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VTIIE CAROLINA SPARTAN . * - . r ' by cavis & trimmier. diwiifr to soutl)*rn iiig!)ts, politics, slgriculluvc, nnir ittisccuanij. #2 per annum. ? vol7xiv. spartanburg, s. c., thursday, november 5, 1857. "" ~ NO. 37^ THE OARQIilXHA SPARTAN. BY CA^XS & TRIMM1ER. 0. P. VERNON Assooiate Editor. PtiM>T?a> Dollars per andam in advance, or $9.60 at the end or the year. If not paid until after tbo year expiree S3.00. Payment will be ooftsidered in advanoe if made ' fj within three months. He subscription taken for less than six months. Money may be romitted through postmasters at bar risk. Advertisements inserted at the usual rates, and C contracts made ou reasonable terms. The SrARTAN circulates largely over this and adjoining districts, ond offers an admirable medium (# oar friends to reuoli customers. Job work of all kinds promptly executed. Blanks, Law and Equity, continually on haud or printed to order. CAROLINA SPARTAN. ORIGINAL ESSAYS. ^ , vSpartanburg Agricultural Society. AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. wti . 0 l _ _! !. a 4 xne scionce 01 ngnciiiurc is so inuuiaic- i ly connected with tho comfort of private life and the wealth and ; *ospority of na- j tions, a* to commend itself to the earnest consideration of all eulightencd aud benevolent minds. In the earliest ages of our race, pastoral labor?the culture of flocks and hords? served the main purposes of subsistence; while wealth and personal consideration depended in a groat degree upon the extent of pastoral possessions. At a later period, the occupations of tho hepherd were substituted by those of the husbandman, or combined together, according to the peculiarity of local circumstances. These two sources of production are the basis?tho sure and only reliable basis?of all woalth; while they enter, in countless Forms, into the question of human comfort and human subsistence. Tho precious metals are valuable chiefly aa a modium of exchange?serving as tho aigns of value; the ,?ther metals are valuable for many -mechanical and commercial purposes, tinman ingenuity and multiform industry add wealth?contribute value-?to all that whereon labor is judiciously bestowed; but all these depend absolutely for thoir value upon the productions of the field?tho animal and vegetable proceeds of the labor of the husbandman. ibcr? > u use in which these various departments of human labor are reciprocally dependent on each other, while they co-operate in beautiful harmony; but there is as certain ly another sense in which everything depends on field husbandry, as strictly and justly, as the temple, raised aloft, rests, for its security, on the granite base firmly planted in the solid earth. Abstract tho simple article of cotton, and a million of manufacturing and other laborers cease to work, and cease to earn bread; while live hundred millions of our race suffer a deprivation to a greater or less extent, of the comforts, and perhaps the necessaries of life. Not only this, but "ships, sailorless, would lie rotting on the aea;" commerce would suffer a dead stagnation; almost universal bankruptcy would ensue; while the governments of kingdoms would topple and fall to pieces, jeopardizing, and perhaps tearing asuuder, the tenure even of property and of life. Again, if you cut off the supply, for one single year, of the cereals?particularly of corn .and wheat?and at tho arae time multiply at will the ?upply of gold and silver?Increase indefinitely tho mechanical powers?strew the oceans with hips?let steam tako wings and fly to tho uttermost parts of the earth;?and yet hun- i dreds of thousands of our race would die of starvation, and the cry of distress would ascend to Heaven from every land inhabited by man on the surfaeo of our planet. ^ It is worthy of remark, that almost every riot occurring in Great Britain, and nlmost 1 every revolution in France, within tho last 1 two hundrod years, has proceeded from, and 1 may bo traced directly to, a scarcity of ' bread. If the practical results of agriculture are so 1 important?if so many great national and 1 domestic?physical and moral interests are 1 involved in tho success of husbandry, it ] must be obvious to all that an organized and concerted effort to encourage and pro- 1 mote the agricultural labors of tho country must challenge the support and enlist the ' sympathy of every patriotic heart. And 1 we do congratulate you, Mr. President, and , ' the members of this society, and wo con-, ' gratu'ate tho planters of the district, upen 1 the success which has thus far characterized the infant labors of this organization. ( You combine both forms of produc- 1 live husbandry?tho pastoral and the strict- ' )y agricultural?the rearing of useful ani* ' mats, as well as the productions of tho field. But the topic?the special subject of in- ' quirJ?you have kindly assigned to us, 1 and wli'^b is sufficiently extensive in its c range to ci'Judo from these brief remarks I all episode -is'-'xeirnportantanhjectof "Ag-1 11 rieuUo/al h juration Jfow ahull wo im- i ' press the public mind *|(|, tlio importance T of tins branch of bum., |,ihor? How ' shall we arrange to liave the young men an of llio country fall iu love with tho beauties re: of the field?