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GOD -A^ISTD OUR pOUNTEY. VOLUME 3. SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 29. 1869. to i <n ii i.. io {tfitu tn ? m '?1 vvktiS in VA1 .\ I ALWAYS IN ADVANCE. ?,< > NUMBER 15, Little Amy's Story. Look here. 'little one; whoro aro you "going ? You should not be ou the street alone." Liftlo Amy looked iuto the motherly f ice ot tho questioner, but sho did uot answer. She was a bashful little- thing, only four years old. Sho scarcely look ' ed throe, she was so little. "It is growing dark," coutinucd the kind neighbor. "It will be night, soon, ??and then you will got lust. Kuu homo, -that's a good girl." "I is going after my papa," said the child. ??Oh 1 no; you can't find him. Sec 'how lull the streets arc. The horses -will ruu over you. Let mo load you 'home to your mother. Your papa will motile pretty soon." ??She took the little cold hand in hers, ?ittl-'tho child pulled it away, and push ing past her, ran rapidly duwu tfle -?trect "Ah ! well," said the woman, taking ! up a heavy basket of clothes that sho hud set down on tho sidewalk while speaking to little Amy, UI have no time to run after her. Sho must take her chance. I hope she'll come to no harm, for?There ! sho's gone iuto Meg Quil 1.iii's ruin hulc. She's after her father ?the tlrinkiug wretch!?letting his family starve, and ho earning more than any man on tho street!" The woman Wait right?little Amy was looking lor her father. and. youug as *ho was, a mere baby, she knew where to look fir hi in. He was sitting before the fire in the low drink in- house, half Stupefied with the liquor he had taken since finishing his day 's work, lie was a large, strong ly-buiit man. with au easy, careless man ner, and a disposition almost hopelessly, obliging. We say hopelessly, because it av.is this same amiable trait id' character which made him aji oasy pr y tri the ,,,, & noisy Irish wumau, with a very red fueo Pit*?nd a very dirty cap. She bad a load, harsh voice, which was not ut all niel lowed by her own frequent visits to the dcuujwhii. There wore a number of men and women iu the room, going through the various stages of tut xication ; ttoiuo JP?y. :^:::c .lul.lh, sjujo fpiirrclsome. tut the mat: bo'oi-.' tho fi.v. Hi lU A:t.y'i father, sit apart from tlio res!. 4iud did u jt seem to sc.1 or hoar anything all Mi' him. "Don't go to slapc there my man,' said the landlady, giving htm a rough push. "Ye'll be pitch in* on the stove next. Move, an' ye're alive till I set uff the kittle." Little Amy stole noiselessly into the room and crept up between her father's knees just as the huge dinner-pot was ?et on the earth. . The cover was half off. and the chihlpwho had eaten nothing nil day, gazed hungrily into it, with an intense longing for somo of the contents. A large head of cahbago was bimmoriug on the tup, sending its appetizing odor out iuto the room, and giving s pleasant rominder to the foriuuute idlcn? who happened to havo any suppers of their own to partako of. They began to leave for their various homes, hut littlo Amy's father did not stir. Ho know that all his earnings?and they were not small? wore spent in that vilo room, and that <tU* cupboard ut homo was ompty. So ;hej?t stiil. Ujittle Amy leaned over his knee to .get a little nearer to the dinnor-pot, and " then?can you blame the baby-thief?? she reached out her poor little hand, and -with her tiny linger* picked a bit oi the cabbage. A heavy blow from Jl>c woman's strong hamj wotjh) have ?out he*' bead Jong on to the hearth, |f her father hau not caught bcr. ?'I'll tnche ye to utale, yc boggar's brut," uctatmittl the woman, patching hold of littlo Amy's .orm, a?d shaking her in spito of her father's hold on her. 11c started up from his ;teat with a deli not look on his futo that sho bud never seen thore before. The man's soul was n roused,. ?'Lot tho child alone," ho >t iid. "Touch her again if yo tjare, (!an yc not pee that tho lassie lu starving the day f" ?'An' who is to be blamed h>r that fiatnc, Teronco Mulony '! Who but ycr ,*ulti ye born fool f" ??You say truo, Meg Qailluu," *tid the pmu, reaching for his hat, and buttoning bis coat as he ?poke, "An' it's the fool's wages as has paid tnt your cabbage this liijuy w daV, I'V. ?]; i'. no wore. Cocri Amy, wiaha; there'll bo cabbage for yeea at home after this; and mate, too, I'm thinking." A'derisive laugh followed him as ho took the cbild iu bis anus and strode out of tbo house. "He'll bo back for bis drum directly," said the woman, laughing. ''It'll be a long day before he'll go to bed without that." But he did not come back. Day after day passed by and Terence Mulunoy did not once cross tho vilo threshold. Not ti word did ho say to his wife of his good resolutions. Ho watched her going and coming to her work with a worn and dis couraged look on her face which was