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9 f ? " ~ " ? 1 ' - ?? w mcttster ictidcv, I ?2 PER ANNUM STMtfSSA SHESE* IN ADVANCE il inmilij aail ^nlitirQl 3Jrius|in|ift?Deuutcil iu tjjc ilvis, sciences, iitfcnturr, vlfduration, 3griniltnrr, datrrual dmpTooruifnts, .foreign nuii J?uiuratic jfJcuis, nuii tjjr 3I!arkrts. VOLUME VI. . LANCASTER. C. il? SOUTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL29, 1857 NUMBER 11. Lt i i "a i i - swrr pftrij. THE BACHELOR S BURIAL 1 ? Two old maids, wt shut of day, s%'" A bachelor's carcass boro away, j"11 With wwnklyd brow and malted hair, i ' Ami heart thaluuvcr loved the fair. M ^ IIrinjrbrlars, tlu-v gronn'd, biing weeds u?,, IIIOI blown, Itring rankest weeds of name unknown, 1 firing withered boughs from dreary wild, jf> To strew the bier of error's child. j j0{| And make his grate where the lizards hide, Whore night nhado strews tho swamp creek j side. " | ( Far out of sight?where genial spring j(,n Mhall Send no gentle birds to sing. 1 r,.M Ills old jack knife lay with him low, ^ To out the strings of clipid's how ; , The sad house-eat shall whine around His lonely gruvc in grivf profound; j ( i fes< l.uw lay him w ho was often "high," I Here w here shall l'.dl no pit) ing eyo a U] for hi in?for him no loving heart ? Shall ache, lor him no tear shall start. lad llis bloodless lips shall fall to dust ; His old jack-knife shall waste with rn>t ; He whom we hide from light of men u,. Shall never fright the babes again. I >i. l'or We have laid liiltl fr?lti the lii-'ht, . !)H\ H?nen h the ground and out of sight , bat this rude epitaph shall stand? "He wtio to no one gave his hand 1" - J,.. ? ?? vvel 31 Irlfrtfii ftimi. ::: __ I 'j 1 reti THE UNFASHION AELE FURS. hot . , ! s,lu Now father, I'll thank you t>>i that live , No, hundred dollitts ; you promised to give Iv\* it to me this morning.' j Inn 'Ves,*eliihl, but I liavo not so much ed 1 here now ; ride down to my olliee at ' the twelve o'clock, and you shall have the fan money, I expect some tenant's to pay 1 to I their nillirtei * ronf l<? il?e ?i??.t ...... t 4 -- . - .V ttji t nui v .*11 lllftrvi' il II* I up llu; sum for you l>y that time.' il.j I 'Firo huuitcd, aliti not, a dollar le>s. oou and you might no well say six handled,' f, U aid ttie tfiiv, laughing gul ; she ki.ew j licr father'* fond indulgence. | |IW1 'Oli! extravagant !' exclaimed !?#*, l.ut 1 {*uji whatever of reproof tlio remark implied, ,|,e il wao complete y uulldied by the cares:. , xx , gitt'i at the saiuu time. j j,t.r Five hundred do.laro tot> much for a j" ^ sol of fur*! No, indeed. Why Clara die Morgan'* tost eight hundred, aud mother jer tl.iuk* those oliu selected for 1110 very hix! cl tap.' j .,he 'I lift man of business smiled upon hi* Wa< darling daughter, then loll hia elegant y0( and t on.fori able house for the cheerless mir olfloe in Wall street. At noon Alien JHI) whi there too Springing lightly from tin- ,(i> [ carriage, *ho tripped up stairs, and was |? f at Mr. l'uraud'* desk ju?t a* a young f?- f,.r male turned frt in it to go out. Having fy;U received the six hundred dollars, Alice mo left illiliie.liiilelt >o,.l u a. St...!, I.'. lluztar, chatting i^nily with m young frioiiil sen w Ituiu she met there. L'oth were looking Alu at tbc handsome cn| e and mutl which nwi Mrs. 1 >ur.?ml had I'm,I up< n tor In r daugh- one U r lite day la-fore. Tb?-y were beautiful whi iHalved, Rinl the young ladies, having ex at < hrt'i-U-d the usual vocabulary iu praising mo them turned to look at others. Just then 4 a hodow, suppressed cough clo e by h -r, tor' caused Alice to turn as a young girl p,i>s w> i ed on her way to the tewing room.? i 4 Thither, too, a few momenta after, aha -he went also, to see if a dress she had ma van king there was finished. The supeiin her teudeut of work hud it on her baud, and ! wa* reprimanding aome one for coming girl ao late.' so 'I am lorry to duappont you Mi?s Du eye rand,' she said, seeing that young lad) hc? approach, 4bnt Jane Lester, who is cm ! broidering your dres-?, did not get here lux until just now, and it is not ret finished.' of l Then turning, she said, 'Here Jane Voti c?ri must work fast, and make up for lost , Ur? time. her A? the sewing girl took the garment, strc he coughed again. Oh, that dismal the wound ! It touched the heart of Alice, j her for hIic recognized in Jane Lester the one i tort that passed her in the oflico and show rec< room. She looked at her a moment, ami 1 sigt thought, it is by the labor of such as sho i Inn that my father's rents are paid, and I oh- I t tain the money to lavish on costly clothes! the 8he went up to the girl, who, by this time eiiu was diligently at work, am) said, in a kind, win low tone? j ed, Don't hurry at all; I am not the least her in need of the dress.' > thei 'Thank you, ina'ain, but I will soon her have it done. If I am not at work on siJ* this, it will K? ftn ?' ? ' 'Uut why Jo you work at all ? With ing that cough you ought not to come out in Wl uch weather at this.' , lliei What wcul-l become of tie?of father V I mean, and the children?if I were agii Idle!' j ' I>o you hare to support them V nak- ' curi ed Alice, witli eager curiosity. her Not when father in w*ll, hut ho ba* toil been sick all the winter, and I paid out ted the laat of hi* Having* this morning ; *o 'I I must tiy and earn more than ever.'