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" Accounts for Advertising and Job Work wilt be presented for payment, quarterly, i CP AH Lcttors by mail must be post paid to insute punctual attention. inr___ poetry. ? MY NATIVE HOME. W A. B. WEEK, ESa. ?OP H/SCALOOS.t, ALA. Land of 'lie Sooth! Imperial land! How proud thy mountains riso,, ' "'Ho# fcwoct thy scenes on every band! Thou hart a doaror spell to mc,^ Thou art (ny native home! j c. ' , Thy rivors roll their liquid wealth, .Unequalled to tire sea, , Thy hills and valleys bloom trith health, And green with verdure be! '' ' . Btit not for thy prteud oeo'an streams, Not for thy arose-dome", Sweet sunny South? Iding to thcc, | Thou art my native home! ' ' 1 I've stood beneath Ilalia's climo, j Beloved of talc andeong, . On Htlvyo's lulls, proud and sublime, i t Where Nature's wonders throng,? ( , By Tempo's.classic sunlit streams, ' I , r Where Gods of old did roam; But ne'er have found s^fair a land < ' , As thou my native homol And thou hast purer glories too, ' Than nature ever gave, Peace sheds o'er thee her genial dew, And freedom's pinions wave; , Fair science flings her pearls around, ? , '] Religion lifts her domo, ,, ' t | These, Ujggi cr^tl^o^ heart, ftll i> flJLal My own, loved native hornet ( And "heaven's best gift to man" is thine, God bless thy rosy girls, Like sylvan flowcre, they sweetly shine, Their hearts as pure as pearls, I And grace and goodness circle them. Where'er their footsteps roam, 1 How can I then, while loving them, ' Not love my native home! 1 Land of the South! imperial land! ! Then here's a health to theer j Long as thy mountain barriers stand, I lw> Ulnot n nrl frnnl Uiaj M mvu w VM.9% v>?.~. ..w. May dark dissension's banner ne'er, Wave o'er thy fertile loam, But ahonld it come, there's one will die, To save his native home! I MISCELLANEOUS. THE BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL 1 CONVICT. Hose Mac Orne was a rare sample of , Scottish beauty. Her eyes deeply blue,:' as L*>ch Lomond; glowing cheeks; hair light and glossy, parted over her broad i forehead, like folds of flax colored satin; ' features which a shrewd and active mind had strongly developed; a tall, muscular frame, of stately proportions, and a firm, clastic, rapid tread, which she had acquired in early days, when "Down the rooks she leaped along;, T-*lr? nvnlofa nf Mnv.w Her youth was unfortunate, for her mother had died during her infafficy? and her selfish and profligate father had abandoned her before she reached the dangerous age of fifteen. Many were very anxious to take her into their service, for she was as neat and thrifty as a brownie, and had the obsequious manner of their countrymen, united with their proverbial knowledge of the most direct road to favor and fortune.? Her greatest misfortune was her beauty. Often, after the most unremitting eflcirts to please, poor Hose was accused of a thousand faults, and dismissed by prudent wives and mothers, lest she should become too dear a servant. Scotch discrimination soon discovered the source of the difficulty, and Scotch arubit'on resolved to make the most of it. To lovers of her own rank she was alternately winning and disdainful; determined that none should break her charms, yet dealing out her scorn to each, as their characters -would bear. With her superiors she played a deep and insidious game. Trusting to her own strength of pride, she resisted their arts, while she almost invaria r. - * ( * pr?n y ' | bly made them the victims pf her own.:? In all this, Rose Mac Oine was actuated by something more than a, mere girlish love of flirtation and triumph,?jshe was ambitious, and had forrried high hopes of an opuient marriage. Many a Cantab and Oxonian, many a testy bachelor and ; gouty widower, had got entangled in her < toils, and been disentangled only by the ; interference of proud and prudent relations. At length, notwithstanding her i modest manners and apparent artlessness, i the intrigues (if Rose Mac Ornc became ; as proverbial as. her beauty; and she I could obtain no service in any family where there were youth to fascinate, or wealthy old age to be cajoled. Hearing an East Indiajnan was about to sail, with many ladies on board, Rose resolved to seek employment among them, and succeeded in being appointed dressing maid to an elderly lady, who was going out to reside with an invalid doin. India! match-making India! opened glorious prospects to Scotch ambition. Rose