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BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH AVILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1867. VOLUME XIY NO. 51.
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THE LITTLE KOBE OF WHITE.
nv MRS. B. T. 1'KRRT.
In a rosewood cradlo a baby lay ;
" Its mother win stitching, stitching away
On a little lobe of white.
One foot on the rocker, she hoped to keep
lJer froliespuie baby fust asleep,
To finish her work that night.
Jn every stitch of the garment she wrought
'Thi?1. lovinc mothpr luntoncd a thouirht?
Hopes for that lillle one?
And smiled on her babe with a happy prid?
As it slept ia its cradle by her side,
'Till that little robe was done.
Then elie folded tip the enuibrie and lace,
And kissed her little one's chubby face,
That smiled in iln infant glee.
She tossed it up and down in the air ;
How pretty you'l! look, little babe, when you
wear,
That new little robe, said she.
In a rosewood cofiiu the baby lay?
Its mother had wept the night away,
Watching its dying breuth.
With It clapped to her breatt fehe prayed to
keep
Her darling baby from going to sleep
Iu the cold, cold arms of death.
They buried the babe in the garment ju?l
wrought
Whopo every stitch held a hopeful thought?
From that loving mother'* sight.
On the marble 6tone she wrote with a tear,
"IIow many hopes lie buried here,
In that little robe of while."
Jn the Savior's anna a baby lay,
Frnm itn nriflin f?r a tu v
Ia the realms of love mi?l light.
The ongeld a garment had folded about
It? little form, which would never wear out?
A seamless robe of white.
WOBK FOE THE KOIfTH.
The heavy rains ami consequent
floods of thcoarly part of March, have
much retarded all the preparations for
putting in crops?but few days comparatively
in that month being fit Am*
ploughing, bedding or planting.
Corn.?Though tLo cotton planting
season in at hand, do not fdil to unt
in plonty of corn. All landn intended
for cotton, that are iuijvorfectly at.d
roughlj* prepared, had better be devoted
to corn and other crops. The
nocefsarjly high rates we are now
paj-ing for corn, when the expense ol
several hundred miles of traneporta.tion
has to be added to the original
coat of production; its current hi^h
price where pioduced, and the fact
that our railroad communication with
the Northwest are liable to be broken
up by such floods as wo have had the
past month, admonish us to plant a
large crop of this great staple. Make
our own corn cheap and abundant.
Corn will render labor cheaper and
easier to obtain. Cotton ia * great
crop, bat wo have yet to see the planter
that from small beginnings has
made himself a fortuno, who has eon
fined his agricultuial operations to the
production of cotton. The thriving
planters of our acquaintance, wh'ile
they made cotton the main product,
looked sharply after other crops, and
somehow did it, too, without seeming
to mako little it any less of the staple
than their neighbors. Besides cotton
bo sell, thoy generally managed to
have plenty of corn, what, peas, po tatoes
and bacon for home consumption,
and in their carefulness to make
a suro thing of this, ordinarily bad
something over. We don't think it
Iho prosent intercat of the planting
States to mako whect, corn or baon
for export, but we do believo thoy
should produce enough for boiue consumption.
The time npent in hauling
corn from the depot, would do a good
deal toward producing it at home.?
Add to this the fact that on most plantations,
about corn enough to run
them can bo made, without any material
interference with the production
of cotton, and then the other fact,
'that the man who makes both corn
<nnd cotton has, in a bad year two
chances to escape utter failure; fur, if
yhis corn is made at home, ho has that
fiuro, while, if a planter depends on
cotton to buy his corn, and tho cotton
crop fails, he is "dead broke," having
no resource?rioitber corn nor cotton.
Hake corn, tbon?produce everything
"tin. the way of food and forage needed
to kgep up your placo^ and let the
'jcdsold, abovn what is required
for tne wages of the hands, represent
Abo net profit of the cstato.
Then manure heavily?plow deep?
nse tbo best and heaviest seed you can
obtain. And let your after-culture be
of the roost thorough character?
