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* \ -i, ,-iri ^^.. . -^ ^' ' = - ^ '" ^ ^ = = eaw " '? "wis1* uSs?Np^rirtor} An independent Journal: For the Promotion of the Political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of the South. |?peeamu*.wadva*c? VOL 4, ' YOEKVILLE, S. C., THUBSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1858. - NO. 51* V V^AJ. *=* \ * ; ii ... , . ,. , . : - , .A. ., sA, >, /1^,< iualfr. . Cj \tSiorg Cdler. JOE CHICK WE ED 5S COURTSHIPBY LOUIS N. BUBDITT. "I vow I"8aid Joe Chickweed, as he stood before the parlor mirror, putting the last touch to his well-oiled hair, "if I let this night pass without finding out just how I stand with Malinda Martin, then I'm a cow. The critter's always acted so pesky skittish there's been no getting around her. I like her and she knows it, and I'm inclined to think she likes me; but she likes more than one string to her bow, and I ain't sure bnt she'd slip me anyaainnte if she could make a better bargain. Maybe I'm doing her an injustice; and I hope I am; but she aots sometimes 'tarnally like a real ooquette, and I don't know what to make of her. Bat tonight," he added, fitting an immensely high immantolv wide* brimmed hat udoo his Tw" shining head, "to-night I'll settle the matter?I'll ctoss the Rubicon, if I get my boots foil of water. Malinda aint got a bad speck, and I might do worse most anywhere else." "Do tell, if it'scome to that?" exolaimed old Mrs. 'Chickweed, who had entered the room unnoticed by her son, in time to hear his last sentence?"well, I've all along had a notion that you was aimio' in that ere direction." Joe turned red from his eye-winkers to his ankles, and looked very sheepish. He worked very busily, too, for a few seconds, with brushing some imaginary dost from a place between the shonlders of his coat, ' Which be couldn't reach, but he said nothing "There aint nothio' to be ashamed on, Joe/-" continued the loquacious old lady, apparently greatly pleased at makiog the disoovery she had, "and yon spoke Gospel truth when you said you might do worse elsewhere. Malinda's a Dice gal." "Well," said Joe, gaining some coorage from his mother's manner, "I'm glad you think so, for I'm bound to make her my wife, if'? "If what?" asked the old lady. "Well, if everything's favorable." "Don't yonr fear any thing's again it. Y ou just do your duty, Joe, and Malinda's youru. Remember tbe farm." "It's a fine farm, no mistake," said the young man, earnestly. "No better farm of its size, in the whole feonntry. than the widow Martin's," said Mrs. Chick weed, in an emphatio tone. "No I think not." "And theD see how it is stocked ; two yokes of the best steers in all these parts, besides their two horses; sayin' nothin' of the rest of the critters. And of course they wHI all go with Malioda when the widder's dead, and before, too?for you'll go right on to the farm as soon 9s you marry, and take charge of every thing." - - 1 :? . /l.4 ff : j "It 8 a good opening, mat s a iaci, emu Joe ; "but I put a higher value ou Maliuda than all the property." "And well you should ; though the farm and fixins aint to be despised." "Oh, I aint one to despise them." Joe laughed and left the room, and soon after he left the house, and made his way as expeditely as the gloom would permit, towards the rosidenoe of the widow Martin. A light was burning in the front room, but the window curtains were closely drawn, so that he could not get a view into the apartment as he passed along the yard. He knocked at the door, and was admitted by the widow in person, who, after enquiring benevolently after his health, ushered him into the parlor. It was already occupied by two persons?Maiinda and Reuben Sparks, the latter a young man who recently returned to Springfield from California, and was looked upon with special disfavor by the young farmer. Joe was welcomed by the young lady, not so cordially as formerly, and by no means so cordially as Joe thought his due. He was greeted by Mr. Sparks in a sort of joking, condescending way, that raised the ire inwardly. However, the conversation that followed was apparently agreeable to all parties, and the evening wore away till the widow retired, when Mr. Sparks intimated that it was perhaps time for him to be returning, as it was quite a little walk to the village. Malinda at once asserted that it was very early indeed, and he should not think of leaving so soon; whereupon Mr. Sparks was induced to remain a while longer, and Mr. Chickweed was secretly enraged that Malinda should be so taken up with the company of a young sprig. California became the topic of conversa tion, and Reuben Sparks shone brilliantly in bis descriptive accounts of tbe country, and what he bad done there. "Then you wern't in the diggins?" en^ quired Joe, in response to something his rival had uttered. "By no means," replied