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INDEPENDENT FAMILY PAPER-DEVOTED TO THE APV* NUEMEN'T or tbs AGRIÜPLTPRAL, MECHANICAL AND OTHER INTERESTS OF TBI DISTRICT GENERALLY, BELL
VOL. 3< - BELTON, BELL COUNTY, TEXAS, SEPTEMBER 25,1858.
MISCELLANEOUS
A Woibhii'« pervenlif.
Tho following pt ry has been
published in diffident forms, but
tiotie ás good as th^ oiiginal:
(Sir Hugo had rei died his fiftieth
year Unmolested by lassion, save an
ardent one for a fl wing goblet.—
Instead of love passjges, his delight
Vas tournament, whnce he always
tolútned victorious. At length he
stretch his power so far, and play
the capricious, haughty tyrant?—
Now I see that to bo too submissive,
too softly compliant, is not (he way
to treat him; the worm that crawls
in the dust is trampled upon. But
no, Sir, Knight, it is not gone quite
so far with us yet; in spite of you I
will ride Sultan; and you may thank
yourself, as but for ^our message,
such a thought would never have
entered my head."
Her soliloquy was here interrupted
by tho entranco of a servant, who
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\vas flung from the í nidio of his in-
difference by the bei •(Hess tilter-p informed her that Father Nicholas
love! He saw Angelica the fair- j,as air¡ve(jf anj Wttg jn the ante-
id forgot his' chuuiber. ^
lindful of tho | i. j cannot rect.¡Ve his visit to-My
between May Saicl the consort of Sir Hugo, "for
to the nuptial my |()r(j j8 ab8el,tt (j¡ve this as my
Vngolica was excll8e to the reverend father, and
W! i fair, and her ^eg 0f jjjm return to morrow."
the numerous
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in
Slli
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'liS
liMlll
t!
He saw
est maiden of the
gray hairs, and, un
incongruity of a unio
and December, led he
altar. Fortunately,
as modest. as she
firm virtue rep
butterflies that swa
opening flowers rtf
Hugo knew the triol
consoi t, and therefoe she was to
him dear and precios as the apple
of his eye.
One morning he rde to pay avis-
it to a neighboring jaron in arms,
his honest squire, Cqrade, trotting
after him. Scarce In) they proceed-
: «d half way when thanight sudden-
f; ly stopped, and eriec-
t "Come here, Conrjle, a torment-
| ing thought has justiccurred to me.
'i This is tho very dy that Father
| Nicholas comes to te castle to say
mass for my dear' vfe- and myself,
and I am not incline to have him
in my a I ode during ly absence; so
gallop back, and doiie your lady,
in my name, not to ad it the priest"
Conrado paused id shook liis
head as if in doubt,and replied:
"Excuse me, my nob!sir, but, per-
haps the lady Angela, if left to
her own discretion, wido whatyou
•wish."
" A nurse on your crimps!" ex-
claimed the knight, "liakeall sure
by giving tho order." ,
"Do you think so? replied the
" now I, in M simplicity,
believe exactly the rieree. Take
•the advice of your fajiful servant
.once in your life; letthings take
itheir course, and give t order upon
►so delicate a point."
"A fig for your dejacy," cried
;Sir Hugo, angrily; "hat absurd
fancies yon hayo got ii^ your head
to-day! Do you think i hour's ride
a task so very tediousl
("Oh! if it comes tojiat sir," re-
joined Conrado, " I ha' no more to
Squire:
tand cried in te
| •" what has brc
haste? Has a
!U
. He putspurs to his hse, and rode
¡back to the Gaulle.
Angelica saw him Sloping up,
stror froithe window,
brought yoUck in such
any acoiilt happened
to my lord?"
" None, whatever, g^ious lady,"
answered Conrade; " It the noble
knight was apprehens) that some
accident might happen) you, if by
any chance you took aincy to ride
ííllü Sultan."
"I ride-ride the largqeyhound!"
■exclaimed At.gelica intter aston-
ishment. " I believe yi art drUnk
or mad. It is impossil that your
master can have sent r bo ridicu-
lous a message."
