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SABBATH EVENLNQ. ,
How calmly sinks the parting sun,
Yet twilight lingers still,
And beautiful as dreams of Heaven.
It slumbers on tho hill,
Earth sleeps wiih all tho glorious things,
Beaen:h. the Holy Spirit's wings,
And rendering back, the hues ubovo,
Seems resting in a trance of Love.
Bound yonder rocks tho forest trees
In shadowy groops recline
Like saints at evening bowed in prayer
Around their holy shrine :
And through their leaves the soft winds blow
So oalm and still?their music low
Seems the mysterious voice of prayer,
Soft echoed in the evening air.
And yonder western throng of clouds,
Retiring from the sky:
So calmly move, so calmly glow,
They seem to Fancy's eye
Bright creatures of a better sphere,
Comedown at noon to worship here,
And from their sacrifice of love,
Returning to their home above.
The blue isles of the] golden sea,
The night arch floating high,
The flowers that gaze upon the heavens,
The bright streams leaping by,
Are living with religion doep
* On earth and its glorious sleep
And mingle with the star-night rays,
Like the soft light of parting days. *
The spirit of the holy eve
. Comes through the silent air,
To feeling's hidden spring and wakes
A gush of music there!
And the fair depths of ether beam,
- So passing fair we almost dream
That we oan raise and wander through
Their open paths of trackless blue.
Each soul is filled with glorious dreams,
Each pulse is beating wild,
And thought is soaring to the shrine
Of glory undefiled!
And holy aspirations start,
Like blessed aneels from the heart.
And bind?for earth's dark ties are riven?
Oar spirits to the gates of heaven.
. , Pkdlaiwros.
A BULL BEAT.
1 ('Blast that critter!" roared Uncle Jess,
as he espied old Babcock's big red bull lumbering
over gates and fences, and making a
'bee line' for our cow-yard. "Blast him I do
say!?There goes two pannels of the new
- "'. fence, smash,-and cuss him, there he goes
r-i-ght over the grindstone through the cabbage-patch?sm-m-mash
into the cow-yard."
"TVhy don't you set the dogs on him, Uncle
Jess?" I ventured to observe, as the
whole family, big and little?rAuntKaty and
the whole co-fluke of the boys irmd gals thronged
the door to see Babcock's bull perform
' ' -i 1!?
ms customary aestrucuuu iu.gei iuiu uuwe
Jess's cow-yard.
"Dogs be hanged They won't tech him;
fear'd of him as death !"
"Shootthe ugly cuss, then, Uncle Jess!"
"Shoot him? Hain't I tried that? Peppered
him one morning with my double barrel
gun?pint of shot; no use, the cussed
critter minded it no more than he does the
flies; but hanged ef I stand it much longer;
I've complained of him to Babcock nigh forty
times; so have the neighbors; Babcock
swears he can't keep the bull in?knocks
down everything, and clears out jest when
he's a min' to."
"Uncle Jess," says I, "I'll floor him, or
put him to his trumps, if you'll stand the
damages."
"Damages! Lord bless me, hain't 1 stood
em these twelve months ? Damages! Ef
you'll drive him off, Dick, I'll give you the
sorrel colt and a par o' boots, Christmas, be
hanged ef I don't!"
"I'll try," says I, taking up my gun, and
loading it with a double handful of buckshot
and powder, and calling the dogs, I started
for the cow-yard, met the two gals, with empty
pails, blessing like troopers, old Babcock's
wild bull.
Looking over the fence I espied the bull
amusing himself with feats of jugglery, tossing
up Uncle Jess's hay ricks, unhinging
barn doors, and tossing them upon his broad |
horns as easy and delighted as a boy with a
shuttle-cock.
"Now old bull, I'll give you a merry pandemonium
in the rear, and then set the dogs
on you, while cousin Jake and the Dutch boy
will charge with pitchforks and give you fits
at once."
To make a sure thing of it, I climbed over
the bars to get nearer to the. bull, who suspicioned
something was going on, turned his
ugly face towards and came at me. I let her
rip, gave him the pop bang I had intended
for his rear, into his shaggy face. I expected
of course, I had done his knitting?expected
to see hiui fall down ; but no, sir, he
merely shook his head, the shoe rolled off like
drops of sweat; he turned up his wall eyes,
cocked up his tail, and giving oue roar and
snort, he charged bayonets at the bars with
his horns; carried them easy; myself, cousin
Jake, and "the Dutch boy, with the two dogs
were standing behind the fence, and before
you could say 'smear case,' he had us. One
dog was knocked into the middle of last summer,
the other scooted. Jake fell over the
Dutch boy, and I fell?very suddenly, over
the fence! Dabcock's bull was master of the
field and looking about him. with the ludicrous
bravado of a druukeu prize lighter in a
Quaker meeting, he seemed to say:
""Well, this is a deuced light !*'
And then to assuage his irritated bump of j
dcstructivcncss, he pitched into the fence.
and threw it pretty much all over the cow- j
yard and re.vi.
Uncle J s m. wed ail iiie.se proceedings, i
and ia spite of the expense, reared out.
"Come in?come in ! He'll kill the whole I
cussed team of you! 11a, ha, ha! v.uvi
in before the rain drowns you. too v- n.- . .. J
fool3, you!"
A thuuder storm had bee a coming up for !
the previous hour, and now it bursts over uv,
the raia falling in scattered drops, big as
hickory nuts, and the thunder began to roli
lougand loud. One sudden crack aud roar
of Heaven's artillery seemed to impress the
bull with the notion that it was popping a- j
way at hiui aguiu; but seeiug nobody about,
he gave a valorous roar of defiauce, pawed
up the litter, aud strode off towards some of
the " sooks" and "briudles," under a huge ;
old white oak tree, near the road. And his J
bullship must need have the tree to himself; ;
so he intimated to his female-friends, in the j
most pointed rnanuer?with his horns?that j
they must slide, and they did, learing uld
Babcock's bull rubbing his stalwart side a-1
gainst the body of the tree. Agaiu the thun- j
der rolled aud roared, and agaiu the bull
Jookcd around to see if any pop-guns, dogs, !