Sparks, loftily.? "I left digging to those that were used to it. I hadn't a taste that way." "Oh, then you stopped in town ?" "Certainly." "Business, I spose, first rate there 1" "Yes. A young man of talent will soon engage himself iu profitable employment." "Then I 'spec you must have done extraordinary well," said Joe, in a tone he intended should be sarcastic. "Oh," replied the other, laughing in a meaning way, and winking an eye at the young lady, who appeared to "take," and enjoy it accordingly, "as for that matter, I can't complain. I think I improved my chances?I rather think 1 did. No, I don't complain, by no means." "Then why didn't you stay longer? You warn't gone bnt a short time; you should have staid a year or two more, and made yourself independant" I "Perhaps I am indepently already. I say perhaps. Of course I cau't tell you the exact amount I made?that. I thiak, it quite unnecessary." "Oh, quite." "And perhaps, too, there were attractions in this part of the world as alluring as gold." He looked knowingly at Malinda as he spoke, and he gave her another wiok, whiob that young lady seenedto relish, though she blushed and appeared wonderfully embarrassed for a moment. Joe noticed what occurred, and didn't at all fancy the course affairs seemed to befitting. He knew that be should feel and appear peculiarly savage, if be remained much longer, and so he hinted that it was about time for him to be going, and what served to enrage him more than aoght else, Malinda appeared to be of the same mind, for she offered no objection. So he took his hat and departed, with firmness in his step and bitterness in his heart. "I don't like the looks of things at all," he muttered to himself as he walked on through the dark ; "she's altogether too tender with that chap, to be agreeable to me.? If he has not turned her head, then there's a mistake somewhere. I don't believe he has brought money enough from California to buy a rope to hang him. He's after the widder's farm now, to make it up, I'll bet my hat. Yes, sir, he means to catch Ma * * TI I * 1 !i ^11 unaa, ana i ve Deeo 1001 enougu w wait an this time before comiDg to a final point. Bnt perhaps it ain't too late yet," he added, after a few moment's reflection; "maybe she'll consent to have me yet, if I lose no time in asking her?I'll try it, I vow I will. I'll go over again to-morrow, and have the thing settled." And having come to this conclusion, he harried forward, and soon after was dreaming of Malinda Martin, the widow, himself, and an infinite number of Reuben Sparks, who were endeavoring to chase him up a steep hill, and beating his brains out with bars of California gold. Mrs. Chickweed was most anxious next morning to learn from her son the result of his mission to the widow's, but Joe was silent and pensive; avoiding his mother's eye, and keeping away from the house as much as possible. Late in the evening, he oarefully dressed himself in his best suit, and with a look of determination stamped upon his features he once more set out to visit the fickle Malinda. He fouad her at home and alone. "Hope you spent an agreeable evening yesterday," remarked Joe, after he had passed the usual compliments, and seated himself near the young lady. Oh, yes, I did, I assure you," was the reply. "Mr. Sparks I should say is a very entertaining young man." Joe didn't think any thing of the kind; but quite the contrary. " He is, indeed," responded Malinda. Joe looked anything but pleased at this encomium on his rival, and sat for some moments in utter silence. At length he turned to the young lady and spoke: "I came here last evening," he said, "with the intention of speaking to you ou a particular subject, but I found you so engaged that I determined to call again tonight, and so?so"? "Here you are," said Malinda, smiling at his embarrassment. "Yes, here I am. And now that I'm hero, I'll tell you what I have come for. You know I love you. I told you as much more'n once, and I've flattered myself that I wern't indifferent to you. But now I wish you to tell me if you really love me in return, and if I may hope to make you my wife. Will you marry me ?" Joe, having arrived at this important question, looked tenderly and appealingly into her face, and breathlessly awaited her reply. She colored slightly and bent her eyes to the ground. " You are quite right," she said, "in supposing that you were not indifferent to me, for I regard you very highly. "Then all my fears have been groundless," uttered Joe, exultinglv. "But," continued the lady, "I cannot very well grant your wish regarding" "What!" cried Joe, his countenance suddenly changing. "I cannot very well marry you." "And why can't you ? I'd like to know what's to hinder your marrying me if yoa think enough ef me !" "There is one reason in particular." "What is it?" "I'm engaged to ahotber." Joe turned