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VOL, XVII.--21.;
POETRY.
APrlll. AND THE roLowEns.
ar~r
DI H. W. LONCITI.T.OW
There is a reaper, %%hose name k Death,
And with sickle keen,
Ile reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the Ihmers that grow between
"Shall I have naught that is fair ?" saith lie
“llave naiicht but tile bearded arain
Tlin' the breath of tine flowers is "wept to me,
1"%vill give them all back again."
ILt gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes
He kis , Ptl their hooping leaves
It xva , for the Lord of Paiaclii•e
Ile hound them hi his shcates.
"SIP T.ord bath need of thr”-e flowrcts gay,'
The reaper said, atul truiled;
'Pear tokens of the earth are they
. heic he was once a child.
"They shall all h!onni in fields of light,
'transplanted he my rare.
And saints, upon their garments white,
The‘e saele4bl4l.,:,ozns wear."
And the tnntber go‘c'e, in tear; and pain;
she most tl;d love;
She knew !..be. , lion'tl find them all again,
In the 11(21,13ot' light, above.
Oh, not in cruelty, not in wrath,
The reaper canie that day ;
'T“ as an angel I i,ited the green earth
And took the tlowrets away.
MISCELLANY.
LEGEND OF 'UDE \VNS.IIDKON
/I Ir II I. 1 I' A II it
It was here in tlic e wilds of the Wi4:a
bikon, on the day of the battle. as the noon
day sun came shining thronoh the thickly
clustered leaves, that two men met in dead
ly conflict near a rock that rose, like the
huge wreck of some primeval world, at
least one hundred feet above the dark wa
ters of Wissaliikon.
The man with the (lark brow, and the
d a rker gst ey eve, flashing with deadly light,
with muscular form, clad in the blue hunt
ing Crock of the Revolution—is a Conii
nental named Warner. His brother was
murd , ted the other night at the trassacri,
of the Paoli. That other man, with long
black hair. droppity , along Iris cadaverous .
flee, is clad in the half military costume of
a tory refugee. This is the murderer of
the Paoli. named Dabney.
They had met there in the woods by
accident; and now they fought, not with
sword or rifle, but with long and deadly
hunting knives, they go turning, twining
and twisting: over the green sward.
At last the tory is down ! down on the
turf, with the knee of the continental upon
his breast—that upraised knife quivering
in the light—tltat dark grey eye flashing
death into his face !
"Quarter ! I yield !" gasped the tory. as
the knee was pressed upon his breast ;
“.spare yield !"
"Aly Iwother," said the patriot soldier
in that tone of deadly hate ; "toy brother
cried for quarter on the night of Paoli, and
even as he clung to your knees you struck
that knife into his heart. Olt, I will give
you the quarter of Paoli !''
And his hand was raised for the blow.
and his teeth were clenched in deadly hate;
lie paused for a moment, add then pinion
ed the tory's arms, and with rapid stride
d rw rop t l him to the verge of the rock, and
held him quivering over the abyss.
"Merry !" gasped the tory, turning black
and ashy, by turns, as that awful gailf yawn
ed below. "Mercy ! I have a wife, at child!
spare me!"
Then the continental, with his muscular
streniTth gathered for the effort, shook the
murderer once more over the abyss and
then hissed this bitter sneer between his
'teeth—
, 'My brother had a wife and two chil
dren. The morning after the night of the
Paoli, that wife was a widow—those chil
dren orphans! Wouldn't you like, to go
and hcg your life of that widow and tier
children ?"
, The propm , .al made by the continental,
in the mere mockery of hate, was taken in
serious earnest by the horror-stricken to
n'. Ile beg g ed to be taken to the widow
and her children, to have the painful privi
lege of begging his life. After a moment
of serious thought, the patriotic soldier con
sented. Ile humid, the tory's arms yet
tighter, placed him on the rock again, and
then led him up the woods. A quiet cot
tage, (unbosom :al among the trees, broke
on their eves.
They catered that cottage. There, be- ,
side the desolate hearth stone, sat the wi
dow and her children. She sat there, a
matronly 'Woman of about thirty years,
with a face faded by care, a deep dark eye,
and long black hair hanging in dishevelled
flakes abqut her shoulders,
On one side Was a dark-haired boy of
some six years ; on the other, a little girl,
one year younger, with light hair and blue
eyes. The Bible—an old venerated vol
ume, lay open the mother's knee.
