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oriil btatosufvuMuoo ao V 1-tC .n rat MUIgrciue ILUtetattu?, ~~o?~ ~ ~~t~t~' "We wi!U cling to the Pillars of the Temple of .krza;e and if it must Mt we will Perish amidst theRin. Jr W~. DUXOElProprieters EDGEFIELD, S. Cv EBUR 20181 GQIVE -EVERY DAY. Let us give something every day, For one another's weal; A word, to make the gloomy gay, Or the crushed spirit heal; A look, that to the heart will speak, Of him that's poor and old, r for her, o'er whose wan cheek -T tl many a stream has rolled. The objects of our love and care, In every path we see And when they ask a simple prayer, Oh, selfish shall we be, And turn away with haughty thrust, Asif the God above, Were partial to our pampered dust, And only us did love I Let us give something every day, To comfort and to cheer, Tis not for gold alone they pray, Whose cries fall on the ear; They ask for kindness in our speech A tenderness of heart That to the innocent soul will reach, And warmth and life impart. Wo all can give-the poor-the weak, SAnd be an angel guest ; How small a thing-to smile-to speak, d make the wretched bleCt. These favors let us all bestow, And scatter joy around, - ,And make the vales of sorrow glow With the sweet smiles of Cod I - From the Boston Olive Branch. Intelloct in Rags. A STORY FOR YOUNG AND OLD. - T. wo proud children were tripping along e streets of Boston, one sunshimy day, -4 n their.way to school, chatting as they .*nt, and apparently enjoying themselves rght merrily. e rain had given a coating of mud ,brick sidewalks, so the children y the elder one, a slight and ored gfirl,ith a merry dark the golden hair of some poverty clad in fant, for many such sat-in the broken doorways of that comfortless city lane. The boy and girl moved slowly on ward, their whije brows bent downward, their brightys searching for the hidden pave stopes; yet everand anon some quick laugh/tthe ludicrous figures that flitted acris their path, would throne their 1,wdooth cheeks with dimples. " Don't you hate such dirty places, Ju lia T" said the boy, as a few drops, not of crystal, stained the glossiness of his rich attire; "don't you wish that school was at the other end of the lane ?" " It's perfectly horrible," answered the beautiful young creature, with a light laugh; " dear, do look at those creatures, they can have no sensibility, no refine ment; how dirty, how contemptible they are-well, thank goodness, that we were born rich. "Stop! Jule, hush ! yonder is some thing to excite our laughter, I wawrant you. Ha! ha !na boy larger than myself, and he appears to be picking out the let ters 'on that scrap of paper-balh !" " Stand still, Arthur, do, and let's hear him; we can wait a moment." A few paces before them sat a boy of some thirteen years, hatless, shoeless, and with very scant frock and trousers, the latter a mass of patches. His hair, tan gled and thick, hung over his dowiicast eyes, and his hands, staiuied anid rugh with labor, grasped a little torn piece of newspaper, which lie had evidently picked up out of the mtud. So absorbied wvas he .in his task, that he did( not inotice the fatir and high bred young strangers, who stoodl regarding. himi with thoughless but sub dued mirth. Hark ! the boy,1leaning his brown face on his clenched hands, murmurs uncon sciously aloud-" b-i--n-no, not that ; yes, no"-a deep drawvn sigh, then again -" b-1-a.n,"-a long pause-" oh ! dear -I have forgotten ; I shall never, never read like Barney." As the poor child exclaimed thus, he lifted his eyes, sorrowfully, from the tat tered bit of printing ; his gaze fell upon the listeners, whose beautiful lips were curled with scornful smiles. A flush of crimson started to his swarthy cheeks, rnounting to the top of his forehead, as be threwv off the mass of tangled curls, and his bold black eyes fell before their familiar stare. " Ha! ha !" said the richly clad youth, carelessly,'-I've got a brother only five years old; at home, who can read better than that. A big boy like you ought at least to know your letters. Why don't you go to school I" " To school," echoed Julia, sneeringly, f' do you suppose he could get into any decent schooli his name ought to be patch work ; ha ! ha! poor thing ;" she continu .ed, with mock pity, "our stable boy dresses better than that;" The lad, at her tone of commisseration, sprang to his feet, and bent upon the bro the ad sistor. such a glance of defiance, indignation, and scorn, that they instinct ively hurried onward; though the girl turned once more mockingly round, and gave utterance to a