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-Illtt u ' ' W> m Jjgk *' *<? ; I; m ^ . I . 1 M "1 VOLUME XIV. O . F . T O W N E S. EDITOR. J. 0. BAILET, Pro'r. and Aisooiata Editor. BoaflCBirrroN Tiro Dollars per annum. AstistiiiSisti InMitsd at- the rata* of mm dollar par square of twalva Minion linas (ibis sited typo) or less for. tha flmt insertion, uj wow B?CM IVJ Uiu NCUQQ suu mini nwcrtions, and twenty-flvo cents for subsequent insertions. Yearly contracts will bo ninde. All advertisements must have the number ef insertions marked on them, or they will be inserted till ordered ont, end charged Tor. Unless ordered otherwise. Advertisements will invariably be " displayed." Obituary notioes, and all matters inuring (o te the benefit of auy one, are regarded as Advertisements. < ORIGINAL* ~ Far th< Southern Enterprise W4ixAc's PhAirir, March 29th. Among the wonder* of tbs West, Messrs. Editors, ws classify fhs Centipede snd Tarantula, both horrible and terrific iu their way, though widely differing in appearance. Tho former, though I do uot know with what family of reptiles Audubon or Buffon would place it, appears like an overrrown thousand leg worm, more diabolical by far, dark colored, with virulent poison. It's numerous feet, armed with sticking points, that are said to toar the flesh of the poor unfortunate, over whom it cfaWis. It's head has two armed boras, If I may so oall it, with which it doos, I presume, additional mischief. Wonderful tales are told ef Its doings. An old lady, retiring at night, unconscious of danger, had the poisonous claws thrust in her baek thongh a dbeet. She was ill a long time, suffering dreadfully, but Anally recovered. A gentle-" man told me be knew of a soldier in tamp, over whose unprotected band a centipede had crawled, and that the flesh literally mortified and dropped out. I giv* you these accounts, as I Keard (Aon, never having seen my sol f any one who had enjoyed th6 felicity of a personal encounter with them little monsters. Hut I do know they are horribly ugly. The Tarantula Is only a very large spiderThe other day, we were dining out, and a geu Iltmu brought on* in. Tb? largest, 1 be. liere, are about the site of a small hen egg, perhaps a little larger. They are core red with blaekieh hair, and hare long logs, 10 in number, I think,"a large body bloated looking, and two leng teath protruding frwtn the mouth, (blaek as they can be.) Their proper home is the prairie and numbersstre ploughed up hore. I don't suppose they often do much harm. A young lady, of undoubted veracity, told me she had killed oae in her father's garden with a stick. If you let them alone, they will not be apt to molest you. They are equally unsightly, but not so dangerous as the L'cutipede. The Stinging Lizard, It a contemptible little sinner, thst curls itself up and stings like a wasp, bat if a piece of tobacco moistened with water, is applied at once to the affected part, the pain ie allayed. They get In houses, trunks, drawers, &e., and I bare seen many people stnng. The other night, one got on my dress, but did not sting mo. You hear so much of those things, and dread them so, in the distance, but when you lire among them a year or so, It all seems natural. For instance, though we know thi* prairie is Ailed with Tarantulas, we walk about day and night witheat tha least nnaaslnass. Centipedes are under old log*, and are doniiens of the wood*. Liil oat here grow fast, and tbelr name i' emphatically 44 legion." Woe to the eorn crll>( If yon don't keep poison on hand, and woe to the ben rooet, too. Tbcy carry off little ehick ?u>) MUU VTWU IIJ nig 11; 1UC WIIU103UIU.? We have to watch our*, all the time, and I Very much Tear, between the rata, the bawk* and chicken snakes, our poor little fowls will come to grief, or, rather, aerer reach the day* f maturity. Egg* are abundant bare; tbe lime soil ia *o good for ehiekona. But limewater la not nice to drink, especially if tho weather la warm j still, it ia healthy, or onght te be. It waahee horribly, however. Claterna eem like noceaaitlea, in tbia immediate locality. The water caught ia winter, tbia way, ia alee and eoel all eummer. Bat If it falle when tbe weather ia warm, I bare heard it ia not ao good. It needa ice, though, to make it ery 'delightful, that greatest of all luxuries in a