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- v#r ?, r-J&" -' * R 1 - - - ^- ---- ^ ^ - - 1? -1!., I 1 I ! I 1 J - ?. -L.. . |_J 1'." . J i i! . ?"I Dojotrtr to Itctos, Politics, 3itlclli0mcc, omdr J|jt 3mpropfmcnt of i\)t Stole onb Country. JOHIT C. BAILEY, PRO'R. GREENVILLE. 80UTO CAR0L1NA, HOBtomrno* Two DoIUr* p?r annum. I It may bo purchased M clicap &8 I W8VB moving o?w? 1 *v ' 1 w A?TBi?TU?B*B?tB ln??rt?d ?t tb* r?to? of I * one dollar per square of twelve Minion linoi (tlii* slse t type) or lew for the first insertion fifty cents each for the second and third insertions, and twouty-five cents for subsequent insertions. Yearly contracts will he made. AM advertisement# must have the numkei ?f insertions marked on them, or they will b? inserted till ordered out, aud charged for. Unless ordered otherwise, Advertisement! will invariably be "displayed." ^ Obituary notices, and all matters inuring to to the benefit of any one, ure regarded as Advertisements. jtlrrtrli ^ottrij. The Drunkard'* Child. BY Mas M. U OZIAS. ^>iuw nearer, mother, let your,baud lift gently on my itching brow s 1-8 cool, soft touch will ease luy puin, 1 feel Hint I qui d)l"g now. Mother, I Jo not fnar t<? die. I know, my S*uvlour cull# me home < And fel, 'lis hurl to say farewell? To leave you in this world alon *. Who'll comfort you when I am g >n? f Who'll kiss away the fulling lour? Who'll share your lonely mid.tight waloli t Wlio'll we<p wilh you, and hope, and fear I Onec there were hiipj.y, blissful d ?ys, When friends and fortune on us tioi'cl. Willi joy we h iited his cubing Wep. And 1 win not u drunkard's child. . T 11 father ili.it I lord him still, I shall not sec Ills laoe agtin, For e'er he seeks his humble home, 1 shall he free from care and pain. That father oims; but nil too late, Another gu-at hud ho. n before, I)i?:tLlt aI I.la lit.-lM ........ t?.-t clilM ? ' Twits iniJniglit ho lr, an<l all wan o'wr! Down l?y thai ooM a'id beauteous form lie knoll aii'I prayed, and (Jo I did hark Unto Ii a prayer, und led him forth Into lite lij^lit?" Out of tlia Dark." llEMINISCENCIiS OF Til K QQliMTY QFQREEKVLLLEi BV EX QOVEUSOK B. F. PERKY. [OONTINDKD FK<>^ LAST WKKK.] O eenvillc District, now dubbed a County, lies in the north-western part of South Carolina, and contains 705 square miles. The thirty fifth degree of North Latitude runs through the upper part of the County. The length of the County is between fifty and sixty miles, and the width, on an average about twenty miles. Greenville is laid off into sixteen Townships, Dunklin, Oak Lawn,Grove, Gantt, Austin,. Greenville, Butler, Paris Mountain, Chicks Springs, Bates, O'Ncall, Highland, Glassy Moun 15i i 11 K.il.irlu I fin../.! I'l ? ??.<*? mmi??i'm v/io? v;ianu< 1 IIU County is drained by tho North, south aii?I Middle Saludas, Euorec River, Reedy River, South and Middle Tygors, South l'acolett und their tributaries, Beaver Dam Creek, Unburn Creek, Gilder Creek, &c., ?fcc. On the waterCourses, the low lunds are very tortile, and worth forty or filly dollars pe? acre. There is a great ileal of valuable up lands in the County, which sells for ten dollars per acre. The poor ridge land is worth from one to iivo dollars per acre A large poitioti of the up per part of the County is monti* Cajnous, but thickly populated, and the lands produce well. There are portions of tho mountains which cannot bo cultivated. B'.:t they are capable of being made pastures tor thousands and hundreds of thousands of sheep. In the eai !y sottlemont of Greenville, tobacco was a considerable crop, which the farmers carried to market in rolling bogheads. If Lt did not bear inspection as to quality, it V.'j? burnt. But the Ctliiure of tobacco, was, in a few years, discontinued, except for bonio consumption. Indian corn ^was the great crop of tho District. 