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"We win cling to the Pillar of the Temple of our Liberlies, amd if it mas fall, we will Perisb asmidat the Buins. VOLUME V t . 184. IEDGEFI]ELD ADVER11TISER, BY W. F. DURISOE, PROPRIETOR. TERM S. Three Dollars per annum, if paid in wcdpazce-Three Dollars an1d Filly Cents ifrnot paid before tho expiration of Six Months fromn the date of Subscription and Four Dollars if not paid within twelve Months. Subscribers out of the State are required to pay in advance. No subscription received for less than ,one year, and no paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid. except at the op tion of the Publisher. All subscriptiont will be continued un less otherwise ordered before the expira tion of the year. Any person procuring five Subscribers and becoinng responihite for the same, shall receive the sixth copy gratis. Advertisentents conspicuously insert ed at 62J cents per square, (12 lines, or less,) for the first insertion, and 43 cts. for each continuance. Those published monthly. or quarterly will be charged $1 per squn are for each insertion. Advertisements not having the number of insertions- marked on them, will be continued until ordered out, and charged accorliugly All communications addressed to the Editor, post paid, will be promptly and strictly attended to. Fall and Winter Goods. T HE Subscribers are now teceivinug fron New Yotk, Philadelphia and Baltimore, a large and well selected assortment of DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES, Cosis-rNo 1N FART OF Mackinaw Whitney and Diille Blankets. Children's Rose Blankets. Negro Blankets. Plains and Kerseys, for Negroes. Plaid Linseys. Plida and Figured Red Lindseys. Super Blue and Black Cloths. Low Price do Steel %fixed do Lion Skin, Mohair and Pilot do for over Coats. Blue, Black and Fancy Cassimeres. Blue and Black Casinets. Steel Mixed and Cadet Grey do. Woolen and Silk Velvet Vestimgs. Silk Satin, and Valentine do. Kantucky Jeans. F0romi 50 cti. to $150 per yd. Red and White Flannels, Green atid Yellow do Double and single width Merinos. Mouselaine de'Laine. very tine. Mouselaine de Laine, at 614 cents, Plain and Satin striped Shal;eyi. A variety of English and American Prints. Second Mouir ing do do do Embroidertd Merino Shawls. Changeable Damask Silk, a splettdid article. Highland and Blanket Shawls. The Alpine Shawls-a new article. Datmask Table Covers. Irish Linen and Long Lawns. Fancy plaid Shawls. Hemmed. Stitched and Embroidered land. kerchiefs. Swiss. Book and Mull Musli.s. Jaconet and Cambrick do Ladies Worked Collars. Black Lace Veils. Black and White Grecian Bohinet. Black Italian and Gro de nap Silk. Do Mationy do do Sinshew and Sarsinets, Figured Colored Silks for Dresses. " Black Satin dsi CIo Brown and Bleached Hlomespun. do do Drilling, Gloves and Hosiery. A.so, A variety of Gentlene and Ladies' Shoes. do do Boys' and Misses do Ladies' fine Kid Slippers. Misses' do do Negro Shoes. Leghorn and Straw Bonnets, Misses FEnglish Straw do Ribbons and Artificials. Orie Bale o a~ husL and Misses W ORK A.4 SK ETS. ALqo, *Saddles Br-idles aind Martingals. Wagon and Driver's Whips, . Twig Whip's, &c, Sperm and Tallow Candles, Soap and Lamp Oil. &c. Sic ALso, AN AssoRTMENT OF IIARDI'ARE AND CROCEERY WARE, ALso, Bagging. Bale Rope and Twine. All of which they will sell low for CASII1. or on tune, o punctual ctustomers. They respec folly invite their friends and etstntmers,.and the puablic generally to call and examine thiger Stock and Prices. Comue' and see, we wil charge you nothing for looking. BLAND & BUTLER. Sept 14, 1840 tf 33 NEW GOODS. HN VE Subscribers have just received from R New York. a generui assortmeunt of FALL AND IWINTER GOODS. in their line of Butsitness, cotnsisting in, part of Blue. Black, Wool-dye Black, Invrisible Green. and Olive Greetn, Cloths, Wool-dve Black, Intvisile Greent, anid Dia mo' Beaver Cloths. Cadet. Blue MixedI, and Steel Mixed Clth~s. Plain Blue, Black, Wool-dye Black, and a fine assortmnt ol Fancy Cassimeres. Woollen Velvets. Valeuria Plaini and Figured Satin attd English Silk Vestinsgs. - Jats, Utmtrellas, Cuttars Boromsu, Stocks, Cravats, Scarfs. Gloves antd