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TIE WEEKLY Ml UHIOH TIMES, gecofcd to Hgricullnrc, |jortitutfure, domestic (Etonomg, |Jolile literature, |)olilirs, and the Current $euis of the Sag. VOL,. XVII.?New Series. UNION C. II., SOUTH CAROLINA, JUNE 4, 1880. NUMBER 2:2. SENATOR BUTLER ON FREE TRADE. A Gradual Uedi > riuN in the Tahiti* Favored Hi t Nor Ausolutk Frek Trade?Tiie Adolition ot tiie Internal Keykm it System Advocated. 1 xitf.h States Senate. Washington. 1>. (J., May 20, 1SSG. Frof. It. Afcttms Duv Chair man F.r.rculivc Commit tec Free Trade Associa tion of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. MyPkaiiSir: Some tiuio ago 1 received from you the following letter : [Seuater Hutler then quotes the letter sent him by the Free Trade Association ou the -ith of March.] llecogniziug the right of your association or any other number of respectable citizens of South Carolina to know my opinions on all questions affecting the public iutcrest, I cheerfully respond in this form, not having the tiure for public addresses as suggested by your letter. You will permit me to say, in passing, I nil) much pleased at the prospect of a full discussion of this most vital subject, aoout which so nttio is understood, atul L trust it will be conducted in a spirit of candor and toleration worthy of the topic, and free from those unseemly personalities and aspersions which of late enter into controversy that arises. It does not strengthen the force of any man s ar- j guuicut or views to impugu the motives or sincerity of those whodiilor with him, but often degrades the controverey and leads to pernicious consequences. The qucstiou of taxation is, and has always been, one af the most dilhcult and compl'sated problems of civil government. Taxation is a necessary evil, and how to lay taxes, and where, and wheu, upon what objects aud persons, so as to make the evil as light and as little burdensome as possible, and operate with justico and fairness, has always been most perplexing and troublesome to the minds of those whoso duty it has been and is to deal with the subject. When it comes to dcturmino what shall be the objects of direct taxation, you arc constantly confronted with complications and difficulties. lu South Carolina wo have the ad valorem system, which appears to bo the fairest ami most simple, that is. that a man shall pay according to the value of his property ; and yet there is always room for complaint of undor valuation or unequal valuation, whether you should tax mortgages and at the same time the thing mortgaged, ehoscs in action, moneys in hand, &C. These and others of a kindred character arc all subjects that have ballled the best intellects of the ablest statesmen and political economists of this and every civilized pouutry. The internal or excise system of Federal direct taxation has always been the uioai odious of all forms. Tho army of ageuts autl inspectors, employed to prcvcutaud detect fraud on the public revenues are oppressive to the people and uurepublieau under the mildest form of administration. The powers of the Federal and State governments in regard to taxation, except as to imposts, arc con currcut. JJoth uiay tax the sainu object at the same time, ami each must have its own agents, separate ami distiuct, to collect taxes for the support ol' each. Coder the 'Articles of Confederation ' it was fouml that the Federal government could not rely upon the Stales lor the resources and revenues for its support, and hence, chiefly, the necessity lor the "more perfect I ttion. ' formed under the present Constitution. that, when we talk about supporting the government by a system of direct taxation, you perf0^'0 S0!,,c the obstacles in the way. As 1 h.?ve observed, ail forms of taxation arc onerous Hlu' vexatious, and the vital question is, whit.'1 ^1C lcasf so'( I have been led to submit these o',scl* rations from a passage in your letter in which jou say : "Wo have, therefore, resolved to urge upon the people of South Carolina in pub lie meetings the propriety of demanding of Congress a speedy abolition of the artificial hairier* and governmental tollgates by which the trallic of the world is diverted from its natural channels, and man is deprived by man of his (Jod