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TOWANDA:
satur bap morninn, 143n1 30, 1053.
clrctrb ottrg.
SPRING IS COMING!
:rr.ng is coming—spring is coming !
With her sunshine and her showers ;
!leaven is ringing with the singing
01 the birds in brake and bower;
Bads are filling, leaves are swehing,
Flowers on field and bloom on tree;
O'er the earth, and air, and ocean,
Nature thsltis her jubilee.
Soil then stealing comes a feeling
O'er my bosom tenderly;
Sccee,ly I ponder, as I wander,
- For my musings are of thee.
, •ftr.nß is coining,—Spring is coming !
•
f,\V:th her mornings fresh and light,
111 . h her nouns of chequered glory,
Skv of blne, and clouds of white.
gra nichtfalls, when the light falls
From the star bespangled sky,
IVhde the splendor.. pale and tender,
Of the young moon gleams on high.
a: r.1. - rn, at noon, at even,
Spins is full of py for me,
Fs.i I pender as I wander.
And my tlouglits are all of thee.
St 11l on thee my thlughts are dwelling,
Wh3tsceer thy name may be;
Beautitul, beyond, Ic;;Ing,
Is the presence nroo me.
Mormng'sbreztlong tit di thee waling
Wandering in the breez..'s tight ;
N. , .-n:nle's glory mantles o ' er thee
In a Nhower of ,unny I _ht;
Mt :iglu dying leases :bee lyi g
la the silvery tw:light ray;
Sirs look brightly on thee nighily,
Ti:l the coming cl the day.
E. irnherc and eyr'y minute
Fri': I r.ear ihre, locr!y one ;
•he hark and in the !,nner,
! can hear thy ; , yons tone
'.' and rome. mark. the coming
ti. •,.e; o'er valo and till:
: -, re•eiire, with Lie's essence,
1112,,e; ;nc heart
!••• .re !hoe. I adore nhee,
I. it c^cal:ye. ihce I
A 1 .1 - ret ;hec, and I crre-I thee
name of Spr,Tig!
411 - istcllantous.
I' ~1•1 , • W IX-rm-crat
VI oil .tors
Tas: artri:::! of rr:Atter that crowd, the
Nvwsparer. (.ndeetl a is cernmoo
• ,!ay ) that is teener
I contend .!
MIME
E. way uro a pe,todwal
ut what is u-efu! and protitati:e—as
he ire of the people or prop-o
-r. u i.cy. Whatever irustia•es t! e
~ e ns up the paths of science or enrich
atti.,ls: of the people ooh a knowledge of
CI their own or o her countries, is the
element to fi'l out the pages of an American
- t The richest portions of the history of any
% —that which the intelligent Mind hunger•
ss atter with avidity, is that of its infancy—
. :ransoit - in from a state of naturelooig.c..2c,'
t• Under these impressions, I give the (-I.
:a..lg as n ear as memory can reflect, front
• - ,:s of the hero of the tale—for hero he ieal:y
in the early history of Susquehanna coun'y
7.te writer had not seen the an - hor of the follow i•
11:5 ter some twenty years; haying in hi- boyhood
`le; a ?el and ardent listener to the rich tales of
s in hunting ; in the early shlement of
s which lie on the Ilea 1 waters of the
a._l,lna. F.henezer Whipple is 'he •suliject of
t.:.s who was Inalg and well known to the
ti• - :et. who braved the primitive forest of the
S-s,lwhani.a. He settled near the centre of
5
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-:,curios county. about as early as 1795 or '96.
:3.!, as the wtoer believes, migrated from near
-;.! 0 sego lake in New York, to the state of Peon
wrar.a having Rpent most of his life in the hon
e- se•tlernen's of the two states. Hence he was
ex•pert successful hunter; with a vigorous
a kind and benevolent disposition, and a
f the imagery of peony. When he en.
rt.! that region el country, which is embraced
:.iiceen :he ithe which divides New Yolk and New
:t"”y from Pennsylvania, and the Susquehanna
re - tvltete it enters the limits of the state, to the
rt of ,:te Lackawanna, it swarmed with almost
anmals native to the continent of North
Ante:tea. panthers, bear, - wolves, deer,
:ryes, of ad the various casts of that leautiful
azircal, sable, bearer, otter, fisher, ermine, mink,
scowl, rr.u.krat and hedgehog were found rn sur
prising miners At the present time, they are
tr, h the exception of the mischievous
eipathated The noble elk was the first to
tie, ke lederson's mammoth, - over the Great
Lakes,. !rem :be presence of his inveterate destroy
rarer, the otter, the beautiful but
FtaHr, and .he bear are near:y extinct, art the
MEE
I=
ENE
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tt.,le of 11,e St:squehanna.
