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POETICAL._
T1IE LIGHT AT HOME.
The light at home, how bright it beams,
When evening shades around us fall!
And from the lattice far it gleams,
To love, and rest, and comfort call.
When wearied with the toils of day,
And strife for glory, gold, or fame,
How sweet to seek the quiet way,
W’here loving lips will lisp our name,
Around the light at home.
When through the dark and stormy night
The way want wanderer homeward hies,
How cheering is that twinkling light
Which through the forest gloom he spies.
It is the light at home—he feels
That loving hearts will greet him there;
Ami softly through his bosom steals
The joy that banishes his care,
Around the light at home.
The light at home! whcne'rc at last.
It greets the seaman through the storm,
He feels no more the chilling blast
That beats upon his manly form.
Long years upon the sea have fled
Since dear ones gave a parting kiss,
But the sad tears that then were shed,
Will now be paid with rapturous bliss,
Around ihe light at home.
The light at home! how still and sweet
It peeps from yonder cottage door,
The weary laborer to greet,
When the rough toils of day o’er.
Sail is the soul that does not know
The blessings that those beams impart;
The cheerful hopes and joys that flow,
And lighten up the heaviest heart,
Around the light at home.
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TEA (SICA L.
I saw him bare his throat, and seize
The blue, cold, gleaming steel.
And grimly try the tempered edge
lie was so soon to feel.
He raised on high the glittering blade,
Then first I found a tongue,
“Hold! madman! stay the frantic deed!’’
I cried, and forth I sprung.
He heavd me, but he heeded not,
One glance around lie gave.
And ere 1 could arrest his hand,
He had—begun to shrive
S YMPA Til Y.
Old Quaker Sly was standing by
Where neighbors were conversing
About the loss of neighbor Ross,
And his great need rehearsing.
Says neighbor Steele, “how much I /fell
My heart—his losses shock me!”
Quoth neighbor Sly. still standing by,
“Hast tliou/f/t in thy pocketl"
ART PM US WARD HAS A TALK WITH
THE PRINCE.
That distinguished citizen Artemus Ward
and the Prince of Wales have had a quiet con
fab. Mr. Ward thus describes the-inter
view:
He handed me a segar k we sot down on
the pizaro and commeust smokin rite cliecr
fel.
Wall.” sez I, “ Albert Edward, how’s the
old folks r
Her majesty & the prince are all well," he
sed.
*■ Duzthe old man take his larger reglar,"
1 enquired.
The Prince larfed and intermatid that the
old man didn’t let many kegs of the bevrige
spile in the course of the yere. We sot
k talked there some time about matters and
thinks, and bimeby 1 axed him how lie liked
hein prince as far as heed got.
“ To speak plain, Mr. Ward,” he sed, “ 1
don’t much like it. I’m sick of all thisbowin
k scrapin k erawlin k hurrain over a hoy like
me. I would rather go threw the country
quietly and enjoy myself in my own way.
with other hoys, k not he made a show of to
lie garped at by everybody. Put you know
Master W ard 1 can’t help hein a prince, A
1 must doo all 1 kin to tit myself for the per
sisshun 1 must sum time ockepy.”
•• That’s troo,” sez I, •• sickness and the doc
tor will carry the queen orf one of these dase,
sure’s yure horn.”
The time a rove for me to bike my de
parton, I arose up and sed, “Albert Edward.
1 must go. butprevis todoin so, I will obsarve
that you soot me. Yure a good feller, Al
bert Edward : A tho ime agin princes as a
general thing. I must say I like the cut of;
yure Gib. W hen you get to lie king, try to
he as good a man as your mother has been.
Pc just and lie generus, espeshully to show
men, who hcv allers bin aboozed since the j
•lavs of Noah's, who was the first man to go
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papers in his time air to be beleeved Noah's j
collection of living wild boosts beet anything
ever seen sins, tho 1 mak bold towt if his
Miaiks was ahead of mine. Albert
Edward, adoo ! 1 took his band, which he
shook warmly A givin him a perpetooal free !
pars to my show, and also parses to take home
to the Queen and old Albert, i put on my
hat and walked away.
'• .Mrs. Ward,” l solilerquized. as I vralket j
along, “ ef you cood see ycr husband now.
just lie proudly emerges from the presints of
the future King of England, youd lie sory you i
called him a beest just bekaws lie cum home j
tired at nite and wanted to go to bed without
takin off his boots. Youd be sory for tryin j
to deprive yure husband of the priceless Boon
of liberty. Betsy Jane.
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Judge Baldwin’s Reasons.—Joe Raid
win, author of “ Flush Times in Alabama,”
and at present Chief Justice of California,
would occasionally indulge his natural pro- !
pensity for fun even in replies to c lients. A
case came before us over which we laughed j
heartily at the time, and which has not been !
in print. Just before lie removed to Califor
nia, a gentleman now dead, but well remem
bered for bis eccentricity, forwarded an old
claim to Mr. Baldwin for collection, due by a
citizen of Mississippi, in a county bordering |
on Alabama. In due time he received a j
letter in relation to it from Mr. Baldwin. ,
which he handed to us for perusal, taking the
reply in high dudgeon. Mr. Baldwin wrote
him that he could not collect the sum for
three reasons; First, when the debtor was
alive ho obtained judgment against him, and
the execution was returned with the indorse
ment. “ No property found.” Secondly, the
debtor was dead and the estate hopelessly in
solvent. Thirdly, and as a last reason, he
did not practice where he believed the cred
itor had gone to.