so bright and happy but six years ago; but he said uothiug to cheer it until Satur day evening, when his wages for the week were paid. Then, alter sending home fond and fuel, he entered his door with a feeling that be had recovered in p ut his lost mud ho ?d, and had a rijjht to speak.? Little Amy mat him first. "O, papa! aha exclaimed, "there's- such u heap of good things come. Dut im-.mmy says they can't belong to us." "Arr.ih, but they do belong to us, ulanuah. They're all j'or own, Norah dear," he said to his wile, who was drea rily lookiug at the different packages? j "ivory one o' thaw. The paper youdcr has the big cubbage for the dinner to morrow. Ye'll uot need to.stale, avick " Amy clapped her hands, such little, pale hands, and laughed gleefully. "Ye need not spare, Norah," he went on. "There's work in me arm and the will iu nie heart. I'll kape ye botl. ille gality, never fear." "Oh ! thin. Terence, man," said No rah, bursting into a mingled fit of laugh ter and crying. "I'll jist die wi'joy." "No, yo won't, nor of want aither; ! you'll sec. It's the hit lassie's doing.'" And then he told the mother the piti fu! at'uy of littto Anil 's theft and pu.n for Meg Quillan. thc-manc old critter!" he *.iid in Vuncluhinn. There w * not a happier home in Ametie.-i than wa* Terence Maloiiey's on that Saturd >y night. And it is pleasant to ruc u'd that it whs no transient reform which ha experienced. It U two vcar? sVaco he entered a , d. lnkiag It jus j, n twithstaodiog nuny a I tempting uflfoi of wiiiftkoy for nothing, if ! ho wou'd i turn to bin old corner at .Meg ' QallJan'a. There is not a neater home iu the towu than tho one-story cot tag--' which he rents now, but intends to own. Norah lives at home li!;e a lady, as she declares. Thero is tit; more goiug out in the cold mornings to wash for other people. She finds plenty of pleasant work at home j for little Amy has a baby brother now, who is the delight of her heart. He is a big: fellow for a baby, aftor the pattern of Terence, his father ?too heavy for her to lift, but a perpet ual fountain of joy, notwithstanding. Heat of all, her parents lead her quiet j ly into the house of God on the holy Sabbath, and listen themselves, with un questioning faith, to the saving truths of the Gospel of Christ. This is the sweet promise- of their future. I tell little Amy's story as I heard it myself, not a week ago, from a warm hearted Irish woman, who is my friend. She is unlearned, atid I have been obiiged to trans lato her brogue into plainer English, but I have given yon the facts of the story without alteration. ?Mrs. Gardner, iu the New York Me thod ist. Sk> 8lltl,e.?A handsome young widow applied to a physician to relieve her of three distressing complaints with which j?hc was affected. Mlu {bc first nlnce," said she. "I have littlo or no flpr"'tito. 'What shall 1 take for that '{" ''For that madam, yotl s?.>uhl tal;? air and cxcrci>q." "And doctor, I n?? quite fidgefy ui night-time, and af?n'?l to be alono.? What ibiill I take for that '-'Em1 that. I can only fceowmend tjiat you tako a husband." "Pie? doctor. Dut 1 b ivo the blues terribly. What shall 1 tako P?r that?"' "Por that, madam, you have, b?sples taking tho air und husband to take u newspaper:. A uhitd five years old, died In New York ou Wednesday, from drinking whiskey, left inadvertently in bis reach by bis fdbop Letter from Senator Robertson. Tho following letter, addressed by Senator T. J. Robertson to the Agricul tural Convention lately in session in this city, was inadvertently passed over:? Columbia Phoenix. United Statkb Senate Chamber, Washington, April 20, 1809. To the Delegate* of the State Agricultu ral Convention to be held at Columbia, S. C, on the. 28th ?ut. (Jknti.kmen : Observing a notice or call for a convention ut our State, the object ot which is anuounccd to be the promotion of its agricultural interests, 1 hasten to tender to the Convention my hearty approval of the movement. 1 deem it of more significant importance than any other assemblage that could be made. The material interests of our State-? in other words, the increase of our means whereby the people of the commonwealth may bo able to udd to their substance? is now, ami is to be, the best plau for a healthy reconstruct'on. of the Southern States that can possibly be desired. Hud I the power to shape the political uiiud of South Carolina, the platform would be a material or industrial policy. 1 should consult tho ways and means whereby the largest result tnii^ht bo ob tained in housing, lei ding and clothing the population, educating the children, and acquiring the wherewithal to set them up in life when grown to manhood and womanhood. This, if carried out, would be most certain to result in the largest degree of social and political content. It would be a platform upon which every scusiblo citizen, of what ever race, Col .r or previous condition, eould sympathize with every othor citi zen. I have often thought that, in case our population, instead of indulging iu past theories, or UMvpin-g over the changes of our industrial arrangements, ?