mm Mfel IpW SERIES. SALISBURY, N. C, DECEMBER 11, 1868. VOL. I, NO. 49 aj KATC4 OF 81 - ABM MOBIPTIOM. 41 WATCHMAN & OLD NORTH STATE. TW-W1LT OLD w tttir'.fy T.r Om Mm. NORTH STATE. 8.00 1 et. would have vindicated bim, be re- trained iron (peaking it. CURFEW 0ELL8. Haay bars hoard of Ik "curfew bell," nut not ail Know its trWa. It, blstorv in England rant beck to tbe tine of Wif ham, the Couqaeror, who ordered e bell to be mr about sundown imummer. end t eight o'clock in tbe e renins- in winter. et whicli lime Are end ligh U were to be pat mr TRUTH OF MBTORT witMBBHWMrH Bat'tT MHpWTKttfceJl-anawyxl Btlwtn' wxMpltS1 :rDUlv end peneltiee were bpoied npon tboee Wilkee' Spirit (New York) vouches for the perfect authenticity of tbe following it element : It now fella to oar lot to show thet tbe reepomibre anfhor of Tbe fiber men Johneton agieewtcnt was not Gen. Sktrmm. hut Preeident Lin eal. Tbe feete which we ere a bo at to relate were brought to oar knowl edge during thia iaat anmmer, end were cooauiini iu paper mi iuu tune. There were obvious reeeone why tber should be withheid ontil alter the election ; bat there ie no obiec tioo bow to their being laid before the public, end we are especially glad touaean opportunity or doing so, becauee Uiie joaroai, among others, wan unjust to oherman at the time ot tbe aorreoder. On the S7lh of March, 1865, two or three dare before the final move ment upon luchmood, Uen. bberinan fresh from hie march to the tea, ar rirep at City Point for the pnrpoe of . .- mz- .rj .. i I con t erring un ine rreviueni ami General in Chief, Mr. Litnoln wi. then on board of the gunboat. Queen, lend on that day an irrtererew toolf niece on the boat between the I reti Idcnt. OenJ Grant, Oen. Sherman, and (Admiral Durrd I. Porter. From one Inf the pert fee of thi intereiew,- Lantleman connected with the Spirit y,f the Timet obtained a verbal nar wetive of what took place. There Ira no pledge ef eeerecr, and we feel Ire fcUve no obligation in making mblle the anbetaiiee of it. "Mr. iicoln.said the narrator, "had come Iowa to City point with the meet iberal viewe towarde the rebel, and I a willing that they ehon id capitis late on almost any ferine. Hie heart H tenderneea throughout, and one as tbe enemy laid down their rms. lie old not cure how it was Hone. Alter hearing from Sherman ceecr pnon of hie position, he pro need thet tbe fame term should be ftered to Johnston that would have een riven to Lee. in ton uen LShcrman atrennously objeeied, de- lanng that he had Johnston cooped p where be eon Id not get away, ana hat be he would be compelled to i render at all haaarda, whatever i rma we proposed. I never aaw him energetic in my life than when was arguing thia po ut; but Mr. coin leaned towards mildei m sea rs, tearing that the Cwiii'cderute General would escape South by the ladroada, and have to be chased Igam. Sherman declared thia to be m possible, 'i have Jolinetoo, said lie, a cannot move without breaking up Bis army, which, once disbanded, can lever be got together again- The lootbern Railroads are all broken up. have destroyed (hem so that they annot be need for a long lime. Oen. Graut asked: What is to Invent their laying the rails ngain f Why ' said Sherman, 'my bum ker don't do th ugs by hah en. Ev m rail haa been placed over a hot Ire, sad twined crooked aa a rams Thev never em be used attain 111 they hare been through rolling mi Ibe President, however, was very feided about the matter, insisted who aegteated or refused to comulv with the law. TWt wm called to "curfew,' word derived from the French cowotfeu - cover fire and so the appropriateness of name is teeny seen. Tbe eld kit haa been eenerattv eharr- ed with luttilutlng this custom in order to impress upon hi subjects a seese oi tin ir abject condition j bat, as the "curfew bell" was rung in France long before Wil liam's time, as a safeguard against firrs. it is not improbable that he brought the eestom with bin into England from tbe Continent, and that he baa been