-the wavinggrain?the golden us harvests?the blsatiog herds?the inno- nn cenco, the plenteousncss, the health giving en recreations of rural life! How shall wo ca thus shame into comparative insignificance st> the attraolions of the town and city?the da seething, festering, corrupting, debilitating rei iufluences of city life, and the miserable il- ah lusioos of tinsel and bronso?the do-nothing and the good-for-nothing, 60 called pro- ph fessional and political career? How shall m< we convince the ingenuous youth of tho country, that honor and usefulness are not conGned to any given calling, depend not s,,( on any titles, nor the occupancy of any tul given places? Wheu shall they learn that thi he is a benefactor who makes two blades of t'l< grass, or stalks of wheat, to grow where only ono grew bofore? When will they loam that lawyers and doctors and politidans are, for the present, continued only as | ph necessary evils, performing in their sphere ?f the office of the leech, to depleto tho body- ?f politic Ly blood sucking, at those points Pr' where there happens to bo loo much inllammationf It is a shame that sensiblo men 011 ever encourage their sons to enter into tho '.r lazy, idle, loafing life of a law-otfico, or a doctor's shop, while tho God of nature has an surrounded thorn with so many appliances It for usefulness, for rational enjoyment, for ,m virtuous independence, for tho acquirement or of wealth and refinement at home! l>y this false and mischievous sentiment?that l'g the professions absorb the talent and confer nn the distinctions of society?many educated by young men have been mis led away from 111 ( their proper vocation, into one of tho mis- cal II l ' uKiueu icarneu professions, and have fritter-1 ed away the be?t years fir manly exertion? | l?f doing little for themselves and notli- ? ing for society?waiting for the honors to 911 fall from somewhere, and feeding 011 the C<M husks of " 'squire" or "doctor." Had their energies been directed to tho field of ftgri- pu culture, a great work might have been accomplished: elegant mansions would have been reared throughout the land?orchards and gardens would have diversified the Su beauty of the country, and olevat -d, cliast- l'JI ened and purified the taste of tho rural popir l" tion?philosophical inquiry and rational lo observation?applications of chemical seionco to tho arts of life?well-directed labor >r cx aud economical husbandry?would have a,j greatly increased ihe productions of the all farm and the dairy? the poultry yard and m< tho sheep-fold, ao as to cheapen the articles en of daily consumption, and spread blessings -j* on the board aud urouud tbe fireside of mi human habitations. And if these sons of st: the soil hud failed in this line of labor "to ,,l< command the applause of listening seua- CU, 11 ? ral ios," they would at least have bhared to the other glorious privilege? co Tho ihrea's of paiu und toiu to denpise, si<; To scatter plenty o'er a miliinj lutid, in Aud rtad their limtory in their country's eye*.' of That educated men are needed?that men *? of enlightened minds correct taste and ne force of character are required?to improve )le the agriculture of the country, is but too en apparent to the least thoughtful observer, fat For raoro than one huudred years the territory of the State has been settled?the tinv bors felled?the soil cultivated by a class t|, of men of tolorable industry, and of ordi- sti nary average intelligence. But tboy have Al not been, in any liberal sense, educated ^ men. They havo never been able, of them- BtJ| selves, to apply tho lights of science to the or, labor of production. They have, to a great all extent, ploughed and reaped as their fa- a9 titers did beforo them, varied only by occa- t J lional thirst for speedy acquisition, and then ge have exhausted the soil?destroyed the timbers?killed tho goose producing gol- riv cien eggs?and abandouod the *-uinoJ os- cu late, and sought the fertile regions of the West. This unwise and unthrifty economy j)tt has left the State agriculturally poor, and h.*i pitiably mutilated and defaced as tho result of one hundred years of toil; not withstand- Pa ing it is, and was, a country by naturo blest with rare advantages and resources. Why sj? then such a result of so long an expori- by ment? As a peopio?as a section?we are g""? certainly far bohind, in this respect, many 1 portions of the common country. The evil j-,' ?the failure, we apprehend?will at last be jjlt found, mainly, in two causes: cle 1st, Educated men, as a goneral thing, lUI, have devoted themselves to other pursuits,; c.?l snd the country has thus lost tl?o advan- |lUi ,age and aid of intellectual force and tho tht ighis of experimental science in this most 1 inportant field of human exertion. wo 2d. As tho result of tho first-named jjV" ;auso, the lit' and employment of "a far- ^ra ner" has cd,ne to bo regardod as moro fiit< jurablo and hss honorable tbau profession- on il and other occupation. We devoutly trust tho time has como to ^ ever** tho order of things, so as to remove /u, ho first cause, and to enlist a noblo corps son if cultivated, refined and intellectually ca- wo ublo mon, to redeem this first great inter- alV . i ihi i?t from neglect, and inaugurate a now era j.