? fasli Again that cough. '< 'Well if that in the caae, you mint con* app ault a doctor, and do something lor your- I self, or you will soon be unable to work Dei at all.' star Jana shook her head sadly. 'No, in- was deed, wo cannot afford to have .1 doctor belt 9 muier, and 1 couKlu't thiuk of such motive fo g myself.' I act unres 'here was a moment's pause?tjicii lias been :o spoke. '(live mo your address, and where 01 ill send a kind physician there, who fact numl not chargo you anything, liul lie j deduction >t prescribe for botb, auu you must fol- j to ho dra his directions.' j number t Vever mind me, Miss, I'm not so bad It was on 'oil think, and shall l>e better in a hi* party, am while. 1 cough more than usual this rooms for riling, from having walked so fast.' ; ho there, Miss 1 turned returned to tho store | cottversal re thoughtful than when she entered | 'Yes, 1 She did not get near tiro five hundred dress, bu ar furs, but took out a set at one fifth to havls i .hat price, and departed?leaving her hruidered ttd and the cleiks astonished at her I determi Ion elinngo of taste. I only per I rent was the indignation of her fash j kind of \ iblo mother, when she learned the wanted 1 ill. of her daughter's shopping. 'll<?w | Why, that is not the set I chose !' said , way wit , when the boxes were opened. think no I kuow it mother, but I preferred never wo re.* you.' You have a strange taste, I must eon 'Nor s! s. Anybody can get atone marten.' her last i Then I shall be ti lit mode,' replied her ?no olh igliler, with a smile. 'Yes .\ Yes with thu vulgar herd,' said the ihat k v. scornfully. I Clara.' These! are pretty, equally comfortable, They 1 I did not cost near so much us the sa who spot 'answered Alicj?, in "Xlennatiou. Hut remarks, mother was not to l?e niolilicd. 1 uess in h What had you to do with the cost ? 'Why I imt your father give you enough to ? d one o! ' tot theollicis.' I 'Thai i Yes ma'am and more too.' er. lmh liow Clara Morgan will laugh when in her gr sees those ol 1 fashioned limes. And est of ca 1 she niav.' '1 am 1 care not f<>r that, and iliall enjoy Mis* Mm le n nie tl<e icss tor seeing her with is not evi le eosllv ones. j albed a ; l uavoal further remonstrances, Alice , *N r ci red to the lihiarv, and addressed a (>nu in sii e tolh. Weston, .he family physician, j 'Indee< . begged him t<? call that evening at any one . 1 I Ann street, and prescribe for tho ; uncalled (invalids there. Kncimed was none 1 'I do n id red dollar bill, fr?>m which she wish- of n.v a. lim to deduct h.s fee, and appropria'L call both remainder to lha necessities ol the deeds, lit lily. There was also a request lor him < if vvh mep the matter secret, lie understood now imp 1 appreciated this, for more than once hii ohser li.ii bee'! tho almoner of Miss I Minimis 1 '| mu* inty and he would not abuse her coti ( \\ ton, nee. I thank tin \ few di\s afterward the dress came charities, nc. It was neatly made and heauti 'let y y embroidered. As Alice examined one ot tl Cracetul design and elaborate nc?*i!!?- 'I hav< k, she thought ??l ti e trembling tin- <>ut ?i?ii s that wrought it. would ?li fielding to the impulse of Iter heart girb, her >ot out for the residenco of Mr. Les j "It's pi Something told Iter that sin: would canonize* I J ine at liome ; and sure enough, . to aay tli ha i become ho much worse, that it doctor p; i impossible for her to leave the house, i 'It nun she was trying to sew, that the family ton. I I jl t not Htane. The doctor ha*' found Weston's io and her father exceedingly ill ; hut p?*ct it i hey w* re in a comfortable house, hare- keeps he urniohed with necessaries, it is true, not a HiiperlUious article was there, ho It was red to wound their pride bv ottering Lester's * rc than bis professional services. It is dow, tha dli s4,to say she returned the money influence t by Alice, on the lirst onnortuuitv.? ' lav then r*o to who.n tho contrast between her enl and i luxurious home ami the cheerless entered I i>lie ??!> in, suggested reul poverty, lo hei icli tlie teehle ellorts of Jane to continue ed the ni work continued, fell that something J alio r?