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? (WRITTEN FOR THE BANNER.) ^ TO "ADA." I would that on somo lovely i9lo w Jn Fancy's sweetest, brightest sea? That I wero living with u world, And thou would'st be that world to me. Thy voico should bo my music's life, Like Vesper's sighing breezo of love ; Or angel, when, forgetfully, He, musing, strikes his harp above. I'd want no sun?thine cvo should ho ino oiny sun uiai cnme wouiu own. Far sweeter tlian the brightest Btar That ever in Elysian shone ; No bow should gild its firmament, Thy smiles should weave its roseate hue, For all that fancy formed of love, My spirit would detect in you. Then say, shall I that music want, Or wander through that laud so dark ; Bo thou my sun?my promise bow, By which to guide my life's frail bark. Cokesbury. Constancy. PARADISE. by dr. j011n mason good. wnen nrsi in jmiohs Dainty bowers, Man passed his solitary hours 111 bliss but halt' complete : To heaven lie raised his anxious prayer, And sought some gentler form to share The rich luxuriant scat. That gentler form immediate rose, Tho sire of man with rapture glows? . IIo weds tho lovely prize ; Ah ! doomed to changes too perverse ! 1 (is very blessing proves a curse? llis lldfii instant {lies. Not thus forme this lot of woe, Which Adam lirst sustained below, Tho partial fates decree ; That bridal state?those genial hours, Which lost him Eden's balmy bowers, Give Eden all to inc. AOKIC U I. T U It A L. . How Deep sliou (I lorn be Planted ! The question of liow deep should corn bo planted was discussed some months ago be fore the Fanners Club of Hancock, Ga.. Mr. R. S. Hard wick was. in consequence, led to institute a series ol experiments, by which he has fully and satisfactorily tested the relative advantages of deep and shallow planting. He gives the result in the Milledgeville Recorder, which will be found below. With us the corn plantingseason is now quite concluded, but Mr. H's communication will be none the less interesting to planters. His facts can be treasured un for I future use. Ho says : About the first of March, I selected a spot of ground in the centre of a small lield, about 70 yards long by ;i sufficient width for five rows with their middles; which plat of ground was turned over wiih a one -horse turning plough about 4 inches deep, followed by a subsoil plough running 4 inches more in the same furrow?giving a depth of tilth of 8 inches. This operation completed, the surlace was harrowed and rolled, which pulverized it perfectly, and left a perfectly smooth surface the rows w< re then marked off 5 1-2 feet apart, with an old coulter blade, which passed through the earth without making any furrow?merely a mark to see to plant by. I then made an instrument which I called u dibble. This was simply a stick of sufficient size (o make a hole in the ground to drop ihe corn in. sharpened at one end, with a hole bored with a three-fourth inch auger, just two inches from the end sharpened?another 3, another 4,and an ther 5. A pin four inches long was then made to fit the hole, and was put through it 2 inches from the sharp end, This stick was then stuck in the ground until the pin came in contact with the surface, screwed round until the dirt would remain in its place and not fill the. hole, or in facl any fall it. It was then removed and the corn deposited and the hole filled just even with the surface. Thus one row was planted. The pin was then removed to the 3 : u i? i 1 .i i ? men nuiu, auu uuumcr row planted in like manner?then to the fourth, and to the fifth. The rows however that were planted 4 and 5 inches deep had some of the dirt removed from the surface after the com was deposited to enable the corn to germinate. Every hill came up ; but the rows that were planted two and three inches deep, several days before the others. There was no manure used, and the cultivation was precisely the same, and at the same time, and just as the balance of the field was, which was in corn, and prepared and planted in the ordinary way, without being subsoiled. 1 have before remarked that the rows planted two and three inches deep came up first by several days. This difference was perceptibly kept up to earing. The rows were distinctively marked so that any eye could perceive the difference. From the time the com got in bunch to the full roasting ear we had a drought of three weeks, which was long enough to test whether the shallow-planted corn would fail before that Which was planted deep. During this diWght I watched it daily, but could perceive no difference. It is worthy of remark, however, that all four of these rows stood the drought better than the balance of the field ?