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NO. 15
VL IV SALISBURY, W. 3 APRIL 16. 1869.
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MISVELLANEOUS.
Wanted at the cross roads
I was in a hurry to roach home. No
wonder, for it was the wildest night I had
ever known in my life, and the country
orer which I took my way bad as coan
try roads in general. Consequently I
waa walking at a great rate, with the
collar of my rough coat orer my ears,
and a comforter tied over my soft hat and
under my chin to keep it on and to pro
tect my ears, when suddenly a man stood
full in my path and caught me by the
"Hallo!" said he, "you're just in time;
yon are wanted at the cross roads to
night!" The voice was the voice of a ruffian.
I fancied myself attacked by a high
wayman. I stood quite still and strove
to show him by my manner that I was able
to protect myself.
"What the dace am I wanted at the
cross roads for?" said I. "Unless I
choose it will be a very hard matter to
get me there."
Bat instead of producing a pistol and
demanding mj money or my life, the man
answered in an altered tone t
"Bern pardon, I mads a mkttJtafff
thoueht it was my brother, snd I wanted
"You don't '
naked.
"It waa seven when I left the train at
L I said.
"Thank ye, air, Bald the ma. "Good
night."
"Good night" said I
If bis object bad been robbery, pro
bobly he had decided from rough appear
ance that I was too poor a man to be
worth the trouble. But after all, I thought
probably he spoke the truth. A man
may have such a voice without being a
highwayman, so -doubt. So I went
homeward, and soon found myself under
shelter, and partaking of a warm and
savory supper
My my mother was there and my
brother Ben. Ben was a strapping fel
low, who could beat any other boy of bis
age for miles around, it it came to wrest
ling or boxing, and as good humored a
boy aa ever lived ; a boy always good to
mother and I, though he had exercised
his right to vote already at a Presidential
election. When sapper Ws over, and
we went np stairs together we share
one room together. '1 he moment Ben's
head touched the pillow he always went
to sleep. That night I followed his ex
ample. - But I did not sleep long without
a dream a dream in which I felt a rough
grip on my arm and was aroused by a
cry in my ears :
"Wake op ! You are wanted at the
i cross roads
i was so real, so palpable, that when
I started broad awake I actually believed
that some one was in the room the man
who intended robbery or violence. But
wben I bad arisen and lit my lamp, the
room was empty, except myself and
Ben, w ho lay snoring on bis pillow.
I went to the door ; it was locked. I
went to the . window ; the rush of rair
against the panes was all I beard. I
even went across the passage to my mot ti
er's room. She was awake! there had
been no unseal sound she was sure.
Only a dream born of my meeting the
strange man in the road, I felt bad awak
ened me. I went to bed and fell asleep
again. Again I was awaked by the same
words ; this time shrieked in ears by an
unearthly '
"Wake ap J wake np ! You are wanted
at the cross roads."
I was on my feet once more and caught
Ben's hand as be came over towards my
bed.
"What ails you 1" he cried.
"Nothing," said I. "Did yon heat
oice."
"lours," said Ben; "your yelling
woke me up ; you fairly frightened me.
"Ben," said I, "w art till 1 light a lamp; i
I heard another voice. There must be
some one in the bouse or outside."
So I again lit the Is" ; , but we search
ed in vain.
"Nightmare," said Ben, when I told
him my story.
"Bern," said I, "what is there at the
cross roads."
"A house," said Ben. He had lived in
the neighborhood a long, while, and I not
long-
"One little house beside two oak trees
ai d fence. An old man lives there a
v eh man, and a bit of a miser, they say.
UI J J 1 . . - i..-- . . 1 " 1 1 -- -
SrSC,"5,"Err OH LTIKO. I TKUTHISsfasOERTUAN
Taa. . .. nub lahed tn duv II...-., u.-j n I f
"ttrotner," said Ben, "go to sleep.- ... . ' ""..cr It will be rememlrjiy mwr of oar
rou)ad.niKhtra.re-Md Ben planed b' " 'ng rtcle, in which he dis- citi. tht wlrwh "hM
in between the blaukets, and waa snor- CUMM the qMlin whether men can re- emniaed near Roaihd Georgia eooM
I alao in ten minutes, slept as soundly
as before, bat awakening soon came
pi".
