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VOL. XXXIII- CAMDEN, S. C., DECEMBER 4, 1873. NO. 14,
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THE CAIM JOUBNAL.
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A*
INDEPENDENT FAMILY PAPIR
FUBLISHXD WKEKLT BT
fBAWrmi St HAY.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
On year, ia advance $2 50
91* month* 1 50
Thraa months... 75
$&* Transient Adrartistmsnts must bs paid
% adTtSfi*.
! ADVERTISING RATES.
SfACi 1 M. 12 M. S XI. 6 M. | 1 T.
I 1 squire f 00| 6 00 8 00 12 00 16100
I aquarsi 6 Ott 9 00 12 00 18 00 26 00
t aaaarac I OOMI 00 16 00 24 OQ 85 00
?a nrj u nrt Oil O/V JM ftnf AS IV}
4 lauru u vw w wri ?v ?.
I eolumn 15 00 19 00 24 00 84 00 60 00
I column 20 00 SO 00 40 00) 65 00 80 00
f column SO OQJ 60 OQi 60 00, 90 00|160 <00
All Tmnslent AdT?rtue?*?t? will be eknrjed
Osn Doliab per Squire for tke tret ud Sbtsxtt-*iti
Cists per 8qanr# for each subsequent
ins art is n Single Insertion, $1 60 per square.
,^I H JTCAJUL,
as? ;
Winter Goods!
A.T
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CHEAP CASH STORE.
0?r8t?ktf
* ?! lff*?Al?nii^i rtCk
vriiDrai aoiviuuMiuiv) |
l e tl? Consisting in part, of / k
IDR/IT OOOIDSi
, Groceries, Hardware,
Cutlery, Boots, and Shoes,
Notions, Hats, &c,
WiU b? soM at the tory lowest prices for (
cash or its eqairalent in barter.
AllQeeds soli by us are warranted
as represented. ]
We here a large and well selected stook of
North Carolina ?hoes,
Whieh we offer at low figures.
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We pay the higheet Market prioea for Cot
ton and other Country Produce. Agent
Cor Neblett ft Goodrich's Cotton Gins, whic
we offer at Manufacturer's prices.
19* All Goods purchased by parties re si
dieg withia the corporate limits of the town, ,
will be delivered by ue free of charge. '
J. & T. I. JOKES.
Fall and Winter. t
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M Dry Goods,
W i. Clothing; Ii( . .
Boots and Shoes.
Hate, yx Groceries,
Crockery and Hardware,
AT
W. I ARTHUR S
I am offering extra iadaoemeuta to pur
ekaaart from ay
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LABtiE STOCK,
.LT--1. i H Ji. _??.<
and would reapectfully solicit a call,
W. L ARTHUR.
September 26.
BININCER'S
01J) LONBON M GIN
Especially deairaed for the ua< of the Mtdical
Fro/anon and the Famitu, possessing tboaa in
frtmtte medicinal propartiaa wbioh belong to an
' Old nad Pun Out.
ladispeneable to Femolea. Good for Ktdmy
3*plwmta. A dtlieiooa Tonic. Put up in oases
toiiKg too doit* bottloo 1Mb, and sod by
nil druggiata, grooera. Ac. A. M. Binninger A
Co., established is 1771, Ko. 16, Bearer etieet,
Mow York. October 28?9m
Floor! Floor!!
100 Urriib of diffmntjmuUg. _
PHOTOGRAPHS,
The undersigned having returned
and opened a gallery will be
pleased to see his friends.
With more experience and IM- 1
PROVED APPARATUS he feele
more capable than ever before of
pleasing the people. ,
Come and have your pictures f
made before grim winter with his *
frost and snowq pounces upon us. 1
Gallery in Workman House. (
A. B. TjTJ K.
Camden, S. C., Sept. 11,1873.
