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Ilumoroujs ?epartnwut. AX ESSAY OX EELS. Prof. Agassiz having written but little for several years on his favorite study, ichthyolofy, the editor of the Belfast (Me.,) Journal as commenced a series of papers on fishes indigenous to Maine waters. The following is his essay on eels: The only reptile we have in this locality, in any wholesale quantity, is the eel. Its bite is not deadly except to a fish-hook, and after being once bitten, we never knew a hook to recover. Eels live best in water, though one will manage to survive an hour or two in a pan of hot fat, over a hot coal fire. But water is their best hold, and they delight to root round in the mud at the bottom of the sea. An oel will-out root a hog, and let him pick the ground. Eels vary in size as much as darning needles, and some are not much larger when they first conclude to be eels. A lot of very) infantile eels, playing in a pool of water, look as much like vermicelli soup as anything we remember. As they are not called upon to die at a very early age, their life is of great length. We have known it to be over four feet. About a good sized eel to describe is the Bologna sausage size. Taper one end a little for a tail, cut a gash in the other for a mouth, and hang on a pair of ears about two inches long, and you have an eel at rest. We are not quick enough with a pen to describe them in motion, but any .one who has ever seen Gen. F. E. Spinner's autograph ou a greenback, can get a very good idea from that Next to a flef or a flash of lightning, you don't find anything much livelier than an " ~?-Injcattihing tham, >11 ytiti Uva U\ iln ia to hook and pull them to the top of the water, and they will do the rest. As long as we remember it we shall never forget the first eel we caught We were sitting on the cap of the wharf, with our line in the water some fifteen feet below us, our hook baited with a clam's head (acootding to Robbins,) when we felt a bite and pulled. As our hook came to the surface an eel made his appearance aud commenced climbing up our line, hand over hand, with great speed, and shot into the air ten feet above our heads and fell upon the wharf, where for fifteen minutes he executed such steps as would have drawn tears from the eyes of a French dancing master. We then grasped it to get our hook, but it slid through j our hand like^a dose of quicksilver, leaving it covered with a coating of slime which we have since learned is the basis of Spauldiug's celebrated glue. We cut off that eel and found our line much knotted and tangled. We counted eighty-9even different kinds of knots. If there be any one who doubts this story, we can soon convince him of its truth by showing him the exact spot where we sat when we caught that eel. Any one going into the business of trapping eels for the meat or the skins, which by plugging the eyes are handy to have in a family, had better discard the line and provide himself j with an eel spear, which is as deadly at a < short range of twenty feet as the needle gun. j Spearing eels is dreadful uncertain business, i however. If a man is successful he is gener-1 ally lucky. As an article of food eels are a ! om I II1UUICU IJUCSUUlJi XX 01 iu\?i imvo vuvtu | or he don't; there is no half way ; he is never i conservative in this matter. Allowing one J relishes them, we should say that from two to i three feet would suffice for a meal. Barring j a frozen ear, there is nothing that will peal | handier than an eel. Cut the skin round the neck, just under the ear; take the head in your mouth, holding it firmly with your teeth; having on a pair of mittens, grasp the eel at the neck, give a good pull and he will roll I out of his skin as easily as vou can roll out of bed. Knew Him by his Feet.?An amusiug incident occurred lately on a Mississippi | steamer. Just below Vicksburg a family got on board, on their way to Texas. During the afternoon the pater familias concluded he would enjoy the luxury of a good shave, shampooing, etc., and for this purpose applied to to the tonsorial artist of the??teamer. The luxury was speedily supplied him ; and at his request, hair^ qperbrows and whiskers were covered from a "fiery red to raven blackness by the use of the artist's dye. The traveler was hugely pleased at the idea of surprising his wife at the transformation, and hurried to demand the price. Imagine his indignation when he was called upon to forfeit $10. He swore he would never pay it, and hurried to his state room to buckle on his defensive armor. But he was met at the door by his spouse, outraged by the intrusion of a stran* ger, as she supposed, and admittance was refused. He called himself her husband?she said he was an iraposter. He attempted to explain It was useless. A crowd gathered around and the laugh became general. At last, in his perplexity, the hoosier exclaimed : "Sallie, look at my feet!" One glance at the pedal appendages assured her. "Yes, John," she said, "I know them feet. They can come in ; but keep the head out of sight." Very Late.?Out in Chester county, (Pa.) lately, a clock-peddler was tramping along, hot, dusty and tired, when he came to a meeting house, wherein sundry friends were engaged in silent devotion. The paripatetic tradesman thought he would walk in and rest. He took a seat upon a bench, doffed his hat and placed his clocks upon the floor. There was a painful stillness in the meeting house, which was broken by one of the clocks, which commenced striking furiously. The peddler was in an agony, but he hoped every minute that the clock would stop. Instead of that it struck just four hundred and thirty times by the actual count