time, and I venture the assertion that it will pay you nn interest of thirty per cent. uj?on every dollar's worth of laud that you donate to these companies?perhaps an iuterst of fifty per cent, upon every dollar. Here let me say, that all the bills that the Committee on public I*ands have determined to rep -rt to this House are bills of a national character?are bills which, if passed, will lie of infinite service to this Government in time of peacp, in the transportation of the mails and public |*t?r|x-i ijr t ami in iiinv \n **?r III Uie irHIlft|Mirtation of troop* and munitions of war. Well, air, there is another clause in this hill which was in nono of the hills previously passed, and it is one which shmild commend itself to the favorable consideration of all the members of this House. It is this : the donation is made, not to the companies, hut to the State, upon condition that the State shall faithfully appropriate the fund for the particular companies. But the question mav be stat^nl, how are you to guard against an nbuseon the part of the State f It may be asked, what if the State sells these lands and pockets the money 1 Well we guard aganst that We Cvido in this bill that when the road has n surveyed, and the certiftcatc forwarded to the Secretary of the Interior, .he Secretary of the Interior shall order that twenty milt* of the road may be sold, and when that twenty miles has been sold, no other land along the route of the road shall be brought into marketer be subject to sale, until the Secretary of the Interior has a certificate* from the Governor of the State to which the donation is made, that twenty miles of that identical road have been completed. When the certificate is received then the Secretary of the Interior will direct that another twenty tnilea may b? sold, mud so on until the whole work is constructed. So that the only fraud?if the State was disposed to practice fraud, aud I hardly suppose that any State of this Union would do it?that could be practiced,could not extend to a greater amount than one hundred and twenty sections of land. This bill does not, as some of the bills formerly did, establish the relation of debtor anu creditor between the state *i?i this Government. In the bills passod tome years ago, it was provided that if llioHUto sotd the land* and did not construct the road, it should refund to the Treasury of the United Statee whatever money it had received, a relation which lever should be created between the Federal and State Governments?if lor no i*her reason than the universal dependence of the debtor on the creditor lfow) with all theao advantages, what nod objection can eslst to maton* these fonattonof It does not oosl yoe a Birthing. |t does not sbstrwet any revenue from the rcleral Tlcasmy at all. AS CsrpetfcBC* ar - p . ! demonstrates thai wiiett vo? have ooni struetod those railroads the littda tltfough which they pass will sell mow reaMy for 2 50 an acre without the railmnds^With this view of the case?the constutional difficulties lx>ing removed?looking to the | great advantage which you can render to those States, and to the inhabitants of these States?looking to the immense boon that you can give to them without impoverishing yourselves?1 ask, what good reason can be given for not parsing the bill and making the donation ? We ask that the bill shall be put upon its passage now, without going tv the I Coinitteo of the Whole on the state of I the Unio n. Those mcmlxTs who are at I all familiar with procw.lings hero, if I may Ikj allowed to apply a quotation that ' is used upon more solemn occasions, that when a hill is sent from this House to the Committee of tl?e Whole on the state of the Union, tittle** it is a universal favorite or an appropriation hill,it has pone to "that undiscovered country from whose ho urn no traveler ever return*." Every member who had any experience here knows this to l?e the faet. I have now, I helievq, presented most of the views of this matter that I desire*] to present, and all I havefto sav in conclusion is, that I trust the House will deal leberally and generously to war* Is our fair daughters of the West, and I have no doubt that we shall never have cause to be ashante* of or to repudiate them. SELECTED TALES LIFE LEA V : *. KK< >M A ROVER'S I/Ki. " Boat ahoy 1" 44 Hello!" 44 Wliat vessel is th it in the stream ?" 44 The Portland." 44 American lw 44 Yes." 44 Waut a hand I" - w HI, pi aps you'U lx>ut as well ask the ole man.