f A U jfiR R S' D ICT5. A ii TM E NT - SMrrins he Soil in dry Weather. T have known instances where a narrow strip lins been left unbroken in a summer fallow du - rin- a dry summer, and after harvest it was all , " , r. , , . ploiigned together. The unbroken strip would appear almost destitute of moisture, while that ..which was ploughed and f'reqnentlyjstirred with a harrow or cultivator exhibited quite a con trast. It is the common experience of farmers that j wheat sown in a dry fall upon fallow ground is much more liable to come up well than when I . , , , i ;;own on stubbie. Again, in hoeing com in very hot weather, when you could fairly see the corn grow, upon leaving the field at night I have measured some hills that were hoed and some that were not, on the next night compared their growth dn- Vlllt; the twentV-fonr hours. The lCSult Was ' - V I I I I V U) M V- ' II JI II V I J w V -v- b -w w & Vr u K v i that the hood hud made about twjee the growth follows up. the divide ridge between McLen ofthe uuhcd. ' " j non's Creek and Crawley's Creek, upon which Ten-years ago last summer I planted rather ! rad, c.a" with a maximum grade of , . - ,, . 1 . I o2 leet to the mile, by making a few curves late in I he season, a s.nal piece in cucumbers . witll a rulhis of nQt ,ess t,mn - :3() feet) with. ror pickle?. 1 he soil was dry, sandy loam, j out heavy earthwork. This is the longest and with a warm southern aspect. I determined i heaviest ascending grade against the coal, on lo rely entirely upon frequent hoeing to resist the effects of that unusually drought. The piece yielded a fine lot of pic kles, the vines re maining green bearing well until destroyed by the frost; while vines- iu the neighborhood, treated in the ordinary way, were dried up and barren. So much for facts. Now how are I these results to be accounted for? We have seen that the soil frequently stirred had gathered moisture, and had also receiveil from source nutrition. From what source and nutrition derived? It is a well known fact, that the driest atmosphere contains vapor, which is usually deposited in the night or any substance that is effectually cool to condense j it into water in the form of dew. At the close of a hot day when the air is calm and sky is clear, vegetation soon radiates suifficient heat to reduce its temperature 'o the dew point. The miked earth does not i ossess this power; hence we often find dew on vegeta- tion when the bare ground is dry, not having cooled enough to condense the vapor in the ! proinimate atmosphere. But if the ground is ,n,x. ! -ii , n j mcllouthe a,r will penetrate, ts surface, carry- ing its vapor until it reaches a cooler soil, where it is condensed into dew, which diffused itself through the mellow earth. Your agricultural readers have probable no ticed that fresh ploughed ground is covered with dew, and sometime, frost, when the ad joining ground is dry I think I have succeeded in accounting ,i , , r , . ... , ciuitv ot tne air line netween tannage auu flit? piciciice of moisture iu a soil freouentlv m " ,i ii ? i 7 , . 1 . ui ,L"11-1 ) Cheraw was thoroughly explored, and cross f-tirn-d, when almost entirely wanting in com- j sections taken where difficulties presented them pact ground; f yet believe that water is not j selves. From these examinations, the lands the only ingredient that soil freouentlv stirred derives from the atmosphere. I am convinced, with you Messrs. Editors tliat nitrogen is an important element in the j pabulum of crops. Xitrogen is present iu the form of ammonia to a certain extent in the at uiosphere, and as it has a strong affinity to water, being absorbed by it in large quantities, is -t not reasonable to infer that it it, combined witli vapor, and with it conveyed to the root of growing plants to minister to their urgent necessity? Like favorable effects may be produced in mellow soil by the light showers that frequent ly occur, even in the dryest weather. The difference in the depth to which light showers wiii jKMieirale in oiIs frequently stirred, and those left nan and baked, is very appreciable. In conclusion, allow me to exhort my brother I. timers to keep the plow, the hoe and the cul tivator pretty busy in their corn, potatoes, root crops, and even Ui their wheat fields, be lieving it will do more to counteract the injuri ous effects of our severe droughts, than any ether means which they can employ. Blackbekkv Wine. The Columbus Sun says: '1 here is no wine equal to the blackberry wine when properly made, either iu flavor or for medicinal purposes, ami every person who can conveniently do so, should manufacture enough for their own use