I opened my eyea to see a girl stand -mg
at the foot of mr bed. A i, I ;..
r. i . , ... . . ."
rvunw, wtio goiaen hair ail
" BBSB -" '
This time 1 started out of 'bedj belhed',
in a cold perspiration. 1 tremnl. d like
leaf. 1 had no doubt that I had received
supernatural warning,
"Ben." I cried. "Ben. for the third
time I have been told that I am wanted
at the cross roads, and I am going."
And I began to dress myseli as speedi
ly ss possible, listening the while to the
storm raging wilder than at any other
period since its commencement.
Ben remonstrated with me in vain. At
last he began io huddle on his clo lies
"If you have gone mad I must go
along and take care ot you, he said
"But fancy another man going out in a
storm like this to the cross roads, because
a nightmare caused him to do so, and
what would you thiuk of him T
I said nothing. All I could have an
swered would have been :
"I am compelled to go ; I most go. I
dare not refuse, whatever may be thought
of me
In ten minntes we were splashing
through the mud and rain along the road.
It was perfectly dark ; now and then a
blazed red star in the distance told us
that a lamp was beaming through the
rain in some cottage window, but other
wise we would not have been conscious of
oar proximity to any habitation whatever.
At last, nearing the spot where the road
from 8 crosses toe road to P ,
we were indeed in as solitary a place as
can be imagined.
The house which abutted on the very
angle of be roads, called in familiar par
lance the P Roads, was the only one
for some ly either direction, and
certainly esfc; ht we were not
likely to meet tan. Velers.
All was quiet as the grave. We stood
mm -7 , " Mat
deat lauehs.
"Well,
be said, "bow now 1 Will you
a .1 a
go home now, and nave anotner nignt
mare T"
But hardly bad the words escaped his
lips, when a shriek broke on the air, and
a woman's voice, plainly coming from the
interior of the cottage, critd :
Help! help! help!"
"Ben," said I, "we're wanted at the
cross roads," and then, understanding
each other, without more words we made
our way to a window though which a
light shone. A muslin curtain draped
the pains, but through it we saw an awfal
sight.
An old man lay on the fiooi, and over
him bent a ruffian, clutching his throat
and holding a pistol to his ear, while
another man grapled the shrieking girl by
the arm a girl in a flowing night dress
with such long gslden hair as belonged
to the girl of my vision. Not a moment
was to be wasted. Ben flung his weight
against the slender lattice sud crushed itf
TO ... . ... it
in. and we had grappled the ruffians be
fore they knew whence the attack came,
or how. many foes were upon them.
I do not intend to describe the strag
gle; indeed, I could not, If I would. But
we were strong men, and, inspired by the
cries of the helpless old man. the villians
were soon bound and lay prostrate on the
floor.
Then Ben started for assistance, and
before morning both were lodged in jail.
Ben admitted as we shook eaeb other by
the IrHridthat we were wanted at the
cross loads.
The old man was not a miser, buthe
had saved a few thousand dollars f.ir his
old age; and living more plainly than he
need have done gave rise to the rumor,
and so brought the burglaM to the cross
reads in the hope of booty.
The girl a beautiful creature of seven
teen, was his grand-daughter, and as no
story is aeceptible to 1 be lady r-ader
without a flavor of romance, I will tell
them, that she became in after years, not
my wife, but the wile of my darling broth
er Ben.
Here in London, writes s correspond
ent, I am not unfriqueutly astonished at
the lavish expenditure of American visi
tors. Families whese position at home I
had imagined was not that of extreme af
fluence, take furuished houses at the rate
of a hundred pounds a week rent, inclu
ding discount and exchange, upwards f
seven hundred dollars a week, and live n
a glare of expenditures, and then go off to
Paris and exceed it. 1 dare say I am
wrong, but I usually conclude in these
I eases, unless it is some well Known mil
I liouaire, that the particular family had
j been saving op for this wpnderfui outlsy
j for a considerable time, and that when it
is over they will return to a scale which
is rather small than not. Tis all good
' for trade, I suppose, but if enjoyment
I were sn item in consideration, I should
j pronounce this iire-work busines a mis
1 take. It deceives nobody, snd attracts
only a smile, even where profit is made
of it. while, the worry and bother are quite
detestable. The tour of many a family
has been spoiled by it
In that number of the Ledger which is
published to day Henry Ward Beecber
has an amusing article, in which he dis
cusses the q nest ion whether men can re
member what never happened. He shows
that such a stretch of memo v i. muikl.