*j? rj was needed. j 'Oh c rids surely, is disobedience to the doc- mueh pa ? orders,' she said, gently taking the sleep, bu k f*om tho invalid. j '1 hav N'ow you must not plend necessity,' , dower* It continued, 'for here is a reply in ml- beautiful ce to th.?l argument,' and sue slipped 'l ive) purso inly Jane's trembling hand. them am S'u word of thanks fell Irom the poor of peace '* quivering hps, for the guneious aid uess has deiicatoiy given ; hut her glistening 'Think a and silent pressure of the hand that Alice, \v lowed it, told her gratitude. ! far happi vlany visits after this did the child of it could p ury and wealth make to the dwelling 'I will the sick girl, whom neither her loving more req s nor physician's skill could save.? permit ui idually she paled away very gradually am gone, strength failed, but her heart grew should tu uiger all the while?strong to endure ( er dwell! Ulideling of sweet ties that hound 'Thai 1 to the earth strong to meet tho U-r- , at all, hu i of death, so near. Her father was will conn DVefd, so the meek daughter was re- liny sin led siuce the iiltie olies would Lave1 doj h i to provide for them. they will Vlice was returning home from visiting charily ; Lester family one day, and had just 'Call fig< d from the cross street into road which th i when a gayly decorated sleigh pass- ii time < tilled with lad'c's and gentlemen ol A loo acquaintance. She did not observe spread Ji ill, Out UlarA Moroni caught sight of hands, hi , and said to a young mail by her if in silen i? i you will i Well, if there isn't Alice Dur.wd com ' Alice I out of Ann street and on fool too {? et the litt at in the world can sho bo doing 1 had long ro 1 ; which ?h Not visiting, any of her friends, I im- keep as ? ne,' said Mr. Henton. ! " la tl There is no knowing, she takes very would hk ious freaks sometime*. Only think of "This it purchasing a set of cheap furs, when, rection; r iv certain knowledge, her mother wan- 1st Corn hvr to have some like mine.' Alice c she certainly couid atford tho most ing that s liouable and expensive.' of a futui JI course; and that's what makes it had quiet ear so strange.' I came to t t seemed somew hat strange to George aling ! ( iton, too, for he had heard thecircutn- tho dying ice of the purchase from his sister, who uliing w< i with Alice at the time; but still he : cause all eyed that she must have had a good i and lo 1 w t on her lips, the breath had left iter nior- i e tal body J ller freed spirit had "on iin- i t, mortality." j I i iUisrellmifous. ' j | UTAH DIFFICULTY 0 The Territory of I. tali presents a spec 1 i taclo of moral depravity and social depredation to which the annals of civilized man i| furnish no parallel, and which is a lout re J proach to the tiuvoviiinenl of th s coutilrv. i- Mcrinoiiisni is the most wonderful and alii rocious phenomenon in modern history. It e positively contradicts every theory of the it moral and rebgious development of inan1 kind, and is a marked exception of Mr. Jefferson's famous apothegm, that error may e be toh riled when reason is left free to < on y i bat it. The hideouaolb-piingofthe boat op1 pressed brain of an ignorai t and crazy fae natic, the most ghnitig and palpable im- ' I posture ever conceived, appealing solely to o | the vilest'passions and pandering to the r most brutal appetites and instincts of the ; human breast, it spiung tip in the very | k midst of civilization and enlightenment, is1 has continued to grow with maiveilous rapidity and swelled into such malignant n 1 fungus upon the body politic, as to do is maud the instant application of the sevcrs . est remedies. The accounts we publish in another ' : column, reveal a monstrous scene of ini<p uity and vice, from a contemplation of| r* which, humanity sickens and recoils. In I a open rebellion against the Federal Ciovern1 incut, llrigbam Voting and his saints . ha\e succeedetl in establishing >i depotd ism, more absolute than that ui Kus-i.i and t upholding a system of crime w hich shocks a the moral sense of 'lie world. I he self- j anointed l'rophet is the surpremo arbiter >f in both civil and religious mailers; his ! will is the law from which there is n<> ap ' t I.Ij ..r l ../.I- .......... ii... i.? ' r the act. Miss Durand did no isonablv. So thought he, 'sh to see some ono in Ann streel uly poor families live. That i or two,' and he began to inak is, yet reserved the filial iliferent wn !n?ni further promises. Kac liree was furnished not longaftei thiswise: Hu was at a larg il searching lliiough the crowdei Alice, whom ho presumed I his attention was arrested hy th ion of two young Indies, tell, il is, as you say, a bcautilY i not half so pretty as