every year, as it is invaluable in sickness as a tonic, and nothing is a better remedy fcr bowel diseases. We, therefore, give the receipt for making it, and having tried it ourselves, we speak advisedly upon the sul ject: "Measure your berries and bruise them; to every gallon adding one Quart of boiling water. Let mixture stand twenty-four hours, stirriii" occasionally; then strain off the liquor into a cask, to gallon adding two pounds of sugar; cork it tight and let it stand till the following October, and you will have wine ready for use, without further straining or boiling, that will make lips smack as they never smacked under similiar influence before' Trimming Crape A'ines. For many years we have raised grapes, by the bushel from a ine, and our trimming is done in the following manner. The first week in July we commence at:d cut back to the second leaf or bud, of the present season's growth. Have a sharp knife .i;d trim a portion every day, (a little at a time) until the whole vine has been gone over. Autumn, winter and spring pruning are avoid ed; but we hare large, nice, smooth grapes -in abundance. Quince and Apple Jeixy. Cut small and core an equal weight of tart apples and quinces. r.,t fi. r,niiu-os iu a nreservin kettle, with water to cover them 'and boil till soft; add the apples, still keep water to cover them, and boil till the whole is nearly a pulp Put the .whole into a jelly jur. and strain without pressing. From the Cheraw Herald. CHERAW AND COALFIELDS RAILROAD. To the Commissioners of the Cheraxo and Coal fields Rail Road. Gentlemen: Having been recently employ ed by you to make a preliminary survey of a Railroad route from the Coalfieds on Deep River to Cheraw, in South Carolina, via Car thage; and in answer to your letter, requesting me at my earliest convenience, to furnish you with as much information as possible, for the puijMjse ol aiding you in selecting stock i 1 beg leave to remark, that neither the time ! nor tMe means have been sufficient to enable i"310 make a thorough survey of the country; ! ? ,nrtTe 1 in , a to v inch of several routes on different parts j of the line would be nreferable: in conscouence of which. I will not be able, at this time, to enter into details. The survey was commence d about the 1st of May last, by running a line I from Carthage to Chalmer's Landing, on Deep I River, which is about 2 of a mile below the mouth of McLennon's Creek This point was selected on account of its being a very favora- ble Place for bridging, as well as that a good line for a railroad can be obtained by crossing ,. . j .u r i? i the river at this nlsice. ana then followinsr down on the north bank of the river, "thus passing centrally the Coal Basin On the return survey from Deep River to Carthage, a line was traced by mean3 of cross sections, which route is represented on the map accomnauving this report by a red line. This roil lm no renvptontiiwr tlis rkrpffrrfd Vnnto the whole line The soil on this part of the line, which is 8J miles in length, is a mixture of clay and sand, with slight indications of rock in several places where excavations may be necessary. The ex cavation will cost at least 25 per cent, more upon this part of the line, than upon any other part, on account of greater hardness of earth; yet the material is of a character to make a very durable road bed. Large masses of grav el can be procured in the vicinity of the line; and post oak, suitable for cross ties, is abun dant, while every branch, and hill side abounds with sand stone of superior quality. Carthage being a very high point, it will be necessary to pass about half a mile east of the Court House unless a better line can be had by following up the valley of McLennon's Creek upon which route it would be well to have an instrumental survey, before final location; for if Chalmers' Landing be determined upon, then the air line to Cheraw would pass considerably to the west of Carthage, and would follow up the valley of the Creek for several miles t rom a point about half a mile east of Car thatre. I undertook to run an air line to Che- raw, but owing to imperfect data, the line fell 'dout a mile to the east of Cheraw. The true bcarillP we' fil,a to tl,e souMb 29 deg. and 17 miu. west distance 52-48 miles, making the whole distailce from Cliaimers' Landing to Cheraw GO. 73 miles. The profile accompanying this report, which is drawn on a horizontal 'scale of two inches to the mile, and 80 feet to the inch vertical scale gives to the face of the country, in several places, a very rough and mountainous appear ance, while a good line is often within a few hundred feet of the straight