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-... v' * n ? * * > e. - ? ..-, , ., ' * mm mmmm wmm* rWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM] " tix iej prioh o f IiIbbrtt is 33 t jss hisr ^ x? vicniiANdffl." (jPAYABLfi IN ADVANCE i BY DAVIS & HOLLINGS WORTH. ABBEVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 14* 1850. VOL. XIII..........; NO. 17 fflQgiS&iLiL&iiaiSltllgu From the Savannah Qeorgian. TILE NORTH AND THE SOUTH IN THE REVOLUTION. Thero are some misstatements, which Mia frequency of their repetition in the North, not only obtain belief thero, but among ourselves. Take as an example the following assertion of one of the most widely circulated and influential papers in the Northern States :? II Tl.? 1 .fil.. TT_!i..l Pi-... a iiu hi mj' nuu uavj ui tilts Ulliieu OliHCli 'fire recruited, as far ns the men nre con'cerned, almost exclusively from the North. So was it during the revolution. Massachusetts gave more troops to the American artnics than all the South put together 1" These statements, and others like them, tending to the disparagement of the South , as compared wit!, the North, have heen ; atlowed to pass without contradiction or examination, until few, probably, doubt their correctness. Yet, if false, they are not harmless; though, without reflection, they may seem so. If the South and the North (which Heaven grant!) are to live in harmonious association, it is all important that misrepresentations calculated to destroy the respect in which one section should hold the other, bo not allowed to go without exposure. It may indeed be true that in recruiting the army of the United States, in time of peace, the men caur* "almost exclusively Irotn the North." But is it so in time of war. when battles are to be fought, death to be faced, life to lie lost, and glory to l>e won f Of the soldiers who went to Mexico, there to die in the hospital or on (lie battle-field, no one will contend that an undue proportion came from the North. So in relation to the second war with Great Britain. Were one 10 go to the trouble of an investiga- ! lion, wu do not douhl that it might !>c 1 shown that the single Stale of Kentucky i furnished mure men who fought and who fell ill that conflict, than all Neiv England ; notwithstanding the fact that Canada ^ and our Northern frontier was the thrcatre of most of the battles. It would, however, be a thankless task to hunt the statis4 tics necessary to establish the correctness of this opinion, conclusive as thev niav be. Oil the oilier hand, as rogmls the quota of men contributed respectively by the North utid the South to fight the battles of the revolution, so much has teen said ?not with a view of establishing a historical fact, but by way of comparison to the disadvantage of tlie latter?that assertions like that contained in tho last sentence of tlie above extract, should l?o examined Hiui their falsehood exposed.? "SVe find litis done with sufficient ability in n number of the Richmond Examiner, which appeared mom lis since. Tlie article of the Examiner was in reply to a passago contained in a lecture of the Rev. Theodore Parker. Parker's statements were * no nearly identical with those of the editor frotn whom we have quoted, that a reply to one will dispose of the other. The Examiner's editorial brings before us some curious scraps of revolutionary history, well attested, however, as they are upon such authority as Washington and Greene. We are sorry tlmt its author, in penning it, should have allowed himself to jndulge in language of so much bitterness. His indignation, however excusable in reply to Ruch assaults as Parker's, adds nothing to the overwhelming force of his facts. xjcri; is me article, with tlie omission of n few paragraphs:? "It is contended tliat even in war the North is superior to the South, and though Webster said that in Lhe Revolution the States of Massachusetts and South Carolina stood shoulder to shoulder, they knew from records that at the time Massachusetts gave ! 83,000 men, while South Carolina gave but 0,000, and that was the way they stood shoulder to shoulder."