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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-10-25
Culture Of Flowers.

Culture OF Flowers.
The nature of aplant, generally, must
be the guide by which we act, No one
would thinl. of flooding cactus with
moisture, ner.of planting a lily in. bed
of dry sandj yet it's well to make nu-
merous experiments, for by this means
alone CAN any fact be clearly ascertained.
Ali know that vines need trailing; aqua
tic plants, moisture; and dubious roots,
rich earth; follow these first truths OF
nature, and the minor points will gradu-
ally be discovered.
In a flower garden the earth should be
mellow and rich and its chief beauty
consists in its arrangement. A we'll de-
signed garden should consist Of oval, cir
cular, square, triangular, and other shaped
beds, handsomely arranged, bordered
with box OF: privet, and intersected with
gravel walks, and walking grass paths.
Great skill is required also inplanting the
beds. Many varieties of early and late
blooming flowers should be planted in
each bed, in order that they may be a
continual succession of bloom.
In the transportation of plants, great
care should be taken not to place o plant
in soil different from that which it is
removed. MANY are very negligent con-
cerning this. They remove a plant from
a loose soil and sunny spot, to place
where the ground is hard and damp, and
then wonder why the plant droops and
dies. Plants possess wonderful power
of accommodation, and by proceeding
gradually, almost their very nature may
be changed; but one should no more. .ex-
poet that.a plant transferred from shcl-
tered nook to an exposed situation should
flourish, than that the animals of Africa
should dwell in Lapland.
Plants should seldom be showcred by
thcswatcring pot, but their supply should
be afforded them by flats and under soil.
Drenching is decidedly hurtful, for though
+ if may cool the earth, and apparently re-
Evivc the plant, yet, the rapid evaporation
that takes place from the leaves, will,
generally, cause the plant to languisA.
Plants, moreover, should be watered very
regularly, for nothing will sooner destroy
them than to soak them one day, and
then neglect them fora week.
The general oversight Of the garden re-
quires as much care as skill. Sowing the
seeds, transplanting, watering, manuring,
training, pruning, and chcrishing the
plants are pleasant duties; but the toll Of
the cultivator will be poorly paid, if he
have not I. strict care for the appearance
of his par.errc. All gravel walks should
be frequently cleaned and rolled. The
borders should be kept free of weeds, and
neatly trimmed. Every lawn and grass
walk should be often moved and rolled,
SO as to give them smooth and carpet
like appearance. Dccayed plants, stalks,
and dead leaves should be frequently and
carefully removed. In fine, tho cultiva-
tor himself, will daily see: small matters to
which he should attcnd-vines to be
trained plants to be propped up, and
others to be cut down; seeds to be gath
cred, and hundred things which pru-
dence, experience, and good sense will
prompt him to perform.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-10-25
Beautiful Extract.

0SduGk1ux 1At16C
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 ex-
pands 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 begirt by the gold of the har-
vest, and backed by the pomp of a thous-
and gl'oves-the roofs Of the town, bask,
noiseless, in the calm glow Of the sky.
Not sound from those abodes foatin 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 skimsthe swallow
on the wave, the silver circlet, breaking
into spray, shows the sport Of the fish.
See the earth, how serene, though all elc-
quent of activity and life! See the heav-
ems, how benign, though dark clouds, by
yon mountain, blend the purple with the
gold! Gaze contcntcd, for7good 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 light 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 place among
the reeds, are but signs Of destroyer and
victim. In the ivy round the oak by the
margin, the owl hungers for the night
which shall give its bcak and its talons
food for its young and the spray of the
willow trembles with the wing of the
red breast, whose bright eye sees the
worm on the sod Canst thou count, too
| o man! all the cares-all the sins-that
those noiseless rooftops conceal? With
every curl of that smoke to the sky a
human thought scars as dark, hrm IN
hope melts as briefly. And the bell from
the church tower, that to thy car gives
but music, perhaps knells for the dead
The swallow but chascs the moth, and
the cloud tnat decpcns the glory of the
heavens, and the sweet shadows on Garth
nurse but the thunder that shall repd ths
grove, and the storm that shall devastate
4 the harycsts. Not with fear, not with
doubt,recognize, Osmortal, the presence
of evil In the world. Hush thy heart il
the humblcness of awe, that its mirror
may reflect as serenely theshadows as the
light. vainly, for its moral, doststhos
gaze on the landscape, if thy soul put nc
check on the dull delight of the senses
Two wings only raise thee to the summit
of the truth-whcre the cherub shall com
fort the SORROW, whore the seraph shall
cnlishtcn the JOY. Dark as ebon, spreads
the one wing, white as snow CLEANS the
other-mournful as thy reason when il
descends into the deep-exulting as thy
faith when it springs to the day-star.-
Bal,rer.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-10-25

