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* V ? f . ffcC'* * f . . 4P J fai. #r- . .'- /< '* ; ;.'"y'^ ;F - " .? 1" ??? * i ? ? A REFLEX OF FOFULAJR, EVENTS. VOLUME XV. GREENVILLE. SOUTH CAROLINA. FEBRUARY 3. 1809. vm O C3t. F. T O WN E8, EDITOR. J. 0. BAILEY, Yr?'r. and Associate Editor. Buiscnirtio* Two Dollars per unun. ADTERiisissnTi Inserted at tha rates of one dollar per square of twelve Minion lines (this sued tjrpe) or less foi tbe first Insertion, fifty cent* each for tbe second and tbird Insertions, and twenty-five cents for subsequent insertions. Yearly contracts will be mnde. All adrcrtisoments roust have the number of insertions marked on tbcm, or they will be inserted till ordered out, and charged for. Unless ordered otherwise, Advertisements will invariably be " displayed." Obituary notleea, and all matters inuring to te tbe benefit of any one, ore regarded us Advertisements. When I Moan to Marry. it johk a. hair. When do I moan to marry 7 Well? ?TU 1.11. 4. -11 e. isi. r_e. . M. ID IUI? Ml UI?|IU?? WIVH m\W3 , But if you choose to bear mo toll, Pray listen irhllo I fix the date. When daughters baste with willing feet, A mother's daily toll to share ; Can make the puddings that they eat, And mend the stockings which they wear. When maidens look upon a man As if himself they would marry, And not as army soldiers scan A sutler or a commissary. Whes gentlo ladies, who bare got The offer of a lover's hand, Consent to share bis " earthly lot," And do not mean his lot of land. When young mechanics are allowed To find and win the farmers' girls, Who don't expect to be endowed With rubies, diamonds and pearls. When wires, in short, shall frccAy give Their hearts and hands to aid their spouses, And lire as they were wont to liro Within their sires' one-story houses. Tbon, madam?if I am not too old? Rejoiced to quit this lonely life, I'll brush tny beaver, ecase to scold. And look about me for a wife 1 Friendship of Hen and Women. The chief thing wanting between men and women, as it seems to me, is friendship. Of love aid poetic admiration there is abundance, of course, and to spare. The world could not go on without these pretty amenities : but WA want frt*n<l-liin fur innro than all ? ? I' ?" " """ these?the affectiunateness which has no relation to love, but which would ensure equitable treatment from each to each. We could have no better gift than the reception and bestowal of such a feoli.'.g. lint to obtain it we ought to uiake ourselves tuore fit (or k than , we are at present. For though we wore certainly not sent into the world solely to supplement men's live? and to have no original oljecl of our own, still, we cannot do without their liking; and it ii only right that we should Be', our watches bv tbeir time. They arei clearer-headed than we?less prijudiced if less conscientious; more generous when generous, and more tender when tender, lleing the stronger, they are larger in all thinga?oven in their love. When they love, they love better than we love, but less absorbingly. We givo the whole of our lives to love; they keep one portion of theirs for work, and another for ambition. Still the half measure of a gallon is more than the full measure of a pint; and weight for weight, the man's love it greater than the woman's. This is a tremen dous beret/. I know, but it is a truth notwithstanding; and we ought to be able to recognize all truths when we see them, how disagreeable soever the? may be to our prejudices or our pride. One of the fundamental difference* between us and men lie* in the difference* there is between instinct and pas ion. We are instinctive, and men are passionate. Now, passions admit of the modifying power of reason better than do instincts, because of the peri ods of cessation. The most passionate man is not always at blood heat, raving and ramping about the world like an unloosed demon ; but instinct ceases.? It is eternal, continuous, unchanging ; deaf and blind to all but itrelf? a great amorphous giant, with only one eye in the midst of its forehead, and that eye turned inward, lteason regulates in atinct?as mud) as an infant may lead a lion 1 And is not this complete subjugation by instinct one of