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-- . - * - we todt Cling to the Pillars of the Temple ofpour Libertes, an ust fall, we will Perish amiaste1 Rins. - VOLUME X1V* -_ - .16. -~~90 - -1-27I -a 4.- - PIWLISHED EVERY' WENSAY WM. F. DURIISOE. P ROPRIETOR. NEW TERMS wo DotULARs and F:FT1CENXTs,perannJm if paid in advance-$3 ifnot paid within six months from the date of subsetiptiou,.and $4 if not paid before the expiration of the year. Ali subscriptions will be coitinted, unless otherwise ordered before the expira tion of theyear ;.btt no paper will be dis. continued until all arrearages-are paid, un less at the option of the Publisher. - Auy person, procuring five responsible Sub. scribers, shall receive the paper for one year, gratis. ADvXaRTsZZTs conspicnonttytnsertiedat75 - .owes per square, 1i2 line's, or lesst.) for the first insertion. and 37.I for eaci continuance. Those published monthly or quarterly, will be'chargei $1 per square., Advertisements -not havimg tle number of insertions marked on them, will bn chntinued uutil oiderea out and charged accordhigly. - Comamnnicationi, post paid, will be prompt ly and strictivattended to. W.. E. * IARTIN, ATTO NEY A' LA W9 No. 9, Broad Street, Cimrlestan S. C. Over the Office of W. M. 31lrtin. Will practice in -Barnwell and Colliibi, and oiF: tiae-to pracice in Beaufort. April 25, -m3m -14 JOSEPI ABNEY, A TTORNE.Y AT LAW. .ILL be round in his office at- Ediefield -'Court Hiunse, adjoining Bryan's.Brick Store, on Saturdays, Saledays, and Court, weeks. He tvill attend protapfly a'hj strietly it busi es iii his irofession. - January 10, - 51 G. D. TILLMIAN, A TTOR 'EY A' LAW SOLICITOR IN EQUITY. CE 'next door to Mr. Compiy's No ipdge~eld C.H 1849, Sm I .. SHERIFF. Te friends ofW ESLEY BODIE.Fsqr., a~nntme him as n candidate fGir the jtlice of in-i'i ofithi District at the ensuing elettion. We a-e._bunhorited to announce Caplt. HMNMPHREY BOULWARE, as a Can didate for Sheril, at the 'uiting elebtion' hTThe friends of Col. THUS. W. I.AN IHAy announce him its a candidate for the ,ffie orSheriffat tIe next election,... 'rThe friends of Col. JOH N H ILL an. Uiboneb il as a candidle for Shcriff of Edg field Dietrict at the next election. g We are aiithibrised to athiiince T. J. WHITAKER. ns a iandidate-for the Office 6f .Sheriti, at the ehuing election. 07The Friends of ALFR ED 1AY, announke him as a Candidate for Sheriff; at the eniding electiotn. FOR TAX COLLECTOR. 0:76 We are nIuthrized in) annoonce LITTLETON A. BROOKS..rs a Can ditate for Tax Collector, at the ens.uig election. 07 We are puthorized to innounce ROBERT CLOY, as a Car.didaie for Tax Collector, at the ensuing electinn The Friends of Maj. ISA AC BOLES. announce him as t Candidate foi the office of Tax Collector, ni the ensuing election. We are authorized to announce Capt. D. F. GOUEDY, nt a candidaie for the Office of Tax Collector, at he. nsuinr election. ~..Jan. 2. *The Friends of 5laj. F..W. BURT, an nounce him as a candidate for Tax Coflec tor.'at the ensnirng election. The friends of Cot. J. QUA TTLE.lUM, announco him as a candidate for Tax Col leegor, at the ensulig election. --ve are authorized to announce WM: L. PA RKS as a Candidate for TaiColee tor; ih. next election. -FOR ORnINARY.-; The Frienids of VIRGI L M. W HITE ananunce him as a Candidate for the office of Ordinary At the eissuin~g election.