{rbtiey. an I maYe tun increase of produr- ' tion and tho more vigorous develop ments i f our resources the absorbing p > litic.il idea,"wo would not only increase the wealth of the State in a manifold de gree, but supersede almost immediately the acerbity of temper thai springs out of tlut sne.ciw? ??f jNiriylsm that aims a. | m:rc preferment to office. ThvTo i. nothing I so much desire as ft common plutfeirm on which the population in the State can stand together, with full and certain knowledge that all are laboring for the mutual and common benefit. Two or three years- .-"moo, it was asserted, in one of the most influential journals of New England, that - the leading states meu of America would hereafter come I from the South." l'erduu in me the am bit ion that this prophecy should be ful filled. That it will be, 1 have little doubt. Our condition is such that it will com pel us to a course of public and private economy, which is the starting point of healthy thrift. At the North, there has been a scenting plethora of wealth, but attended with such contrivances f?>r dis parity iu its distribution, as to create wide spread discontent among tho pro ducing classes. In the South, we are lerts subject to the processes that in the North are bleeding the producing indus tries for the benefit of non-producing capital. In the South, after the war, we started poor, but have been growing richer. In the Nortis, the people started seemingly rich, but, with the exception of a favored class, the common people arc having their Bub-dunce eaten out un der a system of false public ocouoiuy, and are growing poorer. It will be hoovo the South to avoid imitation of the vicious arrangements in the business relations that are now depleting the in dustries of the North. On one subject. I deem it my duty to speak frankly ; it should be made the settled practical poli cy of every Southern State to invite, b) the most significant liberality, the pro ducers of the North. Let it be kuowo and demonstrated that this class wnj be welcomed, fellowshippcd and re spected, ??d wc ?ball have the industrial classes from tn-j North mid from Europe by the millions. ?oP-th Carolina, like the ofl^er States of the N.nth, must be tho artificer of j/s own fortunes. L has jt. in it* power I? Attract population of the most useful character, ft bt need less to say that tho Southern State, which is most libiral it) its generous cour tesy to suph its way come among us, will be soonest on the road of great and per. niauent prosperity. I hope it will not l-C doomed out of place for mc to urge tho necessity for i tic u'caiing a poptrfai j disposition to forego ^Imitation in tho babita of extravaganaT-exponditurcs in living. Our producta of the South have a wide and certain market, ami c'ne do man J is increasing, but we uecd all the surpluses that arc possible to be saved beyond the expenses of production aud the subsistence of our-Tpopulation. Ouo year of extreme frugality in the habits of cur pcoplo will do more to inaugurate a basis of permanent prosperity than five accompanied with prodigal expenditure. It is u wise people who know to stop ex penditure where comfort stops and prodi gality begins. It behjeves tho South to commence the exautphjkof private econo my, and it will be well if all classes can be influenced to join in making it fash io: able. The result Vnuld be a feeling of cougratuLitory prido in the conscious ness of increased thrift, instead of the poor vanity that seeks a delusive gratifi cation in ' osteutatioOJI show. It would require but a few yeya of well under stood aud sensible polity ?> the South to make the Southern ?States the favored seats of capital, enterprise and pc>nin neut wealth. While I would abstain from any expression! of clannish senti ment, I would urge tfbai South Curoliua must act with reference to her own inte rests, and the incidcats by which they may be promoted. Whilst 1 desire that the people of tho State tun)* not be out-! done iu their future pride of belonging ?to the greatest nationality ou the globe, I ns much desire that they may be among the foremost* in advancing the , sentiments, policy nsjd measures that will ' contribute most to toe common welfare j of the whole eountry. Wishing for the beat success- of the Convention, and hoping that its influ ence may be truly great and bemficent, I am, with, giteai respect, most Cordially and truly yours, ?If-tvl". ROBERTSON. To S'no for T. J. Robert ton : Silt?I have rend your letter contain ed in the Phoenix of 23d inst., addressed to the members of the late Agricultural j Convention of this State. 