pale. "Sparks," he cried?"tell me, is it Sparks ?" "Well, and if it is" "I know it. Blast him ! I know what1 he was after." "I don't know that Mr. Sparks has acted ! in any way as he should not," remarked the young lady, warmly. "He's a cheatin' villian," replied Joe, indignantly. "You don't know him; he's nothing of the kind." "It's you that don't know him ; but you will, before long. I've been deceived, and I aint afraid to say so," continued he, snatching up his hat; "it's the money he pretends to have that's lost me a wife; but when you i want to touch it, just as like as not you won't | be able." He rushed from the house as he uttered these words, and hurried homeward. He found his mother still up, and was eagerly intorrnrratprl Hv hpr nfl the luck he had ,v,& J _ met with. He told her all and little condolence was she enabled to offer him in return For two or three days following, Joe Chickweed said very little and thought much. One morning, he met his mother with a smiling face and a sort of triumph in his look. The old lady was somewhat surprisi ed at the sudden change in her son's manner. ' "Why, what on airth's the matter now, Joe ?" said she; "hope you aint goin to go > erazv." -? "Not by a loog shot," replied Jce; "I aint quite as big a fool as that." "Then what ails you ?" "Oh, I've got it all arranged at last?I've got 'em now!" "Who? what?" "Why, Malinds. and that vagabond Renben Sparks?ha ! ha 1 I'll surprise him." "Oh, it's all right," said Joe, laughingly. "I'll fix the sneaking critter." I "But how?how, Joe? Can't you speak out? What's got in the boy?" cried the old lady, dying with curiosity to know what wns his plan. "Well, now I will tell you all about it," begun Joe, assuming a mors sober tone. "Well, I just wish you would." "Yow know the widder has alwuys favored my keeping company with Malinda ?" "Well." "And I do believe she is desperate down on that feller. Sparks, coming into her family." "Yes."' "In that case she wouldn't very willingly let her property go ir.to his hands." "But 'cording to the will of old Mr. Martin, the property aint to go out of her hands till she is dead." "Just so?but Sparks wculd have t.ll the benefit. And now I'm coming to the point ?it's just there I'm going to floor Rmben Sparks." "Well, do let me hear." "The widder Martin herself aint t. bad looking woman," Joe remarked, in a sort of mysterious tone of voice, glancing up suddenly into his mother's face. "No; but what's that got to do with the matter ?" replied the old lady, impatiently. "And she aint very old, neither," continued he, with the same air. "Why, she cant be more'n forty." "So I should think ; and she has a good chance of livin forty more." "Well, what of it?" "Just this," said Joe, leaning over to his mother's ear?"I'll marry the widder!" Mrs. Chickweed, expected as she was, 1 ?-is? J r? SOmeiQlDg suiruiug, wuou t picpnuu 1U1 i.Uio. She uttered an exolamatiou of unbounded surprise, startled upward from her seat, and then sank back and fixed her eyes with a vacant stare upon her sor's face. "Well," said Joe, "I hope you don't see anything agin it." "No?no," stammered his motheer, recovering somewhat from the shock she had received; "but are you r< ally in airnest, Joe ?will you marry the widder ?" "To be sure I will, that's the whole of it. I'm going up to see her this very day. I'll marry her, if she'll hav; me, and be revenged on Malinda for dotting me as she has for that blasted Spares. I'll teach 'em what's what. Joe was as good as his word. He sought the widow and made his proposal. She was more astonished than she knew how to express, but she was more gratified than astonished. Fresh and fair as she was, considering her years, she had never given over the idea of winning another husband; bat it had never entered her heud that she could procure so young and esi.imable a prize as Joe Chickweed. Joe made a special proviso in his proposal, that they should married privately the day before the marriage of Sparks with the widow's daughter, ar^d it should be kept a secret till that wedding hud taken place.? To this the widow readily agreed, although it was a bard task for her to restrain the en. joyment she experienced and prevent the secret being discovered. The evening before the nuptials of Sparks and Malinda at length arrived, and all the preparations for the ceremony on the ensuing day were completed. When the darkness had fairly set in, while Malinda was so occupied with the conversation of her soonto-be husband as to be completely oblivious to all else, Mrs. Martin (autiously lef; the house, and meeting Joe i ear at hand, she hastened with him to th* residence of the Chickweeds. The minister, who had been duly admonished to secrecy, was in attendance ; and in less than half an hoar thereafter, Joe was a married man, and the no longer widow was on her way back to her home?parting