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P THE TAMDEN JOURNAL i; VOLUME 3. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, OCTOBER 8,1852. NUMBER 8L ^ Bfe- THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. . k*. published semi-weekly akd weekly by L THOMAS J. WARREN. - TERMS. F- The Semi-Weekly Journal is published at Thre Dollars and Fifty Cents, if paid in advance, or Fou *Dollars if payment is delayed three months. hB^Tiie Weekly Journal is published at Two Dollar ^ tf paid in advance; Two Dollars and Fifty Cents if pay : v mcnt be delayed three months, and Three Dollars if no card till the expiration of the year. ,; , ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the follow lag terms: For one Square (fourteen lines or less) in th? , semi-weekly, one dollar for the first, and tweuty-fivi ( cents for each subsequent insertion. In the weekly ^geventy-flve cents per square for tho first, and thirty-se Ey^en and a half cents for each subsequent insertion, bin 5./": gle insertions one dollar. Semi-monthly, monthly ant *^Lquarterly advertisements charged the same as for a sin ST- gle insertion. b; ^TThe number of insertions desired, and the edi lion to bo published in must be noted on the margin o all advertisements, or they will be published semi-week v ly until ordered discontinued and charged accordingly m- ? For Ote Oa.nden Journal NIGHT. L 'Tis uight?and Luna pours her beam Upon the grove crown'd hill, 1 And sparkles with a silver gleam ^ Witliir. the murm'ring rill; And as pursues the Queen of night Her radiant course on high, 0L. HersofVand melancholy light, If- v Looks earthward, with a glory bright, - ' From out the azure sky. MP The twinkling stars watch o'er the scene From their lotie homes above, And gaze upon the Earth serene Like seutinels of love; Whilst fleecy clouds through ether swim, Dotting the dome of night, Like robes of viewless seraphim, Sent to trausmit the word of liim, Who is the God of Light. Now, whilst all nature is asleep, "i - I love to sit and view, g/ The shade-pursuing shadows sweep J} T Across a sky of blue. fl Theu liberated fancies find f . Thoughts beautiful and free, Whisp'rings of a mysterious kind Seem to be bringing to my miud Bright images of thee. * 'Tis sweet to dream thus, whilst the ray 8 Of Luna round me throws t Reflective beams; then far away j 'i'ne winged Fancy goes.? L Aspiring to yon concave skier, 1 Which glitter up above? v, And from some star with guardian eyes ? Lboks down on her I dearly prize And thus declares my love : I "Look up, look up, ?ny gentle dear, K?v. Look up to this lone star, Which pauses in the fields of air d. To gaze on thee atari * Lookup! nor shun its distant rays, For it is loved by one. Who, floating in the brilliant blaze Which is thy atmosphere, always Revolves 'round thee?his sun. jj - Look up, and.think on him who weeps E* r;sWtien night involves the heaven, ,, Whose mournful heart in anguish keeps The passion thou hast givon ! t Look up, and let thy tender eye [ Be moist with pity's tear, pat And send one single mutual sigh Up to the purely beauteous sky, And whisper'He is dear!'" THETA. Extkaordinarv Surgebv.?A few weeks ago I says the correspondent of the Locomotive, I was ' standing on the pavement, with several others, in > the town of , and some of the crowd had , been spinning yarns, when one rather easy kind fellow spoke up and said he could tell a truth ; that put all their varus down. Said he, 'I once f knew a man who got kicked on the head by a horse, and was badly wounded. A man was immediately dispatched to a neighboring town for a skilful physician. The doctor arrived without [ delay, and on examination, he found to his dis i. way that Ins skull was uroKen, anu a consiaera bio amount of braiu gone. lie ordered a hog killed as soon as possible. Hi9 request was comr plied with, and he took about a tea-cup full oi bog's brains and filled up the cavity in his pa tient's head, patched his skull with silver, dressed the wound, and in a short time he was well, and * was the same as ever, excepting that he had a - slight inclination to root /" tL Hobned Rattle Snake.?Mr. William H k Thomas of Qualla Town, Haywood connty, N b C., writes to the Asheville News that a Cheroke< E Indian named Salola captured a suakq U(1 tin Sniokev Mountain^ viliich ho describes "of th< usual sizs oi Diamond Rattle Shakes foqnd ii B fhfi rqountain? of this country, of a dark color? ji pa sis head two forked horns of about thre< e fourths of an inch long." The Indians said it g seemed to be a king among snakes of its species r- Nothing of the kind has been seen heretofore bj I any of the "oldest white inhabitants. P; Novel Feat with a Gun.?A correspondeni I sajs that a person undertook for a bet qf tc I lie op the ground, throw a potato up, turn hcai I over heels, piqk up the gun and hit the potato ou of five shot? before it to the ground, Th< ia, said feat was done, tys't Friday at Mr. Fox's th< ? George and Vulture, Tottenham, the jjorson win - jjing his be't the first shot. * i From the Soil of the South. ADDRESS Before the Oak Bowery Agricultural Society, delivered at Oak Bowery, Chambers County, Ala., on the 23d of June, 1852. * 1 By Charles A. Peabody. 