warm climate. How I wish everybody bad one of tbe pew maebinee for making it. the wny, who did invent that T Tbe weather, tbia Spring, baa been propiti* out, nod tbe aUnd of corn ia good. Every protpeet for a dee crop. Cotton ia being planted now. All tilt farmer* are buay aa can be, and active election U tbe order of the day.? Fruit, toe, appea/a promising. The peach trees are laden and every body ia talking of drying quantities. It ia almoet too late for /rnaf antl Bra aarnailla Kimua ?kU m^as #waF prove sore idruUpoua than tha la?t. Dowfeo*rW and UukWrltt ara crowding tha fine# epd barbae. WUd papal aUo. Laet year, there Til none, M, I, I wrote you, owing l? ? !?? i? norther. Wine pill ho madj ia quantifier, too, M acme ore par telling me the othor day of a feoeipe for piakliig it ?o It would keep without 'agar, and eweetanlng it when wanted. What % oopveplant way, thoee bard timea ! I am eorry Carolina and the Convention got on ao badly, ft waa a poor aourco to get good from, thai Contention, and our Carolina a? reader 0J |ia?pio?, nut eapoet to ruffer?? Texae baa not yet ealled bet beaut lee together, hot I proanme we wtll anon be experiencing n flmllnr experiment, I* the art of government. Oh, for the day* of Washington and Jeffereon ; whan education and reflnement rw/erf tie mod ; when a gentleman waa appreciated and tha (tonetitutlon held inviolate. That guyuova Conarivuviox, whoae eoletgn, tcuthfal volae, gtiU (peaki to na with trumpet tongue, reminding of the paat, and what wa were, in toournf*l eontraat with the prevent, and its fanatical # * - ... fm \? ijjn f%\ ' REFLE t?ndonciea. The father. of our country, whore are they ? Aslocp ip the trau of oblir iou? lu the graro, 44 They neither bear n aigh nor foe ua weep." And the Conatltatlon 1 " TltAv'tA turn Kur tattararl anaton dnarn , ? V ' Stretched tnrjr thread-bare saD, She's |inn to the God of it?rmj, The lightning and the gale." Ia there no recuperet!*# power in the people f Can't the Democratic Party help iteelf? And mast every Republican Government (all to the ground, like the Idol Bell, of Apoehrpphat memory f Kighty yeare, and the dream is told, IHfe a tired old man " wrapping the drtpery of his eonch around him,"* and sinking to eternal rest." The United States is falling. In plaoe of what she was, " the gout and wonder of earth," having given ?p (be ghost of hor grewfn*.**, in its place a minora* ble image sliail arise. Partly of iron, but mostly clay; iron in it's resolve (o oppress the unfortunate; day, miserable clay, in it's other administrations, God help our Democratic Brethren in other States, and give them power to help us ! To-day, the rain is falting, falling on ths graves of onr martysd homes?falling on the pulseless bosoms of thoss who died to save us and the South, Witness ys loved onss so long In ths spirit, How true through our tires ws will lovs as 01 yors; Witness the memories and tears wa inherit, Look on us now from ths sunlighted shore. My pen is bad, the ink worse. I em afraid yon will hardly make out toy latter. With kind regards, 8. T. rot the soLTHca.i kmtk pats*. Where is thy Brother t J/ir ears. Editor* : The flrrt question Oo>! ever put to man, was, Where art thouf the second, Where is thy brother? Consider (lie first, Where art thouf Soma are, doubtless, in the right place, doing their duty, like men. We put the question to the liquor dtalrr, Where art thou T Stand ing on the broad road, that leads to ruin, holding in Ills hand the " dark bev?ra<f* of hell,'1 tempting hi* brother to enter there to driuk, end die. He bee errenged Ids bottles, with red paper labels, in cnnspicu oua style? aod contemplate* hi* gain* thereby, ungodly gain*. Ye white) sepulchres ; ye hypocrites; that strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; ye Sunday saints, that "enlarge the borders ot your garments," and "leve the uppermost seats "-?on Sunday, and lie and cheat on Monday, ' Whore is thy brother f" Alas! the first, beet, and bravest, lie cold, in an ho.iored grave, far away from home. The eurvivor# (some of them) are accepting your* offered beverage, to drink, and die. Ills blood be upon yu Have you pslfenorght have you cheated widow* and orphan*, and poor alrickcn wives apd mother*, and broken their hearts and brought them to poverty and woe. to All your pockets with dime*, aod chuckle over your ungodly gains f And now, where art thou ? Standing, like a -ock, aye, contemplating a long and expensive journey, perchance, to a foreign land, to feast your? what T classic lore, to enjoy, or rather behold, the splendors of God's Unirer-e? yourself the meanest of hi* creatures-?to enjoy the hraulitul Rhine, and walk under |L. ?.1.