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GREENCA.STLE, T]SrDI_A.]Sr^V, SA.TXJltDAY, DECEMBElt 35, 1858. [No. 33.

The Two Aii^cl*.

UV LOKGFKLLOW.

Mirth a Medicine.

I know of nothing equal to a cheerful and even mirthful conversation, fur restoring the tone of mind and body, when both have been overdone. Some great and good men, on whom very heavy tares and toils have been laid, manifest a constitutional tendency to relax into

mirth when their work is over. Narrow ^bcir attitude imd aspect were the same,

tection over free trade, and good old tory person. On his arrival he caused the towards us, and its bullet sprung fro principles over modern abominable theo- dead body to bo opened, and in the the barrel, one of us must as surely fall 1

T . — | rics of progress, with anything but satis- stomach was found the missing diamond, To see the gleaming sun flash as the 'pisMsWer our vUbigc^iwtho nmrahigbmke; ! ‘“i 00 - , A f W »l?o-the age for which, it would appear, the faithful page deadly iron came down, and see it rest ^ ryarT^onily‘^nV^manentThe dawn was on their faces, and beneath su ' j 1 wor * i —I would have undertaken a at the hrst intimation of an utlaek, and motionless, ns if poised upon a rock, and r 11 tmvc a jaru, Mronuiy ana permanent The sombre houses hearsed with plumes of f° ur U1 '' U steeple-chase with infinitely probably by a preconcerted arrrngement know when the hammer struck and the *y enclosed, and of sufficient sue to afford smoke. more satisfaction. However, the day came, with his master, made in anticipation of sparks flew to the full primed pan, that a,,, .P 0 aocominod.ition to the number ol the “judges were ranged all a terrible such an cmerguucy, had swallowed to the message of death drove unerringly to ,,,u y°u intend to keep. Into this cast row,” and 1 had no help for it hut to put prevent its falling into the hands of his its goal—to know this,and still march on, a , s ,nuc “ muck, chip-manure, soda,

hearts own tind's irnndnmss 5n tbn f % ■—v v.iutvuuu whu muaranm, as wun a good face on the nutter, and to rejoice assailants. It was supposed that he had was awful. forest scrapings, loam from the road-side, exhaustive toil is one of nature’s instine-; TlnJ^rirwithm“d 'doubt ^ ^7. ti . n -_ a "' 1 C in ? U l‘kelihood from the Flemish mon- to grow, phantom-bke, taller ami taller, live efforts to heal the part which has 1 “PP—l,’ 1 ' horse.tunnng teals. So I pulled off my ey lenders themselves) o h.s having assuming through the smoke the super- ( thL let whatever iqurds can S • ni» . . .11 , ... . jacket, turned up my trousers, and walk redeemed the jewel; but that no lavorablc natural appearance ot some great spirit. : . lll i“ lua y ai1 ‘ e

cd into the arena. This ought to have opportunity ot‘ plundering him of his Again did he reload and discharge hih > l >a J’ ec * about the premises be directed, been covered in ; fortunately, consider- precious charge, without ehauce of do- rifle with the same unfailing aim ; and it sll( * ‘ a * ^nds tioni the wash-room, the ing the w ildness of my subjects, it was tection. had ottered until his arrival at was with indescribable pleasure that I ' Vi,s 1 b“ 111 , S1,, *' S > a P 01 '^ 101 ' r:lln " surrounded on throe sides by cattle-sheds, this secluded spot on the forcst-olad con- beheld, as we neared the American lines, "ater from the eaves and whatever else

Ilo^-V nrd Compost.