Dutchmen or fences were sueaking about, I
ready to be knocked into a cocked hat; sat- j
isfied that it was all gas, he resumed his a- j
musement; and gave a low; sullen roar to J
each mumble ramble of thunder. But now
a clcud as black as ink lowered over the head
of Babcock's bull, and bursting with one of
those awful and deafening peals of double
distilled thunder; the top of the gigantic
tree cracked?was rent asunder, while a ball
of fire seemed t8 run down the tree, ripping
its massive trunk, and dashing the splinters
about like chaff before the wind.
f'Thar, thar, boys, by Jim and Neddy, the
old bull's got it!" roared Uncle Jess.
For my part, the lightning had blinded me
as I stood in the piazza, two hundred yards
from the tree; but looking over to the spot,
there lay Babcock's bull, stretched flat as a
hoe cake; knocked clear as a whistle through
the heavy and high worm stake and ridered
fence, into the road. The rain was now descending
in glorious style?it revived the
bull, for he got up after considerable formality.
stretched himself very leisurely, humped
up his back until he looked like a camel,
then up went his tail, perpendicular, he wheeled
around to see what he could see?looked
at the fence, and then at the tree, smelt the
earth, and looking all round very vacantly,
he seemed to say, after much deliberation :
"Well, I'll be darn'd if you hadn't me
that time!"
And then putting in his best licks, he cut
i for home, over fences, hedges, and ditches,
and never from that day to this?two years
! ago?has Babcock's old bull ever come within
a mile and a half of Uncle Jess's planta;
tion. The last fire knocked him. I
From the New York Spirit of the Times.
WTNNINGA WIDOW.
BY H. P. L.
After riding twenty miles I reached Donaldsonville,
La., just at dark. The Natchez
packet sometimes arrived about ten o'clock
at night, and as I was bound up the Mississippi,
and did not want to miss her, determined
to wait in the wharf-office. Shortened
the time by paying a few visits to a coffee-house
and billiard-room in the town.?
During one of these noticed the arrival of a
party of French Creoles, who talked and
swore over a dozen "mallard ducks" loud
enough to have made you believe they'd
been on the war-trail after Camanches, and
brought in as manv scalns. At last walked o
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ver to the wharf-office, settled down and comfort
in a segar, and as much of a newspaper
as the rather misty light of a bull-eyed lantern
would give me. The fire in the stove
roared bravely and sent out plenty of warmth.
I haddropped the paper and only held on to
the segar, when I suddenly woke up on hearing
the door open and a couple of men enter..
They found chairs, and drawing up to the
stove continued a conversation, evidently
just commenced :'.sthey entered.
"And so Buffer is going to be married
Wal he is! and u good match he's made
of it. I tell you what, she's a roarer. If he
don't have to put a kicking breech on her
afore he's married a week you may call me a
fool. She's got eyes like a panther; an' if
he only lets her get the bit atween her teeth
?ju6tfor once?she'll carry him further nor
he wants to go!"
?What makes him want to marry her
then ?"
"Niggers, mules, and as neat a plantation
as thar is on the Bayou. Two hundred and
fifty hogsheads clean sugar last crop, an' if
they'd only cut the cane airlier fifty more
atop of it. She had a new 6team ingine put
nr> loof coocAn on /I flirt' fh of nticunrl l\n nn cc/> I
U^/ lUUb j ?UU WiU M1UU VUiWVU
burner is arousing humbug, yet I reckon it's
all paid for ; an' all Buffer's got to do, is
step in, hang up his hat an' set right down
to live like a fighting-cock."
"Why didn't you go in there ? The last
time I came down the river I heard ynu
were bucking up to the widow ?"
"Wal now, Jim to be honest, I did think
afore that Buffer stepped in, that I just had
it all my own way, and that I was goin' to
get her?sure ! As these French say, I made
eyes at her, she?savage! But, some how or
'nother, always went dead against old Massissip.
A man from our State had no kind
of a show, and though I put the 'tcntions to
her like an uncle, it did'nt seem to be no
use tryin. 'Bout one time she did kind of
lean my way. You see near about the grinding
season Old Farabole giv' a dance down
in his sugar-house, and 'vited me and the
widder, and a raft more; an' down we went,
and the widder kind a felt her oats, and we
reeled it off in the airy part of the evening fit
to kill) but by'm by that Buffer he came on j
an' just knocked me cold ?
"Ye see he'd been down to the city (New
Orleans,) and only 'rived on the Bayou that
night, an' hearin' that thar was goin's on
down to Farabole's sugar-house, down he
cum. Wal, sir, he was drest to death in the
handsumest kind of store-clothes, an' the
women war right up on eend soon as he came
in.
"I see the widder a fixin' her panther eyes
on him, and I jest said to myself?<Pick
Tureout, you mout as well clear ; that 'ere
Buffer's too much for you in the close line !'
I felt it at onct. Wal, sir, in about a minnit
up comes Buffer, smiles at the widder in
a fasinatin' manner, an' ensists on daucin'
with her. Sez she, ?Yes! Mister Buffer, it
wiil 'ford me the greatest pleshure !' Gratest
pleshure ! wal, the way he squeezed her,
when they danced, I rather think it did. I j
kept my eye ou Buffer. Now, you see, he'd
been stayin' at the Sa fat C/tarl'.srs, an' puttin'
it through like forty, an' he'd larnt all
the last agonies in the way of bowin' and
scr::pin', an' wiyin' lcctlc uothiu's; and, sir, I
he It is It <;t round in his hand all over j
the sugar-house, down aiuong the tilers, and j
op round back of the inline?where the lick- 1
r v.?evc;y v.ha; he :otcl that ar' hat. '
4 _ v',v the wid 'didn't jist exactly know \
what to :r.?i:e of ? ;oz it was a new wrinkle '
?j twice she said to him he'd better let
J:.ke, one of the house niggers, hold it j
is: hi:.:; at last but 'twas no use, he held on !
to't tight us it wrench : at last, just as they j
war' in the middle of a dance, scz Buffer,
with such a smile, son ho?Mrs. Noirycux, j
for your sake I'll cio most cnythiug !" An* j
he aetiiiy held that ar' hat in one hand, an' !
hit it a lick with to'thcr, and fetched top ;
and rim right into a pancake; knocked it:
right down Hat.
