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K A U F F E R, B EGS to acquaint the Inhabitants of Edgefielil and vicinity that I-e. has commenced busi ness with an entirely NEW bTOCK of PLAIN & FANCY DRY GOODS, To which he would particu'arly call their atten tion. -The following list will show the L 0 W PRICE at which I amn selling Goods. DEBEIGES, at 04 ets, w.arth 121 cts; Prin ed.DELAINES, at l2J.et.s., worth 18 cts.; English MERINOS, double width, at 16c. pryd; All wool PLAIDS, double widths, at 31 cts.; 8-4 WOOL SHAWL9, at $1,00; Checked and striped MUSLIN., at 121 cts.; White'BRILLIANTES. at 12* cts; Linen Canbric Hdkfs. at 75 ets. per dozen; CALICOBS from 6j cts. upwards; Superior SlT1DIGSat 6f cts; Z1 RANS, fast colors, 121-cts Marlboro PLAIDS and STRIPE4, at 11 cts. by the piece; Kerseys and Domestic Goods at Factory prices; White and Colored Cotton IlIOE,at $1 adozen; Kentucky JEANS, all colors, at 20 cts; Negro BLANKETS, full sizes, ut 75cts Pr PAIR -My Stock of EMBROIDERIES Is the LARGEST and CHEAPEST ever shown in Augusfa' consisting of Swiss and Jaconet SLE EVES, at 25 eta pr pair; 46 " 'SETS, from 75 ets.;' a " COLLARS, from 20 cts; Also, a large variety of Bands, Jacontt and Swiss Edgings and Insertions. Also, every novelty in Rich Silk Dress Goods, MANTILLAS, O LOA KS, SHBA W LS, &c. I have esery facility of selling Goods at Re. mnarkably Low Prices, as I have a Brother who-res~ides ut -No. 444, Third Avenue, New York. He'is constantly In the market and purchases Goods for Cash, consequently I am ena bled to sell Chieap. N. B..i.Terus Cashs, and no Se ceend Price ! All Goods anarked in ?Jltn Figures. = Augusta, Oct 25 Im 42 3.K. NEWBY & 0., WHOLESALE A'D' RETAiL DEALERS IN ELEGANT READY-MADE Under the U. S. H-otel, AUGUSTA, GA, JOSEPU 'lY. -NE WBY & CO., A u Ugusta, Ga., it their old and well-known stand under the United States H otel, are now receiving the L ARGEST and BEST SELE~CTED Stock of READY-MADE CLOTHING, They have ever kept, for Mten and Boy'si wear, from their own Manufaictury, 139 Fulton Street, New York. THEY GET UP THi!VERY BEST STYLES .nd in OF CLOTHING, An naddition to this, they have made arrange ments with the famous House of D. Devlin & Co , to receive weekly their Newest Broadway Styles ! Besides Clothing, we keep the best make and fIt of SIRTS, DRAWERS, MERINO .SKIRTS AND DRAWERS, 80Cks,* Gloves, Sustenders, Neck Ties, &c.,&c., &c. In the Manufacturing Department, can alwayis be found the best and motst fashionablo Cloths, Cassimeres and Vestings gy Thankful for the liberal patrona. for year. -past, we ask our old Edgeied friends, an,l ali strangers visiting the City, to call oni us and ex amine our btock. Augusta,'Sept 12 tf 36 &ttentionl, Planters. GIN MOTES! gpJ wilip. ONE CENT per pound in Cash, VTfortho OTES that fall under the Cotton Gin, (and which have heretofore been considered worthless) delivered at the Mill at Bath, S.V., or at the Offie in Augusta, or at any depot on the ai. C. Itail Rdad. They may be seat by wagon, nr if packed-the Ragging and Rope will be re t~auedtotheplier. Mark yr'ur. name on each * bale. EO. W. -WINTER, bale. ,agent Bath Paper Miles. Anuuta. Ga., Nov. 9 .* 44 BThIVE, WAIT AND-PRAY. By miss A. A. PROCTOR. Strive! yet I do not promise The prize you dream of to-day, Will not fade when you think to grasp it, And melt in your hand away; But another and holier treasure, You would now perchance disdain, Will come when your toll is over, And pay you for all Your pain. Wait! yet I do not tell you The hour you long for now, Will not come with its radiance vanished, And a shadow upon its brow; Yet far through the misty future, With a crown of starry light, An hour of joy you know not Is winging her silent flight. Pray! though the gift you ask for May never comfort your fearv, May never repay your pleading, Yet pray with hopeful fears; An answer, not that you long fur, But diviner, will come one day; Your eyes are tow-dim to see it, Yet strive, and wait, and pray. ---6* THE OLD PRINTER. A Printer stood at his case one night, In his office dark and drear, And his weary sight was dim as the light Of the mouldy lamp hung near; The wintry winds were howling without, And the snow falling thick and fast, But the Printer, I trow, shook his locks of snow, And laughed at the shrieking blast; He watched the hands as the clock crept round, Keeping time with its snail-like tick, As he gathered the type, with a weary click, In his old rust-eaten stick. Iis hairs were as white as the falling snow; And Lilently, day-by-day, He beheld them with grief, like the autumn leaf, One by one, " pasing away." Time had cut with his plow-furrows deep in his brow, His cheek was faevred and thin, And his long Roman nose could almost repose Its head on his gray-bearded chin; - And with fingers lung, as the hours stole on, Keeping time with the clock's dull tick, He gathered the type, with a weary click, - In the old rust-eaten stick. For many long years, through joys and thro' tears, That old Printer's time batteredface, Ghostly and lean, night and morn had been seen, Earnestly bent o'er his case. In a few years more Death will lck np his furm, And put it to press