the reasons why women are so difficult to manage, and so possessed by any affection they may LavsT A method employed in Germany to keep rosebuds fresh into the winter con isit in Brat covering tfie recently cut torn with was, and than placing each one in a cloned paper cap or cone, mv thai the leave* do not touch the paper. The crp la then coated with glue, to exclude air, dust, and moisture, and when dry is stood up in a drawer in a cool place. When wanted for nse, the rose is taken out of the cap and placed in water, after cutting off the end, when tho rose will bloom in a few hours. ? ? A nkw military pent) code has been promulgated in Bwedeo. It abolishes (orporeai punishment aa being contrary to principle* of humanity and injuiloas I to the dignity of the eo|Ji?r, Mechanical Ingenuity of Farmers. One of the component parts of a pood farmer is mechanical ingenuity. Some lose half a day's time for wont of knowing how to repair a breakage which ac ingenious person could do in five minutes. A team and two or three men are sometimes stopped a whole day at a critical season for want of a little mechanical skill. It is well for every farmer to have at hand the facilities for repairing. In addition to the ranro common tools, he should keep a supply of dififeient sires, of screws, bolts, and nuts. Common cut nails are too brittle for repairing implements or for other similar purposes. Buy only the very best, and anneal them, and they will answer all the ordinary purposes of the best wrought nails. To anneal them, all that is necessary is to heat them red hot in a common fire and cool gradually. Let them cool, for instance, by remaining in the fire while it burns down and goes out. One such nail. well clinched, will i>? worth bNlf a doe en unannealed. Nothing is more com mon than for a farmer to visit the blacksmith's shop to get a broken or lost bolt or rivet inserted, and often a tingle nut on a bolt. This must be paid for, and much time ia lost, lJy providing a supply of bolts, nuta, and rivet*, much time and trouble may be saved. They may be purchased whole sale at a very low rate. These should all be kept in shallow boxer, with com partmenta made for the purpose, furnished with a bow-handle for o<<nveni ence in carrying them. One box with half a dozen divisions may be appropri ated to nails of different sizes, and an other with at many compartments, to i crews, bolls, rivets, etc. Kvery farmer should keep on hand a supply of copper wire and small pieces of sheet cop per or copper straps Copper wire is better than annealed iron wire. It is almost as flexible as twine, and may be bent and twisted as desired; and it will not rust. Copper straps nailed i across or around a fiacture or split in a i wooden article will strengthen it in a thorough manner.?Rural Affair?. Preserving Eggs. No egg is fresh that will shake; this is because it has lost some of its albu- i uiet.. No egg has ever been preserved over a month thai will not shake ex cept it be air-rooted, which is a terra not generally understood and ia a new i process. The egg has been coated with every conceivable composition, even with solid stone, yet the watery material escapee. The philosophy of I this is that there is air in the egg be fore it is treated, and this uniting its oxvgen and carbon produces decompo sition by carbonic Acid gas, tbe yellow of 'he egg first breaking, then follows the destruction.' Eggs are naturallydesigned to last as long as the hen re- - quires to got her brood, and tho life germ can be preserved % few weeks? seven or eight?but no longer. The egg itself may be kept in a preserved state for two years by greasing with butter, oil or lard, but fiora the time it is thus put up to the end of two years it will daily lose its albumen by transpiration, and while its carbonic acid escapes to a certain extent, the egg meat will be reduced two-thirds, and will shake. For culinary purposes they will do welt. Hut we want a whole egg, not a half one, and we want them fresh. Hotter and lard and suet have been used for half a century, still nothing has recommended itself over the liming system in a commercial point of view. The theory has always been, and still is, that to keep