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r & _ the Can raster f eager. J3i9 \ NN I T\r Turn ?o (he Prm-it* teeming N|icol<* survey, t\t a tatt ? t r^. " *- .1^ l\i iV.l'l li vJ ItI. Ititf with ilit' uoikIcis of t'lK li pnssiii^ tluy. J j/\i ' V ANOE \j A .#nhiilg iini) ^nliiitnl i'tiu5|inprt ITttoltii !a lljt ilvls, stimtts, lilttnliirt, ifimrntiau, Agritulturr, 3nitrual 3mproimutuls, /urtign anil ruuitslit nail t!jr 3i!nrkfts. VOLUME VI. LANCASTER, C. II., SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 5.1857, NUMBER 25. ?flcrtrii &krtr|)fs. | * HOW HARRY GOT HIS WIFETt was fifteen years ago this winter that T attended a dancing school in l>etroit, with n young lady then residing in tlio city. I made up my tnind some years be lore that I would never get married, but it was such pleasant business 1 could'nt find it in my heart to Met the ' girls' alone altogether so I paid the tui lion fee, and attended the clase in her : company every night. Ahnut the mid 1 die of the n-rnt, several of the young I people, ourselves included, were talking iii the ball room on the sufjeot of inatri- ! niony, ami I of course, became interest Oil, as well as ilio others. On going home that evening I told inv coui|>:in;on thai 1 had determined to get married in the spring, and asked her advice in regard to the selection of a wife. She made no reply for a moment, and I told tier if she didn't know anybody hotter thud for mo, I would like to have her think the mat ler over and tell me what she thought of | marrying me herself. I was joking all this ^ time, you must understand, and had no I more thought of marrying her than 1 have now of marrying Queen Vie. She 1 promised to think of it, however, and 1 i returned to my hoarding house, and gave ) the subject no fuithcr though', until some weeks later?and as lin k would have it. j on the last evening of the school lli?? snV I ject was again bionght up in conversation ' j11>t. as wo were preparing to return to ! our homes for the night. After leaving i the hall we talked ami chatted nf different matters ami on ditlVrent subjects, till we ' reached her residence. It was late ami 1 did not enter the house,though she strong* ly urged mo to do so. 1 had hid her ; good Highland a as turning awav, when | I happened to recollect the promise she i had made, and I said : 'Helen, you promised to let tnc know ! to-nigh*, whether yon woul*l marry me i tins spting. Have you made up your mind V Yes,'sail she, 'I have been thinking) about it, but I guess I am a little too ) young. If it wasn't for that, I would 1 have no objection/ 'Well good night, then,said I. 1 did'nt expect \uu would do it?"but I'm bound to marry some, one, and this spting, too.' i llelore leaving her, I engaged to call i again the following evening. That night 1 s.eot sotlti ! 1 v * ami ti e iu?vf iiii.riilini lul l (oruot'fii all ali >ut my ni#hls a iv< n ; til lev. lbtiin# ;he vlav 1 leceivwl an in \italioti to alien 1 a ball to tiu hehl dial evening, a fcw inilos out of tlio city, an 1 1 ininlu my arrangements aecor<liin?ly. Towards ilii.-k I retneiubereiTmy agreemi'iit to see 1 leleti, ami 1 though* 1 ivotiM ' kiii I'Vi'i f i a mono nt ami tiflcnvardl.aVi! time to at'om! tlift ball. Arrive I at tin limise, 1 ght f-.r an instant that slut was 'rigging nj.* m an | extra sty Us, whirli 1 wii< at a ! .?> to nc ! I'oiint tor, though 1 believe 1 coiirltnh-il that slot lia<l company, ami i was ther-j 11i'e ill hopes 1 shouM not be detained long. Helen welcomed nm into tin* par' lor with a sweet smile ami took her place beside tno on the sofa. I wa? ex pectin# every moment to see some strati ger enter the room, mid I had nut yet i become sati tied llial we were alone,when | she said, 'Henry I have made uj> my mind to iiave you !' Had a thunder clap struck me, I could not have been more surprised, and after an instant of hesitation 1 stammered out? What did you nay ?' 'I have concluded to marry you !' 'Oh, oh, you have ! Well, I suppose it is all right?w hen shall the event lake place 1' I thought, >f it would suit you, that you might diive around next Sunday, and we will go to mother* at Dearborn, and be married there.' 'Well' said I, 'I'll see if I can,' and as soon an pusaible I took my leave. 'I did not go to tho ball that night?1 forirot all about it. and I sal river rlw. Move tilt morning, thinking what a scrape I had got myself irto. I even forgot to keep the tire going, and almost froze in my seat. When daylight began to peep in at the windows, I hnd made up my mind w hat I would do. I would go over and tell IIuleo that we must be married {immediately, or not at all ; and if she agreed to that, I saw no other way but to submit to my fate. When I entered the gato leading up to her house, 1 heard her singing a lively song, and my conscience almost smote roe for deceiving tho poor girl as I had ; but I summoned up courage to ring the hell, and pulling up my collar and thowing my head hack, ( anxiously wailed an answer to my summons. She soon came to the door, and I waa ronon shftwn i?ii? tlu) parlor, and she took her place beside mo on the sofa as before. 