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Advertisements not.havng the number of ins'rrtions marked on them, will be continued uutil ordered out and charged accordingly. Communications, post paid, will be prompt ly and strictly attended to. our Yaukee Girls. DY O W. w.oLMEs. LET greener lands and bitter skies, If sneh the wide earth shows, With fairer cheeks and brighter eyes, Match ns the star and rose; The winds that lift the Georgian's veil, Or wave Circissia's curls. Waft to their shores the sultan's sail Who beat the Yankee girls? The gny grisette, whose fingers touch Love's thonsand chords so well; The dark Italian,Jtoying much But more than one can tell, And England's fur haired, blue-eyed dame, Who binds her brow with pearls; Ye who have seen them, catn they shame Our own sweet Yankee girls ! And what if court or castle vaunt Its children loftier born ? Who heed the silken tassels flaunt Beside the golden corn ? They ask not for the dainty toil Of ribboned knights and earls, The daughters of the virgin soil, Our freeborn Yankee girls! But ever h ill jwliose stately pines The home where some fair being shines, To warm the wild with love. From barest rock to bleakest shote Where farthest sail unfurls, The stars and stripes are streaming o'er. God bless our Yankee girls! A KIND ACT.-lhow sweet is the re menbrance of a kind act! As we rest oi our pillow or' rile in the morning, it gives us delight. We have perfoirned a good deed to a poor man; we have manJe the widow's heart rejoice; we have dried the orphiant's tears. Sweet, 0, how sweet the thought ! There is a luxury in remem. bering the kind act. A storm creers about our heads-all is black as midnight -but the sunshine is in our bosom; the warmth is felt there. The kind act re joiceth the heart, and giveth delight in expressible. Vho will not be kind ? Who will be good ? Who will not visit those who are afilicted in body or mind ? To spend an hour among the poored depresised "Is worth a thousand passed In pomp or ease-'tis pleasant to the last." TAKING IT IN EARNEST.-Some peo pie think, even to the ptresent day, thnt there is reality-ostcesible vitality, about the stage, as is inidicated by the anecdote of an Ohioan-we do see, why lhe should have been from Ohio though: "A hog-drover, from Ohio. having dis posed of his swine in one of the eastern cities, strayedl into the theatre where King' Jjtb was being played. Hie wvatched the play with-a good deal of attention, though he didn't "zacily understandl the natur of the critter," as lie expressed it. I'ut the scene where H-ubert and' yotung Atthur enter, completely absorbed him. Arthur asks "is there nto remtedy ?" and Ilubert answers, '-None, biut to lose youtr eyes!" - The Buckeye was on his feet in a se cond. "I say, yeou withm the red-ot ir'n ! Ef yeou but jest tech a hair of thatt ar' boys head ll knock you iuto linked sas sengers!" The "pitites" hooted, the boxes roared, and the Buckeye droppedl inito his seat like a big dumpling. Hie said lhe didn't mean to interf'erc, but hte'd be drat rabited. ef lie watnted to see the boy's eyes druv up!" A GOOD R:rowr.-A htumorntus young man driving a horse, whieb was in the habit of stoppinig at cver-y house ont the road..side passinig a coutntry tavern whtere were collected together somec dozein cottnn rty-men, the .beast, as usual, rait opepossite -.ite door, and there stoppJed ini spite .uf the young man, who applied the whip wiith all his might to drive the horso ott. Tihte crowvd ont the pmorch coommencedl a lhearty laugh, anid some enqutired if he would sell the horse ? "Yes," said the young mnu, but I cannot recomment him, as heotnce belonged to a butehter, ar~d stops whenever ..ho hears calves bleat." Thbe crowd retir ed to the bar- in siletice. Why is a thief called a jaildbird ? Be euse hnei ha n a ro'n. RESULTS OF EMANCIPATION. One of the great problems of the ace is now being solved in those of the Wes, India Islands which have abolished la very. It is whether the negro is capable of a hiaber civilization, and., by consequence, whether those islands can Ilourish as well under freedom as slavery. . The abolition ists claim that the negro is every way the equal of the white man-that he is sus ceptible or the same degree of eulture-the same li-gh position