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Poetry, [Original.] Linmes to . A. I. nY FR ANK. When aurora appears, how delight ful the vi ew When Phlbus begins tos.i From his nocturnal seat, to hespangle the dew, And paint, with his glory, the skies Awake! then awake ! for the morn is serene, Let's away to the myrile alcove ; Orelse take -or seat by a crystaline stream, Witere the scene Is inviting to love. There is nought to molest, but the sweet sing ing birds, That sit percI'd close by on a bougit; Ifyou'd tell me your mind, unseen, and unheard, Dear I-, pray tel! it me tnow. Dodreaas in the night time disturb your reposel! Ordo I to fancy appear! While silence contetts, I pray you'll disclose Your mind to my listening ear. Delay not a moment, fo tin.c runs apace, To disclose the fond % ish of your heart And in thy sweet htsomn a confidence place, Lre dispair bids my love to depart. My Fatiser Metowed me. BY AGNXS. My father raised his trembling hand, And laid it on my head : God bless thee, o my stn, my son," Most tenderly lie said. lie died, anti left no gems or gold, But still I wits his heir For that rich blessing which he gave Became a fortune rare. Still, in my weary hours of toil To earn my daily bread, It gladdens me in thought to feel His hand upon my head. Though infant tonguesi to me have said, " Dear Father !" oft since then, Yet when I brine that sceno to nrinid, I'm but a child again. A SINGULAR INCIDENT.--The followtinig, savs a Piuisbturg corresponidenut, may be relied upon: "A latdy in thtis city mourns a husband, lost on the ill-fated Arctic. Somie time before the newvs arrived of the dienster, antd about the time a'he expected his re. turn (indeed site hadl received tnotice that lie wouild probatbly arrit e on the veory day the citcumnstance occurred which I am about to relate,) while she was sittinig in her room alonie, a frienid called, anid founid her in extreme agitationi. Upon inquiring the cause shte slated that, just a moment btefore, while shte was sittinig, thinkig of hier husband perfectly conscious of all around her, the door openi. ed, and he appeared before heor, with coal and lint ofi', bending over slightly toward the floor, as he walked toward her, while the water streinmed down his shoulders and armas. -Just as' site was about to questiont him, he left the room, and a mao. mtent after the person alluded to above cante mn, ibe:.visitor rallied her upon her fears, and succeeded in partially quieting her mind. Trh- incident, was related to the writer a di'y or two atfterwards, but had bienpfsrt'aiy forgotten, until the dreadful hi. ngs jtnught at feartully vivid to my ru ih,-.-Xickerbocker Magazine. Igr. ohn S eictheurs, a native of Kiu ytrecenftly lront Missouri was 3ti4 ul vou<tlty, Treis, a (E w d; itt g0,8W' y a complltlailn wiale htan ting, wtls. inhetuek hif fur a -bear. Mr. Weajke r'tvi s dge In luicher nu e'~ J~ -hithid kilied, atil jh'Itrtas ills The Bride of the Wreck. "I was a lonely sort of a bachelor, and had never yet known what young liei style 'the passion.' Of passioa I lad enough, as my old mate yonder can tell you. I broke his head twice, and his arm once, in fits of it; but he has always seemed to love me all the better, and he clings to ine now very much as two pieces of the same chip eling together when drifting at sea. We are the sole survivors of a thou. sand wrecks, and of the gallant com pany that sailed with us two years ago, no other one is left afloat. I had been a sailor from bo)yhood,and when I was twenty-five, I may saily say no man was more fit to command a ves. sel among the mariners of England. And at this time my uncle died and left me his fortune. I had never seen him, and hardly knew of his existence; but I had now speaking evidence of the fact that he had existed, and equ ally good proof that lie existed no lon ger. I was very young, strong in lin.b, and I think -tout in heart, and I was possessed of a rental of some thou. sands per annum. What bar was there to my enjoyment of the goods of ilf? No har, indeed, but I felt sorely the lack of means of enjoyment. I was a sailor inl every sene. My education was tolerable, and I had read sotpe books, but my tastes were nautical, and I pin d on shore. You will easily