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"WE WILL CLING TO THE PILLARS OF THE TEMPLE OF OUR LISERTIBSB AND IF IT MUST PALL, WE WILL PERISH AMIDST THE RUIN.
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SIMKINS, DURISOE & CO., Proprietors. EDGEFIELD, S. 0., AUGUST 24, 1859. ~.VLJIEXXV--o 3
The Little Pool Will Soon be Dry.
0, brightly beams the summer sky,
And rarely blooms the clover
But the little pool will soon be dry,
The summer soon be over.
0, light and soft the west wind blows,
The flower bells gently ringing;
But blight will fall upon the rose,
Where now the bee is swinging.
A smile is on the silver stream,
A blush is on the flowers;
But the cloud that wears a golden gleam
Will waste i.self in showers.
o little hearts with gladness rife,
Among the wavy grasses
A deoper shade will fold your life
Than o'er the meadow passes.
0, maiden lips! 0, lips of bloom !
Unburdened save by singing,
Pale Grief shall leave his seal of gloom
Where kisses now are clinging.
0, hope is sweet, 0, youth is near,
And love is sweeter-nearer;
0, life is sweet, and life is dear,
But Death is often dearer.
0, shield the little hearts from wrong,
While childhood's laugh is ringing:
And kiss the lips that sing the song,
Before they cease their singing.
0, crown with joy the brows of youth,
Before their brows are older.
0, touch with love the lips of truth
Before those lips are colder.
For the little pool will soon be dry,
The summer soon be over,
Though brightly beams the summer sky
And rarely blooms the clover.
Be Gentle to thy Husband.
" Be gentle, there are hours when he
By anxious care is tossed;
And shadows deep lie on his brow,
By business trials crossed.
Wife, be gentle to thy husband, never multiply
words. When you see a cloud gathering, (lark,
gloomy, portentious, hear distant thunder rolling;
now and then see a lightning-flash, srop, NtMp.
Be gentle as a lamb, wait calmly, patiently, till
the storm is pasz and the bright sun-beams shine
forth. One unguarded, hasty word may set the
world on fire, the whole course of nature!
" Be gentle. 'tis for you he toils,
And thinks, and st'rives to gain
Home comforts and home happiness
Don't let him strive in vain.
Be gentle, though some hasty word
Should fall-it was not meant;
A smile, r. kind word will recall,
And miny more prevent."
Be careful of that little unruly uniber which
no man can tame. Keep it as with a bridle. Be
geutle, put Un tb anugel. " A VgutlzuiU .1'.1qAi&.s
in a very rainy day, and a contentious woman are
alike."
From Porter's Spirit of the Times.
DEACON JONES UP FOR CUSSIN.
SHOWING HOW OPINIONS MAY CIIANt.
DY HAZEL GREMN, ESQ.
Rap, rap, rap!
" Come in, Sister Shaw !"
"No, thank you, Sister Grimes, but I
haint got time."
" Haint you? Then I'll go out in the gar
den and pick you a bunch."
" Ha, ha, ha ! I'll try and call in as I come
back. Was jest a passin,' and thought I'd
stop at the door a minute, and see how you
all come on. Sayr, Sister Grimes, have you
hear'n the news .
"News ! no-whlat news ?
" Why, Deacon Jones has been a cussin'."
"Deacon Jones a cussin'! Cant be pos
sible !''
" True, every word on't. Pete French, he
was a comin' home from Louisville this mnor
nin', and jest as he got to the ford of the
crick, he seed Deacon Jones thar with his
wagon stuck fast in the mud, and he hecar'n
him a cussin' like a trooper !''
"Sister Shaw, you shock me ! Oh, ni,
oh ! what could a got inter the Deacon. If
any one but you'd a told me, I wouldn't a
b'lieved it, for I allers thought Deacon Jones
was sitch a dear good old soul !"
" So did I, Sister Grimes, but the old boy
is shure to show his cloven foot sometimes.
He's gone and cussed, certain ; for Pete
French hear'n him ; and what Pete sez, he'll
stick up to. Somethin' must be did about it
right away, or the Church is ruinated."
And without further parley, Sister Shaw
hurried on to the next door to break the news
to Sister Taylor. Sister Grimes doused a
bucket of water into the cooking stove to
lower the fire, and then tripped across to tell
Sister Elliott; and Sister i!liott, and Si.,er
Taylor, and Sister Shaw, and Sister Grimes,
they all, by ditferent routes, bent their steps
towards the " parsonage," each resolved on
being the first to impart -the shocking bit (if
in'elligence to the minister. They were, evi
dentlv, "striving for the championship." To
whorm it should have beep awarded, I know
not, but certain it is, the minister soon re
ceived the report from one of them, and ere
he had time to make up his mind as to its
trut!niness, the others were at hand to sub
stantiate it.
Here was an awful state of affairs ! Wig
gletown in a stir fromi centre to circumfer
ence, a church disgraced, and a deacon who
had been "cussin'." Fortunately the regular
meeting " in course" was but a few days off,
and at it the piously-disposed portion of the
populace expected to wipe out the stigma.
For the short space intervening between
the time above iuentioned, and the next regu
lar meeting day. Deacon Jones' "cussin"''
formed the principle topic of conversation in
Wiggletown. The good brothers, after dis
cussing the matter at length, generally came
to the conclusion. that the morning on which
the great event took place was slightly cool
for the season, in consequence of which the
Deacon had, probably, taken a nip too much
whiskey. If thuat turned out to be the true
state of the case, and Deacon Jones would
make due acknowled::ements, they telt some
what inclined to fordive him, even we-re it
the " ninety and ninth time." The good sis
ters were less charitable, however. They
believed it to be a show of the Evil One'.
cloven foot. and they believed the Evil (Ine
had always been there. Most of them hadl
been noticing the Deacon for a long time, and
though they were too charitable to expose
him, they had repeatedly seen, to their own
satisfaction, that something was wrong. They
had withheld any remarks on the subject, im
hopes he would reform; or, at least, they
preferred the Church should find it out through
s>me other channel.
At length the day of "general meeting"
rolled around, and the old church was ram
mand- jammed full of spectators, all wait
ing impatiently to hear what excuse the Dea
con had to offer for " cussin'." A charge was
preferred in due form, to which-unexpected
ly to all-tbe Deacon plead, " not guilty."
" Brother Pete French !" shouted the pre
siding officer.
"Here !
"Get up, Brother Frencb, and tell the con
gregation what you know about this cussin'
of Deacon Jones's."
