Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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*8S^5 POCTfY. — jJ” ||pi up 1 LAY OF IOYE. _ BY OEORfiE D. rRENTICT.. . *mk Yet once again I’ve seen tliee And my every tliought is tliine, Ay, I kneel to tliee in woraUip Ah to an idol sbriuc. In my aptlit’* silent chambers, Wliere nope may never be. One lonely light is burning— Tis a holy love «f thee. # I see thee—oh, I see tb*» In the shadows on the river, I see thee in the moon’s sweet beams That on the bright lake quiver; I see thee in the mists that move Like spectres o’er the streams, And at midnight deep, I see thee In the shadowy world of dreams. 1 see tiiee—oh, I see thee In the gentle flowers of spring. And in the tint the rainbow wears Upon its fleeting s ing ; I see thee in the sunset hues That gush along the west. And I see thee in the dew-drop That gems the rose’s breast. 1 hear thee—oh, I hear thee In the murmuring of the waves, And in the soft and twilight gush • Of fountains from their caves; ' I hear thy voice’s music In each sound that wanders by, in the cadence of the night bird. And the wind's mysterious sigh. 1 hear th«e—oh, 1 hear thee Lfrohe chime of evening bells. And in the tone that o’er the deep At solemn twilight swells; I hear thee in the forest-lyres Swept by the breath ot even, And in the low, deep spirit-voice Tliat tells the soul of Heaven. 1 love thee—oh, I love thee— There’s naught in the bright blue skies No lovely tiling of earth, but brings Thy sweet form to my eyes ; I love thee, and there’s not a sound, A tone to my spirit dear, A breath from nature’s line, but gives Thy voice to my ravisnedear. I love thee—oh, I love thee— Thou art in the darkest hour To my soul a star, a fount, a bird, music-tone, a flower; From the Farmer and Planter. SflWIMi Klk.N FOR FODDER. Bo conclusive and satisfactory have been the experiments iflNtowing com for fodder in preference to stripping the leaves from the staUL in the nsnal way, that the pah*; o«gm not now to be re warded moated, lart one of the fixed facts of agriculture. A year ago we published an account of an experiment made by ourselves, by wliich it appear ed that the corn of the stalks robbed of the leaves at the usual time of gather ing fodder was deficient in weight, when compared with that not stripped, the full amount of the fodder. This deficiency was certainly the effect of | well, but to edit oue is to ynurHelMo^lnvm^^^^ MISCBMiAHB condemn THE OLD INDIAN. Among the vestiges which darken tlw shadows of tlie past, few are more in teresting than the Indian’s elmracter. It has been the fate of this people to display very lofty traits nationality and individuaity, and to pass from men’s eyes like the phantoms of a dream. They were the progenitors of a people, now rich in intellect, and glorious in civilization only to retire before that wave of population which they them- „ . selves had invited. They were plants, taking away the leaf trom the plant, florurishing only in the shade; plants and so long as a pound of corn is worth which expired in the full blase of the more thau a pouud of fodder, it must 1m* a losing tMl4th** to remove the blade. We have made several experiments of a like character, with great care, for the I«irpose of testing the facts, not with the view of cheating ourselves, and all with the same results. If there were no sources from vhich we could supply our wants in fodder, this loss would have to he submitted to, but there are, and is questionable whether they had i not better be resorted to even if the expired sun of improvement. In vie a Rl§ the degeneracy of a peo ple, who from a lofty condition have fallen into one of moral or physical i i e< j. Greeks, tain, and her name is now living in connexion with a spot in Dade county Georgia. To hunt in the neighborhood of the chief, the father of Rising Fawn came with his tamily and warriors. They pitched their tents by blue pond and there Wounega saw the lovely maid. Yallo had become thoroughly ac quainted with the language and customs of the Indians; and was, of course the confidant of Woonega. He bename himself a victim to the charms of the Rising# 1 awn. The time was approaching when