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The North-Carolina standard., 1850-09-04

THE CRops IN THE UNITED STATES. The harvest
throughout the country is finished, and we are
satisfied the amount Of wheat produced is greater than
ever BEFORE In the Western States, where corn has
heretofore been the principal crop, an immense amount
Of wheat has been grown this year. In Missouri
alone, the surplus is estimated at FIVE hundred thou
sand bushels and this is one of the smallest wheat
growing States. The corn crop has suffered some
what in almost every direction, in consequence of
drought, but that occurred before the grain began to
form and should the month of August prove favorable
greater amount of will be raised than ever be-
fore known. All the crops suffered considerably
which fell in the course of the late gale which swept
from Cape Fear to the Northern Lakes, but that is
comparatively small portion of the great territory
devoted to agriculture.
The cotton and sugar crops suffered greatly in con-
sequence Of the late spring, and the many overAows
to which it has been subjected. Indeed. from all we
can gather, it is probable that both these crops will
fall far below the average and it is possible they may
be even below those Of last year. In Texas alone
have those crops escaped the disaster which in the
other Southern States they have been subjected. A
large portion of the most productive lands in that
State have this year been devoted the production
Of sugar cane and it il probable that Texas will be
Of the principal States in the production Of sugar
NeD York Herald, .luLy 29.
The North-Carolina standard., 1850-09-04
VOLUME XVI.
rur NORTH CAROLINA STANDARD
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SrrAn AND PEACHES. Dealers from New York
purchase whole orchards fro the Jersey farmers and
last Tuesday and "Wednesday, 1900 baskets Of
peaches for New York passed over the Camden and
Amboy railroad. Some of them were from Della
ware. but they were mostly collected between Cam
dem and Burlington. The freight from Philadelphia
to New York, is only l23 cents a basket. Tons OF
pickles and cucumbers also are carried over the rail-
road to New York.
The North-Carolina standard., 1850-09-04

LONGEVITY. Will temperance procure long life
Par was an intemperate man, yet he lived over one
hundred and fifty years. Can we depend on comfort
and regularity in habits1 Jenkyns who lived one
hundred and sixty-nine years, was habitual beg
gar often in want of the common necessaries of life.
Is good climate the sure promoter of longevity
Read the following table, carefully noting the variety
of climate in which the several Individuals existed
The North-Carolina standard., 1850-09-04

Isaac de Costa a learned Jew of Amsterdam. esti.
mates the whole number Of Jews now 10 the world.
at from Eve 70 seven millions. He allots only
$1,000 TO ths United States, where. he tells as they
treated better ihan any coaatry iu tie world ex
cept perhaps Turkey, which b more lbsrl % them
than any Earopesa goyernmsas
The North-Carolina standard., 1850-09-04

The HARMONIOUS WIG PARTY. The New York
Day Book, independent journal, but rather Whig-
gish, while sympathizing with its Whig friends,
makes the following trite remarks in reference to the
Wing party. 1t says that which was Whig, party,
' has, by the action of selfish ofice-seekerp, been
broken to fragments and scattered the four winds
of heaven. In New York it IS Seward and Weed
party in Massachusetts and Ohio it is an Abolition
party in Connecticut and Vermont it is Free Soil
party in New Hampshire and Michigan it is no par.
sey it is antirailroad party in Virginia it is Tay-
lor party in Delaware it is Clayton and anti-Ciay-
ton party and in all other States is broken-down
party, without strength, influence or importance.
Insignificant, useless, as the Whig party, who 90
foolishy sold themselves to contemplate little Clique
Of New York politicians, and took their pay in The
gaudy tinsel Of a soldiers epaulette.' -
The North-Carolina standard., 1850-09-04

