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GOD'S SUPPORT AND GUI
DANCE. TRANSLATED FROMTUK OKRM.IK.
For?ake mo not, my God 1
Thou God of my salvation S
Give nie thy light, to be ;.
My aura illumination.
My soul to folly turns, - .
Keeking aha knowa not what ;
Ol) 1 lead her to tlijself; I
My God, forsaka me uot I
Forak me not, my God 1
Take not thy spirit from me ;
And suffer not the might
Of sin to overcome me.
A father fiftieth
The children be begot ;
11 y father, pity me ;
My God, forauke me not !
Forsake me not, my God 1
Thou God of life afd power,
Enliven, strengthen rfie j
In every evil linnr?
And when the sinful fire
Within my heart is hot.
Be not thou fur from me ;
My God, fonuke uie not I
Forsake mel hot, my God 1
Uphold me in going j
That ever more 1 tnuy
l'lease Th. e in all well doing.
And Unit thy will, O Lord,
May never bo. forgot,
Io all my woika and ways,
j My God forsake me uot!
Forsake me not, my God 1 .
I would be thine forever ;
Confirm me mightily
In every right oudeavor,
And when my hour is come,
Cleansed from all stain utid spot
Of sin, receive my soul !
My Gud, forsake me not!
A SfCK MAN'S DREAM.
This beautiful piece of poetry was written
by the late Judge Robert Raymond Reed, of
Georgia, afterwards Governor or ilondu.
It has never appeared in print before, and
the lady for whom it was penned now a res
ident of our city has kindly consented to
give it to tho public through our columns.
It is one of these choice, yet unobtrusive gems
struck out from a rich mine ot thought, thut
bus only to see the light to have its beauties
appreciated. Montgomery (Alubuwa) Jour
nal. Methought that in a sacred wood,
I slumbered on a bunk of flowers,
Soothed by a streamlet's wandering flood.
That gurgled through the whimpering bow
ers j "
And dreams did visit me go bright,
An Elysium only could bej"t them ,
They brought him an Mi intense delight,
1 never, never can forgut theru.
It seemed that thou wert present there.
Thine eyes with living lustre beaming ;
The star of morning decked thy hiiir,
And all around its radiance streaming,
Imparted to thy lip thy cheok
1 lie brightness of immortal glory;
0 ! we can ne'er such visions seek,
But iu some old romantic story I
And near thee bang a lyre of gold,
Beneath a bower of shading ro?eS
Roses like those that love unfold, . .
When from his toils the god reposes,
And when thy fingers touched litest rins.
They yielded numbers rich and swelling,
As when some spirit sweetly sings.
At evening, from tier viewless dwelling.
Yet changeful was that music's strain.
It told of-hope, of youth, and of gladness;
Of pleasure's wreath, of true love's chain,
And then of blighted joys and sadness,
At last an answering voice there cutne.
From a bright cloud that then desceuded,
And while it spake a quivering Hume
Was with the fleecy whiteness blended
1 may not tell tlie works so kind,
Uy thut same plaintive voice 'lien spoken;
For the dark night storm's rudest wind
Came) o'er my dream, and it was btoken
But lady, trautpiil be thy hours,
And smooth the palh of life before thee,
For surely, from celestial bowers,
tiouie happy spirit watches over the !
'POPPIHQ THE QUESTION."
The following deserves a careful perusal by
every "faint heart" that has us jet uot "won
fair lady :"
The manner of popping the question cer
tainly must always vary considerable with the
varying dispositions ami habits of meu. The
young lawyer, fur iustauce, would put it in a
precise, parcument sort ol way "l, A, .,
do hereby ask and solicit &c. while the poet.
uo uouht, wouiu winp in a Bcrup ol uviu, and
make it up into a sonnet or inoon-ligni mi
promptu. I remember the opinion of I
young beau at Gray's inn, (moarouies we
used to cull them m those days,) who, on us
being suggested thut the best way of putting
the query was by writing, replied, "No, that
would never uo i lor tuea me laov wouiu
have it to show it against you."
But to my tale. About twenty years ago
(I was not then so bad as I am now) 1 wus
speuding the midsummer with uiy old friend
and schoolfellow, Turn Merlon. Tom had
matrted early in life, and hud a daughter,
Mary Rose, who, to her "father's wit and
mother's beauty," added her uncle Absolom's
good humor and aunt lieuorab notability.
