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Communicattorts calculated to pronito pri vate interest, or recommendations of candidlates for offices of honor, prufit or trust will be char ged fur as advertisements Announcing a candidate Five Dollars a year. For all marriages tle printerA fee is expected. Poetry. (Original.] LiMes to L. A. R. DY FRANK. When aurora appears, how delightful the vi ew When Phobus begins to ari.. From his nocturnal seat, to hespangle the dew, And paint, with lis glory, the skies Awake! then awake ! for the morn is serene, t- Let's away to the myrile alcove; Or else take eonr seat by a crystaline stream, Where tke scene is inviting to love. There is nought to molest, but the sweet sing ing birds, That sit pel'd close by on a hough; If you'd tell ine your mindil, unseen, and unheard, Dear U-, pray tel! it me now. Dodreams in the night titue disturb your repose! Ordo I to fancy appear! While silence contents, I pray you'll I isclose Your mind to my listening ear. Delay not a moment, for tin.e runs apace, To disclose the fond % ish of your heart And-in thy sweet hasoi a contifi dence place, Ere dispair bids my love to depart. My Fattaci Ble edl Ne. BY AGNES. My father raised his trembling hang], And laid it on my head : God bless thee, Omy son, my son," Most tenderly lie sail. le died, and left no gems or gold, But still I was his heir For that rich blersing which he gave Became a fortune rare. Stil!, in my weary hours of toil To earn tny daily bread, It gladdens me in thought to feel His hand upon my head. Though infant tongues to me have said, " Dear Father !" oft since then, Yet when I brine that scene to gr.ind, I'm but a child again. A SINGULAR INCiDENT-The following, savs a Pittsbsurg correspondentt, may be relied tupon: "A hady in this city mourns a husband, lost on the ill-fated Arctic. Somie time before Ite news arrived of the dienster, and about the lime she expiected his re. t trn (indeed shei hadl received notice that hie wouldi probai~bly arrite onii the very daty the ctlcumtstantce occurred which I am about to relitie,) while she was sitting in her room alone, a friend called, anid found her in extremne ngittiont. Upon inquiring Ihie catuse she stated that, jusl a miomnent before, while she was sitting, thinking~ of her husband perfectly conscious of all around hter. the door opent. ed, and he appeared before her, with coal and hat off; bending over slightly toward the floor, ats he wvalked toward tier, while the water streamged down his shoulders and armns. Just as she wvas about to questioni him, he left the room, nnd a mo. mient after the person alluded to asbove came mn, The visitor rallied hier upon he r tears, and duc~ceeded in partially quieting tier amrnd.. rhe incident was related to the wrier a daiy or Iwo afterwvards, but had been~ prwtily forgotten, until the dreaditn I tibongs brought at feartully vivfd to my i d .--Kickerbacker Magazine. Mr. JohniS. We athers, a nattive of hetudky receutly trout Afissouri w~as mldn a 4it dui Fat Lcunty,3 Tex~as, at 'ew daity.agi, biy ai coillpaniin' while huni tinfg, whit. fiittuk hit r a bear. Mir. 1eajthii ws iign.ed in buitcher. The Briie of time V reek. "I was a lonely sort of a bachelor, and had never yet known what young amn style 'the passion.' Of passion I had enough, as may old mate yonder can tell yon. I broke his head twice, rand 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 uch as two pieces of the same chip cling 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 boyhood, and when I was twenty-five, I may saflly 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 fict that he had existed, and equ. illy good proof that he existed no lon rer. I was very young, strong in limb, nd 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 >f life? No har, indeed, but ~ felt ;orely the hick of means of enjoyment. [ was a sailor in every soee. My :ducatioi was tolerable, and I had read somge 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 nost of my time on' her. She was a ine craft, suited to mly taste in every 4espect, and I remember with a sigh, iow, the happy duys I have spent in he "Foam." I used to read considera. bile in my cabin, and occasionally, in. IJed weekly, invited parties of' gen. Llemen to crise with ine. But the 111ot of a ladv had rever been on the leek of my