Indiana American, Volume 16, Number 25, Brookville, Franklin County, 16 June 1848 — Page 1

ANA OUR COUNTRI-OUR COUNTRY'S INTERESTS-AND OUR COUNTRY'S FRIEXDS. BY C.F. CLAUKSOX. BROOKVILLE. TVOTAVA, FRIDAY. JUNE 16. 1S4S. VOL. XVI NO. 25.

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TE3IPERAXCE.

Intoxicating Drink nnnctnmry injlrallh. "On comparing my own observations," says Dr. Willan, "With the bills of mortality, 1 am convinced that considerably more than oneeighth of all the deaths which take place in persons above twenty years old, happen prematurely through excess in drinking." Dr. Paris says that, "The art of extracting al coholic liquors by distillation, must be regarded j as the greatest curse inflicted on human nature." j Dr. Rush says- "Since the introduction ofi spirituons Iiqaors into such general use, physicians have remarked that a number of new dis- J eases have appeared among us, and have de- j scribed many new symptoms as common to all diseases." Dr. Trotter says: "Amid all the evils of human life, no cause of disease has so wide a range, or so large a share, as the use of spirits." In 1534, according to the February number of the American Quarterly Temperance Magazine, of that year, nearly two thousand physicians in Europe and America had expressed the opinion, that men in health are nevr benefitted by the use of intoxicating drinks, and that their effect on the human system is to produce or aggravate disease. Dr. Wilson gave it as his opinion, that the use of spirits, in large cities, causes more diseases than confined air, unwholesome exhalations, and the combined influence of all other evils. Dr. Armstrong speaks of the chronic inflammation of the brain and its membranes, as frequently proceeding from the use of strong liquors. Dr. Cheyne, of Dublin, Ireland, after thirty j years practice and observation, gives it as his : opinion, that should ten young men begin, at i twenty-one years of age, to use but one glass of two ounces a day, and never increase the quantity, nine out of ten would shorten life more than ten years." Twenty-five persons volunteered their services to cut a vesses out of the ice, in an exeeedingly severe winter night. At davlbrht onlv j nine were able to persevere in the atterrpt; and, 1 on inquiry, it appeared that none of these, had tasted spirits. All the rest had, in a greater or I less degree, made use of them; and had there not been inhabited buildings near where they were employed, several must have perished. Those who had abstained, took a breakfast of strong hot coffee, and with that meal only, completed a severe exertion of twenty-four hours, wet the whole time, and exposed to a degree of cold much below zero. TciKpcr.mro Story. TL .11 . .. . i lie wags ten a story ot j-aeon A , one of the Massachusetts delegation in Congress. One New Year's day he accompanied others in the round of calls on the distinguished citizens of the uaiionfd metropolis, officials, ff,-.. On returning to dinner "the member" was observed to be quite glib of tongue, and flushed of countenance. The conversation turned on the pleasant class of the morning, and Mr. A expressed himself highly gratified. "Did you drink the apple toddy at Mr. W.6?" inquired a friend. "Oh, no," said Mr. A ,"I am president of the county temperance society; but I took some of his custards and found them delicious!" Like David Crocket, the deac has called things by the wrong name. The custard was t. beverage called "egg-nogg, served in noall glasses. (LrThe Pons of Temperance are spreading over Christendom. A letter from Philadelphia, dated March lfith, gives the gratifying intelli gence of application for Division charters in Nova Scotia, Florida, Texas, and one in Rome, in Italy. X3"A large glass of water, sipped ten drops at a time in perfect silence, till tha whole be taken, is a convenient cure for a person in a passion A Kirh Scrnc. The Locofocos in Washington called a ratifi cation meeting at the Capital it was a rainy night, and the "affair," like their nominee's last profession of faith, was flat very. Senators Benton and Dix were not present to give in their adhesion, and retire under existing circumstances might occasion "horrid dreams." The rains descended, and thick darkness"fill ed" the streets and avenues of the city of "mag nificent distances." The venerable Ritche, as ardent as a Southern sun ever made any man with his lantern in hand, led the crowd, first to the residence of Senator Dix. The New York Senator, sympathising with the Barnburners, came forth and responded to the midnight call in aspeech "pregnant with sententious brevity.' He said he hoped the Democracy of New York would come out right, and that he should do nothing to prevent it. This was cold comfort in a dark and rainy night. The crowd departsd thence. Father Ritchie leading the way, his lantern casting but a "small light about his footsteps." At length the residence of Senator Benton was found, and the midnight cry brought "Old Bullion" to an upper window. He thanked them for the call, and was about retiring, when Mr. Folk's editor all blythe and lively, cried out "come down Senator, and tell us how Missouri will go?" Old Bullion responded, "ah! is that the editor of the Union who calls he reminds me of old Diogenes with his lantern, looking about the streets of Syracuse for an honest man! Well, sir, Missouri will go right she la always right. Giod night, sir." And down went the window, and the crowd dispersed to their respective lodgings. Cin. Gazatte. liovdinro. Young ladies, it is not your gay dress, your