the nuptials of Woonega and the Rising Fawn were to he celebrated. The Rising Fawn was to be carried on an arbor of flowers, accompanied by maid ens and young men to the tent of her lover and there he was to receive her in a tent lined with the soft skins of the game he had himself hunted and kil- slavery, as is the case of the Greeks, Woonega had gone far into the our pity is mixed up with contempt but , mountain in search of a spotted fawn, with the Indian tribes it is different. | on whose skin the feet of his aftianced bride were to rest He reached the edge of the river, and stopped to rest, on the highest point of the rocky wall which rote up from it. Far in the South, the blue ridge of the Talladega In their eaae, we see a courageous and | magnanimous nation, full of the re venge, bnt boldness of savage life step- jiing back from before a conquering, but not always very just people ; sub- stripjiing practice did not injure the com. nutting, reluctantly, f to the fate of war Mountains rose against the sky. At hilling fodder is one of the most unpro- !ln( j giving up their lands, in many in. l,i g f ee t, the foam of the Falls boiled as fitable and irksome operations upon the stance only with their lives. It is not j n a great cauldron. The snn was farm, and to avoid it our nriactice is, to (mr purpose to object to the destiny, j pourin" long golden streams through set apart a piece of land in the spring ' ■ v * - ■* ■* ! * * 1 - - to lie sown at a convenient time—either in May, June, or July. Having plowed thoroughly, we open furrows at from 3 to 3$ feet apart, in which we drill from two to three bushels to the acre and cover with a plow. After wliich the cultivator is run through it once or twice, at suitable intervals, according to the season and its rapid or retarded growth. When the corn is in full tassel, wo cut it and shock k around stakes, driven into the ground, to prevent its beig blown down. We set the butt ends of tin* com dowm and secure the tops of the stake by a liand. Some place the tops down, beliveiug that it curapbetter in this position. We some times take the shocks down after they I SAyc thee, and thy dear tlmught thrills Have stood, a few days and turn them w-hioll made our fathers the instrument the forest and a train of w ild geese of their settfoment and prosperity.— were seeking their homes with hoarse screams towartlstlie North. Suddenly Each fibre of my frame. Like lieaveu’e own lightning, ami my heart In each throb culls thy name. 1 love thne—oh, I love thee. And I would these words were borne To thee, on every holy breeze Of eventide and morn; I love thee, and I would those w ords Wore written on the sky, And on each star, and flower, and leaf, That greet thy,igentk* eye. j. _m*' "■un* AGBICULTUM. — How blest the fennel's simok* file. How pure the joy it yudne! Far from the world’s tempestuous strife, Free ’mid Ihe scented fields.—EitrtU. Doubtless it was for wise purpose's in the advancement of intellectual and mo ral freedom.—But in the perspective of the picture which pourtraystheiwear- ly trials, we also see the Indian. We see a wild but happy people, content two fonns were seen moving in the mists of evening, in yonder covem.— How the heart of Woonega throbbed against his sturdy breast, how his head reeled, as clasped in each other’s arms, amidst their native forest suddenly de- he beheld Yalloo and his treacherous prived of their heritages, driven from bride ? The first impulse was to bury an their home the bones of their ancestors arrow in the berasts which leaned upon dispersed w ith the plough, and they each other in a union which seemed to forced either to seek a new shelter in ma fc e them one. Leaning anxiously for- the forest, from which a new invasion wards he loosened a rock, and was near was presently to drive them, or to re- | v j^cipitated into the roaring cataract main, and dwindle into insignificance fx-neath him. The detached rock Brother Nole was “sore troubled” at the scandal wliich circulated about his brother and friend, and especially re gretted the injury it brought to the “cie- ty” of Sharon. So one morning, he stepped over to Brother Crump’s and found the old man in a half-doze in