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w . ^ f: ' '-. - "'" 'I ! VOLUME XIV. | , . GK F. TOWNRS. . EDfFOB.- .r:; : ' 3. C. BAILEY, Fro'r. and AsEooiata Editor. Charles Dickens- Farewell to Him in England?The Literati at the Baaqnet Board?Lord Lytton (Bnl! wet) Presides?The Speeches and Incidents. , . k Lo*bo*, NoV. 4.?The dinner given to _ * 13haa Diekam on Saturday evening, on the oocaaion of bla departure for America, it a high historical event Nothing like It ha* ever oecurf'-d in London. Dklnty diahea '. C have indeed been aerted and eai*n in the old Free Maaon'e tavern, before now, but these who* gathered around have been ah moat alwaya the -member* of a guild, a elaaa, a profeaaion, a fragment, of ihta great world; but the company that aaaemblad to bontfr Diekena, rapreaented humanity It was a " federation of the world " in miniature edition. The poor artiat, the poor aoler, from their reepectivo attics, who hod oared front scanty earnings the guinea needful for tliU treat, eot eide by olde with the Chief Justice of England, the I'-cr of the realm. The humble cltlxrns of thu Ho. publfe of Leltera?" rightly eo named since we have not a Sovereign among us," as one of them onee eaid? were aandwiched be tween paunchy bankers and merchants who had never forgotten the delineator ?f the " Oheeryble Brothers," these were for J, onee on an equality. When this " exceedL * ln?'j miscellaneous assembly " (m sn oris- 1 toorst is said to have remarked whea bs entered heaven) gathered in the r*c*p(ion room on Saturday evening, the one question was "Who's whof* A noble I.ord who had, no doubt, made up h?a mind to atrarge bed fellows, shook bands wnrmly on entering with the white cavatted tither at the door, supposing hitn to be the proper receiver of the company. My lord it a little deaf, and an, when the usher asked, "What name shall I announce?'' the nobleman grasps his hand and exclitima, " Ah? indeed. I am very g'od indeed, sir. to make your aeqnaintance?very P - Presently there estue in a very large, fit man, whose great object, it soon became plaln^ was t* aee all the mdabbs as they came in ?an Ajax not- known t fame, who oskrd only to aee. Unconsciously, this Idgl ro:h er ha-i got such a prominent position near the door that all who entered thought he was the one selected to play the part of I lost, and so ev?ry guest sprung nt him and N wrung hia hand Not P?gwm?n?>t Pick ens himself?was subjeetctl to sucb a hand shaking aa this mit'J fellow, who, after many fruitless effortc to explain thai he w?? tiobedjf at all, rushed from the room in die. may. At laat the bea<l waiter appeared at the door and exclaimed; " Gentlemen numbered for table l.ey, pirate move tide w*y.'? We, of table A, supposing ourselvee to be meant, followed, and soon there wo* a goodly company of five hundred (ihomands of ticket* eon Id have been sold had the room been sufficient,) seated and ready to receive the groat gneita of the occasion. Al length the doors were thrown open, and the wellIcaown Caeca of Bulwer and Dickens ?pjieared at it They wore arm in arm. A ary rang through the room, handkrvchief* waved on the floor and tn the g<tllerie?( where was a large company of ladies in Mi drees. and tiro band struck up a grand l?areh. A* Dickens passed up the aisle, hia elu-eks were on Are, hia e\es flamed.? He gleneed around the room, on vrhoae SraHs all around were written in great golden letters the names of hia Work*.? Ahead he saw the English flag knit With ' the stars and strlpee, and above them the Wrerd "Pickwick.". There was a curious look on the face of Lord Lylt?n, and ii irrmsd to me to aay, " |I?w gladly woubj \ give my title and my estates to have this enthusiasm surging up te me from the Angle Sazon heart." Behind the two walked a strange procession?strange bcaaoae af its incomparable mixture which 1 have already mentioned : The Lord Chief Justice, small and pale; the Lord Mayor, with Uie air of being a king (limited); Lord Houghton, ever smiling, as the world hat Mailed oa him; Sir Chat-let Ru?