(for the banner.) Mr. Editor: The following lines arc taken from an old Bcrap book. I had designed trying to hotter them ; but I am bo much a stranger of late, to the hoights of Parnassus, that I find I had much hotter - ? ir .. r. ?_ .1 n ? COIllOJll IIIJ6UU >VIVII mc IOW Biumcu UOWCre,WHICH, years ago, I culled, midway in the ascent. If they have 110 HyWa sweets to tompt the honoy-bird, tlioy at least, are harmless; and, tho world will not bo less wise or happy, if they aro allowed to porish among the things that urc bom to die. TO E. . Rack'd with a thousand ills?the rosoate Tints of morning, and ovening's gorgeous hues, As set tho autumnal snn, were to my Jaundiccd eyes, a tyro's feeble pencilling!?. The variegated faco of nature, With her forests wild, lawns and streams? Yea ! cataracts and mountains lowering high, Frowned as one vast waste of human woe ; And my disordered mind, despised mankind. And doubted (impious thought!) the love of heaven! ! Buried in darkness, tind in gloom, my (soul, Like the blind eagle, fed as 'twere upon Itself?reveling in misery and despair: Heboid the change ! a sunny smile from thro Sweet love, mv grief and darkness beamed away, And all nature robed in hues of beauteous light. So, morning dawns in radianco on the world, And flowers, fount, hill, and dale illumes? And glittering fount, and stream and ocean's spray, The wilderness was refreshed, redeemed. My heart, all petrified and hard by woe, At the gentle pressure, of thy sacred wand, Gushed with sparkling streams of living joy ! And now thou art to me, the light and love, The beauty, fragrance, harmony of the world. How sweet to bathe my soul in the bright smiles Playing o'er thy checks like sunbeams o'er the rose, Revel in the enchanting melody Of thy song, soft as angel's minstrelsy, And road affection in thy every act and word, Thou, loveliest creature of the eternal mind. Oh?Lmay our lives, like kindred streams?parted? Now, mingle into one, and glide Soronoly, 'mid sunlight and sweet flowers, Onward through time, reflecting Ilcaven In its courso, to the ocean of Eternity. Glaucus. Newly Discovered Usu of tiig Sunflower.?Those most experienced in the cultivation of this plant are sanguine that, with a proper soil and proper cultivation, it is more profitable than wheat or corn.? The seeds are more oleaginous than those of the flax plant, and combine the qualities for tnhlp iko i->f -I!"- ?:l - r? 1 uuv ui tub ucsi unvc uii j lui uuriling, of the best snprm, without its smoke ; and for painting it is said by painters who have used it to be superior tj linseed, and it is more rapid in drying, equally easy in spreading, and without forming a much denser coat. Prepared and eaten as artichokes, the young cups of this plant are very esculent and pleasing to the palate ; the stalks are an excellent substitute for hemp or flax, and for bee pasturage it is equal to any plant, yielding, from its luscious and numerous nectaries, an abundance of the best and most palatable honey. A writer in one of our agricultuial exchanges, says that, on suitable soil, with proper cultivation, it will yield on an average from eighty to one hundred bushels of seed to the acre. From five to seven quarts of oil are calculated on per bushel. If this isnot OVP.r-f?stimntinor ito nmilimtl 1 - ? WUMUU v uilCOOj till U | it can be raised as cheaply as wheat or Indian corn, ordinarily considered the most expensive crops cultivated, the Sunflower I must be a very profitable production. We i have therefore cultivated it on a small scale, j as usually in vacant spots, by the fences and in places where the culture of other vegetables were ineligible, and so far as our experience goes, it ooroborates the above ascertions. We find that the green leaves are excellent fodder for cows, especially when the feed in our pastures gets low in seasons of scarcity and drought We generally commence plucking them in July, taking the lower leaves first, and feeding them out at night, or, if scarcity of feed is great, in the morning before turning them from their 1 i jaiuo. ** c nave: auiiicumes given ItlCm corn-toppings and the leaves of the sunflower at the same time, and have (bund that the latter are invariably preferred. The seed of the sunflower is a most desirable food for poultry, its highly oleaginous nature wholly superseding the necessity of animal food. Hens and Chickens?As the season for rearing chickens is at hand, I beg leave, as a professed utilitarian, to give to your readers a hint of a plan which I have successfully practised for several years, for economizing the time of my hens, because, in this, as in other instances "lime is money"? or rather time is eggs, and eggs is money. | ixri r I 1 ' ?