Newspapers / Southern Weekly Post (Raleigh, … / Feb. 25, 1854, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Southern Weekly Post (Raleigh, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
I ! - i 1 1 I ! :j! nasi rat WILLIAM D. GOOKE 1 FAiMlL Y NEWSPAFER NEUTRAL I POLITICS. . TERMS, ; -d KDiT.OR & PROriUETOR TWO I0II1ES PElUMrci all fi)t n ttw&tQ of Mijt Souti Citeraturc, true atwn, ricultute, 3elps, tije ic. !! 'i - 1 you hi 12. RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURD AY, FEB. 25, 1854. WHOLE NO. 116 ..-v' g;! , j ' iimtifTwmmmxM.imm m nijiMrwi ,., ....... n, ... . ! n'i- -) m i . yj.L.,mj ..n,..,,., , ,i i nli .J.i-ti.;'.,..!, .m ..... J,.,.. ..'.. .n.ir.T. rn- " - '"; ; M,rTa"W . i .wi.iwoiw m ' " - - i t .- -. ; -. i ; ' ' - ' . . - .' . ' ' . ' 11 ; , SELECT POETRY ; THE BACHELOR'S SONG. ' ' A14. things lovu and join in jtairs; LoviiiL;!y l!ie spring appear ' - 'And C:.r.L'S-es flower and plain ; Tl:cres a g!nte-tb!d inclining 'lLound soniti other to be twining, Ijivesihrongii Nature's whole domain. In the young man's love-arjayed,' Wanden-tli the longing maid, I'uriod in lier thrilling dream ; Olfering love,- while love she woovlh, Yieldetli she, but yet subdneth, Loves, and is "beloved again. All that people heath and grove, Or 'mid. clouds or valleys rove, Flit and flutter pair by pair ; E'en the grapes, winch s-ingly wither, Fondly- lean themselves together,- And the trees their altars are. . Simplest floweret on the .green; In another's dew-drops seen, Lovingly their glances fly; There's a mate to every blossom, Every weed takes to its bosom Some beloved companion nigh. Love shed pleasure everywhere, " Love is breathed from the air, j As abride the earth is dressed ; But alas ! I wander lonely, Till a maiden, and one only, Takes me to her lip and breast. SLECTED STORY. ' . . - From the National Magazine. A DEER HUNT IN A "DUG-OUT." The long tailed deer, one of the smallest of the deer kind, is found principally in wodde 1 ntries ; but its favorite Iinunts ate not in the' timber .of the great fores s, but in the p:rkike opet:ings thatt occur in many parts of the Iw&ky Alpttntain valleys. Sometimes whole tracts cVU'ouritry are. met with in these regions whose Surface exhibits a pleasing variety of woodlaturvui-d prairie :; sloping hiJs appear with c'opicos iipon their crests and along their sides. Among the natural groves may be seen trqops of the long U?!ed deer, browsing along the de . clivities of the hills, and, by their elegant atti i tudes and graceful iHoretuents, adding to the beauty' of the U id-cape. " , . . Some years ag'f had an opportunity of 'hunt ing the long-taileu deer. , I was on my way across the Rocky Montaius to Fort Vancouver, when circumstances reuVred it necessary that I should stop for some, avs at a trading-post :. on 'one of the branches of le Columbia. I was, in fact, detained, waitiugfor 'a party of fur traders with whom I waslo travel, and who required some time to ge. heir'; pack in readi s a small dace, with . ness. The" trading-post miserable accommodatio having scarcely room enbiigh in its. two or th wretched log-cabins tollodge half the compan that happened at the time to ehiim its hospitaly. As oiy business was. simply to wait for ion.s I was of co irse.e- s,ucli a placg ; a id it w y frayelihg compau- almdsf to death in not long before"! b - sran to nieditate a i a hifiiig e: s bru or h; ng exlpeditibn. IVly servant i 'uiK, a oois ilf-.breed, and a iirst-rate h ijutety suggesi ed to promise plenty o an idea which seem- Krt and Venison,- a bunt to take place by iiTtit. I readilv gave, e proposal the chan- my consent, as I saw in ces of enjoying a very r; sporu j It was to be a lire-hunt i' but not as ally practiced among the backwoodsmen, by (4 ying a torch through s- to fl.at upon the ' he woods." ' Our torch water, w hile we were, s fcly seated beside it ; in. other, words, we won canoe, aiul,.lloaung dy L-arry our orch in ;i stream, would' soo't be upon the banks o f s in the water. - the deir that happened drinking or cooling liiei I had heard of tjfe"p!an lit had never praetic- ed it, althbugh'-i. was foiis of so doiug. Dick had j often killed therefore knew all abo t in tu:s wav, and it. It was agreed, thef, that we should ttilie experiment During the next dav pur preparations, withou f pue. It AVas our design ;k and I pioceeded in ying anything to any keep our higlitfhurit j a secret, lest we might t unsuccessful, and get laughed at for our paii On the other hand, should we succeed in kil Ij a go lly number of 't long tails,! it would be me enough to let if be ' kubwn ho.w we.mauagefuatter: W had lit- tie difficulty in keeping Every one) was busy w took no heed of our m: r designs to ourselves. his own affairs, and tivcrs. Uur euiet uit- rieulty lay in juocuring wderation'of a tew ioad: oat ; but for the con powder, we at length borrowed jan old canoe it belonged toone'of the Flathead Indianifa t of hanger-on of the Most. This "craft was sin y a log of the cotton- jwood, (Populus cajidici, by means otan axe, and ends to product the cai n 'rudelv hollowed out iitly rounded, at the shape.'' It was that uly known through " dug-out," a phrase species of watei craft poj tout Western America a.