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Select J!0etrg. From the Columbia South Carolinian. "BROOKS IS DEAD I" The startling announcement which brought grief to many hearts. 'Brooks is dead!" The brave, the chivalrous and gifted one, The coward's dread, The friend of right, Carolina's gallant son, Brooks is dead! "Brooks is dead !" And every mauly heart gives tribute sighs, And tears arc shed. Most bitter tears, o'er him who calmly lies, Cold, still and dead ! % "Brooks is dead !" With laurel newly blooming round his brow, His spirit tied; ** 1 ?1 ?Anlan/liu nnw tieneecexu not our gnucuu ............ , For "Brooks is dead !" '<>- "Brooks is dead !" As hero at his post he bravely fell; A glory bed Be his, while requiem dirges tell A great soul fled ! "Brooks is dead!" Hush'd is his clarion tones of eloquence, His echoing trend No more be heard where in the truth's defence, He fearless led. "Brooks is dead!" And stern'hearts ponder o'er his early fate, And gloom is spread, From mount to seaboard of his cherished State, Fer "Brooks is dead!" "Brooks is dead!" And Carolina weeps her lov'd and lost, And in his stead. Asks who so brave and true shall fill his post * Ah! "Brooksis dead!'" ^ "Brooks is dead!" O'er the great sorrow of his "lov'd at home" A veil be spread ; 'Alas! that with such lightning speed has come, The anguish dread. May He who said. 'That as tho day so should their strength be given,' A healing spread, In his good time upon the heart9 so liven, Crush'd for the dead. "Brooks is dead!" Oh, bring him back to his own sunny clime, And smooth his bed, Amid the lov'd scenes of the "olden time," Bring back the dead! ~ "Brooks is dead !" The patriot-statesman, the Palmettoo bravo, Who would have shed His life-blood thus his country's rights to save, And now he's dead. M. A. I>. Hohenliuden, Abbeville, S. C. Jimtsing grafting. POINTED REMARKS. "A renowned clergyman, not a thousand miles from this city, lately preached a rather long sermon from the text, "Thou art weighed and found wanting."' After the congregation had listened about an hour, some he gan to get weary and went out; otncrs soon followed, greatly to the annoyance of the miuister. Another person started, whereupon the parson stopped in his sermon, and said: "That is right, gentlemen, as fast as you are weighed pass out." He continued his sermon at some length after that, but no one disturbed bim by leaving." Petersburg Express. This puts us in mind of remarks made by the Rev. James Sewell, of Baltimore, connected with the Methodist church, who, some years sinee, was appointed to minister in Charleston. One beautiful Sabbath morning he was preaching to a very large audience in Cumberland street church, (perhaps making one of his best efforts, and he was no ordinary pulpit orator,) yet be was much annoyed by several young men leaving the church and carelessly slamming the door on passing out. A beautiful trio arose from their seats aud were making for the door, when Mr. Sewell in his truly original style paused and placing himself in a peculiar tragic position remarked "When the gospel fan begins to work, the chaff will surely fly. It will soon be gone when these young men are out then we will have wheat left." At this point a couple of young men seated about mid-way in the church, gave vent to their risible faculties and burst out into a hearty laugh, when Mr. Sewell as promptly corrected the breach of decorum by reminding them pointing bis finger at the party that Solomon says: "A fool is known by his much laughter." These remarks had their desired effect, at least for the day. Columbia Times, Jany. 0. B&P Here is a description of negro character, which we find in an exchange under the caption of a mesraerizer nonplussed : During the early part of last week an itinaMnf rvmfooonr nf navehnlncrv visited our Ciauv |;ivivoov* v? \T^'J "pj - town, but failed to draw any considerable number of people to the hall. In the hope probably of inducing a large turn out, he concluded one day to give specimens of his skill to the boarders of the Exchange hotel, and to this end he called up a little darkey as a subject. After various passes and manipulations over Q-umbo bis eyes dilated and his muscles became rigid. 'Now,' said the .professor, 'your arm is paralyzed.' And so it really was, for several persons tried in vain to bend it. 'Wonderful,' said the boarders. The professor then laid a three ceut piece on Gumbo's hand and said: 'Now, sir, you cannot close your hand. If you cau you may keep the money.' The darkey seemed to make an effort, but tbe hand remained open. The professor next placed a quarter of a dollar upon the palm of the darkey's hand and invited him to close on it and keep both. The crowd was mystified. The professor, in a glow of enthusiasm at the triumph of his science, fumbled about, and scored up half a dime, which he added to the pile, still inviting the darkey to close. Young Gumbo concluded that the professor's " "11 />Vinrko?sv *t?ao ftVioil f Arkoiicfn/) rloll Kor. OUiUii tiiaup uao uuuuc bAunudwu^ uv<*vv*ately shut his hand on the last invitation to close, thrust it into his pocket, and with a ki, yi, yi, such as only a young negro can give, disappearea through the side door. The professor acknowledged himself to have been slightly taken in and done for. S&* 'That's a new article for beautifying the complexion,' said Mr. Bib, holding up a small bottle of a cosmetic for Mrs. Partington to look at. She looked up from toeing out a woollen sock for Ike, and took the bottle in her hand. 