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t Dimocrati ~c 30 truin a , Drsr ito oltil trn d.igl~Is, 2 acs, politi cs, r3~t2nt tiignec, Citcrahbrc, fVlornlitg, Ermmrnc,!gittr,& 6 We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of our tlIberWt -d it it must fi, We will Prih amidst the Ruin W. F. DURISOE, Proprietcr. EDGEFIELD, So 24, 5 THE HOME OF PEACE. RV E tIZ COOK. We are apt to grow a-weary lin tids troubletd world at tinies, For even golden bells can ring In melancholy Chines: Anil let (our human ..-t in life R.- what or where it may, Dark shailows often rise, from which Our hearts wou'd turn away. Full often d' we sigh to taste Some spirit dr:tglt of jiy, And almost envy itld'ihood's laugh Above its p4itekd toy, When some great ltope breaks over us, Or loved ones prove unjust, And, rousel from ,t:.rry dremns, we find Our pillow in tle dust. Say, whither sha'l we tuin to seek, The healing balm of rest, And whence shall conse tie elceerful ray To r4-il:nme our treast ? - Oh : let us go and breathe our woo in Nature's ki:lly ear, For her soft hanil will ever deign To wipe the mnourne-s tear: Site mtocks not, tio we tell our grief Witi voeo all sad.- atd fainit, And scens the fondest when we pour Our weak and lonely pla:nt. Oh! let ui take our sorrows To the bosotn of the h.!1, And blen.d our plenive tnurturs Witi tite gurgle of tIII- ri'; Oh !let us turn in weariness Toward the gras,;y way, Where skylarks teach u.4 how to pra~se, The P;ngdoves how to pray ; Anil tl-r: the melodi -s of Peaoo, 'That float arounal the sA, Shall bring back h--pe and iarmony With the voice of 0(I.l. From the I.ancister Led ger. ILL THINK OF THEE. I'll think of thee*. wh-in torn's bright hoiur, Spread. go!den radiance o'er thte lea; And far or near. stIl own the rvower, Thit binds my eonstait heart to thee. And should I roan 'ntd other scenes, In foreign i.utds far-far from thee, 'l nurse-thine imasge in my dreanns, And th'nk of thee.-of wone bilt Ilthe. I'll th:nk thegite dewy eve, e~ ~~ =1 -.-ir nthu ubca.of Sawd,naae And*N ie iiswett silir queen, Sheds forth her ile aiul lovely light. Anil when tle starb cotne one by one, To lighat up leaven's fair wave!ess sea, And siread their holy radiaee round, I'll think of thee-Il think of thiee. I'll think of thee-though fortune frwn, And shrou.1 the star of hopie in gloom, Thougli sorrow's storn-elounls gather rouitl To mar and rob tue of youtlt's I-loom. (or shoul1 the fates tin re lenient p'rove, A u1 bid ity honging heart Iet 'ree, 7o thicu I'll sing tny seIoings of live. .iAud think of thee-f none but thee. I'll th'nk of thee. when yosuili hIms fled, .And all life's dream. have p-assed away; When YouthI's fair garlantds all are de:ad, Anad Fatey's ftrest was oties decay. n on thy ts:a' a.l youthifull brow, $ternt tune hats set htis failetees setl. I'll love thee ever thmen a inow, A wd think of tlhee-f -rever thee. From the S->uthertn Cultivaltr. THO11GHTS ON THE VOCATION OF THE FAR.MER. M.asu.ts. ED[TORs: lour known frie*ndli ness to the agriculturist, and your lanidable solicitude to promote his inttere'st, ha~ve emt bo4ldenedl me to sendt yo a fewt remarks, written in such brief inttervals of jeisure as ane activo life on a plantationt afforded. wvish they possessed sonme charms of style to palliate the wvant of mtethnod antd ecarness, but I indulge the hope that the reader will overlook fauts, which are fratnkly contfessed. *It is not my purpoeat peresen't to dliscatt uipotn te differenit miodes of cultivationt int votgnte, nmor-to enumneratte the implemtttts dai. ly itnveneted to simpijlify andt d!iminjisht labor, but to endeavor to the btest of tmy abiity tn inmpire respect for :'grieltural pursuits, amd to remove thme silly prejudices cherished againist thtemt. It is a prevatlent ntotiont ini seie qjuarters, that the fairmoer leadIs a drud. ging, undignified, and dull life ; thtat the nat gttre of his avocations utterly disquialifies hitti for participattion ine the refitned pleasures ol sociaillire; antd thatt if he enters life. as a stlan of any scietiic or literary attaitnmenlt. he unavoidably loses thenm, antd sintks dowr'i into a counmtry pumpkin. These tnotionst hatve infected thte women, antd in some caset lead to the banishmnt of the ijeomeslie emi ployments, wvhicht once so htonorabhly distin ~uished our ladies. rTe yountg ladies atr puly ambitious of forming a cotnnexioni withl a resident of the neighbonling city or town pnd in pursuance of this tunwiso resolution refuse advantageous contnections on aeccouni of their being farmers. The son before h< ~has fairly escaped from elouts, begins to re. gard his farmer father as an antedeluviar relie, and by the time he is eighiteeq, hm: resolved to enter upon the study of a proibs, sion. What are thtese consequences of h fafuity ? He has attempjtedl to move th< world wvithout having a power conmmensur. ate to the emterprise, antd ttakes a shatmefu gndl jgaimnous failure. He becomes a dront in society, consumning a substancwe lie does unot help to create, a