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[POEY'fiY. GoodNightand Pleasant Dreams be Thine (Jood night, and pleasant dreams ho thine ; How oil, in accents soli an<l low, When round us quiet moonbeams shine, And night winds wander to and fro, We li-t from lips we love full well, These words that charm us like a spell! timid night, and pleasant dreams lie thine ; "I*was in the far off" long ago. When homo, and much loved friends were mine, And joys that liow I never know, Tlii.l tii-.il I full llm mviit!.. i, To cheer ilio heart, <>f this good night. Good night, and pleasant dreams bo thine ; These words were, oh ! how sweetly said, Ity her whose holy love must twine Around my soul, when 1 am lniil lii the cold ground; Ah, then we'll moct And know love is divinely sweet! <lood night, and pleasant dreams bo thine; Theso simple words can only thrill The heart round which uflections twine, And where there truly lingers still, Some memories of the hopes and joys, That filled our hearts when we were boys. (!ood night, and pleasant dreams be thine; Oh that throughout life's stormy wy. Kotne Friend whose thoughts and li ves arc mine, May always at the close of day, Whisper with hope, this foml gooil night; My dreams must then be fair un>l bright. Good night, nn>l pleasant dreams be thine; Ami when through Death's drcnr clouds [see, Life's latest starlight dimly shine, Aye, when my soul is bursting free From all Karth's cares. 1 fain would hear These words, from lips I love most dear. t\ n a mniiumui W u^lriU'JL U V0 Pike's Peak Gold Mines John Smith went to Pike's Peak, to ilig ' gold, and wrote a letter to his brother George j telling him of his wonderful f.icco*j. llear hiin: Pikk's Peak, M toIi 1, 1859. My Bear Brother: We had all the hardships in the world before wo got here. Oor horses wore stolen from us at Dubuque. We got some extra oxen, anil lost them one hundred miles from Omaha. Wo then tried wheel-barrows, my wife and L wheeling by turns, till the Indians stole thorn. Thon wc walked, till the Indians stole our provisions, n 11.1 r.....:i~ ?' . ?..v. m y imuii^ gut sick, so i nan to carry I them nil on my back. Our money gave out long before, ami for two weeks wc travelled through a wilderness where ti.e foot of huinnn being bad never trod ; at this condition, seeing no living being, and without money to purchase even a cracker at any of the groceries along the line, we lived on roots till my children nil looked like pigs, from rooting so long. 1 havo carried my family on my back till I am so round-shouldered that 1 can only see the blue sky and the bright sun by looking between my legs, and up to heaven's canopy that wny. I lost two hundred pounds of I llesh?horse meat-?when I started from Pu- I buque, or wo should Imvo got along better. 'J here is gold here?lota of it. The gophers dig it out of tho ground by the bushel, anil in tlie moonlight tho whole earth for inilcs round looks like heaven with its myriad stars, or like a pretty girl with yollow freckles.? The woou-ohucks peck out bushels and bushels of it, and the snakes in this country look like solid gold ones, from crawling among gold chunks. It is found in all sized pieces, from the size of a hen's egg up to the bigness of ft large stone, and of the finest quality. Wo have raked together what lay loose on an acre of ground and have twenty-two piles about as big as a largo sized hay stack. i.;At i ? i-" ...j,..., u.>?/ luiiuitii iiuuauK cmuc | to rob us of .1 set of silver spoons, and a I tine comb tliat my wife had to une on the children, and we barricaded our hoti.se with rocks of gold until they could not gain admittance, and were forced to beg to make friends with us. The chief laid down his weapons and came into our camp, when my wife used the fine comb on his head till his gratitude was as lively as his head was, and ho was so tickled that he offered to marry my wife, and show me where fold ~ . o was in plenty. I love my wife?you know that, Oeorge; but thinking that I might die before 1 got iich, and feeling that I must make .some property to leave my children, I consented to the mutch, and she has gone off" with the T ndiun, who is a great chief, and taken the fine comb with her.? Come out with your wife and bring a fine comb brother Georgo. . I am going to leave these diggins ftir a better one. It is too much trouble to tug and i?rv un tlin rrmnt 1?!