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- *v We will ,ling to the Pillars of the Temnple of 0 Liberties, and It n iut fall,*we will Perisperamidstitlie Ruin&. SIMKINS, DURISOE & CO., Proprietors. EDGEFIELD, S. C. AUGUST 18, 1858. "-."'--"*" KITTY TIMitLL You're looking as fresh as the morn, K tty, Mavoureen, as bright as the day; But while on your charms I'm dilating, You're stealing my fond heart away; But keep it iu we'come, dear Kitty, Its loss I'm not going to mourn; Yet one heart's enough for one body, So pray give me yours in return. I've built me a neat little cot, Kitty, I've pigs and potatoes in .torc; I've twenty good pounds with the banker, And may be a pound or two more. It's all very well to have riches; But I'm su::h a covetous elf, I can't help still sighing fur something, And, darling, that soiething's yourself. You're sailing and that's n good sian, Kitty, Say vYs, and you'll never repent.; Or if you wouli rather he silent, Your silence I'll take for consent. That good-natured dimple's a tell-tale, Now all that I have is your own This week you may he Kitty Tyrreil, Next week 3 ou'd he Mistress Malone. A WIFE'S BLAST AGAINST TOBACCO. BY "nIOoP-S.' le sits in the cA.ruer from morning to night, 'Tis smoke, chew, smake, Ie rises at dawn his pipe to light, Goes puffinc and chewing u ith all his might Till the hour of sleepI. 'Tis his delight To snoke, chew, smoke. The quid goes in when the pipe goes <.ut, 'Tis chew, chew, chew; Nuw, a cloud of smo'ke goes up from his throat, Then, his mohu:h sends a c-wstant strenai allat., 'Tis clhew, clew, chew. I1e sits all day in smoke or fog, 'Tis pitl', puff, pufr: le growls at his wife, the eat and do, le covers with filth the carpet and rue, And his only answer, when I give him a jog, Is pull, 1uf0 puf; The house all o'er, from end to end, . Is smoke, smoke, smoke; In whatever room my way I % end, If I take his clothes to patch or mend, Ungrateful perfumcs will ever ascend, Of smoke, smoke smoke. At home or abroad, afar or near, 'Tis smoke, chew, smoke; His mouth is stuffed from car to car, Or puffiing the stump of a pipe so dear, And his days will end, I verily fear, In-smoke, smoke, smoke. Young ladies, beware, live single indeed, Ere you marry a man who uses " the weed;" Better that husbands you should ever lack, 0, Than marry a man that uses Tobacco. INTELLECT IN RAGS. It was a black wintry day. Heavy snow drifts lay piled up in the streets of New York, and thelwhole appearance of the city was cold and dismal. Seated upon the steps of pne of the large dwellings on Fifth Avenue, was a boy apparent ly thirtcen years of age. ie was literally clothed in rags, and his hands were blue, and his teeth ehattered with cold. Lying upon his knee was a newspaper he had picked up in the streets, and~ he w-as trying to read the words upon it. Ie had been occupied thus for sonme time, whelzn two little girls clad in silks and furs, came towards him. The eldest one was about twelve years old, and so beautiful that the poor boy raised his eyes and fixed them upon her in undisguised admiration. The child of wealth stopped before him and turning to her companion, exclaimed, "Mariani, just see this fellow on my steps ? Boy what are you doing hereT' "I am trying to learn to read upon this little bit of paper," answered the boy. "the girt laughed derisively and said: " Well, truly ! I have heard of intellect in rags, Marian, and here it is personified." Marian's soft hazel eyes filled with team-s, as she replied: " Oh, Louise, do not talk so; you know what Miss Fannie teaches in school. " The rich and the poor meet together, and the Lord is the Ma ker of them all." Louise laughed again, and said to the boy: " Get up fre m here, you shall not sit on my steps, you arec too ragged and dirty." The boy arose, and a blush crimsoned his face. Ie wa~s walking away, when Marian said: " Don't go little boy, you are so cold, come to ini house and get warm. Oh, do conme," she .continued, a~s he hesitated; and he followed her into a large kitchen, where a bright ihrmu-hire was shedding its genial wvarmth around. " Well, Miss Mariani, who arc you bringing here now ?" asked the servant womian. " A poor boy, who is almnnst perished ; you will let him get warm, will you not, Rachel ?" " Oh, ho shall warnm; sit here little boy,5 ind Ra-chel pushed a chair in front of the stove; she then gave him a piece of bread and meat. Mariani watched these arrangemntts, and thenm glided from the roomi; whena she rejtur-ned, shc had a pmrimer, with the first rudiments of spell ing and reading. Gioing to the boy, she said: " Lit tle boy, here is a book that vou canm le.u-rn to read fro-m better than a ice of paper.- Do -you know your letters?" "Some of them, but not all. T never hadl anybody to teach me. 1 jmmt learned my13self; but oh, I want to read so badly." Mariani sat down beside him, anS1l began teach lng him his letters. She was so busily occuiw in this work that she (lid not see her mot her enter the room, nor hear Rachel explain abut the boy; and she knew not that her moithei .stood some time b~ehind them, listening to hmei noble child teaching the beggar boy his letters There were but fewv that he had not alreaudy learned himself, and it was not long before Ma .rian bad the satisfaction of hearing hmim repea ;the alphabet. Whea he rose to go, he thanked Rachel fo: her kindness, and offered Marian her book. "No, I don't want it," she said, " I have gir .en it to you to learn to read from. Won't you .tell me your name ?" " Jimmie," he replied. " I will not forget you, Jimmie, you mnust al wrays remember Marian Hayes," was the litth ~girl's farewell. Lubi:o Gardine ndr Mamian Hays were nlay mates and friends. Their dwellings joined, an almost every hour of the day they were togeth er, for they attended the same school. These two children were very differently dispositioned and very diflerently brought up. Louise wa proud and haughty. Poverty in her eyes was z disgrace and a crime, and she thought nothing too severe for the poor to suffer. These