tax to his friends, andi frequenitly is so ma~ddened by chagrin, thai be reekJessly plunges intto thte most brutal dissipation, in search of a Lethe for htis own - raches. Sucht is a condeniseh hiitory oi Isuhdreds antd thoutsamis of yotung tmen who, squandering the patrimonijal- pittance left to esint acquiring a profession, and1( ini vatin Jy waiting foribusiness, fall victims to dissi. tee. of the wi,-h of Sir Thomas Browne, that "me) Might procreate like trees." Must a m belong to ono of the learned profession to command respect ? For one, I difler from any such opinion. Is not the firmer more independent in the true sense of the teIm, than) all other classes? Is there anithingu in his pursuits incomipatible with the culture of his mind i He lives in diily and hourly communion with nature, enjoyS Unlimited opportunities of observation and reflection, and imay ramble at pleasure among the beauties of animated nature; ie vernal bloom of spring and the mellow af fluence (of autumn, dispose his mind to con temuplation and lead hn to look op to the Giver of every good an(1 perfect gift," with a heart melted with gratitude. Nor is ie precludedl by hisavocations from the improve ment of his mind by reading and study. There are imionents when reading stands to himl) inl tile stead of the bloisterols rabble of the bar-room, and the beastial orgies of the brothel. When prevented from slirring a brad, reading becomes a solace and amuse uit, instead of being resorted to neroly to kill time. These ioments, rightly improved by judicious reading, will enable him to ac Viulate stores of information. The ant bill is 1ormed by successive accretions of the I minutest particles, and knowledge is gather ed the same way. Let us compare him with the members of the learned prolessions, that we may reach a just conclusion in reference to his means of mental culture and capacity for happiness. The physician1 stands so much by thie conch of ;ickness and beholds so much suf fering that his finer feelings and impulses are blunted and chilled. If lie is a inan of proper feelings, the conviction of his inabil Ity to relieve the suffiering of disease, must harrow his soul. lie who hourly witnesses SO e0h suffering, is but too apt to become cold in heart and callous in feeling. The lawyer is a telescope to expose the depravity of human nature. His ear is stunned with the confessions of shocking Criles. The turpitude of human mind, the ch mlii ion of guilty passion, the griping usury of the miser, deep planned knaverv,and the sneaking pusillanimity of the poltroon, fur. nish him emplomvient and bread. Crime is sifted in all its loathsome details, and sound. ed to its darkest depths of infamy. He sees humanl nature in its worst phase. He sees the human heart denuded of all the flimsy disguises by which its workings are hid from the world,-blaekeued. with Crime. scorched. - with passion, and dwarfed by selfishness, nutil lie becomes to regard virtue as an emp ty i:ne to cozeni fouls with, and friend. ship but the jargon of unprincipled knaves. Such impressions however unjust to mankind, utterly preclide him from the noble enjoy ments of reciprocal friendship. The lawyer by pleading on all sides, is too apt to lose sight of the great principles of truth, and to innhiply crimes boy the facility of escape. Let us. undazzled by the glare of public life and the tappings of the otlicer, take the gauge an1id dimensions of the happiness of' the politician. The sword of Damoeles hangs by him day and night. His life is an ocillation betweon hope and fear. lie is the object of general abuse and cainmv. IIis motives are ran corously assailed, his integrity called in ques tion, and his course however open, is nisre presented anld ealumniiated. To.duiy, thiou tiands, g ide vb caprice, or tickled by his tislrhetorie, conspire to miake himi a demi-. god(, hot to-morrow a rival, wihom lie had ovem looked, forces himt inito retirement, lIe may plant his foot on thu topmost round of of tile ladder of fatme ; vast assemblies may hang on his wvords, and newspapers vie with emulative toadyism in folsome adulation, but the ne xt gyration of the pioliticail wheel hurls himu to the dust amid tile jeers and exultinugs of his foer, and tile simnultated regrets of his paIrty friendls. 