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* TilMi ilir r A REFLEX OF POP U L A R E VENTS. Dsoolsfo Progress, % flights of lf)e Soull), antr llje Diffusion of Itsrful fi.nomlciJge among oil Classes of lUoihing fttm. VOLUME IV. GREENVILLE. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY II. 1858. NimnifB c. 1 ; Mii.iiiaaawB?y?i?*"aiBaBMBe8MMgggg- ' ~ jt $irut!ier& enterprise IS PUILI8HED WEEKLY IY W. P. PRICE k C. M. M7UNKIN, * Pr?frl?t?ri. 1 WI1LIAMP. PRICE. EDITOR. TERM*. Oim> IMtor Tear, fa A<raae?, t 1.60, IF DELAYED. ,, . * AOBwra. ? rra SmAMJcr. K?q? Flat Rock. N. C. A. M. Panaw, Fairview P. 0., Greenville Dint ? Wii.ua* C. Bailkt, Ploaaant. Grove, Greenville. ? Cait. K. Q. A?i>icma>?m. Knorce, dpartanburg. tl O. W. Kim, Travoltas Agent. [ ielfttrt ^nrtrtj. f, The Harp of a Thousand Strings* Cojsic, penerou* friend*, a little while, e And listen to itiy song. And ihntitrb mv tthtwt u rerv trreat. II? story won't be long. " I'm going to ting tbout the timet, And several other thing*? We'll ting the word* nnd play the tune ^ Oa a Harp of a Thousand String*. . * Religion, Politics nnd Lnw, p Are raging under par, ? As seen b? microscopic aid, e In pulpit, forum, bar: t A focus brought on either one, e Hie same result still brings? ? A human being plaving awav " On a llarp of a Thousand Strings. Tlin preachers don't as they used to do, ? In the good old days gone by; Thee need to preach of souls of inen, Till they made the women cry; r Hut they read their sermons now a days, -j And Die choir strikes up " a sing," ( And U?e folks can't join when the tune is ? play'd J On a Harp of a Thousand Strings. The members don't as the? used to do? I Their seal and love's grown cold ; c They're thinking of the corn they've rained, t A ?k.l tiA?w lA mat ntnra .Tnlil ( """ """ ?' B" B Ami though the preacher reads quite well, Their conscience never sting* ; They'd rmher steal the crown of gold, And a llnrp of a Thousand Strings. The politician used to l?e A man of some renown; Now, a half a dozen would-be such Are found in every town ; For when one finds he can make a speech. Or soar on buzzard'* wings, lie mounts a bobby and plays away Ou a Harp of a Thousand Strings. No matter how corrupt he is flow oft he turn* his coat: The nomination sets him right? He get* the people's vote; lie e*U his fill at the public crib, He drink* at the public springs? The charm succeeds?lie play* so well *. On a llarp of a Thousand Strings. Then Jet us take a hasty view Of Justice and the Uar ; Ala* ! how quickly we discern, flow altered all thing* are ; The aword and scales are ittle used, The culprit seldom swings; For gold will make the lawyers play On * Harp of a Thousand Strings. So turrt your ere# to every part Of tTncle 8am'* machine, ? ^ .? _ 1OU II DDd a screw UIIUH woming iuuw j Some place that need# a pin. ^ Bat I must end my story now, Although my muM si ill brings ( A verse or two for every chord On a Harp of a Thousand Strings. A Uahd Or stover.? A friend, (says the J Macon Citizen,) who has been traveling re cea^y in South western Georgia, heard of a . man now living down in Lowndes county, whoa* career baa been rerntrkable for more ' Wwli bmdth eisapss " and u imminent dan- ' gem1* than usually fall to the lot of one in- , sJSiFidual. When n boy, he waa caught in lb* woods by a pantber, dreadfully lacerated ' and covered up for dmd bv the animal, which than went in parauit of another boy, . who wan with him at the time. Ilia com rada, however, escaped, and brought 2-jc-o' to biro. Nest, he waa bitten by a rattlesnake. and recovered. Then lie was struck , J* ginning, and, for. wbi!