I iulcndo t. \ou know that elegant em robe of Alice Durntid's} We ined to have one like it, but th son I know of who does tha >oik had to get sick just as jer.' provoking! That's always th h these needle women; the tiling of disappointing us. uld employ her again if 1 wer hall 1 ; Jane Lester lias don ivork for me,' said the speukt er than Clara Morgan. li?s I .ester has done tlio last woi iiul. ^ uu aie ipiite right Mis iiotli started?it was l)r. Westo ie; he had heard their heartleand there was unusual serious is tone. what do you know of her ? asl f them. she is very ill, and will not recov e l, I think she would have bee ave before now, but tor the kiuc re.' glad sl;e is so fortunate,' ?ai gan, with a sense of relief. 'I fly oiio in her situation that ca !?ood muse.' ouM she, ! ut for the goodness i inilar ?"ir? utnstauces to yours.' ed '. hut you do not mean ilia of our circle is exercising suel lor condescension ?' lean that tlmie is one young lad piHintnnce of our circle,' tha devise and perform generou nvevei lowly and abject, oin are you speaking, doctor lired Mr. lteiiton, who had hec vant listener. t inetitioii no names,* replied I >i with a smile 'Shy would lie e tor making public her prival cu have actually dutio it,' ssi ie young ladies. 0 commended the actions will ig to the actor a notoriety sli un ; und let mo add, my den conduct is worthy of iinitaiioii.' 1 .in to he seen some one is to h 1 as a'saint'or 'sister of mercv e least,' said Clara, as soon a issed oil. st he Alice,' mused Ceorge Hen mow of none other to whom l)i i Words can apply, and I halt' ans s some charitable mission tha r away from there to night.' a spring morning in April. J.in ouch had been drawn lotbewiu t she might share in the swee * of that glorious rooming. S'n calmly thinking of the pre* the future, when Alice lhuan the room. kiud inquiries how alio had pas? glit, and she felt this inoruing lied? omlbrtably?quite comfortably hi but patience to bear it ; litll t many a ple.unnt thought.' r? brought you liie tiist sprin; oiu our garden. Are they no )? arc, indeed. I thank you f.j I oh, much more lor the (lower and hope with which your kind cheered my pathway.' not of that, dear girl,' sail ith much feeling, 'L have hee ier for the little I have done din ii.siiihly lender you.' tax your kindness with but on nest; it is that your father wi ? to remain iu this house until , Vou know that next week w ovo, as father mu.ottake a amal ng now.' is all arranged, he w ill not mov it stay here freo of rent, and [i sometimes and see the cliildrei til nut want.* !? ? you?he wiU b!???s you. Jtti not long t>e dependent on you a* soon as father is> ablo?' it not charily ; it is only hel estronger should give the wea ot' need.' k of grateful satisfaction ovci tne'^ paie face. Sho clasped be nl closed licr eyes a moment, a t prayer, then wisuered, "~Noi read to me. tad already taken front her pool le Hiblo whose precious content hecit the sewing girl's solace, un e ha<l requester* Miss Liu rand t t memorial of her. ier? any particular chapter yo e to hear f" she asked, turning reminds ate of the resiti cad it you please, the fifteenth < ilhians." ontphed, and while she was read ulihnte argument on the doctrm e life, Mr. Lester and child re ly entered the room. When ah he words, "O death, where is th ) grave, where is thy victory ! gtrl repented after her, those a* >rd? with such an eittrgy as l n> turn their attention to hei rith that triuinphaut exclamation Ii | liberties an J prnj.oitv ol his subjects.? | Ih-idci being an n famous despotism, the >' teiritorv is the mono of constant outrages < upon decency ami morality, which would s disgrace the Cannibals of New Zealand i and Central Africa. ! It is high tiiuo tne United Slates Gov- I , " eminent was directing itsseriotis attention ( to the condition of I tali. A heady it lias | r* shown a reprehensihli indith retire to the ; 'l , Territory, and guilty ofgro-s dereliction u , of duty, in not ha\;ng obed'axco to '.lie ! laws enforced at the puins ol the i ayoiiet. , Had this vile crew ot outlaws an 1 lepro | ! hates been subjected to rigorous proseeu'* lion years ng> , hefecthey had heroine so '* forinidahle in str? ngili and numbers ?s to r | defy the Government, we should not now ho under the necessity of resorting to ex- i ; trome measures. Mr. Kihnore's failure to j i appoint a Governor to U tah, was an un , ' i ardoiiahlonoii-feHMiiu'o in otlicc. 