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S 0 U T EI W SIT F 0 12 LADIES' DEPARTMENT. - From Putnam's Magazine. AMEBIC AK LADIES. There is n,o complaint more common than that of the intense tlulness of our ordinary society. This is so well understood that no one is surprised at hearing an invitation spoken of as an" infliction, and the acceptance of it as a thine- "to-be eluded bv rtuy duu every social art and fiction. We. venture tq say that ours is-the only country under the sun .where this is the case. Ami the reason is but too obvious ; it is, that as a general thing, unless there are people hired to amuse in some way, there is absolutely nothing expected at a social gathering but dress and display, for which not every one has means or inclination. Nobody goes into company intending to contribute in the smallest degree to the pleasure of others, and so the whole thing is vitiated and hollow. Uo we mean, then, to say that American women, as they arej aie not accomplished? Let us sum. mon all our courage nay, all our benevolence, and confess that that is just what we do mean. (We have thrust sticks into a hornet's nest before now, on purpose! to pull it down and get at some lovely pears that were growing above.) We do say and let out unhappy bachelorhood take the blame if w? are 'wrong that 'American ladies, spite of thousand doljar boarding-schools and immensely mustached' teachers ofeverything, are not practi "-.. . . cally furnished forth with the knowledge and skill for which their parents have paid so much ; do not carry with tbenj" into their married homes, habits which demand the exercise of talent, taste and. per severance, ivitli jthe single object of pleasing those with whom they live, and making home the centre and natural theatre of their best graces. We do say, and with a deeper sorrow than the subject may see hi- to some to wairant, that music, dancing and French are; the only .accomplishments, technically so called, cultivated to any considerable extent, :and ' that the firjit of these is so entirely perverted from ' its divine .uses, that rio young lady plays in compa- j ny for the sole purpose of gi ving pleasure, or with- j out an.ijiea of-competition or display. ' No voting ! lady !" we hear some indignant voice exclaim' alas ! dear read'-rj have 'patience if there be exceptions, they are too tew to be.eonsilered. Ask any splen did singer of .your acquaintance to sing an old-fash ioned song,on.e popular twenty or thirty years ago, and riot yet ". revived v .'by some musical prodigy ; ill public, and yuii will he convinced. Ask your ; daughter to- play for -your country -o;isin, and see j if she .will jjilay-any but; the most difficult music i such as is in ere eon fusion to' "uninstructed ears. lie- I - . . i. . - - - quet tie- voung lady who sang very weeiiv last evening in la company where there were on i v. or dinary -performers, to ob.ige you again to-night, when her rival at Madame - s . has" -astonished the room, Tint this is a little aside.froin our theme. What we ought rather to sav is, see how lar-'e a proportion of. the fifty. -married -ladies of your ac-" quainlaiice jwho have had a 'musical .education', play and sing at jail, after two or three years'" hyusekeep-1 ing. Musitj is iK, longer a home accomplishment, a family treasure, a life-long joy. There is a de lusion about it, which an ideal woman will see through and live down, lurt enough. '1 he study ot the trench language is, in most cases, a mere mania of' the day, in many a spend ing of time'1; and money w ithout intelligent end or aim, tiiuce it finishes w ith the school days and. never had any intended use, as a key to French literature- If here we seciii to miCe ra-h assertions again 'we j desire to be" put to a test similar. a the one pro po.ted just now:. A.-k the six most, intelligent inar- tied ladies of yuitr friends how' ii):int; French au thors they have read" in the original since the y K -ft school. Would, we Wthi discourage the study'-? Far from it : -.v.- would iu!y continue it through .life: we would never maqertake it without meanino to do so. 1 he.only other feasible object of so much toil would be the e-hanyo of marrying one of our iiU!nei""iis 'foreign ambassadors Or charges, who would certainly be made much more respectable in the eyes of people abroad if even their wives had . thisiudispensable competency for the position. As to drawing, that lovely home talent, in the exercise pf whiclKlritish ladies .so generally excel, how small a proportion of ours who know anything about it. A lady artist is almost a lus us nuturiv .anions; us, and even a tolerable skill in sketching . .1.