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Lortex THEILE was the daug-hter or a min heahby in mind and body, and 4'f a mother somte:ittes subject to hysterics, and who. par tiettlarlv during her pregnanevy with this itt ftnt, coulJ not divest of a contintiul tat-l. choly. Louisa was, when a child. r.tlter weikly, but sooi shewed sigis of uider standiing and comprehension which gave her p-trents great pleasure. Site was sent to school in her seventh vear, aid cutlLivated with irreat eagerness every bratnch of instrue tion : relizion in particular had the Lireatest chartts for her; tn inclination which her masters perhaps too much cherished in one (of so tender an age. From this it miv have proceeded that the approtch of maturity brought on her a fever which soon becntne mental alienation, at first showing itself in the fixed idea that she could not masticate, and could therefore eat no solid food. Noth ing was neglected for years togelher, by thilt first physicians, to restore her to helth, and it at last seemed probable that ati entire re covery might be expected. At this time her brother was drowned-and the much beloved Queen of Prussia died. It certainl is a that both events had such an e7 on ter that she seemed for a long time dead to all pleasures, sought only retirement, and en joyed no confort except at church and in reading religious books. Her father held a lucrative post. but lost it ott account of the war, was obliged to live ott what lie had saved, and contract his expenses very much ; his privations, his sorrows, in creased the silent afflictiotns of the gtod daughter. Her mother at last becane also I ill, but not dangerously: but Louia's fili:il fears created dangers. Site wntited to ad minister to her beloved sick parents reme dies aind iourisltmeitt which were too deer for thet in their present narrow cireutm stances. The younger sisters sometimes I reminded her of this, perhaps not tmi!dly enough ; and this grief apparently occasioned the return of the inental alientation. Several physicians again undertook to at tend her. but as her poor parents coluld not supply her with the requisihe remedies, they at last determined, after much persuasion, to trust their uilnappy lichild to the Ch:rite. Verv much worn out, and with the dlepest telatiehtle in her cotntetnce, sie enteretd the establishment, complaiting that her in side was torn, atnd her heart driveni into her hentd, &c. Iler cotintual sere:mtting, atnd contpliing of paitn, was tnt its it atppeiars, tak~en for thte sympjtomi oaf the disorder. bit for the dikorder itself, atnd the whltelt methtod oft cure chiefiy directed to gntietitng her. Thte remetdies used for this were. :ibunidanice of cold water, poured sixteent pa~ilfutls at a lime ove-r the head; fetters ;a strait watistcont; quick turtnings in a kind of mntehiine ; emties; a hair rope; a saek ini which site was pitt, it~ was theti tied, laiid ott the floor. aned fastened to the bed-post : atnd, lastly, a Megaira of an atttenddaint. ealled Mrs. Voigt. who, whtetn her eryitig itncommott~ded her, scolded the tunfoirt it. nate girl, boxed her ears. anid forced her lips togethier wi-h her haznds, kniocked her htead aga~inst the wall, &c. All these hvlsh ometh-. ods were made use of~ several time-s in the short spacee of eleveni days, ott at deblilitated v-ountg girl, whlo had been vecry wvenk ly fronm hier childhood. It is to be cieeived that the patietnt could ntit feel hterse-lf, with this trentt ttettt, more comfortable ini the Charite thtan ini her paretits'hou~tse, and that her comnpltitnts increased. She oftent cried ont. with at voice which would ha~ve affe'cted thle hea~rt of any tiger, that of Mrs. Voigt excepted: "Ah ! my God ! my Saviotur! my good nurse ! have pity on toe ! nmy sister ! liy latht er ! It might be supposed thtat her illness had so debased her, that it wvas become tecessary to treat her ais a mere brute attnmal ; bitt that was not the case. Whenever I~arrtline Bub Ier, otne of the wvittnesses, who visited hter, spoke to hier, the language of te patietit was sensible atid coherent, shte did tnot fly from one subject to attothier, answered ev-ry ques tiotn, and inqtuired herself respect ing mianty things; otnly she atlwatys soutght to turn the c-onversattiont to religiotns objects. She utftent wvept antd sobbed, arid if Catrolitne Buhlher asked her why she wept so. she antswe-redl, Al Ah I long to lie at htome with my t friends nd relaitionts! I am treated here so very cruelly-!" At last, ont the eleventh daty of her stay in this hell, site was agilin put into a strat. waistcoat. then into a sack, anid this a secontd stek wvas drawn, and in the first there was, besides, over hecr face at pieco of black waxed cloth ; in this way the satcks were tied up, puit on Ithe grontted beside the bed, and there ,stened