by one or two instances. We nbui
part of the article, the whole of which is in
air ileecners happiest vein
owe
soon einw ce-ingu; oy-ya flf
VeieH Xew Vork. The story raw thus :
"On a Sunday morning in AugBSt, Dr.
Cox, rising to the sermon, without warning
or prefix began, 'It is d d bot.'--Looking
around in a calm and pious war,
be wiped his torehead, and agai6 Said 'It
is d d hot.' Waiting till be thought
the words burnt in, be proceeded, 'These
words, my brethren, I heard from the lips
t a profane young man as I entered the
doors of the church." Thereupon, the
story goes, he proceeded to give an edify
ing discourse on the sin and folly of pro
fane swearing."
When 1 first beard it I recognised the
story. It was n old acquaintance. It had
been doing service in England. It ws
told of Rev. Rowland Hill, only in his
case the topic was not the weather, bat
the theatre, on which the young man's
profanity was expended. Bat stock sto
ries, like courier, like to change horses.
Before I knew it. the saddle was shifted
to my back, nor have I even beer able to
shake it off. 1 have denied it, twice in
print, many times by letter, and a hun
dred times in conversation, all in vain.
The saddle sticks, snd every month we
find a now fool riding it.
Denying one of tbetaa stories is like
fighting Canada thistles. If you cut them
up. ten moss will sprout from each root,
and if you let them alone, a million will
spring from the seed. The only way to
exterminate the Canada thistle is to plant
it for a crop and propose to make money
oat of it. Then worms will gnaw it, bugs
will bfce it, birds will peek it, heat will
scorch it, rains will drown it, mildew and
blight will rid it. All natnre bei 8 weeds
and runs down crops. We are at raid to
deny it. It would start off B walking
like Weston. A new batch of fetters
J would mm mrmri
1 aoor r rSBT!HW
withered limb, and, like the Wandering
Jew, it would go tramping an and down
creation till the last day. No, tor safe
ty's sake, we do not propose to deny it
any more ! It would be the ruin of inno
cent souls, as this narrative, which I now
shall give will prove.
And the narration of the incident brings
me back to the question whether one can
remember what never happened. It will
be seen that he can.
8ittiug at a friend's table one evening,
I was telling an incident thai befel me
in this wise :
"A young man from Buffalo called to
see me to-day. He said that he beard
a young lady, in a large company, rela
ting the story of my beginning a sermon
with the phrase, 'It is d d hot ' He
at once contradicted it. She affirmed it
positively. He replied 1 '-I have lately
read a published denial of the story Mm
Mr. Beecber himself.' She answered :
Why, I was. present at bis church, and
Si (I, mr own MSI I If eniirxe
heard it with my own ears.' Ot course
I, a could not say what he thought, but re
plied, 'I am going to New York, and I
will myself call and ask Mr. Beecher.' "
The case seemed so flagrant that I said to
him: "When you go back I wish you
would take occasion; before witnesses, to
say to ibis lady from me 'that she lins, and
that sin- I: hows thlt she lien, snd e'u:
knows that know that she lies.' "
This was very improper language, but
I was angry, and, besides, had been read
ing the Tribune.
When 1 had got thus far, asweet young
girl who sat opposite me, brought up un
der my eye almost from the cradle, and
as incapable of knowingly telling a false
hood as a r s bud would be of committing
burglary, this innocent and charming child
of fifteen looked over at me and said :
"But you did bay so, didn't you, Mr.
Beecher t 1 heard you J '
For a moment there was silence. Then
came a craah of laughter from the whole
company. Confused and blushing scar
let, she said :
"Why, I always thought that I bad
heard you say it !"
