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v- - S wall T IPliiffl : ; - mibmbi.1 ii ay ya yy Lay MmSa 1 II yiil I o. iaio. The Warboroi 2rctiS) ' BY GEORGE HOWARD, U publisheil-w-eekly at TwoDjm.ars per year f (,,)!( in advance or,Two Dol aus andFiftv Csnts it theexpirationof the subscription year. Advertisements not exceeding a square will be j:!rt d at One Dollar the first insertion, and 25 (n. for every succeeding one. Longer ones at that rate per square. Court Orders and Judicial advertisements 25 per cent, higher. From the Norfolk News. .J v ' :. EDUCATION. Men of thought, with iron nerve, Fronting error, take your stand; Never from your purpose swerve, Till it cease from out the land; Long and dread the strife may be Ye yet shall have the mastery. Wisdom's garb though it assume, Tear the flimsy veil nside; Let the Ugl.t of truth illume Falsehood's kingdom far and wide- Thongh around yon darkness cling9, The dawn is nijjh of better tMnjrs. Ignorance the sleep of mind Holds it in a fatal trance; To yon blight creation blind, Waiting now its opening glance He it yours the spell to break. The souls of men shall then awake. When before that mighty host, Error's dark dominion falls, -His were then a feeble boast Who the (ody disenthrals! The tyrant's chain he breaks but ye Uoldly bid the scu! be free Fritz From the Raleigh Star. We take the followinn humorous "ad- vice" from the Chambers fAI.. TribunoJ published bv J J Hooner formeilv of v . ,. r . , 1 1 1 may not be inapplicable to his'nativc i tatc. ADVICE GH.VllS. ' idea of our people is to reduce to hope- It will he seen by the caption that we less sterility as much of the earth's sur charge nothing for this advice. The face as possible, in one's life time. They reason why, is that it pertains to subjects care no more for pleasant homes, fine or agricultural, whereof it is presumed that chords, fat herds, and the pleasure of pro we are profoundly ignorant. JirgaL our ducing at home what is needed at home, advice may be worthless and so we than the Cuban Creoles do for the bless price it. We think we can say some ing of liberty. It is cotton, cotton, cotton! things that will bear a striking resem- Every man who works a half dozen hands, tbnee, at least, to the truth; and if we dok imagines himself a great cotton planter, wir farming friends may make a clear and would be insulted if it was supposed profit out of this number of the Tribune, that he raised his own meat. IJe is a cot-' -And if so, that will be more than 'he ton planter and buys Tennessee pork. As most of them will do out of their crops for producing smaller matters in the pro-: the present year. Capital! The very vision line, for sale, heM knock you down,! bought that one agricultural fiiend may if you hinted at such a thing. All our; roake more out of onc number of our lit- people are "belter raised" than that comes j tlenanp.p th:in nut of his whole cron. to. and we ha ve here on the red hills of j .. ' drills, electrifies us, with delight. L,et la trv. Uur appeal is to the larmers ot bham- ,cr9. We are mad enough with the lioie brood, almost to wish that the Vipes of hunger may get hold of and in- '""twist their small bowels, to a degree, AM we are not angry without reason ; t is true, we have not many reasons; but ; one or two we have are invincibly Nent. Firstly, we can't get any thing to (;at. Scpnndlv. nnhmhi pmp. about this u,'vn, can set any thin" to eat. There ! l're two good and sufficient reasons why Ut should be at "drawn daggers" with larmers. Whose business is it to see nn people who have the money to pay 0r provisions, which by the way wc have ,,0UHit we'll make a good note at short ,l,nei for meal, meat, chickens, potatoes, "J,t r. and so forth,) get provisions a pIer,ty? The farmer's, indubitably. n' whose fault is it, then, that butt r lm hf,n i iter. come "novol jind difficult, anti ickcn pie an obsolete idea?" Th 1! 