In the immediate vicinity of your hog-

minds denounce the incongruity; lar-c t '" ir * ,yltnr( ^ a 1 ' 1 ! of white; ,11. , n . v ’ „ p but one was crowned with amaranth, as with

been rucked or bruised. You cannot too “ J t! a l "' t s '’ lliu,t > "O' heart, lest thou betray sternly reprobate a frivolous life ; but if T1,e 1 ” uoe ' vllt ' re t! 0' beloved are at rest!' the life be earnest for God or man, with ' IH w * io wort, bho crown of asphodels, ■“? *?'' aioro. laverof mi,U,r»lno» ^ SS k '

protruding, a soft bedding to receive | — • - - -

iianvv P'lroawliioh ith I ".'.e 7 1 lie waters sink beforean earthquake sshock. and the floor was a foot deep in dung and fines of Hurgundy. AVhatevcr degree the sulphurous smoko gather around us that can bo obUiued that posseses any the siiirit tn annrl Kmin i'll '/ 7* 1 !■ I rocognir.ed the nameless agony, rotten straw; on the fourth side were of credence may attach to this narra- and shut that spectral hunter from my ) lltu 7 J‘j® 8 ? fluids all contain, more or mirth mav be the easv ami u 1 1 h 0 ^7'!^ UI "| 1 ll | U «n t i"‘' r i' 111 ' 1 rails and a gate, along which the spectators lion, certain it is that a diamond an- gaze. We lost the battle; and to my h:ss fertilizing rnatter*,uml if ia tied with ^ItStt^im^wiioe^tX ^ And^o^Tetanmd wuhulree-fdd strength rt* :i thc other w,n i ' iJuce • ihor -

in at one view the whole cireumferenee of! again.

a large one.—Aniot's III* of Proverbs. The door I opened to my heavenly guest,

I heard God's

My first patient was a three-year-old session of Charles in 147(1, when, after more to our defeat than anything else, "ujH 1 7 ruit:ulatl0n . 0 * t| U! *1'° e maSi ? al1 ' chcsnut colt, nearly thorough-bred, uni' his celebrated defeat at Granson, it loll, for while ho remained to our sight our sctul ' t ‘ds picpaiatiou for tlie use and suss\ ml listened fur I thought 1 h.Mrd i' V between thirteen and fourteen hands high, with the rest of the valuable contents attention was drawn from our duties; 'cnance ot crops.

Tlie pink. «r Propriety. voice; ' ' It had been haltered, but never handled, found in his camp, consisting of massive and when at last wo became enshrouded A lewquaits oi coin, peas, buckwheat “There is a set of people,” says the Ami, knowing whatsoe’er He sent was bc.d, | Before I began, I shut my eyes for a few gold plate, pearls, and jewels of priceless in the smoke, the work was comnlcte ; or “Gmi grain, scattered over and dug iniiianly Dr. Chalmers, in one of his ser- Dared neither tofainent nor to rejoice. moments, and endeavored to recall the ex- worth — in short, the most enormous we were in utter confusion and unable in ’ 10 1 ! la,lule . or dropt into the holes mous, “ whom I cannot bear—the pinks Then w ith u smile that filled the house with act manner in which Rarey walked, mov- wealth that ever accompanied the march the extremity to restore order sufficient !" a , " " 1 au iron ,ar : " ' * operate as an of fashionable propriety—whose every bgbt, ed, and acted, in order to give as close an gf au army—into the hands of the vie- to make any successful attack. iiidueement to the swine to root and turn movement is unexceptionable ; but who, . -‘.'c | ' r “n(l is m>t Death but Life, husaid; imitation of his proceedings as possible, torious Swiss, who, to show their eon So long as thousands and thousands die iiniss amt thus etteet tlie thorough inthough versed in all the categories of ' (in |,g " Ut 'I Having culled for silence, I proceeded to tempt of these vanities, parted with the of rifle- remain in the hands of the ]>eo- t'o'| ,oril, Jon 'if all the parts, so that, by polite behavior, have not a particle of . r . ' " approach the animal very slowly and diamond for a trifle, and sold the sump- pie, so long as men conic up from their l ll '' u assistance and tlie eflects of a proper soul or cordiality about them. We allow !!;‘ el ‘ d! , ?, na not " l "i™' ! steadily. It was not so w ild as some of, tuous plate as pewter. This diamond, childhood able, ere the doun is on the ^ fermentation, you will have, in that their manners may he abuu- Pimsiiig,'dcscondcil, and, with avoir,Olivine iU companions, but had a decided objec- then the largest in Europe, suhsequeni- chin, to hit the centre of a mark, or 1 ‘o en, , instead ot the crude collection

