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POETICAL.
THE OLD HOMESTEAD.
BY ALICE CAEY.
When first the skies grow warm and bright,
And Hash with gold the hours.
And in her pale, taint robes, the Sprint
Is calling up the flowers;
When children, with unslippered feet,
Go forth with hearts of glee,
To the straight, uneven furrows
Where the yellow corn must be;
What a beautiful embodiment
Of ease, devoid of pride,
Is the good, old-fashioned homestead,
With doors still open wide!
But when the happiest time is come,
That to the year belongs,
Of uplands, bright with harvest ffoio,
And meadows full of s»*gs;
When fields of yet wrtripened corn,
And daily garnered stores,
Bemind the thrifty husbandman
Of ample threshing floors—
How pleasant, from the din and dust
Of the thoroughfare aloof.
Seems the old-fa sir? oned homestead,
W'ith the steep and mossy roof!
When home the woodsman plods with axe,
Upon liis shoulder swung,
And in the knotted apple tree
Are scythe and sickle hung;
When light the swallows twitter
’Neath the rafters of the shed,
And the tabic on the ivied porch
With decent cn' e is spread—
Then hearts are lighter and freer
Than beat in the populous town,
In the old-fashioned homestead,
With gables sharp and brown !
Wrhen the flowers of summer perish,
In the cold and bitter rain,
And little birds, with weary wings,
Have gone across the main :
When curls the blue smoke upward
Toward the blue sky,
And cold along the naked hills,
And white the snow-drift lies—
In legends of love and glory,
They forget the cloud and storm,
In the old-fashioned homestead.
With hearth-stones large and warm!
G UESS.
I love a maid, a mystic maid.
Whose form no eyes but mine can see;
She comes in light, she comes in shade,
And beautiful in both is she.
Her shape in dreams I oft behold,
And oft she whispers in my ear
Such words as, when to others told.
Awake the sigh or wring the tear!
Then guess, guess, who she.
The lady of my love may be.
1 find the luster of her brow
Come o'er mo in my darkest ways;
And feel as if her voice, e'en now,
Were echoing far off niy lays.
There is no scene of joy or woe,
But she doth gild with influence bright;
And shed o’er all so rich a glow,
As make e'en tears seem full of light;
Then guess, guess, who she.
The lady of my love may be.
AGRICULTURAL.
Culture of Fruit Trees.—The follow
ing, front the address of lion. M. P. Wilder.
President of the American Homological Soci
ety. at the session lately held in Philadelphia,
comprises much valuable information in rela
tion to the culture of fruit trees:
1. The healthful development of fruit trees,
as of other living substances, depends on the
regular reception of a certain quantity of ap
propriate food. This food, whether derived
from the earth, air. water, or other natural
elements, is conveyed through the medium of
the atmosphere and the soil. While we have
only an indirect and imperfect control of the
atmosphere and other meteorological agents,
the great Arbiter of nature ha> committed the
soil directly to our care and treatment.
2. To this I may add the general sentiment
in favor of thorough and perfect drainage,
beneficial to all cultivators, but indispensable
to the fruit grower.
3. Xo less uniform is the experience of the
salutary effects of a proper preparation of the
soil for fruit trees, both in the nursery and in
the orchard
These principles are settled in the minds of
intelligent fruit-growers; but they need to l e
often promulgated and enforced. It should
be equally well understood that success de
pends upon the adaption of tlie habits of the
tree to the constituents of the soil, the loca
tion, and aspect, or exposure. A disiegard of
this principle, and the fickleness of seasons,
are among the most common causes of failure;
not only among inexperienced cultivators, but
among pomologists.
More attention should be given not only to
the location, but especially to the aspect of
trees. A common error is to disregard the
time of ripening. Wc plant our early fruits
in the warmest and most genial locations.
These should be assigned to our latest varie
ties. For instance, we, at the Xorth, have too
often placed our late Jail and winter pear?,
like Easter Beurrc, or Beurror d’Arembcrg,
in northern aspacts and exposed positions,
where they are liable to injury by the gales
and frosts of autumn, whereas we should have
given them a southern aspect, and our most
fertile soils, to bring them to perfection. The
most favorable locations arc not so indispen
sable to our summer fruits, which mature
early under the more direct rays of the sun.
and in a much higher temperature. This rule
may require modification? and even reversion
to adapt it to the south or south-western por
tion of our country. And here L cannot
refrain from expressing the earnest hope that
our local catalogues may he framed with a
wise reference to this principle, and that the
day may not be distant when the society’s
catalogue shall designate the particular local
ity, aspect and soil adapted to each variety of
fruit.
