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i I THE CAMDEN JOURNAL VOLUME 3. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 20, 1852. NUMBER 15. n ? THE CAMDEN JOURNAL 1TBLISUED SEMI-WEEKLY AND WEEKLY BY THffiH&S J. WAR'ftlB. TKROTS. Tan Semi-Weekly Journal is published at Tlircc Tinllnrs nnil Fiftv Cents, if paid in advance, or Four Dollars if payment is delayed three months. Tiik Wkeklt Jours'.vl is published at Two Dollars If paid in advance; Two Dollars and Fifty Cents if payment be delayed six months, and Three Dollars if not paid till the expiration of the year. ADVERTISEMENTS will lie inserted at the following terms: For one Square (fnurtoen lines or less) in the semi-weekly, one dollar for the first, and twenty-five cents for each subsequent insertion. In the weekly, seventy-five cents per square for the first, and thirtv-sc- J ven and a half cents for each subsequent insertion. Sin- I gle insertions one dollar. Setni-monthlv. monthly and I quarterly advertisements charged the same as for a sin gle insertion. The number of insertions desired, and the edi-j lion to be published in must be noted on the margin of i all advertisements, or they will be published semi-weekly until ordered discontiued and chargea accordingly. FRESH GARDEN SEEDS. TIIE Subscriber has just received a new supply o [ Fresh Winter and .Spring Gulden Seeds. As we test all our Seeds before selling them. I the public may purchase from us with confidence. We j sell nothing that we do not f<rl assured will grow if the necessary cautions are used. Our supply consists in part of BEASS^? English Windsor, Early Mohawk. Early Yellow Six Weeks. Largo White Kidney, Refugee or 1000 to 1, Ited French Sj?eckled. Dutch Case Knife, White Dutch Runner, Large Limn. BEETS?Early Blood Turnip, Long Blood, white Sugar. CABBAGES^-Eiir\y York, Large York. Sugar I/oaf, May, Early Drumhead, Large late Drumhead. Savoy, Early Dutch, Green Globe Savoy. True Green Glazed. CARROTS?Early Horn. Long Orange. CUCUMBERS?Long Green, Early Frame, Gherkin. LETTUCE?White Cabbage. Silesia. Curled Ice head. 0X1 OS?White Portugal. Ltrge Red, Yellow Dutch. BE A S?Early Warrick, Early June, Early Charlton, Early Double Blossom, Codo Xulli. Dwarf Marrowfat, Large White Marrowfat. RADISH?Long Scarlet. Scarlet Turnip. Black Fall. SQUASH?Yellow Bu.-h, White Bush, Summer Crookneck. TURXIPS?Large White Flat, Early Spring, Early Dutch, Yellow English, Red Top, Flat, Ruta llaga. CORX?Sweet Sugar, Six Weeks, Tuscarora, with Okra, Purple Brocili, Cauliflower, Celery, Egg Plant, Kale, Nutmeg, Melon, Parsley, Parsnip, Peppers, Tomatoes, Rhubarb, Spinage, Vegetable Oyster. Also, a large variety of Choice Flower Seeds. SOO Asparagus Roots. For sale bv FRANCIS L ZEMP. Jan. D. 3 tf fitnm v xiitnvrk'S tliuil'fi. Cjjm. M* JLTfLd M J %*, _ . . ? - j 'TMIE undersigned continues his business at the old. JL stand, returns his thanks for past favors and hopes for a continuance of patronage. All work in his lino will be done with punctuality, and where the cash is . paid, at the time of delivery, u discount of ten per cent will be made. Jun 6. [2?1 v] F. J. OAKS. Teacli?;r Wanted. VLADY is wanted to Teach in a private family, about ten miles front Camden. One who under-j stands Music, would he preferred. Address the subscriber at Camden, S. ('. Jan. 30?tf BENJAMIN COOK. 230?"Charlcston Mercury, copy tri weekly for two! weeks, and forward bill. IVEGRO SHOES AT COST. ^FMIK subscribers will sell the remainder of their stock J. of NEGRO SHOES, at Cost for Cash. January 27. WORKMAN k DOONE._ Itobiusoii's E'alriit flarley. .4 N excellent, nourishing article of food, for Children J\. and Invalids?toe well known to "heads of families," to require a minute description, lias always been kept and sold at Z. J. Did LAY'S. Feb. 3?tf BRICKS FOR SALE. r|MIK subscriber has on hand a largo quantity of JL GOOD BRICK, which may be had on application. January 23. J. F. SUTHERLAND. Paints, Oils Ac. I'M IK Subscriber is now receiving liis Spring Stock . of White Lead, Turpentine, Linseed Oil, Chrome Green and Yellow, Spanish and Vandyke Brown, Venetian Red, Yellow Ochre, Widnow Glass, Ac., which will be disposed of as low as can be, consistently with uniformity of prices. Z. J. DtllAY. Feb. 3?tf WAITED.?A Ciiild'8 Nurse is wanted by a gentleman living about 10 miles from Camden, a girl from 10 to 14 years of age. Enquire at this office. Feb. 10. 