Smoking Seed Corn

, - I wisfi to remindyour readers that if they would save their corn ncxt spring from the depredalioiis of the squirrels, mice, birds, bc., lo preparé for smoking .their seed, ácóording the following recipe:- Leave a few husks on the seed eors. 00 that tfiey can be hung p in the smoke houee and smoked with the hams: or hang them upin any dry place, and before planting dip the end of a stick in tar set fire to it and hold:ng it under the corn, givc it a thoroug! smoking. I have tried this for three years and have saved many times my eubscription to the paper by it S. Li C. in Prahie Far mtr.It is statedin the annual report of the keeper of the Kentucky penitentiary, for the present year, that of the 176 convicts now in the prison, 8 were confined there for crime of "assisting slaves to runaway." Since 1836 no less than 13 persons have been confined in that penitentiary for the same offence. lt is classed in the report as a different 'crime' from that of "stealing slaves," ihere being two in the penitentiary for the latter offence. Those imprisoned for "assisting slaves to escape" are enumerated between those committed for 'forgery' and "intent to kill." Something like being