expensive shawl, or your golden finger ring good husband of his time, which is very prethat attracts the attention ofmen of sense. It is cious." your character they study. If you are trifling j Rule 5.-If you are not able to finish a work and loose in your conversation, no matter if ( without the aid of others, call in speedily such you are beautiful as an angel, you have no at- persons to your assistance, as are fit to be emIractions for them. It is the true loveliness of : ployed on it. "The more hands are employed your nature that wins and continues to retain , the more work is done; provided they are maiithe affections of the heart. Young ladies sad- ( aged in such good order as not to be a hindrance ly miss it who labor so to improve their out- to one another." wd looks, while they bestow not a thought I Rule 6. Take some proper times to relax your . .... thoughts from all business; that vou may be betupoa their minis. Fools may be ctnght ter t0 l0 it. A heavy load, coustantK"wyws, aud fashionable, showy drenses; bat y borne without any intermission, will waste the wise and substantial nre never rattght by your strength, and make you unfit for everyi:h traps. hng-

RELIGIOUS.

The Amjrl or Patirnrr. BY J. G. WHITTIER. To weary hearts, to mourning homes, God's meekest angel gently comes; No power hath he to banish pain, Or give us back our lost again. And yet, in tenderest love, our dear And Heavenly Father sends him here. There's quiet in that angel glance, There's rest in his still countenance; He mocks no grief with idle cheer, Nor wounds with words the mourner's ear; But ills and woes he may not cure; He kindly teaches to endure. Angel of Patience! sent to calm Our feverish brows with cooling balm, To lay with hopes the storms of fear, And reconcile life's smile and tear; The throbs of wounded pride to still, And make our own our Father's will. Oh! thou who mournest on thy way, With longings for the close of day; He walks with thee, that angel kind, And gently whispers, "Be resigned! Bear up, bear on, the end shall tell The dear Lord ordered all things well." Rnles for a life of buinos. Rulel. Lead not an idle life: but find out some honest business (private or public, or both) wneiaMu constantly 10 empioy yourseii ana otn-; 1 - . if . , i . , I ers. Consider what business you are fitted for, 1 J I'll. - 1 una seiyourse.i w u wun diligence; out under- , take no more than what you are well able to pertorm; lest you come ott with shame and sorrow. Idleness will betray you into many evils & ' inconveniences, and entitle you to no other reas but the dismal one of "the unprofitable servant. Matt. xxv. -0. Therefore, "endeavour, as mncn as you can, always be doing someI thing which is good." ' Rule 2. "Be not slothful in business." J xii. ll. tor that is much the same with idleness and sometimes worse than it. But when ' you hr.ve a fine prospect of doing what is good, an understand the ways and means of performi" You maV possibly sometimes be defeat- j ed in a good purpose: but it is your duty to at- , tempt it, whenever you find a reasonable prohability of success. . Rule 3. When yon find yourself well able to

do a good thing without the assistance of an v teurs commissioned for this field, since the com' one but G d, never put it or any part of it off mencement of the enterprize, have been in conto be done by another man, of whose honesty, 1 nection with thirteen evangelical denominations

j sufficiency, and industry you connot be so sure ins, in such a case, you may be of vour own. i "But if you find you want the help of others, let not the vanity of having all the praise yourself make you decline it; least the good you aim . atmay thereby be lost." Rule 4. When you find yourself able to ! perform a good work to-day, do not put it off till j to-morrow. Laziness ts a sort of idleness: and many a good undertaking has failed by unnecessary delay, as well as by over much haste. ''Ye know not what shall be on the morrow." Jam. iv. 14. "Thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." Frov. xxvii. I. "Therefore whatsoever thy hand findeth to, do it with thy might." Eccles. ix. 10. Rule 5 Lawfnl gain may and ought in ma ny cases be made; for, without this, few men would be able to support themselves and their families, or to do much good to others. But let not gain (however lawful) be the chief motive for undertaking any business, whether public or private ; if you are greedy of gain, it will often mislead you . They that will be rich fall into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition, for the love of monev is 'he root of all evil." 1 Tim. vi. 9 10. Your great aim, in undertaking any sort of bu siness, ought always to be to please God by do ing good in the world. Keep this constantly in your view, and It will always lead you in the right way: but if yon look aside after gain, you v ill continually be in danger of being misled. Among the qualifications of a righteous man, this is one, that "He despiseth the gain of op,pression." Isa. xxxiii. 15. That is to say, all gain but what is just and honest. "Gain is a very strong temptation, against which, therefore vou must be very watchful and upon your guard." Ftnlr for n lire in n tnnltitudr of tninc. Rule 1. If over much business unavoidably comes at once upon you, be not discouraged, for that will make you negligent; but consider how to put it into the best order, that one thing may be done after another, or without hindering each other. Rule 2. Be always a good manager of your time, and lay hold of each opportunity that offers for the doing whatever is necessary to be done. If you neglect a proper opportunity, you may not perhaps meet with it again: whereas, by dexterously laying hold of whenever it offers, yon will be able in a little time to dispatch much business. Rule 3. Always consider the probable con sequences of what you intend to do; that you mav guard against those that are evil or incon venient. "A thing may al first sight look very plausible; but if we look well to what may fol low from it, we may find good reasons for lay ing it aside, or at least for altering our meas ures." Rule 4. Consult with yourself, and with others who are knowing and honest, about every thing of moment which you are to undertake; but waste not that lime in unprofitable discourse about it, which may be better employed in doing it. Thought is quicK: and wneu a wise mau re ! once well informed (of which he will take care) I k Ml .,ni lw lonr in deliheratinfr what is best to 11c " 114 uv. " " r, be done, but many a good opportunity has been lost by too much consultation about it. "A wise man thinks much, which is soon done, but . speaks no more than what is necessary, being a