line. i ine return survey, uie cuuintjr in ic i- . i . . i .. . . : i l. ..: sllow that the grading of the sand hills south of Carthage, will be but light work, and that the maximum grade need not exceed 30 feet to the mile, going north or south, provided a few light curves be made While I would gladly avoid both curves and grades, adhere to the air line, yet in selecting a Railroad route over a county so varied in its features, sometimes we are running with ridges and vallies, or nearly so. A vast amount of time and money may be saved by making digressions, so slight as to be alike free from the danger incident to sharp curves and heavy grades, and that too, without materially lengthening the Road. The line which was run from Carthage to Cheraw, crosses the dividing ridge between Wadsworth Creek and Little River, at one of the highest points, as is also the case at the summit of the ridge dividing the waters of Deep River and the Pee Dee. I find thai by chang ing the line either to the east or west, the ground is much more favorable. The best point for crossing this ridge is near the head of Ive's Fork, and thence a straight line to Drowning Creek, just above the mouth of Na ked Creek, thence a line running south 29 deg. and 11 min. west, will be Hpon the most favor able ground, for a distance of 9 miles, to a point on the road leading from Fayetteviile to Rockingham, at the head of Rooty Branch; thence south 28 deg. west crossing thf north prong of- Falling Creek, near the month of Moody's Branch, and crossing Mark's Creek 200 yards lower down than my line. Thence to Cheraw, at least two routes are practicable. One is to cross White's Creek at some point east of the road leading from Cheraw to Rockingham thence crossing the Fee Dee at what is called the Shoals and following up the valley of Whortleberry, and passing through the western edge ot Cneraw and connecting w itn ttie tne raw aud Darlington Road about one iD'de below the Depot. The other route would be to cross White's Creek near Sweat's Mills, thence pas sing near Oak Grove Church, and keeping to the east of Husband's Creek, and crossing the Pee Dee above the mouth of Thompson's Creek and connecting with the Cheraw and Darling ton Road near Thompson's Creek Bridge. 1 consider either of the above routes practicable but am not now able to give either the prefe rence. Considerable surveying will be necessa ry before the proper decision can be made. Also, on that part of the line from Carthage to Deep River, 1 have good reason to believe from an eye survey, that a parallel line can be had from Carthage, striking Deep River lower down aud which would be a continuation of the course from Cheraw to Carthage: at the same time running more in the direction of Raleigh, with the Coal Fields must soon be made by means of a railroad, and thus a through con nection is made, which will be the most direct Atlantic route from the Northern cities to the Gulf of Mexico. This consideration would justify the building of this link of but little over 60 miles, for there can be no doubt, but that the State of North Carolina, uuaided, will build the road from the Coal Fields to Raleigh. A distauce of 25 miles is all that is needed to make the connection with the Central Railroad at or near Morrisville. The country was ex plored last winter by a very eminent Engineer and reported favorable upon. One other ad vantage that might be derived from striking Deep River lower down, is, that the distance to Carthage, would be iereased and thus the grade diminished. Until the extreme point be determined upon, the exact location of the air line cannot be THE NORTH CAROLirilANiFAVETTEVlLLE, known, so that considerable surveying will be! necessary along the line, after the terminus has been decided upon. In speaking of these sev eral surveys, I hope you will not conclude that I intend surveying your Road to death, as has been the case on some of your Roads. But I do insist that no money is better spent by a Railroad Company than that applied to sur veys, jndiciously and skilfully made; for very slight changes in a route, for a few miles, .'will often admit of a better Road at a less cost," (expense of surveys included,) than a hasty locate, without a thorough knowledge of the country. A nd to furnish you with the probable cost of construction, without having fully de cided upon the route, would be to furnish you with amounts without proper data. Thus much I can say, that fnom the examinations which I have made, I am satisfied that a first class Railroad can be constructed from the Coal Fields to Cheraw. at a cost far less than the transportation of coal alone would