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"WE WILL CLING TO THE PILLARS OF THE TEMPLE OP OF LIOU TI28, AND IF IT MUST ?ALL, WE WILL PERISH AIDST THE BUINS SIMKINS, DURISOE & C0., Proprietors. EDEFIELD, S. C. OCTOBER 12, 1869. VOLUME XXIV.--o. 40. OF rHE FOURTH ANNUAL FAIR OF THE EDGEFIELD DISTRICT AGRICUL TURAL SOCIETY, To be held at Edgef/eld C. H., Tuesday, the 1#1 Horembcr, 1859. -0 Field Crop#.-The greatest production of cotton upon one acre of improved upland by the aid of domestic manures-with the mode of cultivation, the amount and kind of manure used, the prepara tioh of the soil, period of planting, the number of times plowed and hoed, the curiety of cottn-a.-tbe laud to be measured and the cotton weighed and vouched for by affidavit; the report to be made to the Secretary and submitted to the Executive Committee by the first of January next. Pre. The greatest production of Corn upon one acre of restored upland, the mode of planting, manur ing, kind of manure used and variety of corn stated under the same requisitions. Pre. The largest yield of wheat upon one or more acres under the same requisitions. Pre. Samples of Field Orope.-Best Bushel of wheat with a sheaf of the same. Pre. Best bushel of Corn with a dozen ears. Pre. Best variety of Sweet Potatoes, not less than a bushel. Pre. Best variety of field Peas, not less than a bushel. Pre. Best bushel of Irish Potatoes, with the mode of Cultivation, &c. Pre. Best bale of Hay made in the District. Pre. Cattle.-Best Bull of improved breed, 3 years old or more. Pre. 2nd Best Bull of improved breed, 3 years old or more. Pre. Best Bull or Heifer, from 1 to 3 years old. Pre. 2nd Best Bull or Heifer, from 1 to 3 years old. Pre. Best sucking Calf. Pre. Best Cow for milking qualities, without regard to blood. Pre. Best pen of Cattle not less than five. Pre. Best Yoke of Oxen raisud in the Dristrict. Pre. 1lorses..-Best Blooded Stallion, Maro or Colt, of any age raised in the District. Pre. Best Stallion for heavy draft of any age. Pre. Best Brood Mare of any age. Pre. Best Colt.3 years old. Pre. 2nd Best Colt 3 years old. Pre. Best Cult 2 years old. Pre. 2nd Best Colt 2 years old. Pre. Best Colt 1 year old. Pre. 2nd Best Colt 1 year old. Pre. Best sucking Colt, without regard to blood. Pre. Jfnleo.-Best Mule 3 years old. Pre. 2nd Best Mule 3 years old. Pre. Best Mule 2 years old. Pre. 2nd Best Mule 2 years old. Pre. Best Mule 1 year old. Pre. 2nd Best. Mulo 1 year old. Pre. Best sucking Colt. 1e. For the best pair of Camels. Pre. .facks and Jenaett.-Best and largestJack. Pre. Best and largest District raised Jack. Pre. Best Jack or Jennett raised in the District 2 years or under. Pre. Best and largest Jennett. Pre. Best and largest Jennett raised in tho Dis trict. Pre. Hoge.-Best Boar of improved Broed. Pre. Best Sow of improved breed. Pre. Best Sow and pigs. Pre. Best pen of Stock hogs not less than six. Pre. Best lot of fat hogs not less than three. Pre. Best young hogs of native stock, not less than two. Pre. Sheep.-Best Buck of improved blood. Pre. Best Ewe of improved blood. Pre. Best pen consisting of a Buck, Ewe and Lamb. Pre. Goate.-BesL Cashmere Grades. Pre. Fish.-Best specimen of brim, from a District. fishpond. Pre. Best specimen of red-belly, from a District fishpond. Pre. Southcrn Farming frplement.-Best District made wrought-iron 2 horse mould buard-plow. Pre. Best wrought-iron subsoil plow. /Pre. Best wrought-iron sweep. Pre. Best Southern Road Wagon. Pre. Best Common plow stock with a correct state ment of the rule by which it is made. Pre. Best harrow. Pre. District Domestic Manufactures.-Best woolen Blanket. Pre. Best 10 yards (negro) Woolen Cloth. Pre. Best 10 yards Woolen Jeans. Pre. Best Coverlet of wool or cotton. Pre. Best pair of woolen Socks or Stockings Pre. Best specimen of Sewing Silk. Pre Best specimen of Silk anid Woolen cloth. Pr. Best Rag Carpet. Pr. Best imitation of Marseilles Counterpain. Pre. Fine Art.-Best Oil Paintings, done in the Dis trict. Pr. Best Paintings in Water Colors, done in the District. Pre. Best Fancy Paintings, &e., Pr. Household Departmnt.-Best Jar Leaf Lard not less than 291b. Pr. Best 10 lbs. of Hard Domestic Soap. Pr,. Best 5 lbs. of Toilet Soap. Pre. Samples of Jellies, Preserves, Pickles, Catsups, Syrups, Cordials &c., with full description of the process of manufacture, keeping, &c., for each kind. Pre. Best specimen of Domestic Wine, not less than two bottles, under the above requisitions, for each kind. Pre. Best half bushel of dried, apples, peaches, or fruit of any kind. Pr,. Best specimen of hermetically sealed fruits. Pre,. Best specimen of vegitables for table use, her metically sealed and prt-served. Pre. Best gallon home made Vinegar. Pre. Best specimen of Tallow Candles, Pre. Best specimen of Starch. Pr. Best Sample of Chinese Sugar Cane Syrup. Pr. Best Ham. . Pr. Best sack of Flour. .Pr. Best loaf Bread. Pr., Best jar of Butter not less than 5 lbs. Pre. Fest District made Cheese. P-e. Best District made Corn brooms. Pr. Fruits.-Best Apples, Poaches, Pears, Quinces Grapes, Plums or Watermelons. ' Pr. Poultry.-Best pair District Raisel Dorkings Prie. Best p'idr Barnyard Fowls. Pr. Best pair of Game Fowls. Pr. Best pair Domestic Turkeys. P're. Best pair Eastern Geese. Pr. Best pair Muscovy Ducks. Pe Best pair Pua~dile Ducks. Pr. Best p ,ir White Guinea Fowls. Pr. Best pair Java Duck,. -Pre. Best pair Native Geese: Pr. Rlunfacture in Leather.-Best dorzen pair of Brogans made in the District. P're. Blest specimen of leather tanned in the District. Pr. Southern Jfruiufceture.-Best Buggy or Carriage made in the District. Pe J);.,trict X.Jfuecture.-Best Stone ware or erockery. Pr,. Best Tin wnre. Pre. .Ve'dt Work.