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I ADvERTISEM ENTS will be cotispicuously insert ed at 75 cents per Sqpuare (12 lines or less,) for I the first insertion, and 37 1-2 for each subsequent t insertion. Wi n only published .lonthly or Quar. terly, One Dollar per square will he chargeid. All Advertisetnents not haviing the deired number of insertions marked on the imargin, Will be contin ted until forbid and charged aecordingly. hliose desiring to advertise bv the vear can do so on liberal terms-it heing tli'tinctly understood i that contracts for yearly adveriing are confin--d to the immerliate.'legitimnate buisiness of the firm or individual contracting. Tratient Advertise ments must be paid for in advance. For announcing a candidate, Three Dollars, in advance. For Advertising Estravs Tolled. Two Dollars, I to be paid by the Magistrate advertising. THREE SCENES. BY ISS V. W. BAaDER. t SCENE THE FIRST. It was a bahny tight in June. The d stars were out in the dvelp azure above, j shedding over the wide green earth quiet beauty, anid the streets, in town and country, were tilled with loiterers, who tl won by the beauty of the night, hai h como otit from the hot otliees and pett-t up workshops to enjoy tho hour. Ii In a stately country-house:, scarcely ati q hour's walk from the goodly city of b (- , there were brilliant eyes, a flaliing mirrorp, rose-wreal bed vases, and k a pmtaty of yotiug and happy revellers. Tottg girls clad in white with artificial a flowevrs twitted among their braided hair, or sunny cud-s strayed here and there, i leaning upon the anos of the ir g illatits, sl or chattitng merrily upon the soflis and el cushioned chairs, which were strewed 10 It was one of those scenes which make g4 the young forget, for a brief time, at tl, least, that earth has cares and trial ; that ti it is tnot whiat it secm ; the residence of b truthful and happy hearts. Beside a cenl tre-table, two persons stoop leaning ui gracefully over the leaves of a richly- se bound alham, r.dmtiring the etngrat itgs t1 and sentiments which they 1o.und there. f, lHoward G reenleaf and Edith HaItingw were pronouneed by ll, the stars of the evenitg. There was something thtt i proclaimed him to be " otne of nature's o nobility." Iii. hair was very black, anid k curled over a high white forehead; his eves were lit up by the tires of genitus; his voice deep-toned, yet musical, as he turned every now and then, with an ad- n umiring glance, to the fair creature at his side. Edith was exactly the reverse of tt her companion, and vet none could have k said that she was less beautiful. ier It curls were light, albnost flaxen, in their h bue ; her complexion was clear, even to o transparancy, and her large bite eyes, e, and sweet ro.e-bud-like mouth, formed at face as itnocent anmd pure in its expres- n sion as that of a little chtild. Site was ft clad in a robe of muslin, not more stnowy li than the rountded aims which were orna- g tmetnted by heavy bracele-ts of gold. She u was the only, te idolized child, of the r banker in C --.t A servant came in, heating a watiter, r, upon which were refre.,lutients. Attmng a~ the staltely pyr-amnids of c::ke, flashed i several glasses, filled to the btimn with e w~ie. llowvard was intetrupted ini the middle of one of hsis best speeches, ats Ia. the ebuonmy-laced at'tdantt stopped be fore himt; but he helped his fair comt- b panuioni bounitiftully to the tempting thitngs a before hitm, and thent, at a crowing act to his politeness, lhe took two sparkling glasses frotm the waiter, onte of which he 1) g'ave into the hand of his lovely com-. patntot. Both quafbed off the ruby tide s without the shadow of a fear. o SCENE THE SECOND. There was a wretched pallet of straw it in the corner of a cellar in one of the most loathsome streets of the city. One old titi lamp, covered with lint and grease, stood otn a r-ude pine table in the middle ti of thte room, shedditng a ghastly blue t, light over the scene, and 'nimakinug thte darkness more visible." Upn the palletv of straw there was a dyiug man, anidc b~eside it stood a child with flaxen hair, ht atnd mild blue eyes. He wvas thme exact il portrait of Edith Hlastinigs. TIhe dyinug wvretch was Ihoward Greenleaf ; that child . was all that was left him b~y the br-oken. nt hearted creature wvhom lie had called his it wijfe-all that wvas left of the beautiful and f< accomplished Edith. She has been for c months in her grave-" where the weary f are at rest." 3' It was terrible to look upon the suffer- t er ; terrible, for conscience was at work, p antd the contortions of his face