view she learned from her mother. Mrs. Gardnei moved in one exclusive circle-the bon ton ol New York. Without its precincts she nev er ventured, for all others were beneath her. Louise, taught to mingle with no children ex cepting those of her mother'. friends, was grow ing up believing herself even better than they, The teaching that Marian Hayes received wa totally dillrent from this. Mrs. Hayes was ac knowledged by Mrs. Gardner as one of her par ticular friends; yet though she moved among that circle, s.e was far from being one of them. IHer doctrine was the text her little girl had used. " The rich and the poor meet together, and the Lord is the Maker of them all." This she taught Marian, there was no distnction as to wealth and position ; that the distinction was in worth alone. She taught her to reverence age, and to pity the poor and destitute ; and that "pleasant words were as sweet as honey comb, sweet to the soul," a little kindness was better than nioney. Marian learned the lesson well, and was ever reaty to dispense her gentle words to all, whether they were wealthy and inhilueitial, or ragged and indigent as the boy she had that cold morning befriended. A gay and brilliant throng were asSeiabled in the cily of Washington. Congress was in ses -ion, and the hotels were crowded with strang cr-. It was an evening party. The borilliantly ligbted rooms were filled with yout h and beauty. Standing near one of the dooirs were two young ladies, busily engaged conversing togeth er. The el-r of the two suddenly exclaimed " Oh, Marian, have yon seen Mr. Hamilton, the new lenher from W ?" "No, but I have heard a great deal about him." " Oh, T want to see lit so badly. Mrs. N. is going to introduce him to us. T wish she wouldl m1oaki Iaste, I have ni patienve." " Don't speak so, Louise, I wish you woul.1 not. e.;' so rillin'g," said Marian. A singute smlile played around the month of a tall, handome gentleman who -was standing near Ihe girls ; anI as lie l.sel thei, he scan ned them both very closely. 12 i short time, Mrs. N - came ip wilh Mr. Ifamillon, the new member, and presented him to Miss Gardner and Miss IInyes. As they were conversing together, Mr. IHamilton raid: " Ladies, we have met before." But Louise and Marian declared their igno rance of the fact. " It has bieen long year. ago, yet I have not forgotten it., nor a single sentence uttered du ring that meeting. I will quote one that may recall it to your memory-" The rich and the poor meet together, and the Lord is the Maker of them all." The rich blood tinged the cheeks of Marian, but Louise still declafed herself ignorant as be fore. Mr. Hamilton glanced for a m'mnent at Marian, then turning to Louise, lie said: "Long years ago, a little boy, ragged and dir ty, seated himiself upon the steps of a stately dwelling on Fifth Avenue, New York, and was there busily engaged trying to read from a bit of paper, when his attention was attracted by two little girls, richly dressed. The eldest of the two particularly attracted him, for she was as beautiful as an angel ; but as they came near to him, she lifted up her hand and exclaimed: "Boy,'what are you doing here ?" "The boy answered that he was trying to read. The child of affluence derided him, and said that she had heard of intellect in rags, and he wia< the very personification of it. ler coum pnion's answer was, that 'the rich and the poor shall Tieet together, :nd the Lord is the Maker of them iall.' The elder girl drove the Isoy away front the steps, but the younger one to imito) her dwelling and warmed and fed himi there. When they parted, the httle girl said, 'you must not forget Marian IHayes. IAnd( Mliss llayes, lie ntever lias forgotton her. Tht aged dirty boy is now befor-e you, ladies, as Mr.-IamilIton, the member of Congress ;.and allow me, Miss Gahrdner, to tender my thanks to you for the kind treatment of that boy." Overwhelmedh with confusion, Louise knew not what to say or do. In pity for her, Mr. Ihamilton rose, and turn ing to Marian, said: " I will see you again, Miss Ihayes," and he left them. Louise would not stay in the city, where shec daily met with Mr. Mamilton, and in a few day~ returned to Newv York, leaving Marian, with the consciousness of having done nothing to be ashamed of, and enjoying the society of distini gu.nihed Congressmnen. Mara ad Mr. IHamilton were walking to gether one evening, wvhen the latter drew froim h Tis bosom an old and well-worn primer, and Ihanded it to Marian. "From this," he said, "the man who is sr distinguished here, Iirst learned to read. Dt you recognize the book ?" Marian trembled, and did not raise her eyes, when she saw the well-remembered book. Mr. Ilainilton took her hand and said: " Marian, Jimmie has never forgotton you. Since the day you were so kind to hinm and gavc him this book, his life has had one great aim andi that wvas to attain to greatness, and in afte: Iyears to meet that ministering angel who wa Ithe sweetner of my days of poverty. Wheun I Ileft your house with this book, I returned tc my humble home ten times happier, and went a.,siduously to, work to learn to read. My mother was an invalid, and crc long I learned well enough to read to hier. When imy mother died, I found good friend and wvas adoupted by a gentleman ini W-. A his soni I have beeni educated. A ye-ir ago h< (lied and left his property to mii. Of all th<i Ipleas~mt memiories of my boyhood, the one con nected with you is the dearest. I have kept this primer next to my heart, and dwelt upot the hope of again meeting the giver. I havy meot her. I see all that my imagination pictured anid I ask if the dear hand that gave this bool caumot lhe mine forever ?" L~ouise feet deeper gi-ief than ever when Ma riani tol her she was to become the wife of Mr Ihamilton, the poor boy whom she once sp~urne< from her door, and derisively called " intellec in rags." Jut she learned a severe le-son, an one that soont changed the whole cnrrent of lie lhfe. For a while she shunned Mr. hiamuilton Ibut by perseverinig kindness he made