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\ o S3 . C . * , ..._ -- x . .. ^tc_.-. .. zs*^=*zaa*m-i*b-??i.TtFrm- yzx -'" ' " ~ ... ' .. .- ... . .. .\- .. .<ii THE CAMDEN JOURNAL, i:' u;. u: - ' ~v? ? *- o :t ..* u>> t<*u& kt$ VOL. 10. CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, MARCH 7, 1849. ______ NUMBER 3D. I THE CAMDEN JOURNAL, PCBLISTIF.D WEEKLY, BY C T. W. PEGUES. ?\ GRAND SECRET OF MASONRY. cu The following incident needs neither pre- 'he face nor comment. It speaks fur itself: soi On a visit to a neighboring city recently, an I called at the house of my friend B , thi with whom I had been long and intimately hu acquainted. To my astonishment, I found shi his ladv reading a Masonic paper. I asked he her what change had come over her. that I co; slio could not <wily admit such a paper to ed her house, but sit down to its perusal; for I wl knew her father's family was among the Or most vindictive, bitter, proscriptive anti-Ma- ac< sons, that ever left the infected district Or of New York. She rcjjJjflfl, that she ha had discovered the grand^^et of Mason- jet ry; and if it would be agreeable to me, she ms wouki relate how she came to make the dis- to covery.-* f requested her ty proceed, which tio ^^she- did as follows: fa\ "Soon after you left here last fall, I learn- me ed to my extreme mortification, that my Juis- de; band had become a Mason. I attributed, it to your influence, and I need not say what* "trit S i my feelings were toward you or my husband, a r 1 at once came to the conclusion thai my ces domestic happiness was at an end; but 1 re- to < ..solved that my conduct in all the relations of am wile and mother, should see that 1 ha" done i?> all a woman could do. Some three or lour hei months after I learned my husband had ted joined the Masons, a circumstance occurred to i ibat, for the firsttime. gave me any reason 4 to doubt his integrity. It was one of the me coldest nights of last winter, that my husband cm returned at a late hour, and said to mc, wo **Maigarct, cannot you do without your 4 blanket shawl?" 1 replied that I could. He hat naked me to get it for him, and bring him n 4 bedspread or comforter I handed the ar- p<>\ tides to him, and he immediately left the sup faase. My first thoughts were t? follow him. I went to the window, and by the ' light from the lamps I discovered another she man with a large basket?theshawl and com- of < < >rter were placed in it. and they both soon ma disappeared. My husband returned in a- coa bout half an hour. I expected in the morn- ' ing as a matter of course, he would have 4 come story prepared to explain his mysteri- 4,lh ous conduct, but not a word did I get out of wit him. I determined to keep a sharp look out wh foe my shawl, for if 1 could once get my in ? eyes on that, 1 would be able to unravel th'c Tor mystery. It was not long after, as I kep was in this street, that a female whisked a- tha long past me, upon whom I discovered my do\ shawl! Tltcgood fi>rn >thing huzzy! thought looi X; while a glow of triumph thrilled every sacl ?enrc, and quickened iny pace in the pur- can soil. I followed her closely Trom inr street to another into the fourth story of a bindery, cou 1 saw her very composedly lay aside my he's shawl, and sit down to her work?where, fin. urged on by that insatiable' desire to get the ged clue to my husband's perfidy, 1 soon learned " 4*he street, the number of her residence, and immediately left for it. I was not mistaken, hol< neither, for 1 saw my comforter there. The hou whole secret flashed on my mind at once, sot as clearly as if it had been written with a sun sunbeam from Heaven. There 1 found a lha widowed/mother in the last stages of con- el I gumption, and three children dependent up* the s o? the scanty pittance earned by the elder stai -i* sister, whom 1 bad so suspiciously followed, clo: I teamed from the lips of the dying woman dre a lesson, that in all my philosophy 1 had its < nefcer dreamed of?such a tale of sorrow as tew I had. never before listened to?and when tell she had related the deed of charity, that had he'l been the cause of all my unhappincss, 1 felt die . that there was not room in my bosom tappreciate the disinterested liencvolencc of my if* h husband. Site said, '] do not know how * e wc should have lived but for the kind- ' ncss of two persons who came here late one this niviit. and left a basket filled with provisions 4 and some bed clothes, a shawl and Ave do!