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E. A. WJ?HSTER. Editor and Proprietor. A Weekly Paper Ucvoled to Temperance, Literature and Politics. VOIAJMK I. ?RANG?B?RG, SOUTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JULY 1?, 1875, N?MI5KR Iii TIMELY TOPICS. ONE of lilt" mau y good pointu of the HOW cons! ii ut ion of Arkansas, adopted li ss Dian a year ago, is the provision for tlio payment of thu slate debt. This providion in now being curried out under tho moans provided by tho lust legisla ture. _ Jared lt. linell, of Indianapolis; and Susan D. dilbert, of Athol, Maos., have ..married" tboinsclves by a written con tract, which is to "bo in forco during our physical lives, provided our mutual love natures ever blond as now-but to terminate without prejudice by the wish of either party, if love shall ever contle to bo mutual," IN 1870, New York oily had a popida lion of 012,202, and a municipal debt of 8122,800,780. In 1871, London had a population of :i,2(Jii,0S7, and rt city debt of S2fi,018,000. Those figures are im posing. Tho city and county debts of Ibo whole union aro estimated to bo to day $35,(100,000 ; but. as this cstiniato is only for (bono having ono million and over of liabilities, the total mny bo not down itt a thousand million. Add tho stale and national debts and there re sid?s a heavy load for poHtority. IT in quito discouraging lo know that tho importation of lire crackers for fourth of July purposes this year will amount to .'HU),ODO boxes-n large excess over the rocoipls of inst year, owing doubtless to. tho centennial typhoid. The Chinesti and Japanese make a good thing out of thc squibs, as they alone can manufacture snob explosives, the attempts to reproduce tbeni in this country Laving failed. Tho invention, however, is deemi d by many people, not highly creditable to Johu China man's civilization. Tim inundations in Southern France have called fori li thc ready sympathy of tho cneli people, for ibo sn florero, and relief funds, io familiar to Ameri can cars of lalo, aro being rained every where, JTlie. city o{" Toulouse^ which has s ii floret f so terribly, is very aucient, having been a leading city of the Gauls when HU? Homans conquered their coun try. Massive walls of Roman work manship havo been broken down by tho recent Hoods from the river Garonne, on whoco banks tho city is built. The loss of property n now placed at $150, 000,000._ LATER advices from France confirm previous reports of tho frightful charac ter of tho inundation tdoug tho river Garonne. Many towns havo been sub merged and whole tedious of country overflowed. More t?tun a thousand 1??'CB were lost, over two hundred dead bodies being found in ono village. Twenty thousand people aro homeless and suf fering. President MucMahon has de parted for tho scene of desolation to render bitch assistance as may be nec essary. Tho Garonne rises in tho Pyrenees, on the e.onlines of Bpaili, and ia subject lo overflow, on account of tho general Hal ness of its batiks. PEOVM? seo things differently. For instance, tho terrible earthquake that recently destroyed San .loso do Cnoutn, in Columbia. When the catastrophe began, most of the inhabitants went down upon their knees and prayed for relief and mercy. Yet, iii tho midst of the scene, when the earth wan heaving, buildings falling, and tho dying groans and shrieks of men, women and children Oiling tho air, a wild horde of demoni acal thieves and robbers swarmed into the. I owns, sacking houses, pillaging bank vaults, and plundering the dead, and even murdering. If an earthquake will not quicken a man's consuionco, there is no lolling what will. TllP. NOW York World muk?s the establish menthol a zoological gardeu in Philadelphia tho occasion for tlio pre sentation of sonni interesting facts con cern i ng tho famous Loudon zoological gardons. Tho London oolloo!ion in 187;i included 500 quadrupeds, 1,227 birds and 225 reptiles, and was at that tiine, us yet, tho largest in existence. The first ihinoccros cost Xl,000; tho four giraffes C700, and their carriage au adtlitional ?700; tho olephahtand a calf, ?800, and Ibo hippopotamus, though ti gift, was not brought home and housed for lens ?han .Cl.000.. Tho cost of maintaining tho London gardens is very great, but tho receipts aro ample to mcot it. THE American riflo team has achieved great victory in Ireland over tho crack shots of that country. A mutch wnp shot Inst week between tho two teams. In tho first bout, at eight hundred yards, tho Amoricans woio beaten by ..no point, tut in tho ?wo succeeding bouts, at nino hundred and a thousand ya?