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A LOVE MELODY. BY JOHN CRITCHLEY PRINCE. In the morning of life, when onr feelings are new And our pathway is pleasant with sunshine and dew; When many-toned music pervadeth the air, And the commonest thing that we look on is fair?, How sweet the first passion, that prompts us to stay With one who adds beauty to beautiful May! While a voice seems to steal through the shade of the bowers, Singing, 41 Love is the odor of heavenly flowers." When wedded, and home groweth bright with the bride, An angel to walk through the world by our side,? When day aftor day we're enraptured to find New graces of manner, now treasures of mind,? Calm temper, clearforesight, disdain of all guile,? For tho mournftil a tear, for the mirthful a smilo,? How deeply we fool, when such blessings is ours, That "Lovo is tho odor of heavenly flowers." And, ah! when tho fond nauic of father we hear, From young lips and voices, all rosy and clear,? When the multiplied charms of the mothor are seen In the cherub-like feature, the infantile mien,? A fountain of joy, undiscovered before, Opens up in the heart, and runs ""..derly o'er; While expand in the soul fresh affections and powers,? Such " Love is the odor of heavenly flowers." Unto household and kindred, to friend and to man, If we give all the love that we ought?that we can, We lose not, we lack not,?such giving is gain, As the earth gets her own exhalations in rain. Kind words and good offices go to increase, Come back to us sweetly, and bless us with peace; T /?--i .at-- iL! iiUV U3 IU3LCI" IUO ItUUi, 1U UJ13 luu^li liuuuui uuid, That " Love is the odor of heavenly flowers." ^drawing leading. MRS. PARTINGTON ON KANSAS. " Ho for Kansas!" exclaimed Mrs. Partington, taking her pipe from her mouth, resting her elbow on her knee, and patting her foot vigorously, as she glanced sternly over her spectacles at Ike, who was reading an " appeal for aid" in the last number of ?the Buncomb Gultrap, and Herald of Democracy." " Ho for Kansas! Why only a little while ago it was fight for Kansas!? Well, I'm as ready as anybody to help my neighbors when they're in the grass, but ' Kansas ain't no neighbor of miue, and if he wants any hoeing done he'll have to bring it along, or do it himself. There's that rotten lazy varmont Bill Sniggers, has been high up for Kansas ever since he found out there wan't nothing more dangerous * than hoeing to be done; says I to him tother day, Bill, if you feel any more like work this year than you did last, you'd better hoe that little croober Datch of vour'n. before vou go a hoe o i * ' ? w I iDg for Kansas, you know that's the only ^ crap you ever plant, and all you have to count on to buy powder and shot, and whiskey and fish hooks and other necessaries of life, and you let it run to grass so last year you could'nt find the goobers, when you went to dig them." Bill swelled up and turned as red as a gobler. Says he, " Madam, you don't understand the interests of the South," and 5 he left, slamming the door so that a heap of daubing fell out of the house, but I put my } head out of the window and hollered at him, 1 ?I undeeretand tho'," says I, " its every- j body's interest to mind their own business." ? May be, though"?and a bright thought y seemed suddenly to strike the old lady? " May be the're going to fight with hoes.? j Well, hoes is a bad thing to fight with, but r not nigh so bad as them sharp rifles and baggoncts and sich like, they are a much more * specific weapou, and folks is not half fo likely ^ to commit suicide on each other with'cm.? i They better take it fist aud skull?but let us ^ sec liow that is. Head on, sonny!" a THE HARD "SHELL BAPTISTS" Arc a well-known sect in the South aud j! Southwest. They arc not related, that we know of, to the Hard Shell Democrats in this State, though their christein name is the _ same. They go dead agaiust all Bible, tern.-' pcranec, and education societies; hate mis- J j. sions to the heathen, and all modern schemes ! for converting the rest of mankind. Of a course they are opposed to learning, and speak as they arc suddenly moved. A Geor- ^ gia correspondent writes to the Drawer, and relates the following of a Uard Shell Bap. n tist preacher: g "Two of them were in the same pulpitj 0 together. While one was preaching lie happened to say, 'When Abraham built the ark.' "The one behind him strove to correct his < blunder by saying out aloud, 'Abraham icarn't thar0 "But the speaker pushed on heedless of j. the interruption, and only took occasion shortly to repeat still more decidedly, 'I say, when Abraham built the ark." "And I say,' cried out the other, 'Abra- f haul warn t thar.' t "The Hard Shell was too hard to be bea- p ten down in