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Pestilence and (heir Effects. The awful mortality produced bv thcopide ic at New Orl<$ns has given occasion to the mark, in various quarters, that its ravages ; unparalleled. The histcyv of the past, howev furnishes many instances of more terrible i structron of human life by various pestilent The Philadelphia Ledger notices the followi; among the many that in a measure have de lated the cities of the earth : The first of which we have a detailed accoi is that recorded by Thueydides, and which vi ed Athens about four iKitulred and thirty re before the Christian era. It appears to lu been identical in kind with the great plague Loudon in 1066, the accounts written of the c applying almost exactly to the other. The m M 1 * ' * i * * 1 - ? VI taiity wtneli attended u seems inmost, mcreuu It was followed, at uneven periods, by oilier v t at ions of pestilence, which swept oil' millions the human race, at lloine, Egypt, Syria, ? finally Constantinople Gibbon relates that the reign of Justinian, A. D. 527, a plague vastated the empire for fifty-two years. Dm a portion of this time, when Constantinople \ visited bv the epidemic, ten thousand persi died daily. Two centuries later, two bund thousand persons were carried off, in that e;i tal, by another visitation of tho plague. In i earlier visitation many smaller cities were < populated by it. Whole districts, devoted agriculture, were abandoned, the harvest be left to wither on the ground. Gibbon compu the entire mortality, during the fifty two .ye of plague, at one hundred millions. During the dark ages, the plague swept o Europe several times with frightful violence. Boccaccio has left a vivid narrative ofitsappc ance at'Florence, abo it the middle of the lb teenth century. It bore the name of the "13!; Di ath," and closely .resembled the old plague Atlionc Vioftmr Prurbitul if envoi it off ti . . .v...Q ?.{J.. , --- thousand inhabitants of Lo"don alone, thou the British capital had not at that time probal more than two hundred thousand inhabitau Fifty years later, the plague appeared again London, when thirty thousand prisons poMi of it within a twelvemonth. In I317, an o demic called the "Sweating Sickness" broke i in Europe,, and extending to England, d?'pri\ the principal towns, according to Stowe, ot' h theic inhabitant-*. In 1G03, nearly forty tlx sand persons died of plague in London. A Ik the same period, Constantinople is said to h; lost two hundred thousand of its inhabitants tlie same disease. As the age of otiicial stai tics bad not yet arisen, these numbers may h: beeu occasionally exaggerated; but the vi vastness of the estimates, eveu if Imtappruxii: tions, proves the frightful rate of mortality, is to be regretted that we have not more ex, aocounts of these epidemics, so as to be able determine whether they were identical in ch acter, as the best medical writers conj- cture, really different, as their names imply. We come now to the pestilence which dev tilted London in 1GG.3, and which is comiuoi known as "The Great l'laguc." It does not: pear, after all, to have been as fatal as 111:1 which preceded it; and really owes its pre-01 inence to the vivid descriptions left of it. T epidemic appeared in September, 1GG4, and ter linsrerinir all winter, beiran to rago violen as early as May. The summer set in unusiia hot. In the week ending tltc 13th June, 1 had died of the disease; tlif* next week I number rose to 105; the next to 207; and i next to 470. Macau ley computes the popi tion of London at this time at about half a n lion. By the middle of July, however, two in dred thousand had fled to the country. '1 pestilence now began to increase with nppnlli rapidity. The deaths for the week ending w the 1st of August were 2010, and they r steadily in numbers till the tilth of SepU-nil having reached, for the week ending at that d; G988. The week following there were 03-5 the week after that G103; and the next w< 5533. The pestilence now rapidly abated. J mortality for the ensuing live weeks was, resp lively, 4520, 4327, 2GG5, 1421, and 1031. the 5th of December, the weekly deaths fr the plague had fallen to 210. This, after I awful mortality which had preceded it, was o sidered a trifle; the fugitives consequently turned to town, and business was generally sumed. Other pestilences, since the London one, h: been very fatal. In 1720, 00,000 persons ] islied at Marseilles, or quite half of the popi tion. Iii Egypt, Syria and Barhary, the in tality of the plague has frequently trebled, : even quadrupled, the present mortality at N Orleans. In the ''Great Blague," London I 100,000 of her inhabitants or one-third of th who stayed to encounter the postih-nee. N Orleans must lose 27.000 to attain a like in tality ; but God forbid that she should ! Good .Tlaiiucis. The good sound sense of the subjoined extri should recommend it to the attention of all \> are in any way entrusted with the care of you "It is a matter of sound policy to culti\Human tiers of our children, hor g<-ntle iiianiK ana a K1I1U anu ?ungmg <?hviii-:w, mil UU luori gather around one firm and enduring tVi?