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T ETRMS-$1 , c FOR ST-Xj bf t flqo i of ~se-~ ef~c~etiDIOS~~G"F MONIS IN ADvA,UNcE. VOLUMAE II. N EWB ERRY, S. C.. 'NEDNESDAY, JANUAYT-160 UBR4 THA M ALD iS PT~iu IED EVERY WEDNESDAY, A! NeWierry 0. II., By T,1OS. - Y R. H. QRENEKER, AND PRorriEToRS. 2ERMS, ji,50 NR SIX MONTi, FITHER jN CURRENCY OR IN PROVISIONS. (Payment required invariably in advance.) Advert'semetts inserted at .1,5z ) per square, for hrst in-ertion., 1 for each stuhsequent inertion. Niarr age notices, FLIIne1ra inlVi tatiotion, Obituaries, Ond Communications of personal interest charged ts advertise nents. The World for Sale. From an old Manuscript. The world for sale! hang out the sign Call every traveller here to me. Who'll buv this brave estate of mine. And set* my weary spirit free ? It's -oing !-ses, I mean to fling The bauble from mv soul away; i.l sell it wh:ttsoe'er it brinz The world *uetion here to-day. It is a gloriou; thing to me, Ah, it has cheated me so sore It is not what it seems to be, For sale ! it shall be mine no more. .Come turrn o'er and view it well, I would no: ::ave you purchase dear It's going-goin -I mu t sul, tear WVhO bids wvill buy the splendid tear! Here's Weal:h, in glittering heads of gold, Who hids ? but let ne tell you fair A haser lot was never sohl; Who'll buy the heavy heaps of cae? And here pre:n out in broad doma in A good y hu:d1 cape all 1iV 1-:1ce -lal, corttazo, t?ke, fiell, hill :md phlin, Who'll bwy hint f d-blO ph Here's love- f ds.re:awy, ;wvn! Z That bo:mr,- ::.y ro d a I know -:s po i, 1a51 To Well It's g-o:1g - ove a:1l I must pirt. MuQt part ! w!at can I nore with love ? All o'er th ecth.2er's eign Who'1l b1y the plumi-, .ving love A bre;th of bis, a storm of pain ? And frie:mi;'p-rarest z*n of earth, Whoe'r h:ih ":nd the _,ver hI, Fr.!h wt, h.i ami but lit i wor!h VA - o bid- ts.r Il endshp as it is' 'Ti-: ro*ng- 2.o*i,- 1!e:ir !h*-e:,!i; Once, t ic o', 1r'.e-' Ver.4O0 'Twasonee mny he , m' t v, .V l But no%N it broIken sta,f m1ast go. Fam ho'. ti bi' ,-noteor hih, How much" for fa'..e y how much for fame ? Hear Ihoyw it thunders would you stand On high Ol1ri', t:r reno)wned NowV purc.se, and a Wo.rld comminand! And t!ei h t T S r: T'\ ,d! .Sweet' ,r c^one.. nth ray to -hine In every i:'!i l boing breat, Save~' thi de,snoi.iini one of mine .MbXo bids tor uin's last friend aid best. This treaanre shunim a tl 5t'ain ' }Vkt hop ;i:ti I ro 1:ow at Ltife, Amition, f-lon, show and p;ide, I part from il; t,iever now; Grief in an or ver,enng tide Hais taught my bgh ty 1,eart to bow. Er death's stern shaft ot' n!! bereft, i wcej, yet humiv k' iss the rodl The best of al I still have left, My faith, my1' BiMre, and my~ God. Acts of thle Gener'al Assembly. AN ACT TO Pw '.iDE A MoDE BY WHIcH TO RfTATE T1ESTI.iNY IN REL.\TION TO DEEDS, \WILLS, CHIosES IN ACTION, JTHIER 2.\PERa-s, AND RECORDs DEsT!:oYED on: Lo-T 1)ui:1NG -rus RECENT \AR. L. Be i ena"Ied by' the Snate and HIoi.e of ,Repru.ntat:es, waW we ow sd.i ;tting h nera! 'AuemWyd, and byi the anthority of~ the sae, T hat sv henever, hereinafter, in any suit which shall be pending in ai y Court of this State, it shall be niecessary, for the maintenance of .the action or defence, that proof shall be ad duced of the contents of any document, whe'ther the samte be a deed, will, chose ini action or other private writing, or at public yrecord, or of any other nature whatever, pro per to be proven, and it shall be proven, (by .e ddavit of the party-, in case he be unable otherwise to mnake the proof,) that such do Cumenltt was in existence and in the posses sion of any permeat durinig the recent war, gnd cannot n )w be fognd, It shall be pre .sumed that such documnent was dlestroyed or :ost by reason o thle existence of the v-:ir; ;snd if such pre&umption shall1 not be re2butted te, the satisfaction of the Court, the party zneeding the proof of the contents of su hi do cument shall, without further p: oof of loss, be at'iberty to introduce secondary evidence of stuc1 cen:tents, andt for this purpcse recitals in other deeds or writings, proven or acknowl edged to be genuine, whether between the same par:ies Cr not, and statements in the ecord of arny sut n any of the Courts, pro d.eced.fin; the pr'opar place of custody, or ir the orinteri volumes of B-te reports, pub. Ui:ed by au:hority of the Generai 'Assembly, although such statements be ill easds not be twveen the parties to the suit'in which the evi danrce 'ffered, or those undlv whom thley claim, -hall be admrissible foYr the considera tion of the Court or Jury naving