Do not always refuse to weep with
those who weep, because their cause for
tears does not appear to you to be pre-
cisely adequate to the effect.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-10-25
Case of Conscience.

DIR. b, of Franklin county, Yer
mont, tolls a good story of case of con-
science that occurred in the course of. bis
practice, several years ago. The wife of
Baptist deacon. (whom, for the pur-
pose Of the anecdote: we shall call Mr.
Cushman, dislocated her arm by a fall,
and the doctor was sent for, and came,
with all convenient despatch, and put the
matter ''to rights" Presently, after the
operation was over, the lady, was seized
with faint turn, and bcckoncd to her
husband for assistance. The deacon was
man slow of motion, slow of speech
and rather Slow in point ofintcllect. He
was strict temperance man," and con-
scicntious in this and everything else to
the Inst degree. Being never quite sure
that he was "right," he naturally feared
to s:goahead." In the present emergen-
cy he went into the room where the doc
tor was sitting, and addressed him in a
slow and measured tone, as follows:
CDR B., you are doubtless aware of the
principles which Mrs. Cushman and my
self profess in regard to the use Of intox-
icating drinks in any form whatever
Now, doctor, I wish to put it to your con-
science as Christian physician, whether
/ it would be in any manner culpable, in
case Mrs. Cushman were afflicted with
faintness, if should so far dcviate from
our habitual rule as to hold a bottle Of cam,
,,ltor to Mrs. Cushman's nose:?"
The doctor rushed into the lady's
apartment, and found his patient had not
waited the issue OF the deacon's casuistry,
but had fairly ''gone off" in fainting
fit.
aThe devil take your conscience" said
the doctor, half inclined to ego off, him
self into fit of laughter. "The devil
take your doubts, sir-in case5like this,
one scruple of camphor is worth twenty
scruples of conscience.-Boston Post"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-10-25

A HINr-A widower who wishes to
marry again must.buy his departed wife
a,beantnuIsmonument: This succeeds in
varibly, an exchange says.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-10-25

"Thc ugliest of trades" said Jerrold,
shave their moments of pleasure. Now,
If were grave digger, Or even Q hang
man, there are some people I could work
for.with great deal of enjoyment"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-10-25

No doubt it'isa great deal pleasanter
to die for some beautiful women than to
live with them go
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-10-25

How TO Go 1r-Go it strong in your
praise of the absent. Some of it will be
sure TO get around.
Go it strong when you make love to a
pretty widow. Moro people have erred
by too little than too much in this partic.
ular.
Go.itstrong when taking up contribu-
tions for q charitable purpose. 1t will
pay.
Go it strong when you make q public
speech. Nine people out of ten nevegg
take any allusion unless it cuts like a
short-handled whip or a rhinoccros cow
hide.
Go it strong when you advertise. Bus
iness is, like architecture-its best support
ers are full columns.
Go it strong and pay the printer. New
er grudge him his price. Recollect it is he
who brings customers to your very door,
who otherwise would never discover your
whereabouts.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-10-25

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PERSIAN AND
A TuRK.-one worships the sun, and tho
other the daughter
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-10-25

