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The ft?tivatton of Cotton* It is generally admitted, we believe, thai Mr. BaVid TJioksok', of Hancock county, Ga., has conferred more lasting benefit upon the J arm? ing community, both by precept and example, than any other writer for the agricultural press of to-day. His fame as a practical agricultu? rist extends far and. wide. Many of our read? ers will be pleased to learn that Mr. Dickson. has written a- book upon his favorite theme, which will shortly be issued from the press. For the benefit of cotton planters we give the following extract from advance sheets of this work, and leave the reader to judge whether or not its plain, practical advice should be follow? ed: Lay off the rows four feet; run the second furrow seven or eight inches.deep; deposit the fertilizers intended to be used either with, the hand or fertilizer sower, at the rate of four hun? dred pounds or upwards to the acre. With a long scooter plough run on each side of that furrow, and cover it up. Bun the same plough in those farrows a second time, - or the snbsoil plough, if preferred. Use a good, turn plough, and run on the aide of each of those scooter ? furrows in each of those turning furrows, or a subsoil. Split out the middles with a large shovel, as deep as the horse will pull it. That finishes the bed. When ready to plant, open with a small, short bull-tongue. Sow the seed with the hand or cotton seed sower?the cotton seed sower pre? ferable. If the cotton seed sower is used it finishes the whole operation at once. The earlier cotton is planted the lighter it must be covered. Cotton may be planted from the first of April till the. 15th of May. From the 10th to the 25th of April I consider the best time. You may plant, with high manuring, as late as the 1st of June. By extending your planting over the longest periods you can raise the largest crops,- the bulk being put. in about the 15th to the 20th of April. In the first working of the cotton, side with a twenty-two inch sweep, with the right wing tolerably flat, going very close to the plan:, not exceeding a half inch depth in the ploughing. It may be hoed by scraping with a sharp No. 2 ScoyeU hoe any tune after ploughing. Leave two or three stalks in a hill, the width of the hoe.being the space that the stalks should be apart Some advantage is gained by keeping as near the middle as possible. * JYou will be able to see what grass the plough left. The ~ab_ving of the grass" with the hoe will act as a . second working of crop. It will always be - safe, if you can, to return to the cotton once in three weeks. ? - . Side shallow, and close again the second time. Occasionally, to keep the surface very level, -yon may run the plough in the middle of the ? row. By leaving the proper periods between .the ploughing, you may carry the point about the 1st to the 10th of August, which is a very good time to cease working cotton. Cotton may be made with two to three plough ings. Four sidings and two middle splittings are all that ic ever wants under the most unfa? vorablecircumstances. The greatest amount of work the cotton requires is only ten furrows to the row for all cultivation. The whole ploughing occupies just one and a fourth days' work per acre, under favorable circumstances; and it may be completed with three-fourth days' work per acre. It is essential that each of those plougnings should be done very shallow and close, never stopping for dry weather. If the ground stays wet, you may stop a few hours and nots. The hoeing and ploughing during the cultivation of the crop closes up the land suffi? ciently to cause the fruit to set finely. At the beginning of the planting it was sufficiently po? rous for the roots to penetrate- in every direc? tion, and to any desired depth. The cotton plant is like the cultivated plum or cherry, re? quiring the land to be pretty close around the roots to set its fruit well, and prevent drowning in excessive rains. To cause early maturity the rows of the cotton should bo one way four feet apart, and there should be from two to three stalks in a hill, at the distance of every nine inches. "When the cotton fruit comn ences to bloom, each stalk will bloom and take on just as many bolls as if there were only three stalks to the yard. This system, stated above, will insure eight, stalks to the yard, if hoed with care, which is one hundred and sixty-six percent, more stalks than if one stalk is left for every twelve inches. By placing the stalks thick in the drill, and wide apart, the land is less shaded, and gets more light and sun. If you wish to shade with a given number of plants, the more equally the land is divided the more completely it is shaded. * Prepared, manured, planted and. cultivated, as directed, there never has been any reason, any'year, to prevent you from having a good average crop. This being the dryest year I have k e-arkno?n, has satisfied me of this fact, for I have a good average crop. If you pursue the above plan, and get three favorable weeks from the 20th of July, you will get a