FALL AND WINTER
MILLINERY
1 * ?Aire? (
FANCY GOODS. ,
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MRS. T. B. WALKER Las opened at her. t
establishm. nt ou Broad Street, a handtome
assortmen* of a
Millinerv and Fancv Goods, B
-Of the latest styles, selected with great care, z
o suit the taste* of her customers and the pub- t
io generally. c
The Ladies are respestfully invited to call 0
,nd examine her stock of
Straw Hats, SasLaarMlRloiis. ?
Together with every article to be found in q
--11 ?1 - - '1 kf!'.U?A?w AotoLlinlimont n
roil BUppmru .uuuuci;
October 23. tf 1
THE LATEST! i
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I HAVE OPENED THE li
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Most Complete Stock of lj'
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DRT GOODS, ;
N
READY Mil)E ?
CLOTHING, r
u!
SOOTS and SHOES, I
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Tr. I rriv<? mv uncial attention,
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Hats and Caps, ?'
ri
Saddles, &c., I
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iver offered in this Market. si
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|Special care and attention having g<
ten given to the selection and manufac- P
uring of fabric* for my tales, of the pre*- ^
nt teuton, ciutomers will find an unutu- p
illy full, choice, and attractive astort- c
nent purchase I since the decline inp rices. J,
JOS. S. CLOUD.
October 9. tf. p
NEW ;
AND ,
ATTRACTIVE!!;
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TU# attention of customers is called to my (
LtAHUK I
AND 1
Carefully Selected Ntock of 1
DRY GOODS, J
CLOTHTNG, 1
BOOTS and SHOES, :
HATS and CAPS, 1
HARDWARE, j
CROCKERY.
A Large Stock of
GROCERIES.
I have also on hand, an assortment of
Furniture,
With a variety of other articles. All of
whioh are offered upon the most reasonable
terns.
J. I. MM, Aleut.
Oetobir 9. tf
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AN INVITATION PROM THE SOUTH.
From The South
[We are much gratified in being ablo to
present to our readers, another contribution,
from the facile pen to which they, and we
are indebted for "Pleasure in the South."]
Editor of The South:
Not only I, but those by whom I am surrounded,
my associates and friends, have
ever since the war, endeavored, honestly and
fairly to draw nearer to us the good people
jf the North. I tay honestly and fairly,
and I mean this in its fullest signification.
We represent all things in perfect candor;
1 BArtiotni Ann /iflTA
jur buui, uur unuiai/c, uui owicvj^ vu? %>?ivtion
to and reverence for the pa9t, professing
no hypocritical repentance for acta, and aspirations
which were the highest, and noblest
)i our lives?have no affiliation with the adventurous
plunderers who corrupt the igno ant,
and incite the vicious to prey upon us.
[f we did these things we would be unworthy
he confidence of good people at the North.
But the respectable people of South Caroinaj
do desire the same class of peoplo from
he North to come among them. We know
hat cultivated, educated, moral and respecthie
people are the same everywhere; form
f government, and political opinions have
tothing to do with the private worth of citiens.
when government is honestly administered,
and political views honestly entertaind.
We know that Northern people are as
1 * 4 J A mnnavo) MVAf\n.
00(1, UUIIt'Sl mill Hue. aa a gcucim
ition, aa the Southern people. We know
liat some of the very best and purest of the
Northern people are Republicans, but we do
ot know any virtue among South Carolina
LadieaJs. We know beyOnd question that
'ithout exception they are ignorant or
icious ; no man among thorn can escape both
orns of the dilemma. This much I have
tid to show the fact that it is not hostility to
iepublicanism, which separates all decent
topic in South Carolina, from connection
ith the State Government, but aversion to t
;uorance, vice and corruption.
Will not good people of the North then j
Jteu to us, when we invite them to share i
le bounties which nature has spread out all j
rer the South; when we show them the de- '
?htg of our climate, the rich products of our i
?il?
It strikes me that now is a most appropri- ]
e time for the South to renew these iavita- I
ons, and for the north most earnestly to j
insider them. <
The artificial condition of affairs at the <
orth produced the financial crash, which .
shaking to the very centre every interest i
the North. .