. -working close and deop at the oarly
stago of the crop, but very shallow
when tbo roots extend, so that thoy
mav ha nnhmlron fnrlnn/1 fhnon fain
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things constitute tho whole system of
corn growing; Beep breaking np, especially
under the row?planting the
(corn below tho goneral I6vel?plenty
..i. v ,1 rv.fIii.Vfl .'ft?
of manuro applied?thorough early
working and frequent shallow stirring
of tho surfaco, during tho growth ol
tho crop, with scrapcr and swoop.
Col/on.?If you arc suro you have
got onough of corn and othor eroj>n
planted to supply your wants?making
a liberal allowanco for tho uncertainty
of tho seasons, then plant
cotton. 2s o other crop produced for
[ sale if nronerlv managed, will draw so I
littlo from mother earth. There are
instances of'level lands, with no other
manuring than resting the land every
second or third year, and tlio return
of all the seed and plant to tlio soil, in
which tho last crops picked were
much better than tho first. Wo have
.Mr. Dickson's word and exayiplc, to
prove that a cotton plantation can be
bo managed that ils productiveness
will increaeo each year, and the annual
incroaso of the crop will pay a
heavy pr< iit on the mono}* oxpended
in fertilizers. And, mark it, this way
of managing a cotton plantation, after
a little, is the only 0110 that will pay
with any certainty.
In planting cotton, it in a great
| thing to have tho ground in proper
i order at first?the beds straight, if the
i surfaco admits, or if not, without abl
nipt curves. Take time, then, to
: have tho noil well prepared, oven if
! you plant fewer acres. Tho harrow
i will he found useful in pulverizing the
surface of the bed.*, when rough arid
cloddy. Whilo it is very important to
get an early stand, it is bettor secured
by a thoroughly prepared soil, than
by bast}', untimely planting.
Sweet potatoes, bedded la6t month,
will soon begin to furnish "draws."
Good, fair, Bandy soils, and plenty of
manuro. ato the nrimo refill mil oh for
j success. Break your ground very dee/)
! ?opon wide and deep furrows?scat
j t?r good, well-rotted manure, or roti
led chips, asht'8; ice., thickly along in
i lliiH furrow, and throw on that a broad
j 7
: and rather flat bed?tun over ibis bed
i lightly, with a rake to pulverize and
lev*l it, and you are ready fur planting,.
The ''drawn" should be careful
j ly taken?tbo roots dipped in a thick
! batter, made with woods earib, ashes
. and fresh cow-dung, equal parts fitirj
red into water, and the plants set with
' 2. "diliiilrt'' nr nl lw?r ul ii-lr nlnnir 1 ;"i
J8 inches apart in the row. It the
i weather is very dry, plant after 1 P. .M.,
i and pour a gill or ho of water arounu
j tho rout of each "draw," leaving only
i dry earth, on (he surface, to prevont loo
! rapid evaporation, from next day's
I son. Tlio alter culture consists in
i lightly scraping tbe bides of the beds,
j to keep tho weeds down, and stirring
! the earth a little, if it shows a tendon!
cy to bake or become hard. As hood
as the vines bo"in to cover the ridges
O O
anJ spread across ihe rows, j-ou may
! lay the crop by. Close attention to
' t hAan liilltQ f I li fill* l.i.iuaim#
i ?? v v? "o
j Providonee,) will onsuro n good yield j
| and tho crop ought to bo largor this
i year than ever before.
i
j Chinese sugar cane, lor syrup,
| hhould bo planted as soon as ihe
j weather beeomcs cot tied and warm?
: a little after corn planting time. The
people of the \\rest. where the climate
| is not so favorable for tins plant as
1 with us, are still planting it largely,
! for tho produetion of syrup and foJdur
1 ?much more so than ourselves. It
! mar I\a nlnntpH lotct* t.lum / ?? r?
J ? f " "I
fur a Byrup crop j but ifyou want,al:<o,
an ufter crop of forage and (perhaps)
seed, you should plant suon.