light, bantering laugh. Still the poor lad stood-wounded wounded to the heart's core-still he gazed after them, his full lips quivering with his mental anguish, his black eye, through the misty drops that hung trem bling on his lids, flashing fire, as though they would scathe and blast the selfish pride of those thoughtless children ; then, turning, he hurried up three broken steps into a dim entry, flew along a dark pas sage, and entering a cheerless room, flung himself upon the uneven floor, and wept burning tears of grief and shame. The parlors of a stately mansion on Beacon street, Boston, were brilliantly il laminated. The owner of the princely tenement had issued cards for a fashiona ble soiree; the hour had arrived, and the guests were assembling. The rich and the great were there, but, conspicuous among all, and conversing with the ex-president of the United States, the elder Adams, stood a noble-looking man, in the bloom and vigor of manhood. His face was intellectually beautiful, and his high altitude commanding, yet ex tremely graceful. All the evening," murmured a fash ionable, yet lovely lady, to Mr. Adams,as he hurried towards her, " have I been striving to gain an antroduction to Mr. M-'s distinguished guest; but lie has been so surrounded-now, however, he stands alone. I should esteem it a rare honor to speak with him, but for a mo ment." "You shall have that pleasure," said the ex-president, smiling; and turning, he presented the beautiful and fiscinating wife of a millionaire to the talented stran grer. " We have met before, madam," said the gentleman, bowing low, to conceal a strange expression that stole over his fea every step." He paused-and she gazed more curi ously upon him. " Perhaps you do not remember the time, the place-perhaps you do not re member how two pampered children of wealth passed along that lane-it may be you forget the poor outcast, grasping at' science (though then scarcely conscious,) with his untutored mind. The laugh of derision that was then flung upon this lonely heart-for I am that child-roused the latent fire of ambition within mv breast; and," lie continued more softly, " I thank you for the taunt, and the scorn ful word ; they were ever my incentives in my upward path to honor; I had but to think of them, and my soul was nerved anew. I thank you for them ;" and a tri umphant smile illumined his splendid countenance. The ldy, faint, mortified glided away from her rebuker, and in less than an hour sat, humbled and weeping, in her owvn proud mansion. She had wished, nay, coveted, just one little word, from the being who, in her haughty childhood she had derided and despised for his p~overty' -and she had been repaid with contempt, though smoothly wo rded and delicately expressed, by the neglected boy, whose namre now rang the wvorld through. Have a care, then, sons and daughters of plenty. Scorn not the child of pov-erty, wh'lo with pensive eye and lfed hands, toils np) the rngged heights of Parnassus, uni cared for and unaided. Though clothed in rags, he may gain the dizzy height, while vou, decked in the meaner palra phernalia of wealth, huml 'y grope along the mountain's base, and under the veiny feet of him whom you disdained. Influenco of Early Associations. THE OLD eRIMINxAL REFoRMED. There is a strange, unaccountable, and dream-like beauty in music, which can subdue the proudest spirit, and gliding in to the hush of the heart, will nestle there, stilling its more tumultuous throbbings, and filling it with calm, peaceful memo ries of the far long-ago. All tribes and in all times have owned the spell, from the hour when Pan first taught the Thra cian shepherd to carve his love-notes in the invisible air, and fill the summer nights wvith softest, sweetest flute-music dowvn to the present monment. It is a universal language, understood by all, and awvakening strange pulsations even ini the most obdurate heart. Most of us have experienced the luxury of tears when listening to an old ballad. We know an old man who, having led a long career of vice and crime, was at length banished from his country ; and who while undergoing his period of ban ishment, amidst the wilds and jungles of a distant land, heard, in the summer even tide, a sweet female voice, singing in his own language the very song which had lll him to his intat slumhers, when he knew crime but by name, and knew it only to abhor. It had been sung, too, by the cradle of an infant sister-a little one who had died young, and was now in heaven; the mother, too, was now no more. But the song-the old song had not lost