to the bedpost. In this state did the unforttunate girl lie for severatl hour-s, latmentinlg. erying, praiying. desp.armog; du iat w!m str Voist ha~d a coee~ p:y im the next room. Louisa's cries changed grad. nally into panting and groaning, and tliis beenme grradually 7ower, and at last she was quite still. The coffee party now went into the cham. ber, for further recreation; the sacks were opened,.pulled down, and the poor Louisa was dead! Mrs. Voigt now screamed more than the patient had done: "I am undone! Give me a knife ! I must kill myself!" But nobody hind the politeness to rid the world of this monster; on the contrary, her feumale companions advised her to put the corpse in the bed, and say that Louisa had died there. This was done. Surgeons were called in, and every means attempted to res tore her to lile: but happily the girl's suf ferings were terminated. Her fither was Afbent : and her mother in despair, inenpalihe of ineting. more distant re lationstt' iave intoriation of this death which looked 0o much like a murder. The crini nul tribunal examined into the aflfair, and ne quitted the Counsellor Iforn, because he af firned that Louisa was not suf'beated, but had tlied of an apoplexy. The sack, it was, said. had been Ko coarse. that she might very easily have drawn breath ; but that a piece of black waxed cloth had put before it to hinder this easines of respiration, was not mentioned: nor was it inquired whether cor poreal ill-treatment in all cases ealculated to restore lunatics; whether the mode of trea ting such patients in tle Charite does not require a thorough reform; whether it is not necessary that the director of the institution, as well ;s those under him. should have, be sides the other neee.ary qualificatiotis,flee ing hear!s ! A Cow Re-tailed nud Cur-tailed. A cut and shuffle fellow, who had been regularly educated to the profession of erd playing, a close student, who at the midnight taper had spent many a silent midnight hour studing out the mysteries of poker, brazg, fare, monte, seven up and of 'stocking,' put ting up cards, lately after an unfortunate game of seven up. foiund himself hard tip inl a Western city. His shutlihig began to be understood wherever he made his appear ance. and the consequence was, lie seldom shufiled long in any one place, before lie was Obliged to cut. On the present occaision he concluded to make a " sudden and mysteri ous disappearance " in the night, and Iaving in vain, aenrehed about for some trillitig to kens by which to remember the friends with whom he was to part so unceremoiuusly, hie took his departure at midnight, unen , umbered with baggage, and without a six pense in his pocket. - loreim a - are- ennen to ross in the morning, and while jogging long in the tnoonlight, studying how to winidle the ferryman and secure a breakfast n the other side, he discovered a cow, a poor inotfensive beatt, which by some tmis rortune had lost its tail, lying in the path before him. Feeling a little lonely, lie thought it would diford him company and :utusemnetnt to drive the cow before him to the ferry, and accord inglv lie aroused the ruminatitng quadruped withi a Atiek, and u.sing such persuasions as were likely to be understood, lie went for ward with' his design. The cow seemed to prefer the bushes aid fields ont either side of road to the road itself, and this occasioned great delay and inconvenience, so that day light arose atd found the cow atid her new proprietor still fat from the ferry. With the daylight came also another dis covery, which was by no menus agreeable The cow had no tail!-here was a tale un folded. The cow with no tail would be very alit to prove a tell-tale. What was to be done ? To add a false t:il was easy ; but to tie on a false tail required a genious of an (ther kind. Fortune fivored our hero. how ever, atd passing a otunt m slaughter-house, lie observed an oxhtide, tatih anud all, htanginig ott the fee. Ilis bowie-knif'e sooni whipped off the tail, and driking the cow into the bushes where he woiuld not lie observed, he mnazged to ma~ke the dead tail hanig to the ie stumpj ini a manner very duibious and min eertnini. It had to do, however, antd fif'teen mintes mtore found the re-iailed cow ott board thme ferry boat adong withi the tail-or, who had provided her with a new tail. Success now seemed certain, when a mn appeared, riditng in hot haste, at the ferry, imunted upon an old horse that seemed to have been urged necarhy to his last gasp. Trhe matn dismounited an~d hurried oin boaird the boat. Hie marched right tip to the cow, and his lips wvere aliendy open for an exchamna tiont of triumph, when his eyes fell upon thle tail. A strange tystery now seetmed to take possesionm of himi. H~e walked rotund thie cow-looked at her legs-its horns, its head, anid then lie would