slandered as to bis motives. At any rate, be has sin enough to answer for without this. In tbe sixteenth century "bellmen" were nddrd to the night-watch in Loudon ... i uey wni through the streets ringing ' kU .nil : M Take ears of lb lire and candle ; be kmd to tbe poor and pray for the dead." It was tbe bellman's duty, also, to bless tbe sleepers as be passed their doors. In "II Penseroso," Milton refers to this cus tom : "The bellman's drowsy charm, To bias th doors from nightly harm." Pools have often referred to the curfew, or cover firs bell. Gray begin his beau tiful "Elegy" with Tbe curfew toll the knell of parting day." King William died, and tbe original ob ligation of the curfew were at last re moved, about, ibe tine tt lvur J,. in. 1,100 ; but the custom of ringing an even- fug Lell is still kept up ill En ghoul, with variations as to the hour. The "nine o' clock bell," familiar to most New England people a Inch sends so many young pen pie home and to bed, and which iu the ear-, ly history of our country was almost a rigidly obeyed by all, both old aud.ynang, as ibe old curfew, trace it origin direct ly to the cover-fin: bell. In Longfellow's ''Evangeline" the custom is well describ ed : "Anon the bell from tbe belfry Rang oat the hoar of nine the village curfew and straightway Set the guests and departed! and silence reigned iu the household." Bui new tbe customs bsvo changed ; and though the bell still rings out oa lb evening air, iu the country village and city street, it has lost it power, save aa tell tale of passiug lime Let Ibe old bell ring on ; we lore their soothing sound ; or in the words of Moore "TboM evening bells! thoa evening hell ' Row many a tale their ruuk tells, Of youth and home i and that sweet time Whan last I heard Iu snoiMog chime !" Our Btijt and Girls. IarLOKMca or tbb gorx oi tbb Ho ata Baca. A avl s ! has ario among anthroploUgbu aa to lb sfeat ol soil on character. The a Bestkm is ask ed whether, tor example, the character ef IB scotch is an expression oi the soli ol Scotland! Mr. Clegborn advaaees ea opinion that it is. Me And that wherever the boulder cUy exists in Caithness there are lb best men, the beat cattle sad tbe best cereals ; and where it is absent these 4. - . . . . are all ol a miserable description. 1'ro eeedfng to larger field of observation, be shows that the area of the boulder clay di vide Scotland Into well-marked legions, an eaatem and a western, ibe former be ing that ef the desired soil. Tbe man of eaatem Scotland is taller and bigger-head ed tljil the mu of ibe weal, Ibe death rate is lower in the east than In tbe west, as is the birth-rate, in accordance with tbe law that gives to poor communities in- crease, sod causes luxury to be barren. He sums up, as his opinion, that the soil has determined the food, the food bas made tbe race, determined tbe birth-rate, it language and religion ; therefore, thst it must be allowed that the character of tbe Scotch is the expression ef tbe toil of Seollaud. Builder. If we are cheerful and contented, all nature smile with us; the air seems more balmy, tbe sky more clear, the ground has a brighter green, tbe tree bare a richer foliage, the flowers a more fragrant smell, the birds sing more sweetly, and the sun moon and star all appear mote beautiful. We take our food with relish, and whatever it may be, it pleases us. We feel better for it- stronger and livelier, and fit lor ex. ertion. Mow what happen to ns if we are flKtempered and discontented? Why, there is not anything whieh can I please us. Wo quart ei with our food, with our dress, with our am laments, with oar companion, and with our selves. Nothing come right for us; tbe weather is either too Ik it or too cold, too dry or too.. dam p. -Neither. sun, nor moon, nor stars bavo any hoeutf ; the fields are barren, the flower lustreless, and the birds' silent. We more about like some evil spirit, neither loving nor beloved by anything. Funding the National Debt. It is understood that Senator