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Early in the spring of 1807, this child, upcn whom such destnes were depenaing, then five years of age, was seized suddenly and violent ly with the croup, and in a few hours died. The blow fell upon the heart of Josephine with most appalling power. Deep as was her grief at the loss of the child, she was over whelmed with uncontrollable anguish in view of those fearful consequences, which she shad dered to contemplate. She knew that Napo leon loved her fondly. But she also knew the strength of his ambition, and that he would make any sacrifice of his affections, which, in his view, would subserve the interests of his power and his glory. For three days she shut herself up in her rcom, and was continually bathed in tears. The sad intelligence was conveyed to Napo leon, when he was far from home, in the midst of the Prussian campaign. He had been victorious-almost miraculously victo rious-over his enemies. He had gained ac cessions of power, such as in the wildest dreams of youth he had hardly imagined. All opposition to his sway was now apparent ly crushed. Napoleon had become the Crea tor of Kings, and the proudest monarchs of Europe were constrained to do his bidding. It was in an hour of ex'ltation that the mourn ful tidings reached him. He sat down in silence, buried his face in his hands, and for a long time seenied lost in the most painful musings.. He was heard mournfully and anxious'y to repeat to himself, again and again. "To whom shall I leave all this ?" The struggle in his mind between his love for Josephine, and his ambitious desire to found a new dynasty, and to transmit his name and fame to all posterity, was fearful. It was manifest in his pallid cheek, in his restless eye, in tb loss of appetite and of sleep. But the stern will of Bonaparte was unrelenting in its purposes. With an energy, which the world has never seen surpassed, he had cho sen his part. It was the purpose of his soul -the lofty purpose before which everything had to bend-to acquire the glory of making France the most illustrious, powerful and hap py nation earth had ever seen. F.or this he was ready to sacri6ce comfort, ease, and his sense of right. For this he was ready to sun der the stronvest ties of affection. Josephine Tnew Napoleon. She knew the -power,of.his ambiti ,Withjalmostinsup portabile aiguish, she' wept over the death of this child, upon whose destinies her own seemed to be so fearfully blended, and, with a trembling heart, she awaited her husband's return. %lysterious hints began to fill the journals of the contemplated divorce, and of the alliance of Napoleon with various princes ses of foreign courts. In October, 1809, Napoleon returned from Vienna. He greeted Josephine with the greatest kindness, but she soon perceived that his mind was ill at ease, and that he was pondering the dreadful ques tion. He appeared sad and embarrassed. He had frequent private interviews with his min isters. A general feeling of constraint perva ded the court. Napoleon scarcely ventured to look upon his wife, as if apprehensive that the very sight of one he had loved so well, might cause him to waver his firm purpose. Josephine was in a state of the most feverish solicitude, and yet was compelled to appear calm and unconstrained. As she had only some forebodings of her impending doom. She watched, with most excited apprehension, every movement of the Emperor's eye, every intonation of his voice, every sentiment he ut tered. Each day some new and trivial indi cation confirmed her fears. Her husband became more reserved ; absented himself from her society ; the private access between their apartments was closed; he now seldom en tered her room, and whenever he did so he invariably knocked. And yet not one word was passed between him and Josephine upon the fearful subject. WVhenever Josephine heard the sound of his approaching footsteps the fear that he was coming with the terrible announcement of separation, immediately caused such violent palpitation of the heart, that it was with the utmost difficulty that she could totter across the floor, even when sup porting herself by leaning against the walls, and eatching at the articles of furniture. The months of October and November pass. ed away, and while the Emperor was discuss ing with his cabinet the alliance into which he should enter, he hadI not summoned courage to break tha subject to Josephine. The evi dence is indubitable that he experienced in tense anguish in view of the separation ; but this did not afluence his iron will to swerve from its purpose. The grandeur of his fame, and the magnitude of his power was now such, that there was not a royal family in Europe which would not have felt honoured in confer ring upon him a bride. It was at first con tem pated that he should marry some princess of te Bourdon family, and thus add to the stability of his throne, by Conciliating to the royalists of France. A prinevsi of Saxony was proposed. Some weighty, considerations urged an alliance with the majestic empire of Russia, and some advances were made to the court of St. Petersburg, having in view a sis ter of the Emperor Alexander. It was at length decided that proposals should be made to the court of Vienna, for Maria Louise, daughter of the Emperor of Austria. At last the fatal day arrived for the an nouncement to Josephine. It was the Inst day of November, 1809. The Emperor and Empress dined at Fontainbleu alone. She seems to have had a presentiment that her doom was sealed, for all that day she had been in her retired apartment weeping bitterly. As the dinner hour approached, she bathed her swollen eyes, and tried to regain comapo sure. They sat down at the table in silenice. Napoleon did not speak. Josephine could not trust her voice to utter a word. Neither of them even feigned to eat. Course after course was brought in and removed untouch ed. A mortal paleness revealed the anguish of each hear t. Napoleon, in his embarrass ment, mechanically, and apparently uncon scioualy kept striking the edge of his glass with his knife, while lost in thought. A more melancholy meal was probably never wit nessed. T he attendants around the table caught the infection, and gazed in motionless silence. At last the ceremony of dinner was over, the attendants were dismissed, and Na. poleon and Josephine wer.: alone. Another moment of most painful silence ensued, wheL the Emperor, pale as death, and trembling i every nerve, arose, and approached Josephine He took her hand, and, placing it upon his heart, said : " Josephine ! my own good Josephine! you know how I have loved you. It is to you alone that I owe the few moments of happiness I have known in this world. Josephine imy destiny is stronger than my will. M1y dearest a.ffections must