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POE TRY.
"To charm the languid hours of solitude
lie oft invites her to the Muse's lore."
BIT MOTHER.
UT YAUNT solinseTzu
Give nte my old neat, mother,
, With my head upon thy knee ;
I've passed through many a changing scene,
Since thus I sat by thee.
Oh! let me look into thine eyes—
Their meek, soft loving light
Falls like a gleam of holiness,
Upon my heart to-night.
I've not been long an-ay, mother;
Few suns have rose and set,
flince lust the tear drop en thy check
My lips in kisses met ;
'Tie hut a little time, I know,
But very long it moths,
Though every night I come to thee,
Dear mother, in my dreams.
The world litiA ribdly dealt, mother,
By the ctillti alcili lovest no well!
Thy prayer■ have circled round her path,
And 'twas their holy epclt
Which mado that pith no dearly bright,
k.Vhich strewed the Rios there,
%Villelt gave the light and cast the balt,
On every breath of air.
k t,ear a happy heart, titotlii,
A happier never beat ;
And even now new buds of hope
Are bursting at my feet,
Oh mother! life may be ti
IL, if sorb nn n Mg are given,
Wtilo at the
. portals time
jVhat are the TRUTIIII of Heaven
I bear a hippy heart, mother;
Yet, when fond eyes I ore,
And Lear soft tones and winding
I ever think of thee,
And then, the tear my spirits weep■
Unbidden Flla nay eyes;
And, like a homeless dole, I ldng
Unto thy Verna to fly.
Then, lam Very inothih
I am very sad and Ion.;
Oh ! there's no heart whore inmost fold
Opes to MO like thine own :
Though runny smiles wreathe hloominglijas,
While love tones meet my oar;
My mother, one fond glance of thine
Were thousand times more dear.
Then, with a closer clasp, mother,
Now hold me to thy heart ;
I'd feel it beating 'gainst my own
Once more before we part.
And mother, to thin love-lit spot,
When I ern far away,
Come oft—roo orr thou canst hot tome—
And for thy darling pray.
Love and Romanee.—The folloWing is the pret
tiest little romantic story we have Met With for some I
(IMO :
"Thomas A. Becket inherited a romantic turn
or mind from his mother, whose story is a singular
one. Ilia father, Gilbert becket, a flourishing cit
fifth, had been in his youth a soldierin the crusades
and behig taken prisoher, became slave to an Emir,
or Saracen prince. By degreee lie bbtaihed the
confidence of his master, and *es admitted to his
company, where he met a paraoh who became more
attached to him. This was the tmir's daughter.
tthether by her means or not, dots not tippeir, but
lifter so time he contrived to escape: the lady
with I heart followed him. She khetv, they
say, b Words df his latiglinge, tehdon and
Gilbert, by repeating the former, she obtained
a passage ill a itaso, Strllrell ih England, and found
her trusting way to the Metropolis. She theft tddk
her other talisman, and it cht born street to street,
pronouncing 'Gilbert.' A crowd cdllected Shout
her wherever she went, asking, or teurse, ti thOU
sand questions and to all she had but one dhawer—
, Gilbert! Gilbert !!' Site found her faith ih it Alf
ficient. Chance on her determination to go ttirongh
every street, brought her at last to the one in which
he who had won her heart in slavery, was living in
good condition. The crowd drew the family to the
window; his servant recognized her, and Gilbert
Becket took to his arms and his bridal bed his far
tome princess with her solitary fond word."
•
""Boon AM a LION."—One of the beet jokes of
the soasOn is told by the amiable Jim Gornes,of ions°.
rial notoriety. A. Southern Adonis, no way cele
brated for his personal attractions, on completing a
somewhat protracted toilet ono morning, turned to
his servant, and inquired.
How do I look, Glenn!
'Plendid, massa,"plondid, was ebony's delighted
answer.
Do you think 111 do, Caesar! (giving him a
piece of silver.)
Guy, Massa, nebor sea you look so fierce in all
my hfo, you look jie' no bold ea a lion.
Why what do you know about a lion! you nev
etosaw one, Caesar.
Neber see a lion, Mas,iid Guy, I see Massa Pay.
ton's Jim ride ono ober to mill ebery day.
No. you foul, a donkey.
Cci't Liolp Masla—you link jis like him.
