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HI 4 ? wa msssm, TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. I "tub puxoe op iiinmitt is btbiinai, ijioix, a.nce." I PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. BY DAVIS A CltKWS. ABISKML1,K, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 22. 1857. VOL. XIV NO. SO. A runPH IM tui? MtMnnv e. . M. **' HiU IliiJiUVlV I . Hartley Bancroft was, in the general acceptation of tlic term, a kin lieai ted man. His feelings were easily reach-d, ati?l tliese gave, usually, a ready impulse to his actions. lJut quick feeling, lias in most rases a twofold range; warmly now into kindlv emo (ion, and now burning with sudd-.-u anger. Your so eallcd kind hearted men are often betrayed into cruel words, and even cruel actions, lint there is litis merit about tliem; I 4 I I A J* 1 1 .1 wucii mo neai 01 passion suusnies uu-y rope lit, ami sometimes seek to heal where ; they have wounded. Such a man was Hartley Kancruft.? While the currents <>f events ran smoothly aiotig, the surface of his life retleele! the unvarying sunshine, but a very liulo obstruction sulliced to ripple tiie waters, and thai their aspect darkened. One day Mr. Dancrofi was silling at his | desk, with a pile of cheeks and hills before i him, the snm of which he was taking preparatory to a deposit in bank. It was late in the day for him to he figuring up his account; but he had unusually heavy payments to make and the amount necessary ' to lift his notes had been obtained with ; difficulty. Mr. Bancroft felt hoth hurried and worried, as his quick nervous move- j tncuts showed. Just at this inauspicious moment, a man i cr.tcrcd the store, and walked hack to where , Mr. Bancroft was sitting. "Good day, Mr. Carl wright ?" There was not a very coidial tone in the voice of Mr. Bancroft, although the other was a customer wliohad houghtof his goods fre?lv. i "Good day." There was an embarrassed j air about Mr. Carlwright. " Wbat can 1 do f?<r von ?" li uasonlv ' 5 a form of speech on the part of Mr. l?an- I croft, or rather a new form of saving, i "Don't ask me for anything." JSTow it happened that Mr. Carlwright! was on that day in a very " tight place," ns ! it is called. Jt was two o'clock, and all of j (.lis efforts to get the full amount of money i needed had failed. Several notes hail matured and among them one <>f seven bun- j died dollars given to Mr. ]?ancroft. All ; but this ho hay succeeded in lifting; and frightened at the aspect of things, he had (Come, very reluctantly, to his creditor whom he only knew as a kind hearted man, ' to state (he extremity of hi< ea>??, ami a>k a check for the amount of his note at a j temporary loan. "I am short seven hundred dollars.? j Can you help mo!'' "No:" wus the answer made in an em- J .1>katio tone, and with the knitting of the j brows. Mr. Bancroft noticed thai his words i seemed to stagger the applicant fur money ; | lie akio noticed that he grew pale, and had ' a look of singular distress. Unt Mr. I Jancroft was too much excited and annoyed for these to have upon him at that time any eight influence. " Then," said Mr. f'artwright, "you will h?i>u iu iiiw 111 v nviu irum tuc uiinK. j J can not lift it." " I shall do no such thing," angrily re- | plied Mr. ] Jan croft. "Take up your notes as 1 take up mine." ' I have failed in all my eflbrts to g>-t money ; and if you do not withdraw this note, it will be protested." Mr. Carlwright said this very deliberately, and in a firm | tono of voice, yet villi a face like ashes. " Very well," was tin* unyielding answer,! " let it be protested, then, il you can bear the operation, I think I can." Coldly, almost snecringlv, were these ^ruol wapiIC colli \1- i ? !.-1.* ! .0 ........ ..... "Igl" his case 110 farther, hut turned away ami went froin the store of his unyielding credi- i tor. Scarcely had he passed into the street bofore the better nature of Mr. 1 Janerofl j roao into ascendancy, nnJ he repented of; Jus unkindness. " William !" lie called to n clerk. The young man came iustantiy. "Make this deposit William, and at the ! ?ame time withdraw Mr. Cnrtw right's note, i .due to-day. Money's hard to get just now, ' li -burdened with heavy payments. | We must give him a helping hand." The i merchant ppoke kindly, not fretfully. The j *Jerk departed with the hank hook an 1 a check of sufficient amount to lift the notes I JLlut were due. Mr. Bancroft remained sit- ! ting at his desk, and from his attitude and j -tiie aspect of his countenance, it was plain ; llint Kflf nnnrnrsil tvn? t>n? llm , i--.ftO.KII. fitatc of mind in which lie was indulging. The vail of a monetary angry excitement I was removed, and now plainly beforo the eyes of his mind, stood his humbled and distressed debtor ; toward whom not a single impulse of kind feeling had stirred.? lie tried to find a refuge from self upbraiding# in the fact that he done all his debtor asked, the note was withdrawn. "Yes,* said a voice williin him, "you , liavo cast a bono, with curses, into the face <if a beggar !" Mr. Bancroft started up hurriedly from Ml desk, walked the length of liis slore, returned, and sat down again. A long, deep sigh parted his lip. ' What could have possessed me (hat I so far forgot both-duty and kindness ? I *ould give twice seven hundred dollars to recall tltis net, were it pos^siblo to do so,*' Prawing a sheet of paper before him Mr. k.iikt'hi moK up a |>oii aim wrote: j i i "Mil. Kkwaiiii Jautwiiii.iit : ' ! " M>j /)c<tr Sir :?I have withdrawn I your note. Forgive in}' rough ttiikiiidiiess. j < ' I was worried about money matters, and j t had just made up my own hanlc account. ' | We are not always proof against, petty an- ! i noyanees. 'l'hey sometimes disturb more ! than larger things. Come in tomorrow. ' i . 1 and we will arrange for the renewal of tlie j i note, if you desire it, making the time suit ' 1 voms.-ir' I - Mr. llaneiofl signed litis apologetic letter, and dispatched it forthwith. He felt * more comfortable after that. Still he suf- c fered some pain from having given pain, i ' and no lit'.le humiliation for the unamiahle j v weakness he Itad manifested. j c " J ?i?l yoii sen Mr. Cartwright!" he en- 1 I1 quired of the lad who had taken tlie ' ' note. I 11 "No, sir; lie was not there," was an- * swered. *1 "You left my note?" o " Yes, sir." The hoy looked agitated.? lie stood a moment, as if wailing for fur- ' tlier questions, and then said : S! They were just driving him away in a carriage." * " What'"' Mr. Itancroft turned pale. " The}' s-aid he had broken a blood vessel." Mr. liancroft started to his feet with an b exclamation ut mingled surprise and pain. l' There was blood on the floor." b Mr. liancrofl groaned aloud. After re- ?! Ik-cling for a moment lie took up his hat and went out hurriedly. A walk of live j, minutes brought hi in to the store of Mr. ? Carl wright. ? " What was llie causc of this J'1 he asked of one of the eli-rks. " ] >id he fall.'*' or ^ was he lifting anything ?" j " No," was answered. " lie was sitting at his desk, resting his head upon his bauds, whrii 1 heard him call in a quick voice, and turning round 1 saw the blood llowing from his mouth." ^ ' llad anything disturbed him '" asked Mr. liaucroft I ^ " Money had been hard to get during the a past week," the clerk answered, and Mr. (.'art Wright's payments were unusually large. P "There is one note not lifted yet, and it is " a few minutes of three o'clock." The clerk pointed to a hank notice lying 011 Mr. Cart- st *i.?r. 1 1. |.M Mr Jlancroft leaned over, and saw that il b was :i note due to liirn. sc " Tins is withdrawn from the bank," said w he. jc " 1 am glad to hoar it," replied the clerk. "I think it was your note did tlie harm.? tj lie had taken up the others and wont out two hours ago, after having been all the ^ morning on the street to try to get the sum ^ required to lift this one, but he failed, and j the consequences were more than he had strength to look at calmly. He is a just ^ man and a kind hearted man, Mr. Bancroft. We who live with him can bear that testio mony." b Mr. Bancroft stood nearly motionless for a long time. o " nere uoes Mr. Uartwright live?" he ^ inquired at length. " At number Fifteenth Street," ^ 'I'o the dwelling of Mr. Cartwright lie ^ went in all haste. lie found everything tliere to confirm his worst apprehensions. The hemorrage had been very profuse.? t] Already so large a quantity of blood had j( been lust, that the sick man was reduced j to state of insensibility, and still the bleeding continued. The family were of course ^ in the deepest distress. lie saw Mrs. Cart- M wright for a moment and in that moment, (. the impression of her white grief stricken |( face was transferred a page in memory's ^ book that no after event could dim or ob- ^ literate. A beautiful daughter, iust on llie .1 ' " "II verge of wemanhood, glided past liiin once, s and her face of terror remained to haunt f( him for life, lie saw the physician, and t, to his inquiries received 110 hopeful an- 0 swer, I, When Mr. Bancroft left the house of sor- li row ho went forth almost stealthily, and lj with a feeling of guilt in his heart. f( "Mi' work! my work !" a voice within v him kept repeating: and do what he would, s he found it impossible to silence the nccus- 1 ing spirit. 