-Most beautiful Collar and Chem isette. Pe Most beamutiful Undlersleeves. P're. Most beauti'uI hanokerchief. Pre. Most beautiful Old Lady's Cap. Pre. Most beautiful Shawl or Mantle. Pr. Most beautiful Child's Dress. Pr. Most beautiful Child's Sack or Spencer. Pr. Most beautiful Child's Cloak. Pre. Recst-Pitch Work Quilt. Pre Best Patch Work in Silk. Pre. Best Crib Quilt. Pre. NOTICE TO EXHIBITORS. Exhibitors are requested to furnish lists of their articles three days previous to the day of exhi lition. Mr. JAxES I[. MIMs, Secretary, will re .jeive them att the place. The dlay after the Fair-day will be salesday, on which the articles ou exhibition can be offered for sale b.y thuse who desire to do so. Other articles of rare merit not mentionod above, will be received, sssigned to suitable committees and share in the awards according to their excel lence. The above-offored Premziums are all bonafide and will be exhibited on the day of the Fair, va ring in value fronm $~2 to $10 each.. *Come up, Farmers. Planters, Mechanics, House. keepers, &c., &c., in all your strength.. A. L. DEARLING, Pres. DENTISTB;Y, D R.J B COURTNEY will prompt ly perform all work in the line or Dentistry that may be entrusted to him. He will take pleasure in waiting on those desiring his services at their residene if they will notify him through the oficee a~t Edgefleld C. 11. He will be at tho Village Sale days and Co.urt -ek. nQ M 1. 8 From the Columbia Courant. Love Me Much, and Love Me Long. BY MRS. 3r. W. SynATTOX. " Love me little, love me long," That may do for book and song, But for woman's fond heart-never, She love? deeply, and for ever. Love me much, and loc twe long, Is the burden of her song. Trusting all her soul's devotion On Love's wild, uncertain ocean Hoarding dream, nor hope, nor prayer, But your image mingles there. Thinkest thou she e'er can be Content with any less from thee ? Little knows he woman's heart, Who deems her half content with part Content with a divided treasure Wooed by rule, and loved by measure. Love me much, and love me long, Is the burden of her song. Love her wholly-love her ever Love her thus, or from her sever, Ere her heart has twined around thee, Ere she curse the hour she found thee, Ere to breathe the word farewell, Be to her like funeral knell. The sudden love may burn to waste, And sudden vows repent their haste; So let it be, ere thou dost bring A cool and cautious offering. Love me much, and love me strong Is the burden of her song. And in your poverty or wealth Or in your sickness, or in health High on the pinnacle of fame, Or in the lowest depths of shame, Where thou art, there will she be, Clinging fondly still to th6e. Let no icy caution, stealing O'er your heart, congeal its feeling. Fear you not to trust too much, Woman shrinks from jealous touch, Love me trustingly and long Is the burden of her song. Such the love that she would gain; All cooler feeling comes in vain, Or, coming, breaks a blissful spell, And true lore weeps her last farewell. Love me deeply, love me long, Is the burden of her song. When hope is young, and life is new, And pleasures many-sorrows few, We lightly meet, and lightly part, With many a fond and faithful heart; But memory brings, in after years, Regret, remorse, and bitter tears. Colanib, Sept. 10th, 1S59. Life's a desert to Those that Make It. Some say life's a desert dreary, Which affords no joy or bliss; And, alas! that man shculd wander On a friendless earth like this; But man makes his pathway drearer By 'er thinking of life's woe; And 'tis true this world's a desert But to those who make it so. Some are ever discontented, Bright howe'er their lot may e; Whilst, amid the poor and friendless, We may still contentment see: 'Tis not always with the lowly That contentment dwelleth not; We may seek it in the palace, Find it in the humble cot. A Sad Domestic Story. hI the Palmer (Mass.) Journal of the 3d instant, in the obituary column, we find the following annloulncelet: Died --"26, Mary, 20, R1. L." W e also find the following editorial paragraph, which it would seeml has relation t9 that an nouncement: "In another column we record the death of a youn~g lady who died of a broken heart. We do not like to trespass upon the sacredness of domestic grief, to un fold the details of her sad story, but when the privacy of anfliction becomes public feeling, it is not improper for the press to place the events on record. It is not ne cessary to repeat names or relate minute particulars. It is enough that we draw the outlines of a picture for the reader to paint with appropriate colors. Many months ago, in the neighboring town of Belchertown, a young man sought and received the promise of the hand of a young lady, whose home w as in the lap of luxury, whose men'tal and personal at tractions made all pleasant around her. Like too many confiding ones of her sex, she trusted man's unhallowed promnise, and yielded all to him. " From that hour he estranged himself from her, and soon removed to a distant State. When it became evident that he had exposed haimrself to the penalty of the law, at the request of her friends he visited her to fulfil the vows he had long before made. They were married in one of those hasty, unceremnonirous ways which occupy but little time or attention. Late in the evening they returned to her fath er's house, where he left her in the street, promising to return in a short time. But that promise was never fulfilled. She wrote to him, and received encourage muent that he would soon provide a home fo.r her, but delay followed delay, till her letters and entreaties were unheeded and unanswered. A t length-a pledge of wo mant's love for her hlusband camefl into the world to open newv fountains of affection to the young wife~. Still the husband and father camne not. " The mother .recovered from the con finement, but, after repeated letters to her husband found no answer. The idea that she was deserted by him ibreed itself upon her, and she gave way to despondency and despair. The child, partaking of its moth. er's grief, soon died. Tlhere was nothing more that she could live for ; and, though suffering from no disease, she sank upon a dying bed. 