good average crop. Thin planting, as a general thing, latens the crop. If seasons have been regular, and the above directions have been carried out, the plant Will be completely checked by the 20th of August, and need no topping. Topping is advantageous where we find the bolls nave not come on soon enough, and if topped, should be done from the15th to the 10th of August In very rich land the distance between the rows asay be from four to six feet; probably some of th*> Mississippi bottoms may want eight feet. Upland is so poor that the rows of cotton shooid! be nearer than four feet If you have not land, enough to plant as many rows as you wish, purchase more. A four foot row will make more than a three foot row; it is iust as easy cultivated, if the season is favorable, and more easy if they are not Picking should commence as early as the cotton commences opening, and the cotton should always be sunned before the seed ma toes or hardens. If the crop appears to be large, it will have to be picked by the hands. Hurry them up; admit a little trash to increase the quantity picked. The faliing off in price by picking a little trash is not so disastrous as to let the cotton stay and waste, and turn back for the sake of picking it clean. . To raise cotton for seed, the best boiling plants should be selected that are on the place. Manure it well, and cultivate as directed above. Plant in it the most select seed on hand, and in working the cotton, you should always pull up the slauks that prove unprolific, even if it makes a vacuum. When matured, from the second and third pickings, select the best stalks, i those that have limbs sufficiently well to con tain frcm six to seven bolls from a half inch to an inch apart. The best known variety to commence with is the "Dickson's Select,"- this variety having outlived every other in produc? tiveness and popularity. 1 Tho cotton for seed should be picked when dry, and put up when dry. This will -always insure a healthy plant. If the seed is partially damaged, the plant will continue to die out for weeks after it comes up, and sometimes fail even to make its appearance after sprouting. I. would select, cotton for seed every year. Select enough every year to plant to make seed to plant the entire crop the succeeding year. Bust is Bimply poverty of the land. This poverty is produced from various causes, such as wet lands that leach, lands thdt are too po? rous to hold \vater, that receive too much rain at one time and get too dry at another, and .letting it get grassy so as to rob the plant of what little nourishment that is there. _ The hilly, sandy land can be improved by mixing with them a vegetable mold, and using a suffi? cient quantity of "Pickson's Compound" with surface culture. The wet lands have to be drained to increase their fertility. Red land and post oak land that are sufficiently dry need nothing but enriching; and the true system for everybody is, to make the land as .near virgin soil as possible. I have never known in this section new lands, to rust. The black prairie lands I am unacquainted with, but I understand they are liable to rust; but I believe the same system of keeping them full of vegetable mold up to the virgin standard, and the use of the "Compound" manure, would succeed in making cotton in them. The sulphuric acid that is in plaster might to some extent supply the place of carbonic acid that is deficient by long culti? vation. The above is true in my practice. As to the black prairie land, it is a mere sugges? tion, but I believe it will succeed. The heavier the cotton bolls, the more care is necessary, by previous preparation and ma? nuring, to sustain the plant. The same care shoula be takenjiot to cut the roots of the cot toii plant with tie hoe, as is used to prevent their being cut by the plough, as the same damage., would bo the result in either case. Care should also be taken not to skin or bmise the shanks of the cotton with the hoe. The hoe should never be raised more than eighteen inches from* the ground to hoe cotton. The hoe should be kept sharp, and grass should be cut just below the crown. Scratch out the word chop, and use the word hoe or scrape. This matures cotton earlier, and renders it less like? ly to be damaged by boll worms and caterpil? lars. ' By planting your cotton thick, and cul? tivating* shallow, you dwarf it by the large number of bolls set on the plante, and render the plant less liable to caterpillars and boll worms, ? ???