took unexampled pains to please her new mistress, and in two days she was a decided favorite. No wonder the gipsey felt proud of her power, for she never attempted to please without effecting her purpose. But when was inordinate am- s bition known to be a safeguard either to ( talent or beauty? In two days Rose was g tp leave England, and her mistress having n granted her permission to attend the races, a she, as a last act of kindness to one of her h earliest and most favored lovers, consent- / ed to accompany him.. Rose,was very fond of ornaments, and it chanced that her heart was particularly set upon a large pear) pin, which her mistress said she seldom wore on account of its antique fash- . ion. Rose had more than once signified j how pretty she thought it, and Wondered, c if she wns rich enough to buy pearls, t whether they would become her full and r snowy neck. She dared not ask for it c out-right, and she never in her life had a thought of taking anv thing dishonestly. I But vanity?vanity, that foolish and con- r temptiblc passion which has "slain its tens f of thousands," and that too among the v fairest and brightest of God's works, pre- g vailed over the better feelings of Rose a Mac Orne. She took the envied .pin?: a wore it to the races?heard James Mac tl futyrc prajse it?told him Iter new mis- ltress had given it to her?and then, dread- v "trite- 'h*W*T tllp fnrir bggan. to 4 Jevisc schemes for exchanging the ban- r >le. ' tl The path of sin is steep, and every step r Dresses one forward with accumulated tl power. Rose had already committed a tl second crime to conceal the first, and the n plan of secrecy urged her to commit a others. She' sold the breast-pin, bought a q ring with the money, in the hope that the n pearl would never be inquired for, this U side of India. But in this she was mis- n laken?that very clay her mistress missed f the jewel, and Rose went deeper into ] falselvood than was necessary to keep up j] appearances. ri 1 will not follow her through every step c of this shameful struggle. It is sufficient c to say that the theft was discovered, and s Rose, instead of sailing for glorious, match ( making India, was, in a few weeks, hirr- t ried on board a vessel in which sixty-two a other convicts were bound for Botany ^ Bay. This was a painful reverse for one a in vouiic and beautiful. and so inordinate- r " J r C? T T - _ ly ambitious. She tooked back upon 2 England with feelings of grief and burn- t ing indignation?contempt of self, and ^ hatred of the laws under which she suf- ] fered. And for what had she endured this ? terrible conflict, which, first and last, had J given her more unhappiness than had been ( crowded into her previous existence?? ( Why, nothing but the foolish vanity of j wearing a cast-off pearl! \ But Rose Mac Orne had a mind elas- s tic and vigorous; it soon rebounded from i depression, and began to think of new schemes of conquest. She looked around ] among her companions?most of them were tall and robust?some of them were very handsome women. She counted i them, and counted the crew. There were i sixty-two convicts and fifteen men. Be- < fore they were half across the Atlantic, i Rose Mac Ornc had laid a plan daring j enough for the helmeted Joan of Arc, in ( the lull tide of her inspiration. She com- i ?? ?1 1n i/\ tbo WAmnn wliirh ? inumcaicu MIC piau IV* ...1%, ?. iiivii , they entered into heartih' and warmly.? i Rose might have found lovers enough, i notwithstanding the strict orders of the ( officers; but she chose but one, and that { was the pilot! Glances and tender notes ; soon passed between them, unperceived ; by others; tor the artful Rose was like a j glacier when the eyes of the officers were t upon her, and her lover was capable of I playing as deep a game as she. < At length the important hour arrived? t every precaution had been taken?all i things were in readiness. The vessel i stood for the La Plata, to exchange car- ] goes and take in refreshments. They en tcred the huge arms of that silvery river, and cut its wa]LeFp wjth tho a r.rowy.flight of a bird, At iength BueiK)3 Ayres lay before them in the .