'The evening of his days, in stead of beinigs enlivened by cheerfulness, is querutlouis, discontented, and embittered by chag'rin and party' hattredt, T hese wvaysidle reflections have allured me into a slighit dleflection from the subiject mat Iter of this article, but I flitter myiself they will facilitate the accomp~li~lihment of the ob ject so mu~tch anmd so earne~stily desidered by3 all harimers, via: the removal of the absurd prejudiices against tihe vocation of the aigri, culturist. Do not misconceive my meaning. I am nlot attemlptinig to show that farmers sons are nuleqlual to the performance of the duties of palm of eloquence with the laureled sages of anltiqufity ; and the statesmenl, who have gui. (led the~ vessel of State, anid shed such lustre on our national history ? They woro not the poling scions of a purse-p~roudl aristocra cy, nor the sickly prodnets of thme feculent hiot-bieds of fasion. They were not reared amid scenes of luxury and profusion, nor in itiated into the grog-shop andt brothel, ere they got rid of clonts. TIhey were not taught to prefer broad-cloth to thme treasures of knowledge and fthe corruoetlons of art, and to regard manual labor as a badge of servitude, and idleness as the patent of nobil ity'. They were reared for the most part in the seclusion of tihe country ; exercise gave them robust health and strength ; remotonuess from large cities rendered them moral amnd upright, and~ their mInds having been self aultaro self-relying and independent. T110 city' mannikin may how with more courtliness ofunmner, amid stare at a lady with more n abrshed impudence than a plain farmer, wh'io hangs out no false signs of weath-but his highest achievement is to crack a watchman's timas his ambition is to copy the dress of the cast off' footman of saimp tNmglish lord. ling. A t least t'vo thirds of our most distinguish od grators, generals, and athors, were bred imn the country ; amit to the habits then form ed, thmeiir suodess imi the hattle of ljfu wvas miaiily owing. Wasinmgtont appears more tralvy greait when'i relinqu~tishinig tie tratppiigs of odlice, and sceliig happiness on Mt. Ver nonm, than wh'len shadowved with time l:4nrels oftriar rionr or iuited wihm the Presiden-i tial purple. Andrew Jaekson thought It no disgrace to lie a ihtrmer, and the American m:isses decided that it should be no ground for his exclusion from the Chief Maistiracy. Now. the question arises how is the haumr - to be elevated to his legitimite rank into so ciety, and the annual accessions to the pro. fession ended ( As I am a farmer, I hl1-l niake no npplogy for addressing imyseli to this question with earnestness. ita the first place it is of primary imnport. mee that more attention should be devoted to such sciences as aid us in the analysis or our soils, and the application of manure. Chemistry should form the study of every person who designs to become a cultivator of the soil. Knowledge of agricultural Lhemistry is the corner stone inl the charne ter of the farmer. Independently of the pleasure to be derived from its study, it will prove highly useful to one who tills the ground. We all know tl:t some manures cause both corn and cotton to " fire" and to fail in seasons of drought ; yet how few cal give a rational explaination of this pheiomae nonitaml not recommending people to grasp shadows, or to adopt every untried theory blt to acquire a praetial knowledge of ill that diminishes labor, and presents the ex hinustion of the soil; to increase the userul less and respectability of their vocation liv nental improvement ; and to lay aside the I ustoms of past times, as thiings that have been supereeded by new inventions. Secondly, as matters now stand, every one freels the evils resuhing from the lack of the cspiril d'coris, whicli common lialit.-, homnogenciion-s ititests, and kindred pursuits hould iispire. Each man depends upon his owi stock of knowledge, and neighborhood is divided fron neighborhood as if by n111 i passable guif. \\ e know nothing of what is transpiring outside of our own neighbor 0ood, and not unfreqnently never see our nearest neiglbors more than once in six mouths. The wise observant man may pick a specnlation out of the conversation of the most stupid and illiterate, and improve by the blunders of others. But do we man ifest any desire to gain irorination, to aban lon our false notions, and to avail ourselves of the sakitary . improvements of the age ? The mass of a1gricnlturists seem indissolubly wedded to the customs of their fathers. " Book Farming" is a synonyi of arrant and ill success. This is a Serious obstacle to improvement. if armersn would organize county societies for the distribution of the prem:Iiums,. the in. terchauge of hidlvidual'experiences, the dis gusjianpinejrimprovyerOeaamdtheoi hey would add to their Ltock of knowledge, itid give a fresh impulse to :Igricultural pro gr. s.-. The social relations anid neigrbblorly eharities, that such re-unions would produce, ire alone enough to) justiry the formation of these country societies. We must act with Doncert, if we would accomplish anything of inoment. I shall conclude this article by invoking p!anters, however leagre their early educa tion may havo bWen, or ntch neglected, to take agricultural papers, to throw aside their aiversion to book farming, and to improve their minids biy a judicious courso of reading. Do not lag behind the age, nor cling to cus tois which have long sin ce been codlilemn. ed. But ahoyo all, omploy all your arts of persuasion and influence, to dIssuade your ions froim eibarkilg in profession.s nlow toll overstoeked. Agriculture opens a fair field fr the exercise of their talent, and affords full scope for tiheir ambllitionI. Edmunlid ~ituf in has earned a fmne Ithat