-** We are authorized-to ananotunce EDWARD PRESLEY, as a Candidiate for the Office of Orditnay at the ensiing eleictiierr *We are authurizedt~o aanounee Col. WILLIAM H. MOSS, as * Canddtate for the effice of Ordinary at the',ensuio'g election. tO7 The frinds ofhEyRYT. WRIG HT ,Esqr., announce hsim ansa candidate ;for the-of. - ice of Ordidery of this District, at the ensuing eleenion. We are authorizelf to nnoince lnaj. ' L. COLEMAN, ar ia'codidete for Ordinary at theiebe'niing eleiioea. .Te friends of -H UGH A:NIXON, Esq., respeetfolly ananone hiam as a -Candidate for the office of Ordinary, 'at thp- next Election. . . - ..7 (Gi' We are autherisd tod di'ineo WM. M. JOHNSON-, .Esq.va.endiidate for Clerk of the Diutrict Cou t'rEdgefield 117 The friends of PETERQUATTILE - A3UM, Eset.. announce him as a candidaterfor the Ofisk of. Clerk of the Vourt 6[ Connnptu Plear, of this Disdrici, at th'e'nsoineletn We are athorized to annosiidet'I IOS. ASA tON, a candidate4or re-slteetisil na ,Clerk ofihbe ICourt;fur: Edtefield:DistrieL. The friends, ofi... PENN, annebpce him as a Candidite for ihe Ollice of (Cerk ATHOUSAND MILES OF GOLD. Mr. Catlin recently delivered a lec tureon. the exteit of the gold region. .He- desribed California.as.one thousand miles. squaie. 'ie iad. traversed the greater patt of the-country between the Sierta Nevada and the Rocky moun tains, and found it for the'greater pat t to be most valuable far. the purposes of poploatidn. Re prnceded ihus. He.belieyed this tract to be etually rich in. gold with the West of the sierra Nevada, wheie they were now diggi-uyg; nay he bel it-ve-gold would be found and worked- with. equal success -east of the Rocky -Moun tin's. - Thirtv thousaid Mornrons who - had bien tlhe first- dig gers-in the present gold region.had saud der,1 ert it fo thd Great Salt Lnke neighbb hood. ..Titis meant sonethirg. By die last-. accounts it appeared that1 they had discovered gold near. the- lake, still- lhors ablindant than Aspon- the banks of the Sacramento, at adistance of from fdr hdndred to eight hindred miles ip :1:at rit-r. . He -elietved that the thrde mountain ltains 'of.th Sidrra Nevada, the ltodky Mountains and the Alleglia nies had all been upraised by some vol. canic or-subierranean forces,-and in be-. ing upheaved- they broke the crust of white, -milky' quartz, lying -horizontally all ovEr thdtcounwey, andvhieh- expe riencei hadshown to' be the native bed of old The upheavd tiouttains fiould shed ibis quariz., and' his ore int6 the vallies. on both sides, and hence. the latest accounts from.the. gold: region des cribe . them .as breaking theJumps of quatz with sledge-1:amniers- acd picking out tlid gold with bowin-kniles. The Rock'v.Moun'tins mitst haie sred rhis quttA with. its' gold dpash fb he east as well. as -the weri. He mentioned finding lite Camanchpl,the KiQway and other tribes of Indians,.iedring large lumps-of gold, as neck. ornaments, and one-old Kioway .chief-told him it-was found seven days' -travel west of his lacq; h)ut -Mr. -Callin, bein; attiacked with a iliousfteer, and meeting with &I patty of dragoons just then returned made his way back .-to ; Nw :Orleuns. The present gnld-region had an area not less-th-n thmt of Great- Briisin, and he firmly believed that ih six months a tract of not less thni- a thousand miles sqwvrre would be found to co.ntuin, and wotild be dug of mined forgold . Frbm die dreirille Mountaineer. I.BUISA V~s-rA, 19th A pril, IS819. -Mr. Edi lor:-W e- - have been :terribly scorched at Enoree Faciary. hut roriunate ly not hurnt out., .The. circumstances of the case are .very encouraging to persons not to get in deipair. and to cease from making prope; exertions tot soon in such rying cases. .On. Monday -lastw.between eleven.