were visible to the boy, in the faiint light of the lamup, as he stood with comnpressed lips o and tlater:d to his incoherent murmurings. ti onec oniy a gleam of reason shot though d The Preacher and the Robbers. A Methodist preacher, many years ago, Wis journeying to a village where lhe was to dispense the word of life, ac. cording to the usual routir.e or his duty, and was stopped on his wry by three robbers. one of then seized his bridle reins, another presented a piitol and de manded his money; the third was a mere looker on. The grave and devout man looked each antd all of them in the face, and with grent gravity and serionsness raid, Fricnds, did you pray to God before you left home? did you ask God to bless you in your unidertakings to-day ?" The question startled them for a mo ment. Iecovering themselves, one Enid, " We have no time to answer such ques. tionis, we want your mon ey." "I am a poor preacher of the gospel," was tihe reply ; " but what little money I have, sihll be given to you." A fell shi!lingrs was all lie had to give. "Have you a watch ?" SYes." "Well, then, give it to us." In taking Lis watch from his pocket, his saddle-hags were dispilayed. " f imt have you here 1" was the ques. tiof n gainn. " I cannot say I have nothing in them bIt religjioun books, because I have a pair of s' , and a clnanige of linein also." " :1 mst have theimn." The preacher disnounted. The sad. die.bags were taken possession of and no funther demand made. InstantIv the preacher began to unhutton his great coat, and to throw it off his shoulders, at the same time asking, " uill you" have ny great coat ?" No," was the rep Vy; "you are a gennerouis an1, and we will not take it." le then addressed thlem as follows: I have given you every t!;inng you asked for, and would iavC grivel you nore than you asked fur. I hav'e one invor to ask of ynn." What is tnat " " That you kneel down and allow me to pray to Alighty God in youi- behalf; to ask Him to turn your hearts and put you inn tie right way." I'll have nothing to do with the man's Nor I either', said another of them. Here, take your watch, take your money, take your saddle bangs; if we have anything to do with you, the jtdg. ment or God will overtake us." So each article was returned. 'hat, however, did not satisfy tine sainted Inanin. He urged prayer uponi then. lie knelt down; one of the robbers knelt with him; one prayed, the otier wept, con. 1'essed his sin, said it was the first time in his life tit lie hnd done such a ting, and it should le the last. Ilow fnr me kept his word, is known onny to Ulim to whom the darkness and light are equally alike; to Hin whose eyelids try tine children of nen. MAnnir AND UN.MfARR1ED LADIES. Tine situation of a narried and unnar ried feniale, it must be coinfessed, is very unequal, the fbriner having greatly the advantoge in scale of eartliy happiness, and the world makes the distinnetion still more unequal than nature intended it. At 35, tine mnarried woman is connsidered in tine mnoon of life ; whilhe tine sinigle womifan is lonoked unpon ins pa~ssee. Again tine wife ihas less necessity to depend on intellectual plieasunes as sources against tine latitude of enui. Sine Ihas duties to pen-form, let hnen station in life be whnat it mal;y, to whiichn tine sinnghe won~n cannot tun to variy thne mnonotm o f h1 er exis tence. T1hne matroin, if sine lhe a mnother, will find sutliciennt stimulnnus to keep nyi or revive, in tine early instrunctionn whieb it is onne of tine woma~n's sweetest prvlee to give her oflnring, tine knowledge annd accompnilishmnennts wiih sine lean-ned in her own younth. Wha~t pleasure can be0 hnighner or more unnalloyed to the bestower -whnat sighnt inore eniduinng to thne be. hnolder-than a matron, o'er whose brow tine shnadowv of Tinme, like that on the dial, has passed, yet left muneh of tihe sunny lighnt of lf behind, leadinig hner fair daughnter to emulate tine gnraces of whiich she hnerself is so fair a pattern? Or to make a son, in all tine pride of youthful mnannhood, payinng back with love, little short of adoration, the cares of iner whiose gentle instructions finrst lured him to seek the wider pathns of knowledge, and at whose knee his infamnt prayer was first brneathied! Other feel ings growv cold-other mennories pass away; but tine gentle images of tine mother who has watchned our chnildhnood - lien love, her tendehrnes~s, hen unwvear-ied devotinn, will for ever be nninrored in tihe hnumn ar cit. A MA-rnntoMrAL EXTRAORDINARY. " Will y'ou take this woman to be your wedded wife ?" said an Illinnois nmagis trate to tine nmasculine