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.? ; . ' < ?. i J? ^ ..rs--^ * *.,-' W?i -V, il^.V , m iM?Kl IBMSSISia. " TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM] "THE PRICE OP uibeiity IJS? ETEHNA.L. VIGHXJA.?TOE." [PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. BY DAVIS & HOLLINGSWORTH. ABBEVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 3, 185G. VOL. XIII NO. 11. 52 iJ 13 S Qa !L !J!1 !JS ? 5] S? JEPH. HOPKINS' EXPERIENCE. Wlien I was down to New Oilcans a making my eternal forth)/ who should turn tip one day, of all creation, but Dcacon Brittlc's darter Sal, a critter I used to be kinder sweet on in Varinont?but good gracious ! alongside of tlicni Creoles and French gals?wall it is no use of talking? comparisons aro odorous?as Mrs. Maltaprop ?ays in the play. Of course I was ?>ot over and above delighted to see Iter, j did not jump clean out of my boots, or 1 tear my dickey, or anything of that aortt I but seeing how I had writ the critter some j pretty sttoog letters when I was tu home, and as verdant as a year old donkey, I put a putty good face on the matter, and made hefievc I was dreadful glad to see her.? The old Deacon was po?.ty well to do, and .in oa>e nothing breaks, thinks I?whv, Sal is u pontv nice gal, and all things considered, I mi^lit g<> further and fare wuss.? Ef I didn't gi? further and fare wuss, may I be kieked to death l>y grasshoppers. J3nt I'm getting ahead ?.f my story. I liinned tip agin t<i Sal, and took her out to ride a few?treated her to iee ereams <// j ccttvry once in a while. Hut what <>n aiitli i put in my lit; >d t<* take the erit ler tu a ball ?'eept it was my ill luck ? I never cmild discover. 'J\> make a long story shun, 1 took Sal j to a romping, tearing two dollar ball.? Fixins, elegant American Hag-, bekays, the blackest kind of nig^vr fill lie is, chalked j floors, ak crtlrry. Hut five minutes after I j nail been in tlieie i didn't sec no gas !i?rlit, no flowers, no chalk, no niggers, no iioiiiii<* except one of the most splendill'.rous, anjjelitl'.-rous, onuaeeountaMe, fas'inoratin female clitters I cv?;. sot my t.i gooseberry eyes onto. I keti-hed hold of a floor manager, and made, him introduce mo to Iter. (iee-wh:t aker! what a kurlsy she made!?and I bowed so low that I nearly fell out of my dickey on to the floor. We danced a good roel, and I was so delighted with the critter I engaged her for the whole evening. "Do your waltz, Mr. Hopkins?" uskt-d she. ' I don't do notliTojj said I, by!-.! at. i ! brass, and with that I kelchcd hold of her j like as I so the other fellows doing to their i lrals. and ef I didn't sliny her thiiv ! iii no snow on Killiugly l\;ak. A few com- j plimentury remarks, such as ''go it hoot*,' i from the bystanders, encourage.! nio to do my poottiest, and the way I slung thorn cowhides was perfectly orfui?I say it with tbo realizing sense of the moral responsibility of tho assertion. Onc? in a while I ketchcd sight of Sal, setting up against the wall in solitary glory, but it only made mc cut up tho harder. Biin-by I got dizzy, and the next thing I knowc'l I was setting un a sufa and that -oro angel a holding salts to tuy nose, and bending o\er me like a hen over a spavined chicken. I didn't sec no more, n?<r hear no inure, after that. IIow S.d gut home ! I didn't inquire. I waited on her tu the ! door, and when she telled me at parting I \ might call on her, I went home chuck fidi [ of glory and happiness, aiiJ dreamed all I night the strangest kind of dreams about >my being in the Garden of Eden, and playing "high, low, Jack" with (Jon. "Washing* | ton and Mary Queen of Scuts. Next day perhaps I did not caSI on rny charmer?wall, I reckon I did, though. I bust right out, at:d called her all tlie angels tu creation, and told her I love<l her better than maple sugar or new cider. " Will you do me a favor ?" says she. "Anything iu reason or agin reason," t>aid ?. " Well," ??ays she, looking good enough to cat, 'I want you to buy ine a cowhide ?bete'* a i>it to pay for it.'' " Darn the ? xp?un? " bays I, " I'll make j oil a pi cs*t*M of it." Off I w?