"Aye, but he did tllgh," pur-
sued the squire, "and mjoble mus-
ter said at the time tt^ he knew
'Sultan would bite terrier, uot be-
ing accustomed to be nie a pony
of; he therefore begs 111 you will
not attempt to divert lurself in
that way." Having sa this, he
•gain mounted his horse d gallop-
ed off to rejoin his mastt
"Am I awake, or do dream?"
/ejaculated Angelica. "folly of
Sir Hugo is so strange tl^I am al-
most tempted to believe ill a wild
dream! What due* he m«i? Ir it
not enough that I lwehith^o tried
to read his every will and toll, and
when knowu, obeyed theinjpUcit-
Jy¡ and do I deserve that fafchould
" With all due respect to Father
. NÍSffiíftis," continued siie, when loft
t hj-^beflutjF to*hgrself, "he sil^MOt spoil my
aria ^Htyjjo -fit hi? peasant TridS. Ñaw ¡f my pony
were but héfS. Hfe must have an
easy gait, and his teeth I do not
fear; he is as quiet as a lamb. Oh!
how I shall delight in this twofold
pleasure of showing the surly o!d
fellow that I cure neither for him
nor his orders, and of trying a pas-
time that is at least a noblo one."
Through every corner of the houae
resounded the cry of " Sultan."—
" Hire, boy, Sultan?"
The immense but docile animal
sprang from a bone upon which he
was feasting, and was at her side
n an instant. Carressing him until
she got him into a room, the door of
which she shut.
"Now, friend Snltan," cried the fair
mistress, '.'no growl, no bite, and
all is safe." With; her snow-white
hand she continiifed strokiug and
patting his lingo back for some min-
utes, and then, in the hope that if
only through gratitude, he woulc'
comply with her fancy, she mounted
her new steed. He slmwed his teeth
a little, in sjme doubt what all that
meant, but she soothed him,ag iii
into a good.hunnir and patient en-
durance of tho novel burthen, but
ho thought this quite enough,and did
not stir from one. spot. Angelica
was naturally not much pleased
with being thus stationary; she
therefore gently goaded him with her
leg, but no trot would Sultan con-
descend—ho remained motionless as
before, while something very like a
growl escaped from his immense and
fear-inspiring jaws. Out of pa-
tience, she now exclaimed:
"You shall feel the spur, then,
you lasy brute," and drove her heel
into his side. lie now growled au-
dibly, but. stirred not an inch; she
repeated the blow. This was too
much for canine patience; he made
a spring, and she fell full length up-
on the floor, he turned and bit her
hand. The dismounted rider bedew-
ed the door with tears, and then
sprung up to turn out of the room
the unconscious brute who had thus
rudely showed how little he cared
for pay.
Towards evening Sir Hugo re-
turned, and inquired with suspicious
haste whether Father Nicholas had
not been there.
" Oh. yes, he was here," answered
Angelica, "but I ventured to refuse
his admittance."
The knight cast a triumphant
glance at his squire, and Whispered
to him, "Now, old Wisdom, do you
see the use of my order?"
Conrade, who, as may be supposed,
had said nothing of the alteration
he had made in the substance of his
embassy, shrugged his shoulders
with a smile unperceived by his mas-
ter, who had turned again to his
consort, and first perceived that she
wore a bandage upon her soft hand!
He immediately inquired the case.
"Sultan bit mo," said Angelica,
" and it i* all your fault, Sir Hugo,"
added she, 3obbing.
" My fault!" cried the knight.
"Yes, your fault, and nobody's
but yours," retorted his spouse.—
" If you had not sent we word by
Conrade not to ride the nasty, mis-
chievous brute, such a mad triok
wonld never have entered my head."
In mute astonishment, the knight
hurried to Beek an explanation from
his squire, who slipped away when
Angelica began her complaint.—
" What message did you bring your
lady?" demanded he.
1 Conrade confessed the truth.
" Were these the orders I gave
yon, you scoundrel?" said tho enrag-
ed Sir Hugo.