-anid twelve o'clock, the. dreadful alirm- or "The Factory is onfrire"- was given, and which proved -to be -ton true. The fire originated, no.doubt, by friction of a piece -of inachinery, called the. Wil. low, which necessar'ly has to- be in'the eotton room, where. the cottoo is first opened, and- there ii - generally a -large quantity -opened cottoir near it. When the fire occurred, there was fromn six- hun dred i a thonqand -spounds of picked cot ton stripped oT,' nnd a great -peal of it lay very loose, around the willows-thefiire enught to this, -and- the rdonni,. (whichr dds on the second Bloor, and was thirty-two by sixteen feet, with a plank-partition in side.) was enveloped in flames in a few minutes, and -hefeire - any- ielp' enuld get there wnth huckert? (buse water. theflames were- bursting throngh .tlie windlowvsand doors on three sides. This was the situs tiod before. the first bucket of water-wai thrown; but such were the. determined.and rajfid; eetions; used -after; illey did corn paritiohwas bmtri througp. half ;way the roGm,t-hq sahes barrza-oout,.of the windows, the .weiatet-boarding ,,aud. jrof on f e yet..hbeyondL our - rnoet sauguine..ex pecta ios,.the, flamesq was, subdued,. and, the bou.and qnachonery.alt..saved, except:n'g the Willow, where-.the, fire orginated, andi it was..btunt ato-.acoal, .and our damages cau.be madeg.ood-wiith one hundred dol la rsj pnd whasis-very .remarkable, at least thre-fosfitagl those engaged. in exI.in gisitligt he, fire, .were.females.. H ad .it not been- for. tbea mnly~ ansi..acpive 4xer utnsi in. svp.plying. i be 'few, qpen .p~eresent with-. buckets..-of-water fr-om the river. .the -ose cpurlpnot bve beeti saved. They deerve,,saihave, gie u.wneA t gr ate fuIthag4Ior.; tie gbe nd ,aptive os' e .ee..Yn.agveorv .urespecttfully, ., . s, ..P fI1L:.C. LESThL When a'schtoolmaster -onceask'ed a fur pupil, "Caoyendecline a kissi" sfie repligilJopYfll a'perplexigo'r rpost plgu~i'V - ly. . -* Acunts cfrom Missihsippi, Alabama, Vimdar'orgtia.~and~Notii nd South fi epise~ eAp ofwh'et, corhs ad cottd~n-to have boen much-lwn jncl, Iv twlt, rent frosts. - - THE NMVIGATIOr LAWS'-Th New Orleans Crescent, referring to the. smal .majority .ohtined at the second reading .oftheBill. i .an article on the subject hat ihe "following sensible rersiarlts. - That pa: per is anxious that the tnited Statet should lead of in this matter, which we trust.she. wilLsirely do in the event of the .failure of Mr. Labouchere'.s bill &.We were anxio-s ihat the United States, w-hich have been the harbinger ol io many of the great imprvements intro duced into. pol'iical. sticuce, should also be the first -to carry the docrine of Free Trade into navigation. We were the imiti talor of Britain, when we.put tle naviga. tion law. in our statute 1)o)k, ii would be ioo bad ifiwe were In keep just a little in the wake of English Iegislation, and erase the.law we had copied .as soon as British legisiators had found it convenient to gpt rid ofthe laws which they. so Jong and so jealqusly .mainai'ned. As the British Par. iilment appears to be advancing slowly in the .work of abulishing tkiese laws, we hope that thie American governmaent will yet be able to take the initiative and lead, as she bad heretofore so.ofien led, 'in the career of progress and the amelioration of the' race. "Nor do we consider it inconsistent wiih an enlarged and liberal philanthrophy, to be thus anxious that our countrytshould take precedence in all that pertains to the welfare and d.evelopnent of huma.nity. The-individual