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i * ' ^ ~ r*,my ^ r rrtLjx .g ,_u . . ._ ? ___ 13Y W, A. LEE AND IIUGII WILSON.. ABBEVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY. OCTOBER 2, 1868. VOLUME *vi?no oa _ " POLICY VS. PLATFORM. THE nnMOCUATIC rAHTY AND TOE NEGRO ST ATI! G O VEIJ N M K NTS ? WILL CONGIIESHIONAL HECONSTKITCTION STAND, OK PR lH\Vi:i*r A WAV 'i?WHAT TI1K NEW YOKK "WOULD SAYS. Und<*r the heading, "A Frank Answer to uu Insidious question," a very significant leading editorial appears in the Now York W'nld of Tuesday last. The World is the most prominent and inllunnlial of the Doiuocralic organs at t!io North, nnd is underwood to r?llect liio views of those iiv. mil Muijic i no pancy 01 mo J icrnocratic party in tlio event of its success in ^November. The position which it has taken diilcts very widely fiotn what very many bcuth.orn Democrats havo conceived to by tho aims arul publicly declared indentions of the National Doaioeracv, and, i'.R faithful chronicles of political erer.ts, we, therefore, place the statement of tlio Y/orhl lo.forc our reader.*. The article to which wa refer was in rtj !y to tlio following paragraphs which upjoared in the New York Times, of Wednesday Inst: According to tlio policy thus authoritatively proclaimed, it will he incumbent on Mr. Seymour, if elected, to Pet, atMo the iiew governments as null and void, and with tiio help of tliv! military to ditperso them aud ra-eslabl'sh the ord'.T of things vliich CongrosH al-olUht-d. This pro gramme iuvulvcs tlio forcible destruction of governments organized under the law, ?iml whoso validity Cougifess has recog nizeu, the overthrow of constitutions which luve been ratified by a majority of the people, the disfranchisement of the frecdmen in defiance of exiiting law, and the rt'slorMiion to power of lebol leaders in Fplte of tlie disability imposed by the fouituenlh jimonduiunt. * * * * Will the World give i?? opinion frankly touching the practical application of the lllair doclrii.o as to the dispersion of the Southern government and the dufranchisviuent of the freudiuen by tli-j mero older of a Duiiocmlic Pix-kulont ? Will it vxplnio how it reconciles it6 professed reaped fur law, and its ucjiiiowledginrnt ol the lie fjrlu authority of tho new govern- j inputs, with its support of candidal** who i nrc pledged to defy and violently to over- ] throw bi'th ? To which "illkiilmiK mml I,It." lt>? TJ''". ?7 / I kiiu rr VI tu in?Jcos ' frank niuwer"' *s follows : This t>tmill of remark an?l request f?r information proceed upon the unwarranted Mr-sum ptiou that Geueial Blair's letter is a part of the Democratic platform. But there is no process of fair reasoning hy j which it caa l?e mado to appear so. Tim I Democratic National Convention adopted iUs platform before balloting for candidates, mid without any expectation that Mr.Si}-] luour would bo its nominee for President | or General Blair for Vice-l'residcnt. ! "Whatever candidates had been nominated, I their acceptance would havo bound their | personal honor to the nuppori of tho platform, although it might have conflicted, in a?uio ropects, with their own declared view*. (Jovonior Si-ymour, not long before the Convention met, made a noteworthy p| eoch on the payment of tho public debt Does the Times believe, or does anybody believe, that in nominating him the Convention indorsed all the views expressed in that speech ? Oil the contrary, everybody Kdinils thiit Governor Seytu*ur, by accepting the nnmiuation, yielded whatever in i liis previous views did not fully accord with the platform. The Fume reasoning aimlm*! o 1 & to General JJlair. IIo is bound by precisely the 8anio obligations of persona! honor* if there isanyibing in bis JJroadhead letter incoubistcut with the platform, b'e renounced it in ncccpting the nomination, jiut as Mr. Seymour made a similar renunciation if tbere was anything inconsistent will) the platform in his financial 6pench. The candidates of a grant political parly stand in a representative capacity. Their honor, which forbids thorn to accept the nomination of the party unless they have previomlv pgieid with it in essentials binds them lo. sink minor difference?. Whatever the Times may think of the ethics of Hitch matters, it cannot be permitted to make u different rule for tho two candidates of the Democratic party. Our eotemporary must either hold that the Democratic party is pledged to all the previous views of ITr. Seymour, or else admit that the party is pledged to all the views expressed by General Hlair previous to his nomination. The Times ms^ take which horn of this dilemma it pleases, but we shall force it upon one o( them.1 III our Mtininn il>? .