*i than strength of mind and Mip.-rioi ity of att: nients. The manners to which we refer are fruit of the cultivation of the mind and lathe outpourings of benevolence, sincerity, ; inward purity. In ail the departments and j fessions of life, we prefer, other things be equal, to avail ourselves of the services ofpcrs of agreeable and obliging manners. Good tn ners are a passport to favour with all men. Tliey | arc coin of ureal intrinsic value, and every where i current. We may be allowed to glance at some 1 of the features of good manners, such as we de-1 and sire to have taught and practised in our schools, ! ant* and such as all persons in well oidered society fol- are bound 10 ?bserve. The conventional rules ?S5,) of society are not arbitrary enactments, which d a any who choose haven right to set at defiance, in-1 They are essential to the maintenance and cnlt'1" : joyinent of social intercourse and the further c as j ancc of its highest ends. Every person who ended j?.vs the juivileges and benefits of society, is s 1 be morally bound to observe its wholesome rules, t 111 hieeding is a sin against good morals, as well as a breach of social laws. No person has any ? right to act the clown indwell ordered socatv, or to be unkind and offensive, setting at defiance t the laws made for its convenience and comfort i bv common consent. The leading feature of I t crood manners is a scrupulous observance of all J r ,n* tlio rules that regulate social intercourse. Let [ t rc* the pupils of our schools be required to observe I I arc. them in their intercourse with each other and J c cr? their teachers, ami upon all other occasions. Ma- i ?J ny of these rules, abstractly considered, are little a :os- : things; and yet in their influence upon the con- 1 r veiiience and pleasure of social intercourse, Utey a so" are great things. A particle of dust is a small I thing, yet in the eye which it irritates, it he- j v "'t comes a great thing in its influence. So in- j cj -it- | fringoineiit of the rules of good brei ding may he | t ;,rs in itself of small moment, but it often* becomes v lxc important in tlie fiictioii and irritation which it | c ?f produces in social intercourse." o >ne or- Temper?Its Perils and its Penalties. >le. j "Full many mischiefs follow* cruelwrath, 11 f Abhorred bloodshed and tumultuous strife, a 0| Unn anlv murder and untliriliy si-atlio, ii md Litter despite, with rancorous rusty knife, v , in And tivtting gi ielj the enemy of lite." de- A large portion of the misery of mankind may ing be attributed to the infirmities of temper. The vas cases are rare indeed ia which an individual can aits pass through life, even for a single week, without red discovering at the close that the annoyance and ij'i- pain have been caused by the indulgence of a the iiastv or nctulant spirit, or the utterance of some ft 'J - I I Jo- Iiarsli or uucallod-for remark. We arc all more ! v to or less the creatures of teiiijier, while the j?eace ' h hiLT of many a family is constantly disturbed, and ( v tos the lives of many innocent persons are frequent , s urs |y embittered by the improper indulgence of b temper. The slightest cause is sufficient to in- ! t ver duce irascibility, the merest triile will sometimes : t: ? produce a domestic whirlwind. And then,.too, jn ar- when the fiend of an un^overanablc tempi r is ' it ur- fully amused, who may measure the bounds of ick its violence, or venture to predict life consciof quenccs? How many l outs may be pained, ! a fty ,?iid w hat scenes of anxiety may be produced at j ;l it'h home: At this moment it is probable there arc ' |, !