of every Friend in the meeting, for the best disciplined of them could not help numbering the strokes. Then up rose one of the eldest Friends, at the end of the four hundred and thirtieth stroke, and said: "Friend, as it is so very late, perhaps thee had better proceed on thy journey, or thee will not reach thy destination unless thee is as energetic as thy vehement timepiece ?" A Lawyer's Fee.?A story is told at the expense of a legal gentleman who was formerly well known in Norwich, Conn., who now lives in Oshkosh. One Smith had failed in 1 kitcinncc onrl oAM Allf ?T?ft hflVintr tWft ftT IUUOIUWXJj Hiiu OV*V4 W.WJ MMV* v? , three tough little bills, had given them to this lawyer for collection. Smith went to the office to receive the proceeds. The amount col-1 lected was about 850. "I'm sorry you've I been so unfortunate, Smith, for I take a great interest in you. I shan't charge you as much as I should if I didn't feel so much interest in you." Here he handed Smith $15, and kept the balance. "You see, Smith, I knew you when you were a boy, and I take a good deal of interest in you. Good morning. Come and see me again !" Smith moving slowly out of the door, and ruefully contemplating the avails, was heard to mutter: "Thank God you didn't know my grandfather." t&* We met with this witty and unanswerable retort in a sketch of a short trip through a portion of Ireland. The writer is conversing with his car driver: "You are a Catholic, Jimmy?" "Yes, yer honor." "And you pray to the Virgin Mary?" "I do, yer honor." "Well, there's no doubt she was a good woman. The Bible says so. But she may have been no better than your mother or mine." "That's true, yer honor. But then you'll allow there's a mighty difference in their children." A Green Mountain youth advertises for a wife in this style: "Any gal, what's got a cow, a good feather bed with comfortable fixin's, $500 in the hard pewter?one that's had the measles and understands tending children?can find a customer for life by writing a small billy dux, addressed to Q. Z., and stickin' it in a crack of Uncle Ebeuezer's barn, back side, jinin' the hog pen." W&* A milkman accounted for the thinness of his milk by saying that the cow got caught j in the rain. I j^grtfttltwal Department, j THOUGHTS FOB THE MONTH. "Winter quarters" must now be abandoned and active operations in the field begun. The hard, compacting rains and crusting winds of spring will soon take the field, and returning warmth will cause weeds and grass to advance rapidly against the farmer. Woe be to him, if with unformed or half-formed plans, he hesitates or halts, or if with plans well-formed, he takes the field with broken down stock, deficient supplies of food and imperfect implements. We trust, however, there are very few, if any of the readers of the Cultivator, to whom the above will apply. We take it for granted that they are all ready for the campaign, and are thoroughly "masters of the situation." If their corn crop was short last vear. a food suddIv of fall oats will be readv W ' " 0# - "JTt?J -- j to come in early and take the place of corn ; barley and clover patches are also provided to help out?to make the mules "shed off," and keep them healthy and lively ; the plow gear is in perfect order, strong and convenient, giving Cuffee no excuse to stop for mending or adjusting; plow stocks well put together and secured, are ready?their handles not loose or shackling, fastened on with nails and coming off j'ust when it is particularly desirable that not a moment's time should be lost; extra stocks provided, in case of breakage? extra single-trees and hames, hamestrings, clevises, heel-screws, &c., on hand. In like manner, two sets of plows provided, that when one is sent to the shop, another may be ready to take its place, and a hand and horse not compelled to lose a half, day's work?the above and hundreds of other contingencies C-nffiopn am* provided far In short every point well guarded, the farmer is ready to move forward, and fully prepared to command success. The immediate work in hand this month, is the plowing in of oats, where these are to be sown on bottom lauds, the planting of corn and the preparation of land for cotton, sugar cane, potatoes, Ac. A skillful farmer informs us, that a good plan of sowing oats is, after the ground has been brokeu up, to run a furrow with a shovel plow, sow the seed in this furrow and cover with another shovel furrow. His plan is to have the plows go round and round the field, the hand that sows the seed always following the same plow?the second plow follows the sower. By this arrangement the seed will be sown in every other furrow. This plan covers the seed to a more uniform depth than the ordiuary arrangement of plowing in broadcast, and is something of a safeguard against the freezes, which are apt to kill the oat iu the sprout. Of course, on a wcll-preyared field, a drilling machine would accomplish the work quite as well and much more rapidly, but we give the above for the benefit of those who are not provided with a drill. Our best farmers differ as to the method of planting corn?some insisting that the seed should be put as deep down below the general surface as it is possible to get it in a deep water furrow, (not covering it deep, however) ; others advocating the plan of putting the seed only a little below the general surface, in an ordinary furrow made in land not bedded up. On rolling upland we incline decidedly to the "water furrow" system. On flat aud bottom land on the contrary, even a low bed may be necessary. There is also much difference of opinion respecting the distance that should be given to corn. On old uplands where the soil