is the centre of an intfinite numlier of concentric circles, 'and his be. nevolence .must ,have passed through the sinaller and more internal circles, ieTore it can enlarge in the great curve; which) lie more remote from the centre. AV the love of country.. is funuded on the love of family, so general philanthropy is based on. patriotism. Anxioius as we are.to see ite human race advance n rapid as possi. ble in everything that tends to increase its happiness and well being, we rejnee superlatively when our own country men are the agents in effecting ends so desira ble. It is for this reason that we are half filensed, as' steti as a little is appointed, by the news tbat Mr. Labotcher's bill has not bqeu altogether succesiful.. The delay of a few motiths on thp part of British lC islators, may give Atnericin statesmen.an been restraints atnd impcdifents. Td oiii commerce. Qur tariff law, or 184G for nished England with an exampleand n rea son for achange ir her system of levying ;utie-vhy should we not -also tell her that we iave found useless.tlose other statutes in regard to shipping, which we have so unthinkingly copied. and have with such foolish obstinacy so long upheld ? TuE VALU1E or LAND iN FREE AiI7 SL.vIC Sr E:s.-In our. last nnmber we made some -rectsarlis tnpoti Mr. Clay's as ertion that the landholder of Kentuicky would be remujnerated for tito emancipa. 6on of-his slaves .in the increased value of us lands, in - hich we showed that it) ihe neighborhood of the Ohio River, Kentcky ltids ate three and a half tines-as valna be, as lands equially as favorably situael and well. improved on the Indiana side; and also that Kentueky lands are murh mirre valuable. than -the lands of Ohio, tie mohdel State of the- emanacipators; We have since conversed witlr a higily respectable far'ier. of -Jefferson county, a Pennsylvanian by birth, who informed as that a sale .ofa well -improved tract of anid; near Uica Indiana, (five miles abwe Louisville, and two miles fromn the Ohio.) was made not long since at twenty del lars per acre. - An etitrally well improved ad.situated tract, cannot be purchased on the Kettneky bide of the River, for less than from forty dollars to seventy-dlollars The same genticinan has lately been spending some time in Ohtio, andl assures us that the value of .good lands in Ken tacky..is from -ten. dollars to fifteen dollars above' those-of Ohio, location, improve menti. &c., being equal. .The farmer who gave us these facts, is, as we Slave before stated, a Pennsylvzanianl by birth,- and-is .by no.niensthat may be termed an extreme man on the subject of slavery. He informed us of what he kunisi io be-fatt, and leaves to others to dae their own deductions fronm them. kiis testimony certainly overthrows the mere speculations of' Mr. Clay and the Emancipationists,. relative to what would probably be -she.value-oflan~d in Kentucky if -she was-turned into an Abolition Par ...i ..--usne.) Chronil. , LLatVirorN~WsPA?.ER Adg'qTs.-Th vendrs of newspapers and pamphletsd not seem to be generally-a ware, that the' are equally .responsible with the publishey for any libetous miatter' contained In -sace issues, lo Philadelphia, Dafas A. Knea a newspaper agent,. bas been cpnvicted a libel on) Mr. J. I-. -Gib'ori, of .thaat cit, The libel contained- -ii, the New-Yo: Rolice ;Oazett,- a copy-of-which was- pa. chased-.at tbi store of Mr. Kaea.a,.R< peeabenewspaper venders cano~t e carefuain -satisfying themselves. of. chaacter .af .the publicationls, - to- wh b they give circulation. A number ofit . des haves been let of! from their liabili s only ihrooghlyheindulgene of the inj d pat-es-. -'.