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During the past year, it has recently been developed, circumstances have transpired in the Yellow-stono country which will create indig? nation and alarm thronghout the whole Uniop. A crime has been committed which excels in diabolism anything which tbe history of the world has ever produced, and which place? such fiends as Probst and his compeers in crime in the light of moderate offenders. A few men, for the purpose of accumulating fortunes, have attempted to scatter throughout the United States buffalo robes which are known to be in? fected with small-pox. This has been done premeditatedly and knowingly, and with the full knowledge that in doing so they have been the means of spreading a loatbsome disease from one end of the country to the other, and sacri? ficing human lives in unknown numbers! We give the particulars of this, the most terrible crime of the nineteenth century, as fully as we have been enabled to obtain them. During last summer the steamboat Utah plied between Sioux City and Fort Benton. During one of her trips the small-pox broke out among the passengers and crew, and one death occur? red on the trip. The boat landed a short dis? tance below Milk River, and there the corpse war. buried. The burial was witnessed by a number of Indians, of the Gros Ventres tribe, and, as soon as the boat resumed its course, the body was disinterred, and the clothing stripped from the remains and distributed among the party who had perpetrated the act of desecra? tion." The consequence may be imagined. In grcper course of time the dreadful contagion roke out in its most virulent form among the savages. The devastation was so terrible that, out of 1,900 members of the tribe, 750 died. The Utah arrived at Fort Benton, bringing ?with it perhaps the most fearful cargo that ever floated on the waters of the Missouri. The Seople of that place, when they ascertained the anger that menaced them, were indignant to an extent never before known in that couutry. A public meeting was held, which was attended by every man in the place, and the most iutense excitement prevailed. There were many who proposed to take the captain of the boat and hang him to the nearest tree, as a punishment for having been the cause of pestilential danger among tlicm. But wiser counsels prevailed, and the master of the steamer was ordered, at the peril of his life, to convey the boat and cargo to the other side of the river. But, as was afterwards ascertained, another and a great? er danger threatened them. The diease among the Indians spread with the velocity of the wind. Having no remedies, no physicians and no care, the children of the forest died off like a flock of infected sheep, until the tribe was diminished to about half its former numbers. The Indian burial ceremony is not such as pre? vails among the civilized world. It is a custom, without deviation, to lay the dead upon the grouud in the robe which incased the body while living, and cover up the remains with brush. There are speculators in tbe ludian country whose sole object in life seems to be to make money, without the slightest regard for the manner in which they do it. The robes which enclosed the dead bodies were valuable. The speculators, aware of this, determined to profit by it, and with no compunctions of con? science as to the cousequences, not seeming to ; care in the least for the terrible suffering which the act would entail upon they knew not how many innocent victims, these men did not hes? itate to roam the couutry in quest of the infect? ed robes, and to convey them for storage to a warehouse in Fort Benton. Benjamin de Koche, a workman in the warehouse, ?was the first vic? tim, and it was but a short time before nearly every house in Fort Benton was a small-pox hospital. Many died and the most agonizing suffering prevailed. In the house of De Roche at one time there were ten persons in bed af? flicted with the contagion which prevailed.? The business houses were closed, aud the city seemed to be doomed to desolation and death. In the face of this horrible visitation, those who had engaged in the unholy traffic did not desist. Tliey. asserted that the place was alive with small-pox, and' that,, as- it could'be-no worse, the arrival and storage of robes could make no difference. And thus, in the very midst of death, desolation and despair, these human vultures continued their pestilence breeding, death-dealing occupation! There is one incident connected with this startling hor? ror which places a white victim in an attitude which, though he may not have known the full extent of the consequences of his act, was cer? tainly a most fiendish one, and which was the cause of a greater destruction of life than the circumstances we have mentioned. This man, while he was suffering with the disease, ob? tained1 two yeast-cans and filled them both with scabs. As soon as he was able to do so, he took an old shirt, rubbed it thoroughly with the contents of the boxes, and then placed the infected gar? ment on the trail of the Piegans, on Highwood (,'rcek, where the Indians