- attributable I have no doubt, to the depth <& ol the tilth given by the subsoil ploughing. ^If there was any difference, ihe corn on the tows planted 2 and 3 inches deep was better 7 *than the Qfher ; and every person I showed ? . 'jp ' hto. said the row planted 3 inchcs was bet; for than either. ' Whether this opinion is Correct or not? and I am of the opinioji it is?I consider the question settled, that the secret of succoss is mainly in deep ploughing rather than deep ' * " '*'*y > ' : " . v ' VAS-3 planting. I was as well satisfied before I made this experiment as I am now; and am surprised that any man, who is acquainted with the influence that the atmosphere exerts on the roots, should conceive that the plant would be likely to do better placed even partially beyond that influence, as it must be when planted very deep. I arrived at my conclusions by examining the roots of various stalks of corn?some that were planted shallow, and some that wore planted moderately shallow, but had the dirt worked to or drawn around and high up the stalk?and in every instance the roots putting out from the stalk nearest the surface were the healthiest, largest and most vigorous, while those at the greatest depth were feeble,small, and not unfrequently died when at a great depth. If there is a sufficient depth of tilth, the roots will travel down and keep in the moist ground ; and the beneficial and healthy influence exerted by the atmosphere on that portion of the roots within its reach is felt by the whole, no matter how deep it mav descend. Rut where no part of the root is within atmospheric influence it dies and is worthless to the plants. Eggs and Poultry. Among all nations, and throughout all gradesof society, eggs have been considered a favourite food. Hut in our cities, and particularly in winter, they are sold at such j prices uisu icw larrniics could allord to use I them at all, and even those in easy circum I stances consider them too expensive for comi mon use.?There is no need of this. Eve: ry family, or nearly every family can, with j very little trouble, have eirgs in plenty during the year; and of all the animals domcs ticated for the use of man, the common j dung-hill fowl is capable of yielding the i greatest profit to the owner. In November, j 1 put apart eleven hens and a cock, gave i them a small chamber in the wood house, J defended from the s'orm. Their food, wa: tcr and lime were placed on shelves convei nient for them, with nests and chalk nestj eggs in plenty. These hens continued to lav e?T2s throughout the winter. From l.l. I 1 r t " uicsc eirvrn in ns i received an average oi | six eggs daily during the winter; and wlienI ever any one of them was disposed to set, | namely, as soon as she began to cluck, she j was separated from the others by a grated , partition, and her apartment darkened. 1 These eluckers were well attended to and i well fed. They could see and partlyassocij ate through the grates with the other fowls, and as soon as any of these prisoners began to sing, they were liberated, and would very soon lay eggs. It is a pleasant thing to feed and attend a bevy of laying hens. They may be tamed so as to follow the children, ! and will lay in a box. Egg-shells contain i limp nnd wlmn in lltp ?/in?or tl-io nnrtli icon. vered with snow, if lime b?_' not provided for thern, they will not lay; or if they do, the eggs of necessity must be without shells. Old rubbish lime from chimneys aud old buildings is proper for them and only be broken. They often attempt to swallow i pieces of lime and plaster as large as wal' nuts. The singing hen will ccrtainly lay i eggs if she find all things agreeable to her, i but the hen is much a prude?as watchful ! as a weasel and fastidious as a hypocrite? i she must, she will have secrecy and mystery about her nest. All eyes but her own ! must be averted. Follow her, watch her ! and she will tor sake her nest and quit layi ing She is best pleased with a box covered at the top, with a back side aparture for li<?llt. and a sidts door hvr which <Iip cnn I w < - "J VW" V ? ? capo unseen. A farmer may keep one hun> | died chickens in a barn, may suffer them to > 1 trample on and destroy his mows of grain, and have fewer eggs than the cottager who keeps a dozen, provides secret