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5; faitu. ( y y**wci(? wvii. The name of faith's a holy word, Though men at timqg abuse it; Aud faith iUelPs a couquering sword, When earnestly we use it. lfeliove yourself a pultry suve, Aim! freedom falls behind you; livlievo yourself a men, aud brave? And auuh tlio world aliall find you. For faith's a nerve and stay of steel To lofty and to lowly? A heavenly lamp for human w?-ul Where human will is holy. 'Tie faith thul veil* the darts of death, iv' - Or nra-s us for hie tout-nay; Tie faith that poml* the patriot's path, Aud feasts hint on iiie journey. Believe you're cursed with cobweb soul, And every breath will break it? Jtelieve you've might to make the goal, And here's iny hand you'll make it, For fnitli a mover is of mounds, A raiser of the lowly, A trump of soul-begetting sounds-, Where ear and heart are holy. Then take yo Faith, nor ever batTo e. r by suuh assumption. No matter butv the taunt nttd jeer May name the uyinph Presumption. And grasp her firut when evils lower ? Tho closer clasped, the warmer? For fuillt in your right arm is more Than countless suits of armor. Oti! faith's a shield Id mighty men, , A Idvo light to I ho lowly. And il a tmitcr now and then, The work, ut limti, is holy. 1 Then, God i'f nation* ! sow each soil, Knelt city, hill, and hollow "With fuitli with more, the will to toil, And all man seeks mini follow ; < Tor, had each son) hnt faith and will, By nil you sun's ndorning, The tallcnt mount of human 111 Th- seas should have ?ro muruing. I Oh, ilwitti ! thou might ill muscle's d< nrtli, Not nil hell's host* may Hout thee; I Aiod b.Ofs tl ce, light ?f heaven arid earth? ! For both were black without thee. ^ oh a mm Ait in it mini: 1 Three little words you often sec, Are Articles?n, an, and the. 2 A noun's the name uf any thin?, A? school or garden, hoop or swing. 3 Adjectives tell the kind of noun, As great, small, pretty, white or brown. 4 Instead of noun*, the pronoun* stand? Her luad, his face, your sum, my band. 5 Verbs tell of something being done? To lead, count, aiug, laugh, jump or run. I 6 How tilings are done, tho adverbs tell? I As slowly, quickly, ill t r well. I 7 Conjunction* join the words together, ' As ntcn and women, wind and wiothcr. : 8 The preposition stands before, A noun, ; ?, in, ur through a door. .9 The inu-rjiction shows surprise, As oilIioiv pretty !! ah ! how wise! < The whole are called nine parts of speech, ! Which reading, writing, speaking teach. ' m AKK YOU It mAHK. 1 I. ? "in tlic quarries should you toil, ' Make your murk; I)o you delve upon tho soil, I Make your mark. ] In whatever pnth you go, In whatever place you stand? Moving switt or moving slow? With n firm but honest hand, t Make your mark. f it. 1 Life it fleeting as n shade? f Make your matk; Marks of some kind inu*t be made? j . Make your mark; Maku it whilo tho arm is strong, ; ! In the golden houiv of youth; > Never, never make it wrong; > Make it with the stamp ci Truth? I Make your inark. . A Cauifoiini* Farmer. v To Raise Giant Asraraui's.?A wtiler i in one of the early volumes of Uio Horti- 1 cullurist (Mr. Dowuing, wo believe) tells 1 bow to grow common asparagus so that it < will always rival any giant production, lie c says: 1 Every one who has seen my beds hns begged mo for tho seed?thinking it a 1 new soil?but I have pointed to the manure heap, (tiro farmer's beat bank,) and ' * told tlienr that the secret all lay there. The eight was only such as might be in every f garden. * About th? firet of November?aa soon ' as the frost blackened the aspaiagus tops? ' I lake a scythe, and mow all down close to 1 the surface of the bed; let it lie a day or ( two, then set tiro to the heap of stalks; burn it to ashes over tho surface of the hed. I then go to my barn-yard; I take a load c of clean, fresh stable manure, and add there 1 to half a bushel of lien dung; turning over 1 and mixing the whole together throughout. ? This makes a pretty powerful compost. I " apply one such load to every twenty feet in ' length of my asparagus beds, which are six * feet wide. With a strong three-pronged ' spud or foik, I dig t)iis dressing under. The 0 whole is now left for tho winter. In the spiing, as cntly as possible, I turn the top of the bed over lightly once more. ' Now, as the asparagus grows mutually on ' the side of tho ocean, and loves salt water, I -M give it an annua' supply of its favorite con- * dim en i. I cover the surface of the bed about a quarter on an inch thick with fine pack- ' iug salt; it is not too much. As the spring '' rnins come down this gradually dissolves. ' Everything else?pigweed, purslane, all re- J fuse togrow on the top of my asparagus bed. " Hut it would do your eyes good to s.c the s strong, stout, lender stalks of the vegetable :l 'tue.f, pii-hing ihiough the surfaco early in h tho season. I do not at all stretcb a point, 1 alien I say that they are as large around a# > my hoe handle, and as tender and r-'cu- I ie.nl as any i over tasted. J lie same rou..d j 11 of treatment is given to my bed evcy year | I1 How to Haisk Onions.?I lutve seen i lih'oi uI innilii tnu it* 1V .??