in the mould, And a #tone on the spot where they lay him to rot, Will tell na his name, and how old.; - A& his eomradirwill-lIght'tihem-lamp 1fhiredwi And list to the elock's dull tick, As they set up his death, with a solemn click, In his old rust-eaten stick. EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENCE. -0 DRESDEN, Oct. 5th, 1858. I have made lately a visit to the ancient town of Meissen, from whence comes all our pretty porcelain and china.. I saw a great deal and as usual am anxious to tell it. Meisen lies on 'the Elbo, not inore than welve or fifteen miles from Dresden. It is ex rmelyold and identified with the~histor?f'f Sxony, mndeed of all: Germany; from the ear iest tinies.' -A r-oyal Castle, a gothic Cathedral and the Porcelain Factory form its present ob ects of interest. Travellers and. sight-seeing eople leave D~resden in the morning in the Ebe Steamer, reach Meissen in two hours,A~nd after spending the day in rummaging among he antiquities, return by the same means late n the af ternoon. In summer and fall it makes a very delightful trip. The banks of the streamn re lined with lofty vineyards, and just now is he vintage time. The peasants are as busy as ees, some cutting the grapes, some piling them nto broad trays end others shouldering and aking oilf with them. Each vine consists of a single shoot and is trained to a slight poi~e about six feet high, the poles stand apart from each ther pretty much like corn stalks. The bunches ang from within an inch of the ground to the top of the shoot. The principal sorts here are a large white grape, growing in enormous clus 'ters, and resembling in flavor and appearance the Malaga, and the small blue species common aong us. These vineyards are upon the sides f the hills and mountains and are regularly terraced to prevent the soil washing away from the roots of the vines. At a little distance a vreyard looks like a great plantation of Limna beans. Among the vines are countless pump kins, and the great yellow globes enliven the scene wonderfully. A v'ery gifted divine told me once that he always regarded the vine, wine of course included, with peculiar interest, for it was the first thing Noah planted after he left the Ark, The boat reaches Meissen, and the tourist lands and makes ready for the day's campaign. The town is built under a mountain,'upon the top of which standl the Castle and the Cathe dral. The ascent is as difficult as that to heaven. [ns this'e ase however, most people reach the top by hard tugging, in the other, how few sue eed let them tug as they will! The Cathedral is a fine specimen of gothic architecture, founded in the eleventh century by Otho I, Emperor of Germany, and Edith his wife, portraits of whom ornament, or rather dis figure, the walls of the Sachrister. In one of the chapels, under great da:-k, frowning monu ments, lie the bones of Saxony's earlier kings. It is infinitely amusing to hcar the woman who shows the edifice go through with the role. She informs you that here lie the bones of "William the quarrelsome, now immortal in heaven" (a pol.te fiction always used here when speaking of kings, queens and princes who have shufed off the mortal coil), and here the bones of "Amntustus the one-eyed," and hore the bones of "Edith the red-haired," &c. These wretclies-g.-uides they are called-are in Eu rope a necessary evil! One is never permitted to go alone and look in peace and quietness. In another chapel, adorned by a lofty window of stained glass, and an altar piece of Albert Darer, is held the regular church service for the people of Meissen-at present Luthrrans. Of old though, Meissen was an Archbishopric and the Archbishops of Meissen were the leading prelates of Germany. The Castle, which stands side by side with the Cathedral, was formerly the residence of the Electors of Saxony and Margraves of Meis sen, ancestors of the present kings. - It is a huge stronghold in the style of the middle ages, 'and though built in A. D. 902, is still in almost per fect preservation. Now-a-days this feudal pile is the scene of the famous porcelain factory. Where chivalrous knights sat in olden times and related to courtly dames their achievements in Palestine, now sit pale work-day men and wo men and mould cups and saucers. Alas for ro mance in this ageof utility ! But proud days are yet coming for the Albrecht's Burg (so is the castle named), the Saxon parliament having made a large appropriation fur refitting and fur nishing it as the residence of Prince George, who is about to marry the Infanta of Portugal. The cups and saucers are to find a new scene of action. Upon the ground .floor is a large china shop in which are exhibited untold specimens of the work. This, it being like all other shops, you are allowed to look at gratis, but to see the work-rooms you must bring a ticket and be sad died with a guide. After the necessary cere monies and formalities (in Germany, the killing of 6 flea is attended with great form and cere mony,) you mount up long and weary flights of stairs and grope through dark and winding cor ridors until you reach the top of the huge build ing, "nd here are the rooms in which the clay is