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- " We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of our Liberties, and if it Inust fall, we will Perish amidst the Ruins.) - VOLLUM E, V. gL-cel Couirt Uouse, S. C., Mari 1%, 1840 NO.6. 3EDGEFUELD ADVERTISER, W. F. DURISOE, PROPRIETOR. TERM S. Three Dollars per annum, if paid in advance-Three Dollars and Fily Cents ifnot paid before the expiration of Six Months from the date of Sub4cription and Four Dollars if not paid within twelve Months. Stibseribers ot of the State are required to pay in advance. No subscription received for less than one year, artfdlno paper discontinued until all ar.rearages are paid. except at thg op tion of the Publisher. All subscription-; will be continued un less otherwise ordered before the expira tion of the year. Any person procuring five Subscrihers and becoming responsible ror the same, shall receive the sixih copy gratis. Adnertisements conspiciubusly inserted at 621 cents per square, (12 ines, or less.) for the first insertion, arid 43J es. for each continuance. Those published monthly, or quarterly will be charged 81 per sqare for each insertion. Advertisements not having the number of insertion- mnrked on them, will he contin~ned until ordered out, nud charged accordingly. All communications addressed to the Editor, post paid, will be promptly and strictly attended to. - e.1J.S10 110USE, . l i EDGEFIELD C. HOUSE, S. C. T HE Undersigied takes pleasure in an. noancing to his friends anid the travelling communitity. that lie has taken the Iotel itt Edgefield Village, fornerly occupied by Mr. Wihliam Brnusan, and is prepared tan uccom moditte travellers aid boarders. vither fanilies or single personus. With his ex periwnce & per. sonal attention. he flatters hiiiself that those who Ihvor hit with their patronage. % ill be satisfied ad feel at hoie; to produce these effec-s, no pains will be spitred. 11is I onse is situated in the insst pleasant part of the Vil. Jge, and is well calcilated. in, every resect. for the twc1acconnnodation of Families, or P'rivate Boarders. All he asks. is for persons to call and judge for themselves. W 3. V. DUNN. N. B. fine Saddle lorses may be had at all times at the Mlansion foinse. W. V. D. Jainuary 14, 1840 if 50 Tax CollcctorI"s Notice. I WILL attend at the followinttI plIcesto col lec- Taxes, for the year 1839: On Moiday the2d Marcho at Pine House. " Tuesdaj. 3, " Rid"-e. " Wedniesday, 4, " Nornis. " Thursday, 5, " Mt. Willing. " Friday. 6, " Pope's Saturday 7, " Cor:mian's' Mounday, 9, " a""re's. Tuesday. 10. " ). tichardson's. Wednesday I, "' Alen,. " Thursday, 12, " S:i1:1e: Friday, 13, " Shepard's. Saturday, 14, " Dititon's. Monday. 16, " Liberte Hill, Tiisday, 17, " Park's Wediiesday18 " Niddleton's "Tltirsday, 19, Collier's. Friday. 20, " C. Ponds. "Saturday, 21, " B. Islanad, 1M mday. Tnesday, and Wednesday. of the firs: week of Court, Edgefield C 1. Saturday, 24, " HinnMhurg. All persons failing to make the'ir returns by the first Monday in May. will lhe liw fully required to pay a (onile Tax. 1V an order from the Comptroller General, no r 2onev will be received for Taxes t specie, or the notes of specie paying lBanks of this St are. By an Act of rte Legislat ore, those rtuarning Real Esitate will be re quired, in addition to the qunlity, to give in on oath the actual valtte of their land. B. F. (;OUEDY, T. c. 5. D. Hamburg, Feb 12, 1840 c 3 Notice. Vl'HJE Sublscie'r, being U the entire owner of the CoarA-making Estal'ish -g *a~ment. at P,.t erisviide near Edgefield Conrt House, forimerly ocenpied by Mr. William Gibbs. takes this oppot tunity to annonnee to his filends anad the public, that lie will be at all imes thankful for aniy work in his line either in maaking or repairiuig Carriiages of all kinds. anod hopses lay strict attentioan, to merit a share of public patroagae. JOHN McNEILL. Pottersville, Jan 21. 1&40 if El Carriage Ma~king. T lHE Suab-criber wiill nnmkeauid ra ir' Car - ' t e,-ir ring~es & Waggonis of eve we..-.= ry desriputiaon in the bst possimble mnnesutr iand at the shortest notice. All orders thankfully received. asad gromitly at tendedl to. EDWVARD BA RKER. H amburg Dec 1. 