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<T 4* % A \ * * ? 0 .*r pbt . ., .. *. ? , .?y j^^b, ^ * ,. ??.-,i- . k* JJiKflR^M * $2 PER ANNUM. ^"..V": TrVArVwi^'iS. ,hc wur. IN ADVANCE % { ^^tTTV"?^"-*? , '^'___ .1.V --T * J.?. -' NEUTRAL IN POLITICS?DEVOTED TO LTERARY, COMMERCIAL, AGRICULTURAL, JCIENTIFIC, GENERAL AND LOCAL INTELLIGENCE, / ; VOLUME IV. LANCASTER. C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 29, 1855 . NUMBERS ?????????_ _ _ _ SETCPTCn TAT IPC J spect ikin to our blood I Regret pal- j not often found among men, nor ainon,? I lion, t? strucrnrlinflr witli nr ?Kr^? *!>/? . I t.?m " ?11 1 1 * I* ULJUDU1D1J 1IUJ1JU. [From the Home Journal. WHICH' THE RIGHT OR THE LEFT Somk weeks ago wo briefly noticed forthcoming work with this singular tit I* from the press of Garrett ?k Co., of thi city. S'nce then, we have read the boo! with no little pleasure, and 6nd in it s much valuable leaching, and such a stii ring spirit, that we desire to recotnmem it to the particular attention of the rea dera of the LI011.e Journal, by making i few extracts; though, we confess, its lit rary execution, whether considered in re spect of composition or dramatic action is by no means commensurate with tin noble, comprehensive, christian spiri which pervades it, or the startling powei with which it holds up to public view am public execration seme of the gigantii abuses in the business and religious lift of the metropolis, which havo too lonj passed curreut as boing positively morito rious. In the following passages from chnptei . at- ? ? ' * n?nr, iiiw mosi prominent phase* in th< character of Samuel, the hero of the hook re well exhibited Are not the sentimenu conveyed, eloqueut, truthful ami pungently satirical! 44 Samuel was on bis way to the city 44 Beside him, looking now through the mall window pane near him, anon at the faces in the closely packed car, and glancing occasionally down at a soiled, crumpled morning paper, which lay open on is knees, sat a tall, gaunt, broad-?liou'dcred jiersonnge, habited in a suit of black, the fineness of whose nap, and the mingled neatness and symmetry of whose cut, stamped their owner as a man of taste, aa well as one of means. * l'be countenance of this gentleman, was significant and impressive. * " lis paid but liuJe attention to our hero at first; hut in the eourse of a quarter of an hour, Ins moved around in his aeat, aud placing his back to the side of the car, he rested his head in the palm of liis left hand, and fixed his keen, penetrating eye upon the young man's profile, studying feature after feature, until he had taken a complete iuventory of bis nature. "'An honest, earnest, aimple-miudod youth T he muttered to himself, as he completed his quiet and unnoticed S'tr voy. * I'll sound him.' Then slightly changing his position, so as to attract the young man's notice, he said: ' A pleasant day, ueighlor T *4 Ves, sir,' replied Samuel, turning a little in his seat, so as to obtain a view of 'his companion's features, 'for riding in a comfortable ear, or a climbing jaunt among the bills.' 44'Is there much pleasure in tlio latter}' inquired the other, with a quiet smile which was full of manly sweetness, and which revealed two rows of small glittering pearls. 44'Yes,sir, when the heart and blood are young.' 44 4 Ah P observed the stranger; 4 but if the heart and blood bo old I* 44 4 In that ease, sir, they would, I lancv, prefer not to climb at alL' 44 4 And yet,' aaid the stranger, 4 that rule would hardly lie received in the world. There, the old are in moat instances the best climbers.' 44 4 Not of country hills!* 44 4 Granted. But of hills far more difficult to master, and whose summits are rarely touched by the young.* 44 4 Human honors!* 44 4 Yea." 44 4 1 had thought them hardly worth the seeking, a r,' aaid Samuel, diffidently, 4 and still less by gray bain. Give me one of nature's green hills to mount, be fere ail the other hills in the world P 44 4 So young, and yet so wise !* thought tiie 1 IT* has the Hug of the pure uietal; ootne, we'll try egain. ft will never do to confess detent to a simple boart like this P Then be said, in a tone which was tinctured Hightly with a sneer,' We are sometimes governed in bur choice by the consciousness of inability, ami therefore prefer doing those thing* which ere within our compass.' ,4 Hemoe! reddened at the sarcasm, but did not permit himself to venture a reply Until be hid recovered bis previous 44 4 That, I judge, air,' be thee mid, 4 would be the moat comueodable course in ail ease*. 