0 " I can never forgive mysalf if he should s die!" said Mr. Bancroft to himself. "O! t what evil is sometimes wrought by passion s in an unguarded moment, why did T not <> think before speaking }" 11 " Alas! the dreaded evil came. Mr. T>ni> v croft was at his store an hour earlier than 1 usual on the next morning. t " Have you heard from Mr. CartwrighU" ii lie inquired anxiously of a clerk. t " Yes, sir.*' j " llow is lie ?" f " Dead !" " Dead!" Mr. Bancroft stepped back a pace or two, as if a strong hand were bear- i ing against him. a " Yes, sir. He died at seven o'clock last i viciinigf in? says. I Mr. Bancroft sighed heavily; an<l then t walked back to his desk, nat down, and re- t mained in troubled thought fo: .1 long time. There was only a single aspect of the cn?e < that gave him any relief, and thU was the 1 probable ignorauce of every one hut himself of the immediate cause of Mr. Cart. 1 | wright's death. He had not, it was pre- I aimed, mentioned tin* unfee ing repulse i ivhicli he had received, when, at the eleventh lour, and :is a last resort, lie hail gone to j >1115 from whom lie had confidently expec- j .??!, not only kiiul consideration, l?ut >rompt relief; and so the see ret had died | villi liitn. o Mr. llaucroft did not visit the houso of iiouruing. lie could not look upon the ! listless which his own conscience charged ^ iiii4 with originating; bvt his heart was ^ is3ai'.e<! with gloomy shadows. There was no one lo represent Mr. Carl- 1 vright in his business which had lo be 1 . . cl lose;!. An active, hard working merchant, ! ^ le had succeeded, thmuirh niaiiv disad- 1 antnges in establishing a trade that, prose- i 1 utod with industry tor a few years, would ! ^ lave given his family a moderate fortune. j 'ul lie was stricken down at an inauspicious 1 iioinent. Xeiious losses occurred in lite j L'ttleincnt of liis affairs, and when all his | ebts were finally paid, tlicrc was nothing ; ver for his family. "l'oor Mary Oartwright!" said Mrs. ancroft to her husband one day, about , ^ ix mouths after the death of Mr. Cart- ^ light. " 1 saw her at Mrs. Marvin's to- ; ay. She gives Music lessons to her I anghter Helen. How changed she was." j j. Mr. Uaneroft made no reply, and liis i , il?; was in some doiiht as to whether lie ! ' ad really hoard her remark. "She says that her mother has never ' ^ t oil out of the house since her father's : oath." r,1 Still Mr. IJaiicroft made 110 response. I'ml : p o\v the words did smite him ! Ah ! there j as a thorn in the memory that time coul-1 j(j ever extract. ! " There was not a dollar left for the fami- ! JU ' from poor Cartwright's estate !"' said a ai llow merchant. sc So I have heard." in Mr. Bancroft answered with seeming initleiencc, hut hi? heart quivered as if a j !,1 low had heeli given. | " Jl is s:ti<l tliat the failure to raise money j > lilt one of It is notes killed him !" said su notlier. IU ft4! " People will say almost anything," re- t lied Mr. lJaneroft, with assumed coolCli USS. Oil Time moved steadily onward. The jK sething spot on the surface of trade where j ^ fr. Cartwri^ht went down was obliterated J m y the onward moving current*: and ho was ! <; :arcely ri'iiniiii-red in business o'nolo j QJ here once his busy face was a familar oh 1 (tf o Hut there was one man who could never (>f irust aside 1 in image; one man in whose ;t| leniory liis presence was a rankling thorn. W1 lany times had he tried to pluck out tliis XV( torn hv secret acts of kindness to the fanii- tli of Mr. Caitwright. But tlie effort only :enioil to make the angnsh more intense ; |jt ?r the little he offered by stealth contracted 0f > poorly with the all sustaining life deeds ]1( f a husband and father, that he was shamed cli iiek into impotence. Al The ease was hopeless. That single act |n f unkindncss, so fatal in its consequences, Qf as done forever. It had gone bej'ond his j,( tmost reach, and there was no surgeon isl ;illcd enough to extract the thorn iL had tu :'t to rankle in his memory. K ^ vr ~ ^ IF loj II omen urc Unhealthy.?Many of 1 !io physical evils?the want of vigor, the cr lactioii of system, the languor and hyster- tj( ill JlfT???*t WII1K ? 