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BY GEORGE HOWARD.
Is published weekly at Two Dollars per year
if paid in advance or, Two Dollars and Fifty
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Advertisements not exceeding a square will be
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that rate per square. Court Orders and Judicial
advertisements 25 per cent, higher.
AGRICULTURAL.
From the Raleigh Star.
PINE LANDS.
THE BEST TREATMENT FOR THEM.
From a Georgia paper we clip the fol
lowing suggestions as to the proper plan
to be pursued with pine lands the value
of which every farmer can test for himself.
We regret that the article has lost its ear
marks, so that we know not positively to
whom to credit it. We believe it is from
one of the Macon papers.
"It is the prevailing; opinion timong far
mers that the pine leaf or straw is delete
rious to land, consequently, we annually
see the 'region of the pine' burnt over for
the purpose of destroying that poisonous;
substance! Do such farmers ever reflect
upon the wise provisions of Providence? .
For what purpose does the foliage annual-1
Iy fall? Is it merely that new leaves may i
put forth to adorn and beautify the trunk?!
By no means It is that they go through
their gradual and sure decay, returning to j
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the earth not only nutriment which the!
P.irih h.lfl orivpti (hpm. hnt Ihnt riohori
quality which they had taken from the at
mosphere. It is well known that pine
soils lack potash, and it is proven by sci
entific analysis beyond cavil or debate,
Ob
that the pine leaf contains more potash1 , . . . , ,
.. . . . irocK. As onlv nine men are able to work
than the leaf of any other tree and pot
ash is one of the first principles in the
growth of all plants and vegetables.-
What a suicidal policy then to destroy
the very substance destined by Nature to
enrich pine lands, and then murmur at un
productiveness? Farmers who cultivate
pine lands, preserve your woods from the
ruthless flames. Cover your cow-pens,
and your horse lots and your stables with
pine straw. The treading of the animals
with their manure added, will soon de
compose it, which will make a fine com
post for vegetable garden. Husband your
juuu iraw as you would Husband your.
crop, for with it you can make any crop,!
in the bounds of reason, that you may de- Amir ey aM( 5llile Commissioner from
sire. The finest Irish potatoes that are-! the Sublime Porte Amir Bey visits the
mada in this climate arc made under pineiUnited Elates for the purpose of obtaining
straw. The crop has proved almost an j information relative to our country and
entire failure in this section this season, ts resources. He is a Captain in the
and yet 'ould Ireland never produced a : Tur kish Navy, and is said to he a gentle
more 'mealy pratie' than my crop turns! an of K,cal capacity, and has been em
out this season planted under straw. There 'ployed by his sovereign on numerous con
bave been many failures in attemntinir to i fidential missions. He is represented as
cultivate iho TrUh rnt n !.; r,or,r,n..
but it has been owing entirely to not tru -
ly covering with straw. Like the fellow'
that took a feather and laid his head on a'a
rock, they say if a few straws make such
miserable potatoes, what would loads do?
Those who would have good Irish pota
toes, no matter whether the season be
wet or dry, plant as follo.ys, and you will
not only get a good return" of delicious po
tatoes, but you will enrich the soil and
save culture. As soon after Christmas as
possible, plough the piece of ground, de
signed for potatoes open trenches six or
c:ght inches deep, and two feet apart a
cross the gro ind, fill the trench with par
tially decomposed leaves and wheat, oat,
r pine straw. Cut the potatoe once in
.iV place the cut ?ide downwards on the
Mraw, atout six incliJ3 apart, now cover
with tfcc remaining earth on top of the
ridges, until it jj5 level, then cast on pine
fctraw until it is eighteen inches deep all
"cr the piece it will require no after
culture, and each succeeding year, will
increase in productiveness. , As the Win
ter and Spring rains beat dpwn H straw
tompacily, decomposition commences at
bc bottom, and no matter how dry the
season may prove, there is always raois
turo, and consequently mealy and good
potatoes. Remember, ye who have pine
Cnwnotr. 4 l . 'I . .1
iwiaia, uiai pme siraw is tne very
best
manure for pine lands.'"
We may be permitted to add our own
experience in respect to this mode of cul
tivating the Irish Potato. We have par
tially tried this plan for two seasons past,
and the result has been more favorable
than could have been reasonably expected.
No matter how bad the season, potatoes
large and mealy you are sure to have,
and that without any trouble after plant
ing We call them here "Lazy Beds,"
as wc have no trouble to work or dig
them. When the harvest comes just raise
the straw and you have befnre you a nest
of potatoes to each vine, all sound and
clean and ready for the pot.
