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~^REScFE"lSASS"^i IN.
GEx-rLE.MEV :—I see thnt you s.-iy while s[ie;ilcin<; nbont the "Rescue Griiss" in j-oiir lnsl nuniber " Would it nol be vveli for Mr. Ivf.uson to submit speci- nien.s hm liotruiist to lieiermine its Irue name finil ciiiiructer ?" jMnsI certainly, linil tliiit is just vviiiit I diiJ. 1 invited the best botanists in iliis seciion to see il while in flower, and wh-jn ilie lie.nd.s wore formed and seetl matured. I gave llieni tho stalks to examine by the bonlts al theii- homes and al tlieir leisure. They failed lo define it, nor Could they find anything in lhe books like il. My friend Dr. Hugh Niesler, lhe most skilled aniong ihem, then forwarded the speci¬ mens to Prof ToREEY, of Nevv York, vvhoNvrola him the day after he got liiem, and ^ave ils name and nativity. Prof. T. cills il Ccrato£hloa Breciaris- tala.* and says il is a native ol' the Pa¬ cific coast. He soy.s it ha.s thc liirgest i^rain ofany known s|itcics of grass, and, )i'".' y.-iii-i)* c!i;iiiit!ZPfl ill the South, vvill
me
i>Viill'-r!
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then turned under, .£;i-ass, peas and seeds. This, gentlemen, gives to planters a plan upon vvhich ihey can build up a system of permanent field improvement. This grass and the Souihern pea with horizontal rows, vvill be found lhe cheap¬ est, the easist, the sim[)lest, and, at lhe same time, the most paying plan to re¬ claim e.x!i.iusleil fields, and tore-fertilize those not yet si), wiiich the ingenuity of a man can devise. This ma}' seem a bold asseition, bul let any man try il and guano, one ofthe best fertilizers known, and determine for hitiisell. I say that this Ceralochloa will proU-ct the field from the washing rains of winter and spring; it will keep «//of//ic stock fat throughoul the winter and spring; it saves coin and fodder, to be used lavish ly in plow time ; it ennbies lhe milch cows to give the richest milk, the thick¬ est cream, and tiie yellowest and sweet¬ est butler; it enables a farmer lo have lhe fattest beef, miiiton, kid, pig lurkey and chicken, -.vhenever lie may vvant them; it yields more nuliious hay to the acre than limoiliy, clover, or lhe blue grass ol Kenlucky ; it is a cerlain and never-failing ciof), neither (lurL hy cold 01- vain, or insect, or heal, or ordinai-y- drought; it giv \s a Ii.ige coat of n-iau- ure, or vegeiab -mould, to the field, and, by its roots and ihrough its leaves, it ex¬ lracls from the sub-soil and from the at- rnosphere those elementaiy ingredients and gases, >-eIurning them lo the surface of the fieltl, of which excessive tillage has robbed it. I say that the pea, also, saves the field from the wash ofthe rains of sutnmer and fall; it shades the ground effectually from the injurious effects of our scorcliing and bilking sun ; il gives u.s a most nutritious food; it helps us tnainly to fallen our pork ; it relurns a large coat of mould to the fielil, and, like ihe grass, it gives those principles, bv its roots and leaves, back to the surface, of which our land-kilimg sysiem bas de- .Tiveil ft:'"-      ^~-
i' was  once of liie opinion   iliat   il i n.iglil bc the wiW oaH>i"Q:uircV.5^V>.--?t&f.-!
As all arc well   ncfjuaintcd   vviiii^ thc
i'.lSys it isno k'n of the oa.t iamily — thai 'lie wild oal of r.i!iljw-ala is a true -fli-vna, and lie sent.some speciiliciis of ii to Dr. N. to shovv lhe dissimiliuiiy be¬ tvveen liiat and my grass. The seed of this grass w.as sent lo my falher-in-law four years ago, in a very small paper coniaining aboul half a teaspoonful of seed, wiihout name or descriplion. My fnther-in-lavv (novv deceased,) had ihem planted in his ganlen in a trench three or four feet iong. Tiiis vvas in the spring. The chickens scratched them up and scalXered them over the bed. Il v/as sujiposed that all vvere destroyed ; but in the fall they came up, and grew so ra¬ pidly during the vvinter as to attract the admiralion of all who saw it. In tlie month of June, tiie .seeds were saved, but many fell tothe ground, which vvere turned under wiili the grass vvilli aspa<le and these again came up the next lall, having laid in the ground ali summer.
