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, -iM- C We will cling Id he Pillars of the Temple of our Liberies, and we will Perisk amidst the Ruins." LE XIII. - 9. no .- . . EEVERY WEDNESDAY-' WM. F. DURISOE .ET1.TOR & P R O PRI E'T-OR &-,NEWV TERMS -.T4 0 DO.T.ARs antd FIFTI CE-T's,perannnim, if paid.in advance -$Sifriot paid within six --nonths from the date of subsetiptiou. and 8 if not'paid before the expiration of the i2a.' All stibscriptions will be continned, unless otherwise ordered before the expira t ofheih ear; tbut no paper will be dis ioaiiniued until all arrearnres are paid. tin x Isaat the option of the Publisher. . person procuring five respousible Sub bers,-qhall receive the paper for one kt5SKEs-Ts conspicuottntyinrerted at75 O. .persquare, (12 lines, or less.) for the S Asetis. and 374 for easch continnancit. 0 Tse published monthly or qoarterly. will 'l"harge . $1 per sqnare. Advertisements po:having the number of insertions nmarked on them, will be continued tutiloidered out 7-- charged accordingly. om:nnnications, post paid, will be prompt ly and strictly attended to. 7TThe following gentleien are annonticed b their friends -as candilates for the Office of 'Tax Collector. at the ensuing elect*on: Col JOHN QUATTLEBUM, ,GEORGE J. SHIEPPAitD, EDMUND' MOHRIS. SAM PSON B, MAYS, MajL . c. sCorT, LEVI R. WiLSON. JAMES SPANN. The friends ofDr. JOHN L4KE, annnnce him as a Candidate for a seat in the House of Representatives, at the eusuia eleotion. March 14 tr S The frienas of Col. R. B. BouKraunT. annonnce him as a Candidate for a seat ia the Hiouse of Representatives, at the ensu ing election, 7 E' We are authorized to announce W. A HARRIS, Esqr., as a candidate for a seat in the House of Itepresentatives, at the next elec tion. Iebruary 9 f. 3 Charleston Courier office, Mr-19 -LATERFROMEURO4.EM Revoluiqoin Fanie Adicaion of the isK.-Fve H Betwee Throne iji 'ount' e oaaeraus Wpt 0s 1, but tej'ect. J4tie1 people, who demanded a. Ri' can -form of Government, and an end he Monarchy. The Deputies opposed a' Republic, But where overpowered b-y the p,eople t The troops of the line fraternised with i the National Guards, and the Natiounal I Guards with the People. At titlust k dates all Paris was' ih the hands'uf the t National Guards and the People. A procession piassed through the- j streets, carrying the throne out 4f the I: Thuillerjes,.and ii triurmpli, singing the t Marseillois Flynin.' There has been a frightful loss of life, c and in many instancet'rotips have re fused to act against the pe ple. The number of killed is said to & tipwards ii of five hundred, principally in tht.nrigh- v borhood ol the palace and the Thludle- c rios. u It is said that Gen Lem-ncure had been either killed or dangetously woun, r ded. The peopla have taken' possession of c the rail ways and torn up the rails on ni the line to prevent the approatchi of troops The mob were int ;issa-ssion of the a Tuilleries,-and have thrownt the fdraii te 3tut of the windows. c At the time of the dr porture of the Cambria, it was thioughit a strong goy einment wvould be nrganizedl, ;andl a re-t public on the model of the Unite~d States was proposed. 1 There ivas no chtange in the Cotmo. s Market. There had been a slight ad- pI vance, but not sustained, on aircounat, fthe poor demand for mianufacturedn goods. *The French naws isconnected. The~ ii Royal Family were safe tat latest dates, but the Revolution wvasutnchecke'd. h; 'Theirs, Barbot and Maile wver'e pro. posed as Ministojrs, but r'-j.-eted by the c people, and Goverunmenit pheards torn dowir.' IMPORTANT FRIIMVENEZTELAv ,Fligkt of thre White Population.