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as We are now in possession Of inform
alton which leaves no doubt in our mind that
Mr.. Palfrey did not vete with the sixteen
Locnfocos TO strike out the wor,i " impartial,
ia The vote Of thanks offered BY Governor
Mcdowell 70 Mr.. Winthrop, and that there
fore our associate and the other letter writer's
were mistaken. There is one point, howev-
er, in this matter which ought not 10 be lost
sight of 1t will be rec0llected that the Van
Buren, clique in this State, through THEN
various papers and in their public sreech[
es. have charged Mr.. Winthrop with hav-
ing formed his committees 80 as to suit the
South. It appears by the debate Upon tho
motion 10 strike out the word impartial"
that the Speaker was charged by johnson!
who made the motion, with having formed
he Committees on Territories and The Dis
trict of Columbia with eie11 10 abolition,
and therefore he had not been Impartial
What a commentary is this upon the SIAN
ders of the clique here. The two extremes
charged Mr. Winthrop with pursuing direct
" the opposite course and Mr.. Palircy, not
outstanding his violent opposition 10 Mr..
Winthrop, and MS Identification whh the
wire pulIers here did not dare 70 pot his
name upon record that Mr.. Winthrop had
acted partially in the formation of hls COM
miitees, and in conducting the business oi
the House. Tins one by one docs RoBERT'
c. WINTHROP live down the opposition oil
his enemies, and command respect and adj
miration from those who plotted his downialf
and disgrace Boston Atlas.
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AGRICULTURAL.
EARLY PEAS.

This is the time TO prepare for raising
early vegetables. Hot-beds may be pre-
pared for radishes, lettuce, cucumbers, to-
matoes, &c. Peas may be planted IN the
open air, on warm ground, any time this
month. We shall not be likely to have
frosts of sufficient severity to kill plants OF
this kind, after the ground has been fairly
thawed and settled. The Prince Albert
is considered the best early variety OF
peas; next TO this, the Early Washing
ton.
A writer in The HOrticuhuriSt de-
scribes mode of raising early peas, which
is worthy Of trial. He prepares troughs
of rough boards, like common sheep
trough, eight feet long, and about eight
inches wide at the top. These troughs
are filled with good soil, and row of peas
planted in each of them. They are then
placed in greenhouse, or IN common
hot-bed His hot-bed frames are made in
a cheap manner. He uses common cot
ton cloth instead Of glass, for lights
which it is stated are as good as 81 lass for
most purposes, and cost only fifth as
much. After the cotton is stretched on
the frames, it is made transparent and du'
rable by coating it with the following
composition " three pints best old boiled
linseed oil, four ounces white resin, and
one ounce sugar of lead. The oil and
resin to be a little heated to make them
mix, and the sugar of lead must be first
ground with little of the oil, and then
mixed with the remainder. A coat OF
this composition is given the canvass lights
every season before using them.
1t is only for extra early peas that it is
recommended to put the troughs in hot
beds, or greenhouses. The writer allud-
ed to says" For my main crop of early
peas, which ! start about the first of
March. use nothing but the frame and
the canvass lights which cover it This
gives warmth and shelter enough for peas /;
for crop in the trough is growing every
day with little or no attention, while in
the open ground they have scarcely veg
etated. "
The mode of transplanting from the
trough is described as follows " As soon
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sci destined to bear them to their home in 1t

sci destined to bear them to their home in It
ally.
:" All this was the treacherous sea which
thought had engulphed you," she said and, as
she spoke, she looked up into her husbands
face, with eyes Overlooking with love-
1.-THE vessel in which l sailed, a hopeless
man. to return to Rome. was indeed wrecked
as have told you" he replied "But clung
to a spar, and, the next day, was picked up by
a trireme. 1t is thus you heard Of my loss.
When, afterward the subjugation of Jerusa-
lem was resolved on, / solicited permission to
Join Titus, trusting to save you and -FOUR tami-
~ by my presence"
Long and happy were the subsequent lives
Of Publius and Miriam. They escaped the ma
ny prosecutions directed against the Christians,
and died at last, within a year Of each other,
happy in their glorious faith.
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1Doftrp.
REMEMBRANCES.

