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The Trustees eoutttratulate tlhem;elves, their friends and the publite, on what they now con sider the permanent estalishntentt of nit institu tion of learming of so high1l a eltarueter itn titeir District. The benelits which their own children, with others, have experienced during the pst Session, eitables then with the greater cotth dence. tot recomnttietd tte InistitutioI to the pat ronage of ilt ecomnmuity. The School was opened on the 18th of Sep tember last, with thirty-one Pupils, and has since been gradually incereasing. It is confident lv expected that the numtber in attendance will be gr'eatly inreasel luring the next Sessi.. The Ilstitute builditg now contaits seven rooms, all of which have been built, and are ut d, for purposes of listruction. A finie apparatuis; a large collection of Nlaps A natomietl Charts, Globes, &e; a Museum of Natural History ; a Cainiuet of Minerals and Shells- furntisti untutsual facilities for acquiring a practical knowledge of the ditretit branches of Seietc The coursc of Stuily is of an elevated clarnc ter, anl tore icomprehettsive. ttan that of most jetnale institutions of the highest reputation. The PaIscIrAL devotes the who-le of his time to the sttl)er:isioi and instruction of tlte various classes. The Assistants are experiencel in their diffe rent Departments, aitl those only of kitowit sue cess in teaelting are etnplo.yel. The A cademtical year is dividel into Stsions of 14 weeks e-teh. It is of great importatee that the Qtidetit he presentt at the coommttoece ment of tite Session. The Classes are then fortt'md., and a few weeks delay may at'llet the standitg of the pnp1t1il throughout the year. Expenses. For TUition int the Primary Dieparttnent, 1st Di visitt, per Sessiom,............S5 00 " Tuition it the Prinary Department, 2nd11 Division.................. 7 00 " Tuition in the Aeademie Dejpartment, 12 00 " 1; Collegiate " 15 00 Lessons'n the Piano and use of istrum'nt 18 o Modern Languatges. each.............. 8 0() Drawing and Sketching from Nature,... . 8 to Painting in Oils. Portrait and Landscape, 1.5 (0 Use tof Apparatus.................... 2 01 Fuel and care of Buildiings............ 50 Good Boarding can be obtainted in time Vil lage ineltlitig ligltts, washing, fuel, &c., at (per montth)........ .....10 00 Ptnils entering near the ttinidle or elose of of the Sessiont. are charged frotn thte timt of etrant~ce ton the entd of the Sesiom. No dednte tion for abhsece,. or "titer causes, but at thte dis cretiont of time Prittci pal. All bills for 'Tuitiont, &c., are payable at the close of each Session. Books. Stationtaty anad Mttsic, can be obtained in the Village at reasottable prices. The Departmnent of Music is under the supler visioni of onte of the muost aocuraite and accott pdishted teacers itn lt State: attd it is believed thtat unmusual facilities are afitbrded for acq'uirintg a thtorough knowletdge of this dillicult science. Ini adldition to regutlar private lessons, thme ptupils in this department are divided into classes, and taught on the plan of Pestalozzi. The(y devote much ltme to exercises, adapted to trati the car. and thte voice, attd to impart an easy and brilliatnt execution. If they pursue the prescribed course of tmusi eal inistruction, they aecquire the art of reading music with facility. They are reqjuired to be regular and systemat ic in practisitng daily at the Institute. Thec traittintg antd euhtivation of the voice. receive atn untusual degree of attenttiont. rTe sciece~ of Flocution is here applied, in develop ing the voice for singing, with great efi.eet. The Intstittutiont has been almost weekly visited by a large numttber of thte ladies atnd gentlemen of our villag~e, wvho have invariably expressed the highest degree of satisfaction, at wvhat thtey have heard and seen of the proficiency of th<, Pupils anid the arrangenment of te Institutte. Anid the Trustees have only to add in conclu sion, thtat while in their opinion, thtere are nmany institutions of learnittg deservedly poptular in out State, yet there are ntne- which can furnishi greater ori muore substantial advantages to yotung Ladies titan that under the charge of Mr. Ray 31050. N. L. GRIFFIN. 1 ED3MUND) PENN, s S. F. GOOD)E, R. T. MIMS. . Edgefiecld C. I., Dec. 4 1851. I 46 Removal! ,rY Friends and customers can find me it 1' .thte house below Ilollintgsworth & Nichto las, and as usual will make to order, for CASHi Fine Dree-s B~oots.............S7 00 do Pumtp Bloots...............8 00 do D~ouble Sole Water-Proof.. t00 All other kinds of work at the lowest price. Exelhlenit Work, good Fits and superior style. guxarantied to all those that may favoutr me witli a call. WM1. McEVOY. .129- tf . 