'Helen,'! commenced. Well, what!' *1?I?wo must l?e u)arrie<l to day or I?I donl think 1 shall ho able to be married at all.' It stuck on my throat as I said it, for I know I was tailing a whopper ; but imagine my surprise when she replied ; Well, ju?r as you please llarry. You may drive your carriage around about 12 o'clock, and I will be ready.' I I gave up. Precisely at 12 I drew up Y before her door with my carriage, and before night we were married. Reader, that wife has been worth moro , | |han $100,000 to me. From the Xcw Orleans I'icnyunc. THE SAME THING UNDER ANOTHER NAME. A despatch, yesterday, from New York, giving us the news fioni Europe, informs lis that there was a movement in England Ill mvui ui /1IIIC1III eilllgrailOI?, ! > WlllCll that country, France, Spain and l'ortugal arc to he parties, and to l.y bound by treaties for its prosecution, ns ail anti- | slavery measure. We have had some in'.imations before of this notable scheme. Abolitionism, it seems, does not pay. Theoretically, it is a good theme for Kxeter 1I?.II, and an admirable ami American text, -.lint, as a practical experiment, in the experience of itritain, it has failed. The sinews of recuperatiTO lain r am to 1 e found, it seems, for the Wet India Islands, in a new sy#? j torn, 'African emigration !' The slave trade is an abhorrent idea in that *fa*t anchored isle,' upon the sou of which whoever treads is, ipso facto free. Hut African emigration may be a very lith r ent thing ; especially if, hv its operation, somebody is likely to make more out ol it than somebody else. 'i io i._? i '. - - i ... i ? i 11 i III- iiii.? ?" uii .i |M?111 ufiMu riHvi (iy a wide awake Frenchman, one Mom*. K< gin, <>t' Marseilles, for tlio transportation ol Miim* t-1? v thousand African 'apprentices' to the French Colonics ; ami a ves- | - I, as late accounts informed us, provided with French ami Kn<;h*h Passports, has actually anile 1 Iro n M ireilles for the coast of Africa. For what purpose ? Of course, not to onyja^o in the unholy, detest tfrlo, detested; and hy tho a^ree inent of the whole civilized world, (the United States having taken the initiative,) illegal and contraband slave trade. No; but to invest certain 'trinkets of small value' in eoijaoinjj native Africans to t^o to Ciiiadaloii] it and Martinique, on a ti n ? I.:.. 'nr.... ... -i... -o.... - I t VMO lUIVC^IUf'. 1 IHU. I* \ 11?- JMJtll ^ and a Spin sli journal' published at l<ni celoiia, alluding to it, ox presses t lie opinion that it is an experiment tlint will lie often repented, and sees in it an excellent 1 means of supplying Cuba ami I'ortollieo v\itii tin* additional labor, llioy remiire, mi lite abo'iico of* tlie abrogated slave trade ! hie Li'uti / .'s/xnwl, a government organ, also intonates llial the means lntVe be.-n fitind for supplying those islands with abundant labor, which will iintnediat?-!\ be made operative, without in any degree infringing the anti slave trade tieatie.s ol Spain with Knglaiul. Why, it cannot choose but be a noble plot!" l'.ut, it must not he all the plot of Fta nee and Spain. There are oilier is- ! Iiti?i the Western hemisphere than ! Cuba, i'oiln llieo, Martinique ami tiuadaloupe. The tripartite alliance must he hat moniotis, and whatever there may ho or may not he, in France and Spain, in ' Filmland there is a people, and one that is verv apt to look with enriou* eyes into ' actions of their constituents, the (i >v rimient How is this articlo in the terms "f th< a'dianco to be made palatable to llielil Why, tnarrv, tints ! England lias col onies, too, in the West Indies. Ihlapidat? d, disintegrated, unproductive, and bur tin nsome, it is true, and that, too, in confC>|uenco of a mistaken philanthropy, at war wi b all experience and the plainest . teaidiin js . f human nature?but still , KiiiJ.di eoloiiies. Shall this newly disCuVeud meaiis of rocupctn'ing the ener g>es n?i?I renewing the productiveness of tl.i m* ! i.-lciwiis enure to France and Spin i ?