For the first time I then believed that
a person might distinctly remember what
;, never took place 1 uae oacs me mes
sage to the Buffalo lady, and humbly apol
ogize for supposing that one could not re
call a thing which never happened.
The Secret of Success. A plain man in
die Second Baptist church ot Chicago, a
Straightforward, unpretending mechnnic,
without even a good common school edu
cation, has gathered around him, every
Lord's day, three hundred and fifty schol
ars in a Bible class, which he teaches with
an interest and effect that are truly sur
prising ; and he will go through the driest
parts of tbe Scriptures, and invest them
with a meaning, and draw from them prac
tical lessens ot instruction, that astonish
all who hear. ' In 1866 there were one
hundred and six conversions in his class.
The secret of success is earnestness, and
the skill that earnessnees gives. The on
ly true success must come from a thor
oughly earnest soul, and without this, the
greatest culture, ine most eererai
w ill Be os no avaiu
that such a stretch of meino-y in poiaible kllIe(1 in diffieultylrfulthe brother of
j by one or two instances. We extract a her n.ub'"L To IHquintad with
, -"' wu uever nappeueo. lie show i ioo. mat tm BBBS lamer waa
it i it i i ' ny ..j a.
lue Cirauinstaneao- mmm at. , knnm that
tiou although
time, and to him
son entered the army of toe Uonfe terate
Slates, and followed the banners of Dick
Taylor, Magruder and others of the noble
chiefiians who commanded the soldiers
around the Gulf.
After the war the young man wandered
about through the Gulf States sud finally
located in Texas, where his father's for
mer wife lived. 8he had resumed ber
maiden name, esd was the proprietress of
s large snd well paying hotel, where she
had accumulate! an immeuee fortune.
Arriving at the village the young man
stopped at the hotel, and was well provi
ded for by tM enterprising matron.
Neither knew (be relation of one to the
other, and altbimgh there is a vast differ
ence in their Ages he bat a strippling
youth and hj a well preserved, comely
woman of n tarty forty and intimacy
sprang up between them, which ripened
into affection and resulted in the proposi
tion by the young man of marriage. He
waa accepted, and in a few days the quiet
hotel was the scene of marriage revelry.
Thus the solemn wedding ceremony uni
ted a man to the wife of his father bis
mother, nearly and to the would-be as
sassin of his father. Verily, truth is
stranger than fiction a man marries his
Athens (Ala.; rotf.
A MENAGERIE INCIDENT-Fxoht
BETWEEN LE0PARD8.
The Liverpool Courier describes a ter
rible fight between two of the largest leop
ards in Mander's menagerie. It is usual
reeding to place large moveable
to separate the animals while feed-
in;
While prepan
difficulty rromlKeeping the large
the 1
brill f BD
nil or?
two bad commenced to fight. The eight
was fearful. Both boldly confronted eaeb
other; crouching down, lashing their
sides with their tails and making a spring
they fell heavily locked ia each others em
brace. Tho stroggl that followed
long and fierce. Tie ayes of the leopards
flashed with fury as t hey struggled on the
floor. Mr. Menders used every endeavor
to separate the infuriated combatants, but
all with no avail. He then procured a
long scraper and dealt each a blow, which
had tbe effect of separating them only to
renew the fight with greater fierceness.
Making a second spring they both fell
with a fearful crash on the floor, the lar
ger one seised the other by tbe shoulder,
breaking the fore tort ; the other laid
hold of the fleshy part of the hack
The
straggle was still (treat, and tbe
rolled together over and over. Mr. Man
ders had by this time (he slide brought,
and dealing one a blow with a large piece
of iron, and causing lit to release its hold
and slouch to the other side, tbe slide was
placed in its position. One was p rostra
ted on the floor and Laily hurt, the blood
,1 u I 1 . , 2 1 L 1
nowing ireeiy arm iee rpre leg oeing 010
ken in several places nsd beyond recove
ry. mr. Menders tlitii procured some
prussic acid snd poisoidd it. This leop
ard had received a compound fracture of
the near fore leg and tp scapula; in fact
all the bones were suits lied, the largest
ittem-beipjbaulj m Mfaes, mi mM&ek
torn into ribbons, and fne of the claws
waa torn off.