rubbed up. In another part it is formed and fashioned, in another painted and gilded; in another are the furnaces, and in still another goes on the moulding of flowers and figures as ornaments. The process seems almost endless. The manner of burning the ware is somewhat striking. The vessels are packed into boxes and these boxes are in turn packed into the furnace, after which the mouth or door is plastei ed over ; the fire is then.kindled and the intensest heat kept up for a stated number of hours. Not un til the third day after the fire is extinguished does the furnace become cool enough to be en tered. The flowers and ornaments for the com moner articles are made by means of moulds, and very gqnckly, brti .for the finer sets, Fith. therb iI'ioni, id iis last diservi t6iiik among the fine arts. Imagine every, tiny leaf and tendril fashioned by the patientq; oiling human hand. No one need wonder at thihigh price of elegant porcelain! Some small orna ments in the shop spoken of above, not larger than a tumbler, are priced, on account of the skill of the workmanship, at fifty, sixty and sev enty dollars. I never knew before where all our ornamental porcelain came from, but this is the place-and the exqnisite toilet articles and pretty trifles of all kinds now so fashionable. The painting is also done by regular artists ai& in these days they copy uponthe -cliina even the greatest master pieces. A set, intended as ..br.Idllprcsent~to the said Prince George, s.jut~fnished1, and upon the dinner plates are opied aUj the gems of the Dresden Gallery. After the vessels are taken from the furnace, they are painted, gilded and returned to be a second time burnt. They shrink so in burning, s to be a third smaller afterwards. Last of all, they must undergo the most tedious rubbing, filing and polishing. This is done by women, ihose sight is said to become prematurely im paired by it. The toil and labour in every de partment of this manufactory exceeds descrip tion. The establishment employs hundreds of men and women, and the two hundred rooms of the castle are barely sufficient space for its operations. Now I am going to tell ycu something right, ausing. It nay come under the head of per swnal exploits, and both good taste and modesity, am well awa'e, demand that all such should ~e kept in the back ground. IBut as neither modesty nor good taste are particularly in vogue now-a-days, I make the venture. Coming out of the Cathedral quite alone at ten A. M., I espied a woe begone looking elderly gentleman, seated upon a large stone, and bleeding fright fully at the nose. Ie being also alone, I ap proached him and desired to know if I could be of assistance. H~e understood not a syllable of what I said, and turned out to be an Ameri can from Illinois, utterly guiltless of the Ger man tongue. Ihis wife was in Dresden, too un well to venture forth, his daughter had'remiained behind with her mother, and he had the temeri ty to undertake this trip alone. He had called for Seltzer Water on the Steamer and was con vinced, from the refractory state of his inner man, that he had been poisoned, had left his walking stick, which he could not do without, on the deck, had fought two guides with tooth and nail, had paid ten prices fur a breakfast in the hotel below and ten more to the mied who brought him in a Sedan Chair to the top ot the hill, had finally been seized with a violent hem orrhage of the nose and was unable, for love or money, to get water. The history of his ti-ials and tribulations was sublime! I could but think of the." man that wvent down from Jeru salem to Jericho and fell among thieves, who stripped him of his raiments, 4," I of course coming in as the good Samaritan. In the mean time, an aged individual of the male sex and highly respestable exterior, came up and in an swer to my queries, informed me that his house was but ten steps off, and that he should die of wounded sympathy if we did not immediates ly enter it and avail ourselves of water and all else we might need. We were met upon the threshhold by the old lady, whose exclamations of welcome and commiseration were long and loud. The dwelling was highly comfortable and we coisidered oursel in luck. Illinois, Illinois, Illinois, yes that the name! This aged couple had a son in'.." erica-in Illinois. They produced letters fr.' him and Illinii proved to be really the Ste. They~ insi.ted upon thinking it a small wn, and that all Americans lived in it. T greeted us both as natives and residenti; o. linois, and, in con sideration of their. igno I.forgave them the base insinuation. W re invited to dine. The pleasure and honor 'd be so unspeaka ble-gentlemen from the in which lived their Karlchen (dear little - arley that means, but in the daguerreotype ked like a mas Lif)-gentlemjen who were high in the world to know their humble Ksr en, but who upon their re turn would seek o Karichen and in form him that they had b"en broad beneath the roof of his fond p "now almost in heaven." We allowed ou rves to be seduced and yielded without moreado to the dinner. The old women flew out ind in a few moments enwued the most frightful' motion among the feathered tribe. I tooki ..or granted that a wholesale massacre-a pe :e St. Bartholomew's day-was being perpetra among the poultry, and being already painfull ungry, set up my mouth with profund st' etion for chicken My somewhat recovered panion remarked to me in English, "we to have chicken." Between this time howev and dinner the cas tle was to be explored, t host attending us. I kept saying to myself-what a comfortable dinner we are to have and- without paying for it !" Quite a consideratio his last, in Germa ny, where one has to pay or trinking. Hear then what the dinner waij A dish of adanian tine Irish Potatoes and a 4 n with nudels. A hen of very recent and a den de:inise, but of the most remarkable anti' ty as.to years! A hen with flesh of sole I er and bones that had been for geuerations wiess ! I almost wept,.for I was ferociousl hungry and would have shed blood for a bit corn bread. But it was all so very kind and heartfelt of the old people! - Not to appear' ceedingly pleased would be an enormity.. looked as if I had just received intelligence being made heir to the Dorn Mine, and swal' wed my leg of the hen whole, expecting to di of it in the evening. Ever and anon from that to this, I have ex claimed with Hamlet Oh that this too solk' h would. melt." But in vain, The leg of t hen will go with me to my grave. One m' t as well think of digesting a horse shoe. unfortunate travel ler ate a wing and decla ,to me some hours after that it was fapping. ce of long-habit) within him. The nude 'a.* t o - ;__ih ~ idh'd a?a6 o an inch thick-looked instinct with life. I expec ted every moment to see them wriggle. By way of desert, the old man told his hi.tory and ended by pronouncing his wife' an angel. I looked at the old dame with spiteAid thought her a very economical angel.. As ie rose from the table, the host and hostess shiook us gy tlie hand, as is the custom of tip.doen1ry, and wished that the mweal ightbe blessed to us." Thio meapt,..p'eumne, that the hen might be spletifteto us as a chastening rod! But what boots it to spin out the tale? The old hypocrites made us pay for the ben and fo the pxtatoes and for the water and for the ref uge. And we wIre informed afterw.rds iI the town beolow that they were rich. I amn confi .dent tbey will never get to heaven, al though they represented themselves'as ahnost there. I will not say that the thought gives mue pleasure. The Illinois gentleman, in whose cup this last piece of chicanery was the drop too much, ut tered an energetic sentence which proper' people would object to seeing in print, and .declaredl his faith amnd confidence in G.ergianis " clean gone forever." - J. T. B. "NO SORROW LIKE MiN~'." " It seems so hard ! so cruel!" said the young mother, andi here a sob broke into her voice; she clasped her hands over her eyes, and the tears broke through her fingers--such salt, bit ter tears as could onily break up from a mother's heart-a motber robbed of her first born ! Two weeks'ago that very day he had been with her in the chamber where the young mother now sat in darkness and desolation, the little joyous head fluttering about the room, the little restless feet pattering along the 'foor, and the little glad voice breaking up in quick shouts of laughter, or lisping out those pretty broken words and entreaties which are such sweet mu sic to a mother's heart; and now-! There stood in the corner a little crib, with its pretty lace curtains, and over it hung the snowy apron and enmbroided merino dress he had last worn, and at the foot lay the little mo rocco slippers that the mother couldn't have removed from her sight, though the feet that had worn them now lay folded close together, and down so deep und1er the grass that no warnmth of thme sunshine could ever reach them. " Don't, Mary, don't ! It might have been worse. Renmemiber there are sorrows greater than yours," said the soft, pitying voice of Mrs. Howard, the lady's most intimate friend, who was passing the morning with her. The stricken woman looked up in incredulous astonishment, that checked for a moment the low of her tears. "HIow can you tell mue this, Helen !" she exclaimed, in a voice broken withI grief and wounded feeling ; "he was my only boy, my little harry, with but two years and fie months over his golden head ; and 1 loved him so; and then, 1 don't believe there ever was another quite so pretty and bright a child." "You know, too, how my very heart was bound up in him; 'how, if I ever ran out for an hour, I was never 'easy until I got back to him again; and how I used to stand and watch him after he'd got to sleep in the crib there, with one little chubby hand wrapped up like a lily under his cheek, and the smiles-crimping up) his red lip; anid then, just to think of his pretty, froicksome, teasing .way, that made me stop every other minute and hug him up to my heart, and cover his facee with kisses. Oh, Harry, my 'baby, miy precious baby ! shall I never see you again?7 Surely, Helen, there never was sorrow like unito my wrrow;" and the sobs broke out again. salemn tones checked the: tears of her friend. " I know of- a sorrow. vi th wlose bit terness yours bears no comparison, and it has come into our