And then the pale-faced tory flung him
self' on his knees, confessed that he had
butchered her husband on the night of the
Paoli, but begged his lite at her hands !
"Spare me for the sake of my wife—my
child !" -
De had expected that his pitiful moan
would have touched the tt idow's 'heart ;
but nut a relenting gleam softened her pale
flee.
- "The Lord shall judge between us !" she
•said, in a cold, icy tone, that froze the tutu . -
dert;r's heart. "Look ! the Bible lays
op 'n iti my lai ; I will that volume,
and then this boy shall open it, and place
his linger at random upon a line., and by
that line you shall live or die !"
This was a strange prdposal made in the
full faith of a wild and dark superstition of
the olden time. For a moment, the
. tory,
us ashes, was wrapt in thought. Then in
a filtering voice he signified his consent.
"Raising her dark eyes to heaven, the
mother prayed the Great Father to direct
the linger of her son. She closed the book
—she handed it to that boy whose young
cheek reddened with loathing as he gazed
upon his father's murderer. Ile took the
Bible, opened its holy pages at random,
and placed his linger on a verse.
Then there was a silence. The conti
nental soldier, who had sworn to avenge
his brother's death, stootrwith dilating and
parted lips. The culprit was kneeling on
the floor, with a face like 4iscolored clay,
and felt his heart leap to his throat.
Then in a clear, bold voice, the ‘vidow
read this line front the Old Testament. It
'vas short yet terrilde:
":Chal man shall die!"
Look! the brother springs forward to
plunge the knife into the murderer's heart ;
hut the tory, pinioned as he is, clings to
the widow's knees. He begs twit one
more, trial may be made by the little girl,
that child of live years with golden hair
and laughing eyes.
The ‘vidow consents. There is an aw
ful pause. IVith a smile in her eve, with
out knowing what she does, the little girl
opens the Bible as it lays on her mother's
knee, she turns her laughing lace away,
places her linger upon a line.
Thai awful silence grows deeper. The
deep drawn breath of the brother, and
the hroken gasps of the murderer, a
lone disturb the stillness. The widows• and
dark eyed boy are breathless.. The little
girl unconscious as she was, caught a 'fuel
ing of awe trust the: countenances around
her, and diimd breathless, her lace turned
aside; and her tiny tingers'resting on that
line of life or death.
• At la, -;t, gathering - courage, the witlow
bent her eyes to the pare, and read. It
was a rim:A:rum the New 'Testament:
himself in business,- -Kate was rick in e:•.-
pedients ; she proposed to carry on' the
joke with Uncle 'John while her lover was, •
in the mean time, .to. accomplish his oh
jest. Kate acted her part admirably; the I
old gentleman was in cc:it:a:jos, and would
then have been ready to give away half his
prOperty, and bless at least half' the women.
He readily settled a handsome sum upon
.1011%. r .bnif • as he delivered to him "signed 1
and sealed," "Now, my boy," said Uncle ..
John, ."I wish that you could find as gootli
a girl as Kate Dudley' for a wife."
"I wish So, too," replied John, meekly.
"Well, there ain't another such a one in
the world," said my Uncle, "and I intend'
to marry her if she will have me, and I am
sure she will ; she loves me—l know site
does—she knoWs how to appreciate me."
Cousin John professed himself much
pleased with his Uncle's prospects, and
wished him a world of happiness with his
dear Kate.
"I shall pop the question this very day,"
said Uncle John, "and will have a wed
ding, and you must stay, my boy."
" h l believe I must leave town to-day; I'm
anxious to get settled in business."
"But you will come to Kate's wedding?"
insisted the old gentleman.
"Yes, certainly," replied John, with a
scarce concealed smile. He soon stole an
opportunity to inform Kate of his gobd
tune, and of his U rides intentions, and to
make seine arrangements for themselves,
and then left us, anxious to appropriate his
money as soon as possible.
That evening, my uncle invited Kate to
walk with him by moonlight so you see-the
old fellow had a spark of romance after all.