Sttspenders. Ready mad~e Coats'. Frock Coats. Over Coats. Pantaloons, Vest. Shirt,' Merino und Cott'n Wrappers and Drawers, andl many others ar ticles in their line of Businiess, which they will have mtade tiy at short Notice. and in the most folton~l~til, BRYAN & MINOR, .MDrrchsant Tailors. cfdrenlold C, H. Oct (rh J94 tr 'In New Fall and Winter Goo T HE Subscriber takes great pleasure In announcing to his friends and the public generally, that he is now receiving and open ing his 'ALL STOCK OF GOODS, which in a few days will be complete, consisting in part as lollows% 3Z pieces siper fancy English Prints and Chintz, Mourning and 2d Mourning do 40 to 50 pieces American fancy do from 9 to 25 cts per yard, Kentucky Jeans, from 6124 to $1 00 per yd. do do Super invisible green, new style, Super'Blaek Bombazines, " Fancy Challeys, (handsome patterns,) " 2d Mourning and Black do " Black Italian Lntestring Silk, 4 Y Grit de Swis% do " Col'd, Fig'd, Plain and Plaid do " Scotch Giighais. (wide) " 5-4 Victoria Shawls, (rich bordered,) " Adelaide, do (Satin do ) " Fancy Silk and Satin do 4 M. Delane do Ladies' Plain and Ilemusticlied Linen Cam bric Handkerchiefs, Red and White Flannels from 37I ets. to $1 per yard, Thread, Edgins, Insertings, and Swiss Mus lin Trimmings, Cassimueres and Satinets, (various qualities,) Stilper do do (new style.) Swiss, Jaconet, Mull and Checked Muslins, Irish Linens, Long Lawns, and Linen Sheetings, M. Delane, for Ladies' Dresses, ragliona Scarfs, Ladies' super Kid, Silk, and Doe-skin Gloves, Mens' Buick, Thibet wool. and Hoskin do Brown and Bleached Shiritngsi & Sheetings, Bird eye, Table and Towel Diapers, Black, Satin silk. and Worsted Vestings, Blue. Black and Brown Broad Cloths, Invisible Green and Cadet mixed do Black Italian Cravats, and Silk Pocket Hand. kerchiefs, Bed Ticking, Russia Diapers and Napkins, Super Bonnet itiad Taffita Itibtbons, Ladies' and Misses' English Straw Bonnets, (new style,) do do Hoods, " Black and White Silk Hose and half Ilose, " Black, Slate colored, and White Cot. ton Hose, Black Worsted and Merino do Also. fine# Whitney and Duffle Blankets, Also 8-4 and 9-4 Negro do Also a good assortmnent of Negro Shoes, Mens' tie Calf Boots, and Ladies' Kid Slip per. Also a general assortment of Ladies'. Mens', and Boys' Shoes, Striped Kerseys, and Washington Jeans, Plaid Lindsevs, for house servants. Kerseys &c.for Negroes from 25to 374 cts. per yard, Also. a good assortment Mens' and Boys' Hats and Calls, Also. Crockery. lardware, fine Cutlery.& e. Men's Clothing of all des;cri ptions made tip to order at shortest notice. viti many other ar ticles too tedious 1o enumerate. all ,f which will he sold as low as the market cai afford. I fl:tter myselfwith the hope of being able to give good satisfaction to my customers and the publi generally. who may favor moe with a call. Goods will o sold low to punciml cnstomers and for Cash. Feeling thankful for the- liberal patronage heretofore bestowed on the old firm, I hope bv strict attention to business, to merit a continuance of the sane. E. B. PRESLFY. Edgefild C. H. Oct.1, 1840 d 36 DISSOLUTION. H E lirim heretofore existing under the nilame of Nicnot-sos & PREst.Ey. is this day dissolved bv mimutual consent. All perEons indebtel to its uIl to the 1st January, 18640. are requested to come forward and settle their notes and accounts. They will be found at their old stad in the hands of E. B. Presley, who is duly authorised to settle the business ofthecou cernt. J. 0. NICHOLSON, E. B PRESLEY. Edgefield C. 11. Oct 1, 1840 tf. 36 Tan-ard & Shoe Shop opened. tN the Edgircild Road ncear Mt Vintage, where good Cowv Hides will be bongdat, or tamued on shares-owne halmf for the otlher and line Shoes, Bois. and Negro Shioeswillhe made on as good terms, and ol materials infe riir to notne in the State. Waggon Harness made, and Carriage Har ness repaired. Any articles muade wvall be ex chaged for good Cow Hides. From aplica tion to business, and the best of Leather, the subscriber hopes the puablic i general wvill p a tionize his newv effoirt to recommnodate this District, and will call atid see his wvork and judge for themselves. MIChAEL GEARTY, Near Mt. Vintage, S. C. Ma ch 23. 