<t #.1hh?i-d -?i-i < i "i n "Tv v"u""? U1 H'"" tliat weigh half a ton or so and are so tliick you cannot get them out without danger of breaking your legs, and I am going up to a ravine, where all 1 have to do is to dig to the top of a high mountain and roll it down to the river. The country hero is fine, but the winds are awful. My boys got so ligbt with eating roots, that I can only keep them by nie, or together by piling lumps of gold about as big as mallets, on their shirt tails, as the littio innocents sit down on the grass feo piny. Every thing grows hero.? I can raise twenty bnshcls of wheat to the acre. Oranges, lemons and all such col<V.,Wo ~:i-i v? - ' ? u.vu iiuimi giun wnii uuru, WIUIU 1110101)8, pears, apples, peaches and apple dumplings arc so plenty that they find no market. Sell off what stuff you haro in Wisconsin and come out lierc. You can get rich in h little whilu, and go back in such style tdiat it will astonish the natives. (iive my love to all the folk* arowuj i-hc corners, and put a notice 011 theschool house that fchoy oan get an outfit in Ohioago for $200. Come- out here, dear brother, by all means. Yours affectionately, Jems Smith. At a cattle show, recently, a fellow who was making himself ridiculously conspicuous, at last broke forth :?"('all these lioro prizecattlo? Why, they ain't nothin' u> wiwit. our ioiKsrnigficr. My rather rained the biirgost calf of any man round our part*. ' " Don't doubt it," remarked a byutandbr, "and the nowes^."' Aw odfl'sort of "enius, having stepped into a mill, wan lbolun# with apparent antonishment at tlio movement of tho machinery, when tho miliar, thinUi.ig to quiz liiin. asked him if he had heard tho news ?; " Not's I know on," said ho: " Why replied'tha millor,. " th?*$4ny the devil's doad." " Uy jing*," said Jytiftthpn, " is he ? who tend* the mill." Gallantry in the Wild Wood. I While descending a mountain pass at sunset I paused occasionally to eatcli the beautiful changes of light and shade, as now, sinking behind the height J was leaving, the sun's warm rays still played among the billowy masses of foliage that swelled along a towering ridge immediately in advance,?when my eye was caught by a dejected kooking female figure, half reelin mg, iii tin: mot oi a cnn near a sudden turning of the road. I coino so suddenly upon lier wild resting plaeo, tlint it was not until she had started in alarm from the shadowy nook, as my horse skeered at beholding such an object in Ins path, that T perceived it was a woman ; and then glancing at her stained and crumpled bonnet, and travel-soiled homespun dress, with the coarse and much worn shoes that she had upon her feet, 1 perceived she was a young woman of about twenty, and evidently belonging to the humbler walks of life.? Her features, 1 thought might be pretty, natural I v. but thov worn n <->f iaooU.<X. that was absolutely painful. She did not speak as I passed ; but turning round after I had gained a few yards beyond, I was met by a sound so imploring that I thought it could only belong to one that was dumb. " Have 1 far to go, stranger?" she at length asked, turning on my tracks I again approached her. " 1 cannot answer that, my good girl, till I know whither you arc bound." " And where but to my mother, over the mountains : is she not dying t and I?1 shall never have the strength to reach her it s \i. i i * * ? * - * /n, sir, sue auucu, wmie her eyes swam with tears, T have not tasted a morsel of food sinec some kind persons on the road let me eat with them yesterday?and now I am grown so feeble, I know I shall npt get there in time." At these words her eyes closed, while she leaned her person against the rock, as if about to sink into a fainting fit. Having never yet had the good lnck to bear a swooning belle out of a ball room or theatre, L was wholly at a lass what to do in this emergency, till remembering a flask of wine with which I had chanced to provide myself that very morning, I did not hesitate to lean and apply the restoring liquid to the lips of the sinking damsel. The appearance of kindness and sympathy seemed to aid ns iniu-li nn ?lm < !W self in restoring her. JJut Venus' ccstus itself could iiot more magically bring smiles and roses info faded cluicks than did a cold corn-cake and a piece of smoked venison, which, when produced from my pocket, were summarily disposed of by my heroine. Pouring out her thanks while demolishing the acceptable cheer, she told mc, in the fullness of her heart, that she lived among the hills in North Carolina?and having heard that her mother, who lived in Tcnuossee, was at the point of death, she had left home with a lew shillings tied in her ' shawl, to see her parent once more. The toils of her journey had been more than onee relieved by a passing emigrant; but she had been now several days on foot and her last application for aid having been met by insults, she had, though nearly overcome by fatigue determined to push on to the last without courting the chance of similar cruelty. ] took my map from my pocket, and guessing as nearly as posIII' flin rnnt.