Corn in the drill, Millet, Hungarian
Gruss and other forage crops must bo
put in largel}'?but it is entirely useless
to plant these quick-growing and
exhaustive green crops, unices you
preparo tbo ground mo.-?t doeply and
thoroughly, and apply "any quantity"
of manure. Early crops of cow poas
may also bo sown. For fodder,* we
prefortosow them in the drill, but il
intended to luru under for manure,
BUW uixmuuuBi/.
Jerusalem Artichokcs mny bo planted
in low spots, wasto places, Bides of
gullies, &c., ann will yield good food
for. bogs.
Plant also, if your soil is sandy, a
lew acres in "Goober peas," which
( will bo found very usoful for your
fattening swine.
. Plant, also, tho Chufa, or u Earth
Almond" largely. It is a moat prolific
ground nut, highly rollshed by hogs,
ohiokons an(\?pooplo genorally 1 ?
A t-? .t
- ooumern uuutvator.
$1 rs. Harriot Boccher Stowe and
Charlea-ii-jechor, her Brother, sailed
from New York, en route to Florida,
in which State Captain Frederick B.
Stowe pwnaand is cultivating * farm.
Ha expccts to -remain about eix
mohthf. -
EXPERIENCE OF A PRACTICAL FARMER.
Editors Tkleorach?O'cnflancu : 1
send you an extract from a letter received
by mo from I>avid J)ickson, ol' I
Hancock county*. The stress of tlio i
lato war drovo mc into his neighbor- :
hood, and gavo mc an opportunity of :
learning much of tho system and euc- I
cess of this enterprising planter. Kif- i
teen years before the \vnr, he c -m- I
menced planting on what was con-.id-i <
ered light sandy lande, much exhaus- i
tod, with a capital of ?25,000. When j
the war broko out, hi.s capital was
eighteen limes larger. This ro.-ult
was brought abait by his energy and
system ; by improved modes <f culture;
by improvements in agricultural.
implements; by attention to the 1
health and cmilort of his laborers; l>\ I
nursing and protecting bis stock ; and
care bestowed upon his boos, bis 01- 1
chards and diary. Abovo all, and i
mainly, his golden harvest was reaped ]
lrom the judicious uno <1 fertilizers. ]
Believing the views he advat.ccs wiil i
lie interesting to your agricultural
realers, the extract from his letter is
submitted, with the hope thai his ex- <
ample nu?y be imitated by our planters.
Yours, respectfully, 1
J AMI'S A. NISI JET.
I
KXTliACT.
During the lust year, 1 learnt some
valuable new k-s?sms: One was the
j
truiniug o( hands to double Llie amount
of work, with more ease and less
waste ot swe:it and muscle. .My iormer
hands being better trained than
k.o n.n>, 1
uuiJiSy iiiiu ujiv;in mail i LWUIU
give, and nine-tenlhs of them k-ft inc.
1 then employed hundu from as many!
as forty plantations, and got none';
that knew how to work to any advan- i
tage. I had hands before tho war
tbat eould pick 000 pounds of cotton i
in a da}', all by day-light, and allj<
hands tbat went to the fiuld averaged'
oUO pounds per day, without a lick or!
a white mun in the (hid. All oi' my j
trained bands havo now applied to;
c jtne back, prcferiing oho third of the '
crop gathered on my place, to one !
half on the placus worked lust year.
Whilst 1 owned litem they told mo to'
plant iW acres in corn and cotton, and
17 in wheat and oat?, and thoy would!
cultivate it. wit h iiiV iiiil in iirci'i'i'i'iifiiii
to 2U acres under an overseer, and J
could do it with more ease. My crop*:
before the war aveta^ed meSlOUO |ior 11
hand. 1 divided thus: &2G0 fur jaa-j
nure; ?200 lor horse powor, tool*, &c.;
$300 for land and ?:?00 for labor. My j
eslimato is now, wlieu* hands work .
woll, to divide as follows :
First take pay fur all purchased mahuie?the
balance to go onc-thiid for
land rent?one Lhiid fur Iiortc-power
uuvi ?m iuuib, IIIV.IIHJIIIJ; H1"* n "gOllh
carts, wheat-tlua>her, &c., hoes and
axes excepted, w liich each hand .should
furnish?and one-third to the laborer,
being divided among tlio hands that
produce ; tho cotton seed to bo returned
to the land, and all crops left in the
field urigatherod, to go to tho owner
of the 1 tiid.