<dl; Mid company of Aeademtant?llama Martehttll, Maellee, Herbert, Poole, Frith, MlUlt, Orttwlck, Elmore, Ward. The American* muttered t'to In tome fpr**, Morgan, the banker, bad t reel under the worda, "Martin Ohusxlaarlt," tn<P I obaervad Mr. O. W. Hmalley, of tke Tribune, C. C. Coffin, (" Carle ton,') of the ? ftoeton Journal, Mr. M. D. Conway, Mr. lluteell Stprgie, and ctliera. }for It tht nailery without ita altreetiont wpkiely oa aoeount of the preeeaet there cf Mite Diekeot?who ttrikiagly rttemblet her father?attended by MUt llogarth, the Meter of Mra Dlekent (lAef *>?* ) There mr?i not, howeeer. many literary ltdiee preaaat) and 1 don't wonder that they ' at aid away, If only to protect egalnit the bafhftriasi wkleh tan thruat th?m off into a gallery to look down for an hoar on the Unattractive right of ?00 hlprde feeding. At I eel the aeleet ohorue elaga Dr. John Beeiih e gvaoe: V peiuu hi a date, propter btaeAeie ena, FVomteum hi aaeelei* laudate. Amen. v lord'Lytton, the chairman, rltrt. lie W o^aea||vety dratted dp, aid cannot rappree* jf Ma vanity j ovet Vaty. Dulvtr doeent look J i Vat M ?p "u-fcu *0* ?nd ftnaMBMnmMaMiuimuuataMMattan i PtHJIro bard sad ?j?bre?r? ere too dark not to utlU auapielon ; t?I?m are the reel teeta of eye, dad when he epoke it wee the voice of i peat generation. Disraeli himeelf has not snob a Jewish face as Bulwer, whose noae it almost a caricature of the aquiline. There le unmistakable power In every line of his face, however ; hie body le a pkaotaam Id which his tailor may believe. Hie speaking le logeniaualy bad. It is the idoel style of a hard-shell Baptist preacher far away in OIJ Virginia. A harJ, convulsive word or two?a long drawl?terminated by a jerk, at whieh the forehead is thrown down until the audienee test the back of the head?this la the history of one of Hulwer's rasping, unpleasant sentences. He throws hie hand (with faultless cuffs) straight oat; clasps the Angers tightly to the pelm ; then draws it uoder his arm, as a man would pulling In a gudgeon?and that is his g? a are. He should appear only in print. To those who eould shut their eyes (as I did.) and listen t? what hs said, his speeohes on Satunrday night were very good indeed. lie Is the first man whom, In a long experience of I/ondon divines, I have heard put a single remark worth making into the inevitable toast to the Qncen ; tor it certainly was worth noting, as hs said, that the reign of Vietorl* had, above all others, seen literary msn raised to political power?" a sign of llic civilization that ever seeks to draw closer the legitimate union ot knowledge and power." His speech in proposing the toast of the evening was certainly a perfect thing of its kind. It elosed aa follows; " I cannot but think that wherever our American kinsfolk welcome that presence (Dickons) or hang spell bound on that voice, tbsy will irresistibly foci how much then is of fellowship and unison between the hearts of Aracrisa and England. [Cheers.] So that when our countryman quite thsir shores ha will leave behind him many a new friend to that old fatherland which greets them through biui so cordially in the accents of the mother tongue. [Cheers.] And in thoae accents what a sense of priceless obligation, per sonally to him, but through him to the land be represents, must steal over his American listenors! IIow many hours in which pain and sickness havo changed into chccrfhlncss and mirth beneath the wand of bis enchant mi n tt _ % _ % went, [vuvcra.j iiuw ninny a imra com Dillnot, beaten down iu the battle of life?and nowhere on tht* earth is the battlo of lifu sharper than in the Commonwealth of Ameriea?has taken hope, ami courage nn<l lore > from the manly lessons of this unobtrusive teacher. [Cheers.] No wonder tbo rising generation of those who liavo learned to feel an<l to think in our language should eagerly desire to see face to fieeo the roan whose genius, from their very childhood, they bare turned for warmth and light ar instinctively as young plants turn to toe sun. jsut I must not forgot that it is not I whom yon bare cofiae to bear; and all that I eould say, had I to vindicate the fame of our guest from disparagement or eavll, would scoin but tedious coma.onplaco when addressed to tboso who know that bis career has