-d? roBptjntivolyi tho Am*r??wn "*PH out ali?ad, thus winning tho mutch. Tho victory of tho Americans was r? ccivcd with tremendous cutliUH?a.sm, and they wore tho recipients of tlio moHt distinguished honors from tlio populace and their competitors. The contest lins boon marked by tho most fraternal feel ing on all sides. Tlio American ri He men have been trnated with tlio utmost coiiHideratiou by their hosts, and even tho fiting of dofeat has not caused any suspension of tho friendly intercourse. A I'IUVATE soldier of Prof. .Tenney's escort, in his geological survey of the Blaok Hills, writes that he found gold by menus of a pick and a shovel, while tlio geologists wore tryiug to lind it by seientilic principles. His advice is that those desirous of going gold hunting should hold themselves in readiness, and tho instant tho Indian treaty ia an nulled to hosten on. Tho party had encountered three mining camps on French creek. Thoy were panning ont about ?10 a day, each, and. were of tho opinion that, when they get their work ing apparatus ju good order, they will bo able to moko ?T>0 ll day. Tho soldier lind washed four pans of dirt ami gst about live cents to the pan of seale gold, sumo of thu pieces being a little larger than a piu's head. Ile did not have to dig a foot down for tho dirt, and declares that all that Gustar told concerning tho treasures of tho country was strictly true. . TUB statistical reporta just published by tho agricultural bureau indicate wide-spread disaster to tho fruit-grow ing interest, an will bo seen from the following notes : Insect depredations aro recorded only in Maine, in Eome counties of which caterpillars were troublesome. In New England gene rally tho crops woro late, and in some parts a tendency to simultaneous blooming t xcited remark. In tho middle, southern and western Btates generally, the climatic conditions were very unfavorable. Tho severity of the wiutor has not oulv destroyed tho fruit germs, but also tho trees. Tho cold brttto HA -nu .i^.iiiu .nji.tifii.'.t '?rio oovjt-?, of this injury, and heavy late frosts in many places destroyed what had sur vived th-j winter. In ?orno casca it is noled that tho plums stood tho severity of tho season better than other sorts of fruit. Grapes in many eases escaped on account of late blooming, but the vineyards of' several sections were greatly depleted by tho extreme cold, rimal' fruits were loss severely affected and aro reported as producing very luxuriantly. Con. BouoiNOT, who has just returned from tho Indian Territory, says twenty seven murder cases havo just boen dis posed of by tho United States district court at Fort Smith, Ark., before which all criminal business from tho Indian nation comen. Out of thiH number thero woro eight convictions for murder in ttio firp.t degree. Kevon of those convicted, including two boys, ono oeyentcon, tho other nineteen years, both aro to bo hanged together on the 3d of September next. Thc eighth one, a negro, was lulled after conviction whilo attempting to escape. Much out lawry prevails in tho Indian Territory, and ten men havo been lulled in the vicinity of Fort Smith within a few mont ha, A very bitter contest is uow going on in tho Cherokee nation for thc position of chief of the nation between tho KOKS and Downing parties, and it ie alleged conspiracy and secret assassina tion aro rife Col. W. P. KOKO, present chief, is a candidato for re-election, and a mau named Thompson ia the candi date of tho Downing party. I Capt. Jos. B. Fades has written i lotter to President Graut and secretary of war Iiulknap, advising them of titi progress of tho jetties at tho South Pass The main point in tho lotter is that pro visional works, ono thousand foot long are already constructed on tho line o tho east jetty, and being pushed seawan at tho iato of two hundred feet per day Two hundred mechanics and laborer and four piiedriviog machines aro n work ona a large quantity of stone am othor matorial aro ready at hand. Ail ditionol accommodations aro being pr< pared, und in abort tho working fore will bo largely increased. Tolegraphi communication bas been established bi tween New Orleans and Ibo head of til Pass, and the line is being extended I tho worliH at tho mouth of tho Pas Capt. Koihi Bays the provisional woi mentioned is what is koo rn as shee piling, and whilo it is only rjrolimiuat in oharactor, it will temporarily ter the fa-no purpose and produce tho san r result ns permanent jett ies. Tho ca . tain is quito miro that there will 1 I twenty feet of water on tho bar, ut tl , Ht? ii th ?'nun, by Mis 1?