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BY S. B. ROW.
OLEARFIELB, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1857.
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IBB STAB AND TH3 WAT3E-LILY. ,
BY OLIVER W. HOLMES.
Tho Snn stepped down from bis golden throne,
And lay iu the sileut sea, . .
And the Lily hud folded her satin leaves, .
l'or a sleepy thing was she. -What
is the Lily dreaming of?
Why crisp the waters blue ?
See, gee. s'ue U lifting her varnish 'U lid ! "
Her white leaves are glistening through.
, The rose is cooling his burning cheek
In the lap of the breathless tide;
. The Lily hath sitters fresh and fair,
That would lie by the Rose's side ;
lie wonl't love her better than all the rest,
And he would bo fond and trne;
Cut the Lily unfolded her weary lids,
And look d at the sky so blue.
Remember, remember, thou silly one,
. How fast thy summer will glide,
And wilt thou wither a virgin pale,
- Or flourish a blooming bride ?
"0, the Rose is old, and thorny, and cold,
And he lives on earth," said she;
"But the star is fair and he lives in the air,
" .And he shall my bridegroom bo."
Rut what if the stormy clond should come,
And ruffle the silver sea ?
, Would he turn his eye from the distant sky,
To smile on a thing like tliuc?
O, no! fair Lily, he will notsend
' One ray from his far-off throne ;
The windsshall blow and the waves shall Sow,
And thou wilt bo left alone. -
There is not a leaf on the mountain-top,
2Cor a drop of evening dew,
Nor a golden sand on the sparkling shore,
Nor a pearl in the waters bine,
That he has not cheer'd with his fickle smiles,
And warm'd with his faithless beam
And will he be true to a pallid flower,
That floats on the quiet stream ?
' Alas, for the Lily ! she would not heed,
Rut turned to the skies afar.
And bared her breast to the trembling ray
That shot from the rising star;
- The cloud came over the darkened eky,
And over the waters wide ;
She Jook d in vain through the beating rain,
And sank in the stormy tide.
CURING A BAD IIABIT.
The Limp burned rather dimly. Sundry nul
lifying incrustations had gathered upon the
wicks which Susun declared were "letters" for
her ; at any rate they made-light darkness,and
if they were letters at all they were "dead let
ters," so that it became necessary to roinove
them.
" "I wish you would bring me the lamp-scissors,
Thomas. I can't see worth a cent."
All right again.
. "Now let us know what Lady Dedlock has to
say," said Tom stretching himself once more.
. Susan continued her reading for five min
utes, and then stopping again :
"My throat is dried up. I wish you would
get me some water. There is some in the pail
in the back room."
.. Tom got the water and Susan went on again.
Eap, tap, tap:
Somebody at the door, Thomas "
Take the light, Susan, and sec who it is."
"You go Thomas."
Torn did go. It- w.13 only a man who wanted
to inov where l'eter Pendleton lived.
Once more Tom got settled, but the fire got
down, and Susan wanted him to fix it, though
the wood lay by the lire-place.
"I guess I wont hear any more to-night Su
sie ; I will go to bed now," said he yawning.
"There are only two more pages to the end
of the chapter." '
"I am too fatigued," and Tom retired in
disgust.
Three years after. .
' Tom sat in the store smoking a long nine.
For nearly a year heh'd spent his evenings
there, smoki..0 and telling stories till long aT
ter bed-time.
What for 1 Tom used to have such cozy
times at Ij.jiuo evenings why didn't he stay
there now instead of loafing about the stores,
and dissociating with all the rowdies and vaga
bonds of Spindlcrille.
We are sorry to say it ; but Tom's house is
no longer a pleasant place to him. Ilo could
never sit dowu there half an hour without his
wife asking him to do something which more
properly belonged to her, and which she could
doj ust as well as he.
That very evening he had sat down before
the fire in his comfortable sitting room to make
out some bills agatnst some of his customers.
He had got the items of Mr. Pendleton's ac
count on paper, and was running up the col
umn of figures. -
' "Torn I wish you would get a pitcher of wa
ter, I am almost choked," interrupted Susan,
who sat at the other side of the table, mak
ing an apron for the next baby.