from Joe with a single, but enormous kiss, with which he was content to satisfy himself, considering what was to follow from so doiDg on the morrow. The wedding passed off next day to the entire satisfaction of all parties. The affair took place in the morniDg, at the residence j of the bride, and at the hour of noon all the guests, with the exception of Joe Chickj weed, departed. Why he remained so long, | it puzzled the newly married to surmife, as they had not supposed he would be present at all. Joe took it very easily, however, and seemed quite embarrassed by the occasional bantering of the happy Sparks. "S'pose," said Joe, addressing himself to the newly made husband, as they were assembled in the parlor tOjjether, "I s'pose you'll take up your residence in the village right away?buy you a nice house and live fashionably ?" "0 no," replied Mr. Sparks?"don't know as I shall." "What! well, now, I ealc'late you don't have any idea of settling on a farm ??you ain't used to that work, you know." tiTn/.n'* trnnw hnf T niHv." said Smirks. ""v" * "?" j j -tr , assuming a careless air and tone ; "coming on hot weather, you know, and liviDg in town is a bore in summer. Yes, I think I shall try country life for a while; I aint in the best of health, and a farm life may improve me." "Well," responded Joe, deliberately, "can't say that I'm sorry you're going to stay with us. I think mj self that it would be to your benefit to work on a farm for a while; and we'll try to make it as comfortable for you as we can." Mr. Sparks looked at him; they then looked at one another and laughed. "No doubt," remarked Kir. Sparks, "you'll make a very agreeable neighbor?very agreeable indeed." "Oh, we'll be nearer than neighbors a good sight?of course we will," said Joe, glancing with a look of intelligence towards the former widow. Again Mr. and Mrs. Sparks glanced at one another, but this time they didn't laugh. "What do you mean ?" they asked, simultaneously. i "Oh, excuse me; I forgot that you didn't know what transpired. The fact \b, the widow here and myself, taking a mutual liking to each other, were married last night! We should have invited you to the wedding, but we knew you were engaged" "WhatI married!" cried Mr. Sparks, springing to his feet, while a look of horror overspread his features. His wife sat pale as a ghost, utterly unable to speak a word. 1 "Certainly, married," said Joe, coolly. "Is this so ?" he inquired, turning to the 1 late widow. "Ton may rely upon all ho says," she replied. "Then I have been swindled?imnosed upon?deceived. And you know of this : also, and led me on I" he continued, in a violent tone, addressing his wife. "Yon i worked to net me, while thi3 infernal cheat gets all the property." "No?it's not bo I" exclaimed Malinda, i bursting into tears j "I knew nothing of it ; 1 and thought you married me for myself, and not for my money?you pretended to have 1 enough of that yourself." Reuben Sparks smiled a sickly and scorn- 1 fal smile. "It's even as I thought; his money's so deep in the bank, that he'll never be able 1 to dig it oat," remarked Joe. 1 "You soheming rascal I" gasped Sparks, looking as if it would be pleasant to eat him entirely up body and bones. "Oh, fire away ! it don't hurt any; and 1 I've got a long lease of the farm." "You scoundrel I" "And the horses and steers." "Oh, you miserable cheat!" 1 "And the fixins gonerally." "Fool!" "And moreover," continued Joe, assum- i ing a more sober and sterner tone, and gras- 1 piDg Sparks firmly by the collaras he spoke, I "among other things, I've got a word or two of advice for you. You married Malinda in the expectation of stepping into a snug little property, palming yourself off as a man of ' means to accomplish your end. You are 1 the real schemer, but a part of yoursoheme 1 has failed. Take my advice, and it will be 1 well with you; use your wife a? you know 1 you should?go to work like a man?and 1 strive to be an honest one. And finally, 1 don't let me hear you make use of any more such expressions as you just now bestowed 1 on me, or I'll thrash you within an inch of 1 your life !" Remember, added Joe, giving him a shake, as a terrier would a rat, "you're my son now, 'cording to law, and you must i have a slight show of respect for your fath- ' er." i Reuben Sparks seemed to oome at once i to his senses, and after a little reflection ' concluded that the advice he had received < was, upon the whole, the best he could act i upon; aud for many a year thereafter Joe | Chickweud looked upon him as a most val- ' uable assistant. The Newspaper as an Educator.? Singularly enough there are some who regard the newspaper as at best an expensive ItiTnrr aara wfil'l in ?fjs wnv. hut Verv often . ? -.J, .WJ ?