'Then the swift wing of lightning bore to the distant husband the intelligence that she wvas dying. He still hesitated, but at length set out to meet his expiring wife. Conscious that her hours were few. she only wished to live lung enougri to see her husband ; he was still all to her. 11cr last words to her friends were: "'Tell him that I still love im-that I died for him." When eve ing shadowed the earth the husband came. As lie approached the bedside of his in jured wife, he was recognized, and the words " Ie's coine" burst from her lips. Already had the wing of the death angel cast its shadow over that dwelling, and she was entering the dimness of the dark valley. Next morning in that room lay the corpse of a beautiflii young wife, on which the husband had looked for the last time and departed. "Last Sabbath afternoon, the funeral of the young wife took place under her father's roof Her neighbors and friends, to the number of five hundred, were pres ent; but the husband who had left her to die for him, was not there. A deeply aflbcting address was made by her former pastor, and, just as the sun was sinking behind the western hills, four young la dies of her acquaintance, clad in garments of white, bore her to a grave in the gar den, where the green turf was-laid gently over her. Such is the story of one who died of a broken heart. The grave is a quiet place for the injured wife, but where in all the world can there be peace for him who would thus bring sorrow and death upon her ? The story has its moral, but we will leave the reader to apply it; it is full of warning, and we leave the young to heed it." From the Boston Jourani.] The Thoughtless Sprite. A STORY FOR CHILDREN. Once upon a time, a mountain spirit said coaxingly.to the streams which -o leaping dowit the outer spurs and peaks of the Alps into the Adriatic, between the Piave and the Adige, "Play with me, play with me." But they all answered, "No, we are too busy." "Too busy," replied the little spirit " Too busy, indeed! I should like to know what you are doing but dancing, singing and thundering-frolicking, in fact, the whale way from this to the great gulf. Yes, what indeed?" " We are laying the foundation for a city which will be the wonder of the world," was the reply. " Ha ! ha !" shouted the spirit, and though she was so small, her voice sound ed through the glens, and was caught up and repeated by the tree crested hill tops. Ha! ha!" It was a mocking laugh, but the streams did not heed it. They went diligently on, depositing far out in the Adriatic the earth, twigs, and pebbles which they gathered in their course. "Ha! ha!" shouted the spirit once more. "In a hundred years, or so, I will come again." The hundred years passed by, and the merry trifler flew down to see what the streams had done. " Ha! ha! ho! ho!" she laughed even louder than before ; for she found only a long narrow network of islands, and a few poor people who had escaped the sword of the conquerer, Attila, and who exchanged salt and fish for the most necessary articles of food and cloth ing. "Ha! ha! ho! ho! a great city indeed !" and she flitted back to her mos sy caverns and shaded dells. It was a long, long tine before the heedless elf thought of the steady toil of her old acquaintances, or of the misera ble exiles living in huts on the growing sandbanks. At last, however, it occurred to her it might be well to pay them an other visit. What was her amazement upon beholding the change. .Sitting by the sea, as if born of its sparkling waves, was a wilder-ness of churches and palaces, of great marts trodden by the feet of crowding strangers, of massive walls, fine domes, and stately towers, while the rosy sunset touched the broad Lagune, crim soned the countless sails, and glowed on the green islands outlying towvard the ocean. 'The gorgeous banner of the city, with its winged lion, symbolled the sov creignty of rich eastern territories, of Candia, also Cyprus and the Marea, and smiling provinces on either shore of the classic sea. Sixteen thousand men wrought in her arsenal; forty thousand manned her war-ships. Her glass works furnished the world with crystal fabrics ; velvet's, and silks, and cloths of gold mul tiplied in her mianuthetories. Uncounted halls were gilded, tapestried, and filled with lovely landscapes and speaking por traits. Exquisite sculpture invited to study, painted windows let in tinted light upon floors. qand walls, and roofs dazzling with mosai'-s of precious stones ; and columns of porphyry, alabaster, and ser pentine upheld marble arches marvellous in their grace and beauty. Gates of brass inlaid with silver, pictured pavements, arcades, and cloisters, and galleries magi cal in their proportions, fairy like spires, and gossamer carving alike sought and and gossamer carving alike sought and satisfied the eye. The sun went down behind the Tyrol, draping in regal purple the Enganean hills, the Frulian mountains, the distant continent, and festive Venice, when suddenly the vast square of St. Mark with its cathedral and palaces burst into light along its myriad curves and dis tances, and hights, and points, a miracle of flaming architecture in honor of a for eign king. Awed by the scene, the mountain spirit kept silence for awhile, and then softly whispered : " Who shall rea~d in the be ginning of things the prophecy of their end!l" Dear children, you-like the far off streams-are, day by day, hour by hour-, minute by minute, laying the foundation of Character ; and your Future is the city which will be built thereon. Each of your thoughts however fleeting, each purplose however momentary, each word however trifling, each deed however appar-ently unimportant, has a voiceless and unseen influence which none can esti mate, and whose result none can foresee. Be not, however, for this, moping and sad. Be gay anid hopeful with the bright sun shine, the fraran-ut flowers, the melodious birds; butt be 'also industr-ious, patient, obedient, loviing and true ; so shall life be to you good if not great, and the light labor of your childhood antd youth will sustain a noble superstructur-e raised by your matu rer years. The Boston Post's remar-ks on the re cent negro celebration induced one of the b~rethren to send in a lock of hisi hair. The Posi, man resuests him to call and staighten it. Unmarried Women. Why is it that there are so many ffe males unmarried among us?