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w It The Usury Laws. Tito pertinacity willi which the moneyed interest of the State is proving for tho ropeal of the usury taws should receive special attention from the people. For tho third time, we lielieve, in llireo successive years, a bill for this purpose has passed the Senate, and for the third time it has been rejected in the llouso of Representatives* Notwithstanding this decided and reiterated condemnation from tho body supposed to : t .I i t ? - i . rvpiusem mo wimiwt 01 me people, wu uoul'i not the measure will !?o ro galvanized next winter, before a new Legislature. We venture the opinion, without fear of contradiction, that if the people will investigate the matter, four-tilths of them will unite in its condemnation. Its operation will be oppressive to the merchant, the planter, the mechanic and the laborer. In brief, it can inure to the aJvantage of no other than that f class who have money to lo m. Hanks and shavers could join teams, and all borrowers would bo driven from the banks to shavers, who will have the funds of the hank in iurge measure to operate upon. To place this subject in a lair light before the reader, wo append the following extract froru message No. 2 of Liov. Wise, of Yir- { ginia, to the Legislature of that State. 1 ho mguments are full and irrefragable: Interest on money is a devouring element; 4tD(l these times will satisfy all tli.it we cannot vimturo to transgress the law of the expeiience of ages, that six percent, is as high an average rate as any people can afford to C !. 'im i ?* i ? |>?J iwr us use. 1 lie UU>'llc>i Ul legislation is to look to :iu?l conserve :i regular and j normal state of trade, ami not to minister to and indulge a spirit of speculation; and Above all, to restrict rather than increase the power of money. Money was created by legislation for the convenience of the people, and it should not be allowed to be |>erverted from its uses, as a medium and standard of value, to their oppression. Money is powerful enough already, and can make its profits independent of loans. A moneyed aristocracy is the most dangerous | enemy of this republic. No spiiit of inde : pcndenco can withstand the depression of j debt; and as long as man is man, "the hor- ! rower will be the slave of the lender." 1 : trust, llien, that no specious appearances or arguments will induce the general assembly of Viiginia to iucrea?o our legal rate of interest. And much more strongly do I urge, that they should not repeal or relax our usury laws. The hackneyed arguments of Jeremy Beulham to repeal usury laws, have been triumphantly refuted by all experience, .and ' by answers which are irrefragable. One of Lhesc answers I present, in the accompanying pamphlet on "Free trade in money, or nolo shaving, tho great cause of fraud, poverty, ruin," ?ke, by John Whipple, of Kliodo Island. The positions taken are, that "tho as sumptions that money is merchandise, and that money is inadu scarce on account of I the usury laws, are not only false positions, but tliey are pieposlcrous absurdities. Money exists only by legislation; merchandise is the product of individual labor or of piivale enterprise. Money is the legal standard by which value is measured; mer chandisc is that which is valued by 'ho aid of this standard. Money, as such has no intrinsic value; merchandise i> sought for only on account of it intrinsic value. Money is perpetual in its nature, and is designed for nil time; merchandise is temporary, and adapted to special wants, and made for wear or consumption. Momy is coneentra.live?centering in the keeping of the few; merchandise is diffusive, being requited and | consumed by the many. Momy is a legal I eeilificulo of value, and is transferable for what it represents; merchandise is the thing valued for what it is, or its uses. M money were merchandise as money, than a yard stick would he merchandise as a measure, ' and the cloth would measure the yaid stick as much as the yard stick the cloth. It ! money be merchandise, and a law is passed to make it so, then all merchandise should he made by law money, which would he a literal destruction of the iuvemion of money. Whatever commodity ho selected to seive | as money, is invested with a special power, j and it is the greatest power conferred by government. The proposition that because i a man possesses llio legal right to demand what he pleases for l.is land, his ineicliau dise and all other property, that therefore he ought to he authorized to ask and receive what lie pleases f .r his money; that because the free trade piiuciplo prevails beneficially in relation to all oilier subjects of property, therefore it would operate bene-; ficially in relation to money, is u proposi lion to confer upon all the privileges as to ] terms that belong to merchandise. A. ow ns hort.es, and houses, and money. By law he can let his horses and houses for the highest tonus he can obtain. Why should he not have the same power to gel as much ' as lie can for his nioiio} ! The substance of the answer w hich I should give to this merely popular ami plausible argument is this: ll this argument, which proceeds from the creditor side of the house, could he so modi- I fieri as to place money on a level, in all r<s , pect?