The cotton of tho South is redeeming, and ill
redeem the finances of the country from i
ter wreck and ruin. i
It will do this, it is true, at a loss of four 1
ints a pound 'on every pound of cotton pro 1
iced at the South; visiting tho little patch 1
' the poor orphan Confederate boy, and the
jecy plains of lordly proprietors.
And yet we suffer only to the extent of. !
irhaps, twenty per coot of income; our
nsiness is not destroyed, no property is 1
recked ; not one laborer is thrown out of 1
nployment, not one suffers for the necessaes
of life; and even for the privations we
ndergo, we have a conviction that compenitiou
is before us iu the better average
rices of our produce for the next ten years,
>r reasons which readily suggest thcmselvos
-such as contraction of production, expenve
systems, etc Now I am not disposed
> argue the question of the advantages, and
isadvaatagea presented by a higher civilizaon,
where pursuits are to a greater degree
rtiicial: ana b? slower civilisation, if it be
3 deemed, where pursuits are devoted to the
roductiou of the mere natural wants of man
?food, clothing etc., but this is evident, and
.ere is the lesson, that in a country where the
nrsnits of a people are artificial, a financial
rash crushes with terrible cruelty the poor,
ho laboring and persons of moderate means
or the simple reason that the demand for
heir productions absolutely ceases?fond
nd necessary clothing Ac., may diminish in
trice, but they still have an important uiotey
power ; while silks, satins, laces, wines,
.rticlos of vertu Ac., and the great establishments
which produce them, nrc utterly valueess,
and the millions whose existence depends
ipon them are thrown out of employment.
Now in the South, evory honest industrious
man can find employment at profitable
ates; nor is this all, in societies where
vealth is overgrown cither in individual or
ncorporate hands, not only poof people but
people of moderate means, arc at the inorcy
>f the rich. The very shadow of a Stewart,
r a Vanderbilt would crush the life out of a
rival witli entail capital. At the North, one
with a capital of from $50,001), to $100,000,
:annot own, and keep a house, and transact
business in a thriving city; at the South, j
even such a capital would surround one with
everything desirable, and make him relatively
a millionaire,with the certainty that a fow
years would make him absolutely so.
To the laborer, the present rewards are
-I ??.!
not only high but he in at ones skviiuiu,
and ennobled by tho sure hope of soon being
an independent, and prosperous proprietor.
Now, above all times, is an opportune season
for investments in the South.
Camden, S. 0., Nov. 8, 1873,
A few weeks aj?o a baby wns taken into a
church to be baptized, and hie little brother
was present during that rito. On the following
Sunday, when the baby was undergoing
hit ablutions and dressing, the little
brother asked mamma if she intended to
earrj Willie to be christened. "Why. no."
replied his mother; "don't you know, my
aon, that people are not baptized twico?"
"What 1" returned the young reaaoner with
the utmoat astonishment, "not if it don't
tftto the first tins J"
"PEACE PAPERS."
From The Abbeville, Medium.
Rome Ga., Nov. 5th, 1873.
Some time since T alluded through your
columns to new book by Major Chas. II.
Smith, then in press, entitled "Peace Papers,
bv Bill Arp." The work has sinco been
issued, and I take the liberty of sending you
a few excerpts beginning with the
"dedikashun
"To tho unarmed, unleg'd unay'd, unpenshun'd,
unwept, unhonored, and j unsung
soljiers of the Confederit States, so called, I
dedicate this book. Their unaffekted, un-:
eomplainin patience in peace, so called, is
equaled only by ttieir untarmsbsa and unteryfided
valor in war.
