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TJ;xriE DOLLARS A YEAR,] FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF USEFUL INTELLIGENCE$ [INVARIABLY IN ADVAFCE. VOL.V. _________ WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 10, 1869. NO6. THE H ERALD is PUBLISHED EVERYWEDNE8DAY MORNING, At Newberry 0. 11., BY -TH08. . & R. H. GRINEXER, HIMS, 8 PE ANNUM, IN CURRENCY OR PROVISIONS. Payment required invariably In advance. 'UsMIge-Noticei, Finoral Invithtoils, Obit 1aJek, aU4 ConinutoatIons'subsorving private 1atirat4 roe oharged as pdvertisements. A, VILLAGE SEWING-CIRCLE, BY CURISTINE 11. CARPENTER. A drowsy Summer afternoon hung over the dainty little village ofMaysville, nestling among the green Connecticut hills. Tle \I4p of the clustering vinos fram e pretty white cottagsj4st i0etd64in the sunshine, while'en ti1 'j ltirfl ies crept to r in the hearts of the great id whito rosos, faintly unod i Romle occassionlal zphyr uihed by ,uiothe ope,, adows of Widow .May's "best iom" a hum of voices stole out upon the scented air, and with i,n, more than a score of busy 'bands fashioned divers fabrics in o fair shapeliness. It was the ,weekly sewing-circle of the Mays .ville Church, for which a fair was .in prospect, a fact that formed the secret of this fenanine conclave. Who over saw a sowing-circle -without its little titbits of gossip ? '. r oc -,ption to the rule. Prose a chorry faco looked up - from its owner's glancing needle: ",, ryou Inow," saidl she to hot neighbor, ,"that I've quito altered my opinion of Mrs. W6lti, lately ? Pray don't start-she has not ar rived yet." -H11ow is that? You used to think her the most extravagant wpman in the village, and I'm not sure bu t you were quite right. To my certain knowledge she wears the most new dresses, new bonnets, and so costly, to say noth ing of the style in which those children of hers are primped up I You don't pretend to imagine her husband can stand it so much bot ter than others I might men -tion ?", "Oh I no; Mr. Wells is not rich -only comfortable." II can't afford two new dresses to my neighbor's one." ' "Maybe you don't know how to sconomise." ".conomise I I'd like you to point out another woman in Mays ille who can stretch out a dollar furthor'n- Ii can I" "Yes, I can do it." "Just tell me, and I'll take a iesson right off." *"You might profit by it, too, as -I-h ave." "XDo tell I" "It's Mrs. Wells." "Mrs. WVells I That does beat my time-to set her up as my amodel I Now, I dare say, if one ifknew, she spends just three tiiestas much." "No she doesn't,'nor in fact any notre than you do." "Oh, nonsense I How do you get over the four bonnets, and the *dresses aDd fancy furholows one al * ays sees about her?" The little matron shook her head sagaciously. T,no, Mr's. Brown, I calculate ~ holo matter in plain figures. Nf'or instance: There wore 3~?bonn1ets last year. Nod ehow I should have seoo ting sit6r than the hide ous things Miss Smith gets up in the village, so I went to New 'Y'ork. Well, there were two dlays lost just going andl comning at the verystime I was most wan ted. I 4ired myself almost to death look iug for something reasonable, and at last had to take the nearest to my means. I thought it would do well enough till I got home, Anii ra. Wlls called on me next day with the very loveliest bon bieL"od her head I ever saw, It dollars in the city. I mean tha gray velvet she had last fall." "I-know all about it. It didn' cost but six dollars, and it didn' come from the city." "Six dollars I You must b dreamiIngI And where, in th name of creation, could aby on got - such a bonnet in Maysville Then, again, when I was in th city I saw a dress something lik that blue merino of Susie Wells everybody liked Bo much. though I'd enough left to buy i for Ada. I know the stuff wasa more than fourteen shillings j yard, and it takes just four yards but besides, there was the making and trimming. I went in am priced it. It 'was eighteen dol lars." "And Susie Wolls' cost her moth er ,nly about nine." 