- distance, with the broad, clear, bright moonliahtspread over it like a heavenly robe. The wirkl died away,: and the vessel lay- gently- Moving an the bosonl of' that 'majegtie-rivery-lrke a child playing itself into slumber. Midnight catnd. RosC;had an eye hfce i burning gl'aSs-f-tfie crisis Was at handill, looked to her" t&T4 direction. HeT lover, lccording to, his promise,' had taken liis urn to be pildf^'and all slept sfi(ye hi hi ind the. con Vic A* He sat at the helm, ooking out upon the water* and listening p the "silence ^udible."' There was a ijlent motion of re sails announced by a ow whistle fronj pilot. In twenty ninuteg every n^an was bpund fast gnd ;agguu, me cornets w.ere ftrmeo, ?na he vessel in full prlae to the prisoners^ >reat -noise wad made about the vessel eized by the women,, and brought triJ imphantly into pbH; The "Lady Shore" for "that was tie Vessel's name,) wis Towded with Sjoiith Americans/.. The iravery of the tvomeu was loudly ap)lauded, and in 'three days the richest roung Spaniard Jrt the city offered himelf to the bold ijrid beautiful Rase Mac )rnc. Her promise to the pilot was forgotten. The ambitious Scotch , woman low wears pearls and diamonds in plenty; ,nd most of her gister convicts are at the icad of respectable families in Buenos tyres.. ' i rrom inc Missouri Kcpuolicnn* CURE F)OR CANCER. St. Charles, May 29, 1828. Messrs. Editors: About twenty-three 'ears ago when'I tvas only twelve years ild, I discovered a small substance ab6tit he size of a pea. Under the skin of my lose, immediately between my eyes, which ionlinued to increase until I became so ilarmed that 1 bpd it operated upon by )r. M'C.onner, in 1821. After the opeation it increased more rapidly than beore, and continued a running sore, and vas pronounced a confirmed cancer. Dr. Smith, of New Jfayen, operated upon it gain in 1823, using the knife very freely, .nd, laying opeB the dower extremity of be cartilage and bon& which he scraped, iut without any good effect, for after the round healed, the cancer increased faster, fidtfefore,:: Jt was oOfe:: ated upon twice afterwards, always with be same result?increasing faster, and uniting more after each operation. In be mean time I applied every remedy bat was recommended, nntil I had al nost wholly despaired of ever being cured nd not only dreaded the fatal consciences which it threatened, of depriving ac of my eye-sight, and ullimately of fe, but expected to carry about me thro' ny remaining days, however brief, a painid and disgusting sore, and so prominenty placed, that it must be the first object toticed by friend or stranger, approaching ne, But fortunately, last December, 1 :ame to this place, and was recommebd;d by Henry L. Mills, Esq. to uSe a trong potash, made of the ashes of Red )ak Bark, boiled down to the consistence >f molasses, to ^ovcr the cancer with it, md about an hour afterwards cover the dastcr with tar, which must be removed ifter a few days, and if any protuberances emaincd in the wound, apply more potish to them, and the plaster again, until hey all disappear, after which, heal the vound with any common salve. This i did a few times, and to my inexpressible latisfaction, I have nothing now remainngof my cancer, but some few inconsid:rable scars, being perfectly cured, with>ut the least hope of its ever returning; ind I think it my duty to make my cure mown to the public, that, happily, some sufferer like myself may be benefitted bv t, THOMAS TYRELL. DO WE EAT A PORTION OF THE SOIL? Certainly. Every vegetable is partly nade up of a portion of the soil. Our .vheat contains lime and flint, and a little day. Our corn contains the like mate ials, only a little modified by a different proportion, and so of most of our grains. Dur vegetables must have a little of the nineral matter about them, and our soils liust be so prepared that these mineral natters shall become dissolved and taken ir? <-> f^rm nrid mnstitute the substance in ?. question. Animal manures also contain, unong other things, these ingredients in 1 soluble state, and hence their use when idded to soils. They supply the mate'ials which may be lacking, and cause he crop to grow into the shape needed "or our own sustenance. Thus there is a constant change going on, and the animal, lie vegetable, and the mineral world are ntimately connected. The farmer should remember when he gathers in his crop at harvest time that he is collecting together a portion of what was his soil at sowing T" 11 I" 11" " time, and is carrying it off. The grpate] and mqre bountiful the harvest, the piort of the soil he conveys, away and the less does he leave to sustain the future, crops. Hence it is that soils . beeome exhausted, and henoe it becomes necessary that there should be a.supply. returned in order to keep up the-fertility 'and.ensure a profitable: return of labor Expended in cultiva* tion.: Jit would be an advantage if every farmer could analyze1 the produce of his fields drtd also thfe soil itself, and thereby detect what ii m6Sf abundant add \Wuft most deficient. 