"When the patriotism and honor of our
brave boys ar' reckonized by their Northern
brethren, so called; when they draw the
game penahuns, and receive the same bounty
land; when evry dollar of back pay is voted
in the bill, when tho widders and orfins of
our Confoderit dead are lifted up on the
same platform of a Nashun's Justice, and
when the pecpul of these Unitec States , socalled,
shulte hands aad make Trends over
the green graves of their heroes/ then, and
not tell then, will there be shore enuf lasting
and unprctended peace
"That blessed time is coming. Take
courage and wait for it, .ye maimed, neglect
ed, and pennyless boys; cheor up, and hope
for it, ye widders and orfins of a noble hand. |
May you all live till it happens, if it takes a
thousan years.
Bill Arp.
"P. S.?If you don't cum soon, the compound
interest on the back pay will brake the
Quverment, and they know it. It is bound
to cum. B. A."
% "prtfass.
"Gentul lieaJur;?One day, a* I was go-'
ing along I heard a man grittin his teoth,
and I saw his ejea fash tire, and he slap'd
his fist in his baud liko poppin wagon whips,'
iud he was tellin another niau about a tite
be had had. His upper lip was all in a
tremble, and the big vanes ou his forrerd
was swelled up like maokarony. Ho was i
powerful mad. Feelin' au intrust in the '
like of that, I atop'd and listened, and ij
looked all over him to see if there wasn't i
blood or dirt or hair on his clothes. Well,,
is I didn't sec eny, sez I, "Mister, when did
ill that happen ? He paused and shuttin' '
one eye like he was a think in', sea he, "Well,.
?its?now?'been?nigh?onto?27?years
"We aint that man. We hope nobody 1
will presoom to think we carry our war heat
that long. The fakt is. it aiut the war that
our peepel is mad about uohow. It's this
confounded, overlastiu , abouiinabal peace?
this tail to the comet?this rubbin' the skab !
off before the sore gets well.
"They've sorter let u? slip back into the j
Union, but they've put tusk-masters over us,!
snd sent carpet-baggers down to plunder us.,
They won't let us throw flowers on the
graves of our poor boys who fell on their
Bide of the fence. They wont give our in- |
'11 J I
valid soljters, or our wiauers auu oruu? uuv
pensions. Thej taxd our cotton fifty millions
of dollars, and thoir courts sed it was
illegal; but they wont pay it back. If they
haint got laws strong enough to keep what
they stole, they'll go to Washington and setj
and set till they hatch 'etn.
"Now if our soljicrs' honor is as sakred
as theirs, why dou't they p|nshun our crippics
'i Why dou't they wipe the stain of
treason from off our orfius f There's Giui
Wilkins, who stood up like a man in 1861,*j
with a heart in him as big as a meetin-house.
and when in his new soljier cloase he cuui to
a "support arms," I thought ,he was as
tine a pikter of an Aincric&u patriot as I
ever seed. But he lost a leg aud an eye at
Fredericksburg, and now, here he is goin i
about hacked, and p?or, and ragged, and
the great Auierikau Guverinent skorns him,
and ses 'supportyourself.' you dirty booger."
General Grant is disposed of as follows:
"Never mind. These chicken will cum
homo to roost sum of these days. I'll but
llraut a thousand dollars agin the best bull
terryer dog he's got. that if no lives 23 years
he'll he set down in history as a rcglar aksidental
bust. I'll Let there was ten thousand
soljicrs iu the Yankee army who would have
made a better fite, and & hundred thousand
who would hav made a better President.
1 1 rotin in nf war trades
iya... .. ?
off three uieu fur one Hang a President
who gives his Guverninent nu eurakter, who
wunt run the uiasheen, who siuoaks around,
a frolikiu with hosses and dogs, and reluilin
old army joaks in change for uiekofuutic
suiiles.
*******
' Put I don't know that its any of our
business who is President. 1 suppose its
none of our funeral, only we do sorter feci,
suuitimes. a larger pride iu the respcktubility
of the American guveruuient. When
furriners cum over here and islookin around
for our King, we would like to show 'em
numthin better than a fiigger-hoad."
