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Year: 1860

PRorAoATrNG FRUrT TREEs.-The Chinese have
singular method of propagating fruit trees
They stripa ring of bark, about an inch in width,
from bearing branch, in the spring of the year.
The place is then surrounded with ball of rich
earth or loam bound to the limb with piece Of
mating. Over this is suspended small vessel
containing water, and having n hole in the bot.
tom, just large enough to let the water drop
slowly through the ball OF earth. in order to keep
it moist. Roots spring out from the branch, just
above the ring and enter the ball of Garth, where
they grow and spread out In the autumn. the
limb l. cut off just below the ball, and then plant
ed out at the time Of the fall of the leaf. Tho
following year, this small tree produces fruit.
Year: 1860

PAY AZ You Go.-Good doctrine--frst rate
admirable philosophy-more good sense and
more economy in these four wsrds, than most of
people are aware Of If you take paper. pay
as you go; if you trade with merchant, pay as
you go; your butcher, your baker. your tailor.
pay as you 60 It's the philosophers stone--we
wish it was impressed on some peoples heart
with sledge hammer. Pay you gol Yes.
folks; pay as you go, and you'll never be trou-
bled with duns staring you in the face when you
least expect il. Pay you go and you'll never
be tormented by sherif's Or magistrates Pay az
you 60; tho weather will never seem gloomy.
and the skies will always be bright Pay as You
go-and you'll never have q wave Of trouble to
roll across your peaceful breast.
Year: 1860

How TO SPOIL a GIR--Tell her she Is little
lady, and must not run. and make her a sun bon
net a yard deep, to keep her from tanning. Do
not let her play with her boy cousinr. they are
30 rude" Tell her not to speak loud, it Is 60
masculine aud that loud laughing isquite ungen-
teel. Teach her music, but never mind her SPELL
ing. Give her earrings at Elk years Of age
Teach her TO set her cap for the beaux at eleven.
And after your pans-tsking, il che does not
grow up a smperilg, unrehecting nobody. that
cannot answer love-letter without some smart
old aunt to help her, give her up--she is past all
remedy
Year: 1860

A WDEs PRArkR--If there is anything that
comes nearer TO the imploration Of Naomi than
the snhioined. We have not seen it: y.


Lord. bless and protect that dear person whom
Thou hast chosen 10 be my husband let his life
he long and blessed. comfortable and holy; and
let me also become great blessing and comfort
unto him; a sharer in all his sorrowa q meet
helper in all the accidents s,d changes In the
world; make me amiable forever in his eyes,
and forever dear to him. Unite his heart to mo
in the dearest love and holiness, and nline to
him in all the sweetness. charity and compliance.
Keep me from all ungentleness. all discontented-
ness and unreasonableness of passion and humor.
and make me humble and obedient useful and
observant, that We may delight each other &C
cording to Thy blessed Word. and both Of US
may rejoice in Thee, having our portion in the
love aud service Of God forever. Amen.
Year: 1860

PLEASING ANTICIPATIoN.--The Mountain
Democrat thinks that the Douglas members
of the Legislature on the meeting of that
body will have anything but pleasant
time--that the former supporters of Brode-
rick and the late converts TO the Douglas
faith will each desire supremacy and never
fuse. 1t says that without concession they
cannot act in concert, and neither faction
is disposed to concede. In view Of the well
known proclivities of the Democrat it is
probable the risk is for the thought. A
first trip to the circus could not please a
little boy more than would fare up of the
kind suggested by the Democrat The an
ticipation pIeases it.-[Sac. News.
Year: 1860

HAPPY WoMEN.-A happy woman! Is not
A woman who is happy because she can't help
it-whose smile even the celdest sprinkle of
misfortune cannot dampen. Men make a ter
rible mistake when they marry for beauty, for
talent, or for style; the sweetest wives are
those who possess the magic secret of being
con tented under any circumstances. Rich or
poor, high or low, it makes no difference; the
bright little fountain of joy bubbles up just
as musically in their hearts. Do they live in
log cabin the fire light that leaps on its
humble hearth becomes brighter than the gild-
ed chandeliers in an Aladdin palace. Was
ever the stream of life so dark and unpropi-
tious that the sunshine of a happy face falling
across its turbid tide, would not awaken an
answering gleam2 Why, these joyous tenn
pered people don't know half the good they
do.
Year: 1860