- -. -E#AiTMard o THE!|thTER~OR-- 'he whel. ii ippiars. is 'siow '"kept goi~ (to sue ir. Collemer's phrade) wiihout y. thiot grebo''it. Congress, in its gte o ~iz'videdSee'fary and Assist. tie. crea-y,-&ci,orget to make any aripr riat ti, fr . the...aymen ofheir saari ThdNew-Orleans Bulletin sas: "The State -of Georgia -is the. largest Cotton [growig Site in tihe Union, and it is al -most intedible that."thesnall beginnings' of a iIe which is more exteusive tIhan that of~aoy othor-one. product, ar.e of suclh recent 4lute, as to he within the mlietItory ofrliviq gwitnesses. One is slow to believe, .that-tetian is yet olive, who bodahi.tthe first poind of Upland Cotton in Georgia, and. wh with his own hands assorted and packed3fse first parcel for market, and yet such is-4bo fact. "W ather from the excellent journel, Hunt'l.a'lerchants, Magazine, some curi ous'jneniorpndy in relationi tn the rise and progreisjf the great staple, which ns they ha.ve :iterested us, may likewise excite the interest of some of our readjers. "Lotton is an article which wasnimoast unknown in Commerce until the close of the last ceniury, O.f the two kinds.cul tivated in..AeUoited States, the -black seed orArngp sinple cotton was first cul tivated n -.Georgiai, about the yrar 1786; the.gree seed or short staple cotton, some years atrer, although it had been taised in North zrolina and Virginia in a limited way prier to the revolution. The tiitive place.off he seid of tle.loog staple coton is .elieve to .he Persia. The first bag exporie& -from Georgia . was grown by Alexander Bisset, of St. Simotn' Islutid. and shipped from Savannah by Tharris Miller, in 1783. Mr. Miller is stil~living in Camden county, it) the enj lyinent of a green 'old nge. Ile was one of the first who engaged in the husiness of buying cotton:in, the Savantah market. and for a lkng time was the only purchaser. It came id him :id patrcels of Iron 20 lbs. to 100 lbs., and-with his own hand.i lie assotte.l and packed it fir mtarket. [lis exclusive anld great zeal in bringing forward the ar, tidle, gavie him very early Ilte name of "Cotton Miller," which he still holds in tmuch honor. In 1792 the growth tf cot ion was so inconsiilerable or ps .rommner cial article -deemed of so little. value. that Mr. JaI, it his :reaty with England, ne gotiated that year, consented to the stipu latin, ha int.cotton should be imported from Ainerica. The .Sennie refused to ratify the artielp, In 1792, the entire crop. ofrthe Uoitel States, was 450 hags; A J,3u5 ba1s" ! In -1784, an G eof was se'ized,* onithie grouw)d that so much cotton could not be the pro duct of the' United States. In 1764. t he invention of the saw gin, of Eli Whiiney, of Connecliet, gasve a powerflul impetus to the enl:ure of cotton, and Crotn that period its pruJuct.ion hus been rapidly otn. ward. Tix Ct'LiTiVATlodV OF Till. Gn meF.-lD has long rince been known hut perhia p not as generally, diissemninated as it should.have beet. hat a jor Gignard, of Columbia. has a vinteyard in the vicinity of that pice, nod also in Lexington District, wie;e the Grapo has.not only been successrully cu.l tivated, but that the process of manufact i. rinlg the -juice of the luscious fruit. inlo wine, has a1lso been accomplished. it has been otr privilege, at. tle resi denne of a friend in Colunbia, some years since, to taste and enjoy the flivor ofson.e of the wines emanating rrom the vineyard of Major Guignard, which has stood lte