Era: 10 my s:ofy —Mr. V. - hippie related at tot
`="4i. :lie fidelity of the man it can be
y
Y;:-a kr.crs I ha..l sold my farm on Wyalusiog
where l haJ first settled when [came to
anJ again - planted myself more" re-
Lim the settlement, near Lathrop's Lakes.—
r= = 'cart of the cocutr) W 33 more infested with
Tz . :: - .e rs and walves than any other portion. My
%--n was zew 8r.3 surrounded with very thick and
• -•. '- 7,1 Y nazis and laurel swamps. My clearing
It ' a Pariellram, being about two hundred
” 4 "!'t wide horn North to South, and fire handled.
r= =a, -, a from East to West My house, built of
5 5, rood near the centre point. I had a small
z ' cl sheep, and according to the common cur.
j` z t- ktat ttena at night in a yard near the hawse,
rarer againet wild beasts 1 had two hunting
c. 0.:: 2 tame powerful craw of the bound s wi:h
THE ''BRADFOR:V':_REP'O'RTtIt
a parti-color of black and white. The other was a
small brindle--;ezceedingly graceful in form, and
awaits the.wiral on foot. It wawa cold hazy night
in Novernbey. The moon was about twenty days
old, and wail wading dimly through the haze which
was thickening far a snow atom. My old dog
awoke me by a low dull growl, at my bed side. It
was perhaps about four o'clock in the morning. At
first I paid little attention to the dogs—thinking they
might have been disturbed by some movement of
the cattle at the stable. But they at length evinced
so much anxiety—especially the larger dog, going
to the door and then returning again : to my bedside
—that my interest was at last awakened into a sus
picion that all was not right about my premises.—
The low grpwl of the old dog increased, and the
timid whine of the smaller one was so marked,that
hastily sprang from bed, threw on my garments
in a hurry, took down from the hooks my rifle,
which you know had been my companion for more
than forty years, sallied horn the door with my
faithful dogs, and followed their lead. They took
the course westward through - 111e clearing, and soon
were out of sight, in the deem gloom of hemlocks
that bordered Ulm portion of my fields. I hastened
forward until I had reached a distance of some one
hundred and fay yards from my door, and stopped
to listen what might he the condition of things. I
had not stood long before I heard the whine of the
small dog, and his swift flight as he approached
the open ground. He cleared the fence like a bird,
and ran by me at some lorty yards distance, in the
direction of the house. He had scarcely passed,
when my ear caught the sound of the older dog, as
he plied his way through the brushwood, at the ut•
most of his sp'eed—Wllll the confused round of a
gang a hot pursuit. I could distinctly hear his sigh
of distress at every jump as he approached the fence
on reaching which, while about sixty yards from
me, co:tuary to the habit of a d%., he cleared it at
a boutd, aS the white spots marked his course.—
Scarce had" he' struck the ground, and recovered,
when a dark, spot with a heavy sound following
filled his place,-and a number of otter heavy plun
.
gcs were heard at the same time and near the same
piace—a i.itron . .; , signification that there was a mrrry
mess of pursuers. The rid Jog, as though he plac
ed his Las: hope of life upon reaching the house. ran
1.1;011aily e field passing me about sixty
}aiii - sriorth of my stanoii. straining every sinew to
utmost tension—wiiii a &tit: brown shadow,
mild, larger than himself. closin2 upon him at eve
iy jump, so that no sooner had he cleared his tracks
.Ivuti they were titled by his pursuer. 'Deeply did
I st rnpatilise awr h my tat hiul chi dog Every jump
seemed to lessen the distance between the pursuer
arid ire pitrstke.l. Every ins•ant I eNp-xted to hear
hie a;:tit pi uncP, and the death cry Cl Pla:o !
