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But hould they foes against thee lead, And seem against thee set, Resist at once the sinful deed, But never scold and tret. The vile, envenomed tongue of foes, May seek to blast thy life, To lead and leave thee- lost in woes, And- never endiug strife; But still the upward way pursue, And chfek thy vain regrets, Thy trust in fleaven's hand renew, But never scold and fret. Thy earthly ho~ - - te away, And all thy ; fLespair may c< Tay future F Thy skies may __A nJthenha Yet promptly I But never 84 Thy bosom fri And worst of traitors n, But let not anger, neither pride, Thy coolkr reason move. Thyself against his % iles seere, And be nore watchful yet, The wrong with fortitude endure, But never scold and fret. This maxim hold@ good every where, And nature proves it true, That mortals but increase their care, Who fretting stop to view. The cunning spider proves my rhymes; lie calmly builds his net, And tho' destroyed one dozen times, lie does not scold and fret. A CHTD AT PRAYER. Sweeter thasn the songs of tlarush es, When the winds are low'; Brighter thtan the spring-timec blarkes, Reddening out of snow, Where the voice and cheek so fair, Of the little child at prayer. Like a white lamb of the meadow, Climbing thr.'ugh the light ; Like a priestess in the shtadow Of the temptle bright, Seemed she, saying Iholy One Thine and not my will be dotne. THE OLD 'WIFE'S KISS Tur funeral services were etnded, and ass the voice of prayer ceased, tears were hastily wiped off from wet cheeks, and long drawn sighs re lieved suppressed and eboked subs, as thte "mosurnters" ptreptared to " take leave of the corpse." It was an old man thtat lay there, robed for the grave. More than three-score years hatd whitened those locks, and furrowed that brow, and made those stiff limbs weary of life's jour. nev, and all the more willing to lie "down and rest where weariness is no mote suffered, and infirnmities are no longer a burden. The aged have but few to weep for thtem when they die. The most of those who would htave sniturned their loss, have gone to the grave be lore them; harps that would have sighed sad l~armonies, are shattered and gone. And the few who remain are looking cradle-ward, rather than grave-ward-to life's opening, rather than to its elositig gonl; are bound to, and living in the generation rising, more than the generatton departing. , yeath and beauty have many admnirers whtile living, have many mourners whetn dying. Many tcearrul eyes bend over their coffined- elty, many sad hearts follow in their funeral train. But age has few admirers, few mourners. This was an old man, and the circle of mnourn era was small. Two children, who had them selves passed the middle of life, atnd who had children of their own to care for, and to be eared for by them. Besides these, and a few friends, whto had seen arnd visited him while sick, and possibly had known him for a few years,.there were none others to shed a tear, except his old wife. And of this smnall company, the old wife seemed to be the onLy heart mourner. It is re speotful for friends to be sad for u few minutes, till the service is perforated, and the hearse is out of sight. It is very proper and spitable for children who have outgrown the fervency aili affections of youth, to shed tears when an aged pare~nt says - Farewell," and lies down to quiet slismbers. Some regrets, some recolleptions of the past, some transitory grief, and the pang is over. Not always so. But often, how little tre. genuine heart-sorrow there is! . Thte old wife arose with difficulty from her seat, and went to the coffin to look her last Ipok -to take her farewell. Through the fast falling tears, she gazed long and fondly down into that pale, unconscious face. What did she see there'l :i; she saw more! In every wrinkle or th furrowed face, in every silvered hair upon th: brow, the read the history of years, Froi youth to manhood, from nuanihuood to old age insjojLatyd sorrow, in sickness and hettlh vas all'thre.; when those children, who had nol outgrown' the sympathies of childhood,-were ii fants lying in her bosom-and every hour sine then-there it was! To others, those dull, mut monittirs were unintelligible ; to her, they wer the alphabet of the heart-familiar as househol words! And then the future! "What will becomec me? What shall I do now ?" She did not sa so-she did not say anything; but she felt it The prospect of the old wife is clouded. Th home eircie is broken. never to be re-united the visions of the hearth-stone are seattered.foi ever. Up to that hour, there was home, 0 which the.