juiris'.ct:ir .of the issues of fact :Pror (led, ha-erer, Thal in e.very such case the party terdet ngv sue1 evidemce shall have first mnade in opena Cort or before some Judge of the Superior or In ferior Courts of this State, or some Comm.s sioner residing out of thits State, duly quahi fied to take utli av its to he used within th State, an aflidavit that the sail documntr not in his .os5ession or power~t to produce and s) far as he kno;ts, is rnt im eXstece in fact destroyed or carried away, or in some other way lost or destroyed, and shall also produce, in open Court an affidavit, made by the person in whose possession the party ten dering shall swear such document was when he last knew of it, unless the party tendering was himself the last person in possession, that tne same was in fact destroyed or car ried away, if he knows it to be so, or if, with out positivf knowledge, that he believes it to be so, and setting for h the facts and circum stances which induce such belief, if such per. son is other than the said p-rtv jn Gourt ten dering the secondary evidence of contents, and is alive and n ithin the State. Ii. Tie plaintiff or plaintiffs, or any ol them, in any judgement or decree, the record whereof has been destroyed or abstiacted, or lost during the recent war, or his personal representative, or other person claiming un der or through him, or any person whatever having inter-est in the preservation of the evi dence of such judgment or decree, may, upon notice of not less than ten days served per sonally upon the defendant or defendants (if more than one) there:n, cr those upon whom his, her or their liability thereunder has de volved, or others interestcd to oppose the ap plication, make application to Court in which such judgment or decree was rendered, for leave to substitute a new record. and if, upon haring the evidence on each side, the Court is satisfied of the existence and loss of such record, and order for leave to subs'tit.te s1r ' be made, ascertaining as near as possible the names of all the original parties and the plaintiff's attorney, the date of the signing of the jiudgient or tilli! g of the decree, (and if in Equity, an enrolled rn,oney' decree in Equi ty, then also the date ot the enrolhnent,) the amount of the recovery, the sum bearing in terest, and the date from which interest be gan to run, the balance actually due, at the date of destruction or abstraction, and the dlate of the entry of the original process, and also of the last process issued for the execu tion of such judgment. The Clerk of the Court of C"rimon V as, .,he Pegister in Eqity and the Ordinary jn each'6f the ri tricts of this State, in .'Vch the publie' re cords, in the custody of suCh oficer were des troyed or carried away, or in any other way lost, shall, at the expence of the funds in the Inifs, of the Coimnrissioners of PubLIc Build ing for his Distiict, procure a book or books of proper size, and suitably ruled and secure ly bound, to be labelled "Ab stracts of lost Judgments and Iec: ees," or "of lost Decrees," as the case may be, in which he shill 'enter an abstract of every suchi jt-'gmeInt or decree, a new recor(I of which shall be so ordered to e suhstituted, setting out in distinct and a - propriate e mI's aLl the partiellars herein bef,re required to be ascertained by the or iler of the Court, and such entry shall, with mit other or further record, be good and suf icient in law for all purposes for which the ri,inal record itself could ha.v2 be,fn nsed, IaI of ca,ial autlori y her e th 'in al' res pts ja af.e .g crmded .for ,n .th and inl the precCding section of this Act, if the plaintit, or in ae of his death, his perso:.al representative, shall make oath, according t the best of his knowledge and belief, that a discovery from the defendant is the only means by which such lost or destroyed re cord or document can be established, and al so of the former existence and of the loss or destruction of such record or other dlocumien?, he may, if the dtfendant, or either of them, if m1re;.hani one, be living, and be w ithtin the i niss of the State, call upon such defendant to answer, on oath, as to the former exis tence of such record or other document, andl as to its contents, character and descript':on, and( also as to the amount (Sue thereon. And in case suc-h defendan t, after at least ten dayvs ersonal noitice, (if he he within the D)istrict when such proceeding is had, and twenty days notice in case he is not,) sh-ill fail to an s'er pob i(einterrogatories so pro. pounded, 5jush failure to answer, (unless sat isfactoriiv explained