this way, and addressing the e people, exclaimed, with great indignation, ?I r say Abraham was thar, or thar abouts !' j e To the same Southern correspondent we i * are indebted for another reading of a pas- sage which has been variously construed. It ? will be recollected that in our July number * we told the story of the preacher who under- I stood the passage, as he heard it read, 'Now these eight uid Milcsh bear,' to mean, 'Now I these eight did milk a bear.' Our friend says: t 'This brought to mind the story of a good old dame who was plying her distaff, and lis- c tening devoutly to her daughter reading the * t : j_ cl, JDiuie at uur aiuc. one waa iwuiug iu iuc book of Genesis, and being not yet perfect in the art she would now and then miscall a ^ word. So it chanced that she read, stammer, ingly, those words; "Now these eight did Milcah bore? "What, what's that?' said the old lady, 'read that again.' "The good daughter complied, aud, looking more carefully, read, 'did Milcah bear.' "Ah, that will do,' said the old mother, 'they might milk a bear, but to milk a boar, my daughter, is impossible.' A MODEL CLERK. One of the biggest wags iu this city is the principal salesman in Wiley's book establishment on Broadway. We refer to Mr. J. W. Boutun, a young gentleman who travels slightly on his shape, and sells goods with a success only equalled by that of Smith, the peripatetic operator in razor strops. Last Monday au old lady entered the sturc ' aud inquired for ' A Treatise on Angels.'? j C>hc uiailc the inquiry of a boy, aud was told : they ' hadu't got no such book.' ] This remark caught Mr. Bouton's car, and I as he always sells something to everybody I who outers the store, he stepped forward and } addressed the old lady : . WVp? iust out of the book you're in j search of, ma'am, but we've got Fox's Book of Martyrs, crammed full of pictures?splendid book for a present!' "Law sakes! dew tell!" exclaimed the customer, examining the book; < why here's a picture of a chap drinking pizen, and here's a lot of men sawing a poor fellow's head off!" < That gentleman there, ma'am,' exclaimed the salesman, elucidating the picture, < is taking a melted lead sangaree; and the other individual is about to be perforated in the intestines with a patent manure fork. I guess you'd like it better than a work on angels.' < Wal, now, that is a better book, I guess, than any thing else. What mought the price be ?' < Twenty shillings, ma'am?very cneap book, that.' < Wal, dew it up. My daughter's jest got married, and I calkelate to make her a present. She wanted sumthin about angels, but I was no great hand for angels, no how.' The lady handed him out four parcels, each containing fifty coppers, and completed the amount by adding three battered shillings and a dubious looking sixpence, the whole savoring powerfully of maccaboy snuff. The sale completed, and the customer gone, Mr. B. called up the boy. 1 Sonny,' said he, 1 see here; when you're asked for a thing which you haven't got always show the nearest article like it that you have/ The urchin looked reflective; and was about to ask the resemblance between 'Lives of the Angels'and' Fox's Book of Martyrs;' but he didn't.?Neio York Paper. FOUND AT LAST. A man who never declines office on account of "circumstances over which he has no control." A mai-nliant rulin lino ridVpr Said that hl9 business was "only tolerably good, and money hard to get these times." A man who never took the beam out of his own eye without poking it into somebody els's. A creditor who is never very much in need of money. A politician who never invited "particu- 1 lar attention to his public acts," or challenged a select investigation without party prejudice to his career while representing his constituents on a former occasion. A statesman who is governed solely by a desire to benefit the public. A thinking man who is not disliked by , fools. Numerous prayers which have been answered before they had been forgotten by the 1 authors?there were prayers made by the 1 earth for rain! A host of men who keep the commandment "love thy neighbor as thyself; but, they are women ! A tombstone at a beggar's grave. A toper who never had the dropsy. Things Two Hundred Years Hence. * ?Scene: Parlor in the house of an elderly ;ent iD New York. Old gentleman telegraphs to the kitchen and waiter ascends in i balloon. Old Gent?John, fly over to South Anerica and tell Mr. Johnson that I will be * lappy to have him sup with me. Never nma your coat now, go. John leaves, and at the end of five minltes returns. ^ John?Mr. Johnson says he will come; le has to go to the North Pole for a mo- jj nent, and then he will be here. , Old Gent?Very well, John. Now start g he machine for setting the table, and tele- j :raph to my wife's room and tell her that ^ dr Johnson is coming; then brush up my { talloon, for I have an engagement in London ,t 12 o'clock. John flics off to execute his orders, and the id gentleman runs over to the West Indies j or a moment to get a fresh orange. 