-11.1 i , -trorn nature is extremely rare, mi an tne educated .American women we know, and that includes a goodly number, encountered in the course of our wanderings, there are not six who can make, a drawing they are willing or ought to be willing to show. Why is this! - Let us not enter on the un gracious exposition. One of the great Dutch pai titers represents the Iloly Family after courageous fashion : Joseph planing at a carpenter's bench, with shavings fall ing all about him ; Mary, with a basket of family mending, plying the needle industriously ; and t.-e Saviour, a youth of fourteen meekly sweeping the floor-with a broom. More could hardly have been done for the dignity of household labor. We shall therefore, as we hope, not shock any body by saying that, to our thinking, our ladies of fortune show bad taste by their studious avoidance of those household occupations which their sisters without fortuneare in duty bound to practise daily. This brings these occupations necessary . for the comfort and happiness of every human family from tire palace to the hut, and therefore, proper objects to every one having a human heart and sympa thiesinto disrepute and contempt. We contend that domesticity is the honor and glory of woman, whatever her fortune and abilities'; and that when she performs all its duties by means of hirelings, she is untrue to herself and her birthright. - Na ture's revenge is severe enough, for the loss of real pleasure and in'erest is incalculable, and there is no computing the ennui,! inanity and ill health that ' come of the error. But the punishment is seldom, recognized as such, certain as it is. The lady be comes " nervous," and accurses her cruel stars ; or " dyspeptic," and talks of her stomach till she turns every one's else ; or consumptive, and goes down to the grave in the prime of life by what is called a " mysterious dispensation." But she Lever be lieves nor can you persuade her, that the dulness and monotony of an objectless and wasted life has anything to do with these sad results. She would laugh at you, if she could laugtj should you tell her that the, woman who, with no choice in the matter, flies from the needle to the churn, trom the broom to the pie board, and from putting children to bed to knitting stockings for them, is far happier and better off, and would be still more blessed, if in addition, she had the cultivation, the taste, and the abundant means thrown away "upon her idle sister, without losing her own activity and the habit of various employment. " Want of time " is much talked of, as if from the shortness of life we could wisely attempt but little. But this is a great error. The complaint is oftenest made by the idle and inefficient. It has been proved a thousand time? that those who have most to do, have the most effective leisure i. e., that they are the people to apply to if you need aid unexpectedly. ; Our working hours are careful ly reckoned by the clock ; those that slip by un profitably, do so unrecorded. . There is time for the highest cultivation and the highest usefulness; those who doubt it, accuse Providence, as if powers were meant to rim to waste. The languor of too much rest is not repose, but imbecility ; the inter vals of intense action are sweet, and full of life and promise. The excitements of a true woman's life, under favorable circumstances are gentle,; but they are incessant. She has no occasion for severe la bor, she has no excuse for wilful idleness. Our ideal woman will not think idleness lady -like. The ideal American woman-would that her time were come ! will govern her children, which certainly the American .woman of to-day does not. We will venture to say that so many utterly un curbed children are not to be found anywhere as in the United States; perfect nuisances to everybody who is unhappy enough to come in contact with them an expression perhaps suggested by the fact that we are still black and blue from the kicks of a little" boy whom his mamma very complacent ly allowed to assault us repeatedly during a long stage-ride this last summer. We should perhaps have been more indignant if the good lady had not been kept in countenance by all the American mothers we encountered during a pretty long tour. It is hardly possible to exaggerate in describing, the behaviour of American children to their parents, their nurses, their unhappy teachers and why is this so little