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state Of SOWlIa Q,nrOliMa.
IN oRp1NARy--c,PArIoN

IN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
W. uEkEAS. Rob't. A. Thompson, CT I'd,
w hath applied to mo for letters of admins.
traton upon tho Estate Of Joshua Spencer. decd.
nte of the District OF Pickens and State afnrc
said:, The kindred and creditors of said de-
ceased, are. therefore, cited to appear before mo
at~rinkens Court House on Monday the ID aav
of July, 1866, to shew cause, IL. nny they can.
why said letters should not be granted. Given
under my hand and seal this l4th day Of Nav.
1856. " +. uOLCOMRE nnn
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State of South Carolina.

lACNHSO DtSlNlCI. ~ J.
II SARAH Il. WILSON, wife Of w. Alex,
i Wilson, farmer, of the State and District
aforesaid, gives notice that. ono month from tho
dato hereof, will do business as sole trader,
or free dealer. Occupation Weaver and Semp.
stress SARAH f. WILSON.
June 9, lS66 81 j.
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PORTLAND, MAINE, June 22-Robbers
went to the house of the Cashier of the Ma.
tlonal Bank Of l5owdinham last night, gagged
and guarded his family, took him to the
bank, opened the vault and robbed it of sixty.
seven thousand dollars, they then laid him in
the vault and dccanpcd towards Canada
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state Of Sou,l4 Carolina.
~ ORDiNARY-CITATION.

~ ORDINARY Y--CITATIoN 4.
" nEliEAS. Rob't. a. Thompson, c.Er.D..
w hath applied TO me for letters of admins
tration upon the Estate of William Spencer,
deceased. late IF the District of Pickens and
State aforesaid: The kindred and creditors of
said deceased, nre therefore, cited to appear he
fore me at lickens c. II. on Monday the I'd day
of July 1865, to shcw cause. if any they cnn
why said letters should not be granted. Given
under my hand and seal this T4th day Of Nav,
1866. w. +. II0LCOMBE, o.r.p.
THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
rlcKESs-IN EQUITY.
JOHN n"f'."e Bill Of Revivor and Gun.
sam'l Rurdinc. s. ais plcmcnt for Partition.
1NllE defendants in this case, namely-Samuel
1 Burlne, 7. II. S@,thwick and wife Patsy ,Ino
W. L"tbem, Richard NJ Ln,hcm, Abraham T.. La.
them, Anthony q. Iathcm, SamuelW Luthem. Jas
E:pctit and wife Jane f.. William IT. Streety and
wife Sarah, nnd Henrietta Ham md husband -
Ham, Jacob Earnest and wife Betsy, and George
Lathem--residc without the limits OF this Slate: On
motion of Harrison s. Whtncrs, complainant S So
ictors. it is ordered that these several absent de-
fenlants do appear in this Court, within threo
months from the publication hereof, md plead, an
swer, or demur. to complainnnt's said bill of com
plant; otherwise, an order pro confcsso will be
entered against them.
ROBT. A. THOMPSON, c.r.p.n
Com'rs Office, March "a. 1865 Sm
THE, STATE or SOUTH CAROLTNI.
PICKENS-IN EQUITY.
Ransom Hunt, et.al., =.
=. 49,, BIZ of Reyiyor Sc
Sam,l. NJ. Hunt, ct.als. .4
appearing to my satisfaction that Samuel
l. Nj. Hunt. and William j. G. Hunt, defend
ants in this cnse reside withc ut the limits Of this
State: On;moion Of Harrison &, Whitncrs. cofi-
painants Solicitors. tits ordered that these sever
81 absent deiendantsdo appearin this Court, within
three months from tho publication hereof, and
plead, answer or denur, to the complanants said
bill OF complaints; otherwise. the allegations Of The
said bill will DO taken rs confessed BY them BY mn
order pro contssse.
ROBT. a. THOMPSON. c.p.p,n,
Comrs Office. March 81, 1866 3n,
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EARTH. EATERs-A tribe at the mouth
of the Amazon, say two recent travellers,
whose veracity, we are told, can be relied
upon, content themselves, or, at least, try
to do SO, with fatty, ferruginous earth,
Of which they eat about pound and a
half day. Nor is this the only place
where this earth can be obtained, nor is
its use confined to those who are unable
to obtain anything better in Bolivia, for
instance, an earth of this kind is sold in
the public market, an analysis of which
yields the following results Livery va.
riety of these earths is almost entirely
composed of fresh water infusores, or mi
croscopic shells. Their nutritive proper
ties, therefore, are doubtless owing to the
retention Of animal substances by these
shells, which thus constitute a species Of.
antediluvian sustenance. 1t is not only,
however, in the south that this kind of
nutriment is made use Of; in o country
where warmth is of the frat necessity,
namely, Lapland, the inhabitants make
use of white mineral earth in the abb
sencc of cereals. The dust 10 composed
of nineteen species ofinfusores analogous
to those found in the neighborhood of
Berlin. In testing this skeleton dust
which is found 10 considerable quantities
in Sweden and Finland as we'll as in Lap.
land, Retzius discovered that it contained
large portion Of animal matter.
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The Tower OF BABEL.-Remains of
the Tower of Babel, says Galignano, still.
exist, and are visible from a very great
distance. Each side of the quadrsngular
basis measures two hundred yards in
length, and the bricks of which it is COM
posed are of the purest white clay, with a
very slight brownish tint. The bricks
before baking were covered with charao.
ters traced in clear aud regular style
Tho bitumen which served for cement was
derived from fountain which still exists
near the tower, and which flows with such
abundance that it soon forms stream
and would invade the neighboring river,
did not the natives from time to time set
fire to the stream of bitumen.
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BEL AIR. MD. FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 20, 1866

