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I . ..i"1 $2 PER ANNUM. IN ADYANCEj i NEUTRAL IN POLITICS?DEVOTED TO LITERARY, COMMERCIAL, AGRICULTURAL, SCIENTIFIC, GENERAL AND LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. Volume hi. Lancaster, c. h., south Carolina. Wednesday morning,august 2,18.54. number 25 J MISCELMANEIM ; JOHN B GOUQH. Everybody in England who reads the newspapers lias seen or heard of J. B. v Gougli, tl?e temperance advocate. He u Seems to bo here, there, and everywhere ; r now in Edinburgh and Aberdeen, the c *next week in Leeds and Manchester, and f the next in London and the large towns e of the South. No public speaker of the i day seems to be in greater demand. He is full of engagements, and cannot overtake one-half of ihetn. The reason is, that he is a man of striking genius, and ^ possesses the power of swaying a popular audience a* no living orator can do. t But Mr. Gough is not so great as an a orator, as he is great as an actor. lie has no literary finish. His language is . not polished and chiselled. His periods i ?re not largo and rounded. There is no 8 grandeur about his eloquence. His style c is not brilliant, chaste and perfect, as w' t expect in the finished and highly educated orator. Indeed, he himself ad nits that he has never experienced ihu ad van- j, tages of education ; he is entirely a self ed- j ucated man. And yet, as we have said, he possesses n marvellous and almost unexampled power over his audience. This 11 arises mainly, as we apprehend, froin his g.eat merits as an actor. Take, for instance, Mr. Gougb's lecture e on Habit, recenll" delivered by him be li fore the Young Men's Christian Associa- 1 tion in Exeter lialf, aud since published, ii revised by himself. Its literary merits, though considerable, ate not great ? ? There are many living meu who could t torita a much more eloquent lecture on H the subject, co itaitiiug more striking and . original thoughts, presented with greater r literary finish, clothed in choicer word', ? more beautifully turned and pointed. r Hut hear Mr. Cough deliver his lecture, ^ and then you will adiuil his prodigious ? power. The slenderest anecdote told by H K ^ hi becomes instinct with life. Scenes | the most vivid are depicted by him so ? truthfully, and yet apparently so unaffec- ? tedly, that he carries you along with biin. 8 whether you will or no. The figure* ? start from the canvaa?they live and j breathe. And he does it in u few graph- ( ic strokes far more vividly than KeUch v the Gorman can do ilh his bit of char- i coal. Ho raise* ilic ghosts of departed c drunkards with more than a magician'* a power, and makes them live over aga:n t tlier liiileoua dreamt, in which mocking, jibbermg human faces seem to glare at you while ho apeak*; or he describes Ni * agara Falls, and how a gay party of 0 youths are sucked into the Rapids, and F drawn ou ami ou?till at last, awaking 0 from their dreain of pleasure, they make c for the shore ; then " i'ull for your very lives! pull till the blood starts from your nostrils, and the veins stand like whipcords upon the brow !" but all too late ; and shrieking, cursing, howling, blaspheming, over they go"! You see it all be fare you, so vividly is it depicted ; and the hearer can scarcely resist screaming aloud, as the youths are hurried headlong dowu the terrible torrent. But Mr. Gough is e<|Ually great in delineating the tender and the pathetic. He plays upon the heart-strings as u|?on a familiar instrument. There is one of the anecdotes which he tells of a poor Irishwoman in New York, who, on landing from theerni grant-flop, left her two little children in a 1 lodging-house, while she herself went in v search of a friend in a distant part of the '' city ; on her return to her children, she 11 heard the alarm of w tire n raised, and the H fire-bells boomed out over the city. 8ud- " denly a fire engine came up, and as it ^ paused her, a person hailed the firemen, 6 asking " Whereabouts the fire was I (" 1 The answer was at such a place?the L very placo where the poor woman had left ^ tier children ! The ru h of the woman f after the firc-onginn, its entrance into the " burning square ; the shrieks of the mother '' as >liu uku lliH crowd c!od> on afu-r tlm >1 engine bad passed, leaving her outside; u then ibe policeman clean ig a ay for1 ?r " through ihe crowd, an?l the mother run f oing, or rather staggering, up to a pile of ' boxes and furniture laid in the square, (?e- ' aide which aat two children, one of v/hom a ejaculates M