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jielect Ipstcllang. HONOR AMONG BOYS. If, as it is said, there is " honor among thievas," why should this nobis quality be Uoking in so many little boys ? " Boys will be boys," said one in reply to a remark of mine on this subject. This I know, and do not desire to see " old heads upon young shoulders." What I want is to bog boys to be governed by honor, and honesty, in their dealings with one another. "Why don't you lend your skates and sled to the other boys when you are not using them ?" I have asked, and been answered, "Because boys think nothing of breaking cue another's things, and sometimes consider it smart, and then laugh at you for being so green as to lend them." " But don't they pay the damages ?" Now was ray turn to be laughed at for the absurdity of my questiou. "Pay damages! never!" This grated harshly upon a mother's ear, and I'll tell you why. Because, in the first place, I know how much a boy thinks of his first sled, first skates, and first pocketknife. Many rich men who live in free-stone ?) vr? ~:u ~ jidiuiua ill iuw iuu win uuuiuaa ciiav tutj never had a greater prize than their first sled, with its bright paint and well-ironed runners, and that the possession of skates gave them many sleepless hours of delight. Now when boys Know so well how much they prize their things, is it not very much like stealing, to carelessly injure another boy's property and make no effort to repair the loss ? " But how can a boy pay, when he has got no money ?" I hear one of my readers say, perhaps impatiently. He can go home and tell his father what he has done, and beg him to give him the means of repairing his loss. If his father sees fit to refuse his request, he can save his pennies till he has enough money of his own; or he can select from among his playthings something worth enough to pay for the harm he has done, even if he has to give away a very precious toy. If he is too poor for this and has a little Yankee contrivance, perhaps -f, he can mend the injured article, and make it as good as new. If this cannot be done, he can go to his play-mate, and say he is very sorry for the accident, and that he is not able to repay the damages, and then show his sorrow by improving the first chance to do his injured friend a favor. He will not have to wait long for an opportunity to show kindness which is better than money. This is as much a young boy's duty as it will be, when he is a few years older, and accidentally injures a borrowed horse and carriage, to repay the owner for his loss. A boy who will break another's knife, lose his ball, drop his new book in the mud, or break his sled, and then laugh at his playmate's distress, or even refuse to pay him in some way for hisloes, will be very likely to make a forger, defaulter, burglar, or perhaps something worse. A mean, unfeeling boy is a sad, hopeless sight. Like a crooked, dwarfed young tree, nothing grand or noble can be made of it.? Age will make it more ugly and despised. It is too much the fashion among boys to scorn gentle loving manners, or leave their sisters to learn such ways, while they try to be what they call men. A boy who wishes to be a true man, "the noblest work of God," must begin while he is young to be honest and honorable, and " do as he would be done 1 by," for he will be the same person when he i grows up that he is now, only stronger, lar- 1 ger, in mind and body, and better able to do 1 good or evil. Let us by all means have < " honor amony hoys."?N. Y. Imlepcn- 1 dtnt. CRIME AND SUICIDE. Since our last issue, a case involving a 1 circumstances of deep and exciting interest 1 has been developed in our very midst?ex- * citing in every detail from the beginning, ( but doubly more so in the tragical issue. 1 Our readers will remember to have seen, ( some time since, an advertisement in the ] Watchman, by our townsman Col. F. J. Mo- < scs, of two slaves who were missing from his 1 premises. Their long absence, which could 1 .? it. _ n i not De accounted ior on tne score or any i provocation or indignity offered them, or of ? any expressed dissatisfaction on their part, < taken in connection with the mysterious dis- < appearance, some time before, of a negro < boy of another one of our citizens, soon in- 1 duced the belief in the minds of most persons 1 that they were stolen. Various circumstan- < ces fixed the suspicions of the community 1 upon a particular individuals. The matter i was kept still, however, for some time, until i at last, after some finessing, a sufficient clue was obtained to the whereabouts of the ne-; groos, to warrant a gentleman of our town in j takiug a trip to the town of Americus, in the lower part of Georgia. Arrived there, he M was not long iu discovering the person to i whom they had been sold, and in identifythe negroes. The purchaser, Mr. Hooks, : upon being conviuced that