-nt, prom! of tho commission, and bought a rial sling. r?co?t u.c a shil lilt*?wonderin' who on airtli she wanted to give a lu-kiu' to. I liuv it, ihoughi I ?orue olhtv fellow bho don't like Iuik been perseeutin' bur, and now bhu is going1 to give hiin the sack and a lickin' into the bar gain. '** So," sayB I, as I handed her the cowJii'de, 44 Mibs Evelina, (that was her name,) 1 should bko to know the name of the individual that ere cowhide ia destined to astonish." I - Jie a nooui your size," says sbe, with a peculiar smile that I didu't somehow exactly like. Then she telled how 8al had been there, and told how shameful I'd treated ber?and then?and then?my atajs t if she didn't use that cowhide powerfill#: h Bdld on," says I, "it hurts." / JGIad of it," says she, "plenty more licks whar them onm from P and/lie pelted head, and ears, and limbs, and was, until the air seemed fall of lieks and cowhides. I hollowed "enuff," but it warn9! no kiwlurf ?se. I hand't bad such since I Mowed np the old skule luift store with (liber's powder born, and mI wu lochia' of tb? iMd f? ?w#U?d up bigger*' * yaUar -* m When I got well I went to sec Sal to explain matters and make it up with lier.? But she didn't cnro to inako my acquaintance. Tlic ingratitude of winiincn is onnaccouutablc. And there was a feller with black whiskers settin' alongside of her, who said something about spillin' for a ?te, which made me mako tracks in double quirk time. The story got into the newspapers. and darned if it didn't make New Orleans too hot to hold inc. Sal soon married tlic clerk of a steamboat. So I come North, but I haint called on no galls since, mini naini liecii lo 110 lialls, lor cowhides grow in U )ston just about as vigorous as they do in New Orleans, and a fuller that has bad one such a liekin' as I had, don't carc about another, at no price. A SERIOUS OBJECTION TO BUCHANAN. An "Fv-Ohl Maid" writes to the New York ?veniu// Post the following letter. She draws a touching picture of the desolation of the White House in the occupancy of a bachelor: To the Editors of the Evening Post : The Presidential chair (I presume that is sufficiently capacious.) should, at any rate, be occupied by a complete Human being, and this fact, of itself, should dispose summarily of the claims of the more or less honorable Buchanan ; for if there is one J principal mine clearly settled than any oth- j .... ;> ru.i i? 1...1? : . ... i-.? I ii, ?v *o iii.il *111 ViU i^iviivivi 13 ?l b iiium i'ul Half Man ; and how can such a person make more than a Half-President? Now, sir, it is bail enough to have a man at the head of the White House who is destitute of a backbone; but to have one who. in addition to this anatomical defect, has the moral defect of being destitute i?f his most natural and essential complement?a wife : 1 # | ?would be trulv monstrous. Imagine the ! dismaec of haviii-r our National Palace con j I verted into a HaehelorV I>**n ; our National ( Hoard presided over by a Single Man; our : National Fire poked by a single 'l ong ! Old Maids are excusable, their position not being a matter of choice; but old bachelors? bah ! The very name is sickening. The wife who will let her husband vole for such a man, ought to be Lynched. I a?k you, sir, if it is not notorious that old bachelors are the most selfish, the mo>l intrigu JU^, i-UC Hi* J J* t IUU IIIMAL tic of mortals ? .\n?l then to think of a bachelor ?!io has lived i:: Europe! I decline to pursue the subject ; my motto is that of the Western hunter : " Bear and lwjlteai Turkish lieliyious Toleration. ?The Turkish (jovernment has just given a distinguished proof of its toleration of other forms of worship besides the Ottoman.? Three Catholic Monks, of Bosnia, lately J murdered a Turk, and the more effectually to conceal to crime, turned the body in the kitchen of the convent. They were all three tried, found guilty, and sentenced lo death; but the Government has ordered! the execution to be suspended until the Pope, in form ?d of the circumstances, sha 1 have had time to deprive the criminals of their oflice, so that the punishment may lo inr.ictot oil liic- nun), ait'l not on the priest. The Armenians anil (j reeks, it appears, have protested against thy toleration and reform decree of the Sultan. The (/reek petition, i.