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| jjjp'. ' ^ | -0 ^ ^ ' A REFLEX OF IPOPULAOR EVENTS. ^ > '4*' V * t * * v ' , p ?=B! , 'l 1 . 1 LXL ! : J?1 II I F < '! l-JLiLi-LiL-L.1 VOLUME XV. GREENVILLE. SOUTH CAROLINA. FEBRUARY 3. I8C9. _ KO. 37. i . i '.. .JL1 ia-iLumi' _ .? "L1.. 1 , .. _ LLJLL ? ga aeafcaaetoii - b . -! .1 * , \ O.F.TOWNES, : EDITOR. J 3. 0. BAILEY, Era'r. and AuecUU Editor. , PuBSCRirtiox Two Dollars per annum. ' ^ Advertisement# Inserted at the rate* of ' one dollar per square of twelve Minion lines , i {this siced type) or less Tot the first Insertion, | fifty cents each for the second and third Insertions, and twonty-five cents for subsequent 1 Insertions. Yearly contracts will be mnde. < All advertisements roust have the number | of insertions marked on them, or they will be inserted till ordered out, and charged for. | Unless ordered otherwise. Advertisement# i will invariably be " displayed." . | Obituary notices, and all matters inuring to te the benefit of any one, ore regarded as 1 Advertisements. I i l ? i ' a? I When I K?an to Kerry. BT JOHN O. RAXK. Whon do I moan to marry T Well? 'Tis idle to dispute with fate ; But if you ohoose to hoar mo tell, Pray listen whilo I fix the doto. When daughters haste with willing feet, A mother's daily toil to share ; Can make tho puddings that they eat, And mond the stockings which they wear. When maidens look upon a man A m tr klswaal# 1.1 ?. jno >* uiuipwii mcj wuuiu luiirrvp And not as army soldiers scan A sutler or a commissary. When gentlo ladies, who hare got 1 The offer of a lorcr's hand, Consent to share his "earthly lot," And do not mean hia lot of land. When young mechanics are allowed To find and win the farmers' girls, Who don't expect to be endowed V ilta rubies, diamonds and pearls. When wires, in short, shall freely gire Their hearts and hands to aid their spouses, And lire as thoy were wont to lire Within Xheir aires' one-story houses. Thon, madam?If I am not too old? I Rejolcod to quit this lonely life, I 'II brush my bearer, ccaeo to scold, And look about me for a wife ! ( Friendship of Men and Women. The chief thing wanting between ' men and women, as it seems to me, is ' friendship. Of love aid peelic ad mi- 1 ration there is abundance, of course, and to spare. The world could not go on without these pretty amenities : but we wan*, friend-bip far more (ban all these?the uftectiunateness which has 1 no relation to love, but which would 1 ensure equitable treatment from each ' <???i, w.. I.I i l...n :t. < iv catu. ?? c vuuiu im*u liu ucucr gill than tlie reception and bestowal of such a feuling. But to obtain it we ought ' to make ourselves more fit (or it than, we are at present. For though we wore certainly not sent into the world solely to supplement men's lives and to have no original object of our own, .till, we cannot do without their liVing; and it ii only right that we should set our watches by their time. They arei clearer-headed than we?less prejudiced if le>a conscientious; inore generous when generous, and more tender when tender. Being the stronger, they are larger in all things?even in their love. When they love, they love better than we love, but less absorbingly. We give 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 mau's love is greater then the woman's. This is a tremen dous heresy. I know, but it ia a truth notwithstanding; and we ought to be able to recognize all truths when we see thern, bow disagreeable soever they may be to our prejudices or our pride. One of tbe fundamental differences between us and men liea in the differences there is between instinct and pas aion. 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. Tbe most passionate roan is not always at blood beat, raving and ramping aoout the world like an unloosed demon ; bat Instinct ceased.? It is eternal, continuous, unchanging ; deaf and blind to all but iteelf?-a great amorphous giant, with only one eye in the midst of its forehead, and that eye turned inward, lieason regulates in stinct?as much as an infant may lead a lion 1 And is not this complete subjugation by instinct one of tbe reasons wiiy women are so difficult to manage, and so possessed by any affection tbey toay bavtf A method employed in Oermany to keep rosebuds fresh into the winter con sure in tirst covering the recently cut tern with was, and than placing each one in a closed paper cap or eone, ?o that the leave* do not touch the paper. The crp ia then coated with glne, to exclude air, dust, and moisture, and when dry ia etood up in a drawer in a cool place. When wanted for use, tba rose ia