given right to receive the fullest returns to his labor. ir I.,- ii.ic ti... ..m..,.1 J. w,. ...V,.... . ..... ...................... of the system of laying taxes on merchandise imported from foreign countries and uholitiou of custom house*, i cannot join you in the demand. The collection of du t'CS on imports has been in practice from the founda.iou of the government, and is much the safest and most efficient mode ol scecnring revenue for the support of the government. Congress has rarely availed itself of that power under the Cutis'ituli 11 which provides that direct taxation ' shall bo apportioned among the' -< veial : tales l cording to their respective numbers"? \ \ never except on occasions of great emergency, as at the beginniug of the late war. The fratners of the Constitution evidently calculated that duties on imports would be the chief udiance for rovenue, because by the second clause of the tenth Section of Article I. it is provided that ' no State shall, without tho consent of Congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports except," &c., &c., clearly showing that this power was left exclusively for the Federal government. Direct taxation was resorted to by the Federal govcrntneut at the beginniug of the late war, and many of our best and most respected citizens in the low Counties can testify to the spoliation and confiscation under it; which made them paupers. The present iuternal revenue system of direct taxation is a heritage of the war, and if I had the power I would wipe out the last vestige of it. as I would the war tariff aud imposts. If. ou the other hand, you uican by this expression the tatiff laws should be so equitably aud fairly real justed as to raise the necessary revenue for the support of the government, aud at the same time as nearly as may be operate upon all alike, I will unito most cordially with you. IIow that can be best aud justly done is a very grave problem. About tho sum of 8300,000.000 must bo raised annually by taxation?partly internal and partly extornal. Of this sum 8181.500,000 in round numbers was raised by duties on imports, 8112,500,000 by internal rcvouue taxation, and the balance of the 8323,500,000 (totai ordinary receipts) was derived from sales of public lands, patent fees, taxes en national bauks, seiguioragc at the mint, See. Now the present oonsideration is how can this ?181,500.000 dorived from imports be 60 imposed as to bear lightest upon consumers, or bow can it be levied to raise the necessary rcvenuo and uufetter trade and commerce. Many of tho industries of this country have grown up under tho stimulating or speculative influence of a high tariff, protective in many instances, and yet raising largo revenues, prohibitory in others, and not bringing a dollar into the treasury. As unjust as this is and has been to the unprotected classes, it would uot be wise or proper to knock the props from under such industries with one blow and bring them down iu a crash. It wouid be more unwise and wrong to contiuue this condition of things. What then is to be done ? My idea ia that tariff taxation should be gradually and surely reduced until wc have reached the point when each article will produce tho largest amount of revenue, and then leave off, transferring from time to time such articles to the free list as should be found from experience to be most conveniently spared from the revenue list. Take for instance the article of sugar. I insist that the present tax of 1J cents a pound?the average?is the revenue standard, became it raises about $50,000,000 annually, paid iuto the treasury on a total value of $73,500,000 worth imported?70.08 per cent, ad valorem. It is claimed that this tax is protection to the sugar planter. Grant it. So much the better for tho sugar planter, and that is what 1 call incidental protection. lie receives a very small percentage of protection, while the Treasury is replenished with the tax. And so it is with rice, which pays into the Treasury $1,010,523.21 on a total value f?l Owjlo-ljlbtf.ii imported, lO.Sb per con', ml valorem. Now lot inc call attention to the duty on cotton tie?, as that is an article with which all of our people aie familiar. The duty 011 cotton ties prior to the last tariff revision