test of years, and conseqtently practical evideice was helore tts ltat the soil of Carolina could be devo'ed to the produc. tion o'f a gripe that would. under proper management, yield wine of .good quality, that would connand a price to retmnerawe the producer. n-nd thus give a .new and proitable direction to agricultur-l labor. Yesterdny, we were presented withl if sanple of Bransdy, distilled by Mijor Guign'ard, some year or two sincee, which, tr a first attempt-doubtess on a smatll tale, antd under various disadvantages was surprisigly sttecessful. 'rho flavor tf the spirit is good, andI as it is of course a pure article, it.only wants age to brintg it it to favorable comparison with that im rjoed from abroaid. - rihhspariceul evidence of thc 6itness fo'ritthe growing of the fruit which i!l to produce WVines atnd Brandy, .we hbould hope that.. more extended exper:, ~ents may be made, to test the lucrativer jess of the entertptise.-C'ha...Couu ice AYUFACTUt!159 ,3 G~oxol.GN.Th Svannah Rejpublican.snys-We sa w an. doversed the other daty''with a gentleman largelv ~increased..in the'Curtr1ght Mynu factring Company, iwhose 'nills *are O thte Oconee River in Greeni County. We at e intformed by him' ?lat those mills enn sume 2,000 bates of cotion 'a year, runriig 5,000 spindles. Thtey liave been rather. more than two years in o'peintibit, am( frm the first iomestt ofstartigng htave pahl a good dividend. *One "fact alone suhlices to convined us of~ihe 'spirit of enterprise that has seized our 'up'coutttry friends. 'rhe Curtright mills wero in operatioti tithin iiue monthi after the first spade was put into the ground. OnATOR Or TriE SdUTTn CA.ROLINA INE sTTUT.-We ,are ptleased to be'able to nouce that Gen.,1ames H. Hamniond, his been elected by the Board of Mand. gevs of the. South-Ciarolina insiitute to deliver the address at the agening orhthe An. nual Fair -in October neutt. Gen. H. h:ts signified his acceptance of the~6fice, and having,- we learn, Ibor some-time piast di teted his attenition to the objects comtem plated by the lnstitute, and been engaged infarminig binielftof tlie industrial esipacit. ies and statistit~s'eour State, his co-npera tion will giveto the movement a- begin-~ iiig auspicious of Wampiste and permatr nt stzcceEs. EEATABLES,AND . SPEAKABLES. Dziruocus rd TBE WA REB!. (between a Yaiikre, an.Irishriin, a Dutchman, and'a Ornchm'ar., on the subject of eatables and spcakablrs.) Yankee. flullo, Mouiseerl whq.tare you goihg to do' witfi ileni are frogs there, in that are'basket t ,Frenihmaii. I3e frog,Vy, sare, TLwill eat de fog. Irishman. Ate him ! what ! ae that sprawling divir of a staaddle bug.? I'd as soon -a11e all the 'sarpints that S.. Pattick cairied out of 'ILeland it a bag down the throat iv me. Yatikee.' You can't be in earnest no Monsner. * You ain't s'uch a picke. rel as to bite at ii. og? Frenchin. Pickerelle! .-atis dat y01 call do pickerelle? Yankee. A darned 'great long nosed fish thatwe catch with a frog bait. rrenclhnan. Vat you tell me, sare. You.bait de frog vit de.fish ? Non .Dieu! you no undirstand. de frog-yid no tas!e, rgo sense, no skill in tihe cusine.? Fish do bait with de frogl Begar. Yankee. Fish da bait.! Why don't you parleyvoo right end foremost? Irishtrhan.. Ay, ctikhlamacree; %iiy don't vou'put tlo.cart before the. horse, as [do? butchman.. Yaw, mynheer,. whly don't you dalk goot Eiiglish as I does ? Yankee. Dulk t Ha, ha1, ba, ha! you talk dalking ? Why, you can't no more pronounce the'English thap a wild flippinot. You.can't get your clumsey Dutch tongue rourd the woids of civil iied.language. Now listen.to.me, Mant seer Frenchinan, and I'll teach how it's done.