give a mysterious glance aut tihe tail. He lifted his left hand, with the five digits of his aighit, and comn menced a sort of phlrenoiogical examlinationi of this perieranium. Now, the ox's tail wvas .such a miserable deception, and so awvkwardly managed at best, that the discovery of the trick seemed ienvitable ; and the state of perplexity anid fear in which the professor of "-High, Low, Jack and the Gamme" wvas placed, may be imagined. His alarm was probably high, his hopes low, he hamd missed his trick in endeavoring to turn tip Jack, amid the Game was with him, lie had a dash of itmpudence, however, alwvays at a pinch, atnd Ruow~ with admirable assuinption of open hete~td honesty and in dependence, he Walked up to the mant who was exatmininig the cow. "Neighbor, I reckon there aint a better ce w than that in these pairts y'saiid lie in such a mantner to his itetrrogatory. -Well, I don't know straniger," replied the man, and he still conitinued his examination of the cowv, seeming to grow more puzzled every motme nt. " T'hat 'ero is the fitest critter, neighbor, that was ever milked. I saty yoit seem to to fancy the aniumal, may be you'd like to buty her?" "Buy her !" exclaimed the tman, opening his ves with a strantger glare of perplexed astonishment. " why, juol; here, strantger, if that cow had no tai!, I'd swear she was mine!" "I'd swear she was mine !" A capital idea now flashes upon the pro fessor. lie was in momentary dread of the ox's tail dropping off, and, to remove his alarm, and the tail together now occurred to him. "Look here, neighbor," said he calling a flush of blood to his face, and pretending to be highly incensed, " are you in earnest? I should just like to hear you say that again !" " Say it again ! to be sure I will. I never saw such a resemblance in my life. If the cow had no tail. I'd swear she was mine !" " Well now let's see you swear," said the professor, and he jerked out his kifie, whipp. ed off the tail, together with a portion of the living stump, so as to cause blood to flow, and fliiging the evidence of his roguery as far as his strength would send it into the stream, he exelaimed, seeming in a power of passion, now, stranger let's see you swear The owner of the cow is fairly beaten. He took another look at her, gave a glance after the tail, stared at the proflessor, and then walked ashore and mounted his old horse. le turned again to look at the cow, and as the boat put oilf, he thus soliloquized aloud: " Well, of all the most extraordina ry resemblances I ever did see!'" ThaCs my cow's head, there's her old broken horn -I'll swar-d-n me, I'll swear to every inch about her but her tail." Kossuthl in the'Soutlh. After disappearing for a season, KossUTi emerges at New Orleans, but even there the telegraph disposes of him in two lines-"ar rived-no preparation to receive him-little interest shown." This is all that. the Cre scent City does for the mob hero, at whose heels the whole population of the North pour along in. surging mnultitude.p. Perhaps even ticy are by this time ashamed of their mein sureless adulation. Perhnps they have dis covered the hollowness (if his flateries, as he has of their enthusiasm. They were well m:itched. The enthusiasm ott both sides was merely the exaltation of self-worship. But little as there was of the sincere and en during in the glaring blaze of KossUTn's Northern progress, there was enough of wild fernwiit and momentary force, to sway the opinions nnd conduct of a great portion of the public men at Washington, and thus se riously to compromise the interests oflpeace withEurope. In this 1nsmition of . vielded - doubt a . - taken, paid V -. rioto. felt ins - itcrea - -. - .- - nals which. fi-oi the first, had shown a dis position to defend the true mid established policy of the country against the cosmopoli tian piracy of Europe-rn Red Republieninism. Northern eninsiasn is now stale mnd fl-t. nfter having shown itself nimprofitable. It has eflected no object that. either true patri- i ots or deep rognes could greatly rejoice over. It has made the country ridiculous. It has broken up for a time our good under standingr with some of the governments of Europe. against whom we could allege no grievance. It his.thrown a suspicion on the I moral soundness -of the public opinion of this country, which,. For a tine at least, will we:!ken the faith of other nations in our pub lie pledge. This nch of evil it has unde niably done. But it has perhaps also dou some good. It has subjected tle principles of our foreign policy to a searching scrutiny. and thus enilightened the general mind. It has a:tl'rded in inst.'nce of a wild popular frenzy being quenched while yet far from i the mischievous end to which it was speed ing. It lis shown more elerly than any othier single gage of our history, that the South is the conservative element of the Counfederey.