'The an I * ' I ointment ill that time of a man of deter- : '* . ininatun : lal tinrii.fis, \ ho wi.u 1 hiiri j ' j execut-d the laws at all hazards, and not j l* ' hesitated to call the military to aid the I civil mm, would have crushed this inirj ! uifv mil 1 mi:ir?il iw tli.i imn.in.I1 > bles. Mr. l'ierco, t >o, deserves censure for 0 not endeavoring to suppress these cnormi1 ties. e True, lie made an abortive attempt in . commissioning Co!. Sicptoe Governor, I with inr'rtulions l<> see tl.at the laws were J duly enforced. Hut Hrigham would not ( brook any interference with his internal r regime, set the Ui^s at detiiance, threatenf* led personal vi<rt<:icc, and the Governor, i , i finding it impossible to secure the co operation of Military, left the modern Sodom ! toils fate. Since then Frigham lias rui- ! ,, ed with omtiipotent sway, and treated! Judge DrummoniPs authority with scorn | ful derision and contempt. Long impuni ity had rendered him insufferably in- 1 1 soletif, ai.d the im! cci.it v of the GoyeinI i ment served to produce the impression, I that it is powerless to crush the monster. I j : What Mr. laichanan intends to do, le 1 ,, 1 mains to bit seen. It is rumored that he tl is determined to execute tho laws, and to l suppress the shameful licentiousness of o Mormonisni. We hope this is true. For II our part, we think it is the bounden dutj J of tho Government to extirpate this loath- ' >ome oi-s! mill 1.. av? ili-it tf>? .mir.. i - .ogvy | |. moral sentiment of mankind calls for extreme remedies. Il is idle cant lo talk e about liberty of conscience and religious I freedom. There is a wide and acknowli# ! edged crimes that arrogate the sanctions | of religion. As wcil respect tho murder it ! ous creed of the Alaui, whose God was a ir I naked sword, and whose religion was a constant festival of blood, as to connive at p the saturnnlian orges of Morroonisin?a k horrid crime against nature, an outrage | upon humanity, and in its very inception r. | at war with the laws of God and man. | ,r ! We repeat, if the < iovernment dors not M | intend to renounce all control over Utah, >v it should at once take vigorous steps l<. I put the laws into execution. Kvcry mo I : | months hesitation aggravates the crying, [a , evil and enhances the dillicultivs of sub- , j I doing it. Kvcii now, if our information is , 0 ! correct, the Mormons are well provided I with the munitions of war, and can bring M a largo and disciplined force into the field. 1 If Col. Sumner be really ordered to pror. Ceod to Utah .Is ><- 11 as lus lias nm.!!.. I ,f ilie iiiNurivctiun ol Kiowny and Cheyenne trihea, he-had U tter <jo prepared for resist| mice. The mere handlul of men with 0 which he tnarched attaint* the Indiana, n will only aerce to provoke the hostility of e the Mormon*. y ' lie would he treated with little more " respect by ltrigham than Col. Step1 toe received, and would signally fail toaco coinplish the object of hie expedition.? r, i ho whole available force of the United n States should be sent there, ai.d these dianiclcss outlaws taught to how to tl supremacy of the Government. Urighai the blasphemous l'roplict ami archtraiu should ho seized and mad': to answer f liis rebellions defiance of the federal a lliorilies. The unanimous voice of the count [ reclaims that these monstrosities oug no longer to bo tolerated, and calls up* the Government to exterminate the vi abomination of Moruionisii).? The Sunt CRIGI1I OF POPULAR PHRASES "IIoisson' Ciioui:."?'I bis expressi< is proverbial l oth in Europe and Amerii The story in its origin is thus staled : 1 hollias llobson w as ti celebrated cttrri in Ciimhridge, who to his employ meat that capacity added the profession of su ply ing the s u h n'.s ;it the 1 Diversity wi horses. In doing this ho made it tin u alterable rule that every lioiso shou havj an c<pial portion of time in which res' as well as labour. Hence he alwa refused to let a hoT:colli of Ins lull), ho ever desirous the applicant might he choosing for Ionised. i'hus the sayii "llohson's choice, thu or "15xnkia'f i.*'?l ew '.voids have so r uiarkaMo a history as the familiar wo bankrupt. The money changeis of lta had, it is s iiJ, benches or stalls in tl courts of exchange, in former times, ar at these they conducted their crdiun business. When any of them fell hack the world, or because insolvent, his be in was broken-bench IhiuiuI tu, was given him. When the word was adopted in Htlirlbh. l! W IS I.i-.-llvr t!u> 1! .ifi;ill ill-Ill ? ' ?? * I " now is, being Iniitkroiil instead of ban rnj?t, < )|;I01\" OF HIE Ki Mlir.T "TCUNCOAI .?The onprobiotis teiin ?