*1 44 Where is lie I11 " Tliat Ws him with the papers in his flipper." ' I advanced to the captain, and, removing my hat with ut 'h seumanlike grace as I could command, 1 ask>-d, 44 Are vou the cuptfchl of the J'ortland, sir?*1 * Wal, so they say." *I>o y??u want a ha..d !" 44 Cant say as 1 do." "Can I work my passage homo with you r 44 Wal, p'r'ap* you mouglit. Where do you hail from f" 44 Calcutta." ^tun away from yer ship!" 44 Yes." 44 Wal, that's straightforward; what forr 44 Hml usage." i 44 Cai/n's name !" " John Waters." 44 Salem ?" % 44 \ es, sir." 44Wnl, I don't blame ye, 1 knoic him. Jump into the bout. No man shall ay that Cross Gift'ord ever left a countryman in distress in afurrin port. Cast otl there Jo! Ben ! put the hoy's hundlc for'ard.? Give way now !" And otl we went towards the ship. 44 What's your name, young man I" the Captain asked. * "James Byerlv." 44 Wall, guess you'll have to l?o called Jim. I hale long names. Got some money, I 'spose I" 44 Yes, sir." 1 had three dollars! Wo were soon on board and, as the wind and title both served, wo got our anchor u|>eak, laid the fore-top sail to the mast, hove up, made sail, got the anchor on the bows ami stood out to sea. may as well say "here that I am a native of u lovely village in Wcstean New I York* The name, I take is of no importance to the render. I was a hot-tempered, and somewhat wayward bov, as some yet unwritten biographical facts miirht dhow. At tlie ngc of seventeen 1 ran away from college; and widi the money obtained from u very untinancinl sale of iny lx?>k* and furniture, contrived to reach Boston, where I shipped ou board the Ilaidee Kasst Indian man.) The Portland was a fine boat, and in an hour after sunset we were leaving St. George's Channel with afresh north-easter, under royals and toretopinafct studding-sail. The irew was made up entirely of Americans , a good-humored, sailor like set,with whom 1 was soon on very good term*.? But as the events of the voyage have nothing to do with my present story, I shall reserve all further details of Cross Gilford his crew and his ship, until I see how well die readers of this story like these life-loaves. Well, we anchored late one night, after a passage of twenty-nine days off Long Island Light The neit morning we hauled into die wharf. The Pottland was to be discharged by stevedores. It was not an hour later, therefore, that 1 had graaped the hand of the last of my J ship-male*, who had been somewhat more leMdfty than the, others in packing hi* cheat, aud had hidden him good bye.? | He turned buck suddenly. I waa standing, dwindle in hand, on the wharf, looking sorrow fully at the noble vqpaat whoa* evary timber 1 had ie*rne<^? love. 1 could not help thinking, for Sijifc of ma,, | that ahe, too, had a forlorn Jhd dejected I I L _ i * I - a A ioos, mgtio iw m mic whvum wnan, like m bouml to hie kennel. * u TVhcrv're Jim r ny al?ip*n*tc. * 0 ^ J* * " indeed, 1 dont know, Ben." t; Go to the Mariner's Home, with md" ' Perhaps I will, by and by." "Well, good bye,old fellow, if I don't see you again 1" > And he left me as I was alone, in a strange city, friendless, with three dollars th as the amount of funds available. As I stood uttterly at a loss what to do, 1 received a rough hearty slap on the shoulder. ta M llelllo ! Got into the doldrums, Jim?" m ask?'d Captain Gilford. ai w A trifle, sir" of "TutI tut! what's in the wiad ? Out o'money ?" - m " No, sir." | 44 Wnl, I <lon't wan'^ to question ye too j bl clo.se; but ef ye want any help afore I sail why, call on ine. You'll find nie at the re Lowell House. You've l>een a good hand 441 an ctyou want a berth voyage, you've only to ask for it. Good bye !* v' j 44 Good bye, sir !" I utter?*d, as well ns Y ' my quivering lips would let ine; and ho h< | walked away, lie turned back once, as et! | if to apeak again ; but seemed to change his purpose, and went on. Then 1 was T1 I indeed alone. w As I turned to leave the ship, a carriage so I drovo up in front of a large store house, is | Next door, a large box w is being lowered m | from the loft. When about half way H down, the strap broke, and the box fell to within half a yard of the horses heads.? I They instantly backed, and in spite of every effort of the driver, went with the car- hi jingo oft the wharf. ."