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I r ?lw Canrastcr Cctiocv. 1 1 '... ii ' . _ _ _ _ _ 12 PER ANNUM VSZj&Z* IN ADVANCE 5 >'aiiiilj nail ^alititol jiJciuspjiti?tanttii ia ti]t ilrts, stitatu, litttatnrt, ftaatinu, 2gritallartt.Jaltruol Smpmraiiirti, .tforrign anil floniritu jOtius, anil tlit Blarkrts. VOLUME VII. .LANCASTER. C. H.. SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY MORNING. SEPT- Ii, 1858. - I Select l[kt\n\. Who Stole the Bird's Nest' It Y M Ks. L M CHILD. The following linen have, wo hope, been .rend and fell by every bov in the country (L>ut leal even out boy )ins failed to nee there . 11.d n I nu because I hey are pretty enough it .bear even a hundredth perusal, we makt ,:ooiu for iliem here, omitting the icpelilior of iho question before each answer an originally wri.it-it '] (> w bit ! to tt hit ! to whee ! Will you listen to nie Who stole four t-gga 1 laid ? And llie niee little neat I made? Doh-a-link ! Hub-ioliuk ! Now what do you think? Who n'.ole inv tienl away Front the ploin tree to day. Not I. mud cow. moo.oo! % Sin It a thing I'd never do, I gave >ou a winit of liav, Atid did not take your neat away? Not I said the con. moo wo! 4 Sueh n thing I'd never do. Not I ?ai.i the dog, how wow! I would not be so mean, I vow ! I IfiftVt* tins liftirn ?!?*? !.?- " I(iii Urn iii'.ii I didn't t.ik". Not i. said the sheep. (). no, I wouldn't treat :i po?ir bird 10 ; I gnvu Hit- wool tin- ileal to line, Bui llie het.t w us none of nine, Btiii. li 01 ! m till 1 he sheep. <). no, I wouldn't treat 11 poor bird so. ('lurk, eloek said the lien, Don't a?k me again. Win . I haven't a chiek Would d such a trick. We all gave her a leather. And she wo?? tliein together: I'd scorn to intrude ( >11 Iter and her lirood. Chirr a whirr! Chirr-n whirr! We'll make a great stirr! 1**1 its liud "ill his name, And oil cry tor aliatuc. I ? 011 hi not nib a bird, Said little M ity fireen ; 1 think I never heard I Of anything so 1ue.u1. "J'is verv cruel, too. Said lint Alice \eal, " I w under ii' lie knew 1 1 1. . 1... 1.:-a 11 1 ? i h.m me uiru wimiiii iui*? : A Ii' tboy Imng down hit head. Ami wont and lii<l behind the bed ; For le; stole ili.il pretty nest From poor I ill 1?j yellow-breast ; And lie tell so full of slimne. I !e tlitln't tike to tell hit n iljio. Old Persons Sleeping with Youn<j. A liabii which is corsiderahly preva lent in a most every family, of allowing children to sl?*ej> wi h older persons, hammed the nervous vivaeitv of iiihiiv a promising elnld. Those having dear old Ijielid-, w ito-e lives tliev would like to perpetuate at t'.io sacrifice of their iuno ten. off.j ring, a'oi;", should encourage tin- evil, b II ei iv iMienl who loves Ills eliild. and wishes to preserve to lion a Mini I i ervous ? . stein, wiih wireh lobtif fat ?? ce sfully with the cari?, sorrows, ami la hoi- of life, must se? to it, that h.s nerv uis vi alny is not absorbed by some diseased or aged relative. Chi'.lren, compared with adult*, ate eleotr calls' in h positive condition. The rapid /lialines wliieli are go ng on in their little li.sl'.-*, Nlmndanily geue'aie and as extinsiVe'v work tip vital nervous electric Hauls. Itot when, bv contact for long login* Mi l, elder and negative person* ' the v taii* og etei'tricilv of iheir organiza turn hi alisorbed, tliev soon pine, grow ps'e, languid and dill, while their bed companions feel a corresponding invigoraItort K ng David, tli* P**bni*t, knew the effe t? of tins pi art ire, an I when be I became old, got. certain young persons to sleep with lino that bis days tn'vhl be lengthened. l>r lluteland, the German | i?11y-**nl?>tf, NilrilmiM the longevity of " tchooloiaaer* to their dailv attocitHoii with young pernon*. Invalid mother* often prolong their ex ifleiue liv dxdv con I net witli their children. I once knew .j mm ?11 who. hy weak long* end mineral doctor*.lied linen proeirxle-l wi It incurable consumption.? Her infi?nl occupied the Mine IhhI with her alinratt comuaiillv <lftv and night.? The mother lingetvd for month* on iho verge of the grave, her dertme l-eing hourly expected. Still *lte lingered on, daily disproving the prediction* nf her medical a'teiidanui. The child meanwhile i pined without anv apparent diseaaa I.n I once fat little cheek* feil away with *in gitlcr rapidity, till every Imne in it* face wa* vi?tlde. Finally it had imparted to the mother it* laat *patk of vitality, and *:mitlianeott*lr bodi died. I *aw ii re ceniiy atated in a newspaper, that a man in Maaaachiiftette had lived forty dayi without eating anv Jung, during which period he had l-een nourished hy a littU cold wAter, and "by the influence* ah aorlted hy h?m while d*ilv holding thr band of hia wife.? 7)r. K. P. Pool*. A Wife's Death Bed Confessions. Motih'c.w l'.tnu*, a sadtker, doing bu' siness in Ni>rtli Niil'li street, 1'i 111 eij>liih. f w is Called home teem Iiih workshop on ^ Saturday morning, l?y a messenger who J brought tlie melancholy intelligence that ' ' liift wife, Harb try, bail taken arsenic f?