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AGRICULTURAL.
Why Farmers should take a Newspaper.

why FdIsB SlOll laRe newspaper.
First, from policy, and a due regard
for their own interests. As the cults
yators ofthe soil, it is but right that
they should reap the benefit, when
from the numerous causes of f1uctua.
tions in markets, the price Of produce
is raised above its proper value. But
is this often the case? Do those who
by the sweat OF their brow, have
sowed and reaped and gathered in
the golden harvest, profit by the in
creased price ofhour and other grains
On the contrary, is it not, in nine ca
ses out of ten, the fortunate specula-
tor, who by watching the foreign mar
kets, and by his knowledge Of affairs
at home, steps in before the farmer
and coolly pockets all the gains? The
latter, at home by his fire side, desti.
tute of the important information,
which so small sum as one or two
dollars might procure for himif expen-
ded on good newspaper, sells his
wheat at the usual price, little drea-
ming how much he is losing by the
bargain, while the wiser Speculation
makes a snug little fortune Of $40, or
$l5,000in a day. Year after year
has this been the case, and yet how
few Of the farmers in our wheat grow.
ing countries have pro6ted by their
dear bought experience so as to avail
themselves Of the changes that so
frequently occur. We reiterate the
warning and advice, but both are re.
garded as the voice Of interest, and a
newspaper is looked upon as an arti-
Gle Of unnecessary expense in a farm
house, by those who ifthey regarded
their own pecuniary interest, would
subscribe for one at once, even il
obliged to curtaili in some other quar-.
ter. t1,...s..
SecondIy.-A farmer should take a
weekly newspaper for the sake Of his
children. 1.-The would d'not have them
grow up in ignorance Of what is pas
sing around them at home and abroad
If he would prepare them for pro
per discharge of their duties as citi.
zens, he owes il to them to give them
the benefit of his weekly Instructor.
coming into the family without hustle
or pretence, and performing its Office
without failure or delay. There is a
vast amount Of general intelligence
condensed in the narrow limits of a
well conducted paper. Much Of this
can be obtained in no other way:
and for the remainder the student
must wade through ponderous VOL
umes, or waste his youth over the
midnight lamp. Whatever may be
thought oft by our friends in the
country, we know that taking news.
paper isa cheap way Of diffusng in,
formation through family circle ,and
we know too that il will, as a genera
rule. put ten dollars into the pocket o.
the farmer for every one it draws out
". Y. Farmer.
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volume will contain at least 500 pages /;
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THEOPHlLUS FISK,
JESSE E. DOW.
Washington, August IL, 1845
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EVENING POST.
Ne,c Volume, Neao Type,
Old Friendships
NEW ATTRACTIONS.

NEW n hAOIlONS. ~" fist
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lie for the liberal supportwhich this paper
receives. To show that they are not un,
mindful of the return which such patronage
requires, it would be entirely sufficient to
refer the reader to the established character
THE FIRESIDE FRIEND
which is pre-eminently The designation Of
this paper. As newspaper, dependant
upon public patronage, grows by what it
feeds on, the publishers flatter themselves
that THE PosT has increased m interest and
value,with the steady and gratifying support
which has been accorded toit, for Pc
Rod of
"A QUARTER OF A CENTURY.
In this time which has served fo. the life and
death ofwhole generations of periodicals.,
and the rise, meridian, and decline ofmany
arrival, The Posr has keptth even tenor Of
its way, by its own intrinsic health and
'strength--now following, oftener leading
the public taste, but not departing from lis
independence to minister TO the transient
newspaper follies, which, compared 10
the existence of the Post, are indeed ephe.
neral. We shall continue in this path en-
deavoring, in the
3. NEWS DEPARTMENT ~
TO present the latest and best authenticated
intelligence, diyested of party hue, and
interested bias, and resting solely on the
basis of truth, as far as it is ascertainable.
We cndeavor to select and publish in
telligence of value and Importance tociti>
zens engaged in all the three great interests
AGRICULTURE, COMMERCE AND
MANUFACTURES.
In political intelligence we recognise only
one party and that is
OUR COUNTRY--OUR WHOLE COUNTRY.
We know no sectional interests in our pat
rioiism--no party lines in our poliiics--no
sectarianism in our religion, but print and
publish for
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Tales and Traits of Life; Original Com
ments, on Notables; Wit and Humor; in
a word, such variety of matter as, Jour
own country first I, membered,) the
Whole Literature of the World
may offer. The origional translations from
European Literature which have from
time TO time appeared in this journal, are
referred to as an earnest that we have
SPARED NO PAINS
To make the PosT truly Cosmopolitan in
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Time TO Go.