'iro ? ?? .... .. imvii (iiv ov/ |?I (IIUIIL I yj inong tlie delicate young women of the I \ resent Jay may be t race J to a want of 0| rell-trained mental power anJ well-exer- r( iseJ self-control, an J to an absence offixed abits of employment. Ileal cultivation of Q lie intellect, earnest exercise of the moral |l( owers, the enlargement of tlie minJ by t| lie ac<pii rumen t of knowledge and the 8( lengthening of its capabilities for eflbrt, ]t >r endurance of inevitable evils, and for \ ncrgy in combatting such as they mny p, vercoine, arc the ends which education y, as to attain. Weakness but becomes in- 0l rmit)'. The power of the mind over the j, iody is immense. Let that power be called i>rth; let it bo trained and exercised, and j,, igor both of mind and body will be the re- j ult. There is a homely, unpolished saying, 0| hat ' it is better to wear out than to rust ]j 'lit;" but it tells a plain truth?rust con- 2\ nines faster than use. liettcr, a million inics bettor, to work hard, even to the tl hortening of exislence, than to sleep and p at away this precious gift of life, giving A 10 other cognizance of its possession. 1 Jv rork or industry, of whatever kind it may ^ to, we give a practical acknowledgement of ho value of life. of its llirrli intnrlirmc r\f I t< Is manifold duties. Earnest, active indus- n ry is a living hymn of praise, a ncver-failng sourec of happiness; it is obcdience, c' or it is God's great law for moral existence. ^ -?? m ? ? - - ? CI A Persian lesson of Charity.?Having ia n my youth, notions of severe piety, says t< i celebrated Persian writer, I used to rise b n the night to watch, pray and read, llio h {oran. One night, when I was engaged in a hese exercises, my father, a man of pracical virtue, awoke while I was reading. it "Behold," Raid I to him, ' tliy oilier h diildren are losi in irreligious slumber, c .vhile I alone wake to praise God " b " Son of my soul," he answered, 14 it is 1 >etter to sleep than to wako to remark the * Wilts of thy brethren," li / 'rum I If / hi/t/in '/'t fri/rii/'h. REV. DR. CAHILL ON IRISH EMIGRATION. I hiring the mouth ending April of tlic ircsent year, the unprecedented number of 7,850 emigrants lauded in New York ; and lie returns, too, from the Canada*, and 0111 Australia, present an unabated current f population leaving Ireland for tho lhish colonies. Some idea may be formed f the cxteuL to which this desire to ."juit ic country is carried, when one learns thai tiring the last two weeks of the last Lent, pwards of one thousand persons jninoially of the small comfortable farming ass, left the railway station at Limerick ?r Liverpool. The scenes of heart rending islrcss which lake place on those occasions f the parting of mothers and fathers from ..t.:i > mn (.miniimi can novor Uo lorgotien l>v ioso wlio have oncc witnessed this indisibable separation; tlie heart uf the great,t enemy of these classes ol* the Iri.di unctinies melts with pitv, perhaps with now, when the wild cry of the aged pant is heard, as, standing 011 the platform, ic engine begins to move, carrying away rever the children in whom their very res are centred, lvieh packet that leaves ir shores, crowded with the Irish youth, is 1 additional proof of the anomalous contion of Ireland, and of the partial legislion of Ktiglnud. Kaeli year that wit;sses this continued Kxode, is a demonration that the insecurity of the tenure of nd, the terrors of the landlord, and the erual lash of national bigotry, overcome ? Iridiman's innate love of home, and rce him to burst a-under all the ties of iture herself to escape from a country, s own country, where tlie law of ilm .ale, llie Cospel <jf the established Church, i.l llic hatred of a large section of the istocracv arc leagued against liis conietice, against his social advancement, ami, fact, ngainst his very existence. I There is no use in the case before lis, to to the sympathy of the Legislature ; ey liavc always replied to such an appeal ; laws written in the blood of the Irish ; ' j nl they have ever silenced our national i urmurs by the drummer's lash, by convict ' ttors, or by the rope. In the present inunec, tho Government, before many years ;tpse, will be made to feel that all parteis igaged in producing this Kxode of the :ojile will lose more than they gain by is anti-national combination. Each young an who leaves Ireland for the United J ates is a loss (.' vonling ci* il><i v?luo arrt I i an able-bodied man in this country) of J JO, to the army and the navy , ho is a 1 cat loss to a properly developed system u.iLiuii.H <iy.i iuuiwire, ana wneii one lakes j to consideration the excisable articles | liicli ho buys, the English cloth which he J sars, I think it may bo safely assumed ! at fifty thousand such individuals produce