44 4 The most prudent, no doubt P 44 4 Surely prudence ia deserting of re sped f * # * 44 4 44 Know thyself ia an b?m*t mil a . . s - a a tm,r MM IM MIMgtr, ' Wl OtM Wflk l few remember. You, however,' he a?l ded dryly, * appw to have atudied it witl <w?r 44 * I might retort,' Mid Samuel, will t*i? t flrwneM,4 that to nererfmft one' Wf, is ecaeJIj mi hc*Mi V -4 Good I I tike the fallow'. Mirit. 1 1lMrMi?fMl.ii will4 thought tb ?tranger. 4 Men,* he Mid aloud, 4ar toaaettmea tempted to alter *? well m d ihiMB aWeSi they aherwerde regret,' & "nSmeiiy Mrjr are aot peraona to fan tslfa&t We 0?d mere |o ovr eeWn " ' '*' v w w ?t .....to, urn iv uu? uoi Rione lor a fault. A man, in the heat of temjier, strikes bis =. friend?maims bitn, perhaps, but his sorrow for the act, while it iflay -alleviate the anguish, does not do away with the effect* of the blow. They are visible in 9 the wound itself, which, when healed^till ' leaves a?scar ! Worse?in the oreast of him who gnve it, lives the memory of a an hour when he relinquished his self re?? spect and his claims to the character of a 18 thinking being, to the brutal bauds of his k riotous blood. How much nobler to have ? sustained his moral manhood in that try* ing hour, than to sacritice it on so low an J altar T 44 The stranger could not help admiring * tho moral grandeur or this sentiment, but * he was too much of a roan of the world, to permit his real thoughts to bo tnirror? ed by his feaiures ; aud as his proud spir9 it revolted at even the shadow of defeat, t he replied, in a tone tinged with a certain f iliurrni) af ii-anw I ?o v- " " "'V 1 44 4 You think, then, sir, that a roan B should paaa over the grave reaulta of his - rashness without so much as a regret f f 44 * No, sir. I would have him avoid them altogether.' 44 4 But if he be hob blooded ?' 44 4 I>oes it follow that he should be * hot-minded as well I Children are some* times the creatures of impulse ; but something better is looked for in full-grown 1 men. Brutes are the subjects of instinct; roan, cast in a higher and more glorious mould, the subject of reason." i 44 4 Not always,' returned tho man of > the world, dryly. 4 lie is inore frequently the fettered vasal of society aud its absurd conventionalisms. Society says to hitn,44 Do as we do, think as we do, com port yourself as we comport ourselves;" , and Ire meekly, or rather servilely, obeys. A 44 reasoning being !" Why, sir, he is the bondsinan of his tailor, of his halter, his newspaper, his minister, his party, his "set." llis opinion* are made by the circle that lie moves in, and ho clings to them aceoidmg as they humor his own peculiar whim.*, which he innocently flat-1 (era himself are genuine THoroiirs, and' as they subserve his various ignoble inte rests. A 44 reasoning " being 1 lie reasons as his 44 position " lets bim, and not like a free, unbiased mind. If be be a sordid, grasping money-getter, be reasons as the love of money will permit him ; if a fashion-follower, as fashion will allow him; if a drawing-room hanger on, as the drawing room dictates; if a partisan, as his leaders prescribe; if a soldier, as the department orders; il in any one rank of society, according to the usages of that rank. A 44 reasoning being," in deed! Lei him but dare f show himself a being of th U exalted order, and so ciety will ostracise hiui as if he were a felon; nay,every man, woman, and child will rise up in virtuous indignation and hunt him like a wild beast?happily for the poor daring wretch, if they do not run him down I True, now and then, a brave spirit rises, who sunders and throws to tho winds the fetters that had been imposed upon his youth, and, strong in the consciousness of his genius and bis bold, energetic will, atames the world with the grandeur, the brightness, and the dignity of bis great manhood, llis mighty mind detects and laughs to scorn the paltry fallacies which hold society together ; he sifts, riddles, and holds them up to the ridioule of mankind?and then dares the combined efforts of society to do their worst, and to move him if they can. 8ociety surveys him first with astonishment, then with doubt, then tVor? for In him it has found its master. Tho conflict is brief; for where is the modem L)avid that will grapple with a giant f From bat mouient society quietly yields this intelligence, whose power is greater than its own; it eareaaea him, flatters him, calls him sweet names; terms with queer," 14 original," u sagacious," * bold," ?quietly biding its time in the meanwhile, for a (altering, careless, or unguarded moment, when it can turn, like an avenging wolf upon the poor wretch, rtinit tiim an?t il< aril/I ll>!?t in it. blotf ^ hi* downfall 1 And jet you are pleaaed *? c*" this monster, man, a M reasoning " bei^51 LorJ' he,P P " Lord, help ?