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HrWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. "Tho Prico of Liborty is Etornal Vigiianco." PAYABLE IN ADVANcl^ . BY DAVIS & HOLLINUSWORTIt. ABBEVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 27, I8f>(?. VOT,. XIT NO. 4# - *> gas ?11,a, $ ?JJ ? . Cuba?Manufacturing bugar. Tn the Southern Christian Advooatc we find mt interesting loiter front an American in Cuba, front which we extract the following. The writer was a gtlest at the sugar estate known as lite ' Flower of Cuba," and Says: ' Tiii$ n,.? (i.^ncot.,1 n..w.c of productive lands. We rode for hours through immense Is of sugar cane, twelve to eighteen feet high. These fields Sue divided hy beautiful avenues of royal palm and mango trees. Many of the trees t?Hj f'ixty to eighty feet high, in the distance looking Idee marble columns. They commence cutting the chih? in Decern her, and the top is used as food for cattle. In Louisiana the cane has to be renewed annually ?here, once in ten or fifteen years. It is hauled in carts drawn hy oxen to the sugar mill, which is usually located hi the centre of the farm. The cane is passed between two large iron roller*, ami the jn'fce is pressed out, Hutting through troughs into tanks, to he purified, it is next pumped into cisterns and boiled to a syrup. On this estate they make both chived and Muscovado sugars. Tin; former is made in tin moulds, in the shape of a funnel, holding filly pound*. These vessels are filled with green sugar; on the top is placed a layer of clay two iiii-hes thick, ami they are left three U7?iiL*u t/i .limti .I.it Tl... ? I..... ? wv.?ko v\? ??ii|'*tnv? *11 * J II*J * i?iy i^ i ii'"ii removed, and y??u have a loaf of sugar, which is divided into three qualities. This top being lh?* whitest, it is packed in hows of four It ii ml rod pounds each, and is known in the commercial world as Havana box sugar. The bust quality of Muscovado sugar is ; made hy the centrifugal process. The raw material is pound into a machine, which is turned by steam with great rapidity. In a few minutes you have, a well grained dry sugar, which, packed in hogsheads, is the quality shipped to the United States, while l the clayed article goes mainly to Kurope. Lime, blood, and animal bones are used in the 111:11111 facturu <>t" sugar. The c;rn>hed cane is il 1 ! ] and serves as fuel to heal the kettle in which the sugar is boiled?wood being a scarce article in litis part of tlie Island. Formerly the grinding was done by ox power, Ixit recently the American en- . ginc lias Ill-en introduced. Tin; buildings and machinery on this estate cost threw hundred thousand dollars. They work eight hundred hands, and about one thousand oxen, for live mouths in the year. The mill 1 runs night and day?Sunday and Monday, j Three Iiuii<!i? <I ;i< ivs are planted ii: w<**ta- ! . I hies, fruit, etc., for the n?groes. Tlicy will make this year twelve thousand boxes an<l two thousand hhils. sugar, besides several 1 thousand IiImK molasses. Tim products of j this farm would he worth in the Charleston , market, one million dollars! The good people of the l'almetto Stale have to pay a ' duty of thirty dollars per hogshead, to pro- ! tect the Louisiana sugar planters, be ft > re tllcy are permitted to sweeten their ColFee with Cuban sugar. The family were invited to a dinner party ' at St. Ilcletie, and said they would he ! pleased to have, me Hccfiiiumnw ?li..m 0.==.. 1 - 1" " I ring inc of n welcome. '1 here L had an ; opportunity of stein*; and hearing murh of j the manners ami customs of tin; (Julian la- j dies. I found them intelligent and cduea- | tod, and as they spoke English, L was so i much pleaded with mv visit that I spent j several days at Si. Ileleue. Wo discussed i Cuban manners freely and unreservedly. I I was pleased to be corrected where I h id ; formed erroneous opinions. When inlro- ' dueed to a Creole lady, you think her flat j and uninteresting. It is the fashion to ap- j pear as iudilicreut as possible?she, how- I ever, soon becomes animated, and then look j out for those bewitching eyes and that soft, ; Rwi-ct i-iiii.i. TI.? ' ?' - .w.vv, iiiv cuu? iiiiuii tii inu uiinaics | id too much neglected, and then they arc much restricted in their intercourse with tlie world. A very intelligent genll?man tokl me that the men did not wish to have | their wives know as much as they did. I | told him in ?uir country ignorant wives were the niothefx of dull, stupid hoys. In the lower classes, the men and women jtfti hoth ignorant and indolent. They have tio am I'it ion to improve their condition, , moraUy or physically?generally living in i miserable lints. The glory of the men is | to attend cork nml liti!) fights, gamble, and | roll nine j>ins, and the women smoke and , ?dlo:their time. Not. a book or newspaper i is to bo seen in their houses, and they have ] no knowledge of the world beyond the pre- I scribed limits of the Island. The luxuriant flowers which cover their thatehed cottages, alMrd no pleasure to the occupants. It is a waste of beauty and fragrance on uncultivated tastes. The higher classes will no more associate with thcin thao with their gervnflts. ,You find among the educated Cubans a burning hatred of the Spanish yoke, and i.. *? -? ? - Hiu Itinjr IU limn* lb oil, tYllt'llUVCr tliey onn he assured a r/arrollc wilt not her their fate; hut this t;las<? is too feeble and closely watched to accomplish much, witli' * out foreign aid. I know several planters I who pay twenty to thirty thousand dollars taxes, and tlusy have no mure voice or influence in the government'than their slaves. The Captain General, Governors, and all v . ^ who are in command, are Spaniards, and 1 | appointed at the various (?) Courts of Madlid. ISvery barrel of flour imported from a foreign eountry; pays a duty of ten dollars! ?'iud they are not allowed to grow wheat on their own land. Think of a little island ; like Cuba, supporting a standing army of forty thousand soldiers, who fatten ami revel on the substanee of this oppressed people ! | The wealthiest planter in Cuba is not permitted to go ten miles from home without a "permit" from a Spanish oUlcer. Admission of New Statoa. 1 IIow iniicli tolerance ilous the South, the parent. of the new States, exhibit, in permitting them to enter the Union with constitutions prohibiting slavery! They a*k to participate in all the principles of '.lie old thi teen, saying, at the same time, "We are holier than you;" "The hlot of slavery is not on our escutcheon." To the present slave Slates, they, in cil.ct, say, "You, it is true, have given to the Union, or have been : chiefly insti umciital in ae?|uiring for the Union, all her territories; hut you area wicked, degraded race, and must not eou, laminate us with your vile institution of , slavery." If the new State were within the Fii?id Zone, where the negro would he at all times useless, it would onlv add wanton ness to (lit! instill, f>>r the prohibition would be unnecessary. Tile prohibition of slavery is always cither a wanton insult, or a gross wrong to I lie Sontli. Tin; Federal Government, as the agent of llie States, may or may not admit new States into the Union, as it pleases. In admitting them, it is hound to do fijual justice t<> the North and to the South. It docs perpetrate gross ami palpable injustice to tie.- South, when it permits a forward child to lie remitted to the rights of manhood, when its very petition is accompanied with iiiMilt and wrong to one of i its parents. ii we hi iix* ,-xiiiui aumu iii.'ii slavery is | immoral or inexpedient in new States, we ( cannot maintain lliut it is right anywhere. | We tlierel>y yiclil tin; great |ninci|ile for j which abolition contends, and furnish it a ' l'-ver ami fulcrum with which to upset our tloiiK-ntic institutions. Hereafter, in admitting any Northern State prohibiting slavery, it should he with ail understanding on the part of tile South, that "it submits to such a-luiission, not as a matter of right, hut for the sake of peace, ami because it will not piarrcl about a Useless abstraction." Without some Mich procedure oil the pail of the South, the ail mission of any State excluding I slav< ry. is the assertion that slavery is morally wrong ami inexpedient. \\ heilevci* 111>* Sniiili Im1.-?ic ?l><? <lwi"".t ground, tliat. Iter institutions arcs righteous, honorable ami -xjh>?Ii?-?it, as Lliose of the Xoith, she will li.i.l her defence easy. Until she does tliis, until she asserts her eipialiiy iii morality, as well as in right, she invites, nay, she justifies, the attacks of abolition.?ltichnunnl 1'Jnt/nircr. Xlf" I'\>r the liunctii of the marrying young people of Imth m'Xcs, \vu subjoin what Hannah More says about "Women and I'ictures It", indeed, woman were mere outside, form and fare only, and il mind made ii]> no part of her composition, il would follow that a ball room was ijuitc as appropriate a place for choosing a wife, as all exhibition room for choosing a picture, lint, inasmuch as women are not mere portraits, their value not lieing determined by a j fflallCU of the eve. il Ii>l1nw? tlml ;i I O -J 1 - " V,,,l mode of appreciating their value, an<l a different place of viewing ihein, antecedent to their being individually selected, is desirable. The two cases differ, also, in this, that if a man select a picture for hiin'elf from among all its exhibited competitors, and bring it to his own house, the picture being passive, he is able to lix it