of a couple wino stood up before him. "Wanll, 'squire," was tine reply, you must be a gnreen 'un, to ax me such a question as that ar. Do you tinzk that I'd be such a plaguny fool as to go to tine bar hnunt, and take this gal fronm a quiltin' frolic, if I wasn't coniscriptuously centain and detcrminned to have her ? Drivc on with vour bizinns!" tis eyes. Then, reaching up his clammy iands, lie grasped the white fingers of the bild, and said, as if to himself " He is like hismother; like her, as she tood beside me at the table and qiafled atal poison from the cup I gave her. rhat very night, she became ny allianced ride ; that very night, there were woven bout her young and innocent heart, hose cords which dragged her down to aiserv and wo. I wedded her; I squan. ered her health, and abused her, until er heart was broken. I did ; no, not I, hie poisonous wine-cup did it all. By ature, I was noble and good ; kind, even o a fiult ; and gifted as the wise imen of he earth. ' Forswear the bowl: ,or one rawh monient sends you to the shades, ir shatters every ho'peful scheme in life, Lnd gives to horrow all yours days to come." SCENE THE THIRD. The wind whistled through the streets arrying with it wreaths of snow, aid iing the cheeks of even the furclad, ntil they grew chill and numb, in its .v breath. 'Thie wealthy stayed in their comforta le palaces, and shut carefully every oor and uinlow, to exclude the ;ierc ig wind. The man of business hurried ver tlhe inging pavemenats, as if anxious reach the shelter of a comtfortable .lne. On the marble stone of a stately resi ence, a poor beggar boy unk down, vercomne with cold and fatigue. His heeks were sunken, and upon the long Iken lashes that veiled his bh e eyes, icre were two frozen tear drops. As e glanced up to the warm crimson-cur ined winiduws above him, something ke a groan cane through his blue and aiverilg lips. From that very mansion, is nother went forth a young, beautiful id richly dowered b:ide ; but the child new it not. His recollcction was mie and wo. He only knew that he was druntard's child. As lie sat there with his stiffening tids clasped over his naked bosom, he ept, and dreamed that the black, sullen ouds, parted above, and an angel face oked brightly wid smilingly forth, and -e.knsied: hit _ awe. Hr t- the ifter of silvery wings, whiter even ihan e "alling snow flakes beneath them and en lie knew that it was his mother !ekoning him to the land of rest. Before morning, the begg..er boy lay >on the marble steps, as uhlite, and unseless as they. Life had fled, and ose who lifted the stilfuened corpse om the steps of " the gentleman's door," ondered over the exquiitely chiseled atures, wasted as :hey were by nisery. asting Howard, Edith's beautiful and .IV chld, slept then, " the sleep that 10ows 1no dreaming." A Iideous Monster. There exists in French society, re arks the author of Monte Leone, and e way add that it is by no means limi d by French society, a hideous monster Iown to all, though no one disturbs it. s ravages are great, almost iicalcula e. It saps reputation, p1oisons, dishoin. Is and defiles the splendor of the most timable form. This minotaurus, which devours so any inniocen t persons, is especially arful, because thie blows are terrible. presenmts itself under the mildest and nmtlest forms, and is received every here in thme city. We find it in our oams, in the interior of our families, in eo places of the opunlenmt, and the gar -ts of the poor. It has no name being mere figure of speech, a very word. It compomjused of but one phrase, and is ield-Tainr sAY, "Do vonm kniow such a one ?" is often skedl, aLidt the puersoii is poinated out. No ; hut they say his morals are very id. lie has had strange adventures, id his aimily is very unhappy.' "Are von sure ? "No,lI know nothing about it. But Cy xay so." "Do not trust that gentleman who has ih credit, aiid is thought so rich. De a your guard--" "Bah! his fortune is immense: see 'hat an establishment lhe has." " Yes! But they say he is very much ivolved." " Do you knowv that fact ?" "Not I. They say, though-" This they say is heard ini every rela oan of life. It is deadly mortal, and not >be grasped. It goes hither and thith rs rikes and kills mianly honor, female irtue, without either sex being ever onscious of the injury done. Each as e reads these lines will remermber cases lustrating the truth of what we say. PRETTY GooD.