passed beyond the ordeal of cotemporancons criticism, Mid has found Its the spplauao of foreign nations a foretaste of the1 > judgment of posterity. [Cheers.] I feel, indeed, as if I had already too lung delayed your natural linpaticaeo for tbo toast I now propose: " A prosperous voyage, health and long life to our illustrious gnest and countryman, Charles Dickens." " A score of times was this speech interrupted by ringing cheers; but when Dickens arose he had to stand long while tbo shouts and thunders stormed upon him. klen leaped upon chairs, tossed up napkins, wared not OIllY ffl&IIM. but tlcciintfiri anil linlf.Aiiitklsoil chnmpague hot lice, Over their hcada-not without baptizing ?un'lr]r pofsons mtdar tbotn ?and then there wee e pressing np the sides fro* the lower tables until Dickons was giri ebuut by a aolid wall of bie friends. Twice bit throat faltered as bo bogan; the glow of bis I ace came before the word*, and all felt that It was a racred moment with him. Hit speech, hue as it was, could n_>t equal the impression of that first look. lie said : " No thanks that I can olfer you ean express tny sense of my roception by this great assemblage, nor can in the least suggest to you how deep the glowing werds of my friend the Chairman, and your acceptance of thetn, haro sunk into my hsyt. Bat both comblnad hare o greatly shaken the composure whiob I am usad to command before an andiance, that I hope yen may observe in me some traces of an eloquence saore expressive than the richest words. [Cheers."] After referring to the trials and labors of bis literary oareer, Mr. Dickons thus spoke of kls proposed royage to America : " And now, passing to the immediate occasion of your doing me this great honor, the story of my going again to America Is very Alll* ajf kridfl* ?Mil Ainaa T wts tKaaa for?, a east and entirely sew generation he* arisen in the United State*. Since I we* there before most ol the hoi t known of ray hooka hare been written ami published; the new generation and the hooka hare oome together and bare kept together, until at length number* of thoee who hare ao widely and constantly read aae, naturally deelring a little rariety in the relationship between us, diare expressed a etrong wish that I elionld read myself. [Cheers.] This wish, at flrat eonreyed to ns throogh public channels and business channels, has gradually become enforced by an immense aeeunuilatlon of Utters from tndiridoals and associations of Individual^ all expressing in the same hearty, homely cordial, unaffected way, a kind of persona1 interest In me?T had almrst said a kioJ of peeeoaal affection for me [cheers] which 1 am gwre yuv nroald agree with me it would bo del' ' I ^ - I |W' WTK^ i ' ,n F>> * > yf> f h& ? IHf j^ ???M"0~< :x OF IPC GREENVILLE. SOUTH -a ui ItmiibUlt; oa my part not to priao. LittU by Uttlo tkii praam* boo bcoom. to front that, although, M Cbarlaa Lamb nyi, my houaohold god. atrika a Urribly daap root, I bavo torn than from tb.ir plaaar, and thla day weak, at thU boor, (ball bb upon U>. Ma. Ton will roadily oodo.It. tbat X am iarplrod k_ - J?i? ? r? ?1? the astonishing change and progress of a quarter ol a oentury over there, to grasp the hand! of many faithful frienda whom I left there, to aee tbe fncos of the multitude of new frienda upon whom I hare nerer looked, and leat, not least, to use my beet endearor to lay down a third cable [oheera] of Interoommnolcatlon and alliance between tbe old world and the now. [Loud oheera.] Twolro yeara ago, when Hearen koowe I little thonght t should erer be bound upon the royage which bow la/a before ma, I wrote In tliei form o(. my writing which obtains by far tbo raott ex. tensive circulation, these words of tbo American nation: ' I know lull well, whatever little motes my beamy eyes may bare de&cried in theire, that they are a kind, largo-hearted, generous, and great people/ [Hear.] In that faith I am going to see them again : lit that faith I shall, please Ood, return from them in the spring; in that satno faith to live and to die. I told you in the beginning, that I.eould not thank you enough, and Heaven knows I have most thoroghly kept my word. [A laugh.] If