- 'ad lam They just opened the door, and set in ' P< the basket, saying: 'Accept this, and ask no Bu questions;' and left before I had time to in- nut quire even their names. I do not know who hie they were; and I have had some doubts life from where these things came. But 1 ncv- ne\ er forget in inv daily prayers to Him who ef I opcneih His hand and filleth the poor wiih am ... bread, to ask if these were men, He will anc keep them and theirs from the sorrows with disl which I am visited. I left the house a bet- am tor woman than when I entered it." ' . "But the grand secret of Majwnry,nsaid eoi I, "I thought yon were to tell what it is." roo She replied, "It is this?todo good, and not in i * to tell of itF kic . nnj Extent of the United State?.?We Yo certainly Jutve a big country! From the pel eastcrmosl town in the United States, Ea.->t. bur port. Maine, via the St. Lawrence, Buffalo, at Cincinnati, St. Louis, and the South Pass of ' fhc Rocky Mountains, to Astoria in Oregon, co^ <he distance bv the travelled route is 4,517 ma mile*. From "the Madawaska, in Maine, by till 4he Atlantic route via N. York, Washington, giv New Qrieans and Galveston, to the mouth ' of the Rio Grande, 2,923 miles. ' From New York to the head of Lake Su- I k pcriar, via Detroit and Mackinac, 1,856 ' mih>a. thparc down the MississiDDi. tn the * Gulf of Afexico. is 2,824 miles. From an< Eastporl, Me. to I lie Bay of San Francisco, ea< California, on (he Pacific, via Port'anH, Phil the gdelphia, Pittsburg, St. Ixmis Santa Fe, and eai the Colorado of the West, is 2,544 miles, ' ? t Kissing by Teleoraah.?A man was as (bund at Trenton the other day mounted on 'T a ladder, with his lips pressed to the tele* the graph wires.?He was kissing his wife in mi Philadelphia uby Telegraph." It was found afterwards that he was a newly married coi man. tio What's hi a Name??The Nashvillo American notes the marriage, in that place, dy of Mr. Xawcr Hipp to Catherine Ho?kunn. th< dele. From Scott's Philadelphia Dollar Weekly Paper. (| THE -GREAT MYSTERIES" tl IF THE SONS OF TEMPERANCE FOUND OUT. ai ".'ve jest found it all cout 'bout you Sons sl Temperance," exclaimed old Mrs. Cred. [ :>us in an ecstacy of ill concealed delight. w fou Sonnies can't cheat mc, I'm 'little ?cw nncn for you. No use for you to tell me ' jut your Love for Brethren and all that 'n rt of stud", and put on your mysterious airs b! d keep your tongues under lock and all it. I've found it all cout. I know the II on'l.from the beginuin' to eend." And n( 3 looked very knowingly, as she tossed m r head proudly. Her eyes sparkling like e5 als of fire. The old lady had just return- m from a tsa party given by Mrs. Jones; 0! icre a young man not a member of ihe ,n der. but who affected to be one, and well quainted with a'l the "mysteries of the ^ tier," and every thing appertaining to it, ^ d quietly fallen in with the whimsical obit ions the dear old creature had wisely j1' ide against the Sons of Temperance, and fix them in their opinions, and supersti- *1 us conjectures, had amused himself by ?r ouring thein with a pretended dcvelope:nt of the secrets of the Order, and a lull P" scription of the ceremonies of initiation. ,'1 Her son in-law, to whom she made the jmpliant cxclaimation above quoted, was e<" nember of the Order, who had long ago m( iscd, from what he saw a vain attempt npiflimto I ho irnnrl filfl lailv'd nliinpllfin? j now suffeied her to enjoy her opinions her heart's content. But on this occasion triumphant and emphatic manner, excihis curiosity, and he quietly asked her explain herself. Oh! Johnny, said she, "you wouldn't ax to 'splain myself cf you know'd what I ild tell you, cf I was a mine tew; But I n't gratify you so much, that I won't." Well!" said Johnny, as he took up his and stepped towards the door. 'You remember that no persuasion was .verfu! enough to induce Jack eat to his per on a particular occasion don't you?" 'What do you meanV cried Johnny, rhis raised the ire of the old lady, and declared she would tell it now "jest cout ipite." She was dying all the while to kc Iter revelation but hoped Johnny would ix her to unfol.i the tale. Well," said Johnny, "I,in all attention." 