Here you ind almost every variety of soil and
climate. Venice with her feet in the water France
with her robe of sunbeams and coronal of flowers
Norway with her beard tossing in the fierce and Bit
ing tempest-and even the West Indies rolling in
fire and DAMP have all alike permitted longevity In
the marshy county of Essex Jane Reeve lived to an
hundred and three: Hippocrates lived to hundred
and four in the delicious island of Co.'S The sutry
interior of Ethiopia could not prevent Albuma Mare
from reaching an hundred and fifty, and Drakenberg
lived one hundred and fortysix years the shiver-
ing mountains of Norway. Now, with such con-
trass as these how can philosophise on the SUBJ
ject! Yet on the point of regularity we may haz-
ard question. Is it not probable that Parr might
have lived longer if he had been temperate man
Jenkyns if he had been unsolicited to such vicsi-
tudes :? The writer who furnished US with the data
for the above remarks, thus happily concludes his
article:
ty have been usually concentrated in short, pithy
sayings-as "Keep your head cool and feet warm;''
'Work much and eat lttle," &c., Just as if the
whole science of human life could be summed up and
brought out in few words, while its great principles
were kept ont of sight. One of the best of these
savings is the given by Italian in his hundred
and sixteenth year, who being asked the means of
his living SO long, replied with that improvisation
for which his country is so remarkable
"When hungry, of the best I eat,
And dry and warm keep my feet;
screen my head from and rain,
And let few cares perplex my BRAIN"
The following is about the best theory of the mat
ter:-Every man is born with certain stock of vital
ity, which cannot be increased but may be husband
ed. With this stock he may live fast or slow, may
live extensively or intensely-may draw his little
amount Of life over large space, narrow it into
contracted one: but when this stock is exhausted
he has more. He who lives extensively, drinks
pure water. avoids all inaamatory disease, exercises
sufficiently but not to aboriously, INDUCES no ex-
hausting passions, feeds no exciting material
sues debilitating pleasure, avoids all laborious
and protracted study. preserves easy mind, and
husbands his qnantum of vitality, will live con-
siderably longer than he otherwise would do, be-
cause he lives slow; while he, the other hand,
who lives intensely who beverages himself liquors
and wines, exposes himself to inaamatory disease OF
causes that produce them abors beyond his strength
visits exciting scenes and indulges exhausting
passions, lives on stimulating and highly seasoned
food, is always debilitated by his pleasures
The North-Carolina standard., 1850-09-04

To person does the tobacco dealer, the tobac-
CO consumer, owe more homage, than to Sir Walter
Raleigh. 1t is not three hundred years since he first
introduced the tobacco into England, and made smo-
king fashionable. All our readers remember the tra-
dton of Raeigh's servant entering his study, with
mug of ale in his hand, when his master smoking
pipe, and of his being frightened that he threw
the mug of ale in his masters face, and rushed down
stairs, alarming the family with exclamations that
Sir Walter was fire. and before they could get to
him he would be burned to ashes. And yet, a luxu-
ry, the enjoyment of which inspired such terror in
basis of very material portion of the commerce Of
twenty millions Of pounds Of tobacco, Of which
forty millions annually consumed by the fellow
countrymen of Raleigh.
Tradition ascribes to Raleigh also the questionable
distinction of having been the first to carry tobacco
box. 1t is described by chroncler who saw it, as
follows:
From the best of my knowledge I can resemble
its outward appearance to nothing more nearly than
one of our modern muf cases about the same height
and width, covered with red leather, and opened
top. (but with hinge, think.) like one of those.
In the inside there was a cavity for receiver of
glass or metal, which might hold half pound or
pound of tobacco, and from the edge of the receiver
at top to the edge of the box, circular stay or COL
lar, with holes in it to plant the tobacco about with
six or eight pipes to smoke it in.''
To have made the world acquainted with the vir-
tues of tobacco, and to have furnished it with tobacco
boxes, gives Raleigh the best of titles the comp-
ment of a statue from one of the most popular and
extensive tobacco dealers in the world.
The North-Carolina standard., 1850-09-04