its influence over him yet. Back came trooping upon the old memories, which had so long slumbered down there in the unsunned depths of his heart; the mother and the father; the house-hold gatherings; the old books ; the old school house ; the time-worn church, half-hidden by the old yew trees, where he first heard the Bible read ;-all came back upon him as fresh as if it were but yesterday; and overpowered by his feelings, he gave vent to them in a flood of tears. And then the old man grew calm, and his latter days were his best days; and when the term of his banishment had expired, he came back again to his father-land, and there, in that old village grave-yard, amid whose grassy hillocks lie had first played and gamboled, and where the mother and her little ones were sleeping, lie lay down his weary limbs, and sank peacefully away into the common grave.-Albany Rechabite and Washingtonian. New Anecpote of Napoleon. The following is from the new work in course of publication in the New (Eng' ish) Monthly Magazine, entitled " Anec dotes of Napoleon and Josephine." The incident related (by an eye witness) is as interesting as it is strikingly characteris tic of that remarkablo man: "The other morning, on mounting his horse, the Emperor announced his inten tion of passing the whole of the fleet in review; he gave orders for the position of those vessels which formed a line of broad sides to be changed, as he proclaimed his desire to review them in open sea. He them proceeded, accompanied as usual by Rustam, to take his daily ride, saying that he expected to find every thing in readi ness on his return. The other was in stantly transmitted to Admiral Bruix, who iimeditfdid6Ft Ttlettdmrat-lnem4U come to him without delay. Hisextreme impatience did not allow him to await till his arrival, but lie set out to meet him, which he did half way. His staff ranged themselves in order behind-him, in fearful silence, for the Emperor was more than usually irritated. "Admiral," said lie, in an agitated tone of voice, " why have not my orders been obeyed ?" " Sire," replied Admiral Bruix, with firmness and respect, "a frightful storm may every moment be expected. Can your majesty wish to expose so many brave men to inevitable destruction ?" "Sir!" exclaimed the Emperor, more and more irritated, "I have given you my orders, and again I ask, why are they not obeyed ? I take the consequences on myself; your part is to obey." " Sire," said the admiral, " I cannot obey in this instance." "Sir!" cried the Emperor, "you are in solent." At these words, Napoleon, who held his whip in his hand, advanced towards the admiral, wholi drew back a step, put his hand to his sword, and said turning very piale "Sir ?-beware !" All those who looked on shuddered. The Emperor stood motionless, with his arm still raised, and his eyes fixed on the admiral, wiho retained the menacing atti tude he had assumed. At length, as with an effort over himself, the Emperor dash ed his whip on the ground, and at the saine instant the admiral remnoved his hand from the piommnel of his sword, and, bare headed, waitedl in silence the result of this conference. -"Second Admiral Magon," said Napo leon, " I give you ordlers to execute imme diately the manwuvres I have commanded. With respect to you, sir," lhe added, sternly, addressing Admiral Bruix, "you will quit Boulogno in twenty-four hours, and retire to Holland." Trhe Emperor then rode away to ob serve the movement which Admiral Ma gon, the second in command, was about to execute. But scarcely had the first changes been made, according to the Em peror's directions, when the sky became obscured with thick dark clouds, th . thunder growled suddenly, and the wind came bursting anid howling along with such force as to break all the lines in a moment. Exactly what the adlmirah predicted had happened. A horrible storm overtook the fleet, and threatened it with instant des truction. The Emperor remained as if transfixed, with his head bent downa, his countenance overspread with gloom, and his arms crossed. Presently he began to pace the shore with rapid strides, when, on a sud den, piercing cries of distress were heard on all sides. More than twenty gun sloops had just been stranded, the unfor tunate mariners were struggling in the but so appalng w. e danger that ne one answered these- rtrending appeals Napoleon seemed most distracted al these sounds his,'and breaking from amongst those ho, seeing his in tention, wore stri 'to retain him, he threw himself into aiafety boat, calling out "Let me go, lefrd go-they must be rescued from