yield to the interests o0 France I" Josephine's brain reeled ; her blood ceased the floor. Napoleon, alarmed, threw open the door of the saloon. and called for help. At tendants from the 'ante-room immediately en tered. Napoleon took a taper from the mantel, and, uttering not a word, but pale and trembling, motione to the Count de Beau. mont to take the Empress in his arms. She was still unconscious of everything, but began to murmur, in tones of anguish, " Oh, no! you cannot surely do it. You would not kill me." The Emperor led the way through a dark passage to the private staircase which con ducted to the apartment of the Empress. The agitation of Napoleon seemed now to increase. He uttered some incoherent sentences about a violent nervous attack; and finding the stairs too steep and narrow for the Count de Beaumont to bear the body of the helpless Josephine unassisted, he gave the light to an attendant, and supporting her limbs himself, they reached the door of her bed-room. Na poleon, then dismissing his male attendants, and laying Josephine upon her bed, rang for the waiting-women. He hung over her with an expression of the most intense affection and anxiety, until she began to revive. But the moment consciousness seemed returning he left the room. Napoleon did not even throw himself upon his bed that night. He paced the floor until the dawn of the morning. The royal surgeon, Corvisart, passed the night at the bedside of the Empress. Every hour the restless, yet unrelenting Emperor, called at her door to inquire concerning her situation. "On recovering from my swoon," says Josephine, "I perceived that Corvisart was in attendance, and my poor daughter, Hor tense, weeping over me. No! no! I cannot describe the horror of my situation during that night. Even the interest he affected to make in my sufferings, seemed to me addi tional cruelty. How much reason had I to dread becoming an Empress I" A fortnight now passed away, during which Napoleon and Josephine saw but little of each other. During this time there occurred the anniversary of the coronation, and of the vic tory of Austerlitz. Paris was filled with :e joicing. The bells rang their merriest peals. The metropolis was refulgent with illumina tions. 'In these festivities Josephine was compelled to- appear. She knew that the sovereigns and princes then assembled in Paris were informed of her approaching dis grace. In all these sounds of triumph she heard but the knell of her own doom. And though a careful observer, in her moistened eye and her pallid cheek, would have observed indications of the secret woe which was con sumiing her heart, her habitual affability and grace never in public for one moment forsook her. Iortense, languid and sorrow stricken, was with her mother. Eugene was also suni moned from Italy by the melancholy dr.ty attending the divorce. His first interview was with his mother. From the saloon he went directly to the cabinet of Napoleon, and inquired of the Emperor if he had decided the question of a divorce from his mother. Napoleon, who was most strongly attached to Eugene, made no reply, but pressed his hand as an expression that it was so. Eugene 'whdreh -ada siS "Sire! in that case, permit me to withdraw from your service." " How," exclaimed Napoleon, sadly, " will you, Eugene, my adopted son, leave me ?" " Yes, sire," Eugene firmly replied. " The son of her who is no longer Empress cannot remain Vice-roy. I will follow my mother into her retreat. She must now find her con solation in her children." Napoleon was not without feelings. Tears filled his eyes. In a mournful voice, tremu lous with emotion he replied: " Eugene, you know 'the stern necessity which compels this measure. And will you forsake me? Who then-should I have a son, the object of my desires, and preserver of my interests-who woiud watc'h over the child when I am absent? If 1 die, who will prove to him a fiher? Who will bring him up ? Who is to make a man of him?" Eugene was deeply affected, and taking Napoleon's arm, tbey retired and conversed a long time together. The noble Josephine, ever sacrificing her own feelings to iromlote the happiness of others, urged hecr son to re main the friend of Napoleon. " The Empe ror," she said, "is your benefactor-your more than father, to whom you are indebted for everything, and to whom, therefore, you owe a boundless obedience." The fatal day for the consummation of the divorce at length arrived. It wns the fif teeth of December, eighteen hundred and nine. Napoleon had assembled all the kings, princes, and princesses who were members of the Imperial family, and also the most illus trious officers of the Empire in the grand sa loon of the Tuilleries. Every individual pre sent was oppressedl with the melancholy gran. deur of the occasion. Napoleon then addressed them : The political interests of my monarchy, the wishes of my people, which have constantly guided my actions, require that I should trans mit to an heir inheriting my love for the peo ple the throne on which Providence has placed rme. For many years I hr.ve lost all hopes of having children by amy beloved spouse, the Empress Josephine. It is this consideration which induces me to sacrifice the sweetest affections c-f my heart, to consult only the good of my subjects, and desire the dissolu dion of our marriage. Arrived at the age of forty years, I may indulge a reasonable hAope of living long enough to rear, in the spirit of my own thoughts and disposition, the children with which it may please l'rovidence to bless me. G;od know,. what such a determination has cost my heart;i but there is no sacrifice which is above my courage when it is proved to be the interests of France. Far from hav ing any cause of complaint I have nothing to say, but in praise of the attachment and ten derness of umy heloved wife. She has embel lishied fifteen years of my life, and the remembrance of them will be forever en graven on my heart. She was crowned by my hand. She shall retain always the rank and title of Empress. Above all, let her never doubt my feelings, or regard me but as her best and dearest friend." Josephine, her eyes filled with tears, with a faltering voice, rep~lied: "I respond to all the sentiments of the Emperor, in consenting to the dissolution of a marriage which henceforth is an obstacle to the happiness of France, by depriving it of the blessing of being one day governed by the descendants of that great man, evidently raised up by Providence to efface the evils of a terrible revolution, and to restore thi! altar, the thronie, and social order. But his mar riage will, in no respect, change thesentiments of may heart. The Emperor will ever find in me his best friend. I know what this act, commanded by policy nd exalted inter-ests, has cost his heart ; but we both