In ber yon had the realisation of all that
poets have sung about fairy forms, dulcet
voices, and witching eyes. Shu was just
such a being as you may imagine to yourself
in the Heroine or some Deauuiui romance
Narcissa, in Roderick Random, for instance
or leophia, in Tom Jones or Fanny, in
Joseph Andrews not the modern, lackidasi-
cal damsels ol Colburu and Heutly. It (lie
had met tho eye of M arc Anthony, Cleopa
tra might nave exerted ber bluudisliments iu
vain if Paris had but teen Mary Rose
Merton, Iroy might nave been stunding to
this day. Buch was the presiding diviuity ol
the houso where I was visiting. My heart
was susceptible, and I fell in lovt. No man,
1 thought, bad ever loved as 1 did a com.
moo fancy among lovers and the intensity
of my affection, I believed, would not fail to
secare return. One eannot axplain tae
ecret, bat tbosa who bv (U tb ioauence
will know bow to judge of my feelings. I
was as completely over hrud and ears as
mortal could be ; 1 loved with that entire
devotion that makes filial piety ond brotherly
a (lection alien k to a cottier of man's heurt,
and leave it to the undisputed sovereignty of
feminine beauty.
The blindness Incidental to my passion,
and the yonng lady's uniform kindness, led
me to believe thu possibility of ber becoming
my wilo was by no means so reunite as at iirst
it had appeared to be; and, having spent
several sleepless nights iu examining the
subject on all sides, I determined to make
ber n n offer of my hand, and to bear the
result. )tr or cen,witb all due philosophy.
For more than a week 1 was disappointed io
un opportunity ol speaking alone with my
udored, notwithstanding 1 had frequently lelt
the dinner table prematurely with that view,
and several times excused myself from ex
cursions which hud been planned lor my
especial amusement.
At length the fuvoralile moment seemed
to be at hand. A charity sermon was to bo
preached by the bishop, lor the benefit of a
Sunday school, and ut Mr. Merton whs
church-warden, and declined to hold one of
thu plutes, it became imperative on his fami
ly to be present on the occasion. 1, of
course, proffered my services, and it wrs ar
ranged thut we should set oil' early next
morning, to secure good seat, in the centre
aisle. 1 could hardly close my eyes lh.it
night for thinking how I should "pop the
question ;" and when 1 did get a short
slumber, was wuked on a sudden by some one
starting behind a hedge, just as 1 wus dis
closing the sort secret. Somotimes, when J
had fancied myself sitting by the lovely
Mury, in a bower of jasamine and roses, and
had just concluded a beautiful rhapsody
about loves and doves, myrtles and turtles, I
raised my blushing head, and found myself
tttt-a-tcti with her papa. At another moment
she v.oiil.1 slip a pink, hot-pressed billet-doux
into my hand, which, when 1 unfidded it,
would turn out to be a clmllenge from some
favored lover, desiring the satisfaction of
meeting me at half-post six in the morning,
and so forth, and concluding as usuul. with an
indirect allusion to horsewhip. Morning
dreams, they sny, ulnars come true. It is a
gross falsehood ; mine never come true. But
had a pleasant vision thut morning, unit,
recollecting the gossip's tale, I fondly hoped
It would be verified. Metliouglit I ni.il
ventured to "pop the question" to my Dulci
nea, and was accepted. I jumped nut of bed
in a tremor. "Yes," I tried, "J trill pop the
question! Ere this night-cup again envelope
this unhappy head, the trial shall be made!"
And 1 shaved, and brushed my hair over the
huld place on my crown, and lied my cruvul
with unprecedented care, aud inuite my ap
pearance iu the breakfast parlor just us the
servant-maid hud begun to dust the chairs
and tables.
Poor servant-maid ! I exclaimed to myself
for 1 felt very Stemeisii was it ever thy
lot Io have I lie question pepped into thy
sophisticated ear? Mayhap, even now, an
thou dustest the umhoguny chairs ami rub
best down the leys of the rosewood tubles,
p:inj!S of unrequited fleet inn agitate thy
tender bosom, or doubts of a lover's fulth are
preying upon thy maiden heurt I i can iiincy
thee, fair domestic, stunning in that neat
dress thou weaiest now, a gown of dark blue
with a little white sprig, au apron ol criss
cross, (housemaids wore not above checked
aprons in those days,) and black cotton
stuckings thut identical duster, perhaps,
waving in thy ruboy hand ; 1 can luucy tliee,
thus stunding, sweep help, wilh thy lover at
thy leel, he all hope ami protestution, tl.ou
ull fear un.l hesitation ; his luce glowing with
adVction, thine sufl'used with blushes; his
eyes beaming with smiles, thine gushing with
tenrs love tears that lull. Or op, drop,
slowly at first, like the first drops of a thun
der storm, increasing in their How, even as
that storm increaselh, till. lin.Ung it no
longer possible to dissemble thy weeping.
thou raisest the duster to thy cheeks and
smeurest them with its pulverized impurities.