* liuu j. huvu a nuinuer 01 selling nens in | process of incubation, the first one that comes off with her chickens, I put in a coop, just as the other people do ; when a second one comes off, if a day or two has intervened, ? and I were to put the last hatched chickens to the first hen, which has now had time to become acquainted with the number and color of her own brood, she will abuse and kill the new comers, as intruders, especially if they are of a color different from her own: . instead of this I remove the first hen and put the second in her place with the chickens of both?when the third one comes off, 1 put ner in place o! the second?and give her all the chickens, and so on until the last hen has as many as she can attend to; a large hen may comfortably brood twenty, five orthirty chickens-?and the hens which have been taken from the chickens, after being shut up a few days, will resume laying agian,.instead of wasting their time with the I oare of a few chickens. I have known an instance where one hen reared, thirty-eight chickens to maturity. -yr^r. "" m ^ ::>r ^ sSJ: . ? , r W; - ? . . ~ -V- ' ' ' f + s k' It is possible that others have adopted the same plan; indeed, the plan issoexceedly simple, that it seems impossible that it should not have occurred to more persons, but as it is nut general known and practised, it may perhaps be deemed a sufficient reason lor giving this article an insertion. Vermontcr. I To Prevent Flies from Injuring Pic- j tuiie Frames, Glasses, &c.?Bjil three or I lour onions in a pint of water ; then with gilding brush do over your glasses nnd I frames, and the ilies will not light on the article so washed. This may be used without apprehension, as it will not do the least injury to the frames. To Prevent Fuotii Rising when Churning.?A lady sajs she had well nigh given up making butler this winter ; for. as soon a.s she commenced churning the froth would rise. She tried every preventative that was suggested to her without eflert. until she was advised to try saleratus which she did, and tiiat proved cttcctual. Amcrican Agriculturalist. Original anecdoth of Gun. Worth.? A friend of ours who regards himself as a connoisseur in such matters spins out a yarn in something like this fashion:?Some IS or 19 years ago, major, now General Worth, was military instructor at West Point ? He was a hustling liille fellow, with an im- J m-. nse amount of milil'iry spirit; spent his whole time iti his duties, an;l always slept in camp while the corps of cadet's were enPlinillfrt nlllimirrh tut o fiiin lin"-'" - I? > " close by, where his family resided. One night he had been at a party, and was returning to camp sometime after midnight." The sentinel, a cadet, hailed him and asked, ''who goes there?" ' The commandant, of the corp.*," responded the major in his sharp tones " Advance commandant, and giv^ the countersign!" said the sentinel. The major tried a moment to recollect ; then said he, "1 have forgotten the contersign, but you know me as " " Guard no. G!" shout ted the sentinel, dropping the point of his bayonet 10 the level of the Major's breast. "There's no need of calling the guard," remonstrated the Major, "you recognise me as major ." "Stop your talking, sir 1" deliberately drawled the sentinel, holding his bayonet in statu quo. It now began to rain, and as the major was too military a man to ever be seen with an umbrella, his nnrfv r\ntr?trr urne m o ^ ? vj v/u?.i iq ?f uo ii< w tun wajr iu ici;i;i\c a comfortable soak. "Do you not recoguise fiercely demanded he. "Stand still, sir, and stop your talking," was the only answer the poor major could get; and so he had to stand and take the inist, until the corporal on duty waked up a file of the sleepy guard, and marched to the other end of the encampment. Worth was at length allowed by the corporal to pass on. He was very wroth for a short time, but the next vacancy that occurred among his corporals, was given to the sentinel that had afforded him so agreeable a lete-a-tete. B rooldyn JElaglc. A Venerable Bible.?At the anniversary meeting of the American Bible Society, an old divine from New Hampshire, of the Presbyterian denomination, called Father Robbins, held in his hands the identical Bible upon which the members of the first Congress and President Washington t were sworn into office, and containing the names of all the old worthies written upon its pages. These, said Mr. Robbins, were Bible times?and these, IJible men, and. God blessed and prospered their labors ; and under these men their country was prosperous. God grant, sir, said he, that we may again see such rulers and such times. The Clock at Lunden.?The cathedral fit f .iin/lan Sn * jl_?Ltuuviij in a IIIU^ IJIUUUIJI structure, and lias a very lofty spire, which serves as a mark for sailors, being seen at a considerable distance. The altar of this church is a beautiful piece of work ; but what most engages the attention of strangers is its curious clock, which, from the number of its movements and fingers, may vie with those of Lyons and Sirasburg. Every hour, two horsemen come out and encounter, and a door opens which discovers the Virgin Mary sitting on a throne with her Divine Infant in her arms, and the magi, with their luuuut, muicaing in oraer, and presenting their gifts, two trumpets sounding all the time of the procession. The clock, besides the hour, shows the month and day, and every festival throughout the year. Smith's Wonders. Awful Consequences of Imperfect Sepulture in Ireland.?In the neighbourhood of Castle island and Ballylongford, from the imperfect covering