?Lecture of Theodore Parker, reported in tlie New York Tribune. The sentences which the reader finds at tbe head.,.of this article, are extracted from a very choice specimen of Ymkeo bragga? JmJo. It ?l? fmm a !/.?<?.? A..V. 1 ?- ? ?..v.. .? ivvvuic ucnvcrm ? *?5 Theodore Parker, before a New York Institute, mid reported in the New York tftibune. S?id lecture consists of a paridle! between the Northern and Southern State* of this Union, drawn with the purpoie of Wrtctoiiing and belittling the latter, vif centemptihle falsehoods, and ex&t'tsted in a spirit of small sectional meanity and vanity, unworthy a jjjaj? of tatters, unworthy u man of tense, usW**tby ?Christian and unworthy a crood Atter asserting that New England has produced all the patriots, philosopher*, sa diip#, cororaerce and prosperity of this country, ho continue# his parallel into other affairs. Yank#* are braver than Southern ' :vi>,'4w.??.,u..v,.I jr fact and theory, which we have latterly found very prevalent among Northern people. i "Wo presume tho assertion that Massa- i chusetts "gave" 83,000 troops to the Continental arniy, is a mistake of the types. We never saw the claim advanced before for more than 67,000. That is the number i set down in Ilildreth's Ilistory, the standard New England authority, vol. iii; and j that was the number claimed by all other I authorities on the subject. We shall thereC L . i 1 .1 * iuiu mat wnerc uic rcpurt iiiaKC'S Mr. Parker say 83,000, he did say 67,000. In that form we pronounco it to be equally a suggestio falsi and a 3npprcssio l veri, both as to South Carolina and Massa- I chusetts. It is quito true that the records show that Massachusetts enrolled 67,000 men on the lists of the continental forces, ! while South Carolina only 6,000. But I there was this difference between them? i that the soldiers of Carolina were all really l in the continental line, engaged in active < service in all the Colonies, while 67,000 1 Massachusetts men were in her fields, her saw mills and her shops, and never saw a camp save when they came to sell some- I tiling there. ] These G7,000 men were simply the militia of that State, wlio were all nominally : enrolled at tho beginning of the Revolu- I tionary war, and who all put in claims for i pay and pensions after it was over, but who could never be gotten into the field at all while it was going on. South Carolina had I a civil war of her own, and her militia was ] engaged in it; therefore no such enrolling 1 of it into tho continental lino took place. I But slio did furnish G,6G0 to the actual < continental service, while the Massachusetts I array was increlv nominal. t This we. shall prove. The following ta- < hie, taken from the common Encyclopaedia I Americana, (Art. United States.) disputed i hy nobody, shows the number of men from i all the States together, constituting the I whole actual continental force in each year ' r>f the war: i TROOr6 EMPLOYED. 1 Continental. Militia. I 1775 27,443 I 1770 40,901 26,060 1777 34,750 10,112 1778 32,399 4,353 < 1779 27.699 2,427 1Y8U 21,115 o,811 i 1781 13,832 7,308 ! 1782 14.250 | 1783 13,076 Tills table makes perfectly manifest the absurdity and falsehood of tlie assertion that Massachusetts gave 83,000 soldiers to the continental litie. For the whole line, containing in it the quotas of all the thirteen States, did not contain more than half that number of men in any year of the war. Their enrollment was evidently merely nominal. This great Yankee army existed only on paper, and was never heard of at all till the Pension Act was passed by the Congress of the United States. What was tho actual contribution of \f 1 ? luuswuiiusi'iui 111 me connncniai army f To answer that question, we shall ask it of oho who, although a- Southern man, and probably a very little person in the estimation of h warlike modern Yankee preacher, yet was thought to have known something about the continental army. lie was onee called Gen. Washington. The correspondence of this gentleman, written while the war was going on, have been printed in a book by Jared Sparks, a Massachusetts YhhItra nrphi'lier lit-o P?fl'or f"?n - ? I ' """ cious, however. Mr. Sparks has confessed with Lord Mahon, that ho has suppressed more than one passage in these lettevs about Massachusetts people, because he thought them "unjust" and "severe."