But Love know. I.est how to bring about his
desires: thut little incident, simple, tity,
silly us it may seem, has more quickly ma
tured the project tlii.n hours ol sentiment
could have done ; for the begrimmed ooiu.te-
nance of the maiden sets both the lovers to
laughing : the is unxious to run away, to
wash the ' lillliy witness Irotntierlace ; he
will not suffer her to depart w ithout a prom
ise a word of hope; she falters forth 1 lie
soft syllable, and the terrible tusk of "popping
the question'1 is over.
Hieukfust time at length arrived. Bull
shall puss over the blunders I committed du
ring its progiess ; how 1 salted .Mary itoses
uiullin instead of my own, poured the t reum
iuto the sugar basin, and took n bite at the
tea-pot lid. "Pop the question" haunted me
continually ; and 1 feared to speak, even on
the most ordinary topics, lest I should iu
some way betray myself. Pop pop pr p!
everything seemed to gooff' with a pop ; and
when at lenitth Blr. Merton niuu-u io mury
ami her mother that it was time for them to
pop on their bonnets. I thought he laid a
particular stress ou the horrid monosyluble,
and ulmost expected him to accuse me of
some sinister design upon bis daughter. It
passed on, however, mid w set out lor the
church. Mury lfo e leaned upon my arm,
and complained bow dull 1 was. I,ol course,
protested ugumstlt, and tried to sully. i
vucity, indeed, was one of my characteristics,
and was just beginning to make myself ugree
al.le, when a little urchin, iu the thick gluom
of a dark entry, left oil a pop-gun close to my
ear. TLe Bound, simple us it may seem, made
uie start as if a ghost hud stood before me ;
aud when Mury observed thut 1 was "very
nervous this morning," 1 felt us if 1 could
have throttled the lad, and inwardly cursed
the inventor of pop-guns, and doomed him
to the lowest pit of Acheron.
I strove against my fate, however, and
made several observations. "Look," cried
Mary Rose, as we gained the itiduf thcslreet,
"what a beautiful child !"
1 turned my head to the window, when
the III i-t object that met my eyes wus a squuie
blue paper, edged with Jeiluw on which wus
written iu too leg blu iharucters, 'J'opi" I
believe I was surpnsed iuto an exclamation
stronger than the occasion would seem to
warrant, aud thu poor child came in lor a
ulu.reofiny anathema. 1 didn't intend it,
however 1 urn very fund of children ; but it
i-ervi-d Mary Ruse to scold me about till we
came to the church door, ano, n possiuie, ue-
wilth red me more than ever. t e hud now
arrived in tho middle aisle, when my fair
ioiiii anion whino red to me. "My dur Mr.
.won't you take off your halt'' This
wua only a prelude Io still greuter blunders.
1 posted myseirul the head uf the seat, sung
part of the hundredth psulm while the organ
ist wti playing the symphony, sajdowri when
I should have stood up, knelt down wbeu 1
ought to have been standing, aud just at the
end ol the creed fouud myself pointed due
west, to the race and wouder of the wbule
conureiratioa.
The sermon at length commented, and the
oiittseM that tossed, broken only by tha
perambulations of the beadle and sub-school
master, and the collision, ever and anon, of
their ofliclul wunds with the bends of refracto
ry students, guilty of the enormous crime of
gaping or twirling their ttiunins, gave me an
opportunity of collecting my scattering
thoughts. Just as the rest of the Congrega
tion were going to sleep, I began to awake
from my menial lethargy ; and by the time
the worthy prelate hud discussed three or fonr
heads of his text, felt myself competent to
make a speech in parliament. Just at this
moment, ton, a thought struck me, as beauti
ful as it was sudden a plan by which 1 might
make the desired tender ot my person, and
display an'abuudant share of wit in tho bar
gain. To this end T teired Mary Rose's prayer
book, and lurninjover the pages till 1 came
to "Matrimony," marked the passage, "Wilt
thou have this run n to be thy wedded hus
band?" with two emphatic dashes ; and point
ing significantly and confidently to myself,
bunded it to he'r with a bow. She look it!
she read ill ! she smiled! ! ! Was it a smile
of assent? Oh 1 how my heart beat in my
bosom at that instant so loud, that I feared
the people around us might hear its palpita
tions ; and 1 looked at them to see if they uo
liced me. She turned over a few leaves
she took my pencil, which I bad purposely
enclosed in the book- and she marked a pas
sage, O; ye gods and demigods ! what were
my sensations ut that moment! Not Jove
himself, wbeu he went swan-hopping to the
lovely Leda nor Pluto, when he perpetra
ted the abduction of the beautiful Prosper
ine could have experienced a greater tur
moil of passions than I at that moment. I
felt the score felt it ns if it had been across
my very heart ; and grasped the book and I
squeezed the hand thut pieamed it; and
opening the page trembling y. and bolding.-.be
volume close to my eyes, (lor the type wus
small, and my a ght not quite so good us it
n-ed to be.) I read O, Mary Rose O. Mary
Rose! thut I should live to relate it" A
woman may not marry her grandfather!"