>!y thousands of individual sutfe'-inij in Philadelphia I p its. from the tll'eels of temper. There are few in- j p i" deed, who can command and control themselves p led at all times. The anxieties of life are cileula- ! |, pi- ted to disturb and irritate; siekness is apt to . p 'tit m ike one fretful; misfortune often saddens and < p h! sours the disposition, while selfishness and ob-ti- ; 0 alf naey exercise asad influence upon temper. The p ?ti- trials and trium| lis of human nature in this re-' j, -lit s; Oct would, could they be detailed* abound with ], iv? u-eful lessons; while on the other hand, the ' j, by tearful coii-eipietices ui a violent temper, coiise- f, is- quel ices that have often involved the shedding t] ive of blood, would, Could lliey be depicted in livid fry lan^najji and condensed within reasonable Iitn- (J " 'i its, at once admonish and appal. We some days \ it since heard of a case in whiih two indixidu.Vs ,. net who had sworn to be faitlilul to ?.'nh other for j-, to l.fo, became so excited and inllamcd, that each j, ar- -ub-cqueiitly confes-ed that the demon of tern- 0 or per had so mastered them for a time, that fearful j acts of violence were contemplated. And yet |j a'- liny both admitted that anything of tin- kind j, nly would have been a source of regret and anguish Sl '??*- IV?I? t lui m.cf /,f limit* il.M'c \*l\* liAVV 1 l,Jr~ I\J IIK'III IU1 HlVi I IIIVII \l.%% ?.vr?? , |( my many awful scenes have taken place umler pre- j v ni- cisi ly the same circumstances! How much j s{ Ins sorrow ami remorse lias been experioncul because ], af- of the deeds done and language uttered nailer I tlv the iiiilu- ttce of temper?deeds never to be for- | :llv gotten,and language never to be effaced from | I- the memory. In all the relations of domestic I fe, j lie a euiiimand of temper is absolutely indNponsa- j ^ tlie bio. L<*t the head of the household forget him- : v ila- self in this respect, and all the blcs-ings of calm,1 j. iil of peace, of traiujuility and decorum, will ?pecdimi |y disappear. ' lie It is indeed impossible to imagine the extent ng to which an ungovernable temper may carry its ' itb unfortunate victim, or the deplorable coii.seose (juences that may ensue. 0 " Doubtless there are many at this moment who l,,'? are groaning in penitentiaries, who, could they j have governed themselves, and kept a check i. , upon their temper, would have been mingling p in society as useful and honorable citizens. They fi j'1'* now discover the error, but, alas, too late! I low | . important then, that in the education of ehildri-n, ' l)l" | the temper should be hokod to as well as tlie j j morals, the manners and the niiml. Of late ^ ,,n* i years, incompatibility of disposition has been p "* alleged in many ea-es as the chief ground for p ! divorce. In other words, the parties could not' . agree, the one or the other, or perhaps both, he-: 'j lve I ing touchy, impatient, irascible?that is to say,1 I( ,f>r" j high teinpered. Others again live on in miserv '':l* ! for years, ever and anon annoying themselves and j lul " others by bursts of passion, fits of violence, ami ] "'d gusts of temper. Converse with them upon tlieij ,:W subject, and tlu-y will admit the intiruiity, and j at the same lime contend that it is impossible j ">c to control it. If this indeed be the case?if tiny J eW cannot command themselves, but are liable at "Jl* any moment to indulge in some fearful outbreak, they are among the most unfortunate of man- j. kind. A sleeping devil may be said to occupy j 1 I their bna-ts, whose slum tiers may l>e ?li^turlx-<l j1 jc{, ! and fury mused at any inoinr'iit, nay, sometimes 1 ho by a word or a mere look. Tlie victim thciefire | *' tli; | is constantly ;it tla* mercy of his ti'-iul. lie may [ *' t|u. i sometimes he |>r<iinj>t< il to viol? tne. niv, to mur- ? urs I der?and, indeed, many of tin- jliotni-id.s tliat ! ' ; to ! take place in civilized Society, are perpetrated '( ids I when reason is mastered hy t-mper, and when 1 lit - j the whirlwind of passions imp's without thought the ?r a r?"aid to consequence. Alas! for the poor , art. wretch who is constantly jjivitiyr way to hursts of n ind ' temper, who not only renders himself unhappy, ,ro- j hut annoys, p.dns and makes miserable all o\er in^r i whom lie can exercise authority, ami many who, t ons 1 under other circumstances, would look lip to, i an-1 love and respect him.?fii'/uirer. I j' emai.e Society.?jn'o society is more jhuitable, because none more refining and provocate of virtue, than that of a refined and sensible voinan. God enshrined peculiar goodness in .he form of woman, that her beauty might win, ler gentle voice invite, and the desire of her 'a\ or persuade men's souls to leave the path of finful strife for the ways of-pleasantness and >eace. But when woman falls from her blessed minonce, and sinks the guardian and the chershcr of pure and rational enjoyments into the ain coquette and Haltered idolater of fashion, lie is unworthy of an honorable man's adiniraior.. Beauty is then but a pest: " A pretty play tiling; Dear deceit.'' We honor the chivalrous deference which is aid in our land to woman. It proves that our lie11 know how to respect virtue and pure affecion, and that our women are worthy of such espect. Vet women should be something more linn mere women to win