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jfowwMiw fcparttafot. A Grateful Editor.?The editor of the ! Philadelphia Dispatch has been made the! happy recipient of some interesting reading ! matter, aud he very properly expresses his I thauks thusly: "We owe our thanks to Judge Kelly for the latest Patent office report We already i have Bixteen hundred of these interesting volumes in our little library, but they have been read and re-read so many times that we know every page of them by heart. This new volume came opportunely and gratefully on Christmas morning, and that night we gathered our little family around the fire and read it through to them. The affecting tale enti- j tied 'Improvement in Monkey Wrenches,' < seemed to touch every heart, and when we came to the climax of the little story about 'Reversible Pie-boards,' there was not a dry ( eye between the front door and the stable, riiirinor the reftHinc of the niteous narrative ?q e ? r ? - entitled the 'Gum Washers for Carriage < Axles/ the whole family gave expression to ( the boisterous emotion, and the hired girl was i so much excited that she lost her presence of ; mind, and went around to her mother's inadvertently with six pounds of sugar and a but- i ter-kettle full of flour, and came home at ; midnight intoxicated. We can never suffi- ] ciently thank Judge Kelly for the innocent en- < joyment thus furnished us. The memory of < that evening will linger in our minds very j much longer than that hired girl ever lingers t when she lights on a lot of substance which i she thinks will suit the constitution of her i aged parent." i # ? "They May Steal, But they Won't , Lie."?We clip the following hit from the j Geneva Gazette: The Republican praise of ( Oakes Ames is very much like Billy Wilson's ' commendation of his Zouaves, as told by Cor- , ry O'Lanus. Corry says, "when they were ^ encamped on Staten Island, in '61, some be- ( nevolent person in New York took up a col- j lection to supply the lambs with hymn books { and chewing tobacco. The committee with j the funds went down to Staten Island, passed through the camp, inspected the lambs in their , tents, and finally came to Billy Wilson's head- ( quarters. The chairman made a neat speech, , then putting his hand in his pocket discover- , ed that the money was gone. 'I had it,' said ( vva 'mknn t tviq nomn ' " 1 I1C) nu^u x t uurvuv/u wiiv v/wujj Says Billy, "I guess it's all right; some of the boys have got it. Adjutant, just enquire who lifted the swag from the old duffer in spectacles." Adjutant went out to investigate, and returned with the report that company Q said they had relieved the old gentleman of the money, "for fear that he might get fatigued carryiug it any farther." "Behold," said Billy, his eyes gleaming with emotion, "the nobility of the lambs; they may steal, but they won'J, lie." + 8?* A story is told of a negro in Virginia whose master threatened to give him a floging if he boiled his eggs hard again. Nest morning the eggs came to the table still harder than before. "You rascal," shouted the enraged planter, "didn't I tell you to cook those eggs soft?" "Yes, massa," said the frightened slave, "an' I got ilp at 2 o'clock dis morning', an' biled dem five hours, an' it seem to me I never kin get dese eggs softer!" During the war one of the uorthern hotelkeepers was on a visit to Norfolk. The eggs came to the table boiled hard. "Look here," said the hotel-keeper, "Sambo, these eggs are boiled too hard. Now, take my watch and boil some three minutes by it." He gave the negro his splendid gold watch. In about five minutes the freedraan returned with the eggs and watch on the same plate, s The watch was wet. t "What have you been doing to my watch ?" f asked the northern visitor, "Why, it's all ( wet." I "Yes, sah," said the negro. "I biled de j witch wid de eggs. All right dis time, sah." t y A Gentle Rebuke.?A lady riding in a i car on the New York Central Railroad was j disturbed in her reading by the conversation ] of two gentlemen occupying the seat just be- I fore her. One of them seemed to be a student ] of some college on his way home for a vaca- t tion. He used much profane language greatly to the annoyance of the lady. < She thought she would rebuke him, and $ on begging pardon for interrupting them, < asked the young student if he had studied the i languages ? < "Yes ma'm, I have mastered the languages | quite well." "Do you read and speak Hebrew ?" i "Quite fluently." i "Will you be so kind as to do rae a favor?" i "With pleasure, I am at your service." "Will you be so kind as to do your swear- i ing in Hebrew?" i We may well suppose the lady was uot an- j noyed any more by the ungentlemanly lan- j guage of the would-be gentleman. 1 . ] Test of a "Real Gentleman."?The test of a "real gentleman" is a curious one in ] these modern times. A restaurant waiter I of London was brought into court for exam- < ination, and the following testimony was 1 given: ] "What is your name ?" i "Robert Flunky, sir?" ] "Well, Mr. Flunky, you say the defendant I i "ttn i . .VV.L ..0>? is no genueman. \v nac muxes you ininK so.r "'Cause, sir, he always says 'Thank you,' when I hand him a mutton chop or even a bit of bread. Now, a real gentleman never i does this; but hollers out, 'Here, John, give ' me a mutton chop, or I'll shy this pepper- ! box at your head!' You can't deceive me with a gentleman, cause why, I've associated 1 with too many of them at the race-course." i 56T A Quaker traveler, arriving at an inn, called for some porter, and, observing the pint I deficient in quantity, thus addressed the land- ] lord : Pray, friend, how many butts of beer 1 dost thou draw in a month ? Ten, sir, re- 1 plied Boniface. And thou wouldst like to draw eleven if thou couldst? rejoined Ebenezer. Certainly, exclaimed the smiliug landlord. Then I will tell thee how, added the Quaker?fill thy measures. < MSF' The heart of a deacon who officiated i with the contribution box at a recent meeting for foreign missions in Boston, was gladdened by observing among its contents a neatly rolled 1 package. On hastily investigating, his former belief in the depravity of human nature was changed to a certainty, by discovering one dollar and a cent, and upon the paper the ! following: "The cent is for the heathen, and ' the dollar to get it to them." i Genius.?A Yankee in Paris, who was i listening to the boasts of a lot of English and I French artists about the wonderful genius of ; their respective countrymen, at last "broke j out" and said: "0 pshaw! Yeou git eout! ; Why, there's Bill Divine, of our village, who < kin paint a piece of cork so 'zackly like a I piece of marble, that the minute you throw it I into the water, it will sink to the bottom ker- 1 chug, jes like a stone." 