in the social and ment a scale-and that free lahor can competc and expel slave labor every where if the chances of the two be equal. This imniportaut 'g ee-tion-now particu lIrlv impjortunt to the South-is being solved. We think, however, that ii has already been quite clearly solved, and h5 the emancipationists themselves in the West India Islar'ds. Jamaica, Antigua and iarhadloes are puzzled to lhe last de crve on the subject; and omitting the true solution of the dilliclty-(namaely the incapacity of the peiro)-they are likely to grope about in the lark lorever. W have before us the preceedins of meeting in the islandi ailbtred to, but as each of then is a type or the others, a brief ac count of one will serve as a description of ihe others. At a recent meeting in Jarnai ca. the Lord Blishop presided. He said, on taking his seat: "Our plain and single object is to press upon our rulers, by all the constitutional means within our reach, by petition heaped upon petition-by proclamation loud and continuiur, of what we know to be the truth-by such advocacy as we can pro cure within and without the walls of [far liment-'lie justice and the necessity of compelling the states of Spain and Brazil to a fair and full complinnce with the treaties by which they are solemnly bound to her Britannic Majesty; treaties which had, and have, for their express object, the extinction of the heaviest curse that even fell upon mankind-the suppression 'of the inhuman tra llic in slaves with all its hide 3us and moirderous incidents, and the gradual abolition of slavery thronghout every portion of the civilized world." This was the bur len of all the speakers. The a botinible trafic in slaves is ruining Jamaien; and the obvious means o redfress is for England to enforce the observance if the internationial treaties on the subject. Stop the slavo trade. and the island will reblontm in verdure-delapidated estates tyill be restored to prosperity; and Cuba itself4=/*ndwtnoe -nlcceldi th ritivitt he. The Rev. S. Oughton said that, af ier giving the subject his most anxious consideration, he was fully persuaded that it is only in the enforcement of the treaties that any hope can exist that the Colonies wilt continue to be sugar exporting or even sugar manufacturing countries; for, so long as slavery exists, it will be in vain for the British !West Iudian Culonies to expect that they can compete with the sugar producers of Cuba and Brazil. 'Why,' said the speaker. does not Eng land insist upon the the faithful perfor matice of thoise treaties ? A single word from the lriti-h throne would awe the Spaniards into obedience, and accomplish lhe object; one lightning glance of England would cause the fetters to fall from the limbs of the slaves in Cuba, and we should gee thet as free there as we are in Jamai ca." The Rev. Dr. S. 11. Stewart remarked that the bland was suffering on account of the non-observance of the treaties. "Estate ater estate has been thrown 3ut of cultivation, and want and misery stare every man in the face from the mai who owns the estate to the humblest la. borer upon it, all are suffering, and the ..ly cheering reflection is, that this h.as trisen out of thle aboit inn of slavery, an act which all religious mnt most rejoice. liut, -my Lord, it is tnt necessarily sa lfor f justice were to the British Colonies, if Greatt firitaini iid justice to herself, prnos perity would again da wn." Tlie speaker then drew a vivid picture af the distressed cotdiiion of the coumiry mnd said that unless some change speedily ook place, tho laborers wol soon retro ~rade into a state of' harbairism,."atnd thus vould freedomi, whichis itself a blessing, be, y the utnjttst policy oif the Mother Country, rendered a curse." There w'as also another retmetdy pro. posed; ihe'eamne old onec ofsome oflihe polili. cal econotmiit when they are in deepi water; uamely protection. Thisa, they said,was at: excellent chinig. Protect us agaiinst thet products of slave labor, nndh wo catn ctom peto with the world. "'The West Inidis: colonies,'' said tite oef the spea kers,"' ''d not claim prottection against the sugnr of dll other countries in thec world. Whalit we demand is protection against slave. grownt sugar." TIho changes on the im tortnce 'if this was rung sifter