was 35 per ceut. ml valorem, and that ia the duty to-day. It pays its share of revenue into tho Treasury at that rate. ,lu*t what the amount is I will not stop to inquire, ljut * may 8ay t,,'s '8 a VCI7 ^a'r duty. The Tariff ('L,*iaUMSS'"u recommended an increase of 50 per on cotton ties, which would have made $;> Pcr cent. What would have been the effect ?' this i Not a cotton tie would have been imported. ami consequently not n dollar would hav? been collected on this article for the Treasury. because the; tariff would have been absolutely prohibitory. Hut about 8800,i OlIO would have been paid by the fanners into the pockets of five or six hoop iron manufactures in Pennsylvania, not a dollar into the Treasury. The f?0 per cent, was not added because !i was stricken oat ol the hill, an i of course this did not happen, but I advert to it to illustrate in a s'riking manner how iniquitous a high protective | prohibitory tariir is. There are many articles on the list just as glaring as tins threatened to he and it is to rectify tuch wroDgs and equalities that every fair-uiiudcd man ought to ad dress himself. Your association cau accom plish much in tl at direction by an en lighted agitation and discussion of the subject. It is a great fallacy to suppose the country prospers or that labor is protected by a high tariff. Just tho reverse is true, and in my opinion the recent stagnation and depression in business, and tho restlessness, dissatisfaction and uuhnppy condition of the lai : \ !_ - ' uunug classes m mis couutry are uuc largely to the prcscut high rate of taxation. The duty on imported merchandise entered for consumption in tho United States is 48.000 per centage a<l valorem on dutiable articles, higher than in 1SG7, when it was 40.007 per cent. ; higher than it has ever been froui 1701 to 1S85. except in 1824, '25. '20 aud '27, when it reached 50.21,50.54, 49.20 and 53 70 per cent, respectively,and 1829 and '30, when it went up to 54 18 and 01.G9 respectively, which latter provoked the Nullification agitation in South Carolina. The compromise measures that grew out of this agitation reduced tho tariff gradually until it had gone down to 25.81 in 1842. We are now paying higher tariff taxes than what were kuown as "war taxes', of 1805 (00 07 and 08 per ccut.) accumulating a large surplus in the treasury every year, which must lead to nroflitracv and cxtravapanen It. i>nnniir. 4 0 J * " O *" w"wv ages the uiost disgraceful squandering ol uioucy on so-called, pensions, public buildings, rivers and harbors, so-called aid to popular education, subsides to steamships, railroads. &c., &c.; all of which is wrong, demoralizing and pernicious. Is there patriotism enough in the couutry to reduce the war taxation and relieve tho tax payers of theso unnecessary burdens ? We shall see. And 1 rely conli dently on tho efforts of your association tc contribute largely to that end. Very respectfully, M. C. Butler. ? # Cultivating Corn.?lie who says that shallow cultivation or deep cultivation is always tho best for corn, that tho double diamond or the toothed cultivator should always be used, simply shows that while he may be able to give corn ou his own land the proper cultivation, he is not fit to instruct his neighbors. Cultivation should vary with the soil, the season and the stage of growth ot the plant. Further while I am thoroughly conviuccd that in general the toothed or shovel cultivator should be used rather than the double diamonds, I am yet certain that in some sea sens the use of the latter is tho better. Kach persou must exercise his own judgment, and yet there arc some general principles to aid in reaching a decision. Thus, upon heavy, clayey soils tho cultivation should be deeper than upon light, sandy oucs. Ou the former deep cultiva tion is necessary because without it soili will not warm enough, and where cultivation docs not reach tho grouud will be so solid that roots will hardly penetrate. Deep cultivation in such soils is also csscn tial to proper drainage, and staguaut watei in the soil is always hurtful. Hut in light sandy soils deep cultivation, instead of be ing beneficial, will be hurtful. For these nre liable to be too dry, and deep cultiva tion will break them up until the sun and