*, lali 5U?S Ar- , terwtrdi be waa partially ground op in a sugar mill, but though badly mutilated, ?ur jived the casualty. Subsequently, be got into a quarrel with a man and killed bnn, , for which be eerted out a term in the penitentiary \ He W now waiting to eee what will a turn op" next. Our informant any# \ tbU ia no fancy aketeh, but positive facta, 1 though they may not be hated exactly in 1 the order of their occurrence. J At VKurr, we cannot teiT whether the | river liubattowor deep; eo neither can we I' -^jndge of a aKoot or aeeret maa. To know ] aifiF are meat have light, or ehe be able to < aouttd Mm. U lb 0 ftiisrtllnncana Renbing. i * 'pom th? AlUCsliforoinn (Sun Francisco) Dec. 12. " rarratiri of Lieut. Beale'i Wagon Road n Expedition from Fort Defianoe to the t\ Colorado River c We pieaent our reader*, thi* mornine, w ritli an outline narrative of Lieut. ItealeV u xploration of tne Southern wnjjon route, fl aaen irom me note hook of Mr. 4. II. Por-1 v er, attached 10 the scientific corps of tho ex ! g edition. Lieut. Ueale arrived hero onj 'htusdav, from Los Angeles. The object | n f the expedition (which in just completed,) g( specified in the written instructions of Q lie Secretary of War, was to proceed from -j Miiladelplda to Indianola, Texas, where the v smels had Ireen landed from the store-ship y apply, Lieut. iMvjil Porter, and f. om q hence to proceed to Fort IVflance, in New ^ lexico, near Santa Fe, and from that place ^ 3 commence the survey of the wagon road r lirough to Colorado Hirer, near the siippos H d month of the Mojave. _ j( Lieut. E. F. Deale nnd his party arrived j t San Antonio on the 10th of June. From ran Antonio they proceeded to Camp Vere, on the Verde ltiver, where the camels | ad been conveyer), to await Ilia requisition nd that of Capt. Pope, of the United States opographical Engineers, who hnd been de uted by Government to construct artesian w relit upon the Pecas, in Texas. He select- r d twenty three out of the nihety camels at , hat place and three dromedaries. Togelh 1 r with the animals were two Greeks, a l'urk * ind Lwn Alalia b-Iia Lfi ? ' ? .. ? ?v ?fc 0?h /1iiiu- j iio, being desirous of rclurning home. Tnk Start.?The party left. San Antonio ' n the 25th of June, the camels packed with f i huge portion of tlie grain for ten teams of , nulrs. The toulus, or regular pack camels, j, >f wMeh there were seven, are c*H|>ablo of ( arrying a load of one thousand pound*.? i'hev passed ever the old wagon road, exending some seven hundred miles between ( bin Antonio and El Paso, and reached Al- , >erquerque on the lOtli of Angust. Tint Roctk Through New Mexico.? , weaving some of the wagons w hich had beoino unnecessary to trasport the baggage, | he expedition crossed the Hio Orande, and ( timed towards the Colorado. They crossed ( he dry bod of the little Puerto, and proseeded on the toad lying within sight of the { iver, and among the mountain spurs ex- ] endipg through New Mexico. They pass hI through the pueblo of Lagunn, inhabited >y a mixed population of Indians and New ( Mexican*. They were now traveling upon ( Joronado's route?who, in 1630. passed ( lirougti this country, the first explorer of Mew Mexico. Continuing ii|>on the road, to , he new town of Zuni, situated alrout eight ( niles from the aboiigiunl ruins of that name, ( hev Dasse<l the Kin Fiio. rtmiiiiiar iliroimli I t o J, i reinarable tolcnnic basin, of ancient fornation. Tlicy waited, n|>un itie I'iscado, J lie arrival of Col. Lotiug, who was return ng with his command from the tiila.? A bile the expedition was proceeding to 'ut.i, Lieut. Beale, in company with Col. xrring, made a dc*our towards jhe north- j rard, in the Navajn country, to Fort Dcfi- | nee, a distance of ninety mile*, to procure ( in cscorto of United States troops, for f rhich he had an order from the Secretary .f War. Tub Ixscrihtio* Rock.?Passing over his country, which Mr. Porter considers the nost beautiful he ever traversed, and covertd w ith ahnot-t inlerm'nahlc forests of noble wd lofty pine trees, they ariived, ou the 14th of Angus*, at El Moro, or the Inscripion Rock. This rernaknhle natural formaion merits a particular description. Emergng from the forest which skirts the hues of the back bone of the Western Contiient, without any previous indication of its ixistenee, and in the midst of an almost exclusively volcanic country, a smooth wall of vhite sandstone rises from the grassy plain vhich spreads away from its base, to an alitude of a 1,000 feet. At its south-eastern base is the spring mown as El Moro. It is wedge shaped, ?nd its summit is crowned by an ancient iboriginal fortress, evidently the work of he same artisans, whose tumuli are visible rom Peru to Wisconsin. Sloping from the ioulh-west is an artificial plateau, leading to he western entrance of the mountain which ' orms a natural corral, capable of holding at east nve tuousana