A MODERN SCOURGE THE SCARLET
PETER,
The prevalence or scarlet fever in our cily
and elsewhere, and the ravages it has com
mitted among children, have caused the in
quiry Io be made, whether Ihere is any mode
of diet or regimen, or the administration of
any tmdicimrnt which will prevent the at
tack of the distemper. This pestilence,
which walks in the purest air, and which
defies the power of frost to blind it or even
weaken its force, has been uncommonly fatal
during the present month aud the month
previous. In Worcester, during the month
of November, twenty one childien died with
it, out of a population of seventeen thousand.
I.usl week thirty-two died iu this cily ol
scarlet fever ; the week previously forty.
The use of belladonna as a prophylactic
in this disease has been recommended. It
wus first employed in this way. we believe, by
thu liOiiuLoputhists, which may have created
a prejudice against it in the minds of those
w ho huve espoused other methods of practice,
but it si ems that its use is now by no meuns
confined to physician of the hommnpacliic
school. In a Massachusetts print, I lie Law
rence Courier, a writer of the medical pro
fession expresses his confidence in itgefiicucy
ns a preventive, having been induced, he
sny?, to apply it by some remarks of Dr. J.
S. Burtlett, of the Royal College of Lon
don, muda twenty-two years since He
says :
"Believing bis observations entitled to
attention 1 then induced seveial families to
use the Belladonna solution as directed
and 1 have continued to use it in my practice
during every epidemic that bus occurred
since, and have never seen but one child
uttackeu with the disease who had taken thu
medicine one week, and that case was the
simplest form of the malady. That bella
donna in proper dotes modify an attack
of scarlet fever 1 have no doubt, but that it
is strictly a prophylactic bus not as yet been
substantiated. As the medicine in a proper
dose is perfectly safe, it is well for every one
to give it a trial, but as its preveulice power
onlv lusts while (he system is under its influ
ence, and ns epidemics usually occupy weeks
and months ol time, a must expect lailures
in the honed for from its use."
1 he Boston tf.ical and surgical Journal i
. w - . i
hits a paper ot Aa subject, which we have
now before us, mil of which the Springfield
Republican gives the following account :
I he conclusion oi the article is aguinst It
entirely, and the fuses of experiment cited
in support of the conclusion seem to be
sound and legitimate. We allow them aud
the conclusion rounded upon them their lull
weight, while we state at the same time, that
thu use of belludontm was established upon
experiments which seemed equally sut'sfuc-
toiy. Hie philosophy ol the operation ot
medicines used iu this manner would suffi
ciently explain the difference of results and
conclusions. One poison is muue to lane tne
place of or to subordinate, another poison.
We use the term poison, it may be called
diseased action, or whatever physicians may
choose. The blludotiua may have power
(we do not say that it does) to pre occupy
the system, so thut the poison, or predispo
sing cause shall not gain entrance. After
this predisposing cause ahull huve gained
foothold, it may not nave uie power io elimi
nate it, and its administration under such
circntnstunces would, ol course, nave uo
effect. Doubtless two classes have been
experimented upon thote who have the
seeds of the disease in them, and those who
have not ; and between these two classes of
subjects, we may rulionuliy conclude, nave
arisen the widely varying results. Besides
this, there is to be taken into consideration
the fact the medicine is from n vegetable,
uud, tike ull vegetable medicines, varies in
power according lo the mode in which it is
piepured, thu form in which it is administer
ed, and even the soil from which it wus origi
nally taken. Her is another chance lor
differing results.
"We regard the question loncntng tieua
donna as a preventive of scarlatina as among
i he unsettled ones, and, being unsettled, de--Serving
a careful exainiiiut ion by y pby
sicii.n for himself. The opinion of the Med
ical uud Surgical Journal is the opinion of
one man formed on experiments conducted
by others. Where results are so contradic
tory, (as the Journal confesses, by citing ex
periments upon the otheraide ofthe question.)
it is fair to suppose that the conditions at
taching to the two clusses of experiments
were not the same. Belladonna may be a
thorough preventive oi scurlatiua in systems
in which the predisposition to the disease
has not been established, aud be perteiuly
powerless when that predisposition bas
gained a foothold. We therefore believe
in giving the children thsir l.anees, especi
ally as it costs but little, and the medicine,
giving in such doses as ara claimed to ba
effectual, can do no barm, or next to none."