"Forty-one, forty-seven, fifty-two,." said
.Tom, continuing to add the figures.
-"The pitcher is on the table in the kitchen-.'
! "Sixty-three, seventy-eight, eighty." -
'Rinse it out before you put it in the pail."
Zero carries eight."
"Come, Tom, will you ?"
"Eight, eleven, sixteen."
I am almost choked," said Susan reaching
over and taking hold of his arm, "Get me
some water, will you f"
"Get it yourself eigbt, eleven, sixteen.'
"That is polite, I must say." , ; . : - . .
"Will you get the water or not ?". . .:; :
"No, I wont.'" . : :'
"It did not use to be so," answered Susan.
When I asked you to do anything for me"
"Like a darn fool I did it eight, eleven,
Bixtccn "
"I never thought you would treat me so,"
"Twenty-one, twenty-eight "
' "You are an altered man ; you are off now
every evening," whined the poor wif c wo pi
ty her wfci! we jpoint out the fault.
"There '." exclaimed Tom, closing ' his ac
count book in a pet, and putting it back in the
secretary '"I should as soon think of doing
anything in Tophet as here." v "
Seizing his bat ho rushed out of the house,
and made his way to the store,where we found
him at the opening of the chapter. '
He had not been there more than half an
hour, before uncle Tim, her mother's brother,
a substantial old farmer, who took great inter
est in Susan's welfare made her a call.
The poor wife's tears were scarcely dry, and
her eyes were swollen with weeping. She be
lieved herself to be the most cruelly abused
woman in Spindleville a martyr to the harsh
ness and cruelty of her husband .
. "Where's Tom ?" asked Tim. -
"He is not home. You know he never stays
in the house evenings now," replied Susan,
struggling to repress a flood of tears.
"What's the matter Susie? you look as if
you. had been crying," continued the old man
kindly. .
'I'm afraid Tom ain't quite so good a fellow
as we used to think he was." . . .
Susan only shook her head, and Undo. Tim
sat in silence for a few minutes. Suddenly
the poor wife, no longer able to hide her grief
burst into tears and Sobbed like a child.
"What's the matter, Susio ?"
"Tom was so very cross te mo to-night.'.'
"How did it happen 7" asked the old man
who had been a close observer cf his niece's
domestic relations and who already understood
matters very well.
"Why you see he was making out bills and
I asked him to bring a pitcher of water. Then
he scolded terribly."
"1 have been afraid of this since the first
week you were married," added uncle Tim.
"I am sure I do everything I can to please
bim, but he grows worse and worse."
"I 'sposo you won't thank me, Susie, for
telling you that it is mostly your fault."
"My fault, uncle !"
"In my opinion."
"Why, uncle V
"I remember nigh three years ago, passing
some time in the house here one night, Tom
had come in from work dreadful tired on that
day throwing himself on the sofa to rest his
tired bones. I remember, too, you made him
get up lour times within an hour to get things
for you, that you might have got yourself.1'
'Was there any harm in that ?"
"Sartain ! when he was all tired out you
ought not to have bothered him. Things have
been going on in this way. You ask him -to do
things that make him fret. Men folks ought
to bring in the wood and water and Co the
heavy work about the house ; but when you
make a nigger servant of 'em they won't
stand it."
Susan reviewed the past, and she could trace
a great many of their, little quarrels to the
source which Uncle Tim had pointed out as
the fountain of their discord.
"I 'spose you have read Poor Richard's Al
manac, and the 'old saws' it contains ; but I'm
goin' to give you a new 'saw' ICercr ask ano
ih'r to do for you uhat you, can just as veil', do
yourself." .-.--.
Uncle Tim took his leave, Susan set herself
to thinking very vigorously. The result of
ber reflections was a resolution to make the
new "saw" a principle of evcry-day life.
It was faithfully applied, and was oil upon
the troubled waters of the sea of matrimony.