1 teg1* An elderly lady who was handling a set of false teeth in a dental office, and admiring the fluency with which the doctor described ( them, asked him, "can a body eat with these i things?" "My dear raadarae, mastication I can be performed with a facility scarcely < equal to nature itself," responded the doctor. < "Yes, I know, but can a body eat with i them ?" j i Natural.?Jean Jacques says that when j his wife died, every farmer in the neighbor-; < hood offered to console him with one of their i daughters; but a few weeks afterward, his cow having shared the same fate, no one ever thought of replacing his loss by the offer of another?thereby proviug the different value people set upon their cows and their children. . gepattmcnt. OLD PINE FIELDS. Editor Southern Cultivator:?I observe in your February number an inquiry for the "cheapest, quickest and most effectual way to clear up old pine fields," upon which you ask information. I venture to give mine based on close observation, having been particularly interested in that line myself. In the first place, I have always been told by old heads, and a few young ones too, that if I would go into an old pine-field during the mouth of August, chop down and lodge a few all through at short distances apart, the worms or sawyers, (Cerambyx) would then get a start and before the summer season was over, very few of the trees would be left alive. But I have tried and re-tried, and failed to kill but few in addition to the ones I chopped down. Some said on the old or full of the moon was the proper time to cut; but no go, then either. The proper plan is to begin in the month of May, regardless of moon, and chop down at a few short intervals, say about every fifty yards, lodging as many as practicable. Let all stand until 'the limbs and tops begin to break and fall, which will be in about two years ; then go in with your ax and cut down, fore and aft, right and left, making them cross each other as much as possible, and but fe>v will need chopping in two. If they are piled in almost any manner and let alone until some dry windy day, they will be quite sure to burn. Would advise not to have any more set on fire at one time, than can be kept well shoved up. Have seen your plan tried of chopping all down while green, and when thoroughly dry, put fire. But it left an unusually smutty job, ;oupled with tough chopping and heavy work, if our plan might do where all is small and rery thick. And in comparing the plan of girdling with the above, the latter is much the cheapest, as it requires less labor in deadeung the tress, and if let alone, the pines that ire killed by worms will fall two years sooner ,han those that were girdled at the same time. If to be chopped down, the worm-eaten ones will be in readiness two years sooner, and then ;an be chopped down with more ease, as there vill be a general decay, caused by the rainvater penetrating into the holes. Whereas he girdling will cause the base of the tree to )e harder than if green. R. A. LAMBERT. Claiborne, Monroe County, Alabama. ? ? Turkey Raising.?Having raised a good nany turkeys, and with good success for sev;ral years, I will give my experience. Hens n their second yenr are best, they lay larger ;ggs than younger ones, and the young birds ire stronger. Get a gobbler of a different lock to breed from. I have found them not much harder to raise than chickens, in the following way : Take the eggs from the nest ivery day, leaving in two or three artificial >nes; keep them in an even temperature until ;he turkey wants to sit. Set also at same lime a common hen?9 eggs are enough and for a turkey, 13 to 17, according to size, and ;etthem on the ground if possible; or if in a jox off the ground, fill it one-third full of ;arth, so the air will not draw through the jest. All eggs hatch best on the ground, rhe turkey hen is the best mother; so give wr all the young ones, and put her in a pen nade by 4 boards, 20 iuches or nearly wide, itanding on their sides, changing the pen ev;ry week to a fresh place. An old tough sod s best, where they can get get the morning lun ; feed for the first few days hard boiled ;ggs, chopped fine, with a small quantity of Iry curd; after the first week, curd drained Iry, some Indian corn, ground a little coarse ind mixed with curd ; and onion tops cut in imall bits and also given with above once or ,wice a week. They will thrive on the above bod. When the young turkeys are a month >ld, let them out on fine days, when they can ind most of their food in insects, &c. They iow grow rapidly; feed morning and evening ;o induce thcra to return to their home, and fou will be rewarded in the fall with a fine lock. No one can succeed with them without some trouble and an iuterest taken in thera. [ have had young hens to weigh 15 to 18 lbs. iy Christmas, and young gobblers 23 to 26 bs., with good feeding.?B., in Country Gen'lemen. Two Ploughs to one Mule.?To expelite the planting of my cotton last year, I re-, sorted to a method, which I beg to communicate for the probable benefit of some of your readers. My plan is to attach two ploughs to ine mule, thus