- heart always turned wihh fondnes: But that magic tie is sundered, the keystone c that sacred arch has fallen, and now home is nn where, this side of heaven ! What shall the ol ,ife 4? now? Go and live with her children be :t pensioner upon their kindness; where %: may be nore of a burden than a blessing-so a least she thinks! Or shall she gather up th scattered fragments of that broken arch, mak them her temple and her shrine, sit down in he chill solitude, beside its expiring tires, and die? What shall -het- do now? They gently crowded her away from the dead and the undertaker cane forward with the coflin lid in his hand. It is all right and proper enougl -of course it must be done; butt to the heart mourner, it bring's a kind of shudder. a thrill o agony, as when the headman comes forwart with his axe! The undertaker stood for a mo went witir the decent propriety, not wishing 1i manifest a rude haste, but evidently desiring t< be as expeditions as possible. Just as he wa! proceeding, the old wifle turned back, and stoop ing down, imprinted one long, last kiss upon tho -cold lips of her dead husband, then staggere< to her scat, buried her face in her hands, and thi closing coffin hid him from ter sight forever! That kiss. Fond token of affection and o sorrow, of memory and farewell ! I have see many kiss their dead-many such seals of lovi upon clay-cold lips-but never did I see one s( purely sad, so simply heart-touching -and hope less as that! Or if it had hope, it was that which looks beyond enfins and charnel-houses and damp, dark tombs, to the perpetual joys ol the home above. You would kiss the cok cheek of infancy. There is poetry there; it i the b'asted rosebud! Or the pallideheek wher beauty blushed. There is romance there ; foi the faded flower is still beautiful! In chilhood in youth, in manhood, the heart yields to the stroke of sorrow, buL recoilisagain, elastic wil faith, buoyant with hope. But here was n( euty. no poety. no romance. The heart o ..-immer. whos< as in tose early and brighter days, when te wooed ad won tier ? The temiple of her earth ly hope had fallen, and what was there left hut for her sit down in disponder cy, among itu lonely ruins. and weep, and die i Or, in th spirit of a better hope. await the dawninig M another day. when a hand divine shall gathei its scattered dust, and rebuild, for immortality its broken walls. May the old wife's ki!, that linked the living: with the dead, be the token of a holier tie, thal shall bind their spirits in that better land, wher ters are wiped from off all faces, and the day! (if their mourning are ended.-Watchman and Reflector. EXTRAVAGANCE As an indication of the extravagance whiel has prevailed in this country for soie time past an importing hotuse in New York has written . letter to one of the papera in that city, stating th:: the atmoutnt of duties piaid fur French artini flowers, for the first quarter of the current tisca year, was almost double the amoutnt of dutie: paid on railroaud iron.-New Orleans Bulletin. CoM~MET.-We hauve noticed, some time pasi tn ungallhant dispo-ition among our cotemnporatrier to throw much, if not the whole, blame of thn present, hard times upon the poor wometn Shame upon you, gentlemen! No doubt the sex have done their share to) bring about th<n present disastrous statte of finanitaul :affairs, bu we protest against the coitclusion that they anr even as culpable in this respect as that race o bipeds known' as " the Lords of creation." It i true that handsotme equipages, thousand dollat shawls, and titne furniture. haive been buoght a the instance of the ladies (and we have no doub the tmetn hatve had a share in this same tmatter o extravgance, every 1iege lotd wishing to se' his lady aippear to the best advatage) but whia are these fe~w isolated cases toi the magtmficeni systems of ext rava:gatce, tomfoolery and vice ti which the men have been :iddicted tot late years How many line shawls, dresses, aitd cairrmgte could be bought by t he seeen hucndred and tweic thousand, one hund'red and sixty~-one dollars spen chiefly by the men of this country, upon suei unprductive labor as the songs of a S9wead.-d madamoislle ? Wh'lat is the ext ravagatnce of womnant compatre< with the almost counthless millions that are n nually gulped down the throats oif the sterne sex in the form of whiskey, brandy, atnd chami paign-or with the vatst sums that fitnd thel xit int srmoke from cigars at a dine apiece, o the no less amount aninually expended for th privilege of defacing the heairts. floors and side walks by the chewers of tobacco? We nungh extend the list of luxurious vices, almost-ad i finituin, but taking these items alone, how stand the accottnt, and upon whose shoulders rests thm guilt of thriftlessness and prodigality ? SWe kom men, without larms, who kee horses enottgh about them to feed, clothe, ani educate half a dozen childretn at no greater e~s pense thasn their mere feeding. A latndlord a neighboring city recently told us that he too in at his liquor bar, the year before, sixi en thot sand dollars, the profits alone being sufficientt pay his entire retnt of $10,000. But enough. It a hamie to be satddling our sins upon thme shou ders of the poor women, and while we have heart to feel, a pen to write, and a printer I stik by us and put it into type, we shall defr them against the slander.-Wilkes Republiena jg CmsgssE are said to lave labored fc centuries under great embarrassment, from ni knowing how to make a barrel. They c.otl without any difficulty make the staves, set thei up, and hoip thetm in ; an4l indeed, with the hel pf a man inside they could put the second he: on ; but how to get thc man out :tfter the barr was headed-that was the qustion. 