-j, .?j , not worth its price. Bat reading a paper, ; like advertising, though it sometimes may not bear a retail test, is sure to pay on the wholesale scale. Thus we learn from the ( Ogdensburg Sentinel that a schoolmaster, who had paid attention to this subject, had ascertained that children of both sexes, who had been familiar with newspapers at home, could read, spell, pronounce and define words better and more understanding^ than those who had not. They obtained a knowledge of geography in almost half the time it required others?since no places are fixed so readily in the memory as those of which we have heard before, and the newspaper familiarizes even the dullest with the most important places on the globe. The great variety of style in a newspaper, from common advertisements to orations and poetry, has been found to have a very remarkable effect in makind scholars good grammarians, and in enabling them to readily comprehend the meaning of a text and to analyze its construction?a matter leading, of course, to writing better compositions, and nsing clearer and more refined language?the characteristics in all schools of the best writers of composition.? This command of language, and the mastery of the general information contained even in the poorest papers, invariably trains the leaders in debating societies?and it is from these societies that the country has its orators. If we were to answer where our so-called self-educated statesmen got their education we should not hetitate to say, (from the newspapers.' Quietly, but effectually, the newspaper is always educating its tens of thousands. It is not long since we beard of a teacher who introduced newspapers into his school as substitutes for reading books. He found that examining the boys on their contents gave them a vast amount of general knowledge and made them quick-witted.? We do not doubt it. There is many a worse text-book than a newspaper in many a school. The printing office also has proved a better college to many a boy, has graduated more useful and conspicuous members of society, has brought more intellect out and turned it into practical, useful channels, awakened more minds, generated more active and elevated thought, than many of the literary colleges of the country. A boy who commences in such a school as the printing office, will have his talents and ideas brought out; and if he is a careful observer, experience in his profession will contribute more toward an education than can be obtained in almost any other manner. I?* Nearly 400 men were discharged from the Brooklyn Navy Yard oo Tuesday. JPMIaitems Rafting. TBEATMENT OP MANUBE. A practical farmer and gardener in the American Farmer's Magazine has enunciated several bold troths which hasbot recent1 jattracted the attention of agricultural chemists. He advocates the theory that until manure has undergone such fermentation as to produce sensible heat, there can be no loss of the essential elements of vegetation by gaseous escape. That the escaping gases from fresh or saturated manures form no part of the gaseous elements which are the food of plants. Hence the offensive smell that issu. es from them is no . sort of consequence, unless the putrefactive fermentation is going on by the process of sensible heat. That if i manure heaps are put upon the soils they are i intended to supply so as not to generate heat, there is no sensible loss except by leakage from saturation and this goes into the soil and is not lost. I We annnounced seveal years ago the i same principal practically, in an essay written for the Southern Central Agricultural i Society, by advocating the hauling out of I fresh manures to the'fields mixing them with carbonaceous manures, such as decaying leaves, &c. &c., putting them np in small conical heaps to prevent ftre-fanging by admitting a free aceess of air, as the best meth. od for saving the most of the ammonia as well as the fixed salts. It is a little singular now that Professor Voelcker of the Agricultural College of Circenster England and Johnson an extensive farmer of Western New York, have reoently simultanously announced the same principlo, one by explaining the chemical actiou of the theory, the other by asserting its truths from a series of facts accumulated in the laps eef years. We have no hesitancy in embracing the theory of Prof. Voelcker, as it aocords with our practice in the matter for years, although we had not arrived at the conclusions that be has announced. The result will be very advantageous to farmers and produce quite a change in the whole system of manure making, we mean that olass of farmers or planters professedly guided by science, and believing in the truth of the axiom that knowledge is power any money too. Instead of throwing out their manure into the pound or to be washed away by the rains of winter, they will learn the economy of hauling them to the poor spots in the fields intended for their application, and mix them with mould or soil if