E J. EANES-
I have been looking DER the lines long written
Those tender lines traced many years ago.
When hopes unwasted, promises unsmit'eh'
Were the bright portion of my spring time glow.
NJ. s,,,len eye grows fearful as it wanders
Over the scroll, all stained, and tme-worn No" :
Nv heart grows weak, as mournfully 1t ponders
On the dear memories of long ago
have been bending DER the violet-fowers
Sill linked, 0 Love with gentlest thoughts OF
you;
Nv heart recalls tsat cYe's delicious hours
When with its leaves of softest, dreamy blue
You linked a myrtle rose, and babe me treasure
The fragrant token for the giver's sake;
The rose is dead! the violet's deep azure
Has faded, neer a livelier hue to take.
Long withered yet such perfume round them
fingers
As wakes Thousand dreams of girlhood gone
Trembling the wreath hangs i'll my clasPing nm
feel thv dark eyes answering my own!
Tones of a voice long hushed again are stealing
In haunting whispers TO my raptured car;
The lingering walk-the rOse-crowncd porch re-
vealng
My youths remembered home-Oh all tbing
dear.
Through all the vanished past my thoughts ar
rowing
The changeful years that over me have fowl
Since thou, and l. the hopeful and the loving,
Talked of the Future as our own, ON ocn
Peace, memory. peace dim scroll and faded flow
ers,
Back to your place. no more fond dreams re
call
Vain arc such visions in this world of ours,
Youth, love, hope. fear-I have Oua'red The"
all! Mar York Tribune
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The PRESIDENT AND THE SABBATH
We observe that the Religious Press have
visited Gen. Taylor with ultra-se9ere rep
rotation, for entering the streets Of Louis
vile, in presence of concourse Of peo-
pie, on the Sabbath. Now we are ever
happy to contribute oar humble aid I"
discountenance any violation OF the Sab
bath, and were panied by the apparent
disregard of il in the instance before us.
But we have two serious objections to
most Of the comments which we have
seen in The religious papers. First, that
Gen. TAYLOR should be singled out at this
late period, from the multitude of public
men who have committed the same and
even much grosser offences of the kind,
for universal severity Df rebuke which
has no parallel within our remembrance,
and without solitary exienuating alluslon
to the peculiarlties of the case, or to the
hitherto almost unnoticed yet ev,ry day
occurring, practices of the kind. among
almost all our public men. Second, tu
the zeal which seems TO lack to charity
in being unwilling to admit the possibility
that the sacrilegious display was pna'oid=
able and deeply regretted on his part.
Far be it from us to palliate such an ot-
fence, in friend CT foe but before ire
" cast the first stone. We shall wish tO
be informed more satisfactorily than any
Of these censors have taken trouble to IN
form the publIc,-hOrC Gen. Taylor could
cause the boat TO arrive at Louisville day
earlier or later, in ten days voyage, and
how, when it did arrive, he could dlsPerse.
without the aid of Capt. Bragg's battery
the eager crowds which gathered to see
and welcome him. We fear that all the
pastors in the best New England sillage
could not keep a quarter of their iocks
at home, if Providence should bring Gen.
TAYLOR there on some bright Sabbath
morning. as it brought him TO Louisville
-BrandOn Wing.
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in. and Understandable that Elder Sniffies was
very gifted man thought lde 90 10 hear
him. Well, liked him wonderful well, he's
powerful speaker and his prayers is highly
inieresin. So goes 70 hear him number
of times. He observed me and was evident
ly pleased with me-but durin all the time
was creatin such a sensation in his feelins
never know but what he had wlte.-How
did feel when found out he was widdi-
wer. Twas dreadfully frustrated, and kept
myself as scarce as possible. But he ioller-
ed me dp and parsevefed, I'LL al last con
senred TO accept Of him. Its so meloncOIy
10 be alone in tie world; and Ihen ministers
don't grow on every bush. The weddln is
10 take place next week "Wednesday eve
ming al yer uncle's.-Elder Yawpers, front
Slabiown, is TO reform the ceremony and
preach in Elder SnifIleses place the mex.
Sabbath. when we're gone. !. =.