>r i tlie jimjin'e of coaunillini; smede. and ' wm. ilte i at tbo point of ilealb. lie has- I toned to Iter bedside, and found ber more > , | in agony of mind tb in body. Sue da- , i , elated Dial lliore was something on ber ' , . moid wbicb sho wished to con lens to bun ' , before ber departure, with llio hope of I * ( obtaining bis forgiveness. Mr Paine 1 wiiii great emotion, desired ber to go on with llio disclosuie, adding lli'at she uitgiil 1 assure herself of bis forgiveness, before 1 she tiad made known ber offence. 1 'Alt, Mordecai.' she said, 'you rciuetn* 1 ber our laige pitcher was broken some tune ago : I pretended to you that the i Cat broke It, bill that was false, for I my j | j sell did it.' Ob, mv ilear,' said Mr. Paine, 'don't 1 concern yourself about such a trifle. I I 1 j bad forgotten the pitcher and it matters j * I not how it was broken.' 'Tnere is auoiber matter,' said Mrs. 1'., < after some hesitation, 'llio six silver *spoons which I made von Irehevo were 1 Mulct) by tho Yankee clock maker. ! 1 I pawned them to raise niorey to pav the j. j milliner for doing up my pink saiin bun * ' ? I net. ' Never inii.d it. my tnve.'iaid Mr. Paine ? encouragingly. '1 hope heaven will for- ? l give vou as freely as I do.' i After a short pause Mrs. 1*. l*:gau a- < BM,M : . . 011' best razor, which you miss?() last I summer, and in ul? so much to do aWu?, ' ! 1 swapped it away to a pedier for a tor ' I toise shell comb.' I 'I c>mill not leave the world with audi * a tiling on my conscience,' replied tin ( fair penitent. > I Go on, go on,' cried Mr. Paine ; 'I told | \ you Kiai I could lorgive everything at | ' i such a moment as Una' Mis. 1'. resuin ; ? j w.l : I 'Yon remember Simeon Drake, our j i 1 hoarder, wln? ran up a hill for six week*, ' and then went oil' ill a hurry without I paying a Cent, lie and I had agreed In < elope together; but he changed his uiiii.l t at the last moment, and ran away from f me.' t Fire and fury! do you dare to tell me t thi- ?' ciie.l Mordecai, ill great excitement, t i 'Hut aa you are dying, 1 won't reproach t j vol). I ll leave you now to settle llie at' ' t , fair tvith your own c uikcu iico.' ? 'Stay and here one thing more,' ciie.l j the repentant Barbara. 'The dose 1 1 1 { took tins in.truing was intended for yon. 1 I , 1 put it into your cup of entree, but, in r | my hurry to gel the thing done, I gave j < I roil the w rong cup and took the right one , I t myself. i * i The devil flv away with you, you jade!' i ( roared Mordecai, and lie thing luuisell i out of the room. In the entry lie met , the apothecarv who hail sold Ml*. 1*. the fatal powder. This medical man had | ; heard of the commotion at I 'aim.V house, ! v ; and suspecting the cause >.f it, lie came io 1 | auinuusier hope ami comfort to the aflhc- ' led. 1 i 'Don't he alarmed. Mr. I'aine.' sni.l ho I 'ihe drug I koI*I 10 your wife nothing c ; l?ut magnesia. I j>i>Itf?*<I that hlie wished c : lo destroy herself, and I tricked her in 1 litis way to save her life.' j ft Von swindling rascal,' shouted l'aine, 'how dare you clu-at a customer in thai hliMMielul manlier, ami obtained her moll ' I ey on ful?e pretence* ? Begone !' ' Aim! with this exclamation, he violently ; ejected the astonished apniliecuiy from . (| | lit* Iron* door. The man of |? time mispeeling, oi com he, that litis poor Mortle ! cai was deranged, sent two ntiicer* to pro ' vide for his safe keeping. His relation of 1 the proceeding dialogue, however, soon f I obtained Ins discharge. The Farmer ^ The man who stand* < n his own soil, (| who feels that by the law** of the land Hi j which he lives ? hj the laws of civilized nations?he is tne rightful ami exclusive v j owner ol lite soil lie tills, is l>v die eon* , amotion ol our naluie under a wholesome ' i mtliieiive not easily imbilud by any other source, lie feels, oilier things being equal, more sironglv tban aim: Iter, lite cit <ractei of a man a- a hod ol the infiiii- I male world, of this great wonderful sphere 1 which, fashioned by the hand of God, ' ! ami upheld by Ins power,is rolling through c lite heaven, a p ?rt of hi-?nis from * the centre lo the ?kv. Il is lite snace on 1 wliicli the (Tfucritiiuii niotitl m its* round 0 ol dgtin, and lit* leels himself eomifcifd ' by a link ih<?se who follow him, Hull lo wbo-n lie is to transmit n home.? I'erhap* h Cmiin lots come down to him 0 fioin his fathers. Tltev have gone lo r f ibeir la*t home! but be cho trace their " footstep* over tlie scens of bis daily labor*. J ?The roof which shelter* him w.ts re ire.I v by lho?o to whom lie owe* i,i? being.? 