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Hpl^BRf^ii'bttnttM lie destiny, the deelinv
^B33.k It. --ll~_ a < i.. _.
iPpfWng, eggreasi ve nature of iU people hare
made foi* *t. regardless of all obstacles, apparent
or rent, whether growing oat of
s>#mm or war r^T*ru!?M? of diseeneione in
or between foreign nai.'on*, regardless of
jealousies of each otber aroii.7??> by rival
toteresU or natural vanity, end equally
alllancee cemented by treaties of amity or
by common in tercets. The United States
pursues, unimpeded, ita destiny. Nor do
ata own institutions stand in the way of ita
onward inarch. If any domeetic form of
government, and the distribution of power
among the States, obstruct the march of ita
Seatiny, a terrific civil war, surpassing in
atrocity the Internecine war of 8cy]la and
Marina, destroys the rights of the Sint-e
and transfers all power to the central government
This transfer of power to the
central government, and the vest increase
of it, does not enure to the executive de
partthent, which consists of one individual,
but to the legislative branch, to Congress,
that it may possess the audacity, the irre
aponslhillty of numbers. We speak of the
United States as it or they indifferently?as
it, as being one, the pluribut of the ancient
motto Is gone, it la absorbed in the Mum.
We speak of It in the singular in view of
its eonoentrated, untrammelled energy, or
as they, having in view its wide-spread,
comprehensive, far reaching power.
Tnat it is the manifest and sure destiny
of the United States to absorb all the North
American continent, the W?st indies, and
to make the Gulf of Mexico an American
msrrc ctaueum, la so obvious that to mention
itiealmoat a matter of super'wogation. Yet
-the eubjeof has a genersl Interest, perhaps
a practical one, surely a great one for the
philosophic student of history. Reverting
to me pin, we neve Louisiana Teiritory,
Florida, Texas, California, New Mexico and
Arizona. The last telegram from Euntne
boar* intelligence of the ratification of the
treaty by Russia for the cession of Russian
America. Ho pat is this policy willi American
iostincts that Mr. Greeley's Tribune,
which ridiculed unstintedly the treaty, already
declares that the " seven million purchase
from Russia wears a more attractive
SM?W??..**
This subject of the acquisition of foreign
territory by the United States, whether of
Oonterminoue countries, or of distant points
and regions, is one of curious interest from
the grasping magnitude and variety of its
objects It Is calculated to excite some surprise
where the facte have not been collected
and considered In their segregate. This
we prop oca to do now, briefly, not ecmpUtely;
and if come at first appear chimerical,
the purpose to achieve it ia none the
lace entertained, and our reading of history
and ths study of ths American people lead
us to believe may all be accomplished.
The gradual absorption of Mexico by the
United States, is universally regarded as a
foregone conclusion. The attempt of the
European powers to prevent ths further ex
tansies of the United States in this direo
lion, and to curb its power by placing Max
imlllian on the throne, has proved a signal
failure. This was not merely a policy oi
France, or of Louie Napoleon. Spain, Austria,
Belgium, and even England were
equally, though not ?o actively as Louis
ntapoteon, committed to this policy. It
dtUk bock twenty four years, at least, when
it woo proposed to place the third son of
Jxiuts Phillippe on the throne. But the
failure of MaxilpUlian is the final failure of
tlie whole policy. The MU introduced into
the loot Congress to loon Mexico 15 millions,
; and take a lien on some of toe Northern
States of Mexico, was a scarcely veiled of
far of purchase, and no foreiun power will
ba suffered to obstruct it. A Northern paper
informs us that the next acquisition of
_ Territory which Mr. 8eward has jn view is
that of the peninsula of Lower California,
. bud that the return of Mr. J Ross Brown,
special commissioner to examine this territory,
ia impatiently looked for at Washington.
It is added that the " cession such ss
has been determined on. will embrace both
banks of the Colorado of the Went, In orBar
to give Arlaona a port on the Gulf of
California." On the 6tl> of las: month there
held at Detroit, a convention of persons
n America who speak the Frenoh language.