loss of sonic several million pound* ctcr- i ig to the State. We have given upwards I two millions of money to Sardinia to sip us in the Crimea; and we have purlased the services of a German Legion at i enormous expense, which might be saved ; keeping at home the thousands and tons thousands of faithful, invincible poor Irish >artF, whom our rulers have starved or banlicd. But, perhaps, the greatest misforuo in this anomalous legislation is, that ngland not only substracts from her own )or all those expelled and lost resources, it, again, she adds them all to the Ameri- j in Republic. She weakens herself in or- j >p fo fril'A Irk A mnfton 1- ' .. ---O-" 3JIV- 0VII115 I Ditth, muscle, and a full grown army to J incrica ; find still more she sends hundreds " thousands of aggreived hearts breathing ivenge and rengeanco against the laws, j ie name, the very existence of the English onstitutiou. And if England shall choose | cr hatred of tlie Irish Catholic to coutinm lis scheme of forced emigration, she will >on learn to her cost that she will perhaps isc more millions of money in one war with mcrica, than would support all her ex-1 elled eniigarnts at home; and she may et be compelled to feel that honor, justic<, pity, and liberty of conscience, woulj ave cost her less money than her past sectrian codo of bigotry, injustice, and cla.?s gislation. The fato of Carthage, which uno onco dreaded from tho futuro power f Home, may with truth be feared by >rittannia from the rising dominion of .mcrica; and an American Virgil might, ith an apt propriety and slight rlinn . ~r * o b"ic names of nations sny? rogp/ijem, pctl eniin Trojnno a sanguine diioi uriicrat, Tyrios olim quir verteretarccs ; inc pupultim, isile r^gom, belloquc Biiperbnm enliirum excidio libytc; sic Volvcrc Parent lint nltliougli tlio causes which have deirmined the Irish laboring and small faricr classes to leavo Ireland are the same in ic year 1857 as in the year 1848, their audition, however, on the other side of t he itlantic and in Australia are widely differ nt. In the commencement of their banihment, they went to unknown settlements > seek and make a homo among strangers; lit dow those who leave Ireland, go to regions who have a home to receive them, nd means to uphold them. Although the b? passage is hard, the traveling into tho iterior of the country harassing, and the ardships from climate mid limited rcsouros difficult to l>e borne, still they have one righfc Jiope left, namely, they have their tindred and a kind welcome to meet them, rhen they reach the end of their weary, icavy journey. And if any one argument 1 more powerful (linn another could be iu Juccd to prove the naltiral elevated cliara tor, tlie profound national sympathy an the noble religious sentiment of tlie pot Irish,this argument will lie found in thelarjj remittances of money which come by ever post to the parents and (he friends they le at home in Ireland. The noble Irish, tli illustrious poor, (he untainted Irish ehildre j set an example in thio unquenchable lov j ol homo, ot tricnds, of religion, which tliei i persecuting rulers novor can eipial or iiu talc ; anil it again proves that our legislatio can neglect ami banish, as outcasts, a raet which under the most adverse circumslati ces (in their forlorn liumlile position) stand pre-eminently supirior in every virtue wliiel adorns our common nature and adds luslr to religion. Is not the fourth command I mcnl as well Aillillud by the love of th peasant boy as bv the son of the prince and is not the virtue uf Lazarus deari ti heaven than the character of I >ives ! Ye* the noble Irish, in their love of their par cuts, in their fidelity to homo, to their conn try, and to their Clod, brand England's per i sedition and her partial laws with a cl.ar acler of injustice and cruelty which cm neve he eflaced. I It is, then, a clear ease that until *01111 1 remedy he adopted to give reasonable seen I lity and protection in tho tenure of land ami mi tlie legislature impose a rat ion a restriction on tlie ferocious bigotry of tin trunk ami the interminable brandies of tin Church Establish men?, the river of emigra lion will not bo diverted from its prcseu : unnatural course. The s:une cause will al I ways produce the same effects; and bene the country will, year after year, be drainet ^ of population and national resources, til England finds it her advantage and her in tercst to alter the laws iu reference to ten | aney of land, and to check the disastrou sect.iiianiftiii of an idle, useless, mischievous creedless, dominant