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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,