? But enough remains to give an idea of the actual force which Massachusetts "gave" to the continental line. Sparks has endorsed the facts they contain in a "life" of the author, and from this, for convenience sake, we will quote an extract. The first scenes of the war lay in New England. Boston, the heart of Massachusetts, fell into the hands of the British.? Washington, that meek Southerner, whom Yankees " excell in war," came there to get it out. To do this he had to raise an armv. * ' Then, if ever, the render has a right to think that great multitude of warlike Yankees talked of by Uildreth and Parker? would have beon neon, or at least heard , of, in the neighborhood. But what says Sparks I " The enlistments in the new army (the leaguer of Boston in progress) went on slowly. The dissatisfaction and cabals of the officers, the exciting temper aud cndis ciplined habits of the men; occasioned endless perplexities. General Washington a.U ?? ? -' - ? ,v.? uuviim nujiicijr. juih j> mence hd(J tortiiuded wore triod in the severest manner. A month's experiment had obtained only five thousand recruits. At ona time he was flattered with promises, at another almost every gleam of hope was extinguished, till, at length, when the term of services of the Connecticut troops was about to expire, it waa ascertained that they would go off in A-nuajr, ?w? TWW * i?*nui wank la an ?eak?off ay ibuim SMordMi, H? ,^pDmW to wiry motive wbloh ooutd atimnlata th?ir patriolWm, pride, or miim of bonor, but *11 in vain r Now we nsk the reader to consider what the facts here stated signify. Here the chief city of New England was in the hands of the enemy, and the Southern Chief trying to deliver it: He calls on New England for troops?and Massachusetts was part of New England then, was it not?? Out of all New England he could not get five thousand men into the actual line to fight for their own capital I Alas ! Babylon that great city?how is it fallen !? Where was Mr. Parker and his 83,000, or Mr. Ilildrcth and his 07,000 warlike Yankees then? In "buckram," we fear. Tho ivar was there then in Massachusetts?but they were not. How then was Washing ton able to make up bis lines there before Boston ? " The army was soon augmented," (says Sparks,) " by the companies of riflemen from Virginia, &c. The companies were Riled up with surprising quickness, and on their arrival in camp, the number of several of them exceeded the prescribed limit 1" Oh, Parker! Eighty-three thousand Massachusetts 2>cnsioners [that were to be] looking on from the hills where rifle com panics wcro pouring in nil the way from Viiginia to <lcl"ond the very place in which ymi were afterwards to " lift your heads and lio" on them ! Let us hear what Greene, Lhe Rhode Island General, wrote in a letter at the very time : " In my last, I mentioned to you that Lhe troops enlisted very slowly in general. [ was in hopes then that ours (Rhode Island) would not have deserted the cause of Jieir country. But they seem to be sick jf this way of life, and so homesick that I fear the greater part, and the best of the roops from our colony will go home. The Jonnoclicut troops are going Lome in shoals .liia clay. * * * * I sent homo some recruiting officers, l>ut they got scarcely a nan, ami report that there are none to he liarl there. No public spirit prevail.". * * * * Newport, I believe, from the best intelligence I can get, is determined to observe a Ftri<-t neutrality this winter, and in the spring join the strongest party. I feel for ihe honor of the colony, which I think in a fair way, from the conduct of the people at home, and the troops abroad, to receive a wound." Poor Greene ! lie never talked about the way in which Now Englanders excelled Southerners in war. On lhe contrary, his greatest affliction at that titno seems to have arisen from tho indignation with which that nnwarlike Virginian, Washington, was prone to express himself when the subject of Yankee soldiering was introduced into lhe conferences. Let Greene explain himself:? "Ilis excellency has not had tiino to mako himself acquainted with the genius of this people! They are naturally as brave nn/1 ? ?!