her fee easy in his presence, and she the acknowledge< friend of the Congressman and hi..4 noble wife Years have passedh smece then, and Louisei training up a family of little onmes ; bitt she i teaching themn to <tesplise not intellect in rags but to be guided by Maria's text-' The ric and the poor meet together, and the Lord is th Maker-of them all." " AMa I not a little pale ?" inquired a lady who was short and corpulant, to a crusty oh bachelor. "You look more like a big tub!I Iwas the blunt reply. MDrukenness is an egg from which a aicc may be hatched, [j THE YANKEE PEDER. The importance of importing your own stock. if you are going into the wool business, is very Semphantically enforced in the following capital story, that comes to us from a very agreeable correspondent. . "Some years ago I was traveling on the East em shore of Maryland, and stopped for the night at the house of a gentleman by the name of Jones. Ile was not at home, but his wife received me very politely; I was in the capacity of a travelling merchant, a peripatetic vender of notion<, vulgarly called a pedler. She made a few purchases of articles useful in the family, and might have bought more had not Mr. Jones returned unexpectedly and at once commenced abusing ine most roundly, and said he didn't want any pedlars about. his house. I gave him back the change in his own coin till he cooled down, when 1 asked him what made him mad at all "gentlemen in my line of business ?" lie told me: ." A few months ago a Yankee pedlar was about here selling his ware, and taking pay in anything lie could get. My neighbor fhrimer, Mr. Brown, had a very troubh0.ome ram ; one time Ie junped the fence and got into the wheat, and'another day into the corn, and was alwar; where he had no business to be. One day, just as the farmer nhad got him out and tied him up, this pedlar came along and wanted to sell his tinware. "Mr. Brown said he would sell him the old rant and take his pay in till. The pedler took him up offering him two dollars worth of his truck lor the ugly old sheep; the fariner agreed, picked out his tin things, the pedler hoisted the rat with legs tiod, into his confounded old cart, and drove right along here to my hiu.e, and had the impndence, yes, Ihe scoundrel hail ! to tell me the ran had been imported from England by order of otte of tle rich farmters, Jetfers, down the country, and lie had agreed to take it to hintm; it hal cost Si.4200 .1n lantdiig, and Ie was to have $250 ftr it wheni he deliv ered it to Mr. Jeffers, bit he was .so tired of having the plniy thing int Lis wagon that lie would take $100 for it the first chatme he could get. I wa quite anxiout to improve my stock, andil tought t his s-i line an opportuttity to bu11y an imported full-blimx, as the rascal warranted it to be, that I paid the follow ILK0); and he cut the strings ad let the ram rit. Sire etiought, lie did run, full split, rigi t tiver the fene. a int' afer him, at liy niggers comiig fi. Iln lifteen minitutes my rai, niggers, and I retched tup inl l'irvn's yard, whei I 6AIitl that I hadl been sold as Well as that r.eally old slieep. i30bre I got. back, thle pedler' hail soul ten dollars worth of woodeni iiutmevs and non sence to iy wife, und had gone oil' to parts uni known. lie never cine this way again ; mid if you are one of that sort, you had better put up your traps and be moving." Finally I prevailed on hit to let Me stop till morning, ani to accept a few -Yanikee notions without fee or reward. But lie will never fur get that R100 and his neighbor's raMi." EATING KND SLEEPING. Hall's Journal of Health says: " For persons who eat three times a day, it is amply sufficient to make the last meal oi cold bread and butter and a cup of warm drink. No one can starve ott it, while a perseverance in the habit soon be gets a vigorous appetite for breakfast so prom iing of a day of comfort." Yes, yes: by omitting the tlirl tneal, the individual, besides securitng a night of sound sleep. will not find on awakening in the muorn ing a bad taste iii his mouth so indicative of genteral foulness. I one would only have a sweet mouth and a clean tongue, he can secure them both by sim ply ceasing to overtax his stomach. This fre quent eating is an idle, misebeivons hiait, ruin ilous of both lcalth aid comfort ; and it prevents the individial froin receiviig the great amount of enjoyment which it was intended lie should receive from eating, and which is necessary to perfect nutrition. Nothintgshiotuld be eaten betweeni the regular tmeals, whiether* these imeals are takeni either two o'r three times a day; nor shoubhl oneo eat so that the quantity ingested will induce heavi ness or uncomnfor'table feelings. The cook tastes the foodi she prepares ; and by this frequent tasting she destroys both the relish for her meals and her health. There are many housekeepers who have the same perni cious haibit. We know farmers who, at the close of a long summer dlay, during 'which they have eaten heartily five times and worked hard from 4 o'clock in the morning to 9 o'clock at night, cat freely just before going to bed. The stomach, already enfeebled by constant working unader disadvantageous circumstances, has now imposed on it an impiracticable task and the men lie down to sleep ! Next morning they are nerveless-have scarcely slept all night feel more wearied than they did when they lay down-andi on the whole thinuk the farmer lives a dog's life. So he does, so far as he sinks totmere annalisma-livinig to eat-taxing his digestive apiparatus at the expense of health, life, and lihe's enjoymnents. So on fromt day to day, till nature inakes a desperate etrort to rid the body of' the superfluous food initroduced into it, burning~ it up by fever, or expelling it by sonme different remedial effort. Farmers, being so tmutch in the open air, with abundant exercise, shtould be the healthiest people; but like others who are cursed with "abunidance of bread," they are rheumtatic, bil' lious, dyspeptic. T1his is aL shame and a situ. F'arimers! it is a sini. Your liver compilints, chill fevers, etc., are as unnecessary as is the phtue. H~ealth and sweet sleep will conme to y'ou whent you need, unless by bad habl.its you drive themi away. " Go and situ no more."