-1 ? i J ?J Iiv * viioi ??!? ciMicmni uumfB, nnu iciirn e<i eolUgcs of Germany, nnd may even cross the u proud Alps," end stand within the coliseum wells, and behold the M rent of ruin." Well, your money may take you there?your brains won't; and when your journey's over, and the question is put, Where is thy brother I you will hacg your drooping head, and shrink into yourself, "your vile self loving self, in vain, and turn thee howling in unpitied pain." Then re* eeive your well merited doom, " depart ye cursed, into everlasting darkness," prepared for sneh as you. Can you ei joy the retrospect! A SUFFERER. New Wat to Ma** Huttkr? eral gentlemen of this city, including well known members of the medical profession, met yesterday by invitation in a room at tbn Everett Uouse, to teat a new and wonderful process of making butter. The method is exceeding lv simple. Four and a half pounds of Goshen butter were placed in an old* fashioned earthen cbum. There were then added, four pints and a half of pure fresh milk. Next was put ic an ingredient of but a few ounces in weight, nutritious, and peifcctly whole some, no compound, no drug, but a common and cheap article familiar to every housewife. The dasher was dow vigorously worked for four or five minnies, when, presto 1 there wm noth ing in the churn but butler!?nine pound* of delicioQ*. tweet, pure butter, quite m palatable e* though it had nil been ahurned from the richest cream.? The experiment v/at unanimously voted a grand soccers, and the process a won derful discovery. This mode of niak ing butter baa been patented, and we suppose the owners of the leltera?patent wilt offer * rightsH for sale. That, however, h their business. [St. Louit Republican. A mam on Cape Cod having advertised bis wife as having left his bed and board, ehe relate that she went away for a ouple of weeks to earn her board, and that the bed belongs to her mother. / v 9 Wf "1 I'll'- I I I ? ]X OP PC GREliNVlLLE. tfOUT [Vr?in the Cbarlecto* Courier of the Jith init.) | The Greenville nod Columbia Rail .. Road The Annual Report of the President ??f this corporation, which was recently submitted to the stockholder*, niakm gratifying exhibit of it* affaire. From it we learn that the earnings for th* pa?t year were $269,787.47, and the current expenses $169 973 90. leaving a net income of $99.819 97. Tin* amount h?a Wen applied to the pav it.eat of the floating debt, contracted in the reslorntfem of the property of the Company destroyed by the freshet of 1865 and the war ; which debt has been materially reduced, at compared with the previous year, and ia now entirely within the control of the Company?. there remaining only a few claim* of any considerable amount, and which the income of the road, if applied to that purpose alone, will soon entirely extinguish. The pay . milt for 1867 have been paid, and the material pur chased, including wood, lumber, and supplies for the work Bhnpa, have nearly all been paid for. leaving a small l.nl? ance due for labor and material furaubcd previous to 1867. The nett income for 1807 was eot as large as was expected at first, but it should be remembered that the road ft as subjected to many unanticipated and unavoidable contingencies and misfortunes. The crop along its line was almost a total failure, and therefore re stricted the local travel and freights.? This fact, in connection with the straight ened condition in which the country was left at the close of the war, com pletelv paralyzed and prostrated business of every kind. A* an Indication of the great scarcity of provisions, resulting from the unprecedented failure of the provision crop, says President Hammelt, there was aent up the road during tho year 209 655 bushels of corn and 1 047 hng?head* of bacon, of which 22,800 bushels of corn And 10 hog*' head* of bacon were chsriable donation* f.om other sections of the country, transported free of cha-ge. It may he Added that in consideration of the great