2 THE FELON'S SON. Towards the end of the last century, a your.g man arrived at Marseilles, on com mercial afflairs; he took up his abode at an inn, where he had been about three weeks, when he received a letter one-eve ning, which oblighed him to call imme diately on one of the principal merchants of the town. The merchant was out, and, as his wife said that he wvas most probabl'y at the theatre, George (so our hero called himself) went thither to seek him. He entered the pit, and looked round in vain for the person he wanted; but as it was early lie thought that the merchant might still come, and he sat down to wait for him. In a Iev minutes, George heard the words " turn him out! turn him out !" uttered with great vehemence; and look iung round to see to whom they were ad d-essed, he perceived they were intended for a youth of sickly appearance and very mild countenance, who sat near him. " How is this ?" cried George, turning to the person who sat next him, " what has the boy done to be treated in such a manner 'lie person to whom lie qmoke was a man about fifty. " Do you know him ?" said he coldly. "No-1 never saw him before." " Well, then take a friends advice, and don't meddle in the mLtter. The boy's name is Tinville: he is a grundson of that monster, Fouquet Tinville." At these words, George recoiled with horror in his countenance. My good sir," said his neighbor, "I see that you agree with te, that there are names which always make honest people tremble." George heaved a deep sigh. "And yet," said he, after a moment's pause, "If the boy himself has done no thing had, I don't think it just or generous to insult him: he is already unfortunate enough." The noise had been suspended for an instant-but,jast as our hero uttered these words, the rioters re-commenced their cries. The lad feigned notto pefeit that he was the object of them; but his alarm was visible in his countenance. En douraged by his timidity, one of the ag gressors began to pull his coat, and an other took him by the collar. George quickly rose. " Stop a moment," said his neighbor, catching hold of him ; " don't you see they are ten to one ?" " Let theni be twenty to two, then," cried lie iidignianitly " I will never stand by tamely and see a helpiless boy ill-used." Breaking from the grasp of his pru dent neighbnor, he sprung lightly over the benches, and threw himself between the youth and his assailants-derling at the sanme tine, some knock-down blows to the right and left, and crying out, " Cowards! -you call yourselves Frenchien-and you are not ashamed to fall, ten of you, upon one poor defenceless lad !" The aggressors were young men, mopt ly iii a state of intoxication, yet not so far gone as to be insensible of shame. "Ile says the truth," cried one. "He is in the right," said another. By degrees the gr-oup disappeared: those whno had received the blows, skulked away, and said nothiinig; the others ex e usedl themselves; amid, in a fewv minutes, tranquility was restored. George took the youth by the arma, led him out of the theatre, and making a sign to a hackney coach-nman hurried away, without reply ing~ to Tinville's thanks, and entreaties to know his name. Three days afterwards, as lie was pass iiig thirough one of thme principal streets, lie felt himself seized by the skir-t of his coat and, looking round to see by whom, lie perceived that he was th gentleman whom lie had sat next to at the theatre. "lecaven be praised ! I have found you at last," cried he; " truly, you have led me into a fine scrape." "I sir-impihossible !" "No, no, it is possible enough. You must knowv that I hav-e a broilier, one of thne principanl bankers of Marseilles: every body13 speaks wvell of him but myself; and I say he is a crack-brained enthusiast. Why, sir, you have only to relate to him a trait of courage or generosity, and he is ready to worship the hero of it. I told him the other night of the mad trick you had pilayedi, and he flew into a i-age with me because I did not seize and drag you to his house vi et armis. I should not have car-ed so for him had not my good sister-in-law and pretty neico joined his party. In short, they turned me out, with order-s not to come again without bringing y-ou in my hand. 1 have hunted for you ever sinice in vain; but now I have luckihly founrd you, you will not refuse to return with me to dinner." George would have excused himsel. "lHe had only come," lie said, " for a short time, on busiiness, which was near-ly fiihed ; lie was about to deparit, and he had not a moment for any thing but busi ness." "Even if you go to-morrow, you must dine somewhere to-day-and wvhy not as wvell at my brother's as at the inn ?" With these words he put his hand under thm youn man's arim. and drewv him alonrg. heedless