-Life Illustrated. From the Chronicle & Sentizial. ClIDR-YEAST. MR. Em-ron :-Perhap~s it may not be gener. ally known that cider is a good yeast fort bread, and it may be of sotme service to the public tu p lubls it in your valuable paper. Take a few ripe, souttd aipples, and wash themt andi precss out the eidher; imnimediately put in a jng or bottle, and as soon as it gets inia full state of fermentation, wet up a pa1rcel of -corn mieal, (thte tmeal should be of white corn, -atnd rat her coatrse,) 'beat it, into a still' batter, I pout it on a cleant wito pitne board ini sttall t~ cakes, and dry it in the sun. Use a hit about the size of am silver' dollaur to a qutart of Ilour, r lumtp of lard the .size of a walnut, and a tmorsel ;of' salt ; let the dotugh be well ktneeded, mnakt 1 youtr biscnits out with the hand, and you wvill have a very sweet, healthy bread. JOllN DURDIN. SEbenezer, Ga., Aug. 2, 18f>8. ,S~io-rm:luix A Bantv.-:-A boy at Watertowu ~Mass., wvasulefi, by his mother to watch his intfani e brother. The litt~le fling eried, and lie rant afte1 the motther, but she did not choose to retturi with himt. ie ratn after her a second time, am .,was againi sent back alonte. After a while th< 1mother returned to her hotme, and there sat the 'boy upon a pillow, unider which was the infat 'lThe aifrighted mother snatched the pillow away~ bitt it was too late-the haube was dead. The i buy, to silence its screa, had, adopted thti mens, and the result was deathm. KAXSAs.-The Kan~s correspondent of the N. Y. Hkrald states,I that the only business which is at all' brisk if Kansas at this time is horse stealing. It appira that the Frec State men in the neigborhol of Lawrence are be coming as much ena.mored of free horses as free niggers. A reverend jleitical parson, a resident of Douglas county, who commands a company of horse thieves, preaclfs on Sundays and steals horses on week days,.h# been arrested for steal. ing a number of horsefrom a pro-shrvery man. If his reverence can sogare a free soil jury he ] need not concern himself about the result, for it will be easy to showqat a Southern man has no more right of prope;y in a horse than in a negro, and that a fin horse is a peculiarly Southern institution, Alid therefore entitled to the benefit of the inde round railroad. RETUR--ee~ Re-ruas HoME.-Ao.ut thirty engineers, says the New York Heighl, who anmially ii- i grate to Cuba for'the ppose of following heir I p~rofession during the sugar season, have return- I ed home and speak in glowing terms of the I country and the manner n which they have been 1 treated by the hidalgos; These enginers travel fron plantation to plan- ion, and contract with - their owners to ran it. m-engines daring the I rinding :eason. Many ' the estates own sami eigites of great power -d high cost, sonic of I thema valued as hgh as 20,00(. The engineer is not required to per rm mnuch labor, as a number of slaves are deiled to obey his orders i and clean the inachind y when required. A good engincer receives ueVen onnces or $11J per imonth, and board aijd washing. The pay 1 is good, the work is lig It, the fare excellent, and there is no occasioni Or wonder, when tiany ( of those who ha ve returtied homi express A I intlention of again visiti Cuba as soon as Ilie ugaring, season ciii es. In this it is ra re to find a man ple hiS efilness to the public. -eiiiore his intorest. lipng a late visit to tIe Vity of' Spindle ," we wbre reseiitiie b a pro li.sional friend, to the leblatetd Chemist, lir. L .1. C. Ayer, wh1ew naie is now perliaps, mor. I familiar than any other, at.h 11 lediside Of sieK I iWit ; iii this <-ountry. niowiig the miirt-c-c I dented poptularily of liinediin, anil the im-< miense sale of tlain, we Ilad expected1 to find him a mnillionie, and rpilling inl weallth. Iin t. i11, w'! 1,1111d hiin in his .4lIirittory, Insy with li.; laborer.4, umong Ili.- ekueibles, aleibics, and -lorts-giving his les personal care to the I coIIJIunI ds, on the virtn of which, thouisails C hang 1;or he..h1,1 We' learned, that notwilh- I stIIing his vast busimess, and its prompt re- I turns in cash; the DoctoriP not rit-h. 'Tlic rma sM assi.;neld is, tiat the bmaterial is contly, anid Im- porsists in ma1king his-preparations so expen I sively, that. tI nett proifibs sniall.-Aierican j Farmer, P'hil. . M .uiCm. Come OF0 EoRoI..-Ve would call at.tention to the .adveisement, in this day's paper, of this popular .i4titution. It isi one of tho oldest Colleges in the:South, has one of the best museums in thecee%:y.ta.wich yearly additions are made ; its professors are nun well known throughout the country to the pro fession, and most of them have had long expe perience ii. the discharge of their arduous du- j ties. Young men who intend adopting the Medical Profession, cannot find better instruc- < tors than the Faculty of this Institution, and for I all practical purpose, there is no deficiency for subjects in illustrating Anatomy or Surgery. I This Collere has turned out some of the iost I emiunient physicians in the country. It will be i seen that the- anm:mal course of Lecties will commence on the first Monday inl November next, and we would advise .tudents to be pune tual in their atteundance.-Dispatch. Gm:r Fi.owsu.-A letter from Philadelphia Our citizens will shortly have an oppor t'huity of secing, in full bloom, the wondertil 1 Ai.eria Aloe or Century Plaint, a spectacle which is beheld at very rare intervas. one of the noblest specimnens of this wonderful plant 1 eve ee ini this counitry is now in the pos-. session of Sir George I'l. Stewart, of this city. The total weighut of this Agave is about two thousand nine hundred and sixty pounds. Iti is about to bloom, and has thrown un~ a stein 1 which has already reached the height of twenty five feet. A VOTAs'rTARY SLAVE.