from His Imperial Hghness himself
brave. but ouly from inordipate vain glo.
ry; generous from recklessuess and be-
cause never just. Such is the character
ofen flashing along-it never proves a
steady luminary
Aud, Oh =! Thackeray, no wonder you
were an old bachelo-. Why must YOU
make your heroine silly selfish, anna
Bile, cry-baby woman? If this were the
highest development of her sex that you
knew of, wonder not, shade of the illus
trious dead, that no widows tears follow
ed you across the river Styx. And why
must the hero (for this novel has one, and
why deny it y be lean and awkward
Why could not honesty and truth, manli-
ness and generosity, tender constancy and
/. tsithful devotion, meet in some less ridi-
culous figure, with smaller feet, than
William Dobbin
1t may be that these virtues seek to
clothe with be"uty the uugainly ones !;
but really, in Il novel, why not give US
some little form, and some other beard
than the grisly. The author had his rea-
sons, no doubt, for selecting such strange
figures for his actors; but who does not
enjoy tn play better when the actors are
goud-lookiug? Indeed, friend of mine
once told nue. "she could not abide the
German Opera, because the "prima don
ma was 80 ugly, that in the love scenes it
struck her as ridiculous to see such a
fright made love to-" This is the senti-
ment Of all mankind. We wish to do
justice to the virtues, but when they are
set forth, let the setting correspond to the
jewels
But it is great novel. We have been
carried breathlessly along, and made to
see and feel, with distinctness too painful,
how to many love and faith are but hol.
low reed, which they may sing with, but
which they throw away or carelessly
break. But has the book benefited p
Has it awakened kindly remen brances
encouraged brotherly love? Do We feel
at all like the yelled Prophet" in his
detestation of himself aud of his species !?
Each must answer, and so test the utility
of novel like this.
This book suggests, though it does not
teach, that there is only one rational as
piration-only one course of conduct that
can Hume life and water our grave with
tears Of sincerity. 1t is to keep the path
of truth to speak the uuvarnished truth,
fearless of all hindrances; to act the truth,
without ever being betrayed into gesture
of deceit; and so, with Truth as our
guide and watchword, We can have what
is far more precious than aught earthly
else
"a peace above all dignities,
A still and quiet conscience
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Black Spirits and White !

On the train from Xenia to Dayton,
this morning, there were several passen.
gers, but there were newly welded pair
"a young "b~ch nigger, as black as Ha-
des," and a young "white trash" lass Of
rosy and pinky finish, with q lily ground
work They had gone over to that cell
ebrated town to get miscegeuated. Mid.
dletown, Butler, county, Ohio. has the
honor of owning the turtle-doves, or, rath.
er the crow and the white pigeon. Bev-
erly Creams is the name Of the groom, and
Polly Creams is now the blushing bride.
Beverly was lately from the South Pol.
ly was at her Middletowu home, when
the gay American of African scent threw
his dark shadow into the rose entwined
window of her palatial domicile, and first
enthuSed her soul with the delicious, the
entraucing, the ecstatic bliss of cloves
young dream p ........
How they loved! 1t was o sight wor-
thy of the gods! And they were hap.
Ply! They said they were suited! And
away they went to their happy home
He, all the appearance of being blessed ;
she, "the rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear !"
dayton, Ohto) Empire, June 8.
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General Lee.