a! to 1 * 1 IT t 1 1- > :..a. al

'Whispuruda word that had a sound like Death, t' 011 to being touched. T succeeded. Ij found its way into the crown of France, strike the deer at one hundred and fifty or, .- ,11 ‘ l y eposUed, a perfectly homogcThcn fell upon the hotiso a sudden gloom, ■ with less difficulty than might have been where it figures to this day; such, at yards in a most vital part; so long as ar,l i e o great richness, and at a A shadow „n those features fair and tlii’n; expected, in putting a bridle unit. To least, is the received opinion. A r there is a great proportion of the Kc- mt " era c expense. . and not a step that would not hear the And softly, from that hushed and darkened get in a position to persuade it to let me this, the episodical incident of the - Tor- public who live as ticc as the wild Indian, ’ u lue,lt,ou * 10 "ihor ot the swine in /•.I . .. i room, take up liis leg was a work of some time; | rifle Duke” ordering the page’s body to 1 knowing no leader but their own choos- ! . - -

but, by careful imitation of the master be opened in search of the missing jewel, iag, knowing no law but that of right,' }'"i . a ..

dantly correct. There may be elegance in every gesture, and gracefulness in every position ; not a smile out of place

measurement of the severest scrutiny.— This is all very fine ; but what I want is

this connection because it is a populas 'i wo Angels issued where but one went in.

the heart and the gaycty of social inter- ' V ' r ’,l s of V’”' 1! 11 He hut wave His hand, horse-trainer. 1 succeeded, and strapped is a feat incomparably more innocent in and the honorable observance of friendly e ’ 1 admits ot a question, course—the frankness that spreads ease J Cl,| h-et, the rum lulls tlmk and U p the near fore leg quite tight. I then its nature than is that recorded of Ma- intercourse, America is unconquerable; i 77.7 e V'!.?:\ er l!l^Yi , . < !-fi.!. B

and animation around it—the eye that speaks affability to all, that chases tim-

idity from every bosom, and tells every ^

one in the companv to be confident and \7ith,mt Hi- leave thoiqiu's noth resin d'd o’er; for me to do, because the space was too commanded the bodies of twelve of bis 1 tains, would not be able to subdue the j, lu lj ’ 1 !'! 7' happy. This is what I conceive to be Who, then, would wish or dare, believing this, confined; it was also difficult for him, pages to be opened while living, in order free-souled hunter among the mountains ^ • n . • • Against Hi- messengers to close the door? because the floor was soft and deep. As to discover which of them had eaten a and great prairies and mighty rivers to raise pork profitably, we nius«

' - - favorite melon which had been purloined the West.” |avail ourselves of two tilings, via: get a

the virtue of the text, and not the sickening formality of those who walk by rules, and would reduce the whole of human life to a wire-bound system of

misery aud constraint.

Fruit Tree* on the Kon«l»Ulc.

Till.'with a smile of lieht on «on and l.md gave my coit time to 'look round him for homed IF, Emperor of the Turks, who, and all the armies of the combined world, 1 lo . Uij - . 1 llat !’ s ’ w,ietl ' er ^ 10 lal,,,rs 0 , f Lo! He looks back from tlm dc pai ting cloud a few minutes, and then began to lead him wo arc creditably informed, was a great though they might drive them from the 8 ^ ,ne ln rooting up. turning over and

if.* i‘* c . uU zsaix jr. r&f

men at common wages. In

A CASE OF HORSE-TAMING. In North Devon, the accounts of the success of the Rarey system of horsetraining by the newspapers, had been received with the incredulity, not to say

he was good-tempered, and was powerless on three legs, I had no difficulty in strapping a leather band round his body ; then after two attempts, hud the strap number two securely looped around his oft’ foreleg. In three minutes I had him on his

Ex-Governor Wright of Indiana, who contempt, with which everything printed, k £ ec8 . From his knees he leaped wildly represents the 1 ...ted States at one of and not authenticated by some trusted a „d desperately several times, but did not

from his conservatories at Constantinople.

tfinit weight, and at an carli/ age. Can

itt'KiiuiiuK of Hie World. this be accomplished by working hogs, for The following is an extract from a ser well-fed ones will not work much.