understand, then, why' it was that I built a yacht and spent most of my time on her. She was a line crafic, sniled to my taste in every re-spect, and I remember with a sigh, now, the happy days I have spent in the "Foam." I used to read considera. ble in my cabiti, and occasionally, in. deed weekly, invited parties of' gen. tlemen to cruise with ie. But tie Io1ot of a lady had rever been on the deck of my boat, and I began to have aIn old baehelor's pride inl that fact - Yet, I cnmfess to y(m a seeret hlonginir for some soamt of affecgion dificerenlt fir i any . had heretofore known, and a restlessness wheni men talked of beaultiful women in my presence. "(ne- smumner evening I was at the old hall ill which my uncle had died, and was eitirely alone Towatrds sun. seti. I waue crp'risedJ wh'ile tookig ov. my hooks, ly the entraice of'n gentle. Men hastily amnonneed. and giving.in d icat ions uIf no little excitement. "Your pardin. sir, foar im), uncere. moni- us eitrainee. My hoirses have rimn away with mIy carriage, and dash. ad it to pieces near your park gate. My father was badly iijured, and may sister is now watchinu hIi,. I have takem the liberty to ask yoir permis. sin to bring him to your residence." "Of' counrse, Iii colsenit was instant. IN givei, and mY owii c.-riuge dis. patched ti the park gate. "Mr. Sinclair was - a gentleman; (if fortume, residitig about forty miies rom me, and his fiaaher, ani in valirt, fifty years (-r more of age, was on his way, im comspany with his son, to that ,oI's hou e there to, die and be buried. They were strangers to me, but I made them welcome to my houvse as if it were their own, and insisted on their usiig it. "Miss Sinclair was the first woman who had crossed myl%' door-!tine since I had been the possessor of the hall. A..d well might she have been loved by better men than I. She was very -mall and very beautiful-of (lie size of Venus, whIich all m ueni worship as the perfectioni of womantly beauty, but hiavmig a soft blue eye, strangely shad. ed by jet black brows. Hler tace pre. eented the contrast of purity of wvhite. ness ini the campllexion, set oflf by ray. en hair. and yet that hair' hanging in cluste'ing curls, un bound by comb or fillet, and the whole thee lit up with ian expressioni oaf geantle trust and comi. plete confidence, either in all ariounid her or' else in her own inidomitable determ~ination. For Mary Sinclair had a mind of her own, and a far.see. img one too. She was naineteen thien. ''11cr father died in my house and I attended the solenmn procession that bor'e his rernains over hill and valley, to the old churcha in which his aices. tom's were laid. Oiice after that I call. ed on the family, and then avoided them. I cannot, tell you what was the cause of the aversion I had to entering that house, or approaching the inllu. ence of' that matchless gi. I believe that I feared the magic of her beau. ty and was impressed witha my own unworthiness to love her or to he be. loved by her. I knewv her associates wer'e ot the noble, the educated, th - refined, and that I was none of' these. .WVhaat, then, could I expect but misery, if I yielded to the charm of that ex. quisite beauty, or graces, which I knew were in lier soull "A year passed, and I was a very boy in mmy contiued thoughts of' her; I persnas led myself a thousand times that I did not love her, and a thousand tisses determtined to prove It by en. 12tnige her. presence. At henirth I lhbao~nymacei into thd vonts.o Lr. don society, and was lost it, the whirl. pool. , "One evening, at a crowded assem. bly, I was standing near the window in a recess, talking with a lady, when I felt a strange thrill. I cannot de. scribe it to you, but its effect was visi. ble to my companion, who instantly said, 'You are unwell, Mr. Stewart, are you not?' Your face became sud. denly flushed, and your hand trembled so as to shake the curtain." "It was inexplicable to myself, but I was startled at the announcement of Mr. and Miss Sinclair I turned, and saw she was entering on her brother's arm, more beautiful than ever. How I escaped I did not know, but I did so. "Thrice afterwards I was warned of her presence in this mysterious way, till I believed that, there was some link between us two, of unknown but