% with merchandise, or other piopeily, j no rational man would object to the change. But they do not propose equality of June lion and p^jicrr. '1 hey do not mean to equalize the jmwers of money and meicliari dise. J lie creditor says, "I ought to have the privilege of using my money as merchandise, and to obtain iliu most I can for its ! use.' Very w ell. Bui if money is to have a// j the piivilegesof merchandise, then meic'.au- , di*o should have all the privileges ufuioiiey. j ji uirj ait: jku i?ii a level as to iiie imo i?I llio I creditor, they should lie put on. h level a* to' tlie uso of the debtor. Hut will titu credit or consent" that laud, or a bide of goods, ; shall be made a tender in payment of hi* j debt) Why not) If one is as tnucli an ' nrliJe of trade as tho oilier, they should lie treated alike in all respects. It was not the design of the law so lo treat lliein. The same law which gives to the creditor the power of infusing every thing but gold and silver in payment of his debt, ought to fix tho value of that gold and silver. 1 tut by this new theory the creditor is not only en 1 titled to refuse every thing but gold and silver, but lo be the jtidgo of its vnltio, or, in other woids, demand what ho pleases by , way of interest. To he consistent, the law thai confers greater privileges upon money 1 than upon merchandise,should also impose L upon it greater listraints. If they, tlieicfore, prop i~c to destroy this pie eminence r so far as tegaids lis uso by the dobtor. But what they do propose is to be extend the privileges of the creditor in fix- it ing tlio value of his money, but not to ex- eal lend the privileges of the debtor in the use of of his merchandise. If money is to be th treated as merchandise by the creditor, nier- do chandise should be treated as money by tl> tliu debtor. But to treat inonoy as tner- fin chandise?to give the creditor the power of ye asking what he pleases for its use?is a des th ecralion of its original and sole design. It ul was created by Government as a test of val- f?i ue, as a medium o( exchange. It sluudsus nit a bound tree is the forest. Neither adjoin- ur ing owner has a right to me it for any r<* other purpose. It derives all its value from sli government, ami government alone ought fir to fix its value. Money pays a debt at the di will of the debtor; but law recognises no j ro such power in merchandise. Money has a ca minimum and maximum power according or to law, otherwise it could not he a standard ar of value with any more consistency than tu government can authorize unlimited yard b< sticks, or unlimited bushels; but prices of cn merchandise tluctuate, and, in relation to | ?t; I lie legal standard, according to demand and th supply. Money is tliu instrument of ox- in change?of settlement among traders; mir- k< chandise is the stock in trade to be ex- b< changed. Money is authorized by law for w convenience, not profit; merchandise is pro- us duced bv t!ie labor of the people, and for cli projit. Money as merchandise ceases to vr l?e money: merch 'ndisc us money nowhere ?' exists except by legislation. Money exists lil 0111v as a relative agent for measuring the 1? value or otiikii tiiixus; mkkcii amuse is w prized lor what it is in itself. Money is an m agent to promote want; merchandise ei st'i'i'UKS want. Money saves labor; mer- in ciiandise sustains it. Money makes tlio til price; meiiciianhi.se pays it Money is m borrowed ami loaned; merchandise is in bought and sold. Whatever may be said it to the cotitiary, these fundamental distinclions ate universally acknowledged; for, su while pcop'o are content to iiokkow money J ar on special terms of security, all are earnest ! hi to eeli. meuciiakihsk on credit, and with- \ th out sucli security, Purchaser* of mkiiciixn- wl disk are politely and uigently solicited to fo buy; while borrowers of money are ceremo- dc nioudy permitted to make their proposi- ex tious. As all products designed for use, or- tx iiamenl, or cousumplioii are to be weighed, measured, tested, or valued, the govern- . meats of all nations prescribe by law the means; and hence we have weights, tneasI /I uic*, tests and money, so ordered that ^ air may understand their uses, and render j them available at the least possible expense. ' Such instruments, designed by government for the convenience of the people, requite ^ the protecting power of the most stringent c laws." "| Several of tho States and Territories have J tried the abolition of laws against usury, | and have been obliged to revert to the most j". stringent provisions against usury. The , arguineul in favor of laws against usury do not rest upon tho reasons either io prevent . usury, or to prevent prodigali.y, or to pro | tcct indigence against extortion, or to repress 1 the temerity ol speculators, or to protect simplicity against imposition, so much as upon other grounds. "Tho policy and expediency of usury laws ^ must depend mainly, if not entirely, upon 1 two questions: "l?t. Supp 'sing tho parties to stand on ( j j equal terms, and the bargains which they j make to be, in general, perfectly fair as be- efj tween themselves, is it, or is it not, for the j, interest of the public to allow money to be . counted as iiicrchaudbo, and bought and , lis sold at any price the parlies may chooso to stipulate! ^ "Jd. Do the parlies in general meet on u emial tuiliw. nnd nm ihn li:ir<Tulni in tl... 1 ' ? ? ?" ? ? V"5 ill alienee of usury laws, as lair as bargains i usually are in relation to merchandise? "The answers to these quOalious depend ' upon the distinctions; "1st. 1 hat money is the creation of go- 111 veinuicnt; merchandise of individual iudus- j. try. Its origin is, therefore, different. "2d. That the vbjtcl of government, in \ 1 e .i Hi creating money, was as a currency for the . convenience of all; whereas the object of the l 111 product of individual industry is theadvauInge of