'Very little cotton was planted till within a few years past. In 1840 there were only two hundred and seventy live bags ot cotton made in the whole District. During the past year there have been sold in tho city of Greenville, nino thoussand bags of cotton. The Western stock passing sixty tniles through Greenville, gave a market for all tho corn and fodder made for sale. Alter tho railroads wore constructed through Tennessee, Virginia ntid Georgia, this stock driving ceased, and the fanners began to cultivate more extensively cotton and wheat. Sinco the abolition of slavery, labor has been uioro diffi- | cult to procure, and hence the! farmers have sown every year a great deal more small grain, and paid more attention to the improvement of their lai ds. They have used large quantities of commercial manures on their Cotton nni-1 I wheat. i The County of Greenville fa admirably adapted to manufacturing. tier water power in untur- ] pu?Hed, and may be found in every i Huction of tho County, suitable for | taming any amount ot machinery, t , any one could desire. The climate . is pleasant in summer, and tnodert ate in winter. The thermometer ranges in July and August, trom " 80 to 92 degrees of Iarenheit.? The nights, however, arc always i cool and refreshing. In winter, the thermometer seldom fulls below 20 degrees, and it is not every year that ice can l>e procured for sutntnor use. Thcro is generally one cold spell in the winter, lasti ing only two or throo d?c? -, .. ,.v.. tho thermomotor may fall as low as 10 degrees below freezing point. Vcrv often no snow tolls atoll during the winter, and if it does, it all disappears m a day or two. The mountain scenery of Greenville is, indeed, grand and picturesque. Caspar's Head, in the upper part of tlio County, is famous tor tho magnificent view it affords for hundreds of miles around.? There is a fine hotel on the top of tho mountain, which is always, in summer, resorted to bv visitors from the low country. There is a fine spring of cold wafer on the top of the mountain. Paris Mountain rises up near tho contro of the County, and is disconnected with all the other mountains. On the top of this mountain, whirl: affords a most picturesque view of the surrounding country In every dircc lion, there was formerly a hotel, which was greatly patronized as long as it was keptopen. Gener til Thompson lived on the southern extremitv of Paris Mountain, and made very considerable improvements there. Since his death, the mountain has been purchased by IJ. L. P. McCortnicK, of Charleston. The view of the city of Greenville, from this point of tlfo mountain is truly beautiful, and greatly admired by every one who visits the mountain. Pine Mown! tain is only t.ireo or tonr milos distant from tho city, and the prospect from it is very much that of I ! Mr. Jefferson's MonticUlo. Gen 1 r?*? uiiii liiompsoit once lived on tbe top of tlimountain. It now belongs to the Estate of Dr. Theodore Croft. Glassy Mountain, near the North Carolina line, is also famous for the beautiful and cotiuiiaiiding prospect presented from its summit. Hogback, Melrose and D >ckety are in the same neighborhood There are a great many persons living on all these mountains. Fiddler's or Bike's Mountain, lies three or four milos east of the city, and the residence of Dr. William Butler, Thomas Lowndes, William Lowndes and Dr. Samuel Dickson, were formerly on this mountain, lion. Benjamin Wilson now owns the residence of Dr. Dickson. Gold hue been found in several portiohs of Greenville County.? The mine of Vardry McBco on South Tyger River, sixteen miles above the Court House, was very proli ably worked for a great number of years, and a company has been operating on it since the war. Iron was manfactured in the Cpunty, years ago, and the ore is found in many parts of it. Black lead has been discovered in several places. 1 have seen specimens of the clay or stones from which chi na ware is made, found in the County ; and Mr. Poinsett pro nounccd it equal to any lie ever saw. Tlioro is said to be limestone in the lower part of tho County, and no doubt it may bo found in our mountain region. Clover, Timothy and Herds Grass grow finely in Greenville, and there is now a disposition on tho part of many of our best farin era, to pay attention to tbe cultivation of tho grasses. Tho average yield of corn on our bottom lands is from twonty-five to forty bushels per aero. Whcro tho red lands have been well prepared and manured, tboy have produced twenty bushels of wheat to the aero.? Oats, rye and barley grow finely everywhere all over iho County. The c.imato and soil are admirably adapted to the growth of peaches, apples, pears, plums, nectarines and cherries. Tho Irish potato grows as well here, and especially in our mountains, as it doos any whcro. As to health, climate and waters, Greenville cannot be surnaoaori Kw one *-f ! ? I T ?.i ,??V ted Statoi. In tbe early settlement ot the District, fur tliii tv years, as I hare already stated, there was 110 practicing physician in the District. Most of the old settlers wholivod to an advanced age, never tooU a do?