glory in the sacrifices we make for the good of our coun try. I feel elevated in givng the greatest proof of attachment and devotion that was ever given upon earth."' Such were the sentiments which were ex pressed in public. But in private Josephine surrendered herself to the unrestrained do. minion of her anguish. No language ecan depict the intenstity of her woe. I' or six months she wept so inceessanitly that her eyes gere nearly blinded with grief. Upon the ensuing day the council were again assen bled in the grand saloan, to witness the legal consummation of the divorce. The Emperor entered the room -dressed in the imposing robes of state, but pallid, careworn and wretch ed. Low tones of voice, harmonizing with Leme mournful scne, filled the rvmm. Narn leon, apart by himself, leaned against a pillar, folded his arms upon his breast, and in perfect silence, apparently lost in gloomy thought, remained motionless as a statue. A circular table was placed in the centre of the apart ment, and upon this there vas a writing ap paratus of gold. A vacant arm-chair stood before the table. Never did a multitude gaze ubon the scaffold, the block, or the guillotine, with more awe than the assembled lords and ladies in this gorgeous saloon contemplated these instruments of a more dreadful execu tion. At length the mournful silence was inter rupted by the opening of a side door, and the entrance of Josephine. The pallor of death was upon her brow, and the submission of despair nerved her into a temporary calmness. She was leaning upon the arm of Hortense, who, not possessing the fortitude of her moth er, was entirely unable to concrol her feelings, but immediately upon entering the room, burst into tears, and continued sobbing most convulsively. The whole assembly rose upon the entrance of Josephine; all were moved to tears. With that grace which ever distin guished her movements, she advanced silently to the seat provided for her. Sitting down, and leaning her forehead upon her hand, she listened to the reading of the act of separati Nothing disturbed the silenc. ,. . acene but thesobbings of Hortense, blending with the mournful tones of the reader's voice. Eugene, in the meantime, had taken a posi tion by his mother's side. Silent tears were trickling down the cheeks of the Empress. As soon as the reading of the act of sepa ration was finished, Josephine fbr a moment pressed her handkerchief to her weeping eyes, and then rising, in clear and musical, but tremulous tones, pronounced the oaths of ac ceptance. She then sat down. took the pen and affixed her signature to the deed which sundered the dearest hopes and the 'fondest ties which human hearts can feel. Poor Eu gene could endure this language no longer. Ilis brain reeled, his heart ceased to beat, and he fell lifeless upon the floor. Josephine and Hortense retired with the attendants, who bore out the insensible form of the affection ate son and brother. -It was a fitting termi nation of this mournful but sublime tragedy. But the anguish of the day was not yet over. Josephine, half delirious with grief, had an other scene still more'painful to pass through, in taking a final adieu of him who had been her husband. 'Josephine remained in her chamber in heart-rending, speechless grief, un til the hour in which Napoleon usually retired for the night. The Emperor, restless and wretched, had just placed himself in the bed from which he had ejected his most faithful and devoted wife, and the attendant was on the point of leaving the room when the private door of his apartment was slowly opened, and Josephine trembliugly entered. Her eyes were swollen with grief; her hair dishevelled, and she appeared in all the dishabille of un uterable anguish. She tottered into ihe mid dle of the room, and approached the bed-then irresolutely stopping, she burst into a flood of tears. A feeling of delicacy seemed for a sciousness that now she had no right to enter the chamber of Napoleon-but in another moment all the pentup love of her heart burst forth, and forgetting everything, she threw herself upon the bed, clasped her arms around Napoleon's neck, and exclaiming, "My hus band I my husband !" sobbed as though her heart were breaking. The imperial spirit of Napoleon was for the moment entirely van qushed, and he also wept almost convulsively. He assured Josephine of his love, of ardent and undying love. In every way he tried to soothe and comfort her, and for some time they remained locked in each others embrace. The attendant was dismissed, and for an hour they continued in this last private interview. Josephine, then in the experience of an an guish which few hearts have ever known, parted from the husband whom she had so long, so fondly, and so fiithfully loved. The beautiful palace of Malnmaison, which Napoleon had embellished with every possib~le aturaction, and where the Emperor and Em press had passed, many of their happiest hours, was assigned to Josephine for the future resi dence. Napoleon also settled upon her a jointure of about six hundred thousand dollars a year. She was also still to retain the title and the rank of Empress Queen. The ensuing day, at eleven o'clock, all the household of the 'Tuilleries were assembled upon the grand staircase, and in the vestibule, to witness the departure of their beloved mis tress from scenes where she had so long been the brightest ornament. Josephine descen ded, veiled from head to foot. Her emotions were too deep for utterance, and she waived an adieu to the affectionate and weeping friends who surrounded her. A close carriage, with six horses, was before the door. She entered it, sank back upon the cushions, bu ried her face in her handkerchief, and left the Tuilleries forever. Professional Gentlemen. What asses most parents are. From some unaccountable cause, they all wish to have their boys become either Patrick Henrys or Blackstones, orators or lawyers; and yet, of all drugs, eloquence and law are probably the most unprofitable. Out of the thousand attorneys ground out annually, scarcely a dozen reach any eminence whatever-while the remaining 988 scarcely make even their board bills. In this city, for instance, out of the five or six hundred lawyerq that hang out their shingles, only some eight or ten are ever heard of outside of their own oflices. And yet the profession is "so genteel" that foolish old fathers and pride-stuffed mammas would actually prefer having their sons starve and mould in this business than become use ful and wealthy in any other. The idea that these "sucking Ciceros'' should ever descend, or rather ascend, to " toil and hard hands," is so perfectly pre posterous that one would run some risk of tasting leather, if he should even think of hinting it. Labor is considered vulgar-to work is ungenteel; the jackplance is consid ered less genteel than the lawyer's green bag -the handlo of the plow less dignified than the yard-stick. Unfortunate infatuation!i Not dignified'? There Is no calling under heaven half so ennobling as that of the far mer. The patriarch of the field, as he sits beside the cottage door when his daily toil is over, feels an inward calm never known in the halls of pride or the Court of Appeals. Where else can we look but to the produc tions of the soil for safety of investment and for an ample return ? In commercial specu lations all is chance and uncertainty, change and fluctuation, rise and fall. In mercantile life scarcely one in ten can avoid even bank ruptcy. Unt~vith the tiller of the soil how different. As long as God is good and Na ture punctual, so long is he insured a life of plenty, happiness and health.