The elder lives in gamble rutfi yaliar
house mean to make him put wings tot
and make il look ruther more fashionable. IL
stands on a descendin elevation that slants
down to the canawl on one side, and not lar
behind il is a moranlic grove. He hant no
family but a highly tightly gal that they
brought up. | tell we il don't make her
stan round when get there, Pm mistaken.
We shall start for Wlggleion Thursday in
the srage-and get there, Ispose, Saiur-
day evening. Now Melissy smith rememss
her YOUR 10 keep II a profound fcret.
don, want nobody in WigglNton 10 know
ANYTHING about it ill they see us come a
waIkin into meetin. II you anser this before
we come direct your letter 10 the revefend
Mrs. Sniffles.
Your afiectionate mar, P. P. BrDoTT.
till next Week.)
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DoCToRs IN ABUNDANCE" learn
from the N. Y. Literary World, that at
recent meeting of the Academy Of MedI-
cine in New York, DR. ManleY stated that
" at the present time, Doctors were made
At the rate Of from 300 to 1000 year,
not for the benefit of the public or the
profession itself, but for the benefit Of the
very men who made them doctors
There were forty medical colleges through
out the country. which gave diplomas, and
At many of them there were but two or
three professors-no clinical instruction
whatever, and no practice of anatomy.
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as the weather becomes mild and hne-
say BY the first of April, l prepare spot
in the kitchen garden, in which to trans
plant nv early peas. This is very easily
done BY making slight trench, Just large
enough to take in the whole trough-till
the earth up to the sides of the box, knock
away the ends, and then carefully draw
ing out the sides, press the mellow soil up
10 the earth in the trough, as the sides are
drawn away. BY watering the troughs
beforehand, and doing the work nicely,
the peas will never know they have been
transplanted. 1t is said that peas may
be obtained in this way two or three
weeks earlier than can be grown wholly
in the open air.-CuhiUator.
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INTERESTING GEOLOGICAL FAcT--Thc
Philadelphia Ledger says Prot. AgAssiz, IN one
IF his late lectures. stated one RENAL kabe tact
in connection with s remarks Upon tfe fami-
of the rose, which includes not only many
beautiful flowers, but also the richest fruits,
su h as il1capfle, pear; pea. b, Pu", apricot.
berry, strawberry, &c. No foSsd betong,nJ
% This f1u.ilu has crer been discovered by &C.
,logisis. This is regarded as conclusive ev-
idencc that the introduction Of this family Of
Giants upon earth was cocval with, or sabsc'
1ucnt to, the creation Of man,
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THE SHEEP IN ITS VARIOUS FORMS
Wise men regard with suspicious eye the
assertions of those who profess to accom-
plish a variety of dissimiar effects by a
single cause. 1t is customary to be jeal>
Gus of the pretensions of Universal Re-
storative, " Heal All. D." or any other
panacea warranted to cure diseases of all
symptoms or all origins. And the propo-
sal to adapt ono breed of sheep to all cir
cumsfancts of food, climate, and situation
making it answer all the purposes for
which sheep are usually employed, seems
Justly to meet with similar distrust and
suspicion.
From the varied habits Of sheep, the
widely different circumstances in which
they are placed, and the opposite results
which the several kinds are intended to
produce. we are at once led to doubt the
practicability and value of the scheme
We are induced still further TO view the
proposition as contrary to the laws Of ma
ture, when we consider the fact that there
is scarcely any animal which appears I'M
der so many forms as the sheep. In Per
STA and other parts of the east, it is founc
with tail of twenty pounds weight; a
the Cape of Good Hope, the tail is wortl
as much as all the rest of the carcase
there and in other parts of Africa, the
sheep have clusters of horns. to the mum
Der of FIVE or SIX. In Madagascar, the
same horns and tails are to be seen, the
ears hanging down like these of hound
About Aurengabsd, between Agra ant
Bengal, they are found without any horns
at all, but so strong that: beng bridlet
and saddled, they will carry children O
ten or twelve years of age. The $50 call
ed) sheep of Chill somewhat resemble
camels, being hair-mouthed and bunch
backed, and they are used for carriag
and field labor. Those of China ar
small, with short tails, which, however
are lump of fat. Tereen, in his Voy
age to Surat, mentions sheep with ben
shouts and pendent ears, with wool NOR
coarse and stiff than goats hair. In AT
RIGA, TO the north of the cape of Goo
Hope, they never eat grass, only succu
lent plants and shrubs. In Thibet, th
sheep have large, broad tails. In Natolia
these tails are laid in carts on wheels. Ii
Anspach, in Germany, small sort exist
that are shorn twice year, and also lam
every spring and autumn. In Juliers ant
Cleves, also, they are said to lamb twic
a year, and bring two or three at tim
five sheep have brought twenty-five
lambs in a year. In the slave coast @
Africa. the sheep have no wool; " but,
says the old Dutch traveller Bosnian, "th
want is supplied with hair, so that her
the world seems inverted, for the sheep ar
hairy and the men are woolly." Thi
hair forms a sort of name, like that of III
lion, on the neck, and the same on tn
rump, with a bunch at the end Of the tail
The Javanese sheep have tails weighing
occasionally forty or fifty pounds, havin.