*? indeed!4 answered Samuel,4 when a .W' J intelligence like jour*, sir, can find foou1 for laughter, for mockery, at ao aad a pictui"* of humanity aa that which you have draVQl Ah I friend?may 1 not call you ao!?'hat i* not kind, not generoue, not nol><? I Hi ere is a higher summit in the human jnind than sareaarc?magnanimity ! The pfpA whoae aonga are all of bitter* sae, dreamt aot of the joys of' the harp whoae airings are touched by aegek' fingers! llu inanity, be it in rags or satin, whether on the sidle of truth or on that of error, whether noble or ignoble, ie still our bro1 tber. If be ke cast down, what a joy to raise hint; If Ut, what a joy to nourish ' ^he waters of want, . | wiivw, cwwoi.j, "r ?n error - wuai i pleaaere to reacee him t Say we should i m a brother who ie ?rMd in mfcx), aUmJin^tinermerionaly uik*i the brnik of t a precipice; wa would nod Uuigh ia ? mockery at hh peril, tot lead him gewt ly hack to aafety, sootfciag him the while P o "The toao of the world ebooh bia toad. ' j I- ** All re?y ftn> to talk nC be e*id, ?- 'tot not to (tvaetto." Angel toarta are women either. They prefer broasts of sterner mould, and spare no efforts render their own as bard as po&sibloand hard enough they makothem! Ti market, sir, governs everything; and th is governed by the broad, universal law supply and dcma d. Now the denial is unlimited the world over for that whii will freeze the human heart and make colder, harrier, and more capable of i sisting the appeals of pity, sorrow, si fering, and benevolence, than it is t leidy; and the supply, if the truth mu be told, is far behind the demand 1 1) there is no demand for amrel voices. 11 angel fingers! The harpist that wou melt their icy natures, would be smiled i for his simplicity; if he persisted, th< would drive him off with ridicule.1 44 4 Surelv, men lovo not to he thougl cruel I1 44 4 Oh, no?not to be thought crue They would be regarded as mild, amiabl benevolent, magnanimous?because sut a reputation pays! And, therefore, i such a name can only be obtained at cost which they feel by no means incline to pay, thev unite in constructing a gen ral plea; ng deception, which answe their purjiose equally as well as the orijj I nal! Under the influence of this plea ing deception, tliey get along very hapu !y. They have a substantial respect f< everything that will pay?a suportion sympathy, like a thin coating of ice, f< tilings that don't pay. Thus, while eac professes a tender interest in honesty, the will let honesty itself starve, rot, die, or they will help it. True, they will giv it advice?liberally?but not a doit, not six-pence to save it from starvatioi Honesty ! Oh, yes?they love it?a arm's-length! They will follow it th world over?seemingly ! Hear thei talk, and puro honesty itself is an arran transparent rogue to them! They wi not o'.enlg rob. Oh, no?that woul send them to prison. But they will liein a negative way ; they will cheat?littl by little?step by step-?until their pool ct* grown with superabundance. Shot measure helps a little?adulteration help a little?a gentle admixture of falsehoo with truth helps a little?soft, unvarnisl ed, but excusable conventional lies help little?all snugly glossed over by a tnii gauze of It pays! till each is a littl Croesus in wealth, respectability, moral ty. and?honesty 1 They honor virtuo Yea, tir / From instinct, sir?from th very lovo of it, sir?from admiration t it,sir! Virtue, sir? Virtue is a flowe ?the fairest that ever bloomed in th garden of the soul, sir. Why, sir, tber was iny mother, n?y sitter?the very em boditnenU of virtue, sir. They are gon now?they lie iu Greenwood; the greei turf over them, and?a tombstone tha cost a thousand dollars?I can show yoi the bill, sir! By-and-by, Virtue come along ; her rags faintly shield her geoth form from the cutting blast; gaunt, wan is in her eye, hot famine in her cheeks her step is feeble, her voice low an< timid ; while froin tho arches of her eye; lustrous witlt