(ll a the history of agriculture. This accoinili-licd, the second cause will ccaso to opo- of < ate, and an independent planter?sowing d reaping his own fields?pushing the the icarches of science into the region of the wo eful and llie practical?extracting from turo the secret wondors of production? (j0 joying securely the fruits of his labors? nro ting "the cliiofeet of tho wheat," and, in- are umtntal/y, blessing tho land with abun- %QV uce of "corn and wine and oil"?shall ^ dixo our highest conception of an honor- pUj le, dignified and exalted manhood. ben But what is agricultural education? That par rase can mean nothing more than tho *lc >sl skilful and successful method of culti- ? j ting the soil. Now, one of tho schools ma icre this knowledgo is to be imparted is ani ih an organization as yours?an agricul- pat rnl socioty. You are doing the work, to lur a extent of your operation?, of educating 3 agriculturists. Enlighted experience nn, another school wherein much is to ho cot; irned. But we h:i"e profited but too lit- den in this way heretofore, partly because a . . . con tutors have ptusucd no systematic order experiments; partly becauso tho results prr experiment have not hcen published and I jeci cservcd in any convenient form; and ' to 1 rtly (and mainly) becuueo competent scitific investigation has not been sufficient- ?j,j, directed to this important field. est It is idle?rather, it is sheer ignoranco hai d folly?to sneer at "scientificfarming" c^' can easily bo demonstrated that every portant advance, either in stock-raising, p,,, planting, lias been the Icgitimato result jeo scienco applied to agriculture, or of enhtenod experiment made by competent ^r< d educated men. The light once shed j , science?the experiment once made by it ?n of science?the results and the practi- thi linns ?. ? llOglwa'U 1111(1 . UVl* formed front-yards?by tlio absenco of. ule trees and flowers by tlio doorway? | tlio stables fronting tlio house, and lie-! > huts in uncomfortable proximity with ( j manor?with the absenco of all that can J" trm the eyo and attract the taste? A 1 on i lo lime whilo-wash?an hour's work?a to lo taste?a lilllo regard to comfort and linn anliness?would remove the unsightly ro- ma gnanco of home, and change beyond eon- in I >tion the appearance ?>f our tural hnbita- tha ns. It is not always the result ol hui hal is, nor of poverty, nor of ignorance*, hut a u i want of cultivated taste. lar Seo an humble residence erected ia a wm odlaud. It might become tlio abode of the itforl?even of simple clog uico. Hut tlio thi? it operation scorns to bo to cut down every is B iuti/ul tree and shrub growing round the car ), and then plant a sickly apple tree for bav inmentl?dig the wo'l in Iront of the to t jr?and build the stable just over the way! tha Tlio houso itsell must bo built as near as nm jsiblo to tlio road, and a rail-fence run on I zag close to tlio door. The entire as-1 foil nblagc, blackened hv time and weather, mil ar and tear, presents any thing but an this ractive place for a home. This order of tigs may bo reversed; and a cottage, with j ? lo oxpense, may hocomo so simply elo- ( mn it and attractive, as to bo an object Coll unviable regard to a king. I pro When shall wo learn something more oft ,]j,i I bouefits then become Ihe common propty of ail planters, both learned and un- j_j' irncd. The application of lime?of marl i ^ of piaster?and of guano, and of those of i bstauccs generally h iving the largest per n ' nt. of ammonia,[o increasetlie productions *"l'c the soil, is the direct and legitimate re. . ^n< It of agricultural chemistry. The iutro- t|e ction of the best varieties of seeds, and to a most profitable vegetable products, is dei a benefaction of science. Through the S'H idunce of the #ame enlightened n->wer L> e . ? o( a Chinese Sugar Cane, which is lik.lv to j.., ore a national blessing, Lu? boeu given pci tbe country. tl.s It Is at least doubtful v. h tT 1 r academic* *V.', college^, esiwinlly m?oi?n??d to instruct 1 clurively in agricultural science, c ould bo M ' visable. This branch of knowledge, like ? i others, stands inliiiintc'y related t<? nlast all other depart men is ??f physical sc.