would be sure to find it, They did so, and in a short time afterwards the most frightful of calamities was visited up? on that tribe. It spread with wonderful rapid? ity among the Blackfeet, Bloods and Rivet Crows, until the whole country within a radius of 100 miles from Fort Benton, and extending along the river for a much greater distance, was infected with the disease, and deaths occurred by the thousand. From this awful source the speculators reaped a rich harvest. Robes and blankets were gathered in by the thousand and conveyed by boats down the river, thus convey? ing and scattering the disease broadcast over the land. The government was finally informed of the matter, and Gen. Hancock was promptly ordered to prohibit the shipment of robes, un? less they were first inspected and fouud'to be im healthy condition. As there were few in the country not infected, the- abominable traffic ceased, and. the inhuman wretches who were engaged in it, were, for a time, deprived of the benefits which their infamous trade had confered upon them. But they did not despair. The ingenuity of the villain 'is, certainly, as apt as that of honest men. Cut off from ship? ping the diseased robes by river, they deter? mined to take them overland, and gain a mar? ket by means of railroad communication._ Thanks to the vigilance of the managers of the Union Pacific Railroad, and to the prompt as? sistance of the military, this latter scheme has been throttled in its incipience and no more robes can pass over that road without first having heen*inspected by a government officer and;pronounced to he in good condition. There are now, at Union Station, 1,300 robes, which have been detained for examination. A day or two since Gen. Ruggles despatched a govern? ment officer, accompanied by a surgeon, to that point, to make a thorough inspection of the Buspected robes. It is believed that they are all right; but it is also known that the unscru- 1 pulous murderers from Fort Benton Lave been actively at work, and the most rigid scrutiny will be observed at all times. Not a single robe will be permitted to pass through Omaha, that has not been examined by a competent officer. It is thought by many that the recent visitation of the pestilence to this city?which, thank God, is now over?was caused in this manner, and that the disease originated in the burial, one year ago, of a solitary passenger ou the banks of the Missouri, hundreds of miles away. Could the horrible consequences of that act be computed, and the lives it has taken be enumer? ated, the record would be a frightful, ghastly one 1 And now, in conclusion, we ask: _ W hat shall be done with the authors of this, the greatest crime that mortal ever committed ?~ Will thev be arrested, tried, convicted and hung? Have they not committed enough murders to have the law's most condign pun? ishment inflicted upon them ? "Whoso shed deth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed." Thus reads the Book which is the source of all human laws. It is impossible to compute the number of human beings these men have murdered; not alone Indians, but all over this continent, wherever those death-infected robes have been sent. We trust that our government will not only protect its people from further danger, but cause the proper punishment of the demons who have, from mercenary motives, spread broadcast over this land the most loath? some disease that ever afflicted a human being. - ?t>? The Obligation to Plant Fruit Trees. ?What a pity it is that people do not, as a general thing, appreciate more fully than they do the value of fruit. There are thousands of farmers who do not grow enough fruit on their own premises to supply the ordinary wants of their families, much les9 any for market. Now, when the fact is taken into consideration that, as an article of diet, fruit is not only wholesome and healthful, but that it can be in many cases substituted for other expensive articles uf food, and more especially meats, it is surprising that comparatively so little attention is paid to its cultivation. We are not of those who believe that every one is capable of becoming what is generally termed a successful fruit-grower; by which we mean, that to produce such speci? mens as those usually shown at a horticultural exhibition require? more care and attention than a great many farmers are willing to be able to give to the subject. But on the other hand, no man who tills the ground, if he pos? sesses even the most superficial knowledge of horticulture, need hesitate about setting out fruit trees, and attempt the cultivation of a patch of strawberries or raspberries. Nurserie.