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ACftUGUXiTUllE.
THOUGHTS FOR FARMERS.
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 usual for intelligent and suc
cessful farmers to lay out their plans
and commence the preparation of their
lauds for a new crop of oats, corn cot
ton and &C. In this region of country
the last two years, with here and there
and exception, have been highly unpro-
pitious to the growth of average crops,
particulatly of the two former, and had
not an abundant wheat harvest come
to our relief the country would have
had a foretaste of a temporary famine.
As it is, it will require the exercise 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 hold out until the new one is laid by
or gathered.
“ We will venture the assertion, that
within the recollection of the “ oldest
inhabitant,” there never was a more
universal failure at the South of the oat
crop, than the one witnessed last year,
nor a more magnificent display of null-
bins and small potatoes. Fortunately
for themselves, if not for their owners,
with a l*oiizon. until true with the flue, the shock, it would he to die with ac*
No matter in what direction the wind cute or chronic inflamation.
blows, on striking this inclined plane, In violent motion, the respiration of
the current will glance upwards, and Imth men and horses is increased, but
pass the chimney, without the possihili- not sufficiently so as ti> carry ofl'thv
ty of Mow ing down it A coat of white- heat that is generated—Hhey perspire
vored to intimidate his wife, and there
by discover the hiding-place. She an
swered all their inquiries, entreaties and
threats, with taunts and curses. One
morning, while carrying her husband’s
breakfast, site saw the track of a tro-
vvash inside aud nut, every summer, adds
very much to the neat and comfortable
appearance of the buildings, and is also,
by its cleansing and _ g effect,
conducive to health. 'Hie coat is al
most nothing, as one barrdl of good
lime will whitewash a dozen common
sized negro houses, and any negro can
put it on.
If there he not natural shades suffi
cient to keep the houses comfortable,
a row of mulberries, or such other sha
des ns may suit the owner’s fancy,
should by all means, he planted in front,
and so as to protect the houses on the
South and Southwest.
through the skin, the pores of which man’s foot coming from the hut where
become opened or enlarged, and it is Melvin lay concealed, anil she deter-
while in this condition that both are mined to verify her suspiceons that vc-
exceedingly liable to be injured, and ry night. “ If it he so,” said she, “ lie
when great care is necessary to pro- shall die—’tis the penalty pronounced
serve the health of either.
MISGSLLARROUS.
[From the Waverly Magazine.]
AGNES PENDLETON.
A TALE OF THE REVOLUTION.
“In their single fends
What deeds of prowess unrecorded.”
The Revolutionary war in the South-
The negroes should be required to ern colonies resembled rather a strug-
keep their houses and yards clean ; and glo of man with man. than the conflict
in case of neglect, should receive such of two great parties. Every little glen,
punishment us will Ik? likely to insure every open field, nay, almost every
plantation, became a scene of ruthless
and bloody contest; quarter was nei-
j ther asked nor granted, and the Whigs
and Tories of the South added another
terrible instance of the relentless rage
| of civil war to those which stained the
A tale of those trv-
more cleanly habits in future.
The Utility of Leaves.—Every
person conversant with vegetable philo
sophy, is aware that the all important
requisite in the grow th of fine fruit is a
good supply of biff, vigorous, healthy
ly oi niff, vigorous, healthy pneps of l.jgtorv.
tree which is kept defoliated jn ~ times xvhii :|,
leaves. A
for a single season must die; and fruit
growing u|>on branches which are de
prived of their leaves cannot ripen—ex
amples of which are furnished by the
instant cessation of grow th and ripen
ing of fruit upon trees which become
stripped by leaf blight. In one instance,
a dense mass of plums remained half
grown and flavorless for several weeks,
in consequence of the premature drop
ping of the foliage—a second crop of
leaves three weeks afterwards, effected
the completion of their growth and their
ripening to honied sweetness. 'Hie
editor of the Michigan Farmer men
tions the following interesting case, il
lustrating the same principle; Mr. More,
of Detroit, has a magnificent grajie-
I am about to relate,
shall receive no additional fancy; in
deed it needs none, for it contains the
very essence of the terrible, or (as the
man said of the jest) it did w hen it was
told to me.