of all excuses. It has been said that a good face is the best letter of recommendation; and no one ever had a better than George. The banker and his family were charmed with him, and each praised him in their way. Mr. Stendhal admired his open counte nance; his wife the modest propriety of his manners; her mother, who was very old and rather deaf, the good natured and respectful way in which ho answered several questions which she put to hin. The daughter a blooming girl of sixteen, said nothing, but perhaps the look of pleasure with which she listened to the praises bestowed by the rest of the family, was not the least eloquent part of the panegyric. l the course of the evening, Mr. Stend. hal learned that his guest's name was George, that he was an orphan, and that he would leave Marseilles in five or six days. He mentioned also the names of some of the merchants with whom he had done business; and one of them happen. ing to be a particular friend of Stendhal s the good banker went to him the next day, to make irquiries respecting his new ac quaintance. "All I know of him," said the mer chant, " is that he comes from an old correspondent of mine, who has recoi mended him very stiongly to me. He has transacted busineses for the gentleman with several others besides mysef, and lie is generally regarded as a clever and in telligent young man. My friend lament ed in his letter, that he had not the power to ofr him a permanent situation, and he h:: :ied me to look out for one for him-but I have not met with any thing likely to suit." This was enough for Stendhal, who was a sort of benevolent Quixotte in his way. He wished to serve George; but with the delicacy of true generosity, he desired that the young man should feel himself the obliger, rather than the ob liged. He. told him that he wanted a c!crk; George fell into the innocent snare laid for him; he offered himself, and was directly accepted. Mr. Stvndhal was well satisfied with the abilities of his new clerk, and not less .0 wihjiaconduet:ahmy ting thatJ he wisht d was, to see in the young maim more of the gaiety natural to his time of life, but he was constantly serious, and even sad, notwithstanding that his temper was so sweet, and his manners so mild and umiable, that he was a favorite withe the whole family. Two years passed away and at the end of that time, George had become, what Mlr. Stendhal emphatically called his right hand; he releived the good banker from a great part of the fatigue which he had till then taken upon him self; and while he had never relaxed, in the slightest degree, his attention to busi ness, he found time to render himself as agreeable and useful to the female part of the fanily, as to the master of it. He was Leocadie's language master to the great satisfaction of Mrs. Stendhal, who had no longer any reason to reproach the dear girl with that disinclination to study, which had been her only fauilt. But what perhaps drew the hearts of both mother and daughter still more strongly towards him was, his unwearied attenttin to thme good grandmother, who was alike beloved and venerated by the family. All at once Stendhal perceived that his wife appeared unusnally serious and abstracted. It was evident that she had something on her mind ; but what could that something be, whih she concealed from her husband, with whom, till then she had no reserve. A fter puzzling his bramins for a little time with conjectnres, the banker tookc what he considered to be the only right wvay in these cases-lie determined to come to the point at once. "'1Till now," said he, " we have been happy: it is evident that you have ceased to be so : tell me the cause of your un easiness-and if it is my powver to banish it, regard the thing as done." "Then it is done," cried Mrs. Stend hal, embracing him. M~y uneasiness arose from discovering Leocadie in love." "In love !-and with whomI" " With G eorge." "So much the better-if he loves her." -If, Mr. Stendhal---' "It, Madame Stendhal-I stty, if-" " And I say there is no if in the case: the poor fellowv is too honorable to say a word-but I see clearly that he is dying for her." "Alhtmy dear, mother's eyes are not always to be trusted on those occasions: but I will speak to him myself." And, without any prefacee, he said to the young man the following day "George, it is time for you to be looking about for a wife : what do you think of my daughter ?" George had no need to reply : his countenance told Mr. Stendhal p~lainliy that his wife was in the right. "Well, well," cried he, in a tone of pleasure, " you love her, hey ?" " It is true, sir; but Heavent is my witness, I have never dared to breathe a syllable-" "Ah, you were very right not to speak to her; but wvhy did you not tell me your mind