12 swim. 'XVEACHER WANTED.?A "Teacher is .L wanted by a few Families in the country. For further particulars, address the subscriber at Flat Rock, Kershaw District, S. C. SEABORN JONES. Feb. 10. 12 lmw. In Ilquity?Lancaster Dixlricl. James it. Hunter, vs. Allen C. IJlair, et al?Petition to # Account and apply Funds. IT is ordered that William McCorkle and Klizabeth his wife, defendants in above case, (made so by the order of the Court,) do answer, plead or demur to the petition in above ease, on or before the 12th day of May, 1 S32, otherwise judgment pro eonfesso will be ordered against them. JAMKS H. WITHKRSPOON, Com'r. Equity L. It. Lancaster C. II. (S. C.) Feb. 3, 1852. " 12?tf Clear the Way. IN order to make room for Spring Purchases, I now offer the following WINTER GOODS at prices unquestionably low: Ladies' Winter Dress Goods of every kind, from 12c. upwards ??:p..i ii 1.. r??irnc er, 5M and .17 worth 50c XJcauiijiu jiii^auv UUCUMI, .. ., <5-1 English Merinoes, all shades, only 50c French Merinoes, plain and figured, at N. York cost ^ Mousalin DeLuinos worth 15", for 13, 20 and 25c Dcautiful fast colored Calicoes, reduced to 10c. First ijuality Urcnch Calico, now selling at 12c. White and Red Flannel at a shade over cost White and Grey Duflil Blankets at 75, Wo. and $1 With a great variety of WINTER GOODS, at prices temptingly low. My object being to raise mouey tor my Spring purchases, 1 will sell shein oil' at any sarrifice ofprofits, rather than keep them over to neqt winter, Parties wishing bargains, will find this on excellent opportunity for converting their loose chango into good, cheap and substantial Dry Goons. T * WL'?J TIT TT L'fiV* Jan. 23. ?i.-\.ur<o ?? iuoxh. PATENf Meat Cutters and Sausage Btuflcra. Also, a good assortmont of Hocking and Sitting Chaire For ?alo bv E. W. BONNEY. (ORIGINAL.) I SMILES AND TEARS. ? . ] There is a close affinity, 'Twixt joy and sorrow ; I ' That which causes Tears to-day, Brings hut Smiles to-morrow. ] When the heart is low with car.-, The phantom Hope is smiling; When we have most cause tor tear, I j It wins us w ith beguiling. ' _ Even in our dreamy sleep, A fairy world is 'round us; . And ere with mimic cause we weep, ? The enchantress,joy, has hound us. f i | When wmi reason's renewed reign, I j The Smile at fairy dreainings ; I { Joy and sorrow come again: j | And cheat us with their eeemings. j s ' ' t Free are we from sleeping thrall, Vet in our day dreams mingle ; j ( All?and yet in fancy's hall, j j Nor joy, nor sorrow's f ingle. t Smiles and Tears win us in youth, Bursting?overflowing; o ? Seems tlie young heart in its truth, ( With fear and nleasure clowiliC. I f Tears are in the old man's eyes, j Smiles his lips are wreathing? Tears, for childhood's joys that flit's, j Smiles, with blessings wreathing. ( 'Tis taught us in each humble flower, | That to the zephyr bends; Or nurtured in sequestred bower, j s To ease and luxury lends. ) < I Bathed in the sunlight and bloom, c Two dewdrops on a fair rose rest; f Twin sisters springing from the tomb t Of sorrow?nursed on beauty's breast. 1 Hid in the lily's peaceful bell, And shedding beams the pearl drops swell; l Like bursting tears, which, ere they fall, t Joy lights, and glist'ning, breaks the thrall. < Joys and sorrows are the bands I That link the threads of life, Binding years, and filling-them, With thoughts of the future rife. A STRANGER. J Tin: POOR STUDENT, OH THE LOVER'S SACRIFICE. 1 I \ 1?V EDWARD CARROLL. I ' I C "A,;' i, who is that young man whom I saw ( by your side when first I came on deck ? Vou well know that I object to your making the ac- ( qunintanec of strangers, and I am surprised that ^ you have not better rcnicndxtred mv wishes on . this subj'ft." " { Thus spoke the noble Lord Alton to his love- | ly daughter, as they stood together on the d"ck j of a larg packet, in which they were proceeding j from Kngland to the now world. jt Lady Ad.