-<s> . The Cotton Outlook. The receipts at the ports, though gradually falling off, are still quite high for the season, and from the commencement of the cotton year, stand about thirty-two per cent, above the <?rrespouding' period in 1868-69. The highest price of the season in this market was thirty five cents for Middling Upland, in the early part of September, from which it gradually de? clined to twenty-one and a quarter cents, under the heavy fall in the gola premium. From that point, there has been a recovery of about two cents, the current quotation being twenty three and a half cents. The popular estimates of the current crop are- two and three quarters to three millions of bales,-'but should the re? ceipts during the next three or four weeks fall off as heavily as anticipated by many, some modification from the top estimate is not im? probable. The market during the last fort? night has derived considerable firmness from the unexpected strong tone at Liverpool, which appears to have resulted from tardy arrivals of the Indian staple, and moderate stocks. As to the course 01 prices during the next few months, there is, as usual, a diversity .of views, though the popular opinion seems to be that, until there shall be a full year's supply, and a considerable augmentation of reserve to carry over to the beginning of another year, for all the manufacturing world, a material permanent decline is not probable. Much, however, will depend upon the condition of industries, now at rather a low ebb on both aides of the Atlan? tic. The planting season at the South is now at hand, and there is every indication that an in? creased breadth of land will be planted under the stimulus of good prices. The cost of pro? ducing cotton under the new system, in the hands of good managing planters, it is said, does not exceed fifteen cents per pound; many of them, in a successful crop like this one, make it for twelve cents, including interest on their investment, at current value. As ""a price equal to twenty cents leaves a profit beyond that afforded by any other branch of agricultu? ral industry, the Southern planters will be very apt to exert themselves to the utmost to get in a large area. Meanwhile the English cotton manufactu? rers are making the most persistent efforts to increase the supply in British India, in order to successfully compete with the United States. The maximum exporting power of India with high prices is stated by a leading English au? thority at 1,900,000.bales; but now that the impediments, which have for seven or eight Sears stood between the foreign spinner and is normal source of supply arc gradually be? ing removed, a point has probably been reach? ed from which the Indian culture will retro? grade, for it is a conceded fact that under a moderate scale of prices that country cannot compete. As to quality it is simply a physical impossibility for the Indian cultivator to grow cotton at all comparable with ours. The In? dian staple is invariably short, harsh and trou? blesome, in the processes of machinery. This is the indigenous sort. Attempts have been made to obviate the stubborn difficulty by the importation and naturalization of American seed. Even then the produce, though superior to the native one, is largely behind that m our Southern States. In the second year this de? generacy increases; and soon the growth is as unacceptable as the Surat. In fact, foreign manufacturers have no .reliable sources but this country. The dependence may be galling, but it is unavoidable. Our climate and soil are fitted by nature to produce the peculiar variety of raw material which cannot be dispensed with in textile fabrics used for wearing appa? rel. All this has long been known, and if we now allude to facts so patent, it is because of the renewed efforts in a comparatively hopeless rivalry. "NVe shall, not only reach the ante bel? lum production of cotton, within a few vears, but the English spinners will not unlikely ex? perience an additional shock from the transfer of British machinery and operatives to Amer? ican soil, where the conditions for manufactu? ring are superior to any other part of the world. Mr. Cobden's significant utterance that British-India "Cotton growers must be prepared for a revival of American industry, and the competition of the world," is now in "a fair way for a full realization.?N. Y. Shipping and Commercial LUt, April. -o?: Tire Democratic Party.?The Louisville Couricr-Journnl says, justly, that the Demo? cratic party of to-day, as compared with the past, is a perfectly distinct organization. It embraces" no element of the old line Democracy that may not be acquiesced in by the sturdiest old line Whig. The measures that produced the conflicts of the past were, either decided long ago, or.else they have disappeared from the minds of men. A wholly different series of issues have come upon the conntry, and, re? cognizing certain exigencies of the present, it is the mission of the Democratic party to ad? dress itself to them. But for this it could not combine, as it does,.many of the best materials of all parties. But for this it could not repre? sent, as it seeks to do, tho conservatism of the whole country, which is simply a consolidation of all peaceful elements against the warlike spirit of a still progressing, revolutionary and licentious craving for agitation and change. ? At Penfield, New Jersey, a young lady has become insane over the receipt of anony? mous letters. She went crazy because the fel? low didn't sign hie name. Sad Ending' of a Romance. To-day, just as the sun is at meridian, iust as with solemn sound of the great bell of the old St. Louis Cathedral tolls forth