'In the first place," began the old lady, e feller that's to be took in, has got to go ii a passel of fellers in a dark room, and en they git him there, they lock him up i big iron chest, with a hole in one end him to breathe through. And there he's it three hours, then he's snaked eout of t and rubbed all over with soft soap, and vn a big holler pipe till he hollers like a n. Then he's taken out and lied up in a k, and a passel of them heathenish fellers ry him into the room where they hold fr nieeim s. tu? ilie lights ?s aU out I t, and when the room's as dark as Egypt ; taken cout of the sack and put in a cof- 1 The lid is screwed down, and he's lug- tic round tl>c room nigh about half an hour." of How does he breathe, mother?" a Yew necd'nt make so strange 'bout them .Dr 2S bored in the top on't; abcout half an th? ir, as I was say in'and then the coffin is fro up on one ccnd, and a dead inarch is tlx g, and he's axed in an awful solemn voice bo t sounds jest for all the world like a ghost, tin le's will n' to proceed. Ef he says he is, tal ?-i i c.?i _ . : ^ir ,i^ n the Ik! is unscrew u, anu uuus iuuiacu ? < idiu' with six sharp pyntcd swords held kn se tew his breast and neck, by fellers rn< ssed like evil spirits. Oh! massey on us! 82 ;nulTto make a body's blood run cold th< r think on't, And he's told ef he ever tin s a word abeout the secrets of the Order, mi II be made away with jest as sartin' as uu death." rili 'Do you believe they would murder him sir e should tell mother?" lw 'To beshure 1 do, I knoio tlicy would." gir 'How did Tom Smith escape to tell you an ;?" _ ?y 'Poor creetur!" exclaimed 'the good old the y. "I'm the fust one he ever told, and I F1 jet ev'ry mimt to hear that he's missin.' a ( t don't enlcrrupt me so?yeaw put me tal Wall, he promises faithfully?I'm th< ssed if 1 don't believe he dassent for his co do any other way than promise that he'll jai rer tell to livin* creetur. Then he's told ws .1? U!? 'II Ko i'linrinn/t nff Kn IU UU3 11131 1113 Ulll^U^ it *-f\j viiv|'j/wu wii wj 1 his mouth scw'd up, his eyes put eout, an i his hands tied behind hnn, and in that tin tressed condition he'll be put in a coffin thi 1 buried alive in less than no time. thi 4Wall, the miserable critter is then let in< it of the coffin and walked abcout the wi ?m on his hands and knees, and ordered tin hank them heathenish fellers for pinchin,' thi kin,' and punchin,' him, pullin' his hair, gin' his nose, and treadin' on his corns, u needn't laffi It's all as true as the GosI an'you know it. Its shameful to treat lat nan nalur that way, and not to be laflfed br nuther. tr.' Then he's ordered tew set on a plank ih< rercd all over with burgundy pitch, and tic de tew smoke opium and sncezin' snuff cc he's nigh about halfded, and then they foi e him the grip and?" thi 'Why mother they have no grip." thi 'No use for you tew try tew deceive mc ft now the hull on't from top to bottom." th; 'Well then, what is the grip, mother?" mi 'Why, one on em grabs him by the neck, ar 1 he grabs tother and then they give It :h other an all chokin' squeeze. Then su v whisper the secret word in his left do SL 'What's the word mother?" fle Bellymashazzar, to be shure; you know of well as I do. You needn't laff agin, th wont do. Then thov give him the sign; ar it great secret sign you always make so pc i<*h fuss about." ar How's that made," cried Johnny, half cc nvulsed with laughter at the form of initia- th n, th "This way," promptly replied the old la- of . "By shuttin' your left eye, and takin' "I ; eend of your nose ill your right hand. th Wall, then he's marched up and down w le room dressed in a red grown lookin' for all [ )e world like a witch, and after he's taken c n oath, awful enuff to makes one's hair to f and on an eend every which way, he'? told h ?take a scat among the rest of'em, and a 'elcomcd as a Son of Temperance. \ "There you see I know the hull on't and t 11 tell everybody. I won't do nothiri' else; f >r I think as 1 alters said, its heathenish, irbaryous mummery, that makes heathens id infidels of christian men, and shudorter i put down tew smash, llow d'ye feci nv, Johnny, you begin to find the old wo- [ inn's 'bout right, don't you," triumphantly Sj (claimed the ol J lady, as she took an cnor- ,, ous pinch of snuff, drew her spectacles ^ >er her eyes and turned towards her sondaw. t[ Johnny was in a covulsion of laughter. tl it contrived to gasp his convictions that the p rdcr was all blown to pieces. v *f__ n i.. i t. . .1 ? .i iurs. vreuuious uenevcs 10 mis (Jay, inn I this mad wag Smith told her is true to a ^ Iter. Nor is she alone in her strange belief. fj here arejthousands like Mrs. Credulous, ev s| y where, whose prejudices are nursed ami ? pt alive with nameless surises, terrible st:s- sj ctons, arid