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Not ilat oui's fil alt l'er asokel A'r atight and yet receive.I it tit, itt (ias lie -jiuko that, those around iight. IsiloW Ti'al (od luid son Ilim, BLreathle Silnc reigne.I, UJ Ith il' Oxi'V lnt group. Alterta(cly They wetoied the aaviour'a carneu. tur' iit, It e 0 Aid gn-aaid upa Mt e rpen rol itulro. 'The lunle that b~urst upon their listeningo ean Seemed life the judgitnnt Irmp. Who could tetist A nuiunlate u'itei y sueft voice as liali ? La.z. itus, cot :; r iert !'' Tlto dad lman' Smil lea al Iack 1alo i ts ris. ionii . Hio slarlel forlth 1;01tl inl his no;Ittawy sa-td; like inesisenlger 'I- a 'e I., returning fi tr ito h 'ph-il VC.I'ltt. '"La e hiln anil let hiti go." Willh ulutur in;; licart !, ll'imiu vo s- 1 h3 e e,, uldeyval. Coutld ti;'y Lt .lti.v Anil wa- iL Lazarue clatding with OIomi Al Na :toti now. 'l'hc rister'i ruthe' i n a ii .n ,-a 1, . 1an-I tinra lot' j1y Gu<h tirate, ee-hi'lonlga Whit fitosti ate frims at .Jems' fol exlxtess S 1. - I 'lhe Ii .tit of i tia gl :ta -l r -i a Ot ta;: a henrt- - .\ll lialIt f).'re; ata .41, etu ed itl i.it" . rny lip-,: lh" reunivr! intl AL A .o.ti ile~i i-...hh - it'a . a .TLY SEPf.1fL%1-,,'N i. N' 1th t10 t \ i tit Va:r" f t L ar ila-vativing on the Elit0r, it i to bu hXItt.: 1ti t (an1u . en . in m tSt v ill for oamM'I nt tonly i in sendinga (inca for roferon'ck al.1 mn11nes(a can he I'l'l ishdt 'l, li t ill %iding *itt tho inc .;me of 4nr liSt. of rlbscribeurs. A uit'hl u beon mad to 1ho fir4t tet 'Ts of thi.s Di: trict. A flr tio Checroket War, when a hI-go terri;ory t ttb1racing fairfld, was aded to tlhe kin: ofr i nglatd, sottlers camitt in from ,various juartori. An bofore at(Id, tle Lylesciluito ame fom Virginia. Shortly after them, cinn e Nkiward .Mohley, al1"o froml that. Colony, wvithl six Oonis, ill with fiimtilies, ilad sottled on ileavotr Crook, about aix iHl firo whiro it flows into Bro:l River. These nil came before thte war. During the Cherokoo war, it wo':t ftutnd nees:'ary to contr.t t-, fort a amlg Oto bimrder, to protect tho cirly ainh ablittanmts frtotm intrond;; by t he [n diants. Th'it cita in of''tt; fortse doel Ferry.git. Th ;virsttt n t Iof othts wa . borthoOL wich~ Mr1. Mobley chto.<o as ii ills intI hit ;t at ities, givesc a won. - derfula- 'try oif' the kill ing of' a htuge' t'att tle'tnake ne-ar Ji is fort. I.[lo statesr iha0 "a '. ytttm: ttt 'i "hy tta httun ma of "inua: paty , :a'.a , lin i rat ' urn-, tteatr atheta fortt shom a r attle;:tatki, whtioh,otn "eaxamtinti on, was fonund to Ititve a "' 'sqig.) hats beent trelated to muo 1.-y ".pii ips himitself, and by a nutmbier of "'othert wiho sawu~ theo rtnta when "bro'u;;blt into (lie fort, and the fawni "I akean 't. of it."~ IBut our aut thor brtingsi in otheor testi mtotty to corrob~ort'te t hi.- snzake stot'y, Ilie a-ay., that "Ma'jor' TI. Meantts, in re-. "mri nitg (al this saubject , (titerve-cs: ' 'iliipsIi,:tad thte spot) where' it 0e. 'Ceu'redi shownVt ie itt otte of my fielids. 'Ithe' ciret'atant itce was als attO i aatedi toI 'mie byv UAhert iBautn and othter'., whot~ 'were'i. ey'-'. itne'.Sts of the fatC.~ " The lat-get r'attlesniake- kaW-n int (U ' ::' ii, iot whianyttt3 a'cordt'a th beena ft.um.i, tm ~t'.