The Crescent .Monthly (New Orleans)
for May, has as its leading article, we'll
written paper, styled General Lee and
his Campaigns" by J, Quitman Moore,
Esq. We quote the concluding para
graph, which refers to the final scene, the
surrender of Gen. Lees Army, and con
tains tribute to that great leader which
is as just as it is beautifully expressed /:
"There stood the mournful remnants of
that once glorious army that had dipped
its conquering banners in the crimson
tide of eight and twenty sanguinary bat
ties, and strewn its heroic slain from the
feet of the Pennsylvania mountains to the
gates of its own capital city that bad
given Manassas to Beauregard, and twin
ed the fame of the Seven Pines battle in
the laurel wreath Of johnson; that had
caused the waters of the Shenandoah eter-
nally to murmur the fame of Stonewall
jackson, and, stretching its right arm
out to the distant West, had planted VIC
tory on the dropping banners Of Bragg !;
that had witnessed four gigantic cam
paigns, and through all their shifting and
tragic scenes, and under all difficulties,
trials, toll and dangers, had remained
steadfast and faithful to the last--and
after having witnessed the rising of the
Southern constellation as it loomed up
brightly on the horizon of war, pursuing
to its splendid zenith the fiery path of
Mars, now beheld, not unmoved, it's de-
clining splendors going down in the
gloom of eternal night. And he, its H.
lustrious chief, whose lofty plume was
ever its rallying point in battle, and
around whom its affections warmly clus-
tered, now commended it for its past de-.
votion, and babe it adieu forever. Slow.
ly and sadly he rode from that mournful
field, for his strong sword hung shattered
at his side and the cause that he fought
for was beneath the foot of power. Few
were the eyes that grew not moist at wit
Messing that departure. 1t was the ago.
ny of great cause finding expression in
the sublime soul of its great defender
And though that cause be dead yet will
its memory continue to live, and ever
honored will be those illustrious names
that sacrificed at its affairs. And on the
scroll of fame no name among the list of
eminent worthless will shine with q purer,
serener or more resplendent light than
that of Robert Edmund Lee. His fame
is monumental. His name will be placed
alongside those Of the great captains Of
history--Marlborough and SAKE, of lilly
and Eupene; and as long as the fame Of
the Southern struggle shall linger in ira.
dision and song, will bis memory hc cher
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Max ng Poor Farm Rich, and How il
was Done.
"a peace above all dignities,
A still and quiet conscience"

Some twenty-five or thirty years ago |
bought farm containing about one hun
dred and twenty acres of land. 1t had
been managed badly for many years pre-
oeding the sale of 1t. Fence.rows, where
hundreds of loads of stone had been haul
ed off the adjacent fields, were from ten
to twenty feet wide, and were filed with
cedars, cherry trees, aders, sassafras,
briars, rotten rails, &c. Cutters we're
washed in various places, exposing a
stony, barren soil that looked like anything
else than desirable farm land. An old
farmer, on the day Of sale remarked, in
reference to the gullies in the fields, that it
mattered but little if all such land was
washed away.
The buildings were old and dilapidated
aud needed Immediate repairs, to render
them at all comfortable for man or beast.
This property, however, had two redeem
ing traits it was wel.wooded and we'll
watered.
As was the farm, so was the farmer
poor. To better this state of things was
the aim OF the writer, which could not be
accomplished without much hard work.
Tnls had to be done, and he had to do it.
Wood had to he cut and hauled to the
kiln lime to be burned, hauled and
spread fence rows cleaned out and fences
made, &c.
| put one thousand bushels of lime on
two ten acre ticlus-tive hundred ON each
in the fall before possession was gwen.
These fields were plowed the following
spring, and put in with corn, which yield
ed, when husked, not over fifty bushels Of
sound corn altogether. From one of
them, however, | got one hundred bush
els of buckwheat, having sown some seed
among the sparse and puuy looking stalks
of corn about the middle of July.
The next season both fields were put in
with oats, which did well, averaging Forty
bush Is per acre. sowed clover and
timothy on the oats, and rolled them all
i'll together. The season was favorable j;
the grass seed took well. l moved these
fields Two summers In succession and had
very good crop OF hay each time.
| then put i've hundred bushels of lime
on one of the fields, and in the spring
planted it with corn, which yielded me
tour hundred bushels, without the otfal.
No manure whatever used for the crop in
addition TO the lime, excepting the corn
was plastered in the hill Oats, wheat,
(Which was MANFRED from the barnyard,)
and two crops of grass followed. Tue
ground was then lined again as before,
and we gathered the ensuing season sixty
bushels of corn per acre from it.
The other fields on the farm have been
worked as this, with about the same re-
suit, excepting the corn, which l think
has not been equalled since. There were
but two acres Of wheat on the place when
l bought it, as all the manure made would
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JW1stelIaneous.
For the AJis & MtelIigsncsr.
Vanity Fair.