is thin and the ground is not beeply broken, we are confident the distance should be great?eacli stalk should have from 15 to 20 square feet of surface, that is to say with 6 foot rows the hills should be, say 3 feet apart. If the land is deeply subsoiled and well supplied with vegetable matter, the distance in six foot rows may be reduced to 2? feet. On damp, rich land, it may be crowded much more, especially where there are facilities for imgation. In connection with corn planting a Fact may be mentioned that is worthy of further investigation. A farmer who plants largely upon low grounds, informs us that last year in two separate parcels of such land he escaped the ravages of the bud worm by dropping the cotton seed with which he manured the corn, directly upon the grain as it was planted. The cotton seed had been killed by a very short "heating." Whilst other portions of his corn suffered badly from the worm, these two pieces, ten acres each, had scarcely a hill missing. Sweet potatoes should be bedded now for slips. A little "bottom heat," made by digging out the bed two feet deep, and filling in one foot with a mixture of leaves or straw with stable manure, and filling in afterward with dirt, and bedding the potatoes as usual, will bring forward the slips more rapidly than when bedded in the ordinary manner. Early slips we have found to be a matter of the first importance in all localities where the season is rather too short for this plant. Southern Cultivator. ? RAISE YOUR OWN PROVISIONS. Editors Southern Cultivator:?Eight cotton States making cotton enough to nearly clothe the rest of the world and almost perishing in the effort! What a commentary on human greatness, on human wisdom, and to think that this is done voluntarily, without compulsion, with warnings from the history of the past three years, warnings from the press in almost every issue, and warnings even from Horace Greely. But will not plain common sense, aside from all experience, aside from all warnings, prove sufficient to cause the people of these eight States to change their suicidal course. With a climate and soil adapted to the production of more and better varieties of substances to sustain man and beast than any in the world, in addition to cotton, which but little of the rest of the world can produce?with all these advantages in our favor, our lands are cheaper, our populace poorer, work harder, have poorer fare, less leisure, and less happiness than the people of any other section. Cotton makers will you continue your folly, or will you repent and turn from the error of your ways ? Dilapidated fences, lank, lean mules and stock of all kinds, that are a part of your household, that the RiKlo cnvc vmi are worse than an infidel if J~r* KSA\s U%*jf w J v?? ? ?--? ? ? you do not provide for, besides your own children?ought, if you are not dead in trespasses and sins, to move your heart of compassion, if you have any, that this, with all the rest of your cotton idolatrous sins, may be abandoned and you be enabled to staud before your fellow man and your Maker, not the I fool you have been, but the wise man you should and would be if you act wisely in the future and raise your own provisions at home. Yours, respectfully, G. W. C. MUNRO. Buena Vista, Ga. Observations on Shoeing.?No person should ever allow his horse to be shod by a farrier who employs or keeps in his shop the knife used for cutting away the hoof, shaped like a small shovel, and usually braced against the shoulder when used in shoveling away the horn. The Almighty designed the frog as an elastic, insensible cushion, on which the horse should walk, as do the fowls and some animals ; yet blacksmiths delight in cutting away this most useful part, and thereby expose that which is sensitive to contact with the hard road. No greater folly can be imagined, and to a reasonable man it only requires to be noticed to make the error self-apparent. The | blacksmith will argue that he must cut away the rags, and sometimes are so ignorant as to declare they cut away the frog to prevent pressure on it; that is to say, they cut it away to prevent the very object of its creation. The frog should never be cut, or any portion; if allowed to take its natural course it becomes a perfect safety-stand and protection to the foot. In colts the frog may be seen in its full vigor and usefulness; but at the first shoeing the knife goes to work?and so it continues while there is any frog to cut.?Pub. Royal Society. <?bUdwn's ffpartwcnt. . ,, [Original.] READING. Nothing is more essential to young persons than a taste for books. Reading makes a full man ; full of ideas. The primitive meaning of the word reading is to gather or collect; implying that the reader gathers up the idefcs of others. Such being the case, it may be asked what kind of books should young persons read ? Some no doubt will reply, novels and light literature. Without placing a veto upon this kind of reading, we would say that the mind is not greatly profited by reading novels. The imagination is cultivated to the exclusion of the other faculties of the mind. If we were called upon to prescribe a course of reading for a young man or woman, we would place the Bible first on the catalogue The Bible teaches every thing. It is an intensely inter estmg history, its poetry is suDinue, ana 11s lessons 011 government and moral philosophy, are unequaled. In a literary point of view, the Bible has claims that no other book has. Its style is peculiar, but it is correct, and often incomparably beautiful. After the Bible, we would place on the list some good history. Rollin's history in four volumes, is a good ancient history. For those who