Mother! it's mother!" ' AH tbie passe* rapidly before your eyea, n like a real aeuue, and Ihe strung touches 1 of nature which the relator throw* into it, M aeize hold of your heart, and taae you 1 captive. " fliere ia another of hia most touching c anecdoten, which, however, must Ih> heard 1 from hia own lip*, set off by hia inimitable } acting, to be fully appreciated. M I once rode,' said lie, M with a man for about twelve miles, whose story was ' inoet affecting, lie had t-en two aplen- J did hovaea, with silver-mounted harness, 1 and a handsome vehicle. M' Ah!' said be, if you bad onlv seen > ha Atirki rnura ami. von would have ' thought in? in a sorry plight. All that i I bad In the world ?m on my miserable I art, which wan drawn by lean and shabby animal. Vow, I've a good team and a ntee little property. My good old father and mother lire in the.tows where < we are going, aad we moat make baste i and join Uieut. Bee how my horses go/ I ?and away we went right merrily. I " That man wae naturally a most kind- < W0 * oiivi nv me vinrc i bjw.ik was i religious man?a member of a Chrisian church ; but whett he was intemperitc, it was far otherwise* Tears ran down lis checks as he told mo how ho onco routed his boy. 44 4 I came home,' he said, ' irritated in villi drink, and ready to vent my anger d< ipon anything. My boy came in, but the rc tiomeni he saw me he darted away. 1 tl ailed him back, and then saw that his m aco was bloody ; his lip was cut and his pi ye swollen. What have yoa been do- pi ngf" aj 4*4 Iv'e been fighting, father.' I4 What for I* I' 44 Don't ask me, father, I don't want to ^ ell you." b 4,4 What (in an angry tone) have you h >een fighting about!?tell me this in- 8 tant.' 01 44 4 Oh, don't ask me, father, I can't tell ? rou !" * 84 4 4 I took the boy by the collar and #J truck liitn with my shut fist on the side * if the head. Hoy.' I "aid fiercely, 4 now u ell me, or I'll cm the life out ot you.' I* 44* I don't want to, father.' 44 I struck him another blow, and then w le rubbed his hand across his eyes, bringng awav tears and blood, and said, 44 4 Don't strike me any mot?, father, fl ind I'll tell you.' ^ 44 4 Well, what is it!" H, 44 4 A boy down there told me my fath- tr x was a poor old drunard, and I fought hi liiu for it; and if he tells me so again, d< 'II whip him again, if you kill me for to L'" k Mr. Gough is also a master of humor. <p le evokes a shout of laugher while the ears are still in his hearers' eyes. He w issumes albcharaclers by turns?and he |b tresenis theru before yon in a more natu- i'1 al, life-like, vivid manner, titan anv mere ictor I bat we have ever seen. We do lot except Macready, Kobson, or Brooke. Ve think he conies the nearest to old h? (ean in tragic power of any muo who has ?4 ippeared in public since bis day. Like Ul vuan, Mr. Gougb's appearance it compar- >T ilively insignificant, ilia figure is apare ind small, bis countenance is wan and 111 allow, his voice is not very good. Hut ^ ill iiis per.-o.inl defects are st?on forgotten 84 n the vigor, the fire, the vehemence of his ratory. Ilis form dilates, his features, CH vhen inspired by his subject, become even l' laiidsomc in appearance, and bis voice is 1' ixqniaitely modulated to the pa**i >ns, the " ittection, or the humor which ho por- ^ rays. ^ Mr. G,<ugh is a tfbrn orator and actor. *' le himself waa not aware of bis own pow- ^ ir when he first appeared on a public 0j latform. Hut his aueceas waa so extra sa rdinary that public speaking at once be- j ante bis sole vocation, lie himself has old his.own story in his autobiography, jM rliich has beeu extensively published in his country in a very cheap form ; and w L is well worthy of a pernual. It ip|>ears -jrum this story of his life, that he was >oru at 8aii;iirate. in Kent, of t>oor but re ? puetable parents , ami at an early ago he ^ r*s sout out with an emigrant family to j(, he United State* where his mother and ister shortly after joined him, hut his jc, uoiher died very soon after, while the e] ainily were plunged in great poverty. w rough had learned the trade of a book- |j( >inder, but work was rather precarious. n| tfter his mother's death ho lived for some t< iine in New York, frequenting the thea- _j rea, and with his strong genius for acting, lr re do not wonder at his statement that r le applied for and obtained an engage- n| nent at the Bowery Theatre as an actor w ,nd comic singer, lie afterwards per- tj( artned at the Franklin Theatre, where, j|( te says, "A comic song of indie was so t| moored that 1 was encouraged to pursue ^ he course I entered on." lie afterwards jj ecatne a regular actor in the low come- s| liau line, and g.tined some reputation in hat way. Alternately acting and work- ^ ng*at his trade, he contrived to live; but f,, laving now contracted habits of drunkeniess, he waa always on the verge of pov y< rty, generally in a state of distressing tj nisery. He next made a voyage to ^ yli ileur Hay as a seaman before the mast, n which he narrowly escaped shipwreck, p, lo earned sufficient money by this voyige to enable him to marry and set up 0, lousekeeping ; but, unfortunately, lie jn igain liocame involved in dissipation, and, |(l o itll n|?