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The happy pair were accompanied h by a sister of* tho girl, a tall, gaunt sharp fea- s' tured fenale of some thirty-seven sumners. The pair crossed the line, were married and P returned to Wellsville topass the night.-Peo ple at the hotel, where the wedding party stopped, observed that they conducted them selves in a very singular manner. The hus- W band would take his sister.in-law, the female to aforesaid, in one corner and talk earnestly to her, gesticulating wildly the while, thenI),! tall temale would put her foot , s;W, and talk to him in ar an ?r excited manner. Then the i~Mt take his fair young in 5 corer, b 4ut euodld no -noontr ia ence talking to her, than the gaunt sis- fr ter would run in between them and angrily y join in the conversation. The people at the tc hotel ascertained what this meant, about nine d' o'clock thiat evening. There was ant uproar f in the room which had been aswigned "o the fQ newly mayried couple. Female shrieks and masculine " swears," sturt!ed the Icople at the hotel, and they rushed to th'e spot. The gaunt female was pressing and kicking against the door, and the nowly married iman, mostly undressed, was barring her out with all his might. Occasionally she would kick the door far enough open to disclose the stalwart hus band, in his gentlemanly Greek Slave apj a- ti rel. It apmpeared that the tall fenmale insisted upon occumpy ing the same room with tI e new- Li ly marriedl jair ; tt her sister wa favoa ably b dlispoAed to the arragement, andl that the m husbatnd had agreed to it befo~r. the wedding tc took place, and w as now indig .antly repudi atinmg the contract. " Won't y ou g o away, now, Susan, peanceful !" said the newly mar ried man, s..ftening I is voice. " No," said she, " I won't--so there." " Don't you budge an inch !" cr ed her mar-g ried sister within the room. ." Now-now~, Maria," said the young man t to his wife, in a piteous tone, " don't go to cutting up in this way, don't." "i1'll cut up's much as I wanter ?" she ~ sharply replied. " Well," roared the desperate man, throw- 91 ing the door wide open and atalking out a among the crowd ; " well, just you two wim- Ii min put on your duds and go right straight I home and bring buck thze old mana ain. woman, and your yr .ndt.the~r who is nig5 on a hun- i dred'; bring 'em all he:e, and l'il ni arry the a whole caboodle of 'em ani we'd all sleep to- t gethier !" The difficulty was finally adjusted by the tall fem:nale taking( a room alo ii. W. llsvil~e is enjomyin.g itseh' over the sen-aton.-' levs lanud Plaind1 aler. The Ss-.J1:amininl2 St.ciety h .s .roposed the folkuwi:.g .ensible que: ie. about this1 financial y.riod. to evezy body: Does it coat anything to print at newspa per ? Ihow long can a printer afford to furnish a pqap r without pay ? Do printer.- eat, drink or weatr anything? ? If .(o, ho.w do thecy get it ? Do I u~we for may paper ? Is not this particular time a first rate time to call and l~ny up?7 A colored firm in Newak, New Jersey, having sutffered sonic p.:euniary eimbarza-s menat., recently eiuired business, ar.d thae sen ior mnemb.-r gave. t., the pubic tie folk,winA: " Nuti..-llo di--ser'ewtion ->f t o par..nji s hteretofo resistin twxt moe and Mose .Jsnes in de barber p.-. fesi.u am h~eretof. re-Olvedl.1 Pusson4 who ose usi miust pay in de scriber,. Demn what (Ie furm (*0 miust call on .Jonmes, as do farim is inifoledl. A school mna'mn in one of our district schools was examining a class ini orthography. 'Sp -11 aid deoie Iloweret," she said. a " F-l:o.we i-e-', lioweret, a little flower," nent off a tow-head, in a perfect streak. "uWavelet.'' ";Wa-r-e-l eut, wavelet, a little wave," was the promip'. return. "1J-u-l.l e-t' bullet a li/lie bull." shzoutedl urchin nimbler three, wh6 was innoceice per.unilied. Schlool ma'amn caLved. ?2r To keep apples from rotting--place -.hm ;,, a ,dy cellar with a family of children. Home Religion. We have no confidence in, love or respect >r, that religion which does not go into the I eart and home-life of the man, there soften ig, sweetening and, enlightening and lifting < p into its own holy atmosphere of love and I ith, all the business of his daily life. The I eligion of our Lord is not simply somethig 1I > stand us in the need of death and the judg- t ient bar. While it is a perfect provision for t bese appalling emergencies, it is something i o live with and by. It must go into the I eart, that fountain of man's daily life, and i here control, as rith the spirit and rule of r leaven ; and so, having its holy outcoming ip :i is thought, speech and act, will make of his, t s near as may be in a sinful and suffering t rorld, a life of heaven's own beauty and bliss. a L is not alone in great emergencies, not alone 8 i the dust and din of the world's public t rork, that true religion has its lest exhibi- I ion. It brings heaven nearest to earth, or e ther makes this poor earth likest to heaven, % rhen it come' into little things, of which I ost of life is made up, and fills them with eaven's oan spirit and temper. It is some- I ing not so much for public wear tn high t casions as for homo and hearth-stone the t ely rule and kve of Christ at the fireside, q ir the Lusband and wife, parent and child, y ia.ter and servant, in the daily round of dai F duty. In such walks as these the power id blessing of a Christ-like life shines with eaven's own light; the light of a character aily fitting for residence in that better land, r -here we shall see Ilim as Ile is. Oh! for is temper and spirit! How it would sweet- o i our own hearts! how it would iioften and &, ellow our words, and how much of beadty b id power it would give to our life! So, like ti ril birds, should lie driven from our heart' t, id homes all bitterness and wrath, clamor a id evil speaking, with all malice. Try it r at for a day; to live that day of yours like I brint would live it, as you know le would f ave you live it; and you will both lay your- C If down in I.eace and bleep, for your soul ti all rejoice in His light and Jove.