- I The 61-ig Orbit, at NewYork, fromt Porto Cabello, brintgs most excititiC in telligence front this distracted republic. bi The following summary of her news we find in thte NewYork Herald, "We learn that the white inhiabitaits 1 of De Guayra and Carrzccas are flyinga in all directions from the vensgeance of t. 'the black- anid colored races, whlo have d completely overawed these cities, and have assume I so menacing atn atttude v towards the whites, us to insptire them v -with'a dread of being murdered if they I remnained-, ~ The party of Monages the President -ad le'jd or ,the b.:....' im.lf .. r..- .. 51e, were going about the streets in 3rmed gangs, and impressing - all in mixed races or blacks they could fitd. One colored cartman was forcibly drag zed trom his cuirt and carried off; and he impressment is going on daily." "It was riimuored from the interior hat the whole of the country was on he eve of a g. neral revolution and that he cetlebrated Gen. Paez was making great iff.rts to rally the whites. "The white population alung the sea .ist vere trving to escape out of the :ountry. Most (if theim were goiog to o the I-zlind of Diirmcoia, and taking assage in differ.n, IUnited Sta:es ves els. Mr. F. Weisman, lady and fand y, came prssengers in th 0-hi, haing )blidged to aban Jon their beautiful es ate, by this dreadful panic "To the time of the Otbit's sai'ing, in actual murders had been committed )y the blacks since the assassination of lie national representatives." From (/he Correspondence of the Couritr. WASHINGTON, M-trch 15. Mr. Sevier has received his commis ion and instruciinns, and will leave to norrow ev-ning for Mexico. There is deep anxiety is to the result. rhe Ten Rginient Bi!l will be pressed o a vote. Minv donbt whether tie 11:111 have any thing more than a tireatv -xacted by force and fraud fromn a tem >orary and usurping government, and :11nsider the peace ths to be obtained, is transitory as it will he dishonorable. rhe last letters nt Mr. Trist do not er :ouage the belief that we shall have -ven tlhe form-al.ratification of the tieaty is amended. fiom the Mexican Congress >r if ive have it, the act will be dis ivowed very snon by a new administra. ion. We shall see. The President is much mortified, it is id, i promulgation of the reaty. E'hefedrte. have not disposed or lije iotion to-remove the injunction of se ,recy Mr. Cayton._ .-ngum agV deneths.assertion that they -lur r or-sofi jaroediygsgo se nt e Seaard tlifol oving AMIrN-TON, March 15. Hon Go Al. Dallas, Vice President ',of the. United States: SIa-Verynexpectedly to me, and 'erymnut- h agaist iy personal wishes, .have been induced fiom patriotic con onsiderations I hope, to acceiit an fice, of Which iyn and the Senate are dvised, which renders it necessary that should resign my seat as one of the senatots for the State of'Arkansas,and lio iesignati-mn is herewith tendered. "Wisliing you, sir, and each member f the Senate every blessing which this fe can affoird, and an acceptance iii Hat which is to come. I have the hon. r to be. sir, with high respect, your bedient servant. "1 . H. SEVIER." On motion of Mr. Ashley, the coni iunication was laid on tht iahl-, and it ras ordered that the Vce Prr-sident onimunsicate the same to the G vernor f Aikansas. On motion of Mr C;ass, the Sonate roceedrd t lthe consideration of tie. 