destitution of provision* Along the line of road, the "directors reduced the tariff on corn to ten cen's per bushel f ?r the entire line, and in the same proportion for intermediate stations, with the intention of contributing, as far as possible, towards the relief of the people. There was also a targe quantity of guano, and other fertiliters sent up the road at a nominal charge; but lhf?, it it believed has been amplr remunerative in the in creased p'oduc'ion of the ciop of 1807, resulting from its application?but little i f the erop was brought to market un til after the 1st of January. The amount of work done in 1867 exceeds thai of the year previous, as i? shown bv the fact that during the Utter year the number of miles run was 188,. 872, while for (he year previous it was 118.440, being an increaee of 05,420 and that the gross incorrte is not inrreaa ed in the aaine proportion is accounted for, in a great measure, by the fact that a large portion of the freights moved were of the class which were sent at a nominal rale, and donations for which no charge wa? made. During the Tear there hare been put into the track 7t 923 crnea*tie?, and 6,610 stringers, including 0,113 cowlies put into the ltlue llijge lioad, from 1 at June to 8l*t December, besides a large quantity ef limber u>e<! in repairing the trestles along the line. Vr hile these repairs have increased the current ei|*n'es of the year, and reduced the neil income which would otherwise have appeared, it was thought beat to do it, as it increased the value of the property of the Company and is likely to reduce the expense* from that source in future, and make the road ?a'e. The through d*pot at Columbia has also lieen built during the year, at a cost of $4,857 82 ; being one-half the coat, the Sooth Carolina Kail lioad Company paying the other half. A depot baa also he?<n built at I'omaria, to replace the one destroyed during the war ; and, abo. a temporary one at Williamson. During the months of January, Feb ruary and March, 1808, there have been brought down the road 32 253 hales cotton, which is an excess ftf 2 970 bales over the receipts of the entire year of 1807. The grrraa earning fur the same months Are $102,765.26, which i* $28,272 91 in excess of ihe corre>p<>nding month* of 1867. There Mill re? limine, says the President, " large qiiantitiee of grain on the upper end of the line lo be brought down, and ae ihe quantity of cotton cold, and the high prices realised for it, lite increased the amount of money along the line of road, it ia reasonable to expect an increased income from all ecurcea during the bal ance of the year." It ia estimated by the foreman of the workshop that the rolling stock, which ( consists of 19 locomotives and 127 car* of all descriptions, not including those ' belonging to tbe Blue Ridge Rail Road, and now in tha use of the Company, has been doubled in value during the i past year. There are other cars aed i locomotives undergoing repairs, which ! will increase the stock sufficiently to I I CP r i H CAROLINA. APRIL 39. L-U-gJ- .8^ ennble Ore ro?.l to do itn boainesi lb* ; current year wkh *u? and promptitude. There have been transported during I the past year 92.201 pao-engers, against 31,120 A>r the previous year, and the falling off of the income derived fiom this totfrea is accounted for by the reduction in the rate of fare. fn compliance wi.b a resolution adopted by the Stockholders at their annual meeting of 1867. an arrange* roeni was made with the Bine Ridge Road for running the trains from An* derson to Walhalla. and the trains have been so run since June last. Though litis* hat shown uo appreciable increase in the nett income of the Greenville and Columbia Road, President 11aminett thinks the contract should be con-) tinned, because it has assisted,in keep* ing alive the nrnjpct of completing the Blue Ridge lioad from Anderson to Knoxville. In this connection he also says: "There is another project for an extension of our line, connecting us with all tW great lines of the Northwest, which should receive our most hearty approval and auch materia! aid as we | may be able to command. Tire Western North Carolina lioad, from Salis* bury, N. C., via Asheville to the Tennessee litre, at Paint It*a;k, is now being rapidly pushed forward, and is so far advanced that iu completion