> .......l 1 ?! - *' - .JJ ?uv luuiv 111(11 nru tliui vuu, 11115 distance the poor girl had yet to travel, I supplied her with sufficient to defray the expenses she must incur. The slender state of my purse would not permit nie to allow for any accidental contingcncj', and 1 thought it well, when observing the simplicity with which she confided in a stringer, enjoining her, if she required further cr assistance, nut to apply to any passing cavalier she might encounter, but to seek it from the hospitable country people round. She raised her eyes inquiringly, while with a look of gratitude she placed her hand in mine, as 1 guarded her against travellers of my own condition in life; and somehow ?whether from my saddle slightly turning, or from my leaning over too far while making my words as impressive as possib. , 1 don't know,?but mj' mouth, before I I knew it, came in contact with as sweet a pair of lips Spirit of Cncle Toby! did not the zeal with which I dashed the spurs into my horse at that moment blot out the in vol untary and almost unconsciously committed olfence '! The sober reflections induced by entering a tall dark wood, when I had gained the base of the mountain, sugges 1 * - * * ' * luusuvurai curicus uoudis wnetner some five or six years' seniority were really .sufficient qualifications tor lecturing a pretty girl on discretion, in a forest at twilight. Tiik Farmer's Motto.?General Pierce closed an Agricultural Address at Twinsburg, Ohio, as follows: " Let the farmer's motto be, then, " pood farms, good stock, good seed, and good cultivation." Make fanning a science, in which your head as well as your hands u?c employed; let there be system, reason in nil vrmr nnnrnfmnn afnrlv f<> moL-o __ J . -r-.- , v., JKJ l?. | farm beautiful, and your lands lovely ;? cntico by lcindneps, the birds to visit, and ehcer your dwelling by their music. I would not associate with tho man or boy that would wantonly kill the birds that ohoorfully sing around our dwellings and farm ; he is fitted for treason und murder. Who docs not. with tho freshness of early morning, call tip the memory of tho garden *?f his infanoy in ohildhood ? Tho robin's nest in the old ehcrry tree, and the nest of young chirping birds in tho currant bushes: the flowers planted by his mother and > f .. . I uuinircu vy ins sister f Jn nil our wandcMngs, tho memory of childhood's birds and flowers arc associated witb our mothers and sisters; and our early homo: As you would havo your childron intelligent and happy, and' their memory In after life, of early homo, pleasant or repulsive, ho make your farms, and your chMdron'a homcth" Virtt'r should not bo ashamed oP boing virtuous. Spangles do not look well' upon cloth, rt is ))ost to wear your coat as if it beaamc you.. Qrcat Memory. Mithridntcp. kingof l'ontns. knew eacbono of his eighty thousand soldiers by bis right name. Seneca was able to rehearse, two thousand words, which were given him in tho samo order. Ilortensius kept in his memory all tho prices paid on a day of auction. Hugo (Jrotius, oil being present at a review, ofsoiao regiments in Franco, recalled all ?].? /.r *i.~ it;-? .......va ui uiu Dingiu fumiurs WIUC11 wore tlicro cullc?l up. Justus I/ipsius ventured to rehearse tho words of Tacitus, from the first word to tin; lust, forward and backward, oven when somebody was standing before him with a drawn dagger to pierce him at tlio very moment he hud forgotten hut an only word. A Venitian lady, well known for her erudition. when asked for tho sermon she had attended in church, repeated scrupulously every wotd. Racine knew by memory all the tragedies of Kuvipides, Hayle tho whole work of Montaigne, Hughes Donncau tlio Corpus Juris, ........o.vj iuovuuiu muiiiuiH, nun varioret, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, nil the Now Testament, from the first chapter of Matthew to tho end of Apocalypse. The learned Scotchman, Thomas Dempster, affirmed he knew not what it was tu forgo ; and Senligcr is told to havo apmehended within four mouths all the (JreeK poets. The notorious and mysterious Count of St. Germain surpasses them all. Any newspaper ho read once ho knew by memory, ami was furnished with such a gigantic comprehonsive power of numbering, that he retained a series of a thousand mimlinru i<-> could recite forward, bilekwArd and pulled out from the middle. From the court . of llenry 111. in Cracow, he demanded one hundred packs' of picket cards, mixed them together in disorder, lot him tell all tho succession of the cards, ordered to be noted down exactly, and repented their following one alter tho other, without being wrong