But however important these considerations
may he, the subsequent cultivation of trees,
must receive a passing notice, even at the risk
of repeating some opinions of mysolf and oth
ers, which are already before the public.
The sentiments contained in the communi
cation of Mr. J. J. Thomas, at our last ses
sion. against the growth of any other crop in
orchards, especially against relying upon
small circles dug around trees in grass-ground,
as a method of culture, deserve to he held in
perpetual remembrauce. Equally injurious,
iu my opinion, is the habit of deep digging or
plowing among fruit trees, thereby cutting off
the roots and destroying the fibrous feeders,
which frequently extend beyond the sweep of
the branches. However necessary the prac
tice may he of cutting off roots in <>ld orchards,
in the process of renovation, it should he
carefully avoided in grounds properly pre
pared, and where the trees are in a healthy or
bearing condition. Erom experiment and
observation, I am persuaded that working the
soil among fruit treets, to the depth of more
than three or four inches, should he carefully
avoided. The surface should only be worked
with a hoc, or scarifier, for the purpose of
stirring the soil and keeping out the weeds.
Thus we avail ourselves of the advantages of
what, in farming, is called flat culture—at
present so popular. For the same reason,
manure should not be dug in to any conside
rable depth, and some of our wisest cultiva
tors now recommend its application on its
surface. So favorably impressed with this
practice is the Massachusetts Board of Agri
culture, that it has ordered a series of experi
ments with cereal grains and other products
in the application of u..mures on the surface
as compared with specified depths beneath it.
j The practice of surface manuring is no nov
! elty of our day. An eminent cultivator o
i fruits, nearly two hundred years ago, said
j “Manures should be applied to fruit trees ii
- the autumn upon the surface, that the rains
i snow and frosts may convey the elements o;
■ fertility to the roots; and that, by this moth
od, one load may do more good than two used
in the common way of trenching to the depth
of one foot,” Other distinguished cultivators
and scientific gentlemen recommend the prac
tice. lienee, we are of the opinion that
orchards and gardens should be —•*"arc“ in
the autumn, and on tb** -,urTace 60 that the
manure may b -nofoughly decomposed, and
suitable *or the nourishment of the tree early
in the spring.
Bi.ioiit on the Evergreens.—It is a
fact which can no longer be denied, that some
of our finest conifers are becoming the prey of
insects. The first appearance of this enemy,
we believe, was among the Scotch larches,
and is supposed by some to have been intro
duced from Scotland. In some cases, the
insect is the red spider; in others, it is a
green worm, about the size of a knitting nee
dle; in others, it is a microscopic insect, which
seems to live on the bark and the leaves,
causing the latter to roll up, and in many
cases drop olf. In our own experience, thus
far, the “green worm” is confined to the
Norway Spruce. For two years past, fine
terminal shoots on the trees would be seen,
here and there, to droop, when, on cutting
them off, this worm would he found boring
his way up and down the central portions of
the shoot. The White pine, the Balsam fir,
the Scotch lar h, Norway Spruce, and Arbor
Vitae, are the only trees we have known to be
affected by any kind of insect.
As to remedies, who will provide any? If
one had only a single tree, he might keep it
clean by frequent doses of whale-oil soap and
i water, or by dusting often with air slacked
| lime, or ashes. If the famous “Gishurst’s
Compound” were not so costly, it might be
used; it would probably be efficacious.
But when one has large groves, or long
nursery rows of evergreens, what can he do?
\\ e can only say, syringe, or dust with lime
as much as possible, keep them well tilled at
the root, hand pick, and—trust in Providence.
Perhaps this blight is only a temporary visi
tation. [American Agriculturist.
Grape Manures.—gtrong or stimulating
manure is most dangerous to the vinuous
property of the grape. The general rule in
wine-producing countries is to manure only
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grape when pressed, which contain tartar, es
sential to the vinous property of the grape.
Excessive richness of the soil, though it gives
a larger crop, and the best fruit for the table,
detracts from the character of the wine. There
have been several remarkable instances of
this fact; amongst others, the celebrated
vineyard of Johannisberg, which some fifty
years since having been richly manured, it
for sexcral years afterwards produced a grape
which gave vine of an inferior character, and
much deteriorated in quality. It took twenty
years before the soil became sufficiently poor
to restore the vinous quality of the grape.
Soils which paoduce choice and rare wines
are never manured with any description of
fetid manure, generlly applied for t he pur
pose of fertilizing land; but wool. born, bones,
I and the cutting and refuse of the itself, being
I only used. The scientific botanist tells us
that the vine only takes up from the earth
carbonic acid, ammonia, etc.; practice and
experience, both ancient and modern, affirm
the contrary. [Florist and Fruitist.