If the true dehni ion of novel be this,
a drama on an extensive scale, then |
thiuk it will be acknowledged that Thack-
cray possessed the requisite of great
novelist, and gave US Its finest display in
this book which We are golug to comment
upon. 1t is an able book 1t displays
master MUD !; yet we rise from its peru.
sal, with what feelings? Those of un
mingled sadness and dependency. 1t is
the wocfulest pageant We have ever be-
held, and It's truth only adds TO its gloom.
We have seen in this novel the scene
behind the scenes, and it i, indeed .'tur.
Did water" upon which the eye rests with
no sense of relief or pleasure, but with a
horrorstrickeu, fascinated wonder, at the
play of the colllug serpents. The author
has shown US desires which Tin ful6lment)
are as salt water to a thirsty man hopes
which, like the iguis fatuus, lure on but
to deceive. Yet we see In one character,
that the great novelist has overstepped
the boundary Of human nature. Rebecca
Sharp Is an overdrawn picture of a false,
decettuI woman. That a girl who in
childhood was taught deceit by vaga-
BOND father; educated by the charity $50
calIed) of u woman who could not value
any accomplishment of mind or person,
without 1t was sci in golden or ancestral
casket, and who drove the sense of de-
pendaUcy aud deg 'adation upou this girl,
until madness would have been mcruitul
relief that woman whose early years
were So nurtured should look upon the
as word as q theatre, where her
audience were prepared to boot her
from tie stage-is must natural. But
that a woman Of seuse, like Rebecca,
should be capable OF no gratitude for
friendship, which that seuse told her was
the most disinterested and delicate. A
woman who could not be touched, even
momentarily, by the honest Go herr de-
yoliou Of slavish husband. A woman
whose only child, a sweet, attractive boy,
was an object of aversion aud OF heartess
Sights. Thank God, such creature ex-
lists not II woman without one kindly eel.
ing towards Der species. No, in her
greatest degradation, there blooms In ev-
cry woman heart one Cat leasl) tender
remembrance-one Flower Of teeiug,"
which links her still to humanity. Con-
cealed, it may be, uy the weeds Of sin !;
but 1t is never destroyed. 1t Is the good
seed sown, which might have germluated
anu brought forth apIaut whose branches
would have touched heaven. But here is
woman, accomplished, Of exquisite taste,
who read mankind so accurately thai they
were DER trumps, yet never once guilty OF
a kindly emotion for any one Or anything
Ii is II carlcat.re. Tue actor has conued
his task too we'll, and We see that he has
lot the highest Of Ill accomplishments
that of coucealing his ait.
What shall We say of George Osborne,
but that his counterpart is daily met p
Loved, though inconstant admired,
though false desiring to BE- gentleman,
but letting this very desire compel him to
meauuess which would efface that title
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not cover greater extent than this, after
sufficient was taken out for potato patch
and garden.
Two horses and three COWS constituted
about all the stock. Now there are five
head of horses and upwards of twenty
head of cattle kept. The manure they
make is sufficient for twenty acres Of
ground annually.
BY the increased production of INV
farm, l have been enabled to pay my
debts, erect new building, and to give
my children good, sound practical edu-
cation.
So much, Mr.. Editor, for lime with.
out this fertilizer l could not have lived.
L have never sold more than three
or four loads of hay, nor bought more
than three or four loads of manure. Sew
eral times the wheat crop has yielded
thirty bushels per acre. | paid thirty.
one dollars per acre for my farm, and
refused one hundred and ten.
have written this to show that poor
land may be made good with lime and
the increased amount of manure obtained
as the consequence of its liberal applica.
ton.
Two good horses and a yoke of cattle
were all the working stock used on this
farm for several years. Young farmers
will do we'll to remember that oxen will
do as much work as horses, eat less grain,
require less expensive harness, can be
geared in half the time, can be managed
more safely by boys, and in fine are pre-.
ferable in very many ways.
Bucks county, Jan. 25h, 1864.
REMARKS. In compliance with the
the request of an extensive aud wealthy
farmer in Montgomery Co., who made all
his money by systematic industry, and
has several sons growing up whom he de-
sires to see what Bucks county farmer
has done in the same way, We publish the
foregoing communication from one of the
most intelligent working farmers of Bucks,
every word of which we know to be true.
1t should be read and pondered by every
farmer-especialIy young beginners
whose eye may fall upon it. 1t il valua-
BILE in showing, not merely what Lime
has done, great as its effects are shown to
have been, but what is always sure to fol-
low its proper application, followed by
persistent and judiciously directed labor
in the general cultivation of the farm, to
bring out all its powers of production -
We must lay full stress upon those fright
tul fence corners, the hotbsds of destruct.
i've vegetation to the whole farm, as we'll
as of the gaping bitches to carry off the
soil, manure and portion of the crops
The hard labor and expense in extirpa.
ting the one and filing up the other, any
good farmer can easily imagine. But
with all these Observation-Disclosures noun.
tains to be removed-steady efforts, intel
Ggently applied, throughout all the ope-
rations of the farm, have achieved that
condition ofthings so modestly enumerated
by our correspondents Ed. From the
Germantown Telegraph.
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Qoetita4.