One FR1EsD.-IIow' pleasant a thing it
is to have one friend to:whom we can go
and unbosom our feelings, when the world
is harsh with us, and darkness has settled
on the fair face of nature. At such time,
a friendly heart to counsel and advise with
us-that will manifest feeling and sympa-
thy-is above all price. The outgushings
of love and tenderness revive and cheer
us-drlvc away the sadness from the bo-
som, and brighten the heavens again.
He who has one to whom he can goin the
hour of adversely, can never be wholly cast
down, can never be driven to despair.
The world, dark as it may sometimes be,
will always contain one bright spot
beautiful spot-it will grow brighter and
brighter, till the stricken heart partakes
of the fnlness of joy. and is cast down no
more for ever.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-10-25

The conductor of a country paper says
he hopes to continte with hisPatrofls and
friends "a prosperous and uninterrupted
friendly intercourse timesand space
shall be no more2o
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-10-25

'Now, dearest Fred she softly said,
@you must abandon smoking; it .spoils
your looks-it spoils your brcath-indced.
it's most provoking. Did God decree that
man should be chimney fue regarded !?
Then, darling Fred, let it be said, tobacco
you've discarded" 9Howwell, my dear, .
said Fred, II fearthat will not be SO easy;
but, like man, I'll try plan, and do the
best to please ye. Did God intend that
woman's mind such wondrous things
should brew, love, as Bustles, Bloomers,
Crinolines, or Hoops de-dooden-do, love,
-aand mind you, I'm not joking, if you'll
abandon Crinoline, by Jove!-I'll.give up
smoking"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-10-25

Persian poetry is luxurious, dreamy,
fragant; sometimes flashing like seine
tar with passion, and sometimes meek
eyed as fawn when it lies down in its
loyelines,s on bed of white roses.
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Il. we have no space to introduce hiiss

Ill 1t. we nave tuO SpllCe W lutiUuuCe uiS
views, even, much less to yindicate them.,
If they are somewhat in advance of the
public opinion, it is none the less probable
that they will ultimately triumph. His.
speeches were full Of zeal, argument, and
eloquence, and not surpassed on the floor
of that Assembly.
At this moment Vim. L. Yancey stands
up before the people of the United States
. great tribune of the people-an unsur-
passed orator-a far-seeing statesman, and
true-hearted Southern Rights leader.
He has no aspiration for federal honors,
and the newspapers in the South which
have run up his name for tie Presidency
in 1860, have done SO simply in compli-
ment to his ability, independence and
patriotism. His friends are not pressing
his claims for that distinction. w. .F.S.
EFFECTS OF PRospER1rY.-How unavail-
ing worldly prosperity is, since in the
midst of it, single disappointment is
sufficient to cmbitter all its pleasures
We might at first imagine, that the natu-
raj effect ofprosperity would be, to diffuse
over the mind a prevailing satisfaction,
which the lesser evils of life could not
rufle or disturb. We might expect, that
as one in the full glow of health, despises
the inclemency of weather; so one inpos-
session of all the advantages of high pow
er and station, should disregard slight in
juries; and, at perfect ease with himself,
should view, in the most favorable light,
the behavior Of others around. Such
effects would indeed follow, if worldly
prosperity contained in itself the true
principles of human felicity. But as it
possesses them not, the very reverse of
those consequences generally obtains.
Prosperity debilitatcs; instead of strength
.cning the mind. It's most common effect
is, to create an extreme scnsibility to the
slightest wound 1t foments impatient
desires and raises expectations which no
success can satisfy. 1t fosters a false del
icacy, which sickens iu the midst Of indul-
gcnce. BY repeated qualification, it
blunts the feelings Of men to what is pleas
ing; and leaves them unhappily acute to
whatever is uneasy. Hence, the gale
which another would scarcely feel, is, to
the prosperous, rude tempest. Hence,
the rose leaf doubled below them on the
couch, as it is told of the etfeminatc Sy-
barite, breaks their rest. Hence, the dis
respect shown by Mordccai, prayed with
such violence on the heart Of Haman.
Upon no priciplo of reason can we assign
q sufficient cause for all the distress which
this incident occasioned him. The. cause
lay not in the external incident. 1t lay
within himself; it arose from u mind dis
tempered by prosperity.
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How TO CURE 'EM.-The habit of drink
ing can be cured, by giving the drinker
all the liquors he wants to drink, all the
time.
We know Of two, in our own experience
who were cured in three weeks; onejump-
ed put of a four-story window, and ran a
curbstone into his head the other didn't
get up one morning, and has a universal
curbstone growing out Of his head in the
graveyard.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-10-25

