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Cr?4l.letters by mail must be paid to in sure itual attendance. * ftEtact of1 an Ordinanace Enacted;b' yhe Toiwn Council of Sumterrille: Fprithe information of all whom it may coiice4i the following extract is published, tio4-vit: "Sc. S. That no slave whese owner resides without the limits of the town of Sumterville, shall be permitted to work therein, unless a written permit be first pro cure4 frm the T1arshal; for which, t~he "uni of fifty cents, fbr common laborers, and the sun of one dollar and fifty cents for mechan, ice, 1iall .be paid: and that no permit shall be for a longer time than three wonths: and ifiany slave shalt neglect to procure a per mit, such slave shall be imprisoned by the Marshal until released by Council; and in no case setat liberty, Mitil the eupenses of his or her arrest and imprisontment have been first paid.j Published by order of Council, J. 3. N. IAAMMET, Clerk of Cottncil. Sfarch 13th, 1848. 21 tf .TREATMENT OF HORSES. Onr sympathies have frequently been excited by the bad treatment of horses, which we have witnessed. They are bnd driven, seldom blanketted, poorly -fed andsgroomed, and miserably stabled. Horises must be short-lived at the South. Nor pan we see how they will escape colds, -consumptions, bowel complatints, andisoases in every form. In riding from Warrenton to Sparta, in the mail stage, wahave seen the team driven 10 miles in a cold night, stand several hours while moist with sweat, withotit blankets Ir shelter, 'before stable room could be found at an exchange post. It was ear lier than the driver cared to start, and there was not room for another 'horse in .the little log hut, till the team therein was taken, out. A handful of burning corn cobs on the ground in the stable, served as a warm nucleus, around which the coach. man col!cd himself and slept, whilst a couyle of negroes entertained a solitary passengexr, by answeriig as best they Voyjdh:.4.thiousand questions about the fare of man and beast, in a land where every thing i sas.novel as it well cap be, 4 higherstandard of comfort is greatly need eab, esj;*l4ly for dumb brutes. Leaving theobqsion of humanity out of view, ii is the worsi possible economy to trcut horses badly. . When a horse is driven so as to perspire freely, he should be ble iketted when stopped. IHe should not meorely be regularly fed, wvateredJ, groomecd, bedded andsated, bujt his food shoutd be variedI, so as to suit~.hIs a ppetite, meet the pectuli nrwants ot~healthsy respiration, and the demands ofna~g in repair the constpnt wvaste of Jig~ les, bones, nerves and. brain. SVhorseis 'a noble, active and valuable aninmalvhose constitution, habits and ap-. stospfshoand be care fully studied. 'There are lnmortant elemen:ts in hsis brain, flesh, tendons amd bones, ihich ought to be dai ly suppied in his fdad. The breeding of horses, 'and :the rearing,. breaking and mianagembnt.of chlts, are branches of ru ral 'science and practice, quite too much neglected in every portion of' the Union. Common fa rmers are strangely opposed to studying the jpwpqf apimal vitality,, and ~he means which GoD has appointed to do. yelope fine honej sinoew and muscle, good rind and bottom il the Horse. It coos no more to raise a superior animal, that wil) do good 'service 12 or 15 years, than p pppr, slow, feeble 'one, whose powvers ofendurane are' next to a cypher. Peas and 'oats are much better fnod for road.sters thani corn. Ihorses cannot trav eso long, no~r so fast when 'kept on the latter Syy ior will they be so' healthy or ~qggyed, as they are when fed on'oats, pens,,elovor or vetohes. Southe.rn.Cultirator. Daar Pr.owiNG-AN EXPBRJMNT. In j848,-one quarter of an acre, on a dry gravelly soil, wast plowed four irnes in one day with six horses, finteen inopeo deep, #nd sow in wheat. On similar land ad joining, en equal 'quantity plowed as well only five inces deep, was sowvn with the same grain, and',at the same timer The result waslthet th'e former gave five bush. eliatid three peoks more per acre than the, latter, and! 450 lbs. more straw. Feots are useful things-we wish our fdiiads would 'furnish more of them. mentli a-plan of .feQpg for lowgound which I tjiE.h1 (butom.d dheaperthn any otheril ndf'lly as4 'dod Make-a cormmon; panelfence ofafaillethen split stakes out 