us to their society. To ie our companions, they should be fitted to be >ur fiicnds; to rule our hearts, they should be lesorving the approbation of our miiuls. There re many such, and that there arc not more is at her the fault of our own sex than their own ; ] ud despite all the unwomantyscandals that have >ecn thrown upon tlicm,in prose and verse, they could rather share in the rational conversation >1 men of sense, than listen to the silly coinplincntsof fools; and a man dishonors them, as cell as disgraces htmself, when he seeks their cirle for idle past-time, and not the improvemeut f his mind and the elevation of his heart. The Tomij ok Mn. Webster.?A marble block ias been placed in front of Mr. Webster's tomb t Mars 11 tie Id?similar to those which he erected ii memory of his wife, son and daughters? rhich bears the following inscription : DANIEL WEI3STEU, DOItX JANUARY 1 8, 1 7 82, DIED OCTOBER 24, 1 S O 2 . .Lord, I believe, help thou my unbelief. Philosophical argument, especially that drawn oin 1112 xastne.ss of the Universe, in comparison ith the apparent iusignilicance of this globe, as sometime* shaken my reason for the faith diich is in me; but my heart has always asitrcil aii^ reassured that the gospel of Jesus ihrist must be a divine reality. The sermon on lie mount cannot be a merely human produc on. This belief enters into the very depth of iy conscience. The whole history of man proves ;. Daniel Webster. It scorns to me that all times of life are alike daptod for happiness, anil that if wo grow ohl, s one should grow old, the last days of life must e the happiest of all. Every stage of life is tit the preparation for the next one. It is lie treasure-house in which are collected all ie j.leasuivs that are to make the future time appy. The child has, indeed, hut few trotthles, at they arc as great to him as larger ones prove > his parents. I asked a friend once, speaking f the happy cloudless days of his childhood, if c would like to be always a child ? lie stop<d for a nvun-nf. ;u*I then said,.^<>. I tirtnK" e was right. There is progress in everything? i our ineaus of happiness, and in our capacity ?r enjovineiit. Then let us not look back upon lie tiine-wriiikled face of the past, only with egret. (Jive me the present, glowing and full f life, and the future gloriotN with bright visions, wou'd lather I-ok forward than to look back; nlher spend the golden hours in working out iresent happiness than in vain regrets for the ast. It is but the helm with which to steer ur onward course. The future lies bafo.ro us. t is the steep and rugged mountain up which es our way. It is not genius nor fortune that roves the way to eminence, hut earnestness? i-lfcontrol ? wisdom. Those are in our hands? t us u-e ilieni, and when, at the sunset of life elunitolookb.uk on our path and see it (retching far down before us, peacefully, liappi, we may lay ourselves down to rest. CritE ok Eoi xdeu is Houses.? Having had little experience in curing the founder in horses, take this method to give you a fact, that you my give it to others through the columns of our valuable "Journal." It may be of great nice to some, and saVo many a fine lior.se from ...... .1....tl. .....I ... II.-.]. ?. nil! .... I. r? I III Ml III* Vit.UII UIIU I 11 IIV. I I .^UllVllll^. The fact I shall give you, is of a horse worth hrec hundred dollars, because of his flectuess. Ie came to my hand in August, about eight 'clock in the evening, after being driven only vventy nine miles, with only two persons in a cry light and easy buggy. The horse for some imc had bcell fed all the grain lie would eat. 'or two or three days he had not liked his grain, nt the night before lie came to my hand lie had alcn to the full of all lie had liked; and when e came he was so stilfhe could not step over a ix inch pole, and when lie attempted to turn omul would nearly fall. I put him into water learly knee deep, and kept a wet blanket on iui all the time Ibr four hours; then put him ! nto stable, and put another blanket over him | lid left 11ii.) for the night. The next morning ] found him sweating; took him from the stable j lid rode liim a mile, led him back, and put him II the brook again for an hour. During the day exercised him about live miles, and about sun et let liim.stand an hour in the water, and again n the next morning. About nine o'clock lie was started on bis jour-! ley of forty-two miles, and performed it with ease K-forc sunset; be laid over one day, and went mine the next, forty-live miles, and was returnid to his owner, ami he being a larrier, sold liim a a few days, perfectly unable to describe amy lilliculty or damage done to his horse, being iglyrauL of what Ii.nl happened. The horse was illowed all the food and water he wanted as usu il. lie was not hied iii any part, licit tier was here anylhino ?;iveii to him except, his usual 'ood. The second day he. was as limber as he vor was, and has shown no injury fr .m his foiui ler since. If you think this worthy of your notice, and vish it, I will 'give you inV opinion of the founder md its cure.? Water- Cure Joil nut I. " Is them fellers alive now ?" said an urchin o his teacher. " What fellers do you mean, ny dear?" "Why, Paul and Luke, and Deuteronomy, and them." N~UI.IUliS lliri.M.lll Jl lic.iu?n.