|>n?ranoes lie was now an irretriev- ^ ible drunkward. lie went froin bad to J vorse?passed through the agonies of telirium tremens?recovered, end went ^ ?n drinking; his wife end cliield died,end while they ley (b ed, he lay drunk. The ^ rictnre drawn by himself is horrible, but ^ t is portrayed with a purpose. At last, w ifr. Gough, reduced to the lowest state tj ?f degradation and misery, fell among ^ Samaritans who indue/d him to sign the w empersnco pledge, and almost nt once a, re rose up again a man. We recom- t) nend hie own story of his suffering and y txperiences for the persual of our readers. t} \ll wilt be interested?many may tie ,t greatly profited by it?Kliaa Cook't |. fourml. i( ??swKwm- m Many a true heart, Uiat would have U tome back, |j^a a dove to the ark, after K Is first transgression, has been frightened u reyond recall by the angry took and a nan see?the taunt, the fievage ehsrhy 8 )f an unforgving spirit 8 jn-om the JVemb< rr.an.. I [bt request.] Medical Eeform. , The questions are asked, if the teach- ? g* of liie Reformed System be true, why ' ues not Allopathy reform ? Also; If the i (medical agents of the System be better < ian those of the Allopathic, why have i?t the Chem.sts and the learned of the i rolession, whose business it was to iin- | rove the Materia Medica, adopted those < gents into use ? J Now the obvious import of those ques- < ons, is directed to challenge the truth of < te Reformed System. That this should i e urged as an objection, is not strange; t ut we confess our inability to perceive 1 ny force in it whatever. Were this the nly subject upon which men differed? i as there but one party in politics, one | set in religion?were this the only in- i ance in which moil dared to throw off I le shackles of error and prejudice and llow the light of truth?did Allopathy l ossess all wisdom, and all knowledge i ould perish with her when she died, then i e confess there would be some show of I -ason in the objection, we might regard < icb a move with ho'y horror ; look upon < lose turbulent spirits, who would fan the < ame, w ith mingled hatred and contempt, < tid spurn from society sueb a contamin- < ting doctrine, lint none of these are I ue, and we affirm that the non-reception nd even opposition of the Old School < ue* not at all invalidate the truth of Re- < inn ; and it is only with the view of m t I itig this manifest that we reply to those i tiestions. | Were we to revert back to the lime i hen Medicine became ajScience and was . ruied into a regular Kystein, and trace i s history down through that period when i System succeeded system like the shift- I ig figures of a magic lantern," we would I nd enough to convince any one that dif- < rence of opinion in Medical matters, and < ren violent opposition was by no means | ncommon ; that it did not sustain a fall- i >g system, nor prevent a ris ng one from 1 ecoming predominant. Hut we have < either time uor inclination, and will make i w instances, not confined to physic, an- i ver our purpose. | When a moral reformation was attempt- * 1 in a c.ty of antiquity, the ]?opulace inet i le new doctrines with the cry "Great is I iana of the Ephesians." And why f? I id they know thcin fo lie wrong, and < tat they would be productive of mischief | allowed Jto subvert the popular religion i id become the prevailing system ! Ur aa it from selfish motives and considers- < an*, and was there any craft in danger < ' being act at nought! Hut it may be I tid that thia move was instigated by the i tercsted and that the "guardians of the i jblic health" would not act in thia man- I sr. llow was it when llarvev demon- I rated the great truth which he'had dis- i >verod?the circulation of the blood f? he doctrine was not received because op- I .wed to the notions of the School of Med- i iue. He lost his practice and favor of 1 le community, and was even jieraenited I y those who, of all others, should have ] .