>? of fyiedicino in their livos. Soino ot them lived to an extreme old age. was provon in court, the other a??7; that Jeremiuh Trammel), who died a tew years since, lived to be ope ( hundred and fourteen year? oldIt is a remark ihlo fact, that tbe \ people of the United States, are more migratory in their habits than any other nation ot people on < lie face of fhe earth. They are al- i \ \ ? e ?... ?u??giijk meir ? homes, never satisfied with doing well, but always wishing to do better. There was a stroujr tide of emigration from Greenville to Alabama, Mississippi, aud the upper part ot Georgia when tboee countries wore first settled. No doubtthat the population of our County would have been double what it is. l ? ? out Tor the emigration to the West. It is a singular tact, that very few of the citizens of Greenville are now living on lands which belonged to their fore-fathers. In other words, it is a very rare occurence to find the descendants of ono of the first settlers of Greenville, in possession of lands which belonged to their ancestors seventy or eighty years ago. This is very much to be regretted, for I think it destroys in some measure lovo of country. If the homestead has descended through several generations in the same family, it is natural to suppose that it will be dearer to the poe sessor, than one which ho has jnst purchased. Ho will love it more, and morG readily fight for it. Droughts are more frequent and freshets much greater in Green | vine, mau they were in the early ! SttMlenunt of the District. This is no doubt owing, in a great mens ure, to tlio clearing and cultivation of the lands. The water paesscs off' more rapidly, and the 8()il has becatno border and more packed. Deep ploughing and subsoiling would prevent, in a great degree, the disastrions effects of a drought. There was, however, a terrible drought in Greenville in 1780 or 1787, and 1 have beard my father say that ho and his neighbors did not taste bread for three months. They lived-on game entirely, which was then most abundant. The forests abounded with deer and wild turkeys.? There was very little of the land i n cultivation, and hence, a drought in a neighborhood was sorely felt. There were no roads except Indian trails, and very little communication with other portions of the State. [continued next week.] innie Laurie Nearly everybody has sung, or heard sun*;, the beautiful ballad of k4 Annie Laurie." Annio Laurie was no myth. Nearly two hundred years aero Sir It l?orf I.?hm? of Muxweltun, in Dumfrcisshire, Scotland, quaintly wrote in hi* family register tlicso words: 44 At the pleasure of tire Almighty God, my daughter, Annie Laurie, was born on the 16th day of Ducember, 1682, about 6 o'clock in the morning, and was baptized by Mr. Geo. llunter, of Glencftirne.,, Annie's mother was named Jean Riddle, to whotn Sir Robert was married 44 upon the 27th day of July, 1674, in the Troti Birk ot Edinb., by Mr. Aunarie," as was al6o recorded by her father himself. Posterity owes to Mr. William Douglas, of Fiugland, in Kirkcudbrightshire, (who wooed but did nut win the capricious Jinliie,) the song of 44 Bonnie Annie Laurie," wherein he celebrated the beauty and transcendent iter tection ot the maid of Maxweftoti.? Poetic justice would have required that Annie should havo rewarded with hor hand the poet lover, who was determined to ualia her naine immortal; but as it trauspired, she preferred another and a richer suitor, a Mr. Alexander Ferguson, of Oaigdurroch, and him she mar ried. The William Douglas here mentioned is supposed to be tiie original of the song 44 Willie was a Wanton Wag," and it Is related of nun mat, alter having been refused by Annie Laurie, be married a Miss Elizabeth Cleric, of Glenboig, in Calloway, by whom he had a family of four sons and two duugliters. Thus is it that while the song of " Annie Laurie" lives from age to age, the names of all con* I cerned with the original of it sue* vive in the recital of the romantic incidents connected with its coinposition. ? - Mibaukau said on Lis bed of death : " Crown me with flowers; intoxicate me with perfumes; let me die to tho sound of sweet music." Madame Holand, the stronghearted woman of the revolntion, uttered only : " Oh, Liberty I"? Caiuile Desmonlins uttered only execrations on the road to the guil lotine. Dan ton said to the executioner : * I have had a good time ' of it; let mo go to sleep ; then you will show my head to the people ; 1 it is worth the trouble." Nkw York papers published obituJ?r??