the individual alone. f OI "3d. That the title of an individual to ^ merchant!ifie is absolute hut that hi? title j 1 to a portion of the currency i^ t/tialijit I, he having no legal, at least no moral, r;gat to pervert the object of its creation. ' "4tl?. That money dithers from all iner- . t| chaudise in the power which is inseparable |r] from it. That this power was conferred up- j on it by government, and that it is the tight ami duty of the government to see that a \j power imparted lor the general good shall not be pet veiled to the injury of the public. ' 6th. That this power is the necessary il consetpieiicu of the character imposed upon ; t) it by goverment, money being the only in- et stiunieiit of exchange, an 1 therefore indis ! tl peiisablo to the business of all. j r< "Glli. That money being generally in tin- *>t bands of the few, the facilities for creating Vi an aitiiicial scarcity are much greater than d? .or dealing an Arlilici.il scarcity of mer- " chamlise." j 01 That the rate of interest is raised by treat u ii.g money as merchandise is proved, not *1 only by all exirerienco fairly stated, but es lS| pecially l>y the fact that thy usury laws do j not tiowr prohibit u-urers fioin taking less ! d< than legal rales, i hi the contrary, thy at- j iU ?ii i noil I of thy usurers is, that they are coil* stantly Irving t<> tise abovo the n, la-causy i ^ they must be paiil for llie risk. If with the sl risk they now rise above them, to what "J height won III they not lisy if there was no ll risk, anil nothing to repress them/ It is . notorious, that the note shavers now com- CL hi no to monopolize all (ho money to he loaned by huge holders; who will not thoin- i selves violate the law, in onlor that thoy may lix usury at the highest rate to tin- no- , 'a cossilous, who ate not so piinclual as them vv selves in paying debts. If such men were ?'r restrained by no laws, to hack thy moral in vv slinets of humanity and brothei houd among a' jnen, what would they ie>t demand of thu u> necessities of tho hound and burdened debt- 'IJ or classes in hard limes! It is utterly fulla- | W cious that a free trade in money lowers the : rate of interest. l''reo trade in money will w utterly destroy free trade in merchandise. I" Ify lowering and restraining thy ratu of in 1,1 teres I on money alone can regular trade Cil and business he protected. Tim desperate w speculator or spendthrift will pay a rate which tho honest, fair, regular dealer can- i lh not alforil. Tho preamble to the statute of Pr Antie, passed more than 1H0 years ago, at- er tests the truth of this tryri are in Kngland. l''' When the usurer* says, "$50 to-day is worth vo what ?100 was worth yesterday," the reply w' is, "then %3, the interest on $50 today, is P" worth what $0, tho interest on ?100, was m worth yesterday." When the usurer do 1? m?nd# then that his interestbliall be doubled, j lh cause the value of his principal is double* is plain that bis demand is that his inte L shall he quadrupled, whilst the wurl his priucipal is only doubled. If you sa at because tho value of the principal 'ailed, tho rate of interest shall be doublet en you would multiply his interest foui Id. For, if #3 to-day is worth only $ sterday, and you allow him to lake ?< o double of $3, 011 ?50 to-day, then ye low hiin the worth of ?12 yesterday, < ur limes ?3! And this proves the neco y f.?r some relative standard?some uiea 0 of money's worth, to which pricos mu late. The standard?whether it bo yai ick, bushel, or rale of iulere-t?remuii 111 and fixed, whilst tho price of tiufrchai se fluctuate*, ns it will mid must if tia< mains free. And thus, and thus unl ill relative worth bo ascertained. Tho sea ' standard is firm, and prices slide on. an e graduated by it. Hut if tho price erchatulise and the price of money a >lh allowed to fluctuate and slide at. tl price of bargainers, then there will be 1 andard, prices will bo confused, and rcl ro worth cannot bo ascertained. Vi ight as well permit the crowd of the ma rt house to alter tho weights or change tl sum of the balanco every hour, or at tl him of every bargainee, as to abolish tl ury laws. And to say that because me 1 and ire is known to riseabovo the level duo when demand is great and prices fa hI theieforo the price of money will be its manner equalized, is utterly falhiciou KCAU8K THE DEMAND FOK MONKV 18 A AYS COSTINITOI SLY, DISl'ltOI'OUTlONATKI. IKATEIl TIIAN T1IB DF.MANI) KOH A NY rill.\ .sk. When expansion inflates prices an finitely multiplies dealers, this in fui ukos a greater and greater demand fi oney. And again?when the buhhlo flation bursts, everything falls down i Aim DOM.Aits, and they are exceeding arco and ia great demand; thousands tlerers are groaning under pressure, ?leh e large ami numerous, heavy and hearin ird down on them, and in their ugot ey will pay any price for money. Tliu hether times bo high or low, the deman r money is out of all proportion to tl sinand for everything else, and allerna pansion and contraction do not kcjca k its worth. Again. If the lra<le in money is to belt ee. is it or is it not to be fret to all* A ir banks to be allowed to take any rate i tircst they can tjelt If not, why riot? ey are, will our people bear it? lliscom ly is a day of dread to debtors, at 0 p< nt.l \> lull would il l?e nt whatever r.t mid bo wot} If lho banks aro to bo lirn J, then the ptinciplo of froo trade is givt >; and the borrowers from banks beeoti ivilegcd class of debtors?all the rest \v ; driven to shavers unlimited in tiieir rait r, theio will be no banks, because of nit on their rates, and capitalists will en oy their funds outside of banking, and ;i ill be put at the mercy of unlimited iuoix ndors. England, with all Iter ancient o ;r of things, with the long standing nt ist amount of her debt consolidated at ted rale, controlling the limit of all invee outs, would not venture so to let loose tl ins to usurers and shavers and mom iangers. Her capital is so groat as to mal oney the rival and competitor of mono id yet her policy is marked by usury lav, .or object is now rather to raise than lot the rate of interest, and yet the piineip the statute of Anno is still her polic ulour policy is to lower and not i ? rai io rate of interest; to pay, not t<? e.?nso lie, public debt. Our capital i- not . real as not to find m >rc than tough, independent of public or p. un sut secui ilie*, for active and profit d-!