-i .which explains itself, ijvas both old and rick- e'ty, but, after U short i i ..... ! . ection, Blue Dick de- ciareU it, wouiago "lust te.'-'' :". ,Our next nuve was t epare Our torch. For ursion to the neigh- this we had tqnake an .; boting hiljs, vihre we f nd the very material we. .wanted th dry kn of .the pitch pine tree V1 nyiuai fl. larir secrineiit of birch-bark was then sousl. for and btained. and our itn- 1'1'itnents we eoniplete t tSvilight 'nil was r;ady, and, stetinVintdour dug -out, we" pad dled silently di n strea As soon as ,w had got out of thi neigh b hood of the post "we lighted ou r- torel J This was placed in a large fryingpan out upi the bow, and was in reality sine-knots, than a torch. It blazed up brightj throwing a glare over the surface f the stilnY and reflecting in red light every object iiK)ioth banks. We. on the. oth er hand, were coi'jletely hi!Jen from view by means of the birobark screen, which stood up betwe n us f.nd tilt rch. As soon as we jie fairly under way, I yield ed up the. paddle j Dick, who now tissigued to himself the doubl'tttHce of guiding the dug-out and keeping the tich trimmed. I was to look to the shooting; jdacing my trusty rifle a-. cross my thighs. Sit alternately scanning both. banks a's we glidei ilong. 1 shall never forget the romantic effel which was produced upon my mind duringhat wild excursion. The scenery of the rivgupon which we had'hiunched oUr craft was at akimes of a picturesque char acter. Under th daze of e pine-wood its. trees and rocks ited with a vermillion hue, wlii'le the rippliiif. iood below raii like 'noiten gold the effect i s heightened to a degree of sublimity which duld not hive failed to impress the dullest imajation. It was the autumn season, too, andtb foliage, which had riot yet commenced falbig-had assumed those rich va ried tints so chraiteristic of the American sylva: various huesjof een and golden, and yellow and deep red, lere "exhibited upon, the luxuri ant frondage tntt lined the banks of the stream, and here and tiere drooped like embroidered curtains down to. tae water's edge, It was a .scene of that wild jeauty, that picturesque sub limity, which cartas one to the contemplation of its Creator. ; v ' ' f " Yonder !" mutered a voice that roused me from my reverie.j It was Dick who spoke ; and, iri the dark shadow of the birch-bark, 1 could see one of his arns extended and pointing to the right bank. I.Mv eves followed the direction indicated : they soon rested upon two small ob jects, that fron the darker background of the foliage appeanjd bright and luminous, j These objects were rcynd, and close to each : other ; and at a glance I knew fhem to be the .eys of some animal, reflecting the light of ou' torch. My companion w hispered me that they were the' eyes of a deer. I took sight with my rilje, aim ing, as nearly as I could nidway betw&eu the luminous spots. I pulled trigger, and my true piece cracked like "A'he report was not loud epa"" to drown he noises that came back from the shore. Th.'re was a rustiinr of leaves, followed by a pi urge, a? bf somebody falling in the. water. Dick turned the head of the dug-out, and paddled her up to the bank The torch, blazing brightly, lit up the' scene ahead of us, and our eyes were gratified by the, sight of a line buck, that had faileji dead into the river. lie was about being drawn into the eddy of the current ; but Dick prevented this, and, seizing him by the antlrs, soon deposited him safely in the bottom of the dug-out Our craft was once more headed dowii stream, and we scrutinized every winding of the banks in search of another pair of gleaming-eyes. In less than half an hour these appeared, and we succeeded in killing a second long-faila doe and dragged her also into the boat. Shortlv after, a third was knocked .over, which we found standing out in the river upon a small point of sand. This proved to be a young spike-buck, his horns not having as yet. branched off into antlers. About a quarter of a mile further down a fourth deer was shot at, and missed, the dug-out having grazed suddenl) against a rock just as I was pulling trigger, thus rendering my aim unsteady. . . I I need hardly say that this sport was Extreme ly exciting; and we had got many mi the post, without thinking either of es from he dis- tatice or the fact that we. should be uiider the disagreeable necessity of paddling the old Flat head's canoe every inch of the way