Is it not, then, better to feed swine,

BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS.

A British officer, who was in the battle m ' I1 of Sturgeon, the Knglish preach, r,

of New Orleans, mentions an incident of! us . “ /peemien of the eloijueiice wliieli, from tl.a beginning, with as much nutrithrilling strangeness, and very descrip- a^yeai or two, has made his name cious food as they will eat up clean aud tive of the Western hunter, many of ^' a bai in both hemispheres . ^ j with a good appetite, when they will re-

the courts of Europe, writes to a friend local name, is received in that primitive omkr ^nvthiiV Hke tiw-train.'.',! whom inarched to the defense of New Gun any man tell mo when the begin- main quiet and lay on lilt and flesh with near Indianapolis a very interesting let- part of England. On me, not only as a l lun te r full of corn If the floor had ^ l lc alis as volunteers in the army under j 1111 -? "' a8 ' [ !ar8 a n°’ wc thought the great rapidity ?

. He speaks pupil of llarey, and one, too, who had i hccn l cs8 deep, he would, no doubt, have , tho renowned Andrew Jackson: schools at llo-; committed himselt to the soundness of f ou , r j lt i onLrur . He sank sooner than 1 “ M c marched, said the officer, “

beginning ot tliis world was when Adam If the manure made from the process came upon it; hut we have discovered described above is intended for light arethut thousunds of years before, God was uih-couh soils, in which there is a want of inning chaotic matter to make it a lit cohosibility, it would be well to add a

ter from Berlin, Austria, highly of the agricultural s

henlieim, where practical and scientific the system in print, but as a Londoner, exiicctcd but not before iny witid liad ! 80 ^^ c °l u nm of twelve thousand men, in ' n

agriculture are taught by qualified pro- venturing on an equestrian experiment, v ,>d -ind I lost nn timo inti-in., direct line upon the American defenses.' , , - lessors. After speaking of a variety of no small amount of provincial wit was ex-, i.j* ot i" r t,* 0 *t,p ^ r I belonged to the staff; and, as we ad- a " ,,ti e lor man, and putting races of erea- liberal percentage of fine clay to the othsubjects, he says: “ Writing of trues, re- ponded by my hospitable friends. Korin T then nroei'oded to m-iitln " Vim vanced, watched through our glasses the ! 11108 u l 1011 it, tliat they inight die and er ingredients, wherever that article can minds me of another peculiarity of this | North I »c von, the opinions and the pro- This process resembles the passes which P? 8 * 1 ’ 10 , 11 “n' 1 •’"•rangements of our enemy ^ ea [® p; “I Ca f'V, obt: ' ine . d .’ . Thi “‘J th ® oon8titu - eountry, from which konng America'judices of the Hriuiro of Queen Anne's , 11 pm,,,. r iHcrscnmbiv• ,>nlv thni tho with that intensity an officer only feels vcllous sKill, Lietorc lie tried his hand on tional alterant which such lauds require, might learn an important lesson. Along days, as sketched by Macauley in his first ., r n •ictuidlv snimithed dmvn cmiinnmis. " ben inarching into the jaws of death. ' 1JB "'' H llot 110 b t f :1 ' in i ln .'- and, with the organized and deeomposathc public roads for hundreds of miles are volume of the History of England, still i v r nAxt unlmwcil Idm « n ,i , lln d,. i,;.., with the assurance that while he thus 7 ul c^'elatiuns ponit us to a period long j ble constituents ot the mass, will produce rows of fruit trees, unprotected by ditc prevail among the yeoman farmers and ,'i M . nnd reneated the onoration of Ivin,^ °ffers himself as a sacrifice to the de- CI ' e this world was tuslnoncd, to tlie days uiust immediate and favorable eflbeta. hedge or fence, yet the ripe fruit may hang sporting persons, who handle the cork- , lim down. While down f mounted fiiuq ,Utt " ds ' ,f , bi8 0 """Gy, every ac ’on, be it ’liLTrons'o/dew from thffilme^'’t B .y fl PP 1 / in b7| li8Uartl1 1,1 ,hocODI P° 8t in rich profusion on their boughs, or cover l screw much more tannliarily than the kid upon him, and put a saddle on him. sl ! oce88iul or “thenv,so, will be judged u( 111 , )1 , lil 7 IrVuUo.sd^^^ ItJ ^ the very roadside, and not an apple or paper-knife; one bottle of Port, at least.' Thon uritj i Mg the straps, repeated the wl, T h tho ,U08, Loart] ? 88 ^rntwy. v,?/,, the hand of God when hv l £ J “ ay Tu 11 ’ pear will be purloined, nor a cherry twig they onen daily, but a new book, not be- 1 ..ontlin" • •md onrisiii" he allowed a s-id- Tt was a 8tr “"g° t] iat long range . ltk v ,? ' ' , and . ot , mtllIlc , produce an important change and