< vestment. And cur republicani-un f ,U to capital such preponderance a- I <<1 roy its just equipoise with labor. !'.< .i<i? i Kuglutid there is not onlv a vast coiili i the government funds, but also in ti totiopuly an I the unity of the l?unk ngluiul, atiotlior lly wheel of coinmerc' id liscal machinery, a regulat ?r an 1 -di ig ..cale of interest, which we cannot li.r i our complex system of State and f<: !> i Dveinment. Tiie del?t and Hank of K < ,nd would naturally and necesvuilv, w it statutory limit*, control u-ury tn<?rr . dually than our laws can. We has : toll competition of capital as her ; wo ai o such accumulation of funded del ., i ich controlling bank nioiiopoH, aid i ich moneyed aiislocracv as that \\li tere would tlx the minimum an- in in mill rate of interest, without umi". law lid yet, Knghind holds to her lnw? again ?ury, whilst many would i- p d oiti loney may tlucluulo in value. Vic tliin buys may ho said to fix it-. \ .di<.- a- mm ? it lixes the value of tlio thing I'.ut io experience of ecutuiics ha- -v.-d 11, le use of money has an a ecru^ value Id rervtbing olio, an-1 iliHl avorage should I ic measure of its value. It > like <> > lure or nuytliing else; it ba-ils law. 11 aliile don't pretend to aflii an intrintlue; that is beyond legislation. Ihit L?es attempt to ascertain n'id tix a imiiu nation oi limits, i no axon. -u ot tins p-o 'too is not founded so much upon ll i (sou of protecting tlio *eik agnn-t t. roiijj, (is tljfm the saver-< in />ow< r of h lute to re'julale ? cumu.ij mot to fir awlurd for j oijuhj r< t i i us ictll n* oth< Ijts. A raio ot iutunM itlec'.s the stale <1 of value, and the li. i -g .1" tlio one is gicat extent the le.'ii ilion of llie ollic i'o have ma le gold and silver our on! andard of value, ail it- assay and c?u nj and stamp no li t l?y any means ail ary and factitious. It lots its law of all id of weight. Aid ifler being made ml (in, its loan or its use lias its l.4w of inte t. That interc's.' is limited l>v lime an iperiunce. J liot liave slmwii 11 it t ii tliei ; no limit, specilation will supplant icgi r business, an I tliat llie maximuin ra liicli regular business can bear is the a ago of ahout six per cent. Tli it to ?a? itli coinmereul lluetualions is io inlla id expand l'iO more when itifl uioti an mansion arutho evils of the times, and contract a* I crush the ni ne at the set ino when ire-sure is already bearing t. aw. Sacl a Iicoiiso to capital might su heie the 'ieli are rich, and the poor ai a?r iudeel; where tlio few have all ill onev, aid the many have nothing; hut nuol he home hy our people. < hir man ill not submit to anv such legalized di iuiou of money, which does not stand o e same fooling with any other species < operIv- Money is the very subject of sot eign'y, because it is its mature. It ei angs for every thing else, ll is tliatun r-aly and inordinately domatided; thr liion must be had, as the only lender i vninit of d< hts; and it is that whic aintnin&government it-elf. I; iscoinino vll other subjects of value in every wa it they are not common to each other c ], to it. It may Km] ought to bo, ibeo, the r- subject of legal regulation where other prop- ju li orty may not be and ought not to bo reguiy la'ed by law. And to allow parties to bar- w is gain for their own rates is to repeal the usui, ry laws, nud at (ho same time to throw uu obstruction in the way of business. I trust, 10 therefore, that ono good etTect of this raonoy 0< 0, crisis will be to I'MKVKtfT tiik kaisi.no or lu Ot'll llATBor 1NTKKK8T, Blld to i'KEVKNT TIIK P )T ukpk a t. ok ol'r usukt laws. 1 llhvo re- ' s frained to urge tiie moral considointions s- against their repeal, beeanse some of tiro 1> ^t best of men are involved in llie error of this si (I mistake, lint llio moral reasons against is repeal are incalculable. One of the most w n- immoral effects of the abolition of usury 0 le t laws would be to depress all the investy, | incuts in Slate securities alrealy made at l?* ! 5 and 0 per cent. Unlimited usury would it! ! raise the rate of interest so high that no one of would think of investing in bonds drawing ie only 5 and (5 per cent, intoiost. The invest-1 " ie ir.eiits already inndu would sink so low in 'j u> the market thai the faith of the State would , a- bo broken, as by a dishonorable repudia- c; ill tion itself. And no now hmiils nmili! l?o w r- j f>uM, except at u rate so high that 110 peote j pie conl.I bear the taxation necessary to 0 te 1 complete (he public woik* or to support ? ie public credit. ?>f A Widow's Perplexity, !'