-i directed especially against the articles relating to the clergy. Beautiful Thought. ? There is but a breath of air and a beat of the heart between this world and the next. And in the brief interval of awful and painful suspense, while we feel that death is present with us, that we are powerless?and the last faint pulsation hero is but the preludo of endless life hereafter?we feel, in the inidst of the stunning calamity about to befall us, that eaith has no compensating good to mitigate the severity of our loss. But there is no grief without some beneficent provision to soften its intenseness. When the good die. t 1m> memory of their deeds, like the moonbeams of tlic stormy sea, lights up our darkened heart?, and lends to the surround- j ing gloom a beauty so sad, so sweet, that we woidd not, if we could, dispel the darkness that environs them. Can't go Through.?Hooped skirts, say6 the Richmond Dispatch, look very well on handsome ladies, and are no doubt quite comfortable to them at this season of the year; but notwithstanding these facts, such of our belles as were in the habit of visiting the Capitol Square, have been compelled lo give them up, owing to the fact that no lady, dressed in the tip of the fashion, can possibly pass between the posts placed at ?? *iww vmiHuuus, 10 Keep out entile when tlie gates nro loft open. Some few afternoons since, we sjiw n very pretty damsel make three ineffectual efforts to get into the Square, but finding the passage way entirely too narrow for her hoops, bneked out and abandoned the attempt. If the posts are not removed, the hoops must be abandoned, that's certain. JSBT " Ma, didn't the minister say last Sanday that the sparks flow upward!" u Yee, my dear, how come you to be thinking of HT . ? Became, yesterday I ?aw ooosin 8nlli^? I spade staggering along the slmfe and Idling downwards." mH*m hrutcMt fint AU ?WM ? j she must be deepy." - A TOUCHING STORY OF FILIAL LOVE. The following most remarkable nn<l beautiful instance of filial nO'eclion appeared in j the Herald of Lima, (Pern,) to which it was communicated by the Alcalde of Callno: Gentlemen :?There having passed in my oflice (Justice of the Peace,) a scene of great interest and most rare at any time and place, I cannot refrain from communicating the same to you, believing that you I will concur with me in the opinion that an : act so humble and worthy the best qualities I r i J .1 ~ ? ui unman n;uuitieseives 10 ue commemorated l>v means of the press. About 8 oVloc.k this morning, a tumultuous assembly of people invaded my bouse, bringing in wiili them a venerable looking man. Thev inquired for the Justice. On demanding of them the reason of a semiriotous collection, they all began to speak at once, so that I was for a time unable to comprehend what was the true state of the case. Having, however, at last obtained silence, the old man addressed me thus: "Mr. Alcalde, having buried my wife, the mother of these four lads, I ordered this one, Jose Marin, to take charge of the other throe, who have already made ehoicc of j their older brother's profession. These two, I Antanacio and Dionisio, arc both married ; the youngest, although single, supports him self by his labors as a fisherman, fiver since the mother of the hoys was taken away from me, I have been living with my clilcr son, in the interior; but have never fsiili-il to receive care and attention from the other three. Desirous of coming to Callao, Jose Maria wrote to Julian in order that ho should provide for me?which injunction has given ofteiwe to Anfnmieio, who declares that being the second son, the future care of me belongs of right to him. I would like to divide myself into four parts, so as to give each of my children a portion of my body, but, as that cannot b.\ we have coino before you, Mr. Alcalde, in ord-jr that you should decide which one of these vui:n;r nvii is to be preferred." Alitalia*.if>, the second son, said that his father having been hitherto living with his el ler brother, it was now his turn to have possession uf him l?y order of birth. UioJ nisio contended that liis brothel Ant.?::ario could not in,- with his father because lie ha?l I a groat Ok*::I to do, ami couhl n?.?t give his lather tho attention lie required. The fourth son, Julian, represented to me that it properly belonged to I.in: to support his father, as he was the youngest and unmarrieil. Iu tiulh I knew not what to resolve, my heart was so affected by the extraordinary ! picture presented to uie. As 1 eonteinplaj ted this scene in iilcnef, tho old man, Clo! mento, said : i .. % . - " aiy dear children, my heart overflows will? satisfaction in witnessing your disputes ro-pecting which of you shall take charge of your old father. I would gladly give content to you all, and therefore propose that I he permitted to breakfast with one. dine with another, sleep in the house of the third, and thus keep changing from day to day; but it" you do not consent to this, let his honor the judge determine what shall I be done with me." The young men unanimously rejected this proposition, because tlicy said their fa tlicr would lead an idle, errant, unquiet life. I then proposed to write on separate pieces of paper the names of the sons, and let the decision of chance settle the question.? While I wrote these papers and doubled them, and put them into the hat of Clemento, which served as a ballot box, a deathlike silence prevailed, and there was plainly to be seen expressed in the countenance of each of the sons his hopes of bein?