0;v comes it, that this blessed day, we, our editorial self, are upon a short allow a,,u Ul Montgomery ground meal. Let the farmers take shame for it. Who is responsible for the fact, that Montgomery ",W,-U3 UIC eni"g "miauling" bacon, to larmers in this country.at 13 cents? Why those same identical, leather-headed, low fenced, poor-horsed, halfniggered improv ident farmers themselves! We record it against them, that here in Chambers, one of the best grain counties in East Alaba ma, meal is worth from 80 to 100 cents a bushel, bacon 13 cents, butter 15 cents. chickins of the lenderest age 15 cents. ami eggs about 25 cents, if you count out he rotten ones.! Ye gods! Can human nature be ex pected to survive amirl en Mi a Join nf hings? Is it to be expected that we as an impartial journalist are to allow such hings to be. without words of plainest reprehension? We trow not. But the answer to a!I these grievances, is a groaning about the drouth of the past season. We take it. ih.it ihU i nn nrti swerai all. The last was a fine wheat 3vjtm. i nose who sowed that urainmt this, and all the surroundin e.ii7Pl mnt Iaf ... u . . v. ..av.i duuuuiiiii I villi II. IIJl IS the reason, then, that flour is not, at once, plentiful and cheap, hereabouts? Simply because our unthrifty fa run r will insist on converting good grain lands into poor cotton lands. They pitch their grain crop for a moderate supply, if the season should be a good one; and every drouth puts the country on short allowance This is miserable policy; and in the long run the farmer is iniured hv it The liitlf cotton for which nil the advantages of bundant supplies ate Merited, raisin auun docs not comnenf.atP in a srrirs nfvH. and strange as i. may ;,ppear, although ";C,U f km(1' vv,lh s,milar rcsu5' 1,1 1 -full v before the country as the Whig every farmer you talk to admits as much, ''f GtUcn,or nammonJ' ol Soulh: candidate for the Presidency,--you pro not one in fifty hot follows the starvation (;?rolt' has indeed huge tracts ol pes- cccdcJ tQ inter le mc 0Q niany poinls policy. This county will buy, the com- t,!cnhal 6Wai1 '"bitablc, by the same of R.av. pub.fc jnlerest ing winter, nearly all the poik for next na,1;- . c Perinii mc lo say, that considering we year's consumption, at enormous prices The healthiness of large districts o. shal probaWyj onv have a Whig candi- from Tennessee drovcrs-if indeed any ; hogs fortunately should be driven here for isale What sln,n? W, l.m.o ih.f every man t hut planted a small crop of j corn and a big one of cotton, this year, ' j may suffer in the porli market. All such i richly deserve it. : I Again every other man in this neigh-j borl.oo.l is RxxnvL lo move lo Texas o, Louisiana tliis winter They arc going to scwic iresn lanus anu wear incm oui- and then move again. J hat is the policy j of onr pcoplc Thoy 3COrn ,ie i(!ea 0f j rmnrntuntr Imrh iho nrr.nl :un irtillur.il j r- e - . . i i i Chambers just as sorry noises anu """'-'i as few sheen and hoas, and are as guilt-! less oi selling neer, pomuy butter and the like, as they are in Lowndes, Dallas, Greene and Marengo We are entirely respectable in our ways. We are cotton planters. We have an agricultural friend in the lower part of this county who knows all about these things; and he has promised us to give his brethren a rasping on the matters we have hinted at, and we hope he will go to work immediately. I itch it into them without mercy, and be sure not to do it in an agricultural periodical; for our M'lantrrs" are too resp.auiu patronize publications which mignt possi b.y enlighten them on the economy of farming. From the JVarrenton News. To Farmers -Here's a hint that will be worth the price of the "News" twelve months to any farmer who takes it. We are indebted to an 6!d friend for it, who Tarborough, mgirombc County, U Saturday, October is assures us he has tried it for many years with uniform success. To kill Lice on hogs and Cattle.- Sturgeon oil is v infallible in killing lice either on hogs or cows. Fcr hogs rub it about the flanks and belly, or any oth er part to which the lice are attached; they will fall off almost immediately. For cows apply in the same way, or take a soft cotton string of the bulk of the little finger, saturate it with the sturgeon oil and lie it around the cow's neck as tight as possible so as not to choke. Our old friend says that the lice, on, cows draw their susicnance entirely from the region of the mouth, to which they repair at least once in twenty-four hours; they are ex cluded by the oiled rope around the neck, therefore, they die or fall off. Rats may he destroyed or run off from corn cribs by the same oil. Take a mop dipped in the oil and draw it alons the cracks and sides of the house and the rats are taken with an' immediate leaving half a pint is sufficient for a crib 10 by i 12 and of the usual height. Common train oil may be used when ta.muiue uuiaiiicu, out tncsiur gcon oil is best. Draining Land promotes health. We establish expensive sanatory regula tions to pi event epidemics, but little is ever said in this