*1 heard a shriek j to and caught a glimpse of a white dress, as ti< the carriage fell; and without pausing to think of the onse uences. I ulunwod ?n?o tis j the water. There Wing hut about two (a- ^ I thorns of water alongside the wharf, the lo ! carriage rested on the bottom, and the | horses floundered to the surface, as I di- ni j ved beneath it. It was hut the work of _ | an instant to undo the door. I clasped a pi l light form in my arms, rose with her to ta I the surface, and with a little exertion,conj trived to get f?x>ting on the carriage. By this time, l>oaLs and ropes were at hand, and we were soon safe on the wharf. A p. I tall grey-heado I, aristocratic lookin { gen| tleman came running up to us. p( It is my duty to say here, that the ^ ] young lady did not taint. Not a bit of it. < )n the contrary, though pale and mani- p, j festly frightened, she gave me one of the h, 1 very Ix-witchingest hands in all the world, w and said, ? .. trj 44 I thank you. If you?" a i 44 Why, Ellen 1 my daughter!?I?hey! ]? how's this * God bless me, how frightened ! I was !* exclaimed the hntless old gentle- (j j man. " Where's the young man ! Sir,I'm w I much obliged to you, James," added he p j to a youug man near him, " give this ten | doll .rs. Egad ; they've saved the horses." n ' As he spoke, 1 turned to make my way t| . through the crowd ; not, however, withI out noticing a glance from the fair girl be- SJ side him, w hich has haunted me for years. a 44 Is this your bundle ?" asked a stran- ? ' g<*r- ' w 44 It is. Thank vou, sir, I had forgotten 0 I it-" . e I U Stillt/V ! \(i?in u-Arn nnitkoia f I fSJ ? "" ",V VJ/UHI W I t, ) heard, as I made my way through the g j crowd. ii " Ivicli a* a Jew, too!" exclaimed ano- r, ' itller tf 44 I say, chipmAte!" sr.id this last person 1 to mo, " got a board in' house T* d< 1 44 No." ni 44 WhI, come ; go home with me? p, (iood fare, cheap livin'; git ye a ship any | time." tl l 1 went. I cannot now stop to tell the (>j j reader the loathsomeness of that misera- te hfe don. Another day will do as well.? J One cannot have a whole magazine ' for I his story. Well, as I sat by ft rickety old ' table, with the Boston Times in my hand asking mvself what I should do, one j( my shipmates came in. 44 Bv the l>ones of old Davy !" he ex- hi claimed. 14 The very man I wanted to of sec! (iood on your heap, Jim! You w di?l it well. Coine, what'll ye take !" th 44 I thank you, not anything." h< 44 0 fudge ! Take soinethiu*, man. You p( i arc ail urtppm' wet, an<l you'll catch cold. th j " U do," added the landlord. m I yielded ; drank?to drunkenness. ?* ** * pf Let us pass over the details ot that night. 1 awoke, in the morning, with an 1 aching head and swollen eyes ; made my ' way to the bar room and called for a glass B | of brandy, to drown the agony of remorse. | ' Hadn't you better just hand your mo| ney to inc I asked the landlord, with a P< i smile. "You spent three dollars last j night, in 'l?out an hour; and you'd better let ine keep the rest for ye." u Three dollas !" I exclaimed. gi Yea." 44 My (iod ! it was all I had !" 44 \\ al, then, all I'vo got to say is, just <? take yeiself out o' this house. When yon do kin raise a quarter, you kin hare this bundle." Htupified, siek, wretched, I walked to ? the wham*. ' tui --Oh! the pause __ T? That procedea action."?Viacixies Hardly conscious of what I did, I wont Wl nearly to the end of a neighboring wharf, to[ both aidea of which were thronged with vessels. One of these, a dilapidated old ^ thing, on which u Cormorant, dcrouring Time," ap had apparently done hia worst, waa get- to ting under way. Her mahwnil waa al- de ready up, andf'a man waa oaating off kff do stern fasta. 1 heard him say aa he did so. are M FVape we can get tkis chap. Captain." M Hello r nhouted the captain. * I aay 4mm you etranger P tie M What do ye want f* aaid 1, with an Ui effort to look vft paTtvrrtarly aofcr. rr? f 44 Wiuii io ship f 44 Don't carr if 1 do." 44 Wal, cotuc 'board." 44 What's wages?" 44 O, shares yon know. Com' a fishiu'." I staggered aboard, and sat down on e windlass. u Where's yer dunnage I" 44 ITt> In T??lnrV u Hun up an gut it, Bill, said the Capin. Bill was nov long away. He threw y bundle on deck, lifted the stern fast", ui had gone to the other pile to cast r the bowfiwts; when Ben, one of nay lipwtatcs on board the Portland, came inning up to him. 44 Why Jim ! ye ain't a goin in this 'ere oody old jigger, are ye !" " Wal, he ain't goin1 to do nothin' else," plied the skipper, somewhat gruffly.? Cast off th.