*ot February, THE OLD CONTINENTALS. In their rngKi-d rcgliuentalH Blood U.lil ?ont menial.-", Yielding not ; While the crclimliiTH wen- I ll iij;i HfT, Ami liku iiail !'. ll Un- plunging H1IUIIOI1-9I10I ; Win n Hu- SICH Oftho isl? :< l-'rotu Ihr smoky nigh) encampment L ue Hu- banner of tin- rampant tliiicorn, Ami gruiutuer, pr limitier, nrnmmer, Kuli? il Ilm roll of thu itrumuicr Through ibo muru ! Thou with eye? la Ibo front all. Anti willi mum horizontal, Slooil our sires ; While Hu) balls whist hil ilenilly, Ami in streams tbisiiini; redly, Iilu7.?tl thu lins; As Ihu roar i m the shore Kw, i a lin-sti'on;; lialHe-brrnkerti <)Vr Uni eii'. ii-ibli <1 acre.? Of tin- plu I n ; Ai il loitiler, louder, louiler. Cracked Ike blnelt ?mipowdir, Cr.u'l.iii? amain ! Now like Un' Finllha ai tin n- forgea Wollo il III- ri il Si. tll.OlgO*? i 'annoncer* ; \tui ill" " ? ill inion - nalt|ielre Kan:;, a llereu ilifcnrilant luelle lion ml our earn. As 111? swill. Stone-drift, Wilb liol swecpinu ntu;er Cline Hie horru-gndrda clanger ( in our flunks ; Tin n Muller, hitcher, higher, Un rm <l Hie old-Lothl.cl lite Through Hie ranks ! Theii Hu- hare.headed colonel li.tllo|ii'il ibruttiili Hi" white Infernal l'ottib r-eloucl ; Ami his broadsword was Hwlugihg, Ami los brazen timmi wan ringing Trumpet louil. Theil tb? blue Labels Hew ; Anil Ibo lriinper-tne!;etH reilileneil At the lunch ol tile le?deil Kilte-hteiiUi; . Ami rot luirr, rounder, rotiuder Itoaretl Hie iron Bix-Jiouinler, Uurllii); ib nth '. - (hiu Humphrey MuManter. THE GREAT STAPLE. K< port ?if the New OrlcmiH Cotton Kx cliimcv Tile Crop Iii ion ii il lu 10x eellelll Condition. Tin* Committee on Information rind Statistics of I he Now Orleans Cotton Ex change, to whom lins been entrusted tho iluty of compiling n national crop re port, nnulo tip from returns of vuriotiH Kxehatigos appointed therefor by tho National Exchange, .submit tlio follow iiiir for tito mont li of Juno: New Orleans, Department of Louis ifinn-We liavo H'.) letters from 37 par ishes, which unite in reporting generally favorable weather. There has been no additional acreage put in cotton nineo tho 151 h of May, but thoro ban been ?nm/i rnnlojitir.tr wh.-.rivliuiilfl wism nyar oweif ami to periecl tho stanitu. Tiro plant has been better cultivated tlnui for many years, and ia growing and forming well. Many blooms arc re ported. Tlio stands ure represented as very Rood to excellent, and thc prosout condition of tho crop is most nattering, much better and about ono week earlier when compared with last year. Missistippi-10.*l replies received. Average date about the 15th. Weather nearly universally represented IIB very favorable. Stands line and the plant forming well, though too early for many blooms. The present condition is stated as very good, and much botter when compared with last year. No nd ditiomd acreage put in cotton. Re planting has been done where thc plants were imperfect. Labor plenty and ef ficient. Arkansas-50 correspondents send in their answers from 22 counties. Since the first of .Tuno tho weather han boon hot, and most enough to promote rapid growth and cause tito plant to form and htpiaro well. Tho stands aro vo?"y good, und no replanting hus boen needed, ex cept in a few exceptional eases. Brad ley county reports the first bloom on tho 8th inst., but it is only exceptional, and as it rulo blooming had not begun at the dato of our answer and corres pondents aro unanimous in represent ing tho condition us exceedingly promis ing and far superior to that of last year, l'lau'ters ?no encouraged by thc prospect, ?me of tho linost. over known. Considerable attention und ciro has been devoted to tho cultivation of cereals, nud owing to the excellent harvest, a feeling of independence is vbrv noticeable in mir correspondence. Charleston, Department of South Car olina-1)7 unsWorn received from 2f oonntios, reporting weather since May lons generally favorable. Some com plaints of cool-nights. Very little ad tl i I ional planting. Blands represented us good, ?jI answers soy forming well ; '.V.), sny few fnnns, mid ?) no forms. All agrco iu stating, no blooms np to date of