Sherman will, at the ensuing session of Con- greea, again introduce ti is bill tor funding the national debt at a lower rato of interest. It was passed at tbe close of the Iaat session, and pocketed bv the President, lie is confident of beinir able to again present it and carry it over the Preitnt's veto torney. Thia narrative is conclnaive. Mr. ocoln, it it now clear, virtually die feed tbe terms to Johnston, just a did Ibe terms to Lee: and had it for hi I doubts ane fernodoit m "an I offl ease RUSTS Bore Johnston's- Paula that-the ' nut would has majority of, u u oerti man woul r lt be has ao long i rjmm tar tl rbipb, heart, we ild have Bx Cabefil What you Sat Bk- roRK CniLDRlEJf. "A singlo remark of a profligate or injurious tendency, made by a parent, or some oincr person in tue presence of a child, though forgotten or nefh'cted at tbe time, ay be suddenly or vividly recalled tome twenty, thirty or even forty years after. It may be restor ed In the mind by a multitude of unfor eseen circumstances, and even those of the most trifling kind : and even nt the late Cniod when tbe voice that uttered it is ti nt in ibe grave, way exert a moat per nicious influence. It may lead to unkind- It may be seised and cherished as a religious to a viola tion of nublic law : and in a multitude of way conduct to sin, to ignominy, and wretched net. Great care, therefore, might 10 b taken, not to utter unadvised, false, and evil sentiments in the hearing of the young, in the vaiu expectation that they will do no hurt, because they will be spee dily and irrecoverably left. ...,.. I,. aMn,in Jusuacation oi secrei moral anu BeJiately to eurrender by nwttng moat littoral terms. Uranf. loo. " anxious that Johnston should not tl to get into Kichmond, where he ght give nt great deal of trouble; Pi oherman was com pel led to yield, lough be did it very unwillingly. Ba. - .i.:rt.i -e Fc iwrnis oi cnpiiuiaiion wuico hi waids made tneh a disturbance we in fact ubstatitially arranged by r tA.im l.l...lf mA it I,. I... I feed ha. r wnnM l,.r .llnwH A CaUTIOH TO MeWsTBas. In one erm.n to hmtr the rnapooaiWIMy AtZlf, war, the miuwlet of the parish was rath take warm in tbe cause of the w lugs a went to far in justifying Tory priucipl that, to avoid a covt et tar ana teat he deemed it expedient to leave bis pu pit and make ar temporary residence ii -7 Washington 0r. St. Louis Democrat. THE WHITE nOU8E-A8T0RY OF LOVE IX THE KITCHEN. "I wa hearing plentiful gossip np on 'old Washington, the other day, from an old lady resident, when she alighted upon this anecdote of ro maiiCe, associated with tho official term of John Quincy Adams. Mr. Adams was a haughty woman, and her favorite nephew waa. ono Ben John oo Helleu, a young student or law yer. Hclleu going often to the White House, saw there aa a domestic or servant of his aunt a very beauliful Irish girl. lira. Adams suspected nothing of hi susceptibility, till ono Sunday nigli t i t was i eported to her that her nephew waa escorting the beautiful 'Biddy' home from church. She upbraided the girl severely, who replied that. aba. could not prevent Mr. Hellen from following her in tho street. Tire young matt wee debar red from seeing the girl for a good while, till one day she disappeared. Mr. HelleU had married her. She lived iu retirement in this city many year, and her children rank among the most excellent and reputable citi zens here. Of theae theio were half a uncen distinguished lor meir ap- Karance and character. CUi'ton Uel i one. of them, waa lor a while law narihuTai Oen. Thomas Ewinar. Qua of the girl married Attorney Fant, ol Kiclimoiid. Iho lather i dead. It living he would be aseptcgenarian. I save this piece of Kitchen Cabinet historr and bequeath it to that prom ised Jenkins who shall swoop upon tbe old clot lies id' antiquity some day and trace the holder thereof down to their button makers. Mrs. Helleu is still living in this city, a atone' throw from tho general postotnee, and her children were staunch and splendid Unionists