U;)(2l. i , M'a_WLl-)cLEUEIS' UEI I
.3a atiElaCteecr
Hannibal and Napoleon.
The just pride and elegant flattery of the French
historians has often led them to compare Napo
leon's passage of the Great St. Bernard to Hanni
bal's passage of !he Pennine Allis: bui Ileac:Mt de:
tracting frera the a/ell:earned farms of the Ficiach
general, it may safely be affirmed that his achieve
ment will bear no sort of comparison with that of
the Carthaginian hero. When Napoleon began ;
tho ascent of the AlpafivM,Martigni, on the shores
of the Rhone, above the lake of Geneva, lie found ,
the panne of the mountains cleared by the niece- ,
cant transit of two thousand years. The road, im
practicable
for carriages, war very good for home- ,
men end foot passengers, and was daily traversed ,
by great number. of both in every season of the
year. Comfortable villages, on the ascent and the
descent, afforded easy accommodation to the 46 . 1,,:
vied soldiers both by night and by ' day; amp le
stores of the monks at the summit. and the provi
dent foresight of the French generals, had provided
a meal to every man and horse that palmed. No
hostile troops opposed their passage: the gune were
drawn up in sledges made of hollowed firs; and in
four days from the time that they began the ascent
from the banks of the Rhone the French troops,
without loosing a man, stood on the Doria Bakes,
the increasing waters of which flowed towards the
Po, amidst the gardens and vineyards, and under
the sun of Italy. But the ease was very different,
when Hannibal mimed from the shores of the Du-
ran. to the banks of the Po. The mountain side,
not cleared by centuries of laborious industry, pre
sented a continual forest, furrowed at every hollow
by headlong Alpine torrents; bridges there were
none to cross these perpetually recurring obstacles;
provisions, scanty at all times in those elevated sot
; itudes, were then nowhere to be found, having been
hid by the affrighted inhabitants on the approach of
the invaders; and a powerful army of mountaineers
ticcurild. entrance of the defiles, defended with
desperate valour the gates of their country, and
when dispersed by the superior discipline and arms
of Hannibal's soldiers, still beset the ridge. above
their line of march, dttd harraseed his troops by
cclitittual nOstilily. When s tlie wood-region was
passed, and the vanguard emerged into the open
petual snow, fresh difficulties awaited them. The
turf, from the gliding dowit of newly fallen snow
on those steep declivities, Wris no slipjnery, dint it
woo often scarcely possible for the men to keep
their feet; the beasts of burden lost their footing at
every step, and rolled down in great numbers into
the abysses beneath; the elephants becaroo restive
amidst privations and a climate to which they %Teri:
totally unaccustomed; and the strength of the sol
diers, worn out with incessant marching and fight
ing, began to sink before the continued toil of the
ascent. Horrors, formidable to all, hilt in an espe
cial manner terrible to African eeldiem, awaited
_ _
them at the summit. It was now the end of Octo
ber; winter in all its sevetiV hod already set in on
those lolly Soliludes; the moniatain sides, silent end
melancholy eVen . at the height of rummer, *lien
enamelled with floWers and cloaca with flocks, pre.
rented then an unbroken sheet of show; the blue
lakes which ate intersperesed over the level valley
at their fat, were frozen river, and tthdistinguisha
ble from the rest of the dreary expariae,and a bound
less mass of snowy peaks arose on all sides, pre-
venting apparently an impassable barrier to their
further progress.
But It. was then ihdt the greatness of Monitial
shone forth in all its lustre. 'that great general,"
Kays Arnold, "Who felt that he now stood victori-
Qua on the ramparts of Italy, and that rib torrent
which rolled before him was carrying its waters to
the ric:i plains of Cisalpino Gaul, endeavored to
kindle his soldiers with his own spirit of hope. He
called them together; he pointed out to them the
valley beneath, to which the descent seemed to be
but the work of a mornent. 'That valley,' he said,
is Italy; it leads us to the country of our friends tho
Gauls, and yonder is our way to Borne!" His
eyes were eagerly fixed en that paint of the hori
zon, and as he gazed, the ffisiance between seemed
to vanish, till he could almost fancy that he was
crossing the 'Fiber and assailing the Capital."