It was composed chiefly of Canadians; the
terms of the invitation seemed to exclude
native Frenchmen. The appeal, as it is
called, scarcely leaves a doubt of ita being
intended to set on foot a movement for an
nexlng Canada to the United Stales.
The hill introduced into the last Congress
to annex the eastern provinces of the Brit
ish North American possessions, created no
arpriac; it waa only thought that the honorable
member from Massachusetts was in
.'>nsta to have the honor of the first call.?
T !' New York Herald informs its readers
that Mr. Seward km opened negotiation#
with the Britieli Government tor the |>ur
chsso of British Columbia, tliue making our
Pacific eoeet territory continuous, and that
Mr. Seward propoeea to relinquish American
demands for depredations on their commerce
* by Confederate cruisers built in Kngland, in
part payment for the territory in question.
^ This Is cool; it ia, nevertheless, one of the
shadows of coming events.
We laarn from Washington that negotiations
have been opened with bpain for the
e sad on to the United States of one of the
great Philipinc Islands. The eompany of
Boston merchant a who cetabliahcd the mail
roots from Ban Francisco to Japan and
China, arnin aetu?l treaty, U not completed,
ac says tha San Franciaeo Bolletin. with the
.Malay Chief# for the rorthero half of Bor
aeo, tha largest island in the world, Itn
menaely rich in metal tie wealth, apices, pre
eione woods, ete., eta., and abounding in
good harbors The oeaaion also embraces
three adjacent isles. The whole will he
. pleeed under the jurisdiction of the Uuitcd
mates.
In regard to the West Indies, every one
must be spare that their absorption into
the American Commonwealth la simply s
matter of time. It is l>ut a few mouth:
^^H^^M?ri?k B^wnrd was conveyed
HnHPP>nal ship to the West ladles for
HHJBquisfUon of the port of Ssmaos.?
VRe fruit was, it appears, not ripe. The
B?w York Hera'd, whore utter want of
J principle innke? it nn invaluable guide nn a
j. Weathercock ?>f coming puhlio opinion,
rsays the United Sta'es will be criminal If
j they do not take poeseesion of llayti. In
I August. 1851, negotiations were set on foot
I for the sale by Spain of Cuba, to the United
I Slates, The proposition was presented by
a Spanish Agent to Mr. Abbot Lawrence.
then Minister at London, who was warmly
in favor of the purchase. The sum asked
was one hundred and fifty million dollars.
The Lopez expedition broke off the negotiation,
the papers were returned, and the
whole matter was regarded in diplomatic
phrase as non avenu. The futuro is, however,
unmistakably shadowed forth. The
Gulf of Mexico will become a mar#c/ausurn,
an American sea.
Wc have thus adverted to some of the
projects?not all of them?for the acquiei
iion ot territory ; some in the progress of
completion, some as yet in anticipation.We
have sdvorted to past enlargement of
our borders as part and parcel of a policy
of aggression and aggrandizement which
there ia no reason to believe will be stayed.
As to any obstacles to be interposed by
foreign powers, the European intervention,
by placing Maximilian on the throne of
Mexico, and its failure, answers nil such
doubts. Nor enn there be any doubt, about
the American people and Ameiicau Government
possessing the audacity of conquest.
The snubbing, defying insolence to (>rent
Britain by the American Cabinet while the
country was iu the very midst of agignntic
civil war, and the haughty, peremptory
tone of demand to Prance to withdraw
French troops from Mexico, were worthy
of Rome, when in the hour of overwhelm
ing disaster after Canna, iho senate se.it
the llclor, not a herald, to Carthalo, the
Carthngenian ambassador, ordering him to
losve the Roman territory before the sun
should go down. The admitted general
corruption, pecuniary aud political, of the
American people, the overgrown wealth of
some, the comparative poverty of many,
the inflamed desires of all, present the circumstances
and at ate of morals favor
ahle to aggression and conquest? that con
<1 it ion which led the Roman Empire to
make " iirbi el orbi " synonymous?the power
of the Eternal City commenauratq,with
the inhabited earth. If to some persons
we shall seem to have outstripped the fa
ture, we can only say, such aie the teachings
of the past.