such a ril as this!" In a moment the) o't he had entered was filled with Wate .one wave, larger than the rest, burst ite over his head, and dashed off his ,throwing it over board. At the same moment, animated by his example, offib soldiers, fisher men and townsmen in crowds, leaped into boats, or dash' into the waves to endeavor to save iteir drowing fellow countrymen. Bu 4their efforts were at tended with but itt success; very few of the unfortunate w of the gun boats were saved, and the. xt morning the in. exorable sea threw. shore not less than two hundred d40 .bies, together with the hat of the .hio .Marengo. One poor druinh -from whose recital Constant has trans bed the same ac count vouchedb y others, after suf fering frightflin rs for more than twelve hours, at leilh quietly floated on shore, seated on liiij est, having escaped with a fractured . The dreadfa m ing after this sad event was one of or and desolation throughout the e-** for but too nume rous were the frie recognised amongst the bodies which s r ed the sand. The Emperor's grief remorse were ex treme, and he doul bitterly reproach ed himself for his ustice towards the admiral,. who w nevertheless, much blamed for his lapi. canswers to the or ders given him, w in the unlucky hu mor Napoleon w en in, were not like ly to calm or m in hear reason. It is well the 'I did his duty no bly in resisting a absurd commands, but his end in ' to save so many lives would hay etter answered by moing s weakness, and . vwith more The following capsu.a from a letter to the Alabama Journal, ny J. J. Hooper: Old Col. D---, of the Mobile District, was one of the most singular characters ever known in Alabam'h. Many of his freaks are afresh in the memory of the "old uns" of Mobile-and all of them will tell you that the Colonel, though hard to beat, was once terribly taken in by a couple of legal tyros. It is George Wood ward, I believe, who tells the story, but however that may be, it is in keeping with others related of the old gentleman. It seems that Col. D-, had had a misunderstanding with the two gentlemen alluded to, and was not on speaking terms with them, although all of the three were professionally riding the circuit pretty much together. The young ones being well aware of the Colonel's iracible na ture, determined as they left one of the courts for another, to have some sport at his expense on the way. They according ly having got about half an hour's start in leaving, and presently they arrived at a broad dark stream, that looked as if it might be a dozen feet deep, but was hard ly more than as many inches. Crossing they allighted, pulling off their coats and boots, and sat down quietly to watch for the old " Tartar." Jogging along at length, up came the old fellow. He looked fir-st at the young sters wvho were gravely' drawving on their boots and coats, as if they had just had a swim-and then he looked at the broad creek before him like a* fluent, translucent star. The Colonel was awfully puzzled. " Is this d-d creek swimming?" he growled after a pause of some moments. No reply wvas made ; the young men simply mounted their horses and rode ofl some little distance, and stopped to watch our hero. T..e Colonel slowly divested himself of boots, coat, pantaloons and drawers. These he neatly tied up in a handkerchief, and hung them on the horn of his saddle. Then he remounted, and as lhe wvas a fat, short man, with a paunch of inordinary size, rather inadequate legs, a face like a withered apple, and a brown wig, there is no doubt he made an interesting picture as he bestrode his steed with the " breeze h 1ding gentle dalliance with the lower extremity of his only garment. Slowly and cautiously did the old gen tleman and his horse take the creek. Half a length and the water was not fetlock deep. Here the horse stopped to drink. A length and a half and the stream wvas no deeper.-Thirty-feet farther, and a de cided shoaling. Here the Colonel reined up. " There must," said he, be a h-i of a swift ehan nel between this and the bank , see how the water runs. We will dash through!' A sharp lash made the horse spring the " watery waste,".and another carried the horse and rider safely to the opposite bank. The creek wvas nowhere more than a foot eep. A wild yell from the " young 'uns" an nounced their appreciation of the sport as they galloped away. " I'll catch you, you d-d rascals" was ground under Col. D -'s teeth, and away he galloped in hot pursuit, mutter ing vengeance on his foes. On they speed! pursuer and pursued! the youngsters laughed, yelled and scream. ed-the