(iv i.vitmif/eney contemplated by General Blair in fiis Broadhead letter is never likely tearite. The example of Georgia demonstrates that everything desirable can be accomplished through the ngeucy of the near -State govcruinanta. The fact that, in the greater part of the South, the whit? -oitizons' tare a in-jurity, and that they monopolize the properly, the educations $he< social Jnflueuci*, and (he politicHi erperienb* of tteir section, prove that, if let alone, they can mould thoir institatiocift into thy form they pleftfe. There will be no need of dispersing the new governments by force, because t.iey ean so easily be made the agent# of their own reformation. Encouraged *nd ^ T,?r aM?ttMSMKmM supported h>j tlio public opinion of Iho whole country, as ihc Southern whites will bo by the election of tho Doinocrntic candidates, they will hare no difficulty in revising the present constitutions by methods so frco from loijal question, that no fulcra interference will be possible to thwart and none necessary to aid them. We .no confirmed in this view by the j fact that tho ingenuity of tho 7'imcs itself ^ can descry no other remedy than a refusal i to a 1 mit senators and representatives from 1 the States which thus transform their government. In an article on tho 1 Uh inst., upon tho expulsion of the negroes from the Georgia Legislature, the Times said : IIow tho wrong may be remedied is a question we are not disposed to answer with '.ho same degree of conli leneo. It is a (liltiouit and delicato question.. The House lias a ri^ht to decide upon tlioeloclion and mtulilioalioti of its members, and no Statu Court has jurisdiction over it. An adverse judgment m ?y he announced, hut tin prominent advocates of expulsion "nave announced their intention to disregard it. They claim to be judges of law as well , as of fact, and will liced iio opinion or de- I eisiou at rarianco with their action. WAuf, j then, can Congress do? J/ay not the Si >11/tc aw.l JJip'iic in turn tt Avert thiir stijirchic control over dictions and qtutfi/ica lions, and rcvfcctively refuse to admit the .senators and r<j:rcf(:ttutir:* ivhoui (ijorai-j. ; will send to the next session ! The inquiry | is not extravagant in A'iew of iho fa-w. Lhai Georgia ng lined its privilogo of self-government, in part.hv ratifvin.-* ?1.n f,inti(.??.t? I amendment, which, without that vole, ! J would stiil bo law. The net of ratification, however, in the Georgia house, was carried by tho vot?s of the colored meruben who have boon expelled as ineligible. If they I.ad no lawful title to seats t!ioy could have none to votes ; and after ttriking them off, the motion to ratify becomes a failure. Interpreting the action of the Legislature in re^pecl of the nmundiuent in tho light of its rec?:;t proceeding, no special pleading would seem Decenary to justify revision by Congress on the ground of fraud* j For if what purported to be a ratification | was really not Mich, admission obtained In , reliance uj-Oij it was in fact admission by I false protvuc.UK ; and Congress may viuJi- j rate its iulryrity and pnn'!?h l/is J'i<Ju<l by j rcfiixiHtt lt> iw in/' '? <> . , J .-..V, uwiym 9LIIH KJTS UUU I represents lias. That btep would virlu.-4.lly be a declaration that the reconstruction of the States tlill incomplete. Now, whatever may ho thought of this | remedy iu oihur re.-peuts, the Tiii.es must ' perceive that it cannot work when wo cuine to hnvo n Democratic President ami j I Llouso of U''pre*eii(rttives. All that Congress could dout the next ses6ioD, would be j to stultify itself and make itself a laughing stock, by expelling the carpet bag members | it has just admitted, and covering with dtrision the tirst plank uf the Chicago plnt1 form, which congratulates the country 011 the perfect success of the reconstruction policy. But as soon as there is a Democratic House, the llepublicans nre checkmated. The joint resolution readmitting the Slates and sanctioning their governments cannot be repealed without the concurrence of both Houses; and, until it is repealed, neither cau refuse to admit members on tho ground that thero is no valid State government. The Times must ??w. ...v.v.i/iu nci: UIHI, US p;iliy Will t)tf bound, hand ai.d toot, in folt?rs of its own forging. There will bo no necessity for demolishing the gallows erected by Hainan, when lio can bo easily bo hanged 011 it himself. a later dkc la ii ati ox. The New Voile World of Saturday last has nnollicr lender on tho suniu sul joct at the ahoro, and oven more unmistakable in its drift. Wo quote the more important portions of tne article : tim great ucobear. Tho cLief topic of Republican invective, since llie opening of the canvass, is the imputed intention of the Democratic party to disporse the carpet-bag governments by force after tho inauguration of Seymour and L?!air. Tho Times, if wo understand iu rejoiuder to tho World yesterday, admits that this imputation cannot be sustained unless it in a logical sequence of the Democratic platform. This puts the controversy on its true ground ; and on that i ground wu proceed to febow that the im! puted intention is a baseless chimera. The Times, arguing from the platform, ' rests its ca?e on the declaration that tho Reconstruction acts aiO "uaiirnnfinnn iin , ? constitutional, revolutionary and void," And on iIlo fact that this clause was inserted iu the platform nt iho iustanCt of General Wade Hampton. The fact lhat Wade Litiinpton suggested it signifies nothing, unlet* it can be shown ibat it is a doctrine ' which the Democratic party bad not pr?