" Wal-ahem !-i'd been to Louisville over
night-ahem!-and was a comin' home in the
niornin' tolerable airly, jest as I got nigh onto
the ford of the crick, I hearn some one in
thar, a splashin' about and a cussin'. Think,
sez I to myself, that's some poor wicked crit
ter mired up, a tryin' to cuss himself in fur
der. Jest then, I got to the top of the bank,
and look't down and who should I see it war
bult Brother Deacon Jones, thar. He was up
OIL top of his wagon a skippin' about, and a
lamin's his hosses, and a cussin'. It made
my hair fairly go up on eend to hear him. I
felt so dreadful bad, I jest turned my hoss
back, and went clear around by the lower
fo:d, afore I'd let sitch a wicked man look
ms in the face."
An audible groan passed through the con
gregation.
"Then you actually hear'n Deacon Jones
a -:ussia'?"
" Cussin'! you'd a thought so, if you'd a
bin in a half a mild of the ford !"
" Deacon Jones, you hear the testimony.
Now, what have you got to say to the
charge ?"
"I'm not guilty," said the Deacon, rising
to his feet, and turning up his eyes in a man
ner intended to make himself look solemn.
"I never cussed a word in my life. Brother
Pete French is mistak.
" You can't come that over'n me, old scape
goat !" sang out Brother Pete French, rising
to his feet, and displaying a list on the end of
each arm. "Don't you s'pose I know cus
sin' when I hear it ? and don't you s'pose I
know vou when-"
"0'der !" shouted the official. "Let us
hear what Deacon Jones has to say, and then
we'll take it for jest what we think it's worth,
and no more. Go on, Brother Joues."
" Well, to tell you the whole on it, I went
down to Louisville with a load of market
truck, and I had mortal good luck with it,
too, for I lumped it all out to a 'eller in the
evenin', and so didn't have to tend the mar
ket next mornin' to get rid of it.
" Well, arter I'd disposed of my market
truck, I filled my wagon bed with loose st raw,
what another. marketer gin me, cause 1
thiouglit I mont want to ride in it part way
tionIC, and then, -1 begun to look about for
some place to stay all night. Purty soon I
sec a big house all lighted up, and I thought
it must be a tavern, so I axt a feller if it
"N. sir." .id he, "it's the place where the
VotLries of Temperance hold their meeting0."
" Thinks I, if this is a Temperance house,
I couldn't find a better place whar to leave
my wagon a standin' for safe keepin', cause
Temperance men are aller.3 honest, moial.
0ou sorts of fellers. Then I told the feller
that. and he laughed and sed it was true; and
then he Went up the stair.:, and that inal me
know he was ore of them:. Then 1 j.!.t on
alitced, and left my wagon a standin' th-ere
by tso .iai wuere aom v . er remper-~i
ance met.
"Next mornin' I came out bright and airly,
and :ound my wag<.n and everytlin' all right.
jest Is P'd lef1 it. Not evren a straw semed
to be iin::'. I hitched up my hosses in a
jiffy, and mountin' on the lead one, was oil;
but sIlme how another, I noticed they couldn't
hardly start the empty wagon. In a moment,
it struck me that the tar in the hubs had got
stif, and then I thought no .more about it.
I went on a thinkin' wbat a nice set of' fellers
them Votaries of Temperance imust. be, and a
itiakin' purty good time, till I came to the
ford--where Brother French seed me-where
all to once, up 1 stuck in the mudl ; and all
my13 hosses could do they couldn't pull the
wagon out. Thinks I, this is rather strange
work. to have no load; they must be some
thin' wrong ; so I got off'n the nigh hoss and
jumpt up in the wagong a thiinkin' I mnut
make them pull better up there. Instead of
goiug up to my knees in the straw, as I ex
pected to do, I lit, kirvim ! on somethin' solid,
which held my feet nearly on a levil with the
sides of the wagon body. This astonished inc
dreadial, so I begun to di;g dlown inter the
straw; and, pai-adventure, I found the wagon
was loaded smack full of grind-stones. A t
first 1 thought I'd made a mistake and -took
seone other man's wagon, but arter I'd look't
around a spell, I seed it wvas mine, and no
mistake. While I was standin' there tryin'
to think what to think, I happened to Look
up the crick, and there I seed two city chaps
a standin' with their thumbs agin' their noses,
and their fingers, a wigglina' at me. One of
them Itook to be the very feller who had
told mec about the Totaries of Temperance.
"Xotaries of Tremnperance!" hollered they,
still a wiggl'n' their tingers and laughin'.
" Then I seed inter it all ike a flash. Thems
Votaries of Temperance, as they called them
selves, had bin a playin' off' a trick on me, so
sais I to them, purty loud:
"Vo'taries of Ihell, more like! A purty
set you are to be a servin' the devil under a
false name. Sneak back home, and the next
feller what axes the namne of your society,
hit the truth, by tellin' him, Votaries of
Hell !"
"That's all I said-"
"That's so ! That's jest what I hear'n him
a sayin'," said Brother French, " and [ thought
if it was rale eussin'. i'd never hear'n any
like it afore. Here's my hand, Birother Jones,
[PIl take it all back. You're not one of the
lost she3ep yet, by a long shot.."
I need not tell you there was a general
rush to get the Deacon by the "lbread hooks,"
now that the matter of his cussin' was set
tled to the entire satisfaction of all.
Nex: day several brothers called on the
Deacon to assure him that they had always
knmwn lie was innocent of the charge, and
to ask him for a grind-stone ; but to tkcir
disappointment, they learned he had 'taken
them back to the city, anid sought out the
owner.
It should be the aim of young men to go
into good societv-we mean: not the rich, nor
the proud, nor the fashionable, hut the society
of the wise, the intelligent, and the good.
When you find men who know more than you
do, and from whose conversation can gather
informalion, it is always .safe to be foiund with
thema. It hmas broken down many a man to
associate with the low andl vulgar, where the
ribald song ws sung, and the indecent story
told to -excite laughter or influence the bad
pason..
Lord Clarendlon attributed success and hap
pness ia lire to associating with persons more
earned :rnd virtuous thman ourselves. 1I'you
wish to be wise and respected, itf you desire
happinet-s and not misry, we adviso you to
associate with the intelligent and good. Strive
for excllence and strict integrity, and you
will never be fond ini the sinks of pollution,
or in the ranks of profhigates and gamblers.
Once habtitnue yourself yourself to a virtuous
coturse, once secure a love for good society,
and no punishment would be greater than b~y
accident, to be obliged for hll a day to asso
einte withi the low and vulgar.