* Of " Bill Johnson," * i dog that, could stand upon one unU l/einfl? hipiaelt on the nozzle o| a pbawpa^^ bottle. A Milwackkk phqrch bell has i on it: *'In memory of Minn*0 J. Hodges, weight 7*4 pound#," I Jl / xnsintsrtainmsnt of lfapoleen at St Helena in 1840. | Every thing being prepared for I I the important operation, at half an | hour after midnight ot the 14th- j 15th of October, tbe twenty-fifth anniversary of the arrival ot Napoleon Bonnporte at St. Henlena, the first blow was struck which was to open the grave where he had slumbered lite sleep of death so long. Even the workmen who were engaged in digging ont the earth seemed to be impressed with awe at the extraordinary work I.-- ?' mej were performing. All was I hashed as death. Not a sound j was heard save now and then the 1 word of command necessary to direct the labors as the work proceeded. The waning moon occasionally threw her pale light upon | the scene below, bat again she would he obscured by dark clouds, and the rain fell in torrents. No light would then bo visible but the glimmer of the numerous lanterns used by tbe workmen, and the solitary watch fire which was burning near tho tent, thus giving the scene the appearance of a bivouac; ac; yet none movod ; nil remained as it wore chained to the spot (the aged Uertrand, Gourgand, and others, French, together with the appointed officials on tha part of England,) exposed to, but regardI * - iess oi too inclemency of the weather, anxiously watching the work as it slowly proceeded.? There was much difficulty occasioned by the moss of cement and masonry obstructing the approach to the slab that covered the coffin. The coffin was then lifted out ot the tomb by means of shears, and de|>ositi?3d on the ground on the left side ot the grave, whence it was carefully borne bv twelve men of the Iloyal Artillery to a tent erected for its reception, when the service Levee du eorpe was l>erformed. The outer mahogany coffin having been removed, the inner ones wero carefully placed within the lead ancoffin contained in the sarcophagus 6ent from France, and the lius of the old leaden and the second mahogany coffin wore cut t irough, and 60 opened. The old tin coffin, the last cover whiel. or to the town, there to be trans- , ferred by hie excellency in person to the care of his royal highness , Prinoe do Joinrille. Naw York sends one oolorod man?an ex soldier?to the State i Radical Convention, and be goes i in strong for Greeley. I shrouded the remains, became thus exposed to view, and at one o'clock (his excellency, the governor and staff having arrived in the inean time from Plantation House) this was also cut through, when the satin covering over the body appeared, which the surgeon cf the " Belle Poule" gently raised, and thus displayed the body of the emperor. It was in excellent condition, and seemed to have been almost 'miraculously preserved ; there was an appearance ot mould all over the body and habiliments, but his features, nearly unaltered, were immediately recognised by his old friends and followers.? The hands, which Dr. Guillard touched, (and he was the only person who touched the corpse,) were perfect and firm " as a mummy," ue said, and the appearance of tho whole body was that of one who had lately been interred. The eyes were fallen, and the bridge i of the nose a little sunk ; but the i lower part of the face, remarka < ble f r its great breadth and ful i ness, wus perfect. His epauletts i and the several stars and orders ! on his breast were tarnished; his I jacket-boots covered with mildew, 1 which, when Dr. Guillard slightly rubbed, came off, and the leather underneath wus perfectly block . _ j * if ... i nuu souna. 