Itt-vtewjof Colportage at the Writ for werrn ymm. Mr. Seely Wood, the Society 's efficientsuperintendent of Colportage at the West, furnishes the following condensed view of the work in the Western States. It will repay a careful perusal: "In May, 1541, Colportage in the United Stites was commenced by the Executive committee of the American Tract Society. From that period until the present, the work has been constantly advancing, and increasing in interest and importance. "Seven years having pow elapsed since the commencement of Colportage in this country, and the inquiry often arising, 'What has been accomplished? What efforts made to reach all the accessible population? I shall endeavor to reply, so far as relates to the field assigned to my supervision, by a brief statement of facts. "Including the labors of students occasionally, who have devoted their vacations to the work.the first year five Colporteurs were employed; the second, twelve; the third, twenty-tight; the

fourth, thirty-seven; the fifth, forty-three; the sixth, seventy-seven ; and the last year, one huddred and ten. The total amount of labor performed is equal to the service of one man for one hundred and seventy-one years. "The statistical report for the past year shows that fifty-one years' labor has been performed; 2,583 families visited, of whom 7,581 were Rornanlsts, or fatal errorists, 10,931 were found destitute of all religious books, except the bible, . - ... and 0,4'Jll families were found destute of a copy of the sacred Scriptures; 1,103 prayer -meetings were held; 34,469 families were conversed with on personal religion, or prayed with; 117,536 volumes, of the value of 31,979 75, have been circulated, of which $5,005 53 worth have been granted to the destitute. The total circulation has amounted to $1 19,ao6 03, since May, 141, of which amount, publications of the pecuniary value of $23,021 85 have been granted to the destitute. Of the whole number of Colporteurs commissioned on this field, twenty-seven are Germans, and have devoted their labors principally to the German population in the towns cities, and districts, where this populatiou is lo cated. "A correct apprehension of the catholic spirit with which the enterprize has been prosecuted' maybe formed from the fact that the Colpor24 were connected with Congregational churches, 12 Tresbyterion, (O. S.) 28 Presbvterian (N. S.); 17 Methodist Episcopal; 2 Protestant Methodist: 31 Cumberland Presbyterian; 14 Baptist: 3 Protestant Episcopal; G Lutheran; 5 Evangelical Lutheran; 3 German Reformed; 1 As sociate Reformed, and 1 Seceder. One hundred and fifty-three of those Colporteurs have been obtained on the field, and the remaining twenty five in the Eastern States. "The first Colporteur boat on our western wa ters was launched in November last, by Messrs, Lowe &. Vaughan, Colporteurs in Tennessee and named the 'Bethel.' In three months, on the Mississipdi river, they visited ninety-fou Hat-boats, seventy-three steamboats and twenty towns, sold 2,984 volumes, and granted 144 volumes and 15.000 pages of tracts. "The moral result of colportage are detailed in the respective reports of the Colporteurs. They fully warrant all that has been attempted in the wide extension of this dispartment, and will justify as much advance the present year on the proceeding as the means furnished the Society will admit. What are eight hundred thousand oi the Society's volumes, circulated the last ten years, among the millions of this population ? What are Seventy-five Colporteurs now laboring in the States of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas, for nearly 500 counties embraced in those States? Not to speak of the necessity of more laborers in the States of Missouri, Illinois ann Iowa, which will hereafter be a separate field; twenty additioual Colporteurs are needed immediately for Kentucky, and as many more for Tennessee and Mississippi; also, additional laborers in Ohio, Indiana and Arkansas. Amer Mess. 'Iit-nda Ilnnd.' Heed the words, thou man of wealth! Bring back the fading hue of health In the poor man's sunken cheek Thou art strong and he is weak: He hath neither'gold nor land: Help to rise him Mend a hand.' Heed the words, thou poor man thou Who livest by thy sweating brow; If a sinking brother need Thy assistance, give him heed ; Thou may'st better understand. What his woes are 'lend a hand.' Heed the words, O thou, in whom The softer virtues live and bloom ; If an erring sisterclaim, Aid and pity in her shame, Spurn her not, but take thy stand On higher ground, and 'lend a hand.' Flattrrlng to Viv Orlranw. The Rev. William G. Brownlow. of the Jonesborough (Tenn.) Whig, writes from New Orleans to that paper, giving an account by no means flatterinff. of the Crescent City. He 6 ays: "New Orleans is "a head aud shoulders taller than any city I wa ever in. The devil opj erates ner(, upon a large scale, and really has his barracks here, together with the most of his recruiting officers. The Rev. Dr. Clapp, of this city, has delivered a sermon, in which it is made to appear that there is no hell iu the next life in which to punish sinners! This is an important discovery, and revives the drooping spirits of thousands here, who know that if the vulgar notion of a hell in the next life be true, they will have to pay for the roast. It Is more important to the inhabitants of New Orleans to have the doctrne of hell fire and future punishment done away with, than any city I was ever in." O Our idea issays a fellow that got a shrew for a wife lhat "Woman's love is like Scotch snuff. We get one pinch, and that's enough." A colored gentleman says "Woman's lub is Indian rubber It strech de more do more you lub her."