suffering, hunger ha* pinch ed a tear. 44 A shilling, sir?please? am sore beaet; want is tiling at my vi tals; the cold is cutting lo my bones my sh >e is woaring at the toe, it is woi i already at the heel. Tin staggering to wards the church-yard, with none to Xav< ine in the fall. A shilling, sir?please.1 44 Oh, good woman, go to the alms-lions* ?do "They are all full, there." "G< to work, then." " I am too ill, loo fa gone, I'm ragged, there is no work to do.1 44 The times are bard, certainly ; hut d< run along?you annoy me?it's astonish ing how full of professional beggars lit world U* an honest man can't pa* twenty rods without oucountcring th trumpery things at every step?it's reall; too had." He II petition at ouce to bav< the wretches kept out of the streets, am have them kept out, he will, or know tfc< reason why ! Honor virtue, sir - certain ly! What a ridiculous question, sir Do they honor religion, too I Oh, yet 44 They have found, they still find, an* they hope they shall continue to find, un speaValue consolation in its sacred fount. ,Ye% they have experienced its sol err* joys; they have a grateful knowledge, ai abiding sense of gratitude for llim wh died that tbey might live; they ador his holy name, and hope to sing praise to hits in a blessed immortality. The are conscious that but for religion, societ would have fallen to pieces long ago that it is at once the corner-stone of sc ciety and the State; that without it sanctifvinj influences, oebiie end wlv* tforalily would disappear, education ear i-h, tK*Mneaa shiver into atom*, propert crumble itfto dual, the bond* which riv? men together, be eondered forever, an the human raoe turned, like the eon* i I?bmael, into homeless waoderer*. The feel their obligations to a system wbie hne done m nraeh for iheni and for hi maoHy in general. There's Mr. Binitl their preacher?thejr per Aim six thot sand dollars a year. Their church ea them eighty thonesmd dollars; and the think they em safely say it was dirt ehea at that. T?r be enra, there's Mr. Josseaa good man, who preaches in the IHt 1 tigfct work, wi.h hit Urge UtwMy, to erw {tbrotigfc on hie nine or (m hoodrotl d? % ^ A h sand dollars of debt, that's none of their to business. People ought to be careful ? how they cootract debts. If they want ho churches, and haven't got the money to at pay for them, let them do without them, of What business have people with churches id when they can't pay foe them t They i'h ought to look out and mind what they it they're doing. As to expecting help e- from (Am, they needn't think of it. Sink if- or swim, live or die, let every tub stand il- on its own bottom ! Do they honor rest ligion ? Yos, sir! And everything else ut which they, as good citizens and good or christians ouyhl to honor?in a payiny Id way I' at '"This state of things, sir,'said Sain ?y uel, is very sad?too sad for laughter, too sad for mockery ! All men are not lit so bad as yon wouid picture them. But you omit all mention of the good ! Have 11 you no kindly word for them ?' e, M' They have no need of any praise of :h mine!' returned the man of the world, na 'The tranquility of their owu hearts is a enough. You remember tbo adage, d u Virtue is its owu reward !""* ?" Here is a neat and niauant descrintion of the way city jobbem manage the cards in the game of trade with 44 country cus ?* tomers? The initialed will confess that ' * the account is authentic. The reader is )r regaled with a bird's-eye view of a great 'I wholesale dry-goods establishment; and ?r the author proceed#: 44 Amid this vast waste of counters, - calicoes, sheetings, flannels, shirtings, 6 broadcloths, eassiraeres, tickings, meri" noes, and glittering de laines, might be I seen, here and there, in the little, narrow, '* wandering passages, like bees |>eeping out from the cells of a great hive, in quest of 0 daylight, a scflt:erad army of young " clerk*. I jj 41 One in laying down the law' of . prices to a new customer, who is supposed to believe every word of the young gen~ tletnan's statement, that 4 their house can sell him lower by a -gr^at deal than any c" oilier establishment in town, as he liirnrl self c?n see,by the vel\ low ffgure wmcti ' * they put upon their goods. Tliey can \ furnish him with everything in the way of dry-goods that be may want, as their ^ II immense, he may say, their unequalled | n assortment, easily enables them to do. Tbcy can do bolter by a dealer than any other