1 S?~ A sailor was called upon the stand as j witness. s "Well, sir," said the lawyer, "do you T :now the plaintiff and defendant ?" I "I don't know the drift of them words," r nswered the sailor. s "What! not know the meaning of plainiff and defendant!" continued the lawyer; 'a pretty fellow you, to come here as a wit- c icss. Can you tell me where on board the I hip it was that this man struck the other i ne ?" v "Abaft the biuuacle," said the sailor. \ "Abaft the binnacle!" said the lawyer, c 'what do you mean by that ?" < "A pretty fellow you," responded the sail- o r, "to come here as a lawyer, and don't i mow what abaft the binnacle means." A gentleman in Alabama, in exerting r timself one day, felt a sudden pain, and j earing his internal machinery had been r brown out of gear, sent for a negro on his v dantation, who made some pretensions to v neaicai sHin, to presence tor nim. J ne ^ legro, having investigated the case, prepar- ? d and administered a dose to his patient, ^ rith the utmost confidence of aspeedy cure. STo relief being experienced, however, the tentlenien sent for a physician, who on ar- q iving, inquired of the negro what medicine t le had given his master. 1 'llosin and alum, sir !' promptly responded \ Bob. i 'What did you give them for V continued l he Doctor. t 'Why,' replied Bob, "dc alum to draw le parts togedder, and rosin to sodder 1U1.' ' The patient eventually recovered. i Au insane man, hearing Noah's name t ueutioned, thus expatiated : "-O, yes, Mr. t , I kuew old Noah very -well. There x verc two Noahs whom I kuew; hut old Mr. j SToah lived some thousand years before the SToah you refer to, who built the ark. I had . good deal to do with the contsruction of he ark, aud furnished some very useful ( lints iu regard to the admission of light aud } iir, aud so forth. He was a very respecta- s jlc man, Noah, with a decent family; but, f mfortunatcly, he got into very dissipated t ?i.i j ?n t . IUVIIA? ku Uic vjiU UllU, 111 2?pilU Ul nil J. I 1 :ould say to him, he indulged in brandy and ! 1 vater to a very hurtful excess.' i jgQy- Wanted, at this office, a young man ;o learn the printing trade. lie must be am- , litious enough to get out of bed before eight 11 /clock in the morning?to do a thing with- j jut being told how more than six times?do j < lis chores without having all the boys in the j icighborhood help him, or an overseer to ? ,cll him ruoruiug, noon and night, what is ( :o be douc; and last, though not least, he Must be willing to carry the papers, waitupju subscribers, saw wood, rock the cradle, if ? accessary, roll, distribute jobs, black his ( jwn boots, etc. So such a one a steady sit- t aation and good wages will be given. i 1 APPEAL TO A JURY. Gentlemen of the Jury, I quote from Shakspeare, when I say to you, "To be or not to be licked?that's the question." My client is a national stump machine?he flings his wrath in pailfuls, and it is dangerous to run a snag against his interest. Let me be made fodder for a fool, and chowder for a powder mill, if he is guilty, notwithstanding the criminal absurdities alledged against him. Do you believe that my client is so destitute of the common principles of humanity?so full of the fog of human nature ?so wrapped up in the moral insensibility of his being, as deliberately to pick up a later, and throw it at the nasal protuberance of the prosecutor? No, not while you can discern a star in the northern sky?while the waters of the Ohio roll, and^he race of Buffaloes nestle on the Rocky Mountains, this immutable principle will remain?that my client is a gentleman, tater or no tater! Caugiit Napping.?The Cincinnati Gazette tells the following story: 'Yesterday, in the court house, while the third speech in an important case was being made by a learned barrister, the Judge fell asleep. The barrister proceeded for some i time, but at length sat down, remarking 'the court's asleep.' Lawyers, officers and spectators sat in profound silence for some time, i seeing the Court in repose. At length a i lawyer, bolder than the rest, ventured to j shake the court when, rubbing his eyes, his honor cried out, 'Call your next witness.'