- *' I viously bold. Now, it is notorious that this is a subject on which there bas never j'been any difference of opinion in theDem-? ocratic ranks. From Iho very iuception of i the Reconstruction acts the Democratic party bas, to ??mtn, ionsistently and in- . dignantly denounced them as high banded usurpations nod flagrant violations of the constitution. Every speech made against them in Congress, by every Dcmocratio member, bas proccede J upon that ground. ' All of Frosideut Johnsons numerous veto 1 * ** - - - - - message', uniformly applauded by the Democratic party, havo held up tho llidical measures as revolutionary violations of the constitution. TbU _ doctrino did not originate with Wade Hampton ; it did not originate with tho South ; it has Leon, from tho first, tho spontaneous, Bellied, uni-> versal belief of tho wholo Democratic parly. If it had not appeared in tho platform in tho words suggested by Wade Hampton. it would have been introduced io some other words; for it lias been the constant sentiment of the parly on tli.it subject. The only pertinent inquiry is, whether tho Til/lets' inference is well drawn ; whether, in oilier words, a declaration that the Reconstruction acts are "unconstitutional, revolutionary and void," pledges the party to disperse the new governments hy I'urcc. j It is an accepted principle of logic that an argument whioh proves too much proves nothing. If the reasoning of the Ti.ticx proves tlihL its editor is pledged to abet tho tho overthrow of the Radical policy by force, he will perhaps recoil fioin his own conclusions, and admit that his foimidablc inference is ill drawn. Tho World then addresses the editor of tho Times, Mr. IL. J. Raymond, in u p??w? eriui aiycimcnlutii ad hoiuinum, leiuinding him of the strong protest which ho himself drew up against tlie llteoustruclion nets, ami which waa adopted hy the Philadelphia Convention, nud couirfibting his position* thou and now. 'i'liu liw U then couclu.lca as ; 1 >ut we need no assistance from the Philadelphia address to confute tho pretence that the Democratic party is pledged to destroy thy new Slate governments hy force. There is not only nothing of tlie kind in the platform, hut nothing which can bear that construction in the action-of the Southern people. WaJe Hampton himeelf ib trying to carry his own Slate for Seymour and Biftir through the agency of the carpet-bug government. Everybody knows what has been done iu Georgia. In a^l the reconstructed States llicy are attempting to effect a change by political action which recognises tho u*uiping governments dc facto, while dcnTin;? their validity uV jure. Tho example of Georgia! demonstrates that this peaceful method of' will be successful if endotsed by tlic public opinion of the country in tlic J'resi'JenTTa! election. No force will be resorted to?none will bo necessary. The same nmjoritj which tuilioes to get control of the proic:Mt State governments wiil also Kiidice to alter the Stale constitutions. With a Democratic President and House of Representative?, Congress cannot interfere to prevent the change, and immunity (rom such iutoiference is all tho Southern people need oxpect or ask. THE OTHER SIDE. It must not b.) supposed, however, that the views of the World given above have been permitted to pa-s altogether unchallenged. liiick poineroy, in hU New York Democrat, takes up the cudgel on tho oilier side in earnest. In Friday's ii=sue of the paper, wo find li.e following characteristic ouitoral, which epeaks for it&oif : HONESTY THE BEST I'OLICV. If there is anything in his Brodhend lettor inconsistent with iho platform, be renounced it io accepting the uomination. [uvw. None but a recreant Republican could have written that sentence. Nuno hut a member of the bread and butter brigade would stoop so low and lie so basely as did the man who wrote that line. Tlio World knows, we know, tvory member of the Convention known, that Frank Blair's letter securcd to Frapk Bh\ir the nomination, and m<ule him the favorite with Rome even for the first position on the tickot. Stand by your guns, if you have any, Mr. WorldAy wis# man; but what c*lt eisa you cii>, don't hope nor try to invoIto the party that pays you in any cowardly desertion of its priuciples or it* leader*. Frank