-en the least suspected. The whole Med- i al Faculty, he says, 4 were arrayed a- I sinst liirn like a legion of devils." Hut hy did those guardians of the public 1 ealth anathatnatize one of their own l umber for advancing what he believed \ > be a true, and hitherto unknown, prin I pie in physiology, and the very bads of i ue medical investigation t Was it the | mult of a determined opposition to any iiprovement in the healing art, or ao un- l illingnese to have tho<<e principles unset- i ed upon which they had so long acted, < jwever, unphilosopliic and irrational i icy were proved to be f Another in- i ance will suffice. When Dr. Jenner I iscovered the meant of disarming the i nah pox?that great scourge of our raw 1 -*>f its horrors, and placing it under the i uitrol of the I'hysician, what were the | nnors and what the homage he receivi 1 He lost caste and fared as did llar?y before him. We would hence infer lat the Medical profession is composed r persons with like passions as other men, lat they are alike governed by pride, rejudicc, fear and will even oppose iy doctrine not in accordance with iheir wn preconceived notions, although bearig the impress of truth. Shall this any >oger be considered a valid objection /aiiist Reform, and shall others stand loof, because, forsooth, Allopathy witholds ber sanction and questioua "i/ it be we." Hut "if the remedies! agents of the Renned System be lastter than those of the linrtttllii^ wlit/ rli-l iml ?I?a ? I ? Miv. ?V? mw viiminn, I bo analysed medicines for the benefit of 1 ie profession reoomraend their umtt? i mi why di<l they not! Doesthochem- i t, when he bee arrived at the ultimate l nalysis of any aubetanoe, and ascertained i ie constituent elements and their rela* | re proportions, know what will be the lerapentie action of those combined eietent* upon the human body t Assuredr not. It is not thus we derive onr now ledge of the medicinal properties of i ny remedial agent. Then why expeoi he Chemist to improve the Materia !? < Iut the "learned o' the profession" who < rere in quest of medicines, why did they ot adopt the use of those agents ?? trange oversight! sad mishap 1 yet why i bould tbeyf Ie il not known that in ( .lie Allopathic (i. e. Old Sohoo1, or Mineral) System, theory, as the name implies (Allopathic from Alios another, and Pa- i fAos, disease) is to create a new or secondary disease to remove the first original disorder; And that the Materia Medica j was gotten up with this object in view, i ?nd composed of substances that would t npcrate upon this principle of action ?? | l itis will account for so many poisons be- i ng admitted into the list of medicinal a- i Ijents, sinco diseuw is the legitimate effect < ?f their use. The tneorv of the Reformed . System being directly the reverse of this, I viz: that no new disease should be produced?that no poison should be used as medicine, and that sanative agents alone should lie administered?the medicines would consequently not suit the "learned" Allopath, and could not he adopted into use. And further, as the theory and principles of the two are opposed the one must change before it can consistently use the remedial agents of the other. Hut Allopnthy will reform. There are i men of the profession who entertain correct notions of the treatment of disease, and they will find that other medicines < than those now in use with them are necessary to accomplish their purposes sucles-fully. The signs of the times are quite ominious of such a change. There is less ili-iposition to bleed and give strong medicines (?) and more reliance placed ttpon the recuperative effort* of the systetfi.? They of the profession are beginning to change their notions of the nature of disease. They are beginning to regard inllatnaliou aa an affection dependent upon t n deficiency of contractile force in the capillaries, and stimulants as the proper medicines. They have made the wonderful Jiscoverv, that all the vital manifestations ire dependent upon the normal development of animal heat. A discovery made i by Dr. Samuel Thomson near a half cen Lury ago; and thsy must either acknowledge that they are taking the advantage jf his discovery without giving him the proper credit, or that the tnass of the profession has been mentally inferior to the illustrious reformer# A leading Journal rif the profe?sf.