church. Any schemi , short of the views here humbly advocate* ! can never give peace or confidence to tin Irish people; they know that land may sooi be placed iu the same system of disastrou competition, which produced the terrors o the years that are past, tliej' believe lha back rents, ejcctmen'.s ami drivers, wil again ictnm by a regular cycle, unless ai equitable law of Tenant Right be framed and every man who can command tin passage money, and who has a friend ii America, will leave Ireland if he can. The Female Temper.?We like to sec ; woman of spirit ami life; for a dull, supine prosy woman is a poor a flair indeed. An< we have no particular objection to seeini ' the sparks fly," occasionally, when some thing really stirring occurs. We like t< see her joyful and lively; and, if she has i little spice of waggery, wo can put up will it very well?nay, we like it all the bettei lint a cross, sour temper, we have no goo< opinion of; for a woman who can ncvei look pleasant, but is always fretting am scolding, will make an unhappy home fo all within her house. And we had as lie undertake to live in a barrel of vinegar ii a thunder storm, as to live in tho hous< with such a woman. Solomon ivaa righ when lie said: " It is better to live in tin corner of ji house-top, than to dwell in s wide house with a brawling woman." Le a woman wear sunshine on her count en ance, and it will drive the dark clouds fron her husbands face, nnd joy will thril j through the hearts of her children. Let : woman's words be soothing nnd kind, am I ... I everything is happy around her. Her in ; lluencc will be powerful. Others will catcl her sweet temper, and all strive to see ?vh< can be most like her. Sweetness of tcmpe: in a woman is more valuable than gold, am more to be prized than beauty. Hut maj Heaven keep us from an untamed shrew ! whoso looks are wormwood, and whos< i words are jrall ? Wo had rather take Daniel's place with the lions, than to thinl of living within gun shot of such a terme gant. If women knew their power, am wished to exert it, they would always show sweetness of temper; for then they are (ire sistiblc. JTomc Music.?A house without mush is like a nursery without children?silent gloomy, and desolate. Music is the har monic soul of life, breathed or suggestei everywhere in nature, and only absent fron the lips nnd hearts of those who aro " fi for treasons, stratagems, and spoils." Tin ii .?..?!? A./. ..Ai ^..1.. t INIIlll'llC'cn ui iiiiiaiv hid iiui umjr Huuiillll! nml delightful to tlic oar, but are refining purifying, antl exalting to tlio mind am heart. The soul lives its rarest hours in ai atmosphere of melody and song, and w contemplate Paradise, not unfittingly, jt realizing our supremest dream of felicit; with its musical enchantments?its hymn ing seraphs, who "adore nnd burn" withec .1-1 /!.. A ..ml 1? sLasies iiihi i'hii iiiit.1 uiiuriinvu umy m nong Universal experience attests that the habit nation of childhood to pleasant music?a to the prcsenco of flowers?is one of th surest means of softening down harsh terc pers (uul evil passions, in tlio bud.. Childre cannot grow up rude and boisterous in th midst of harmony and beauty. Music t borne is a recreation for tbe daughters, an an attraction for the sons. Make bom bright, musical and joyou*, and fever wi fly from it to the world's corrupting dive sions and excitements, & V 1- HUMBUGS. c- A writer in the New Orleans .Sunday ;il I>cit:i, in discoursing upon the subject of ,r humbugs, takes occasion to discus* there merit* of that particular species which rev kites to the imagination of teachers of pubft lie schools, and relates the following, which ic j came under his own observation ; " I'nyii i in<T ji visit ?< . ? ln.lv t:..~ : - -- - --- ? ? ' J IIVUM IV^IUIII^ III UIIU e of our surhurbau villages, and who \v;ih r about applying for a .situation in oiiu of their j. public schools, I was induced to accompany ? hor to tho place appointed for the examination of teachers. -I i. " Then and thcro I witnessed, for tlic first s ! time, one of those ludicrous performances It which generally came oil" previous to the e opening of our schools. After waiting an I- hour or two a bustling little man appeared 0 t and suiumond the candidates into an ad; | joining room. j j "Our friend asked and obtained ponnissoin for me to be admitted also. The la dies (who numbered about twenty, of vari - ous ages, and, judging from appearances, of - ' various attainments.) wero directed tooccu ' py the seats which had been placed for 1 | them, in the form of a semicircle, froutim? a