or accounted for,) shall be taken~and considlered as an admission by such defendant of the truth of the facts stated and set forth in.the plaintifT"s alfidavit : pro rded, Tnat such admission shall on!ly alfect the party so failing to answer as afores&: and his legal representatives. If such dIef'en dant sb-all deny on oath the fornme- existence of such i-ecord~ or other doenuent, so attempt ed to be set up, or sh'all deny on oath that there is anything due thereon to such plain tiff or his legal representative, or shall dens any other mate-rial fact alleged in the plain tiff"s affidavit, the answer of the defendant together with the affidavit of the plaintiff shall be consideced as evidence in the p~se and shall~ wi th suc (.ther testimony as to' narties or both sides may' offer, be submnittet to Court: Pro,riedl, That no costs shall b< taxed ag:ainst the defendant for the interroga tories nwhich may' be propounded to him un der the provisions of t.his Act. II1. That for the purpose of preservinl scon 'ry evidence as may now be in exis tnce of toe past existence, loss and contents or any of themi, of such documents as havy been 'destroyed or lost during the recent war the Att ornev-General or Solicitor shall, i1 eery District in their respective cir:uits; fil "a bill to perpetuiate testin.ony," in wic1 shall be set for-th the fact that many docu mets, such as deeds, wills, choses in actiori andi other private writings, and also pubi records and others 01 any nauire whatevei have been !ost or destroyed during the recen war, and that the proof of their past exn tence, loss and contLents, rests in .the mem<( ry of witnesses upon whosei deatn the test mony will he wholly lost. And that suc proof may be taken and perpetuated, the bi shal ijay that an order may issue perniyttin all persons entitled by reascn of-loss of doct mets under such circums~tanees, and desirin Ito do so, to conme before the Court and has taken and perpetuated all evidence whic they shall produce. W That Jin the filing of such bill, tI .ater or- Commissioner shall make an orde in conformity with the prayer thereof, whic shall be published by being posted on tl Court House door and printed in one ne~ p.per,. if amy such there be in the Distri once a week for two months ; and if there1 no pnper pub)lished in the District, then Chareston~ er Columbia. I.V. Upcn the filing of such bill, any pc son or persc::s interested iu preserving the 12 eneae of the contents of any such documer andr dsring to (do so, may apply by wri tir oah, to t Maste or Commntssior for leave so to do, setting forth with reasona ble certainty a description of the document of the past existence. loss and crnten,s of which he prrposes to offer evidence for preservation, and stating the fact of the destruction or loss, positively, or at least that - verily so be lieves, and ,so stating whether or not thert are other Orsons having like or opposite in terest wit.i him in the matter to be testiBed to, angiat ,the ;n,teres." of such persons ,, and if nere be any such, the said Master or Commissioner shall issue a subpoena ad rc. pondendem, directed to the said parties, tc appear and'cross-examine the evidence which may be produced. and to introduce evidence in reply ; and if the applicant shall desire q discovery forin any party interested, he shall, on ma%.n,g oath, as in bills of discovery, bc pe-rmiited to seid'with the subpcena interro gatories, which shall be answered as in bills for discovery. And whether or not there shall appear to be other parties besides thl applicant who are interested, the Master or Commissioner shall publish the notice of ap plication for three months in the same man ner as now nrescrib,d for notices to absent defende%is in Eq ty, and all parties who mnay think then'mele- iterested may come in as they had s d with subpona. VI. At z expiration of the said three mnonthz, tie M or Commissioner shall proceed to take the evidence if the party mna kirg applica;ion therein asks for leave to have e' idence of :e true location of one or more :racts of lan' taken for preservation, the Mas ter or Commis.soner shall have authority to issue a rule of urvey to a Deputy Surveyor, to be selected by himself for that purpose, tn whom all the papers and other evidence of lo cation shall be furnished by the party or par ties in interest, and' *h6 shall return his plats duly certified to the Master or- Commis sioner issuing the order, on or before a day to be therein fixed by him. VII. The evidence so taken shall be pre served, and the parties may have the same recorded in the offices of the Register