he had been victimized, readily yielded them up, and, upon i the suggestion of the gentleman who had j gone in quest of them, consented to re-, turn with him to this place. They arrived , here on Tuesday evening, the 8th inst. Af- j tcrsome delay in making out the necessary papers, Mr. Hooks, accompanied by our eflicicnt sheriff and others, strolled by the new store of Hyrd & Louis. It was brilliantly | lighted up, and was filled with a jolly com- J pany. Immediately and without hesitation, i Mr. Hooks declared that, in the person of j William Friendly Hyrd, he recognized the j individual from whom he had purchased the slaves. The sheriff then entered the store accompanied by a friend of Mr. Hooks.? Telling him that there was some dissatisfac- j tiou about the titles to certain property that he had sold, he was easily persuaded to make confession of judgment. It is said ' that he understood the allusion to be to another transaction ; hilt of that we cannot 1. 'Pl.t.. $pCU&? XUIA auuvt?|/i*c?*^v4, inv; ouviui piu- j daced .1 warrant, arrested him on the charge j of negro-stealing, and lodged him in jail.? The Grand Jury returned a verdict of 'true bill' on the iudictment, on the next day, and the prisoner was at once arraigned.? j But, at the request of his Attorneys, the triat was postponed until Monday. In the ineaintimc Capt. Frierson, the Sheriff, observed every precaution for the safe-keeping of the prisouer. He was con-, lined in a dungeon and chaiued to the floor. ! There are no iron cuffs for the ankles in the | jail, and accordingly it was necessary to bind a common chain about his ankles and secure it with a pad-lock. It will be seen at a glance, that it is impossible to adjust the unpliant liuks very closely to the limb with- i out injury to it. Still, he was thought to j be securely bound. This was deemed nc-1 cessary, at tirst, from several considerations, ^ but especially so afterwards, when there were good reasons to believe that he meditated mischief upon himself. A note to his wife, written in pencil, on the margin of a newspaper, was intercepted. In it, he implored her to send him strychnine Or laudanum, saying that he wished to die; that the whole world was against him; that the sheriff had confined him so closely that he could see no one out of his presence. On Monday morning, when the jailor opened the door of the cell to give the prisoner his breakfast, he was startled with a horrid spectacle. Suspended from the iron grating of the window, with a sheet twisted into a rope and tied about his neck, was the unfortunate man?dead. By dint of hard squeezing, of which his feet afterwards showed the marks, he had forced them from the loop of the chain. The rest was easily done, lie climbed to the window, fastened the sheet to one of the bars; passed a slip-knot over his head; tied his feet; secured his hands behind his back with a handkercheif; | and leaped to the floor. Immediately upon the discovery a physician was called in but he was beyond the reach of remedy. Miserable man ! A juty of inquest was empanneled by Coroner fettles, and a verdict rendered in accordance with the circumstances that we have detailed.?Simtcr Watchman. MR. BOYCE. The Washington correspondent of the Evening News, thus speaks of our representative : " Mr. Boyce, who is looked upon as the most conservative man in the House, addressed that body on the subject of our relations with England. He condemned the course of England on the enlistment question, and said that Mr. Crampton should have been promptly dismissed. On the Central American question he maintained the American construction of the Clayton Bulwer treaty, but admitted that England was right in her Mosquito protectorate, and that such protectorate was, as a mere abstract legal question, not inconsistent with the treaty which she could continue to exercise subservient to the treaty, which made it harmless. He was opposed to the sanctity of the Monroe doctrine beyond its mere existence as the opinion of Mr. Monroe. He did not consider the position of our Government, on the Belize question, as perfectly clear, though he was not of opinion that the country was worth talking about, being unfit for the habitation of the white man. He considered the oc cupation of Ruatan by the British, as a flagrant violation of the treaty of 1850. He made a brilliant foray against war, contending that it is wrong not only in policy, but in itself. He spoke against the expansion of our Territory as promoting centralization and depreciating State sovereignty. He thought that our difficulties with England might be settled by further negotiation, and, finally, as a dernier resort, by arbitration. Siuce Mr. Boyce's speech during the last Congress against the acquisition of Cuba, he has possessed himself of considerable influence in the House, amongst a class of conservative men, who came from all sections, and