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The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1859-09-07

the Harvard Co,lege ,rs nro,,;er or hand.
SONAR nIo,.s th., n. 9 y C,uooo .,
Col,mb;, If ws bod ,bs o,,,oO ,r,,vioo
os green and luxuriont in our c,mnus il
wonld coptr;hnta ,pucb to Ito b.ss,,, I,
the library noticed some vary old wnrks
one publisbed in l7o3 Around Nh. wills
nre some fin. PAINTINGS of the b.n.foc,ors
of tho COLLEGE. Also poticed " In, was
,pleosed 10 see. ombrotvpes of .ocb member
of the graduating class for s.vero, wears
back. This strikes me as GOOD idea. II
NAV be done in our College. but y nm not
swate of it: il was not the case in my day.
Then we had no such facilities for printing
faces ~ exist now. Providence is nj the
junction OF the river of that name of The
Narrayanset Ray, and is Is miles from
Boston.
In the evening, at : o'clock, we took the
steamer, Commodore Perry, which landed
us in this city little after 8 o'clock. | in
tended to lodge at the Ocean House, but
that was full TO overhowing. There meN
Dr. Sims. who was waiting TO take me TO
the Fillmore House where he was, and
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party. Doctor Sims and daughters hava
been at our party, more or less, since Il
left New York. lie is somewhat faster(
and keeps ahcad-but | trail up. His trip'
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o,n,,orn,ont of n,be,s y.s,.ra,v howov.
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Ivos uI,d 20 d,y ~ moo, with Cant
r,,,n or u,r;o, n;.,,;o, r,,, 20 rho ARMY
and uoss,. linn. and Nissroop or Cbor-
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mans c,r fin. ov.t.rs ro,i,.d many oys.
,.r h.d. IN ,or;ny doxyp. They mr., plnn-
,.d with .,,L.s at mn in TIN, waller +, show
the extent and bonndory Of each oyster
f,r,, Th.v told mo ,b. manhattan of
pro,iJ.p,. MAS over ff;y Thousand and
b,I.y. il for ~ we w,re about I.ayirp =
l,rg. .,eonrr lam, GA with n marty Who had
b,.n ON a Sunday S,bool p;,.ni, .x,u,si ON
and several persons said there were 900
aboard of her. and so | L,li.ved for if ever
a steamer WIS full and hacked that was
I have been in this place. up to this time,
three DAYS. The morning of the first day
was spent on the beach, looking AT the
large concoursc of ladies and gentlemen in
a sea bathing. This is delightful and hich.
" exciting. | speak from experience. for
having invested IS cents for the hire of a
bathing habit, "a blue flannel shirt and
trowscr-) | "pi,chcd in" The water at first
was cold, but the dashing of the waves
against me and the exercise soon made il
pleasant The ladies appear 10 enjoy the
sport exceedingly. Most Of them have their
own bathing dresses. which are handsome
ma more tasteful than the dresses kept for
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The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1859-09-07
Announcements.
FOR SHERIFF.

The friends Of Capt. J. B. coUSART,
announce him candidate for Sheriff for
Lancaster hstric:, VI the ensuing term.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1859-09-07
Senator Chestnut.

We learn through the Camden Journal
that Il public dinner is TO be 'r"." So L...,,-
y .,,ma,vr ,ncsnuI IN Camden, on We'd
ucsday the 2oth inst, on which occasion he
will make known his opinions oL the poIit-
ical questions which now engage the pubic
mind.
A good deal of interest has lately been
manifest by a portion of the press OF the
Stat, relative To Senator Chcstnuts posi-
tion--whrther he is democrat of The Lam
mond School, willing to act with that por.
zion of the National Democracy which res
poets the Constitution and the tights Of the
South, and is content 10 remain in the Union
until Il paIpable act Of aggression on the
part of the North provides us with an issue
upon which the South can unite TO dissolve
il or whether he is an ultra democrat of
the Rhctt School, and tired of fighting our
battles in the Union, is ready to dissolve it
upon ground of present grievances. Those
papers which claim to speak from aulhor
ty, say that his opinions embrace all that
the most devoted State-righ;s democrats
could desire ; but this it seems is unsat.s.
factory, since both the ultra and the more
moderate class of democrats in the South
claim TO be State rights.
Senator Chesnut's opinions, so far as they
are known TO the country, have been con-
servaiive and We opine that in his coming
speech, while he will admonish the South
Of the great interests now revolving in the
political tirmament and urge her TO vigilance
in the preservation of her rights, he is not
likely to advise any hasty or imprac,icabIe
measures of resistance for the South, but
rather TO allow her course in the future To
depend upon circumstances. The public
mind, however, we apprchend, will be duly
Informed upon this point on the 2Sth.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1859-09-07
TIE MARKETS