FUN AND FANCY

It take the Vid ra. Quite a mistake took place in a love affair in Philadelphia. A couple of young fools agreed to elope together, and by some mistake in the preliminary arrangements, the lover put his ladder up to the window next to that in which his sweetheart slept; which proved to be that in which her mamma, a handsome widow reposed. She turned the mistake to her advantage. Got nto his arms, returned his embraces; was borne by him to the carriage, and by preserving a be coming silence until day-light kept him in er ror, and then by the potent power of her blan dishments, actually charmed him into matrimo ny with herself. (fc-We notice in Pennsylvania the marriage of Mr. Wri ght to Miss Betlerway. Mr. Wright had no doubt read Pope's Univer sal Prayer, particularly the following verse of it. If I am right, thy grace impart Still in the right to stay: If T am wrong, oh, teach my heart, To find the Better-way. Hhnrj. A little boy, not over ten years of age, was seen the other day cramming his mouth full of "fine cut," when a gentleman standing by, somewhat amused at the spectacle, asked him what he chewed tobacco for. "What do I chew to bacco for?" replied the boy, "why I chew it to get the strength out of it, to be sure; what do you think I chew it for?" CSomebody says that "vows made in storms are forgotten in calms." A chap at our elbow, who has a wife and half a dozen daguerrotypes, says that vows made in courtship are considered practical jokes in matrimony. JWhy does an aching tooth impose silence on the sufferer? Because it makes him hold his jaw. flj The editor of the Burlington (Vt.) Free Press perpetrates the following at the close of a paragraph, touching the merits of the immortal Gen. Bombastes Pillow. We hang our harps upon the wilier When e'er we think on Gideon piller. The man that digs, for Polk and Marcy, His ditch and breast-work vicey Varskt. O Jake, how I wish it was as much the fashion to trade wives as it is to trade horses. Why so Peter? I'd cheat some person shocking bad afore j night I Nothing like Illg Word. A good story is told in the paper, of an aristocratic old lady, who, being asked how she liked the dinner at Mrs. A's great party, replied - the dinner was explendid, but my rmwi so promote from the mcknacks that I could not ratify my appetite, and the pick 1113 I r 1 1 rk I . vuv ii ivj ii ova such a defect on my head, to leave the table, but Mr. that I had a motion , gave me some hartshorn resolved in water, which bereaved me." rvrM. 1 - r i.t u i.:-u very few understand. It is not always by putlin.r the band in the nocket that we remove' afflictions; there must be something more.There must be advice, labor, and activity; we i. u: , i off our slippers, and go abroad, if we would effectually serve our fellow creatures When to' thisactive and effectual benevolence the more ; of money is added, how great and how lasting may not the good be! Few, however, posesses this quality of philanthropy ; for it costs less to fri Vrt n irntnej tbnn In irivA nn bour.Kive f o i hts of St Albans To atop Bon front Fiichting. I am a peace man and a teetotaller and will make known the best use to which ardent spirtscau be applied. Tut a little alcohol, or almost any kind of spirits, on the bottom boards around the under hive of belligerent bees, and) it will allay their fury like a charm. Having heard of this remedy, I was induced to try it, and I found it a fixed fact." L. T. Mount Tleasant, O. 07"! have always been astonished," said MissSmix, "at the anxiety young girls have for beaux: but I hever pitied a female more than when Miss , of Jamestown left my school. Seeiug her 'rapt' and gazing towards the Bky, I asked her what she was looking for. "That beau" said she, "which is told of in Genesis, as being 'set in the cloud.' I wish he'd comedown, for I want to get married!" Dizrof ihr Frmnlr Wnit. Women ought to measure from twenty-seven to twenty-nine inches round the waist, but most females do not per.nit themselves to grow beyond twenty-four; thousands are laced to twenty-two, some to less than twenty inches; and thus by means of wood, whalebone, and steel, the chest is often reduced to one-half its proper size. Jj"Tlie Spaniards have a saying "At eighteen marry your daughter to her superior; at twenty to her equal; at thirty to any body that will have her." sW-Trrnl of the Cnndidntr. Among the candidates nominated by the various parties, we notice the following list in the Adrian Expositor: Abolition Candidate JOHN P. HALE, of X. II. Slave Extension Candidate, GEN. CASS, of Mich. Anti-Harbor Candidate, GEN. CASS, of Mich. Old Hunkers' Candidate, GEN. CASS, of Mich. Aristocracy Candidate, GEN. CASS, of Mich. Northern Doughface Candidate, GEN. CASS, of Mich. "Manifest Destiny" Candidate, GEN. CASS, of Mich. "Time and Chance" Candidate, GEN. CASS, or Mich. 'King and Court of France" Candidate, GEN. CASS, of Mich. Irish Famine Caudidate, GEN. CASS, of Mich. Black Cockade Candidate, GEN. CASS, of Mich. ) O When you see a female rise early, get 1 baeakfasUand do up her mother's work in seai son, and then sit down to sew or knit, riepeud up- ' on it she will make a good wife.