I tell you wot, when the widderscc him
do that, she was just ready to drap?she was
so conic over with his intcutions Sacryfiz- i
ing a bran new hat, and all to trratity her
little whim 1 I see at once how he wa
goin' it, an' I determined, sir to head him
off. So I stepped up round back of the iu- .
giuc?whar the lieker was?an' I took a j
must a rousin' big horn of Old Farabole's
rum, and huntiu' round found my hat. It j
was a right uew one?none of your Kosshoot i
or wool hats, but a reg'lar beaver, stiff as a !
stove-pipe, and shone like a pair of rew
blacked boots j so 1 lays hold of that are hat, ;
an' goes round back of the ingine and takes1
another swinging big pull at the rum-?an'
then I felt jist ready for action. The dance
was through, and as cheers was scarce, the
women were all seated on a few scats in front
of the boilers, an' Buffer was a pilin' on the
soft things, an' the widder was a lookiu'
tickled to pieces?when I made my appearance
on the stage!
"I works up to'rds the widder, and when
I'd got atween her and Buffer, sez I, ?A-low
me the pleasure of your hand for the next
set!'
" ?Oh,' sez she, with a leetle sigh, <1 am so
come over that I hardly feel abul to dance
again!'
" 'Now,' sez I to myself, old feller, spread
yourself or die !' and I jest swings my hat
round forward, and jest as I said?'You had
better say "Yes!" you'll get over it a danrir\r\
Vionrl HA
V1U y A. U^iU buu W t*J? UUl 1U VUV MMUV* I JWW. ?
Bluffer did his,) and with t'other nand I
druv the crown down with sech another lick,
that the lining jumped right through and
bust the eend clean out.
' ?'Really/ said she, you skeered me!' an'
I think I mout hare done it. Thar was my
hat all knocked into infernal pieces no bigger
than bits, the rim all hanging loose, the
sides smashed in, the lining running out,
and the top off. 'But that time I turned my
eye, and thar stood Buffer a holdin' his hat
?jest as good as new, and all in a shape sir!
I looked at it twice?no mistake it was
whole.
"Sez he, 'You ought t' get a Spring Hat
?a Shappoh Mechanic, as the French call
'm. I've one here!' An' then he ups and
Bhows the whole insides of it, and how it
works, an' the hull lot of women looked at
him, like if he'd had a stove pipe choked
full of diamonds; the widder specially patternized
him, tuck him under her wing, an'
give me the cold shoulder?straight. Buffer's
got her. I'm tired of La Fooshe, an'
am goin' back to the hills, whar thar ari no
more widders that fellers can cotton down to
with Spring Hats".
t&* The world, says a Frcnoh wit, is peopled
with fools; he who would avoid seeing
one mast lock himself up alone, and break
his own looking-glass.
IQfThe Democratic Committee at "Washington
have fixed upon the first Monday in
June as the time for holding the National ,
Convention at Cincinnati.
S&* There are many a trap set to ensnare
youth's feet.
Jfanner's gtprlment.
A COUNTRY HOME.
Ob ! give mo a home in the country wide,
And a seat by the farmer's wood fireside,
Where a fire burns bright,
On a frosty night,
Where the jest and the song and the laugh arc free?
Oh! the farmer's homo is the home for me.
Oh ! give mo a home in the country wido,.
When the earth comes out as a blushing bride,
With her buds and flowers,
In the bright spring hours,
Iler bridal song ringing, from fresh leaved trees,
And melody floats on the perfumed breeze.
In summer, a scat in a shady nook,
And close by the side of a cooling brook,
Where tho violet grows,
Or the pale swamp rose,
Fainting and sick, 'neath the sun's scorching beam, 1
Dips her fail* petals in the cooling stream. i
Oh! give me a home-in the country wide,
In the golden days of a farmer's pride,
When his barns are filled,
From the fields he's tilled,
And he feels that his yearly task is done,
Burning at winter, ne DecKons mm on.
*M??* 1
From tho Soil of the South.
MODE OP CULTIVATING CORN. 1
Messrs. Editors: At the request of your }
valued correspondent "Solon," I will give '
you, briefly, tny mode of cultivating my corn.
I have already given my mode of planting.
As soon as my corn has four leaves, I start
my plows and hoes in it. I run the furrow
next to the corn with a narrow sub-soil scooter,
one inch and a half wide at the point,
from sevc-n to eight inches deep; n3 close to
the corn as I can get it, so as not to cover it
up. I plow out the middles with subsoil
scooters, three inches wide, close and as deep
as the furrows are which side the corn. I
follow with iny hoes, reduce my corn to a
stand, and cover up the young grass around
the young stalk, using just sufficient dirt to
cover the grass, chop down the bushes and
trees?so much for the first working.
In about twenty-one days, I start my plows
again. This time plowing, I use altogether
the three inch subsoil scooter. I run the j
furrow next the corn just as deep and close !
as the roots of the corn will permit, say from j
six to seven inches deep, and the middles
the same depth. My rule for plowing middles
is to run one furrow so near into the other
as to leave the surface smoother, or level J
So much for the second plowing.
In about three weeks, I give it my third
ploughing. And if we have had no baking
rains, I plow this time with sweeps; if heavy
rains have fallen, I use shovels, but do
not plow deep but close. When I use sweeps j
(do not mean solid sweeps, I do not use '
them at all) I run next to my corn with a I
twelve inch sweep, and plow out the middles j
witn a sweep eigiuecu iuciics irom point to 1
poiut. My fourth and last working. I use :
my large sweeps altogether. Plowing very
shallow, opening my water farrow as well as
I can with a sweep. I follow with rny hoes,
levelling the earth around the corn, cutting
all the grass and bushes which the plow may i
have left withiu the field. This briefly in- i
eludes my mode, without any arguments, of!
my making corn. I am a strong advocate
for deep planting, deep plowing the first and j
second time, aud the level culture. 1 have j
an abundant reason to be pleased with my |
mode of cultivating corn. I have made enough
to last me all the year, (thank the
Lord for it) aud some to sell to the "Skimmers"
who have been making no small amount
of sport of mc for plowing, as they call j
it, "trenches or gullies lojilant my corn in." |
The drought iu the spring did notj afi'cet my j
corn in the least, though some of my neighbors'
suffered seriously. i
I tried the experiment the past season
which I will give you and it may go for what
if i? \r?rfti T lmrl ri Kliiiill tiplil tvlii.'Vi T i
planted as I did my other corn. I gave it i
a thorough plowing and hoeing when a- '
bout bait' leg high. I did not do auything 1
more in it until it was bunching for tasel- i
ling, I then gave it another good plowing ' '
and hoeing and it made as good corn as I had J <
upon my farm. I prepared another field j
planted as usual, only this was planted the
first of May; when knee high I gave it a J1
deep close plowing, and a good hoeing; when ;?
breast high I give another hoeiug only, and ! i
it made me fine corn. This was on the third i
years land. !]