bouse in town, as everybody knows, | Ixieausc tlieir enormous capital gives them facilities which smaller concerns cannot, of course, command. They wouldn't like J r to have the statement get abroad, but * they bww that there isn't a house in e town that can begin with them, either in '* variety, freshness, quality, or quautit*- of . e stock/' 4 * " ; n 44 AH of which the 'new customer' is J 1 supposed to drink in with a simplicity ( " and gusto truly rural and refreshing. * 44 In another passage, another spruce 8 voung gentleman is regaling a Western | 1 buyer with a true and reliable account of his uiiucuiues in ' getting through tlie custom-house' the brilliant French mousl' seline de lainea which the buyer is ex* amining so closely, and which were imported by their house, expressly, all the way from?the State of Massachusetts! 44 Another young gentleman, who looks 1 as if he had just come out of a bandbox, so nicely is he 4 got up,' is assuring ano? thcr Western buyer that the de laincs he is looking at, nro warranted not to lado? i without washing. r 44 A fourth is doing the agreeable to a ? young, inexperienced rural gent, who de^ sires a 4 biasing stock of roaring goods, which will enable biin to smash up ac old-aetahlisbed rival?an old fogy who i will shortly find that Young America is e too much for hiin, and who will hare to vacate in double quick time with bis an ^ tedituvhin traps, and give place to one . who can whip his hide off any day, in e the way of trade.' 44 A seventh is exercising his own lungs j and the patience of a cautious old dealer L at his elbow with information to the ef j feet that he is 4 absolutely buying too littie of that print. It is perfectly new; ? will be all the rage, and if be isn't caren ful, he will be caught napping.' Old genn tleman ehakee his head, and hasn't the 0 least fear of being detected in that way, e at all: Young gentleman insinuates that # he'd better reconsider the matter; that y print will liavo a desp'ril run, and what L will make it very bad, is the important . fact there is only a small supply of it in ,! the market.' Old gentleman will run ig the riek^f all that. Young gentleman 4 4 thinks he'd bettor be careful, now?he'd better late a few more pieces.' Old gen. Unman quietly but firmly declines, and \ they pCM oo to other pattern*. , d "An eighth i* selling a tremendous bill I )f to on lilinoi* friend, nn eld good-natured v customer, who always pay*, and who al- < way* take* whatever is suggested to him I i- by that clerk, in who*? judgment he has i S, far .more confidence than in hie own. i i- "A ninth ia earneatly urging a Jersey | it friend, who buy* moderately, and always i >y hr cash, that he'd better1 go a bigger as ip sortment' and heavier to* of each. Jer- | ? aeyman Is eery modest, eery cautions, and ie Think* not.' BesWs*,Weonly brought er a thousand dollars for his dry gondi, and I that in new nearly all used up by what J he baa already laid out' Ninth suggests ?is that Jener, whom he knows to be4 good ph I a# wheal, needn't let tbht deter htm, ea 4 % * ' uv -Aiiubu nm (TCII 1JIU1 Ull IltJ W'lULP, I and take bis note for the amount at six < months.' Jersey thinks be has got ail bo i wants now; as to notes, he never gives i any. ' Don't kno# what might happen. 1 Suppose be should die, and be bad notes , out?wbat then! They would create trouble for his executors, and that wouldn't do. Besides, bis family wouldn't like it. Tboy never gave notes, because they knew very well there was no tclliug wbat might happen. Suppose one of them should die?suppose he should die himself, and with notes out that tho estate couldn't pay?what then I' Ninth was ' 'quite willing to run the risk.' Jersey I quietly affirmed that ' he was not,' and Ninth smiled like a gentleman suffering c with tho toothache. t "A twelfth is explaining to an old cus- H tomer, who, as the house has recently dis- N c \ered, is rather loose in the joints? * loose in the joiuts, meaning that his abil- . ity is as dubious as his willingness to pay; " how the houso is now only selling for cash, T its numerous heavy losses of late, by the 14 caving in of many of its oldest and hear- v iest correspondents, having driven it to that course; how it will sell him verv very low, and thus make it an object for v liirn to buy; how it (the house) lias closed 0 all its accounts, and is now wholly and 0 exclusively for cash.' Loose-in-thojoints is somewhat taken aback