noticed ? In conversation it is a never failing topic, especially --among travellers, who ex perience its effects in every steamer, car and car riage. Ask oar teachers to what extent parents' aid them in the government of children. If they dare thev will toil vou sad stories. Now, begging pardon of all the dear good wometr of our acquaintance who allow: their -children to treat them with disrespect, there is pitiable weak ness in this, and our ideal woman will put it to shame by the firmness with which she will insist on her rights, and the tenderness with which she will grant her children theirs. I She will not, for the sake of seeming amiabilii y, let them grow up in unchecked insolence, which, in jthe end, she. is as unwilling to bear as other people.! She wiii -neither be the tyrant of her children, nor allow them to lord it over her; she will not harass thein by in cessant governing, nor permit , ihem to despise proper restraints. : - MARRY IN HASTE REPENT AT LEISURE. In one of the Western papers we observe an account of a marriage ceremony performed u board of a steamboat, the parties never having met until thev be fan their voyage together to the Crescent ("it v. -The narrative is given with various flour, ishes of rhetoric, as if the affair was a subject of pride and imitation. iVihapsin the present in stance, ihe-ditor may be correct, Bm. as a general rub-, the old pmverb is right, which -ays that peo ple who "marry in haste repent at leisure." We cannot approve, 'consequently, of the ap plause bestowed on transactions like this, Theieare foolish couples enough in the world, ready to rush into matrimony without forethought, and prepared to think that it is a very fine thing to have the ceremony come off in some stirring. -manner, so as to attract public attention, without haying this weak ness fed by eulogistic new-paper paragraphs. This evi! is -becoming a really serious one. - Ev ery -few weeks some new paragraph appears respecting a pair who have wedded on .short intimacvr The last one, we believe, chronicled a marriage after a fgw hours acquaintance. If things go on, accelerat inj in this fashion, American weddings will yet emulate to Chinese, bnes, tor it will be considered most in the- mode to marry without meeting at all. It has been said - that. " marriage is a lottery." No one ever questioned that it was, when people wedded on a short acquaintance ; but the remark is not true, if made respecting - marriages after a due intimacy.. Xo doubt, the closest frienship before marriage, will be insufficient to meet entirely the mutual characters of the pair to each other. But, in proportion to the length of the acquaintance, and the common sense of the lovers, will be their knowledge of the foibles of one another. Nor is this all. Even in the case of very young' lovers? who have not yet taken to observing character, who if they are thrown farmiliarly together, in the social circle of the bride's family, they cannot but assimi late to each other in time, so that the risk of marri age is greatly lessened. But when matrimony is contracted, upon an acquaintance of but a few hours, or even days, the chances arc frightfully great that the pair will not suit each other. Another ridiculous, if not culpable practice, much lauded in some newspapers, is, oddity, and therefore peculiar notoriety in the marriage. Some time ago, a wedding was held in Mammoth Cave. Before that, one. occurred on a Bridge, just at the dividing line, if we remember correctly, between two States. All these freaks are perpetrated for a secret love of publicity. They flow from the same unmaidenly spirit which asptres after ornate-bridal chambers at hotels,, and on board steamboats. It is not flattering to the sex of this country, that, just where a truly feminine woman shrinks from all notoriety, so many brides are found to brazen it but courting notice by the oddity of the ceremony, or - by the marked character of their dress and demean or. -Phil. Ledger. Motto ox the Bridal Ring. A young gentle man of fine intellect and noble heart, was suddenly snatched by the hand of death from all the endear ments of life. Surrounded by everything that could make existence pleasant and happy a wife that idolized him childnen that'Ioved him as they can love, and friends devoted to him, the sum mom came, and "he lay upon the bed of death. But a few short years ago, she to whom be was wed ded placed a bridal ring upon his finger, upon the inside of which he had a few words engraved. The husband would never permit the