pow. erful character. I have since learned to believe the communion of spirit with spirit, sonetimes without materi. al intervention. "I heard of her frequently now as engaged to marry a Mr. Waller; a man whom I knew well, and was ready to do honor as worthy of her love. When at length I saw, as I supposed, very satisfactory eviderce of the truth of the rumor I left London and met them no more. The same rumor fol. lowed me in letters, and yet I was mad enough to dream of Mary Sin. clair, until months after I awoke to the sense of what a fool I had been. Convinced of this, I went on board my yacht about midsummer, and for four weeks never sat foot on shore. One sultry day, when pitch was frying on the deck, in the hot sin, we rolled heavily in the Bay of Biscay, and I passed the afternoon under a sail on the larboard quarter deck. Toward evening, I fIncied a storm was irewiig, and having nade all ready for it., sinioked on the taffrail till mid. night, and then turned in. Will you believe me, I felt that. strange thrill through mly veins, as I lay in my ham mock, and awoke with it, fifteen see. (nds before the watch on deck called suddenly to the man at the wheel, "'Iort--ort your helin ! a sail on the lee bow. Steady ! so!," "I was on the deck in an inltant, and saw that a stilT Irceze war blo wlig, arcd aI sm1all schooner, showing no lights, had erossed our fore.foot with in a 1-istol shot, aid was now bearing up to the north-west. The sky was cloudy aid dark, but the breeze was very steady, and I went below again, and after' endeavoring vainly to ac count for the emotion I hadfelt, in any reasonable wiy, I at length fell asleep, and the rocking of any vessel, a she flew befo)re thd wind, gave ju,t mootioin enough to my hanmmick to lall me inILo a souind sluinher. But I d reamiled ll I night of Mary Sinclair. I dreamed of her, but it was in no. pleasant dreams. I saw her standing on the deck or the "Foam," and as I would advance towards her the ihrm (if Waller would interpose. I would fiacy, at times, that my arms were around herand her form was resting against my side, and her head lay on any shoulder; and then by the strai.ge mutations of dreams, it was not I, but Waller that was holding her, and I was chained to a post, looking at Ihem; anid she would kiss him arid aain the kiss would be burning on my lips. The morning fecomd me wide awake, reasonaing may-elf out of my fiuncies. By noon I had enough to do. The ocean was rorused. A temnpest was out on the sea, and the " Foam" went before it. "Night came down gloomily. The very blackness of darkness was on the water as we flew before the terrible b'ast. I was on deck lashed to the wheel, by which I stood with a knife wvithin reach to cut the haishing, if ne cessary. We had but a rag olsail on her, and yet she moved more like a b)ird thon a boat, from wave to wave. Agatin and again, a blue wave went over us; but she came up like a dur k and shook off the water and dashed on. Nowv she staggered as a blowv was on the weather bow, that might have staved a mnan-of war, but kept gallant. ly on; and now she rolled heavily anal slowly, but never abated the swift flight towards shore. It was midnight, when the wi.,d was highest. The how. hong of the corrdamgo aas demnoiacal. Now a screamo, now a shriek, now a wail, and now a laugh of mocking tmad. ness; on on we flew. I looked up, and turned quite around the horizon, but could see no sky, no sea, no cloud -all was black ness. At that mnoment I felt again thait strang~e thrill, and at the instant, fauncied a denser blacknmess ahead; anad the next with a crash and plunge, the "Foam" was gone ! Down went my gallant boat, arnd with her, another vessel, unseen in thme black night. The wheel to which I had been lashed, had broken loose, and gone over with me before she sank. It was heavy tand I cut away, and seeing a spar, wvent down In the deep sea above :ny boat. I seized it, and a thrill ol agony shot through me as I recognized the delicate finger of a woman. I drew her to me, and lashed her to the spar by my side, and so, in the black night, we two alone floated away over the stormy ocean. My companion was senscless-for aught I knew, dead. A thousand emotioni passed through my mind in the next five minutes. Who