Tom soon discovered the difference, and after
a while the matter was talked over between
them. Again was home pleasant to him, even
more pleasant than it had been before. Peace
w-as entirely restored and Tom is seldom dis
turbed never for unnecessary demands. So
much for the new saw.-
Ocean Telegraph. It is & most remarka
ble lact, while in the atmosphere the electrical
current traverses a largo wire more - readily'
than a small one, the experiments of Doctor
Whitehouse show that an opposite rule holds
good in submarine lines! A small wire is
here more effective. - There is still some ques
tion as to the working of the current through
so long a line. The prevailing opinion of the
philosophers is that the obstacles may bo over
come. But in discharging a wire twenty-five
hundred miles long there may be serious dif
ficulty. " The world will look with intense in
terest to the first trial. The proof of the o
cean telegraph will be In the using. If it
works well," we shall have intelligence ' from
London fonr and a half hours earlier by the
clock, than the occurrence of the events !
The success of this great project will be de
termined within lour or five weeks.
Speculation. Chicago is a great place for
speculation, and the "disease" is said to be
catching for miles around. The following is
from a Chicago paper of a late date, and in or
der to give our readers an idea of the extent
to which the "business fever" rages in that
section, we give it for what it's worth :
young man in an adjoining town was smitten
with the beauty of a young lady, whose father
had a suit at law, which must surely make or
break him, and popped the question. The
young lady answered in the affirmative, and
was expressing a desire for immediate marri
age, when he interrupted her with I can have
the refusal of you for six months, can't I ?"
The lady is supposed to. have desired a shorter
time," . .
..A BIT OF ROMANCE,.
Five or six years ago, a rich Louisiana plan
ter died, leaving an only heir, a daughter, who
was not quite seventeen years old. ; She, to
gether with ber fortune, was placed in the
charge of a guardian, who was distinctly rela
ted to the family. Ilcr fortune, and her Te
rn ark able beauty, attracted the attention of
many suitors, anion -j which was an accomp
lished young man from St. Louis, whoso only
wealth was his profession. His handsome per
son and fascinating manners won the lady's
affections, and without the knowledge f her
guardian, they were privately married. ,
Shortly after they removed to St. Louis
where they lived together happily for a time,
and a bright future seemed-to bo before them.
At the expiration of the year, the lady having
attained her majority, they .returned to New
Orleans to claim her fortune, and live In the
splendid old family mansion. - They were cold
ly received by the occupant, who deliberately
informed them that the estate had passed into
other hands. They at once applied to the law
for redress, and going through the protracted
formalities of two or three fruitless suits, they
were left penniless, and obliged to abandon
the case. Friendless and dispirited they re
turned to St. Louis, where the husband, like
many other husbands, tried to drown the re
nrcmbrance of his disappointment in the fatal
cup. His wife entreated and admonished in
vain. A separation was the consequence, and
the husband became more reckless and dissi
pated than ever. Driven at last to despera
tion, the wife applied for a divorce, obtained
it and retired to a convent. This restored the
wretched man to his senses ; he abandoned his
former associates, returned to the patli of vir
tue, and became a. respectable and industrious
citizen.
A few months ago, the lady received a let
ter from the son of her former guardian, in
forming her of his determination to make full
restoration, closing with an appeal to her to
forgive his misguided parent, and to come to
New Orleans and receive her fortune. She at
once complied with his generous request ; and
all her inheritance together with the accumu
lated interest, was restored to her.
Now comes the strangest part of this extra
ordinary affair. The young man offered her
his band in marriage, and plead with all the
earnestness of impassioned love. He remin
ded her of all her childish attachment, of his
deep anguish when she became the wife of a
nother, and of the long years of his silent sor
row. All these remembrances came up before
her mird, and gratitude plead eloquently in
his favor ; but at last the wife triumphed over
the woman. She thanked him and gavo bim
her simple blessing told him she had loved
but one and could never love another. She
entreated him to take back all her fortune,
and permit her to return to the convent. Find
ing her resolution unalterable, he consented,
on condition that she should postpone her re
turn one month. He immediately wrote to
the former husband, who was ignorant of what
had transpired, offering him a first rate situa
tion, on condition he would come immediate
ly. The letter was signed by the principal of
a well known firm, who was apprised of every
circumstance in the case. As soon as the let
ter came to hand, the overjoyed recipient took
passage for New Orleans. He presented him
self at the place designated in the letter, and
at once made him elf known by shewing his
credentials. He was conducted to the resi
dence of the generous heir, where he was in
formed, the writer of the letter waited to re
ceive him. His name was announced, and he
was conducted into an elegant parlor, and
there, alone, he met the woman he had neg
lected and dishonored the woman who had
been forced to leave him but who could not
quite give him up.