giver to read them, telling her the day would come when her wish should be gratified, and she should know the secret. Seven years glided away, and a day or two since, when conscious that be must leave her for ever, he called her to his bedside, and with his dy ing accents told her that the hour had at last come when she should see the words upon the ring she had given him. The young mother took it from his cold finger, and though heart-stricken with grief, eagerly read the words, " I have loved thee on earth -I will meet thee in heaven." YOUTHS' DEPARTMENT. "THE OLD WOMAN " It was thus, a few days since, we heard a stripling of sixteen designate the mother who bore him. By coarse husbands we have heard wives so called oc casionally, though in the latter case, the phrase is more often used endearingly, At all times, as com monly spoken, it jars upon the ear and shocks the sense. An " old woman" should be an object of reverence above and beyond almost all phases of humanity. Her very age should be her surest passport to courteous consideration. The aged mother of a grown-up family needs no other certifi cate of worth. She is a. monument of excellency, approved and warranted. She has fought faithful ly " the good fight," and come oft' conqueror. Up on her venerable face, she bears the marks of con flict in all its furrowed lines. The most grievous of the ills of life have been hers ; trials untold and unkonwn onlv to her God and herself, she has borne incessantly; and now in her old age-her duty done ! patiently awaiting her appointed time W.tifi.l tW over In vrmth. more honorable and deserving than he who has slain his thousands, or stood triumphant upon the nvoinleit tipld of vir-tnrv , . i i Young man, speak kindly to your mother, and " , i ii jm i j. ri even courteously, tenderly ot her. I5ut a little i'tiine and you shall see her no more forever. Her . i, i . " " s tt ! eve is dim, her form is bent, and her shadow falls 1 gravewards. Others may love you when she has i passed away kind-hearted sisters, perhaps she ; w hom of all the world you choose for a partner she : may love you warmly, passionately ; children may love you fondly, but never again, never, while time j is yours, shall the love of woman be to you as that j of your old, trembling mother has been, j In agony she bore vou ! through puling, helpless j infancy.-her throbbing breast was your safe pro tection and support : in w ay-ward bovhood,she bore patiently with your thoughtlessness, and nurs ed you safe through a legion of ills and maladies. !' Her hand it was that bathed your burning brow or mositened your parched Hp; her ye that light eel up the darkness of wasting nightly vigils, watch- j ing always in . your fitful sleeplessness by your side as none but lief could watch. Oh, speak not her name lightly for you caonuot live so many years as would suffer you to thank her- fully. Through reckless and impatient youth she is your counsellor and solace. Into a bright manhood she o-uides your improvident step, nor there forsakes nor for gets. Speak gently, then, and reverently of your mother ; and when when you too shall be old, it shall in some degree lighten the remorse which shall be yours for other sins to know that never wantonly have you outraged the respect due to the " old woman." Harrisburg Telefrajih. HONOR THY MOTHER. "'Come on boys, come on boys:" shouted Har vey '., to a grout) of his playmate's. " Where! where." " Let's go down on the river and have a o-ood skate ; I'll show you -how to cut your names scien tifically." " Yes, come on ! let's go T answered they. " Where are you goi ng, Millard ?" "I am joing home." " Come on, don't back out." " 1 dare not go without the consent of my mo ther." - " Coward ; coward ! coward !" cried the boys. ' I would not be such a child as to ask mv mo- ml ther to permit me to go where I wanted to." "I'm not a coward," replied Millard, his eyes flashing, and his manly form erect ; " I'm not a coward ! I promised my mother I would not go where there was danger, without first obtaining per mission from her." "He is tight," said George! "I am going with him to ask mother, also." "You can Wait, or go on as you choose," said Millar!; "I am going immediately, and if she consents, Til join you," and he turned on his heel and walked off with George. "Let them go," cried Harvey; "they're the milk sops ; we're the bravos," and he ran towards the river, followed by all the boys. It was early in spring, and the sun was thawing the ice very fast, which made it dangerous to go on