L. W — r|ii,/ol 'lc..',,l very TLc ^ ^ J'Skt! iSTlS? Mft

man buys the fruit or one or more trees Londoner therefore, who docs'not ap rcli it',! Icif' * 'vV i f Id n' three ^ im rte f'! n works; with the crowd of human beings . y. .v j -y •».*»» for a season. All he must do to have it preciaic a daily bottle, and rather oli- hour from iny first layin" down mv in bcb * nd Hieir heads, only visible above 1 1 0U , 110 ,’’ 1 . 1 V'' ‘ I n !~ *° r Hie jirohtablo cultivation ol any sacredly respected, is to bind a withe of Jeets to brandy and water and tobacco IS,10^'^^ led tl ‘ 0 *f defense. We could dis m ly w ^o WA- ^ w v . tV straw about the trunk in token of owner- in the middle of the day, is set down, by him first several times round the yard s ve , ' ic ' r l on nb' n ” ovcr (b e bales. 1 ,'P ' 0 .j , ' i lllo . ouu ‘P’". ’ Wo 11Mlk ’ 1 iat a few ofthe Devonian natives of the older I. , .1 twice v n,l fiI I a "'l the battery of Gen. Coffee directly in ,la > 8 » ,u n . wor d8 " or ' : , “ a,io aud 8 y 8l °" 18 the running of well-fed hogs on manure formation,asa sort of milksop,only fit to' t h c SMuire repeatin"- to himself all the fr " nt > wi * h its great mouth gaping to '‘i'. ‘‘j 0 1 fie rd n < v T 110t CVCl1 1 * ot great value to them; such hogs burned steamer Austria, and saved his ’ " , U '„, 1 U ircol.^in the V-! tboyar '’ I ^ a 'c asm t cf leiture on tlm new tI (i , p q , , standin-on thc yet unborn, until wc enter thc eternity they run over horse manure heaps they life by swimming nearly an hour. The g eutloluon ou their cobs in the A ale ol 8V .tom to the grooms and farm servants t»eu r ui.oi .i..iin...n ununq. ot. tn. whero (J(l( , ||l(1 (W „ r , u , n]u „|, in / u

ship.

TcacU Vour f Uildi-4-a lu .Swim* Levi llnck, a boy not yet 12 yea

breastworks, dressed in linsey-woolsey, "here God, the Creator, dwells alone, keep it compact, preventing tho admission . . . . . . . r ^ «W Hi l i i • v >< • t . t m <r \f i I ! i i 11 I . i it i .. I I i I* . ! 1.1 i * 1 1 1 * 1. .. ! .