taken out of the cap and placed in water, after cutting off the end, when the rose will bloom in a few hours. A new military pena| code has been promulgated in &aredeo. It abolishes i orporeal punishment ae being contrary 10 principles of humanity and injurious to the dignity of the aoljier, Mechanical Ingenuity of Farmers. One or the component parts of a rood farmer in mechanical ingenuity. Some lose half a day's time for want of knowing bow to repair a breakage which ac ingenious person could do in Sve minute*. A team and two or three men are sometimes stopped a whole Jay at a critical season for want of a little mechanical skill. It is well for svery farmer to have at hand the facilities for repairing. In addition to the moro common tools, he should keep a lupply of different sires, of screws, bolts, and nuts. Common cut nails are too brittle for repairing implements or for other similar purposes. Huy only the very t>e*t, and anneal them, and they will answer all the ordinary purposes of the beat 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 be worth half a doe en unannealed. Noibing 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 r ingle nut on a bolt. This must be paid for, and much time ie lost. By providing a supply of bolts, nuts, and rivets, much time and trouble may be saved. They may be purchased whole sale at a very low rate. These should til be kept in shallow boxes, with com partment* made for the purpose, furrmhed with a bow-handle for c<>nveni ence in carrjing them. One box with half a dozen divisions may be appropri fed to nails of different sizes, and an ather with as many compartments, to screws, bolts, rivets, etc. Kvery farmer ihould keep on band a supply of copper wire and small pieces of sheet cop per or copper strape. 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 across or around a fiacture or split in a 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 albumet.. No egg has ever been preserved [>ver a month that will not shake ex cept it be air-rooted, which is a term not generally understood and is a new process. The egg has been coated wiiu ever / conceivauie composition, ave? with solid stone. vet the watery material escapee. The philosophy of ihie is that there is air in the egg be fore it is treated, and this uniting its oxvgen and carbon produces decompo nit ion by carbonic acid gas, the yellow of rlie egg first breaking, then follows the destruction.' Eggs are naturally designed to last as long as the hen requires to get her brood, and the life germ can he 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 fiom the time it is thus put up to the end of two years it will daily lose its albumen by transpiration, and wbile its carbonic acid escapes to a certain extent, the egg meat will be reduced two-thirda, and will shake. For culinary purpose.! they will do well. But we want a whole egg, not a half one, and we want ibera tre?tt. Hotter and lard and suet have been used for half a century, atiil nothing baa 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 freah the air must be excluded. It is the only philosophical treatmsnt 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, and that alone in lime will de* compose the egg.? Scientific American, IIow to Rktain a good Fack.? A correspondent has some good ideas on the importance of mental activity in retaining a good face. lie says: * We were speaking of handsome men the other evening, and I was wondering whjr K. had so lost the beauty for which, five years ago, he was famous. " Oh, it's because be never did anything," said n., he never worked, thought, or suffered.' You must have the mind chiseling away at the features. if you want handsome, middle-ag'd men.' Since hearing thai remark, f have been on the watch to tea whether it i? generally true, and it is. A hand ome man who doe* notiiing but eat and drink, growa flabby, and the fine linea of hia feature* are loat, bat the hard thinker haa an admirable sculptor at work, keeping hia fine linea in repair, and constantly going over hia face to improve the original design." 