1840 d 8 Bag~ing, Rope, &c. 30O Pi ce's 43 and 44 inch Btaggintg, 3 1010 Coits Kentucky 4 aned ft Itope, 500 Ibs. Weaver's best 3 strand Bagging TFwina. 1.000 pails Negro Shoes, 500i -' Men's and Boy's Kip and Leather Brigants, 200 " WVomen's and Misses' Bootecs atid Shoes. 100 Casks Pritne Rock LIME, 10,000 lbs. assorted BACON, -AL~so 50 Bags OhI White COFFEE, Recently received amid for sale by SIBLEY & CRAPON. The Pendleton Messenger will plense insert the above four times and forward theiracconnts o S. &C. Habrg, Aug 29. 1840 d 31 1NOTICE. I IWOULD respectfually inhjirm my friends and the pubi generally that I have puir hased my brother's intere-si in ihe Phenix Stone Waure Miunitfqotory. conasisting of Ne. groes, Mules, Wagons, Harness and stock of~ ware, &c. &c., for the purpose of manutfactu ring Stone Ware in all its various branches and hope by promnpt alletntion to business to sear a reasonable patronage. COLEMAN RHODES. cn1. 18 m0 tf -r OLD WINTER [S COMING. BY HUGH MOORE. Old Winter is coming again-alack! How icy and cold is lie! He cares not a pin for a shivering back He's a saucy old chap to white and black He whistles his chills with a wonderful knack For he comes from a cold countiree! A witty old fellow this Winter is A mighty odd fellow for glee! He cracks his jokes on the pretty sweet Miss; The wrinkled old maid unfit to kiss And freezes the dew of their ligs-for his Is the way with old odd fellows like this! Old Winter's a fi-olicsome bolade, I wot; He is wild in humor, and free! He'll whistle along for the 'want ofhis tho't' And ruffle the laee by pretty girls bought; For a frolicsome fellow is ho! Old Winter is blowing his guests along, And merrily shaking the tree! Front morning to night he will sing his song; Now meaning and shorL-now howling and long His voice is loud, for his lungs are strong A merry old fellow is he! Old Winter's a wicked old chap, I ween; As wicked as ever you see! lie withers the flowers, so fresh and green And bites the part nose of the Miss of sixteen, As she trippingly walks in maidenly sheen! A wicked old fellow is he! Old Winter's a tough old fellow for blows, As tough as ever you see! He will trip tip your trotters and rend your clothes. And stiffin our limbs, from our fingers to toes He minds not the cries of his friendsor his foes A tongh old fellow is he! A .-unning old fellow is wimer, they say, A cunning old fellow is he! le prepsin the crevices (lay by day, To see how we're passing our time away, Aid mark all our doings, from grave to gay l'mii fraid he is peeiing at mie! TIE HEART'S MYSTERY. 0! who shli say he knows the folds Which veil another's inmost heart, The hopes, thoughts, wishes, which it holds, In which he never hore a part! That hidden world, eye cannot see 0! who shall pierce its mystery ? Presutmptuous aim! that shrouded soul, Uniarked by every human gaze. Is open but to His cintrol Wto traces every secret maze! It is not thiie to bonid its faith Or say what feelings sweel beneath. There may lie hope. as pure, as bright As ever sought eternity. There may lie light-clear heavenly light Where all seems cold and dark to thee; And whete thy slirit mourns the dust, There may be trus:-delightftil *rust. Go bend to God, and leave to him Thue mystery ofrthy brother's heart, Nor vainly think his faith is dim, Because ini thinie it huath no part; He too is mortal, aiid like thee WVould soar to immortality. And, if in duity's hallowed sphere, Like thee, he meekly, lhn ..by hends, With hands um~tained and conscience clear, With life's temptation lie contends, 0! leave him that unbroken rest, The peace that shrines a virtuous breast. Anid if his thoughts and h'opes should err, Siill view binm with a ge.ntle eye, Remembering doubt, and chanige, and fear, Are woven in man's destinmy; And when these clouds are passed away, That truth shall dawn with eopenitig day! REF'L:CTrION. The Past-where is it? It has fled. The Future? It may never comte. Our friends departed? With the dead. Ourselves? Fast hastening to the tomb. What are earth's joys ? The dews of morn. Its honors? Ucean's wreathing foam, Whre's peace I In trials meekly borne, And joy? In heaven, the Christian's