have not time to read large books, the histories of England and Rome by Grimshaw, are reliable and interesting. The histories of America are so numerous that it is difficult to make a choice. The work of Mre. WiHard is as free from objections as any other. Every young man and woman should read some good work on the evidences of Christianity. For all ordinary purposes, we know of no better work on this subject than that by Archibald Alexander, D. D. After all, it is notso much the amount that we read, as the manner in which we read that j is profitable to us. We should study everyi thing we read?lay up the facts in our memories?and systematize them according to their I natures. Some people acquire the habit of turning through books and think they have accomplished a great task when they get to the last page. They go through books like some men go through college?in at one door and out at the other?as wise on entering as | on leaving. The book that is worth reading at all, is worth reading carefully. To read profitably, the mind must be centered on the subject of which the book treats. We can neither do two things nor think of two things at the same time. [Original.] . SATURDAY NIGHT. j 'Tis Saturday night again! Blessed Saturday night! Through another week God has led us on our way. How fast the weeks roll! rouud ! And how the heart of the toiler rejoices as he turns his weary footsteps homeward, with his week's wages in his pocket, to gather comfort and consolation from his wife and little ones for his hours of toil during the past week. And how that toil is lightened by the loving smiles and caresses that greet him in the home circle. Though poor in this world's goods, he is rich in much that money cannot purchase. How neat the room appears ; and the children. Preparations have been made for Sunday, "that sweetest, best of all the seven." This is a welcome period, for its brings rest, relaxation. 0,1 love to dwell upon the theme, for on its every return I cannot help repeating: "Blessed Saturday night!" And my heart goes with the utterance, for from the bottom of my soul I do rejoice that it has come again to bless the weary ones who, like myself, have toiled and struggled through the week in the great battle for bread. Brother laborers, what should we do without the Sabbath ? Have you ever thought what a blessed privilege it is to live in a land where +V.r. fiaVika+Vi Ja lnoorl onrl hnnnriv] ? O linw UllU KJ KJttl lit AO iVIVU MUVk . V| . . devoutly, earnestly, we should all pray, and willingly give of our means to have it loved and honored over all the earth. Then treasure well its holy moments. Let Saturday evening be a time of preparation for it, that its hours may not be shortened by needless "fixing up." Put your house in order, for tomorrow is the Lord's day. 0, how happy our earth might be, if, in such things, all would remember the Sabbath to keep it holy. I sometimes picture to myself a laud where all work, but none are overworked; where smiling cottages meet the eye on every side; where the Bible is read and loved; and where the Sabbath is observed as a day of rest and devotion. In that land all is peace, for none oppress; and plenty, for all work, but none are over worked. Thus time is allowed for fostering the amenities and esthetics of life. There Saturday evening is usher to the Sabbath ; and its return is welcomed with sweetest music and song. The laborer puts by his tools, his childreu their playthings, the house is made tidy, the Sabbath dinner prepared, and 110 work left for Sunday morn that can be done on Saturday. And then I look with fancy's eye over all the continents and isles of the sea, if happily I may but get a glimpse of that land ; but none such appears! Nature has done her part; and naught remains but for man, guided by reason and revelation, to step in and finish the picture. But alas! our old earth is scarred and torn by sin ; the nations are in constant turmoil and strife; opnrpocions are not few: and the laborer's cup has much of bitter therein. ' Yet, thanks be to God, there are some bright spots left; some bright oases on the world's wide desert. Let us water and cherish these bright spots. It may be that by them others will spring and flourish, and by and by fill the earth. B. W. JONES. Cottage Home, Surry Co., Va. Didn't Care for his Patch.?"I would not go to Sunday School with that patch," said a proud girl to her brother. "I would rather go with the patch than not | go at all," answered the boy. Patch or no patch, what did his teacher 1 care, who had hunted him up in his lowly home ? She though the most of the little boy's soul. What did the kind superintendent care, who caught the boy's blue eye looking straight at him as he spoke, and was pleased to see it ? Patch or no patch, he sung, "I want to be an angel," as sweetly and heartily as better dressed boys did. No scholar recited a better lesson or behaved more properly in his class. Patch or no patch, his Redeemer had died to save him, and now he had said to him, in tender accents, "Son, give me thy heart." Patch or no patch, the Holy Spirit was hovering near to help him remember his Creator in the days 'of his youth, and choose this day the Lord for his portion. Patch or no patch, heaven had room for him. A patch, you see, is no matter at all. Instead of being a disgrace, it is rather an honor, because it shows a boy has a kind and careful mother, anxious to do her best with the small means God has lent her. Never be ashamed of a patch. J6T* Water that flows from a spring does not freeze in the coldest winter. And those sentiments of true friendship which flow from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity.? Guthrie. ?eadittg