Such were the difficulties of the passage and the
descent on the other aide, that Hannibal lost thirty
three thousand men from the time he left the Pyre.
debit till he entered the plains of Northern Italy;
and he arrived on the Po with only twelve thou
hantl ikftleEitii% eight thousand Spanish infantry,
and elk tlithisatid horse: Napoleon's army who
fought at Marengo was Milb iirerity•nine thouifind,
Wit he had lost no mon hi the pissnr;r: cf the hips,
end ottlY a tsitlr ill the diflitillt plump :Wogs the
precipices of Mont AlbaredO, OtrPOilte the fort of
Bard, in the valley of the boria BaltdEtt It is ridic
ulous, after this, to compare the passegts of the
Alps by Napoleon to their crossing by itannibui.--
Blackwood's Magazine.
PROFITABLE WORK.—While a sort of
Erin was employed in excavating a cellar
in Savannah a short time ago, he came
upon a depusite of ninety•six doubloons, I
which were supposed to have been de
posited there for safe keeping by the for•
mer occupant of the house. It is said that
• shortly after the dis:overy, he was taken
suddenly with violent pains, dropped the
spade, anti started for home, and that
since that time nothing has been heard of
him. _____
A BLACK MAN him been etrikingly defin,
' , God's image set in ebony.
The Two Foxes,
Mrs. Child, in her ..Letters from New York,"
vouches for the authenticity of the following curi
outtininent in iistUrel history:
"He (the narrator) was one day in the fields,
neat a stream where several geese were swimming.
Preiently, hb observed one disappear under the
water, with a saden jerk. While he looked for
her to tier again, he saw a fox emerge from the
water, and trot off to the wood, with the unfortu
nate geese ih his Month'. He chanced to go in a
direction where it was easy for the man to Watch
his movement,. He carried his burden to a ra
cess tinder art overhanging rock. Here ha scratch
es away a mass of dry leaves, scooped a hole, hid
his treasure within, and covered it up very careful
ly. Then off he went to the stream again, entered
soitle lielaiice behind the flock of geese, end floated
noiselessly along, witli inerely the tip' f his nose
visible above the surface. But this time, he was
not ela ibrtehate in his maw:en:tree. The gbeie, by
some accident, took the alarni end Clew away with
hittd eacklitig. The fox, finding hirdself defeated,
walked off it a direction opposite 16 the 'place
where his victim wee belied: tlio man uncovered
the hole, put the goose in his basket, replaced the
leaves careftilly, elid stood patiently at a distance,
to watch further prciceedinfs. The my thief was
soon seen returning with nn6ther fa}, that he hail
invited to dine With him. Tlicy trotted Along
right merrily, swirigirld• iheii tails, sanding the air,
and smacking their lips, in anticipation or a rich
repast. When they arrived under the Pock , ReY
nard eagerly ...retched away the leaves, inn 10, his
dinner had disappeared! Ito lOoked dl hie com
panion, end plainly caw by hi, erilinteairce, the;
he more than niisdoubted whether any goose was
ever there, as pretended. He evidently considered
his friend's hospitality a sham, and himself insult
ed. His contemptuous expression woe more than
the mortified fox could bear. Though conscious of
generous intentions, he felt that all assurances to
that effect would be regarded as lies. Appear
i ances were certainly very much against him; for
I hi, tail slunk between his legs end he held his
Ihead down, looking sideways with a sneak glance
at Ida disappointed companion. Indignant at what
l'o P r re n nWlh‘Polfiatle ° P . aiiees, " ii;affended guest
seized his unfortunate host, and cuffed him most
(unmercifully. Poor Ileynard bore the infliction
with the utmost patience, and sneaked off, as if
conscious that he bad received no more than might
'be naturally expected under the circumstances."
The Bible
The Bible is the only book which God has ever
sent, the only one he ever will send into the world.
All other books are frail and transient as time, since
they are only !lie registern Of 'nine ; but the Bible
is durable as eternity. All other works are weak
and imperfect, like the author, men; but the Bible
is replete with infinite power and perfection, like its
author, God. Every other volume is limited in its
usefulness end influence ; but the Bible comes forth
conquering and to conquer.
The Bible only, of all myriads of books the
world has seen, is equelly interesting and important
to all mankind. Its tidings, whether of peace or
of woe, arc the same to the poor as to the rich,the miss
and the powerful. Among the most remarkable of its
attributes is justice; for it looks with impartial eyes on
kings and on slaves, on the chief and the soldier, on
philosophers and peaSants, on the elequentand the
dumb.Erom all it exacist he same obedience to in;
commandments, promising to the good the reward of
loyalty, but denouncing to the evil tho awful con•
sequences of rebellion.