time cannot efface. Hie is mlore ot a l~hoefcr of his race thanII the hero, whose claims to fone are recorded in blood. A. W. DItLAIun. A SECOND ULYSSES. An old mant, of very acute physiognomiy, answering to the name of Jacob Wilmot, was brought before the Police Court of Phd ladelphia. IH is clothes looked as if they' might have been bought second handed in his y-outhftul primle, for they had suffered more from the : ubs of the world thtan thle pro(prie tor himself, "What busineoss do you genlernlly follow, Wihnot ?" " Business! none ! I'm a traveller." "A vagabonid, pe~rhapts?" "You are not far wvrong-travel-lers and vagabonds are nmucha the nme thing~. The ditfIce IC is that the lafler travels wltho'ut 1IlnIfi, anid the for'mer, withlout brains. I' Where have yo travelled ("I "All over tile coinitenit !" "For wvhat putrpose ?" "Ohservation," " What. have you observed ?" "A little to commend, much to censure, and very much to laugh at." " Umph! and whlat do you commend ?" "A handsome women~t thlat will stay at home, an eloquent preacher thlat will pirealch a shlort sermon, a good writer that dloes not write too muchl, and a fool wvho has sense enough to hold hlis tongue." " What do you censure ?" "A man wilso marries a girl for her fine dancing, a~ youth who studies law or medi ine while he has the use of his hlands, and people whlo elect a drunkard or blockhlead to ofgjO," "And, pray, what do you laugh at ?" " I laugh at a luan who expects his posi ion to comimantd thlat respect which his personal qualities and qualitication: do not merit." lie wias dismissed. FELAlDEL~.-" Ilow do yott spell Fela defy ?" asked a small city grocer of his part, ner one day, as lhe was sprinkling sandl upon a letter whlichl he was about to despatch to the City of Birothierly Ibove, " Why, Fcl-a, Fein, del, Feladel, fy Feladelfy." SThlen I've got it right," snid the partner (in ignoranice as well ats businless,) ill thought I might havo miade a mistake!" IIARRIAGlI renders maen more virtuous andi more wise. The father of a famnily is nut willing to blush before his chilren, Goon qualities, like great abilities, are ill comtprehensible andi incontceivable to such as are dirprived of tdietn. coDIXUNTIG NS FOR THdI ADV "In the first place," sag# sur L," "al mwankiind feel the necessity '0 'ng a stimulus Of some sort occasionally; oi habitually." This is the proposition or asseliOti It right be measured preceiely by theaterenit adduced in its support. Ile tells .us t6e miss of mankind use some stimulus- or otheri This is admitted. But the prevalence of the h bit-is not proof of the necess'ity of the -hing. We admit the ne ce.wity of a stimulus ochasi sn'ly-i. e., when nature is unable to reive b It is injuri ous to the system, when needing rest, to stimu late. It makes natureoverdo herself, and there by waste in a greater meaire, her remaining strength. If rest,'ind" fired nature's sweet re.-tAorer" fail, then jtii~uIAte. We doubt not the patient " feels the necepsity' of a stimulus occasionally. But shall we~onelude frou this that ardent spirits, obtained from a licensed grog. shop, is the rery thing. Wten a man feels the necessity of using it liabildajly, we suppose the necessity is found in ls iiltted taste. It is no cessary for a habitual dritiker to drink to keep up1 "his spirits" and-to keepffron wanting it present. And it i6 true that hIefeels this neces sit y-he feels it not in his'head or heart, but in a ritiated appetite. In comon terms lie feels like he teants a dram.. Itds not follow from this, however, that any selnain r:eeds a stiiu los of any kind. -Nor does it follow that the sickly portion of thleommu nity need a stimulus. And if soime of them do tied stiuliating. It does not fullow that out or) many stimulants, ardent spir its is the "on .It needful." It is a bad symptom fqr a man timye a disCase that can be cured (?) by going .i person to a grog shop. .p We interpose an objectiofl to the apparent in. nocence which " T. BUT L.gives ardent spirits, by classing it with other siuilants of a compar aively hairmless nature. le classes it with " Ten, Coffee," &e.,.&c.. Si far as stiiulis in tie abstract goes, they- miy a.a be classed. But ardent sp!rits is somethino; inore. lie adanits that, "liquor by .producing intoxication, is per haps the enuse of more ij^ to others than any of .the other stimulants." is admission is in substance this: thatif ai ' drink liquor till he gets drunk hie perhaps" s others more inju. ry than if he were to in a frequent strong and hiot cp of.of Te e...: But as if ie his perhaps, "T; .BUT L." safs i: the last sen. tence, " But I utterly deny that liquor is more injurious to man as an Individuil, than other sti muli." I do not at present remember ever see ing or hearing it denied before, and not expect ing to see it angain soon, I shall not attempt to prove Ihat drunkenness Is "perhaps" more lnju rions to the individual than -would be a cup of coffee or quid of tobaceo. N6twithstaiding the above denial, lie says soon after that he " could wish