ueau ol animals, and en- i ireljr impregnable except by a very.narrow jacizgr, easily defended and partially forti- 1 led. In tbia corral grow the loftiest pins trees, whose beads are far below the crest of the rvck which towc* above them. The i party from this point proceeded to within wel've miles of Zoni, where they encamped, 1 tnd awaited Mr. Ueale's arrival from Fort Defiance. The Route from El Moro.?lie arrived i >n the 28th, with his escort, and after treating with the Indians for corn, they started upon Whipple's trait, and encamped upon i plain covered with splendid gramma grass. < rbe expedition from this camping place ' passed over a comparatively level country, sell watered, and abounding in fine greet. 1 [tanges of mountains, of volcanie origin, sere visible in all direction*, some of them i sapped with snow. This mountainous fen nre is the prevailing topography between * Juni and the Colorado, lliey came in r ight of the Colorado Chiqnito on the 4th * f SeplentWr; on the Oth they croeel it t rithout difficulty. The river is a winding. I arrow and muddy stream. At the ford ? liere were only four feet of water. Tlie 'i amels from the first made the marches r rithout faligae or flagging. They contin c ed their course on the parallel of 35 degrees, c tiding excellent water at convenient inter ii nls, and the most luxuriant blue grantma v rasa. c Aw Ukkxplorkd Coustrt.?The course 8 ow lay through an unexplored region, pte* ' onti'.ig the wave line, intersected l?v r?ncr??* Ii _ * ' j " o" f irregular serrated volcanic mountains.? 1 'bey encamped upon a reservoir of pure P rater, discovered by tbe guide, Sevedra; to w rbich Lieut. Boale gave tbe name of King's ' !re?k. Tbe trail of 1853, made by Lieut. ^ Vhippie, being oblitetated by time, and al- n o that of Aubrey, Lieut. Beale selected a oad for himself, and thus from the point M bove mentioned, the travelers, until reach- c ng tbe Colorado, were passing over a terra ncognita. Expeditions from tbe ramping lace were despatched by Lieut, lb-ale, in arious directions, to examine the face of f be country. n Audrey's Cano>\?In one of these, led c ?y Lieut. Bealo himself, tbev discovered rhat was believed to l>e tbe celebrated cn- ' ion of Aubrey,described bv him in bis notes. ' Vn idea may be gathered of the stupendous 1 lepth of this great chasm, from tbe fact that 1 landing- oil its precipitous brink, a musket 11 >all discharged, occupied nearly half a min < tie in reaching the bottom at its shallowest ' roint. This was proved by frequent expe- ' iments. Its width was so great, that a ' nusket ball, discharged horizontally, fell [ ibottt a quarter of the way scros*. This J :ha*m apjiears to be a vast sink in fire gen * sml level of tbo country, the result of some > mcient volcanic convulsion. They descend- ' -d to tbe bottom and explored it to iu? , ' noutb. In it they discovered tbe Indian i1 trail to the Moiave villnrres # - D ? * ExTRAORmSAT NATURAI. FEATURES. Soiii" peculiar characteristics in the femur* rf this section of country are worthy of remark. The r<.n<l extending over me?aa retembled more a work of art, like the roads ! ?onstructed by the Roman Generals and Napoleon, than natural formation. The ' |>ah*ade formations, on all hands, loom- 1 id up like gigantic fortifications Singular 1 to say, the volcanic rock was carpeted with ' the most luxuriant blue gramma grass, af ' fording food for animals as nutritious as jats. Only a thin stratum of soil laid be- J '.ween this and the rock. Specimens of petrifactions of the most wonderful descrip ion presented themselves. And there, on 1 he western bank of the Rio de la Xara, r hey found a rock, alrout twenty-five feet square, in the heart of which was n large retrified tree. The fragment was detacher) * rom the main body, in which the boughs 1 sere distinctly visible. They also found, in he beginning of their new route, itiscripions on the rocks, evincing the progression 1 .f .1? ?: ? * -r - " * n me wrimrs nom me iueagrapltic to the Phonetic character. This argue# a very 1 ligh degree of cultivation among the an- 1 dent inhabitants of these regions, as do their 1 brtiticalions. Arrival at thk Colorado Rivf.r.? | rhe guides having proved unworthy of trust, ( he expedition was preceded by