Nor arc purity and liolineoe; the Wwdom and he
nevolence of the Scriptures less conspicuous. In
Bain they tie ldok elsewhere for the true models of
character, for the models of the husband and the wife,
the pared and the child', the, patriot and the scholar,
the philanthropist and the ehristian, the private cit
izen and the ruler of the nation. Whatever shell
be their respective lots, whether poverty or wealth,
prosperity or adversity, social influence or solitary
station, the Bible is their only fountain of truth—
their only source of virtue end greatness, of honor
and tel City.
Here,then, let us repose our trust—here let us
look for our beacon of safety t—and whether sun
shine or gloom, the storm or calm, the beauty and
wealth of spring, or the nakedness and desolation
of winter may be our portion—supported and gui
ded by the Bible, all must be Well with twin TIME
fdr alt ihall be well with .34 in EctweiTi.
A CAREFUL SPOUSF.-At a polytechnic
exhibition in Liverpool, got up by the
Mechanics' Institute, a newly married
man expressed a deterthinatioti to "go
down in the . diving bell."
" Oh don't my thar,s i eirlaimed the
bride, " it must he tlaiigerons.' 3
The bridegrOoth was obstinate ; and, at
length, finding her entreaties unavailing,
his lovely Ileautrice sank her demand into
a coinpromise.
" If you will go down,.my dear," said
she, "and peril your wife's happiness, let
me beg of you to go down in your old
coat."
Newton said, ' , Endeavor to be first in your
trade or profession, whatever it may be." And
this, by the way, is the secret of success and ex
cellence. It matters comparatively little what that
trade, or occupation or profession may lee, provided
it is useful
Facts for Forty Millions.
Ma. EDITOR:—Can you make room in some
corner of your paper, for a few facts which I have
collected with some labor, and which, I thirik, sUri
ously concerning the working people of the An
glo-Saxon race I
The national debts of sixteen of the European
Governments, at the closest estimate that can be
made, amount in our currency, to $lO, 305, 000,-
000; all incurred for the expenses of war. This
sum embraces merely the orrearage, not what has
been paid, for carrying on war. The average of
this amount is $63,25 a head to the whole popula
tion of those 16 nations. The interest of this vast
sum nearly equals a tax of One Dollar on every
inhabitant of the Globe.
Since the Reformation (!!) Great Britian has I
been engaged 65 years, in the prosecution of seven
wars; for which she expended, in our currency,
$B, 982, 120,000. It has been estimated by our
Missionaries that a school of 50 heathen children;
eh the continent of India, would only coat $l5Ol
per annum. Then thin sum expended by a Chris
thin nation in 05 years in carrying on war with
other Christian nations, if applied to the education
of the heathen, would have schooled 46,002,154
children per for 65 yearn! Allowing 5
years to each scholar, then 598,808,000 children
thight !TV been educated for the money that Great
Britian dral s ned from the sources and channels of
her wealth am: industry, to waste in ware, every
one of which degraded her People in every quality
6r their condition.
From 1793 to 1015,-1 period of 22 years—
Great Britian, France and Austria expended $7,-
330,000,000 in war. The infereq of Ihiß Bum, at
6 pot cent would have supported 30,000 Missiona
ries among tho heathen during the whole period of
22 years, in which these chiiitian nations were en
diiged ih dohig the devil's Work on each other.—
The aggredate amount would have given 5 year,
schooling to 988, 6G6,666 ,pagan children on tho
Lancasterian plan. The interest for one month,
at the ahoio rate, would build rail
road at $25,000 per mile.
Consulting the boat actiCritles I cn comiiiand,
I find that the aggregate amount of the expendi
-14, 189:3, , 1'789 to March
Now—patriotic Americans! will you not
this reflectingly I—of this vast sum there belie been
expended only $148,620,055 far civil purposes, °Tx
bracing the Civil List, Foreign Intercourse, and the
Miscellaneous expenses. Then it follows that
$962. 755, 680 have been lavished upon repara
tions for war in tune of peaco, within a little more
than half a century, by this model Republic ! ! !
