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-Ilk "We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple o r Liberties, and if it must fall, we will Perish amidst the Ruins." W DURISOE & SON, Proprietors. EDGEFIE s. C., MAY 23, 1855. ~ * N EOS EPISCOPOS, Editor. Dr HERE THEY COME.-We publish thi. week another article on Succession, setting forth the Episcopalian view of the subject We little thought our incidental allusion te this matter in an article on the qualificationm of an Apostle, would have brought so muc work on our hands. Well be it so. Havc patience, gentlemen, and we'll pay you all CHURCH muSIC NO. . Wn intimated last week the necessity o there being some one to lead and direct the singing of a congregation. The reasons fo this are, first, that it prevents confusion. I not unfrequently happens that from a wan of a proper understanding- in this matter that two or threo persons feel called upor to "set the tune;" and generally there ar as many different tunes started as there ar tune raisers. This produces confusion anc embarrassment, as none can know which t< follow until one or the other gets fairly ahead Such a bungle as this is not apt to help th( performance, much less to excite in the wor shippers the proper emotions. When again there is no one to look to, t< start the song, sometimes no body will do it -and hence a silence that isfelt, until some on( in desperation strikes up something tha -dont fit the measure, or so high that it can not be reached, or so low it cant be go -down to; consequently a drag or a strait .all the way through. Who has not hat some bitter experience in this, especially ir Churches where the habit is to "line out' the hymns? For, some preachers, who have no " music in their souls," will go througl the hymn, if its fifteen verses long. We have heard of some who did not know v tune from a stick of timber, ,and we hav seen one at least, that did not seem at al disturbed by the efforts of the choristers t< work a C. M. tune into L. M. words. Se condly it requires some one to direct the music who has rAs-r. Taste in the selection 0o tunes as regards their intrinsical musical pro. perties, their adaiptness to the sentiment, and their general manner of performance. Now there are some tunes that are essen tially and intrinsically musical. There is sweet rich melody in the air. Others require for their effect, the aid of bass, alto and tenor, whilst still another class can scarcely be made into music by a German Orchestra, -just like some of the hymns in our hymn books, which are made by rule like nails fall ing from the machine, and which have about as much poetry in them as a cross-cut saw. Hence we advise that it be made a rule never to have much regard to the adaptation of a hymn to the subject of a sermon, but always to select a hymn for its poetry, and sing the tune which has the most music. But we are admonished by our limited space to close this essay, as wve have some other matters ol perhaps more importance to present for the consideration of our readers. We may take up the matter again before long, and in the meantime request the viewu of others in regard to it. APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION AGAIN. WE suppose our readers have all noticed an article in the last issue of our paper signed " INQUIRERn." If any have not done so, we advise thenm to read it before attending to what we have to say in reply to it, and also to read our editorial, " Paul an Apostle of Jesus Christ," in the paper preceeding. TIhere are several reasons why we might very properly pass by the rerarks of "Ix QUIRER" without comment. First, it was not sent to our " Department." Secondly, it is not a reply to our article, but seems to have been simply suggested by the reading of it. Thirdly, and most important, out friend has rather committed himself to infi delity in the event of our making out a cleam case against the " Succession,"-and this is a catastrophe which we sincerely deprecate Waving all these considerations however, at he professes to be seeking light, (and we pav noiobt of his sincerity) w"e propose po present a few things additional in whici ,we hope to showv not only that there is n< Apostolic succession in the general and wel understood acceptation of the term, bul also that infidelity need not thence be at inevitable result. Our friend in the outset disclaims any con uiection with either Catholics or Protestants This wve believe to be true, but the quota tions from the Rhemish Testament, and the whole drift of the argument, indicates to any one at all acquainted wvith these matters, the derection in which lie the tendencies of th< author. The argument advanced in favor o