boat, and I beganl to have Im Old hachlor's pride in that ftct - Yet, I coifess tit you a secret longing or some sort or afmeetion difreretit l'r mn anly I had iheretofore known, and i restlessness when men talked of bezaltifiil women iin my preserce. "One-. snmn-er evevning ! was at the 'Old ball itn which my uncle had died, Ind was entirely alone Towards sain. ;et I was surprised while looking over my boo k-s, by tihe entrance oif a gentle. Mnn hastily zlananonelletd. and giving.in Iiint ions If to little excitement. "Your pardin. sir, for ily uncere. Onimo'us enatrance. My horses have rn1 awaly with my earriage. an( dash. d it to pieces near your park gate. MIy father was badly inajuired, and mlly iister is now watchiniL him. I have ake the liberty tt ask yomr permis. ,in to hring hiIm to yoar r'sideaice." "Oft couse, my colseat w ias istant. ly givei, ad my owin ca.-riuge dis. atched to the park gate. "Mr. Sinalair was a gentleirmn (if irtuae, residing about forty li:eB romn me, and his fialaer, all invalit 1ifty years or more of age, was oil his Way, Im coilpany with his son, to tlhat oll's hnt-;e there to (lie and be buried. I'hey were stranagers to mie, but I made hen welcome to miy house as if it were their own, and insisted on their ising it. "Miss Sinclair was the first woman who had crossed imly door-.tine since I had been the possessor of the hall. Ad well might she have been loved by beitter tmen than I. She was very imall and very beautiful--of' the size af' Venus, wvhich all meon wvorship as the pierfectioni af womanly beauty, but laming a soft bluze eye, strangely shad. ed lby jet black brows. HeIr thee pre. 'enated the contrast of purity (if white. ness5 ill the complexion, set off by ray. eni hair. anal yet that hair hianging in alustering curls, un bound by comb or fillet, and the whole tcee lit up with an expression of genatle trust and com. p~lete confidence, either in all aroutnd her or' else ina her own indomitable Jeterm'nntion. Foar Mary Sinclair bad a mind of her1 own, and a far.sce. mag one too. She was nineteen then. "11er father died in mny house and I ittenaded the solemn procession that bore his remains over hill and valley, to the old church in whlich his anceas. tors wecre laid. Once after that I call. don the finnily, and then avoided themn. I cannaot, tell you what was thec aanse of the aversion I had to entering that haouse, or approaching the itnflu. L'nce of' that attchless girl. I believe that I feared the magic of' her' beau. ty anid was imapressed with any own unworthiness to love her or to he be. loved lay her. I knew her associates weae of the noble, the educated, th. refined, and that I was none of' these. WVhat, then, could I expect but misery, if I yielded to tihe charm of that ex.I gluisite bleauty, or graces, which I knew were in her soul? "A year passed, and I was a very' boy in may conatinnaed thoughts of' her; I persia-led mayself a thousa~nd times thtat, I did tnot love 11er, and a thousand thtaes determinead to prove it, by en. teering her presence. At lengthi I threW'imvself into the or... of ro. don society, and was lost ins 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 inwell, 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, sometimes without inateri. 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 evider.ce of the truth of the rumor I left London and met thema no more. The same rumor fol. lowed ine 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 ibol 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 sun, we rolled heavily in the Bay of Biscay, and I passed the afternoon under a sail oi the larboard quarter deck. Toward evening, I fancied a storm was Ilrewing, and having naide all ready for it, smoked on the taffrail till mid night, and then turned in. Will you believe me, I felt that strange thrill through ily veins, as I lay in my ham mock, and awfike w th it, fifteen see. ands befbre the watch on deck called suddenly to the man at the wheel, " Prt - port you r helm ! a sail on the lee how. Steady ! so!," "I was on the dcli in) '3n intant, and saw that, a stiiT breeze wia blowing, n.d a small schooner, showing no lights, had crossed our fore.foot with in a l.istil shot, and was now bearing up to the nor li-west. The sky was cloudy aid dark, but the breeze was very steady, and I went below again, and