-Instanices of this kind are becoming more and more. nmerous every1 (lay. We clip from the Frontier (Tcxas) News1 " hiAl . atedneon the District Court, in T arrant county, one day of the previous week, I witnessed the ceremonies on the occasion of a free negro voluntarily going into slavery. Ie caine into court cheerfully, and there stated in answver to questions propounded by the court, that he knew the consequence of the act-that he had selected as his miaster W. M. Rtobinson, b lut of is own free wvill and accord. Two genl tlemn came in and stated under oath that they hadsiged ispetition at his request, and that th etean he had selected as his master was a good citizen and honorable mnan,-&c. Jer ry is a fine okignegro, somno forty yaso age, and appeares to be smart. As old friend, a distinguishied judge and ex war minister, resident of Pennsylvania, tells a good story of a Dutch neighbor of his who had the gout, and was greatly puzzled to know how he came by it.. " What is the matter with you, my friend I' inquired the judge, who had called to see his sick neighbor. "Veil, I don't know, chudge-day say it is1h de cout 1 l'ut why should I have the cout ? I lives blain ; I dont eats ~do much nor drinks do muh;vy should I have toe cout !" "Perhaps," suggested the judge, " it is hered ita.ry?" "Vell'," replied the invalid, with a look of a mian who has been suddenly enlightened oni a dillicult subject, "Vell, I guess it ish heredita ry-I remember my wite's uce had de cout !"' The judgets of opinion that a good imainy of the hereditary gouta of the present day will. have to be traced in the Dutchman's miode of' lineage, ini order to make the descent. and inqunired : ' Is father hero ?"-" I do not know-what is his name?" said the Lieutenanti on duty. The name was given, anid thle record exhuibited, with " drunk and disorderly" attached as tihe charge.I " Cani I see himu a moment-lie is my father?" "Y1es"~ was the responsa, and the young nman was coniducted tothme iron cage whetre the father had been confined since morning, now sobered in his right mi "Father," said the young visitor, June Li dead !"-And-the younig man choked at the sentanere, while the strong nerved father ven-* ted his grief ini tears and loud expressions of~ sor row. jiWhile the sister and daughter lay upon her dying bed, the father had indulged in hiquid po tations that. dethroned reasoin, and has been arrested and confied ini the station house. The son asked for his relesea, and the kind-hcarted ollicer opened his prison door, anid with a word of comfort and warning set him free. Such are' s me of the daily scenes a "local" meets with, d m1.ecaily ronda-.-ncinni G'nzttc OPENING TO TIlE SOUTH FIVE NE SLAE STATES From a highly interesting letter from an in telligent correspondent.f the New Orleans Cres uent, relative to the thriving State of Texas, we extract the following, which we commend to our maders as worthy of carefulperusal and serious consideration. The writer from whom we quote With the close! of the Mexican war, Texas presented an entirely new phase. She was no onger dependent on adventures. Her dilieil ies with Mexico were settled and placed be rond the possibility of a revival. She relied on he Federal Governinent fbr protection against iostile Judians, and thus secure in life and prop !rty, her people settled down from a state of ,vild excitement, turroil and uncertainty, 'to mne of calmness, peace and security. The in ustrious speedily engaged in the; developimnt >f the natural resources of the State, by which hey proved to the world that Texas was one of he best agricultural and stock raising States in he Unio1. The attr. e :on which diew within he: orders reckless adventures, no longer existed. They were succeeded by others more peaceful ,11d profitable, which consistsi of rolling prairies vith soils unsurpassed in fertility, ready for the low. Hills and valleys affording luxurious mid almost boundless pasturage for cattle, sheep nd horses, and a elimate well adapted to the rowtli of the -t:iple of the South, and of every arietv of cereals and fruits grown in North Uerica. With these attractions, Texas now looms up efore the Southern State4 of this Union aa the uly reliable field preenstel for the extension f Southern institutions and Southern political ower. That the South will avail itself of this pen'ing-that Southern umen anId Son hern i n titutiolis vill prevail helre, and11 thal, in a coiz aratively short s?.aee of tiune, this great terri )ry will lie cut up into six SIve States, is miy irm Coivieliol. Existinuig ircumanclimees will, in pite of all opo ;titii,efrl't tllis imeh-to- lb. LIsmired nstt.-Frn Ih.! lIatoma: to tLe Sa tine lie prices oi pood lamls raniige Irom ten to ifte'-n dollhr p.- nIere, Jal nearly all tihe lands iat cull he po1fitIIably e1hi-:atedl have been ta e Iy by a.- l '-ti :10uh-r0 me itly the ams T plan1ters a t1 otter. wih wih to elg,e i lae Stat, obtin gesl ltlis within aL conive it-it distanmee ofitSI.ping poinlts withbout paying xhorhitant pricePs. in Texes there are millions if acres of as good land as the snn ever shone ipon-equally as good for the cultivation of 0orn and cotton as any in the South, ind better han any other contin-t fir raisinug stock hiih ci be had at prises ranging from fifteen ents to three dollars per acre. When these ctti are taken into ennsiderntion, and also the cets that the young men of the South w'io are ust entering upon the stage of action, are im. med wiih a strong love for Suithern institutions, i tl p s : a deep-rooted prejudice against aatical free States, the conclusion of every sen ible man must be that the present vacant lands if Texas will be speedily occupied by the sons if the South. ~ k S--inYHfiir11 BiE r7te ame necessary a few days since to pull down in old building in the vicinity of the St. Mary's arket, for the purpose of erecting on its site ine more roomy and suitable to the times. Ac ordingly, the workmen were engaged and the rork of demolishin.; went on. When the basc nnt bail been reached, and the removing of the round sills