"Certainly not," replied the
squire; " but you will own that I
have made my point good. You
may noy see how it would have been
had I given your order about the
young priest. My noble lady is a
model for her sex, and almost an
angel, but still she is a daughter of
Eve, who meant to bequeath to all
her lineal female descendants her
own spirit of perverseness. And
we have only to remember the Lady
Angelica's pleasant ride upon Sul-
tan, to be convinced that it has lost
none of its vigor in its decent."
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Jame Coryell.
A6MT0RAL DEPARTMENT.
■sit |« Oats—What IsHf
Mr. Cordova, in his rocont work
on Jexua, makes tho following men-
tion of the old frontierman whose
name stands above, and has been
given to one of the new counties of
Texas:
James Oorycll, in early life, wan
a hunter and trapper on the plains
and on tho Rocky Mountains.—
In 1832 ho accompanied James
Bowio in his celebrated exploring
expedition to the San Saba in search
of the silver mines, and was one of
that little baud of eleven who, un-
der Bowie, successfully fought
several hundred Indians for three
successive days During the spring
and summer of it 36 he was a mem-
ber of E. Robertson's ranging com-
pany. After ho had completed that
tour of duty, he immediately enrol-
led himself as a member of Captain
Harron's company of rangers. In
the fall of the year they were sta-
tioned at the Three Forks of Little
River, where his bravery made him
a universal favorite. During tho
months of April ajid May 1837, tho
county being overruu by a large
number of Indians, it was consider-
ed advisable to abandon that fort
and to concentrate the whole rang-
ing force at tho falls of tho Brazos.
While encamping at this station, lie,
in company with Michael Castleman
and Ezra Webb, ventured about
three hundred yards from the post to
a bee-tree, when they were attacked
by a band of Indians, and Coryell
was shot through the heart and in-
stantly expired. Tho other two suc-
ceeded in making their escape; but,
unfortunately, at that moment the
commander of the post. Captain
George B. Eri th, was absent on a
scout with the majority of his men
west of Little River; and before the
Indians could be pursued they Ijad
fled to their mountain-home, thus
escaping the punishment they so
richly deserved.
Coryell was really a frontier-man
—an excellent woodsman, an agree-
able companion, a brave soldier and
an admirable marksman,—and was
beloved by all who kAew him. At
the time of his death he was forty
years old. A short time ptevious
to his death, while out on a scout,
he explored a region of country now
known as Coryell county, and, be-
ing a mail of acute judgment, yas
struck with the beauty and eligibili-
ty of the country near the mouth of
Coryell Creek. He there located
his headright of one quarter of a
league,' and thus gave his name to
that stream.
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A Yankee editor says that he like
1 to have died of larfin, to see a drink
i in chap tryin' to pocket the shadow
of a swinging sign fot a pocket
handkerchief.
Pnder this head the Southern
Homestead makes the following re-
marks. The subject is one of great
interest to farmeri, and the investi-
gations should be prosecuted until
the cause of their new enemy is as-
certained if possible:
Throughout the whole Southwes-
tern portion of the Pnion the oat
crop has suffered from a terrible
blight, which from its resemblauce
to the fungous substance that some-
times attacks wheat by that name,
has been called rust. So far as wo
are informed, rust in oats has hith-
erto been unknown. We have nev-
er heard or read of anything of the
kind, in any section of tho country.
The fact that it i'b thus unusual,
opens a wide and interesting field
to the entomologist, as it invites in-
vestigation in a channel, so far as
we can ascertain, heretofore unex-
plored.
While in West Tennessee, a short
time since, we took occasion to ex-
amine the blade of the oat under a
microscope (kindly furnished us by
the Bailey Troupe,) and were great-
ly surprised with tho phenomena
which the glass revealed. Since
then, we have followed up those ex-
aminations, by the aid of more
powerful instruments, at the Medi-
cal College in this city, iu company
wiili several scientific gentlemen,
among whom were Drs. Briggs and
Buchauan of the Medical Faculty^
The cause of all this destruction
of the o&t crop is a living worm,
too small to be plainly seen with
the naked eye. A singlo blade or
leaf of the oat sometimes coutains
hundreds of them. They lie enca-
sed in the tissues of tho leaf or
blade wheio they have been germi-
nated, beneath the epidermis or thin
pelicle over the exterior portion of
the blade, and as they progress in
developement, the skin of the leaf
is raised into curious puffy blisters.