'en Retrime~nt Bi'l, the qicsaion being n the motion of Mr. Butler to re-com lit, with ir~stiuctions. On mot ion of Mr. Breese, the yeas nd na'.s nere ordered. The q:aresuion wais then taken and de idJed as follows: Yeas 17, N iays 28. The question being on the passage of ie bill-. Mr. Citlhoun expressed a hope that se hil wouhl ino lie p rested, as lie dle red to address the St-nate, and wais not re~pared to dany. Mrt. Cass said that other Senators sight be disps*d to proceedI. Mr. Mason gave uthe reasons which i'duced haim to declineu making the spi ech -huich lhe inten led wvhen the hill wv as a~t before the Senate, and aexpressed a ope that the bill would be passeJ wvithi ut debate. Mr. Badge moved thtt the Senate go ito Ex,-cutive business. On motion of Mr. Cass the yeas and rere orderted, and the motioni watsne ved as follovs: Yeas 17, Nuays 23. Mr..Johnson, of La, explained that in is vot in the neg-itive tunder a mnisaip rehension of the question. Mr. Mangu n, af ter some remar ks 'an ie impossibility of urging uhe question this time moveyd to lay the bill on thle able for the purpose of taking up die eficienicy bill. Mr. Cass asked for the yeas and nays rhich were ordered, and the 'questin 'as decid..d as follows-yeas 18 (Messis hyton and Webster in addition to the 1st alirmative vote), nays 28 Mr. Baldwin addressed tho Senate gnint ihn bill and the unar. Mr. Foote made an explanvtidn. Mr. Calhoun desired to address l Senate, and On nimion of Mr. M-ingum, the S-:t ate adjourned. .March 16, 1848. There was a spirited debate in tli Sen:ate to-day on Mr. -Benton's motio to send a ftill Minister idthe Papi States-to the only city, as he sai which called itself "Eernal." He di not urge it on commeicial, but politici. grounds. As to commerce; he did i supppose thai Rome had much; the T ber was not much more of a river, b be-ieved, than out Triber, [u little mi said Mr. Dix, who had been there.] Bt Rome wve4 but a small part of the dom ion of the Pope. The whole compre hended twenty millions of people-an to them we had not accredited any Min 'ter. The bill was laid adde on account.< Mr. C iss's anxiety to pass the Te Regiment Bill. Mr. Calhoun wis t speak, and a great ciowed had assen bled to hear him. lie spoke only ha an hour. The f.:lowinlg is a rapi sketch of his remarks Mr. Calhoun sad th-i, after a ver careful ex.imination, lie ha-l not bee able to find a single argument in favc of passing this bill at this tima. Thos who wero in favor of it kad overlooke the real condition of Mexico. Neithe force for nor intimidation were necessa ry. The government of Me-xico wa withot an army and with out revenue and the penple wir d.-stiacted by fat tions. The government existed onl by our Coi beatance. The motivet treat was the same with Mexico as wit] us-to avoid her annihiliation, whic was as much dteaded by us dS by he. The danger was that the governmen would perish before it could ratify th treaty. K.single-brigade would extin giuish it. We had ant alternative, if slt ru-sed tIo ratifyiTe-re-dTY. _W-,' ed take the boundary, without piying tdi twenty millio The biwould defea would 'em obden tho Puros party to per sist it their attempt to annitiliate th, government. It would also create thi impression at home that the treaty-wouli not be ratified, and be a great prejidici to business. It was not only a useles bragalocio, hut it would be nischiev ous. le objectod to the increase( patronage it wotid give to the Evecutivi -a priron.ige already foo great. I would cost a vast stim htite bounti-s on ly would amount to .wo millions and half of dollbirs -for men would readil enlist knowing that they would not bi called on to go to Mexico. Btt lie was opposed to the bill, eVei if the treaty vi.re not in progress. I was a part of the policy of the Presid--n i-rosecute the war vigorouslv. If we -N ed it it would be a pkdge to th w.ir and cariy it on vigorously-a pledg that would never be redeenied. Thi voice of the public opinion h id stampet that policy with reprobation. The policy of menace was wrong. I would have involved us in a war wit Eoplautd, but for the courage anml ria g nanimity of this body. The war witi M xico gow out of a nienace--fur thi Pr*sidenut intendedi to threaten not t( strike--and this body ha I not an