I ran) quote one other short sentence from myself, lot it Imply all that I hara left ansaid, and yet moot deeply feel. Let It, putting a girdle round the earth, oompreheud both aides of the Atlantic at cnee In this moment, and aay, as Tiny Tim observes, Ood bless us overy one/ " Speeches wore made also by Tom Taylor, Sir Edward Landreor, Anthony Trollops, Lord Chief Justico Coekburn, and Buekstono, of tbe Haymarket Theatre. The latter was comical, as usual, anil very happy : He began with a witty allusion to Ben Johnson's saying of Shakrpoare, "exhaustod worlds and then imagined new," and said > " Mr. Dickens had exhausted tbo Old World and was guing to tbo New. I really don't know," be continued, " why I have been selected to return thanks for the ladies, because I aiu not particularly, that I am aware of, a lady's man. [Much laughter.] I must acknowledge, though, that there aro some ladies of iny acquaintance with whom I have passed m-vny happy nights?[cries of ' Ob, oil,' and r?ars of laughter]?in fact, I mean to say many huppy evenings. [Much laughter.] I feel inclined to mention their names, though perhaps hardly othjuctte to do so. But I am suro you will bo obarmcd to knaw I mean Mrs. (lamp?[great laughter] Botaey Prig? f lauclltcrl? Vn. Klrktahv ?not rumlllni. Mr*, Harris?[laughter]?- ml I am inolincd to add our dear littU mother. [Cheer*.] I am aura whan I mention th* name* of tboae ladies, with whom I have paaaad many happy hours, I am quit* right in returning thank*' not only In thair bahalf, but in behalf alio o tho ladioa who hvre graced the banquet thia evening with their pretence. But I murt not forgot that our great objeot thia erening i* to bil Mr. Chariot Dickon* 'good-bye." The occaaion waa one of the moat interestlug of tho kind that over took placo in Old KnglAnd. It mora than ever brought before aome of fit tho vaat toriv* of literary revolutions that yawned between Lord tiyH?n, the novelist of court* and convention*?tho last of his school ?and the novelist of that now era which baa brought art from tha palaeo to tho cottage, tho cabin, the lift of th* lowly. How the titled and tho obscure?tho rich and th* poor? g.t7.e about tho man who has clothed th* by wiya, the hadnta, the beggars of the great city with romance. No man. walk* through London atroeU with the samo eyas sine* Diek en* wrote. The age of chivalry ha* parsed ) a now one bogin*. When tho dinner waa over Mr. Dickon* roturnod to th* ante-room, whore multitude* gnthered about him to bid him farewell. I saw a noble Lord ahako hit hand at the door a* ha waa departing; and I ?uw. W?, when he had got ouUide the door, an old Woman of tho peoplo grasp his hand, and, Stooping, alio kissed it. ? ? Cloqurwt pAisaue.?For the greatest human Intellects there i* no axeantinn (ruin tbo common doum. I have s>iuotiiucs thought how sublime must havo boeu the emotion* of thnt iua^,whose privilege it was to stand by the coffln or Shakespeare anil goto on tho w?ot and noble face, when death had called out all the strange beauty which never live* there. It wm worth a lifetime to have stood there ono minute, to have laid your hand on that broad brow, and atarted at the cold chill, and *e pause to have called up in memory al| the magniAaent creations of hi* geniue, and worshipped hint there in the alienee and the gloom. But be la dead and gone ; At hla bead a grass-green turf, At hla heela a atone. Bo they nil go. Man dice, but nature la eternal. The seasons keep their appointed time; day returns with 1U golden aplendor, and night with lie eloquent mystery. The same stars which lit the gaatly baUieiAeld Of Troy, rough with the dead bod tee of ancient heroes? which shone on the marble street* of imperial Rome, and oa the tad eye# of vigi| sleepers In the living glow of inspiration?the watch .Are* of ths angles which, through centuries of devastation and change, have still burned on naeeasiagly?speak to us as they did to Dante, Bbakspeara and Milton of tho dlvino glory, tho omnipoteooo, tho everlasting lor* and beauty of God. A any la lludeon, Wisconsin, was sent out to *?