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THE , '* ) JOHN C fe EDWARD Bj Or F- TOWNES. EDITOR. J. C. fiAILEY, ASSOCIATE MciiciirnoK Two Dollar, per una. AnnmiHiiiTi liwrtW at tha rrtw of one dollar por square of tw.lr. Minion liiw (l hl? timed typo) or Iom for tho flrot laaortion, flfty oonto each for tbo aooond and third insertions, and twenty-flro oonto for rahooquont * - *' ? V.a.fw AAnlaaala mm111 La *ma. -* - All advertisement# mast base the numbtr of Insertions marked on them, or they will bo inserted till ordered out, and-charged for. Unless ordered otherwise, Advertisements will invariably be "displayed." Obituary notices, and all matters Inuring to to the benefit of any one, are regarded at Advertisements. K i ftltrtrii ^nttrq. From the Charleeton Courier. The Late Wm. Oillmore Bimmi. wow. He has gone from earth, to where ceraphe shall sing. His welcome to bowers of blleel And the harps of the blest should joyously ring A^his flight from a world like this! Yes, he's cone to the home of the pure in heart, With spirits of light around him. Where the glow of that glory shall ne'er depart, In which God's messenger fouod him. Then lament not for one who so haply came To beam round our path sweet delight, And ere earth could have sullied that man^ ly frame. His soul sought its heavenly flight. And yet aged chronicler 1 thou canet not die! For a cliaate halo surrounds thee ; It is not your fate whloh demands a sigh. But that of the State that mourns thee. IPSDEN. (Drigiitnl Communications. FOR THE GREENVILLE ENTERPRISE. Tliecla'a Dream?Ho. #?Concluded. Hacienda. Saluda, t April, 1870. f " My Dear ?***#* ? Tbccla's chariot was carried by the current through tho Caribbeo Isles, and into the Caribbean Sea. She drernt a black bird was sitting on a branch overhanging tho waters of Rio de Janeiro, singing? " Commerce end trade in the works of ere lion. Unrigs with it improvement and civilize tion. Prom out of the sea some ship* and fish? Foreign luxuries and food for the dish. From over the land comes lbs railroad whistle, Gladdening the heart 'midst thorns and thistle." A fish lifted hie head out of the water and said: " \V hat is the matttcr? What are you singing about? What do you want?"? The black bird replied,singing: " I am aa free as a bird, tinging none can beat; 1 am studying and longing for wheat, for wheat." " I would like some bread myself," said the fish. " The best wheat country in the world is in North America," said tho black bird. Tho fish jumped up and flirted his tail out of the water and said, " Which field can we reach first ?" Tho black bird shook bis feathers and said, "It is a fair race, will you run tor the prize V1 "Yea, it is better to go and try than to remain idle," said the fish. " Well," said the black bird, "you go your way, and I will go mine; tho result will be decided at St. Louis." Tho black bird spread liia urinora on/I I-?1 w.ra u?n u?CI tUU 1huu. Tlio fish worked his fins and poshed out to sea. The black bird struck a bee-line through the gorge iu the Organ Mountains for Matto (iros6o. Winked his eye at the block folks building the railroad. Thcucc to tho falls on the Madeira River. VVinkod his other eye at tlie Africans on the ship canal.? Followed the railroad route from the City of Pitete to Cartagena.? Flow across the Caribbean Sea.? Laughed as be passed by Cuba. Crossed tho Gulf of Mexico, and followed the Mississippi. Parching himself on the fence in Mis* sonri, he sang: ?' Mr. Flah, Mr. Fish, wbtr* are yon now? fog and milt th? ootid to plow. Dnap yon ara, aad dwptr yon aaa Bat a land for mth, ta tho bona for m* The fish made steamship speed by sea. The black bird mftde railroad speed from Rio de Janeiro to Cartagena, and steamship speed from Cartagena to the mouth of the Mississippi River, and arrived cftx days before the fish. The lmack bird spent the summer in the wheat fields of the West, and takipg in his bill a branch of wheat, returned a messenger from the centre of one continent to the other. The fish finding what be wanted, remained happy and contented io tbe Mississippi Hirer, determined nevor a^ain to enter the raoe with a black bird. * After passing ?he Island of Jamaca, the south side of Cuba, and 1 winding round tbe promontory of < Yucatan, Tliecla came agaiu into . 