%* 1 ' 1 s? v?? a^u^iikiiu i' a i mer Jrow to raise onions?and not to raise nmg 1 ' tfots ant! scullions? ant! hate llicin bottom; n now I will tell you Iiow I manage. I row " theni on the same ground year after year; K t think it the host way. 1 never plow for )' onions, but spade the ground three inchc-t deep, and rako in the manure; I use ma mi re thai i* two years old, at least, and cl very fine. I put on a good coating yearly, j " f sow the seed in (ho old of the moon, and soak them tw?lve hours or ntoie befoiosow- "l ing in strong hrinc; the maggot that eats the onion is in the seed, ntrd the hiiue kills it. I cover the seed about one inch deep, ; ' and then 1 press the earth as hard as I can, ! ^ by laying a board on the row and jumping unit. The eai lb uiu-t be rolled to get good onions. As soon as they begin to peep out of the ground, I sow on a good coaling of '' ashes, ati l repeat it as often as once in ten 1 days, until they begin to bottom, when I weed*them. I don't Jii enk the earth much until they begin to bottom; then I hoe tho earth from the. onions, and as they l>ottoin, . hey l ?y almost on the surface; three inches ri near enough for thein to stand. In this ? nv 1 ever fiiled to raise good onions. j 'llrtjii'it, !n .V. h! t'l'i iiur. V Fattening Swine. If you have no bog-pens among the appointments of your farm, have some iinmuiliatelv put up, so that when it shall be lime lo put your hogs up to fallen, the pens uiay bo ready for their reception. The pens should have a feeding and sleeping apartment, with a yard attached lo each. In such pen there should be a rubbing post, riio buifaco of each yard should be formed nto a basin-liko form, over which a bushel jf plaster should be spread, and then covered several inches in depth with woods mould, tuarsh mud, river or creek mud, the ?arth from hcadlauds, or ditch or read scrapings, weeds, dec., all of which materials dudng the fattening season will he converted nto good manure; for there are no better manufacture is of manure than hogs. Without entering into any detail of the constituent elements of hog manure, wo would say that it is considered, in the view of chemists, superior to that of tho c?<w, and this estimate is boinu out in practieo by the doscst agricultural observers. When theory and practice both airivo at the same contusion, wo may bo sure that this opinion is very nearly founded in truth. lu tilling tho yard ot a hog pen with the substances named, every few inches of the matter as it is being placed in and spread on the yaid, should be dusted with plaster, or with pulverized chnicoal, to prevent the escape of the ammonia. Occasionally,sta bio and cow yard manure should be thrown over the surface, and he treated to sprinklings of plaster or pulverized charcoal. To encourage the hogs to root, every few days grains of coin should bo distributed over Tl.rt :? i 1-:? ' ...v J ...ua 111 wumuiniii^ miu iHjfiriruilljr iur the com, the hogs root up and intimately mix the substanco together, and thereby as Hire an equality in tho value of the compound?a matter of great consideration in such bodies. If vou provide your hogs with tho rough material uame I, each hog during the fattening season will make two loads of good compost manure. To show the value of the urine of the fattening hog, we will remailc, that it is estimated by chemists that it is as rich in the elements e>f vegetable productions, as is that of human urine, and in every pint of the latter there are the elo uieuts of a pint of wheat. If this bo true, nnd we believe that it is, we would ask. is it not worth while for ngiicultuiists to put themselves to the trouble of saving so fruitful a fertilizer as hog manure, solid as well is liquid? Treatment of Hogs when taken it.? All hogs when first taken up for fattening vliould receive three or four doses of flour >f sulphur, and as many of copperas, in doves of a tablespoon, at intervals of two days ipart. These should be given them in messis of bran or meal. Such doses serve to :ool the blood, strengthen the digestive organs, and lemove those worms which somelimes attack the kidneys. As to ttikiii Food.?Their food for tho irst two or three weeks should bo pump tins, apples, roots and other vegetables, which would be the better of being cooked ind mixed with bran, or meal of some kind; he latter being increased from day to day, radually, so that when the bogs come to vave coin or meal altogether, tho change nay not be injuriously felt by them. Whether corn or corn meal be fed out o tho hogs, a great saving will bo effected >y having either cooked, and it is itnmateinl whether it bo boiled or steamed. A sa ring may be effected by cooking of froin 15 o 20 per cent.; by grinding iuto meal and rooking, of 30 per cent. Materials for the I loo-Pen Yard.? \ trough should be kept in the yard, at all imes supplied with charcoal, wood ashes, otten wood and coarse salt; these subslnnVAA 1- AA IT> ll?/V *?> ?* ' ' * * * * noc-|> iuv ui iue nogs siumaclis in >rder, encourngo their appetites, promote ligestion, and keep tlie animals in health. Time ok Feeding.? It is all important hat the hogs bo regularly fed, at slated lours, three times a day, say morning eary, at noon, and just before sundown. Of tiieiu Sleeking Auaktment.?These ihonld he supplied with fresh leaves or draw twice a week, so that by their eoinoitablo bedding they may be induced to levote a considerable portion of their time o sleeping?sleep being a great promoter >f fat. Time ok Taking ui* IIogs to Fatten.? I'ite precise tiino to take up hogs to fatten an not be well stated; the lime must depend ipon the supply of mast in the woods; while hat supply ia sufficient to keep hogs in a jrowing stale?while lliev increase in size ind fat, they can very safely he permitted o remain in the woods; the time for rcmo al to the pens, then, is when the hogs, by heir appearance, begin to show an iitsiiffi i ient supply of food.?American J'armer. Ake You Planting out a (Iuapk Vine? Then dig the ground two feet deep, and at ea?t a space of four feet in diameter; and ' ilso dig and mis in with the earth one , ilishcl of well roll1 ..I ' - ? miu iiKiiiuiu lur i hoIi vino. Do not uso fie^li manure, ami f you liavc no old, then mix one quart of I inie, and two quarts ground or broken >ones, with one gallon of chamber ley; scaler it over tho ground beforehand, and dig L thoroughly. When you plant the vine, ee to it, first, that the roots are not dry ' nd dead; cut one; if it is black on the in- ; tde it is dead; try another, if anv are blacknoil, and cut them away. Tho roots of oung grape vines will not bear much ex osuio, and often plants aro set out when ! ?