of Mesne Conveyances and the Secretary of State, and (If .it relates to re6ords of any Court,) in that Court in v hich the lost or de stroyed record which it proposes to prove was made. VIlI. The evidence so taken, perpetuated I and recorded, shall be received in all Courts, subject to the same rules, as to competency and credibility, as any other evidence, except as hereinbefore provided. IX. For performing the d-tv a ssi-ned them, the Attorney-Ge: Wral id Solicitors shall receive twenty dollars for each bill, and the Masters and Coni,ionerf th, o-,t.,A' fees for tiling the bill and making and pul lishing the general notice tl:ereof, and the printer the usual fees for printing the same all of which shall be paid by the State Tre-is urer on the certiti -ate of aity Chancellor. The costs of .il other proceedings shall be pai(d by the pari;es who seek the relief pre ferreab' fhe bill. except that in cases in h r.:s a 4 coindet df interest, the Char-. cellor shall decide which party shall pay them. X. The bills shall rerain on the docket for five years, unless the General Assemiy shall sooner order them stricken off, during all which time all persons tnay come in and seek the relief intended. XI. That no law now in force, or which may be passed at this session of the General Assembly, of the character of a stay law or law pirohiitming suits in Court, shall he be-hl as applyinug to or affectir g the' provisions oi this Ac t : Prccidd, This section shall rnot be construed to idtt.orize the cllcection of any deLbtor imney contrary to the provisions cl any stay law now in force or hereafter enac ted XII Nothing herein contained shall preveni any one for estalish;ng, on the trial of any cause, any lost paper, according to the rules of es idence now existing. In the Scnate Hr.uses twenty first day c D)ecemher,g r'tlie-year of our Lord om thous'aiid'eight hundred and sixty-five. W. D. PORT'ER, President of the Senate. C. IH. SIMONTOY, Speaker of the IIouse of Representatives. A pproved :JA3MEs L. Oxa. AN AZCT To EsTAUJLItM THE bNIVERsITY o SoUTH CAROLINA. Wirlereas, The proper education of y-outh i: a matter ot vital importance to this State ii its present conditi.n, and ought to be thi special object of Legislative attention : J whereas, The conversion of the South Cato lina College into an University will meet; it; irent demand, and will foster all the element hich have heretofore contributed to its i' -tellectual and moral power, and will preserv I. Be it cuarted /i the Senate and HJouse of Pep resntativ'es, nfou- m et an?d .;tii,y~ in 0.& iu.ral sembly, and by the aidhonity of the samae, 'hI the corp oration heretofore created by an A entitled "An act to establish a College at Cc lumbia,"' ratified the mineteenth day of Ih cember, in the year of our Lord one thousan eight hundred~anrd one, shall hereafter b leowi as the University of South .4m ohn: a nd as such, shall b)e enititled to all the night and be liable all the duties conferred c imposed upon the 'edd original corporation b the sa;d -Act, and all amendmren ts heretc except where the same shall be p~oditied b the provisions of this Act. . tII. Tnat the Board of Trustees of the L a versity of South Carolina shll, as soon practicable after the rat.tication of this Ac estblisha schools and provide for competet Professors in th2 following departmnents, I Iwit: First, a Sthool of Ancient Laniguag< and Literature; second, a School of Modem Languages and Literature; third, a School g listory, Polhtical Philosophy and Leonomy fourth, a School of Rhetoric, Critic.lsm, Eloc htion and English Language and Literature fifth, a'Sdhool of Mental and Moral Philos phy, Sacred Literature and Evidences. Christianity ; sixth, a School of Mathemnatic Civil and Military Engineering and Constru ieItion ; sevehth, a School of Natural and , chanical Philosophy ::nd Astronomy ; e:ght a Schooi of Chemistry, Pharmacy, Mine'n ogy anid Geology. nIII. The Board of Trustees shall take ca that une of the Professors therein provid for shall be a Minister of the Gospel, w1 .shall also be charged with the duties o1f Cha ,lain to the sai'' U niversity, under such reg la Itions arid with such add(i tional salary e f~yb ied hy thz said Boa.rd, IV. That no student shall matriculate un til he shall have attained the age of fifteen years. and shall agree to en.er at least three of the schools provided for by this Act : Pro rided hwerer, That in sl. il cases the Chair man of the Faculty may at his discretion, p ermit an applicant to tae less than three sch.),s. fhe fees to be paid by each student shall be as follows: If the