1 (IRE Dmotrfr to Ktmns, 1ILEY, FRffRS, . the Gulf of Mexico. The current carried her chariot around as though going to Sisal, but it went on into the Bay of Catnpeche.? The sea was smooth and temperature of the atmosphere delightful. The current here is not strong. The violent" northers" which blow over the dry plains of Texas down the coast of Mexico, lose their ?tronrrtl> mm w.. vugku MU ?UVT * VUVU IUO OUVI O VI Yucatan. Thecla felt as thongli she had reached a harbor of safety. As ber chariot moved along towards the Isthmus of Tehuantepcc, she fell asleep and drerat her chariot was ancnored amidst a fleet of shipping, the masts of which looked like the forest in the winter. She landed among a mass of people all deeply engaged at wort.? Thousands of Chinamen were constructing a ship canal from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mex ico, and it was nearly completed. Ships from the western coast of South America and China wero waiting on the Pacific shore to push through the canal?run across the Qulf and on up tho Mississippi River. Ships from England wanted to cross into tho Pacific and move along the western coast of North America. The engineer explained : 44 Will European ships use this canal on their way to and from China 1" said Tliccla. 44 N o," said the engineer. 44 A ship from London can reach Canton by tho Suez Canal in the time it would take her to reach tho Tehuantepec Canal. Europe, Atuca and the most of Asia, will uso the Suez Canal, while tho Tehuantepec Canal may be said to be almost exclusively an American institution. Tn tlm ??? !??? v.. ??? uio ibw, uiu uuiuuunu iiutiona bavc (lie advantage. The producer and consumer is advantaged in proportion as the distance to market is shortened. A French merchant can send to China from Marseilles via. the Suez Canal, and bis ship in return mav pass the Strait of Qibralta on tlie way to Charleston with a load of tea before an American ship can reach Canton by tho same route."? M What advantago is there to the United States in having a ship ca nal at Tehuantepec over ono at the Isthmus of Darien?" asked Thecla. "Thero is much to bo said ou tbis subject. Men of mercantile foresight understand that time is everything in mercantile matters. The daily expenses of a ship at sea are onormous. Merchants order ships by the shortest route. A ship from Halifax, in Nova Scotia, may make tho trip to Canton abont as soon by the Suez Canal as she can by tho IVs huantepec Canal. If tho Ilnlifax merchant had to send his ship to a canal, at Daricn, ho would not go there?he would always use tlie Suez Canal, because time with merchants is money, and that to him would bo the shortest route to China. A ship leaving tho mouth of the Mississippi River with a cargo from St. Louis, for China, would have to run two thousand miles out of the way if she had to go by the Isthmus of Darien instead of the lehnantepec ronte.? Such a draw back to tho commerce of Mississippi valley would impede its progress, and blast its full development. A ship from Valpariso, in Ghila, bound to St. Louis, in Missouri, finds no shorter ronte by the Istbnms, of Darien, than by Tehnantepcc. The oil fleets of the Pacific Ocean will find in time of pence a commanding depot for toe distribution of the ingredients of light, and a harbor of safety in the Qnlf of Mexico during war. Foreign nations have naval stations among the West India Islands from which they oonld annoy the commerce of the United nQfltSnw I through the Caribbean Sea to a canal at the Isthrans of Darien.? But a few iron clods at the month of the Gnlf of Mexico would protect the trade of the country crossing this inland sea to and from the Tebuantepec Canal in time of war. Looking into the future developments of wealth and necessary safety for the commerce of the United States, there is no doubt that a careful investigation of this subject will prove vastly ia favor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec for luteroeeanio communication," said the engineer. u What part of the United States will be most intimately connected, and most directly advantaged by theTehoantepec Canal!" asked Thecla. " The valof the Mississippi," said the engineer. What country are you ' from f asked Tbeda. UI am a Hollander, liana is my name. I am employed by the Chinese Republic to work on