- . D)uti chlman. No; listen .to me-I un terstants how, to pronounce do most properest. I grimes from te todder sidt of Eniklait, and uide I knows how to spoke de pure English., Irishnvin. -I that a ruisonable sort iv a raison now By that..sane logic I should know how to speik iv Ingland, and ias niver across the iish clhanneil since I was born, let alune the day befri e that. -A nd Iliin, besides, ime great grand-mother. was a school. m:isier, and me second counsin, Omi me neighbor's side, was a praicher in *the bargainl. So, Mister Monsure, I'm the boy that'll taiche -ye -ro spake Inglish prnlierly. I Frp'nchma. 'ui. All speak do Ingvlesc-de Yanke.e, 'de Irishman, de Dutchmin, all speak him boss, and till s)e:ak him dilTeretnt ! Begar-Now, vat you call dis-(showing a potato) dis prome de tarre ? -Yankee. That purn de tar - Why, Moiinseer I call that puml) de tar an Irish PotA 10. Fr.nchman. Out. Now, sare, vat yoi call iini 7 frishman. A paratic-a raal mur phy, to be. sure. Frenchman. Oui. And sare; vat your call-im ? Dichnian. Wat I galls him ! Wy, 'ills him-bodado, and any vool might inow dat. F--enchunir Ha, han, begar, you all call him difTerent. You all speak de :rde I.ngese, and-you no speak him like. 11a, ha, ha. Yankee. Well, Miounsier, now i mue aIs you a question. What is this I ~avn in'mny band (showved in a cane.) Frenchinian. Vat is dat ? Vy, sare, lat is-sacre-me no. can tink.. V;t you call dei hommo de rascalle, vat. kill Yankee. What killed a bell.?. Fienchman. Oui, Monsier, dat grand rascal dat murd, dait knock doswn A -belte vile lie krep de sheep, de mnouio6i. - Dutchman. Oh, oh, I know wat he means-now; he miens'i Gaii, de vurst murderer. Fren chiman. Gui yes sare fi o cane.. .* Yankee.' Bight; Mounseer, it :inii ho canes. Now, what do you call in, you limb'of old Ireland, you essence'of bdgun ? lrischnian. I'm afthier calling it a shellfahb; anid if you don be aisy callin' ill names, ilbe afther .provin it to ye. .Dtchm~an. .Now shientlemans, don't ito about.ta vorte. Hlark do me. I'll put you dut one. -What do you call dis 1 [ho~ng a qumtity. of curd with whe.). Irishiniin. Och! and isn't it a bon ney clapper ! - -Yanke. You may cal: it whai yott please; biut Teall it luppei-'d mil5t. Frenchman. Lop-&ai nilk ! Mon Dieu ! De Yankee .mitk nye de ear, e hear vat hesay-Mon Dieu. .lDutchman. Now you be'al! wrong; dis vWhit 'have rn theriddiin is sin:ear case. . . *Yankee. .3ts darned queer case, X tik. Whyr you don't k-nowv-the diffes rence between t weed ledum-and tweedle dee, So, good bye to yotr. Frenlehinan. -~-Do Toedledam ho-is iio feeled, ~ar.n '(fre 6Mie of tho frogs hopped out of Monsieur's -bapkr lie pursaes hin.) leaky de (rgi Q me pauvre frog! d grand fricasse, Iishiian. Och, aid isn't: that 'ttee'r now, that a living straddle-bug .shosl run-airay befor e li's cooked at all-the ungrateful sarpint . St. Patrick Orese'rv me-from all frogs and.toads aundother snakes as long as I am live. And ad ivith this praffis, I'm ofT. 0i1chman'. Mine Col! t'hat.a.vuss is here apout a pulr frog ? But I'll puy niie sour-grout and den III-pe of, it lesser as no dihiie. GOOD * AD ie..:-John H.