1 o Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : r The honor of addressing you on this, your first . anniversary, I cannot but regard as an unmerited . s distinction. When I look around me, and see j the gentlemen of talent, the ornaments of all the ( learned professions, and behold the bright, ex- | ,( - pectaut glances of your fair ladies, I feel that to 0 other and abler hands might have been entrusted , 3 this your first address. But, Ladies and Gentle' men, when I assure you that I bring a heart cn. tirelv devoted to the cause of agricultural iin 1 provement, and a mind deeply imbued with its * * great and paramount importance, you will excuse me, I am sure, for the lack which you will f find in eloquence; and, perchance, for a still . greater lack in scholastic lore. I do not propose r to give you a lengthy dissertation on agricultu- ,, ral science; the cheap publications of the day are open before you, and he that wills, may read and learn. But I rather propose to go into your plantations, into j'our fruit orchards, and to ac company you, fair ladies, through your flower c yards and kitchen gardens. I hail the forma- ^ tion of your Society as one of the brightest har- . bingers of improvement, in this most lovely county, ixcntlemen planters, I assume not to ~ teach or dictate to you, but let us reason together. You have established an Agricultural Society, ^ and for what purpose ? Would you improve and ^ enjoy it3 advantages, you should hold frequent meetings?impart freely your knowledge; if you \ can learn nothing yourselves, you may teach c others somethiug; for our prolession, our reli- v gion, and common interests, teach us to hide no j light of ours under a bushel, aud it is our glory and our pride that it is so. We ask no patent rights for kuowledge, but as freely as we receive, ^ as freely do we impart. a . "No pent up Utica contracts our powers The whole boundless Universe is ours." r Tell me not that you can learn nothing from o the past. Is the experience of these silvered ) heads, which 1 see around me, nothing ??Forty! r fifty ! sixty ! perchance seventy summers, have a . rolled o'er some of you, and in that long expo- 1 ricnce, are you not wiser, in the great art of t making human food and clothin<r from thn olo- a -? ? o . ments around than when you started ? Yes, I you may say, but you learned it from long expc- * rience, and not from societies like this, or from books. Granted ; but will you not impart your t long experience to the rising generation ? You t have toiled through many reverses, and long ex- n perieuce hath made you a Farmer. Here, through h the ineJium of your Society and the press, may t you impart that which it hath taken you per- P haps half a century to acquire, and your young ii men may start in the agricultural profession ? where you left off. Tell me, ye men of years, a could ye have started life with all the knowledge n of your past experience before you, would ye not c have been wiser, richer, happier, far, than now ? v Take heed, then, how ye hide your lights under & a bushel. The days are fast disappearing when g men shall be heard to say they can learn noth- p ing new in Agriculture. The wisest and greatest v men confess the infancy of their knowledge in a agricultural scieuce; for whether it itis taught by t science or by practice, the physical world is so J> full of new and startliug truths, that, though we I Jse our eyes, and prefer to grope in darkness, 1 t stiff the glimmering rays will pierce the wilroily closed lids from the thousand dashing lights around us. Gentlemen, yours is a noble calling. 1 Behold ! the anxious eyes of the civilized world a are upon vou: vou arc to feed and clothe the millions. Have you weighed well your responsi- r bility to your God, your country and yourselves ? ) Are you such perfect masters of your calling, l1 that when the common routine of the farm is u interfered with, by a visitation of any of the s many scourges of our crops, that you can bring t the head to work as well as the hands ? Are t you familiar with the entomology of your see- a tion ? Have you a proper knowledge of the ? cross fecundation of plants and flowers? Do a you know the component part9 of your own soil ? n If not, then here are subjects for your Society, tj In your deliberations and councils, discuss these c most important matters; learn from whence t come these dreaded scourges. Yes, intelligent planters, study insects, if you would protect your h crops from the ravages of insects. Is it a matter v of little moment to you, that the flowered winged h moth flits its midnight flight over your fairest h fields of cotton, depositing its millions of eggs to s hatch out the destructive boll-worm ? The boll- a ; worm has come, ye say, and the startling cry is ^ . echoed from settlement to settlement. But who c [" knows a preventive ? Here, emphatically, will ii . -1 iL-x 1 1 _ 1 3 x ... o you unu mai Kuowieuge is power, auu 10 110 pro- d I fession on earth is it a greater power than to the t [ agricultural. A correct knowledge of the insect 1 i tribes around you may shield and protect your e crops from their ravages. Your children chase 1' in sportive glee the gaudy butterfly ; as he flits C on listless wing from flower to flower; but do t you teach there, that though they float on wings j of beau/,.