answers. Present condition good, though sinai), being clean of grass and nome parts comparo favorably With Inst year. Heavy storms of wind and bail ure reported in six comities since Juno 7, tining miieh real tl a runge. Lice aro reported in four counties. Augusta Department, covering that portion of th? state of Georgia not in cluded iu the.Savannah report -Weather favorable ; no additional planting; Homo little replanting ; stands good ; forming I well but no blooms. General condition good. Crops generally very clean. La hor plentiful and good. Savannah Department -Savannah Cot ton Exchange, covering Northern, Mid dle and Southwestern (borgia und thc stato of Florida-Weather dry and pen orally favorable ; ho additional planting of any consequence; stands gootl ; plant vigorous ; ga orally forming well, but no blooms except iii the southern por tion of the stat?;; condition good ; croj clean and weil worked ; plant somewhat smaller mid a few days later, but ratliei bolter than at tho sume time last yenr. Florida-Dry and favorable weathei j clearing i ho Holds of grass; stands good plan* forming well and commencing tc , I bloom; condition good and compare! favorably with hu>t year, though ?mal 1 j from il ry went her and somewhat iatci I t-lmn hvsl ye??", promiser! tu bo prell fruited at the bottom, which ?H tho principal part of tho crop. Mobile, Department of Alabama From fifty-two counties, 12(i replica : Tho w< atbor bas been genorftlly favor able, rather too dry in Homo places, bid not eiough so to iujuro tho plant. Ihore ans boon very little replanting or additu iial planting. Tho utanda aro good laid the plant ia forming well ; very few blooms ; tho condition UH com pared (.Uh last year in reported from aa good t'? ranch bettor ; there aro acarcoly any tin favorable circumatanccB rolativo to growth or condition of tho crop ; only a few reports of lice and grasshoppers, and complaint? of cold nights and drouth. Tho crop in clean, in good condition ?nd better cultivated than last year. Mts;; ?uri -Nineteen conidios, 56 re plies. The weather lia? ben generally fiivoroWe, needing rain in some conn lies, nt- 1 Borne complaints of cold nights, prod IM og lice. Tbero ban been very Hule replanting or additional planting ; stands ..re good and plant, forming well; only a lew blooms ; pi osent condition of crop is better lhau Inst year at samo period tho indy unfavorable eircum H'aneen1 aro those noted above; the fuvoraWe cirouinstnnei s aro, tin* crop ?H clea M?r, bot'er cultivated and more ad vane-d than last year at same time. Norfolk mid Portsmouth Department Fifty five rejilicH from 2'.) counties in North karolina, nix replies from two counties in Virginia. Forty-fivo replies report, weather dry find cold ; l l say favoral !e, and only two represent tho wcathe- wet and cold. Fifty-four an swers leport tho stand as good ; sumo few complaints on stiff lauds ; some forms ;. no blooms. Soven roplies from Bevon counties in eastern Carolina rep resent I ho stand as below tho average ; condit ion vory generally stated aa good ; crop will cultivated and free from grass and we 'ds ; plant smaller than at t he same time last year, nod from eight to liftCCU dajB later. Five answers from tivo counties in eastern Carolina ropo t condition bad. Correspondents state that tin: weather since tho loth of May has ben too cool for rapid growth, but with warm nnd seasonable weather a great improvement is looked for. Memphis Department-145 answers receive'.1. Weather generally repre sented ijs favorable ; no additional acre age pu', iu eotton sinco May 15 ; stands good n;,d satisfactory ; plant generally squaring and forming freely ; 12 reports ot blo<?.iB dating from 18tli to 20th ; condi'.'Jv ?jood : lrelds free of grass and m ii-vHB<rai? vi . >umc"Ou'ui|Miiiirc?ri'r>vu !ol?l nights, lice, etc., dating from May 15th to Juno 5th, mostly remedied by subsmpieut favorable weather. Galveston Dopartment, Texas- We have received 120 reports from QM coun ties, embracing tho period between May 15th and June 20th ; weather very generally Bind to buve been favorable ; no addition to acreage in cotton since May 15th ; uorne little replanting whore seed tailed to como up ; stand? repre sented ns good, and in the coast range reported to bis forming nnd blooming wei!. A InrRo majority of our reports agree in the .statement that tho season is from oue to threo weeks later than last year, and that tho plant is generally