for the JWatfc. CONDUCTED BY REV. ROBERT LATHAN. [Original.] PRAYER. No man can live well without being a praying man. Many try it, but their efforts are vain. No child could grow up in constant contact with a parent and not ask for some favor or for protection. The feeling of dependence is natural to us all. In fact, there is good reason to believe that every created being feels its dependence on God, and in some way or other expresses it. The parching earth is rent by fissures to receive the rains of heaven; the young lions cry to God /? n t 1 1. J_a1 iL i. lor looci ana ne semis mem men menu, aiic eyes of all things wait on God, is the deliberate declaration of the Psalmist. Prayer is indicative of many things, all of which are good. It indicates that the understanding has been enlightened, and that the individual who prays regularly has just conceptions of his true relationship to God. The idea of God's sovereignty is included in prayer. No man can approach into tho presence of God, as a devout suppliant, without feeling that God is the supreme governor of the universe. The man who kneels before God believes in the existence of a supreme being, and that he exercises supreme power in accordance with certain fixed and irrevocable laws. Prayer also indicates love on the part of the suppliant for the supreme behigj^Chg, j child makes free with the parent simply be| cause of its filial affection. The parent is ap1 prised of its wants and asked to relieve them in a way, and with a freeness that a stranger is not asked. This affability is indicative of love and not of rudeness. The love which the child bears for the parent, prompts it to make known its trtie condition, whether it is prosperous or adverse. Just so it is with the true child of God. His love for his heavenly A' ? ?!*% %* IA mnlrn o Ifill /HOOIA miller pruiupu) IIIIU iu muivc a lull uioviw sure of all his joys and of all his sorrows to God. Prayer also indicates submission to the. divine will. "Thy will be done," is one of the petitions which every suppliant at a throne of grace offers up. The truly pious man wants nothing in opposition to the will of God. His strength consists in submission to the will of God. He has faith in the knowledge, in the love, and in the authority of God. Prayer not only indicates the best state of mind, but it is attended with the best results. God hears and answers the prayers of his people. All real blessings, whether, they be of a temporal or spiritual character, c^rae in answerto prayer. In this, as in everything else, the hand of the diligent makes rich. Is it not strange that so many of the human family, who profess to be children of the Most High, should neglect and despise this privilege ? Is it not stranger that there should be so much formality in our prayers ? A prayerless life must be a sinful life. The man who lives in constant neglect of this duty and privilege, gives unmistakable evidence of not being right with God. His understanding is blinded with regard to his spiritual state; his passions and appetites are brutalized, and his will is in a state of hostility against God. By neglecting this duty he shows his contempt for God and all his works and ways. He lies down at night and asks not God for protection, and wakes up in the morning with a heart which prompts him to no thanksgiving for the preservation of the past night. MOTIVES. _ What motives can we find strong enough t to influence our children for right, when in-' clination or expediency, or evil companions tempt them to ao wrong ? Some persons constantly hold up the sentiment of honor! "My boy," they say, "tell j the truth, for it is mean and dishonorable to ! lie. Be generons, be considerate, be courte! ivantl onion will Kq nfKorwiao UU3 I liV/ g^UMVUlUU IV AAA VIVA W VUUVl II ivvi Take no unfair advantages in the race of life. Keep your honor without spot!" It is undoubtedly good advice, and yet many a one, starting nobly, has come to fearful wreck by taking only honor for his pilot. Actions unkind, cruel, murderous, have been committed through trusting to a false notion of honor. Moral cowardice makes a bulwark of mis-called honor! We need something higher than this, to actuate the young minds that, full of eager enthusiasm, and beset on every side, gird themselves for the struggle. Some set wordly gain, an infinitely lower thing, before their children as an incentive. "Honesty is the best policy," they say, and putting politic reason in place of right, they need not wonder if the result of their training be to make them trained crafty, shrewd, and merely wise for earth. As low a motive is that which has its root in the love of prais? Praise is not, per se, an evil thing, but like the love of money, the love of power, or any other love selfishly pursued, it works out its own ill consequence, "Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you," said our Saviour, and too often we find that one of whom all speak well has gained his renown at the expense of personal rectitude, or by some sacrifice of principle. Let us from the first cultivate in our children the feeling of accountability to God. Even the little child can understand, that this thing or that must not be done, because it is against God's command. Let the Bible ko tVio minrpmfl rode of laws in our homes! k/V, VMV/ "7 Such conduct would not displease our Father in heaven. Hear what he says about it, we should oflener say to the dear ones, who take our words with absolute trust and who so readily believe the words of God.?S. S. Times. Better Look it Up.?It has been well said : "Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with any thing, you