thrown on the dead victims of famine, troops of dogs prey from day to day on the bodies, this is not all: violent madness is the result, which has al ready led these rabid animals not only to attack one another, but the cattle in the fields. Blasting with the Gun-Cotton. Rocks are successfully blasted in England with gun-cotton. In a large quarry near Liverpool, experiments were made,and rocks in huge masses thrown out, when powder broke them in small pieces. Eight ounces of cotton dislodgla. jmore rock than two and a half pounds of. powder. The Island on which the city of New York now stands, was purchased twohun. d red and twenty years ago for twenty.four dollars. # a; Anti-Inflammable Cotton.?It is curious in science, as in other matters, how one discovery is made when we are striving af tersometlung else. 1 lie following is acurious case in a point of finding the very reverse of what was thought. A physician in Georgia, in recently attempting to prepare gun-cotton by a receipt sent him by a brother physician, he was unsuccessful, and found, to his astonishment, that his cotton would neither explode nor ignite, being anti inflammable. On investigation, to find out the cause, he found that he had not used the right acid, muriatic acid we suppose. He repeated the proccss, and the result was the same ; so that he claims to have dicovered a method of rendering cotton incombustible. He says that this cotton can be prepared with little expense, as he has tested the matter sufficient to know that it can bo manufactured into cloth, the lint and texture ol the cotton not Iwtlmr in t )i A Km I /?.% ? ..1,1.x I* . I U^III^ lit U1U Jlijilli'llj UUl UlJiulJiU U1 being made into clothing with us much ease as from the common material. Santa Anna's Gamu Cocks.?In the pursuit of the enemy, when he was flying fiom Cerro Gordo, several of Santa Anna's game coclcs, with their legs tied, were picked up by one of our people,. The men were for carrying them oflf as trophies, but General ' Twiggs being near by, and prompted no j doubt a spirit of humanity, although some j ha ve insinuated lie wanted to test Santa An- ; nil's judgement in game fowl, ordered them > to be unloosed. The cocks, when liberated, i much, we suppose, to the disappointment j of the general, instead of following the ex- j ample of their illustrious owner and flying | -to the field, went right into the field, went i right into bottle and used their spurs with j as much fierceness as he must have been I plying his on his mule about the s^me time. Gen. Twiggs, admiring the true game dis pisiyea, ejaculated something that was not exactly a Messing upon the Mexicans for ; not showing as much pluck as their cocks and holding their position a I ill i o longer. We are not positive that there was any better, nor have we consulted Parley on the practice, for we know the general was right in the main.?Picayune. Expected Return of tiie Comet of 1556.?As long since as 1751, Mr. Richard Dunborne, of"Cambridge, on computing the elements of the comet of 1264, found them so simi'ar to those of the comet of 155G, that he was led to the conclusion thath the j two were identical, and that its return might he expected about 1843. Subsequent investigations, which have b;;en made l?y different astronomers, confirm this conclu l-i. . t _ r i stun ; on and John C. Hoff, Esq., of Charleston ; to the Rev. Dr. Thomas Curtis, of Limestone Springs, in whose school they taught during the year 1846 : and to any of the parents of their present pupils. Greenwood, June 12 16 T ,*nA IV*,. JLJdUU 1U1 Ull If. The subscriber having1 deterji mined to remove \V?st. off rs 1'or^^ sale his TRACT ol LAND 011 which ho resides. There is between 8 and 900 acres, between 5 and (500 cleared and in excellent repair. O11 the plantation is two excellent settlements?TWO good TWO-STORY HOUSES at each place? Gin houses, screw, and every necessary out-building. The plantation lies in two and a half miles of a pood landing 011 Savannah river. It is presumed no one would purchase without examination, as such further description is unneenssarv?a bargain will be given. ROBERT E. BELCHER. May 12. 11 tf Land for Sale. The subscriber having determined t? remove West, offers for sale his tract of LAND on which he rei.iii^ sides. The said Tract contains Fnnr Hundred and Sixty Acres, between three and three hundred und twenty-five cleared and in a high state of cultivation. On tin; plantation there is an excellent new Dwelling, also a good Gin House and Screw, with all ueceasiiry out buildings. The plantation is equal to any in the District. It is presumed thai no one would purchase without examination ; as such, further description is unnecessary. A bargain can hr? had and no mistake. J. M. BELCHER. June 16 16 tf Dr. Spencer's Vegetable Pills, And Tonic and Restorative Billets. For the purification of tiie blood, and restoring of tiie system from all Morbid Secretions of the Glands, Skin and Liver, morbid iiumors and VITIATED STATE flT.' Till." ovCTI.'ii Ar.n These Pills and Bitters have been steadily gaining in popularity among a'l classes? , are not now among those of doubtful efficacy or