A power may he an empire whose titular
government is not an emperor.
| J Joust on Telegraph
Intolerance.
A correspondent, of lite New York Evan
gelist, a New School Fresbyterlun paper,
wilting fiom Cincinnati where the Old
School General Assembly was in session at
the time, sajs : " Dr. It. J. Breckinridge is
here with his Roman features; his tall form
still erect, and his long hair and beard but
slightly grizzled. He in as fond of speechmaking
as ever, and is heard with respect
on account of hia age, and with interest on
account of his Kentucky provincialisms, and
his rich vocabulary of invective; but his
power and prestige have departed. He is
s leader without any followers, and can no
mere arrest the tide of re-union than King
Canute'* sceptre could stop the tide."
We do not pretend to nnderstnr d the
controversy here referred to, but believe it
relates to the expulsion last year ot aewral
Presbyteries in Kentucky mid Missouri on
account of " dbloynlly;" and, if we are not
mistaken, the breach has been healed,
or at least been put in a fair way of cure,
by the recent action of the Assembly at
Cincinnati. Dr. Breckinridge tor many
years, indeed, until the commencement, of
the war, was deemed one of the strongest
men in the Presbyterian Church iu Amer
ten?iiu niui i?r. 1 horn wi ll 8 tiring the
great intellects that mouldi-d much of it? pol
ley. Until the war. Dr. B. had always been
known as a strong Southern man. liut he
Wii, at the eame time, nbo. an ultra Whig,
and when secession came he could only see
in it a Democratic snare, anil, being ijatur.
ally impulsive and violent in his like? and
dislikes, he at once boenme a moat violent
Republican partisan, and baa been audi
ever aince. Ilia career, in many respects,
is parallel to that of Brownlow. But there
is not the same excuse for Breckinridge as
may be urged for the demagogue of Tennessee.
Brownlow is of obscurest origin,
Breckinridge wan born a gmtleman, of an
old, reputable, and talented family Brownlow
worked for humble wages at his trade
of carpenter, at the house of Qenernl Preston,
in Abingdon, Vs., when Uev. Dr.
Breckinridge married Miss Preston, daughter
of the General, and sister of the laie
Hon. Wm. C. Preston, of this Si ate. Nor
was it in birth, station and wealth oniy
that Dr. B. ranked with the first in the
land. He enjoyed the best opportunities
for education the country then afforded, and
witli his quick perception and powerful intellect,
added to great energy, and constant
and unwearied application to studies of a
widely varying character, he soon, like
Saul, ranked head and shoulders over the
rest of the people. He has done much for
Kentucky in the organisation and superintendence
of her common school system, and
has done signal service to his church in the
establishment and nurture of the Theological
Seminary at Danville. What a pity
that so great, and in many regards, so good
a man aliould throw the weight ot liia
character and influence into the scale of in
tolerance anil vindictive persecution ! We
< 11 vi not l?,.l r? t li ill lrincr wtisi a mil*-lul id G rat id
Inquisitor he would have.made. How he
would have glo ?t?*d over the auto-da-fe!?
Taut ene animia ccrleaiibii* inr I So said I ho
heathen poet. A Christian might express
still greater surprise.
The late Vice President and Confederate
Secretary of War is a uejihew of this clergyman
; so, also, is Dr. B., one of the surgeons
late on General I.es's staff. In fact,
nearly ev ry member of the Rev. Doctor's
family adhered South in toe laic struggle
between the two sections.
f Chartfttou JVetM.
A Onxts, of Belleville, Illinois, named
Bertchlnger, who has been in destitute circumstances,
has just received the new* from
" Fatherland " that he has fallen heir to the
snug sum of $8,6t>0,000.