THE FARMER.

ledge Culture. Frequent enquiries on the sabject of making hedges, induce us to offer to our readers such an article as will convey those practical directions, neccessary to enable the beginner to make a hedge ; and although we may repeat Borne things heretofore said, we wish to have some one article to which we can refer enquiries for full directions. We shall only treat of two plan's in our directions not because there may not possibly be others which will answer, but because the attention of the western public is now directed to these two. Besides, our last volume contains complete and specific directions for the rearing of hedges of the native thorn, and of the Washington thorn by Mr. Greenleaf of Sangamon county, to which we refer all who are interest ed in the culture of that plant for hedges. Our two plants are the Osage Orange (Maclura aurantiaca,) and the Buckthorn (Rliamnns catharticus.) The first of these is, from the descriptions made of it, the best hedge plant in) existence. The only doubt about it seems to be. as to its entire ability to resist the climate of j nlace .!.: r. L , .inc., m crii Fu mr norm (

as the culture is now in progress. This,! w,th a young man, a Mr. G-, a bookbinder by however, is a matter which can only be deci- j trade, and his wife. G. seemed to be a business ded by competent experience. Of Its prop-ist'rrinff man, and was doing well. His wife

erties as a hedge plant, our journal affords am- was a beautiful and lovely woman, apparently pie proof in the communications of rrofetsor doating on her husband, and in return idolized Turner, published last season. him. I left B.itavia, but often mv mind reverThere ere two ways of propagating the Osage , t'd back to the young couple w hose aequainOrange, viz: by the seeds, and pieces of roots, tnce I had made, and whose prospects bid so The seed has hitherto been scarce and dear, but 1 air t0 secure th em a long and happy life, large quantities are now finding their way in-I Time rolled on. Two years after I was at to the country south of this, where the demand Batavia, I arrived one day in Columbus Ohio. for it is very eager. The better time for sow- Stepping into a large and fashionable book store, ing the seedsis in the fall; but they may besown to purchase a book to while away the evening till as late as the 20th of June. If kept over till .with, whom should I meet with but G, who spring, however, they become dry, aud do not . proved to b the owner. His business was

vegetate as rapidly as if sown in season; and if prosperous, his wife never looked more lovely, j wards; and a lariv, wiio looked ou from sown late many of the seeds will not vegetate or himself mre happy. As his prospects j tauce.'was so shocked that she becamTLirivH." till the second year. It has been recommended brightened, he semed to look on his chosen ! aud raved for several d iv bo'h Mee .;i i to pour upon the seeds, if dry, boiling water a companion with even more idolotry alas! that waking. The ntim!er of victims'" was 's" i '.'.' mode which has sometimes been attended with ene so lovely, should lie so unworthy an angel queiitly stated olliciallv to be "(() but a Tr success; but we learu that is has also sometimes to look upon, a fiend to know. I bid adieu to ; son remarked that he count-d with li s i -failed. A safe way is to pour upon them water ff". but as I left him, I thought tn myself, ! fifty carts, each of which contained f ro"" t' ii ' heated to about 140 or 150deg. Fahrenheit, and surely, if there be a happy man on earth it is he. J fifteen bocaVs. People who proton V 1 t ! n ny

lei Maim upon uiem until me seedsare evidently .r. i t, . , . . uuiicueu. ii mis siiouiu mite live or six davs

no harm will be done. They may thou be plant-' A year subs quent to th period last mened in a seed bed in drills the seeds to be about tioned, I in-t at the post office in Cincinnati,

an inch apart, and covered about an inch in depth; and if the sod is of a soft liable to dry down.it should be watered, or what is better,

covered with a thin mulching of leaves or coarse and that hisbacgnge was at the Broadway house, j u l!" """I'ly when you rise in th.- mornin--manure, and this occasionally watered, so that pawned for his lodging. I had his baggage'10 f"rm a r,S"''"ion to make the day a l:a;.py I, C..A ..I.,-... r m.!- ,.. ! .i ... i ! one to a fellow-oreatare. ll U .l.o,