-Southern h rebyterian. a All Sorts of Paragraphs. Sir At a Christening, while the uinitter s Makin, out the ceitilicate, he hmaippuned say: " Let me si e-th:s is the 3( th." " The t bhirdieth 1 raeWe Ei ;" indet d, it is on $S " Ax Aiuxitsr i t oro mairied mnen you lav WaO - 4UmWes rtarti Wia ightf.d col mis . o ir cr u will t:er- find la, n I d fur one father of a fan rs a maaa v'rti.ois un-I ther of a fan.ily is not w re his children. h ," Let ach one strive with all his might To be a deceut man, And love his neighbor as himself, c Upon the golden I la. And if bis neighbbur chance to be A .retty female wonan, Why, love her all the moro-you see, 'That's unly acting hunan. Za H .-Stich is the v.1.e of hoys at is timo in E: gland, th-t the owners of the all st--amier Saxonaai, wich plies betweon * eW York aud Ilamburg, hswe j ast paisi the stf .nding on the m ails gad pats~i g.-is another ve,:el fr au Cowes to llamaburg, order to conv..y a cargo of Anr.e:iean h .1 .ondon. er What a glorious worl I th's would be, all its ina,;bitants cou'd say, with Shaks-t are's Shepherd : "Sir, I am a trae labor -I earn what I wear; owe no man hates I ivy no mans's happiness; gl.'ud of other mna's a aod; content with my farmn." 1 gr One of Sir Boyle Rtochae's invitatiotns I an Irish nobleman was rather equivocal. I " I hope mny lord, if you ever come within a l ijle of.~nry haouse you'll stay there all night." g&- " Josey," said a little urchin of our se. uaintane, as lie stood by the bedside of a ek brother, " Josey, if you die, father wi'l I ave to g~et up anid build the fires of morn ag won't he, Joesy ?" giir Great men never atfeet anaything. It a your three cenit folks that put on airs, swell ud act the pompt. TIle difference between me tw ii as great as betwsonr a barrel of inegar a .n angei's dispositi' n. lTli iT: GA! sts CAsE.-Thris telebrated ase came up again in the Suapremea Court at Vashington, on the 13th inst. Mr. Pern pened the argument by stating that Mrs. ;aines heretcofore app.eared as heir at-law, ut now as devisee. Messrs. Curling and lagruder are associated with haim. Janin *nd lennin represent the city of New Or gig To Paonaces PnatsraatAro.-Twelve Irachms of a,.timon~ial wine and two drachms if laudanum'. or this maixture eighteen drops nay be taken in water every five or six hours. gjiy aWhy didn't you jump of?" some mc asked Pat, after Ihe had narrowly escaped witha his life from a horse which had run away cith lhim. " Arrath, be jabers, and wasn't t as match as I c.>uld do to stay on ? A Miaiir. Wuar.i.-The following is a copy ,a will keft by a man who chose to be his ,wn lawn r:--" This, the last will and testa eit of me, John Thomas, I give all my lngs to nay rels.tions, to be divided samng hem the l,est way tl.ey can. N. B.-If any ,oy kicks up a row, or makes any fuss about t., he idrat to have anything. Signed b~y me, JOhlN THOMAS." Acnesor G.aums.-Trhe Montreal Ad e~tiher learns from Upaper Canada that the re :eipts or wheat from the farmers are greater lan ever was knowna before. Trhe store-houe as upon the railway lines are filled to reple toa ad the anmounat accumulated at the vari aus ports oar niavigattioni already will furnish inany weeks' employmnent for all the lake arid river craft. Farmers show much anxiety to sell at present prices, itad latrge quantities hae.., een dsed of on four and six months' The Ceremony of Taking the Vail. The aurnal du Loirel (France) relates the bllowiug: C M'le Blanche de Beauval, a wealthy heiress i if Orleans, was about eight months ago to iave been married to the Viscount de Chamoy, v aut as the bri.egroom-elect was in delicate e icalth he was recommended to go for a short ii ime to Italy, and the ceremony was postponed I o October last. The Viscount, however, J iever reached his destination, having died on t, is way thither, aid the lady, overwhelned I rith grief, determined to take the vail. Her a esolution was carried into effect three days I go, at the Carmuelito Convent in the Faubourg Lu Roule, at Orleans. At the hour fixed for d he ceremony the chapel was filled with per- & one who had been invited to be present, and , oon after a door leading from the interior of m he convent opened, and Mademoiselle de h eauval, in the prime of youth and beauty, a utered, leaning on the arm of her uncle. She e ras dressed in a bridal costume of white d atin, trimmed with rich lace; a wreath of c range blossoms encircled her hair, and a n arge white vail wasver her head. She took g he seat prepared for her, and the officiating n riest delivered a aiiort address. She then n uitted the chapel, which is divided into two c arts by an iron railing, closed by a curtain. b nt a moment after the curtain was drawn, b nd she was seen on the other side. of the d rating on her knees. The priest