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poetryT ~~~1
ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY.
No tears for thee! I cannot weep
That thou art gone from sorrow;
That thy young form shall rest in sleep,
Till an eternal morrow.
No tears for thee! I cannot shed
One grief-pearl on thy tomb,
Or think of thee as with the (lend,
Sltrou'led in night and gloom.
No tears for thee! Daar sufferer why,
O! why should any mourn,
That thou r/ast early called on high,
? To that celestial bourne.
L No tears for thee! Triumphantly
My voice would awake the song,
Since thou hast gained the victory,
And joined the Mood.washed throng.
No tears for thee! Thy life hath taught
Submission to Ilis will;
Who, to tho heart of grief o'er fraught,
Can whisper, "peace, be still." j
AGRICULTURAL.
From (he Yankee Farmer.
ON THE APPLICATION OF MANURE
TO TIIE SOIL.
Mr. Editor: In a communication published
in your paper last year, I endeavored
to throtv some lisht on making and
xaving Manure. I will now, as far as I
know by experience, give some directions
how manure should be applied. The making,
saving and applying manures, is a
subject of great importance, and is too1
much neglected by many farmers. Manure
is most effective when applied in a
green or unfermentcd state, to all hoed
crops, and in all cases, when so applied,
to be completely covered with the plough;
in this way the fermentation goes on in
the soil, and the crop receives the strength
of the manure when most needed. I
have learned that manure should not be
moved from the heap, previous to its removal
to the field intended for its reception;
and when moved thither, it should
be immediately ploughed in, or put into
the hill, as the case may be.
Some, who have the appellation of
good farmers, haul out their manure in
the fall, place it in large piles, to be put
into hills, or leave it in small heaps, to be
spread and ploughed in, in the spring.?
Now, I think this to be bad husbandry.?
Manure thus managed, is exposed to the
rains and frosts; and by being completely
drenched by the storms, thawing and
freezing, and being washed away, becomes
almost worthless, in comparison with what
it might bo, if left in deposite till wanted
for immediate use in the spring.
A farmer might have his farm yard
constructed with two apartments; in one
yard, he can deposit his unfermonted manure;
and in the other, ho can have a
compost. By having the two kinds separate,
he can plough the unfermcuterT manure
in, and manure in the hill with the
compost. On land from which i
crop is expected, unfermented mau:/re
should be spread broad-cast, and turned
r tinder deep. (The question may be asked,
how deep? I answer, as deep as can
be conveniently ploughed with a common
seed-plough?probably five, six, or seven
inches,) and manured with a fine manure
m the hill. "There is no crop," says Henry
Colman, "drat will better reward the
most liberal cultivation.'" >V itli regard to
manuring of wheat, it is best to apply the
manure to the land the preceding year
for a hoed crop. If the crop is well hoed
two or three times, the land will be clear
from weeds, in a great degree, and will
be in fine order for a crop of wheat.
As regards the quantity of manure to
be applied to an acre of tillage, many circumstances
are to be taken into consideration,
such as the strength of the soil, the
kind of crop to be produced, (Indian corn
requiring the largest quantity,) and the
quality and quantity of the manure. The
farmer, in making his calculations on this
Eoint, should not apportion his manure tc
is land, but shouid apportion his laud tc
his manure. "We till too much land," is
an expression in very common use. Suppose
a farmer has manure at his command,
to enrich well, two acres, and no more:
would it not be better to apply all his manure
to two acres, than four? Certainly
it would; the expense of tilling two acres
would be saved, besides the satisfaction
tie would take in viewing his luxuriant
crops, under judicious cultivation. I will
close this subject by extracting a few wise
remarks, from one who reasons from
what he knows:
"Let every farmer examine his farm*
to see if there be not some mine of wealth
? 11?i- ? i . :rl
in the shape ol a man oeu; or, ui icasi, u
there be not an accumulation, somewhere,
of decayed vegetables, or some ingredients
of sail, in which his cultivated fields
are deficient. It is believed there are few
farms that have not some advantages of
this kind?some quagmire, perhaps, which
may prove the making of tne farm. Vegetation
draws her stores from the vegetable,
animal, and mineral kingdoms, and
there are no definable limits to her improvements.
Our soil, instead of becoming
less and less fruitful, as is the mistaken
opinion of some, may, by a proper cultivation,
be made more, and yet more prolific.
Our earth contains the materials
necessary to make her surface a garden.