at this startling s_ intelligence: "thinks it is hardly fair treat- 1' merit to one who has dealt with the house * so m/?ny years, and always paid so punc- v tually; and would like to know the mean- (| iug of it,' although he knows the mean- '< ing of it very well already. c "A thirteenth, who is noted through- b out the establishment for his 'sharpness,' b is managing a Michigan gent, and 'putting him through' on 'scientific principles,' a which few in his way understand or know c how to practice better than himself. i? Lie is regarded as a star of the first magnitudo in his line, lie can handle the oldest, shrewdest, and closest buyers with e- * jual dexterity, lie can tell the character }' of a customer at a glance. He has a trick ? r?f alh-kinpr old tlioj.-wr.t-n go ul? iiimiii the P shrewdest, and of making them l?elieve t( they are the latest patterns out. lie poslosses a 'knack' for making the most cau- ' tious dealers buy at least five times as 81 lic ivily as they designed when starting a- w way from home. lie will convince the eldest buyers by evidence which is whol- c< y overwhelming, of their utter ignorance >f the first rudiments of their own busi- t' less, although they may have t?een pret- ^ :y successful in it for inoro than thirty w fears; and he will satisfy the youngest l!' ?nd most inexperienced that they are per- p1 rectly 'posted up,' and that they will, ere ong, wholly 'use up' their competitors and whip tliein clean out of sight; all of which 11 :he buyers unhesitatingly believe, altho' a hey are somewhat staggered in the end H ?t the enormous hills which Thirteen ad- ^ oitly led them insensibly to run up, while & le was duly impressing them with a reali- 11 '.ing consciousness of these flattering facts. " Indeed, so firmly established is Thirteen's b 'eputation in this respect, it is a common b laying 'when a dealer passes through his lands he comes out like a sqeezed lemon.' b "Thirteen's present vioira is a 'very c< inowing' gentlcniwn from Michigan, who ol nnocently flatters himself it 'will take a ai unart follow indeed to come it over him. b lie understands himself, he does. He d( lint been in trade twenty years, right in s< .he face of the tearingest opposition a iner- g< :hant ever had, for notliing. No,indeed! w Lie has taught cloth, he has bought dry H foods, and what is more, ho altera knew fc iow to get rid of all he bought Now, >ti ilthough it don't invariably foller, that Rf >ecause a man knows how to sell, he h' tnows equally well how to buy, he kind- fa >,r reckons he does know a little of both. io there's no nae in anybody's trying to ?m? city do<lgea over him, l>ecau.se be cuows all about 'cm. He's bought in Mew York afore?he has; thinks his face s known to a few of the houses there, and .hat many of the beggest on 'em would * X) mighty glad to get his name on their ^ Dooks and his note in their hands for a few housands. Hut ho is keerfu!; and when inybody gits his note he is allcrs a lectio 9* ;uris to know what it's for. As to putting >!d shop worn goods on to him, they can't y lo it, and they might as well know it irst as last. As for decoying him into the " lurchase of goods he don't want, that san't bo did, nutber, and they might as *, sell know it, too. And then as for * sticking him on big bills, when be on- *' y intends lo make small una?lot 'em J*1 ,ry it, that's all! When he comes to 'M New York, ho comes there to buy, like an ror.est merchant, and be don't mean to ? >e chiselled. If any of the fellers there ^ ire smsrt enough to Isy him out, let 'ena w ;ry it, he's willin' I' f "To all of which Thirteen smilingly ao- n< and after two houraof mingled ftat J lery, insinuating smiles, and masterly tr innnageincnt, Michigan i? Maid out,' with C all the hoti6rs: Thirteen deeming it a j? point of honor to 'chisel' him to the fullest tl extent, and in the most scientific C with a magnificent array of o!d shop worn h goods, a moderate proportion of articles p really frea|i, a*d all at prices which would h fill a tyro with amase?the whole terroi- g nating in a bill which shook p?