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Fanny Fern’s Awe” of a Husband.
A lady having remarked that awe is the most
delicious feeling a wife can hold toward her
husband, Fanny Fern thus comments:
“ Awe of a man whose whiskers you have
trimmed, whose hair you have cut, whosecra
vat you have tied, whose shirt you have
put into wash, whose boots you have kicked
into the closet, whose dressing-gown you have
worn while combing your hair, who has been
down in the kitchen with you at eleven
o’clock at night to hunt for a chicken bone,
who lias hooked your dresses, unlaced your
hoots, and tied your bonnet; who has stood
before your looking-glass with thumb and fin
ger on proboscis, scratching his chin ; whom
you have seen asleep with his mouth wide
open ; ridiculous!
Andrew G. Curtin, Governor elect of
■ Pennsylvania, is six feet two inches high;
Hannibal Hamlin is six feet three, Abraham
Lincoln six feet four.
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AGRICULTURAL.
Mr. Peabody’s Cotton.—Having heard
much said about the fine appearance of the
cotton crop now growing on the farm of Mr.
George A. Peabody, in Russell county, Ala.,
a few miles from this city, we concluded last .
week to pay him a visit and see if half we
heard was true. 3lr. P. has what he calls
fifty acres of pine land planted in cotton— j
some of it has been in cultivation for twenty |
or more years, some four, ten. etc. Like his
neighbors, and nearly everybody in this sec- j
tion, his crop passed a severe ordeal of drouth ;
in dune and duly, hut unlike everybody vise’s
cotton, his seems to have come out unscathed.
The weed averages from hip to high waist
and taller, and is heavily loaded with bolls and
forms from bottom to top. The bolls arc large
and the stalk^vigorous. It is planted in checks
four feet distance each way, and in the fresher
land the limbs lock. Scarcely a boll or form
has fallen ofi'. It is evident that the luxuri
ant growth and bearing is the result solely of
the mode of manuring, planting and cultiva
tion. The land is poor, and could not. in the
ordinary mode of planting and cultivation,
have produced, this year, more than one
eighth what is now on the stalks. 3Ir. P. in
formed us that he put on the land about 170
pounds of American guano to the acre. Our
judgment is. that the yield this year will range,
according to quality of land, from 1200 to
1S00 pounds to the acre. The lint L of an
exceedingly fine texture and the staple long.
He informs us that lie has a hid from 3Iau
chester, for his entire crop, at twenty-five
cents per pound, if it shall come up to his
samples of last year. The present crop is
fully up to last in quality.
What a commentary is this on the mode
of cultivation of the cotton plant, which has
been handed down from our fathers, and is
still stubbornly persisted in. Planting is the
only one of the arts that lias not been im
proved. Why has it not, and why should if
not he? Why persist in a mode of culture
for forty years without even an effort to im
prove? That it has not been done, is a se
tV/iu vv'utiuv imu y mo nm "'i uu,
producers of a staple, now termed not only
king of commerce, but which it is thought
regulates the temper of nations. The ad
vance made by Mr. Peabody, by experiments
running through about three years, has accom
plished about as great a revolution in the pro
duction of cotton as Fulton accomplished
above three horse-power, when he prov 1 the
applicability af steam a* a propclth; . power.
There are possibly s me who are stupid
enough to conclude that if all should do as
Mr. Peabody, the market would at o.ice he
glutted, and the staple rendered of little
value. We trust, h rvrever, that of these
there are few. If by improved culture wo < an
produce, on half the land and with half the
labor, a sufficient supply of cotton to meet
the demands of consumption at remunerating
prices, have we no use for the surplus land
and labor? We have, and ftr more, in the
production of broadstuils. mules. In r . etc.,
for home consumption For thee articles
alone tleorgia is annually sending millions out
of ihe State.
'The experiment Ins been made, and the
result proves that, with the expenditure of
about four hundred dollars per acre for ma
nures. lands which are considered worthless
tbr ughout the cotton States, and can be pur
chased for from twelve and a half cents to
one dollar per acre, can be made to produce
more cotton than the best fiiiv d» b. r lands in
Ueorgic and Alabama can be made to do
without it.
'i he mode of cultivation adopted by 31 r.
Peabody is worthy the attention of every plan
ter, and none who will pay him a visit and see
the results, can come away unconvinced of its
being within the power of every planter to
produce the same results with less labor than
is required by the common mode of culture.
It is well worth the travel of one thousand
miles to .*c • the present growing crop, and we
advise all who can do so, to give Mr. P. a call.
He will take pleasure in showing' them
through, and explaining his mode of cultiva
tion. The seed used by 31 r. P. is of bis own
improving. [Columbus .Sun.
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Importance of Warmth or Stock.
The animal that is to pay in growth for bis
food, must be kept warm, not in a crowded
smoltcring condition, with bad air and other
discomforts, but comfortably warm. The ni
trogenous portion of the food goes mostly to
form muscle or lean fle-.li. The carbonaceous
portions go in part to keep respiration in the
limes wiierehv animal beat is liroduecd.
Hut if tlie animal be exposed to int.-nse cold
the carbon "1' the fond is all consumed in the
lungs, and its products are inhaled into the
air. No animal tissue is formed by it.
There is no growth.