Another fact t From Jan. 1, 1836, to March 3, 18-
43, the war expenses of this Government ware
$153,954,881 ! ! I—five millions more than all the
civil expenses of the Government from 1789 to
1943 ! ! !--Another fact : From 1916 to 1834,1
eighteen years, our national expenses amounted to
$463,915,756; and of this sum, nearly $400,000,
000 went in one way and another for war, and on
!y 664,000,000 for all other objec!a! being twenty
two millions a year for war, and about three mil
lions and a half—less than one sixth of the whole
—for the peaceful operations of a government that
itself on its pacific policy ! If we take
into accourit all the expenses and all the losses of
to this country, it will he found to have wasted
for or, in sixty years, some two or three thousand
millions of dollars !
13tRRITT
W'tti:Tut, Aug. 9, 1845.
The Messenger of Love.
he nit of training carrier pigeons is not un
known to Orientals. The practice, which may be I
traced to the ark of Noah, in beautifully described
in Genesis, is continued at ConstantirMple. Per
sons going upon pilgrimage■ or making journeys
inland, sometimes employ these birds to carry back
accounts of their health or progress during the tint ,
day.. The practice was much in vogue with the
Arabe and Saracens for political and warlike pur
poses. The first inventor of communication' by
means of these airy travellers is said to have been a
native of Pagdad, who trained pigeone tor the
Abasside Kaliph, Yezid 111, in order that he might
swiftly correspond, when absent, with a favorite
{ slave, named Djebada, of whom he was tenderly
enamoured. The devotint St this prince to hie
I lovely captive was carried to most romantic end
fatal extremes. The plague chancing to break out
in Bagdad, this lady woe among its victim:. No
sooner did the dread apparition of the black dog
arise before the unfortunate girl, and no acorn.. did
the fatal humors, indicative of the malady, eVpear
Upon her person, than the devoted Vezid clasped
her to his heart; then, waiting upon her as a watch
ful nurse, be remained at hoe side until the angel of
death struck the last blow: After closing her eyes
frith hie cent hands, he cite hhiiselfliesida the body
and continued three days in thic state, refusing
food and consolation. At length his vizors and
courtiers, emplciying respectful force, tore him from
the miserable remains, which were committed to
earth with regal pomp. Being an advocate for the
maintenance of quarantines, upon a modified and
judicious system, and thence a participator in the
doctrines of contagionists, I am not loth to express
satisfaction et the corroborative results of the Ka
liph's violent tenderness. From the had of his fa
vorite's rest Yezid was removed to his own, where
he died, as the poets of Arabia affirm, of a broken
heart; but, in fact ho had taken the infection, and
followed Djebeeta to the tomb en the ninth day.—
Porn,str . , manner! .ftt.cTurks ig 1.11.
Interesting Facts.
The potation o. the earth is estimated et ono
thousand zillions. Thirty millions die annually,
eighty-tWie thousand daily, three thousand
hundred and twenty-one every hour, and fifty-sov
en every Minute.
A bushel of wheel weighing 62 pounds, con
tains 660,01 1 / kernels.
In Greece it Wes the Cllsto:ii at ineels fer . the two
sexes always to eat seriously. . . . .
- .
The Romans lay on couches at their dining
tables, on their left arnis, eating with their right:
Noah's Ark was 946 English feet long, 91 broad,
and 5t high.
The walls of Nineveh were 100 feet high, end
thick enough for thrite chariot. abreast.
Babylon was GO mime within the walls, which
were 76 feet thick and 300 feet high.
A clean akin ia as necessary to health, as food.
Vinegar boiled w.th myrth cr camphor sprinkled
in a room, corrects putridity.
Hops entwine to the left, and beans, to the right.
Gold may be beaten into leaves eo thin, that
280,0(10 would he only an inch thick.
The earth is 7,91 G miles in diameter, and 24,880
miles round.
Forests of standing trees have been diseoyeted
in Yorkshire England, and in Ireland, imbedded hi
stone.
'Phere is iron enough in the blood of 42 men, to
make fifty horse shoes, each weighing half a pound.
A man is taller in the morning by half an inch,
than he is at night.
Water is the only universal medicine; by it all
diseases may be alleviated or cured.
About the age of 35, it is said, the lean man be
comes falter, and the fat man leaner.
The atoms composing a man, are believed to be
changed every forty. days, and the bones in a few
months.