Old 7klaz r :o was at my lace—my eye traced along
he dusky IA: s!, as the ohji-cts rushed I , y me in the
a:mas t :here. Now or never! The hair.
inf IS touched The fat liful old rifle, ae though
con-4 us of the Flake, and the intensity of the is-
BEI
respatlds in that peculiar sharp hissing crack,
which almost tells its bearer of the certainty of its
aim, and the deadly ltidgment of it= contents. The
chase is at once reversed—the dark body returns
upon its tracks—the light follows— the pursuer be
comes :he pursued--a scattering flight is heard from
ihe open groutrd through the brushwood—the oh
j er , 3 of the cnief interest reach the fence. whirl,
the hug , . animal - .. tt - rr.,t•s, but never shall scale
a:a :71 C. re ZIC 11 , 'S the WTI, but Plato siezes
dr,%;s :lin: tack in tLe czonies of ,leath! And
oa comtr; op. I frund he had by the throat the
w t I ever saw. Night as 1: was, wider a
cloudy sky, th 6 ctij•tot fl)irg with the speed of the
wind, and .at the distance of more than sixty yards ;
I had sent the blue pill through the wolfs heart In
all my exploits, of more than forty year's hunting,
I never perh , rmed an act in that line that =se me
such delight—such unmixed gratification."
The noble old hunter now sleeps in the bosom
of that soil upon which he was one of the pioneers,
alter having filled out and rounded cif an amiable
useful and blameless life Quits[.:! in 'pace.
ffilifi
Movisc Csr - riOC.-iLT.—The Boston Post tells a
story concerning the doings in a certain town in
Vermont, some years ago, (luring. a religions excite
ment. A large number of hard cases come !o the
confessional, and pretty hard characters they gave
themselves. But confession was not deemed ertous:b
and the testoration of gains wrongfully obtarted
was p:oposed. To this a certain member ro=e, and
after coustdering, the blackness of his past life, con
tinued—•- It there is any man that I have delmrid
ed. I shall be most happy to sit 6:1'4 and talk st
orcr with him !"
PiLoGarss t. Navoac —Ail the living forms on
the globe orii2initte in the reactions of the solar ra
diations with the elements of the atmosphere. It
is so many systems of constantly recurring reactions
that are going on. For, Lt! things in Nature must
return, and go back again, else •nothinz can go for
ward. It is :he cirri/us rttnni snows perpetually
_revolving, and perpetually renewing everything
with fresher asPects and youngei lite.
Part.ssortir OF Exeilac C.—There is four good
reasons wny exercise should be taken:
1. Pure, fresh air arterializes the blood, and pro
motes perspiration and circulation ; 2. The effete
or lifeless particles of matter accumulating in the
system are removed ; 3. Sunlight vivifies the an
imaleconomy ;4. The external exertion which is
flamed and involuntary, equipmes the internal ac
tivity which is increasantly going on within and
which is never impended unfit death
Hartasss---" Iluch and many" is hailer than
" little and few." The more complex the com
b:nation, the more liable to derangement and the
less permanent it ia. Under the ruicraveape, every
little germ reveals, in embroyo, a torftt growth as
crowded and countless as that wilderness of hopes,
threnhts, and desire, whkb cluster together in the
craving and insaslable heart of rm.=
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH.
A HUNTER
" REGARDLESS Or DENUNCIATION }MON ANt, QUAILTED.."
Chinese Love i.ellters.
We think we might safely venture on a wager
that perhaps no ball-a dozen—if ary—of our read
ers have ever seen a genuine Chinese love letter.
We have though. Recently in Amoy a marriage
was concluded between a son of the ancient fami
ly of a Tan," and a daughter of the equally old and
tmpectable house of" 0," and the annexed pro.