The only eil-I id* food so consumed, is t •
keep the animal alive and to prevent his
freezing, as a dead animal in the same expo
sure would. It would lie possible in our se
vere climate, to keep an ox so uncomfortable
cold all winter, that although ho should con
sume the food which would keep two such
oxen growing the whole time in a perfectly
protected condition, he would not he one
pound heavier in tlie spring than in the pro
ceeding fall, and the only return for his food
would he the rise in market value which cat
tle might have taken during winter.
Now, if by such outrageous cruelty the fir
mer would lose the whole of his forage, by
half as much cruel exposure ho would lose
half of it, and so in other proportions; and
it may he laid down as an undoubted law.
that every departure from that kind of treat
ment which is due toduine.-tic animals, in the
matter of providing f r their warmth, will be
visited with a proportionate l"-s to the owner.
Another thing less understood and less at
tended to. is that all animals requite hulk as
well as nutriment in their food. No definite
rules can he laid down, and if the farmer has
the faculty of keen observation, lie will not
need them. A general rule will be of ser
vice. and that is to distribute the coarser and
less nutritious food with the finer and more
nutritious, as corn-meal or oil-cake with straw
or any coarse hay, fine hay of good quality j
with cornstalks, and so generally, that cacli I
animal may*cceive both the bulk and nutri
tion which he needs with something like reg
ularity, instead of living lbr a time almost
wholly on nutritious ft Hid, and then exclu
sively on the coarse and comparatively in
nutritious.
The liner and coarser need not. he given at
cacli meal, hut should be each day. A fre
q- change of food is desirable, but the
changes should be so managed as to keep in '
operation the principle of affecting the ani
mal—both a sufficient bulk of food to an
swer the demands of his digestive organiza
tion, and sufficient nutriment for the forma
tion of bone, muscle, and other tissues—or in
other words, to keep him constantly growing.
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Lime.—Lime will descend as far as the
earth is pulverized, and it should, therefore,
be placed on the top of the ground. When
land has been limed for a number of years,
subsoil plowing it as a new coat of lime as it
brings it up again to the surface. Eighteen per
cent, of the leaves and bark of the apple tree
is lime, which shows that apple orchards con
-ume a vast amount of this mineral, aud un
less it is often replaced, the orchards must .
suffer for the want of it.
A REMARKABLE STORY.
THE LIFE OF A CELEBRATED SCHOLAR SAVED BY
AN APPARITION.
A writer in The Atlantic Monthly for No
vember narrates the following strange story,
which “superstitionists” will, of course,
greedily swallow:
“ I)r. DeWette. the famous German bibli
cal critic, returning home one evening, be
tween nine and ten o’clock, was surprised,
upon arriving opposite the house in which lie
resided, to see a bright light burning in his
study. In fact, he was rather more than sur
prised, for he distinctly remembered to have
extinguished the candles when he went out,
and put the key in bis pocket, which, upon
feeling for it, was still there. Pausing a mo
ment to wonder by what means and for what
purpose any one could have entered the room,
he perceived the shadow ot a person, appa
rently occupied about something in a remote
corner. Supposing it to be a burglar employed
in rifling his trunk, he was upon the point of
alarming the police, when the man advanced
to the window, into full view, as it for the
purpose of looking out into the street. Jt tens
lJr. DeWette himself! The scholar, author,
professor—his bight, size, figure, stoop—his
head, his face, his features, eyes, mouth, nose,
chin, everyone—skull-cap, study-gown, neck
tie—all, everything. There was no mistaking
him. no deception whatever; there stood Dr.
DeWette in his own library, and he stood out
in the street! Why, he must he somebody
else ! The doctor, instinctively, grasped Ins
body with his hands, and tried himself with
the psychological tests of self-consciousness
and identity, doubtful, if he could believe his
senses, that black were not white, that he no
1 oncer existed in his former self, and stood
perplexed, bewildered and confounded, gazing
at his own likeness, looking out ot the win
dow. I poll tiie person’s retiring from the
window, which occurred in a few minutes. Dr.
DeWette resolved not to dispute the posses
sion of his study with the other doctor before
morning, and ringing at the door of a house
opposite, where an acquaintance reeded, lie
asked permi.'sLoii to remain over uiv;lit.
The chamber occupied bv him commanded
a full view of the interior <>t his hhr. y, an 1
from tjjic window lie could sec his ether soli
engaged in study and meditation; now walk
ing up and down the room, immerse i in
thought; now sitting down at the dc-k to
write; now rising to search tor a vi •
among the book-shelves, and imitating in all
rest ecta the peculiar hal its of the great doc
t..r. engaged at work and hu.-y with cogita
tions. At length, when the cathedral clock
had finished striking through first four and
then eleven strokes, as German cloci s are
wont to do an hour before twelve, De Wette,
number two. manifested signs of retiring to
rest—took out his watch, the identical large
gold one the other doctor in the other cham
ber felt sure was at that moment safe in Ins
waistcoat pocket, and wound it up; rem wed
a portion of hi- clothing, came to tlie window,
dosed the curtains, and in a few moments the
light disappeared. De Wette. number one,
waiting a little time till convinced that num
ber tw • lia l dispo-ed iiim.-eif to sleep, i -tired
also himself to bed. wondering very much
what all this could mean.
Rising the next morning, he crossed the
street and passed up stairs to the library.