-Albany (N. Y.) Knickerbocker. ToMATOES IN A Nxw FAsuro.-As the tomato season will soon be here, the follow ing method for preparing them for the table, we ar-e assured by one who has made the cx perimnent, is superiol to anything yet dis covered for the preparation of that excellent article. Take good ripe tomatoes, cut them in slices, and sprinkle over them finely pul verized whito sugar, then add claret wine suflicient to cover them. Tomatoes are some times prepared in this way with diluted vine gar, but the claret wine imparts to them a richer and more pleasant flavor, more nearly rmbling the strawberry than anything HUMOUROUS PARAGRAPHS. " Laugh and grow fat." ?a" I wish the ladies had the privilege of voting," said a politician the other day. "Why, -said a bystander, "do you think your party would gain any strength there by 7" " Not particularly that," was the reply, "but it would be interesting to electioneer with them." ?g'One of the best reasons yet heard for dis-union, is related by a fellow who went to call on the President. He said he waited four hours, and could not get to see him. " And I concluded," said he, " that if he was so busy as that, one President was not enough to attend to the affairs of this Republic, and we had better have another." Z3"A punster observing a gentleman folding some bank bills, remarked, "You must be in excellent business, as I see you double your money very easily." 3|' A few days since a barber offered a reward of $10 for the best receipt for " in stantly removing superfluous hair." Among ..te answers was one forwarded by a gentle man, who speaks from experience. We give it-" Undertake to kiss a spunky woman against her will." Z : A sailor got thrown from a rail road car, recently, on one of the Eastern roads. When they called to see what he would de mand for damages, he said he tl.*ught that a& might be worth a dollar a foot, 'r.,. .. less ; and he thought the distance he was pitched was about fifteen feet. Hie was accordingly willing to take fifteen dollars, or he would wait until the distance was measured, and abide the result. They paid him. Lg="I say, Germany, hev yer got any saddles for dogs?" Now Young America, no doubt, expected Hans to land a stick of wood in the immediate vicinity of tihu door; but no. Looking up from his work, quite com posedly, he replied, "Yaw! come in and try von-on !" Young America sloped. jp|"" A witty rogue, brought before a Parisian tribunal for a drunken riot one day, assured the Court that he was not a drunk ard, but being itten, when a child, by a mad dog, he ever since had a horror of water. Z : A Patlander being asked whether he did not frequently converse with his friend, Jimmy, in Irish ? replied, " No, indade. Jimmy often spakes to me in Irish, but I always answer him in English." "Why so?" " Och, honey, don't you see, bekase I don't want Jimmy. to know that I understand Irish." Iri" "Jeff, why am yon like de cedar ?" " I guys it up, Sam; can't tell you." "Case you stay green both summer and wintp"' 3"' Why is a weathercock like a Because it is constantly going round, n thing. "IIave you read my last sp' said an orator to a friend. "I hope so," was the relly. S& Why are children like oats? I they are cradled before they are thra I |" "Some people," said a red-nc dividual, haranguing three or four byst "waste their money in charity, other: der theirs in supporting wives and fannes but as for me, 1 save mine to buy spirits." f&Indiana law requires a year's resi donce in that state before a divorce can be procured. "One who knows," assures us that the remedy is wocse than the dizease ! MrThe following dialogue passed, a short time since, before court in Eiogland, between a medical witness and a lawyer. Lawyer.-If a person, lying on wet silaw, were dleprived of all the comiforkts ad neces saries of' life would it. not hasten deaith ? Dr'. -That would greatly depend on whether he had previously beeni accustomed to themn. Lawyer.-D~o you mean to tell us thmt if a person lived in a horsc-pond- it would not be injurious to him? U)ou:or..-1 thiuk not, if ho had lived for siecty or seventy years in it." gg What is that which ever~y one can divide, but no one can see where it has been divided? Water. gr A negro once gave this toast: " De late (Unbernor ob. de State-he conme in widl berry little opposition, hinm go out wid none at all." grA miser died once, and the gods be ing puzzled as to what punishmnut was adle quate for so depraved a c:haracter, Momnus the god of mirth, said: " The best punish ment for such a wretch, is to send him back to the earth, and let himt see what use his heirs are making of his riches!'' & "'r.ove :M: LrrT.E : .ova .ME LoNc. -A tall Western girl named Short, long! lovedl a certain big Mr. Little; while Little, liltje thinkinig of Short, loved a Uillh lass named Long. To make a lony story short, Little proposed to Long, and Short Ioniyud to be even with Little's shkort-coingus. .So Short, meeting Long, theattened to marry Little be fore long, which caused Little, in a short time, to marry Long. - QUEaR.--Did tall Short love big Little less, because big -Little loved little Long ? pg" "Miss Brown, I have been to learn how to tell fortunes," said a young man to a brisk brunette, "dJust give mne your hand, if you please." "La, Mri. Wrhito, how sudden you are ! WVell, go ask pa." gg In one of our 'Western villages, the editor of the local newspaper had a room at the hotel. Being absent one rIght, and the house being crowded, the landlord put a stranger in his bed. Th~e imnpertinent ingrati tude of the fellow was manifested next mnor ning by the following lines found in the room:. "I slept in an editor's bed last niight, And others may say what they islense: I say there's one editor in the world That certainly takes his ease. When I thought of my humble cot, away, I could not suppress a sigh, But thought, as I rolled in the feathery nest flow easay editors lie!i Z&" A gallant old Scottish officer was nar rating the unfortunate history of' an early friend, who had just been jilted by a fickle beauty of that age, in favor of the Duke of A--, and he concluded the story thtus, in a tone of ranch emotion: " Poor fellow, he never got over it ; no, sir, it was the dertht of him ;" and then, after a pause of much pathos, with a faltering voice, he added, He did not live above fifteen years after it." $' A Juryman begging to be excused from attendance at court, on the ground of deafness, the judge said, " Why, you can hear me speak." " That's true enough, my lord ; but I have to turn my head round very awkwardly, for I ami quite cleaf of one ear." "Oh, then, certainly, sir, you areexud, replied Baron Alderson, yith mock solemnni ty, " a juryman ought undoubtedly to hear b~oth sides." 