ductions, we are assured, are literal translations of
the letters that passed on the occasion between the
fathers of the young couple. Here we have the
proposal of the lather of the bridgroom :
a The ashamed younger brother surnamed Tan,
named Su, with washed head makes obeisance and
writes this letter to the greatly virtuous and humble
gentleman whose surname is 0, old Teacher great
man, and presents it at the foot of die gallery (at
this season of the real): the satin curtains are en
veloped in mist, reflecting the beauty of the River
and Hills, in the fields of the blue gem are planted
rJws of willows close together, arranging and dif
(tieing the commencement of genial ir,tluer.ces,
and consequently adding to the goad of the old
year
" I duly reverence your lofty door The guest
of the Sue country descends from a good stock, the
origin of the female of the Hui country likewise is
so too. You have received their transforming in
fluences resembling the great °fleets produced by
rain. much more )ou my honerable untie your
good qualities are of a very rate order. I, the mean
one, am ashamed of myself, just as rotten wood in
the presence of aromatic herbs. I now receive
your indulgence inasmuch as you have listened to
the words of the match-maker and given Miss S,
in marriage to'the mean one's eldest son, named
Kong your assenting to it is worth more to mei than
a thousand pieces of gold. The marriage business
will be conducted according to the six rules olThro--
priety, and I will reverently announce the busi
ness to my ancestors with presents of gems and
silks. I will arrange the thugs received in your
baskets so that all who tread the threshold of
my door may enjoy them From this time for
ward the two surnames will be united, and I trust
:he u lien will be a felicitous one, ann last for a
hut:tired years, and realize the delight experier ced
by the union of the two countries Chin and Chin
I hope that your honorable benevolence and e:n
Siderwion will defend me uneeasiegdy. At present
the D.agrin flies in Sin Hai term, the first month,
unlucky day. Lioht before''
o.t the decoction of the essential oil of modesty
the yonng Miss O's father looks with lavor, so he
resi , on.'s in a state of more profoundly polbe hu
m y •
L• The younger brother strr.amed 0, named Tos,
of the family to be rehired by marriage, washes I i
hend clean. knocks his hea i l and b. , ws, and writes
this marriage letter in reply to the far famed and
vitt:tells gentleman sum imed Tan, the venerable
teacher aoil great man who mannees this business
At this season the heart of the plumb blossom is
increasingly white. at the beginning of the fist
month it opens is petals The eye brows of the
w.:lntr shoot out their green, when sitoken by the
wild it displays its glory and grows lu:turiantly in o
five genera:ions Tis mater for corg.ritulxioon
the union ot 100 :ears T reverence your lofy gate.
Tare ptoonost.c is good also the d rum:rot of the
I oky bin]. The stars are bright and the s , ra.L•orts
meet together lo every snereeding ilyoas - y of
fi..-e wll be held, and for many a generation cfii
cal vestments wil; to worn (not or,:y it:lose of ) ou•
family surname will eriji all the afore mentioned
Nieity.)more especially will you, hcmorable gen
tlemen, who possess abilities great at d deep, your
manners are dignified and pore 1, the foolish one,
am ashamed of my diminutiveness. I, for a long
O-ne, have desired your dragon powers, now you
have not looked down upon me i h con'empt,
bat have entertained the enarements of the match
maker and 0;j2.7 , -1.! to f.tice Mr Nang 15 be unreel to
My despicable dam:liter We all ish the girt 'o
have her hair dres , ed and :he young man to pat
on his tap of manhood. The peach flowers just
now !net . . beaioilcl, the red plumb also locks g ty
Ipraise your son, who is like a fairy horse who can
cross over through water, and is able to ride open
the wind sod waves, but my daughter is like a
green window and a feeble plant, and is not war
ty of becoming the subject of verge.
" Now I reverently bow to your gm! woriils, and
make use of them to display your good breedi
Now T hope yonr honorable benevolence will al
ways renien—ber me without end. Now the drag
on dies in the Sin flat term, first rrionen lucky day
Mr. To makes riot-is:nice. May the fu'u:e be r.:TM
perorts
The modesty of the old gentleman is so painful
that we are almost afraid to guess what may have
been the feelings of Master Tan and Miss 0 ; but,
whatever they were, they must have overcome
thorn by this time, for the mend to whom we are •
indebted for these epistolary gems, danced at their
wedding a couple of months back, and was nearly
suffocated with drinking scalded black tea out of
cocoa-nut shell cur.
But the letters themselves—,for we have receiv
ed the originals, together with the translation—are
at least as temaikabte for external glitter, as for in
tarnal value. Etch of them is about the size of
one of the Citizen's , pages, and consists of a rich
frame composed of something like our papier ma
che, inside of which is artistically folded a scroll
of richly tinted crimson paper studded with the
golden letters that convey the words of love and
modesty." The outer surface is likewise embtaz
owed with a quantity of raisea work, representing
robes of honor, tails of distinction, the smallest of
small &hoes, peacocks' feathers, and a variety of
other equally tasteful desi gn s which are supposed
it) he emblematic of the wasktionession to the wealth
and honor of both contracting houses that may be
expeced to flow from the union of the gallant Sn
Tan, junior, and the accomplished Miss To-0.