country about draining lauds to promote health. A French gentleman, who purchased a large tract of marshy land, reduced the : per-contagc ol sickness upon his estate fr0m twcnl' 10 one ha,f of onc percent. j" a few years, by drainage alone. We j Invc read n graphic account of an experi-! fi'au' Riuy I,mveu " ,ne siem o, wnu,. t I .1 .1 I . C I '"mng iaiciy piacnsru in inai ruumiy American Jlsric alt urist. From the American Farmer. IVeiirhls ilnd Measxtrrs. The foliow- !"S lle of the number of pound of va 1 ious articles lo a bushel, may be of hi- tercsi to some 01 our larminj; u imis; Of wheat, sixty pounds. Of shelled corn, fifty-six pounds. Of corn in the cob. seventy pounds. Of rye, fifty-six pounds. Of barley, forty-pounds. Of potatoes, sixty pounds. Of beans, sixty pound. Of bran, twenty pounds. Of clover seed, sixty pounds. Of timothy seed, forty five pounds. Of flix seed, fifty six pounds. Of hemp seed, forty-four pounds. Of buck wheat, fifty-two pounds. Of blue grass seed, fourteen pounds. Of castor beans, forty-six pound Of dried peaches, thirty-three pounds. Of dried apples, twenty-four pounds. Of onions, fifty-seven pounds. Of salt, fifty pounds. Hnvn Ttntrst Thn rrrow inr pron hro - i o - r - i i ies l0 bo tHo rrost abundant there has r,n,i innnire that there is an evident scarcity of hogs to feed it to. Three dollars and fifty centsjeorner of the State of Iowa. The pur- per hundred gross are freely offered for hogs fit for feeding, but fanners who have hogs prefer feeding them their corn to selling at its price. Unless there should spring up some foreign demand, vve do not see what is to be done with the large supplies of corn that will be left in the country after fattening the limited num ber of hogs that are on hand. New Castle Ia.) Courier. So?ig. Oh, marry the man you love, oirls, if you can get him at all; if he is rich as Croesus or as poor as Job in his fall Pray, do not marry for pelf, girls ?iwill bring your soul into thrall, but marry the man you love, girhTtf the purse is ever so small. Oh, never marry a lop, girls", whether he's little or tall; he'll make a fool of himself and you, he knows nothing well but to drawl. But marry a sober man, suds. th?rc arc a few I 5 1 . left on this ball, and you'll never rue the day, girls, that you ever married at all. (fcyA western girl, after, giving her Ini'Pr n hpart V smnnlr. rvrl:ii mprl r)rur . :r I , , . i my cat, if you nan t been takin a little rye, old hoss." FOi 1'IICAL. From the Nnv York Express. GEN. SCOTT. s Gen. Scott, being written to, some months since by a gentleman of Pennsyl vania, at the request of eight members of the State Senate, addressing him as the undoubted Whig candidate for the Presi dency, and requesting his opinions on the various political questions which have ag itated the coun try, wrote the following characteristic letter, in reply: IVa shin ton. Mar. 2G, 1851. Si I havn received vonr letter (mark- C(j t.C0Ilfijeilial . in whic, . . . j. simnosin(V mr tn ,lf, men alter com i n t,atc for lhe preaiiency through a Nation- al Convention, and that I cannot be its nominee except by the force of the unso licited partiality of large masses of the countrymen: Considering, also, that if my character or principles he not already known, it would now be idle to attempt to supply the deficient information by mere paper professions of wisdom and virtue, made for the occasion And considering that if I answer your queries, I must go on, and answer others already before me as well as the long se ries that would inevitably follow to the disgust of the public. I will beg permission to close this ac knowledgment of your letter by subscri bing myself, With great respect, Your obedient servant, WINFIELI) SCOTT. Esq,, Ilarrisburg, Penna. P. S. I must add, that I write and say nothing, on public subjects, which I am unwillinn lo see published. W. S. Another New Slate By the late treaty with the See-see-tran and Wah-pay-toan bands of Sioux Indians, the Uni- !iPf! Sfnlps obtain over twentv-nnr millions i j of acres, lying east of a line drawn fromllurr, wnile the discovered dead amount to un. .4inro n? ik i,t nt,ot- rliL t i i i fiftw In ihprim. , North, to intersect the north-western chase includes part of the magnificent more or less. In Canossa, the ancient lilue Earth River country, and that a- Oanosium, founded by Diomed, and round the, head waters of the Des Moines vhose walls once enclosed a circuit of and St. Peters Rivers. The Indians are sixteen miles, three