during the war, Worthy to rank with the legitimate Adams lam ilv. Mr. Adams never forgave her nephew tor loving tier housekeeper, and the event east a shadow upon that lion. But who is tire worse rather, who it not is occurred!" COMING SOUTH. We have Information that prrmpeet Ing companies are passing through Washington City almost daily, on their way South. They are repre Bted to be gene rail men of ample mean, and are an x ion toimesta part of their capital in Southern en terpriscs. Some wish to buy land othe s to establish manufactories, and others to engage in anything that promise the most profitable remit. With our 8tate government restored to competent hands, a brilliant future awaits North Carolina. No State offers greater inducements to industry and capital, and tho shrewd settler will not overlook them. Immigration is now the grentqne tion, whether immigrant he the Mer man, the Swiss or the Yankee. What we want is men of muscle, of capU tal and of. energy. Wil. Star. Get Ma BtNtr llule. During the "late unpleasantness" there wa a cool, un quenchable sort of a Yankee, named Uunn, who ran a Slag in Wastern Vir giuia over a route much io fee led by Lush whackers. His Iriend tarqueully lohl him that tome day he would get mashed up and gobbled, and be bad better give op hi job, but all to no purpose, for he kept oo driving the slag and pockelfag the gieenbacks. So three of them concluded they would give him a good score that be would accept as a warning. Iu coming from stable late at night, he always took a short cut across an old burying ground. To this point they repaired. Uiie ot ibe number, wrapped in a sheet, lay dowa stark and stiff, on one ot the newly mad grave wink the others dodged tombstone, and impatiently wait ed Uann't arrival. Soon be came along, whistling and swinging a pair of heavy bridles, when all at once be was confront ed by the counterfeit spectre. There be stood for a feT moment with hi arms akimbo, and coolly eyed the object foni Kmd ef the World k German haa discovered that this globe we live is gradually shrinking, by the proaea of cooling, whieh haa been going on since its creation. In the lapse of time the contraction will draw all tbe continent below the water level ex cept a very few high point, which j will be the residence of tueh few lm man being a may be able lo get on them. These human being will be miKfiftcrl ami rrnntforrnetf M stilt the changed condition of thing. But for the satisfaction of the present gen oration it is elated that these change cannot be effected in lea than five hundred million of centuries. FROM RICIIMOND-U.fi. CIRCUIT COURT. Richmond, Dee 3, if In ih United State Court, to day, (Cbi.f lattice Chase on the Hooch,) th argument commenced on tbe motion Ttrr Immigration Convention. The adjourned meeting of Immigra tion Convention assembled in this place nn Saturday last, which was very largely attended and quite a harmonious session was the result. Dr. S. 8, 8atebwell presided, and Messrs. Win. Robeson, of Wayner and Major John W. Duuham. of Wilson, acted as Secretaries. Eigh teen coiintie were represented, and it goes to prove that the people of the Old North State are determined to raise her prostrate condition and place her once more on the pinacle of prosperity. The farmer ha learn ed long sinew that, colored labor can not be relied upon, intoxicated by being raised to "equality" with the white race, they think that it i time that they should upetid labor. But they have been culling their own throats - the planter ha learned that white labor ie' more reliable, and furthermore, by tbe introduction of Gorman and Swiss Imm gr.tnts. hi land can be worked by men of integrity. A revolution in the wrrm'rrg inter-f est ot the country has long been needed, and we would be gratified to know that the southern State, gen head to foot, then raisins; hi bridles began to give a tremendous thrashing, brawling orally, have 'aken the same steps for out at the same lime : "Consearb your old picture! what