--femalis, too, of the right age, and all the qualifiia tions requisite for the marriage state-e. males capable of making any reasonable man happy. Why is it that they remain year after year in a single state? Surely the fault cannot be theirs. There. are young men enough to give all the young women husbands, -to support them w i, and help them to bring up and educat a family, if they would set about the affair in right good earnest. Why don't they do it? They are fearful of changing their situations, lest poverty come upon them, or they get taken in by those who are full of love and smiles at present, and cross and tyrannical when their objects are se cured. The first objection vanishes when the true state of the case is known. -A good wife is an assistant instead of A tn. cumbrance. A man who can barely su'p port himself, while leading a single life, will more than support himself and wife in the married state. 'Thisis seen by'facts of every day occurrence. The lattir ob jection has no foundation. Because a few men live unhappily in the married state, it is no reason that every one will; and generally the fault lies with the husband. We will be bound to say it, if a young man starves for happiness and peace at home, he will assuredly obtain them; but if he departs from his duty, he cannot ex pect any thing but sorrow. Let our young men, who are old enough to form connections, and who can work for a living, see to it that the young wo men are furnished with husbands. Some thing must be wrong, when so many of both sexes are being strangers tn each other-moping away existence, wi. ii they might do good and be happy. What say you, reader? Will you put off duty? Shall we preach to you in vain?-The Press. Is it not So? Suspenders are being adopted as an article of wearing apparel for ladies. Those in mar ket are made in New York. Of course, every thing worn by the fair sex resembling in character the attire of men, must-excell theirs in quality. So these are made of delicate, white, elastic fabric, with a frilled edge about an inch wide. We see no good reason why the suspender should not be generally used by the women, to assist in supporting the skirts, whose weight is the excuse and pallia tion of hooped skirts. The argument against them is that they are calculated to induce curvature of the spine, and that the peculiar conformation of the waist and ips of woman renders any such expedient unnecessary i4 her case; but it is a .physiological fact this weakness of the stomach, falling fits, faintness, and general weakness of the spine, have been the result of carrying heavy skirts without any support, and elastic braces, properly ar ranged and worn, will tend in a great measure to obviate these difficulties. While the hooped skirt is exceedingly convenient and useful in Summer, it -has been demonstrated by the ex perience of many wearers that something warmer, and more closely enwrapping the limbs, is required in Winter, when the tem perature ranges about zero, and the snows are whirling along the sidewalks before every breeze. If suspenders will give the fair sex an opportunity for making this reformn, we are for them. Male sovereignty can tolerate an infraction of apparel tending so far upon its peculiar province, now that it has consented to let the "dear creatures" wear breeches and India rubber boots. THAT's So.-When a rakish youth goes astray friends gather around him in order to restore him to the path of virtue. Gentleness and kindness are Javished upon him to bring him back to innocence and peace. No one would ever suspect that he had sinned. But when a poor confiding girl is betrayed, she receives the. brand of society, and henceforth driven from the ways of virtue. ADvANTAGES OF WOMEN OvEa MEN. Some one sums up the advantagas of wo men over men as follows; " A woman may say what she pleases to you without being knocked down for it. She can take a snooze after dinner, while her husband has to go to work. She can go forth into the streets without being invited to treat at every coffee-house. She -can paint her face if it is too pale, and flour it if too red. She can stay at home in time of war, and wed if her husband is killed. She can wear corsets if too thick-other fixing if too thin. She can eat, drink and be merry, without costing a cant. She can get divorced frorn her husband when ever she sees one she likes better. She can get in debt all over, until he warns the public by advertisements not to trust her on his account any longer." To CLEANe TUFg HAIR AND PREVENT nia FALLING OUT.-We give the simplest and safest preparation known to us : 'Take two large handfuls of rosemary leaves, a piece of common soda about the size of a hazel nut, a drachm of camphor. Put it in a jug, pour on it a quarteof boil ing water, and cover it closely to keep the steam in. Let it stand for twelve hours, then strain it, and add a wine-glass ful of rum. It is then ready for use. itf the hair falls off much, the wash ought to be applied to the roots with a piece of sponge every other day, takn care to wet the skin thoroughly. The1, rub dry with a towel, brush well, and use only as much pomade as will keep down the short hair soft and glossy. This will keep good for several months in bottles well corked, and a piece of camphor in each. Some people in the world appear to find their highest pleasure in being a sort of social hyenas, gathering together and digging up the reputations of frail, fallen men and women, to feast with greediness and delight, whining and howling over the loathsome repast the while, as if they felt sincerely sorry to have found corruption, when they sought for' it