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* tr ^ ? " - ?- ~ A ' ?- - - , . . . Tr^. _"IT1_" BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. FRIDAY. AUGUST 20, ISC!). VOLUME XVII?NO. 17. How Sho Kissed Me the First Time. She stood b-low fro, wh -r-* the vines Jlulf liid the fac?- s<> woiiJivim fair ; The tfluncii g sunbeam l?-ft a ruy Of glory on her gol leu Iiuirl Iler sweet brown eyes looked up to mine, With a)! a child's simplicity ; Tn. in their drj>'hs 1 fain had read More thou a passing thought for me I The ti> y hands nn 1 soft white arms Clost ly the tteUis work entwine; The rosy lit>s held tidier f-ast Than amber clusters from the vine! I ftocpfd and "whispered soft aud low, So sueied seemed the w ord* to me, iil :?/. ... .i" r ..i. i i ... r aio^ ni?-i x annua m jiii ouuucii icur, And thou 1 waited trusUuIIyl Qufck. lik* the glow of curly morn, *lbe blu-bt-8 spread o"er cheek and brow; She bends that fair nnJ graceful he.id? Tboov brownest 1-3 e? aie dewy now 1 And then she mleod tominc the lips That should be mine foreVi r mure; And nil tin- earth, and air, ntul sky Win glorious us ne'er before I Through all my life, in g- od or ill, Till hushed in bile nee of lh<* grave, Jly lip? with glad dnitht will feel That first warm ld?s my darling gavel Njlw YoiiK.May 111. 1809. L. An Oxford Story. "Now my dear Frank," naid my .father, replenishing his glass the while with some very particular port the old Butler had brouirht out thnt evening in my honor, "as you start for Oxlbrd early to-morrow, I may as 1 well say now what little I wish to . say to you respecting the important step yon are about taking in entering , university life." I took some filberts and listened attentively. 1 'The Hocial advantages of the uni- ( versity," continued 1113* father, "are, I , hold, of very great importance ; but I ?lo not wish you to sacrifice its educational advantages, to?to?its?its ? ahem ! ( "Oh, 110! certainly not," I interposed (somewhat vaguely, perhaps.) "So I shall expect 3-011 to take your degree in the usual course; if as a ( mere pass man, well and good; if with honors all the better. Although you will not have to earn your bread (in ( the accepted use of the term,) you { will fiud such advantages of use." I assented to all this, inwnrdlv flo. J J ? ~ 1 riving no stnuil consolation from the ^ fact that I should not bo obliged to cncountor any oxani.nation at oucc. j y as my matriculation had already bceu ! , triumjihantly accomplished. "I shall allow you five hundred pounds a year and the expenses of a horse," added my lather; '-and 1 shall ( give orders for you to he supplied ( "with sound and ivholesome port. On this I shall expect you to li^e without incurring any debts. If you do run ] into ili'tii' vriii timet. <liu/.t ?... "H , J ? u.??.u?.gv ?W sueh liabilities out of your own earn- \ ings." One of my father's great eharac- < teristics was firmness. Ilia was gen- j uine firmness, an<l had nothing to do j with its weak counterfeit obstinacy. I knew that he meant what he said < about my paying all debts by my 1 own earnings, and that it had not been added merely for the purpose of , giving weight to his warnings, or sea- j Boning his advice with the condiment called "solemn chaff." Of eourse I j had no intention then of incurring i debts; but I felt that I should have to accept the nltcrnativc if 1 did. j A few words shall dismiss my uni- < versity experience. Five hundred a year with the expenses of a horse (to i this a servant was added,) with a gra- i tuitous supply of port wine, seemed i in contemplation a mine of wealth that would be fully equal to all my < necessities. So, relying on the plenitude of my resources, I Btarted a sec- 1 ond horse, and even a third during the hunting season. I liked (in com- 1 mon with all other Oxonians I ever 1 made acquaintance with) easy chairs and luxurious furniture. 