after' endeavorina vainly to ae. count for the emotion I had-felt, in anly reasonable way, I at length fell asleep, and the rocking of my vessel, , she flew before thd wind, gav,- ju 't motioin enough to my hamimock to fall ie into a sound slumber. But I ireamed all fnight of Mary Sinclair. I dreamed oif her, but it was in tn. pleawait dreams. I saw her standimig on the deck or the "Foam," and as i would advance tuwards her the farm (f Waller would interpose. I would fancy, at times, that my arms were around her, anid her form was restiig agaiist my side, and her head lay on miy shoulder; aid then by the strainge mtimatioIIs ofdreams, it was not I, but Waller that was holding her, and I was chained to a post, looking at them; ind she would kiss him arid again the kiss would be burning on my lips. Thei morning found me wide awake, reasoing miy-elf otit of my litncs. By noon I had enough to do. The acan was roused. A tempest was ont 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, byv which I stood with a knife within reach to cut the lashing, if ne eessaury. W e had but a rig of sail on ier, aiid yet she moved more like a bird than a boat, from wave to wave. Again andi againi, a blue wave went river us; but she camne up like a dum k and shook off the water and dashed on. Now she staggered as a blow was on the wveather bow, that might have staved a man-of war, but kept gallant. ly on; aid now she rolled heavily and slowly. but never abated the swift flight towards shore. It was midnight when the wi.,d was highest. TIhe how. ling of the cordage was demoniacal. Now a scream, now a shriek, no0w a wail, and now a laugh of mocking mad. ness; on oii we flew. I looked up, and turned quite around the horizon, but could see no sky, no sea, ino cloud -all was black ness. At that mnoment I felt again that strangeo thrill, amid at the instant fancied a denser blackness ahead; and the next with a crashi aiid plunge, the FoJ~am"i was gone I Down went my gallant boat, arid with her, another vessel, uinseen in the black night. The wheel to which I hadl been lashed, had biroken loose, and gone over with me before she sank, It was heavy and I cut away, and seeing a spar, went, down In the deep se abovm m., boat. I seized it, and a thrill of 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 senseless-for aught I knew, dead. A thousand emotion 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 life left? and how could I fan it to a flame. Would it not be better to let her sink than float, off' with me, thus alone to starve or die of Ihirst and agony. "I chafed her hands, her forehead, her shoulders. In the dense darkness Icould not see a feature of her face, nor tell if she were old or young -scarcely white or black. The si. lence on the sca.was fearful. So long as I had been on the deck of my boat, the wind whistling through the ropes and around the spars, had made a con. tinual sound; but now I heard nothing bout the occasional sprinkling of the spray, the dash of a fbami 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 over my nel*k to keep if. out of the wa ter, while I chafed the other hand with both of mine. 1 felt the clasp of that arm tighten, and I bowed may head towards her. She drew me close to her, and laid her cheek against mine. I let it rest there-it might warm her's and so help togive 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 whis. pered sentence ? She knew r.ut where she was,that was clear. Ifer mind Yas wandering. At that instant the en dof the spar struck some heavy objectd d we were da-hed by a huge wave over it, anid to my joy were lef4 nl a float ing deck. I cut the hishing Froin the spar, and fastened my companion and nyself to the part of the new .aft or wreck, I knew not wh -b a d a. lltha time that arm was alound my neck, as rigid as in death. Now cane the low wild wail that preceeds the breaking of the storm. The air seemed filled with viewless spirits mournfully singing and sighing. I never thought of her as any thing else than a human being. It was that lmnanity, that dear likeness of life that, endeared her to ie. I wound my arm around her, and drew her close to my heart, and bowed mv head over h-r, and in the wildness ti~f the moment pressed iy lips to hers in a long passionate kiss of intense love aid agony. She gave it back, and murmuring some name ofendearmient, wound