-ur, and the ot/u-r member of tlie alliance have no p'irl in its bencfieent re [ suits f And, inoieover, has not 1?riii>li commerce an good h right as that of Spain or France to avail itself of such a brilliant opening as ibis new system of j supplying labor for the colonic# presents! Wliat wonder, then, that wo find tliat the London 'J'timx sees in this a very rational and benevolent mode of putting down the African slave trade by introdu cing the African apprentice trade ! What wonder that we now hear of a committee of Kxeter Hall philanthropist calling on Lord J'almerston to unite with Franco, Spain and Portugal, ami extinguish forever the African slave trade by substituting this new system of African sppren uceMiijt (or h it-rin of years ! It uiu the fair Juliet, in the plav, we believe, who said "Whul'it in a name ? That which we call a roue llv any other naoi* would swell a* rvact and the fair Veronese was right. Yon may send your ships to the coast of Africa, freighted with glass beads, and bright leathers, and gay ribbons, with which to bind your bargains for ten years' labor of the African apprentice ; you may convey him across the ocean, (forgetful of all your former eloquence about 'tbe honors of ihe middle passage,') and land liim, under tbe name of an apprentice, upon your colonial shores. Hut you cannot alter bis status, in relation to tbe people you place liiiu among. You cannot make him aught but a slave, call him what you may. We shall await the development of this notable scheme of our srecinl friends, the philanthropists,with no little cuiiosity and interest. Good Adyic*.? 1 Jig potatoes drive a dray, peddle matches, or do anything iii honest and useful, rather than run in debt* If you have any regard for a quiet, comfortable si de of inind, and place any value upon a good appetite, umutlb-d temper, pleasant pillow, comfortable dreams, and general independence, keep clear of debl. Labor, toil, struggle, be up and doing and keep clear of debt,the hardest of all masters for he places a weight around the neck of all who comes within his grasp and presses like an incubus ujwn the sou J, > ftlisrrllaiirotts. I i A FEW WORDS ON DOGS?HYDRO- ( PHOBIA OR RABIES. ] At litis season of tho year iniieli fear is entertained of dugs becoming rabid or mad hum tho supposed ctlccis uf Itol 1 weather. Statistics of ratios go to show ' thai contrary to popular predudice it oc- j 1 curs inosl frcpieutly in cold couultios and c during Autumn, Winter and Spring,'1 ^ trans. Am. Mod. Ass 1855 ) In I'rus- ' 1 sin, from 1810 lo 1810, 1,058 poisons 1 died of hydrophobia. (Sec Edinburgh Med. Stir. J cur., 18v!4) li is of frequent ! \ uccurielicu in Kussta, rotund, ?S<>iiItem 1 Kurope, and in the Northern States of I ' this I'nion. 1 ?r. Mease says : 'Dining v several li;ir<l Winter months, within inv I remembrance in this city, (l'lidadelphia,) 1 especially 1779 an<l 1780, dogs very H commonly went mad.' Uabies seems to v be n rare disease in tropical climates.? I >r. Savary says : ''The disease is not ' known in lite Island of Cyprus or Syria.' " Cancy and Vulney says: 'it is never teen 1 ' in Kg\ pt.' f>r. Ihitrow says : Ml is ex- ' " troinely tare at the Cape of tJood Hope, v and iii the intciior of CatlVaiia.' l>rs. I I Hamilton and Mo'-eloy both sav that ? 'there was not a single case in Jamaica i 1 for a period of fifty years previous t?t 17 83.' The prevalence of rabies in the 1 ) Islan 1 of Creta is in coiise<piencc of the i ' occupation of the inhabitants, who are j dog fanciers, and the breeding of choice 1 varieties oi clogs lor exportation is a ' source of considerable revenue. The bite of an enraged dog (is when ' ' lighting) not alfectcd with hydrophobia, ' may pioduce hydrophobia in man, (see ' Morgagci, 1 >r. la? Ibiix 1M. l.ips;oinhc, ' lb. Newman, tSjc., ifce.) The true cause of liie disease in the dog is not known, but the most probable causes are want of proper food ami pure water. An nbun dan t supply of cold water lor dogs would ' be a greater protection against hydrophobia than 'muzzles,' which are worn only ' a pail of the year, while hydrophobia ! ! occurs almost as frequently in Winter as in Summer. It is a common practice, ; an I a very serious mistake, when a per f son receives a bite from a dog supposed ' to be rabid to kill the dog ; this should in no case l>o clone, l>ut secure the ani- ' nial ami kecj? it in a safe place until il is I la 11 y known wheilier the dog really ha? j li\(.lioj liohia. 1 >ogs aro subject to tits, I when they f tain at lite mouth and run nrouml balking in a strange ami some- j t iuies dangerous in tin nor, ami persona are fn ijnently bitten during such a paroxysm. ."Such bites are dangerous, certainly, but n?t necessarily fatal. Hydrophobia.which is fatal, may or may not follow such bite*, ( but if the dog is killed, the awful dread ami uncertainly of thai frightful disease hangs over the unfortunate sulferei, lengthening his agony until death itself would be a relief?whereas if the dog is kept j and docs not become rabid, '.ho mind is 1 at once relieved of all anxiety. Hence. 