He that loveth must obey his command-
Enent,=.
The Bewitched Clock
BY THE OLD 'OD
About halt-past 'eleven o'clock on Sunday night,
a human leg enveloped in blue broadcloth might
have been seen entering Deacon Cephas Barber
ry's kitchen window. The leg was followed, finally
by 144 entire person of a live Yankee, attired in his
Sunday-gb•to-nteetin' clothes. It was in short,Joe
Mayweed who thus burglationsly, in. the dead of
night, won his way into the deacon's kitchen.
Wonder how much the old deacon made by
orderin' me not to darken his doors . again ?" Befit
gamed the young gentleman. " Promised him I
wouldn't, but didn't say nothin' abont winders.—
Winders is jest as good as doors, of there aim no
nails to tear your trowsers onto. Wonder if Sall'll
come down ? the critter promised me. ufeard
to move about here, 'cause I mialit break my shins
over somethin' nuther, and wake the old folks.—
Cold enough to freeze a Polish bear here. 0, here
comes Sally."
The beauteous mai.l descended with a pleasant
smile, a tallow canc'le, and a card of Lucifer
matches. Aver receiving a rapturous greet;rig, she
made up a rou-ing fire in the cooking stove, and
the happy couple sat down to enjoy the sweet in
terchange of vows and hopes. Rut the course of
true love ran no smoother in old Barberry's kitchen
elan it does elsewhere, and loe, who was just ma
! Ling up mind 1 's to treat himself to a kiss, was
startled by the voice of the deacon, her father
shouting from his chamber door :
Sally ! what are ynu getting op in the middle
of the night for!''
" Tell him it's most mommg," whispered Joe.
" I can't tell a fib," paid Sally.
make it a t.uth then," said Joe ; and running
to the huge, old fashioned clock that stood in the
corner, he set it at five.
" Look at the clock and tell me what time it is,"
cried the old gentlema 4 .
" It is live, by the clock," answered Silly, and
corroborating her words the old clock struck
five.
The lovers sat down again and resorned their
conversa!ton. SuJJcidy the staircase began to
NM
Gcody gracions ! its father."
" The deacon ! by thunder !" cried Joe, " hide
me, Sall."
Where can I hide your criej the distracted
girl.
" 0, I know," said. squeeze into the clock
case." Avid without another word, he concealed
himself in the came, aryl fist.Zieneit the door behind
him.
The deacon was dressed, and sitting himself
down by the cooking stove, pulled out his pipe,
lighted it, and commenced smoking deliberately
Ind calmly.
" Five o'cl :ck., eh I" said he. " Well, I shall
have time to smoke f.ree or four pipes, and go
and feed the cii:ters "
" Had'nt you better feed the critters lust, sir, and
snake arterwaids r suggested the duti'ul Sally.
e
No, smokin' clears my head and wakes me
up," answered the deacon, who seemed not a whit
disposed to hurry hi. ervayment.
‘• Burr-r-r r ! din" ! ding ! went
the cluck."
" Tormented lightning M cried the deacon, start
, ins np. and drnrpins, his pipe on the stove, '• been
creation's that !"
t l.'s only the clock st: ik. - ing five !" said Sally,
" Whizz ! ding ! ding ! ding 1 . - went the clock
furiously.
" Powers of marry !" cried the deacon. " S•rik
in' five ! it's struck a hundred already ! '
Deacon Barberry," cried the deacon's bet'er
half, who had haoily robed herself, and now came
p!a , zinz c!own the s!aircase in the wtl.le,t state of
alarm, " what is :he mater a tih ih e t k, i -k
only knows," replied the old man,
" It's beer. in the !amity t:te_se hunditil years, and
clever did I know it to carry on so before,"
" Whizz ! bang ! bang ! bang " went the clock
apin
" 11 - 11 bitt‘t itself," cried the Od lady, shciding a
floral of tears," and there won't be nothing left of
Vs bewitched !" said the deacon, who retain
ed a leaven of good old New England superstition
in Lis. nature " Any how," he said, after a pause
advancing reso!utely towards the clock, " ni see
what's gra . into it."