his little parch. “Won’t you take a dram ?” asked Brother Crump, soon as he was aware of the presence of his neighbor. “Why, yes I’m not agin a dram w hen a body wants it ” Brother Crump gut his bottle, and the friends took a dram apiece. “Don’t you think, brother Nole,” said Crump, “that sperits is a blessin’.” “Y-e-s!” responded Nole; sperits is a blessing’, but accordin’ to my notion, its a blessin. that some of ns abuses. “Well, now, brother Nole, who do you think abuses the blessin “Well, it’s hard to say—but people talk—don’t you think you drink too much. Brother Crump?” “It’s hard to say—it’s hard to say returned Crump. “Sometimes I’ve thoi^ht I was a drinking too much— then agin, I’d think may be not What is man ? A weak vttrrum of the dust! What the Lord sakh, that be done ? So I left it to the Lord to say whether I was goin’ too fur in speritt l put the whole sponsibility on him ; I prayed to him, ef I was drinkin’ too much, to take away my appetite for sperits.” Here Brother Nole groaned piously and asked—“What then, Brother Crump ?” “And”—replied Crninp—“I’ve pray ed that prayer three tunes, ami hk h.un’t bonk it! So I’m clear of the s|M»nsipiiity, any way.” “The Lord’s will be done!” ejacula ted Nole, and after taking another dram he went home, thiukmg all the way- how cleverly Brother Crump had shifted \ the responsibility. PARSERS. tis shunned by many because’ ' it seems one of thoughleM drudgery. Now this ought not to be Bo/lf onr fanners would study and reflect more, they might do less hard labor, and yet accomplish more in the course of a year. Ten hours a day in summer and eight in winter ought, with good management, to give any man a good living, with something to lay up for sickness and rainy weather. He who works so hard that he caiuiot read or reflect after the labors of the day are over, because of fatigue, does not plan wisely. No one should shun work when work is to lie done, hut do it with despatch and neatness. 'Hie fanner’s evenings should lie devoted to mental acquirement and rational enjoyment The farmer should have about him the choicest auxiliary works of his owa avocation; let those fonn the subject of his study at least one evening in a week. He should also have the history of his country, and the lives of some of its wisest statesmen, while the newspaper should have its allotod season. Two or tiureo dallars, contributed by each family in a neighborhood, would go a great way in the purchase of standard books at moderate prices. By the way, 1 think a good a well conducted news paper a year among a family of children, is worth as much as one quarter’s school ing. Our object should be more to make home pleasant and happy, than to lay up richov The wife bears a con spicuous part in rendering home delight- ml; she should by her cheerful coun tenance endeavor to promote innocent aad pleasant conversation. But vaiu will oc her amfehle efforts at pleasure, unless she is assisted by her husband and other members around; and truly it ie an nnplesant sight to see a family, when collected together, instead of en livening the quiet scene with a little good humored chat, sittiug like statues, as if each was unworthy the attention of the other. And the when a st ranger comes ia, oh dear! such snides and ani mation, and loquacity. M Let my lot be to please at home,” says the poet, apd truly i cannot help feeling a contemp tible opinion of those persons, young or old, male or female, wh+kviau their good humor and pleasantry In company, a and silence for which and board up sullennesa the **#5® *" d compose ftmir fkmily circle. *«*« and steady; nothing grow under a moving harrow. will Never feed a Jiog on nnground or uncooked food. . y* 4*, ~ ■v f ^ * • -mm inside out, and consider the time uMl spent, as it ensures a uniform ami thorough curing of the fodder in a much shorter time than if left standing as first put uji. It may, however, be removed liefore fully cured, to the barn, shuck- house or open sheds, and set up (not laid down) as close as it can lie pressed together, and left till sufficiently cured to pack away for winter use. In this way we have made a very l<vcg e amount of fodder to the acre; by others as high as a