1 was a mem ber of that Couvcutiuiij and ??i, (here ?ore, trie recipient of your advice. On this account, I am fairly entitled to mako you a response. In the first place, allow mo to correct the editorial state ment prefixed to your letter. The letter was not iiiuaderrlenfly pa* etl > rcr." It was never presented to the Convention. The paper was not introduced, because it was ascertained that it would meet with a very doubtful reception. As regards, now, the advice givep in your communication, I admit that it is not bad. But you will certainly ne knowlcdgc that it is nut reasonable for ymi to expect the members of such n body as that comprising the bite Agri cultural Convention, to desire counsel from you. Von have united with the presumptuous carpet-bagger and the ig norant freed man, to tntmpl? tvpon the rights and outrage the sympathies of these Southern commuirif'fcs. Von have become tho willing ally of that portion of the people of the country, who, in peace, continue to war upon us and to deny us that repose which we desire, and that showing to which we are entitled Your whole political course is an insult to a large and influential class of your fellow-citizens. This oluss you evidently regard traitors iu the past and disloyal in the present. It was m?t, therefore, proper for you to indicate t.> us what our policy should be and what our duties are. We can not take IcSSOUS uf political wisdom from you without some distrust. Excuse us for ? fearing the OiCuks even whilst bringing pr? scuta." lilt: there is another point we desire to SllggCat to you. The idea of sending a letter to the late Convention, must have been the offspring in jour mind of a do sire to place yourself in accord with that poit on <?!* your fellow-citizens, whom up to this time, you have deemed it your duty to ostracise. This may be a very proper leeling. It may be an indication that the high place you till is beginning to beget in you a feeling of magnanimi ty. This is very well. But let me ask if this friendly tender, this sympathetic feeling, is not inconsistent with your Seuotorial record ? Can I forget?can the South cvor forgot?that on the Gth of Ayril, Anno Domini 1 Still, the following Bill tea* introduced in the United State* Senate, by 'fhomas tJ. Robcrtton, a Sen ator from South Carolina, anal mnmuSte horn citizen thereof: [From the Charleston Courier.'] POLITICAL disabilities.-The fol lowing bill was introduc.nl in the United States Congress, on the oth instant, bj Senator T J. llobcitaon. of this State. It was rend twice, referred to the Select Committee on Disabilities, and ordered to be printed: a DILL TO PROVIDE FOE THE UK MOV A i. OF I'OLITICAti DISABILITIES. Be it enacted by the Senate ami If oust of Itejo'cscnta fives' of the United States of America, w Congress assembled, That any person laboring under political disa bilities as provided in the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, or from inability to take the oath of July 2d, 1862, is hcroby re leased from the same on complying with the following conditions, that is to say, provided such person shall make the fol lowing declaration un ler oath before the clerk of any court of record established at the pi ce of domtcil of auch parly : ??I, - -, of -, do declare that I recognize the supremncy of the Constitution of the United States, and all laws made in pursuance thereof; that I will support and maintain the Union of the States against all enemies, domes tic and foreign ; that 1 will not yield support to any pretended government, authority or power hostile thereto ; that I will demean myself as a good citizen, supporting good order, tolerance of politi cal opinions, and freedom of the elective franchise :" Provided, That a copy of said declaration, officially certified by the clerk of the court before whom it is made."?hall first be filed for record in the office of tlve- Secretary of State of the United States : And provided, further. That no person-, shall be entitled to the benefit of the provisions off this law who was educated at the military or naval academics of the Uuited States, or who was twenty-one years of age or upwards on the first day of January, 1861. I repeat it: And provided, furfh-r. " That no person shall be entitled '<> tin benefit of the. provisions of this laic tvho teas educated at the military or naval academic* of the United States, or wno was twt.n'ty-one yea us of AfiE ok ?mtardS o* run first pay of Ja.nu auy, iso!." You thus, sir, iu this bill out-herod Herod, and propose to go even farther than Congress. If I am not mistaken, neither Thaddens Stevens nor Churles Sunnier, nor D. F. Butler, ever propos.nl a disfr.inchn-^mcn'; so cruel, so inereiless. so sweeping. In* yon? ever-to be-reniem bered bill in tlu Ssno*y of the United States, you propose to attach political disabilities to every one (mark the pro I vision) ??i'lto teas twenty .one years of age. or upwards on the first flay of January. 