Tliis is the Iiistory oi'this grass, vvhich "I called Rescue at that time, not   know¬ ing its true name or its place of nativi¬ ty.    I find that lhe seeds wliich fell out in my garden, being turned under  with a sjiade in June, came up early  in Sep¬ iember last, say from the Isl to the 10th ; |4ind that is an imporlant fact, as it gives \A\ a month lhe start  of seed   sown the last of September or early   in October, bAvliich was the time I supposed was best for it to be planted.    Tliat in my garden was sowed last year as late as the   15th of November, and yet it  did   vvell,   and was the "observed ofall observers."    I novv knovv that the proper time  lo   sow these seeds is when they malure, say in May or Junc.    Tliere is  no danger  of their sprouting before their regular tiip.e in Seplembei, as that has beenj^ully <ie- monstrated.    So persons procuring the seed of this   grass, should   bear ttiis   in mind, the seed ripen and sited out,   they ouglit lo be followed wilh the pea, sown broadcast, on  the  sianding  grass,   and
•The Enslish of which is short awn, horn grass.
advantages'Stjf hori;;orua!  row—!o''1re'ep 'j the siiil from vva.slrnf; avvay-—,-1. iH?etij;,-,ji unnecessary to,sav ni-yil-ing ni-oo  ibat poif.-t, i|_.i^gj^':' -   iii'porta.-t-.'as,
lhe other parts of this plan.    TIiTs^'plan costs  noihing in money, and but little in labor.    I will state it ihus: For example we vvill take a field, say len acres.    We sow the grass seed anytime thatis  con¬ venient afier the maiurity of  the  seed, but vve will say in May,  and   also   wiih them a crop ol [ieas   broadcast.    In  the first part  of September they  corne up, and in November it is ready lo   receive the stock,   which   have, by   tiiat   time, eaten oul the   peas  and  crop  grass  in the   other   fields.     It grazes   them  on through the winter and spring; it saves Ihe field from  the  wash  of the   lieavr rains during this period.    It is now, vve will say, in head and llie seeds ripe. The seeds shed out to re-produce  thc  grass next fall; after which we wili sow  peas broadcast on   the   standing grass,   and turn  ali   under—grass, peas and seeds. Tiie grass, thus turned under,  you per¬ ceive, gives a large coat of mould lo the field ; it makes the peas grow very rank. The pea, you see, piotects the fieid also from the washing rains ol  sutnmer and fall, and give the good  effecls of shade during thc hol months.    In the fall, you house the   peas,   or let   your fattening hogs have the run of the  field,   and let the vines   lie   and  rol  on  the   ground. This gives another coat of mould to the field.   Now, liere it might be asked, why not  turn   under  these   pea  vines?    It wouid be best  to do so, bul the grass seeds probably would be up  before  tha peas malure, and to plow the   field then wouid   compielely   destroy  the gi§ss. This is my   reason.    If they   could lae, thus turned in without  endangering the grass, it shnuld   be done by ail means. Now we use the grass until the time ar¬ rives for   breaking  up.    We wi,'l   turn oft the slocit and put in  the  plows, and lurn the greon grass under ;   this is not hard to do, and il makes another coat of
mould for the field. Now plant this ten acres in corn or cotion, and tend it, and you will have a field lo brag on. But suppose we vvere not to plant il, hut pursue this plan with it forlhe sec¬ ond or third yeiir, do you not see, can¬ nol anybody see, what a difference il would muke ? Thus you reslore llie field—you make it produce as -.veil, yes, better than it ever did ; and you get tue// paid hack all the time for the labor and trouble bestovved. Is there any other [ilaii clieapcr than this ? Is there one vvhich |iays back as much? Is there one vvhich suits Southern larining as well? If there is, I should like lo hear of il.
Now, gentlemen, people may think and say vvhal they please about guano for fertilizing fields, &c. I admit it is among the best ever found ; but none but tht rich can stand its cosl for a large pianlalion. The small farmers are ! excluded Irom its use as ellectually as if there was none 'of it in existence. It costs even the wealthy a price too high for its short duration. M}' plan costs but a trifie, either in money or work. It is to be had and used by every phinter in the South, however poor, who so wishes, and so easv- and simjiIe that every one can pmsue it. Il vvill make the field pjoduce as much in corn or cotton-cs^u:\no, which at the present rale, vvould require ns much money to buy as the field could be sold for. 1 say, then, that my grass and tho pea ia bet¬ ter for the South in every way it can be viewed, ihun guano, or any other ex¬ pensive manure. I say—and it is true —that niy grass and the pea gives more vegetable moulii to the field, and pays us all Ihe while to boot, than guano or any other manuie, eiiher vegetable in- mineral, that can bc produced. I sa\-— and It is true—tbat vegetable mould is the best and cheapest manure for corn ap.d cotton, that can be used ; and that this grass and pea anord il in greater -;ti.,i.,.i.y,-iTi-i, v.it! ihoir other advanla- U, r ;-,.;; my othe' vvhich
hour's Iiard labor, succeded in removing the Irisliman's household goods into the street.