Applying Sulphur to Grape Vines.—
A series of experiments with the application
I of sulphur to grape vines to prevent the at
tacks of the vine parasite were made in
France this year, by M. Mcrcieul, of La Tour.
St. Gelen. who has sent an account of the re
sults to the Academy of Sciences. He re
moved about a foot of soil round thg stems of
the same vines, hut did not go any deeper than
the filaments of the roots. A handful of sul
phur was then sprinkled into this cavity, most
of which was placed upon the stem. This
was in the month of August last, and the
vines so treated were much affected with the
blight. Mr. Mcrcieul; recommends winter
as the best season for applying sulphur.
Corn and Pork.—Mr. A. G. Perry, of
Newark, made an experiment in feeding a
thrifty pig on corn meal wet up with scalding
water. At the commencement of the trial
the pig weighed one hundred and fifty pounds;
he thei fed fifty-five pounds of meal in the
form of slop, which was eaten in six and a
half days, and the gain was eighteen pounds.
Had this quantity of corn been fed to the
same animal in a dry, unground state, it is
not probable that the animal would have
gained more than seven pounds.
[Valley Farmer.
Commerce of Charleston—Who Col
lects the Revenue There ?—There must
he some mistake in the statement that the
foreign commerce of Charleston is, lor the
time being, at an end—and a mistake, like
wise. that the State Custom-house is not col
lecting revenue ; fi>r we observe, in the mar
ine list of The Mcrcurv. of the arrival, on
Friday last, of several vessels from foreign
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cargo; another from Cardiff, Wales, with rail
\ road iron and coal (both of which pay duty.)
1 and several from West India ports.
Since the above was written the Charles
ton papers of Monday come to hand with an
official statement from Collector Colcock.
which establishes the fact beyond peradven
ture that the State is in the full exercise of
its “sovereignty ” in the matter of collecting
the revenue from foreign imports. Detvvcen
866.000 and £70,000 has been collected since
the ordinance of secession was adopted.
[New York Express.
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Titf. importance of preserving a good repu
! tation for truth and honesty is ipiite striking
ly set forth in the following: A mortal fever
prevailed on hoard a ship at sea, and a negro
man was appointed to throw the bodies of
I those who died from time to time overboard.
! One day, when the captain was on deck, he
j saw the negro dragging out of the forecastle a
I sick man. who was violently struggling tc
| extricate himself from the negro’s grasp, and
remonstrating very bitterly against the cruelty
of being buried alive. li What are you going
to do with that man, you black rascal?” said
the captain. “Going to throw him overboard,
| massa, 'cause lie dead.” “Dead, you scoun
drel!’’ said the captain; “don’t you sec lie
moves and speaks?” “ Yes, massa, I know lie
says he no dead, hut he always lie so, nobody
i ever know when to believe him.”
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i Lord Eldon.—It was the habit of Lord
Eldon, when Attorney-General, to close his
1 speeches with some remarks justifying his
j own character. At the trial of Mr. Ilorne
i Tooke, speaking of his own reputation, he
I said: "It is the little inheritance I have tc
leave my children, and 1 will leave it unim
paired.” Here he shed tears, and, to the
astonishment of those present, Mitford, the
| Solicitor-General, began to weep. “Just look
at Mitford,” said a by-stander to Horne Tooke.
“What on earth is he crying for?” Tooke
replied, “ He is crying to think what a little
inheritance Eldon's children are likely tc
get.”
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Many persons arc in advance of their age.
hut an old maid generally manages to be aboul
ten years behind hers.
Thrilling Narrative.—The San Fran
j cisco Herald of the 11th u!t. relates the fol
io win sr:
O
i “ The following thrilling adventure hap
• pened a day or two since to a well-known gen
tleman of this city, a tailor by trsyL
whose name wc forbear toJ^^oubJe-barreh
lst day of Januan-hfo'tlic Mis,ion. iu quest
of -^'tire birds being quite shy, lie
hatred bis gun pretty heavily. \\ bile cross
ing a large field lie was observed by a fero
cious bull, which immediately gave chase.
The frightened sportsman ran as fast as his
legs could carry him; but the enraged animal
gained rapidly upon his faltering steps, hav
ing run a goodly distance and no fence or
other means of escape in sight. The ferocious
bull had got within five yards of him when
the sportsman fell; hut immediately pointed
his gun at the bull's eye and gave him the
contents of one of the barrels. Taking ad
vantage of the respite the hunter staggered
1 to his feet and again achieved a small distance
from his formidable antagonist, who had re
covered from the first shock and was once
more in full pursuit, The sportsman turned
around and fired the other barrel, which hit
the hull on the side of the left jaw and
knocked him over once more, the pursuer and
pursued being about ten feet apart. Again
the hunter started on the clean leap, and
again the bull recovered and followed-at full
speed. Finding that the animal was fast
closing with him, our hero turned and struck
the infuriated beast over the head with the
stock of his gun, breaking the stock and
knocking the hull down. Once more he
turned and fled, and once more the hull got
up and followed after him with vengeful
spite, when the hunter turned for the fourth
time and knocked dim down with the barrel
of his gun, and repeated his blows until lie
i killed his dreadful antagonist.”