Now as to commercial manuros, &c.
lam Wiittcn frequently to know of
whom I purchase, stud what kind I use.
John Merryrnan & Co., of Baltimore
are my agents, but there aro other
parties who will do justice. Money is
?u piumuui uv nm norm, mat speculators
purchaso eacli car^o as soon as
it arrived, and hold it lor an advanco.
80 thnl tho planters and farmers must
act upon fi'.nno uniform plan. The
only pian I sco now, that will do any
good, is this: Send your ehrck on to
.Baltimore, with instructions to purchase
any manipulated or mixed manures.
Many of them, no doubt, have
merits, btit-lho planlor had better do
his own mixing. Then ho will know
what ho has got, and save tho profit.
Tho best manures bring tbe bolls on
cotton early, and a drouth then, with
half a crop would check the growth ;
whilst tho cotton with an inferior manure,
and but fow bolls, would be injur
ed; the rains setting in would injure
the first far more than the last. (?) Tho
raanur.es I am now usingarecomposed
thus : Peruvian Gubno, Bono*, Salt
ard'Plastor?rone hundred pounds of
tho last. Bones are but ef limited
supply ; resort must bo had to some of
tho phospbatic Guanos, of which Co
lumbia paid best, but is now exhausted.
Tho true plan, is to try all manure*
on tbeir own morits?then do your
own selecting and compounding.?
There are some of tho phospbatio Guanos
that I bave not tried, but my
opinion is, tbat they are too high to
pay a profit. Manure should yield at
least donble-tho cost, to pay for capi~
tal, labor, taxes and all risks of worm*,
a i p.? - I
uAv/ubu^ uvuu^ au? /
. . . Very truly yonra, '
> '*' HDAtf II> D1C&SON; /"
Hancock ,
ROTHSCHILD AND WATERLOO.
Rothschild's greatest achievement
u ovor-reaching distances and his lellow-speculators
was in 1815. Jle hum
near the chateau do llougouniont on
the 18th o( Juno, watching as eagerly
:?s the leaders, Bonaparto and Wellington
themselves, tho progress oi
Lho lattlo of Watorloo. All day lon<; 1
ic followed the lighting with strained
*yoM, knowing that on its issue depco-1
led his wel'aro as well as Hm-ope's. j
\l nunsot ho fiiiw that the victory was
.villi Wellington and the Allien. TIk-h, j
.viiliout a moment's dulay, ho nioun- j
.t'd :i liorso llmt had been kept, in |
vadiness for him, and hunied liomc.vaids.
Kvety whore 0:1 his road fresh
torsos or carriages wore in waiting to
?el|? him over tin* jjiMiind.
Hiding or driving all night, he
reached Ostend at daybreak, to find
llic sea ho btormy that the boatmen
refused lo trust themselves to it. At
lust lie prevailed upon a fisherman to
nialci! ihe venture for a t oward of .CSU.
In (11:i 1 \v:.V l*i> i*<<!ic!\ofl T).?vi?r A I i
Dover, and at the inlermciliat" stages
on the road to London, oilier horses
were in waiting, and lie was in .London
before midnight. Next morning,
the morning of the 2Uih of .June, he
was one ot the lir.il lo ent er tho Stock
Exchange. In gloomy whisper he
told those who, as usual, crowded
round him for news, that lilueher and
his Prussiai.s had been routed by Napoleon
before Welli igtun hud bee i
able lo reach iho field; by himself he
could not possibly succeed, and, therefore.
tho cause of England and her
ill lies was gone.