-rd eight feet int I Rat a.al:.esaa r wlidoatn seen ta any pat to he Ditict nat a, i' seen' tat all. Aft er the Iit'eroe wart cl-s edl, sttit's catttm t it'fomt whtat. was th len kntown ini .l'iarotpe ast (th Pala tid haul tong Wii kinst-on's c reek a': sanadl 't ream whith t'ise~s a littile ab ove, andta Time tsurfaco of' tis iDistrtict pre S't somte fe:aturesOt worthtiy of' notico. From cas~t t) wotat it r'ises first, to a hlada anid proinent ridgo wichi wauttp round int a genttlo c!tu'o from aboutl tthmiuddlo of thte nortithtrn boun darf'- to a little onsit of' thec mtiddle south e1'n htotndar'y. It ms upon ?nis r'idge, itt gr'etat part, thatt thte ChIarlotto and South~ Cat'oli'na railroad htas its track. W itntnsbot'o is- upon thme ver'y umimitt of tii ridgo am1 e actyi po . t, a the railn water whih poli s into the gut ter on the east siide of the main streot finds.; it; way into Watereo river on the c:st, while (liat from tle gutter onl the wert, sido of the same street d a g ahmg inl nnidy volume until it is lost inl Broad river oil the weAt. Leaving the top of thia ridge, nitd goinig wesItvard1, we doescenid to the vallhey wtcred by Little river and itS tributarti-n:. Tl'h;ee wNaters divide tlc "i Aae ri'leo from nte that Core1poiIs almno.st e:ac tiy il tl< ini r idian running throuh the village f V i L o, aIId IIIak i Ig i ts- o it from the u ppur tnld lower part; of tia Di.trict on tle west. But while thmes waters and ridget cause thise prominent nmrk. in thi qurf'ace from North to South, tho fact thit the ti'abutario:; of the three prin eipio struems flow cwt and we~st, gives rise to an undulatory surface, so choa.1cred and broken, that after lenving the twoi main ridges, the tramv. elvr whitthr going north, east, south 4)r w'e.t, finds1 himelf "plod ding i wearly way.*" Ill the surfaeo of Fairfield, airtd :,erhedin ir.4ee there i a titin i.1ur (11.0;,io of 'hat of im onI.A ra ;!ide w ' reIte. i A t:.n io lo ; Littlo river-, the .\li. vh-V, 1nnd th. de -cenit to Sc;ionce and Philosophy, Wimt Supplioi the G.oat Lqkas ? Mre. ( og ..S fei, Jr., r-eplio.3 I hey r:-L wa:ri' from udergroun m-rV I V e vn 1*1 11,(11d .1ention to the fuket tiat tit'e! mf:ive 1rJibun ie :is (h the great i:1,:-4 will Iahl- nak t' gootl the wvei; :al l rot* atm.)-!h-.ri abs rpion an 4 Vao:ri In11. Yet the lel;..s are of im me'- 0 1 ., :'i i con'Uly'e (I is h. a r t'o va e.i v 1hon . f w.I-r Ihn ;h 1.1iI anle:2 anit. St.. Mlarie, .\ackiinaw, &k-. w lmtren:dble1 dim in ion. I Lt-ne, rl: asi there are ongae sonree of supqpl - ab le te sufcwe mustt look lt th wil eneat it. Tia t.he erit of the eart i full , wa t-r caurses i a familir r f.ct. I I'l iu. t.ration-- mar fomnd in ie 'lOmoih Cavi < iietA delierg Monnty ai inllS aer ll , Ler dst rii o qn r prairil, n <111 thear(ianwel which ar1e ntow% he. conu11ng numerons mn Moope and m ont countery. A t ssy, near a ri. thi angtr buck a ni amazing stream of ival iihen himdred, it-et bviow t siurfiai whicb dis'charges n.airly six mnillion s 0 gallons p'r dby, rushina to .ho iurfiac, With gealt l . This is .rong' " ev I donce. certainly, of a groat underground trutam at thi point. The mreat well at. Kissengen, in Bavaria, i -it iMoin in llinover, .Lronit.vill, mn Kentnkv Charledon, S. C.'-, and hudere-o of' w r, mIIIlny op whichar to ht u hoa n, feet deep, d0eagn ret oie ivatei-all tend to dlimonstrate thit tahe thatl. I( the ve st of' th ear-th i.s pe nrai itn all direction andI it all de pths wit! of wIm.l t hipin. o the argonent ll1), oiiir Shel i' t atrs im hi i r iih-ro un to th uof Northiabe n Ai meia and noteb aric narl t he oiti whr' e the 'iltitlie o-u dege Nof westk( lnthel co'e thA fortyas futh paredh-i or nth i ud ofl hwh tins fis the contrill abd ou, cii~'.. Fthe grea t wounat r-rnen rgin, ofn lively tim ay mhno throg coiiuntry nealyt ll of utiy the rat ivr of txic \Ve.i the eteir soes aleh Coiad hewl.l eirdti.qit thee.