The door was fastened ; he applied the key
opened it. and entered. No one was there ;
everything appeared in precisely the same
eon lition in which he had left it the evening
before—his pen lying on the paper where he
had dropped it on going out. the candles on
the table and mantlepiece evidently not hav
ing be n lighted, the windoW-c irtain- drawn
aside as lie had left them; in fine, there was
not a single trace of anybody having been in
the room. *• Had he been insane the night
before? He must have been. He was
growing old ; s •metbiug was the matter with
his ey< • .-oil loam. Anyhow he had been
deceived, and it was very foolish of him to
have umained away all night.”
Knilcavoring to satisfy ins mind with some
such n flections as these, lie remembered he
had not yet examined his bed-room. Almost
a-hunted to make the search, now c induced
it wa - an hallucination of the senses, he
crossed the narrow passage way and opened
the door. lie v, thunderstruck. The
ceiling, a massive brick afehj had ‘fallen du
ring the night, filling the room with rubbish,
and crushing his bed to atoms. De Wette,
the appnt'tion. had saved tlie life of the great
German scholar.
Tholuek. who was walking with me in the
fields near Hollo whi n relating the anecdote,
adde l. upon concluding: *• i do m-t pretend
to account for the phenomenon; no knowl
edge scooiiiffc or lpn-tardiv>-1 c:ti in inv
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session, is adequate toexplaih it: but i have
no more doubt it actually, po:itively. literally
did occur, than I liave of the existence of the
sun tin himuu l da.” /
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Broke itis Back.—The other day three
or four married gentlemen and their wives
were visiting tlie resilience of a mutual friend
in the country Among the other amuse
ments indulged in was the erection of a swing,
consisting of a rope attached to the limb of
an overhanging elm. After an hour or so’s
exercise in this way. one of the gentlemen
who. though old enough to have outgrown
anything of the sort, is excessively modest
got upon the swing, and, when fairly under
headway, lost Ins hold upon the rope, and
was thrown violently to the ground, aliglning
upon his back. The party, ladies and all. <u
course rushed to his assistance, and attempted
to raise him up, hut the injured gentium >,i.
with the most excruciating agony deiucto t n
his countenance, waved his friends away, and
made the alarming statement that his hack
was broken. Three or four of the geritleim n
started rapidly toward the nearest house for
assistance, hut the prostrate subject called them
hack, and implored them to remain and take
care of Lim while the ladies called assistance.
The suggestion was put into practice, and as
soon as the ladies got out of sight., he jumped
up, turned round, and broke like a ijuarter
horse lor the nearest, thicket, while his
friends roared with laughter. He had only
met with an accident incident to tight panta
loons and violent strains.
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^Ao Accident.—The Tuscumbia Ala
bamian of the lfith says: “On Saturday last
two little sons ot Mr. \\ . L. Dyer, of Hunts
ville. were conveying a barrel of sail home in
a cart drawn by a mule; the mule starting
tilted the cart, and the barrel fell on The head
of one of the boys, eight years old, mashing
it, and, of course, killing him instantly.
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Geoffrey J. Leva idle, who was shot in a
fight with T. B. Kershaw, at Petersburg.
Virginia, died on the 12th inst. The wound
was inflicted on the loth of October, and the
pistol was charged with a horseshoe nail.
The nail was found in his brain, where it
has been for nearly a month.
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An Irish waiter once complimented a sal
mon in the following manner: “ Faith, its not
two hours since that salmon was walking round
his real estate, wid his hands in his pockets,
never dreaming wluit a happy invitashun he’d
have to join you gentlemen at dinner.”
Senator Douglas has fully recovered from his
last reported illness, and parsed Memphis, the
other day, cu route for his home.
THE FINAL DESTINY OF THE EARTII.
Encke’s comet, which revolves about the
sun in three and a halt years, has been ob
served to complete its revolution in a con
stantly shortening period, showing that it is
being drawn inward toward the sun. ibis
fact has led to the general conclusion by as
tronomers that the planets are moving in k
sistlcss medium, far more attenuated than our
atmosphere, but still sufficient to affect theii
motions. If this be so, it follows by strict
necessity that our earth and its sister orbs are
all winding spirally toward the sun. and that
they must eventually strike against it and be
come incorporated with its mass. J he time
required for this purpose belongs to those in
conceivable periods with which geology and
astronomy have to deal. ’1 he resisting medi
um is so exceedingly attenuated that it excit
ing slight influence on the comets, which are
themselves masses of the very thincst vapor,
and its influence would ol course be very
much less mi the dense matter of the planets.
Astronomical observations with all their
wonderful delicacy, have yet lailed to detect
the slightest progressive shortening in the
periods of revolution of any of the planets.
It is curious, however, to note the multiplied
obstacles which prevent the perception of
this fact, if it does exist. All the measures
of these revolutions are shortening with the
revolutions themselves. 11 we begin, for in
stance, with the earth, the problem is to as
certain whether the time occupied by the
earth in its journey around the sun is gradu
ally becoming shorter, d lie first plan that
suggests itself is to compare this with the
rotation of the earth on its axis, to see
whether the year occupies the same number
of days and hours and seconds that it did in
former times. But it the earth is gradually
cooling, it is contracting in size, and its rota
tion on its axis is becoming more rapid. In i
other word-, the day is shortening with the
year; and if the. measure shrinks just in pro
portion to the thing measured, we cannot toll
whether the latter is becoming shorter or not.