family, unto my. own and o- ly sister, for her pride, her ilol, her. .Ilerlrt is in prin P" " Oh, Helen !" cried Mr,. Sprag14, springing up from her chair while she lioked at the pale, working features of her friend, " how you hor rify me!" "I cannot talk of it, Mary, or it will drive me, as it has his mother, frantic. You saw hiin in his childhood, and can you remember what a beautiful promising boy he was; but he was impetuous, and fond of society, and all sorts of fun, and his mother was doting and indulgdnt ; and so be grew up to his seventeenth birthday, reckless and self-willed, though he was too kind Jearted to be ever malicious. "I must make my story short-be fell into bad company, and bad habits; and one night; when intoxicated, he was per.,uaded to join some incendiaries. The ringleaders were detec ted, and the boy was sentenced to a year in the penitentiary, which might have beei ten, only his youth plead hard with the kind-hearted Judge; and now lie lies down at night in a fel on's cell, while his poor broken-hearted mother paces her-rooni, with the tears streaming down her wasted cheeks as she inoians over and over these words: 'If he had died when lie was a baby! if lie had but died then P" And Mrs. Sprague listened to this story with mingled horror and sympathy, which made her forget her own. grief, and at its close she said solemnly: " Yes, lhelen, her sorrow is greater than mine. I had teii thousand times rather Harry had died than lived for this." And for you, oh, stricken mother, who have laid down, with such heart-aches as Cod best knoweth, the child of your love, do I write this history. There is a sorrow that is heavier than death's, the sorrow of sin and shame; and from this the little one, over whose bosoin i6set the green seal of the Summer grass, ii forever delivered. The child walks in that blessed country where no disgrace shall ever scar its soul or crimson its cheelk, and bitter as is the cup appointed you to drink, it will not bring to your soul that sting which sometimes caus:s a mother to cry out for her child: " Would he had died" Be comforted, you who have given up the sweet, fragrant blossoms of your lives to adorn the garden of your God. It may be, If your hands roll away the curtains of the future your, so that you could behold what awaited your beloved on earth, you would say : " It is better God had called thetm."-Arhur's Hime Maga:inc. +-- ga:.1 t I COLLEGE JOKE. One of the earliest Presidents -of Jefferson College, Penn., was the venerable Dr. M'Millan, a man of great gravity and dignity of manners, I In those early times it was customary for the students, wheni meeting 01o Presidput, to renuve I the hat front the hewd, jAncu It under the left t arm, make a profound bow, and pUsS the com- F pliments of the day. Among the students was Tom Dovoo, an ec- I centric fellow. His-lather was rich, and as Tomn was alsyays " flush of money," the height of his i .ambitijp .was to spOrt.a gold-headed cane and t gd k. b kOt'sbie daughters.. The term student, which ihe bore in common I with the other miembers of the college, was a i sad misiomer. Toni's mind ..was more deeph engrossed with backganmumon, 4lieekers, aid.'d sledge," than with hi's mathcmettiesr ind' he was more deeply rena 'in jh'1.-6ire of Chesterfield, 1 than in that.gfgfafrr and Virgil.' In fact,.he f ws &alpa) w-brained, lily-handed fop, and, as P mi be supposed, a great favorite with a certain I class of ladies who mistake impertinence 1 . wit, and line clothes and aleetedf manners for t refinement and solid accoinplishimetts. a But to our tale. Tom was one day walking ' down street arn in arm with his friend, John I Smith, who had a spice of the wag about iiimi. s Seeing the President a few paces before them, ! Tom havtily'inquired- I Smith, what is ' good-tuorning, sir,' in La- , til ?" S - 'iE:/ .qmt,/l/u,.(," was the reply, wit hout a ! moment's hesitation. I Meeting the P'residenmt, Tom, aifter the most I arpprovedl style: of dlonkeyism, at the~ same time a muaking a profdmtl sulaamn, greeted him with,-i " I am aware of it," res1,onded the President, makinig a slight how. I This provmtg rather nigsatisfactory, Tfom pos- . ted off to the room uof his-!riend Blyles, whott lie I i saluted with-t "Deacon, what is the translation of thi~s sen-| tence-' Egio suwm stunltu .'" I "lam afool!" responided the utnsopihistiented;t " deacon." -. ' I| This told the whole story. As ntovel wr'ters , y say, Tom's feelings mtay be'more easily imnaginmedt thanm dceribedl. Whether the studtentts bored him abtout it or not, amnd whether the professor's daughters ever heard ot' it or not, " depontent sayeth not," but history recordeth that the next flat-biottomned boat that went. down the Ohio 'bore '/in as a pas.tentger. . ExposiNG A PAasos.-A minister wvas one Sabbath examiinintg a suinday-schiool in catechism before the congregation. T'he usual question was put to th-i first girl, a strapper, who usually assistedl her father, who was a publican, in wait inug upon customers. " What is your name?" No reply. " What is your name ?" he repeated. "None of your fun, Mr. Minister," said the . girl; "youn know my name well enough. Don't1 you saty when you conie to our house on a night, 'Bet, bring me some more ale 1 " The congregation forgetting the sacredness of the place, were in a -broad grin, and The parson:, looked daggers.