In making those extracts, all of which, I
must add, have been taken from the preface
?the ante-room, whose furniture is only a
fortiori nu itidox to that of tho inner apartment?I
have felt the full force of Hoswell's
remark in relation to Johnson's Hasaelas: *'I
restrain myself from quoting pasages from
this excellent work, or even referring to
them, because 1 should not know what to
? ?-i? _I ... D.
eciuci, or, rumor, hnui vui?.
1>r Mott and tiik Sultan.?A number
of (.'-onfederate officers anysa Washington letter.
got employment in Kgypt at from 8250
to SfiOl), per month, in the following curious
way. Qen Mott, their ranking offioer, was
the son of Valontino Mott, the greet Arneriom
surgeoo, who out the wert am the Sultans
head when all his Turkish rhubard-wen were
afraid of the Caliph's vengeance if they
should hurt him. Mott took it from his head
as if the Caliph was a turnip, and great was
the wonder of the faithful. For this the
doctor was rewarded, but he despised tho
docorations which were tendered him. His
son Thaddeus, however, availed himself of i
the old surgeon's fame when he went over to i
Turkey in Andrew Johnson's time, to inves- i
tigate the complicity of our minister, Jay
Morris, in the Cretan revolt. Thaddeus
Morris married a Greek woman, who furnished
the harem with haberdashery, and got admittance
to the Sultan's bowers, which is in
the East, influence. Blacque Bey, a convert to (
the faith, and afterwards Minister ot thejUni- (
ted States, married Gen. Mett's sister. The
Khedive of Egypt, who is always seeking to ,
get influence with the sublime porte, his ,
sovereign, offered Gen. Mott a staff position |
in his army, expecting to be a step nearer ]
the ear and the mouth of the Sultan. He (
also got th^ idea that he would have a num- ]
ber of American officers brought out to
Egypt, for these would be detaohed from j
European -diplomacy, and woald not not so ,
j much excite the Sultan's jealousy. Mott (
came to New York, and there he saw a great j
crowd of dis charged rebels drinking arouud ,
the hotels, poor, ruined, and borrowing. His ,
*AAlr nitff nn tliom an/1 hp vnnU
TT ai LU Ileal b WUA VU MV nvwaw j
say to this one and that one: "Well, I'll
give you a position," He was obliged to (
discharge the bills of some of those, and oth- (
ers had not even the money to rid^io a car- (
riage to the steamship.
The Curse of Drink.?The appetite in \
man for strong drink has spoiled the lives of '
more women?ruined more hopes for them, 4
scattered more fortunes for them, brought to 4
theui more sorrow, shame and hardship? \
than any other evil there is. The country j
numbers tens?nay, hundreds of thousands j
?who aro widows to-day because their hus- ,
bands have been slain by strong drink. t
There are hundreds of thousands of homes f
scattered over tho land in which women live t
lives of torture, going through all the 8
changes of suffering that lie between the ex- e
tremes of fear and despair, because those t
whom they love love, wine better than they do f
the women they Gave sworn to lovo. t
There are women by thousands who dread t
to hear at the door the step that once filled c
them with pleasure, because that step has j
learned to reel under the influence of the se- t
ductive poison. There are women groaning s
with pain, while wo'write these words, from .
bruises and brutalities inflicted by husbands t
made mad by drink. There can be no ex- t
aorperation in anv statement in regard to this .
matter, because no buinan imagination von [
create anything worse than the real picture j
of the truth in all its terrible colorings. t
The sorrows and horror of a wife with a j
drunken husband are as near the realization (
of hell as can be reached, in this world, at ?
least. The shame, the jpdignation, the sor- (
row and the sense of disgrace for herself and {
her children, the poverty, and not un- (
frequently the beggary, the fear and the fact ,
of violence, the lingering life-long struggle j
and despair of countless women with drunken .
husbands, are enough to make all women ,
curse wine, and engage unitedly to oppose ,
it everywhere as the worse enemy of their (
sex.?Dr. Holland. ,
' i
The Hanging Gardens op Babylon.? .
