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, -V * ' - *" v ^ "r~ ' Jf "V - una ! I ? ... 81 *ai VOLUME 3. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, SEPTEMBER 3, 1852. NUMBER 71. ? -- ? 1?imujkt'iMwwA.nii , mm.J.W. ?....i^.jii.'.^^^KMiaaaiaMMnaBiMmBganMiMwwMPPa q??? _ ??;? ? THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. ' I * published semi-weekly and weekly by THOMAS J. WARREN. TERMS. Tue Semi-Weekly Journal is published at Three ; Dollars and Fifty Cents, if paid in advance, or Four 1 Dollars if payment is delayed three months. LThe Weekly Journal is published at Two Dollars if paid in advance; Two Dollars and Fifty Cents if payment be delayed three months, and Three Dollars if not oaid till the expiration of the year. ' AU V I.U HM'.MIL.N rs wm oe mseneu ai meiouuw- | _ ing terms: For one Square (fourteen lines or less) in the eemi-weckly, one dollar for the tirst, and twenty-five cents for each subsequent insertion. In the weekly, ! seventy-five cents per square for the first, and'thirty-scven and a half cents for each subsequent insertion. Single insertions one dollar. Semi-monthly, monthly and quarterly advertisements charged the same as for a sin-, gle insertion. The number of insertions desired, and the edi- ! tion to be published in must be noted on the margin of ?dl advertisements, or they will be published semi-weekly until ordered discontinued and charged accordingly . GOOD NIGHT. Good night to thee, lady !?though manyHave joined in the dance to-night, Thy form was the fairest of any. Where all was seducing and bright; Thy smile was the softest and dearest, Thy form the most svmph-like of all, And thy voice the most gladsome and clearest That e'er held a partner in thrall. Good night to thee, lady !?tis over? The waitze, the quadrille, and the song? The whispered farewell of the lover, 'Fhn lionrtlpcc nrlmn nf flip tlirnncr ! The heart that was throbbing with pleasure, The eyelid that longed lor repose, The beaux that were dreaming of treasure, ! The girls that were dreaming of beaux. Tis over?the lights are all dying, The coaches all driving away ; And many a fair one is sighing, And many a false oup is gay; And beauty countsover her numbers Of conquests as homeward she drives? And some are gone home to their slumbevs, And some are gene home to their wives. And I, while my cab in the shower Is waiting, tlie last at the doer, Am looking all round for the flower That fell from your wreath on the floor, I'll keep it- if but to remind me, Though withered and faded its hue, r? Wherever next season may find me, Of Kng'and?of Almack's?and you ! * j Th<- re are tones that will haunt us, tho" lonely Our path be o'er mountain or sea : There are looks that will part from us only When memory ceases to be ; There are hopes which our burden can lighten, i Though toilsome and steep be the way ; Ana dreams that, like moonlight, can brighten ! With a light that is clearer than day. Tlmrft iro ,rr? r.Viorict, tlin1 im I i UUl CV "" ? -> | For aye on the lip they may be; ^ * There are hearts that, tho' fettered, are tameless i v And thoughts unexpressed, but still free! And some are too grave for a rover, And some for a husband too light. The ball and my dreams are all over!? 1 Good night to thee, lady?good night! IIow sweet it is for us to know, That there are hearts that burn With love for us where'er we go, And sigh for our return. Then, though the world is cold and drear And gives the bosom pain, We've but to turn to scenes more dear, f And all is bright again. t But sad must be the homes of those, ! Condemned to live alone. | With none to cheer amid life's woes, And none to call their own, m No season sweet of joy doth come, W To shed its fragrance there, f No sunshine to disperse the gloom That broods a dark despair. } Tnc heart can ne'er be truly blest, 1 Unless it can recline Upon some fond, congenial breast, | Where love's sweet tendrils twine, I Then we can brook life's many iils, Of sorrow and of woe, For love a soothing balm distils, I - To cheer us while below. i Working on the Sabbath.?There area great many people who profess to keep the Sabbatb, according to the fourth commandment, but who somehow or other always find a multitude i of "works of necessity" to be attended to. Wc j have seen a capital anecdote lately, about a j family of such people, who were pretty severely ! rebuked by a colored man in their employ. The | family were farmers. One Sabbath morning, .flic colored man was not up, as usual, at break'fast. Tbe sou was sent to call him; but Ciesar ^laid they need not wait for him as he did not 1 ; wis/i any breakfast. "Why, Cjesar," said the young man, "we shall! want you, as soon as the dew is off, to help about the hay." ; ...? .. i > ut i ... 