< The Maine Farmer states that a preminm was awarded at the State Fair at Augusta for a calf skin tanned by the use of a sweet fern,. The skin was tanned int one week, and had the look of the best French calf-skin. 'A pint of mustard seed, put 'in a barrel of cider, will pireserve it sweet for several months. I have drank Fall cider in the month oif May, ~which has been kept sweet hy this mieanis. When Mrs. Chapone was asked why she was so sgrupuiloums in cotming early to church, she replied: "~ Because it is nto hart of may religion to disturb the religion of others." There is a young mtana in this city who is so exceedingly bright that his'mother has to look at him through a smtoked glass. Whatever y~s may choose to give away, al ways be sure to keep your temper. Miss Wade, of Detroit, nineteen years of age, anid prepossessing, cut her throat for love of a tmarried baggage-master. Ihis miniature about her neck was steeped in her blood. The Albany Knickceroiker gives the following receipt to~ destroy flies: " Take a boarding-house -pie, cuit it into thin-slices, and lay it where the flies can have free access to it. In less than! fifteen minutes the whole of them will be dead jyih the eltolie." FARMERS AND TiEIR WIVES. Said a young person to a laly, who sat hold ing her chill, 4 Now, what gooad will.aIP your education do you ? You have spent so munch! rime in study, graduated with high honors, earned music and painting, and now only mar 'ied to a farmer. Why do you not teach school yr do something to beneflt the world, with your :alent, or, if you clooss to marry, why not take teacher, a clergyman, or some professional nan? BInt, as it is, you did not need so much earning for a rura life." The lady replied, " You do not look very far: nto tb fIture. Do you see this boy on my I ap ? I need all the study, alt the discipline, ,oth of mind anl body that I coild l possibly get, n order that I might train him ariglit. You see, I ave the fir'timpres~ion to makeon the fair blank >f his pure heart, and unless my mind was fir..t :ultivated, my own heart first purified, how ould I well perform the task now placed befori ne ? And be-ides, (10 yon not suppose that 'armers have hearts like other men, tastes just os pure, beeanse they guide the 110%w and i ill the soil ir their support ? Do y.u not I ;uppose their minds are just as su. ceptild.e of :ultivation and exp:nsion as other men ? Iave hey no love of the beautiful, of nature or art ? wannot good paintings be just as much admired in their walls as others, or does the evening jour never pas a; pleasantly with them, wheni .hoy gather around the piano after a day's labor s finished ? Ab, miy young friend, you have nade a sad mistake in your reckoning." Of all the occupations, give me that of a far ner. It is the most beautiful; his mind is reer from care, his sleep is sweeter, his treas tres safer. A farmer need not be the slave of My, for he has none to please but himzelf. Not o with almost any tradesnan, imechanic or pro essional man. They have more to do with the vorld at large, and havo all manner of persons o deal with, so that they have need of the pa- I ience of Job to live. They are well awai-e lint they must not freely speak their minds at 11 times, that if they do they will lose custom; or they depend on the people for a living; they re the servants of all. Then what can be de ired more; what is more peaceful, prosperous onest, healthful and happy than a farmer's ife?-Mooro's Rqral Now Yorker. Tus GOon WIFE wuo FoUND "GOOD IN EVERY- I 'HIN."-A fariner was once blessed with a i food-natured, contented wife ; but it not being I n the nature of men to lie satisfied, lie one day aid to a neighbor, he really wished he conlil ear his wife scold once, for the novelty of tho I hing. Whereupon his sympathising ieighbor I dvised him to go to the woods an get aI' load I if crooked sticks, which wui oerstanly make i er cross as he ould desire, Accordin-ly the I prer ollected 4 loa4d of the most illslaped, rooked, proteheted uiaterials that were'ever I mitown itider the name of fuel, This ho deposi. t od In its place, taking care that his spouse t hould. have access to no other wjod. Day after lay passed without a complaint. At length the ile was consumed. " Well, wife," said the farner, "11 am going I fler more wood : Il'Il get another load just such s I got last tini." a ."Oh, yes, Jacob,"'. ah'replied, "it will lie so ice if you will.; for such crooked, crotchety ood as yoit.brought before doas lie around the t ot dl nicely," t C:RiXG IIAm.-A corre.spondent, Mr. Win. a . Bhemiett, of Warwick, R. I., sends us the llowing description of a method practiced with reat success by him fur several years in curing ama; ' lie first. takes the cask in which the hans are t o be salted, and smokes it for hailf an hour over low fire made wit'h walnut cbip<. le then akes a pickle for two hundred piinds of ham -a y disiolving fnrteei pounds of Turk's I4and dt., half a pound of saltpeter, and two quarLs f molasses in sufliciant wAiter to cover the meat lien placed in the barrel. This pickle is kimned while the salt is being dissolvedi at a ealding heat. When co led down this brine is ored upon the hamais ina the barrel, and thley' [ re allowed to lay in it unatil they are saltedl. 