-la hesitated for a moment ere she spoke, and dropping her eyes?eyes as blue and ^ bright as the azure sky ahuve them, she turned ^ away her blushing face and answered timidly: : ' I believe the gentleman's name is Ayres, and he is a student, who, having completed his studies in Germany, is now returning to the United States." 1 "A student! I could have sworn that from 1 his pale face and threadbare coat; but who told ( you this?" " He himself air." " " lie is a Yankee, no doubt" 1 " He is sir." 1 " Mark mo, Adela, how you made his acrjuain- ( tance I do not s'-ek to know, but it must cease 1 immediately, lleaven knows where Vou get all ( your plebeian notions from, but I would never c have believed that a child of mine would conde- N seend to notice a poor student, and he a Yankee. ' Promise me, my daughter, that you will drop 1 at once, this degrading acquaintance." Ere she could reply, a wild cry rang through 1 the ship, and caused the check even of the stern * father to pale with fear. "Eire! the ship's on fire!" shouted a dozen < voices, and at that cry, which at sea strikes terror to the boldest heart, all was confusion. The 1 hardy sailors rushed to and fro, mingled with ( the passengers, and for a few moments seemed * like men distracted. But the loud clear voices of the officers seemed to inspire them with cour- : age, all prepared with a will to assist in subduing the. flames. The fire had originated in the ! 1 " : i.:~u i.i??i._ 1 Iiimi, in ?iuv:ii it ?<i> MiiuuHtviin^t | every moment to break forth with violence.? \' Holes were cut in the deck, and the seamen applied themselves hastily to pump in water. It j was soon evident however, that the fire was "amino uj>on them, and a new source of terror pre- 1 sentvd itself. The powder! yes, the powder! One. hundred .( kegs of powder stored in the magazine, and on- I' ly a hoard partition between it and the flames! The crew half maddened with fear rushed to the boats, but were recalled by the Captain who ur- 1 god them not to give up the ship till the last ] hope had fled. The hatches were removed from the magazine, and the volume of smoke that rolled upwards, told that the fire was penetrating towards the powder. " Who will go down and hand up the kegs?" cried 1110 Captain, but t lio boldest hearts in the. crowd shrank from the proposal. A moment's pause and a young man stepjx-d forward, and without a word, sprang down the ladder. The crew, animated by this example, crowded round the hatchway, and receiving the heavy kegs as he handed them up, threw them over the side. For sometime they labored in silence, but. at last i faint cheer from those who had counted, told ' :hat the number was nearly completed. The I iialf uttered huzzas died on t heir pale lips a moment after, when several kegs, the wood of which 1 ,vas charred and smoking, were passed up in ra[iid succession. A moment more and the young nan ascended from the hazardous labor, and i ialt" suffocated by the smoke, f.-ll forward to the | leek. He. was raised, water given him and he ; revived. When he wiped the smut from his eatures, all recognized him as tin- young student \yer. Meanwhile the lire had been making fearful j progress, and at last even the Captain was forced , .? .i.litllt flint it II II? imt.AtviklA t f\ COflk tllil-lt/il.lo ,\j (lUUiit Llidi 11 ?? iw inijiu^iui" i?y ? v me; uviyiu j hip. The boats were lowered, and all crowedd i brward to obtain a place in them. Thev were: illed in a moment, but still a number were on ward the burning vessel. With frantic cries i hey implored to be taken off. but the boats were aden almost to the water's the edge, and the wilors reluctantly obliged to push away without hem, 44 My daughter 1 oh, my daughter, save her !*' ricd Lord Alton in agony ; "put back and save ;cr!" 'I am sorry we cannot," repied the Captain; 4 but the weight of an additional pcreon would j -wamp the boat." The young student, who had been crowded | >n board the boat amid the others, now leaped i brward and said eagerly? 