1i M9 if 44 Oera, or Twini Cotton Seed. 7 H E Subscribers have just receivedt Ott con Jusinment from Chiarlestmn. a fi-w sof the above named seed. raised isa Antana ('sahtyt. Ala. Which can bc hiad at their store in Ham burg. H. R. COOK, & Co. Jan 13,1840 tf 50 1OTIOCE. ALL persons indebted to the Fstate of Mat Athiias Daltoni, deceased, are hereby notifi ed, thai they muist pay their respective discs ro the undersigned, on, or befa re the fitst day of March next, as ito further jindulgence will be M. GRAY, Admn'r. re., 1 wo 141 From the Etoniin. STANZAS TO A LADY. The sun is in the West, The stnrs af on the sea, Each kindly hand I've pressed, And now farewell to thee. Our cup of pirting's o'er, 'Tis the darkest I can sip; And I've pledged them every one, With my heart and with my lip, But I came to thee at last, That in sadness we might throw One long .look o'er the past Together, ere I go. I met thee in the spring, When my heart was like the fly, Thut on its airy win;, Sports the live-long summer by. I loved thee with the love Of a wild and burning boy; Thy being was inwove With my grief and with my joy; Thou wert to ime a star In the -ilence of the night, A thing to see from far, With a fear and a delight. The hour of joy is gone, Whn man and man dejnrt The deep-wrinn hand nintie, May tell the nnanidh'd heart. No tear may strain the eye, And their partingr look toist be Like the stillness in the sky Ere the storm hpith s ept the sea. But when we say farewell To her we love the hest, One liler tear may swell For shame the stontest breast. I woold not that my name Shouli never meet ihine ear; I have smiled for men's nieelnim, For their censire not a fear. Nor wonhl 1. when thy home Loo.ks joyon<dy and lright, That the thought of me should come, To sndden thy delight; I would dwell a thing apart For t hy spirit to desry A brightness on thy heart A shadowi on thine eye. When the wine-cup circles round, I will qual it with the rest; But tiv name shall never sound At the revel or the feast; Bitt lie shares my heart, W hen the ha nine h t ball is lone, In one deep en p. ere we part, - We will pledge thee. lovely one! Thy name I'll iurtiur then With a prayer, if Hleaven allow, That - meet thee on-e again, As elose as I do now. Beinfel one, farewell And though tn hope he given, Thy name shallI be aspell To turn my thoughtIs to Heaven, And thy inmory tn me, 'What the dew is to the rose. I: shall come to me asgratefully In the' htotr of my repose; It shull be what it has heen, A lamip within a tomb, To burn, thioug h aUj unseen To light , thotugh but a gloom.. When the shade is on thy dwelling, AndI the muormur ont thiute eat-; * When the breceze is round thee swelling, .And the lantdsenpe dark and drear; When tno lover is beside thee, To flat tert antd to smilet When there be none-to guide thee, And tmtny to beguile ; . Whten withered is the token, And till unlinked the ebain, Wiuth a Inith, unwntrped, unbroken, I may knteel to there again. AN IMAGIN. TIVE BOQUET. A wild, sweet monntinnlake, A sar bespanteledh sky, A half ttoot itn the hatzy east, Sk-erted softly by the eye. A light and fairy hark, Siftr ehihing o'er the deep. Anid 0 ! mhy lIdy's htutghing ey-e, To help me vigils keep. Back on the hake, and sky, A halo should be seett, Made by the moon's soft, silver light, ITo hirrd the lovely scene. eMliscellaneotes. From the Souts Carolinian. THE TAX ACT. Some misapprehension seems to exist as to the Tax Act, passed at the last ses sion of the Legislature. It is supposed that the tax upon lands has been iacreased; but this is a mistake; the tax remains as it was before. It is true, that by a clause it, the Tax Act, every holderof real estate, whether in the Town-or Country, is rc quiredi to make a return to the Tax Collec tor, on oath, of the actuul valoe of sneh tax able property. But the taxes for this year, are not to be assessed upoi such vluatiaion. The object was to obtain information, % hich the Comptroller is dit-ected to re port to the Legislature. fur its future gui datce The subjoined extracts from the Comp troller Genieral's Report. will shew why this itiformanion was required. What ac ion a futture Legislature