nests, chalk i eggs, pounded bricks, plenty of corn or other i grain, water, and gravel for them, and takes t. care that his hens be not disturbed about their nests. Three chalk eggs please them i most. I have smiled to see them fondle round and lay in a nest of geese eggs. Pui; lets will begin to lay early in life, when the nests and eggs are plenty, and when others arechuckling around them. A dozen dunghill fowls shut up from the means of obtaining food, will require something more than a quart of corn a day. I think fifteen bushels a year a fair allowance for them ; but more or less, let them always have enough : by them; and after they have become habituated to find at all times a plenty in their little mangerx they take but a few kernels at a time, except just before going to roost, , when they will take nearly a spoonful in their crops. But just so sure their come to them seated or irregularly, so sure-will they i raven up whole cropfuls at a time and stop i laying. A dozen hens well attended will i furnish a family with more than two thoui sand eggs a year; and one hundred full rri*Attm nK&% ? a** uuiv.nuuo im ??iihci aiuics, i uc t\v i penses of feeding a dozen fowls will not amount to more than eighteen bushels of , grain. They may be kept in cities as well i as in the country, will do shut up the year . round, as to run at large. A grated room i well lighted, ten feet by five, partitioned from a stable or out house, is sufficient for a doi zen fowls with their roosting nests and feeding troughs. In the spring of the year, five or six eggs will hatch at a time, and the fifty or sixty shickens may be given to one hen. Two hens will take care of one hundred chickens well enough until they begin toclimb their little Stick roosts. They then should be separated from the hens entirely. I have often kept the chickens when young in my gardon. They keep the May bugs and other insect^ from vines. In ease of confining fowls in summer, it should be remembered . that a ground floor should be chosen; or it would be just as well to set - I in their pens, boxes of Well dried, pulverized earth, for them to wallow in during warm weather. Their pens should be kept clean. Arrival of Mechanics.?The New York True Sun says that among the recent arrivals are GOO carpenters. Within the last year over 1200 tailors are known to have landed from England alone to say nothing of those who reached New York from Germany. The number of ostlers and drivers of stages and carriages, thrown out of cmDlovment in Great Britain and on the continent, by reason of the Rail Roads, is enormous; the number cannot be less than 6,000. A large portion of the corps of whips will find their ways to the United States. The immense number of stone masons and stone cutters in Germany, and j all along the Rhine, is very great. For | years they have been employed at 2f> to 30 ! cents (good wages in Europe) on the pul?. i lie works?building up Ehernbrightstein, Mons and other fortifications. All this is now stopped, and of the thousands of stone workers who arc out of employ, a large number are preparing to embark for the United States. A Remarkable Revelation if True.? | The following are extracts from a W ashingj ton letter of the Philadelphia Ledger. They i contain a reveiauon wnicn cannot lailto arrest aitcntion.?The letter is dated May the 13th :? ' With the defeat of Santa Anna, my hope I of pence is considerably diminished ; for | however strongly the opposition press may have railed against what it was pleased to call "the passport granted to that cheif," certain it is that our best hopes of peace rested on. him, and that nothing but the impossibility of ; sustaining himself in Mexico has thus far baffled his efforts to make the Congress ai gree to the proposition of our Government ' to send commissioners. 