justify, to say nothing of the other resources of the Deep River Valley. " V No section of country in the State, possesses. so many advantages lor the construction or a, Railroad. After passing Carthage, going south, the soil is light and sandy, and of easy excavation. On this part of the line, no stotre for culverts and abutments cau be procured, without very long haulage: so that iu the first construction, lightwood will have to be used, which can be so constructed as to be replaced the road.' The verv be.st pitch pine is a,b iva mi viiu. TlVWUf III 1 UIKii' ( w rtB iivuivi I m dant, and being far from market, is as yet . On locked, and almost valueless. Upon Deep River and its tributaries, and especially upon McLennon's Creek, the finest building stone abounds to an almost exhaustless extent. This stone is easily quarried and dressed, and is not surpassed for strength or durability by granite at the southern terminus, sufficient quantities of granite can be easily procured for bridgi iers &c. The cost of. bridging will be very light upon thisRoad, the most expensive biing those across Deep River and the Pee Dee. The other streams being small, will require in most cases, nothing -more than trestle work, which with the exception of that of Drowning Creek, need not be over 150 feet in length.- At Drowning Creek, the swamp being low and wide, will require some 400 feet of wator way between abutments. In the vicinity of Whites Creek, there are some indications of quick sand which may require piles to be driven; if so, there is no timber more suitable than the cypress, which is abundant in the swamps of those Creeks. Allow me to beg your clemency, in offering this brief account of so hurried a survey. Respectfully submitted. D. G. McDUFFIE. Hon. James B. flay. The election returns presented in inother column, indicates umistakably the election to Congress of the distinguished son of g orious old Kentucky, whose name heads this article. James B. Clay is elected, to represent the people of the Ashland District, of Kentuck7, in the Congress of the United Slates. Elected to represent the District consecrated by the genius of his great sire: the District honored as his home in life, and sanctified as the resting place of his dust in death. Elected, too, let all the world know, in spite of the ungenerous opposition of men who called themselves the friends of Clay, the father, and who chaunted peace to his memory, while they strove witli diabolic zeal to throttle the son! Elected, too, let posterity remember, in spite of efforts made, and means used, such as have never been introduced by any men of any party under any circumstances, in any political con test, had since Kentucky was a State and we a people. Distraction, itself, lopped up again and spread in riot over earth her leprous blaver, and stayed her poisonous breath iu despair, on witnessing the more completely fiendish per fectness with which Mr Clay's assailants have done their work, than she herself could do, since his manly refusal to become the tool of an unprincipled faction, and his indignant de nunciations of blasphemous, treasonable oaths, secrets, ahd of its contemptible mummeries. His enemies charged that he "sold" the name of Clay to the Democracy, through greed of office. They measured his patriotic impulses by their own office-hungered, thirsty souls, and clamored like a bevy of unclean birds around the proud eagle, when he has stricken his prey. When lie was offered one of the best offices in the gift of the federal government, were the words of these harpers fulfilled? Let the voice of the gallant yeomanry of of the Ashland Dis trict answer! Jas. B. Clay is not the lackied and betitled minister to a proud foreign Court. He is the servaut and ja,llant representative of a people who guard the bones of his father! They have been his bulwark, aud have formed around him an Ashland phalanx, against which all the assaults of of his foes-have been dashed iu pieces, and hurled back on their own heads. A thousand gallant Kentucky hearts have been his shield and his defence. The cruel, keen-edged tongue of falsehood has done its worst, but has utterly failed to befoul his hearthstone or tarnish his name, and Jas. B. Clay comes forth from the most gal lant canvass ever made in Kentucky, vifidicat ed by the sons of the men his father taught, and by a people who best know all his faults, and who, also, know his virtues. Mr Clay entered the canvass against .an overwhelming majority; a majority declared by the organs of the faction that fought against him to be much greater than that of Fillmore over Buchanan; a majority large enough to have