1 Some interesting domestic tradition is con I ^ 1 oected with everr enehvenre. The fiv ' i ouiite tree whs planted bv his father's |j hhml. lie sported in boyhood Inside the brook winch still winds through the , ' meadow. Through the fields lie the ' path to the village school of enrlier d?r*. ( i lie still heirs from lite open window ( the voice of ihe Saiiha'li hell which cal- . led his father to the House of God ; end j > near nt hsnd is the place where Ins I 1 pHrenls laid down to rest, end where, ( whsii his lints shall cont.?, he shell he ! ( i Utd by bis children. The.e ere the feel- ( i ings of the owner of the soil. Words ^ i cannot paint them; they flow out of t the deepest fountain of the heart; thev are the I fe spring of a fresh h-altbv snd i i general national character.? Edward tiv- , \ ! erttt. ! i Resources of South Carolina A correspondent ol the Pendleton Nles- , lenger writes : What is u tlmt we cannot raise that is lecessary to subsistence South ol 30 30 f A e can grow as good coin, as good wl.oiit, wrlrv, oat-, tobacco, rice, hemp, indigo, lot aloes Mot eveiv variety of vegetable, tint lasi, though not least, that great lu i'cr of the woihl?cotton ? whore name s king. S ilt, we are ilcHcient in, lull we lon'l oj.iain that article from the North ; mil as for entice, we will tiliihuster aholit 111W>I we will have that article annexed.? , I'lic culture of the grape is beginning to tire* I the attention of many. We weie i old hy Dr. Togno, id Abbeville, who is | WW engaged successfully in making w ine, j hat this country is well adapted to it.? VI that is necessary is to understand it | noperlv, Some predict that it is the irovmce of the grape to civilize the world ?10 supersede the use ol* mountain dew. n France. we are told, it is a rare tiling o see drunkenness, yet they all drink i \iiie, more or less. All we want, then, ! 0 he : great agricultural people, is 10 re I luce our farming more to a science. To i uliivaie less land, and cultivate il belter. Manure more and clear less. It is said hat the article of guano will make a j peat revolution in affair*. Fifty pet 1 nt. \ ield is what they estimate ii at in he lower and middle district*, wheietliev ire using quantities of it. As regards the iiiuer.il resources of the South, every dav 1 s making greater developments. As for ' mi tnauulaciurnig departments, we are adlV liikew arm. We must shake < ff that lethargy which ims so long bound us hand and foot. It s trite we have some few in existence, ?iit none comparatively speaking, with that we might to have. In many por ions of tlie South we have as tine water ...v..-, melt! i? ;?ny use o*. i lien lei , is suni niir stream* with them, and no | <V??protect onr-elves from ilie incleni , n*v <>I lite weather with Yankee gar | ncfys?no longer Imp the waltz, dance ! he |X>lka, or cut the pigeon wing with lie N<y ihein shpp"r or Sine prunella?no ongei Av.<ep our flairs with their broom* ! >r dunk y? u out of their pails, and a ' hoitsand oilier things tliat we ought to j etl ashainev of. In other words, let's ivliip them *\h their own weapons?beat hum at their twu game Let us disenlirall ourselves as much asj?n**ible from . hum, and we yi|| then tiring them to *'iir* or if pot.,yhen the dav arrive* for lepar ition, we o?n, without ineonvem nee, fall hick up'tn our own resources ? tV? onlv wish that \lr. Hovce'* great. hob ' V C'iim] he succohih f carried out?di | ect trade, direct taxation. let us all be | ntlalized in n*akiu?\fhe revenue for de? j raying governmental expenses ; not have | i tar ill'lor lh" protect i i Vi of one-ba f the jovnrnment at the sactHices of the other 1 The Crops Accounts from the eoflon crop are volse and wo'se. The worm, the rot and be rust continue their work of devruc* ion. Manv planters assure us that tiiev vill not make a hail crop, and we have I leird of none who count on an average rop. We think that the present cotton j rop of Marengo cannot possibly yield I note than ha I an averagocrop.? J/?ren? j o Jrjfersonifin, Sept. l. Wc learn from planters from difTeriit pails of the country, that the rust , ii? crop i? liU.