1861." How great, iu your estimation, must have be. n the crime of those who fought for country iu the late great struggle! Why. sir. you spare neither the living nor the dead. If you possess not the wi-doui of Solon, you must surely aspire to more than Draconian severity. With that bill before me, standing I out ill bold relief, like SO 111 C dak and rugged cliff, you will excuse me from ! your roh of statesmanship. "Tho load ing statesmen of America" may ''here after come fr ?m the South," und I. too hope that ''this prophecy should be ful filled." !>ut of this I am certain?that they will never come from the ranks of radicalism. j Hence my conclusion, that you keep your counsel for those who believe in your politics. Hence, too my suggestion, that if yon desire to re-enter the political ranks of the intelligent people of the South that you niMst enter not as an adviser, but as an bumble recruit, and j that you must first bring forth "fruit* meet for repentance" You may repre sent South Carolina in the United Status Senate, you may plop >se amendments to j the Federal Constitution ; you may se cure the appointment of a colored man over the head of a gallant officer of tho Union army; but you will please write to the class you have proscribed no letter of unsolicited advice. Respectfully youis, ON K OF TH K CON V FNT10N. (loon S V ell 1 n 0.?"Caleb, spc 1 Aaron." "Great A, little a-r-o-n?ron." "Very well, Iebubod, soo if you can spell United States." "Yes, sir. (treat country, little coun try, T-a-x?us." ,4Oo up head n A very amusing little inckVnit recently occurring in our city is being whispered around by parties seemingly well advisee? in tho premises. It appears that at ooo of cur fashionable places of amnaemebt last winter, * very fascinating and pretty Soubrette had a short engagement. It : was sufficiently long, however, to com pletely enlist the admiration of a gentle man engaged in commercial pursuits, and not a great while from a northern latitudo. By some means the parties became acquainted, and as the days fiec* along, mutual sympathy mellowed into love. The lady, a little coy at first, finally lent a listening ear to the cn | treaties ot her adoror, and after a brief engagement tboy were married. Of course, it is not the intention of the re porter to recite the rosy dreams of the honeymoon ; how each adored the other, and happiness, radiant as poesy itself, bewitched tho hours into visions of de light. Weeks sped along, and months had measured their length on time's dial. But at last a circumstance occurred which put an end to billing and cooing, and revealed a domestic rmbsoglfo, sot at all iu harmony with the felicity that preceded it. One day the husband entered his wife's apartment, with the declaration that, deeply as he regretted such an event, they must port. '?Part?you dou't mean to leave me?" exclaimed the lady "Deeply as I regret the circumstance, such is the case!" was the reply. "But ..hy't What have I doue?what wrong have I committed V "Nothing!" "And yet you leave me?" "My dear, iu the baste of our ntos riag^I forgot to mention a lit?le fact, whicri in the mind of casuists might have formed an objection to it; I have am ther wife living!" "lbipossihle!" "It is true, my dear !" The lady was sileut for a moment, and then assuming her most bewitching smi'.o, replied: ,-My dear, I must confess that I sus pected something of the sort, and to guard against an) future trouble, I had a little paper prepared by my attorney, which you will remember to have signed in the justice's office the day wc were married. You supposed it to be merely a certificate of marriage ; but it was merely an article of agreement, iu which you promise to allow me,, in e\w*r e.V separation, an anuoity of twenty-five hundred dollars. Under the peculiar cireumstances of the ease, I shall have to exact the fulfillment of this agreement, of have you arrested tor bigamy !'' "The devil !" ? True, my dear ; here is a copy?the justice has the original." "This is a swindle !" "Oh, uo, my dear; only a business transaction." There was some further protest?a little angry recrimination ; but it is need less to say the conditions of the bund were finally complied with, and on this comfortable allowance the lady entertains, serious thought., of forsaking tho buskin. I ?Xew Orhuns Picayune. Lie Giro of Babies. The only valuable work wc ever saw on infancy was written by a man, An drew Combe, of Scotland, a close ob server, a sound thinker, and u learned physiologist. Wo shall never forget hew tempest-tossod wo we o when we first found ourselves tho happy po sessor of a male vbild without the slightest kuowledge of what to do for his comfort and protection. Au ig uorant nurse fidgeted around the room day and night, sang melancholy ditties, and rocked vehemontly, while