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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.
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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<
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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? ,
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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.