All that is wanting, is the diligent hand
and the intelligent head, to make her
plains and valleys, her hills and dales,
green with thick herbage, and wave with
the golden grain."
I hope, Mr. Editor, the subject of makinsr.
savinsr and armlmrut manure, will re
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coive a more careful investigation from
those who are better qualified, and who
have had more experience than the writer
of this. On this subject, all good husbandry
is based; witiiout a good understanding
of this, our labors are almost futile.?
I would advise farmers to inform themselves
with regard to this subject; what
they cannot find out by their own experience,
they should learn from other
sources,?take the Yankee Farmer, or
some other well conducted agricultural
paper,?therein you will find the combined
experience of the best practical agriculturalists
in the country, on this, as well
as all other subjects, connected with agriculture.
J. A.
Rum/ord, February, 1841.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE NEXT
CROP.
Wc were gratified to see on otrr recent
visit to the eastern part of the State, that
the Planters were bestowing greater pains
in the manuring of their lands for the next
crop than we have ever seen in that section
of country before this. In some
places where the farmers have not been
able to procure a sufficient quantity of
manure from their barn yards, they are
hauling in straw and leaves from the
woods and scattering them in their simple
state on their fields. Heretofore, what
little system of manuring there has been,
has been confined mostly to the upland
Planters, but some of the river Planters
arc now carrying on an extensive plan of
manuring, not only with the trodden
leaves and straw from their barn yards,
but also by hauling on their fields the rich
alluvial deposit left by the freshets on
their low grounds that are not cultivated.
Wc had the pleasure of spending a
night with Col. Taylor, who plants on the
Walcrcc: he is pursuing the system of
manuring more extensively than any
Planter of our acquaintance, and with
eminent success, so far as he has had opportunity
for judging from the time he
has been doing so. He will probably haul
this season, from his barn yard alone, between
three and four thousand loads of
manure, besides straw in its natural state,
and the deposit from some of his low
grounds.
Let this system be vigorously and untiringly
pursued by all our Planters for
ten years, and we shall see the now worn
lands of Carolina presenting that rich
verdure which in its earliest settlement attracted
the emigrants from the old world,
and induced them to flock to, a then wild
and uncivilized country. Let planters,
who are disposed to leave their native
State for the fertile lands of the West,
but to besto^v the same labor and expense
in reclaiming their worn lands, which
they would be compelled to bestow in
clearing and preparing the heavy timbered
lands of the West, and then add to
this the expense of removal, and the sacrifice
of many articles of property, incident
to it, let them do this and they
will find themselves settled on as productive
plantations in Carolina as they would
find olsewhore.?Trim). Advo.
? a
i A dandy, who wanted the milk passed
to him at one of our taverns, thus asked
i for it:. "Landlady, please pass your cow
; down this way," To whom the lady
> thus returned: "waiter, take this cow
> down where the calf is bleating!"
MISCELLANEOUS.
From the Ladies Companion.
THE WAR-WOMAN'S CREEK, j
In Georgia and North Carolina, there j
is hardly a river, creek, or stream, that has .
not connected with it some old Jndfian {
tradition. The title of the' present sketch i
is taken from one of these?I believe one
of the principal tributaries of the Nata- 1
halee river, in the Cherokee nation, North
^ it? mi? a. k..
| V/aronna. ine oiuiy, us iuiu uy mc ion ^
[ Indians remaining since the removal in (
the fall of 1838. runs thus: (
Many years ago, in the first settlement c
of the country, a wandering party of their ^
tribe attacked the house of a j^tyttter 0
somewhere upon their borders, dutanjrbis
absence, ana massacred all r.is children, j
and left his wife covered with the mangled a
bodies of her butchered offspring, scalp- j
ed like them, and apparently dead. She n
was not, however, wounded so ~bpdly as t|
they had supposed; and no sooner did she t.
hear the sound of their retreating foot- v
steps, than disengaging herself from the a
heap of slain, haggard, pale, and drenched j,
with her own and the blood of her chil- p
dren, she peered steadily from the door, p
and, finding her enemies no longer in sight, J,
hastily extinguished the fire, which, be- e
fore leaving, they had applied to her ca- t(
? ... ?L! L i?i 1 1? i;?