oppor tunity to interfere. Anottier objecetion lie had to this bil -it counten:anced the President's sys tern of mtilitat v or civil contributions necithier of which piow~ers the Presiden had atny right to ex !rt. I1e ha;d nr pouwer to establish a system of fina~nce iin Medxico-it was3 n it to) be f~uttnd ii the war power-andi, if it w~as, it mits b e exrcisedl arcording to the laws o iongexste power existed in: Mex, ico iteitdhere too. Can the Pre'sidenttlav tixeshiere iii vit tte of huts powevr as commanti td:r-in-.chiefi fi s lie the pbowenr to make approprio tins of monev in M-xcii lie has exer cised it. Het now acts in t wo chirac. et s-one of as Presidenit of thte Uutited States, aind the other as possessed o huighl despotic power over Mexico-rai Sintg and p)aying troops, &c. This piower really was to coitrol thi machine, called the armv--anid it was a very narrow power. The rules anc regulation of the army were made b' legislative, not executive powver. Tin conqurerer, it was true, had a right it imaposA taxes. Bitt wvho was the cont quterer? Not the President-not Gen eral Scott-bitt tinder ont system, i it was the IUnited States. rThe sove rieignty of M..xico bteing~ put down for timue, our sovereignty took its place-an. carried wiith it till the laiws and the con stit ution of the. sovereigntfy. It was difficult to control our peopi -they were wvell fed', wvell, clothed, an piatnsinlg for excitemeni. It was too ea sy to invol've them in war.' Every'car ought to be taken to avoid an argraissiv Tl "ieesi Oud Ii-rasked au ie thorityfof ..to exercisn these powersf an dert.ak'i to exercise I- tIem on his mplication. Froat ,CharlestoWMrcury RAILRO OMMUN 1CATION eW . - EWEST. We havet atedly called attention td thde gret iortance to our city of a railroad coar. Ication wiih the valley of the Mississ , Its value to us, b th in a comner 'and political point or view, canhata be over-esiinated. We are alfeady .nning to feel the bene ficial effctso tir approximation to ihe Tonnessee ri ',distant but thirty-four miles from-t ead of the iaflr6d, but not u'util te '. o the Cumberlaind can we realize .-great extent the vast ness of t " ces of the mighty West. To give so aof these wegiva some statistics of .ncrketabli products of Tennessee n which we take from n the leiter.of k. Stevens-1, Esq., to H Hon. John C.. alhoun. And these, it ' will be recoll ted, would bi greatly if enhanced wit e superior facilities of transpiortation .1nd more f-avrable mir' kets secured by a railroad co:nmunica Y tion with 'the Aglantic cit ies. The cost oflivering Tob icco fro-n r Nashville to erpool, by way or N-tv e Oteanais $t5 per hogshea:l,while by d way of CharIe on, when the RAilroid r connection is istabished, i: wil be but $14,40, makiia difference ii favor of thelitter of $55 per hogshead. And ' to show what would be the probible q'tanjity that fe might expect of this article, wve -.w ld state that there is 0 shipped out& ithe Cunberland River thirty thousa' hogsheads nn-ully. There is now it to New Or leans eve ry.year fros -die Tennessre about fity thousand es of Ctton, the costs e of transportia t-and charges for selling which'antong $5,80 perjbal,-; this ' could be sent-t harleston. by the R ill. . road for $, bal, aI nd, hesld for,. litt er h - per lb. or $5,62 'per ble of 450 lbs e more at Charleston han arNew ie is R thus ..show a;&ig- to the& Tngsea, planterlof $7,92 ,perbale. I Corn ,it w9r.h.on the line of theNihville and s Cbettanoga plid froin-7j cents to 25 centsrpetrlfoshel It is now north in our Market 55 to 57cents lier bushel. * The Corn -crdop ofTennesee amounted in 1846 to 72 00000 bushels, thro -fourths of whichi sproduced within the inli ence of th; proposed railro id. There are 350,000 hogs annu ally