'hey are then lifted ont, hung up to dry', and e afterwvards rubbed over with a coimpo.,itionl 7 f fine salt, black and red pep~per, and some Il roundecloves. Whenthaisoperation ispterformed, hey are sewe.i in bags, and hung up with shanks ownwards. A dry, cool atic chamber is the est place to keep themt. Haims thusz preserved I ave a very excellenit flavor. and do not reuire I a go through the smokin:: process. The simple smoking of the cask will have the r fet of coiamuacating a amild, smoky savor to he meat. Of this we are conafident, because i re have seen it done, and can endorse Mr. Ben- - ett's experience in regard to this feature of he prolcess. We believe his process is a good Forn Hexcnnti~i Do..as A Lix.-Thie leaf of L albumia on which Lord livron had written four ines of.poetry, was reenit!y'sold at \'enice, Italy, aid a Rtussiaan noblemn gave Sl,aitn) for it. A Biastona paper says that a Yankee has in etedl :an eighat < ay clock that rains sixteen dazys i~thout windaing or stoappinig, and. gives two uiarts of milk per day I its value could not be alulated, i. it only c-huarned its own mailk, and vould stop ticking during family prayers. A Goon Ra.-rowr.-Soon after Whiitealeklanded n Boston, on his second visit to this country, lie Lmd Dr. Chauncey mnetin the street, and, touching heir hats with courteous digniiy, b.wedl each to he other. "So you have returaned, Dr. Whitefield,1 ae you ?" He replied, " Yes, Reverend Sir, ian le service of the Lord." "1 am sorry to hear it," aid Chauneey. ".So is the Devil I" was the an wergiven, as the t wo divines, steppinagaside atma histance from each -other, touched their hats and assed ona. - TnaE Reaso Win.-A small lad asked pgt-ms ion of his mother to go to a ball. She told him t was a bad plaice for little boys. SWhy, maother, didn't you and father used to go o'balls when you was younag ?" "Yes, but we have seen tlhefbly5 ofif," answer i the -mother. "i Well, miother,"' exclaimed the son, " I waant see the fblly of it, too." A Sunwrat Misrnxme.-Theo hardest rap the irits have received for some time is the very neonierate arrival home in New Bedford, last veek, of a young man who was believed to liave seen lost in thme wrecked barke Wake, ten years go. For a long while his afflicted "governor" aad been conversing with himi, in the spiarit lanad, be last mecsbage, through a medium, being to, :he ehlfect that " he was amnonag the s.ints and a :rown of glory was awaiting his father !" WILD PaoPLE.-In Lancaster, Pa., a thing ike a inan, but hairy as a bear, has bcen acen ~requntly by the peopale. It is very- wild amid trong. It wa<a seena ini a c..w pena, asuc.kmag thec ouws, anal when discovered it start ed a if about .u fight thenm turned and lled11 boundmlag like a leer. It. walks upright and is supposaed to be a wild mani. The Society for the Regeneration of Morals is at present engaged in endewioring to per.-uade ca.,.nillar not to cat cabbaftes. From tho Louisville (Ky..) Courier, Nor. 11. 'ElIalBLE TIR.AGEDY 11 7fA.L OR COFiSF. li.--. ' TWO MEN 1UNG BY A 10!B! A pole and attentivecorrespondent at Catnp >ellsville furnish.e us with the hitelligence of )ime (if the mort terrible tragedlies thnt lias ivr .ran-~pired in Kentucky. I t is anuother' aned prin 'ul evidence of the growing pr-valence of tifo nob spirit. On Weilne,day morning, the 10th nst., about fifty men ewlercted inl Camphell-rille, - Ae eat of ju-tice of Taylor c'unty, and pro .eeded to Green-sburg, inl -he'adjoiniUng county. )n the way they were jioinied by a amunber of erions, sit that when they reached Greensburg, ue party numinberel folly two hundred lrjpns Lbey proceeded deliberately to the j-iil,.broke >pen tlie door, and toik out Mr. S. 'jiftpiompn, swan l)e-pautin, and George Ilinntei-, who are :harged with the iturder of Hleniry Symp..on, Lhsuit eighteenl IuionthLs since. The pri'ner - rere then conveyIed to CatnpubeulAille, where he subseqitent ev..nts in the tragedy ovenrird. Arriving there, Th11omp fil and[ Ie.-pain 0-ere mimediately hiting on an el Iree in the vizini y of the semnina.1y of the iownt. 1he1. nob) tiben ttacked the Caiplbell'ville jail anjl o'tnind fLke', a negro I man belonging to the e.,tate t he murdered Synp-on. At thi.s jnncture, liunter, one of Le murder rs, (oimni1enced naking a confession of the crime. io implica .ed six other persons as participants in the cold >looded murder. These ate Jerry Staggs, flen -y Staggs, Riebard Staggs, Join UnderwoJd Loyd McDaniel, and John BIrtie. The hii ter s a suit-in-law of Sympson. Being present he - ras arrested. Hunter and the negro Zeke - vere returned to the jail, and the party pro !eeded in quest of tbe other per ons charged. t was their intention to take suninary rexenge ipon these. Elias Skaggs, when the Greensburg jail was >pened, committed suicide by cutting his throat. -e wa, evidently aware of the intention of the nob, and preferr.