1. ; |"j\0," said He, "1 camiut wuia. unj mum .jii the Sabbath, it is not right." "Is not right!" said the otlicr, "is it not right to take care of what Providence has given us ?" "0, there is no necessity for it," said he, "and 'tis wrong to doit." "Put would you not pull your cow or sheep out of the pit on t.he Sabbath Ckesar V , \ "No, not if I had been trying all the week to 1 bhovo them in; I would tell them to lie there." | From the Southern Cultivator. < Horizontal Culture. Messrs. Editors?Having a few leisure mo- j mcnts this evening, I propose giving you a few ; items on Horizontal Culture, or the art of level- ? ing land, the great sine rjua non in good farming. < The idea of fanning on the old fashion straight row system, is equally as absurd and preposterous, i at the piesent enlightened day, as farming with- 1 out the least knowledge of, or what is still worse, 1 no confidence in, and a blind prejudice against ' the revelations of agricultural engineering. The j new lights which are now beaming upon the art i r.f oiiiItiii*."i nm Itninrr r.iv-ici-.ii t n, I wirli cnpli ir. 1 VI >- l?.?- , ...V, V.."0 |..WV..?V? " "" .. . refutable force of argument, and statistical data, I tliat egotism and prejudice are bound to yield 1 flicir old treasured systems, to the votaries of 1 science. Vet you will find four-fifths of the planters at the South, to this day. running their corn i and cotton rows straight up and down hill; many ] of them are hard to convince otherwise. Vet 1 ; trust the day is not tar distant in the dim vista i of the future, when the art of agriculture and the scientific planter will be elevated, by a su- i perior knowledge of the modus operandi of the different chemical constituents of the soil, re production and growth of plants, to that i>osition of standing which will command the respect and admiration of an enlightened community. i Taking into consideration the different ranges 1 of mountains, and the hills or ridges which radiate from them in all directions, in the United i States, it is manifest that at least four lifths of i all the cultivated portion of country, must lie ' more or less undulating. There are, it is true, ! some portions of every county in the different ! 1 States, that have some lands which might be!' termed level, but when compared with that which j 1 is either mountainous, hilly or undulating, it di- j 1 minishes to a very insignificant parcel; even that 11 which is considered to be level, l?y a careful hori- j zontal inspection you will tind to possess some | places a little lower than that which surrounds it, thus creating a basin, which collects and retains water after it has disappeared in other parts of the held, thereby to the detriment of the planted or growing crop. Thus you will perceive that the horizontal culture is applicable to no inconsiderable portion of the land, which is at present in a state of barbarous cultivation. All the different kinds of manure (guano, Are.,) availeth but little to a man who places it in his field, on the inclined plains, (which are always certain to stand in need of the most of it) and then runs water furrows, from every three to five feet apart, draining it out of his lield into the | creeks and bayous, without having reaped but j little of its benefits. (Jo with inc into a field I where the land lies the least undulating, the do- ' clension being even less than an angle of 15 do- ' grees, there 1 wili show you 011 every liili side, if the fi.-ld has been cultivated many year-, the : yellow dirt or clay exposed, without but little of the surface soil, which is found on the more level \ portions of the field, together with innumerable j gullies or water furrows, which were all tir.-t ' started by the plower, under the direction of bad I management, some of them sufficiently large to j jump yeur horse. Now if } on are disposed to j ask the question, llow am 1 to prevent the j j' ? .i n:..? i , :i I iorniMcUMi ui tucau uiiu lutani uiu r^uii in its original purity or in that state of fertility to which vou have resuscitated it by art ? 1 would | say, get you a spirit level, and adopt the horizon- j tal culture iustanter; then you will free yourself | from the greatest bone of contention which he- ' . sets the farmer's path, namely, the wasting away j | of his soil. Vou will then have it in such a eon \ dition, that its fertility can only be diminished j by evaporation, and what is extracted in tbc ! j growth of plants, which by an enlightened theory i of cultivation, you may easily in a groat degree l restore and improve with a certainty that it will . not in the course of a few short months or years, , traverse your neighbor's fields, en route for the 1 rircr. ] All lands do not require to be placed 011 exact- ' Iv the same degree of level; it will have to vary 1 somewhat, according to the character and con- 1 dition of the soil; more particularly according ! to the degree of perpendicularity.?This may he better illustrated and more easily understood by example. For instance, I will say that we first < take a Held that is termed level, yet