11 is cocked hat lay across his thighs, and the silver vase with the imperial eagle, which contains his heart, stood in the hollow abovo the ankles, but had assumed a bronze hue. The body remained exposed to view troni two to three minutes, when it was sprinkled by tho sur- , goon with some chemical compo- , sition, and the old tin, as well as the old and new leaden coffins, , were carefully soldered up by M. , Leroux, a French plumber, who attended for that purpose. The ( sarcopaagus was then closod and , locked, and the key delivered by , Captain Alexander to Count Chabot, with the remark that, as he and the witneseea sent out from Franco had been enabled to satis- , fy themselves that the body of the , late emperor was really deposited in the sarcophagus now before them, he hod, by order of his ex- | cellency the governor, the honor | of delivering over to him the key *, , atid hod further to inform them ( that everything was in readiness to ennvev lk? tvwiv u/irl* rlno Kah. The Air Lin* Read. Tbe editor ot the Atlanta Constitution writing from Greenville, 8. O., thus speakes ot tbe progress of the work on this great euteri prise. M This road will be abont 245 miles long when completed.? From Charlotte to Spartanburg, n distance of seventy miles, there are ahnnt 11 ?* 1 * . _ invuMiia uanag working, tbe grading is nearly done; track-laying has begun at the Charlotte end; tbe bridges are in rapid progress of construe tion, ana the contractors think that by the first ot February they can have this section ready tor the cars to run over. Between Spartanburg and Greenville, a distance of thirty miles, there are over eight hundred hands grading.? The track laving will begin in a short "while from Spartanburg this way, in order to facilitate the work. Tbe contractors think that this section will also be ready for the trains by February. The first of May at farthest will probably 6eo the daily trains running from Charlotte to this point. From Greenville to Atla'itu the road will be about 145 miles long. Of this distance the cars are running front Atlanta to "Gainsville, 53 miles. About 25 miles are graded this side of Gainsville and nearly ready for tbe iron. About eight hundred hands are working on this part of the road. We t.ius have about 67 inilcs from there to this poiut to be completed entire. The ehoico of route will soon be made and tbe work put under contract, and it nothing untoward happens tbe entiro road will bo in use in twelve months from ibis time. The money is on linnd In ? 1 *' .v ?U?U IUO 1UIIU, UIIU 11)0 purpose is to push it through without delay. 44 You have seen that the Anderson route has been ignored, and it has been determined to run the road by a more direct line, probably striking near Tugaloo.? The Anderson route was tound to be seventeen utiles lunger and a million dollars more costly on account of the rivers to be crossed. The Anderson people threaten an injunction, claiming that the Charter gives litem a vested right to the locatiou of the road througu their section. 4* The statement that the Penn sylvapia Central Railroad, us a corporation, has bought out the road, is iucorrect. Men interest ed in the management of that have taken the entire contract to build the road, for which they get pay in road stock except 14 per cent, in money. Tom Scot , Simon Cameron, two Bultimore and New Yo'-k capitalists, from the company o f contractors. A Mr. Dickinson, of New York, was the original contractor, I am informed, at a sum of six millions for the whole roud. Scott & Co. paid him a bonn* of $300,000, and took his contract. About ,400,000 of stock has been taken by the cities, counties, towns and eliivons ?n ?li? ? Charlotte takes $250,000 ; Atlanta, $300,000 ; Spartanburg and county, $250,000; Greenville and county $300,(XX) ; Oconee and Pickens counties, $200,000 ; .Jall conn ty, Ga., $50,000, and its citizens $30,000. Atlanta citizens have taken $34,000, and 1 am sorry to leurn that some wealthy ones, dooply interested in the road, have not paid their supscriptions promptly. This is not in accord with the public spirit and promptness for which Atlanta men are noted. Motukk.? Around the idea of one's mothor the mind of innn clings with fund affection. It is the first dear thought stamped upon our infant hearts, when yet soft and capable of receiving tbo most profound impressions; and all the after feelings are more or less in comparison. Our passions and our wilfulness may lead ns far from tho object of our filial love; we may became wild, headstrong and angry at her counsels or opposi non ; utu when death line stilled her monitory voice, and nothing but calm ftemory remains to recapitulate her virtue and her deeds, affection, like a flower beaten to the ground by a