3 i' Ar exquisite compliment wvas nvma lately to a lady in our presence. She had ju swallowed a petitegls fvnea aetem in the pompany asked for a inste. " It is all gone," said she laughing, " utile you will take some of it from my lips." " I should be most happy to do so," rephi A FRENCHWOKAM AT HOME. t iSe helps to cook the dinner she has bought n -for servants are wasteful with charcoal, and . she knows to an inch' how little she can use. it itJ that marvelous place, a French kitchen-where y two or three little holes in a stove cook such - delicate dishes and perform such culinary fea'ts e as our. great r-aring (iants of coal fires h ave no e conception of-slhe flite about like a fairy, creat e ing toagical ruesses out of raw material of most d ordinary de'.eription. She mixes up the milk and eggs that make the foundation of thesoupe si l'eoseile,if it be meagre day, Dissorre s,oup is a great favorite in econostical rin.,eholdi,iand is vaunted as .being highly fraichTusant foe the a blood-indeed, one ot the most.refreshing things . you can take, next to a tisavne'of lime flowersi She mixes-the salad-'il, salt and 'pepper, are y all she puts into it; she fries the potat o chips, or peeps into the pot of haricots, or sees that f tte spitnach is elaen und the asparkgus properly boiled. And then she turns to the plat sucre, j or sweet dish, if. she have one for dinner-the . riz nu rhum, or the oufs a la neige, or the er( me a ia vanille-atll simple enough and cheap, and t not unwillingly rejected if properly taide. . In. fact, our friend does the work of a head cook, the servant. doing tle 'dirty work. Yes, though r a hidy born and bvf, refined, elegant and agr.eea .e iln society, a belle in her way, -vet, she does not think it beneath her dignity to lighten the houseltould expenses by'practical economy and activity. The dinner of a F'rench fatily is ciettp :md simple.. There is alvays soup, the meat of . the steu -paa-sonetines, if not 'strieL. in expen diture, another plate of metat-generally two vegetables dressed and eaten separattly; and sometimes, not always, a sweet dish; if not that, a little fuit, such as miy *be clcapest, and in the ripest season. But there is very little of each thing, and it is rather in arrattgenient than in mtett1rial that they appear rich. The idea that the French are gourmands in private life is incorrect. They spend little on eatilg,. hnd they eat inferior things, though their co eryistath er a scecety.. nereacietocvizaon At home tho-great aim of lte Frencl is to save; and an:y self-sacrifice that will le;td to this re,ult is verv cheerfully undertaken, more espFly itt eatinti and in the luxury or,,mere iI leruse. No Frenchwoman will spend a shilling lve her self trouble. She would rather work,4Jf a dray-horse to buy an extra yard of ribUQWr-":t new pair of gioves than'lie on the softest -sofa in the wrld in placid fine ladyism, with crumpled gauze or bare lands. HoW TO KEEP GATHERED FrUT AND FLOW ERS ALWAYS FtEsH.-Fruit and flowers may be preserved from decay and fading by imnersing them in a solution of gum arabic li water two or three times, waiting a suflicient time between each immer.sion to allow'the.gum to dry. This process covers the surfice of the fruit with a Hp .en s (i fruit, partiettLar care shiould bi taken to Lover the stem. end aid all, with the (um. A good vav is to wind a thread of silk about the stem, and then sink it slowly inl the solution, which should not be so stronig as to leave a particle of the gum undissolved. The gum is so perfectly tran.,parent, that you cnn with difliculty detect its presence, except by the - touch. [lere we have anlother simple tmethod of fixing tle fleeting beaity of nature, and surroun I ding ourselves ever with those objects which do most elevate the mind, refine the taste, and purily the heartL.-Country Gentleman. DEATH PREFERRED To DistoNcr.-During tite Irish reign of terror in 1808, a circumstance occurred, which, in the days of Sparut, would I Ihave immortalized the heroite; it is almost u-i kttowtt-nt pen htas ever traced thte stor~y. We pause not to itnqutire into pritceiphe.s that ittlinen ced her ; sutliee it that int comotnot with most of' hter stamp, shte behteld tne struggle as one in which liberty warred with tyraitay. Hecr ottly soo had beetn takett in thte act of rebelliont, and was etndettnted by tmartial law to death ; she followed thte oflice, ont wvhose wcrd his life de pended, to the place of executiotn, :ttd besought hitm to spare te widow's stay ; she knelt itt the agony of her soul atnd clasped her knees, whtile her ey es, witht the glatre of' a tmatniae, fell on the Uchild beside htim. Thte judge was itnexorable, the transgressor mtust die. But taken advatt tge of tt e occasion, hte offered life to thte cul prit on conditiotn of his discoveritng thtemmbr of the association with wivchl lie was connttcd. The soti wavered ; the mouthetr rose from her positiotn of htumiliationt, attd exchtitmed: "M~y chtild, if' you du, te hteaviest cursti of your nmotht er .shall be poisotted itt your veitts." HeI wats executed; thte plride of hter soul enabled tier to behtold his death withtout a tear; shte ret urtned to her htoe--thte supptort of her declining years htas givent way, atnd ttte opettittg of* the day thtat saw her lonely atnd childless, left her at rest forever. 11er heart had brokett itt the struggle. -Mackenzie's Gazette. A mtn called upon an unfortunate tradesman to pay a detmattd. I can ntever pay it," satid hte. " r atm not -|wortht a farthtin... but I wvill give y0o. a ttote. I ratm tot so poor yet .ut. thtati encan sign a itote." r EcosoareAL.