an egg fresh the air must be excluded. It is the only philosophical treatment of it that can be made. Externally kept from the air, the latter is powerless to do harm, but the air inside no mortal can prevent, snd that alone in time will decompose the egg.? Scientific American. IIow to RsrAIN a oood Faci.? A correspondent has some crood idea* on the importance of mental activity in retaining a good face. lie any*: * We were (peaking of handsome inen the other evening, and I was wondering why K. had bo lost the beauty for which, five years ago, he was famous. "Oh, it's because no never did anything,** said B., he never worked, thought, or suffered.' You must have the mind chiseling away at the feature#, if you want handsome, middle-aged men.* Since hearing that remark, I , have been on the watch to see whether it is generally true, and it is. A handsome man who does nothing but eat i and drink, grows flabby, and the fine i lines of his features are lost, but the hard thinker has an admirable sculptor at work, keeping his fine lines in repair, and constantly going over his face to improve the original design." Sown IIoos.?The Marion Crncent says Mr. Charles Unseldea of that Coun ty, last week killed two of his hogs, which when dresser! and hnng up, weighed one thousand and twenty Hve pound*. One of them weighed sis hundred aud one pounds, A ?- ' About Blood. Observe your mother when she is pecking * trunk, nnd you will see i whatever she is most afraid will be i spoiled, she is rriost careful to put in J the middle, that it may he least ex- i posed to accidents. And this is what a t kind Providence has done with the ar- < teries, which have the utmost cause to f dread accidents, while the veins, which i are much better able to bear rough < usage are allowed to wander about I freely just under the skin. Hot when I the bones happen to take up a great deal of room and come near the skin ' themselves, as is the ca?e in the wrist, ? the artery is forced whether he likes it t or noj, to venture to the surface, and t (hen ?? urn a Vila In nut nil. fi ? # upon him. And (here are oilier* in 1 the name sort of situation ; the artery < of the foot for Instance.' " i You feel quite stire blood is red do <i you not f Well, it is no more red than f the water of a stream would be if you r were to fill it with little red fishes.? g Suppose the fishes to be very, very mall?aa small as a grain of sand? c and closely crowded together through f the whole depth of tbo stream ; the <j water would 'ook quite red, would it ( not! And this is the way in which t blood looks red ; only observe one ( thing; a grain of sand is a mountain * in comparison with the little red fishes * in the blood. If I were to tell you they | measured about the tbree thousand two r hundredth part of an inch in diameter, j< you would not be much wiser, so I pre- ? fer saying (by way of giving you a l more perfect idea of their minuteness) v thai there would b? about a million ir. such a drop of blood aa would hang on the point of a needle. I say so on the authority of a scientific Frenchman? ' M. Bouillet. Not that he has counted c them, as you inav suppose, any more r than I have done ; but this is as near * an approach aa can he made by calcu " lation to the size of those fabulous blood | fi-bes, winch are the three thousand two hundredth part of an inch iu di- n a meter. l< ^ ^ f " t Giants?In a recent lecture a dis t' linguished gentleman t>aid : 1 The giant exibiied at ltouen in 1330 r measured neailv eighteen fust ? Guradius saw a girl (bat was tcu feet I b gh. ii The giant Galabra, brought from Ar- ? abia to Home under Claudius Cae-ar, ll was ten feet high. a Fannum, who lived in the time of d Kugena 11, measured eleven and a half t feet. ii The Chevalier Scro, in bis voyage to " the peak of Teneriffe, found, in one of a the caverns of that mountain, the head r of Gunich, who had sixty teeth, and was I not less than fifteen feet high. " The giant Feriugu*, slain by Orlan- n do, nephew of Charlemagne, was twcn ^ ly eight feel high. b In 1814, near St-German, was found s the tomb of the giant Inorant, who was h not le?s than thirty |rct high. r In 1580, near Romn, was found a b skeleton whose