was my companion on the slight spar? What was the vessel I had sunk? Was I with the body of only a human being, or was there a spark of lire left? and how could I fan it to a flame. Would it not be better to let her sink than float ofr with me, thus alone to starve or die of thirst and agony. "1 chafed her hands, her forehead, her shoulders. In the dense darkness lcould not see a feature of her face, nor tell if she were old or young -scarcely white or black. The si. lence on the sea.was fearful. So long as I had been on the deck of my boat, the wind whistling through the ropes and around t he spars, had made a con tinual sound; but now I heard nothing but the occasional sprinkling of the spray, the dash of a Ibam cap, or the heavy sound of the wind pressing on my ears. "At length she moved her hand fee bly in mine. How my heart leaped at that slight evidence that I was not alone on the wild ocean. I redoubled my exertions. I passed one of her arms aver my neek to keep it. out of the wa ter, while I chafed the other hand with both of mine. I felt the clasp of that arm tighten, and I bowed ny head towards her. She drew me ciose to her, and laid ier cheek against mine. I let it rest there-i iight warm her's and so help to give her life. Then she nes. tied close to my bosom and whispered 'Thank you." Why did my brain so wildly throb in my head at that Whig. pered sentence ? She knew rout where she was,that was clear. Ier mind was wandering. At that instant the end/of he spar struck some heavy objectfpnd4 wo were dalied by a huge wave- over it, aid to my joy were left on a float. .gd.......t.the.....i.g fromt ipar, and fasten~ed my companion and mnyself to the part of the new daft or wreck, i knew not which, and a Ii that imne that arm was alound my neck, Ls rigid as in death. Now caine the low wild wail that receeds the breaking of the storm. rhe air seemed filled with viewless ipirits mournfully singing and sighing. never thought of her as any thing lse than a human being. It was that mumanity, that dear likeness of life hat endeared her to me. I wound viy arm around her, and drew her :lose to my heart, and bowed my head >ver heqr, and in the wildness of the uioment I pressed my lips to hers in long passionate kiss of intense love end agony. She gave it back, and nurmuring some naimne ofendearment, wound both arms around my neck; and laying her head on my shoulder, press. !d her forehead against my cheek id feil into a calm slumber. That kiss ,wrns on my lips this hour. Half a !entury of the cold kisses of the world iave not sufliced to chill its influence. t thrills me now, as then ! It was Iuadness, with idol worship Of the form 3'od ga e us in the image of himself* ivlich in that hour I adored. I feel the unearthly joy again to lay, as I remember the clasp of .hose unknown arms, and the soft pres mnre of that forehead. I knew not, I ~ared not, if she wvere old and haggard, r young anid fair. I knew and rejoiced with joy unitold hat she was a human mortal, of~ my >Wnl kin by the great Father of our race. " It was a night of thought, and smnotioins anid pihantasmas that never yan be described. Morningm dawned ;ravly. The first faint gleam of light sho'wed me a driving cloud ablove my uendi, it wa welcomed with a shudder. I hated light ; I wanted to float over thatmr heaving ocean, with that form alinuging to mec and my arms around1 it, inJ mny lips ever and ainon pressed to the passionless lips of the heavy sleep. er, I asked no light. it was an in. truder on mny domain, anud would d rive her from my embrace. I was mad. " But as I saw the face of mny comn. panion gradually revealed ina the daw. ming light, as my eyes began, to miake nut one by one thme features, and at length the terrible truth caine slowly hurniang into my brain, I mourned aloud in my agony, " God of heaven, she is dead !" And it was Mary Sin. chair. But she was not dead. We floated all day long on the sea, and at midnight of the next night I hailed a ship anud they took us olE' Every man from the "Foam" and the other vessel was saved with one cx. eeption. The other vessel was the Fairy, a schooner yacht belonging to a friend of Miss Sinclair, with whom she and her brother and a party of ha. dles and gentlemuen had started but three days previously for a week's cruise. I need not tell you how I ex. plained that strange thrill as the schooner crossed our bow, the night before the collision, nor what interpre. tation I gave to the wild tumult of emotions all that long night. I married Mary Sinclair, and I bu. ried her thirty years afterwards; and I sometimes have the same evidence of her presence now, that I used to have when she lived on the same earth with :,ie." ALLEOED GREAT EXCITEMENT IN IIAVAN.