The friends of the adininittration of bella
donna as a safeguard against the attacks of
Ktrlet ftvtr, Wave not Stti dtivta from tbeif
ground by the decision of the Boston Medi
ical and Surgical Journal hut continue to
insist upon its probable efficacy at least.
One of the writers In the Boston Post of
yesterday ays :
"I sincerely trust not one of ypor readers,
who may have scarlet fever in his neighbor
hood, who refrain from tho daily ose of one
globule of belladonna by each member of his
household, from the information, which yonr
correspondent ' Patients' give ns in rvguid
lo the editorial of the Boston Medical and
Sorgicul Journal. That journal d.-nies the
efl'ucy of belladonna ns a preventative in this
disease, it is not my purpose to combat
this opinion, but it is my purpose and desire
to advise all who may be now exposed to
this mulady to try the experiment, for I am
confident it will check the spread of the dis
easu' in that family and neighborhood. 1
huve but little faith in allopathy, aud as
little in homccoptithy ; but from observation
1 fully believe that scarlatina Very seldom
spreads in a family where belladonna is used
by all the inmates ; for a dozen years I have
teen tb:S tested in a city of 300,000 inhabi
tants, and for this reason alone have, during
the past few years, recommended it to
friends who had the scarlet fever in their
families. I cannot say in any instance it
cuted sick child of the disease, hut I can
say the disease did not spread in the family
after belladonna was used hy each of the
inmates. Let no family of the city or neigh
borhood now afflicted refrain from its use
it is but a small thing to do--an experiment
worth trying by all who may have ibis dis
ease in their neighboihood."
This' is a matter in which wa do not pro
fess ourselves competent to decide, but we
cannot conceive of any barm which the dis
creet administration of belladonna, under
proper advice, in small doses and ut proper
intervals, can possibly do. We have seen
nppKti-nt good effects arising from it, but we
have no experience which would wariant us
in ascribing to it Hi.y t liinjr more than a some
whot probably i ffc Icy. Tba-is enongb uow
ever, at a time when parents, iu tho neigh
borhoods where it prevails, are trembling for
the lives of their children, to muke them
eagerly resort to its administration -Y. '.
Evening Post.
Advertising Onk's Bisinkss We have
just laid down a copy of the London Times
with the feeling which that journal always
awakens iu ns astonishment at, aud admira
tion of, the prodigious extent to which Eng
lishmen, in the pursuit of wealth, advertise
their busijiess. The vaunted editoriul ability
or the Times is, in our opinion, more than
matched, upon more than one American news
paper. But Its advertising supplement, and
its owu solid columns of infinitely varied an
nouncements, are a wonder as unequalled in
ourjo'irualisin, as it is characteristic or the
nioal systematic and successful property ac
quires on the face of the earth. Whatever
the English have got to sell they advertise.
The solid columns of the London Times ate a
refltu-iioti of the industry of a large put t of
the British people.
Paddy's ExrsKinEN'T. We learn that an
Irishman in Leechburgh Armstrong county,
Pennsylvania, on New year's day, not being
iu possession of a gun, pistol or blunderbuss,
undertook to convert a pair of caudle-moulds
into the requesile noise-making machine. lie
placed a heavy charge of power iu one of the
lubes, wadding it down in the usual manner, to
make a "loud crack," uud applying his segur
to the eud of it, the machine exploded loud
enough. Instead of discharging, it recoiled,
peiietrateing iuto bis brain and killing him
instantly.
It is a good sign to see a woman dress with
taste and neatness. It is a bad sign to see
her husband sued for her feathers and foolery,
gems and jewelery. ,
Jfanner's tplmcnt.
Fiom tho Fu.in Journal.
The Chinese Sugar Cane.
We are pleased to observe that this plant
has attructed the uttention of some of our
best farmers, in the Northern as well as South
ern States, and that the results of their ex
periments have, in almost eveiy instance,
been of the most tutisfuctory character. In
.wrown state, our va'ued corespondent, I. B.
Gurhor, of Columbia, has growu it very suc
cessfully He says of it :
"Apparently it is of the same family of
plants as the Dliouri corn, chocalate com and
the broom corn. It will grow on any soil ;
and in any climate where the broom matures.
This will come to full perfection, is us easily
cultivated us other coin, and it is believed by
those in the South who have given attention
to the plant, that it will in lime supercede
the cane, even in Lousiaua 1 It will be laige
ly planted in tint South n-at season.