i Hon. Joseph Henry Lnmpfcin, of the Sui
parlor Com t of Georgia, died at Athens, en
i^tlie ilh,
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GREENVILLE. SOUTH
Admiral SensM on Hooonstrootion,
But, aside from this evidenee, that the
Northern people Intend to heep faith with
us, what other eourse is opeo to s.l Since
the Bulletin first took ground upon this
question, which was when the Supplement
ry BUI was passed, which left the Southern
people no option, almost ell our prominent
men hare spoken. We hers oarefully
read their letters and speeches and we find
in no one of them any plan proposed by
which wo can better ourselves. Some of
the'm denounce the reconstruction Acts as
unconstitutional, and Irom the Northern
stand point they are so. But we, ss hightoned
Southern men, mindful of our honor
and our past history, must occupy our own
stand poiut, and not that of our Ute enemy,
if wo would not stultify ourselvea To repeat
former arguments used in these columns,
we claimed the right to secede ; we
did secede ; we established what we claimed
to be, a foreign Government, and we
waged a four years' war in support of that
Government. We were beaten in tbnt war,
and are to day n conquered people?conquered
in a foreign war, proclaimed by
ourselves, and not merely subdued in a domestic
insurrection. Shall we turn round
now tn<l proclaim ourselves liars? Shall
we say that none of these things occurred ?
Shall we not only admit ourselves to be
liars, but shall we, in addition, proelnitn
ourselves to be swindlers! Shall we ad
mit that we induced our people to withdraw
from the Union under false pretences,
and that we invited the officers of the old
army and navy to become rebels and traitors,
instead of rallying to tiie defence of a
legally constituted Governmentf Is it the
code of honor the pnssivists now prt posn
for our acceptance? Yes, it is; and,
strange to say, sensible men, honorable
men, oommend this code to us. To such an
extent do men's wishes, and interests, and
politics blind them. But, to lay this ques
tion of honor aside, and look at expediency,
llow are we to help ourselves? ilas not
Gen Pope told Gov. Jenkins that the r?
construction law must be executed like any
other law f and do we not know thai it will
ll?S ftV.iAllliwl SrkUa af a??ffki?w. ? ? ? ? ?
? - ^VW.W rj.no VI VUlllg WC t'UII
do? If the peoplo of Mississippi, or nny
other of the ten conquered Slates, should
register themselves, nod vite agninst call
ing a convention, the convention would be
called, nevertheless. The negro vote, and
the vole of the radical whites, would outnumber
the passivists ; or, if it did not, the
reconstruction Act would be so amended at
the next session of Congio*s as to nccom
plish the ohjeot, with, doubtleja, further
and more stringent discriminations agninst
those who have participated in the war.?
Oov. Terry, of South Carolina, in particular,
must be mud, when he recommends the
people of thai Slate to vote agaiost a convention,
for He knows that the blacks alone
in that Stole are more numerous llisa* the
whites. Oov. Perry talks of honor una the
constitution, ami at the sains time recom
mends hia people to put their necks quietiy
under the fool of the black man. It there
were any free choice left us, we might or
might not accept the terms ; if we might or
might not. take our respective Slates back
into the Union on the eondiiious named,
the case would be different. Gut if we do
not re organise the ten States out selves,
they will as certainly be re organized by
the negroee and radicals, as that tha aim
shines, and that is the choice, and the only
choice, left us. Choose for yourselves, brethren
of the ten States? Mrrnph it Bulletin.
Speech of Gov- Orr.
At I he earnest solicitation of manv friends
his Excellency Oov. Jainca L. Orr consented
to address the people of the District on last
Monday, in the Court House, upon the political
condition of the country.
After reviewing the various plans presented
sinoe the war, for the reconstruction of
the Government, lis earnestly insisted upou
the acceptanee, by the people of South Carolina,
of the plan of reconstruction now
proposed, as the only means of preventing
the administration of the affairs of this
country from passing into the hands exclusively
of the ignorant, aud consequently the
barhurtnn and the tyrant, and as the only
hope of making this country even tolerable
lie showed, from the census of 1860, the
great preponderance of colored over white
voters in the State, and our utter inability
to defeat a Convention, or to protect our
selves whenever wo make an issue directly
with the colored people. According to the
census of I860, It appears that there are
sixty thousaud colored voters in the State,
while there nre only forty thousand white
voters, leaving a majority of twenty thousand
colored voters. It is true, perhaps,
that there are not as many colored men in
South Carolina now, as in I860, but it is
almost sure that the proportionate decrease
has been much greater with the white than
with the colored men in the 8tate, siucc the
commencement of the late war. Gov. Orr
insisted upon the cultivation of tho most
cordial and kind relations between the two
rno.'s in the South, and the foiinatiou of no
alliance with the two great political parties
of the nation.