the saimu tne by a numtiber ofC tihe oilher spenkers. TIhe admtission of thic absolute necessit y sif protection, and the total inability nf fre't uegro labor, on eqnal grountds, to com-i pete with slave labor, iS to our mindt nodt elTctual yielding of the maini point at issue, itnaely, that the free ntegro is lazy, implrovidenit and incapable .f assuming a igh position. Nowhere in the history of the worl, tnder as favorable circunm itnces asH the white races have enijoyed,. ias lie risen above the degradation of the mist barbaerones titnies; save only in a eon ition of slavery as it exists htere withtin lie Southern States. liero his life has 10een longer-his physical tnatutre bettet jevelopel-is condition ha ppier; his ratN notre pirulific; and n hlit is of even inore mportaitce in the argttmenit--his intellectu il character exalted above that of his pre. riouscotidtiu The reverse of all this has occurred im these cmanacipated islands. The negro there has become more imbruted. lie has sunk, not risenjhy the self control which pseudo philanthropists have given him. One may stop here and close the argo ment-for it may be lait down as an ax iom that the intellectual, physical and fe cund condition ofmen is the best test of the adaptation of their position to nature. If the negro will degenerate in freedom, and improve in slavery, there can he no dilliculty in finding which state is thc more favorable to his happiness. We d not defend s avery as it prevails in some of the West India islands. It is there unnecessarily severe: like excessive freedom, it is destructive to the r.ce, and the humanity of the age ought to modify it. The best means of clTectin t this is the suppression of the slave-trade-a suppres ions which will strengthen slavery itself :and be of-incalculable value to our country. The Cuban puts unnecessary burdens on his serfs, because he can obtain supplies from Africa at so cheap a rate that it is not profitable to nourish themu or stimulate their iecundity by care and abondsant find. Check this trade, nod it will he his inter est to work his tieroes less aol care -for them more. How it is to be suppressel, however, is another problem. 'The international treaties have done no more good than if they never existed. So well convinced are Brilish suutestnan of this that some of them are in favor of totally abandoning the espionage system, and seeking the same end by dill'using intelligence and religion in Africa. humanize and Chris tianize Africa they say. and all barbarisms will cease. This is jurmpin; to a cnhclu sion hardly warrantable in the case of Afri ca-but any plan is worth trying in order to effect an object so commendable and beneficial.-Mobile Tribune. TIlE PARTY PIRESS. Much has been said in disparagement. of the Party Press by those whose inter ests are supposed to be subserved by abus ing it, and landing their own montrels. Under these circumstances, we will he excused for expressing an honest diffcr ence of opinion on the subject. We can understand a hart is meant tly a "religions paper," a "mercantile paper," a "temper ance paper,' or a "husiness paper," but a paper which -professes everything and undertakes to do everythin, and takes all ides i catrnive no-enmptrncnfary ien' ti for, and deny its right to those asstuel of "neutral" or "independent." A paper professing no prinriples and acting for no other object than to make money-'hon estly if it can, but yet to make money" is certainly too mercenary to be "indepen dent," and too suspicious and meddlesome to he "neutral." But then we wished to s'ay a few words in favor pf this Party Press, not to discuss the charaeterof other papers. Now, we think the Party Press is the true- Press, in contradistinction to the "independent" and "neutral." The country being wanly divided into two great political parties, every citizen rust be. long to one or the orther of these divi sions. consequently, the paper to suit them must he that naper which ad vocates their respective principles ! In the great con tests of principles between the two parties, the individual who takes the neutral ground-if indeed there is such-is ever justly despised'by both sides; and the "inde dendent," if any thing, is considered still lower in the scale of manly action. Is it not then