there; while the wife, picked up at a public place, and accustomed to imvssant display, will not, it is probable, when brought home, stick so quietly to the spot where he fixes her, but will escape to the exhibition room again, and continue to be displayed at every public exhibition, just as if she were not become private property, mid had never been definitely disposed of. Curious Mcchanicul J)uck.?The automaton peacock of Gen. Degennes, a French officer of the 17thc?n ury, probably suggested to Fancausoii the idea of constructing his celebrated duck, which was perhaps the most wonderful piece of mechanism ever made. This duck exactly resembled a living one in size and appearaiTcc. It executed accurately all its movements and gestures, it ate and drank with avidity, performed all the quick motions of the head and throat peculiar to the livinc airiiffid. ami like it muddled tlx: water with its bill. It produced the sound of quacking in the most natural manner. Every bone in the natural duck had its representative in the automaton, and its wings were nutoinieally exact. When corn was thrown down be1 . : fore it, it reached out its neck to pick it up. It swallowed it, digested it, and discharged it. The digestion was accomplished by a chemical solution, after which it was con veyed away by tubes, Leekman, who saw it long after, informs us that its ribs were madu of wire, and that the motion was nommimieflted through the feet by means of a cylinder and fine chains, like those of a watch.?English paper. Always think of your own imperfections, when you are condemning others. Dueling. During the period of the occupation of France l>y the allies of Loui> XVIII., in n 1815, this system was pursued extensively l>y ^ tl the French ollicers. Patriotism ami a deep . v sense of injury perhaps palliated its atrocity. Day after daj\ Prussian and Knglish olli- i y cers would he grossly insulted l?y French- | 0 men?would send a cartel?fight?and he . n carried oil' regularly to l'cre la Chaise.? > ti Sonic of Napoleon's inn it rat d'anncs made ^ a business of hilling their man each day.? j r A story is told of one of them?an old v? Oa|iilaiue Ducroo?who had slain his scores, ; a and was never known to meet his match ' a with the sword. He never sent a challenge, j was alwsiys the aggressor, an l pitilessly in- ( r sifted on the right of choosing his favorite ; ^ weapon. When he had not found an ad- j I vers;try in the course of the day, he would , h Miter tin! Uafe Koy, at i'aris, t??\v;ir?l six i tl o'clock, for dinner; ami the waiters could , it t?-l 1 by his face and the way he twirled his j t' grizzly moustache, that lie was on the look- . s out f?.?r a quarrel. Woe to him who gave ti him the least chance ! One evening, there ! il chanced to drop into the same cafe an , d English ollicer trailed (Iwynne. lie he- j h loiiircil to the armv of occupation, hut had I' milv just returned to liis regiment from lii.-s ; u home, where lie had been kept a close j a prisoner I?y a wound received at Waterloo. h Diinni; liis absence, his brother had had w tin* misfoituuo.?so lie had heard?to quar- f? rel with Capitaiue Ducrtie, and to he killed t< by him in a duel. li Cwyniie entered thft Cafe Foy a few minutes before .six, and sat down at a small t< vacant tahle. A waiter started at the sight, ^ li and running to the KuglNliman, observed, i a with some agitation, that that was " the j e ('.- tain's tahle." "What Captain, my j n friend asked the KntrlUhman. " Oil! ! a le Capitaiue Dueroe!" answered the waiter, ! o I rononneiiig the terrible name almost with J a a fi*iTmjf ??f awe. Oyline's cheek lhi-.be.I j v at the name, but he tncrelv observed that ' li ' 1.1 iin table WHS I'lvt* :ill l!l?' others, SCUIII- 1 Jl iiijjv ; stiil," In*, said, " if tin*. (Japitaine. in t! sist."<l 11 ]> >ti it, he w'onl<i doubtless sa;i>fv is him." Oa w 11i? !? lie look up the newspa- I per an-! begin ts? lead. n Almost at tho same instant, the door t! opened. and a heavy tread of spurred h>ots a were heard approaching tin; table. When is at a few f.'i-t distance, " It* Uipiiaiin:" stop- o ped, and surveyed the usurper with an in- -I suiting smile. <Jwvitne looked calmly :il him, !hiL clid not speak. Tim Cap taino sat ? down at tin; table dose l>v, and beijin to 'n twirl his moti-tachc. IVoplo who knew r< him understood tin; meaning of the g-s- h til re, and gathered closer to I lie redoiihta f. l>lc champion of l-Yaucc. Tliev had not ii lonjj to wait before he commenced opera- :? tions. ii Slide!lint* aeros* suddenly, he seized the | 11 I a in |> on the Englishman's tahle, snatch- j " ed it. away, while with the other hand In: j r plucked the newspaper out of C? Wynne's giasp. There was a buzz in the cafe at this gross insult, and