patties deached in scaich of water, which was invariibly fosnd, showing that, up to this point, J he route is in every way available for emi- , jranl trains, it being scarcely necessary to j louble teams in a single instance. Nothing ( >f consequence incurred from this ]>oint un- > il the arrival of tbe expedition at the Coloado River, which they gained without difIculty,camping on its hanks, for the first tiinc, >n the 10th of October, having ridden over :be country on either side of the route for a considerable distance. Swimming tiie Camels.? At this placeihe camels themselves refuted soine asserlions which have been confidently made of , llieni?tliat they are unable to swim. Father Hue, in his work, describe* his detention upon the Yellow River, In China, on Account of the difficulty of crossing his camels, for, he says, " the aniinal cannot iwim.n The opinion has also been support ed by many wi iters. On this occasion, Lieut. Beale. determining to try tbe experiment, led one of the large toulun to tbe bank of tbe river, and u_.t l:? j? j--- - ihhi ?iiiii uriven imo ute water. At toon m he (curd birotelf out of his depth, he .'truck off without hesitation for the opposite shore, iwimtning high and with perfect ease. The resi of ibe ir?iu ciozed in br.tches "f five and six ; tot one of them, apparently, baf} the slightest difficulty in the passage. AuSjvAi. at Loe Anoklkb.?The route now llflitfiffHMw Mojavo on its eastern , hank until the party reached the Motinon , road, which tbey kept, crossing the San Bernardino Mountains at the Oajon Pass, and eontinued the journey ovor the well-known road from San Bernardino to Los Angeles, where tbey arrived on the '20th of Novem- , ber. Triumphant Succxaa or tiir Camil Ex < rB?iM*NT.?The Experiment of the camel* , nd dromedaries has proved a triumphant ucce**. In opposition to the opinion* of nany United State* officer*, they have hown themselves admirably adapted foi raversing the waste* of Western America. n some instance* these wonderful animal* vent n week, and in one, ten days, without valer?not because it did not exist on the oute, but from the lack of desire for it, and n the tenth day the animal drank with omnarative indifference. They could go, f required, over two week* without tasting rater. Their focal is of the simplest and oarsost description; they eat, as they pro tcss, whatever grows on the wayside, l>end rrg their long neck* and thrusting their icads alike into the narrowest crevice* for he cactus, or the stunted verdure, or crop ling the leaves from the boughs of the tree*, rilhout in the least retaiding their speed. >uly they may be called the ships of the lesert, and, when taken in compari-ton with trules, horses or cattle, which require food ilmost as regularly as man. tliev dapted by nature to the novel ta?k to which I >ur Government baa now devoted them. Death of Joan D'Are. We make the following extract from Aprletona' new work, ** The World-Noted Woncn," just published. It is from the pen >f Mary Cow-den Clarke : ** There is something indefinitely touching n the saint's and hero a relapse into simple lumanity and womanhood, on that dark, innatnral May morning, when the heavy | tews was told her that she must die before un set. She wept bitterly. Like Jeptha's laughter, she mourned that her pute and lennteous body should he thus early sacri iced, exclaiming: ' Ilelan ! me traita t on tinsi horriblement el cruellement. qu il fail's que mon corps, net el en tier, qui ne fut amain, corrompu, soil aujntirtd 'hui con 1 ume et rendu en eendres/' She shrank, ind shrieked, and writhed, at the thought >f the flames, pitying herself for the pain. Hut the aaint triumphs soon?even through lite fiery vista before her, she sees a better Kingdom than France, a better home than Donireniv. Even in this death she recognizer the 'deliverance' promised her by ' the voices.' " She apjrealed !o Go<l from the injustice and cruelty on earth ; she partook of the hoi) sacrament; with many tears she uttered ler touching and tremendous words to the Itishnn of - ? ' .. ..i? n numinous HI Hll ?wet for lier clentli before God. Wlinl a :hild like naturalness, n plaintive naivele marked the words she addressed to one of the preacher* standing by : 4 Ah, Mailre I'ierse, wheie will I he this evening?' 