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Year: 1859

ONE V0TE!-If any Democrat knows
where there is one democratic vote which
is in doubt or which may not get into tho
ballot box on Tuesday; see that It is secured,
One vote may turn the tido of ward or
township it may, possibly decide the COM
plexion Of the county. Don't neglect it.
Year: 1859

LosT.-Y Yesterday, somewhere in the city (for
we cannot say where) 6ne, solid gold Masonic
Emblem Pin--the figure of Justice with dag
ger pointing at heart. The finder will be
compensated by leaving it at this office.
Year: 1859

ANOTHER ACCIDENT FROM HOoPs--As q
young lady who lives in Cincinnati, and was
on her way home from Muncis, Ind, was
alighting from the GrsenVille cars yesterday
afternoon, at the Union Depot her foot
caught in one Of the hoops Of her skirt, and
she was thrown violently down, falling on a
bird cage which she had in her hand, in
which were two beautiful canary birds,
mAshing the cage and killing one of the
birds. The lady was not seriously injured
Year: 1859

~ On Thursday last, we were up the river
on fishing excursion, in the neighborhOod Of
Johnson's Station, d. d Nj. Road, when we
met couple Of youngsters-one a school teach
er, and the other typo-from this city. lug
ging big basket of lunch, and in search OF
Sunderland Fallsl We suppose they Travelled
two or three miles with that basket, and when
we last saw them they were about three miles
from the point of search, pretty well tagged
down, and on the wrong side of the riverl-
Have they found Sunderland Fallsl
Year: 1859

G-Tour compsitor made mistake yesterday
in name. He said the Montgomery" when
he should have said the Washington" Guard
will picnic on the County Fair Grounds, on the
4th. We learn that the Lafayette Guard will
not picnic on the 4th, as we were informed
yesterday by member of the Company.
Year: 1859

AN INcDENT.-The Baltimore Sun relates
the following incident, which occurred at
the execution Of the four men at Baltimore.


Elijah alias Boney Lee, "a friend Of one
of the men who were hanged was confined
in room which overlooked the scafold.
When the trap of the scaffold fell it caused
him to tremble with agony. On the instant
the fourth finger on his left hand became
suddenly dead and, the blood leaving it the
finger commenced shriveling up; in few
moments the palm of his hand became blush.
and sharp pain extended along the arm to
the elbow severe pain also struck him in
the back of the head Medical attendance
was summoned as quickly as possible, and he
appeared to recover.
Year: 1859

An enterprise was formally inauguratea in
this city, yeaterday; that will not be without
deep and enduring effect upon the ecclesias-
teal and civil polity Of the country. We refer


OF course, to tho Tract Convention called for
the purpose Of organizing NATIONAL TRACT
socmrr, which Will take the place in Christian
endeavor that the American Tract Society
criminally and persistenuv refuses to
ocupy. We need not disguise trom
our readers the fact that hatred of
American Slavery, dislike of its recognition as
..one Of the institutions Of the country which


Ct1ristianity may not rebuke and discourage,


and proper appreciation Of the double-dealipg
and uuchristian seryilitv that hove marlad
the policy Of the old association, are at tie bot


tom Of this new movement We should take
away from it one. Of it's strongest claims IL
Year: 1859

WHAT CONSTITUTES AN AMPUTATIoN.-
The Cheltenham (England) Board of Guar
dams are Mt loggerheads with Mr.. Walters
one of their medical officers. He charged
the amputation fee y for cutting off por
ton of n mans thumb, and the Board con-
tend that this is not an amputation." 1t
was determined that the clerk should write
to the Poor Law Board to ask whether
the amputation of the first phalanx of the
thumb was such an amputation as was con-
templated by the Act of Parliament, the
Board considering the same 10 he only a re-
moval of portion of the thumb.''-E1


The man owning the thumb could have
readily answered the question. He would
have told them that it hurt badly enough
to be considered an amputation.
Year: 1859

LoyERs.-There is not in all nature, any
thing so utterly ridiculous as man SO much
in love as not to be able to conceal it from
the rest of the company. Not only is he
ridiculous, but, in time, he gets to he a reg
ular nuisance, and is as impertinent and
tiresome as he was at first laughable. He is
always either extremely happy or wonder
fully wretched, without any apparent cause.
This class of lovers who would give their
fortune for a curl of their sweethearts hair,
or a piece of her shoe-string, generally make
the worst husbands ia the world
Year: 1859