NO TEAKS
HEAVEN.
Sin has mate the World a " vale of
tears," and all the methods which human
philosophw andohilanthmpy have devised
to change its eatrMte nave proved un
availing. Ever sfl(ewfce atfbstecy, sor
row has been tlr lot of humanity. The
divine goodness fts8 bestowed immeasura
ble comforts thai soften marl s condition ;
but as msn is a f inner, he is by inexora
ble law, a sufferer, and from suffering in
the present life, be esd in no wsy obtain
exemption. Evtu Christianity, with her
many and varinis and rich consolations,
does not so chsnge eitper the character or
the condition of her ( sciples, while they
are in this world, as t leave no occasion
for weeping. She p' lares them, indeed
for a better world, ere all causes' for
sorrow are forever al int, bnt never out
side of that " better oontry " does she
make their condition rieflesa. That fe
licity they must n enjoy until they
reach their heavenly me.
Heaven is a tea: 1 place. All who
enter there "shall wi 1 no more." Bless
ed worlu! How attmtive! How desi
rable ! Deer reader.
Is that to be tour
home for eternity f
II, then, may you
be patient ander tbe
irmities and trials,
tbe privations and
temporary pi I grin
ivements of your
They ate only
for a "little while,"
id they have an
end where " sorrow a
j sighing shall flee
away." As you thin
tt tbe various oc-
c as 1 on? tor tears in t
b re sent State, yon
appreciate the ebmpi
nsiveness or tbe
promise: "God shall
tpe sway all tears
from their eyea." Y
of God, all,
without exception.
rrawai .maa ss. -w
I
1im fneffrBcTJniA
ABOUT BURNING MOUNTAINS.
Geological theorists assert that the ine
qualities on the earth's surface arise from
uplifting 4f volcanoes, urjjfBulrri, ate,
and to these they ascribeJJpBlinatlon
of strata, etc. But the BpPf seams in
BBad stone formation iridftBav that the
, .1 rr . i - 1 J ...J
Wnoie IS WO eue-l m uopuii"w
eipiutiona, whim in the submersions by
the sea. and the advassiB and retreat da
ring perihelion periods, we bare the aque
utiou
or me
t.tSwds. fuSfC1: .V. I.inari. the
nee total dark
ness from thirty to fifty miles aronnd, and
three hundred miles distent Pieces of
rocks are ejected with the force of a can
non ball Cotopaxi once threw a piece
of one hundred cubic yards eight miles.
Fish ejected from volcanoes are those of
neighboring waters.
Lava is a stony substance, like basalt,
and may sometimes be seen at the bot
tom of a crater red bot like melted metal,
bubbling as a fountain. Wben It over
flows tbe crater, it ia very fluid. At Ve
suvius, a red hot current of it waa from
eight to ten yards deep, two or three hun
dred yards broad, and nearly a mile long
In .Mexico, a plain was filled np by it in
to a mountain one thousand six hundred
feet high, by an eruption in 1759. Its
heat waa so great that it continued to
smoke for twenty years afterward, and a
piece or wood took fire tn lava three years
and a half after it bad been ejected at five
miles from the crater. Stones of immense
sise to the height of seven tboxsand feet,
and others darkening the air, fell one ban
dred miles distant.
Thirty-one great eruptions of JEtw
have occurred within tbe records of his
tory. In an eruption in the year 1693
tbe city of Catania was overturned in a
moment, aud eighteen thousand people
perished in the ruins. The crater of
iEtna la a quarter of a mile high on a
plain three miles across. 1 he mouth
a mite in diameter, aad shelves aa an in
verted cone, lined with salt and sulphur
The central fiery gulf varies in sise. and
noises arise from it with volumes of smoke
D OrviHB descended by ropes near tbe
gaff, but waa annoyed by flame and sol
phurous effluvia Pompeii was destroyed
by showers of ashes, bat Heresdaaeam
by hot mod, over which six ktreems of
I laMiiTll''t.itjn..ffirjtrji)litrirL Thinv bJ
j ivvvuiir uwi """y' 'TTBaJliaBTl,
and were rebuilding. In tho barracks of
Pompeii were found the skeletons oi two
soldiers fastened by chains ; aad in the
vaults of a country house waa a perfect
east of a woman with a child in her arms.