CoNsuMPrrvE's GUIDE. A little volume, written
by Dr.. Hamilton Potter, addressed to non-medical
readers particularly, on the preventive and curative
treatment Of pulmonary consumption, commends it.
self to attention for its practical good advice and its
conciseness. After stating the character Of those
systems most liable the disease and the occupations
which most favor its development he recommends
as the most potent averive measures, cold bathing,
air and exercise, cultivation of erect symmetrical
position careful diet, seasonable clothing, we'll Sen.
hlated sleeping rooms, avoidance of crowded assem-
blies, nostrums and stays. We cannot follow Or.
Potter through all his argument, but he has evident
ly studied his subject attentively, and We think the
whole panacea may be resolved into the ingredients
OF pure air. exercise and erect position. Paid. S,.n.
The ''lndustral Exhibition of 1851 - in London.
is now fairly under way. The building COMMITTEES
have decided in favor Of Mr. Paxon's design and as
innate. The cost Of erecting the entire buiIdino and
taking it down and removing it after the exhibition.
is contracted for at EST 900. The building is to bs
completed and in the hands of the commissioners on
the first OF January, 1851. Sir John Romilly. the
new attorney general has refused 10 sign the appIi-
cation for an injunction to stay the erection Of the
building in the Park, at which the Times is very
wroth, and Lord Broueham and Colonel Siethorp
WILL no doubt dste thereon in their respective pla-
ces in the lords and commons, with abundant zeal
and with very moderate discretion. There will now
be no further delay in the way Of this great practical
peace Congress- OF all nations. ss.a - st<F
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Mrs. Partington, the Boston Posts fa-
nous and amusing 'perverter' of facts and
language, has gone abroad it seems. The
following is the latest from her:
A correspondent writes US that he en-
countered Mrs. Partington on the Rhine,
who informed him that she had been up
to learn the price of putty from the Swiss
GLACIERS, was then on her way to find out
what made the Dutch madder, hoping il
wouldn't come to extremities. She had
been disappointed while in Rome, at not
getting sight of any of the pope's bulls,
hide nor horns
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Amuselnents and Gambling at San Francisco

Mr.. J. A. Rowe commenced operations
last night with circus company ofvery fair
materials, and took in the very snug little
sum Of $1,000 pretty good beginning.
There are two or three sets of Ethiopian
serenaders in the city. who nightly la
ment the absence of Miss Neal, mourn
over the late Rosa Lee, inform the public
that they have just arrived from Alabama
or request in the most earnest manner, to
be carried back to old Virginny There
are more new gambling establishments
than there are catfish in the Mississippi,
and all have their peculiar attractions or
bats In one avery handsome Chiano
girl, beJewelled like dowager, who claps
down her ounces as if they were so many
brass buttons. AT another there are three
comely lookingi American girls tending
bar, and are deep in the mystery of ma
king rum punches, brandy smashers and
gin cocktails. In one is band playing
HAL Columbian in another the Scotch
bagplpes are wheeling away Rows wife
IN another is man blowing his brains
out through keybugle, IN another an
Italian, who beats the bass drum, plays
the symbols, blows the Pandean pipes,
rings set OF musical bells on his head
and plays on several other instruments,
all at the same time, then there is the
banjo, and the violin, the harps, the hurdv
gurdies, and the grinding organs and
monkeys. Add to all this sweet com.
pound of sound the rattling and iinglinp
OF money and dice on the tables, the clink.
ing OF g glasses, the roaring of some inebri.
ate, the rumbling of carts, the knocking
and banging of carpenters, and you have
very faint idea of life in California
Day and night 1t is tome la meme chose
1t Punch's fast man. was here, | think
he would be perfectly satisfed-there IS
nothing slow IN California. If YOU coult
only send us out few double headed
pigs and some calves with half dozer
legs or so. think we should be able tc
get along very comfortably. We neec
some little intellectual amusement of tba
sort, think it would pay Correspon
dence Of the ". o. Picayame.
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ARR19DkPWRAlho