-" My lad," satid a traveler to a r litte fello w, whomr hec met, clothted in pttats atnd I snmall jacket, but without. a very nee-sary arti - ele ot appare'ld " tmy lad, where is your shirt ?" t "Mammty's is watshting it." - I"1:lave you no other !" Si - No oter !" exclaimed he urchin itn surprise, S" would you want a boy to have a thousand shirts ?" W SCANDAt., like a kite, to fly well, depends very miucht on the letgtht of the tail it has to carry. k NARROW Sotns.-It is wvith narrow souled people as with narrow-necked bottles 0 the less the~y have in them, the more noise they wake in pouring it out. a.P SOM1E of otur exehanges mentIon the fact of a --now.Nothing" having been turned ott of' the society of which hte was a member, for -drinkitng ani Irish wivikey punch with a German r silvpr spootn Id it. W' THERE is ain old lady in Troy so full of d) syrupatthy, thait every time her dttcks take a batth in the rpudgutter, she dries their feet by the fire to keep thtem from cateching cold. ~~ExTRvacANT peoplo arc never generous. The man who patys fifteen dollars for a vest, e would think hte's being " robbed " sihotld you at er call upon him to give six shillings tqavards n burying old Bribtljn, the shoemaker. ~s ~THE ague rages so in some parts of - owa, that 'the peo ple tare obliged to sleep with d porn cubs in thteir montth, to keep from shaking thei eth out. MAXm TO GUIDE A YOUNG maN. Keep good coppany or none. Never be ide. If your hands cannot be use sfutlly-employed, tttend to the cultivation of your umind Always spe'ak the truth. Make few promises. - Live up to.ypur engagements. Have no veryintimae friends. Keep your-own secrets, if you have any. When you-spei.k to a person, look him in the face. Good company and good conversation are the very sinews of virtue. Good characte is above all things elke. Never listen to loose or idle conversation. You had beteT be poisoned in your blood than in your prbrViples. Your char&ct.mannot be essentially'injured except by your d'-n acts. If any one spe iks evil of you, let your lifo be so virtuous thit none will believe him. Always spe.a .and act is in the presence of God. -. . Drink no intox eating liquors. When yo retre to bed, think over what you have done uring the day. Never speak lightly of religion. Mlake no haste to be rich if you would pros per. Small and44ady gains give competency with tranqnillity ofti nd. Never-play atnby kind of game. Avoid temptation through fear that you may not withstand it,-. Earn your mney before you spend it. Never run in. d.:bt, unless you see a way to got out again. Never borrow.j yon can possibly avoid it. Be just befurvyou are generous. Keep yourself innocent, if you would be happy. Save u lien Xuu are young, to spend when you are old.' Never think t!,it which you do fur religion is time or money msspent. Always go 4Vi. meeting when you possibly Read some portion of the Bible every day. Often thinid. death, and your accountability to God. - Read over thelibove maxims at least once a week, Saturdann;ight. EFF1T OF IMAGINATION. Many years ay a celebrated physician, author of an excellent work on the effect of imagina tion, wished to combine theory with practice, in order to confirm. the truth of his proposition. To this end he t'egged the minister of justice to allow him to iry an experiment on a crimiial condemned to d :th. The minister consented, and delivered to .:m an assassin of distinguish ed rank. Our rant souht tho culprit, and twe place of execution. ..... contucted to tile appointed room, where every preparation was made beforchand; his eyes wore bandaged; lie was strapped to a table, and, at a preconcert ed signal, four of* his veins were gently pricked wiLl the point of a pen. At each corner of the table was a small fountain of water so contrived as to flow gently into basins placed to receive it The patient believing that it was blood he heard flowing, gradually became weak and the conver sations of the doctors in an undertone, confirm ed him in this opinion. - Whiat fine blood!" said one. " What a pity this man should be condemned to die! lie would have lived a long time." " H ush !" said the other, then approaching the first, lie asked him in a low voice, but so as be heard by the criminal, "how many pounds blood are there in the human body " "Twenty-four. You see already about ten ponsds extracted ; that man is now in a hope The physicians then receded by degrees and continued to lower their voices. The stillness which reigned in the apartment, broken only by the dripupinsg fonnltins, the sound of which was aso graduaslly lessened, so affected the brain of the poor paitient, that, although a man of very strog constituion1, he fainted, and died without having lost a drolp of blood.--N. Y. Tribune. WHAT ONE MAN CAN DO oN FELORIDA SOI.. We haive often heard it remarked that Florida in the " best poor rnan's country ini the world," and facts would seetm to support the proposition. Mr. Bartoli Mastetrs, Jr., of thi. county, re siding near Moceasin Branch, ]5 miles from this city, has given us a statement of his crop, made the past season without assistance, and solely by his own labor. We put it down with the vlue as follo"' 450 gallons s.?rnip, at 50 cents per gallon, $225 4 barrels sugar, 800 lbs. at 6 cents, -48 3000 canes at 2 cents,------ --60 $333 This the produc~e of one acre of cane. In addition to this, lhe raised 150 buthels of corn, and 200 bnashda of sweet potatoes, the vailute of which we pnt down at $450 more; making in rouiid unmben the sum of E ight Hundred Dol lars ans the resilt of his season's labor, to say nothing of thse umberless comforts arising ot af poultry, milk, &c., which are unconsidered trifles. The land upml which this crop was raised is high pine IanL, "cow penned," and the mill with which thi cane was ground, is a common woodeni one <J rude matnufacture. With such f'cts before tism, let no ens complain of the hardness of tines. A little industry, energy ati perseverasce will make every man rieb if ie chooses to be.