will take upon the subject, it is not eaisy to atiipate. By i:e attend ment of the Consitiution, inl 180A,.represenation is based upon a coml bitned ratio of population ani taxation. The tpper country has been contented, f'or many years, with tmuch less political power itan it is ctiiled to enjoy. This results from tme arbitrary classification of lands made many years ago, and continued to- this day as the basis of taxaliota, by which, what are now considered our most valuable lands, are rated at altuost noth ire. It is true we have escaped from tax atio 1, by this means. hat it has heen at the expeise of political ptiier. St. Philip's aid St. A]itchnel's, in consequence of pay ing taxes upin the actual value of real es tate in the City of Charleston, will send next year seventeen members to the louse of Reparesentatives, to represent a populn tion of 15,061 white-; while Fairfield. with a populatiotn of 9,152 whites will send lour members; and Spartanbure. wiah a popt latiott of 17,847 whites, will send five members; nod so other top country Dis tricts in proportion. This is an enoritaous dkpariay; and we have felt and may hereafter he made to feel the effe-ts of it, to out cost. In the eleeion of Senator to Coiress, Judles,Atiorney Genaeril,Comp troller. and other State Oflicers, a few votes somneltimes take a very great diffa-r en-e inl the result. Nor is it in electionts only, that we sutfer. It is decirnhle, at all events, ihnt the Legislature should be in posresion of fnets. Whether the tp conntry will consent to itirease its proportiioal taxatioan, for the sake of power, or whether the lower comn try will iernait it to do so. it is tot easy to foresee. h1aving the contril of the Set. ate, it may lie ahat our friendtas otn the salt water will rnot permit the old classification of lands to be altered. It mnay lie objected, that this inquiry comes too late, as the new-aiporotinment of represeaitiot, for the next teat years. hasjusa been made. That is true, bi it n% ill lie rememberd, that the an mnalnent of the Constitaion, in ]SOS, provides, that the amonua (of taxes upon which the apportionment is to rest, is to lie estinated from the average of teli preceding years. We have no time to loae, thereire, if it is desirable that the chatnce shotnl be made. In Massachusetas, each Township may send a certain number of mtemalters to the Legi-lature, in praiportion to toptlation, s;a five or six from a Towniship; la thev are at liberty to sed onaly one, and as each Touwnship pays its own memabers, they often ehoope to send only one. I should not have expected the exercise of this spe cies of economy itt Caroliat qn(l yet it sents that the upp~er coutntry lhas becen ac ting utpoan the pr nteiple, for a great many years; though perhaps inaidvertently,& hae cunuse its attention has not been roused to the mataer. Trhat there will be diflieublies atteatding the valuationi of their- landis, lay the tax ptayers, cannaot he dotnhted. Mlany con scientious meat t ill he at a loss to knowt~ at what to put the cash valuation oif their lands; but let any one sit down to devise a dilferent schetme, arid he will probahbly find it surrouunded with Mtill greatertIiliculties. I annaex thieexir'iets from the- Cotmp troller's Report. iith thme sinigle retmark, thatt te applrehtensionts of the Comaaprroaller, as to a dehicieticy in the Treasury. nf$l100, 000, in 1841, proved to lie somewhiat ex tiaerate,1, when the Comamiatees of thte Legislature came to sift the mratter- thor oughaly. CONGA REE. No. 9. is an estimntte of supplies, re quairedl foir the suoiort of governmtenit, for t he year J 840, amontointg t ti ohundredl aatd eighty thousattd. seven hundred anal I wemyv dollatrs ; which. added to the unt drawn b halances of existing approplriationas, one- hutndredl anal- eight tlhousand,. seven hutndred anti thirty-naiane doalltars anda twven ty-fave cents, take three hundtaredl atal eigh ry atine thouasamia faour hutndlredl anald frfy tine dollars and a wenty fivo cenuts, tat meet the p~tament of whichh, the hbalarnce int the Tireasutrie's.ont the 1st October, 1839, wvas one Ituntd real atndl thirteena t haitsanad, eighty seven dlollalrs, anal