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w THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. ^ _ ._ ^._ . _. ., ^ ... ^ ^ ^ ^ ? ^ - ii ifc? VOLUME 9 CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, OCTOBER 16, 1848. NUMBER 42. J*UI1L13IIKI> KVRUY WBI)N*K3DAY MORNING BY THOMAS W. PEGU t! a. TERMS. TUres Dollars per annum in advance, Tliroe Dollars and Fifty Cents within six months, or Four Dollars at the ex piralion of the year. Advertisements inserted at 75 cents per square, (fourteen , ines or loss.) for the first and half that sum for each subsequent insertion. The number of insertions to be noted on all advertisements, or they will be published until ordered to be discontinued, and charged accordingly. One Dollar per square for a single insertion. Quarterly an 1 Monthly advertisements will be charged the same us single insertion, and Semi-monthly the same as new ones For publishing Citations as the law directs three dollars will be charged. 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Mr. Editoij:?It has occurred to me 1 that the most important matter connected 1 with Southern Agriculture has been omit- j ted in all the writiiws I have seen upon the subject. Many things valuable and important in themselves have been treated of. but I <lo not remember to have su?n anywhere any attempt to build up a general syalcm of agriculture for the South. When i .-'peak <>1*system, a? thus applied, I mean that ni"<ic <*f conducting the business which shall have its times and its seasons; which shall mark ' out and define the time and the manner in ! which the most important of the operations ' of farming shall be commenced and ended; by which the great out lines of the business j ' which are to govern all minor matters shall be settled, and become regular and unchanging. T1?? '1 nr. mint /if IM/Iuclrv in l!io South. ! IIVUIG is II ' ?uiik _ J There is no set of men in ihc world who bring to bear, in the pursuitol their business, a greater amount of energy, industry and perseverance than the Southern planters, but these qualities lose much of their force ami value from a want of a wclJ-deiineU system iu their application. My object in this communication is not to form this system. 1 have not the capacity to do it. and perhaps no one man has, but i I may be able to direct attention to it, ami if every man will cast his mite towards it. I doubt not that improvements will soon be , made which w ill result in great g od to the ' O O country. The first great object to lie attained is to fix the period when the labors connected with the crop shall begin and end. Yo ;r readers will perhaps with one accord, answer, that this is perfectly well settled, and that is with the beginning and the end of the year. This is true theoretically, and every man naturally and instinctively, feels that it j should be so practically but how is ihe fact? I How many planters arc really rea?ty on the i first day of January to begin in good earnest with all their available force -their preparations for a new crop? Long after that time very many of them are still engaged iu gathering last year's crop, and still a greater J number in preparing it for market. In my opinion, there is no change in Southern Agriculture so loudly called for ' and so important as that every fanner shall * ? >i r V ; ue ready on me ursi wiiv ?n manual* ....... menee in good earnest, with nil his available force, his preparations for the crop of that year. 1 may be told that this is ini- 1 practicable. 1 think differently. All will admit that this is desirable, and to effect it is worth an effort. It is true that many fail to gather their cotton until long alter that time, but it does not therefore follow that they : might not have gathered it hy adopting a ; different course. They started behind and ! kept behind. Planters generally hegin to | gather cotton in August?in some parts of the country in July. From the 1st of Sep-; ic-niber t ? the 25th of December, there are a hundred working days; during that lime (he hands that make the crop, with the aid of the smaller ones not engaged in it, can av- | eragc one hundred pounds per day?this wii^jnake two thousand pounds of seed cot- , ion, which will make at least live bags of, 500 Ibs.'cach to the hand. It will be perceived that I have left no ' litue l<?r anything but picking cotton, and have made no allowance l??r bad weather, i but when it is remembered that I throw in ail of July and