8omx IIoo*.?The Marion Cretctnt says Mr. Charles Ilaaeldell of that Cnun tv, last week killed two of hia bogs, which when dressed and hnng up. weighed one thousand and twenty five pounds. Out of them weighed six hundred and one pojoda, % j About Blood. Observe your mother when aire is packing a trunk, and you will see whatever the is most afraid will be spoiled, she is most careful to put in the middle, that it may be least exposed to accidents. And this is what a kind Providence has done with the arteries, which have the utmost cause to dread accidents, while the veins, which are much belter able to bear rough usage are allowed lo wander about freely just under the skin, lint when the bones happen lo take up a great deal of room and come near tha skin themselves, as is the case in the wrist, the artery is forced whether he likes it or not, to venture to the surface, and then we are able to put our fingers upon him. And there are others in the same sort of situation ; the artery of the foot for Instance. Ynn r.,^i ki?i t. ?J ? VU l?ni ?JM|IV PWIX3 UUMMI 19 IXJU uu you not! Well, it is tio more red then the water of n stream would be if you were to fill it with little red fishes.? Suppose the fishes to be retj, very small?aa small as a grain of sand? and closely crowded together through the whole depth of (bo stream ; the water would look quite red, would it not! And ibis it the way in whicb blood looks red ; only observe one thing; a grain of sand is a mountain in comparison witb the little red fishes in the hlocd. If I a ere to tell you they measured about the three thousand two hundredth part of sn inch in diameter, you would not be much wiser, so I p > <> fer saying (by way of giving you a more perfect idea of their minuteness) that there would be about a million ir. such a drop of blood aa would hang on the point of a needle. 1 say so on the authority of a scientific Frenchman? M. Bouillet. Not that he has oounted them, as you may suppose, any more than 1 have done ; but this is as near an approach aa can be made by calcu lation to the size of those fabulous blood fishes, which are the three thousand two hundredth part of an inch iu diameter. Giants?In a recent lecture a dis tinguished gentleman baid : The giant exibiied at liouen in 1330 measured neatly eighteen feet. Goradius saw a girt that was ten feet hgh. The giant Galabra, brought from Arabia to Koine under Claudius Cui-ar, was (en teet high. Fannum, who lived in the time ol Eugene 11, measured eleven and a hall feet. The Chevalier Scro, in hid voyage to the peak of Teneriffe, found, in one ol the cavern* of that mountain, the head of Gunich, a ho bad silly teeth, and was not less than fifteen feet high. The giaut Feriugus, slain by Orlando, nephew of Charlemagne, was twcn ly eight feel high. In 1814, near St- German, was found the tomb of the giant I*ornnt, who was not less than thirty feel high. In 1580, near Konen, was found a skeleton whose skull held a bushel ol corn, and who was nineteen feet high, I The giant Uncart was twenty twc feet high ; his thigh bones were found, in 1804, near the liver Moder. In 1820, near the castle in Dauphine a tomb was found thirty feet long, six teen wide, aud eight high, on which I was cut in gray stone, these words " Kintolochua Hex." i The skeleton was found entire, twentyfive and a quarter feet long, ten fee across the thoulders, and five feet fron , the breast bone to the hack. I Near Palermo, in Sicily, in 1516 I was found the skeleton of a oi*r>t thir ' ~ D tj feet high; and in 1550, another thir ty four feet long. Near Maxrins, in Sicily, in 1815, wm found the skeleton bf a giant thirty feet high ; the head wm the size of i hogshead, and each of bit teeth weigh ed live ounces. VeLocifBDisa.?We hare beard to ratio of velocipedes from the ether side ot the watel that it may be interesting to know practical! how fast tbey go, and how usefbl they at Hkely to he. In France, where thte institutio bae been most la use, thsy And no ditBenlt; ia attaining a speed of from twelve to thirtrei mUes aa hoar. Persoas skilled in workim them will go lAy mile# in Ave hours, witkou alighting from their vehicles. A party earn from Koueu to Pans, on the Slat of last Sep torn bar, a distance of eighty-A ve miles, betwee the breakfast and tha Vrenoh dinner hear, a early evening. A men hae driven one of thee ona hundred and twenty?tbree miles, durin twenty-four hours, takina his tine fur mat ? food out of tbe (Nino. It ot be drives u loop bill*, but tbo rider ?u(t dltmouul am drew it, whieb, from La lightneea, la rar; oatiljr done. A Veteran Trfo.?The Naabeill (Tennessee) Union, of the 71 It ull., saye We had the pleasure of rueeling ii the city yesterday, W. L. Barry, feq the oideat printer in the United Staler He ia looking just aa young a* when w< first kr.ew him, over thirty yeara ago.? lleia now in itio eigbly-oinlh {Mr, tot if put to the ta?t, could aet up hit tei ihoUMUid ewi H day, b On Making Winter Batter. When milking, be sure your bends i ere clean. Strain end piece in crocks i in e cool place in a good tuilk~bouse. Some argue long crock* are the beet; some that