Liws may be merry as well as useful, every
persoil that owns a month has always a good
noning lor a laugh.
A Legal Reminiscence.
An episode in 'he professional career of ar
eminent jurist ol Pennsylvania, late a judgc
of the Supreme Court, deserves to be-rescuec
from oblivion. Soon after his admission tc
the bar he had occasion to go to Williamsporl
to argue his first case. As he was pacing
thd deck of the canal-boat on which he wai
journeying, he encountered a group of threi
substantial, rustic-looking, persons, who were
deeply engaged in discussing the merits of ar
important lawsuit which had recently beer
tried. Fresh from the study of Blackstone
and believing himself to be the embodiment o
legal learning and the incarnation of juridica
sew::, he joined the group, and straightwaj
proceeded to enlighten the party as to the
law bearing on the case. The opinions whicl
had been advanced he dogmatically pro
nounced to be erroneous, and contrary to law
reason, and precedent. His auditors listened
with profound attention until he had finished
his harangue, when one of them quietly in
formed the speaker that from his discourse ii
was evident he was ignorant of every principle
of law-civil, common, and statute, written 01
unwritten. A second added that he knem
nothing of the rules of logic, as was appareni
from his defective style of reasoning. The
third listener stated it as his conviction that
the intruder was also destitute of commoi
sense. Exasperated by such uncomplimenta.
ry remarks, the legal aspirent abruptly lefi
the group, and resumed his promenade on the
deck of the boat.
Chancing to meet thu skipper, inquired if he
knew those three old chaps who were talking
together, adding, with considerable asperity,
that they were the most stupid set of block
heads that ever lived.
" Those thref old chaps, Mr. K.," responded
the antient mariner, "are the Judges of the
Supreme Court, on their way to Williamsport
where the Court opens to-morrow."
Mr. K. did not make his debut in the
Supreme Court at that session, but postponed
his appearance to a more convenient season
A Yankee Trick.
We remember when we were living " dowr
east," of a neighboring farmer hiring a jollj
Irishman, who was very fond of learning tricks
One day his employer asked him if he wouldn'
learn a Yankee trick. The Irishman of course
was auxious to " larn a Yankee trick." Bring
ing him to the end a brick barn, Jonatbar
laid his open hand against the wall, remark
in
"Pat, Ill bet the liquor you can't hit mj
hand."
"It's done!" says Pat, making a vicioui
blow at the palm of the hand, but it being
quickly withdrawn, lie succeeded in peeling
the skin and flesh off his knuckles.
" That's a nasty trick!" roared Pat, " but
howled on, Ill cheat somebody else."
A tew months passed, and Pat's brothei
cime over 11rom Irehind, as green as early
peas. T.:ey both labored together, but Pal
was unensy till lie should have learned his
brother the trick."
".im. did you ever larn a Yankee trick ?
"Niver."
Pat finding himself in the centre of a large
fieli. thought it would be a great loss of time
to go the barn, and reaching out his open
land. lie cried--" Sihrike that if you can!"
--1 in .nm Lue a ilisperatc pass, Vitt raultv
ing pulled away his haud, Jim fell after the
blow, remarking that that " was an old
woman's thrick.'
Tliry it now " shrieked Pat, placing the
same open hand against his own mouth.
..Ihim prepared for a sockdologer, and bring
in; his massive " bunch of fives" in loving
proximity with Pat's nose and mouth, whc
pulled away his hand as before, he sent hin'
reeling to the earth with four broken teeth
and a large quantity of blood, for "larniv
him the Yankee thrick."
The Family Man.
We like somnetimnes, on our evening journey
homeward in public conveyances, to p)ick oul
/he hojppy family mecn ; and they are by nc
meansi so rare as sour, selfish people would
have us believe. It gives us a thrill of deligi
to see in their hands a pickture-book, or toy,
or bouquet ; for well we know the happiness
these (so called) " trifles'" bring to the expec
ting nireside circle. And wvell may a mar
treasnre his fireside comforts; well may he
remember those who make toil light to him,
and guard him with loving hearts and pure
arms, from the hlighting, contaminating in
tuences, which surround the solitary, yearn
ing. unloved man in a great city. Well may
he throw himself down upon the sofa and
draw a long breath of relief, as the iron hand
of barter and trade is lifted from his heart
and the doors are thrown wide open for love
to cnter. Well may he-like a miser-hoard
these happy moments, crc death's shadow fal:
on his threshold, and he wander through deso
late rooms-familiar, yet oh, so fearfulli
strange I followed by little pattering feet, tha1
wander up and down through the long day ir
nursery and parlor, seeking her whose lost
shall be greater and greater eae~h day to the
motherless. Oh, ye who have happy homes
who miss no dear head when the good-nigh1
blessing is given and taken ; into whose face
clear, innocent eyes look lovingly, talk not o
teil or labor with such blessings as these.
FAYST FERN.
NEvER ATTEMPT To GET OCT OF DEBT.-Thc
man who owes nobody is a poor, miserabb
being ; nobody manifests any interest in hit
welfare-nobody cares a continental ceni
whether he lives or ilies. He is lean, hungry
and generally as poor and wilted as were the
pin-feathers on Job's turkey. Look at oui
reat men ; they are all debtors-owe every
ody ; our men of science, our authors, out
sensation ministers-all, the entire cahoot o
them, are deeper in debt than Pharoah's armj
were in the Red Sea. Debt ennobles a man
gives hinm a more expanded and liberal view
of human nature; keeps him moving-espe
cially if he never pays rent. Nothing wil:
cure the consumption quicker than a strong
dose of~ debt properly taken. To owe, is hu.
man; to pay is divine. Therefore, till mar
becomes suiperhuman, he shouldn't attempt
to emulate divinity. The science of payment
the true modern science, is to get in debt tc
somebody enough to pay somebody else whoa
von owe. By this means, you avoid gettina
out of debt, and yet maintain a reputation o;
paying. The greatness of a nation imeresem
with its national debt. Make a note of thu
at ninety days.-Quiz.
" Mv old nurse, Mrs. Patrick O'Toole," said
cousin Jerry, " was a woman of logical mind,
I was very sick once, and the doctor left nie
an atrociously hitter drug, which I rather de
elined taking. But Mrs. O'Toole carried the
day. "Its th c doctor's orders," cried that good
lad y: and i f you don't go by the doctor's or
drs,'it ain'I no utse jbr yom. to be sick at all
I swallowed my own scruples and the doctor'm
also."