<t a single tool will grow, and thus the dant is no hotter than a cutting. Cut ; our vine after planting, so that only two mis aie loft to grow. If you have been ' urcful to prepare the ground as above, uve suiead out the roots carefully, in setng, have not trod upon 'lie ground, i nd after wait"! ate caieful l<? keep the round hood once tu two weeks, all summer, our vino will be six foot high in October. A l'Kl'P Fl?R I'llK PoiTLAt'K.?The Sciittitic Aineiicau gives a very simple mode f examining the satellites of too planet tipiler, the mentis u-ed being so common to lie within the reach of all. It say-: Kvery person can view them, bv reHec oil, Using a Coiniflon looking glass for the nrpose. f>u a clear night take a looking | lass, and, cither at the window or out of | ,>oi8, fi<> place it as to receive tire irnpres- 1 on of I lie planet. I ?y a cloae examination r the planet, >19 reflected in the glass, all its itellile* willnUo l?o observed, provided nii of lliein are eclipsed. It is rather ro ntkidle, however, that although these j ilellitcs can tlins be seen, while they can- . >t be seen by the naked eye, that neither '' en us nor tho moon can be seen ro distinct ! by reflection as they can bo by observing i etn with the naked oyo. A Western court lias decide I that nrront* b> te c iJ>h:C di rpalel.O* an- 'Ifegill. ? Chinese Sugar Cane. The following direction*, in refereuco to the choice of ground, lime of planting, man* tier of plunling, cullirating, stripping, and cutting thu Chinese Sugar Cane, when it is grown for the purpose of making syrup or sugar, tins been gathered from practical men, who have hud experience in the field in the sugar growing districts of this and other countries, bv Messrs. Hedges ?k Free, corner of Maiu and Water streets, Cincinnati. Ctiotcic of Ground.? Upland soil is better for sugar than low ground, though the latter may bo a stiong, deep soil. It is supposed that the snctharine matter in plants is absorbed cliietly froin the attuos phere; and though a larger growth of cano can be secured on low ground than on high, there will bo more water in the sap; and, as the cost of piessing and boiling is considerable, it is not ulways desirable to pro duce the largest growth, hut rather the richest juice. Timk ok Planting.?The seed of the < L. c.- 1.- c i > I vuni?D? wgiiu, <jl ourgllU OlILTe, SUUUIU I nut be planted until the ground lias become warm to a considerable depth. If the sea pun is backward, as tlio present spring, the first or tenth of June will do very well. Mr. Whitney, of Washington, D. 0., raised his best seed, last year, from seed planted on the eighth of June. Manner ok Planting.?All ng.-ee that one seed in a plnce, eight or ten inches apart, in drills four feet apart, running north mid south, gives the best growth, and renders its maturity inure certain and uniform. It should bo borno in mind that the sorgho or Impheo stools out like wheat, i. e., one seed produces several stalks, and it is therefore not only useless, hut detrimental to a good growth of the best cane to plant the seed loo thick. As light and air are essential to the best growth for sugar, it is heller, as a general thing, to have too few than loo many stalks; thciefore no harm is done if a few hills fail to come up, as they probably will when there is but one seed in a place. Cultivation.?This does not differ from the cultivation of Indian corn, except that it should be watched when near maturity. When it is intended to make sugar or molasses, the seed head should be plucked out. This should be done after tire seed Iras formed, and before it begins to fill, i. e., before it begins to assume a milky appearance; or, in other words, while tbo seeds aic yet of a green color inside. The seed heads are easily plucked out by grasping the head and joking upward. In a short time after this is done, new panicle will shoot out from the joints below, on which new seed heads will form. As soon as the seeds in these new heads have begun to form, the whole stalk should be stripped bare of all its leaves and panicle, leaving nothing but the naked trunk. Stkii'I'INO.?'Ibis operation is peiformed very quick by those accustomed to it. It is done with an instrument shaped much like a pruning honk, only it is larger and is not sharp. A stroke dowuwaul with this instrument, close to the stalk, strips off not only the panicle and blades, but also the sheaths around the stalk at the base of each blade. If the instrument is sharp it does not clean the stalk so well, nnd besides that, it would be likely to wound the stalk, and cause it to sour. Cuttjno.?This may be done as soon as the stripping is completed, but not until the mill and the kettles are all ready, as the cano should be ground as soon as it is cut, and the juice boiled as soon as it is expressed. Otherwise, the quality of the svrup made from it will he inferior, and it will be nearly impossible to make sugar from it at all. A Swedish Tale. In Falun, a mining town of Sweden, a hundred years and inoie ago, a young mi nor kissed bis fair brido and said to her, v^ii :>>t. Lutein's day our love will be bless| od by the priest's hand. Then wo shall build us a little nest of our own.