shallow ere the best AI though the shallow crocks will raise create the quickest, they are not so i good. Let tbein stand in the water until the cream is perfectly separated, then skim and put the cream into a large cream crock, where it it allowed to remain until it is perfectly sour. Here we may notice that the crocks and all v?o?U mtod nliniiM h? tnulHsil very lime before they ere laid after using. Ia cold weather it is sometimes needful to warm the sour cream bofore churning, but it is seldom the ca*e.? Freezing and scalding both spoil the cream for making good butter. Churn in an up and-down churn, which is undoubtedly the best churn there is to be found. Never use scalding water, as it ruins the butter, but give good elbow grease till done. Although, in dairies of more than one or two cows, a dog or horse power may be added, which saves a great deal of hard work. Take out the butter immediately, a*>d work out all the milk possible; then add a little salt, and let it stand until the next morning, when it should be worked over again, allowing no milk to remain in it. Then have your, butter crock scalded and rubbed with salt. Place the butter in it, packing as tight as possible; cover with a fine piece of muslin, and cover* ing with a brine which is to be made of salt and wuter.?Stock Journal. u Y*e " and M No."?A young lady has published a poem entitled M Have courage to say ' Nj.'" It is not, it may he said, addressed to her own sex, who need no auch advice. But " No" is a most formidable word, and though there are propel limes when it should be used, as in cases that the lady enumerates in her poem?whenever temp-led by the syren to enter billisrd-room*, to take wine, or visit gambling hells.? But the " No." when injudiciously uttered, is very often the seed of trouble The " No " is loo often spoken by pa rents from their own inappraeiation of thing that their children desire ; And the children refused, without a very nice discrimination in the premises, and feeling there is no harm in what they may ask, impute the refusal 10 tyrant, and as resistance to tyrants is obe' dienoe to Ood, they covet more strongly r the boon denied, and, if possible, secure it in defiance of the mandate. The word i " No,'* never should be uttered hastily, r and never without a reason fur it, which reason, if sound, will be admitted.? i But the sullen, absolute, unreasonable w No," produces ills that the parent more than the child is answerable for.? We have known a house made rnisera ble for a month by a parental refusal of some little indulgence ibat had no i hartn ip it beyond the fancy of the parent, and bent brows and sulkly looks i hardly compensated the affection that f mistakenly prompted tbc denial. De, pend upon it, there is often more dan> ger in saying " No " (ban " Yes." Dow an Alabama Planter Saved \ ma Cotton.? An intelligent planter in ( Alabama entirely escaped the ravages of the caterpillar last year, although it ' destroyed the cotton upon every other plantation in his county. Hi* crop t *u the finest he ever raised. The ! caterpillar came up to the fields of all his next door neighbors, but they did not cross his fences. The reason of 1 this was, he issued the sternest orders that not a single bird, except the jay, should be killed upon his plantation, K under any pretext whatever, lie allow ed little willow groves to grow in his t fields, and to them be sent a sack of oats every morning, which were scatter ed upon the ground. The birds fed upon the oats and swarmed in thou* sands around his fields. They exterb minated the cotton fiy. And hence ' there were no eggs, there were no cat* r erpillars, there were no larva, but there e was a blooming garden in the midst of " a blighted wilderness. Tbsre is no evil ' without its remedy?there is no disease j without a core.?Afacon Telegraph. The new wing of the Treasury De* - part men t at Washington is rapidly ap * proacbing completion. The three upr per stories are finished, and earpets are - now going down ready lor occupancy * by lha Internal Revenue Department. A The lower floor# will not be finished for p two or three months* The walla of the 1 M cash room " ere to be paneled with 1 rare specimens ol Italia.i marble. The marble will coat about $40,000. When finished, it will be the finest room in 0 America, if not in the world. 