' An' I'm obliged to ye, sir, for savin" me the trouble,' saiii Pat, who was seat¬ ed on a part of hi.s goods, vvith the du- deen slill in his mouih.
' Saving you lhe trouble—Imw ?' 'Faith, 'iin vvasii-'i 1 goin' lo nmve^ an' wasn't I jist Uikin' oil'me coat to lug out me duds, sir, whin ymi come an' carried em all down for me, wiihout charrrin' me a cint, at till, uil ? I'm much obliged to ye, sir, an' hope ye'll cui! agin vvhen Patrick O'Brian Wiints his goods curried down slairs.'
Dan suddenly had business in another place, though I lie joke was so good he could not help telling it afierwards.
Cin, Tiines.
was evei i'.'a
A "BLOWER.
[There isno denying that there is a class of individuals who seem to tiiink that there is noihing in life so desirable as being intimately acquainied with prominent public characters. We havc read of many such, and been acquainted vvitii a fevv, butM.njor Lucky, as descri¬ bed in the following "good 'un," is just "a huckleberry above the persimmon" ofany ofihem !]
Fevv men have ever gone to Congress with more fun and popularity thiin the Hon. Leslie Coombs, of Kentucky. In the way of anecdote, he is unequalled while his mode of telling stories iinpiirts a tone of thern that no one can appreci ate who has not made his acquainlance. -A-inong lhe "characters" that Mr. Toombs knovvs like a bookj is old Major Lucky, whose laste fgr bragging amounts, at times, to the sublime. Whenever tlie Major has a siranger in lhe neighbourhood, he "opens wide, and spreads himself,"and with a success that leaves us nothing to desire. The folllowing scene took place betvveen the Major and Col. Peters,  "alale   arrival"
dosvn, 'Jim' came in, off lothe "While House "Whal Jim ?"
and   dragged
me
ing   to   her room,    resolving   nevsr to graiify her hated old   husband   by   her threals, for she really  believes  there  i* •Why,  Jim  Madison.    I went, play- | nothing he enjoys more than to see   her
ed euchre for tvvo hours, when 'Tom' came in and insisied that I should go home will) him."
"What Tom ?"•
'-Whv, Tom Jefferson. Jim, hovv¬ ever, vvould not listen to it, and lhe consequence was that they went into a fight. In the midst of it ihey fell over Ihe banisters and di-opped aboul fil'ty feet.    When I   left,   they   were giving
each    oiher h 1 in   lhe  coal cellar.'
How it terminated I never could learn a? jusl then 'Manila' ran in, and said I must accom[)any iier to Mount Ver¬ non, to see 'George.'"
"What Martha do you mean ?"
"Mai tha Washington, wife to George the old boy that gave Jessy lo the Hes¬ sians."
About here. Coombs said the stranger began to discover that he was "swal¬ lowing things." The next stage tisal came along, he took passage for an ad¬ jacent town. The Alajor, we believe, is slill living, and still believes that the walloping he gave George Rex is "the d dest best thing on record."
in a passion.    She kept her promise—tt wonder, trulv. N. 1\-
...... 1 ges, suits usb
nd, or
, riicfi   can evei   oe
.-,,-T!   Illinov.
-'Majoi',    ;
¦ lersland    fioi
Gen.
found.      Tliis jire'tty   ?t,'-ong, but it is iC«gio:hs that shot ?ly after the Revolution true   and, sjootipr   or   ],:-.¦•,   tic   :'.-lOh J yo*V'*'^ """^ ;  how did you like
will so pronoutice.^    Evei-y , lanter Jn   t'"^
vour State should ciliivatfe this spe¬ cies of grass, as ilis never in llie way .^never spreads—needs to be' sowed bul once, and, taken altogeiher, is vvorih all our other kinds put together.
Those who may wish seed, can get them by writing to me at Columbus, Georgia, (poil paid,) vvhich will ensure their gelling seed next year, vvhen the seed -n-e ripe, as I shall then begin to fill the orders already made, and such oth- ei-s as may be made between this and that time.    My price is $5 for a peck.
Let every planter but adopt this plan, and, my word for i t, they will never buy nor need guano, except for vegetables in their gardens.