<eh a horse, and while leading him home carelessly tied the rope about his waist. Pome hours alterwauls, the h ret wae oaught'with the eorps* of the boy ati'l di egging after him. ! i v J* IL'v ? #*^*^??? ?II it ? ? ' lyi i* * . /. IXPTJL^R CAROLINA. JANUARY 1. Soman Soldiers. . la a recent work on th* Old Roman*, by an Engllah writer, th# following aeenunt or tha Roman aoMlere oaour*: Th* Roman eoldier was trained to march twenty inflV* a day. under a burden of eighty pound*. yea, to ewlm rirera, to ellmb mountain*, to penetrata foreaU, and to encounter every kind ol denser. He wa. tamrht that hia destiny wu to Jit In battle. D? tipNtcd death.. Ha waa ready to dla. Death waa hie duty and hia glory. He euliated Id the ar roiee with little hope of revlaltlng hla home, lie eroaaed a?a?. and deeerla, and fnreela. with the Idea of apanding hla life In the servioe of hia oonniry. Ilia pay waa only a denartn* daily, eqnal to ahout sixteen oenta of onr money. Marriage waa diaoouraged and forldddan. tie belonged t# the State, and the State waa exacting and hard. lie waa red need to abject obedience, yet he held in hia hand the d-allnles of the empire. And however Insignificant waa (he legionary aa a man, ha gained Importance fmm the great body with which he wna identified, lie waa the aervant and m?rterof the State. He had an inten?e fprit tie corp* He waa bonnd up in the glory of hia legion. Both religion and honor bound him to hia standards The golden eagle which glittered in hia front waa the object of hia fon-'oet dev. lion. Nor waa It poaaible to e-cpe the penalty of onwnrdica. or treaoherv, or dlaoto-dienoe. lie could be cS?aii?-d with tdowa bv hla ccntnrion; hia g-ncral could do-on lilin to death. Never woa the aeveriiy of military diacipline relaxed. Military xerclaea were ineeaeent. In winte" aa in aummer. In the midat of peace the Roman troope were fafniliaris--d with the practice f war. It waa the apltK which animated the Roman legiona, and the diaeipline to which they were inured which g?ve them their Irreaia'able strength. Whan we re member tbat they had not our fira arnia, wo are aurpriaed at their efficiency, ?specially in taking a'rongty foitilled ciiiea. Jerura tcm waa defended by a tuple wall and the moat elaborate fortiflcatioiia, and twentjf.-nr thousand eoldlerr, beside* the aid re e ived from the oilixena; and \ at it fell in little more than four months b,-f.tre an army of eighty thousand, nud*r Tit us. II->w great the aelcnee to reduce e place of aoeli great atrer.gtli in ao short a lime, withoi ^ the aid wf oilier artillery than the ancient a itnpult and hatteilog rnm 1 Whether the military aeieticc of the Romans was superior t..r..t?. - k.. ?v .i - that it was carried to (lie utnh>at pet feel ion before the invention of gunpowder. We are only superior in the application of I lie grant invention, especially In artillery ? There can be no doubt (lint a Roman army wasanperior'toa feudal army in Ilia brightest days of chivalry. The world hae produced tie general* enprrior to Cns-ar, Poropey, SulU and Maiiua. No arttiica ever won greater victories over etiperior nuuibera than tl.a Romano, and no armies of their ire ever retained in submission ao groat an etnpi a, aad for ao long a lime. At no p?. rlod in tlio history of the empire were the Ormiea ao large aa thoae sustained l>y France I j time of |>eaee. Two hundred thuoeatid legionaries, and aa many more auxiliaries controlled diver* nation*, and powerful monaichlee. The aingle province of Syria Ones hoa?t< d of a military force equal in number rf soldiers to lliat wielded l<y TiIverio*. Twenty flva legions made the core quest of the world, and retained that eonqueet five hundred year*. The self sustained energy of Ctttear. in Oaul, pnta to the Mu*h, the efforts of all modern general*, xcept Frederick 11., llailhorongh, Kapo loon, Wellington, and a few other great geniuses which a warlike age.de**) >ped ; nor is there a belter text hook on the art of war, than that furnished by Cwaar himself, in hi* " Commentaries." And the great victories of tha Romans over bnrlailans, over Usui*, over Cartha^suians, over Syil. ana were not tha result of a #!i??rt liv. d eniliiuiaem, like those of Atlila and Tamerlane, but extended