by close , J inspection, we iind in it some ponds, ilat bayous, : or basins, all of which are reservoirs of water, 1 during the winter or spring. It" you plant such ' < places, you have to take extra pains to prepare ! I them. Now I say, place the row in such a field 1 on a dead level. Alter you once get your ridges ! made and they stand awhile to harden, no 1 nore 1 water will be found in such places than falls on other parts of the field, the process of oxcava tiun will be more rapid, and you can cultivate : the same as elsewhere. Each row will retain its ' own water, for the simple reason that it cannot ' ret over the ridge. t D O Now we will take all lands which lie from a I 1 level, up to an angle of Jo degrees, place these ' rows also on a level, no inclination whatever, but 1 a dead level, and away with your hill side ditches, for the?o reasons : \\ hen your ridges arc well thrown up,which should always he dune in pro- 1 paring for a crop?two horse plows preferable to ' one horse, whether for cotton or corn?but vou ' arc not always compelled to plant your corn upon these high ridges, if it does not suit your taste. Vou can make a smaller ridge between those by two furrows with a one horse plow, and ' plant either on it or under it, following on after with your cotton block. Your ridges will thou measure from eight to twelve inches in height; ' they should certainly be eight or nine, if you can make them so, which is easily done. Now all : the wat er w hich is calculated "to fall on the earth's r.t.r. vf;ir_ in the sliaDC of hail, snow ami rain, amounts to two hundred pounds to 1 the square fool, which makes an elevation of thirty-six inches ; so if this was divided into six equal rains, the water would only rise six inches, making no allowance fur absorption. Wo know that it rains much oftener than six times; wc also know that the greater number of rains fall gradually, thus permitting the earth's surface to imbibe much of the water dining its fall. A good soaking rain of twelve hours, in ordinary j seasons, wiil not make a rise of more than about me inch on the earth's surface, which is about \ jqual to one hundred t->ns of water per acre, j If your land is broken deep imbibition is more rapid, so you will perceive that a rain seldom if ever falls, which can rai.-e the water sufficiently high to overflow your ridges. In a dry season, when the ground is hard, and benign Providence i mi*. vlnluvr instrairl of it< miming out of your Hold, almost as fust as it | falls, or collecting in the lowest places, you can retain it in equal quantities just where it fell, I ?aeh middle watering the roots of the plants in the ridge Ik;low it. But suppose you may say, why not give these rows a little fall, just sutliciciit to take of the superfluity of wateror why not have drain ditches, : giving a fall of three inches to the stride of the ; level, (twelve feet) or more if you prefer it i \ My reply would he this * that you can easily : make your ridges so that th -y will retain what \ water falls, and I see no necessity for, nor ad- j vantage to be gained, by running it out of the i field, whereas J can point out considerable detri- ; inent to accrue therefrom. Thus the richest, ! md best constituents of your soil, are always j the lightest, either floating on the surface of tiic j water, or being suspended by it, whereas the | mineral", or heavv portions, sink. Many of the j most valuable salts are easily dissolved in rain j water, and thus carried away. Also a plain geological fact is hero presented to your mind, the fivoucnt or constant running- or driniiiiiff of ? I ? - - # p lie I ivater uii a particular portion of the earths sur- j face, lays the foundation for an J creates pebbles. [f you will examine your gullies, or water fur- ! rows, even those of recent standing, you will find ninny hardened concretions, which ere long will j K* pebbles. This process of allowing water to! run down the rows, however slow it may tra- j rcrsc thoin, causes the soil to become harder, j Takes it as it were,) by taking away the lightest j constituents, and leaving the heavier, it breaks i up in plowing in clots, all of which acts directly J counter to the known laws of minute divisibility, i which presents a proportionately greater surface, or the action and re-action of chemical agents. Look at the banks of every creek in your neighborhood that overflows, then ask yourself Tosn whence came the loose loam and sediment, ind drift. Animadvert for a moment to the tanks of the great {lowing " Nile," and I think hat you will readily admit, the rows should all ne put on a level, where the land will admit of t. Uut when wo pass an angle of 45 degrees, ind as we continue to ascend, you will have to ;i\o a proportionate fall in your rows, varying 'roiit three to six inches the stride, as the tec s- . itv of the case demands. .And now we will ac- 1 cpt the hill side ditches, because we cannot do without them : they carry a great deal of our igricidtural ch 'inistry out of the field, it is evileiil; we should therefore avoid them, if po-sine, never u.