rendered the declension of the nomination certain of one less conscious in his own purity of purpose, and less relia.'it upon the irreproach able voters of his own District, than Mr Clay. He did accept a nomination, and commenced a canvass his enemies denounced as little less than madness. The event has justified his con fidence, and proven that he ha., read the hearts of Kcntuckians better than Know Nothingism can ever do. Thus have his enemies perished! Our readers will recollect that we have, on all fitting occasions, fearlessly defended Mr Clay from the reckless and even infamous as saults made upon him since the advent of Know-Nothingism in Keutucy, and that at the close of the presidential canvass last fall, we predicted for him a brilliant career at no dis tant day. We advocated ins nomination, and have never for one mement doubted his success. Our prophecy is fulfilled; our sincerest pray ers and desires of our hearts are oratified, and we think the proudest ambition of Mr Clay is realized by his election to Congress from the gallant district his father represented so long and so well. Let not the enemies of this young Clay lay the flattering unction to their souls, that the star of his destiiiyjjhas now calumniated. Not so. James B. Clay is now hailed as a son worthy of his father's great name, and is desr tined to make his mark in the ensuing Con gress; and in the coming future will yet carve out a name and attain a position seldom reach ed by the best intellects of this free and favor ed laud.' Louisville Journal A table of the Counties with the votes foi and against Free Suffrage. Counties Approved Not Appr'd. 22 279 426 298 225 86 42 364 24 Alexander Anson Alamance Bladen Bertie t; Buncombe Burke Cabarrus Caldwell Catawba Camden Carteret Caswell Cherokee Cleavelaud Chatham Columbus Cumberland Craven Chowan ' - Currituck Davie Davidson Duplin Edgecombe Forsythe " Franklin 640 424 692 379 390 310 1082 483 750 593 ,810 791 1047 632 678 216 634 471 782 804 749 1173 738 215 4 42 735 75 434 263 13 178 559 166 240 388 196 mi ill i 'Guilford Gaston Granville Greene Halifax Haywood Henderson Hertford Hyde Iredell Johnston Jackson Jones Lenoir Lincoln Macon Madison Martin McDowell Meclenburg M oore Montgomery Ntish Northampton, New Hanover Onslow Orange Pasquotank Perquimans, Person Pitt Randolph Robeson Rockingham Richmond Rowan Rutherford Sampson Stanly Stokes Surry Tyrrel Union Wake Warren Wayne Washington V atanga Wilkes Yadkin Yancy 730 819 364 707 609 850 306 412 687 358 185 453 537 345 -580 511 594 670 509 840 758 484 627 273 354 491 331 644 1203 375 609 647 681 12 596 140 339 67 58 84 729 582 122 120 86 38 48 8 241 47 192 357 121 182 85 543 105 325 12 1160 318 195 174 218 349 438 816 1458 493 821 75 481 208 195 I 966 Important from Itab. The Sacramento Union received by the last arrival from California, contains important news from the Valley of the Grand Salt Lake. It will be seen that the Mormons are not only waging war against peaceful and unoffending citizens, but that' serious dissensions are rapidly thinning their own ranks, and that many of them have already left for the. Atlantic States. The Union says: Candall's pioneer coach arrived in our city at one o'clock this after noon, from Carson Yalley, with the express matter, the mails aud passengers travelling time 15 hours. Dates from Salt Lake are to May 30. Wilkins and party is composed of twenty-six persons, eight of whom are women. After leaving Salt Lake they were arrested by a large body of Mormons, and taken back on a charge of horse stealing. As no evidence, even for a Mormon court, was offered against them, they were discharged, at the request of one Mesick, who knew three of them in San Francisco he being the Clerk of the Court. After that they were hunted like wolves, night and day, until they reached Goose Creek, mountains, over one hundred miles, from Salt Lake, when the Mormons made a charge on them, and killed six of their animals. One half the population would leave, and will do so, if the Government sends a sufficient force to protect them. Brigham declares that if the Saints will stand by him and the Church, he will be President of the United States in less than ten years. Williams the lawyer has fled. The destroy ing angels were on his track, and it was not known if he escaped them. Open and avowed murder of all who have and are becoming ob noxious, is advocated in public assemblages; in fact, an offer was publicly made in a meeting, by one of the faithful, to murder two Gentile traders at Box Elder near the city who had incurred the displeasure of Elder Lorenzo Snow ii tney aid not leave by June 