hundred tons, in its green state, have Iwen reported, and there is no rea son to discredit die report. Ifdesirabh* two crops may very easily be made a year. The first may be cut the last of Jane, and the second in September, or if delayed later, it will have small ears upon it It is of so rapid and prolific growth, of course it is a great exhaus ter to the land, and for thUreason it is believed of doubtful policy to make two crops. Some have regained it a good fallow to precede wheat, and have de clared great confidence in it for this purpose, but we confess we have not faith to this extent. Others have been pleased with the practice of sowing it on land after oats has been taken off, and think it a benefit to the laud, but what ever may be the truth in these re spects, one tiling is certain, and all nat uralists and experiinentalists agree in it, thatfee leaf should not be stripped from the plant before the maturity of the fruit The best course we conceive to be to set apart this season one, two, four, or eight acres, according to our wants, for the express purpose of pro during fodder. If the land has been well manured, H may, be sown in peas at the last working, and before frost a valuable crop of pea-vines may be made from the same ground. If it has not been manured, it may be sown in peaa and give the vines to the land in (dace of what haa been taken from it—then, if you choose, sow in wheat THE LIFE^rS EDITOR. There are few of the readers of a newspaper, who have an adequate idea of the incessant mil required in their IHtblication. Capt Maryatt, who ip liis lifetime had much bitter experience, held the following language on one oc casion, while writing upon this subject: “ Newspaper literature is a link in the great chain of miracles which proves the greatness of England, and every support should be given to newspapers. The editors of these papers perform a most enormous task. It ia not the writing of the leading article every week, whether inclined or not, in sick ness or health, in affliction, disease of mind, winter or summer, year after year, tied dofr^o the task, remaining in oae spot IT is like the waHtk^ of a thousand miles in a thousand hours, ite appears nothing. The la> not manlfcat, nor is it the labor, but it ia the continual attention which it requires. Your life becomes, as it werg) the publication. One paper is bo sooner corrected and printed, than on comes another. It is the atone of Skpphii*, an endless repetition of toil, a constant weight of the uund, a con tinual wearing upon the intellect and spirits, demanding all the ejection of your Isriiltiea, at the same time that yon are compelled to da,the severest of dntdg«y< To write for a paper Is very the victims of physical, moral and in tellectual deterioration. The Cherokees were the last to re tire to the West. At a ball play with the Creeks they won that lovely coun try of green valleys and smilinghills, now covered by the Northern sections of Georgia and Alabama. There they lived contented; and it was their boast that they had never shed the white man’s Mood. A more noble race nev er existed. Manly, generous and brave their forms and countenance's displayed the characteristics of a hold but mag nanimous |M*ople. It was my lot, a day went bounding from point to point be low-, and startled the now wretched lov ers from their dream of security. Ris ing in alarm, they saw the injured and almost mail Woonega before them.— Pouring from his eye the most indig nant flases, looked alternately from one to the other. Now rage seemed to seiza upon his soul; now love to soften an ger. “When at last cried he with cho ked utterance, “oh white man! did 1 break my frith with thee, said, there is a Great Spirit who looks with pleasure upon good, and frowns upon evil Let him judge between us. or two since, meet one of them, who >1 v people love to say, ‘We never shed abandoned by bis people, still lingered in the noble country where he was bom. He imparted tome some faint memo rials oNiis race. He loved to dwell on the history of his people, and to point out various scenes where remarkable AN ACCOMMODATING JTDGE. We find the following anecdote in Gov. Ford’s History of Illinois: In those days (from 1818 to 1830) justice was administered in the courts without much show, parade or cere mony. The Judges were gentlemen of sense and learning, who had their courts mostly in log houses, or the bar rooms of taverns fitted up for that pur- pose, with a temporary bench for J udg- es, and chairs and benches for the law yers and jurors. At the first Circuit Court in Washington county, by Judge \ on have | John Reynolds, on the opening of the court the Sheriff went out into the court yard and said to the people: “ Boys, come in, our John is going to hold court.” This was the proclama- the white man blood’: nor will I.