Colonel damned with mighty em phasis, and his shirt floated and crackled in the wind like a loose flying jib. On-on-and the pursuer reached the farm house on the road side. Their pas sing startled a flock of geese, which as the Colonel dashed up, met him with out stretched wings, elongated necks and his ses dire. His horse swerved suddenly, and the Colonel in a moment was in a most unromantic heap, with his own brown wig by his side, and his bundle of clothes scattered around. The -white headed children of the house came out first, took a distant view of the monster-as it seemed to them-and then returned to report progress. After a lit tle, the father of the family came, and the afair being explained, assisted the Colo nel in making his toilet, the Colonel swearing and the countrymen laughing all the while. Dressed and remounted our hero start ed off with a woful phiz, and was soon out of sight. Dow, Jr.. on California. My Hearers, I know very well what will procure your bliss by the hogshead; it is that wretched stuff called money. That it is that keeps your soul in a flutter and sets you jumping like a lot of chained monkeys at the sight of a string of fish. Yoir think that if you only possessed a certain heap of lucre you would be off in lavendar-make mouths at care-say " how d'ye do" to sorrow-laugh at time and feel happy as an oyster in June. 0 yes! if you only had enough of the trash, I admit that you might feel satisfied, and of course contented; but in such cases more requires more, (according to Dabol and rum,) the last more requires most, ' -- more yet, and so on to the of the jewels in their husMa. I navnt the least doubt of it. My dear friends-I will tell you how to enjoy as much bliss as heaven can af ford to humanity. Be contented with what you have, till you have an opportu nity to get something better. Be thank ful for every crumb that falls from the ta ble of Providence, and live in constant expectation of having the luck to lit h upon a whole loaf. Have patience to put up with present troubles, and console yourself with the idea that your situations are paradises compared with others. When you have enough to eat to satisfy hunger-enough to drink to quench thirst -enough-of what is vulgarly called "tin" to procure you a few luxuries when you owe no one, and no one owes you, not even a judge-then if you are not happy, all the gold in the universe can't make you so. A man much wiser than I, once said, " Give me neither po. verty nor riches," and I look upon him as one of the greatest philosophers the world ever produced. All he wanted was a contented mind sufficient bread and a clean shirt. Take pattern after him, 0, ye dis contented mortals, who vainly imagine that bliss is alone to be found in the pla cers of wealth and opulence. My hearers-If you consider all crea tion too poor to afford you a single pen ny-worth of true blessedness, you must pray to be reconciled to its poverty. Grease your prayers wvith faith, and send them up in earnestness, hot from the soul's oven. This manufacturing cold petitions with the lips, while the heart continually cries gammon, is no more use than talk ing Chocktaw to a Chinese. Heaven understands no gibberish ; it only knows the pure, simplo language of the spirit the soul's vernacular. So, when you pray, do it in as simple a manner as pos5 sible, but with red hot earnestness, and your souls will find rest wherever you are -whether nibbling at a crust in Poverty's Hollow, or starving in California, while endeavoring to transmorrrify a bag of gold dust into an Indian meal pudding. TuE OLDEsT DAUGHTER.--The do pertiment of the older children of the fa mnily is of great importance to the young er. The obedience, or insubordination, operates throughout the whole circle. Especially in the station of the eldest daughter one of eminence. She drank the first draught of a mother's love. She usually enjoys muchi of her counsel and companionship. In her absence she is pthe natural viceroy. Let the mother take double pains to inform her on a correct model; to make her amiable, diligent, do mestic, pious---trusting that the image of those virtues may leave impressions on the soft, waxen hearts of the young ones, to wvhom she may, in the providence of God, be called to fill the place of mater nal gunide. From the Charleston Mercury. Gov. Quitman. The telegraph had before announced the arrival of Gov. Quitman in New Or. leans to take his trial on -an indictment for aiding the Cuban Expedition. The pro. ceeding is novel, and considering the slen der grounds on which the charge rests, appears