-- - ?wu ??o njjnncu uiu peasantry 01 any other country, but you cannot expect veterans of a raw militia from only a few month's service. The common people are exceedingly avaricious; tlic genius of the peoplo are commercial from their long intercourse with trade. The sentiment of honor, the true chanicteristic of a soldier, has not yet got the better of interest. * * * The country round here set no bounds to their demands for wood and teaming. It has given his excellency a great deal of uneasiness that they should take this opportunity to extort from the necessities of the army at such enormous prices." Parker! " ihi3 is the way they stood shoulder to shoulder!" The 83,000 Massachusetts men in the "country round" oosion iook " tnat opportunity to extort from tlio necessities" of a Southern General and a Southern army, that had come there to defend the city and the 6oil of Massachusetts. When one remenbers all this, does it not mako him sick with absolute loathing, to hoar h despicable reptile, who would faint at tlio sight of the sword, and be of as much use in time of war as a baby, stand up and talk'as Parker does. Is it not enough to make ono blush for his own species? O shame! Let us hear something more about the New England troops?including 87,000 Massachusetts men in buckram. Graydon, a Pennsylvanian, while speaking in his Memoirs of General Schuyler, r man sacrificed to the malicnancw of a f ?, says : 1 " That lie should liave been displeasing to the Yankees, I am not at all surprised. He certainly was at no pains to conceal the extreme cootcmpt lie felt for a set of men who were both a disgrace to their stations and the caime in which they acted, <fec."? " The sordid spirit of gain was the vital principle of this greater part of the army. The only excoptioii I recollect to have seen . A1 I l ?- - bu uictb miwrwiy consuiuieu Diindi from New England, vat the regiment of Glover, from MarWehAad. There wm an appear ance of discipline in tbie erope; the officers seemed to have' mixed withlhe world, and to understand what beloliyfl to their station*. r 44 Whatever was the reson, K-ew England was far hehiod the-other province in the display of an ardent, unequivocal seal for the cause.* . .. . . ... ' ' ' ? . ? eeotomptibto ? iigfet & ; # New England men regarded, that it was scarcely held possiblo to coucoive a case which could be construed into a reprehensible disrespect of them. Thinking so highly as I now do, of the gentlemen of this country, the recollection is painful, but the fact must not be dissembled." The reader need not be told that in the early years of the Revolutionary war, its i business was transacted in tho North ; and it was the want of troops from New F.IKflnnd ilinir nn.cinnn?U? 1 ?! 0 ...v.. ^>wuni|/viuii nun CAtWUUua pay, that prevented Washington from doing very much in the face of the enemy.? If lie had been dependent entirely on the country which he was fighting for, and if he had no resources in the South, the affair would have speedily ended. But during all the Northern war, we hear of Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, and Pennsylvania troops in the field at the North.? ( When, however, the tide of battlo rolled j away to the South, where it was prose| cutnd with the bitterness of a personal ' feud, and where it was finally decided in favor of liberty, wo never hear of New England troops on a Southern field. The truth is, so soon as the dangers and troubles of the contest were taken off their immediate shoulders, the Yankees snapt their fingers at those who had done it for them. Says Mr. Sparks, Vol. i. 359 : It Tl.? O.,-.