64hiis brf 1asting wood,~qilq seve o9eggheR idp common rails D o on.eaqh side f the fence,M 4eah corn Wh41b the ground -is wet, aboutiwo or two '4d a half feet, .liore and pin, through the, -6ver the .top of the fence, and you will have a fence bee river, And-I think those ofany other.. Cofevo 4la., January, 1848. JOURNEY FROM J RUSal MO JERICHO. A late traveller' in Palestine, gives the following deeply interesting anld, tjiuly graphic description of a journey f&bin:Je, rusalem to Jericho, and tle dVerJordan: "On the morning after Pal iSutnday, the pilgrimsset out for Jericfh' and )or. dan.I Thev were accompanied finev. cort oft.40,0 soldiers, to protect them from thei Arabs. Shortly after sunriie, the road leading from the gate of St. Stephen, opposite the Mount of Olives, and wind. ing down into the steep and iarroiv valley of Jehosphat, past the Virgin's tomb and the garden of Gethsemane, was croivded with women and children in their* most festive attire, seated on either side the Way to witness the passing of the pilgrims as they poured out of the city and down the hill to the number of about five thousand. Leaving the tomb of A bsulom aryI the village of Silon to the right, they passed up between the Mount or Olives and the Hill of Ofrences towards Bethany. Near the old altar and groves of Moloch, and over against the Temple of Solomon, the Hey, who conmlnrded the troops, sat a little apart rnom the road, among his at. tendants, and fine horses, that were scat. wered in groupa about the rocky ground, with here and there a tall tulled spear, or a standard stuck up beside them, while the morning sun blazed on their Oriental dresses and glittoring arms, they formed.4 brilliant foreground as you turned back to look upon the city which lifted its shin. ing towers and domes over Mount Sion, across the deep ravine. Presently the shoulder of the hill shuts out the splendid vision, and you go wind ing on among valleys ever growing wilder, nore dismal -and sterile, until the last traces of cultivation and habi tation disappear, and you are placed in presence of the awful desert with gig antic sand hills climbirg on every side, that dazzle the sense and dismay the soul. At last, after six hours toilsome march, you descry from the brink of these deso late heights an immense plain stretching right and left, and walled on the east by a lofty range of piountains. This is the val ley of tle Jordan, whose stream hid by the sandy banks, only becones visible as it enters in a gleaning vin, the Dead Sea -a vast blue expanse stretching away under a fading perspective or wrial pro. montories, to the south, till it mingles with the hot white mist of the sky. Lines of pale green tents upon the border of the tanglp4 prickly thickets, that spot the de. sert plain, mark - e spot chosen Qi the bivouac, A tower i Ing near out of this forest distinguishes thp site of Jericho. Then comes tihe bustle or the camp, With its indescribable variety of groups and riipages,. -Thie poor black native A rabs of the place mingre withm the pilgrims, to sell their cheese, oil, and dutes. Con. spicuIous with golden bull rises on one hmand the tent of the Greek Patriareb, on the other th;a. of the Bey. The others lie paphJedl oil'according to't~heir'aeveral na. tions, thick -as sheep in folds. While these are preparing to fall to at their sup pers, and are fetchIng their water from the fountain of Elijah, a ring o'f' sentinels form around the camp. All uiight' you hear the word passing round among these guards. At two o'clock after midnighmt the whole camp is again in motion. By thme light of a beautiful moon they set oiT for the Jordan, three hours'distant. A fter two hours the moon went downm over the desert of Engaddi and the moyntains to. w'ards Jerusalem, leaving us to flounder about among shrubs and sandbanks in the dark. Here andi there flarIng torphes wvere tarried, whose red light streamed along the waves of the dark crowvd. Day was beginning to break wvhen wve reached the ,Iordsn, a swift, impetuous, discolored stream, shooting bet wveep [alj bapjs, cor growvn with copses of popular and tama risk. The pilgrims found their wvay down to the sacred waters by different avenues to woody coves, where they all began un. dressing, men wvomen and children, all to. gether. The first I saw in the strearn were two