August, which may be de- ! voted to that purpose, and all the services of those not engaged in making the crop; and <hat during much of the time many of the .hands will gather from 200 to 400 lbs. per day. I think it may be well conceded that mv calculation is not extravagant, and that this may be done besides the othi r work J necessary about the ba'ance of the crop. I may, perhaps, hereafter attempt to point otrt the best mariner of effecting it, but for | die present, assuming that it may be done I think five good bags to the hand is a very good crop, and that afier the first day of January the planter may he much better employed) at least with all Ins available force, in preparing for a new crop than in gathering during short, cold, wet, days, the injured cotton be it little or much, remaining in his fields. Here I bad intended to close this communication, but as part of what 1 had intcn- ! ded to sav on a future occasion may be of j * ? *o - r. ..." i . ; some service now, 1 will say U icw Wilms ; more, II is a true remark arid a true one, j lhat tbo way to do a great deal is to do j one thing at a lime, it is also a va liable 1 precept, "whatsoever thy hand findel'i to do, do rt with thy might." Then, everything l(y picking cotton that can possibly be spared from other work. Your corn can be gathered, and a great deal of other work about which farmers fritter away a portion of! their best time for picking cotton, can be done in weather not suitable for that. But do not send your hands into the field while every thing is wet with a heavy dew. Thai is some ot the time not suitable forgathering cotton?that is a lime when by proper management, von may have a great deal of your other work done, which would otherwise interfere with your cotton; besides, bv keeping thorn out of the dew you will preserve their health, and in the long run have j more cotton gathered. But mind devote all your good weather to picking cotton, with all your force, and always have something ready laid out to employ it in bad weather. Do this, and at Christmas you will be satisfied that you can find more profitable employment for your hands somewhere else tluin in ibe cotton field. UlSSELl. Remark?"Russell"' writes, as we doubt not, lie plants, with skill and {food sense. Our readers will be happy to boar front him often.? Southern ( vllivatur. HOW TO KEEP CORN FROM FIR- ! ING. Mr. Editor;?I saw in the last number 1 of your highly valuable Cultivator,-an inquiry from your correspondent, "II., of II.," as to the best mode of keeping corn from firing. 1 admit it is a very hard thing to do on poor land of a drv season, but can in a ?i\ at measure be obviated by ridging up your land with double horse plows, deep, raising high ridges. I am aware that those who cultivate thin land will say, that system will not do; inv land is sufficiently red now, ami it will not do to expose any more of the mulatito soil. Go ahead, pay no attention to the mulatto soil. Well, when you have got your land ridged up, and ready for olanting. sprinkle your manure, in what is called the water furrow, and throw back two light furrows on the lop of it, with a single-horsc carev. Open that with a btilltonguo plow; prepare a measure, two and a half or three Ice! long for each of your droppers, so that votir com can have a good distance. When it gets out of the way of birds, or sufficiently large to work, run arouud it with a shovel plow very deep, and break out the middles with a caroy. Your hoes must follow the plow so as to uncover that which may be covered up; thin it out to j one stalk, so as to give it s:zc. Should the weather become very drv, before it be -1 ?..r .......L... if glllS l<> ia?CI, plow II CVCJ > iv?w \lu.n?, ii possible, but very shallow, and not too close, and if your corn fires under I hat system of cultivation, you can lake my head for a figure head for a locomotive. There is one idea respecting the applica lion of cotton seed as a manure I inusl sugscsl. Nine planters out of ten put the seed in bulks, either beneath or on top of the corn. Well that system is a rnnious one. particularly of a dry year, because, so soon as die corn has exhausted nil the manure properties of the seed, the hulls become | vcrv dry, ami appear to cut o|] all communication between the principal bulk of tin; roots and the moisture beneath, for which reason I recommend sprinkling them so as to avoid that inconvenience. I?. Miwson. E<ist Feliciana, Lu., August, IS IS. TIIE SEVEN YEARS WAR. 