-St. Augunutine Ancient City. WHEAT CloP-SALES of PRoPERT.-The sale day of .Jauary passed elf as usual, attend ed by a large crowd, a heavy consumption of the " templter,' a few smarked oases of drunken ness, but no spen or deqided. breach of public order. \We saw anDumber of our planters. Some were complaning of the bad stand of their wheat, while oilier. flatteredi themselves, the slight raiins hs4 very perceptibly improved their prospects. f'he remarkable dry weather has undoubtedly teen inauspicioqs to the grain crop. \e hope, lowever, that the rather favorable weathef we haye had, will maore than overbal ane whateve injury it may have sustained. rTere wpe ten negroes so d by the Comnrpis sioer in Eqiity, (two smali children and qne wonai aboi, 38 or 40.) Th~ey were disposed of on a credit of five years, and averagedl $896 a head. Land soli passably well, but not at as high rates as Wia expected. Qqe tract of the Caph5 land brouglt 816,75, the lattpr located riear Alstoni. All of ths Hutchinson band was sold, aver agiig S10Q ier acre. *bIhfe Tholais Land was solil for $11 per acre, an other liide for about tly same pripe. The news by the Atlantic brings a more ex citing party into the field of conflift,--to wit: the British Parliament. The Queen's speech breathes nothing but war; and, by the way Con gress may thence take'a. hint of the vanity of all projects of pacification and mediation. The great and proud nations that are now measuring weapons, will submit to no less an umpire than Deity the issue of their st rife. As yet they have felt only the irritation and exasperation of war. Their strength is unimpaired, and their animosi ties increased. The reverse will come in due time. Taxes will waste the resources, and al. ternate victory and disaster will dull the sense of vanity, and then even the British lion and the French eagle will droop their tails and come to reason. But the session of Parliament, even its incep lion, has shown that the acts of Government are to be subjected to an unsparing criticism. Earl I Derby's comments on the Queen's speech are a - model of politic, and yet pitiless oppoition which may be looked to as the programme of I the course of the Tories. They support the war, but they convict the Government of having blundered into it, add of perpetual blundering since they got into it. The expedition to the Biltic, which commenced with such loud boasts, and ended with such lean performance, and the invasion of the Crimea, which was first to cap. I ture Sebastopol by a bold stroke, and now threatens to destroy the invaders by a slow de. Cay, are of course the leading topics of censure. They are, however, e'iough to supply arrows for t the Parliamentary wartfre of the whole winter, and if the Ministry sustain themselves, it will be I by exhibiting more vigor in peace than they t have shown in war. Another point of weakness in the present Gov. ernment, is the Austrian alliance, and the terms of the recent treaty. The speech from the throne carefully evades any declaration of the purport of this treaty ; Lord Derby calls in question its advantages; and Lord John Russell admits that it is not such as was desired. It in probably only another step in the diplomacy of Austria, to gaitn all possible advantages from the 0 0 t present war, without ineurring any of its dangers or responsibilities. The present Ministry atand on very slippery ground, and although they are adroit and experi. enced in sliding, the times are so grave, and so little in accord with the entertainments of mere political dexterity, that if there were a prospect r of substituting for them an able and consistent I body of statesmen, they would probably be vo ted out of office by gencral consent. But the appalling inquiry, of who are to take their pla ces, will be a very serious and probably elTec. H ual check upon the general sense of their incom petency, and the Earl of Aberd,- - ii,,,.. .,..uuI not be more close and i, dreary. You might walk here in a good stiff v :urricani- and hardly know it; it summer shower inight pass and leav you dry. You are in the i region of perpetual shadow, and the women and :hildren who sit and sprawl upon the door-steps E are scarcely less in-doors than when languished t in their dark and fetid room ; and no wonder. k for, according to actual measurement, the courts vary in breadth from six to twelve feet. Here a re the holes in which our human fellow.crea- b ures swarm like vermin. According to a report v published in the Daily News of May 1st, no less 0 than fifty inmates were found to reside in one of a the houses in Middle Serie's places, (formerly Little Shire-lane,) and in Shipyard many of the a houses are built back to back, entirely preven- r, thorough ventilation. The gentleman who e le examination states that