5 "Aw," says Danidy Sniffle, "tell me, Makephun, why my pipe is like the vie tue of patent medicines ?" " Can't tell, unless it's because they're humbugs !" " No-h-you are wrong-try it again." " I give it up !" " Welnit' beane i a meer-sham1 ! Don't Apologize. ,.No, good housewife, don't apologize! What your visitor do find you busied with house Id duities, what if the children have not their st clothes on, or your apartments are not in pple-pie order? It is not to be supposed that your lady friends call on you for the pur fse of criticizing your housekeeping, but ather to enjoy a few moments of social in rcourse. Don't throw a damper upon the 4rerview by exhibiting an embarrassment at chills all conversation. Don't apologize I -;It is bad policy. It shows a want of tact. Eicuse is self-accusation. Little matters are :rought into unnecessary prominence by ;tpologetic reference to them. This "making 4lls' is a bore at the best. It is doubly so when the whole interview is spent in uttering id disclaiming apologies. We have known Adies to apologize for their appearance, for feir occupation, and even for the lack of ele gant furniture in their hpartments1 0, the vanity of such apologies. Dear lady, don't pologize! ? If your callers catch you at inopportune ioments don't let them know it. Don't call 1heir attention to little deficiencies by apolo kies. We have known ladies to persist in re sisting all attempts to introduce pleasant 6pies ; ever returning to some little sore spot and applying the salve of apologies. It is all unity and vexation of spirit. It vexes you nd it vexes yonr visitors. They go away saying-" We'll never call /here again !" Meet your friends kindly and c--li:dly. gnore all domestic deficiencies; talk yourself and your friends into ,good-humor, and on eaving they will tell how Niuch they have onjoved their call, entirely ignorant of any hing mal upropos in your domestic alffairs. There is nothing like pleasant conversation for making time pass agreeably and sinking out of notice all things that need not be no iced. Small talk is better than no talk at all; pologies are worse. Gossip, if you must; there is no berm in telling the news-who is courted and who is married-if there is no ,alice in it. But strive rather to elevate your conversation to more prolfitable topics. At all events don't apologize. - We are supposing all along that there are eally some little matters, in your appearance Or your apartments, that are not exactly as you would have thetm appear in the eyes of visitors. But some ladics, when everything is to their mind, enter upon a course of polo wies in order to draw attention to their fine appearane! Such perversity deserves the cut direct. Leave at onceand don't apologize! But again ; don't take your visitors into a cold and formal parlor because it, happens to contain the best furniture in the house. One can see all such things at the upholsterer's and the furniture ware-honse. Take them into your licing room, where the babies and the babies playthings are about the floor, and where the evidences of occupiation iye an air ofsorial ..-. -. . .nf enjoy their call. Do this, and don't apologize! No Feity Liuic . Wo.'i.x , S-u.--A terrible illustration of what a scornied woian's fury will lead her to do, occurred last Wed nesdav in Milwaukie. A laly of ih:t city, re turning unexpectedly from a .lrive iinagiied she heard voices in the room usually occipted by herself indt husband. The door icing closed, she was reducel to the key hole, and to this apertire shei applit-d her eye. She saw~ the ligure of a womai~ n. :ind stand.ing lby her- wats the hiusbandl of the je:alous wifl, uc ually engaged in aaljutsting a shawl uapona th. shoulder-s oif the female intrutder-. The wile went to anotheor room, took a loafh-d shot gaun, returned, opened the door, and deliberntely shot the strange woman in thet bacik. T1he husband screamned, the wife Iainited. Wheni the latter returned to conscionuess she found the wretch of a husband bending over her, with a well f. igned solicitude in his glance. Mutual explanationas ensued. and the boly of the woani who hal lbeen, shot was broug~h~t in. It was a ahimi-! The usb'and, who pursed then respec'tale e:Lling of at rebl:il driy goods deal'-r, was wont . tuse thik tiguire ta exhiit the nmant illas~ ..nl shawl.s withI whie-b he desired to charm thea eyes~ of the .\lill':ua kie ladies. The iinmy, from long exposutre and hard usage, had beeme shabby, and the merchant hadl that morning brouight, it fromn the shop for the piurpose of reunvating its ex terior. Not finding his wife, lie was trying in his awkward way to do the work, and was p)robaly swearing at his ehmitisy atn~nmpfs, when his wife, mistaking the ne'gents of pas sion, let Ily the fatal shot. This tra;tedy in real life will teac-h her a lesson-perhaps. Ax AnY .or Rusr.-Thec Albany Evenitig Journal remarks that "there is one ai-my which will never quit Italy. It sleeps on its arms in an eternal bivouac. New reermits join at an average of a thousand a day. Th'ley are picked men, the bravest in both armies the f'oremost in every battle. In twenty-seven days Italy has been strewn with twenty-suven thousand corp.es, tnen who sought an eptaulei, tnd (ound a grave. A thotusand fell in lhe various early ekirmnishes. A thous.and m arked the invaeion of G3aribaldi. Nine hundred French and Sardintians perished at Montebet ho. Two thousand Austrians perished ont the sane field. Two hundred Zotuaves were killed at Palestro. As matty Sardiniians died with them. Four huntdr-ed Austrianis were drowned in the canal. More thtan twenty thousatnd must hav-e fallen in the action at Blfalhora and Magenta." The .Journual then speaks, by name, of the distinguished officers killed and wounded, ad ding: " But this is the fortune of war." There must be deaths, or there can be no promotion. A dozen cager hands are ready to gras p the baton as it lls ft-om the hand oft the dying Marshal. A dozen heai-ts burin for the gold epaulets whose last owner lies dead in the ditch. From the Gene-ral of Division down to the sous lieutenant, each finds his comt mianers corpse a stepapinig-stone to his ownt gloy." _ _ _ WrhAr i Goon PanionicAL :tAY 1)o.