<... - ! | pcntcr is dclivei in;; a course of lectures, atMan- t!' chester, oil. the Physiology of the nervous sys- II | tein. In his fifth lecture the doctor related j some curious instances of mind, lie spoke of a very learned professor, some years ago, at Abeideen, Dr. liobert Hamilton, whose essay on the national debt.largely contributed to the abolition of tbe sinking fund.?In public tbis 8? man was a shadow. He pulled oil"liis hat to his own wife in the streets, and apologized for 01 not having the pleasure of her acquaintance. n.( He went to one of his classes early in the inor- %l ning, with one of his wife's white stockings on one leg, and a black one on the other.?He sl often spent the whole time of the class in moving from the table the hats, which his students ^ a$ constantly returned. He sometimes invited the students to call upon him, and then lie fined st' (hem for insulting liiin. if they called. He ran I1 against a co w, and begged her pardon, called j l" lli'r inailam limiorl shn had Ilot bcCI) hurt.? He | would run agaiiM posts, anil cliide them for j I1 not getting out of the way. \et il any one I ? was villi him at the time, his conversation would be perfectly logical. Another instance of absence of mind was quoted in the case of a ^ Scotch clergyman, who was invited to a party . ^ c%j 7 t in in Edinburgh, at a time when it was usual to j mix devotion with social intercourse. He was requested to conduct the services before the ^ company broke up; and he, therefore knelt ^ down and began to pray in an appropriate manner. Rut soon lie apparently entirely furgot where lie was, and he continued his prayer ^ as if in the quietude of his own chamber. He ^ made reflections, in the prayer, on the mode ^ in which he had spent the evening, and on the fl|j individuals present with him at the party.? j when he had concluded his prayer, he rose up, en took off his coat and waistcoat, and was about to proceed to further extremes, when his friends stopped liim.?More familiar instances of ab- ^ sence of mind n cre mentioned as occurring to ^ more than one gentleman, who have been known to go up stairs to dress for an evening ^ parly, and actually undressed, arid got into bed, while their wives, perhaps, were waiting for them .. below.?Flag. * Statistics ok Muscular Power.?Man has wi flip power of imitating every motion but that j no of (light. To tfleet these, lie has, in maturity i Sn and hcalih, sixty bones in the head, sixty in do his thighs and leg<, sixty two in his arms and ce hands, and sixty-seven in bis trunk. (In lias of also four hundred and thirty-four muscles.? w< His heart makes sixty-lour pulsations in a in; minute, and therefore three thousand eight linn- adred and forty in an hour, ninety-two thou- all sand one hund.cd and sixty in a day. There an are also tloee complete circulations of his be blood in the short space of an hour. In re- j Sxi spect to the comparative speed of animated j on beings and of impelled bodies, it may be re-1 ca marked that size and construction seem to have ve lit lie influence, nor has comparative strength, though one body giving any quantity of molion to another, is said to lose so nutth of its own. The sloth is by no means a small animnl, and yet it can travel only lifty paces in a ! iTay ,- u worm crawls only hve inches In f?f'y I -!, seconds ; but a lady bird can fly twenty millions times its own length in ail hour. An elk ' . can run a mile and a half in seven minutes;*]111 an antelope a mile in a minute; the wild mule of Tartary has a speed even greater than that; an eagle can fly eighteen leagues in an hour, .? and a canary fa let n can even reach two hundied and fiftv leagues in the short space of . " C I sixteen hours. A violent wind travels sixty miles in an hour; sound, eleven hundred and ro, fortv-lwo English feet in a second.?liucke. w 3 to c TotxntNG Incident.?We learn says the Memphis Whig, from a reliable source, that as a married couple were travelling on a steamboat bound to New Oilcans to an upstream <'l port, the man .sickened and died. When the c< the boat touched at Memphis, the bereaved bj and distressed widow landed there with the hn corpse, an undertaker was sent for, who came and took the measure for a coffin. The coffin ?