? j But, having been thoroughly awakened by the laugh that followed, he corrected this by ,< saying, 'Proceed with your argument." An Emeralder, having too legs of un- i equal dimensions, ordered a pair of boots to j be manufactured accordingly. The boots j were sent him; but upon trying them on, he i transposed them. The smaller boot didn't ] begin to look upon the largest leg, and the ] perspiration accompanied the experiment.? "By the piper of Moses! sure I bargained to have one boot larger than the other, instead, of which the spalpeen has made one ' smaller than the other. Be jabcrs, an' I'll I not take them, sure." The boots were sent 1 back. J ? I A well known tavern keeper in New \ Orleans, was speaking about his brother Ben, ( who is also his partner. "Now," said he, "Ben can't stand anything at all; he has been used to the way they do things up * north, and if a feller calls for a drink, and ^ 3ay to him, 'charge that,' Ben gets mad, and ^ feels like walking right into him. Well, 1 that's not the way with me?I merely sigh 1 very faintly, and then pour another pint oj ' water iu the brandy cask." * i Not long since, one of the learned jounsel in a small suit deemed it necessary . to shake the testimony of a Mr. Samuel But- 1 terworth, by impugning his veracity. A witness was called to the stand. 'Do you know Samuel Butterworth ?' a 'Yes.' * 'What is Butterworth V 'Two and ten-pence a pound, although some folks have paid as high as three shilings." ? What Little Children Get at School. 1 ?A bevy of little children were telling their ather what they got at school. The eldest ;ot grammar, geography, arithmetic, etc! ? rhe next got reading, spelling and definiions. "And what do you get, my little oldier ?" said the father to a rosy-cheeked ittle fellow, who was at that moment slily Iriving a ten-penny nail into a door panel. 'Mr> ??nh. T pots reading, snelliner. and - * 7 O O/ i O/ packings. = man who was notorious for his irognostication of evil, in regard to himself, >eiug one day engaged in nailing shingles f in the top of a pretty high house, accidental- ( y lost his foothold, and as he was slowly ^ liding down the long, smooth, slanting roof, a eith uo hope of stopping himself, he let off I lis forebodings in the following brief man- a icr: "0, my s-t-a-r-s alive! what a golly Sl nouster of a fall I will have!" ^ f< The Milwaukee Sentinel having placed p in its bulletin board an announcement of the t Pacific's arrival, on which was written, "war C n statu quo," two men from the country r< vnlked up to the board, and after reading n -ery demurely, "War in statu quo?" said ii me of them, "where in thunder's that ?" ti 'I don't know," said the other, "it'll spread b iver thfe world, yet." "Shouldn't wonder n f it did," said the first. o s A Cirahamite suggests the following ecipe for the million in these hard times.? e To says it can, at the option of the consu- L ner, be taken as bread or a pudding: "Cut ( ip four laths in a peck of saw-dust. When ii veil mixed, bake it, by placing a napkin con- li aimng it, in the sun for half an hour.? s >orve up with sauce made by soaking a ce- o lar shingle in a pail of water." j ? ..... e A few evenings since, a pious old la- <] ly, preparing to go to church, was seen to g ake a considerable quantity of gold from $ ler trunk, wrap it up carefully in her hand- T cerchief, and put it in her pocket. She re- t narked that it was her habit, that it kept t ler mind steady at her devotions, for where c he treasure was, there will the heart be also, i ISF* A young Roman nobleman married j Perentia. the widow of Cicero and Sallust. d tie hope that, by this means, lie may ;hancc to come by some of the eloquence . ind genius that distinguished those great j nen. The idea of the schoolmaster who j ised to wear an old wig of Sir Isaac New- f xju's, for the invigoration of the brain, is not . io original, after all. I |?*A citizen of Arkansas, while onboard \ )f a steamer on the Mississippi, was asked j jy a gentleman, 'whether the raising of ( itock in Arkansas was attended by much dif- ( iculty or expense ?' '0, yes stranger? j he suffer much from insects.' 'Insects! j iVhy, w bat kind of insects, pray V 'Why, ^ >ears, catumouuts, wolves, and such like nsects.' ( 'Oh; wlie, what makes your cheeks so 1 cd V aske d his sister's admirer, of a little ' irehin five years old. ( 'Cause I put some of sister's paint on.? She puts it on every day.' It was an embarrassing disclosure all 1 iround. At lea st Charlie thought so after ;he visitor was g> one. 1 oulook like death on a pale horse," laid a gentleman to a toper, who was pale and | :maciated. "I dotn't know anything about j hat," said the toper, " butl'm death on pale : )randy 1" MR. CALHOUN'S DOGMAS. tl A large portion of the petty politicians of tr South Carolina when they find themselves fc without argument or reason for their faith, bi appeal to the authority of Mr. Calhoun. In tr order to satisfy the Southern people that the at Northern Democracy are uutrustworthy, in b< spite of the coble stand taken in the heat b< of battle for Southern rights, by such gene- fo rous and manly spirits as Pierce, Douglass, fi] Buchanan, Dickinson, and a thousand others, this school have recently put forth again ^ the famous expression that "the farthest man from us in the South is nearer to us than the ec nearest man in the North." In other words ^ that Botts, a Bjack Republican of Virginia, ca and Houston, an anti-Nebraska and Kansas st man of Texas, are truer to the South'than Pierce, a New Hampshire President, who ?