*or Michi d gan for the next six months with ail the d agonr of pecuniary terror." C We should like to gtre other extracts, t exhibiting more strikingly than tboae we I nave nirimned, tlie intent and strength :>f the work in hand, but the limitation of ipacc forbids. We are content to have limply laid before our renders a book ivhicb has a high future in store for it. MISCELLANEOUS~ Freedom from danger in descending Wells. Quito a number have lost their lives rom gas by descending into well, for the >urpose of cleaning them out, and the Jleveland (Ohio) lleruld gives an account >f a case which recently occurred in Colimbus, in that State, where four persons, ifter being nearly deprived of life in a veil, were only rescued from their perilous itualion at their )::st gasp. The causo of loath in such cases is carbonic acid, or as t is familiarly called, "choke damp." It revents respiration; it extinguishes flame, nd is generally found at the bottom of rolls, it being of greater specific gravity han air. It is degenerated by vegetable ecomposition, and commonly finds its ray into wells from seams in the strata f the earth, from adjacent places where hemical action is going on. Any well may be decended with perfect afety by the use of quick or fresh burned ine, recently slacked, or without being lacked. When there is choke damp iu a veil, it can easily bo known by letting lown a lamp or candle by a cord. If the ght burns freely it is a sign that no hoke da up Is there, and the well may e entered w ith safely; but if the candle urns dimly, or is extinguished, it is n ign of danger. To remove this gas so s to render it innoxious to the person ntering the well, all that has to be done, . simply to throw down some pieces of esli burned lime into the water, and agate it with the bucket on the rope, or 'ill) a pole. Anotherplnn ia toslackthe roe in a small heap, mix it with water 1 a tub, and throw down three or four ailsful into the well. Or, if it is desired j enter the well and not disturb the wajr in it, taKe about half a pailful of slacked me, mix it quickly with cold water in a wall tub, and lower it down into the ell by cords attached to its lugs, so as ) rest on the surface of the water. Tho intents of this tub must bo stirred up for m minutes with a pole in the well, and . ? ? ' ?vn mil Buspcnueu lor an liorr. When I rawn up, any person may descend the ell with safety. The philosophy of this , that moist lime has a great affinity for I irbonic acid gas, and it therefore absorbs rapidly from the atmosphere. If we ike some fresh slacked lime, and stir it p in a vessel containing cold water, and llow it to remain so for five or six hours, hard scale, like that of thin ice, will be und on top of the water. This scale is | wbonato of lime, caused by the absorpon of carbonic acid gas from the the attosphero (a very small quantity of caronic acid is mixed with all the air we I reathe) and the scale is a thin pelicle of one marble. The lime of good mortar ecomes hard by returning to its former indition of limestone, by the absorption f carbonic acid gas from the atmosphere, nd the formation of a thin scale of car onate of lime on a lime vat affords evience of the manner in which some of the alimentary rocks were formed. Noper>n need be affraid of descending into a ell it he pursues the directions given.? y letting down a candle into the well afir the the lime has been allowed to play * part, its light will indicate when it is ife to descend. For tho safety of life we ape this information will be circulated 1 ir and near.?Scientific Ama-ican. Sbarp Practise. We have read of many ins'ances of larp practise on the part of " gentlemen the Bar," but none goes ahead of one I o heard related the ether day. When I L. Curtcnius, now a prominent mem5r of the profession in Western New- J ork, first went to Ix>ck|>ort, he had a ise involving the title or possession of a >use and lot. When he camo into ourt, he found that his whole depeujnce was on the testimony of the tenant ho occupied the house?one Solomon reen. Green was called to the stand, he opposite counsel objected to him. he objection was atgued and sustained, id Cuitenius was apparently floored. A right idea struck him, however. He sckoned to hia clerk, Lamontc, who is so now a prominent memlier of the ar of Western New York. He came. . whispered in his ear a few moments, ben he and Green were seen to leave I te court room together. Now for tho I nit move. Time roust be killed. Curtcnius com- I lenced a speech. He spoke on. The ourt frowned ; the opposing coiTnsel obicted ; the jury became indignant and 1 te audience impatient. All agreed that I I. was making a fool of binweff. An I our paused. Ever and anon the oposite counsel would pop m and object ? bis proceeding further. Curteoius arfted the