44 Captain, if our number was one less, would i rou attempt to save her ?" 44 Yes,"' replied the Captain in a tone of sur- j irise. 44 Hack, then, and 1 will give her my place," j ricd the youth. 44 Save her, and give rne at j east the privilege of dying for her sake." For a moment the sailors were motionless with urprise, hut the next, a few strokes of their long i >ars placed them again under the bows of the ' turning ship. Seizing a rojxi the devoted stu-j lent climbed on board, and after a short search : ound the object for whose sake he was about to j nake such a sacrifice. Pressing her to his breast, i ic bore her to the bows, and kissing her pale ips, lowered her carefully into her father's arms. "Farewell," cried he mournfully, and the monent after, the boat was pulled rapidly away roin the doomed vessel. The sun, which was nearly set, sank behind a lense black bank of elounds, and the gentle treeze which had been blowing throughout the lay, freshened into almost a gale. The wiud wept the burning wreck before it, and those in he boats watched her as she gradually distanced them until the blazing light went out in darkless. Night was on thrt broad expanse of waters, md when morning dawned, 110 trace of the galant bark which had yesterday upheld thorn was J risible to the occupants of the boats. l)ut an- | jtber sight greeted their eyes; a white speck was >n the blue waters near the horizon; they knew t was a ship, and she seemed shaping her course lireetly tbr them. Their hopes were not unbunded, for in a few hours they were picked up >v the vessel, which proved to be a New York rail-T homeward bound. They reached their port in safetv, and Jx>rd Vlton and his daughter determined to spend a oii<x ti'ne in the new world, ore they again temped the treacherous billow* of the ocean. Lord Vlton soon forgot his escape from the fire and vaves, but the gentle Aldela constantly sighed or the noble youth who had preserved her liftit the sacrifice of his own. ******* A year had passed away, and Lord Alton and ady Aldela were still in New York, but the cheek >f the lovely girl was fading daily, and she was ividently suffering from secret grief. Her fath. ir, alarmed by her altered looks, made immodiite preparations to return to England, hoping hat her native air would recall the hue of health .0 her pallid features, lie engaged passage in >ne of the best packets of the day, and when he hour appointed for sailing drew near, he rode lown to the wharf, and carefully supporting his laughter from the carriage, led her towards the esse I. Hut suddenly, with a slight shrink she nurmurcd, "it is lie," and sunk fainting into her ather's arms. At the sound of her voice a young man with i ? 1 1*1! t haggard countenance ana lauereu cunning, prang forward and bent over the insensible girl. i t was William Avers, but so changed that the '.ye of love alone could have recognized him. Aldela was conveyed back to their hotel, and he student accompanied her. She was sooti re overod, and then the youth explained his prelenee in the land of the living. Ilis story was soon told; after remaining on ward the burning vessel as long a? possible, he tad lashed himself to a spar, and trusted to the nercy of the waves; lie had floated tour days leneath a schorching sun, and on the fifth was liscovered. and picked up by an out ward bound [ndiaman. lie returned on the first opportuiity,but sickness prostrated him, and he had just anded from a merchantman when Lady Aldela ecognized him. Need we finish the story? The imagination ?f the reader could do it for us. Let it he snfioe that after proving to the satisfaction of Lord ; Alton that he had descended from the ancient family of the Earldom of Ayre in Scotland, the poor student was presented with the hand of the beautiful Lady Aldela, and never in after life did he regret the lover's sacrifice. rnt I'ltorosAi.. A worthy young lover once sought for his bride, A dame of the blue stocking school; "Excuse me, good Sir, hut I've vowed,'' she replied, "That 1 never would marry a fool!" "Then think not of wedlock." he answered, "unfair; Your