0, donI! ' cried his daughter, afieetionately
seizing one of his coat-tails, while 1 4 ,s f a ithf u l wi f e
clung to the ce!;er. ":Don't r chorussed bl:h the
women together.
6 , Let go my raiment shocted'the old deacon,
" I aint afeared of the powers of darkness."
nut the women would not let go ; so the dea
con slipped out of his coat, and while, from the
sodden cessation of resistance, they fell heavily to
the floor, he (amed forward and laid his hand up
on the door of the clock case. But no human pow
er could open it. Joe was holding inside wah a
des - 114:map. The old deacon teen to be dread
fully frightened. He gave one more tug. Art un
earthly yell, as of a fiend in distress, burst from the
inside, and then the clock case pitched head„fixe
most at the deacon, fell headlong on the floor_
smashed its face, and a-reeked is fair proportions_
The current of air extinguished the Lamp--the dea
con, the old lady and Sally fled up stairs and Joe
MayweeJ, extricating himself from the clock, et
!peed his gape in the same way in which he bad
entered_
The next day all Appleton* was alive with the
story of how Deacon Barderry's clock had been
bewitched, and thcr—gh many believed his version,
same, and especially Joe Mayweed, :dented to
discredit the whole affair, hinting that the deacon
had been trying the experiment of tasting frozen
eider, and that the vagaries of the clock case ex
" Wed only in kirotemperate imagination.
However, the interdict being taken off, "Joe was
allowed to resume has eclartisz, and won the COO-
sem of the old people to his union with Sally, by
repairing the old clock, till it went as well as
ever.
The true system of Farling.
Trying to do too much, is a common error into
which the farmer otten falls. His great eagerness
in striving to be tich, is doubtless the cause of his
error. He is ambitious and energetic, and form his
plans on a large•scale, too oven, perhaps, without
counting the cost. He buys a large farm, and wants
to be called a " large forme'," without understand
or considering the true elements that constitutes a
real farmer. He fancies the greatness of his pro
fession, as is too eften the common estimate, to be
in proportion to the number of acres, not to say
cultivated, but embraced within the boundaries of
his domain. The fact is now being spread abroad,
that a large farm does not make a man either rich,
contented or happy, but on the cost rary , the reverse
of all these, unfes. - ; well tilled, when the labor is
rewarded by ample crops and fair success in the
various departments in which he has engaged. No
farmer can realize the full benefits of his profession
without adopting a thorough system of culture. His
success, commensurate to his wishes, always de
pends upon the manner in which he prepares his
grounds, plants his seed, and rears his stock.—
Neither of these departments, which may_ be con
sidered the cardinal ones of his profession, will
take care of themselves. The soil may be rich,
but it needs culture His seed should be sown, but
it should be in due time, and altirays on soil.well
prepared and of suitable quality for the production
of the crop desired. His stock must be constantly
Cared for—for it derives its thrift from the soil, and
sends again to the soil the sustenanuis it rewires;
this is not done in a loose, hap-hazard way. The
farmer's care is required, and all his better judg
ment must be exercised its keeping up this system
of reciporal benefits that may be realized by every
intelligent and industrious farmer.