i You knowv that I despise the prideonf birth. anid that I don't eare lor money. All that I desire is, that my son in-law should be a man of probity, and descended from in honest family." It is impossible to describe the mingled expression of grief: and shame which ap peared in the countenance of George when he heard 'hese words. He was silent for a moment: at last he said, in a voice of great enotion, " You are right; I never thought, 1never hoped it could be otherwise. Hitherto I have concealed from you who I am; but to-morrow you shall know all. Leave me now I beseech you.1" Shocked with: his evident distress, Standhal presse his hand kindly, begged of him to conipos'e himself, and left him. The good bankerikiew not what to think of this scene; ye4 e was persuaded that no blame was attAched to George. The next morbing, le learned with gr-ief and surprise, that the young man had quitted the house. The following letter, which he left behind him, will ex plain the cause of- this step: " How little di *you think yesterday, my dear benefactor, that even in the mo ment when you meant to render me the happiest of men,s3ou struck a dagger to my heart? Yes-e- know-I feel that the mind of your ang'lie daughter never can be bestowed but Opon the descendant of an honest man. 1 must then fly from her forever. I will not leave you without telling you all. Know that I am the son of that St. Aubin, who,:bn being arrested for forgery, killed oi of the gens-d' armes, who was sent to Aize him, and expiated his crime upon tie scaffold. I had re turned home froid college about a year and a half before this dreadful event took place. Imperfectly acquaintpd with my father's circumstances, I asked him to give me a profession. He refused assur ing me that it was not necessary, as his property was sufhient for us both, even independent of well founded expectations which lie bad, that I should inherit a con siderable fortune from an uncle in the In (lies. " Satisfied wi liese reasons, and con cluding from the ,-le in which my father lived, that he mu very rich, I thought Do.mor $OmG.. monhsi passed awaay, n one morning my fither entered my apartment, and an nounced to me-.abruptly that lie was ruined. Shocked and overwhelmed asi was, I had presence of mind enough to attempt to console him. The education you have given me," cried I, " will secure us from wvant, and you have still niany friends." " Not one-not, one!" cried he in agonV. " Driven to despair, by my losses on Change, I had borrowed money where I could, and finding ill luck con tinually pursue me, I had recourse to forgery. Mily crime is on the eve of being discovered. I must fly, instantly: but'1 will not leave thee, my poor ruined boy wholly without resource. Take this it is the half of what remains to ine." le oflfered me a pocket hook: I rejected it with a look of horror. "This alone was wanting!" cried he, in a voice of fury, as lie rushed from the room. I fol lowed him-I begged his pardon on my knees, but I was resolute in refusing his money. He fled: and just when I be gan to congratulate myself that he was safe from pursuit, I heard the overwhelm ing tidings of his arrest and subsequent execution. A burning fever seized me I should have perished under it, but by the charity of one of those who had suf fered mo'st by my unfortunate father. May 1ie'aven's choicest blessing light upon the wvorthmy main! Farn from re piroaching me, lie took pains to console mec. He eveni carried his charity so far as to recommend mie to the merchant in whose emplloy I was when you took me into your house. You will feel that, after the avowal, we can never mecet again. Farewell, forever, my friend-my benie faictor !-May happiness-eternal happi ness-be the port of you and yours, ~ORG E g'r. AUM:5." The first implulse of Stendhal was to cause inmmediate search to be made for George ; but all in vain : lie had quitted the town, and no oiie knewv whither he had gone. Stendhal was at the first truly grieved at his flight-but wihen lie began to reflect coolly on the circum stances of the case, lie was not sorry that George had qjuitted him as lie did; for with all his affections for the young man, lie shrunk from the idea of giving his daughter to the son of a convicted felon. He felt, howvever, deeply, for the effect which the flight of George evidenitly produced upon Leocadie; and after a con sultaition with his wife, lie determined to tell her the truth. She wept bitterly at hearing it; but it was evident that lher mind was releived, for, from that time, she appeared more traiiquih. She de voted herself still more exclusively to len family, shunned society, as much as she could, and '1ough alw'ays even tem pered, and at times cheerful, it wvas easy to see that she was not