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good enough--a new gown when she's got Two gowns now, VOW to darn, I don't like that exactly muttered Jeptha to himselfas he travelled home.

 Two great apples three cents puh pho" ,blundered Mary, as she crawled in- to bed-' won't be married to him, no won't; great stingy puppyr

 Mary'S mind was made up. Jeptha was decided to break off till "Wednesday, On Th.rsday he ascertained that a frizette might be bought for a dollar-on Friday he wished he could get spare time to sec Mary-on Saturday he determined to go back again-on Sunday night, he looked through the shutters at the house of Mary's father, and-saw an old rival of his sitting beside the taiForess. 'I'll go in and ask for that apple,' thought he almost aloud, and ifshe's eat it she shall pay for it, it's worth two cents to-day!' He stepped without knocking into the entry, but hearty laugh within arrested his hand already on the latch. So you sewed on his button gra- ,is, Mary, did you? ha Ina and where's the apple ?

 Jeptha stopped to hear no more. On the morrow, a little girl brought him a

 

 with basting thread. He opened it, and found a BGchelOr's Button. And bach- clor's button he has worn ever since.

 The best Land for Chinese 1ulle,ry.-It has been frequently said that comparatively poor, dry, gravelly soil, is better adapted to the culture of the Chinese Mulberry, than our rich bottoms and interval land--that a greater profit may be taken from such land than if stocked with any other crop. This assertion does not obtain the credit it de- serves. Our farmers will insist that rich land is worth more for ony crop, and produ- ces more profit than the above described land and so it will for almost any other crop except Chinese Mulberry. If Chinese Mulberry be set out on our rich land, it will grow with such vigor that the trees will have only green wood, and the branches become all but useless although there may be plen- ty of foliage, yet it will be watery, and of less value than the foliage which has grown upon poorer soil. Trees set out upon poor land will more readily mature wood, have foliage more mature, rich and nutricious, and worth twenty five per cent more than the foliage growing on the richest land. Any one doubt ing this position is requested to try the exper- iment in the season of feeding worms, and we have no doubt that time and experience will confirm it; yet it is known that for the white mulberry our rich land is the best.

 Northampton Courier.

 Chursh Bells.-At this present writing, Sunday evening,) there is a music in our ears which we have not heard for long time. It is that of two church bells ringing in the Presbyterian and Episcopal churches respectively. Although we have some five or six churches built and being built in our city, yet until within few days past there has been but one church bell, (that of the Presbyterian church) to sound it's gladsome notes occasionally in our ears.

 Mobile Mercantile Aduertiser.

 We are gratified to see such an expression of good taste and feeling from political pa- per, and still more gratiied at the existence of the facts disclosed. Clearly do we hold that the man who finds no pleasure in the contemplation of the solemn and simple ser- vices of the church, no sweet recollections recalled by the 'church going bell,' gives miserable evidence of the soundness of his understanding and the goodness of his heart. But we are induced to copy the above short extract from the fact that two church bells were ringing at night in our neighbor city to call the people to worship. Has any one heard of such things in New Orleans? No, the thing is here forbidden by the authority of our city corporation. No protestant reli- gious society is allowed after dark by the sound of a bell to call the people to the sol- emn worship of God. Does any one ask why! But how should we know why? when the councils of our city, in discussing the subject have not yet told one solitary reason why. | Yet the ordinance that forbidS the ringing of any church or chapel bell at night for any other purpose than giving alarm of fire or other like disastrous event, under penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars, and allows exceptions to this rule in favor of Roman Catholics, still stands among the enactments of the city.-Ne,c- Orlenns Obserrer.

 A Dilemsna.-The following story has re- gently been told to us for fact. party of young people assembled few evenings since in neighboring town, for social visit; a. mong them several young gentlemen and laL dies from this city. In the course of the eve- ming, the conversation happening to turn on the subject of matrimony, it was playfully proposed that q certain gentleman and lady present should then and there be joined in the holy bands of wedlock, which was con- sented to, and the ceremony performed, by a young lawyer from the city, who happen ed to be one of the party. After the knot was tied, it began to be whispered about that the matter was after all no joke--the officia- tor being a regularly appointed and commis- stoned Justice of the Peace. Both bride and groom now found that they had unwittingly put their necks within the silken moose, and both were anxious to back out. But no what they had thoughtlessly submitted to in sport the magistrate, by his official authority, had (unintentionally to be sureCmade matter Of