-! abound now in almost even* section of the country, and the cost of young trees is so trifliug that the first expense of setting out a small orchard cannot be urged as an objection, and as the subsequent attention required by the trees after planting is to be regarded aa little more than pleasant rccreatiou. there is no rea? sonable excuse that can be offered by farmers for not giving more attention to the planting of fruit trees. There is nothing that we know of that pre? sents an appearance more forbidding or deso? late than a farm on which there are few or no fruit, shade or ornamental trees, and yet there are many such, and it may be set down, almost its a fixet! fact, that a farmer who will not cul? tivate fruit trees, generally speaking, has few or none of the ornamental or shade kind about his house urile3s they were planted by other Hands than his own. Fruit tree planting should be regarded as a privilege and a duty, and the farmer who neg? lects to exercise this privilege and discharge the duty, is false to himself, his family and posterity, for the cultivation of a bountiful supply of good fruit is one of the strong claims which the farmer's family, and those who are to follow, have upon every owner of a piece of ground in the country.?Journal of the Farm. -4fr-. A Texas Editor who could not Aitre ciate a Clean Shirt.?Whenever anybody does anything particularly absurd he is imme? diately located in Texas, and if some person wishes to perpetrate a joke, as to whose excel? lence he is somewhat in doubt he ascribes it to a Texas editor, thereby clearing his own skirts of all responsibility in the premises. The Texas editor is made to suffer in various ways, and he is accordingly a most convenient crea? ture. "Editors," we are told, for instance, by some exceedingly droll writer, "have a firstntte time in Texas. The ladies of a town out there have given to the editor of a paper an embroid? ered shirt, which contains a pictorh.l history of Texas, including the war with Mexico, aad meeting of the first Legislature, and also pic? tures of the fruits and cereals of the State, all worked in red and worsted. The editor never wore a shirt in his life, and he thought it was a banner for the temperance procession which was to come off the next week. So he made a little speech of thanks,, in wdiicb. he said he would 'fling it out forever to the breezes of heaven, that they might kiss its folds, and that, until his hand palsied, it should never be trailed in the dust?never.' The ladies didn't under? stand him; and when he talked about its trail? ing they blushed, and said they were very sorry they made it too long. But a committee man took the editor aside and explained the shirt to him in a whisper, and the next day he appeared at the office with that shirt mounted over his coat and wrote four columns of explanation for his paper. The shirt is much admired by the boys ot the town, and whenever the editor goes out for a walk they follow him in regiments, studying the history of Texas and the line arts on the back of it." What Breaks Down* Young Men.?It is a commonly received notion that hard study is the unhealthy element of college life. But from tables of the mortality of Havard University, collected by Professor Pierce, from the last triennial catalogue,, it is clearly demonstrated that the excess of death for the lirst ten years after graduation is found in that portion of each class of inferior scholarship. Every one who has seen the curriculum knows that where ^Eschylus and political economy injure one, late hours and rum punches use up- a dozen ; and that the two little lingers are heavier than the lion of Euclid. Diss:pation is a sure destroyer, and every young man who follows it is, as the early flow? er, exposed to untimely frost. Those who have been inveigled in the path of vice are named Legion. A few hours' sleep each night, high living, and plenty of "smashes," make war up? on every function of the body. The brain, the heart, the lungs, the liver, the spine, the limbs, the bones, the flesh ; every part and faculty are overtasked and weakened by the terrific energy of passion loosened from restraint, until, like dilapidated mansions, the "earthly house of this tabernacle" falls into ruinous decay. Fast young men, right about. o "There is no War After Death."?Such was the magnanimous reply oC the Prussian Ambassador to an invitation to attend the fu? neral of the French diplomatic representative in Washington. The. sentiment was worthy of a great soul, and we honor the man that utter ; oil it. God grant that the inspiration may j strike home in some of the baser American J hearts about Washington winch have delighted ! in pursuing the dead and heaping indignity on I their graves. We commend it especially \,\ t|u. savage head of the "Army of the Republic," and bid him learn from this stranger of a for ! eign land now engaged in deadly strife the sen ? tiineute and customs of a civilized age. Baron Gerolt's humanity can drop a sprig upon the grave of his country's enemy in the midst of war. Yet, live long years after its din has Wen. hushed in this professedly Christian land^ a flower from the hand of kindred and friends is refused to the resting place of the Confederate dead! We thank the Baron for his rebuke, and commend the lesson to all.?Savannah Repub? lican. ? Never ridicule what you cannot explain. Getting Beady for the Fairs. They are getting ready for county and town fairs all around us, says the Cincinnati Times. Every day, nearly, brings us a pamphlet con? taining the premium list and regulations for the next