'"ris Bourse on Friday was fum.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-04
WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS,

a dozen farmers in the South part of Ash
land, all living within a circle of less than two
miles diameter have made from 3742 trees
II, l75 pounds of sugar. The greatest Weld
per tree is pounds and the smallest a trihe
less than 3 pounds, while the average upon
the whole is about 81 pounds per tree.
One-haf OF this sugar has been sold at an av-
erage price Of IL cents a pound the other
half retained for family use
The sugar house of Dwight Hicks, in Rowe.
with all OF its sap-tubs pans, &C., was destroy
ed by fire few days since. Loss about $3.50.
In Greenfield, last Sunday, Rev. Mr. Head
ley of the Second Congregational Church and
Society, resigned his pastorate to take place
after July 1st
The store of Luther A. Tabor of Holyoke
was broken into on Tuesday night, an en-
trance having been forced through a front
window, and jewelry and other goods to the
amount of $500 were stolen. Thomas DOYLE
was arrested for the offence. He is supposed
to have partners in the Holyoke robbery, who
have also been concerned in the burglaries for
year past.
Benjamin Barton of Gill met with serious
accident in Greenfield, on Wednesday. April
9th. While driving towards home, his horses
ran away and he was thrown from the wagon
some fifteen feetint the hard road. His head
was injured in several places, his side and hip
badly bruised, and his right shoulder badly
dislocated. Thehorses demolished the wagon.
A few nights since the house of Dea. l.. H.
Fellows, in South Deerfeld, was entered by
some thieves and robbed Of some silver and
plated spoons. The plated spoons were left
near shed, and the silver ones carried oft.
Other houses in South Deerfeld were tried by
the rascals, who have operated also in Whate-
ly and Northampton.
The Greenfield Gazette, from which we
take the above items, says:-"A very gentle
manly appearing man, about thirty five years
old calling himself Richards, has been stop
ping at the hotel in South Deerfeld for four
weeks past pretending to be teacher of dane
ing, and desiring to get up class. He got his
class up and was to give the first lesson on
Friday evening" but instead of giving his les
sons in dancing, he gave the citizens of South
Deerield lesson in the confidence game
leaving his board bill at the hotel unpaid, and
and taking off sundry sums of borrowed money.
When last heard from, he was leaving the
Northern train at Bellows Falls, Vt.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-04


SWEET PoTAToEs.-Severala articles have
lately appeared in several newspapers, recon-
mending the growth of the sweet potato in
this vicinity and The Spy had a commenda-
tory paragraph on the subject day or two
since. Now l wish to caution our cultivators
not to spend much time in attempting to raise
a vegetable that requires a very different soil
and climate from ours, for they will assuredly
find that it is labor lost. / presume the recon-
mendation did not come from any one who has
had any practical experience in the matter.
Attempts have been repeatedly made to grow
them in this region, but without much success.
recolect, that, some twenty five years since,
large quantity (said to have been 200 bush
elsl were raised in Lancaster, on soil as well
adapted to them as any in this vicinity, but
they were mostly very small, and comparative
ly worthless, not being as good as our common
potao, and far inferior to the sweet potato of
the South g.
If our correspondent supposed we intended
to recommend the culture of the sweet potato
as crop for profit, in this climate, he misap-
pretended the drift of the article. We have
seen them of good size and quality raised in
this vicinity, and our object was, simply to in
duce amateurs, who had the means convenient
ly to do it, to give us specimens of the culture
as curiosity at our autumnal exhibitions. If
proper care is taken to have good seed, and to
cultivate well, on suitable soil, we have full
faith that fine specimens may be grown, at no
very extravagant cost
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-04

GLOW ARE TIE MIGHTY FALLEN p'-Mr.
Bigelow, editor of the New York Evening
Post, does not find Italy the agreeable place
he had anticipated before entering upon his
travels He uses up Rome summariy thus =
"Cafe hquori della Rupe T'upeia" over the
door of vulgar drinking shop, guides the
stranger to the Tarpeian rock; blacksmiths
and charcoal vendors carry on their dirty
trades i'll the theater of Marcellus "penary
indulgences for the living and the dead" are
advertised and sold in the Coliseum the
temples of Juno and Jupiter have been CON
verted into a fish market, the temple of Mi
nerva into bakery /; the troops of Napoleon
are quarted In the word-renowed Mausoleum
of Hadran and what remains of the Baths of
Diocletian is used for a government barn.
Only day or two ago | found Italian peas
ants hoed broccoli in the palace of the Ce-
sars and from the portico of Octavia, whence
its imperial inmates used to witness the games
ofthe Circus Maximus, instead of chariot and
wrestling matches, | saw only the tall and full.
igenous chimney of the new Roman house.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-04