nothing else is at hand to keep it cool and prevents its waste, as the leakage ; will normnnpntlv hanefit t.hn snil arnnnd and r J *? "? ? ] the loss by evaporation will be nothing if the manure is kept as cool as it may be. How COFFEE CAME TO BE USED.?It is somewhat singular to trace the manner in ' which arose the use of the common beverage, coffee, without which few persons, in any half or wholly civilized country in the world, would soem hardly able to exist. At j the time that Columbus discovered America, 1 it had never been known or used. It only grew in Arabia and upper Ethiopia. The discovery of its use as a beverage, is ascribed to the superior of a monastery, in Arabia, who, desirous of preventing the monks from sleeping at their noctural services, made them drink the infusion of coffee, upon the report of some shepherds who observed that their flocks were more lively after browsing on the fruit of that plant.? Its reputation spread through the adjacent countries, and, in about 200 years it reached Paris. A single plant brought there in 1714, became the parent stock of all the coffee plantations in the West Indies. The extent of the consumption can hardly be realized. The United States alone annually consume it at the cost of its landing from fifteen to sixteen millions of dollars. You may know the Arabian or Mooba, the best coffee, by its smXll bean of a dark color.? The Java and East Indian, the next in quality, are larger and of a paler yellow.? The West Indian Itio has a bluish or greenish gray tint. A Prairie on Fire.?Ludicrous Battle.?The Meclean (Kansas) Sentinel, of the 28th alt., gives the following amusing account of a fire in that vicinity: On Monday last the prairie to the Northwest of the town was discovered to be on fire. The wind was blowing quite a gale at the time, and waves of fiame came sweeping towards u9 with a mighty roar, like unto the breakers of Ocean. A busy scene among the people was then enacted?men, women and children combined in a little army to keep back the enemy. Weapons of extra, ordinary appearance and singular construction were used in the melee; here might be seen an individual with his best Sunday coat twisted into a swab, performing feats of prowess, with his constantly flying garments: again, a lady assuming for the first time the peculiar habiliments of her lord, hurled his breeches at the fiery foe with eminent success; another, with great grace and efficacy wielding a plank dropping it upon the intruding monster, putting out whole yards of flame at a pop. We contented ourselves with a towel tied to the end of a walking , atiok, and with a motion somewhat resemKlin or thr? tKreshinc out of grain, did. we I D O , think, oar part as an extinguisher. All worked hard, and eventually succeeded in i saving the town. To a great many citizens j the sight was novel, they never having wit- \ nessed a prarie fire before; to every one the ] scene was sublimely beautiful and exciting. War on Lotteries Renewed.?A dispatch from New York to the Augusta press, i says warrants were issned in that oity on < Saturday for the arrest of parties connected i with Swan & Co's Lotteries. Also against the proprietors of a Sunday paper, for publishing advertisements. The dispatch says many arrests have been made; but the prin- i oipals are still at large. A requisition, it says, has been sent to Augusta. !: A Slaves Caught.?The Savannah papers of Saturday reported the arrival of the steamer Wanderer, near Brunswick, Ga., with a oargo of slaves. The Savannah Republican, of Monday morning, contains further particulars of this affair, and states that three persons, named Joan Bt. Rajesta, N. A. Brown, and Miguel Agnirvi, have been arrested and lodged in jail, to await testimony from Brunswick, when they will undergo examination. It is said that the negroes were landed on Jekyl Island, for which privilege the traders paid $15,000, and from thero one hundred and fifty of them were brought past Savannah to a plantation, and scattered over the country. The cargo is reported to consist of t.tirnn kiinitri-'it on/t fiftc "u""' " ? ?v It will be recollected that this yacht was arrested last summer, near New York, on suspicion of being bound for the slave trade, but was released. Captain Curry, of South Carolina, was in oommand then, as he is now. He pas papers purpoting to be from the native officials of St. Helena, hut they have no seals. The Collector of the port of Darien says that the yacht had no appearance of having bad slaves abroad. How to Manure Trees.?Very few persons manure trees growing in sod or grass land, in a judicious or economical manner. The general practice is to dig the manure in, within a diameter of six feet, having the body for the centre. The treo takes its food from the young rootlets, whose mouths-extend just as far on every side, as the branches of the