We give the following story to our readers
which they can believe or tot. as they choose
-lt is. stated that a bull riised near Palmnyra
N. Y., was so very ugly '.hat it was deeidet
to kill him. Sn thme neigli)0rs assembled, anc
sbot him full of balls, wh'ch only infuriatec
tme beast. *After a lung ine he was pennet
p amid tied securely wita ropes, and a twc
inch augur hole bored in his head, a poun
if Dupon's htet rifle piwder wvas put i
and ramined down, andm his head blown te
pices. Thirty-fivu innes after thfis his tai
was ini active imotioni, wuiskin'g fhies of' it
hWd.
Anecdotes of Patrick Calhoun.
We are indebted, (says the Charlestor
Courier,) to a recent and pleasant acquaint
ance, formerly of Greenville Dist.-ict, bu
'now of Georgia, for the following anecdotei
of Patrick Calhoun, the father of John 0,
Calhoun:
Patrick Calhoun was born in the North o
Ireland. He received a plain Northern Pres
byterian education, but, for his opportunities
was a remarkable man. He possessed a
strong mind and an enterprising nature and
spirit. When young, he emigrated from
Ireland to Pennsylvania, thence removed tc
Virginia, and ultimately settled in Souti
Carolina, in a portion of .Abbeville District,
embraced within what was then knowa a
"'96" District, between the waters of Long
Cane and Little River, where he subsequent
ly lived and died. He was a master-spirit ic
his neighborhood, and a leader among bi
kindred, a large colony of whom always aO
companied him in his migrations. He was a
bold pioneer and a gallant spirit, who did
good service to the State in the revolutionar)
war, by keeping in check the Tories in hk
neighborhood. All his life he was - man 01
wonderful energy, and also distinguished for
practical business habits. In keeping -wit
this latter feature of his character, he wai
impatient of what he termed learned nonsense
and also of wild speculations. He was ex
ceedingly.jealous of his rights, and his jeal
ousy in thatregard was once very singularly
manifested.
After the revolution the old Parish organ
ization of the State was rather tardy in pro
viding election precincts in the upper dis
tricts; and he and his colleague, with their
neighbors, the voters in their. section, fot
lack ot an election precinct there, it is said,
actually went down armed with their guns,
to old Dorchester, where they held their
election, had themselves returned as Repre
sentatives, and took their seats as sahlii
the Legislature.
.On one occasion, when he thought the
Legislature had been long enough in session,
and he was anxious to return home, he adop
ted a singular, as well as humorous niode ol
rebuking and ridiculinga young member froim
Charleston, who vexed the ear of the House
with a very long and learned speech, inter
larded with many Latin quotations. 'As soon
as the gentleman had taken his seat, Mr.
Calhoun rose, and, in his rich Irish brogue,
delivered himself thus: " Mr. Spaker, I Ia
ment, exceedingly, that I am incapable ol
entertaining the House in the very learned
lore of the gentleman from Charleston, but ]
will, nevertheless do as well as I can, in at
outlandish tongue"-and he actually deliver
ed the rest of his speech in Gaelic or some
Erse dialect.
At the same or some other session, his col
league, from "96," was a very large man, by
the name of Reed, who had taken a helpmeet
in the Dutch .Fork, between the Saluda and
Broad rivers. Reed introduced and supported
a petition to change the name of " 96" t
that of " Cambridge." Mr. Calhoun as well
from his conservatism and dislike of change
as from the historic aud revolutiouary associa
tion of "96," violently opposed the altcratior
of' name, and made a long, earnest.and wor
thy speech agoinst the measure. He firsi
drew, on a sheet of paper, in large characters
the figures p6," ana aispiaying ne agram
proceeded as follows:
"Mr. Spaker: I very earnestly hope tha
the prayer of the petition will not be granted
for "96" is hallowed by its connection wit.
our early history and our revolutionary glory
Its name should be preserved unchanged, a
alike due to historic association and the sen
timent of patriotism. Besides, sir, it would
be a bad procedent, and probably lead tc
other innovations of a like nature. Pass thi:
measure, Mr. Speaker, and you whet the ap
petite for change-change, change will be tbc
order of the day, and your desk will groat
under the weight of similar petitions-nay
sir, our revolutionary history will be lost ii
the new nomenclature. There is a smiall
stream, sir, near my residence, now Called
Long Cane, and it, too, has its revolutionary
legends and traditions. If successful now
the gentleman may next move to change th~
name of Long C'ane to Big Reed. [Mr. Cal
houn here, suiting the action to the word
with infinite humor, so swelled or spread
himself out, as in both size and appearance
to look like Reed, amid shouts of laughter fronr
the amused assembly.] There is another lo
cality, Mr. Speaker, now well known ovei
our hitate, as the Dutch FZork; the gentleman
for aught I know, may become tired also o
the Dutch Fork, and peradventure may wisi
to change that for something else." [Renewet
merriment again shook the side of the grave
legislators.]
After exhausting all other arguments, Mt
Calhoun held up his diagram and said :-Mr
Speaker, I defy your edicts-."96" is " 96,'
and all your laws cannot change it. .Hold i
up, this way, and it is "96," turn it upsid
down, and it is still " 96"--place it in whal
position you may, and it continues to be
"96," and so it will remain to the end of th<
chapter, legi'slate as you may."~ The humor
ist, of course, had hirb reward in the defeat c
the measure by an overwhelming majority.
Or, or TA.-A consumptive man in Ports
mouth, says the Norfolk Argus, who has use<
many remedies without relief, was advised ti
take the oil of tar,.and acted accordingly. He
was considered a perfectly hopeless case, bu
the tar oil has cured him completely. He
now hale and hearty.
.As AwrnL PosrroN FOR THE PRzss.-The
editor of the WVarrenton (Va.) Whig, writinj
from the Sprinn's, says:
" The Red Zweet Springs are delightful
The bathe are really charming. At this place
editors are forced down on an equality witl
lawyers, doctors and members otf Congresi
which I don't like. In fact, dead heads ar
not recognized in this section of the State."
REDEEMINO A NOTE.-The Okalona (Miss.
Newos tells the following story:
" Old P. is well known in some parts al
one who never pays a debt if it can be avoided
Has plenty of money, however, and is a jolly
frollicking old chap. Gets pretty drunk occa
sionally, when, of Course, some friend take!
care of him.
A few days since he fell into the hands of ,
friend who held his note for a sum of money
and as it was a last chance, the friend dived
into old P.'s wallet, took out the amount o:
the inote, and put the note where the monoj
had been.