home. A St ate Convention of the agrictnitural arts of Alabama, has beeni called to a'sem ble at Tuqenilnosa, on the first Thursday after the meeting of the Legislature. Trhe object is to excchanige itnforomation as to the resuresh of the State and project some way of exteniding tn each other promptly a knowledge of improved modes of culti vaion, struck out by science and matured by experiment, and of securitng to each other in the best way, the profits of th'eir indutry--Augusta Constitutioneie. Miscellaneous. From the Azricidturalist. ONlAKING GOOD BACON. The beginuing of a year is generally the ine for Putting up Pork ror Bacon; as his isa standingdish in the West, I have .oncluded to give you t he result of ihirty year's experience upun this in poriant sub - ect. The first thiug necessary to make good Bacon. is to have fal hogs-slaughter therm i"n the beginning of the week, so that you can take care of* the otlhl befbro Satur day night; otherwise, if a warm day or two should intervene, part of it may be lost. It is highly important that hogs, slatghtered for bacon. should be well bled -the more completely the vessels are emptied of blood, the lessdisposition there is in meat to taint or purify. As soon as the hog is well cleaned and hung up, it should he freely washed with warn water, wiped .with a t--wel, and careflully scraped with a sharp knif, especially the head, earsand feet,if you wish to have good sonse or hogs-head-cheese. These parts are generally neglected, and thrown by "for a mdre convenient season," and then taken up by the cook or some idle chap a bout the establishment, aid the hair singed o1T, and the skin burned until it becomes black and. bitter; therehy imparting its color and taste lo the souse and hogs-head cheese. After gatting the hog, the inside should be carefully and freely washed with cold water, with the nouth open, so that the whole may pa-s through ihethroat and remain in thai. eondition until complete ly cool, which will genterully take place, even in moderate weather, inone night. If the weather should he so mild atat it will not cool in one night, it had bietter he cut up, and spread alpotn brick anad stone Iavements, previously wet with cold wa ter; ifthe meat is s:ill soft, dash cold wa ter upon it, and it will soon he ready for the sah, but in all cases it should be perfectly cool if practicable. In one or two instan ces, I have made as good bacon as I have ever made, out of meat frozen so hard :bat it had to becit up entirely with ans axe. As to the mode of salting and the quantity orsalt necessary to cure pork. so ias to make good bacon, every man thinks thit he kuons hetter than his neighbor. I have experimented for the purpose of ascertain ing the best mode of salting down pork, as also the-properquantity orsatt and oth er Ingremtiems, such as suiear, molasses, red pepper and sallpetre, all of which have their advocates, and have settled down and pursued the follow ing practice for the lost twenty years. [Measure a bushel of salt-spread it upon a table-weigh a tound of saltpere-pulverize it carefully and mix it loroughly with the salt. This mixture is sufficient for a thousand weighi of small meat, or eight tlttadred of large. to be well rubbed upon every piece, and more especially upon the fleshy surface, taking care to pack yourjoitts atthe bot. toni and fill up the little interstices with jowls, chine and rounds-the later piece is mnade by cutting the neck oflat the shoul. der and jowls. The length of thine tiece atry to keep pork in salt to make hacon, depends uiponi the weather and tlie size of lie ient. If the weather is muild and the ment smail, 4 weeks will tie long c ,ough; hut if the weather is cold atnd the meat large, it should remain in salt friaim six to eight weeks, and should ie taken tli at the endoffour weeks and well rubbed and sprinkled. with salt, in case the first has dis solved. It is then to he hung up in a dlark smike house, and the darker the better, for the purpose of excluding flies-you will never find flies in a room whei e the light is completely shut out. The higher youar smoke house the better, so that you tnay hang your naeat out of the influenace of the heat-exery