brave little fellow is the son of Mr. S. ' ^‘Hieularly impressing on then ^Im^in l^hiH'a.ZY^Z: I ^ything sleeping within him, all ere „f air and that rapid heating which quite Buck, of Washington. D. C. The nar- ^ ers should make rather an exam- the nceesst.y of gentle movements and ^ ^ ^ ation sleeping in his mighty gigantic [often nearly destroys it. At any late, rative of this child is as intelligible and ' .. , • ,, c c .. , gentle words tii.e.i ingwi 1 eo ts, or toiiecaliii' his features. He was , ' - , " u 4 r ht, we have not guessed thc begin- in one or tho other of those ways, or by ns interesting as the narratives of the . '' ' 0 . 1 ,‘ l found extremedifliculty in inducmg thetn ; pniMif those picturesque and We may go back, hack, back, ages j partially using both, a largo and valuable ndultBurvivow. 11. »J, : . 2^ i'ffU ."[a.S * T' Y’ T? *» '«*• if «U «*»«•»-j U a about -fou; you,, of a S .. .. Lb O m.X '""V ^ -a.v.,1 ».v.r aciv,.,b„„i„y w s i n ,b. > A, ,h. •*«*»» tru,y wiM p'onic, and ttallouay., ^ k!K ” U1 ' < ..rv.d li„. upward.; .ho ,1.1,. U t*~ FW.

1 'it » 1 ‘xclainied “Children, we are ^ men. Alter iwiecpuinug nnu uuwu anu:

all lost!” Thc captain then stripped off l 1 ^’' 1 ' 11 ^‘^ C8C G llt .* ro, '‘ ,b< import gending, he lost till fear, and followed „q|h liishand he riiscd tln'iim of ins haf beginning. Rut God, on the begin in England is Essex—its wheat is of the his coat and jumped overboard. There i 01 ,y '“."n an nnimurs. un- „, c as 1 waked round thc yard, nibbling i ' seemed c'l/in'” om U *“K>‘-‘boso his people when unuavigated highest repute in London, the market.— was great excitement among the passe n- ^ vl8,bl f . e bounds they re-, at my Coat like an old pet pony He was Tnon our ad" ancC 01 “* b "us unfannod by the wing of a" sin- A correspondent ofthe Mark Lane Ex. gers, and they tried to get fire buckets, I tin ‘! n .° u r0U1 , J. 1 " 0 7 to ° ynn"n to bo . 1 1 ". ou , l ‘ U! '’ ’7 ^ T all ‘ ‘j’ 1 } <•olui.ni. The cannon of Coffee had one in k'lo angel, when space was shoreless, or press gives some interesting partieulars hut they could not, as the buckets were “, e ,,a V. V n y ru " an 01 or . wor ’ bfted up all his legs, so Gmt I could u ()n us ull d t ore thrott''h our rank eb '!° “"bom — when universal silence relative to soil and culture. 'J'he surface all fastened, and could not be got loose. a , ,, 1 0 l iy . ll . 1 ' V r y (, ‘;' u,e u' 1 ! 1 V 8 ’ have shod him. All present^reed from -.j * i C „,ic i u ]. lu , r | l(er . we enutin- re ‘B ncd ' !lnut a i 0 '*-' ur whisper is a tenacious clay, with a subsoil as toThe life boot, were lilleJ will, the pee- roush r ' d *' u.J to aivanee, unweveiiug an,I cool, e> * bo, lcJ «ilc„ce-whei,, na.iou. e. 1. i» p.oihle la imagine. Thu Wl !“*" b '.l'« Jay thie yearling cl., which 1 * ."<«« fi**™* o„r pregicBs. »” **

the ship s side, and the iopi s whit h h. Id w pip. crack ; a ^ 0 f t wo or three mount, had been turned loose in them were cut, which plunged boats and ho ^ m ^ aH illtent on the fun of had bwn tarUe(i

So gr was the rush , ’ 1 .. aU ,

all into the sea. e'o gr mu ruou ( ,j 1(isc a9 on the duty of restoring the that my aunt and wu esc para. , 11111 w ild colts to their proper pastures, a man by the uamo of I ollock was hang- AnJ auii(1 nlU( . h bantcr) it %va8 8et .

large field, I

The roar of cannon seemed to have nol but God him>elf uToiio in his otcruity—: land is ploughed upon stetches of six-and-

came

x^.. m.z.uv* .. .«***- , ir t t i r } in i; n>r ()|1 *1. when, without the Min^ufaiianjrel, with- a-halflect, and the furrows between two and smelt and made friendn witli i i i t i . * i £ d id ou ^ fhc attenduuce of even <1 chevubiin, or three inches below the ordinary fur-

motionless as a statue. At last he moved, loll K 010 , tbu , lm >; 0 ‘ Ta,ure8 "j 01 ' 0 , 1 " 1 '" roW8 -, 8U i rfa . u0 drili "'‘ aru Ja - wi , tb

the squire to his great astonishment, for he has been accustomed to see bis colts, after receiving a lesson from the roughrider, fly with fear aud anger from the

approach of man.