the hour of noon, a soldier will pay the penalty of a crime for which military justice knows but one expiation. The United States barracks below the city, has been the place selected where the execution is to take place, and the green sward of the pa? rade ground will ere many hours be stained with the crimson life-blood of the unfortunate man. He was a member of one of the companies of United States troops stationed near a village of one of the interior parishes of Louisiana. Near the camp of the company was the planta? tion of a wealthy gentleman who had sympa? thized with the Union cause during the war, and who, therefore, was the object of special attention on the part of the officers of the com? mand then performing provost duty. The planter h?d a large family, among whom was a daughter who possessed in a remarkable degree that rare type of beauty for which, the women of the South are noted. She had imbibed the sentiment of her father, and therefore, took great pleasure in entertaining the officers who Irequently visited tho house. The First Lieutenant of the company, Am? brose Black, at once conceived a warm attach? ment for the beautiful young Creole, and en? deavored in every way to induce her to share his feelings. Strange to say.* however, the la? dy trcatea him in a peculiarly polite but for maPmanner, that proved her heart was ice toward him. This was a great shock to his vanity, and he was at a loss to understand it. Finally the explanation came, when one of his companions, playfully rallying him upon his ill success, stated that he had discovered why the lady refused to smile upon him. He had acci? dentally witnessed, an interview between her? selfand private Alfred Blake, the soldier who had been detailed to guard the house?an in? terview which proved conclusively that the heart of the young creole was irrevocably the private's and not the officer's. This intelligence was too much for Lieuten? ant Black. His pride was wounded in its most vital point. He nad been forestalled where his heart was most enlisted, and by one of his own subordinates. Seeking private Blake at once, he poured out the vials of his wrath upon him, taunting him with his position, and declared he would send him where he should have no more opportunities of dallying with a shameless girl while on duty. Alfred Blake had borne much, but this coarse allusion to the woman he loved better than life fired heart and brain, and with one blow he "struck his officer prostrate upon the ground in the presence of his company. Then followed the trial?which was rendered inexpressibly touching by the presence of the woman who - had dared to love a private sol? dier?the sentence of death to be preceeded by imprisonment at Ship Island. To-day the sentence is to be enforced, and the majesty of the law sustained.?New Orleans Picayune. Never Safe.?In 1835 a young man com? menced business it New York city; he had but ? few friends and they were as poor as himself; he was patient, industrious, economical and temperate. There were no "lectures" in those days, nor Christian associations to fold their protecting arms around the young men in a large city; the theatre was always open, but when night came he went to bed. As he was at his place of business early and late, he re? ceived chance calls now and then from persons that could not wait, and as he was always ready for a job, and when he got one did it promptly and well, and at a very moderate charge, the persons thus served very naturally employed nim again. In the course of a few years it was noticed that he could not be had on call as for? merly r if persons wanted work, he would put it off sometime^ for a week or more; but his customers felt so sure that he would come at the day and the hour, and more, that he would do it well, they preferred to waiting. One day a gentlemen who had patronized him for a num? ber of years, and had sent him several profita? ble customers, was not well pleased by being put off for ten days, when it suited him so much better to have it done the next day, and remonstrated with him, saying: "You used to come to my house on the "instant, but now I have always to wait from two to ten days." The young man explained to .him the reason that he had so much work to do that he could not find reliable hands enough to do it, conse? quently, at certain seasons he could not avoid falling behind hand, and that the only just' method was to serve his customers in turn; but even to do that according to promise, he and his men had sometimes to work all night;, "but," said he, "I never fail to meet an engage? ment." He prospered. At fifty years o? age he retired from business with an ample fortune. Before he was sixtv, in fact, in about five years, he died a degraded drunken sot. Having nothing to do time hung heavily. Being in perfect health he had a good appetite?indulged it, and sat around the house, lolled on the so? fa, took "naps" in the daytime, and as a result did not sleep well at night; taking but little exercise and eating heartily, he soon began to suffer from indigestion, or