hundred and seventy allowed to remain on the land two years, six houses were thrown down. At the For this cession they are to receive 21,-. last report the shocks around Mount Vol 665,000. The Galena papers propose ture continued, and one half of the city of that the name Dacota be given to the new;rVenosa, the ancient Venusia containing territory, and such may yet be the name six thousand inhabitants," and celebrated of one of the States of the Union. m jag ijie birth-place of Horace, was drstroy- Raleigh tar. led. The mountain provinces of the A- . rv- bruzzi and of .Calabria, .where the earth- More Lynch L(tw2: Ballimorean -quake of .173 destioyed three hundred Huns! The El Dorado News, extra, of cities and buried thirty thousand human the 9th of August, contains the following: beings, have thus far escaped. - Yesterday, at about 2 o'clock P- M., as ! - two miners" Jim Graham and Alexander (CPWhsn travelling, put your watch Leslie, were returning' to Greenwood and wallet at night into one of your stock Valley, and when within a mile of that ings, and then place the stocking under place, while stopping to", rest, Graham your head. It will then be impossible to asked Leslie to lend him a needle and leave them, unless you have been accus -thread to 'mend his pantaloons. After ho; tomed to 50 barefoot. I had got through with it be retun.cd it to Leslie and while he was; .-''putting ii up Graham shot him with a shoP gun. five buck shot lodging in the back part f (he head and neck. Graham then robbed him of seven hundred dollars in gold dust, and started for Sacramento. In about half an hour Leslie, recovered sufficient to crawl ; to a cabin about a mile distant, and gave the alarm, when a party immedhtely set jout in pursuit of.-Graham, and succeeded in capturing him about three miles below the place, and recovering the gold. He was taken back to Greenwood -Valley, when a Court of the people was call ed a jury of twelve men chosen, and iho trial commenced. Everything was con ducted in a.cool and deliberate manner. After a patient hearing, which fasted from 10 o'clock at night till 12 next day, the jury retired and soon retiu ned with a verdict of guilty, and sentenced him to be hung. He was allowed a few hours to prepare for death, and at 7 o?ciock this evening, was taken to a tree in the rear of the American Hotel, where he was hung Graham was a sailor from Baltimore, Md. Leslie is yet alive, hut very little hopes of his recovery are entertained. He has a father and mother residing in Rondleville, N. C. The Great Earthquake in Naples Over Two Thousand Lives Lost Cit ies Destroyed and Damaged The Washington Republic publishes a letter from the Hon. E.Joy Morris, the Ameri can Minister to Naples, giving a minuto account of the terrible earthquake which occurred in the western portion of tho kingdom of Naples, on the 14th of July, by-which some 2,500 lives were lost, and several towns either totally prostrated or greatly damaged. Mr Morris says that pievious to the shock a s.rnall stream that runs near the city of Melii suddenly dis appeared, and adds: At the first shock, Melfi, which con tains ten thousand inhabitants, was pros trufed in the dust, nothing but a few crumbling walls surviving the general ruin. An unknown number of its iithab-' itants were buried under the faliii.g mass of fabrics Up to the present moment seven hundred dead bodies have been disinterred, and many others are con stantly being found. More than two hundred persons lie in an adjaced hospit al, differing under grievous wounds, while many have been dug out alive from the" ruins. Amongst others, a female infant, a year old, after lying buried for two days, was brought out living and unharmed, and restored to its afflicted mother, wid owed by the same calamity. - The shocks and rumbling of the earth still occasionally occurred at the time of writing the letter, and all eyes were turn ed upon Vesuvius as the safety valvo through which the struggling fires might escape, although no local signs were yet apparent. The neighboring towns of Alclla, Hi omcro, Baiilean Uapolla are su Bering by the same convulsion, lliomerotts a gen eral wreck, not a sound house remaining; more than one hundred persons have here perished, and as many have been maimed or wounded. In Bar'!e, the only edifice not entirely destroyed is the orphan asy- 1 rnune of Dari, the towns of Cerato, Min ervino, Andria and Trani were' all injured i , - i 'I
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