-An Irish travelling Ierchant-als a peddler-a-hed an inerant poulterer the price of a p~air of >wls. " Six shillinags, sir." " In my ountry, nhy darlinig, you miighit buy them >r a saxpeiice apace." " Why didn't ou remain in your own dear counitry, ien ?" "Faith, 'case we have no sax ences there," said Pat. PLEASURE is sometimes only a change f paini. A man who has had the gout, inks ho feels first rate when he gets own to rhumatism nrain. DEFERRED ARTICLES. Prom the Charleston Courier. Steamship South Carolina. This fine vessel, whose beautiful propor tions will excite the admiration of every critic in Naval Architecture, made her appearanec in our harbor yesterday afternoon, having le:t New York on Monday last, and bringing us a paper from ' it city one day later than fiurnished by the ...ails. The South Carolina, owned, as we under stand, entirely by citizens of the State, has been constructed under the careful superin tendence of Capt. R. II. Tucker, who now commands her, for the purpose of opening a direct trade between this port and Liverpoil; and if the enterprise proves successful, other ships of a simnilr class wi!l be placed on the line, thus securing to Charleston the certain ty of procuring merchandize promptly, and without the trouble, expenses, and detention resulting from trans-shipment via Northern port3. It will now depend only on our own mer chants whether this line is supported, and we feel assured that there will be no lack of patriotism on their part, if the owners of the South Carolina mike such arrangemnents as to insure promptitude and regularity in her mlovements. The subjoined aeount of her trip his been funrislied us by her courteous Commander, which fully accounts for the delay expe rienc.d. MEssRS. EDITOnS:-As some considerable intereut is no doubt felt for lie result of the South Carolina's qualities, I beg leave to give through your columns, the trip from New York to Charleston We unmoored from the wharf at 7 A. M. Monday, and were three hours forcing our way through the ice. At 11 we were clear, and proceeded down the Pay, at times mnuch obstructed by floaiug ice; passed Sandy Hook at 1 1P. M.-it 1.30 discharged our pilut, wind light from W. S. W. Set all sail. Our run to Cape Hatteras from Sandy Hook was iade in 36 hours, averaging 9 1-3 wuiles per hour; from Ilatternis to Lookout, the distance, 66 miles, was made inl 6 hours, averagilg I1 Iiles per iiour, % ind fresh from north. Up to Cape Lookout we never had above 12 pounds of steam, and averaged only S-miakiig from 40 to 47 revolutions of the propeller. From Lookout, light winds from west ward to fresh gale, from W. S. W. Our speed was, wi.hout wind for or against us, 9 siles: against a fresh breeze, 6 miles; but by keeping withia three points of the wind we foind a speed of 8 miles, with fore and aft-sails set. to adju.st tile valves of forcing pumps; and again at 3 A. M. Wednesday, nd 6 P.M. for two hours. With this exception everything worked admirably abont the eigine-nothing heated, and no part wanted keying up. During Tuesday afternoon and Wednes day forenoon, the coal was accurately weigh ed, and we found on-r consumptiiiin to Le 1375 pounds per hour, or two tons and one-hlf every five hours, and thirteen tons the twen ty-fur hours-this, with an excellent draft. and abund:nee of steam. engjis workiing at half stroke, and uniformly from forty to forly .cven rev.>:u ions per ininute. During the time the ehngine was at ruet, sail was imide on the ship, when she s.eered as well as a sailing vessel. Running time from New York to Charles ton Bar, deducting time laid by on account of force pumps, 72 hours-distunce 620 miles, an average of 8 2-3 miles per hour. Amount of lair winds 42 hours, head winds 36 hours. S-Po!'rING THE CotPRo3ns!.--Thie 4othi ern Press well snys:-"As for supporiiig the Compromise, or aequiescing in it, that would be too absurd. The only measure of the Conpromise in which a Southern right was recognsed, is already a nullity ill prae tice. The Compromise ha:s nothing no0w to recommend it to the South. but the most empty of abstractions." WEa havc seen (saiys the New York Seien tific Armerienn) the model of a Crystal Palace, by Mr. Rlogardus, of this city. the well known American invent or, whose fame is world-wvide, and whose iron buildings are unrivalled for strength, simplicity and beauty. The design, we hope, wvill not be :applied to the dwarf Museum of Riddle, but to a WVorld's Fair, to be held in our cuountry not mny yeairs henco. Th'le design is superior ill ali'its details to thio London Cry-stail Palarce. It enni be built tenl miles long,' and all the harmony of its parts preserved. The roof is entirely new in principle and plan, and it will never leaik-nro goods will be spoiled by passing showers-anrd to show how lmeh prudenlt