B.    V.   IVERSON.
Columbus, Ga., October U, l«t53.
TvlKING IT EASY.
A few liays since. Constable Jude was called upn to fulfil a writ of ejectment, issued b/ a son of the Emerald Isle, againsl a fellow couniryman. Dan in¬ stantly called on Pat, and found him enjoving a dudeen.
'Good morning,Pat.' said Dan, pul¬ ling out the writ.
'The top o' the mornin' to yourself,' riplied Pat, undisturbed.
'Patrick, I have business, with you,' continued lhe constable.
'Bedad, an' shure ye have, an' why would ye be after calling on me ?'
' 1 have a writ here from Michael O'- Callighan, commanding me to eject you and your jjoods from tnis Iiouse. "   'An' did  he  pay   the  costs,   Misthur Consta'ble?" ^
'Certainly—we alvvays qwnand ad¬ vance costs in tliese cases.'
'Thin ye can do it;. divil a bit will Pat¬ rick O'Brian stand in the way of a man's working for iiis pay,'
Dan doffed  his   coat,   and after an
jeen in  Lon- «-i,l-.Ior_ine
sl, and a devi' ofa lime    we ' "teKse...
.»4 rioi dou five hours, befor* It to play vvi had -t'' it"
"Rex!  what Rex ?"
"Wh}' Rex the King—(icorge the Third. .,j,The game came off at Windsor Caslle—Rex and I playing against Billy Pitt and Ed. Burke—and resulted ralher comically."
"How so ?,'
"As we wei-e pl.i'ying the last game Rex said, in ralher a familiar mannet-, I suppose you know Cliarles Washing¬ ton do you not ?, 'No, sir," says I, 'I do not—but I'll tell you who I no know, George Washington   the Father   ot liis
Country.'    'Father  be   d d,' says
he,'he wasa cursed rebel, and had I served him right he would have been hunsi ions ago.' This of course riletl me, and to tnat degree, that I just drew back, and gave him a blow between the
A Dramatic Scene
Iiiierciew between a Iiusband and Wife, as seen by  'Eyes.'
' I have broughl a present for j'ou, my deal-,' said Capt. Take-lhings-fair-and- easy to his vinegar looking wife, hand¬ ing her a bundle.
' A present, eh ?' she replied, tartly— "raise Ned, and cause me- to vvorry my¬ self to death, and then think to smooth il all over by bringing me somo second- handed old things, and call them pres¬ ents, as you always do. I'll not bear such Ireatment any longer. I'll jusl let you knovv ihat I am as good as anybody and vvill have good clothes or none. I didn'i marry you to wear some old Irish ha"'s cast-off clothes, while you are prinked out in bran new ones, and the lalest fashion at that. You needn'tgrin so, you old fool, and fill the room full of your horrid cigar smoke, to provolte me (l»eccimigg very -fiijicji.excited) for I'm lot ia a mood to bear any'Dfyour inso-
Social Evils,
North and South.—There are six thous¬ and people subsisted upon the public chari¬ ties of this city of Nevv Yerk-—the mass (A these poor creatures being helpless paupers: young children, decripid old people, luna¬ tics, and 50 forth. Ih addition tb these there aro we venture to say, at least ten thousand more, the victims tjf poverty and wretchedness, vvho are entirely dependent upon private charity or benevolent socie¬ ties. That is to say, there are in this rich and thriving city of merchant princes, vvith their streets of warehouses ana their avenues of brown stone and Kiarble palaces extending for miles—there are here among us tvventy thousand people supported by charity, vvho, elsewhere, might now, (o A great extent,   e supporting themselves.
We say nothing of the Ihousinds of both sexes who. betvveen pride and vvant are starving by slo v degrees in unventila¬ ied garrets and mephitic cellars; vve say r.otlving of these, and nothing of the tvven¬ ty thousand abandoned females of thi^ great commercial emporium. We simiily take the list of the twenty thousand abso¬ lutely dependent from day to day upon public or private cnarity for this existence and ask our abolition philanthropists vvhere there is anything in the South to compare vvilh this distnalarmy of tvventy thousand paupers ?