Thorontth cultivation and systematic attention to
all parts of his business is mdispensable to a good
goof degree of success. The very corner stone to
this whole system of farming, is toil° what you do
thoroughly ; nature will not be cheated, and never
gives full returns to the half-way work that is prac
ticed by vas:ly too many calling themselver farm
ers. It the land has been worn, the event of that
exhaustion and the food required, must be first
considered. When ascertained, The full measure
of these requiremen's must b given, to bring out
full returns. if the farmer has but a small stock, ,
and consequently but a small amount of manure
to replenish his land, it is obvious. that but a small
farm can be supplied with'it ; an.! good judgment
at once dictates That to cultivate properly a large
farm, artificial ferilizers must be used it good crops
ate obtained. Awl so with the labor, of Aro met,
cannot sui'abfy till one trindred acres of land, when
he labor of two men and ,perhaps four, might be
profitably employed on seventy-fire acres
This is the great error in farming Two men
strive to do what four ran hardly Jo, and thus thous
ands of acres are run over,,half tilled, and produc
ing half crops. Ihe land is nut over till worn out,
sustaining year alter ear the unnatural tax, till its
energies are entirely exhausted and it fells to yield
even a feeble crop, because i•s life is worn opt
Much of the soil in Virginia and whet Southern
` . .;.ats is a type of this. ihon.ands of acres are ly
ing en'trely useless and exhausted, and will ever
remain CO, till ttte first elements of its power are
married to it. This process is fast going on in
many of the Western States. The soil is irea:ed
tike an in exhaustible mine ; the tillers crying give,
gire, give! till in a few years it will have nothing
give The boast of the West is, large farms and
large fields of grain; plow, sow, and reap, is the
business of the western farmers, drawing out the
very I%z of the soil, and sen•tinla•ray is !he heavy
?ens :hat are con=tari4 going, no ward, wi:hoot
re.oroing to the soil the food tt requites to make it
produeire
The I , crbt that is being spread abroad en this sob-
jest, beg:fling to correct Cl:ft practice to some es
:en:, bu. in must instances very little is re:tamed to
the rod to keep it alive, WI after several years of
continual cropping, it manifests signs °le:haus ion,
a id ultimate harm:nes.. - When tillers of dm soil
miderstand their true interests, they will cultivate
no more laud than the can do vi ell. Filly acre!
of land for ti lage, bruweit to a high state of colti
catioc i pays better than one Itun,lretl ron over in
the way that many do.—Jeger n Farmer.
Biaratirn:r the general allotment of mankind
but t preordained all alike. The lore ofcharige
in a double seiLre, bewffakes many into it who
would be gladly ont of it.
Par:wing and marketing., waiting and tending,
lex hin4 and tarrying : are inctmg.rnans to some un
subjugated motives. Flatman, an old En2lish poet,
railed at the restraints which matrimony imposed
upon a happy spirit delighting in freed= . A
wedded man, in his estimation was
" Like a dot with s bottle tied close to his tail.
Like a Tory in a bog. or a thief to a jail."
Bauble refractory Flatman was conqnered atter a
while, and quietly scibmined to the hymeneal yoke,
and so can every , clever and tascirrating Beatrice
succeed in hot lira her Hsrelict.
DICFECTIT C VI EVIli or Lis-E.—The more profound
our views of life, the more bumble and res ig ned
are we. It is the weak, the cnworthy, and the
rain of bear; who clamor with diSenntent, and ha
agio- e that they have need of more wealth, more
power, more caeca, and a higher position, to
make them satisfied and happy. Everywhere, and
in every Ica, the advantazes of life are commingled
with its as 'icrifieev, and all that ere require is more
eenvictinn and proffer' sentimen's, acconscam
led with sincere brimdity.
Otrillt73goeS the i r last," as a shoemaker sad
slew he throw - ad a last at bin aprentke.
PV'Ttl
This Texas of ours is in astonishing prolific coan9
try.. Every field stands laintiant, crowded, so that
it can scarce Wave under the imteze ; with corn or
sugar, or wheat or WOOD. Every cabin is full and
overflowing, through all its doors and windows,
with white-haired children. Every praririe abounds
in deer ; prairie hens and cattle. Every river and
creek is alive with fivb. The whole land is elec—
tric with lizards perpetually darting about among
the grass like the flashes of green lightning. We
have too much prairie and too little forest fora grog?
multitude or variety of birds; out in homed frogs,
scorpions, tarantulas and centipedes, we beat the
universe. Every body has seen homed frogs. Ya r d
see.thein in jars in window* of apodtecaries,you are
entreated to purchase them by loafing boys on the
levee at New Orleans. They have been soldered
up in soda boxes, and mailed by young gentlemen
in Texas, to fair ones in the Old States. The fair
ones receive the neat package from the Post-off: be,
are delighted :I the prospect of a daguerrotype—
perhaps jewelry—open the package early, and
faint, as the frog within hops out, in excellent health
upon them. A homed-frog is, simply a yeti harm
less frog, with very protentons horns. It has hotel,
because etyryilaiig in its region-.4reew, shrubs,
grass even, has thorns, and nature makes it in
keeping with all around it, A menagerie of them
ws,uld not be expensive. They are content to live
upcin air—and can, if desired, live, I am told, for
several months even without that.