had commenced, one of the work nen discovered a singular looking animal, seem ugly imbedded in one of the sills. The attention of the whole party was then lirected to the spot, when some one exclaimed, s the animal showed a broadside of huge claws: It's a.terrapin, sure," and sure enough it so roved to be, but of proportions larger than its pecies warranted, being ats large as an ordinary ea turtle. But the most wonderful portion of his story is yet to be told. We said it was mnbedded in one of the sills. This was not xactly the case, for the sill was imbedded in its ack, and had thus held it captive for years. It nust bave somehow or other caught itself under he sill when quite small, for it had grown up tearly thme height of thme sill on each .side, leav' ng, when it waLs extricated, a furrow down its ack lengthwise a half foot deep. One of the workmen, in attemipting to take old of it, hind his hand nearly torn in two by ue of it.s huge claws. It has a tail about four r five inches long, and a genuine snapping tnr ,e head. The probability is that this turtle or errapin is at least a quarter of a century old, tnd has been, without doubt, under this house ad in that position si'nce its erection. The nyatery is, what sustained lire during that time. l'he grouind around was quite damp. This uriosity, we learn, leas been preserved, and is n the possession of oneC of the workmen. It is ,orth seeing.-New Orleans Delta. MAIaRIAGE oN Sinoa'r AeUA INTANcrE.-There s not a city, there is scarcely a township, whaich hoes not number among its inhabitants women ahio have married oni very short acquaintance, mnhy to be abnsed, deserted, and left a burden md a lifelong sorrow to their families in which zey were horn andl reared, and wvhich they nost imprudently and improperly deserted, to hare the fortunes of relative strangers. If foung ladies could realize how gr'ossly indelicate is well as culpably reckless such amarriages ap pear in the eyes of the observing, they surely would forbear. A years'% thoroughiaequamntance, with the most circumstantial accounts from dis nterested and reliable witnesses of the antece dents from childhood, are the very least guaran ies which any woman who realizes wvhat mar inge is, will require of a stranger. Even then, if her parents are not fully satisfiel, as well as herself, she should still hesitate. Marriage is an undertaking in which no delay can be so hazardous as undue precip~itationt. Dmnixa .t :.-The month of August is usually the safest time to sink a well. The hot season has then generally diried up) the surface streams anmd springs and left those which perco lat~e deep, and silent through the earth in their full and natural flow, and when reachedl they then scarcely fhil toi permanent supply. Before digging the well, the stone or brick for walling it should bie oin the ground, and so placed as to le ready at a imoimeints notice for use, as we have known wells lnst, from a sudden break of tme e..rthi or rock at the bottom, anid the ra.pidl flowing in of the water, driving thme laborers out, and filling up to a height even above the tools they wrought with,. And so stronag was thme fountaini, that they could inot exhaust. the water afterwards. Such cases do nt often happena, we know, lint it is well to proviude against them, an after wvater is Ijhund in full supply, the iquicker tme well is walled up the better.-Americatn Air. riculturist, .J ely. Two precocious boys juimed from onze of the new bridge piersa t iNashville, a few days ago, a distance of ninety feet, into the water anid escaped unhurt. France is detertmined not to lbe behind Enig land in great enterprises. She attempts achieve. mets upon the laud as remarkable as those of England upon the water. Whilst thme lattem is making an experiment with the monster steam ship and the A tlantic Telegraph, Franice is about to ndertake the gigantic project of tunmnelling the Alns by the force of compressed air COTTON SPINNING. The little check which the consumption of cotton has encountered through the panic of the present year, is passing away, in face of ele ments which may impart a more rapid consump tion, and give a still higher relative value to cotton, since the demand for human clothing, of which that article is the chief material, is likely to be more important than ever. This influence seems likely to prevent the growth of manufac tures in the cotton States. For many years succeeding the tariff of 1828, cotton was very low, so low as to make planting unprofitable, and to impel the migration from the Atlantic States to the valley of the Mississippi, where the cost of cotton raising was less. At the same time it induced the erection of numerous mills in the vicinity of the cotton plantations, the profits of manufacturing being superior to those of planting. Of late years the consump tion of cotton has outrun the production, and the price of cotton has risen naturally upon that fact. Cotton is now more profitable to plant than to spin. With the price of cotton hands have risen also, and the capital which might have gone into factories is now more profitably directed to planting. The expenses of the Ea. tern mills, for goods of the style of heavy sheet ings, is a3 follows: 1844. 1857. Middling fair cotton.........7.00c. 13.50c. Waste.................... 77 1.48 Labor................ .3.80 3.80 General expenses........2.08 2.08. 