44 We can fancy the tearful, wistful look, the terrified tremble of the hands, and all he voice broken up in sobs, with which she -aid this. Then, as the Fricst replied? llave you not good hope in the Saviour T he light of re assurance, the smile, the duspcd hands, the heavenward guace, the roice clear and feivid, as she said: 4 Oh, pes, God aiding, I shall be in Paradise.* 44 Mound and borne in a cart, like a com mon malefactor, surrounded by a guard of right hundred English soldiers. Joan D'Arc passed through the streets of Uouen to the market place; but in the eyes of the angels, hat awful hour must have thrown into thade all fnrenmtto ?? 1 ?.? ..wuip vi uiuiiijiii?grnnd >r to (hem thiin the proudest conqueror in lis triumphal car, followed by princely capliver and the spoils of kingdoms. "At the stake the maid ngnin bravely proclaimed her faith in ' the voices,* and nobly defended her King. Her sublime, yet meek composure, her marvellous womanly sweetness, filled many of her prosecutors with wonder, pity and vain remorse. The people looked ou as in a horrible dream, weeping, groaning, praying, but powerless to help. One last word of reproach shiver ed the petrified heart of the Bishop Bauvais, cleft its way to a deep unsuspected vein of human feeling, and let it out in tears. 44 The scaffold towered high above the crowd, a huge pile of faggots, lit at the base, a gigantic altar of sncrifice, a fiorv cavalry. ** When the flames uncoiled themselves froin below, and darted upward, in angry Hashing lengths, hissing and writhing? when they struck tlieir fangs into her flesh, the flesh cried out in shrieks that must have echoed forever through the guilty and craven souls who beard. 44 Well had the young martyr learned the self foraetful snirit of l>?r ???? i. m r -nv"; u..w"uu iik flume and smoke of h?r torment, she saw the danger of the faithful priest who held the crucifix above, and entreated him to leave her. He went; he bore from hei sight the image of her oiucifled Lord, but he ieft beside Iter, it; the midst of the flames the Lord himself. May not her last cry ol ' Jesus ' have been, not u cry of fear, or sup plication, but of joy and recognition, ns sh? sprang through the fiery gato of martyrdom into the welcoming arms of his compassion, into the boeotn of his infinite, ineffable love." In oknkral, what a woman says with hei eyes deserves more attention than the word* which escape from her lips, therefore, should she remain silent, although you have ju?< asked a most interesting question, perhapyou may find an answer in her ej es. | Traveling Companions. Be cartful whom you travel with. T*?o'y< of our national follic*, are a cnrcleasnea* in M giving letter* ol introduction to anjfbodffor pi anylaxly, ami an amiability in " hitching In teams" with any individual duiittg a jour- fe ney. Sharp and shrewd aa w? Hie, there d< are twenty instance* in this country to one T1 in England, of a gentleman's being robbed cr by hia traveling companion. Take an in- fo stance. Mr. Keen Cute, from Arkansas, is rn orninnr fA tK? V.vatK ' - " '* B R ,h? .iwiui?lie is 0110 oi mo wide- at awake sort?nobody can get around liitn? w anybody that can "make shucks " off to ai liim, is welcome to the proceed*. Finds- ill steamboat dull?gentlemanly lioiel tbief? be w oil, so rrry gentlemanly " of course, bran- bi new hat, black clothe* from head to fool? tw quite a desirable man to chat with. But t? Sir. Cute is wide awake all the while?don't di catch him gambling with stray arqitainian la cea, or making a trade with them. Ac- c? quaintance progresses ?gentlemanlv travel li' er talks about bis friends?knows lots of Mr. Cute's?is found by Cute talking at dif *1 ferent times to congressmen, legislators, and fr all that. Get to city?room together?next in day gentlemanly friend missing, and with ct him Cute** ready money. Cute very much tli astonished his chance fliend was "so very irtucli the gentleman." " Half a dozen times within as many ir months, the public lias been entertained G I with accounts of unprincipled wretches, who j were conqielled, on board of Mississippi p *teaml?oats, to innrry young ladies with d whom they had clojied. it is all of a piece V with the Cute business. Unthinking gen u