The funds iell as they were meant
to fall. Every one was anxious to
sell, and ilolhschild and his accredited
agents sculled at all who brought
them scrip for purchase. Hut scores j
/ 1 _ - -? ? ?>'
1>I UllKHOWII IlgClllS wrc ilu WO I Iv till
that <i:iy, find till tho next. Before
the Slock Kxchungc il ..sed on the afternoon
of iho second cI;i\-, when
Lhan Ji'jl'isehiid'a strong boxes wore
l ull of paper, he ani on need, an hour
or f?o before the news c:imc tlm.ujh
otlnr channels, tho real issue of il.e
contest. A ery soon the funds wcic
higher than they had been during
many previous weeks; and Jioihs^
child found that he l.ad innJe Homethin^
like :i million pounds by his
quick traveling and clever misrepro
fjontatioii. Olhor millions were collected,
ralhcr more blowly, by other
i ^ ,.r ? i i,? _..i
ii auraLLiwiin ui ?i i.au uaiurc.?
Meyer Jiot/nchild. lly II. It. J'ox
JJournn.
FOUH THINGS.
Wo hope oui- readers will not think
that \vc arc unseasonably 'harping upon
one string,' when we again insist upon
the necessity of laj-ing definite plans
for work to bo done. This makes the
diflVron';o between succrsH and failure
? between thrift and unthrift, provided,
of course, that such plans are
made, as may be, and are, carried out.
An old farmer knows by experience
what may be done, by what has been,
and it is well fjr the young farmer not
til linilnrtlibn Inn mnuli
ww ujuvu. oyr|ivjiml (Ij)IIIl
it, time will not hang heavy on 3*0111*
hands. Do what you undertake thoroughly
well, hut do not "putter" and
fuss to no account. Especially regard
four things : First?"Your own health
and that of the family, especially that
tf tli0 ftood wife?relieving her in
over)* po.-.hiblo way, by servants, by
washing machine and wringer, by sow
ing-muchine, by your own hojpl'ul care,
w,-licit ude, and interest in her work
and cares. Second?System: Having
everything yo according to a preconcerted
plan. Third ? Time: lioing
prompt, up early, having ehoies dono,
uroiiKiubt, rotiay at me moment, and
the work of the day begun as nearly
us possible at the eamo hcur daily?
itiid ho through tho day. Besides, allowing
full resting spells, peimft no
loitering of men or teams. Fourth:
It you employ one or more hands,
impose a strict responsibility in regard
to certain work, und enforce the saiuo.
Tiiua things will go smoothly.
Thoro is one thing iarmere aro very
apt to neglect, and that is the kitchen
garden?many of them hardly glance
at tho hints in anolhor column. A
gooa vegeiauie garden is the most
profitable part cf any farm- Manuro
will pay best applied there, and labor
will produce more comfort, food and
gratification if expended in the garden
than ehowhere. And io tho neighborhood
of villages there are always
quick sales for fresh vegetables, and
uy mo preparation 01nt^ie more
ground and a email additional cost for
seed and tillage/ oo incone^derabje inCome
Jen ay ba derived. Gp^ijpjc oTWA
AyriculturUt.
THE FRUIT GARDEN.
The fig can still bo safely transplanted.
Cleft, grafting may ho continued
on the applo and pear until ;
tlio young shoot begins to elongato,
but it is better to do it earlier in the
Reason. Newly planted trees, as well
as those previously set out, if not
pcifectly erect, should be fastened to
firmly planted sinkes. Those newl\
planted, it will bo well to mulch di <
rectly alter rain. As thcro is still
danger of frost, if your iVuit bus not
boon j-et destroyed, have ]>rc|)ured
so mo liit li^htwood, atid piles of wet
tun, saw dust, or other damp trash
near at hand, and uso us directed in
our last number.
Should the now shoots of the vino
be frozen, they should bo rubbed off,
and other shoots will bo produced
that will yield a crop. If tho lirBt
shoots are but partially killed, thvy
will not fruit, but will provont other
buds from starting, thai, would nlmni
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freely if the injured sprouts, wcro removed,
iind bear u fair crop a little
later than usual. Itub oft' superfluous
shoots.