1 Maj. Bit ward Anderson, a veteran eitisen "* of Laurens, died in tbat riling* on Friday, * the 8th >aat., in ths 86th year of his age. lis e ?raa a natir# of Union, and removed to Laurens in 1824. For a great many years, ^ be held the position of pustniastar, and iisr> 1 ing his long and useful life, had the entire confidence and respect of Lb fullow-oilircn*. .1 a Self Sustaining Farms. Ex Governor Z. B. Vance, of North Caroline, in bit .tddrwt before the Border Agricultural Fair el Danville, e few weeks ego, offered the following practical suggestion : In e country so sptrsely settled ao ours, end where lands ere held in such large bodies, the theory of a division of labor is nol sound economy in farming operations. Every farm should be as neatly independent and self supporting in all respects as it can possible be made. In morcantile patience, a farm er should, if possible, be a general dealer to at least the extent of bia own consumption, l'lanting, therefore, as contradistinguished from farming?by which we understand a special devotion to cotton, rice, tobacco, or any great staple?is lislde to this objection, it is nol self sustaining. An iropeifect and unwise arrangement, that is, by which so tnany of our planters expend the proceeds of their staple crops for provisions and stock, thus paying double profits and oommisaions as well as shipping away the f.r ness of their sotIh every year and placing nothing back in lieu of it. Every man who tills the soil as a means of living should surety 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 enemy to the improvement of lands. It i?, I believe, an nccepted truth that there are no means if permanent improvement in our soils equal to the cultivation of some of the gras?ea and the rearing of flocks, which both retain and return fertility to tbe earth. We are here directly on the dividing line between tbe 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. Planter and Farmer. '' - - ' < i No Stand zr Monkkt.?-Judge David K. Carter, formerly of Ohio, now one of the judges of the United Slates District Court at Washington, is a gen tleman of marked character and abili ty, and, withal, a little eccentric. Not long since an Italian whs tried and convicted in liis 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 had learned any trade, to which a negative reply was given. The Judge then said : " In imposing upon you the lightest sentence permitted by tbe law, *nd in view of the fact that you have I no practical acquaintance with any of the mechanic arts, the Court would say that during the three years' confinement to which we now seulence you, you will have ample opportunity to learn some trade that will enable yeu to earn an honest livelihood ; but should you he unequal to this, yet deport yourself so as to win the approval of the officers of the pruon, I have no doubt, aa a reward for vour good conduct, they will cheerfully request the Governor of New York, at the end of your 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 ze monkey 1 not ze monkey ! I can stand se three year and ze hard work, but I no stan ze dam monkey P Tdlr Murmukinos.?Those who are poor in worldly goods are too much tfisposed to complain, l'overty 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 3 our enemies cannot prevail over true manhood, we care not how humble may be ila garb. IJo not stop to brood over jour misfortunes. Poverty may be a niUfur* tune; we dare say it is. But do no; add to your woes criminal weakness.? Oo resolutely to work. Look not at your present poverty. The proud, disdainful glances of the rich ; the malignity of your enemies, (all honest men have enemies ;) lbs jeers of those who plume tb?ra->elves on their doubtful lineage; should but strengthen yo?r determination to place yourself far Above tbeto all. - - ??? ArroisTussr.?The tfeverno/ ban appoint, ed Charles J. 8t<>lbrand ss Superintendent of the Stats Penitentiary, in place of Msj. Thomas B. Lss, who hat discharged lbs duties of the office in a meet creditable manner since the Inauguration of tbo institution. The appointment of Stolbrand bes not jret been confirmed by the Senate, but we presume thai tbrre will bj nodifienlty on this score, as the appointee Is thoroughly Radical, we believe, lie is a member of the Legislature from llrsu| fort, and la a foreigner, lie was in the Federal army, and Is said to bare enjoyed the benefits of a military education in Kurope. The first known ef him In thin State was as , Secretary of the Roeons ruoUvu Contention in February last. 111 Self-Made Men. The maxim that M every man is (be architect of bis own fortune," baa been strikingly verified and Illustrated in the history of Ainerican statesmen. We find the following oollectioa of fact* respecting some of our great men, that may prove interesting: Very few of tbe fathers of our Republic were the inheritors of