Posting Lands.-Many OF the farmers along
the line OF the Richmond and York River
Railroad are posting their lands because Of
the horde OF trespassers in search of game


More than one farmer has lost turkeys and


barn-yard fowls mysteriously, and many Of
them complain Of being very much annoyed


by Sunday pot hunters.
Year: 1860

In Doabt-Yesterday was day of anxiety
with those who had wagers on the result OF the
late elec tion In Virginia. The votes as far as


received, indicated SO close a race between
Breckinridge and Bell, that the official returns
may yet be necessary to a correct decision.
Year: 1860

Cnion Fair--The ladies are now holding a


fair at Mechanics Hall, the object being to
raise funds for the erec lion OF a new house OF
worship, and they invite the public TO aid
them in their enterprise. Besides q variety OF


useful and fancy articles, their refres hmen


tables are well stored with whatever can de-


light the palate Of the most fastdious epicure
Year: 1860

SLOW AND SURE-We may learn somethin q
from our German citizens. They thrive 0l
the same income that a Yankee would star
on. We knew young German whose capi-
tai, when he landed on our shores, consisted
OF singularly constructed suit OF blue clothes
and long tailed pipe. Yet in five years he
mad house and lot money at interest, a wife
and two babies, and any Quantity of domestic
ollss ana picked cabbage. During the most of
TINS time our meritorious friend received a
salary OF only six dollars a week A Yankee
might have received five times that sum and
come out head over ears in debt. The fact is
Germans have very sensible notions of life
They are not fast They drink beer and smoke
pipes with astonishingly long stems, but they
are not addicated to calling on" multitudin-
Gus baskets of expensive Heidsick. They are
industrious and economical. They know
enough to lay up something for a rainy day
which is a great deal more than some Ameri-
cans know. Many Americans seem to think
that they will have no difficulty in borrowing
umbrellas when the fnanc ciaI rainy day comes
but they ascertain their mistake when the
time arrives, and are too ,ften forced to seek
shelter IN the poor-house or go and live with
their parents. Meanwhile our Teutonic
friend goes pleasantly ahead, raising garden
sauce and babies and cons tantly waxing rich
er, fatter and jolier. We repeat, that we may
learn something from our German citizens
Cleveland Piaindsater.
Year: 1860

Wendell Phillips, at the great Brown sym
pathising meeting in Boston, among many
other eXtravagant sayings made one frank
and honest admission. lie said:


81 expected and do expect insurrection.--
1t is the result of anti slavery teaching"


That is all the Democracy have ever claim
ed, the result is natural it is inevitable
Aud the second fruits of the fatal Upas tree
of Anti-slavery agitation will he disunion.
1t is against these poison results the Demo
cracy desire to guard They accepted the
constitution as the focal point around which
the craftsmanship should rally, and at the
same time that they declared for the Union,
they swore to protect it with their best
blood. These fanatics would destroy it, and
hence the conflict. The time is now at hand
when the question will he solved whether
we are to remain united, happy and pros.
porous people, or whether we are TO be torn
Is i"tarnal dlssensions-severe by fratrici-
dial life. May God protect tlTo4fTgIiT. ----7'


Cdlo0eros Chronicle.
Year: 1860

Always put the saddle on the ight horse.
AL is not lost that is in peril.


All is not won that is put in the purse.
All is not ready in an orderly house.
All men think their enemies i'll men.
An open door may tempt saint.


An ASS covered with gold is more respect
ed than a good horse with pack saddle.
Year: 1860

Yesterday morning the proprietor Of
the Union House, No. 673 West Sixth
street, found one Of his boarders, Peter
Minch, lying dead in his room. The
deceased had been ailing for some days,
but Saturday evening, just before he re-
tired to his apartment for the night, re-
piled. in answer to the landlordythat he
felt in excellent health: the next that
was seen or heard of him he was a corpse.
Coroner Carey repaired to the place
yesterday morning and held an inquest
the jury returning a verdict OF death
from congestion Of ahe BRAIN, -accelera-
ted by taking quack medicine for the
cure Of fever and ague.-Gx- oas.
Year: 1860

The New York Herald concludes a
long article on the Opposition party and
it's candidates with this sentence:


The result of this election will be to
break up either the Republican or the
Democratic, and to make the new party
the opposition during the next Presi-
dency. Thus, if the Democrats should
be beaten, they will be extinguished as
party, and will have to fall into the
ranks of the Union opposition; or should
the Republican party be overthrown,
that will be the last of them, and the
scattered fragments will be absorbed by
the Union party, which would thus in
due time present formidable opposi-
ton to the triumphant Democracy.
Year: 1860

The Quarterly Returns of the Revenue and EIpend-
ture which published yesterday tell their own story
Indeed there is nothing from which mystery has so ut
tery departed Taxation has become purely engineer


ing process given the rover, and you know the result
Last session the Chancellor of the Exchequer put ad
donal fourpence on the Propertyax for the current
year, and as the greater part Of the addition entered in
the Quarter just ended the result is the amazing f.
cures of O02 O0Ol, against 1890 in the CORES
ponding Quarter of last year. It has been done by the
stroke of pen. We all remember how pleasantly Mr..
Gladstone told the House they must pay another four
pence, and how sweetly they took the infection
There was hardly a murmur and, if there was, Mr..
till, in the account of this Quarter alone though, Of
Year: 1860

One of the lnen who accompanied John Brown to
Harper's Ferry, says the Providence (R. H. Herald,
had sister in Maine, who was working for seventy


five cents week to support her aged father and mother
but who willing to spare something to bring her
wandering brother home. The fellow was too busy in
bis work of philanthropy to heed her appeals and now
fills dishonored grave. John Brown himself was not
much better. The Pawtucket Gazette says A gen.
teman OF Worcester Mass, who went to North Elba,
for the purpose OF accompanying Mrs. Brown to Vir-
gira to receive the remains of her husband gave an
account of his Journey after his return to Worcester
We are informed that he found the family miseraby
poor-in want of the common necessares of LIFE in fact


and that clothing had to be procured for Mrs. Brown
before she could start on her journey. A sympathizer
with Brown who heard the narrative, away with
the conviction that however strong might have been his
sympathy for the colored man, he could have cared
little for his own white wife and children. Cooks phi
lanhropy rather more OF the practical sort Ii he
did not look out for s wife, he certainly had eye to
the interests of some of her relatives. re ex
tract from Charlestown letter to the New ork Herald
which throws some light upon his character


q have just learned an incident of Cook, which be-
trays the great philanthropy of his magnanmous heart
for the slave. This get from gentleman who is per-
ecty cognzant of the fact 1t is, that few days pre-
vious to the Harpers Ferry affair, Cook engaged
in shooting at target at Knoxville four miles from the
Ferry, with several boys.


AFTER he had done, he called on a Mrs. Hughes, an
aunt OF his wife, and strongly advised her to sell slave
man, stating that there might something turn up to
der him vaueess that if she would consent to sell
him. he knew gentleman who would buy the man and
give her $1,000 for him. This was strong point
against Cook and clearly proved his utter reckessness
and weakness of character, and his real disposition If
such sample OF his philanthropy and love of the
slave it is to be reoced at that such hypocrite has
been punished In SO appropriate way"
Year: 1860

Gov. ELL1s-The following article from the Char
lotte Democrat will meet the cordial approval of every
Democrat in North Carolina


DEMOCRATIC MEET1NGs.-We notice that in vari-
parts Of the State Democratic meetings have been
held for the purpose of appointing delegates the State
Convention to be held at Raleigh on the 9Th Of March
for the purpose of nominating Democratic candidate
for Governor and to District Conventions to select dele
gates to the National Convention at Charleston.


In every meeting so far the administration of Gov.
Ellis has been cordially approved, and he recommended
for denomination. We believe this the sentiment of
the Democracy of the whole State Of course it is ex
pected that we should be friendly disposed to Gov Ellis
and his administration but say sincerely that
in all our intercourse with politicians and public officers
we have never found who more anxious to dis
charge bis duties honestly fairly and in such way as
would promote the interests of the State and her cit
zens, than John w. Ellis. While he is decided party
man, his actions not governed entirely by political
or sectional considerations but by earnest desire to
do right and discharge the responsible duties of his Off
cal station so that ortiz Carolina may have honor and
the people profit thereby'
Year: 1860

LOOK UP, 1E DIsCONsOLATE.
HNO ANY WHO MAY BE AFFLICTED WITH THAT


dreadful and grievous malady called CANCER, any
thing of cancerous nature, call at my residence twelve
miles West of Society H Darlington District So. Ca and
they have attention No cure charge board
or services rendered. In all must know how am
get my pay, after have done the work.