back again. Down st'-eam it was all plain sailing ; anil Dick's duty -was light enough; as it consisted merely, in keeping the dug-out head foremost in the middle of the river. The current ran at tthe rate of three miles an hour, and therefore drifted ' us along with sutlicient rapidit'. " , ' The first thing that suggested a return to ei ther of us was the fact that our pineknots had runout: Dick had just piled the last of them in the fryingpan. ' At this moment n noise sounded in our ears that eaused us some feel ings of alarm : it was the noise of falling water. It was not new to us, for, since leaving the post, we had passed the mouths of several small' streams that debouched into the one upon which we were, in most cases over a jumble of rocks, thus forming a series of noisy rapids. But that which we now heard was directly ahead' of lis, and 'must, thought we, be a rapid or fail of the stream itself; morepvejrJit appeared loud er than any we bad hitherto passed. ,1 We lost but little time iiv coujecturesl The first impulse of my companion, upon catching the sound, was to stop the progress of the dug out, which in a few seconds he succeeded in do in"-;""but bv this time our torch had shown us that th re was a sharp turning in the river,' with a long reach of smooth water below. The cas ca -e, therefore, cotdd not be in our stream, but . in some tributary that fell into it near the bend. On seeing this, Dick turned his paddle, and per mitted the dug-qutonce more to float with the ; current. The next moment we passed i the mouth of a good sized creet, whose water -, lav ing just leaped a fall of several feet, ran into' the river, covered with white froth s. and bubbles. We could see the &I1 at a little distance through the branches of the trees ; and, as we swept on, ts foaniiing sheet reflected the light of our torch ' T . - ike shining metal. We had scarcely passed this point when my attention wji attracted by a pair of fiery orbs hat g!itencd out of some low bushes upon the eft bauk of the river. I saw that thev were the eyes of but what kind of animal could not guess. I knew they were not the eves of a de i". Their peculiar scintillation, their esser size, the wide space between them all convinced trie theywere not deer's eyes. More over, they moved at times as il the head of the aninr-d was carried about in irregular circles. This Tti never the case with the eyes of the deer, which either, pass hurriedly from point to point, or remain with a fixed .and steadfast gaze. I knew, therefore, it was no deer ; but no matter what: it was some wiid creature, and all are alike the game of the. prairie-hunter. I took aim, and pulled trigger. While doing so I heard the voice of my companion warning me, as I thought, not to fin. I wondered at this admo nition, but it was then too late to heed it for it had been uttered almost simultaneously with the report of my rifle. I first looked to the bank to witness the effect of my shot. To my great surprise,, the eyes were still there, gleaming from the bushes as brightly as ever ! Had I luissed my aim ? It is true the voice of my companion had somewhat disconcerted me ; but I still believed that my bullet must have sped truly,, as it had been de livered with a good aim. As I turned to Dick for an explanation, a new sound fell upon my ears that explained all, at the same time causing me no slight feeling of alarm. It was a sound not unlike that sometimes uttered by terrified swine, but still louder and more threatening. I knew it well I knew it was the suort of the grizzly bear. ' Of all American animals the grizzly bear is the most to be dreaded. Armed or' unarmed- man is no match Tor him, and even the courage ous hunter of these parts shuns the encounter. This was why my companion had admonished me not to fire. I thought I had missed; it was not so. My bullet had hit and stung the fierce brute to madness ; and a quick cracking among the bushesjwas immediately followed by a heavy plunge : the bear was in the water. " Go'jd heavens, he 's after us!" Dick in ac cents of alarm, at the same time propelling the dug-out with all his might. It proved true enough that the bear was after us, and the very first plunge had brought his nose almost up to the side of the canoe. However, a few well-directed strokes of the paddle set us in quick mo tion, and !we were soon gliding down stream, followed; by the enraged animal, that every now and then uttered-una ot his fierce snorts. What rendered our situation a terrible one was, that we could not now see the bear, nor tell how far he might be from us. All to the rear of the canoe was of a pitchy darkness in conse quence of the screen of birch-bark. No object could be distinguished in that direction, and it was only by hearing him that we could tell he was still some yards off. The snorts, however, were