dyspepsia; after each meal he would feel full, oppressed, -un? comfortable, and to relieve himself, at the sug? gestion of a friend, he took a "sip of brandy;" he felt better; next day he took another; then a little more; soon he took it three times a day; then before meals as well as after, with the re? sult already detailed.?Holt's Journal of Health. Signs of the Hands.?A little work on "Modern Palmistry" brings together a large amount of amusing gossip, but we cannot say how much you must believe of it. The person who will study the wrinkles, furrows, lines and hollows on the hands, will be able to tell for? tunes as well as any modern Gipsy. If tho palm of the hand be long, and the fingers well proportioned, etc., not soft, but rather hard, it denotes the person to be ingeni? ous, changeable and given to theft and vice. If the hands be hollow, solid, and well knit in the joints, it predicts long life, but if overwar ted then it denotes short life. Observe the finger of Mercury?that is, the little finger; if the end of it exceeds the joint of the ring finger, such a man will rule his own house; and his wife will be pleasing and obedi? ent to liim; but if it be snort and does not reach the joint he will have a. shrew, and she will be boss. Broad nails show the person to be bashful, fearful, but a gentle nature. Narrow nails denote the person to be inclin? ed to mischief, and to do injury to his neigh? bors. Long nails show a person to be good natured bujb distrustful, and loving reconciliation rather than difference. Oblique nails signify deceit and want of cour? age. Little round nails denote obstinacy, anger and hatred. If they are crooked at tho extremity, they show pride and fierceness. Round nails show a choleric person, yet soon reconciled, honesty, a lover of secret science. ? Fleshy nails denote the person to be mild in temper, idle and lazy. Pale and black nails show the person .to'be very deceitful to his neighbor, and subject to many diseases. Red and marked nails signify choleric and martial nature, given to cruelty: and as many little marks as there are speak so many evil de? sires. ? A young lady being present with her mother and an "edicated" cousin at a ball in Denver, Colorado, upon being asked to dance, replied: "0, blazes, boys, I can't dance, but thare's Mam, jest as good a dancist as ever shuck a foot." She was instantly corrected by her horrified cousin with: "Oh, vexation, gen? tlemen, it is an absolute impossibility for me to perambulate the terpsichorean evolutions; but there is my maternal relative, who is just as excellent a dancer as ever vibrated a pedal ex? tremity.'* Neuralgia. The certain cure of neuralgia is found in judicious eating and exercise; and not only so, a permanent cure cannot be effected in any otner way, while these are always efficient. In neuralgia the blood is always too thick, impure and in excess; and as diet and exercise combine to remedy these conditions, some rules in relation to them are desirable. These will be adapted to sedentary persons, to those who live in-door generally, as women, students, book-keepers and the like. It is rather better to eat thrice a day, morn? ing, noon and night; that is, as soon after sun? rise as practicable, for breakfast; dinner about 1 o'clock; supper before sundown. Eat nothing whatever between meals. Breakfast, a single cup of coffee or tea; some cold bread and butter, with a dish of berries or stewed fruit in summer time, and nothing else; in winter, meat, fish, or poultry, or, in their stead, a couple of soft-boiled eggs. Supper should be made of cold bread and butter, and a cup of warm drink of some kind, and nothing else. Dinner the same as breakfast, adding one vegetable and some fruit, raw or stewed, as a desert, and nothing else. A different kind of vegetable may be taken every day for variety; tho kind of meat may be changed at each meal. The object in the specification above made is to discourage variety at meals, because it is this which tempts all to eat too much. Persons at times have felt at the table that they had eaten enough; but on seeing a very inviting dish unexpectably brought in, a good meal has been eaten of this last variety. The general and hurtful error is that too great a variety is spread on our tables, not only occasioning trouble of preparation and great loss, but also a positive injury in the temptation of the ap? petite. The reader may try it upon himself on any two days. ? A dinner of one vegetable, one kind of meat and bread ; at dinner the next day, let a great variety be presentedhe will eat.double the amount at this repast, with this remarkable difference; an hour after the first meal, he will be entirely comfortable, will feel as if he had eaten quite enough: an hour after the latter, there will be rfecided discomfort, a fullness, a feeling as if some kind of relief was desirable, and in too many cases a resort to the decanter, with a vain hope of a riddance in someway. It cannot be .denied that the first step toward intemperate habits have been taken in using liquors to remove the