the same with the Press? Every right thinking reader will answer in the alliriative, because the Press must stand upon the same moral basis, and be under the samne obligations as the indlivitl_dua Thtis bcing the caise, the good eit izen, man o~f ptitnelpleI, anrd patriot, looking inrte his own btreast will see there plainly itnscrib ed, the direction, of duty to lbe taken itn the premnises. We do not meant to say that the "Democrit" or "-Whig" should sup port no other paper but the one advoca ting~ his own views, but we do mueatn to say t hat the party man mcs Ihis first duty to his party papcr, and shtould give it a chtreeful, htrarty, arid liberal support such ia sup'port as will ennbtle it to battle mo'st efl'ecrively for thre principles it advo cates, Its believes trite, arnd wishes carried iuto el~eet in the government of the conr try.-ialtimore Argtus. '"The United Simtes peopale having cot toon wool at first cost, and perhaps not rusing qutite-so munch paste atnd gypsumi, anti devil's dust, have beaten our mill owners (Jut of every miarket for the coarset cot tons; even out of our own markets ini In (ha, where Armericani cotton shiirtng of eqrual quality may be brnd for less thtan half then l'toglish price. T1hnis is lhe fruit of our free trade so far, whaich gives to America a haloinee of very miany muillions a year, whearewiuh to beat us out of our owet markets. As yet we have somei small ad vantage in rte litter faibrics, atnd it is reigy tri preserve ilhis mniseral, ad varntage that oure agriculture, our colonies, atid our mnaritimre comtneree- tnot only the source ofour prinicipial wealth, but also the rmilitary bualwiark of (oir safety, aro to lie sacrifieed; andtt, allier all, this wretchued advantage we cannot keep long, for a hit tle expterience will ena ble the Uttited Sttes5 to heait us in the fitter as in the coarser fa brics. It is a remnarkabale and a signiifi.. caut fnct, thmt all the haler improvemeuanls in collon moving achineryj /ave come ,from the United States. Our cation triade is tdoomned; atnd thte leagners can only accele rate its ruin lby thte rtte att which th<~-y are ,trivia,"---Londlon lIIr->la. From the hlamburg Republicnn. t iould call the attention of our rea dersd the annexed leiter received from a highly respectable and intelligent planter in Msbeville District. LONG CA E, AIDDEvLL-, S. C. Frknd Baird :-Your numerous readers in-thIE section are mneh pleased at the cOgU4.Jou have taken in relation to Plank Roads, We look forward to this descrip tion O public improvement as not only practicable, but highly expedient; and frotihich we may be enabled to reap a portido of benefit. ileretofore we have beeibs it were, isolated between Savan nah iver no one side, and the contem pJated rail road on the other, too remote from ejther to derivo much benefit from the costruction of the one or improve mt f the other. Hence we havo taken no. t and felt but litile interest in the suic of those enterprises. Being con pe as it were, to satisfy ourselves on de'rold system of had roads, to drag orr uce to market through quagmires to heat destruction of bur teams and wa The light you and your corres poI have thrown before u., open tiu neV "pcs and we already begin to feel th too 'may, by proper efforts, he en' to-bring our faris within one half th sent distance from market. We lid v een so-long accustomed to our pres en etched public road system that it mtt dire some time to rouse the mass 6 f4onple from the lethargy [that eat cb ahen; but I for one feel perfectly saiil, even from the slight investiga tion ave been able to give to the subject, that e day is not far distant when Plank Roa 'will supercede our present system, in all the flat sandy sections of our Srif not generally on all our main Mia roads, It requires but little reflec ton ihe part of our citizens to make the& rceive the great inequality and bi some character of our public road syt .What are the facts as regards the " . moinde of keeping up roads. I will on qt-iice my own case, being what mig e- termed a middle class farier, ,ands abbout thirty-five bags of cotton tnn y. To get this Cotton to lam hur Augusta requires five trips of my waS Well, to enable me to take th e s I ant compelled by law !o work ni nds as much'as twelve days in each