- r'" co. Truth is one. Ami the different de* <MI rtiuents of science reciprocally aid and ustrate each other. The science of mntiie r*" ilics aids in constructing a mansion or a ;>.s dile. The science of physiology m aim.hi Jispensable to the highest success in the ?'ie Iture of animal life. The truths of until Pir 1 philosophy are necessary to enable us nn< raise and to apply mechanical power?to l'ie ustruct a water-pump?to ditch h hill- s:ui le?to irrigate a thirsty field?and to ?ave, 'i;i1 many modes, too great an expenditure ' labor. 'J ho seienco of chemistry reveals am our wonder and admiration the compo?i ..t ..ii i > - 4l ,.v ?ic<nuuii v>i mi vegeutuie ana animal bstance.s?how they grow, and how they w'* cay?why they are healthy, and what Pr<1 uses disease?what condition* me mo*t f 'ov rurablo to their growth and development ^h< to what use* they may be applied?what) 1110 initie* they po.*se>s?and what they like ' 'iet d what they dislike?how they e t, how i e,,r oy breathe, how they a--imi!ate other ru1?- [ tncos, and "grow by what they feed on," , ,or 1 thoso science* nro moro or le*s impor- j it to the highest results of agriculture. | **Vj c infer frotu tliis meng-o and hurried 1 ^, itetucnt that a liberal education, in tho I litiary acceptation of that term, will meet N?i the necessities and requirements of an ; sy,! ricuftural education, when the result* of ^ ' oh a training aro combined with practical j A)>( perienco, and brouglu to operate in this Pre id of enteiprise. An Not tho least of tho benefit* to be do- f" ed from an educated agriculture, is tho ' Itivation and development of rural taste. An ?w much of tho elegance, as well as the lab tufort and refinement, of rural life, do- agr rid* on the taste displayed in domestic me 'angemoiits. wil Shall wo novcr ccaso to bo fatigued nnd !?:?? ined by dingy gate* and dirty fences?by for nU??.h.r.U;?? .? II- I -1 - ' science of human comfort? When shall assort our superiority of nature, and ^ \xt ourselves creatures of taste, endowed wef h a souse of the beautiful, with which d lias so profu&edly clothed all nature ^,,,1 und us! When shall wo learn that there considerations really higher than a . onpcncc? and that "man shall not live :, . broad alone/" ^ { [f we bad time, it could b? shown that a , >lic taste for the neat, the elegant, the (jHR utiful, has much?more than wo are pre- t ed to admit?to do with the state of pub- ji;U| morals. If you compel a human being wc maintain, in outward life, and in personliabitudes, the status of an inferior ani- t^a I, he will not greatly exceed his fellow nial in polish?in politeness?in sympa- hy?in the nobler attributes of our na- ||((. o. Wo do believe a man would not of- lrjc' return in a slate of drunkenness to a j it and elegant cottage home, whore wife sot I children awaited bis return in cheerful t() j II fort. Wo think he would cherish too irlv the attractions and heart-joys of such ^ ( otne, to profane and destroy them by a , irso of brutality. pjR Wo prosent, then, the improvement and { ajs >j?er cultivation of rurnl taste as a sub- ' j L of great interest and real importance lwe| bat clnss of our fellow citizens who seek <VJ|| do the State some seiv-ce.^ it is a work _jv a philanthropist. We commend it to ^ ^ * society. OtToi premiums "for the neat- cet and most elegant domestic appointments, ring always a judicious refereneo to lo- jac circumstances and the pecuniary ability R|)( the proprietor. tj|(. We olfcr another consideration for the rposo of investing this view of our subt with in inlrili?i?imnf.???>"" . (jn] What is patriotism? ^ ou will answer, n ]u(> at virtue?an ennobling sentiment of wCr r nature?culled, aioveofcountry. Wliere _|a his noble attribute nursed?whence does J.jS( spring? From love of horn*! How is l)p a lovo of home t<> l?o implanted and cher- ^u, ed? Make it the loveliest and dearest jJQ1 ice on earth! Clothe it with attractions itrcw its paths with flowers?surround rj0 hulls with comfort?make it the abode z_ cheerfulness and contentment. Is it such lomo as a man will turn from, without a ol|, ret, and wend liis way to distant lands? t liis cbilJren partake the saiue iudiffor- W(j :e! Then, indeed, th* re may be but lit- Uat love of their couutrv ? Oitir native soil ? bind their affections and call forth their e(j ,'otiou to the Stale. If, instead of a con- jor nt effort to increase the number of ne- . ??>. iuu!cs ate! cotton at the expense nil other imp'oveine its, planters would a# , role scone labor aud some capital to the . iiiaaent improvements ou the estate?in 1{U, it buildings, their enclosures in the ? srnmeiit of hone, * ? the increased for ju tv of the soil; in led walks and cool ?.|1( ivsltuig Klinitt, hrv. Judge fences, and ier praciicah'o modes of raising the value ()r , the estate?they would transmit to their (j0, Idreti a Oetltr inluritunce, in a less pre- sofl ions ail I in it.?* ! form; while the conn ?the S,ate?would he euiiched in its j(U| ouiccs, Mod out condition sod civilisation, (j0| a peoph*. giestly benefitted. A contrary j (() 8 of policy lias already ruined much of 0f , i .