I was sure to he in my room when they
returned, for I never could have encounter
ed them with a sober lace. I soon heard
n r THE BEV. nn. zar.r. Kate ascending the steps with a very sedate
Truth and justice are immutable and step ; but as soon as she had entered my
eternal principles—always sacred and ap- room, and closed the door,, she burst into
pheable. In no circumstance however ur- an immoderate fit of suppressed laughter.
gent, no crisis, however awful, can there • "Well, Kate," said I, as soon as we
be an aberration from the one, or a dere- had controlled ourselves a little, "How did
fiction of the other, without sin. With re- you come off, Kate ?"
snect to every thing else, be accommoda "Ohl capital I" exclaimed Kate.
POWEIL or brAnts.vrioN.—An amusing in.
tint;; but here be unyielding and invined etc John commenced with a few coughs
William's College, cident recently occurred at ,
ble. Rather carry your integrity' to theand hems, and asked no ill would like to
dungeon or the scaffold, than receive in ex- which is thus related' by a correspondent , Of the marry. I said yes, If I could find one that
chaege for it liberty end yon i s:erinetield (Mass.) Gazette. • I loved. He then asked if I thought he
ever be called upon to make your electisV-r The professor of chemistry, while ad- was too old to marry. Oh, no; said ',
between these extremes, donut hesitate.— I min isteringin the course of his lectures ! just a good age. Ile then said he never
! the protoxide of nitrogen, or as it is corn- thought of marrying until recently, and
It is better prematurely to be sent to heav
en iii honor, than, having lingered on earth, ! moo ly called, laughing gas, in order to as- that there was but one woman in the world
at Jest to sink to ruin and infamy. In ev- 1 certain how great an- influence the imagi- he would ever wish to marry, and that
cry situation a dishonest man is detestable, , within had inn producing the effects copse-, was Miss Kate Dudley. I replied very
and a liar is much more so. q tient on respiring it, secretly filled the In- amiably, that there was but one man in
Truth is one of the fairest attributes of dia-rubher gas hag with common air, in- the world, that. I would ever wish to mar
the Deity. It is the boundary which sep- s t ea d o f gas. It was taken without suspi- rv, and 'that was Mr. John Morris. The
crates vice from virtue; the line winch di- c i o u, and effects, it anything, were more old fellow is in ecstasies," continued she,'
vides heaven froth hell. It is the , chain powerful than upon those Who had readily , "and I should really pity him, when the de-
•
which binds the man of integrity to the breathed the pure gas. One complained , : nouement comes, if he had anybeart; but
throne of God; and like the God to whose that it produced nausea and dizziness, a- I nun sure it will not kill him ; he will bus- I
throne it binds hint till this chain is dissolv- nother immediately manifested ,pugilistic tic about for a while, and then re-adopt his I
cd his word may be relied on. Suspended propensities, and, before he could be re 7 ! old motto, "Well, women are duced queer
, on this your reputation, your life is sale. strained, tore in pieces the coat of one of ' creatures: I never could understand them."
But against the malice of a liar there is no the bye-standers, while a third exclaimed,l"And now," said Kate, laughing "I must
security . . lie can be bound by nothing. "this is lite; I never enjoyed itbelore."— !go honie and get ready."
His soul is alrethly repul s ed t o an iintneas-! The laughter that followed the exposure of; She made Uncle John .think it was best)
arable distance from th7t D e ity, a sense of this gaseous trick may be imagined. ".,1 to go home the next day. The day was
whose presence is the security of virtue. 1 Sir' Humphrey Davy, being once about ; appointed for the wedding, and Kate bade
1 He has sundered the, last of those moral
administering this gas to a person afflicted ! "good bye," and in four weeks, the day be
ligaments which bind a mortal to his duty. with paralysis, applied the bulb of a titer- ',fore Uncle was to have set out to Claim his
And having done so, through the extended monster to Iris mouth,, in order to aster- ' bride, lie received a paper announcing the
reason of fraud and falsehood, without a fain the temperature of his system. The pa- marriage of "Mr. John Morris and Miss
bond to check or a limit to confine him, he tient, being ignorant of the manner of ta- I Kate Dudley." '
range,s—the dreaded enemy of innocence , — king the gas, felt instant relief, and. by' "How, did the old gentleman beat it?"
holding the thermometer a short time long- inquired James, eagerly,
whose lips pollute even truth itself as it
passes through them, and whose I;reallt er in his mouth, a complete and permanent 1 "Oh, he did first as Kal.e.said he woulc .
blams and soils and poif:oes as it touches. cure way Git;ette. stormed terribly at _first declared that
"Lore
,your enemies!"