-- - ' jliio i^iinicni ouncs in particular, after tlie French troops had arrived in the country, and the theatre of war had been transferred by tlio enemy to the South, relapsed in a state of comparative inactivity and indifference." Only in one single instance do we hear of the Northern troops getting to the South of the Potomac. That was at the siege of Yorktown. Some Northern troops were gotten there, under the immediate agency of Washington. IIow ? We quote again from Sparks, Vol. i. 308 : "The soldiers," says he, describing the armv undor mnr. ing order for Virginia, "being mostly from tho Eastern ntid Middle States, marched with reluctance southward, ntid showed strong symptoms of discontent when they passed through Philadelphia. This had been foreseen by General Washington, and ho urged the superinlendaut of finance to advance them a month's pay in hard money!" Even at the siege of Yorktown the army consisted of 5,000 French, 4,000 Virginia anil Carolina militia, the storming party were leil by a Frenchman and a Carolinian?Col. Laurens?while there were only 7,000 troops of tho continental line from all these States 1 Where were the 6"7,000 Massachusetts men of pensioners then ? There was no war in their coun try?why were tlicy not here ? The truth is, this great " army with banners" never cr.nio up till there was a pension fund to be stormed?and then tliore was not a man missing. No more complaints of " ranks with one-eighth their complement" then. But none can deny?no one has ever denied, the actual service of 6,060 South Carolina troops in the continental line. Yet that was not half, or one-eighth of Carolina's fighting troops. More blood was slied in the two Carolinas than in all the New England Slates. There rnged the civil war between Whigs and Tories; and this was fought on tbo side of liberty, by South Ctrolina's own militia and partisan leaders never numbered among the continentals at all, though they did a more bitter battle than any men ever did for country or for king. Marion, Sumpter, Moultrie, Pickens, Shelby, and Sevier?all that noble and brilliant band of knight*, and heroes, and patriots?men of the first order of genius and career?these were merely officers of South Carolina's State troops, and maintained independently of her continental quotas. Tbo battle of King's if ~c iu- t.i?! _-* * muuuiniu, una ui mtj uiuumesi, OCSt contested, and moRt important, and decidedly most complete viclori?s of the whole war, was fought entirely by the partisan, unenrolled militia of Virginia and the Carolina*, ngainst somo of the best troops, and really the best General of the British army. Parker says that even in war, "the Northern man is superior to the Southern yet it is a curious fact that from the breaking out of the Revolution down to this day, New England line produced but one single distinguished military man. That one was Greene of Rhode Island. Greene was a good man?a brave man, and a great general; and he w blushed" for Now England ! Every other distinguished general in the Revolution, in 1812, in the Mexican war, were men from the Southern States with one or two exceptions in favor of Pennsylvania.? Washington was a Southern roan, Morgan, U.J.. J tt...: ... - o.?t uinriyiiy i>u| *a?iiiovh wm h ouuulom man ; WiDfield Scott, Zachary Taylor, Gaines, Jetup, these wore Southern men, end Andrew Jackson wm a Carolinian.? Yet it i? ?ot for vent' of chances to ririlitfftf distinction, * in every war froro the New England open have alwravs mannered to set a tionMd share *t the good paying igh roiHury plaice, ?ueb i?;g^ nine brigadiers created in 1775, New England also secured seven. "! Although no New England soldiers could over then be gotten out of New England, a plenty of generals (not, however, for Fame's bead-roll) were forthcoming for Southern pay and rank. "Most of the generals," says Greene speaking of the Southern campaign, " belong to Northern Governments." It is also a singular fact, that whenever we read in history of any shameful disaster happening to an American army, if wo come to track the general who cammanded it to his home, we are Slirft to find Jiim n V-iTilror> TTi.ll ?1'~ surrendered at Detroit, and who was broke by Court Martial, was born and bred and lived in Massachusetts?aye, in Massachusetts, that "even in war excels" the South. St. Clair, whose army ran away from a parcel of Indians, and were slaughtered like sheep by them, came from a high Northern latitude. Benedict Arnold was a Connecticut man, so, by the way, was Aaron