'Is it, indeed V said she, 'well they may get up ever so many of these rostrums for beautifying the complexion, but depend upon it, the less people have to do with bottles for it the better. My neighbor, Mrs. Blotch, has been using a bottle a good many years for her complexion, and her nose looks like a rapture of Mount Vociferous, with the burning lather running all over the contagious territory. You'd better not try the bottle as a beautifyer, Mr. Bib.' Mr. rr *"* - ... - J Bib, with a smile, informed her that this was simply a cosmetic, harmless in its char- j actcr, and iutendcd to go upon the face, and ; not inside it, whereupon she subsided into ) the toe of Ike's stocking, murmuring some- i ; thing about 'leaking in.' Ike, in the mean: while, was amusing himself by rigging a j martingale on Lion's tail, securing that wag- ; gish member to his collar, and making him look as if he was scudding before the wind. Extreme Delicacy. 'Is anything the j matter?' There is, sir/ was the host's reply. 'Have I given any offence V j 'Yon have, sir.' Really, lam ignorant of it.' j 'Such language won't suit here, sir.' 'My dear sir, what language ?' 'You were talking of soup ?' i 'We were.' , 'You mentioned ox tail ?' i I -T i;j } 'X UIU. 'That is it, that is it, sir !' That sent the | i ladies blushing out of the room; that is .: highly improper language, which I never heard at any board before, and should not j ' have expected it from you.' 'Why, sir, I but called it its proper name ! j I You asked me a question, and I replied. I j j am, however, sorry that it has given offence, I hut I really do not know how I could have i well avoided it.' 'Then, sir, I advise you, when you have : ; occasion another time to speak of that pc: culiar soup, do not call it ox tail.' j 'No?' j i 'No, sir.' ?l>ut what shall T call it ?' 'Fly disperser, sir!' 'Hillo, little boy, where am I ?' said j I a superanuated gentleman, who was standing ' at the juncture of three post roads. 'Why, on yer feet, ain't yer ?' 'Pshaw ! 1 mean where do these roads go . to ?' j 'Them ere roads doesn't go any veres.? , They've been laying there ever since I fcnowI ed 'em.' 'You young ragamuffin! I mean which ; of these roads will lead me to Margburg V j 'Well, it doesn't matter which ; they all ! i lead into Margburg, hut they're not travcli led none.' Not travelled none ! What do you mean 1 youngster ?' i 'Don't call me a }*oung stir! cos I'm not a stir: an' the reason they don't travel them , ere roads now, are this; they is so cussed j crooked, that they isu't of no 'count. Why, , there was a traveller started from these ere ' forks more'u a year ago, fur to go to Marg- , burg, an' he aint got there yit, cos as fast as j he gits on the bee line for the town, he finds j himself going on the wrong 'uri- I advise . yer to stand still and wait till the roads bring the town round to yer. Good-bye too yer." , -- ? ?! Keen Bejoinder.?Mr. Buffum, of Lynn, ! Mass , was under cross-examination by an , attorney tunned Lord, who did his best to J perplex and brow-beat him so as to overset ' ; the testimony he had given against his client. ^ The question was something relating to | machinery and Mr. Buffum had used the j j word 'philosophically'in his evidence. Mr. , i Lord coutinually harped upon this phrase, ! and endeavored to make the witness ridicu! lous in the eyes of the jury. At last he enj quired: i 'Pray, Mr. Witness, as you seem to be a j great philosopher, can you tell me philosophI ically what the consequence would be if the ; air should be exhausted from a hogshead ?' i ! 'Yes, sir,' replied Mr. Buffum, 'the head I i would fall in.' 'Indeed, sir,' pursued the counsel; 'can j you tell me, philosophically, why the head ; should fall in first?' 'Yes, sir,' returned Buffum, 'it is because hogsheads are like some lawyers their heads are the weakest part.' The roar of the court room acknowledged the victory of the wituess over the counsel. Doing a Printer.?A financier in embryo, but who, up to the present moment, has reaped nothing from his various speculations except a crowd of creditors, lately hit iK* rvrnooo/l nf upuu Hit: CAJJCUiUUi, nucu auiu V? asking for a brief extension of time. lie wrote and seut to a printer a circular letter, of which the following is a copy: 'Sir : At the present moment, I am unable to meet my pecuniary obligations. As soon as possible, I shall be most happy to satisfy your claim. I am very truly vours, &c., (Signed) ' .' Of this circular five hundred copies were ' I ordered. The printer, having done the work, j | brought it in person to our financier, and po- j i litely presented his 'little bill.' The debtor j without being in the least disconcerted, went to his desk, in which he had just locked the i circulars, took out one of them, sat down, j signed his name with a beautiful caligraphic j 1 flourish, and gracefully handed it to the as- j I tonished typo. I know that it is sometimes ! ! difficult for editors to make their subscribers 'pay up,' but this is carrying jokes upon | printers rather too far. 53?* It happened some years ago, in one I of the Northern counties in Vermont, that 1 ! the then State's Attorney, though a man of. | great legal ability, was rather too fond of j I the 'critter" and with a perversity of habit, j j which we have often seen in others, was j | pretty sure to driuk too deep at the very j | time when it was most necessary that he 1 should be sober. On one occasion, an im-1 portant criminal case was called on by the clerk, but the Attorney, with owl-like gravity kept his chair, being, in fact, not fairly . able to stand on his feet. Olr. Attorney, is the State ready to proi ceed V said the Judge. 