Alt, that moment was sublime. Oh,
awful book of God ! in whose dread pages
we see Moses talkitur with Jehovah,
or Jesus waiting by Samaria's \yell, or
wandering by the waves of dark Galilee.
Oh, aw ful book ! shining to night, as 1 speak,
the light of that widow's home, the glory
of, the mechanic's shop—shining where
the world comes not, to look on the last
night of the convict in his cell, lighting the
way to. God, even, over that dread gibbet.
Oh, book of terrible majesty and child-like
love—of sublimity that crushed the soul
into awc-4 .-- be - auty that melts the heart
with rapture . ! you never shone more
strangely beautiful 'Odin there in the lone
ly cot of the Wissahikon, when you saved
the murderer's life
For need I tell you L that murderer's
life was saved—the widuV recognized the
linger of Clod, and evenahe stern brother
was awed into silence..
The murderer went his way.
Now look ye, how 'wonderful are the
ways of Heaven ! That very night, as
the widow sat by her lonely hearth, her
orphans by her side—sat there with a
crushed heart and hot eve halls, thinking
of her husband, who now lay mouldering
on the blood-drenehed soil of Paoli—there
was a tap at the door. She opened it—
and that husband, living, though covered
with wounds, was in his arms ! Ile'had
fallen in Paoli, but not in death. lie was
alive, and his wife lay panting on his bo
som.. ,
That night there was a prayer in the
n•oodl-cmbuwerd tot of the Wist,,allikun.
COUNSEL TO YOUNG MEN
GETTYSBURG, PA, FRIDAY EVENING-, AUGUST 28, 1816.
EFFECTS Or KINDNESS.-1 am convinced
• that there never yet was an- instance in
which kindness has been fairly exercised,
but that it has subdued tho enmity opposed
to it. Its first effort may not succeed any
more than one shower of rain can reclaim
the burning desert; but let it repeatedly
shed the dew of its holy influence upon the
revengeful soul, and it will soon become
beautiful with every flower of tenderness.
Let any person put the question to his
soul, whether, under any circumstances he
eau deliberately resist continued kindness!
And a voice of affection answers, that good
is omnipotent in overcoming evil. If the
angry and revengeful person would only
govern his passions, and light the lamp of
all'ection in his heart, that it might stream
out in his features and actions, he would
soon discover a wide difference in his
communion with Ow world. The gentle
would no longer avoid hint; friends would
not approach him with a frown; the weak
would no longer meet him with dread; chil
dren would no longer shrink from him
with fear; he would find that his kindness
wins all by its smile giving them confi
dence, and securing their friendship.
Suv.—Shy characters, who, front natu
ral timidity are reserved in general society,
open themseves with peculiar warmth and
frankness to•a very few select friends, or
to an individual of whom they think kind
ly. A distant manlier is not, as is suspect
ed, the result of a cold heart or a dull head:
nor is gayety necessarily connected with
feeling. High animal spirits, though they
often evaporate in mere talk, yet, by their
warmth and- quickness of motion, obtain
the credit of a strong sensibility; a sensibil
ity, however, of which the heart is not al
ways the fountain; \vhile, in the timid, that
silence, which is construed into pride, in
differenve, or want of capacity, is often the'
effeet of keen feeling:4. Friendship is , the
genial climate, in which. such hearts dis
close themselves; they flourish in the shade,
and kindness alone makes them expand.
keen discerner will often detect, in such
characters, qualities which arc not always.
connected with
"The rattling tongue
Of Salle 'and autlatiions uloiluenee"
llANnsomc MEN.—One of our e.xchang-;
es contains the following carious ramarkS
relating to handsome men ;—"lf you are
ever threatened with' a handsome man in
the family, just. take a clothes-pounder
while he's yet in the bud, and hatter his
1105. e to almininice. From some cause or
other, handsome men are invariably asses;
they cultivate their hair and complexion so
much, that they have no_ time to think of
their brains. By the time reach thirty,
their heads and hands are equally soft. A
gain, we say, if you wish to find intel
lectual man, Just look for one with fea
tures so rough that you might use his face
for a nutmeg grater."