The State ofMssissippi has not yet organ
lied a regular system of popular education
at public expense, but the idea is becoming
more and more popular, so that the optional
adoption of the public school system is
spreading in the more popuious counties.
A bill is no " before the Legislature to create
the Office of State Supcrindent of Public
Schools, with n salary of 81, 800.
Year: 1859

God save the states.
God bless our native land
Firm nay she ever stand


Through storm aud night
When the Wild temPests rave,
Ruler Of Wind and wave
10 thou our country save,


BY thy great might.
For her our prayers shall rise,
To God above the skies,


On him We wait.
Lord, hear our nations cry
Be thou forever nigh;
May freedom never die;


God save the States
Year: 1859

passes into it, with equal facility and with.
out any tax upon the rest of the SYSTEM
This is manifestly an error. All food has
to be ground up before it can be assimilated
and pass into the circulation of the animal.
If food is not arti6cially prepared by cutting,
grinding or steaming, the animal has to
prepare it himself so far as he is able
Certain kinds of food will pass through the
system, imparting to it only part of their
nutriment, because the animal has not per-
fectly musticated it. Whole kernels of corn
or of oats are often seen in the fnces of an
old horse.


The more perfectly food can be prepared,
the more completely will the system appro-
pirate it's nutriment. If the whole labor OF
grinding up the food is thrown upon the an
imal, it is serious tax upon the vital ener-
gy which every good farmer wants for 9th
er purposes. In the case of the horse and
OK, you want the strength applied to loco
motion and draught.


Whatever strength is applied to grinding
food, is so much taken away from their ca
pacity for labor. If three or four hours of
strong muscular labor are spent in working
up hay or straw into pulp, there is great
loss Of strength and of time.


In the case of fattening animals you want
the aliment to 60 to the formation of fat
flesh. This process goes on successfully,
just as the animal is kept quiet and comfor-
table. No useless labor should be expend-
ed in the grinding up of food. The straw
cutter, working up the hay into fragments
of half an inch in length or less, performs a
good part Of the working of the jaws, and
makes the feeding of the animal still light
matter. If the hay could be ground up in
to fine meal it would be still better as it
would make the work of the animal still
lighter, would more completely yield up its
nutriment. If it could be steamed it would
be best of all, as it would then be wholly ap-
propriated.


We have no doubt that it pays quite as
we'll to pass hay thrugh the machine, as the
coarsest fodder. A root cutter is also an
indispensable adjunct to the barn, and the
more perfectly it communicates the roots the
better.


The farmer who has ever experienced with
thasa aaah;1a4a-a4.l,
feeding with hay and roots prepared in this
way, can have no doubt Of their utility
Laziness. we apprehend, has quite as much
to do with these machines as ignorance. 1t
is work to turn the crank to cut up hay e.
nough to feed twenty head of cattle; and In
prospect of spending the elbow grease, it is
very convenient to believe that it will not
pay. Sloth, however, is a poor counsellor
in this case, as in all others. We should as
soon think of feeding them with uncut straw,
A warm stable and strawcutter are both
good investments Go,oard's Register.
Year: 1859

There are many cultivators of the soil
who seem to have no we'll defined purpose
in their husbandry. They have no plans
laid far ahead, which they are seeking to
realize in their practice. They exist rather
than live, are lstless in their efforts, and
attempts to cultivate. Everything about
them wear an aspect of decay. The farm
buildings are never repaired while it is pos
sible to get along without it. You can see
the gaps in the roof, where the winds have
blown off the shingles, and the missing
boards and swinging clapboards from the
sides of the building. The fences are never
reset, no stones are dug from the moving
fields, and no drains are made in the swamps
and low lands. They simply contrive to get
along, their lands and themselves growing
poorer every year.


There is another class, who have purpose
and energy enough, but it is not wisely di-
rected. Their aim in farming is to get the
most possible out of the soil and to put the
least possible back, in the shape of composts
and fertilizers. Their whole farming ope-
rations are based upon the theory that the
soil is living we'll that will always send
IofCn lCS WdIeTS DIS louS dS tutIe Is any UVuy
to draw. They plant and sow as long as
they can get remunerative crops, and. then
either sell out, or resort to concentrated fer
tilizers, which stimulate the soil to part with
its last elements of fertility, and leave il
nearly barren. They are generally ener.
getic men, work hard, and push their help
as hard as they do their acres. They plant
very large breadth of land, and in few
years exhaust whole farm. They do not
believe in plowing in crops, or in making
compost, or in saving the stable manures.
They cannot see any utility in carting dirt
into the barn-yard, and then carting it out
again. It looks like a waste of labor. Il
near the shore, they rely upon fish to slim
ulate the soil. when it fails to produce 9th
erwise, and thus crop after crop of grain and
grass is taken off, until the land is exhaust
ed Of carbon, and runs to sorrel IF inland
they rely upon Peruvian Guano, which in
few years serves the soil in the same man
ner. The theory of these farmers is to get
great crops, at whatever expense to the
land, This is the skinning method of farm
ing, and the more energy these farmers have
the sooner the land is ruined. .i--45