alone. Have we not all sins enough to make us patient, if we can not be charitable toweard other sinners ? Stop mouse-holes with plugs of common hard soap, and you will do it effectually. Rats, roaches and ants will not disre ard it Advice to Farmers. Jacob Strawn is said to be most extensive and successful farmer in Illinois, though not doing so much as formerly. He gives the following advice to farmers: When you wake up, do not roll over, but roll out. It will give you time to ditch all your sloughs, and break them up, and harrow them, and sow them with timothy, and a small portion of red clover with it. One bushel of clover to ten of the timothy is sufficient. Make your fence high, tight, and strong, so that it will keep your cattle and pigs out. If you have brush, make your fence secure, and be sure to keep pigs and hogs from the cattle; for if the corn is clean they will eat it much better than if it is not. Study your interest closely, and do not spend one-twentieth part of your time in electing Presidents, Senators, or small officer?, and talking of hard times while spending your time in town, sitting on the store boxes, and whittling all the soft wood up, instead of leaving It to kindle fires with, so that they can get to business. Be sure to get your hands to bed early, and they will have to rise early by the force of circumstances. Pay a hand-if he is a poor hand-all you promise him ; if he is a good hand, pay a little more; it will encourage him to do a little better. When I was younger and employed a great many hands (I have employed over two hundred a day,) I made it a universal rule, all the time, to pay good hands more than I promised them. I thought it brought me more interest than any money I ever handled. Extra pay is appreciated by a good young man much. Always feed them as well as you feed yourselves, for the labor ing men are the hope and sinew of the world, and ought to be well treated. All our wealth and fine clothes come by hard labor. Our best girls, if they would go to bed three hours earlier than their usual time, and get up two hours s5oner, which would give them one hour more sleep than they now have, and when they did get up, help prepare the break fast, wash the dishes, and sling the pots around, not so as to over-strain themselves, they would be much more healthier, more handsome, and get better husbands. I am satisfied that getting up early, indus. try and regular habits, are the best medicines ever prescribed for health. Look at our gen eral-land surveyors, when fi.st running off the land in the West, wading in water from the shue-mouth to the waste, at night making calculations, keeping their minds employed, were all well and hearty, while the hands employed in carrying the chain, when they had nothing to do, laid down and died like rtten.h.eep. When did you ever know of a General in an army who was a man, but who was at his post when duty called for it, in good health ? Look at our neighbors in the spring, about the time that their corn should be planted. They get in a hurry, getting harness, plows and almost everything be longing to their business-bustling around, going to mill, getting a part of a luad of wood at a time, and not enough to haul a full load at a time-ihey are so extremely hurried to get their corn planted. If they would keep at work all the season, we would starve the lawyers and whip the doctors. When it come rainy, bad weather, so you cannot plow, cut and split your wood. Make your rakes when it rains hard, cleaning your stables or fixing something in-doors that that you might have to stop the plow to fix in good weather. A STRIKING SIMILARITY.-.We were dis ussing with some friends a short time backs as to which animal nearest approached man in its instincts and habits. As is the general pinion, the monkey was thought to be the one. But we differed, and proved by the following facts that the flog is nearest our type: 1st, The Ilogs are the only animals, we believe, that slcp together. 2nd, The og is omnnirorous. 3rd, Renmarkably selfish -always for No. 1. 4th, Will run to the cry f distress, if it comes from one of his kind. 5th, Ready to oppress and drive away the weaker to get all the good. 6th, When filled to satisfaction, never looks to the wants of others. 7th, Would not hunt food unless ncessity compelled. 8th, The only animal we ever heard the devil getting into except man. The above eight similarities to the human race, in a general point of view, cannot be found in any other animal, we think ; if so,'let us hea- which one. Tobacco was introduced, into Spain from America. When Colum bus discoverdl the New World, the practice of burning the weed between the lips was universal. The Indians of America were undoubtedly the earliest snufftakers, for it is mentioned in the nar rative of the second voyage of Columbus, that the herd was reduced to a powder and that the natives took it through a cane half a cubit long, one end of which they placed in the nose and other upon the powder, and thus snuffed it up. One of the effects produced by this mode of snuff-taking was severe purging, instead of sneezing. It is supposed by some, that the plant took its name from a province of St. Domingo called Tabac, but others trace it to tabae, the Indians name for pipe stem. To Raphelegni is awarded the dis tinction of having first puffed the pipe in England and he acquired the accomplishment in Virginia. We may here add,,that though cattle, sheep, and pigs, neither smoke nor snuff, yet they somnetimnes eat the " vile weed" with avidity, notwithstanding the popular belief to the contrary. A married man says that when he first married, he had been in the happy state of matrimony just six months, he loved his wife to such a degree that he thought he could have eaten her up, and he was very sorry he hadn't. A PRoFITABLE PEAcH OUoHARD.-At St. Joseph, Michigan, there is a peach or chard covering only five acres of ground, from which the owner has already sold, *this year, over nine thousand dollars worth of peaches. He finds a market in Mil waukee and Chicago for all the peaches he c a wB A et. .