rrEmPERANcE FAutx.—The rats once
assembled in a large cellar, to devise Some
method of safely getting the bait from a
small steel trap which lay near, having
seen numbers of their. friends and ,rcla
thins snatched from them by its merciless
jaws. After many long speeches, and the
proposal of many elaborate but fruitless
plans, a happy wit, standing erect, said,
"It is my opinion that, if with one paw we
keep down the spring, we can safely take
the food from the trap with the other."—
All the rats present loudly squealed assent,
and slapped their tails in applause. t 'il'he
meeting adjourned, and the rats retired to
their homes; but the devastations of the
trap b"ejing by no means diminished, the
rate • kere . forced to call another,,"conven
tion."., The elders had just assembled and
had connueneeci thadelibmations, when all
where,startled by a faint voice, and a poor
rat with only three legs, limping into the
ring, stood up to speak. All were instantly
silent, when stretching out the bleeding
remains of his leg, he said : "Aly friends 1
have.tried the method you proposed, and
YOU see the result! Now let me suggest
a plan to escape the trap—Do not touch
!"
"FE.I It I, ESS AND Pith
Unele John's Courtship.
"Women arc diced queer creatures—l
never can understand them,"—used to be
the constant exclamation of my uncle
John, in relation to the fair sex, said El-
len. • • - '
I "But really, did the old gentleman never
thing of marrying t" enquired James.
1 "Oh, yes, he had a sweetheart once, did
he never tell you about it V' and Ellen
burst into a lit of laughter. "I can never
help laughing % think of:Uncle John's
i courtship con , she. "I had a dear
friend. hate Dot , whom you have heard
Ime mcn:ion. Sle was a merry roguish
i creature. as Kates always are. We be-
I came a amainted at school, and she went
home with me to spend a vacation. My
cousin - Slorris, my Uncle's namesake, had
just graduated at the sante time, to spend a
i ' ie NC weeks and get into his Uncle's good
!graces, Well, as fate would have it, my
Uncle`John Morris, and my cousin John
Morris, hush fell in love with my sweet
friend. Uncle .liihn's passion was a per
fect miracle, for he had always declared
that no woman should ever rule him; and
as for the sentiment of love,•I think he
was perfectly innocent of ever cherishing
it, but he took a wonderful fancy to Kate.
She would talk and laugh with him ; and
would make hint talk and laugh with her;
she would walk and ride with him ; and
admire his favorite horse,'and praise his
taste in his house and garden, which no
• one else could praise; and with an air of
!
such perfect artlessness and good nature
as completely entrapped Uncl John, and
he declared, before site had been with us a
week, that she was the only woman he ev
er saw without deceit; he could under
stand her.
- — Well: in flue meantime cousin John and
Kate were talking real love to each other,
and they knew it:Uncle should suspect it, it
!'would entirely defeat the object of my cou
sin's visit, which was to induce the old
gentlemakto give him funds to establish
A CAPITAL LOVE STORY.
that rascal John Morris should never have
a cent of his money (forgetting that he had
already given him all he desired,) cursed
the women and himself too, and final
ly settled down into his original habits on
ly repeating oftener, and with more
emphasis, his favorite motto.: "Well. wo
men are duced queer creatures, I never
could understand them !"
"Did; he ever forgive them ?" inquired
Jurnes7.
"No: he seldom mentions them, and
then always designates them as "rascally
John Morris, and his wife."
Co:crEmrr of .CoonT.—An amusing
incident occurred in a court room, some
years, in one of the back counties of Mis.;
souri. The court was seated, and a cause
about to be tried. Now, his honor the
Judge was a man well stricken "in years,
yet he could ride a race, shoot a Ellie, and
shuffle and
who,
as, well as the "next,man,"
and he who. presumed to trifle with the
dignity of "die court" on these occasions,
generally suffered .tome.
Well, as 1 ways saying, "his honor"
was seated, and a cause about to be com
menced, when, in a voice of thunder, the
sheriff proclaimed silence. There was a
pause : the judge looked up and saw an
elderly- man near the lawyer's table who
had not yet uncovered his head. The
court could not brook such disrespect to
to the ermine, its dignity- was assailed, and
his honor called out jn the authoritative
tone—
"Mr. Sheriff, remove that man's hat!"