approached it nd asked whether she still persisted in her m esolutions to quit the world, to which she re- a lied in a firm voice, " Yes." On this, one ti f the nuns who were standing by removed u bie bridal wreath and vl from her head, let b er beautiful hair fall on her, shoulders, and v hen with a scissors severed the tresses close it > her ba 1. A murmaur of regret was heard mong all the persons present when this sac- n ifice was coimuencedi. Mademoiselle de ri leauval then left chapel, but reappeared in a w W minutes after, dressed in the garb of a ti arnelite nun. She lay down on the steps of a ti chapel, a furnaeral cloth was thrown over , er, the priest recited the prayers fur the dead, a lid De Prfunsdis was sung while the persons the chapel were retiring. it r Woman the Source of the Trouble. A Patxrry SrUar, iter .A PRonAn.A Fieriox. -The Washington correspondent of the Cint 'iiiaiti Comniercial, tL.us writes: - :3;. aSo o IMMI aas ?anP, Who has been doing the onors at the White House. She has formerly een with her tcle in England, where, of Durse, she has had access to the court circles, ins, necessarily becoming a little aristocratic. Vh-o she ret .rnel i, thjis co:ltry, .h. 1 e 6:ne the pr.i inr hl.dy at the While House, f course, considering herself the first lady thle country, au1 expecting th.t all other idies woul.l ho., to ler. li:.rly in 1.'57, she et at a 1airty 31.s. Douglas, then only a hrt time maarriedl, aid surrmi nded, not only za acoun! ot the 1oitionZ of l.er husb~aud, ut of~ her own b -auty and youthfuhnean rhielh latter attributes Miss Lanie does not r osess to the samue extent-ly an admairingr A gentleman paid Mrs. D.>ug: a very list. Lering compimenat, wi ich unfortunaately of ended tihe pridle of Miss Liane. She went tome and told her uncle abiout it, who, being ainatd by the samie feeling against the usbaad of his niece's rival, iminaediately took ier part. At anothaer party, the dislike be-v ween the two ladies still increased, till it aroke out ins open war. Mr. Buchana:a, be ievisg that his niece ought to be the first la Ly in the country, anad nout Mrs. Douglas, anida inking that Mr. Douglas shaould naot play o strongly the part of a crowniac to~ the iing, concluded to let him knaow surnaething~ about it. The culdness existinag between the w ladies, lay the by, pervaded the two gen: emaa, and thus the war bietweena tbe red 1u4 the white rose begus, and enaded in the l.<ruction (?) of the D~enm:cratic pa~rty. maall causes are often fllowed by reat conl AN ACT. T u Prscr ibe the .form of Pecrmaits for Sicare.s t. be Absent from 1/he Ownaer's Premises. 1. Be it enacted by the Ser'ate and Ihouse > Repreenmtatives, niow mect and sitting in eneral Assembly andl by the authority of the same, That no permit shall be considered sa authoriing the altsence of a slave from his 3r .er mastem's pismises, nless maid permit shaall designate thae place or places which said dlave is allowed to visit, and the timec during which ie oar she is j~erndtted to be absent; Proided, That this Act aihall not apply to slaves reaident in any incorporated city or town, while within the corporate limits of the same, during the hours when the municipal regulations do not forbid the free passage of Inm the Senate Ihouse, the twenty-eighth day of Jaanuary, in the year of our Lord one ' ousand eig4ht hun-ired and sixty-one, and in the eighty-fifth year of the sovereignty an independence of ths State of South C ,.rlina. WILLIAM D. PORTER, President of the Senate. JAMES SIMONS, Speaker House of Representatives. gg"An old soaker being found in the gutter one rainmy unight, the water mnakiag a clear breach over him from head to foot, was asked by a passer what he Was doing there. iOh," said he, "I agreed to meet a uman gg A Nsxw CO rTos Gnowaa.-Peru is making her appearance as a cotton growing country. She recently sent 1500 bales of her ctton across the Isthmus, but the greater rtin went to Europe. Comes Beautifuly to the Music. True cloquence is not often found in the olumans of a political editor; for his business s more to hash and re-hash, cut aud slash, ,urd and give point, in his way along the rorld. But now and then even a political ditor comes to feel the eloquent, and, feeling t, nothing is more natural than for him to en it. The following, from the New Orlears icayune, now some weeks in our drawer, is go good to be laid asie'a because a little stale. t is that paper's giving-up of the Union ghost ud going with the muaic " away down dar in )ixie." Read it:-ED. Anr. t "The deed has been done. " We breathe eeper and freer" for it. The Union is dead; nd with it all the hopes anL all the fears rhich divided and agitated our people. It ras a great, a glorious fabric; but its timbers ad rotted at the heart. Without showing ny symptoms of decay, it has fallen like a edar falls. * No government ever rose as she id-none has ever so perished. From the radle to manhood was a single bound; from malhood to the grave a shifted scene. It rew up in the night like Jonah's gourd, and. ext day withered as it did. It went through one of the convulsions that marked the de line of other peoples. It was not overthrown y hostile invasions like Greece, nor overrun y Vandal hordes like Rome was. Neithir id it perish of inanition like Egypt, nor was conqut red as Saxon England was. It was ,ithout precedent in its growth, wi:hout ex miple in its fall. Peerless alike in its pros. -4ation, it