When he awoke to consciousness, as was
~is wont, he took out his wallet to count how
much money he was out. Finding his purs<
almiost empty, he thundered,
" How did I spend all my money ?"
" You paid off that note I held," answerei
the friend.
"Well," muttered old P.,' quietly stowinf
away his wallet, "I must have been confound
ed drunk I"
NnvER tell a young girl she is handsom'
in the presence of her old maiden aunt. Your
matrimonial designs will be cold watered in
stantly. A cartload of rattlesnakes can't
produce as much pure unadulterated venom
as the tongue of an old maiden aunt, in curls
if she hears you compliment that "forkr
litse. mninx," her niece.
A physician in Louisville has discoverei
that, living principally on buttermilk, a hn'nai
being may prolong existence to the period o
From the Carolinian.
Views of Mr. Calhoun on Territorial
Apquisition--The Slave Trade-.aud
Cengressional Intervention.
Diring the life-time of Mr. -Calhoun, his
pr6-eininent abilities and thorough devotion to
the #hts of the South, justly gave to his
op.n0a the highest authority. All men felt,
while he lived, that a great man was at the
helm, and we all had confidence in the direc
tioi he gave to the ship of State. Mr. Cal.
honjit-is true, has passed from the stage of
acti6 i his mighty voice has been hushed in
the-ifillness of the grave. but his ideas remain
tb us , legacy of priceless value. I propose
to cite certaii; of these ideas, on questions
now #ccupying the public mind. I shall make
no copments,.but let Mr. Calhoun speak for
him f. There in-e three distinct measures
now ecommended to the South:
.-16The cquisition of more territory-that
:i tbi acqniation of Cuba or Mexico.
2. The retival of the African slave trade.
-:3. Congressiohal: intervention in favor of
slavery in-the Territories.
In reference to the first of these subjects,
Xr. Calhoun said, in the Senate, May 15th
1848:
"So long as Cuba remains in the hands of
Spain-a friendly power, of which we have no
dread-it should continue to -be, as it has
bein, the policy of all administrations ever
!sibce Thave been connected with the Govern
ment, to let Cuba remain there."
In reference to, Mexico, Mr. Calhoun said,
in thi-Senate, February 9th, 1847:
I hold that there is a mysterious connec
tion between the fate of this country and that
of Mexico - so much so, that her independence
:anacapability of sustaining herself,arealmost
as essential to our prosperity and the main
tenance of our institutions as they are to hers.
Mexico is to us the fcrbidden fruit. The pen
alty of eating it would be to subject our insti
tutions to political death."
Again, upon the same occasion, he says:
"Shall.we annex the States. of Mexico to
otir;Union ? Can we incorporate a people so
dissimilar in every respect-so little qualified
.for-free and popular government, without cer
tai: destruction to our political inbtitu
tions? Can we bringinto our Union 8,000,000
of people, all professing one religion, and all
concentrated under a powerful and wealthy
priesthood, without subjecting the country to
thienaost violent religious conflict, and bring
ing;.the Government, in the end, under control
of a'single sect ? No. These difficulties are
insuirmountable."
Qn the second question, Mr. Calhoun sus
taining the treaty of Washi gton, which,
among other things, provided that the United
Statesrshould keep a squadron of eighty guns
on the coast of Africa, for the suppression of
thealave trade, said, after premising that he
regetted having to enter into any stipulations
with Great Britain on this subject, but that
he did not see how it was possible to avoid
doing so: " Congress, at an early day, as soon
in fact, as it could legislate on the subject,
under the Constitit-..
- .sg ur lead at
on:...cueement, and with such success as
to compel vessels engaged in it to take shelter
almost exclusively under the fraudulent use
of our flag. To permit such a state of things
to continue, could not but deeply impeach our
honor, and turn the sympathy of the world
against us."
Further:
"The other article in reference to the same
subject, stipulates that the parties will unite
in all becoming representations and remon
strances with any powers within whose domm
ions markets are permitted for imported Afri
can slaves. If he were to permit his feelings
to govern him exclusively, he would object to
this more strongly than any other provision in
the treaty, not that he wods opposed to the object
or the policy of closing the market to imported
ngesonth~e contrary, he thought it both
right and expedienat in every view."
Upon the third question, he said, June 27th
1848:
" There is a very striking diff'erence between.
the position on which the slaveholding and
thn-subjectolding States stand, in reference to
the subec under consideration, (the prohibi
toofslavery in Oregon.) The.former desire
no action of the Government ; demand no law
to give them any advantage in the Territory
about to be established ; are willing to leave
it, and other Territories belon;;ing to the Uni
ted States, open to all their citizens, so long
as they continued to be Territories, anid when
they cease to be so, to leave it to their inhabi
tants to form such governments as may suit
them, without restriction or condition, except
that imposed by the Constitution as a pre
requisite for admission into the Union. In
short, the'y are willing to leave the whole sub
ject where the Constitution and the great and
- fdamental principles of self-government
place it. On the contrary, the non-slavehold
>ing Stateg instead of being willing to leave it
on this bread and equal foundation, demand
the interposition of the Government, and the
passage of an act to prevent the citizens of
the slaveholding States from emigrating with
their property into the Territory.'
" I hold that justice and the Constitution
are the easiest and safest guard on which the
qnestion can be settled, regarded in reference
to party. It may be settled on that ground
simply by non-action, by leaving the Territo
ries free and open to the emigration of all the
world. If a party cannot safely take this
broad and solid position and 'successfully
maintain it, what other can it take and main
tain ?"
Again, on the 12th August, 1849, Mr. Cal
houn said, referring to the Clayton Compro
misc, which was non-intervention :
" Less than a month since, there was a fair
prospect of the adjustment of the territorial
-question on the cowmpromise of the Constitu
tion itself, without a surrender of a particle of
constitutioDal right on either side-"
Such were the opinions of Mr. Calhoun in
the maturity of his powers. I admit they don't
quite comes up to the standard of modern
orthodoxy in certain quartors, but yet they
smack very much of that profound sagacity
which characterized the views of the illustri
ous South Carolinian. McDUFFIE.