1 as a matter of prudence and relief to the patient, the life of the dog should not ' immediately bo taken.?iV, Daily | AY it's. ?^? ' TERRIBLE AFFAIR in GOLDSBORO. ]5y h letter received here this morn- | ing, we learn tli.it a most painful occur- : reiice took place yesterday in (.? >! Ishoro', resulting most probably, ere this time, in ! serious loss of life. It seems tli.it some diflicully bad exis- I < ted between I>r. Davis and a (/ermuu? I 1 a Jew, we believe of the name of Uden- 1 heimer, and it seems tb.it some lime last j 1 week tin* I ?r. had caned the other. Yes- I terdav, Odeiihaimer warranteil Davis, and the parlies met for trial before a magis I i irate, in the store of Messrs. Washington j A; Andrews. It would appear that < Men heimer was very insulting in his language , to Dr. Davis, calling hiiu a liar, or using ' words to that ellect, ami Davis was about > to lay hold of a little lire shovel to strike < him, Odunhciintr's step son drew a pistol ; | anil slwil Ihiiiii ilio t.all ....i..-:..,. - -I ?? J'IM. ' about the lower end of the lung.*, on the I right side, arid lodging in the hack. The j ' Odctiheimers, father and son lirod in all i live shots, ami as the elder had liii pistol < to Dr. Davis' head to shoot him again, 1 young Wintield ltobinson, a nephew of < the Dr.'*., snatched tip n spade and struck ' Odenheimer on the head, knocking him 1 down, and fracturing his skull shockingly. I Dih turned the direction of the pistol so t i that the contents, intended for Davis, en- I tered the back of the younger Odenhei- 1 liter, near the bark hone. Tbua the tragedy closed. O.lenheinier and son are in i < jail and neither expected to live, although there are sotmv hopes of the younger. It is supposed to be impossible f??r the old , man to survive. Dr. Gogdell took out a spoonful of brains. Dr. Davis at last accounts was better, 1 ami some hopes were entertained of his recovery. The elder Odenheimer it was thought would die; the younger Odenheimer would probably recover. The 1 German residents were forced to leave ' Goldshoro', and one who persisted in re- 1 inaing was ducked and ridden cn a mil 1 ? WiluunytoH Journal. Tiie I)anoku ov Dkntisthv.?A young 1 lady in Dayton, Ohio, crime very near ' losing her life within the past week, in consequence of the extraction of a tooth. ' The removal of a molar severed an artery, | aud the profuse bleeding continued. Interrupted by but short intervals, for near- I ly two days,until ?be was nearly exhausted. ( It was Anally checked, but not until she had lost between one and two gallons of i blo9<J, J THE LATE PROF. MITCHELL. A correspondent of tlie Journal of (Wntrcc gives the follow pig particulars of tiie loath of Prof. Mitchell, of the University if North Carolina : [3lack Mountain, Yancv Co. N. C., f July 10th, 18o7. j Tiik Latk 1)k. Mitciiki.l?Tiik In- i jl'kst and Ul uiki..? I was present yes. | erdav, when the body of l>r. Mitchell w:is i akeu truu '.he water. The examination ?f the body by ihe Coroner, was most sat- < sfaclory, and left no doubt as to the man- ? ler of his death, lie lost his footing on I lie brink of the precipice, and fill head- I ong into an exquisitely rounded pool of t vatert ten f.-el in diameter and tilN . nlec i i leep, cv idctillv worn out l?y cascade fa I t ng into it. Although he had been in the | valt r ten or twelve duvs, his fontuies wi-ro i >erfect,?his face as calm ami placid as I I lie had fallen gently to sleep,?the eyes iml mouth close.I, ami w hole countenance vitliout a single distortion. A., who joked on were struck with, it which v\| orlaps, attributable to the singular < >'..inesv iiul purity of niouiitain water. His inon y, watch, spectacles and other pcisr.nal ippliances w ere found on the hod v. The vat h was stopped a*, twenty minutes last eight o'clock showing that lie catnu o his distressing end immediately alter lark. It lie eon hi have heon contented o wait, hunter fashion, under a tree till laylight, lie would have lieen alive now. I" tie verdict of the Jury was that he came l# his death hv a."?Mil?>?.r 'PI... l.^.i .. . .-v.u .fu i IK- WHS i lii it mined to the lop of tlio mountain, i 11 ll>o rugged sides, with iiip.nifc lahni, i >y the hardy mountaineers. It was n >t i ?Iho?