air will take away too much of their mois ture. Shallow cultivation is bettor, for i will not release tin moisture drawn fron below by capillary attraction. For tin same reason shallow cultivation is best sui toil to a dry season, and it should be Ire quenl. l'or contra, deep cultivation is bes in a wet season. For it will tend lo dr; the soil. Hut it must be understood tlia deep cultivation is meant to be docpcr 01 a heavy soil than on a light one, always And always a heavy soil should ho plowei deep, no matter what the season may be. On heavy soils, especially if the spring i cold and wet, the double diamonds sliouh be run close to the corn as soon ;-.s it is tw or three inches high. The plow should b sot to run rather deep. Thi- will leave th corn on a narrow ridge, and also throw tie middle ground into a high ridge. But I ut ill ilri? rnni.l I V ;i nil vvirin lin r.i.ill. >1. ..... --f j ?|' , .... roots oft ho corn will not bo injured. am it will assume a darker green aud grow thiriflier than if tho shovel cultivator i u^cd, which leaves the surface level, will the wet earth all around the corn After a da*' or two the earth should bo j?u back, using a cultivator. Ualoss th ground is very cold or the season very wet the diamonds should be used but once The latter cultivation should bo level an< shallow also, unless there is some good rea eon for making it deeper, as given above Itidging tho dirt high up against the cor ' at the last can novel, in my opinion, h recommended. In tho above I take no at . count of the hoe, as its office in the cor L field is well jundorslood.? ('nr. Wt/,7 i [Published by Request. A GRAND AND HEROIC POEM. On the train that bore Mr. Datis and his I party from Montgomery to Atlanta, a letter was , handed to Mr. Davis, which he read long and earnestly. Handing it to Mayor llillyer, he said : "This is from Paul llayne. It is a grand and heroic poem." i Mayor llillyer then read as follows: The sound* of tumult hate ceased to ring, And the battle s sun has set. And here in peace of the new born spring, ! We would fain forgive and forget. Forget tho rage of tho hostile years, And the scars of a wrong unshriven ; ! Forget the torture that tbril1e?t to tears The angel's calm in heaven. Forgive and forget? Yes ; he it so, ' From tho hills to the broad sea waves ; But mournful and low are the winds that blow, By the slopes of n thousand graves. We may scourge front the enirit all thought of ill In the midnight of grief held fast ; , And yet, <) brothers, be loyal still To the sacred and stainless past She is glancing now from the vapor and cloud. From the waning mansion of Mars, And the pride of her beauty is wanly bowed, And her eyes arc misty stars ! And she speaks in a voice that is as sad as death, " There is duty still to he done, Tho' the trumpet of onset has spent his breath And the battle been lost and won And she points with a tremulous hand below, 1 To tho wasted and worn array , Of the heroes who strove in tho morning glow, Of the graudeur that crowned "the Gray. ' O, God, they co?o not as once they catnc In the maeical vesrs of vore ; For th? trenchant sword and the soul of il.amo, ( Shall quiver and tlasli no more ;? , Alas! for the broken and battered hosts ; Frail wrecks front a gory "ea, 1 Tho' pale as a band from tho realm of ghosts, Salute them ! they fought with Lee. And gloried when dauntless Stonewall marched > Like a giant o'er field and flood, When the bow of hia splendid victories arched The tempest whose rain is?blood. Salute them ! those wistful ami sunken eyes * Flashed lightnings of sacred ire, When the laughing blue of the Southland skies Was blasted with cloud and tire : ? Salute them ! their voices so faint to-day, W'nrA nuro flio tliiimlnr nf Mlr'fo i In (lie storm of the hottest and wildest fray, That ever has mocked at life! Not vanquished, hut crushed by a mystic fate, Blind nations against them hurled, But the selfish might and the causeless hate, > Of the banded and ruthless world : 1 Enough : all Fates arc the servants of God, And follows His guiding hand : W'c shall rise some day from the chastener's rod. Shall waken, and understand ! ) But hark, to the $>'<st as she murmurs " Gome, ' There a a duty skill to be done, i Tlio' mute is the