utility arnd calculating forethought there is in the plan, afrer it has served fir a Crystal l'alace it can be taken down andi mlade into ai number oif iron build ings, withotut alteration, one of whneb may be put tup in every sep-lerate State of the Union. [t is so planned that norne of thme braces and hinders, which so disfigured the interi, r of Paxtoni's great work, wvill be re quired; it will be simple, yet beautiful and rand-a design orimginal nnd unlique, one worthy of our country-eminently Ameri cani, vet cosmnOpolite enough to cover thme industrial p~rodts of- all nations, and to conmand tile admiration of thme inhiabitants of all hands. The American who would im port a Crystal Palace should be transported. GEN. TARvER.-This worthy gentleman, recently deceased, was tile richest nmn in Georgia, owning some 1,500 slaves. HeI was moral, benevolent, and temperate, and umi versally esteemcled. Yet his last words were: " After all, I have spent my life in no im portant purpose. in the pursuit of unsub stantial things. If I had to live my life- over again, it should be devoted t o tihe study of the Bible, to prayer, to preparation for the life to comae. The things of this world will do to live by, but will not do to die by." gg DEATH OF A Missio.NARY.-WhFlo Asia brought intelligence of the death of the Rev-. John Taylor Jones, A. L., of Bangkok, on the 13th of September. Dr. Jones had been for nearly twenty-three years one of the most hinhly esteemed missionamrie-s of the faptist Thot'rd of Foreigh Missions. Seth Hawkia's Mistake. The Boston News gives us the follow ing as having occurred in one of the vil lages. of the old Bafitate within the re collection of the waiter. We do no kinow when we have-njoyed so hearty a langh, as on reading:this incident in the lifle of Seth Hawkins. Sunday night waiithe scason which Seth chose to do his weekly devoirs, as Mlrs. Hrnby would sy; and his road t< neighbor Jones's daughter Sally, the ob jct tof his particular hope, lay across three long miles of haid territory, stumpy as an old woman's mouth and as irre claimable as-a prodig#d son gone away for the third time. One all sufficiently dark night, unheed. ing wind and weather, as gallant and spruce as evemstraddlcd a stump, Seth in his best " bib and tucker" and dickey and all that, started upon his accustomed weekly pilgrimage to the shrine of Sally Jones--the sweet girl by the way, as strawberries and creami are sweet. Seth knmew every land-mark, if lie could see it; but the night was very dark, and in a little while he became confused in his reckoning and taking the light which gleamed from Iarmer.Jones's cottage for a guide he pushed b.pldly on, regardless of intermediate difliojlties, surging occa sionally to the riglit 6r left, as some ob struction rose in his-path, until lie ran, stern on, as a sailor would say, to a huge stump and rolled incontinently over the other side. lie gathered himself up as best lie could, shook himself to ascertain that no bones were broken, and then, started on his mission of love, his ardor somewhat damped by feeling the cold night wind plhying fantastic jests around his body, denoting that tle concussion had breached his " oh, itie, for shame," and that the seven-aid-six penny 'cassimers were no more to be the particular delight of his eye, in contempdation of their artistic ex cellence. He knew not the exteit of the damage sustaineud, but soon gairing the Louse, his first glance wa4 over his person, to ascertain if decency tvould be violated by an unwonted display;- but seeing nothing, and trusting to the 1 minons proportions jA1S.a iu Ma Inn nr j seat m a proflere chairv Ie. Whilst conve-sinig with the farmer about the weather, anid the dame upon the mat ter of cheeses, lie glanced at Sally, and saw with painful surrprise, that she was looking a nx iously, and somewhat strange lV, touards a portion of his dress. She averte(h ler eyes as she caught hisglance, but again catchiniig hei eyes upon hl, lie was induced to turn his in the same di rection, and saw-good heavens! was it his shirt ?