his position is drawn chiefly from the com mission giveni by Christ to the A postles t< go and teach the nations, &c., a record o which may be found in the last chapters o Matthew and Mark. The argument is base< upon the words, " go ye into all the world,' and " I am with you alway to the end of the world," or to the consummation of the world or to the conclusion of this state, or of thi age, as it is variously rendered. Now the atho of this article displays sufficient eru dition to lead us to think that he knows words are dependent for their proper signification, on the connection in which they stand. And moreover that words are used in a general and special sense. Let us apply then this common sense rule to the case before us, " Go ye into all the world." Does this mean littrally every spot of ground in the world 1 That every grain of sand an! every drop of water niust be pressed by the soles of the Apostles feet, or those of their successors! Common sense says no; but that as far as they were able to do so, they should go to the lost sheep of the house of Isreal, and among the degraded Gentiles, making n distinction, but to preach indiscriminately tc all. Take another example: -Preach the gospel to every creature." We ask friend "INQUIRER" if a succession of Popes and Bishops will, in this instance, relieve the A postles from the charge of having failed te fulfil their commission ? No indeed, for there have gone down to the darkness of the tomb countless multitudes of creatures that never heard the good news of salvation, not withstanding the order of successors, which he thinks was appointed to secure a pdrfect fulfilment of the commission. It is said alsc in the conclusion of JoN MAtrs' history, that the Apostles after receiving their com mission went forth and preached every where. Certainly they did not come to America, not did they go over all the Eastern world. ThuE we see plainly that a " strict construction' of the words of the commission, goes a very little way towards helping out the argument in favor of Apostolic succession. The rele vancy of the quotation from the Epistle to the Ephesians, to the argument, we do not see. We do not and never did deny that there were given to the Primitive Churches, Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors, &c. What we deny is, that the order of extraor dinary ministers called Apostles, is continu ed to the church. We contend that Saul ol Tarsus was the last one appointed to this dignity, and until we are shown some of the signs of an Apostle in these latter days, we see no prospect of any change in our posi. tion. The passage from Ephesians, as quo I ted by " INQuriaR," we remark by the way, is not a correct translation. Any one can I see this by turning to the Greek text. But the promise was that Christ would be with them to the end of the world. Well, setting aside the dispute about the translation of the Greek " sunteleias tou aionos," end of the world, we are willing to take it in its broadest, largest, i Fullest sense. What then ? Why simply that he would be with his church, ministers and laity, even to the end of the dispensa tion. He would be with the Apostles while they lived, and with other ministers of the word who should come after them. He would be with them by his spirit to comfort and sustain them, and by his providence to protect and guide them. And so lie has ever been with them, and so lie is with them now, and so he will continue to be with thenm un til the last soul is saved, and the gospel shall have accomplished the design of its institu tion. But what has this to do with Aposto! ic succession ? W~e fully admit that there has been alwvays a succession of Christian ministers and disciples. One generation when its work wa done- would disappear and another rise up ini its place. The reli gion of Jesus has always found pious anid faithful hearts in which to dwell. Christ said the grates of hell should niot prevail against his church. What church is thisi The Romish churchi Then verily the prom. ise has failed, for the gates of hell or sonie thing else has prevailed against many thous ands of its members. Was it the Methodist churchi That only started within the last century. The Episcopalian is only some two hundred years older. The Presbyterian about the same. The Baptist history is lost in the night of time. None of them, as ec clesiastical organizations can claim to be the Church of Christ to the exclusion of all others; and against them all has the power of evil prevailed in some of their members. Many of them never w'ere of the Church of Christ. What theni is the Church of Chr-ist against which the world, the flesh and the devil cannot prevail. Why, it