#n ntakes use of itie followmg language. "There are conservatives in the medical ranks as well ns among politicians who are perpetually saying in L'ffect pray gentlemen, let well enough nlonc." Thousands of physicians neither think nor explore l*.-yomJ the chart placed before them in the books. "They have a listaste for innovation, and would much prefer l<? live out three-score and ten years in uic u-?|>|yy tinniL uoil, Ul?l V -lllM'll H I'ractioe ami Motherby's folio dictionary ;tnl>odv all tliat it worth knowing in the divine ?jrt of healing." The same writer tias ventured to say that, "Lobelia is the moat efficient remedy for fever and inflamalions, known. It acta specifically on the lungs, liver and akin, and promotea the general secretions." Also to speak of Jtlier Reformed medicines in similar let ma. We observe in the proceedings of the National Eclectic Medical Association, a move to change the name of Eclectic to Eclectic Reformed, for the reason that Allopathiats arc beginning to ntyfe tlieinslves Eclectics. Hold on you interrogator and tee what the impenetrable future may yet reveal. But why do the people stand aloof and wait for the change f Are they not aware that it is their own ignorance of medicine that perpetuates its existence f Do they know what number of the Medicines they use are poisons, and what number will produce death iu "large medicinal doses?" We are informed by medical authors that the majority in common use are poisons, and that some of the most virulent poisons, known, are used as medicines. Now it is utterly impossible for a poisons to get np a healthy action in the human system though by their chemical action they may and do encourage such action ; yet we do know they are far inferior to the sanative agents which act iu harmony with the physiological laws, in reatoring lost vital action, and removing disease. How is the person who takes those substances of doubtful propriety, and grows worse under their tise, to know whether they are aggravating the disease or whether lie is dying of the disease or the medicine he is taking? Ami who will denv that those effects do follow their nse ? The system of which we have Wen treating adrii'ls only into use those sub nances which are entirely safe in their administration and which are of sufficient power and efficacy to remove all curable disease. It has beauties that commend it to every one, anil it argue* no false principle* or want of scientific character tlmt the professional end nor.-profession* I discountenance it. Reason and science prove its philosophy, practice demonstrates its tupe.ior efficacy, and time will show its triumphant success. Let (he people in form themselves on those subjects, and then no one will need inquire, why Allopathy does not reform. D. W. R. English tavern keepers simply give nolice by public advertisement of their intention to "dresa a fine lively turtle" on such a day; but the Vankea, more atrociously, writes in chalk upon the devoted animal's back," ump tomorrow," and places him on para?le before his hotel; thus basely making him a party to hia own murder, and deluding him, in defiance of all the lawa of nation*, to ndvcrtiae bis own execution. Beau Brummell. The Ixjndou correspondent of the SunJay Times gives the following account of Buau Brummell 1 The real story of Brummell, had the people be?n so astute tis to seize its lend- I ing points, amusing as a romance. The audacious insolence with which he trampled down the haughtiness of the high nobility of England was splendid?because successful, llis grandfather kept a small confectionary shop in Bury street, St. James's, Loudon, and let lodgings. The first Lord Liverpool, then almost obscure, lodged in bis house, took bis son as secre tary, got him oflice under Lord North, and allowed him to feather his nest so well that on his death, in 1704, there was ?05,000 to divide among two sons and a daughter. George, the second was educated at Eton, and dressed so well, while early in his teens, that the prefix of "Beau" was then put to his name. In Oxford, he affected to be exclusive, and, on bis father's death, in 1794, at the age of sixteen was presented with a cornetcy, in the 10th Hussars, by the Prince of Wales, colonel of that regiment. Henceforth ; he was the Prince's constant companion. In two years he was a captain, and then?threw up his commission, and set up as a gentleman at large. This was before be was 21, and the only reason assigned was, that the regiment was ordered to Manchester, winch he considered decidedly vulgar. lie started, as an independent gentleman, on ?30,000?a small sum for carrying on suoli a profession?ridiculously