* the lucky receiver of tlio desired prize. The old inim put his tremulous huml into the hat and drew out the name of Antanacio, the second son ! My friends, I hardly know how to express to you the new scene which then broke upon me! Antanacio, upon hearing his name called out, broke into praises to the Omniscient for according him such a boon. With his In. .? clasped and eyes directed to heaven, he repeated over and over his thanks, then fell upon his knees before his venerable parent, and bathed his Bnndaled feet with tears of frantic joy. The other brothers followed his example, and embraced the feet of the good old patriarch, who remained like a btatue, oppressed with emotions to which ho knew not Iiow to give vent. Such a scene as this molted all who witnessed it, among wliom were the lieutenant of police, the Alcalde Don Altano, and some other friends. The brothers then retired, but soon returned with a fresh demand?which was that I should command that since Antanacio had been favored by lot with the charge of the father, they could not bo deprived of the pleasure of taking out the old man to walk, by turns, in the afternoon ; which order I gave magisterially, in Order to gratify these simple, honest people, and they then retired contented. This humble family of Indian extraction is named Viiliavicencio. They are natives of tbe valley of ChoriUe, but at present reside at Callao. I repeat, gentlemen, that if this imperfeot ^ tme relation be deemed worthy of publication, you are at $>e'rty to give it ai placo in the columns of your journal. tYour very humble serf ant,, * A*tow3* BiiVitoa, " of CuitoB, 81NGULAB DISEASE. The following, dated April 7tl>, is ad; dressed from La Ferte Mace to the Liberie ! of Caen : | " In a small village, near La Forte Mace, there lives a young girl of the age of twenty-two, who had been for five years afflicted with a disease equally singular and cruel, and which inav excite much disbelief, although not without precedent in the annals of medicine. "This young girl is continually in a hind of lethargic state, and awkes from this deep slumber but once a day, for a few moments, towards three o'clock in the afternoon. " Sometimes, though at rare intervals, this ! condition lasts two. three, and even eiirht days, during which she shows no other sign of lit'u than :i slight degree of breathing almost imperceptible. " l>?t what will appear most extraordinary, (and this fact will meet with many disbelievers,) is, that for the past year she has not taken a particle of food, nor even a drop of water. 'Still her onbtntjioint is remarkable; her face is full, fresh and rosy ; she appears to enjoy excellent health, and feels no pain, 110 j want, but the desire to sleep. " Nevertheless, she experiences, at the moment of waking, nervous contractions of so violent a character, that oftentimes several persons cannot keep her in her bed, from which she escapes to roll on tlic floor. At this critical moment she tears to pieces all that falls under her hand ; bedding and clothes arc not spared ; she bites convulsively everything within her reaeli, and would devour her hands, were the precauj lion not taken to envelop them suitably. '" This fli<'lilflll < ! I ..