who are opposed to war only as a final extremity, and who have a great influence in directing the legislation of the House. His speech yesterday struck a sympathetic chord in their bosoms, and contained views which will be heartily endorsed by them. Mr. Boyce speaks with great animation nnd force, and always attracts attention. I have departed from my usual custom, in giving a sketch of his speech in my letter, because I considered 1 that it would be interesting in South Carolina to hear of his views on the subject." CRIMEAN CONUNDRUMS. " Come in !" said I, in answer to a rather aoisterous rap at my hut door, and in popped Lieutenant Donnelly, who had evidently had i glass or two of wine at dinner. " Now Charley," said he, settling himself comfortably in an easy chair, which I always esteemid a sire qua non in my establishment, and ilacing his legs on the stove, while he accept- i id a cigar I offered him. " What particuar kind of entrenchment is like a Queen of England when she was just born?" " Why, ihe Rcd-un, I suppose," said I. " Charley," said he, "you are a cleverer fellow than I i shought you were ; but you shall have an- ' )thcr try. Why did the Duke of Welling- i ;on resemble a Spanish dance ?" "Because 1 be was a bold-hero?is it not ?" "Yes it is; : but it puzzles me what makes you so 'cute to-night; one would fancy that the season bad improved your wits." " Well, perhaps i it has; so if you will join me, 1 will mix some punch, and have a quiet chat before we go to roost." " It will suit me capitally, for I can't smoke without moistening my lips: it makes my mouth so parched."? "Then why smoke?" "To pass away the time." " And drink to pass away the smoke?" "Exactly; but 1 have not exhausted the conundrums I intended to puzzle you with yet. What fortified place reminds you of a tall mother?" " Well, really, I can't think, so shall give it up." "Why, the mammy-log, you stupid." "Hal ha! ha! but that is too bad ; you deserve a lunatic asylum." " Why is a Bashi-Bazoirk overtaking a Cossack like a sauce ?" " Because it's a Kctch-up?eh ?" " Yes; hut that was an easy one. Here's another. What color is the grass covered with snow?" "Invisible green 1" " No; but that's not a bad answer," and I think an old one to the same question. But 1 have another." " It is no color." "Well, that is it, aud is it not; for 1 it's snow color,' is what I wanted you to say. Try this?What palace in France was built without nails?" " I must give it up !" " Why Sans Clou, to be sure." " That is i better than the general run of your impcr-; tincnces; so give me another." "Why is! ridiug fast up a steep ascent, like a young I female dog with a pain in the stomach ?"? ! " Positively I can see no similarity." "No ? think again !" " You must tell me."? ' "Because it's a gal pup ill." " A what!" " 15ecau.se it's a gallop up hill." " (Jet out, , you horrible punster, aud go to bed ; I can't have such atrocities perpetrated here."? . "But?" "No buts, but be ott." Anu Lieut. I>onnelly disappeared ignominiously. | Colbum's Magazine, j Arc you the porter? I am iu the i place of the regular purler, Mike Slierrg, i who is ailing, sir. lie's suffering a deal of j pain?and it's not fham jniin, either, sir, and lie may soon come to the bier. lie had : a good wife, sir?but there was not a very cordial feeling betweeu them, sir, and he j would lie/c her. Poor woman, she died a j week ago; and I'm afraid he'll soon be laid [ be sid'er, and join her in the qiirit laud. j6S}"> There is many a good wife that can-, not dance or sing well. New Way of Applying Leeches.? " Well, my good womau," said the doctor, "how is your husband to-day? Better, no doubt." "Oh, yes, surely," said the woman.? " He is as well as ever, and gone to the field." " I thought so," continued the doctor.? "The leeches have cured him. Wonderful effect they have. You got the leeches, of course." " Oh yes, they did him a great deal of good, though he could not take them all." " Take them all! Why, my good woman, how did you apply them ?" " Oh, I mauaged nicely," said the wife, looking quite contented with herself. " For variety sake, I boiled one half, and made a fry of the other. The first ho got down very well, but the second made him very sick.? But what he took was quite enough," continued she, seeing some horror in the doctor's countenance, for he was better the next morning, and to-day he is quite well." " Umph," said the aoctor, wim a sapieui shake of the head, " if they have cured him that is sufficient, but they would have been better applied externally." The woman replied that she would do so the next time; and I doubt not that if ever fate throws a score of unfortunate leeches into her power again, she will make a poultice of them. They tell good stories, now and then, of some of the members of the pious old orthodox stock in Massachusetts. An elderly gentleman of this class, returning home on Sunday from church, began to extol the merits of the sermon to his son. The Jfollowing short dialogue tells the history: 'I have heard, Frank/ said the old gentleman, 'one of the mast delightful sermons ever delivered before a Christian society. It carried me to the gates of heaven.' 