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v"... . , ,4 . r “_._,_.. touch]. it ‘SMILE Feii ALL. -_._ ' A gentle smile is a beauteous thing, r‘iA'isource of» 30y and light; Sweet as the songs the 'biidlets sing v And bright as the stars of night ; It hath a spell to charm the heart Amid life’s phases all,‘ V And sweetest pleasure: to impart; Then have a smile for all. ' Where’er life’s sweetest fairest flowers ' Doth twine in garlands fair, ; And where the dark and dreary hours Are filled with pain and care ; Amid the scene’s of sorrow’s nightâ€"â€" Of Heaven’s festive ball, A gentle smile is a beaming light, Then have a smile for all. As the bright morning’s rosy ray Doth chase away the night, So to the weary, sad and gay. Is a smile, sweet and bright; Driving away from heart and brow Dark troubie’s sable pail, tAURORA LE x. SCOTT, Proprietor. AN v‘”\4’W VV\-~ .r“v‘\â€"‘ x/ i) rueHMOND :HHJ. AD’ “ Let Sound Reason weigh more/with us than Popular Opinion.” A . V V vVâ€"NWW rm vol. III. No. 30. distinct, and at other times it died see nothing but the awa‘yaltogether for- a while, gradu-' ally becoming fainter and fainter. rope, by doWn throbgh a square aperture in RICHMOND .._.___.s._. 28,1861... HILL, FRI DAY, wuremia VOCATE .AND "AnvERThflfla.;f“ was evident that their attention altogctl'ier, and get back to. my Own which I‘had descended, coming was directed to the pear-headed reom again.‘ ‘ . For the twentieth time, I cursed figure, and not to what was behind TERMS; $1 50 In Advance. , Dissem- \J terrace of theGarden,‘fronting the river, and on the neighboring quav. "Do you'k‘ri‘o‘w what iris all about'f’ _ (p. ,,.‘.,.,‘.._\w.,...: 13., V9,: _, a. i minnow/a - E“Kl4;.o:l»inwi‘i'h‘im - - v‘ V The miserable young man was! first sent" to‘ New Ot‘l‘é‘anilfjvvlteic, [‘ believe, the people \wo‘uld‘l‘ri‘btjpcr? mit hii’nt‘b land. What'al‘tbr'wa'r'd'si become at him“, r donor" roost; That is s'tory, gentlémed ;' and the" liter-at" or a isâ€"‘ Never go'tl0wnf a hole' unless you lifi‘b‘w now td'get.‘ up a‘gain‘."' ‘ . 4 A ' so or assessor MANUnn; .r In all countries t'iat have beeri' subjected to cu‘ltivatiOn for any con- siderable period of-tir'ne,-=it may be considered as an axiom, “ that with- out. manure no good farming is pro- fitable.”_ "I‘hiis proverb means that with manure two can do any t‘hing,‘ cultivate cvnrything. which has been“ ' Eventually I came to the conclusion that it was produced by something moving up 'or down inside of the box. -' " Iplaced my 'ear closely'in con- Wreaihing the soulwithacheerfulglowâ€" tact with the beards, and I’could Then have a smile for all. And as thy footsteps onward tread V This ' vale of teaars ’ adown, When joy’s bright sunlight on thy head Rests like a fairy crown ; ‘ And when the hours of darkness come And ' storms of sorrow ’ fall, In stranger lands or thy own brighthome, Mayst then have» a smile from all. And wheresa’er thy lot is cast, ’Mid sadness or ’mid glee. Until life’s fitful dream be past , And earth grows dim to thee. . vMay brightest smiles of Heaven above ’ In beauty on the rest, , ‘ I Filling thy heart with joy and love. And making thy pathway blest. ~ Murmur. ___.._.: Hadron â€".â€"-â€" m... folloWing tor’s own lips, at his own dinner-table, two 'Weoksragoj 1 FIRST ,visited- Paris in 1836, and - do." thoroughly roused to allow me to remained there two years, in at- tendance upon the hospitals, the . lectures of the Ecolc do 'Medicine, etc. The French are a very libe- ral-people", in a literary and scien- tific" point of view. The foreign student,” in Paris, has a'c'cessto, lec- tures, by the most celebrated pro- fessors, on almost every department of "human knowledge, and nearly. all gratis. And the same thing may be said of the public libraries, and museums, .both of science and art. ThezFrench capital is therefore an exceedingly attractive place for the student,..a's well. as the man of pleasure. _ To be near my business, I took up my abode, in the iPays Latin’â€"â€"the ‘ Latin Larid’mthe students’ouar- torâ€"on thesouth side of the Some. Here are the colleges; the schools of law and medicine, the Sorbonnc and St. Sulpice; the Jardin des I’lantes, with its zoological collec~ ition‘, and its magnificent moseums ; most of the hospitals; and, in fact, nearly everything which the stu- dent, as such, has anything to' do with. Here, however, are not the palaces, the Garden of the