Our pretty hanging baskets with their
suspension wires completely draped in delicate
climbing ivies and standing mosses, with
their masses of beautiful trailing plants, their
droopiug grasses, vines, mimosas, nusksceuted
aud covered with brilliant golden
flowers, though liliputian in size, are literally
hanging gardens. But, even should they
be made a million of times larger, their plan
i i /r i tliftir aaiiI^ navAP
is so utterly umurcui' tuiit mwj wuiu *?v ??
suggost the fain lest notions of the hauging
| gardens of Babylon, about the very naiue of
, which there is a ring of poetic grandeur and
, a flavor of Oriental magnificence. Thoy
were literally paradise or pleasure gardens.
Xenophon mentions those of Belesis, Governor
of Syria; and such as he beheld
thew, apparently, we find them described by
| Chardin and other modern travolers. The
I hanging gardens of Babylon were simply a
i very costly variety of the paradiso, suoh
I as only princely wealth could afford,
i Their origin is attributed to Samiramis by
i souio; others say that they vriro invented by
a King of Syria to charm the melancholy
of one of his wives, of Persian origin, who
sighed to behold again th^verdant mountains
j of her native land. Strabo and Diodorus
lamnila
j Siculqs have written noout> uivk
hanging gardens, doubtless becauso of tbe
I huge brandling palms and other trees over1
hauging the balustrade on tlie suuinn't oftho
high walls that enclosed the paradise. These
walls we are about one hundred and thirty
yards long on each of the four sides, twenty
two feet thick, and fifty cubis high, orovorniuety-oue
feet, according to tbe Hebrew
cubit: bv tbe Roman or the English cubit, a
>little ices.
ground tlie interior on all sides roso terraco
above terraee the number of twenty, thd
top one resting on tho outer walls and even
with the balustrade. The terraces^ were
upheld by immensely strong galleries, whose
ceilings were lortificd of hewn stones sixteon
feet long and four wide. Resting on these
stones was a layer of rocds, mixed "with a
great quantity of asphalt, and on this was a
double floor of firc-driod bricks laid in more
tar; finally, a floor of lead plates to prevent
any uioisturo from penetrating the foundations
of the terraces, the soil of which rested
directly on tho leaden floor and was of
sufficient depth to hold and nourish trees
fifty feet high, and thousands of rare plants
i culled from all parts of the known world,
i All these were kept iu a perennially flour
iahing condition, wa are informed, by water
railed from the Euphrates through tha aid
of machinery concealed from view in certain
rooms made in the galleries The galleries
also contained many royal apartments,
variously decorated and furnished. Decent*
ly lighted they could not have been; but ons
can easily imagine that a walk around the
upper terraces on a fine moonlight night, the
senses charmed by soft music and by waves
of perfume rising from the wilderness of flow*
era and shrubs below, must have been en*
chanting.?Marie Howland.
Monkey Sagacity.?It was a Wild and
dreary part of the country, in the plains of
India, whilo journeying, that one day a
friend and myself sat down nnder the shad*
of an umbrageous banyan tree, and We were
enjoying a meal of various edibles, to be
trashed down by a glasa of Baas' best, when
we were disturbed by the arrival and the
noise of a troop of large black-faced monkey
a ; the branches overhead literally swarmed
with them. They looked on us aa interlopers,
no doubt, and for some time their
gestures appeared so menacing that we were
ipprehensive they would dispute the ground
with us. But after a time things seemed to
lettle down, and we went on with our repast
in peace. We had just risen from our meal, '
ind were strolling forth from under the shade,
when to our surprise, one of the monkeys-?