\ ulfso ri w iis i n-naerabne er'hmehi s anmd rbutari a f tOe w'hih an Getli re iea 5th ei, Nothiork :oil;W thilt the toi kansasV ithe Rfeliverth RicGan alsloigm sthe neat.intru and sthC erilln Rcp , of h ockyi M~ioun tin (n alindm heirt way through. lhouand th On e wea~'aterin sop fis t"heltio aoo whichemptis in a th O I ofClila' niae and whh h1 i Vorm' byf thei unio of iit!h Orand anX h id e lIiveri tihl tionre''tof wih are alof ith~ithe oi ra itory aboie me~',nodei~'ioned.i The same' t shtat2 emnl' t i: In of siiho ' hunb1 ia ih(i1re f ig hrni e -'tatii - ofe t i iio if the litiel anid ! it hIiot h grii' streanv~~ii s muchiverawichy ihn northwlar I and we!wf dit the irem vcrlili ond thle Nrthcer OfenIee the goil of' IJ rivest resh n a! ie ion' binl in" g i) 14of the shi ofe ea'lk ther is no sieieie of anynh. Shalll pmen te fat and aim feotdi hmny ?'tinbe inetnt (lite eittenfeo gheory hiha gihe ofak mare le h by subter rolmea mebes 'of thi tive som hney lid inles o"aiithTerer dlats0 then bottoms of tee, and loointbaih togslai yo ar ifllowinam tee ronitc oint the sad aofthe ni groeude y 1r.t Iivitationlesnarraiv s t heholo ing nflotuiiif tes hone an thi os liremahrkangr it inhelligenceio allti Ate id fricanodbrd w himo aia itroh comir on bno thivcop andilao om<th march, our men were srtio to accept th1 invitation, ant] anifelsted the same by a peculiar responsive whistle, mean img, as-they said, 'All right ; go ahead ; we arc coming.' Tie bird nover deceiv ed them, but always guided them to a hlivo of bees, though some1 have but little honey in store." A (CoNsTm x-r CovnSus) WITH Tor. Prof. Agassiz comes to the conclusioi liat the continet of North Ame;rica w.as. onfeo covered with ice a mile in tiicknesq, Iterehy agreeing wilt Profe. sor llitclhcock and other goological wri t.ernt concernting" tile glacil perioxl. Inl pro(of of t hit concltisioni, hie says tlat t1ho slopes of the Allerhaniy range pf moou. tains are gl.acier-worin to the very top, (xcnt a f'w points which wero aibove the le've-l of tie icy nas.i. Mount \Vash ingtont. fort insi.allce, is over six thiotituand feet, Ihigh. and the rough, itiunpoli!Zluhed sir-' a1c0 of its Rimmit, coveredI with looso fragmeni. just above the it-l or wiuch glacier marks come to an enld, tells that, iL lifted its iead alone abovu the deso Iatfe Vaste of ice and sn1ow. In this region, then. the tlickneis of the ice canntot. iave ben meh less t htan six thousand feeut., atnd this i- in keeping witi the same kinids of evidlenceo in otlier parts of tie conti ry, for when the mioni 1.i aro uch les.0 tIhan six 1tousaind feet, th0 icC sCmo to hIfve pwA.Vd diree.. ly over them, whtile thle few I,- i to I Iat height are left uton The glac'ir,- he a e was (lIu',; grat f'lot!h, a nd w len the tee \. a '. ; l fromt tIhe face of the land it left, i. prpared for tiand of' tle hu dmn. The hard surlee of the ' rock. were ground1 to p')wder, the m of the soil wore minghi-d in fair propotions, granite was carried into the Iime regiong, lime was mingled wvit. h thei muore arid aid iuprotecte( distriets, ;md a soil Was prcpared for the agricultural uses of man.- 'Thiere are evtdences all over tim polar regtions io slhov that it onte periold ithe heat of' the kropie exiited all over thle globe. Thle icel period i.1 supposed to be long sabsequent to this, aid next to the last before the advent of lam. 'ini.: OC.AN hrr-roM. -Mr. Grect, the faouIts dIiver, t1lb sintgtlart at orios of Iis l adotre when nniing searchi inl th deep water) of tle Oceanl. He0 giv s some now iet ches o 'hat. lie saw at tihe "iver lok," i near IIyti : Th'le bankls of thle Cora11 onl whbiebl my dtivings; were ma1d,1 are.