Finish pruning over-vigorous trees,
also, tho peach which had been delayed
for fear of hastening tho time of
blooming. When tho young shoots
of trees that havo been pruned arc
an inch in length,- suppress all that
are useless, or badly placed, permitting
only those to remain that aro
needed for fruit, or the bouuly of tho
li ce. .Remove and thin out, tho suck
or.s of tho fig, allowing not over four
or live to remain. If dwarf pears
are too full of fruit buds, sometimes
no fruit will pet, as the
.strength of tho treo is all exhausted
in blooming. Of such, wo ofien renu?"o
one-half, and sometimes twoi
birds, ot' tho buds or blossoms, and
iind fruit to set well, and grow finely,
on trees that, without this caro, cnliroly
failed. A part is always bolter
than the whole, when a treo in loaded
with oilher blossoms or fruit.
Strawberries may still bo planted,
ai d Uaspberries set out. Cut down
tin' latter nearly to the ground. Both
n-ill r-r\l\in I n I linni.:....
??? iiuai, ywar.
Finish planting heeds of the Apple
unci Pear. Attcr.d to newly grafted
trees, filling tho cracks with wax,
and removing euckers and water
I
sprouts, that would abstract the Bap :
lVom the graft.
Keep a watch upon inscets, and destroy
the noxious ones as thoj" appear.
Their name is icgion and by our clearing
up the forest, they are driven to
tho orchards and lruit gardens', and
are yearly moro and moio dostruc
tivo.? S. Cultivator.
Death at the Bkkaicfast-Table
? Robert Bruco, a celebrated Scotch
mini.-ter, fiat at liis break fast-table ono
mornii.g. Having calon a boiled egg,
lie turned to bis duugbtor and fli'd :
"1 think 1 am yot hungry ; you may
bring mo anoilicr egg."
Ho tiien grew thoughtful a moment,
and muMtig a little, added :
' Hold, daughter, hold ! my Mastor
calk-th me!"
Here his sight fsilcd him; but calling
for a Bible, ho requested his
daughter to placo his finger on .Romans
8 : 38, 39. Tbi* being done he
repented the verso, dwelling oppetially
on, "I nm persuaded that neither life
nor death shall bo able to separate mo
from the lovo of God, which is in
Chri&t Josu3 my Lord." Ho then
paid;
"God bo with you, my children. I
have breakfasted with yon, and nhall
blip with my Lord Jobub Christ this
night!"'
Tlicso were his last words, for, with
out a shiver or a groan, ho at onco
started on his flight to cvorlasting
glory.
Reador, you breakfasted with your
family circlo-this morning.- Suppose,
liko tlio good Mr. Bruco, yon should
dio suddenly to-day, with whom would
you sup to-iiight??Oood News.
l)?f.r Ploughing.?We have ourpelf
experience in deep ploughing.?
( \ ? * At7l\fl<i{iin/)A 1 a 4 llfi f Al?/v
v/ui i/A|;w>vnvu id wur*w unu UIMIU |
can turn ovor tho best of our land
quite as deep a* it is judicious to turu
it; but lot a subsoil plough folfow in
tho samo furrow without turning .up
tho earth. The best crops wo havo
over made, were by this method, an'd
wo think wo will bo backed by farmers
gonorally that we aro corrcct in
our experience and judgment.
Alow No5?ttern planters the past year
cfcwe Booth to teach the pftbplo how
to farm, tfutin the eoqncl - they hav o
found out to their oost .that,what ban
hd/doijff: 2?orth, is not 'practicable
Smith. They have failed ir^theyg^ntiCi
patiO 1)8, notwithstanding OOca-~
"linnfkl vhnAflf? h?>>
MVVJJ HUV I
resuft.?MilledgtvUh &&*4et% *
i5L?m. JBBwwBSEb'SjfetL'ii-. -f <
RAISE FOOD CROPS,
Editors South eiin Cui.tivator :?
Will you, us u favor to our poor Cotton
stricken countiymen continuo trying
to impress upon all thut plant a seed
of cotton this year, tho absolute necessity
of raiding plenty of provisions
first, and then what cotton tliey can.
l?\>r as you say tlioy will get moro
money for a small crop than for a
large ono, and liavo less tax to pay, bo
...UUj.^.iuvjuu ui vAiurtiun pricos iroin
our Western corn raisers, and muko
them feel less independent?stop the
llow of Southern wealth into Northern
pockets, and instead of being tho poor
dependent fools that wo aro likely to
become, if wo rely on tho North and
West to feed us, wo can, by raising
plenty of provisions of all kinds, have
more time to raiso manure, to ditch,1
and to improve our farms in various
ways, and thereby conduco lo our
comfort and happiness, and be and
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foci, occupying our political position.