Mode of Selecting My Seed Corn, &c.
?When I commence pulling my corn, I select
two of my most trusty fellows, and xce <
go to the best spots of corn, and we select :
from the stalks of corn which has two ears i
upon them. We take the largest and best
filled ear; where both ears are large we take
both. And if we find a stalk with one ear,
unusally large, we take that. We take corn
thus selected, slip-shuck it, and tie two ears <
together and swing them across a stick and 1
hang them up in the roof of some house,
where the corn will be kept dry until spring. )
When I want seed corn for planting, I have 1
it taken down and shucked. 1 examine eve- '
ry ear myself, both as to color and sound- 1
ness, as well as shape of grain. If I am i
pleased with it, I then, with a hatchet, cut '
off the small end, sap one third of the ear, I
the balanee I have planted. I do not believe
candidly, that I have one rotten car on i
an average in a thousand ; whether it is at- J
tributable to my mode of culture, or of selecting
my seed corn, or to both, I will not
say; but what I have stated is emphatically
true.
For two years I have grown three kinds of (
corn. The white, deep grain gourd seed, 1
which I like very much for bread. The grain 1
is soft and sweet, but will not remain in the
field so well as the yellow gourd seed with- 1
out being damaged by the weevils. The yel- 1
low gourd seed, all things considered, I have '
no doubt is the best corn we have for stock \1
of all kinds, and will remain in the field, of |'
an ordinary year until Christmas without any 11
injury. Beside the yellow gourd seed, I j!
have another kind X like very much. I re- \ l
ceived it from a relative up the country, who ! ]
brought it from Tennessee. The grain is much
broader than the gourd seed, equally as deep 1
and white, but a much harder corn and keeps ^
nearly as well as the yellow gourd seed. 1
In conclusion, will you indulge me in a '
few reflections upon the culture of corn, and j
I make them with due deference to the opin- ^
ions of some of our ablest writers, and none
more so than the senior editor of the Soil '
of the South. j
1st. But few planters take the trouble to (
prepare their land, as they ought, for the j
reception of their grain. I will here quote (
the remark made to me once by Maj. Alexander.
I had been elected sheriff?and had 1
just entered upon the duties of my office '
when he made this remark to me. Said he, '
"Abner," " if you ibish to succeed well in
your responsible ocjjic,you must begin right."
The advice has been my motto in all my undertakings.
In the commencement of the J
crop let us be sure to plow deep and plant
deep. Use the subsoil scooter or the coulter j
in our first plowing?pulverise the earth to i
the depth of six or eight inches at least, so c
that the roots of your corn may "burrow" so c
deep that an ordinary drought will not in t
the least affect the growth of your corn. In 1
a conversation last spring with a Doctor who 1
prides himself on making corn he made this ]
remark to me. Said he "you are plowing a
your corn deeper than is of any use or ad- J
vantage," for he continued, "the corn roots g
do nut grow two inches below the surface of
your lrfnd, plow it as deep as you may."? J
My corn was then from half leg to knee t
high. A few days after this conversation was j
had wc had a heavy shower of rain, with con- J
siderable wind, which blew a tree across
one of my ditches, the bank gave way, and t
the water washed up considerable corn, and 1
[ was not a little surprised at the depth I c
found those corn roots had penetrated, as ,
well as their length. I found them as deep 1
in the earth as my subsoil plows had penetrated,
and reaching across the row. So
much for deep planting and deep plowing. t
2d. It is my opinion that corn properly *
planted docs not require more than two good t
plowings and hoeings and one sweeping.? t
Plant corn about the last of February, and
is soon as you finish planting corn, give your
lorn a thorough plowing, and having redu- 0
:cd it to a stand of course. In four weeks
;ive it another good plowing?and in four ?
weeks more give a good sweeping and hoo- s"
ing, and lay it by. 1 have tried a part of
my crop, for two years, cultivated in this ?
way, and I have made as good coru in every j,
respect, as I ever have by any other mode =
)f cultivation. "We generally have our heajy
baking rains before the time arrives for
he second plowing.
But I would again urge upon all planters
:he fact that the preparation for planting,
;ogether with the first plowing, I conceive
he most important workings the crop gets.
Do those well by all means. If yon do not,
he injury done to the crop is almost irreparable.
It requires but very little more time \
io do any thing xcclJ than it does to half do ,
t. And one good plowing is worth two sorry
ones. I hope you will pardon this crude
~T Kntra Tirvi + fnn if ?f SnfAH
JUlllllJ ULllL'UWUU. X lime niuicu n ui iuici- i
vals while engaged in watching by the bed j
side of a sick child.
As ever, your old friend. Abner.
Wintering Cows.?We find in the Ru- j
ml New Yorker, an nccount of some experi-1
mcc related at. a Farmers' Club Meeting, j
respecting wintering cows, from which we
take the following as possessing some interest.
One member said:
"If I were to have cows wintered just to
my liking, they should be fed on cornstalks, .
ind if profit were consulted these, by all ;
means should be run through a stalk cutter,
l'his, in my estimation, is a saving of oncEburth
their value.
"My method offeediug is to give each animal
a bushel basket full of chopped stalks; f
they will uot eat them clean, but to save all, n
[ throw what they leave in the mangers to ti
my colts, who soon dispose of them, and 11
without a remainder. Those cows which are ^
in milk, are fed a slop of buck-wheat bran S
night and morning, those not yet come in I1
ire given two or three ears of corn at each ?
feeding, until they begin tospring bag, when e
they are-fed once n day the same as the cows n
that are milked. In this way cows may he
kept in a thriving condition, and I believe a 1 p
greater yield of milk and butter can he ohtaincd,
than from any mode of feeding.