vow was Diana's suggestion, Since none but a fool, it is easy to swi-ar, V\ oil If! vriji un* n? \??m ui?;'jm';pu??ii. Ttic Domestic Young flan. J'Ki.ix is a young gentleman who lives at home with his mother, lie wears India-rubber goloshes when the weather is at all damp, and always has a silk handkerchief neatly folded up in the righthand pocket of his great-coat, to tie over his mouth when he goes home at night; moreover, being rather near-sighted, he carries spectacles for particular oecn-ior.s, and has a weskish,tremulous voire, of v hit li he makes rrreat. use. for he talks -<K< much as any old lady breathing. 'J'lie two chiefsubjccts of Felix's discourse are himself and his mother, both of whom would appear to be very wonderful and interesting persons. As Felix and his mother are seldom apart in body, so Felix and his mother are scarcely ever separate in spirit. Jfyou ask Felix how he finds himself to-day. he prefaces his reply with a loiiir and minute bulletin of his mother's state of health; and the good lady, in her turn,edifies her acquaintance with a circumstantial and alarming account, how he sneezed four times and couched once, after beinsr out in the rain the other night; but, having his feet promptly put into hot water, and-his head into a flannel something. which re will not describe more particularly than by tliis delicate allusion, was happily brought round by the next morning, and enabled to goto business as usual. Our friend is not a very adventurous, or hothead 'd person : but he has passed through many dangers, as his mother can testify. There is one great story in particular, concerning a hackney-coachman. who wanted to over-charge him one right f >r bringing them home from the play, upon which Felix gave the aforesaid coachman a look which his mother thought would have crushed him to the earth, but which did not crush him quite, for he continued to d-mar.d another sixponce, notwithstanding that Felix took out his pocket book, and witfi the aid ot a nat-canuie, pointed out the fare in print, which the coachman obstinately disregarding, he shut the streetdoor with a slam which makes his mother shudder to think of; and then, roused to the most appalling pitch of pasriun. by the coachman knocking a double knock to show that ho was by no means con\ineed, he broke with uncontrollable lbrce from his parent and the servantgirl, and running into the street without his hat, actually shook his fist at the coachman, and came back again, "with a face as white," Mrs, Nixon says, looking about her f..?r a smile, "as that ceiling." She never will forget his fury that night?never! To this account Felix listens with a solemn face, occasionally looking at you to see how it affects you; and when his mother has made an er.d of it, adds that he looked at ever}- coachman lie met for three weeks afterwards, in hopes that he might see the scoundrel?whereupon Mrs. Xixon, with an exclamation of terror, request* to know what ho would have done to him if he had seen him; at which, Felix smiling darkly and clenching his light fist, she exclaims, "Goodness gracious!"' with a distracted air, and insists upon extorting a promise that he never will, on any account, do anything so rash, which lmr dutiful son?it being something more than three years since the offence was committed? reluctantly concedes; and his mother, shaking her head prophetically, fears, with a sigh, that his spirit will lead him into something violent yet. The discourse then, by an easy transition, turns upon the spirit which glows within the bosom of Felix; upon which point Felix himself becomes eloquent, relates a thrilling anecdote of the time when he used to sit up till two o'clock in the morning reading French, and how his mother used to say, "Felix, you will make yourself ill, 1 know you willand how housed to say, "Mother. I don't care?I will do itand how, at last, his mother privately procured a doctor to come and sec him, who declared, the moment he felt his pulse, that if he had gone on reading otic night more?only one night more? he must have put a blister on each temple, and another between his shoulders. Mrs. Nixon has a tolerably extensive circle of female acquaintance, being a good-humored talkative, bustling little body: and to the unmarried girls among them, she. is constantly vaunting the virtues of her son, hinting that she will be a very happy person who wins hint, but that they inuM. mind their j?'s and q's for he is very particular, and terrible severe upon young ladies. At this hist caution, the young ladies re>id'.