That functionary, who had until now
stood in a corner leaning .upon his rifle,
stepped up and politely knocked off the.
offender's hat with his murderous weapon;
whereupon Mr. Badger (Badger was the
offender's name) seized not the sheriff,
but the hat, and' chipping it on his head,
exclaimed—
"Judge, I'm bald!" "
"Mr. Sheriff," said the indignant court,
"we instruct you ag'ain to :remove Mr.
Badger's hat from his head."
The_ order was instantly executed, and
no sooner done than Mr. Badger replaced
the hat on his head a second time, again
insisting that he was bald.
The offended judge now waxed warm,
and, rising up in his scat, ordered the clerk
to enter a line of jive dollars for contempt
of court, and to be committed until the
fine was paid.
Mr.
,I3adger was
,thunderstruck ! lie
deliberately walked to the bench; and
laying, down a half dollar before ;his honor,
in a solemn manner thusq;ave his views of
the matter to the law's expounder:
"Your sentence, judge, is Most ungentle
manly—but the law is unperative, and I
reckon I'll have to stand it ; so here is 'four
bits,' and the four dollard and a half that
you owed me when we stopped playing
“poker" this morning, just makes us
squar."
A LUDICROUS MisrAKE.—A story is go
ing the rounds of the press, of a man to
sing his life by mistake of the apothecary
in pouting up a prescription written in Lat
in. A mistake, nptso fatal, but from which
as good a moral is deducible, is related in
a western paper.. A Cincinnati grocery
house. finding out that cranberries com
manded six dollars per bushel, and under.
the impression that the article could be
bought to advantage at St. Mary's, wrote
out to a customer, acquainting him with
the fact, and requesting him to send "one
hundred bushels per Simmons," (the wag
oner usually sent.) The correspoiThent, a
plain, uneducated man, had cohsiderable
difficulty m decypliering the fashionable
scrawl common with merchants' clerks of
late years, and the most important word,
"Cranberries," he failed to make out, but
he did plainly and clearly read—one hun
dred bushels Persimmons., As the article
was growing all around him, alt the boys
in the neighborhood were set to gathering
it, and the wagoner made his appearance
in due time in Cincinnati, with eighty
bushels, all that the wagon bed would hold,
and a line from the country merchant that
the remainder would follow the next trip.
An explanation ensued, but the customer
insisted that the Cincinnati house should
have written by Simmons notper Simmons.
ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE A SLAVE.-Des
perate Conflict.— ln Charles county, Md.,
a shire, named George, belonging to. Mr.
John D. Bowling, ran away from his was
ter last Alarih. Last week, information
having been obtained of his whereabouts,
a party, among whom was a young white
man, named Jesse Cook,.started in pursuit
of him. He was found on the plantation
of Mr. Edward Beech. As he refused to
surrender himself a large dog was set on
him, which he killed with a WOW of a
scythe. Mr. Cook then advanced towards
him, 3311 en he struck him with the scythe,
completely cutting through his collar bone
down to the breast, and producing instant
I death. The q uegro then made his escape.
MATANORAS AND ITS INIIADITANTS.—One of
the officers of the Louisville Legion writing to a
friend iu Louisville, says:—
. "The charges at Matamoras are enor
mous-25 cents for a shave, and $1 50 per
night for keeping a horse—other charges ,
are in the same ratio. The men are small
and not good looking. The- women are
something better looking but not splendid
‘by any means, and if they Could talk En
glish as fast as they tico Spanish, I would
nut live 'm , a „house with one a week for
half of Matamoraa. I think their tongues
rinist be. on pivot."
TER:IIB.---TWO DOLLARS rill. A1'411151:I
N O. 556.
,RAIJINO TURKIES.—Soon after the
tur
key poults have acquired their first fea t
ers, they are liable to a disease which is vc
fatal to them, if not attended to. This
distemper produces great debility, and the
birds appear languid and drooping, and Judi
most totally neglect-their food. Their tail
and wing feathers assume a Whitish ap
pearance, and their plumage has a bristled
aspect. This is - occasioned by a disease
lin two or three of the-rump-feathers. On
examination, the tubes of these will be
found filled with blood. The only reme
dy for this disease is to pluck them out,
when the bird will speedily recover its
wonted health and spirits.