'Well, I think/ replied Frank, 'you had better have dodged in, for you will never have such another chance.' figy* A gentleman who has just returned from Arkansas, head the following conversation at a tavern: 'Ilallo, boy!' 'Ilallo, yourself!' 'Can I get breakfast here ?' 'I don't reckon you can.' 'Why not?' 'Massa'saway, missus's drunk, the baby's got the colic, and I don't care a darn for nobody!' Leap Year Dialooue.?'Miss, will you take my arm ?' 'Yes, Sir, and you too.' 'Can't spare but the arm, Miss/ replied the old bachelor. ,t ?n ;+ 00 j lien, repneu sue, *x sjjuu i n,, my motto is, go the whole hog or nothing.' A Cure Test.?A lady of New Hampshire has a certain receipt to test the qualities of indigo. 'Fill a milk pan with pure water,' she says, 'and sift some indigo on the surface: If the indigo is good, it will either sink or swim, but I can't tell which.' J8?T" A square to contain au acre, or just one hundred and sixty rods, should have each of its sides just twelve rods, ten feet and seven-tenths long. Provoking.?To dream that you have lots of money, and then wake up and find yourself an editor, Jfatnteu Jeprtaent. SALT IN FEEDING CATTLE. From some slight and inconclusive experiments of our own, as well as from physiological considerations, we have had our doubts whether it was good economy to allow animals, fcediny for tlic butcher, the free use /> i. o_l. 01 sail. cait is uuuuuwa uuuuuvivv iu health, favoring the formation of bile, and aiding in carrying off offensive matter from the system; but there is no reason to suppose that it favors the accumulation of fat. Liebig, indeed, asserts that "the absence of common salt is favorable to the formation of fat," and that the "fattening of on animal is rendered impossible when we add to its food an excess of salt, although short of the quantity required to produce a purgative oll'ect." Recently, however, in allusion to experiments made since the publication of the work in which the above sentences occur, Liebig says: "Salt does not act as a producer of flesh ; but it neutralizes the injurious actions of the conditions, which must be united in the unnatural state of animals fed or fattened in order to produce flesh ; and the advantages attaining its use can hardly be estimated too highly." The experiments of Roussingalt have often beeu alluded to, as indicating that salt by no means exercises a beneficial influence upon the growth of cattle, and upon the development of flesh, to the extent usually ascribed to it. His more recent experiments, however, result in favor of salt. Thus, two lots of steers, of three each, were fed on hay for 13 months, one lot being allowed salt, the other not. The average weight per head of the salted lot, at the commencement of the experiment, was G55 pounds ; at the end of 13 months, 2,090 lbs. Increase 1,135 lbs. They consumed per head 15,972 lbs. of hay. One ton of hay, therefore, produced 143 lbs. of increase of animal. The second lot, which received no salt, averaged at the commencement of the exUOrt IKo . ,.f 10 mn..O.c pi;i lUlUUt KJ\J \J 1UO j UU I.UV VUU Ui XV U1VUVU>7^ 1,890. Increase (>94 lbs. consumed per head 14,553 lbs. of hay. Or one ton of hay produced 137 lbs. of increase of animal. The steers receiving salt produced G lbs. more increase for each ton of hay consumed than those which were not allowed salt.? This may be considered only a slight advantage, and in France did not pay for the cost of salt in this country; however, where it is much cheaper, its use will doubtless be profitable. Boussingault remarks 'the salt exercises no considerable influence on the growth, yet it appears to exert a beneficial effect on the appearance and condition of the auimnl.' I'p to the first fourteen days, no perceptible difference was observed between the two lots; but in the course of the month following, the difference was visible even to the unpracticcd eye. In the beasts of both the lots, the skin to the touch was fine and sound but the hair in the steers having salt, "was smooth and shining; that of the others dull and erect.' As the experiment | progressed, these signs became still more a prominent. r "In the animals of the secoud lot, after c they had no salt for a year, the hair was t matted, and the skin here and there devoid \ of hair. Those of the first lot, on the con- c trary, retained the look of stall kept beasts, t Their liveliness and frequent indications of < the tendency to leap, contrasted strikingly i with the heavy gait and cold temperament observed in those of the second lot. 