^ tiiey lay the foundation for the defo- 1 , liatiou and destruction of your brightest trees t j an4 plants, yoyr choicest frpits and flowers, in 1 j tho production of the loathsome caterpillar! 1 You arc the only practical botanists: but do you t [ heed its silent, beautiful teachings ? Behold the j ^ flower, with its impregnating pollen ! Nature is t ever active in perpetuating its spepies, but if we f would improve upon nature we must follow up ? l.nr r>lnn? " What have we to do with flowers ?" c methinks I hoar you say; leave them to the wo- 1 t men and children."?Hold ! presumptuous njan, < , the flower Is but God's beauteous harbinger of s | fruit. Through the flower the seed is impreg- t t nated, and through the flower you may originate > i new varieties of cotton, corn, :ruits, vegetable B ? and ornamental plants. Flowers, whether t " Wildings of nature, or cultured with care, Yc arc bcau'.iflil, bcautifUl, everywhere," c 1*. We find that our Northern, French, and Eng glish neighbors are annually producing new fruits vegetables and flowers, by hybridization ; upoc the same principle may you improve your native fruits, your cotton, and your corn You have all ieen the principle carried out in nature by the mixture of white and yellow corn, even across large fields?This was effected through the flower. What may ycu not accomplish by a scientific tnowledge of Botany ? Your live stock are laily fed under your direction. You know that !orn, oats and fodder sustain them, but your arge stock of vegetablo productions, tho cotton, om. OSlf? \vV\onf rvo enrnirtti Xm kuhim tn V./* ??J " MV??wj J VJ but ui|AJj WVtj A Vj1^ U1 i V> tw UV 'eel as well as your live stock. Have you learned heir specific food ? You would not have given ,'our horse fresh beef, because you knew he did lot need it, either to. make his bones, muscles, lesh, hide or hair; but without a knowledge of he specific food of plants, you are liable to com nit as great an error in feeding them as you vould to have given your horse the beef. Aud vhere so nroner a nlace tn imnart and rowivA in # I 1? - 1 - ?I 1? --?~ ? ormation upon the specific food of plants as hrough your Society ? You purchase lands; vhat test have you of their quality? Your vhole prospects in life depend upon their proluctivencss; have you no tests butyour own untided senses to detect and point its fertilizers ? fou may pile high as mountains the compost leap and yet spoil the whole as a fertilizer by ine misplaced ingredient. Here, then, in your louncils, talk over your compost heaps,\ compare rour soils and their productions, and information nay be elicited which years of patient toiling la>or may fail to accomplish. As agriculturists, lo you so vary your productions that you are in lependent of New England or Kentucky ? or do 'ou feed your stock on Northern hay, and your icgroes on Western bacon ? The past season las taught us lc-ssons of wisdom in these maters, if we will but profit by them. When I look upon your beautiful county, and ichold its fine grain and grass-growing qualities, ,nd witness its beautiful fruit and vegetable proiuctiuns, I am constrained to exclaim, What a ich heritage is yours! even without the culture f cotton. But when I take into consideration our genial cliine, and the f;ict that you may aise everything that can be raised at the North ,nd West, with the addition of the great static?cotton?sweet potatoes, and many fruits hat they cannot raise, I feel that you arc truly ?rrvi?A/l TinAnlA onrl aT oil a( linrc on firvrl'c lawiui uuu vi uu vbuv/io vu vi vu w lounteous globe should " greatly independent ,ive." Let rue urge upon you the importance of adoping and adapting the improved implements of lusbandry to your culture. Of what avail is hunan skill ar.d ingenuity, if we briug it not to ear in saving humau labor ? The sub-soil plow, he scraper, the cultivator, the roller, the seed ilanter, the root puller, and many other improved mplemcnts, are destined to work wonders in louthern culture. As rncu enquire, and read, nd think, and practice, they will coucludc that autil ited roots do not add to the product of a rop any more than mutilated tops, and that aricty of tool will bo selected which best preerves the roots and cultivates the crop. The ;rcat objection to the adoption of improved imdements has been in the prejudices of our serants; but this should not be allowed to weigh . feather; for I assert, without fear of coutradicion, that were the most