Wo should also bcconio our own Manufacturers,
and encourage all enterprises
that aid in establishing the independence
of our section. Here we are,
although tho war has been stopped so
short a tiruo, clothing our families
with Northern-made calico and homespun
and hats and bonnets?strutting
ouiselv'.s around in Northern made
hoots and shoes?riding in Northorn
buggies?patronizing Northern tailors
wearing .Northern made coats, pants,
&c. Who could bcliovo that so short
tiino ago, wc woro trying to cut cach
other's throats, and liaving Northorn
mercenaries robbing U3 of our spoons,
knives and forks, watches, gold and
silver, and oven to our baby wearing
clothes?to Bay nothing of our blood,
and tbo deprivation of tbo right of
choosing our rulers ? And now fivesixths
of tbo very men that wero engaged
in deadly conflict against tbo
North, are exerting themselves in
every poanible way, to enable those
wl.o are evidently etilL our cnemieB,
to buy clothing chcap, and to sell
eveything they possibly can mako to
us, at as dear a rate as possible, by
depending on them, evon to raise our
bread arid bacon?to say nothing of
of the thousands of other things.
May Providence awaken our people
to a seneo of their true situation, and
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ceivo what is tbo proper course for
them to pursuo, in relation to this
momontous subject.? Sovthern Cultivator.
INFLUENCE OF FEMALE SOCIETYIt
is bettor for j*ou to pass an evening
now and then in a lady's drawing
room, even though tbo conversation
bo alow, and you know the girl's
song b^- heart, than in a club, tavern,
or pit of a theatre.
All amusements of youth to which
virtuous women aro not admitted?
rely 011 it?aro deleterious in their
nature.
All men who avoid fomale society,
have dull perceptions, and aro stupid
or have gross tastes, and rovolt
against what is pure. Your club
swaggerer?, who aro sucking the
butts of billiard cues all night, call
female society insipid. Poetry is insipid
to a 3'okel ) beauty has no
charm for a blind man j music docs
not please a poor beast who docs not
know ono tuno from anothor ; and as
a poor epicure is hardly ovor tired of
water eauchy and brown broad and
butter, I protest that I can eit for a
wholo night talking to a woll-rcgulated
and kindly woman, about her
girl's coming out, her boy at collego,
and lilco tho cvoning's entertainment.
Ono of tho great benefits a man
derivos from woman's socioty, is that
ho is bound to bo rospcctful to thom.
lho burnt is ot great goou to yoar
moral man, depend upon it. Our education
makes most of us solfluh men
of the world. Wo fight for ourselves,
wo push for ourselves, we yawn for
ourselves, wo light our pipos and say
wo won't go out; wo prefer ourselves
and our ease; and tho greatest good
that comes to man from woman's society,
is that lie has somebody to
think for himself, somebody to whom
ho is bound to be constantly attentive
and rcBpotful.? [Thackeray.
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A Bargain.?Tho Boston Jjdurnal
learns that tbo "Sprague porofiaeo,"
about which nil Maine has been agog,
is at last effectively concluded. It
encladpt tho^^ojperty and^auchises
Of the Kennebec Water Power" Company
, and ii largo tract of suilrOutjding
lapd.. Altog^bo^ the property is
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MUSIC OF SOLOMOH'S TEMPLE.
The disentombing of Assyrian sculptures
and tho deciphering of Assyrian
and Egyptian inscriptions, liavo opened
now iiclds of investigation in almost
cvory departraor.t of knowledge.
Among the branches of scienco which
have shared in theso discoveries, that
of music lias beon bcnclitod largely.