Burr in birth, though reared in New Jersey, another Yankee State. These are the most celebrated names in New England*s military History, and against them we can only set Washington, Jackson, Scott and Taylor.? " Even in war thev excol" us nlns I Perhaps the reader thivks by this time the we have already devoted sufficient attention to such a subject and such n libeler. Perhaps some may think that we are pandering to tho contemptible, Btupid, lowflung sectional sentiment to which Parker makes his appeal. And perhaps we are.? But tho truth is, this kind of low, bully talk, in which this Yankee preacher indulges, has become so common of late years in the North, and is so cowardly, so mean, ho base, and bo hateful, and so entirely un supported by facts, that wo must expose it or die of indignation. ^ " EEMAEEA2LE FOUKTAIK IN FLOBIDA. Taking a narrow path, I crosscd through soiiio dense underwood, and all at onco I stood on the Banks of the Wakulla Spring. There was a basin of water one hundred yards in diameter, almost circular. The thick bushes were almost growing to tho water's edge, and bowing their heads under the unrippled surface. I stepped into a skiff and pushed off. Somo immense fishes attracted my attention, and I seized a spear to strike them. The boatman laughed, and asked me how far below the surface i supposed they were ? I answered about four feet. He assured me that they were at least twenty from mo, and it was so. The water is of tho most marvelous transparency. I dropped an ordinary pin in the water, forty feet deep, and saw its head witli perfect distinctness, as it lay on tho bottom. As we approached the centre, I noticod a jagged grayish limestone rock beneath us, pierced with holes?through these holes one seemed to look into unfathomable depths. Tho boat moved slowly on, and now we hung trembling over the edge of the sunken cliff; and far below it lay a dark, yawning, unfathomable abyss. From its crorJ7fl COIUPJI nnnrinrr o o- I b ? "" mense velocity, a living river. Pushing on just beyond its month, I dropped a ten cent piece into the water, which is there one hundred and ninety feet in depth, and I clearly saw it shining on the bottom. This seems incredible. I think the water possesses a magnifying power. I am confident that the piece could not be seen from a tower one hundred and ninety feet high. We rowed on toward the north side, and suddenly we perceivcd in the water the fish which were darting hither and thither, the long flexiblo roots, and the luxuriant grasses on tho bottom, all Arrayed in the most beautiful prismatic hues. The gentle swell occasioned by the boat gave to the whole an undulating motion.? Death-like stillness reigned around, and a more fairy sceno I never beheld. So great is the quantity of water here poured forth, that it forms a river of itself, large enough to float flatboats with cotton. The planter who lives hore has thus transported his cotton to St. Marks. Near tho fountain we saw some of the remains of a mastodon which bad been taken from it lue triangular Done below the Jcnco measured six inches on one sido. Almost the entire skeleton has been sent to Barnum'a Mnseura. The Indian name of the fountain is beautifnlly significant. Wakulla means MThe Mystery." It is said that tlie Spanish dis coverers sprang into it with almost frantio joy, supposing they bad discovered the long sought "Fons Juventotis," or fountain of youth, which should rejuvenate them after their exhausting marches and battles.? Ballon1 s Pictorial. m m " JET When an Arab woman intends to marry again after the death of her husband, die cornea the night before to the grave of her firet husband. Here ahe kneels, and praya him not to be offended?n'dt to be jealous. As however, she fears he will be offended and jenlQpfc t&fe widofr bring? with her a donkey laden with two goeteVeldna of water. 3B?prayeii *t?WiVre proceeds to roht fceb^ t)r* ... >.... ?* BROTHER CRAWFORD'S FAREWELL SERMON. REPORTED 07 DILL EA8KEL. lie began apologetically as follows: " You don't see mo to-day in the dross 1 allers wear; I come among you as a stranger, and I ant now tricked out in iriy storo clothes. 