securing from one the labor of ;wo. Arrange as follows: Having geared the mule as usual, take off the swingle-tree and ittach each trace-chain to a plough-stock by running a clevis through the ring of the trace, rhe working position is thus: The mule ivalks in the water furrow, while the ploughs ire pulled along the beds on either side. Thus irrauged, one pair of ploughs opens the drills, ;he seed sowers come after, and are followed ip by a second pair of ploughs covering with boards. Of course, a ploughman is needed for each olough, but with one good hand to manage die mule, a small boy may hold or guide the ither plough. The draught is very light, for die mule walks upon firm ground ; and the i 11 i _ - p l i. 1. _p p plan will oe 01 oeueni 10 sucu ui out jariiiers 13 may desire, with a small mule force, to push through the planting operation as?rapidly as possible.?W. B. C. in Rural Carolinan. How to keep and cook mackerel.? The following suggestions with regard to keeping and preparing pickled mackerel and other salt fish are condensed from an article on the subject by Mr. Isaac Hale, of Newburyport, Mass., who has more than a merely local reputation as a packer of and as an "expert" on all matters thereto pertaining: To keep nice, and prevent rusting, be sure that they are kept under the pickle. If the pickle should get below the fish, fill up with more, made by putting salt in cold water. The cellar, or 3ome place iu which you have no fire and even temperature, is the best place to keep all kinds of pickled fish. For boiling, soak twenty-four hours; for broiling or for baking, soak forty-eight hours. In the latter case, cream or milk can be used for cooking them in. To avoid the unpleasant rising up in the throat after eating, which many persons experience, skin the mackerel before cooking, and a white pulpy substance will be found, which adheres to the skin, and which causes this strong taste.?Journal of \ Chemistry. ? How to Destroy Nut Grass.?I have seen various suggestions offered as to the best means of getting rid of that terrible pest to ill planters, nut grass; but they have all failed to suggest the true remedy. I have it in a nutshell. The nut will not propagate if the plant be not allowed to go to seed for two years. It must be allowed to shoot and be prevented from going to seed for two years ; you will never see any more of it. The principle is this, the old nut exhausts vitality in that time, and no new nut is formed or matured, when not allowed to go to seed. This lias been actually demonstrated by me for the last fifteen years.?JtS. Stokes, in tne liurai Carolinian. Paste as is Paste.?Dissolve an ounce rfalura in a quart of warm water; when cold add as much flour as will make it the consistence of cream, then stew into it as much powdered rosin as will stand on a shilling and two )r three cloves, boil it to a consistence, stirring all the time. It will keep for twelve months, and when dry may be softened witli water. * + Remedy for Hog Cholera.?The undersigned would respectfully recommend for the good of the country the following remedy: Burn your corn in the ear until it is black on the ends of the grains, then feed to them as you would other corn. The remedy should be used as the symptoms make their appearance. J, C. Butj.ek in Calhoun Times. I jffktUMg ffjiartwcnt. !? HOW I TOOK A HIDE. "When I was a little girl I took a journey, and I should like some of you to guess how J ; "How far was it, mamma ?" "About two miles." "Then it was only a walk," said Mary. "It was a walk, but what of that? I rode." 0 "By railway, mamma ?" ^ "No, not by railway." "Was it by the omnibus ?" "No," said mamma. v "Was it in a cab, or a chaise ?" t1 "Neither, you must guess again." p "It was a curious journey, mamma; did a you go by yourself?" a "No," said mamma. I was too young. j But I was the only one that rode." ^ "How old were you ?" asked Mary. "About five years," was the reply." w ttTUrtn T tUinlr If ziAiilr) kavfi l\Aan Alt I f] J. lie LI JL UUU U billliCV 11# UUU1U IIUVV uvuu vsu ? horseback, because you were too little." si "It was better than horseback," said mam- j] ma, "or at least it seemed so to me." "Better than horseback ? How queer! , Well, I think I shall guess right this time? it was a perambulator." P "As far from right as ever. They were not 81 in fashion then, so guess again." ? "Dear me, this is a riddle, indeed. We C must give it up, mamma." a "I thought it would come to that. You j would have guessed a long time before you would have thought of a?baker's basket." Cl "A baker's basket!" laughed the children. ^ "You must be joking. How funny! Who si would ever have thought of a little girl riding sf in a baker's basket ?" g It was Christmas Eve, and my mother, jj talking to cousin Robert, who had stepped in, said she hoped it would be fine on the J, morrow, because of going to their grand- * mother's. ci Cousin Robert said, "Why not let Annie d go to-night? I'll take her in my basket. It will be such a good joke." "Not if she takes cold," answered ray , mother. "She shall not, indeed." P Well, to end the story, after much coaxing II I was packed in the basket with my Christ- nl mas dress of bright scarlet pinned up in a 01 damask towel. Cousin Robert whistled all jE the way, and when grandma's was reached, , set down the basket in the warm room, saying, "A Christmas present for you, ma'am." ai Such guessing and talking as there was ol then, and at iast such laughing wnen wnat 1 they called a bundle of old clothes turned out p; to be "Little Annie," and I shouted and C( clapped ray hands, while they said it was the best Christmas box they had ever seen. I was hugged and kissed, and fed, and c toasted by the fire lest I should have taken cold, and at last tucked snugly in Aunt Lou's bed, where I slept as peacefully as could be, waking up bright and early to find a stocking filled by Kriss Kriugle, waiting for me. DESIRING AND*CHOOSING. "0," said a poor