-oozing out of a six inch aper tare inl the inside of his inexpres.ibies! lie instantly ebanged position, and from that moment was on nettles. Was lie malinug more revelations by tihe change ? Ile wateled the first opporinnity to push the garment in a little. Could lie succeed in hiding it, it would relieve his embar rassment. Again lie watched his chance, and again stowed away the linen. It seemed interinable, like the doctor's tape worm, and the more lie worked at it the more there seemed left. In the meantime his conversation took the line of his agony, and his answers bore as much relation to tine question as the mehmehboly burthen of " Old Marm Pet tingill. A t last, with one last desperate effort, the whole disapipeared anid bie cast a tri utmphant glance towards Sally. One look( snfliced to show that shne had comn prehenided the whole, and with tine great. est effort was strungglinmg to prevent a lhugh. Meeting his glance she could con tuin herself no longer, but screaming with accumulated fun, she fled fronsthe room; and Seth, undae to endure this last turn of agony, seized his hat and dashed m ad ly from time house clearing the stumps like a racer ini the dark, and reaching homue he hardly knew w~huen or how. As soon as he was gonie, Mrs. Jones-lonked about for a clean nihtgown that she had~ out for service on the back of the chair on which Seth had sat. She wvas positive that she took it out, but u here on earth it was she could'mt conceive. "Sally," cried the old lady from the door, " have you seen my night-gown 1" " Yes, marm," echoed lhen voice as if in the last stage of suffocation-" yes'm, Seth Hawkins wore it home." It was unfor-tunately the case, and poor Seth had stowed it away in the crevices of his pants! It was returnued the next day with an apology, and lie subsequently mamrriedh Sally; but many 3years afte wvards, if any article of any description was missing, of appar-el or otherwvise, the timst suggestion was that Seth Hawkins had stowed it away in his trousers. Seth Hawkinis is now~ a prominent and influential merchant ini the city of Boston, and often relates the story himself for the amusement of his young friends. " WrAT's Tr aT I" said a schoolmaster poimntiing to the letter X. " It's daddy's name." " No, you blockhead, it's X." "'1Taint X neither, it's daddy's name, for I seed him write it many a time." WVnr is a cow's tail like the letter F. Becaune ' tie endi of beef MINERAL OL.-Mr. J. D. Humphreville, of Mobile, has discovered and produced what lie terms mineral oil, or Naptha. The Tri bune says: "It is obtained from Tuscaloosa coal, which. as our readers know. is highly bitu. minoius, the coal being phiced in an iron re tort, with a condenser atutched, and kept coal during the process. Before the oil comi mences passing over, a large quantity of pure gas escapes, which, if collected, would answer for illuminating purposes. Reasoning fromt this, Mr. Hunmphreville supposes that in cases where coal is used as fuel in large houses, if pipes were arranged from the* grates leading to a gasometer in any part of the building, sufficient gas might be saved for all the purposes of the family. Mr. Humphroville has been making this oil for for some three years, the first produced be ing obtained from a stove with a smtall pipe. 'i his oil is an excellent burning fluid, and may possess, for all that we and the inventor know, some valuable medicinal properties. At all events we feel assured that if sonic of the Northern patent medicine folks had it, they would soon find o1ut that it was an anti dote to all the ills that flesh is heir to. "Mr. Ilumplhreville has also made at his works in the lower part of the ciiy a materia! which we shall call liquid soap. Two or three table spoonfuls in a wash-basin will render soap nnnecessarv, and tfrordi a most agreeable wa.,h for the hands. For washing clothes he claims for it a superiority and economy. We shall know more of it soon and acquaint our readers with the result." GEoRGIA SIL.-Dr. E. L. de Grofferied, on his return from a recent visit to Florida, exhibited to us some specimens of Georgia Silk, which, considering the circumorstances under which it was raised and manufactured, cannot be beaten for its fineness of texture, or in the general aiipearance of good sewing silk. No. 1. is a hank of raw tilk, as it was reeled from the cocoon. It requires eighty strands of this number to form one thread of the size of ordinary sewing silk. No. 2, specinlis of the cocoons themselves. No. 3, specimens of silk, variously colored. 9o. 4, a pocket silk handkcrebiif-the' raw mate rial of which was raised, spun and woven by one person-the weaving hiving been exe cuted upon a common hand-low. We understand that the lady referred to has lately manufactured sixty of these pocket handkerchiefs-and has forwarded this one as a present to the editor of the Soil of the South. All this has been accomplislied by the industry and perseverance of Mrs. Sarah Neal, oI Decatur county, who is sixty-two years of age, at this time. And notwith standin her ears and the disadvanrtages of many who :re but one-third as old in age, and who are surrounded by a thous::nd eon veniences unknown to her.