joint atd joal should lhe hung by thte thick endul and every maiddlinag by the thick edge, or that part of the mid tling which was cut from the back honte; this I know to be a matter of the first con sideratin ina making good bacon-by at tetnding strictly to t his trtle, you will ret ain all the jnues >f the ment, as well sas the salt that las baeen absorbedl-or ini other words, your mneat will nt drip; whet es, if you rewree the position and hang is by the small end, it will dirip, becotmo dry aand hard, and lose itn weight; and what I con eeive to Ie of some im) port ace, its fine fl:a vr. $stne who tmake gaod batcons, thinak that it isimpoitrtanat.to smoke your ameat with sone particulsar kind of wood, but I imagine 'he tily secret aboust this matter, is the htterness imtpatted to the mecsi, lereby senderinag the taste untpleasanit toI the fly. imd by keeping up1 a ontinualI imoke, 'ona create tan atmowsphiere that the fly cann'et live in-viewinag the miatter thus,' we haoveevery dsty or two thtrowno a few: sods of edl pepper uporst. the smoke-wood --this Irodneesans atmosphere very unafit 'or the respiratiota of matn, and I appre. end eqially so for ithe fy. Ourmeatcon- t inuedlstspended in the smoke-house du- 1 inog theyear,. is slightly sm~okedI every nornaina andl plentifully smoked every amp day. If your readers will observe hese rues, I will almost venture to itnsure uch hbcon as wvould make any epicure f mack lis chops, ti JOHN SHELBY. ti si Otn a onmhetonie in the churchayard of I: ieydont its Yorkshtire, is the (olltowing in- a criptio ;-"Hero liethilte body of Wil- h im Stitions of Padrittgton. buried the ta 8th offray, 1734, aged 97, who had, by isi first rife, 28 children; by a second wvife, 7; wam father to 45, grandlfather to 86, st reatgandfather to 97, and great-great- ce randfther to 23; ia all, 251."-?ents. el Vegetable Silk and Vegetable -ool Iwo plants have lately attracted much at Cltioti in the Island of Martinique, on at zount of the iissueis which nay be Inbrica led from the libres attached to their seeds rhe first of these is Asclepias Minor, or vegetable silk of the West Indies. We have several plants of the genus Asclepius, in the United States, properly called silk weed, perhaps this very species, though perhaps here at the north, it may not pro duce fihres of the same length or fineness. In Martinique it perflects its pods in four months, and the plant itself lasts six years from tt.e planing. It has been carded and spun; the thread is beautiful, as glossy and brilliant ns silk, and as strong as cot ton. This remark is made of the plant in its wild state; ht it hts been cultivated and both the staple of the plant and the qnautity of its productions are extremely inproved ty cultivation. It will grow, no doubt. in Louisiann The other plant is the Bombax minor, a shrub growitig to the height of seven or eight feet. It produces a large pod which coutains a kind of wool. which the manu factures of Lyons, to wltose inspection it has been submitted, htnvc declired to be at fine as the wool of Thibet. It is easily spun, and the thread is as strong as woolet yarn. Fourteen months are necessary i bring the pods to perfection. It iil probably grow in Florida.-New Yor; Evening Post. Kicico Cows.-It is not unfrcqtenly the case,says the Editor of the Albau utivator. that cows which are excellen flor milk, acquire some habit that material ly lessens their value, and of these injuriou! habits, that of kicking, is perhaps the tmosi common. Bowing itp one fore leg, tyint both hind legs together, holding by tht horns. and various other menns have beer resorted to, in order to break up tle prac tire, but frequently withoit avail. Mr Kidder has communicated to the-Haunocl Agrieultural Society, a nmode which ht pronounces an effeciual cure, and which he thus describes: "Nuticinz the position of a cow whilt kicking, which was to drop the head ant curve up the back, I thought I would try C new and simple method to cure her. Aftei tying her in the stnnchel4 as usual, I mad, tine eni of a rope fast round her horns, atm put the other end over the girt, which wa! about two fet higher than the top of thI alanchbets, and(t tabout tho onmo rIist:me it front: drew it pretty tight and fastened i to a stud. Thisso elrectttally secured her tiat she was milked with the most per fect ease and safety; nnd after practicing this method of tying a few titnes, shc gav< tae io trouble. Several subsequent triah have proved this method not only enperioi to all others as an effectual remrdy, but i: is so easy & simple that a female or a ho can secure a cow n ithout diliculty." Ten. Farmer. Kentucky Corn Crup.