1. A train of one hundred wagons had left Salt Lake, bound for the States, all of which belonged to A postles. New dissensions are certainly arising. That which causes the most ill-feeling is Brigham, sealing young.girls to old men. Several heads of families have been put out of the way, as they call it, on suspicion of their being aposta tes, by which means they prevent the family from leaving Several who heretofore have been in the confidence of the high priests are known to have beeu murdered in attempting to leave secretly Seven ladies, with their familes, whose hue bands had made their escape begged to be taken away by Wilkins' partyi expecting daily to see some of the number d-gged away to the mi c U I ui home oi me anointed. Brigham preaches open rebellion to all at. tempts on the part of the Goyernmeqt to estab lish a foothold iu his Territory. He has inaug urated a new law, by which he gqverns disobe dient wives, by degrading ttnd making menials of them, depriving them of the right to marry or have a protector. It is called an "Earthly Hell." ' An Irishman who had been reduced to a mere shadow by severe illness, was asked by a physician what he thought of a future state. "Ah! doctor," was his answer, "it makes no difference yez ain't left enough of me for the devil to naturalize do how. 1 H c Can't do without a Paper What do without a paper? no, I've tried it to my sorrow, So to subscribe to one I'll go, Nor wait uutil to-morrow. Should lovers frown or hang themselves, Or other foolish caper, I'll never get to hear of it I do not take the paper, Why, there's my neighbor Jonathan Stront, He always has the news, And having news to talk about, He never gets the "blues." While others yawn iu ennui, His mind is like a vapor; The cause is plain to half an eye He always takes the paper. While neighbor Strout hears all the news And knows each current price, And always minds his P's acd Q's, By taking good advice. I cannot tell the price of calves, Of poultry, coffee, tape or, Any kind of merchandize, Because I take no paper. Though I have studies which require Much time and mental labor, Yet I can spare a little time, As well as Strout, my neighbor. . Though time be precious, I can use A longer midnight taper; And thus take time to read the news - Therefore, I'll take the paper. Wash:xg Calicoes. The following method of washing dresses of printed muslin, so as to preserve the colors, is recommended by a com petent authority: "The dress should be washed in lather, and not in the usual way, by appyling the soap di rect upon the muslin. Make a lather by boil ing some soap and water together. Let it stand until it is sufficiently cool for use. Pre viously to putting the dress into it, throw in a handfnl of salt. Rince the dress, without wringing, it, in clear cold Avater, into which a little salt has been thrown. Remove it, and rince it again in a fresh supply of clear cold water and salt. Then wring the dress iu a cloth, and hang it to drj immediately, spread ing it out as open as possible, so as to prevent any part lying over another. Should there be any white in the pattern, mix a little blue iu the water." CHARITY. Night kissed the young rose, and it bent softly to sleep. Stars shone and pure tlew drops hung upon its bosom and watched its sweet slumber. Morning came with its dauking breezes and they whispered to the young rose and it awoke joyous and smiling. Lightly it swung to and fro in all the loveliness of health and youthful innocence. Then came the ardent, son-god, sweeping Horn the east and smote the young rose with its scorching rays, and it fainted. Deserted and almost heart broken it drop ped to the dust in its loveliness. and despair. Now the gentle breeze, which had been gam boling over the sea pushing on the home bound bark and sweeping hill aud dale by the neat cottage and still brook turning the old mill, fanning the brow of disease, ami frisking the curls of innocent child came tripping along on her errand of mercy and love, and when she saw the young rose, she hastened to kiss it. and fondly bathed its head in cool refreshing show ers, and the young revived and looked and smiled in gratitude to the kind breeze; but she hurried quickly away for she soon perceived that a delicious fragrance had been left upon her wings by the grateful rose, and the kind breeze was glad in heart and went away sing ing through the trees. - Thus charity like the breeze, gathers fra grance from the drooping flowers it refreshes and reaps a reward iu the performance of its office of kindness, which steals on the heart like rich perfume, to bless and to cheer. Je-Wh?likexs! The Salisbury Watchman