druukard, "I desire above all things to reform and be a steady man." Yes, you must desire it; but do you choose it? There is a great difference between de- b siring a thing and choosing a thing. A per- sc son may desire without choosing. If you ai choose to be a reformed man you will be. q Ask a poor, ragged vagabond, "Do you not ^ desire to be rich ?" Of course, he will say, ? "Yes." But he does not choose it; he desires f to be lazy much more than to earn his living, a therefore he is a vagabond. a "Charlie, do you desire to be a scholar, and b stand at the head of your class?" "Indeed h I do," cries Charlie; but Charlie is at the foot tj of every thing, because he likes his ease better than he likes application. ? "Mother," said Lucy, "I really desire to be c obliging and sweet-tempered ; I want to be a child of God." Then you must choose to be, f< my child," answered her mother. "We are tl ( full of desire ; but we only choose those things n which we are willing to take pains and deny ij ourselves for." "0, mother, choosiug is so hard," said Lucy. Hard at first, perhaps, ? but it becomes easier as we resolutely go on." |s "I will choose," crid Lucy. is It was not long before she was put to the ii test. She had just gone up stairs to finish a e story in which she was deeply interested. c "Lucy!" called Aunt Jane, "I want you!" "Always wanting me; I never can have any comfort by myself," Lucy said to herself, and 11 was just about to answer, "What?" in a very si disobliging tone, when she bravely swallowed t< her ill-feeling, and said cheerfully, "Yes, Aunt r( Jane, I am coming." Lucy chose, you see. ^ Choosing requires effort. She struggled to be what she desired to be, and that is choos- 0 ing. Lucy will doubtless become an obli- s< ging, sweet-tempered girl. SOT ABOVE IT. V "Where is Bob ? I thought he was going," ? asked one boy of the other as they went toward the water. G "Bob ! he is washing his mother's dishes," g said the other boy. "Bob is nothing but a A kitchen-girl half the time, Bob is. I would?" a but I dare not write what Augustus said he tj would do if he were in Bob's place. Pretty soon Bob's steps were heard behind " them. "Not going without me, are you ?" he ^ cried in a gay tone. t! "I thought you had your stint washing ? dishes," said Augustus. "It seems to me pretty mean business your mother puts you to. I did not know it was boys' work to do ii such things." fl "It is boys' work to do anything to help at tl home," cried Bob, with an angry flush upon S his cheek ; "and if I can help mother by wash- e ing up her dishes, I am glad and thankful to h do it. One good turn deserves another; and I when I think of all she does for us, I like to v lend a helping hand to do for her." n "But washing dishes!" said Augustus, s< scornfully. 0 "Cleanim? un is not the worst business in if 0 the world," cried Bob, good uaturedly. "I tl know plenty of worse things." ft "You've got the right of it," said Tom, "I n only wish I had a mother to wait on." a Yes, Bob is in the right of it. A boy who k trains himself, or who is trained to notice cl things about home, and to bear a hand in the tl little matters which need help here or need y help there, is growing up to be something ei more than a selfish, noisy, whistling, teasing t( member of the household, who expects to be b waited on from morning till night. Active tl sympathy with one another's burdens . makes n household burdens all the lighter. And Bob, d I am sure, will make a husband whose wife V ! can never complain of a want of interest in d things at home.? Child's Paper. u Old Patch.?Here is a little narrative J? which we have seen in print two or three times, but it deserves stereotyping: .' "A poor boy came to school with a large patch on his knee. One of his school-fellows, ^ who was a little haughty, and withal a great J "tease," began to nick-harae him "Patch!" and finally, "Old Patch." "Why don't you e) Mick him ?' Yes, give it to him! I wouldn't! be called names so by him ; I'd give it to : S( J him !" "Pooh !" answered the boy with the | patch, "you don't suppose I'm ashamed of j ! my patch, do you ? For my part, I am very ,l i thankful for a good mother who, though poor, c +mi<. fr. imnn ma nnf nf rnctq A neat natch w I l/WXIO lu IUV VUH V* ? ? I i looks rauch better than a slovenly ragged ? | hole. Yes, I honor this patch for my moth- ' ! er's sake." There was a true and noble phiI losophy in this, and his companions felt it. . ' "There is no getting the better of Patch," 11 ! said the boys; "not a bit of false shame about tl i him." And now the boys honored him for it. i | | if i -What Yankee would ever have thought; d ' of protecting small birds from their persecu-! tl 1 tors by tying whistles to their tails? But this \ a: plan has been in operation in China for a ! tc I thousand years. Doves are numerous there ; but they were so preyed upon by the vultures,! that a tin whistle was placed upon the tails | yi of many of them, which makes a shrieking j yi noise when the bird passes through the air ; A i and the vultures arc frightened by this. ! w leading fat the JFxttxtk. j CONDUCTED BY liJEV. ROBEIIT LATHAN. [Original.] THE EFFECTS OF THE GOSPEL. Few persons take a comprehensive view f the gospel of Jesus Christ. The effects of his and that invention are lauded and exolled ; but rarely is it estimated what the rorld owes to the gospel. The discovery of he magnetic needle, the invention of gun lowder, the application of steam in the arts, tid the various and wonderful uses which re made of electricity, have, it is said, revoJtionized the world. This we will not conradict; but great as have been the effect of tiese discoveries and inventions, the effects of lie gospel of Jesus Christ have been, we may afely say, infinitely greater. Many seem to [link that all the effects of the gospel have eference to the soul of man and not to his ody. It would seem that a large number of eople in Christian lands do not