hoth arms around my neck; and laying her head on my shoulder, press. ed her forehead against my cheek and fell into a calm slumber. That kiss burns on my. lips this hour. Half a century of t he cold kisses of the world have not sufficed to chill its influence. It thrills me now, as then ! It was madness, with idol worship of the form, God ga e us in the image of himself, wihich in that hour I adore. I feel the unearthly joy again to day, as I remember the clasp of those unknown arms, and the soft pros. sure of that forehead. I knew not, I eared not, if she. were old and haggard, or young and fair. I knewv and rejoiced with jov untold that she was a human mortal, of my own) kin by the great Father of our race. "It was a night of thought, and emotions and phantasmas that never can be described. Morning dawned gravly. The first faint gleam of light showed me a driving cloud above my hieadl, it wvas welcomed with a shudder. I hated light ; I wanted to float over that heaving ocean, with that forml clinging to mec and my arms around it, and my lips ever and nnon p~ressed to the passionless lips of the heavy sleep. or, I asked iio light. It wa an in. truder on may domain, and would drive her from may ermbrace. I was mad. " Hut as I saw the face of may comn. panion gradually revealed ini the daw nimg light, as my eyes began, to imake oult one0 by one the features, and at length the terrible truth came slowly burning into my brain, I moturned aloud in may agony, " God of heaven, she is dead !" And it was Mary Sin. clair.* But she was not dead. We floated all day long on the sea, and at midnight of the next iiight I itailed a ship anid they took us ofl.-.. Every man from the "Foam" and the other vessel was saved with one ox. ception. 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 Ia. dies and gentlemen had arted 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 :ae." ALLEGED GREAT EXCITEMENT IN IIAVA.-The Savannah Journal and Courier of Saturday says: "By the arrival this morning of the schooner Abbot Devereux, Capt. Al. chorn, from Havana, 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 of twenty thousand men. The Creoles were highly elated, but it was not supposed that they could render mich 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, slonp of war, and brig, left the port of Havana last Sat. 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 officialswere based. . But one thing we are certain,-if Quitman gets a foothold 'n the.s14d 'with twenty, ihoizand men, he d yifjliervCitf lie Majesty's reign there are ended. Tin: AnneCTIoN OF iouo FER NANDaz.-Frank E. Hernandez, whom we noticed as being carried on board the Empire City, against his will. to be taken to Cuba for some politicai purpose, it was thotght, makes the following conciso and explicit state. ment. On Thursday last the Spanish Con. sul and Mr. Carnobeli called at the Claverack Institute. Mr. Cirnobeli handed me a letter from my father, desiring me to come to Cuba. I read the letter, and then told him I did not wish to go home. The Spanish Con. sul then said that I must go to Cuba. and if I did not go immediately, I would bo thrown into prison if I ever went there afterwards. I then told them that I would give them no an. swer until I saw my uncle, Joseph Elias Hernandez, who resides at No. 91 President.street, Brooklyn. '1 hey said that I could not see my uncle, and I told thetm 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 New York with them they would let me see my uncle. I then agreed to come to New York, and arrived here about ten o'clock on the same night. When I I got there they refused, on my ask. 1 ing them, to let tme go to my uncle alone or with them. I then went with Mr. Carnobeli to the boarding house No. 154 Chambers street, wvhere 1 I slept that night. The next morning (Friday), when I arose from bed, I ?.gain begged them to let mec see my uncle, but I was refused. That after. noon Mr. Carnob~eli t~ ok me on boardi the steamship Empire City, for the purpose of tak ing mec to Cuba. When 'I I got there I met my utncle, who ask ed me if I wanted to go to Cuba. , answered in the negative, and said that Mr. Carniobeli anid the Consul had forced mec to go. My' uncle said if I I wanted to go home lie 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 b~y Mr. Carnobeli that my uncle had forced mec to stay in the United States, is not true. I was not prompted by him to stay lhere; It was solely my owvn wish to remain. Rlelusing to go to Cuba, I left the ship, and w cnt home wvith my utncle to Brooklyn, where I am now stopping. My uncle was inform. ed of Mr. Cairnobeli's actions by a tel. egraphic despatch sent to him by onie of mny friends at Claverack, stating that I ad been taken away from school aigainst my will and wish.