kiiul of desk, which, however, was sepa2 rated from them by a curtain. " I was favored with a side seat, which greatly enhanced my pleasure, as I could 1 j distinctly see all that transpired on both u sides of the curtain. The desk was occupied a l>y some half dozen gentlenu-n, who seemed . anything but happy. Tliey could not det termine upon the proper person to open the . j play. After much altercation, and another 0 ' hour's delay, they agreed that the oldest ] ! should speak lirst. | j 44 The curlaiu rose, and the man arose.? . ; Making a step or two forwaiu, he l'oKlud his . ! arms, raised his eyes imploringly, groaned s ! painfully, Lowed awfully, and spoke. I - --- < - ? | r-jniit 01 auiiiiut.il, study ino'i llllisi 0 i have been around and about, inspiring the j j man," he said; "ladies, I pleve you all e wants to make von school ? Veil, don, von , moost yust dull me all de tings vat I axes s you, und den I viII find von blace for you f make dc school. Speak out lout und plain, t und pc no frail." 1 "Now dell mc ven vas dc vile pear tislii covert ?" ? Xo answer. ? "Tat Mi too hart. Yell, ven you goes 1 in do market und puys a dime oof sour krout for a pigune, how moosh shango you moosh have ?" ' Xo answer. 'j "Tat isli too hart, too. Veil, how you vould shpell croompsher, niit English * readin>" 3 " Potato," said a port little miss of fifteen, ^ who had doubtless obtained her diploma. t "Cool, fooshtrate. Now dell me vat ish ?iu name oi uc siuu-k vat goes troo tier j mitt 1c of tier vorld to hang liim onp on No answer. ] " Von more und I po finish. Der liaf r one pook, vat makes dor becples talk Iboshf trale und po preut und say nice tings ! like der preacher. Vat is der name of dat j pook ?" t "Grammar," said our little miss. 3 " Coot; cool as clabber slicese, und peri cause you ish tcr shmartcst ui d der pootit est, uud der nicest treest, und percatixe you . isli mine coota fiinde tcr peerman's taujjh ) tcr, you inny make von sliool : iiikI all dom | vas don't know nnfT, kin yust co liomc und i laarti some more." I I'll is of course put an end to Lite performance, ami all left, wo for one feeling that i we had never witnessed a play better worth > the money," 1 -Air Poison.?People have often said ,* that no difference can be detected in the , analyzation of pure and impure air. This i is one of the vulgar errors diflic-ult to dis> lodge from tlio vulgar brain. Tile fact is i that the condensed air of n crowded room . gives a deposit, which, if allowed to remain 1 a few days, forms n solik, thick glutinous mass, having a strong odor of animal mat tor. If examined by the microHcopo, it iu seen to undergo a remarkable change. First of all, it is converted into n vegetable grow tli, j and this is followed by the production of , multitudes of animalcules; n decisive proof - tliat it must contain certain organic matter, 1 otherwiso it could nourish organic beings, i This was the result arrived at by Dr. Aiit gus Smith in his beautiful experiments on B the Air and Water of Towns, where lie r .showed how the lungs and skin gave out , organic matter, which is in itself a deadly ] poison, producing headache, sickness, disi eaFc, or epidemic, according to its strength, e Why, if "a few drop* of tho liquid matter, * obtained by the condensation of the air of y a foul locality, introduced into tho vain of - a dog, can produce death by tho usual phenomcna of typhus fever," what incalculable f. evils must not it produce on those liuman beings who breathe it again and again, s rendered fouler arid Jess capable of Mistaine ing life with ovcry breath drawn ? Such i- contamination of the air, and consequent n hot bed of fever and epidemic, it is easily O Wlllllll II1U VI IIIIIII IV IUIJJU1 v? TUir it tilation, ctoqnlincss will do all, so far as tho d abolition of this goes, and ventilation e and cleanliness are not miracles to be prayII ed for, but certain results of common ober dionce to the laws of God.?Dmkens* Household Words, * TO RESUSCITATE THE DROWNING. I Tlio following rules, put forth l<y lliu Mftlio.il Institute of Kranee, !?: 11lc a ready j method in suspended respiration fioiii j drowning, should be generally .studied and : preserved. Tho same rules have been ' adopted by the London Humane Soeicty: 1. Treat the patient instantly, on llm , spot, in the open air, exposing the faro and | eliest to the breeze?excent in sewi-n w. -hIi. er?lo clear the throat. 2. l'laec tl:? |>:t(i<*iit gcnt'v <>n liis I'.ioi-. | 1 . j with one wrist under llie I'xivhead. A! I j fluids and tlio tongue itself th.