"You MIGHT As WELL"-A plain old gen
teman. went with his team to bring home his
two ,ons, two young sprigs, who were soon
texpeeted to graduate. While returning, they
stopped at a hotel inone of our country towns
for dinner. - The landlord, struck with the
dashing appearance of the two gentlemnen,
while he took the old man, from his homespun
appearance, to be nothiing but a driver, and
asked tth:m if they wished the driver to sit St
the table with them. ".Well, Dick," said the
youngster, aside to his brother, " as he is our
father, and its his ..eam, and he will bear the
expense, I think we had better let him eat
with us." " Yes, I think so too, under the
circumstances," he replied. " Yes, landlord,
you can give him a place at the table."
Should not those who go up in a balloon in
company be good~naturedl people ? .The con
sequences would certainly.:be dreadful should
RUMORED RETIREMENT OF THE RoTH
SCHILODS.-In the Paris corespondence of thl
'Morning Star we find the following: "The
assurance given in finnancial circles of the
approaching retirement of the Rothschilds
has created a strange sensation. If the
rumor prove true, not only Baron James, but
both the sons, Gustave and Alphonse, would
also withdraw from business, the account of
the house in Paris be closed, and, in short,
it would exist no longer after the month of De
cember. The deplorable state in which Na
thaniel Rothschild still remains, who in the
flower of his age and strength has been sud
denly struck with paralysis, the uncertainty
of financial operations in the present unset
tled state of Lurope, have decided Baron
James to take this step, so it is said. But al
though the announcement, even unconfirmed
as yet by himself, has occasioned some little
emotion amongst the moneyed men of Paris,
men of experience in these matters persist
in declaring that such a measure is utterly in
compatible with the baron's age, his nation,
and his love of domination, and they there
fore reject the possibility."
How AND WHEN To EAT FauIT.-Fruit
should not be indulged in between meals, as
though it was a luxury, but used in moderation
at meat time, in the place of animal and other
food. It should not be eaten for desert, after
a full meal has been made, as is usually done
-a custom which cannot be too severely re
prehended. Fruit may, with safety, be eaten
at any meal, but it would be well to confine
it to breakfast. The old saying will be found
true by practice. " Fruit is gold in the morn
ing, silver at noon, and lead at night." Let
it constitute a part of the breakfast, and be
eaten at no other period of the day, let it be
ripe and not eaten immoderately, and incal
culable benefits will arise from its use, both
in preventing the access and staying the pro
gress of disease during the summer and fall
months.-Hall's Journal of Health.
HEART-RENDING SCENE-APPALLING DEATH
FROM HYDROPHoBIA.-We are nearly evdry
summer doomed to record one or more of those
most awful of deaths in which the King of
Terrors assumes the appalling shape of hydro
phobia. Some four weeks ago, a Frencho.en
named Louis Laclere, a laborer, as bitten on
the arm and waistby a dog. About four days
ago the symptoms of the horrible malady, he
feared, began to manifest themselves. His
employer procured his admission to the city
hospital where the best accredited remedial
measures were at once studiously adopted in
his behalf. Despite these, he steadily grew
worse. For the most part entirely conscious
of his condition, he gr.-lually, became the
helpless prey of a series of terrible spasms,
which hopelessly increased in intensity and
frequency. His agonies were as if an internal
fire were consuming him. In calmer intervals,
when water could be offered him, he would
snatch the dipper and greedily gulp the
draught, upon which a spasmodic closure of
&imuZLra'L1Un we have known
for a long time of the Scriptural maxim, that
" unto them that have shall be given, and to
them that have not shall be taken away even
that they have,"' has recently occurred in our
city. The great, rich institution, the Louisi
ana State Bank, whose stwck is quoted at
$180-which has three millions and a half
specie in its vaults, and nearly six millions
invested in paper, loans, discounts, pledges
suddenly turned up the other day the legatee
of $150,000 bequeathed by a gentleman
in Mississippi, who is an entire stranger to
the bank, never having had any transactions
with it.
The circumstances are these: A rich old
planter named Matthews, desirous of spiting
his relations, left his property, exceeding
$150,000 in valne, to his illegitimate children
by a colored woman. and in the event of their
disability to inherit, to the Louisiana State
Bank. This will contained a few small lega
cies to his brothers and sisters. Under the
lair' of Mississippi, the colored children cannot
inherit, and the bank seems to have a pretty
clear prospect for this property. His white
relations, however, have commenced to contest
it, and the bank has employed counsel to
maintain its rights. -New Orleans Delta.
A FREE NEGRO AsKtIN To BE MADE A
So-Y.-A petition has. been filed, in the
clerk's office of the circuit court of this county,
by a negro niamed Wmn. Braxton, a free man,
praying that the court will consentto his being
a slave of Mr. Samuel House, of this county.
Branton was manumitted by the last will and
testament of Elijah Grenwell, deceased, of
this county, and having enjoyed, for several
years, Pennsylvania fr-eedom, has become
'isgusted and returns asking to be made a
slave-which blessing, of course, will be
granted him.-Romnney (Va.) Intelligencer..
GUARn AGAIST VULGAR LANGUAGE-There
is as much connection between the words and
thoughts, as there is bet ween the thoughts
and words; the latter are not only the ex
pressions of the former, but they have a power
to react upon the soul, and leave the stains of
their corruption there. A young man who
allows himself to use one profane - or vulgar
word, has not only shown that there is a foul
spot on his mind, but by the utterance of that
word he extends that spot and infiames it, till,
by indulgence, it will soon pollute and ruin
the whole soul. Be careful of your words as
well as your thoughts. If you can control
the tongue, that no improper words are pro
nouncedl by it, you will soon be able also to
control the mind, and save that fr-om corrup
tion. You extinguish the fire by smothering
it or by preventing bad thoughts from bursting
out in language. Never utter a word any
where which you would be ashamed to speak
in presence of the most refined or the most
religus. Try this practice awhile, and you
will soon have command of yourself.-New
Jersey Farmer.
.CaocKE-r-r's Lon CAsN.-On the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad, not far from Jackson, in
Tennessee, say an exchange paper, still standes
the humble log cabin, 18 by 20 feet in size,
built and occupied, while he lived in the. dis
trict, by the far-famed David Crockett. its
logs are fast decaying, and desolation sur
rounds it, but no traveler passes it without
an eager desaire to look upon the humble roof
that sheltered one of the truest repr esenta
tives of the American pioneer character-a
hero and an honest man. Near it is a rail
road station, called Crockett's Station ; around
it, perhaps, will arise a town, to hear and per
petuate a name as familiar to his couintrymen
as that of Jackson.
A correspondent of Porter-'s Spirit says:
" Did the U~nited States ad opt any mesures
to delay the European war ?" And answers
his own question, "Yes, they sent Morphy
over to hold their kings in check."