,
The scorpions are precisely Hie those of Arabia
—in the shape of a lobster, exactly, only not more
than three inches long. You are very apt to put one
upon your face in the towel you apply thereto after
washing. If you do, you will find the sting about
equal to that of a wasp—nothing worse. They are
less poisonous than the rospion ol the eastin fait
none except new comers dread them al. 'nil,
But the tarantula! You remember the astonish
i tg electricity with which you sprung in the air that
time you were just on the point of putting your rais
ed foot down upon a snake coiled in your path.—
You were frightened—through every fibre of your
body. Vet) , probably the snake was° as: harm
less as it was beautiful. S, ring as high, be as tiler.
ly frightened as possible, when you first avoid step
ping on a tarantula. Filthy, loathsome, abomina
ble and poisnons, crash it to atoms before you leave
II! If you have never seen it ; know henceforth that
•it is an enormous spider,concentrating all the ve
nom, and spite, and ugliness of all other spiders
living. Its body is some two inches long, black
and bloated. •
It etiiys the possession of eight long,. strong legs,
a red mouth, and an abundance of still brown hair
all over itself. When standing, covers an area of
a saucer. Attack it with a stick and it rears on its
hind legs , gnashes at the stick and fights like a
fiend. It even jumps forward a foot. or two in its
r .ge—anJ it it bite into a vein the bie is death !
I have been told of a battle fom_•h t by one on
board .1 steamboat. Pitcovered at the lower end
of the saloon, it came hopping up the saloon, dnv
ing the whole body of passengers before it, it al
most drove the whole company, crew and all, over
board. . ,
The first Eaw was at the tintise of a friend. I .
spied it etawling slowly over the wall, meditating
murder upon the children playing in the room.—
Excessively prudent in regard to my fingers, I at
last, hOterer, ha! it imprisoned in a glass Ar, tin
hurt. There was a flaw in the glass jar, as well as
a hole in the emit by which it could breathe; but
in ten minutes it was dead :rom rage! Soon alter
r killed three upon my place, crawling npoc ground
trodden every day by the bare festal my little bry.
A month alter I killed a whole nest of them. They
had formed their family circle under a , door cep,
upon which the afotecaul Peale fellow played
Had he seen one of them, he would, of course, have
picked it up as a promising toy ; and I would have
been childless.
I was sitting one day upon a lag in the wookl:;,
wheal saw one slowly crawl out to enjoy the ev-
ening air and the sunset scenery. He was the lar
gPst and most Wowed one I ever saw. As F was .
aboai to kill him I was struck with the conduct of
a chabce wasp. It too had seen the tarantula, and
was,flying slowly around it. The tarantula recog
nized as a foe, and throwing itself upon its hind .
legs breathed defiance For some time the wasp
flew around it,,and then, like a flash, flew right
against i!, and stun; it under its bloated belly.—
The tarantula gnashed its red and renamed jaws,
ant threw its long hairy legs about in impotent rage.
%ICI:a the wasp flew round and round it, watching
for another opportunity. Apin and a g ain did it
dash its-stinger into the reptile, and escape. Aloe
the *IA E.rtah the taraLtuLa actually fell Over: on its
tick, dead ; and the wasp, after making been acre
of the fact, and inflecting iLtast sting to makerthe
mattet sore, flew oti, happy in having done a duty
assioted it in creation.
Framt.nre.—Friendship is preserved not by
searching for fat:dams or unqualified perfections,
trot by studying humanly foibles, and making al
lowances for them mpeeially if fheysprin . g from
pardonable conditions in lite, or from tboughtlmo'
sallies of humor, and not from any confirmed
roasil• of heart Best friends are friends to the
weak ; and friendly in nreatnemes. •
C*"' To every one there c his pleasure - , hat the
frivolous alone seek for it frivolously. Happy are
they who, tar ht by trials, vafferinzs, die:appoint
ments, and vickektides, have learned to find their
plerure where so many miss it, in dory, and in
privation, and who exix-rieriee more delight and ,
satisfaction in hailhood than in easyhood.
PABlsl=k—There ate two ehmis of parasites;
F.
one, which subsists on the ascending; theother,
the descendimrsp of •vert, ation. Tbe lacer t
forth no laves, and in fAn engine?, they who im
bibe of te 43mi:ending &imams of fife, Rah= nei
ther beantrno foliage, nor excellent kniins.
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