sixty eight-centts, and te taixes tao be collected the ensnting year, at the present riates, will produtce abtour the stan uaf two hundtared & nintety thouasandic alolliars. thetse toigethter, wvill leaive a surpluas in the Treasuries on the first oaf Octatber, 18-10, of abonut thirteenr Itosanad dalars Buat, as between thtat day, anal the 1st of .Junie, 1841, (duritng which time thesre are very few receipts into ihe Treaeuries, the taxes for 1840 not beinig paiad into the Treasury. uantil Juane, 1841.) there will he required, durinig that period, for tho sup port of gonernment. the saot mof A I7120.9 as will appear by the estimate made in this exhibit-showing that there will be on the 1st of Jutne, 1841, a deficiency in the Treasuries or s6,0ooo. To provide for the deficiency in the re venne alluded to in e hibit No. 6, it be comes necessary t ke some increase of taxation by the tax hill or the present year. This, fortunately, may be done on one or the subjects of taxation, so as not to prove burthensome to the citizen, and at the same lime to promote the equality of Iaxation. In the year 1783, the tax on lands, was 4s. @d. on every 100 acres of land, without regard to quality. In 1784, a classifica tion of the lands of the State, having re gard to their then supposed value, was established, and taxes imposed on thetm accordingly, and thi. has been adhered to eversince. Although, in its origin, this system may have operated fairly, it is now the most uneqal that can be established The classification was mate fifty five years ago, when indigo was a staple agri cultural proluctiin of the State, and ie fore the evended culttre of cotton as a staple, and when a large portion of the lands of the upper parts or the State were unsettled and their qalites undeveloped. The change, which the introdtcion of the cotton culture into this State has produced. is fanilar to every one. Lands, which previously had been valtieless, have be come exurene!y valuable. The lands, which then were not worth more than from one to four dollars per acre, would now bring front sixty ta one hundred dol lars per acre, and on the other hand, eome that were not worth from four to ten dol lam per acre, would tint now bring fifty cents. The principle of taxation was equality of hurthen on every class; but this principle ham been lost in the changes which have occured in theeface of the State, and its agriculture, and that classi fication is no longer renonable or fair; but, on the contrary, exceedingly uneqal and unjust, as the foundation of a systetn of taxiion. When the present cinssification was established, professiots, stock in trade, lots in towns, villages, and lands, all paidi an equul ad talorem tax on every hundred dullars-one halfof the inx paid upon a slave. This has stibseqttently been alter ed, so as to renCer the tax still more une tgnal; for the tax upon professions, and tpon stock in trade, is now upon each hun dred dollars, the same as the tax upon a slave, and t wice as nuch as that inid upon lots in tows and villages; and ipon lands nt their assessed value. But the levying the taxes according to the classification 1: pon an imaginary estimate of the value of certain latds, whieh is far below their real value, while they are levied nt the ac tual value of lots in towns and villages, hasoccasioned palpable instances of the most unequal operation. The Parishes of St. Philip's and St. Mlichael's pay a lar ger tax on real estate than the aggregate tax on lands in all the other parishes and districts in the stae.- The taxes on the town lots in Coalumbig, amount to within a small sam of the taxes paid on the whole of the lands in the Districts of Richland. Lexington, Kershaw, atid Fairfield; and in Richland District, 3,870 acres of land, upon which 166 slaves are employed, worth not less than ten dollars per nere, are ret urned at twenty cents per acre, pay itg a tax of only 8232: while a half acre of land in the town of Columbia. with a small house thereon, valued $800, pays a tax ofr2 42 cents. The taxes on lands, therefore, heine not only unequally asses sed, but mubch lower than, and more tine qual in regard to, the taxes on other sub