A few days afterwards the city papers an
nounced ' the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. .
The estate was restored to the lawful owners,
and tho reconciled couple, made wiser and bet
ter by adversity, are now living happily to
gether. ,
It is good to turn sometimes from the cares
and turmoils of politics, and contemplate hu
man nature rising up from the depths of mise
ry and despair, casting aside selfishness, and
reaching that standard of purity. and happiness
which so few attain.
lion. Frank F. Blair, of St. Louis, has a
brother James G.' Blair, residing in Lewis
county, Missouri, who, like "Frank," is in fa
vor of ridding bis Stato of slavery.- The "Na
tiena Democracy" of Clark county held a
meeting at the count scat, Waterloo, a few
days ago, and James G. Blair was called upon
to address them, which he did. - no "declared
his opposition to the agitation' of the slavery
question, but at the same time admitted that ho
looked forward with delight to the coming of
tho time when slavery would be blotted out in
Missouri. Mr. Blair said, that w hile he en
dorsed the principles of non-intervention, he
felt that ho had a right to entertain a private
opinion with regard to the subject of slavery."
Tho emancipation sentiment seems to bo rap
idly spreading in Missouri. -
E7"A woman in New Hampshire, who had
been ill-used by her husband, on finding him
sound asleep, one day, quietly, sewed him up
in tho bed-cloth cs, and then gave him a tre
mendous thrashing I
POLITICAL EFFECTS OF ROMANISM.
- .That Popery is a millstone around the neck
of Free Institutions, and antagonistic to Civil
and Religious Freedom, no one who has read
history can doubt. That Protestantism is con
genial to Liberty, and promotive of Free In
stitutions, is the lesson of History. Such be
ing the case, tho Political effects of Popery
have ever been bad, while those of Protestant
ism have been beneficial.
An argument in support of these facts may
bo found in tire preface of an interpretation of
the Apocalypse of St. John, from the able pen
of tho Rev. Dr. Geo. Croly. It is derived from
the history of England since the Reformation,
and shows .that ovciy reign which attempted
to bring back Popery, has been marked with
signal calamity ; that almost every reign of
Popish tendency has been followed by. one
purely Protestant, and that these alternations
contrast no more strongly in their religious as
pects than in their public fortunes.
We can, of course, but glimpse at the points
adduced by Dr. Croly in support of his posi
tion, but the reader oi English history cannot
fail to recognize and admit the force of them.
Thus Protestantism was first thoroughly estab
lished in England under Elizabeth. Mary had
left a dilapidated kingdom ; the nation worn
out with disaster and debt ; the national arms
disgraced j nothing in vigor but popery. E
lizabeth, "the great queen of Protestantism,"
not only restored tho kingdom, but laid the
foundations of the future greatness of the Brit
ish empire.
James inherited the principles, with the
Crown, of Elizabeth. In this reign the Gun
powder Plot, which was to have set o Po
pish government on tho ruin of tha nation,
was discovered on the eva of execution. -A
special Providence averted tho blow aimed at
the Ark of Protestantism.
Charles First ascended a prosperous throne.
But he betrayed his trust, by forming a Popish
alliance, with the full knowledge that it estab
lished a popish dynasty. His first armament
was against the Huguenots. Ill fortune gath
ered round ; distracted councils, popular feuds
and civil bloodshed succeeded. ...
Tho Protectorate pre-eminently showed the
vigor of tho great renovating principle-
Cromwell's was the sccptro of & broken king
dom, but he wielded it powerfully against the
great enemy of Civilization, popery. Eng
land was speedily lifted to her feet as by a
miracle, and as rapidly rose to bo the most
conspicuous power Of Europe.