-The Lexingto Intelligencer ofthe 14th, states that the orn erop ot Kentucky the present year, is unusually large, an.d will perhaps sur pass any thttt has ever beflore been p odit ced in that Stte. It cives the followitt; instancesofi-nmense yields in particula localities: "We understand from unlonlted at) thority that three of the neighbors of Mr. W. C. Youtig of Jessamine county, ne;t sttred the quantity of corn grown ion an acre of his farm, a few days itince; ami found the yield to be- thirty nine barrels and one half bushel! About the same quantity was also found from tmcasuretnent to have been produced tpon one acre of the farm of Mlr. Joseph Bryan. of the sane county. This surpasses any thintg of the kind tht has ever cone utndr or observation, and we doubt if it hats over beeni equalled int this or any other coutntry." Extcellent hintus to Mechanics.-- Meehan is, avoid giving long credits, evetn to your best etnstomers. A man who cant paOy mily ill no thank yon for the delay. A khma el attempt to jive without water, or a man without air, as a tmechanie without punetuality and promptitness in ollectitng and paying htis debtrs. It js a nistake and~ ruinous policy to mattempt to teepl On attd get business by delaying col ectionts. When yout hook a sltack pay naster, you only gain t he chance of losin. our mtone); andI there is no man wvho mys5 more tnoney to lawyers thatn he whto s least prompt in collecting for himtsnelf. Vhen you do your work, atnd the time for >y arrives, if it is not handed imtmediate y tup to yout for your hard labor, I say. uit the wyork of sucht a cttstomer, if you re sure never to get a cent for it. These re excelleur' hints attd good rules. The ule of a wvorkmant is to receive his payv ient every Sarnrday, at the close of his eek's labot, ttnless he can do without it ndl you make the agreement otherwise. Ve like nutrpay to mteer onr payments. har. C'our. A alECHANIC. Bad C'ompany.-While Samprsnn lived to a~vwed enemy of the P'hilistines, and itr from their cities. hte was revered among ie as a man elevated of God, to restore to glory of Israel; bttt searcely had he ai >inted with I bis perfidhio:ts nattion, scarce rhad be formed connexions~ with them si hegitn to imnitare their manners before a became the pun ofGaza, and the laugh r of theIr giublic sports.-Massilon. We understand says the Augusta Con. itutionalist of the 29th inst., that the ale tnics Batnk is prepared to take Ex ango on N. York and Charleston, S. C., rd nay out their notes for the same. Journeymen Printers.-It is a rtct 0at they are nothing at times, yet every thing when occasion requires it. Brought tip tio a professiou which schools the intellect, and confers an extensive knowledge of tho world, they become qualified ilhr any situa tion where the mind is called into action. We know one of the craft who was, we believe, brotugtht Up in apt ollice in this'ity. Trhe iarrow field in which he found hinself on gaining his liberty proved albozether tno mnsignificant fr the exercise, of his ge nius. We next knew him as a school. teneber at Salem, N. J.. and subsequeatly as the Capt. of a Duck-river sloop. The latter soon lost the charm ofoovelty. Hero we lost sight of him lur a time, but oijr acgaintance was renewed in 1835, at Lewishrg. Va., where we found him of r-eiating as a IMethodist Minisier, afier this he gave lessons in pennianshipniild Poona/, Painting at Rochester, prac-tised tbo Thomtsoinian y-cm or medicint-at Rich m114nd1. Va., ed ited ;a paper in N. Orleans, a hoitinan otn the ennol, a sherili in. Ohio,.' superintended a female seminary at Lou? isville,and finally 'seitled down' a Wes. tern farmer in the 'Salt River District.' The last we heard of this Typo lie was