once. lie played almost every musical instrument of the world, was an excellent printer, and imitated any lmndvwriting in the most illusive manner, lie bad but one passion? playing all games with absolute mastery.? In chess no mortal had vanquished him, and in faro lie could break every l>ank bv calcu lntion. In ancient times when books wore unknown or possessed only by the few, nil legendary accounts, poems, and history were kepj io the memory of successive generations in the same words as those in which they wore prob ably spoken at first. We are indebted to the memory of many generations of (5reeks for the preservation of the Illiad and Odyssey. Thk Dying Nkvkr Wkkp.?Tt is a striking fact?the dying never weep. The circlc of sobbing, agonized hearts around, nro duces not one tear. Is it that ho is insensible and still" already in tho chill of dissolution? That cannot be, for he asks for his father's hand, as if to gain strength in ( (he mortal struggle, and leans on the breast of mother, brother, or sister, with still eon- , scions affection; and just before expiring, at eve, after a long clay's converse with the Angel of Summous, he says to his oldest , brother?the last audible good night of , earth?"Kiss inc?Kiss me!" It must , bo because the dying have rcacbcd a point ' too deep for earthly crying and weeping.? J They are face to face to higher and holier , beings, with the Father 111 Heaven, and ( his angel throng, led on by tlio son himself; and what are the griefs of a morning, tears j of dying farewell?be it that they arc shed , by tho dearest 011 earth?in that vision ( bright of immortal life and everlasting reunion! , Windows opknkd mork would kkkp 1 DOCTORS FllOM THE DOOR. A vi>rv lnrcrn ! - - j ?e?~ quantity of fresh air isspoilod and render- ' cd foul by the act of broatliing. A man ' spoils not less than n gallon every mill- 1 nte. In eight hours' breathing, a full- ( grown man spoils as much fresh air as seventeen three-bushel sac)<s could hold ! If ' he were shut up in a room seven feet long, ' and seven feet high, the doornnd windows 1 fitting so tightly that no air could pas* ' through, he would die, poisoned by his own ' breath, in a very few hours; in twenty- ' iour nours no would have spoiled all the 1 air contained in the room, and have convcr- 1 ted it into poison ! Header, when you rise to-morrow morning, just jro out of doors for five minutes, and observe carefully, the freshness of the air. That air is in the ( state in which God keeps it for breathing. Then come back suddenly into your close room, and your own senses will at onco , make you fool how very far the air in your J chamber is from being in the same whole- j 8omo and fmrvicenblo condition. Tnk Eve of tiik Nkkple.?A reccnt I traveller to the IIolv Land informs us thnt 1 w ( # "" j there is at the side of the principal gato of Jerusalem a small one,'which, upon occa- ! sions of groat urgency, was opened for the admission of persons after the groat gatoH ! of the city were all cloned for tho night.? Tlii* gato, from its small size, was called 1 the Kye of the Needle; and to get n camel through it all was no small task?for a load- 1 cd camel to pass was an utter impossibility. With the above fact before the mind, one I can sec that the words of our Saviour, when ' speaking of the " strait gate" and tho " rich ' man," wore more literal than many sun- 1 ' A 1 * < ' ' pose. ivua wo sec now as trio rich man ( parses into tlio narrow way, tho sides and the lo\f top of tho strait gate scrape everything fro'tn him in which he had before trusted. No one can take anything but himself through. Far easier is it to strip a cninel of its burden than to divest a rich man of his trust, in riches. Savs one of tho Knickorbooker table-talkers : " ltov. Mr. (? , a friond of mine now in Hcavon. told mo n capital thing about his journey through tho West, in a missionary ? capacity, several years ago. LIo was holding an animated theological conversation with a good old lady on whom ho called: in tho noil ran nf wh!c.lihnimlir?l lidr wli?t alin'MiAimlit . - ....WV ' of the doctrino of Total Dopravity ? " Oh !" I tiho replied, " I think it a good doctrine, if ! pooplo would only livo ujp^to it!" j Look upon every day as tho whole of life, not merely as n section, and enjoy tho present, without wishing, through haste; to spring i on to another section now tying before thee-. ? "Wtt-v are lurge v'rcrn like- trees? Boomm j fchcy hav? branches. Catch the fiaosbino. Cntch (ho Hiinnhitio! though it Hlckera Through a dark and dismal cloud, Though it lulls no taint and Iccblo On u heurt w it It sorrow bowed: Catch it quickly?it is passing, INissing rapidly away; It lms only coino to tell