are you duin,' out here ibis time of night 1 Gel into your bole I" They concluded to let Gunn alone after that. gwed thai tbe Fourteenth Amendioent punished Mr. Davis by dhrVtJttshiti njepi and that ibi puni-kmenl wa thn by tbe at the Jkemmmnn tint a ,,, : 1 . I ... II lucrcuui sue-iuum lor me pruamcw oi death ami eou6eallon contained iu the Constitution j thai the pmiibmnl of Mr. Davi commenced apou ibe dale of tbe adopdou of the. Fourteenth Article, and he cannot now lie puuUbed in any other way: that the latest rxpreuion of the will of the people in their Cousliletion let the law and repeal all former provitiou made for those who engaged la the rebel lion j that the Fourteenth Article is the Istest expression intended expressly for snd covering cases of all rngagedilb the late rebellion ; and that no man ban be punished twice for the tarn oanoee. II. H. Dana, Counsel lor th United State, taid thai Ould's pmpoeipaa , was, fat lbs nature of things, entirely. new, and wa unexpected to tbe (jrorrmiaent Coun sel, and he expected, alto, to the Court. Chief Ju'tice Chase said that the argu ment of tbe Counsel was not unrxpectrd to th Court, it having supposed, nftrr the announcement that thlt mutton to quash was based on the Fourteenth Arti ttde, that this line of argument would be pursued. s 1 Time wat given the Government Coun sel to confer and tbe Court took at noon. i a recett ral Grant The SrrrRAGi Qi estion nr Ttaf nesseb. A lengthy correspondence on national polities is published in the Ten mttee paper between Senator Fowler and ex-Governor llenry S. Foot. Mr. Fowler take ground on, tbe suffrage que lion, and earuettly favor the immediate enfranchisement of Tennessee "rebels." Ho tpeaks in strong and complimentary lerms of tbe loyalty of the people of Ten nessee, Alabama and Mississippi, and eon tends that a lenient policy ou the part of tbe dominant party is all tint is required to bring about full returns so peace and prosperity, i He predict lha: Gen,Granl' adminittration will be eminently liberal and conservative, and ita fust and lead ing mission will be to bring about univer sal suffrage. He further say that if the radical ot! Tennessee fail to move in the work of enfranchising these proscribed fellows, they will have ceased to form a part of the great republican party of the nation. Go Foot promises, that the people of the .uuth, and especially of 1'cuuettee, will thoroughly no-operate with the adminittration if ii inaugurates any thing like a forebearing and magnanimous policy, and he predicts none but the ex tremists of political partie will fail to tup pert impartial suffrage. Both tin "Senator and Governor think tblt the great pana cea for existing evils. Side of General Grand Houte.-r-We understand that Mesas. Kilbourn t6 Latta, real estate brokers, corner of Seventh and V streets, have sobi to-Mayor S. J. Boweu the residence of General Grant, on I street, for $40,000. This fine house is one of the three known as the Douglass Row, one of the other two being-no copied by ex-Maror Wallacb, and the othenB the "Protestant "Orphan Asylum. They were originally built by Senators Douglas,. Kioe and Breck inride, some then year ago. IftaA inatm Star. the importance of foreign labor that North Carolina ha done. Let all the land owner bat ad. pt this -ys tem and iu a short lim they will eeo the beneficial results uccrniux therefrom, both socially and pecuur arly. At the meeting held on Saturday, a permanent association waa formed, to bo culled the "Eastern North Carolina Immigration Association," when the following named gentle men were elected as permanent of fleers of the Convention, vis: Dr. S. S Satchwell, of New Hanover, President ; Jas, 8. Woodnrd. of Wtt sou andT. II. Atkinson, of Johnston, Vice-Presidents, Jordan Stone, of Halifax, Corresponding and Record ing Secretary, E. B. Borden, of Wayne, Treasurer, Hon. W. T Dortch, of Wayne, Dt. A. J. DeRoesef'and Col. 8. L. Fremont, of New Hanover, Executive Committee. A constitution wus ulso