-ly 10 Ik; seriously shorten* < .1 i'v it. An inti ilip;n'0 plainer informed i* ibis ? cok that Iih thought there would a very lilt U* coi on made except from 11 > e mils already grown, Should this lie ilie :i*e, I lie crop in this region w ill fall short rrretliaii one half.? Talltidegttr Watch- i Oilwr, St ft. 1. We learn that the continuance of tlie Irv weather is having a very injurious efr< t ii|K>ti the cotton cr??p of our county, flie laie corn has also been affected to onie extent, I'lli fortunately the corn crop vas pretty well made before the dry *?? lier net in, Htnl will l>e very abundant ? Talladega flejtortcr, Sept. 2. We hive taken considerable pains of ate to ascertain ilie condition and pros ; aids of the great Maple among us and lie surrotiudnig country. Tlie result of bis investigation is a conviction lliat tlie rop will be shortened about one fourtb. 'ansea rust and shedding. Some plan eis will lose one half, others one third or me fonri'i, while many will lose none.?? TTaian Spring* (Ala.) Gazette, Ui'Atoik, Ga., Sept. 6.?We can now nluulale, wuii gome certainly, as to the t-sullof the present crop. The month if August has been a disastrous month i) I Im toil on crop of tli is neighborhood. , I.one plwnier* will inn ke more couou ilian hey clicJ lrt*t year, other* will make m [r?^t deal ?heme I he crop of thin ieight>oili<m>d will he hImmii the s.tine hh he crop of Innt veur, which <?m l>ui very idle o\er h half of hii aveiajje crop.? Savannah Jlr/>ublicon. For t'-e la*t two week* we understand here have heen very heavy rain* through lie interior, and that lliecoiton cropn are iMing very materially injured by them.? , In noine pluren the picker* have to watle ii their water io gather the crop*. Up o the commencement of these tain* the 'iillun field* were usually fine, but we feat he yield will he miterially reduced, from what wn* expected.?Florida r*. The corn, pea*, *nd potato* crops were >ever more abundant. The cotton crop will fell ?hort almiit oneihird of former wticipation*.? Albany y(fa.) Palnol "Who would not be an M. D ? The following faithful portra'lure of a physician's lite should not be kept from w? the eve of the public : \ Ml A Doctor's Lifk.?The following are some ol the sheets of a doctor's lite 'l i we lie visits a few of his customers Alien they i|lt are well, it is to get his dinner, it lie don't p,.| do so, it is because he cares more about (|lt the lleece than the flock. If he goes to church regularly, it is because he has ,m nothing else to do ; if be don't, it is be r,S| Cause he has no respect for the Sabbath j ou; or religion. If lie speaks to a poor per- L.OI son. he keeps had company ; if lie pass ! ul|| es the til bv, he is better than oilier fol'cs. <)? If lie has a good carriage, lie is exirava < l() gant ; if he uses a poor one, 011 dies-ore j me of economy, he is deficient in necessary ||lt prnle. If he makes parlies, it is to soft ripi soap the people to get their money ; if CO( lie don't make them, he is afraid of a cent! (|Q If his horse is fat, it is because lie has tlo nothing to do ; if lie is lean, it is because jrjv he isn't taken care of. If he drives fast err it is to make people think somebody is no very sick ; if he drives slow, lie h is no ,.m interest in the welfaie of bis patients. Ii 1 ,j0( he dresses neat, lie is proud ; if lie does j no", he is wauling in self respect. 11 lie i works on the land, he is fit for nothing I ,((l but a farmer ; if he don't work, he is too ,]M lazy to be anything ; if be t ?lks mtieii. i)el "we don't want a docioi to tell every tiling I lP, lie knows; if lie don't talk, 'we like to see a doctor social if be says anything I vc about politics, lie bad belter let it alone ; j it lie don't say anything about it. 'we j pv like lo see a man show his colors ;' if fie 1 wj visits his patients every day, it is to run j |,? tip a lull ; if he don't it is unjosiifi/ible ' \v negligence; if he says anything about re . rH| ligion, he is a hypocrte, if he don't lie is ; |t(S an infidel; if he uses any of the popular j cui remeilies of the day, it is to cater to the I tei whims and prejudices of the people to fill |;n his pockets ; if lie don't use them, it is u,j from professional selfishness ; if he is in H^. the habit of having counsel often, it i> j H|l] I....... 1,... I... I At-: .,. v>i-r ii'- i\n'?vi^ ii< ? 11^ , ii lie (injects |,,, loit on ilie ground that lie understands rfe( Ins own business, lie is afraid of exposing ' his ignorance lo Ins superiors ; if he gets j cjt) pay for one half Ins services, lie has the 1 ejs reputation of being ft great manager. I Lord Byron's Terrible Secret. j vpl The unhappy charac'er of Lord livron i inftV pt limps hs traced t,, the secrel ol in* j ( terrible 'tulorinilt", 1 Ilia c.