annual fair of some agricultural society. TVe have just got one from Bungtown. Bung town has organized an agricultural society, and they will hold their first annual fair in Sep? tember. If it is a success they promise to hold a second annual fair in October. The Bung town Brass Band has been engaged, and the Bungtown Zouaves will come out and go through a drill, besides going through any strangers that are there to be picked up. We copy the following from the "ktjles and regulations of the bungtown agricultural society." No person can belong to the society unless he has joined. The entrance fee shall not be less than noth? ing, nor more than what a man has got. Where no premiums are awarded to things on exhibition, the things will be sold at auction, the proceeds going to the society. Every exhibitor getting a premium can name the amount of it if he immediately donates it to the society and advances the money. If he refuses he gets no premium, and the articles he exhibits will be sold according to article third of this section, whether it is according to law or not. Every animal or article to be exhibited for premiums must come himself, and not send a hand. No premium will be paid an animal that neglects to put in an appearance until the fair is over. "Beats" cannot enter the grounds unless they enter in the Vegetable Department. Young cattle will not be permitted to enter the Fine Art Hall unless accompanied by their parents. Patch-work quilts, for all work, three years old and under, will rate the same as fatted side? saddles, in the can. The awarding committee must strictly observe the rule. The judges on animals will have regard to their 6ize, breed, customs in society, proficiency on the piano, feeding, political antecedents, familiarity with the dumb-bells, symmetry, manner of wearing the hair, positions on the woman-suffrage question, age, the "code," and what they think about base-ball. No person except the Awarding Committee (fa duty, officers of the society, members of other associations, invited thrashing-machines, specimen gooseberry jelly (not less than one pint,) members of the press, .and the public generally, will be allowed inside the ring while the exhibition is going on. order of exhibition?first day. Horses and ale for draft, asses (faculty of the Bungtown Academy,) products of the soil, soiling of the products, and farming imple? ments. second day. Cattle of all kinds, (including the "dumb, driven cattle" Longfellow sneaks of, as well as the cattle on a thousand hills,) blooded horses, horses for general purposes, horses for General Grant, racking horses and horses gone to rack; draft butter, jellies for all work ; bread, three years old and upward ; cheese, four years old for harness ; domestic manufactures (including broils and divorces) and a whistling match. third day. Needle, shell, wax and carpenter work; drinking, blacked eyes, miscellaneous articles ; ending with stump-pullers trotting against time, and a grand running match between a horse power potato harvester and a pair of wool? en knit baby socks. The Bankrupt Act.?The bankrupt act has been changed by Congress, by the adoption of the following amendment: "Be it enacted, by the Senate aud House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assem? bled, That the provisions of the second clause of the thirty-third section of an Art to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States, as amended by the first section of an act in amendment thereof, shall not apply to those debts from which the bankrupt seeks a discharge, which were contracrcd prior to the 1st of January, ISO0." Previous to this amendment, no person whose estate would not pay fifty per cent, of his in? debtedness, exclusive of his debts as surety, could, without the consent of a majority of his creditors,, avail himself of the benefits of the bankrupt act. The effect of this amendment is to make the fifty per cent clause apply only to debts contracted after the 1st of January, 1869. Under the law as it now stands, any person can apply for a release from all his. old debts, whether his estate pays anything or not. He is only required to pay fifty per cent of such of his individual debts as were contracted sub? sequent to January 1st, 1809.? Yorkville En? quirer. Effect of the Food of Cows on their Milk.?It has lately been announced, as the result of careful and long-continued inves? tigation, that tlie nature of the food given to cows does not produce the slightest effect upon the character or richness of their milk; the on? ly difference being a greater or less percentage of water. The experiment was tried of feeding the sanre animals successively with hay alone; then, successively, with hay mixed with starch, oil rape-seed, clover, etc., thus giving a great? ly varying proportion of nitrogenizcd food. The milk was very carefully analyzed, after each change of food, without showing the slightest variation in its chemical constitution. The concluwion' was, therefore arrived at that the variation or improvement in the quality of the milk is to be accomplished rather by a care? ful regard to the breed