The growth of the worm subse-
quently ruptures these, and it es-
capes to feed on the plant. When
first released from their covering,
they are a beautiful, clear, red color,
almost transparent, but soon begin
to change their color and form, get-
ting more opaque and dark in ap
pearanco until, in the course of
transformation, they become a black
bug, with legs and wings, when
they attack the head or grain of
the oats.
Pnder tho miscroscope, the dust
which remains on the leaf, clearly
resembles that on the wings of but-
terflies.
How this innumerable army of
infinitesimal worms originated is
yet a mystery. It is a singular
fact, however, that wherever the
greatest quantity of rain has fal-
len, there the oat crop has fared the
worst. In our recent trip through
West Tennessee, we saw but a sin-
gle field of oats between the Mis
sissippi. and Tennessee rivers, which
was not a failure, or into which jit
would not be folly to put a sythe
blade. That field was near Den-
mark, in Madison county, and was
sown very early. It íb well known
that more rain haB fallen in West
Tennesse, this season than in any
other part of the State; hence the
extremo wet weather must have
had some agency in the production
of this animalcule. It * is also well
known that moisture and heal will
produce and multiply animal life,
millions per hour, and therein we
judge is the secret of this destruc-
tion of the oat crop. It is one of
those cases of natural phenomena
which occur only at a certain stage
in the growth of plants, and under
peculiar states of temperature and
weather. It may happen next sea-
son, or it may not occur again for
many years.
Eorroas Southern Cultivator:—In
continuation, of the subject of sow-
ing garden seed, I would ask the
privilege of mentioning a few other
casss in whioh the seed man is made
to suffer, both in pecuniary and re-
putable point of view. It is a faot
that ought to be generally known
that like will only produce like wheu
placed in a congenial soil. If you
will sow your soarlet radish seed in
land so hard that you have almost
to drill the holes to receive them,
you ought not to blame your seed-
man if they come up tough enough
to plat into whips. I refer to these
particular seed because there is a
good anecdote connected with them.
A gentleman bought some of these
aud instead of fine soarlet radish,
of which he is remarkably fond, he
received a little wiry purplish affair
described in no work that ever oame
under my notice. "Well," said he,
"if I can't eat them I can givo them
to the children for shoo strings!"
Now, if the gentleman had selected
a deep, rich, mellow soil, he would
have had good fruit, and the seed-
man a good name. All vegetables
of" tho radish class, beets, carrots,
«be., must bo planted in a deep soft;
otherwise you cannot expeot a good
return lor your labor; indoed, you
will be very fortunato if you get
your seed to come up at all. The
seedman is made to suffer in anoth-
er way. Tho master hands over his
seed, cautioning tho negro gardener
not to mix the labels. The seed are
all sown, and the labelled bags
are all thrown in a pile and after-
wards, picked out and stuck up at
the begging of tho row, by which
process lettuce come up radish, rad-
ish mixed with beets, beets with cab-
bage, cabbago with turnips, and
then, 0! the rascally seed-seller!
Now, as it. is nothing but fair to
say that the seedman sometimes de-
serves all that ho gets, I will devote
my next to showing wherein ho is to
blamo. Respectfully,
V. LATASTE.
Aoutsta, Aug. 3d. 1858.'
Wheat Bran
Da. Cloud—Dear Sir:—As the
time for harvésting wheat Is near by,
I think it ought to be known that
Wheat Bran is one of the greatest
substituto for Guano that has ever
come under my observation, for
corn. I never have tried it on cot-
ton, but no doubt it could be man-
aged so as to be of great service in
cotton.
In planting corn a small handftil
of the bran (after it is well wet, so.
as to crumble,) n^uBt be dropped in-
to the furrow wliero you desire to
deposit the corn, a small quantity of
dii;t pushed over it by tho foot, and
tho corn on top, and then covered
with u hoe, about two inches deep.