can bo looked forward to with certainty. When that is completed, and one or two'short lines In Tennessee nud Kentucky, which are now Wing constructed, the connection hy that line will be complete with Cincinnati, Louisville, and the entire North weet. The distance from Oieeti* ville to Asheville is ahonl sixty miles, and by experimental surveys, as we are informed, has been found to be a prac* lirable route and of as "any grade a* at ..... . . # i? .i - t?i? j v/iihi pvuit <m trussing 1110 Uiu? Ridge. The whole line ncruss the mountain could mutt probably be con structed without a tnrtnrl. Then the construction of an extension from Ore.n villa to Aslieville will be of immense value, not only to our toad, but to the whole Slate. The oiiiXen* of Western North Carolina look to this connection with the deepest interest and anxiety, and should Ire met by ns in a corres ponding spirit?takiig hold of the first practicable scheme that may present itself for commencing and completing the line, ^jjonnccti-m with the Northwest by rail road is of the greatest possible importance to the section of country ill rough which our road passes? not only to the road, which would at once lie placed on the Iht of to ids of the first importance, but to the whole people?as the great Ie*er for develops iug the resources of the country and siiiuiihtiing the energies of the people.'* Space forbids us from entering more minutely into the detail* of President Hrtimuetl'a report, which is exhaustive in its nature. We can but add our congratulations to the Company upon its succose during the past year, and the possession of so capable an execu* .2 <11 - - t ' - u?o vuicer a* ue una provsn ntroeeif to be. imrnovmiknt or Soils.?-When sand rests upon a clay subsoil, it is often very inuch improved by penetrating the subsoil in plowing, and mingling the two together, since the clay furuuhes the neces>ary amendment to such soil. There ?* no wav of improving soils more permanent in its character than thin proper admixture of soils. They are more easily tilled, are more atiecepl* hie to the influence "f manure, and can he more cheaply kepi in a state of productiveness. The more fertile soils are those in which the different earthly constitutions are proper Iv balanced, and in the improvement of farms it is well to look to the character of soil, and consider, whether there are not other means within reach, apart from a direct application of manure for its improvement. Land badly balanced in its composiiion. will perhaps reqnire a long aeries of year-, in the application of orgat tc mat ures, before it teaches a condition, to which often it may be brought in a short time, hy mingling with it a portion of the soil of an adjacent field. In many instances the expense of cartage ill removing clay, and, Ac., renden their n?e imptacticahie, hnl frequently il can he eflected cheaply, and will pay largely for the permanent character of the improvement made. Sandy anil* are benefited from the clay chiefly, by reason of its power an an absorbent, whereby manures or matter resulting from the .decomposition of roota and vegetables are not retained, and made available f>r the food of plants, while the sand benefits the clay soil* by breaking up ita tenacious qualities, end altering its texture, ren tiering it more easily worked and permeable to air, water, and the roota of plants.? Utiea Her aid. Mxasaa. Sword A Si-ears publish ihe Vick-burg Her d I. They write lhat "the wai is over, but Sword and Speare continue to title the newspaper business in Mi sis-ippi." < ETV"ETSTT? 1868. Jrightful Acoiderit on the New York and Erie Railroad-Shocking Loss of Life?Beven Persons Burned to Death?List of Killed and Wound d. Nkw York, April 15. One of tlie moit terrible disasters on record occurred eRrlv thie morning, ids teen mile# NVest of Port Jervis, on the Now York and Erie' Railroad. A train of passenger cars was thrown off the track by tbs breaking of a rati, and precipitated down an embankment.? Thirteen dead bodies are at Port Nereis Depot, and fifty two of the injured are at the Port Jervia hotsle. Two more have aot yet arrUed. One of the cars, the least broken of the train, was so firmly imbedded in the debris of the others as to prevent the escape of the inmates, and several were burned to death before relief could