-ing tl.em except when the-elevation i i. " \\: v !>.\i t i irilllMIll-* II. " tuu.^c, iU. AS. Horn. Lake, J/V.v.v., J'ih/, 1 852. H-^.M DciEtii oi the Ilcv. Dr. i'tialincrsi. The foil oving alleeling account uf the death of j lie lair Hev. Dr. Calmer?, is extracted truni his ( nviiioirs by his son-in-law, the llev. \V. Ilauna: 1 "lie went out alter writing this note int.> the . garden behind his house, sauntering round which ic was overheard by one of his family, in low nit very oarn? st tones. saying, 'O Father, my Heavenly Father!1 < >n returning to the draw- j tig-room he threw himself into his maial recli- j >51 j*_C posiuHis Conversation at fust wa. joy- j jus and playful; a shadow p.n?ed over him as , ionic disquieting thought arose, but a light spread ! >ver hi? lace as In- said that disquietudes lay iglit upon a man who could tix his heart on leaven. 'I'm fond,' he said, 'of the Sabbath.? Hail, sacred Sabbath morn" Do you like Gramme's Sabbath, Mr. Gemmel? Dr. Johnson was very wrong in saying that there can be no [rue poetry that is religious.1 'At supper,1 says Mr. Gemmel, 'I sat near him, at his right hand. 'Are you much acquainted with the Durban livines, Mr. Gemmel.'1 said lie. I answered that ! tvu ill <f)llie m/vi<11iv> 'Wliinli .L-, von / lii.alv admire?' 'I think very much ot' Ilowe,' was inv J vj'ly. 'Ami so do 1, said ho, 'ho is my favorite j author. 1 think that he is the first of the l'nri- j .an divines. 1 cannot say that I take much to j lis imago of a living temple, but I have been atcly reading his 'Delighting in God,' and I admire it much.'" After supper addressing me,1 You gave us wor;hij',' said he, 'in the morning. 1 am sorry to isk you again to give worship in tiie evening.' Not at ail,'said I. 'I will he happy to do so.' Well,' said lie, 'you will give woiship to-niglit, mid I expect to give worship to-morrow morning.' I'etbre worship.eoinineneod, and Justus the servants were preparing to collie up stairs, he asked mo whether 1 had the sermons of Mr. L'urves, of Jedburg. I answered that I had not. 'They are very excellent sermons,' said he, 'and j there is one in which he rids the marches between I lie election of God on the one hand, and the frooncss of the gospel on the other, which is admirable.' During tbo whole of the evening, a* if lie had kept his brightest smile.* ami fondest- utterances to tln.? 1 a<tainl fur his own, Ins was peculiarly hiatal ami benignant. 'I had seen him frequently,' says Mr. Gemmel, 'at Pairlie, and in his most happy tnoods, but, 1 never, saw happier. Christian benevolence beamed from his countenance, sparkled in his eyes and played upon his lips. Immediately after prayers he withdrew, and bidding his family remember that they must be early to-morrow, lie waved his hand, saying, 'A general good night.' Next morning, before eight o'clock. Professor Mncdougall, who lived in the House adjoining, sent to impiirc about a packet of papers which he had expected to receive at an earlier hour. The house-keeper, who had been long in the fain ; ily, knocked at the door of Dr. Chalmers' room, ! but received no answer. Concluding that he was asleep, and unwilling to disturb him, she waited ; till another party called with a second message. 1 She then entered the room?it was in darkness; ; she s oke, but thore was 110 response. At last threw open the window shutters, and drew aside the eourtains of the bed. lie sat there, half erect, liis head reclining gently on the pillow? expression of his countenance that of lixed and majestic repose. She took his hand?she touched his b:o\v; he had heon dead for hours. Very shortly after that parting salute to his family he had entered the eternal world. It must have been wholly without pain or conflict. The expression of the face undisturbed by a single trace of suffering, the position of the body so easy that the least struggle would have disturbed it. the very posture of arms and hands and fingers known to hisiamily as that into which they fell naturally in thSPiomeiits of entire repose ?conspired to show that, save all strife with the last enemy, his spirit has passed to its place of blessedness and glory in the heavens." How to Dky Figs.?Messrs. Editors: In response to your request to furnish you with "the method of preparing the Smyrna or common dried Fig of commerce," I would say that although the following may not he as perfect as the Smyrna mode, I have found it to answer every purpose, and would recommend a trial of it to your lady readers : When the figs arc fully ripe, (hut not cracked oneiri cither thorn carefullv on a drv mornimr i /?T9 * %> ^ ?T? after the dew is ulf. Make a weak lye of wood ashes and having placed the figs in a se've or eollander, pour it over them once or twice, but do not allow