An intelligent farmer, in Johnston!
County, who has for years back been a i
ware of the value of pine straw, informs
us, that he has it hauled into h is barn
yard, which, (together with wheat and
oat straw, corn stalks, &c.) when trampled
by the cattle, and enriched by their excre
ments, he has made into a compost heap;
and finds it the most profitable manure
used on his farm. Eds. Star.
Genin, the Hatlcr. The People won
der why Geuin paid $225 tor the first scat
to the first Jenny Li ml concert; but it is
really no wonder :t all. It is a card for
his business, which will spread his fame
from Maine to Texas, and even across- the
Rocky Mountains lo California. Genm
likewise gave Madcmisehe Lid a forty
dolIar riding hatj and the fjct hsl9 alrcadv
bccn state(1 in an lhc papcrs hus affortli
him al Icat a hundrcd doHars worlh of
advrtising. This is Genius secret;
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Blue Ride Tunnel The ercat tun
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,nei tnrough the- Ulue Kidjre 1ms been i ur-
ly commenced, and a heavy jch it will be.
I he workmen have excavated about 70
feet of the main tunnel on the western
side of the mountain, and their progress
at a time, it is slow business, although
ithey work day and night. It will require
four or five years before this collossal
work is completed. But when it is done,
it will be a monument of Virginia enter
prise, and a fountain of trade am prosper
ity, which cannot be surpassed by any
similar work on the continent.
Richmond ( Va ) Republican.
From Ihe IVilmington Journal.
ijyThe tJniled States Storeship Erie
arrived at New York on the 12th inst..
from Constantinople, having on board
a fine lookinir man of about 37 years of
ogc; ariu for a Turk, is still comparatively
a single man, not having more than half-
- dozen wives
From the Portsmouth Pilot.
Mosquilos.TXol one of the most seri
ous, but certainly one of the most disa
greeable sequcnts of the late flood, is the
abundance of mosquitoes it has left behind.
These are not common visiters here
"but down below they are right bad"
and as they give their grand, "sweet ser
cnadcs,, nightly to our people for the first
time we recommend the following sonnet
be sung as a chorus thereto, in honor of
their dcbult
The little musquito, the blood sucking
scamp,
How demurely he sits till you biowout
the lamp;
Then he stretches his wings and lights on
your nose.
And does all he can to disturb your re
pose; And if he can't bleed you with gimlet or
blade
Ho will try the effect of his sweet sercn-.
ade.
This last is the worst. How often Pve
swore
That the locusts of Egypt were not half!
the bore
ui inese nttia tormentors let loose in the
night,
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Who will sing yo i a song before taking a
bile.
Now welcome cold winterthe north
winds may blow;
I would welcome the rain, the sleet, and
the snow,
I would e'en welcome Sl Patrick to this
our fair land,
If in killing these vving'd devils he would
lend us a hand
Frem the HorneVs Nest
The recent Overflow Terrible loss
of life. The Pennsylvania papers par
ticularly those from Schuylkill county
continue to hring us the most distressing
accounts of the loss of life and property
by the late flood. The rise of thevvater
was so sudden that many families were
svveptcd off by the flood. More than fif
ty lives between Philadelphia and Ber
wick, Columbia counl3r, have been sacri
ficed by this catastrophe. At Reading
eleven lives were lost The number of
buildings destroyed at Reading was 25
brick buildings, 21 frame dwellings, 63
stables, workshops and ofiicc -making a
total of onr. hundred and nine buildings
destroyid. The aggregate loss ot Read
ing is estimated at 500.000. At Tama
qua thirty-one persons were drowned.
At He
rwiek,. t 'olumbia connty, twenty-
two por.sons lost their lives. Two houses
belonging to Georiro MnstW. at : Noon.
peck Fork, containing about 20 persons,
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were swept half a mile down the creek;
only two men were saved. The houses
lodged among some trees an'd were dashed -
to nieces. No names iiven. and none of
the Lodies recovered.