points, which were invariably j added against bins. 1 he Court House | oor open*. Lamonte and Groan enter, yurtenius, with well expressed iad%aaion at being constantly overruled, Wk ib scat. ait * - > * Jm % ^j.SS * * ^ ^ * U The Conrt inquires: Have you anv.olhef witnesses to offer, Mr. CurtOnius V " Yes, sir." Solomon Green was called. Up jumps the opposite counsel. " May it please the Court?this is the witness that has just been rejected. It is almost a mnffitnrJ 1 - ? ? ? - ? ?v^< i'* iv uimg ij * iii Oil IO the stand again." Mr. Curtenius:?"Never mind; Mr.Green, do you reside in that house !" f " No, sir, I hare just removed* A shout from the bar and audience, rewarded the clever ruse Of the counsellor ?the disqualification of his witness had been removed, he gained his case, and it is recorded that the business of his oflice doubled in less than three months thereafter. The Drunkard's Wife. Twelve o'clock, and yet ho comes not! Once it wasnotthu*. In girlhood's bright and Runny morn, he wooed me for his bride, and 1 was happy then. I did not dream that clouds couid rise to dim the brightness of my skies; but they did, and now Changed am I! My eyes are dim from long weeping, my check is waf, my voice trembles, my step has lost its elasticity, my heart?my heart is full to bursting, since he,?my husband,?has joined the inebriate's hand. My Henry a drunkard ! The echo of such (whispered) thoughts startled me! It sceins as if 1 were dreaming; but ah! I am nob All U reality. Ho is scorned, ah, loathed by All but me; and I have catise to hate him; but yet I cannot, for he is the father of my babes; and I must still bear with him; I lore him for their sake. I will dream of the hours when I believed my path was strewn with unfading flowers, and was happy in the belief. Yes, the recollection of the past shall cheer the darksome present, and nerve icy soul to meet the future. Thus spoke a poor, griet-stricken wo-" man, whose husband was fast preparing ? to fill a drunkard's errs*? Oti! too many hearts are made ftr iuhe Because of a drunken husband's sake! The subjoined Advertisement is extracted from an Irish newspaper; " Missing from Killarney, Jane O'Fogartv, she had in her arms two babies And a Guernsey cow, all black, with red, and torioize shell combs behind her ears, and large spot all down liis back with squints awfully." 4 A Howe Thrust.?A preacher took passage on one of the Lake Erie steamers on a Sunday lately, and before he had been long on board, ho applied to the cAptain for leave to hold a rot;?drt<?? . ? e>-?' in?. The captain replied, ** No?for any minister who would travel on Sunday, >9 not fit to preach on board my boat." Conversation is the great book of the world. I' teaches the use of all other books, and learning is almost useless without it, and loses half its charms. Conversation brings nature's talent into r-ractice and gives it a proper finishing. The groat difficulty is to ascertain what Truth really is. They murdered an innocent man in Judea once, fbr speaking tho truth, and ever since then, it has been' so gradually getting oat of fashion thai the people of our day scarcely know itf what quarter to search for ifc Crime has but two travelling companions. It commences its journey with thai 4 scoffer, and ends with the blasphemer. So says Sam Slick. Rather a crude notion of Sam's, and more akin to the past than the present. * , It is the little troubles that wear the' ^ heart out. It is easier to throw a bomb-' shell a mile than a feather?even with , artillery. Forty littlA debts of one doll__ -V _ ?. mi vhcii, win cnune you more trouble end dunning than one big one of ft thousand.' A young liuTy found One dfty reading a J novel, wa* H*Ked by ft gentleman how sue liked the stile? Reviewing the incident* M? in her memory, she replied, "The *(ilet Um siyh-f?Oh, air! I am. not como to' '^1 thai ^ Mm. R Oak* r^mith ? ont In favor of foroiilo lawyers. fcbe awye three ladle* have already commenced the'study of law. Female lawynts ought to be good ^ at eras* questioning. a- 1- * * 1 -> ' *??i excuange minm it rather raffing to lift to a lad^ in A?l street for the aake of politcncwi, and let ? ^ couple of dirty collars roll oat Upon tW jj| ido walk. Crb/my.?-An Impertinent follow attll + to know if you aver ant down to too, jH wliars akuftttoed milk waa on thatahhfc Hi without being asked* Nt>o yon Uk? cream!* " ^ If a many mnrry, a ah row, w? am W fupjK*e L? it shrtmd.