'Ithat beats me out and out Wh.ro does she go to get suiel "Not very often out of Mays ville." "Why I never so them. Wbo) I go to Miss Smith for anythinf now, mest likely it's some notiot sh's borovwed from the Wellses I d6. boli vo they set the fashioni for this villago for dressmaker and all." "Well, Mrs. Wells can do it i she likes, for the truth is she hai a sure guide. This is the secret. "Do toll I" Buspending he: work to listen. "Yes, and what's more, Mrs. Welli doesn't buy half those now thing ready-made; she makes them her self." "Oh I it's all in gumption, then I never had any." "No, not that alone. I wen down to the house yesterday t< take tea, and we got chatting, an somehow we came to talk abou oconomy, and I said I didn't se how some folks managed to mak such a show, when others, doin quite as well in the world, coul not. 'Now you don't mean me said Mrs. Wells, laughing. 'Wh3 yes,' said I bluntly : 'I do; I ca tell you, Mrs. Woils,' I went or 'MaysvillO people do think yo are awful extravagant.' 'Why said she. 'Because you have a many now things, and made a costly, and the children are alway furbelowed enough to cost a ema fortune. 'Now, I'll warrant,' sai she, 'that all mine and the cl dron's now things together don' cost me any more than yours, o any other family in the village a large as mine. 'Why, howi that ?' said I. Because I mak every penny tell, and just becaus I've got an invaluable aid to giv me the very best advice, and kee me acquainted with the newca fashions. It furnishes pattern and ideas, and tells what to gol and how to make up, so explicitl~ that a body can't help undorstand ing. I save all the cost and tinm and trouble of going to the cit~ for all I have to do is to consul my Mentor for shape, style an material. Past experience bei proved to me that I can rely upo it without a fear, and it is alway full a month in advance, so that have plenty of time for considers tion. Send for the necessary ar ticles, and there are the direction to make up. And, besides, I hav the pleasure of always feelin fresh and presentable. I can a ways dress my children well an tastefully, because I spare mnyso one great expense, that of givin them out to be made, as I hav wvithin my reach such practicr instructions, that it. is a delight t connive and fashion for mysel Then I'm never at a loss for th boys either. If my means at limite<d, ther oe is sure to occur a idea that helps me to make cheap suit conmo out quite jaunt andl becoming. There are a hmi dred and one other notions to ad effect to a toilet ; how to cut toi ornament, dresses, aprons, sack jncknot,ra.ny onf the wrnapns L blos in a well-regulated wardrobe even to under-clothing. It plits to use all the odd ends of matori als one may .have. Nothing can go to waste.' 'I wish you wouk take pity on me, said I, 'and put >me on the right track, for I've got tired of pinching and screwing t< 110 pur'poso." With aill ily heart I'm afraid you have always been like many others, a penny wis< and a pound foolish ; but you Ihave only to send three dollars fand purcbase a year's subscription to Domorest's Monthly Magazine That is the aid, counselor, and hlpmnate I've been telling you of., I At this juncture, Mrs. Brown chanced to glance out of the win (low. "I have just finished my story in time," said sho, her voic< subsiding. "There is Mrs. Wellt icoming up the gardon p1th ; yor shall have her own testimony." Bonnet and mantle disposed of, - and Work in hand, the new-comer was prepared for the consultation i by an active rehearsal from Mrs ; 13rown of a portion of her own k and her neighbor's recent dis . course. Mrs. Well's entrance had i boon the signal for the resolving i of the several little groups of talk ors into a general conversation f Not a few listened anxiously fmi h bor sentence upon Mrs. Brown't narraiive. "I am quite prepared to indors all I said yesterday," returned sli at its conclusion, smilingly survey 3 ing her auditors, "and I can ever . say more. Mrs. Brown kindly complimented me yesterday upoi the arrangement of my table, an< moe tihan