Din, DUl wnicn nuu, as yei, mauc m- Q
tie impression on the green logs of which f(
it was composed. Wiping from her eyes r
the warm blood which was still reeking jj
from her scalpless head, she directed her ^
agonized gaze to the bleeding and dis- n
figured forms of those who, scarce an p
hour before, had been playing at the door, ?
and gladdening her maternal heart with f,
their merry laughter, and as she felt, in p
the full sense of desolation, the last ray of f(
hope die within her bosom, there stole a
over her ghastly face an expression as sa- p
vage as was ever worn by the ruthless ?
slayers of her innocent babes. Her eye
gleamed with the wild fury of the tigress
robbed of its young, as closing her cabin u
carefully behind her, with a countenance (
animated by some desperate purpose, she ^
started off in the same path by which the e
murderers had departed. Heedless of ^
her wounds and wasting blood, and lost v
to all sense of hunger and fatigue in the ^
one absorbing and fell purpose which ac- gi
tuated her, she paused not upon the trail jj
of her foes until, at night, she came up v
with them encamped at the side of the
creek, which is indebted to her for its pre- g
sent name. h
Emerging from the gloom of the sur- ?
rounding darkness, on her hands and a
knees, she crept noiselessly towards the t|
r? *' - I'?' r .-U/4, mil flii<lrpn>H lin.
nrCj IIMJ Ui >T IK^Uf uo u uivnw?v*? ?p ?
wards, discovered to her the prostrate j
forms of the Indians, five in number, who, ^
overcome by an unusually fatiguing day's
travel, were wrapped in deep sleep, with
their only weapons, their tomahawks, in s!
their belts* Her own stealthily advancing Jj
figure, as the uncertain light of the burn- *
ing pine fell upon it with more or less dfis- jj
tinctness?now exposing its lineaments ?
clotted with blood, and distorted by an ,,
expression which her wrongs, and the
sight of the desolators of her hearth-stone, ?
exaggerated to a degree almost fiendish;
and now shading all, save two gleaming,1 ^
spectral eyes?was even more striking *
than the swarthy faces which she glared , k
upon. Assuring herself that they were 'a
fast asleep, she gently removed their toma- jv
Itowks, and dropped all but one into thej ?
stream. With this remaining weapon in
her hand, and cool resolution in her heart, if
she bent over the nearest enemy, and \
lifting the instrument, to which her own ,
?ii?.uiWMn'erHimil sHIl adhered, with ,
ttliu 11C1 UlUUl^u u Vfw*. -
one terrific and unerring blow, buried it ?
in the temple of its owner. The savage *
moved no more than partly to turn upon J
his side, gasped a little, quivered a minute '
like an aspen, and sunk back to his former (
position, quite dead. Smiling ghastly in
his rigid lace, the desperate woman left *
him, and noiselessly as before despatched <
all of the sleepers, but one, to that long ^
rest from which only the last trump can J
awaken them. The last devoted victim, p
however, was aroused to a consciousness; 1
of his situation by the death-struggles of j 1
his companions. He sprang to his feet, ?
and felt for his weapon. It was not there,' j
and one glance explaining every thing, he i
evaded the blow aimed at him by the
brave and revengeful mother, seized from '
c. Ki?fninnr hrand. and with it sue- |j
U1U Hie a uuu.1.1^
cceded partially in warding off the furious1 <
attack which followed. In a little time I
they fell struggling together, the Indian t
desperately wounded, and the unfortunate i
woman faint with loss of blood and her
extraordinary exertions. Both were too
weak to harm each other now, and the
wounded savage only availed himself of
his remaining strength to crawl away.?
In this piteous plight, the poor woman remained
untill near noon on the following
day, when she was accidentally discover
ed by a straggling party of whites, to
whom she toldncr storv, and then died.?
>
After burying her on the spot, they mai
some exertion to overtake the fugitive I
dian, but unsuccessfully. He succeedt
in reaching his tribe, and from hjs tale tl
little stream, before mentioned, was cvi
tfterwards known among the Cherokee
tnd al9o by the pale faces, as the "Wa
WOman's Creek."