Agnes Pendleton was the daughter
of a keen, cunning Yankee, who had
travelled southward in hopes of In-get-
ting his temporalities, in which design,
like most of his persevering country
men, he completely succeeded. Put
Hiram Z. Pendleton, like many other
great men, Irefnre and since, found
that gratified ambition did not necessa
rily bestow happiness. Hiram’s large,
staring blue eyes, and i, red,
cabbage-looking cheeks, attracted the
fanes of a rich and self-willed .^outli-
goodly number of neat cattle took a spreading itself over one side of t-rn heiress, and Hiram Itecame her
near cat out of trouble by surfeiting
themselves upon blasted or smut corn
in the fall, and thus escaped the more
tardy and mortifying process of gradu
al starvation. Enough, however, sur
vive, and bamless and foddcrless, w an
der forth, seeking something to devour,
to excite our commiseration and elicit
our charities; and vve would suggest to
the wo> thy officers and members of the
different Agricultural Associations in
ticorgia, that fairs he held during the
present year for their especial benefit.
“ But our primary object in penning
this article is. to urge upon our agricul
tural friends the propriety of planting
less cotton, and more of everything
which conduces to the sustenance of
man and beast. The true and only
safe policy of the farmer or planter
steadily to pursue is, to plant for an
abundant supply of the necessaries of
life first and foremost, and then if he
has surplus lands and labor, devote
them to the culture of cotton. Were
the whole South thus to reverse the or
der of things, and make the provision
crop the primary one, and tjje cotton
crop the secondary one, we should at
once see a more (irosperous and encou
raging state of things. The price of
the great staple without the artificial
stimulants of cotton conventions would
naturally and steadily appreciate, and
the whole ertontry Iweome more inde
pendent and prosperous. We say then
to our agricultural friends, in preparing
your ground for another crop, don’t
forget the crib, the granary, the potato
bank, and the smoke house. We tan
live without cotton; bread and meat
we must have.
Construction of Negro Houses.
—Many persons, in building negro
houses, in order to get clay convenient
for filling the hearth, and for mortar,
4k It hole under the floor. As such
excavations usually become a recepta
cle for filth, which generates disease,
they should by no means lie allowed.
In soils where the clay will make brick,
the saving of fuel, and the greater se
curity against fire, render it a matter of
economy to build brick chimneys In
all cases, the chimneys should be ex
tended fully two feet above the roof,
that there may be less danger in dis
charging sparks, 'iliey are less liable
to smoke. In consequence of negro
houses being but one story high, the
lowness of the chimneys render them
very liable to smoke, from currents of
winds driving dowa the flue. This may
be effectually prevented by tbe follow
ing simple precaution: Around the
top of the chimney throw out a l»aae
some eight or ten inches wide, and from
the outer edge of this draw in the cap
gn angle of thirty-five or forty degrees
his house, which was in September,
richly laden with fruit. After the clus
ters were formed, a cow entered the
enclosure, ate the leaves entirely, but
left the fruit untouched. 'Hie conse
quence was that upon that portion of
the vine which was beyond the reach
of the animal, there never were finer
dusters, while upon the portion from
which the leaves were removed, the
dusters dwindled away, and have come
to nothing, and that, too, up to the
very line of separation lietween the mu
tilated and unmutilated portions.
husband, partly on account of her per.
sonal charms mentioned, and which
are rare in those regions, and partly
liecause all her relations and “ sot dis-
sant” friends advised her to marry a
Yankee.' But one single olive branch
blessed the union—and truly Agnes
, Pendleton merited that name. She
was somewhat above tbe middle height,
had a pale, lofty, queen like brow, a
nose which was not Roman, hut some-
i what very near it, and an expression
! in her full dark eye of a greater love
by God’s law—he .shall die.'” She
went—and her suspicions were verified,
j She silently withdrew.