< e.it <:?' . In |. ( ^ whs never suspected even l?y his nearest friends, nnd which i? now revealed to the I t world lor ihe lirsi lime, by his friend, Mr. j Trelawny, in h new work just issued. The litile vanity, whch was one of llie illus trious pool's saodesl weaknesses, made this a source of canlinual irrilaiion during his life, ami at Ins death he exacted from his confidential servant a solemn promise thai ^ no one should see his body, in order itiat the secret should descend with Intn to the grave. Mr. Trelawny, however, got the scivunt to leave the room on some errand, and he uncovered the dead poet. Toe 1 " 1 great mystery was solved* Both his feet ''?i! were clubbed, and his legs withered lothe wii knee?the torin and features of an A|ai|lo with the feet of a aylvansatyr. This was am a curse, chaining a pi out] and soaring am spirit like his to the dull vault, it was Soi generally thought this halting gait ongi ; ?ca uated in some defect ol the riglit foot or ! ilit ankle?the right fool was the tr.osl (lis ih* oiled, and It had been made worse in his In boyhood by vain efforts to set it right. we His shoe* were peculiar?very high rit'i heeled, with the sole- uncommonly thick sol on the inside, and paie<l thin on the out- pe: sicie?me ioes were suineu wun cotton- arf wool, hihI liis trowsers were very large j cot below tlie knee, and si rapped down bo As as lo cover his feet. The pecujiarity of I a liia gait was now accounted for; he en of tered a room with a sort of a run, as if . I'll he could not atop, lien planted his heat t kcc leg well forward, throwing hack his hodv I op< to keep his balance. In early life, whilst J bet his frame was light tnd elastic, with the i N< aid of a stick lie night have tottered a long a utile or two; but alter ha had | Idc waxed heavier, he seldom attempted lo fiei walk more than a few hundred yards, ) cm without leaning against the first wall, ' bet bsnk, rock or tre*t at hand, ne*er silling i as on the ground, (tail would have heen dif- , ed. ficiiit for him to (4>t up again. In the Fo company of atraiikers, occasionally, lie an would make desperite efforts to conceal , tie his infirmity, but ill* hectic finsh on his ha face, his swelling veins and quivering tin nerves helraveii him and he suffered for wx many days nfier sue* exertions.' mm mm 1 CI Tup M * viuaiii i 1 ?a roootv? ? t?-r w?\s iIihi Lite aveme* in the Mammoth pb Cave of Kentucky, <fiu^ |*r discovered, w niimhor l wo liuiiilro*] niKifieventy five, and (? tln-ir Aggregate leiigui i? estimated it I two ?'" l> it ml r?-<J milw, Mr Holston, who whs in in* lite cave when the ir<n lump was losi, slid of resides near1 it* nxuih. He is now 90 vei rears of age. Stephen, t lie old guide died ??n last tear. The terniersture of the air of m the cave, the same writer remark*, ia at IIfir nine degree* Palrenlieit, the air drv I and AAluhrious. No hunder i* ever heard P or lightning ever sect within tlie cave.? , A current of air it n?*r confiag out of the 1 cave, and of stifficien. force to "blow oul" l the Maze of a torch. Within the cave combustion goes on will, torclie* burn free- l"' ly, and re*piralion is ea*v. l)arkress c<"' | there i* *o thick tlia it cap be felt, aad *il?nce to profound is to be impressive Nn beyond expression. CM M M M i re) That must be a v?rv foolish, rash wo- tb man, who will put tin* out of the door* la | to catch soft waterwhea it ia raining hard. lit Southern Horticulture. Fifteen ami tweentv years ago, when predicted we should sew tlse dav that is South would supply the North with alumlepc of < i?I v atr.i whet i iea, peach( apples, pears, figs and grapes, we ru called a visionary. Heboid now i result! immense quantities of straw- , rries have been sent this season tioin s Atlantic cities of the South, and now amities of peaches, apples ami pears, ! l?t*ilit* shipped. Prominent agtictiltu ,s are turning their attention to their lure as mote protitahlc than cotton or n. Good fmit is being cultivated, not ly for market but f<>r plantation food.? i negroes have tlie present season, up this lime, bad all the strawberiies. j ilons, apples, pears and peaches, besides ! uncultivated fruits, such as hlackher \ f?, whortleberries, ?fe., that they could isiune, they have requ red less meat, J their full quota of labor, and \vc have 1 doctoi's bills to pay. The impetus , en our lioitii-tilture lliroiigb the South j i commercial nurseries lias been great ; j w every planter that wilis it can pro- ' re trees, seed, and plants almost at Ins nr. Hut the procuring tiees of good j riety is but half the battle. Good fruit , ist be cultivated as well as corn or col- j i, the better the culture the mote ahum nt and superior the fruit. The straw ^ rry is beginning to vtiract universal at I ilion. Ignite an intelligent gentleman ' the strawberry festival we gave