-d self-deutructiun to an execu ion by their hals. Onr readers will remember that Henry Synp ;on. a wealthy farner, was nurdered and robbed year and a half ago. Mmr..%tcuoix AcitneSv.-It devolves upon s 4) record a serious and faldi accident that c -- :urred to the train of the Laurens Railroad, j'udt s it left the Depot at'this place on yesterday nornin-g. Ve were an eve witness to the occur -enee and can speak positively about the matter. Lhe Greenville train had gone over one quarter - af a mile when the Laurens train followed. The atter train had proceeded iot more than one' nindred and fifty yards from the depot to the niddle of the li'gh embankment beyond, when mn explosion took place just at the dome of thi miler, hurling the dome at least-iseventy-fiv 'eut in the air and let tiig it fall about -fifty yards 'om the embankment, upon the-top of which, he ears itodd. None of the passengers sustained he slightest damage. At the time of the acei lent there were upon th. engine the engineri Ir. Nieson; two colored firemen, George gpd. Villiam, free negroe.s; and on's train hind6 Jin - >elonging t' Dr. -Simps6n, of Laurens.' Mr. iieson was knocked down between'the erge ail tender aud looked to ill appearanecs:.dd ic revived, however, and upon exmuination, it; ras found that he had sustained a severe frac ure of the skull, was otherwise badly cut aboit lie face and received . some serioits 1bruises. "eorge was badly ent upon his forehead, legs, rms and hands and pretty badly scalded. Jim vas covered tip iu the wreck and found breath ess. Although lie was regarded as simply stunned, ie expired about three-quarters of an hour after he accident happentd. William escaped with slight cut upon one of his temples. We stop the press to announce that Mr. Nie on died at 3} ('clock this morning. We are uforned that George is doing better; but will n all probsbility be bMind in one or both eyes. ewberry Couservatist, lthh inet. No-rten To Pos-rmms-rrja.-The law and the istruciti)nis of the Pst Offi.ce )epartment im. eruatavely r ca-ire that the postage on all tran ientt primnted mastter sh~all be pugn.o~I 1ig postage ams and that .sneh matte'r b~e dis.'inctly post klat thes mintiing :ffire. A praict ice has also ecome common, amtonig a certain clatss of post msters, of buit inig a patronage to their respec ive offices, to the injury of those naturally en itled to it., hy allowing to the mailhng party-a ortion of thae.ir own commuision on the legal ' instage. We are reqnested to say that hereafter any seglect on i le part of a patasater to obey the bove instructioans, or anuy sneh iufitir practice ur obtaining patron~age, will be considered by lie department gout caese for' the reoral of thea f~Iede.---Wask. Unsioni. Err isc Sr..m'us.-Three free colored persons mere tried and' convicted last week iui the Circuit ~onrt for Fre'lerick county, Mal., of' the crime. of nt icing slaves to run away I rom their ma~ster. Lhe Cit izeni says: They wvere asnteniced hy the Conirt in accor lance'with a law recently p.as.sed by the Legishi un, to be stah lint of the State as slaives for life. I'he proceedals of' sale to be aipplied-dirst,. to -ost of prosentiotn ; secondly, to indemntiify the niasters of the t'unaw'ays for'their .lass; ani1 the )alanc'e, if' anay, to be given. to the famnilies of the :ouiited pairties. Poi~rrren. OmrNoss iN MAssACIILsmTs.. rho Bostont Cemrier says thuat, at a laite election ni Massachtusetts. nearly one half of the quali led editors of that State did not vote. The Phliladealphia Xr'h Anmerican (Rep). considers it "cturions circumstance that over one hundred thouandI voters should have remained away r'om the polls" anid thtink.- thbe fact indicates the ~xistence in Massachtusetts of a conservative hinss opposed to sectional agitation, that hasof' ate refrained event from voting. The samq paper tays that the Riocelae%-r .epeech of Mr. Seward aust have hlt his party some tive thousand. nites at least, in New York. T 'be late news about the Paris "iFab.ions"' is omtewhat .ttling. Fat is the rage. Ladies niltivate it. 'They aro dlevonuring v'ast quanti ies or' butter', malLhied ros~e keaves, and suchlike. I'he Empress is quirte corp~ulenit, which accounts er the style. Tne fashaiont will he here before ..ng. We hail it ,with 'joy ." A niew' era is lawing. Onr iis w ill staop eating slate pen ylls and chalk. and rouninence. p:,rtaking liberal y of roast beef and baked beans. They will axer'cie. They will try on the wash-tub, perhaps. .A lazy loafer in Olumnbia, Califormia, in Au. ;iist last. hado to go to work or starve, so he took Spick and-shovel anid went to digging for goll tiu a mile or so of' townt. F~or -two days lie made lothing scarcely, but ott the third day he dug up - x lunp of gold ntearly pnare, which weighed '72 pountds. lie was paid $14,000 for it by a bank lng firm. An Angusta, Me., paper tells a story about a latce bet ween a chap named Snellings and a Rac'kenisack gal, called Big Sis. They danced 17 honrs and f57 mnmutes, when Big Sis caved, ta took a sea'ut in 'the chimntey corner, fanning herself with the bread tray. In all the wedding cake, hope $ the sweetest