one or two English- v men present sprang to their feel, and *' moved toward their countryman. But l.e did not speak or move; his face did not '' even show any apparent notice of the af- il front. v Le Capitaiue read for a moment or two, L" then turning his chair so as to bring it close 1 to the Englishman's table, he suddenly d stretched out his leg, and brought down the heel of his heavy boot on 0Wynne's f int. There was another buzz ami murmur among the rousommntcurs; luit 0 wynne " contented him<elf with drawing his foot up. and folding his arms. Ilis country- " men gathered round him, evidently g.d!ed * at his seeming indifference to the insult; ' hut he took no notice. At lastlo Cxpilaiue, tl after a lonjj look at his antagonist, called to the waiter for a glass of hrandy. When '' it was hiought, he raised the ghiss, and '' drank it. saying to Gwynne, " A voire Cutir- " Anf/fnix /" ^ Then slowly and leisurely the latter ro?e. IIo was a man of immense size and strength. With one stride he stood beside the French- f 111:111; then, grasping his moustacho with " 0110 hand and his chin with the other, he ^ 1 1 1 ? . .1 ? wrcnrimu ins luouii) ojic'ii ami spat down his throat. ,l " Should Monsieur deem fit," lie said, in ^ a calm, quiet voice, " to honor me with a ? call, there is inv card." So saying lie left ^ the cafe. Needless to add, that his in vita- 0 tion was not accepted. Dueroc never ehal- a hmged ; the choice of weapons was cssen- Sl tial to his safety. -? w Something to be Borne in Mind.?Nei- si titer lowers nor husbands should ever un- a dertake to entertain their sweethearts or n wives by extolling the beauty and accoin- w plishineiits of other maids or matrons; and it neither sweethearts nor wives should over 1 strive to render their lovers or husbands " .a-??.1. i _ -j f? ! - - more niiruiiuiime uy going 1IIIO GCAlUSieA li about the elegance nnd generosity of other f: men. Well, why not? Because, until the Ii "laws of nature change," all eucb Under- takings nnd striving!* will always prove most decidedly unsuccessful m?-??> ' S J&tTA witness in a liquor case at Manclies- d ter, N. S. the other day, gave the following a testimony : " Sulsoda is ice and water, and cl some stuff squirted into it from a concern, y D-.-n't know whether it is intoxicating or f< not?it makes one feel good?-feet lift * easier" ft A Lady on Meards. A fair correspondent of the Homo Joural lias the following sensible remarks on ' tie wholesome habit of wearing the beard, 1 rll it'll has lately come into fashion : < " It is astonishing what change a few ( e.-tr.s has wrought in regard to shaving.? < )nce, everybody shaved, but now, I much i liotake, if every gentleman has not found , j shave or not to shave, a question sug- | ested l>y his morning toilet. Alas for the I iizoi-stro|> man i His occupation is nearly < one. I hope he will succeed in finding | not her, for ihe present generation will he bearded raee. < " I was <piite interested last Winter in I catling a 'Natural History of the Human < Ip^eies,' l?y Lieutenant-Colonel Charles i lamiltou Smith, in which he stales that a I ear.led race are the conquering races. For < his reason the beardless races are averse to i nion with them. This aversion he stales < > he the result of experien-c, proving the | tiperior activity of those who have sprung j com such races. Jenghis, Tiuiur and Na- < id Shah, were directly, or in their ancestry, I cscendcd from Caucasian mothers, and I | ence, also, the jealous exclusion of the J luropean women from China. The pro- | i ressive nniiosiH, Ik; tells us, are a j inl 11airv race. Sampson's strength lay in ' is liair. Bereft of that, liis mighty power j "as gone. The lion is the Icing of tin; rest. llovv mucii of this heanty lie owes i his magnificent inane. Shave him, ami e is king no longer. I cannot imagine why a heard is given > man, unless it is to try his patience, if j e is to spend his time in dailv cutting it, ! . " , I s it daily asserts its right to a manifest* d xistence. The heard is an cmhiem of lanly power and dignil\, and is certainly n element of manly heauty. The Father f the Faithful, and all the old Patriarchs J sul lVophets wort! beards; so <1 i<l our Sa- j 1 ioiir, when he dwelt as 111:111 amoii<' the I ills of .) it lea. So, too, most of the verier- 1 I hie divines who have transmitted to ? * 1 ( li?;ir seheiiios of theology. It is :i modern ! inovatioii to shave oil' the whole heard.? | t was not common hef<>re the commence- 1 lent of the last century. Moses fothade lie .Jews to mar t!ie Corners of their heard : :i<! D.ivi l, when his Embassadors wore , isa!t'-d I?y Hainan's shaving oil" one-half | f tlieir hoards. permitted them to tarry at | erii ho liil tlieir hoards had grown. " While the heard, properly Worn, is an I rnanieut, it is sometimes rendered hideous j y I in: iii.