skull held a bushel of u corn, and who was nineteen feel high, p The giant Uacart was twenty-two g feet high ; his thigh bones were found, in 1804, near the liver Model-. In 1823, near the cattle in Dauphine, a tomb was found thirty feet long, six- ' teen wide, and eight high, on which was cut in gray atone, these words, v " Kintolochus R>x.w The skeleton was found entire, twenty* ' five and a quarter feet long, ten feel v across the shoulders, and five feet from ? the breast bone to the hack. Near Palermo, in Sicily, in 1518, r was found the skeleton of a giant thir \ ty feet high; and in 1550, another thir- ' ty four feet long. M... SI - i- at ' ? ?- 1 lunar mo, in OICIIJ, in 1B19, W? found the skeleton bf a giant thirty i feet high ; the head was the sise of a hogshead, and each of bis teeth weigh* ed tFve ounces. t ^ [ i Vklocipbdks.?We have board So tatteh f of velocipede* from the other ride ot the water, . that it ntay be interesting to know practically how fast they go, and how useftot they ate likely to be. In France, where thie institution has been moat ia use, they And no diflloulty in attaining a speed of from twelve to thirteen miles aa hoar. Pnrsoae skilled in working tbem will go Afly miles in Ave hours, without alighting froa? their vehicles. a party earns from Koucn to Paris, on the 31st of last Sep- j tember, a dlstanoe ofeighty-Ave miles, between , tbs breakfast and the French dinner hear, or early evening. a man has driven one of them , one hundred and twenty-three miles, during ^ twenty-four bours, taking bis time for rest and -| food out of the same. It eaaeet be driven up ^ steep bills, hut the rider must dismount and ? draw it, wbteh, from Its lightness, ia rary f easily done. ^ f A Vktabaw TtPo.?The Nashville / (Tennone*) Union, of the 7th ult.,says: We bed the pleasure of meeting in the eilf yesterday, W. L. Barry, Esq., # the ohfoil printer in the United Stale*. t| lie ia looking just as young as when we m first knew him, over thirty yearn ago.? L lie ia now ia his eighty-ninth year, and b if put to tbe teat, could set up hit ten ihouauud ton a day. c, \ On Making Winter Battet. When milking, be sure your hands ire clean. Strain and place in crocks n a cool place in a good milk-bouse. Some argue long crocks are the best; lome that shallow are the best. AI hough (he shallow crocks will reise sreatn the quickest, they are not so good. Let tbetn stand in the water mtil the cream is perfectly separated, lien skim and put the cream into a arge cream crock, where it is allowed o remain until it Is perfectly sour. Here we tnay notice that the crocks ind alt vessels used should be scalded ivery time before tbey are laid after ising. Iu cold weather it is sometimes iec<iful to warm the sour cream bofore ihurning. but it is seldom the ca*e.? freezing and scalding both spoil the iream for making good butter. Churn n an up and-dowu churn, which is tin* loubtedly the best churn there U to be ottnd. Never use scalding water, as it uins the butter, but give good elbow [rease till done. Although, in dairies of more than me or two cows, a dog or horse power nay be added, wbicb saves a great leal of hard work. Take out the buter immediately, aid work out all the nilk possible; then add a little salt, md let it stand until the next morning, vhen It should be worted over again, blowing no milk to remain in it. Then lave your, butter crock scalded and ubbed with salt. Flaee the butler io I, pecking en tight as possible ; cover rith e fine piece of muslin, and cover* ng with a brine which is to be made if salt and water.?Stock Journal. * Yas " and " No."