'There can be no doubt,' Bossingault adds, 'that a i higher price would have been obtained in ? market for the oxen reared under the influ- 1 enceofsalt.' H. 1 4^? t BREEDING TURKEYS. Every turkey breeder is not aware of it, t but it is a fact, that of either sex, one old ' turkey is worth two yearlings for rearing | young. A turkey does not arrive at its full j growth and maturity till the next fall after ? two years old, and of consequence, to its full ? strength and vigor for heeding in the j best possible manner, the continual repeti- ? tion of keeping young gobblers and pullets 1 for breeding as some people do, reduce the \ size of their young till they arrive at scarce- j ly half the weight they should do. ] Were we to choose our birds for the nest j breeding, both cocks and hens should not i be less than three years old, then the cocks I and should be from a different breed from the hen. We think turkeys bear breeding from close affinities less successfully than s any other fowl, at least we have found it so i ?and we would never breed a cock to hens : which were closely related. 1 Another thing, we prefer to let every < hen set on her own eggs, and with the first ] laying of the season. She hatches them j better than a barn door fowls, and is the Jna- I tural and satisfactory mother. We have ] repeatedly set the first laying of eggs under i the common hen, and turn the turkey for a i second clutch of eggs, on which she sat her- ] self. But the second chicks are apt to be l weaker than the first, and so late as not to i obtain a fair growth before cold weather 1 sets in?in fact not worth half price. The turkey is natural bird in all his habits domesticated from a wild state, and yet retaining the constitutional porpensities of its 1 original race. Therefore the young should ! be reared in their proper season, when the 1 varieties of food to which they are partial are abundant. ' Every turkey should be out of the shell 1 by the middle of June, at the latest, which 1 gives them full time to get a good size by "Thanks-giving," and fat and juicy by 1 Christmas. 1 In corroboration of our remarks, there were turkeys at the late Poultry Show at the American Museum, in this city, which 1 weighed 30 1-2 pounds the cock and 18 the 1 hen. Many people suppose that the wild , turkey is larger than the tame one. This is not so. Extraordinary exceptions have been 1 found,?when in the heighth of the nutting season, with the wild bird at its fattest, a < veteran gobbler has been shot that weighed 30 pounds or more. But well bred at the same age the tame turkey is the larger bird. The wild tnrkey is truly a noble bird.? Standing erect upon the ground, surrounded 1 by his harem of females; proud, defiant confiding in bis own strength, and prowess : , his gorgeous, metallic plumage glistening j in the sun, no living bird is equal to him.? i Even the Peacock, in all its attributes of 1 beauty, will not rank with him. No won- J der Audobon grew eloquent, grand, and i enthusiastic over his discription. i As to color?the natural, that of the wild bird, is almost to our taste. We have tried , all colors. Light colored birds are apt to i be less hardy and dark, and the flesh less rich in appearance. i KEEPING MILK FROM SOURING. 1 Milk is a compound substance, made up j1 of a mixture ot ou, Dut'er, sup-ar, caserne, ; curd, and water. If allowed to stand still, the i oily matter will rise to the top in the form ' of cream. There is a little free alkali?soda . ?in the water of all sweet milk, and with- c out this soda the water will not have the power to keep the curd or caesinc dissolved. ^ The sugar of the milk is also dissolved in the water. If the sugar can get access to the air it is constantly inclined to change the acid?lactic acid?just as sweetened t water changes to vinegar, when exposed to the air, and we can see just why milk cur- 1 dies, and how it may be kept sweet. We all know that acid distroys or neutra- j lizes the effects of alkalies?such as soda, t potash, lime, &c. As before stated, when 0 the milk is new, there is some free soda in it, ^ but when some acid is formed from the su- ? gar, this acid neutralizes the soda, and the 0 water without the soda cannot dissolve the ? cascinc, but it separates into a mass of j curd. 1 Those who get milk once a day should di- ' vide it into several portions, each to be kept undisturbed till wanted for use. The second method is, put into the new milk a little extra soda to neutralize the acid as it is formedA bit of soda as large as a marrowfat pea, to a quart of milk, will not injure the flavor or quality, and will keep it sweet a day or two longer than without. It is well known that a heavy thunder shower will very often render the milk speedily sour. This may be effected in two ways; the agitation of the thunder-clap, may introduce more air into the milk, and the great amount of electricity passing through the milk, hastens the change of milk, into acid. We