-<1 on th? iiioiintaiii summit, in a. cor : lance with the w ishes ami expe *taliens of i ha .surroud ling p"ojiie, Qlutt wascanied o Ashcv.lle, for titia 1 removal t'hipi! ' iliH. The goodly company ot' men pros 1 > nt were warmly in favor of. making the j I ligliest point of tlio | oak liis Initial place i where the eternal mountain form hit m ?t i itting moDiJiiicnt. lint sonuMif ilie mom i hers of the family could not fee! them i lelves at liberty to consent to it, r.iol ac torJingly it was not done,?all reluctanty admitting that :i man's ho lv ought, ol right, to ho at the disposal of his family. Apart from the wild grandeur of lhe<e mountains, ihev are now invested with a solemn and tnelaiu holly interest, by tlio most atlheting event. t'lfllll ill.. Oi.fi'i.,1 UII.I M-? * - ?.. ? ? ? ? uuuiit* ;:cer* Major Pkkky.?Believing a synopsis ' jf our (Jeucral Fax lb-turns would be rj- ! i-eptable to your readers, I hercwidi fur nish it, as well as a comparison with the , returns of last year. The Ipper lh vision at the Slate, you will see, ts still increas j ing in population and w< itllh. Hie number of slaves returned this year is 24ii, iJ03, being an increase of 1,037 over the returns ol last year. The sales ?..f foreign floods, wares and meichandi>c, amount to ?7,408.891, being an excess ot ?51 1,255 over the stiles j of last year. The vaiuo of town lots returned this ye.it is ?5,040,513, being an increase over last year's valuation of $2UU,69'2. With all tins property, however, on account ot' the reduction ol our taxes last I December, the income of the Slate is considerably diminished. For last year the gross amount of taxes in the I'pper I hvision, was . . .?259,695,05 This year the amount is but. 234 403,07 Showing n deficiency of. . . . .25,201,07 ! As a considerable |><>rtion of the tartes | <>( llie Lower I hvisiott is derived from tile ?ale of foreign goods, and as tlie tax on these has been reduced from 'J5 to 15 rents per hundred dollars, there is probably a greater deficiency in the Charleston than in the Columbia Treasury, amount ng in the whole, perhaps, to some fiftyfire or sixty thousand dollars. The resuscitation of the " ll yistration .Icf," at the Ih--1 session of the Legisia Hire, has again been folio we 1 by a failure tvery one of the Tax Collectors acknowl j sdgeing bis return was imperfect, it is I physically impossible for any one man to , collect the tax? s in the largo and populous I hstrict of the hack country, make xil throe copies of the original returns, issue executions against defaulters, hunt j 1 up skulkers, note down inorers, pay over | the 'axr-' " '.'.w. \ by tho first Mon Jay in June, and in H<l<iition to all litis, i i.sk? down all the births ! all the deaths ! and all the marriages in his iJiairiet ! !? , Why, the tiling is impossible ; ami the money expended on the project has 1 eon thrown away. I refrain from mentioning | i another objection, as I have no douht it will he presented to (lie Uegislatuie by ! < my superiors. Yours, as ever, T. F. I i Treasurer's OlRoe,Columbia, July 2, 1837. 1)rkai>fli. Acciokkt.?A tcrriole ac- , :ident, resulting in the loss of life occurred on the South Carolina Ktilroad, near i , Uccd street, on Saturday morning, about 8 o'clock. A lad, twelve years old, named Fowler, w as rolling a barrel on one of the tracks, and, to got out of the way of an approaching tram, passed over to another track in the rear ot an engine and lender engaged in taking in wood. This being completed, they hacked down the track, and the lad stepped one side to lot ihoin pass. Unfortunately, h**cver, the barrel was not clear of the track, and was driven bv the tender acainst vouiur ^ o ? ^ n Fowler, precipitating him on th? rail, and Lhe wheels passing over his reck, completely severed his head from his )>ody. An inquest was held upon the body ' l?y Coroner Kinsman, and the evidence completely exonerating the Eugineer and Fireman from all blame, a verdict was rendered of Accidental Death.? Charlatan Mtrcury, From the lJoston tinnier. ISTitE MOON INHABITED ?-RECENT DISCOVERY BY THE ASTRONOMER HANSER. It lias lung been known that the moon revolves on its axle in the same time in t s which it revolves round the earth, ami 1 that it consequently always presents near- ^ ly the same side toward the earth, while ' he other side is never seen front our globe. x No hoilies of water norchuulscan heseeti N ?n the moon by the aid of the most pow- I rful telescope, nor is the apparent direc ' ion of llu) stars close to its edge changed ' t >y refraction, as would be the case if an ttinoNpbcre enveloped the moon. Hence ' I has been inferred by Whewell, the re- s >uted author of the late work entitled'"Of H IMura'.ity of Worlds," that lite moon has s 10 atmosphere or water, and, consequent- 1 y, no inhabitants. ! ' Tliis inference is shown to he inconelu- I ivc, bv a recent discovery of the nxtronj- | c iicr Hansel, whose study of the moon's 1 no-ion, ct ntiuiird for many years, liases- j a ablished the fact that the centre of grav '' ty ot the moon, instead of being like that s >1 the earth, at the centre of figure, is he- i 11 i"ond that centre, and farther from the ! v >idc next to the earth than it is from the J 1 >th?r