happy. Four years passed; Leocadie received many offers of marriage, but refused them so peremptorily, that~her parents des paired of ever seeinlg her married: it griesed them, but they would not con strain her 'aiclinations. In thie beginning n0' thn tinarthi yeas, Stemdhnl went on business to Paris, where he met, by acci dent, an old friend, whom he had not seen for several years. After the first greet ings, mutual enquiries were made as to what had happened to each since they last met. Stendhal had enjoyed an unin terrupted course of prosperity, whilst his friend had experienced many reverses of fortune. " I was," said he, " at one time, ex tremely rich; severe losses reduced me to a competency, and I was deprived of that by the dishonesty of a friend whom I loved, and in whom I placed- explicit confidence." " And how?" said Stendhal, in a tone of anxious inquiry. " Why, now, thanks be to Heaven, and to the honestest man I have ever known, I have recovered iy last loss." Hlow so ?" "The son of a man who robbed- me, came unexpectedly in possession of a very considerable property, and the first use lie made of it wvas to pay every shil ling his father owed." What a worthy fellow?" "Ah! you would say so if you knew all. The father, who was universally be lieved to be very rich, had taken up money wherever lie could ; and the amount he owed was within a few hundreds of the sum his son inherited. The young man did not hesitate; lie paid the last farthing of his unworth father's debts. As none of us had the smallest claim against him, we felt it our duty to ofler to give up a part; but he would not hear of it." " That was right; I like the spirit; and, poor follow, it was hard for him too, to have only a few hundreds left." Nay, lie has not even that." "What do you mean ?" "Why, he has assigned the interest of it as a pension to the mother of a gens-d' armes whom his father shot." "'Tis lie!-by Heaven, it is St. Aubin -It must be lie !" "It is, indeed: but how did you be. come acquainted with him?" "Never mind that now, but tell me instantly where lie is." " He is, or at least lie was two months since, a clerk in a banking-house at Am. sterdam." -.. -.. - Stendhial lost not a moment in proceed. ing thither-and presented himself to the astoniahed George. " Come," cried lie, "come, my dear son, make us all happy, by receiving the hand of Leocadie. Al! never yet did the most splended achievements of an ancester confer upon his decendents greater istre than your high-minded probity will bestow upon yours. FARJyv RiSIXG--Happy the man who is an early riser. Every morning day comes to him with a virgin love, full of bloom, and purity, and fresh ness. The copy of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child. I doubt if any man can be called "old," so long as he is an early riser and an early walker. And a youth--take my word for it-a youth in dressing gown and slippers, dawdling over breakfast at noon, is a very decrepid, gastly image of that youth which sees the sun blush over the moun tain, and the dews sparkle upon blos soing liedge-rows.-B ULWEI. A or.YInEr.x was wvriting a tiote at a coffee-house the other day, and perceiv ing an impertinient fellowv looking over him, as lie wrote, wound up thus: "1 should say more, were it not that an i pudent puppy is looking over my shoul der." " Upon my honor, sir," said the man, "I have not read a word you have written !" " Mus. WILKIxs, my love, will you be helped to a small bit of the turkey ?" " Yes my dear Wilkins, I will" " What part wvould you prefer." "I will have a couple of wings-one of the legs-some of the breast-the side bone-sonar filling, and a few dumplings -very few, as I feel very unwell to day." Wilkins fainted. CHEAP DIET.-Thie cheapest diet in the world, we thinik, is a fried pie. We tried fourpence worth the other day, and for forty hours we were so crammed that our eyes stuck like a lobster. PaoxzoTrox.-A gentleman rode up to a public house in the country, and asked, " Who is the master of this house ?" " I am, sir," replied the landlord ; "my uwife has been dead about three weeks." IF YioU want a favor of a married wo man, brag of her baby. If you want to obtain her eternal enmity, let her turn around and catch you making mouths at it. Wnr- is a fine wioman like a locomo tive? Because she draws a train after her, scatters the sparks, and transports the mails. THEi OLD LADY that used to dry her clothes on the Equinoxial has gone to Greenland to get the north pole to draw cistern water with. A Western newspaper office has the following notice placed in a conspicuous position: " Lady visitors are respectfully re quested to go to the Devil, who will ob iu n homen an interview with, the editor. To All whom It may Concern. We