If we take the time of the revolutions of1
the moon around the earth as a standard, the
I same re-i-ting medium would draw the moon j
l ward the.earth, and short, n the month also j
with the year. If we resort even to the le.-s
I :-:iii'l'actorv measure of the sun’s rotation on
his ms rniK !. :uso uimmiMtin”; ny mu
radiation ot Iti • In at. ami tin* ] t rail ol'liis ro
tation is, const (ucntly, het inung sin rtcr.
in brief. from the tv»*> cases ofmunition ami
the r, medium, all the times and dis
! lances which could he used to moa- ire the
i earth’s distance from the sun (or the period
i ot' its annual revoluti m) are shortening to
gether. So that the difierences in the extent
of tlic-e several contradictions are the only
means left !’< r detecting by ohservation on the
approach of the etrtli to the sun. if such ap
proach is really taking jdace. These dilfer
ences would doiibtlt— reveal themselves in
the course of generations to relined uMroimm
j iea.l observations.
Iftliet nth and the sun are yradual’y be
et uu in;; c id. this windimr of the earth toward
the -tin would tend to keep up it- warmth,
and it may !> * a w—c provision for profm-bni:
. by : >une millions of years the continuance of
animal itfi: upon on skhe. But th— pcriotl
must come to a clot *. tor il'here is ;i re. istin.tr
nmdiutn, pervadim: the space between i— and
! the sun, the final destiny of the earth is to
' curve uv..dua'dy forward till, with a \ •levity
hundred.' of tom- on-.ter than that of a can
non ball, it dasln— ir-a If with an awfully sub
lime era h into t’ne mu-sot the sun.
[Scientific Ancrican.
WATERLOO THE PAY AEFER BATTLE.
t )n the sttrfa.ee of two square miles, it tv
ascertain;' 1 that Idly tlmu-and men and h ow >
were lyincr. The luxnrions crop of ripe i rain
which hao cover-d the field of battle wa- tv
duced to p: les, and beaten into the eat th ;
;md t! • -nr!. • t’-B: a i .wh by lim . i\ airy,
and fttrrowed deep!/ by the cannon v. 1.. . .
strc> cd with many a t lie of the TJit. Hel
mets ami euira-'t •. >!iatt 'fed file arm.' and
broken swords j all the vmioty of military
email; -at.', lancer caps an I 1! ’elilaml bonnet *;
tmilorn-oi’every color, plum ■ and p<union,
mu-ical in.'iruim nfs. the apparatus of artillery,
drums, bttyks—but. pood tied why dwell on
the harrow ini: pi "hire of a i<> lighten field '—
: each and every ruinous display bore into mute
testimony to the misery of such a battle. *
* * * Coit! I the melancholy appear
ance of this scene of death bo hbihteued. it
would be by seein.tr the researches of the liv
iripr amid its de- !a:i(-;t for the objects of their
love. Mothers and wi\. s and children for
day - vo ro ot ij it ! in that mournfal duty ;
, i cm'iI.k; .it f f 1 * i ■ »i* 11 : It . mi, I • • k . ■
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| intermingled as they were—often rendered
the attempt at recognizing individuals diffi
cult, and in some cases impossible. * * In
some ] laces 1 lie dead lay lour deep upon each
other, the spot some Hritish souare had occu
pied. exposed for hours to the murderous fire
of a French halt^ry. < hitside, lancer and eui
ra- •■.•v.vre j-cattvivd 11 .:<•!: 1 v on the eardi.
.Maddlv attempting to force the -erried bayo
nets of the liritish. they had fallen in ho it
b'.-s e say hy tli • musketry of the inner tiles.
Farther on. you trace the spot where the c tv
- airy of 1 ranee and Fngland had encountered.
I chasseur and hassar were intermingled, and
i the heavy Norman horses of the Imperial
< 1 uard were interspersed with tin* gray
< rs which 1 \ i
Here ilie Highland and traileur lay, side hy
-ade. together and the liea\w dragoon, with
green Frill's budge upon his lmlmet. was graii
pling in death with the Polish lance. *
On the summit of a ridge
where the ground was cumbered with the
dead, and trodden fetlock-deep in mud and
gore by the freipieat rush of rival cavalry,
the thick-strewn corpses of the Imperial
Guard pointed out the spot when* Napoleon
had been defeated. Here, in column, that
!a\ red corps, on whom his last chances rested,
had been annihilated; and the advance and
repulse of the < i uard were traceable hy a
mass of fallen Frenchmen. In the hollow
below, the last struggle of France had been
vainly made; for there the Old Hoard at
tempted to meet the lhiti.-h, and afford time
to their disorganized companions to rally.
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<'or.tr in Houses.—A correspondent of
The Farmers Advocate, (lb S. Phelps, Jr.,)
gives the following receipt lor colic in horses :
*• I knew a horse taken with colic while on
a tread-wheel to a carding machine, so that
his owner thought lie could not live. He got
three veterinary surgeons, and they did what
they could, and all decided that the horse
must die. The man's wife, who believed and
practiced hygiege, from the time the horse
was taken, tried to persuade her husuand
to use a wet bandage, but lie insisted it
would do no good. After all had given up
that the horse could no longer live by her
entreaties, (the dociors saying it could do
no good nor hurt,) he took a bed comforter,
bound it around the horse, went to the well
and drew water, and poured it on till thor
oughly soaked, ft steamed like a pot boiling,
in less than fifteen minutes from the time he
commenced the watering process the horse
was up and eating, to the great surprise of
the horse doctors, who knew he could not
live. '1 lie horse did good service afterwards.