In my opinion thc difficulties in future will not be found in training horses but in training men, and inducing them to abandon their habits of rough language and brute force.— Household Words.

STORY OF A DIAMOND Charles tho Bold having, when

threw back the hat-rim over the crown, or ,bo " b V 0,s f 1,10 obariot ,d ‘ Joh,, '; ab a 1 8 l ,ado ab out six inches deeper than the

with his le hand, raised thc rifle to his w' C .!.\ *!‘ C ^

shoulder, and took aim at our group. Our eyes were riveted on him. At who had he leveled his piece? But the di

ginning was tho Word,” and in the be- This system of management is more costginning God’s people were in the Word, ly than ordinary underdraining, but it and in the beginning Ho chose them all .it also more productive—the yield of ... . ..i i:<i. wheat in usual good seasons being from

~~ 10 to 5ti bushels per acre. Wheat is

and mv rh ht-hund coiimminn a< i dde : V;;’.’ A . 8 , , d n h rL ' grown on these lands twice or three times

at tlie head' ^rtTfimltie lTss W ^ ipS TV" ^ T*

of hisieiriment. fell irol.i bis saddle. The ^ I L . ..ff 1 the alter..utingcrop; on the chalky clays

tance was so great that we looked at each lll,u 0,e bl °' other and smiled. Wo saw the rifle flash. AtiE wn Dkhii.ITV

>. of his regiment, fell from hissaddlo. The i n(1 \ etkl ^ n Vlir l0 , "“ ‘"^"aungerop; on me enaiwy e.nt in the hunter paused for a tew moments, "ith-/^^^eliviV-k- the mmd ' iiseon ^ “ al8 Q Xrown very snccessfully.

«-v . .... .1 /-»•»< 1-h > 111.- /V>lltk 4 I*. ill, 111.! U 1 1 n « I I /■ 4 1 •• . . . *

Inverted I'omIh.

A correspondent of the Wisconsin

ing to the chains of the anchor and he tlcJ that ’ c , ple ofcoltg gb ^ ld be drivcalllcd me to come to uin, an wn* f rum tlie moors for thc Londoner to try hurried over the heads and shoulders ol tbe new tcul on U wns in vaill tb / t the throng who were uncertain which p tbat it wa8 m y business to dcwny to go I -lipped dow.i the chains colt . Uiilin not [ 0 tamc (!0 ltsh.hI clinched upon Mr. Pollock s neck; w . |s .. fat a|ld 8cant 0 ’ breathe,” then I held fast lor about an hour, when and nlt ctber out 0 f condition for at my shtrt caught fire 1 was all the time t ,• CX p Cr i in ents on such wild holding by Mr. 1 ollock s ha.r When us ! saw flying from us when-

my shut was on fire Mr Pollock said, ^ orwo ro de om on Gorsemoor. The fiat . .... - My boy, we must go, and he plunged bad „ ollcfortb . The parson, a fox-hunt Netherlands, pawned a fine diamond, out moving h.s gun from ns shoulder, tul ,ted and unhappy. In eases where old