Ayssinians ducking and cross ing themselves with all their might, with the monkey-like action of the blacks. One poor creature, plunging into the centre of the torrent, was drowned. They say that every year the Jordan swallows one vie. tim. A nd the Christians, wvith a fatalism of the Trurks, deem this sacrifice inevita ble. A ecordingly no orpp stirred a limb to save this poor fellow, wvhom the rush. ing waters swvept away down towvards the Dead Sea. One wvretch was seized in the act of stealing a cottqp gown, worth twopence, of an A merican lady gone to take a dip. His turban and cloak were instantly torn offi and he was led away up in the offier in command, who oardere t ,., Wed oe j One fille'd Wfah e i othe. tip6. 1 ri'.l Iri tt dah. of his ta d paid 6b, ervanr tey st out fcr theirfeafi r e thpv rernamet * b beantiful mn I Mrusal HARD When we read t e' , istinguish% ed men in a.nydepartrit, we find them almd4( always celebrated flor the amoupt of-work they 'ooiuld perform, Denosihe nese,- Julinus Csar, Heniry the Fourth of France, Lord Bacon, Sir Isaac Newton, Franklin, Washiigion, Napoleon-dffer ent as they -were in their. nelleetual and moral qualities-were'all renowned as hard workers. We read how many days they could support the fatigues of a march: how eary they rose; how late they Watch ed; how manny hours they spent. in the field, the cabinet, in the court; how many secretaries they kept employed; in' short how hard they worked. So wAs FRANKLIN.-"O' you're a 'prentice!' said a little boy, the other da tauntingly to his companion. The ad dressed, turned pr,,udly round, and while the fire of injured. pride, and the loqk of pity, were strongly blended in his coun tenance, cooly anbered, ,So was.F rank. lin!" JONATHAN'S ViMIT TO A PRINTING OFFICE. Did you ever go up to printer's And see all them devils at work! I cosnotchet it beats all to finders Mother's fuss when we kill our pork. Them fellern they stand right up straight, And pick little pieces of lead; Stuck in little chuby holes thicker, I'll bate, Than seeds in a big parsnip bed. Then they keep puch ducking and Lobbing, I'll be darn'd! like aunt Peggyla old drake When Ile's gobbling up corn, or a robin That stands with one leg pp a stake. How thp pligpe can they find all the letters, ad nore than my gumption can tell; They .all them :re workmen type setters, And an old shoe, they said that was hell.* Then they'ye got too a cast iron press, It beats father's for cider and chesse; 'Tis tarnation hard work I should guess, And it gives a conflounded tight squeeze. There's a confounded great roller, I swow, They keep pushing, the Lord knows for what, And the paper, 'twould cover our mow, Such a'wapping great sheet have they got. How they fill it all up is the 'wonder, Where the darn do they find so much news 4s thick as pea blossoms in summer; What a qatiop of ink they do use! By gall! I don't see how they pay, For so nany heaps of white paper They tell'd me they used every day, Good Pord-it would ruin Squire Tabor. I'd no notion, I viun, 'twas such a tarnal Ilard werk to print papers and books; I'll go right down and scribe for the Jarnel, And go home and tell all the folks. *Thie old shoe kept as a receptacle for bro. -ken typ~os. AN IRISII IETTER. Town of TIaIlemnucclescrag, P'arish, of Blat. lyragget, near Baullystuchguithey, in the county of Rilkenny, Ireland. My dear Nep'hew-I haven't sent you a lether scine the last time I wrote to you, be cause we have moved from our former place of living, and I din't k:pow where a lether would find you,~ but I now wid pleasure take tip my pin to inform youi of the death of your own livin' uncle P'atrick Kilpatrick, who dliott.very sudenly hzst week alter a lingerin' sicknesp pf six months. Th'le poor man was in violont.convulsions the who let timo of his sickness layin' perfectly quiet andi spaichtesa all the time talkin' incoherently and cryin' for water. I had no opportunity of inform. ing you of his death ,sooner excip~t I wrote to you before lhe d~ed, and then you would have thip postage to pay, so I write now. I am at loss to tell what his death was oc casioned by, but I fear it was his last, sick ness, for he was never well tin days togither durin' his'confinemnent, but I bolaye his death was occasionedl by his atin too much of rab bits stull'ed wid pays and gravy, or