* 'And peace and love shall dwell in it,' said the beautiful biide, with a sweet smile, '."or thou art all in all, and without thou 1 > would chose my grave.' Hut when the priest, in proclaiming their banns in the church for the second lime before St. Lucia's day, pronounced the woid, 'It* now any one can show good reasons why these persons should not be united in the bonds of matrimony,' death was at hand. The young man, as he passed her house next morning in his black mining garb al ready wore his shroud. lie rapped upon her window, and said good morning?but he never returned to say good evening, lie never came back from the mine, and all in vain she embroidered for him on that very morning a black cravat with a red border, for the wedding day. I bis she laid carefully away, and never ceased to mourn or weep for him. Meanwhile time passed on; the seven years' war was fought; the partition of Poland took place; America became free; the French Revolution and the long war began; Napoleon subdued Prussia, and the ISnglish bombarded Copenhagen. The husbandman sowed and reaped, the miller ground and the smith hammered, and the miiieis dug afer the veins of metal in the suoterrancan workshops. Ah the inin?r? of Falun, in tlio year eigli- j teen hundred anil nine, :i Iit?I before or af ; ler St. .lolin's day, were excavating an ! opening between two shafts fail three hun j ilred ell? below the ground, they dug from j the rubbish and vitriol water the body of; the young man, entirely saturated with iron vitriol, but otherwise undecnyed and unaltered?so that one could distinguish his \ features and age as well as if he had died only an hour bofuic, or had fallen asleep j while at his work. ltut when they had brought him out to the light of day, father and mother, fiiends and acquaintances, had long been dead; no one could identify the sleeping youth, or tell anything of his misfortune, till she came, who was once the betrothed of that miner who iiftd one day gone to the mine and never returned. (?iay and shrivelled, she canm , to the place hobbling upon a crutch, and recognised hei bridegroom, when, moro in io\ ful exlncy than pain, she sank down upon ; li'ii l.ol.t. ...I ft..." As soon as she had recovered her compontile she exclaimed ? * 11 is my betrothed, whom I havo mourned for lifly years, and now permit mo to s o once more before I die. A week ho fore the welding lime, he went under tho earth and never returned.' All tire bystanders wore moved to tears, an they beheld ho former bri le, a wanted and feeble old woman, md the bridegroom '- ill in the l.' imtv ''f \-.':th; : n 1 i. v. .aft' r the absence of fifty yours, her youthful lover awoke again, liut bo never opened hi* ^ mouth to smile, uor his eyes to recognise; c and she finally, as tbo only one belonging to birn, and having a right tobini, bad him Qf carried to her own little room, till u grave -y|ir could be prepared in the churchyard. The tnext day, when till was ready and tho miHers came to take hiin away, alio opened a u> little drawer, and taking out tho black era- , vat, tied it around his neck, and theu ac- ^ ^ companied him in her Sunday garb, as if it ? were their wedding day, aud not the day of his burial. lt|,l As they laid him in tho grave of tho n,2| church yard she said: 'Sleep well now, for a few days, in thy ? cold l*i!Jul bed, and let not tho time scorn ?. long to thee. 1 huvo but little more to do, aud will come soon, and then it w ill be day Haj(| again.' As she was going away, she looked back once uioro and said: 'What tbo n, earth has once restoied it will not a second to 9 lime withhold.' r:_ A Mau Courting his Own Wife. h?n Ten year* ago M. V. married in Montre- r,e^ al. He was one of tbo principal merchants of the city; but by a reverse of fortune be was w compelled to suspend payments soon after 1 liis marriage. He loved bis wife to dis- Jcsl traction, to mm a common phrase; and the or idea of involving her in bis disasters gioat- w ly afflicted him. After a thousand iulcrnal t<J 1 conflicts, M. V. resolved to leave our city * 10 without saying anything about it. llo ar wished his departure, or rather his disap f>oe pearance, to remain a mystery, lbit ho 8ur iiad a purpose. '"I will go," lie resolved, ?,ne "to Australia, and there mend my for- 1 tune, or die without giving any account of 0 myself." . wh, This resolution taken, our tradesman em- ? batked clandestinely, and eight days after J ,e bis flight lie was not thought of. Madame V. wept, wo are lain to suppose; more than 14,1 this, wo will believe she shed torrents of a,,tJ tears, and sought him upon rivers, and in crei woods, lakes aud caverns, but in vaiu. M. V. bad left to ibis beautiful but weeping "?J and forlorn wife an income of one hundred louis, and sailed for Australia. What be- ,e fel liiin upon tlioso favored shores we do not well know; but little by little lie uinass- l^'ri ed wealth. '',e At Montreal they supposed him dead, j lo j Ilis wife wept bitterly; and she saw, uu- .1 doubludly, that sorrow jaundiced lier com ? 1 plexion and dimmed her eyes; therefore she . I ceased, all sweetly, her role of Niobe. Our 8,111 Penelope could smile liken young widow 48 j of eighteen. The art of needlework is too 1 j perfect now; are not men entangled with it! She was faithful to her wandering husband *?ri eighteen long months; but sbo Jul what 1 others might have dono in her place. Thinking hcrielf young, she lent her ear to ten der proposals; she reviewed her gography ' of love, confessed to never having studiod the map of the tender country; and one tine morning contracted a new marriage. Hut the J lirsl husband! He! h!i, be was dead. What living husband would stay away eighteen 8? I long months without writing a word! If c I he was not dead he ought to be. (feminine ! logic ) She married. Was she happy, ",e< or was she not? (Shakspervau question.) 