t hem to remain standing in it.? Then have ready a syrup made of half a pound of sugar fur each pound of figs; boil them in this until they become transparent?then dry them on dishes in the sun, and when packing them away sprinkle over the layers some finely pulverized sugar. Try this, if it fails to produce a delicate a:ul lu ;ciuu> article of dry figs, you are at liberty to call tuc no Housekeeper. Impatience and Despair of Young Life.? We contemplate with much amusement the number of worthy, middle-age individuals, cheering, respectable authors, or hand working men of business?merry old bachelors or happy fathers uf families?all of whom were in their youth the wretchedest of mortal*, talking perpectually of "misery" and ''self-destruction." it seems ridiculous now but it was awfully real at the time. It is no more than a phase of mind which almost every one goes through, (except those worthies untroubled with any brains at all, who generally pass through hie quite comfortably, and are the most "jolly"' people imaginable.) l>ut for those others, whose spirits meet and endure this bitter ordeal, they should be uealt with tenderly and borne with patiently until the trouble ends. It is the finer portion of all finer natures; the restless wants, the vague aspiring, the perpectually I striving for perfection in poetic dreaming; in idle love fancies, inconstant as air, each seeking *' ' * ... 1 i\1 I'll | alter soitieUimg uivuier or uiort* oeaiumu, which [ is never found; in knowledge, or in the phren-1 zicd dissipation of pleasure, all alike ending in ; nothing until the only truth of life, seems to he ; [that bitterest one of Solomon the 1'rcachcr, ' Vanity of vanities, all is vanity !" This is per- j haps the story of every human mind in which j shines one spark of the tire of genius: the story's i beginning, but thank God! not necessarily its 1 end. Many a great strong spirit has passed?j and all can pass?out of the cloudy veil into a char day. Shakospcar, who must once have felt, or could not have painted young Hamlet, reached at last the divine height where, in the I universal poet, we lose all traces of the individu-; al man; pmd he who once^wrotc "The Sorrows j of Welter" lived to be that great Goethe who,! from his lofty calm of eighty-two years could! look back on what was near as human life could be, a perfect and fulfilled existence. The J/iiulil oj the Family. li.vzous.?Harbors often tell us that razors got tired of shaving, but if laid by for twenty days they will then shave well. I>y microscopic ex- j animation it is found that the tired razor, from j long stropping by the same hand and in the same I ' * * ? . 1 j? x!l directions, lias tlio ultimate parucic* 01 nores ui its surface or edge of a i?iece of cut velvet; but after a month's rest these fibres rearrange themselves hoterogciieously, crossing each other and presenting a saw-like edge, each fibre supporting its fellow, and hence cutting the board, instead of being forced down flat without cutting, as when laid by. These and many other instances are offered to prove that the ultimate particles of matter are always in motion, and they say that in the process of welding, the absolute momentum of th"' hammer causes an entanglement of hits of motion, and hence a re-arrangement, as in one piece; indeed, in the cold state, a leaf ofgold laid on a polished surface of steel, and stricken smartly with a hammer, will have its particles forced into the steel, so as to permanently gild it at the point of contact.?Sricntijic American. The following exquisite song was written in an eating house by a young man who was laboring under the agony of unrequited love. We don't know where it comes irom, and did not hear if it's author survived.?Carpet Bap. "0, carve me yet another slice, Oh, help me to more gravy still, There's nought so sure as something nice To conquer care, or grief to kill. I always loved a bit of beef When youth and bliss and hope were mine, And now it gives my heart relief In sorrow's darksome hour?to dine. When yuu sec a big "wiggle-tail" making merry in your glass of water at a ta\ern table be thankful. There is a good evidence you haven't swallowed him. Effects ofNigiat Air. An error which exerts a most pernicious influence, is the belief that the night air is injurious; litis opinion hinders the introduction of vent lation more than all other errors together. Now there is not a particle of proof, nor have we any reason whatever to believe, that the atmosphere of oxygen and nitrogen undergoes any change during the night, iiut there are certain causes | in operation at night which are known to extr cise over us an injurious innuence. we will investigate them to sec if closed doors and windows j will shut them out or stop their operation. First j it is known that there is a slight increase of cnrI bonic acid from plants during the night, but this jioison is generated in much larger quantity