it, and, for that reason Millard would not go. Harvey was a bad boy, he respected neither his father or mother; he prided himself on his manli ness,. smoked segars, and was coming on very fust. Millard respected his mother, obeyed her in all ! things, loved all his playmates, and feared God. H- w many Millards and Harveys I wonder there are who read the Sun every week ? I think not many Harveys. Dear boys, do you always obey your mother? Do you respect her? If I was to say you did not lo;e her, you would be very much shocked, would you not? Well, you must prove your love, by obeying her always. As soon as a boy thinks he is too old to obey his mother, scorns her counsel, smokes segars, runs with fire companies, stands at corners making re marks on all who pass, then it is all up with him. I would not think much of him, but pity him, and think of his poor mother, his wasted youth and unhappy old age. Many a ruined man looks back to the time when he first diobeyed his mother, . when he was tempted to do wrong, as the stepping stone to all his misery. If you have the moral courage, you will never fear to be called a coward. The real coward is he who diso beys his mother from fear of ridicule. Sun. Time well employed is Satan's deadliest foe ; it leaves pDo Opening to the lurking fiend. PLEASURES OF FARMER LIFE. Horace Greeley concludes a recent agricultural address in the following beautiful style : " As for me, long-tossed on the stormiest waves of doubtful conflict and arduous endeavor, I have begun to reel, since the shades of forty years fell upon me, the weary, tempest driven voyager's longing for land, the wanderer's yearning for the hamlet where in childhood he rested by his moth er's knee, and was soothed to sleep on her breast. The sober down hill of life dispels many illusions, while it developes or strengthens within us the at tachment, perhaps long-smothered or overlaid, tor " that dear tfut, oar home." And so I, in the so ber afternoon of life, when its sun, if not high, is still warm, have bought me a few acres of land in the broad, still country, and, bearing thither my household treasures, have resolved to steal from the city's labors and anxieties at least one day in each week, wherein to revive, as a farmer, the memories of my childhood's humble 'tome. "And already I realize that the experiment can not cost so much as it is worth. Already I find in that day's quiet an antidote and a solace for the feverish, festering cares of the weeks which environ. Already my brook murmurs a soothing even song to my burning, throbbing brain, and my trees, gently stirred by the fresh breezes, whisper to my spirit something of their own quiei strength and patient trust in God. And thus do I faintly real ize, but for a brief and flittering day, the serene joy which shall irradiate the farmer's vocation, when a fuller and truer education shall have refined and chastened his animal cravings, and when i 8cience sha11 have endowed him with her treasures, j redeeming labor from drudgery, while quadrupling j lts efficiency, and crowning with beauty and plenty ! ul" wuiueous, oeneuceni earui. FIGS AND FIG TREES. Some writers stated that it took figs two seasons ' to ripen in Maine. 1 his was a blunder ot pen or j . , 1 (types, i wo crops will probablv ripen on the same i ' 1 , ' tree- Mr. I'mice says thev will at flushing; one in June and one in October. Planted on the south side of a wall and covered with straw in .winter. the fig tree endures our winters. Figs are grown for market to some extent, and mav be grown fur- I ther north. This fruit is healthful, and is deemed a great luxury in its fresh state. The fi ir tree never shows any blossoms. The climate of California is peculiarly favorable to the growing of figs for commerce ; also for grow ing prunes, raisins, zante currants, ' dates, and all other, dried fruits, the climate being free from rain dining the fruiting season, and more pure than that of southern France or Italy. Besides' the well known tig of commerce, the caoutchouc, or India rubber tree, also produces figs. The Sens elasti cal is the tree which has been primarily denomina ted the India rubber tree; but there are more than twenty species of this genus that can be used, and the most of w hich, doubtless, are used to furn ish the caoutchouc. The banyan tree of India, so highly reverenced by the Hindoos, is one of them. The loftiest, wide-spreading trees-on the Mexican Cordilleras are three or four species of the ficus, yielding the gum, and produciug edible fruit, and