- ruble lands of the country, and the ler prielois nave left them?washed, worn pu, 1 lorn, and have carried their wealth and we" ir children to enrich other States. Tho wjt ne exertion, more wisely directed, would j ,j :e preserved n splendid estate from ruin ^|a wealth would liavo assumed a difforeut ^,et 1 a better form?the whole would have COI, ui saved to our own State, which has . r l -i * icicu muiiiifiy more ironi UiO loss ot Re|| i(e population than from the loss of j,a( ipertv. Whore is our patriotism! < >ur . 0 for the ohl 1'almetio Commonwealth? (jlrt a is grievously suffering. To the rescue, h|jt| i) of puhlic spirit. I>-1 us nrre>t the tide of .(.iy strength, now flowing West! Lot us "j ich and heautifv lire land of our fathers! W;i ;c her pe >]>!??let thorn no longer be n from Iter l?ov>ni! . "What < ! i-titutc* a Stat) T ? t high r iW.l ii.iit'riii nt?, i>r lalnmxf mound? 'h'l'k wall?nor inentnl citii-s jir.iu I with spires ami turret* crowned: "'>v 1 Minri-i <1 nn l *p-niglfil courts, stal 0 re I ? v -1?- "vc l li-.ivi ii'waits perfum" to pride. ^ incti?'i ijli in tide.I men? " * , a who tli"'.r lint cs know, but know tlicir right*? rt knowing, il.ue ui.t'iit tin thiin? vent the loig-aituvd blow hid 1 crusii tho tyrant wli le they rend the chain? yoi se constitute a State!'' yyg Hero is n fi.ld for great nchiovetnent. fon d he who shall faithfully and effectively ?v or to improve, in all these respects, the slu. icultural condition cf tlie country, will OIUi rit tho rowartlsof true patiiotiitn. Ho |,j,, I de-ervo and receivo more honor at the |,ot ids of the people for such a service, thnn imi all 1110 Ihincotnhe cloquenco ho could niu r expend in the halls of legislation. fact Respectfully, Are., litll J. \VOFFOPJ> TUCKKIJ, |ft? Chairman. spa iomo of Uh> papers nro lecturing women ! ,-nd extravagance in dress, ami advising them retrench, especially dining the present pec ir.cial difficulty. Dcsblle-s tlicie are die iiy cases of unwarrantable extravagance for bis way; l>ut do people ever consider Mr. t two or tlireo glass- s of brandy and f a dozen regali i<, indulged in daily by , ^ ran, to say nothing of livo and ten do! 1 10 dinners, amount to mora in a year tban | *' u aid be reijniied to dross a woman tip to ' .vc! full requirements of fashion? Much of |iro' i talk about tlie extravagance of women | w'' lonsenso. They are almost universally i ', r* eful, and many a trader would today 'e been safe and sound if ho had listened SPP lie prudent counsel* of his wife, rather - ri'*' n tlio reckless promptings of Ids own sun lotion. It i, natural for mean men to i ('os leavor to shift tlio responsibility of their ,'l? y to other shoulders; but it is rather too cli to charge a commercial revulsion like l'10 i upon one's wife and daughter. i kill Mr, <>rocn, when you said there was too j 'l ch American eagle in the speaker's dis- J ise, slid you mean that it was a /u/o/ued to 1 dnotion; and lo wliat c/air.t of the speech wh you o?poci?Uy refer?'' the BUI Slike Acting Devil. iVhon we wero boys, Bill Sliko and 1 0 groat cronies. With me there was noIv like Bill, and with Bill there was noly like Ha/el. We wero both whut ild be termed hard cases, in this day and of the world. If any mischief was done ,he neighborhood, Bill and 1 were sure :omo in for our part of the blame. Vbout Christmas times wo always had a 1 of fun, such as building rail-pens and ting calves and pigs in the upper story, iging plows, "big kettles," or anything could lay hands on. !iig!i up in trees, to plcx the owners, and all such tricks as t. Now such acts would be looked upas an unwarranted outrage, and tho porrator would bo hauled up and fined; then, y were only laughed at as "Cbrismas k?." recollect one Christinas Eve, Bill and I out to have a rich time of it. Bill was ix up, and act as devil, and we wero to around and frighten tho youngsters out heir wits. Accordingly, we arranged a in looking red cap with horns on it. and ced it upon his head, and then made a educe for him out of red tl mnel, wrap I him in a white sheet, and started. Thero ro several boys with us, and by them I i unanimously elected to go before and 0 lire old folks at each house a hint of at was going on, so that we would not ourselves into a scape, l'lio first bouse in our route was Uncle ik Hond'a. I went in, made some errand, 1 as soon as possible slipped tho joke to old man and old woman. It was all lit with them, and so I wont back and or let 1 to my companions. In a short io Bill, alias devil, poked bis singular king beaJ in at the door, and, great aiuption! such a scatterment as took ce. liirls, boys, cats, and everything -> . . - -"I ? ? I ghiug as though she would go iulo sins. Fortunately, Hill had received no in?X injury, but I assure you it put an I to our I'un f<>t tlial night. The joke I be ui turne 1 upon lis when wo least ex* led it, and so ivo went home, fooling ra- . i done for. riie story soon got out, and a lung time liill wont by the name of I >ovil. >axic Stoiiv.?There is an old story in East of a man journeying who met a k and dread apparition. "Who are ij" said tlio