furnishes another memento to the iany funeral monuments which give a som. re interest to the highway of time, upon hich history, in after ages, will write its own iscription. But the world was made for the living and ot for the 'lead. With the last chime of the quivin, which tells the passing away of h it was once the cynosure of nations and e idol of the American heart, will end the liegiance which invested the confederation 'ith the attribute of indlestructibility. It was dream. It is gone ; the illusion is past, and hilst every heart confesses to feeling, or hav fek, a l.g at theoeparation, there is no einorse to umljitter the regret. There is no ain upo. our hands, there is no damning roof ulon the escnteheon of Iae South. It as not her deed. Let the Northern assas articular star i< seen glitturing in the South. 'est, and other lihts :re pleering thriough the lue vault, of Ileave,'. TheyV are the mneinbers a new constelatio11n. which is to challeone t gaze of the wurld. They are: beautiful in icir isolation ; n;ty th,-r aPgregatiuto be ronger thai the " hanls of Uion," atdi icir sway heigner than the ".,weet inihni-n s of :he Pleia.0es." T, Ihe bone tar of li tate we transfer the duLy, all'etiUl and all1 lance we owed to the congregation of li']h -hich panigled t he. ha:suner of the old confed racy. I1:s course is outr cour-e. lInt.) whateve, ofhinationa it may choose to merge its sa-pa tto beams, we w ill igdl.., it faithfully, Mtedi stly and lop dly. We bury all differences o' pinion, ailI namhes whaich bet ok,-nz dhivi'def iw, all questions of mnootedl policy, in thn rave over which the llikcek it,pubicans hav: aled a one.: honuOt I. ff4, ne.ver miore, pern als, to wvave over that- Union as it Was. hall do this chcerfally ; we shall not give t, udepedent Louisiana, or the confederacy Ii which she contsents, :. eluctant oar dividd upport. The South says to every child f er" "Son, give ine all your heart ;" and th bouthi asks no more than she has a right tt ud no mnore than aht will receive. Thme Cotton Que.,tioni. I ha' long been a pro~blem of~ deejiert inter rest to P'hilosopspher Gseely-the Murat c. he Aerican press-how it wias pios..ible fi lie world to get ab.ng without the slav, trown cotton of the Southern States of tk Jnien. ~e tried Africa, India, Souith Amer ca, by turns, pressed with zeal the expediei y of substituting ilax grown by free lab oar it. and set the ingenuity of all abolitior, iom to woik to invent machinery whereb; twas to be wrought as cheaply and as suc :essfully as cotton. This plan exploded, an .hen the philosopher ra lied upon providenc. o develop some palan to break the league witl :rinme in the Southern States ! But a prom jiett Southern man conies to the relief of th. puknopher of the abolitionists. This com n birter x. resses the fear (fronm the tenor o the languiage imploayed we might infer it t. bW the wish) that the European demand fo Southern cottoni will now fall off to nothinj in con~seque.c of the subjugation of- Chins The English manufacturers have been oblig t to confess that no species of Asiatic or AC: can cotton yet grown cana substitute the pa ticular qualities of cotton derived from t United States. " We need and consumae mt byzs of this cotton for one of all o.th4 qualities put together," is their emphatic ar e reluctant language. If India were to send two millions of bales of the Surat cotton pt , annuom, the deinideratum would not be su1 pied, and our perilous problem would still unsolved. We should be almost as depeir dent on Amnerica as ever. That is th'e fif, and confessed fact, and the crowsing featu ti of the case is, that the more cotton theyga fom the East, the more cotton the East able to buy back manufactured into fabri~ Iideed, the purchases of India vastly excel i er sales ; for, while in 1858 that coun t C snt to Great Britain 132,000,000 pounds b raw cotton, it purchased back 223,000,( G pounds of the manufactuired article, the <ii tr being derived from the Southern Unit al S tates. The great fact is, that the labor '4 tm. of Chiina, India and Africa are ine b ptent to produce sturpluses oI raw cotto4 al to compet with machinery ia~ its manm t ture. Their tendency, therefore, is always to buy more in weight of the fabric than they sell of the raw material; and the excess comes always from the United Sttes. Thus, the more cotton Europe buys from Asia and Africa, the greater becomes her demand upon the United States. Of all the regions on this globe, the Southern United States alone af ford a net surplus of cotton above the weight of the cotton goods which they buy back ; and so far from there being any indications of a future decline in the dmand for raw cot ton, it is estimated that the demand will con tinue to grow until it reaches 4,700,000,000 of pounds, or 10,000,000 of bales, over and above the present production. In fact, there is an error in the calculation in regard to the future demands of cotton from the South, somewhere not very far ,hort of ten millions of bales.-Richnond Dispatch. Reception of President Davis. MOTCoMERY, Feb. 17.-President Daviv arrived here last night. le was handsomely received. There was firing of cannon and great rejoicing. He was escorted to his lodg ings at the Exchange Hotel by a large con course of citizens and strangers. - LITX.