than to the food sup? plied to the animal. These remarks, of course, do not apply to the peculiar taste imparted to milk in conse? quence of the character of the food of the ani? mal ; since it is well known that the milk of cows which have fed upon garlic very soon furnishes evidence of that fact to the taste. Boxing Ears.?A phj-siological journal condemns the practice of boxing children's cars. We had supposed, in this advanced age of civili? zation, that such barbatous punishments were only remembered, as relics of the darker ages. But it appears that the practice is sufficiently common in some sections of the country to call forth a decided remonstrance. Besides being a brutal method of punishment, it is dangerous. The passage of the ear is closed by a thin membrane, especially adapted to be influenced by every impulse of the air, and with nothing but the* air to support it internally. If any one designed to break or overstretch the mem? brane he could scarcely devise a more effective means than to bring the hand suddenly and forcibly dowu upon the passage of the car, thus driving the air violently before it, with no pos? sibility for its escape but by the membrane giving way. Many children arc made deaf in this way. Cure for Lockjaw.?A correspondent of the Svienti?o American recommends turpentine, as a certain cure for lockjaw. He says : "Let any one who has an attack of lockjaw take a small quantity of turpentine, warm it aud pour it on the wound, no matter whore the wound is and what its nature is, and relief will follow in less than one minute. Nothing bet? ter can be applied to a severe cut or bruise than cold turpentine ; it will give ccrtuin relief almost instantly. Turpentine is also a sover? eign remedy for croup. Saturate a piece of flannel with it and place the flannel on the throat and chest, and in a very severe case three to five drops may be taken inwardly. Every family should have a bottle on hand." This remedy is simple, and can be casilv tested. ? The prettier the foot and ankle, the easier it gets up stares.?N. 0. I'imes. IP WE KNEW. If we know the cares and crosses, Crowding round our neighbor's way, If we knew the little losses Sorely grievous day by day, Would we then bo often chide him For his lack of thrift and gain Leaving on his heart a shadow, Leaving on our lives a stain ? If we knew the clouds above us, Held by gentle blessings there, Would we turu away all trembling, In our blind and weak despair ? Would we shrink from little shadows, Passing o'er the dewy grass, Whilst 'tis only birds of Eden, Just in mercy flying past? If we knew the silent story Quivering through tho heart of pain, Would our womanhood dare doom them Back to haunts of guilt again? Life hath many a tangled crossing, Joy hath many a break of woe, And the cbeeks, tear-washed, are whitest, This tho blessed angels know. Let us reach In our bosoms For the key to other lives, And with love towards erring nature, Cherish good that still survives; So that when our disrobed spirits Soar to realms of light again, We may say, dear Father judge us As we judge our fellow-men. Them Good Old Daze.?How I do long (once in a while) for them good old daze. Them daze when there waz more fun in 30 cents than there iz now hi 8 dollars and a quar? ter. Them daze when a man married 145 pounds of woman, and less than 9 pounds (awl told) of ennything else. How I do long for them good daze when ed ekashun konsisted in what men did well. Them daze wheu dekons were as austere as hoss redish, and ministers preached to men's souls instead of their pockets. Them daze when politics was the exception and honesty the roole. Them daze when dorg3 wunt known, and when brown bread aud baked goose made a good dinner. Them daze when a man who wasn't bizzy was watched, aud when women spun yarn to knit stockings. How I do long for the good old daze when now and then a gal baby was called Jerusha, and a boy wasn't spilt if he was named Jerry mier. And ye who have the fcthers and fuss of life, who have the codfish of wealth without sense under yore noze, cum beneath this tree and long an hour with me for the good old daze when men were shamed to be fools, and women fraid to be flirts. Josh Billings. -o Keeping Irish Potatoes.?Dig mornings and evenings or on cloudy days, so as to avoid the iigurious influence effected by the sun in this climate; spread on the dry ground under the north side of a house where they may be cool, have a free circulation of air and be pro? tected from moisture. Here they will remain sound. Or they may be kept on a floor of slats in a barn or other convenient house, having abundant openings for currents of air, and not too near the south side of the roof where they would become too warm. In any case they must not be in heaps, but a single layer. I keep them in this way the whole summer and fall, even on a close floor, but with good ven? tilation, and they never rot. Some varieties, however, arc liable to rot in this climate, how? ever treated. All are apt to sprout in the fall; all sprouts should be nibbed off as soon as they appear, or the potato will shrivel and become