MISERABLE PEoplr.-T Tomg ladies with
new bonnets on rainy Sundays, and dress
es playing dip, dip, dip at every step.
A'witness in bribery case.
A city sportsman at the finish of one
days shooting.
A printer who publishes a paper for
nothing and finds himself.
A smoking nephew on visit to an an
ti-smolSing aunt.
A young doctor who has just, cured his
frstpatient, and has no prospect of anoth-
CT.
A. star actress with her name in. small
letters on the bills.
An editor with nothing but cold pota
toes for his Christmas dinner.
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BAD ExAMpLEs-Bad examples cannot
hurt one that makes ever so little use of
his rcason;.neither the quantity or num-
Der of these that gave them, are authen-
tic enough to recommendation. Grand
eul- of place does not take away the infa-
my of them, and custom cannot permit
what is contrary to reason and justice; SO
thst regularities we ought tc avoid and
not laws we ought to follow.
swell, you've been out to America; did
yon see anything of our old friend Jones,
the,re?"
ssYes-gone deranged."
Gone deranged! Really crazy? What
does he do?"
eyes, indeed; ;he don't know his neigh
bor's hogs from his own"
FAULTS IN CONFERENCE.-The is very
hard not to speak at ALL but much more
so to make q long discourse without abun-
dance of faultsin it. We often say that
to others without. necessity, which it
would be very imp po5tant for us to say to
ourselves.
Demosthenes, the greatest master Of ell
oquence, never ventured to address an au-
di'snce without laborious preparation.
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Demosthenes, the greatest master Of ell
oquence, never ventured to address an au-
dience: without laborious preparation.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-02-01
The Impending Crisis'' and Old John
Brown.

The Impending Crisis" by the now noted
Helper, is producing fever of excitement
throughout the Southern States Any man
found with the book in his hands, unless he
is known friend to slavery, is Immediately
arrested as political incendiary, and pun
ished with thirty nine lashes upon the bare
back This is the penalty for the first Of
Tense of stirring up discord in the slave hold
ing States. For the second offense. the pen
atty is the fate of Old John Brown. The
feeling of suspicion against all persons from
the North runs so high, that hundreds OF
teachers, male and female, of pedlars, OF
travellers for pleasure, of temporary sojourn-
ers in the South. of preachers, ct I'd Omne
genus. have been expelled from various per-
tions of the Southern States The most un-
offending Yankee, intent upon making a
"raise" by the sale of his clocks and wares,
and caring no more for the abolition of slave
nv than the negroes themselves do for free
dom, is transformed, through the medium OF
distempered imaginations, into another John
Brown ready to slay and massacre, devas-
tate and destroy. Even the negroes get af-
ter him, as "poor white trash" and race him
from the plantations; for they regard an Alb
olitionlst with the same animosity that they
would sheep-stealing dog. Not long ago
in Georgia, a white man was discovered by
the master of a plantation talking freedom
to his slaves. lie ordered the negroes TO
take the fellow up and hang him, which they
did effectunlly, and buried him in hole in
the ground The champion of liberty q
dangling by the neck TO the limb of tree
and the "down-trodden" subjects of his
philanthropic commiseration playing the
part of his executioners, is a spectacle much
calculated to inspire Abolition heroes with a
desire to go down South with Sharpes rifles
and Brown pixies to rescue 'the African"
from his terrible bondage.
The foray of Brown and the notoriety of
The Impending Crisis have had the effect to
rivet more strongly than ever the letters of
the slave. Every such interference with the
internal policy of the Southern States but
makes the institution of slavery more perma-
npnt
Daily national Democrat., 1860-02-01