Order and System. system
are essential to success in every employ
ment, but peculiarly so, in varied opera
hons of farming. Without them confu-
sion reigns. The business of the farm is
ever in such a condition that it demands
attention, and thus it directs and controls.
instead of being directed and controlled
But with them "all moves on in one har.
monious whole Every thing is peform.
ed at its appointed time, and in an appro-
pirate manner, and there is leisure for in
formation and scientific pursuits. Some
farmers act under the impression that then
employment is SO pro6tless that they can
not afford to procure better farming imple
ments and machines. and be at the ex
pense of making Improvements. Let such
be assured that so long as they are pos
sessed with this idea, so long their busi-
ness will become, more and more proflless
Mr.. Banks address.
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wing of the red breast, whose bright eye
sees the worm on the sod. Canst thou
count, too, 0 man. all the cares-all the
sins-that those noiseless roof-tops con-
ceal! With every curl of that smoke to
the sky human thought scars as dark, a
human hope melts as briefly. And the
bell from the chu rch, thai to thy ear gives
but music, perhaps knells for the dead
The swallow but chases the moth, and the
cloud that deepens the glory of the heavens,
and the sweet shadows on the earth, nur-
ses but the thunder that shall rend the
grove, and the storm that shall deyastate
the harvests. Not with fear, not with
doubt, recognize, oh! mortal, the presence
Of evil in the world. Hush thy heart in
the humbleness of awe, that its mirror may
reflect as serenely the shadow as the light.
Vainly for its moral, dost thou gaze on
the landscape, filthy soul put no check on
the dull delight. of the senses. Two wings
only raise thee to the summit of the truth
where the cherub shall comfort the sor-
row, where the seraph shall enlighten the
joy. Dark as ebon, spreads one wing,
white as snow CLEANS the other-mourn-
full as thy reason when it descends into the
deep-exulting as thy faith when it springs
to the daystar. .-Bul,cer.
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p o H u R Y q
The Christmas Tree.
BY MISS z. A. STARR.

The father sits in his evening chair,
Cushioned by love with tender care,
And his blue eyes beam with simple glee
At sight of the Christmas jolity;
While he strings Lis viol with secret Joy.
To ,ba time he loved when a wandering boy.
Othe Christmas Tree is jolity
To the Oldest heart, ween,
For what to the pine are frost and rime,
IfstiIl the boughs are green7
And what to the heart are wrong and smart
So love is undefiled?-i
For despite his tears, and the sin of years,
Love keeps the man a child.
The wife is she, and mother OF all
The brood which come to her cheerful call,
Sitting beside, with nun-like grace
Christening over her placid face.
And her heart with a solemn hope is warm,
As she folds in her arms her youngest born
In auietude, with soul subdued,
And pulse of quiet boat,
Possesseth she on the destiny
OF the children at her feet
Pondereth she with humility
On the Virgin Mother mild.
Though leading far, like Bethlehams star,
To the Manger and the Child.
o the chilrden all both tall and wee,
With the infant fair and rogue of three,
And the youth and maid with sunny hair,
So pious, gent tle and debonaire,
With. their noble truth and their winning ways
Are the charms Of Christmas holidays.
How blaze the lgf Is o the Christmas nights
How burns the Christmas fire,
But kindlier still is the bosom thrill
OF happy dame and sire;
For near nor far, nor in flame or star.
They trace life's distance clear,
But their fortune lies in the bright young eyes
They hold SO fair and dear.
Where virgin FORESTS rear their crest,
And nut trees WOO the gale of the west,
Where orchards spread their generous arms
Der the northern hills and fertile farms.
How blithely tn g squirrel pricks his ear,
And the laborer gamers with song and cheer
But the Christmas Tree as bounteousy
Dispenses gifts more rare:-
Then, rich man, keep thy lands broad sweep
o keep thine orchards fair;
But yeild to me the Christmas Tree,
And the love which keeps it green.
And life shall take for loves dear sake,
A face OF angel sheen.
Sartain's Magazine.
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LIST OF CIR AND JURORS