--Charleston Standard. A KIND SPZIv.-Perform a good deed, speak a kind word, bestow a pleasant smile, and you will receIve the same 'In' return. .The happiness -you bestow upon. others, i. refi at64' - ac o gewn bosog. Vailable Recipt. Celebrated Indian Bread, as prepar. ed at the St. Charles Hotel, New Or. leais:-Beat two eggs very light, mix alternately with them one pint of sour milk or buttermilk, and one pint of fine mcl, melt one table-spoonful of butter and add to the mixture, dissolve one table-spoonful of' soda or salerat. Us, &c., in a small po.rtion of the i ilk and add to the 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 fiur, one pint of milk-hoil them together. V hen cold, add 3 eggs beaten, butter the size of an egg, one spooniful of Essence of' Vanilla-sweeten to your taste. Beefa la mode.-Take 10 lbs. of the rounid, cut small holes in it, and stuff it all over with pickled pork fat, rub it well with pepper and salt; add sweet marjoram, summer savory, sweet basil, mace, cloves, pepper, salt, parsley, leeks, and 3-4 pound of' lard, id stew it hard for one hour and a half. Black Cake talt will keep a Year. Sugar, 1 pound; butter, I pound; flour 1 pound; tena eggs; brandy 1 4 pint; raisins, 2 pounds; currenis, 2 pounds. Mace, nutmegs and- cloves to flavor. Bake it well. Buckeye Bread.-Tuke a pint of iew milk, warm from the cow; add a easpoonful of salt, and stir in fine in. fian meal until it becomes a thick batter; add a gill of fresh Yeast. and nut it in a warm place to rise. When t is very light. stir into the batte. .hree beaten eggs, adding wheat flour mitil it has become of the consistence f dough; knead it thoroughly, and ;et it by the fire until it begins to -ise, then make it up into small loaves >r cakes, cover them up with a thick iapkin, and let them .tand unt.1 they rise again, ther. bake it in a quick Won. o Bake.Beef. Tende.--Those whd ating poor old tough cow b'eef, will :e glad to learn that common carbon. ite ofsoda will be round a remedy fur .he evil. Cut your steaks the day be. ore unmnrv. into siees abut two inc. 3s thick, rub over a small quantity of ioda.'wash ofT next morning, cut it nto suitable thickness, and cook to no. Aion. The same process will answer or fowls, logs (,f mutton, &. Try it; ill who love delicious tender dishes >f meat. Vinegar from Beets.-Good vinegar s an almost indispensable article in avery family, many of whom purchase t at a considerable annual expense, while some use but a veryindifferent irticle; and others, for want of a little cnowledge and less industry, go with. )mt. It is an easy matter, however, .o be at all times supplied 'with good iinegar, and that too, without much xpense. The juice of one bushel of iugar beets, worth twenty.five cents nd whie i any firmer can raise with. mut cost, will make from five to six Pallons of vinegar, equal to the best nade of cider or wine. Grae the >eets, having first washed them, and -xpress the juice in a cheese.press, or in many other ways which a little 'genuity can suggest, and put the iqumor into an empty barrel; cover the ung hole wvith gause- and set, it in the un, and in twelve or fifteen days it vill be ready for use. .Jelly Cake.--Take six ounces of Rtter and eight of Sugar, and" rub hem to a cream; stir into it eight vell beaten eggs and a pound oif sifted l('ur; add the gratedl rind and juice of fresh lemon, and turn the mixture nto scollosped la~tes that have beeni veIl putered. The cakes should niot >e more than a quarter of an inch hick on the plates. flake them im.1 nediately in a quick oven till of a ight brown. Pile thenm on a plate. v'ith a layer of jelly or marma'ade on he top of: each. Th~e Best IHm -Iow Cured.