The only impediment iu the wuy of every
farmer making bis own sweetening, is, difficul
ty -.d crushing er grinding the stalks, for
wlr".h purpose heuvy iron rolleis, or some
poweu'ul yet coiupuct machinery will be re
quisite to properly'inascerate lliecunes, sous
to preBS out the juice. After the juice is ex
tracted from the tunes, it will not require as
much time iu bulling down lo u proper con
sistence for syrup or molasses, as it does to
boil applebutter The syrup is superior to
the best molasses as you can judge by the
sample left with you; though this wus a fust
experiment, and us "practice makes perfect"
we may improve on a second trial, 1 n a state
of syrup it may be used in a family for all
purposes where a pure sachurine is needed.
To granulite it, so as to produce a dry Sugar
can be effected by a continuation of the evup
Dieting process, and by using usuul re-ugeuts
to precipitate and grnnulute the syrup.
As a foraue plant it will, I believe, become
of great value by sowing the seed broad cast,
cutting uud drying the fodder, ate; owing to
the large quantity of Sachurine matter con
tained iu the stems, slock of all kinds will
thrive and fallen on it to greater advautao
than on any oiber food.
The Western Farm Journal states that
the Chinese sugar cane bus been used this
season for fattening cattle iu Warreu Comity,
Uh.O. The catlU appeared to be very fond
of it, and are said to have gained wull, though
it may be mentioned thut they were fed with
a pec it of meal eucb. pur day in addition to
the "sugar millet."
The same paper states that Gov. Hammond
of South Carolina, in a letter to Mr. Buchan
an, of Cincinnati, speaks of ibis plant at fol
lows ;
"1 had half an acre planted, and only ground
nocgh to try it. It wilt do here, aud it will
do also io your climate at Cincinnati. It will
mature sooner than com, and in any climate
suited to Indian corn. A Una syrua can be
mad of it, at cost of tighteeu to twenty
cents per gallon. On an acre ef land prepar.
d tt yoa woold work it for togar beats or
carrotsj yon can, wilh lets labor than nsed for
corn, grow enough millet to make five or six
hundred gallons of syrnp.- Yon can grind
and boil from three hundred lo three hundred
and fifty gallons of vrnp. I hate not tried
it for sugar, and I only desire to save some
tGOO or fcSOO annually, that I expend for mo
lasses for my people; It can be kept for
grinding 1 think it Is likely to compete with
the sugar cane of Lonsiana. I think it is
particularly valuable in your region, and here
after 1 will give the particulars of my experi
ments if yon desire it; .
Hnnford Howard, of IhdBoslon Cultivolof,
cultivated this plant last year, and his exper
iment "proved the practicability of produc.ng
it iu Massachusetts," and be suggests that it
would probably be mora useful as a fornge
plant, tnnn for ptodncing sugar and molasses:
un opinion which the above results sustuin.
In addition to the above, the following cir
cular from Richard Peteis, Esq., of Atlanta,
Georgin, will bo read with interest by lliose
who desire to add another valutfblo plant to
those already cultivated In our country. If
any of our readers have experimented w ith it,
we will be pleased to have an account of them
as well as their opinion of its merits for sugar
making as well as for forage for cattle.
M essm. Editors : I feel it my duty to
make known to the Southern public the result
of Syrnp making from the Chinese Sugar Mil
let, in hopes that others who have sown this
valuable variety of th Millet, may be indu
ced to work it np into syrup this season.
1 send you a fuw joints or the Cane and a
sample of Syrup, of which I Lave made seve
ral barrels.
I obtained my start of seed during the
spring or 185r, from D. Redmond, Esq., or
the Southern Cultivator. 1 considered it a
"humbug," from ils close resemblance to the
"Guinea Corn," until my children, towards
full, made the discovery of its being to their
taste equal to tho tiue Sugar Cane.
This year I planted one patch April 15th,
another May IKili, near Calhoun, Gordon co.,
ou land that would produce, during a "sea
sonable ' year, forty bushels of Corn per acre
and this year not over twenty bushels.
Seed sown carelessly in drills, three feet
apart, covered with a o'ne-hoite plow ; in
tending to "chop out" to a sland of one stalk
six inches apart in tht row ; but failed to get
a good stand, as the seed came up badly from
the deep and irregular covering Worked
out, same as for Corn, plowing twice hoeing
once.
By suggestion of Got. Hammond, of 8outb
Carolina. 1 determined to give the Syrop
inaking a fair trial; consequently ordered
from the Messrs. Winship, of Atlanta, a very
complete Horse-power Mill, with vertical iron
rollers, that has worked admirably, crushing
out juice for eight gallons of Syrup per hour
worked by two mules, with on band to pat
in the Cane, and a boy to drive.
On the Litb of this month, flnding the seed
fully ripe I had the fodder pulled, and the
seed heads cut.