-The Savannah Journal and Courier of Saturday says: "By the arrival this morning of the schooner Abbot Devereux, Capt. Al. chorn, from Iiavana, we have advices from that port up to Sunday last, February 4th. - "We learn that at the time (of the sailing of the schooner, and for sev. eral days previously, great excitement existed in Cuba in anticipation of the landing of General Quitman, who was reported and believed to be off the island, with a force oftwenty thousand men. The Creoles were highly elated, but it was not supposed that they could render much assistance to their deliverers. IndeedCapt.Alchorn thinks the present Captain General, Concha has made himself and administration popular with all classes, so that it ma% be presumed that the discontent on the island is not so wide spread now as formerly. "The Spanish fleet, consisting of two war steamers and three sailing vessels, a frigate, sloop of war, and b., .le, u port oflvana ist Suat urday on a cruise in search of the fillibusters. Two British ships of the line entered the harbor Sunday morn ing, and several others were hourly expected for the defence of the island. "We have no means of knowing upon what grounds the fears of the Spanish oiticialswere based.- IBut one thing we are certain, if-Quitman gets 4 foothold obn the ibIand. with twenty thilsand mene th d i e hSo lie Majesty's reign there are ended. TnE AnDUCTIoN OF YOUNG FIER NANDH.-Frank E. Hernandez, whom we noticed as being oorr-d on bi rd1 the Empire City, against his will. to be taken to Cuba for some political purpose, ;t was thought, makes the Following concise and explicit state. 'nent. On Thursday last the Spanish Con. ;ul and Mr. Carnobeli called at the Dlaverack Institute. Mr. Carnobeli mtanded me a letter from my father, Jesiring me to come to Cuba. I read Jhc letter, and then told him I did not Arish to go home. The Spanish Con 41ul then said that I must go to Cuba. md if I did not go immediately, I womuld b thrown into prison if I ever went there afterwards. I then told them that I would give them no an. iwer until I saw my uncle, Joseph Elias Hernandez. who resides at No. DI President street, Brooklyn. 'I hey said that I could not see my uncle, md I told them that I would not go to Cuba without first having an inter. view with him. The Spanish Consul then said if I would come to Nev York with them they would let me ee my uncle. I then agreed to come to New York, and arrived here about ten o'clock on the same night. When I got there they refused, on my ask mug them, to let mne go to my uncle alone or with them. I then went with Mr. Carnobeli to the boarding ho'use No. 154 Chambers street, where i slept that night. The next morning (Friday), when I arose from bed, I 'gain begged them to let inc see my uncle, hut I was refused. T'hat after noon Mr. C;.rnobeli t- ok me on hoard the steamship Empire City, for the purpose of taking me to Cuba. WVhen I got there I met my uncle, who ask ed me if I wanted to go to Cuba. inswered in the negative, and said that Mr. Carnobeli aind the Consul had borced mec to go. My uncle said if I wanted to go home he would allow me to do so; when I again replied that I did not want to. There were about ten Cubans with us at, the time, and they all were witnesses to, the conver sation. The statement made by Mr. Carnobeli that my uncle had forced ine to stay in the United States, is not true. I was not prompted by him to stay here; it was solely my own wish to remain. Refusing to go to Cuba, I left the ship, atnd w ent home with my uncle to Brooklyn, where I am now stopping. My uncle was inform. ed of Mr. Carnobeli's actions by a tel. egraphic dospatch sent to him by one of may friends at Claverack, stating that I had beon taken away from schooli against my will and wish.