* .?<? nnuMiiuwl flu* luul t? 'II?/lCI tof I llioriMM flllll ' rvr t* ?lO | H \ | Ml VUf iilv ?/\ ?M J VIV'I'VCI VWI IMV> ?llva ( J,( all was in readiness lu lake the mortal remains a I ofiliat dear husband toils la-it, final resting J dc place. The lady, with all I lie fond affection and ' ni deep love of a wife, bogged llie piivilego <d' ta- pr King one more look, a last parting kiss on him ti( who was more dear to her than all others upon jC earih. The lid was taken oil", and she laid upon Q that cold, icy brow, bathing il in tears, and se smothering those cold lips with warm ki*ses, ra a sort of consciousness and symptoms of life sh became apparent; I he body was taken from the coflin, and a physician sent for. Our tale M is soon told. The man soon became conva- th lescent, and but a few days since the happy ca couple took passage from Memphis on mi up is stream boa:; and are now en route for their he place of destination, lint for that fond loving ' hi wife, the husband might now be lying in a cold w damp grave. of Always IIkcin Rhjiit.?The following extract is from the 1'iiihulclphia Ledger. Wo siuceri'ly commend it to our young readers; I ta it contains the words of truth ami soberness :? j th 'Above all things, life should he begun I ai right. Young men rarely know how much ;y, their conduct, during their lirst lew years, af- V feels their subsequent success. It is not only i<5 that older persons at the same business form ai their opinions of them at this time, hut that of every beginner acquires, during these. >cars, to habits for good or ili "Inch color !iis whole In- ili tore career. We have seen some ol the ablest le young men, with every advantage of fortune pi and friends, sow the seeds of ruin and early death by indulging too freely in the first years of manhood. We have seen others, with far in less capacity, ami without any backing lint in- F dii.siry and energy, rise gradually to fortune ij and influence. Franklin is a familiar illustration of what a man can do who begins light, il if I... MhI l)i?i-ii too nioud to eat ro Is in the m 1 I ??V- | , street when lie was a poor boy, lie would ncv- si or have been minister plenipotentiary to the court of France. h Always begin right! Survey the whole n; ground before you commence any undertaking j| and you will then be prepared to go forward 1 j successfully. Neglect this, however, and you p I are almost Mire to tail. In other words, begin u D " o ? # e. A false first slop is almost certain defeat. kgin Right." Terrible Hurricane. The steamer Georgia Capt Budd, from New ork bound for Navy Bay, with 300 passen ;rs, arrived here in distress on Sunday eveng, having encountered a terrible, hurricane FCape lJattrns, on \y'ednesday last, which jne on board thought the steamer could surve. We are indebted to one of her pa^sen:rs fur the following thrilling account of the onn: The Georgia left New York on the 5th iust., id had pleasant weather until Weadensday, h, about 10 a. m., on which day a severe orm suddenly arose, and continued until 1 p. when it abated somewhat.. During this lie the steamer behaved tolerably well. The orm. which was from SE. havimr continued to Kite for perhaps an hour, suddenly changed to a perfect hurricane of wind and rain fiom E. attended by as boisterous a sea as pcrips was ever witnessed. The ship then ceased to be under the consi of her machinery, and the water rushed to her engine rooms, in the course of a few mrs entirely extinguished her fires and suberged a large portion of her machinery. Of e 40fr souls on board not one seemed to have e faintest hope of escaping a watery grave. ic pumps having failed to perform their olHce, indlasses and casks were put in requisition, d all hands labored incessantly to free the ip up to 9 [>. in., Thursday night, when the alence of the s?a had sufficiently abated to low the fires to lie rekindled. For some iurs after this, they were unable to make the gines work, and they again commenced the ark of bailing with renewed vigor, and never J men labor harder?a more heroic set canit be found. The last prayer was fervently "ered to flim who controuls the destinies of en; friends and the loved ones at home were mcmbered and a tear silently dropped to their timory?and then the horrors of their situain were faced with the ealin courage of desir. Not a wail went up from that large asinbl.