jers of Intstinn, I respectfully suggest to your consideration, the propriety o f repeal ing the present classification of lands; andt instead of the. presetnt tax of thirty cents on every $100 of its imaginary assessed value, impose a tax of otnly fifteen cetnts on every $I00of the actutal cash value, to be ascertained by the return on oath of the ownter. This alterajion in the mode of levying the tatx oa lands, will create a sof ficienit increase in the tuttee, to provitle for the gradual reduction of the deficiency itt the reventue hefo're alludled to, withuout dis tturbing the taxes upon flny of the other sutbjects of taxation, But should your Honorable Body deem it inexpedient to look to the lands of the State to meet this deficiency, then it wvili become ugcessary to increase the taxes on other subjects of taxnrloti, *hleb dre blieved to be already sufficiently high, resort toa loan, oir other wise the Bank of the State of South Car olina would bie obliged to make good the deficietncy. This last measture, it is ap prehendled, might, atnd most probably would, greatly 'derango its operatios cutrtail its profis--atnd by cotmpellingr con traelins, a t a period of tunexampled dill enhly. atid greatly to the embuarrasrhents, whib already are pressing so heavily otn all classes of industry, and ev'ery pursuit in the State. A contntry paper on publishing a ltst of nineteen abscondiag delinqttent subscri bers, has the following pithy jetu d' espril: Go yo rascals, speed yotur way, Spteedi ye far fro~m Towanda; Fricnd or foe will ne'er pttrsus Men of half so black a hue, Neediless thus to tramp by night; Needless was your secret flight; .H ad you wished to go by day, .. We'd gladhly help'd you on your way. It is.estimated that thtere will be 100,000 '!nigrants to Texas this fall and witer. From the Savannah Georgian, - March 3. FROM FLORIDA. We have advices to the 20u: ult. from the Camp near the Gulf of blexico, and South-tasi of the Suwanuce. Getw Tay lor on the 30th January last, wrote to Adj. Gen. Jones, at Washington, that "an ex amination of the Wacnassa couttry by four companies of the 2d Infantry, will inmediately be commenced." Their op erations are detailed by a correspondent whose letter enables us to state, that the. campaign ordered by Gen. Taylor com meuced on the 3d oii. and has been stead ily persevered in; the troops encountering every species of hardship without a mur mur. The scouts are generally absent five lays, officers as well as men carrying their provisions upon their backs. South of the Camp, and between the mouths of the Suwannee and Wacasnssa the country is very low and marshy. The troops in many instances have marched four miles almost knee deep in mud. They have frequently encamped, through ne cessity, in the sah marsh, which borders on the Gulf of Mexico, and been obliged to use salt water. The duty assigned to the Battalion can not be compleied before the end of March. The dogs frotn St. Marks did not reach until within a few days previous to our advices, and as yet, n1o opportunity had been affiorded of testing them upon fresh trails. Previous to their arrival the trops flushed three dill'erent Camnp, taking from the enemy. who escaped into the swatttps large qantities of plunder, to wit: deer and other skins, hear skins, hed clothes, gar dein seeds, adzes, hatchets, &c.; the latter trticlcs having. it is believed, been carried of' hy them, while on somne maratding ex pedition in Middle Florida. Ou the Sth nit. Company (B.) under the cotmtand of Capt. Stmiih. Company (C.) under Capt. Cary. Company (K.) un der Lieut. Alhurtis, and Compmy (E.) un der Lient. Westcott, started from Camp Kingsburry. 