consists of the true spiritual desciples, the faithful followers of Jesus, who have believed on his name, and trusted in his sacrifice, and obeyed his commands, and who, " by patient continu anice in well-doing," according to the light and ability that God giveth, will " inherit the proinise." These have been redeemed from the corruption and dominion of sin ; these have the promise of Christ that he will be always with them, and nothing on earth or in hell shall prevail against them. Not one of them will be lost. But don't talk about the gates of hell not prevailing against an organization of nominal Christians that hat abounded in wickedness, worn out the saintt of God, assumed to tie the keys of the king dom to the girdles of her dignitaries, and deliver over to endless anathemas all whc will not partake of her abominations. This has been done, else all history is a lie, and il would be done again if the power were not Slacking. We have no confidence in the flesh, and we question very much whether any live if it had under its control the strong arm of civil power. There's too much of a worldly element mixed up with them all, and nothing but the want of power prevents it from showing its horns. Church and State is an unholy alliance, and the fruit of it is necessarily corruption and cruelty. There are many good people who trouble them selves very much about the "*visibility" of tie Church, and hence they are at great pains to track up this " visible church" through the long night of corrrept ages, even to the Pen tecostal beginning. Or beginning at the other end of the chain, they wade through the darkness of tradition,ever and anon hold ing up to the gaze of the world, some Pope or Bishop, or church ordinance, some fea ture of church polity, or fragment of secta rian terminology ; and so coming down cen tury after century, they hook on " the chain" to their own ecclesiastical car and away they go with the banner of " Apostolic Succes sion" waving in triumph over them. But some how or other this " Church" which is so palpably visible to themselves is invisible to every body else. Now perhaps these wor thy people have never reflected, that amongst other figures employed by the Lord Jesus to represent the nature and ciaracter of the kingdom of heaven, that he uses one which likens it to Leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal. Well, we all know that leaven and meal, or flour, mix. ed together cannot be distinguished the one from the other, and it is only by the efect produced that the leaven indicates its pres ence. Surely we need not stop to make the application. One word in relation to the ecclcsia doccns, and we close this article, not for want of material, but want of space ; for this is hardly the " beginning of the end" of this great question. We ask then, where is this ecclesia docens, this teaching church, this college of infallible expounders of chris. tianity to be found I Who compose it? Is the Pope a member of it I Bishop PURCELL of Cincinatti says the Pope is fallible, thr some of them were bad men, and for augl he knows, some of them may be in heE Will the Cardinals answer the purpose at better ? The history of some of them wou not lend us to think so. How is it with tl Bishops ? certainly no better ; if the head fallible, all the members are so too. Consi quently all the priests, deaconis, friars, nuns, &c., are fallible. Where then, does infalli. bility reside ? In a general council it is said. In a convention of all the dignitaries, met in solemn assembly to deliberate on the af fairs of the Church, anti give laws for its conduct. Very good. Now we have one request to make of our friend " INQLxazait" or his author. Show us some rule by which tro wrongs will make one right. Let us know by what process a thousand falsehoods will make a truth. Then we may acknowl edge that ;y number of men, individually fallible, can by association become infallible. . AN UNFORTUNATE WIDOW. Colonel Smith, in Iris recently published "Theatrical Journey works"-by the way, an exceedingly interesting arid amusing volume, as exhibining the early struggles of the driama in the west and the south-west relates the followirng odd occurrence during Ihis peregrination in Georgia. Between Caleba Swamp and Lime Creek, in the " nation," we saw a considerable Icrowd gathrered near a drinking house, most of them seated and smoking. We stopped to see w"hat was the matter. It was Surnday, Iand there had been a quarter race for a gal. Ion of whiskey. The first thing I noticed on alighrting, was the singular position of one of thre horses of the party. He wams kneeling down arid standing on his hinder feet, his head wedged in between the ends of