fully uudertand the nature of Christ's mission into this rorld. They act as if they thought that Jhrist came into this world and accomplished work, all the benefits of which will be expeienced in eternity. This is a narrow and ontracted view of the mission of our Saviour's rork. Christ came into this world to save nners in every respect that the sinner needs ilvation. The sinner is contemplated by the ospel as a creature of time dwelling here on le earth, and as an immortal being destined ) live in another state of existence forever, 'he object of the gospel is to ransom man soially, politically and morally from the thralom of sin. Christ came into this world to restore to lan what he lost by the fall. Sin affects the ndv as well as the soul. It ruins man's resent happiness as well as his future bliss, t disorganizes society and pollutes the raorIs. The object of the gospel is to restore rder amongst men as social and moral beigs. The history of the world demonstrates mt the actual results of the gospel are peace ad harmony. Prosperity follows the gospel r Jesus Christ as the effect follows the cause, he most prosperous nations on earth, in every articular, are Christian nations. The most jmfortable people on the globe are Christian sople. The conversion of the heathen to iristianity would be an inestimable blessing > the world in a pecuniary aspect. [Original.] THE CHRISTIAN'S NEEDS. Whilst the people of God remain in the esh, they may be regarded as children still i their minorage. In fact this seems to be lan's primitive relation, and when redeemed y the blood of a precious Saviour, this will e his eternal.condition. Adam is called the m of God. He sinned and lost his sonship, nd entailed alienation upon his posterity, ihrist restores those who believe in him to leir original condition. God becomes their ither, and they receive the spirit of adoption nd become the children of God. As children re dependent upon their natural parents, so elievers on Christ are dependent upon their eaveuly Father. The necessities of Chris !?/* ipUaIa /\P nartliltr nil. UUS, UUM1J? bllU Ulivic vi buvii vut viuj riraage, are very similar to those of young hildren. All children need the protection and de;nse of their parents. The very existence of le child depends upon the parents, and in lost instances, the prolonging of the child's fe is wholly dependent upon the watchful are of its father or mother, or of both. So it i with all believers. Their spiritual sonship i due to the love and mercy of God which is i Christ Jesus, and the perpetuity of this xalted relation is secured by the watchful are of him who never slumbers nor sleeps. Parents comfort and cousole their children i the midst of troubles, and cheer them when truggling with difficulties. So docs God do > his people. As children are often surounded by troubles and difficulties, so are rue believers; and as parents sustain their ffspring, so does God sustain his spiritual sed. The actual wants of the true believer are ery many and very pressing. Each and all f them may, with eminent propriety, say, Save, Lord, or I perish." Every child of lod needs grace to resist temptation, and race to be faithful in the discharge of duty. til the ransomed of the Lord need the kind ud fostering care of the Holy Spirit, that jey may grow up to the stature of perfect len in Christ. They need the guidance of be spirit from the time of the new birth until bey cross the wilderness and arrive at the Tew Jerusalem. ? + Nothing Can Hinder Prayer.?Nothig can destroy or detain a real prayer; its ight to the throne is swift and certain. God :ie Holy Ghost invites our prayers, God the on presents our prayers, and God the Fathr accepts our prayers, and with a Trinity to elp us in it, what cannot prayer perform? may be speaking to some who are under erv severe trials?I feel persuaded I am ; let. ie beg them to take this promise to themjJves as their own ; and I pray God the Holy rhost to lay it home to their hearts and make ; theirs, "I will never leave thee nor forsake lee." God will not fail you, though you lil yourself. Though you faint, He fainteth ot, neither is He weary. Lift up your cry, nd He will lift up His hand. Go to your nees, you are strongest here ; resort to your hamber, and it shall be to you none other lan the gate of heaven. Tell your God our grief; if heavy to you, it will be light nough to Him. Dilemmas will all be plain ) His wisdom, and difficulties will vanish efore His strength. Oh ! tell it not in Gath rnt Israel cannot trust in God; publish it ot in the streets of Askelon that trouble can istnay those who lean upon the eternal arm ! Vith Jehovah in the van, O, hosts of Israel, are you fear ? The Lord of Hosts is with s; the God of Jacob is our refuge. What mn's heart shall quail, or what soul shall lint? Lift up the hands that hang down, Dnfirm the feeble knees. Say unto the feeble 1 heart, "Be strong; fear not, God is with ou; He will help you and that right early." purgeon. The Bible.?There never was written on irth a clearer book than the Holy Scripires ; compared to all other books, it is as the in to all other light. Let none tempt you away from the Scrip ires. Jb'or if you step out of tnese, you are >st; your enemies lead you whither they ill. But if you keep to them, you have vercome, and will heed their raging no more mn the rock heeds the waves and billows of ie sea. Only be certain, and doubt not that nothlg is clearer than the sun?that is the Scripires. If a cloud glides before them, behind lem is nothing but the same clear sun. So, there is a dark saying in the Scriptures, oubt not; behind it, most surely, is shining le same truth which in other places is clear ; nd let him who cannot pierce this dark, keep ) what is clear.?Luther. 