pays and gravy stuffed with rabbits, I can't tell which but be that as it may, as soon as be breathed his last tihe doethier giye over all hopes of hiis recovery I needn't tell you his age, for ye's well krnew that in m~arch next lie would have been 25 years old lackin' a six month and bad he a lived till that time, he would thin have been juist a six month dead. Ihis property devolves to hi nixt kin who is dead some time ago, so that I expect it wilt be divided betwane us, and you are either knowin' that his property Wvas very con sidtherabld, for he had a fine estate,- which was sold to pay his debis, and the remnaind tiher he lost in a horse race, but it was the opinion of all at the time that hie would have won the race, if the horse his run aginst hadn't a heen the fastest. 'I niver saw a man and the docthors .all say so, that observed directions, or tuck medicine bether 'an lie did. He said he would as lave take bitther as swate, if itli1I only the samel taste, and epacakanA ashihe6y' punch If It 'would only pnt . im in te same humoer for fighting. But popr sow1.he'11 niver ate or drink mnra - qp'I' ~hah leg~of 'You: 0i tdi brk'he tidire. Your ow)d swatehe rheose~ you bfieknoon o & t: WhenTarry M'Gee atheika, ax him for this lether, and fhe 't know it from the rest tell hir t at t's, t nie that spkes about our uncle's death and saled in Uh. V adah ndsldi Sreziain your 'Affectionate oivl gia mothor, Jtn O'HOLWAIt Larry O'Hooligan, late of' the town of Tullyucdlescrag, VaTish 01: Ball t, uchrhey, in the Co of .b r OWiin tq.fe till 10. reave this - Whin ye a plaUAWS c ' rade any more t nix. TREATING A ASi AOT Egy. BY JOHN JONES, M. D. I was once sent for in great. haste, tc attend a gentleman' . of resiectability, whose wif--a lady of initelligerice. and reItnement-had discovered him in his room, lying senseless on the floor. - On arriving at the house, I found Mr. H. in great di-tress of mind. - - - - "What is the matter with Mr.iH--' I asked, on meeting his lady, who was in tears pnd looled the pipture of distress, III am afraid it is apoplexy," she re. plied. "I found him lying on the' floor, where he had, to all appearance, fallens suddenly from his chair. Hjs face is pur. pie, and though he brepthes, ij is with great difficulty." . I went up to see my patient. He had been Ii fled from the floor and Was now ly. ing upon the bed. Sure enough, his fhoe was purple and his breathing labored, but somehow the symptoms did not indicate apoplexy. Every, vein in his head and face was tinged. and he lay perfectly-stu pid, but I still saw no clear -indications of an notnal or approaching congestion of the brain. "H4ad'nt he better be bled, doctor?" asked the anxious wife. "I don't know that is necessary," I re. plied. "I think if we let him alone, it will pass off in the course of-a few hours.' "A few hours! He may die in half an hour." "I don't think .the case is so.dangerous, m am. "A poplexy not dangerous!" "I hardly think it apoplexy," I replied. "Pray what do you think it is doctor?' Mrs. H- looked anxiously in ry face. I delicately hinted that he might poss. bly have been dripking too much brand but she positively and almost indignaitlU objected. "No, doctor; I ought to know about that," she contipued. "Depend upon it, the disease is more deeply heated. I am sure he had better be bled. Won't you bleed him doctor? A few ounces of blood taken from his arm may give life to the now stagnant circulation of blood in his veins." Thus urged, I, after some reflection, ordered a bowl and bandage, and opening a vein fror vhich the blood flowed freelv relieved him of about eight ounces of his circulating medium. But he still lay in. seisible as before, much to the distresso his poor wife. "Somiething ela must be done, doctor," she urge'd, seeing that the bleeding had accomplished nothing. "If my husband is niot quickly relieved he must die." By this time several friends and rela. tives, who had been sent for, had arrived, and urged upon me the adoption of some more active measures for restoring the sick man to consciousness. One proposed miusgard plasters all over his body, anoth. er his immersion mi hot water. -I sugges. ted that it piight be, iyell to use a stomach "Whr)r7y, doctor?" asked one of it l'riendls. "Perhaps he has taken some drug," 1 replied. "Impossible, doctor!.' said