( about 11o1 .y. m1iles in lengh, and fron tein to twenty inl b trend th. On tits bank of coral is pre inted to the (liver one of .hO most beautifil :nd suldimo scenes itho eyu ever br-uihld. T'ioo water varies from ten to otte htunudredl feet in deptl, and4 is so clear that the diver ann sO irmn two .o t.re tied feet when sul m rged, witi but little obst ruction to tibe sight. .e bottom ortobe Ocani inl ninny pia ces is as sioothIt hi nn marble floor, it ott er-i it is stuidded with corial coltins front 11n to one huiindrel feet in height, anid from one to eiglty feet inl diimeter 'TI:e tops of thitse more lofty support a myrnd of pyratmydal penidantits, each ilning more. giving the real t ti the iaginary abod of 'som " itcr nympl in oiter place's tl petaiS formii arci after arth ; and s lite diver stand.j onl te lottoim of the ocoanl atnd ,az.-3 througl tle deep wn ding aven..e, Io ids they will fdlI him wvith a sacred awn as if het weore itn some ob1l cathied ral which hta'd be'en long beneathf old oceani's watvesi. Ir ant'' td tlhere tIlte cortl ex tends even to th surface of the water, as if the. 1,ftier' tolumnsi wenre t~owere' belontging -to tese stately temnples that are now iln t Sci'rux r OTnIO! Afl A DImNir,: -'ro )u. -'reat at tenttion is pai, andt' withi I Illandtnc, antd itn lk-fginm, to thio disin Iee.tton of' st allIs and of' the excriemet s of aimalt of the bovino race, in fecte'd w'i'.ht typtims, in1 ordetr to arrest the ranva ges'~oflthit; rthnly c'ota :iot9us malady, The n':e of phtosphornii acid wintcht is po posedi for this purpose, is ratiotnal, in - that it enriches ithe mtanturo, bitt not if' 1yon consider' the ixpenCtse, the difficulty 'I' of transport, andit the mianyv ptr(ecautionts -iteeessar'y in hattdlintg it. Sutlplmte oIf a iront, ott t'e coitntay, is of insigntificat valuue, (say a flirthting petr pountd,) eco nointmica1, atnd easy of' emuploymtent, and 3 having gr'eat ell'ect ipOnl n'lanimnal mt-. tersi, would comtpletely purify l ie intfeet-' eel places and the manures of animalttsr - suif-rting front typhus. Tt dIoes not it o jre thet, mtanun ii, but conservi~es its mtiIt r ener':get.ic p:tuts bf contvet tinig the catr v' bonate of amtmonia mlto sulphfake of atm e moiat, a fxed salt, which is easily ap 1propriated by theo plamti. ' wats int Iof iho mines oflBitx wile, Dt: . t ment 1(s du His-Rhin, proptos 2(di the dl 'oetiont ,of' suluhate of i ron, and sineo iften thtis f salt. has beent gner'ially em'aloy'ed int a LFrantce for these lhptpse4, as well as to -purify tho slaughter htouses, ditcheos, and ,all places w~huere obnioxious ennntations iar'iste. Its use is very simtple. 1Dissolved iit gives a very acid liqutid, that canr b)( 1 hanidled witu t dantge-r, and whfich petn ertsvery where wvhent used to washt the itnfhected places or to mtix w~iith thie aitros. W\heu theo cholera was at Mairseilles, great, <pontities of' suihphat e of ir'on wete used, ntot onlinat t France, but also in Swi'tz.erhuud and ina Gormtany~ to disiunfect closets, situ ighuter-hiouses, an'td all platces giving nff' noxious emnattions, antd with pero'tly sa'tidfactou'y results. .Lowlon C.hemical Necws. DowNFAT.r, OF TuxE Fni:FMIIAN'q Thu Rt.w1.-VThe Fre.edmaun's Bureau, with all of' its slippory mhovementts, is lhable to ship "p Genecral Blrowvn, chief' of the 'Birrtan in thte Departmetnt of Virginia, slipped up at the corner of Nmnth and and B~road streets out yesterday. As Ito touched the groutnd a juvenile speciment of the IDareau yelled out, "Dir, do F~reed man's Baro dont tsted." The "iluro" proved that-it wvas still intact by rising and wvalkina off.-J2c1mand TI'ams Literary. SKETCHES OF CRnr'CisI.