traveller, accosting tlio spoc"I am llie 1'Iague," it replied. "And ore are yon going!" lej -iaod the travel "I am going to l>ama*cus to k:llj ee thousand human beings," said the ctre. Two months afterwards, tho man lining, met the same apparition at the 10 point. "False spirit,1' said lie, "why t deal with me in lies? Thou dcclarodsl u wort going to slay throe thousand at masons, and lo! tlion hast slain thirty nsand." "Friend," replied the Plague, i not over hasty in thy judgments; 1 od, indeed, but mv three thousand ? r kill ed the rest." [ones ?avs that it's all follv for his friends tell liini that lie mustn't enlarge his debts, en he is doing all he can to contract I m. i, excepting (lie two old ones, tumbled Mail* like mi earthquake. In wo .all tied, and such u laugh ns wo had; and tv the gill* slapped us on our faces for (li toning them so badly. This was a glous beginning, and so wo were almost era to gel to the next house. After partaking of some doughnuts, and ior little cukes that iiad been cut out with hituhle, and which the girls call kisses, started for Major Allen's. I went on as ml, and knocked at the door. 'Come in," said a sweet voice. I obeytbo command, and found Jane, the Ma's daughter, all alone. 'Where's the old folks?" asked I. 'Gone over to graudfalher's," she replied, sweet as sugar. Very sorry," said I, "for I had imporl business with the old man." she assured me that they would bo back a slioit tune; and tilling a plate with >miny" from n large kettle, where it was ling on the tire, she invited ine, with one the prettiest fmiles you ever saw, to sit wn and wait till it cooled, and then eut no with her. I looked at the big, plump grains, all isting open in the plate, and inhaled the tcious odor that arose froin them, then 1 ked at the sweet face ntid sunny smile my would-be-entertainer, and you'd betbelieve 1 wished Hill and the rest of the ,\s in (Iwiu I felt sure that all the fun could ace would Iks nothing to compare li eating "hominy" with Jane Allen, yet | ared not act the traitor. Sol pretended it 1 had no time to spare, and bidding a good evening, i hurried back to my npauions. Hoys," said I, "Jane's all alone by her '. It wouldn't bo right to scare her so i?let's goon to Brown's?" No, by gum," said Hill, "I wouldn't miss t chance for a hundred dollars. She [hied me at singing school, and now I'll r her back for it." I still remonstrated, hut in vain. Hill t resolute, and so I had to give in. \a we neared the house, Hill said: Now, boys, whatever you do, don't say ruril i?.?r lan<*l> n.,? ? 1 ?" - vt:u,ug? n,ni ari^'r ! ? scared lier. we'll i?ll slip oil, and she'll ; ror know who, nor what it was," 'We all agreed, and after we had been ! lioned around the chimney to hear hoi ?hiii, I'd! walked in. '< iood evening, Mr. I >ovi 1,'* said the satuv ! !ct voice that a few minutes before had ine to coine in;' good evening, f suppose > i are used to warm tluids" and forthwith heard a "-plnrgo" as it a potml had ud its way into tho pot of boiling homi- J and then came a splash and a cry, not , It a one as we had expected to hoar, I nit' i of Dill's real, genuine squalls on the he.st key. Wo all ran in and saw the water dripping down from Dill> crani , while ho was stamping around like ilness, tearing the horned cap and false ; from this head. .lane, the mischievous e elf, was standim? un hv the ennli on.I i Customs of the Chinese. Says the lie*. W. C. Milne, author u Life in China, on this subject: "Jn paying calls, your take off you hal lie keeps his cap on; you a<Jvnuco anil offe a hearty shake of the hand to your friend but he. as lie advances towards the liosl closes Ids two fists, ami shakes his owi hands. "At dinner, (when you can afford it, you commence with fish and soup, etc., am end with a dessert <>f wines and fruits; l?u ho just turns tlm tables, beginning will fruits, wines and biscuits, and winding u with fish and soup. *'At weddings, Knglish ladies wear whin Chinese ladies cannot wear while, but otlie colors. Instead of young, blooming bride tuaids, trimmed in white, you inay seo ol matrons rigged in black, attendant on tli anxious bride; and, for a honeymoon, th bride dispenses with a flight about th country to this and that spa, and sati*fi< herself with being caged up for tho fin month in her husband's house; and thor is no neeJ of^uiy announcement when sh may be 'at borne.' "At funerals, black is not worn, be white; and the dead are shrouded, not i white, but in the gayest dresses. novo, l?m it is gn..