In fattening turkies for the table, various
methods are resorted to. Some . feed them
with barleymeal mixed with skim-milk,
and confine them to a hencoop during this
time ; others merely confine them to a
house, while a third class allow them to
run quite at liberty ; which latter practice l - -
from the experience of those on whose
judgment we can most rely, is by far. the
best method. Care should however be ta
ken to feed them abundantly before they
are allowed to range about in the meriting,
and a meal should be prepared for them at
mid-clay; to which they will generally re
pair homewards of their own accord. They
should be fed at night, before roosting, with
oat meal and skim-milk; and a day or two
prey ions to their being killed, they should
eat oats exclusively. We have found
from experience, that when , turkeys are
' purchased for the table, and cooped up,
they will never increase in bulk, however
.plentifully they may be supplied with food
and fresh water, but..ou the contrary, are
very liable to lose flesh. - When feeding
them for use, a change of food-will also be:
found beneficial. Boiled carrots and Swe
dish turnips, or potatoes mixedi with a lit- .
Ile barley or oat-meal, will be ffreechly ta
ken by them. A cruel method is practiced
by some to redirer turkeys very fat, which •
is termed cramming. This is done by for
ming a paste of crumbs of bread, flour,
Minced suet, and sweet milk, or even
cream, into small balls about the bulk of a
marble, which is passed over the throat af
ter full ordinary meals.--Boston Cultiva
tor.
To DESTROY SKIPPERS IN BACON:
Take a sufficient quantity of elder leaves
and beat them in a mortar, adding a little
water. Rub the flesh of the meat with
the bruised leaves and where small holes
appear pour the juice in them. This ap
plication will effectually destroy the skip
pers, and will communicate no bad taste to
the meat. This simple remedy is within
'the reach of every housekeeper, and will
cost nothing to try it.
PIINNSVINANIA TOBAcCO.--The Colum
bia (Pa.) Spy of Saturday last says there
is a large quantity •of tobacco planted in
that neighborhood this season. The plants
look remarkably fine. Tobacco isNbecom
ing quite a. Valuable production in this vi
cinity, and well repays 411 the toil and trou
ble of those who raise it. We think that'
the crop of corn is going to be large this
yea''. The fields look very well, and if
nothing occurs to mar the promise be
tween this and the time when it is to be
secured, the yield will be great indeed.
FUNERAL OF A COLORED PREACHER AT THE
Sotren.—The Augusta chronicle and Sentinel of
the Ist inst says :
"One of the largest funeral processions
we ever witnessed, numbering upwards of
800 persons, of our colored population,
passed through our streets yesterday, in
paying the last sad tribute of respect to
JacoCWalker, a colored clergyman who
had for many years officiated as pastor of
one of the African churches of this
The deceased sustained through life a high
character for piety, and while he was
much esteemed among the whites for his
exemplary character, he maintainal a deep
hold upon the affections of his race, who
testified in a most laudible Manner, their
love fur him in consigning hint to the
tomb."
ANOTHER CURE FOR IlvonoNiomA.—A
writer in the National Intelligencer says
that spirit of hartsborn is a certain remedy
for a bite of a mad dog. The wounds. he
adds, should be constantly bathed with it,
and three or four doses, diluted, taken in
wardly during the day. The hartshortt
decomposes chemically the virus insinua
ted into the wound, and immediately al
ters and destroys its deleteriousness. The
writer, who, resided in Brazil for some time,
first tried ijr the bite of a scorpion, and
found that YE removed pain and inflamma
, don almost instantly. Subsequently he
tried it for the bite of the rattlesnake with
similar success. At the suggestion of the
writet, an old friend and physician in Eng
land tried it in..cases of hyprophobia, and
always with success.
AN UNGALLANT EDITOR.—An editor of
some paper in New York very ungallantly
says that he knows a lady who• was twee ,
ty years of age ten years ago, and at the
preselit time she is only twenty-three l•
A BLIND GRADAATE.-Alllollg the grad
uates of Dartinouth College this year, is a
blind young man from the South Boston
Institution. •
Missoent. 7 —The Constitution formed
by the'convention of the people of .Missou
ri. to revise the constitution of the: State,
has been rejected, it is believed, by a dees
dedinajorit)% • •