distinction.? Washington was almost tbe onlv gentleman by right of birth in ail llial astonishing company of thinkers and aotors. Two or three Virginians, John Jay, of New York, and half a doten meaner moo from otb< r provinces were exceptions. Hut Franklin was a printer's hoy ; Sherman, a shoemake , Knox wava bookbinder ; Green a blacksmith ; John Arlao,. VI i-1 - -hu inaniiiai, idb boi1s ot poor farmers; and Hamilton, the roost subtle, fiery end electrical, but at the iam? time the most comp- aid and or* derly, genius of all, excepting the unapproachable chief, whs of as bumble pa?. rentage as the rest, and himself, at the begining, a cleik or shopkeeper.? And if we ooroe down to a late period, Daniel Webster was the son of a country farmer, and was rescued from the occupation of a drover only by the shrewd observation of Christopher Gore, whom he called upon for advice in respect to a difficulty arising from the sale of a pair of steers ; and John C. Calhoun was the son of a tanner and currier; the father of ilenry Clay belonged to the poorer Class of Baptist minister*; Martin Van Buren, during the fitful lei-ure of the day, gathered pine knots to light his evening studies; Thomas Corwin was e wagoner; Silas Wright, by heritage a machinist; and many others among oar stn'esmen who receive the applause and reverence ' of mankind, passed their earlier years , at what, in other countries, would be almost impassible distances from the eminences which they now enjoy. ! * - ? ^ ? ..11 BacOX asd Coax.?The Newberry Herald ssys: Cotton is a royal article in the world's commercs; at present, it commands a royal ptlce. We deem it proper to throw out a suggestion upon tks next crop. From al f wc can learn, more than ever, our planters I have in view to nlsnt -1 ? ? , -??ivu aiuivek CADIU 3 vely. It It * dangerous experiment? Kvery planter should, nt least, have In view to raise his own breadstuff's. The scarcity of corn and bacon cnhancea the | priee of labor. Labor, for the last twelve | months, has advanced at least twenty five ' per cent in value. The negro is disappearing, nobody knows where, and white labor does not, as yet, take his place. The whit* man will pause before he cotues, as a labor*" or, to a country not well supplied with beef and grain. Even at the present price of negro labor, the while laborer would not be willing to compete. If labor is to continue scarce, and the price of labor t<radvance steadily by the increase of the ear- fsoe in cotton, it is doubtful if the planter will be remunerated sufficiently by the probable advance In the price of the great' staple. In all probability, the priee of the bulk of the present crop is the maximums that the staple will attain. The single article of bacon now exhausts, to a large ex. tent, the wages of the eotored laborer and the profits of tha employer. These matters should be well considered-* in 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 popnlation. Let . us have bapon and corn. Extraordinary Pistol PracticeCaptain John Travis gave another ? *?. hibition of pistol shooting at bis pal lery last evening, in which he excelled any of his previous astonishing per'* formancet in this citv, by n aeries of* hazardous feats requiring the roost con* sutuinate skill on hia part, and extraor? dinary daring in that of lhM?ent!?*mai> who assisted in tbem. Mr. John Rover,, of Texas, held a cup on bis bead, and Travis fired a pistol ballet through il from the distance of twelve paces.? This feat was repeated twice, the balk going each time within an inch of (becranium of the ventursome holder.? The same gentleman also held between his fingers a small lemon and afterwards a business card about an inchand a half square, and fhiough each* Captain Travis put a bullet, at the samedistance, with one of the regular gal* , lery pistol*. Few people would care torun such risks as Mr. Rover did, and itwer *(111 eonW ?ac6?*?fullv iniiimw Captain Tra?ia* wonderful akilV. I I Chicago Tribune, Dec. 2T* -+++-P- , . , Tna Agricultural Report ahowe that year'* yield to be 005,000,900 hnibel* of corn, and *,506,000 bale# of cotton. The cotton woe distributed a* follow* t North Carolina, 140,000 halea; South Carolina, 150,000 baler; Georgia, 200,000 halea; Florida, 35,000 bah* j ' Alabaena, IH5.00V balei j blw.taalppv 400,00? 1 bale* ; Louisiana, 250,000 balef ; Ten*, 200,000 balea; Arkao#**, 205,000 bale* ; Tennessee, >00,000 bale*, other State* 75,000 balea. The 1 report atatea tbia eatimate which t* aarnredly below, rather than shore the actual yield, 1* not made for diatricts or cotton porta, tut f-ig tfuto* foparateljr.