-m iit>r in which il is lei i ti i . A wind mass of bristles on ll e chin is never : coming, yd sometimes iliisi-long j ict'il gentlemen elongate their countcnauccs. j i this way ; often these lulls imparl a low, j iiitnal expression ; they never confer ?li?rity nor beauty. Some few are great I v ! nproved 1 ?y full whiskers, others by a ; loustache. Some look best with (lie beard j athcr close. Ti, requires an artist's eye to i ecide on what is most becoming. Nature | eaves a varvin?? outline to the beard, i I liich is more perfect than any semi circle , lit by the razor. ' l'erliaps you may think I have wan- j ered from my proper sphere in writing j bout beards. I had no idea of doing so rlicu I commenced this letter; you must harge it all to snow storms. I must leave I... .f i . i: . i i- r nv; mii'icti 01 mines ureas Jul* unollier ay. " Yours, ?fee., " A XXA HOPE." jT5T A young lady of respectable con- ' exions in Philadelphia, who had probably ceil reading some of the late naming i ovcls of Southern life, became determined < cry suddenly, a few weeks ago, to leave i lie narrow limits of the city and satisfy erself 011 the slave stale of the South, at 1 lie same time enjoy herself among its | leasant towns and villages. Slie clothed ; erself in man's attire, in a fashionable suit ' f broadc.loth, took some change in her ocket, and in a very quiet manner eloped. 1 ilie arrived in the city one day last week, ; a all appearance a lad of some fifteen or ; ixtccn summers, stopped a day or two, and 1 the meantime fell in with some extrava>*iiit young travelers; passed champagne ' nth them, took snacks at the " Bower," j nd flew around ill quite handsome style, 'e-tterday afternoon she was 011 the point f leaving in the Southern cars, when lror ither, who having forlunatdy guessed her nirse, was in pursuit of her, and had just riived by the Richmond train, found her _4~.i .1 i.s? ? - ' L-uiuu 111 me ouiuMiig r.iir OI me weiihrtr rain, puffing away on a prime Havana, ' rith her tiny feet cocked up against the ' Love, and withal quite at hoine. On the ' ffcutionato parent beholding his gentlelanly daughter thifs ntiitamorphosed, ho ras at a loss to express himself, hut finally ( janaged to exclaim', "Is that you, Louisa ?" 'o which the gallant runaway responded, This is me, father. Oh 1 I'm so sorry I ift you," and she hurst into tears. For the' I lir wonderer's Rake, we suppress names. 1 t is needless to say they returned together, i -Petersburg. Express. fcff* " Row *lo you like the character of 1 t. Paul ?" asked a parson of his landlady, ' uring a conversation about the old saints nd tho apostlea. " All, he was a good, | , lever old noul, I knew, for lie once said? , ou know, Unit wo must ent what is set be ' >re us, and ask no questions for consciepop i?ke. I always thought I should like him <1 it a boarder." < ......i? wiOTimwCTHTTM^nrr??? ' ' A Cure for Abolitionism. Not manv years siuccj in ono of the ? ' IMattc counties," livc<l a wealthy and lospitahle gentleman. His house being )? 0110 of the public highways, he fre- er piently had to entertain travelers. One veiling, just as the sun was setting, a poniig, well dress?>l traveler, mounted on Sil i fine hoise, rode up, and in a rather im- C() nortant manner, informed "the Major" that ],, le wanted to stay all night. lie was (j, courteously invited to alight, and a negro , [? man was culled to attend to liis horse. I |V. From the peculiar accent lie gave the | c.t word "down," when orderinu the man to j 0f lie careful and have his horse well rulihe<l ,i; leouti, " the Major," knew he was from an I ,,t infected di-lriet. At supper, the disease ! < [ began to develop itself ami the d?.oun enst j ;tt jent commenced a regular lecture upon s in lie sin of slavery?that negroes were the i in (juals of the white man, and should he ! n, treated as such?that the Major should in ' ,j, iustico set his free and recognize tin-in as j m plats. Th.j Major humoied the matter J ? by discussing it with his deouu cast guest j U1 till hedtime, when, upon being desired to ; 01 >how him his hed, ?piietly called Jack, his nn.ffA nittn ?i?w1 * - - 1 .ii.hi, nnu n;n iiii1i u# liiku (111* ]|| ^ utleinan to tin; kitchen :ui>l give liim ' p. |?:u t of his bed. Perfectly thunderstruck, ; t,, llic abolition g<'iit iitiiilly found breath to ; i(1 isl; wluit the Major meant. "I mean," said VJ l!ie Major, raising liis tail, portly form to n its full height, and looking sternly at the t! Yankee, " to make you reduce your theory ! w u> practice." The abolitionist implored, ! f;, lint the Major was inexorable, and oil*.lack j t<] took him to his own bed, knowing from j t! liis master's eye that he must be obeye-1 ,st to the letter. After some two hours :,j elapsed, the Major went out and called to t] liis now crest-fallen guest to get up, and lie might sleep the rest of the night in the : jj 14 house." Early in tlie morning llio Van- ' _ Icee called him up, am! after apologizing | (.