- As mur readers, especially in the countr'y, nay have some curiosity to know the nethod by which the prize hamr, .pre. ented at our Fair was cured, we have >rocured the reeipe for publication. t is furnished by Mrs. E. M. Ihenry, >f' Charlotte, the lady who wvas the uccessful contestant : " Afler entting out my pork, I rub he skin side of each piece with about m half' teaspooniful of saltpetre, wvell -ubed in. I rub the pieces all over 1vith salt, leaving them wvell covei-ed rn the fleshy side. I then lay the ams in large tight troughs, skin sida lown. I let thenm remain in .the troughs without touching or trou blin'g thoem for four or five weeks, no. eording to the size of the hog, no mat. ter how warnm or changeable th" weather is. I then tak~e themn out 'd the trough a nd string thomn eqawhte oakt ~pits, wash All the~st~tf Lbthe ~ ( ~ Iffen't{ -tg then hang up and remain tien hours, or evei two or three dak eI fore I iake the smoke underi which must be made with greehliAM4 and not chunks. I m e the 'rY k under them o:.CC eve y, andsah thei four, five, or sux weeks. stop the smoke, I let Lhe hams 'remanj hanuging all the time. Shoulde ,. cure in the sane way. N. B.-My hogs are killed mornig, and I always l'et the n main all that day and the riext t before I cut them up."-Petersb. Denocrat. - Butter.--Not one pound in the sold butter in the market is, r hnrnan fiood. Iu3ttermakers hou remiember these few short rules. The newer and sweeter the .rid the sweeter and higher flavored 'I the butter. The air must be fresh and pur 0 the room or cellar where the kn:IIG 'u set. Keep the cream in tin pa stoine pots, into which put a teaspon ful of salt at the beginning, then stir the cream, lightly each morning ad evening, this will preveit ti fr moulding or souring. Churn as often as once a week as much oftener as circumstailee pernit. Uron churning, add the cream upon all the milk in the dairy. Use nearly a pound of saI to pound of butter. . Work the butter over t*ice, to,. it from the buttermilk nd the orp befbre lumping and packing of t Re ue in n. a un every particle of buttermilk or eda lated milk, and it will keep sweet long as desired. In Scotland a syphon Is somietsm - used to seperate . the nilk front the cream, instead of scimming the p -an'ite Farmer. .Receiptfo. f Take one and' a, h p hops and, sme of'gipger vi, tOablfifixNT;u'ini and tie up tight--then pu kettle with water sufficient to ste and boil the same to obtain its strength, which may take about two. hours;then boil it all down to two ruats; thbcn add the same to fout'gil. Ions of molasses and shake it we 1o0 c gether. The above is the preserve. Td make a less quantity, take articles in proportion. When you wish to use or ferment, take three pints of 'ihe I)reserve to a five gallon keg, idd'"no Pint of hop yeast; till the keg water and shake it well together. . If you wish your beer to foamVo be well gased, when you draw it, xill have your keg iron hoopea -atfd hickly headed and bunged up t h - when you put up your beer. FANNy FERN DAOUERREOTYPRD. 3he is full lbrty. Sports curls like ;irl ofseventeen. They are- aubtm -poetically so. Has a keen flashi !ye. Nose between Grecian and .o nan, rather thin and rather good look-, ug. Cheeks with a good dealite 'o much - coloring. Some of. rouge' Jad taste, but no business of ours. Aps well turned and indicative offilm icss rather than of-stiar. Ghir anndsomely chiseled. Whlole' coun ennumee betokens a. woman of -spielt und high nature generally. Forifne bhest a model. Not surpassed.Ca 'iage graceful and stately. Rather taL mid emphatically genteel. Prett o.ot. Ank le to mat ch. Ihand omal 4 i..kes to sht w it. Dresses in the Ct ud .daish schooil. Fondofrb aces, millinery, &c., general lyTak4i -apidly. Is witty and br illiant~ d indl lashful. Proud as Liteifbr. ,f fun. Ilntes most of' redfiokf~~ r'breaits her father and Nat, iod hilly. IIams ihree as pret ty girls ir wore curls. Is protud of' themi natly. Is heartless. Is a fli Eives in elover.. Is worth 820OO 30ot it by pen and ink. W~hen. ng the street takes eight eyes ~u aen. On the whole--oniderfh ~ man is Fanny.-Bosto~n Decisp ~ COL, Wano os -rnts WVR. Newv York Courier sa s: in relation to the full of Seb~ we said on the 14th Dee~nbaal tt about the first of' Janiuary, o'&A as the allies numbered from 5 1.10,000 meno, the plachniwduha ried by storm. Suchldi was the intentioni of th j -4C we left Englandja hNmpra ~ , according to the'Londoiiia 25ith Doeomber, was the univrilly ir~~, in the best inforid in ii bardig possible. quenee of tegoe Na - 6