sol.] by Tennessee, and. as was shown. in an a ticle we copied. some days si'nce from the Nashville Union, as these animali t can be transported-on R ailroads at it lees cost than their rediction in value by loss of flesh while driving, there is but little doubt that a large proportion of theim will come this way. The statement is so much to the poiat that will hero repeat it, "A gentlemai from Warren enunty, Tenn., %sas on his way to Augusta, G.I., nith 400 hog4, The agent oftihi Rail road Compiy at Atlanta olfored to take the hogs 172. miles down to Augu; ta for 50 cents each. Th', owner refised to take it, saying he could not afrd to pay for his hogs riding in thfe carq, when he was not able to ride ..him'self. The agent then proposed~to weigh and divide the hogs equallyg aifd carry one ha:alf fosr what the otli'er lost in driving to say~noth. ing or the corn eaten at one doll'ir -r bushel in di iving down,:the cost of h:and4 and the tavern bilj'sat night. Tis ofT-r was ~accepted and the hogs divided. Those in the cars .reachied Augusta in a SfeW hours and were sold in two da ys. The driven hogs arrived in three weeks, were k'.led, andJ the loss in wveight was 18 pounrds each, wvhich, at 4.4 cents .a pound, m-ie the cost of carriag~e 81 cents. Thus,lad he accepted the oITer f'thie agent and paid 50 cents per head, the tr~ansporto'tiqangas compared with the driving, would have been 31 cents loss than nothing." There is a vasiamnount of ether ex, portale produce Tnaised in Tennessee, and foiwarded nwby the river route to New Orleans, among them in 1846 was 18000 lbs. of Ibeswax; 700,000 lb4, of Feat he.rs, 1000',OG lbs. (er Qinseng, 1,040,000 lbs. ofivool; 15,000' buahels of flaxseed; 124 0bushels of peas and beans; 600 tons aff hemp, a large pro portion of which~ would be diverted in i this direction by superior facilities of transportation ai )to enhanced prices. u hat could be aftided in this city., laI additioni tojh~e vast n-mount of pro duice of which thusrotad-wilt be the chian sip1, it wiould also,he the great thorough a fare of travel betpisen the easter n citins il anid the soutitwes &The difficuhties it - tendant upon the 4avigation of the Ohio. e from ice in wintefand .drought in suim, mer4 and the frequent accidents fannm, colnlisins. siatr' sand explninsn ound necssarily nike tis tihi prefarab'e as it would b - ih, ni-st expediti is and economicil raiute. It wo-ild alo be the great mail route for a large portion of mater now sent by tha Oio river, as it would place Vashin'o:i within four days of Nashville, vh reas it is six or seven by the prescot modes of convey ance. We hive not ep ice, nor i id'e I is it necessary. to pirsut this subjecr farther at present. The vilun of this awo int of trade and travel to a com-nia c ci city mast be apparent to all. Trhigantic: ef forts maki iL by Boston, N. York.Phila delphii and Bibinore tosecure a share of it, nianifest their sense of i s impor, vince. Wli!e with all their exertions tIey will IA only ab'e 11) reach one of the exireinitia's of ihe Great Vally, Chiarlestan, with bat comparatively a sligvht effort, casi connect lhrself with its very he irt. Theip 1.'opte of 'e..e5see, by intdividu il an I Le.-isLai )n subscrip tions, hawv becom-v responsible for $1, 803,001, and they nik tht G'ogia an ii South C triAini, who hive an equ d in terest in the m itter, will raisc ti ii her million, which will be andle for the coinstructioi of tha raod'J t,) N ihiville. Tis we feel coni lknt will h I ino. With our convictious of tih great a-l vantages that mist result to uir city from the cmsmtruction of this ro id, w : ha'lieve thaut a subici i )tion of half a mil lion, even even it never paid a cent in dividends,'wonld be more than niade up' in the cnnatcement of the vailu - of .pro perty and inciease of busir.ess. From the Augusta C; mstilut.