the child cried continually with a loud voice, and wept, prayed and philosophized by turns. Reasoning on general principles, wc at last came to the conclusion, that inas much as the child was strong and vigor ous, there must be some mistake on the port of the nurse that he wast not quiot and comfortable, and fortiGed ourselves in that opinion by a faithful reading of what Mr. Combo had to say on babies iu gcnoral. Tho result of this considera tion of his opinions was a prompt revo lution of tho whole nursery department, and a transfer of pain from the baby to tho nurse, who stood humbled and oha grinod as sho saw her time-honored syt tcui summarily set aside?the pins, pin pure air, sunlight and comtscp MWfe what dor.bio shaking of the head, wmH^ ? suppressed Utsgtrfev au4 nlfcyltje JItm theha?, ww l*a^ 4o^th?#^ lew days after the ioa?gwra^ ef that dy nasty of health, bappiuess aud rest to* ?Mit new-born babe. When the three hourV cry begab that day, which aacient dames assured ob was aeustom that h*u Wan faithfully kept by all the sons of Adam from lime im memorial, we ordered the little suffer to be promptly stripped to the skia and but in a warm bath. Tbat brought in stant relief, after which' b'o was dfuSSoi in a few light garments hung on ?b* sbowlders, with no swaddling hands, no pressure on the Itog*:ox bowels, and lsi4. down to sleep. lie was fed (according to Combe) every two hours by day, and but once during the night. After that wo bad peace, though eternal vigilance ou our part was its price. The custom of pinning babies up as tight as a drum is b h cruel and absurd. We asked the antiquarian who tortured our first-born in that way?why she did it ? "The bones of young babes are so soft, and their flesh so tender," said she, "that they are in constant danger of dissolution unless tightly pinioned together." We soothed her fears by pointing to the fuet that colts and calves, puppies and kit tens, all lived and flourished without bandages, and for this reason we said we would make the experiment on one of the human family. If babies arc regu larly fed, bathed and comfortaby dressed, and iu a pure atmosphere, they will be quiet aud healthy. The Flaw IIitntebs.?There are people who have a preternatural faculty for detecting evil, or the appearance of evil in every man's character. They h ive a fatal s.cnt for carrion. Their memory is like a museum I cnee saw at a medical col'cgc, and illustrates all the hideou-?db?t:irt t.uei aud U)On.tt?W4t?<gJ>ttSj^a^?? and revolting diseases by which hv?majt? ty can be troubled or afflicted. They think they have a wonderful knowledge of human nature. Hut it is a, blunder i to mistake the "Newgate Calendar" for a biographical dictionary. A less offensive type of the same ten dency leads some people to find apparent satisfaction in the discovery and procla mation of the slightest defects in the habits of good men and the conduct of public institutions. 'I hey cauuot talk about the benefits conferred by a great le\-vital without lamenting some insig nificant blot iu its laws, and some trifling want of prudence iu its management. Speak to them of a man whose good works everybody is admiring, and they cool your ardor by regretting that he is so rough in his manuer, or so smooth? I that his temper is so hasty, or that he is so fond of applause. They seem to hold a brief,, requiring them to prove the impossibility ot huv man perfection. They detect the slight est alloy in the pure gold of human gooduess. That there arc spots in the sun is, with them, something more than an observed fact?it takes rank with a priori and necessary truths. There arc people who, if they hear at* organ, find out at face which arc the poorest stops. If they listen to a great speaker, they remember nothing but some slip in the construction of a sen tence, the consistency of a metaphor, or the evolutions of au argument. While their friends arc admiring the wealth and beauty of a treo whoso branches are wi iv h td down with fruit, thoy have dis covered a solitary bough, lost in the golden affluence on which nothing is hanging. Poor H tzlitt was sorely troubled with them it: his time. "Littleness," he said, "is their clement, and they give a char racter of mcanuess to whatever they. touch."?Uuinh Worth. Many men who pretend to have grains of good sense seom to have scruples about using thorn. Ladies nre like watches?protty enough to look ut?sweot faces end de I km to hands but somewhat difficult to 'regulato' after thoy arc a-going. The thieves who hid somo pieces of oloth in a spirit distillery should bo charged with an attempt to prontoto the, whisky wriug. Chief Justice Moses recently delivered the opinion of the Suprcire- Court that si much of the act of 1801, continued to December, I86G, as allowed inteivst on open acoounts, in actions suspended by the stay law, is unconstitutional.