--Charleston Standard. A KIND SezminT.-Perform a good deed, speak a kind word, bestow a pleasant smIle, and you will receive the same ln' return.-.:The happiness you bestow upon-; others iso.agti back to ur owri bone .~ Valivable Receipts Celebrated Indian Bread, as prepar. ed at the St. Charles Hotel, New Or leans:-Beat two eggs very light, mix alternately with them one pint of sour milk or buttermilk, and one pint of fine meal, melt me table.spoonful of butter and add to the mixture, dissolve one table.spoonful of soda or saterat us, &c., in a small portion of the in ilk and add to Lhe mixture the last thing beat very hard and bake in a pan in a quick oven. Rice Custard Pie.-Take 3 table spoonful of Rice flour, one pint of milk-boil them together. When cold, add 3 eggs beaten, butter the size of an egg, one spoonful of EssencO of Vanilla--sweeten to your taste. Beefa la mode.-Take 10 lbs. of the rouid, cut small holes in it, and stuff it all over with pickled pork fat, rub it well with pepper and salt; add sweet marjorain, summer savory, sweet basil, mace, cloves, pepper, salt, pariley, leeks, and 3.4 p-und of lard, and stew it hard for one hour and a half. Black Cake that will keep a 'ear. Sugar, I pound; butter, 1 pound; flour 1 lpound; ten eggs; brandy 1 4 pint; raisins, 2 pounds; currenis, 2 po'unda. Mace. nutmegs and cloves to flavor. Bake it well. Buckeye Bread.-Take a pint of new milk, warm from the cow; add a teaspoonful of salt, and stir in fine in. dian meal until it becomes a thiek batter; aidd a gill of fresh yeast. aid put it in a warm place to rise. When - - - lJ stir in to Lie baL Ier three beaten eggs, adding wheat flour until it has become of the consistence (if dough; knead it thoroughly, and set it by the fire until it begins to rise, then make it up intosmali ioaves or cakes, cover then up with a thick napkin, and let them stand unt.1 they rise again, ther.. bake it in a ;quick oven. To Bakielief. Tender.-Those who laWAorn d i'their tedti,jmast I eating poor old tough cow beef, will be glad to learn that c carbon. ate ofsnda will be found a remedy for tile evil. Cut your steaks the day be. for- us-inig, 6in1o 614631 10bat iLwo inch. es thick, rub over a snall quantity of soda. wash off next morning, cut it into suitable thickness, and cook to no. tion. The same process will answer for fowls, legs of mutton, &c. Try it; all who love delicious tender dishes of meat. Vinegar from Beets.-Good vinegar is an almost indispensable article in every family, many of whon purchase it at a considerable ainual expense, while some use but a very indifferent article; and others, for walt of a little knowledge and less industry, go with. out. It is an easy matter, however, to be at all times supplied with good vinegar, and that too, without much expense. The juice of one bushel of sugar beetq, worth twenty.five cents, and whic, any farmer can raise with. out cost, will make from five to six gallons of vinegar, equal to the best made of cider or wine. Gra'e the beets, having first washed them, and express the juice in a cheese.press, or in many other ways which a little ingenuity can sugrest, and put the hquor mto an empty barrel; cover the bung ho(le with gause and set it in the sun, and in twelve or fifteen days it will be ready for use. Jelly Cake.--Take six ounces of butter and eight of Sugar, *and- rub them to a cream; stir into it eight well beaten eggs andl a pound oif sifted flour; add the grated rind and juice of a fresh lemon, and turn the mixture into sc'slloiped lates that have beent well putered. The cakes should not be more thtan a quarter of an inch thick on the plates. Bake them im. mediately in a quick oven till of a light brown. ille them on a plate. with a layer of jelly or mnarmna'ade on the top of each. The Best JHm -How Cured.