Sklah. The translators ofUhe Bible
a 1 . 1 .. a as a a a
nave ten ine worn aeian, which ocean
so often in the Psalms, as they found it,
and ot course the English reader often
asks his minister or learned friend what it
means. And tbe minister' or or learned
friend has often been obliged to confess
ignorance, because ft is a matter hi regard
to which the most learned have by bo
means been of one mind. The Targums,
and most of tbe Jewish commentators,
give to tbe word tbe meaning of eternally.
orever. rumcni regards it ss a sin to
-sr. as , . " '
elevate the voice. The authors of the
Septuagint translation appear to have re
garded it aa a masicJ or rythmics! note.
Herder regards it ss indicating a change
or tone. JUatneson, as a musical tone.
equivalent, perhaps to tbe word repeat.
According 10 Luther and others, it means
silence. Gesenius explains it to mean,
" Let the instruments play, and tbe sing
ers stop." Woeher regards it aa equiva
lent to stirs 11 m c trda ap my soul ! Sum
mer, after examining all tbe seventy-four
passsges in which the word occurs, recog
nises in every esse " mi aetual appeal or
summons to Jehovah." They are calls
for aid and prayers to be beard, expressed
either with entire distinctness or if nnt
in the imperative "Hear, Jehovah!" or
"Awake, Jehovah!" and the like, still
earnest eddresses to God that He would
remember and hear, etc.
God's Plan or York hm. Never
complain of your birth, your employment,
your hardships; never fancy that yon
could do something if you only bad a dif
ferent lot and i" .here assigned you. God
understands, his own plsn, snd he knows
what you want a great deal better than
you do. The very things yon most de
preciate as fatal limitations or obstruc
tions, are probably what yon most want.
What yon call hindrances, obstructions.
discouragements, are probably God's op
portunities ; and it's nothing new that
tbe patient should dislike his medicines,
or any proof that they are poisons. No
a truce to all such impatience. Choke
that envy w hich knawa at your heertj! be
cause you are not in tbe same lot with
others; bring down yon soul, or bring it
up, to God's will, and do his work, In your
lot, your sphere, under your cloak of ob
scurity, against your temptations, and
then you shall find that jour condition is
never opposed to your good, but consist
ent with it.
A Western Speech. Mr competitor has
told you of bis services be reudereu his
country in tbe late war. Let me tell you
that I, too, acted an bumble part in that
memorable contest. When the tocsin of
war su.nmoned the chivalry of the West
to rally to the defence of tbe national
honor, I, fellow eitixeus, animated by that
patriotic spirit which glows in every
American's bosom, hired a substitute for
that war, and the bones of that man now
be bleaching on the banks of theBakia!"
MBVTAX, ACTIVITY. If the water run
.a a. .1 B - - 1 a L. .
bat stagnation turneth it into a noisome
puddle. If die air be fanned by the winds,
it is pure aad wholesome but from being
shat ap, it groweth thick and putrid.
If metals be employed, they abide smooth
and splendid ; but lay tbem ap, and they
soon contract rust. If tbe earth is labor
ed with culture, it yieldeth com but ly
ing neglected, It will be overgrown with
i bushes and thiitlea, and the better the soil
- w . 1 1 ai
tore
is ii
i
labia, to
ment of the faculties depend on
constant exercise, to it God baa annex-
ed the best aad most desirable
success to our undertakings, wealth, hon
or, wisdom, virtue, salvation.