1 lb-2.80 yards....13.65c. 20.86c. A yard of sheetings, therefore, now costs 7c. against 4.8e. in 1844, of which the material is 65 per cent. Wen th:t material could be brought for 7e. a few years since, it is obvious that .saving the freight, comi iuns, &c., on the cotton going North and the goods coming South, gave a lar-gr profit than growing the cotton at that price. . When, however, 13.50e. per lb. can be got iIr the colton, with the prospect of a, contintled rise, Iibroughm insunbicient proI.ltion, Slie iIcreased profit on I lbf. of col ton is Gte., or egial to 2.1e. pIer yard of the cloth, without the employnnt or ainy capital in i hat trotil.lesoime branch of buasiness, au-l iii the abeice of skilled labor. But. t he North has to pay so mnuch more for tlecotton thbat its lrotitson clothi regrently cur-I tailed, unsles it. can put in more cheap labor and less cotton, or, in other words, iake liner goods. That the South will, however, contend for the manufacture, while planting is so profitable is hardly to be supposed. and the history of .e trade showi I hat the United States have gradu ally sueceeded to the control not only of the cotton crop, but also the market of manufactured goods. In 1830 the consumption of raw cotton in the United States wiks 19 per cent. of that of Great Britain-it is now 37 per cent., and the extension of the trade in Europe is such that the Bank of England can no longer govern the price of cotton.-United States Economist. IN A QUANDRARY.-The last annual report-f asw.z~~.Qniztin Societ jsyL making applications for assistance to reach Li beria; but a they do not reside in the United States, the Society cannot expend its funds in colonizing them. The report adds: Of the colored people in Canada, we have but little reliable information. In 1847,. when it was currently reported that there were more than 20,000 fugitirve from American slavery in Upper Canada, the census showed that the whole clored population of the province was less than six thousand. It is well known that many of the passengers by the " Underground lIailroad" are free persons, who pretend to be fugitives for the sake of traveling at other peo ple's expense. Yet it is certain that colored iinmignrants from the United States, for the last eight or ten years, have been more numerous than the people of Canada desired; and that, though the% are under no legal disqoalifications there, they~ iind the hearts of their white neigh bors as cold as the climate, and both too cold for a comfortable home. WMurrEn.--. single good reason for continu ing the licensed sale of intoxicating drinks. We have looked, and waited, and watched for a smngle argument in favor of the grogshop system, but thus far in vain. The only thing thlat is urged in behalf of it is, that those en gaged in it sometimes make money-a great deal, it mnay be-by it. But this is no more a reason for grog selling, than for doing any other thing by which a man may obtain more money than he had before. It wvill justify thef t, murder, burglary-crime of any and all kinds, just as much as it will justify grog selling. The ques tion to be asked jn reference to any thing pro posed to be done, is not " Can money be made by it T'-but, " Is it rigid /" If it be not right, then it matters not how much money may be made by the operation-the law has no power to justify it. But, is our grog shop business right ? No ! The common sense of a man with intellect enough to entitle him to our respect, is insulted by asking himt such a question. Right ! .Can that be right wvhich does wrong, wrong only, wrong all the time-wrong to the State, to -society, to the individuals engaged in it ? No ! it is not right-has not the first element of right abouti it.- Crusader. Usarm Ix roux~mos.-Thme washerwomen of IHolland and Belguimi, so proverbially clean, and who get up their linen so beautifully while, use refined borax as a washing powder instead of soda, in the propoirtion of' a large handful of bo rax powder to about ten gallons ot' boiling waf tes; they sav in soap nearly hmalf. All the large washing establishments adopt the same mode. For laces, cambries, &c., an extra quan-. ity -of the powder is used, and for eriinolines (required to be made very still') a strong solu tion is necessary. Borax being a neutral salt does not in thme slightest degree injure the tex ture of linen ; its effect is tio soften thmo hardest water, anid thecref'ore it should be kept on every toilette table. To the taste it is rathier sweet, is used for cleaning the l.a'r, is ani excellent den tifrice, and in hot countries is used in coimbina tion with tartarac acid and b~i-carbonate of soda as a cooling hieverage. Good tea cannot be made with hard water ; all water may be fomud soft by addling a% teaspoonftull of borax powder to a ordlinar'y sizeOd kettle of water, in whic-h it should boil. T1he saving in the quantity of tea used will 1be iat least one-tifth. To giie to black tea the tlavor of green tea, add a single leaf fromn the black curramit tree.-Pom Gaulignaani'sv Msseger, 1-1th June. DEATH Rox A Fmx Bivc.--The Paris Sleck says that a woman residing in the lie Itoehe focault was-bitten, a few weeks since, in the b ack of the neoch by one of those large flies which feed oni decafed mne-t at this season of the year, amid died in a few days afterwards, suf ferinig severely, and ill spite of thme best medical I attendance. It is supposed that the fly must have eaten cario~n immediately before wounditng the woman, and that the virus which was intro duced into the wound quickly spread through the systemi. John spell efl'eets. F-x. Rtight. Next spell way C-d. ftight againl. Now spell cakes. li-a-x. There's a good boy ! said ha mother, handing Johnnv some of thie latter. From the Legngton Flai. ALL RIGHT! LICENSE DEFEATED! MR. EDITOR:-Let it be known far and near, that the Commissioners of Roads fbr Lexington District, -.id at their meeting on Monday last, "RFS'E'' to grant either " Tavern" or" Quart" License, to as many as three applicants; and in addition, passed a resolution that they would not, hereafter grant license of any kind to sell grog, during their term of office. Let it be known too, that the applicants above alluded to, were surprisingly well recommended and. en dorsed; yet, they could not "come it", over' more than a third of that body. Dunbtless the Commissioners remembered that not long 'since, a man, a stranger in our midst, of noble talents and endearing disposi tion, was " providentially" murdered by the very business they had licensed "good moral charae ters" to cond uet, and therefiore, very wisely eon eluded to let those "good moral characters" kill on their own resjpnsibili'y. Gentlemen you have done a good work; and although some will cefisure your noble act, it will notwithsianding, live long in tho hearts of th; sober and intelligent lovers of order in this community-anl your names will not be forgot. ten. You have done more for the prosperity and moral advancement of Lexington Village, by the discharge of your duty at this particular juncture, than you could hlave done. by any move in any other direction over which you have jurisdiction. Only elin" to your noble I esolve-take no step backwarJ, and all will be well. OBSERVER. Lexington, Aug 3d 1858. A, OnoAXIC DimFrwci.Ty.