more or less distinct. Heard amid the varying roar of the water-iaii; and sometimes they seemed as if the snout from which they proceeded was close up to our stern. We knew that if he once laid his paw upon the ce .a, we should either be sunk or compelled to lea out aud swim for it. , Wre knew, moreover, tha such an event would be certain death to one of us at least. I need hardly affirm that my compa on used his paddle with all the enegy.of despair. I assisted him as much as was in my power with the but-end of my gun, which was empty : on account of the hurry and darkness 1 had not at tempted to reload it. We had shot down stream for a hundred yards or so and were about .tfongratulath. g our selves ou tne prospect ot an escape from tne .tear, when a new object of dread presented itself t- our terrified imaginations. The object was the sound of falling -water ; but not as before, coming from some tributary stream. No. It was a fall of the river upon which we were flo, :.g, and .evidently only v .j short distance below us ! We were, in fact, within less than one hundred yards of it. O w excitement in consequence of being pursue j oy the bear, as well as ie fact that the sugh of the cascade above stiil filled our ears, had prevented us from jierceiving this new danger uut 1 we had approached it. A shout of te-ror and warning from my com panion seemed i ie t "ho of one I bad myself ut tered. Both of is understood the peril of our situation, and both, without speaking another word, set about attempting to stop the boat. We paddled with all our strength he with the par, while I used tii- .-t butt of my rifle. We had succeeded in br.... lg her to a sort of equi librium, and were in hopes ol being able to force her to the bauk, Wiien'all at once we heard a heavy object strike against the ?--". At the same moment the bow rose up int ie : ir, and a number; of the burning pine-knot back iuto the bottom of the canoe. They still con tinued to blaze; and their light now falli .o ward the stern, showed us : a fearful object. The bear had seized hold of the dug-out, and his fierce head anci long curving claws were vis ible over the edge. -Although the little craft danced about, upon the water, and was likely to be turned keel upward, the animal showed no intention of relaxing its hold.; ' but, on the con trary, seemed every moment mounting higher in the canoe. Our peril was now extreme. We knew it, and the knowledge half paralyzed us. Both of us had started up, and fpr some moments half sat, half-crouched, uncertain how to act. Should we use the paddles, and get the canoe ashore, it would only be to throw ourselves into the jaws of the bear. On the other hand, we could not remain as we were, for in a few seconds we should be drifted over the falls ; and how high these were we knew hot. We had never heard of them : they might be fifty feet they might be a hundred. High enough they weie, "no doubt, to precipitate us into eternity. 'The pros pect was appalling, aud cur thoughts ran rapid ly. Quick action was required. I could think of no other than to lean sternward, and strike at the bear with my clubbed rifle. At the same time I called upon my companion to paddle for the shore. We preferred, under all circumstan ces, risking the chances of a land-encounter with oui grizzly antagonist. I had succeeded in keeping' the bear out of the canoe by several well-planted blows upon the snout ; aud Dick was equally successful in forcing the dug-out nearer to the bauk, when a sharp crack reached my ears, followed by a terrified cry from my, companion. I , glanced suddenly round to ascertain the cause of these demonstrations. Dick held in his hands a short round stick, which I recognized as the shaft of the paddle. The blade had snapped off, and was floating away on the surface. We were now helpless. The mariege of the canoe was no longer possible. Over the falls she must go ! ' WTe thought of leaping outj but it was too late. We were almost upon the edge. sand the black current that bore our craft along would have carried our bodies with like velocity. We could not make a dozen strokes before we should be swept to the brink; it was too late. We both saw this ; and each knew the feelings of the other, for we felt alike. Neither spoke'; but, crouching down and holding the gunwales of the canoe, we awaited the awful moment. The bear seemed to have some appreheusion as well; for, instead o' continuing his endeavors to climb into the canoe, he contented himself with hold ing List to the stern, evidently under some alarm. The torch still blazed, and the canoe was catch- irg fire; perhaps this it was that alarmed the bear. The last circumstance gave us at the mo ment but little concern; the greater danger eclipsed the less. We had hardly noticed it w'hen we felt that we were going over. The canoe shot outward as if propelled by some pro jectile force ; then came a loud crash, as though we had dropped upon a hard rock. Water, and spray, and froth were dashed over our bodies; ami the next moment, to our surprise as well as. delight, we feit oursel .