>l "turncoat" loi its use from one of tl.o first Dukes of S vov, whoso dominions lying open to t incursions of (he two Ooiitci:ding lio'ls of S|ti>iit an<l h'raiico, ho was obliged temporise anil fall ia with that pow that was most l.kcly to distress hill), a cording to the success ??f their ^urn against one another. So, being frequot ly obliged to change side?, he hiiiiicrnn ly not a coat made that was hltie <n oi ?ii 1?? and w hi'e on the olio r, and might I nditl'erently worn either side out. Wit nn the Spanish interest lie wore tin; Mi side out. and the white side was i] badge of the French. I-nun thence 1 was called the lurncoat, l?y way of it tii guishing him truiu other princes of tl same name. A S.u s i EiiF.it.?The words "sauntc an 1 ".sauuU rer" are .lingular records iiiod ;eviil practices and feelings. "Sau leier" derived from "la sainterre," is o who visits the Holy Land. At fiist dc'-p and earnest conviction drew nn thither, drew then to visit. "Those holy field?, Tver whose acre? w alked llicso Messed feet Which, tburtec-ii hundred years a^o, were tin el for our advantage to the Sitter cross." l>y degrees, however, the making this pilgrimage degenerated into a me worldly fashion, mid every idle pers< lliat liked strolling about better than pt forming the duties of bis calling, nvsuim the pilgrim's slatf, and proelaimcd hit self bound for the Holy Land : to whit very often he never in earnest set oul.And thus this word forfeited tho mo honorable meaning it may once ha' possessed, and tho "sannterer" eatne s gaily one idle and utiprulitably wastii i.i.> time, loitering hero anil there, with i lived purpose or aim.? Trench, on h S'miy of Wort/.s'. Spinsii:us.?Amongst our industrio and frugal forefathers.it wis a innxi that a young woman should never I married nntii she had spun for her.-elt complete set of domestic linen, Fro this custom it war that they were calh spinsters, an appellation which they st retain in all lega' proceedings, aithour now-a-days it would be very ditUcult find a woman entitled to the name. John It. Cough lectured in Oincinna on Friday night of last week. Hero one of his anecdotes. A long, lean, guant Yankee entered drug store and asked : " l?o you the diugger I" "Well, 'sposeso. I sell drugs." " Wall hev you got any of this e .-centin' stnil as the gals put on the;r ha kcr'cliers " Ob yes." " Wall, our Sal's gwine to bo marrie and she gin me niiiopence and told me invest tbo bull 'mount in scentin' sin * ?'s to make her slink sweet, if 1 eon fin-1 seine to suit, so if you've a mind 1 jest sine!! round.11 Tim Yunkt smelt rouml without boil suited until the "d rugger" got Iired liim, and taking dowu a bottle of liar born, said : ' I've got a seen tin' stuff hero thai suit you. A single drop on a handle cher will stay for weeks, and you ea wash it out, but to get the strength ot you must take a good big siuell." " Is that so, mister I Wall, jest lit on a minuet, till I get rov breath, a when I h >w, you put it to my smeller. The hartshorn, of course, knocked l k aukee down, us lnpior has done matij man. Do yuu suppose lie got up a smelt Again, as the drunkard did ? N he?but rolling up his sleeves and don ling up his fists, be said, Yon made r smell that aro tarnal everlastin' stuff, m tor; now I'll make you sinoll fire ai brimstone." A western paper advertises thus: "Ri Awav ? a hired man named John ; I uoso turned up five feet eight inches hij and had on a pair of cordurov pants mil wory." ,0 THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. I id Iif.okcia,?The Augusta Chronicle of 1 >r, the 1 8lh says : or 't eMerday morning \vc were i>gain visited u- by a severe though not heavy frost. What ( th** extent of damage may bo, we can on ry ly conjecture. We hope not very great. VUl hi Wo learn tliere was a very sliglit fall of '? jii snow in the vicinity on Thur.duy. ' J?,. lo i Tlio Macon (Cm.) Citizen of the 17 th ' . /<. j says : For several mornings past we have had * | sharp frosts, which we suppose will give the finishing touch to all early and grow>n p ,j *5 itw i tug vegetation. 1'ianters begin to be very much discouraged, and so:nu fear of fain- ' ino in tlie land. I a. J" Ai.auama.? We f.nd the following par- . agrapb in tbo Montgomery News of Wednesday afteinoon, 10th instant: l" I 'I .? .... da Iiii: \? ka'iiikii and coiton.? Lhere I I was another killing frost this morning.? 'suj 1 lie cotton which has come up since tlie s, ! frost of last week is doubtless ruined by ' i frost this morning. The cold bad wet I1 j. I weather f> r the last eight days, it is be- lK r lieved, will prevent a good stand fioin bt:* j ? ing obtained from the cotton already plan- s O Jm I led and not come up. lieplantiiig is now . | thoiiglit to be the only chance for a crop . . |\ Mnssisstrri.?The Vnkeburg Whig of !' '.lie 7 ih, speaking of the late cold snap, ' ; says: j ? , f j Every doscr.ption of vegetation has been I' 1 killed outright. (Jitrdens are to dav bare in ! . " , , , . \i I ?yoling colloli has been destroyed. Lorn ' , ( has been cut down and probably killed, *' , while the fiuitis, we fear, l.o| elessly ruin*1^ ed. Altogether, the storm of Sunday has . been most disastrous in its consequence.