0 Meantime the tirst husband labored in i the mines. Ho acquired,Acquired?always * | acquired. Falling upon an auriferous vein t j . lie suddenly obtain** 1 a lurge sum, and bad j | Iris only motive be* u the lo?eofgain would | ( have immediately returne I to Montreal. Hut his dear I.ouraa must cat only from H j silver and drink only from gold. J n roai The uufailliful L< nisa.as wo have already Tin said, was again married. Faith tloys n??t i,ro save lis; M. V. always labored, but an e)?i* c|m dernic prevailed; our hero caught the sim II u-ll pox. and was completely disfigured. l)is- pj0) gusted with Australia he sold his property s ,,| and embaiked on an American ship. i,, r During this voyage, the second husband I of his wife die<l, w itli the consumption. M. pre; V. landed at Portland, flew to Montreal, tor went to tire Montreal House, without arous Dm ing any suspicion as to who he was. I here " are people who always love to create sur- | his prise, and ho was one of them. Il>* inqtiir- }>i ed for Madame V.; no one knew such a per- liev son; but M. V. insisted. Finally he was brol told by some one that she was now the wid \ S. M. V. scratched hishead. They point- and ed out to him Madame widow V., after- , the wards .Madame widow S , and lie recognised his ; his wife, charming as when he lefl her. M. toll< r? immediately fell into a brown study. IIis " countenance was grave, sad, very sad, very j uui gloomy; and thus he turned away. M. V. , of | had more spirit than money; and he found J " it very strange to pay his addresses to his one own wife. Hut he did it?lie courted his the own wife for three months, lie recognised * Di her; did she recognise liiui? It is more than bl?j we know; we leave the dames who read " to solve the problem. Ho was introduced j " j with all his pounds, shillings and pence. [font I People will admire pounds sterling, and j dollars federal, and women ahove all. " Though scarred and pitted from head to Fat foot with the sinail pox, M. V. won the ' heart of his wife. They were to exchange ! " the second marriage rings, when M. V. pre <tee sented to her the same one, he had given . busl I her at their firnt espousal. The woman, " ! they say, fainted.? Montreal Pays. plie A N a know and Staktlino Kscai'k.? In ul' 1 the Memoirs of Mausice, the celebrated vet ,s 11 eran Parisian journalist, wo find ( ays Mrs. Stephens) an account of a starlliuglv our- SCVt row ami fearful escape: , " es ' I'uring the French (involution a man "*Ll had been c udcinned to death. On ihu day of execution there wero twelve in tho il. cait. In micIi cases, whether it was out of refinement or cruelly, from indifference, or ,ua* to render the hecatomb more easy and prompt, tho inUcrn >ie men worn placed un * en! der the scatfoid, so that tlie blood of the ,'s victims fell upon them. Klovon had been : ' executed, when the assistants, oblivious of Oorl' tlio number, began to lake the machinery 1 to pieces, the crowd looking on, while the H" twelfth remained below, without power to i s 1,4 speak or move, indeed half dead with hor- I sa-v . ror. Among those present, however, one co" man noticed him. lie was a butcher. ' s Creeping up to the cart beneath tho scaf- sowi fold, ho took a nightcap out of one pocket 8Ul<c and a knife out of tho other, then putting i?(0 the one on the prisoner's head, with the lal who ter he severed tlu? cords that bound his 0(| j, hands behind his back, and taking him by ' vvas (he aim, walked away with him as if it was 0f g some one faint with the tenors of tho spec j(H , lade. Nobody took notice of them. Drag 1 Bft|t ging the victim along, rather than leading i|,o i him, for tho poor man had lost almost all oarli consciousness, he at length got liiin into a i coffee house, where he was soon brought to ! whil himself. It would only be at the grave both that the executioner would find out there wa? <>re i? 'ended si t?nj too few" 'The Deacon Tbrope's Pigeons. evoral years ago, when the masts and ^ ? in some of the Western States were J ut to bo destroyed by the large number ?r^ wild pigeons that came about, Deacon . ope and several of his friends were sit- j ^ ; outside the log meeting house one tine day morning, waiting for the minister xrive, and, as a matter of course, talk- j'"4 about the prospect of having "nothing ecd on" through the corning winter. 4^j It's orful!" said oue of the company. *'I ^ or seo the pigeons so thick afore. My . and lien went down to the roost last 4 c' lit, and killed a bag full with clubs. I j1' ik they'll take all my corn." Oil, yes, it is orful!" replied the others. !*" That's uothing to what mo aud my boy "! ix Joshua did, day before yesterday," ^ I the deacon. "You know my bottom c'.\ 1 there? Well, they come iu it so thick a' couldn't see the ground. I went down Wl care 'ern out, and peradventure, they V' up liku a cloud, you couldn't see the " for 'ein. I liolleied aud slapped my ids, aud tore round till I was plum wor- or I out, but it did uo good. They just for irined around over my head; and as fast as ,l1' eut to one side of the field, they begun )onr down in t'other. Felix Joshua had h,. got up to the crih with a load of corn, ho was a gatherin' the ridge field, and l'r' unt to wliar lie was, aud told him to go ho house and get his shot gun, aud inr t-gun, and see if wo couldn't drive them pigeons out'n the bottom field. So he i>e I and get: his shot gun and my shotI and wo goes down. lie slipt along on i side of the field and I stipt along on 0j her, till we got about middie ways, and w? ri I gin a holler, and up they fiew like a ?" irlagust. I blazed away in the thickest 'J" cm, and helix Joahua blazed awav in thickest of'em, and w hat do vou think? .... 4 I ? V ;v were sill gone in a second. Then me j ih< I Felix Joshua, we climb over the fence, j Vl' I says he to me, "l ather, tiiis beats all I lf' ation!" Says I to him, "Go fetch the 1 v.| :rs and wagon," and upon tny word and ! ulor wo picked up tin bushrl*!" | tin L'ho good brothers stared wildly around 'lu in, and would probably have accused i ir deacon of lying, had they uot been in- ; an uptcd by the arrival of the preacher, and aiinouucumeut that "inceliu' was a goin' ?u tiegin." \ftcr tlio services were over, litt'o groups t;' ho faithful might have been seen here I there, engaged in earnest conver- u< otr. The subject was an exciting one, ioii might have inferred from the length :l' heir faces and the earnestness of their ^ lutes. If you had listened to their con- W) nation you might have heard something ? nt as follows: Did you hear what brother Til rope -aid | it him and hi^ Felix Joshua killiu' ten I hels of pigeons at one shot?" Yes, it's orful, ain't it?" It's a lie, as sure as shoolin.' I dou't i >w what's got into brother Thrope." What'll he done about it? It musn't ' so?it'll certaiuly ruin the uame of the : rch." 