have hered it suggccted, with how much truth we connot say, though there is sonic plausibility in the statement, i hat is less likely to be affected by thunder, if it is kept in glazed earthen ware, instead of metal, like tin pans; and also that it will keep better if the vessels are kept upon dry wooden benches or shelves.? Fanner ami Visitor. Radishes.?We are frequently taken to task for the war we have waged upon this worse than worthless vegetable. For fifteen years, we have uot permitted one to grow in our garden, or to dr.sgracc our table, and we j have found the advantage of pursuring this : ! course, in the improved health of our fanii-1, ly. Man is the only animal that will cat a j ^ radish, either raw or cooked. The sagaci-'' ous hog will starve before he will cat. the J poisonous trash. Crude radisshes are the ' i most indigestible food, that can be taken 1 iuto the human stomach, independent of the ' acrid, poisonous substance they contain.? ; But they do not hurt me, exclained one, I can cat them with impunity! and with a | relish. But dear reader, do you not have the head ache, or a bad breath ? Have you no doctor's bills to pay ? A radish eaten in the spring may cause a fever in the fall. If j my one doubts the poisonous quantities of adishes, let them cut in thin slices, three >r four, and soak the slices in water for welve hours, and then taste the water. Our vord for it, they will never taste another ralish. As a watchman upon the horticulural watchtower, we cannot commend the sulture of a vegetable, that we know to be njurious.?Soil of the South. To Take Out Spermaceti.?If the spermaceti has fallen on the dress or coat in such i quantity as to stand up in a lump, you nay gently remove a part of it with a knife. But do not attempt to scrape it all off, as ;hat will injure the fabric of the article.? fcTou need only try to dislodge a little from ;he surface, and even this may be omitted. STou have merely to hold the article before ;he 6re, (not near enough to scorch,) sprcadng it out on your hands. You will soon see the spermaceti begin to evaporate, a small vat)or or smoke raisinc from it. and the 4 O / grease disappearing rapibly; so that, in a ihort time, no trace of it will remain. "We snow, by experience, that this method is always successful. Spermaceti may be renoved by laying a white paper over it, and pressing the place with a warm iron; but Seated irons are not always to be had, and it !s more convenient to hold the article to the Ire. Bush your Tomatoes.?It is just as sen sible to grow peas without bushing them as it is tomatoes. You may grow both in a slovenly sort of way, if you have plenty of room on the ground; but you can grow either twice as well upon something to support them, and tomatoes are decidedly better grown up in the air than the ground, under the shade of a mass of vines. The best support for a tomato vine is a short bush set Brmly in the ground. The branches have room to spread among the limbs and support the fruit. The plan is much better tban tying to stakes and trimming, according to our experence. We have tried both ways.?Agricultural Exchange. Peach Worm.?Boiling water, says the Horticulturist, is a most excellent application in the spring of the year, for diseased md feeble peach trees, and is a certain remedy for the peach worm. A correspondent very effectually excluded the peach worm, by digging a basin around the foot of the trunk, forming a cavity a foot in width and four inches deep, and then pouring into this basin very thick whitewash, made of fresh lime, and suffered to stand one day before applying. Killing Fowls.?Only turkeys and geese should be bled to death; the flesh of chickens becomes dry and insipid from loss of blood. The Paultry Journal says take a blunt stick, and strike the bird a smart blow on the back of the neck about the third joint. is ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, at Two Dollars per year, in Advance. 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"It gives me pleasure in being able to recommend Jacob's Cordial?my own personal experience, and the experience of my neighbors and friends around me, is a sufficient guarantee for me to believe it to be all that it purports to be, viz: a sovereign remedy."