-r. O ? " ' ,,v,n l,,v j to live minutes ; this patient then becomes : gradually calm, rubs her heavy eyelids, | looks toward the clock fur the time, cxam! ines with a smile her astounded visitors, ami ! l?gins t.) speak in a distinct manner, j " Hut every minute water must be given ; J with this she wets her lips and throat, buL ! imnudiati !v expels it. " In the meanwhile she answers all quesj tion<?, enter. into the details of her disease, j and appi-ars pleased with tin: interest man| iftsted. j During this time, she has aii her pres| eitco of mind; all lier memory, and her j natuial liveliness betrays itself by a num j ni.T o: ban mots, and l?y an open j?nd joyous laugh, which is in striking contrast with her unfortunate situation. "These moments of lucidity are, however, of short duration, and never extend beyond fifteen minutes ; a sort of hiccup is heard, her chest heaves, her limbs become agitated an?.? icr rye-brows contracted ; the eyos close, and Ik r teeth press against each other as though they would crush; all is then over; situ relapses into a profound insensibility, which will last at least until the next day at the same hour. "iMiring her sleep, which is pcifectly calm, her color is less vivid, and her pulse more feeble. In this state she has the appearance of a dead person, and she can bo placed in ai.y position without betraying the slightest motion. Speak in a loud voice, exclaim even at her ears, she hears nothing. Pricking litis been tried, which she has not felt, and she is firmly convinced?a conviction shared by many?that she is literally dead for twenty-four hours, at the end of which alio resuscitates to die anew. " Heal deal!) is, therefore, to her but an empty name, for she often desires it hoth ardently and sincerely, saying: "When shall I sleep no more to awake ?" Still sho preserves sentiments of the most religious charaeter; she often manifests the desire of confessing herself, and, knowing that it is impossible for her to receive the Communion, she often repeats with an air of visiblo disappointment: "I bhall be this year as the impious, I shall not rcceivo my Easter Communion. " Such aro the effects of this incredible disease, which it is the province of scicnce onlv to nml wliicli rlnilt/ tr. this house a crowd of the curious, who can only witness tho facts without bringing the slightest relief." Idle Visits.?The idle are a very heavy tix upon the industrious, when by frivolous visitations they rob tliein of their time.? Such persons beg their daily happiness from door to door as beggars their daily bread, and liko them, sometimes meet with a rebuff. A mere gussip ought not to won der if we evince signs that wo are tired of him, seeing that we are indebted for the honor of his visit 6olely to the circumstances of his being tired of himself. lie sits at homo until he lias accumulated an insupportable load of ennui, and then sallies forth to distribute it among his acquaintances. /3T There is a chap out west so mean that he boils two bono buttons in a pint of water. This gruel lasts him exactly one month. Ho has used tlio buttons ko long that ho has boiled all the holes out of thum. Ho keeps warin in the wiiiter time' by klanrlinw nnrlar 1ii? noit. ilnne - o ?? {5?o lump. : - V ; VJ&TUh J?y^J?chaijg?l lii. bonrding house, the other day, became Ins landlord would persist in bringing w?UBf?ges home in NON-COMMITTAL MEN. i During llio reign of James II., on tlio ( occasion of a trial between tlio crown and ; seven bishops of tlio Church of England, , one Michael Arnold, the brewer to Ilis Majesty's palace, was duly sworn upon the i jury. Now, said Michael being a non-commitj t:il man, began surely to realize that he stuod between two fires, which ho feared * I might be equally dangerous to himself, and he gave vent to his sorrows in these words: " Whatever I do, I am sure to be half ruinOil; fill* if I RHV 4 linf rriiilf v* T wl?.ill . ... ? - _.v H j ? ........ ! no more for the king; and if I say 'guilty,' I I shall brew no more for anybody else." We have just such " brewers" all over the world in the nineteenth century?men who are loth to consider the claims of one person or party against another, lest, if they should decide according to the honest convictions which circumstances might force upon them, they would lose the patronage of the defeated. Heboid! how they go about with mute i lips, and eves that see nothing, preferring j that the most llagrant wrongs should go unredressed; y?a, willing that innocence j should suffer martyrdom, rather than be i themselves called upon before God and . man, to speak the whole truth according to ihe dictates of conscience. j We should like to have all such fellows on one jury, nnti teed tliem upon air for a j fortnight; ami more also, we would like I to hold a loaf of broad on a polo against ] the shut windows of thai Jury room, to j increase their appetite. We would see if they would remain uncommitted when the reputation or happi! ncss of a f llow