Fossil retoldns on the Ohio, prove that it was
once covered by the sea.
When the sea is bide color, it is deep water; and
when green, shallow.
A map of China, made one ihoUsand years be
fore Christ, is still iri existence.
The 14th of January, on au overage of years, is
the coldest day in the year.
In water, sound passes at Ole sate of 8,508 feet
per second. In air, 1,545 feet per second.
In the Arctic regions, when the thermonicter is
below zero, persons cart converse at more than a
mile distant. Dr. Jamieson asserts that he heard
every word of a sermon at the distance of two
A Itar.il used for meesdring horses, is four
inches.
Ezekiel's reed was 18 feet 11 1.8 inches long.
Vne bones% f birds ere V,1r0;4. P ,
en %ttle an air
iiistead ofparrow.
A single house fly produces in one season, 20,-
080,320!
The flea jumps 200 tines ils Ct4n length, equal
to a quarter of a mile for a man.
Tito black ostrich stands 7 feet high.
In the human body there are 240 bones.
Good Land at 38 cents per Acre.
NVO commehd the following statement, which, in
the main, we know to be true, to the attention of
emigrants. It is copied from the Kalamazoo Tele
graph:—"At the present rate of State Warrants,
(70 cents on a dollar,) any one with $l5 in his
pocket, may go to the Land Office in Marshall,
and secure 40 acres of land, equal to any in this or
any other State—an investment, if improved, suffi
cient to support a family. Ye who think of emi
grating to Texas or Oregon, now is the time to
make a better choice. Come to Michigan, where
you can buy, at 311 cents per acre, any quantity of
level, rich, well-watered and timbered lands--a
single tree on each worth more than the price of 40
acres. Here you will find milk, school-houses ,
post-otlices, clearings and settlements in the imme
diate vicinity of these State lands—plenty of work,
and good pay, for yourselves and families, and
plenty of everything to eat, drink, .d 11-cl;
is no exaggeration—we state facts from personal
knowledge, haring visited the lands selected by the
State in Kent, Ottawa, Ailegart, Harry end Kala
mazoo counties. In the latter, from 20,000 to 40,-
000 acres were selected of the choicest quality, be
ing a part of an "Indian Reservation," cor:seqiient
ly kept out of market during the great speculation
of '3G and '37. Some of these lands lie within ten
or twelve Miles of this village, the tritirric Mtic cf
a railioad travel west, for yearn to come. Young
men, and farmers of New England and New York,
here in a field for your enterprise, which can be oc
cupied.almost without money or price: The OM
:Oer on the land will pay for clearing, even if con
verted into ashes; and then what crops! We chal
lenge the world to heat Michigan this year in
wheat er earn, either in quantity or quality. Come,
then, to the West, where you may enjoy health and
happiness, and in a few years you will prize the
land which has coat you 37i cents an acre, at as
many dollars--and cheap at that. A perfect title
can be !tad to SO acres of choice land for $3O, if, as
is alleged, State scrip can be bought for 30 cents on
the dollar; $lOO tit railroad scrip giVea the holder
his pick of lots. At 50 cents an acre, with the ad
vantage of the railway to bring produce to Detroit,
the chance is a good one.
Princrra'a Eamon.--An advertiser haying iient
in a card headed 'Abdominal Supporters: the prin
ter had it inserted Aboniinabk Supporter.
Too Bon.—A premium being lately offered by
an agricultural &neje) , for the beat mode of irriga
tion, and the latter word being made irritation by a
mistake of the printer, a respectable farmer sent
his wife to claim the prize.
Why is a woman after she is married, like fifty
dollars given away by John Jacob Astor! Ans.
She is not mised.
"This is a aturing seen'," as the chap said to
his Roeetheart when ha found her aturiing apple
Futter,
`CS;:JPIlam)Ilcs. ef.eCL)O3
[Prom Me Southern Cultivator.]
Wheat Sttr4, a Substitute
Fodder.
This is the seaman wheat is got out, and I regret
to see the straw is thrown out to make minure.—
I once had a meadow of thirty acres, producing
good grow, (feather clover, and is broad leafed blue
grass,) all of which made a very fine quality of
hay,
To save the trouble of feeding, and to furnish
shelter for my cattle, I put forks in the ground, and
on them placed poles of such rive and at such dis
tance apart that the cattle could draw the hay down
from b - ...lwsers those poles, which were placed' by
the height cI the forks, so as to admit the cattle free
ly to walk und e r the frame, as I will call it. On
this frame I stacked my hay.