'Ides war rage I from 1756 to 1763, and almost all the European powers were engaged in it. It originated in a dispute be. tween England and France, relating to the Canudas; the French encroached on a tiavt of country claimed liy the English, in the wil derncss and this war lias often been called "a strife about so many acres of snow."? The miseries which it occasioned in the interior of Europe, have been seldom equalled and at length, the Grand Scignor invited the European Minister at his Court to hold a conference, and after staling to them the great abhorrence he fell at the bloodv war then raging between so many G'hri-tian nations,offered his mediation for effecting a g *ii O D era I peace! The offer of the Mahoinmedan peace maker was not accepted, but rejected with pride and scorn, and hostilities were continued, until poverty h*oughl peace. This war is represented by historians,as one of the most successful that England was ever engaged in. One hundred ships of war were taken from the enemy or destroyed, and twelve millions sterling acquired in prize money; tint these glorious successes cost the nation 250, 000 human lives and tipwardsof one hundred and eleven millions sterling! The slaughter of the opponents and allies of Great Britain in this dreadful contest, was little less than 600,000 men!?Boston A'las. What is it to in: Politu.? Politeness is a trail which one admires, and which confers ; r? llllOHMl fill! /IllOO ll\ll/*ll Ujiwii ii2% |i?isnv~.^awi <i MIUIUI IIMU ??WVO muvu to pave the way of life with success. But it is veiy much misunderstood. Politeness does not consist in wearing a white silk glove, and in gracefully lifting your hat when you meet an aef|iiointaiire; it does not consist in artificial smiles and flattering.speech, hut in sincere and honest desires to promote the happiness of those around you ; in the readiness to sacrifice your own ease and comfort to add to the enjoyment of others. The man is always ready to confer favors, who speaks in the language of kindness and conciliation; and who studies to manifest those little attentions which gratify the heart is a polite man though he may wear a homespun coal, and make a very ungraceful how. And many a fashionable who dresses genteel, and enters the most crowded apartments with assurance and ea-e, is a perfect compound of rudeness and incivility. lie who has a heart flowing with kindness and good will towards his fellow men, and who is ttiii/io/i in flin ovr?ri?icf* of these (echoes hv 1,1 tl,v' ,v,,w ~ ; o - j root] common sense, is the truly p >!itu man ?and he alone. Heavy.?A man said to another, "which is the heaviest, a quart of nun or a quart of water?" "Hum, most assuredly," said the other; "for I saw a men who weighs 200 pounds staggering under a quart of rum when ho could have carried a gallon of water with ease." From the N. V. Kxprcs?, ] A DINNER TO CALM'. BRAGG. It being known that the distinguished c n Captain, now Colonel Bragg, was in town an mpromptu dinner was given him last evening by a few gentlemen at the Astor House over which Philip Hone presided. Among the other guests were Mr. Meredith, and Mr. Kennedy, of Baltimore, the Hon. Mr. (Col) Ilaskell, ot Tennessee and Hon. Mr. Donncll, of N. Carolina. At the dinner were several of our most distinguished merchants, bankers, ?fce , who had assembled there to do honor to the brave. As the dinner was in some degree private, wo shall not go further than to report in substance, and from memory, the remarks oi Col. Bragg. Mr. Hone loaded him as ("apt. Bragg, better known by that name than any other name?"A little more grape (/apt. | Bragg"?and abided at length to Ins bri'liant service of the Hving artillery at Biicna Vista. < ' i> ;i .1.. ,i ... lyO . JJIilgg IIMHJUSIIV I IMIig, ilim III . I/IIIU embarrassment said, il was well known lliat lie was only a soldier and lliat therefore no ' fitting speech conld be expected Irom him * in reply. For whatever merit gentlemen ' chose to award him, or whatever reputation, ! if anv he had undeservedly, the whole of it 5 was due to the gallant General under whom ' he served, and the soldiers in the service he ' commanded, nav more, lor tin: brilliancy of that service he was indebted t" the train.ng , of the .lamented Kit ggold and Ilidgely, from ' whose" hand lie had received the corps, in r, that full efficiency that enabled it to iuiinor- 1 talize itself on the perilous and bloody field ( of Bucna Vista. j' To