inferior. As the season advances and grows cold, I put in barrels in a close room and cover with old carpets or bags or anything convenient, or bulk them and cover with dry cotton seed. I have kept them also packed in barrels of dry sand perfectly sound?but they they will sprout, produce small potatoes and force the tops out above the sand.?Cor. Rural Carolinian. Death ry Lightning.?We are pained to learn that John Bufus Smver, Jr., third son of Mr. J. R. Smyer, Sr., was struck dead by light? ning, on Wednesday evening kistT 20th instant, about 2. o'clock, during a severe thunder storm, at his home, 12 miles below Greenville. He was killed outright, bruising him very much, and setting fire to his clothing. An elder brother was slightly affected, who was standing some fifteen yards from deceased. His flesh was much torn and in places crisped up, and his brother, on running up to him, said that a stream of lire poured out of his mouth. The body of the unfortunate young nian was imme? diately placed in water in order to endeavor to revive him, but all to no purpose. A horse not far distant was also slightly injured. The de? ceased was only about fourteen years of age, and was a promising lad.?Greenville Enter? prise. ? A Pennsylvania poet who wrote in some tender lines addressed to his love, "We will hallow her grave with our tears," was surprised at a call from Henrietta's brother next morning armed with a club, and who extended a stirring invitation to him to come down1 and ha*ve his head broken, which he declined. The local paper had made the line read : "We will har? row her grave with oar steers." ? To any one who can say "Shoes and Socks Shocks Susan," with rapidity and faultless pro? nunciation, four times running, a large reward will be paid* ? "Adversity Ts a poultess,"' says Josh Bil? lings, "which reduces our vanity and strength? ens our virtew?even a boy never feels half so good-az when he haz bceu spanked and sot away to cool."* ? "Don't leave the court-room, witness," said a lawyer during the trial of a ease "I may want to question you farther." "Fathcr'9 dead," replied the witness, "and can't be ques? tioned 1" ? A cotemporary says that in most cases of fevers we have no doubt that the attack might have been prevented and the patient well in a few days without a particle of medicine, by rest, partial fasting and free use of lemons anil lemonade. The virtue of this article in bilious attacks and incipent fevers has been tested with the best results, and wc recommend its use during the heated term as a preventive of these dis? ease.'. ? Charles Dickens said, there is nothing beautiful and good that dies and is forgotten. An infant, a prattling child, a youth well taught, will live again in the better thoughts of those who loved it, and will play its part, though its body be burned to ashes or drowned in the deepest sea. There is not an angel added to the hosts of heaven but does its blessed work on earth in those that loved it here ? A few days since a little ragged urchin was sent by a tradesman to collect a bill. He began in the usual way, but becoming more and more importunate, at length, the gentle? man's patience being exhausted, he said to him : "You need not dun me so sharply; f am-not going to run away." "Idon't suppose you are," said the boy, scratching his head, "but my master is, and he wants the money." ? Lady Franklin has just given the world a touching instance of the love a devoted wife bears for her husband. A San Francisco pa? per says her trip to Alaska and the far North is said'to have been undertaken for the purpose of approaching as near as possible to the coun? try in which Sir John Franklin died. When it was demonstrated beyond doubt that her gallant husband had perished in the frozen re? gions of the far North, she mourned in silence for fifteen years, and then, at the ago of eighty, went on a journey of 10,000 miles for the sole purpose of coming near the country where he dietl. This, if true, makes the visit more touching and heroic. There is nothing equal to this iu ancient or modern fiction. ProTidc Against a Dearth of Provisions. The declaration of war by France against Prussia, must inevitably lead to a general war in Europe, in which event breads tuffs and pro? visions of all kinds will probably reach enor? mous prices, while cotton, the great and only production of the Southern planter, will fall to a very low figure. The policy?ruinous and destructive in the best times?of the Southern planters since the war, has been to raise cotton exclusively and depend upon the North and West for corn, bacon, flour and hay. We have again and again entreated and protested against such a paradoxical and unwise system, but to no purpose. With cotton at thirty-five cents a pound, such a course couln be hardly excused, but with our great staple selling at and below twenty cents, it became criminal folly. Yet such is the condition of affairs now. Cotton is planted almost exclusively the present year, and in all probability will sell very low. While corn and provisions, owing to the increased European demand on account of the war, will be