small for one whose wardrobe cost him ?8000 a year, and who entertained fashion and even royalty at his table. No man dressed belter; simply, but richly, with elegance and taste. In this he eclipsed his much puffed successor, 1) Orsay whose showy artire made him look like what he was?a tailor's walking advertisement. The Price of Wales, whose wardrobe has cost ?100,000, was Bruuimell's greatest rival, until corpulence, which he bated, destroyed all his reasonable pretensions to the titrono of Dandyism. Simplicity, of the most studied kind, wa" BruiumeD'a great system. He mixed and visited in the first circles I for he was young, handsome, satirical, and the fashion. lie rode well and was a good shot, hut affected to despise Melton and the pheasants on the plea that both were too troublesome. His great reform was in the neckcloth, which then was a sort of white muslin padding. He introduced the moderate use of starch, which gave the necessary stiffness, and dispensed with the pad. He was curious in his tie; if the cravat did not glide into it at the first touch, he threw it aside and tried another. His valet, who was met with a heap of these rumpled neckcloths on his are, solemnly said, "These are our failure." The Prince of Wales quarreled with him, after nearly twenty years, intimacy. The story runs that, in the Prince's drawing-room he said, "Wales, ring the bell," wliich was done, and when the servant came in, the Prince said, "Order Mr, Brummell's carriage." The Beau denied this, and attributed bis quarrel to sometiling he had said about Mrs. Ki zherberl's stoutness. This was about 1811. Bruminell continued King of Fashion though he had quarreled with the Prince. But he took to gaming. In 1814, he lost all he had, and ?10,000 more; raised what 1110 ley he could and retreated to Calais; attributed his bad luck to his having parled with "a lucky sixpence," which, he ma'ifituina/1 l^/dkxnltil/l ?**!?<>?.? possession of; .vas supported in bis exile by liis brother and sister; was so liberal, when his remittances came, that tne beggars called him "Le Hoi de Calais;" was made British Consul at Cien, on the the mediation of Wellington with George IV'.; was removed, without compensation, when that consulate was aUilished ; lost his senses; spent his last bourse in a hospital, for lumatic mendicants ; and died March 2d 1840. There, in a nutshell, is the true history of Brummell." Mr. Editor?If you think the following worth publishing plea.su give it a place in the Ledger. More A a on. A Lawyer Mystified How many hands do you work?" asked a pert lawyer of a negro driver, at ? negro trial. The negro pondered a little and replied, * Forty sah." " Why that's more than is commonly entrusted to one tnau. How many plows do you drive I" Twenty, sah." "Twenty, why yon must get on swimmingly?whoever heard of two hands lming worked at one plow t - i neimer see a plow worked without two hands," replied darkey. "How can two liauds manage to work at one plow I" 44 Dey teek hold de handle, Bah." 44 Come hoy. no more of your nonsense, how many hands do von work !" Ky, mAssa, enty dis one hand I" extend ing his right. " Certainly." 44 And enty dis anudderf extending his left, dat mock two. 44 Yes, certainly, said the lawyer. - And enty dis one head to my two han't said darkey, pointing o hit calabash. I wyek forty has', but only twenty head." Japan. Great curiosity exists in relation to tin habits and manners of the Japanese, now that commercial intercourse is aoout t< be opened with them. Late letters fron our naval officers, who have visited the i? land,says: The people here are much finer looking than the Chinese. They dress better am are more cleanly in their appearance.? They greet us cordially, and are pleasan and lively, and rather fond of our wines Gentlemen of upper-lendom all wear tw< swords. We find the Japanese to he great far mors and good mechanics. I have exam ined some of their work. It is very g<>od and they learn anything quickly. Uu they are far behind the times with re. pec to their bonis, both in rig an J hull. Our new friends need no lessons in th art of trading. They charge us seventy five cents for a chicken. Some of on 1 not i ti:? it 1 tlipm ill (ftilil /Vim !??ul ?; i # ^v^ their charge in copper washed with gold Thev are brewed, running people, am they will show it before long. 1 understand that ibe Emperor ha chosen .six young HH'ii of rank, attache to the Court of Yedo, to learn telegraph ing, but whether they will bo able to ac ipiiro the art, or if so, in what