- . . The Cause of the San Juan War. The following is a brief review of the trouble in the North-west, which, in the opinion of some, threatens a war with England. The island of San Juan or Bel levue is considcred to be a disputed point between American and English territory. It is between fifteen and eighteen miles long, by seven at the widest part. It is peopled chiefly by a few American squat ters, an English squire (an employee of the Hudson Bay Company) and a rumber of unruly hogs, some of whom belong to the squire. The quarrel is all about:hese hogs. Said hogs porsisted in breaking through the hedges and digging up and eating up the potatoes of Mr. Cutter, an American settler. le gave them-that is, their masters-a fair warning, and then shot one of them, which turned out to be a boar belonging to the squire. A r. Cut. ter was sorry, or offered to pay ; but the squire had sworn vengeance; he at tempted to have Cutter arrested and brought to Victorta, there to be tried and transported. Now there happened to be some United States troops, under General Harney, at hand, and when a British war steamer arrived from Victoria to -carry off .ir. Cutter, General Barney refused to deliver him up. It was then that the question arose as to) whose jurisdiction the island of San J uian ! .:tlongs. Warlike preparations now connuiiaenced on both sides. The Enigli.lh hesitated to strike the first blow. The Amsenbly in Victoria have issued a long addre.ss to Governor Douglass, setting forth that it would be a lasting disgrace to the lBriti.,h name if the Americans were not at once driven from the island. Governor Doig'ass does not know what to do. The Englisheommander of the naval force in those water: is re ported to have said that " the first broad. side he would fire at the American settle. ment on San Juan would cost England more than the island is worth." In the meantime, the Americans have received reinforcements from Steilacoom, etc., and commenced fortifications. There are al ready five companies of infantry and four of artillery on the spot. The island is thus practically " annexed." Both sides are "spoiling" for a fight, but, according to the latest news, Governor Douglas will send to St. James' for instructions. If a war ensues, that boar of a squire har been the cause of it.-New York Post. Gen. Lane for the Presidency. "The Memphis Avalanche of Monday last in a very able editorial, nominates Gen. Joseph Lane; of Oregon, " the Ma rion of the Mexican var," for the Presi dency in 1800. Gen. Lane deserves all that the Avalanche says in his praise. We cordially agree with our contemporary that his political record is without stain, and that his nomination would be bailed with enthusiasm by the Democratic mas ses in all sections of the country."-Nash ville Union. "It is conceeded generally that the next Democratic nomination is due the South. We believe that the South shall furnish the man, but if one is taken from the North, then in our opinion, Gen. Lane is pre-eininently the man for the crisis." Louisville Courier. We hve just seen and conversed with a very intelligent and influencial man from Indiana, who says that Gen. Lane can sweep that State by a larger vote than was ever given to any other man. Hie says that Geni. Joseph Lane is the mnan for the times, and no man can beat him in the Southwest, where he is generally known, and as generally beloved.--Balti more Republican. MENTm IMPRovEENT.-Whatever may be said about rights and privileges, it is very certain that the man who is seeking steadily to inform his mind amnd improve his heart, is much more likely to get all these rights and privileges than one who only talks about them ; he- works surely, although silently. Looking at the sub ject ini this way, it is hard to say whether the necessity for improving the mind, or the pleasure of so doing, is the greater. The necessity may be considered in another light. In this country there is a cont inual rising upward ; artizans become emplop ers, employers grow into wholesale tra ders, or merchants rise into magistrates or go into Congress-and thus they go on from one rank to another. Now if a man does not make up his mind to nmarch with those who arc going forward, he will, of course, be outstripped by more aftive competitors. Moost persons have a desire to better their condition. .We see some go about it in a business like way ; with them every step tells there is much gained, while others are at a loss: they have no clear notions of what it is they strive for, and waste their time and labor in uncer tainty. The persevering meet with little helps and encouragement on every h~nd ; but the slow and unwilling fancy that everything is against them, they neither know what to do nor how to do it. The only hope for such people is in mental or self improvement. iiE HAD HIM THERE.-A traveller once arrived at a village inn after a hard day's travel, and being very tired, requested a room to sleep in, but the land lord said they were entirely full, and that it was utterly impossible to accommodate him ; that his wife had to sleep on the sofa and himself on the floor; but he would see what his wife could do for him. The good woman on being applied to, said there wras a room which he might occupy, provided he would agree to the conditions, viz: to enter the room late, in the dark, and leave it early in the morning, to pre vent scandal, as the rooms was occupied by a lady. This lie agreed to do. About two o'clock in the morning an awful noise was heard in the house, and our friend tme traveller was heard tumbling heels over head down stairs. The landlord, on arriving~ at the spot, inquired. what the matter~ was; the traveller ejaculated as soon as he was able to speak " Oh, lord! that woman's dead." "I know that," replied the landlord; "but how did you find it out'f" ion W AGES.