small, but is clear of gruss and ru good con dition. Kains are needed. Tho cater pillar is reported in three counties, but so far hus dono no material damage. How He Caught Them. Home years ago, an eccentric g. nins, tho Rev. Tilomas t\ Hunt, used to give tomperanco lectures; Ono night ho an nounced tbnt ho would lecture in Easton. Now, tomperanco was not in favor among th? malo portion of tho burg. The women, however, were all iu for the pledgo, nnd consequently, on Hunt's first night not a mau showed himself in tho hali. Tho benches were pretty well lilied with women, though, and Hunt commenced; but, instead of temperance, ho put them through on tho vanities of dress, ole. They wore great puffed feather sleeves then. They-the sleeves -caught it, then their tight lacing, and BO on through tho whole catalogue of lemah! follies; not a word about temper ance. And tho ladies went home bop ping mad, told their husbands about it, nnd voted old Hunt down to the lowest, notch. ile hud annonnoed that ho would lec ture nt tko ?amo plhco tho next night. Long before tho timo appointed they commenced to como, and when Hunt hobbled down the aisle tho building was comfortably well tilled with men. Tin old fellow looked about, chuckled, and muttered : l?ogs, I've got you now !" Tho nmlieiicn stared. .? Aha,' bogs, I've got you now !" Atter the crowd lind got quiet, a little, tho h durer said : "Friends, you wanted to kuow what 1 meant, by say big, hogs, I've got you now, and I'll toll you. Out west tho begs run wild ; and when folks get out of meat they catch a young pig, put a stvt?p under his budy, and hitch bim to a young sapling that will ]<"i8t swing him from tho ground nicely. Of course ho squeals and raises a rumpus, when nil tho old hogs gather round to Reo what IS tho matter, ana tbcu tiley shoot thom nt their leisure. Lust night I bung a pig up ; I burt it a little, and it squealed. The old bous have turned out to night to seo the fun, and I'll roast you." And BO ho did, pitching into their favorite vice with relish and guato. -41 Sir," said a littlo blustering man to a religious opponent, "to what peet do you snpposo I belong? "Well, I don't exactly know," rep)ii d . i neut, "hut to ju Inn fron '? ? 1 appearance, and constaut ? f Buonlti think you belonged to th? clan?1 . g?UfiWUy called insoatt" TUE LOST FLORINDA. New Url? ans Picayune, June "Ju. Recent revolutions have excited an intense nud growing interest in tho fate of tho fifteen or twenty men who, more t lmn n quarter of a century ngo, char tered tho schooner Florinda and set Hail for tho golden shores of California. For twenty-nix yours tho familioj of tho adventurers have mourned them nH Jost. Tho last news of tho Florinda WUH re ceived late in thc year 181'.) from Kio Janeiro. She had put in at that port. Homo time previous and then procoedod on her way, leaking badly, it, was said. A vessel touching ut Rio Janeiro short ly afterward, reported having spoken t ho Florinda in the Pacific, jiut beyond (.apo Horn, From that time forward nothing moro was ever heard of tho Florinda, and it became an accepted theory I hat. she had hoon ena! iway und her crew lost somewhere oe the South Pacific iv ut st. No tidings reached tho families of the ill Tated argonauts, and twenty six years ?lioped by without ii waif or whisper to disturb tho mel ancholy conviction which had souled the record of their lives. Their children h av o grown lo manhood nod woman hood without, the knowledge, with scarcely tho memory of a father's love. The hopes that clustered around them have long ugo bren transferred to that other world in which they were be lieved to be. Such is the story as it han passed cur rent all this time, with tho general pub lic and wit h the greater number of the relut ives of tho Florinda company. At lirHt, of course, Ibero were doubts and fears and expectations, moro or less re luctantly resigned for certainty, but to Ulis conclusion all eventually carno and Lho hiss of tho schooner with all on hoard bay, for fully a quarter of a cen tury, In en regarded as a fact about which there could bo no sort of ques tion. Tho unfortunate men havo been is utterly given up us though their iuria?6 had taken place in presence of ho whole community, and to have told my of their familier? that they were .till alive would have been to ask them o believe that tho dead had risen after weuty-livo years of sepulture and vnlkod forth once more among the