* has so nobly vindicated the South, her Constitutional rights and honor; or Douglass, an Illinois Senator, who introduced, and, ^ i? i.: j?r_i j j f.ii uy ilia wuiiueriUi powers uuu uuniiy, pusscu ? the Nebraska and Kansas Bill! In this he passage of the law, repealing the odious and unconstitutional Missouri restriction on Sou- SJ them rights and interest, it is notorious that *ri Douglass was truer to the South and her in- 9t Btitutions than Mr. Calhoun himself, who P( assented to that Compromise as a member of Mr. Monroe's Cabinet. No! there are thousands, and hundreds of thousands of Nor- 01 them men truer to the best interests of the hi South, her institutions, her Constitutional nc rights and honor, than they who are preach- de ing the absurd dogmas of Mr. Calhoun, and his most unwise and unstatesmanlike sectionalism and State seclusion.?Ex. paper. DC ,,,, th 10?* Some one was telling Sam Hyde about al the longevity of the mud turtle. 'Yes,' said p* Sam, <1 know all about that, for once I he found a venerable old fellow in my meadow, th who was so old that he could scarcely wiggle pt his tail, and on his back carved (tolerable m plan considering all things") these words.? F* Paradice, Year 1, Adam. Kissing, in all its Varieties.? Buss, to kiss; rebuss, to kiss again ; pluribus, ?* to kiss without regard to sex; sillibus, the P* band instead of the lips; blunderbuss, to kiss the wrong person) omnibus, to kiss all the persons in the room ; erebus, to kiss in ac the dark; buss the boiler, to kiss the m jook! 0D ???< w< Hieroglyphic.?A young man, knowing di that a young lady, of whom he imagined an iimself enamored, understood the modern th anguage of flowers, sent her a beatiful rose, kc is a declaration of love attaching a slip of tu paper, on which was written, "If not accep- m ;ed I proceed to the war." In return, she th 'orwarded a pickle jar, containing a single gc nango (mango) ! pj is Jgy Mrs. Partington says: '< Know Noth- ja ng-ism is the worst ism on earth, except Cq tteumatism." di " Ike," hearing this remark, looked up ye ind said, "Yes, ma'am, but they are both an rery similar?'tis painful to get along with D0 lither of them." br _ : ~ . su to?* 'Do you mean to tell us, said a law- or, rer to a doctor, whom he was cross-examinDg, <that if a person lived in a horse pond, t would not be injurious to him ?' <1 think not,' said the doctor, <if he lived f0] or sixty or seventy years in it.' it do i? farmer's Jkjiarinmti * ? at tin AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL. %v re< Why, and how is it that many States of ? he Union have well endowed Agricultural 0f Alleges in successful operation, while we of tjj( louth Carolina seem to think that our people pe re to become good and great by intuition.? pQ s it that farmers like poets are to be born nd not made ? Or is it important or neces- gj.: ary for a farmer to have any sense at all ? wa The State at much laudable expense and ^ astering care, has nobly done much, on her art, for taking care of the gentlemen of k0 ?ciiith Carolina, alias the students of South CQ] Jarolina College. How these gentlemen have je^ epaid her both principle and interest, it is ag ot ours to enquire. But, because the State m a her pride, eannot manufacture all boys ina gentlemen, is no reason why our farmer oys, plow or clodhopper boys, should be so egligently cast off, to learn the great science ou f Agriculture by intuition alone or aa occa- ea: ional visit to a Sunday school. ini We deem it a work of the merest suner- vis rrogation to say, that South Carolina should all lave a well endowed Agricultural school fai we prefer the terra school to College.) It ra< 5 a self evident proposition and appeals tie oudly to our legislators and statesmen for wl upport. Let us have a school of the highest m< rder of endowment in both money and a wi 'nil and large corps of Professors, with an tol xperiraental farm, and also a botanical gar- ha len attached?while we have a school for Ai lentlcmcn and one for soldiers and one for cd loctors, and some for divines, and many for va rives, let us have one for farmers, the most lit iseful class of our entire population. It is it o be hoped, that the State Agricultural So- in: :iety, with the