-The great and reinownted Emtersona has truthfully " Showv us an intelligent family of boys and girls, and we shall show you a fbnily whieru newspapers atid periodicals are plenutilul. No body who has been without these .silent pri vate tutors can know their educattmg power for good or evil. Ihave you never thought of the innumerble topic. of discussion whic.i they suggest at the break fast table, the i portant public measures with which, thus 'arly, our children become familia~rly acqaint ed great philanthropic questions of the day, to which unconisciously their attention 1 awakened, and the general spirit ofrintellbgence which is evoked by those quiet~visi~tors ? Any thinw that makes home pleasant, cheerhtt and chatty, thins the hautnts of vice, and the thousand and one avenues of temnptation, should c'ertainlhy he rewarded, when we con sider its influence on t7 e minds of the young, ..s an gra nwal and social blessing. A Little While. Beyond the smiling and the weeping, I shall be soon; Beyond the waking and the sleeping, Beyond the sowing and the reaping, I shall be soon. Lore, rest, and home! Sweet Home! Lo:ul, tarry not, but conic. Beyonid the blootming and the fading, I sIIll be Son : Beyond the shining and the sliadiing, Deyoad the hoplag and the dreading, I shall be soon. Love, rest, and home ! Swet H1ome! Lo-d, tarry not, but come. Beyond the rising and the setting, I shall be soon; Beyond the calming and the fretting, Beyond remembering and forgetting, I shall be soon. Lo-e, rest, and home! Sweet Home ! Lon, tarry not, Lut coie. B-eyond-l the parting and the ineeting, I shall be soon; Deyonad the farewell and the greeting, Beyoad the pulse's ferer heating, I shall be soon. Love. rest, anl home! Sweet Hon! Lo..l, tarry not, but come. Beyond the frost-ebin and the fever, I shall 1.e soon ; Beyoid the rock waste and the river, Beyond the ever anid the never, I shall lie soon. Lo-:e, rest, and home! Swe-et Home! Lol, Iarry not, but come. Our Country. The southern Mercury thus lets oft on Our CO .ntry." lear him: There is not the least shadow of a doubt about thei matter-ours is emphatically, un deniably incontrovertibly, positively, comi - aratively and superlativly, a great andl glori otis country. The annals ot timve turiish nothing to compare with it ; Greece wasnt a irceumstnce; Rotne was io where. Venice ould't hold its a candle, whtile all modern nations sink into insignificance before our ountry. It has longer rivers, and more of them. nuidlier, deeper, and run faster, and go ., 6i2ul LoIC jum Ut JLucr C0etilttMCS. Our rail cars are bigger, and ran faster, and pitch otf the track oftener. and kill more peo ple thanl all other ears. Our steamiboata are onger, andl carry higger loads and b-n'st their boilers otener, and the cnptaints swcir harder, thai any other count ry. Otr men are big,:r, and longer, and higher, and thicker, and can iht hailer and that:r, and can drink more wisky, chew more tobacco, spit iore. mail rthe'r. 1:iek up their hcel higher, and do aything else miore, and hetter anil oflener, than imnt in all other coltrie is com hined. )ur womeitn are pre *t ier, drt1es.4 finter, slillnd noe monotiiVi'rea miore hea~rts. we:ir biggeer lops amid sht rtr dresses, aind kick nyp the 'levi! gew rmdly tio a greater extn th~,Il:ini all tie. ladies. Ihur politic i a spn louder, lie hanrh:re, make gas tlasteri, deibre quicker, trn ottom-rP, muake moore muise, anid do le.s ork thaa everybody else's peoiticianis. tOur iggers are blacker, work hardfer, have thick rsktlls, smell louder, and need thtrashing ftener, thna other nigger. Onrelcildreni unitll inder, grow faster. anel get too big for heir breaches ;pieker thian aill other chibilren. it is :tgreat coun~try ! it I-; thle corner one ol niiomns, it is the top of th ih1i, the hn~ml :mi ofi the( hieap, thme hist hiiuan eon abulriel's coaut, the 'eaninig jewel ini ths dlin emn, thei eiitl of th:, cijlngnn. thie brat litnk n thme chain. I he e herved of all ,,h ,-vers. It w.ill eat. ip all nations: inusu-r thant l'hearmh' eaumuattle ate ny tho li t ones. When nil terg nat ions are tnmberedl amontg thne things .hat wee, it w~ill juast be rejoicing in its; strnugthI. It will kick all othier ntaoos out ,f ex~itnce, it will liek themn up us tioe cow icethup salt. It has now thirt-three Stales, ;d moore a comnitng. It covets more ternitory han all other nations. And inally, it has; louder thmunder, Ifaster igh tnig, bigger hail, mnd coler ice. tham can lie fundm in auny o~ther art ofihe thbitale globie. Ifu,-rah ! I [urraih irnh ! Three' cheers fo.r thbis purodci-gi-ons :entellation of~ Free States. Ilatng a nun11 ht won't praise his own country ! seas~onable Hints. A t thist season nmany personsi contemuplate rvllig ;~ to dlo s.o with it.hle largest amloit t f onfor. und advanmttag pihyscal, soct!, atd mnnta' t Ihe follow ing engge!5lQust are1 Take one. th mto-- immeyt th:; youri acP tnal esti:nated expernses. A qui t.irself with the geo~sraphy -of heote nndim region of travel. Iav a goodc~~t%1 supnly of small c'hange,. and hiave no Ibill or piece high er than13 ten dollars. hat you maty not take contterfeit change. So arrange as to have but a single article of luggage to look after. D)ress substantially. Better be too hot for two or three hours at noon than to be cool for the remainder of tile twenty-four. Arrange, under all circumrstanices, to be at the plae of starting fifteen or t wenty minutes before the time, thus allowing for unavoidable c unanticipated detention on the way. Do not contience a day's travel before >rekfast even if that has to he eaten at day irh. itinner er suipper, or both, can be nore he:dlthfully dispensed with thtan a good warm breakfast. Put ycur purse and watch in your vest pock. et, and ll under your pillow, and you will not be likely to leave'either. The best, if not most secure fastening of your chamber door, is a commoni bolt on the inside; if there is none, lock thme door, turn thme key so that it ecnn be drawn partly out, and put the wash basin under it; thus, any attempt to use a jimmwy or put in another kewill push it out an i cause a racket among the crockery, which will be pretty certain to rouse the sleep. er adt route the robber. A sixpetnny sandwich cateni leisurely in the ears, is better for you than a dollar dinner bolted at a station. Take with you a mionth's supply o'f patience, and always. think thirteen timeis before vou reply once to any suppiosed rudeness or insult, or inattentionl. Do no:, suppose yourself specially atnd de signedly neglected, if waiters at hotels do no! bring what you call for in double quick time: nttling sec matrks the well bred man as a quiet waiting on sueh occasions: passion proves h unny. Do not allow yourself to converse in a tion loud enough to be heard by a person at t1w or three seats from you it is the mark (; f boor if in a man, and of want of refinemen and lady-like delicacy, if in a woman. A .en tleman is not noisy ; ladies are serene. Comply cheerfully and gracefully with thi customs of the conveyances in which yot travel, and of the places where you stop. Respect yourself by exhibiting the manner, of a gentleman and a lady,.if you wish to b< treated as such, and then you will receive tb respect of others. Travel is a great leveller; take the posh'ior which others assign you from your conilue rather than from your pretensions.