iviug. Within tho past, few days, however, ireoiscly this proposition bas in eftcct >eeii made. The strange and startling itutement bas transpired that Harmon Iones and bis fellow voyagers were not c>j^t^us.vvo^Jmy<? thought, but aro now nknowu island in thc lower l'aoilic. About a month neo a friend of Mrs. [arm?n Jones rend in an English paper u account of sonic British vessel having icon driven ont of her course in a storm nd sighted an unknown island. Much o tho surprise of tho crow tho island urned out to bo inhabited, and still ioro astonishing, by men who spoke 10 English language. Tho rest of tho tory, UH given in tho paper referred to, s that tho castaways told Ibo ship's Oinp?ny that they were the Florinda uir'.y who had sailed from New Orleans 11 1S11) bound for California, that they iud been wrecked ou the island and had Iwolt there ever since, it being then aoro than twenty-five years that they nul hot Hi OU a human face or u fiigu of ho world from which they wore so ittcrly eliminated. Tho paper gave the lames of several, all of whom me mown to have been of Florinda's crew, md iu many other ways, according to tho 'crsion of Airs. Jones' friend, thu iden ity of tho party was established a? none ? ut themselves could have established t. lt was further stat', d that tho British "'snot olfered to take ibu mon on board, nit they declined, saying they bad been ost for a quarter of a century ; that hoy kinny not in what situation they voiild find tho families they had left, ind that they prefened staying and 'liding their days Ibero ral her than rcnluro back tu such a doubtful and luoertain future. This paper was four uouths old when Mrs. doues'friend saw t, ono month ugo, and tho ovonts nar ated were described as having occurred our months previous to tho issue of he paper, ii, is just niuo months then ance tho island was discovered by tho british vessel, and nt Unit timo all, or lenrly nil, of tho Florinda party appear o havo been alive. lt. need not be said that this news lins Housed tho dee J lest interest. To the iOmmiinity as large it recalls the fumil or occurrence of Hie Florinda's Hailing rom New Orleans with its adventurous I 5'Vinpauy. To tho families of tho ill ated men it conies like a message from unit her world, and is as though it were .bo announcement of a resurrection. Within thu past few days the relatives nive been bviinr in a slate of constant ixeitemeiif, ami ninny of them, espo lially thc sons bf Harmon Jones, Jno. \. Sidney, and Capt. Kenmore, tho 'kipper of the Florinda, have devoted themselves to tho task of following thc el no given by tho friend who saw tho Kuglish pnpor. Kxtensivo inquiries ure now on foot, and the British consul has kindly interested himself in thu affair io far as to agree to forward to thc war dlice in h indou a full statement of tho circumstances SO that the name of the tresse! which touched nt thc castaway's homo can he ascertained and tho bear lags of tho island taken from her lopi it. would greatly facilit?t this end, however, if a copy of tho paper giving tho original ncconiit wi ro found, and it is still hoped that sumo one who Kees Ibis publication moy have noticed tho paper and be able to toll us whoro a number oan bo had. On that contin gency d?pendu nundi that, will simplify and expedite tho quest, but it is cert lin that iu any ?.-a tu tho friends of Florind i's nrew will lever o.sl ngr-.bi until tho mystery ls fjuhopiefl to 'tn uttermost livpthi FACTS AISD FANCIES. -Mrs. dribbles bn8 great i dun? of h?r husband's military powers. " For two years," says she, " bo was a lionten ant iu tho horse-marines, aftor which ho was promoted to the oaptaiuoy of a reg ular squad of sap-hoads and miners." -Out of 296,000 of tho last levy of conscripts in Franco 25,000 have boen declared exempted from both activo and passive linties in tho military lino. It looks bad when BO many mou nra not even fib to bo food for gunpowder, though tho fact, should bo considered as a good wigu iu behalf of peace. -Only two hundred years ago the old moss-back who waa governor of Virginia got up and paid: "I. thank God that wc have no free schoolR nor printing presses, ?nd I hopo we shall not have any for a hundred years; for loaming baa brought disobedience: and heresy and secta into the world, hud printing ha? divulged I hem and libeled govern ments. God keep ns from both 1" -lt is well that apurent should know tho peculiarity of tho pulse of each