-re, Bill." 44 Well, if you must go, Jim, a pleasant i yage to ye. Here's a paper for ye.? i oinl find so'thin' marked on't," added i s, as Bill cast off the last fast, and leapI on board. I have little recollection of that day.? lie Captain gave me about half a pint of hiskey?such being thcr marine preoption in such cases?after which all chaos. I awoke a little before sunset, uch refreshed after my long slnmber.? y Captain Home's suggestion, I then ok a salt-water bath. ThU aeeomnli*h<?l drank a cup of tea and went on deck. " Here's your paper," said the Captain inding me a copy of the Times, 'rears he so'thin marked on it. Jest take no:e to that 'ere." I looked as he directed. An adverlement was marked around with ink.? fith some difficulty, I made out the folwing: "Isvobmatjon W a MTKD.?If the young an who saved the young lady's life at wharf, will call at No.?, Ashburton ace, he will hear somethiug to his advan- . ge." ** Too late now," suggested theskipjK-r. I nodded. On the following day, we reached the ihing ground, where in a few weeks, we , led the scooner. Luckily for us the ( ice of fish was unuaually high. We . Id out at once. I had become accus- J mod to the labor, and, accordingly, supwed tbat the young lady and her grey- ' sired father bad forgotten me, I invest1 my earnings in another voyage. This 1 k>; w as successful. By constant rcinveatlenU, and som^ fortunate apocuiations, 1 ad accumulated, at the end of some throe five thousand dollars. At that me the land and lumber mania in Maine as at its height. Buying to the full ex>nf rvf inu me..? "' ?III?? - ? ...? vi ...j uraiin, nu'i ariiiug ngain as I xm as I had fair offer#, I found myself I t the end of a single year, the master of lirty thousand dollars. 1 returned to Boston, and I can truly ?y, that as I received on every hand the Lteution and courtesy which wealth comtands, the happiest thought connected rith iny wonderful success was, that 1 ould now meet a certain well-reraemberd young lady?if, indeed, it should ever ? my lot to meet thein at all?without iving to either the power to question my motives. 1 hitting divers tradesmen into xjiiisition, I was speedily in a condition > have l?een presented at court. And now camcu difficulty. It had, ineed, occurred to me before but assuredly ever with the same startling force. 8uposing that a certain lady were married ? While I was very gravely pondering | tat important question, (I was at the Alion?that quietest, cleanest, best of hols.) a friend tapped me on the shoulder. 44 Byerly!" 44 Well r 44 Let's go to Federal street." 4 What's the bill!" 4' Richelieu?Forrest plays." Wc went. (Bless me 1 how I have to jrry over tho particulars!) At the end ' the second act we rose to oar feet, and _ * * i * - ere in a mnniinr cn.it, wbvn 1 caught ic eye of Ellen. Her father was with sr. hut just then in conversation with a ovokingly handsome man by his side, in e same box. I bowed. The bow was ost graciously returned. 44 Who is that lady r* asked I of my coininion. - Ellen M n 44 Introduce me." m Ellen blushed as her eye met mine.? 1 er father seemed flodgety.until I was pre- ' ntod to hint. * Mr. Byerly T ho exclaimed. 44 From < angor ?" < u n it - A lir SAIUf. ( 44 Sir, I'm delighted to make vour ac- ( laintanee. Fred!?this is my aon, air? | ve my friend Hveriy your seat." 44 Mr. M , said I, when we were a tod?wiili aa much gravity ? I eoulu minand,?' I believe yon owe me ten 1 U**" 1 mat I How i really I?n I 44 Waa your carriage ever thrown off > ?wharf r ( 44 Oho -o o?o! It waa you, eh ? Tut! ( t! none o' that; not another word !? Jk to Ellen awhile, if you pieaae." ( I did^o. A month from that day there t n r wedding in Aahburton lis*.?'8mr> ^ iV* Mfmant. To Cons Lova.?Take of manufac- t rod hemp> aboot six hat \ of courage, < ?ugh to make a dip aoum and plaew rt , oetxf yoar aeek; of resolution eatough ( fat as it to the top of a tree; aad of , teroMMtaon, fttifnctent to toko o loop I, w award. If Um doot not effect i cure t married. 1 mm m a. Lot your iko^ftf bo it or MfcahW 1 rtho Kill at Kvory 4m bono b%b I wtghbToTC1ri?bw <|nghi +>mK ' tbo^iM peerkooUwo, owl i ">ro of all qycnrd j*ou 1 rnmrnm^mmma iuicbltiiult ? - ? Vegetables for Milch Cows. The pleasant discussion agitated by your intcligent correspondent from Exeter, on the feed best adapted to milch cotrr, and particularly to the value of carrols for this purpose, 1 have read with interest. It would seem el J - - a i- 1-**** -a* --* inav incru uet*u iiuv uc uny ainuremrc ui optnion, on a matter of bo common occurrence. But still ou thin, as on most other subjects, wc find very different opinions entertained, by those of equal intelligence and obsorvn? tion. In regard to carrots, it secnis to be admitted^v all, that they improve the yuolily of the milk, however it may bo as to the <jnanty. It is also admitted that they have a healthy and fattening