outlandish stories relative to ^ e character and "secrets" of the Order, n >1 a whit less ridiculous, and as Tar remov! from the truth as the veracious dcvelopc- w ents by this good old lady. ,n From the Temperance Advocate. THE CHARM. g1 Her raven hair, that once did curl, Around a snow-white neck, R' SI1 That hair is changed, fur beauty's home I* almost beauty's wreck. V.' But still she hath a charm?a charm r'< More dear than any other; ^ And what, think ye, Uist charm can be? rtr i?i.? .1 1 i i .i? S' V* /Willi IIIC riiliuui uuj 9 IllUlltCI ? lc Fled is llic rose that decked her check; That check is pale and thin; Yet that remains doth tell a tale, Ofbeau'y rarely seen. And still she hath a charm?a charm More dear than any other; And what, think ye, that charm can be? Of little Peter's mother. P' Gone is the fire of maidon's eye; jy But yet some fire is there; ?nough is left to tell you why. She once was thought so fair. And still she hatli a charm?charm More dear than any other; ^ And what lliink ye, that charm can be? Of Iter that Tom calls mother. ^)C D The hand of Time may grey her head, And make her eye grow dim; P' The weight of year* may how Iter down, And weaken every limb. ^ And still?and still she'll have a charm, f)l A charm worth every other! It If heart you have, the query's solved, nfl She it my children's mother! T Tank's Own Bard. da Lascastebville, Dec. 25, 1818, qj Oyster War.?We learn from a gen- is man just arrived from the Eastern Shore si Virginia that a serious collision look p!ace dn few days since, in the neighborhood of an ummondlown, between the citizens ol oi it section and a number of depredators ne m Philadelphia. The facts, as we learn co mi, are these; A fleet of some twenty sts ats from Philadelphia recently entered tri it quarter of the Bay and commenced x>tins oysters from the Virginia banks with ne edging machines, in direct violation of the of own laws of the iState, which prohibit th .1 m >de of taking oysters, under a penalty of hi 50. and in open defiance o: her local au- in; >rilics. The people whose rights were hi is imaded determined finally to take the i i titer in their own hands, and to drive the ih uauders from their shores oraid the autho- pc ies in arresting them. Accordingly, five to tail boats were manned and armed with lit o pieces of cannon, thus prepared the Vir- ha bans came upon the Philadelphia fleet, d an engagement ensued, in which one stcrman was killed and a mast of one of ;ir schooners cut away by a cannon shot, ci le fleet was then driven into the mouth of m ;rcck, where the Virginians succeeded in in, ting ninety of the party prisoners, whom th ;y conveyed to Drummondtown, in Ac- pc mac county, where th- y were lodged in ac I. By some informal ty in the original er irranl tlie legal proceedings were quashed, di t the magistrates had issued a new process, in d strenujus efforts were making to bring ill ? aggressors to justice. In the course of ta ? skirmish one of the Virginians was sliet m j ball entering near the month and com- w ; out at the side of the head, carrying a- er ay one of his ears. Our informant stales T at great excitement prevailed throughout ct i neighborhood of Drununondtown. m Bait. Aniet. ?c fa Cannibalism in Fj:jee.?The Fegee Is- iij iders indulge in the delectable practice of '1J oiling and eating human bodies, and they ojlin their children to the taste by rubb ng >( [j flesh over the infant's lips. Tbisp:ac- to e succcds admirably, according to the rc. fo nt published account from a missionary, \v r we find that the practice is general, and oj at a slice of humanity is belter rclishable se an any other kind of food. S >me of the tr tcjecans carry their epicurean gust so far at at thev not merely kill and eat their ene- al ies, but live upon their friends, and these b: e frequently eaten raw! The Chief of in agi Ragi has been known to have a good g( pply of human flesh in his box, salted ai >wn, and has lived upon it as his daily food, pi Idorn eating any other kind of flesh. The ch 1 r ? :- ? !"<? llion thn flpvll ni :sn OI women IS liuni:i U<.|KI ....... ..... ........ r. men ; and when the Chief wants some- m ing very delicate, or, in case many bodies tli e before him, a child is roasted for his re- si ist. Mr. Hunt asserts, and other missionics confirm it, that the Feejean language Mains no word for a corpse ; but the word y< ey use, bakola, conveys the idea of eating sf e dead. This is their war cry when one their enemy is slain and his body found : y< lore is a dead body to be ealenw?ihe word ey use is bakola. They nlso affirm that, la ithin the last four years fully one thousand at >coplc have been killed within twenty miles >f Vewa, and that they keep far within com>ass, when they say that of these slain, five lundred have been eaten. There are probibly none who can read this account who rill envy the Fecjecans their taste, or wish o be considered in the category of their riends. MASSACHUSETTS AND SOUTH CAROLINA. The following is the Message of Gov. iriggs, transmitting to the Senate of Masiichusetls the resolutions of the South CarIma Legislature on the Wilmot Proviso: #/.? Ti 1.1 ~ o?*... u l/m JLJLUflUt HUlt/ 'JCflULf, I herewith communicate for the use of ie Senate, the Resolutions of the Le?islajro of South Carolina on the subject of aplying Ui? principles of the VVilmot Proiso to the territory acquired from Mexico. One of those resolutions declares, in a ecorous but plain terms, that the time for iscussing this subject, on the part of the ave States, has passed and that South 1 arolina is prepared to co-operate with her ster Slates in resisting the application of ( ie principles of the Proviso to such tcrrito*, at evcrv hazard. With undoubtins confidence that slavery lay be excluded from any territory belongig to the United Slates, where it docs not 3W exist, without the least infringement Don the constitutional rights of the slave ( talcs, Massachusetts has expressed her Jrpose of opposing such extension as incon. stent with the spirit of the Constitution, the cws and intentions of its framers and the ghts of humanity. It is to be hoped that le National Legislature will promptly ex* nd the principles of the Ordinances of 177, over all the Territories of the Union, and ave those who may choose to resist such a w, to judge of their own course. GEORGE N. BRIGGS. Council Chamber, Feb. 17 1849. "I HAVEN'T TIME TO READ." Of all the ridiculous reasons offered by irsons, to excuse the fact of their not king a paper?none is advanced more equcnlly and more groundless, than the ant of Lime to read. If those who use this ibtcrfuge, would say, want of inclination? ey would be correct. For there is no man, ho has the desire, that cannot find time duijj the week to peruse at least one paper, i i he ever so much oppressed by business. csides, by offering such an excuse, they i )ve how much they need the instruction. ey would derive from a good newspaper, i would teach them, if they were not aware ! it before, that man is not all an animal. ' would show them that man is of a cotnbi- 1 ttion of natures?physical and mental.? hat their bodies need to be refreshed by ! lily food, they arc taught by instinct?and ' in alwavs find time to eat. That their mus crave fund asstirciy ??o . \ a fact they should also heed?and for the ( me amount of money and time, a well con- j ictcd paper affords more information and "j nusement, than can be obtained from any , h ?r source. So intimate also is the con- | ret ion, between body and mind, that the 1 ndition of the one, always influences the I itc of the other. To such an extent is this t je, that the person who attends to the I ants of the one, without considering the I cessitics of the other, will always come ' f looser in the game of life, be his object ( oney or fame. We arc certain that any ' an who docs not take lime to read, is do- 1 g himself injustice?and not himself only, it I is friends and children, by thus negh ct- J g tl e nobler part of his nature. Believing us, we think every man should take a pa , :r?particularly, those who have not time , read. Let them trv it one year, and lake , nc to read, and never will they regret , iving so employed their lime. s N. C. Argus. i Industry?an element of female ex- | :lle.\ce and liAPriNEss.?A clever f'eale writer, speaking of tlie physical traing of girls, observes. "Real cultivation of . . ovi.rriup nf i tip moral 1 I' imi'JICCI, bOIMbOi nvers, the enlargement of lhe mind, bv ilie ( quisiiion of knowledge, and the strenglhiii g of its capabilities lor firmness, for enirance of inevitable evils, and for energy < combatting such as may be overcome, are c ends which female education has to at- ( in ; while, on the other hand, weakness, if , et by indulgence, will not only remain , cakness, but become infirmity. The pow. \ of the mind over the body is immense, i he physically unhealthy and morbully-dcli. i tie predicament of thousands of young fe t all s, arises from the neglect of the hoinelv i la.c, 'Keep your children busy,' It is a t il mistake, to allow the mind to prey upon J ? :lf and run to waste. The compiler of a ' resent for an Apprentice' introduces an 1 ) n on somewhat strongly, in advising his ning ward,if he would avoid falling in love, keep employed ; for, he observes,'nothing . sters love so much as idleness.' Now, ( itliout subscr.hmg to the full extent of that , )imon, as a rule it is quite certain that idle, ntitnenlal young men and women are ex- , emcly apt to fall in love, if their passionate . "1 - ?