these constitute almost the only large trees that skirt the barren shore at Aeapulco, forming a bro ken avenue from the town to the fort. It is well known that Brazil and other ports of South Amer ica produce many distinct species o gum-vielditiT ficus, and that all these are specifically distinct from the species produced in the vtuiousicouutries of Asia. Cooking and Wakmim; nv Gas. A patent ed improvement is noticed in Brooklyn, N. Y.. by which a common gas pij.e is tapped at any point, an India ruljber tube attached, and the gas applied to the heating of the room, and the cooking of the meals : "The gas is conducted to a small iron plate not. much larger than one's hand -that forms what may be called the stove. This plate is filled with perforations, containing asbestos, which concen trates and diffuses all the heat. The computation made by the inventor, goes to show that a smalb office may be heated for the trifling sum of fifteen cents a , day. Admitting that a much larger amount will come nearer the truth, the advantages of the inventor are obvious. For lawyer's and similar offices, where it is desirable to avoid the 'dust, dirt, and trouble of a coal fire, to say no hing of the expense of keeping attendants, it is peculiarly adapted. A man can enter his office in the morn ing, .turn on the gas, apply a match thereto, and i he fire is instantly started, and' by the time he gets comfortably settled down 'to his de.-k, the room will be warmed. To cook 3 lbs. of mutton chops takes just ten minutes of time, and cost only one-third of a cent. ; to boil a- kettle containing half a gallon of water occupies exactly twelve min utes, and consumes less than a cubic foot of gas. To get up a breakfast of four dishes, say one for meats, a second for "coffee, a third for potatoes, &c, and a fourth for eggs, or whatever else you please will cost only three cents, and can all be done within fifteen minntes. The gas of one of our or dinary burners supplies fifty jets forming a "dis tributed and attenuated flame resembling in ap pearance the bluish alcoholic flame, and saving every particle of heat. The cooking is all done by downward radiation ; the fire is brought to the meats, not the meats to the fire.- In rcLting, the fire keeps basting the meat all the time, thereby saving the cook all the trouble which j he is now compelled to take." The Richest M tne. The manure applied to the soil of England amounts to three hundred millions of dollars, being more than the value of its whole foreign commerce, and yet the grateful soil yields back with interest all that is lavished I upon it. And so it would be here, if wonld only trust the soil with any portion of our capital. But this we rarely do. A farmer who has made any money spends it not in his -business, but in some other occupation. He buys- more land when he ought to buy more manure, or he puts out his money in some joint stock company, to convert sunshine in moonshine. Rely upon it, our richest mine is the barnyard, and whatever temptation stock or shares may offer, the best investment for a farmer is live stock and plow shares, HOW TO RAISE FRUIT EVERY YEAR. If rightly understood, few trees, unless absolutely dead or rotten need occupy ground without yielding a plenteous crop. After a long and varied series of experiments, I gradually adopted the following mode: ' As soon as the winter has sufficiently disappear ed, and before the sap ascends, I examine my trees, every dead bough is lopped oft'. Then, after the sap has risen' sufficiently to show where the blossoms will be, I cut away all the branches hav ing none on, and also the extremity of every limb, the lower part of which bears a considerable num ber of buds, thus concentrating the sap of the tree upon the maturation of its fruit, and saving what would be a useless expenditure of strength. In tin; quince, apricot and peach trees, this is im portant, as these are apt to be luxuriant in the leaves, and destitute of fruit. You may think this injures the trees, but it does not, for you will find trees ladened with fruit which formerly yield ed, nothing. Of course, all other well known pre cautions must be attended to,' such as cutting out worms from the roots, placing old iron on the limbs, which' acts as a tonic to the sap, &c. Try it, ye who have failed in raising fruit. Farmer cfc Mechanic. Save the Dead leaves. If every horticultu rist would reflect for a moment on the nature of fallen leaves, which contain not" only the vegeta ble matter, but the salts, lime, potash, &c, needed