The next morning she led a party of
Whigs to the spot where tier husband
' t was concealed. It was a hut made of
shingles, built upon a ♦mall island in
, the centre of a swamp, where the gloo-
I my cypress and thick undergrowth ex-
duded the day; a perpetual twilight
[ overshadowed the spot. The \A big
j party lay in ambush around the hut.
! When I make this signal.” said Ag- i
! nes whistling shrilly like, a bird,
“Fire!” They obeyed her too well,
! and both she and her unfortunate hus
band fell dead at tbe first discharge.—
A bird who bad lost bis way strained
his pipe into a shrill whistle, and the
party in ambush mistook it for a signal.
Melvin and his wife lie buried in a spot
as dark as their fate—the centre of
Cypres* Swamp Island.
BENEDICT, THE MARRIED MAN.
“Yon grow unusually amiable and
kind; you are earnest in your search
for friends; you shake hands with your
office boy, as if be were your second
cousin. Yon joke cheerfully with the
stout washer-woman; and give her
a shilling over change, ami insist upon
her keeping it; and grow quite merry
at the recollection of it. Y on tap your
haekman on the shoulder very famil
iarly, and tell him he is a capital fellow;
and don’t allow him to w hip his horses,
except when driving to the post-office.
You even ask him to take a alass of
beer w ith yon upon some chilly even
ing. Y’ou drink to the health of his
wife. He says he has no wife; where
upon you think him a very miserable
man, anti give him a dollar by the way
of consolation.
You think all the editorials in the
morning papers are remarkably well
written—whether upon vnur side or
upon the other. Y ou thbik the stock-
market has a very cheerful look—with
Erie—of w hich you are a large holder
—down to seventy-five. Y on wonder
whv you never admired Mrs. Hemans
before, or Stoddard, or any of the rest.
Y’nn give a pleasant twirl to your
fingers, ns you saunter along the streets;
‘sell and wife!’ Y’ou wonder if any must Ire said, toward moderating the
body was ever so happy before, orever heat of your ambition,
will be so happy again ? i You grow up, however, unfortunate-
Y r ou enter your name on tbe hotel \ ly, as the College years flow by, into a
books as ‘Clarence and lady;’ very exaggerated sense of your own
and pome back to look at it—wonder- capacities. Even the good old wliite-
ing if any body else has noticed it— haired Squire, for whom you had once
and thinking that it looks remarkably entertained so much res|>eet, seems to
well. You cannot help thinking that I your crazy, classic fancy, a very bum-
every third man you meet in tbe hall drum sort of personage. Frank, nl-
wishes he possessed your wife; nor do though as noble a ft How as ever sat a
you think it very sinful in him to wish horse, is yet—you cannot help think-
it. You fear it is placing temptations ing—very ignorant of Euripides; even
in the wav of covetous men to put
Madge’s little gaiters outside the chain-
bar door at night.
Y’onr home, when it is entered, is
just what it should be—quiet, small—
with every thing she wishes, and no
thing more than she wishes. The sun
strikes it in the happiest possible way—
tbe piano is tbe sweetest toned in the
world—the library is stocked to n
charm—and Madge, that blessed wife,
is there adorning and giving life to it
all. To think, even, of her |M>s«ible
death, is a suffering von class with the
the English master at l)r. Bidlow’s
school, you feel sure would Milk at a
dozen problems you could give him.
Y ou get an exalted idea of that un
certain quality which turns tbe beads
of a vast number of your fellows, call
ed—Genius. An odd notion seems to
lie inherent in tbe atmospheres of these
College chambers, that there is a cer
tain faculty of mind—first developed,
as would seem, in Colleges—w hich ac
complishes whatever it chooses, with
out any special pains-taking. For a
time, you fall yourself into this very
unfortunate hallucination ; you culli-
infernal tortures of the Inquisition.
You grow’ twain of heart and purpose, vnte it, after the usual college fashion,
Smiles seem made for marriage; and by drinking a vast deal of strong eof-
yon wonder how you ever wore them fee and whiskey toddy—by writing a
before! | poor little verse,in the Byronic temper,
^ • and by studying very latent night with
FIRST AMBITION. j closed blinds.