Yield of fodder per acre 1,100 to 1,300 lbs.
Yield of seed per acre, 20 bushels of C6 lbs
to the bushel.
First trial or Mill, 70
20 quarts or juice.
average canes gave
Coti average canes, passed onct throngh the
rollers, gave 33 gallons 1 quart or juice;
passed a second time tbroucrh, cave 3 callous
of juice; the 40 gallons, 1 quart, gave 8 gal
lons thick Syrup,
I cielnlly measured an eighth of an acre,
having the best canes, aud the best stand, an
other eighth having the poorest canes and
I lie pool est slaud. I lie result 1 give below,
the caues have passed once through the rol
ler: BEST EIGHTH OF AS ACRE.
Yield of juice from 3,315 Canes, 25.1 gal.
" syrup from 25o gals, juice, "
Rates per acre of svrup. 34S "
POOREST EIGHTH OF AX ACRE
Yield of juice from 2.550 Cants, 2"3 gel.
syrup liom 1 i'J gals, juice, iil "
Rates per acre or syrup.
S4b "
Weight or 30 selected canet
" J uice pressed out
" Crushed cane,
40i lbs.
2:i ttis.
22 lbs.
Loss in crushing
Weight or crushed cane driej in tht
sun
i lbs.
9 tt.s.
The juice should be placed in the boilerj
immediately ot, being pressed out, then boil
ed slowly, until the gteen scum ceuses to riSu
then stir in a teuspoonful of air slacked lime
lo live gallons of juice ; continue skimming
and boiling until the syrup thickens aud bangs
down iu Hakes on the lim of tbn dipper.
1 have mu.ie the purest syrup by simply
boiling and skimming, without lime or other
clai itier.
The lime is requisite to neutralize a portion
ofthe acid iu the juice; the true proportion
must be determined by well conducted exper
iments. The cost of making the Syrnp in upper
Geoigia. in my opinion, will not txceed ten
to fifteen cents per gallon. This I shall be
able to test another season, by planting aud
working op fifty acres of the cane.
J am satisfied that this plant will enable
every farmer and planter in the Southern
Siutes'tn m ike A horn - al. tb Syrup require d
for family use; ami 1 believa that our chem
ists will soon teach us how to convert the
Syrup into Sugar, for export, as one of the
staples of our favored clime.
Obtaining such unlocked for success, wilh
tho Chinese Sugnr Cune, I concluded to try
our corn. From a "new ground," planted 3
by 3, one stalk to a hill, a week beyond the
roasling-ear stage, 1 selected 30 stalks.
Weight or 30 stalks. 3"J
" crushed etalks, I'.U
" juice L'
Loss in crushing j
Yield oi syrup, 1J pints.
The Syrup is or a peculiar, disagreeable
taste, entirely unfit lor table ne.
RICHARD PETERS.
Atlanta, Georgia, September, 1856.
Tim Hon Disi r.Mrrn The disease 'imoug
hogs, which has been so fatal at the west has
made its appearance in Massachusetts with
in the past two weeks. The Boston Travel
er says :
In severl towns in tin's vicinity, as we are
informed, about seventy-five hogs have died
with greut rapidity after they were attacked.
One lot of twenty-three was sunt from a town
if) this region to Henniker, N. II., a few days
since, and at last accounts all but tuo wert
dead. In some cases the hogs are well at
night, eating their food as asunl, but art
found dead in their pens iu the morning. As
yet the mortality is noticeable mors for itt
singalarity and suddenness than for its ex
tent. No remedy bat yet beta discovered
for tht disorder.
Raised Waffhs. Muke a thick batter of
milk and wheat flour, add four eggs, beat
light; a gill of yeast, a spoonful of bntttr ;
let it rist tomt hours.
Bess. Three eggs beaten light, half a
nint rt mil tr mm snnnnful of butter, and
I Hoar for a moderately thin batter. Bake la
tin caps in a quick oven.
D of irj.
RIDING IN A SLXIGH.
Gliding down the hillsides
O'er the frosty snow
Sliding through tho valleys,
Jinglfng as we go
IIappy voices joining
In a noisy lay ;
Bless me, how delightful,
Riding in a sleigh 1
Girl whom yon invited
Is certain she shall freeze
Nestles closer to yon,
Gives your arm a squeeze
Hints at old school friendships;
As any maiden may
Says it's very pleasant
Riding in u sleigh 1
Driver gets excited,
Thinks he's very smart
Snnps thff whip a little,
Gives the nags a blurt.