-President Davis' journey from Jackson, Misi'ippi, to Montgomery, has been a continuous ovation. He made twenty-five speeches returning thanks for the complimen tary greetings of the crowds of ladies and gentlemen who received him at the various depots on the route. At some places he was received by the military and with firing of cann6n. Committees of Congress and the Montgomery authorities met the Presidert about eighty miles from the city, and received him with gr.at cordiality. Two fine military companies from Columbus, Georgia, joined the escort at Opelika. The party reachaed Montgomery at ten o'clock last night. Then c.annonading commenced amidst the shouts and huzzas of the large crowd assembled. On reaching the depot, Mr. Davis returned his grateful thanks for this magnificont dem onstration. President Davis sauid: Ile felt proud to receive the congratulation and hospitality of the people of Alabama. lie briefly reviewed the present positian of the South, and de. clared that the time for compromise had pas ej. He was determined to maintain our l~ee.. A lfarge crowd awaitel the President's ar rival at the Eze'.zangre hlltel. As he ap pro cied a treinend..u shent, of wte-lcome waN giv.-n. The luliee w..re vequally as entihuai a-t e 1ar I l.vi'," -' Davi+." that the lrei. d.-nt elect w-s copta.-lled tia .1hw himn.self. sE:ECu .-r Tru E >:XCIAN. 111:nA.. 'reient l).%vix slapeared on the balcony natalhie 'h Jbil iauen elhe Conjdeate . Iat.f a, er. ie-t-For now we are brethrena, noat in nameac merelyI, bmut eof one. ik-ha, one bone, one inater est, 'lne puarpose, andl of identity int doinae:tic iitie ntions. We have hen:cefortha, I trust, a p~rosp~ect of~ living~ toga~e.ther in peac. with (our inatituation< sihj--et to pruot-ctiona, ntot defa miationt. [t ay be that our career is tao be na eredl int mid-et a s trm ; it may~ be thbat as a this mornlting aope:.e.l ith I cloudes, anist andal raina, we shall have to enacoaunter inaconavenien-a* ~e at the heginaing ; bu-; as the suan ro'e aidI lia eed the mgidt, di .paersed the clouds, anad l..ft a uIS the. pur~e aun-baght of br avena, so w ill th~e pro"-s of thae Soautheman onfederacy carry u15 safe to sea, and safe tea the hcarbor eof co atitutional liberty naldalia ical eqality. [Ap plause.] Thus we. shall haave noethin.: to Lear a it haoaae ; baecaetse at homae we have hcomoage-1 raeity. We lhave naothi:.g toa fear abroad, Le- a :au-e at war siaould oame--at wej mau-t a~gaina riaptize ian blood the parinceiple, for whaich o~ur a ~athera led ina the ltevolution-we sall sho~w < thast we are not degenaerato ans ; but will re- a leema thae pledges they gave to prteserve tl.e macredl rights traaaait ted us, anid show that Southerni valor still ahines brighatly as ina 1776, n 1812, and every other conaflict. [Applause.]1 was inaformted, may friends, that your kind iess only reqauired thaat I should appear be ore you. Fatigued by travel, and hoarse, I I tm unable to speak -at tiny length, andl came I nerely to assumne the office you hcave hton- a' >red me witha. I ten~ader you nay graItitaude for I hese anifeantations of your good will. I t :ome with diffidence, and distrust nay ability a *a discharge the gaeat duties devolved on me S ay your kindlneas, and the conftience of the s Jongrescs of the Conafede rate States. I thank you again, friendas, for the kiaad nanaifestation of favor anad apaprobatiuon y ou 'rhibit oan this occasion. Throughout tznyi ntire progree to thais city, I have received C be same flatterinag demoinstrationes of genter- t us support. I did not regard them personal h n mayself, but tendered to ame as n huinable 0 epresenatative of thec prinaciples and policy of ~ lae Confederate States. I will devote to the utieg of the high saflice to which I have been 8' ahled all I have of heairt, of head aund of hand.t f, in the progress of evenats, it shall become P ocessary, uad my services be requmired in naother position ; if, to be plain, neces.ity E hall require thaat I shall again enter theb ianks of the soldier, I hope you will welconme er me there. [Applause.1 Now, frienids, again a lanking you for thtis manifestationa of your b pprobation, allow me to bid you good night. ' LiIoIN SUPPLIs.-The Cincinanati En- ti airer states that Major Hayne, of the South w arolinca army, and brother of Colonel Hayne, ea earer of deapatches to Washington froan A overnor Pickens, was in the former city and 1~ aSt. Louis last week, whaere he purchased ai ad shipped for homae 47,000 bbls. of pork, es )00 cansks of bacon, and several thousand tlI ushels of corn, for the use of the Carolinian at -my. Theso supplies were forwarded ria tl< te Nashville and Chatt anooga 1Rnad. 'Negro Mechanics. An article in a late number of DeBow's Review, from the pen of Judge Hlupkine, of Mobile, directs attention to the injury which the writer thinks is likely to be inflicted on the South by. the system of instructing ne groes in the mechanic arts, and employing them as mechanics. He mays: " If it be desirable to preserve the patriar chan system of negro slavery now existing at the Suuth, as the very best basis of social or der and of moral and domestic integrity which none may doubt, who has evoked wis dom and virtue in pursuing the question, slaveholders should allay this antagonimn in their midst, by agreeing through legislative action, to confine the negro to the soil, thus to elevate and open the mechanic trades to the non-slaveholding people around them. Dignify the trade to the level with the pro resions, in common acceptation, and idling, loafing, lounging, fox-hunting, or