the wvife, "he has been at horme all day, .anid there is no drug of any kind about the house." "No brandy?" I ventured the sugges. tron again, "N'o doctor! no spirits of anykipd in the house," returned Mrs. H,----in an pffen. ded tone, I was not the regular fanmily physician, and had been called to meet the emergen. cy because my oifice happened to be nearest to the dwelling of Nr. Ha-, Feeling my position to be a difficult one, I suggested that the family physician had bettor be called. "But the delay, doctor," said the friends, "No hryn wIll respit from it, be assur. ed," I replied. But my wvord did not assure them. Jowever, as I w'as firm in my resolution not to do any more for the patient until Dr. S- came, they had to subimit, I wvished to make a call of importance int the noighborhood, and proposed going, te be back by the time Dlr S. grijyed; but the friends of the siok would niot suffel mel to leave the room, When .Dr S--came, ~e aside for a fewv minutes, and I ijr1t~ my views Ot'cpase, andI tad wM ] had donr e i~h then preocstijh 4 da I 4W 4.'J r4 A., goQd thq said thajh* east e A6 dis~ositiol there The barberd e. --was stmevd; j R~d~lecalP, fotfoepd to Ut it remin qt U hen make t 'o rdinary 4 said Doorth aob6 d coved ri _aq tbftblit- - 'sobi after" - Idid not al b erue e Aa ood onzI6a . ly around the b~d u n which the -ick man lay; .though i'bilkter a "draj-ho sigsof'retur c 0 showed gemsdiv * f~rt a o W mo roan, ora the arms. For two. Urn porched the tepdr ki and was then removed. service. 'Dre Weings 0ere but-still the sick man Jay ln p "It.has done no good. adk w* ter send for lhelor s e vife. Just then the eyes of H-..-7opened,"and he looked with half stupefied eyed frn face to face of the apzxoit group that siur rounded the bed, "What in the mischlf's the 4:atterf he at length said. At the same- time feeling a strange sensation about hiihea he placed his hand rathee heavily thereopt "Heavens and earth!" He was- now fully in his senses. "Heavens abd eDAr! What 4119 my. head?" "For mercy's'sake, keep , uetmsi the wi Oh glad tears rushing ove~ ah face..e ery ill. There there, n Wa!ijdsie' laoothlnl - "Don't say a word, bU 'a "uth m-h ead--4t p lfu 2 Sarah! I Ader arm!'-W ny ted way for?"t .~ ; .~ eplafi t ONX xpin t ll. ' WOryq 1"e' .Mt. Mr ~sak ck ua.th ilw'' from whi he i ed rlem And led hlq - eyes to nk 4e jtid hand to head, and felit ttepdly e I over, temple to temple, to and from na forehead. "Is it a blister?" he at length psked. "Yes, dear. 'ou haveeenyeylll. -I ' - --Wp feared 'for your life," said Mr6. affeotionately. There have- beer t'e physicians in atfendanoe."-: . li--closed hii eyed aga - j1b moved. Those nearest wepp ndtm6 edified by-the whlapeedwords'"A'at pr;i. ceeded therefrom.. They would, havi sounded strangely in i church, or to es polite and refined. After this he lay foe Rome time-auiet. "Threatened with apoplexy,. I sopi pose?" he then said, interrogatively. "Yes, dear, replied his wife. " .found you lying insensible upon the floor, o happening to como into your room.I ,was most providential that I discoveue you whlen I did. or 'you would..oertll have died." -H---shut his eyes and muttered some. thing, with an air of impatiene But lt meanmng was not understood. .Finding him outof danger, friends an4 relatives retired, and the. sick man w n left alone with his famnily, "Sarah!" he said, "why in Heaven a name did you permit'the Dotors tobto6 er mne in this way? I'm laid i week or two, and all for nothing.J "It was to save your life, dear. "Save the d--ll" "Hlu-u-s-h Theore? Do, for*Hae sake! e qw jet. Everything depends y pn it." With a gesture of ihnpaience,' - shut his eyes, teeth, and hands and Idy perfectly still for some timre. Thsry he: turned his face to the wal;Niantieej p low, petulant voice, "Too bad! too bud! too badt" I had not erred -in my first and myi ls impression of, H--'s disease; ineIth had Doctor S-a, although he used. ve extraordinary mode of trealits.-$.~ - :facts of the case were these: H--had a weakness. I*. e - - - tssto of wvine or sfrong drink" ing tempted int exces and friends wvere mortlld4 this; and they, by admo~l good red!tation lt~edto 1 formr. Btlt to. s a was to fall.. ai Itui trl ie .to. abu .maelf' tip At hne for a *;Inv d e If tot~ialibtinencewatil, trength. He got on. 4 ys-=parilola ta aweiLfiled i