the General-in-Chief his aeknowledg. ' merits were especially due. Uninspired the { * whole army with valor and confidence by j6 his presence, not only at JJuena Vista, but j ' Irom (he opening of the war on the llio 1 Grande, it is almost impossible for you, ' gentlemen he said, to understand the cliarae- 1 ter of that man as a commander of an army. J There is a resolution, a firmness, a dctermin- ' atiou in his manner, and in Ills purposes, ( that go a great ways in leading men to vie- 1 lorv. It was never better illustrated than on ' the field of Palo Alto. lie told Mnj. Brown, ( when he left him with his small force opposite i\Jala moras, '.Maintain your position.'I 1 will, not say I hope to be hack, I shall try to be back; but I will he back on the -ItD. Expect r me then and 'maintain your position.' Everv body that knew him, knew he would he c hark, if alive to come. The army returned to point Isabel, as you know. On the IStli 1 they fought at Palo Alto, and when night > llinl' tm'/ill-l.-l.-oil 111 till* (ltll'll f II* It I and amid tlio grass, with nut a tent over them, the General himself wrapped in his 1 blanket, and many I can assuie you, in not ( a little dotsht. and gloom. ' Our little army did no! feel sure then that j' they could whip three times their number j' ami thcin the host troops in Mexico, We v had not tried our mettle, or measured wea s pons with them. Many an eye dal imt close I that night. Ringgold had been slain. ' bloody day was before them, and many, if ' the artnv went on, were sure to bite the dust. ' IJut tiodnby knew or could find out what Gen. Taylor intended to do. There he lay, wrapped in his blanket, except when disturb- ' ed bv officers asking lor orders. Some were 1 anxious to ascertain his intentions. Ills only 1 answer was, 'Tell the men to sleep. Keep 1 quiet. Sleep is liic main thing necessarv.' 1 Two or thiee officers wi re particularly nnsc- I i tus to know whether lie intended to go on. 1 or hold his position. Rut the only s ilisfaotion 1 tliat could be got was sleep. He disclosed to none of them his intentions. There was ' a prevailing opinion that it was two perilous ' a march to go mi. But Gen. Taylor to- ' wards morning, disturbed by some person ' demanding, orders, replied 'allow the men to , 1 rest. It is time enough at sunrise.' Then turning over in his blanket, lie said to an j , officer near 'My mind is made up, my mind ' , is in .do up,'-but nobody knew how his mind j ' vv:u 111m11. no! mid vet thev who knew him. ! * knew if his min i was made up, it was no , use t?i try to change it. In the morning a eonneill of war was summoned and lite re were eleven officers present, three on'v of whom advised advance. | < .Mind, I east no censure upon any one. A : I difference of opinion, undersuch eircumslan- i ces, might have heen expected. But they who knew the power of tin: Light Artillery, ' and had seen it plav that day, had confidence that it could clear a way for the army ' hack to Fort Brown, 'Old Zack;' for that is tlte name we call him, replied all r the con- i saltation was broken up. we will advance i in fifteen minutes; and forward they march- i ed to It< snca do la Palma. the result of which you all know. Old Zack kept his f word to Maj. Brown, but alas, the brave I and lamented .Major had received his death wound. So at Bncna Vista the personal character officii. Taylor had a like influence on the i army. When the war department deemed < it necessary, in order to form a column to ; < invade, .Mexico via Vera Cruz to take his j t Bogulnrs from him, he was sure that Santa ; < Anna would attack him, 'i am the weak j < " * I f I I ___*|| ? I point/ he oil en said, 'and 1 Know no win attack me.' Hut lie determined to defend his position, and in order the host way to do- ' lend it, to advance. Gen. Taylor, kept well < informed ofTlic approach of the enomv l?y i Gen. Wool's scouts, moved on to Saltillo, < then on to A?ua Nneva, but ascertaining by ' his engineer thai their position could be turn- i ed, ho resolved to fall hack to Ihiena Vista, < as the enemy approached him. Hnena Vista, ' is a military position that any soldier's eye ? would select for a defence. To no partieu- | lar persan is the credit of its selection due i for it lias been said, that a woman picked it out as a place to repulse an enemy. Va rioiis officers have had the credit of the so- I lection, but whatever particular credit is due < is certainly due to the Commander-in-Chief, who