is some. Listen unto it and admire! It saith of Mr Gilnur: "We doubt not that he is far the ablest representative that will go from North Carolina, and it is not unlike, in every thing else except voting, he will more than equal all the Demociatic representatives put together." Now it is a shame to poke fun at Mr Gilmer in that sort of a way, for we take it that tiie Watchman must mean to be understood as speaking ironically. And then that sly allu sion to the matter of voting that . is the un kindest cut of all it is like treading on a man's pet corn; for everj-body knows that when there is voting to be done, then Mr Gilmer loses ground, and indeed had nearly got beaten where his predecessor went in by an almost unlimited majority. Still, we rather like Mr Gilmer, and we don't like to see his party fri-nds trying to make him ridiculous bv talking about his being equal or superior to Clingm in, Craig, Winslow Branch, Shaw, Ruffiu or Scales, or to the whole of them put together. It does seem to us that Mr Gilmer is the best puffed and worst voted for man in the State or out of it Wit. Journal. Pats Encounter wiln a Hornet's Kcst. An I was a mowin of a niornin, jist a while since, on the mash fornins the wood, an I seed A big beautiful bird's nest on a bush; an I axed Mr Davis what kind ov a bird's necst it was, an he tould me. bad luck to him. 'twas a hum bird's neest an I went un and neeivt into it, but devil a bird could 1 see, nor a bit ot a place for her to lay; and then Mr Davis tould me may the devil run away wid him to shake the bush an the ould bird wud cume out; an I shook it, shure, but instead ov a bird, out cum j a thousand, ten thousand och, a million ov j the big green heads, an they flew into me eyes, an into me hair, and into me mouth, bejabers, aud they bit me till shureiy 1 thought I was dead jist, an .1 screamed, an I run och, didn't; I run? but they stuck to ine, an no more could I run away from the varmints than I could run away fromjmeself; and the fust J know'd I tum bled into a' ditch oy about two" feet ov water, and thinks I now, me liouit. I'll cum the St tr;..lr tt-K iho v c.., epalpeens a little howley'wather iu ould Ireland, bp 1 ducks me head under tie wather, and jist hild jt there ti)l I most kilt meself, and intirely kilt every mothea's spn ov the hum birds bad Juck to em. Pat ended his story with a deep drawn sigh, and put him to work of his old town employer. ' s-- ''Say, Pomp, you nigger, where you get dat new hat?" "Why, at de shop, ob course." "What isde price of such an article at dat?" l aon t Know, nigger I don't know, de shop- Keeper wasn t dar. From the Wilmington Journal. At a meeting of the citizens of the town of Wilmington," held persuant to notice at the Court House, on , the afternoon of the 12th inst., for the purpose of giving some suitable expression to their respect for the memory of tbe late Hon Jas C. Dobbin.. On motion of Eli W. Hall, Esq , his honor the Mayor, was called to the Chair, and W. T. J. Vann and John C Mcllae appointed Secre -taries. ' The object of the meeting having been ex plained by the chairman. On motion of Robert H. Cowan, Esq., i committee of five was appointed to draw up the sense mid report resolutions'expressive of of the meeting. The Committee, consisting of Messrs. Rob ert H. Cowan, Jas. Fulton, Hon. W. S. Ashe, N. N. Nixon and P. K. Dickinson, Ksqs., thro' their Chairman, R. H. Cowan, reported the following preamble and resolutions, prefacing them with a few feeling and appropriate re marks. And upon motion of Robert Strange, Esq , they were unanimously adopted: Whereas, by the late lamented death of the Hon. James C Dobbin, North Carolina nas iusi a nouie anu an nonoreu sun, auu Union a pure and patriotic statesman; and whereas also, independent of his claims upon us as a public man, established by the firmr faithful and honorable discharge of his many laborious and difficult public duties, he had endeared himself to us as the private man; and" by his gentle and winning manners, by '.he per- feet purity of his life and character, and by his many amiable and kindly virtues, lie had converted the ardent admirers of the statesman into the devoted personal friend of the individ ual; and whereas, some public expression of our respect for his memory, and our sense of his loss is due alike to his distinguished servi ces, and to our own feelings, therefore be it Resolved, That we bow in humble submis sion, but with sincere and-unfeigned sorrow, to this afflictive dispensation of Providence, feel ing that we, in common with the whole coun try, have sustained a loss which cannot soon be repaired, and can never be