LAsT Sunday, in a Western village, when
the " plate" was being passe in chulrch, a
entleman said to the " olctr- Go on;i
{m a de.,4-bnd..nq o t a mas I"
Douglas and Iverton.--Who are the
Heretics? -
We publish in another column, a most re'
markable article from the Augusta Considu
tionalist. Senator Iverson has throw nhimselr
forward as the head and front, the very point
to the spear, of Southern ultraisni in Georgia
None so violent in his opposition- to Judge
Douglas' views on thi question of slavery in
the Territories. He declares that Douglas is
a traitor-a deserter-false to the party
-and recreant to the dictates of constitutional
obligation. That his territorial views are
wholly, unconditionally, and most perniciously
heretical. Such was the tenor of his recent
speech. It was abounding in all that could
enkindle the fires of enthusiasm in the ardent
bosoms of those whostill cherish the traditions
of.disunion and the bright, fanciful visions of
a Southern confederacy. It was evidently a
bold dash for leadership by 'an attitude of
vehement antagonism to Judge Douglas. Un.
fortunately for the Senator, he had in former
years been a member of the Federal
House of Representatives, and had there
expressed his views on the question that is
now being so uselessly agitated by politicians. I
Still more unfortunately, that speech was ae
curately recorded in the Congressional De
bates. And still more unforturiately, some
prying personage has rescued it from oblivion
and paraded it for special perusal at this time
-very inopportunely, Senator Iverson doubt
less thinks when " tho crisis is approaching,"
and Georgia elections are about to take place.
In this speech we find that Senator Iverson
occupied substantially the position which iow
strikes him as being so heretical in Judge
Douglas. It will be seen rhat he not only ad
vocated non-intervention by Congress, but
went the entire length and was willing to leave
it to the people of the Territories to decide,
without even providing for their unconstitu
tional legislation being over-ruled by judicial
interposition. This was the platform to which
he urged Northern men to meet him. Judge
Douglas meets him there by invitation;
together they fight through two Presidential
campaigns, when suddenly, after the lapse of
ten years of cordial co-operation, Senator
Iverson wheels upon his political confederate,
anathematises him as a heretic whom it were
contamination to associate with, and excom
municates him from the fellowship of the true
fold. Ce.n anything more strikingly illustrate
the wretched uncertainty of reliance in politi
cians, and the little significance really to be
attached to their buncombe declamation, pre
pared for temporary display?
Slavery in the Territories--Senator
Douglas and Senator Iverson.
In the speech delivered by him, on the oc
casion of his public reception by the citizens
of New Orleans, on the 5th December, 1848,
Mr. Douglas, in summing up his opinions in
eference to slavery'iu the Territories, said:
" if the people of a Territory are in favor
of slavery, they will make laws to protect it;
' ---~1 tr- -1---- they will notimake
. -~~~ ~ .~O"uild we quarre
about it ? ~ When you arrive at a certain dis
tance to tLe Northouf the line, there cannot
): any doubt of the resalt ; and so when: you
go a certain distance South, the result will
be equally certain the other way. But in the
great central regions, where there may be
some doubt as to the effect of natural causes,
who ought to decide the questioin except the
people residing there, who have all their in
terest thereo; who have gone there to live
with their wives and children? Any party
which attempts, by a system of coercion, to
force any insti tutions igia re-gions not adap
ted to tbein, violates the great principle on
which our government is founded.
" Youi now have my views on the subject
of slavery in the Territories. Practically,
they amount simply to this: If the people
want slave'ry, they will have it; if they do
not want it, they will not haive it, and you
cannot force it upon them.. If these princi
ples be recognized and adhered to, we can
live in peace and harmony together ; but just
as surely as you attempt to force the people
to have slavery against their will, in regions
to which it is not adapted, fanaticism will
take control of ihe Federal Government."
These were the views which were express
ed by the Senator fronm illinois, in his speech
at New Orleans. They were urged by him
before that speech, in his address to the peo
ple of Illinois, and after-'ardls asserted by
him on the floor of the Senate of the United
States.
In the speech delivered by isim in the House
of Representatives of the United States, on
the 26th of July, 1848, when the House, in
Committee of the Whole, had under consid
eration the bill to-organize a government for
the Territory of Oregon, the Hion. Alfred
iverson, in reference to the subject of slavery
in the Territories, said:
"Now, sir, whether the people, in their
Territorial capacity, can constitutionally or
rightfully exclude slavery, I am willing to
leave to the decision of the Supreme Court,
which many gentlemen contend is the proper
and constitutional tribunal for its decision, or
to the consideration and judgment of the
people themselves. It is a principle in hjuman
nature, as powerful as universal, that'politi
cal action of communities will be regulated
and controlled by the interests of the parties
concerned. If, therefore, it shall appear that
slave labor may be profitably employed in
these new Territories of the Union, and the
people are 'left free to act, they will adopt
the institution .of slavery. If. on the other
hand, it shall be found that the climate and
soil are not adapted to the profitable employ
ment of slave labor, no slaves will ever find
their way into the country, however wide
the door may be opened for their admnission
All that the South, therefore, can or ought to
ask is, that the people of tbe Territories be
left to decide this most important question
for themselves. If their interes-t dictates it,
slavery will be established in spite of the
prejudices, either of Mexican residents or
those who may emigrate from the States of I
this Government. Experience teaches that
the Yankee, who moves to and settles at the 1
South, where slave labor is profitable, is as1
willing and as ready to own slaves-aye, and
to task them, too-as those who have been
born and bred up in their midst. That zeal
for human freedom, so patriotically cultivated
and proclaimed in their native land, like the
courage of Bob Acres', 'oozes out at their
fngers' ends' as soon as they come under the
genial sun of Southern slavery. The promnpt
ings of ambition and interest soon overcome
the prejudices of early education. If slave
ry, then, cannot be pronitably introduced into
the country, it will never'go there, although
you may pass -laws recognizing its existence
and protecting its enjoyment.
" If it be profitable, depend upon it, the
people will have it in spite of prejudice, il
you do not prohibit it by Congressional leg
islation. Let, therefore, this exciting, dis
tracting, distui-bing subject, be left to the
judgment and decision of those who will be
most deeply interested in it and affected by
it. The~re it will be coolly considered and
prenr decided, and, a a Southern mans I
am willing to trust the decision and abide
the result.. Let it be.kept out of the halls of
Congress, for here, and here only, will. the
exercise of this dangerous and disputed power
put this experiment of a Federal Union to
the severest test."