-nt in the same row, w ho happen to be spending the evening there, put their pocket-handkerchiefs before their mouths, and arc troubled with a short cough; just then Felix knocks .at the door, and his mother, drawing the tea-table nearer the lire, calls out to him, as he takes off his boots in the back parlor, that he needn't mind COIUlll? HI III HIS Mlj'JK-ls, II>1 im-ll- <us vmj w.v two Miss Greys and Miss Thomson, and she is quite sure they will excuse him, and nodding to the two Mis (dreys she adds in a whisper, that Julia Thomson is a great favorite with Felix, at which intelligence the short cough comes again, and Miss Thomson, in particular, is greatly troubled with it, till Felix coining in, very faint for want of his tea, changes the subject of discourse, and enables her to laugh out boldly, and tell Amelia drey not to he so foolish. Here they all three laugh, and Mrs. Nixon says they are giddy girls; in which stage of the proceedings, Felix, who has by this time refreshed himself with the grateful herb that "cheers, but not ine briates," removes his cup from his countenance, and says, with a knowing smile, that all girls arc; whereat aununng inamnia j-ais nun on tlio back, and tolls him not to ho sly, which calls forth a general laugh from the young ladies, and another smile from Felix, who, thinking he looks very sly indeed, is perfectly satisfied. Tea being over, the young ladies resume their work, and Felix insists upon holding a skein of silk while Miss Thompson winds it on a card. This process having Won performed to the -?atistactiou of all parties, lie brings down his llute in compliance with a request from the youngest Miss Grow and plays divers tunes out ot a very ?mall made book till tapper time, when he i* very facetiuus and talkative, indeed. Finally, after half a tumbler full of warm sherry and water, he gallantly puts on his goloshes over his slippers, and telling Miss Thompson's servant to run on first and get the door open, escorts that young lady to her house, five doors off; the Miss Greys, who live in the next house but one, stop to peep with merry faces from their ow n door till ho. cmiks ba.-k again, when they call out, "Very well Mr. Felix," and trip into the passage, with a laugh more musical than ar.v fiutc that was ever played. Felix is rather prim in his appearance, and, per ' baps, a Jittie prijfish about his books and nute, ! and so forth, which have all t heir peculiar corners ! of peculiar shelves in his bed room; indeed, all his fi inale ncqaiutance?and they are good judges?have, long ago, set liim down as a thorough I old bachelor, lie is a favorite with tkeiri, how! ever, in a certain way as an honest, inoffensive, j kind hearted creature; and as his peculiarities ! harm nobody, not even himself, we are induced to hope that many who are not acquainted with him, will take our good word in his "behalf ar.d ! be content to leave him to a long continuance of j his harmless existence. Thought* for Farmer*. Under this head the Rome Courier makes the following very sensible and timely suggestions to the planters, which we beg to commend to their , consideration: | "At or before this season of the year, it is usui al fur intelligent and successful farmers to lay j out their plans and commence the preparation of . their lands for a new crop of oats, corn, cotton, Ac. In this region of country the last two years, ! with here and there an exception, have been kighi Iy unpropitious to the growth of average crops, j particularly cf the two former, and Lad not an ! abundant wheat harvest come to our relief, the : count it would have had a foretaste of a tempo j rary fmiine. As it