?A joung lady as published a poem entitled " Have ourage to say ' Na.'" It is not, it nay lie said, addressed to her own sex, rho need no such advice. I3ut *' No" i a most formidable word, and though here are proper times when It should e used, an in cases that the ludy enuaerates in her poern?whenever temp*ed by the syren to enter billiard-rooms, 0 take wine, or visit gambling bells.? Jut the " No," when injudiciously utered, is very often the seed of trouble "be u No " is too often spoken by paents from their own inappreciatton of 1 thing that their children desire ; and lie children refused, without a very lice discrimination in the premises, nd feeling there in no barm in what bey may ask, impute the refusal to tyrny, and as resistance to tyrants is obe* ience to Ood, they covet more strongly be boon deniod, and, if possible, secure it n defiance of the mandate. The word No," never should be uttered hastily, nd never without a reason for it, which eason, if sound, will be admitted.? Jut the sullen, absolute, unreasonable No," produces ills that tbe parent aore than the child Is answerable for.? Ve have known a bouse made rnisera >le for a month by a parental refusal of l'uic mlira 1uuui^?iicd iuhv llhll no larin in it beyond the fancy of the paent, and bent brows and sulkly looks iardly compensated the affection that aistakenly prompted tbc denial. Deend upon it, there is often more dan;er in saying " No " thau 44 Yes." How aw Alabama Planter Saved us Cotton.? An intelligent planter in Uabaraa entirely escaped the ravages >f the caterpillar last year, although it lestroyed the cotton upon every other dentation in his ccuuty. His crop vas the finest he ever raised. The aterpillar came up to the fields of all lis next door neighbors, but they did ioi cross his fences. The reason of his was, he issued the sternest orders hat not a single bird, exeept the jay, hould l>e killed upon his plantation, inder any pretext whatever, lie allow !$) little willow groves to grow in his lelds, and to them be sent a sack of >als every morning, which were scatter id upon the ground. The birds fed ipon the oats and swarmed in thouends around his fields. They externinated the cotton fiy. And hence here were no eggs, there were no catirpillars, there were no larva, but there vas a blooming garden in the midst of i blighted wilderness. There is no evil vithout its remedy?there is no disease vitbout a cnre.?Macon Telegraph. Tna new wing of the Treasury De Mrtment At Washington it rapidly ap >roacbing completion. The three up>er ttoriea are finished, and carpets are iow going down ready for occupancy ?y the Internal Ueveoue Department, rhe lower floors will not be finished for wo or three months- The walls of the 1 cash room " are to be paneled with are specimens ol Italian marble. The nsrtde will ooet about (40,000. When Inished, it will be the lineet room in tmarica, if not in the world. Maj. K<lward Anderson, a veteran eithea f Laurens, died In tbst village on Friday, be 8th met., In the 85th year of bis age. lis ras a natirs of Union, and rsinuvsd to .anrent in 1820. For a great many yeare, a held the position of Foelmaeter, and Unrig his long and useful life, bad the entire oaBdauee and respect of LL fcKow-oitironr. Belf Saitaimiag Farm*. Ex Governor Z. B. Vance, of North Carolina, in bit kddrwl before the Border Agricultural Fair at Danville, a few weeks ago, offered the following | practical suggestion : In a country so sptreely settled ao ours, and where lands are held In such large bodies, the theory of a division of 1 labor is not sound economy in farming 1 operations. Every farm should be as neatly independent and self supporting in all respects as it can posaiblv l>e made. In mercantile parlance, a farm er should, if possible, be a general dealer to at least the extent of bis own consumption. Planting, therefore, as contradistinguished from farming?by which we understand a special devotion to cotton, rioe, tobacco, or any great staple?is lialde to this objection, it is not self-sustaining. An impaifect and unwise arrangement, that is, by which so many of oor planters expend the proceeds of their staple crops for provisions and stock, thus paying double proflts and commissions as well as shipping away the fa.ness of their soils every year and placing nothing back in lieu of it. Every man who tills the soil as a means of living should surely first provide himself with everything which his farm will grow before he plants a single seed for sale. Another great objection to planting, or special farming, is that it is ruinously destructive to fertility and an enetny to the improvement of lands. It i*, I believe, an accepted truth that there are no means cf permanent improvement in our soils equal to the cultivation of some of the gras?es and the