— tion for opening tbe court. Many long years made you my brother. Go! you love one another. May the Great Spirit make you happy. I turn my back upon you. I go to the setting snn. When you see him set think of Woonega. He goes down like the Remember the Indian In general, the Judges were averse to deciding questions of law. They did not like the responsibility of offend ing one or the other parties. They preferred to submit everything they could to be decided by the jury. I I knew one who, when asked for in- events took place. I met him at a ro- ^ _ mantle spot in Cherokee country Ala- ’ 8e tting sun. bama, known as Blue Pond. Blue ] ove8 , nerc y. Saying this he bounded I strugfeons to the jury on points of law, Pond lies at the base of Lookout moun- away, and had vanished long liefore the would rub his bead and the sides of tain, a ridge wliich rises in .Middle Ala- i ovor8 l, al l recovered from their sur- ! his face with his hands, and say to the launa, and which, in a northeast direc- ^ lawyers: “ Why, gentlemen, the jury Until a few years^ast a family of Half-Breeds Iqmd in the valleys below. They were the descendants of Yalloo and the Rising Fawn. [From the Chambes Tribune] SHIFTING THE RESPONSBILITY. While attending Court, recently, in tion, runs with greater or lesser eleva tion into the edge of Tennessee. On the top of it, just obove Blue Pond, are the 1 Yalloo falls. The little stream of Yalloo which produces these falls, runs along the mountain in southern direction and is surrounded with scenery sublime and romantic enough to rouae the coldest bosom to a love of nature. After flow- the adjoining county of Randolpn, ai (jceen, the jury sav you ing along, calm and unruflleu as one of friend who is fond of jokes of all soils andf t those bright streams we often see pain- \ who relates them almost as humorous- tedon the eastern sky just befofo snn- ly as “His Honor,” give ns the follow- rise, we find its course suddenly ipter- ing, vouching for the substantial, snbln- i-upted by a range of broken rocks, which stretch across its bosom break- | ing the unity of ite waters into a thon- j sand ripples. The detached streamlets immediately below these rocks unite, j and pour down a precipice of nearly two j hundred fact, dashing into the wildest chasm we ever beheld, a broad river of snowy waves, and filfing the whole ba sin below with spray and smoking mist “Do you see,” said the old Chief as we stood on t!fe side of the gulf, “yon der cavern,” pointing to a recess which had been washed by the stream, before nar existence of tbe parties and their present residence “in the comity afore said :” Brethren Crump and Nole were both members of the Primitiue Baptist Church, and both clever, Jhonest men who paid their taxes andPtfobts as the same occurred, with a ^nlarity at once Christian and eontnAndable. If when settling day came round, Brother Nole was short,” Brother Crump was sure to be in funds; and on the other hand it almost seemed providential how if Brother Crump fell “behind,” Brother Nole always had a surplus. Thusbor- a new channel had been worn to the i rowing from and lending to each other Uytaelf i bwis no left of it; “I will tell you about tliat place, la the old time, long before the step of the white man had been seen in this country, a friendly tribe of Indians pitched their tents on this mountain. The chief had rendered himself celebra ted in the wars which used to be waged against the Creeks. He was happy ia the evening of his day in an only soa, who bid fair, from his courage and dar ing, to rival his lather