" "Hallo, my DEAR" exclaimed newly
married man to his wife, "what are
you fumbling about your mouth there,
for?n
81 am just taking out my teeth, love"
"Ths deuce! Well, you can't talk now
what's the matter now?" cl
"Oh, that's only my palate dropped out;
fIl soon fix that"
"Thunder and blazes! Why, why, where
is your hair?n
"On the table. Is it not pret.y?-
bought il the other day ola hair dres
ser.
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The man took to his heels, and has not
been heard from since, though, a man re-
semblng him was seen ~not long after in
quiring the way to Texas.
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WILLIAM VANNERSON.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AND

X s O LICIT r IN CHA .WCERY
MoTIeELLo, MISS.
EhRACTiSES in the Circuit Court OF
a Copiah, Pike, Lawrence, Marion,
Simpson, Covington, Smith, Hancock and
Franklin counties; the Superior Court OF
Chancery for the I'd Chancery District
holden at Monticello, and the Superior
Courts of the State holden in the Capital
at the city of Jackson. He also attends
on special calls elsewhere in his profession,
particularly in Criminal cases.
April %, l845-42-ly.
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Great Republic of Letters.

Volume 1sventy Seventh, upon which we
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advantages as experience may suggest.
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ors blend with these peculiar advantages,
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provement which each successive year pres
ents to their notice; e. all the changes for
the better, which occur to men intent on
doing well by a reading public which has
always done well for The SATURDAY EVE
MING PosT. -lt
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE,
In addition to the letters of our much
admired contributor, JAMES BAYARD
TAYLOR, and the agreeable gossip Of our
BRIsToL CoRREspoNDENr, the publishers
Of the Saturday Evening Post purchase of
the NewYork Mirror the right to transfer
to their columns the letters of N. P.
WILLIS. In this department, therefore,
the POST cannot be excelled, io3
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Professional Cards.
DIR. H. 6. GARNER,

EEAS returned to this spIace and will
n resume thee practice of medicine
again He offers his protestant services to
the citizens Monticello andthe surround
ing country. He Can always be found at
the Eagle Hotel or at the office he former
ly occupied when not professionally eDga-
ged.
March IA l846-34-ly.
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Family Medicines
.. 4

WVHE subcribers have just received
II and will keep constantly on hand
general assortment of the following Drugs
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STATE BOOK BINDERY.
Blank Book Manufactory.

And Stationery Establishment, at Naehsz
d lCHARD ELWARD, takes this &C.
lN casion to notify his friends and the
public generally. that having disposed of
the interest Of his establishment held al
jackson, of the firm of R. Elward e. Co. j.,
he is prepared at his establishment, in
Natchez, to make to order and in superior
style, Blank Books for courts, public offices,
mercantile houses, &c. &c. Also, TO rem
der entire satisfaction in all and every
branch of Book Bindery. An excellent
lot Of Stationery also ON hand. Old books
carefully rebound.
0- All orders from any section of the
country promptly attended to.
N. B. Establishment at the old stand,
Natchez, Mississippi.
March 7, 1S46-34-tf
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-09

SPoTs IN THE SUN.-There are now five spots to be
seen in the sun. The largest is about II, 600 miles
in diameter. The deductions of science, from the
revelations of the telescope, arc very apt to "%unsettle
old notions" The sun appears to the eye always
steady and uniform: but the truth is, that luminous
mantle which envelopes ii, and pours its light through
orr system Is in constant agitation, like the f0culent
matter in the chemists crucible. Vast rents or
chasms appear constantly in it, the side of which re-
cede from each other with a velocity of thousands of
miles in a minute, and collapse again with equal ce-
lerity.-These spots are sometimes so large and nu-
merous as to occupy a considerable portion of the en-
tire disk. Science by no means teaches the eternal
p~erpetuity of the solar system it rather points to
change and everlasting progression. The sun appears
to be uniform in its condition as the hills appear ev.
~erlasting but science shows that the condition of the
one is never at rest, that the others have attained
their present state, after passing through the most as
founding series of developments. These facts led La
Place TO the conclusion that the present state of the
solar system was only one Of the stages Of endless
progression-long in proportion to its magnitude, but
destined to end, and be remembered only in the far
remote and incomprehensible future as one of the
comparatively short steps in an eternal progression of
changes.-Lou. Dem.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-09