Now, We believe the chief aim in al good
Year: 1859

KNOWLEDGE gives station and commands
respect. However poor man may be,
should he display any endeavors after self:
Improvement. he gains position in the
esteem of those who know him, and finds
that his power of being useful in the world
is greatly increased. To be respected fol
knowledge and good conduct is far more
gratifying than to be looked up to as the
owner of title. A workman of such a
character secures the confidence and appro-
baton of his employers. and has the oppor-
tunity Of bene6tting his fellov-laborers by
example,
Year: 1859

An intelligent farmer asked for the phil
osphy of cutting hay. He can understand
that it is useful to cut corn stalks and coarse
fodder, because cattle will eat it better.
But when the cattle will eat good English
hay perfectly clean, why should it be passed
through the hay cutter?


Our friend evidently supposes that the
stomach does its work upon everything that
Year: 1859

CURE FOR HYDRoPHoBIA-Mr. Renatus Bachman
writes to the Albany Journal as follows:


In perusing this mornings paper observed case
of hydrophobia, which thus far has been stumbling
block for physicians in general to overcome feel in
duty bound, gentlemen, as AM in possession of an
intalible remedy for thatmosttobe lamented disease
here to make it public, especially when attended with
scarcely any expense, hoping those afflicted will make
timely use of it,


"'Recipe-Dissolve pint of common table salt in a
pint Of boiling water scarify the part affected freely
then apply the salt water with a cloth as the
patient can bear it repeating the same for at least
hour


1.-The same recipe has been successfully applied for
the bite of rattesnakes hope thus to be instrumental
in rescuing human life"
Year: 1859

HE SUBSCRIBER being desirOus to change his business,
i offers for sale valuable TRACT OF LAND containing
from eight to nine thousand acres of which from three
four thousand we'll adapted the raising of Ground
Peas There also the tract four hundred
Of swamp land Of which about eighty cleared and highly
productive.


The improvements of the best character For terms
which will be made very accommodating. apply to


D. W. JORDAN,


Little River, S c..
JnlY Sth. 1859 45tf
Year: 1859




I n CONSEQUENCE of the death of my partner, S. F.
i Collins offer for sale that valuable STEAM SA W MILL,
owned by the firm of Collins Shine, situated in Darien,
Ca and in good running order further description is
deemed unnecessary persons wishing purchase will
doubt look for themselves. Apply to the subscriber at Da
rien. d. Y. SHINE.
o. 43-3m
Year: 1859

These Gums remove all
morbid or bad matter from
the system, supplying in
their place a healthy flow
OF bile, invigorating the
stomach, causing food to
digest well, purifying the
blood, giving tone and
health to the whole ma
chlnery, re m wing tn e
cause ofthe disease-effect-
ing a radical cure.


Bilious attacks are cured,
and. what is better, preven-
ted by the occasional use
of the Liver Invigorator.


One dose after eating is
sufficient to relieve t h e
stomach and prevent the
food from rising and sour
ing.


Only one dose taken be-
fore retiring, prevents s
nightmare.


Only one dose taken at
night, loosens the bowels
gently, and cures cOStiUe-
ness.


One dose taken after each
meal will cure Dyspepsia.


One dose Of two teaspoon
fnls will always relieve SICK
Headache.


Only one dose immediate
ly relieves CoIic, while
Year: 1859

SITUATION as Teacher, either in a School private


family to teach the Classes and ordinary English branch
The best of testimonials given for learning and moral
character. Apply at the JOURNAL OFFICE.


June 10. 41'Sm
Year: 1859

PEACHES The first peach of the sea-
son was laid on our table yesterday by
Alex. Mandich. 1t was luscious one,
like a lot of the same kind he has for
sale on the corner of Commercial and
Pine streets.
Year: 1859

n L 4 d n
Come one Come all-that is if you have the
CASH to pay for the best BEEF and Meats in the
mountains Meats wholesale, meats by the quarter
side or carcass Cheap as the cheapest, and the
hest Live Stock for sale at all times
n B-Not to be different from others we invite
old friends and patrons to stay away unless they
have the CASH.