all liquor were displieud by Tea and Co-f fee, which afford the advantage of stimulus without alny of its evii effects." We can, how over, reconcile the two sentences, by oifinintg the ; evil esnaequonoes" to others. Although many who use Colyee, &u., do not use liquor, yet the dramndrinker does not always (dous ie crea?) pptfine himself to the liquor sti iulus alone. lIe generally chews, or smtokes, -fregnently both; the gaambler is a dram-drinik er, often a drutnkaurd. I hav'e.heard of one gamn bier in my life wh'lo was not a tippler. lIndeed the user ot lignor is generaliy theo indulger in the other stiamulasnts as the " Theatre, the Trunf, the Cock-pit, the Brothtel, and th'e thousand IHells," which serve to stimulate that "felt necessity" of his itature, and properly mature his " lmdlvidual" body for the drunkard's vault, and htis soul for thme spcctfic stimulus of hell-fire. " T. BUT L." closes his first article by telling his readers what a Southerner and tlte Souh will do and what they wIll not do. Tihiey will not submit to " dictation," " the many headed mot~nster," &c. It might do for Graniitevilk, Greenwood, or Cokesbury, to say you shiall driatk nto liquor ini grog-shops in our village, but it ill becomtes this little en:ptal to tell the people of' the district so. A grog-shtop is a "necessary" traiflie ini Edgefield village. So the vilinagers mtast submtit, and keep open a grog-shop fur the acuommodation of country tipplers, to drinak aid carse, and blnekguard before their doors, and sometimes in the doors of their dwellings, re gardless of their wives and children-aand tight and murdor and sunk off homte. And ihas it, is we oan account for what we often hear "Edgefield village is one of the worst places I ever saw." " T. DUT L." w~ould not have the villagers to 'Idiitate" even though thtey do it soberly, asfree men at the ballot-box, umder the prerrgratire <;f in corporation. No, no. This would be a monster, flat if they silently submit to whtatover a" owet" ootnell, grog-sol lers, dram-deinkers, and drauk nrds maay choose to do, why this at once by a wonderful talismanic transmutation 'converts Edgefid village into a Glorious Southern Re public, o'r a " folded snake," which would say, to all ittermeddlers, " Let tae alone," &o. The sum of the second and third articles of " T. hUT L.," so far as they have any relevancy to the subject of his first is, thatthte venders and drinkers of Rum, Gin, &c. in England,.Ireland, and Scotland, were and are like many of the same slass iat the United States-ogioserne, hat. ters, dentouncers, violators, and evaders of any atw whtose spirit does not chime with a tippler's throat. From the f'uallro of legiation and ex cpution to drive the use of liquor from thIs aid other lands, are we to conclude that the efforts were wvrong I Great efforts htave been made by legislation and preaching to get people to quit sipaling, but they steal on-to get them to desist from robbing and murden but they ill not da it. Shall the law .bo repealed. Shltal we aboi ishi the lawv existing against drain shops because unprinciplcd men- will sell ram-ina dfinneme of the -While " T. aur L." adduces many inwful but fruitless tlenpts to put down. traftle in ardent spirits, to show that we may expect a similar re sult here, I will use the same evidence to sho.w that the friends of the traflic in such es:ses were in that respect a lawless set. So I can see it in no other light than lawlessness, fur men to sell contrary to law, and nothing else for others to buy of sueh venders. The temperane reform has, from the beginning, encountered opposition; and its advocates expect nothing else. 1o we are not at all surprised when we hear the cry "Great is Diana of the Epheians!" TEMPERANCE, NO LICENSE. --- -.. LACONIOS. Punctuality is the life of trade. Listen if you would learn ; be silent if you would be safe. All things are artificial, for Nature is the art of Cod. People seldom learn economy till they have little to exercise it on. There is no such injury as revenge, and no such revenge as the con tempt of an in jury. It is wonderful what moral obligation things sometimes assume when we wish to do them. Men, armed with reason and a hand, has no match among other animals. Franklin says, a poor man must work to find meat for his stomach; a rich one, to find stomach for his ment. The tvyrant is a dead carcass in the abodes of the living, but the benefactor has a living soul in the mansions of the dead. " At a distamice !" A thick book might he written upon these three words. It is tnt a picture or an edifice alone that is beautiful by distance, but sometimes nature and oflen -a woman. flow poetloal-how divine doea i sceno sometimes appear inl the dis tance. Look at the clouds that veil the far off mountains-angels may be wrapped within, or paradise lie behind them ; go into the midst of them and they are but fog and vapor. PROFANITY.