'Yes hie no, your honor/ stammered I | the lawyer, 'the State hie is not in a state j i to try this case to-day the State your honor, j ! is drunk!' ... i An Old Chicken. In attempting to I i carve a fowl one day, a gentleman found con- 1 j siderable difficulty in separating its joints, I and exclaimed against the man who sold him ?? A!/1 V?/vyv ?rvy? o tmnurt nViioVnri C \Tir r ' , i au Viu uuu ivi Hjvuujj vuivavu. A'"*V UUM*) 1 J said the enraged man's wife, 'don't talk so i j much about the aged and respectable Mr. ] j B.; he planted the first hill of corn that was j planted in our town.' 'I know that,' said ; ] i the husband2 'and I believe this hen scratch- ] i ed it up.' i j h A crazy woman, liviog near Rydal, 1 | was asked if she ever saw Mr. Wordsworth, ' ; and what sort of a man he was. ! ( '0, indeed,' says she, 'he is canny enough j i ! at times; and though he goes booing his pot- < tery (repeating his poetry) through the woods j : he will now and then say, 'How do you do, L { Nanny ?' as sensible as you or I!' I < A Slight Mistake.?-The Elmira Gazette relates the following anecdote. The mistake is one quite likely to occur in po- i litical churches uow-a-days: A geutleman in this village, who had not t before been to church since it became fash- j ionable to preach 1 Bleeding Kansas,' in- ; stead of 'Christ crucified,' attended a meet- j ing last Sunday. IJe saw a pitcher and a J tumbler sitting on the pulpit, and the minis- j terwas 'dalking bollitics.' He supposed he ' was in a bar-room, and walked up to the pulpit saying: < Look a-hcre, old fellow! stop 'Sring on politics, and attend to your customers. Give ! us a gin cocktail.' lie evidently thought that he had got in to a large drinking establishment, where the j bartender was expounding his political sen-: fimonts. J8QT A green Yankee stepped from a steam- , boat, a few days since, on one of our wharves, j and so confounded was he by the confusion and turmoil of the sccdc, the jam of vehicles, j the crowds of carmen and hackmen shouting j and jostling, that he sought the shelter of ; the boat again in the utmost consternation. 1 'Why, friend,' said a bystander to him, j 'you are in trepidation.' 'Wall, I'll be blasted,' returned he, opening his eyes with astonishment; 'aint I in York after all ? In Trepidation, am I?? I'll be darned if I ever heard of that place afore!' A good story is told of a Yankee who wcut for the first time in a bowling alley, and kept firing away at the pins to the imminent peril of the boy, whoso far from having ' anything, to do in 'setting up' the pins was actively engaged in endeavoring to avoid the balls of the player, which rattled on all sides : of the pins without touching them. At length, the fellow seeing the predicament the boy was in, yelled out, as he let drive another ball, 'stand in among the pins if you don't want to get hit.' Going the Whole Animal.?'Bill,' said one loafer to another, recently, 'I'se a National llcformer, I is.' 'Yy, is that our party V 'Vy, yes, hossy, it is that. If you puts in a vote for that party, you votes yourself a ' farm.' -- -- - - - . .? ? it in ^ : 'Veil, 1 don't go that without tnoy n gu a , little further. 1 wants a farm, and some- ' body to work it, beside.' ?? ?? Jfsfln a chancery suit, ooe of the coun- j se) describing the boundaries of his client's lands, said, in showing the plan of i:, 'We lie ou this side.' The opposite counsel then ; said, 'and we lie on that side.' The chan-: cellor with a good humored grin, observed, j If you lie on both sides, whom will ye have me believe ?' J6&* One hoy, the other day, borrowed a stick of candy from a comrade, to show how j he could swallow it and pull it out of his car. j lie swallowed it, and then twisted himself! about in various ways to extract it, but at j length he informed his companion that he j had forgotten that part of the trick. Ipstellaiteoio. ALPHABET OP SELF-MADE MEN. : The following from Household Words, gives, in brief space, the names and characteristics of eminent living earacters who have raised themselves by their own exertions: To begin with the letter A, and dash hastily and skippingly on through the alphabet, we find that Anderson, the popular Danish novelist, was the son of a cobbler, and educated at a charity school, and that he tried to gain a living by handicraft trades, being frequently on the brink of starvation. Berenger, the celebrated French lyric poet, neglected by bis vagabond father, lived with his godfather, who was a poor tailor, and was a gamin on the streets of Paris, till promoted for a time to the diguity of pot boy. Elihu Burritt, as we all know, was a black- j smith's apprentice. Carlcton, the Irish uovelist, who now enjoys a pension of ?200 a year, is the son of a peasant, and begged his way to knowledge, Rafael Camera, President of the Republic of Guatemala, began life as a drummer boy and a cattle driver. Mr. Cobden is the son of a small farmer, and entering a warehouse in London when a boy, rose through its various grades of service. Sir William Cubit was a working miller, then a joiner, and then a millwright. Dumas, the great French novelist and dramatist, is the illegitimate son of a farmer and negress, and was in all but starvation in Paris, till he hit upon the way to distinction. Farady, the eminent chemist, is the son of a poor blacksmith, and began his career as the apprentice to a bookbinder. Millard Fillmore, late President of the United States, j was first a ploughboy, then tried the trade of ! a clothier, and was then apprenticed to a j wool carder. Herring, the animal painter, began the profession of art with sign boards j and coach panes. Jasmin, the Bums of the i South of France, was the son of a tailor, and ; the grandson of a common beggar. Mr. Lind- j say, M. P., the great ship owner, left his 1 home with 3s. Sd, in his pockets to push his : fortunes as a ship boy; he worked his pas-1 sage to Liverpool by assisting in the coal hole of a steamer; and for a part of the time after he arrived begged during the day, and slept in the sheds and streets at night. i Lough, tho distinguished sculptor, began : the world in the capacity of a ploughboy. Minie, the inventor of the well known rifle, i was a private soldier. Robert Owen was a ' shop boy to a grocer, and then a draper. 