A Beautiful Custom.—Beautiful, cx
1 ccedingly, is the custom of burial among the
Mexicans. No dark procession or gloomy
' looks mark the passage to the grave; but
dressed mi its liolliday attire and garlanded
with bright, fresh flowers, the little sleeper is
borne to its rest. Glad songs are sung and
joyful bells are rung, and lightly, as to a fes
tival, the gay group goes its way. 'flic child
1 is not dead, they say, but *• going borne.”
The Mexican mother who has household
treasures laid away in, the campo mneto—
God’s sacred field—breathes a sweet faith only
1 heard elsewhere in the poet s utterance. Ask
her how many children bless her house, and
she will answer : “ Five; two here, and three
yonder.” So. despite death and the grave, it
is yet an unbroken household, and the simple
mother ever lives the thought •.
ffc are all lierc !
Father, mother,
Sister, brother,
All who hold each other dear.
Napoleon’s Tomb at St. Helena.—The
Union Company’s royal mail steamship Cam
brian. Captain Strutt, which arrived at South
ampton on Saturday, brought from St. Hele
na Captain Ma.- ellin and two soldiers, of the
Third regiment of French engineers. They
have been employed in repairing tlie tomb of
Napoleon, at St. Helena, by direction of the
French authorities, and with the permission
of the English Government. The tomb has
been completely restored to the condition in
which it was at the period of the deposed
Emperor’s interment ; and Longwood, the
house in which he died, has been put into a
1 state of substantial repair. Longwood is un
occupied and unfurnished, and the premises
had been allowed, prior to Captain Mas.- ellln’s
visit to the island, to fall into decay ; but the
walls and roof have now been restored, and
will, in all probability, stand for many years.
Cap! tin Massellin and his engineers were dis
patched to St. Helena, via Southampton, two
years ago. and they have been occupied with
the work of restoration ever since.
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Coffins Mistaken for Firearms.—
'flic New York police, on Saturday last,
thought they made the discovery of a ship
ment of lit earms on hoard of a vessel bound
for Mobile. An officer at once proceeded to
the station house, and stated that he supposed
muskets were being shipped on board the
Eliza. -V number of officers, headed by ser
geant Snodgrass, were sent to the vessel, and
informed the captain that they had orders t >
prevent the shipment of arms for the South,
and having a suspicion that part of the Elza
cargo was of a contraband nature they would
he compelled to examine her. The captain
readily complied with the request, and on in
examination beingmade it was found that the
boxes supposed to contain muskets, each had
a metallic coffin. This discovery somewhat
disconcerted the police, and making an apolo
gy to the captain, they hastily retired.
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Religious Statistics in Ireland.—The
Irish Times estimates the present population
of Ireland at 5.950,000 souls, and adds:
u From various causes, emigration has chiefly
taken place amon die Roman Catholic por
tion of the people, and the number of those
who profess the Roman creed has annually
diminished. On the fairest calculation, it
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than 3,400.000 arc Roman Catholic, the re
maining 2.000.000 being Episcopalians. Pres
byterians. Methodists, etc., all classed under
the generic named Protestant. It is not with
any satisfaction that we record the diuiunitiou
of our people, no matter what their creed.
Still, as a dimunition has taken place, it is
most important that an accurate return should
be made of the numbers who remain.”
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The Decision of Texas.—The Galves
ton News of Tuesday last says :
“ From present appearances, there will be
no organized or decided opposition to :cecs
; sion, in the election to take place in Texas the
! 23d inst. The Union men find overtures
from the North too slow and unsatisfactory to
afford any encouragement of a settlement of
our present difficulties in the Union ; and the
public mind seems to he no longer divided.
The Southern Convention, now in session at
1 Montgomery, organized on the 4th. by the
election of Hon. Howell Cobb, of Georgia,
President, and J. J. Hooper. Esq., of Ala
bama, Secretary. Mr. Cobb, on taking the
chair, said lie regarded the separation of the
; seceding States as “ perfect and perpetual.”
: This is, doubtless the idea of the whole Con
vention.”