forgotten that a true Christian gentleman, a devoted patriot. j and an enlightened statesman has passed from among us. Resolved that as North Carolinians, we do morw especially feel ani lament the loss of one whose whole life was marked by an ardent de votion to the best interests of his native State a devotion which aninited him to the close, aud ceased only with his life. j Resolved, That we tender our sympathies to jour fellow-citizens of Fayetteviile, to whom he I was best known and by whom he was be.st be j loved; and that, in common with them, we de j plore his death as a loss to the nation, to our j State, ond to the hallowed circle of our friend I shi Resolved, That the Mayor be requested to forward a cony of these resolutions to his be reaved family; and to tender to them, the rcs- pectin I expression of our sincere and heart -felt condolence. Resolved, That the Mayor be requested to forward a copy of these prot eetlii.gs to the .Mayor of Fayetlev ille. and also, totalise them to be furnished for publication to each one ol the papers of our town. On motion of Dr A. J. DcRosset, Jr., the meeting was adjourned. O. G. PAllaLEY, Churn. W. T. J Naxx, John C. McRae, Sccreta ries.1 The u-o ot Vjictlaclv. An artitle iu the North American Rev'ew, evidently from the pen of Sir David Brewster, contains some interesting remarks on the use of spectacles. Persons who have enjoyed distinct and comfortable vision iu early life, it is re marked, are the most likely to appreciate the benefit be derived from glasses. Between me ages oi thirty or toriy, they begin to expe rience a change in sight. This is the commence--ment of long sighteduess, growing out of an incipient affection of the crystalline lens, begin ning at the edge and proceeding toward the centre. During the progress of this alteration, much inconvenience is experienced, as no spec tacles seem to be serviceable in giving correct vision. Happily, however, two or three months cuds this difficulty, and as soon as the alteration is complete, distinct and comfortable vision is at once obtained by the use of well selected glasses of a convex figure. During this transition state it is important that the eyes should be subjected to no severe strain, and great regard should be paid to the general health. The material of spectacle lenses should be glasses of a very low dispersive power, or better still of rock chrystal. They should be double convex; the proper radii of the inner and outer surfaces being in glass as 6 to 1, and iu rock chrystal as 14 to 1. They should be as thin as practicable. To correct a common error in the manufacture of lenses, bj' which the distance between the centres of the lenses is made pre cisely equal to the distance between the centres of the pupils of the eyes, the follow ing rule is given : "Draw on paper an isosceles triangle, the two sides of which are equal to the distance of each pupil from the point to be seen distinctly; while the third side or base is co.ua! to the distance between the pupils when. the eyes view that point. Then set off on each side of the triangle, from each end of the base, the distance of the centre of the lenses or their frames from the pupil, and the distauce of these points will be tlie distance of the centres of the lenses re quired." The long sighted person will generally, for ten or twelve years, require glasses only for reading or work done by hands, but as life ad vances other spectacles will be needed for ob jects at greater distances, and it will be of great advantage to have two or three pair of differ ent focal distances. It is a very incorrect no tion that it is prudent to avoid the use of arti ficial helps to the eye as long as possible. The human eye is too delicate a structure to bear continued strain without injury, and the true ru'e is to commence the use of glasses as soon as we can see better with than without them. For special purposes, as reading a very fine print ot examining maps, a hand reading glass two and a half inches in diameter, to be used in conjunction with spectacle, and never pr.(inmm(il(lpil TliC " 'practice treequenuy inauigeu oi -j- j glass whose frame is grasped by the muscles of the eyebrow can not be too strongly condemned. Whenever it. is fonnd necessary to moderate the quantity of light admitted to the eyes by means of colored glasses, they never should be blue, which are more mischievous than useful. Green glass is better, but the best of all is a colorless glass of imperfect transparency, known by the name of '-'neutral tint glass," by which the in tensity of the transmitted light can be dimm i ished to aB7 desired degree. JBoslon Jojtrnaf ,