-n fall l??r ward, leaving tho entrance into the wind1 pipe rice. j If ilieru he breathing, vail and watch ' if not, or if it fail to excite iv^piration. 3. Turn the patient well and instantly <?u : his sidi', and 4. Kxeile the nostril.-, I:i?; throat, dr., atld dash cold water on I he lace, previously , ruhhed warm. If there he no suooe-s, ! not a hi / ! llK'nt, but instantly, to imitate ic-piiation? : 5. IN-place the patient on his face, rais; ing and supporting the chest well on a lol; ded coat or other article <>f dress. G. Turn the hodv very g> ni!y on thesidf, and a little beyond, and then biisUlv on thn ^ iaco, alternately, repealing lin.se measures i deliberately, cdiciently, and pcrseveringly, ; lift ecu times in the minute, occasionally I varying (lie side. When the patient reposes on the ciieM, this cavity is compressed by the weight of tlio body, and expiration takes place. When lie is turned on tho side (his pressure is removed, and impiration occurs. 1 7. When tlin iiiv.ui- j.. jijiiJ ' . . ' | make equable b'.it sullieicnl. pressure, with brisk movement, along the bark "f thu chest, removing it immediately Im |?>iv? r >lalion on the side. The lir-t piv-siue augments the expiration, the .second causes inspiration, inducing circulation an warmth, and the result i.s respiration, and ?if not too ! late?life. 8. Meantime, rub the limbs upward, with firm, grasping pressure, and with energy, using handkerchiefs, etc. 1 >y this measuro t!.o blood is propelled aloi'g (be veins toward the heart. 9. Let the limbs be thus warmed nr.?l j dlied, mrI tlicn clothed, ouch bystander supplyiii?f a coat, a waistcoat, etc. 10. Avoid the continuous warm bath, and the position on or inclined to Uin hack. THE AMERICAif EAGLE. itv iKi-: I'.vuiincton". This is the greatest bird that has ever spread his wings over this great and glorious country. The place whore lie builds his nest is called an cj'ric, avvav upon tho precipices where the fool of man cant come, though perhaps a boy's might. Tho eaglo is a ferocious fellow, and sifs on the lops of tho cliffs and looks .sharp lor plunder. Ho gets tired of waiting, ami then ho starts out in the blue expansive heavens, and soars all around on his opinions over the laud ami the water, to see what lie can pounce down upon. But though he is called a very cruel bird, he always preys before eating, just like any good moral man at the head of his family, lie eats his victuals raw, r. i i i i - ... .it. .iiii.iiui.iimi; mil.>11, hill II is Slipr poped ih.nl lie cats so bocnuce ho likes to. He is a very courageous bird, :iik1 will light like blazes for bis voting, and steals chick' ens wherever bo can see tbein. He has been known lo carry olV a young baby to his nest, which seems lo show that eagles love little children. II j is a bird of great talons, and is much respected by bird* of ; l'ic feathered tribe that are afraid of him, | He is a great study for artists, but appears I to best advantage on the t<>n dollar gold pieces and lifty cent pieces, and pretty well on tho d ir.es, as ho sits gathering up his thunderbolt under him, as if he was in a I great hurry lo be (IV. lb- has lately broken out on the new cent, and seems as if in his hurry lie had dn-pped all his thunder. The American tvigle is tho patriot's liopo m.il llw> ine..;. .i;.... -f I- T* ~ .... . VIIMII mu>. HU soars through the realms of the poet's fancy, and whets his honk on I lie highest peak of tho orator's imagination. Jle is in tho mouth of every politician so to speak. I In is said by (hum to stand on the lloeky Mountains, and to dip hi* bill into tho Atlantic, while his tail casts a shadow on th<* Pacilio coast. This is all gammon. Thcro never was one more than eight feet long from the tip of one wing to the tip of'(other. rTi.s angry scream is heard ever so far, ami ho don't caro a feather for anybody. Tako him every way he is an imm. n-o fowl, and Iiis march is over tlie Minimiin?* wave, with ft star-spangled banner in Iii>. hand, wliistl.0/ ing Yankee noodle. ? ? -- -" Plug Ugly."?Tho origin of lijis term, which is now the rallying cry of a gan<* of rowdies who run with I lie Mount Vernon Hook and ladder Company of lialtimoro, is this: Hard l>y tho head-quarters of this fino company there dwelt a glider of segars and tobacco, who was disiingt^ncd as heing tho ugliest man in his neighborhood. His establishment derived tho principal of its support from tho Mount Vernon boys, and tho invariable form of address, wlitn a plug of his chewing tohnroo was called "for, va8-^> ? Gir? 1)8 a Plug TTgly." I %