in the Legislature of reinessee, where..ho. was employed in dissecting the general iadministration. The hi-tory of ihis disc ipl of Gil Blas is chuarcterisiic of the profession in gener Il. hey are atn honest, talented, noble minded, - devil-me-eure' set of lilows, who .want but enlowIt of this worli's goods to supplv their necessities, and are gener ous to a fnult. Like sailors it is a princi ple with them to assist each oilier, and no regutlarlv bred workman of good charac ier is ever obliged to bea fir a subsistence. As a.in evidence of their capaCity to rise, it is only necessary to mentionl tlat, seven eigits of the editors of the United States are, or once were practical printers, and that some of the mtost honorable iosts in government are filled by those who con imlenced their career as Journeevucn Prin ters. Not Dead Yet -An iicilent partaking largely ofilhe Indierons occurred yesterday, when Coroner Cruzat went to view th hody ofWebb, whose sudden denth is an nounced in our paper this morning. When the Coroner called at No. 81 New Levee. the landlord led the way tip to a large room on thesecond story. it was filled with narrow beds , excepr a gangway along the centre. 'hrougtitis the landlord pas. sel, fillowed closely hv fhe Coroner. At length they came Io a bed in) which Jay a stalwart Ky. hoatman. domestic trows'ers, strong boois and all-his hend was cover e d over with t he hhmttket. '"T'here-thaere,"' -anid ihe landlord. as ie stoodh by the Ken tucki-mn'si bedside, "lthere the poor fellov lies. I eanot say what was lte cat;se of hi- death, hut I attribute if to tle ice i-a ter lie drank afler taking the ietndicine." "I will send for- a surgeon," said the coroner. "and have the body opened in or der to aseertain." "We imend harving him imnediately after the inqnust is h ," .;id thie lindlorrd. The Kenriikian, whio had none -t0 bed "hen Iiifully b[lie," thouzh as still as if he vere locked in the embraee of death, wa;, not even asleep. ht in a !: ind of blue devil letharay. I learing the lirefudl dial'gtie, he jump-dti no inl ie bed, [ile coroner and the lamilord itoipil! back inI aIrigh] and looking as wildly arotind hin as a tvro tragedinn doing a dying Romeo, excluimed -"What ! dead, killed-to lie opened by a sureoni-ice wsater-htiriedimmedinte ly! I'm not dead-no one has killed me. I drank n-t ice water witliotit heian mixed w;th M ongniel-never took a dose of triedicine in my life-and, look here, st-ran ger'd-n me if T hall be opened by a stir geon, or buried alive, no htow you can fix it ; so clear oti like winkitng " And hterro he madhe ana attemi to grasp a rifle which stood in a cornet-of' the room, buat wa4 prevented biy thip landlordl, who explainedl atway the nisinkhe as well as he coidt. lhv telling bhim thery snipptoed him to have beent the personi whit actually died the pirevious niizht. "o. ifrihiat he ii," said the Kenruekinn, "go ahead. Like as not you'll findt himt ott farther; th--re's a feller up there whom I wated to ignior, ati he'd maike me ntO answver--p'raps that's lie." And so it was. --Picayune. A cotnple of young ladies having hiurtiedl their fatther, who was an old hijoorist, ahd liad such ant aversion to matrimotny that lie wonktl not allow themn to maurry, howt ever advantageonis oight he the off'er. con ver-sitng ott his chararter- the eldest obser ved, "he is dlond at bast, antd now we will mar-ry." "WVell," said theo youngest, "1 am for a rich httsbatnd, and Mr. C shall he my mani." "'Haild, sister," said the oiter, '"don't let ,ins lie too hasty in ithe choice ,irour husbands:; let its mnrry those whom the ptowrs above have destit etl fuir us; for our tmarringes ar-e registered in heaven's book." "1 am sorry for that, replid the youngest, for I a-n afraid fath er will teai' out thte leaf." .Inc rease.-Wc are infor-me'i, by theRev. J. Stittsn, just returned from Eniglendl.that the inereasein the M~etl'odist societies un d~er the care of die British confe~renice iar the last yeair is 24.000.-.Ch1ristian A dvo cafe and Journal. A Cutting Remark.-How does this ra sor cut ?" said a barber, while shaving one af his customers. 'Pretty wvell, I should think- You'vec ont me in -two nlaces already." '