The speech was altogether timely, considerate
and forcible, and we feel s< re that
our excellent Governor was actuated aloue
by motives of love for his native land, in
thus earnestly invoking his fellow citizens
to grasp the only means of preventing anarchy
and ruin to our already down trodden
aud desola'ed land.
[Anderton Intelligencer, June 5.
Tub Athens Banner, of the 28th, an
nonnees the death of Trof. Waddel). He
tlied at his residence this morning st four
o'clock, of paralysis. The deeeared was a
son ol Moses Waddel), one of the early Presidents
of Franklin College, and was himself
a member of the Faoulty for many years.?
Hundred* of graduates of the University
will read with sorrow that their old pre
ceptor ha* gone. lie had been in feeble
health for more than a^rear, and hi* death,
though sudden, was not unexpected. The
WaddelUare a family well known in South
Carolina, where they formerly raaided.?
Every reader of the " Georgia Scene* " cannot
hut have an affection for that famous
school, where Calhoun and MoDufAe, Path
gi u and Hamilton, and many more of Caro
litis'* most distinguished sons were first initiated
into the Republic of letters,
f Charleston yarn
Lost to Sioht, Ao.?A man in New York
has got so deep in debt that no one of hit
creditors has been able to see liiro foi
months.
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CAROLINA. JUNE 13. 18
Management of Manure.
The suce-ss of the farmer certainly depend*
very much upon management of manure.
The remark ha* often been made
that muoh of the moat valuable part uf
animal excrement* ie often lost, through
negligence or mismanagement. The practice
of exposing manure to the action of the
eup, wind and rain, ha* been severely centered,
and the digging of barn cellars, the
building ot sheds, covering* for barn-yards,
Ac., have been highly recommended.
No good farmer would suffer any of his
crops to lie in the field till one half of their
value le lost by exposure to weather; but
how is the ease with b*rn-yerd and the
manure heape? Here ie a treasure indeed ;
but it is wasting its value continually ; are
not lie virtues every hour escaping into the
air ?
But many farmers will oonfess that their
management is not such as it should be,
but, through lank of capital, cannot make
the changes which they desire, in n single
year or two. But we contend that a farmer
of small means can do much to preserve
the virtues of his manure, lie can house a
part of it, at least, in somo way ; and he
cau put a cover of muck or loam upon hi*
ma nut e heaps, and also in his barn yard,
and theroby prevent most of its virtues es
caping. If he hauls manure into the field,
if it i* not immediately plowed in, it should
he put in rsther large heap*, and be well
covered with earth.
A difference in opinion has existed among
distinguished writers and farmers, in reference
to the degrue of fermentation whioh
manure ought to undergo before applying
it to the soil. Some nre advocates for long
or fermented manure, and ollieis think that
it should not l>e Applied to soil till it is
partially or completely decomposed. The
former contend that much fluid and gaseous
matter of the manure is lost, unless it be
applied immediately to the soil in its green
state and plowed in. The latter contend
that long or green manure cannot be reg
tunny spreao, unci mat the nntmnl mnttsr
doe* nut mix intimately with the atriw, but
is in masses by itself. Tlicy slso complain
that the straw will sometimes dry rot, and
becomes dead, useless matter. It is probable,
however, that by proper care, manure
in its green state, may he pretty evenly
spread, and the straw will not often dry
rot.
It is said that Stable manure, when lying
in heaps, is liable to be spoiled by being
overheated. To prevent this, it would be
well to either apply it to the soil and plow
it under as soon as may be, or mix it with
charcoal and other substances.
Smaihieai of Cob very Desirable in
Seed Corn '
Tho selection of seed corn is one of the
moat important things which a farmer does.