unpleasant con? sequences of over-eating. A very great aid to? ward overcoming a habit of too hearty eating will be found in sitting down to a table with only three varieties of food.?Dr. Ball. Sound Advice to Planters.?We copy some remarks from the Memphis Avalanche: The prospects arc that the price of cotton will range between fifteen and eighteen cents next fall and winter, at the highest, in which case all who shall have failed to raise enough of the necessaries of life will be in as deplora? ble a condition as was the planting community in the fall and winter of 1867-8, when they sold cotton as low as thirteen cents per pound to pay for corn at one dollar and twenty-five cents to one dollar and fifty' cents per bushel, and pork at thirty-four to thirty-six dollars per barrel. The experience of those few months which ruined both the mercantile and agricultural interests of the South, and contributed to the wealth of the West, should be sufficient to point out to planters their line of policy for the fu? ture. Yet we fear it is not sufficient. The country is wild on the subject of cotton planting, and, unless the mania is-checked, a year hence will show serious drawbacks on the present prosperity of the cotton region. It should not be forgotten that the country is steadily receding from the inflation and high prices caused by the war, and that cotton must share the same fate with wheat, which, for nearly a year, has been at ante-war prices. This is inevitable. It is our mission to recall the events of the past, as lessons, to guide our readers in the future. If cotton brings only fifteen cents next fall/it will be ruin to those who are buying corn and pork now, and will also have to buy them then. In. order to avert such a state of affairs, the policy of the agri? cultural interest is to plant an abundance of corn this season. It will prove to be the best kind of economy. With .their cribs full of corn, and fat swine in their pens next fall, planters will be in a position, to some extent, to dictate prices for cotton, otherwise, they will be at the mercy of cottou gamblers and brought to the verge of ruin. A Smart Negro.?Charles Sumner, says the Mobile Register) never uttered a more con-, eise, poignant and epigramatic speech than the brief one attributed to a colored man in a late negro convention in Washington. It has al? ready been published among our telegraphic dispatches, but will bear repetition. He said, "That he went further than Mr. Sumner in his claim for equal rights to the negro; he would not rest until the negro could safely vote the Dem,' ocratic ticket. This speaker knew what he was talking about, and that free suffrage to the black man meant freedom to vote for the Radicals, but abuse, persecution, blows, and sometimes killing, if he ventured to vote for the other side; Ana yet the negro thinks he is a free voter. The slave of his Radical masters, he does not dare even to vote for his own color, although in the South he has the dbsolute and unquestioned power not only-to nominate but to elect whoev? er he pleases. They can have, if they choose, fifty black members in Congress, with a com? bined pay of a quarter of a million of dollars, and all the honors and dignities of Congres? sional life thrown in. But their carpet-bag masters tell them they shant do it, and, like "human chattels," they obey their master. Green Envelopes?The Treasury Depart? ment annually uses many thousands of envel? opes of a peculiar greenish tint, which are rarely seen outside of Government offices. No one, on examining them, would suspect of what they arc manufactured. They are strong, smoothe and business-like in appearance, and have the letter "T" stamped through the fibre. Old greenbacks form tne material of which they are made. The Treasury Department saves up all the bits and remnants of paper used in the manufacture*of our currency with .old stamps and biils, and all the mutilated greenbacks which have come back to it, and instead of destroying this mass of rubbish, as was formerly done, the Department turns it over to the paper-makers, who return it in the snape of serviceable envelopes. Many, dollars are annually saved to the Government by this .means. These envelopes are used extensively in the Custom House, the-Postoffice, Sub Treasury, and other Government offices. A Secret Worth Knowing.?A laundress gives the following receipt for doing up shirt bosoms. Any lady who desires to make home happy, will do well to try the experiment. It will be found a sovereign antidote to that peril? ous stuff which weighs upon the heart?an ill ironed and. ill fitting shirt bosom: "Take two ounces of fine white gum arabic powder, put it into a pitcher and pour a pint or more of water, and then having covered it, let it stand all night. In-the morning pour it from the dregs into a clean bottle, cork it and keep it for use. A tablespoonful of gum water stirred in a pint of starch made in the usual manner rail givo to lawns, either white or printed, a look of newness, when nothing else can restore them after they have been