some I ars ago, to the Methodist Convention ! lied that it was die first time be bad er seen a ripe strawberry. Where now II a man in the South he found, that s not seen and eaten n strawberry? e look upon this fruit as the most desi lile of alt the fruits, it comes earlier and ts longer, is not liable to be entirely t oil by frost, and is so easily propaga I and cultivated. In the vegetable e, we are astonishing the Yankees with j t early peas, snaps, Irish potatoes, and ) varagns, ship loads of which have been ipped to the Northern ports, hor | mo consumption, asparagus lia? not t ieved the attention duo to its great : .fits If " r,*?. ll.? t .1-- 1 1 .. ,tn?i >'im <11 lliu OIOSI (IMI1- , us of vegetables, comes before anything i ? green in the garden, nn<l when once rli'd is very simple ami easy of culture. 1 ? commercial value of our fruits nik! getables is Inn a small consideration crmparifOll with their utility fordo ' ^stie consumption, and their smiiittj flmuico upon our people. Hard Id Id-age is taken the place of the long re rollard. llo* early larielie* of which ? shipped North in large quantities.? ito lias not lionrd of coals being sliip 1 to New Oastlo J We may yet send duties to |tert(rii, onions to Weathers d, strawberries to Cincinnati, apples to iw ^ >rk, peaches to New .lersev, and trs to Huston.? Cotton Planter find \ The Chinese t?ugar Cane. A writer in the Wmnshoro Kegister 0 signs bis initial? W. S. L."gives tl.e j owing as the result of his exj erience j ili the Chinese Cane : "As predicted lit my old college fiicnd 1 associate, Col. U. .1. (rage, SvcroiHi) d treasurer of the State Agricultural | cielj, it is destined to lid that pei/od of j reuj wlncli we all experience, between ! gleaning of our small grain fields,and j opening ol oor pea fluids, ill the fail, proof of i It is, I will slate, that four e<?? ?tt:cc, I penned t: v killing hogs, \ si\ in i .iid cr, no.I have fed them civ or. the green cane, with a few tches, ev.uy day since, and that they ' now in H IHOst thriftV and irrowiittr > j idiliou?seemingly fattening every clay. 1 the peaches are or soon will be gone, 1 had litsiiCelort.il give only n hall' bushel corn wiili hii abundance of the cane. i?, I liiink, w ill tie hinpiy Mitiicienl to j (\i them growing and (aliening until I ?n the first pea field which will not he ore the I a* l of October or the first ot j ivember. 'Mv iiiules being mischievous, and liai to break into my own and neighbors' ds, I have been compelled to keep ihein fined to the lots. Ilere they hare isii fed solely on the cane, and are now I fat and slick as if iliov had been stall | highly fed and groomed every c'av.? r cows, loo, our experience is that it is admirable food. The loss of the cat of Hits Hon. Burrel if. Book, must j ve been roused by something else ihan s poisonous character of the cane, as ; s supposed. 'To sum up, then, my opinion of the linese Sugar Cane, I consider it a? Tillies# as a sugar or syrupmaking ml, (i e., it won't pay.) as equally Till ? -? as a fodder or a forage plant, r., in its dried stale.) but as a grain p mr let-inn^ ur soiling purposes, 11 lit aluahle?heller, far belter, than any the millet family. Indeed, I would he ry unwilling 10 dispense wilh it under v circumstances, and shall, if spared other year, increase I he quantity sown.' A Good Kktoiit.? Hon. Alex. II. Sie ens, td Georgia, waa once running for ingress with an opponent of unit-ually ge rtaiure, and on the stump one d*y e discussion lwcanie exceedingly warm. Itereupon the large man said, cootemp rmslv, of and to Siephens, who is exsdingly small and frail : 'Why, I could button your esrs back, at swallow roil whole, sit !' To which nnihal remark, Siephens annihilatingly lorted, *and if yon do, air, you would en have more brains in your stomach, en you ever had in vour head K The tighter which followed, effectually detained the ill humor winch was gaining ound Useful ReceiptsKiiki m \tism.?'l lto Edgefield (S. C ) Ai!vertiser says that ti gentleman who lias tried ilt? subjoined recipe, pronounces it i ' good, ami desires it published for the | 1 heitelil of all sufferers under this lerrble v malady : Ono teaspoonful of aloes dis ! ' solved in one pint oi whiskey, the best; I * one leaspoonlul of tartaric acid dissolved j 1 in one pint of water. Mix the two, and take one lablespoonfnl of the mixture three limes a day. Take water with tar- j s taric acid in it, as a drink while using j * the medicine. h Pkkhkhvino Fhuit Without Sucak. 