Ian 13 lS5Q O.. HALE n
Year: 1860

OF all people in the world, the shareholders of the
South have been in their business and their pecunary
profits the most successful Nothing like the magni-
tude of their large and continually increasing gains is
known in the history of commerce and agriculture. The
Of the cotton crop the present year will be
NOUS and that oo after having had last year the largest
crop ever before known. The price at which it sells
very high and the demand takes off the product as fast
taking it market they will find at the close of
the season. for less than the actual cost of transpora
ton, return treights which will pay be had
There not much danger of dsunon the part of the
South under such circumstances, for with such palmy
prosperity it is unnatural to find either i'll nature or f
rocity.


The receipts of cotton at the shipping ports last week
reached bales swelling the over last year.
to same date to 3ll 900 bales Next week we shall
have another heavy receipt probably over 100000 bales
and it seems pretty certain that when we receive
the accounts from the South up to 3lst December the
receipts into the ports will show total of 100000
bales, 100000 than to period last year. an
unprecedented in the history of the cotton trade


The following are the estimates, by leading and
well informed house, for the cotton crop of the present
year:


Receipts at New Orleans. i 900, 900 bales
Receipts at MODLe SOO,OOO
Atlantic and Florida ports. ......... 00,0G0 :.
1eAas Crop. Z0ViUUO
Interior receipts. s.........-............ 100000 :.
Total crop. op.......................... 100000 .
According to present appearances this may be set
down as minimum estimate and it is quite possible the
amount may be found at the close of the nearly
four and half million bales--BOtOn IrGueLer.
Year: 1860

SANDED COrToN.-Ihe committee on the subject Of
sanded cotton appointed by the New York Chamber of
Commerce. Friday last, reported that they could de-
wise no better method of checking the fraud than to re-
quire that the Of each planter be stamped upon
his bales.
Year: 1860

LADYs SPUHKA writer IN the Charleston Courier re-
lates the folloWings


"An Alexandria officer who recently returned home with
Others asked he intended going back Charestown
His reply that he would leave to his wife," She
decided that it rested with himself to say which should go
she hmse-but there thing certain, she or
himself would have to co. and he could take his CHOICE


Talk about Spartan women and Revolutionary heroines
after that The annals of ancient modern time have
recorded anything in the line OF chvay that can beat
this Virginia demonstration
Year: 1860

An UNUSUAL LARGE ARR1vAL.-Ye Yesterday after
noon, by the Southern train, Mr.. Samuel McNich ar
rived in Charlotte, accompanied by about sixty stall
wart and brawny armed sons of Ern to labor on the
Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherfordton Railroad
An invasion OF this kind is not only proper but much
to be desired The immigrants are Jolly set of fellows
especially " Santa Anna" who says be is as good as
any man in the crowd and show as fair days work
as those who enjoy the of both of their pedal extrem
tiles. They fine looking crowd and full of humor
and genuine wit.-Chartotte Bulletin llth INST.
Year: 1860

Just as we go to press we take the follow ing extract from the account of the speeches of Johnson and Rector, which will appear in the Old Line Democrat tomorrow, if it don't get ashamed of itself before that time it is immaterial how we got posses sion of the article.

 "Judge Rector then proceeded to fay Col. John son, Gov. Conway and the State Convention--he excorated them all and left them without thread to cover their shame and modification. Judge Rector made most eloquent speech. At times his eoquence sublime; and the lightning of his eagle eye, and the thunder of his clarion voice, made the wekin ring, and the squad of Johnson men fairly quail and hide themselves. It was a glorious triumph. and showed plainly that the throne of the oligarchy was tumbling.