from 1 the lungs of animals, and accumulated immensely more in close rooms than in the open air. It ' i s therefore certain nothing is gained in this reI spect by refusing ventilation. The next difference , between night and day, to be noticed, is the fact, ) that sunlight exercises a most important influence : on plants and also on animals ; but it is evident that shutting out fresh air will uut restore its rays. >~ Another fact is that all bodies, animate or inanimate, exposed at night to the direct rays of a clear sky, radiate heat with a great rapidity, and their temperature is quickly and greatly reduced : and it.is well known it is dangerous to | the health of men for the temperature of their ! bodies to be greatly and rapidly reduced. But j persons sleeping in a ventilated room, even if j the windows are open, are not exposed to the direct ravs of a clear skv (and the law does not " . x ; apply to any othercombination ofcircurastances;) therefore, this frequent source of injury to persons exposed does not reach those in a sheltered house. As to the injury to be feared from a cold current of air, 1 would say it is gross carelessness for any one to expose himself to this danger, night or day, whether the house is ventilated or unventilated. I believe there is not known any other cause which can be supposed | to produce any special injurious effect at night, ! ami the least reflection will show that not any { one of these mentioned can by any possibility ; injure a person more in a ventilated than in an : unventilated house. It therefore follows that i the objection of the night air being injurious is I utterly futile. The pure atmosphere lias nothing whatever to do with causing the death of persons exposed i at night within the tropics; nor docs it produce the cough of the consumptive and asthmatic, ; nor the langour and misery which the sick so j frequently experience. These and other sufferings experienced more particularly at night, are caused by cu-bonic acid, absence of sun light, rapid reduction of temperature, the air being saturated with moisture, Ac, and nut by that air without which we ! cannot live three minutes. It is absurd to suppose that fresh air sir ports our life aud destroys our health at one and the same time. Thesame thing cannot possess the utterly incompatible character of good and evil, of supporting life ! and destroying it. Apple ton's Mechanic's Magazine. A Salutary Tiiougut.?When I was young i there lived in our neighborhood a man who was universally reported to be liberal and uncommonly upright m his dealings. When he had auv of the produce of his farm to dispose of he made it an invariable rule to give good measure, over good, more than could be required of him.? One of his friends observing his frequently doing so, questioned him why he did it, told him lie gave, too much and said it would not be to his advantage. Now, my friends, marks the answer. 'God Almighty has permitted but one journey throng 11 the world, and when gone 1 cannot return ti> recti.'}* mistakes. Think of this friends? only one journey through the world. Scon's Generals.?It is said to be a fac1 that every Gentral Officer, who served under Scott in the Mexican war. is opposed to his clcc" tion to the Presidency?believing that he does not posM-ss the civil qualifications to tit hifn for that high and responsible station. Wood, Twiggs, Jtiley, Butler, Quitman, Pillow, Lane, Patterson, Persifor, Smith, Cadwallader, Marshall, Shields, all found in the ranks of the opponents of the Whig nominee, and if the lamented Worth and IJamcr were living, they would be found among the number. Poos not this fact speak volumes against Gon. Scott's fitness for the highest civil office in the world? Mobile Register. A Precocious Cihi.d.?Not long since a ju venile offender was brought before one of the Glasgow bailies, who, alter reading a lecture to ! the L-ul, put the following interrogatory: 'Where did you learn so much wickedness?" The youth, personifying innocence, with an inquiring look, replied, 'Do ye ken the pump well in Glassford street?' 'No,' su'J the bailie. 'Wed, then, do ye ken the pump in the Briggate?' 'Oh. yes,' answered the man of office quickly. 'Well then, rejoined the accused, 'ye may gang there and pump as long as vchke, for Turn hanged if you pump me.' Toisox Antidotes.?For oil of vitriol or aquafortis, give large doses of magnesia and water, or equal parts of soap and water. For oxalic acid, give an emetic of mustard and water, afterwards of mucilages and small doses of laudanum. For opium or laudanum, give an emetic of mustard, and use constant motion, and if possible the stomach pump. l or arsenic, doses of magnesia aro useful, but freshly prepared hydrated oxide of iron is best. For insects taken into the stomach, drink a small quantity of vinegar and salt. For crrusivo sublimate, give the white of eggs mixed with water until free vomiting taVjs place