1 Johannes llooge, the leader of the German J, Catholic movement, tended sheep when a j boy. Stanfield, the distinguished landscape j painter, was a cabin boy, and tho shipmaster , was his first patron. Thiers, tho well known j historian and ex-minister of France, is the j j ! P!UL1 U1 U UlciCiiaiiiitU) auu vrao cuuumcu giaiu- | itously at the public school of Marseilles. Thomas Wright, the Manchester prison philantropist, was a weekly worker in an iron foundry for forty-seven years, till a large sum . of money was raised by subscription to en- 1 able him to carry on his philanthropic labors. There is an encouragement here, we fancy, for the down-heartened; and likewise rebuke for those who are continually harping on the ' wrongs of the indigent, and the impassable 1 barriers between the high and the low. ,,,,, i In Cork, a short time ago, the crier . indeavored to disperse the crowd by exclaim- i .ng, 'All ye blackguards that isn't lawyers, ]uit the court/ 1 i Independence. -Owing fifty thousand ] dollars which you never intend to pay. I from "Hood's" Unpublished Poe ns. THE aUEE-V S ENGLISH. A sea horse is .1 sea horse When you see him it) the sea, Bat when you see hiralri the bay, A bay horse theu is he. Of coarse a race horse isn't coarse, A fine is far l'rotn fine ; It is a saddening 6ig:it to see A noble pine-tree p'-ne. If miners are all minors, then Their guardians get their gains, All glaziers extra pains should take To put in extra panes. A hat about a farmer's room, Not long ngo I knew, To jfy. He caught a jbj and then Flew up the chimney/ce. But snch a scene was never seen I am quite sure of that As when with sticks all hands essayed To hit the i>al a bat. "How do you do V" said Sail to John, "So-so," replied lie, "How do von do ?" said John to Sal, "Sometimes retc-eeie" said she. A kitchen-maid is often made To burn her fnee or broil it; A lndy will do little else Then toil it at her toilet. 'Tis punishment for me to pun ; 'Tis trifling void of worth, So let it pass unnoticed, Like deir that's due to earth. GOOD ADVICE. Our general advice, is, patronize the paper or periodical neara*!^ you in preference to those more remote, even if it be not so good, for the more patronage it has, the better and abler it can afford to be, and will it become. Help to sustain the people you live among your farmers, your laboring men before all others. This, we conceive to be the true morals of reciprocity. Sustain the paper of your own neighborhood, your own State, your own party, first and beyond all other, whether all things arc equal or not The man who is so liberal that he would as lief have one party in power as another, who thinks as much of other denominations as his own, is a literal milk and water man, and is only fit to be cmetized into the first mud-puddle he comes to. Hut while we say these things, we advise * /? i 'LT_ f every head of a iamny u ne can posioiy niford it, even if it be at the expense of one tliuncr every week in the year, to take a leading periodical, published in some one of the largest cities in the Union, because of a largeness of view and solidity of conduction which can be commanded only by a large and rich establishment, their very wealth giving them the power to be liberal in their views and independent in their principles, which add so greatly to their conservative value. And miud, reader, Conservatism is the only hope of safety in our day and generation. DR. IIall. THE FIRST SAW-MILL. The old practice in making boards was to split up the logs with wedges; and inconvenient as the practice was, it was no easy thing to persuade the world that it could be done in any better way. Saw-mills were first used in Europe in the fifteenth century; but so lately ne 1555, an English ambassador, havingsecn a saw-mill in France, thought it a novelty which deserved a particular description. It is amu?ing to see how the aversion to labor-saving machinery has always agitated England. The first saw-mill was established by a Dutchman, in 1663; but the public outcry against the new-fangled machine was ?o violent, that the proprietor was forced to decamp with more expedition lhan ever did a Rutchninn before. The evil was thus kept out of England for several years, or rather generations; but in 176S, an unlucky timber merchant, hoping that after so long a time the public would be less watchful of its own interests, made a rash attempt to construct another mill. The guardians of the public welfare, howover, were on the alert, and a conscientious mob at once collected and pulled the mill to pieces. Such patriotic spirit could not always last, and now, though we have nowhere seen the fact distinctly stated, there is reason to believe that saw-mills arc used in England. Philaac/jiJiin TjC-ih/.r. THE INVENTION OF SHOES. Sandals were most common among the Orientals. As they were mere soles of wood j or leather fastened to the foot with strings, they wera uo protection from the dust; hence arose the hospitable praotloeoP washing the visitor's feet a practice so much