thunt, and the bugle is dumb, And tlio battle is lost and won No palace is here for the heroes' needs. With its shining portals apart ;? Shall they find the peace of their * luvalidcs,'O, South! in your grateful?heart! i A llefttgc of welcome, with living halls, Ami liove for its radiant dome. Till the music of death's reveille calls The souls of the warriors?home ! Kkepisu Farm Accoints.?The farm account shows to the farmer at the end of tlio year, his profit which lie views with pleasure, or his loss which produces an altogether different frame oi mind. While the first may be the most agreeable. it is necessary that we know of the loses, if loses there arc. The successful farming o; the future wiil be book-farming; not only in the sense in which that term lias been eren , orally understood, but in addition the ledgor . and day book, will be in constant use.? ; 1 believe that a fartn account is neces sary for successful farming. What is suc^ cessful (arming I will give my definition It is so tilling the soil and raising slock that with the proceeds of our labors we can pay all t bills contracted on the farm, and still hare a j little left and our land in as good or better conj dition than it was at the beginning of the year 1 propose to divide the subject into three di visions, and hope to prove the necessity ol keeping accounts, remove some of the obstacle! ' in the way, and show sonic of the ways in whicli F it can ho done. t The nverage farmer says "we have what we j have and no figuring will make it more or less; ' true, but if wo keep accounts with the different j divisions of our business, and gatoer them on a balance sheet at the end of the year, we shall Bee where the losses have come in or the profit! s been inade. As the general who lias his army J marshalled to attack the enemy is sometimes 0 obliged to entirely change his line of nction, s< 0 the farmer may sometimes be obliged to changt his method of farming, cither by raising dillerent crops, cultivating them differently, or raising 0 different kinds of ?tock, provided his account ' for each year, for :i numlier of year-, show* u him it is for the best. Fur litis reason a form ] account for ten or fifteen years, divided into, f say, four divisions, vi/.: dairy, sheep, swim and poultry, would he one of the beat presents that a farmer could give to bis son who wos jusi 1 storting for himself on a farm, for it might pre ' vent him from changing his -took every Iirn s t that the wind blew from an unfavorable quarter u for he could sec by it that in differentyenrs different branches of his business brought the profits. An account wiih each farm crop enables us to see which our land is West adapted ^ I to. If we ran make inorc raising grass than l* wheat, or oats than corn, or see that we can buy !. our butter nad milk, poultry and egg-. .and de ii vote our time more profitably to the raising ol the small fruits for market, is it not for out intcrol to do so although it he against the ad vice of our neighbors, and the traditions of oui " father- .' l>oes farming pay is the que-liot '/ tiiat we as practical farmers want answered, b< the answer yea or nay Farmino in Scon.ANn.?Working on ft farm in Scotland is a different thine from fnrmine here. There we have got to learn from a boj up as wo hare to handle all sorts of machinery. Some of the farms are .MX) acres in extent and employ a man and double team for every f>0 neves, so that on some, ten mcu are kept the year round. First-class men get from thirty to forty pounds a year and free house, fuel, &e.; second-clnss men get from ?25 to t'30 and so on down to the tenth mnn, with the understanding that only the foreman is married, the rest tiring in a room fixed off for them on the farm. In another article I will giro a description of the help, their food, &c. When 1 came to this country six years ago the oldfashioned way tho majority of the farmers cultivated their lands, the piling up of stones in the fields and spreading them out again when ploughing, the slow laborious wny in planting pototoes and other things, struck me as funny. On some of the larger farms in Scotland as many as 100 acres uro planted in eight to ten daye. Potatoes follow oats, and after the land is thoroughly harrowed two