you There is yet u brighter day. Catch the sunshine! though 'tin only One pnle flickering beam of light ; There is joy within its glimmering, Whispering 'lis not always (light. Don't he moping, sighing, weeping, l.uok up! look up like n man! There's no time to grope ill darkness. Catch (lie sunsbino when you can. Catch (lie sunshine! though life's tempest May unfurl its chilling blast. Catch the little hopeful straggler! Storms will nMTorcvcr last. Don't give up, ami say "forsaken!" Don't begin to any " I'm sad !" Look! there caiuesa gleam of sunshine! Catch it! oh, it seems so gbull Catch tllC Sunshine! ilon't )ir> irrinvir,#* . . ? o-"? '"tJ ' O'er Iliat darksome billow there ! Life's u sea of stormy billow.*. We must meet tliem every where. 1*1188right through them ! do not tarry, I Overcome tlie heaving title, < Thevo's u sparking gleam of sxmshino i Waiting on the other side. 1 Catch tho sunshine! catch it gladly ! Messenger in Hope's employ. [low.-*, 1 Sent through clotuls, through storm and bilKringing you a cup of joy. ] Oh ! then don't be sigliing, weeping, Life, you know, it is but a span, There's no time to sijch ami sorrow, I Catch the sunshine when von can. Tub Anuki.'u Visit.?Oa a boautiful ] Spring morning, as a young mother coin- i pleted her toilet, and was about to leave the 1 room, she turned, as was her wont, to look 1 at two lovely sleeping infants, with that fond affection, and holy love, and beaming j joy which mothers only know. As she t turned from the cradle of the youngest [ i (now with the angels,) the eldest, a little ) j more than two years old, suddenly raised j herself, and gazing upward, fixed her clcur blue eyes on the mantle, whilst her face J Wore Illl exnvfxsinn of inv unoli I nm cs?n*/? 1 ?, -jl'VI w.* .?.*>, I us angels only wonr, she exclaimed, "Oh, they are gone, mamma, they are gone!"?- | "What are gone?" saiil the mother gent- ) ? ly?afraid that the tones of her voice would j break the illusion. "Oh, the little babies | I with wings?so inony of them?-and the i < booful (beautiful) flowers ! oh, all around 1 ' so pretty j they arc gone, mamma!" and ' her mother continued to question, the angel expression faded, and a look of disappointment settled on her countenance, and dispelled the radianeo that shone there a mo- 1 i ment before. I 1 Tlic child had been told of the beauties 1 nf a heavenly home?of tho joy that awaits 1 the redeemed. The opening leaf, the swcclingbud, had been placed in those tiny i hands, their beauties pointed out?daily ! 1 had she been told and taught to admire the I 1 -kill of the great Artist. She had been i J taught to love her little kneeling-place, and I j nt twilight to clasp her infant hands in 1 , prayer, before her couch was pressed by that gentle form. Wus it a wonder, thou, that her infant slumbers should bo sweet '( 1 that visions of heaven should open to fier j '. view '! that angel forms should throng her bed ? that flowers, such as bloom only in the paradise of .God, should be scattered thickly around her ? Oh, was it?was it, ' \ny wonder, that when that glorious vision vanished, the pleased expression lasted until her reason was convinced, that in her deep, Christ, the Saviour of sinners, had wooed her spirit to the realms of bliss, and that, in her waking, she was only with main ma '( that the (lowers liad faded, that i { tlie angel forms were invisible ? . * May the Angel of the Covenant ever be j , i round her pathway ! may her heart, in I j, jarly life, respond to the Spirit's call! may i i -he Saviour be her best friend ! may she ' uo kept unspotted from the world, so that " when life's silver chord is loosed, she may , dwell where flowers never fade?a gem in < the diadem of (Jod, whose lustre shall nev- ( er grow dim.?-X. Y Kvanf/ch'xl ' Tub IUiavk Man.-*?There is nothing ivmen a omyo nod p.>r?ovoi'iog u!<?i way not accomplish. IIoat and cold, mountains ind seas, and sunshine, arc alike to liiiu , when he is bent upon his object. JI c pushes ahead, never tiring or fainting! until his i proud design is achieved. Wbother it be I riches or honors, ho permits no obstacles to impede his progress. The histories of all distinguished men, from Alexander to .Napoleon, show that it was perseverance that made them distinguished above theta fol- ' low-men. And you, young man, if determined in your course, whatever end you have in view, shall be respected and hon 1 XT jrcu. never permit your energies to slum- t ber, bntbo evor active in whatovcr field you ( jhooso to labor. To lag, to stop, to doubt, r to bang your bead in fear, will prove dis- ! nitrous to your best interests. 