two logs of the grocery, and he was stone dead, having directly run against the build. ing at full speed, causing the house partially to tall. About five paces from the house lay the rider, quite senseless with a gash in his throat which might have let out a thou sand lives. As I said, most of the crowd were seated, smoking. " What is all this?" I inquired. " What is the matter hrere ? "Matter ?" after a while answer-ed one in a drawlIing voice, giving a good spit, and re filling Iris mouth with a newv cud. " Matter enough; there's been a quarter race." "But how came this man and horse kill ed ?" I asked. " el"answered the chewing and spit. tinggetlma " the man was considerable iliquor, I reckon, and be run his hess chuck agin the house, and that's the whole on it." " Has a doctor been sent for ?" inquired one of our party. "1I reckon there ain't much use of de ctors here," replied another of the crowd. " Burnt brandy couldn't save either of 'em, man or hoss." " Has this man a wife and children ?" I again inquired. " No children that I knows on," answvered a female, who was sitting on the ground a short distance from the dead man, smoking composedly. " Ho has a w~ife then ?" I remarked. " What will be her feelings when she learns the fatal termination of this most unfortunate race ? " Yes," sighed the female, " it was an un fortunate race. Poor man, he lost the whiskey." - a' Do yon han'nen to know his wife ? Has she been informe he untimely death of her husband oi" my next inquiries. "Do I know h, Has she been inform ed 1" said the woal.. " Well I reckon you ain't acqoainted bout these parts. I am the unfortunate widder. " You madam! ':1o6u the wire of this man who has been so 'ntimely cut off I" I ex claimed, in astani iment. "Yes, and what about it t" said she. "Untimely cut ofF His throat's cut, that's all, by that tarnal ihrp end of a log; and as for its being uni ely, I don't know, but it's as well now ai y time-he warn't of much account no , .5 She resumed heisrnoking, and we resum ed our journey. PROVE WOMN. When cats washiheir faces, bad weather is at hand, when wom'ien use washes to their complexion it is true jaign that the beauty of the day is gone. Many powder th faces that their skins may seem white; atis as a poulterer flours an old hen, that it my pass for a tender chicken. !The stepping stog- to fortune is not to be found in a jeweler' op. How many wot have been ruined by diamonds,.as bird catehers enticed the lark from heaven to earth with sparkling glass. Like the colored "lbotiles in a chemist's window, is rouge ona the cheeks of a mai den ; it attracts the *tiser by, but all know the drug they advert'. Choose not your .ives as you do grapes, from the bloom on 4eM. He who marries a pretty face only, is like a buyer of cheap fur4iture-tho varnish that caught the eye willfo.t endure the fire-side blaze. The girdle of beiffy is not a stay lace. This is the only exe(s for tight lacing, a good housewife shoul. have no waste. When a maiden ta s to spaniels and par. rots, it means that ber beauty has gone to the dogs, and hencef th her life is a burden to her. A SPECULATOR CUgD.-Once on a time a country Dutchma early one morning went to town, where bl. chance he overheard some traders telling h other how much money they had made at morning by spec ulation; one of them d made $100, $200, 41 naste and halr bent to look up a speculation. He had not proceeded far when lie met a wagoner, and accosted him thus: Good morning, Mr. Wagoner, I wants to speculate a leetle dish mornin wid you." "Vell, says," said the wagoner, " how do you want to speculate." " Vell," says the Dutchman, " I will pet you fife dollars you can't guess what ny tog's name is." " Call him up till 1 look at him," rejoined the wag. oner. Dutchman: " Here Va-tch, here Va-tch, here Va-tch," the dog trots up, the wagoner eyes him for a moment and said, "I guess his name is Watch." Dutchman "0 besure, Mr. Wagoner, you has won him, de monish is yours," and Hans return ed to his old oocupation, perfectly satisfied. IONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS FOR SETTING A GANDElt'S LEG.