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Cross Proverbs.—Proverb—The more
i the merrier. Cross—Not so; one hand is
i enough in a purse. Proverb—Nothing is
I hard to a contented mind. Cross—Yes, to get
; money. Proverb—None so blind as they that
| will not see. Cross—Yes, they that can not
| sec. Proverb—Nothing but is good for some
thing. Cross—Not so; nothing is not good
I for any thing. Proverb—The world is a long
. journey. Cross—Not so; the sun goes it
every day. Proverb—it is a great way to
| the bottom of the sea. Cross—Not so; it is
' but a stone’s cast.
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The Reducing Power of Chancery.—
: A Mr. Hartley, of Southampton, England,
recently deceased, bequeathed 8504,Out) for
the building and endowment of a literary in
stitution in that city. The will was disputed,
the matter at length reached Chancery, and
in that circumlocution court the 8.") '0,000
1 was sweated down to 8200.000, which is to he
1 applied in carrying out the testator’s design.
' Novel Use for Postoffice Spa M,r^eg 1
A correspondent of TheJs^auHrsing story,
writing from Califo^jch happened at Fort
^ie^?,ain Arizona. He says:
“ An officer was telling me the other day ;
how he lost his postage stamps. He had sent ;
up here for some twenty dollars worth, and ■
had left them on his table. Now, the habits, j
manners and customs thereabouts are consul- ,
erably on the free and easy style, and the. In- j
dians arc allowed to run around the garrison
acl libitum, if they behave themselves and .
don’t steal. |
On this occasion a young squaw, who had
run on the quarters, and was very much at
home anywhere and everywhere, happened to
stray into my friend’s room, and seeing the
postage stamps, began to examine them with
much curiosity. .She discovered that they
would stick, ii' wet, and forthwith a happy
idea struck her Now, the fashionable dress
of the ladies of her class in that warm climate
is of the briefest description. She was ambi
tious to dress up and excite the envy ot the
other Pocahoutascs.
.So she went it on the postal currency, and
much to the astonishment of the garrison,
made her appearance on the parade ground
presently entirely covered over with postage
stamps. She was stuck all over with benja
min Franklin, arid the Father ot his Country
was placarded all over her ladyship s glossy
skin indiscriminately, regardless et dignity
and decency.
’fhe roar that greeted her, from the com
mander down to the drummer boy, was loud
enough to ho heard nearly at headquarter.-; in
San Francisco, but, linliau-likc, she preserved
her equanimity, and did not seem at all dis
concerted, but sailed ott with the step and
air of a piincess, while my triend rushed into
his quarters to discover hinisclt minus of his
twenty dollars’ worth oi postage stamps, and
that what was intended for the mail had been
appropriated to the female. She might have
been put in the overland coach and gone
through—she certainly could not have been
stopped for want of being prepaid.
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Half ax Acre of Urou.nd on fire.—
The editor of the Attica, bid.. Ledger was
informed a few days since ot a curious case
of spontaneous combustion, about two miles
south of Perrysville, in that State. About
half an acre of ground is on lire, and has
been burning vigorously for some time. 1 lie
earth is composed mostly of a kind ot marl,
in which the heat has made crevices, and the
smoke may be seen issuing from the subter
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raiicuii luriiacu a uinuuru ui iwu lmi- >. xjul
the most singular feature of this natural lake
oven is its beautiful covering of green grass
—an oasis in the cheerless held of snow sur
rounding it. Cattle attempted to eat the
grass, but finding the earth rather warm,
scrambled out and left it growing greenly in
its hot bed. Our informant pierced the sur
face with a rail, and fiery sparks came up
thickly. A sound issues from the spot like
the distant rumbling of railway cars, 'i he
place was formerly a low, swampy piece of
ground.
Marked Transformation in New Kno
land Mills.—At Lawrence, Massachusetts,
among others are the Pacific mills, which
consist of two buildings, each nearly nine
hundred feet in length. Their lull comple
ment of employees is now two thousand one
hundred, and will he two thousand seven
hundred as soon as the machinery is till set
up in an extension of the mum building, just
complete 1. The raw cotton goes in in bales
at one end. and couies out at the other manu
factured goods, ready for the market. Curious
ladies, by s'rollinu through the prints and de
laine department.-, can learn what styles are
likely to prevail several months hence. One
of die much.ucs for printing delaine stamps
the piece with sixteen dillcrent colors and
shades of colors, in pas-ing through once !
There is only one other like in the world.
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The Secedi.ni; States.—It is reported
that according to the new census, the popula
tion of the six States which have passed ordi
nances of secc-sion is as follows :
| Free. | ares. | i\» a .