?W. H. Underwood, Formerly Judge of Superior Court, Cherokee Circuit. "I take creat pleasure inrecommendine this in valuable 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. Gauldino, Deputy G. M. of the Grand Lodge of Georgia. "I have used Jacob's Cordial in my family, and this, with all I hear nboutit 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 for 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. "This efficient remedy is travelling into celebrity as fast as Bonaparte pushed his columns into Russia,and gaining commendation wherever used." ?Georgia Jeffersonxan. SQ&, For sale by L. P. BARNETT &Co.,Yorkville; Patterson, Moore & Co., Fort Mill; J. Ross, Sandersvillc; Wylic & Smith, Hickory Grove; Davidson & White, Bullochs Creek; Haviland, Harral & Co., Charleston; Dr^. Fisher & Heinitsh, Columbia, and the principal Merchants and Druggists throughout the State. Proprietors, 20 Beekman-st., New York. W. W. BLISS & CO., Sept 20 37 ly 2HB I, e, AGaiGHSSUHISS, TIIE Executive Committee of the State Agricultural Society of South Carolina, having selected the subscriber to edit their paper, a prospectus is now issued in compliance with their instructions. This journal will be devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Natural Science, Rural Taste, Architecture and Art, the Mechanical and Manufacturing interest, and all the pursuits pertaining to general improvement. It will also contain a faithful transcript of the organization and proceedings of the Society, Essays and Communications from the best writers in the Staf2, and a monthly summary of the spirit of the Agricultural press. All subjects devoted to the improvement of the mind, the soil, stock, and domestic comfort, Will find ready admission into its columns, and such contributions are specially desired. The work will be printed in beautiful new and fair type, on white paper, with a tinted cover, and will contain thirty-two pages per month. 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WHEREAS the plaintiff did on the 3th day of September, 1855, file bis declaration against the defendant, who (as it is said) is absent from and without the limits of this State, and has neither wife nor attorney known within the same, upon whom a copy of said declaration might be served: It is therefore Ordered, that the said defendant do appear and plead to the said declaration, on or before the 28th day of September, which will be in flio mnr nf nnr T.nril ntio t lifiinaonil (.irrhf linnrlroH J ? "? ~ ? and fifty-3ix, otherwise final and absolute judgment will then be given and awarded against him. JOHN G. ENLOE, c. c. c. rns. Clerk's Office, York District, 1 Sept. 27th, 1855. j 39-lyq South Carolina?York District, IN THE COMMON PLEAS. Wylie & Smith, vs. E. II. Moss.?Attachment. WHEREAS the Plaintiff did on the 8th day of September, file his declaration against the Defendant, who (as it is said) is absent from and without the limits of this State, and has neither wifc nor attorney known within the same, upon whom a copy of said declaration might be served: It is therefore Ordered, that the said defendant do appear and plead to the said declaration, on or before the 28th day of September, which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, otherwise final and absolute judgment will then be given and awarded against him. JOHN G. ENLOE, c. c. c. i-ls. Clerk's Office, York District, 1 Sept. 27, 1855. / 39 lyq South Caroiina--York District, IN THE COMMON PLEAS. W. K. Hamilton, vs. Green Nelson.?Attachment. WHEREAS the Plaintiff did. on the twentieth day of April, 1855, file his declaration against the defendant, who (as it is said) is absent from and without the limits of this State, and lias neither wife nor attorney known within the same, upon whom a copy of the said declaration might be served: It is therefore Ordered, that the said defendant do appear and plead to the said declaration, on or before the twenty first day of August, which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred nnd fifty-six, otherwise final and absolute judgment will then be given and awarded against him. JOHN G. ENLOE, c. c. c. n.s. Clerk's Office, York Dist., Aug. 20, 1855. 33 MOLASSES.?-10 Barrels Superior N. Orleans Molasses. 10 linlf barrels do. 15 Bbls. Stewart's Refined C. Sugar. 15 Boxes E. D. Cheese. Just Received by S. J. KUYKENDAL & BRO. Feb 7 6 tf CANDLES.?lOjBoxes Adamantine Candles. 10 " Tallow " Just Received and for sale low, by S. J. KUYKENDAL & BRO. 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It is the work of a Divine of acknowledged talent and scholarship, of piety and success in the Ministry; of one who devoted himself to the study of the Scriptures, and the preaching of the Gospel for upwards of forty years, with an assiduity so intense, as to preclude him almost entirely from the secular cares and pursuits, common to iliany in the sacred office. The voluminous productions of his pen that now lie in manuscript, besides his Lectures on the New Testament, bear testimony to the zeal and industry with which he prosecuted his Theological researches, until within a few years of his death. In the Lectures which we here recommend to the favorable regard of the public, the reader is presented with a harmony of the Four Gospels, a clear and consistent exnosition of the Sacred Text, and a large num ber of Critical Notes and observations on obscure and difficult passages, and on important points in doctrinal Divinity. 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