. A disturbance of a somewhat unusual character took place yesterday morning, at ? '* the dwelling ol Mr. Thomas Fothergiil, a. r( 1 line old gentleman of sixty five, who has been | v> | a widower for eighteen months. Mr. Fo | :G 1 therein, having become tired of his solitary | j condition, adveitised for a wife, staling, ac?: s' r" i cording to custom, the ijnalificatioiis which 1 ! applicants for the situation wcio required '' | to possess. '1 lie iidvrrli-etncnt could not i ? j have been more tlian an hour before the 'y J public, when a bri>k widow, Mrs. Kaclud it Morrison by name, ought have been seen I h i ascending the steps of Mr. Folhergill's red- j deuce, in Kight.li street. This lady, rcmetn t] '} boring the pioverb that 'theoarly bird catch <j '*? I cs the worm,' presented herself lor the ad w ; vertiscr's inspection almost as soor. m there ,e was daylight enough to answer the purpose; and, to reward her business like alacrity, she proved to bo the lit at Competitor for the j pri/.o. ^ I Mr. Fotlicrgill. being a man of merc.anr tile habits, i-. very prompt at making a ba?gain, and, more ?vcr, is not very hard to ' jj please. Hating examined Mrs. Morrison's j v |(j j credential", ho seemed to decido that she i would suit liim exactly, and the whole af 0 t< fair was about o bo concluded, to the -at \ ''l j isfaclion of all p.utie", when a hard pull at " t| the door-bell mnouneed another arrital. j Almost imr.cdintely, a s cond lady en r HI tered the roon and glanced around appre- h hensively, as if afraid that elm had come too ( t. n j late. She w*s a thin, elderly female, w hose , name afterwards proved to be Mis- N'oarna 0 j. 1'rico. 'Ar? you the gentleman whoadver- ? }V 1 lised for a wife?' said Miss I bice, as soon as c * ' she entciod. Heforo Mr. Fothergiil could , id ; reply, Mo. Morrison nn?wrered for him. ( I 'Ves, tiiadim, he advertised; but 1 reckon (j ^ | he's supplied.' 'I spoke to the gentleman , ^ himself, madam,' answered Mis* I'rice, ! . | sharply,'and 1 suppose he knows his own j *, mind.' 'lie ma le a declaration ?>f hi* in- u v tention."before you catne.' said Mr*. Morri' ' j nan. 'I think you must have in *iinder?tond 0 him, rr 1 bun: por-ons at your time <>f life 1 I < are a p. t hear imperfectly,' answered Mi? -a 1'iice. 'Vou appear to bo very anxious to . r< ohr.nre your condition, madam,' said Mr.-, b S,f? ' * * * ' 1, M>>rr on. 'ton necm to be umrli in want it- . ot a litlsban I. 1 said Mi?. l'riro. 'I net- t] i( or i ' in 1 i'. diiii -iilt I > ?j?*t one,' cxclt'fned t. ' Mr . Morrison; 'and i \\ i -1? you t? know I, tl?. i have had /to already.' *t *ii!* ?.-(i?* I , 1 Nf?- ? Price, 'I vn your husband* wore much S| t-> liO pitied, ill: 1 1 don't w o.der thai lho:r I (j j i:vo< were of short duration.' i p While this ..lioroat ion was going on bo . ; tweet) the ladies. Mr. pother gill looked and j ( j- listened with extreme eniharra?rur-nt. I'os sibly lie could have been happy v\ itIt either, 'were tlio other dear charmer awav,' an 1 ho seemed totally unable l > decide which ile, I served Ills preference. The Contest bet ween :i the rival can lidatcs was cairied on with in- ,! creasing hitlernevs, until the hand < f Mi-s " 1'iice, while performing an etiergleic gesture, happened t> touch the somewhat pro- a ( tnberaiit Im-o of Mr.- M >riison. What c pillowed wo would gladly -upnress, hut. for h to * . | the .-ake i t inak lig an accuiatu report, it iI iituvs^irj to >.iv llinl ll??? liotinWs of IhHii u ladies w eiedemolislie I. and their face-rather , p , badly scratched. Mrs. Moiri>on male a . charge of a? mil and battery agaiii-t Miss ) [, Price. lit at the acetic we have described, i made some itnpie?ion on the mind of Mr. Kolhergill m iv he judged lioin the circuit! ,, i stance, tiiat when giving in bis evidence at j , the M.mil's otliee, lie -ignitii I hi- deleimi- (j nation to remain single ?r at l?-i-t six til >nliis longer.? /'/o/ r htnb.iit J'ns.i. , ? ? ' ? No .i; Sr.\ vn Ai.onk.? It is in the provi- " " deinc of <; >,] thai none stand alone; wo " touch each other; mail act- on man; heart ' on In-ot; we aie liouiid up with each other; hand is j.mied in hand; wheels ?et win !- * in in i.i ui; we arc spiiitualiv linked logetli i'' ... .i ~ i - i - * ?, .Kin *?un .kiii, ? iimoi inr .ikiiij iiki 11 <li?* a'.one: wo cannot mv, I will only tun h iUki wi.li niv nvvii soul; 1 am prepaied to disobey lite Lord I ?r -in It a pleasure <?r ?u Ii ? | a if.tin, Inil i do n<>i want t" implicate other-; ( 1 tinlv want I ' lie ait".wri? ! f..| m\seif. Int> ( cannot !?*>. Lull living soul It.- its infln [, cnce on ethers in some way ami to mnne extent, coiiM'inti'.ly or unconsciously; each has some power, in no or )< >> direct or in- ; j( diieot; one mind colors another; a child acts on children, ReiViiuls on their fellow scr- J vanl?; nia-tefs on thoso they employ; ji i rents on their cliildien; fii-mlt on friends,; , Kven when we do not design to intluence otheis, when we are not thinking, in the 1 least degree, of the ell eel* i it what w*e tjo, when we am unconscious th it we have any ' inline, oe at all, when wo do ri >t wish our c >nducl or way of life to ailed ?n\ hut our ' selves, our in inner of life, our cmiveisatiou, h our deeds, are all the while having weight ti soiucwhcre or somehow: our feel leave their si impiessi hi, though wo may not look behind us to see the inaik. I, As a clorg) m III was Innying a corpse, a _ woman came and pulled hull bv die sleeve in the middle of the net vice. "Sir, sir, I a must speak to you immediately." "Well, then, what is the matter?" "Why,sir, you j are going to luiiy a man who died of the ' , small pox near niv poor husband, who never 1 had ii." ' 1 First Citizen.?1 'id yon make tour da (r posits in the Farmer*'mid I'itiz lis' l'aiik? SeronJ Citizen.?Voy but I had the good " i fortimo