a coat of red and white hair. Four-horn
ed sheep are numerous in several parts q
Tartary, and few have six horns, wit
wattles under the neutrality-suspicious.
Gazette
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DR1vING OxEN.-Those having the
care of these useful animals should never
drive them so fast as to cause them to ioH
A certain writer, in remarking upon this
subject, says -
We sometimes see these animals NOV.
ing so slow in the field and on the road
that we can scarcely tell which way they
are going. This mode of driving is wrong
let them travel at least two miles an
hour, and stop occasionally for breath.
In tits way we prevent their acquiring
that slow pace with which the OK is so
frequently reproached, and there is no diff
ficulty, with proper management, IN keep
ing him TO this pace, of two miles per
hour. The driver should never let his
whip become too familiar with his team.
If he suffers it to rest on his cattle's
backs, he might as well give his rod to his
child to play with. "
In Scotland the OK is trained TO quick
movement He is never overloaded while
young, and it is said rarely falls short OF
three miles an hour, as a common jog, "
either on the road or in the field. The
low, almost imperceptible progress OF
some teams while ploughing, or perform
ing other agrestic operations, is oftentlmes
painful to behold 1t impresses one with
the idea of great fatigue, and can scarcely
be dissociated in the minds Of the observ-
er from that of extreme exhaustion and
pain. When young, the OK is as nimhle
and sprightly, and as susceptible of speed
as the horse. Yet, by wrong habits, he
becomes heavy and sluggish in his moves
ments, and finally acquires that slow, snail
like pace, which SO greatly diminishes his
value as a draught animal, for most pur>
poses, and which renders the driver Of
him wearisome and unpleasant in the ex-
| iremc.
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@ A military man in his last moments,
opening his eyes beheld three doctors in con-
sdtation over him. Said he, Gentlemen,
| surrender, if you propose 10 fire in plo-
sOOns--and extending his limbs, brcathed his
last
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Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-08-29

INDrGN1TY TO RoYALTY.-A correspondent
of the Boston Atlas relates the following story.
If true, the British may demand satisfaction for
this i%ndignity offered to the king of their crea-
ton. Crowned heads are not to be treated with
contumely-not they indeed:
A few months ago an American vessel being
on the Musquito coast for some purpose, his
majesty, presuming upon the support of his al
lies, took some unjustifiable liberties with the
captain, or interposed some unreasonable OBJ
stacles in his way; whereupon the latter sent
an invitation to him to come on board his YES
sci. Expecting, probably a handsome treat, or
plenty Of grog. the king accepted the invitation;
but what was his surprise when, instead of get
ting sundry drinks Of grog, he was triced up
and given a round dozen, with a wholesome adj
m%onition to take care in future how he under
took to intermeddle with American captains
So goes the story, and l tell it to you as twas
told to me.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-08-29
Ned RuntEiDe.

This eccentric and talented genius, (E. Il. c,
Judson) who has seen something Of life in his
day, was surrendered by his bail Il few days
since for libel, and was locked up in the Tombs
New York, but was bailed out a few hours af:
forwards by a friend. He thus describes The
place of his confinement, which must be d
sweet hole for pleasant reflections! Hear what
he says:
Reader, just fancy me writing here, in a par
lor about five feet by eight, lighted by a ~creyice
large enough to put a lAdys hand through, and
conveying light enough to make everything
look blue around. Never mind-EIn king OF
the diggins at any ratc!, 1t is the same cell
where Colt the murderer Of Adams committed
suicide.