washed. -o . ? Muss Anthony says that women will never accomplish anything until they stop crying. ? An ill-natured person says that when wo? men are einpannelfed there will be an end of all jury'8 prudence. ? The eye-lash of a pretty girl is the only lash that man does not object to have laid on his shoulders. ? "John/'-said a hen-pecked husband, '1 wish it was the fashion to trade wives as it is to trade horses." "Why so?" "I'd cheat some? body before night." ? A London editor says: "An editor is gen? erally right when he rejects an article, but al? most always wrong when he begins to give his reasons for so doing." ? An Irishman sent to the Wisconsin State Prison was asked what trade he preferred to learn. He said that if it was all the same to them, he preferred to be a sailor. ? The Evansville, Indiana, Journal says that a young lady of that city was licensed to marry two gentlemen, and adds that she made only one nappy. Which that one was is not stated, but probably it was the one she did not marry. ? A new thing for brides is a plain gold bracelet, which fastens with a lock and key, and which the husband places on her arm at the alter, locking it and placing the key on his watch chain. The bracelet cannot be removed without the husband's assistance, and both are constantly reminded of each other. . ? If a woman wiishes to be a general favor? ite with her female acquaintances she has only to permit them to outdress her. The more in? tent they are upon gewgaws and decorations, the more profound will be the respect for her that totally disregards them. Let any one look among his or her friends and see if she who is most beloved is not one of less pretentions to fancy than those around her. ? By a law recently passed by the Florida Legislature, drugs are only allowed to be sold by regular Apothecaries. A general storekeep? er cannot sell medicines of any description n?w in that State, not even a bottle of bitters, without subjecting himself to the the chance of prosecution, and if convicted, to fine and im? prisonment. If the authorities were only rigid in their examination of .the druggists, the gen? eral public would be the gainer by the law. ? A young lady met in company a young gentleman who evidently had an excellent opinion of himself. During conversation he iptroduced the subject of matrimony, and ex? patiated at length upon the kind of wife he expected to marry.; that is, if ever he should take the decisive step. The honored lady must be wealthy, beautiful, accomplished, amiable, &c, &c. His listener quietly -waited until he ended, and then completely confounded him by asking in the coolest possible manner: "And pray, sir, what have you to offer in return for all this ?" The young man stammered, redden? ed a little, and walked away. Quick Returns and Permanent Improvement to the Soil. M?PES' Xitrogenized Superphosphate OF LIME! COMPOSED OP ? Bones, Fhosphatic Guano and Am* moniacal Animal Matter, All thoroughly decomposed and reduced to a fine powder by means of Fermentation and Sulphuric Acid, ADAPTED TO THE GROWING DF Cotton, Corn, Tobacco, Grain Crops, "Vegetables, Sec THIS is the oldest Superphosphate manufactu? red in this country, having been introduced to the I public in the spring of the year 1852. The practical success of this SUPERPHOS? PHATE, even during the most unfavorable sea? sons, has been fully established by the experience of hundreds of planters and farmers, recent let? ters from nearly two hundred of whom are to be found in the pamphlets last issued. C. A. BEED, Agent for Anderson County. Jan 20, 1870 80 Sm Greenville & Columbia Railroad. GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE,) Columdia, January 1G,.1870. / ON and after WEDNESDAY, January 19, the followiug Schedule will be run daily, Sunday ex? cepted, connecting with Night Train on South Carolina Road, up and down, and with Night -Train on Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Road going North: L've Columbia 7.00 a m " Alston 8.40 a m " Newb'ry 10.10 a m Arr. Abbeville 3.00 p m " Anderson 4.20 p m " Gr'nville 5.00 p ra L've Grcenvillo 5.45 am " Anderson 6.25 a m " Abbeville 8.00 a m " Hewb'ry 12.35 p m " Alston 2.10 p m Arr. Columbia 3.45 p m The Train will return from Belton to Anderson on Monday and Friday mornings. JAMES O. MEREDITH, Gen. Sup't. Jan 20, 1870 30 TO THE "WORKING CLASS.?We are now prepared to furnish all classes with constant em? ployment at home, the whole of the time or for the spare moments. Business new, light and pro? fitable. Persons of either sex easily earn from 50c: to $5 per evening, and a proportional sum by de? voting their whole time to the business. Boys and j girls earn nearly as much as men. That all who see this notice may send their address, and test the bus? iness, we make this unparalleled offer: To such as are not well satisfied, we will send SI to pay for the trouble of writing. Full particulars, a valuable sample, which will do to commence work on, and a copy of The People's Literary Companion?one of the largest and best family newspapers published?all sent free by mail. Reader, if yon want permanent, profitable work, address E. C. ALLEN & CO., Au? gusta, Maine. 