-analisl. Tue PUTX iM PaOvtso-A TEST VOTE. That vrte was consideorpd at Wash. ington the tei voe ou the q'iestion. It was so considered by Mr. G:d lings, the most tn tiring en -my of ihe S tuth per.. hapi in the entire Whig tanks. We find the followiig statement, on .the sub Pct in lie l:tter of the Washib ton c)rresj)ndent. of tho New Ydrk, iiirnal of~m erce- ering : lyitended-to test th.. 'present opinion of ie lon'Ue b" this. subject; and thez Wesuiw9, ti the -Hons, by ai.dyided iajority, refusad to coammit themselves tat (Ife policy of th6 Wilot Provio Mr. Gidding4 cntsidered the vote as d cisive of the question, anad said that wtt the appropriiaon came here, it would lie pissed wthoui the anti-slavery restrictio'n. So that vreat, and, at one iiine, threiening diffielaiv, is* renov.. This Putnam Provi~o was inothiing more or less than the pra,>msi-ion to ex clde the iaIjtroducii )0 of s!avery into the newly arq-zirel territories. The following is the Proviso. "Vhereas, in the setulemlienlt of the! difficulties pending haetw-en this cann Iry and Mexico, terilory imy be ac qI-ired in which slvery 'does int exist; aind whereas Canar--ss, in the organizi - lion of a territorial covernment, at n early period of our pohitieal history. vs- I ablikh-'d n priiciiga worthy of i:mb*q a - ion in all (iitur timlp, forbiading thr. :xist'nce of slavery in free territory: there-fore. Resolved, That in any territory1 wihichi miay honarghiired .from Mexj~ico, der~i whichi siiill bea establishad territori al gover nment, slavery or iniv'omtary servitu'de, excepit as a punishiment far crimer, whterieof lhe p nr shall have beent 'July coatvictedl, shoru'd ha f-itever pr > tibite'd; and t ha t in anyi' act or resolu tion istabli .lring such govea irnents, a fonidi !ieta11 provisioni oight to be int' urte'd to lta t rf(I'ct .' Tlh!'j~ilmnit provisi is tnow' i'l'ctuailly killed in Caoniress-kil'ld by the ai l' f Northe'rn D)-mrn r.i ic v'ota's, andl no ki-nks to thie Nojribin, Wies. hive ry Northern Whlig hi is voted st eadi y an.'! iniformily lar ii in ailh is sha pes when aver it his comte up. But faor the voles if Northern Denmocra'ts in oppositioni it would have been adlmnted. The fact is that .lDemocrats at the North may iinduilee in ;is strong repro-. baition of slavery anid its ev ls- hay nmay daesite its suppressi:>, or ait least he ipp)osedl to ias f'urther extensiao, as5 strennonsly as Mtr. Putnatn, Mr. Gi dings, dr any Northeirtn Whip~ that nway be ntamied. But they have somet regard for the contstitution oaf thet country and ror the tight guzaramird to the South un der it. it is their reaspect fair that in strument, anal thle haibitii.d regard ofi thte Demtocratic par iy faor its pre's-ra lion itact anil. inv~aiolbl, which is onr reliance It is not, of course, any expectation itat. Northern peopl!e of any cree'dwihif thtnk na-d feel with the Soiuith npon tihe abstract question conn'cta'd with slave'ry, or will i'ver become its admnirets and advocates. Keep elsarof the law; fo~r. whent you gain jou case, you arc gencrally a loser of mny. An Inrident.--Sick, and! ye visited me."-About the 11th of Sept. Bishop Paine, of the M. E. Chnrch South, came on board a st-anib mt at Memuhis, on his wRY t) K!-ntucky. Nearly every boa fem New Orle:ins had on board pisolns withi yelhlov fe.ver, and though no such c.isp was arkiiowledged to exist oni tlie.hoat in quiestion- thi Bishop kept a slurp look out fmi indications of thai kind. At a I-te hour that night he saw a mi in belonning to the bat go tiather. sta'bhily to a state-ioom and hastily pn and shut the d uor-passing some thing in wihout enteriae. His suspi 6 m2s were now aw-ike, but he could get no inf.