student enters three schools or more, for each school he shall pay twenty-five dollars per annum ; if the I studor.t enters two schools only, for each school thirty-five do6llars per annum ; if the student enters olify one school fifty dollars per annum The compensation for room rent, use of Library and such damages to the prop erty of the corporation as may he done by each student, shall be regulated by the Board of Trustees. V. The Board of Trustees may, if it is deemed prope:-, gives a license to one or more persnis learned in the Law and one or more P)rotesors of medicine, to give instruction in their respective professions in the said Uni versity, and assign to themn 6t any of them, a Lecture room or Lecture rooms in which at times and under terms and conditions, and with tuition fees prescribed by the said Board they may respectivelY form classes and deliv er instructions in their respective professions; and t' same license may, if deemed proper by the said Board be given to a person or persons qualified to instruct in any mechani cal or practical pursuit. No'ne of the branch es of instruction provided for in this section shall he considered as schools, or included in the number necessa-y to be taken by any persons bef. re matriculation. VI Each Profssor hereinhefore provided f,r shall be allowed to occupy a house belong in?g to tihe corporation free of rent and be en titled to receive a salary of one thousand dol lars to bt paid quarterly in advance by the Treasurer of the State and shall be entitled to receive such tuition fees as may be paid by the students entering the scho;l at the: head of which such Professormly bie. VIl. The Board of Trustees shall appoint a Libra,*an who shall act as Treasurer of the corporation and Secretary to the Faculty and perfurm such other duties and receive such salary as the Board of Trustees may prescribe. VIII. The various Professors appointed to 'ive instruction in the various Schools provi ded for in this Act shall constitute a Board to be called the Faculty of the University of South Carolina, one of whom shall be chosen h the Board of Trustees as Chairman of the slid Facu1ty, who 'shall perform the duties heretf,r, imposed upon the Pr,alJPnt of th south Car(dh.ai Colice except where the same has been altered or Modified by this Act. IX. Thit nine members of the Board of Tru-t'~ at any stited or occasional' meeting thert !. sIiall constitute a quornni for 'the trans%teti.m if any business which is intrusted to the sai" l1oard ; and in case of the absence of the lrcsident Of the Board at any meeting, the majority of those present, provided there be a quoirum may proceed to elect a President X. That the Members of the General As senhly fiom each Election District in this State,-or a majority of them, are hereby au thorized and empowered, from time to time, to select one youth from each of their respec tive 1istr irts, who shall be received into this University, andl be allowed to matriculate in tMs Institution, and enter any three of the Schoofs phovidedi for i'this Act which may L e se.lected hv him, without any charge for tuition, roam-rent, or use of the Library; ar d each Professor hereinbefore provided for shall be elected upon condition that he will ~ive gratuitous instruction in his School to surch of the said youths as may enter his School: Prorided, hotrerer, That no person receiving the benefit of this section shall be exempt from any charge which may be madie for damages done by him to the property of the corporation. XI That tbe Board of Trustees may, if deemred advisable, elect a Bursar, who shall hioldl his office upon such terms and conditions, perforam such duties, and be entitled to re ceive such salary or compensation, as the said Board moay prescribe. In tIre Senate IIouse, the twenty-first day of D)ecember, ini thC year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixt v-five. W. D. PORTER, I ~President of the Senate. 1 C. II SIMONTON. Speaker of the House of liepresentatives. Approved : J.ANsJL. (3cr. -A BaoKN Ilmra.--The following interest >ng case of a literally broken heart was related by ailate distinguished medical professor of Philadelphia to his class, while lecturing up on diseases of the heart. It will be seen on perusing it that t ie expr-ession "broken heart edci" is nrot merely figurative. In the ear-ly part of hris career, l)r. .