DYINe.-A gentleman from the Sacramento
River informs us that the cattle on the
ranches between Smiths Ferry and COlusi are
dying very rapidly, for the want of grass
The crop of grass was unusually short this
year, and the large number of sheep now
herded in that region have cropped it still
closer. The sheep, with their faculty of
nibbling SO very close to the ground have
driven the bovine species to starvation. The
farmers have always depended upon the
grass for feed, and so have neglected to raise
anything for the present emergency. The
limited supply of feed which they have, they
give to their fine stock and suffer the balance
to starve The loss is very great.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-02-01
MARYSvIELE.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEB. LIST.
CeLnBnATme.-There being no Tom Paine

CELEBRArISe.-There being no Tom Paine
Association in this city, and no movement for
celebrating the anniversary of the birth day
of that renowned man, friend of ours, who
is great admirer of Paine, undertook to
celebrate it all to himself, on Monday last
He succeeded admirably in doing what is SO
frequently done on such occasions. In every
saloon in the city, pretending to have any
thing like a literary bar keeper, he quoted
Tom Paine and swallowed a cocktail. He
talked the Age of Reason, as long as he had
any reason of his own, and harped upon the
Crisis" till a crisis came in his own affairs
which made it necessary for him to go to bed.
He woke up, yesterday morning, with pain
perhaps Tom Paine-in his head And
thus the Tom Paine anniversary was cele-
DRAFTED in Marysville.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-02-01

IHE ABDUCToR SENTENoED.-Geo. Servev.
says the S. F. Call, who several months since
carried off on one of the steamers the little
daughter of well known actor, has been
convicted of petit larceny for stealing a pair
OF pontaloous and Judge Coon sentenced
him Monday to thirty days imprisonment in
the county Jail.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-02-01


SAN FRANCISCO, San. 80, 1860.
To the Honorable President and Membere of
the Board of Supervisors. Of the City and
County Of San Francisco
GENTLEMEN We, the undersigned, real
estate and property owners of X city and
county of San Francisco. do most respectful
ly ask your honorable body to appropriate
the sum Of one hundred and .ffty thousand
dollars, payable in ten years, with interest
at seven per cent. per annum," and to appro-
pirate one of the Public Squares of the city
of San Francisco to the State of, Califoria on
condition that the Legislature do remove the
Capital ofthe State to this city, Said one
hundred and fifty thousand to be used in the
erection of a State House, and said improve
ments and land to remain the property of the
State so lorg as the Capital shall remain in
said city, and should the capital be removed
hereafter from said city, then the said prop
erty shall revert to the city and county of
San Francisco.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-02-01

WE learn from the Yreka Journal, that a
petition signed by over five hundred citizens
Of Siskiyou county, has been filed with the
county Clerk, asking the Board of supervi
sOrs to take some action relative to the re-
moval from that county, of all the squallid
thieving Indians to be found within its con.
fines.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-02-01

STABBING AT PETALUMA.-The Alta learns
that on Saturday morning at Petaluma, man
named Daniel Brown, while in Harris liquor
saloon, was seriously, if not fatally, wounded,
by being stabbed in the back by man NAM
ed William Barnes Barnes has been arrested
and put under bonds of $4,000. Barnes was
perfectly sober at the time.
Daily national Democrat., 1860-02-01

Ar a fire on the Sd inst. in St. Pauls, Min
nesota, some desperadoes made furious at.
tack upon poor jewelers. shop, and before
his friends could possibly beat them back
their pockets were lined with his watches
ana most valuable effects Ever after goods
were placed beyond the reach of fire indi.
yidualS rlsked their lives beating off the muir
derous Pillagers' who seized everything as
legitimate plumber
Daily national Democrat., 1860-02-01

BusrER.-ln sonoma county petition az.
dressed to the State Prison Investigating
Committee, is now in circulation asking them
to recommend the Legislature to pass reso-
luton requesting the Governor to pardon
VIM. A. Buster the defaulting Treasurer of
that county.