1 was fond of looking at handsomely bound books, if I did not read them vcrj' carefully; and good pictures I had quite a passion for. * In music I took o/> A ?" n ' g< vmv uvugiiti dv ? jjiunu piuuu ione, hired at the rate that would have paid its price once a year, formed a conspicuous feature in my rooms All these likings (and many others of 0n expensive nature might be added,) togothor with a great taste for pleasant and genial society, sufficed to render my eareer an expensive one. One thing X cau conscientiously aver, if money was wasted thought essly on capricious whims and pleasures, it was not waRted on any pursuits that could be condemned as vicious. The result of all thi? nrnoniii. I ture may be easily gaessed. i I was never blowed ; bat in tbose periodical encounters with the examiners the university rales obliged me to engage in, I may say that the former always died game. Never ehall I forget those last final rounds, conducted across that awfol preen table, When ?U one'#j mental yogilfatic scieneo was brought into piny to make a very small partial knowledge reach the whole length of a subject; while enthusiastic friends, with mistaken kindness, looked on in breatli, less sileii"c, and eneouraged mo with smiling glances of imaginary pats on the back, as 1 turned toward them with a sickly smile of recognition, and a hollow pretense of being quite at m}* ease. But the time came when all these ordeals had been safely passed, and I was going to "put on my gown" next degree day. So I went round to collect my various bills, determined to be business-like, and to arrive at an exact knowledge of my position. Af- j tor some persuasion, the coy trades-1 man sent in their hills, not to ask for payment, but pledges as it were of their confidence in my honor and solvency. After two or three efforts in addition (compound) that brought each time varying results, I arrived j i at the conclusion that I owed nearly eight hundred pounds. i .My father's words recurred to me, not by any means for the first time, | and 1 sat myself to wondering how I ', could earn it. Literature?the writing of a successful .iovcI that should i accomplish the whole matter as by ! the magic of a fairy's wand?was the j | first idea that presented itself, as 1 ; ( believe is done to very many others , under similar circumstances. I dis- . missed the thought as impracticable. . A brighter one succeeded. I would , get a tutor-ship. Many of mv ac- f ipiaintanccs had done so. Certainly , Lhey were usually honors men, and j not heirs to baronetcies and ten or twenty thousand a year. But I \ might seek one in the guise of an ( ordinary B. A., and none need know , that, my prospects in life pointed to i ;ue possession ol an old li Lie, and Jar | ! spreading estates in two western I t iounti'ies, not to mention a street in i May lair and a house in Belgravia. c "But you will want testimonials and j 4 that sort of thing, you know," said < , Hatfield of Balfol, with whom I was ] iiscussing my plans over a cigar. | "Grantham, my coach, will manage r Jiat for me, I havo no doubt," I an- t ?wered. a "Well, if 3'ou get any decent thing, f M* lr Aon it. fin* tim mrtnfKu 1 S % -- ? 1' - - *-noF x ill 1U lUi fl i plow," he observed. Bearing these words in mind, it ivas with a feeling of justifiable pride [hat, a few mornings after, 1 carried some half a dozen letters in my hand ;o his room, when 1 was going to jrealtfast. 1 had called at the Union >n my way to look at the letter-rack; ind I must confess to a feeling of considerable surprise when I beheld .hero sundry missives bearing the ' nystie initials I had adopted in my uivertisemcnt in llie Guardian. "uy return ot post, tool" I inward- j y exclaimed. "Parents must take ^ he baifr very easily, or tutors must L be Rcarce." 1 hurried away, as I was late, without opening them, reserving this r pleasing task for Hatfield's rooms and presence. "Is it a dun that I sec before me ?" 8 jried that gentleman, as I entered, letters in hand. * | "Behold the triumph of advertising j *nd education!" I rejoined, showing ^ Lhe letters in triumph. j i, A his! thoy wore all circulars from igents, who would be happy to placc X. Q.'s name on their registers, &c. c I looked rather blank, as I bad no J1 fancy for executing my search after r employment in this manner. 3 "There is no harm in it, you know," 1 said llatficld ; ''but of course, unless a a man is all honors bo cannot pick 8 uut and choosc, and you must take | T what they send you, or get nothing at j * all." c But I was reduccd to litis; for ^ Grantham, to whom I confided my plan, called at my rooms during tho i day, and offered a solution of the 1 difficulty. < "If you arc really in earnest about t this, 1 think I know of a thing that I will exactly suit you. It is to pre pare a young fellow for Oxford. They t want a man who is a gentleman, up f to the work, and fond of country * sports, hunting, &c. But what would < your father say to your taking a pri- > vate tutorship ? Does he know of I your plan ?" > "It is tho result of an agreement ^ between us