the Tebuantepec Canal," said the engineer. "Mr. , Hans, have anv or voer conntrw. men settled Jo Mexico since the j Chinese here bed control of the i countrjJ"askedThecle. "No. I t Jo not think there ere any Euro i 1 i !ENV] Politics, 3ntcUige GBl peans now living in Mexico?certainly no landowners. The Chinese are not friendljr disposed towards Europeans in tbeir own country. As poor laboring men are dependent upon the Europeans in the United fifAto? tliev nhoraH the law, and were contented only in so long a time as it required them to reach a higher order of intelligence end wealth. They then began to learn that although the door ot eqnal rights was open to theui, the feet that a majority of white men (so to speakj had control of tho country, ana that they?tho copper colored Chinamen?could never reach a satisfactory system of Republican Government for themselves without independence. Tho exodus commenced when their children could teach the English language. They formed a nation ot their own with the seat of Government in the balls ot Montazuma. They populate the land from the Rio Grande to tho Isthmus of t'anama, nii/1 fn/vm lltA T).?- ? a.. ? !? nuu ai viii liiU J. UVI1IU VCCUI1 lO UIO Gnlt of Mexico. They encourage emigration from China," said Mr. Ilans. " Would you adviso Europeans to settle among thorn if their Government opened the country to such emigration?" asked Thecla. "No moro than I advise the African to settle in Great Britain," said Mr. Hans. "The English arc superior to the Africans, while the Chincso are not equal to the Europeans," said Thocla. "It is a bad rule that don't work both wave. In tho first cose, ignorance would be sub nriiinnto to intollim>n/>o T?? second case, tbe minority would bo subordinate to the majority.? Doth cases are only tolerated for all time with chances of safety where a nation is iormed purely of, one race?either of Chinese, Eu ropeans or Africans," said Mr. Hans. "Look how the United States advanced by introducing the African and Chinese among the Eurojieans," said Tliecla. "That is another question, so fur as digging canals, building railroads, clearing up a new country and developing the agricultural resources of wild lands is concerned. It is labor which is looked for. But when that has in a measure been accomplished, the question of in; terual safety appears in full viow. It is the duty ot a Government to look well into tbe future for the wellfareofall, and to assist iu opening tho doors of Progress. It i6 be6t for the world generally, that the African Republicans have a nation of their own in the valley of the Amazon. That tho Chinese have a Republic in Mexico, and that tho Europeans have a Republic in tho United States. Each have a climate suited to their nature. Eternal ice cannot stand on tho Equator, nor will the fig tree grow in Arctic regions," said Mr. Hand. "Are there any political questions unsettled among these people?" asked Thee I a. " Yea.? The question of capital punishment has entered deeply iuto the Presidential campaigu. There are a large number ot people opposed to the death penalty for any crime, while nearly all the newly naturalized citizens believe in cutting the very vitals out of the people. Tliere is a very plain way of eiy>resaing it in High Dutch. The Japanese call it IJL&ri Karl," said Mr. IIans. Thecla awakened, her cbaiiot was becalmed in the centre of the Qnlf of Mexico. Very truly yours, LAKDNKit GIBBON. **? #*#**##** * ?*?? ^ Ilolcmsburg, Philadelphia, Ponn. nru?i ? niwv uio * armor Ann A.QOW. The farmer, like tho business man, must know what he is doing: lie most have some pretty decided ideas of what he is to accompKsh ? in fact ho must calculate it before hand. He must know his soil?that of each lot; not only tho top, but of the subsoil. ' He must also know what grain and grasses are adapted to each. He must know when is the best time to work them, whether they need summer fallowing. He must know the condition in which ground must be when plow* ed, so that it be not too wet or too dry. He mast know tbat some grains require earlier sowing tbaa others, and wbat tboae grains are. He must know how to put them in. He must know that it pays to have machinery to aid him, as well as muscle. He most know about stock and manures, and the cultivation of frees and small fruits, and many rther things; in a word, be must know what experienced, observing farmers kuow, to be sure of tnccess. Then he will not guess? sill not ruu such risks. [LLE 1 i ?