I believe that sooner or later, there | I* costs you, however, more anxiety
comes to every man dreams of amid- n"d h vpocriry than you could possibly
tion. They may he covered with the have believed.
sloth of habit, or with a pretence of Yon will learn, Clarence, when the
humility; they may come only in dim, autumn has rounded yon r hopeful sum-
shadowy visions, that feed the eve, "icr, if not before, that there is no ge-
like the glories of an ocean sunrise; nius in life like the genius of energy
but you may be sure that they will «nd industry. You will learn that all
come; even before one is aware, the the traditions so current among very
bold, adventurous Goddess, whose young men. that certain great charac
name is Ambition, and whose dower is
Fame, will bo toying with the feeble
heart. And she pushes her ventures
with a bold hand ; she makes timidity
strong, aud weakness valiant.
The way of a man’s heart w ill be
foreshadowed by what goodness lies
in him—coming from above, and from
tors have wrought their greatness by
an inspiration as it were, grow out of
a sad mistake.
And you will further find, when you
come to monsnro yourself with men,
that there are no rivals so formidable
as those earnest, determined minds
which reckon the value of every hour,
around—but a way foreshadowed is ; and which achieve eminence by persis-
not a wav made. And the making ol tent application.
a man's way comes only from that
quickening of resolve which we call
Ambition. It is the spur which makes
man struggle with Destiny; it is Hea
ven’s own incentive to make Purpose
great and Achievement greater.
It would he strange if you, in that
cloister life of a college, did not some-
Liternry ambition may inflame you
at certain |>eriods, and a thought of
some great names will flash like a spark
into the mine of your purposes; vou
dream till midnight over your books;
you set up shadows and chase them
down—other shadows and they fly.—
Dreaming will never catch them. No-
; of command, than it is altogether pru
^ | dent for a woman to show before mar- j and say—but not so loud as to be over-
Pond Mud. Small ponds, into i rtage. Agnes was wooed snd won by I heard—“She is mine—she is mine!”
which is conveyed the wasli from the a Hashing voting planter, who having Y on wonder if Frank ever loved
circumjacent hills, often contain, at received his education in the North, Nellv one half ns well ns you love
their bottom, a stratum of yery rich, “made the intellectual,” deem him- Madge? Y’ou feel quite sure he never
self irresistible, and was withal some. did. Y ou can hardly conceive how it
what of a roue, after a coarse lashion, ( is, that Madge has not been seized lic
it is true—but still an accomplished
roue for his era and district.
Shortly after the marriage of Agnes
Pendleton to Charles Melvin, the Rev-
olntionary YVar broke out. Melvin
was a staunch Tory—so indeed was
bis wife and tbe whole family. As tbe
settlement was Whig, they quickly be
came objects of hatred and suspicion.
And it is a glorious tiling, when once
you are weary of the dissipation and
unctuous sediment which, if removed
at times when the water is dried up hy
the powerful heat and continual evajio-
ration which occur during the sultry
months of summer and earlv autumn,
makes a most valuable ingredient in
compost, and is even a strong and ef
ficient fertilizer when applied to the
soil in its crude state, especially if the
texture of the land on which it is spread
is light and dry. All the animal ex-
fore now hy scores of enamored men,
and Imrne off, like the Sabin® women
in Romish history. Y’ou chuckle over
your future, like a boy who has found
a guinea in groping for sixpences.—
Yon read over the marriage Service,
thinking of the time when you will
take her hand, and slip the ring upon
_ t her finger; and repeat after therler-
crement, and decayed vegetable matter though they took no active part in tlie gyman—‘for richer—frir poorer; for
produced on tin* surrounding liills, na- partisan w’arfar® then raping in the Ca- lietter—for worse!’ A great deal of
turnlly fiml its way into these pools or ro |j nng Melvin and old Pendleton, j ‘ worse * there will be about it, you
ponds, and is there retained till remov- a fte r having been shot at two or three think!