insisted upon by public opinion, that if any one passing out of a house beat the dust from his feet, it showed that they had not been washed, and left on the house the reproach of inhospitably, whioh was the deepest of all dishonor. The <ireeks and Romans added the moccasin or buskin to the sandal the former was worn by tragic actors. The shoe makes quite a feature iu English history. In the time of Richard I. says Stow, " began the detestah'e use of pikod shpos, the toes being tied up to tne Knee wun cnains of silver or guilt." Edward IV., says the same historian, ordained " that no man weare shoes or boots having toes passing two j inches long; no peaks of boots or shoes to i pass that length on pain of cursing by the I clergie." lfomc Journal. Ax Artft'L Miser. Some time ago, a j gentleman called upon a certain nobleman, ! in Paris, a very wealthy and inordinately | mean character, and found him at the break- J fast table, quite alone, and doing his utmost j to catch a fly which was buzzing about the J room. "What the deuce are you about!'"' demanded the astonished visitor, to whom j the spectacle of an old man amusing himselfj by catching flies seemed very singular, to j say the least. " Hush !" exclaimed the ! other. "I'll tell you presently." After j many efforts, the old fellow at last succeed-1 ed in entrapping the fly. Taking the insect carefully between his thumb and forefinger, j he put it into the sugar-bowl and quickly dropped the lid over his prisoner. Ilis visitor, more annoyed than ever, knowing as he did the avaricious character of the man be- j fore him, repeated the question. "I'll tell j you," replied the raiser, a triumphant grin j overspreading his countenance as he spoke. ! ?I want to ascertain if the servants steal j the sugar." ?? ? The 100th Psalm. The long-disputed question whether Purcell or Handel was the ! author of the grand music of the Old Hundreth has been set at rest by a discovery j made a few days since in Lincoln Cathedral j Library. Purcell died in 1695, and Handel in 1759. But in the Cathedral library, a French psalter, printed in 1546, contains the music of the Old Hundredth, exactly as it is now sung, so that it could not be the production of either of the great musicians ;o whom it had been attributed. iaflmfs pcpartnteni TO FATTEN HOR3ES. Every horseman knows that a horse looks twenty per cent, better if fattened in a short time than if several months arc employed in , the process. I don't believe in loading a horse down with fat?they do better in medium condition. A horse if not very thin, j can be put in good condition in three weeks, j Hut a narrow-headed, yard-necked, narrowbreasted, light-quartered animal, if lie has never been fat, will give you a two or three 1 month's task, and he will look the better for all the flesh that you may put on him. To fatten a poor horse quickly is no easy task. It is to be done by a variety of the best feed, and with close attention in giving it. Many persons feed sufficiently liberal, and yet their horses are low in flesh, simply because of the careless and irregular manner in tvlii/>1< if r? itinn rm f Wlinn T rriall tn fatten a poor horte, I put his stable in a clean condition, and commence by giving him small feeds of corn or oats, (which he takes best,) every two hours, from the time of rising in i the morning till I retire at night?say six or eight feeds a day?taking care so to feed that he will always eat with a relish, and be hungry for the next meal. At no time do I 1 suffer his food to lay by him ; if he leaves any I take it from him and let him stand till i lie asks for it. For the first ten days I am i careful not to let him get quite all he will I eat. There is no better way of getting a horse's appetite up to the fattening point than | to feed very often of good, clean feed. By 1 paying strict attention for ten days, you will | have him fairly under way ; and this is the | most difficult part of the task. If at any ! time he gets cloyed, so'that he refuses to cat : let him stand till he gets hungry. I t During this time bis stable must be kept j clean and comfortable. lie should have but ; little hay, but as much pure salt water as he j will drink three times a day. Salt all the i time at his will. He must be curried thoroughly once every day. Few men curry a I horse as it should be done. Take your curj ry comb firmly in your hand and with it { make a quick motion back and forth, pass ! all over your horse, getting to the skin, and ' removing the dirt therefrom ; then pass all over more gently with comb and brush, replacing the hair, and finish with the naked hand?putting every hair to its place. Never give medicine of any kind?you can succeed better without. If I wished to reduce a horse iu flesh in the least possible time, I should bleed and physic. If you ! have the time to spare it will be better employed in scalding or grinding your grain, and feeding warm mashes, &c. It appears that friend Munson has little faith in no i . i _ Tf i . /?. i_ it. l aocionng aavice. ii nc onus me tu iu uuswer, I ndviso him to stick to it, for if he does nothing worse than to pour a pint of grease down a horse that has a touch of belly ache, lie will hardly lose any. I have known it employed for thirty years it is like mush to a stone bruise docs neither good nor harm. Prairie Farmer. Hot water for house plants. A correspondent of the Bosion Cultivator, writing of tho management of house-plants, says : "The way to have healthy plants is to shorten in all straggling growth, and remove every leaf and flower as soon as the least symptom of decay is perceivable, washing them occasionally with warm water from the tine nose of a watering-pot held high abovo litem thus giving them the benefit of a warm shower at any time or plaoo. Jiut the thing of all others most, important is, to water them with hot water at all times; yes, hot to the touch, even beyond what is supposed to be prudent until after experiment and it is only uecessary to watch the result cn the lipa|tb and vigor of the plants, especially when In bloom, to he convinced of the virtue of this 'grand specific The writer says lie has fuchsias now in bloom, mere cuttings about six inches iu height, not one failing out of seven, or even more cuttings, planted in a single pot and watered with hot water Bust. Trans. Worth Knowing. ?