-A San Francisco wri ter, of late date, says the following~are about the rates of wages now pid: Car enters, from $4 to $67 per dy;- brick l.a....Ad ma..... from $4n M blak smiths, wheelwrights, maehinists, paintri tinsmiths, from $3 to $4.50, common In. borers, $3, farm hands from $30 to *40. per month, and found, servants from $25. to $40 per month, and fomnd ; cooks from $30 to $60. The Louisiana Vigilance Committee. The Attapas Register, of the 24th ult. eays: It was brought to the Governor's notice that three of the victims -of the Vigilants had died from the severity of the brutal whippirg inflicted upon- them, that one had been shot and stabbed, that a number of other dead bodies had been found in the prairies, and that women and children were dying in th, prairies, whose fathers, husbands and brothers have been driven from their homes by the Vigilante I A sad catalogue of crimes are these, indeed, to be perpetrated in a civilized community 1 And to cap the climax of au dacity, it is said that Judge Simon has been notified not to attempt to hold court in the Parish of Vermillion. It is with much difli culty that we are able to credit this last, .for it seems to usincredible that men of the least intelligence can be so infatuated as to hope to be able to trample the courts of the State under foot, unless they are prepared to cal. the climax of their lawless deeds by the crime of .treason, the highest crime known to the laws of any State, and to attempt a revulu tion of the government. The Planters' Banner, of the same date, says: The Vigilance Committee have publicly whipped neaw ly seventy citizens of their par. ishes, in the heat of such a passion as is ex hibited only by a wild and infuriated mob, without judge or jury, and have ordered them to leave the State in five days or suffer the penalty of death by the hands of the same company. And we were credibly informed that a heavy vote of the committee, but not a majority, was given in favor of hanging,instead of whipping, the proposed company. But this is not all. Dr. Wagner, a citizen t of the parish of Vermillion, is now in this place under the most painful and humiliating circumstances. He is known by several of our citizens, who vouch for him as an upright, honest man. He is a Justice of the Peace and Coroner of his parish, and has never been connected with either the Vigilance Commit tees or the organized opposers of these com mittees. By request of a citizen of his parish, he copied, in a plain hand, the resolutions which we last week published in the Banincr, and endeavored to execute the law as directed by the District Attorney and his superior officers. For this he was forcibly taken from his boarding house at night, carried a quarter of l a mile into the prairie, tied.and beaten un- .1 mercifully with the lashes and even butts of a their whips across the spine and ribs, break- I ing one of his ribs and endangering his life by heavy olows across the spine, and then order ing him to leave the State in five days or suffer the death penalty at their hands. At the general whipping of the opposers.of t te Vigilance Committee in the parish of I Lafayette, it was reported that one of the 1 party, to avoid being whipped, blew his brains I aut. Since that event, it has been discovered i that the death wound was not self-inflicted, I but that he was shot by an enemy. Three others have died from the effects of the whip ping they received, and one other was at the point of death at Oplo isas a few days ago. Among those who have died, was a young an by the name of Singleton, a clerk in a store at Breaux Bridge. I1e was known to e an estimable young man, and had nothing o do with opposing the vigilants, he being a looker on at their proceedings. The Echo, of the Parish of Lafayette de ends the Vigilants strenuously and elaborate ly. As the principal c..use of the formation f the Committee, and an incentive to its iolent deeds, it presents the following picture: For several years, in that portion of our Parish commonly known l.y the name of ote Gelee, larceny, incendiarism and crime in all its muost hideous forms, stalked in mid day defiance. Recourse to the tribunals of the country, though surrounded and aided by able oficers, had become a farce, through the instrumentality of patented witnesses and jurors. Cattle were stolen and driven away in flcks from that section of our country, in open day and with impunity ; cotton crops were stolen from the gins ; gins were burnt;1 cribs full of corn were reduced to ashes, and the poor but honest l:borer, who, by the swea'of his day's labor. had earned the mor row's bread for his family, could not leave his hoe, his plough or his harness in the field at night, but that in the morning the same were missing ; stores were burgiariously plundered at unsuspecting hours of night, and the per petrators of these deeds still traveled our highways, and mixed in usual crowds with a bold front, whilst the victim of his depreda tions in vain had recourse to law to redress his wrongs. The Echo concludes its article thus: The impression that none but poor men have been driven from the country,' is veiny erroneous; of those who were first driven away by the regular action of the Committee, the majority were men of means; of those whom the Vigilance Committees were forced to expel, we can name some whom we know to possess considerable propert:y.. Great sym pathy is excited in some parts of the country in favor of those who have bemn left widowed and fatherless ; the chief men of the organi zation are taking steps to alleviate the suffer ings, if any there be, of those who may baye been reduced to want. MxxCAss KILIan nr AanoRICAs.