8 tiCarolina. 8'JS,188" 4i)7,185 8 ••.•>! i
.Mississippi, 4o7,551 4711,807 8>7. lot
Florida, * 81,885 «3,8o9 115,8118
Alabama, 520,415 425, !72 1)55,017
(Icorgia, 815.228 -407.181 j 1.082.701
Louisiana, 254.215 212.188 | 880,427
| 2,287,84! [ 2,285,72 t j i,-)48,508
At a party a lew evenings since, as a young
gentleman named Frost was eating ail apple
in a quiet corner by himself, a young lady
came up and gayly asked him why he did
not share it with her. lie good-naturedly
turned the side which was not bitten toward
her, saying, “Here, take it, if you wish.”
“ No, thank you,” she exclaimed, looking at
him archly. “ 1 would rather have one that
is not frost-bitten I” and ran off to join the
company, leaving poor Frost with a thaw in
his heart.”
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A Child’s Possessions.—A woman ap~
peared in the court, of Louisville, recently, to
he appointed guardian to her child, when the
following colloquy ensued : “ What estate has
your child ?” “ Please, yer honor, 1 don’t
understand you.” Judge—“ I say. what has
she got?” “Chill and favor, please yer
honor. ”
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i hi, itmuwmix ujmujui cumulus a nanv
handed compliment (unconsciously, no doubt)
; to the unfortunate deceased lord and master:
i •• Maria Brown, wife <>t Timothy.Brown, age 1
. SO years. She lived with her late husband
fifty years, and died in the confident hope of
j a better life.”
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A MILITARY officer, one day. while re
viewing his company, happened to he thrown
from his horse; and as lie lay sprawling on
the ground, said to a friend who run to his
assistance:
“I thought I had improved in horseman
ship, but L find 1 have fallen off.”
Simplicity.—A little girl of four years old
was recently called as a witness in the Dur
ham police court, and, in answer to the ques
tion as to what became of little girls who told
lies, she innocently replied that they were
sent to bed.
E. A. fl ay den, ot Willimantic, Connecti
! cut, has recently recovered 81,785 dollars for
injuries received in the Smithville uianufact
ing company, through neglect of the company
to cover the gearing with a bonnet,
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Great gold discoveries have recently been
made in the neighborhood of the Rio Aniiuos,
a tributary of the San .Juan river, about
i twenty-three miles northwest of Santa Fe,
: New Mexico.
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Ovid declares that small-waisted women are
deceitful. If the converse of this be true,
the rest should all be very slender above the
i hips.
Colonel Braxton Bragg, of “a little
more grape” celebrity, and Captain ,J. K.
Duncan and J. M. Taylor, have been selected
by the Governor of Louisiana as his aids-de
camp.
A flock of from live to six thousand wild
ducks alighted a few weeks ago on the beach
, near Dieppe, France, apparently fatigued
^ from a long flight.
MB—■BW—W
^SPHriTCOTTOX-CARRVING TRADE. M C find
the following somewhat suggestive statements,
in relation to the cotton-carrying trade, in a
Pittsburgh cotemporary:
The secession movement bids fairly, to
change altogether the route of so much ot the
cotton crop of the South as was wont to find
its way via New Orleans and Charleston to
the eastern States. Instead of taking the sea
board route now. shippers have their cotton
brought to Pittsburgh by river from Memphis,
und sent hence by the Pennsylvania Railroad ;
to Philadelphia. Large quantities are also j
carried over the Central Illinois, Southcin
Michigan and Grand flrunk railways, and
from. Parkcnsburgh over ilio Baltimore and
Ohio road. Thcdistance is accomplished \\ ith
incredible speed, and the rates but little
higher than under the old system. J here
are three steamers running regularly between
Pittsburgh and Memphis, all of which get as
much cotton as they can carry for the return
trip. Besides these the transient steamers
bring up more or less every trip ~} so that, be
tween all. the quantity arriving here every
week now is large beyond precedent.
In November, as we find by the books of j
the Pennsylvania Railroad, six thousand one ,
hundred and six bales went over that line.
The amount shipped in December, owing to
the condition of the river, was but three thou
sand and sixty-six bales ; but in January it \
reached eight thousand nine hundred and >
fifty-one, so that for the last three mouths wc
have a total of eighteen thousand one hundred
and .twenty-three bales. There are three
thousand bales on their way here now, and
much more lying at Memphis and Cincinnati,
the whole destined for Philadelphia, New
York, Lowell, etc., via the Central road. And
with all this the business has but begun to de
velop itself. Six months hence, should the
present troubles continue, and the great bulk
of the cotton-carrying trade of the seceding
seaboard cities will take the inland route to
the eastern states.