\itchell accompanied, as sur-geon, a pracket that sailed between Liv erpool anid one of our Southern ports. On the retuirn voyage, soon'after leaving Liver pool, whbile ti~e dloctor arid the captain of the esel, a weathrer-beaLten son of Neptune, but possee of unicomnmonly line feelings and st rng imrpulses, were conversing in the lat ter' state-rom, the captain opened a large chest, ann carefully took out a numiber of ar t cee of var-ions d~esen iptionis, which he arran nedl upon a table. D)r. M , surprised at thc - i-snhl v of costly jewels, ornamrents, dresses, arnd a!l th2 variedl paraphernalia of which la - dies tre naturally fond, inqgiired of the cap t in his ob ject ini havinrg made so many v'alu able prebtasers Thre sailor in rep'y sa:d thial tfor seven or e-ight years he bad been devoted > lv attached to a lady, to whom he had several tfies made propon''; of marriago, but was a~ ioften rejected ; that her refusal to wed him f however, had only stimnulated is love t' reater exer tion ; and thmat finally, upon renew rig his oU'erieclaring in the ardency of hi passion thiat without her society life was no orth living fr, shre consenrt'd to becomre hi bride upon his return from his next voyage IlIe was so overj y-ed at the prospec-t of mannrriagwe, fr-our which, in the warmrth of hi - elings, he probably- anticipated more happi ness than is usually allotted to mortals, tha Ihe spenrt all Ihis renady muoney, while in London for br id-al gifts. After gazing at them fondl; re for some time, and remarking on them in turr d "I think this will please inie," and "I at sure she will like that," he replaced Theo: w ith thre utmost care. 1 hi cefrony) he repeated every day de a. ;-ing the voyarge ; aind the doctor, saw a tea :~ 'n inhi e .e . he c,moke of the nicasur he would have in presenting them to his affi anced bride. On reaching his destination the captain arraved himself with more than his usual precision, and disembarked as soon as possible, to hasten to his love. As he was about to step into the carriage awaiting him, he was called aside by two gentlemen, who desired to make a communication, the purport of which was that the lady had proved un fidthful to the trust reposed in her, and had married another, with whorn'shebad decamp ed shortly before. Institntly the captain was observed to put his hand to his breast and fall heavily to the ground. le was taken up and convev-d to his room on the vessel. Dr. M., was irniediatdly summoned, but before he reached the poor captain, he was dead. A postmortem examination revealed the cause of his unfortunate disease. His heart was found literally torn in twain. The tremen dous propulsion of blood consequent upon such a violent nervous shock, forced the pow erful muscular tissue asunder, and life was at an end. The heart was-broke6n' The South for the future w.ill need, more than ever, a literature of its own. In the past-in ante-Cosifederate times, it could re sort to Northern books for its entertainment or its destruction without much danger of losing, to any considerable extent, its inde pendence of thought. That independence was protected and insured by its peculiar in stitutions, and its peculiar social and politic:i views. There was no possibility of 1ankee isig (we use terms in no invidious sense;) the mind of the South while every interest and every influence at home was antagonistic to such an eflect. The case is altered now. Slavery is abolished, and the theory of State sovereignty is well nigh dead. We are, therefore, no lorger shielded in our sectional or provincial individuality by customs and opinions growing out of a state of soc.iety which made us chary of teach.ings b4iginating in i state ofsociety' altogether diffetent from our own. If, in these circumstances we should be left exposed to 'he influences of Northern literature %iithout the counteract ing operation of a literature of our own, we would, ere long, forget how to think for our selves. And in that case, in spite of all the rights which equality in the Union (if we get it) might confer upon us, we,would soon be come in releation to the North, provincials, not associates. Entertaining these views, we shall hail with pleasure every attempt to build up a litera ture for the South. In writers of erint S.:~ ., c.. . nult at al deieTent. What is wanted is a Southern mediiin through which they may address that public which they are most concerned to please and to ins.truct.^ Dou.*,tless, as -t,he- conCition of th couitry gro.ws better, steps 'to suppty thiswant will be taken ; and we hope to see, ere many months pass by, Southern weeklies, monthlies md quarterlies, competing with those of the Narth in the entertainment of the world.- Ctroli in. Trm, YOUR MOTE.