"In regard to the value of the different1
kinds of food for cows, I heard an old dairy-1 J
man say that buckwheat was the best of any tl
zrain for produciug milk. Corn and cob J P
meal (or com meal alone) fattens a cow too ^
much for their health, if fed before calving, i
Two quarts of oats per day is a better feed at i
this time. Com and cob meal, half and half; a
is good feed for milch cows, and wheat shorts, a
calded and salted, will induce a large flow 1
jf milk.' j
j
Sharpening Eged Tools.?We trans- jr
late the following from a German scientific ! d"
TournnFfor the benefit of our mechanics and [ i?
igricultural laborers: v
" It has long been known that the simplest j
method of sharpening a razor is to put it for
half an hour in water to which has been added
one-twentieth of its weight of muriatic
or sulphuric acid, then lightly wipe it off,
and after a few hours set it on a hone. The
acid here supplies the place of a whetstone
by eorroding the whole surface uniformly, so
that nothing further but a smooth polish is
necessary. The process never injures good
blades, while badly hardened ones are frequently
improved by it, although the cause
of such improvement remains unexplained.
"Of late this process has been applied to 1
many other cutting implements. The work- 1
man at the beginning of his noon-spell, or ,
when he leaves off in the evening, moistens j
the blades of his tools with water acified as
above, the cost of which is almost nnthim*.?
This saves the consumption of time and labor
in whetting, which moreover speedily ?
wears out the blades. The mode of sharpen- ,
ing here indicated would be found especial- :
ly advantageous for sickles and scythes."
Keep tiie Mouth Shut during Cold [
Weather. In the Journal of Health, Dr. i
Hall advises every person who goes into the
open air from a warm apartment to keep the
mouth shut while walking or riding. He
says:
" Before you leave the room bundle up
well?glove3, cloak, comforter?shut your j
mouth before you open the street door, and
keep it resolutely closed until you have walk- |
jd briskly for some ten minutes; then if you
keep on walking, or have reached your home,
pou may talk as much as you please. Not J
30 doing, many a heart once happy and j
poung lies now in the church yard, that
might have been young and happy.still.? j
But how ? If you keep your mouth closed j
ind walk rapidly, the air can only reach the I
lungs by a circuit of the nose and head, and
I 3 \ - 1 .1 1
Decomes warmea oeiore reacuing tne lungs,
;hus causing no derangement; but if you i
mnverse, large drafts of cold air dash directy
in upon the lungs, chilling the whole
*rame almost instantly. The brisk walking
;hrows the blood to the surface of the body,
;hus keeping up a vigorous circulation, mating
a cold impossible if you don't get into a
:old bed too quick after you get home. Negect
of these brings sickness and premature
ieath to multitudes every year."
is
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at
Pwo Dollars per year, in Advance.
E?, To Clubs of Ten, the paper will be furnshed,
one year, for Fifteen Dollars?invariably
n advance. All subscriptions not specially limited
it the time of subscribing will be considered as
nade for an indefinite period, and will be continual
until all arrearages are paid, or at the option of
he Proprietors. Subscriptions from other States
nust invariably be accompanied with the cash or
he name of some responsible person known to us.
8?. Advertisements will be inserted at One
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Cents for each subsequent insertion? '
i square to consist of twelve lines, Brevier, or less.
Jusiness Cards, of a half-square or less, will be inerted
at $5, per year. For advertising Estrays
Tolled, $2; Citations, $2; Notices of Application '
o the Legislature, $5; to be paid by the persons
landing in the advertisements. Monthly orQuarerly
Advertisements will be charged One Dollar
>er square, for each insertion. Contracts by the
'ear will be taken on liberal terms?the contracts
towever, must in all casesbe confined to the imnediate
business of the firm or individual conracting.
All advertisements not having the nnm?r
.. *i._ :- :ii v. <
rci ui u&sci iiuxis iuuuvcu uu iuc uauiguj, ytiji uc
ontinued until forbid and charged accordingly. 1
Obituary Notices exceeding one square in length, s
rill be charged for the overplus, at regular rates. (
tributes of Respect rated as advertisements.
TIIE LAW OF NEWSPAPERS.
1. Subscribers who do not give express notice }
o the contrary, are considered as wishing to coninuetheir
subscription.
2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of
heir papers, the publisher can continue to send
hem until all arrearages are paid.
3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their
mpers from the office to which they are directed, ,
hey arc held responsible till they settle their bill,
nd order the paper discontinued.
4. if any subscriber removes to another place
rithout informing the publisher, and their paper
?scnt to the former direction, they are held re- -t
ponsiblc. "
5. The Court has decided that refusing to take ?
Newspaper from the office, or removing and leav- 1
lg it uncalled for, is prima facia evidence of au
itentional fraud.
MAIL ARRANGEMENTS. >
o
Columbia and Chester Mall. 0
Leaves daily (Sunday's excepted) at S A. M. ^
Arrives " " " at 84 P. M. *
Spartanburg Mall.
Arrives Tuesday and Friday by 12 M.
Departs Tuesday and Friday at 1 P. M.
F.arlevlllc Mall.
Arrives every Tuesday by 4 P. M.
Departs every Wednesday ut 5 A, M.
Newton Mall.
Arrives C7cry Thursday by 8 P. M. ! *
Departs every Friday at 5 A. M.
Camden 3Iall.
Arrives every Monday and Thursday by c
Departs every Monday and Thursday at f
Lincoln Mall.
Arrives every Monday and Thursday by 7 P.M. Departs
every Tuesday and Friday at IS A. M. <
Charlotte Mall. '
An ives every Wednesday & Saturday by/> P. M. |
Departs every Tuesday and Friday at 7 P. M. : J
Unlonville Mull.
.Arrives every Wednesday ancl (Saturday by (> i
P. M.
Departs Monday and Thursday at G A. M. t
v Shelby Mall. a
Arrives every Monday, Wednesday and Friday c
at C P. M. v
Depnrts every Tuesday, Thursday and Satur- ' I
day at G A. M. I 3
YV. R. ALEXANDER, P. M. ! f
Yorkville, Jan. 17, 185G. j t
a
JUST PUBLISHED BY
rllE HOWARD ASSOCIATION, Philadelphia. I(
Report on Spermatorrhoea, or Seminal Weakess,
Impotence, the Vice of Onanism, Masturba- J ^
ion, or Self-Abuse, and other Diseases of the Sex- h
al Organs, with an account of the errors and dceptions
of Quacks, and valuable advice to the afliotcd,
by Geo. R. Calhoun, M. D., Consulting Y
urgeon of the Ilowarl Association, Philadelphia, 1
'a., a benevolent Institution established by special
ndowment, for the relief of the sick and distrcs- g
ed, olhictedwith "Virulent and Epidemic Diseass."