( f ?r his rudeness in preaching bis abolition ' ill h?ctrines tl 10 night before, informed iIir ^ M ijor tliat upon testing liis principles, lie ^ found they would not work satisfactory. 1 .. :iinl that lie was no longci :in abolitionist. ' sj ?S>jwitter Sorrreii/n. | t| 11tin's Knjruftn</.? In the ongrav- q itiuj <>f hank note plates, a fhit piece of steel, of the requisite dimensions, is first | h prepared, and on it the engraver cnts a vignette, a denominational lignre, or the V Ljem-ral lettering. Kach of these p:sris is y engraved on a separate piece, called a bed- e: piece, and an impression is taken upon a ai roll, first softeneil for t!iat purpose, and tl subsequently hardened. These several hard- v etieddies are afterwards transferred in their J tl impropriate places on the place to he used ^ o for printing the notes. The ground work p ahont the numerical figure is prodneed hy j |> a maehine called a ueom -trieal lathe. A j e plan suggested to lender counterfeiting al- j d most impossible, is to dispense with dies, i w iiml have the entire face of the bill en- j ft graved on the plate as a unit; that is, to o have the design made np of one connected h figure or view, with the words and deuomi- w national figures so interwoven and repeated t! that no imitation could be made with a p sufficient degree of exactness. y A Lantern l<> Give L'n.'ht Under 1 Valor. c< I; ?The lantern must be made of leather, j . which will resist tlie waves better than any ' other substance, and must be furnished with two tubes, having a communication with *" the air above. ' One of these tubes to ad- j tiiit fresh air for maintaining the combustion * of the candle, and tlie other to syrve as a c* chimney, by affording a passage to the ll smoke, both must rise above, the surface of the water. The tube which serves to admit f' t i. - : ? ?1! ?- 1 nunu .in in lint iruiilillllllll'UkU Willi IIIC Kill- j tern at the bottom, ami that which serves | ? us a chimney must be connected with it at j " the top. Any number of holes may be 11 made in the leather of which the lantern is 11 constructed, into which glasses arc lilted ; by these means the light will be diffused on J* nil sides. In the last place, the lantern must be suspended from n piece of cork, that it may rise and fall with the waves.? ?t This ingenious though simple mode of con- t' struction, answers the purpose admirably. ?^ ? ? [) iC??" " You bachelors ought to be taxed," 0i said a lady to a resolute evader of the noose tj matrimonial. "1 agree witli you perfectly,- !?| ma'am," was the reply, " Lhclicfonsm cer- n tdinly is a luxury." j? If you wisli to attract attention, go d' into chutch, some Sunday, after the scrvi- , tea have begun, in a pair of new, squeaking tl boots, and parade up the broad aisle. m ? m ?? ^ R3T Why is a man making love to a ^ married woman, like ar sheriff levying on the wrong man's goods ? Bbeatrae he's the victim of "a misplaecd attachment." B&T The man who " held an ofl&ce," got nnd lot. mi' fAV Im nnmnoo !.i/w ! Hi , ? t,- ? ? limself a short time, when the office got n iway, and has not been heard frbm since. lc ? L_*_ ||i JKT " The proper study of mankind is 0j man," Rays Pope?but the popular study is n( !iow to make money out of liim. . ^ young1 lawyer iVjuVg to Establish Mirtself in business, is in one reftpget like a 'e jroiing'physician?he nebds patience. m . ' ) * > ' ?m . . lUcVjlli ?,<< man ceases to be a "good fellow?' r Aie moment We refuses to do pmabiadljr what m jthcr people wish him to do; ei atm?spi- j Talio Good Care of Your Implements. | In primitive times, when nffricultural op- | atioiis were carried on with :i few rndo : iplements, the words, of advice contained j tlio heading of this article were mineces- : ry. The sickle, tluil, plow and harrow I imprised nearly the whole of the early J tsbandman's stock of implements, ami ; eso were of such rude conMrnctioti, that it little care was needed lo protect them oil) injury. With the farmer of the pres j it day the case is dillcrcut. The miml"-r implements required to conduct the or nary operations of a laryo farm, is not ilv great, lmt many ??T them arc of a ::iracU;r reipiirinij considerable eare ami tension, not merely operating them, l-?!t protecting tlu in from damage when not actual use. Although most of tin- Ihim ss of tins farm is simple ai character; leliiing simple ami strong implements ami ai-liinery, stil! important ami complicated oikin^ parts have I icon iutrmlm-cd into any of the agricultural machines of modn invention, upon the keeping of which coi 11 pit-to order depends the perfect workig of the whole. These more delicate irts are unfortunately the ones most likely i l>e neglected. J lie machine works l>;tdly i consequence, ami the result is that it is iher thrown aside as unlit for n<e, or ruirned to the manufacturer, the latter being 10 course ino-t generally pursued. While e are prepared to admit that many manni turers of agricultural implements de-erve > have their article* thrown l>:;ek upon leir hands, on aeeount of tlieir tlimsy eonruction, we have equally good reasons f.