-Dr. S. came to settle at Bloomnfield, half a mile north of what is now Piety Hill, or Birmingham, in 1820, and commenced farming and the practice of- mediciine. A year or two after wards, a neighbor, as he was then called, a man wvho lived about eight miles off, with whom the doctor was at variance called him about the middle of a bitter winter night, to go to his house and mend a broken leg. The doctor was never backwvard in obeying a professional call; and was uder way in short order. Arriving at the place, he found the patient to be an old gander, who, sure enough, had a broken leg; so he set to work, made aplints and baindages, put his leg in place, and wient home, leaving Mr. Gander as comfortable as could be expected. In due tinie the owner of the gander was pre sented with a bill of $10, surgical service which he refused to pjay. Dr. S. sued hinm before a justice, and recovered the amount with cost. Trhe ganuor appealed, or his owner did for him; the judgment wvas affirm. ed with newv costs. The gander took ano ther and last appeal to the Supreme Court, where the judgment below wvas affirmed, with newv cost, from, which court an execu tion issued for $10 damages, and $150 costs of suit, wvhichi was levied on the farm and finally paid, leaving the world in doubt which was the greatest goose of the two. I DON'T DANCE l--An exchange- paper tells a good story of an innocent country man who chanced to be in one of our cities on Sunday, and go to church. Arrived teehewaited out side for a moment, when to his profound surprise, the organ struck up, from which lie concluded that some sort of "shake down" was about to comnmence. Just at that moment a gentle mau iinvited him to walk in and take a seat. " Not 'xactly, Mister; I aint used to no such doings on Sunday ; and besides, I don't dance." And he retired, shocked exceed ingly. A TRAVELLER stopping at an inn down east wvas asked bow the business men in New York were getting along, " Oh," an swered tbe traveller, " many of them have got upon their legs again." " How so-has trade become more brisk 1" " No I mean that many of those who formerly rode in coaches are now obliged to learn to walk." A GENTLEMAN employed an Irishiman to trim a fewv fruit trees. Pat went out in the morning, and on returning at noon was ask ed whether lhe had completed his work. No, was his- reply-but he had cut thenm all down, and, was going, to trim in the after ENGLI S WOFUL CONDITION. The London Times thus wofully depicts England's condition, and arraigns the Gov ernment and Parliament: " Every incident that comes to our knowl. edge tends to increase the feeling of dismay with which reflecting men of all shades of political opinion are disposed to regard the present conjuncture of our affairs. There is no longer the slightest hope that we can by any means short of the most extreme de. gradation avoid the continuance of a war, the expenses of which we pay, but the opera. tions of which our counsellors seem unable to plan and our generals to execute. Our Government is a caricature of the weakest and most selfish combinations of other times. Our Premier has disappointed the expecta. tions of his friends, and faithfully realized the predictions of his enemies. Our Secreta rv of War is a martyr to gout, and our So. cretary for the Colonies is returning from the capital of a doubtful ally to add to the Administration the weight required in a fu tile negotiation, and, perhaps, to act again the same part as that which proved so fatal to the Government of Lord Aberdeen. In the meanwhile, legislation is a blank, and discussion on topics of public interests is suspended partly by the Crimean commit tee, partly by unwillingness to add to the difficulties of an adainistration which began to decay before it was completed, but must still be tolerated till arrangements can be come'to fur providing it with a suitable suc cessor. In the meanwhile, our only hope should be in that palladium of our liberties, that depository of the talisman of our con stitution, in whose hands all legislation of late years has combined to place the supreme power of the State. It is not so unreason able to expect that at a moment so critical the House of Commons will be a faithful reflex of public opinion, and that the topics which are canvassed with so much energy and unanimity in every coffee rooni, at every market, in every railway carriage, round every hearth in this country, will find some feeble echo in the deliberations of an assem bly expressly called together to represent us all." Why should the New Palace at Westnin ster be the only place of public resort in the country in which the preselt -. ......crvices, * our government in every branch. But it is a pregnant symptom of our present social disease, that while the country deliberates the Legislature does not ; while the conviction of the necessity of a change has penetrated every dwelling, from the palace to the cottage, there at least it has found no entrance. The paralysis of the body politic is more complete than is usually found in the body natural. It does not strike some members and spare others, but assails at once the head, the hand, and the heart. No portion of the machinery re quired for carrying on a great war seems to be in force, except the