in other words, general di~sipaticn of health, energy and time, among the young men of the South would almost cease, and in their place be sub stitu-ted general busy industry. By confining the negro to the soil, the mechanic would be at once converted from an open or secret en emy of negro slavery, into its firm advocate and supporter, because he would then feel himself lited up in the scale of social respect. ability, and maintained in that position by the subordinated negro, confined exclusively to menial service. Before the law and com munity, all white citizens would stand strict ly on a footing of equality, and be alone dis tinguished by courtesy and mental superior ity." No Reconstruction. This we believe, as we have before said, is the settled and determined policy of the States forming the new Southern Confedara ey. The suljoined remarks from the Presi dent of the Alabama Convention, which sev ered that State fiomn the Union, express ex actly what we btlieve to be the detertnina tion of the people of the States which have thrown off the yoke of federal usurpation: " We are free, and shall any of us cherish any idea of a reconstruction of the old gov ernent wLereby Alabana will again link her rights, her fortunes and her destiny in a Union with the Northern States? If any ..... .... 1..,, .. ...i r .. - on, let m e . lesings of at once. securitv or tiuetion 1 LL. ju ...... . anu orever. There is no middle cour.e, and hence we have alwa, p-rnrmtirt d tlhe " Peace Confer .-lee " a lailure- a delusion. When .ix States d the late Unlion-tix Statesi xportng half -f the whole t.pal.rts of that Union, have a ithdrawn frotn it for good and sufficient :anmse%, w Ler e is the hope (.f I tconistruction ? Sink t-r >itti, live or die, " the Confederate itates of1 An-cric.t " niu-t colatir.ul; free, iiove eign and independent.-Southrr Guardian. Wirr is A Ziot:vr:7--. felloiw with a red ag having.-b eyces to it for a co:,t ;with two cd baigs nithbout sl-eves to thema fo.r trow. ers ; with an tinb'roidecred anid brai'ied bag r a ve~t ; u itih a capj like a red woh-n*t sauer-. an~t; with yellow boots like a four th rolbber n a stage iay ; with a nmou-tache like two alf pouniid paibru-sher ; and with a sort of* word gtun ior guin sword for a weapon, thait saks like the re.-ualt of a love alfair between n atroua biroadl-.-word anid a lonely mru-ket, ndi.screet aid tender-t hat is a Zouave. A fellow wlhc cant pull tup a hundred and en piotund dumbl.bell ; who can elimb up an ighty foot rope, hand ever hand, with a bar eliif flour hanigiing to. his heEl% ; who. can do be" git. swinig" on a ho~rizontal bar with , lty-six tied to each ankae ; who can wa~k p foiur fli-;hts oif stirs, holing a heavy man an each hanrd, at arms' lenigth ; amnd who can limrb a greased pole feet first, carrying a bar el oif pork ini his teeth--that -is a Zoitave. A fellow who can jump 17 feet four inch s high without a spring-board ; who can tie is legs in a double low-knot round his neck rithout previously sofrtenig hie --hin bones .m a steem bath; who can walk Blondin's ight rope with his stomach outsrde of nine randy cocktails, a suit of chalh: artnor outside is stomacht, anid a stiff North-east gale out ide of that ; who carn take a five shooting re. olver in each hand and knock the .spots of hre ten of diamonds at eighty p~aces, turning utmmiersaiultst all the time, and firing every rot inr the air-sthat is a Zouave.--" Doe icks " ini the Sunday Mercury. Tnte RtoMAe or .r Cnn.esvaim. Kirvenr,.--& harles Dickern' ini his weekly p~iper, is tell ig cuirious andI cruel sto~ries about Chines. Jokery. When anaxiousa to cook a lamb in ie highest style of at, the Chinese, it is said, cud a low mrud wall, inelosing a spnee two Sthree feet across, anid another wall outside, rmirng a circus of about two feet wide, in hich they set pots conitainming wine, vinegar, y.saucee, and so forth. In the inner apace iey light a good fire, arnd int the circus thus ~epared put a live lamb. The lamb natural becomes thirsty front the great heat of the e, arid drinks what lie finds as lhe runs eckward and forward in search of means of crape. When thre drinks are all swallowed d dried into thre aima~rl's flesh, the lamb mcomtI exhausted, falls down dead, arnd in a1 ry short time is completely roasted. Turtle ay be prepared, according to thre same au. ority, by placing it over the fire in a pot ofa ater, in the lid of which there is a hole large< rough to allow the turtle to put out his head. s the water becomes hot, the turtle natural- 1 thrusts Iris head out to get at the coolera r, when he is fed with spiced wine arid soy nree, which he drinks readily as a relief from e heat. This goes an as loug as he has rength to keep huis head up, and as the tur-a does rnot part with life easily, he seldom I. tog n .st,,fing h.i,mfilnh i..:.-oked. INUiURIAL OF PRESIDENT DAVISs -o MuXTGooERY, Feb. IS.