The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-03-18

~ Hungarian Grass Seed.
We would call attention to Messrs
Pomcroy & Marshall's advertisement of
Hungarian Grass Seed. This grass is,
without doubt the article so much need
ed in our section to enable us to com.
pete with the West in raising our own
COWS, beef, mutton, mules, &c. The
last Patent Office Report speaks of it as
having been first imported by the Patent
Office in 1854, and known as the "Hun-
garian Grass" and goes on TO say it is
luxuriant in its growth, and produces hay
of the first quality. Horses and cattle
eat it with avidity. Farmers in every
part of the country should give it their
attention, as it will make more and bet
ter feed than any other kind of grass
now known in the United States. 1t is
destined to change the agricultural pro-
auctions of the country, and substitute
cows, horses, mules and sheep in place
of hogs. We have raised hogs hereto
fore from necessity, simply because, our
only reliable crop was corn, and other
domestic animals required hay, or its
equivalent, which we could not produce
with cheapness and certainty.
A good crop of Hungarian grass is
about three tons and thirty bushels of
seed to the acre. 1t will often go be-
You'd and seldom fall below this. Such
crops were grown last season notwith-
standing the drouth.
The seed may be sown in this region
from the 18th of March to the 18th of
June, at the rate of bushel to three
acres. 1t should be put into the ground
in the same manner as oats, narrowing
before and after sowing.
The time for cutting is when the seed
is nearly ripe and the plant of fine yell
low color. If cut too early the seed will
not be perfect, and if too late, it will
shell out in curing. 1t may be cured in
the same manner as hay, and is fully
equal to the best timothy.
The Dedd ofMe Eliza Botle.-Capt
S. G. Stone went up a few days ago, on
the steamer Magnolia to the scene Of the
sad disaster at Kemp's Landing. lie
went for the sole purpose of recovering,
if possible, the remaining bodies lost by
the burning of the steamer Eliza Battle.
He succeeded in finding the following:
Rev. A. NJ Newman, Ky.
DR.. S. H. Jones, Greene county.
Child of b. Cromwell, Warsaw.
L. j. Mathews, Yazoo City, Miss.
Cbambermaid, belonging to s. G. Stone.
Boy Robert belonging to L. Buford.
10y pantryman) unknown.
1htsc dtiidc1,ro .s-g i2gsL.;s. "a,
recovered, with two sill missing, makes
the total number lost thir,y-one. The
bodies of Mr.. Galloway, of Gainesville,
and negro belonging to McMahan. have
not yet been found. On the body of the
Rev. Mr.. Newman. Capt. Stone found S.
800, and on that of DR.. Jones, $l,4O0.-
The coat of L. Y. Martin, of Kentucky,
with drafts amounting to over 5000 was
recovered.
The recovery ofthe money on the body
of the Rev. Mr.. Newman was a fortunate
circumstance for only few days pre-
vious several kindheartcd ladies took up
a collection among our citizens to obtain
means to send the bereaved widow to her
friends.-zUobile Mcycary
Hints to Country Postmasters.-The
Savannah Georgian complains of the care
less manner in which the mails are de-
livered and attended to in small country
post Offices throughout the State. Ii says
postmasters should not allow persons to
come into their office, and overhaul the
newspapers, thus supplying Tom, Dick
and Harry with news and information at
the cost of regular subscribers. Persons
have no right to pick up newspapers ina
country post Office and read them, when
they do not subscribe for the same. Post
masters have no business to allow such
liberties to take place in their Office, as
by such, the mail becomes detained, mis-
placed and regular subscribers dissatis-
fed.
Shahspearean hrersion and Perrcr-
sion.-The Boston Post is responsible
for the following atrocity:
A art-before- horse binder TO nv mind
Was Shakespeare writing "cabined, cribbed,
cOnfped;
A something in my cabin lately happened
That makes me read confued," then " crib
bed" and cabined"
Central Amcrica. Moses TAYLOR
brings intelligence from Nicaragua and
Costa RIGA, the principal item ofinterest
in which is, the report that the Costa Ri
can authorities had tried Alvarado, who
had command If Castillo V;o;o xrhor II