 We hav'nt time to give the rest, but may get it ready for our next issue if the Old Line refuses to give it entire.
Year: 1860

MEssRs. EDIToRs-

 On yesterday 1 went to town to attend the discussion between the candidates for Governor, and having heard the views of each at length, returned home satisfied that Johnson Is the man for the times He de- livered his views of State policy with ease and eloquence, and the truth of the measures he advocated went home to the minds and consciences of every citizen who feels that the interests of the country are at stake He is all right on the bank question and presents his ideas for the proper manage ment of those lamentabe institutions with an ability that affords an ample guaranty that under his administration they will pay their own way nearer, sooner, and with greater certainty than any plan that has been suggested His views about the banks are irresistible, and thereby is presented the only feasible and sensible plan to save the State from an enormous and oppressive debt. People in this section of country are opposed to the accumulation of heavy debt bearing compound interest and they are in favor of forcing those who drew money from the banks and mortgaged their lands for its payment, to make good their con- tract and some others who have derived no benefit from any loss. If A. B. & Go. have borrowed from the bank and mortgaged their real estate, other parties having no in- terest in the loan should net be made se- curieties and forced by spacious humbug- gerry to pay debts they did not contract But that his opponent told us to the con trary we would have supposed that Col Johnson was an old hand in a canvass. He exposes the disorganization of the party and its ruinous consequences to the country as fiuently as if he had been upon the stump for years.

 Our county will give Johnson a large majority and no mistake. We want him to wind up the banks as far as can be done out of the same means that put them into operation, and let the weight fall where it properly belongs. The mortgages can be foreclosed and it should be done speedily.

 Col. Johnson made very good impress sion here, as his friends were perfectly safis- fed with his speech and many, (at least 5O) who went to the speaking strongly in favor of Rector, came away Johnson men. Even if Johnson was not the nominee of the democratic party-his State policy is so lmmeasurably preferable to Judge Rector's. that it alone would decide the question.
Year: 1860

BY ]. H. E.
Always look on the sunny side,
And though like checker'd be,
A lightsome heart bids care depart,
And time flies pleasantly;
Why sit and mourn o'er fancied ills .
When danger is not near;
Care is self consuming thing,
That hardest nerves can wear.
Always look on the sunny side,
And though you do not find
All things according to your wish,
Be not disturb'd in mind.
The greatest evils that can come
Are lighter far to bear,
When met by fertitude and strength,
Iusread Of doubt and fear.
Always look or the sunny side
There's health in harmless Jest,
And much to soothe our worldly cares,
In hoping for the best.
The gloomy path is far too dark
For happy feet to tread,
And tells of pain and solitude,
Of friends estranged and dead.
Always look on the sunny side,
And never yield to doubt;
The ways of Providence are wise,
And faith will tear you out.
If you but make this maxim yours,
And in its strength abide,
Believing ell is for the best
Look on the sunny side.
Year: 1860

to shoulder his grievances-to father his
folly-to become bis schore-boy'-and for
80 a yearv


If Jones happens to be seized with that
frightful malady, the cacothes scribendi,
he overwhelms me With an interminable COM
munication; if be gets his portrait taken,
1 am expected to notice it at length if he
buys a house or plants grape vine in
front Of his house, or makes a trip to the
sea:shore, or has birth in the family, or
makes good speculation in stocks, or
raises bigger cabbage heads than his neigh
bors-1 am, Of course, expected only to
chronicle these portentous events each and
|severally. "


And yet I am never able to satisfy him.
Jones is always vowing the paper amt
worth taking; always telling people what
a stupid fellow I am; always sending me
iusolent notes; always advising me that If
I publish any more articles on the guano.
or niger question, there will be genefai>
stampede of indignant subscribers :; always
limiting darkly about the prospect Of start
ing an opposition sheet; always holding
his individual subscription as rod Of ter.
ror over my devoted head.


Now, there is just ono way of emancipa-
ting ourselves from the tyranny of subssri.
bers. 1t is to make your paper public
necessity-to make every man who SUBJ
scribes to it feel that not only is he getting
the worth Of his money, but that he can.
not live without it. To be able to say to
every grumbling patron, "stop the paper,
if you dare = To be able to go on in the
straight path of your daily duty, just as if
you owned the public, instead of the public
owning you.


In conclusion, let us strive to endow this
great agent of HUMAN development With .
broader culture and healthier tone. Let
US strive to increase its intellectual power
to give it wider and nobler field of action
to make it more effective minister of ra-
tional progress. Let US strive to make it
emphatically the mirror Of the times-to
make it reflect clearly and faithfully the
current of daily affairs. The newspaper is
the school.master Of the age i let us see to
it that the lessons its teaches shall make
men purer as well as wiser-shall lead them
upward as we'll as onward. -