lleiuan?Mr. Green?lias a lady put under ?? bis charge by anybody?jierluqis?bv agen- g tlemanlv stranger, alio, in the confidence ei style, asks bim just to see her ashore when ci thev arrive at Snagville. Mr. Green rather tl fascinated by bis young protege?more or *> les*. Very-dull on board steamboat, pas-1 ? sengers tired to dentil. Mr. Green prose 1 ? cutes intimacy, and meets with bewildering! u success. Passengers continue to be very n dull. Mr. Green continues to advance.? i ? Passengers wouldn't mind a li'tle scandal to! > pass the time. Green's young lady is oh-1 fi nerved, uy oilier Indies. tt? cry n great deal ! li in very eon*pfrnous parts of the cahin, and ! c suddenly muffle up her face and nob, or else! o run. Lady passenger* full of pity, conclude at once that Green i* n 4 wretch '?n.*k girl if he isn't?giil boo-huos. Grand 'ndigna t lion scene?gentlemen passengers hold meet f ing?noble, impulsive hearts, let out their i fine feelings?high-toned, moral captain, looks virtuously and grimly sagacious, winks \ to passengers, takes Mr. Gteen aside and c bullies him about girl. Green turns blue, * Captain calls him 4 vilian ' before folks, and j I orders a marriage forthwith. Green de- c clinor. Captain produces two revohers, n h bowie-knife, and n clergyman. Green ; caves,' and consents. Young lady over-1 t whelmed, ladies overwhelmed, everybody I overwhelmed?especially the CaptninV clerk, who exchanges winks with the bride when p unobserved by the rest of the party. All j o cheeiful?Captains stands champagne?gen-1 f ileinen joke Green?ladies all sympathy tol / bride, dinner and report in newspapers.? . Green turns up ns a widower three days af ter among the J'elicans. Bride has run c away with porte nronnaie and shirt-rtuds. c 44 Of a truth, this is a great world we live i v in, and abounding in true sympathy, execs ! j' sive warm liwiri?rln??? ..i.:--i? ?1 : 1 1 -, ...Iu vuniiii}, which j K meet with their reward." | c Tue New Fashions.? The Philadelphia 1 p Sun. of Tuesday, has the following notice of, c the latest fashions : e M To a gust of wind, which swept down i c Chesnut-street yesterday afternoon, we are. I indebted for the discovery of n new fieak of j f fashion. The red woollen peiticoatn, recent- t ly introduced by Victoiia, have already j I ' found their way into this city, and w ill, most ' i likely, become the rage duiing the season. I From a momentary glimpse of the at tide, I we suppose them to be mnde of some tine {< material like Salisbury flannel, though, poa- i siblv, they may be cashmere. Around the \ bottom, run broad stripes in bright colors, i giving a decidedly picturesque appearance ' to the ladies, as they gracefully step oxer i the gutters. Tbo now skirt is worn iinme- i ! diately next to the dress. The ladies will, l therefore, dispense with white ones, and < those gothic continuations which have, ol i late, been so highly in vogue. i ' "The collars now worn bv the vounor i?en i " O O ' tlemen, are decidedly unique. They are I shaped like n small section of stove pipe, nnd encircle the neck in such a manner as 1 to have earned fo? them the above title.? We observe also that the peg top stylo of! ' pants is being revived. Tile pecullaiitv of ' L ?.iies*c garments. i*, that they give to the * nether liinlst the shape of early fall carrots 1 1 ?very smalt at the bottom, but remarkably . ' 1 bulbous about the top. The fashions nie i 1 growing slightly tidu ulou*, and should be attended to." A man of virtne is an honor to his country, * glory to humanity, a satisfaction to r himself, and a benefactor to the world, lie ' 1 ia rich without ottention, courteous without ' deceit, and brave without vice. > Truth is in morals what strain is in mechanics?nothing can ro.?i?t it. ' .< v u&vum *bvf? Plastixo a Wai.kct Grovk.?-Twelve Bum ago ( planted n row of then* nuts with ?>f my house, in the edge of the longhcd land. I planted the mite with the nil* on. in the full as soon as they fell, four et apart, with a hoe, about two inches ?ep, m ?e used to plant corn down Ear', lie next spdngthey came up with the otiplanta. 