NATURAL WELL OF ICED WATER-The
latter part of last November, Mr.. Andrew
Twomby, of Brandon, VT, commenced to dig
well near his house, situated about mile
from the center of the village of Brandon, on
a tQlerably level plain. Having excavated to
the depth of fifteen feet, through sand and
gravel the workmen came to ground frozen
solid, through which they continued to exca-
vate the further distance of fifteen or sixteen
feet before getting through the frozen ground
AT the depth Of forty feet, sufficient water hay-
ing been obtained, the well was stoned in the
usual manner. The character of the ground
was the same throughout the whole distance,
viz; coarse gravel and sand-the frozen por-
ton interspersed with Jumps of clear ice. At
the time the well was dug, the surface of the
ground was not frozen. Ever since the well
was dug, up to the present time ice forms in
the well and incrusts the stone at from fifteen
to thirty feet from the surface, and the surface
OF the water, which is thirty-five feet below the
surface Of the ground, freezes over every night.
On several occasions, when the bucket has been
left in the well over night it has been found
necessary to descend the well, and with a
hatchet, cut the ice, in order to extricate it.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-04
GENERAL SUMMARY.


Professor n. C. Morse, of Louisville, recent
ly took fifty acres of land in West Tennessee
on debt, at $40 per acre. On examination he
found that it contained vast quantities of lead,
the rocks beneath the soil being lead ore A
thorough test shows pure lead to the value of
Sc per cent, and associated with sulphate of
baryta equally valuable as the lead ore. Since
the discovery, Prof. NJ has refused $1,000 per
acre for the land, and he has raised $4,000 in
Cincinnati, where he formerly resided, to build
furnaces and commence mining operations inn
mediately.
A destructive fire occurred on VinaPs wharf,
at the West end, Boston, on Monday night,
destroying property of considerable value.
The roof of new model lodging house in
that vicinity, fell in under the pressure of a
crowd of spectators, and two boys received
shocking injuries, and were removed to the
Hospital.
An Instruction against Geffrard, the new
President of Hayti, is reported by letters of
April 6. An insurgent attempt had Just be-
fore been suppressed at Cape Haytian The
rebels are blacks, instigated by jealousy of the
domination Of mulattoes.
Capt. Green of ship Sheffield from Honolu-
lu, reports that on the morning of April 26 were
experienced three successive shocks of earth
quake, occurring at intervals of about an hour
apart; in length and severity of shock, they
exceeded any hing of the kind he ever expe-
rienced before.
The agent of large German association
had an interview on Monday with Senior Ma
ia in relation to a colony contract which they
desire to obtain from Mexico. The association
possess large means, and are willing to come
under military obligations to the Mexican gov
eminent
The Traveller states that the Crawford
House at the White Mountains was de-
stroyed by fire on Saturday afternoon
The stables, ice house, and outbuildings
were saved. The furniture was mostly
lost The insurance on the house, $4,000
furniture, $4,000. The house was owned by
Eastman, Hail. & Co. 1t will be rebuilt double
the size of the old house, within sixty days.
Moses Huntington of Amesbury, had fifty
dollars worth of sheep killed on Sunday night
last, by dogs. The police officers of Ames.
bury are making business of killing dogs.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-04

MATINEE MUsIcALE.-Those who are fond
of classical music will have an opportunity of
hearing such tomorrow afternoon, at three
and half o'clock, at Washburn Hall. The
pianist Senor Cassares, is young man of
sterling abilities, having played in Europe
with much success at some of the noblitys
concerts. He proposes to read from Betho-
ven, Mendelssohn, Mozart and other eminent
masters, and from what we have seen and
heard him do, at the recent concerts here
there is no doubt he will equally delight and
instruct those who love and appreciate the
genuine kind of piano forte music. We are
glad to see in his programme, among others,
the famous Sonata in A flat by Beethoven,
and extracts from Mozart's immortal "Don
Giovanni" as well as "Morceau de Salon"
of his own composition.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-04