scarce and very high. There is time yet for something to be done to retrieve our past error, and make us less de? pendent for food upon the North and West.? Nature has blest us with a generous climate and fruitful soil, well adapted to the growth of | grasses, small grain and root crops. These grow and flourish here during the entire Winter. A few acres of land well prepared and properly enriched, will secure a full and abundant crop of turnips, beets or carrots for the supply of | animals during the entire Winter and Spring. A small plat of laud highly fertilized ana sown in rye or barley early in September, will furnish large supplies of forage after the root crops shall have been exhausted. The long stem blue collard is a hardy Winter plant, and will yield more per acre on good land, well prepared, than any plant with which we are acquainted. The collard is highly nutritious for man and beast, and for butter making qualities, is a su? perior food for milch cows. Let all these be tried. We would suggest, as a suitable provision for our present situation, something like the fol? lowing : For a farm of ten mule force, one acre each in turnips, beets, carrots andcollards, and two acres in rye. The turnips (rutabagas) should be sown in drills two and a half feet apart from the 20th to the last of this month, the beets, carrots and collards, also in drills the same distance, about the middle of August, and the rye, broadcast, by the first of September. This will furnish a full supply for the work stock, cattle, sheep and hogs on an ordinary [?plantation of the size" indicated. Mules, with a very little corn can be kept fat and in good working condition up to the first of April. This is too important a matter to be neglected. Great distress, if not actual starvation, must ensue in some localities next year unless we take time by the forelock and amply provide against such lamentable contingency. But it. must he remembered that full crops can only be made on land well prepared and highly fer? tilized. Peruvian guano or any of the stan? dard superphosphates, in the absence of rich stable manure or cotton seed, at the rate of two hundred pounds of the Peruvian or three hun? dred and fifty of the superphosphates, on land thoroughly plowed and harrowed, .will be suf ficicnt to secure a good crop. Let every one try and relieve himself from the clutches of grain and bacon speculators.?Augusta Chron? icle. ? Watch-makers haven't any right to com? plain about slow-paying patrons as there is a good deal of "tick" in their own business. ? The Atlanta Intelligencer says: "Perhaps a more defective penitentiary system than Georgia's does not exist in any State in the Union." We have often noticed the very glaring defects in that system, the chief of which is that it permits the Governor and leg? islators of the State to run at large. ? A Western paper, commenting en the present high price of eggs, thinks that "hens could make piles of money now by paying strict attention to business." ? An exchange says: "Trying to do busi nc*? without advertising is like winking j through a pair of green goggles. You may know that you are doing it, but nobody else does." ? A most singular will has just been opened in Venice. A rich old bachelor has bequeath? ed his entire fotttinc to a distant relative, a very pretty young lady nineteen years of age, and not left a shilling to all his nearer relations. So far there is nothing singular about it. But it happened that the testator had been endowed by nature with a fearful hump on his back and a clump foot. Now he puts the condition that i she must marry a man endowed with similar ornaments if she wishes to touch the estate. The rightful heirs arc contesting the validity of | the will, saving that no sane man would put in such a condition. ? A Cincinnati lady who has tried to inter? est herself in foreign affairs writes: "In the pending imbroglio I understood the matter per? fectly. I saw that Fiance was simply bent on a row, whether there was any just cause for war or not, when to my utter dismay some of the foreign dispatches announce that the Schleswig Holstein question is somehow mixed up in the disturbance. Now, Mr. Editor, my tribulations are beyond any sort of description or expres? sion. Many years ago I studied up the tnen 'Schleswig-Holstein question' and I could not make head or tail of it. I never saw anybody that could make head or tail of it; I do not be? lieve there is any head or tail to it. AU I can say is if any European power should say Schleswig-Holstein to any other European power I think it would be justifiable cause of I war." Sy- Southern MONTHLY MAGAZINE, Two Dollars per Annum. i>i Pages Reading Matter, 30 Pages Advertisements. WALKER, EVANS & COGSWELL, and D. WYAIT AIKEN, Charleston, S. C. JAMES A. HOVT, Agent, Anderson C II., S. C. July 14, lSTD 3 THE CHRONICLE & SENTINEL, Published at Augusta, (ja. DAILY, TRI-WKI2KL.Y* AND WEEKLY CONTAINS all the latest news by Mail ami Telegraph, embracing lull Commercial and financial Report* from all the h-adinc centres, together with the latest Political and General information upon all subjects which interest the reading politic The terms of the DAILY arc $?"