improved implements doptcd ou our farms, every tenth hand might ie dispensed with, aud the work be better, cheater and easier done. And what are you doing for your cattle ?? ^.rc you taking steps to improve the breeds? iemcmber, that it costs no more to raise a good nimal than a poor one. The mule having so ar taken the place of the patient ox, as to aluost drive beef from our tables, I urge upon ou tho propriety ot using the ox lor a larger ortion of tho plautation work; for after his tsefulncss for labor is over, the nourishment and ustenance which liis flesh affords us, is more han a compensation for the slowness of his mo10ns. But the cow?tho most indispensable of 11 animals- -I would plead in her behalf. Milk ud butter being so essential to all good living, nd the fact that we are uot able to import our uilk from i.broaad, it behooves you to go to the Auntaiu head at once, and select the best brecd/s for milkers?and when obtained, to so feed hem as if you expected them to feed you. The root crops aro entirely too much neglected iere; the sivcet potatoe, carrot, parsnip, manglevurzel, rutabaga, and common turnip arc raised iere easier than in any other couutry under the icavcns; tliey require 110 housing, (except the weet potato?,) and are easily turned into milk nd butter through the labratory of the cow.? four natural pastures are good, and 110 country an surpass your artificial grazing or green soil ng, and way snail not your mint ana uuuci uu s rich and abundant as in any other section of he country 3 Ask yourselves this question, lemen, and resolve, in your irdercourso with ach other, to discuss the matter until you have earned th<{ ,t'ny and wlicrcforo; and "Chambers ounty milk and butter will be as celebrated as hat of Orange County, Now York, But, gentlemen, you who till the soil and live >y its tillage, I would not have you, in the wcighier concerns of the farm, neglect the thoqsand uxqrics, hcautjes qnd comforts qf horticulture, t'ours is beyond question, a fruit-growing counry; liere may you havo the melting pear, the uicy apple, the luscious peach, the blushing uccarine, the acid quince, tno sugar)- fig, the per* ' ' ?? ??J A-> umcd grape, tue musKy raspoerry >um mo jrant, delicious strawberry, al> growing ir* the >pen air, and challenging the wide world for suit riority. I could tell you something of my >wn fruit culture, but you might deem mo viionary, as our Northern horticultural brethren lo; but well attested facts speak louder than isions?and you may form somo idea of my access in strawberry culture, when I inform you hat I have a constant succession of fruit from darch until Ssptenibcr, and that in the month >f May I sold in the Columbus market five hun drcd dollars' worth of this delicious fruit, and my , beds arc still in full fruit and bloom. What I i have done in fruit culture you may do; for I s have hid no light of mine under a bushel. I And, ladies! what arc you doing in thekitch! en garden ? Have you discarded the long blue i collard, and placed the hard-headed cabbage , there ? Have you the Irish 'potatoe in all its ; farinaceous perfection ? Have you the aromatic i celery, with its brittle crisp stalk ? Do you have a constant succession of snaps, peas, okra, toroa1 toes, &c., until,frost? If yon have not, then you may look to this Society to bring all this about; for I take it you are banded together for improvement, and if you originate no new vegetable productions, you will at least improve upon the old ones. And I would urge one more important matter for your consideration : That you sustain the agricultural press. Its influence and usefulness is daily increasing, and those who _rr_ _i JI i- * ? 1 anect, 10 acspise us counsels, are irapercepiioiy adopting its teachings; its patrons are among the great and good of every land. The true statesman appreciates its utility, for it enhances national wealth and prosperity, and raises individual independence. Encourage it then, as you would sustain your own best interests; write for it, as the sure means of spreading light. The agricultural press is to the public what your Society should be to each other?a mirror held up to nature, reflecting practical men's minds. I have go more into detail, in this short address, on the culture of crops, specific manures, draining, sub-soil plowing, &c., but gentlemen, I refer you to the agricultural papers of the day ; they are published so cheaply as to be within roach of all, and contain all that is useful in sci entific and practical agriculture. To the law-makers of the land I would apnea! and t.n the farmers that make the law-ma Iters, I would appeal still stronger, why is it that every interest but the agricultural is fostered and protected ? Why is it that agricultural education is so grossly neglected? Were our youth early imbued with the scientific principles of ag1 riculture, the bosom of our mother earth would freely yield her treasures, when in after life, they might either from necessity or choice, seek a living