-TLe Inaugural ceremonies are just over. The procaulu was the grandest pageant ever witnessed in the South. . There was an immense concourse on Capi tol Hill, consisting of ladies from all portions of this and neighboring States, the military and citizens. President Davis com menced bis inaugural at one o'clock precisely. Ile said: TUE lXAUotUaAt. ADIaKaS. Gentlemen of the Copngress of the Cnfid. eraic States of A nerica-Friem:ul and Fellow Citizens: Called to the ditlicult and responsi. ble station of Chief Executive of abe Provis ional Government which you have instituted, I approach to the discharge of the duties an signed me with an humble distrust of my abilities, but with a suitable confidence in the wisdom of those who are to guide and aid me in the administration of public affairs, and with an abiding faith in the virtue ahd patri. otism of the people. Looking forward to the speedy establishment of a permanent Govern ment to take the place of this, and which by its greater moral and physical power will be better able to combat with many difficulties which arise from the conflicting interests of separate nations, I enter upon the duties of the office to which I hnve been chosen with the hope that beginning our career as a Con. federacy, we may not be obstructed by hostile opposition to our enjoyment of our separate existence and of the independence which we have asserted, and which, with the bleshing of Providence, we intend to maintain. Our present condition has been achieved in a manner unprecedented 'in Ohe history of nations. It illustrates the Atmerican idea that the government rests upon the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the peo. ple to alter or abolish governments whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established. Thedeclared purport of the compact of Union from which we have withdrawn was to establish justieq, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence and general welfare, to secure the b!es!ings of liberty to ourselves and to our posterity; and when, in the judgmnent of the sovereign States composing this Confederacy, it had been perverted from the purp.>ses for which it was ordained, and ceased to answer the end for which it wits established, and a peaceful appeal n t A The impartial and enlighteed verdict of mankind %ill vindicate the rectitude of our conduct, and lie who kuows the hearts of men will judge of the Ainecrity with which we Ia lbureil to prmer~e the Government of our fathers in its si.irit. The right uolenmnly Ir.claiined at the birth of the Slat.-N, 1ad wLich has been affitired anil reatfired in Btills of Rigliti of the States sahl.<. g-intly admitted into tile Union of 1789, uindeniialy re~iegnizrm in the peop'e the power t.> resumei. the authority deh-gated for the puir po~ses of Governn.ent. Thus the sovereign Statex here n-j resented secedelI from thi' Confe~racy. :.nd it is by an abuse of language that their act has been denominated "revola ion." They form a new alliance, but withiti eneb State its Government has reninined. The rights of rprsol5nsaid of |-roperty hive not bie-n di,.turb-dat. The agent ihrough whiom they conaamunicated -..th foreigna nations is ebixaged, but ihis dloes not nece-sarily inter ruplt thn-i r i nternat ional relations. SuatrinedJ by then cohnsciousne:ss that the tr.sn8;tio; en'a the former Union to the pres ent Conift teracy, does not pr~ce-ed from any disregard on our part of our just obligations. or anay failure to perform every constitution~al dluty-mioved by nao intereat or pa:nioni to int ride the rights of ot.era-anixious to cultivate pece andt emuimiere withI alt niations, if we may not haope to avi.i war, we may at least xpect thnt posterity will acquit us of having need!e.-sly engaged in it. Doubly justinedJ, as w.' are, by the absence of wrong~ on our part a:.d by the w anton ag gressionm on the~ part om uthers, heecan b no cause to doubt that the courage and patri otismn of the penpile of the Confederate States will be found equal to any measures of do fetee which our security may require. An ariculttural peo(ple, whose chief interest is the export i.f a commnodlity req1uired in every manufacturingj~ comuniry, our true policy is peace and the freest trade which our necessi ties will permit. It is alike our interci-t and that of all those to whom we woull sell, and from whom we would buy, that there should lbe as few restrictions as practicable upon the iiterchange of comumodities. Thlere can be but little rivalry between ours and any mann racturinig or naiigating community, such as blha Northern States of the Amecrican Union. [n must follow, therefore, that mutual interest would invite good will aiid kind offices. If, howover, passion or lat of domain ihould clotud the judgmient or influence the ubitioni of those States, we must prepare to :ecet the emergency and maintain, taT TUM FIAr. AtiREITRAYENT or THEC swomD, THE Posl ioN wHiCHe wE HAVE AssUMtED AMoNo rilE NA We have entered upon a career of indepen lence, and it must be inflexibly pursued. hrough many years of controversy with our ate associates of the Northern States, we ave vainly endeavored to secure tranquility mfd obtain respect for the rights to which we yre entitled. As a necessity, and not from ~hoice, we have resorted to the remedy of eparation ; arid henceforth our energies must e directed to conduct our own affairs and eure the perpetuity of the Confederacy which re have formed. If a just perception of mutual interests hall permit us peaceably to pursue our sop rate political career, mny most earnest desire . Ill have been fulfilled. But if this be denied is and tho integrity f rn taretinr and jn.. j risdiction be assailed, it will but remain for us, with a firm resolve, to appeal to arms, and to invoke the blemaing of Providence upon our just cause. Asa consequence of our new coniditiin, and with a % iew to meet anticipated wanta, it will bo necessary to provide speedy and eff cient organization of