*? ' net, mth il)t 3m:p* r^<YlLLE. SOTJTH CABOLTO From tkt Wheeling RogUtcr. A Roin&ntts Story. . Wo have heard the particulars , of a story which, to our thinking, is rather romantic, and 1 proves the truth of two adages ! as old as the hills, ono of which is mat " the course of true love never did run smooth," and the other assures us that if we 44 inarry in haste we may repent at leisure." , Something near four years since t a young couple iu this city imagined themselves desperately in love with each other, and sought \ to have their love fructify in matrimony. The relatives and friends of the would-be bride warned her against the match, and advised her to wait, for there is always plenty of time for waiting in such matters. But hers was a love that would not be advised, and so, unknown to all but four persons besides tboinselves, they sped away to Pennsylvania, that Gretna G rcen of runaway couples, and wero thero united by a clergyman.? in.? J - ?. iiujr iviuriiuu l(> III IS City Oil tUO a if mo evening and parted about 10 o'clock, each resolved to "keep't unknown," as Shakespeare Bays, until a favorable 6cason to reveal the marriago should arrive. Silence was imposed on the four fricudrt, and well did they hide tho secret for nearly four ycarB. Not a soul else has dreamed that the pronng lady was u married woman. The strangest part of the story is, that tho husband, who never saw his wifo save one of her friends was by, left tho city tho next day and ha^. never been seen by her ince, as we nre informed, nor has ho aided in her maintenace in any way since ho callod her wife. The young lady is vory attractive, and has not lacked tor suitors in the years of her desertion, but she has rchiscd all candidates and claimants for her hand, greatly to tho astonishment of her friends, who knew that somoof tho match -/r i va uuurcu were most eligible, and could not nccouut lor her preference for a life of single blessedne33. At length, satisfied that her husband was her husband only in name, she revealed to her astonished relatives and friends the fact i>f her marriage ai.d all the attendant circumstances. Measures were set on foot at once for a divorce, and on yesterday the hasty ties wore sundered by the court, and she is again frco? free to chose a , more fitting mate, and to 6ccuro < yet a world of happiness. Improvement of Grain by Natar&l Selection. At the Exeter meeting ol tho British Association, Mr. Ilullctt, Brighton, read a paper giving an account of his experiments upon the improvement of grain by applying the principles of u natural selection." By this method ho succeeded in obtaining a grain of wheat, which, when sown, produced a whole multitude ot stalks, each of which bore magnificent 6eeds, and the prodnco is thus in creased more than a hundred fold. Mr. Llallett lays down tho following principles as tho result of his observations: 1. Every folly-developed plant, whether of wheat, oats or barley, has au ear superior in productive power to any of the rest on that plant. 2. Every sncb plant contains one grain which proves more produo ive than any other. , 3. The beet grain in any plant is found in its host ear. 4. Tho superior vigor oi this grain is transmissible in different degrees to its progeny. 6. By repeated careful selection tho superiority is accumulated. 6. The improvement, after a long series of years, reaches a limit. 7. By still continuing to select, the improvement is maintained. at id practically a fixed type is the 1 result.?liural Carolinian. A youko lady mat in company a young gentleman who evidently had an excellent opinion of himself. During conversation he introdnced the subject of matrirno* ' ny, and expatiated at length upon the kind of wife he expectod to marry ; that is, if ever he should take the decisive step. The hen* "| ored lady roust be wealthy, beau- < liful, accomplished, amiable, <fec., 1 &c. His listener quietly waited until be ended, and then complete- i tv confounded him by asking in < the coolest possible manner: " And 1 pray, sir, what have you to offer in return for all this V* The young man stammered, reddened a little, ' and