over a thousand ynrs The Ramah* ware essentially military In their tastes and habits. Luxurious senator* and nohlM allowed the prosiest Courage and aklll in tlie moat difficult campaigns ? An Amy, Cress r, I'ompey and Lucullus weie at humr, enervated and luxurious, but at tbo head of the legion# were capable of any privation and fatigue. The Roman legion waa n moat perfeet organization, a great meelienioal force, and eould anatain furioua attaeka after vigor, patriotiam and public spirit had (led. For three hundred years a vast empire waa auatalnad by meehaniam alone. Wnar is A D*m.i?o 7?.An eaohango answers this quaitlin in the following delicious style > It la the dear, little, beaming girl who meets one on the door step j who flings her fair arms around one'a peek and kissoa ona with bar whole aonl of love ; who tiosea one's bat ; who relieve# ona of one's en a I, and hands the ten and toast so prettily ; who places her elflsh form at the piano and warbles forth, unsolicited, such delicious songs; who ensts herself at one's foot-stool, end clasps one's hands and asks eager, nnbeerd-of qacstions, with ruch bright eyes and flushing fhee, and on wboaa . light, flossy curls one plaaoe one's hand end > breathes " Oud Meea her I" as tha fairy rorm i departs. ' " Noxal wt the bra\V deasrTe the fair." ' No, skI but the bra/o can Vve with n*mn pf lham. X - - 1868. M I . . -l_J I I ?IJ LE._ Fnrming in Hew Jersey?Lecture ' by Professor CoolL At u initial meeting of the Saseux County Farmers' Club, Professor Cook, 8tats Geologist, poles upon manures. The moat successful farmers are those who use the moat manure? Money expended for for fertiliser* is invested in a bank whleh alway pays food interest.?* There ere many formers who spend oes-qu?r>ter of Uteir inoome for mannre, and find that it is profitable to do so. Btable manure is a sure fertiliser, and applloable to all soils, bat there is not enough Of it. One farmer in Salem county sold $3,000 worth in one year. In Middlesex county lives a farmer worth $20,000, who, fourteen years ago, was poor.? lie bought land on oredlt, and paid for it by early reallsiog the valne of mannre. Jio has spent this season over $4,000 for manure, and finds that investment has paid him welL? Similar instances can be found in all parts of the Slate. Those who apply manure without stint will always prosper. But in buying manures let the ferdier be cautious, fur enormous frauds are perpetrated in sUpef-phos phates. It is ezlremuly difficult to detect the spurious article. It looks lika the genuine, and is mixed with a substance which gives it the right smell. The only protection ono has is to buy from large manufacturers who have established a reputation for bonesty. Bonos contain 23 per cent, of photphorio acid, worth as a fertiliser, 30 cents per pound. Every hundred pounds of bones are worth to the farmer $0.90. Tliey should, therefore, bo savod* Crack thcin up fine, and bury them in piles of ashes, and after a while tliey will become partially pulverised, and fit for use. Marl is worth $2.20 per ton in New Brunswick, a part o( which is paid for transportation. An experiment has been made, near New Brunswick, bearing on tble point: One acre of meadow waa manured with four tons o: mar' i ?one treated to 400 pounds rawbone super ^ phosphate, and ono without the application o any fertilising agent whatever. Tilts first acre yielded 8,200 pounds hay, the second 2.600 pounds, and the third 3,300 pounds. This and other tests prove beyond all question timl the cheapest of all modes for applying the super phosphates is by means of marl. No f -rtilisiug substoiica stimulates clover like marl. And no growth takes more of the super-pbospbatc from the ground than clover vrlien cut end carried away?and this, too, although the foots of tho clover are as heavy [ as tho tope. With four tons of marl two tons of clover arc produced to the acre; mix them, let tho product and fertiliser commingle, and you have a soil that will produce any crop you wish. No manure is valuable unless in estate of decay. Mr. Livingston, near New Brunswick, has, by properly prepared muck, trough1 too a piece of worn-out