side by seventy-four miles. The, learcr side of the moon therefore, is a I i-t, expanded protuberance or mountain t. ventv foil- miles libdi and nnv tlni.l . ' ' I ci fthether air or water, would How down !s wards from the nearer to the farther side |j A moon where, t<>r aught we know, in- v elligenl 1 ivi11?? bemg may exist. The a lO.trer side of tiio moon cannot be inhab- i r te l. at least by beings to whose existence i r tir and water are essential, as is the case j v with ail terrestrial animals. | v The late celebrated mathematician, j Jans* proposed a* a means of settling the ( j'tes'iou whether llie moon is itdiabited, ( that a huge monument should be. erected t sn the steppes of Siberia, as a aigti'tl to t lhe inhabitants of tbe moon, in the hope ! t that '.hey might be induced to erect a him c i!ar signal to apprise us of their existence. The discovery of Hansel shows that such I an exporinn-ut couM bo attended with no | success, iuasiuusb as tho inhabitants of' ^ the moon, it there are any, being on the , further side, could never s>-e :i monument on the earth. It may not be uninteresting to add, i that it has been discovered, within a few | | years, by means of long continued, hourt> obkri \ at ions with tbh baiometcr, that j the timon exerts an appreciable intlu- i ence on the pressure of the atmosphere; j ; and a.so by moans of i<>ng continued mag neuc observations, Mini n exerts an iiinitence on the* declination of the magnetic needle. MRS DICKSON S NEW PETTICOAT. A meek quiet looking person, calling < himself John l)icksou, was delected on Friday in the very act of stealing a large j roll of r<- I tlannel front the door of a drv goods store in Eighth street, lie did not deny the fact, but attempted to palliate his olfencc by the following address to j the Mayor: "Sir, I confess I did take the jlannin, 1 hut when yon hear why I took it, you will say that 1 am an unfortunate man, . and ought to he pitied. My wife says to me yesterday morning: " 'John I've got a two dollar note, I'ank of Ilarrisbiirgh, (-ays she.) 1 made it by washing and ironing, and I want you to I go Hiid buy mo eight yards of llannin? j red tlauniii (says she) ? to make me two petticoats, for the spring ;s backwards | (say* sln*j ami the weather keeps cool, and I haven't a rag that's lit to wear.? | And mind you don't lose the money nor i go near any grog shop, (says the) fof you j know your weakness ; and don't you gel i into conversation with any other loafers | as you nre going along on this errand.' | "So I took the money?the two dollar ! note, (I did?and set out, and went three squares around to keep clear of the grog- ' < gcrv that's in the upper end of our street; | ami that's the way I missed it ; for in the ! other street I met Joe Ilinson. Says Joe? "'Jack where you're bound ?" "Says I?"To got eight yards of quarter dollar llannin, to make mv wife two i petticoats." 'Says he?"Dock the old woman half ' a yard, and let's havo a couple of glasses j of tody. It's only making the petticoats j a little shorter, (says he,) and as she's got ; a handsome pair el ankles she won't mind having ii scant pattern." "Well, I thought half a yard of flan- ] nin' would'nt make much difference, so in j wo went (o the hotel, changed the note, ( drank a glass iij>iece, and that put us in ' ( Llie notion of more, (it did,) and .foe j drank and I drank, and in less than j an hour I'll be switched if I had twenty* | 11 vo cents loft out of two dollars. Well, what could I do then I I ax any reasonahlo man what could 1 do? I couldn't i go home without the ilsnnin aud 1 eon Id'nt buy it without the money. So 1 hooked a bolt of it, (I did,) that's a fact, j and I'm not ashamed to acknowledge it, ; for Dotliing clso could be Joiio ; and if 1 hadn't been nabbed my olo woman should ; have had six red flannel petticoats instead ! of the two she sent me after ; and that's the wholo story." Dickson was committed in default of ha l to answer for the larceny.?Philadtl* jdna Sunday Mercury. A COMI'limknt woktii HaVINQ.? A worthy farmer of this neighborhood, on hearing that Col. McWilli# was a candidate for Governor of Alississippi, said:? "Although the storm hail storm has de stroyed my crop, if my vote would secure his election, I would cheerfully take my horse and pay my expenses out aud back > to givo it to him."?Cumden Journal. A KORSE CASE. Maj. lVrry, in reporting tho cases at Anderson extra court, gives the fo low- : t n? : There was an action brought by Hob- j on vs. Cobb, for the value of a horse | dioked to death in C'ohbs' stables at tYilliamston. 1 he question was as to the iabiiity of tavorn-keepers. The proof I vns by plaintiff that the rope or halter J vas not well tied. On the other hand, | he proof was that the halter was all right. 