in the afleetions of the tribe. When the little Woonega was about ten years ||d, the Creeks had invaded the tente if his father’s people. They were defeated and run off, In their haste, they left behind a little white boy of the same age of Woonega, and whom tlmvte|d eviden tly taken prisoner from ortb m the low er Carolina settlements. The old chief resolved to make him the companion of hk son; and to thiaend, adopted him into hk family, and gave him the name Yalloo signify ing the red and white leaves in autumn. Aa the boys grew op their affections twined around each other. They hunted the wild deer together, and were scarce^ ever apart In progress of time Wootuga became enamoured with the daughter of a negbbouring chief, the Rising Fawn. Her father lived far North on the moun- wnrshiping at the same church, and liv ing only a mile apart, an intimacy gradually ripened between them, so that at last they did not hesitate to s[)eak in the froakest manner to each other, even in regard to their respective foibles. Now, it came to pass, that Brother Crump, duriug the livdiesi period of tho cotton season, drove into Wetumpkia and disposed ^%is “crap” of ton bales at the very fair price s of 13 1-2 cents per pound, it was inrite than he ex pected, and as the world was easy with him, he determined to invest a portion of the proceeds of the sale of the cotton, in a barrel of western whiatau paying therefor, at the rate ofpreeMy juro pounds of middling cotton, for one gallon of “ditto* whiskey. Of course it was “norated in die set tlement’ that old man Cramp had bought a whole barrel, after a few weeks people began to observe that his nose grew understands it; they need no instruc tion; no doubt they will do justice.” The same Judge presided at a court in which a man named Green was con- j victed for murder, and it became his | unpleasant duty to pronounce sentence upon die culprit. He called the prison- | er before him and said to him: “ Mr. . are guilty of murder, and the law say you are to be hung. I want you and yonr friends down on Indian creek to know that it is not I who condemn you; it is the jury and tbe law. Mr. G. what time would you like to be hung ? The law allows you time for preparation.” Mr. Green said: “May it please your Honor, I am ready at any time! those who kill the body have no power to kill the soul. My preparation is made, and 1 am ready at any time the court pleases.” The Judge replied, “ Mr. Green it is a very serious matter to be hung; it can’t happen to a man bat once in his life, and you had better take all the time yon can get Mr. Clerk, look at die almanac and see whether this day four weeks comes on Sunday.” The Clerk looked as directed, and reported thatdiat day four weeks was Thursda; Then the Judge sakl, “ Mr. {freenf court will give you only to this four weeks.” The case was prosec by Jame#Turney, the Attorney Gen eral. who interposed and said: “ May it please the court, on occasions of this sort it is usual for courts topronounce a formal sentence; to remlfcd oner of his perilous condition $ prove him for hk guilt, and to warn him against the judgment in the p rid to come.” To which the Judge re plied: “Oh, Mr. Turney, Mr. Green understands the whole matter; he knews he has got to be hung: you un derstand it, Mr. Green, don’t you?”— “ Yea,” said the prisoner. “ Then, Mr. Juu along Joe.-—‘Miss Josephina, will you do dis nigga de anticipation, ob dancin a Virgin ny reel whi’ ini/ Josephimn.—1 doesn't ascend to dance de common vulgrarious ob dat sort, 1 only dances deffMka. Jim along Joe.—WaI Nfis* Josephina, you is a pig above dis niggas notch dere. I doesn’t know no porka dance less it be what dey call de p^jlr jig.— But Miss Roxana, praps you’d go through de Virginny reel wid me, an den 111 treat you to dome Emerald vegetable. Roxana.—No Master Cassius, T doesn’t dance nothin butde Missouri.’ Jim along Joe.—‘De what P Roxana.—‘De Missouri, Mr. Cassius, ob corse.’ Jim along Joe.—Den yqu dance de Missouri, does you? yah yah, wal,wal, I drinks de Mississippi l does so I haint far ahead ob dis chile dar. But I how it wid you Miss Josephina, you aint goin in for Imildin up de modem definement of nigga society, but I goes in for deold fashioned nigga break down. Look yeab you nigga wid dat jug on your head, play up General Taylor crossing de Rio Brandy up de Susquehanna. A Chapter on “Don’ts.