4 , Immense Size of tub Pvuamids.?A Uni- ' ted States naval chaplain, who has recently mi tod the grand pyramid of Cheops in Egypt wading in the deep sand fourteen hundred Toot before ho had passod one of its tides, ind between five and. six thousand loot lieTore he had made the circuit, snvs that, taking a hundred X. Y. churches of the ordinary width, and arranging them in a hollow ' Kjuaro, twenty-five on a sido, you would have I . 'eareely the basement of this pyramid ; take i ! Another hundred and throw in their material I ?t/? ?i.~ i.~n * - 1 i...if inn innimv nqunro, ami 11 would not I/O v full. Pilo on all the stone nnd brick of l'hil- * idolnhin and Boston, nnd tho structuro would 1 not he an high and solid as this greatest work " if innn. One lnyor or block was long since 11 removed to Cairo for building purposes, ami " snough remains to supply tho doinauds of a T ;ity of a half a million of pooplo for a con- !| lurv. if tlinv wnfft bo?.>.iHa.i e 1? ?- -- 1 -J llUUIJf W USO 11. An old stick fmya : " I hitve seen women dclicnto tlmt they worn nfrnid to rirlc for four of tlio liorRO"running away?nfrui'l to mil for fear tho bout might upsot?nfrnid to walk for fonr tlmt tho dow might fall?hut 1 iiover eft\v one that was nfrnid to get married. ^ A coNt'F.i f ki? coxcomb nskod n friend wlint ? inology he ought to nmko for not being one n jf a pnrty, the- day before, to which ho had a e sard ofinvitation. "Oh, my denr, sir," repliod the wit, "way nothing nbiul it; y6n wore nevef missed." Ci'itious Lrijact.?Lieutenant Colonel I Alexander Mi-Loan, who died at. Millnort on I tlio 17th ultimo, 1ms bequeathed the hulk of! hia fortune?amounting to about $30,000??' to educate hoys of the name of MaeLoun.? J No hoy who spells his name "MacLuino"j will bo eligible. Hy his will tho Colonel ]>ro j videsthat tho number of boy* shall not the I first vear exceed 10. and will ho increased hv I ^nidations each year till tlioy roach 140.? After the number shall have readied 140, tlio first <?1,500 of surplus rovonuo of the trust estate, which may have accumulated, shall bo applied to the scouring a site fur. and building and maintaining, a Gaelic. Church at Glasgow, to bo called lloilig Grain nil lhtann llrothcrly Church, tlio sittings in j which slinll ho fcoc and open to all, and os- i licciilllr to the nour. and to servants. soldiers . sailors, itj., who understand tho Gaelic language. The services shall ho morning r id , aftCriiofm, and shall ho conducted by a minister, of the established ami free churches, each 01 whom shall he paid CL sterling for oaoh service conducted hy him. Several other curious legacies ate provided hy tho Colonel. Ratiikr CoMri.iMKNTAiiv.-Wohnvo a blind phrenologist in town, who is great on examining bumps. A wag or two got one of our listiuguixhcd judges, who thinks a good ileal if himself, and has a very bald head which lie generally covers with a wig. to go to his | rooms th? other day and hnvo his head exam* i noil. Wnjjft and judge arrived. "Mr. 15.,'' says one, ' wo have now brought , jrou for examination a head as is a head ; \vc i ivish to tcv,t your science." " Very well," aaid the phrenologist; "place he. head under my hand*." " Ho wears a wig," says one. "Can't examine with that on," replied Professor. Wig was accordingly taken off, and liahl lead of highly expectant Judge was placed unler manipulations of examiner. " Vhat's this-? what's this?'' said phron- | ihnrist; mill iiress'mir liiu lunula r?,? t1?<? in? <.(' I ? , -n - ?-r v" ho head, ho said, somewhat milled, "(<cnlemcn. (Jod has visited ino with an alHiction. have lost my eyesight. but I am not a fool; | rou can't pass this oft' on me tor a howl !" Spirit <>f the 'i'inti s. A great many persons undertake to build 'ortuncs as Pat tried to build his ehinmey ?they begin at the top and build down. "I sham, not discuss politics with Mr. Smith before the court, but I inn perfectly billing to ar^no ijuestions of law, to chop oj^ie, or even to split hairs with him." "Split hat. then," said Smith, at tho samo time "Hilliii'r mit n. wluud i\.? n -..w, v, mill i rum ; ii.s own head, 1)tnt?li n<x it over towards - Slier- | nan. " May it plea?o tlio honorable court," ] :otort?d Sherman, " I didn't say bristles 1" " Adam." said a sagacious man. "showed i much wisdom in giving names to tho animals ivhcn they wore brought to him. l?ut a* for ,l?e hog. f think any ono would have known vhat it was, if ho had not named it so." Wk complain that wo have now time. An Indian chief of the Six Nations onc.o Raid a iviscr thing than any philosopher. A white nan remarked in his hearing that ho had i lot time enough. " Well," replied the Inlinn, " I suppose you have all there is!"