From The People.
THE WISH.
Remote from cities, low but neat,
In some sequestered grove,
An humble cot be my retreat,
The scene of peace and love.
Around my little cottage door
The passion flower should Irvine,
The low matched roof all covered DER
With rose and eglantine.
But what were such gay scenes to me,
Nay all the world beside
Without the one loved, to be
My bosom friend-my guide.
Give me but this-I ask no more,
Nor envy courtly state,
No equipage should at my door
In pompous splendor wait.
With such should, well pleased, behold
The rosy morn appear,
The sun resplendently unfold
The beauties of the sphere.
Well pleased to watch the day decline
Beyond the illumin west
And view the scene, almost divine,
Sink pensively 10 rest.
My morning prayers (wouldst Thou receive
Oh, God, should rise to Thee
The lifting of my hands at eve
A sacrifice should be.
Thus happily in this lone dale
I'd spend youths brightest bloom;
Thus tranquil, journey down life's vale,
And sink into the tomb.
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POWERFUL PILLs.-An itiuerant quack
in Texas was applied to by one of Colonel
Hays rangers to extract the iron part of
an Indian arrow from his head, where it
had lodged for some time. II cannot
'stract this, stranger" said the would-be
doctor, "because to do it would 90 nigh
KILN ye; but l can give ye box Of
pills that will melt it in yer head"
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RJ-As four or FIVE darkies were pass
ing an agricultural implement store on
Broad street, yesterday, one of them point
ing to cultivator, said, GA man kin jist
set on that thing and ride while he's q
plOwin p "Golly," replied another, "the
d--n rascals was too sharp to tink O
dat fore the niggers was free !'-Nash-
vile Banner.
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PoRK.--An English paper says the tri.
chime cannot live at the temperature Of
boiling water, SO that thorough cooking,
by boiling of infected pork, is all that is
required to rend it harmless. This re-
minds the Hartford Press of the old
lady's advice, "Always eat your chestnuts
billed, my son. Billed worms don't never
hurt nobody"
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ssv- A newspaper correspondent says
that in Georgia, where Sherman's army
made sweep of all the carriages, the
ladies now 60 visiting in carts. They call
them cartss de vtsite, and console them
selves with the thought that they are in
the height of the fashion. 49,.
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VOL. X.---NO. %.

ished by the descendants of Southern
races; while his character will stand up
in the twilight Of history like some grand
old cathedral, lifting its imperishable
beauty above the objects of earth, majest-
10 in its vast proportions, awful in its SOL
emn stateliness, sublime in its severe SIM
plicitY." --------
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Mr.. L,NcoLN's WALKING STIoK.-It
is said that the common walking stick used
by Mr.. Lincoln has been given by Mrs.
Lincoln to Frederick Douglass. '"
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@sp There is nearly as much ability re-
quisite to know how to make use Of good
advice, as to know how to act for ones
self