rearing of flocks, which both retuin and return fertility to the earth. We are here directly on the dividing line between the planting and the grazing regions of the United States, and by a judicious and scientific intermingling of both, 1 give it as my unhesitating opinion that we stand in a better position to secure wealth by agricultural means than any other people on the continent. [&eu(A?rn Planter and Farmer. No Stand zr Monkkt.?Judge David K. Carter, formerly of Ohio, now one of the judges of the United States District Court at Washington, is a gen tleman of marked character and abili ty, and, withal, a little eccenlrio. Not long since an Italian whs tried and ' convicted in his court for some offence against the laws of the United Stales, the minimum punishment of which is three years' imprisonment in the penitentiary at Albany. Before passing sentence the Judge Asked the culprit if he hi-.d learned any trade, to which a negative reply was given. The Judge then said : 44 In imposing upon you the lightest sentence permitted by the law, and in view of the fact that you have no practical acquaintance with any of the mechanic arts, the Court would say ik.t j...i? a a.? .1-? ? Him uuiiug mo uiree years connne* ment to which we now sentence you, you will hiive ample opportunity to learn tome trade that will enable you to earn an honest livelihood ; but should you be unequal to this, yet de* I port yourself so as to win the approval of the officers of the prison, I have no doubt, as a reward for vour good con* duct, they will cheerfully request the Governor of New York, at the end of yonr term, to present you with a hand organ and a monkey." The poor Italian, dumbfounded at the sentence, exclaimed, with uplifted hands, * Ah, Judge, not xe monkey I not xe monkey I I oan stand se three year and ze hard work, but I no slan ze dam monkey I" Ini.r Murmukikos.?Those wbo are poor in worldly goods are too much disposed to complain. Poverty is the crucible in which manhood is tested.? You may be poor ; but if you have honor and industry and energy, you will succeed. All the envy and malice and hatred and petty meanness of your enemies cannot prevail over true manhood, we care not how humble may be its garb. l>o not stop to brood over your mis* fortunes. Poverty may be a mi?for* tune; we dare say it is. But do not add to your woes criminal weakness.? Go resolutely to work. Look not at your present poverty. The proud, disdainful glances of the rich ; the nialig* mij ui your enemiei, ^an noneal men i Iihvu enemies ;) the jeers of those who plume them-clve* on their doubtful lineage; should but strengthen yotu determination to place yourself far bore them *W. *- ?? ArrmsTUBKT.-?The Uoreruor hu appoint' ed Charles J. Stolbrand as Superintendent of tha State Penitentiary, in place of MaJ. Thomas D. Lee, who bat discharged the duties of the oAoe in a most srsditabls manner since the Inauguration of the institution. The appointment of Stothrand bee not yet been confirmed by the Senate, hut we presume that tbi re will b) no difficulty on this score, as I be appointee Is thoroughly Radical, we hoikeer. lis is e member of the Legislature fr?tn Jlcaufort, aud is a foreigner, lis was in tha Pelerr.l army, end is said to here enjoyed the benefits of a military education in Korope. The first known of him In thin Stale uaa aa Secretary of the Ilcoons ruottou L'oavooUou in February last. i?Vf? *1 t * . . i i ?i- m m. 8 elf-Made Men. The maxim (bet H every men is the architect of mt own fortune," bat been strikingly verified end Illustrated in the history of American statesmen. We find the following collection of facts respecting some of onr great men, that may prove ioterestiog: Very few of tbe fathers of our Republic were tbe inheritors of distinction.? Washington was almost tbe onlv gentleman by right of birth in alt that astonishing company of thinkers and actors. Two or three Virginians, John Jay, of New Yotk, and half a do ten meaner rucn from otb< t provinces were exceptions. Hut Franklin was a printer's hoy ; Sherman, a ahoemake , Knox was* a bookbinder ; Green a blacksmith ; John Adams and Marshal, the eons of poor farmers ; and Hamilton, the most subtle, fiery and