We have many good people among us —manj'benevolent insiuations ; wehave hundreds of costly churches, and some re¬ ligious societies as rich as Jews. JNor is it an unusual thing to see m the will of some deceased millionaire his tens and twenties, and hundreds of thousands, bequeathed for religious purposes—such asthe diffusion of tracts and the circulation of the Bible among tbe heathen. And we have those among our philanthropists and churchmen vvho are proud of those ihings as the an¬ cient Phari.see, who impudently thanked Grid that he vvas better than other men. They are distressed concerning ths abomi¬ nations of Southern slavery : tkey deplore thoy agitate, thcy dnnounce, with the ven¬ om ol the christian hate, the degrading the impoverishing, the demoralizing, I inii«enf:es.,o^our Southern domestic  insti-
. .   t tulions.    And yet thes-i  :r,e"\c  .-vnd   lowlv
Husbincrgmsagain|Jtts wife sees it,.j followera oftheir Diviue Master we goiity-
with. more
catches up a broom, aiMfsayS'-»«^^-
eves   that
bulli'C
Tne next moment Burke and Pill mount¬ ed me, and in less than ten minutes my shirt and breeches were so torn and lal¬ tered, that I looked like lazarus. This gave me rather a distaste for Engiish society, so the next morning I set saii for America. Six weeks afterwards I landed at Washington. The first per¬ son 1 met, after entering   the  citv,   was
Q."
"QI what Q ?'
"Why,   that  d d  old    federalist,
Quincy .\dams. He wanted me to play nine-p'ins with,him, and I did so. Won $200 at two shillings a game, and then had a row."
'¦About what?"
"He wanied lo pay me off in Con¬ tinental money, worth about a shilling a peck. I got ar.gry, and knocked him j into a spittoon.    While I still  had   him
me in   tnat liianner this   o.per   vou^   stu ft
'Ifyou laugh n! again. I'll break head!' '^^*»
Then site goes on to lecture him about his 'grim vices,' as slie terms them st.iy- ing out late, &c., to which lhe husband makes no reply. Wife becomes more enraged at his silence, and hurriedly ex¬ claims—
'I'll just loose that tongue of yours il you don't speak soon.'
' Soon,' provokingiy relurned the hus¬ band.
'Oh, you villain !' fairly screams the wife, 'I'll make you say you are sorry fiir this.'
'I'll say so novv if you desire it, my dear,'coolly responds the husband.
'Demon !' gasps the wife.
' You look exciled, my dear; you had better lie down and stil j'our nerves.— Nothing so good for excitement as rest.'
'Nothing so good for drunkenness as rest!' hisses the wife Ihrough her anger- set teeth.
'I know it, mv dear.    F feel a sudden
iif'-^ I    ^ro.tonr.
I {jl'ttlfse'h;, pciiiiK; criifie,.aHd vv-lUcheflness, an:i demorahza- tiou ailarou.i.j them, taititiivr tho'vr, ii- tbey breathe—more of "MI this, wi. gay, than they eottfel pick op in a .'jiir ofu'oser- vation from Washington to Nevv Orleans. 'Thnu fool, first take the beam out of thiiie' ovvn eye,|ind then shall though see clearcly lo lake thc mote out of thy brother's eye." The Bible is the true touchstone for thi;S mock philanlhropy.
N. Y. Herald.
A Scolding Wife. I pitty lhe man who has g.ii  a scol¬ ding wife, from the very bottom of  mv souie, I do.    Ifl vvere a man, and wero permiited to choose bet;-i-een an   imme¬ diate exit to  that   awful   nlace 'spoken of in   the  scripture.s, where   tlie  worm dieih nol, and the firs is   not iiuenclied,' forever and ever, amen,   or a   lifetime in the  society   of a scoMing     wife,   I vvould gladly choose the lormer, for the latter     wouki    only    make     a    'h—t file' for my body, but  one of my   sonl also; worse than both, would make  me
purchase the fuel with crimes that de- Irembling at lhe stomach and back, and 1 mons would blush to own, to keen thc a weakness in my legs. I will leave j fire burning! 1 loathe scalding; it is you, and throw myself on lhe couch forj one ofthe most coniemptiliie, annov- an hour or so,' replies the husband, and goes staggering from the room.
Wife pursues, wilh weapon upiaised, and deals ber lord (?) a heavy blow, up¬ on which he comes lo a stop, and in¬ forms her tliat she is at perfect liberty to beat him as much as she pleases -that he will sland perfectly still during the uperaiion. Wife is slruck aghast. She declines lhe polite invitation of her hus¬ band to broomstick him, and goes pout¬
ing nuisances, ever scared up. Give me thunders, earthquakes, anything but a scolding vvoman.
How many a good disposition hns iieen ruined by .'^coKiin;:. iif>vv irriiiy a Kind, affectionate husband has grnwn harsh, cold, iniemperate. dishoncrable. ay, a criminal, murderer, demon—be¬ cause ofa scolding vvife! He loved his wife, he loved his home, till her .^^colding estranged him from  botli her   heart and