respecting my running in i debt," I explained. "I shall write 1 ... U _ i T 1 J 1 - nuu tvii nun nllUL x IIUVQ UCJIIO WIH5U < I have undertaken an engagement." < "But, if Graham objects, would you throw a place np ?" j "He would not allow mo to act dis- | honorably," I answered ; aed were I * engaged I mast accept the consequen- < cea," 1 "Very well; if you arc determined 1 to risk it, I can offer yon a tutorship i in the family of a General Gawston, 1 Gawston Flats, Norfolk, whore yon I will have t>ne pnpil to look after, bo ft I resident in the house, and reeeive a 1 salary at the rate of one hundred and | fifty pounds a year. Th?y are in I want of * man Immediately.1' 1 I oatigh fit the bnlt and in return it caught tne. M)' father, to whom I wrote at once, to communlcutc iny having entered into this engagement, ; replied that had he been consulted I juior to my binding myself, ho would ' not have consented to such a plan ; but that now as the engagement was already formed I muv:t fulfil it; at all events until another tutor could be found. 1 had been imprudent in accepting a s:tuation not befitting my station ; but I must now abide by my imprudence, &c. There was one thing in favor of my concealing my real position in life while at (Jawston Flats. My father, once Sir Graham Luxton, had several years before assumed the additional name of Penreston, on coming into a large property left by a distant rela- j tivo on tlio condition of takin" the j name. This condition did not bind , the children however; and so my j sisters and mvself were Lux Ions, as i - | wo preferred retaining the name of1 mir ancestors, a more ancient and honorable one, too, by the way, as my father always took cure to impress Dlt lis. I determined not to visit J-uxton Court before leaving for (.iawston j Flats, as 1 must confess that now lliat my plan of a tutorship was ae-1 .-ompliidied, 1 felt an una ki.owledged eyrct that 1 had so easily succeeded ; aid I sometimes wished 1 had set ibout paying my debts in a different My. Feeling that the homo air and j ityle at Luxton would hardly suit me | inder the circumstances, and nossiblv I earing some banter from my father, 1 left Oxford as soon as I could ; and n a lew days I was driving across lie country (flat and uninteresting to ny western eyes) that led from Mudlole Station to Ciawston Flats. On nj* arrival about half-past five in the svening, 1 was ushered at once to my )C(l-roonit and I sat down hv the acicptablc fire to have a good warm. HI at once the thought came into my uind, "llow about going to dinner? s the tutor generally there ? Does ic wi-ar full dress ? The servant said lothing about dinner-time." Solving licse questions by the reflection that i tutor was still a gentleman, and eeling hungry, I determined to dress .ml go down. So I rang for my lOrtiniiiitonii nnil fVtnnrl ilmf rv?l?Ar.*?i iawston dined at seven. It was dark when I arrived, but a nirricd glance had shown me that lie place was evidently a gentleman's md this impression was confirmed vlien I wandered down about a quarer to seven and beat about among lime doors in the hall for that one vliich belonged to the dining room, raking a lucky 'phot at one with a I vhite handle, I entered a largo well j ighted room. A lady, not unpleasant ooking but dressed very severely in ilack velvet, rose from a. chair near he fire. "Mr. Luxton, I presume," she said, ising. I bowed, deriving some comfort ram tho fact that sho betrayed no urprise at seeing me. "Colonel Gawston has only just oine in. or l?n wr?ul<l Imi-n ennn icforo," she continued, after shaking lands with me. "You must have had cold journey; pray tako that chair iy the fire." I did so and wo chatted on very ' asily until the master of the house oined us, just as dinner was anlounced. lie greeted me very pleas,ntly?perhaps a little stiflly?and hen I gave Mr. Gawston my arm, ind \vc went in to dinner. I cannot ay I felt quite at my ease in my new (osition ; but this did rot interfere rith my appetite, and dinner passed >fT, sufficient conversation going on ictween the courses. "ill*. Luxton, 3-011 will lake some norc port," said Col. Gawston, as he illed his glass and drew near the fire in the departure of his wife from the Irawing-room. 1 followed his cxam)le in each respect. w o have never had a resident tuor before," he continued; and we are inxiouB to make you as comfortable is wo can. Wo shall alwa}-B be glad )f your company at dinner at seven, f you prefer dining late, but we