for the next year's growth, and that, too, exactly in the proportion required by the very tree and plant from which they fall ; naymore, if they would consider that it is precisely in this way, by the decomposition of these very fallen leaves, that nature enriches the soil, year after year, in her great forests, it would scarcely be possible for such a reflecting horticulturist to allow these leaves to j be swept away by every wind that blows, and fi j nally lost altogether. A wise horticulturist will j diligently collect, from week to week, the leaves that fall under each tree, and by digging them under the soil about the roots, where they will de cay and enrich the soil, provide in the cheapest manner the best possible food for that tree. In certain vineyards in France, the vines are kept in the higest condition by simply burying at their roots every leaf and branch that is pruned off such vines, or that falls from them at the end of the s( -ason. Hor tic ultu rist. Birds. The shooting of small bird has become a besetting sin in many parts of our country. lheir value as food is not sufficiently great to. ex cuse either the - inhumanity or impropriety of the practice. Birds are destroyers of insects, and to their destruction is to be attributed the inordinate influx of insects within the last few years. The Legislatures- of New Jersey, and of many other States, have passed effective laws on the 'subject i i t ... J I tun i. we nope mat farmers wi 1 not I in using the protection furnished them by law.--To see a full grown man patroling the country, treading down crops, wasting his time and shoot ing small birds, each one of which is often times his usefulness to the body political's too. see a sel fish fool who values his own amusement higher than Jie docs the well being of society. Such a feljow should be .feathered, and this coating un derlaid with tar. Working Farmer. ' Longevity of farmfrs. It a .pears from the Massachusetts register of births and 'deaths, that the duration of the lives of agriculturists was 13 years alx.ve the general average, nearly nineteen above that of common laborers, and 10 percent, above the average age, at death, of mechanics. To Fakmkus. To double the crops on most farms, about all tl'.at is necessary is for our agri culturist to sell off one-half their" land, and" with the proceeds buy manure for the other.' The larg er a farm, the less a man grows to the acre. Koh picklino eggs. If the following pickle was generally known it would be more generally used. It is an excellent pickle to be eaten with cold nieat, &e. : " The eggs should be boiled hard, say ten mi nutes, and divested of their shells, when quite cold put them in jars, and pour over them vine gar sufficient to quite cover them in which has been boiled the usual spices for pickling, tie the jars down tight with bladder, and keep them un til they begin to change color. To farmers. Mr. Stephenson, of Virginia, said to the farmers in a speech at the cattle show' din ner recently in Springfield : " You have not taken the stand you should in the affairs of government, while you have passed .1 n . . tnem an over into the hands of lawyers and the po- an. The Cotton Crop. A planter in Jasper county, Geo., writes to his friend in Charleston, that he will not make more than 50 bales of cotton, where he made 187 last year. The whole county, he says, will not make more than half a crop. A planter in Rutherford county, Tenn., in the best cotton region in that county, says that the crop there will not be above a half to three-fourths. Most of the planters had picked as fast as their cotton offered, a thing never seen there before. ' At Marion, Miss., the crop will be shorter, it js stated, than was anticipated a few weeks ago. The Selma, (Ala.,) Sentinel says, that the crop in that section will be far above an average one. Fayetteville Observer. ' Hops'. Theie has been a great rise in the price of hops. From 3 to 5 cents per lb., they have ad vanced to 47 to 51 cents in New York. A sino-le county in the State of New York produced this year, it is estimated, about 5,000 bales, worth about $385,000. We suppose, of course, that large quantities of these will be consumed at the South, which might as well raise all it needs, and a surplus for export Fayetteville Observer. Planting Frcit Trees. In planting Fruit Trees, be very careful not to set them too deep. Many fine trees are annually lost, by planting them much deeper than they were in the nursery which should never be done. Set your trees no deeper in transplanting than they originally stood when in the nursery. Keep your fence rows clear from briars. HUMOROUS f Perfect Workmen. . !;,,,. J .' tells us outsiders, that th. geny of sons are usually iiK;nlc. anical trade, such as lock-mak ,,, ing." Judging from the uu.X,. 