'The tone of his warlike despatches was I from the commencement, forced upon him | by the circumstances in which he was placed and perfect understood here 1 nv the President and his Caijinet.? Santa Anna's only hope of success consisti ed in first satisfying the national vanity of his countrymen, or av tiling himself of | some lucky accident to turn for a moment ' the fortunes of war, and to improve that moment for concluding: a peace He came very near such a chance at Bu-ua Vista, i but the battle of Ceiro Gordo has put an end to his prospects, and, with them to our : calculations of peace from that quarter." i A Beautiful, Thought.?Life is beautifully compared to a fountain fed by a thousand streams that perish if one be dried.? It is a silver cord twisted with a thousand strings that part asunder if one be broken, i Frail and thoughtless mortals arc sorrounded by innumerable dangers, which makes it uiuiu niuju aiiau^r/ iHitt uiuy bU lUUg, than that they almost all perish suddenly at last. We are encompassed with accidents overv day tc crush the mouldering tenement that we inhabit. The seeds of disease are planted in our constitutions by nature. The earth and the atmosphere whence we draw the breath of life is impregnated with death ?hea th is made to operate its own destruction ! The food that nourishes contains the elements of decay ; the soul that animates it by a vivifying fire tends to wear it out by its own action; death lurks in ambush along our paths. Notwithstanding this is the truth, so palpably confirmed l>y the daily examples before our eyes, how little do we lay it to heart! we see our friends and neighbors perishing amonir us, but how seldom does it appear to our thoughts that our knell shall perhaps, give the next fruitless warning to the world ??/V. Y. Recorder. The Late lfail Storm in Georgia. | A correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle gives quite a narrative of the late hail storm in Jasper County, Ga. He says : " Were you not well acquainted with me, I confess I should hesitate in my brief acj count, for fuar of not being believed. In the j neighborhood of Wise's Ferry, on the Oci mulgee, the storm was very fierce, but it was severest about two or three miles this side ol | the river. The scene must have been ter; rific in the extreme, the hail fell as large as ' goose-eggs, and in quantities incredible to relate. Large banks of the stones yet lie in the coiners of the fences, notwithstanding the very copious rains that have fallen since, and the bright sun of twelve clear days Our boys are yet enjoying ice drinks from these unexhausted banks. It would be difficult to rind a single head of wheat on any sized wheat field in the immediate vicinity I am describing. Flocks of goats were killed, and whole stocks of hogs nearly destroyed, the horns of cows were broken off, and some persons injured. The forests are almost as leafless as in mid winter, and present a most melancholy picture. Immense numbers of poultry, birds, snake and fish were destroyed. The orchards were stripped of their entire covering, and the trees so bruised as to leave no hope that they will survive. I have seen post-oak saplings, pines, and other trees, thnt were as completely bruised from the root up, as if they had been struck a thousand hard blows with a heavy hammer, clearing the rough bark and indenting the wood at everv blow. Some buzzards were destroyed while on the wing, as is supposed^ As for corn, cotton, and the. like, the fields gave scarcely the slighestindication of having been planted.. The houses appear as if they had been assailed by ah army of Davids, and each man throwing his stone as if aimed at a giant.? Such 4 disaster as this was never before wimeswtiM'by the oldest inhabitant," that distinguished personage so often referred to 1 on extraordinary occasions. 1 could fill a column with details, as "rich and rare" as those recounted, but I fear to trespass fur?i ?? ii muj. ujjuu yuui puuuiice." The Arciiduke Charles.?This distinguished General, the ablest rival of Napoleon with the exception of Wellington, and pronounced by Napoleon himself as one of the ablest tactitions of the day, died in Vienna on the 30th of April last. The immediate cause of his death was a severe cold followed by inflammation of the plenra. The archdultc commanded the Austrian j force at the bloody batile of Wagram, and i held for a while the fate of the day in suspence, even against Napoleon. His spirit was cramped and his intentions frustrated i by Aulic Councils, or he would have made a more successful soldier. He was uncle of the present Emperor. When the sacrifice which you request a friend to make is greater than the benefit ! yon obtain thereby, your demand is uncourt' eons. There is a difference between happiness 'and wisdom. He that thinks himself the happiest man is really so, but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. To make Blue Ink.?Take 4 ounces of vitriol best quality, to 1 ounce of indigo: pulverize the indigo very fine; put the indigo on the vitriol, let the > stand exposed to the air six days, or until dissolved. | Attention Lower Battalion ! m There will bo a Court Martial | held at Bradley's < Id Field on KB Saturday the 26th of June, to try Tfof all defaulting non-commissioned officers and Privates. T'ie Court will consist of the following officers : |^| Captains E II Mills, Presi*. pf J don'.?Capis. S C Sanier, E O ULJ Ragin, and Lioots. George PatHu tersoti, G. M. Brown. By order of Col. M. O. TALMAN. J. G. Basicixs, Adj't. May 19th 12 tf Head Quarters. COLUMBIA, 18th May, 1847. GENERAL ORDER. All officers of Militia of this State ordering elections of officers of the line of whatever gri.de or rank, or making appointments of officers of the staff, will report the names of the officers so elected or appointed to the S^crex tary of State, who is directed thereupon to fill up and forward their commissions witiiout deUy, and he is also further directed not to j issue any blank military commission. All communications addressed to the Secretary of State under this order to he endorsed ?? Militia Service." The Brigndinr Generals, are eharged with the extension of this order. By order of the Command-*r-in-Chief. J. W. CANTEY, Adj'i. and Inspt. Gen. May 19th 12 6w Notice to absent Heirs. ; Alfred Mouner, Willis Mounce, and Michael I T I 1VT I.:- ?: ---1 . - I uuwcijr aiiu x-t uncy ins wiie who rt'sitMJ Wimout this State, and Distributees ot W. D. Mounce dec'd, are horeby notified, that the Administrator R. G. Goulding will be ready to settle their portion of the Estate on or bel'ore the IStli June 1847, and holding their money in readiness at that time will not be accouutai ble for interest lor.ger. * March 18. R G. GOULDING, Adm'r j March 31 5 tf Notice to absent Heirs dz:c. All persons having demands, or owing the Estate of Israel Smith deceased, will present them by the first Monday in July next, at ? ?i.~ ...:n u. ?..i--. --J wiiiuu 111110 Luc usuiu; win ut; buiut^u aim closed in the Ordinary's Office, Abbeville District S. C., at which time and place, the Heirs, (if any in this country) will apply I or their shares of the Esiat?>. J. T. DRENNAN, Ad'm'r. April 1st 1847. 7 tf Dr. C. H. KINGSMORE, i Having made arrangements to locate in the ' Village of Due West, would respectfully offer his services as Physician, to the citizens of the Village and adjacent country.?Office at Mr. A K Pa lions. s~ Due West, Feb. 16. 51 tf Just Received, A fresh and handsome slock of Printed Lawns, printed Jaconet and Brocade Muslins, some of New Styles; also mourning Muslins. R. H. & W. A. VVARDLA W, Abbeville C.VH? April 20th 1847. 8 tf The State of South Carolina. ABBEVILLE DISTRICT, In the Couit of Common Pleas. Benjamin F. Spikes, who has been arrested, and is now confined within the bounds of the jail ol Abbeville District, by virtue of a writ of capias ad satisfaciendum,, at the suit of Wade S Cothran and James Sproul, having filed .his petition, with a schedule, on oath, of his whole estate tad effects, for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the Acts of the General Assembly commonly called "the Insolvent U'-'Dtors Act :"?Public Notice is hereby given thut the petition of the said Benjamin F. Spikes will be heard and considered in the Court of Common. Pleas to be holden for Abbeville District, at Abbeville Court House* on the third Monday of October nejst, or on such other day thereafter as the/said Court may order; and all the creditors of the s*idJ3enjamin F. Spikes are hereby sominonea person* ally or by attorney be;iind appear tnen and there, in the qaid Court, to ehevv oaase, if any 'ihey can, why the benefit of the AcW afiwesaid should not be granted to the said Benjamin F Spikes, upon his taking the oatfi, arifl executing tho assign - x %% The State of South Carolina- m ABBEVILLE DISTRICT. In Equity. -vVvlEL Thomas M. Finley, and Reuben J. ITinlWy Nancy A. Finley by next friend,- T,. flT M. Finley, v, Alexander Hunter, Nancy' . Finley, Granville H-. Finley and others.- v| ?Bill for Account, Partition, Delivery' > of Slaves and Relief. It appearing to my satisfaction, that Nancy Finley,Granville II. Finloy, Isaac Finley, Robt. Oak-' ley and Rhoda his wife, A hi Deck" and Polly Ann: his wife, and Jano K. Finley, Defendants in this; ca80, reside without tlio limits d mis state: ur-^ dcred that tho ubovo named Defei'.'danfe do appear and plead, answer or demur, to the sa'd Bill'within' three months from tho publication of t/jisorder* or; , _ Judgment ruo conkesso, will bo rendered agfiSn?* them. . II. A. JONES,c.e. a.-*'* Commissioner's Oflico, March 6th, 1847. March 10. 