I stacked wheat straw in thti same way, gener
ally on the poorest spots of the field. My cattle
were turned in and permitted to feed themselves,.
end st pleasure, to use the stacks as shelters, of
which they soon learved the advantages. I found
my cattle would are the stacks of hay as shelter,
but would not eat of ilia !lily, so long os the straw
lasted, whirls proved to me, if they !visit proper taste
that th 4 straw Was:Mire valuable than the hay.
My' horses and mules were furnished with hay
alone, in the &Wile, on which they showed health
and usual thrift. This experiment for some years
was observed, end regularly this preference was
shown for the straw by the cattle; and they impro
ved and looked better while enjoying the feed on
straw, than when they were confined to hay alone,
which was as soon as the straw was consumed.
I have stover tried to feed the straw alone to'
hems, but I would nut hesitate to rosy, it is worth
more than foodder. 'fry it; save your own straw;
it will feed and sustain cattle, horses and mules,
and ultimately snake manure more valuable than by
the slovenly process of throwing it out to rot.
D. REINHARDT
bansiquis, §. C:, June 1845.
tidying . Lace a Sinner
f . tereral years ago , in ll'orth Ceroline, iihere it cs
not customary for the tavern keepers to charge the
minister any (hint, for lodging and refreshments, a
reicher preaurningly etoliped at a tavern one even
ing, made himself comfortable during the night,
lord soon carne running up to the stage, and said,
there was some one in there who had not settled
hie bill"—the passengers all said they had but the
preacher, who underatciod he never charged minis
ters any thing. "What, you a minister of the gati
pel, a man of God," cried the innkeeper, “you came
to my house last night, you eat down at the table
without asking a blessing; I lit you up to your
room, and you went to bed without praying to your
Maker, (for I staid there until you had undressed)
you rose and washed without prayers, its your
breakfast without saying grace, and as you ran. to
my house like a sinner, and sat end drank Eke a'
sinner, you have got to pay like a sinner."
Old, But GOod,
William the Fourth, late
_King of England,
When Prince of Wales, and during: hie eervice off
the coast of Canada, made an 'cxctirsion into Upper
Canada, and crossed over into Vermont. Ile en
tered a tailor's shop, and or: seeing the tailor'. wife,
an exceedingly Beautiful woman, he, without rare
many, ravished a kiss froni th'e lady and remarked:
'There! noW tell your country-women that the son
of the King or Erighithi, has kissed a Yankee tin
lor's *lfr." tinho;ipily for him, her husband, the
tailor, atthat moment eppered from the bock room,
and being a stout fellow, gave the scion of royalty
a tremendous kick, exclaiming: "There! now go
and tell your country•womea, that a Yankee tailor
has kicked th'e con of the King of England."- - Fho
Prince sloped.
ItOFTON AND NM.' YOSK.—While the
real and personal property of Boston ias
increased snme twenty millions of dol.
lars, in the last three years, that of New
York has diminished by fifteen millions.
Beau - urea Coviraniimiv.-I.ife l s evening, we
may rent assurc!, will take its character from the
day which has preceded it, and if we would close
our career in the comfort of religion. hope, we must
prepare for it by early and continuous religious
habit.
UMBIIELLAS. - The Phila. Inquirer says—"Um
'trellis are like the fleeting hems of youth—when
gone they never come back—like the dew on the
mountain—the summer-dried river—the spray of
the fountain—they are gone and forever."
( - iv, !qr.—Sonic philosopher gives goOd advice
in the following quaint style:
"Ye who aro eating the apple-dumplings sod
molasses of wealth, should not fcrget those who are
sucking tho herring-bone of poverty."
iit',4lll.o.—We sees good deal is said shout
lacing in the papers. NVe should suppose the
weather WO.; too hot for anything to run except
tallow candles.
PErmyrteira.--The followiog definitions are
not found in any of the ancient dictionaries.
Honesty—Obsolete; it term formerly need to de,
note a men who had paid for hie newspaper and
the coat on hie back.
Indepertd,r,--Owing fifty thousand doltais
which !tut toyer intynd Tn.,