electrical, but at the same time the most camp* aid and orderly, genius of all, excepting the unapproachable chief, wae of as bumble p*<renlage as the rest, and himself, at the begining, a cteik or shopkeeper.? And if we ooroe down to a late period. Uaniel Webstor waa the ton of country farmer, and was rescued from the occupation of a drotrer' only by the shrewd observation of Christopher Gore, whom be called upon for advice in respect to a difficulty arising from the sale of a pair of steers ; and John C. Calhoun was tire son of a tanner and currier; the father of Henry Clay helonged to the poorer class of Baptist minister*; Martin Van Duren, during the Htful leisure of the day, gathered pine knots to light his evening studies; Thomas Corwin was a wagoner ; Silas Wright, by heritage a machinist; snd many others among oar stn'esmea who receive the sppUuse and reverence of mankind, passed their earlier years , at what, in other countries, would he almost impassible distances from the eminences which they now enjoy. Bacox asd Cos*.?The Newberry Ilersld eye: Cotton is s royal article io the world's commerce; at present, it commands s royal price. We deem it proper to throw out a suggestion upon the next erop. From all we can learn, more than ever, our planters have in view to plant cotton almost exelu s vely. It Is a dangerous experiment.? Kvery planter ehoold, nt least, have in view to raise his own breadstuff's. The scarcity of com and bacon enhances the price of labor. Labor, for the lert twelve months, has advanced at least twenty five per cent, in value. The negro is disappearing, nobody knows where, and white Ubor does not, as yet, lake his place. The white man will pause before he cornea, as a labor*ar. to a country not wall supplied with ? beef and grain. Even at the present price of negro labor, the white laborer would not ba willing to compete. If labor la to-. continue scarce, and the price of labor twadvance steadily by the increase of the surface in cotton, it is doubtful if the plantar will ba remunerated sufficiently by the probable advance in the prieo of the great' umpie. io on probability, the price of the bulk of the present crop it the maximum* that the eteple will attain. The tingle art ticle of bacon now exhausts, to-a large ex. tent, the wages of the colored laborer and the profits of the employer. These matters shonld be well eonsidere<tin connection with pitching another crop. A failure of a cotton crop, with no corn and bacon would entail ruin and starvation . upon the majority of the population. Let. ue bare bacon and corn. Extraordinary Pistol Practicx., Captain John Travis gave another hibition of pistol shooting at his gallery last evening, in which he excelled any of hie previous astonishing performances in this citv, by a series of* hazardous feats requiring the roost con* suiutnate skill on his part, and extraor-dinary daring in that of thM;ent!?mao who assisted in them. Mr. John Hover,, of Texas, held a cup on hie head, and Travis fired a pistol ballet through it from the distance of twelve paces.? This feat was repeated twice, the ball! going each time within an inch of the cranium of the ventursome holder.? The same gentleman also held between his fingers a small lemon and afterward* a business card about an iuchr and a half ? rifwns, HHU iniOUgt) fftch' Captain Travis put bullet, At tbaonmadistance, with otrc of the regular gallery piMol?. Few people would cere to run eueh risks m Wr. 1 lover did, And fewer etlfl could aoccftrfullv itnilAt* Captain Tre?iaf wonderful skill. I Chicago Trilttne, Dfa. 2T? , .. .. ? Tim Agricultural Repost show* Ikut year's yield to b? 905,000,900 bnsbeln of corn, and *,386,000 bale* of ooUon. The cotton wee distributed ee follow* : North Caroline, 140,000 bales; South Caroline, ISO,000 bales) Georgia, 290,000 bales; Florida, 56,000 bets* l Alabama, 185,000 bales j M tesieelppi? 460,600 i hales ; Louisiana, *50,000 bales ; Texas, *00,. P00 bales; Arkansas, 205,000 bales ; Tennessee, *00,000 bales, other Slates 75,000 bales. The report stales this estimate wbieb ts asseredly below, rather than above the actual yield, la not made for districts or cotton ports, lut fag hUtes separately.