creature was at slake. Out upon your silent man, who hears the j vilest slanders without contradicting them ; , to whom the suffering and the weak appeal I in vain for aid or counsel ; who would sec | the poor man murdered by the rich man, I lest he himself might miss some future chance of borrowing money ! Half man, I half rut?ho ?tca!s warily out of his hole, pick* up a few crumbs for his eating, and j back he goes. What to him r?ro nodal iiitc-rcsfs, the I m.'irch of intellect, or human rights? | lie has 110 heart, nor hand, nor putsc, ! nor pen, nor voice beyond the furtherance of l his own interests. But strange it is; sometimes ho exercises a mesmeric influence over men who are men, and, mistaken in his true character, they elavate him to some place of tru?t and power; where by looking wise and saying nothing, he gets tho reputation of being a "profound statesman," or " profound" somebody ; and so he is, a "profound"' lump of selfishness; afraid to say, " not guilty," lest he might " brew no more for the king," or to say "guilty," lest he might " brew no more for anybody cite. ? uuvc liranch. A 1 tumorous old man fell in with an ignorant and rather impertinent young minister, who proceeded to inform the old gentleman, in very positive term", that lie would never reach Heaven unless he was horn again, and added, " I have experienced j that change, and now fuel no anxiety."? "And have you teen horn again?" said his companion musingly." " Yes, I trust I have." " Well," said tho old gentleman, eyeing him attentively, " I don't think it would hurt you, young man, to be born once more." tST An adopted citizen wroto to his fiiends in Europo that ho was "employed by tho State, and resided in a largo mansion !" This was looked upon as something grand, and a visit of some of them deter milieu upon. They found him in tlio Palnee of Justice at Columbus, familiarly known by tlie name of the Penitentiary, with the guarantee of a life residence. < ff? JEST" The coal question in North Carolina in beginning to excite interest. One of the companies on Deep River have expended $275,000 in opening their mine, mid are now raising one tone of coal per minute. At another mine 500 cars can bo loaded daily. Two bushels of Nortli Carolina coal are said to be equal to three of Virginia. A boy out Wost, when called out to recite his losson in history, was asked : " What is the German Diet composed of}" The boy replied?"Sour krout, schnapps, lager beer, and nix coinerousche." Boy promoted instanter. To love an enemy is, distinguished characteristic oi religion which is not of man but of God. It coufd be delivered as a precept only by him who lived and died to establish it by his example. Receipt for Happiness.?(To without your dinner, and see if you don't feel happy when it is supper time. gggr Evil company is like tobnCco smoke vqu Cannot be lonrr in ltn nrpeanen o r?"*,vv ",,M out carrying awny a laint of it. jer If yon would get along in the world, you must -hold up your head, even if you know there ia not touch in it. "ja^puf greateit glory consists not .in n$*er filing, but ia liking every timo we AO). I - .1. - .. . , ki, ! A&iagisjiLifQja &?. 1 ON MANURE FURNISHING FOOD FOR PLANTS. ; Wo iiiivc said that plants contain four j organic and ten inorganic constituents, and ; tliat tlie laws of nature demand that, from j the soil and atmosphere, cach one of these i should bo available, in order to secure p<-r- j | feet crops, and a full .vnpph/ of each, to se- ' ! euro abundant crops. Perfect cars of corn j can be raised on a soil lightly mauurcd? I , from hills four feet apart,and one stalk in a ' j hill, one ear to a stalk, even if the ground j is plowed only six inches deep, ]iro\ klo?l tho . soil is not too wet or too dry. Hut quite a | I different eulture and manuring is required j to grow twice the number of hills, thiee j ! stalks iu :i hill, and twin cars on most J ! of them. Tlio same will apply to raising wheat. Waiving remarks on the laws of nature, requiring a deeply and finely pulverized soil for another article, we will, iu this, consider manures as furnishing the food for plants. From repeated experiments it is ascertained that the stale of animals r.i?n -; 1 tains a groat amount of nutriment, or food j for plants; that similar effects arc produced i by applying tlic droppings of poultry (gu- j ano) animal manure, (blood and offal of: slaughter-yards, <fco., &c. Much of l!:o