(| flint it in worth r peating, simply as a joke: Uev, Henry Ward Hoccher, drewo i i very common clothes, was Mudving h limn nature ** exhibited in ilie highways tin l?y wavs ??f New York. In llie course Itis philosophic peregrinations he went inl a mock auction >!iop. 1 lu stood awhile < entering, an<l reflected, doubtless, how ?n one cotthl ho so lost to all sense of trut ami honesty as the auctioneer in qnestioi endeavoring t i palm oti his worthless tra* to the inexperienced in city ways, as gen and valuable, ami finally the attclionei called out: "Mr. Meecher, why don't vc hid}" lie was greatly astonished, as v can well imagine, at finding himself know in tl'.is place, as he had concealed himself i purposely eaielos* dress. He iinmedintol left, and stalled for tho tcsiclence of one < tho members of the church in tho neighbn hood, and requested him, a* an act of kim ne*s, to go down and inquire of that pe son who had sold himself to Satan for tl 1 ive of gain, h ?w it was that he knew hii in his disguise, 'l lie neighbor kindlv coi sealed, and on entering the "Peter Fun I shop lie addressed the auctioneer: "II w is it that you knew llearv Wai Hoocher no well as to he aide to recnjrnti him in his disguise?" "How do I know him? Why, I An he en a member of his conpreyation for f< lost fire yearn; and 01 en the ffth;>ei/? fro the front r "//i amusements, it is not uncommon t see adults living kites, and little urcliir squatted on the ground, looking on; an shuttle-Cocks are batllcdored generally, n< by the ham), but the heel. "//i books, the name, when written ou side, is inscribed on the bottom edge. Tli beginning of the book is what you woul count the end. The running title is on tL edge of each leaf. The paging is near tli bottom, not at the top corner. Margin! notes are written at the top, not at tho fo< of the page; and in reading, you procee from right to left, reading each column froi top to bottom. "Miscellaneous.?The surname announ ed does not follow the Christian name, hi precedes it. In kissing, the fond mothi holds up her lovely babe to her nose I smell it, as she would a rose. In mooi light, no matter how bright, you bear yo? lighted lantern about with you. The so men, in nnining the points of the com pas says, 'east, west, north, south.' In launcl ing a vessel, she is sent into tho water aid ways. Tho horsemen should mount h horse on its right side. The scholar, in r citing his lesson, does not face his maste but turns bis back upon liiin. In partie do not wear light purnps, but as thick suit shoes as you can get; and, for blackioj they must be whitened with white lea and only the edges of tho sole." ' ThkPuantom Mcff-1Iead;ortiie So diek'u Oatii."?Father?Do I behold* Son?lie sees inef F?No; it caunot be! You have name? S.?What now! [Aside.] F.?That name? S.? Is Snooks' F.? And on your breast? S.?A mole. F.? IIa! ha! My mole-marked only ao Oh, bliss! Put no?I with distrust! S.?lie doubts?"[tears open bis waia coat.] Be-e hold! K.?[Cautiously.] Tis there iode* Thy mother's nnme? S.?Was Jane! F.?Baso fears, begone! Come to my arnia, oli! mole marked eon of Jaofl For mountain* iiiulolniu prove wliun mole* pro true; And to infection'* instinct all is phin, VVIieii aoua are Snookscs and their mothers Jan [Villagers dance?Braodita fire a feu t joie. Monks arid nuns fall on their knee and the faithful servant wipes his eyes wit his coat tail.] [This is all of the abovo highly lerrif yarn that will appear in the columns of tl Chicago Tribune. The remainder can I found only in the New York Verniifug Sinillkins writes for the Vermifugo; Bil kins writes only for the Vermifuge. Amor its corps of regular contributors may I mentioned Boggs, Hoggs, Moggs, Scrogg and Toggs. A thrilling romance is , co tr-e of preparation from the pen Noggs, who has been engaged regardless expense. Kanno Fungus furnishes one cc uinn per week for the Vermifuge at n alarming sacrifice of the dictionary. Tl Vermifuge contains all the murders, st rides, rapes, seductions and other disagree bio termination* of affairs of the heat Tlioy appear regularly in the Verniifug For sale by th? boys.] SrrnvtNo Uum\n Natl-rb.?The Iluff lo lb-public tnlis a story which we don't b A Calendar of Fire-Side Saints. >f "Punch" here describes a number, of cellent persons very pleasantly, who, bow-* t, | ever, are oftener heard of than seen: * ' rl St. Bktskv.?St. Betsey was wedded to I; ! a knight who sailed with ltaleigh and * * I, j brought homo tobacco, and tho kuighi a ; smoked, But lie thouglit Betsey, like other | fine ladies in the comt, would fain that bo ) ' should smoke out of doors, nor taint witb d tobacco the tapestry. Whereupon, the it | knight would seek his garden, life orchard, li j and in any weather sinoke sub lore. ^<>yr, I> it chanced as tho knight smoked, St, Bet- * >ey came to him and said: My Lord, pray >; ye come into tho house; and the knight a went with St. Betsey, who took him into A ? i nowly-cedared room, and said: I pray, my d Lord, henceforth smoke here, for is it not o J shame that you, who are the chief prop of e your house, should have no phic* to put e I your bead into and smoke? Aitd St. Lotis i sey led him to a chair, and witb her own it j fingers filled him a pipe; and from that e ! time the knight sat in tho cedar chamber o and smoked his weed. Sr. Sali.v.?St. Sally, from her childit hood, was known for her intermost love of n truth. It was said of her that her heart was a crystal shrine, and that all tho world