-es still alive, and seated in the canoe, vdiich was floating gently in still smooth water. It was quite dark, for the torch had been extinguished ; but even in the darkness we could perceive the bear swimming and floun dering near the boat. To our great satisfaction, we saw --hi m heading for the shore, and widening the distance between himself and us with all the haste he could make.. The unexpected precipi tation over the falls had cooled his courage, if not his hostility. Dick and I headed the canoe, now half full of water, for the opposite bank, which we contrived to reach by using the rifle and our hands for paddles. Here we made the little vessel fast to a tree, intending to leave it there as ud not by any j ossibility get it back over the f ill. Having hung our game out of reach of the wolves, we turned our faces up stream, and, af ter a long and wearisome walk, succeeded in get ting back to the post. Next morning a party went down for the venison withVthe intention also of carryiug the canoe backi oyer the fall. The craft, however, was found to be so much in jured that it would not hang together during the portage, and was therefore abandoned. This was no pleasant matter t me, for' it afterward cost me a considerable sum before I could square with the old Flathead foi worthless dug-out. A Large Throat. The Morning Star, pub lished at Cincinnati, relates the following an cedote of a young gentle A the South, who expended a large fortiii oney, land, negro es, every thing, in a cot..-c of intemperance and profligacy. As he had just paid a last year's grog bill of' 900, one day, he was walking in the streets leisurely, when seeing a physician on the opposite side, he called out to him to come over. "Doctor," said he, "I wish you'd just take a look down my throat." "I don't discover anything, sir," said the Doctor, after looking very carefully. " You don't," said he, " why that's strange : will you be kind enough sir, to give another look." " Really, sir," said the doctor, after a second look. " I don't see anything." "No? why, doctor, there's a farm, ten thou sand dollars, and twenty negroes, gone down there." ; Ibish Wit. " Please your lordship's honor and glory," replied Tom, " I shot the hare by accident." " By accident," remarked Capt. Charles Hal- By accident," continued the postillion. "I was firing at a bush, and the baste ran across my aim, all on his own accod." The game keeper tells a different story," replied his lordship. " Och ! don you put faith in what that man say," says Tim Ryan,' when he never cares a bout speaking the truth any how. He told me the other day, yer lordship was not as fit to 63 the ehair of justice as a jackass!" ;' !' ' M Ay, ay," exclaimed Viscount Killskiddery " indeed ! and what jdid yon say 1" J1-: '" Please yer lordship, I said yer lordship was."; LI V D1UU Dm ill 11 1V1U11 1 . ENGLISH LADIES- The following is from Mr. Holcomb's address before the Maryland Agricultural Society : As showing the interest English ladies take in Agriculture, I caijnot but relate a casual in terview I chanced to have with an English lady, in going up in the Express, train from Loudon to York. Her husband had bought a book at the stand as we were about starting, and remark ed to her that " it was one of her favorite Amer ican Authors Hawthorn." I casually observed, "I was pleased t6 see young American authors found admires with English ladies," when the onversation turned on books ami authors. But said to mysejf pretty soon, " this is a literary lady probably her husband is an Editor or Re viewer, and she handles the "'scissors" for him; at all events, 1 mustiretreat from this discussion about authors, modern poet-, and poetry. What should a farmer knpw critically of such things. If l was only in those fields if .the conversation could be made to turn on crops or cattle, then I should feel quite at home." I finally pointed out a field of wheat, and remarked it was very fine. The lady, carefully observing it, said : 'Sir, I think it is too thiu a common fault this seasou, as the seeding was late ;" " those 'drills," she added, turningfto her husband for his con firmation, " cannot be more than ten indies a part, and you see, sir, the ground is.not com pletely covered twelve, and eleveu inches is now preferred for the width of drills, and two bushels of seed to the acre will then entirely cover the ground, on good land, so you can hardly dis cover the drills." - - . If the Goddess of Ceres had appeared with her sheaf, or her cornucopia, I could not have been taken more by s'urpvise. A lady descant ing on