functions of the tax gatherer. We do not achieve victories, but we pay for them. We have the loans of Mr. Pitt without his vigor and policy; we have the sanguinary campaigns of Welling. ton without his prudence, his vigilance, or success. A MURDERER liEVER SAFE. In Mendocia country, California, recent. ly, a young man by the name of Frank bad a dispute with an old man named iMinton about the possession of some property. A short time after Frank caled at the house of a neighbor and borrowed a gun, which was loaded at the time with buckshot. He kept the gun a day or two and then return. ed it to his friend. In the mean time Min. ton had suddenly disappeared, and his body wvas smesequently found in a retired place. He har been killed by a bullet shot. Sus picion rested upon Frank, and he was arres ted. But at the examination it was at first found impossible to substantiate the charge of murder by any reasonable proof. Hie strongly asserted his innocence, and showed by incontestible evidence that he had return the gun loaded just as it was when he had received it. Public opinion was being to turn in his favor, when a trifling discovery suddenly gave a new phase to affairs. A piece of crumpled white paper was found near the scene of the nturder, wvhich was re cognized by the man who had lent the gun to Frank, as the wadding which had been placed above the buckshot, and he identified it by producing the account book from w hich it had been torn, and fitting the scrap to, a mutilated leaf. Following up this clue, it was satisfactorily ascertained that Frank after receiving the gun, had drawn the charge, loaded the weapon with bullets, and shot Minton. He had then replaced the original charge, but had covered it with a new piece of wadding, and had left the old wad on the ground, where it was found and used as the proof of his guilt. The prisoner was com mitted to awvait trial, and wvill probably meet with justice at the hands of his fellow men. MoDEL EJRDICT. -The Rome (Ga.) Coriver pbyishe the followinag verdict, de Cuiveredpyu "high minded, honorable and intelligent jury" of that State in the ease of A be Johnson vs. Thomas Cameron : " We the gury choazen and swvoarne agre, that tom kamyron must pa abe gonsing the ful amount of 20five cents that the plaintif pay over the wvon kwvart of liker for the benefit of the gury and kost will be ruled out." THE BoUNTY LAND ILAw.-On Monday, 3,500 applications for bounty land wvere re ceived at the pension office, making an ag gregate, in less than two months, of 124,300. 'he Union says the officers in charge of this business have learned with pleasure that 160, 120 and 80 acre plates, engraved upon superb steel-plates, wijtly beautiful and appro priate designs and heads of distinguished gentlmen, will be readly for the isuqanlce Qf warrants by the 1st proximo, THE NEw YoRK LA.-The first legal decision under the prohibitory liquor.-law was rendered in New York on Wednesday. A man had been arrested for selling liquor without license, and Recorder Smith decided that although the new law prohibited gran ting of licenses after the 1st of May, it in flicted no penalty for selling without a i. cense until after the 4th'of July next. There. will, therefore, be " free trade" in liquor sel-, ling in New York city for nearly two months. to come, except on Sundays, when a special law is in force. In regard to the constita. tionality of the law in general, James W. Gerard, esq., one among the ablest lawyers of that city, and a great friend of temper. ance, has given an opinion to the following effect: 1. That imported foreign liquors may be sold by any body, in any place within-the State. 2. That the seizure and destruction clau ses are void, whether appicable to foreign or domestic liquors. 3. That the act does not, in terms, pro, hibit the manufacture or exportation of dot mestic liquors, hut that the practical opera tion of the seizure clause, if constitutional, would in effect destroy the buginess of man uficturing. 4. That as the seizure clause is void, li. quors made in this State may be exported; and if not intended for sale, kept here with. out risk of destruction. THE Tuscumbia North Alabamian comes to us with an excuse to its readers for not presenting its usual array of telegraphic news, the wires having been destroyed, both North and South of that point, by persons who imagine that they caused the drought. It was torn down between Russellville and Franklin Spring, and on Bear Creek in that county, and in Lauderdale county, the pre. vious week, several miles of the wire were carried off. The Alabamian says that "it is to be hoped that the philanthropists of the age, especially those of our own country, will