-M ercury. LADEs SIoEs-If shoes were const ructed of the shape of' the humu:m foot, neither too lage nor too small, and making an e'qual pres sure every where, corns and bunions of the feet woufd never exist. liut unfortunately shoes are seldom made after this fashion, and in ladics shoes especially there are two single defects--first the extremity of the shoes is much two narrowv for that part (if thie foot (namiely the toes,) which it is to contain: and, secondly, for the purpose of displaying as much of thme foot as possible, Ithe whiole of the tairsus and mnetarsus is left Iuiiciveied, and the pressure of the shoe in front is thrown entirely upon the toes. Thue toes are thus squeezed against eachl other, andl pushed out iof their unatural position; and all the projecting points, chtielly where the joints aire situated. are pinched and tor mnent-d either by the neighboring toe~s or by the leather of tihe shoe ; and thuts it is that corns on the feet are getnerated. NEW YonK LErisLATURE-MIAJNE LIQUon Law.-Notwithstanding thie niimerouspe tions which have been senit to the New York legislaturc, in favor of the passage of the Mlaine liquor law, we doubt whether it will be passed during the present session. The New York Tribune states that the legisla ture haus been already in session eighty-five days, and that members cannot rece pay for mnore than one hundred (lays-of course only' fifteen days remain of the session, as members will 'not coiitinue in session one day after the stoppage of their pecr diem. Thie Tribune sacs: "twvo thirds of the pro per business of the session remains unacted on' : ine-tenths of it undisposed of." Such being the etise, it is not probablle the Tilaiine aliquor law will be acted upon in both houses. TAXEs in California aregetting to he very' onerous. The assessment for the ensuig yecar upon01 real and personal property, it is ~stated, will be -40 per cent, higher than they were last year. U. S. 3IUsKETs.-Durinig the laat year, there were miannfaetured at the Springfield armory 21,0.00 muskets, at a cost of $8,15 for each musket. In 1839, they could not I bx.ud alt I c..s thmn $17.-i.3 The Minority ReIort (N. Y.) on the Maine L1duor Law. THE following portion of an article which appeared in a New York aerald. of a recent date, we publish at the-Aquest of a friend. Some of the views presented are striking, and the whole article is well worth every reader's attention. Thi Jestion of " Tem pernnce" seems to be i ping upon us in the shape it has assumi in the Northern States; and we would not be much surprized if attempts at legislation were set on foot even in South Carolina ithin a few years. If so, we have no hesitatipn in saying that, as at present advised, 4e shall adopt the principles below set fort l by the " Herald." In the first plnce, the dinority report shows that the very tit!e of thebill reported by the majority is Ieceptive. I s "an act entitled an act to prevent paup' ism and crime, by the suppression of drinki g and tippling liou ses." This title assuis that spiritous li quor is tie sole parei Tof pauperism and crime, which is contrary reason and expe rience. A regard for th "morals, prosperity and wealth of the State s the pretext that has been employed in er *y age to cover the designs of tyranny and minaticism. Sump tuary laws were enacted fli remote times and and countries-Rome, Ejgland, France, and Sweden-and all without ffect. They were enacted in the early sett ent of Mas'snchn selts and Connecticut, aiA even in the State of New York. These 14-s were eilher for mally repealed or becam& practically a dead letter. Chnncellor Kenf in his comnienta ries, condemns all such h6s in the following terms:-" Civil govern nt is not entitled, in ordinary eases and a a general rule, to regu late the use of prop ty in the hands of the owners by sumptua 4aws, or any other visionarv schemes of fr litv and equality. No snef fttal union ni ssarily exists be tween prosperity and I ny, or between wealth and national cor ntion, in the har monious arrangenientsoa 'rovidence. Lib. erty depends essentially-i pon the structure of the government, the d'inistration of jus tice, and the intelligenc, f the people; and it has very little concern: ith the equality of property and frulwitv of .ving, or the varie ties of soil and nlimate The .present bill strikes at the root of rep lican equality, and nfrime Ihat Ii 'ral restraina should be imposed World ws'ia ~ ....... [ta vices and crimes before intoxicating drinks were discovered.-Vide Mr. Selinfer's speech it the Industrial Congress. The most. tro :ious crimes, in alt ages, have been commit ted by men who seldom or never indublled in th'e vice of drunkenness. Monroe Ed wards and .