there. But no, the science of sustaining human life is nothing to our legislators. Party! with its hydra head, reigns in its legislative halls supreme; and the farmer educates his son for what they are not to be?content himself to plod on in dark obscurity, making substances for bartering merchant-princes to reap the real profits from his sweating toil. The moment his productions are made they assume an importance not before given to them, even by himself for they are merchandise then. And the silent weaving web of nature, when she formed from the air, the earth, and the water, around us, those useful and necessary fabrics, that nourishing and life-sustaining food, is left uncared for, neglected, and forgotten in the glory of tho merchant's counting-room, his exchanges and nrofits. c* 1 O J Farmers, should this be so ? Demand of your lawgivers agricultural instruction for the masses; elevate and place your calling on a footing with the highest sciences; educate your children for what they are to l>e?and when blight, rust, mildew or insects assail their crops, instead of calmly looking on, and talking about bad luck, they will go manfully to work by the light of scieuee and counteract the evils. What a mistaken notion has pervaded the public mind that the farmer needs no education! Why, gentlemen, the Southern farmer should be the most intelligeut man on earth. In his charge are servants subject to like passions and diseases as himself; he should understand all the laws of health. He should be a physiologist as well as a botanist. Who so much interested in the changing weather. lie should be familiar with the motions of the earth, he should be a living barometer! Who so much interested in the crust of the earth ? He should be a practical chemist, geologist and mineralogist. Who so much interested in the laws of trade ? He should be well skilled in all the laws of barter, exchange and commerce, in short, the perfect farmer should be a Christian, a gentleman, a philosopher and a statesman. Gentlemen of the Reverend Clergy! to your fostering care I commend the agricultural improvement of the age; with its improvement society has improved. The refinements and sociabilities of life, go with improved agriculture ; with refinement and susceptibility, morality; with morality, pure religion. So foster it; then, reverend gentlemen, that it may lead to temporal prosperity and happiness; and through its sublime and beautiful teachings, to eternal bliss. And finally, ladies and gentlemen ! let roc impress upon you the importance of beautifying and adorning the homestead. The happyinflu ences it may have on your posterity can hardly be calculated, When you build, as if you exppCiod to make your house your own and your children's home, and not a tenement for strangers. Save and protect the native trees around the homestead. The marks of circling years on their venerable trunks speak of centuries which you can never see; under their broad spreading branches may enjoy the cool breezes of heaven ; and whilst every thing else around you is modern and new, they connect with the shawody past?they spestk of other days. Embellish your grounds with fruits and flowers. Secure pure and wholesome water. And now, fair daughters of Chambers, is your time to step in, to give color, substance and beauty, not only to your homesteads, but to yourselves and your children. Mothers, let mo beg of you, as you would serve thft stata in hnildiunt ud a hulwark of raoralitv ? - o I # ; t waround her borders, and in increasing the usefulness, happiness, and prosperity of your children's minds the principles of beauty. Teach tjiem early the love and culture of flowers. That earlove will prove an oasis in the great desert of life?never, never to boforgotton; but will throw a halo over the homestead around which shall cling all the fond memories of youth and ninturer age. Yes ladies, this is your part, and I believe you will faithfhllv carry it out; for woman r and beauty, truth and love, are synonymous terms. You need not go to Indian isles for flow-, ers of beauty ; your own mountains and valleys ^ teem with floral gems. Gather these and place, them in your own parterres. Let the trees' dark, waving foilage shield and protect your portfeoe from the glariug sunbeams; give the trellis tL graceful trailing vine; and that home shaflbe a home of hearts, cemented by the pure and bean- ^ . ^ tiful. Then, indeed, will your household reaHztf the poet's vision, that "Fancy may charm, and feelings bless, .. .. "With sweeter hours than fashion knows; % There is no calmer quietness, Than home around the bosom throws. . C Ladies and gentleman 1 this is no fancy sketch- - Show me the habitation of men, add I WiH tell vaii nf fKoit* intAllinrAn/?o on/1 liotvmrtlood on/1 ; v" V' lUWMI^VHVA/j WUU ?U ".A tuc. For, say what you will, the human heart when actuated by virtuous principle, crates beauty. God has. developed H in everything ?roun$" us. It floats cm the fleecy cloud. It riderOtt the raging storm. It