-It may, perhaps, be of some satisfaction, says D'I'raeli, to show the young writer, that the most celebrated ancients have boon as rudely subjouted to tho tyrau ny of criticisnm as the moderns; Homer was accused of having stolon from autorior poets wlatover Was most remarkable in tho Iliad and Odyssey. Nanocrat.os vein poinits out tho source, in the libri'y at Mem. 1plis, il a temple of Vulcau, whicli, 1 in4.00l441g to him, the bliud imai Coi pletely pillaged. Sophocles was brouglht to trial by his children as a lunatic ; and some, who cenisured the incr tjialities of this poet, have also condemnned the vanni ty of Pitidar-the rough verses of Ekschylus--and Euripides for the conduct of his plots. Socrates, conidered a., the wisost and most moral of men, Cicero trei at ed as a usurer, and the pedant Athe naeus as illiterate. Plato, who has been called by ClO menut (if Alexandria, the Mo.w' of Atins-the philosopher of the Ch ris tianus, by Arnobius---and the god of pllilonsoihors, by Cicero- Athenaeus decuts ot nilvy ; Theopomipus, of ly.. ing ; bo4das, of avarice ; Auilus (101 lius, 0i robbe ry; Por'Iyry, of in con t me.eo ; and Aristo'phanes, of impic ty. Aristotle, whose industry composed iore than four i hundred vol um es, has not been lesis spared by the crities Dion;es, 1~aertius, Cicero, anud PIu tarchlhave for'got'teun nothilng that can tend to s!ow li; 1gnoralice, his aminbi tion], alnd his Vauity. Virgil ik detitute of inve.ion, if we arc to give credit to Pliny, Carbi lins, and ,,en oca. Cal igniua ih is abso lutely donicd him even mo1 io.ity I iorenius has marked hit faults-and P1erolins hastinu has furnished a thick volumo with his plagiariso Quinitilian does not sp:a1r0 Seneca: and i)oouthenes, accoriding to her minppus, has ior'e of art than of na tilre. We n: ight largely augment th: list, and now the world whit mn1 the crities are ; but, perhaps, 'olonghI has been said to 'Soocie irritated genius, and to shamo fastidious criticismn. IsT.RARY U.~rn.-hn'at pullbihed h is ''In f'erno," the snimplii ty of the agn necepted it as A true inarrative of his duscent into hell. Wlen the Utopia of Sir Thomas More was first published, the learned Budneus And others took it for a gen nina history, and considered it a.; ihihly expedient, that In issionaries should be sient thither iii order to con vert so W ise a nia tion to Christianity. It was a long whilo after publica tion, that many riade rs wore conv ine ed that (ulliver's 'ravels were ficti tious. The "Hermippum 'Tedivivua," of Dr. Campbell, a curioun banteor on the hior'motic philosophy and tine univer sA mod icinoe, decei ved, for a length of tim11e, (lhe most. lea.ned of' that day. Iis notion of the art. of prolongio. life, by inhiing the bre'ath of InC young womenon, wias vagnerly crelited. A phyicia, who imisel : h11l composed a treUdaisc on hlu h, wans so influenced by it, tha t he actually took lodgings at a femnalo boarding-school, thant h ight. neveor b~e withlout a constant suppl y of the breath of young ladies. ila a ca ti logu~e emunpiled by a Firen writor' of l-Vo/a. onKarl I/'Ieoy, hie ha~s insertedl the well known essay onl /rkh& Bulls, bny tile Edgeworths. A Great Chess Player. Henry Vet hake, pruov'ost of the Uni.. ver-sit y of' Pein nsylvan ia, who died in P hilaidelpi;hia last woek, hand p-revious ly finlled the imehemi~iiatical cha1II ir f .1'r'inceton anid D[ickinson01 Colleges. H~e was thne ant hor' of anm iutnereing wvork on "Thne Plrinciples of .Polit icail EconomyV,"' pubnisihed in thle year 1838, and1( editedl tine supplementar v v'ohunc of' the "Enncyclopotd ia Ameio cania,"' pulishied in 1 84Y . It was, howverOI, is~ excellent ge of r'hess whichl gave h im hnis widost reputation. The fol lowi ng mnter'estinag account of his achievemnenits is-given ini the "Book of' the Chess Congress:" "Henriy Vethaike, of Germnan parent.. age, is grandson of' the oilicer' who di.. rected thne artillery of' the allies