1 t ivas, wo thought, a c!?ar case of volun- ! ary suicide on the pait of the horse, *nd J mil mo ueiennam was iu?i liable, ills lutior thought the jury might well j>re j uiiie negligence. The plaintiff's counsel Jlirmvd that tavern keepers were over- | eers of the lives of all horses put into 1 heir stables, against all accidents, except hose occurring front the net of God or a | niblic enemy. The defendant's counsel 1 ontendod that the horse die.l of colic.? 'he jury telurned a verdict for defendant, nd the plaintiff's counsel appealed, to ave it determined by tlieir lionors the ix law Judges, whether the horse coinnitted suicide, died by the act of God, or ( rns assisted iti any way in his death bv ; lie defendant or his servants. Fatal Accioest.? Mi.?s Anna tSloau, ldesl daughter of Col. Win. Sloan, died 11 the 13th inst.. under the most dislres my circumstances. 1 it attempting to reill ;i lamp with Caniplietie, the burning ; viok which lia>l been slightly turned' iside, came in contact with the duid, and j trod need an immediate explosion, envel- ' ping her in Hamcs. She lived nearly two I veeks after the accident, v.iH'ering all the chile the most intense ami excruciating I >ain. The death of a grown young lady mder such circumstances, in the enjoy- j neiit of vigorous health, and w ith a lu-j ure before her full of promise, is one of i he most iiicluncholly occurrences that has < ;ver happened in this cotninuinty.?An~ Icrson (ia~cttc. Judge liurko, of South Carolina, rode 1 >11 horseback from circuit t5 circuit, ac- ! :oiupauicd by a servant, who was direc j led to keep close behind him, while lie! neditated as pleased lumself by the wav. t Jogging along in this way, on one ' jccasiou, the servant passed up too . near to the lioiso which lie rode, and vrnitu im|>|>ciii:.i m oe ?t:i iw nauircd nruto ! wild the consequence was that tho horse 1 kicked the negro on the leg, who, ohserv* I ing that it had not interrupted his mas i tcr'a study, sprang oil' his horse, and pick I ing up a stone, threw it at the beast, ' which it unluckily missed, and t*ok of 1 led between the J udgo's shoulders. Tire instant the negro saw what had been i done, befell in the road with his hand clasped around his leg, ami crying out in apparent agony. As soon as the Judge coup! straighten himself, he turned around and said to the prostrate negro "Stephen child, what ails you 1" "Lor, raassa," was the reply, "your horse, just now, kicked me on the leg, and almost broke it." "Wei, chilJ," said the Judge, "he just now kicked me between the shoulders, and almost broke my back, too." Tt happened some years ago, in one of the Northern counties of Vermont that the then State attorney, though a man of great legal ability, was rather too fond of the ''critter," and with a perversity of habit, which wo have often seen in others, was pretty sure to drink too deep at the very time when it was necessary that he should be sober. On one accasion an important criminal case was called on by the Clerk, but the Attorney, with owllike gravity, kept his chair, being in tact, not fairly ablo to stand on his feet. "Mr. Attorney, ts the State ready to proceed !" said the Judge. "Yes?hie?no,your honor," stammered the lawyer, "the State?hie?is not in a state to try this case to day?the Stale your honor, is drunk." On Wednesday morning last, while a dense throng was assembled in the 1'resident's gardens at Washington, the ic porter of the. Stales, having occasion to ihkc notes 01 so:no parsing incident, very | coolly made n writing table of the hack , sf a gentleman before him. When the j gentleman turned round, he was discovered to he Hon. Howell Cobb, Secretary the Treasury. In reply to the reporter's apologies. Mr. Cobb said that no barm had been done?that a man who was hacked up by twenty millions could not he expected to feel the pressure of a crisis like that. Hat PrtooK Corn Cain.?"In framing let the sleepers into the side sills so that the top of tho sleepets and sills will he level; joint your flooring, drive up tight, ami naii down fast, and you have a floor that will neither lose your shattered corn nor let in rats and inico. Neither stone nor brick for underpin tung, lor me raw will certainly undermine tliem|and your sills nettle; but une good Mocks two feet long, brought to a square at the top the size of sill. Use these procautions, and 1 will guarantee you a complete riddance from the rat tribe, if you do not let them in at the door." A young lady once Uintod to a gentleman that her thimble was worn out, and asked what reward she merited tor her industry, lie sent her an answer in the shape of a thimble, on which the following line* were engraved : "I send a thimble, for fingers nimble, Which I hope will fit when yon try it; It will last you long, if it's half as strong the hU?t ? hicji you gayo mo to buy it." ihirirfij. Tlio editor of the New York Mirror in an obituary notice of the lion. James Liell, of New Hampshire, says I10 was "a lawyer by profession, and an honest man h>j practice. Give me kisses, darlinf! Let thim bo laid with power on my lips?wid a report like heaven's thunder whips, or the explosion av the evenin1 gun?och, let mo have thim that way ivory won ! A lady, walking a few days since on one of tlie-wharves of New York, asked a sailor whom she mot, why a ship was ll.l... ? 