\litcliell, nmong the forgers. Pro fessor Webster and Colt, amnon" the murder ers, aind Otis Allen, One-Eyed Thompson, aind Niles, among the counterfeiters and au nlacious criminals, were abstemious men. Thle statistics of crime in tIhe city of New York, referred to in the majority report, are not entitled to confidence. To attribute des titution and vagrancy ini a large city wholly to intoxicating liquors, betrays either great ignoranee or great dishonesty. In France ad lungary, where wine constitutes the ordinary beverage of the people, drunken ness is less common than in England or America. The diffiusion of education, and moral -sunsion, are tie great amid only sue cessful mncanes of combatting intemlperance. In confirmation of tiis truth, we have the facet, that while in 1830 the quantity of whis key distilled in this State amounited to 11, 973,815 gaillons, it appears bmy the census to have beeni redueed to 9,231,700 gallons in the year 1850-being a diminution of 2,742, 11.5 gallons in tent years, though thme plopulal tion hias increased over 27 per cent in the same period. But the violence and coercioni attempted by the fanatics are very likely to produce a reaction. The muinorify report appeals to the Bible itsel f against thI ese self-righteous Phiarisees. It shows that the parophiet Jeremiah, under the inspiration of God, commanded the peo ple to " buy ment, winec, or strong drink, or anyvthing their souls desired, that they might make merry with their friends." And wvhen the Israelit'es wvere delivered out of bondage, God promised that "their vats should over flow with new wvine." WVine wvas thme coin mon beverage of the Jews and early Chris tians, andl thme assertion that it was' not in toxienting is refuted by the fact that it pro duced drunkentness and that the excess was denounced, but not thme moderate use. Thme logical writers inform us that wvine is used ini the eucharist because of its renovating, cheer ing and sustainiing qualities, and Christ him self was in the habit of drinking wvine, and, was called a " wine.bibber " by the Pharisces of that day. Ihis turning of the water into wvine, (and capital wine, too) for the use of the guests at the nmarriaige feast at Cana, oft Galilee, when the supply of the exhilarating beverage fell short, is in the recollection of every reader of the New Testament. But Greely, and the illustrious individuals of the IHoly Allinnee, claim, it seems, to be better and holier than the Son of God, But. say the fanatics, there is no utility or benefit from the use of liquor, and therefore wvhy not legislate against it? Thme costly mniisions, the eleganit furniture of our citi zens, tihe wvorks of art, the silks of India, and the diamonds of Brazil-the theatre, the op era hmouse, and the baill room-are all unne cessary, and, according to this argument, ought tos be demolished, and banished by leg islation. Nearly 300,000,000 pounds of to bacco arc annually raised in the United States. There is no utility in this article; and is it to be prohibited by law ? In reply to the nasertion of the majority report, that the consumption of spirituous liquors adds nothing to the general prosper ity, thme minority refesr to the fact that foreign Sines and spirit, toi the value of'.$25,000.000. have been imported into the United States from June, 1843, to June, 1851; of which nearly two-thirds were received in the port of New York. The commercial and ship ping interest is, therefore, seriously involved in this question. The revenue and the right of Congress alone to "regulate trade and commerce," are also involved. How far the agricultural interest of this State would be affected, the following important extract from the minority report will show: We beg to preserve some brief but con elusive statistics which we have obtained by official transcript from the last census of this State, not yet published, in the census office at Washington. From this authentic source of evidence, it appears that the amount of grains produced and used ir. the State of New York for brewing and distillinz, for the year ending June 1st, 1850, is as follows: Bartley ................2,062,250 bushels. Rye................... 909.087 do O;ts................... 6,707 do Corn................. 1,647,266 do Total -.mount........4,625,290 -Making a total of four millions, six hun dred and twenty-five thousand, two hundred and ninety bushels of those four kinds of grain, which, but for this demand, would be thrown upon the hands of the farmer, The 2,062,250 bushels of barley thus thrown into disuse constitutes a large portion of the whole barley crop of the State-thus show ing that very lit tle of this grain is used for any other purpose in this State than the mnanufacture of the beverages which the bill I now before the Assembly proposes to pro prohibit. If we make an estimate of the value of the respective amounts of these four