Tuilcries, the Champs Elysees, the fashion- able Boulevards,'the theatres, and the paraphernalia of dissipation in general. For access to these, the inhabitant of the students’ quarter must depend upon the fiacre or the omnibus. ‘ ‘ ' My lodgings were in a very old .pouscfin the vicinity of the beauti- ul Garden of the Luxembourg. I had two small rooms, on troisiemeâ€" that is, on the fourth floor, counting the vcz dechaussce, or ground floor. As iii most French houses, there was a court-yard in the centre of the building, to which we. gained admittance by a small door, com‘ munieating with a portcr’s lodgeâ€" there being, also, a large porte coc/rcre for carriages. In one corner of my bedroom was a vertical, rectangular excrescence, looking somewhat like a chimney running up by the side of the wall. It was papercd, but a slight exami- nati'On showed me that it was made of Wood. In fact, it was simply a long wooden box,'in close contact with the walls, and extending from the floor to the ceiling, and'how much further, Idid not know.â€" There was nothing at all remarkable about it, and it certainly would never have attracted my attention, ifit had not been for reasons which Iwill mention- Onc night, after] bad occupied the chamber about two weeks, I came home at a late hour from the theatre. Even when I got to bed, however, I could not get asleep. While laboring with all my might to overtake the sonnitcrous deity, I Aboard, in the stillness of the night, a faint noisc,‘to which, for a long time, I could give neither ‘a local habitation nor a name.’ At last, trifling as it was. the thing began to irritate my nerves excessively. Sleep was out of the question; so I rose and struek a light. After that, I was not long in ascertaining that the noise came from the box-like contrivai‘ice in the corner. Sometimes it was quite then heat" the low rumbling and rustling (for itseemcd a Compound of both) very distinctly; and now, too, I noticed whatl thought I had seen before leaving my bed, viz., a minute ray of light shining through from the inside of the box for a while, and then disappearing. In. order to satisfy myself of this, I blew out my candle; and then, whenever the noise became most distinct, I could see the light glim- the ceiling, and something at one endof the room which looked like a pictures The platform which I have mentioned was there, of course, attached to the rope, and lying on the floor. Approaching the picture, and looking at it more, Since I had made the disco- closely; 1 saw that it wasa life-sized very that my nice littlcpceping- figure of a man, painted en a board, places were bullet-holes, [felt quite With a head ridiculously caricatur- contented to trust to my ears alone. ed, and made to resemble an enor- You may safely aver, too, that It was not standing behind the pear, when the second shot cameevas iti mous pear. While I was examining this strange picture, I heard the noise of approaching footsteps and voices; There were people comingâ€"-dozcns of them, to judge by the noise they madeâ€"and here was I, a stranger, an interloper, a spy, caught like a rat in a trap, and all for the sake of seeing a pear mounted on two legs. What would they do with me 7.â€" It would not be anything very agreeable; that I miglitvprognosti- cute with the utmost confidence. mering through a little‘crevice. While l was examining this crack, I felt a little knob, under- thc paper, and projecting only a few lines from the board. pressed it with my thumb, ‘and, the immediate. conse- quence was a sort of shakiness of GASTRICK IN PARIS. scrap of. autobiography was bitten down, phonographically. from the doc- _ I _ ‘ about 'sufficrcnt to permit the body of a the parts adjacent, which surprised me a little ; but some further inves- tigation convinced me that there was a door there, covered up by the paper. The, pressure. of ,my thumb on the knob had «unfasten‘ed it, andI could trace its outline very" dis- tinctly. It Was of a size just about man to pass through." ‘ My curiosity was . much I was determined 'tolopen the dour, and see what was going on on the other side of it. Toeflcct this object, I had only to ascertain where the outline of the door was, by running my finger round it, and then cut the paper through with my penâ€"knife. It then came open of itself. . Vthn I got inside, all I could see. was a long‘ wooden tube, ex- tending upward and downward, I kneW‘ not how far, and having a large, cable-like rope running up and down in the centre of it. All was, now quiet. The rope Was perfectly still, and no noise to be heard anywhere. But this made it seem all, the more mysterious, and still further increased my curiosity to know what was the use of the contrivanc: and what was going on at the bottom of it. . I was young and fool-hardy in those days, or I certainly would not have thought of carrying into execution the idea which presented itself to my ,mind. There was evidentlv but one way of finding out what was at the bottom of the rope, and that was, by going there ; i and the only way of gomg there was by ‘swarming’. down the rope. itself. To make this descent without the most distant idea of what sort of a reception 1 should meet with when I got to. the bot- tom, was anything but prudent; but in those days, unfortunately, let the matter rest there. I prudenceand 1 were not much ac- ' quainted with each other.- The ,inside of the box was aS' dark as Ercbus but I thought best, upon the whole, not to show a lightâ€"at least until I reached the bottom. I had a small ,lantcrn, which i took with me, and‘a box of phosphoric matches. With these preparations, and being well armed, I launched myself into the black' abyss. , ' It' is not every man who canl climb up a rope, but it requrres no great amount of genius to climb down one. Besides, I was young and active, and had manipu- lated ropes before; ‘but in those .cascs, I certainly ‘ knew the ropes’ better than I did in this instance.â€"~ It was a long. tedious descent, and I found myself tired enough before , I reached the bottom. What was to be seen by the way, was more than I knew; or, rather,l did know that there was nothing at all to be seen, at that time, unless it was ‘ darkness visiblc.’ Nor was there anything more to be seen at the bottom. It was only by the sense of touch that I could tell that 1 had reached a sort of platform, attached to the bottom of the rope, and that whenl step- ped from it, it was upon a floor paved with flags of stone. I listened attentively, but all was still; and, believing the place to be untenantcd, I proceeded to light a bit of candle. and put it in my little lantern. lthcn discovered that I was in a long and narrow vaulted apartment, which was no doubt under the surface of the earth. Looking about the place, I could, smoked, If I had had a little " more time. I could perhaps have climbed up the rope, to the hole in the ceiling; but they were just upon me. I would not have had time to get half way up; and a prettyspcctacle I Would have made dangling there like'a bit ofbacon hung up to be It was a poor chance for the saving ofmy bacon, however ~Well it might have answered for that of a hog. . - There was nothing for .it. it seemed, but to stand and face the music ; and l was preparing myself for this alternative, when I noticed that. the board, or rather the parti-' tion, on which the pearâ€"headed man was painted, did not reachquite across the room. There were a few inches of space left between it and tliehstone wall, on one side, and I thought that in a case of life and death, like the present, I might per- haps make myself small enough to squeeze through the aperture, and get on the other side, where [might be concealed, snugly and securely, unless some one should take it into his head to explore the recess,Which did not seem to be a thing very likely to happen. There was not a second to spare; sol rushed at the opening, and, with the loss of a button or two, and a slight excorication 0f the skin, I succeeded in passing safely between the stone Scylla and the wooden Charybdis, and reached the quiet harbor beyond it. I had a narrow escape, however. Not [merely because the strait was so narrow, but chiefly because the inâ€" gress of the tip of the first man’s nose, and the egress of the tip of my coatâ€"tail, were simultaneous, synchronous and identical. The broad partition, which so kindly screened me from obser- lvation, was carried across the nar- rowapartment, near one end of it, so that I now found myself in a small, dark room, perhaps ten feet square. ‘Any port in a storm,’ says the sailor ; and upon that. principle, I thoughtl might well congratulate myself upon the snug security of my place of refuge. The partition was quite a thin one. ,This was particularly true of the’central board, on which the picture was