would strongly urge upon all young men the necessity of paying less attention to their dress, and a little more to their manners. Why cannot they abandon their frivolous canes and quiz zing glass, and take a few rudimentary lessons in common politeness? It is really astonishing how the younger por. tion of the human race degenerate, if they are brought up within. the influence of a city. The youth of nineteen who, had he been reared in the country would have turned out a solid, vell made and open breasted fellow, becomes, under the training of a city education, a mea gre, narrow minded and still narrower legged fop, with an undue proportion of self-conceit and impudence, and a lamen. table defciency of brains. His position in society becomes like that of the City Hall clock-neither ornamental nor use ful. By his acquaintances he is barely tolerated, and the hard working and in. dustrious artizen looks upon him with contempt, and considers him as a mere drone in the common hive-one who con tributes nothing, but consumes a good deal-prefers brandy mashes to pure Croton-aid loves to display the sym metry of his broomstick legs, encased in a fashionable pair of remarkably narrow trousers. But to return to the point of our subject. We would strongly recoin mend our young friends to spend their earnings in somen more profitable employ ment than smoking, eating oysters, di ink ing, and kicking up rows. Should they desire to improve their mind, they ought to become members of the Mercantile Library, or some debating society; should they wish to improve and cultivate their physical education, let them spend two or three evenings out of the week in gym nastic exercise. There is an excellent institution for this purpose in the city. They will then soon discover that their members were made for a nobler purpose, than merely as the "thing" to be dressed by a fashionable tailor. [To clerks and other persons whose pursuits are of a sedentary .nature, physical exercise is in dispensible nQcessary.] We feel confi dent, that out of twenty fashionably aq ipped.o in,,.gee opargee. nineteen icapableof rsiiing a weight of twenty-eight pounds above their head. We sincerely hope that our remarks may induce some of our friends to "turn over a new leaf;" they will feel no desire to go back to the old page if they but make the experiment.-New York Picayune. IT WoNr Do.-It is curious how many thousand things there are which it won't do to do upon this crazy planet of ours, whereupon we eat sleep, and get our dinner. For instance It won't do to plungo into a lawsuit, relyiNg wholly oin the justice of your cause, and not equipped beforehand with a brimming purse. It won't do to tweak a man's nose, tell him lie lies, unless you are perfectly satisfied he has not spunk enough to re sent it by blowing your brains out-.or if you have no brains, cracking your skull. It won't do for a man when a horse kicks him, to kick back in return. It won't do to crack jokes on old maids in the presence of unmarried ladies w-ho have passed the age of forty. It won't do for a moan to bump his head against a post, unless lie conscien tiously believes that his head is the hard It won't do for a chap to imagine a girl is indifferent to him, because she studiously avoids him in company. It wvon't do for a man to Ifancy a lady in love with him because she treats him civilhy,or that she has virtually engaged herself to him because she alwvays en dured his company. It won't (do to be desperately enamored of a pretty face till you have seen it at the brekfast table. It won't do to pop the question more than a dozen times after a lady has said It won't do to extoll the beauty of a lady's hair before you know whether it did not onice belong to another lady's head. I-r requires two or three men to milk a California cow. They set to work on horseback, and first lasso and tumble her to the grouiid. Then tie her head t~o a post, and theh bind her feet together in pairs. One of the men holds the bucket, while another does the milking; and the terrified animal endures the process with the same docility that a cross baby ex hibits, wvhiile its dirty face is being scrub bed. One or two quarts of milk are the result of this operation. IT Is easier to reconcile ten angry pier sons of common sense, than one angry fool. THE MAN who pays the printer was in town the other dhay. ie called at our office and paid for his paper, and then left town with a good conscience. He was an honest, benevolent looking gen tleman, with a something in his air and manner which indicated him to be a good man. MlRs. PARTINOTON says it is a curious provision of nature that liens never lay, wihien eggs are dear, and always begin when bhey are ehbn-m Louis NAPOLEON AND THE SWEDISh PhIxcEss.