branches of the Exe-u tive Departmont having special charge of for eign intercecrse. fitance, military affairs, an4 postal service. For purpoes - of defence, the Ctdcerate States may, under ordinury eir, cumtttstances, rely mainly upon their ailitis, but it is devmed ndvisable in tLe present OOct dition of afairs that there should be a well iustructed d:sciplin ed army, more numeruu4 than would usually be required in a peace es t.ablishment. I also suggoat that fur the protection of out harbors aud commerce on the higb seat, & navy adipted for those objects will be requii'd. Thee necessities have doubtless engaged the attentiou of Cougress. With a ConstituticA difering only from that of our flthers, in so far as it is explanatory of their well-known i4tent, freed from seotional conflicts which have interfered with the pur suit of the general welfare, it is not unreasona ble to expect that the States from which we nave recently parted may seek to unite their fortuies with ours under the Government whieb we have instituted. For this your Constitution makes adequate provision, but beyond this, if I mistake not the judgment anti will of the people, A RE UXIOX WITU TUB STATES FROM WUIeU WE MAYE SEPIATED 2S NElITHsa raACTicARLE NOR D55!aABLE. To increase the power, to develop the re. sources and promote the happiness of a Con. federacy, it is requisite tbat thete should be so much of o.omogeniety that the welfare of every portion should be the aim of the whole. Without this antagonisms are engendered, which must and should result in separation. Actuated solely by the desire to preservi our own rights and promote our own welfare, the separation of the . Confederate Stated has been marked by no aggression upon others, and followed by no domestic convul-ion. Our i-adustrial pursuits have received zo check. The cultivation of our fields has progressed as heretofore, and even should we be involve? in wAr, tn-re would be no considerable dimS. nution itn tl.e pri.duction of the staples which have cois. ituted our exports, and in which the colaner4 -- ' - ...: atan guide the action of the Govera ment from which we have separated, a policy so detrimuental to the civilized worl.d, the Northern States included, could not be dis tated by even the atrongest desire to indiet itjury up r us. Iut if It shau'd be other. aise, a terrible responsibility will rest upon It, and the . f erin1 'millitns will bear testi. mony to the folly and wickedness of our ag gressors. In the meantiwe there will remain to us, besides the ordinary remedies before dng.estuL, the cell-knuwn resources for retal. sti a san ith.- commerce of our enemy. Exrieneuo in puba:ic a'ations of grads subordinate to this, which your kindness had conferred, has tau;;ht am-' that care and tol and dianppoin~tment are :h: I rce of offieial elevation. You will se0 many errors to for. give-many deficiencies to tolerate; but you shall not find in me either wint of seal or flielity to the cause, that is to mec highe-t is h-.pe and of miost enduring4 aslction. Your generosity ha.5s eowed upon ine ,n tudde served distinction-one which I neither sought nor desired. Upon a continuance of that see. time~nt and upon your wisdom and patriotism I rely, to direct and support mee in the per l'ormance of the duty regnired at my hands. We have changed our constituent parts ;bet the system of our Government, the C .sita tion formed by our father.<, is that of these Confederate States. In their exposition ef it, andi in the judicial cotnstructin it has re Celvei, we have a lipht which reveals its true mneaning. Thtus instructed as to the just in terpretattion of te in'trunz.ent, anid ever re. membering that all oilices are but truats held t'or the people, and that the delegate.l powers are to be strictly construed, I will hope, by due diligence in the performance of my duties, though I may disappoint your expectationm, yet to retain, when retiring, something of the gootd will and confidence which welcomes my eitranice itnto o c e. It is jon3%u in the midst of perilos elmos, to look round upon a people united in heart, where one purpose of igh resolve animates and actuates the whole .=where the rsacrie to he made is not weigh cd in the balance against honor, right, liberty, and equtality. Obstach-s tay retard-they annowt long prevetnt the progress of the move nent. SLnctiled by its justice, and sustained by a vr:uom.s peopile, reverently let us invoke the Grod of our fathers to guide and protect us in our efforts to perpetuate those prinei ptes, which, by Hlit blessing, they were able o vindicate, to establish snd to trat.smtit ti heir posterity. With a continuance of this favor, ever rratefully acknowledged, we may hopefully lok forward to success, to peace and to pros. erity. TitE DANvILLE Co.GN~cvioN SEcuRED AT sr.-A bill to charter a road from the 'ompany's shops to Milton, In Csswell coun y, with the right to connect with the Rick. oud and Danville railroad, passed-its third eding in the Senate on Monday. This Is bhe " Danville connection " which has been me much talked about. The Wilmnington Journal, of the 1I2th, in peaking of this, says: This, or a similar bill, has already passed he House, and will no dubt become a law lowe may as well make up our mindsato it t once. We thought, at <.ne time, that this etion might have been stared of for a few ears longer, but never doubted thzatit would oner or later be forced through.-.Southera tuardiane