-A parish in the west of England, after much efl'ort, lately pur chased a self-acting' organ, iarranted to play twenty tunkes, and a larger congregation than usual net to inaugurate it. The first psahn had been suecessfully brought to an end, when, after a short Pause, the organ chose to commence p1salm1 tun .!nuiber two. In vain the officiating parson endeavorAed to stop it; in vain the church wsrdleuns left their own pews to stifle the noise: still the organ as though uncontrollably pleased with its own execution, kept oii with the new air. What was to be done? The service was su pended. in the hupe that the musical stranger 60ig1t hv- content when the second tune was prel out. Vain expectation I It commenced number threp! and nothing remained but to carry the instrument into the churchyard, and there to cover it with the vestry corpet to choke its voice ; for on and on it went till the number of twenty had been played out, much to the edi fleation of the less attentive part of the congre gation, who could hear only half-smethered meldies.-London Times. "Dad," said a young hopeful the other day, I'how many fowls are there on this table?" ' Why," said the old gentleman; as he looked complacently on a pair of nicely roasted chick- - ens that were smoking on the table, "there are two." "Two!" replied the smart boy ; "there are three, sir, and ill prove it." "Three!" r f-fc * a; -lt -e yo0 "Easily donesir, easily done.. Ain't that one 1" aid the smart boy, laying his knife on the first, "and ain't that two!" pointing to the second, " ana don't one and two make three ?" " Real ly," said the father, turning o the old lady, who ivas stupefied at the immense learning of the son; "really wife, this boy is a genious, and deserves to be encouraged. Here, old lady, do you take one fowl, and I'll take the second, and John may have the third fol his learning." Co-roN SEED OJ.-A Great Discowery.-The manufacture of oil from cotton seed has been carried on to some extent for several years, but the process of clarifying the oil so as to fit it for illuminatin" of those skilled in chemistry for a long time, %ut all attempts have failed up to within the last few months. The Cincinnati Price Current, however, saYS : Mr. Davies, of this city, has, we have no doubt, at length solved the problem. A sample of this oil prepared by him has been in our possession the past week, and we having tested its illumi nating properties thoroughly, fuel no hesitation in saying that it gives a light far clearei and brighter than lard oil; does not crust or gum the wick, and is freer than any other oil from aby disagreeable odor while burning. We re gard MIr. Davies' discovery a most important one, the value of which cannot be well estimated in dollars or cents. We learn the process is at once cheap and simple, not increasing the cost but a trifle, as the article, when clarrihed, is sold at 90 cents per gallon. It will remain liquid at as low a temaperature as the best sperm. WONCDERFCI, Gonu DisCovERIEs ax LUMPKiN. -Extract from a letter to the Savannah Repub lica--dated DAnt~oxca, Aug. C, 1858. The crops in this panrt of the State ar~ fine never better I reckon; and the discoveries of gold would perfectly astonislj you. Were I to tell you what the ore is worth per bushel in the Fields mine, you would not believe me, but it is so. The ore they are now raisiajg is worth one - thousand dollars per- bushel. T here are several very valuable mines now nearly open and in op eration, and there will be many more. *Yours' R. TuE FA I.I ot' Maxo.-TuE LoXDOx Xforning Kews thinks that the fate of~ the Spanish race on the American contineut is no longer doubtful; as a " ruling race, it is doomed to inevitable ex tiction."-It think Mexico must fall under the protectorate of the United States, and it adds: " When the Republic ol' Sierra Madre should it be erected-comes to take its place alongide of its sister province, Texas, under the star spangled banner of the great North American Union, who will venture to say that its own interests and the interest of humanity have not been benefited." FAnTL Acvannr.-The downward night train on the Souths Carolina Rail Road, fronm Augusta' to Charleston, stopped Saturd y night about nine oclock, near Giranituville, to take in wood and water. After getting a en.. ply, the engineer blew his whistle and started. A man aaned lohin Aloss, about 34 years of age, a native of Irelandl, ini attempI~tinig to get on the car w' ilo the train was in motion, missed his hold and. fell. He was seena to fall by one of the hands, who informed the conductor, Mr. Hastings. The train was immnediately stopped, antd meon sent back to see if the manh was injured. They found his body lying nut one side of the track and the hond ont the other, The wheel had passed over his neck, severing the haead from the body. .The body was brought to town, and an inquest held yesterday morning by Coroner Kingman. The verdict of the jury was in accordance with' the above facts.-Caraleston Courier. VoLr~n r..-Nearly a hundred years -igo, Voltaire resided at Geneva. One day he said to s..me friends, in a boastful, sneering tone: " Before the beginning of the nineteenth centu ry, Christianity will have disappeared- irom the earth l" Well 1 in thatsame room where these impious words were spoken, what think,y Pu there is to-day ? A large deposit -oftBilyles! The sacred books fill, the homte from the floor to the ceiling! So miuch for Voltire's pre