had better look it up." A person has often been startled fnyna pleasant dream of self-deception by the words of an angry acquaintance. The angry man may wish his words unsaid the next hour, but they are past recall. The wisest course is to take home this lesson with meekness to our own souls. It was a saying of Socrates, that every man had need of a faithful friend and a bitter enemy ; the one to advise and the other to show him his faults. "When Plato was told that one whom he highly esteemed had spoken ill of him, he mildly replied, "I am sure he would not have done so if there had not been reason for it." But angry words should be remembered only for the good that can be got <?ut of them; not with feelings of resentment toward those who utter them. Usually those words are the hardest for us to forgive which have the most j truth in them. Life-long variances arise ; from just such hasty words, and bring great dishonor on Christ's name. We should remember that He, who "numbers even the hairs of our heads," appoints even the smallest circumstances of our every-day life, and that if we use them aright, all things shall work together for our good. That even the wrath of man shall be made to praise him.? Sunday School Times. Be Not Anxious.?Our Saviour never drove his over-tired faculties. He used to go and rest in the house of Mary and Martha, after the fatigues of working in Jerusalem. He tells us all?you and me?let the morrow take care of itself, and merely to meet the evils of the present day. Real foresight consists in reserving our own forces. 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November24 . 47 4m OLD CAROLINA BITTERS, A X>elig*litfiil Tonic. WE TAKE great pleasure in offering the OLD CAROLINA BITTERS to the public. They are compounded with great care, and contain some of tho best Tonics in the Pharmacopia. As evidence of the superiority of our BITTERS over all others, we have certificates from many of the leading physicians in our State, who have prescribed them in their practice. THE OLD CAROLINA BITTERS Will be found invaluable for , JVANT OF APPETITE, ' < GENERAL DEBILITY, * CHILLS AND FEVER, DYSPEPSIA. We do not offer OUR BITTERS as a cure for all diseases, but as an Aromatic Tonic, they have | no equal. For sale by Druggists and Grocers everywhere. Principal Depot GOODRICH, WIXEMAN & CO., Importers of choice Drugs and Chemicals, CHARLESTON, S. C. March 24 12 ly P. P. TOALE, CHARLESTON, S. C. (Largest and most complete' Manufactory of Doors, Sashes, Blinds, Mouldings, <fcc., in the Southern States. (K7-PRINTED PRICE LI8T DEFIES COMPETITION. HD0 SEND FOR ONE. S?* Sent Free on Application. ( April 2J 16 ly PIEDMONT & ARLINGTON LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. HOME OFFICE, RICHMOND, VA. ASSETS OVER $2,000,000. j POLICIES issued in a little over two years of active work, over 12,000; Income same time, over $2,000,000?a success beyond all precedent. Insures on Mutual, Non-Forfeiting and Return Premium Plans. Dividends Paid on whole Life Policies, FORTY PER CENT, which proves the economy of its management and its careful selection of Risks. BRANCH OFFICE, COLUMBIA, S. C. J. P. Thomas, Pres't. S. L. Leaphart, Sec'y. D. D. MOORE, Agent York County. I -Tiili-oi '.Xi gm ORNAMENTAL AND USEFUL. ^TKSCHORB <& SON beg to inform the citi?f York county generally that they are better prepared than over to execute PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES of all kinds and at all prices. As our silent partner, "Old Sol," will probably be more attentive to our interest for the next few months than he has been lately, we may safely promise that none in want of good likenesses shall go away disappointed. We are agents for the celebrated "COMMON SENSE SEWING MACHINE," which has no superior, and is sold at the low price of $15. We warrant it to do all that is claimed for it. Come and see for yourself. There is now no need of anv family being without a sewing machine. We have also made arrangements with Mason, Hamlin & Co. to supply those in want of a superior PARLOR ORGAN with their celebrated instruments at New York prices. Prices given on application. Call at our rooms in the Adickes building. April 7?tf | GUANO AND PHOSPHATES. IMPROVE YOUR LAND. WE are Agents for the following Guano and T>iinu.Ui?fAu- 7,fill's AmmoniatedBone Su f V * . perpbosphate, Wando Fertilizer, Etiwan Superphosphates, and Navossa Guano. All have been tried and have given universal satisfaction. PRICES HAVE BEEN REDUCED to correspond with the low price of Cotton," and we respectfully invite the larmers of York and the adjoining counties, to give us a call before purchasing, as we are prepared to suit them. Special orders received FOR THE PURE PERUVIAN GUANO, and promptly attended to. COTTON received on Storage or for Shipment and liberal advances made. LONDON & JONES, Rock Hill, S. C. February 9 6 3m | n MUSICAL, MERCHANDISE. * ON Consignment, a choice lot of Violins, Violin Bridges, Bows and Pegs; Guitars, Accordeons, Harmonicas, and an excellent assortment of Violin, Banjo and Guitar Strings. For salo low, by JOHN MAY, Agent. October 27 43 tf | ATLANTA DEPARTMENT SOUTHERN LIFE INSURANCE CO. ? a Gen. JOHN B. GORDON, President. ASSETS OVER $900,000.00. . -. - . j DIVIDENDS TO POLICY-HOLDERS, JULY 1,1869, 40 PER CENT. 1 r - . . r; rt . :,'rn.: TV < . - .%? -1 * c Progress unequalled by any Company doing business in the Southern States. J ' ' - - i . 5 . i ... 1 rhia popular Southern Company INSURES LIVES upon all the IMPROVED PLANS, J and on the MOST FAVORABLE TERMS. ! .