--Hal', Jpurnal of Health. -* B1londin's Feat over Niagara on a Itcpe, The morning broke bright and beaut iful, s few hazy clouds were in the sky, just enuugl to hide the too ardent rays of the sun, anc there was a most refreshing breeze, and :lto. gether the day was such that a better e u] not have been desired. At an early hou the crowd began to dollect. Every train t.hat arrived, from every direction, brought its 'ro portion of eager spectators, and every sort oJ vehicle that is indigen6us to Yankee land, seemed to be pressed into the service to con vey their quota of people who were to 2011n poie the immense (for outr provincial t.,wn) crowd of people who congregated her., tc witness this most daring of all the fool-lirdy feats of modern times. .At noon the crowd amounted to more than 5.000 pcrsons, elu sive of the usually quiet Inhabitants of this village, who are generally not roused f'ron their customary quiescence by anything less exciting than the mortal peril of some un happy one who has been entrapped inti the upper rapids and is about to be buried over the Falls The noon trains brought a great augmentation of the already large gather:ing and from that time till 4 p. m., constart arl ditions were made to the crowd. By 5 o*-]lock the impatience of the assembly had reaehed its height, and it was estimated that at this time the crowd amounted to twelve thouand people, which, as the population of this vil lage falls somewhat short of two thou-and, is doing pretty well. They were not by any means equally dis tributed, there being about 8.000 on the Cana da side, while but four thousand or there abouts were congregated on the American shore. This is partially accounted for by the fact, that the American end of the rope is anchored in a pleasire ground, the admit:mnee to which is charged at twenty-Jive cents, while ou- Canalian reitbbors have the ad vmtage of free adiuissiin to the inspection of the rope and al thercunto apperziazngg. The crowd, though large, was a very q-iet oue, and no tighting or ill-feeling of any sort marred the general good temper of the ocea +-r crniort'.o of the pie-rsons tights, buckskin moccasius, and spangled tinic of yellow silk; he was bare-h-eaded, without even the fillet of white satin that is frcquent. ly worn. At fifteen minutes past live, he stepped upn iithe large role, where lie conier:.ed v few minutes with his friends in the inist cooi and unconerned manner, having appxirently 110 MUre doubt of his successfully acea plishing his undertaking than lie had of at tempting it. As lie stood for a miiainuie or the rope., bor',Ie -'epping out, he ahlre.seud the crowl as follows: , - I limen, a .ny on. w.hat p lea.In ifog aero-,-s, I carry himi on my back." No .mne seemedl dispoised to accept the kint ifer, :imd hav' ing toked a lew~ inuite' l:::r ie aft last . nirted oin h1 perilous journ mey lIeI walkeil rapidly and tiirml y, as if lie Iat eenz oin a bridge, until he chose to siop t< indulge in some gyminastic cvol utionis for afe niiutes. Hte balanced himself on oiiele sat down, and laid dowu on the rope at iul length, then, recovering hiimself. lie wvalke< to the middle iif theC river, where be aigai stoppedl to ccoimlishi vet aiiot-emr fea:t no dLown in thei bill. I kere, Ntandzing. iin tlii 'oe. wit b as' innea~. in ,lhtferene as if it uas: solid platrm, lie diliberatelr lowvered a simdi line to the li ttlhe stei'nbhoat, the "1ai.l of. tln 3Iit,"' that hadi site.uined oiit to thlat. pint o th~e line wa uttaeiied at bt the of wine bi the captain of the boat, and the bottle bein. drawvn up by the adventurer, lie opened it and iiaking" a complrehensi-.e bow to b.,tl crowds on the sides of the river., he droid the health e-f all present ; then throwinzg thi bottle into the river, he walked on, stoppin; no more until lie had reached the C'iaiihn shore. He was exactly uineteen minutes c'rossin~t the rivr, including stops. O n arrival on thu Canaa shore lie wtas eheeredl vociferoustly lie waited herec about half an hour, whzen hi prepared to return. At 6.4i2 he stepped 01 the rope to commence his return passage He rested but once, lying down on the rope for two minutes, and accomplishing the re tin trip in eight minutes. As soon1 as he reached. the shoro, the cheer; m oii, hiaing been perutitted an imnm a for refreshment, wam~se zed by the entlusiatia crowd and placed en their shoulders ant borne about in triumph. Ile was then placet in at carriage and eco(,rte't through all th< priripal streets of the village. thwecrowi hrongmng round im~ in all sides, and chcer ing in the wildest iiiniier. lUe didh not appen very much exhausted, anid muanifested no: mor fear or nervousness than any ungymnasti novoe would at eating his breakfast. He an nones his detcrinination to repeat the fea at intervals during the summer. Thus was successfully accomplished one o the most daring and useless feats that eve! the fast age has ever witnetsed.-New Yorl Tribune. An old physician was declaiming in on hearing, the other day, upon the propensit; whch a majority of people display in eatin, unripe fruit and vegetables. Saidl he: "' There is not a vegetable growing in ou gadens that is not best when ar-rived at ina tu'ity, anid the most of them arc positivet injuriots whein they arc not folly ripe." " I know one thing that ain't as good whe: 'tis ripe as 'tis when it is green," interruptei a little boy, in a very confidential but nmd et manner. " What's that ?" sharply said the physiciar vexed at having his principles disputed by mere boy. " A cucumber !" replied the lad. The Docter winked at us with both eyei but said nothing. WIN~ows OPEN.ED) MORE woUL.D KCEEP Do( To~s FitOM TnE Doo.