walked away. Taaaa is a literary roan out West who calls himself Junius ( Henreigh Broughne.. A fow , years ago he was known as piuiu I John Heury Brown. i ENTI oumtenl of % 01 IA, JULY 6, 1870. An Avalanche of Death. Brevet-Colonel Merrium, Major of tbo Twenty fourth Infantry, ( who is now in Austin, after four , years of military service on the frontiers of Kansas, New Mexico and West Texas, had" received leave of absence, and was jour* neying with his wife and child from ?1 Paso to the Texan coast. Iliey bad reached the head of the Concho River, and camped for the night on Sunday, the 24th of April. The stream at this point is so small that a man can step across it anywhere. The banks WAPA twontv fonf oKaho fl?A K/wl .. .. w *vv? HUV*V kUU UUU Vi tho water. Fatigued with the long journey ot sixty-eight miles in the previous twenty-four hours, without water, the party were pleasantly resting, when, early in the evening, Colonel Merriain was roused by the signs of an approaching storm. The tent was fastened and made secure as possible, and about 9 o'clock a hailstorm burst upon them, accompanied by some rain and a strong wind. The fall of hail was unprecedented, lasting until nearly 11, the stones being of the size if) hens' eggs, and striking the tent and prairio with a noise liko near and incessant musketry. The Colonel, who was not ignorant of tho suddon and extreme overflows to which tho mountain stroani8 of Texas aro liable, went out into tho darkness as soon as tho storm had ceased, tonotowl at effect had been producod on this rivulet. To his amazement, lie found in tho formerly almost dry bid of tho creek a resistless torrent, loaded and filled with hail, rolling nearly bank full, white an * aiiu oiivuv. uq u rivur UI oil. Ho ut onco saw tlio danger, and run back to tbo tent shouting to tlio escort and servants to turn out. llo placed Mrs. Merriam, the child and nurse in tho carriage, and with tho aid ot three men, started to run with it to the higher ground, a distanco of not m re than sixty yards. Scarcely a minute had elapsed from tho timo tho alarm had been given, but already the water had surged over the bank in waves ot such volume and force as to sweep tho party from their feet before they had traversed thirty yards. Merriatn then abandoned tho hope of saving his family in the carriage, and tried to enter it in ordor to swim out with them, but ho was swept down tho ice-cold torrent like a bubble. Being an expert swimmer, ho succeeded in reaching the bank nbout 200 yards below, at d ran back to renew tho effort, when ho received tho terriblo tidings, that tho moment after he was swept down, the carriago, with all its precious freight had turned over and gono rolling down tho flood, his wife saying, as sho disappeared, " My darling husband, good-bye." The little rill of a fow hours before, which a child mi^ht step i\pro6s, liad become a raging river, covered with mosses of driftwood a mile in width, and from thirty to forty feet deep. Before day, the strange and momentary flood had passed by, and the small stroma shrank to its usual sizo, and ran in its wonted bed. The sod search began. Tho drowned soldiers and sorvants, four in number, were found, and the body of the wife taken from the water about three-fourths of a mile below, and prepared for a jonrnoy of fifty three miles to the post of Concho for temporary burial. Not till thrco days after, was tho body of tho child found, fnnr milna /tmon tlm w v.v?*u iiiu on vaiiiy nuu a long distance Irom its bod. lho boaver ponds, from which tho Concho takes its rise, were so filled with tho} icy hail, that the catfish wore killed by the congelation, and were swept in wagon loads, together with myriads of smaller animals of the plain, such as rabbits and snakes, all over the conntry by the sadden and rnshing flood. Three days after tho storm, when the party left the Concho, the hail still lay ih drills and winrows to the depth of more than six feet.?Austin {Texas) Journal. s Fanny Fern wishes this sentence ot hers pat into the crowns of the gentleman's hats: A fool ot either sex is the hardest aeiinal to drivo that ever required a bit.? Better one who jumps a fence now and then than yonr snlky, stupid donkey, whose rhinoceros back feels neither pat nor goad." A man at Atlauta, Ga., recently, who sleeDS with his month nn*n had his "false teeth stolen by an sdroit thief. Whknevbk yon see a vain perion continually talking about bira? wlf, you may make up your mind that be baa not much to talk ibout. 