water butts C t in under-ground cellars, the waills and 0 ng of which are continually damp to the e ouch, and where the water, imbibing the filthy 1 exhalation of the place acquires a dreadful odor; a hat the ceilings of some of these cellars are ac- n ually below the level olf the roadways, so that il he inihabitants are obliged to burn candles d hrough the whole day, w:th the exception of a i ew hours, and that terrier dogs are kept in ma 1n- of the houses as a protection against rats. e et out of these hideous tenements considerable il ma of mnoney are drawn every year by letting , and s::'stting. Hideous women, foul and slat- 1 erly. loll out of windows, or lean against i oor-posts, evercomne with terrible lassitude and ei ndolence, which cannot fail to arise from the b nfluences by which they are surrounded ; not mpudent and brazen, but oppressed with the j opeless burden of their lives. The children, t ullen, dirty and fierce-young tigers, without a heir beauty or their health-play or fight in a he roadways amidst the cabbage-stalks, potato. a eelings, oyster shells. and standing puddles. Men are very seldom seen. And over the young nd old tower the rmelcholy house-fronts, shut ing out the sky and the breeze, and, black and d saturated with the pestienat vapors which are ising unseen around them 1 "Hang their poisons in the sick air." VERY GOOD ADvICE.-A correspondent on the ational Intelligencer, referring r-o the proposed ~ ediation of the United States between the be- ~ igerents of Europe,jotfers this good :advice:. " Gentlemen, let us m.nd our own business; that will give us plenty to do) and tnot expose us to ridicule. Above all, let those who wotild . ratily Buncotmbe by off.-ring to g~ive peace to 'urope turn their thought and their efforts to wards restoring peace atnd concord to their own I distracted country." This is the whole qtuestion in a nut-shell; let us "mind our ownl buqiness," and not meddle with the quarrels of European nations, or in-a volve ourselves in the crooked diplomacy which marks every step of nations endeavoring to con eal their ulteriour designs under the most hy pocrtical pretences. The United States can have no sympathy with the objects or purpose of either party in the present wvar. Both are fighting for dominion, neither for oppressed na tionality. The party which has been making the loudest boasts of warring against despotism,t threatening to let loose the elements of revolu tion, -mnd give liberty to Italy anid lhungary, allies itself without seruple to the hated oppressor of, both. England and France in becoming the alo of Austria, the most detestable despotism of Eurqpe, show that their high sounding praisea of European liberty were rqere words to delude the mass of mankind and cheat them into a sympathy, which, if the real objects sought in the 'wkr had been known, would never have been accorded to them. With objects and purposee in the back ground which both parties are afraid to avow, the Wunited Statee cannot interfere be tween them without getting into trouble. 'The duty of the American people is to act fairly and justjy wIth all nations, preserve peace with all, endeavor tQ promote the growth and prosperity 1 of their own gountry, and establish its-institu- I tios on a las-js which the ah'tclf of time cannqt I overthrow. hbey by this course wih best pro motp the interests of civilization nnd humanity. PhilIe4thh JIgr. CONGRESS. A very animated debate on Know-Nothingism occurred in the House of Representatives on Thursday, pending the consideration of the bill to relieve purchasers and locators of swamp and overflowed lands. Mr. Sollera, in the course of his reply to Mr. KeiLt, of S. C., said: As Mr. Barry and Mr. Keilt had told the louse hat the Know-Nothings will do, he would tell what they would not do: They will not dissolve the Union, but will uphold it as the sheet anchor of republican safety. Another thing-they will not say an appropriation for rivers and harbors is constitutional when the Former pass through three States, but unconsti tutional when passing through only one. ,Laughter.) They do not intend to permit Southern nullifiers to assert the doctrine of se tession, after submitting to the supreme court >f the United States for decissions regarding the onstitutionality of important questions. They lo not intend to quibble ahout the interpreta ion of the constitution like u prude, and violate L like a prostitute. Mr. Keitt. I have a single question to ask. DIr Sollers. I expected to be interrupted. Mr. Keitt. Do you mean to be personal. Senation.) Mr. Sollers. I was talking about South uarolina, and disclaim any such thing. He then >roceeded further to defend Know-Nothingism; nd, as to secresy, said the democrats ought not omplain, as they last night held a caucus, or eeret meeting, to regulate the great tiliT ques ion. Mr. Giddings understood Mr. Sollers to say be Know-Nothings will leave slavery where hey found it. Will they restore freedom to [ainsas? Mr. Sollers. I will never take the construe. ion of the gentlemen from Ohio on constitu ional haw. [Laughter,] Mr. Giddings. Then you back out. Mr. Sullers. I do not, but I most cheerfully utire from such a contest. [Laughter.] I should a soon think of entering into a contest, God urgive me, with a pregnant women, [Renewed nighter.] There is a party pledged to preserve lie