Blair's letter iff a prtrt of the platform. Thank God ho is not a marble that can wabble backward nnd forward from # platform to platform like a sick rat for toa&ted chai'Ho. lie wroto that letter for two human reasons: 1. lie knew what he meant and wished the public to know it, too. 2. lie desired a nomination/and deeto* ed that a good way to:get it. lie was right, it seems, and no pntln can ; more heartily despise the journal tl|at insidiously opens the door for a dishonorable retreat than he. It takes a Southernized Yankee, a renegade Radical, a pap seeking leech to squirm and lie, and make faces to suit the emergency ; huMhey never deceive anybody, and io time meet tbeconlerapt tbey richly merit. s" : MTn;,y. HUT I do bo love t^i think- of each day's events as just the development or His etefna^ plan all-coming Do poas 'iri perfect ordcr^ and perfect harmony, and not one 'thing Jitiftrted over 6r ' out of ts place. .in m i i " ' The difference between an oyster and a chicken is, that one is best just out of the shell, and tho other isn't. ? Why can not Fowls ho kept in Largo FloeUs ? It is pretty generally concedod that i no one is successful who nttomptH to keep together a large number of fowls, I and tiiat those who keep the smallest 1 number together generally obtain tho ] greatest proportionate number t>f egijs. i And this id, wo think, not only true, < but easily accounted fur. j Jjvery ono who has kept fowls ktiOWH that they are very uncleanly birds. They even wash themselves in I tho dirt, and that evidently :.ot for ] tho purpose of cleanliness, but to rid lhoo?Hclves of vermin. Thev prefer < jcluan light ^and, bccauso if in the sun ! it, is generally warmer, and is easily < moved, but they eeeiu equally to enjoy i any Bolt, dry earth, although it may | not bo very sweet and clean. They | aro notoriously lilthy in t'.ieir coops, i j roof.ting under each other, taking no pains to avoid the dropping-*, Boiling < their food, water and ncsf;) v.'ilh their i droppings, and doirg nU het apparent- I ly toward'*, clcaiiiincss. Thin is more ' manifest, in iho houso where they are 'oOt.Oncd, and whero tho air should bo 1 as pure as possible. If they arc at 1 largo and few in number, they move 1 around so much that they can not ^ sour the ground. They are by nature clean, but by habit the reveruc, and ' the only way to keep them in the 1 natural state, ss to give them range enough, so that they can not soil their 1 haunts^or elso eleanso their haunts ( caiefully and faithfully every day. 1 We onco kept one solitary hen on our place lor several months. She s was of Iho common barn yard breed. Wo never saw a hoallhicr fowl, or ' whoso feathers kept so fresh and por- ? feet, and she was a conttant layer. ' No caro was taken of her, and" wo always attributed her thrift to the fact ^ that sbo had the whole rango of our place for excrei.so and her quarters r were alv.nys perfectly dean. " As soon .'is 3"our flock boeomcs large you will liiul them crowding togetbor and al\vay6 pouring their haunts, if thorn are a sufliciont number of them n to''do it. You may do something toward* preventing' this, but you can n not keep very largo flocks very clean. a We have often seen it stated that l< no more than fifty hens should be kept i/\ a henhouso twonty loot by tou. Kxoopt with constant, care and cleaning, that number can not do ..wii .. " ?-?j own <11 u CHiUllvr PpUCO. |j The size of tho flock must always 0] depond upon the extent of tho uccorn vv tnodationn, and ovcu then tho large i), flocks can not bo kept so cleanly and ?; healthy aa the muall ones, and there- (J fore aro not in proportion so profit- |t . iblo.? Cultivator and Country Gentleman. i) k The Drain of Silver to Asia. w lc It id admitted by all eminent authors al who have written about the present supply (t of the prccious metal that it far exceeds |j the demand of Christendom, nn.1 it* im.w_ << hie fall in value is retardoil only by ex- 1 ceptional and temporary circumstances, rj ihe chief of which is Llio remarkable stream of silver pouring into Asia. The Hindoos and Chinese and Japanese, are industrious j,| and very populous nations, which bavo to a( import nearly all thoir gold and silver from g abraid, and their cnpacity to absorb thoso ^ metals increases as value declines, nnd as h their stock becomes greater their wages tl rise, and thoy obtain the means to purchase &] more foreign goods, and after a time thoy n will have as much coin proportionately to h their productive powers as the Christian <j nations; and then their imports of mer- h chandiso will nearly equal thoir exports, and the importations of the precious metals j, will tioL be one-tenth of the present figuro. \ Asia is called"thc sink of silver" by (j Pliny, and it has deserved that name ever ^ since, and will continuo to de?erve that jr name forfc an uncertain period in' tlio j-j, future. So long as wo continue to consume bo y, much tea, silk, rice, and other Asiatic (t? products, nnd so loniz as thev conauinn1 ?