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VOL 4, ' YOEKVILLE, S. C., THUBSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1858. - NO. 51*
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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
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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."
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"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
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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
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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,
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.'
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9G* An nnele left in his will eleven Silver
spoons to his nephew, adding?"If l htve
not left him (kotow, takfirofeNltofc*