is. it will require the exerci| se of the most rigid economy upon the part of all concerned for the next six months, to enable the provision crop of last year to Lold out until the new one is laid by or gathered. "We will venture the assertion, that within the recollection of the 'oldest inhabitants,' there never was a more universal failure at the South j of the oat crop, than the one witnessed last year, ; nor a more maguiticer.t display of nubbins and i small potatoes. Fortunately for themselves, if not for their owners, a goodly number of neat cattle took a near cut out of trouble by surfeiting themselves upon blasted or smut-corn in the fall, and thus escaped the, more tardy and mortifying process of gradual starvation. Enough, however, survive, and barnless and fodderless, wander forth, seeking something to devour, to excite 0'ir cotnjniseration and elicit our charities; and we would suggest to the worthy officer? and members of the different Agricultural Association in Georgia, i that fairs be held during the present year for their { especial benefit. j "But onr primary object in penning this artij cle is, to urge upon our agricultural friends the propriety of planting loss cotton, and more of every thing which conduces to the sustenance of man and boast. The true and only safe policy of the fanner or planter steadily to pursue is, to plant for au abundant supply of the necessaries of life first and foremost , and then if he has sur ! plus lands and labor, devote them to the culture of cotton.. Were the whole South thun to reverse the order of things, and make the provision crop the primary one, and the cotton crop the secondary one, we should at once see a more prosperous and encouraging state of things. The price of the great staple, without the artificial stimulants of cotton conventions would naturally and steadily appreciate, and the whole country become more independent and prosperous. We say then to our agricultural friends, in preparing yonr ground for another crop, don't forget the crib, the granary, the patato bank, and the smoke house.? We can live without cotton; bread and neat we must have. ??? From the Southern Cultivator. Plow Dorp and Plant Shallow. Mr. Editor: In looking about ine this year, 1 have noticed a great number of farmers in this ! part of the country breaking up their lands about ten inches deep, and p'antmg their corn nearly as deep?as is the old adage with us, "Plow deep and plant deep?but plant deep I any how." Now, sir, do you not know that this is ft mistake? If you clou t. 1 know that it is as broad a mistake as was ever made by intelligent farmers, because I have tried it and i know it by experience. My rule is to plow deep, and plant shallow, (contrary to the recommendation of several "Agricultural paper?,*') and 1 will give you wiy reason for so doing. I plow deep (subsoil from lift eon to twenty inches) so as to get as much clay on top as possible, which will through a chemical process, turn to soil; and to turn the soil under the clay, in which I intend for the roots of the corn to grow. I have the rows in which I intend planting run off about four inches deep; by this means I secure the richest soil for my corn to take root in; and by plowing deep and planting shallow, 1 have a deep loose soil, and will always secure a moisture to the roots of corn. The question might be asked, why I w it that he don't plant hi-* corn deep ! It is this: j suppose 1 break my land fifteen inches deep and I -I--1 J I would nnlirhnwi tiny* | Hit ill IU> iviii nuiw * * %r I inches of loose dirt tor my corn to grow in, and i more than probata that would be clay, while I the roots of corn would have little or no advantage from ill' soil, it must be to all, that will i look at the reason of the case, very evident that their doubts about this (if they uqe-;tion it alH to try the experiment next year, and inform you of the result. Wishing you great success in your paper, I remain. Truth. Why is the sun like a loaf of broad.' Fee ante it is light when it rises. Why is a young widow like a poet's coat? Fcentv?e she wants to be rrpni'cd. M.