painted,'which was the thinnest kind of deal. My light having been extinguished, and the outer apartment having been illu- minated, as it soon Was, I could see a number of small holes in the boards, through which I readily obtained a view of all that was go- ing on among my visitors outside. A procession of perhaps twenty figures, with long dark robes and masks, entered, and took their places, in successive ranks, extendâ€" ing across the room ; after which, two of them proceeded to light up the place with lamps and sconces, having first extinguished a num- ber of torches which they had brought with thorn. This being attended to, these two, who seemed to be a sort of, attendants, came to the front, and one of them handed to the first figure in the rank something which I could not see distinctly. The lat- ter then advanced towards me, levelled what I now saw was a pis- tol directly at my head, and fired! The ball passed through the thin partition and then followed through the collar of my coat. ‘ Snug and secure with a venge- ance.’ thonglit I. ‘Do they really know thatl am here 7.’ This question I was soon able to answer in the negative, for it I it. Immediately after the shot was made, I heard at deep toned voice. outside, saying : . ‘ Brother Paul's bullet has passed Within .two and a» quarter inches of the pear.’ soon did. On the contrary, I. got as far away from it, and as close: into one of the corners, as [possibly . could. As I have stated, the apart, ment was a very narrow one, and it was impossible to get more than three or four feet from the picture, on either sidewonc consequence of, which was a fervent prayer, on my part, that Brother Paul’s associates, whoever they were, might prove to. be good marksman. I . Bang! I heard another bullet my own fully and that womanish, Yankccish curiosity which had led me into such an exec‘e‘dingly'unplca- Side. sant scrape. Even if the reverend- lool;ing sharpLS’lidotcrs in the sable surplices had finally ceased their pistol-ical manoeuvres, still there was no ‘way ofgcttingoutoftlie trap ard porte coo/lore of the palace. ‘ becoming a freeâ€" I Hillo, there! Whatis that? .A creaking noise overhead, and the platform and its appurtenances beâ€" gan to rise slowly from the floor. Please the pigs, Said I to myself, I mean to be a passenger, let the consequences be what they may.-â€"â€" But,to my intense gratification, thch their hats and banned. said I, addressing Brother Domini- que, Who‘ was still walking by my Before he had time toanswer my question, a very handsome carriage, with outriders and attendants, in splendid. liverics, droveout of the The carriage contained an old gentleman and a boy. Itdrove slowly through the crowd, and the people took off Just as it came abreast of us, and when it was but a few paces distant, my comptr- nion suddenly raised a pistol, level; led it at the old gentleman, and fired! It was the King, and one of his was no consequence at all, eXCcpt thisâ€"that I waited quietly, till the thing‘ reached the level of my own floor, when I stepped oft .it, into my bed-room, without the slightest difâ€" ficulty, leaving the ‘ oscillating cn- ginc’ which had brought the DD still risings‘kywari. ’l-Iow far it younger sous~~eithcr the Prince de .Ioiirvillc-or the Doc d’Aumale, I think. The affair is now a matter of history, however, and perhaps you remen'iber the particulars more distinctly than I do. At all events, the pistol-bullet did no injury, but lodged in one of the panncls of the went, I neither knew or cared. I Cal‘riag0”‘vllhln 3“ mall 01' 1W0: strike the wall, but, fortunately, at a respectable distance from my“ person. . , ‘ Brother Anselin’s ball has struck within three-quarters of an (inch of the pear.’ ' . . , . Well done, Brother Anselm! Silence again for aminutc or two. was cured of curiosity -â€"for the pre- sent, at least. V ' . Thankful toget out of the ‘ fix ’ so easily, threw myselfupon my bed and’cndeaviir’cd to disentangle my thoughts from the maze into which they had been thi‘Sting"[themselves for an ‘hour or more. 4 Short as my however, of the head of the boy. " The king was as firm and as cool as any one could well have been. Whatever he might have lacked, it. was not courage, certainly. Aftcra single anxious glance towards his son, he put his head out of the caré riage. bowed to the people, and as- Bang l A bullet ,whizzed closepast my left ear. " ‘Brother- Bonifacc’s bullet has passed three feet and one inch wide of the pcar.’ » ‘ ~ confound your. bony face and black muzzle, said I, sotto now, 'if that’s the wav you are going to shoot, lam likely tobe about as, ‘snug and secure’ here as I woold have been among ‘ the fiVe hundred’ at Balaklava! But here they come again! Bang! Bight between my legs, taking a good big bite out of my. brooches! If vou had been there, just then, you would have seen. an entree/rat such as Taglioni never dreamed of. ‘ The "thing was growing serious, and I was growing angry ; and, in fact,.it was only by an almost superhuman ef- fort of selfâ€"control, that] refrained from using my pistols and making the bloody scoundrcls demos in their turn. ,But one man is too few for twenty, even if he does hail from America; so I dogcd the balls, as 1 best could, and hopped and danced about ‘ promiscuousiy.’ - A distingurshcd writer advises any one who gets into a quandary, to ask himself how the great and good/would act under similar" eir- cumstances. But Iput it to you, now, gentlcmcnmdid you ever hear of ‘ the great and good ’ being pent up behind a pearohead‘cd picture, to be shot at? Iliad not thebcncfit even of that precept to console me -â€"-though it is my candid opinion that if ‘thc great and good’ had their breeclics legs shot away, they would cut inst as many pigeon- wings as I did. , ' For a space of time which seemâ€" cd to me almost interminable, l danced and they piped. or rather popped away, tillBrotherJacqucs, and Brother Francois, and Brother Ambrose, and Brothers Augustine and Barthclemy and Benoit and Clement and Gautier and Laurent and Christophe and Eustache and Clirysostome and Eusebe and Grc- ‘ goire and Gaspard, and I know not how many more, each one (as ' the French say) a worse mafltsman than the others, had all blazed away at the pear, and, most of them, missed it. ' - But, fortunately, everything in this world has an end, compulsory gymnastics not excepted. The last shot' was Brother Dominiquc's; and, after a short period of silence, it was announced that From" Do- minique was the conqueror, and the one chosen ‘to smash the pear (cassei' la poirc ;’) a figurative ex- sured them he was not hurt. After a number of hearty cheers, he spoke again, and requested that Some one should be sent to the Palaceof the Chamber of Deputies,.to notify the queen of what had happened, and prevent her from receiving a false or exaggerated account of it. She had gone thither in advance of the king. .y This was the day for the deâ€" livery of the royal speech, upon the occasion of the opening of the legis- lative session for“ 1836-’37. Having said it few wards to the people. thank- ing them for their demonstrations of attachment, the royal corlcgc moved forward, and was soon out of sight. Brothel“ Dominique, of course, was immediately apprehended, and tempt to assassinate the king gWas' (by “0 means a mall“ 0“ COW“; I thena common topic of newSpapcrl “fougl‘lfl was amsmd ".1093 with discussion, it required no gm,“ him. I had been seen walking With amount of wisdom on my part to him and riding Willi him, and I suf. set it down as not unlikely that the feral the Penalty annexed ‘0 “‘0 men I had seen would prove to be keepmg 0f bad compan.“ real conspirators, act the smashing What the“ look Place, 911d “(hat of- the pear a substantial entity. _ steps I took to obtain my liberatmn, I I was no great admirer of his pig I Will not dwell upon. Sufhce it to ___I mean pea,.___headed majesty, but say that it wasobtaincd, through the I utterly abominated assassins, of kle exertions 0f_ M}'- Andefi’soni every so”, private and political, and without any material inconvenience i thought it an imperative. duty to resallmg {Wm my ‘ncal'ceralmll- give informatiou of what I had seen] Afle" I llad lOld my story, ‘1 Pal‘ly to the police. . 