Coarse cobs accompany Into maturity, as a
rule; fine cobs, well tipped out, indicate
perfect maturity, adnptniion to the season
and soil, snd a fixedness of character which
it is important to maintain. The curing of
corn take* place to a great extent after
husking, and the presence of a great, soft,
moist cob in each ear, gives a tendency to
mould, which should be sedulously avoided.
The old experiment of fitting a paper cone
to an car of corn, then withdrawing the
ear, shelling it, and returning the kernels to
the cone, is interesting and instructive. If
the kernels will all go ea-ily into the enne,
the cob is too large, and we should say, the
corn unfit for seed. The cone should be
made of brown paper, dampened, bound
lightly around the ear, coming no higher
than the kernels, but covering all; the ends
are trimmed off, and it is allowed to dry
before the ear is drawn out One may
easily judge by the eye which cars have
the smallest cobs?those which are best
tipped out, which have the kernels rn the
closest rows, and all the rows running un
broken from end to end. These ears will
not he found among the biggest round, nor
among lire longest, usually, but among those
of medium size. A friend used to snv. as
lie showed off hit teed corn, " every ear as
regular and solid as a while oak pin." And
so they were, aa nearly a* corn ears could
be?firm, close, hard and solid.
[America-1 Agricultural.
That Liverpool Is a great commercial
centre, a cosmopolitan port, the greatest
cotton market in the world, our readers oil
know ; but they may not know the extent
and magnificence of her facilities a? a roadstead
for the largest vessels that sail or
sleam up the Mersey, to seek anchorage in
that world renowned haven. A recent vis
itor says: "To attract and accommodate
the commerce of the world these splendid
works were conceived. Thsv are built in
the water, and the walls, taking up a large
part of the front of the Mer?ey. upon whicli
Liverpool stands, enclose the river at high
tide. When their gates are shut down they
hold tho vessels that have got inside al
high-water mark, even when the tide hai
fallen to its lowest ebb. Upon the ground
thus recovered from the water for the walli
of those tremendous docks stand rows and
rows of immense warehouses. As we steaim
ed along the Meney, Liverpool looked a
good deal like Philadelphia, on the Del iware
; but the shipping in the docks seemed
to lie anchored almost in the heart of the
city. There are ten miles of these docks?
seven miles on the Liverpool, and thios on
the Birkenboad side of tne Mersey. They
cost more than one hundred millions of dol
lars. From this statement you can form
some idea of the magnitude of the commerct
of thi* great port. They lire built as if the}
were intended to endure as long as the py
rani ids."
Sirrmxo is Mailtos.?The Marion Stai
says;
"The destitution in our section at the
time is aomewhst alarming. The term doe
not refer to the poorest of our citizen
merely, bnt to many who have never knowi
what want was, who, with the blessings o
a smiling Providence, will have anipli
means when their crop is harvested. Ilu
at present they have not the money to pur
chase provisions and their plantation neces
saviee to enable them to carry on thai
farms, and, anless aid can be obtained fron
some quarter, the prohebility is that a por
tion of the crop already pieutod, am
looking so promising, will have to bs abac
doned.
A man by the name of Jennings, who hi
( be?n committing various depredations upo
the Inhabitants of the interior of the Stat
' has been arrested by the military author
ties and stnl to Cattle Pinckney.
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67.
A Swarm of Bees on a Han's Face
A correspondent of the London Field
gives the following interesting narra
, tive:
lu June 1854, Mr. Siromonds, a
farmer residing at Brookland Fartn,
i Wey bridge, was dressing in order to at'
tend the rent audit at Woburn House.
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wiviv |/uihuk vjii u is cusi, u? perceived
from liis window an unusually large
swarm of bees, filling the air will) their
cloud and noiso. It was, in fact, as he
afterwards ascertained, two swarms that
had come out of two distinct hives, and
had united in the air. lie ran out in
his shirt sleeves, and without his hat, to
see where they would alight. The bees,
after making some circles in the air, led
him off to the bank of the river Wey.
Thinking that tho bees might cross the
river, and perhaps escape, he adopted n
plan not uncommon with bee masters,
viz : that of throwing dust into the air
among the bees. This often makes
them settle quickly. They did settle
quickly, and this more so than he expected,
for in a short lime the whole ol one
of the laigest swarms that he had ever
seen, settled upon his bead, face and
breast. They hung down in front like a
great beard to the bottom of his waistcoat.