kinds of grain produced and used in this State for this purpose, according to their present average per bushel, in the New Yolk Ilriee Current, we have for the Barley, 2,062,250 bush at 76 ets $1,567.310 Rye, 909.067 do 75 " 681.800 Ots 6,707 do 40 " 2,682 Corn, 1,647,266 do 65 " 1,070,722 Total value of grain 83.322,722 To this amount other agricultural products must be added. It appears by the census of 1850, that por ion of the hop crop of this State employed in the manufacture of ale, amounts to 581 tons, or 1,311.440 pounds, which, at 20 cents per pound, is $293,432. From the same in aniree it sec "H'Iod mount to three millions seven hundred and [ifteen thousand nine hundred anti forty-six lolars. In the barley crop of the State thus prin -ipally appropriated to brewing, and for kvhich the-re is no probability of 3 demand rorany other mode of consumption almost every county in tihe State is interested. there being but tiree counties in which it is not mrodued. The thirteen counties, Albany, cauga, ;nesee, Herkimer, JefTerson, Liv nston, Madison, Moutgmnery, Onondaga. Ontario, Otsego, Schenectady and Schoharic, annually produce 1,874,447 bushels, worth Me million four hundred and forty-four thousand five hundred and seventy-nine dol ars, independently of the value of their rye and hops used in the process of brewing and distillation. The whole barley erc.p of tie State of laine is much less thai that of our single -ounty of Onondaga; indeed, the united value f the barley and rye consumed in this State for those purposes exclusively, amounts to -onsiderable miore than one-haltf of the united value of the whole crop of these two des criptions of grain raised throughout tie State. But there are various interests besides these nli'eted. The coopers and other nme hnis would be seriously injured. Inde pendent of thme charges for freight or trans nitting by railroad and canal, grain, ,molas ses, foreign and domestic wines and liquors, the mere items of mnanual habor cartage mount to several hundred dollars. In the arious cities and counties of the State up vards of $10,000,000 is permanently invest ed in distilleries and breweries, giving em ploment to thousamds. From the nature of thbuildigs and apparatus, the passage of this latw would involve a sacrifice of $7,000, 000. The amount of investment ini hotels. taverns and groceries, including stocks of vines, ales and liquors, may be safely caleu ated at $58,000,000--the largest portion of which is invested in tihe city of New York. This property would be reduced 50 per cent at one fell swoop... Such is a summary of the principal facts, arguments, and staitisticsa produced in this able document ; and it is no wonder that the organ of the Holy Allinnee should feel the intoxicating effects on its brain, and reel, an~d foam, and curse, and revile worse than the most degraded drunkard found in the lowest, haunts and purlieus of vice. But overwhelm ing as is this report, there is one point which it has overlooked-it is the infernal stool pi geon system which such a law would entail upon tihe counatry. In a case recently brought before Judge Fitch, at Portland, against a citizen, for violating the statue, it cnine out on the trial that the author of thme law, Neal Dow, the fanatic 31ayor of Portland, em ploed a common informer as a stool pigeon to onviet him, and that the wretch received twenty dollars as the rewvard of his inny. rlh Neal Dow is the "honorable man" to vhotb was lately presented a gold medal in this city by the lgnds of the hero of San Jacinto. I'f the Mamne law should be adopt ed in this State, what a crop of spies, inform ers, stool Jpigeons. and double dyed villuims will spring up like rank weeds, under the patronage of the leaders of the Holy Albi anee, to swear away, for hire, the property, the liberty, and the character of the citizens of New York ! gg Mami soldiers arc brave at the dinner tbl, who are cowards in the field. Direct Foreign Trade of the South. The Knoxville Plebeian of a reient date proposed that a Convention of Southern Far ners, Merchants and Planters, should be held to take into consideration the question of a direct trade of the South with foreign coun tries. That paper presents various reasons why all these leading interests should be represented in a general Southern Conven tion and adds: ,Such an assemblage we'believe would do more towards hastening the accomplishment of the great purpose than any thing else that could be conceived of. It is a scheme too gigantie to be effected now by a few merean tile leagues, or by the single arm of either one of onr seaport cities. The Northern competition would most surely crush such an tisupported effort. If effected at ill it must be done through the united effort of the entire South. From the tone of the press and the general interest