'i: ! '"sol At present but few can do' this, and there are many things yet iathe'&hiwmy of natiire that they cannot'explain. 'When the farmers themselves shajl become io well acquainted with agricultural* cliemjatry; these ' mysteries, .will' gradual ly. pass away. That time will undoubtedly come. It requires only a mind to begin, a mind to persevere, and a mind to Communicate, results. When this ik.the* <idse, when all the practical farmers ^liallbecome awake fothis subject, and shall practice accordingly, ^culture .will be a very different pursuit from what it now is. There yvill uu icss groping in iije cam, ana a greater return for capital invested.?Maine Far. SIGNS OF A POOR FARMER. He grazes his mowing land late in the Spring. Some of his cows are much past their prime. He neglects to keep the dung and ground from the sills of his buildings. lie sows and plants his land till it is exhausted before he thinks of ma ntiring, ne Keeps too much stock, and many of thera are unruly. He has a place for nothing, and nothing in its place. If he wants a gimblet, a chisel or a hammer, he .cannot find it. He seldom does any thing in stormy weather, or in an evening.'! You will often perhaps hear of his being in the bar-room, talking of hard times. Although he has been on a piece of land twenty years, ask him for grafted apples, and he will tell you that tie could not raise them, for he never had any lock. His indolence and carelessness subject him to many accidents. He loses cider for want of ai hoop, hU plough breaks in his hurry to get in his seed in season, befcadse it was ndt houfsed, arid in harvest time, when he is at work, on a distant part of his farm, the hogs break into his garden, for want of a small repair in his fence.? He always feels in a hurry y yet in his busiest day" no win srap-anrf ism mnic nas wearied your patience. He is seldom neat in his person, and generally late at public worship^ His children are late at school, and their books are torn and dirty. lie has1 no enterprise, and is sure to have no money, or if he must have it, makes a great sacrifice to get it; and as he is slack in his payments, and buys altogether on _ 1 'i I a L 4 Urir\v? n /-Jr>nI* crean, ne purcnuses wary unu" ai a u^ai rate. You will see the smoke come out of his chimney long after daylight in the winter. His horse stable is not daily cleansed, nor his horse curried. Boards, shingles, and clapboards are to be seen off his buildings, month after month, without being replaced, and his windows are full of rags. lie feeds his hogs and horses with whole grain. If the lambs die, or the wool comes off his sheep, he does not think it for want of care or food. lie is generally a great borrower, and seldom returns the thing borrowed. He is a poor husband, a poor father, a poor neighbor, a poor citizen, and a poor Christian.?Exchange paper, . Power op Industry.?It was a beautiful expression of a Chinese sage, that bytime and industry a mulberry leaf becomes a silk shawl, but if the following statement be correct, and I hate no reason to doubt its truth, it affords a still wknt human infe more sinning j^iwi ?anuity can accomplish?such an one, indeed, as our oriental philosopher would never have dreamt of. In the manufacture of steel an article may be raised from one half penny, to 35 thousand" guineas! A pound of crude iron costs one half pen' ny; it is converted into steel, and steel is made into watch .springs,, and every one of which is sold for half a guinea, and weighs only one tenth of a grain, after deducting for waste; it therefore affords steel for 70,000 watch springs, the value of which, at half a guinea each, is 35,000 guineas.?Mechanics' Magazine. Curious Economy.?There never was a wiser maxim than that of Franklin,? "Nothing is cheap which you do not want." Yet how perfectly insane many people are on the subject of buying cheap things. "Do tell me why you have bought 1 A" - 1 1 (I.., L..? (that cast ott door plater' asi%tju mc uu?band of one of these notable bargainers. "Dear me," replied the wife, ,4you know it is always my plan to lay up things against time of need; who teno ns but i/ou may die, and I may marry a man with the same name as that on the door plater r C qud WaHER Am CwKWVrrXn^ Wr ! Chester. (N.Yd Dcmcwjmt ftsoofdp^^cas? 3 of cpre.of tbevcrQujvby appficakkteof ' cold w*fcw.a-;xFh?patient'iv&s a lilfclrgirb i tvfro^ .antfeajhalf-yedrssbld; rHer pdrents werccalled^ohar bed-aide, ab8ut?K) o't clock at' night," by.