adopted, which, together with the proceedings, wilt appear in to-morrow's issue. About thirty prominent gentlemen signed tho article auJ paid their initiation fee. The Association is now a permanent instttutiou, and. agents will immediately be dispatch eu lo liiiropc lor the purpose ot se curing reliable labor fur the farmers o. the State. Gollthoro New. . OttR RAILROAD.' The efficient and gentlemanly Chief Engineer, Mr. J. C. Turner, parts utik now n At the close ol wat desirous vieet, not Barjie returned and .Li.!. l 1 IS clerical er tent of lhapp the deacons, "hut you didn't hold, and . ... i i j rou mtgnt nave neia I minister till ibis timo " E F.E. n Sujwd.-Tbt, 'last "Jfo- brinirs proceedings of the ik'a session of the rreparato- vineiai Synod, which convened thlehcm, P., on tho 18th ult. Svnod consftts of some 60 mem Rev. E. A. DeSchweiilE and A. Vogler. Ksq.. are the delei watea from the Southern Province. Tito-General Svnod will convene May S4th, 18t. Salem Preu. "Railroad" Accident. Via learn thatElwood Fisher, ope of tbe hands employed in the oonstruetion of the N. W. N. C. Railroad, met with a serious accident on Tuesday morning hist, by being thrown trom a mute Dtatr "ToaSn'M h,vin M foot crushed. Sahm Pre- ArtiCtMnli AMeiMBU-'Isist Sat urday, in this vicinity, two hoys, Frank and James, were in the woods getting wood, when Frank discovered a large fox squirrel msking towards him, in an angry manner : Frank ran and the squirrel pur sued him growling most furiously. Frank is a brave hoy, but he relied upon hit feet, and made excellent time, but the squirrel was close after him, showing bit teeth most angrily which caused Frank to hol low manfully, when James ran to his res cue, snd thou was the exciting time squirrel after Frank and JamW after squir rel. Frank made for his hone and dodg ed around him awhile, but thought there wat no time for swapping horses, soon Jama got fliernt!y erase to strikn teat squirrel sad kill him which eaded the chase. This was a very singular circum stance but nevertheless, it is true. . with a full corps of active and capa ble assistants, are now industriously and energetically at work surveying the Western Division and FiencXi Broad Branch of onr road. The energy already displayed by the President and Director of the Western Division is a guaranty that the Work will be pushed forward, to completion a rapidly as possible. All concerned huvo our most cm dial co-operation, in everything that will facilitate the good work. Aa soon as possible we shall visit the boys in their C amps, and "report progress. as .committee.-sav to ine jegitiiaiure the day after they have been to a big dinner, or rossmil supper where J ho Barleycorn held forth promiscuously AehevUU iVcw. FROM BOSTON. Boston, Deei 3, M. General Grant wa met by several business men, on Ves Irrday. He visits variout manufacturing establishment to-dny. FROM WASHINGTON Washington, Dee. 3, M. The Super vtping Architect of the Treasury reports in favor of the alteration and repair of tbe Alexandria, Charier ton, Mobile, Norfolk, New ( Means, Richmond, Savannah, and V ilinington Custom nooict. National Banks, acting as Depositories, are required to keep open nniil the Collec tor of Revenue can close th daily cash account. Judge Fullertnn had a consultation with McCulloch, to-day, regarding reve nue fraud. The Government IWt a quarter of a million by the fire of Fort Lafayette. Only tbe walls are tin tiding. Early legislation, favoring the Southern Pacific Railroad through Texat and Ari sona, it expected. . NORTH CAROLINA BONDS. New York, Dee. 3, P. If .