be affordsd them. ' The train to wbich the accident oc curred, left Buffalo yesleiday afternoon, in chaige of conductor Judd ami Clias. Douglass, superintendent of the division, and consisted of engine and lender, three sleeping, two first-class and one second class, two baggage and one postal car. j About three o'clock this A. M? Messrs. Ames and Morton, of the gene ral postoflice in this city, who were in charge of the postal car, saw the hell rope straighten out and break, wben Mr. Judd iminediate'y remarket! to one of the officers that he had lost his rear cars. They ran to the platform of the car, when the four rear cars were seen robing down a precipice from seventyfive to one hundred feet high. The sides of the precipice are formed on jagged rock, and in the descent the i cars were broken to pieces. At the ' bottom is a culvert, through which fl-'Ws a stream, emptying into the Del aware. The disaster was caused by a broken rail which threw the rear car immediately in front, and the whole were prec pi.atsd down the embank ment. The cars, in goinj; over the embankI ment, turned several times before the i x j ? i^rivnixm irwiiwi, i?nu were neariv demolished. Tlie sleeping car whs consumed by fire. The p:i*?engers immediately began to rescue the wounded and to remove the bodies of the killed. Many of the latter could not bo recognised. Seven persons were burned to death, and six otheis were killed by coming in contact with the jagged rocks, Ac. A passengsr states that, " All four of the cars that went over the embank ment were completely demolished, and I think about twenty-five to thirty persons were killed outright. I saw five or six ladies taken from the ruins of the train quite dead, and a number wounded. The rear car look fire from the stove a short time after the living persons were removed from it, and I should judge there, were about seven dead bodie* burned up. There were in addition, three deud bodies taken out before (he fire reached them. The car ahead of the one in which T was aleep iug, also took fire, but the Haines were s|>eedily extinguished, The catastro plie, of course took place in the daikne-s of the night, and the confusion and | terror were appalling, and the horror | was greatly increased by the agonixing stirn-li* And groaufc of lb* wounded and d\ ing." The number killed by the diiaater is now aaid to be twenty-four. Democratic Okoakuatio*.?The State Central Executive Committee of the Democratic party of South Carolina, appeal to their fellow-citizens through* out the State, to organise and unite upon the policy of the late Convention. The committee submit that Union at home and full aJJMution with the JVutional Democratic p<irty, will sooner or later deliver the common wealth from the ruin that threatens it. The following plan ia proposed : Let Democratic Club* be formed in every town and village, and in every election precinct in the country ; let colored co operative Democratic Cluba he alao formed, and let these make up and form, in each District, the Central Democratic Club for the District. Lei these Central Clubs report at once to the Stale Central Executive Committee, .L. L - ill * " ' uieir uiuceis, una metnoers, Ac. Ami commencing May 1st proximo, let the Central ClutM throughout the State make a monthly report to the saitl Committee at Columbia, 8. C. The committee have on hand for distribu tion copies of the Constitution of the Kichland Democratic Club, and of the resolution* adopted at the late Convention. All papers in the State will please insert this circular three times. J. P. THOMAS, F. W. McMASTRR, JOSEPH DAN I Kb POPE, For Committee. *'Owt.to to the peculiar arrange menl of the programme, no piece can be repeated." was the answer White received from his landlady, upon asking for a see nd piece of pie at dinner . .? . . i - , ' V *"#51 ' > - > . S*A- r- * w ?. : J NO. 49. aegeaea a mmmrn Tim Wat to Adykktisi Th# New York Herald liam for ?oin? time . paM b--?n issuing a triple sheet devoted exehi-dvely to extra advertising, Mid recently ft baa issued on several occasion* a quadruple sheet, both of the two extra sheets eontainmor !?*.?? V..? ? ? " J ?"