A copy of the above Report will be sent by |
rail (in a sealed envelope) free of charge, on the
eccipt of two stamps for postage. Address Dr. i
1EORGE R. CALHOUN, Nr.. 2 South Xintb-St., '
'hilftdelphia, Pa. j
Dec. 13 10 tf I
Removal. j
a zrr. ?or>nvnsiv t. runnyr t ooavt ! *
m / l^ooiio. c*. x iiu.u.ioouuu- ;
? a ounce to their customers and the public i
bat they have removed their establishment tem- : _
oravily to the store formerly occupied by them, <;
ne door North of WALKER'S HOTEL, where h
Itey are prepared to serve their friends a3 usual, j
'hey have now on hand a good assortment of
Drugs, Medicines, Dye-Stuffs, &c., nd
all articles in their line of the best quality,
nd at reasonable prices. * ! tj
J F. LINDSAY, ! ?
D. 11. THOMASSON. , ?
Yorkvillc, Mar. 1. 8 tf v
rO MERVOIS SFFFERERS.-A Re- [
tired Clergyman, restored to health in a few i f?
ays,after many years of great nervous suffering tl
! anxious to make known the means of cure.? ; n
fill send (free) the prescription used. Direct the u
Lev. JNO. M. DAGNALL, No. 59 Fultou-st., i
vooklyn, N. V. * IC
Not 22 45 3a '
THE PRINCETON PRESS.=
THE design of the inventor was to get up a Press
which would answer every requirement of the
offer mado by Geobge Bbucb, of New York, in j
1851, viz: cheap, light, easily managed, and capable
of throwing off at least 500 sheets per hour.
This Press will throw off from 600 to 800 sheets
per hour, doing the work equal to any Cylinder ,
Press. The bed stands about 30 inches from the '
floor, and is the most convenient of all Presses to
make ready the form on. It is adapted to jobbing,
or book work, as well as newspaper, and will register
as well as any other Cylinder Press. It
requires, to work it, a man to turn the fly jwheel
and a boy to feed the sheets.
The Inking Apparatus is vory complete, and
iiffers from the apparatus used in Cylinder Presses
generally, being more like that used in the
Power Platen Presses. Two rollers pass over
the form twice to each impression, taking ink for d
each sheet.
A Press of this description for newspaper and
jobbing, bed 44 by 28} inches, witlj roller mould,
roller stocks, blanket, flying and registering apparatus,
&c., complete, will be furnished for $500. A
[f intended for book work chiefly, an extra ink
Pnnntii'n mill k? lot, a.l ' <V,?. COfl Thn TirOqS. h
fly wheel, &c.,will weigh about 2000 pounds. The a
sides, &c., are iron. Length of frame, seven feot o
?height, to front edge of feed board, three feet
six inches. Any size made to order. a
The following is the list of Sizes and Prices as e;
far as established: f
Bed 28 by 20, $400. Bed 48 by 31, $5.80 n
" 30 24, 450. " 50 82, COO. r
" 44 284, 500. " 52 32, 025. F
" 46 30* 510. ci
The beds will take chases their full breadth;
md'within two inches of the length. vi
Terms.?One-half, cash: one half, note, at 4 ei
months, with approved security; or 24 per cent i
iiscount for cash. ' ti
Boxing and Cartage, $13. tl
For more than three years the inventor of the
ibove Press has been improving it, working it all tl
the while, and ascertaining, with great care and ex- w
pense, the best mode of carrying out all the details si
?and he flatters himself he has succeeded in per- k
fecting it; and is now manufacturing the Press ei
himself. No Press will leave his premises without D
Deing thoroughly tested, and without it performs g
to the entire satisfaction of the purchaser.
JOHN T^ ROBINSON. J,
Princeton, N. J., Nov. 1855. *^46 8m al
LIVERY AND SALE STABLE, f;
YORKTILLE, S. C. 01
SW. JACKSON, having bought out the estab- N
lishments of L. P. SADLER and LOVE and
VIcCONNELL, respectfully informs the people of b:
fork and the travelling community, that he will B
lereafter conduct the business of a LIVERY and -
3ALE STABLE in Yorkville. He will keep a fine
itock of
HORSES AND VEHICLES J
>f every kind for sale or hire, and will be prepar- ja
id with good drivers and comfortable conveyan- j
:es at all times to carry passengers to and from R]
iny point in the surrounding country. Upon the
xrrival of the Cars, carriages will be in waiting at
;he Depot
TO TAKE TRAVELLERS
forthwith to their destination. Ilis prices will be
reasonable, and the business will be conducted
strictly on the CASH PRINCIPLE withoutdistinc:ion
of persons. A portion of his stock will be
lept at the Stables formerly occupied by Love
? McConnell; and the remainder, at his new Staale,
nearly 2
OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE,
jn Madison-Street. Three large and conveniently
ocated lots will be kept for the accommodation 8
)f DROVERS, jvfho are invited - *
TO GIVE HIM A TRIAL. -J
S. W. JACKSON. h
Yorkville, Jan. 17,1856. S ly
IIIIl III Klffi s
&
THE undersigned respectfully informs his friends ol
and the public generally, that he will attend
to the sale of all kinds of PRODUCE, MER- d>
3HANDIZE, NEGROES, STOCK, FURNITURE,
rod everything that can bo sold, at a reasonble
commission. All business entrusted to him will
be promptly attended to and immediate returns
nade. C
He retnrns his Binccre thanks to the citizens
)f Yorkville and vicinity, for the liberal patronige
heretofore bestowed upon him, and hopes by
jtrict attention to business, to merit and shore &
continuance of the same. Address,
V. E McELHANEY, Auctioneer,
Yorkville, S. C.
Yorlcille.?W. I. Clawson, Jno. L. Miller, Dan'l
iVilliams. ?
Cheater.?A. 0. Pagan & Co.
Lancaster.?J. Cureton, J. II. Witherspoon. a'
North Carolina.?W. L. Irwin, R. Irwin.
Unionville.?W. J. Keenan.