-As the season will soon be at hand for putting away hams, and preparing them to resist the attack of insects, &c., we deem it of some importance to know by what means they may be successfully treated, with the above view. We casually hoard a friond, of exporionce in the matter, say that molasses and black pepper applied freely to the ham, after it had undergone the process of smoking, would effectually prevent the germination of insect3, besides imparting a pleasant flavor aud taste. He further remarked that he had for some length of timo adopted this plan himsolf, and it had always beeu accompauied with success. Smntw Watchman. Tite Chinese Sugar Millet.?An ng-: ricultural correspondent of the Scientific | American says he ground in a cider mill, ! and then pressed, about half a bushel of the caues of the sugar millet, which he supposed to be worthless from being touched with the frost, and he obtained a quart of excellent molasses from the juice by evaporation. He judges that the squaro rod of ground; planted?if the canes had all been used? would have produced four gallons of molasses, or at the rate of six hundred and forty gallons per acre. Such a crop would have proved valuable last year, since sugar and molasses are so high. Manure.?Experiment shows that the ' same amount of manure which has been cov-1 ered nine inches deep with earth, so that no ? evaporation cau escape, will produce four j bushels more wheat to the acre, than that ; which has lain exposed to the weather.? ! Keeping manure covered, then, when wheat ; is a dollar and a half a bushel, will add six i dollars to the value of the products of every acre of laud, growing wheat. The above we have taken from the Carolina Cultivator, expressly for the benefit of our > farmer readers. What is said in relation to ' wheat will hold good in corn. Try it. Value of Science.?Orange or lemon juice left upon a knife or ether piece of iron will, in a few days, produce a stain so nearly resembling that caused by blood as to deceive the most careful observer ; and not many years ago, in Paris, a man was nearly convicted of murder, owing to a knife being found in his possession stained with what was pronounced by several witnesses to be , blood, but afterwards discovered to be simply | lime juice. OSUP Dc Quincey somewhere tells an anecdote of a man who, on being threatened with assault by eighteen tailors, cried out: 'Come on, both of you !' C|e|or(iliille n(|iiiitr is ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, at Two Dollars per year, in Advance, j To Clubs or Ten, the paper trill be furn- . ishcd, one-year, for Fifteen Dollars invariably ( in advance. All subscriptions not specially limited at the time of subscribing will be considered as made for an indefinite period, and will be continu! ed until all arrearages are paid, or at the option of I the Proprietors. Subscriptions from other States ! must [NVAHiABLY be accompanied with the cash or 1 the name of some responsible person known to us. I Advertisements will be inserted at One j Dollar per square for the first, and Thirty-scvenI and-a-half Cents for each subsequent insertion a square to coasist of twelve lines, Brevier, or less. Business Cards, of a half-square or less, will be inserted at $5, per year. For advertising Estrays Tolled, $2; Citations, $2 ; Notices of Application to tlio Legislature, 5-3; to bo paid by trie persons handing in the advertisements. Monthly or Quarterly Advertisements will be charged One Dollar per square, fur each insertion. Contracts by the year will be taken on liberal terms the contracts however, must in all casesbe confined to the imi mediate business of the firm or individual con! tracting. All advertisements not having the num| ber of insertions marked on the margin, will be j j continued until forbid and charged accordingly, i I Obituary Notices exceeding one square in length, ! j will bo charged for the overplus, at regular rates. ! Tributes of Respect rated as advertisements. THE PROPRIETORS of the ENQUIRER respectfully inform their friends and the public at large, that they are well prepared to execute orders in the JOB PRINTING LINE, such as PAMPHLETS, POSTERS, HAND BILLS, , BLANK NOTES, BUSINESS CARDS, I LABELS, LAW BLANKS, CIRCULARS, MAGISTRATE'S Do- I CATALOGUES, &.C., Ao., Ac* j All work entrusted to tins estaonsnment will be neatly and expeditiously executed, and ai reasonable rates. Call at the ENQUIRER Office, ONE DOOR SOUTH OF THE P. OFFICE, j SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. WE would inform the citizens of York Dist., of the State, and visitors from abroad, that our constantly increasing business has compelled oqr removfll from "3 BROAD-STREET," to the magnificent and spacious ?'Brown Stone Building," IUILY OPPOSITE WALKER'S HOTEL. Being both practical and experienced workmen, ! engaged exclusively iu this business, and furnish-!1 ed with every needed facility, they arc determined 1, to accommodate the public with the best quality i of WAKE, warranted, and on the cheapest terms; and they respectfully ask a continuation of the . patronage heretofore bestowed upon them. They | will continue to keep on hand a lot PLAIN TIN AND JAPANNED WARE; | SIIEET-lliON, STOVE, COPPER, AS I) HOUSE-KEEP ISO FURNITURE; AND EVERY ARTICLE TO BE 1 FOUND IN A TIN-SHOP. I, ROOFING and GUTTERING done at the i shortest notice, and in a workmanlike manner. , CONTRACTS will be made with Town and ( Country Merchants, on the very lowest terms. Give us a call and we will use our best endeavors to please you. - I LEWIS & KERR, April 17 16." * At the Old Stand. 