ed, oft£n funning rich muck and pre- times, detennined that thev would no Through all your heart cleaves to
senting an almost inexhaustible source i 0I ,„ #r 8 h 0 t at for nothing; so ■ that sweet image of thebeloved Madge,
of fertility to the farmer who is possess
ed pf sufficient enterprise to avail him
self of its latent xvesjth. # | a military meeting of the Tories, which
By hauling this rich deposit into his J waa held about ten miles from their
yards—exposing it to the five action of |,|)iiitntjon t and to which they, from
the frort and air, in open situations, or j their known principles, had received an
invitation.
The gallant Col. Marion, one of the
most efficient and fearless of the Whig
l>artir*n leaders in the Carolinas, had
also been informed of the meeting, and
mounting their horses one moonless
( and starless night, they set out to join
by spreading it upon the surface of
light lands, he will find Jt productive of i
highly beneficial effects. As a top
dressing for grass lands, it possesses
great efficiency, and retains its energies
unimpaired for a longer time than sta. Hetermined to lie there and mar it with
hie manure, or perhaps any other de- ^e a jH of his merry men, He did so
composahle manure that can be applied. <>ffertuall v, for not a ’lory escaped to
—Germantown Telegraph.
Blanket Your Horses.—Men and
horses only sweat So say the medi
cal men, whose business it is to inves
tigate the wonderful living mechanism
of both. The ox cools off by accele
rated respiration; If heated in the fur
row, lie partially opens his mouth and
drops his tongue, and by rapid respira
tion, or breathing throw* off the excess
of heat which has accumulated in the
system. Tbe dog which runs at the
side of the carriage through the intense
heat of a July sun dashes into the cold
spring with Impunity, and reftirns re
freshed, having no perspiration to
check, ‘ when men or horses submerged
in a similar manner would suddenlr
check perspiration, and if they survived
i tell the tale of that bloody night, ex-
I ce|»t Charles Melvin, and he escaped
wounded. He had been recognized
and accosted by name as a “d—-d To-
ry,” by one of the Whigs during the
fierce brief conflict, and consequent
ly had to l»etake himself to n hiding
place on his plantations, which he had
prepared, foreseeing that some such
occurrence might make it nee-essarv.
I’here his wife brought him his meals
herself, and bandaged his wounds and
sustained his courage by her eloquence
and fearless hearing. She did not
even weep when told of the manner of! tonished that he doe* not dare to hear
her father’s death; hat she swore with | yon aay it!
n deep and fearfu) oath that she would You wonder if the people in the om-
avenge his fall. nihtis know that Madcre and yon are
The search after Melvin was very | iust married; and if the driver knows
ardeut* and the Whigs iu vain emlea that the shilling you head to him is for
as light cleaves to dav. The weeks
leap with a bound ; and the months
only grow long when you approach
that day which is to make her yours.
There are no flowers rare enmiffh to
make boqueta for her; diamonds are
too dim for her to wear; pearls are
tame.
And after marriage, the weeks are
even shorter than Itefore; you wonder
why on earth nil the single men in the
world do not rush tumultuously to the
altar; you look upon them all as a
travelled man will look upon some con
ceited Dutch boor, who has never been
beyond the limits uf his own cabbage
garden. Married men. on the contra
ry, you regard as fellow voyagers;
and look upon their wives—ngly as
they may In*—as better than none.
Yon blush a little at first telling
vour butcher what ‘ your wife’ would
like; yqp bargain with the grocer for
sugar and tea, and wonder if he knows
you are a married man? Y’ou practice
vour new way of tnlk upon your office
i hoy; you tell him that ‘ your wife’ ex-
|iectt you home to dinner, and are as
gtvi
mother, and most of all, little Nelly, if
you were winning such honors as now
escape you. You measure your ca
pacities hy those about you, and watch
their habit of study; you gaze for a
half hour together together upon some
successful man who lias won Ids prizes,
and wonder by w hat secret action he
has done it. And when in time, you
you come to be a competitor y ourself,
your anxiety is immense.