turn some portionof their sympathies from the benighted heathen of foreign lands to those nearer home; for if there are more ignorant heathens in any portion of the wr -." . anti-telegraphers, we never with an array of facts in -. e the chimerical notion of showing that the drought mas, Arkans4s, 4nd other !here are no wires, and that electric telegraph was established eleven years since, until within the two years past no complaint of it had been made, as no drought had been experienced, - and concludes: " But it is useless to state such facts to men whose heads entertain the idea that the telegraph prevents the rain from falling! You might as well preach the Christian religion to a Mormon." DASTARDLY OUTRAGE.-The corner stone of the Church of the Nativitv, now in course of erection in this town, was removed from its foundation on the night of Tuesday or Wednesday last, and the Canister, contain. ing a Bible, Church History, newspapers, coins, &c., was abstracted. The copper case, with contents, excepting Bible and coins, was yesterdiy morning drawn from a well attached to the stables of Messrs. Hughes & Giles' Hotel. There is no epi. thet too base, no punishment too severe, th.t might not in all justice be applied to the pe:petrator of such an act of unmitigated rascality. Corner stone deposits have upon all occasions the seal, of honor covering them but when in connexion with that the sanctity of a church edifice, with the solemn and impressive forms attending the ceremo ny of deposit, are insufficient to protect it from remorseless Vandalism, the time has5 fully arrived in which sucih mnensgres are incumbent upon all as will result in ridding the community (for a time at least) of the presence of such soulless thieves.-Union ville Journal. TELEGR APIIc.-When it was first repor ed that Professor Horse had succeeded in conveying intelligence between Baltimore and Washington, through the wirea-of the Magnetic T1elegraph, one old saran, who had been a schoolmaster, and member. of the Legislature, gave it as his opinion that the report was " a humbug." In fact from hi nwege of "astronomy," he said he knerw the thing could not be done!: Shortly after, O'Reilly's men were seen setting the poles directly by the old man's dwelling. One day, he joined the crowd who-were witnessing the operation of stretching the wire. Upon being asked what he thought of the matter then, he hesitated a momenit assuming an air of importance-and then replied: "Well, gentlemen, while in the Legislature, I gave the subject considerable attention, and, after much investigation and. reflection, I have come to thme conclusion that it may answcer very weell for sgmall pack,. ages, but woill never do for large bugles neLar7 !-Knickerboeker. TAKING A LANDLORD AT iIsWoRD. We have heard of cool things, but never anything cooler than the followings Trho landlord of a hotel at Whiteltall: called'a boarder to him one day, find said:. " Look o' here! I want you to pay your board-bill, and you must. I've asked you for it often. enough; and I tell you now, that you don't; leave my house till you pay it! "Good!" said his lodger; "just put that in writing~; make a regular agreement of it; I'll stay with you as long as I live !"-Kniekerboelket Magazine, To - SUCCEED IN BUSINEss.-AdvertisG. and keep good-natured. The former ,will bring custom, and the latter will retain it. .A smile draws like a poultice, while a vine~ garvisaged clerk is nearly as bad for trade as unripe frqit and a sickly'summer. " I ses you are In black," said a rigndao ours, the other day. Are jyou in mournmng. for a friend Thomas! . " No? L am isi mpurning for my.-sins. ".I.never heard' that you. had-.lost-anyf' was tpo instant, and keen reply. GO. REEDER, If the subjoined be true concerning this gentleman, all we have to say is, that he has a queer way of showing his conservatism. We copy from the Washington Union: " This gentleman is now in Washington, not for the- purpose, so generally attributed to him, of invoking the action of the Gener al Government in regard to the administra tion of his duties as Governor of Kansas, but simply preparatory to his return in a week or two with his family to the Territo ry which he proposes to make his home. It is satisfactory to observe the contrast be tween his quiet and manly deportment and the violent expressions unjustly charged to him by his enemies. Not for a single mo ment has lie been diverted from the plain straight-forward path of duty. Refusing all participation with either extreme in the late disturbances in the Territory, and planting himself upon the conceded principles of the Kansas and Nebraska bill, he has steadily maintained the attitude which might be ex