> for six months, and $10 for one Year. The Tltl-WEEKLY is SH.?O for six months, and SO for otic year. The WEEKLY" CHRONICLE SENTINEL is a mara motli paper of thirty-six columns, Riled with Editorials, Telegraphic Dispatches, Communications on home matters, together with Agricultural, Commercial nm\ Financial ar? ticles?making it one of the most desirable and valuable paper* in the country to the Planter, Farmer aod Mer? chant. Tlii' terms nre'5:! per annum, or $1.50 six months. All subscriptions arc required in advance. Liberal coiinolssions paid responsible aeents. address all letters and communications to Hie A,,u CHRONICLE A SENTINEL, Augusta, t;a. /},)? Specimen copies sent free. May, no, ifflu _-if_ The Spondulix! HAVING purchased my Goods for cash, I vaufcj it strictly understood thai I must have ensu for them. M. LESSER, Age*t. . - March 24. 1870 39 THE POLICY-HOLDERS' LIFE AND TONTINE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF THE SOUTH, 29 Broad Sired, Charleston, S. C.t HAVING deposited ?50,000 with the Comp* troller General for the.protection of its policy-holders, will issue the usual forms of Life and Endowment Policies. //1< the most liberal Company to the Assured in the World. The Charter guarantees to the assured the cash surretider value of his policy after one annual pre? mium has been paid, except in case of fraud. It is the only purely mutual Company in tht South. It has no Stockholders. All surplus profits mu6t be divided cmong the policy-holders. It in thoroughly conservative. Its investments are confined by charter to the most solid securities, and it is under management of men of well established ability and integrity. Persons desiring any information will please communicate with any of the officers. WM. MCBURNEY, President. E. P. ALEXANDER, Vice Pres. and Act. GEO. E. BOGGS, Sec. and Gen. Agent. JOHN T. DARBT, M. D., Med. Adviser. JAMES A. HOYT, Local Agent for Andeison, aud Dr. THOS. A. EVINS, Medical Examiner. April 21, 1870 43 GEORGE W. CARPENTER'S Compound Fluid Extract of Sarsa? parilla. GEORGE W. CARPENTER'S Compound Fluid Extract of Bucha THESE celebrated preparations, originally in? troduced by George W. Carpenter, under the pat? ronage of the medical faculty, have been bo lonf 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 cases where Sarsaparilla or Bucha are applicable, and cannot be too highly recommend? ed. They are prepared in a highly concentrated form, so ns to render the dose small and conven? ient. Orders by mail or otherwise will receive prompt, attentiou. GEORGE W. CARPENTER, HENSZEV & CO., Wholesale Chemical Warehouse, No. 737 Market street, Philadelphia. For sale by Wallers & Baker and W. H. Nardin & Co., Anderson, S. C. Dowie & Moise, Whole? sale Agents, Charleston, S. C. Oct21, 1869 17 A. B. MULLIGAN, COTTON FACTOR and General Commisson Merchant, ACCOMMODATION WHARF, CHARLESTON, ?. C* Liberal Advances made on Cotton. JB^' I will, when placed in funds, purchase and lorward all kinds of Merchandize, Machine ry. Agricultural Implements, Manures, Seeds, &c. Sept 23,1769 13 ly II. BISCUOFF. C. WULBF.BX. J. H. PIENE. JOHN McFALL, with HENRY BISCHOFF & CO., WHOLESALE GROCERS, a D DUAI.F.I1S in WINES, LIQUORS, Cigars, Tobacco, ?See, NO. 197 EAST BAY, ? !H AIR IL 25 S IF ? H3 00-. ?A. Kov 25, 1369 22 Schedule Blue Ridge Railroad1, ON and after this date the following schedule will be observed by the Passenger Trains over this Koad : t'P. now}?. L've Anderson, 4.20 p m L've Walhalla, JS 30 a m ?' Pcndleton, 5.20 " " Perryville, 4.10 " " Pciryville, 6.10 " " Pcndleton, 5.10 " t A rr. Walhalla, 7.00 " Aw. Anderson, 6-.1-0 " In cases of detention oil the G*. aod'Gli ft. R?., the train on this Road will wait one bout' far the' train from* Bcbon, except on Saturdays, when- it will wait until (he arrival of the Belt on train. W. H. D. GA1LLARD, Supt. March 10, 1870 37 Tutt's Vegetable Liver Pills t For Liver Complaint, Bilfiousness, &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 Waltebs 4 Bakes^. Druggists, and Druggists and Merchants generally throughout the United Slates. July 29 1869 6 ly J. HAYNSWORTH EARLE, Attorney at Law. OFFICE IN THE BENSON HOUSE. May 2G, 1870 48 8m JAMES H. THORN WELL? Attorney at X^avfy ANDERSON C. H-, S. C. U@y* Offico in the residence immediately oppc* site Dr. Catcr's, on Main street. Fob 3, 1870 32 8nr Leather! Leather i IF you want the best Upper or Harness LeathV Cr'g0t? C. A. BEED'SV Corner Anderson Hotel: June 9, 1870_60_ W. S. KEESE?. AGENT FOR BATH PAPER MTlCLS,. WILL pay the highest cash prioe for RAGS' Depot street. May 26, 1870 48 8m Flour, Bacon, Corn, &c? AFINE lot of Flour, Bacon, Corn, &?., ?? hand, and for sale cheap by M. LESSER, Agent'. March 24, 1870 89_ You had better Believe It. ALL persons owing me money had better come forward and pay up, or they will certainly be sued. M. LESSER, Agent March 24, 1870 89 _ Groceries. SUGAR, Coffee, Tea, Syrups, and all kinds Groceries can be had, at r-odticed prices for cash, by going to ' M.'1 LESSER, Ajenit. . >, March 24, 1870 39 .