-It is unfortunately too true, that profinity continues to be practised, even by those young men who would claim) a staiding in respectable soclety. There is something exceedingly vulgar and ungentle manly itt it, which should be a sufficIent con demnation of the practice. That it is thought so is evident from the fact that no gentleman, even though he is in the habit of it, ever swears in the company of respectable fe males; and if such a restraint can be sub mitted to so easily, we know of no roason hy Iba pricied cainot he restrained altoge ther. There are associations of all kinds iii which men submit to selt-discipline and self denial. Only at once determine to abstain from vice, and it is easy to do so. There canl be no good excuse offered for profane swear ing, except that of inability to restnin from it. Let me suggest that nothing better or more philanthropic can engago your attention, than sotmie plan of reforni itn this particular. But apart from these considerations of decency, there are others still stronger. We all ad mit our relation to a Supreme Being. How reprehensible, then, Is the constant violation of the respect due to that Creator in whom we live, move, and have our being. --' .-*t.-- - IY'VBuvtiYTION TO PREvENT INTERVEN. TIoN.-" Look lie', ole feller," said a negro to a brother darkey, in a carabat inl the Se cond Distriet, last evening; " look lie', ole feller. Now I hain't bin out mur an three minute an' somew fellow has ta'en mty liquo'. Now wvho flung dat has brick ?" "I did ?" said the nigge r addressed, speak ing with an air of emphatic positiveness, " I did dat-I didin't do nullitn else ?" "Den why did you does it ? 'splain dat to me." "Yes, nigge', I'll lumernate, You lef' you' liquo' dar-sartin, shua. Well dhoes you knowv dat durin' your absence, if I hadni't taken it, Sani Jonsinig would-lhe act'ly hiad his hand on de tumtbler. But I says-' no ye don't,' an' so, to purwent hitm from drink itg it, I dritiks it myself." " But dar ain't no prinicerple itivolved in dat." " Yes, dar am-De prince'rblcob~ intericen ion to puiru-ent interreention." Thle logiceseemed to) satisfy his questioner, atd as thant hiorn of the dlilemmtta wias adjust ed, they took aniother hiortn. " MADM~u, what age shall I put you downt ?" No direct atswer. "Howv old is youir husbandl ?" " Sixty-one." n' And your eldest son?' " Twenlty-seven." " And how' old (1o you call yourself?" " 1 dho not ktiow mty age exactly, but it is about thirty." "Did I 'understamnd you, that your eldest was twenty-seveni ?" " Yes." " You must surely, then, be more thani thirty ?" "Well, sir, (quite snappishly,) I told you about thirty. I can't tell exactly. It tmay be thirty-one or two, but I aim positive it is not over that." " JHRoME, .IE~oME l' screatmed Mrs. But torield tho other day to her biggest boy, " what is that you are thrwvoinmg to those pigeotis 1" "Gold beads, mother, and the darnied 'ools aro oatin 'em,.I[ 'spect they think its corn ! Mrs. B. ran out instantly, but her bead: wvero gyratinig throughi the air in all diroc. tions, and the younig sprout's yedal appen. dges flewv up and downm at a prodigious rate, till lie wvas far out of sight in a tieigh. boring field. WisuoM ow Tioivy Lunls.-" Pa, wvh. don't you buy a hen, so thiat wo cani hman all the egg's we watt?" " 'My dear, onie would not lay all th< eggs we- want." "Why, yes it would Fa, we only use : d ozen eggs qa day, and a good hetn wook ceitainly lay that many." rnds nnt to nnutwardt s,1(w Tim POPULATVON OF TH1E LonE.-The population of the globe is supposed to be less than one thousand millions-937,000, Coo. A French writer alluding to the Sabject, says If all mankind were collected in one place, every four individuals occupying a square metre, the whole might be contained in a fiel ten miles squ:Le. Thus, generally speaking, the population of a country might be packed, without much squeezing, in its capital. But the mean idea this gives us of the number of the human race, is counterbalanced by its capability of exten sion. The new world is said to contain of productive land, 4,000,000 square miles of middling quality, each capable of stipport i.g two hundred inhabitants; and 6,000, 000 of a better quality, capable of support. ing five hundred persons. According to this calculation, the population of the new world, as peace and civilization advance, may attain to the extent of 4,000,000,000. If we suppose the surface of the old world that of America, (and notwithstanding the comparative poverty of the land, this calcu lation may be accepted, if we say nothing of Australia and the various archipelagoes,) it would support 8,000,000,000; and thus the aggregate population of the entire ghloe might amount to 12,000,000,000, or twelve times the present number. ELY CRAFT.