< columns of advertising. Ia it* issue of yesterday, it has fifty one columns of clo*ely*prinied advertisements.? Some idea of the extent of the business which the Herald is doing may be had when it ia known that the Herald receives cash for the matter in an extra sheet at lea<t $2500 per day, or at the rate of about $750,000 per annum over and above the income which would be derived from the regular columns allotted to advertising. The Herald has no contract*. Everything is paid for by the line, and jhirty sev en cents is, we believe, now the lowest charge made. For some parts of the t)H|>er more than double this price is aiked. Notwithstanding this, business men there understand perfectly well the value of keeping their names befoie the public in a leading journal, and, notwithstanding the depression of business in New Yoik, which ia far less babk than was anticipated, they expend money liberally in this line, because tbvy have found that it is an outlay which always repays. In Charleston where newspaper charges are very low and where system of contract advertising renders them lower still, the rates charged are not one tenth as high as those charged bv the New York papers, a different system seems to prevail. Business men advertise here as a luxury, and not as a profitable investment. When bu-ineea ia dullest and when there i? most need of reminding the public of their existence and their whereabouts, that is the verv time when they seem to yield . to depression and to retire from the world. When the town ia full of life, when customers come in and money is being received that ia the time they seem to take to parade therttselve* and their war?*. They advertise oul of their abundance.. No beiier test of the kniinni of Charleston can he had than the columns of the newspapers. When Dew advertisero-nis are few it i* a certain sign that business is very dull. When they are plenty, it is a sign that business h profitable. Our readers will bo struck by the similarity - between Baltimore and Charleston, when they are informed that the above i* taken verbatim from the Baltimore Gazelle, only substituting the name of Charleston for that of Baltimore.? Charleston Afereury. [Prom the Bainbriilge Argus.} Hog?. Farmers, behold our situation. Look around you. Listen to the voice of reason and experience. How many of job * have made a supply of bacon to sops port you through another CTOp ? Will you continue to bo clcpenrtent on your enemies forever for bacon I and at pirces positively ruinous to yonrselvea. At present pi ices of cotton it requires nearly three pounds of cotton to pay for one pound of bacon. So long a* the 'farmer pursues this blind policy, so long will be remain poor. Hut some wilt say if I raise hogs the lazy negroes will steal them ; and so it is, unless our former ways ate changed to suit onr present condition. 1 know that many will ridicule the mode about to be recommended. There is a way to raise hog* and keep negroes from stealing them too! Every farmer has n horse lot; make a strong fence around it with large and heavy rails, very high ; keep the hogs in the lot every night, and give them feed principally at night.? Attached to the horse-lot have a crabgra-s pasture, and through a email gate or gap. let the Itogs run on the grass during the day ; the hogs will be very punctual to return every night in expectation of their feed. Have a boiler fixed up in briek or clay and cook and salt the feed. Salt in their food, is not only suitable to their constitutions, hut in reality increases their appetite, and digestive powers of the stomach, and a ho_' will eat as much grara ?? one without null All persona who have paid attention to the habits and health of hogs know that hogs are almost nni> versally heal liv in a horse-lot. Hut when to graze during the day on a crabgraas field th?v are much more thrif.y Jcc. With a \<-rv small quantity of food given regu.ar!* (regularity ta a great secret) hog- can he made to weigh 150 pounds at 12 months old. By the adoption of the above plan, every far* mer can make his own h .con and prevent the idle negroes fioui stealing it. Try it nay country men. and you will aoon be willing to oonfe?a thai the writer has in reality conferred a gieal benefit on you. Farmers, let it be repeated again : raise your own Logs and be independent. A labor cave has been explored near Bentonville, Arkansas. One chamber is COO fret <fVlvf and 300 feet high. The cave has been exj.luted to ike distance of nine milea.