-? lie is the wisest and best man who can crowd he most good actions into now. Woui.ni.v prosperity is a much greater lrain upon our energies than the most severe idversity : thoro is no spring, no elasticity ; t is like walking through life upon a Turkey Mirpct. AVjiv is the freight of a ship like a looomo,ivo? Because it makes the enr-gn. Stale ol'South C arolina, IN OUniiiAUY?IMCKKNS. ].x I iirtt j i*C|ition for Account. Leonard i owcrs; I r\iV hearing the Petition in (lie above ease, and L' it appearing to luy satisfaction that lilias 'arvur, Administrator of th.-e stntoof Abmhani \lilon, deceased, is absent from tho Statu: on motion of tlie ]'<?titioner, It is ordered that ho lo nppenr'in the Cnurt of Ordinary to be held it Pickens Court Hoiise. for l'ickens district, md account .for his administration of traiil esate on the tilth <tay of September next, or a lecree will ho made in the ease as if ho were personally present, nnd the sureties of the said adMinistration, viz : Leonard Towcrd and Martin arvor arc required to be and appear in the said Joiirton the d.vy aforomentioiuul and rentier an iccount of Haiti administration. Witness my mnd and seal the 2'.U1? day of May 18">0 W, J.- I'AIUiOXrf, o.f.i?. June 4, 18o9 !& ' :lm NOTICE. IMIl'i undersigned will bo lit l'ickens ('. It on X Monday the Ittlli day of June next, to imiko i final settlement of tlie Kstatc of Joseph W. los.-^ deceased. F. K. IIAHIIKSON, Adm'r. May _"?? i li_ State ?1' South Carolina, rioktinh?-in Kyurv. -0W,0" IK Dftvi*' Kx'or- ) Bill for Discovery, Mnrct *Vwifo, cf. al. J .J^elipf, &c. IT appearing lo ihe t'ommiesionerthnt John T. A. Hunt ami wife Arrtniiy, dOTwidants in his case, reside without the limits"of this State: )il motion of Whitner and Whitnev, complain- ' nit's solicitor, it is ordered Unit thenald abcont | lefendants do nppenr, plead answer or demur | o complainant's sai<l bill ot' complain!, within lircc ntontlis from the publication hereof, ornn rnier pro con/wo will be taken ns to thcin. UOH'T. A. THOMPSON, c.k.p.o. Com'fp. Ice, May 25> 185Q 44 Mm Slate or ^onlli Onrolima, l'ickonN-?fn I'qitily. J. M. Iflack, ct. al. \ vs. I Bill for Partition. Isaac Kicvj, ct. al. j IMIK Complainants having filed their bill in ! . this caso, ami, it nppouring therefrom that nines J. IMock ; v..irgnrct Crrtnc, IlarpcrCrnno )avis C'rano, A. 1'. Crane, ninl I,. Orr Crane, epfosentutives of KlitaSeth Crnno, formerly 'iWl.nm. tlln-u i- 41-1 ? ' ' ..VVIIM.1UD III illincil.HC, TCHKIO I rom mid without tho limits of thin Stuto : On lotion, it is ordered t lint I lie' aforementioned bsent defendants <lo appear and plead, answer r demur to complainants' nnid hill of complaint, rithin three month" from this (Into; and, fnilng to do ro, nil order procon/tfmo will lio taou against them. - ROIVT. A. TIIOMrSOX, o.H.p.n. Com'ru OfTico, March 24, I860 !lin. Estate Notice. V FINAL Hcttloiucnt of tlio Kritnlc of James Latham. riorouwl, ill bo m.irio beforo tho (nlinnry, nt PickonsC'. IL.on Monday tho loth 'ity of AugiiHt next. TIioho having (lomiiwl* gainnt sul<T ostri'owlll |?ro(?ont thom by Ihatlime ttoxto'l iim the law requires, nnd Ihoso litdcbl<1 thcvotonmst make paymont forthwith. MAHY LATHAM, A.lm'x. J. S. LATHAM, Adm'r. Mny 1'2, 1631* 42 3m GREENVILLE MAHKLE YAM). riHIK mibHoribflt- lms on hand ami is an* .1 stantly roeoiving a large and varied w(un tmont of American and Italian Marblo, To which ho Won Id call tin* attention ofthoj'o in wui\t of a suitable Monument to mark tho spot where repose the remains of their <lenmi ,,iu .i.i/i iviiiviiVi7 tinvi II IVUUn, \>in ? t?nv? lettering of nil kinds neatly and promptly executed. l*urtiuular attention paid to orders by until. JAMKS M. AH,EN. (iroonvillo 0. II., S. (J.. Feb. 32 3Mf N. B. lie refers to I) CJ Wostfiold, Gowor, 0<>x, Murk I y Co,. Dr. M ]) Kurle, W It Wntson, Kst|., Col 1> lloko, It iMoKn'y, Esq. j. w. noiiuis. Jit. j. \v. iiAitnuox. 7.. Os rrjkUAx; N 011 lUsTll A1UUS0N& PULLIAM, Attorneys sit Law, ANI? SOLICITOUS IN E QUI TV, AVl!?' * ntlend promptly Io nil liiitdness cfi(ruft~ II tc<l to tlicir cure. Mu. 1'illiam can always be found in the Office. OFFICK AT l'ICKKNS" C. I!., S. C. Sept. '?, 18fiJJ tf * Brp.rtdi^oth's Pills, ro it s. f /, k . i /'"X i /, i n n rrv, ,<?. c. 'PIIESK fclol>rati'il Pills nt'e of vegetable coml pouitd, frco from ntercury or tlrngn of any kliwl. Tltoy arc a novcreign remedy for piiiii or any unoaamess in tho body, ' r costiveness.?~ Skin ili.