fought the battle. The Mexicans t iheemselvos had fought a battle there. San- I in Anna knew the frrmnul so well, that he I ordered liis General [Minou] to take and j I keep possessian of it, in order to attack our i? rear as ordered; but when he reached Buena \rista, Im found us in possession of it. The < 22d of February, 4.500 men, mostly raw i iroops, opposed to 20,000 of the enemy, was I certainly not a very encouraging day. We ? Jid not feel quite so happy or so well, as : jver this bountiful table to-night. We ( thought of homes and of families and friends, and our chance of death was much, belter, ivc thought, than of ever seeing them again. For several days previous (Jen. Taylor was constantly engaged in making arrangements, i ind writing home. It is said, also, that he ' s nadc his will. But he never shrank from J < lis duly. 'I may perish,' was his thought, | t but I will perish in maintaining the honor ol J nv country! 1 have to run a terrible risk j < n assuming the responsibility ol making this { " inward march; but it is the only course ; ' hat will save my army. To stay in Mon-1 ? * ? ? -1 i _ I cry was to no saerilieeu uy itic ovcrwnei-1 ? uing force of the enemy. To save all, 1 ! I mist risk ail.' The battle was fought, you know the j csu'l; but you never can know the in- j s iucnce that the presence of General Tay- j ' or had upon the artnv. He alone, so it has I 5 ajcuitd to me, could have inspired by a pre- j ' icnee, every soldier in the army as the Vol- i 1 interns were inspiied. The confidence in r tin) was comp'etc. lie had commanded r rolunleers before, ami had been suecesslul 1 -villi them, lie had never surrendered. Ie hud never been whipped; and the idea pit abroad, that he never could be. When I c Manoeuvring my pieces athwart the gullies, I ' :itc this as an example of that confidence, , saw clouds of dust about two miles from ' ne. 1 was painfully anxious, I thought; Jen. iMiiion had fallen upon our rear, and ittacked our depots, and to meet him was ny first thought. A man come galloping ip through the dust into sight, screaming, Olu Zaek is coining!' Every soldier gave nvoiatarily utterance to nis feelings. Old Sack came,?and in fifteen minutes the tide if hattle t..r ied. Four thousand five Iiuii- , Ired men repulsed twenty thousand, and to ' he influence ?d that presence under God, I hiuk I am alive here iodine with you this j lay. A gentleman, How often did you dis:hnr^c your pieces that day? Col. Bragg. About 250 rounds to each pin. Another itenllcman. How near was the mcmy to your pieces at anv one time? Col. Bragg. Within fifty yards atone! inio when we mowed them down. Another. Where was General Taylor/ 1 Col. Bragg. Within fifty yards. Col. Iiragg closed his remarks with say-! ue: 'Understand me, gentlemen, I am a sol- : lier, and no po isician. I know Gen. Tay- i or onl) as a soldier and a man. 1 speak ' d" him only as the coiurnander-in-chiefo|'| >nr army in Mexico. I have nothing to do; vitii his politics, oryonrs. It is the duly of a < okfier cheerfully to obey whomsoever you )ut into power. I could not help speaking >f mv commander when thus toasted, as I lave hecn by you, for service under him. 1 lave nothing to do with with politics.' A Xiiwsi'.viMiu.?A man cats up a pound fsugar, and the pleasure he lias enjoyed is j Mi'lod; but the information be gets from a i icwspaper is treasured n>? in the mind, to be : uijoved anew and to be used whenever oc-! rnsion or inclination call for it. A newspa>er is not the wisdom of one man,or two men; t is the wisdom of the age and of die past lltCS too. A family without a newspaper is always lalfau age behind the time in general infornation, besides they never think much, or | ind much to talk about. And then there i ire little ones growing up in ignorance j a* i f lii iiif mm'* f i ip ri??u linir liosulcs all these evils, there's tltt.' wife, > k\'l??? w en the work is done, has t<> sit down, kvilli her hands in her lap, and nothing hi , iiniisc her or divert her mind from the toils ind cares ol the domestic, circle. Who, then,' A'ould be without a newspaper/ JJi iijmi in Franklin. "Arc you a drunkard/" said the Record. u\ yesterday, t" a hard cast', who was >roi?i:ht ii[i before hint for being as blue as uditfo the night before. -Why, I'm a drunkard," said the prisoner, but not an ultra-drunkard." "What do you mean," said the Recorder, > 1 'I don't understand the distinction." "Then I suppose you would not understand me," said