-^tra.Tjw hrtse, etrail fiwnd H4r, awpctfehtfy; in tlY&jiwf ofcteafrif from fIVatfearftfcfiycase,:die. c^rthk Tb'dfd tVars ti'6 ftedrdp&^fi tlfc .Relate soHi^efrvr tRe' ta'Scr the.fife Wab'dtft/^dfbaf rw?fer ddufdfiot Be b6^ldiii^H^Ste8; and the p'k mMmmwpl lieved QI ,s!rpil^r distrew. aoa. danffer ty} the us^'oX^ld.wdt^ lhfimediate& cold . water was applied with aj iponge,jjtyaHHh neck and ?icrt, and less -than the child was so far recovered as to -dnijki * * freely-of> the -water. She was then wiped dry* wrapped up warn?,; aad- inlegs than three minutes - from- the firstfapplksation of the water, brektlled-With' perfect frefeneas. The cbiid had a similar though le&slevere attack some months* after, and vfras relieved in tfife same inanfier. ' ? r .i(.:-"."I "ft: vG A Chapter- "oK ~Matrri^M--There are four sorts of W'offieft among the candidates for matrimony corresponding to wives, companiOTis, ladies,^ami ladies of fashion. One Weds a wife,. marries V! companion, courts a fady, and;;b^fo3k : affianced to a lady of fa^tlidh. One is happy with a wife, contented.with a ?orananion. lives in a rmiet W9U wiili o lalrlv' and manages to get along \*ithTa ladv otf. fashion. One is loved bjfa wife, well treated by d Companion, esteemed by a lady, and tolerated by a ladvtof^faabiop. Ono is one body, and one soiil with, a wife,-: a couple with a companion, a family with a lady, and a housekeeper With la Wyoft fashion. When d man-is sick, he isten- i derly nursed by his wife; pitied by bit i companion, visited by the lady, and > quired after by the lady of fashion; If" the husband dies, the wife it incol sol able, i the companion mourns for htm, the lady" is mariricd in a year, and the lady of faSh-> ion forgets him in sit weeks. For widows are singirldr creatures; they, resemble green wood, which, while it is burning pti one side, is Weeping on the othef.~P7nfer. Standard. . ???? The American Farmer, on the authorv ty of respectable- farmers, publishes tHp. ivnvTTirig i uih-A.. ... ?? ?i ?i. fied. To Cure Cnouc in Horses.?Make \ and give him a (Trench composed of a table spoonful of strong mustard, dissolved in a black bottle of water. Having prescribed and described the drench, how is it most conveniently administered?? Raise the horses head high in the air, aild give the dose from a juhk or black bottle. ' For this purpose every farmer should have a bottle at hand, (always kept in one and the same place, and so with many other things,) the neck of which, to pre-. ' vent its breaking in the horse's mouth,. should be well seized or wrapped round with twine. If it be uncertain when the horse was taken, as in that case there will be danger of inflammation, od discovery of the disorder, breathe a vein immediateIt/. The remedy here described, is said to be immediate and infallible. Jugs.?The jug is the mpst singular utensil; a pail, tumbler, of decanteF m'ar be rinsed, and you rrfay satisfy yourself by optical proof that the thing il clead; but the jug has a little hole in (he top, and the interim is all darkness, penetrates it, no hand moves oyef the c V . /.on oloan.it nnfv1 hv Dllf sunncc. iuu. uuii j ting in water, shaking it up, and pouring it out. If the water comes out clean, you judge you- have succeeded in purifying the jug, and: vice versa. Hence the jug is like the human heart". No mortal) eye can look- into its recesses^ but you can judge of its purity or impurity only by what cornea out of it. c. - An Excellent Hit.?We find the following good one in a New Orleans paper: "A talking match lately 'came off in this' place for five hundred dollars a side. It continued for thirteen hotfrfc?the rivals being a Frenchman and a Kentuckian. The bystanders and judges were all talked to sleep, and when they waked up in the morning, they found the Frenchman dead and the Kentuckian whispering in his ear!" mJ 'II Severe Wlnter i.v Europe. The winter on the continent of Europe has ii In Sweden three oeen unusuan^ ? thousand persons are said to have died of cold? The ponds in some places were frozen to the bottom and the fish destroyed. In Iltmgai v 80,000 head of horned cattle have been frozen to death, and birds and panic are slated to have shared the same fate y