one of YOU praised ti (rifles in) tile way of pastry an< other rof'reshments I cont. ibute< to the refreshment table of out last year's fair. The housebok 3 deparLmcnt of the Magazine wa my guido; it is especially devoet to items of interest, to housekeep erm. You have seen such practi cal illustrations of the value of it various receipts, that I need scarce ly to dwell upon it." "Where did you learn of the Ox istonce of your oracle?" question(, Mrs. Hart. o "I read of it in the village pa Spcr." 8 "Oh, we don't take that." 1 "Not take the Maysville Times I'm surprised. Why, it's to over; -o s interest to take tile local pa r pcrs. You got your money's wortI over and over. I should as liof b ont of tihe world as to be withou the news. My hlusbandI says h sets as much store by them as do by my Decmorest's Monthly 0That must have been the reasoi why Mr. Wells did so muclh botto by his grain and hay than Mt Hart. You see lie had the advari tage of knowing how to sell, ani wvhen andl wher'e to find a geo! customer, and all this through thm paper, while neighbor Hart, evei Sthough lhe's quite as shroewd a bar'gaining, had to trust to luod safteor all. Mr. Wells ays he find so many items of use to httim aboui Sgar'doning, anmd then thoro ar'e t.h quotations fr'om the city mnarkets It won't (10 to trtust to hear'say You want a r'eliable source fo such infor'mation. We watch th p)aper', andl aroe gener'ally just aboum right for a very good sale. Jus Smake a trial of it, and if you (lonl' confess that you wonder how y'o ever (lid without it, I'll pay th cost of your subscription." e Blefor'e any one could r'eply' ther' Iwas a slight stir at the doorway o and the next imoent a chorus c f. voices wleoomedI the good slier e hor'd of the Maysville flock amon1 e his people. n "What have you thtoro?" sail a ,Tonnie Kip, the pet and belle pa y excellence of the village, as, afte i- the greetings were over', the roi d erond gentleman sat down befor d the table and began divesting s, smuall packet he had carried of it 1. Wrppningf. "Something that I fancied night be of use and intoroBt to you ladios in the pursuat-o '6f your good work ; Demorost's Monthly maga zino." There was a rapid inter chango of glanes' among the needle-worlcors. "I thought you.dleapprovod of light reading," vottred Miss Kip, mischievously. "So I do, except when, like the literary departmlnt of' this Maga zinc, it is inlstructivo, en tert a ing, and calculate( to exert a strong moral influeneo -over otr minds. This Monthly is a groat favorito at the par.sonage. 11111 a regular subscribor, for I scarcoly think we could do without it. What. I pre sumlod might be of speceai service now, was this department of' Eash ions, about which I know but lit. tie, but which my wile aflirms al ways contains the most valuable suggestions respecting weari ng ap parel." "1 have just been testifying to that before you came in," remarked Mrs. Wells. "And 1' remember a recomnIIoildatioln from a friend of minio in GOeenfield. Ier hmusband is a builder, and she wNrites me ho is lauding the Architpetural Do partmtont of the Magazino. He considers this feature alono ron ders it valuable, becaugo its plans and diagramns are good and adapt ablo. My Children hil its appear ance quito as gladly s I (10. 1 road aloud to them fIom its lit Orar'y portion, because, I find its general tone so pure ani Clevating. I think it a desirahle ailition to every household in 1y3ville." "And I," chimed in the minis ter. "My hboys and girls take Special dolight ill its Ongravings. It has inculeated a taste for art among them. I think its reflining influelnce, the Varicty it combitines, an11d iUs neat dress, rendor it an or nament for any parlor-table in the village." "AIny one of its peculiarities its full sized patterns, its braid and embroidery sheets, or twelve excellOI t sheets of' music-is worth falr more than the cost of' a year's subscription," suggested MII r s. Wells. "And besides all this, each subscriber receives a valuable pro I miitM." "I shall subscribc," exclaimed