1 A The accommodations and arrangements of this "NEW DEl'OT," aye unsurpassed by any similar establishment in the United States; and whilst it will afford facilities for keeping our usual large stock of MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS, CHEAP PUBLICATIONS, MAGk&MNQBS, <&<?.* we also propose adding largely to our STOCK OF STATIONERY: And those in want of LEDGERS, JOURNALS, I CASH HOOKS, LETTER, NOTE, and CAP PAPER, &e? &c., will find it to their advantage to visit us, S. 6, COURTENAY & CO,, BOOKSELLERS & STATIONERS. Sign of the Newsboy. Charleston,. Nov. 6, 18-50. 45?6m MUSIC! MUSIC!! A LARGE and well-sclectcd stock of PIANOS from the best makers can be had at FACTORY PRICES, at RAMSAY'S PIANO and MUSIC STORE, COLUMBIA, S. C. Those who wish to procure a very superior instrumont can get a Hallett, Davis & Go's PIANO, with the patent suspension bridge and metallic bearings, now among the best Pianos in the world. Try one, and if it docs not prove well, the price will be refunded. Every Piano fully guarnntcced. Mr. RAMSAY, being a practical Piano-maker and an experienced dealer, can insure to bis customers a perfect instrument, and in the most perfect order. Bglu. No charge for boxing. Also, on hand, Church and Parlor Melodeons, Guitars, Violins, Accordeons, Flutinas, Banjos, Strings &c., nud a general assortment of the latest and most approved Music. References: Rev. J. M. Anderson, President of Yorkvillc Female College; Prof. J. H. Whitney, Professor of Music. Sept 18 38 ly The same old shop f LEWIS & KERR, Return their thauks to their friends and customers for past favors, and respectfully notify the public that apy they are still engaged in the manu- | facturc of TIN, SIIEET-IRON, and j a/V Conner-Ware, at the same old stand. : TO SOUTHERN MERCHANTS. CAUTION TO THE'PUBLIC. ^ The wholo country isr flooded . with Coonferfeit and Imitation Schnapps. The public should be pareful to purchase only the genuine article, manufactured and imported by Udolpho Wolfe,.which lms the name of the manufacturer on' the Bottle, Cork and Label. For sale by all the respectable Grocers Mid-' /' Druggists. . Head the opinions of the New York Press. . UDOLPIIQ WOLFE, v 22 Beaver Street, New Yoit.. From the New York Mercury. PBAUDULENT IMITATIONS OF HUFXBIOR COMMODITIES Among the many dishonesties of trade which the moral sense of the community is called upon to suppress, we would particularly notice a most pernicious and infamous practice adopted by unscrupulous dealers of imitating and counterfeiting tho exterior appearance and precautionary labels of popular drugs, med camenta, and other articles of personal consumption, and thus, by foiling uppn the well acquired reputation of *n enterprising trader, palming off most destructive and .worthless compounds, to the sore detriment not only of the consumer, but to tbc character of the man who has expended thousands of dollars in bringing'the genuine article into esteem and demand. -Theeo petty larceny thieves are tho best of all hOnoraWe dealers and traders, and the trade is as much'highway robbery as tho violent appropriation of thgir neighbor's purse; in fact, they arc beneath the burglar and highwayman in dignity for theao latter felons exhibit a bravery oi> recklessness of character in nowise distinguishing the mercantile assassin who stabs in the dark. And ought they not be rewarded with a punishment commensurate with the cowardice of their crime? We .were led to these remarks by accidentally observing^ spurious counterfeit of Udolpho Wolfe's Schiwam Schnapps. The labels wore imitated perfectly, with the slight addition of a few letters to plead technical avoidance of the law against counterfeit ting; the bottles were very similar, and' every thing carefully prepared to impose upon a careless purchaser- Now is not the man who perpetrated this fraud, a felon, a robber ? Assuredly ha is 5 for, as Mr. AVolfe has expended large smlfs to hrtrig his genuine imported schnapps into popular demand, that demand may be justly considered ft a part of his oapital in trade, and a fellow stealing a part of his reputation is as mttch'of a thiefas if be bad stolen a barrel of his sohnapps in balk. And to thiscrime he adds a further one of defrauding the community by giving them a ruinous ar-' tiele for the money they intended to expend for a commodity in which they had confidence. And, further, every man who participates Indirectly in the fraud, by selling spnrious articles is as mncfi of an offender as the principal, who planned the imposition. The remedy of Mr. Wolfe should lie in his holding all concerned up to the contempt of the community thus swindled by their Operations, and unconsciously imposed upon by their noxious composition. We trust that Mr. Wolfe will pb* tain names, not only of the con'ooctors of.these counterfeits, bat of every.man offering' them for sale, and then publish them to the world; for his own reputation and the health of the community demand that all parties