the ividth of wheat drills aud the quan tity of seed " , " 1 will try her again," said I, " this may be a ch...;ce s-hot," and remarked in reference to a -!d of ploughed ground we were passing, that it Jroke up in great lumps, and could hardly be put in good tilth, f We have much clay land like'this," she replied "aud formerly it was dif ficult to cultivate it iii a tillage cron, but since the introduction of Orpskilfs Patent Clod Crush er, they will make the most beautiful tilth on these lauds, and which are now regarded as a- mong our best wheat dauds." The conversation turned on cattle ; she spoke of the best breeds ojf Cows for the pail, (the Avrshires and Devons,) told me where the best cheese was made Cheshire the best butter Ireland where the best milk-maids were to be found Wales. " ON !" said I, " I was mista-i ken ; this charming intelligent woman, acting so natural and unaffected, dressed so neat "id so very plain, must be a farmer's wife, and what a help-mate he has in "her? She is not an ex travagant wif - either, no an ornament about her ves, a single bracelet clasps a fair, rounded arm that's all." The train stopped at York; no sooner had my travelling companions stepped upon the platform, that I noticed they were I surrounded by half a dozen servants men and maids- the men in full livery. It turned out to be Sir John and Lady H- . This gentle man, I learned, was one! of the largest lauded proprietors in Berkshire, and his lady the daugh ter of a Nobleman, a Peeress in her own right ; but her title added nothing to her, she was a noble woman without it. CHILDREN AND SERVANTS. A Word for mothers. '"Come along, Ally, come along. It's not this way I'll be stopping for you, so come along f .said Mary Macaity, t- the little, delicate child she was leading by the hand. j . The child thus accosted, slacked its pace for a moment te look into her face, pitifully, then hurried ou. Soon the little feet faltered again, and again the sharp voic4 said, " Come along, I say." " , At the same time little: Ally's arm was pulled harshl , , and she was almost dragging her along the street. It was late in 4be morning, and the sun's rays were beating upon them furiously. With the parasol she held, Mary shaded herself; but the child had no protection. " Hush, Ally, hush !" and the little arm re ceived another pull, and the mouth a blow; for the child had commencedicrying. Pretty ' little Ally's faee was now bathed in tears, and the blue eyes looked to Mary's so pleadingly. 'I " Please, Mamy, take Ally ; Ally tired,"-sobbed the little pleader. ' ' But Mary's heart was not touched ; and with another hearty pull she hurried her along. The child wept harder thau ever, and the little feet almost refused to move. Still Mary, lifted her not, but dragged her along. " And sure, it's a troublesome child you are !" said Mary, as she half lifted, and half threw the child up the steps, as she, reached home. " I'll beat you now, if you don't hush !" and a slight blow tested'the truth of what she uttered. Frightened, the child rhushed crying aloud, but its sobs were heard long after it had been laid down to sleep in its little bed, where it usu ally took its morning nap. Mary was soon be low stairs, where a friend Waited to talk with tier. She was over her pet with the child, and when its mother returned, had hardly ceased speaking of the pleasant walk she and little had Ally just taken. ' --; . ' .";--': ; - " . -I I bonder, James, what makes -Ally moan and start so in hersleep,-this'inoramgt5Xif truly troubled about berj'tis so unusual." Oh, dori't be frightened, Alice ; I dare say nothing is the matter. Come now, lunch is ready. Ally will soon waken as well as ever, I dare say ;" aud so saying they left the sleeping child. But all that day Ally seemed not well ; and ere her usual time for retiring came, she was fast asleep in her mother's ayns. Now, more than ever alarmed, the mother called a physi cian. He pronounced the child ill, very ill, with some disease of the brain. . T e usual questions were put, ' Had the child been exposed to the hot sun ?" " Had she been over excited, or troubled, or hurt in any way ?" 