From the Fuycttevillc Carolinian
The Brazilian Coff.e Trade Forty -two
years aso the coffee (ride of Urazil
did not exceed ihirty-lhousand bags; and has been made, or that, it has become so arrived at INew lork, from San Francis
even in 1S20 it only reached 100,000 bags. ! evident how low in the scale of reputable co bringing one million of dollars in gold
About that time the high price of coffee governments that of the United States has and one hundred passengers. She also
in England, superadded to the diminished become; wc only notice such humiliating brings information of a terrible riot be
producVlon in Cuba, stimulated the lira- manifestations of the decline of adminis- lwcen lhe landholders and squatters at
zilian 'planters to extend its cultivation; tralive honesty as proof that the most des- j Sacramento. The squatters were out to
and in 1S30 they sent to market four htm-'. picahle means have been resorted to, tcfj lhc number of eight hundred, martial law
died thousand bags, or sixtv four million force through the measures which must; was proclaimed, and the Mayor and many
pounds; and in 1S47 the enormous quan
tiiy of nearly three hundred millions of .
pounds.
From (he Charleston Mercury.
Cal'fcrnia. The late news from Cali
fornia is very discouraging to those who
may dream of reaping golden harvests by
a trip to the Miggins.' At Panama the
Cholera is raeincr fricrhtfull v. And it is
said that hundreds nerhans one half the
miners at the diggins would gladly re- honorable Senator, as I have understood The Cuba Invasion A dispatch of
turn home if they had the means, so great from him, has collected upwards of $300, Saturday, from Washington says:
are their privations, and such is their dis- 000 for a citizen of the State of Rhode Is- j "The Spanish Minister at the request of
appointment at the country and the ease la,K, uPon obligations given by the citi- Mr. Webster, returned last night from
of acquiring fortunes. Many of the let- zens of Georgia to Rhode Ldand for ne-:New York, and had a long conference
tcrs from California have been gross ex-8roes imported into Georgia. with him. The business relates to Cuba,
a&geraiions; and although, occasionally,1 Mr. Berrien. Will the Senator allow and we understand that another attempt
sudden fortunes have been realized and mc? Unquestionably the Senator is cor is to" be made on Cuba. The descent is
now and then some Mucky dog' strikes a , rect in ll5s statement. I have stated to first lo be made upon Ilayti, for the over
vein of wonderful richness, the enormous bim that many years ago, in the exercise throw of Faustin Soulouque.
expense of living there; the high price of of my professional duty, I had collected a j "
every article of consumption; the inter- ,arge amount something near the amount j From the Southern Press.
ruption from the weather, sickness, &c.,!he stales in bonds or notes, which were! v
nrl lhe canital. time and Inhnr nvnended
in. the trip and finding a spot to work,
render far the greater number of emigrants
much more dependent than when they
left their Atlantic homes
Ten dollars a day is the usual price paid
to miners, while those who mine for them
selves average from sixteen to twenty
dollars a day on a good vein,' while it lasts.
Days and weeks may then be expended in
finding another spot, or high waters may
entirely stop all operations, yet all this
time, the man must eat Flour at 25 cents
per lb., pork 75, potatoes 15 cents per lb.,
molasses $5 a gallon and beef 50 cts. per
lb.
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QUThe late French -papers contain
discouraging letters from the French emi
grants to California. One of the Paris
papers states that "the French cannot cope
wTith the Americans, who, first, are at
home, and whom nothing stops nor dis
courages. It the mountains are in their
way, they are levelled; if fires rage, newl
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houses are undertaken before the cbnfljg-
ration is at an end.
Slaves among th Mormons. A Cal
ifornia correspondent of the Boston Trav
eller says:
"It may not be generally known that
quite a large number of slaves arc now lo
be found among the Mormons of Salt
Lake, introduced into that community by
Southerners who have connected them
selves with those people from time to
lime
Executive Buying Voles. It appears
that the President, or his friends, have fa-
vored the business of distributing federal
pap for the purpose of coercing votes on
the Senate bills. The Washington cor
respondent of the Richmond Republican,
a paper which is in the confidence of the
Administration, and one of whose owners,
if wc are not mistaken, holds office under
the Federal Government, writes as fol
lows: The great object of interest now before
the country is the passage by the House
of the Senate bills: and if this can be done
by giving the Department of the Interior
to Georgia, be it so. Let the President
boldly say to the Whigs in the House, let
them come whence they may, that this
Administration is for the Senate bills as
they arc; and that any Whig member who
shall vote against them will be esteemed j
an opponent of the Administration, andjoften thousand dollars to defray his ex-
!ti rated accordingly, and all difficulty will
I disappear."