-A V-ery large quantit oh fresh air is spoiled and reaidered toul b, the act of breathing. A man spoils not les than a gallon every minute. In eigh hour: breathing, a full grown man spoils as muc fresh air as seventeen three-bushel sacki could hold I If lie were shut up in a root seven fee:. long, and seven feet high, the doc jand windows fitting so tightly. that no ai . o-1d m.s ihrnugb l wnnld die, noisone byhs w hus ew-lahv i all y own breatu, in a vry ew nu., > twenti-four hours ee would have spo-ed all the air contained in the room, and have con t verted it into poison! Reader, when you rise to-inorrow morning, just go out of coors for five minutes, and observe carefully the f&eshness of the air. That air is in the state in which God keeps it for breathing. Then come back suddenly into your close room, and your own senses will at once make you feel how very far the air in your chamber is from being in the same wholesome and servicea'ble con dition. A BUM, Do.o kT-AcKu;( Ax ELEPHrr.; How lie came out. The Petersburg (Va.) Ex. press says: " An amusing, incident occurred while Van Amburgh's menagerie was cross. ing the Apomattox, a short distance above the Pocahontas bridge, strikidgly illustrative of the fact that the bull dog ii the most cour ageous of all animals, and will atta*k any creature regtrdless of size. As the elephant entered the water with his usual slow and cautions step, some individual in the crowd, prompted by -a spirit of mischief, hied on a large bull dog to attack the huge animal. The dog instantly obeyed, and plunging into the water, seized hold of one of the h'nd legs of the elephant, on which the -latter only switched him with his tail as he would brush oif a fly, but not ridding himself of his assail ant by such gentle means, and feeling sharp teeth at work upon his leg, he snddenlv threw his snout around, and seizing the dog held him under the water until he was nearly drowned ; then raising him high in the air, threw him at least a hundred feet out into the stream. Fully satisfied with the punishment he had received, the dog made his way to the shore, and beat a hasty retreat." BnoAD RivER RAILROAD BRIDGI.-We learn from Mr. Raworth, the efficient Super intendent of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad, that this bridge is completed. The trains ran over it for the first time last Thurs. day. It is, perhaps, the finest bridge now in the State. Tho wood work is said to be very excellent, aid built upon remarkably well constructed piers, will no doubt make the whole bridge unusually durable. There has been great need of such a crossing over this river for some time, so that the travel ling public may be congratulated that there is no longer any reason to apprehend danger at this point. Feeling the greatest interest in the road, it affords us pleasure to say we have seldom travelled over a more comfortable one than the Greenville Road is at this time. It is in excellent condition.-Newberry Conservatist. BcUsLD1.m' -MATraIAL-A Nrw Ixv:oNTION. -Mr. 1). W. Clark, of Bennington, Vermont, has invented a material for facing the-common red brick, which gives them the appear.ce of polished marlle, or pure porcelain. The -- i reparation and a ten penny nuIL i. board with one of them, without un..-, enamel. This enamel may be used for door knobs adling great strength and beauty to those usualiv manufactured in this vicinity.. It may, in fact, be used for a large variety of purpo ses...xchange. Bh:mrY IN A PRINTINe O)icE.-ThiS is paradoxical zay you; it is nevertheless some times true. Or. Monday we were honored with a visit by the Rev. L. DuPre, accom i panied ly the young ladies of Mrs. DuPre's school, and if there was not "beauty in a pintinmg oiche."' then we are munch mistaken. IThough c'l'idrably --'d by the appear ance of tht..e E-:-* ~we extended the si of welcome, introduceed thema to gentlemen, who facing ca.x.v had .'tick' in thier hands, andl showed them the wonders of a printing office not forgetting the pi. Thbe visit of this beau tiful f is without || in our ldstory, and we Sthis opportnnity to express the hope that it will be fregnmently repeated, and that we mty be nileiwed the .pteasure of recording manmy lke the present. We wiill willing ly explose all c:oncernmed to the t wounds of' their brighit i i, aLs their preIence makes the 'fly riipidly :und' amnel i'rates in a great* the hard~ships of a priniter's life.-Darlingtoni Flag. .A SCOTCnM AN'S SuIR3IoN ' ON ?MODERAT~oN.' -A Scotch ptarson once preached a long -ser mon against draimdrinking, a vice prevalent in his parish, antl from which, report said, he was not free him~nself. ' Whatever ye do brethren, do it with mod erat ion, and above all be moderate in dram drinking. Whenx ye get up) indced, ye may take a dlrin, and uithir just before breakfast, and perhais mnithir after; but dinna be al was dram- .reking if yo are out in the nurn. you-ma :.at brace yourself up with anith;r'"ram, aut. ierhaps take anithir before lunchee.,. aind sozi.e itear, take one after, which is nu a very bameable; but dinna be always drainaido~g away. 4 Naxbody ew .seruple for one just before ina, and when the deert is brouight in, an' I fer it' ta'enx away ; and perhaps one or two, in the course of the atfternoon, just to keep e from drowsvzing or Enozaling;i but dinna e always dramu drinking. Afore tea and af ter tea, and bet ween tea and supper is no more than right and good, but let me caution ye, my brethren, not to be always dram-drinking. Just when vou start for bed, and when you are ready to pop into't, to take a dram or two is no more than a Christian may lawfully do; but, brethren, let me caution'you not to drink more than I've mentioned, or may it be we ay pass the bounds of moderation." KAous.-We visited the works at Kaolin (in South Carolina) on yesterday, and were pleased to notice the enterprise and industry exhibited. The crockery maanufactured there is fully equal to the best imported, or made rin any portion of our country, and needs only Sto be seen and used, to be appreciated, and i. the works liberally patronised. We noticed sonme tests on Knolin -manu factured water pipe, and while the test was - not made under favorable circumstances, the f pipe resisted a pressure of about fourteen hudr-I pounds. We are not prepared te I express our opinion in favor of .the general introduction of such pipe, but we have no - hesitation in saying that if such pipe -will answer for conveying water through our city, it is more desirable than iron or pine logs. 'Augusta Constitutionalist. A BRAvE PIEsT.-Among the chaplains Swho have just been appointed to the army in Italy is the Rev. Father Parabere, who dis tinguished himself in the Crimea. In one ac tion, in which lie was by the side of Gen. yCan'robert, his horse was 'killed under him. y" That, Reverend Sir," said the General, "is s an accident without remedy.' I canot get u nter horse; so, au revoir." Bt 'ater Parabeethought it his duty to be pre a sent in the combat, and, seeing a cannon- ap a proach, he jumped astride it, and was con r veyed in that manner into the midst ofaction, r where he assiated'the wounded and administer