-The Stock Exchange, to-day, directed that North Carolina .State Bonds, dated January' ltt, 1866, ml subsequently up to April ltt, tiS, inclusive, and, alto, Bond issued under the Funding Act, ratified August 30:11, 1868, and dated October 1st, 1868, be good delivery for North Carolina new Bonds j and that al I niher new Bends for the present he called separately This action it caused by tbe claim that the Acts ot the slate Assembly, amhnris ing the issue of Chatham and other Rail road Bond, were unconstitutional and failed to provide for the interest ou the Donut oy a pecinc lax. FROM RICHMOND. Richmond, Dec. 3, P. M. After re-as tcmbling the Court, Gov. H. H. Wells, and District Attorney Reach, for the Gov eminent, replied, contending tint the four teenth am' mini' nt merely created a dia bility and not a penalty which is the tub ject of a Judicial seutence and wat not in consistent with the Act againtt treaioa. Tbe amendment wa proapeetiv mid could not reasonably be construed a in tending to repeal exi-tinjr punishment for past and future treason. Tbe Court then adjourned. Dana closes to-morrow for the Govern ment and O'Connor tor Davis. - The comer stone monument of the Con federate dead, at Hollywood Cemetery, wat btid to-day. Fine Port. A. F. Fogle, Esq., of this place has furnished us with tbe weight of a lot pf nineteen bog, about 9 month old, slaughtered a tew days si nee ; as follows : 360, 87, 250, 883, 385, 3K, 370, 268, f81, STIf, 207, 294, 315,-320, 397. 370T, 970, 24$, 811-Total, ,Wt.-&sVm Prmm. To Purify a loom. Set a pitcher of wator in a room, and in few hours it will have obsorbed all the respired g asses in the room, the air pf whieh will become purer, b ef the water nfs terly filthy. The colder the water is the greater the capacity to contain tires gases.' At ordi nary tempera lures a pail of witter will contain a pint of carbonic acid gas and sever al pints of ammonia. The capacity is nearly doubled by reducing the water to the to the temperature ot ice. Hones, water kept in a room awhile ie always unlit lor use. For tho same reason the water from a pump shonjd always be pumped out in the morning before any of it is used. Impure water Is mora iuiuri ous 'than impure air. JWi the KlthaMtad j DEEP PLOWING. It It certainly amnting, w bit net with out instruction lo lltten lo a debate of el drrly farmer on plowine. They ar net to quash the indictment "f. u,.',!f tim aol ye. agab..t Mr. Davis. ' '- '' PW lo the Rh,n (UAA mniwl ft., Mr. D.vU ' "l"u of tbe couutry si the tune thrr n.wiuru ido rwiuarnia oi sgricui.urai knowledge Virgin toil wa then ready whenever tbe farmer chose to clear away the fonvt, and that wat deemed cheaper un to atlemni the n s! ratfofi of exhaust ed field. Tee great object then was to cult i vaie tbe largest turface, and thus take up for any deficit (here tnighl be for the Waul of manuring and proper cultiva tion, ' Jt is not wnoVrrril, therrfhre, that there arc now smnngat very intelligent elderly gentlemen many advocate for tut How plowing, and many who ay good crop of wheat cannot be grown on deeply slow ed land. The most laughable luggetlion of three gentlemen, however. I that lb diminution of the crops of wheat is attrib utable to deep plowing ! At there never lias been any deep plowing to speak of amongst' us, thia remark would seem to be sharp irony If it cam from any ether tource. We beard a very en tenanting dhwus- sion not long since on thit subject. Ob pretty luceestlul farmer fought deep plow ing with extraordinary sarnettuet and vim ; another introduced a variation in ad vocating plowing in wet laud I He -declared that he bad wen th wator follow ing his ploys a the turned up the glebe, and that he found benefit rather than In jury from turning up the soil iu that con dition. Hut these teachings are growing fewer in number daily, and the cowing school of farmers witl tarn over a new leaf. In Virginia we do a great deal of plow ing in tome winter, and much has hern or may have bit n done this fall. T farmer wdio plows deep during; this set- son will be surely a cenvert to that mode ot plowing. He will hud bis land ia bct tcrioudilion for early movement next spring, no matter what kind of weather there may be. He cannot go to an ex treme Iq thia respect. He may put iu four horses, .