-We understand that the celebrated Ellen Craft, the Fugitive Slave, belomgin, to Dr. Collins of this city who excited so much interest in Boston, two years ago, and who had the honor to be conducted through the Crystal Pajcee at London, during the Great Fair, upon the arm of the Chairman of tihe Executive Committee, who slighted many fair repre sentatives of the Caueassian race, to pay his devoirs to this interesting chamber-maid, has voluntarily gone into the servic of an American gentleman and lady, upon condi. tiomi, that they will bring her back to her owner here, We would respectfully suggest to Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, that this incident in the life of Ellen Craft furnishes abundant material out of which, with her vivid imagi nation, she might elaborate a romance as interesting and more truthful than " Uncle Tom's Cabin."-.Iacon (Ga.) Messenger. HORIIr DUKL.-By the Santa Clara Register we are informed of the following particulars of a duel which came off in San. ta Clara county, last week, near. Gilroy's. ranch, and which, in ferocity amil despera tion, we find no parallel for in the State. It occurred, says the Register, between a Mex ican and a native of California,' about a game of monte, and Colt's navy revolvers were the weapons used in combat. Nine shots were fired, and four of the balls took effe-ct in each of the combatants. Both parties expired immediately, and they were both ushered into the presence of their Maker to answer for the murder of the other. After the see ond or third shot the Calihornian crawled on his hands and knees nearer his antagonist and fired, in order to make sure of his vic tim. This shot took effect in the abdomen of the Mexican. To CUrE IIAM.-As I have seen numer ois receipts for curing hams, and as I have tried the ainexed for several years, and found it to excel every other in my estimation, I take the linerty of sending it to youli, that ynu may p)ublish it for the benefit of any whlo -may be dispmosed to try it. By lotting Imy ham remaIn in pickle, it is less trouble to keep it than by any other method wvhich I have found, and it keeps swveet and tender all the summer. Trake a barrel and turn over an old pan or kettle, and burn cobs (I think best,) or hard wood, for seven or eight days, keeping wa ter on the head to prevent drying. Make a pickle with eight pounds of salt, six ounces of saltpetre, two quarts of molaistes, and three gallons of waiter in one hundred pounds. Iloil and skim in barrels, and w~hien the pie kle is cold, pour it on to the meat, and in four Iweeks you have excellent ham, very tender and well smpoked.-Albany Cullirator. Sw~ArI L~ixns.-T'1he -Comet of Baton Rouge says: We have been informed by the Register of the land office of Louisiana, that the Department at Washington city, had decidled all sales or locations made by thei olicers of the United States oh swamp lands since the passage of the Act of Con gress 2d of .March, 1849, are illegal, and even though patents have been issued, parties holding thmem are directed to return the same. T1he sale or- location being illegal no0 sub~sequenit Acet can umake it good. Thus instead of the United States paying over the cash to the State, she cancels her, sales and gives the land. As there are many persons hargrely interested, wve make this stutetment, hopiing our cote'mporaries will notice it, thus giving information wiech will save many an honest purchaser from speci. lators. THLE Queen of Portugal has just carried out a general cropping or trimminig of beards miustaiches worn by the army, her own hius band not hav-ing been excepted from Its ope ration. The decree which aff'ects this reform ordains that the forests of hear-d which overspread the faces bf most Portu guese officers shall fall under the sweep oh the razor, and that nothing shall henceforth be wvorn but mustaches and imperials, the sha.'pe and dimensions of whlichi are pre scribed with the precision and taste ol' a connoisseur in such embellishments, general olicers a lone being allowved to indulge ii tho luxury of whiskers, which, however, are to be of a certain pattern, and not to exceed so many inches in length. A IIRIEND in California wirites us tllat hi is har-d run for victuals, and other edibles that nothing but a miracle or highway rob ber-v can save him from starvation. For tw( weeks, lie say-s; he lived on a piece oh 0i clotha boiled with an o'.d boot to give it: m ieaIty flaivur. H ere is a situation as is a sit TE DANGE1S OE BRANDY DRINIG. In thle last number of the Irish Quarterly Review, the weakness of poor Maginn is thus alluded to: "He now turned for comfort and inspira. tion to the foul fiend, Brandy, which has beet tike pause of niscry to so many men of go nius. We regret the errors of Addison and Steele, we sigh at the recollection of poor I Moreland, the painqr, working at his last picture, with the brush in one hand, and a. glass of brandy in the other, for he had then arrived at the terrible condition in which rea, son could only visit him through intoxication; and Maginn, although not so fallen as this sunk deeply. The weary hours of lonely watching brought no resource, but that vhioli copious drafts of the liqqor could supply. lealth was fading away, the brightest years. of life were passed for ever, and as the dim - future lowered, he gazed upon it under the influence of that demon which