~eii.ses of any inveterate ami painful character, such as erysipelas, salt rlicuni, tetter nnd summer licat. have liceit eradicated by their use. These pills have cured the rheumatic, tho epleptie, tho paralytic, and the consumptive, in jaundice and all affections of the liver, dyspepsia, dysentery, and diarrhoe, pleurisy, stuhleu pains and inllauimatiuns, female obKtructions, scorbutic and scroll'ulous, even gouty and neuralgic affections, have given ttiiy to the Use <?f inim-uii im'; Him now. tiiier twenty years experience, tlie put>1 iit estimation of llruudrcth's Pills continue to increase. Fur Worms Dm tided h's Tills arc tlie best vcvinil'uge : they tire infallible. A little cliil<!. six years old. for somo weeks was drooping : its mother gave it one of llraitdrctIi'm sugar coated pills; tlie next tbiy there eotne away a worni sixteen incite^ long an 1 us large as a child's linger. 'J'lie child was well. And for Pleurisy nothing is better. Let tho people discard prejudice' >ifid trv them. B6g?*>old by W. S. & t?. F. WILLIAMS, nt Salubritv. 8. ('.. at the usual price. April -I), 18&Q ?? tf Public Notico IS hereby given that a final settlement of tho list ate of Joshua Chapman, deceased, will bo made in tlie Ordinary's Ofllee, at Pickens t'. 11., on the 1st Monday in August next. Those having demands again.st said Kstate must render lllflll III l!ll? l'.trulllf rtll.ijln.l -I .... .wrt...v ....vow. <wviv uni nun-, and those indebted lliorcto must inuko (liiyinrnt ul once. NAM'I/. CHAPMAN, Adm'r. April 22. 18.">n Hm iyoTBciI. VI.Tj persons interested in ttic I'stnle ofMnh Iteains, docen.sed, will lake notice tluit a final settlement of said estate will lie made in I lie Ordinary"* office, ut Pickens (J. II. on ilio 1st Monday in duly next. Those indebted to this estate must iniiko payment by tliat time, and those having demands np-iinst it must present them legally attested before that day. AARON 1M)G(JS, Adm'r. April ,28. IK. -10 I'.m Slate Of Moil I III Carolina, IN EtJl'lTV I'lCKKXS. Uoboit Kirksey, Adm'.r. 1 v* \ Petition for Belief, &o Isaiah M Kirksey, et nl. ) IT appearing to my (satisfaction that Isaiah M. Kirksey, Jnrod K. '\ Kirksey and Mmry I,. M.P. Kirksey, defendants in thisca.se, resido without the limits of this Slate: On motion of Orr, for Petitioner, it is ordered that these absent defendants do appear in this Court, and plead, answer or demur to I lie uaid net it ion. within tilroo mouths lroni tlu> publication boreof, or tin order /troconft*xo will bo tukcn against ilium. HOIVT. A. THOMPSON. c.B.r t>. C'om'rs Otlice, .March 1 S.'i'.t 8lit Noncn. V FINAL settlement of the Estate of Thus . Alexander, deceased, will bo luid lwtbre tho Ordinary, ut Pickens C\ II., on Monday the loth day of June noxt. Persons jriterested therein must govern themselves accordingly. Those indebted must j>uy on,And those having demands against paid hstBto must rooder them to tnc, legally attested, bofore that day. DAX'L. ALEXANDER, Ex'ov. Pni. T mr.?i o<> * . ww. ?. ?v?/./ ?\r 0111 oA" South 1'ICKHNS?IN KqUITV. B. \Y. Abbott ) ^ t?. V Dillfor Jlelicf.&c. J. M. Crenshaw andyrifc, ct al J IT appearing to rnjr sutisfnction tlint Noah Abbott and J. M. Crenshaw and wife Martha, defendants in this case, rfehle without the limits of this State : On motion of Norton, complainant's solicitor, it in ordered that the said absent, defendants do appear in this court nnd plead, answer or demur to complainant's said bill of complaint, within three months from tho publication hereof, or an orderj>ro con/mo will be taken as to them. llOB'T. A. THOMPSON, c.K.ivn. Com'ra Oftico, March -H, |8S0 8m nmni WJ i Till' 1'ooks, Accounts mid Notes, nsslgncd l>y Issertel it Noriimn for tlio benefit of their crcditorH, nro in my hnuds for coilcctiou. Tba nuoawlty of the cnne requires that tliey should bo-.Wiled without delny. J. K. itAGOOP, Assignee. Oct 8, 1858 12 tf Estate Notico. I FINAL settlement of tho Kstnte of Merrill A Carver. deceased,will l>e mado bof?ve tho Ordinary, lit l'lckens C. H.. on Fridnv the 20iK day of July next. Those having demands again*t said estate will presold them by Hint Mine ?( ted oh fho law requires, mid those indebted thereto must make payment forthwith. j. U. 8TBBLB; Adm'r. April IB, ih.'.o ao 8m A Friendly Notice. ALTj norsons Indebted to tbo Kstnto of Josmin Cox. deconsed, must mottle at once. Those having demands against tbo Kstnto ii! ust rontlor thorn in according to law. By bis request, the largest notes nro in tbo bands of Mr. Z. B. Cox for an early rcttlo* mout, I prefer winding up tbo cstato just ns soon as tbo law will admit, as far as I am concorned ns onooftbo administrators. .1. II. HL'NNICUTT, Adm'r, r>ft. 'a. ih.r>y hi ?f v . mOTI K 'H IS boroby pi von that I will not bo ronnon* silile for interoflt on the distributive *huro ? of Uilhv Dawson, in tho Eatnto of Daniel Mo*i-> dv, dccoacod, on awl nfter this (Into ; nn<l tlmt this notire will bo j-ilcwl in bar of intot* ost on tlib Bftid <l?*tril>utivo *hnro. AfcUKNNKTT MOODY, IVor. IMft' Fob. 2a, im 31. (