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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.'
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