Yorkville, July 26, I860. 21 tf
B^-The Chester Standard, Fairfield Herald,
Jnionville Journal and Lancaster Ledger, will
:opy 3 times weekly, and forward accounts.
NOTICE.?The firm of ADAMS & McCORKLE
having been dissolved on the FIRST
lay of JANUARY by its own limitation, the name
if the firm will be used in settling up the old busuess.
J. II. ADAMS,
W. H. McCORKLE. Tl
IkTEW FIRM.--On the first of January, J.
LN II. ADAMS, W. H. McCORKLE and J. A.
JcLEAN, formed a Copartnership under the style
f ADAMS, McCORKLE & CO., for the purpose m
f carrying on thp Mercantile business in its variins
branches, in the room formerly occupied by
idams & McCorkle. They will keep a first rate r^l
itock of Goods, and hope by close application to "
msiness, to offer such inducements to cash and 01
irompt paying customers as will entitle them to a
ibernl patronage. P1
J. II. ADAMS,
W. II. McCORKLE,
J. A. McLEAN.
The old firm of ADAMS & McCORKLE
eel grateful to their friends and customers for the 1
iberal patronage heretofore bestowed, and trust
hat a continuance of the same will be granted to
he new establishment, with the assurance that
very exertion on their part will be made to render
iill satisfaction. ADAMS & McCORKLE. .
Jan 10 2 tf
South Carolina-York District. ?
IN* THE COMMON PT.EAS.
r. N. McElwee, Jr., v9. Jeremiah Ilowell.?At- lie
tnchment. * fir
|?TIIEREAS the plaintiff did on the Stli day of *.n
v September, 1865, file his declaration against r"
he defendant, who (as it is said) is absent from
nd without the limits of this State, and has neith-1 jj,
r wife nor attorney known within the same, upon ' 0f
irhom a copy of said declaration might bo served: qb
t is therefore Ordered, that the said defendant do |
ppcur iinu plU?iU lU mc .HIIU uvcuu uhuh, VII %ft MV- J
ore the 28th day of September, -which will be in j j0
lie year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ! wj
nd fifty-six, otherwise final and absolute judgment
will then be given and awarded against liim.
JOHN 0. ENLOE, c. c. c. pls. of
'lerk's Office, York District, 1 rei
Sept. 27th, 1855. / 39-lyq in
ar
South Carolina--York District f?
tei
IN THE COMMON PLEAS. ua
V. K. Hamilton, vs. Green Nelson.?Attachment. 'c
IT^HEREAS the Plaintiff did. on the twentieth
!f day of April, 180-5, file his declaration a;ainst
the defendant, who (as it is said) is absent ~
rom and without the limits of this State, and has
neither wife nor attorney known within the same,
ipon whom a copy of the said declaration might A
e served : It is therefore Ordered, that the said i
efendant do appear and plead to the said declartion,
on or before the twenty first day of August, j
rhich will be in the year of our Lord one thousnd
eight hundred and fifty-six, otherwise final and p?
bsolnte judgment will then be given and award-; es
J ngaimt him. : i J
JOHN G. ENLOE, c. c. c. pl?. 1 m
Clerk's Office, York Dist., Aug. 20, 18oo. ?.C \ ev
Jouth Carolina-York District,; ?
IN THE COMMON PI.EA9. ; pe
I srt
Yt'ylie & Smith, vs. E. H. Mosr.?Attachment. ! to
iVHIEREAS the Plaintiff did on the 8th day of ws
1 V September. file his declaration n painst tho i pe
Ofendant, who (as it is saiil) is absent from and
'ithout the limits of this State, nnd has neither ?
rit'e nor attorney known within the same, upon | ?
-hom a copy of said declaration might be served: j
t is therefore Ordered, that the said defendant do i Ea
ppear and plead to the said declaration, on or be- i wi
ire the 26ih day of September, which will be in ; pr
le year of our Lord one thousaud eight hundred
nd fifty-six, otherwise final and absolute judglent
will then be given nnd awarded against him. ?
JOHN 0. ENLOE, c. c. c. ne. T
lerk's Office, York District, \ . - J
Sept. 27 1855 j 25 vlyq Er
CHEAT SOUTHEHN EEMEDY!
JACOB'S CORDIAL,
FOB AtL
3oicel Diseases, Cholera, Dysentery, Diarrha, Choi- ,
era Morbus, Bilious Cholic, Cholera Infantum.
Also, admirably adapted to many diseases of
Females, especially painful menstruation.
The virtues of Jacob's Cordial are too toeU
knoicn to require enconiums. ' 1st.
It cures the worst cases of Diarrhoea. ?
2d. It cures the worst form of Dysentery.
3d. It cures California or Mexican Diarrhoea.
4th. It relieves the severest Colic.
5th. It cures Cholera Morbus.
Cth. It cures Cholera Infantum.
7th. It cures Painful Menstruation..
8th. It relieves Pain in Back and Loins.
9th. It counteracts Nervousness andDesponency.
" * / '
lOtb. It restores Irregularities.
11th. It dispels gloomy and Hysterical Feelings.
12th. It's an admirable Tonic.
l Few Short Extracts from Letters, Testimonials, Ac
"I have used Jacob's Cordial in my family, and
ave found it a most efficient, and in my judgment,
valuable remedy."?non. IIibam Wabskh, Judge
f Supremo Court, Georgia.
"It gives me pleasure in being able to recommend
Jacob's Cordial?my own personal experince,
and the experience of my neighbors and
riends around me, is a sufficient guarantee for,
to holiovo it to bo all that it nurnorts to be.
iz: &. sovereign remedy."?W. H. UndeewoOd,
ormerly Judge of Superior Court, Cherokee Cirait.
"I
take great pleasure in recommending this inaluable
medicine to all afflicted with bowel disases,
for which I believe it to be a sovereign :
emedy?decidedly superior to anything else ever
ied by me."?A. A. Gaclding, Deputy G. M. of
le Gram) Lodge of Georgia.
"I have used Jacob's Cordial in my family, and i.
lis, with all I hear about it as a remedy by those
ho have tried it, induces me to believe that it
:ands at the head of every preparation, of the
ind, and I would recommend its use in the disises
for which it is compounded."?Miles G.
oebiks, Cashier of the Bank of the State of Georia,
Griffin.