teams begin on one side of the field and with double mouldboard ploughs make drills '24 inches wide ; then come tlio manure teams, two to three abreast, each throwing the mauure into a single furrow ns the hories walk along ; after this persons witli small forks spread (ho manure more evenly in the furrow. After the potatoes hare been planted, which is done by a machine plantiug two rows at a time, the potatoes being cut by hand first, two more teams split the drills right in the middle so ns to cover the manure and seed, the drills being as straight as an nrrow. When the potatoes are above ground they get one or two cultivatings thon arc hilled up again, (hardly any liueing being dona,) with the mould board plow. In the fall when harvesting we use a machine with two horses nttached ; beginning on 0110 side of the Aeld it takes one drill at a time and goes backward and forward throwing all the potatoes on the surface. There are a number of women stationed along the drills with small baskets which they fill and empty into larger ones which are removed by the teams as they get full. As many as six acres a day can be done this way. The machine ia constructed so that it has two big driving wheels, one on either pidc of the drill : from the centre bentn there is fastened a big steel coulter, which goes under the drill ; a wheel with sixteen spokes revolves vory rapidly right over the coulter throwing the potatoes and dirt against a strong netting side of it, the dirt passing through and the potatoes dropping in a row ready to be picked np. Cordaville, Mas.-.. April oth, A Western correspondent sends the following : I recently listened to a debate in one of tho school lyceums of this city, upon Iho , novel and momentous question of "woman suffrage.-' The debator upon the "anti-woman side, was doubtless engaged in his first effort ; and this fact, together with a slight impediment of speech, and a most original series of arguments, combined to produce ono of the funniest aud most unanswerable speeches that 1 had ever heard. ilerc it is, almost in full : "Ladies and gcutlemen, the first thing to find out is w w what man was ui made for, and what w-w-woinan was made for. | . God created Adam first, and put liiui in the garden of Eden. T-then He made , Eve, and p-put bor there, too. If lie f hadn't c-c-created Ere, there never would have becu all the s-s-sin there is now in this w-w-world. If He hadn't uiado Evo, she never would have p-p-picked the apple . and eaten it. N-n-no, sho never would have picked it aud g-g-given it to Adam . to eat. Paul, in his Epistles says w-w-women should k-k-keep still. And besides, 1-ladies and gentlemen, women couldn t fill the offices. I d-d-defy r.oy oue to p-point out a woman in thij city or c-c-county that could be a sheriff. Would a woman t-turn out in the dead of night to track and arrest a m-m-inurdercr l I say no ! Ten to one she wont'/ elope ic-w?wi(/i him ! And amid thunders of applause and i laughter the gallant defender of man's i rights triumphantly took his scat.?llnr ' ficr s Jlfar/ttzint for Mot/. Montgomery, Ala., May J20.?Francis M. Taylor, Probate Judge of Winston * County, was impeaohed in the Supreme 1 Court of Alabama yesterday. It was ' charged that he wilfully neglected to send t in lists of the licenses issued and to pay i over to the State the proceeds thereof. A i plea of guiity was entered by the defend ant through his counsel. The Court rendered a judgment deposing him from of ( fiee. Cattania, Sicily, May 20.?The crup 1 tioa of Mt. .Ktna is increasing in proportions, and there is serious danger to the i town of Monte I'osso from the How of lava. Measures are being taken for the rcscuo of the inhabitants. Vast columns 1 of flames are issuing from the crater of tho volcano an<l present a most i in posing (. spectacle. Tho trustees of the Slater fund for the education of tho colored people met in New , York Wednesday. South Carolina will i get 82,700 of the fund, North Carolina 83,000. Georgia 85,100. DOMESTIC BECIFE8. Suet IYiuuno.?Take a pint of crcaui or new milk, three eggs well beaten with a little salt, grate in half a nutmeg. Mix your cream, orgs and nutmeg, stir as uiueh flour in as will make it very stiff, then skin aud shred half a pound of