16 milks fitom Fort Fanning on the Suwannee river. on a scout of five days down to the Gulf, officers and men carrying their provisiotts on their b;icks; the Companies taking dilrerent directions The same morning Lieut. J. McKinstry started with an escort of ten volunteers to make a recoennoisance of the htammock, East of the Camp, Dr. Maxwell and Capt. Kintgshury accompanied Lient. MrKis try. They penetrated btt a short distance into the hattmmork, i hen they flushed a large party of Indians, and captured their packs, &c:. the gane nrt proving tru game. Towards evening Cacpt K. direct ed the volunteers to rettrn to the Camp they flushcd in the moiring. and concea! ihemselves, hoping that the Indians would return for iheir packs. While endeavor Ing to exectte the order, the Indians tnde their appearance on the edge of the hamn mocks, yelling and inviting the volinteers to a fight, who hein weak in number tie elined and retreated to Camtp. They es timtated the Indians to he 30 in number. The sane day Lt. Westcort caine tin expectedly upon the ramp of Itndiats near the gulf. They fired upon him, huton hiis returnitng the fire, imnediatelv retreated, leaving behind them all their plunder, which was very considerable. The same day Capt. Smith also fushed a party and captured their packs. Our correspondint believes that if the iroops had had the dogs otn these occasions, Iey would have captured the indians. From 8e N. Y. Coin. Adcertiser. int ni',trr.tcCCA use.-\Vhen con te -plaing the wonderful work upon this subject abroad, we may at the sanme time express the gratilientiion that every phi lamblropist mtust fe-el at the steadly progress of the cause at home. The followtng at-ticle, fr~om the Christi5i'n Adlvocare, is undcoubltedllyrite're-sit-tin-rst fromt the facts-statted in the outtet,- antd seendtarily, from the brief bicograpthicalT sketch given ol an ext raordintary mnan, who ettgaged ats an instrument of the cautse in this vicinits: Temnperance in Neco York-S ince the organizatio)n of the N. York City Trem peranice Society more than one hundred anid twenitysix thoustad abstinence pledges have beeni cbtatirecd; and of cte five thons and obtained dluring the last yeatr, with bt few ex'ceptiotns, all were ott the total abstinence printciple. The last report shows, also, a very gratifying decrease of liqutor imrportations; andc that mutch *has berneffectedl int regard'to the license lasv antd milk qutestiont. The sei-annutal meetintg at Green street, February 5 was addJ'ressed by Mr. Weltch, of Brooklyn, Rev. Mr. Adams. Rev. Dr. Dewitt, atnd the seniotr editor of thtis paper Mr. Welieh we cattno lhtt re gard as a menmorable instancee oft he Gospel Most of his years he has led a sailor,s life. cdistingtuished above his fellowvs in nothinig hut his accomplishment, to use his own words, in te sailor's wvell 'known vices. A reckless boy, he soutght stealthily a berth. in a man of wair, atnd, in th' e ourse of twen ty- five years. served the kings of Brrtain. At length. h'nd cing himselfashore ini Ameri ca, he etntered the service on board a U. States friaante; andI whife his ship, was at the Ba-ooklyn station, some one who eared for the souls of seamen fottnc him, and was the means of his conversion. Bat no otne can, like himself telt. his story; and, wew'ereabtout to say, no onelike himself eoan plead the cause ortemperatnce; for, as he told its, he knows atll the witndittgsof the drunkard's path. "He had tried going on frolics; he had tried drinking mucht, drink. ing little, and drintking none at all." Last| in Brooklyn, and the result of Ii- labo was more than sixteen hundred pledges to to total abstinence. In several instaneese. conversion to Christ followed the conversion to temperance principles, as might be ex pected. From the Boston Cultiator. Deep Planting A patron of ours inform ed us a few weeks since that while taking his fudder, he discovered a great differ ence in appearance bet ween two plecesof corn, which were planted at the same time, and in the some kind of soil. The rodder on one piece of ground with strip ping it before it was entirely burnt tip, to use the commotn pharse. On going to ibe other piece, he found it green to the ground and in good plight for stripping. He was struick with the difference in the two lots of corn; andi on reflection -ecollected that on Fetting ready to plant his corn in the spring. he ran a furrow with a large shovel or bar-share plough, after which he fol lowed with a small plough called .a hull tougue, running it pretty deep in the same furrow, till he got perhaps half over the piece, when he conelumled to plant the baA lance in the single forrow, and] discontinu ed the use of the bull tongue. The result was, that the part planted deep in the opening made by the small plouh. where the larger one had previously been run, produced a third more fodder, and of a better quality than that planted in the shallow mark made by the large plough alone; besides the great difference there must be in the weight of the corn, the lat ter drying tip too fast of course to make a preper article for bread. This should he remembered by farmers, and the e vil of shallow planting avoided, especially sinee all seem to think the seasons are be coming shorter, and much dryer than for merly. Evergreens.