'We'd better fetch it up at the next | tin', and make him take it back, or i ircli him." Vtul so it would go on. Of course the d deacon heard a whisper of it, which u him no little uneasiness. However, he I been into several scrape* before aud I cwine out clear, and he doubted nut dronld m?*et w ith the same good luck this occasion. Until the meeting day i l i i?u veil Ihe entire settlement wus in an upr. Nothing was talked id but Deacon ope'a ten bushels of pigeons. The good 111 liters said it was too bad to have the !.?! i ?.? .. i ? ' 1 ^...vvu ??? ? uv nvVII W Il*l Ml'U.'U such unreasonable tales; while the aW js old sisters wiped their spectacle#, 111 led, an<l said "It is extremely liard tell- ' lite power which the Evil One exerteth." ''' U last the exciting day arrived. The c'.ur stated that the church w is ready l,K the transaction of business; whereupon 1 illier Fingle arose and said: j ?n Brother I>eaeuii Tlirope says him and ' at? Felix Joshua killed ten bushels of wild I no Buns at one shot. The church don't be j en e it, and would love to hear what the thor lias t<> say for himself." kn Villi much solemnity the deacon arose, bo alter casting a very serious look over i;? congregation assembled, and elevating eyes to the rafters a few time*, spoke as >w>: ^ tlll My bretli.ing, there is a sad mistake rol ? i didn't say we picked up ten bushels tigeons at one shot, but?" A W hat did you say, then?" interrupted of tbo brothers, who war present when v| deacon first told about his j>igeons. ^ Un't you say you and Felix Joshua both led away?" V v I b 1 t'S. Didn't you say you both clom over the 1 :e?" Yes, peradvenlurc." Didn't you say that Felix Joshua suiJ, <lr' her, this beats all creation!'" I did, brother." Didn't you say Felix Joshua fetched the 1,1 rs and wagon, and you picked up ten liel* of pigeons!" Thoro is the mistake, my biother," re- i i?v.d the deacon, again raising his eye* to- ?>* d the rafters. "1 didn't *ay we picked se? [en bushels of pigeons. Brother Fingle ( .-.c< listaken; 1 said?" ter Yes, 1 know what you said!" interrupted ; ral; you did sav it, and wo can nmve | ,,u isy enough! You can't come that game m r us, old hos fiy." jcl i >rdor, brethring," said the minister? w>, 's hear Brother Thropo's own story, pn then you cau make any remarks vou 3I . . ' ;lr Well, a* I wax sayin'," resumed the ^ run, ,-i didn't say wo pickeil up ten w ( icls of pigeons?Brother Fingle i* mis n?I said we picked up ten bushel* of i that the pigeons had shattered off." Amen!" went upfiem the congregation, ll a rush was made at Deacon Tlirope to ... I.;... I... .i... i 1 r. ii .u ? , nit- iiitiiu. 11 is ueeoiess 10 lio nat restored to full fellowship am] I idonce.? Porter's Spirit. alt on Wiibat.*?Tho experiment of ng sail on wheat lias been found very essful. A field of ten acres was divided equal parts, and sown with spring at. After the wheat was well harrowi, one bushel and a half of salt per acre , I. sown broadcast on half of each parcel Cu round. Soon after tho wheal was up, l"" :olor distinctly indi<*atod where tho was sown, and the rosult was, that a heat was ripe for the sickle five days cii. er than tho other portion of the field. <ipi< a particle of scab or rust could be found, ,><?t o that by its side was affected with . The increato in the yield was judg ?bo from four or fi?o bushels per acre ? soil was sandv loam ^ Jk f " * ' N AI'IEK AKTKR TH? GHKAT BATTLK OF i a nek.?Nineteen long letter* froui tb? 0] ?vornor General. lie una made me Gov* lor of Soinde, with additioual pay; and liaa ordered the captured guns to be cmI ,o a triumphal column, with our uarnee. rj viah ho would let ute go back to my wife n d girU; it would be na^re to me than y attd glory and honors. Eight mouths ce ray froin Ibeiu. and iny wife* strange w cam realized! 'ibis is glory, F# ill Yes! ^ ue princes have surrendered their swords <j me on fields of battle, and their king- u ins have been conquered by me and at- ? died to my own country. I have received **' e government of the conquered proviuce, c d all honors are paid to me while living ? mine enemy's capital. Well, all the ? ory that can be desired is mine, and 1 " ie so little for it, that the moment 1 can, I shall he resigned to live quietly with my fo and girls; no honor or riches repay w o for absence from them.?Journal of the te Gen. Sir C. J. Napier. Wiiat the Knolibii think or ovn Acqiisitii h " Cuba.? 11"u. John G. Godson, Ewj , candidate ' ' Parliament fur East Sussex, (England,; recently liven d a lecture tu the English people ul lingli- ^ i, un ihu subject of Cu'j.i, embracing the result . Ins residence in thai island. Among other things said: "If Cu' a was annexed to the United States its jdueliveness and Us trade xxbuld be more devel " ed in live or six years under the ilillueticu ol u mericunactivity, tliau in ten times as uiany years ^ SiKUiisli torpor aod misrule. In a pohiico-eco- , meal point of view, the world, and England es- { eially, would be gamers. But however much f lgland (and the same applies, though in a less (tree, to Frillce and other great powers) might in in wealth, she woulJ lose lar more ill respect I position and prestige. The |x.s?essiun of Cuba j ?u!d a !d enormously to the intlui iiCc uud the ^ nigth ol the United States, und would iumtcn ^ [ day, \v liicli already seems last approaching. when , L-y xv.II beeoine the first power in the world. ^ Yet it rcureely, under any circumstances, xvill he srtli Knglaii I's while to plunge ioiouwur with . e American Bepublie. solely to endeavor to pre it it froin adding Cuba to its doui.nious. Even f ueccssiul in the immediate ubjtct of the xviir,slie ( >u!d inflict ns great injury ou herself us on her ri- f 1. In the natural course of things, America tnust { conic sooner or later a lur greater empire than v e mother country. The Amercan* have nil the j uhlies that have made as xvhal xxe are, with one lull ed und fitly times our national resources, and fir sp l it of enterprise is aceoidiugly ijuickeucd il stimulated. ' The most desirable event (or England would be 1 eli a peaceable dissolution of the Union asrluulJ itc iwu or iikiic |>iosjierouv ana unuju intent povv 9 capable of In-lding llie balance tu each olber. ivh a diavlution w u!il probably be rulher pro itc>l by the addition of (Juba to lh? republic; sucli insolation would probably be rvtnrdvd by llie ninpt ?.f tiny foreign Stute to brill: it about. 