1 am not n proud man, but I thought it would be inoro becoming before strangers." After this, ho raised ft hyniti, in which tho congregation joined. Ha then bcaan WW tf O this sermon: " My dear brethren and sisters, first and foremost I'm now gwine to tell you nboiit the affecting partin' I had with my congregation at Bethel Cbapel. Arter I had got through with my farewell sermon, as I came down outen the pulpit, the old grey-headed brethren and sisters who had listened to my voice for twenty years, crowded around me, and with sobbing voices and tearful eye*, said. Farewell, brother Crafford 1 The young men in their tight, patent leather boots, high collars and fliishy waistcoats? smelling of pomatum and cigar smoke ? with their shanghai coats and striped zebra pants?they, too, said, Farewell, brother Crafford 1 rr?l . 1 * * * - - iue coioreu Dreuiren ot tlio congregation now came forward?black sheep who had been admitted to the fold under my ministry?with tears running down their sable cheeks, they, too, said, Farewell, brother CrafTord! As I got on my horse and bade adno to my congregation forever, I turned to take a last look at the old church where I had preached tho unsearchable riches of Christ for mor'n twenty years; and as I gazed at I ?n ? ? ilo uiiupiauiu wj4u? ?nu moss coverea root, it too seemed to say, Farewell, brother Crafford 1 As I rode down through the . 'V people who poked their hoads u:r li : winders, and the servants wht >?.! their brooms all seemed to say, :u; v ii, brother Crafford! As I passed along down the .v., through the forest, tho wind, as i. u i6lltA4 through the tree tops, played on the leaves and branches, the burden of salvation, it, too, seemed to Bay, Farewell, brother Crafford! Crossing a littlo creek that was gurgling ?vut_ __ Iunu outing u?ci no puuuiy uvu, as it rejoiced on its wav to tho erreat ocean of eternity, it, too, seemed to say, Farewell, brother Crafford ! As I rode along down a hot, dusty lane, an old sow that was asleep in a fence corner, jumped out of a suddent, with a loud broo-oo-oo, she, too, seemed to say, Farowell, brother CrafFord! My horse, he got frightened nnd jumped from under me, and as he curled his tail over his back, kicked up his heels and tan ofF, he, too, seemed to say, Farewell, brother 1 Crafford!" " HOT RECIPROCATED." A rrood ioke is rroinc tlio roands- of fJ ^ o o " adventures of a young man "ardent in love," who met with a bit of cold ootafort. Joshua slood beside his fair one trembling ; his heart kept turning over, his eyes grew dim; his tongue was paralyzed. A t cold clammy perspiration oozed through hia skin, while ever and anon he rolled his liquid orbs toward Julictta. At length his knees gave way, and down be cam6 upon his marrow bones and thus addressed her: "My dearest Julietta, with all my soul I love you ; I love you !" Here bis voice failed, and ho would havo sunk upon the carpet, but, a timely answer from her enrapturing lips brought him "spell bound " to his feet. M Rise, sir," said she, " do not humble yourself to me, for I do not reciprocate your love." " Reciprocate 1" " Reciprocate T whispered Josh. Wbat on earth does that mean, thought he. And then off he went, not even stopping to kiss her band, in search of a dictionary, half mad with hope and half with fear. M A dictionary 1" he cried as he entered the nearest book store, "a dictionary, I say !" " Yes, sir, in a moment," answered the c!erk. 44 A moment! thunder !" vociferated Josh, MI want a dictionary." V A nicely bound one," said th^cjerk; seel 'era cheap; cheap as dirt." M Bell the d?1, I'm looking for a word." Over and over he turned the leave*. At last be stopped ; he looked, he.spelled, he sighed, then laying down the book be walked sTowly out, saying as he went, " kicked,- by jerainy Bachtlort, Tain WarHitio.?