into the sea with me clinjpng to t ho local banker, another fox-hunter; then celebrated as being the largest in then reloaded and resumed h.s former a agc ndda itainm.enre.it is almost im .i -,,...^ ..1 -s. .... „ As wc struck the water I lost my hold ot tbe Great Man’aagent, also a fox-hunter; i K ope, and finding himself, some timo titude. Throwing the hat-rim over Ins p((Ssib i c to add vi r and boa i t h, am l Farmer says that in 1802 his father set im, .in awaniuMtu «»i mar y an J'' 111 • an j ^ lc | r w i vcs au j their dau^litcrs, Innl afterward®, in a position to redeem it, J eyes, and a^am liulding up uitn thc although many rcmodics have been tried, two bar poet®, cwt of swamp whifo oak, witen i was taken up by the boat ot the boen invitodi wb il e the whose word dispatehed for that purpose a trusty page, 1c- hand, he fixed his piercing gaze upon idl i,. ivu lailcd UIlti | Bcerhavc’s Hoi the stick being split into halves, undone a am ict, am «* >ou an lour an a i t Jaw, in that parish at any rate, had furnished with the requisite sum ol mon- na, as it hunting out another vieti n. land Bitters were known and used. In set inverted—the other not. The latter atterwaru inr. i oiiocK was picked up t»y • ven orders that two colts were to be driv ey. The messenger arrived safely at ( Once more the hat-nm was thro . ; ek. every case where they have been employ ,waa decayed twenty years afterwards; | J1C U v m H i» n 11 ^ 0 ’ l !l 11 en in fromGorscmoor, and a load of straw his destination, performed his commis- and tlie gun raised to e shoulder. 1 his e( j tfiey have invariably given strengtli the inverted one, wueu ho last visited l was clinging to Jnr. roiioox s neck tlie, abakcn down in the winter-yard of his sion, h-id reached without accident on time we did not smile, but east short „ lld rc8tt(rcd tbe appetite. They have tho place, forty years after setting, was magazine expioaou vtnna tcniDie noise. prizo hci f erii Having never before tried his return, the confines ot Burgundy; glances at each other, to sec which of us bceonic a -reat a-rent for this alone, and as sound as over. and I saw man} pcrn.i^ Himu m the an. ^ [n[1 on uavtbin; , moro wild than when the melancholy pews was brought must die ; and when the rifle again flash- areugt . d by many people who are suf-;

Wilburn Waters, tho “Hermit of a eart-ooltaud two or throe perfectly brok- to tho duke, then at Arles, that his ill ed, another of us d opped to the earth. .om loss of appetite and general Fond Mountain,” whose disappearance'en horses, and being also painfully eon- fated page had been found murdered just Tb,,1 T - “ 1: —

was noticed a few days since, has return- scious that sedentary summer labors had) at the entrance of a d on the B ed to bis homci having slain one of the by no means prepared me for such strong gundian frontier. Gu receipt ol this largest bears ever seen in Southwestern exercise as theso wild denizens of tho J dismal intelligence, Charles scut off a Virginia. ! hills seemed to promise, I must confess 1 message to the authorities, ordering that A correspondent of the Jefferson-] looked forward to the exhibition before j the body should not be rcnio\ , and ville Democrat advocates the application! an assembly evidently prepared to hail j that a guard should be placed over it to of prison labor to the construction of a'my failure with great satisfaction, as a prevent any persons approaching the spot canal around the Falls of the Ohio 1 sort of triumph of country over town, pro- 1 until he should himselt come thither in

Cement for Cft>*tern».

There was something aw.'d in thus march- In’ eases' of long sanding A cement composed of thirty parts ing on to certain death. chronic diseases, they act as a charm. “I r, ch lime, fitly °t sand, fifteen “tunGfcn. Coffee's buttery and thousands of j nv j ontt i ni 4 , bu 8 . ste , u , thus giving calcined clay, and fivo of powderedsihmusket balls played upon our ranks ; we nature ano t b er opportunity to "repair ^ P 0 ^’ I s recommended by M. eared not for them—there was a chance physical injuries. Sec advertisement in ^“Idman as having the requsite hydrau* of escaping unseathed. Most of us had aU o tber column. lie properties; in other words, as being walked upon batteries a hundred times ‘ —*».- ■■ ■ • i tipable of withstanding thc effects ol more destructive without quailing; hut to gpx.Many a man who tries to be ecccn water, as in tho walls of cistern--

know that every timo that rifle was leveled trie only makes himself ridieulovts.

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