. Let our readers compare these two extractA
from speeches of Senator Douglas and 'Sena
tor Iverson, and judge for themselves if there
is any difference in the opinions they express,
in refer-ence to the influences which will con
trol the determination of the question of
slavery in a Territory. The only difference
which we can see, is that the Georgia Sena
tor is more elaborate and more decided, than
the Illinois Senator, in the expre-sion of the.
same views. Both assert that the people of
the Territories will and ought to determine.
the question of slavery fo. themnelves-ac
cording to their interest.-that if they want.
blaves they will have. th;em; if they do not,
they will not have them, and there is no
power which can- force the institution of
slavery upon them. But Mr. Iverson is ex
plicit in declaring that slavery -will not go
into a Territory where it-cannot be profitably"
employed. and where, consequently, the peo
ple do not want it,- eien it ,Congress passes
laws " recognizing its existence - and.protect;
i g its enjoyment.1 - Why, then, does the
Seuator now insist that the South should de-,
mand from Congress protection to slave pro
perty in the Territories by Federal laws, and
make the refusal to grant itva cause for-the
dissolution of the Union 7-Augusta Consti-.
tutionalist.
The Results of the. War.
The New York Herald thus sums up the
results of the late war:
lut, it has been asked, what bas Italy gain
ed by the war? What us Austria lost by it ?
Italy has gained muich-gained almost all
that the must enthusiastic partisan of war
looked irward to-more than most people
expected she would gain. The kingdom of
Lombardy has been won from Austrian domi.
nation, aud goes to play its part in a free
constitutional Italy. T ,e princely puppets
that-governed Tucrany, Modena, Parma and
the quasi vice royalities of Austria, have been
Wet aside, and the people of thcse duchies are
n1ow-as Farini, the :ardinian Commissioner,
expresses it--iasters of' their own future,
fre, organized and armed It is only in
Venetia that -the yoke of tie Austrian still.
pres-.s; 'and eren there the movement
rr freedom is uot ended, f*.r we see that a.
ieputation of Venetians recently .waited on
he French ambassador at Turin to deliver an
address to the Emperor, protesting against
being left under the dominion- of Austria,
whether direct or indirec.. This determina.
Lion en the part of the Venetians will not be
ithout its due weight upon the conferences
at Zuricb, though it is not to be expected that,
it will have the ellhet of inducing Austria to
ren3lnce her rights to Venetia.
This is what Italy has gained by the short
but. sanguinary and decisive struggle-in which
Lanee lent hersword to freedlm. And what
.rol aid influence. In fict, all that su.
ained in Italy for the last half er-utury is lost
:u her. ,Nothiug remains but Venetia and
wen there, as we have intimated, her rule is
,v no means secure.
in view of these lhets. how could it be main
ained for a moment that the war had no
'ruits, or that the peace was prematurely and
uconsiderately made ? At first that was the
ery general inpression ; but now that tihe
rists-of passion and prejudice are clearing
tway, people see that, the outery made against
:he \ illa Franca peace wa~s unwarrantedl.
'o be sutre, Italian afflirs are att present.'in a
rather chaotic condition : lbut we may be con
idcnt that out of that chaos will come order
-the order of libernd and enlighteuied institu
tions. It will lbe for the Zurich conferenei',
in part, to promote and give direction t.: that
transition movement. In part, the work d.
rolves upon the Italian petopmle themselve..
Mat. Diatrra'r, -ru Nu'.in~r;m:?x Mixtsvnv.
-The Washingtun Sla/es of .'.lounday, say's:
31r. Dimnitrv will leave Wathington at a
very early day, perhaps next Saturday, for
Central America. lie will bie instrutedl not
to persernt his credentials to the Nicaraguan
governmient, unless thar gtov*'ru:mtnt expunges
the obnoxiou, articles ini the Liiaar-Zeledon
treaty, which no doubt, will bie done long be
fore .\r. Dimitry reaches Nicaragua. We
are satisfied, in fact, that it has already bee-n
acomplished.
Our friend Dimnitry we must congratulate.
He will have few difieulties to contend with,
but what, with his goo~d judgmnent and lelas
iu manners. he w~ill soon overcome. The,
most seriou~s dillicult we apprehend, will be to
make the Nicaraguanis believe he is a bona
fidc American. Hie look~s so much like one
o their countrymen, and speaks their lani
uagTe so correctly, that they will swear this
government has autempted to humbug them in
palming hinm off upo : them as an American.
itien. But he will :an a tte thrat matter to
the 'satisfaction of all. To y will soon be sat
isfied that Alexander Di.... .'. not only a
native born American citizeo, ,ut one of 'the
most patriotic among us...
A TIrstLv SrGGEsrox.-A Southern jmir
nalist. wiio was once employed in the arduous
duties of taking the cetisus, to avoid many of~
he inconveniences attending upon that duty,
makes the following timely suggestions for
1860:
" Now, what we suggest is, that each far
mer this fall, as h~e gathers his crops, shall
keep something like an acconutt of the quan
ity and value of the same ; and, if he will
ake the trouble to make out a statement of the
tames and ages of his family; the number
f acrea ot land, cleared and timbered ; the
iumber and ages of his servants ; the umber
md value of his horses and mules; the num-.
>er of bales of cotton, barrels of corn, bushels
>f wheat, oats, rye, barley. potatoes, &c., and
he value of each, and leave it in some place
there any member of the famnily who may
e at home when the Deputy Marshal 'shall
~all, can readily get hold of it, it will save
ime to all concerned, and very greatly assist
a make the census returns perfect, compilete
md satisfactory."
A Posrmn.-Ned wvas arguing in faivor of
~ivimg woman the elective franchise. " Why
houldn't women vote as well as men ? Are
hey not as capableof forming correct opinions
y political subject<? Many a woman knows
nore than her husband." ' That may be,"
aid Jim, " but do you suppose IPd have ras
ally politicians come electioneering with my
rie ?" Ned was silenced.
Cot.jw's-r STAYn THE Doeroas.-Some
rears since an old Revolutionary soldier,
namied' Benj. Johnson, of Milford, Mass., was
struck by lightning, but not killed. For two
iys be was. insensible, .wlien two doctors
we're called, who said he would die. Just at
that moment his. speech <iame to 1dm, and.
calling his wife by' name,. he said, " I have
stood, cannon-and musket balls 'd baybnet,
and Lecan stand thunder and lightninzg, if the'
doctors, will only let me biel"--and sure
enough he reovered. - -