82?3m Tutt's Vegetable Liver Pills ! For Liver Complaint, Billionsness, &c. Tutt's Sarsaparilla and Queen's Delight, For purifying the blood. Tutt's Expectorant, For Cough's, Cold's, Consumption, &c, &c Tutt's Improved Hair Dye, The best in the world, Are for. sale in Anderson by Waiters St Baker, Druggists, and Druggists and Merchants generally throughout the United States. July 29 1869 5 ly Schedule Blue Ridge Railroad. ON and after this date the following schedule will be observed by the Passenger Trains over this Road : up. OOWJt. L've Anderson, 4.20 p m ?? Pendleton, 5.20 ?? " Perryville, 6.10 ?? . Arr. Walhalla, 7.00 " L've Walhalla, 3 80am " Perry ville, 4.10 " v " Pendleton, 5.10 " Arr. Anderson, 6.10 " In cases of detention on the G. and C. R. R., the train on this Road will wait one hour for the train from Belton, except on Saturdays, when it will wait until the arrival cf the"Belton train. W. H. D. GAILLARD, Sup't. March 10, 1870 87 JAMES H. THORN WELL, Attorney at Law, ANDERSON C. H., S.O. jggf Office in the residence immediately oppo? site Dr. Cater'a, on Main street. ? Feb 8, 1870 32 Sm At Private Sale ! THAT VALUABLE TRACT OF LAND, on Eighteen Mile Creek and Seneca' River, contain? ing 1770 acres, formerly owned by James Steele. The Tract, will be divided to suit purchasers} Apply to W. H. D. GAILLARD, Pendleton, S. C Jan 6, 1870 28 Charleston Aflyertisemeilw. FARMERS I Increase Your Crops and Improve Your I/and, by using "' PfflENIX GUANO, Imported by us direct from the Phoenix Is? land*, South Paciiic Ocean. Wiloox, Oibbs & Co.'s MANIPULATED GUAN?, Prepared at Savannah, Ga? and Charles? ton, 8. C, which has proved in the coil the best Manure In use. Guano, Salt and Plaster Compound, Also manufactured at Savannah dc Charles? ton. For salo for Cash or on time, by WTLCOX, GIBBS & 00, Importers & Dealers in GUANOS. 94 BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, GA., 64 EAST BAY-ST-, CHARLESTON, 8. C. 241 BROAD ST., AUGUSTA, GA. For further information, address as above for circular, Or subscribe to Soulhern Agricultural, published by W. C. Macmurpby & Co., at Aagnsta and Sivannab, Ga., at the low" price of ^5c. per annum. W. S. SHARPE, Agent, Anderson, 8. C? Dec 10, I860". 25 4m FIRTlLiZEES. SOLUBLE SOUTH SEA GUANO. Rhedes' GroundiSrypsiim. l&T Circulars with detailed statements' fur? nished on application to the general agents, B B. S. RHETT & SON, Charleston, 81 C. Or to BLECKLEY & EVINS, Agents at Anderson C. K.r 8. C. Jan 2.7,1870 81 i 8m GEORGE W. CARPENTER'S Compound Fluid Extract of Sarsa parilla. GEOF.GG W. CARPENTER'S Couipo und Fluid Extract of Bnchui THESE celebrated preparations, originally in? troduced by George W. Carpenter, under the pat? ronage of the medical faculty, have been so long extensively used by Physicians and-others, that they are generally known for their intrinsic value, and can be relied on as being most valuable rem? edies in all copies where Sarsapartlla or Bucha are applicable, and cannot be too highly recommend? ed. They are prepared in a bigffly concentrated form, so as (o render the dose small and conven? ient. Orders by mail or otherwise will receive prompt attention. GEORGE W. CARPENTER, 3ENSZEY & CO., Wholesale Chemical Warehouse, No. 787 Market/street, Philadelphia. For pale by Wallers & Baker end W. H. Nardm & Co., Anderson, S. C. Dowie & Moisc, Whole? sale Agents, Charleston, S. C. Oct2I, 186S' .17 HAYING the largest and most complete Facto? ry in the Southern 'Slates, and keeping always.oh hand a large and most complete stock of DOORS, SASHES, BLINDS, Sash Doors, Store Doors, Shutters, Mouldings, &c, &c, I am enabled to sell low and at Manufacturers' prices. - N. B.?Strict attention paid to shipping in good order. July 22, 1669 - 4 9m A. B. MULLIGAN, COTTON FACTOR AND General Commisson Merchant, ACCOMMODATION WHARF, CHARLESTON, S. O. liberal Advances made on Cotton* J&F I will, when placed in funds, parchas* and torward all kinds'of9 Merchandize, Machine ry, Agricultural Implements, Manures, Seeds, &c Sept23, 1769 18 ly J. 5. ROBSOff, * Commission Merchant, Nos. 1*2 Atlantic Wharf, * CHARLESTON, 9. C. HAVING ample means for advances, a business experience of twenty years, and confining himself strictly to a Commission Business, without opera? ting on bis own account, respectfully solicits com signments of Cotton, Flour, Wheat, Corn, &c. Shippers of Produce to him may, at their option, ? have their consignments sold either in Charleston or New York; thus having the advantage of two. markets, without extra commission. REFERENCES. Bishop W M Wightman, 8 C; Col Wm, John-, ston, Charlotte, N C; Rev T O Sommejs, Ifen*; Hon John King, Augusta, Ga; Messrs George W Williams & Co, Charleston; Messrs Williams, Taylor & Co, New York. April 29,1869 44 ly h. msoHorr. cs wvlseen. j. h. nspxa, JOtfN McFAII* WITH HENRY BISCHOFF & CO., WHOLESALE GROCERS, AAt> PSAXERS IK WINES, LI^QUOBS, CJIffax??, Tobacco, &o., NO. 197 EAST BAY, (g&AMlSHW, SOD. CA, Nov 28, 18(59 22