enthralled the brilliant souls of Addison, of Sheridan, of Charles Lamb, and wIhiel sent the once stalwart form of Theodore [look, a misera ble, wretphed skeleton, to the grave. Maginn, we know, felt his position. H was neglected by his own party-he was for gotten by many of his former friends, and as we looked upon him in his pitiable condi tion, and compared wihat we then saw in him with what he might have, and as we hoped would have been, we often recalled the fear ful passage of Charles Lamb: " When von. find a ticklish relish upon your tongue, dis posing you t0 a witty sort of conversation, especially if you find a preternatural flow of ideas setting in upoll you at the sight of a bottle and fresh glasse's, avoid giving way to it as you would fly your ;reatest destruction. If you cannot crush at once the power of fancy, or that within you which you mistake for such, divert it, give it some other play. Write an essay, pen a character of descrip? tion-but not as I do now, With tears trick ling down my cheeks. To be an object of, compassion to friends, of derision to foes-;i to be suspected by stangers, stared at by. fools; to be psteemed ull when you cannot . be witty, to be applauded for witty when you know you have been dull; to be called upon for extemporaneons exercise of thit faculty which no premeditation can give; to be set on to provoke mirth which procures the procurer hatred ; to- give ploasuiro, ind be paid with squinting malice; to swallow: drafts of life-destroying wine-, which are to be distilled into airy breath to 'tickle vain auditors; to mortgage miserable mirrbs for nights of madness! to waste while sedi of time Upon those who p.ai tack'inilitteii. inconsideMbl9 drqps .of guin~ig aippltisU. -,are the wages of !ufmoiry. and death.' A Curtj) SHOT R HIS FATnEn.-ThO Wilkesbarre (Pa.) Advocate relates a most' melancholy circumstance, w.'hich receutly took la)ILce in Covington township, Luzerno county. A Mr. John Williams, seeing his own son, Isaac, about 12 years of ago, ill the woods gathering ohestnuts, aid snppos.. -ilg him to be a deer, fired his rifle and shot the little fellow througth the back. Onl ap, - proaching each other, the boy exchimed, " Father, why did you shoot me ?" and afterwards added, 1 Father, you will bury ie on the farm, won't you ?" We are re joiced to learn that the poor little boy sur vives 'and is .rouoverilng. PcTrtnE OF TIFF..-Il yOuth, we seei to be climbing .1 bill on whose top eterinit'. sunishine appears to rest. How eagerly we Ipant~ to atain its summit ! But when we have gained it, how ditl'erent is the pirospect on the other side ! We sigh as we contem plate the drear'y wvaste befo~ro us, and look back with a wishful eye upon the tloweryV path we have passed, lbut may never more retraoe. Life is like at portenatonas clouald, fraught with thunder, storm and rain ; but, religion, like those streaming rays of sun Ishine, will clothe it with light as with a gar nment, and fringe its shadowy skirts with Igold. Lours NiPOI.EON AND Cunai.-Among the foreign news lately received w~as an iteem stating that Louis Napoleon would protect Cuba :against A merican aggression. It aippemars upon receiving fuller accountg that Napoleon has made nio such declara tion as we had been led to suppose, but that the transatlantic " Thunderer" has given it as its opinion that it would be to his interest to do so. TAxING 'TDIE BY 'rTnE- Fona -: OC.- Par son Brownlow', in his panper, the Knoxvillo WVhig of Saturday, concludes aia article on the course he intends to pursue us follows: "Finally, in order to strike an effetual blowv for truo Republicanismn, to aid in thu restoraltion of sound Whtig. principles, we fling the proud, the glorious.banner' of Mil-' lard Fillmore to tho breeze, 'for' Presidenit in 1856, and under this flag we shall fight, simik or tr'iumpllh, live or die." TuF. BoTTTB TalCK ExPLAINE.D.-In thIs wel-knowvn trick there are two puzzling: points: first howv can fifty or a hundred wine glasses be filled from one quart bottle?' and, secondly, how can six or eight dit'erent Ii.' quids be poured from the same bottle ? The first wvonder is explained thus : the glasses are so small and have such thick bottoms, that a full qnart bottle will hold enough to fill eighty of them. Th'e second marvel is nmanagved in the followving manner :the glass es are arrangedl on a tray ini a pairticulair manner' by the conjurer, before the entertaini ment begins, T1hae bottle is filled with a weak mixture of spirits of wine, water and. sugar. At thu botiom of eacht glass is a drop or twvo of some flavorinag essence, as noyaa,- essence at' brandy, port wine, sherry; etc., and the operator is thus entabled-tQ on coct a tolerable resemblance "of 'wffuitid that is likely to be called fur,'and to'sjiigil hundred personas or' moro nithk' halT A s p. their favorite beverage, from the ' inedlii tible biottle'. PL'Ncu, speaking ofthueinfi n VA4 dimuers, says there is no d~iojnatic i'sputo -in. the9 wvorld so) .lu-ghatiticatmutL-c cred with -atta -doti -