time, is j matter of much speculation. I have nothing to add about the eoun try or people, more than you alreadj know froinpuv last letter. The common class are a miserable set ol beings, groum down by oppression and tyranny, aiu living in a state of consent tear of tliei rules. The lightest offense is puni-liei whh death. I offered one of the soldier the other day a navy button, hut he darei not received it, inakingsigns that ifhedii so his neck would be in danger. Idolatry is every where to he seen e*en more than in China, and s'atuan seems to be very com mo i. The grave yards are full of rude sculptures am images ot gods and heroes, placed ther as tutelar guardians on the tombstones or for some sueli purpose. Tibetan let ters and seulences are used as charm ahout the graves, no one knowing at a! what they mean. If they were intellig bit the charm would bo broken. Temple ire cotnm ?n, ar.il wayside divinities pre sent their weather be iten faces every few rods. A \Vkstern Storv.?The editor of th Grand Hirer Eagle, gives the following a the experience of a friend stopping at th Kalamazoo House :?"You see, I went t bed pretty all fired used up, altera hul day on the old road befo'e the plank wa laid, calkalatiir on a good snooze. Waal just as the shavers began to ease off, kinder felt smnthin' try in' to pull off in; shirt and diggin, their fe -t into tiie srnal of inv hack to get a good hold. Wiggled and puckered?all no use?kept agoin' i like all hid. nimetiy jjj<>t up ana struck i light tu look around a spell?found a'jou a peck of l?ed-bug8 scattered all around and more droppin* oft'my shirt and run nin* down my legs every nunnil. Swep oil' a place oil the tloor, shook out a quil lay down and kivered up m it for a n-tr No use?mounted right on to me, lik< a passel ot rats on a meal tub?dug hole in the kivorlid, and crawled througl and give me first for try ill' to hid". (Jo up again, went down stairs and got th s'u.ih bucket from the .wagon, B rough it up and made a circle of tar on the fioorlay down on the floor on the inside, and t'e soimiine anyhow. Left the light burning and watched em. See' em get togetlu and have a camp meetin' aliout it, and the they went ott'in a squad, with an old gre headed lie one at the top, right up tli wall, out on the ceilin,' till they go t ihe right spot, then dropped right plum into my face. Fact, by thunder. Wol I sweept them up agin and made a circ! of tar on the ceilin,' too. Thought I ha em foul that time; but I sawn to man, they diden't pull straws out of a be? and huild a regular bridge over!" Sc ing an incredible expression on ourvisa<j lie clinched the story thus : 'It's s whether you beleve it or not, and soni of'cm walked arrot% on stills. Bod bus are curious critters,and no mistake, 'specia ly the Kalnmasoo kind." Punimhino Chii.diikn.?Miss Swis helin makes this very sensible remarl wliich we commend to all who have tli care of children :?M Punishment for chi dren sic uld consist, at most, in restrain ami that no more than is necessar to overcome their resistance and mak them fool ihe parent 01 guardian is stroi gor than they?that they can reMrai them and will, but only for their henefi No punishment should assume the a| pearance of revenue, ami sho'dd alwaj be administered by a person in perfei command of liis or her own temper.No ono should attempt to g vcrn achil until lie has acquired ihu art of gove ning himself." In what a different spirit ia punisl mcnt usually administered! Theparei liears and forbears until patience is e: haunted, and then blows are given i anger, and wrong to thobody and min inflicted. It may b? safely said tbi no child over received punishment i anger that was not i ijured rather tha bensfltted. Suspense ha* been called the toofb-scl of Iks mind. " M " % ^ '< I Brimstone Cornkk.? Tliis is the very B ' appropriate title of the corner of a Bosr ton street, on which the church ofTheo, j doro Parker is situated. 'I i A friend informs us of an incident con. ' nected* with this same abolition ca'.heI dial which strictly illustrates abolition r consistency. An individual who had atI tended the church, but found tlu3 ultra ism . I bearing altogether two strong for his own ] t j capacities of endurance, offered liis pew ? ! f?