*, . ( and the loss of the fruit is irreparable; 111 ? other crops may )>e replanted, and in due | lime the heait of the husbandman cheer ed with Ati abundant harvest, hut for the ( fruit there i> no remedy ? there is no reIC'j planting of that. l"S : 1 he New Orleans holla of the loth, ' |? "Wo were informed by c.llicer New CI ] house, of the First Uiatiict police, who 11 , j came down from Summit on the Juikson Railroad cars last evening, that it had been l"'-' snowing there several hours on Sunday * morning. Tlio distance of Summit from ,l ' jC New Orleans is about 108 miles; but the , ?. ,c sr.ow stoini prevailed much nearer to the ^ city, though in t so severely. It com/ nieuced about d i) light and continued tin lc . til eleven o'clock, lly that time an inch j 1,11 , and a half ol snow was on the ground.? 1,1 lK" Tl..? .. I- li' o ee ; . .. - viuiivi a"iu. iiiulU . than one plainer informed Mr. Now house . j that their young cotton had been entirely . ? 1 < lea trove J and I boy would l?o obliged tu j replant." Louisiana.?TliC New Orleans llulle i tin of the 15:h says: ia We iegret to say tlint fiost was seen . ! upon tbe suburbs of the city yesterday I morning in considerable <pianlities; and ! , ., lWu greatly tear that renewed and still 1,1 l1*" greater injury lias been done to the crops , I:l than was done a week ago. Ii is -trange -/0 weather lor April, nnd we.-bail wait to bear H" 0 from the countiv with no little anxiety. cx 1 be lla'.on liouoe. Advocate ot tbe Tib ' J" jsays: Al A friend from M it.cbae informs us that 81 ( lire cold w eather of Sunday night has kill ! !" ' ed the cotton, and greatly damaged tbe 1 ] corn and cane in bis iieighboihood. We . 1 fear the worst has not been yet beard. | J1!1 10 Ti:x \s.?The Texas Iiangerof tbe 1 lib ' says : Upon Sunday night last, we were visi- 1111 ted l?y a severe spell i>f cold weatiier, ac- ca! ! c'ouipanied by a norther, w hich had a most to ie disastrous cited upon tbe growing crops* , Scarcely al>!;nlo of coin or cotton or a "s garden vegetable was left standing; and 1,1 the labor of planting has ail to bo done f ' e again. It is to bo hoped the fertility of ;? !l the soil will repair tt? sonio extent tin' 111 | damage caused bv the inclemency of the l.w ? weather. m ? ' 1 [!" !|, THE WAY IHiTpUBLIC AltE HUM-' <>? 'to p , bugged 1" or several years it has boon almost un- , ? | possible to take up a newspaper without ipj Hi having 44 lialu) of a Thousand Mowers" . js staring you in the laeo,sot forth in heavy , ] capitals. It was ropresentoil t?> be valua a ble for almost every imaginable ill, and a '' , | good shaving soap into the bargain. This I ' extraordinary aiticlo is tnanufaetuied by j a W. 1*. lot ridge A: Co., Now York aid , re Huston. I no success with which it has i jJ(, n. been received by an over credulous public, ) caused a Mr. F. C. Wells,of Now York, to i got up a preparation, which ho desiguat- J v< ,1 > eu [>y me name oi " 1 >;tlm 01 Ibn Thou- C t,, sand Flowers." Of course, Messrs. Fet- | j(, jv ridge ii Co., were not lo be imposed upon ;,] id any such manner, after. as they dcc'ar- j "]| e?J, the original receipt cost them $10,000. s( | So they brought a suit against Mr. Wells, ; c| i,p to restrain him from using a name so j cf much like that of their own mixture. I jt ts. | The trial catnc olVin New York, a few j ! weeks since. I lie plaintiffs were obliged ' ['|1 ! to read the receipt, and it appears that i Pr. this woiiderfid mixture was compounded ldt of palm oil, potash alcohol and white miit Kar' Honey was formerly used instead of go sugar, and hence the name, " lialtn of a | lls j Thousand Flowers." The preparation, in- bt lu] eluding tho bottle and wrapper, cost ? about seven cer.ts, and is retailed for fifty. j|, he The court dissolved the temporary injunt- ?q . a lion against the defendant, but did not ah | luj low him the cost and held to the opinion |,< (>t that neither party would claim relief in a m h- court of equity, unler a rule that has ab j ?e most become a common law of nations, ja. that "he who asks the aid of a eouit of i ni td equity, must come into it with clean hands." His honor delivered a humorous | opinion, the principal points of which w ere, T Is that the plac.titVs had no right or title to i H ais the afore said name, as the compound gli was nothing but soap, that both parties ll ch were quarks, and both compounds hum- al bugs.? Wnmant AJvoratt. tl Front the Charleston News. 