< r:.z . ' ) . . - ' ' ' " ' ' ' [t is managed most economically, anil is very careful in the selection of risks. [t invests its surplus in the States from which it is derived, and sends no money North ( . . . \ to enrioh f< lign capitalists. J i < TJIIIS COMPANY having complied with the Deposit Laws in the various Southern States, is now i doing a LARGE AND SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS in all of them; has now nearly TWO lTIOUSAND POLICY HOLDERS in the State of South Carolina, and numbers SEVEN THOU- I 4AND MEMBERS in the fourth year of its existence.' CASH & WARING, General Agents for South Carolina. OFFICE IN COLUMBIA, S. C. JAMES MASON, Resident Agent, Yorkville, 8. O. , V . ' REFERENCES IN YORK COUNTY. John S. Brattop, Guthriesville. I Col. I. D. Witherspoon,... Yorkville. Dr. J. R. Bratton, Yorkville. | Dr. W. E. Erwin, v Yorkville. Dr. A. I. Barron, Yorkville. I Lewis M. Grist, Yorkville. Col. \V. B. Wilson, Yorkville. | 8. G. Hemphill ;..Guthriesville. "WANDO FERTILIZER," V \ \ ?' ? 1 THF. PRICE OH THIS POPULAR FERTILIZER HAS HEM REDUCED FOE THE SEASON OF 1871, TO MEET THE NECESSITIES OF THE PLANTING COMMUNITY, AND HAS BEEN FIXED AT CASH?FIFTY DOLLARS PER TON OF 2,000 LBS. AT FACTORY. TIME-FIFTY-FIVE DOLLARS PER TON OF 2,000 LBS. AT FACTORY, . Payable 1st November, 1871, without Interest WM. C. DUKES & CO., AGENTS, CHARLESTON, SO. CA. 1 B. P. BOYD, AGENT, YORKV1LLE, SO. CA. LONDON & JOIVES, AGEN'TS, rock Hill. s. c. January 19 3m . IA? II A Al mw % tffc ifwwfljrs^ vv n a nn - o f??ins. I i? ?w nnvv MANUFACTURED BY I V RAW BONE WALTON,WHANN&fl L. FOR SALE BY JIM f?SJ1 superphosphate. THE GREAT-FERTILIZER FOR COTTON AND ALL CROPS. The unparalleled su^oss of this Great Fertilizer on ALL CROPS, proves it to be the BEST and i CHEAPEST MANURE now offered in the market. It has been used by many of the most eminent Planters in the South, and IN EVERY SINGLE INSTANCE IT HAS GIVEN ENTIRE SATISFACTION. Ou COTTON its effects have been particularly marked. It is no rare thing for WHANN'S PHOSPHATE to increase the yield from ONE HUNDRED TO TWO HUNDRED PER CENT, or even more! - 1 Mr. Geo. C. Dixon, an eminent planter of Cameron, Ga., in a letter to the Banner & Planter, sayB that in an experiment with seven leading Superphosphates and Guanos, the WHANN'S proved itself the best of aft those tried, paying a net profit, at the low market rate, of $20 90 per acre of cotton. A jopy of Mr.-Dixon's article furnished on application. FOR SALE BY . . .,..7/ CLAGHORN, HERRING & CO., .V CHARLESTON. S. C., AND AUGUSTA, GA. 1 T ??? 2 ' -A-'-v-. 3m ? . 1 CAROLINA FERTILIZER. wf?f9(B Sf ) i^r fE?"l8B63tt?fl0^ SEeS^s^''P A 11 nKAf J k is M SJ a n e' b C is at al The "CAROLINA FERTILIZER" is made from the Phosphates of South Carolina, and is proounced by various ohemists, one of the best Manures known, only inferior to Peruvian Guano in its _ 'ertilizing Properties. The36 Phosphates are the remains of extinct land and sea animals, and pos- p ass qualities of the greatest value to the agriculturist. ;? We are prepared to furnish this excellent FERTILIZER on satisfactory terms. jj G. W. WILLIAMS & CO*, CHARLESTON, S. C. CARROLL, CLARK & CO., Agents, Yorkville, S. C. _ es March 2 9 2m " / THE GREAT EIRE IN RICHMOND. HERRING'S SAFES IN THE SPOTSWOOD. $23,600 IN CURRENCY, :nd the Books, Papers, Silver and Valuables of the Spotswood Hotel and the Adams' and Southern Express Companies are SAVED IN HERRING'S SAFES. Office of Adams Express Company, ) No. 59 Broadway, > New York, December 31, 1870. J Messrs. Herring, Farrel & Sherman : Our Igent at Richmond writes : "We got through tolight drying and fixing up the money from the ate fire. The contents of tne Safe, $23,530 in bills, ve recovered. It was a Herring Safe, and a good >ne, certain. Yours truly, I. C. BABCOCK, Treasurer. Messrs. Herring, Farrel & Sherman, N. Y. Ients: The two Safes of your manufacture, vhich we had in use on the morning of the 25th "? nstant, at the disastrous Ore which destroyed the Spotswood Hotel and adjoining block of buildings lave given full satisfaction ana served to prevent he destruction of some $20,000 in currency, besides the valuable papers and books enclosed herein. It was impossible for workmen to exca rate tne sate until neany eu noura aner cue urv. Respectfully, J. F. GIBSON, Asa't Sup't for Adams A Southern Ex. Co'a. Richmond, Va., Dec. 29,1870. LETTER FROM J. M. SUBLITT A CO., f Proprietors of the Spousuood. Richmond, Va., December 29, 1870. Messrs. Hebbing, Farbel A Sherman.? Ients On the morning of the 25th instant, we ivere fortunate enough to have one of your Herring's Patent Champion-Safes, which fell into the ?llar among a burning mass of ruins. Alter the lire, to our utmost surprise, we found the contents, consisting of valuable papers, money and some lilver-ware, all in good order. Had it not been for vour Herring's Safe we would have lost everything. J. M. SUBLITT A CO. HERRING'S PATENT CHAMPION SAFES, - ?. The most reliable protection from Are now known. HBB RING'S BEW PATENT CHAMPION BANKERS' SAFE, rhe beet protection against Burglars' Tools extant. HERRING, FARREL A SHERMAN, 251 Broadway, cor. Murray st? N. Y. FARREL, HERRING A CO., Philadelphia. HERRING A CO., Chicago. HERRING, FARREL A SHERMAN, New Orleans. March 2 9 3m CAROLINA NATIONAL BANK OF COLUMBIA, S. C. CAPITAL STOCK PAID IN, $200,000. BOARD OP DIRECTOR#: L. D. CHILDS, President. Dr. J. W. Parker, R. M. Wallace, John S. Wiley, Dr. John T. Darby, p* wnpb rirniun O'vhalk. .t r_ C. D. Melton, Attorney. W. B. GULICK, . C. J. IKEDELL, Cashier. Assistant Cashier. THE capital stock of this Bank is now 1200,000, all of Wtifch has been paid in, and confirmed by the Comptroller of the Currency. Authority has also been received for a further increase to tho amount of $50,000, of