'IM fV . i- ? luiivu .-in:, 1 no null Ul i-HL-JllUne replied that il was "because the rigging cost raoro than thejiull." Kitchen girls are now termed, "young ladies of the lower parlor." l'eople who go about grinding knives, scisors, and razors, are termed "gentlemen of the revolution." Folks who dig clams are termed " profound investigators," A little boy once said to his grandmother: "Grandmother, J hope you will die lir>t." "Why so, my child?" "Because I can stand trouble better than you can." This hint from an atTectionatc and bravo boy occasioned great laughter. Winchcll tells a storv of a dog which undertook to jump across a well in two jumps. There arc a great many people just like that dog?folks who think they can jump across a well in two jumps.? They that undertake the experiment usu ally "bring up down in the water." Think.?Thought engenders thought. Place one idea upon paper, another will follow it, ami still another, until you have written a page. You cannot fathom your mind. '1 here's a well of thought there which has no bottom. The more you draw from it, the more clear and fruitful it will he. Anecdote ok CIeoi.oe I'fauodv.?Fifty years ago, at the age of 12, he had occasion to pass through Concord, N. 11., ou his way to Vermont, lie stopped all night at the old "Stickney Hotel," where he paid his lodging and breakfast by sawing wood. Such was the first hegiuning of Creorge I'eabody. A celebrated dandy was one evening in company with a young lady, and observing her kiss Iter favorite poodle, lie advanced and begged the lileo favor, remarking that she ought to have as much charitv for him a- she had shown the door | "Sir*," said the Helle, "I never kissed my I dog when a pupy." '1 lie fellow took the hint and was oil" Mistanter. An old lady in Pennsylvania had a j great aversion to ive, and never could eat it in any form. "Till of late," said bIiC, "they had got to making it into whiskey, and I lii'd 1 can, now and then, worry down a little." "Mister have you seen a yallerWog going along here, about a year, year and a ( half or two ycais old!" "Yes," replied the chopper, supposing tiie Yankee w as quizzing him, "yes, I saw : a yaller dog going along hero about a | year, a year and a half or two years old, about an hour, an hourar.d a half, or two hours ago, and you'll find him a tnile, a I mile and a half, or two milesahead with , a tail about an inch, an inch and a half j or two inches long." ' Hold on ! that'll do stranger ! I calki! late you are into mo about a foot, a toot and a half or two feet." A poor bachelor, after coming out at the small end ot the horn in all his matrimonial attempts, pathetically exclaims : "When 1 remember all i lie girls I've met together, I feel like a rooster in tiie fall, Kxposcd to every weather; I feel like one who treads alone Some barn-yard all deserted, Whose oats are tied?whose hens a.-o dead. And off to market started." i IIarp F atk.?Soma unfortumato w?g 1 of a lover penned the following after a proposal : ! "I sat mo down in thought profound : I '1 his maxim wise I drew ; ; It'a easier for to like a girl, Than make a girl likoyou !" Consolation.?"But after all, 1 don't believe My heart will break with wo; I If si ie's inclined to like that chap, Why, bless her, let her rrA Bkal'tiful Illusthation.?The widow's mite was beautifully illustrated at a meeting of the Bible society recently held in^Mancheater New'Hanipshire. A poor woman on her death bed, had given a cage, with two beautiful birds, the only available thing she owned, to the Bible Society. Tito birds had been kept by the clergy man, and At the anniversary meetilliT Al rst anchoster. thev were biouffht for i n * ? ? o w?r<l and tho interesting circumstances of the gift stated. They were then uncovered, and the sudden gush of light roused them up, and the little warblers hurst into the raoet rapturous song. 'I ho efleot upon tho audience was magical, and under ita influence they were sold at auction. Over one hundred do'lais, including emna voluntary additions, were thus secured for the Society by this poor dying woni&o'a begucst.