like nothing else than an attempt, on the part of the Federal Government, to bring into disgrace a man who stands in the way of the representatives of the famous "peace measures." If Gov.Quit. man had not called an Extra Session of the Mississippi Legislature, he would not have been troubled about Cuba. We have received from the Mississip pian a copy of the Governor's address to the people of the State, resigning his of fice. After stating the proceedings of the United States authorities against him, he says: " Unconscious of having, in any re spect, violated the laws of the country; ready at all times to meet any charge that might be exhibited against me, I have only been anxious, in this extraordinary emergency, to follow the path of duty. As a citizen, it was plain and clear, I rmust yield to the law, however oppressive or unjust in my case; but as Chief Magis trate of a sovereign State, I had also in charge, her dignity, her honor, and her sovereignty, which I could not permit to be violated in my person. Resistance by the organized force of the State, while the Federal Administration isin the hands of men who appear to seek some occa sion to test the strength of that Govern ment, would result in violent contests, much to be dreaded in the present critical condition of the country. The whole South, patient as she is un der encroachment, might look with some jealousy upon the employment of military force to remove a Southern Governor from the jurisdiction of his State, when it had been withheld from her citizens seeking to reclaim a fugitive slave in. Massachu setts." He ihen proceeds to point out the evils and inconveniences that would fol low his leaving the State for an indefinite _...., now re sign the high trust confided to my hands, with no feeling of personal regret, except that I could not serve you better; with no feeling of shame, for I am innocent of the causes which have induced the neces. sity of this step. On the contrary, al though personally I fear no investigation and shun no scrutiny, I have spared no effors, consistent with self-respect, to avert this result. So soon as I learned that attempts would be made, under an act of Congress of the last century, to remove me from this State, I formally of. fered to the proper authorities of the Uni ted States, any pledge or security to ap pear in New Orleans, and meet the char ges against me, so soon as my term of office should expire: and I remonstrated against the indignity thus about to be of fered, not to myself, but to the State, in dragging away from his duties, her Chief Magistrate. Miy proposition wvas not accepted, and my remonstrance not heeded. it is not for mec to complain. You are the aggrieved party. My course in this matter meets the approval of some of the most patriotic citizens near me. I sin cerely hope, as it was dictated alone by my sense of duty to the State, it may meet the approbation of my fellow-citi zens." Sourni CanorNACoyvENTxoN.--ThiS is the day on which South Carolina choo Ees delegates to her State Convention. 'rho candidates for the Convention have nearly all declared themselves in favor ofi secession from the Union. There seems, however to be this difference among them, wvhile some are desirous that the Conven tion shall take measures for the immedi ate consummation of that purpose, others propose that the State shall delay action for a while, in the hope that other South ern States will make common cause with her; this hope failing, then to venture on the final, momentous step. To us, look ing on, yet not without intense solicitude, South Carolina's position seems full of difficulty ; to go out of the Union by her self, (and she will thus go if she goes now) involves dangers of fearful magni tude. To remain in the Union after all that she has said, wvill be to make herself an object of contempt to her foes. As she now stands they hate her, truly, but they fear too much to contemn or despise her. Let her back out from all her high resolves, ceasing to be an object of dread, she will become to them an object of scorn.-We do most sincerely hope that she will this day confide her interests and her honor in the hands of men ; who, wvhile they maintain in all safety the former, will preserve unsullied the latter.-Sa vannah Georgian, of the 10th inst. As invention Is announced by which hides may be tanned in ten minutes. We once knew a school-master who could do it in five. Win' South Carolina Act. This question is one difficult to be '*a1 swered, after all that has'been said, writ ten, and done. If South Carolina is not absolutely pledged by her Legislainre; o the voice of her people.jp olemn aree,.