Had he not been well accustomed to
bees and perfectly collected, his situation
would have been a very dangerous
one; for, had he at all irritated this
mass of armed insects, he would no
doubt have received a sufficient number
of stings to have placed hto life in peril,
lie was obliged to close his eyes slowly,
and to keep his mouth shut. Then, in
order to prevent their entering his nostrils,
which they endeavored to do, he
slowly thrust one hand through the
tnass, and with his two fore-fingers managed
to keep drawing and pushing them
away from bis nostrils as they tried to
enter. This was necessary, as bees are
ii_. _ i i ? ?
geuernny nrnaieu uy living Dreamed
upon.
Ho then begged to consider what
course be should take. He was some
distance from his house, and no one
near him, or within call, ilia first
thought was to walk tlowly into the
river Wey, and gently sink his head
under the water and thus throw otf the
swarm. But a moment's consideration
di.-suad<-d him from that attempted remedy.
lie could not have disengaged
them all, for many were betweeu his
neck cloth and the skin, and still more
were crawling down his hack. He
found that if he walked he could not
help disturbing the hanging mass, and
that every agitation, however slight,
caused a hum and hiss from some thousands.
lie then remembered the account
given in Thorley's work on bees
of a swarm settling on the face and neck
of a servant maid, who escaped unhurt
by tho care and advice of her master ;
he, without irritating the swarm, having
hived it off from her with a hive
well smeared with honey. To avoid
agitating the swarm, Mr. Simtnonds
slowly knelt down-on tho grass and remained
perfectly still. He then found
a number of bees were gathering in a
mass under the waistband of his trows
sers, in the hollow of his back, to which
spot the others were drawing, indicating
that the queen was there. Fearing
therefore, that the tightness of the
waistband ? rendered tighter whenever
be breathed?might crush, or at any
rate irritate this part of tho swarm, he
bloxvly uubutloned tho front of his
trowsers.
It is not easy to conceive a more
helpless condition than that to which
Mr. Simmouds was now reduced. lie
that was the master of forty hives, from
which he could usually levy what spoils
he pleased, killing his thousands at his
pleasure with a brimstone match, was
uow completely in the power of one de
tacbinent of his own army, and was
reduced to the most suppliant position.
Even to call for help would have been
dangerous, as the bees near his mouth
would have been undoubtedly irritated,
and would have probably entered his
mouth. At this momeut he hoard a
train on the Chertsey Branch Railway,
from which he was distant about filly
yards. It fortunately happened that the
engine driver was known to him, and
had a little commission from him to
sound the rail-way whistle if he should
see anything wrong among his cows and
sheep.
This engine driver seeing Mr. Simmouds
on his knees, with one arm extended
as if for help and something odd
r hanging from his face sounded his whis
tie. This was heard by Mr. Simmouds'
* wife, who, supposing that some cow was
* kick, seat tier son and a farming man
? out into the fields. They soon fi^ind
f Mr. Simmonds in the predicament above
a described, in addition to the hanging
1 uiass, there was a cloud of bees still tly>
* ing around him, so that to approach
r him was not the most agreeable office
a However, they cstne uuar enough tc
- hear him speak, which he did verj
gently?merely saying : " Bring a bush
el hive, well rubbed with honey, ant
aomo bricks."
* While they were gone at the top o
n their speed for those, he remained per
j' fectly still. The tickling of the beet
; feet on bis face was almost unbearabh
i
rise.|
and the danger of irritating thoee that "w
were down hi* back and neek wit fa* ^
minent.
The most difficult part be had to
perform however, was that before men*
tioned, of dissuading the bees, with the
aid ot his two fore-fingers, from getting
up bis nostrils. These bees were sot
in a good humor, as tbey were breathed
upon, and were also deterred from doing
as they pleased, and one bee showed
his displeasure by stinging Mr. Siminonds
at tbe fork of but two fore-fingers.