hope ,ou will quite consult your own inclirntion about that. Your pupil you will see when we go to th3 drawing oom, I expect. lie romaincd out onger than I did. To-morrow wo :an arrange farther details, as may loem necessary." I shall never forget my first momng over the books with my new pupil. IIo was a very nico boy, but with a far too conversational tendency, I thought as I tried bard to keep bis mind (and my own) fixed on. the work in hand. He would break out suddenly from some . hwrt-rending Greek passage to ask me if I had kept horses at Oxford, or if the pro<h tors had ever been down on m?t Dnce or twloe I found myself tripping, and only too ready to run on into the pnclaaaical conversation such | questions suggested, while Horaoo Qf Kurlpidos lay open, but forgotten, before us. ??, "Florence is coining this evening," ho paid, one morning about a week after my arrival, as ho was finding tho place ^always a long business,) I before commencing to traublato. ^"Who?" 1 asked. "Florence, my sister, you know.? It is always jollier when the is here. You ought to see lier ride. Most girls are great muffs, I think, but sho isn't a bit." I heard a little more of Florence, but I did not see her until dinnertime. We had taken our scats when she entered, and hurriedly took a scat opposite me. Mrs. Gawston murmured the customary words, and we bowed across the table. The conversation was general, as our party was so small. Miss Gawston, who I found was grown up, and not the somewhat hoydenish young lady her brother's description had led mo to expcct, joined in it l'rccly, and we found several things to say to one another across the table. I thought her ex0 1 tremely pleasant, I remember, and j CM - 1 I - - ' I nuuiniiuij jiitilj. ?J11U M-l'llieU IlUUIIl nineteen, and had just returned, I found, to my horror, from a visit to some friends in the west. "My daughter tells mc she met some Miss Luxtona while she was away. Are they any relations of yours?" asked Mrs. Gawston. I may say that the lady and I were on very pleasant terms; but I had every evening to encounter the severity of black velvet (I used to wonder whether she had hut one dress.) and to feel my teeth on edge if by any chance 1113* hand touched her robe as we marched into dinner. ' The daughters of Sir Grahamc Penreston," explained Miss Gawston. I felt very red as I explained that tlicy (being really* my sisters) were eonnectious, and then made a vigorous effort to change the conversation. As the Colonel and I entered the drawing-room, Miss Gawston, seated at the piano-forte, was playing the Largo A passionate," l'rom Bethoven's Second Piano Fortj Sonata. "Oh j>ray do not stop," I said, as she paused on our entrance ; "that movement is more than beautiful." Thus pressed, she continued, then on the .Scherzo, and lastly the brilliant Hondo in Splendid style. I was delighted. "You are fond of music," she said. "Very." "You plaj* perhaps, or sing." "1 play the violin, and I sing to a certain extent." T I . r> i j wan longing ior nor to asic mo to bring my violin down. I sawn mimic volume close by labelled ''Violin and Pianoforte." Mrs. Gawston sat funeral statuesque and immovable. Col. Gawston was asleep and his son reading Maync lie-id's something or other. Miss Gawston was trifling with the keys, poss'bly sho feared asking the tutor such a thing. I was desperate. "Shall I fetch my violin and music?" I said. Without waiting for an answer I went. The next moment wo had commenced, and during the evening, wo played together, and then emboldened by this beginning, we sang together. "What happens once usually happens twice, and the next evening we occupied ourselves in the same way. Not always only in the evening though, but many a stray half-hour during the day we found sufficient time for a little music. Then also she rodo very well ; and as her brother and I rode almost daily, wo often found ourselves talcing the same direction; so altogether I saw a good deal of Miss Gawston. Need 1 tell the result? Before a fortnight was over I was deeply in love and my intention of recommending Colonel Gawston to look out for another tutor was unfilled. "NVe% often met before dinner in tho library, where there was a large Japanese screen that shut out tho door. Moving very slowly towards tho room one evening near dinneT-timo 1 overheard somo words that made me pause before entering, and cough violently, if not effectually in order that my presence might bo known. "Ahem! my dear"?the