New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-13

accidents, the lady wore veil, just thlck enough
TO simulate any little imperfections in the deco
ration Of her yisage, and, thus protected, ap.
peared in public, accompanied by bevy Of
others Of her sex, gotten up in the same Fashion
able style Of art How do you like the picture,
oh feminine irnitators Of French modes?
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Why ORCHARDS DETERIoRATE-Fruit trees,
like everything else whose austenance is derived
from the earth, are subject to decay, but by i'm
proper management they are often killed before
their natural productive power is half exhausted.
This is not the fault of the variety planted, the To-
calitv nor Of the severity Of the weather except
from want Of thoughto or the cupidty Of the owner.
He plants an orchard, the trees, perhaps, twenty
feet apart. In few years, if they grow well, their
branches will cover large portion of the inter
vening space But some ground Is still unshaded,
and the orchardist thinks it pity that this should
lie waste. The plough is introduced, and what is
the result? Simply this: hundreds and hundreds
of the small fbers, reaching out from the main
roots in search Of sustenance for the trunk, are
severed; their absorbing and conducting power is
destroyed, and the trees and branches sustained
BY their active functions wither; il easesto yield
its wanted burden Of fruit, and after few years
of languid life, pTematurely dies .l
The truth Is, the farmer asks too much OF his
soil wants it to mpart yisor and trqittulness to
IRON nifty to eighty trees t3 the acre, besides gy-
ing him crop Of corn or potatoes annually. 10
secure the last he cuts the thousands OF hbefs OF
his trees with tile plow, and then wonders why his
orchard decays and dies prematurely. This is bad
fromthe soil. Give it a chance to nourish and
sustain one product to full development, rather
than by a multiplication Of them to secure stinted |
samples Of immature ones. The earth properly ma
nured and TILED, is muniticent in its gifts to man
when overtaxed by multiplicity # eXactions its |
response to his labors will be feeble aud unsatis-
faetory.-[ Rural New Yorker
How PRUSSIA OUTwIrrED THE FIRST NAPO- I
LEON AND CREATED HER GREAT ARMY.-SiEty
years since, after the famous battle of Jena, Ma
| poIeon imposed the defeated Prussians the
obligation Of limiting their military establishment
to strength Of Il 000 men 1t was impossible to
contradict the emperor, and not easy, as might be
thought, to deceive him but the device was &C.
| complished by SCharnhorst, the war minister at
| the time, who not only evaded the decree of
Napoleon, but laid the foundations of that military
strength which has just been displayed in career
of une xamped triumph. Schornhorst did restrict
the actual or visible army of Prussia to the speci-
fed numbers, but he kept this army in state OF
perpetual change.
lis constitution never remained the same for
twelve months together, but resembled the waters
Of lake which receives river at one end ana
discharges it at the other. As soon as recruit
was thoroughly drilled and had become an
effective soldier, he was dismissed to his nome,
and fresh recruit was received in his place, to
be again disciplined and again dismissed. The re-
suit of this system was, that the standing army
became but specimen corps of nation OF
soldiers. For every soldier in the ranks there
were five as good as he in the body of the people
all ready at the first call Of the trumpet to re-
enter the line of the army.
When therefore, seven years after her great
defeat, Prussia once more rose force OF 100000
admirably disciplined appeared in the place Of an
army which Napoleon believed he had cut down
to fifth of that number. The Prussians were not
ungratefu to their benefactor To this day the
statue of Scharnhorst in white marble stands by
the side of the great guard house in the great
, thoroughfare of Berlin--a record of military sa
s"oi''' % 81 90 =" tonarn Times 18th ult
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: We learn that an ARRAY occurred at BuCking
? ham Courthouse, on Saturday evening last, he
tween lawyer named James Leach, and Anthony
! Walton and his son, whose given name we DID no
hear, which resulted in the death OF the eidel
Walton, aud the mortal wounding Of his son. The
affair grew out Of supposed criminal intimac.
e between the wife of the elder Walton and Leach
: the facts OF which. however, it is proper to say
2 had been fully investigated by mutual friends 0
both parties and by them pronounced entirely un
founded, and twas supposed by all that the Wh0l
matter had been settled to the satisfaction OF tn
If Waltons. This, it appears, was not the case,
|. young Walton, meeting with Leach on the stree
! Saturday, asked of him further explanations, an
- while they were talking the matter over, som
l. otficiOus friend went 10 the house of the eide
r. Walton, and told him his son and Leach were er
: gagged IN difficulty, and the father proceeded a
7 once to where they were.
l. Upon getting near enough he Immediately dre'
his pistol and hred without effect, at Leach, VIII
ar returned the fire, his ball striking him in the necE
the wound terminating fatally in few minutes
The younger walton anu Leach then commence
8, firing at each other, one OF Leach balls penera
ing the abdomen OF Walton, lntlcting mort
tie wound. Leach hImseh was Qnhurt. Alter III
shooting he surrendered himself to the officers
Up the law, ana was tfed ana aGq,utteo upon III
g. ground of having acted in self defense.
eF bicIy Prnsnnctehlp and liz traqica1 results Al
6st laaIy Ian1nrad Nv tLe entire community
Al t'-0'' tI.yncsburs (ya3 News
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A MAGNIFICENT RACE COUNSEL had d
~ lightful day yesterday in a drive through IL