lit thne bat tle ot' .1 inden. He com ned~ hnis career' as~ al chess-playerI, at inizne yea ms old, by heat inig his fa t heir. .1His pre coity aitt-racted nat tentioni, and1( during is boyhood lho pl ayed frnegnently in Newv York society as a chess prodn~igy. lie dr nopped chiess alItogethner wh'il in ~ cil lege, hbut as a law student lie re smunned it, and was r'ecognmized as thle strnongest planyer' in Newi Yourk. lie sonnetinmos ali!ndes to an amuni tng 1).. eurremnce of tinis perni od . To whnile away the tim 010on boarid a u Nothn riven' steambihoa-t ho aicceptedI thu inivia;tion otf a st ranger to play a game of chess. Mr. Vothla ke played, ams a sironlg liay er is wont to, wh'len he disc~overs that hue could give half hnis Jpiee' ton his adver~sary H'' le hadl not bsrv~ed ta thec gameu was keonly ov'erlooked by Mr. John R. iiviingston, thie wehl kniown associato of Rober't, FultIon, 31 r. Livingston (discover'ed in 3h r. Ve t hake, despito soumo u nnacountabhly bad movos, the torm of unuperior (chess talent. T1huis hcoexpressedl to thne younig Ar'anger ini courteous and comu plinmntary ternms, andl assnured him, mnoreov'er, that, ini faot., all he needed wassRomne lessonis from Rome one, like &%uvve s-'4 ne. w1Ix asai-re(l 11n L a ZO,. j mncut, to uttor a good-humored, 'Aut Erasmius ait 1)idolis I" The crushing strength of 'his 11 y6ung anitagouist's play had suticiently revoaled his name. The groater part of Mr. Ve thake's life, from tho oomplet ion of his law studies to his removal to Philidelphia, in 1836, was spent as profesor of mathematics in various instititions, where he had no opportu nity of finding players approaching to his own strength. For ten or fifteen years, thorefore, h mItay be 1said to have altiandoned chosS ultogether. Dluring a visit to Germany in 1829, 1830, his interest in chess was renow ed by loo!cing over a gnme in the ho tel A ix-la-Cmapelle. He sought the best pilavers ait varions Stopping places, aid beat Clihem fill. At Berlin he found a stroner adversavry, but sne coeedo in drawing his gaome, to the great lortifieition of the Prussian, who sid that. if it had becen a French Imaun who had wrested victory fron hilm, he could! iever have forgiven hi insolf. Aid thin wais said in the d(ys of Deschappellos and La Dour donis1 !'' -_... - __-* --- a Desa as a Cause of Disease, In this age, wheni duess Occupies So ich of' th1 attentliun of sucievy, ti in Uavilcce of cost-lle on the bodily coni. liun hecolnes an iniportatit imatter of m11put y. Improper mokldes of dresis!, Whmther cecssive or inai-douate, are feritile solr ces of disease, 11111 lf':ao agravattO all abn11m.d ato th e syt mll by w hlat ever Caus9e p)ro(ulcedl. If'ill our desire to keep the body warm wo overlo.it 'ith lay.ersof ic, closely wovel fabric am1:1 thuIs produice .1n un1due heat, at. the sut ftce the eflect is to suippress tje act ion of ti excretory gland, and prevent a perspiraitionl. Thec vitiamtd matter whiebc is thus retamilel is re.absolbed by the skim aiid carried back lito th syfS (ill, relllening tile blood illipilr11 ati. derang mg the dellicatc maebim-r of the1 gbllhu. I r stru t iro. Ar an ' -li L ar abi olutel necesary for the lho al lily ac1ivity ('1 1ui4) vehicle4 of thi ski' ll' I ose fll'h(es of clothing which pre'vent the, admisi.sionl f 1110so tWO great vital agents are enirely imill, f'or us'e. Ae a IreO circilation of bl((d to ail pn1ts of tw himn! boly is reqmIiiit to the enjoinvilt of perfect I :1tlki, so no pat I1 the body shoul1d be esed ill silJh1 a maInn'r asf ill le lIas. to obst :lit. O. retard it, flow. TIighIll. hots, sIoes or gloves art ortore dietrimental. ColI extrimIiels, painful immolrl , SICehtllgs