/> - o ' wv %V few of our products, so long we must j] 8uttlo the difference by payment of tlio precious metule, and the precious metals %yill probaly not decline much 'in value. " But let the vos96l of Asialio :ltradei' now _ lialf empty of silver, b\) once filled/ fliit' will be in 5,10, or 15 years, and then wo hall begin to fuel the influence of tbd 'over-supply of the precfous 'metals, and j-;( their market valuo will fall rapidly. b( Christendom and Aei& may be compared a, ft two tubs stuodihg side by side, and m oouuecled by a large open tube half way d' from the ground, and'die'supply' of the ^ precious melafe ' to (a>J stream of wit'di' fallincr into thfl (nti a ?-.-.7''ro <Mta. Before ilie tube was' wfcU1 'opensd1/ the level 1reso vfcry rAj>tdly ih tfie firr b< tube; >but now tbe stream ponrs so swiftly bs into-the second, that tbe level can scaroely ei rise at aUOo the first. / When the liquid <44 gftsup to the same Wvel in bqlU tubs.lhon c< it will rise witb equal pace in botb.?lions b* Jjroivnts8 Report for 1807. 61 4 THE PEACHES. A countryman brought from the city fivo peaches, Iho finest thr.t ever were seen. Hut. his children p^w thin Punt for the llrst time. Thereforethey wondered and rejoiced in the [nelly peaches with their red checks and delicate down. Tho father then lividod them among his four boys and ^Avc ono to their molhor. In tho evening, when tho children went to their bleeping chamber, the father asked: "Well, and how did the p nitty poaches taste ?" "Finely, dear father," Raid tho old23t. "It is a beautiful fruit?so tartisli and delicato in taste. 1 have carefully kept tho Ftone, and I will rai.se a trco from it." "Bravo," said tho father; "that ib providing economically lor tho future 13 becorr>.ea >i landsman." ''I ate mine at once," tho j^oungost iried, "and throw away thostono, and tnolher gavo mo hall of her's. Oh, it tailed so sweet, and melted in my mouth." "Well," said tho father, "you have not acted very wisely, but naturally, nid in a child's manner. For wisdom there is yet room in tho courso of iour hfo." Then tho second son bogan : "I hunted up tho btono which my little broker threw a-vay, and craelcod it. L'liero wa.j a seed in it that tasted as i nut. JL>ut my poach I sold for inoug'u, when 1 go to tho city, that 1 :au probably buy twelvo." Iho father shook his head, and aid : "That is wiflo enough, but child like ind natural it wua not. lleaven ;uard you that you do not become a nerchaut." "And you, Edmund f" asked tho Athor. Sulf-posscoscd and frank, Edmund o]ditid : "I carried my poach to our neighbor George, who was sick of a jvor. lio would uot Inkoitj then 1 lid it upon ' bod, and came away." "Weil," * 1 tho father who ha3 iado the best uso of his peach V All three exclaimed, ".Brother Edlund I" But Edmuud was silent, ~.l 1.2- 1 ma uih muiuur cmoracea him 'with ;uru ia hor cyos. A LTHLE MISSION GIRL. A 'iltlo mission girl knelt ono night y her bod to pray. Sbo was thinking f tho Sunday school teacher, and o < hat she had beard ol Jesus, and she i o?an to hear a soft voico saying, Sarah, Sarah, I died for you on the ross. I love you. Sarah, won't you >vo inc 'I" This soft voico ftho heard in her cart, nut in her ear; so sbo began to < sol hor heart golting warmer, and it ! 'hispcrcd to her, "Oh, bow llo did ; ivo tno. Yes, I must lovo llim. 1 I rn going to begin now." So eho Baid i > Jeaus?fur sho knew that it was I Lib voicc sho heard in her hoart? ( Jesus, I am only a poor littlo girl, but I want to love you. It is hard to do i jht, but I want to do it, and I want i > oorno to you." . I Sho got up tho next morning, and t 10 next, and the next, and pretty | )ori the lady she was living with be- \ an to nay, "Why, what is tho matter f 'ith Sarah? what has como over i cr ? How nico 6he koeps every? j ling, and how Careful sho is. When t io tukcis tho babv to nurso sho ot drop it, and sho docs not lcavo or work and run out to play, and sho ood not tell any moro lies. * What h as comc over her ?" Ah, sho lias got sornothing in lior ( oart. What it? Jesus, Jesus! ( op. Who was helping her 67cry ny ? Jesus. And by and by ttio ( iistrof-8 said, "Sarah hns something 1 her heart that sho did not uso to * ftvo." It was Jesus. Do not you want to liavo Jesus in ' our heart? Bo not you want to ( tlco Him homo to your bouso? Ho \ ill eorao if you want flim to. Does } io not lovo litllo children ? Ob, yos, 1 vxrly.?Child's paper. | Short Process for Raving Bacon * -Make a solution of salt in bot water * icat raised as high as the flro will akeit); pat tbo pork in tho hot ? ine, with as mnch animal heat as k assiblo.. Lot ttie hams and shoulders 1 5 kept in three miniitos ahd a half, * jd tho "middlings two and a half 1 inu'tds, and tiiien;,fJang them 'imrae- t atoly un and smoke them, and you t a cuoico article of bacon in a. 1 spy snort time to what you wity{i by j to usual prooQiis, as well as.savipg ? Ur-flfihs of your aitf/ < <?