--It is stated in the foreign pa. pers that the marriage of Louis Napoleon with a Swedish princess is settled. There is but one princess of the reigr ing house of Sweden who is old enough to be married; and .that is the Princess Charlotte, fourth child of King Oscar. She was born in April, 1830, and is now twenty-one years of age. If this be the princess, she is a near relative of Louis Napoleon. The pres ont Queen of Sweden is a daughter of Eugene Beaubarnais, and grand-daughter of the Empress Josephine. Louis Na poleon is son of Hortense Beauharnnis, and grandson of the Empress Josephine. The Prince President is therefore first cousin to the mother of his intended bride. The descendants of Josephine have all been fortunate, while of all the relations of Napoleon, Louis Napoleon is the only one who has risen to power, and lie is of the race of Josephine, while scandal! has often doubted where there is any Bona parte blood in him. A grandson of the divorced Empress is the Prince President of France; another was King consort: of Portugal; another is married to the daughter of the Emperor of Russia,.and a grand-daughter is Queen of Swdden---a brilliant destiny in the second generatioal for the descendants of a creole West In dian. E.RtNEST Kiss.-This is the singular name of a singular man, and one of the most distinguished of the Hungarian, Generals who were taken prisoners and executed by the Austrians in the late war.. '"he following notice of him is condensed fiom an interesting account of Hunga. rian Generals, published in a foreign journal: Earnest Kiss was a wealthy proprik tor, owning twenty-three villages,, and was a man of excessive personal: elkz gance, as well as chivalric courage.. He regularly sent his linnen all the- way from Hungary to Paris to be washed, and was in similar respects, a D'Orsay as well as a Bayard. His- coolness in danger was remarkable; and it is tblWlof him dag one . daMithin re Q Austrian batery,'maii1kg an 0ser"t on, J he ordered his servant to bring: him chocolate. A shot took it from his- Hand and killed his horse. "Clumsy rascals!" said Kiss,"'tiley have upset my breakfast." When taken out with three otiers to be shot, lie was superbly dressed. 'rhe order was given to fire, and his- con panions fell, while he stood untouchedi " You have forgotton me," said' Kiss in his usual tone of voice. The corporal of the platoon stepped off and fired;-and, the ball striking him in the forehead, lie fell dead without a struggle. FI'TON.-The Washington correspon dant of the Charleston Courier writes: " Gen. Shields mentioned in a sieech the other day the fact that at the tine when the Emperor Napoleon was pre paring for the invasion of England, a stranger obtained an interview with him and unfolded a plan by which hi' project would be made successful. Napoleon was struck with the idea, and; referred the piroject to some of the principallsei entific mecn of his empir~e, wuho forthwith pr-onounced that the projector wuas erazy. T1hat man wvas Robert Fultong- and his prop~osed agent was steam. " Should the project of the ihvasion of England be undertaken, the- agency of steam will undoubtedly be employed in conveying the French troops tro the- Brnit ish shores. What British- courage and patriotism might (10 is one thibg-;' but a wvell appointed French army of two-hun ~dred thousand men, once laded, would be very troublesome." GIVE YOUR CIIILD A PAPER.-A child beginning to read becomes delighted with a newspaper, because he reads the names of things which are very familiar,-and-will mnake progress accordingly.. A new-spa per in one year is wvorth a qgmrter's schooling to a child, and every father must consider that substantial'iiformation is connected with advancement. Thie mother of a family, being one of the heads, and having a more immediato charge of children, should herself be in structed- Amnd mind occupied, becomes fortified against the ills of life and is braced for any emergency. Children- amused by reading or study, are of course more con siderate and more easily governed.. How many persons who have not spent twenty dollars for books for their families, would have given hundreds to reclaim a son or a (aughter who had ignorantly or thought lessly fallen into temptation. AN ingenious Yankee has invented what he calls the " offce seekers suspenders.' - lie says they cross three different ways, and change sides just as easy. Nowv is a capital time to introduce them, it being so near another presidential "Cossle."-Car pet Bag. How TO KNOW A FoorL-A fool, says the Arab proverb, may be known by six - things-anger without cause, speech with- ' out profit, change without motive, inquiry. witout object, putting trust in a stranger, and not knowing his friends from is foes.4