Truth STRANGER THAN FIcrIoN.-The
Wisconsin Journals relate strange and roman
the story, Of which the following is the general
outline: A farmers son, some twelve years
ago, married neghboring girl-the daughter
OF very respectable family. They removed
Immediately to distant place, where they had
been living but few days, when upon his re-
turn home one evening, the wife of week
was missing. She did not return that night,
during which he felt, of course, the utmost
anxiety, and in the morning he started in
search of her- He could only learn that size
took TIE stage alone, which led to the railroad
station, some miles distant. He followed, but
at the depot lost all traces of her He wrote
to her former home and published notices in
the newspapers-but could obtain no clue to
her whereabouts. He grieved in lonlness at
her supposed criminal act, and to escape the
scene where his week of unsullied happiness
had been followed by so great grief, he re-
moved to then sparsely settled wilderness. He
there settled upon a promising piece of land,
and its cultivation, and the cares of life sought
torgetfullness of the past. He succeeded
measuraby-has filled offices of trust. and
grown wealthy After few years, his home
requiring attention, he married-but his wife
lived only long enough to bear him son, and
witnessed the first year of the little ones ex-
istence.
few weeks since as the weIl-to do man of
the world was sitting by his fireside, there en-
tered the house woman well clad, of fuller
form, and twelve years older-but the picture
Of the long lost bride of week, and she was
accompanied by girl of dozen years, The
sober man of forty was startled. but asked the
strange visitor to be seated. Then came her
long and agonizing story. All was obivious
to her for the first year of their separation.
She could tell nothing except of one hour of
returned reason, when the little girl beside
her-his daughter was brought into the
world. After that long time fitfully and at
periods remote from each other, came back
reason and memory She had wandered to a
distant city, i'll state of mild insanity-there
she fell among kind people and was installed
in an insane asylum. After the birth of the
daughter, and ten years more spent within its
lis, thoughts of her youth, of her home,
and husband came back. She slowly recover
ed-then visited her parents, learned where
her husband was, and flew to him. Be sure
he clasped her in his arms, and they wept up
on each others necks. Again going before
the altar, they were united, and she now pre-
sides with careful dignity and ease over his
household. But little is said about it in the
neighborhOod, except expressions of wonder
at Squire DIS sudden and and unexpected
marriage, to one whom they suppose to be a
fair widow with whom he had recently be-
come acquainted
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-04

FATAL LEAP FROM THE CARs-As the
midnight train" from New York for this city
was running at full speed between Needham
and Newton, Monday night man named Au-
gustus Z. Gieling leaped from the platform of
one Of the cars. Gieling was in the custody of
New York officer who was bringing him to
this city to answer to the charge of robbing
the house of DIR. Keep some six weeks since Of
a considerable amount of silver ware. The
prisoner feigned illness, and at his request the
officer went out upon the platform, when he
suddenly sprang from the train The train
was stopped as soon as the conductor was
made acquainted with the facts, and backed
up some two miles, when Gieling was found
lying on the track He was taken On board,
and upon the arrival of the train was convey.
ed to the Hospital, but he survived only about
two or three hours after the accident Boston
Journal
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-04

SAD AFFAIR AT NORTH ADAMs-A melan-
choly event transpired in North Adams on
Sunday. Miss Martha Butler, beautiful and
respectable young lady, died early in the
morning, under circumstances leading to the
belief that her death was caused by an attempt
to conceal her shame. Charles r. Littlefeld.
Cashier of the Adams Bank, was suspected of
being implicated, Miss Butler having confessed
on her death bed that she had been ruined by
him. Littlefeld resigned his place in the bank
and fled on Sunday night and has not been
taken. His accounts with the bank are all
right. He is a married man, with fine fam
lily. He is a native Of Dover, N. II. Miss
Butler was reputed the most beautiful and ac-
complished young lady in North Adams.-Dis-
patch to Boston Journal.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-04

The Horticuturist for May, containing a
goodly amount of matter useful and interest
ing to the amateur practical gardener and
fruit grower We are very happy to find that
the Hartford Prolific Grape" which this pa
per first brought into notice in this State, and
which was recommended as one of the best
grapes yet known, for general culture in the
North, continues to gain favor in all parts of
the country and that its merits which were
at first described by some, as it becomes bet
ter known, are generally acknowledged. This
number contains a favorable notice of it, ac-
companied with drawing-the notice by Pro-
fessor Berkmans, the first Pomolooist in
America, If not in the world. He speaks
Of it as being still better than represent
ed by c. Downing, and says it is a
very fine berry, with little acidity, but soft,
and with remarkably hin skin, which yields
easily its deep coloring matter, and must be,
on that account, suited to red wine making.
We have no doubt Of this, for its very acidiiy