Tn e Lie, ht-Hearted People. There
are people who habitually make the best
of things, not from any shrinking from
pain on their own account or for others,
bat simply from a natural and uncon
querable lightness of heart. These peo
ple supply the oxygen of the moral at
mosphere, and should bo maintained at
the public expense to keep it sweet and
pare. Even if instead of being, ss they
generally are, active and otherwise esti
mable members of society, they did noth
ing bat enjoy life, they would still be
worth cultivating for the sake of the light
and heat which they kindle. The only
difficulty is bow to regulate them. They
are 00 irresistibly impelled to sing Bonn,
that, In a world where heavy hearts are
unfortunately common, it is difficult al
ways to keep the vinegar aad the nitre
apart. It hi unreasonable to expect any
great consideration for the susceptibilities
of melancholy people from the constitu
tionally cheerful, because the vary fact
of tbeir being so implies a certain degree
of insensibility, which involves a corres
ponding amount of blindness to Other
people's sensibility. A genuinely cheer
ful person makes the best of your troubles,
because they really do not appear to him
very distressing, aad it is for yoa to de
cide whether such a view will act on your
mind as a tonic or aa irritant.
Tbe Churchman thus turns General
gloves at hh) inauguration t the
pondent of the World ssys, be
ry -colored kid gloves ; the correspondent
of tbe Tribune gives no information on
the point. If the rules of historical criti
cism, which am frequently applied to the
U os pels aad their bearing on Christianity
were applied here, we should be asked to
believe that the President more no gloves
at all."
Death of a Female Printer Mrs. Ly
dm B. Bailey died ia this city ou the list
ultimo, in tbe 91st rear of ber age. She
carried on the printing basiness in Phila
delphia for over fifty years. Her husband,
Hobert Daily, died in 1808, and she con
tinued the printing until 1861. Previous
to tbe i n t rod uction of steam-power press
es, she bad one of the largest offices in the
etty. Mrs. Bsiley was elected "city prin
ter for a number of yean by tbe old city
councils. Among those who served their
apprenticeship with Mrs. Bailee were the
late Robert P. King, the surviving part
ner, Mr. Alex. Baird, and Mr. Fag an. the
stercotyper. Philadelphia Lodger.
The A at Issue of Greenbacks. A dis
patch from Washington says :
I he treasury plate printing office hss
nearly ready for printing a new emission
of the fifty-dollar greenback notes, to take
the place of the present issues, which bve
been largely counterfeited. The hundred
dollar notes will bear a likeness of Mr.
Lincoln, with a vignette sombolica) of re
construction, and the fifty-dollar notes
will bear a likeness of General Grant.
with a vignette symbolical of the restora
tion of peace.
Tbe hotel car that is designed to
pany the first through train from San
Francisco to the East has been completed
st tbe Central Pacific Shops. It is thus
described by a California exchange:
It is divided into a large number of
compartments one lined with sine for
meat, several for groceries, vegetables,
Sec; one with a wire door for live fowls,
large tanks for fresh water all arranaed
as neatly and compactly as can well be
imagined. At one end of the ear there
are several berths for the accommodation
of the train hands The ear is strongly
built, and, having both rubber and steel
Springs, is probably one of the easiest ri
ding in the State.
An old lady who waa making some jam
was called upon by a neighbor. "Sam,
yoa rascal, you will be eating my jam
wben I am away," she said. Sam pro
tested that he'd die first ; bat tbe whites
of his eyes rolled hungrily toward tbe
bubbling crimson. "Sea ham. fU.
tbe old lady, taking up a piece of chalk,
"I'll chalk your lips, and then, on my re
tarn, i 11 know if you have eaten any."
So saying, she passed her fdifin
the thick Up of the darkey, holding the
ebalk in the palm of ber hand, and not
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'"""t w"icu mm. rr Den she c
back, she did not need to ask aay q
tions, for Sam's lips were chalked s a
tcr of an inch thick. -
its designed ase, la asm
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A GR1CUM URAL.
CULTIVATION ot rum PEA-NUT.
Ik I III! fill I With your 'request, I
give yoa my experience and observation
as to tbe
methods used in ouiuvawng ma
Pl? ". . ,m . , 1 t .L - 3 .
1 he Brst eonsKiereiion oeing un us
ability of sofla. With as the light land ou
which the oak, hickory aad rosemary pine
were the original growth, are those on
which we succeed beet : they prodoee a
the necessary fertilizers, any land proper
ly draiued may be made to produce
determine. lime & some
be requisite ; when there is a deficiency
of lime in the land, although the vine may
flourish aad make aa innumerable quanti
ty of forms, there will not probably ha
one ia ton that will fill or make perfect
peas.