\ young one?fell down from a high branch
it our feet. It was quite dead. The clam)r
that arose above us on the occurrence was
leafening. The whole assembly of monkeys
:lustored together for a confab. Long and
loud were the chatterings and various the
grimaces of the tribe, each individual vieing
- .t. .1 ? _ a. i J
iVitii iue Ubuor AU iuo IUUUUCOO %ji uio
Their looks and gestures made it apparent
hat- they suspected us as being the cause of
he death of their juvenile comrade; and
lad we had guns in our hands, or any other
uurderous weapons, we should no doubt
lave been set upon sad maltreated. But we
vere unarmed, and the good sense of the
nonkeysscemid tojtell them*that there must
>e some other culprit. Having come to
his conclusion, one monkey, apparently the
enior and leader of the whole tribe, separatd
himself from the rest, ran to the spot on
he branch whence the young monkey had
alien, examined it carefully, smelt the
>ranch and then glided nimbly down one of
he pillars or pendant-roots, and came to the
torpse of the monkey, took it up, examined
t minutely, particularly the shoulder, where
here was a small wound. Instinct immediitely
turned sus picion into cfertainty. He
>laced tho corpse on the ground again and
urning his gaze in every direction, endeav>red
to pierce the foliage in his search for
he murderer. After a little while somehing
seemed to rivet nis attention, in au
nstant he had mounted the tree, Bprung to
he spot, and with one clutch had seized a
ong whip snake, with which he hastened
:o the ground. Now occurred a most curious
? ? vn. !
scene. Tbe wnoie nionsey raoojc, xuiumiug
sheir leader, were on the ground almost
is soon as he; then as many as could, ranged
:hemselves on each side of the snake. Each
uonkey put his hand oirthe reptile clutching
lold of the skin of the back tightly. At a
given signal, the executioners dragged the
writhing snake backward a nd^ forward on
:he ground, till nothing was left of the murJerer
but the back bone. The awle of exe*
?ution was effectual, and in the way it was
carried out, showed the clear understanding
which the monkey language conveys.*?
Travel* in India.
Egyptian Corn.?Among the many novalties
embraced in the wide range of agricultural
products of the State, one which bida
fair to assume prominence is the "Egyptian
corn/' which has already been raised in considerable
quantities in the vicinity of Sutter,
and is now being introduced extensively
about Vallejo. Its capabilities are not yet
folly understood, but as far as its growers
have got acquainted with it, it is found at
least to be an excellent food for poultry and
all kinds of stock?even preferable for these
uses to either wheat or barley. It
yields as much as seventy bushels to the
acre, and, it is believed, can be relied upon
for two crops per annum. The manner of
planting it is similar to that employed with
broom-corn, which the stock somewhat resembles,
while the head in shape is more
like that of the sorghum or Asiatic sugar-cane.
Instead of growing straight up, ns that does,
the Egyptian corn always crooks at tho head
and turns down wheu maturing The grains
1 in shape and size bear some resemblance to
broom-corn seed, but on crushing a grain it
is found to bo more of tho nature of Indian
corn than anything else. The seeds from
which this corn is grown were taken from
[the wrapping of Egyptian mummies; and
| that they grew after beingthus laid away for
two thousand years sbows tnai mis variety
of cereal possesses wonderful power of reproduction.
It has been suggested that it
might be found to advantageously replace
barley for the use of malsters and brewers.
Doubtless the experiment will soon be made.
San Francisco Chronicle.
A Doo Story.?It is related of Sir Edwin
Landseer that when once visiting Scotland
he stopped at a little village which was
plentifully supplied with dogs. Landseer,
as was his custom, amused himself by making
rapid sketches of such as pleased his fancy.
The next day, as he resumed his journey, he
was distressed to see dogs suspended in all
directiens from the trees, or drowning in
the rivers with stones round their necks.
He stopped a weeping urchin who was hurry
ingotf with a pet pup in his arms, and learned,
to his dismay, that he was supposed to be
an excise officer who was taking notes of all
the dogs he saw in order to prosecute the
owners for unpaid taxes, so the people had
hastened to dispose of their pets to eseaye
taxation.