rude storm, raises up her head and smiles amid her tears. Round that idea, as we have said, the mind clings with tond affection ; and even when the earliest period of our loss, forces memory to be silent, fancy takes the place of remembrance, and twines the imags of our departed parent with a garland ot graces and beauties and virtues, which wo doubt not that she possessed. Taw gold and silver scnle we-e stolen from the Stato Department at Washington, and melted. The thieves were arrested. I Living Mead 011 OmI Body A strange story, of a living head on a dead body, is related in tho case of one James T. Anderson, of Iowa. One aftern;x>n, when on a visit to an ancle at Qlenwood, Iowa, he was exercising on a pole placed from one tree to another in the back yard. Ue had on a pair of gaiters tipped with patent leath er. lie swung down from the pole by his feet; the leather slipped, ...j i. - *?? ? nuvi ii? leu. Lie struck bis neck just where it ioirts the shoulders. He was bewildered, but perfectly conscious. His body felt as though smashed to a jelly. lie experienced a horrible tingling; and when the doctor came Lie told him not to touch him,^ his body wns broken to nieces, llis neck was broken, inflammation set in, and all thought bis eud was come. To the surpriso of all, in a few days he began to mend, lie was shortly after removed to his step- father's house, whore he still resides. Time hung heavily on his hands, and he resolved to learn to write with his mouth. lie accomplished tin's, and, as he says in a letter to J. K. Nutting, he soon wrote a tolerably good mouth. He is now trying to paint, and hopes by this means to earn something tor his support. He has been, and still is tenderly cared for by his sister, herself a cripple, and speaks in the highest terms of Ids step-father, who, thongh a poor man. hns shown him every kindness, llis worst enemies are tbc flies which buzz nbont liis face. Ho holds u leafy twig in his month, however, and manages to twirl it aliout in a wonderful way and drive off his ?prinentors. This case is without a parallel, except that of John Carter of England, who was injured in a similar way, and who became a famous painter?James, at the time of the accident that left him with a dead body and a living head, was a fine handsome young man. He weighed two hundred pounds, and there was not a superfluous once of flesh on his body. ?? Relative Rank of Cities The cities of Now York, Phila defphia and Brooklyn, maintain the same relative rank as to popu lation that they did iu 1860.? There has been considerable shifting of placos, however, among those that now constitute the romnindor of the twenty foremost cities of tho Union : During the last decade St. Lou is bos ascended tbe scale from the eighth to the fuurth. Chicago, in a similar propor tion, changes from tbe ninth to tbe fifth. Baltimore, which in 1860 was tbe fourth, retrogrades to tbe sixth. Boston pursues tho same direc tion, from the fifth to tbe seventh. Cincinnati retires a step, from the seventh to the eighth. New Orleans falls back from the sixth to the ninth. San Francisco, taking a noble forward leap, vaults from the fif teenth to tho tenth. Buffalo lags behind, from the tenth to the eleventh. Washington niake3 a stride from the fourteenth to the twelfth. Newark, New Jersey's thriving metropolis, drops, nevertheless, froin the eleventh to tho thirteenth. Louisville, twelfth in rank in 1860, is now assigned to the fourteenth. Cleveland, ^foirr steps forward, mounts froin tho nineteenth to the fifteenth. Pittsburgh alono retains the same relative rank now as then, the sixteenth. Jersey Citv rises frt&n tbe twentieth to the importance of seven tecntli. Detroit recedes irom tho seventeenth to tlio eighteenth. Milwaukee from tho eighteenth to the nineteenth. Albany, which una, ten years ago, the thirteenth, now takes the old place of Jersey City as the twentieth. QtjiNiNB Biscui.s ? One of the London bakers has introduced a dietetic novelty in the shape ot quinine biscuits. Each biscuit i* estimated to contain one-fourth of a grain of quinine, and for delicate stomachs, or where it is desirable to disguise medicine a9 mnch as possible, or to combine food with medicine in a perfectly agreeable form, those biscuits are likely to become very popnlar. Thrbk-fourtiis of the dfficnl tieu and miseries .of men come from tho fact, that most men want money without earning it, tame without deserving it, popularity without temperance, respect with 1 I * uiii viimu aiiu iivttvuii iiuutii no linoM. tka Poor Man's Best. u Every one oat of town I" 80. the paper* say. So men tell ono ' another, talking of the dullness that infects business and social life alike. But through the streets of the great city still roabes the roaring tide, and no eye can see but it fills its banks as nigh as ever.? Still the vast boat, in unthined ranks, spreads through every avonne and by way ; still the inighty hum of laber fills the air ; there is no I1011&); no rest. Th? ?? ?u ?