trees; hence, this manure applied close to the body of the tree, is not where the roots take it up; and, of course, but little of its value is absorbed by the tree. If you doubt it, just try the experiment on twotrees. Serve the one' as above named, and uL.. .. Jim . m.i. ? . iuc utuui ao iviiuvtdj via iM.acxu m vnvio ?round the tree, having for its outline the exact radius formed by the overhanging brenshes; dig on the inner side of this circle a trench two feet wide, and one foot deep; mix well rotted manure half and half with the best of the soil, or earth dug out of the trench, and fill the trench with k; then replace the toxf, and wheel away the refuse, or extra earth} rake olean and smooth; you will have a good growth of trees; your fruit large and more fair, and no unsightly or an natural hillock or mound around the body of the tree. A Very Hard Case.?The New York Times tells the following, "An enterprising young man in Albany a few years ago, who had, what he considered to be a very valuable medicine which he wished to sell for the benefit of mankind, prevailed upon an old fellow of his acquaintance to join him Mo business and to furnish him with the necessary capital to go ahead with. He came to New York and at onoe entered upon a most profligate and ruinous course of advertising which at last excited the alarm of the old gentleman in Albany, who came down to inspect the accounts of the concern and to his utter consternation be discovered that his prodigal partner had spent his entire capital the first year in advertising. But examing a little further he discovered that there was placed to his credit more than five times the amount of the capital he had furnished, as his share of tho profits. The astonishment of the poor old gentlemen proved too much for him. for he went home and died in a fit. If merchants do not want to get rich too fast they should be careful not to advertise." Exchanging Pulpits.?A few weeks since, two divines in this vicinity agreed to exchange on a certain Sabbath, it being the last Sabbath in the month. It so happened that the last Sabbath in the month occurred on the last day of the month, and the pastor in N; not stopping to run over the lines, "Thirty days hath September," &o." supposing the month closed on Saturday.? He accordingly on the last Sabbath but one, rode to W., and appeared to his brother just as he was preparing to proceed to his church It was within fifteen minutes of bell ringing ?the two towns were eight miles apart, and the astonishment of both was equal. The miscalculation was soon made to appear, and it was agreed that the exchange should be made on that day. The pastor in W., immediately mounted his horse, and the way the stay-at-home people on the route stared as he dashed over the road was a caution to slow folks j but the pastor made the distance in forty minutes, arriving just as the assembled people were wondering what they should do for preaching ?North Gazette. Pool Soil.?An inquisite Yankee was standing at the tavern door, in the lower part of Jersey, watching a funeral pass by. At the head of it was a large manure cart, moving along very slowly, and making no offer to turn out for the procession. The Yankee was astonished at this want of attention on the p3rt of the driver of said cart, and turning to a Philadelphian who was standing by, he remarked : {I guess the folks aint very perlite abeout here; tu hnm where f live, they alwayp tarn oat for a funnel.' <Oh that's part of the procession,' remarked the Philadelphian, gravely. <Da tell? You don't say so! Hecw! exclaimed the astonished4 Yankee. 'Why, you see, it is a very poor sandy soil about here and nothing comes up they plant, unless they manure it well, so when they bury a fellow, they throw a whole cartload iifthe grave, to make him rise at the Judgment day I V&T Chickens were sold in the market at Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 3d inst., at ten i cents per pair, and good sized turkeys at i twenty-five cents each! ; Incensed landlord to apparently ] moneyless guest?"Ah I your name is Iree, is it? Well, Mr. Tree, if your are about to J "leave," I shall detain your "trunk." ; Tie* "bows" &od departs in despair. ' J ?.I'll IOTA correspondent of the CofohFlan* ter and Soil, sajs "Wheot^Bran if one of the greatest substitutes for Guano that has ever come trader iny observation, for corq, I never have tried It on cotton, but no doubt it could be managed so as to be of great service in cotton. In planting corn, a small handful of the Bran, (after it is well wet, so as to crumble,) must be dronned into the furrow when von ??? . . - | * desire to deposit the corn, a small quantity of dirt poshed over it, by the foot, tod the corn on top, sod then covered with a fcoty about two inohes deep. Ctie moat MMgkeft not to drop the corn on the Dated Bran, at the Bran often gendenwond lioe, which trill destroy the roots of the oOrnT ' Bat the most approved way ofoling Cbhl Brand on oorn, is the following plan: After your corn is np five or six leave*highr open a hole on eaeh aide of the stalk with a bee, drop a half-handful in eaek -hole, and oovOt it op* Those who svAe will try it, wiM never feed away Wheat Bmeragain.