1 lit ,, ?e|i ir.it.nil will home day bike place, many tldnk ; American* believe; tbe lime, liow ever, of it, U ? rh in a . remote lb.in tbe people in .Europe mic n Hino to imagine *' CHERRY PECTORAL, for the rapid Cure of (OI LIIS, COLDS, HOARSENESS, u BRONCHITIS, WHOOPING-! 01CU, " CROUP, ASTHMA, AND CONSUMPTION. s M.rnv year* of tri.it, in*teaJ of impiiiring tinbliveonli letiee ill tli's medicine, ba- w >n for It a *i preciation uli I notui < ty by far exoer-ding tL 1 ?t sanguine expectation* u il? friends. Nothing its intrinsic virtu ? and llie unniisluWeblc bene p coiif i red on thousand* of *ufLrei?, eou'.d origin f and inaiut.im llie reputation it ctij- yi. Wliili my inferior remedies, thru.-t upon the coninmui have f tiled and been discarded, this lias gained ends by every trial, conferred b iirfils on tin lietitl tiny can never f-rgi-'., iru.l pn-faced cores. p i numerous and too mnark iblc to Ik.- forgottci . ? \Vliil .- it is fraud on the public It? |irH?nil ill I ' y mo medicine will infallibly cure? *1 til there is und til proof that the Cukkhy Pkctokai. ?W? :i t iiidy, aa a gcucrul thing, but sdnu?t iuvariably re the m.ilu lit* for wd.'.vh it ? rtuidr.vcd. A* time inak.-s these facts wider rtud better own, tli.? medicine has gradually become tin *t rvhitiice of tin . ill etc J, from ihe log-cabin ot i American Pi-iif.nit, t<* the palace of European t?^ ! . Throughout thi* entire c-ontry, in evert ?t<-, eitv, au-l indeed almost every h imlet it con- e no, Cur.rry Pectoral U known as the best d lied, v extant for discaseanf the Tbr ml and hung*; j " r .1 lu m.iuy tore.411 count! ft. it .* coin ng i,. in ^ leiiftivcly used by their inuut intelligent l'hysi .it*. In Grout Ikilnui, France, and Germauy, it re the meJ.cal sciences have r. ached their liiQ.lt - a I perfection, Ciikrry Pectoral ia introduced P d 111 c. uvtant use in the Arntica, ll.?pil.ils, Alms '* l'ubhc Institution*, and iu domestic prace, as the surest remedy their attending Pbysi- n .us can employ for the more dangerous affections ' the lung*. Ai?o in mildu* case*, and for chil- ^ tn, it is safe, pleasant and cflVetu-.l to cure, lu t.souieof the most tlaltering testimonials we rove have heen from parents who have found it icae .mi* in case* partioul -rly incidental to childnd. | The Ciikrry Pectoral i* mannfactured by a d ?el eal Chemist, nu I every ounce of it oodrr his y u ?ye, with invariable accuracy nu.l care. It is ^ ded and protect! d by law from counterfeit*, von{Ueiitly can be reiicd on as genuine without adulation. We h.?v? endeavored hereto furnish llic commity w-o'i a medicine ?.f slid; intrinsic superiority I worth us should commend itseli to their eoi.fi- * nee?a remedy at once safe, speedy and effectual, j, noli this ha* by r< p.-atcd and counties* trials ve.l itself to be; and trust by gieat care in piering it with chemical accuracy, of uniform digth, to afford Physicians s new agent on which , >y can rely for the b si results, and the a?3<cted ii a rciiiMy that will ?lofor them all that nicihc no 1 do. * I'repar I anJ mJ<i by J ANiESC. AYER,Prae- s il anil Analytical Chemist, l?wcll. Mam. ? KISIIEK ?fc 11 I'll N ITS 11. Spartanburg, t IOIIN L. YOPNG, ITitonville, mid by all] reliant* nn?l Dru/gisls everywhere. IIA VILA XD A IIARRAL, Charleston, u W HOLES A LB AGENTS. x Inn. 8 40 4m \ IN EQ( ITV Spartaitarg. K. 1*. Smith ? . Kobt. Cunningham, et al. Petition f??r Funds, F appearing to the satisfaction of ties Court that Isaac Cunn nuliam, Ilobt. Cunningham, John nningh.im, William ('unniii^liain, Anthony Con- \ | glrihi, Catharine White, widow, Mipm Savour, low, John Wiifliird and Mary hi* wife, d< fenit* in this case, reside from and without the I.inof tin* State; It is, oil ino ton of l?n?hus A aiee, Solicitors for Petitioner, Orderrd,That they eat and |?lcaJ, answer or demur, to Petitioner's 1 Mm, within three months from the publication I * his rule, or the tame w ill Ik- taken prn con!, 'to r< in*t them, S THOb. <> P VERNON, i t P omr's < ?iRee. March J, J807. st >1arch 'o - 'J tint i )***?*>; r ' ?L<m tSTH+Z, 4f c~v ^ j ..I M...I WBggggl I I IB 4 Rogers' Liverworth ft Tar U THE COMPLETE CURS vi touuno, COLL*. INFLUENZA, A8TUMA, BRONCHITIS, SPITTING OP BLOOI>, A ALL OTHER LUHO COMPLAINTS TENDINO TO CONSUMPTION. i ^ S ?l 1 <i 1 Thin preparation n getting into vac ail ovsr oar miitry. The numerous W*t(en we receive from v various agents, informing us of cores effected their iipiiiliili neighborhoods, warrant us I* lying it is one of the best, if Lot the very best, ough Mcdioiue now before the public. It aimosi ivarmbly reheces, and not unfreyuentl y curss tks try worst coses. When oil othel Cough prepara* one have lulled, this has relieved the patient, a* IraggUta, dealers iu Medicines, sod Phy'-iane, Mi testify. Ask tlie Agent iu >our iteurcst town, 'hut lias been Ins experience ol the effects of tbia ledk-ine. Il he lias been aeliiug it for any length f time lie will tell you IT IB THE BEST MEDICINE EYTANT. Jielow we give a few extracts from letters w? a*c received lately regarding the virtues of tbia tedicme. Dr. S. 8. (Jslin, ?