*n* ?< s This process will answor %Hiy time stween-Uovoinbcr and April. 1 have * ivcd mu'eh in this' way . for-six pr 2 ght . years. Se^w t,bat you kqojj a x^ill portion of salt,' during the >6S, in Iho bottom of your ^rfesevW a certain your brine is anmoiently I irong during the wholo process. a Printing of tlic Bible. During tho reign of Ilonry VITT., and in tho year 1538, a celebrated j?rintcr named Grafton undertook to j print tlio great Bible in ijrigland, but owing to a lack o( a sufficient number of workmen and types, bo was under tho necessity of transferring tbc work to Franco, which bo did, and commencod operations in the city of Paris. 1 Such an attempt was, however, inimical to the teachings and wishes of the Romish Church of that country, and no was stopped lrom proceeding with | what thoy termed a heretical book. Determined not to bp deterred from accomplishing hid great de.rgn, he procured presses*, type, printers and bookbinders, and returned with them ( to England, where bo finished the work in the year 15ol), which has contribatcd bo much to tbo knowledge and tbo happiness of mankind. Tbo j tireit edition coiiMStcd of about 2,000 j copies, and each church in England was supplied with a copy, which was kept secured to a desk by a chain. You would doubtless be surprised, upon visiting one of our churcbcs, to fmd that tho Holy liiblo was chained lo the pulpit or do.-dc, and eo would any one at the prcsont day ; but not so then, for very few people, savo monk.? and priosts, had ever seen a liiblo beforo, and a still fewer number bad been allowed to pernio it. Consequently it was in ono soriso evon more precious than it is at tho present time, und, in order to prevent its being stolen ar.d destroyed by those who wcro opposed to its genoral uso by tho people, or mutilated by caroless and indiscreet persons, of whom all wcro not actuated by desires other than thoso prompted by idle curiosity and vanity, it was neccesary to keop it within the church, and under tbo watchful caro of tbo church oflloors. Seven Bimilar editions of this work wero issued within thrco j'ears, amounting to something near 17,500 1 volumes. i As a necessary consequence, this amount of work furnished employ-* 1 mcnt to a great number of binders, and rendered tho Urt of binding otso of considerable importance at that period. Tho king himself had many of j tho volumes bound in velvet, eur- ( mounted with gold ornaments, and it , is believed that during his reign the ? stamping of tools in gold was first practiced* Qucon Elizabeth, who sue- f cooded Ilonry VIII., mado somo ex- ! t|uisilo book coverings of embroidery j with her own hunde, and aft,er bedeck- j ing books of devotion, etc., with them J presonted them, to her friends and admirer*. But to a French r.oblo- ' man, named Joan Grolier, is tho credit , Juo for being iho II rat ta introduce / lettering upou tho backs of books, and j for a mott elegant stylo of ornamonta- 1 l.inn. TIf jlnlirrlit? ? 1 lL- ^ I? Having llio ^ sides of hid books ornaracniod with A beautiful patterns, most of which lie t j coign cd himself. His bocks were al! ' 1 bound in calf, or smooth morocco, and ^ the design peculiar to himself consist- i id of intersected liuo work, poiformod , iy hand, with curvo^, and an occa- t ifonal flower or loaf, Sometimes these * >attcrns wero inlaid with morocco of 1 7arious colors. J lis books arc much t sought after by connoisseurs in the < irt, on account of tlig great beauty \ ind eloganco of their binding.?Chris- 1 'lan Index. - * r Gambling.?Tho prevalence of the 1 >ocial evil known as gambling, in ^ >vcry class of tho community, is ox- r ;iting tho attention of thoso politi- ' ..i _ .. - ?? ' ? ;kui? who are aiso moralists. JiOt- n ,ing, one of the most popular forms J >f this ruinous vice, is becoming asso- ^ riated with every amusement of En- c ^lish life, from horse-racing to house- ^ aold games. The debasing effects of ^ ;his habit are visible amongst men of jj >very rank and ago; and the fool'st c irgumont of a bet assails one*j ears y n every street and public assembly * n England. If respectablo newspa- c )crs would ccaso to give the gambling * lows as they givo the niartcfcls and be debates, it would greatly difecoi'ir c. igo tho vice of which wo complain. ^ [t is fast getting to be one Of tho rec- f >giiinod institutions of tiro couhtry Some of our pulpits would bo doing c uoro good than they now doj if they' 3 rero to givo us less polemical decla- * nation and auoro faithful preaching * igainst tho moral cvils of .tho'day, w ho living devils that honest^ men s lave to do. battle Ayith ^every jjo^r. C V fow of tho LondonjBapprs^-c^ g his growing curso y&ting$^rtiM\Zeonaid'bflW>fo, V1 o7( <j i'lyl oi'>h'{TUII'JmJ*<TT 'UU 't<A n> ; . j" f^kim&oixohwnjcftnUCollFyBa^ j'^ot- e irayer bo the key of tho morning a ind the bolt of tho ovening." * il iJim ^JEJrjraiww maa CHEERFULNESS. An old and a very common objection to tlie Christian religion is, lluit it is uusuitod to the natural buoyancy and cheerfulness oi'youth, to the vigor i and enterprise of manhood and to infirm old a.