voice was Colonel Gawston's?"don't you think my dear, that Mr. Luxton is - ahem? rather, just a little, perhaps not prudently intimate with Florence ?" "I have thought so, certainly;" re sponded his wife; and I was very glad this morning to rcccive an invitation from Lady Fite Pcdigry for her, as it will-take her away at once. "I have accepted it for her, and I have thought of going with hor to town to-morrow to soe Madame Nalencinnes, as she^-*' ., At this moment I interrupted tbe good lady by .entering the room, difc concerting her rather by my sudden appearance, The word* I bad heard determined me to learn my fetafypfn Hiss Gaws* ton before she lefi? as I felt unj der any: olrcnmstenoes> it impost Bible for me to stay muob longer at Gawfiton Flats in my Jtreecnt condl -. V o'b <r?^ u tioi). If I could not gain a personal interview 1 determined to write to her ; and that night I wrote a candid letter, which I proposed sending her if no opportunity for a private conversation presented itself. But fate was kind, and the next morning I met MissGaweston accidentally in the garden about an hour before breakf'taf f imn waouU ??t<*o I !??< ntuv viniv* JL uv i voiuu ? mat cuu did not appear at breakfast, and that when wo roso from tho meal I requested a few minutes' private conversation with tho Colonel. Never shall I forget his look of indignant amazement when lie learnt that his son's tutor had proposed to his daughter, and that with success. "Mr. Luxton, when I engaged you," ho said, "thcro was one thing I was assured of most emphatically, and that was that you were a gentleman. This is not tho conduct of a gentleman to enter my house to undermine the affections of my daughter, to entrap her into an engagement. Sir, you should have thrown up your situ ilium uuiu raiiicr man iiavo uono lliis." I felt lie had justieo on his side. As far as he knew, I was nothing but a penniless suitor who had abused his peculiar position by using the many opportunities it afforded him of making love to a young lady, a reputed heiress of apparently superior social rank. I could not help being amused, nevertheless, as I reflected how different his tone would have been had he known all. Something prompted me not to tell him yet, but to go on pressing my suit without advancing at once the real claims I had to back it. We were still in the midst of the discussion, the matter was seemingly going on hopelessly against me, when a sharp knock at the door interrupted our debate. "Come in," said the Colonel, impatientlv. A servant entered with .1 note. It wns a telegram calling tho colonel at ont-c to town on important business, military, I think, ho said. "Mr. Lux ton, I must postpone this matter until my return," ho said, hastily looking at his watch. "I have not moro than ten minutes to spare. I appeal to your honor not to make auy unfair uso of this unfortunate interruption." 11c passed out of tho room. A new idea struck me, and I followed : .t. i.. i^niciv i y? "I liad thought of going to town this afternoon for the night, and Rupert expressed a wish to accompany me," I said : "will you allow him to do so?" "Certainly," said the Colonel, looking relieved. "If you wish it, you might remain away longer, not necessarily in town of course, merely letting Mrs. Gawston know where Rupert is." "Rupert, do you mind just coming with me to Belgrave Square first," I said to my pupil as we alighted from the train. "Oh, no," was tho reply, and so we were soon rattling away in a hand some earn ago to my lather's town house. "Surely that's you," said Rupert, looking at a photograph lying on the table in the drawing room, where wo wero waiting for my father to appear. ' Yes, I am friendly here," I replied, getting red. "If you will take a book for tive minutes 1 shall liuvc transacted my business with Sir Graham." I moved towards tho door just as it opened, and tho master of the house walked in, "31y dear Frank, I hardly expected 10 sec you, ne gain as ne entered.? "You arc looking very well iudeed, in ppite of j*our teaching labord. I hopo you have thrown that foolish engagemcnt up." Ho stopped as ho caught sight of Rupert. "Let mo introduco my pupil to you," I said. "You will both dine hero to-night, of course, and sleep," said my father, shaking hands with Rupert. "I am going to Luxton to-morrow by tho , 11:45 train ; couldn't you como, too ? A change will do you good, and your sisters will be delighted to seo you.? They are undor tho impression that you are