<1 II1CI vacation comes to bnt a very small part of the world, after all. To poverty and cure there is 110 respite. Yes! Tomorrow U Sunday.? As its sun rises the3o streets will lie hushed. Through the long hours of the summer day, quiet will brood where for six days labor has surged without ^ause. And in every homo thete is rest. The poorest laborer is tree. The tools lie untouched. The tired limbs repose, the wearied brain iuay lio tallow. For this day husband aud wife, parents and children, are together. The affections, the gentle thoughts, the aspirations toward a higher life, that are almost crowded out by the stress of daily toil, come forth to brighten the heart. Unconsciously there flow in strength nnd courage through which the burden shall be taken up with good heart. And the si* lence ot the great city, the music of the great bells through tho calm, litly voice, the quiet of tho heart, the joy and peace, in which wo thank God for the Sabbath thut brings to all something of his rest.?Beecher. ? A Beautiful Extract " Generation after generation," 6ays a tine writer,44 have felt as wo feel now and their lives were as active as our own. They passed away like a vapor while Nature wore the same aspect of beauty as when her Creator coinmauded her to be. The heavens shall be as bright over our graves as they are now around our paths. The world will lmvn ?h?* on.?^ attractions for our offspring yet unborn that she once had for ourselves, and that she now has for our children. Yet a little while and all will have happened : Tlio throbbing heart will be stilled and we shall be at rest. Our funeral will wend its way, and the prayers will be said, and our friends will all return, and wo shall be left behind in silence and darkness for the worm. And it may bo for a short time we shall be spoken ot, but the things^of life will creep in and our natnes will soon be forgotten. Days will continue to move on, and laughter and song will bo heard in the room in which he bled; and the cjo that mourned for us will be dried and glistened with joy ; and even our children will ceaso to think of us, and will not remember to lisp our names. Then shall we have become, in the touching language of the psalmist, 4 forgotten and goes oat of mind.'" Railway Travel. Do not travel at night if you can avoid it. Take your breakfast always before starting on a journey. Obtain a seat near the isle and near the centre ot the car, and near the centre of the train. ? Never 6tand an instant on any car platform. Purchase nothing whatever to eat on a rail-train unless it is a simple sandwich to be eaten at noon. Keep your ticket under your hatband, or the inner lining. Avoid conversation while the cars are in motion, becauso the overstrain of the voice to make one heard above the noiso of 4ho wheels has been such that in many cases there has l>een such a tension of tlio vocal chords as to impair the voice for many months. All reading in rail-cars while in motion i? injurious ; bnt the injury will be greatly mitigated by rending only a quarter of an hour at a time, and for the next fivo minutes let the eyee be directed to very distant objects. Those alterations from things near to thoso remote is a very great relief and rest. Make no now ncquaintancca on a railway tia'u, especially of thoso who are diap sod to push their attentions oti you. Books.?It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable means of communication aro within the reach of nil.? In the best books great men talk to ns, give us their most precious I twtmrli ta Bnit *1. ? !- ' 1 1 ' KI.U I'WUl IllCir UiUU^lllH into .ours. Heaven be thanked fur books ! They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and mako ns heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.