Mr.. Judson has but lately met with L serious
domestic affliction-the separation from him
of his wife-caused as he says by the workings
of his enemies, false friends and anonymous
letters. He alludes to it in the following par
agraph:
The First Midnight in uy CeH.-1t is now
still-the hand on the dial has passed the hour
of twelve. | have borne it proudly all day:
tried to laugh and appear gay and careless all
day, with the many friends who came to see me.
But nou, when | am calm and alone-when |
think how she, for whom | would have gladly
died, has coldly deserted mellow, without a
chance for defence against %unfounded charges,
without hearing one word Oh my side, she, the
mother of my babe, has cast me from her bo-.
som, | become unnamed, and weeplike a child
my stern manhood fails me-not that | have
erred, but that she whom so fondly cherished,
whom | so trustingly believed my own, should
thus crush the heart of one who would have
died rather than wrong her. | cannot write
[ must not think, or | shall 60 mad. Annie
dark, all is dark-the last star in my sky has
set.
"Ned Buntline's Own is the name of Mr..
Judson's paper. 1t attacks the vices and i'm
moralities of the age, and is thoroughly Anne
rican in its feeling. See prospectus.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-08-29

EXPLORATION OF THE N1LE.-Blackwood's
Magazine, in a Review of Werne's Narrative
of a Voyage up the Nile furnishes the follow
ing description of some of the scenes passed
through
We can conceive few things more exciting
than such a voyage as Mr.. Verne has accom-
plished and recorded. Starting from the out
posts of civilization, he sailed into the very
heart of Africa, up a stream whose upper wa
tiers then for the first time furroWed by vessels
larger than a savage's canoe-a stream of such
gigantic proportion that it's width a thousand
miles from the sea, gave it the aspect of a lake
rather than a river. The brute creation were in
proportion with the magnitude of the waters
course. The hippopotamus reared his huge
snout above the surface, wallowed in the gul-
lies that on either hand run down the stream;
enormous crockodiles CAPPED along the shore;
elephants played in herds upon the pastures;
the tall giraffe stalked among the lofty palms;
snakes ethick as trees lay coiled in the Shiny
swamps; ant-hills ten feet high, lowered above
the rushes. Along the thickly peopled banks,
hordes of sayages showed themselves, gazing
in wonder at the strange ships, and making am
biguous gestures v~ariously construed by the ad-
venturers as signs of friendship OR hostility. AL
ternately sailing and towing, as the wind serv-
ed or not; constantly in sight of natives, but rare
ly communicating with them; often cut off from
the land by interminable fields Of tangled
weeds, the expedition pursued its course
through innumerable perils, guarded from the
most of them by the liquid rampant on which it
foated. Lions looked hungry, and savages
shook their spears, but neither showed a dis
sition to swim and board the hotilla.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-08-29

B1T1NG LIKE AN ADDER.-A French perlodl-
cal writer states that the practice in the Hotel
n;au when leeches refuse to suck blood, is to
wrap them for a few moments in linen cloth
wruno out of undiluted wine. This renders
the most sluggish of them so carniverous' that
they will pierce the skin instantly, and gorge
their blood-thirsty bodies till they can drink IN
no more. A great many men, who are amlable
and unpredacious naturally, become as blood
loving as leeches, and" manifest an irresistible
propensity to bite, after being stepped in "lne'
either undiluted or mixed.
Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-08-29

VA shabby genteel young man entered a
tradesman's store the other day with his hands
crammed in his pockets, as if they were full of
the rhino. mfr. j ,'says he, 4 believe I am
indebted to you sixty-two and a half cents, cash
borrowed somewhere about a year agoP .
Yes, SIR replied the tradesman, smacking
his lips and holding out his hand to receive the
ready cash. 4 am glad you have. come, for had
almost forgotten it myself
sOh! I never forget these things said the fell
low, / like to have all things square, 50 / want
you to lend me thirty-seven and a half cents
more, which will make it even money