| or in so many words--there is an implied pledge on our part--from what has here tofore been said and done in every part. of the State, that final action was held in view, at some day or other, italeastaftr all reasonable efforts had. been madeto obtain d6-operatioh; else, why ti k much about our grievances; form-pssgea tions for the protection of Southerm Rights. If'it was never eontemplated tb. make the issue ourselves;--if no o&er Southern State- would take the van!-to. our minds, there is but one course to bl pursued, that course is to exhadst all, the reasonable time and means, contemplted in the " watch and wait" policy, .when. the fact is fully ascertained, that our hopes. are only ideal, which we fear will prove real, of obtaining co-operaion, letits cut loose our moorings, pileonthe- canvass that our ship of State may take. her chance upon the tempestuous oceantf tdvenisre.. What else can we do I Speech. making and Southern Rights movements have brought us to this point.. Men havebeed made Secessionists or Fire-.eaters, throidgh these instrumentalities. We aio unwil ling to thrust our opinidis upon the'p'b lie as law and gospel-they are nyerthe less ours-and have the sanction of;our best judgment and sober teflection; let them go for all they are wortL. We re Secessionists or Fire-eaters, per se., in4. unhesitatingly of opinion, that the Stkte. must act alone, if help cinot be ,ob tained. We prefer the appellation of Fire-eatcr to Word-eater, under. any and. every circumstance. We think "resist-4 ance at all hazards, and to the last bx tremity" better-than the adoption of4he "grand retrograde movemen -onoable -Camden Journal. - THE EYEs.-We copy the follong - from an excellent article in Arthr' 0, Gazette. - - -- o uecc or-'pe culiar attention, produce those 'aflul changes,whenever the eyeto other parts of the c'ibt e .r.Th' rious habit of reading by a sidell 4hw' would most strongly depi-ecate, as bjit,. one eye is exposed to the admission.of a1 greater degree of light than'it should e ceive, consistently with its sympathy it its fellow. Much use of the eyes immediate1f lter a full meal is injurious; every. feeling of the system showing that natire requires rest from all exertion at this time. - The morning hours are the-most favor able for exercise of the eyes;. but letAll extremes . be avoided. On no considera-r tion should reading in bed be permitted the recumbent position, at all times a bad g one when the eyes are in use, is especially so when the individual is only arousing himself from a state of perfect repose,. and the eyes are just recovering fronm'the weakness experienced on first awaking. The eye has been denominated by a distinguished German wvriter,anicbbcosm.. " As man," says he, "is to be considered a little world (microcosm) in relation to. the earth, upon which he lives, evenv so, must the eye be considered a midrocosmr in regard to the individual man." Hence the reason why the eye is so sure an in. dex of the state of health. Notice its clear, bright appearance when the harmo ny of health pervades the system; also, its dull, heavy look, when disease has en tered the citadel. Whoever, thenprwoufd gain and preserve the blessing of' sound permanent vision, must constantly bear i mind that the eye is a microcosm, -and neglect nothing that is neeessary to fte. preservation of general health,-Dr. Rey nolds. r GOOD MAN~NES.-lt is a vulgai'notion that politeness is only required :towards superiors. But the truth is- that every man ought to regard his fellow'nan or friend, as his superior, and treat him ac cordingly. Such feelings the tda! gen tleman always has. "Let each psteem others better than himself," says an Apos tle. This is the very soul of good man, ners, Tnrs is a dangerous period of the year for colds--.people should lbe careful Mrs. Partington, says "she hasgot a ro mantic affection in her shoulders, the neu rology in her head, and the embargo in the region of her jocular vein; and all from opening the window to throw a hot. tle at a couple of beligerent cats on dhe shed. CHARLEsTON AND MEMPKAIS RaiLRoaD. The Commissioners' Court of- Lauderdale county, in this State, has sabecribed.80,000 to the Charleston and Memphis railroad, pro vided the road be located on the north sie of the Tennessee river, in that connty. Madison county has subscribed 81o0,000 uncondition ally, to the same enterprise. and the people of Marshall county, Miss., have voteil nearly - unanimously to -contrbnte the eme amot, -Charleston Surn