the prisoner, "if you had isked what mv politics arc, and that 1 should eplv, I'm a whig hut not an ultra-whig." j The Recorder remarked that the noise ; mil confusion was so great, lie could not be icard.?.Y. (). Dil'a. 1 bxamples ought never to pass lor laws, j Men arc too subject to in'}: mines to serve lor opies l<>r others to follow. In the greatest' nrtues there will he eternally some mixture | if imperfection, anrl a man is in danger of | aking his example from the Mind side he lisc >ver>. Hut reason and justice can nov:r mislead him. , ; 1 Veky Curious.?An elderly lady called i ,vitli her son, a dav or two since, at one of: iur fashionable daguerreotype establish mints?to have hey l.kencss talo n. The irlisi, after considerable trouble, managed o fix her head in a right, position, and liav- ! ng informeil her that she must sit perfectly 1 jniut for the space of a minute, with Ins ' bValeh in his hand, left her gazing at the in- , itruinenl which was to produce her eounteriart. After sitting for half a minute, she re ' narked; "well, there's something very curi- ' ?its about this, eerl'iiilv.'' "Madame!" shouted the operator; ' stop!" Hit it was too late; the picture was destroy- ' , id. j lie made a second attempt, and when , he operation was about hall over, she in-1 , o, nied the patient artist, that "if lie wanted > | ter to sit still, he must fix the nails in the : < lack of her head different!" which spoiled * mother plate. - He tried a third time?and after waiting jutsidc the screen, for the space ot a lull ninule, he went to secure the plate; when ic found that his subject had left the chair, uid was peeping over the top of the machine mxiously endeavoring to see how it was lone! The operator gave it up in despair! n , TV DUSLUIl JL HUKS. How to Live Lo.no.?A venerable minster, who has preached some G5 years in the ;ame place, being asked what was the secret of long life, replied, '-Rise early, live emperately, work hard and keep cheerful." \nother person who lived tothe great age >f 110 yea is, said, in reply to the inquiry, 'How lie lived so long?" "I have always >een kind and obliging; have never quarrell:d with any one; have eaten and drank only o satisfy hunger and thirst, and have never )een idle." Goon.?'Does your arm pain you much, :ir?' asked a young lady of a gentleman who lad seated himself near her, in a mixed asletnbly. thrown his arm across the back of icr cha:r and slightly touched her neck. No, niss, it does not; but why do you ask?" I loticed it was considerably out of place, sir, eplied she; that's all.' The arm was relieved. A lie may stagger through a brief existince, as a blackguard edges his way by dint >f bullying through a crowd, but the truth, lowever absurd for a time, will triumph and ivc forever. For the Journal. UIE HEART KNOWETH ITS OWN BITTERNESS. 'Tis well we can our though.s concent, And only those wo choose reveal; For then in time of our distress, The heart knowcth its own bitterness. For oft it is a secret woo, Doth in our inmost bosom glow ; All outward signs we will repress, Tt.e heart only knowcth its own bitterness, The eye to others may seem gay, The lips with smiles about them play; We'll not with sympathy depress, The heart knowcth its own bitterness FLORELLA. From the New York Sun. THE PLEASURES OF THE COUNTRY. DV JAMES WOOnilOUSE. Wo love, as twilight shadows fall, To stand beside some tranquil stream ; And list the evening's distant call, Which wakens op lift's early dream? That dream ?which dies not when despair Horns round the heart with lurid glare, Hot trembles soft, like hues of even, And flows.'till caught aloft to heaven. We love to watch the stars appear. One after ono in bright array; And love their radiant inarching steer, Willi music on their winding way; 'Tis sweet on such a night as this. When perfumed breezes speak of bliss, And falling waters tnurmnr near, 'I u list the voice whose tones arc dear. Aod sweet to think of tier, whoso \oico Can thrill us in a solemn hour? Cart m ike our sorrowing heart rejoice, When solitude ami night have power. lier, whom through life's oft changing lot Can never, never ho forgot? Whose lovely f.icc and faultless form Arc starlikc, appearing through tho storm. 