-The e'eV brrted Dir. Casper, of Berlin, estimate* the mortality among bachelors, between tW ages of thirty undforty-ftve, at tntWy*6v?ti per cent; whitetbe Mortalrty among mar* ried meftbeHWn the name ages is only e^h^n ^nwntv ' "i -^,:Vr ': THOROUGH WORK. It is an old maxim, that Whatever is worth doing at all, in wortli doing Well, and thia truth is as applicable to agriculture as to any other branch of industry, 'the attention to, or the neglect of this principle; constitutes the great difference between farmers. Takft for illustration. t.lm aimnlo on^ t T ,Mr,v seemingly billing operation of stocking a plow: dno hiati Is careful ih tlio sfelectiori of the timber from which tlie stock is to be made; the pails are properly shaped and uicely put together. Another uses whatever may be at hand ; " rotfgh hew^' tiici pieces, and puts them together hurriedly! The latter may seem to accomplish a great deal more; he Consumes less time in the operation, but it will be toiitid befdrfci the season is o^ef, that his hiore cataful neighbor has really saved time and lni)8r by taking more pains. In the midst of tlie plowing season, his stock breaks, nifil the labor of tlib hand friilst be lost, while repairing the consequeiices of a little iiegi?gonce in the beginning. And precisely so is it with feVerything else oii the plantation; from building a barn, of cultivating tJio crop, to making a pig-pen or helving a jioe: YVc frequently see a very industrious fai mef who seems to be ahead of everybody in bis neighborhood, get in the grass while tfiosfei who have apparently been behind hand; liavo kept clean fields. One Ins gone to work on poorly prepared land, while thti other bas taken timo for faithful preparation, before putting a seed in' tlie ground. One bas hurried through the crop, pushing mules and negroes, with more regard to llio number of acres cultivated in the day, than to the care with which (lib crop is cultivated f whilo the other, aiming to maka . !???" AAi?n??n/l n cmn))^ : Liit. i; ' -* K?rii*? !' \ *i : .'? - .. v. Ts 11 li tli'G WMlO 't'Ti* ; Iiaving l>?cn caref!.:iiy ?: i.e to*... r>\- ! l.fl tVUl.'l'n.'a -AW t' l? w?j:6 I f # x TIiO u-'.x.iw , ~:pio w a^phcauio to the Cafe of stock. One plahter seeks to economize in ttafe purchase of plow ruulev and buys an inferior article because it costs, a few dollars less; another selects tbvbwfehe can find, and tbu result sb'on demonstrates that his was tfiG better b-.r^' though the first cost of his purchaslittle greater. Onto provides gbotl takes special enro in adjusting this careful in feeding, <kc., itnd though . consume more time, he finds (htft hi end, saves more than- his less carefiil bor, tflio' is always in a hurry. 0| well, Whatever he does al all; the t satisfied to do any ftay that villi mr present purposes.?Soil Of the Sout\ Tomdlb Pigs.?We have seefl nr>< the figs referred to in the following from ilovey's e^celleut Itorticullu'rdl Miffazine; and endorse nil whi6h' ho sa^s frT AM# favor. We hopo that thoso who raise dance of tomatoes will save thfa tefclpe, tfmt try tho experiment, if only on a small/cale* Recipe for Tomato Figs.?Pbiir Itttlipg water over the tomatoes, in order loiStoofttf the skin ; then weigh theni and f>Wce tfuism in a stone jar, with as much s'ugat a!s )vou have tomatoes, and let AiW , then pour off tlio syrup, and boil and skiiW it until no scum mcs; Tberi pouf i{ over the tomatoes, and let therti stand tvi'o cfav* as before; then boil and skini agiaii.' After the third time they are fit to dty weather is good ; if not, let (hem stand fiV the syrup until drying weather.' TfteAf place ou large earthen pTates oi tfjnbitia; and put them' ifi th'6 siiri to dry, which will take about a week, after which pack thorn down in small wooden boxes, with fine white stfgar between every layer. Tomatoes f>r6parod in this manner will keep toi years. A few apples cut up and botl6d 7n th6" remainder of this syrup male a reiy nicA' sauce:?Mrs. Eliza Marsh: . Thf Fiint? nf -- r. . _m-.w?v v/ 4?tvi???vi((/c i//fr </tcx x^unsr Surface.?Though negative in their result#,' tho observation* already r&ade by Lord! Rosso with his great and new t?]<iscopof rfre interesting. His lordship assures us thai every object on . tn'o surface of thfc iiiooit 100 feet in heigh't m now dirtvaictl/ visibly and under frvoraNe ^^msUi^ea^e^ ^ . jecU seventy feet in height Rbfrfci tihd stones innumerable are seen, but tio aVcti w tccture, no structure as Somerset floose, for instant^*