CUAS KENT.
Year: 1859

HINTS FOR TRAvELLERs,--We have sell
dom met with anything more to the point
than the following hints to travellers, ta-
ken from Halls journal Of Health. They
recommend themselves to all; Take one
fourth more money than your actual esti-
mated expenses. Acquaint yourself with
the geography Of the route and region OF
travel. Have good supply of change,
and have no bill Or piece higher than ten
dollars, that you may not take counterfeit
change. So arrange as to have but sin
gle article Of luggage to look after.
Dress substantially; better be too hot for
two or three hours at noon, than to be too
cool for the remainder Of the twenty-four.
Arrange, under all circumstances, to be at
the place of starting fifteen or twenty min
utes before the time, thus allowing for
unavoidable or unanticipated detention on
the way. Do not commence days trav-
el before breakfast, even if that has to be
eaten at daylight. Dinner or supper, or
both, can be more BEAUTIFULLY dispensed
with than a good warm breakfast. Put
your purse and watch in your vest pocket,
and put all under your pillow, and you
will not be likely to leave either. The
most, if not secure fastening of your cham
Der door is a common bolt on the inside;
if thore is none, lock the door, turn the
key so that it can be drawn partly out
and put the wash-basin under it thus any
attempt to use jimmy or put in another
key, will push it out, and cause a racket
among the crockery, which will be pretty
certain to rouse the sleeper and route the
robber A sizpenny sandwich eaten lei
surely in the cars is better for you than
dollar dinner bolted at station" Take
with you a months supply of patience,
always think thirteen times before you re-
ply once to any supposed rudeness, in
suit or inattention. Do not suppose your
self specially and designedly neglected, if
waters at hotels do not bring what you
call for in double quick time; nothing SO
distinctly marks the well-ored man as a
quiet waiting on such occasions passion
proves the puppy. Do not allow yourself
to converse in a tone loud enough to be
heard by person at two Or three seats
from you; it is the mark OF a boor il in a
man, and of want of refinement and lady
like delicacy, if in q woman, A gentle
man Is not noisy; ladies are serene.
Comply cheerfully and gracefully with the
customs Of the conveyance in which you
travel, and OF the place where you stop.
Respect yourself by exhibiting the man
ners Of a gentleman and lady, if you
wish to be treated as such, and then you
will receive the respects OF others. Trav-
el is a great leyeller take the position
which others assign you from your con-
duct rather than from your pretensions.
Year: 1859

To Stop BLEEDING OF THE NosE.-
Bleeding from the nose is very frequent
in young people. Generally this is
checked by the person sitting upright,
bathing the nose externally with cold
water, or vinegar and water, and shifting
it up the nostril. If, however, it continue,
moderate pinch of powdered alum may
be put into couple Of tablespoonfuls of
water, and thrown up with squirt ; or
plug of cotton dipped in this wash may be
passed into the bleeding nostril, for gen.
orally it is only one side which does bleed;
but care should be taxed to fasten strong
thread securely round it, lest it be pushed
in or slip SO far back into the nostril that
it cannot be got cut without much diff.
Guilty. When there is frequent disposition
to bleeding from the nostrils, it is neces.
sary to prevent costiveness, and to take
some saline purge continually, SO as to
keep the bowels rather relaxed. Persons
who are subject to severe headaches, fol,
owed by bleeding of the nose, should
never try to arrest the latter suddenly,
but allow it to bleei freely for some time
in order to prevent congestion Of the brain


--Scisnt1fc Amer1caa.
Year: 1859

The BIBLE THE KEY To THE HEART.-
If l had a lock of very complicated con-
struction, and there was only one key that
would unlock it, should feel very sure
that key was made by one who understood
the construction of that lock, So when |
find that, Notwithstanding all the windings
and mysteries of iniquity in the human
heart, the Bible, and the Bible only, is
adapted to it throughout, and is able to
penetrate its most secret recesses, I am
constrained to believe that the Bible was
made by him who alone knoweth the
hearts of the children of men. - Daniel
W66Stsr.
Year: 1859