pected from a man who for thirty years has been a leading and consistent member of the Democratic party-the party of the Con stitution. A Northern citizen, a Pennsylvanian after the school ofeBuchanan and of Dallas, he has, throughout his political career, opposed the Wilmot proviso, sustained the fugitive slave law, advocated the Kansas and Ne. braska hill, denounced abolitionism from first to last, and boldly co-operated, in every movement for the protection of the South in its rights under the Constitution. Hence it is that, while he has resolutely and consis tently resisted all attempts to control the destinies of Kansas by means not entirely legal and fair, lie has never sought to give the advantage to either of the contending in terests. Perfectly conscious, and deeply regretting, that the mischievous efforts of Greeley and the Northern fanatics have been made the pretext for the recent border excitements, he has firmly occupied the ground of discouraging every movement that might disturb the public mind, or revive those unfortunate divisions which which have so oftegonvulsed our happy country. We are not disappointed that general excitement has resulted from the local troubles in Kan sas; but we unhesitatingly say to the true friends of constitutional nri----1 -- -%ure we iNew lork Anti-Slavery Society S''uesday evening. In order to put him. self right, and remove any doubts as to his personal soundness, to which his late alliance with the Know Nothing party may have given rise, the speaker declared that in his opinion American slavery, our connection v'tli it, and the obligations imposed by that connection, are the great political issues in this country. His confession of faith we give in his own words: I f there be one here this night who be. lieves that I am capable, for personal or party purposes, of modifying or qualifying sentiments entertained by ine for nearly twenty years, I commission him here and now to proclaim it--to send it abroad on the wings of the wind that I am committed, ful ly committed, in favor of the immediate and unconditional ablition of slavery wherever it it exists under the constitution of the United States; that I am pledged now and evermore In favor of blotting out at once and forever from the legislation of the republic every act that recognises slavery, or gives its sanc tion to slavery." How McCU TOBACCO 1s UsED.--Tbe pre sent annual production of tobacco, accor ding to a wvriter in one of our papers, is esti. mated to be 4,000,000,000 pounds! This is all smoked, chewved or snuffed. Suppose it all made into cigars, one hundred to the pound, it would produce 400,000,000. Four hundred billions of cigars! Allowing this tobacco, unmanufactured, to cost on the average ten cents a pound, and we have $400,000,000 expended every year in producing a noxious, deleterious weed. At least one and a half times as much more is required to manufacture it into marketable form, and dispose of it to the consumer. At the very lowest estimate, then, the human family expend, every year, oe thousand millions of dollars in the grati. fication of an acquired habit, or one dollar for every man, wvoman, and child, upon the earth ! This sum would build two railroads around the earth, at a cost of twenty thousand dol lars per mile, or sixteen railroads from the Atlantic to the Pacific, It would build one hundred thousand churches, costing $10,000 each; or half a million of school-houses, costing $2,000 each ; or one million of dwellings, costing $1,000 each. It would employ one million of preachers, and one million of teachers, giving each a salary of $500. It would support three and one-third millions of young men at college, giving each $300 per annum for expenses. Within a few days we have read a simi lar estimate of the cost of the supegfluous buttons worn on our coats. Thus, there are twvo, at least, behind, and sometimes four. It is said that the cost of these but tons is as much as the cost of our froe schools. GooD.-Mrs. E. Qakes Smith, who was appointed by Barnum one of the judges of his debasing " baby show," has wriiten a womanly letter, declining to have anything to do with the disgusting afiair. She Bays, with proper spirit, that the " woman to whom has been delegated the fostering culture of a beautiful miniature of the Creator will hld herself as one made holy thereby, and she will profane neither herself nor child .by any unseemly or ostentatious display of either. If her culture be of high order she will shrink from it as from deadly sin. If she have a shred of womanly pride in the fabric of her being, she will resent the impli ed insult offered her when invited to figure psnalln11 a humnan "live cattlo show,"