*.?*-! <tnnor. tachmcnts deserve uic name ; ami ^uu- , ly their attachments are of any character , it that which bids fair for lasting happiness domestic life. Who are the g rls that for- | :t themselves, and form low, improper alii- I ice? Not the industrious, the happily em. oyed. No, as a class, they are mostly the ilicate victims of laziness, and beggarly, oud, false gentility. In a word, the grand istake of the present day, as \vc take it, is ie cultivation of the intellect, to the exelnon of the moral sense and the affections." A gentleman who has a warm side for a >ung lady, was making fun of a sack which ic wore. " You had better keep quiet, or I'll give au the sack," replied the lady archly. * I should bo most happy,' was the galnt's response, "if you would give it to mc i it is, unth yourself inside of i(." Liberty.?Henry Smith, the "Razo Strop Man" says: "When first I becaim acquainted with strong drink, it promised t< do a great many tilings for me. it promis ed me liberty, arid I got it with a vengeance I had the liberty to see my toes poke out o my boots?the water had liberty to run ii at the toes and out at the heels?my kriee had the liberty to come out of my pants? my elbows had the liberty to come out o my co..l?pimples had the liberty to setlh on my nose, and I had the liberty to lift uf he crown of my hat, and scratch my head without taking my hat off. "And I not only had liberty, but deliciou; music too ; for when I walked along on a winday day, The crown of my hat went flipperty flap, And the wind whistled "how do you do." Happy Town.?The town of Paris, in Monroe county. Mo., contains no such thing as a licensed drinking house ; and ti e Mercury savs peace, quietness, sobriety and \L ,u? ^ giJVJU Villi,! 19 Hit, LW(I9CI|ULIIVW? A boy called on a benevolent lady friend of mine, telling a piteous yarn of destitution, requesting her to relieve the starving wants of a poor family. The lady presented a fine cured shoulder of pork. In about half an hour the boy returned, and said, "Please inarm, can't you take this back and give a ham, as mother says she has too many shoulders V'?Cin. Chronicle. What Music in a Name??They have a musical instrument in Charleston, 8. C. which is called Xylo.Cordeon, or Trondeumiphilipinotrasiamento. A learned doctor, referring to light lacing avers that it is a public benefit, insomuch as it kills all the foolish girls, and leaves the wise ones to grow to be women. If a man will reap 'whatsoever he soicethi what a harvest of coats and breeches the the tailors will have, one of these days! rv ?? !>? nr?nn oo tTC* linn v/IIC ul IMC CACUan^CO i-a_j o. .. u Baltimore girl is kissed, she says she is taking chloroform and remains insensible as long as the operation lasts." Property of Married Women in Virginia. ?A bill has been introduced in the House ol Delegates which is entitled "A bill to protect the property of Married Women." The bill provides that the real and personal property ol any woman who may herpafter marry, and which the shall own at the timo of her marriage, and the rents, issues and profits thereofj ^hiill not be subject to the disposal of her husband nor bo liable for his debts, but shall continue her solo and separate proper! y as if she was a single woman. It also provides that it shall be lawful for any married woman to rereive by gift, devise or bequest, from any person other than her husband and to hold to her mtfefltffl-- u?e. as if she were a single rents and profits thereof, which shall not be sub|ect to the disposal or liable for the debts of her husband, provided however that the rents, <Sic. ?f such estate for any one year shall be liable "or contracts made by her husband within that fear in the purchase of asticles for the tiese of lis family. To secure the benefits of this act, he woman must cause an accurate inventory of icr estate to be recorded in the county or