8ST Never forget what a man has said to ou when he was angry. If he has charged ou with anything, you had better look it up. .nger is a bow that will shoot sometimes here another feeling will not.?Beecher. ^listcUanrous |foadiag.1 CAPTAIN JACK'S CAMP. 1 HOW HE LOOKS?HIS CAVE IN IN THE LAVA j BEDS. ; A correspondent of the San Francisco i | Chronicle, who visited Captain Jack at his ( headquarters in the Lava Beds some time be- ] fore the killing of Geu. Canby, writes as fol- , lows: The principal portion of the camp is situa- j ted in a huge opening or widening, which ( seems more like a huge wash-bowl than anything else. The natural wall rises a hundred . * 1A !I _ ?1 1_J AL. xeei or more, dui n is easily semen, ior me iuner side is inclined, and the rocks are sharp and jut out all over it. Once in this basin there is but one way out, and that is by the < trail we entered. There are other ways out, ' but they are by tunnels leading to the many < caves or sink holes in another part of the ' Lava Bed, and which will be more fully described further. On the outside of this basin , there is a succession of ridges as high as that i which inclose it, but these do not extend all the way around. To the west of the basin is a flat, table-like surface of lava, extending from the very summit of its rim clear back for j more than a mile. In this level place are the t sink holes or caves formed thousands of years < ago, perhaps in the cooling of this immense J body of molten lava. The openings of the t holes are very small; indeed, one does not see < them until he has almost fallen in. But they ^ widen as they go down, and their sides being ( sloping one can pick his way to the bottom ? without difficulty. Most of these caves are ? connected with each other and with the larger f basin by subterranneous passages, so that one s can go for half a mile in the beds without 1 coming to the surface at all. This is of in- t calculable benefit in defending the stronghold, f for one man can keep one hundred at bay al- 1 most anywhere in it without fear of being ! smoked out or having retreat cut off. After supper, which, by the way, was shared with a keen relish by about a dozen naked Indian babies, Bogus Charley came and said he would conduct us to Captain Jack. So the whole party gathered up their blankets aud followed. Charley led the way right up oue side of the basiu, through a little trail not easy of ascent by unpracticed feet, and across the level place about fifty yards, when we came suddenly to the mouth of a pit hole, at least forty feet deep. The hole iuclined downward, aud at the bottom widened and formed a perfect cave, extending under the rock at least fifty feet. At the mouth of the cave proper, but yet thirty or forty feet below the surface, a piece of canvas was stretched. This was Captain Jack's front door, and the cave behind it was his abiding place?the palace of the Modoc king. Behind the canvas we could see a bright fire burning, and nearly the whole tribe encircled around it, ready for the talk, which they knew was to come. The descent in the cave was somewhat perilous, but by a vigorous clinging to the rocks and careful stepping, we managed to reach the canvas. Then, throwing that back, we stood in the presence of Captain Jack. It was easily seen that he was sick. His eyes were dull, his cheeks emaciated, and he was so weak he could not stand, but remained reclining on a huge pile of bear skins, his two wives by his side. Mr. Steele went up to him and shook hands warmly, as did the rest of the party. Then passing completely around the circle, all shook hands with the entire tribe. This ceremony lasted several minutes, and, when finished, we were furnished seats in the circle near Captain Jack. The only wood in the Lava beds is sage brush, but this was piled on the fire with an unsparing hand, and the flames shot upward and illuminated the cave most brilliantly. Then each member of our little party lighted his pipe, and after taking a whiff or two, passed it around to the right, beginning with Captain Jack, who took a whiff and passed it on to the next, and so on. In such a large circle, of course, one pipeful would not go round, and so, when it was smoked out, they did not hesitate to bring it back to be refilled, and then send it on to complete its journey. During this cer- . eraony not a word was spoken, aud so the correspondent had ab indant time to take a good look at the savafaes. Captain Jack was the central figure, aud attracted most attention. He is a stern, dignified-looking man, not over thirty, though he looks older. He has a good head, though, like all Indians, the forehead is low. His complexion is dark? the pure copper color?and his eyes are full, black and piercing. His hair is long, hanging down to his shoulders, and he is, of course, destitute of beard. His mouth is large, and its shape indicates firmness, determination and a great deal of character. He was very glad to see Steele, but he did not show it by his manner. When he shook hands it was with an indifference that, to one unacquainted with the Indian character, would seem to be absolute rudeness. He was dressed in a hickory shirt, and was covered with blankets. THE TRADE IN WILD BEASTS. An article in the New York Times gives some very curious facts respecting the "wild beast trade" in the United States. One man in that city monopolizes the entire business. He imports on order every variety of wild beast and bird, from an elephant to a guinea pig, from an ostrich to a Java sparrow. Does the proprietor of a menagerie lose his elephant he repairs to this gentleman's repository. He states whether he would prefer an African or an Asiatic elephant. He gives his order according to his fancy, and in due time the animal arrives and is immediately shipped to where his new owner's caravan may happen to be. If an African lion is wanted, a despatch is at once sent to Cape Town; if horned horses, giraffes or rhinoceroses are in demand, orders are at once sent out to ship to New York all that can be bought or found. He employs fifteen men in Asia and Africa 1 to be on the lookout, and catch for him what- ' ever