-Columbus En quirer. RESUsCITATION OF FROZEN Fns.-Prof. S. D. Latlrop, in a letter to one of the edi tors of the American Journal of Science, states as a fict well known to those who are accustomied to take 6-,h, such as the comn)on perch and the lake mullet, from Lake Cham peh:in in t winter. that these fi-Jh mn:.y be frozen perfee:ly solid, and be transported m:y uiles :nd kept several d:vs, when upon thawing thema out in a tub of cold water they vill be found to be alive and ac;ive. 1, hams taken some pains to corro borate this fact by inq1niry, and has found i to be well sustained by evidence, though he has never seen it. He h:as found the same fact sustained in the ease of the bufilo-fish, taken from the Rock river. SIoULan SUICE.-The Concordia In telligencer of last Saturday says that an Indian belonging to the remnant of the Choctaw tribe, which still lingers near the anicient hunting-groun id, coninitted suicide some days sirne, on Mr. William Ferriday's plantatior',in that parish, after a very novel anid ingenious fashion. Tying one end of a piece of buckskin to the trigger of Iris rifle, anid attaebing tihe other end of the thong to a small tree, he stretched himself deliberate lay upon the ground, arid pulling thne miuzzle trowards hium, met death from the faitihful p'iece,~ whlich may often before have been thre instrument of it in hris hands upon the war path, or amid the faostniesses of his native forests. The Nrtchrez Courier says that the poar suicidal had, while under the infilnencee of strong drink, murdered a niemuber of his tribe, a friend andiu brother arid that this was the deliberate self-decreed expiation of the crime. FnozENs TO DF'ETI.-A woman and her two children were found -frozen to death in in a snow baunk, at St. Louis, on thre night of thre 11 th inst. At Cincirira ti, on thre night of tihe 17th inst., a womni arid a boy were fro zen to death. On the following day. nrear the city, two meni were found nearly frozen. One of them was so badly frost-bitten that portions of Ihis atrms, legs and face had comn mnenccd peeling olf. THE people of Macon, Ga., are ngitating the project of digging a canal, some 6 or 7 miles long, by which tire water of thre river is to be brought into tire city for mianufmrc turing purposes. Mr. Iloleomibe, the en gineer, has surveyed tire works and reports that it can be done at a cost of $212,500. It is estimated tha~t this would atford power suffieient for twelve factories of five hundred spindles each. THE WAGES OF WICKEDNESS.-Lonis Na poleon seems to fear assawirnation, anrd it is said thart Iris carriage is made bulles-proof. Tire miinisters object to his appearing in public, even with a strong escort of dragoons riding with each man's ritzht hand upon his pistol-stock. They are all afraid he will be taken off. gg A DUrEL was fought on the 28th ult. near Bladensburg, between Mr. Daniel, Edi tor of the Richmond Examiiner, and Mr. Johnson, Editor of the Whig. After the first, tire, wich was ineffecrual, thre diffieulty was adjusted by tire irnternosit ion of friends. CITEVALIElt IIULSEMIANN has, it is said, left Washington. and will hold no further intercourse with this Governmenlt until he shall receie inistrnctions from home., ANDERsoN RAILROAD.-Maj W. S. Brown, Chief Engineer of the Greenville and Co. luinbia Railroad, who came to Anderson on )lsiness connected with his office, a day or two ngo, gives us a most flattering account of the progress of our Railroad. The track is laid down three miles West of Saluda, to Wilson's Creek, and is rapidly progressing from that point. The cars are expected to eross the bridge over the creek in all of next week, and will probably reach Ninety-six Station, above Cambridge, by the first of March. A company of seventy hands com menced laying the track at the Anderson line, twenty miles below this place, about the last of December, and have already com pleted five miles of the road bed. It' is ex pected that the track will be laid down to this place by the first of May. On the lower end, Mr. 1enningt6n, the enterprising con. tractor, has obligated himself to complete the road to Cokesbury by the first of July, and Major Brown expresses the confident opinion, that the ears will run to Anderson by the first of December, without some un toward accident, not anticipated, should prevent.-Advocate. I. 0. 0. F.--INITIATTON OF LADIEs.