Tbe preparation of sous, and tbe minu
tha ot cultivating and harvesting cannot
he given felly, ia detail, without trespass
ing on your columns. Suffice it to say,
tbe soil should be well broken daring win
ter or early spring, and then broken im
mediately before planting. Like all other
crops, It requires a well pulverised soil-
then check off from twenty-seven to thir
ty inches each way, with an opener pre
pared for the purpose, so gauged that the
rows are equidistant. Plant hi the check,
twa kernels hi a hill, and cover about twa
inches deep.
The usual time of planting is from the
16th of April to the loth of May. Aa
soon as the peas are ap, we plow them
with a pea aweap, goinp once in a row,
then cross plow, and follow with the hoe.
This process is continuous, plowing them
each way (and hoeing) every fifteen to
eighteen days, aatil the vines meet, which
with us ia about the 15th of Jury. Tbe
object fat to keep them free from weeds
and grass, and to keep the soil wall pui-
venseu ana in a conaiuou reuauy 10 re
ceive the pees. On stiff and damp lands
m . asm .a
some preler planting in drills, say three
feet between the rows and eighteen inches
apart in the drills, then cultivate aa cot
ton, only retaining a flat oval bed for the
the vines
until time of harvesting, or aa
we call it,
and so loosenine the seiL that with the
aid of a rake, tbey sre easily raised out
of the ground, then shaken and left to cure
as other forage. It asually requires two
or three days, in good, weather, to cure
them sufficiently for etackine. After re-
maininr ia the stack six to eight dai
avs,
ader
they mar be removed and packed unc
shelter. Then comes the most tedious
process, when done by hand, (which has
been the usual way,) picking them from
the vines and preparing them for market.
A machine has been gotten up which per
forma that work very well, and is now be
ing generally used. The high prices ob
tained for pea-nuts, the last three years.
to have awakened considerable in
terest throughout tbe country in their cul
tivation, but having gone down this sea
son below two dollars, I think, the gener
al staple cotton J will eominoe to be
raised ; the ardor of the growers in this
section has cooled down considerably
since the decline In price.
in tormer years when prices were low.
I looked noon peanuts at one dollar per
bushel, and cotton at tea cents per pound,
as equal, the excess of that ratio, in either
crop, indicating tbe one moat profitable.--From
having some experience in both
crops I am induced to draw the compari
son, it is true the offal of a peanut crop
is more profitable in feeding stock, fat-
toning pork, etc, than that of cotton , yet
l doubt whether U wtu comsensBte for tba
damage to tbe land, peanuts being the
most exhausting crop, save flax I I know
of, and more than one crop in four cannot
be made without heavy manuring.
A). MeMulan tn Carolina farmer.
EftPBatkHT With a Phihcx. Tba
atest Paris journals announce the elope
ment from that city to Cologne of the
Prince Louis of Bourbon with a Havana
belle, Miss A. H ., who is no less than
Miss Amelia Isabel Hamel, a native 0
New Orleans, but whose family removed
to Havana some fiften years ago. Her
father is Mr. John B. Hamel, a very wor
thy man, doing business ss a 1 shipbroker
here, and well known to the commercial
community and to all sea captains who
have visited Havana daring the past SO
yesrs. Your correspondent hss known
Miss Hamal from childhood snd can there
fore say that the insinuations published
in a certain journal regarding the elope
ment are false, she having always borne
a very high reputation, while ber talents
have made her celebrated in the fashiona
ble circles of Europe and ths United
States. Prince Louis has written a letter
from Cologne to Mr. Hamel, explaining
his reasons for eloping and asking her
hand in. marriage, which very natural re
quest the old gentleman has granted, with
a telegraphic post script for tbem to come
to New York and be married in the land
ot iiaerty and greenbacks, it is very
probable that the young folks, accompan
ied by Mme. Hamel mere, will soon ar
rive ia New York, where the wedding is
to he celebrated very privately, and Fifth
a ven ue will be spared the age 1 y of wit
nessing the marriage of a Prince and a
pretender to the Spanish Crown, he be
ing the brother of Don Carlos and a)
-aweer w - - e. 1
of Gaarlos the Fiftk.
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