-I wonder how many girls tell their mi her everything ? Not those "young hd;es" who, going to and from school, smile, bow~and oxchange notes and cartes de visite with young men who make fun of you and your pictures, speaking in a way that would nmakc your chteeks ~ourn with shame if you heard it. All this, most inc, JIous and romantic young ladies, they will t.; although they gaze at your fresh young faces admiring ly, and send or give you charming verses and boquets. No matter what ''other girls do;" do't you do it. School girl flirtations may end disastrously, as many a foolish wretched young girl could tell you. Your yearning for~ sonie one to love, is a great need of every woman's heart. But there is time for every thing. D)on't let the bloom and freshness of your heart be brushed off in silly fliytations. lender y ourself truly intelligent.- And, above all, tell your mother eye'rth'ing. "Fun" in your dictionary would be indiscretion in hers. It would do no harm to look and see. Never be ashamed to tell her who should be your best friend and confidant, all you think and fel. It is very strange that so many young irls will tell every person before "mother" hat which is most important that she should know It is very sad that indifferent persons should know mro~re about her own fair young dughters than hersel f.-anny Fern. FnozN Kmxns-.-The world is full of kndn.ess that nevei was spoken, and that is not much better than no kindness at all. The fuel of the stove makes the room warm, but there are great piles of fallen trees lying among rGcks on the top of the hill where no body can get them; these do not make any body warm. You might fre ze to death for want of wood ini plain sight of all these trees, if you had no mean's of' getting the wood home and- making a tire with it. Just so in a fam ily love, is wh-it makes the parents and chiil (renl, the brothers and sisters happy; but if thev tnke care never to say a word about it; if thiey keep it a profound secret as if it were ai crime, they will not be much happier than if there was~no love among them, the home will seemi coila even in summer and if you live there yoig will envy the dogs when any one callIs himi ''poor fell ow.'' A FAmiI iomxih;C GoAl.--The Stanton Spi'f /or, in the following, gives an account f a coait Zhat has proved a veritable heir-loom: I"Many years since, an old G:'rman citizen of Penudiet'on County, when about to lead his fair 'frow' to the hymeneal alter, purchased a broadl ch;th coat in which lie was carried. Ilis wiepeetdhmwihmn hlrn aogwhom were egtsons, every oned of chmwre marriedl in the same coat in which their father married their mother. Tile young est of the sons had seven sons, every one 01 whom- were married in the same coat, and after the younigest son of the seven, or the younges t radonof the original owner ol te COat had led his blunshing bride to thq al tar in his venerable grand-l-faither's fashion able w'edd'ng coat, he sold it for the sum o: -ten dollars. What has becomoc of the coa since it was sold we have not been advised but suppose that soms one is keeping it foi the purpose of getting married in it." 1A compan.y with 5:3O,ooo,ooo capital bo~ been formeiin San Fm aneisco, California, ti build a road 720) miles long from Sari Francise< -to San D)iego, thence Estward to the Stat' rline, connecting with the contemplated roa' othe Misnissinni River. PALMERSTON's DEATH B:D.-The following ac count of the state of Palmerston's mind at the time of his death, is fro ! the last letter of Mr. Conway, the'London corresponcut of the Boston Coml?momiealth : "I have the following from unquestionable au thority :-When it was perceived that Lord Pal merston would not recover, a elergyman, a:1com panied by Lord Shaf:sbury, vi ited him for the purpose of having some religious conversation with him. They found the old mwin in a very low condition. The clergyman asked him it he thought the medicines given him were beneficial. 'Yes.' The clergyman then hinted that there was another medicine of infinitely greater impor tance. 'Wi-at is it !' said Palmerston. 'The blood of Christ,' replied the clergyman, who, with this for ah opening, went on into a religious exhortation. "When he came to pause, Palmerston said, only, 'Go on.' The clergyman, pleased at this, went on with further religious remarks, and com ing to another pause, Pahnerston said again, 'Go on.' Much encouraged by this, the clergyman continued fervently, and Lord Shaftsbury, who is very pious, joined in n ith him. At length Pal merston said, 'This is well ; - now read the sixth article.' No one present knew what this meant; and the clergyman referred to the sixth article in the prayer book, which, however, shed no light on the mysterious request. On testing the dying man's mind further, it became abundantly evi dent that he had supposed that he was listening to the Treaty of Utrecht, the sixth article whereof related to the surrender of Dunquecrque." Ax O..o ViRaiNi LAW.