o might see it. Now, once when older woi* men denied or strove to hide their age, St. d Sally said 1 am fivo and thirty. Whereat upon, next birthday, St. Sally's husband, at a feast of all their friends, gave her a t- necklace of six and thirty opal beads; and ie on every birthday added a bead, until tho d beads amounted to four score and one. And ie | the beads seemed to act .as a charm; for St >e : Sally, wearing the sum of her age about her M neck, age never appeared in her face. Such, >t I in the olden time was the reward of 6irn u i phcity and truth. n Sr. Piiilms.?St. Philli* was a virgin of noble parentage, but withal an simple as a c" shepherdess of curds and cream. She mar,l ried a Lord and had much pin money, Hut Jr when other ladies wore diamonds nnd 10 pearls, St. Phiilis only woro a red rose in 1 her hair. Yet her pin money bought the ,r best jewelry in the happy eyes of the poor a" about her. St. Phiilis was rewarded. She j3' lived until four score, and still carried the red ami white rose in her face, and felt their ?" fragrance in her memory. . o> Sr. rnoinE.?St. Phcebe was married r early to a wilful, but withal a good-hearted ' husband, lie was a merchant, and would ' j come home sour and sullen from Change. Whereupon, after much pondering, St. jj' Plnrbe, in her patience set to work, and ' praying the while, made of dyed lamb's wool, a door mat. And it chanced, from that time forth, that uever did the husband touch that mat, that he didn't clean hie temper and his shoes, and he sat down by Pho'be as mild as the lamb whose wool he had trod upon. Thus gentleness makes miraculous door mats. - Sr. Lilly.?St. Lilly was the wife of a poor man, who tried to support his family ?and his children were many?by writing books. Lk those days it whs not so easy Q for a man to find a publisher as to shy his paternoster. Many were the books that t. were written by tho husband of Su Lilly, but to every book St. Lilly gave at least two babies. However, blithe as a cricket was the spirit that ruled about the hearth of St. Lilly. And how she helped her helpmate! She smiled suubenms into his ink bottle, . < nnd turned his troose nen into the nuitl ni rc Jove! Site made the paper ho wrote on aa white as her name, and as flagrant as her soul. And when folks vvonJcrod how St. LiU if. ly managed so lightly with fortune's trouje bles, she answered that she never heeded ,s them, for troubles were like babies, and h only g,ew digger by nursing. . The lhiston Courier is of opinion that abolitionism is a disease. It expresses it* >e notions of the disorder as follows: e "One of the most interesting and instruolive facts in the history of the human race is tho recurrence, from lime to lime, of diseased conditions of the public mind, coasti,s luting moral epidemics, which infect socien* tv wiili moral delusions, ju<-t as its physical "oj-! condition is occasionally disturbed by infeclions or contagious distempers. Whenever one of these moral epidemics seize* upon m the public mind it becomes-1norludTy sensitive in some particular ivsv, or on some ie ... ,. 1 . * , . . ii. spef'hc subject; it runs into the most puiat ble extravagances*, it seems to h<e nil sense, reason, and judgment; it exhibits the sympo' tom? of temporary deliriousnes*. Tho pievniling sentiment in tho Eastern States, in regard to tho negro race, constitutes a striking illustration of these intellectual epidetnies, and one which, in future times, will be ? looked back nj?on with tho same mingled e" sorrow and amazement with which we at this time regard the whrln?fiff? -r ^ MIIIIIIM \W 1,1 ! the old colony of Massachusetts.'' id Material fou a Xomasce.?A letter nf from a friend informs us of the marriage at io Haltimnre of two of the ie-oued from tho hi "Central Ameiica." Both-parties becamo iv : mutually attached to one another on hoard I. i the steamer, and 011 the very evening pre* n, ceding tho disaster sealed their n^ottlpn h with the usual vow."' When the gale came id I on, and the panic as at its height, the young or 1 lady threw hers?.. in M* arm*, and with a iu gallantry quite becoming the romantic ocre casiou. the gentleman imposed her hrow n with one of Tennyson's patent "-ami sent" in kisses, and "slid"' her ovei into the lirst boat ly that was lowered. lie saved himself on a of plank Upon ariiving at Norfolk the lovr or* met. Hnt the young man appeared J- strange, lie had lost hi* vali-e, niul ail hi* r money. The vontur ladv ti;n* ie nionny was nothing. The young man shook id his head and looked Mid, a* Mitch ?& to * iJS n- "mil) be yon think so." I , "n I his de* c" voted one, I hnve enough. hear i it. Kniher has two hundred thousand. Ah! gn*J>rd cd the alhiinced bridogroo :t, |i\p ^pcak no*, no el fashion to give Winner a t iiitnco ?o make n point.) rot'd he looked cxir^nu-ly ph>lore sophic'ftl, hut soul no more. They Midden* kr denly vanished, and we suppose nre in?? r? enjoying nil the blessing* of matrimonial, &c , Jse. ? I'ftrrsbtiry ( IV) Kr^r*ts.