corlocation court where she resides within eight Tionths nfter her marringp, or 8 months after nminiT in nnsspssion of anv gilt, dec. Clerk "" r . . >f the court to publish a description of such inventories. * The woman is not authorized by the act to nake sale of any of her estate, but the County Corporation or Superior Courts, upon the joint telition of herself and her husband may order he sale of any portion of her estate and direct he proceeds to be loaned out or invested for her sole and separate use. The bill farther prorides ihat in case the husbund survives the wife, she leaving issue, he shall have a life estate in ill her property ; and in case she dies without ssuc, he shall have a full title forever to all her Personal property.?Richmond Republican. An Incident of Undeserved Suffering. ?We give place to the following from the New ifork Commercial, in the hope that the lesson hat it inculcates may not he lost: A few we ks since a. poor and apparently ospectablc woman went into a store in the Sixth avenue, where children's clothes ate made ind sold, to a?k fur woik. Her dress did not :omport with the intense cold without, and she ,vas found to be almost entirely destitute of unJer clothes. The young women employed in he store furnished her with some, and raised wnong themselves three shillings for her. She vent away "clothed" and grateful. A day or wo since she called again, pale and seemingly i.u r? n ff>w minutes she tottered and Nisei auici M oil, anil some lime elapsed before ?ne rallied, sho exhibited s? much weakness that sho was isked "how long is it since yon have eaten any. hing?" "Nothing since yesteidajr morning." ivas her reply. "A lady" (she said) "had kindr given her some work, which rame to fifty rents, and she had corTie from Cherry street more than a mile) five times to get the pay ; nice the lady had no change, and four times she ivas nut." Did that lady know that the withholding of hat pittance from this poor woman was sending in arrow to her famishing heart, mid that by rnch means, with other causes, she was fast sinking to the grave? An association fir furnishing work for the poor in the same vicinity, of whose operations (or the past few years I have known something, will furnish statements similar. I have myself lent them money to pay these poor women, " *' 1 1 " "" "I luh/ir vvn?i when the price or ineir iimu 1-ans.u withheld by those who would not refuse themselves every luxury which could lie bought with money, but who refused themselves the luxury ofkindness to thef oir. Is it thoughtlessness in some instances? Even then it is very heart' less?it is more. Pomegranate Cotton.?Since our last, in which wo noticed the existence of this singular prolific and superior species of cotton, we have had the pleasure of an interview with Gen. G, D. Mitchell, of Warren county, Mississippi now in this city, who has with him severa specimens of the plant, indicating its rich ant r luxuriant qualities, It is decided superior to B any species of upland cotton which we have ^ ever seen. The bolls are larger and mare . abundant, literally covering the branches; the staple is longer, stouter, and finer, isdlb catr ton can he picked or gathered with gredter mm* 1 and rapidity. The stalks and branches have g the peculiarity of baring no joiat* as in-. ihef varieties, and being stout and upright. Gen* \ Mitchell, who is a highly intelligentaiid ^raelh cal planter, has cultivated tMs cotton 'tor two 1 years, and has found it easy of colHyatfbdb end 5 remarkably prolific. One acre yieldtA ever six thousand pounds of soperior eoMM, ef which one hundred pouods in the seed tarnish3 ed thirty-two and a half poundaof chattel. By t accurate experiments, he found that sfsfy-ftre bolls yielded one pound of ginned cotton# The origin of this speeiet of eottee fe-favol. ved in some obscurity, as it was actMenSy ohlained, but specimens of tbe plant, anil ef the i produce in the boll, the raw-state, aadjehtaod, r may he seen at tbe coueting roota of .Mfr*. ! Baker, Williams <S? Co., where the eeeii con | he obtained.?Mobile Register. ' . s~? - Wealth of CAuroa'tne,?le the wteltomcnt caused by the discovery of gtfhf In Call forma, it appears to have escaped oiteiwnn that there are vast pearl fisheries there, fmnssrhieb the early Spaniards derived an iiomefferfbse* nue. We have no doubt that tbosa penrl deposits will be again opened bythe enterpSis ing people who are going there lit socb giant 1 numbers from all parti of the Untied-Abates. Pearl fishing, where the pearl oyster1 la ebon* danf, as it is represented to be on the const ef California, is as profitable botineie ss Hitting for gold, rhe well known ingenuity !