'HREATENED DISTURBANCESJ IN EUROPE. Il will require till llio diplomatic skill England and Franco to prevent a rupro of llio peace of Europe, Therein, us between Austria and Sardinia are the most critical and dillicult nature.? to interruption of diplomatic intercourse nut always the prelude to war, but in e present condition of Italy it might bo 0 spark to ignite the tlame of revolt uiinst Austrian authority throughout all . Northern division. li this should lead a revolution Sardinia will no doubt bo the bead of the movement. Although e most strenuous efforts will be made both England and France to prevent general outbreak, in Italy, such is the -im bed slate of the public mind in that itiuti of Europe, that it may not be pos>le to avert a war between Austria and ndinia, whie!) must invo.vo the consciences of, perhaps, wide-spread hostili?s. The Eur pean journals, state that ltus1 is fomenting this dispute between A twin and Sardinia. This ;s scarcely conivablo in the view of her absolutist polf and principle^, Sardinia representing e liberal, if not the ievolutionaly party Italy. This would give rise to a comication ft0111 which it would be difficult escape. Russia from her hatred to usttia would be pleased to see her cini rinsed and weakened, but wo canit imagine that she would like to behold 0 spread of Democratic principles in 'ostein Europe, wlieie, although she is no danger of immediate contact, in the i.-ling rapidit) >f iiiteiooursc there may 1 danger of political iutecta n. It does not follow that Italy rovolution,m1 \v.>iild lead to the asceiah ncy sf Demi.?tio or oxtie'iie Uej ublican opinions.? neh would depend en the relativo cng'h el the ultra lb juibl:c;.n and Mod.... w. . in n iv |/?ii i iii i i?i > i- itvi ?itiluuriarchial. 11 er :cued Slates ii with a free press and r< picsr nlativo tfluiioiis. At the I.cad of her Cabinet Count (favour, a man of conservative, hough liberal views. Mazziui, tlic head the extremists, ruined the cause of ranal liberty in Italy hi the outbreak 'of 18. The excesses of his party led to action. Still it is impossible to say, tie ipulse being once given to revolutionary oven.out, what momentum it may reive and at what limit it would stop, tin i such an impetus, as would Le given to by the accession of Sardinia lu the cause Italian liberty. IT ?S> f ? "The only way for an Editor to get oiig and preserve bis own at It*- respect, is please himself, and let the rest of mannd take care of themselves."?]''xchai>ge. Yes. indeed. If an editor ever underkos to satisfy the whims and caprices ol rticular individuals or cliques, he's a ner. Or if lie allows the opinions of y other man to shape his course, to llio elusion of what may meet his own apobation, public confidence is forfeited.?s to the idea of pleasing everybody, why just the way to displease everybody, o editor himself included. There are a eat many people who arc very confident ey could conduct an editor's paper for in much better than he can doit for nseit- borne ot tins knul ot people are "piently lienrcl to pronounce sermons d speeches "very ]>oor" when, in nine st .s out of ten, if tliey were to undertake net in either capacity they would ren i themselves supremely ridiculous. A Fink Flack to Live.? According to jiuholi.it there is a tree in tho South Sea amis which produces ready made shirts ie natives cut pieces of tho tree about o toet long, fiom which they drew oil e bark as of a chesnut to make whiss. Kach man selects a tree near his m diameter, so that the shirt may be a od tit. When tho bark is oil they cut lioio in each circle to admit his arms, ie shirts do not require any washing, trching, and a more convenient article loafers could not be imagined. The 1110 Country produces bread fruit, so that lel'.ow may get his board and clothes atis. Oni.y One O'clock.? Mr. coming nne late one night fr >m "ineetiug," was et at tlie door by his wife. "Pretty time of night, Mr. , for >u to cotno lioiue?pretty time, three clock in tho morning; you, a respectac man in community, and the father of family." "TisnT three?it's only one, 2 heard it rike. Council always sits till one o'ock." "My soul 1 Mr. , you aro drunk.? 's three in tho morning. "I say, Mrs. , it's one. I heard it riko or.e a? I c ame round the corner, two thre* timrs. A Novel Ti i ?A few evening* ago, nio ladies weiu in conversation, and, an ual, the subject of ladies' dresses whs 'ought up and duly discussed. Said la. No. 1. "They have a new fashion? 10 steel-i-kirts have superseded the loops.'" "1 would not wear a steel one,"' replied pr companion, "1 should he afraid of ghtttog." "Ohf" said a gentleman present, "that in he very easily remedied- have a lighting ro>l attached. HOOPS J )KNOUSCtD IN 'IIIE lilOLB.? he following i> an extract from Isniah iii, 8: "In that day the Lord will take away ic bravery nt their tinkling orntuncnu bout their f. *i, and their coiul'*, and icir rvuhd lite like the tnoon." 1