'i JSo, indeed ; no such harm had come to her uiiim, nuanueu lue mouiei , iiunesiuiimgiy , ttuu. "No, no ! surely no I" answered Mary. Once the mother asked, looking auxiouslyand i.:i.i " i .i ...i,,. ....i earnestly at Mary, if they had not been out late that morning iu their walk, or if Ally had not been hurried home ? "Aud sure, Mrs., do you think I would allow harm to your child I Do I not love her as I would my owjr flesh and blood ? And do you think I would not take care of her!" The mother was silenced. Surely, Mary would not deceive her. But all night long the little sufferer had no rest. Two days she lin gered thus, then the pure spirit winged its way to Heaven. . Deep grief was in that household. Their only, their cherished one had gone from them. Heuceforth she was theirs only in another world. Mary kept well her secret. The parents never knew the wrong she had done them nevfcr knew that but for her the child might still have j slept upon their hearts. Mothers,,look well to this matter. Leave not your children too much, een to the best of servants. They are not their children they cannot feel for them, or have patience with them as we have; and do not even ou is sometimes fail us ? Must we then expect more for hire ! I trow not. Then look well to your children.. Suffer them to lie most in your sight for else y--u know not w hat evil may come upon them. THE WAY TO WORK IT. Mr. Drew, the Editor of the Maine Cultiva tor, published at Hallowell, in that State, gives the following account of his own husbandry. His farm is not a very extensive one, but his nett income from it is greater than that of some of our farmers, who almost starve on their three or four hundred acres. No invest metit would yield more at this time than a Mar ket Farm conven' it to our Southern cities : The Editor actually cultivates but a single acre of land, but that he does cultivate, and makes it yield all that land cau yield. Nor, small as the quautity is, is the amount of sub sistence obtained from it unimportant in the sup port of a large family. One third of an acre he devotes annually to corn the . long eared, large clevelled, eight rowed yellow corn, that is not very early, and not very late. Wuh him it has ripened every ytar for the last ten years that he has cultivated it. The soil he makes rich. He applies to it, before ploughing, at the rate of eighteen or twenty cords of long manure to the acre (or six to the third of an acre) and turns it uuder by the plough. He plants the hills three feet and a half apart $ne way, and three feet the other exactly by meas- uremeut with aline. In each hill he deposites either a shovel full of old rotten hog manure, or as much night manure as will not over stim ulate the crop. From this third of an acre, he has raised on the average for years, over thirty bushels of sound corn for grinding, besides a little pig com for the hogs in the fall of the year. This is as much corn as he needs in his family, besides a sufficient surplus foi fattening one large and two small hogs. From the same land, he ordiuarily obtains some two or three hundred pumpkins, which serve important pur poses in the family, besides being an excellent article for boiling up with the hog's potatoes, giving a cow fec. From the same land too, he has generally obtained all the dry white beans he has needed in his family to go with his pork which he raises by the avails of his land, with out purchasing of others. The fodder is care fully cut and cured, and helps as a stibsistance for the cow. So much for one third of an acre. A small portion of land is set apart for the cultivation of onions. Ordinarily, he has raised from fifty to seventy five bushels on a bed,- say half a dozen rods square. These he sells, on an average, at one dollar per bushel say $60 per year. This purchases his flour and rye at com mon prices. So that from the first third of an acre, and in an onion bed, he raises all his bread brown and white. On two other large beds, he grows generally about fifty bushels of Mangel Wurtzel and car rots. These are for the cow's winter provender. They more than pay for themselves in the milk and butter to say nothing of the saving of hay and other provender. With very little hay, to- rather with the fodder and roots, a frood cow and he finds it economy always to keep the best may De Kept tnrougn the winter. Potatoes for summer i and i autumn nse are piauieu uu mo uiargtua auu wuerover iucio is -j : : .1. : ,j,ji t. I expressly deroted to them large enough all that are wanted for the table, and 'enough spare for the hogs, fcc ' f - S5o far ai it relates -to bread, butter,' pork, and he' might abl "fMtiy-- r--J ,!"--- .- . Then the rest of the land is devoted 'totod many things to mention I cabbage turn i ps green beans peas green corn cucumbers melons squashes, summer and winter sorts, &c., besides fruits and flowers of various kinds grapes, , raspberries, curr exits, white, r4d and yellow ; English aud common gooseberries and a few choice apple, plum, cherry, peach aud quince trees. All this frwaa sinsrle acre, which he cultivates mostlv with his own hands. CHINESE AGRICULTURE. i An interesting lecture on this topic wais de livered jou the evening of the 20th ot October, in Sanj Francisco, by Rev. William Sfeer. Mr. SpjiER spoke only of the southern pirt of the Chinese Empire, the part he hnd.viiited. mi. .. '. . The mountains are cold and barren. No exten sive fo jests are seen, but only here and tbjere a shrub. No fences the only partitions arjB dy