ye, -he public or market road. It is true wga :icnerally work more than six or N Iirb.infat" diien' -ait sevean a'ri ayerace, nine times seven is sixty three, making actually sixty-three days work I am compelled to do annually on -the road. Now I consider fifty cents per day as moderate wages (sometimes it may b~o worth much mnore to the farmer) making the annual road tax on me, $31 50. Sup pose we had a Plank Road arid I had to pay toll to the amount of 1-our dollars each trip, it would only amount to twenty dol lars making a saving of eleven dollars and fifty-cents to me annually. Ilut the ac tual saving would be much beyond this, for instead of live trips over bad roads, I woutld have to make not over three, be cause 1 could carry nearly double the quantity of cotton at each load, and make the trip in two-thirds of the time now re quired, wittout broken wagons or gawled mules. There is one thing presents itself to my mind as unjust, and no doubt will appear to many others in the same light when suggested, we farmers work the roads, partly, it is true. fur our own -henefit, but more for the hneifit of the heavy wag ons from North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky, who pass over therm with their enormous loads, cutting them into perfect ditches, without benefitting us or our sec tion ofcountry one larthing. Thiq would not be the case unider the PIaitk R~oad sys ett, as all that passed over atnd reaped the benefit, wvoul cont ribute, in toll, t owardse keeping them in repair. I notice tlte E~dgefield Ad vertiser is also ad vocatiug the cause. I tust, however, you llamburg pieo ple will not be coutenit to siop your road at your CourL lonse. Push on. A bbeville will tmeet you. We are not all Rail Road mcii, though we talk a good denl on the sutbject. * ; ? . B usmytss Pans t':c-r-s or liAstauo. WVe ure gratified in hiiig able to inform ottr country readlers that tho prospects of business w-as tnever more flatterintg in our Towno. Outr Grocery Merchants are get ting in large eupplies-and tmany of them having got them up the River at vcry low freights, are enalbled to ail lhevy goods at satisfactory prices. Our lard watro imen too, are getting in their supplies, anid shiow from their large stocks, that they anticipate a greatly itncreased detmanid.. Our Dry Goods men are also btusily engagedl, in opening atnd arrangin:; iheuir fall supplies. Wec were particulirly aumrmetedi yesterday by the display ma rde by Messrs, Jackson & Kinchiley-, atid cnriosity prompujted us to stalk into their fanicy Dry Goods estahu lishmeni, whetre we foum-h tite of the most beautiful stock of goods we have l'uoked oiver for a long t imen. Our D~ruggists are also filling tip anti suemed to be prepairedl to) paiint, varitish aid drug all creation; and our lIotel keepuers, tnot to he out -done, are enlurcing aind uiprovintg i le public houses so as to itake t hemo e-o'aul to any ini the tup-coutry-. Buit, perhaps the best feaiture of all, as regards thte prospects of our Town, is, t hat there aret tntmierons faimi lies wanting dIwellings, aind none to be had. -bid Whe a ltaimre girl is hissed. she says shie is tasing chiloroformi, anid retmains isensible as iong. as the operalien latsts. Th:italnl right if it foelsegood, MANUFACTURES AT THE SOUTH Our readers ivill doubtless recollect the controversy on the subject of manufnctu ring at the South, in which we urged its necessity and propriety. Fiom the Mer curt' of Monday we extract the following endorsement of our view of the matter, based upon 'fctts and figures' not at that time accessihle, but which fully sustain the leading positions then taken by us. The closing paragraph admits facts strongly controverted hitherto. The Iler cury Ines not seem to have any apprehen sionl as to the political eff-et of such in dustrial chances :-Col. Telegraph,. We publish to-day the annual state ment oftho New York Shipping and Com mercial List. It will be found to contain matter of moch interest to the South, in reference to the domestic consumption of Cotton by the dilTerent sections of the Union (luring the past year, and calculated to justify the highest hopes of those who have so strongly pressed upon, the South ern people the advantage and importance of introducing manufactures as a means