This recipe 1 gave several years ago, and it
was copied into most (as i was told by an
editor) of the agricultural, and many other
papers in the 1 nited States. Many have
tried and proved it. Try it brother farmer.
CURRENT ITEMS.
i• j}y the time the husband has seen his wife
eat heartily of pork and beans, and with her
hair frizzled, and her oldest dress on. lull ox
the enterprise of overhauling things, he sees
that she belongs to the same race as lumselt.
And she, when her husband gets up cross in
the morning, and undertakes fcosha\e himself
with cold water and a dull razor, while his ,
suspenders draggle at his heels, begins to see
the man is a very prosaic animal. It seems,
then, that if wives would cease eating pork
and husbands cease shaving, two very unne
cessary acts, the honey-moon would never
pale.
A few weeks ago, a bag, containing upward
of (idO guineas, was left at the house of an
aged ladv. residing near Netting Hill. Loudon,
with a letter, stating that some party, con
strained by conscience, returned the money,
which was a part of a sum plundeerd from
the family sixty-two years before, promising,
also, that the whole should he shortly return- ;
cd. The robbery was committed in London
derry, Ireland, and the lady’s father, from
whom the money was stolen, died more than
fifty years ago.
j>t; Peter’s Church, in the Isle of Thanet,
is one of the grandest and most imposing of
all the ancient temples. It has of late years,
been suffered to fall into decay, until some
months since, when it was entirely renovated
and restored to its pristine glory. During
the restoration a curious piece of paneling,
most beautifully sculptured in alabaster, was
discovered, and has been sent to the British
Museum for preservation.
Buying a severe thunder-shower a few days
since, a gentleman of Hartford. Conn., took
reluge in the house of Mrs. Charles drilling,
in West Hartford. Nearly half an hour after
the shower was all over, and the sky clear, a ;
sudden report was heard, like the discharge of \
a thousand cannon about the house, shaking
the building. On examination, the cellar
hatchway was found to be thrust open, ami it
appeared that a "return bolt,” as it is called,
Ltd cumo up out of the ground and exploded
in the cellar.
An < Id Kng!!-li burglar died in Meredith
village, !i few days since, possessed of consid
erable wealth, lie had lived for many years
a life of strict propriety, much respected by
in.- no gnuurs aim noeiuis. ana nun rearc i a
lam* < .m !y. Ill icit a manuscript in c ij>her.
which proved to be a record of his misdeeds,
in his will he bequeathed ■ *n‘U to a man he
once rubbed in Quebec, and two grandsons of
the imlivi-1 nil have been found there, he hav
ing long since din-eased.
The Rev. Mr. liaxter, an English divine,
lectured in Washington, on the lldd, on "the
awful nominal calamities prophesied to be
impending, and the c niiiig of Christ to judg
ment about I•'■oj l-'ti"'. ’ ’1 he lecturer thought
that Louis Napoleon was the great anti-Christ
spoken of in the liible; that lie, in company
wills the Kim eiur of Russia, was to make war
upon .Jerusalem ; that this was to terminate
in the ha; tie of Armageddon, in which all toe
v. i bed would be o ‘.-troved ; and then Would
come the millennium.
A man lias recently been engaged in De
troit. Michigan, in endeavoring to ehrvstal
Qe the dints, agates and Cornelias of the Lake
Superior region, and secure such a point of
brilliancy as to i pud the itiaJiioiid. lie
siiowcl s‘ me dis.i.tegralcd agates, some which
were !• •;i • si 1. others showing the action of
aeM- which ■ cmeil to have eaten out the im
purities ami left the Hint as dear and trans
parent as crystal, which was doubtless the
nearest he had come to the perfection of the
sparkling diamond.
Col Lewis Washing-ton of Jefferson county.
\ ,i_ ui.i. was united in marriage on Tuesday,
the tilh of November, at (‘lover Lea. Hanover
c linty. to Ella M. daughter of Geo. W\ J {as
set t. Esq. In this marriage a singular coin
cidence occurs: tin* groom bring tlie great
grandson of” > brothers of Gen. Washing
ton. ami the bride the great-gran 1-daughtor of
the only M.-ter of Gen. Washington, and also
the great-grainl-daugliter id' the sister of Mrs.
Gen. Wa hingtun.
Ti e Lexington and St. Louis railroad Com
pany have contracted with Chouteau. Il.irri
s m & \ a lie, of St. Louis, for the rails for
the entire length of the road from Fanner s
City to Lexington. 1 he distance is sixteen
miles, to be completed in the course of a vear.
The rails are to be manufactured of Missouri
iron, in St. Louis, dbe contract involves a
quarter of a million of dollars. The road
connects at Lexington with the Pacific road.
The following named Americans are serv
ing in Italy, in Gen. Garibaldi’s army: ( has.
( i! 1 Ms i - ( 11 m.! ok ( ll i i., • Kim nl \l
my, oi Nii'liville. Ttmicssee; Henry. N.
S| inn er, ,Jr.. of Pennsylvania, and Allred
\ an He utility sen, of New Orleans. Louisiana.
These gentlemen were all present at the bat
tle <>f ( aserta. ami the < iencral speaks of their
conduct in the highest terms.