. qualincation is unuon,(teu,y all lhat is , , in June without any difficulty, by keeping the the ground moist. The place where the hedge is to stand should be cultivated as if for corn, and that not as many cultivatefor that crop. The ground should be 'nltr nnvrA xtrll lr-ri,. The plants may be removed to the hedge row at the end of one or two years. Both are recommenaa oi-reni autnors. in our r.cn ' soils we should deem a year's growth in the seed 8ufi'cieutIn England It is the custom to set hedges on a bank but 00 "uch t,,inR ls to """"P The planting of the hedge should be done in

the spring. Autumn planting will do for some could never see him again that she loved ansorts of transplanting, but for hedges it will not other mau!

be safe to recommended it. i wi. . I. : r . 1. - i : I " I'm ? u. pmuuun no? iirugc an ivt-r j assort the plants, putting the large and small ones together, and the small and weak ones in ' another parcel by themselves Then trim the : plants by shortening In the rootsabout one third, anrt cul lne t0PB Bn inc" 01 xne ground. There are two modes of planting. One is single row, placing tlie plants at trie distance ot eg"t inches apart; or in double rows, tnus: o o o o o o o o o o o making the rows six iuches apart, and the plants one foot apart iu the rows. As far north as this we should recommend the latter by all means. Several hundred miles south, where the shrub grows much more luxuriant than here, a single line, with proper cutting will make a hedge. The double cutting is however 8aer The planting will be expeditiously per formed by ploughing a furrow eight or ten inches deep where it is to stand; or if the spade be prefered. a trench may be made for the purpose. weenie pianis as oirecieo. v,are erioiuu ue (used not to suffer the roots to dry while the. work is proceeding. As they are set press the earth about the roots firmly with the foot. The planting being finished, the next thing is the culture. If left now to take care of themselves, they will be smothered by weeeds, and the labor thrown away. They should be at - 1 . . .1 . C I. - . - 1tended as sinci.y as a piece o. coru-me ee..s K..inte,.l ,Wn.nd the earth stirred about. , -- them. The next spring all the shoots ot trie ne.ige sliouia necui aowa wiuun six iuu..- i i..e . ... . . -.1 . . -r .1..1 earth. The second spring from setting the hedge H should be cut within one 1001 ot me first season's growth, or eighteen inches from the ground. The third year cut it back within a foot of the previous year's growth, each year till the hedge is the height wanted. This cutting may alarm nervous people, out is the essential of hedge making. Iu the words of Trofessor Turner, a brush fence mav be made without, but not a hedge. The object of cutting is to thicken it at the bottom, for if the foundation be neglected, the evil admits of no remedy. When the plants were first set in the hedge row, it was directed to shorten their roots. The peices which are cut off may be divided into pieces or two or three incites long, wmcti may be put in the nursery or seed bed, covering the top end only about half un inch, and press ing the earth tirmiy anoui mem. 1 ney win grow and form plants ready for the hedge, iu the same manner as those from the seed. Our second plant is the Buckthorn. The seeds of this are easier of vegetation than those of theOsageOrange, and maybe sown in the spring or the fall. A soaking in warm water, if they are dry, is all that is required, when they will grow as readily as peas. They should be treated in all sespects according to the directions already given. The Buckthorn is perfectly har dy, and may be relied on where the Osage Orange cauuot be grown. Its properties have o ofteu beeu alluded to by us, that it is not necessary to repeat them now. Prairie Farmer.

THE TIMES.

A Ace-ting Scene in rral Life. The following sketch appeared in the Lexing ton --mas a lew weeks since. It Is correct tu the main, but it contains one or two important errors. Mr. S. instead of au "inmate of the X. York Lunatic Assvluin." doubtless the most proper place for him. has taken to himself

another wife, and is travelling through the coun- ef!Pair that seized the citizens of St. Petersburgtry lecturing on Mesmerism. "G. " is and has Tllere was not a family, one or more or whosi for many years been a resident of this city, and , mem,er8 'g!lt not be among the wretched snfinstead of joining in bachanalian revels, he ts a ferer3- When the Emperor, on the first news clever, industrious, energetic business man, and f t,ie fire' hastued from tne Winter Palace to getting along in the world quite well. Louis- j tn FPot' vrom"n n up to hi:r. and cried"Save! Tillo Courier save! My son is amongst them! My husband j, .tn OVr true Tale, there! My brother is not yet out: "'Children " We learned yesterday the particulars of a replied the Emperor, "I will save a'.I I can." ' "scene in real life" that in romance equals the j When the fire was over when the flames wildest works of fiction confirming the old and life were extinct, and all lay within a burnsaying, that "truth is sometimes stranger than j i"g and charred heap, the melancholy business t,C''."" . , of amoving the dead was commenced. Th e will give it. as near as we can recollect, ! sight is said to have been beyond ail iJea har,n the language of our informant, and vouch Jawing and appalling, when,' on clearing awav