-ml he will fiud that be ha lost nothing, h. i'. gained largely, by it. Even in the matter of turfaee tber it oat a great difference between the area plow ed by four horac with one plow and the tame number with two plow. But the area plowed by tbe four horac with eu plow wilt produce more than that plowed by the four with two plow. Try it wb may. Now. the land that it plowed deep will abeorb more moisture than that which is plowed shallow. The moisture descends to tbe bed below, and is tber held Iu re serve for a period of dryness, who it is biought up by surface attraction. In that way tbe crop upon it are supplied and kept green in a seaton when a neighbor ing field that it plowed shallow will burn burn up. At tbe came time, the growth on deeply plowed land doe not suffer a much trom ex.cstive moisture a that en the shallow fields. The deep fallow be greater tpacc and capacity for absorption, and the root of the crop are not to drowned with wetae aah) the shallow field. Th shallow rind of plowed land is toon filled to repletion with water, and will float away a grouting, leaving tbe turface bare to the hard pan beneath. Then, again, like a thin cake on a grid: die, it will be heated through and baked. Not so th deeply plowed land. It can not be to eatily lifted up and floated away by tbe water, nor will it bake, and burn and dry up tbe tonrcrt of nutriment to plants, at th thinly-broken toil dee. But it will maMtaiu a condition of life and heartinees, an J continual tupply of molt ture to plants, in a drought that will burn up the crop on the laud not so plowed. Any one may readily sew that beside tbe advantages to the growing crop upon the deep plowed land there can be aq ju- )-lun that each tillage tend t constantly to IB improvement of the land Itsett in creasing its fertility, strength and geniali ty ; and such plowing, with prudent sue- mi and manuring, will increat tbe prodnctivenest of the land to an" almost fabulous extent ; while the shallow plow ed land atast ever deteriorate hi spite ef manuring. The farmer mutt get back each year all he put on it ; for tbe fertil ise i gono before tbe second., It will be a e-rekt dav for Vfrtrinia when deep plowing become the rule and the shallow the exception, instead ol the re verse of that, whieh we have now. The English farmer follow the lour or tvta the six-horse plow with lbs tub-toiler which' forms in the earth below' the deep farrow of the four-horse plow deep tab tcratnean storehouse, ss it were, which mure eflVetunlly provide relief for the crop from excessive wetne, and More away a still greater tupply of moisture for any an usual interval of dry weather that may occur. Under drainage and deep plowing to some txtoat t swerve tbe tttat aefl pose, though deep ptowing is hate BVirnt w here aader-drainaf w are MvalaaM ia tbe i improvement of land, and tbe tsmu will ia no respect f oi tor outlay ui labor and l for increasing tbe nrodoctiventt s lata. FROM ST. LOUIS. St. Louis. Dec. .'1. P. it. Four hun dred ears passed the temporary bridge overy the Missouri at Omaha. FROM FLORIDA. Tallahassee, Dec. 3, P. If. In the Supreme Court, to-day, Attorney Uener al Meek's motion to make the rule a wi ab solute, wat granted. Lt. Gov. Gleason, appeared by Counsel and waived process and bird a demurrer. FORF.IG9. . London, Dee. 3, P- M. Israeli has re signed. There witl be a merely formal meeting on the tenth, when rarlbuueot Will td- ytwr to th ttfteaaih V. f tJtrtiary, ia er- iler to give time lor tue selection ot a new Cabinet. Lisbon, Dee. 3, P. M -Later Rw Ja neiro date of war new unimportant. Parks Nov. aft, P M The Pfrays that theire i a large Ctettaa ia Spate, fa vorable to a five year triumvirate. Florence, Nov. 28, P. M.-A teriout outbreak ha occurred l Balagra. New trouble ar feared. Tbe trouble origi nated la th refusal of th peasant to pay tAtax- Two wos kited and teverml J down Flouaetrv tsr- New York, Dee. 8, P. M.. vy lower. Sales of aa) tsxkts at t4f Sietttbg weak. Gold quiet at 1,3. Soutbam Boiidt dull. BtJutxore, Dc. S, T- tf Cotton tetjtlf ana tvr Kr seagae" J

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