The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1854-12-20


addresses to the lady whom he afterward mar
ried, the engagement was interrupted by her
demanding and his refusing to make promise
that he would never taste wine or any alcoholic
mixture as beverage. Writ positively declin-
ed such apledge, and the lady would wed him
on no other terms. So goes the story. At
length she passed him sleeping off drunken
debauch IN the street, and with her handker-
chief covered his face. When he recovered
the name of the lady written upon the hand
kerchlef so annoyed hing and the circumstance
so humiliated him, that though from that hour
he reformed, it was long time before he could
summon courage to meet her. When he did
see her, he was ready to make the required
promise, and she was ready to wed the recov-
cred ihebriate,
Such is the story. 1t fell under the eve of
of some relative of the deceased scholar and
statesman, who positively and unqualifedy
denied its truth, and affirmed in a card over
his own name, that no such circumstance oc-
CURED. Still the tale is repeated and travels
on while the contradiction never can overtake
it. Ir the minds of many Wirt's memory will
always be coupled with the debauch and the
pocket handkerchief. The tale cannot be put
down or extinguished. The more years that
pass the irmer will the popular belief be fixed
and the higher will be the admiration of sue
cessive generations of readers.
Now, we protest against such reckless abuse
of the fair name and fame of any one. We
admit that public men are, to a certain extent
public property; but the property is not so alb
solute as to authorize either injury or entire
destruction. Virtue and temperance gain no
thing by falsehoods in their behalf; and the real
woes of intempelance are bad enough not to
require the invention ofothers. The dead, who
cannot defend themselves, should be spared the
connexion of their names with such legends
Cautiously, even if true, should they be mar
rated; and, if false, he is worse than a high
wayman who originates them,
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! THE CALIFORNIA P1oNEER.-The Alta Cali
fornia has an interesting sketch of the general
history of the first volunteers who took ship oat
New ork on the 26th September, 846, for the
Gland Of gold" The regiment was composed
of al classes and descriptions of men. In the
ranks enlisted as prlvates, were lawyers, physi
clans, merchants, printers, actors, representa-
tives of all the mechanical trades, and few
loaters Sons of senators and representatives
in congress, finding the commissions all filled,
enlisted in the ranks, and wore the uncouth
uniform. The regiment was enlisted with the
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tary of war and col Stevenson, that its men,
bers were not to be returned to the United
States, but to be turned adrift in California So
the ships with these seven hundred volunteers
arrived in the bay of San Francisco on the 9Th
of March, 1847. They were the pioneers
Their history is as yet unwrtten. The survi-
vors are scattered far and wide over that grow
ing state.
fTha hOpac of IF fbor o1,-,, 4 IL
oceans floor, some are buried amid the golden
sands of Cafornia-many in nameless graves,
Others sought their native shores to die among
the scenes of childhood. Some still wander
among the mountains of California as miners,
some have become farmers there some are rich,
but most of them as poor as when they took a
farewell view Of Sandy Hook "Out of the
whole regiment" says tie Alta, "about three
hundred remain in California" They have
watched over the cradle of the young state, e,and
now that she has attained to lusty youth, they
can see how goodly a work they began.
STOCK BREEDING.-Jn order to make the
breeding OF domestic animals profitable, the
breeder must have a clear idea of what is un-
derstood by "breed," and of what is to be OBJ
served in the mixing or crossing of the different
breeds. Considering the great Importance of
this subject, l have deemed it proper to give it
due attention here.
1t will be necessary, in the first place, to
agree as to what is meant by "breed, An ex-
preston not always regarded in the same light.
Thus, an animal possessing noble qualities, of
which we again have different ideas in the diff
terent kinds of animals, is often said to be "of
good breed" But this is not right, for what
ever animal, which, independent of the quail
ties peculiar to the kind it belongs to, possesses
still others, which it bestows upon its offspring,
may likewise, though it is not customary to do
so, be called an animal s'of breed'' Here we
understand by breed, that animals belonging
to the same kind not only favor each other in
external and other qualities, but they at the
same time transfer this similarity as legacy to
their progeny.
We often hear it said, that an an animal is of
pure or constant breed, and that breed is con-
solldated. These expressions are so nearly re-
lated to a clear idea of "breel," as to make
brief explanation necessary here.
A breed is called pure or constant when it in
every respect answers to the description thereof
and in this case alone may be sure of its off
spring being likely to resemble the parents. If
we, by pairing two breeds with each other in
several generations according to determ incd
principles, transform one breed into another,
then the degree of the Transformation thus OBJ
tanned is designated by the word generation.
Thus, the first offspring from the pairing of two
breeds constitutes the first generation. If the
female of the first generation is paired with they
male Of one of the breeds, we have the off
spring of second generation, if the female of
the latter again is paired with the male of the
same breed as in the preceding case, we have
the offspring of a third generation, and If we
continue the pairing in this manner, the num-
Der of the generation rises by every following
accession. If by this mode Of procedure we
get so far as to make it evident that the off
spring has in every respect received the quail
ties of the breed, into which we have endeav-
ored to transform the other, then the breed is
called consolidated.
The Charleston Couries says: thousands of
yas of what is called "tooth wash" are sold
every month, being warranted to remove all