v..!;.e j of these i? liable to be lost by putrefaction and evaporation. By chotnistiy wo ascertain what this is and how to retain it. It it well known that in cleaning horse btubh-F, especially under the floor, there is a veiy pungent smell. The same is true in opening a heap of stable manure, that has been thrown up and heated. This snu-ll is urn- i j ilucid by llic escape of ammonia, wbich is j I the essence and value of tho manure.? J i The .loss is greater from privies, bcrau.su j I their contents are still richer, and more 1 highly charged with fertilizing gases, llow to retain thesn. and to fix them in a staio in which they will remain till used by the growing plants, is a question of high importance, which a scicntific knowleJgc of these elements alone can answer. An English | writer says. " Before you begin to clear j jour stables, dissolve two pounds of cutn, mon salt in a bucket of water, and pour j through the noso of a waterpot, over tlie j stable floor, an hour before you begin to ! move the manure, and tho volatile salts of | ammonia will become fixed salts, from hav; ing united with the muriatic acid of the I salt; and tho soda thus liberated from the o.ui, ?ni qiuuKiv ;io*ori> caroomc acul, forming carbonate of soda. Tims you will retain with your manure the ammonia, which would otherwise have flown away, and you will have a new and important agent thus introduced, carbonate of soda." This powerful solvent will be a valuablo agent in preparing tho manure for tho reception of plants nfter it is applied to the soil. Night soil is rendered inodorous, by mixing it with charcoal dust, (carbon.) Dry pulverized clay, and plaster of Paris, and ten times its weight of peat muck or turf nay bo added, or any other carbonaceous matter, with good effect. In heaping up manure, a portion of these mixed with it, will, in a great measure, prevent the escape of ammonia, by their chemical action, as above described. I have long practised sprinkling pulverized charcoal or piaster daily in my stables, and also in heaping up my manure with n free use of salt. Tho result has been most satisfactory. This gives it double tho value when kept under shelter. When mixed with altenialo layers of meadow mud, triple the quantity may be obtained.? Watchman db Rtfitclor. The Florida Potato.?Tho Southern Cultivutor publishes nil extract from a letter of Dr. Wjii. F T?y>1ioHc/>ii see, Florida, giving an account of n native root, growing wiJ J in that State, which lie thinks bids fair to throw the famous Chinese Yam into thebhadc. Ilesnys:?Soil of Ike South. ' It growr in the sandy soil of our pine woods, near the Gulf coast, is perennial, with a climbing vino, and flower somewhat resembling that of the convolvulus or morning glory. It appears to be very prolific, the root or potato attuning a growth, in the first year, of four or five inches in diameter and ten to twelve inches in length. A specimen before me has been planted about three years, and the root is more than thirteen inches in diamoter, with numerous off 6iiooi8 or radicles, and would probably weigh from thirty to forty pound*. Tlio tasto is quite palatable, resembling that of the Irish potato m6ro than anything else. Swine are quite fond of it. It.ha? never been cultivated as an article of food, but from its pleasant taste and prolific qualities, I should infer that it would prove a desirable addition to the list of our root yropft. In their native or wild state, both the Irish aud sweet potato were comparatively worthless and unproductive; but cultivation, like the wand of the enchanter, has transformed them in a wonderful manner, and we be? hojd them in universal use, acceptable alike* at the table of the rich and of the poor.n 1 ?3LVsJUan. jw + v 4-iw^^nvHw /mn uretfiny Ulftftf Pound % handful of peach leaves ; and w*lrtli|nr well, and stww them over' the bench and under the hive. In t*o or Vorofr Ihe #Uck leaves,ie offensive to U*e moths v <* Pens utul Potatoes.?Some of the papers of this State recommended last year tho practice of planting peas and potatoes. A few peas, dropped in each hill, with tho seed, I find does no harm to the latter, and secures a very profitable addition to the crop produced from the soil. 1 have adopted the plan as one well calculated to enhance the profits ot" farming, though it can do so only on a small scale; but it is to be remembered that it' we avail ourselves of >0 all our advantages, we shall reap profits ailmost unawares. It" I can obtain four or ,.e 1;.