>f KnoiviUe,Gasays: I hate, ten using your Liverwort and Tar very exisnicely in my pruclice for three years past, and, ' I is with pleasure I state my belief in its svrsIOK1TY OVER ALL OTHER ARTICLES with which J in acquainted, for which it is recommended." Mcst.ru Fiugernld & Ben nor*, writing fros Vayncsvillc, N. C. any: "The Liverwort and Hdr i? becoming daily more popular in this Counry, and wk TiiiNx ji'stly ?o. All who have triad t speak, in commendable terms of it, and say it 1 very beneficial in alleviating the complaints fat thich it is recommended." Messrs. Fitxgeraid Ac Bcnncrs, writing from Viiynesville, N. C., say: The Liverwort and far is becoming daily mare popular in this Canary, AMU we TiiiNX jihtlv si. All who have rted it speak in commendable terms of it, and ay it is very beneficial in alleviating the cansilaints for which it is recorfimendtd Our Agent in Pickens Dntric. 8. C., Mr. S. t. Me Fall, anaure* u? 4*that he uses it with great *? lenefit iu his own family, and recommends it to his figlibon." lie gives n? Jnatauccofa Negro wsuan, in liia vicinity, who had been ruffeiing with liscase of the I.unga for yeora, attended with snore cough, who was relieved by tlie Liverwort nd Tur. Such are the good report* we hear of this Midi inc from all pa?t? of the Sooth For a report of lie surprising cures it hns performed in lh? \V?strn nud Nurtin in uml Eastern 8t?i?? *? uot?M nvite (hp sufltring patient to read the pamphlet rhicli accompanies encb bottle. To all ? any, iate hope, hare hope! * i TRY THE MEDICINE]! REWARDED I if SEA SOU Beware of Counterfeits and Base Mm i tfi tioutt! The genuine article is signed A*D*rw lloeim the engraved wrapper around each bottle. Price $1 j?er bottle, ?>r ?ix bottle* lor $5. Sold ledcsnlc and retail by SCOVIL A* MEAD, nil I Charter* St., bet. Cotitl and St. Louis, N. O. Sol*. Auints run Tit* Soltiierk States, to i-honi all orders and applications for Ag*ncie~ uist be addressed. SOLD ALSO BY FISHER & 11 KIN ITSlI, Spartanburg, 8o."3 ? W. H. WATSON, Greenville " H. KRUTC1J, 44 KENNoN A- N ORRIS, TJnionvllW, " S R. HENRY, Laurensvtllo C. L. 11A KRIS, ?k CO , Rutin rfoidton, N. C" April 84 tt 6 m MM O OKS J BOOKS I ! I'MIE eubaerlbi i takcutLii niethod toinform the . citizens ot the Village and surrounding cnuti* y, that he it> now receiving n good stock ol NEW !OOKS. at his Book Store, No. 6, Main street pposite the C?urt House, sueh as are generally ned iii Colleges, Academics and cor.itnou Engk's eLools. A large variety of MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS, mhrneitig HISTORICAL. BIOGRAPHICAL, i KO LOGICAL, MECHANICAL, Poetical and 1 usual works,of mu-ious ebtcs and prices. Sonic light reading (in the way of Notchr.)? tl7TH HALL. Fnmiv Fern's writing* : TOM ONES' COURTSHIP, Ac Ac BLANK BOOKS. A nuuiler ??f II Y MN IOOKS, umkI bv the different denominations of 'lirist'utua, together with a large assortment ot FAMILY BIHLES, C f Pit ... AA B IHttv *" - ....... - V I- 9IUIIV, MiililDIDi.LD, troni 0 J.M1 ? l i 41**50 ani #t.UO . TESTAMENTS tjiii tirtw n ccut* v? PRAYER BOOKS t various pr'-rea. Alxv> a variety of sinaUrcligiuus books,toy books ml Primer*. . < A gr>o<l lot of Foolscap, Lett* r, (Ymmerrijt 1 and Si.te Paptr. Euvnopis from common to tIk- fint t tyh-s Riack, Blue and Red Ink. NEW MUSIC FOR THE PIANO. I? tvv.fU .">'>?? and 1,000 .tew pieces fur the IV ^ ho,from tin* best composer?. the grcatcrl variety vcr offered in the up-country, (We hope the laic* will call ninl kupply themselves.) ! have mailt: per luuncnt arrangements with serial large Rook 1 louse* in PhiUufelpbia and New 'ork, to uxchang* my- Music Wotk?the ^ SOUTHERN HARMONY, t C \S!l PRICK, for tlu-ir Books, Ac., at eaeh rices, Rett. I w >ll, therefore, he able to sell Books nd Stationery lower thati they have ever been sold t Spat Mubur7 ; and as 1 des re to do an entire nsh i usijiesM, if the people will etill with their mo ey, I thir.k they wIMbe s-itisfied that they con buy looks, Ac., t'rim ine. r.s cheap as they can (M r?iil)in Coluntbiaor Charleston. tWCALL AND SEEj^J WILLIAM WALKER, A.S. II. * 35f~School teachers supplied on liberal terms P. S. If any person sbouhl call for a Boi k or looks, that I have not got, I will immediately or- * ?-r thi-ni if they desire it. N. 11. The New Edition of the Southern Haslor.v, kep constantly on hand, wholesale and Pentl, at the CASH BOOK STORE. May 17 ' ft If COM POL N I) FLUID EXTRACT OF tarsaparilla, Queen'* Relight, &cs For purifyuig too binoti, and removing nil disuse* arising from the impurity of the same, and ia .penally recommended for the cure of lheiiin:>iiam, Seiutu'a, l 'r\ . |h ln?, Llcerstioo of the Tliront an I Lungs, Pains ami Swellings of tin- 11 -:iv , Tetter. Pimples n the face, Old Sores, and all Cirtaneiws Eruptions, Neuralgic At'-. M- . ,.i m1 1 > sense*, ^ mil for assisting the ojh rat on and preventing fa l.il consiliences o( Mercurials in Syphilis. For ti c Composition of this I're|>*rntion, and the ledtein.-il Properties of the Queen's IVIight, Phy cams arc referred to thcMh and 6tb Noa. Vol. ], f the "Southern .Journal ol Medicine and Phariaoy." i,. eniiu.i. s-i ? - - - in oimin^iK ojumiH, ^urro'n nclirrht,) iwrvei much more notice than has be. n bestowed l> >n it. it Iwt* S? ? it u ed for the bat trO or fifteen ears by fcrem! of our nioat .iisimein-lod Phyaialia, and I believe they have never had r;;u?e to eny to it a hiffh rank umoiig oor indigenous meditl pln^t*.?[Ed. Join. Med. and Pl?*r. Preirtd by Kcuifit k & Skrino, Ohemst* and Druggists, No. 27". K ng street, Charleston, S. C. Sole Proprietora of the celetxated i'aitHftlo IVasi f*otr>4ie.r, or making H ickwlnal and ail ktuds of Cakra Hiacuit* mwl Ught lit end. Feb 5 .SO ly WW. T. HI ssKL. M. D. 1"1*AY1N G resumed tbe petn ral prnetiee .4 .1 MEDICINE, in ceinDftt'm with Dentistry sspectfully off. rs bin stivers to the oitt vne *4 A (virUnbui ? nnd iie veinity. t Oflhco in N.w lira h Pange, No 5. (aecotdt ortr,> Chur?h street oppsme TVimetto Ilenee. Mftr?h ?7 S If %v