1. 1 . . 11 1T>T>T)1 J ?IXXI. * ' iJ.1 N l.i ate Attir (Countni. V)? 'K K, ** . r . v - vA ^ AMoroenu. Ao empty barn-yard at this season is the sign of a slack farmer. lie has cleaned out his styes, 1 yards, and the barn cellar, aud the 1 planting is all finished. Weeks or < months go by, perhaps, before lie thinks of laying the foundation for the next crop of manure. The cows are yarded at night, bnt there is notning to absorb either liquid or solid manuro. It is exposed to the hot sun, the rahis, and the winds, and much of its value is lost. The summer is the best time to make manure, if the materials are seasonably furnished. The process of fermentation goes 011 mnch more rapidly, and the valuable gases are diffused through the whole mass of absorbents.? While the yards are bare, no farm work will pay so well as gathering absorbents, at least cnongh to cover the whole surface an inch or two in depth. It is not necessary to fill the yards all at once. A low loads added every week will prevont loss. All waste vegetable matter makes a good absorbent, and swells the compost heap.? Peat and muck thrown out during the post season and weathered, are excellent; but that freshly dug soon cures in tho yard and should not bo overlooked, if tho others fail. If these nro not availablo, use surface soil. The valuo of dry earth as an absorbent has not begun to bo appreciated. Turf makes a good absorbent, and by its docay adds value to the manuro. It is much better for a farmer to peel ? r..... ?.J- -r !_ _ i ... ? ?? lunr iwuB III Uia uesi meiuiow, than to havo his manure waist iug all summer for want of ubsorpts. Fi?kd thk Fiiurr Trees.?It must bo apparent to every reflecting person, that tho material round about a fruit tree, which renders iinportuut aid in the production of flno fruit of any kind, must necessarily bo moro or less exhausted aftor a vine, bush or tree has produced nbundnnt crops for several successive seasons. For example: A largo pear trco or applo tree will frequently yield from ten to sixteen bushels of fruit annually. Many trocs have pr.oduccd more thau twice theso quantities at one crop. , After a few seasons, tho inateri al that tho roots must bo supplied with, in order to develop fruit, will bo more or less exhausted.? For this reason fruit begins to fail; and the failure is often attributed to an east wind, or some mysterious atmospheric influence, when in roality tho sole cause is starvation, arising from an impoverished soil. The remedy is to feed tho roots of all kinds of fruit trees with lime, wood ashes, gypsum, chip dirt, bones, fishos, and anything that will renovatoau impoverished soil. It is evident that fruit trees cannot produce fine fruit out of nothing, or out of such material as may bo desirablo for some other purpose.?Hearth and Uoine. Feeding Homes.?Do you consider it good policy to feed horses onlv twice a aay when at work ? D. W. B. Wo do not, as thoy are inoro liable to founder and cholic. Wo wore lately consulted about some horses, among whom had occurred a strange and nnaccoantablo mortality. On inquiry, wo found that tho custom of tho establishment was to kocp their horsos at work for ton hours together without food, and to food them in bundauce on tboir return home. Tho soureo of tho evil at onco bocaino evident. We ordered, for tho lime to come, that tho horses he fed once in the course of the time they were put out, by means . - i # ? * ui iiuqv uagti j ?iiu mo iresn practice immediately put to flight a disease which had caused the death of several of thorn. In casos of this kind, tho stomach and intestines frequently becomo distended with gas. [American Stock Journal. "Patrick, will yon tako yonr steak rare or well done}*' "Well done, if ye place, for it was rare enough I got it in the ould country." Burunoton, Iowa, hab a female citizen who bos so far advanced toward the equality of rights botho sexes, that she goes to tho barber's to be shaved. A Toe no daudy, about starting on a sea voyage, went to purchase his life preserver. " Oh, you will not want it." suirireetcd the r.Wlr " bags of wind won't sink." A sailor attempting to kiss- a pretty girl got a violent box,oil the ear. " There," be exelaimod. Mjust my hick; always wreckeo on tbc ?oral reels." Blksbcd are they that do not advert life; lor tbey shall be rarely troubled with customers. t [SE. mi' ' ' * - " . i !i -..?r.i rt . 