—Don’t get tipsy, don’t smoke, don’t chew, don’t quarrel with your friends, don’t fancy yourself the nicest man in Chris tendom, don’t despise tho poor, don’t condemn any body unheard, don’t pay particular attention to more than one lady, don't forget to pay for y<mr pa per. ‘How changeable the wind is! said an old lady. ‘It is the changealdest thing I ever did see. When I went up Washington street it was plowin’ in my face—and when I turned to go down, don’t you think it was blowiu’ on my back. Accknt Right.—,Ah ! my good fellow where have you been for a week back ? ‘For a remit back ! I have not been troubbled with a weak back, I thank von.’ ‘No, no where have you been long hac k? ‘Long back! dont call me long back, you scoundrel.’ Did’nt Mean that Evening.—A crack brained man who was slighted by a female, modestly asked tlie young lady ‘if she would let him spend tlie evening with her.’ ‘No,’ she angrily replied, that's what I won’t-’ ‘Why,’ replied lie, you needn’t be so fussy ; I didn’t mean this evening, but some stormy one when I can’t go any where else. WESTERN POETRY^ When a feller falls in luv He duz wear a white kid gluv, and lets the barber scrape his chin, and wears a flashy buzzin pin, and puts on lots of splendid close, and wears tite boots upon his toes, and smells just like the sprouting rose, all newly sprung in Joan. But if he does the mitten git, what Phancy Pheelinx round him flit, he grows all over melanrholer, and hides behind a standin’ Roller! OCrA down east editor says there in a girl in hk ^section, with a breath so sweet that they talk of boiling it down for molasses. That’s nothing; there is a girl in Bolivar, whose breath is so sweet that her acquaintances misstake it for Otto of Roses. S. D. HALLFORD, GENERAL AGENT, C A MD EX S. C. March 19 3 tf rodder and hk eyes more moist The ] the old man said: idea that Brother Cramp was drinking too maeh” diffused in the neighborhood until, as one might say, it became epi demical People talked and talked— more especially “what few” of others denominations of the Christians dwelt there about*. NEW IMPORTATIONS. THE attention of Planters and Country Merchants, is particularly requested to tlie arrangements now made at BAN CROFTS Silk House, 253 and ‘255, King streetgffharleston, S. C., for insuring a re gular and constant supply of all the varie ties of the dress seasonJfioth from the English and French markets, and which joined to a determination to submit evej-y thing at the very lowest possible prices, will offer greater inducements to pur chaser* than this market has before affor ded. Particular attention ha* been paid to our Stocl^fk Domestic aud Heavy Goods for servants wear^ Ajoricry of every'size and vaufoty—,»ifc-SPnfidently pmte the aUeatiodw^^^^Bfe, and the public generally to aU'_ determined to offer the greatest no| and the largest variety at the low< cos: our stockeeunists in pyt of Rich CUene ntm*, Striped/Flmired and Plainda, Plain and Figured Black Silks, French and English Lawns and Cambrics, Plain and Figured Colored and White Organdie*, Bareges, Silk Tissues, French Embroideries, Lace Collars, Muslin and Cambric Edgeings and Insert- ings. English Tweeds, Summer Cassimeres Sic., Irish Linoisr-pqre flax—an -pure flax—an article we confidentljMfiicoiniiiend. Sheriff^ lat Ihe priyi,., be An absent-minded Jitor having courted a girl, and applied to her father, Well you want my daughter.— What sort of a settlement wiH yon r ake. What wiRjMM give her I” ^ “Give her?* replied the amor look ing up vacantly, “Ok, I’ll give her a puffl’ “Take her!” replied the father. Long Cloths from 6-1-4 to 25 cts. pr. yard. Blue Demin*—Blue Stripe*, Chambrays Striped and Plain, Oanaburg*—Bro. Homespuns and Shiel ing* of Southern manufacture, which, as we are agent* of several Factories, we sre enabled to offer by the bale or yards, at Factory prices—a fim assortment of Glo ves, Hosiery, Haberdashers fee., fee. W. G. BANCROFT, Importer Wholesale and fydail ‘253 and 255 Ring *L. Cburfeston^B. C. March 5 L ' Jm fk