to draw out nil my halance the day 01 before the failuio of that institution, mid s deposited it the same liighl in the l aio. in | li.lllk. ! g' A wag aay* that a Mis* it, now-a-days I circumference, "as good a* a mile." Good morning, Jones. How doe* the orld use you}" "It uses tne up, tbaui ou." Wliy is coffee like an axe with a dull Jge? Because it requires to bo ground. Dr. Fran Klin says: "If a man empties hii urse into his head, uo ouocau take it from iin." Long words, like long dresses, frequent r hide something wrong about tho under audiiig. When has a man a right to scold hit ifo about his coffee! When he hasplciilj f grounds. What is the difference between a wnniat nd a mad dog} One wears hoops and tin ihcr pants. Jones says of an ancient unmarried fe tale, that she was fearfully and wonderful ; maid. . Why have chickens no future stale? Be au-e they have their necks twilled (nex 'orld) in this. What animal has the greatest quantity f brain1? The hog, of course, for he has; hogshead full." Relatives are not necessarily our bc? ieud-; bill they cannot do us injury with lit being enemies to themselves. On a young child being told that hi inst by broken of a had habit, ho nccurateb jplied: "Papa, hud'nt I better ho mended f Blessed is he that blows his owti horn >r whoever bloweth not his own horn, tin sine Jiall not be biowed. Our "devil," says a country paper, want j know how many "?heets" there are in i token" of love. A tailor who, in skating, fell through th :e, declared that he would never agaii save a hot goose for a cold duck. Some r>no says of a certain congregation liat they pray on their knees on Sun ays, and on their neighbors tho rest of th reek. An old bachelor left a boarding-house, ii rhit'll were a number of old maids, on ac mint of llio "miserable (air" set belore bin t table. "You'vo misrepresented mo," said a mem er of Parliament to a reenter. "You mis ( presented your constituents still more, ras the reply. The happiest man in tho world is th no with ju-i enough to keep hiru in spirits ti'i just children enough to in ike him in u?trjous. Sotn" say tliat low necked dresses hftv cached their ht > //.(. That fellow runs ave heeti standing ,>ti his liend when h< _>ok the observation. A persou looking at some skeletons tin ther day, asked a young doctor pre?en here he out them, lie replied, "We tais d them." The many are wiser than the few; tin in 1 titutie than the philosoplior; the rnc< i.an tho individual; and each succcedinj ge than its predecessor. Lilies are liko watches?pretty enougl i look at?sweet faces and delicate hnt'd* ut somewhat diflieuU to "regulate," whet nee set "agoing." A man came into a printing office to hot p iper. "Because," said ho, "wo liko ti in 1 newspopeis very much, hut our neigh crs are all too stingy to take one." Swift h?*iil tho doctrine, that there wen tree place where a man shoo4.1 l>? ? speak vv. i-uil contradiction, viz: "Tin cr cli, the [' t'l'it, ami the gallows." Men :iio hc.piently liko tea?ilio rea Irongth and goodness aro not properb r/.tfii out, until they have l>euu a shot me in but water. Let a woman once think v<>u unconquera le, nti'l unless she .-> unlike all other wo un, slio will still exert all her energy U onquer you. What is the difference between Xoali' rk ami a down Last coaster? (hie wa lade of gophnr wood, and tho other wa lade to go for wood. "Why did Adatn hile the apple?" n<-kei schoolmaster of one of h:s pnprls. "Ho msc lie had no knife to cut it," replied tin opeful biblical student. It may seem strange, but it is a fact, tha >en generally are more afiaid of wotnoi hail women aro of men; ami tearing l< break the ice" is a frightful Causo of oh acheloi ism. A gentleman passing the churchyard, i w days since, observing tho sexton dig ing a gia?o, addressed him with?"Well w goes trade in your line, ftiendi" "Yen i-ad, sir," was tlio reply. I'unch thinks that those who aro so ten or as to seek "to blend mercy with justice, n the ? .so I Sepoys, might be willing t< ave Nona Sahib punished?under the in uoiiee of chloroform. \n iuieterate punster asks if tho new in trumeni <>f toituro u>ed by the King o ni|i!e-, and calh i the Silence t'rp? beiiij r.id of iron and steel materials?is lio ard ift nr. Mr. H.tker showed ns an egg yesterday >hil li was seven inches in eiieiiiufeienee 'm an v body heat this? ? Syracuse Ga-ftlt Vr: duly; loeal; the egg into a bowl, am 'eat it with a spoon, I lie host bank ever vet known is n banl f earth ? n never refuses to discount t< onest labor. And the best shaie is th low share?on which dividends are alvvav iberal! I hat's so, 'lhav, Mr. l'rofessor, what is a paren li< si?:" "Mad on, it is simply a circa 111 hi j? x j vn: \m "i.uHiaai >rn ll IV, (ilCIIIll cubing an atom of ideality, h>-t in a verba rotundity.'' Thank you, sir." tjuaini old Fuller says: "Let hi in win xpeels one cIuns of society tt> prosper in tii ighesl degree, while the other is in dis !? >-, try wlieiner one m lo of hi* faco cat mile while the other is pinched." A young physician, descanting upon th< veliiiess of a female, perorated with \N on|<in't hlio make a magnificent subjec how 1 would like lo dissect her!" That* hat you might call professional cntliusi Sill. To ho always intending to live a now fe, hut never to find time to get about it > as if a man should put off eating am unking, and sleeping, from one day ant iglit to another, till lie i? starved and dos oved. "t 'aptain, what's the faro to St. Louiaf1 What part of the hoat do you wish to gr n?cabin or dock}" "Hang your cabin,' nd the gentleman from Indiana, "I Iiv? i a cabin at