. Charles Second was a concealed Roman Ca
tholic. He attempted to introduce bis reli
gion ; the natural consequences followed
country and King all became the scorn of for
eign powers : the national arms were humilia
ted in war; and pestilence and conflagration
laid waste the capital.
. An undisguised papist, James Second came
next. This filled the cup. The Stuarts were
cast out, they and their dynasty forever. Th.it
proud line of Kings dwindled down to a soli
tary monk, an exile and a stipendiary, subsis
ting on the alms of England.
Protestantism called William to the throne.
He found the kingdom a ruin, begirt by ene
mies and ravaged by intestino commotion.
But the principle, that called bim, left its wis
dom and victory. He attacked colossal France
on its own soil. The Protestant champion
vanquished the Popish persecutor, and shat
tered the power of France for a hundred years.
Tho Brunswick lino was Protestant. Their
faith was their title. Under their succession,
with the remarkable exception of tho "Roman
Catholic Administration" in the early years of
the current century, to complete the contrast,
England rose to her present dignity.
A Fesi ale Religious Duel. ThcCorrcspon
dence Havre has the following account of a fe
male religious direl: "The Swiss Protestants
are absorbed by a serio-comic topic. It is a
feminine duel which . has jnst taken place,
apropos to the unsolved questions between the
disciples of Luther and Calvin. Two young
women, teachers of Berne, made fanatical by
their reading, and the individual interpreta
tions which it suggested, could not agreo upon
a point of doctrine, and finally agreed to re
sort to force to settle the question. The place
of meeting was the most obscure part of a
neighboring wood, the hour fixed was two o'
clock seconds had procured the steel wea
pons, for tho duel was to be fought with
swords. After several lively thrusts, on.e of
the fair combatants received a severe wound
in tho ' knee, and fell upon the grass fainting.
The combat ceased, but our two causists in
petticoats have already rallied a good number
of adherents. It is a new clement of discord
with the Bernese. . It has almost eclipsed the
Neufchatel. question." :
The Powee or Powder. On Friday after
noon, the workmen engaged in the excavation
of stone, at Qnarryville, Ct., had a tremen
dous blast. Instead of drilling holes, they
found a largo fissure, into which they poured
1500 lbs, of powder, and then stopped up the
crivice. When tho train was fixed, at least
3000 tons ol rock were removed, 1000 tons be
ing thrown from 25 to 100 rods distant. One
solid, mass of rock, weighing at least SO tons,
was thrown a distance of 30 rods. Fences in
the vicinity wero completely destroyed, and
the tops of trees taken off as clean as if dono
by the axe.
POSITION IN SLEEPING.
. It is better to sleep on tho right side, for
then the stomach is very much in the position
of a lxttlo turned up side down and tho con
tents are aided in passing out iu gravitation.
If tm goes to sleep on the left side, tho ope
ration of emptying the stomach of its contents
is more like drawing water-from a well. Af
ter going to sleep- let the body take its own
position. If you sleep bn your back, especi
ally after a hearty meal, the weight of the di
gestive organs, and that of the food, resting
on the great vein of the body, near the back
bone, compresses it, and arrests the flow of
blood more or less. If the arrest is partial,
the sleep is disturbed, and there are unplea
sant dreams. If tho niqal has been recent or
hearty, the arrest is more decided, and tho va
rious sensations, such as tailing over a preci
pice, or the pursuit of some wild beast, or oth
er impending danger, and the desperate cfiort
to get rid of it aronses us ; that sends - on the
stagnating blood, and we wake in a flight, or
trembling, or perspiration, or feeling of ex
haustion, according to the degree of stagna
tion, and the length and Strength of the cft'ort
made to escape the danger. But when we are
not able to escape the danger, when we do fall
over the precipice, when tho tumbling build
ing crushes us, what then ?. That is death !