- - ...v, <j> vii vailit ijuamy, ai an expense of as many shillings, it is tur my interest to ?'.o so. This I am confident can be accomplished by any one, simply by planting a few peas in every potato hilt. They require no extra cultivation?are hoed with the potatoes, without at all interfering with the operation, and "are easily pulled when ripe. The seed is free from all impurities, and generally much heavier and better matured than when grown in the ordinary way. The large marrow fat is probably the best for this method of culture. It grows vigorously, and has an abumlanco of pods. I think that, cultivated in this way, the pea is much less liablu to be injured by the bug.? Gardener. First Year's Trcutuunt of Vines.? When a giiipu vino is lirst procured from the nursery in spring, ii is usually furnish od with several irregular shoots of the previous summer's growth. These should ho all closely pruned to tho older wood, leaving only the strongest, and this should he cut back so iis t?? leave but two or three uuds; these buds will grow, and, when only a few inches in length, the strongest shoot must be selected, and the others ruLhcd oft'.? This single shoot is allowed to grow until about the first of aututun. Alter this period the new leaves and wood that are formed cannot mature perfectly, and their growth will be in some degree at the expense of the matter forming in the previous portion of the shoot. Its growth should therefore be siuppeu oy j?nctiing on tho ends, and this will assist in maturing and strengthening the vine. Any side-shouts that appear during the summer, or any smaller shoots thai happen to spring up from the stump, should be kept rubbed off as fast as tliey appear, as they withdraw and divide tho nourishment received from the root?. Soioing Turnips.?Do not forget that about the last of July or forepart of August is a good time to sow a patch of common turnips. The soil fur turnips should be moist, rich and mellow. Ground where corn has failed, or stands tuo thin will answer, if dear of weeds and well stined.? Or a piece of clean wheat stubble may be ploughed for the purpose ; also patches in the garden where peas or early potatoes have been harvested. Turnip seed is pleuty and cheap in most stores where 6eeds are sold. It is best to buy enough at onc? to re-sow with in case dry weather or the flr should destrov tlip fi.~ ? J ? ??u. if fresh, will keep good for three or four years. Charcoal for Swine.?It is not perhaps generally known, that one of the best articles that can be given to swine, while in preparation tor the tub, is common charcoal. The nutritive properties are so great that they have subsisted on it without other food for weeks together. Geese confined so as to deprive them of motion, and fattened on three grains of coru perxlay, and as much coal as they can devour, have become fattened in eight days/- The hog eat* voraciously, after a little time, and is never sick while he has a good supply. ItBhould always be kept iu the sty, and be fed to tho inmates regularly like other food. ?3J~ Pumpkins, which are desired for culinary purposes through the winter and spring, should l>o gathered with great care Hn/1 ftliiiv>il ah o ?** .?? |,...,vU ?. cutii vmici in ?t uijr ceiiari or, which is belter, a dark closet, where the temperature is never down to the freezing point. In taking the pumpkin from tW^ vine, there *.hould he an inch or two of stem left with it. By thus placing it without bruising, you inuy have pumpkin custard* in August.? Oermuntown Telegraph. Burying Bees.?Enoch E. Kalb, of Lovettsville, Vu., states that, havinsr a swarm of bees liist fall which had do honey, and not knowing if they wou}j$&ve over winter, he buried thein air-tight on the warm side of a hill, in a case^ Sufficient to keep all dampness out, and, as soon as he uncovered them thin spring they were full of life and vigor, and instantly went to work, and are still working finely. Fruit Trtet.?Nearly alt fruit trees are, jTV at their trunks or among their braoe^es^ ** affected with rooes, lice, shd vaj^us kinds of insectB. These can be iflfceriially cleared away by a wash oklye, .raad%*from potash or wood ashes, ^fra strength sufficient to bear up an egg. It will kilt everjf noxious >< thing, nnd will not hurt the bark. ^K>undJ^f of potash to a pailful of wAter wift make it sufficiently , vZT m . ? ,.