# our i countrymen would soon dice over means In ob-. tain those treasures, much better tbffclba old system of diving, if a proper inceoltieT$*evn hp Id out. We suppose, however, tbel tbe ; pearls will remain undistnrhed as MfcfcA. i yield of gold is as abundant as it Wis M An . last accounts.?N. T. Herald* *<?* Girls, do you he ah that 7 Jsd|p Jbsd ? of Pennsylvania has decided in coort^ m** , ening at a keyhole, though against aHstiy|?a, good manner* and the clearest uiuiMMKM* mon law in a man, is perfectly legal and yflsti# | able in any individual of the gentler sex, ; to the amiable weakness of curiosfty which > nature has irnplartted in fetnafo bosoms. Wo are rpjoiced that the point is settled at lost.? The Judge deserves a "piece of plate" hem the ladies, in the shape of a gigantic koyfcolo as big as the ear of Dionysiua. ?(SWitr. .. Terrific Tiieort.?Prof. SilHmoo asea. tions the feet that in boring the Artafaur'^ftft* in Paris, the temperature of tbo eirtkistaiHod at the rate of one degree for every!filWtWat. towards the centre. Reasoning ffacfr d<wse known to exist, he says:?> The whelm foSnrior portion of the earth, or at least of it, is an ocean of melutf'ro?h, agif^wd hy violent winds, though I dare noC ilfclMh h still rendered highly probable by thn phenomena of volcanoes. The facts conneottit.with l heir eruption have been ascertained and placed hcvond ft doubt. How, then, are tfttyTttfeacyears since, that they are caused by the combustion of immense coal beds, is perfeetly^enrile, and is entirely abandoned. All the "coal in the world could not afford fuel enough fir a single capital exhibition of Vesuvisa^ >Wo must look higher than this; and f bary but little doubt that the whole rests on theaction ?f electric and galvanic principles, wMdrntfe Vsa* stantly in operation in the earth." - ' t-? "fin Ukiti 'Pete, Pete, I see a toad, said a ffttlfc dferfcpf' to his brother, one day, as they went digging over a heap of mannre. ' ' 'Where am he JoeP Why, ripht da r?don't yoo see No, I dose n't see 1m; strike bint ?Uds hoe.' Joe hit the toad a crack, which broqghftPsto to t he ground. ' Oh you fool, Joe! dat was my tasl I pd del a!! de time.' A Novel Offence.?John Rode, a Getmo, who was on the hospital staff of the. Rawness army in Mexico, has been arrested York, on a novel species of complaint. rWhlle employed in the army be kept a regartaFnftbo soldiers who died in the service, with other memoranda, by which means be cobW frtrit el? derly females to pass (or the motbertor tfUiwi of the dear departed." By this meaif?)|m'teor< man has victimized Uncle Sam extet?*ivb|y. Pathetic-?No one possessing a bflsom susceptible of kindly emotioo*, or a heart open I i ? ?! <, ?W Am. to love, can neip sy minimising -?? ?~ ? gpairing swain, or to fee! a hope thai fab wbbes were realized: Qoiet is stealing Soft in each breast, i' ? Soothing each feeling . r * Balm-like to real; i7 . Lonely I languish? I wish that a flea , ? Wou Id bite my beloved ?<And wake her for me. ^ "Hab you got the janders, Pete; d? white of your eyes am yaller as aufTrura." "Hush your moufof dose insidunua comparsons, Snmbo! l'se got de Kallumforoea goH fover?when de crisis arribes in da daUruwa stages, den His indervidual also lebes far tbi rtgum of perpetual gold. * "Well, Pete, yon is insane" A gemWan ob vour color talk of foolishing offafler dese . jrhifa folks down Capo Horn.?I guess *twiH be in a horn dey'll find do gold! If you includes .to take de stage, Pete, 1 shaii detract my remark on your appearance, and subsurt out derefore dat i all oher alike you is de darkest, greenest liHuf in Belknap treet?you is a disgrace toi<fo whole colored sex ! you is as green as geese.* lSmty dis building of your presewce, Husho, or I'm not responsible for early dtsenee. Baste Pott. Terrific Speech.?We ondertmnd that i ono of the Northern orators (Mrt Wtbon of New Hamshire( declares in his speech In the (louse of Representatives on Fridj^l(B||piar than surreridrr the Wiimot Pnf**aBPti i not only see the Union, but the CfatnffitjMMv. ' ed. Awful resolution, indeed! MTfcet4tl but one step from the suHlime to the iidtaofafe,"?. Mr. Redinger, of Virginia, hi an dJbqueet , speech, denounceed this violences rfvindi. I cated the rights ot the South with Ittttjwtcr.