'Tis sweet at morning's early hour, To rise and view the cool grey sky; To dash tho dew drop fiom the flower, And list the liird.s in copses nigh; To spring across the murmuring hruok, And pause on emerald moss to look ? To he ir a voice?to spring aboro,? And clasp the tender form we love. Ami on that bank to stand and talk, Until the morning horn sounds char; To kiss farewell, and slowly walk, And turn to watch her form so dear; To sec her reach the forest nigh, Then turn, and wave her kerchief high; Conn: liomu,?and thinking still of her,? Be greeted with?" (Jo.>d morning Sir." Pkkivation.?Vuii have seen those beautiful petite garments, called "Joseys," which the ladies wear over their dresses, (lavingan argument the other night as to their origin, one of [he fair dispnlanst decided it by tho billowing : O UK J IN* OF " J OS FYS." Oh, Joseph was a gentleman, And dwelt in Egpypt's land ; ? - .1.,. lie wore <i garment which me uuiii One day look in iter hand. She tore it from his body And put it on her own, And as a Josov ever since That garment has been known. [Exchange Paper. HOW GENERAL TAYLOR ACTS IN IvM ERGKNCIES. Charles I'. Ilollinan, whom all our readers know or should know, as a gentleman of very liigh literary distinction, was with General Taylor during the Black Hawk War, and thus relates and incident, that places the character of the old patriot warrior in precisely the light hat it is looked on by every one who has had the opportunity to know him personally. Some, time afier Stillman's defeat by Black Hawk's band, Taylor, marching with a largo hody of volunteers and a handful of regulars iti pursuit of tlie hostile Indian force found himself approaching Rock River, then asserted bv many to be tbe true north western boundary of the Slate of Illinois. The volunteers, as Taylor was informed, would refuse to cross the stream. They were militia, they said called out lor the defence of the .Suite, and it was unconstitutional to order ihem to march beyond its frontier inlo the Indian country. Taylor thereupon halted his cumniatid, and encamped within the ac kliowledgod liuinid,nil's of Illinois. lit; would not, as lite relator of the story said, budge an iueli litrlIter without orders, lie hail already Iriven lilack Hawk out of the State, but the question of crossing Hock River seemed hugely to trouble his ideas of integrity to the constitution on one side, and military expediency nil the other. During the night, however, orders came,cith er from (General Scott or General Atkinson, for him to follow up Black Hawk to the last. The quietness of the regular Colonel, meanwhile 1 .d rather encouraged the mutinous militia to 'ring their proceedings to a head. A sort of I town meeting was called upon the prairie, and Taylor invited to attend. After listening for some time to the proceedings it became Rough and Ready's turn to address the chair. ;He had heard,' he said, -with much pleasure the views which several speakers had expressed of the independence and dignity of each private American citizen. Ce felt that all gentlemerl there present were his equals?in reality, he was persuaded (hat yiany of them would in A few years he his superiors, and perhaps, in tbd capacity of Members of Congress, arbiters of the fortune and reputation of humble servants of the Republic like himself. He expected .1 i ... ?i _r it. ...mi _r ifiI'II in uncv wrni imerpreiers ui me win 01 the people; atirl ihe best proof he could giv? that he would obey them, was now to observe the orders of those whom the people had already put iu the place of authority, to which many gentlemen justly aspired. In plain English; gentlemen and fellow citizens, the word has been passed on to me from Washington, t? fbl* low Black Hawk, and to take you with m'e ai soldo r . I mean to do both. T.There are the flat boats drawn up on the shore, and here ard Uncle Sam's men drawn up behind you on iltd prairie. Stranger,' added the man who told th'6 story; 4tlie way those militia men sloped into tboscS flat boats was a caution. Not another word was said. Had Zack Taylor betfn wtih Van Rensselaer at Niagara River, in the last war, I rather think he'd a taught him to g^tHiiilftla men over a ferty.' ? Woma>s Love.?A man who had struggfeB with a magligant disease, approached that fcrfi sis in his stage on which his life seemed to depend. Sleep, uninterrupted sleep, might en^ sure his recovery. His anxious wife, scarcely daring to breathe, was sitting by his bed; her servants, exhausted by constant watching,bad all left her. It was past midnight?a door waA oppn for air; she heard, in the stillness of tbd night, a window open below'stairs, and sooii approaching footsteps. A moment more, dnd A man with his