It appear- ir an returns in possession of tl\p
Auditors i f Public Accounts that there are
at the present time, in Virginia, fifty three
thousand four hundred and fifty six slavu
owners over twenty-one years of age. This is
•about one fourth of the entire portion of die
population who have arriv'd at the years of
maturity.
1 he executors of a lady named Desmond,
who died in Hrompton, England, last .May,
sold the extraordinary number of eighteen
hundred dresses. sev< u hundred velvet man
tles, two hundred bonnets, and upwards of
one bun !red pairs of shoes, with innumerable
kerehiets and scarfs of all colors of the rain
bow, which bad been purchased by the de
ems 1 lady within ten years of her demise.
A telegraphic dispatch from Evansville.
Indiana, to the Cincinnati journals, atinaunc
es the death of David Dale Owen, the geo
logist. lie was a man of distinguished acquire
ments ami usefulness, and wiedly known
throughout- the west. Hubert Dale Owen is
his brother.
The Springfield ( Miss.') Republican, in notic
ing a specimen of the fine arts exhibited in a
picture dealer’s window, says: ‘’The fore
ground is a pea-green rock, half bedded in
red water, with three blue men in the center,
standing in a small claret-colored open boat,
looking at a pumpkin and milk colored steam
boat iu the distance.”
A telegram dated Philadelphia, 14th inst.,
says: 4 ho reported conduct of the captain
of the steamer Key Stone State at Charleston,
was much exaggerated, lie did not haul
down the American and hoist the Palmetto
flag, but merely saluted the Carolina flag by
dipping bis colors.
Brevet Major Peter G. T. Beaaregard,
captain corps of engineers, has bten appoint
ed superintendent of the military academy at
West Point, and will relieve the present su
perintendent at the close of the approaching
semi-annual examination of the cadets.
Aunt E-was trying to persuade little
Eddy to retire at sundown, using as an argu
ment, that “ little chickens went to roost at
that time.” “ Yes,” says Eddy, “ hut the old
hen always goes with them.” Aunty trieiUio
more argument with him.
The late Duchess d’Alba, (sister of the Em
press Eugenie,) was the arbiter of fashioh iu
Madrid, and was considered the queen of the
saloons.
$
NEW STOKE!
ENTIRELY NEW STOCK!!
We have just opened our new stock of
FALL AND WINTER GOODS,
which consists, in part, of
KERSEYS, WOOLSEYS,
HOME-MADE JEANS,
KENTUCKY JEANS, SATINETS,
LINSEYS,
AND GEORGIA PLAIDS.
4 LSO. A FINE ASSORTMENT OF POPLINS.
. Y Do Eeragos. Merinoes, .Scotch Plaid Alpaca-,
etc., etc., etc.
ALSO, A COMPLETE STOCK OP
c lot ii i zv (> ::
A better assortment cannot be found. Also, the
largest stock of
BOOTS AND SHOES!
In the market. Wo kindly solicit all who wish to
purchase to give us a call, and examine
our goods and prices.
TAYLOR & CO.,
nov .‘1-ff. lies Are. Arkansas.
W. B. CROCKER S CO.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
:r* <o o ers,
First door West of J. II. Quisenberry's Store.
UES i IIC. Ulii
rn \ KE PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING TO
I tlie citizens of Prairie and adjacent counties,
that they are tew in receipt of a large and well
selected stock of
G HUGE HIES AN D II A H I»W A U E.
t’.insisting in part of Sugars. AI<dn««es. Coffee.
Candles, i lease. Yin* gar. Salt, Whisky, Rice.
Pickles. Sardines, Floir. Pislt. Raisins. Figs. Cit
rons. Almonds. < aniU. S . ip. Starch. Soda. Crack
ers, Tobacco, Cigars. Nails. Castings. iv,m. Steel.
Log Chains, Ox Chains Pole Axes. Shades, Shov
els, etc., etc., with all tther articles usually to be
found in a similar establishment. All of which
they are n >w selling Lav for cash. novd-tf
STOVE AND TIN SHOP!
-TS - II. I 5 ii i* \i.
HAS REMOVED IMS TTN SHOP TO THE
. house reoohtly occupied bv J. W. Wallace,
on Buena Vist* street, opposite the Nucleus
' House, where lit is prepared to accommodate the
j public with the best articles of
COOKING STOVES, TIN-WAKE,
and all other merchandise in his line, ever
brought to this market.
My cooking stoves ure immediately from a large
St. Louis establishment, and l feel confident that
those who want these convenient articles can suit
themselves from my large assortment. Give me
a call, and examine before purchasing else
where. novil
1VOTICE
I s HEREBY GIVEN THAT LETTERS OF
1 Administration on the estate of William L. De
wootly was granted me on tlie 7th day of Novem
ber. 1 St.i». by the clerk of the Court of Probate of
the county of Prairie, State of Arkansas, in vaca
tion. All persons indebted to said estate v ill
please come forward and settle. All persons hav
ing claims against said estate will exhibit the same
to the Adminiurator, properly authenticated,
within one year from the date of such letters, or
they may be precluded from any benefit in the
estate: and if such claims be not exhibited
within two yeans from the date of such Letters,
they shall be forever barred and precluded from
any benefit Iron such estate.
Horace p. vaugtin, Adm’r.
l)es \rc, Nov. 7. lsrat. nov Ui-tiw.
GOOD STOKE HOUSE FOE, SALE!