>r sale, but was for a long time unable 3 ' to find a purchaser. lie at length hit ' upon the curious expedient of a sham salo . I of the pew to a negro, enjoining upon - him to occupy the pew w ith his wife f and children every Sunday t II further t orders. The pew was in a most conspit cious and eligible situation, and when on the succeedin.' Sunday, tlio sv ti of Afrie ca and his wife took possession, they . were the " observed of all obser* r vers." 1 It was not many minutes before the < J . occupants of neighboring pews vacated i ] their places, and the looks of indignation and disgust they cast upon the ins. traders exhibited the true character of s their abolition philanthropy. The next t| - time the negro attended church he found the pew door locked, hut he lifted his T a affectionate sprow and sablo cherubs over the enclosure, then followed himself, 1 . listening with great edification to the ,< abolition theories from the pulpit, in such i strange contrast with the practice of the 1 people. The third attempt of the negro * 1 to attend service was successfully der i teatcd by locking the church door Upon | I him ; and the u|>shot of the matter win s that I lie pew owner's trick was euluely 1 1 successful, and the aholiliouists gave him 1 three prices for his pew, iu order to prevent the abolition theory from l>eing , practically illustrated. This is but an f example out of a thousand of the inaincer itv and inconsistency of abolitiouism.? I Phil. IjC<l<je<v. c ??? i, A fiooo ^kpi.t.-ASabbath scool teach er, instructing bis class on that portion of s the Lord's l'rayer, "Thy will be done on i || earth as it is in Heaven," said to thcra? ?, "You have told me, my dear children, ^ what is to be done, the will of God; and where it is to be done, on earth; and r how it is to he done?as it is done in Heaven, IIow do you think the angels and the happy spirits do the will of God e in Heaven, as they are to l>? our pattern!" * The first child replied, "Thy do it umno* e diately. J 0 The second, '"They do it diligently." The'tmrd, "They do it always." * The fourth, "They cio it with all their 'i liAirli ' The fifth, "They do it altogether." k Horu a pause ensued, and no child ap' peared to onve an aswer; but, after ? some time, a littlo girl arose, and said? 1 "Whv, sir they do it without asking any 14 illations.*' 1 ? Giistavus Alolphus, king of Sweden, '? hearing that two officers were to fight a -tuel, directed tint it should be fought in '' his presence. They met at the appointed '' time, and saw to their astonishment a * gallows erected on the spot. The king 13 tolil them to commence their fight as soon as they pleased, but, pointing to the gal'' lows, added, "I am resolved that the con* queror shall bo hanged by the neck, and e his opponent by the heels." Dismayed lt at this they retired in silence, and shortly ~ afterwards commenced an intimate and J abiding friedship. t Cheap Substitute for Coffee.?Liebig ? (the illustrious German cbemist)says that J asparagus contains, in common with tea 10 and coffee,, a principle wlticli lie calls "tau o rine," and which he considers essential p to the health of those who do not take I. strong exercise. Taking the hint from e Liebig, a writer in the Loudon Gardend er's Chronicle w ?s led to test sap.aragus if as a substitute for coffee, says: "Tiio young shoots I first prepared where not e- agreeable, liav ng an alkaline taste. I fo then trie<l the ripe seeds, and these, roaso, led and ground, make a lull flavored cofie fee, not ea' ily distinguished froir fine ^ f* Mucin* The seeds are easily freed from I- the berries by drying them in u cool oven, and then rubbing thoin on a sieve." In good soils, asparagus yields seeds ahoun*' dantly; and if they are charged with"Uu{? tine," and identical with soods of the cofe fee plant,, asparagus coffee may ha grown in the Unite I Htates at less than half the 1 cost per pound of the article now so largely y imported. p N'aturai. Curiosity!* Decaur Coum'* ty.?The edit.>r of the Columbus Knquir- ? " er speaks of a great natural cariosity in t. ... /1 1_ . uW. .-I I I'Knvur miuiiiy, iicurjjM , no Jtre K)HI ?" t hat it consists of what is called the Blow* intf Cave, at the mouth of which a suspeud1 '-'I liankerehief will be blown straight out- J ~ ward* during portions of the day, and aa '' forcibly inwards during the remaining porr* lions of the 24 hours. These alternating breezes nre supposed by aomo to bo connccted with the tides of the ocean, on acn count of their blowing one way or the otli- < er as the tide ebba and flows, n ??? A Mayor oat west has determined to kill *n half the doga in his sitjr, sad taa thsir hides J a with Um bmrk of the other half. *.|j The man who eourted aa investigation ie saya it is not half as agreeable as an affire- . ,*] donate girt. -9 ;s': ' ! 1