>rnition that-n'ght. N-xt morn-. ing lie dem inded to kniow if there was not a1 sick man en bo ard; the answer IaS evasive bit lie pressied the question cate2nricaillv, until finally it was :on fessed that iiere was a sick nan, said to be a Catholic priest from New Orleans, ill iii the st ite room in q-istion. The Bisthop reqiested to see him, but was pt ofT wit i excuses; lie urecd the mat ttr and. finally declared he would see iimn. W.s ini;ioartnity anad resolute stand gnv im1 souccess; thae door was opened, an I from it i'iaed a sickening stanch, which for a mIomPant drove him back, but herallied an4 miade hisentrance,.and fomnd a m in appirently at the point of death, wh Ii i been begging in vain for a cup of cald water ta be inded to hi:n. But wh-it w is the good Bishop's. sirprise, when, instead of some suffer%' inz strangerr, he found that this victem of disease and neglect was the Rev. .f>hn Cross, of the Poydra street Methie., d-ist Chirch, N. Orleans! The Bishop iad him well tnken care -of, became hiiself his nurse, and by- proper atten- . tion his patient soon .r-ecovered d. rof '. .,, r, Cross says that bit for th eai interpositniJnis behalf no have recovtred. Th at all. risist a0 t unexp ed a e friend~~j'~ rep inle mI eE and -havingt - m oth~ode *leerii i cbinimon glue in cold ta , it coies perfectly.. soft, but, ypt retnining itq w- a form, afier whith if is to be - dissolved in comm'o-r linseefoil; assisted hv gemt Ile heat, until it beconfes entirely taken tip by. the. latter, after whic it niy be appibed to subsrinces for aM sion to each other in the .way common gha% is applitad. It dries alnost inamedi arely and water will exArt no a c:ion on it. It is unnecess.ary ,,o state for how many v;;':ibic; leurposes in the arts this. apoaication may be used. For cabiaiet nakerst s iipor.tant, as mvliogany in!4!rs when gltued by this subitanc', will never fall atf by exposure to the at i-sphere. In ship building it will pa .b abl a nsswer a valmablie purpose, as it .a< iaianitely am are tenacity than com mn glne,' and1 bec mes impervious to wac. Peack Tn,.e Cuttings.-B. Jones, of. Saiary Counaty, Virginia, informas the. Ed'itor of then Souitiea n Planter that. pe'ach trees e in be propag-ated from ceat uanes quite ais eaIsy as the Morus Multi. cauli<. Ile says: "Ia the spri-sg, ianert short portions of thae awig's or branchaes in the~ ground ;aboslt thiree oa four iuiches deepm lea ving ;about t wo eya's or budics oatt taking care t) press soi v'ry compactly aaouind the sets. No~ihing nia' >re 1 iess aty for the pres -nt oaccasi.an but juist to keep. alhemu clhar of weedJs and11 grass; in doing wvhich it is very i-nymrtent that athey be not aiove.d in a ha l.)i t. T hiey sthaul. hen wvatered when the weather is very. dry. I tiave at'tl s time t wo sets fromn ana Old Mirona' grin iig ina my g ai.l-, wvhich were set out late bie't. spring with - shaoots twenlty inche's lang." A Sovereign Icenedy for a Cough. -Divile a3 pint .nf wvata'r: in oaie half dissolve an oazace of rockcandy--in the, oilher half an oanee of gu mnrabic; strain it, aand add-01 one cc of paragoric and, hsalf an nuance of antionni d1 wine. A, uable-spoontia.ll ntiorninag and evening is 2a dose for an) adubt; a dessert spoonfull for 23 childl, and ai tea spoonfatll for a little one. Shiould the cough prove; troublehasome1 the dose may be repeated' t WO or thre niesa aasi ii perfect ly hiarmless. Foma of .the s'veetest wotrds in thie Eniglisha langage begin with lI--Heart' 11p)' I;apine1.ss and [leaven. Heart is a htope-pla1ce, ;and homne is a heoartp~lace; anad thaat mtan sadly mistakes, who wvould - exchange the happiaess of huaiuo for nnything less than Hieaven. Say brut little, ihiak mncha, n ,do more.