^e of souls 011 the verge of eternity ; ili .no hope of escape from the raging billows, it ?i cheek was bleached with fchr, but-all niggled on with arms nerved for the occasion, teiiuiiied to yield to death alone. And sucss at last crowned their efforts. In the course Thursday night the machinery was got to in k, and havingvcoiitinued their work ofbailg up to Saturday morning, their safety was sured l>y a cessation of the storm. During I this time not a soul on board had slept, d not a meal had heen cootked; As we said fore, they arrived here in the Afternoon of iturday and we trust that they will find in ireicy all those comforts and luxuries which n serve to make them amends for their sere privations.?Norfolk Beacon, Sept. 12. Negro Killf.d by Anotiie.?A rencounter ok place between two negroes on last Sunday Providence Church, in this county, in which ic was killed by blows inflicted by the other. ie negro killed belonged to James D. Craig, ;q., of this place, the other to a Mr. Day, livg near Ilouge Cliitto Creek. The fight was used by liquor sold on the ground by negroes, ho of course obtained it from some of the low liitc men in the community, who make their ing by trafficking with slaves, contrary to law. lis case should, and we hope will, arouse our lizens to a greater degree of diligence in idling out and bringing to punishment those liosc only bu-incss among us appears to be corrupt and destroy our servile population.? d/taba (Ala.) Gazette. * ?? Tiie Mother of Victoria.?The Duchess Kent is at Progmore, which is an extensive >ttage otnee in Windsor Park, once inhabited i' Queen Charlotte, of snufly memory, who is been iinmoitalized by Hyron, as " An uelv. bad old woman." The Duchess, as mother to our Queen, is oviiled for by the public. She has an annual lowance of ?32.000, besides sundry resi dices rent free. The curious part of the ntter is that, while her daughter was heiressosumptive to the crown, (which was a posiin involving some expense,) the Duchess had 20.000a year; but when Victoria became noon, lessening her mamma's outlay, the obquious Melbourne mini: try got parliament to ise it to 32,000?thus showing that the less e had to spend, the more she must receive! It was whispered, at the time, that Lord elhoiirne wished to become third hn^h.-md to o Duchess, who was then aged 51. Nothing mo of it, and the lady, now in Iter GSth year, not likely to change her condition. She lias :en a line woman, with dark eyes and hair, it is now very stout and flabby?known, herever she drives, by the immense quantity rouge with which she bedaubs her cheeks. London Cor. of jV. Y. Sunday Times. ? There are hut thi\?cities in the world conining a greater population than New York ; ey are Louden, 2,3(53,1-11; Paris, l.b?,202; id Constantinople, 780,000. New York has 12,7158. Put if the world stands until New ork shall become as old a city as London now , and its population continues at the present inual increase, who can compute the number 'its inhabitants, or measure its territorial ex nil Loudon dates back to the generation at saw the Saviour. In the reign of Nero, ss than half a century after Christ, it was a ace of considerable impoi tance. l'aiis, the next largest city in the. world, was token of by ("jesar, who reigned half a ceniry before Christ, and when taken bv the ranks 500 years after, was a large and beauI'ul oily. Cou.s'autiiiople is still older than either of le above. It was founded by Byas, 050 ears before Clnisl, and was rebuilt by Coiiaiiline, A. D. 328. 'J hi: foundation of Now York, on the other and, i> of (jaile recent date. It received its nine, {liven in honor of John, Duke of York, i 1 U(>1, at which time it was capluicd of the hitch, !i\ the Kiiglisli. It then contained a ovulation of about .'5,000. The fiot perm acut so.tie.neiit made on Manhattan Island was wharf was built as late as 1658. But little more than 200 years have passed since the first permanent occupancy of the spot on which now stands New York, and in less than two centiii ies her population has increased * from 3,000 to more than half a million/ [Puvghlceepsie Telegraph. The Men over the Niagara Falls. The Press has teemed .with Variously concocted paragraphs respecting the melancholy * and fearful catastrophe, which lately happened j at the Niagara Falls, 4nd from the evidence subsequently adduced, appears to have been A occasioned by in'temperanee. Numerous schemes.have been suggested. U* prevent any similar fatal occurrence, although such events do not take place twice in a ceuttf^ J ry- a Hundreds, aye and thousands, are annually Inn led over the cataracts of the traffic in intoxicating liquors, and yet their fate elicits hut - . little remark and less commiseration. Millions are at this moment gliding down the current of intemperance, having started ' J | front the treacherous stream of moderate in-* - ^ dulgencc, until