0f the police was sent with me 10 While I was thinking the thing Overha‘fl ll‘e‘qual'lcm 0f the under' over, I fell asslccp, and did not wake ground bf‘mherhoo‘l Whose burrow again till the ferenoon * was pretty “lad ,So,smg”lm'ly Fllscovel'ed- The “,6” advanced. -Havi,,=~gfi asv.assecae to which they belonged sojourn in Paris had been, I never- theless. knew enough to know that in the language of caricature a pear meant’thc head of his, majesty the King of the French; and that the picture which the sable brotherhood had. been popping at, and behini which I had played so many antics, was that of Louis Philippe. " _Fi'om. the speech of brother D0,- minique, it was cvrdent that he had been chosen out of the whole numâ€" ber, even in mere bravado or, in so- ber earnest, as the favored one who was to assassinate the king, ‘xthe Brutus who was to make a second Cresar bleed,’ as he himself had phrased it, in his’ harangue. " As the probability of anoti’icr at- breakfasted in myown mom’j fas_ find ramifications throughout the tencd the door securely and sallied klngdoma and “'9 560d may were for”, to find an omnibus bound for then sowing, like the dragon’s treth the other Side of “,0 Seine; of Cadmus, has 'since ’spr‘outed ' a As [was Passing the pone-1.29 lodge plentiful crOp of Red ' Republicans. Iobscrved a young man who had This particular lodge .or subdtvrsron the appearance} of being one of the stylcdthemsclves ‘Jllomes'dc la Pairs lodgers in the house. He saluted a‘POudrca, 0" ,‘ MW!“ of the POW' me in the off-hand French fashion, der'H-Omi P02”) m Franc": being and we went into the street together. ,“sed, for how Pearan‘l Pow‘ie’i‘lmm- ‘I believe we are both upon "the “la” mono was": '1 he Pea" is same crrand,’ said he, as we stopped RU)?" simultaneously, at the Place do I’ _“my had, lake“ at great do“ 0f Odcon, and began to look about for pams to “Old discovery‘ The only me iHirondcneg 1 way into their collar was through 1 skirted, for at the first word he thelong wooden box, up and down uttered, I recognized the dccp_,0ned which the brethren were sent by voice of my subterranean acquain- means 0f_a-8"eat_ rope and Q‘Vin‘l' tame, Brother Domim-que_uw one lass. This contrivancc had former- Who had undertaken ,0 . smash the ly been used for hoisting up some pear} Whether he had any suspi, sort ofiriercliandisc. The tube com- Cion of me or Dog; was‘unabjc to menced on the tourth floor, in a determine. He looked at me very small room occupied by the WOUId' fixedly, but that may have been ac_ be-assassin, whose name was Mou- cidcntal. It made me fccl'uncom- mer- ,. fortablc, though, I must confess. ' 1 It came out on the trial, before would have pal-ted companv with the Chamber ofPeers,that this Meu- him Very willinglv, but ] cohld no, nier had been flattered and cajolecl go so without losing the omnibus, into the belief that he was destined which would have delayed still fur» by Pl'OVidcnce 10 be the SaViOUl‘ 0f 0 lights and troopcd out of the place thcr what had been delayed too long already. There was nothing for it, then, but to make the journey to the other side of the river in his company. Neither of us said much, but he still continued to eye the very closely, while I reassured myself that hedid it only because 1 was a foreigner. Before communicating with the police, I wished very much to see the,American‘Secrctary of Legatio'n, Mr. Anderson. General case, our minister,l knew vcry’ well' was in Italy. The ofiice of the‘ Legation was'in the Boo du Fauboui‘g St. llonorc. ' The omnibus stopped near the Ttiilerics, and we got out. There Was quite a. Crowd assembled on the pression which I thought I could in- terpret. Brother Dominique made a short but very enthusiastic speech, in which he promised to ‘ smash the pear’ into animalcur flinders, with- out dclay. ’ To my incffable satisfaction, there were no further attempts to smash the painted pear, and the brethren soon extinguished their just as they had entered. As soon as they Were gone, I re~lit my candle, and evacuated my ‘snng, secure retreat’ with no ordinary degree of alacrity.» I was glad enough to get, out of it, but I would have been much gladder to leave the subterranean shootinggallery l l l France. The shooting match which I witnessed, was a humbug to all fraternity except Meunier himself. He was purposely allowed to win, because they all knew he was a hot- hcaded enthUsiast, and the only br0~ thcr who’could be induced to ‘smash the pear’ in reality. 1 should rc~ mark that the collar of the brethren contained several other apartments besides the A nevento~be-forgotten shooting-gallery. ‘ . ' Mcunior Was found guilty, and sentenced to the guillotine ; but the king commuted this sentence to one of banishment, chiefly through the prayers of his mother, backed by the intercession of the queen. I saw, in the Tuilcries, a very striking picture, commemorative of this fact. clearly prevcd by experiment. Tin 1‘3." are few farms even in the newest," parts of the country 'which Would“ , not be benefitted byeconomising and“ " applying all the manore'that‘is made thereon, or that can be conveniently and'Cheaply procured. But upon" old land that has been subjected to" continued cropping, manur‘e of' some” kind is absolutely indispensable.