6 ?To preserve Iruit fresh for winter use, a put it in bottles, till thetn up with cold : spring water, tie down with a bladder | lightly; pin tbein in a kettle or copper of'j fi cohl water up to tlie neck of the bottles, I a with hay to steady them; let litem si in , n liter for a quarter of an hour, hut not boil; , a let tliein cool in the water; wipe ilie hot [ t ties, and put away in a dry pi ace. On no ! n account open them till their contents are wanted !oi eating.? Cot/aye tfavlencr. Whitewash.? An excellent whitewash : tor ceilings or walls can be maJe of I'aris j ' white, 33 pounds, costing$1, and Coop j ^ ?r's while glue, 1 pound, costing 50 cents. I ' ? 1 *nt the glue to soak in cold water j over night; in the morning slowly heat ! V until dissolved in the water. Stir Paris j " white into a *mail quantity of hot water, j ?Then mix both, and add hot water to I reduce to a proper milky consistency, and ' s apply with a brush. It is probably bet 1 a ; ter to keep tlie liquid warm over a fire. I t J or bv the occasional addition of hot water. ? ? A single coat of this is described as ; i j being equal to a double coat of lime . i whitewash, while it is far more brilliant I ( and pure, and will not rub off. 1 >i.isTKitKb Hands and Kket.? As it* rentedv against blistering of bauds in row-'t ing or llv ti>hi'ii'. Arc., or feet m u?lL-i?r? t i r- .'7* ti, liie quickest is, lighting a tallow candle, V and letting the tallow drop into cold wa- tl let (to purify it. it is said,from salt), then , rubbing the tallow on to the hands or feet, mixed with branny or any other Mrong spirit. For mere tenderness noth- j 1 ing is better than liie above, or vinegar a r little diluted with water. This, for the ; most part, is if I remember rightlv, a rem t edy of Col. Thornton of pedestrian celeb f itv. Let every one ?rv it. It never has ' , failed with toe.? London Field, i , IWciH.? W'4itn iravelling, if annoyed 1 by bedbugs, rub camphorated spirits on the arms, legs, A., and the bugs will not j bite. ! ; To (Juow (?it.vt'k Cuttings.?Have ' you a eho*ee grape cutting that you want ^ | to glow I Then go to the woods, dig j ' some roots of a wild grape vine, cut them ' ' inio pieces of about six inches long, tut j' I your choice grape vine or cutting into ! " pieces of only one, or at ino*.t, two buds , j insert the lower end by the common cleft j ' grafting method into the pieces of wild ! ! vine tool ; plant in earth, leaving the bud , ! of the cutting just level w ith the top of 1 ' the ground. Kvery one so made will 1 grow, and in two years become bearing i plants. Mii.ukw.?I give my wife's cure for , i mildew in cotton clothes. She had | t (through the negligence of help,) the worst case of mildew I ever saw. She s boiled the article in a l\e, made of wood ashes, then spread it out on the grass, ex posed to the sun, and kept it wet by sprinkling with lye and soft soap suds, I until the mildew entirely disappeared.? , There is no humbug about tliis.? Jhirnl i \~r)r 1 lu l l r 1 Piss ash Nekdi.es.?The manufacture of the in bspensible little pin was | commenced in the United Stales between i 1812 and 1820, since which time the! business ha* extended greatly, and sere ' , ml patents for the manufacture of pins ( have been taken out. The manufacture i , in England and otlier parts of Europe is , conducted upon improveruents made here, | Notwithstanding lite extent of our own , production, ttie United Slates imported in < 1850 pins to the value of $40,255. while , | in ihe same year there were imported in to thi" country needles to the amount of . $240 060. Needles were first made in ' England in the time of "bloody Mary," ; l?v a negro from Spain, hut as he would 1 not imparl his secret, it was lost at his death, and net recovered again until 15C6 in the reiyn of Queen Eiixaheth, when a j tierman taui?lil Ilie art to t lie English,who i have sinew brought it to I lie greatest per- j feet ion. The const ruction of a needle re quires al?om one Itundrec and twenty op i eraiions, but they are rapidly and uninterruptedly successive. Water.? Potatoes contain 75 per cent (ny Weight), and turnip' no less than 90 percent of water. A beefsteak, though piessed between blotting paper, yields nearly four fifths of its w eight of water. Of the human frame, nones included, ouly about one-fourth is solid matter(chiefiy ' carbon and nitrogen), the rest is water. If a man weighing one hundred and forty pounds was squeezed fiat under a bydral , icptess.one hundred and five pounds of water would run out, and only thirty five pounds of dry residue remain. A matt is, therefore, chemically speaking, forty- ' five lbs of carbon and nitrogen diffused through six buckets of water. Herzelius, indeed, in recording the fact, pislly remarks that the 'living organism is to be regarded as a mass diffused in water;1 ar.d