- The-cor* will look as well as gnano manured, and have as large ears.' Yonrs, &c , ? WM. C NOBKM. Vanoe's Perry, S. G., 1868. The Circus Company Acquitted.? Orton & Olders Circus Company, twentyeight of whom were arrested at Aqbors, on the 27th nit, by a posse of me^, fremitus place and Notaanlga, on the charge of jthe marder of Keys at the latter plane, were, on Monday last, after a thorough and impnstjs| investigation before His Honor, Judge Mr' exander, dismissed from custody. Pierce, however, who was not identified witfc the company, bat was a blacksmith at Notasulga at the time of the muitier, was remanded to Jail to await his trial at the next session of the Circuit Court. The trie! which oop^ menced on Saturday, 20th ult., and cloned on Monday, 0th inst., wu ably conducted by Mesirs. Chisolm & Abercrombia of thia place, and'HolHfied and Chatfield of Attburn, for the defence, and Messrs. Cloptoa and Gunn of this place, Wynn of ljlotoisulga and Cattenhead of Loachtpofca, for the prosecution.? 7usktkee Republican. Apple Tree*.?A horticulturist in Bohemia has a beautiful plantation of the best sort of apple trees, which hare neither sprung from eeeds nor grafting. His ffa* ia to take shoots from the choicest sorts, insert them in a potato, and pluflge:both into the ground, leaving but an inch or two of the shoot ubove the surface. The pottfo nourishes the shoot whilst it pushes out roots, sod the shoot gradually springs up and becomes a beautiful tree bearing the boot of fruit, without requiring to be grafted. 1 ?rOne of the Beets.-?The Macon, Messenger says the largest Beet this side of California, was exhibited in that city a .few daysago, by Mr. John Smith, of Jones county, weighing thirty-six pounds. ..This year has been celebrated for the extraordinary size of the vegetables that have been produced, but we think that none can beat Mr. John Smith's beet. The family has always l>een celebrated for something or other, bntmt last has capped the climax, in the beet line. Preachers in Paris.?Several of the popular preachers in Paris have entered upon a crusade against the lavish expenditure of their lady hearers upon dress, the waste material especially exciting their indignation. One of them, a Bishop, exclaimed id the height of his zeal, in the midst of a late discourse?"Let women remember, while patting on their profuse and expensive attire, how narrow are the gates of Paradise." 19* Davy Crockett happened to be present at an exibition of animals in the city of Washington, where a monkey seemed to attract his attention, and he observed I?*If that fellow had on a pair of spectaolee, he would look like Major Wright, of Ohio/? The Major happened to be jnst behind Crockett. and tapj?ed Davy's shoulder. Taming round Davy very formally remarked: 'I'll be hanged, Major, if I know whose pardon to ask, yoois or the monkey'a.' A Remedy for Heaves.?S. Hall, of Auborn, N. Y., says that the following prescription is a sure cure for the heaves: One half ounce each of aloes, assafoetida, floor of lavender, fenveek, roeewater, saltpeter, aarsaparilla, spirits of nitre, anise seed, oamphor gum and three-fourths of an ounce Spanish flies, all put into a jog oontainiog one quart of alcohol. The quantity to be given ia one teaspoonfull every other morning?give nine times. J9* A genius from the land of wooden nutmegs says that he has invented a machine which will, when set in motion?but that a the difficulty?chase a hog over a ten acre lot, catch, yoke and ring him, or by a slight change of gearing, will chop him into <sa% sages,' work bis bristles into shoe brushes, and manufacture his tail into a cork screw. J?* Col. Albert Pike, the poet, a lawyer of some distinction, and a talented and adroit politican of Arkansas, died recently in New Orleans. He was a Captain of Arkansas volunteers in the Mexican war. At the time of his death, he was a citizen of New Orleans, ^ where he had gone to pursue the profession of the law. JQ* t Csesar,' said a planter to a negro, 'climb up that tree and thin out die brands es.' The negro showed no duporitioa to comply, and upon being pressed ."fa a reason, answered: - f ? '- * z'[ mmw ?? ? ? ? i ' m I1 a- <d ' wen loojc nean, ifi goup Off and an' broke my neck da til be a thousand dollar ont of you pocket. Now, why don't you hire an Irishman to go np and den if he falls and kills heeef, dar won't he no loss to anybody.' ll>tl 9G* An nnele left in his will eleven Silver spoons to his nephew, adding?"If l htve not left him (kotow, takfirofeNltofc*