of diversilying the pursuits of industry, and enlarging the basis ofour'self-deptendence. We have never desired to see the South rush into manufacturing, or sacrifice for it the great predominance s:e has among producers. The latter is our sword, the former only a shield, which however, though second to that, is to be counted inferior to no other element of industrial strength and security. We have never doubted that the time would come when a portion of capital could be diverted to manufactures, not only without injury to the production of the material with which we clothe the world, but with eminent advantage to it and to the whole South. That it was best to leave it to the sagacity of capitalists to decide when the time was ripe for such a change, is not only con firted by the history of manufactures else where, but is strikingly illustrated by their almost noiseless, hut steady and rapid growth with us-a growth, as it were, spontaneous, and therefore having the fairest assarance of continued increase and substantial profit. Referring to the authoritative statemdnts of the journal above mentioned, it will be seen that the number of hales of Cotton consumed by the Northern factories amoun ted, iii 1818, to 531,772, and in 1819, to .518,0:39; showing a falling off in the con sumptioti of the last. year. compared with. the y~eeedli g.-0f 13,7:f3 ajew:, . , Trieqantitry of Cotton manufcturied in the States South and Vest of Virginia. according to the same authority, amounted In 18-8, to bales, 75,000 In 1819, to 110,000 Increase. 35,000 It wonul thts appear that whilst this great htapch of-industry has declined a.t the North, during the past year, at the Sotth it had advanced at a rate unpral leled in the history of cotton tmanufacturo, say 31 per cent. In the above the con sumption of Virginia is not included, which is estimated at over 20.000 bales.-This added, gives a total of 130,000 bales con sumed in the South and West during the past year, against 5IS.Q0o bales in the North ; the latter. accorying to their own showing, declining ; the former rapidly in creasing. We con; ittulate the Southern States on this exhibit, which satisfactorily proves that they have passed beyond ex periment; and have permanently added a new and important branch to their indus trial resources. It shows. too, that they can not only manufacture profitably, but can compete ou eqal terms with the most successful. 1IrronTANT TO JiconRPoRATED IN.. s'rlTu'rtoNs-ln the Scetmber number of the Bainker's Mlaga::inc, we find several decisions whicht haire a direct hearing ttp on the bhusiness of Banks tind other holders of tnegotiablo paper.' Iy these decisiotns in the Newv-York Supreme Court. fo.rtifled by simtilar decisio:s in the Conrts of l1as sachusetta, and itn the highest English Courts, it is shtown that every Notice of Protest shotild contain rte words "'pay tment ha~vittg betn duly demanded," "or wonis tatntam toutit thereto. T1hte fortms at pre'senlt use1 itt nearly all the .Mtates. are d~fl:Ctice in this essential point. T(he eases now qnoted. backed by -Story, on Bil/s," (thte first authority on this suhject.) say, that the Notices, of P're test should conitain, in substauce, the fol lowing regntisites: '1. A true detscription of thte nlote, to~ ascertain its identity. 2. An assertioni that it lhas b.etn duty1 presenicd to the nuake. Juer paymen~nt, at nu turity,. and dishonored ~3. That the holder looks to the endorser for indetmnit y. No'v, verty fewi nlotices itn this counti-y cotmiprise thte second requ iiisit e. andtt it be 'otmes necessary, on the patrt of holders of tnegot iable patper, thia t propier andl legal formis shatll ba ob-ervedt by otnr Notories Public. Uhace and former practico nmay exculIpato a N:utnry Publie in thte conltittu ed use of old forms; hut thu courts of our State will ttot hind an coilorser where the ordinary, notice has lbecn servcd upon him. The particutlar case cited catne up. ntnder appeal, heftore Jndges Hoyt, Sill, alarvin and Mtnhlitt, of then Sttpremle Court, iAlarch Termt, IS-lG.