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All difficulty did disappear on Friday i
morninc. when, on the third trial, it was!Bey 10 lhc Scnate chamber this morning,
found some nine or ten votes had been j conversing with him through Mr. Brown,
changed during the night. The dicfu?n'Thc fjifni3,y reception given it o the first
nf ihn R.miihliTnn th.it ,1. ivhnn it i Turkish official visitor, will, no doubt, bo
said the bills must nass. give abundant
'evidence that the corrupting influence of ,
an unscrupulous Administration had been
: a work. Thread, or promises authorized ;
by the free soil Executive, changed thesci
votes. Not that we arc sorry the issue
sooner or later dissolve the Union
South Carolinian.
Slrangt Development. In reading:
the debate of the Scnate upon the Fugi-
tirr Sil.ivp H:ll vr finrl ihi. fn 11 mvi r Vr r
mark, of Mr. Berrien of G,- .nJMr.; encouragmg. We N..t staled that
Pratt of Maryland. Mr. Pratt sud: j Commo,i Jo',cs ofr 1 "je Pacific Squ,d
J I ron, recently from California, estimates
Now, there is one fact which the Sena- that the yield of gold next year will not
tor (Mr. Beinen) has related to me, which
1 sire to mention to the Senate. The !
t in my nanus oy a cuizcn oi unoue
citizen ot Khode
Island, and which Were given by citizens
of South Carolina and Georgia. I stated
that to the Senator, but I did not intend
that it should be introduced here.
Mr. Pratt, I certainly understood the
Senator to state, at the time he told me
the fact, that he himself wished to bring
it to the notice of the Senate. At any
rate, I did not understand the Senator to
request that I should say nothing on the
subject Does the Senator mean to say
that he told me this in confidence?
It is but a small matter whether the
Senator spoke in confidence or not. It is
to the FACT we wish to call the atteu
tion of our readers, particularly those of
New England, and especially Rho ?e Is
iand. What is this fact? . That one hi
yer of the State of Georgia has collects
three hundred thousand dollars fo
citizen of Rhode Island for x
GROEh IMPORTED INTO GEORGIA! We ll
not suppose, much as we would like to be-J
iieve, that it is an isolated case. It makes
us blush to believe, however, that any son
of New England should thus have receiv
ed the wages of sin by becomingthe Slave
carriers for Georgia. The Constitution
for more than forty years has marie this
importation of negroes Piracy7, and yet in
a section of country whence we hear most
said against slavery, we see that the great
est pecuniary rewards have been derived
from a trafic in slaves. With such facts star
ing us in the face, and proclaimed aloud
from the Senate Chamber at Washington,
may not our zeal for the true welfare of
slaves be questioned, and the taunt of hy
pocrisy be flung back upon us, as we her
ald our own love of freedom and our ab
horrence of oppression. The fact which
Mr. Pratt has here drawn out is not a
new one to many of our readers, hut it is
a sad one, and one which we cite now not
only to deplore it, but for the sake of say
ing, in the name of a common charity for
all men, that it ought to teach us to have
a little forbearance with others, when, to
say the least of it, we are no belter than
we should he ourselves AT. Y. Express.
Washington, Sept 20M, IS 50.
Reception of the Turkish envoy.
The Cabinet yesterday consulted upon
the proper manner of receiving Amir
Uey, the Turkish Commissioner. It was
determined to receive him as a guect, ac
cording to oriental usage, and that Con-
gress should be asked for an appropriation
penses. it passed the ornate by an over
whelming majority, on motion of Mr.
CaM- Mr. Webster accompanied Amir
. appreciated by the Ottoman Porte, and
,ead to an intercourse, socially and com.
rcially, less restrained than that which
has hltherto existed.
(JpThc Steamship Philadelphia has
citizens were wounded. Despatches were
sent to San Francisco for troops, and the
riot was at length quelled. Sacramento
was fired by the squitters, and a large
portion of the City destroyed.
The accounts from the diggings arc still
Tall far short of fifty millions of dollars.
-.u 6wUU aun.tj.
, that formidable movements are going on
for the annexation of Canada to this
, Union.
The North notsatisfied with the swarms
of aliens pouring into her territory, and
into that she thinks she has wrested from
the South, pants for a confederacy with
three or four new alien States.
Does not the South see, that by the re
cent adjustment she is to be shorn of all
power of self-defence either in our for
eign or domestic policy? Can she acqui
esce in a sudden and total subordination to
power?
Is the South now free in any respecta
ble sense of the term?
3The Dismal Swamp Canal has been
Hosed and the water drawn off for the pur
; oe of making some necessary repairs
'consequently its navigation will be sus
pended for a few weeks.
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