every where manifested on the sub ject. we believe that such a combination of strength can be secured, and the Southern States be brought into the adoption of some delinite plan of action. By bringing the pro ducer in half the battle is foughit, and a clo ser feeling is established between these two great classes of the community. The farmer and planter will go home with more thorough knowledge of the subject and a more perfect view of its importance, and diffuse it throuwh his neighbors, and thus the merchant and e:p italist will be encouraged and the people every where committed in truth to the great question of direct trade." Jt accompanied its remarks with a republi cation of the re:solutions adopted byv the Merchants Convention held in this Cimy, on the 2d day of April, 1838. As they contain mneh th:it i< as appropriate now as it was then to the object in view, we also insert them in our own columns to-day. Nothing can be clearer than that "the in tervention of a tlird party" in carrying be tween two nations their resieetive prodne tions "must operate as a tax upon the ex changes between them." now or hi what way the means could best be raised and the eforits of interested parties most ell'eetively concentrated to bring about an extensive and lcrative direct trade with other nations, we do not propose to show. That would be a part of the legitimate busi nesi of the Convention, should one be held. outset of this great scheme, to pay more for their supplies than they would have to pay in New York and and other Northern cities. It would certainly be good policy to do so if the result in a reasonable time would be tlie substit ition in the South of as good and etn markets as could be found in other sections. The incidental advanttages of : direct trade would be immense. The shipping necessary for it would be built at the South. Machine shops, foundaries, and ship yards would be established on a large seale at appropriate places and cnll into requisition Southern ma terias and mechanicel skill. The existence of wealth tends to create it and every dollar kept in our midst by the direct interehange of our productions for those of other coun tries, would be that much added to our perma nent wealth. We would be less prosperous to tl:e amount paid a third party to convey them between us. Independant of the ordinary advanta:ges of adirect trade under existing circumstances, vye must look to the opening future. That nvites to energy and netivity in the business f direct exportation anid inmportationi. In a rew years the trade across the Isthmus, will be of'a magnitude searcely dreamed of now. Nture seems to have united the Northern amd Southern continents by at narrow strip of land for the express purpose of permitting a covenient crossing plnce from oean to cean. It would lbe a rep~roachi to Southern ities to permit trade from thme Pncific to pas~s by them to great distances for want of sui table and iaccommnodating markets in them The South is not altogether dependent upon Europe for its foreign trade. Thme whole of South America, besides thme Pacific trade, is openi to her enterprise. Sonie of the ountries of South America are blessed by unture wvith Ithme most magnificent rivers, which flow for thousand of miles through :mnd whose fertility is not equalled by that of tme Valley of~ thme Nile. Millions of aerei in Brazil an'd in other countries of that section, not eveni yet explored, are equal to the bestI in the vailley of the Mississippi, and much of it is far superior. The richest products of' the soil are ob~tained there with but little labor, nature~having endowed it with a fruit fulpess, atrue account of which seems to bor der on the extramvagancies of fiction. In many parts within the tropics and particularly un der the Equatorial line, perpetual summer reigns with its ever producing and genial power. There the leatves never fall, and fruits grow and ripen upon trees whose foli age never change its beautiful liues. It is better for the South to arouse at a Ito period than not at all. With the bright prospects before her, there is every reason for her to act promptly and vigorously on this important qnestion. We hope the press generally will favor the p~roposition to hold: a Southern Commercial Conventioni.- Cou aLituionaulisL. Mus. P. T. Barnum, Bridgeport, (Conrn.)