mental energies of her Presdent, shall feel itself bound to effect, and o address itself immediately to the delightul task.?Edgefield Advertiser. ? ?. fa: English Mode of Fattening Poultry. us ?The food usually selected for fattening fw joultry is oat-meal mixed either with scald- se ng milk or water. Cooped fowls should be he iupplied with fresh food three times daily Se ?namely, at daybreak, or as soon after as he mssililn nt miil.rhiv. and n?:iin at roosting K. r_ J -- j, O ? c I uv :iuie; as much as they can cat should be i Us *iven them on each occasion, but no more j Tl ;han can be devoured before the next meal; I hi should any be left it should be removed and ! th ^iven to other fowls, as, if kept, it is apt to j yC aecome sour, when the birds will not eat it j tr freely. The troughs for the soft meal should \ wi be scalded out daily, which can only be done ' hi conveniently by having a supply of spare ' mcs. In addition to soft food, a supply of , tv fresh clean water must be constantly present, th ind a little gravel must be given daily, oth-1 jn erwise the grinding action of the gizzard, | th which is necessary to the due digestion of j the food, does not go on satisfactorily; the supply of a little green food will be found very advantageous to health ; a little sliced j cabbage, or some turnip tops, or a green turf sp to peck occasionally, being all thai, is requir- (la ed. A variation in the diet will be found j o{ very conducive to an increased appetite, and lij therefore the occasional substitution of a feed in of boiled barley for the slaked oatmeal is de- w sirable. Some feeders have a division in al leir troughs, or still better a small extra ough, which always contains some grain? ir the fowls to peck at. Should the birds i required very fat, some mutton suet or immings of the loins may be chopped up id scalded with the meal, or they may be liled in the milk or water preparatory to its ling poured over the food, and the fat of iwls so fatted will be found exceedingly in. UTtE FOE A FOUNDERED HORSE. As soon as you find your horse is founder1, bleed him in the neck in proportion to le greatness of the founder. In extreme iscs you may bleed him as long as he can and up. Then draw his head up, as is >mmon in drenching, and with a spoon put 1 his tongue, give strong salt until you get m to swallow one pint. Be careful not to t him drink too much. Then anoint around ie edges of his hoofs with spirits of turpen ne, and your horse will be well in one )ur. A founder pervades every part of the stem of a horse. The fleam arrests it om the blood, the salt arrests it from the omach and bowels, and the spirits of turmtine arrests it from the feet and limbs. I once rode a horse ninety-nine miles in ro days, returning home at night the secid day, and his owner would not have lown that he had been foundered if I had >t told him, and his founder was one of the :epest kind. I once, in a travel of seven hundred miles undered my horse three times and I do >t think my journey was retarded more an one day by the misfortune, having in 1 cases observed and practised the above escription. I have known a foundered >rse turned in at night on green food) in e morning he would be well, having been irged by the green food. All founders ust be atteded to immediately.?S. 11' urine. AN INCH OF RAIN. We have been struck with that passage Lieutenant Maury's "Physical Geogralv of the Sea," in which he computes the feet of a siDgle inch of rain falling upon e Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic includes l area of twenty-five millions of square iles. Suppose an inch of rain to fall upt only one-fifth of this vast expanse. "It :>uld weigh," says our author, "three huned and sixty thousand millions of tons; id the salt, as water, held in solution in e sea, and which, when the water was tain up as vapour, was left behind to disrb equilibrium, weighed sixteen millions ore tons, or nearly twice as much as all e ships in the world could carry at a cari each. It might fall in a day; but occur what time it might in falling, this rain calculated to exert so' much force?which incouceivably great?in disturbing the [uilibrium of the ocean. If all the waters schargcd by the Mississippi during the ar were taken up in one mighty measure, id cast into the ocean in one effort, it would it make a greater disturbance in the equiliium of the sea then would the rain of rain pposed. And yet so gentle are the opations of nature, that movements so vast e unpcrccived." Cheap and Excellent Candles.?The llowing recipe I have tried twice, and find all that it is cracked up to be. I have no ubt it would have been worth 820 to me, I had known it twenty years ago. Most rmcrs have a surplus of stale fat and dirty