The constitutional union., 1861-02-15
4 COLUMN OF DEAD NATTER

Cut oH tHc ouPPlJ VT P'AoN field of corn and it will not grow. ps ! ou can easily do this by planting the same land with corn for three or four successive years, and your crop will dwindle away to nothing, unless you supply the ground every year with as much of the mineral as the corn takes away from it. All plants have the power of select inc from the soil of the materials necessary to their growth ! and if they do not find them in the soil they will not grow. It IS now a familiar fact that when an old forest of de- ciduous trees has been felled evergreens will spring up in their places. The old oaks and beeches, as any observer will discover, pass their last years in reposc, simply putting out their leaves and bearing a little fruit ever year, but making hardly any new wood. An oak may attain to nearly it full size, in spread of branches in its first two hundred years longer in state of comparative rest. It seems to grow no more, simply because 1t has ex- hausted too much of the material for its nour ishment from the grounn around its roots. At least not oaks, but pines, will gernlinate in the same soil-pines, which having other nc cessitics and taking somewhat different food find supply in the ground, untouched by their precessor. Hence the rotation oi crops, So much talked of by agriculturists.
 "YE LAz1E EYRE "AND ITS CURE We take the following from an old book entitled Mhe Rroviary of Health, by Andrew Boorde, Phisychc Doctoure," an Englshman ammo 1857
 The 115th chaptairc doth shoe of an l. -:1b I 1.-Two yonge persons, named Yc Fevre Burden, or Lazie Fevrc Among all ye ievres 1 had al most forgotten ye Teyrc Burden, wyth wich many yongc men, yonge women, maydons, and other yonge persons be sore afflicted now a-days.
 NE CAUSE OF YE YEINFIRMITIE.--Th his fevre doth cum naturaie, or els by evyll and sloth- ful bryngyngc upp. If 1t doe cum by nature, then is this teyre not to be cured-tor 1t can never cum out of ye flesh that is bred in ye boue. If it be by evyll bryngynge upp, it may be helpen bye much diligent labor, lE REMEDIE.-There is nothyngc so good for yc Fevrc Burden as J,5yucntu,n Baculi- uune; that is to sai-take sticke or wande, of yard of lengeth and more, and let 1t be So grate as mans fyngcr; and wyth 1t an nont ye back and sholders well, mornynge and evenynge, and this doe and twenty dais. If thys evyll Tcyrc be not helpen in that tyne, let them beware of waggynge on ye gallows'
 A POOR relation is-the most irrelevant 1 thing in nature a piece of impertncnt cor rcspondcncy, an olious approximation, a haunting conscience, prepOsterous shadow lcngthening in the noontide of your prospcrl- tv. an unwelcomc rcmembrancer, d perpetu- ally recurring modification, drain on your purse more intolerable dun upon your pride, drawback upon success, a rebuke to your rising, a stain in your blood, blot On your escutchcon, rent in your garment, a death s-head at your banquet, Agathocles' 1 pot, Mordecal in your gate, Lazarus at your door, lion in your path frog in your chamber, q fly in your ointment, a mote in your eye, triumph to your enemy, an apol- ogy to your friends the one thing not need- ! ful, the hail in harvest, the ounce of sour in a pound of sweet, the bore par excellence | His memory Is unreasonable; his compli- ments pervcrse his talk trouble; his stay | pertnaceous and when he goeth away, you dismiss his chair into a corner as precipitately as possible, and feel fairly rid of wonulsances. 1 ELoQUENT-Rcy. Dr. Palmer in New Or cans, the other day, delivered secession sermon, from which this is an eloquent ex- 1 tract
 We may, for a generation, enjoy compara- tive case, gather up our feet in our beds and 1 die in peace but our children will go forth ] beggercd from the home of their fathers ! Fishermen will cast their nets where your l proud commercial navy now rides at anchor ! and dry them upon the shore uow covered with your bales of merchandise. Sapped l circumvented, undermined, the institutions ot your soil will be overthrown; and within five and twenty years the history of St. Domingo will be the record of Louisiana. If dead mems bones can tremblc ours will move un- der the muttcred curses of sons and daught- i CTS, denouncing the blindness and love of ease which have left them an inheritance of woe"
 Is THE SUN GROWING COLD AND DARK There are now more spots in the sun than have been seen before for many years; some bi tlC>C ulC lSiDiC II SIIiohSA IiHo IS the naked eye Several stars, some of them of great briIIiancy, which from their ascer- tained distance, must have been as large as our sun, have totally disappeared from the sky, and the question has been raised among the astronomers whether the light and heat of the sun are gradually fading away As this would be accompanied by the destruction ot all the plants and animals on the earth, 1t is rather an interesting question. The suns light and heat are diminished by the dark spots at the present time about one per cen tum. Sclentltlc American.
 AN ATRoCIoUs LIE.-The New York II lustrate1 News contains wood cut represent ing mob in Alabama in the act of tarrne and featherng q Yankee schoolmistress. The pretty girl, with her head bowed down in sor row and anguish, stand before a sefconsti stutcd jury, while the administrator of justic, empties over her head and shoulders the ta1 and feathers. Such are the present dcplora
 blc state of feeling which has almost culmi
 hated in hostile collision between the North ern and Southern States There is no con
 ceivable crime which d woman could commi
 in the South that would bring upon her tn, vengeance ofa mob. The story concocted D,
 The illustrated News Is a lie an infamous lie