P"1 & .wj vu, uaimwi i r u f ,ci i. - ii j I fall of 1P3 . business called me to! 'n B otuvia in the State of N. York. At the ho f-1 n-tiuru T tnnlr l..tl. T - - .w. 1.1-, i-nir cn ijumuiru j j nai no man Kiioweiu wnal a day may bring , r.-i. ' ' iorui. ! my old frie.id G. He seemed slightly changed. -ior inquiry, as to his health and prospects, he informed me that he had failed in business, i wife became an inmate of mv family, whilst her, f nessDuring G.'s absence in Louisville, T noticed j daik complexioned, giy man, frequently call ' for his wife. One day, the two drovo out to- j e-ther, and not return ing, I began to suspect : that all whs not tivht. I immftliaMv wrot fo , G- l Louisville. Informing him of th state of affairs. He came, thunderstruck, and frantic. ; with despair. He pursued the party luColnn. - ous, wnere mey satistied mm that nothing improper had taken place, and his wife promised t0 i0 Louisville, if he would return there and send her sixty dollars. G. returned to Louisville, remitted the money, and received in return a letter from his wife, informing him that she (I. bowed to his fate with heroic fortitude and i . - ... ti ... ... iimiiiy Muicism, apparently. nui ins spim was crushed; I saw him in Louisville a few months after; his head was perfectly gray, his countej nance marked and haggard. The joyous dream ol lite had H1 the gorgeous glory of morn , nad oecome me musny darKness ot midnight. a Toor man! my very soul grew sick as I gazed on ms snattered trams and haggard countenance, and read on tne darn and desolatory despair that brooded, where once had gleamed so brightIv the sunshine of hope and happiness. j In the meantime, Mrs. G. had married her guilty paramour, who, by improper condnct on her part, had sought and obtained a divorce. j She was now an outcast upon the world; but i being an active woman, inv-igle l into her traces au inexperenced youug man, who married her. He, too soon for just cause, obtained a 'divorce. Mrs. G. or now Mrs. M., was again . j tQ a p,, m!U) Q Mf T but not nti, ' fhp lna him s,lte a Iiirge property on her j firs, n soon iit,d jn mvterioll, matpr I evervbod v believing he had been poisioned by h;, w;rked wife. . . T . . , , . . wns married to a ! - Mr.S., of.W York, a -origh.'y, talc- ! vnll(r mnn. ,lMnnin ,n nn nf , Arttf ,,. j young Mr.S., of New York, a nright'y, talen- ' ted your man. belonging to one of the first famiat gtat. s.. was an itinerant b-ctur-pr n(J ,n pompallv with hjs fnl veral wepk(i itl t,li(,pi,Vt riington. abon t two years ; whw hp PcXar to cr0Wlipj j,,,,,.wWt fpr hgr ... ," , ,(, appearance. ,-noina year alter mey were !:n TuYinfTtnti ti.linr-4 ram, nf n 1 rend fot tnnr. , . Xtw j , d ki,. (, . aaX;M , . . , w!f. i ,!,, ,,u , A-.TV r,r j f R wnrr,ar)t whos(, re, and accomplishments :shoil!d have nia(ip th circie in n-,ich she moved bright with joy, instead of enrk with woe. S. is now an inmate of the N. York Lunatic Asylum. I saw G. in Louisville, a few davs siuee. His hend, a few years ago dark as the raven's wing, is now white as the driven snow. His countenance, once so bright and happy, is now furrowed with care. Silent an! gloomy he speaks save whn on a bacchanalian revel and then he raves over the blasted prospects of nn suspicious youth and wickedness of a fallen wife. Without one ray or hope to cheer his desolate pathway in life, he mopes about presenting that most fearful of all spectacles, a broken hearted man! Rnrnins of n Kuwait Thmlrr. By the last arrival, we have accounts of the

rtnrniug 01 a meaire ai reiersourgn. atten if ! government, with a'l its usurpations and Hgby a most terrible sacrifice of life. The fire j gressions, has appropriated hi.-tory, b t tlie I-ss broke out behind the curtain, and progress-d so ambitious portious of our literature be sacred to rapidly that it was impassible for all to escape. , ihe affections to the Family, based 011 con uTl.. ,lnr, .1. . f . U . t.,. ..... ! .. .. I - J ... . ". J

t no ,-Kt..ru ii.nuu, ..ur in ni'-i" closed, and it ws impossible to g. t it o-n Thus only half of the main entrance was made 'available for escape in this critical moment, and

tho retreat of the audience was of course proportionably delayed. ' Meanwhile, the people in Uie street, ns may be supposed, became aware of ihe matter. Tin fearful tidings soon spread through the citv tint