experimental character, but can be relied npon as compositions founded upon correct therapeutic principles, and confided in as safe, pleasant, and efficient medicines wherever a Tonic or Aperient is needed, and where a Purgative or simple Cathartic alone is needed, the Pills alone stand unrivalled. They will positively cure, and have in thousands of cases of Dyspepsia, Jaundice, Liver Complaints, Eruptions of the skin. Siillow Complexion, General Debility, Loss of Appetite, Suppressed Perspiration, &c., &c. As an eradicator of mercury from the system , thnsp Pillrf find Rift/>r? nru nnnniinlln/l 1 The indications requiring Spencer's Pills i and Bitters, and when thny should he taken i without delay as a preventive to the formation of acute diseaso, are, when t he tongue is furred, when th ; urine is highly colored, when there is pain in the stomach and bowels, when there ore nervous irritations, when there are pains in th?> back or head, when the skin is hot, dry or yellow, when the appetite is poor, when them nre cold chill?, when the druarns 1 are had and startling in-sleep, ' I If taken on the occurrence of any or all . these indications of approaching disease,much pain and sickness may be prevented. I The above Medicines, Fresh and Genuine, 1 are for sale by Wardlaw & Dendy, and at the < Post Office. I For certificates of recommendation and < ot her information concerning the above Mod. icines, see future advertisements, also pam- ] phlets which may be obtained, of the Apents. ' June 9 ' 16 Im ] lxwblanks fob sale at this i OFFICE. i /' Ware-House and Commission ! DTTO I TVTi^cirt juuonnrjoo. i HAMBURG, S. C. w> The subscribers having leased [^'c Ware House in Hamburgh M^lrr luU*v occupied by Smith & Ben. ^^MB^son, under the firm of RAMEY & TAGGART. Tiny ofTcr their scrvicee to their friends and the public generally, in the STORAGE ond SALE of COTTON, FLOUR, BACON,and Produce of all kinds; RECEIVING and FORWARDING MER. CHANDIZE, and Purchasing Goods to Order, &c. They hope, by strict attention, to merit a 6harc of public patronage. * * Their House will be open on the first Sep- / tcmber for the transaction of business. 1 JOHNSON RAMEY. f JOHN TAGGART. V: June 23, 1847. 17 If \ u^7" "1'mo tiamourg Journal will copy the \ above until further orders. Warehouse and Faetorage. The subscribers have pur(' <$> sRclinsed from Nathon L. Griffin# Es(l" t',u ^ollon Warehouse in Hamburg, recently occupied l>y Dr. J. i<\ Griffin, and formerly by Messrs. H. L. J offers &> Co., situated at the foot of the Hill, and immediately at the head of ilte main business stroc'. From i's superior location, and being surrounded by a stream of water, it is comparatively exempt, from the casualty of fire and entirely above the reach of high freshets. TlU'V propose 1o carry on exclusively the WAREHOUSE unci GENERAL FACTORAGE BUSINESS, under the firm of GE1GER & I'ARTLOW. Having enga^i-d an experienced and competent assistant, in addition to their own personal attention, and poss-ssins; means ta make liberal advances on produce consigned to their care, they hereby tender their scrvis cos to Planters, Merchants and others, in the STORAGE and SALE of COTTON, FLOUR, BACON, and other PRODUCE, in RECEIVING and FORWARDING MERCHANDISE, and PURCHASING GOODS to ORDER. W. W. GEIGER. JAS. Y. L. PARTLOW. June 9 15 6m Bagging and Rope. The subscriber olTV-rt. to sell at the lowest rates of the market, 150 p's. heavy KENTUCKY BAGGING 75 do. DUNDEE do As suitable for making sheets to sun wheat on, forty-live inches wide. Orders from his friends and the public generally for these article?1, will be strictly attended to. He soli, cils orders. J. HOWARD. Hamburg, June 9 15 4tsm Cotton Press. We offer to the citizens of Abbeville and the adjoining Districts, our improved SWING. ING FULCKE PRESS. The invention was not the result of mere chance, but oMor.g experience and mathematical calculation. As to power, it is equal, if not superior, to any thing now in use. It requires less tim. ber, easier framed, and put up in less time, and vvith I.'fs danger than a screw; and the Press will last as long as any timber protect eel from the weather or above ground. From tiie number of these Presses which tire now in use from North Carolina to Mexico, we feel no hesitancy in saying that they will supercede the Screw ; and there are ten of our Presses up to one of any other, and wo feel justified in saving1 fifty to one. The average duration of Screws in this District is not more than four and a half 01 five years, and as there is not less than five hundred Screws, see what is pnid out in one year. For single or individual rights, ?>15.00. Weofler the District rights for sale on very low terms, which we consider a greater speculation than there is in the country. Persons wishing information respecting ilie rress, win nnd me tor uvo weelcs lo come at the residence of Mr. Junius Cobb. I will build 0110 more Press in this District for ?8?50, every thinff found to band. Invented in Barnwell District, S. C. PllOVOST, Patentee. June 9 15 tf Noticc. The subscribers respectfully invites the ntten- , , fion of the citizens of Abbeville, nnd the District