abroad, and I have not nndeceived them. You will join us too, I hope, Mr. Gawston." It was 60 arranged, and tho next dav we started for Luxton. In the meanwhile- Eupert liod with some wonder (but bo was too well bred a boy to many romarks,) asked me if Sir Graham Penreston was my father, and X saw him writing a letter thut evening, probably to hia mother or sisteri I felt very much disposed to write to the latter, but I determined to wait untitle Wftofted &u*ton, It is hardly neoessary to aay that, with* out abating the Colonel's appeal to my honor, I had managed to. let Flprenoo^now before J left, that th? ob* tacQes in oqr way wewt KQt parable as they appeared*io,;v. Arrived at Luzton Court, I wrote to Kr*_i2ftZftt&fe having previously . " -r - . ! / ... . ; enlightened my father to tho true state of affairs. Tho Gawslons, if not as ancient a family as ours, were eminently respectable, and my father, who could make no objections, was pleased to he unmerciful in the way ot" banter. "A lino way to pay our debts, indeed I" ho concluded. "I called on my father in tho town," I wroto in my letter to Mrs. Gawston, "and he gavo us an invitation down hero, which I took tho liberty to accept. Rupert and I propose to stay here two nights before returning to tho Flats. Enclosed is a letter to Miss Gawston, which I liopc you will not objcct to hand over (o her, and I trust that you will pardon the slight deception I have practiced on }'ou." The letter was given to Miss Gawston, and, as the reader may conclude, no further objections were made to our engagement. Uefore three months were over wo were married. "And how about tbc debts?" docs any one ask. Well, my father paid them. DEEP CULTURE FOR COTTON. The Method and the Benefit. The following letter to the Macon Telegraph, from Mr. S. I. (Justin, a prominent and successful cotton planter of Yineville, Georgia, will be read with iutercst by everybody interested in the culture of our great Btaplc : Vineville August 4.?I feci embarrassed by the prominence which has been given my cotton patch in the Telegraph, as 3011 are aware that I have no taste for a public controversy with those who advocate a different culture. But as you and some'of jour readers seem anxious to get more information 1 about it, I will try to describe, as j briefly as possible, my method of Pllltlli'n tliia I am thoroughly convinced, from experience, that the benefits of deep ploughing in winter and spring are lost, to a great extent, if it is not followed up by deep culture afterwards. Because tho ground soon becomes hard and compact underneath, if only the surface soil is cultivated in a shallow manner; the disadvantages of which I will speafc hereafter. The cotton patch in question is on a gentle slope of a red hill, and more soil has been washed from it, to the lands below, than lias been washed upon it from those above. It is free from stones aud stumps. | But was nearly as hard as a brick when it was ploughed for the first time in the early part of May last. Before ploughing, I sowed upon it broadcast "Gustiu's Superphosphate," at the rate of 500 pounds per acre. With four mules to one of Brinley's largest sized prairie ploughs it was ploughed eight inches deep?followed in the same furrow by a subsoil plough, running twelve inches deep. The same quantity of superphosphate was again sown broadcast and harrowed in. The soil was thus pretty well pulverized and disintegrated to the depth of eighteen or twenty inches. and enriched with superphonhate at the rate of 1000 r?ounds . * X per aero. You will say that that is pretty expensive. But I will venture to say that this land will produce quite as much cotton and as much corn as the best land on a plantation in Floyd county which sold for ?100 per acre a few weeks ago. Alter harrowing, it was checked of with a 6mall plough 3xG feet in which the seed were planted?a single plant was only left to a hill ?and covered with a hoe, which was the only work done with a hoe ?as the subsequent culture was done entirely with Mapes* Subsoil Lifter and a horse hoe. It has been cultivated four times with the subsoil lifter and twice with the horse hoo. This subsoil lifter is made of ! 