flashes in the burning sun-light. It beams in the arching rainbow. U smiles through the humblest flower. And out' . first parents, when driven by the Archangel front Eden, lingered "with wandering steps and slow," to catch' one last long look at her beautiful bow- .; ers. And thus should if be with you; your home should be your Eden, never abandoned un-:. til driven out by the angel of misfortune; an d even then, like your great progenitors, its earl^ memories frill mark the greenest spot id this pilgrimage of life. Farmers! improve and em- % bellish your homesteads. It will prove the nucleus around which every improvement of thief * farm will cluster; and may the smiles of Heaven rest upon yotff efforts, is my humble prayer. * V Reminiscences of General Marion?Drat# of McDonald.?We contribute the following ; facts iu the life of Marion, which were commanicated to us by worthy and. faithful soldiers of the renowned partisan leader. William Mcln-. tosh, of Sumter, now deceased, was present at . ;" the death of Sergeant McDonald. He gave us tho information some fourteen or fifteen years since. McDonald died at Fort Motte when thtf British were in possession of it. The fort, which:, consisted of the dwelling of Mrs. Motte, on the" south side of Congaree river, near its junction? with the Watcree, had been surrounded by k < ditch, for the protection of the Americans, who 38? were assailing it. The ditch was so shallow that it was necessary for the besiegers to stoop a? . they passed along from place to place. McDonald, with that daring which was his prominent trait, ventured to walk erect in the ditch, thus exposing his head and shoulders to the view o? the enemy in the Fort, which was within musket, . _ shot. The.,fatal effects of a certain rifle, whose peculiarly clear sound was well known to the ^ Whigs, had been'sadly experienced by them on* several occasions. As McDonald was standing.^ up fearlessly in the ditch, he was warned by some * . one near him, in a vehement exhortation, to " beware of that rifle." He replied that he "bad M faced British guns too often unharmed to fear/ them." As he spoke, the shrill crack of the ri- * - fie was heard, he feU, and his brains gushed from the mortal wound. Marion's Farewell,?Capt. Peter Dubo&y of Sumter, another of Marion's men, who was a Whig from tlie first to the last of the war, said N; to us before his death, that at the oloee of ther bloody contest, when it was no longer necessary , to keep our armies in the field, Marion assembled his soldiers to make a farewell speech on separa- * ting from his war-worn companions, who were. JraLv about to retire to the shades of peace to enjoy their blood-bought liberty. They were all deeply affected at the idea of parting with their brave . and beloved General and " albeit unused to the melting mood," were prepared to shod tears \in dor the influence of a heart-felt leave-taking. v ( ? Marion mountea a stand to address them,' but to" the astonishment of all remained silent,-and at last, it being manifest that his heart was too full for utterance, he simply waved a farewell with-' f his hand. The effect of this mute eloquence * was more powerful and electrical than the most K polished valedictory. Every soldier shoated' long and loud "huzzas," and a cloud of weatherbeaten caps went up from that little band of herocs.?Marion Star. For Rattlesnake Bites.?The following says' the N. Y. Sun, is au Indian recipe for rattlesnake' bites, and said to be the same infallible remedy used a few years ago by a certain tamer and ex1 ' -a? * % il\io o?/1 nifioc ' HI DUO r UI LUCav iu UIIO OUU uiuv. V?V?VW)M who, it may be remembered, allowed them toi. bite them frequently during exhibition. Pulverized Indigo, 4 drachms, do. Camphor, 8 do. Mix and keep it in closely corked bottles.-? The directions for use are simply as follows: After shaking the bottle, soak the bitten part in the mixture for five minutes, and the cure is complete.' Interesting Surgical Operation.?It iswith exceeding pleasure that wo notice the ajl^" viaiion of misery under any circumstances. BUtt when afflicted humanity demands surgital1 assistance as a very salvation from the toriilfy it is with more than the ordinary feelings of gratification that we record their relief and! rescue.? A few days'since two interesting surgical operations were performed in our city, each evidencing the power of human skill in ^hatching from the' embrace of pain, if not death, the person afflicted. The first was the reuibval of a portion of the the fifth and sixth ribs ftbm the left side of Mrs, in fkn uroiitam J&nzabetb u-teason a muj i?miug ... u.u section of the city. The other was the removal of a cancerous tumor from the breast of Mrs, Donnelly a laity residing in the same section who had been suffering from the effect of tumor for nearly a year, Both operations were formed with skill by the same physioian Dr Joseph Keenan. The ladies in question are both doing well, with every prospect of speedy recovery.?Ball Times.