which over $20,000 has already been taken. Persons wishing to make an investment should apply without delay. The surplus fund is now $8,000, or three per cent, upon its atqeb^fe ThaBBBMsa National Bank issues certificates of dejMMHring interest at the rate of seven per cMHHnnum. This feature ofits business makesWpractically A SAVINGS BANK, and attention is called to the fact that the safety of these deposits, as well as all others, are guaranteed by the whole capital of the Bank. No safer mode or temporary investment is offered to the public than this?the deposits being payable on demand, or on short notice. Deposits of any amount received either in currency or coin, and payable in the same. Interest will be paid at the ena of each six months, should deposits remain beyond that length of time. Columbia, 8. C., January 23, 1871. February 2 5 3m STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 00UHTY OP UBTON-OOUBT OP 00XX0* PLEAS. D. W. Tate and Fannie Tate, Plaintiffs, againat. Benson Goudelock, Defendant.?Summons for Relief. To the Defendant Benson Goudelock: YOU are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint in this action, which is filed in the office of the Clerk of Common Pleas, for the said county, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscribers at their office, at Union Court House in said county, within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; ahd If you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiffs in this action wiil apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. Dated Union Court House, February 15,1871. tt, MUflKU <k our,, rianuijjs- jworneys. To the Defendant, Benson Ooudeloek : Take notice that the summons in this action, of which the foregoing is 4 copy, was filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas at Union Court House, in the county of Union, in the State of South Carolina, on the 15th day of February, 1871. R. SlUNRO A SON, Plaintiffs' Attorneys. February 23 8 fit STATE OP -SOUTH CAROLINA, 00 (TNT Y OP YORK?OOITRT OP OOXXON PLEAS. Thomas L. Johnson, Plaintiff, against Thomas K. Brown and Rebecca E.^iiller, Defendants.? Summons for Belief. TO THE DEFENDANT THOMAS K. BROWN: YOU are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint in this action, which has ueen filed in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court at Yorkville, and to serve a copy of your answer to said complaint on the subscribers, at their office, in Yorkville, within twenty days after the service hereof! exclusive of the day of snoh service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. Dated Yorkville, S. C., February 14th, 1871. H ART A GAGE, Plaintiff's Attorneys. To the 1-fendant, Thomas K. Brown ; Take ; it ce that the summons in this action, of which thv foregoing is a copy, was filed in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court at Yorkville, in the county of York,in the State of South Carolina, on the fourteenth day of February, 1871. HART A GAGE, Plaintiff's Attorneys, Yorkville, S. C. February 16 7 fit %?* Charleston Weekly Republican 'copy six weeks and forward bill to this Office. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, OOUNTY OP GHE8TBB?OOUBT OP 00KM0N PLEAS. John L. Chambers, Plaintiff against Rose Ryan, Defendant.?Summons for Money Demaiui. TO ROSE RYAN, Defendant in this action. YOU are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint in this action, which has htmn fii?d in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the said County, and to serve a copy of your answeron the subscribers at their office, in tne town of Chester, within twenty days after the service of this summons on you, exclusive of the day of service. If you fail to answer this complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff will take judgment against you for the sum of One hundred ana seventy-eight dollars and ninety-three cents, with interest at the rate of seven per cent, per annum, from the fourth day of Marco one thousand eight hundred and seventy-oneand costs. Dated March 4th, 1871. McLURE <fc McLURE, Plaintiff's Attorneys. To the Defendant, Rose Ryan: Take notice that the summons, of which the ibove is a copy, was filed in the office of the Clerk >f the Court of Common Pleas for Chester county, )n the 4th day of March, 1871. McLURE <ft McLURE, Plaintiff's Attorneys. March 9 10 6t A VOICE FROM SOUTH CAROLINA. rHE WORKING CHRISTIAN, Organ of Baptist Denomination of S. C. 3 PEAKS to Baptists all over the land. HEAR. ^ NORTH! HEAR, SOUTH! ' Northern brethren, we of the South read your Durnals. Do you read ours? We hear you,"now ""the working christian i a native-born South Carolinian. The ablest Titers of that famous little State speak through s columns every week. Hear what we say. We peak peace. War is over. Brethren, hear us, nd you will understand us better and love us ?ore. Subscribe for THE WORKING CHRISTIAN FOR 1871. It has been enlarged to eight pages, ^nd is filled very week with a fine variety of original reading y the ablest writers among the Baptists of South arolina. Price $2.50. THE WORKING CHRISTIAN i the best medium for advertising in the State, id one of the best in the South. Terms Moder;e. Subscribe! Advertise! Let us work together, talk together, and be rethren, indeed, Address WORKING CHRISTIAN, Charleston, S. C. March 9 10 tf APPLICATION FOB DISCHARGE. lT OTICE is hereby given that the undersigned Executor of the estate of HUGH HENRY 3ceased, will make a final settlement with the idge of Probate of Chester county, on the 3d ly of April next, when he will fiaake applicaon for a final discharge as Executor of tne said itate. JOHN CARR. March 2 9 5t*