'r:;,-U: 1 1 - .r juosiems uoiiwive io niakc (.f , .. . V" when in after years occasion . ' '"' 1 ! 11 ' , !f.-. said to be very pr.rfen-nt ; r;.!e- : ' 1 " bowing. -Pick. I '.' " We still have . lively n Ii,.,fli,.tl ,i( , which a South Sea IsLiiiU.-r -rt- ' ' ' science. A missionary rebuk.-d i . ; , . . ' polygamy, and he was mnch gri-v, y'' or two he returned, his face radiant wit)"' ' " Me all right now ; one . wif.. " J"' christian." j " What did you do with thclth-r r' asked the missonarv. ,' ''Me eat her up. 'j Indisputable. The Ohio n-eiisu? ld tilVS lindp.r Its Airri.mll Hli v., ...v . .vw uiiuiaiuiead, cor, more certain crop than wheat." jso Mr pj !' He will waer any amount that! if he onlv "perambulation" through twenty har ro surety is tjiat he finds a " cnkl crop" j" individual spot. j i ' t j A country carpenter having IneglcctHj t a gallows, the judge himself wit to th,. " said ' - j - " Fellow, how came vou to ieMect the m-' ordered ?." , ' j ' ,- ...kv....s .v ncsfsin tiie man r-! ' I am very sorry, for had I .known it your lordship, it should havebk-n doik-i,.,,, ' ly."-' ! '" . t i "Can s th Tinxfx m-)''ii that women are as w ell qualiritfd as the ,,t)Jt.. for all kinds of mercantile situations. t.'j -,,. then, for a " strong minded jwoman" t good sih nt artiier ! Where L "she ?(f " Do you see anything ridi.fulous in tlbr said a brother Judge to Cui'jaii. v,,,,,,,' the head,'' he replied. j ! ir-- --. 1 "I have very little respect for the ticH' . J world," as the chap said when the roW wt;-,! round his neck. i j One day, as-Judge Paison was jo&iV on horseback, over a desolate!" road, he .-am- - I log house, dirty, smoky and jniser.-ible. il ped to contemplate the too evident jHiVeitv efvl scene. A poor, half-starved fefiiow, with hair and unshaven beard, thufst. his he:ul tiir J a square, w hich sej ved for a wiidov.-witiiT--I.. Judge, I aint as oor as you take .no tub-': i don't own this 'ere land !" j " Will you take the iife of! Pierce ur -;: i morning, ma-dame ?" said a n!ewhoy tu our aunt Betsy. " Xo, my lad, she replied. "2 may live to the ends of their d'avs !'"! iiie- uothin' agin 'em." ! Woman The last and lf-t f th'.- series, we may have her for a toast, we won't ask;'.' but-her. "The Seige of P0Lo6.iv." Tins c-l bombardment has just been iictorialiy caiirV- by a rrench paper. It consists of a brini-1 tugging at an overgrown sauiage. -"-- t The man who always drives a ml V n never uses a whip. ! Somebody advertises to "siet up'' with;:-. forl 50 per night ; delirium itreineiis duub. f The lady who "stood oi-her diguky." -" very near losing Jier balance ' v; The man of." vaulting ambitien" j'sr-f '' the circus. - An Irish post hoy having jlnvej a ntlema.' long stage during torrents ujf -rain, tiie gentk' "Paddv, are vou not very Met !" " Arrah ! I don't care about being vtr; but, please yer, honor, I'm vjry dry." 4 Mrs. Harris says, w hat puzzles her is wh r; 1 sailors get their fresh breezfes from iu ter. ' I ."That's, my business," a, the butcher the dog that was killing his sheep. For I he Southern Weekly F BIOGRAPHICAL (ENIGMA. nv a deaf ilte I am composed of 50 letter's. My 1, 2, 17, 9, in, 30, 36, ws one of nonular of Kncrlish noetsJ My 3, 6, 13, 19, 9, 31, 19. wis one of lg scholars of modern times My 4, 10, 16,11, 31, 19, 15, w as one un celebrated poets of Persia. My 5, 11, 11, 20, 29, 30, 45, was one ofuV monta rf Fmvlicti lifpratlire. Af- t or oi r 4 ii oc ac ii-ns one of lb-' Mj ou, oi, z, i, ou, v distinguished poets of Iifdy. My 21, 20, 11, 8, was one tjbe mt eml! , modern Latin poets. i i My 14 22, 31, 12, 18, 9," 130, was an female artist. i ' My 23, 27, 42, 41. 33, 30, wis Greek p' My 25, 41, 29, 44, was -a litirrguistieu painter. j My 34, 28, 39, 26, 49, 37, 24, 34, was on wits and gallants of the Court of Cl) Ny 29, 33, 50, 14, 29, 55, 4d, 44, 3o. J of tbA a-reatesr. dramatist! of Europe My 32, 30, 31, 23, 19, 50, 40, My 51, 50, 19, 23, 53, was ojie the greaW j of Italy. ! 'A i My 52, 43," 51, 38, 48, 45, 39, 46, 54, - an a ceieoraiea maujem;tuuiu. ikf : ...... vvml.jri nnera troUp J j m. i j ...., It t'e P0f'' Answer to Enigma in kvjt weeKs- Natural Bridge of Virginia
Southern Weekly Post (Raleigh, N.C.)
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