and collosities are generally I lIo restd.t of Sich ligintures. Insuliflcieont clot.hin-g is mnch worse 1h111 too much(1. The1 efi'ect of exposurie to cold is the itmmtldiaL contractlioln of 1.1h shin, which sispends the operation of scretory ind excretory organs, an( the lmatter which should be disclarged front t)e system is thrown back 1into thc throat ings or bowelsfi, occasioning those forms of dIseaSO Coiionly Called "cold," "head-ache," "catarrhi," 'diarrhoa," &c. A. clmnge of dregs from thick to thin is not honelicial iinldes!s accompallie 'y a currespond)in) g change! in climate or 1em prciatire. A fahiionable 1ly afi:r wear i a thick. high neck (Iress all day, will si~ometimles array hecrself ini low.necked all ire for an evening party. Sneht fil imipruinet.t chanlge has frequlenitly been1 followed by a sudde'n deathI. IHead cov I ring's at the presaent day are efvidhentiV wvornl by ladies for display and not. fo'r comfort ; anid wve are no0 tluprisedi whlen wo hear thois or' hiat one complain of "'such dist ress in 11he head,"' or "nleural.. gi"Aht to af1ard real protection to hehe~lshould he llarge enough toi co)verl the greaitir piart-of it, andl at I lhe 1011eavy 1 3 to fatigtue the wecarer after But1 t he most serious feature in tho 'dress of A moricanh had irs is tieht lacing, a praiclie mot un101lnatur, a nd therefore miost dimgeroums to hlealthl. D oei: anly (on1 dIonbt the preval fnce~ of t his cusilt let huim, consuilt the fashion-iplates in any ser'vihely obedient to the angrgesltion of thetir drssi-malker, or' else grossly igno rant o(f thet firsit. piciples ~e of hecalthl havi e stlicezed ltihemselves to deatrh, thle great, day of accounlt will disclose. Theli record rmust he 1appal ig, and1( yet the~ suiicidal work goes on. 'I.'he etlrpression of tho6 wisit. h indlors if it does not. altogether suisp~ind, the auctionl of the( d1ia phuragm, and wealken~s the mitsch's of thle respira. lion and the1( power oif digestion. Th'Ie henrt, liver, lutngs, spleen anid stomaich beiig forced intlo a space inochi too smtall for t1h ~per perfotrmaniice of thiir re sprective fuinction's, are weakened antd if Ite~i compression is con:itied become i seased; co umiption enises, anid the mni:stak en de vot ec of a barbrous11 111 laholl siinkt swifly ito anl early graive . Ohl, 1ye who sigh for the deformity of a waspei dishafpe, coinsbller thle falth s: com1141r (if that. e/o:/ d ' ure of sculpture the Venus (10o Aeiiis, anid strive to ude. velop your at tenaled. bodies mti~ee beau'.ilil plroporionms of theo well-grown Of einirse tihe ent ire dress shonl l he! ada pted 10 t he e'limoate and season of I le year. In climales like that of New York City, where'i' there nro' sometuneIlIs siuddeni Ioransi itios from1 heatt o col 1, and from Will 10 dry, it is hardly a i to dre-is in a slight mnanner, exceept ii. ho in are least frepetet. Fin:: IN GIA~sTN-W learn by a privato despatch that a fire broke ont in Chaorlestoni, in Aton street, tear of the Chiarleston Ilotel, at 10 o'clock, !ast nightt.--Phwnix I33U/. Theo railroad over Motmnt C('nis, Italv to be donme next spriug, masters grades as steep as onto foot in twelve, and Ite hocomoine is to hold on and go ahiead by moons of a third or central ratl, whtich it pocihieq With a pair eh large htorizontal wvhce mule.. Things Wiso and Otherwise, 'M iko, do you love your country 'i yes, yer honor. 'W hat do you iovo )est about it 1' "'Th whiskey, sure. 'Ugh H Ilim great man I Big brave I Take many scalps 11 said an Indian, iceing a window full of wigs. A canter gives ruddy checks ; a de. cantor ruddy nosos. 'May I Iuiquirc whoro the Pol Court is 7' 'Crtaily, sir.' 'Ihei where is it ?' '1 haven't the slightest idea. 