UNMITIGATED SCOUNDREI
Marcus Cicero Stanley, the young ma
vho was recently sent to the House <
Correction in London for robbing M'
Catlin at his Indian Portrait Gallon)', i
no of the blackest-hearted wretches w
lave ever beard of. The circumstance
if his arrest in London are as follows:
He had been on intimate terras \vit
dr. Catlin, having, by his gentfemani
ddress, ingratiated himself into his favoi
\>r some time Mr. C. had been losin
noney from his pantaloons pockets whil
hey were lying in his dressing room a
acned to the nail where his ciuiositie
fere. The night on which Stanley \va
rrested, Mr. Catlin, previous to cbang
ig his dress, marked four sovereigns an
Dur shilling faeces which lie left in lii
ockets, and then secreted a police ma
i the room to watch. But a few minute
lapsed when Stanley came into the rooir
Dok up the pantaloons; abstracted a pat
f the money from the pockets and trans
jrred it to his own, and then left th
oom and joined the audience. The pc
ceman followed him, and, after tellin,
im he was a peace officer, asked whn
loncy he had in his pocket. Stanle
retended to be very much affronted a
eing accused of doing wrong and rc
jsed to tell. The Constable, howevei
ersisted in his duty, and searching hin
)und fi\e sovereigns and a half in go!
nd sdver upon him. Two of the sove
eigns and 6s. formed part of the marke
loney. He was then taken into custod)
On the trial Stanley said he did not in
3nd to appropriate the money to his ow
se?he only intended to show it to Mi
Jatlin after the exhibition, to convinc
im how carelessly he left his propert
xposed?said that had he intended rob
ing him he would have taken his goli
ratch which was in the same garment.lr.
Catlip denied this, as since he ha
uspected himself of being robbed h
ad taken the precaution of secreting hi
iratch.
On the deposition being read ovei
Itanley complained that the chief cler
ad not usea sufficiently expressive lar
uage in taking down his defence. H
Iso appealed to the reporters to suppres
ae case for the sake of his family in tbi
oun'ry, which was highly respectable.le
was sentenced to six months hard Is
or in the House of Correction.
Hut the offence for which ho is no\
uffering in England is nothing in compa
ison to his rascalities in this country an
jexas. Some two or three years sine
e was in this city and cut even a create
ash than the notorious Stith. We nes
ear of him in i exas, cuncoruuu m m
atal duel in which the lamented Lauren
vas killed by Goodrich, in 1837. It ma
>c recollected that some or five or si
oung men slept in a room together i
louston, among whom were Goodricl
Stanley and Laurens. During the nigf
i $1000 bill was stolen from Goodricl
vho, instigated by Stanley, charged Lai
ens with the theft. Highminded an
lonorable and at the same time innocen
he latter could not bt ook this charge an
mmecliately sent Goodrich a challcng
rhey fought with rifles and Laurens \v;
filled?Stanley acting as his second. Jubsequently
it was proved that Stanle
limself stole the money, when Goodric
at what he had don
lonscieuuc-sii iv-iwi. - ?
jecame dissipated and finally blew h
>wn brains outSince
then Stanley has figured extei
avely in this city, and in fact all over tf
xmn^ry. In 1839 he again visited Texa
>vhere he stole a $600 bill from a con
janion. He afterwards passed the bill,
ivas identified, and Stanley was arrestee
He found means to procure bail, whe
:hinking he was too well known in th
country and Texasr lie immediately le
for England, where he has since been ii
ing by his rascalities.
We recollect Stanley here, a small b
well made and genteel young man, wea
ing his hair long, after the present fashio
some year or two before it was introduct
by any one else. His high family conne
tions, education and prepossessing ma
ners, gave him access to the best socict
and his expulsion from it was always (
account of some theft or swindling trar
TT* ? ' Unrr cinr?p f\
action, ins iamuy jiu> u )uli^ a<uw ?
carded him, and lie is now in a situatii
where lie can commit no rascalities
least for a season. Our only regret
that instead of six months imprison me;
the English authorities did not scnten
him to six score years and ten.?lY.
Picayune.