Mrs. Brown. ? "And I," said her neighbor. The words were echoed fromi all parts of the room, "1W h.y not mako up a club," sug 3 gested the pastor, "and give your i-orders to Mrs. Wells ?" "I should like that ver'y much," resumedl the latter'. "I will tell you why, frankly. There are great inducements of r fered for this purpose. For twen ty sucipC'1tionis at thr'eo dollars - each, whuile ever'y individua.l re ceives a pr'emiumn, I should come jinito possess5ion of a1 Family Sowing SMachine. Such a treasuire I" "You are quito doeerving of such a pr1ize, as the first to establish the merits of thme Magazine heo," said several. In a few shoirt week8 ,Mr's. Wells's sitting-room boasted of a sowing-machine, and each member of' the club a copy of the magazine. ' "HLow do you like it?" asked the various Maiysvilleitos, as they met taf'ter this important event. "It ha bs all the virtues clained for it. ,The fashion gossip offeris really ne0w andim ae'eptable ideas, because theCy elmanaito from the0 actuial de p)ot of' the metropolitan modes, and are not a revisedl and garbled over rehash of' old styles. It is, itrh,an actual 'mirror of' fash ions.'" - Soon so saidl all Maysville, ex.. Scopt Miss Smith, who had hitherto boecu (itt successful inl palming Iofl'her ant iquated styles upon the r villagers, and who now found herci r' "occupation gone." - "What shall I do ?" said, she, o wringing her hands in despair, to FL a symfpatthizilng, genltlo soul, who a chanced to be a member of Mr's. ,Wn11s's Citnh) "I can not say, unless you take Demorest's Monthly Magazine, when you will be likely to (ind suggestions to help you out of your difficulty, as I must, always do iny wn case. MAss Smith, you had better think of it." The result of this counsel was that. Miss Smith sent in hor sub scrip)tionI. Early one bright Monday morn ing the good people of Maysville reImtked that a marvelous change had coie over the millinery and dress-making establishment, they had of lato almost ignored. "Illow beautifidly you have fitted up, Miss Smith," said her fi-iend, who had been invited to take a look within. "I've started anew as a branch of' Mm1el0. Demorcst's .Emporium of FAshions, the headquar era of Dem orest's Monthly. I'm very tnliik fuil to you for mentioning the 1lag azille to me, for you see it has helped 1110 out of' my)- tronble." "How did you prospor ?" asked the siameic friend, someo time11 later in the month, "dropping in" to scO if Miss Smith's hopes had been realized. "Oh, I never did so well I Why, I can work with so much satisfie tion to myself and every one of my customers, and I have Suchi a variety of' beautifiu styles that even the ladiCs from the city, boarding hereabouts, find all they require." Time flitted swiftly by, and again the sewing cirelO had met. at Widow MAys. "What a vast improvemen t there has been in our villago since we have (Ik I)emTorest's M1on11thly I" exclaimed Mrs. Brown, (1ur'ilng i panso inl the coliversationl. "Mrs. 1art, did yOu take Mr-s. Well's advido and subscribo fur t ih villagIe paper?" "Yes, and I must say, it w%as just as she said--Mr. IIart aind I have resolved never to do without, it again. lIe thinkm it saves him a great deal more than his fhloe notion of economy ever did." "That is my opinion of the Mag Izille. Besides we Itre certaiIl all brighter, and better, and hap pier, and wiser through its influ.. once. If, is tle general reimiiark. Thele is now One thing for which I have at great ambi( ion. That is, to make up a club large enough to get, as ai premt1, anl) organl for the church. .1 have already set about it by applying to some of my friends. I find I have only to show at copy of' the Monthly to conlvince thleml of its merits, it speaks for itself, and1 they have been so enthusiastic ini their api preciation as to set their names dlown npon01 myl list imm'iiediat.ely. Wili any) of' youid me111 ?"' .lEvery voice ch1ime'd ini assent. As womeuOi always d1o whleni they have a pet project at hleart, they went to work with ill aind e'ncr gy, and found their task so e.y