* Prentic in his recent valedictory-on retiring fio - tho' editodia !tai', ihic~h he had Ale4 for forty-two years,-has the following i No mail shodld be witobt a well coni ducted newspaper ; he is far behint4 the spirit of tIe age, unless ie reads one is not upon an equal footing with 1is fellown-men who enjoys Ach adiogat and is disregardful of his family, in not affording them at opportunity of ac <uirinig a knowledge of 'hat is pasing in the worrd,- at the cheapest .possible teaching; Shbw .te a famiytj withoat a newspaper. and I- venture v) say that there will be mnanifest in that family -a want of manrieri and Incaifohi of igy norante; gnost. strikingly i e'ntrast with ie neighbor who allows himif inuh a raiionalindulgence. Youtmg umen, especially should read newspapers. I were a boy, even of twelye years,I would read i newspijet weekly, thotig' I had to work liy torch' light to earn modey enough to pay tor it: The iof who reads well,. will learn to .thinit and analyze, and. if so, he.will be al most sure to make a man ofhimself, ha. ting vicious indulgence whichi reading ii calculated to beget a distaste fcr. EN~t ..-Nine-tenths of the njis(He and vices of mankind' proceed from indilence and.idleness.. e .Toas, 1h have naturally actie ' a se -qua~ca trough!,iris ilijktniog. 't aliv -tre nost.perniciously affected by thi evils of sloth. The favoriid ians o genins,. endodied witls. &roat .ortjinal powers, -were not made for reposnej.m dolence will quickly -'freeze tiegeniua cnrrent of the soul," and if left.idle longi they les ish froi6 indction, like a iciit tar corrode aird destroyed by rust. But the active occupation of out facultieids It safeguard againit .tlire-great evils; vice, penury, and desponding gloom, Says Colton, "Ennui has iiadebiiole gamblers than avarice, more dronkardi than .thirst, and more suicide thandes. pair." If we would be b'oth useful and happy, we must keep ourselves IndisP; triously and virtuously empleyed. Old Dumb*iedlike was wiie in charging bit son to "be afe direking in a' free whies he lnd nothitig fio to dd." Count de Caylus; A Frerich iholdeiteh, reared.td weabli and princely fdlehkis, tirhid his attention to- cngraving, and made many. fine copiei of adtique gems, One of the nobility demanded fiom him a rea on for this procedure, and was told 6fi the industrious Count, '.1 engra.e, that I may not hang niyself." th!PORTANCE oF IORAL.L EDUCAT40* -Under whose care- soever a hiloil put to be taught during. :ii tender and exible years of his .life,.flyis (s-certaint& should lbe .one who tirinia Latin,.and aguages thte least part ofdaucation mne who. knowing ho-w t:&zi virtue an4 I well tempered souT is to be preferred 6 any so'rC of learning 8b 14jns nakes it his thief b'usiness't'o form the~ nind of his schola an~d 'give tlhisa ~ighi dispositfoA,. 4hmth, if once got, hough all the rest shoul'd be ijghected, bold in due ti'ie ptoditee alf he resta nd which, if it- be. not gog a'd iJitied o as to keep out ill and viiiods habits, indadges, and science; a~d all t):e.oth-. r accomplishments of'. education, will e to- no more puir.pose but to mauke the 'orse or more dangerous uma.--Joh,. Loke. --. A few dayvs since Jonathaw from' tre e.otinirjv, who had taken lodgingr at the A~stor House, was rather surwisedt hew he came to the dinner table, toteds~ilh ing on it. "What will you ha lf''ask ed the waiter.- JoqathirW fdired ac hmi-"I dun (tide." "'ritd you like a 6ill d( fare; gir f 'il'aak ye -I o'(cale ifI' do tate wie~1l ploe.' -- I an old Dimerick'~pe, an Nl entlenan whose Nvdf had *bscodded from him, thus cationt the -publid from trutink h# - 6reasot, aidi desfre-19e one to tiust he on tnj~ account,- foi I am diot miarried, to- her.' : - . - - - 1thb~Vikas, "Lo,the rosy busberd oors "m1ean that they wore low-bol ed deises; such as pm'ietat presee~mtk rahiable nse~esi