"If there is any credibility in human testimony '
acob's Cordis, must stand pre-eminent above..
II other preparations for the cure of Bowel Disises.
From the mass of testimony in its favor
iming in fVom all quarters, it must be very , far
i advanceas a curative agent, of most if not all '
ther patent preparations.?A. Fcsinso, Cashier
larine and Fire Insurance Bank," Griffin. *
"This efficient remedy is travelling into celerity
as fast as Bonaparte pushed his columns into
ussia,and gaining commendation trhererer used."
-Qeorgia Jeffertonian.
B?, For sale by L. P. BARNETT & Co., Yorkdie;
Patterson, Moore & Co., Fort.-Mill; J. ,
oss, Sandersville; Wylie & Smith, Hickory ,
Irovo; Davidson & White, Bullochs Creek; Havi:nd,
Ilarnil & Co., Charleston; Drs. Fisher &
leinitsh, Columbia, and the principal Merchants
ad Druggists throughout the State. ^
Proprietors, 20 Beekman-st, New York.'
W. W.'BLISS & CO.,
Sept 20 87 ly
BROWNING & LEMAN,
IMPORTERS OF :
French, British and German
DRY GOODS,
09 and ?11 Kxvrj, Corner of Market-ttrcet "*
CHARLESTON, S. C.
T EEP constantly on Rand,.and Offer to tfcerr '
\ friends and the pnblio [generally, tho largest
ssortmen* of Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods
l the SontoernStatcs. Their Stock is constant'
r supplied with a full assortment of
RICH DRESS GOODS c .
all the newest varieties of style and Fabric, *
i Silks, Tissaes, Bareges, Grenadines, Mnslins,
c. Bombazines, Alpacas, and Mourning GoCda
: all kinds.
EMBROIDERIES and LACE GOODS, of every
escription.
EVENING DRESS GOODS, of every variety.
Gentlemen's and Boys' Wear.
CLOTHS, Cassimers, Vestings, Linen Drills and
oatings, of best French Goods. *
Satinets, Tweeds, Jeans; &c.
FOE FAMILY tJSE.
Rose, Whitney and Bath Blankets. ~
Red and White FLANNELS. .. English
and American Cotton Flannels.
French, English and American PRINTS and
ambries. ~"VA
Linens, of Richardson's celebrated make, for
hcetings, Shirtings, Pillow Cases, Table Damask,
oylics, Napkins, Towellings, B. E. and Huckback
Diapers, Fruit Cloths, Apron Linens, &c. ,
rt infinmttTH
uAitr?iTini7.
Ingrain, 3 Ply, Brussels, Tapestry and VELVET.
British and American floor Oil Cloths.
Wilton, Velvet and Axminster RUGS.
White and colored Mattings of all widths.
Stair Rods, STAIR CARPETINGS of all kinds.
CURTAIN MATERIALS.
Of every variety in Silks, Satin and Worsted.
Curtain Cambrics and Muslins.
Embroidered Lace and Muslin Curtains.
Gilt Cornices, Curtain Gimps, Holders, Loops,
issels, Drapery Cords, Bell Ropes, &c.
PLANTATION GOODS.
Blankets, Plains, Kerseys, Caps, &c.
Cotton OSNABERGS, all of the best Southern
ake. '
All the above, with every other line of Dry >' ^
sods which can be demanded, are of our own ^
irect Importation, and are offered at the lowest
arket Prices for cash or City acceptances. The
le price system is strictly adherred to.
AH Goods are warranted, and orders filled with
'omptnes3 and the most careful attention.
BROWNING & LEMAN.y
Marcli 29 12 ly ; ,
M. JOHNSON & CO.
iLLABOARD!
rVfyirPn OAAAk
ggfe BWa mmm ?*71 -v
w w '',V
i T the word of command, M. JOHNSON took
L passage on tlfe' Railroad for the citiea'of New
>rk and Philadelphia, and purchased especially
r this market a splendid assortment of articles in
s line of business. The firm are determined to
large their establishment and to keep on hand
rentier a more extensive, carefully selected and
icr stock than ever before offered in this place,
the stock now opening, will be found every va?
?ty, and the best quality of
SADDLERY HARDWARE;
irness Mountings of varions styles; Bridle-Bits,
nn Kinus; wmps ana collars ; Trunks, Valises,
irpet-Caga, &c., &c., &c. They invite attention
this Stock, and arc confident that they are able,
offering the best qualities at the lowest prices,
give general satisfaction. As heretofore, they .
11 continue to fill orders for the
HOME MANUFACTURE
Saddles, Harness, Bridles &c., and are always
ady to do REPAIRING at the shortest notice and
the most workmanlike manner. Their thanks
e due to their friends and the public generally for
'onerous patronage, and they hope by strict atition
to business to merit and receive a continncc
of public favor. Call at the store, formerly
cupiedby Meek & Moore, opposite the "Adickes
lilding." M. JOHNSON & CO.
Yorkville, Aug. 30, 1865. 84 6m
~ DRUGS AND MEDICINES,
T WHOLESALE OR RETAIL.
L. P. BAMETT & Co.
l RE now receiving a large addition to their
L stock, consist! ng of DRUGS and CHEMICALS,
lints, aud Oils,Window Glass and Putty, Varniah,
Brushes, Combs, Soaps, Perfumery and Fancy
tides.. To Country Merchants and Physicians,
i will offer liberal inducements, guaranteeing
ervtbincr as rerirp.pntorl W. m?i
D __ - -J- II V liidac VIU1 pulVJles
with cash of manufacturers and importers,
d feel assured that in most articles we can comte
with any one in the State. We only ask an
amiuation of our stock. Prompt attention giren
all orders. Goods carefully packed and forirded
as directed. Prescriptions accurately disused.
- L. B. BABNETT & Co.
Yorkville, Oct. 30, 1653. 43 tf
VOlARROW, POMADE, Tricopher"
ous, Kathairon, Carolina Hair Tonic, Chews
.u Lustrate Hair Tonic, Macassar and Bears Oil,
th many other articles for beautifying and imoving
the hair. For sale by
I.. P. BARNETT k Co.
Nov 1 43 tf
STRAPPING PAPER.?-A lot of old
Y NEWSPAPERS for sale by the hundred ?
iqulre at this Off;.-?.
A