-The Philadeiphia correspondent of tihe New York Herald, in mentioning Odd Fellowship, says: " An additional impetus has been given to the cause of odd fellowship, by admitting the ladies within the precinets of.its myste ries. By vittue of the authority given by the Grand Lodge of the United States, At lantic Lodge of this city initiated seven ladies-the wives of members of the order -during the past week. The forlunate ones are greatly envied by their fair friends ; and those formerly most opposed to secret socie ties are determined to marry odd fellows, for tihe purpose of satisfying their intense curi osity with regard to the mysteries of the order. Their dread of i iding the goat, which according to common rumor is one of the initinry rites, has been calmed by the assu rance that the animal is to have a side sad dle, on which a lady is to mount." RonnEnr AND ROUBEns FnozEN To DEATr. -A deipatch from Mount Vernon, Ohio, states that on Saturday night last Johin Misner, a cooper by the namle of Rider, an"l a fellow by the name of Farland-the two last named having served a term in the peni tenti ry-le dft that place, and went into Richland conity, in the same State, and robbed an ohl gentleman of $1,200 in coin. They then started with a view of returning home. The night was very cold, and they were under the influence of Jiquor. Rider and Farland froze to denth, and Mlisner, when found, was insensilble. The money was all recovered, and 3isner is now in the Mans. learn that an accident occurred on the Green ville Railroad yesterday morning, at the Trestle this side of Frost's 31111. It nppears, from our inlformatioin, that, in erussing this trestle, the engine mounted the rail, and thumped on the cross-tiles for some distance, when the engine, and perhaps one or more ears, were precipitated from the track twelve or more feet. As it was a freight train, the inuries to persons were comparatively trilling. On engineer was severely hurt, but it is xnpposed not dangcerously. The damage to property we have not ascertained.-Suuth Carolinian, 30 ult. TuE unsold land in the public domain of the United States amounts to more than 1.400,000,000 acres. The minimum price of public land is $1.25 an acre. This land abounds in all the varities of minral wealth td productive soil. During the year ending June, 1851, the sales at the land offices comprise 1,816,847 tcres; the purchase money, 2,370,947 dol lars. In the first quarter of the year, begin ning July 1, 1851, the sale was 473,140 acres, 'ad the receipts 601,691 dollms, being near ly double the amount received in the corres ponding gnarter of the preceding year. The sale of land is therefore increasmng with great rapidity. The opening of railroads in the WVest, has been one great cause of this in p:rease. Tonacco ron SNAKE Irrms.--31r. Editor: As corroborative of yotur iews o-f the effi L-acy of tobneco juice in the eure of snake bites, I send the following: "Sonme years igo may father was bittena by a copper-headed snake; lhe instantly alpled the juice of strong tobacco, minugled with saliva from the moiuth. and so perfect was the cure that Iho lid not lose a day fromt businmess on account lit it." IT atppenlrs from a statement in the Wash ington Republic, that thme government hias re eeived entirely satisfactory assurances in regard to the reception of Judge Sharkey, the new U. S. Consul at IHavana. The report that the Captain Genera! had refused to re :ognize him is improbable, from the fact that bie hats no authority to do so, when the Coa sul's exequatur issues fronm Madrid. Os the 21st inist., the steam saw mill on JUnion Point, Newbern, N. C., owned by Johln Black well, Esq., was entirely consumed by fire. The loss, although very serious, wts not suo great as might have been apprehend ed. There wias no Itumber consumed, as Mr. Black well hatd recently made large shipments. Tlhte loss is estimated at about $11,000, of which $3000 was insured in the N. C. Mu tual Insuranice Company. Mr. Blackwell, it is said, will promptly rebuild thme mill. The fire, it is believed, was accidetntal. THE PRE~SIDENCEY.-Thte Washington cr respondent of the Philaudelphtia Ledger wvrites: " The efforts ntow making to induce Mr. Fillmore to decline being a candidate, are not likely to succeed, and have not certinly succeeded as yet. You may take it for gratn ted that General Scott will be the next Whmte candidate for the Presidency, and that he wiff be no inconsiderable opponent of any Demo crat that may be pitted against him." " Jous, did you ever bet on a race htorse r" "No, lbut I've seen sister Bet ont our old mare!" WHr is a horse like sugar candy? Because the mote you lick it the faster it goes! Wxsi must your nose necessarily be in the middle of your face ? Decause it is the scntr,