That is the death of those of whom it is said
when found lifeless in their bed in the morn
ing, "They were as well as they ever were the
day belorc ; and often, it ii added, and "alt
heartier than common !" This last, as a fre
quent cause of death to those who have gone
to bed well to wake no more, we give merely
as a private opinion. The possibility of its
truth is erough to deter any rational man from
a late and hearty meal. This we do know with
certainty, that waking up in the night with
painful diarrhea, or cholera, or bilious colic.
ending in death in a very short time, is pro
pcrly traceable to a late, large meal. The tru
ly w ise will take tho safer side. For persons
who eat .three times a day, it is amply suffi
cient to make the last meal of cold bread and
butter and a cup of some warm drink. No
one can starve on it, while a perseverance in
the habit soon bogets a vigorous appetite for
breakfast, so promising of a day of comfort.
Hall' Journal of Health.
CuBISTIAXITr A5D ClIEEUFTLXESS should gO
together. The "good hope" that one's name
isv iittenin the Book of Life, that he is an
heir of God, and joint heir with Jesus Christ,
ought to fill his soul w ith a constant -thrill of
joy, giving him no time for sadness, no time
to feel pain, no time for anything but to reflect
upon the "glory that shall be revealed." Yet,
how many there are, who profess to be expec
tants of that glory, w ho seem never to be bles
sed with the prospect ! who always go bowed
down with their heads as a bulrush, thus dis
honoring God, giving to their enemies occa
sion to laugh, while they themselves drag out
a wretched existence ! ' Could such unhappy
orcaturcs but learn that it does no good to af
flict the soul by reflecting upon a painfulpres
cnt, or a dark future ; that it does no good to
create an evil by fearing an imaginary one ;
that it makes a dark object no brighter to view
it through a dark cloud, there would be less of
suffering in our woild, less complaint of God's
providence, and society would assume that
cheerful aspect that it should wear.
American Bible Societt. The financial
year of the American Bible Society closed on
the 31st of March. It has been a year of great
prosperity, the receipts being $441,80o,57,ex-
cccding the receipts of the previous year$48,-
633,-12. The amount received from Maryland
was $15,291 ; from tha District of Columbia,
$8S6; from Virginia, $10,857; from North
Carolina, $5,131 ; from Delaware, $408, and
from Pennsylvania, $30, 171. During the year
seven hundred and forty thousand copies of
the Scriptures were issued being an excess of
one hundred and ninety eight thousand over
the previous year. The issncs were as follows :
Bibles, 214,000; Testaments, 296,000.
A Famine. Great distress is said to prevail
in parts of Russell and adjoining counties in
Kentucky, owing to the scarcity and high price
of provisions. Thero is but very little grain
or meat in that section to bo purchased at any
price; And while many families are in a desti
tute condition as regards food, many are ac
tually in a state bordering on starvation. A
public meeting was held at Jamestown recent
ly to deviso some plan by which the necessi
ties cf the suficrcrs could be relieved, and lib
eral donations were made, w ith the view of
sending to Nashville for provisions.
DTTho Drcd Scott decision has already
been turned to tho advantage of tho negro.
Last week a negro was sued for debt in a Mich
igan Court. He put in the plea, under the re
cent decision, he was not a citizen, but a thing
not humanity, but real estate and therefore
not indictable. The pica was sustained, and
the creditor went homo cursing Taney.
At a country bouse, where Sheridan was on
a visit, an old maid desired to be his compan
ion in a walk, lie excused himself at first on
the ground of tho badness of tho weather.
She soon afterwards detected him in an attempt
to escane without her. "Well." he said ' "It
is cleared op enough for one but not enough
for two."
AGRICULTURAL.
Time or Planting Potatoes. It is a com
mon error to plant too early. In all parts of
the country, the seed often goes Into the
ground several days earlier than it orght. , It
is forgotten that this plant is of tropical origin.
and requires a much higher temperature to
germinate and grow than most other kinds of
grain and vegetables. We have somewhero
seen it stated that the kernal required a tem
perature of at least 55deg. to make it sprout
and grow well. Whatever tho particular de
gree of the heat may bo, wo are confident that
it is much higher than the soil generally is at
the usual timo of planting. As a conscquenco
of too early planting, much of tho seed rots,
and the farmer has the trouble of -planting o-
ver again. The corn that comes np is stunted.
a part of the roots rot, and the plant yields less
fodder and grain than - it would if seasonably
planted. In latitudes north of this, except in
warm locations, both east and west, the last
week in May is better than any earlier date to
plant Indian corn. This is now our uniform
practice in field culture. One of the best far
mers of our acquaintance plants the first week
in June, and though he uses the yellow dent
variety, which is not early, he uniformly'gcts
large crops. He claims that this late pi au ting
saves once hoeing, and that the corn comes up
better, has a more uniform growth and yields
better.