>r sorting that the dillicuity is not wholly in Kit direction. Farmers, as a general thing, are too nogLjent with their tools. How frequently re plows ami harrows pernii!led to re-t and 1st in fence cornels of the field- in whieli ley were last used, from fall to spring and Din spring to fall again. Spades, shovels ml hoes !>iv not deemed worthy a shelter oin the weather, while other implements i a re the same fate. Good Mr. Farmer, lis is all wrong, ami you are more freiK-ntly in error than you suppose, when mi charge the imperfections of your own inning machinery wholly to the mauufaelrer, ami not in some decree at least to ourselves. Take our advic, ami have all our movable implements carefully cleaned, <atnined ami stored away in their approle places, just as soon as you are'lone with lein tor the season. \Va>h the dirt from our plows, and while the mould -linard and le land >ide are bright, upply a light coat r ,.:i 'i*i :. ? mi . i . i i mi. in;* win save me tr<<Ul>ie ol I'colisliing when wanted fur the next sfas-.mV lowing. Examine your mowers ati< 1 ivaprs when harvesting is comi>K*tv?l, repair amazes, oil the knife and those parts Inch revolve, and wear rapidly, and tlorst time you arc in town, purchase a pot f paint and a bru>h, and the very fli>t ;isurn half day you have, give a!l tlie wood ork of your machines a coat of paint, am! n-n stern them away carefully in their roper places. Pursue this plan with all our implements, and our word for it, vt.-ttr >mplaiiits ag.iin.-t the manufn<-turcs will e lo*fl fieipn-nt. Drought and rain aliivt npleiiK-nts injuriously, and a good coat til urn mtvi's i<> protect inoil) in a groat <!e ree from bad ellects of both. A c?:!ebra' d English Agriculturist expresses our iews so dearly on this subject, that wis jimiR-nd his remarks to the careful auction of our loaders, lie says: " ] would advi.?e fanners to contrive by ire and gc'ud management, to make ill'.-if nplcmcnts durable as possible. The euit f this will In: Itilliny, compared wilh the vantildes. In older l<> effect it, select the lost likely laborer on the farm; put the nplcmciits under his care, and make it a liet rule with all the men, that cadi iinlement done with for the season, shall be rought to one particular place, say near io ponu or |>tim|>; the man having charge f the implements must then wasli ami can thorn well before putting them into ic shod, ami at a convenient time, wh?*n at otherwise engaged, or in weather when ut-door work can not he performed, get icm repaired and paint them. The man lould he encouraged to make his duty pleasure, and to feel a pride in showig his employer's implements in line orur." Such advice donhtless sottnds strange in ie ears of many farmers; hut it is sound id judicious, and if followed strictly, there ill he fewer complaints in regard to the iirahility of farming implemets.?Pro cssivc Farmer. ' t3T T lie wife of an American agrieu!irist lias been experimenting in soaps, ntirt ids that the addition of three-quarters of pound of borax to ft pound of soap, meld without boiling, makes a saving of onedf in the cost of soap, and of three-fourths thg Jfthor of washing, improves the white it< Of the'fhbncs,'lH^Wt'8 fljd nsiVal rA untie Feet U thus removed and the hands are ft.; with s peculiar Roft and filkv feeling, aving nothing in&e to he desired by thu oat ambitious washer wo iYV?rt.' i? *???- ? ^y.Gultivate yotuv.heart arlght-as well i jour farm; *l whateo j?* w^aLvjaua-aat UMMJ i mjl\ -M;.I- - T?| Green Manuring. ' Vegetable substances, in tlioir green nnti * succulent stale, arc powerful fertilizers, when < <?? ' thoroughly incorporated with tin? soil. Tift/ ^ . most pertinent explanation of tliis fact u <-.