iceman s theatre was ou fire, and that thou sands of persons in it were lilcK. t .: .1. It is impossible to conceive the cor, .tarnation & me Umbels u- ne i Iii.t fjltn :.. .1. .- ' " " Ill, l it. IIU1.N Ol bodies was gradually discovered. Tliev were ,., , , er' , vui uuc uy one wim Hie iieok; swih 1 -. uOU.eu, ouiers masted I Wra .nivtotal..!.. ..! 1 . . . lesnuts; many with glazed eves, luirm d hair andchaneJ faces, had ou their holiday ch.tlie and decorations, which the Haines htd not reached, ou account of theclose pressure of the t!ir.n-. These presented a far more repulsive sp-ef ;;,;!,, than those which were entirely burned. In om part of the building, which the 11 uue.s ha i scared, were found dense masses of bodies, Miil standing upright, hke a hot of hai!es from th netlur wcrld. A female was found with her head hanging over the gallery, and holding her h'md and handkerchief before her fa.-e. A "-u-tleman, who witnessed the operation of clearing away the bodies, stated tint hi ooal.i not Innnli f..-..l C .!. .1 . . . . " niree uays, so irighllul Were t! from -ool itl,ori- .... . represented 1 1 nnniVr so I-i Te that we dare not repeat it, lest others might think theamount too improbable. A ICerript for IIajpinr. An exchange gives the following .xclleiit piece of advice, which is by no means bid to '"ft off garment to a man that n-eris it; a kind worJ h sorrowfllh an .:,. sion to the str'ving tritle in themselves us lil.t win oo ai ieai or me twenty-rour hour.-. al1'1 if ",,u aro young, depend upon it.it v. i!! t. U whp" " are old: and i( "oa "r' ol. rot n--su-r l,Ml 11 wl" ,,,a 'ou pent.y-.nd I down the ftivm of human timp to niiity. Yon uJ person, only one happily through ,h, rti,y: tHt is, three hundred and stxty-fiv- in t'-. fMWo1 """'i a"'1 "oppose you I.- o-ily llav'" "nrleen thousand six hundr you i.uj mau """ l'PP.v for a ,-.- , ow worthy rea,.er, is not this s.mple? And ! ,s " rth accomplishing? We do not of- " " """" "'r- uuh i.m v;c ic i warranted in prescribing it. It is most excellent fur digestion, and a producer of pleasai.t sleep. , Scientific American. From the Otiinc-v Wlii-. 1le Itivrr cm 1'ii-r." "ottiii: ArcKS lived on Green river, where ho carried on Salt making. He had somewhat e- ' tensive and convenient buildings and works, and ! was in the full tide of money making. Now, i Arch was considered a very wicked man. Swore even more terribly than Fncle Toby's , compauioti-iii-arms did in Flanders, and either providence, nature, or some one of the great aI gents in physical ami human affair, caused ti.o Salt-well to fail. Arch, was compelled to ;o deeper with the hope of striking a better vein. ; He bored day after day and week upon week. jet failed to get water. Nothing daunted, howI I . L . - TI " 1 . i ever, ne acpi on ooring. ucidj a Red one !.ay how deep be intended to go, he replied that h "should bore till he could hear the chickens crow ia hell! if be did not find salt water before g- ' ing so diep!" Well, one day as Arch was boring away, all at once and very suddenly his anger was expelled from the shaft with the sp J of an arrow: up rushed a bright, bine P. tine of , fire! loud noise and a sulphurous smell id.e nti- ! to "fire and brim-tone," accompanied the Ham.-! , a , w. rKs w-r, 1 ,,"voure'1 b" '"'"" All was consumed! LU stranger still, the rivvr wiji. h ran past the works, was soon also covered with I a sneei 01 name: it was 011 tire! Arch. had. ns be believed, titrm-k a vein of the celebrated lake which bums with fire and brimstone. H- !l ...... op.uiou ..ot ery 1 .r It: He was somewhat alarmed, but fur all tint persisted in making one last remark jiir-t before leaving j , ' o - .iic 1 le did in double quick tin.e) drawin-r himself up, aud surveying the scene of tnror before him, he swore that whatever might come of it, he was the first mail that ever "set the river 011 fire!" Q w. rtlurri:i gr. Whenever woman plights her troth under the sky of heaven, at the domestic heurth, or ia consecrated isles, the ground is holy, ih-sp'iit j of the hour is sacrainentd. Although the eart'i j may lie fast and furious before or after the irrt-vo-cable formula is spoken, yet at the time, a shadow I is on the most laughing lip, a moisture 011 the, firmest eye. Wedlock, indissoluble, except by act ofdod a sacrament whose solemnity reaches to eternity will always hold its rank, in life as well as i n literature, as the mot impressive act of human experience. lie isa slight observer who sneers at this prominence in dramatic writings, whether of the stage or the closet, ti p.ay or me novel. It must always bo so. If . .ai aua pareniai love as tll-tt institution is and j sat, the State, which hith-rto, in the worl i' Uuuals, h.K b- en l.ttle less than the sad txionent of human ambition. Cia. Signal.