laud, that would not produce a inuilcn stalk, raised seventy bushel5 of corn per acre. Fish manure is produced from moss-buukers, and othor fish which abound un our cunit, und are easily taken.? Not l>cibg of velnc for food, they ate naught by tbouaanda of tour, the oil expressed front thetn, and the refuse matter, amounting to 20 per cent., ia uacd tor manure, which aclla for $20 or $30 per ton. Tkia tcrti'.iaer ia much cheaper than ghano, and ia aaid to be hourly equal to that aopcrior fertilizer in cxceilcnec. Iu a diaruaaion tvhicb followed the ProU-r aor'a address, Mr. J. It. Wood aaid that a portion of Lii fartn had been iitned to profuaely that it would not pmdnec a crop. Afterward lie corrected the eril by ualng straw aa a topdieaaing. Mr MeCarter waa not poaitire that | |t no waa of tcrrlett in thia country, where our | fields are ao elosoly cropped. lie had little faith in lime, except In caret where tome green crop goca into the ground with it, thrn its effect# aril good. Mr. Smith ueed thirty butliela of lime per acre r.n corn ground with good effect, though he valued it more highly for wheet. Dr. P. Smith remarked that the chief point ia whether magneaian lime ia useful. It ia admitted that it holpa wheat; hut it ia beat to reject that kind of lime altogether. In atiaWer to a question, Prof. Cook raid that litne ia aa uaeful on limcatone ground aa on alate, especially quick liuie. The small quantity of twenty ar thirty bushels of lime to the acre, whether utpgneaian cr otherwise, wil not perceptibly hurt the eoi),?? JVeworfc Journal. IIow Mui-u Wmkat ton a Barril or Fboru.?The question how much wheat duos it tako to make a barrel of flour? Ia often asked, and the answer ia of a general character, " fire bushels are allowed." At the annual fair ot the Dubuqo, Iowa, Agricultural Soci. ty, In I860, a premium of three dollars was offered for toe beat barrel of flour made from winter wheat. A firm entered one berrel o' each, accompanied with the elelement that sixteen buahelt of winter wheat yielded throe barrels and one hundred and three pounds tf flour, at the rata of four bushel# and fifteen puuuai vi wucii v? iuf uarroi. ui spring wbwl fifty bushel* yielded cIcvsb barrels of flour, being four buabols and thirty?two pound* to the barrel. The wheat was a fair quality and no more. Dr. Jones of Liberty Connty flu., on the Itih inaU, purchased the Southern Cultivator for $o,40b, The Banner saya : Dr. Jones is a gentleman of culture and of large agricultural experience, every way qualified to maintain the high character of this popular and moat useful publication. We tender the Doctor our beat wishes, and hope he will sucooed in his noble vocation ef disseminating agricultural knowledga. 1st Piimi ? l>.niot fi'sbt'sr was right wh*n h? remarked ot the |>ic?*; u Small ia the sum required in patronize a newapaper ; amply lewai-.l-t mile pa'.ron, 1 ?ara not how humble and oupretefldmg iba gcr.Mte he lakea. ft is next t<> Imporat. I It to till a pr nted abet* without putting i>.to It aamathfog thai is werib the rubarlp,\ua prlaa." asmwasin aarfi , . ju^ r u *i -*%.. -t LL_!?L .JBLlfLUL J1L2 2> NO. 32. ! The 8*Ye& Ancient Wonders. 1 1-t The Urate Colli s?ua of Rhndtft. one hundred end (wrsty feet high, built tiv Carta, A. 1). 288; occupying tw?lVe Ve?r? in making. It atood aCfoSe the harbor of Rbedeeeisty-aiaya*r% and vaathen thrown down by an earthquake. It was bought by a JeW froth the Saracen*, who loaded nine hundred eatwela with the bra a*. 2d. Tha Prramida of Egypt The large*! .'J one engaged three hundred and eiaty thoueand Workman thirty year* in bnlldiogi and atood at last tljp -e tbou*aad year*, 2d. Tha Aequadnata of Rome, invented by Appiiw ClauJiua, the eenaor. 4 b. The Labyrinth of Paammetlena, oil tha banka of tlia Nile, containing Within one continued wall one thouaand honeee* and twelve royal palaoca, all covared with marbla, and having only one entrance *= on.- i mi ?ii ? ?i- '* ?ua vuiiuiu^ was miu 10 conmin inn^ thousand cliimbtri, aad a hall built o' in?rl>l(, adorned with sluices of the gods. Silt. Tlie l'han* of Alexandria, a tower built by ord' r ?ii Ibolemy PMladslphU?