1 ? :-.(r-t-yof <.>?<.* *9* .?? .? wv*rfc.*%Cffe%?* ' ^ " . - * < '-. ? r . i - YULUME XVII-NO. 7. ?. i 1 Work For The Month?igricultural Operations. Cotton must now be encouraged by constant and careful, but shallow culture, to promote the production of forms and bolls. Uso light sweeps and follow by tho hoe. Corn, if not already laid by, must be kept clean till the blades meet across the rows. Cow peas may be sown broadcast at the lost working, where not already plauted, covering with a cultivator or harrow. , Cow peas may be sown broadcast, as a separate crop, for bay. From a bushel to a bushel and a half per acre will bo a sufficient seeding. Corn Fodder may bo pnlled, but we doubt the propriety of tho * nrnnoca on/1 r?/> nrvt Kalinvn if *??? W. X/VWO Miiva UV UVb MVIiW * W IV pU J O. Sowing corn in drills for fodder, ranking hay and cutting up your corn, instead of pulling the cars, and using the stalk and leaf tor feed, arc better plans. Sweet Potato draws and cuttings of vines may still bo put out, but do not delay this work, ns it will soou bo too late for a crop. 11 ay is a most important and too much neglected crop. Mako all you can, and prepare to make raoro next year, by getting eonio suitable laud into grass. Draining and Ditching may bo done to advantage now if you have any time and ha' ds that can be devoted to it, without neglecting kliu Turnips should bo largely plantod. Prepare tho land thoroughly and manuro heavily, and you may mako your first sowing about tho last of this month ; and, if it fail, you can try again in ten days, and 60 on, till a statu) is obtained ; but August and September aro generally better months tor sowing the main crop. GARDEN WORK. Clear off and turn under weeds, dig up deeply, luanuro as required and prepare for tall crops. . Cabbage, Cauliflower and Broccoli may bo transplanted, if you have plants in your seedbed, choosing tho ovening or rainy day for tho operation, shading tho plants for a few days ; but next month's plantings will, bo likoly to do bettor. Of Beets, Carrots, Parsnips, etc., it is now very difficult to get u stand, bnt if you can protect tho young plants against tho hot sun and beating rains you may yet get a fine crop early in tho fall. Simp I>eans may still bo planted for a succession. En^sli Peas may bo tried, mulching heavily between the rows. "Water Melons, Squashes and Cucumbors for a late crop may bo planted, and if they survive they will givo you a good lato crop. Tomatoes may still bo planted, using cuttings if you have 110 young plants. * THE FLOW Eli GAKDKN. Ruses may now bo budded and layered. Chrysanthemums, and many other plants, may also now bo propagated by layers. Evergreen Hedges should bo trimmed, and box edgings clipped. Savo seeds, and put away in paper bogs, carefully labelled, with natno ana date. [Ilural Carolinian. ? War is tlio young lander liko the national cnrrcnci' ? Eecauso ho is legal tender and somewhat green. A nkgko orator, in South Carolina, says, 44 We'll nebor desert do old flag, boys, nebor. Wo hub libbed under it for eighteen hundred and sixty-uine years, and Ml t i? - " wo u uie ior 11 now." A Boston firm advertises to euro dyspepsia^ for $2, and when they Tecoivo the money, send the victim a picture of a wood-saw and saw buck. That is ahead oi nutmegs made of time. Ah old stage driver says, Mtbo hardest kind of traveling is to sit in a bar-room, and bear them toll hew hard it is outside?when you get on the road, you go along easy enough." Good philosophy, that. A scuoor.master asked a class of boys the , meaning of the word 44 appetito? After a short pause, one ooy said,441 know, sir ; when I'm oatin', I'm happy, and when I'm done, I'm tight. 44 Mai?ame, ran yon givo mo a glass of grog?" said a traveler in Arkansas, as he entered a cabin on the roadside. M I ain't got a drop, stranger." w llut a gculltenan told mo just sow that you had received a barrel." "Why, good gracious! What do you reckon one barrel of whls* kjr is to ine and my children when we are out o! milk !''