^e alike. Some admit that it has its present pleasures and its promises of future bliss, but deny that these compensate for (he loss of the worldly enjoyments of this life: and therefore that they are either misguided or fanatical who f?sek the pleasures of the Spirit and of faith at me saeriliee of the pleasures of sense iiiul of sight. Dili in noLliiiii^ of the spiritual life has llio natural mind so misconceived as in this direction, (1 Cor. 2: 11; 1 Tim. 1: 8; unci JLVr. 07: 1 1.) Curtain asct. ;ics aiul some gloomy pietis/s have placed restriclions upon the lawful enjoyments of the world, until they east a cloud of gloom j around religion instead of using il to crown them as with a halo of light j and beauty. It is in this way that I many, and especially those of youth- I fnl years, have been terrified with religion instead of being attracted by it. ^ j These self-righteous religionists divorce religion from the world and deprive her from working out one great feature of her mission, which was not to abolish, but to reform and sanctify the proper enjoyments of secular life, and thus to make the relations of domestic nnd sor-inl 15P?? n.?.1 the operations of literature, science and art the friends and aids of religion rather than her enemies. Cheerfulness ought not to bo eonfonnded with mirth, as Iheso men of anstore principles do, and who back their ascctio views with the observation that Jctfu*, " the great pattern of perfection, was never seen to lauyh!" Mirth is the out gushing of momentary and mostly of unlawful joy, and then may leave*the soul to sink into the deepest melancholy! Cheerfulness i.s the slower but more constant | (lowing of a stream supplied l?y the I cquauiinily of mind or the conscious integrity of soul which belong to the virtuous and holy. Cheerfulness is but another expression for the serenity of sonl Jesus had and which breathes from his portrait drawn by I ho Divine Artist within the gospels, lit hough there is no rccorcl of laughter . onnected with it. JS*ay, not only is laughter not necessary to cheerfulness, but on the other land, this may be expressed by tears. Have you never heard of one " wecpng for joy?'' iSoino thirteen years igo a young mail stood in the pulpit L now occupy: he was preaching his 'trial sermon" before the Presbytery )f -Baltimore. There was nothing pathetic in the discourse by which to move the audicuco to tears, and the ........ 4) l-.i ^i.>1 v u 4 ivnuj ior? but mere caimi}' udging whether or not be woro qualiiod to preach the "Word of God. But here was 0110 man there, amidst the jongrogation, and he a ruling elder, .vho'was powerfully overwhelmed by he service. I To was the venerable alher of the candidate in the pulpit. [ saw him wiping away t??ar alt iv ear as they trickled down his cheoksl kVhy did ho woep? Not because, like nany a heart-broken parent, he had o mourn over a son, besotted, clemuched, ruined, disgracing tho pa enlal name, and cursing tho mother hat lioro him. and bringing the labor's grey hairs with sorrow to tho ;rave! JXo, he wept for joy! lie vept under tho overwhelming fact hat there was tho Lube ho had con sera ted to Cod in infancy: the child rained l>y an anxious mother iu the mrtiiro and admonition of tlie Lord.: he boy of many fears and hones: tlie nly son for whom lie had toiled : the rtuth of a thousand temptations and of is many prayers": now a young man of joble form, of cultivated intellect, of a anctitled heart, qnd_ withal, commisioned of the court of heaven to preach he blessed gospel of Jesus C'Knst! It vas lor this consummation of his highist earthly: hopes that ho wept I iVhat lather, what mother, who ever icard the most powerful notes of eloquence from the lips of a darling pon, landing within the Scnato Chamber, >r heard the acclamations of praise greeting a son as he returned from ho tentod iield, tho nation's conquer>r, what such parent ever enjoyed tho >uro gladness of that parent within hat temple of God 1 Hut alas, every joy conncctod with mr poor frail humanity, must fail us, towevcr pure tha^gpy may bo : but a bw months of a most promising minstry passed and tho young preacher ueu i xet tnat light went not out, it ?nly faded -a^ay into that Creator jight-Tth?