home; give um thobeal you've ot." % An Oath ot The following ha* 1?wd tba Pood ah Observer: "Byfrom vj 1 brigadier Havel^^^H^it appears that \ ' on the arrival ol^^Haelacbmeat of ffith liigblnndera at tuf^lace of skulla, Cawn* I pore, after tbe massacre of oui countrymen, women and children, they by some means t? i or other found the remains of one of Geoi eral Wheeler's daughters. The sight was horrible, and aroused them to that pilch, . that, gathering around, they removed the 111 hair from the poor girl's bead, a portion of which was cnrcfully selected and sent homo to her surviving friends. The remainder w ' they equally divided amongst themselves; and on each man receiving his carefully p< served out portion, they all quietly and * 1 very patiently applied themselves to the toJ dious task of counting out the number of | hairs contained in each individual's lot; and ^3 !*vhen his task was accomplished, they oue ?-t and all swore most solemnly by lleaven and the God that made them, that fur as 3] | many hairs as they held in their lingers, so ^ many of the cruel and treacherous mutii noers should die by their hands! an oath j that they will, no doubt, most religiously , i keeP'' SI | Iitiaii Phovehds.?Every goose thinks t his wife a duck. No news in a newspaper i.Mj't good news. Manners make the gentleman, and the want of them drives him elsewhere* for his pi , shooting. > A miss is as good as a mile of old wo- R men. ' Two many cooks spoil the broth of a boy. It is a good head of hair that has uo turn??* L s It's foolish to spoil one's dinner for a D 14 ha'porlh of tarts, _ '1 here arc as line bulls in Ireland ns ever 1e came out of it. t a Necessity has no law, but an uncommon ^ j number of lawyers. J it I 1 letter to lo.?k like a great fool, than to . be the great fool you look. 0 I A soft answer may turn away wrath, but 111 a cnancery sun, a soil answer is only likely to turn the scales Against you. g( One fortune is remarkably good until { you have bad another one told you. D Don't hallo, until you have got your head safe out of the wood, particularly U Donuy- O '* brook Fair. q " Mna. Partington at ihk Pai.let.? l "When i? the bally troop ccntiug on?" said p Mrs. Partington, after watching the dancers , at the Huston ahout half an hour. "That * i-> the ballet troupe," said Augustus, with a 3J smile, pointing at the t?eautifiil sylphs that f were fluttering 'die butterflies about the O t stage. She looked at him incredulously loi a little while, and said, "Well, 1 believe in cnlling things by their true nam???, and ? what they call them a troop fcr I don't p see. I thought it was a troop of horse, such 1 ] a* they used to liave in Dean vi Me." She ? | levelled her new opera glass, gben her by V Mr. Ihgeiuw, at the stage, and looked long "p e and earnestly. "Well," said she, "if there " ever was anybody that needed sympathy, jjJ f it's them; worn their dresses away up to tlieii knees bv dancing, poor creature! and qI i by and by, at this rate, thev won't have no , thing to wear." The following is a disoription of the new* r Coat of Arms of tbp State of Alabama, * reported l?v the Joint Committee of the Houses on State Sea!; ,|or9 "The Genius of the Confederacy, standing. holds the National banner; with her 1" p tight hand she lakes the left of the Genius ' of Alabama?represented by a virgin sent j.* ed on a cotton bale?who, while she give* K her hand to the Union, points with Iter J< I other to the *tar of Alabama till the fd tg ^ i with the motto; ''Younger, f?it tJijtfal." l On the loft of these figures a ship in full m I Mil, indicative of the importance of coin ~ . ! uierce and direct trade v\ itli our owu sea- * ports,*' W OK A good story ia told <>f Michigtn farmer T who recently went down into Indiana to ,, s hoy a drove of horses, lie was longer alt- r* s sent than ho intended to he, and he failed ^ " to meet a business engagement. On being -jrather reproached for not being at homo, he oout 1 tna.le dnc apology. 4,1 tell you how it ia, <>ur s.jiiire; at every little darned town they 1,1 i wanted nie to stop and l?e president of a v bank. . , inrr A pedagogue relates a laughable story of one of his seholi.aa, a sou of the Ktnerald Diu Isle. He told him to spell hosiil ty. can " 11-o r?s-e horse," commenced l'at. "Mo' M'|:! horn liiity," said the teacher, "hut hostility." "J',1, 1 "Sure," replied pat, "an' didn't ye tell me p " . the other day not to say hot- Po jabbers, I) it's iron tiling with ye one day, and alio- h?v< F i tlier the licit." mcj' "You are from the country, are you not, beet * ; siri" asked a city clerk of a Quaker who *?< < had just arrived. "Yes." "Well, here is lt " 3 an essay on the rearing of calves." "That," said Aminadah, as he turned to go, "theo y had better present to thy mother." W# "<??orge, you ate looking very smiling. ^ What has happened!" "The most delight? ful tiling. I caught my Jenny by eurpiiso ,t r I ' tliis morning, in her w rapper, and without! trhi ; h"o.i, and I gut the tiist kiss I've had , sinco whalebone skirts came into fashion." .. rat "We have all of us," says Pierce Pungent, /ry, "laughed at the Irishman, w ho commenced ' arguing with Ids opponent by kru>ckitig *!v him down, averting tliat it was the best ' j s wav of putting him in a tit stale to listen to |j. i> reason. j hen l> . "W hy, Charley," said a Yankee to a no- ; s gro preacher, "you can't even tell who made tj,M. the monkey"<>h, yes, lean, inassa." ven - "Well, who made the monkey!" "Why, and >- 1 in tssa, the same one made the monkey that . ,s I ft CUM made you: .j,e II ,. \ .. ? ? -* ST I .ah inarming speciacie, sav* ine .