child. Tho pulse of a healthy adult beats seventy times in a minute, though good health may bo enjoyed with fewer pulsations. But if thu pulse al way H exceed?sevouty,it indicates disease, tho human manhino is working itself out thuro is fever or inlhimmntion some, whore, and thc body is feeding on itself. ---The college orator is now abroad ia tho land. His voice is heard from tho four quart ors of tho earth, telling of tho efforts ho has made for distinction in tho past, and his hones and aspira tions for tb?? futuro. He is sanguine- ' far moro suuguiuc, than he will bo a Few years hence, when ho shall have Hicountercd and boen countered by nome of the stern realitiesof lifo. Thus far his education hus been ouly theoret ical ; in thc futuro it will bo practical. Whether tho former shall tit tho sub jects for thc latter, tho futuro alono eau lutorrainc. -ff a man wants to go auywhero in a irief space of timo ho munt walk fiud., jut he loses his popularity in propor iou to bis rapidity. Balzac, who icenis to have thought it worth whilo to ?ctico this contemptible fact, anys : ' Violent gesturo or quiok movement uspircs involuntary disrespect. Ono oohs for a niomout nt a cascado, but ?no sits for l ours lost in thought and fazing upon tho ??ilI waters of a lake. \. deliberate gait, gentle manners and a inmenso ad rant?g? over those vastly mjerior to hiai." -All good men should live in Arch ngel ; all angry men in Ireland; all inrderern in Kildare ; all circus-men in lomorset ; all brokers in Stockholm ; all old men in Chili ; all geometricians in Juba ; all fools in Folly Island ; all orticuUurists in Botany Hay ; all wags ii tho Bay of Fundy ; all perfumers in litscnt or Cologne ; all brewers in latta ; all gluttons in Turkey ; ll beggars in Hungary; all laconic ion in Lacinia; all mourners in Siberia r Wales; all confectioners in Candia ; ll o! itklvcji in the Crimea ; all oil spoc h.ioiTi Ire tire Dee ; all gamblers in tho i'l'XOQ XnismSs; all stumblers in Tripoli ; ll ooric'jH men in Pekin ; all shoe iiaknrp iu Boolan ; alluoldiers in Arnie ia or War?aw. -A Brussels paper gives a painful ccbiiut of the ex Empress Charlotte of l?xico, llor physical condition is good, . ut her mental condition in hopeless. ?ho lives in constant communication /ith imaginary beings, and dislikes tho .res?rco of any living person. Bhe peaks only when obliged to do so, and ?ives orders to her attendants in writ ng. ribo ?li esses hoi self without por aitting assistance, takes a fixed walk in bo park every morning when fine, fre jnently piny? on the piano-forte, and umetimes draws and paints with do ided taste. Sh?> recognizes no visitors, lot even lier brother, King Leopold or ho queen. Tho latter always accom .anicd the physician on bis monthly . isit, when, in reply to bis inquiries as o ber health, the empress coldly snys ho is well, and immediately rotiros. Iho has become stouter, and shows a endeucy to cor pu louey, but nt present' t is stated that thia ha? only increased icr beauty, which is now truly striking. -lt hus been justly said that tho ! reutest discovery of our lives is that bo world is not no bad as, in tho first li* appointment of youth's extravagant .xpoetatiotiM, we uro disposed to regard t. Tho passage from boyhood to mini mod is "over the bridge of sighs;"and mr finit exporiouoos of lifo as it is, ?.semblo the Haver ?if th?? forbidden ipple-w?? aro enlightened and minora do. Gladly would wo command tho iccrot of ieoliug ns we one?? did ; but, das, every day takes from ns pomo nippy error-some charming illusion inver to return. Wo aro reasoned or ?diculed out of all our jocund mistaken, .ill we aro just wise enough to bo raiser iblo, and wo oxcluini willi Lady Mary Worlley Montague, "To my extremo nerti Heat iou I lind myself growing IV?KVV and wiser every day." But a inn: Comes, ut length, when our views nv more just. Wo leave our imaginary [fideu with "solemn step and Blow," anil login to appreciate tho good qualitioii if Ihoau whoso friendship WO ?bought ludlow, and thc necessity of that labor which we deemed a curso. Wo ex diauge ecstasy f?ir content, and, " for getting tho four rivors of our ideal heaven, open our oyes to the manifold beauties of earth-its skies islandoil itnrs, and ita oceans starred by islands, its Bunahines and culms, and tho good ricas of its prent heart, which sonils forth tries Bud flowers ami fruits for mr benefit and exultation."-fxrofcn*vr tVttiAetvfi