that in a few (lays the entire sub scription was on its ,joiurney to the Publ ishier of Demorest's Monthly, No. 838 Brioadway, New York. LIMR JN A TRLADE,-The advice of Benijulnin Franklin was, to give every chi i Ia trade by which lhe could earn a living, TLhiis is a good andi( wise com!.seI, and should be heeded where it is necessary. There are too many idlIe boys seeking easy positions ; positions that (10 not require manual ha bor. Parents may leave their children fortunes ; but "riches take to themselves wings." You may give them finished educations, and they may be gifted with extr-aor dinary gen1ius ; hut they may be placed in situations where no edlu cation and no talent may be so available as some humblo honest trade, by which they can get their ~living andl be useful to others. An old mnak( of our ncquaintance says sho cares nothIig for femnalo suff'rage. Shel rather pmir oflf than vote. What Is an Acre Worth. Whenl the Sout hern filarmer, )be he a largo or smnall one, will right ly Compute the Value of an acro, and 8et the proper worth by it, we ma1ty then expect that mnaterial and real wealth to the Stato that is only now iliagilativo. We call ourselves all agricultural peo ple, and adimlit that the wealth of our Stato lies in its productions. To it great, extent, wo may say altogether, that. as a poople VO are dependent upon our cotton, rice, and tobico CropS for wihat money we make. As to our corn (op, we hardly feel like (ollutilng it in, if' we judge from tiho thou. sands of bushels that are bought West to mupply the (em.ands of' our people, and the t.olusands uponl thousands of' dollars wo 4enld out of' tle State for thatt articlo ale; not, collting the millions of' polulds of' baconl that we buy also from the West. E"v-ery man that cultivates a few acrS of land, iIaginesH that ho must put hallf or two thirds inl cotton ; that, cottoln is the only thing that, will bring ready 110 ley. We could not, havo a 'word to sny about, planting cotton, if each aere plinted brought a bag ; but when we know that, it talces firom three to four acres of our w-orn1 lands to make a bag, we feel that it is labor, and money thrown away, and that the farmer has nover for a moment sat down and calcul1ted the worth of an acre well manured and well work. ed. Aln acre of land well manured, well taken Care of, is worth from $50 to $60. An acre that will bring twenty-two buslels of wheat Itid thirty bushels of corn1 the s:m year, is worth $100 ; and any pains taking firmer cal make ani a1cro prodice t.hat. The mlla nirce dropped in stables or yards by holrses, cows, hogs, shcep, &c., will mnur10 0110 aero well. We speak of' the small farmer, the mal wvith but. little stock. Ca'ro and economy is all that is needed to save maire ; but, so long as we driv along in our slip shod wiy of' mak in)g anid saving iia lnlro, wo 1113 expect but, poor. returis fromn the soil. If' tlh snmall firmo could ho indllu('cel to tako half the pains the New Elg land filrmor does on his pla11ce, (here would not be a fCarm in l31dwin county that wvohild not be worth at least $20 to the acre. But what we desire to call the especial attention of' our1 former's is to the importance of'1)01 manninig at least one0 aer1o w~ell and plant ing it in something that will bring him $l100 clear. It can be done1) and (done easily, but there must be system about it. Let thle small farmer who reads thin look at the nearest city 01' townl, to which ho tr'ades and see wvhat ar' ticle of' provisions sells readily. Tiake, for instance, sweet potatoes ; everybody cata them, anid they have a ready sale; they keep well and1( cani be sold by the wagon load or' bushel, at f'rom fifty cents to 0one dollar'. A farmer knowvs howv many busihiels an acre will bring, and lie knows that he can get a hun (dred dlollars an ace even at fIfty cents a bushel. 