should be nailedto the pillory of popular execration. From the New York Dispatch.An Infamous Business. When an enterprising man strikes ont a new business, to (he estabftehment of which he gives hie industry,- time,' talents and pecuniary means, can anything be more coptemptlblc than to have another steal in, and,' Under. specious pretexts, hold out to the public an inferi-?. or article, and endtavor to obtaintkeir patronage? ' Pray, what difference is there, so far as the honeety of the thing is coroerned, between purloining tho business by which a citizent hopes to make his bread and stealing the bread Itself! A common thief, if lie takes without leave, however hungry, a loaf of bread from a baker's shop.ds apprehended and condemned to the peidtontiary for daring in a surreptitious manner to apease his appetite; but put a respectable looking coal on his back and a few dollars in bis pocket, and he may, with impunity, nay,-even with the applause of bis fellows, by knavery, forgery or other infamous means, tako the business of in honest men tarn him, and go unscathed of justice. AH this ipWroog. Some years since a gentleman of this-city (Ujdblpho Wolfe) introduced to the United-States a medicated article of gin, -which was' highly approved by professional gentlemen as a superior tonic and deobstruent, and the knowledge. of which he, by advertisement and otherwise, disseminated throughout the country., So' soon as tricksters, who pass in the business community as honest men, saw that Mr. Wolfe was likely to hove handsome returns for the time and money "which he had expeuded, they set, about forging. big labels and palming off upon the people detestable;And poisonous compounds which they have the hardihood to call "Schiedam schnapps.In soqftr<iixstances they have gone so - far as to put "Wolfe's name to their villainous liquids. As this horde are growing bold in their rascalities,'it is time the public in town and country were pnt upon their guArd Consumers should be sure that they purchase die genuine artiole, or else their health may be irreparably injured by using the horribleAteif that unscrupulous men, because they can buy it cheap, will offer as the genuine article. Pure Schiedam Schnapps can only be obtained at the stores of respectable merchants and druggists,,in town and oountry, and at the establishment of Udolpbo Wolfe, Nos. 18, 20 and 22 Beaver Street, in this city, where it is gotten up exclnsivaly.-' We think it a duty which Mr. Wolfe owes to himself and the community to publish, byname, th? rascals who are thus attempting to defroud both -him and thosewho would be his customers- He should not permit his modesty to hold him back from making so righteous an expose. V~j>. Agents i.v Chableston.?Havfland, Harrall ft Co., Klinck & Wiokenberg, Follm-fc. F.ourgewid, A. Von Pohlen, Henry Oerdts,. B. Bollman, Onpenheim Brothers, Paul Sl Browp, John.F. O'Neill, A. Bischoff, D. A. Ammo, G. F. Majd&n, Bailey A Douglas, H. Jcssen, S. S." Farrar ft Brothers, Wcrheim & Fietjon. >'-r-Dec. 49. 8m TSIIIILUiniB HUB A NEW SUPPLY. F|^HE Subscribers respectfully call the'attention jl oi ine citizens 01 xorK, ana tne adjacent counties of North Carolina, to their new stock of Fresh and Genuine MEDICINESi, embracing nearly every article usually kept in DRUG STORES. Our stock is very large and varied, offering excellent opportunities to the. Physician, Planter and Merchant, who will do,well to call and examine for themselves.. All our preparations are In. accordance with the prescribed rules-of the U. B. Pharmacopia. It shall be our particular care to faithfully.represent the quality of every article sold by us. Our purchases are made under circumstances enabling us to sell upon terms and at -prices the mostaccommodating. Our stock consists of iQrugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Dye- Woods and Dye-Stuffs, Oils, Paints, and Painter's Articles; Vamishss, Window-Glass and Putty; Glassware; English, American and French Perjumery; Toilet and Shaving Soaps; Tooth, Flesh arid Hair Brushes; Surgical and Dental Instruments; Trusses, Supporters and Bandages; Spices, Snuffs, Fine Chewing Tobacco; Cigars of finest Sapor; Superior Inks; Pure Wines, Fancy Articles, Sc. Prescriptions carefully dispensed. . Goods carefully packed and forwarded as directed. ; Prompt attention given to all orders. L. P. BARNETT & CO. April 10 15 tf LAWBLANKS! W3 have on hand, and are prepared to supply i at short notice, at the ENQUIRER Office, all kinds of LAWYERS' BLANKS in general demand, printed on good paper and neatly pressed. We offer them at 75 cents quire. Single half Quire 50 cents. As we have incurred considers Die outlay to:enable us to turmsn a gooa article, we will sell for CASH and CASH ONLY. Our present stock consists of the-following varieties, viz: Sum Tro; Fx. Fa.; Fi. Fa. on Sinn. Fro.: Coy;/ Writ in Case; Copy Writ in Debt; Declaration on Account; Declaration on Promissory Note; Declaration on Bond or Sealed Note ; Subvccna Writs; Subpoena Tickets, $c. Pgy Orders from a distance promptly attended to, if accompanied by the CASH! BOOTS & SHOES! fiTJ THE undersigned would render w thanks to his friends and patrons for a liberal custom, and would solicit a continuance of their favors. He will constantly be found in the SHOP, idjacent to STOWE'S HOTEL, prepared with a Large and Fine Stock of Leather, ind competent workmen, to give entire satisfaction to the most fastidious. His prices are snch IB he can afford, and he will endeavor to be prompt ind faithful in fulfilling orders. . B. DERRER. I TEAS. A very superior article of Black and Green Teas. For Sale by L. P. BABNETT ft CO.