--The Overland Mail Cornp any's station, sixty miles above FortY Yuma, was robbed of all its horses by the Mexicians, anid the station keeper left for dtuid. A portion of the Americans on GilIa rivrer determined to drive off the Mexicans onf the river on account of this outrage. A. collision oc curred, in which it is said that six Mexi cans were killed. There b'eing no law or officer in -Arizona, no arrests have been made. The Mexican population at' the Gn. mlaminmanukalared naase on uasuc=us=u==- Yv=u==er Statue to be' Removed. The good people of Boston a few weeks ago inaugurated Power's statue of Web ster with grand ceremonies. There was a military parade, and an oration by Ev. erett. The statue was placed in the State House grounds. Hardly had it been'un. veiled, hardly had the statue been seen by the admiring citizens who bad taken that means to perpetrate the memory of the great statesman than there was a very loud demand by a large portion of the: Republican party for its removal. The ultra portion of the Republican party. of - the State have raised the issue-shall the statue of Webster be sutltred to remain in the State House grounds? They will support no man fur State office or the leg islature who will not agree before hand that the statue shall be removed. The Boston Liberator,-the organ of two-thirds of the Republican party of New England, says: "The statue must be removed. Let this be the popular decree to-morrow-' let the declaration go forth from the lips if every upright man-let it be the voice of Massachusetts. A vote of the legisla. lure can undo what a vote has done. This vote can be secured by the circulation of, i respectful petition, to be signed by all who in their hearts respond to the ery 'The statue must be removed. Such a etition has already been prepared." The same paper furnishes. a copy of he petition, which is to be circulated in wvery town in the State, and forwarded to :he legislature now in session: The petition prays the legislature to re nove from the State House grounds-as o honor to the State and repugnant to he moral s' ise ol the people-the statue )f Daniel Webster, whose last years were pent in defending the fugitive slave bill, md whose counsel to the Commonwealth as to " conquer her prejudices" against lavery, and t- return men to bondage with alacrity." The present legislature will be called pon by the petition possibly of 60,000 eople to order the removal of the statue. Nill they refuse to do so, or will they dare, t the approaching election, to take the tand that Webster's statue is no disgrace o the Massachusetts State House eiclo ure ? This indecent, but perfectly character stic assault upon Webster, is in keeping ith the spirit which governed the repub. ican papers of this State to denounce: Everett's address on Wr.shington, because n that address nothing was said of Wash. ngton and his slaves. Slavery is the one dea of these intolerant zealous. . They ven follow the great statesman and pa riots to their graves, and shriek " dough ace" and "slave-driver," over the perish ng dust. Why -sh'ouldastatue of Webster )e permitted in the State House grounds .t Boston ? Why shonld such a statue e allowed in Boston at all ? Did he not sist that the written constitution of the ountry was obligatory in all parts upon .11 the people and upon all the States? )id he not say that as a Senator of the Jnited States he was an arbitrotor sworn o do justice not only to Massachusetts ut to each and every one of the other kates of the Union? Should the menio y of a man who held such startling opin. oas,-opinions so fatal to the dearest rinciples and purposes of the great par. y of freedom,-be tolerated in the public ~rounds of free and "gloridus" Massachu etts. We trust Garrison will press the issue. Iet the world see how far the Republican arty of Massachusetts dare go in insult ng the memory of the great Webster. et that party remove the statue if they lare ; in its removal by such means the nemory of Webster will obtain an addi konal honor in the hearts of his 'country nen, wvhich fanaticism and party zeal can ever diminish.-Chicago Times. A WArLK os TuE WATER.-At Toronto, 3. W., a Mr. H~ickok, by the aid of somo pparatus, invented by himself, walked n the surface of the river for half an our, without fatigue. Tlhe Globe says: Trhe apparatus used by Mr. Hiekok is he first he has made, so that, as in all new hings, there is room fdr improvement. Lhe fact is established that.a man may rith this invention, walk upon the water, Lnd there is nothing to indicate that the eat is attended with any peculiar interest. t appears quite as easy as walking on now shoes, the motion of which it quite 'esemblers. Anybody can do it. It may >, that before long the bay will become favorite placa of re&' :', where our citi :ensi will, upon a summ,. r a' e'ning, seek -efuge from the heat and duet t4f the city, id the unpoluted breezes of Ilie lake; >r that the shining path marked out ty'n he waters, by the beams of the ui1'. r noon will become a fashionable prom. made. DscovERY OF A CHEsT or Goa..-A New Orleans correspondent says: A ru nor is current in the Second District that m -old seller of charcoal has suddenly stumbled upon a handsome fortune. He tives in a buil.Theg at the corner of Or leans and Bourbon streets, dating back to te years of Spanish rule, (there-are ma ty such in this city,) and so worn arid ilapidated by time as to be hardly habi table even for the most miserable tenant. While reparing a decayed floor with'his wn hands a few days ago, the vendor of harcoal (so the story goes) discovered beneath it what had once been a strong, aken, iron-bound box, wvhich fell into dusty fragments under a few light blows, dis losing to his amazed and greedy eyes, a littering pile of Spanish doublooxis, amounting in the aggregate to about $25, D00. By whom they were thus deposited, r for what purpose, are questions not to be answered at this late day. DoT fret over what you can't help, and don't fret over what you can hl'p ; therefore, don't fretait all.' Dumniny Dad. dies says that he has no other reason'for smoking; only that the more ha'frmec the less he frets.. gg- We notice in one, of our New York exchanges, the 'arrival of a great big. .ship load-seven hundred tons barthen--of hoops, of Parisian manufacture. Let, the girls pe