*oSun of .Righteousness! lord is.tho -only unfailing sourco of rue enjyyjx^ent, and it is peculiarly hft porting of tho righteous: it is ; j^ljipiteaf and' Irf&chaustiblo; for it ( pringH from thb eifernal purpose of iod in Christ, and it flows Tm parali\ With'An endless .-fnUjro,|u' It was 1 pbnedXafa^.sl^g from tho >un4atipn.pf' the world, and XL springs 1 pinto-STMlastin^lIft'f KSicoitis ' no duty as Wcflas the prlvilogo of tho < ^lvistion to ho joyful above the worlding: ne has received* unspeakably ^d'HMorOfbi^ bnght-to. be un- j oafftfrfely thankftil.. " Hejoicq always; . nd again. I bay, rejoice." f t II. K., of1 Md. ) m '' \ \ ? t - J.1 vy? """i A New Cunu for Feveus.?A Parisian apothecary is making a littlo stir just now with a medicinal preparation of tar, known as tar-water, which ho has introduced, and which, from the definite quantity of the curative principle that it contains, promises to bo very useful to the doctors. These is no quakery in tbo article: tar-water has been known for moro than a century; and the reason of my mentioning the above fact is, that it afiords a peg whereon to bang a story illustrative of accidental diseoveies. "When liisliop lierkcley was 011 his Uliode Island evitfflitinn !>;? oiiin i > becalmed for several days in mid-occan ami a terrible epidemic broke out among tho crow. Some of tho sick were placed in the bold of Iho vessel, and burning with thirst, a few of them actually drank the bilge water, which was impregnated with tar. Strango to say," those who drank recovered from tho fever. Berkely, gifted, as Pope said, with "every virtue under heaven," was, of course, far-sighted, and soon saw that tho tar was tho healing agent; so ho drank tho water himself, and avoided the contagion. "When lie returned to Britain, ho set about experimenting with the specific, and having satisfied himself of its real efiieaey, published several tracts extolling ils virtues. Tho matter was taken up by tho pharmacists; tar-water was subjected to comment and discussion, and febrile pationta were subjected to tar-water. A Cat Charmed by a Snake.? Tho Ponsacola Observer tolls tho following snako story : "A young lady living in tho city bad a valued cat, and a day or two siooo, losing sight of it for an unusual longth of time, was inducod to makosoarch for tho missing pot. In a short time, to her surprise, sho discovered the truant under (hn Qhflrln nf o * .... M?..v.u U DU1UU) Willi a HIIUKO coilcJ around its body. Tho roptilo stretching forth its pliant neck, and curving it to tho position of a vis-a-vis, hold tho charmcd folino spell bound. Tho noighbours?several in number? woro summonod to behold tho scenc. I Finally, a lad soizod tho snake by the tail, and placing a forked stick on its head, uucoiloj his folds from around tho cat. This done, both cat and snaku lay with their gazo fastoned up* on each other, nor was the charm bro ken until ihft finrnonf * x&oouvurui ladies ia tbo city were witnesses oltho abovo, its reality will not be quos-* tioncd." Tiie .Ramie.?This remarkable plank has continued to bo this year propc gated with great success in Louisiam Texas and Mississippi. Last sprinf tho plants grown on a piece of ground in Louisiana were kept for cleaning by tho Roezl macbino, tho rosult of which we then stated, but as tho fibro was not then and thereby mado perfectly soft and pliablo, it was sent by air. liiuctner, ono of tho agonta of Air. Itoezl, to Germany, where, by a procosB used tbero, it has been made so soft, pliable and clear of any substance foreign to it as a textilo, that wo thought it must surely be silk, until wo examined it closoiy, and saw that it was tho vegetable fibre of ramio. Mr. Bruckdor tells us that tho ramio can be prepared and made thus flno and altogether silk-like at a cost not to cxcced two conts per pound, and then it will be vastly superior to tho linen floss, which sells at. frnm a5v to eight dollars per pound whon mado iDto thread, and will certainly bo worth, unppun, a dollar a pound.-? Weekly Picayune. Ten Good Hulks.?Chooso the path of virtuo, and imitate a high pattern. Do all the good in thy power, and let every action ho useful. Cultivate thy mind carefully?it will bo a storo of pleasing reflection. Bo diligent in thy business, and strictly upright in thy doalings. Investigate affairs closely, and engage in thorn cautiously. Lav thv plans with nrndnnnn ^ * -* M\?vjiivV| MUU be prepared with emergencies. In all difficulties bo patient, and overcome them by perscveranco. Do that which noods doing most. Have a place for everything and everything in its place. In all things bo economical without meanness, and combino utility with oiogance. Sickness should teach us what a va?t thing tho world is, what a vilo tlih. sin is, what a poor thing man is, ai*svhat a precious thing an interest L Christ is. ' m ? Koop yoursolf from opportur. Hid God will koop you from sins Practice flows from priaci js a man thinks, M* will we ?>j*