day after day numbers are suddenly enguljtbed in the vortex of a drunkard's grave. - .x j Who offers a thousand dollars to save an/ S of these victims, or to stretch a wire across the traffic's torrent, as was proposed at the Niagara Falls? Who will put in execution some cer tain preventive against their a finest inevitable t' doom ? " 3 ' Men are rarely so rash as to risk their lives' in the currents above the Falls of Niagara, although they constantly rush into the rapids of , indulgence in the social glass, with a full knowledge that their doom is as certain, but per- -J haps not as sudden in the one ease as in the , other. \ In death by drowning a man only sacrifices * life, hut in death by intoxication, reputation, : ~~1 family, and friends, are irretrievably nijaVed by ' thj conduct of the inebriate, durii.g- his exist- ' 'j ence, as well as hv the ignoble termination of it. " . - , J The individuals who were lost over the Fallo only destroyed themselves, but drinking men not merely kid themselves, but injure their off. i spring, who inherit their parents' ruinous hak. I its, as every writer from Plutarch to the present. time has asserted that Ebrii gignunt eiri| os, and Dr. Darw in thus expresses himself--* I " It is remarkable that all the diseases arising j from drinking spirituous or fermented liquors, are liable to become hereditary, even to the | thiid generation, gradually increasing, if the * j ! cause be continued, until the family beeomes extinct." ' ? ,-k< In evidence brought before the British Par-*' liarnent, in 1834, the report alludes in strong * terms to this fact: "The diminution, of the physical power andjongevity of a Jarge portion of the British population, the loss of personal beauty, the decline of health and progressive decay of the bodily and mental powers" are enumerated as among the effects, of intemperance,which evils,",it goes on to say,*" are accumulative in the amount of injury they, inflict." v\ < With -all these undeniable physiological fitets before the people, is it not their duty- to protect themselves and their offspring by, return' ing members to represent thern^ who will pass x " a Prohibitory Law, which will prevent the ' I community not from going over the Falls of Niagara by threes in a century, but to finally obstruct them from rushing in crowds overthe 1 Cataract of certain death by Drunkenness. Canada West Spirit of the Age. A Free Ficht.?The following is a desciiption of a free fight in Western Virginia, as related by one of the eye witnesses thereof, i Premising that there was but one man struck, in answer to an interrogatory as to who he was, the narrator replies: " I reckon he was from low down on Guy i an, somewhar. Jes as they war jawin, a chap rode up on a clay-bank hoss?I reckon lie w s . Messiuger stock, a scrowgin anemil, a leetle mite blind o' both eyes?a peert looking chap enough, an' when he got foment the place, ses he, 4 Is this a free light"?' and' they lole him it wor. ' Well/ says he, gitting off an' hitching his ole clay, hank .to a swinging limb, count me in!' Ho hadn't raore'n got it out, afore someone fetched him a lick5 an' he drapt. lie r'z dicckfy:with some defichulty, an' ses he, " Is this a free fight?1 an'tfiey tole it arr. ' Well.' ses he, unhitchin. his hoss, and puttin his left leg over the back leather, 4 count me out!' an' then he marvelled." A yonng lady once hinted to a gentleman, that her thimble was worn out, and asked what she should receive for her industry. He sent her a new thimble, with the following lines:? I send you a thimble for fingers so nimble, Which I hope will fit you when you try it, It will last you long, if it's half as strong As the hint which you gave me to buy it. Mother, you musn't whip me for running awav from school any more!' why r Because my school book says that ants are the most industrious beings in the world, ain't 1 a true ant ? ' 'Polly ! Box his ears!' Anno Domini.?"Father did you ever have another wile besides mother ?" No my boy; what possessed you to ask such a question?'' 4 Because I saw in the old family Bijde where you married Anno Domini, in 1835, and that isn't mother, for her name was Sally Smith." When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like exes glistening with over the little * - .11 __ l? tol man. iliousatuis 01 generations, anas noisy as our own, have been swallowed up by Time, and there remains no record of them any more. Yet Arcturus and Orion, JSiiius and Pleides, nie still shining in their courses?clear and yonng, as when the shepherd first noted , them in the plain of Shinar!? Carlylc, / J Lying ? One lie must be thatched with ; another, or it will soon rain through.? Owen, \ I | i