1. A 3 _ _ wrougm iron?is ngni ana can easily be drawn by a single mule orTj horse where the ground has been pre* viously subsoiled. From its pecu-^ culiar construction it turns no furrow, but works uuder the ground like a molo, to the depth of about fifteen inches, slightly raising the soil as it goes along. The soil i$ falling book is pulverised at least * foot on either aide of iu track. ^he horse hoe (r an improvement on t\iltivatoi\ and effectually destroys n\\ weeds and thorou?ljfy pulverises ^he surface soil. JS? At thp $rst working of A&lijjN ton the subsoil lifter, was run.'four times between the rows the way?three times th$ Becdnd?' - ' ' and oncc at llic last working, running as closely as possible to the plants every time. There is no danger of destroyin'; or injuring the roots l>y this i method of culture if the plough is not run so near that the swingletree breaks the branches?on the contrary, it is the very best preparation for tho rapid multiplication and extension of the small iibrous roots which arc tho feeders to the plants. This deep culture must be kept i up from the beginning. If tho i riirifa nvn wi?nvnn*<wl I . * wv/iu ?u v vt vutvu jiuiu i ing downwards by the hardness J ami poverty of the soil below, and j are forced to extend themselves only near the surface, deep ploughing, under such circumstances, would undoubtably mutilate those roots?, to the injury of the plant and cause it to shed its fruit. This cotton now is about five and a half feet high, and where the stand is perfect, the branches j meet in every direction, and arc | so heavily laden with fruit that j some of the branches are splitting1 off with the weight. j It was planted on thcfuh'of May, \ : and has grown rapidly from the J start. It was not injured in the j least by the drought, and at that' time not a single fallen boll, square J or form could be found. Since i the rain I have noticed a few fallen j squares. Plants growing on a soil , cultivated so deeply can hardly be ( injured by drougth and are beuclited in various other ways. It must be remembered that the atmosphere is the great store-house . from which plants derive at least nine-tenths of the substances of which they arc composed. Amo-! nia is constantly escaping into the j atmosphere from decaying animal l - % 1 - - 1 * ' una vegetable matter, uarnonic J acid gas and water are largely diflused in the atmosphere, and the hotter the weather the more water is held in suspension. "YVe all know how largo a portion of a tree is charcoal or carbon, and that when it is burnt and combines with the oxigen of the atmosphere and becomes carbonic acid gas?an invisible gas escaping into the atmosphere?how little is left behind i as a residum. That little is the' product of the soil. What hi b disappeared is substance derived from the atmosphere. Now if the soil be deeply pulverized, so as to allow a free circulation of the atmosphere through it, the watery vapor ia condensed by coming into contact with the cool substratum of the earth, on the same principle that the atmosphere condenses upon the side of a pitcher filled with cold water upon a warm mid-summer day?thus supplying the roots with moisture holding in solution these fertilizing gases which the atmosphere contains, 60 necessary to the growth and developemcnt of the plant, and in this condition so readily to be taken up by its roots and fibres. Besides all this, these atmospheric gases and water make soluble and a food for the plant other substances in the earth, which without them would remain insoluble, inert and useless. A deeply pulverised soil has still another advantage in dry weather. It draws up the moisture from below, upon the principle of capillary attraction, which may be illustrated by holding a lump of loaf sugar part way immersed in )*our cup of coftee.' The sugar will immediately draw up sufficient of the liquid to become saturated with the moisture. | All these advantages are greatly diminished or entirely lost iu a hard compact soil. When the rains fall ?impregnated with theso fertilizing .gases-r?if the soil be deeply mellowed and porous, they are absorbed at once and penetrate to the roots of the plants, with their rich burden of life and health. But if only the surfaco is mellow, and the ground be sloping or hilly, most of the rain runs off, carrying with if muoh of the surfaoe mould into the stream below. On the Other hand, should the ground be level it lies upon the surface till ^evapomted by the the en* riching gases escape again into the i atmosphere which should be appropriated by the crop. i Water which lies upon the surface till evaporated by the sun makes the ground coji^. It takes the lieat from it to convert the wa tor into vapor, upon the same prm* :M ' '> '.