¥71011 SALE. A STORE HOUSE. TWENTY-TWO
j 1 by ninety l'ect, two stories high, well finish
i ed, ami warehouse in the rear, in the heart of the
| business part «f town. Terms, a little uionej
: down, and time on the balance.
J- 11. Ol ISENBERRY.
Auction, Commission Merchant,
nov 3. and Real Estate Agent.
AT COST AMD CARRIAGE.
I'AM OFFERING MV ENTIRE STOCK Of
| „ Dry Goods at Cost and ten per cent. Every
: body is invited to call and see for themselves,
i My goods are inferior to none in this market, and
my object in selling off at cost and carriage is tc
enable me to replenish with a stock which will lit
! bought exclusively with cash.
nov 3-tf. LEVIN HARRISON.
SXCK LLEN T PLOWS.
JE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A LARGE
quantity of the best Cast Plows, which w<
offer cheap. nov 3. J. JACKSON & CO.
SEEDS! SEEDS!!
LARGE LOT OF FRESH HUNGARIAN
Grass Seeds, just received and for sale by
nov. 3. JOHN JACKSON & CO.
simuLES! siiiNC-Ms::
SHINGLES FOR SALE CHEAP
Apply to C. A. JUDSON.
DES AKC CITY
DRUG STORE.
#
To Physicians, Druggists, Merchants*
I * JA A A T E K S,
AND THE PUBLIC GENERALLY.
i Your attention is respectfully invited to one of
the best selected stocks of fresh
DRUGS, MEDICINES,
FRENCH, GERMAN & AMERICAN
CHEMICALS, PATENT MEDICINES,
TOILET ARTICLES,
PERFUMERY, BRUSH ES,
DENTAL & SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS,
GLASS, GLASSWARE, TAINTS, OILS,
DYE STUFFS, Etc., Etc.
1 and all other articles pertaining to the Drug busi
ness, lately received, and now offered at the
DESAHC CITY DRUG STORE,
At WHOLESALE OR RETAIL!
ON ACCOMODATING TERMS.
—
A CHOICE LOT OF
Segars, Chew ing d Smoking Tobacco.
ALSO, ALL KINDS OF ST FEKIOR
L!(J10US FOR FSLS,
KEPT CONSTANTLY ON HAND.
Orders from a Distance will Receive Prompt Attention!
AND THE GOODS FORWARDED WITHOI'T DELAY.
; PHYSICIANS PRESCRIPTIONS
| Compounded of the purest and best materials,
with accuracy and despatch, at
431 Elmirs of the Day or Xlglii !
| iiov •• lv. JOHN H. PERKINS.
I AUCTION, COMMISSION
IExLo^I 3±Ssrt&/to
AND
G E X E II A L A G E X C Y,
D«*s Arc, Arkansas.
|
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I .
1AM prepared to receive all kinds of Merchan
. disc, Groceries, Produce, etc., etc.,
For Sale on Commission,
Either at Auction or Private Sale,or Exchange for Lands.
I will enter, buy and sell Lands as an Agent.
Parties desiring to sell improved or wild Lands,
as well as those desiring to purchase, might do
well to apply to me. An experience of more than
fifteen years in Arkansas Land Agency business,
furnishes to me all the information necessary iu
properly transact all land business promptly.
Rfffuexof.s.—Robertson \ Hudson; Emerson,
Brewster & Co.: By ram. Hind A Bliss. New York;
Garvin, Bell & Co.; Chamberlain & Tapp : Can
non ec McCampbell. l.ouiAillo, Ly.; Babcock &
j Kernoehan; E. Reilly & Co: Payan & Cab.art, N.
().; Col. Robertson Topp, Col. .1. 11. McMahon,
Gen. R. \ . Richardson, and old citizens of .Mem
phis, Tenn.1 Burr & Co., liutesville, Ark.; Pool,
j Pulliam ic Co., Jaeksonport, Ark.; Johnson &
Peav, Napoleon, Ark.
nov3. J. H. QUISENBERRY.
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY,
Tlh and Stli, l till and 151It, *21st and
*2*2d, ‘2Hili and *2!>lh
IVOVEM15EK, 1800.
ON THE ABOVE DAYS. AND EVERY WED
nesdav thereafter, and at such other times
| as circumstances may requre, I will sell at Aue
j tion. in Dos Are. Arkansas, an assortment of Dry
; Goods, Ready-Made Clothing. Boots, Shoes, Hats,
i Bonnets. Hardware, Saddlery, China. Queens and
j Glassware. Books, Stationery. Castings, Nails,
Window Glass, Plantation and Carpenter's Tools,
etc., etc. Will sell at private sale at greatly
reduced prices for cash, or on the usual credit.
J. H. QUISENBERRY,
Auction, Commission Merchant,
nov 3. ami Real Estate Agent.
TO BE CLOSED OUT.
O \ i\l\LBS. ASSORTED CASTINGS, 8UPE
/V.4UU rior quality, at 4'Je per lb-*A«► kegs
best assorted sizes Nails, at $3 To to $t;>0 per
keg; 100 Coats, at SI to $lo; two Side and four
Men's Saddles; 100 Hoop Skirts; $o00 worth of
Queensware; 100 pieces Prints, at 71 to 11 cts.
per yd. Terms, cash or credit until 1st January..
J. II. QUISENBERRY.
Auction, Commission Merchant,
, nov 3-Of. and Real Estate Agent.