is wanted. As there are more than thirty menageries traveling over the country, each 1 of which loses a certain per centage of ani- i mals each year, this gentleman has business enough and is enabled to realize good prices. His sales, it is said, average over $100,000 a . year. We are told that, "as a general thing," ( animals are captured when young, by the natives, acting under instructions from the white agents. If lions are wanted, the natives sally up the country and either kill the parents and then secure the cubs, or track the lioness to her den, and then, waiting till she goes for food, seize the opportunity of taking the ( cubs. In capturing elephants, they drive them, old and vouner, in an enclosure, hamstring ] the old ones, so as to disable them frum pro- ' tecting their calves, and then easily secure the young ones. ] An African lion commands a higher price ] in the market than an Asiatic lion, on ac- 1 count of his more noble and commanding ap- i pearance. His mane is much thicker and longer than that of his Asiatic brother, and ? is black. The quantity and ^ height of the a mane is the test of the valub of lions. An f African lion sells for $3,000; an Asiatic one only $2,000. The same with tigers. Royal Bengal tigers will command $5,000 a pair. Camels and dromedaries bring about $1,200 apiece, but camels have been sold .at $2,500. A good ostrich can be bought for about $400 ; t elephants from $6,000 to 88,000; horned ? horses, though they are really only a variety ? of the antelope, from $1,500 upwards. A very fair menagerie may be stocked for i, $50,000; but some few of the giant shows : f value their stock of animals at two or three t times that figure. The aggregate value of c -ii it- Hiftoronf raravana It 11 U1C >Y 11U UUllUaio IU vuu in this country must approximate $,2,500,000. i 1 In no other country in the world are there so | many kept in confinement. j Where Meerschaum is Found.?Most | of the meerschaum of which the famous pipes e are made comes from Asia Minor, and is 1 mined principally in the peninsula of Natolia, near Coniah. Meerschaum is also found iu Spain and Greece, but in such small quantities, and of such inferior quality, that mining is not remunerative. Meerschaum is exported in irregularly shaped blocks, with obtuse angles and edges, and much care is required in removing the irregularities and faulty proportions. It may also contain various defects, by the diffusion of various minerals throughout, and there are also hard spots in some meerschaum, which will appear on the surface when pipes arc cut and waxed. Such pipes arc classed as secouds and thirds, and Lhe market value is thereby diminished from Gfteen to twenty per cent. Ill* fjarMl* (frmptirer. TEHMS--IW a u v : DneCopy, oneyear, 9 3 00 3ne Copy, Six months, 1 50 DneCopy, Throe mouths, 1 00 Single Copy, 10 Two Copies, one year, 5 00 Ten Copies, " " 25 00 persons who make up clubs often or nore names, an extra copy of the paper will be 'urnislied one year, free ol'chargg. ? ADVERTISEMENTS Will be inserted at One Dollar and Fifty Cents 3or square for the tirst, and Soventy-livo Cents :>er square for each subsequent insertion-less than bree months. A square consists of the space ocsupied by ten lines of this size type, or one inch. So advertisement considered less than a square. 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The Idea of getting a Trm really first-class Magazine at one dollar a year, Y |y| seems absurd to most people. Yet it employs A some of the best contributors In the country? H Including Gail Hamilton, its leading editor, Cwho receives a salary of three thousand dol- Jj Alara, equivalent to about ten dollars per day. P Each number contains nearly eight hundred p Z dollars' worth of matter, which costs the sub- ?* tcrlber about eight cents. A I Hope and Joy?two benuUfally tinted crayon . portraits worth Four Dollars?will be mailed J N free to evety subscriber to the Magazine at SI ?0 Q E Specimens (lee. Agents wanted. Address S. 5; a WOOD k CO., Newburgh, N. Y. Y iwiMJi-ttwiriJoy U United Voice of the Preaa.?Wood's VIit JJ magazine is one of the monuments of business ** U enterprise which mark the ago.?Methodi* U<mf O P Journal, Phlla., Fa. ... .As its title promises, It Is devoted to the instruction and entertnliiment V E ofthefamllycircle.and.lnordertoplaccltwtth- n o. in the means of readers in moderate circumJ** stances,! t Is furnished at a remarkably low rate S in proportion to tbe interest of Its contents.?JY. a y. Tribune. . .It Is essentially a home magazine, H Yyj and Isjust tho thing that onowouidmost desire /v to place in the hands of his wife and little ones, w U or that a man of business would himself take IJ II up for the employment of a leisure hour.?Pott 7Z O Wilmington. N. 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Springfield, Tenn The articles ?, ' J*" arc short, piquant, and of such unquestioned | excellence, that this periodical ought to be both _ J Q familiar and welcome In vety many house- |\| Yw holds. Wood's is a marvel or cheapness and n first-class quality combined.?Afcis York Timet. fc Wnnfl'o Unnoahnlfl lUTafroTino fFUUUO UUUOUUUIU lUU&UZiWU ; - ? 1 - - DOORS, | SASH AND BLINDS, MOULDINGS, Brackets, Stair Fixtures, builders' Furnishing Hardware, Drain Pipe, Floor Tiles, Wire i Guards, Terra C'otta Ware, Marble and ; Slate Mantle Pieces. WINDOW GLASS A SPECIALTY. Circulars and Price Lists sent free ' on application, P. P. TOALE, ! 