< s'' i ; . ; ? \ ' \ -- - *' ciple tliat a room or sidewalk is cooled by sprinkling with water on a sunny day. Finally if the water remains upon the surfacclong enough I to bccome stagmu.t, it becomes so ' poisinous to the plants that they turn yellow and sickly. It woidd ho easy, Messrs, Editor!!, to prolong these remarks indefinitely, I hut I have no time. I hold you responsible altogether for this apparent obtrusion of views. I have no desiro to ehnmpioiiize them or to combat conflicting opinions; but having ap ln'llli/l til 1>W? (i>? "in nvt.lnr>.i?!?n t |>v??i v?? w lit v ivi (ill V VI [ some little singularity in the modo of cultivating the cotton patch in question, 1 have written this solely in deference to the requests of your readers and yourselves. From (lie London Times July 29lb. THE CONFLICT OP RACES. English View of tho Chinese Question. .Alone anion# tho races of tho world the (the Chinese) confront tho Englishman, and produce as much work wilh less pay. Other laborers are often found to work for less wages than the English laborer, but they prove in the ci>d the dearest workmen to employ, because of ihe insufficiency of what they turn out. Tho Chinaman in a large range of employments overcomes this difficulty, and shows a bjilancc in his own favor, and the resentment to the manual laborer lie underbids is a necessary consequence. "We cannot live," the California!) in effect saj's, "under that which satisfies a Chinese," and, in. pursuance of that self-preservation which is the first law of nature ho proceeds to beat and stone him in tho AVe venture to think tlic conflict of races in California will not be solved 1>3* import duties or street outrages. It would appear that in California itself there are persons who find tho presence of tho Chinese useful and convenient. Tho Caliibrnian sections of tho Pacific Railway were mado with their assistance, and whilo tho work was thus cheaply done, it boars comparison with tho sections completed by "navvis'j" from another world. Tho samo mail which tells us of the vigorous slops taken in California, informs us that a convention has boon held at Mem,.1,;.! * r* -* I--! n? uvitmu iuwunn ui wringing Chinese into the cotton, 6ugar, corn, and rice fields of tho South. The Mississippi and Missouri Valleys, tho mines of Colorado, Nevada Arizona, the prairies still haunted by Indian tribes, may he contested between tho Chinese and American immigrants. It is impossible to suppose that tho Chineso can be kept out, and speculation may bo better employed in contemplating tho functions they may hereafter discharge in tho wonderful polity into which the States are destined to grow. Inheriting a civilization more ancient and econimie methods more perfect than the European can boast, but destitute of that strength and toughness of moral fibre which supports authority, tho Chinese may be welcomed as assistants in colonization; they need not be feared as the dominating race of the future. Piunters' Df.vils.?Miss Piney W. Forsythe, who is a practical printer 1 li? 1 1 ii ?' ii 1 uursiMj, mis inaue me xoiiowing nappy und appropriate notice of so-called printers' devils: 'A great many persons arc in Iho habit of looking upon and speaking of printers' devils in a manner that reflects no credit to themselves. Those same printers in nine cases out of ten, are three ti nes as well posted on the issues of tho day as tho person who speaks lightly of them. There is no class of boys for whom wo have a more profound respect than well-behaved printers' devils. They know something and aro practical, which is more than you can say of all classes of boys. In that respcct wo place tho boys who work in a printing oftico head and shoulders abovo most boys. Young woman, before . you again elevate that delicuto noso at tho approach of a printers' devil, get some ono who knows" something of history to tell you tha name of a faro ( hnrnnlppa fhnt. worn nnnn nrin. Wlf VMM. MWWV? v VHITV II V VMVV ters' devils. A mechanic in Memphis has pro* duced a plan for a low pressure steamboat, which he claims will have double the speed of any now in use, whilo it will cost little more than boats on the Old plan. It can also be run at half the expend for labor and fuel. It is, , , divided into compartments, water . and air tight* and cannot be snagged so as to sink. $ire in the hold can be confined to a single compartment and will bo readily extinguished by steam, for whloh suitable apparatus is provided. ' . .... ?? . - - - - -* 3