'Take the groulnd pea ; it will sell readily andl bring a goodl price. TVake onionms, take Irish p)ottoes, take peas. Put the acro inl anything but cotton, and)1 it will bring more money than cotton would. Much manure is sometimes saved and wasted by frying to manure ten or twenty acres, when it should have been put on one or flye. Farmers get discouraged andl say it wont pay to save manure, because they have triedl it, and( their cropsR were a failure, and( failed because they triedl to do too much with too little, just as a foolish house wife would tr'y to make one blanket cover throeo beds (8Routherna Rvcrde~r. Farmors' Clubs. We havo read nothing more directIly applicable to ourt section at this time than the following. Alhouigh it was written for a pocillialr section of the State of iariy land, onio would suppoBo the writer had taken his cuo from the conditioin anid prospects of the f'arming intrest s of oWestori North Carolina. Wiy, ho even alludes to the ehaiges of' custos that mutik Le pla e whenac our Railroad. is finished : We have niever lost sight of the progress oiagricultural kniowlodge 11n1d imInprove menl t., an11d this is one of the elements which exercises an iipolfrt i nlit iiffilence 111)011 local as weVIl ats getieral indu.try. ve have alwiys regret.ted the watit of Far mers' Clubs and Agricultural So ciedies in our (ountry. Every ye'ar should aidd to their nber anld efficieley. Tho lhirs and ex hibitimns whieb forin siomec of their labors huld out inducencts to coipetitors to aimi at. higher ex collice, inld visits to farms, en tered for premim, call forth offorts to itrrniige over.y tiling in the best order, eMOVe 1111sightly evidence of carelosmnoss and turn every mean1111s of' Cultivation to the best advanitago. A nd this is not ill; tho fhrier reaps a rich reward in the additional valuo ofhis produce, and i real state of' prospority is inducod which might iot other. Wiso havo existed. r1101-o is nto rivalry inl farming that is not truly honorable, and any discovery that on11 mialkcs should Ue' choorfully imparted to another. Wo know thig to be the case in Enigiland and Prance, diuring our visit to "E'uropc, haviig at tolided a loetilg at a sniall town1 (Bleichley, ledforshiro,) where the usatil weekly meeting ofi club wias ldd, to conlsider prices, im provemlnliti of stock, (ro81sing of tho Various broeds, what each had to sell, 1111d suivi oticr exchanges of Views, as eiabled tli strlligor to find firomil olin Where he coild pur' chlaRo of aot her. Oui- 11arers arO luch 1lhinld, iii thiFs and the ad jOininig (ountie s, an1d Should low begin t( fbtr, m1111 etiigs Where they cnn discuss wit, is of' goyietil in. terest. Depeid iI npo it, when our leailroad isfinisIhed, many old cus fiwm$ mus11 change. Fromn NeW York, Philadelphia an( Baltimore, wo will have demail)(1s such as; large cil is roccive froni other sour CO., an1d we lmow this regioni will bo oxpOeted to supply inany of the pro d1ucts5 of thie huIsbanlIdmanf, for which there is no( demanlild in ouri midst. L et the firmers' cluabs be formed. It is a common101 protection to all. Nothing so cheerful as pleasant neigh41bors anld tempounr. Theli club wvill pr'omote all t his, and a head, (juater can!(3' b'It e obltinedC( here for at (lisplaly w hlon niecessariy. During the weeksM, chanIlge' your1 p)lace of' mleetinmg fr'omi onO 110118 to anioth. bridge, Aid. Mr. Charles Dickens says that "the first external revelation of' the dIry rot in men 18 a tendency to lurk and lounge ; to be at street corners without intelligible rea sons ; to be going anywhere when met , to be about many places rathier than aniy ; to do nothing tangible, but to have an intention of per'formuing a numaber of tangible duties to-morrzow or the day after." PRINTEaI's 1,ATINu.-A local poet ind(iCtedl a sionneit to his miistress enititled, "I kcissed hier sub rosa." Tihie compositor' know better than thait, and1( set it up in printer's jLtinl, "t kissed her Sub nosa." TJhat's our Devil's preferenco, whieni an op)por'tunfity ofrers. At a woman's suffrage asso elation in St. Louis, Jan. 81, a statement by the city usses8op wasfl read1, stating that there are over two thousand tax-paying Iadies in this city, representing nr'Qonety assessed at $14500.000;.