This was not pleasant of itself;
but it was a serious occurrenoe, and
it might bs the prelude to a more extensive
attack. He avoided making any
start when be was slung, and continued
to push away as gently as possible those
that were near hit nostrils. This was
the only safe place to breathe from, as
it was necessary to koep his mouth perfectly
closed. Of course, the few minutes
that elapsed before the return of
his son and servant seemed a terribly
loner nsriivl In Mr Bimmnn/1. --*1 u
I D r- ? ?? wriuiu?VUUV| nuu VMf
ing iho whole of it he remained as molionless
as possible on bis knew.
On their arrival, the bive was planed
on three bricks, with its mouth downward,
and Mr. Simraonds slowly laid
himself on his breast on the grass, with
his head close to the hive. The honey
soon attracted the bees nearest to it, and.
a slow movement of the bees took place,
till at length the whole swarm gradually
gathered itself uuder and v/ithln the
bive, except a few patches of bees, which ,
in walking away, Mr. Simmonda easily
disengaged from his dress with bis band,
and made them join their companions.
Mr. Siramonds thus escaped from not
only a very disagreeable, but a perilous
situation. It occupied two hours from
the time the bees alighted on their
master to the time of his release.
Contradiction.?O ye married
folks all over creation, how much of
the nectar of domestic bliss becomes
44 vpilt milk " because of contradictions
upon matters loo trivial for a second
thought. If 1 make a statement at the
dinner table that it rained yesterday at
one o'clock, and my wife says,44 No, ray
dear, you are mistaken, for the clock
struck one just as we got inside the
door, and it was at least a minute before
the drops began to fall," now why
should I reply to that f Suppose it began
to rain a minute sooner or later, it
is of no consequence as to the general
I statement 44 that it rained vmterdav at
one o'clock," nod yet, in this way, millions
of domestic quarrels bare corns
rnenced, ending in unhappy aalrangements
for hours, months, and years.?
Reader, never contradict, especially your
wife, for she will always gel the advantage
sooner or later. Let your replies
be deprecatory. If she says " you are
a fool," don't argue the case ; and if
you say anything at all, let it be, 44 that's
so P but don't add, u eUo I would never
have mariied you."
Boys Using Tobacco.?A strong
sensible writer says a good sharp thing
?and a true one?for boys who use tobacco.
It has utteily ruined thousands
of boys. It tends to softening and weak,
ening the booes and it greatly injures
the brain, the spinal marrow and the
whole nervous fluid. A boy who
smokes early and frequently, or in any
way uses large quantities of tobacco, is
never known to make a man of
much energy, and generally lacks muscular
and physical as we'd as mental
power. We would particularly warn
boys who want to be something in the
world, to 6hun tobacco as a most baner..i
: t. :_s
iui }Hjisuu. it injure* u.e teem. it
produces an unlicaltby state of the
| throat and lungs, hurts the stomach,
and bltuts the brain and nerves.
[Recorder and Democrat.
Education of Southern Girls.?A
society has been formed in Baltimore
upon the following basis:
1. The society shall be called " The
Society for the Liberal Education of
Southern Female Children," and shall
have for its members all ladies who will
contribute $5 per annum towards its
support.
2. The object of the society shall be
the education and support of female
children from the South, whom the calamities
of wai have deprived of other
means of education, and whose families
and friends shall be willing to entrust
them to the s?cietv to be cared for, and
educated in the religions faith approved
by their parent* or nearest friends.
A clam merchant, meeting one of
his own fraternity, the other day, whose
pony might be considered a beautiful
specimeu of a living skeleton, remonstrated
with the owner, and arked him
if he ever fed bitn. * Ever fed him !
.1 l I N .L . . 1 <. 1 1
; mat 8 a goou un, was me reply ; " ne a
f got a bushel and a half of oatt at home
now, only he hain't got time to eat etn.''
' Fall in Paicaa ?Flour and wheat, Id the
North are coming down. Large shipments
if bav? been received from Sad Frencisco.
s both direct and by way of Liverpool, and
, thia unexpected change in the ueuai eourea
1 of trade is bringing dealers to their lohef
I teniae.