Union, and will do it at all hazards. Mr. Giddings said he was sincere in asking the uestion of the gentleman from Maryland, but he gentleman showed the white feather and acked out. He was deserving of the name of Know-Nothing or say nothing. [Laughter.] The people of the United States have the ight to know the principles of the party. Pub. city is for the express purpose of preventing cople from being deceived and misled. He, ,r. Giddings,) however, was a friend of the Enow-Nothings. le had conrted their friend hip, and liked them as long as they acted with im. [Lauglter.] igs in that State a single man on their ticket -ho was not voted for by the abolitionists? Mr. Gidding' I did not know of a Know luthing in Michigan. Mr. Stuart. Was not every candidate on the tate and Congressional ticket put in nomina on by the whigs and abolitionists, notoriously nown in Michigan as Know Nothings? Mr. Giddings. I (lid address an intelligent udience 'n Michigan on the principles I profess, ut never heard any intimnation that my hearers !ere Know Nothings. I want all parties, here r elsewhere, to avow and proclaim their senti ents, without deception and fraud. Mr. Keitt, alluding to Mr. Sollers, remarks bout secession and abolitionism, said, as to ullifieation, it had been illustrated and expound : by the great intellects of his own State 'alhoun, McDuflie, Hayne, Preston, and all Lter great men-who swept in a convolution f splendor over the sky of South Carolina. V'e, he said, fotught the battly openly. The nlliflention party of 1832 sought no subterra can hole to ferment in, and no Catiline was tere to foster midnight conspiracy, and when enounced, offering himself as a Know Nothiing Sthe Senate. We offered to fight the Government on prin ipe in open day-the Government brought ot s stars and stipes; butt the sons of Carolina 'ere under their Palmetto flag in defence of ieir friends, and ready to perish for the right. was a member of the secession party of 1850. 'he sons of that State are ready to give their lood when their country demands it. But if in enee the Governmnent strike t our liberties, by leaven I'll strike back. I only owe allegiance >my State, and through my State to the Gen ral Government. When anything personal is id, I shall answer by a monosyllable. (Sen tion.) Mr. Letcher imagined that not five men in the louse had 'hought of the pending bill since the ieussion commenced. It was to relieve pur tasers and locators of swamp and overflowed nds. He confined himself to the subject, and nally the bill was amended and passed. THE ExECUTION OF YICKERS.-In1 accordance rith the terms of the sentence, the extreme pen Ity of the law was executed, in our town, on 'riday the 29th ult., upon James Vickers, con icted for the murder of William Dobson. He ms attended to the gallows by the Methodist' inister. Rev. Mr. Creighton, and after engaging ithe customary devotional exercises and ex ressing his readiness to abide the justice of the iw, calmly and firmly met his unhappy fate. 'he feeling of morbid curiosity, which is a part f our nature, broughtl together a number of ersons to witness the execution ; but we were lad to see that the crowd was unusually small nd without an exception demeaned themselves ith a propriety in keeping with the solemnity f the occasion. Above all, we were pleased to eet with but little of that sickly sentiment rhich, in sympathy with the misfortunes of the riminal, would bring in question the justice of he law which condemned him to death. Let it e remembered that this sanction has been or ained by a wisdom superior to that of man, and hat the criminal but pays thme righteous forfeit f his own crimes. The brother, Newton Vickers, whose sentence vas commuted by His Excellency Governor ,fanning will remain in prison until next No ember.--Yorkville Enquirer. Eg AN exquisitely dressed young gentleman, fter buying another seal to dangle about his elica'e person, said to tne jeweler that " be vould~ah like to have-ah sousething engraved n it uth to denote what he .was" "Certainly, ertainly, I will put a cypher an it," said the radesman. EEP "I cannot hear children," said lirs. rim disdainfally. 1fra Partington looked over or spectacles mildly before she replied, " per laps if yai' coud yotg would hilie thteni better." 9HTiE man who is alwars fortunate can. routr inna ba ?unt IA'Wetids for vittu'e. YELLOW FEvER.-Dr. E. H. Barton, who wa placed at the head of a sanitary commission b the City Council of New Orleans to investigat the cause of the epidemics which have latel prevailed in that city, with a view to guard against their recurrence, has concluded his re search, and the results are comprised in a vol umo of five hundred pages. The New Orlean Bee says.: " Let it never be forgotten that the conclusion reached by Dr. Barton is, that "yellew fever i an evil, remediable and extinguishable by human agency." Having demonstrated this importan truth, the author of the report sets forth in do. tail the various measures to be employed for the gradual but certain banishment of the epi demic. They are of course hygienic in thei character, and comprise many euggestions here tofore offered, with some others peculiar, we be lieve, to the writer. The theory that yellow fe ver is the invariable sequel to a marked distur bance of the soil of the country, is one which we do not remember ever to have seen advanced before, and we must admit that the analogies cited by Dr. Banton, and the illustrations and arguments used by him in support of his views, seem to us to bear the impress of truth." COOKING FOOD FOR ANIMALS.