-The best season for trans planting Everereens is in the fore part of June, or the latter part of May, but with out some preliminary measures, many so removed will perish.- t has been recorif mended, and the method when tried has proved very successful, that some two years before removal, or one year at least, that with a sharp spade all the surface, and most of the other roots, be cut off at the distance of two or three feet from the tree, and that it then he allowed to stand undisturbed till wanted for removal. The result will lie, that the earth near the tree will be filled with abundance of fine vigo rous roots, and if, when taken up, proper precautions are used iti lifting it from the ied, it may be removed without the least danger,or'scarcely retardation ofits growth. Gennessee Farmer. The Chince Bug.-Serious fears are entertained (says the Fayetteville Obser verof the 12th instatnt) of alarming dam age to the crops this year. [from the rav ages of this detestable little insect. We are informed by a farmer from a neigh boring county that they have been found in immense numbers between the bark and tritk of fallen and decaying trees, au fence rails, and under the birk of cypress trees in swamps. They are as thitn as paper, and almost transparent, but on the applicatian ofheat, exhibit immediate signs of vitality. Can no plan be fallen upnn to exterminate them? We shall be',glad to hear fromn any one who can suggest a feasible scheme to get rid of them. A Young Chap.-A gentleman (ravel. hig, found by the way-side a man he snp. posed to be 80 vears of age, weeping mlost bitterly. Desirous to learn the cause of such imimoderate grief, lie inqired of the old gentletant why it was that he wvas cry' ing. He was informed tliat lins father hisd jutst been whippinug hitm! "Your fathert?' exclaimd the a~tutnishied traveller-, "is it possiblhe that your father is alive?" "Yes, Sir," said the mourner, he lives in that onse,'pointing to a smiall habiitattiot near the roatd. Tlhe traveller wffs anitons to see thme father, and accoruiingly turned ito the house, where he saw and conversed with him, expostulatinig with him itOn the. ahsurdity of his couduct, in whippmg so ldla man as his son The old nman apolo gised, saying that the ymtag rascal had been throwing rocks gt his grandfather, who watsat work in "the garden. Antidote for Marriage.-Joy says that if a man feels very much like getting mar ied, yet imagines that he ought not to, the est rertiedy lhe knows of is. to help one- of is neighbors move a house full of furnitutre -borrow ine of his childlren for three datys and hear them Cry. Iithat fail, hufrd op afire of damnp wnod, and whlen the smoke s thickest hire a woman to scold him aboui rour hours. If lhe catn stand all these, lie 4I etter get married the next day-give his wife the pants, and be the 'silent partner' in itie great firm ofmat rimony. We think the remedy rather severe, but as every mean is liable to those things afler he yokes imself, there would be no harm in trying it before.-N. Y. Atlas. 'What's the nmat ter, uncle Jerry?' said Mr ---, as old Jeremiah R. was pa -. sing by, crowling most ferociously. 'ifa. te,' said the old man, stopping sho'rt:'why., here ['ye been lugging water all the mo)' ing, for Dr. C's, wif'e to wash with. end what d'ye 'spose I got for it?' 'Why, I. suppose about ninepence, answered Mr. --- 'Ninepence!shte told me the doctor would pull a tooth for me some titme.' .mli Beief of Children .-C hildren diuate not, thybelieve as they are taughts the whole soul.o a cld,. is ne eimnpHiity...1t L r.