:u oil - 6'*(,? srfj vi vmi:i i'
Jc RvTHBtt Mv$TERIj>fcs ajvd improbv
n- ntE.?The following 1 it11e ;t>:t.oF^ roiii^anco
jd, is from the Cinciojlaiti-Lsilgor< a- < ' T
in . A few days since a lady and gentleman1
er arrived in this city from the south. - Tho
Sj gentleman seemed to hare plenty of mo-"
r- ney, boasted of bis real estate, etc; . The
lady appeared to be a very quiet and;
and pedfcearblc body, said b:it little, ahd
u. seldom made her appcafhricc ;at tlie tabic'
n of the hotel where they lodged. AftdH'
>f being in the city two or three days, o/ie
r. of the landlord's daughters suddenly be
is came very much enamored of the ^y
e above mentioned, and they. were at hji
is most any tune to be found iflgeHfier iptH^i
room oi tnc latter. , inc lanatonn ?aw no
b barm in. their, being .in each. others copj.^
y pany, and therefore did.nof pay muehaitfJ
r. tentjon to the affair. One al^moon
g few days since, the two lathes, went ouV
e to take a ride in a now carriage J which >
t- Wats lately purchased. Night came; and r
? they did not return. Servants, fbotmfecp;
is hostlers, and almost every body, about ihfcf
place, started out in search of the two :
d ladies, but nothing could be heard froAi
is them. Some stfhhised that the horses had
n ran away with the carriage, and probais
bly killed those1'thatWer^' irr.it: others
1, were of opinion that they had got into the
*t river and been drowned,
f- In the mean time the gehtleman who
0 had come.to the hotel with the lady, who
1- was supposed to he his wife, made hirri-; 1
g | self perfectly easy. He neither took part
it | in search for the lost ones, nor expressed
y | any apprehensions on their account. Hay -,
it j before yesterday a letter arrived at . the ,
1-1 hotel for the stranger, and on opening it,
i* . wno r<Minrl trv rfturl thilC/* .(t.Tnhn hnnt^ fHV .
t, ?ao wU,m ^ lv.?v, ,..., B ...s ,
), baggage over to Paris. Tell Mr.-???
d that my wife (his daughter) is perfectly .1
s well, and hopes hell come and spend the .
d summer with us." The landlord, whobad
r. been looking over the stranger's shoulder,
i- suddenly exclaimed, "What does this
n mean, sir?" "Why," said the man, "It
\ means exactly this; two years ago yoit'
e refused your daughter to Mr. , bey
cause he was nothing more than your bar- 4
*- keeper. You likewise discharged him.
d Since that time he has been" to the south
- and made a fortune. lie came here
d| dressed in female's clothes. He found
e jthe affections of your daughter were still '
j Kinr. ?n tnkp. thp fp.llow. he .
11 UO Ir\J lltUil -M ?v...v ? . - _f
has outwitted roc; but sir, who are you?"
r, "Why, sir, I am Mr. 's footraao."
k
?- The Past to the Future.?The foJ- .
p lowing sentence, from President Quincy'a
is Address, at the second centennial celeis
brationof the settlement of Boston, issig*
- nificant and impressive:?"The great con*
i- parative truths, written in letters of living
light on every page of our history,?the
v language addressed by every past age of
L_ j New England to all future ages, is this.?
f] Human happiness has no perfect security
e'but freedom; freedom none but virtue;':
ir virtue none but knowledge; and neither
:t freedom, nor virtue, nor knowledge has
e any vigor, or immortal hope, except in the (
B principles of the Christian faith, and in
y the sanctions of the Christian religion."
Good Advice.?Ubey tne voice 01
1 those who love you; be kind to those who
lt' counsel you; be affectionate to those who '
1 beg you with tears to forsake every false
jJ wrfy, and be willing to yiekl the feelings
j of your hearts to the control of no bad
f passion, but to the dictates of prudence
, J and wisdom, and depend upon it, you will
c | be blest through all the days of your life,
I and peace and happiness will crown them
__ at their close.
y ~ Vv' '
h, Childhood is like a mirror?catching"
e and reflecting images from all around it.
Is Remember, that an impious .or profane
thought uttered by a parent's lip may ope[j.
rate upon a young heart like a careless
le spray of water thrown upon polished
^ j steel, staining it with rust, which no after
j' | scouring can efface. .
ill ; .. ...
J. WABASH TREATY. ">
0j The Sert'ate yesterday, in Executire
session, as we are informed, ratified, >
,fi with' some slight amendments, the late
? treaty made at the Forks of the Wabash
river, in the Stale of Indiana, with the
Miami Indians. This was a most important
measure to the State, as well as to
r" the Indians, as by it the title to the ren?
maining lands of those Indians lying in
id that State, being about 500,000 acres, has
c- been extinguished, nnd the removal of the
n- Indians at an early day to the lands set
v. apart for them beyond the Mississippi riv
jnjcr; has been secured.
is
js. A smooth sea never made a skilful ma)n
riner. Neither do uninterrupted piosat
perify and success qualify a man for ttscjs>
fulness or happiness. The storms of adnt,
vcrsity, like tne storms of the ocean,
cc arouse the faculties a:id excite the invents
tion, prudence, skill utul fortitude of the
voyager.
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