- Bones, when minutely reduced-have" been found admirably adapted for general manurial purposes, being equally well suited to the turnips and the ccreals.. \Vhen treated,- however, with sulphuric acid, they" become more readily taken into the' circulation of plants, and their imme- diate action rendered more certain‘ and effectual. The following moi; tired of dissolving bones will be found both simle and effective. First, turn over" and water his" bone-dust thoroughly \vitli‘a’s”‘iiiu'clr" water or. liquid manure asit w‘ifl‘ab‘J; sorb; then shovel it into a conical heap, and cover up carefully and closely Willi sods, or any material' that will not be. the porous; in a" few.._days the temperature, of the, heat will be so high that the'ri'ali‘éd’ hand cannot be inserted in it. The object of the close covering is to pre- vent as much as possible iiioescapo‘ of the gases thrown off during fer-s mcntion. Whentlic heap has cooled“ ' down again, turn over and water.- and cover up as before ;- andwlien“ ‘ the heat isut the gt'catcst,-mix‘WIth' the acid. Turn off, say two bushels at a time from the side of the heap; spread them" out‘ on the floor, and water them all over“; then ap fly; the? acid at the rate oloirc-tliir’d’ the, weight of the bones; "turn them all”‘ over carefully \viithva slichl,-so as to bring the acid in.“contact.witlt‘ all‘ the pieces ofbone. lt may boners" necessary to mention, in regard to' watering the bone-dust, that thcvafli- nity of sulphuric acid for water is' very great, so much so, that it ex- ‘ posed to the airit will quickly absorb” water from the atmosphere, and; cei'iSCquciitly',i when the bones are partihll'y saturated, the acid from ilk great affinity for it, rushes, as it were, into the pores of the bones in' search of water, and thus, the bones become rapidly and perfectly rriix‘cdJ with and acted on by ihe acidihen" the bones anti acid have been“ tltni roughly mixed, shovel the‘di’idto' a' corner", and’prbcced in'thc shine man? nor with the rest'of the Fr‘o‘r’rt' the boiling action produced by mix- ing the wet bones with the acid, they are apt to spread all over the floor, and cannot be very easily kept to- gothcr; but afteri the mixture- has' been left for an evening to cook-there is no difliculty in laying it up com- pacdy next day, a practice that ought always to be adoptbdi'arid’in‘ which Condition it Ought to' r’e’uihill‘ till required for use. A‘oonsidemble quantity'of acid’ is ofteri’loét by this method, unless the'fibot‘ on whibh it" is done is laid with stories o‘i" s‘ome' ,other hard substance, as from' the," high specific gravity of the acid, and“ its affinity for moisture, it sinks intoi an earthen floor. Dried or charrcdi‘ bog earth put at the bottom'would" tend to absorb it, and also any ga- scous matter emitted during decom- position. loncs thus prepared can“ be drilled w.th turnip-orether seeds,- and their action is in general rmme» diets and powerful. This has been‘ the result of experience, whether- they have been tried on‘this'cr the" Other side of the Atlantic. SAY/PING FENCE Posrs.â€"--A cor. respondent of the New Hampshire Journaqu .ngiculture, in speaking of fence posts,-says, that thirty vears. ago he set some fence posts which, upon recent examination, proved to be perfectly sound. This preservae. tion he attributes to the fact of his. having bored each post witlra two inch anger. about three inches above the ground. Filling the hole with‘ salt and plugging it up. The quati~‘ tity of salt to each post was about halfa pint. â€"...- .._.. Lord hilacaulcy had a singular last for walking through the deserted streets ofthe great metropolis in the hours when the citizens were fast asleep,and all was hush: ed. Those were the hours, he used to re~ ‘ mark, for reflection and thoughtâ€"when’ the utter loiiliness which is peculiar at midnight to great cities, steals over the meditating wayl'arer, solitary apparently, and alone in the world. Dr. Johnson- possessed a similar taste, and Charles Dickens is singularly fond of old city streets and alloys, when they are emptied of the busy throng that fills their. in the ‘(lsylimfi