face disguised, entered the roortj. She instantly saw her husband's danger, and anticipating the design of the unwelcome intruder, she pointed to her husband, and pressing her finger upon her lip to implore silence, held out to the robber her purse and keys. To hfer surprise, he took neither. Whether he was a terrified, or charned by the courage of her af1 _ . * .1 l.A LI I n f? lliit p'AWtfl* 1CCIIOI1, raillltH uk kliuwii. iiv icu hid iuuiii, ;ind without robbing a house sanctified by such strength of affection, he departed. Mormon Settlement in Texas.?The Mormons have lately been negotiating for the purchase oi a large tract ofland on the Pierdd. uales, above Fredericksburg, and intended tb form a settlement there. The anxiety they manifested to purchase this land has excited some suspicions that they have discovered somd valuable mines upon it. This opinion rtr.'uT bd strengthened by the fact that several oFtheVh emigrated from the mineral regions of Illinois and Missouri and are consequently acquainted with the minerals that indicate the presence of valuable ores. That the minerals at the sources of the Pierdenales and San Sabu, are sinailar to those in the mineral region of Missouri and Illinois we have no doubt; and we are confident that lead-mines will be found on the San Saba, as valuable as those of Galena; but to e do not think the Mormons are influenced in this in tince by any desire to obtain mines. They have probably discovered that the soil of the Pierdenales val'ey is admirably adapted to Ihe culture of wheat and other grains which they have been accustomed to raise in Missoarf &nd Illinois!, .nrid will afford them all the fllCtlities they desire for a new and extensive settlfement. They have also a pretended prophecy that the New Jerusalem ol their great Prophet i? to be I fimnd in Texas. 1 I This opinion has long beeh prevalentimrong I thpm, and we have bpen informed by ah Etiglish gentleman that the Presiding El^erofthh Mormon Society ol London, has often said that the Mormons will ultimately all congregate in Texas. The party which has settled near ; Fredrieksbnrg may have been sent out an an ex, ploring expedition to discover the promised land. We should be sorry to learn that they had located the New Jerusalem on the Pierde| nales or the San Saba for our frontier settle; nients will soon be pushed beyond these stream* and then wars might arise between "thosainte" 1 and new settlers. If the Mormons, howeeer, ' should find the New Jerusalem on the Piiereo, rrany years would probably elapse before the frontier settlements would reach them and they might build up their city and fortify it with seven j walls if they desire long before the advancing I limits of the frontier settlements would bo j pushed even to the sources of the Colorado. I Houston {Texas) Tel. ! llu>I\N SKIN NAILED TO CrtUItCIt DOORS. Mr. Albert Way communicated the result of a correspondence relating to the tradition handed down in several instances, that the doors of certain churches had been covered with human >hin as a punishment of sacrilege. Sir Harry Knglefield had first called the notico of the So. ciety of Antiquaries to the. existence of such a tradition regarding the churces ofHadstock and (Jopford, in Kssex; and the Hon. Richard j Neville, in his 'Antiqua Kxplorata.' had again stated the record preserved by popular belief in those parishes. It appeared (hut a similar talo was known at Worcester, in relation great north floors of the cathedral? suppoifcd to have been covered with the skin ofa per.on-who had robbed the altar. These doors had|beeu : renewed of lato rears, and the old wood-work i deposited in the crypt; but by the assistance * of.Mr. J a Iwz Allies, a portion of the supposed human skin had been obtained, which remained under the iron work and clamps,?tho skin having evidently been laid upon the doors when first made. It proved, on examination by a powerful microscope, to be. in fact human. Mr. Way stated that having obtained portions of the skin trorn the church doors at Hadstock and (.'opioid, these had proved also, on scientifio i i .j.:.. j examination, to ne nunntn kmn. Minnies of the Archcenlogical Institute. j Two largo merchant llour mills will soon bo erected in Augusta, which it is thought will re. quire four or five hundred thousand bushels ot wheat annually. The mills will be ready for j the next Imrve t. They will be erected upon | the Canal whoso ample water will propel the i machinery.