ease, which can be made into good candles a trifling expense. I kept both tallow and lard candles through e last summer, the lard candles standing e heat best, and burning quite as well, and ping as good light as the tallow ones. Dictions for making good candles from lard: For twelve pounds of lard, take one pound saltpetre and one pound of alum; mix em and pulverize them ; dissolve the salttre and alum in a gill of boiling water; ur the compound into the lard before it is ite all melted, stir the whole until it boils, im off what rises, let it simmer until the ter is all boiled out, or till it ceases to row off steam, pour off the lard as soon as is done, and clean the boiler while it is t. If the candles are to be run, you may mmence immediately; if to be dipped, . the lard cool first to a cake, and then treat you would tallow.? Cor. N. E. Far:r. GRAFT YOUR PEACH TREES. The peach is the best fruit of the kind r soil produces, but the trees are liable to rly decay on account of the worms which feet the root. Many plans have been deied to destroy the troublesome grub, but that we have tried have proved complete lures. The only effectual remedy against )th and grub is to graft or "bud your varies of the peach on common plum stocks? rich we all know are not liable to die, as )st of our old fields will attest. The grab 11 not trouble the plum root; and we are id by a friend at our elbow that the plan s been entirely successful in Virginia*? ay quantity of plum stocks may be obtainin every locality, and in this way the best rieties of the peaoh maybe grown at very tie trouble and no expense whatever. Try formorQ our? envo vmir hniA in fionfnr. j ? -?" g trees and killing grubs.?S. C. Tcm. 'andard. To Work tiie Worst Spoiled Horse. -Place gear on the horse, the backhand as r back as his kidneys, the bellyband at the ual place. Have the traces short, that the agletree can only pass the root of the hors tail, and stop G or 8 inches above his >cks. The gear should be strong, and well cured at all points. It is best to have the )rsc secured in his stall for a day or two iforc leading him ouf that he may become ;ed to the gear, and less liable to kick.? lie beauty of the thing is, the singletree nds so close to his hams, that it prevents e play of his heels. When you discover >ur horse will bear the touch of the single cc and gear, you may then attach plow lines itli gear aud place a drag, and practice m until lie will bear the plow or wagon. 1 have adopted this plan for more than renty years without a single failure to genii the worst runaway animals I ever knew, fact, they cease to kick and become gen2 at once. Yours truly, Bird Saffold Scguinc, Guadalupe Co., Texas, 1855. To Relieve Ciioaked Cattle?Mix a j loonful of gunpowder with enough hog's ! rd to form a ball the size of a hen's egg, ! ien the animal's mouth, pull out the tongue ' ghtly, chuck the ball of lard and powder ito the throat, let the tongue go, and the ork is done. In two instances it produced i most immediate relief. i Broom-Straw Paper.?We learn, says the Raleigh Standard, that Mr. Benedict is experimenting in making paper from broom- 1 straw, at his mill on Crabtree in this country, and that he has succeeded in making quite a respectable article of paper. With I further efforts he may be enabled to produce good paper. We hope he will, for there is ? an abundance of the "raw material." t l A correspondent of the New York 1 Sunday Times asks the editor, if it be best { to trust to "mediums," when they predict c t?T: ?- ^ iuiuiu t>tuw ; jlu rr mv;ii tuu jl iiiiuo jjivco the following answer: "Put not your faith in any other medium than the circulating." 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"I take great pleasure in recommending this invaluable medicine to all afflicted with bowel diseases, for which I believe it to be a sovereign remedy?decidedly superior to anything else ever tried by me."?A. A. Gaulding, Deputy G. M. of the Grand Lodge of Georgia. "I have used Jacob's Cordial in my family, and this, with all I hear about it as a remedy by those who have tried it, induces me to believe that it stands at the head of every preparation of the kind, and I would recommend its use in the diseases lor which it is compounded."?Miles G. Dobbins, Cashier of the Bank of the State of Georgia, Griffin. "If there is any credibility in human testimony Jacob's Cordial, must stand pre-eminent above all other preparations for the cure of Bowel Diseases. From the mass of testimony in its favor coming in from all quarters, it must be very far in advanceas a curative agent, of most if not all other patent preparations.?A. Fleming, Cashier Marine and Fire Insurance Bank, Griffin. 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