kes of earjh thrown up,.intersected by floodgates to water the rice-fields. These dykes,, some of which are w ell paved, constitute the only means of communication. I he produce of the country is carried in boats upon the riveis and canals, or swung ou poles ou the shoulders of cobliesi No wheeled vehicles. The hch travel m (sedan chairs j carried along the dykes, or in boats No solitary dwellings dot the country,, as in Christ ian lands, but the people gather in villages for mutual protection" from thieves, and robbers. Rice, the principal grain", and chief article of food, .is sown .broadcast, on fields cultivated by a rude plow, drawn byanj animal resenjibling our ox. The fields are flooded, and the joung plant; is transplanted in. rows, harvested Jby an instrument tike our sickle, ana , tnraslied : pr trampled out at, the : granary. , Our fanning ' machine has been known in China for centuries, V It was carried to Holland, then.to Scotland, and, - then to the United States. Rice is usually boil ed, sometimes ground into fldur'. A liquor is distilled fiom it,- much .used at meals. Wheat is raised in the north of China, and sent j below for sale to foreigners. Hemp is cultivated extensively, and made into fabrics. Cotton is raised also to be a great extent, j The sugar-cane is widely cultivated, also the sweej, potato, ginger root, oranges, lemons, limea, datea, grapes, aud a great variety of vegetables and fruitsmany of which mijrht be introduced successfully into California. A Tea and silk are the two mo6t important pro ducts'. Tea is cultivated in almost every part of China, the coarsest in the Southern paiit, imd the best in the region called the Mohia hills. The toil best adapted is on elevated. localities, "formed of disintegrated granite and 'sandstone. It is difficult to transplant it. It has been car ried Uo England iii glass boxes, hermetically sealed up, so as to allow the light, but nojair to enter . r -escape. The gardens pf the Chinese are laid out with , great taste and beauty. In them bloojii the choicest flowers, Lotus, GeTranium, night bloom-, ing (ereus, Camellia, etc. Shaded walks, rbors, artificial lakes, and small temples, hung with tinkling bells, diversify and lend interest jto the sceue. Mr. Speer concluded with some remarks up on the benefit which Chinese industry abd in- genunity might confer upon this country; and what benefits in turn they would receive from our jscience, art, and religion. PacifiL San, Francisco. Rancid Bctt'.r. The Echo du .Monde Sa- vaunt says: A farmer in the vicinity of Brussels, having succeeded in removing the bad smell and -taste of some butter, by mixing it with chloride of lime, he was encouraged by this experiment, and he has restored to butter, the taste and odor of which were insupportable, all the sweetness of fresh butter. This operation is extremely simple and practicable by all. It consists in . simply working the butter in a sufficient buann. tity pf water, m which from 25 to dU drops ol : chloride of lime have been added to every two ipoundsof butter. After having mixed it until all its parts are in contact with the water, ijt may be left in it for an hour or two, afterwards with drawn and worked again in clear- water. The j : " m . chloride of lime having nothing injurious dn it, can with safety be augmented; but after Waving varied the experiment, it was found that from 25 to 30 drops to every two pounds of, butter, - was' sufficient. ," M $y iLnother method of restoring iweetness and ; flavjor to rancid butter, said to.be very. effectual; by those who iiave tried it, is to put - it into a. churn with new milk and work it till all the old. rancidity U; removed, after which it is to pe to- ken1 from the churn, worked and salted afnesh. A Valuable Remedy. The New Haven (Ct.) Palladium says : We are able to record another' casfe of the complete cure of erysipelas iy the simple application of the raw cranberries pound ed ! fine. The patient was a young: Jadf, one side of whose face had become so much swollen and inflamed that the eye had become closed,' anatne pamexcessire. -.apouiHce oi crauuernea l . - .. ..!.;.. tJ was applied, and after several changes the; pain ceased, the inflammation subsided, and in the' r a oP1 OI aay8 ever7 YesuS9 CI disease aaa disappears. xbo wcurrec in; the family oTone or tne editors nut . jraiiaoaum,' J Xar for Sheep. It is stated - by a i recent l ft. j .v . . jt.:.l i i writer, mat tar is a grgai, preventive 01 uisease ly .applies during the warm i troubling ; the Hot mix the" tar with salt, by scattering tnealt m narrow trough and pouring the tar upon it, when the sueep eat it readuy. ' '; '.' :. f "I i f $ I l r V '" '; '
Southern Weekly Post (Raleigh, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Feb. 25, 1854, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75