A Specimen Brick of TIenrv Ward
Beeciier.—Henry Ward Beecher went to
Boston a few days ago, and addressed the
citizens of that place at a meeting in Tremont
Temple, as follows:
‘•1'mlcr any General Government the
South must take sides against the North. One
side or the other shall leel it. 1 might eon
conceive that the devil and an angel might
ride together with one horse—thanks to the
angel and not the devil. 'J he North is not
unite an angel, and the Smith is ijuit< a ifei'i/,
-o they can t ride on the one f onstitution.
The (.'onstitution cannot serve liberty and sla
very at the same time. [Laughter, applause
and hisses.] I’ut your personal liberty bills
through the courts. If they cannot find their
unconstitutionality, do not change them.
| [Applause.] Why not? Why should you
change them ? If they are unconstitutional,
don’t change a hair of them. It is not the
time to change front. [Applause ] 1 hate
and abhor that iniquitous instrument of hell,
| the fugitive slave law.
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The Empukoii of Franc e on Skates.—
'1 he Paris correspondent of The London Her
ald, writing on the loth, gives the following
account of the manner in which Napoleon III
sometimes diverts himself. 'the Emperor
Napoleon arrived at the lake in the Hois de
Uoulogne about three r. M. on Friday, in a
plain chariot drawn by two horses, and mat
tended by au escort. He alighted from his
carriage and crossed the lake on his skates.
! lie was soon recognized by some men wear
ing blouses, who raised a cry of •• Here is the
Emperor I Vive i’Empereur! ’ The cry at
tracted universal attention, and every body
ran and every body i Leered. The Emperor
continued to skate, apparently delighted wi'h
the enthusiastic reception lm met with. The
Emperor seeing a child in a sledge, pushed
forward by a nursery maid,, took the place of
the servant and drove the sledge Having
amused himself for about half an hour, more
like a -ehool boy enjoying a holiday than an
Emperor, lie left as quietly as he came,
i licre were several fashionably dressed Eng
lisli ladies among the skaters.
j>i:s auc
V E M A L E A C A D E M Y,
mSS SALLIE A. DAVIS, Principal.
rnins institution will re opened on
9 Monday next, the 2lith iiist., for the recep
tion of pupils.
TF.HMS or TVITION, TEH SESSION OF TWENTY-ONE
WEEKS.
I Orthography, Reading and Writing, - - $10 00
English C! ram mar. Arithmetic, Geography, 12 00
Algebra and the higher English branches, 15 00
French and the higher Mathematics, - - 20 00
Students will be charged from the time of enter
ing school until the close of the term, except in
cases of protracted sickness.
II rrrntvt’rv _Hov 1 11, > > i erl o e j \ m
dent of Franklin College. Holly Springs, Miss.;
Hon. J. J. Sieger. North Mt. Pleasant, Miss.: Col.
M. 1). Shelby, Car on's Landing, Miss.; J. E.
Gatewood, Esq., T. J. Woodson, Dos Arc.; J. M.
Coyle, Hickory Plain, Arkansas. nov 23-2m
I> E & Jk B C
| MALE ACADEMY,
T. II. OSBORNE, Principal.
rnilE FIRST SESSION OF THIS ACADEMY,
j X located in Dcs Arc, Prairie county, Arkansas,
commenced January 7, 1801.
The terms of Tuition are $10, $12,50, $15 and
$20 per session of five months.
The government of the Academy will be strict,
yet mild. The mode of teaching will be strictly
methodical. Parents will observe that it will be
of great advantage to their sons to be entered at
or near the beginning of the session. Parents or
guardians need not enter their sons or wards un
less subjecting them entirely to the mode of
instruction and of government established in the
school.
Tuition payable from the time of entering till
the end of the session. Deduction in cases of
prolonged sickness. jy-18-v
AT COST A\D CARRIAGE^
I AM OFFERING MY ENTIRE STOCK OF
X Dry Goods at Cost and ten per cent. Every
body is invited to call and see for themselves.
My goods are inferior to none in this market, and
my object in selling off at cost and carriage is to
enable me to replenish with a stock which will be
bought exclusively with cash.
nov3-tf. LEVIN HARRISON
E X C E L E E N T P L 0 W sT~
\TTE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A LARGE
\ V quantity of the best Cast Plows, which wr
offer cheap. nov 3. J. JACKSON &CO.
~NEW STORE !
ENTIRELY NEW STOCK!!
We Lave just opened our new stock of
fall and winter goods,
which consists, in part, of
KERSEYS, WOOLSEY
IIOME-MADE JEANS,
KENTUCKY JEANS, SATINETS,
LINSEYS,
AND GEORGIA PLAIDS.
t T.SO. A FINE ASSORTMENT OF POPLINS,
A l)c Berages, Merinocs, Scotch Plaid Alpacas,
etc., etc., etc.