< furnished by the con->i<leration that they supply tins Mciitk-nl elements that future clops rctpiiiv; in I In; same manner, that out of the matciials of one house, nnotllfe? inay be elaborated, and it, is tint* tliat mart) of those uiati-ri ils cxi>t in such iti:i>>n auo alli.iity, as rentiers tliein especially adapted lor the nutrition of the future crop, for it fct ' a iciogniy.ed truth in phvsiology, that hoth animals aiel plants tike up an assimflate from their IV mm I a portion of tlieir hulk in tin* precise form in which it exists iu that I'oo'l. > Tlie practice of growing crops for tliS special purpose of plowing in as a manure for succeeding crops, is not justified hy this . ! consideration merely. It would seem to lift . a waste of time and material, to ooHvbrt i lilt; elements of vegetable growth into living tonus twice before tlicy are made profitable. , Wll.v grow a lupine or clover plant on? I , .W ? Ml WIMV1 UllU II * * 111 II.) remain*, it cabbage or a tttrutt> may l?o produced ? Why, it' you build a house do you not f. t h the materials direct from tho , <[U.iy ? These >pnMions would he answcrahh*, did |i!:itils obtain all their loud frotW ; the soil. l!ut su. h i> not the raso, n great portion of the hulk of gr.cn crops is obtained lYuin atmospheric sources ] and after I a given crop is ph.wed in, the soil neeessui rily contains mure of the organic .elements ' essential to vegetable nutrition, than M. Iliil I before the crop was grown ; it i< richer, ill | f i< t, by tin' carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and i nitrogen which the green crop has obtained from .-oiirces independent of the soil. lii like manner, the crop grown al'lci tliegfeerf CroO has been lii.nveil in lint I l>r> ?.I......? >.?.. i , 1 ; 1 o| u ready supply ot mineral elements, which have I.iv11 woiked up liy I he l oots | ?il the feiti'i/.ing crop from the soil and ' suh-soil, :uk1 which in many instance; 0\V: ing to their sparing solubility, :n'?* willi difT?! cultv obtained under ordinary circuinstan cos.?J'ruyrctisicc Farmer. I J'nc/a Ahout Milk.? Cream cannot ris6 through a great do pth of milk. It", ihefe! tore, milk is desired to retain its cream for I a time, it should he put into a deep, nar! row dish; and it' ii he dcsiicd to free it ' ; ui'?t completely t>f cream iL t-hould ho poured into a broad, flat dish, not much exceeding one inch in depth. The evolution of msun is facilitated by ;i iise, and retarded hv a depression of temperature.' At the usual temperature of the dairy?50 degrees of Fahrenheit?all the cream will probably rise in thirty-six hours; hu'C at 70 degrees it will pel haps rise ill half that tune; and when the milk is kept near tlio freezing point, the cream will rise very slowly because it becomes solidified; In wet and cold weather the inrl?; is less rich than in dry ami warm, and on this account more cheese is obtained iu cold th;in mi Wiini), though not in thundery weather.' Tlie season has its ell'ecls. The milk in -pring is supposed to he the host for drinking ; hence it would he the host for calves3 | in summer it is host suited for cheese; and 1 in autumn the butter keeping is better than | that of summer?the cows less frequently 1 milked, give richer milk, and consequently more, butter. The morning's miik i? richer than the evening's. The last drawn milk of each milking, at all times afid s^fisort's, fa richer than the first drawn, which is tho poorest.? A<iric/(ltmh(. G<ml:n Fruit Trees.?If you have any fruit trees in your garden whose ba'k is liiled with moss, or becomo mossy, scrap# them aiid give the body of each tree a painting with a mixture comprised in tho proportion of 14 galioti of soft s6?p, 1 lb'.' of flour of sulphur, and 1 quart of salt, Co' be well mixed together and applied with ft whitewash brush. Next spring early, dig in around each tree, 2 inches deep, as far ont as the limbs extend, a dressing of tveff rotted manure, 1 gallon or more of bone diiM, 1-2 a gallon of ual.es, 1 quart of salt and 1 quart of plaster. Tho effect of this treatment will be to ?reat!v* imnmva ilia ' health mid appearance of the trot**, improve the (piality of the fruit, as well as increase ihe piodnctivo capacity of the trees. Tlw hone duM," ashes, salt and plaster should he raked in. Farming in Texas.?Small fat filing is A' good business in Texas. The Houston Star says tliat a gentleman some years ago bought a small farm in that vicinity, on a credit.' ite was then over fifty years of age iii'icf j in bad health, and had a family of some | half a dozen children to' support; Thtt' gentleman' has paid for hig farm. and iio\/. makes annually over $1,000, with ffo.pther aid than that affordud by his own faittilv.'.'* Tliose who efcpect "to do Kkewit^," how ever, must calculate upon bar^ \Vork aud' strict economy.'' Sails for Stables.?If a - cqtppbund hi gypsum artd sulphate of be used on the doors of stabf&vk will absorb th&.; moisture and ammonia, and keep the stable dry and free from offensive siWelL .TMt- ' I c6mpouud aalt,. after it has^abHorl^;^!^ . moisture possible, is removed manure? and f