Time or Pbisixc. I notice much diversity
of opinion iu regard to pruning. As respects
apple and cherry, experience teaches me that
when blooming or in full flower, the branches,
if smoothly cut, heal over perfectly sound.
The tree is then in full vigor, and able to pro
tect itself, while the leaves and blossoms shut
ter the wounds from sun and wind. The ob
jection to winter trimming, especially of large
limbs is, that the March winds check tie end
of the limb from one-half to two inches in
depth, allowing not only water to stand in tha
crevice, but also forms a reservoir for tho ris
ing sap, which it is well known becomes a
strong acid, producing rapid decay, and cannot
easily be arrested until it reaches the root of
the tree. Nine-tenths cf the old orchards
have been ruined in this way. Most if not all
shrubs should bo pruned when in the growing
state. Shoots or suckers will not put forth aa
in the case of winter pruning. American jig
riculturalist. CnixcsE Sugar Caxe. A. cotemporary
speaking of the high price of sugar and molas
ses urges farmers to plant thiscanc. lie says :
Let every man who has got a foot of ground
plant the seed of the Chinese cane. It csi bo
made the most profitable crop that is raised.
Some gentlemen who have tried it sny that
from two to four hundred dollars, worth can
be produced from an acre of ground. It will.,
grow in our Northern States probably as well
as the South. It has succeeded well in Ver
mont. It maturesmuch sooner than the South
ern cane, and will be ready for harvesting be
lorc the frosts come. Let our fanuers try it
by all means. The seeds can be obtained.
One editor in the State Indiana says that the
fanners in that Stato arc taking hold of it In
good earnest, and that in a year or two the peo
ple of the State will bo entirely independent
of all supplies from abroad or from Lousiana,
It could be raised in Pennsylvania in a suffr
cient quantity to supply the entire demand.
And it would bo a very profitable production
Twenty dollars worth of wheat is about as
much as an acre will produce at present pri
ces. We hope it will be tried on nearly eve
ry farm. Sugar is an article of universal use,
aud high trices are burdensome. We-tkfns:
the Chinese cane is being introduced just in
time to supply a great public want.
Maple Siuar axd Molasses. The very
high price of sugar and molasses renders tua
production of these articles from the maple a
matter of no trifling moment. According to
the census of 1850, the quantity of maple su
gar produced ia that year was about thirty
four millions of pounds. The N. Y. Tribune
estimates the production of the present year
at seventy millions of pounds. This, at twelvo
cents a pouud tho lowest price at wl ickwo
have beard of its being sold, in this quarter,
by the producers would amount to nine mil
lions and eight hundred thousand dollars.
The quantity of maple molasses produced this
year ill not, probably, be less than a million
cf gallons, worth, to the producer, for sale or
use, ' no less than a dollar a-gallon. Thus, it
appears that the mnple sugar and molasses
produced the present year will amount, prob
ably, to not less than about eleveu millions of
dollars all manuf actured at a very small ex
pense of time, and from material that would
not have been usefully employed ia any other
way." - v .: i
A Crnioi-s Suit. A celebrated Fai is phy
sician and surgeon lately performed an opers
tioa on a blind man, as an act of charity, and
fully restored him to sight, Ie a few days tho
blind man sued tho doctor for destroying his
profession as a blind man, and taking tools,
laying damages at twenty thousand francs.
The suit is now in court. - ' .
"Matrimony,"said a modern Bencdiek'tho
other day, "produces remarkable rcvolutionf.
Hero am I, for instance, in ten short mortis
changed from a sighihg lover to loving sire.
DGot. Walker has started for Kinsas. '
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