-Phil. News. A P'oon MAlas,--They have'~ a man it .tlbi5isippi - 1lean thath mt takes tno shau dow at alt. A rattlesnake sttuck six times ait his legs ini vin, -antd retired1 in disgust. lie miakes all huntgry who look at htitm; and, when chiildrettn met himt on the street thev rutt htotm erviung for brend. A COLORED DUEL. A duel between two colored gemman -a regular built affair- conducted ac cording to the most strict and. punctil lious provisions of the code of honor, cameo oli last week. .The fight took place with pistols of the most improved fashion, at sunrise, on a small branch of he Metairle road We. do not knoi what the origin of the diffi:ulty was, ex cept that one of the parties, to Use the phrase of one of the spectators; "was crossad in luby de odeor and dat him hona must hab satisfaction. We have learned from one who was present at the combat, the particulars us they transpired. They are substan tially as follows A After having taken tlie1? sttfds, one - of the seconds noticed, that, owing to their positions, the sunbeams set his principal to winking and rolling his - eyes. This was sufficient grounds foe interfering, and-he calls out to the. other second with I say, I puts my veto dn dat posishun -it's agin de rules ob all de codes ob hona dat I seer De traction ob tie sun shines rader too sewere;"makes dmy prin cipal roll him eyes altogeddetto mie. - 'Wy, wy, look heah, didn't We chuck tip .a dollar for de cljdiceof ground, and, didn't I git him myself?' 'Yes, I knows you did- but fai plays a a jube, and I 'se no notion ob seeit' my friend composed ulidn and lose all de vantage.' 'Well; l'se no.notion as yoti ls, and I desists on settlin' de tkattel just as we is -and-' At this juncture a friendly cloud set tled the matter at once, by stepping in between the sun and the belligerants. The first two causes took their posi tion, and all the little preliminaries-be ing settled, each one took his pistol ready cocked froth his second. Both manifested a terrible degree of spak, although a sort of blnish paleness.spread itself over theiir black cheeks:. The second who wad.t ;give out the f.ttal order which migltren thetn out of-tpisworld now.took id j ibbd Rii 'Gemmen your iinie ai cuit - Both- signified their assent. '1s you ready? Fiah ! due-two three.' Bang, pop went both pistols at once, one ball raising the dust in the middle of the road, while the other took a 'slan tendicular' course among the bystanders; fortunately without hitting any one. It was now time to interpose, and one of the seconds set limselr about it. Aftei a lintte cdnve'rsation1 the chal lenged darky stepped forward and said to his antagonist- - 'Nigga, is you satisfied ?' 'I is,' 'So is I, and l'so glad to ,got off so. Next time dey catches dis child out on such a foolish 'epedition as dis; dey will fotch me, dat dev vill do foi sartain.' 'Den's my sentiments edzackly,' re torted the other. tWher ydr onmor tal instrument of del wsent off, I declar I thoaght I was a gon child ; but I'se so happy-gosh, let's shake hands and go back to our abocations.' In five'minutes time all lidhds-ene mies, ficnds, black, white an all-were on the road home t-,i u-ork, perfectly satisfied with th6 sport of the morning. -N. 0. Picayune. AN EXCUsE .Poi S310KiNG.-In the reigni of~lames I., of tobacco-hating no toriety~the hnya of a.schobl acqutired the habit of smiokinigsand indtulged in it night and day, using the most inj~enious expe dients to conceijl the tice from their master ; till one luckless evening, when thte evening, when the inmps were hud dIed together round the fire of their dromitory, inohving4 each othier in vapor' - of their own creatiing; Jo ! in burst the master, ardd stood in awful dignity be fore them. "llowv," quothi ie dominie to the first lad, "hwv dare you be smoking ?" "Sir," said the boy, "I anm subject to headaches, and a pipe takes off the "And you ? atnd yont ?" ingnired the pedagogue, questioning every boy in his turni. One had a raging tooth, another thrv chiolic, the third a cougli ; in short, they aull hnd somaething. "Now, sirrah," bellowed the doctor to the last boy, "what disorder do you smoke for ?" Alas ! all the excuses were exhausted: .. but the itnterrogiated uirchtin, putting :lown his pipe after a farewell whiff, and looking ttp in his master's face, said itn iwhining hyp'locritical-tones: "Sir, [ smoke bor corns." Thecro is frequently more pleasure in ~iving a thing than receiving it.. This 'applies more ccpceially to medicine, ad vicv a I::,.~