beef kidney suet very line and small, and stir it in until all is very well mixed. Klour a cloth or butter it very well. Hoil tv ) hours. A Cinnamon Hick Puddino. ?Take half a pound of rice, two quarts of new in ilk, half a pound of fresh butler, the same of currants, tho same of ntont.il raisins. Butter your dish, throw half the rioo over the bottom of it. then throw over your currants and raisins, then the rest of your rice. Melt v >ur sugar in your milk, add a little salt, pour it in your dish, tho butter at tho top all over, grate some nutmeg over it and bake four hours at least. ItltKAKKAST NO! 1 Best Corn (lake. ('reamed Pork! Baked Potatoes. Cold White Bread. Apple Sauce. Coffee. J list Corn Cohr.?One egg. ouc?hulf cup of sugar, one cup of sweet milk, one cup of Iudiuu meal, one cup of flour, one teaspoonful of soda, two tea r..i . h I _ spinniiuia ui eie.un>i.;ui;u. ihiku hi usqiiaru loaf or in a thin shoot in a dripping-pan, and cut in squares, or in small tins. Creamed Porte.? Fry some thin slices of salt pork ; when doue pour all the fat out of the trying pan, leaving the pork in it; then pour a cupful of thin sweet creaui over it, and let it just conic to a boil. Apple Sana.?Soak good dried apple a few hours then stew carefully until soft, with a handlul of raisins, or a few slices of Ictnon ; k j.?p it covered closely, and do not stir. Turn carefully out into a dish, keeping the slices unbroken, aud scrfe when cool with powdered sugar, or sweeten while cooking. llltEAKFA&T NO, Plain Omelet. Myra's Muffins. ]>ry Toast. Lettuce. ColToo. .1 Phtin Omdcl.?Too eggs, four table spoonfuls of milk, one quarter toaspoonful salt, one-half tablcspoouful of butter. Heat the yolks until creamy, add the milk and salt, and last the whites beaten to a still froth. Melt the butter in a small, smooth frying pan, and pour in the mixture; it should at once begin to bubble. Cook three or four minutes, slipping a knife uu* dor it now niol I ln?n tn nr.>v.n>i I....-..;..., When the top begins to set, fold it over and tarn on to a small hot platter. jWi/ra s Jfiiflins.?Ono egg, one third of a cup of sugar, ono tcaspoonful of butter, two tcaspoonful:) of crcaui^tartar, ouo tea spoonful of soda, one cup of milk, ono and three fourths cups of Hour, Bake in small tins. hrlliicr.?This can now bo had from tho botched. Keep it fresh and crisp in cold water. Break apart the leaves and arrange on a plate iu the form of a rosette, the stcuis all meeting at the centre, and tilling it in with the smaller leaves. V inegar, sugar, or a made dressing are used as preferred. The devil must not bo allowed to monopo li/.e all the fun or to do all the laughing. I'icty docs not consist without sobriety nor in sobriety. It is as godly to laugh as to cry?and godly to do neither in an ungodly way. The theatre, the opera and the dance, now too often possessed by seven devils, are not to be forever pre empted by the lower world. The day is coining when the play house will he the gate of Heaven instead of the gate of hell, as it too often is to day. The dram alio and musical faculties belong to (Jod, in their best develop incut, as they were alleged to belong to 11 i in in the great feast at which the CJaliIcaos were won to Jesus.?Litcis/un Journal. FAr.mf.li Mriiin:un> Itv IIis Son's.? Mountain ( rove. Mo., May 'J'i.?Sunday morning Wayne Anderson, a wealthy farmerof this county, was found murdered here. lie attended (lie Masonic Lodge Saturday night, leaving ilic hall about a. m , and .started home, two miles and a half florth. lie was found Sunday morning lying on his back, shot in the throat ami orcast. i cstcrnay, 'luring iiie Coroners inqucsl, two sous of the deceased, IM. und Henry, a ><i a companion mimed laving Sanders, confessed the crime. - It \t Fiiist Vut; Don't Si;c<:kki?.?Might of the applicants before the Siiptcmc Court for admission to practice, who were granted further time, to wit, until the 1st of June next, asked to iie examined yesterday afternoon, which application was granted, and they were examined hy a committee appoinle I hy tho Court at once. They passed a very ere In aide examination, and were complimented by the Chief Justice. ? * John l? Sullivan will visit Australia and other Mnglish colonics professionally.