Care must be taken not to drop the
coru on tho naked bran, as the bran
often genders Wood lice, which will
destroy the roots of the corn.
But the most approved way of
using the bran on coru, is the fol-
lowing plan: After your coru is up
five or six leares high, open a hole
on each side of the stalk with a hoe,
drop a half handful in each hole, and
cover it up. Those who ever will
try it, will never feed away wheat
bran again. The corn will look i
well as guano manured, and will
have as large ears.
Yours, Ac., WM. 0. N0RRI8.
Vance's Perry, S- 0., 1868.
SSI1
Lettuce and Cut Worou.—It is sta-
ted that scattering a few lettuce
seed in different parte of the garden,
is a remedy for the cut-worm. The
worms get under the leaves of the
lettuce and live on them, and do not
touch any other plants. Scatter the
lettuce seed freely, and when the
plants get to Im in the way, pall
them up.
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A writer in an exchange
discantiug on the value of
marine telegraph, calla
to a very emphatic fact, He
"On the 18th of June, 181
Government duolared war against
Great Britain, under the inspiration
of our younger, mora ardent, less
experienced Republican politicians
of that day, overruling the j<
ment of their older compatriota,'
had endured and still
the trials and sufferings of our Rev-
olutionary struggle! We had many
oauses of complaint against Great
Britain; but one of the moat promi-
nent and palpable was baaed on her
Orders in Council, by whioh out
trade with the Continent had been
most outrageously harrassed and
crippled. Those orders in Oounott
had been repealed before we declar-
ed war, though the fact was unknown
and unsuspected her. Had it beeft
known—in other words, *had the
Atlantic Telegraph then existed—
it is quite probable that war woufd
have not been deolared, that further
negotiations would have been had,
and an amicable redress of grievan?
ces attained, saving to eaoh coutry
thousands of precious lives, and
hundreds of millions of dollars.
What has been, may again be."
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Technical Words.
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frequently
which we a
In reading we
across words with which we are un-
acquainted, and which are necessary
to give a full idea ef the subject.
To obviate this diflbúlty, we gire V
dofluition of some of theinoro com-
mon words:
A Firkin of Butter,
A Sack of Coals,
A Truss of Straw
A Stave of Hemp
A Sack of Flour
A quintal «: :
A Piggot of Steel
A Truss of Hay t
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?
A Bash
A Kilderkin
A Barrel
A Hogshead
A punoheon :
68 lbs. :
H4 .•
86 *
88 *
880 "
100 "
180 "
: 66M
80 busk*
18 gals.
86 *
64 «<
84 "
English prices current often spe^t^
of the price of wheat, per quarter;
to reduce this to barrsls, multiply
tho price by seven, and divide by
tho barrel. Thus: If wheat is quo-
ted at 66s. per quarter, multiply U
by Y, and divide by '18, and it wifX
give the price—88s. 8d. a barrel
see
A Romanet Spoiled*—The Zeit of
Berlin declares that the story vee
pecting, Mr. Lindahl,' the Sweedish
journalist, condemned to dsatb, ¡and
said to have been pardoned on the
scaffold, lately published on the Ah
ropean journals, is untrue. He hse.
been condemned to death, but kid
case is now before the court of last
resort for final decision.
Unlawful Crinolviu.—The In
pendenco Beige statee that a yd
lady, living in Hanover, has just
been sentenced by a court of the*
town to pay a fine of two
"for having worn a drees, whtc
copying the whole breadth
pavement, is an pbstr
public way."
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A Governor and a Judgt JMrmdla
Gor. King has beenfcurttd
in effigy in Catarangus county, V.
Y., for commuting the sentence ef
murderer Sulliysn to imprfsotaiMt
for life. Judge Grow, who anftai*
ned the Governor, was complimen-
ted in a similar.
sea
Mussellmen wViierp
ignorant Arab, who "
how he knew anything
existence of God,
I knew by the traeks
whether a beast
so when I survs^. r ... ril-in-1T-r
the bright stars, and the earth Wfth
its productions, do I fsel the satfs
tcnce end power of God." '
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