Girls and gallants mixing
In an awkward way ;
Bless me. how delightful,
Riding iu a sleigh 1
Round the cornrr rushing
At a speed too rash,
Suddenly upsetting
With a horrid crush ;
In a snow bed tumbled
All the lovers lay
lis, ha! bow delightful,
Riding in a Bluigh !
Beavers sadly battered,
Bonnets all awry
Borne the girls a laughing;
Otliera want to cry (
Careless drivers sweui ing.
Ssys the deuce's to pay ;
Ne'er "dump'd" load before
Riding in a eleigh !
Matters oface more righted,
Jingling on we go.
Through li e woods and meadows,
O'er the frosty snow,
Jingling, laughing, kissing,
All the merry wny ;
Bless uie, isn't pleasant,
Riding in aileigh!
Almost everybody bat a bad cold about
now, Smith and Jones among the rest. A
street comet dialogue between them, founded
something like this : Smith How du'ye do(
Jones ? Jones : pretty bwell, ody I have a
bad code. How are you, Smith? Smith: 1
have snbting of a cede too, but its geteig
bwell agil. Jones: What bebicil did you
take? Smith: 1 sduffed np laudabum al
bwater. Do you take any thicg t Jouet:
Do, 1 just grid ad bear it.
"What are you staring at, sir, may I ask ?''
said on imperialed, moustached "blood" to a
II nosier" on a Mississippi steamboat, whs
had been watching him cs cat watches a
mouse, for some fifteen minutes. "1 thought
sir !" exclaimed the Hosier, the monieut thu
other speke ; "I said you'd got a mouth, and
1 was only waitin' to be sartin aboutit to ask
you to 'liquor.' Stranger, what '11 you drink 1
or bad you rather fight t I don't care which
myself."
MisrsPEiwTAKDiso. The other day the
conductor of a train on a New York Railroad
discovered au Irishman in the car soon after
starting from Rome, mid demanded bis fare.
Pat declared he bad no money. The conduc
tor, after lecturing him, told him to leave at
the firi-t stopping place, not far distant. Ac
cordingly, Pat was one ofthe first !o get off
at the next station. But judge of the con
ductors surprise, ami wrath to 8nd him aboard
when tho train was fairly nnder wav.
"Did I not tell you to get off'."'
"And sure 1 did."
"Why, then, are you here again?"'
"And sure, did yon nut say all aboard?"
A woman will cling to the chosen obj?ct
or Ler heart like a possum to a gum tree and
you cannot separate her without Shopping
strings no art can mend, and leaving a por
tion of her soul upon the upper leather of her
affections. She will sometimes sbu something
to love where others will see nothing to ad
mire ; and when her fondness is once fastened
on a fellow it sticks liko glue and molusses li)
a bushy head of hair-
rnEsi:.NT Fashion.
"Bonnet on the shonldsrs,
Nose np to tho sky,
Both hands full of flounces,
Raised a la tautj high.
Vn!er-skirt3 bespattered,
Look nmii"ing neat.
All your silks get -watered'
Sttecping dowu tho street!"
BvnoN is said to have remarked that "the?
greatest trial to a woman's beauty is the
untr.ful net of eating egifs." Some Yan
kee remarks that the poet, iuia orver have
seen a lutly banging on by the teeth to a
blazing hot coin cob!
As Insn Aittionekr, whil expiating on
tho merits of n telescope, enjerly observed
"How often h is lha widow's heart leapt for
joy when she has beheld her husband at a
distance bicu;;l:t near to htr by tucU au
instrument 03 this.''
A servant gi:l fell cnint a ttnva in such
a uioniier as to brand upon her arm tae date,
which happened to be on the stove 1C4'J.
A turgcoti was strut for, who' however hap.
pened to be absent, and in ln'3 place an assis
tant ratnt ; but when lie sav the date, he
shook his head and uid to him-ielf: "There
is no louder any help fur this, it ;j Uo old ar
injury,"
There is a man out Vfest so forgetral of
faces, that h' is compelled to kees a
wafer stuck on the end of her nos. that he
inuv distinguish her from oilier ladies but Ibis
does not prevent him from uiakiu-; eccasiou--al
mistakes.
A clergyman engaged in catechizing tho
villinge school, asked a youngster " What hie
godfathers and godmothers did for bim." -'I
don't know, please your reverence," re
joined the Ud : they've !uut Bulbing fur we
yet."
A modern writer, who is probably U only
for'tre.ison, strntej ems and spoils," says : it.
"Everything is very fine tintill you have got.
A tinging wife is like a piping bullock, great
fun for vusn-fxieads dectd Iirt3ett toyour
tuir.
"Peppy what't meaut by a Jewish pasa--ever?"
"It tntans knokiag Joan au Uratlite
and the a ibrowiog a sumir.eraet ovsr bim.'