1 kept the Aloek from them for ur or five year*. The most of them grew pitllv. hut thev were too thick, and some e now dwarf trees four to six feet high, hile those that gut the Mart went right up, id in six or seven years from the planting, ey bore walnuts; and they continue to >ar and grow so that this fall I had several isheU of nuts, ami have planted a piece of ro acres with them. These I put ten to elvo feet apart, which, when grown, will nde a wagon road. I think it would he >ttsr to plough vonr land as deep as you in la-fore planting, and that it will make tie difference whether you plant this winr or as soon as the ground opens in the ring. Keep the weeds down and the stock om them, and there is no trouble in rais 6 .. mr mure uoauuini than the Joist ; bctddes the advantage of timber and ie nut*.?Prairit Parmer. Thk Columbus (Oa.) Sun, of t)ie 20th stunt, says about the great fight between eorgia and Alabama : " Our city has been enlivened, for the ast day or two, with cock fighting extraorinary?Alabama pitted againat Georgia. Ve understand (for we wish it distinctly iideratood that we were not on the ground ntwelves) that of twenty-one fights. Georia w hipped only three, Alabama wliipping igliteen. The spotting gentlemen of our itV look as woe be gone as if they had lost teir last dollar, which we more than half iwpect is the case. We are utterly opposd to all such cruel spotting, and while our bate pride in other matters, always psompts is to wish success to our own Stats, we oust say in this instance, we fee) rather [intified than otherwise at the result, and f the Georgians should go to Alabama to ight (he battle over again, we hope that hey will he whipped in every fignt, and nine back pecked as naked as a young bird f all their surplus change." IIomk.?44 This is my home !" cried a title one, a treasured boy of four summers, as re?li and rosy he came in from school, at he close of a short winter afternoon. 44 Indeed, little Willie !" said liis mother's isitor, 44 how is it! Suppose you go out ?n the side-walk and try the next door; uppose you step into the entry, throw ofT -/ II. Iltlltt 4 * M ?... .ova no I nil lliivo Here, <1111] pfOeed to the parlor?wouldn't that be your lome ?" " No, indeed," said Willie, " that wouldn't PC it." 44 Hut tell nie why not ?" Willie had never thought of this, lie mused for a moment, then directing his ye* to where hi* mother sat quietly sewing, ie replied ?it'll an earnest gesture?44 She irra kcrt /" Kncovk.mjino to Youno Mkn.?Never oiiteut yourself with the idea of having a otninon-place wife. You want one who rill stimilate you, stir you up, keep moving, nke you on your weak points, and make omething of you. 1 >on't be afraid that you nnnot get such n wife. I very well reinem>er the reply which a gentleman who happened to combine the qualities of wit aud ominon-senso, made to a young man who a;>iw?u n icur uiHi a certain young lady of ;reat beauty and attainments would dismiss lim, if lie should become serious. u My itend,' said the wit, " infinitely more beauifnf and accomplished women than she is, ihvo married infinitely uglier and meaner nen than you are."?Timothy Titcomb. Tkstino tiik Litnus.?Persons dosirious jf ascertaining the true state of llieii lungs, ire to draw in as much breath as they conveniently can; they are then to couut as far is they are able, in a slow and audible voice, without drawing in moie breath. The number of seconds they can continue counting must be carefully observed; in consumption. the time does not exceed ten, and frequently less than six seconds; in pleurisy and pneumonia, it ranges from nine to four leconds. When the lungs arc in a sound condition, the time will range as bigh as from 20 to 30 seconds. I>o all in your power to tench your children self government. If a child it pasdoiiHte, tench him. by gentle mean*, to curb liis temper. If lie in greedy, cultivate libaridity in him. If he i> tulky, charm him >ut ol it by finnk good humor. If indolent, nccusiom him to exertions, and train liim so a? to perfoini even onerous dutira with alacrity. If pride come* in to make obedience reluctant, subdue him hy counsel of discipline. In short, give your cbildten the habit of overcoming their beaetting ains. ^ A QfA*KR, once bearing a person tell bow much be felt for another, who was suffering and needed pecuniary assistance, dryly asked him, " Fitend, hast thou fell in thy pocket for him !"