\ew |rrn \ oik Times, "? Co see a sturdy fellow, with "'v' 0 , n cigar in his moulli which ct?*t as much as e a loaf of bread, following a baud of music, I and carrying a banner wilh the inscription: ; 1 "Bread or \vo?k.' " j ? ' The question has been asked, why it is s considered impolite for gentlemen logo in, to tiie presence of ladies hi their shirt sleeves, I y I whilst it is considered in every way correct i s for ladies ihcmselrfs to appear before gen llenien without any sleeves at alll ' t.nl It is the height of folly for a half dozen s r brothers, four uncles, and a gray headed fa- who , tlier, Crying lo stop a young girl from got- ,mu I ting married Co the man she loves, and who 1 loves her?just as if rope-ladders were out ^ - of dale, and all the boraee in the world spav- y i ined. K A young gentleman, the other day, a?k* * ? ed of a young lady what she thought of the ' married state in general! "Not knowng, 1 ^ s cannot tell," was the reply; "but if you and *? > I would put our heads together, I could j soon give you a definite answer." "sts5t5st" 1 *CKLEBEATEB ERMIFtTO^E LIVERNLL8. _____ - <* ; 1 oofthc U(t Prepwr?l?? tf MM Ag>t i . They are not recom- | ended as Universal ] ure-alls, but simply for ] hat their name pursrts. the^ vermifuge, for spelling Worms from 1 le human system, has j Iso been administered rith the most satisfactory isults to various animals ibject to Worms. The liver pills, for ic cure of liver comlaint, all bilious deangements, slck Headche, &c. Purchasers will please e particular to ask for )r. C. McLane's Cele rated Vermifuge and jver Pills, prepared by eFlcmvvixj * j dle proprietors, Pittsurgh, Pa., and take no ther, as there are various ther preparations now efore the public, purorting to be Vermifuge nd Liver Pills. All thers, in comparison dth Dr. McLane'o, arc ^ worthless. The genuine McLane's rcrmifuge and Liver ills can now be had at 11 respectable Drug tores. FLEMING- BRO S, 60 Wood St., Pittsburgh, Pa. Hole Proprietors* COVII. & MRA 1>, Ni* Orh.iu*, G< i.? i I iterate A gent* for the South, to ?lum nil ermust be inlJroM d. SOI.D BY ISIIHU Jfc II El MTiSlt. bpnrtaiiLmg.Bo. Ca. 'KAN A- GOODGIOX, 44 14 " TOJ.I.EsoN, 44 44 KRUTC11, Greenville, " 44 KENAN NOKKIS, l-nionvfUe, 44 41 I.MIN II. HENRY. l.ioK nrville, 44 44 >\ V. Pit NTT A CO., Xi wberry, 44 44 V I'.AHNKTT A CO.. Yorkville, H. C. W. HARRIS &; CO., Rmlieifordtoti, N. C. [ lj II If logcrs' Livorworth & Tar 1 UK CUJII'U.I K CCRK OF COCOIIS, COI DS, N Kl.t'KNf. A, A6TMNA, 1IKONCH ITIS, BPIT * I NO OF BLOOD, A A I J. Oil I Kit LC>'Q COMLAINTS TKND1NO TO CONSl MVTION. i "i i 'i S S ^ ?i bin preparation is ? tt'uig into use nil over <>u try. The numerous Kit era we receive Irom various fluents, mf ruling u? of cans effected lieir itiiiiiedirte neighborhoods, wuritint us in ^ raff it i.s one nl tlie best, il Lot the tery best, 4h Medicine now before tlie public. Ji aimas \riubly tehee fa.and not unfrequently rvrss the r icorst case*. When all other Cough prepnrns have failed, this lias relieved the patient, as quisle, dealers in Medicates, and Physicians, testily. Ask the Agent in jour nearest tow n, t has been Ins experience ot the effect sot this icino. I' he has been selling it for nny length tne he will tell von r IS THE 11K?T. MEDICINE EYTANT. lelow we give n few extracts from letters wo * received lately regarding the virtues of this icine. >r. S. S. Odin, of Knoxi ille.fln . says: I hats i train g your /.tccrteui / and Tar tery extenly in my practice jar three years past, and. i trtl/i pleasure I state my belief in its stirs. nil w?r.? A 1.1. OTHER ARTICJ.I." With which X acquainted, far which it is recommended," Us.?r*. Piuai raid ?Sc litiincTji. writing from vnesvillu, N. t.'. say; "The Lirer wort and tit becoming daily more popular in thisCounand v* k think ji ?i i.v so. All who hnxe tried tieak in commendable terms of it, and ray it rrtj beneficial in alleviating the complaintsfar rh it is re com mended " l.vo* Fitzgerald & Ilenncrs, writing from yntsville, N. P., i?ay: 7 he Liverwort and is becornintr daily more popular tn this Co nn%M> HI THINK JI ITLY no. All Wko hats d it speak in commendable terms of it, and it is rrrf beneficial in alienating lit r?n? hits for which it is recommended.'' tor A .' lit in 1'tokens ltisirio, 8. C., Mr. S. McFall, ti.-vursN us "tli.it be uses it with great efit in liitowo family, nn?l recommend* it lc> his jbbors." He givi * an instance ofa Nrgw wo- ^ i, in li - vicinity, who had been fwftrrytff with use of iht- Lungs for years, attended with set p cough, who was relieved by the Lirtrwor Tar. t?ch are the good reports wo hear of this Midi from nil parts of the Sooth. For a report of surprising cures it has perforated in the Westniid Northern and Knsters States, wc would to the suffi ring patient to rend the pamphlet eh accompanies each bottle. To nil we ??y, e hope, bare hope-' TRY THE MEDICINE!! i: w a if \ i: i> i x * k a sox. ware of Counterfeits and Base Imitations : he gonnine nrticle ? trigntd Andkfw Koarn J ~ > v,,h,?,,,, <11npprr n roe no cacii bottle, rice $1 per bottle, or six bottles lor $5. Sold IcKtlcaitil retail by SCON II. & MKAD. i I Charters St., bet. ContinndSt. 1a>u'is,N. 0. olk Amnts ron Titr Soitiikrn States, to m nil orders and applications for Agencies I be addressed. SOLD A LSO RY IS! IKR A 11 KIN ITSII. Spartanburg, So. Co. KAN A GttOlKlloN, t'. II. WATSON, Greenville " ;. KRUTCH, *! KNNON A NOUHIS. IV.nmillc, " ? II. IIK.NRN , Ijom<I>>\it.? M 1 . L. IIAUIUS, ?v CO., Rmbcrfordton N.C , , ,pril 24 9 f?nt Job Pri? tinii PROMPTLY KXlvOUTKD. v