You spend liours upon hours at your
i theme. Y on write and re-write; and
when it is at length complete, and out
of your hands, you are harrassed by a
i thousand doubts. At times, ns you
recall your hours of toil, you question
i if so much has been S[>cnt upon any
other; you feel almost certain of sne-
cei/k. Y ou repeat to yourself _ some
passages of special eloquence at night.
You fancy the admiration of the Pro
fessors at meeting with such a wonder
ful performance. Y’ou have a slight
fear that its superior goodness may
awaken the suspicion that some one out
of the college—sqme sujiei ior man—
may have w’ritten it. But this fear dies
away.
The eventful day is a great one in
yonr calendar; you hardly sleep the
night previous. Y’ou tremble as the
Chapel bell is wrung; yon profess to be
very indifferent as the rending and
prayer clone; you even stoop to take
: up your hat, as if you bad entirely
overlooked tbe fact that the old Presi
dent was in the desk for the express pur
pose of declaring tbe successful names.
You listen dreamily to his tremulous,
yet fearfully distinct enunciation. Your
head swims strangely.
They all pass out with a harsh mur
mur, along the aisles and through the
door ways. It would be well if there
were no disappointments in lift* more
terrible than this. It is consoling to
express very deprecating opinions of
the Faculty in general, and very con
temptuous ones of that particular offi
cer who decider! upon the merit of the
pri*e themes. An evening or.two at
Dalton’s room go still further toward
1 btvling (fee disappoiutmeut, aud, if it
times feel a dawning of new resolves. m . lko8 t | ic ‘‘scent lie well” in the
They grapple you, indeed, oftener than j iuilt ^fter distinction but labor,
yon dare tos|H'iikof. Here you dream
first of that very sweet, but very shad
owy success, called reputation. : r «. • i .i i * .
i, .i • , .i , i. , , . ennui ol your own aimless thought, to
Yon think of the delight and aston- , i . • ■ •
. , ... ... h e .. . take up some glow ing page of an ear-
ishment it would give vour father and . ° , i i j .
“ nest thinker, and read, deep and long,
until you feel the metal of his thoughts
tinkling on your brain, and striking
out of your flinty lethargy flashts of
ideas that give the mind light and heat.
And away you go, in the chase of what
the soul is creating witliin on the in
stant, and you wonder at the fecundity
of what seemed so barren, and at tbe
ripeness of what seemed so crude.—
The glow of toil wakes you to a con
sciousness of your real capacities; you
feel sure that they have taken a new
step toward final development. In
such a mood it is that one feels grate
ful to the musty tomes, which at other
hours stand like curiosity-making mum
mies, w ith no warmth and no vitality.
Now they grow into the affections like
new-found friends, and gain hold upon
the heart, and light a fire in the brain,
that the years and the mould cannot
cover nor quench.—MitehelTs Dream
Life.
Editorial Peri*i.exities.—During
the dead season, the editor of a coun
try paper, being much distressed for
matter, ransacked every hole and cor
ner for intelligence, and after having,
as he thought, cnm|i!eted his task, sat
down to dinner with what appetite he
might. In the middle of it he was in
terrupted hy the entrance of his fa
miliar, alias “ the devil,” demanding
“ more copy.” “ The vexing fellow!
More copy!” said he. “Why, have
you put in the alory of the tremendous
mushroom found in Mr. Jones’s field I”
“ Yes, sir.” “ And the account of the
prodigious crop of apples gathered
from Mr. Timms’s tree?” “Y’es, sir.”
“ And about Mr. Thompson's kitten
being suckled hy a hedgehog I” “ Yea
sir.” “ And Mr. Smith's dreadful ac
cident with his chaise as he passed
Haarn Helhom Hill!” “Yes, sir.”—
‘♦About the men who stole Uie com
out of the stacks in the farm-yard
“Yes, sir, its all up, but there is still a
line and a half wanting.” “ Then
add,” said lie with the utmost dignity,
“ that they audaciously took and thresh
ed il out on the premises!” %