ALSO, A COMi'LETK STOCK OF
C I. O T II I X G ! !
A better assortment cannot be found. Also, the
largest stock of
BOOTS AND SHOES!
In the market. We kindly solicit all who wish to
purchase to give us a call, and examine
our goods and prices.
TAYLOR & CO.,
nov 3-tf. Pes Arc, Arkansas.
S V I , V A rs I A
cade m y,
PR AIRIE I'Ol'XTY, ARKANSAS,
D. M'FAYPEN, .... Principal.
*
R. A. Richmond. ... Assistant.
rpHE SECOND session of the above
JL Academy will open on Monday, the 4th day
of February next. The Principal flatters himself
that, having an experience of many years in the
profession of teaching, lie will be enabled to give
satisfaction to the patrons of his school. The
Academy is located in a healthy region of coun
try, remote from all those localities of dissipation
and vice, so destructive to the morals of youth,
and in the midst of a community, combining all
those virtues that compose a good neighborhood.
No pains will be spared by the teachers to advance
the pupils entrusted to their charge. Special
attention will be directed to have them thoroughly
to understand the elementary principles of all the
branches of Science taught in the school. No
pupil need apply for reception who is unwilling
to be either governed or instructed. Pupils will
be charged from the time of entrance. No deduc
tion will be made except in case of protracted
illness.
TUITION run SESSION OF FIVE MONTHS.
Elementary Branches, - <$10 qq
Higher English Branches, - - - 15 00
Languages and Higher Mathematics, - 20 00
Board can be obtained at from Eight to Ten
Dollars per month.
Oakland Grove, Prairie Co., Ark. jy 11 'tJl-4t
STOVE AND TIN SHOpT
-
IV . II . 13 u r* It
Has removed his tin shop to the
house recently occupied by J. W. Wallace,
ou Buena Vista street, opposite the Nucleus
Mouse, where he is prepared to accommodate the
public with the best articles of
COOKING STOVES, TIN-WARE,
and all other merchandise in his line, ever
brought to this market.
My cooking stoves are immediately from alarge
St. Louis establishment, and I feel confident that
those who want these convenient articles can suit
themselves from my large assortment. Give tne
a call, and examine before purchasing else
l Where. bov3
DRUG STOR
To Physicians, Druggists, Merely
X* L, A NTER 8 .
AND THE PUBLIC GENERar
Your attention is respectfully invited to
the best selected stocks of fresh
DRUGS, MEDICRjt
FRENCH, GERMAN & AMERICAN
f j :
CHEMICALS, PATENT MEDICINE
TOILET ARTICLES, !
PERFUMERY, BRCSB®
1
DENTAL & SURGICAL INSTRUMENT? .
GLASS, GLASSWARE, PAINTS, Ok i
DYE STUFFS, Etc., Etc.
and all other articles pertaining to the Drug bus
ness, lately received, and now offered at the
DES ARC CITY DRUG STORE,
At WHOLESALE OR RET All
ON ACCOMODATING TERMS.
A CHOICE LOT Of
Segars, Chewing & Smoking Tobam
ALSO, ALL KINDS OF SCFERIOU
LKilORS FOR MEDIC AL LSD
KEl’T CONSTANTLY ON HAND.
Orders from a Oistance will Receive Prompt .turn*
AND THE GOODS FORWARDED WITHOUT DELAI
PHYSICIANS PRESCRIPT I OSS
Compounded of the purest and best materi*-1
with accuracy and despatch, at
All Hours ol the Hay or Mg*1
nov3-1y. JOHN D. PERKINS.
W. B. CROCKER & CO.,
■WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
Gr r o c e r s*
First door West of J. II. Quisenberry’s Store
DES ARC, ARKANSAS*
Take pleasure in announcing ^
the citizens of Prairie and adjacent count'1-'
that they are now in receipt of a large and wcl
selected stock of
GROCERIES AND HARDWARE
Consisting in part of Sugars, Molasses, Coffee.
Candles, Cheese, Vinegar, Salt, Whisky, K'c*'
Pickles, Sardines, Flour, Fish, Raisins, Fig' ' '
rons, Almonds. Candy, Soap, Starch, Soda. Cr**
ers, Tobacco, Cigars, Nails, Castings, Iron. Ste*.
Log Chains, Ox Chains, Pole Axes, Spades,
els, etc., etc., with all other articles usual!}' to
found in a similar establishment. All of
they arc now selling low for cash. no*^,
SEEDS"! S E EDS!!
A LARGE LOT OF FRESH HUNGARY
Grass Seeds, just received and for sale /
[ nov. 3. JOHN JACKSON * CO