Tho accounts of ancient musical instruments
woro vaguo, and our ideas,
especially of llebrow muaic, were
uumusuu, mi rcccnuy sculptures and
paintings have been brought to light _ ..
which dolincato tho musical instruments
of tho early Oriontal nations,
and in a number of cases voritablo
specimens liavo boon diseutombod.
Such, for example, is an Egyptian
harp found in Thebes, with its strings
yet pcrfect enough to vibrato again,
after a uilcnco of thrco thousaud
years.
Tho rnoro reccnt investigations
provo that tho parent of all known
musical scicnco was Assyria. From,
tho Assyrians, tho Hebrews and tho
Egyptians, and, indeed, all Eastern
nations, derived thoir knowlodgo of
music. Tho unvaried monuments
show that in tho timo of Senna-cherib
music was a highly eultured art, and
iiiuou uuvu ujv.i?lou mrougn gonorations.
This polished nation used a
harp of twenty-ono strings, tho frame
of which was four feet high, which
accompanicd minstrels' songs, or waa
homo in tho danco. Tho lyro of tortoise-shell,
the duublo pipej the tram
pet, drum, and boll were common.?
Even of the bagpipo, representations
have been discovered, though nono of
stringed instruments, liko the violin,
played with tho bow.
In all delineations of social or worohiping
assemblies, musical instruments,
very liko onr modern ones,
have a prominent place. The Hebrew
music, at tho time of tho Exodus, was
purely Egyptian; but it was much
modified subsequently by association
with Asiatic nations. In the temple
oi Jerusalem, according to the Talmud,
Blood a powerful organ, consist- ' i
ing of a windchest with ten holes,
containing ton pipos, cach pipo eapa
bio of emit ting ten different Bounds by
means of finger holes, so "that a hundred
sounds could bo produced by it.
It was provided with two pairs of
bellows and ton keys, so that it could
bo played with the fingors. According
to tho rabbins, it could bo heard
a great distance from the Temple.?
N. V. Musical Gazette.
What Industry Will Do.?The
Waco (Texas) Register saye last year
a young man living near tbat placo?
let bis namo bo known?Albert Sears
rented a piece of good land, hirod ono g
I good old freedman. and with his own
hands wont to work to cultivate tKo
eoi!. Ho worked manfully and well,
and now for tho fruits of bis industry:
IIo has gathererod twenty bales ?f
cotton, two thousand bushels of corn,
and mado four hundred gallons of molasses
from sorghum. He has also
somo corn to spare. Ho has soli six
toon hundred bushels of corn for
twolvo hundred dollars in gold, obtained
Ihrco hundred for his molasses, j**
and his cotton is good for eighteen
hundred more?making Ja all three *
thousand and throe hundred dollars. U
Ue was at some trifling expenso daring
the cotton pickipg time. v 4
Absurd. To make 400 gallons of
syrup in cotton picking time besides
eatheiing all that cotton would wo
should think require " aorao trifling
extra expense," for labor, above what
any two hands oould do.?Ed. Bq. Cult.?S.
Cultivutor.
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Thk Highland Chief.?There Is a \i
touching fact related m history of a
Highland chief, of the noble house of
McGregor, who fell woonded by two
balls, at the battle of Prestonpana.
Seeing thoir chief fall, the elan wavered,
and gave the enemy an advanvantage.
The old chieftain beholding
the effects of his disaster, raised himself
on his elbow, while the blood
rrn&Vic*A in bfi*nntwo fVom KJa ?Ann/la
and cried aloud, "I am not dead, my
children; I am looking at yoa to -set*
you do your duty" These words re*' * '
viv.ed the sinking courage of the bray*
Highlanders. There was a oharm in
the fact that they stjll fought under
the eye of their chiof. *!> roused ? .
them to put forth their mightiest en-"' .1^. i
orgioB, and<they did all that
strength could do to turn and'Htiiiv ^-v : ^
the-dreadful tide of battle.?Christian i*
Treasure.
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Examine yourself., o^the close 9f
euob day, and aak yonr#einfyouhayp ,
boon aa carneat in seCTing Qod aa gya
Lave boon to prQcaro Vem^orarwi^^