TREATMENT OF THE FEMALE SAINTS BY THE
MoRMoNs.-The' WdrSao Signal says that the 81 ANTS
have endeavored to keep the ceremony of the endow-
ment perfectly quiet; but some of them have let the
cat out OF the bag, and disclosed all. We have the
story from two different sources, and we give it cred
it although persons not acquainted with Mormon
ism, will be loath to believe that so much depravity as
is evinced in the invention of this ceremony can ex-
iSt, and that men and women can be found who con-
slider the obscene rights sacred. There must always
be two candidates, a male and a female, presented
for the endowment, at once. These must pay 81
each as a fee. If a male cannot find a female to take
the endowment with him, the heads of the church
provide one, and rice rerSa. The candidates are first
taken into a room together, where they are stripped
of their clothing and made to wash each other from
head to foot. They are then separated, and pass into
different rooms, where they are oiled, with perfumed
sweet oil, by one of the functionaries of the church.
They then pass into another room, still separate,
where one of the Twelve pronounces a blessing upon
them, and gives them extensive powers and privi-
leges, such as a plurality of wives to the male, and
similar blessing to the female. This ceremony
being ended, the candidates are brought togeth-
or, still in a state of nudity, into a room, where they
are allowed to remain together, alone, as long as they
see proper. They are then invested with their robes
and take their departure. The really deluded amongst
the Saints, consider this ceremony as sacred, and in
tended as a trial OF their virtue.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-09

CLERICAL JoKE.-A correspondent of a cotempora
ry says that the origin of a difficulty which resulted
at last in the dismissal of a clergyman IL the neigh.
boring town, can be traced to a very trivial affair,
which is as follows: At a meeting of the church the
pastor gave out the hymn, =" love to steal awhile
away" when the chorister commenced singing, but
owing to some difficulty in recolecting the tune,
could proceed no further than " L lore to steal" which
he did three or four times successfully, when the cler-
gvman, in order to relieve him from the dilemma,
~waggishly remarked that 60 IL Uds uery much to be re-
greted," and added, Let us prey"
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-09

IT'S A Poor RULE THAT WON'T WORK Both WAYS.
The young men of Chicago, after being : cleaned
OUT al the different I" fairs" and 80 donation parties
this winter, have advertised that that they will hold
a " fair for the replenishment of their empty pock-
cts and they call upon the ladies' to attend. and con-
tribute literally, in return for the same attention on
their part when they had money to spend.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-09

6FDan Marble now and then picks up a good
thing in his travels. While going up the Mississippi
a short time since, and while the boat was rounding
to at a wood pile, the wag noticed a chap standing
upon the bank who turned out to be a collector.
: Halo! you there, said Dan, are there many old
settlers round in this section = No. replied the
fellow, but there are a good many that ought to SET
tie, damn EN- The shout that went up from the boat
echoed and reverberated until it was lost in a distant
cane brake.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-09

A PIGEON ExPREss.-An Antwerp journalist states
that be sent a reporter TO Brussels for the "Kings's
speech, - and with a couple of carrier pigeons to bear
back the document. At Brussels he gave the pigeons
in charge to a waiter, and called for breakfast. he
was kept waiting for some time, but a delicious frica-
see atoned for the delay. After breakfast he paid his
bill and called for his pigeons. pigeons :" ejacula.
ted the waiter, 90 you have eaten them J"
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-09

ON LETTERs-single, or any number OF pieces not exceeding
one half an ounce, 80 mi es OF less, = 5 cents.
If over three hundred miles, 10 cents
Drop letters, mot mailed) 2cents.
Each additional half ounce or part thereof, single postage 5 cents.
NEWSPAPERS-Of 1900 square inches OF less, sent by publishers
or editors, owe. % add not exceeding 100 miles, cent.
Over one hundred miles and out Of the State, ii cents.
Not exceeding thirty miles. free.
Newspapers over 1900 square inches, postage same IS pamphlets.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and periodicals, any distance, for one
ounce or less, each copy, cents.
Each additional ounce or fractional part thereof, . 1t cents.
CIRCULARS-Quarto post, sing e cap, or paper not larger than
single cap, folded, directed and unsealed, any distance, 2 cents.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-09

MARION 0UNTY- Rkeon, CleTmont, Allisouyile, German
town. Cumberland. New Bethel, Bridgeport, Augusta.
HENDRICKS Hampton, Plainfeld. Belleville, Stiles
vile, Danvile, New Winchester, Brownsburg, Springtown
North Salem.
HAMILTON C~OUNTY-Westfeld, Noblesville, Strawtown, CT
cero.
BOONE COUNTY Lebanon, Thornleysville, Royaton. James
town, Eagle Village, Mortified.
MORGAN COUNTY-Mooresvil e, Monrovia
HANCOCK COU~NTY-Green6eld Sugar Greek, Charlottesville
Phil sdelphia, Eden.
JOHNSON CO~UNTY-Greenwood, Franklin, Far West.
SHELBY C~OUNTY-pleasant View. Shelbyville, Morristown.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-09

SUITED ExACTLY.-Our friend George Williams,
of Henry, who is the Z" cause " of more I" wit in 9TH
ers," than any other member of tie Alabama House
of Representatives, was better pleased at the passage
of the measure of " Biennial Sessions than any one
other year sure next August is my time to be beat IN
course|I shall miss that, save about $500 election
eering money, and slip in in al, like an lied oyster
By G. boys, it suits me prime ~ Wetumpka Wing.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-09
LIBERIA.