20 Hayne and 33 Pinckney streets, Charleston, S. C. Orders received by my Agents, i Messrs. JEFFERYSA METTS.attbe Citizen's Savings Bank,Yorkville, S. C. &33~ White Pine Lumber for Sale. j October 3 40 ly ROSE'S HOTEL, (FORMERLY HUNT'S HOTEL.) COLOraA, s. I THIS HOUSE is in the centre of the city, convenient to all the Public Offices and Business Houses, located on the south-west corner of the State House Square, has been recently re-opened ind renovated, and will now compare favorably with any Hotel at the South. ROSE'S OMNIBUS will convey passengers to ind from every train, free of charge. Also, a first-class Carriage for the accommodation of ladies. TRANSIENT BOARD $2.50 per day. W. E. ROSE, Proprietor. Sontemberl2 37 tf 7HARL0TTE, COL. AND AUGUSTA R. R. SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE,) Columbia, S. C., September 22,1872. J ON and after this date, the following Schedule will be run over this road: going south. Train No. 1. Train No. 2. jeave Charlotte 7.15 A. M. 8.20 P. M. jeave Columbia 2.29 P. M. 3.30 A. M. Arrive at Augusta 7.42 P. M. 8.20 A. M. going north. jeave Augusta. 6.35 A. M. 5.50 P. M. Leave Columbia 11.53 A. M. 11.05 P. M. Arrive at Charlotte.... 6.15 P. M. 6.00 A. M. Standard time ten minutes slower than Washngton ; six minutes ahead of Columbia. No. 1 Train daily. No. 2 Train daily, Sundays ixcepted. Both trains make close connection to ill points North, South and West. Through tickets sold and baggage checked to all >rincipal points. JAMES ANDERSON, General Sup't. E. B. Dorsey, Gen. Freight and Ticket Agent. "the morning star. DAILY EDITION: rHOUGH only live years old, has the largest Daily Circulation of any newspaper in the state, and a circulation in Wilmington fifty per lent, larger than that of any other paper. WREKLY EDITION: Sow combined with the CAROLINA FARMER, naking one of the best Family Newspapers in iio South. Circulation very large and rapidly in Teasing. SUBgcRIpTI0N price : )aily Star, 1 year, $7 00 44 " 6 months, 3 50 41 41 3 months, 2 00 rVeekly Star, 1 year, 2 00 44 44 6 months, 1 00 44 4* 3 months, 50 It may bo safely asserted that no newspaper iver established in North Carolina has made such apid progress as THE MORNING STAR. %3r Send for Specimen copies. "Address, WM. H. BERNARD, Wilmington, N. O. Dr. Crook's Wine of Tar. J. 10 YEARS PUBLIC TEST Dr. Crook's WINE W XAR I To have more mniiBfilfc. merit than any similar prepnraW/RWifeje don ever o tiered . - i.ii _ uie pnwiic. Tt in ricli In the medicinal qualities of Tar. and iineqnnleil for diseas. es of the Tliroat and Lungs, performing the most remarkable cures. Coughs, Colds, Clionie Coughs. It effectually cures them all. Asthma and Itroiiehiis. Has cured so many cases it has been pronounced a specific for these complaints. For pains in Breast, Side or Back, Gravel or Kidney Disease, Diseases of the Urinary Organs, Jaundice or any Liver Complaint, It baa no equal. It is also a superior Tonic, Restores the Appetite, Strengthens the System, Restores the n eak and Debilitated, Causes the Food to Digest, Removes Dyspepsia and Indigestion, Prevents Malarious Fevers, fl i ves tono to your System. rwi It ? U/incat'Tar 1 I'J l? !???? WW lUVW ?October 3 40 ly For over FORTY YEARS this PURELY VEGETABLE LIVER MEDICINE has proved to be the GREAT UNFAILING SPECIFIC for Liver Complaint and its painful offspring, DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, Jaundice, Bilious attacks, SICK HEADACHE, Colic, Depres- , sion of Spirits, SOUR STOMACH, Heartburn, CHILLS AND FEVER, Ac., Ac. After years of careful experiments, to meet a great and urgent demand, we now produce from our original Genuine Powders THE PREPARED, A Liquid form of SIMMONS' LIVER REGULATOR, containing all its wonderful and valuable properties, and offer it in ONE DOLLAR BOTTLES. The Powders, (price as before,) fl.00 per package. Sent by mail, 1.04 per package. CAUTION I -ess. Buy no Powders or PREPARED SIMMONS' LIVER REGULATOR unless in our engraved wrapper, with Trade mark, Stamp and Signature unbroken. None other is genuine. J. H. ZEILIN & CO., MACON, GA., AND PHILADELPHIA. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. February 6 50 6m THE HOME SHUTTLE f?1HE best Cheap Machine in the Market. If the I number sold is a criterion of merit, it is the BEST MACHINE in use, as there have been more HOME SHUTTLE MACHINES sold in the State during the last twelve months than all other Sewing Machines combined. You can buy a HOME SHUTTLE MACHINE for about half the money you will have to pay for a first-class Machine, "so-called." W. L. GRIST, Agent. GEO. S. HACKEBr mil 11 DOOR, SASH AND DLIND FACTORY, CHARLESTON, S. C. rflHIS is as large and completes Factory as there X is in the South. All work manufactured at the Factory in this city. The only house owned and managed by a Carolinian in this line in Charleston. Send for price list. Address, GEO. S. HACKER, Post-Office box 170, Charleston, S. C. Factory and Warerooms on King street, opposite Cannon street, on line of City Railway. December 5 49 ly KING'S MOUNTAIN R? ROAD. DAILY TRAIN. HEREAFTER the trains over the KING'S MOUNTAIN RAIL ROAD will run daily, (Sundays excepted) as follows, making close eon- * nection with trains on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad: Leave Yorkville, promptly, at 7} o'clock, A. M. Arrive at Chester at 9} o'clock, A. M. Leave Chester at 4 o'clock, P. M. Arrive at Yorkvilleat (1 o'clock, P. M. All Freights must be delivered at the Depot by 4 o'clock, P. M., on the evenings previous to the ? * *** departure of the train. GEORGE W. MELTON, President. ^HEPARKERCUM. PARKER BRO'S ^ WEST MERIDEN.CT. mm Ll IISSBAICE COHFAIY, MEJtfPHIS, TKNN. Branch Office, - Baltimore, Maryland. ASSETS, $1,100,000. Hon. JEFFERSON DAVIS, .* President. Gen. WADE HAMPTON, Pres. Baltimore Board. J. D. KENNEDY, State Agent. W. B. SADLER, Yorkville,^.....*.Special Agent. June 27 26 ly Ctt r fpfi PER day! Agents wanted! jg5 H) * -All classes of working people of either sex, young or old, make more money at work for us in their spare moments, or all the time, than at anything else. Particulars free. Address G. Stinson dk Co., Portland, Maine. October 3 40 ly A rrpTita may learn something greatly to their advantage and obtain specimens and full particulars free, by addressing WOOD'S LITERARY AND ART AGENCY, Newburgh, N. Y. WRAPPING PAPER. A LOT of TIDDY'S large-sized WRAPPING PAPER on hand and for sale, by W. L. GRIST, Agent.