( tu the year 282 It O. It wae erected as a lighthouse, nnd contained magnifleent gal* letfe* of marble?a large lantern at the top, the light of which was seen nearly a hun' dred mile*; mirrors of enormous siees Were fixed round (he galleries, rofieeting everything on (he aea. A common tower la no# erected in its place. Sth. Tho walla of Babylon, built by order ? 01 Sentiramla, or Nebuebadnesear, aud fin' ished in one year by two hundred thoUeaad 1 men. They were of immeou thickness. 7th. The Temple of Disua, at Bphesus, completed in the reign of Herviua sixth king of ltotne. It was four hundred and fifty feet long, two hundred broad, and sup-? ported by one hundred and twenty-ai* 'i marble pillars, seventy feet high. The beams an.) douia were of cedar, the rest of I he limber of cyprus. It was destroyed by fire 307 ycurs D. C. Want or Decision.?A great deaf of labor is lost to the world for the want of a little oouiage. Every day sends to their graves n number of obscure men, wh-i have only reiuitiuevl in obscurity because their timidity has prevented them from making a first ef fort, and who, if they had only beeo in* dviced vo begin, would, in all probability, have gone great length* in the Career of fame. The fact is, that in doiag any thing in the world worth doing, we must not stand on the bank aiiivcling, thinking of the cold and danger, hut jump In and scramble through as well as we ean. It will not do (o be perpetually ealeulatli g risks and adjusting nice chances ) it did ail very well before the flood, when h man would consult U<* friends upoh nn Intended publication fur one hundred and fifty years, aud live to ace its success for six or seven centuries afterwards} but, at present, man waits and doubts, and consults his brothers aud uoclet aud particular fiiends, until one d <y lie finds lie is *ix<y-five years of aga, and that he lias no more time to follow their adiiev. There it so little time for over-fqueamUliDttss at present that the opportunity slips away. The very period of life at which a man ohoosea to venture, if ever, is eo confined that it ie no bad rule to preach up the necessity, In sneh inst*nce*( ? ? vaarsvaiVAJ nunc HI tilV IVVIIII^^, HUH ilTorti iimJe In d-fiance of Uriel fend sober calculations.?Siduey Smith. ? fhu Fallido Lbaf.?A gianco mi the psrti-colorod tppeiiMc* of the tree intimates the approach of wintry weather. Before its reign is fairly established, lot us remind those who bare been blessed with means that they bare it in their power to accomplish much good among thoir poorer neighbors; and it is sin* curtly hoped that they Will not hesitate to do good in the way of charitable aid and asst#- t inco whenever an opportunity present# Itself. The old (loroisn proverb declares that " no inaa ever beoame poor bp the practice of Works of chartty," and we hope those of onr readers who believe in works of lote and mercy, will test its truthfalacss. Cot* a*i> FoDdfb?Let us say fewf words on p>i.lliig fodder. Make the corn for the sske of the corn, and if the work id properly done, with deep preparation; lib era! manuring, and the ground is kept clean, the cora will ba made and hard while the fodder is ft good and green, thru the . fodder may be pulled off without hurting' the corn in the least. Fodder may be kept green on the Stalks two or three weeks after the oorn is hard, by using salt and plaster around the bill aa a manure. There i* no better food for stock than fodder well saved. Plbascsbs or IIbadiko.?Of all amuse-' racnts that eaa possibly be ImsfMtd for ? workingtnao, after a day's toll, of h> the intervals, there is nothing like rendfrnr a newsra per or book. It Mill for no Vidily exertion , of Which the anon hoe bod fitongb, perbape too Brook. 11 relieve# hi* boat* of dullness aod ssaseaeM. Nay, H aeeempaaies bin to I his oeat day's work, aod girse bim something to think cf besides the mors mechanical drudgery of his eveiyday oeeupation?a iret>>irt) ha eao enjoy while absent, and look for* ward Ij with pleasure. In an artiela oo drunkenness, Dr. Hall eay?: "To be a gr at orator, a peerless ' beauty, or the star of the social circle, whether man or woman,, U neat <A b?do^ est." i - '