influence on the animal that eats them. It is certain that they are palatable, for there is no flans of roots devoured by the animals with more avidity.? For many years I have been familiar with stock cows, kept for a dairy and milk.purposes, to whieh carrots have been fed more or less.every year. Without any exact experiment as to their value or feed, the impresion haa ever been that they were equal to any other root. If this impresssion is erroneous I should like to have it demonstrates). Hut I cannot relinquish an opinion, without well digested facts to the contrary, that I have cherished from my youth, and which was taught me by a working man of much practical observation. I remember a few years since some of the best fanners of my acquaintance put forth the idea that grtm vom, cut and fed to cows in the months of August and September,and when the feed of pastures came short, for want of moisture, was of little or no value. Coming from such sources, I thought there must be something in it; and that Pickering and Colman, and others who. had encouraged tlie use of this article, as valuable for milch cows, might have been mistaken. Notwithstanding, opinions put forward, I tied careful men, who rely on their milk, products, continue to grow com for their cows. And I strongly suspect, that the same class of men will hesitate, before they discard the use of carrots entirely. Among the many projects of improvement now agitated, 1 know of no one more worthy the attention of careful <^1tivator* than the comparative value of crfipi as feed for milch cows. Every family in the land is interested in this subject. No sooner does the infant inhale the air of lleavcn, than some preparations of milk begins to be made for its nourishment in some form or other, while life laM.t. Time was, \vhen the potatoe was cultivated for the feed of atock : but of late the voracity of inau is such, that a few potatoes can be spared for that purpose, unless they are suspected of imprcgnuted with Tin: Ror. Turnips also, especially the ruta bags, have been cracked up, as excellent for milch cows, hut there are those, who turn up their noses when turnips are named, and say they cannot endure the taste of the milk within the same category. If ii were not for the peculiar flavor imparted to miik, by feed on turnips and cabbages, I should think theso crops would yield a more abundant feed for stock than any others that can be cultivated. On looking over the nam bcr of Transactions for the Essex Society recently published, I pefdeive the crop of cabbage raised by Mr. Mason, of Beverly, exceeds any vegetable product that has come to my knowledge. The sales from hU grounds the present year exceeded $150 per aero, for several acres. When it is considered with how little labor this crop is grown the land being properly prepared, thore would seem no occasion to go Weit to raise wheat at 50 cents a bushel, when labos can be so much better rewarded by growing dabbagc in the East.?.Veic England Farmer ??r Pair Prizing Soil. It is believed, and indeed the fret ban been abundan.?y demonstrated, that the finer the soil is, the more fertile will it be. Tnll supposed that minute disintcrgation of comminution was all that was essential to render any land productive and fruitful, ami that no matter what might be its orignai character, the plow, freely used would render the application of stimulating manures, ?r jntbuium of nny kind, unnecessary. This ^ however, even his own experiments, institu ted for the express purpose of establishing the verity of his idolized theory,jirovo untrue. Htill, in nil cases, minute pt^^rization is a vast benefit to any soil; and the more perfect tho comminution or division of the i>Mi>titju>nt iiirtii^lM is. the more, cunllduntlv can we rely upon the success of the future jrop, whatever it may be< By frequent plosvirtgn, even the most leutcious and adhesive lands will be amclioraed; they will be exposed more thoroughly utd effectually to the fertilizing effects of lews, rains, atmospheric influences, ar.d the mnehing action of solar heat. The roots >f plants And also in soils thus prepared a nueh more fcvorable medium; they ere not tfiwted in their progress, expend freely in {Mat of food, and an not contorted and * hrow* aside by sppnsiag obitsajmi which tre insuperably to a alcader fornffP^Maauri: ilao acta mash mors ancrgetieally on tiao tail thaaea that which iaeoarseaad iaeoi.i MctMMM*; ittow Mtao ooooyiold iu humUkj hi WMM if ifo?4fbi,M>d b far ?oro baorbcnt hi tf mo of rHn.?l*err*rrc>* L** \ ? ,m4V 1h