-Some of the an cient records of the Cavaliers are no less amu sing than those of the Puritans : In one he fore us we read that "at a grand assembly, held in James Cittie, in the year 1616, were passed many acts to the glorie of Al mightie God and the publique good of this his Majestie's colonic of Virginie." Among these was the following entitled, "Women causing scandalous suits to be ducked "Whereas, oftentimes many babling wo men often slander and scardalize their neigh bors for which thir poor husbands are often brought into chargeable and vexatious suits and cost in great damage "Be it ther<fOre en?cted by the authority aforesaid, That in actions of slander occasion ed by the wife, as aforesaid, after judgement pas;ed for the damages, the woman shall be punished by ducking ; and if the slander be so enormous as to be adjudged at a greater damage than five 1,undred pounds of tobacco, then the woman to suffer a ducking for each five hundred pounds of tobacco so adiudaa : a hu 1irrL n7e roAisez to paY the tobacco.' GE3rs OF THo1C1T.-The foundation of a good old age is laid in infancy. Ajoycits smile adds %n hour to one's life, a heartfelt latih a day, 'a grin not a moment. The smallest compliment we receive fromn another, conveys more pleasure than the greatest compliment we pay ourselves. Passions, like horses,when properly trainea and disciplined, are capable of being upplied to the noblest purposes; but when allowed to have their own way, they become dangerous in the extreme. If the memory is weak, do not overload it, nor fill it with foolery. Charge it only with useful matters. To relieve the oppressed is the most glo rious act man is capable of; it is in some meas ure doing the work of his Maker. Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acq1uant ed with himself particularly, being free from fatterers. Sir Peter Lely made ;t a rule never to look at a bad picture having found by experienCe that whenever he did so his pencil took a tint from it. Apply the same rule to bad books and bad company. A miserly wornan in New Bedford, directs her washerwoman to wash only the lower alf of her skirts. THE RES'T EVIDNECE oF' SAN IrY.-A case oc curredin the Supreme Court of Delaware a few days a go, which strikingly illuistrates the advantage of paying jpr a ne'irspaper in ad vnce. The will of Mr. Wmn A. Ruseil was contested; and one of the facts put in evidence Iat the trial to sustain it was, that only a few days before its execution he call at the office of~the Democrat and paid for it a year in ad vance, thereby saving fifty cents. This fact was dwelt upon at length by counsel, and commented on by the Judge in his charge, as satisfactory evidence that Mr. R. was sane, and competent to maike a will. RELIGON As A CoNvENIENc-It has been said that men carry on a kind of coasting trade with religion. In the voyage of life they profess to he in search of heaven, but take care not to venture so far in their ap proximations to it. as entirely to lose sight of the ea.rth; and should their fraiil vessel be in danzer of shipwreck, they will gladly throw their darling vices overboard, as other mari ners their treasures, only to fish them up again when the storm is over.-Colton. LossEs TO BE PA1.-The Milledgeville (Ga.) Tuon states that it has good anthority for saing that all men over the age of sixty- five, who took no part in the war, and all widows, at the time General Sherman's army injured thir property, will be reimburse 1 by the United States Government for damages. The assessor is already at work in the county of Hancock, ascertaining damages so far as re spects the two classes of our people above named. WA TERFAUI.s.-The New York Observer publishes a letter, written more than thirty years ago by the Rev. Dr. Judson, on the vanity of the hethen womnan, in wheich lie cites as one proof of their heathenish customs, that the Karen women were fancifully con strictedl bags, enclosing the hair, and suspen ded from the back part of the head ! The or igin of "waterfatlls" is r.cw explained. Rev. Wmn. II. Milburn, the eloquent b,lindj preacher, received dleacon's orders in the Protestant 1: iscopul chiurch, at Blurhington, Vermont, on last Sund:t . IIe has hithei been a Methodist. 1"We will live in: the houpe of a bright dlay dA. ig nna welcome our fate with a smile."