MsSSrs. Edit0rs-As the friends of Colonization will
doubtless be pleased to see the rapid progress that
Liberia Is making in the acquisition of additional
territory, and the great prosperity that is now enjoy
ed by that rising republic in all respects, | send you
the following extract from the last annual report Of
the Colonization Society which you will please to CO.
py in your useful and widely circulated paper. and
greatly oblige your friend and obedient servant,
B. T. KAVANAUGH.
Indianannlis March % ISA6-
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-09

THE DEAD LETTER OFFICE.-The Washington
correspondent of the Portland Argus furnishes an in
teresting description of the operations Of that branch
of the general post-ofice department to which are
transmitted all the uncalled for letters remaining in
the various post-ofices throughout the Union. The
business of the dead letter office alone employs four
clerks all the time. One opens the bundles containing
the letters sent to Washington, from the several post
Offices, after they have been advertised and no owner
found for them. He passes the letters over to two
other clerks, who open them all, to see if they con-
tain anything valuable. If they do not, they arc
thrown on to the pile on the floor. No time is allow
ed to read them. The number of dead letters return
ed is fourteen hundred thousand a year, and under the
cheap postage system is increasing Hence il re-
quires swift hands to open so large a number, without
the letters that have been opened having accumulated
to a huge mass, and having been in the mean time
slowed into bags, are carried out on the plains, and
there consumed in a bonfire. The huge bags make
five or six cart loads each quarter. The amount of
money, that at various times has been found in let
tiers, is very large. When anything of value, as
money, drafts, &c. is found, the rule is, to return it
to the post-ofice, whence it came, and the post-mas-
ter of that office must advertise 1t, or use any other
means best calculated to find the owner. If all his
efforts fail, he returns it to the general office, and it is
labelled and filed away. In the cases, arranged and
labelled for that purpose, are the legal documents
found in letters. These are numerous, and run back
for a long term of years. They are most care
fully preserved. The beneficial policy of this preser-
walton has often been illustrated.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-09

Foster, of the Pittsburgh Despatch, notices a quack
advertisement, headed We challenge the country. -
He thinks it illegal to give a challenge with what
may SO properly be termed deadly weapons
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-09

MATRTMoNY NO JOKE A Mr.. Hall, of Albany.
and a Miss Lille, of the same pace, in order to
~heighten the zest of a late sleigh-ride, had gone
through with what they intended to be the forms of a
mock marriage but it turns out that the Justice of
the Peace tied the knot too firmly so the Legis-
lature have been entreated to unite it with their SOW
ereign fingers.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-09

A pair of calfskin boots were recently taken from
the stomach of a very old whale, supposed to have
been left behind BY Jonah when he was cast upon the
dry land.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-09
LIST OF

ID EMAIING in the Post Office. at IDdis6apOIis, Indiana,
HI April I, 1876.
@Persons calling for these Letters ril please say
AID VERTTSED.
The inland postage on al letters or papers for
foreign countries must be pre- paid, Otherwise hey
cannot be forwarded.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-09

o. Three nice young men have been arrested in
Brooklyn, N. Y, for INDUCING in the funny recrea.
ton of filling a drunken negro's ear with powder
and blowing it off.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-09

Beware of counterfeit Fifty Dollar Notes on thu
: Lewis County Bank.'-Thompson's Bank Note Re
porter. Beware of the genuine!
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-09

A NOVEL VoYAGE.-The schooner Regina Hill.
whose arrival at this port yesterday, is announced
under our Marine head, was built on the Ohio River,
a short distance below Pittsburgh and took in her
cargo, at Louisville, KY, twenty-one days since
Phil ". American.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-09

GREEN.-Green, the whitewashed blackleg, is abol
establishing a literary paper in Lawrenceburg, Ind
ana.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-09

THREE New MErALs.-Sllliman's Journal notit
the discovery of three new meta Is, Pelopiun, Niobiu
and RutheRium.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-09

A lady tainted at the East recently, on going into
a room, and seeing a desk Without ITS drapers.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-09
INDIANAPOLIS BANK NOTE TABLE.

Corrected for the Indiana Stale Sentinel BY S. a. FLETCHER,
Stock and Exchange Broker.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-09

DIR. ID. N. NEGLY'S
and Office on Washington street, opposite the