LIVING BEYOND ONES MEANs.-Ihis is
a delicate subject, but good hint Is given
by late writer -" The line of difference
between living within ones means, and
living beyond them, may sometimes be
difficult to draw, so as to give the greatest
proper limit to free expenditure For in
stance, man may be able to keep horse
and buggy, aud live within his means, who
if he were to keep two horses and 3 car
riage would be living beyond them. A
man may keep fine house in the city, and
be well able to afford it, who, as soon as
he builds another in the country, is going
farther than his money vii! follow. 4
man may give an ice cream party, and
not feel it, who, when he gives fancy
dress ball, will suffer for it a month after
wards. A man may pick his teeth on the
St. Nicholas, and be living frugally with
in his means, who if. he were once to pay
for his dinner at that hotel, would not have
a cant left for bis supper When man
is conscious that he is straiuing point
for splendid house, or fast horse, or a
grand soiree, or an extrayagant table, he
may be sure, that he is the man who is

living beyond his means -
Year: 1859

Some intoxicated young fellow reeled
up to dramatist, and said, Can you
tell US the way to the Judge and Jury ?"
Keep on as you are, young gentleman, %
was the reply you are sure to overtake
them
Year: 1859

In its crude state, Gutta Percha has no re
semblance whatever to India Rubber, nor are
its chemical or mechanical properties the same
nor does the tree from which it is taken be.
long to the same family of trees, or grow in
the same soil yet, from the fact that it can
be dissolved, and wrought into waterproof
wares, many, not informed upOn the subject
have inclined to the belief that the two ma
terials are identically, or very nearly the same
But nothing could be more erroneous, as may
be seen by the following comparisons:


Gutta Percba is produced from the ISonan.
dra or Gutta tree is u sap of brownish
color which, when exposed to the air. soon
solidfeS, and forms the Gutta Percha of com.
merce. 1t is fbrous material much reSem.
bling the inner coat of white oaS bark, is ex-
tremely tenacious, and without elasticity or
much fexibility +; may be melted and cooled
any number of times without injury for furth-
er manufacture is not injured by coming in
contact with grease or other fatty substances
reSists the action of sulphuric, muriatic, and
nearly every other acid is non-conductor
of electricity, as well as of heat and cold
When exposed to boiling water it contra, is
and becomes soft like dough, when it may be
moulded into any desirable shape, which it
will retain when cool has all exceedingly fine
oily grain, and is not an absorbent, but per-
feet repellant of water


India Rubber, or Caoutchouc, is produced
from milk white sap, taken chiefly from the
SGphoca Cahuca tree, which sooa cOagulates
when the whey is pressed out, or dried off by
heat-the residue is the India Rubber of com.
merce. 1t is of 4 soft gummy nature, not
very tenacious and astonishingly elastic
When reduced to a liquid bv heat it appears
like tar, and is unfit for further manufacture
BY coming in contact with grease or other fat
ty substances it is soon decomposed, and ruin
ed for further use If brought in contact with
suphuric, muriatic, and other acids it soon
chars it. 1t is a conductor of heat, cold and
electricity exposed TO the action of boiling
water does not lose its elastic properties, in
creases in bulk and cannot be moulded is
not perfect repelant of water, but more OF
less absorbent


The term "vulcanized is applied to fabrics
of Gutta Percha or India Rubber, which have
been cured or tanned, by submitting them to
high degree of artificial heat the object
being to change the nature of the gum, SO it
will not afterward be affected by heat and cold


Gutta Percha is vulcanized for the purpose
of giving it elasticity and pliabity, and is Ell,
trely free from unpleasant odor will not de-
compose and become sticky under any circum
stances. When exposed to friction it wears
away dry is still a non-conductor, and by
vulcanization is not injured in its iucompara'
BILE repellant properties.


India Rubber is vulcanzed to reduce its
elasticity, and give it more frmness than is
natural to the crude material.
Year: 1859

ELECTRICITY IN CArS-The extraordinary
electrical character of the cat is well known
On cold bright day, if cat be stroked, the
hairs Of the tnr bristIe and electrical sparks
issue therefrom, accompanied with a slight
cracking. l. appears too ;hat the animal
may be 50 Surcharged with electricity that
it will give Il severe shock to the holder. In
order to obtain this result, the cat should be
placed on the knees and one hand applied to
its breast while the other is employed in
stroking its fur. Cracking and SparkleS soon
make their appearance, and in short time, if
the party continues to stroke the animal, he
will receive sharp electrical shock that may
he felt above the wrists. The cat seems TO
suffer as much as the eXpcrimenter, for on
giving forth the shock she springs to the ground
in terror and seldom will permit repetition
Of the same process.