2 3m The State of South Carolina, ABBEVILLE DISTRICT. Jesse Reagin, vs. Catherin Reagin and others.?Partition in Ordinary. It appearing that Nicholas Itcagin, one of the Defendants in this case, resides without the limitc of this State : It is ordered that ho do appear and ob- > ject to tho sale or division of the Real Estate of [ Young Reagin doe'd, on or before the 20th day of May 1847, or his consent to tho samo will be onte- ? rPfl nf lliVIH T WOT \T JUfikf A JUT JLJU?JJU A , v/iuiiiury. Feb. 20th, 1847. 13m The State of South Carolina. ABBEVILLE DISTRICT. Notice To the Creditors and Heirs of Richmond Harris, deceased. AH persons having demands against the Estate will present th?'in io D. L?-sly, Adiniw nistrator o\ said Estat"* as Derelict, on or be* fore the 20th May 184*7, at which time said Estate will bt; apportioned, and closed : And Vk aa the personal Estate is insufficient to pay the debis?and the following heirs and legatees .? rpside without the limits of tins State, viz: |5 j Frances E Harris, A?_rncs S Hunter, Uriah g | R- Harris, Louisa I. Heard, and A J Harris? I I and the creditors have petitioned for the pro- I i ceeds of real Estate, to pay debts. It is ^ I therefore ordered, that the 6aid absentees do I appear ami show cause, why the proceeds of \ I tiie real Estate of said Richmond Harris dej ceased, should not b??. so applied, on or before I till. 'J ft I ll rkt IVln.r lfl,n Ml ; .l ? i | 1,11V -w V?? WI rnujf I U*t < , UtllCl WlOt, UlCir UUIIN sent as confessed, will be entered of record Feb. 20, 1847. 1 3m D. LESLY, Ord'y. The State of South Carolina. AHUKViLI.E PIoTHICTj In the Court of Ordinary. Sarah J. A. Wheaton, vs. Thomas Simmons nnd others.?Application of Creditors, for proceeds of Real Estate, to be pa,id to Administrator for payment of debts, on insufficiency oj personal Estate. It appearing to my satisfaction, that Thomas Simmons, Frances Simmons nnd Anna Simmons a minor, parties Defendants, reside without the limits of this State : It is there- r1 ' fore ord- red ihat they do appear and show Ciiuse within the time, viz, 20th May, 1847, why the proceeds of the Real Estate of Aine- '/ lia Simmons dee'd, sold in Ordinary for Parti- ' tion, should not be applied to the payment of . /S? debts by the Adminisirator on deficit of personal Estate?their cousent as confessed, will be entered of record. on I M.o r* T rci v r\-i?.. A' vv MV. m VIII IV XJUUU i f Will y ' v:;l" Just Received A Fresh supply of Now and Valuable Medi?f., cinee?among which are the following: &. Dr. Spencer's Vegetable Pills, ; '4v and, Restorative Bitters, p. Designed for, arid will cure, Dyspepsia, ^ VI Liver Complaint, Piles, Scrofula, Jaundice, ; ^ and all kindred diseases resulting from a dis- , ._'j; ordered stomach or impure state ol blood. ' /' Dr. Hull's Worm Lozenges, The Safest, most Effectual, and pleasant pre-. - -J.- 1-r" paration before the public, for the Eradication , of Worms, in Children or Adults. v * \ Hull's Cough Lozenges, . Will Prevent Consumption, and Cure all / *' cases of Colds, Asthma, Spitting of blood, 4 pains in the side, shortness of breath, and all '-k other Pulmonary Complaints. '*: ?A. LiSO? \ Dr. Hull's Fever and Ague Pills. Well known ns a Safe, Certain, and Effectual Cure for Fever and Ague, Chills nnd Fes ' vcr, Intermittent and all othpr F"vers. \ - i&V Price reduced to 75 cents per Box April 28. 9 1m . v 1 ., Land for Sale. ^ "IS dMfc The subscriber having deter- Ak mined to romove West, off -re for J*-' suic ilia TRACT of LAND on wh5?%h i>.. .--Vv??il? Hides. There is between 8 and 900 acres, between 5 and GOO cleared and in excellent'repair. On th$ plantation is two excellent settlements?TWO .lull}*]) good IVVO-STORY HOUisES at each place? Gin houses, screw, and every necessary out-build- '"'..fa ing. The plantation lies in two and a half miles of jy? a good landing on Savannah river. It is presumed Jy I no one would purchase without examination, as ^ such further description is unnecassnry?a bargain ^ will be given. ROBERT E. BELCHER./.,.,s5? May 12. Matress Making. " We whoso names aro hereunto subscribed, having^ used the Matrcsses Manufactured by Mr. James H Price of the Village of Abbeville, ? do hereby rHj?!' , recommend his work to the public, himself a# worthy of their patronage, ? THOMAS P. SPIERiff;, T. P. MOSELY. , THOMAS B. DfiNDYi ?? t ^ *3 KJ* Persons-in the country desiring Matressea, -> would do well to give me a call, ant^naminft for