- As outr readers, especially in the countty, may have some curiosity to know the~ method by which the prize ham, .pre. sented at our Fair was cured, we have procured the reipe ior publication. It is furnished by Mrs. E. M. Ihenry, of Charlotte, the lady who was the sttccessful contestant : " After entting ouit my pork, I rumb the skin side of eaich piece with about a half teasponftul of saltpetre, wvell rubed in. I rub the pieces all over with salt, leaving them well covered on the fleshy side. I then lav the hanms in large tight troughs, skin side down. I let thtem remain in, the troughs without touching or trou bhing them for four or live weeks, nc. cordmtg to the size of the hog, no mat, ter how wart or changeable th.. weather is. I then take them out f the trough and string tlto n on y ht. oak 8phit, Wash Al1 th saltf'wt the brnot I R6ihele~ at ea~ then hang up and remain twenty hours, or even two or three day fore 1 iake the smoke undei which must be made with greefn I hi and not chunks. I make the rdSke tinder them o:;ce every day, and s4ipke them four, five, or six weeks. Aftei stop the sinoke, I let Lhe hams remain han'ing 1 the time. Shoulde - cre in the same way. "N. B.-My hogs are killed in, U morning, and I always let th main all that day and the next tig lefore I cut them up."-Petersaur,"rj _ Democrat. Buttcr.-Not one pound in Ile the sold butter in the market isf itfr human food. Buttermakers ishoU remember these few short rules. The newer and sweeter the cream the sweeter and higher flavored wll be the butter. The air must be fresh and pure-u the room or cellar where the milk i set. Keep the cream in tiht Pai0,.o stone pots, into which put a teaspoon. fil of salt at the beginning, then stir the cream, lightly each norning all evening, this will prevent itc 01 moulding or souring. Churn as often as once a weqk, n& as much oftener as circumstaiesq i permit. Uncon churning, add the cream p all the milk in the dairy. Use nearly a pound of salt t pound of butter. Work the hutter over twice, t it maoio Ln o buttermilk and the brin before lumping and packing of It Be sure that it is entirely free from every particle of buttermilk or coig. lated milk, and it will keep sweet as long as dusired. In Scotland a syphon is somcitiin used to seperate the milk froin he cream, instead of scimnming the p -GraieFarner Receiptfor Makiny Pr Take one and a half poln hops and ame of gipge T R.-Vilerably'f .-BiP and tie up tight-then put kettle with water suffielent to step and boil the same to obtain its strength,, which may take about two; houis; thent boi it all down to two quai ts; then add the same to four-gaI lons of molasses and shake it wel 'to A gether. The above is the preserve. T make a less quantity, take articlha n proportion. When you wish .to -use or fbrment, take three pints of9he preserve to a five gal Ion keg,. addon pint of hop yeast; fill the keg'i - water and shake it well together.,.. If you wish your beer to foam or be' well gased, when you draw it. will have your keg iron.hooped aid thickly headed and bunged up tqWh when you put up your beer. FANNY FERN DAOUERREOTYPED She is full forty. Sports curls like girl ofseventeen. They are- aubu -poetically so. Has a keen flaahin eye. Nose between Grecian and dRo. man, rather thin and rather good lo. mug. Cheeks with a good deal-q it t o much - coloring. Some of rouge Bad taste, but no business of our& .'.' 4, Lips well turned and indicative offir. ness rather than of-sugar. Chii handsomely chiseled. Whole ~Uur . tennce hetokens a woman of'spla . and high nature generally. Form fiue Chest a model. Not surpassed. C ar~ ringe graceful and stately. RathertaW and emphantically genteel. Pratt A foot. Ankle to match. Ihand:.mai ud~ Likes to show it. Dresses in the Mn&G and-.dash school. Fond of ribbonv, laces, millinery, &e., generallyTl~ rapidly. Is witty and birilliant i n and lashful. Proud as Lucifer. . of fun. Ihntes most oh ,.elitfQn Thlreats her tiher and Nat, nas bt . tally. Ilus three as pret ty gilsansi or wore cuirls. Is proud of them -W .jnstly. Is heartless. Is a aflittr~ -~ Lives in clover. Is worth *20OO. Got it by pen and ink. When tng the street takes eight ej es o tent. On the wvhole--wonderI'u man is Faniny.--oston .Dspe~ CaoL Wano ON -ilE Newv York Courier sa s: In relation to the full of Seb we said on the 14th Deetiln T about the first of Jnutaryon as the allhes niunubered Trjom 1.10,000 men, the pine'wriind, riedi by storm. ' Suoh Aiie1l w as the itenttioriof t halI we left Englandl ii.d Qrbe" according to the t 4 ~~ 25tlih December, one wuas the univeramillf r'ee47?~ '. in the best info'rrneilia lk It -is hardly possib~et,$ qumenco of thqe o ad ,j' poe .t dn'X mm);~aQ8- i MMMMM