|I wire of Mr. Barnum, of. the Museum, N. Y. took poison accidentally in that city on Fri day last, by swallowing a spoonful of a most deadly potion, akenine, or wvolf's bane, for some'simple medicine. A powerful emetic rescuedl her from the very jaws of death. Smte years ago, a heavy dose of morphine, taken mny mistake, very nearly sacrificed thme lir.. of' t mw sanme hldy. The Convention. The Unionville Journal thus concludes an article on what the Convention might do. " We are persuaded that, notwithstanding the past, that convention may do much to wards sustaining the character and honor of the States. Although they cannot carry out that measure which most of the members were pledged to advocate previous to their election, nevertheless they may, by a manly, dignified course of legislation, still uphold the dignity of the State. Since the first di vision of parties amongst us, there has been a small faction opposed to all resistance. This party first struggled into life in a noto rious mountain region in this State. Curses, loud and deep, sprung from every portion of the State, when it was known that there ex isted those within our borders who not only opposed separate secession, but even advo. cated and approved the compromise. But what a change has taken place since then! That party, then small and coutempti ble, in point of numerical strength, has in creased, until now the number of Unionists, Compromise men, or call them what you may, in South Carolina, is neither small or powerless. We say therefore, the Convention can do much towards preventing the formation of a great Union party in our State. They may, by taking proper steps towards an expression of the true sentiments of the majority of the people, crush this party now-they may put the seal of their condemnation upon its mem bers and their principles-and thus, though Sonth Carolina may not be taken out of the Union, she may 'still keep up that spirit of opposition to its measures which was once so nniverba throughout her borders. And when the time shall come, when the entire south, irritated and exasperated be yond endurance by further encroachments upon their rights, shall rise up and declare their determination to dissolve a union which has been only an engine of oppression to her, South Carolina will be amongst the foremost in the struggle, and her patriotic efforts will not be without their reward.5 The New York Times, treating of the abuses inflicted on American citizens by the authorities of Cuba. says: "r The policy of our Oovernment in relation to several urgent matters wants precedent, and therefore wants definite settlemerst. Congress loses itself in discussions upon flid. ~ ~ ~ ' I.r ill 'rll fI manded at the peril of cannonautags and bombardments. No oriential despotism is more thorougholy refined than that of Cuba. There is none more barbarous." LA UGTTE.-Laughter very often shows tihe bright side of man. It brings out his happier nature, and shows of what sort of stuff he is really made. Somehow we eel as if we never thorouhly know a nvm: until we hear him laugh. We do not Feel " at home " with him till then.-We io not mean a mere snigger, but a good round hearty laugh. The solemn sober visage, like a Sunday's dress, tells us othing of the real man.-He may be ve ry silly, or very profound; very cross or very jolly. Let us hear him laugh, and we can decipher him at once, and tell iow his heart beats.-Carlyle says " That no man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can b~e altogether and ir reclaimuably bad. Much lies in laughter, the cypher-key wherewith wve decipher the whole man !--Some men w~ear an everlasting barrent simper; in the smiles, of the others lies a cold glitter, as of ice; the fewest are unable to laugh, but only sniff, andl titter, and snigger, from the throat outwardls, or, at best, produce some wvhiflling huskey eachination, as if they were laughing through wool; of none such comes good. The man who cannot laugh is only fit for treasons, stratagems, or spoils ; and his whole life is already treason and a stratagem. Fuiw parents realize how much their children may be taught at home by devo ting a few minutes to their instruction every day. Let a parent make a com panion of a clrild, converse with him raimiliarly, put to him questions, answer inquiries, communicate facts, the result of his reading or observation, awaken his en' riosity, explain difficulties, the meaning of things, the reason of things-and all this in an easy playful manner, without seem ing to impose a task, and he himself wvill be astonished at the progress which will be made: The experiment is so simple that none need hesitate about its perform ance. USEFUL Herxrs.-lf your flat irons are rough, or smoky, lay a .little fine salt on' a fiat surface and then rub them well; it w~ilIl prevenlt them from sticking to any* thing starched, and make themi smooth. When cloths have acquired an unplea- . sant odour, by being kept fromn the air, at charcoal, laid in the folds, will soon rcq-:. move it. If black dresses have been stained, boil a handful of fig leaves in a quart of wa ter, and reduce it to a pint. A sponge dipped in this .liquid, and rubbed ufon themn, wvill entirely remove stains fromi erapes, bombazines, &c. O:f Lawyer's gowns are lined with the wilfulness of their clients.