l)altnn, by a series of experiments, tried on bis own person, found that of the food with which we daily repair this water built fabric, five sixths are also 1 water. n u in n Lt i\ 61. i) unfit}. \ member of u western debating club, veiling in display his proficiency in 'the anguage,' when moving for an indefinite nljoiirninent of the club, said: Mr Prescient, I move we adjourn rjiluribus unum. W hen a Kentucky Judge, some years ince, was asked, hy an attorn<*y,, upon ome strange ruling, 'Is that law, your on.ir?' lie renlied, 'If the court underland iierseif, and she think she do, it re.' A chap sought shelter of a Boston ofcer t 'See Cap'n, first my father died, nd tny mother married agin, and then 11 y mother died and my father married gin an* someliow or other I don't seem o have no parents not no home, nor no olhing.' A 'Nate' Compliment.?Paddy is of?n poetically polite. On picking up and elurmng a lady's parasol, which had eeti blown out of her hand, a gallaut rishmau said : 'Faith, miss, an' if ye was as strong as or hansome, bejabers, a hurricane could ot have snatched it from ye.' An honest Norfolk farmer, who had een Richard III performed one night, vailed upon the manager next morning o sav thai if the gentleman who wanted ? horse 011 the prevous evening held his nind, he had got an abundance of cattle n hia meadow, and should bo bappv to leal with hiiu. 'Keraember, sir,' said >i tavern keeper o h gentleman who was about leaving lis lionso without paying bis bill, remem><t, sir, tiiat if you lose your purse, you lidn't pull it out here.' A Mancliesu-r schoolmaster received lie following notice from the father of one >fbis pupils: This is to give you notice that if you bump Ceorges bead a gainst the desk ? gane i shalle cum and do the same by rou give something be ot to be teacbed lot drawing maps and a gnlive and things bat belong to a fust rale skoller. Reason a iii.e Ccriosity in a Dyino d an.? I : was a blight thought that of smillison, u ben lie was living of an unmown complaint. Smilbson bad bad ive doctors, and they bad been unab'e 0 discover what bis disease was. At eitgtli they told the patient lie must die. ?Calling ilieni ail around liiin be said : ' M v friends, after 1 die, make a jioxt 'tioWnn examination, a-uil liud out what ols me ; for really I have heard such long ind learned discussions on the subject, 1 hat I am dying to know what the disease s myself." H'ato, does you deni Johnsings updar n Congo Place is going to be berrv 'specable folks?' 'Wal. Scipio, longht dev were getting ilong berry well, but I dosen'l know bow spool able dev is.' Mlow Vi>eciable does you link Cato ?' 4\Val, guess about tree tousand dollars.' 'More Vpeclable dan dai.,' ?\V eil, how Vpeclable is dey ?' 'Wliv, live tousand dollars, an' a bouse in' lot.' Whew! good bv, Scipio; I uiust givo em a call.' Look Before You Kick A minister recently, whue on his way o preHcli a funeral .sermon in (liecountry :alie?l to see one of Iiis members, an old widow lady, wlio lived near the road lie was traveling. 'Die lady bad been maktig sausages, and slie felt proud of them, iliey were so plump, round and sweet.? [)f course she insisted on her minister lak? ing some of the links home to bis family. He objected on account of not having Iiis pt>iimaiiteau. This objection win soon nveruled, and '.lie old lady, after wrapping them m a rap, ci.re/ully, put a bundle of tliotn into either pocket of the minister's capacious coat. Thus equipped he started for the funeral. \V!ii!? attending to the solurnn cere? monies of the funeral, some hungry dogs scented the sausage, and wete not long in 'racking them to the pockets of tho good man's overcoat. Of course this was a sail Hniioyai.ce, and lie wnt several limes under the necessity of kicking those whelps away. Having completed, tite minister nnd tlie congregation repaired to llie church where the funeral discourse was to he preached. Afier the sermon was preached, the minister halted to make some remarks tQ his congregation, when % brother who wished to have an appointment given out ascended the step of the pulpit and gave the minister's coat a hitch, to get his attention. The divine thinking it a dog having a design upon his pocket, raised his foot, gave a sudden kick, nnd sent the good brother sprawling down the steps. You will excuse me, brethren nnd sisters," said the minister confusedly, and without looking at the work he had just done, 'for I could not help it. 1 have sausage* in my pocket, nnd that dog haa Wen trying to get them ever since 1 catne upon the premises.' Our readers may judge of the effect such sn announcement would have at % funeral.*-Qermantown ftmporivny