-Raw food is not in condition to be approximated to the tenures of animal life. The experiment, often tried, has proved that 18 or 19 lbs of cooked corn is equal to 50 lbs of raw corn for hog-ferd. Mr. Mason, of New Jersey proved that pork fed with raw grain cost 124c. a pound, and that from cooked food 44c. Cooked cornstalks are as soft and almost as nutricious as green stalks. It is an improvement that pays. Cattle can be fattened at about half the expense upon cooked food in a warm stable that others can out doors fed up on raw food. I would not cook food for hoises. Carrots are valuable for horses, because they as sist food to gelatinize. For oxen, 30 quarts of corn meal boiled in 60 gallons of water and poured over cut corn stalks, make excellent feed. It is well known that hogs fatten fast that follow cattle fed with whole corn In all stables a great deal more food than we can afford to loose passes off undigested and goes into the manure pile. It is poor economy to feed hogs or horned cattle on any kind of raw grain. All course feed should be chopped, and corn-stalks, in particu lar, are increased in value very much by steaming. Professor Mapes. THiERE is a distillery in Albany, New York, which daily converts 400 bushels of Indian corn into whiskey, whose business amounts to $200 000 per annum. Another, which does a busi ness of some $350,000 or $400,000 per annum, while the manufacture is said to be worth to that city $1,000,000 annually. But recently the . ...:. .... U na-l ,-od an order questionaoay uo -r... the naval flags of all nations. The old treaties, which closed its navigation by the most impene trable of diplomatic barriers, will be annihilated forever. International relations on the Black Sea will be reconstituted on a new compact, and this most important body of water will be brought again within the pale of the civilized world. POPULATION OF MINNESTA.-The St. Paul (Minnesota) Pioneer says, "From all that we have seen and heard relative to the number of persons who have settled in Minnesota the past season, we should judge that not less than twenty five thousand actual settlers have pitched their tents with us since the opening of naviga tion. They have not settled in any one particu lar locality, but dispersed themselves all over the territory. Next season the number will be much increased." THE FIR~s AND CASUALITIES OF 1854.-Du ring the last year, there were forty fires in the United States wvhere the loss exceded $100,000, or upwards. The entire loss of pro'perty by fire.s during that period is estimated at $15,000, 000. During the same period, 600 persons were killed by steamboat and about 200 by railroad accidents. (Q To restore a drowned miser to conscious ness-whisper in his ear that "stocks have gone up." This was tried in Paris, with the happiest ef'ect. A money broker was restored to lifu by it, after laying in the water over three weeks. PATENTS.-Since the first of January 1854,'as we learn from the report of the Secretary of the Interior, there have been issued upwvards of six teen hundred patts, and, within the year, the number will reach ninetten hundred, which will be about double the number issued during the laist year. The arrangement by which this result has been produced was judicious, and has proved satisfactory to all parties interested.-Washing ton Sentinel. JUST so.-The Boston Mail flatly contradiets the report that the Pacific Ocean is to be enlarg ed for tho purpose of accommodating the grow ing commerce of California. Every school-boy knows that a kite would not fly until it has a string tying it down. It ia just so in life. The nia who is tied down by half a dozen blooming responsibilities and their mother, will make a stronger and highie, flight than the old bachelor, wvho, having nothing to. keep him steady, is always floundering in the mud. If you want to aseend in the world, tie yourself to somebody. IGNORANCE is an expensive luxury. The want. of a little gumption costs many a life of com fort, convenience and .similar fine things. Mr.. Short don't know but everybody is as honest a other folks, and so gets taken in every time he goes out. Miss Simple, too, has a universal; confidence in everything and everybody, and pays for the privilege by bcing a universal victim, ON a late excursion up the Mississippi, a pen tleman in the wash-room said to the captain og the boat: "Can't you gi've me a clean towel, captain 1" "No,".said the captain, "more than fifty pas. sengers have used the towel there, and yon are the first one that's said a word about it." g" A TEXAs exchange says that the earth. is so kind in that state, that " just tickle her with. a hoe, and she will laugh with a harvest." A convietin the Ohio Penitentiary recently cut off his fingers to avoid being set to wqrli. REspTE.-We understand that Peter Cosnell has been respited. He was condemned in Spar tanburg for the murder of his father-in-law, but baa been respited on account of his feeble utate of hpalth. g' Miss Smi'h says she will never marry a widower with a family, and for this reason 'she is down on- second-band. pbil4ren.". jiesi gitt tht. - -