70 Serue at January Sessions, 1850.
Isaac Evans. Foreman, Cambria tp
Burgoon John, White tp
Carroll James, Cambria tp
Donoughe Cornelius, Allegheny tp
Farren James, Washington ip
Fite John b., Conemaugh tp
Fegan James Carroll tp
Helsel Adams, Summerhil tp
Ketner Henry, do
Kennedy Michael, Carroll tp
Lilly Richard, Summerhill Up
Leidy David, Jackson ip
Miller Moses, Conemough Up
Meyers John B., Allegheny tp
Murray James, Jackson tp
Nagle Nicholas, Cambria Up
Nagle Richard H., Susquehanna tip
Prosser David, Conemaugh tp
Ream Samuel, do
Sill Isaac Summerhill tip
Devlin Arthur, Jackson tp
Wagner Michael F., Allegheny tp
Wright Joseph, Summerhill tp
Walters Joseph, Allegheny tp
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TRATERSE JURORS

To .SerUe at January Term, 1850.
Adams Peter Jr., Clearfeld tp
Baker Frederick, White tp
Burgoon Joseph, Washington tp
Blair John A, Cam bria tp
Byrne Augustine, Allegheny tp
Burkhart Ephtaim, Jackson p
Behe Matthias, Allegheny Up
Barkstresser Daniel, Susquehanna tp
Carroll Lewis, Clearfeld tp
Don glass James, Carroll tp
Driskel Michael. Allegheny tp
Davis Daniel, Cambria tp
Dever Neal, do
Dimond Daniel, Summerhill tp
Egan John, Conemaugh tp
Farrell John, do
Fritz Hiram, Carroll tp
Funk Joseph Jackson tp
Granting Jacob, Richland tp
Gallagher William, White Up
James Thomas B., Cambria tip
Kibler Jacob. White tp
Rough Benjamin, Summerhill Up
Keentze Adam, Conemaugh tp
Litzinger James, Clearfeld tp
Luther John, Carroll tp
MClaran Peter, Summerhill tP
M'Gough Peter, Clearfield tp
Nagle Michael. do
Noel Philip, Cambria tp
Osburne Geo. W.. Conemaugh tp
Plunket John Carroll tp
Pryce John, Cambria tP
Skelly James. Summerhill tp
Swank George W., Johnstown
Westfall Abraham, Wash ington tp
Iov. Is, lS49.-6
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Beautiful Extract.

Stand, o man! upon the hill top-in
the stiffness of the evening hour--and gaze,
not with joyous, but with contented eyes,
upon the beautiful world around thee!-
See where the mists, soft and dim, rise
over the green meadows, through which
the rivulet steals its way, See where,
broadest and stillest, the wave expands to
the full smile of the setting sun-and the
willow that trembles on the breeze-and
the oak that stands firm in the storm, are
reflected back, peaceful both, from the
clean glass of the tides! See, where be-
girt by the gold of the harvest, and backed
by the pomp of thousand groves-the
roofs of the town, bask, noiseless, in the
calm glow of the sky. Not sound from
those abodes floats in the discord to thine
ear-only from the church tower, soaring
high above the rest, perhaps, family heard
through the stiffness, swells the note of the
holy bell. Along the mead, low skins
the swallow-on the wave, the silver cir
clet breaking into spray, show the sport
of the fish. See the earth how serene,
though all eloquent of activity and life!-
See the heavens, how benign, though dark
clouds, by yon mountain, blend the pur-
pie with the gold! Gaze contented, for
good is around thee-not joyous, for evil
is the shadow of good! Let thy soul
pierce through the veil of the senses, and
thy sight plunge deeper than the surface
which gives delight to thine eye. Below
the glass of that river, the pike darts on
his prey; the circle in the wave, the soft
plash among the reeds, are but signs OF
destroyer ana of victim. In the ivy round
the oak by the margin, the owl hungers
for the night, which shall give its beak
and its talons food for its young; and the
spray of the willow trcmbles with the