'WIly will you persist in wevaring another woani's hair oi your hoad 1' asked an Acil of Iiis wife. 8'ho ru-. torted, 'wiy will you persist in wuar ing other sheep's wool oi your back ! A pretty girl said to Leigh Jat, ' mi varysad you sco.' ei repliod--. '0, no; you helong to the Wier J ew ish sect; you are very fair, I sco.' '\What a passion you are in V said tho Rain to the Brook, 'plushing aiind fussing.' I was (uint till you calme,' said the Prook. 'Tiat's the way; poo plo who pick quarrels always throw the blamo on those they trouble.' Water is not. a fashionable boverago for drinkiiig your friend's heialti, but is a caital one for drinking your owl). Marivaux was accosted, by a beggar who appeared tile picture of healith. '\Vy,' said M., 'do you not labor ? You seem Io be well and vigorous.' 'Alh, M onmienit,' replid the inon'di catnt, 'if you only knew how /At;,y 1 am -.' '.ld ! s; idi r ai' ivau-x, 'here is a crown for your frankine.is.' A cobileir, at Paris, who -itten [,l tie public d\isptation, w * shei if ie inderstod Latin. 'Nl,' le re lied ; 'but know who is wron: in the argument !' How !' asked 'his frieml . ' W hy by aee ing who is angry first.' Make up your mind to do a hing, .unil tIhen do it. If a spider breaks Iiiv web'. tIem times', tweyCI1 timest wil! he mnd.l a. Aeautifull ri , Int--the ione circle. Whre are ";r ioing '' said one boy to aliti v.ho .i slipped down on "n iX -im --. 'Going to get upL),' W OIDD I he blum rULpy. Tho rocdinen, Wre b<-lieve, wih but f,1 xcepjtios have 4cmedA homis Fr ihe' present yer Their belhivior ding iho lidays, so far as we iive lieard, was exeimpl:iry nlot. a SinlieOi niA alince of' riot or misde icanor ocenrred in our mid st to blot thmo Occaitol. Thisi is a decideid improv0 m(It itm colnduct nlt morals, and sirengiitens the predictiion, tiat with proper edaentional .nd moral instruction hey will eveitilily becomo sulf siata in ing and wortiy of confid.nco. We ob serve among i te more ili "ligent i spir it of im(istry and show of reAetv (Ihii y while the other class nnifots a diio. silion to tasto 1.hm. sweets o) frecdoml ill slugg"ishidlt n We deem it a religi )me dily to pro. tct, Irom framud and milpioSitio) tiis chiss of ignornmt piople. llmnity dictates, 11 wetl as our welfare demnds, that we shoulid impjait wVhoilesome advice and ondea~iivor to rai.e hemn in tile scale of' bing, re'gardillQ of' personal andl pec-- i ton imany in their corm:isl.--ancster, Unru~No F'oon ront Ioes.--A t a Im'eeting~ of' the iNew York Ia rmnr's ('tub, l'rof. Mape)s miade? tihe following renuarks im regard to boiling food for hogs: I"The proof of the saving of food b~y Iboiling hias beenI givenf hlere ;O we may as well have it. Mr. Mason wvas at watch maker' in Camnden, N. .J., among 'f otier faiis 11e 1likedl to keecp hogs. lic hiad lis hog pen b)uilt just baick cf Ihis shiop,so that lie could sit at his wmidow anid watch his hogs. IEvery sin; e og 30smo pigs and foil I ;to to Mr. Mason was the stors of Mr. Vain Arsdato, and every pounid of food MIr. Nason gave to) his pigs heo bought at his1 store. At tho end of six nionthis he got his bill from Mr. Vani A~rsdale, andt ho always slaught ered h is hog's at the saimn .time ; so that heL kniow exactly hlow much hlis pork coat. For sever~al years it fig nlrod uip at thirteen cents por1 Iounid. At length somao one - ad vised I imn to boil hlis coirn. THe accordingly got a large k'ettle and cooked all tho which hie fed to his1 pig5. Th'Iou- fYs por~k cost him fo'ir-and-a-htalf oents 1per poundti. We also had1( tile expo.. r'iOnlo (of MrI. Campbell, which wos fWho sameii ais Mr . Masonii'.. Ilenry 10th; wVorthi maide some1 Ox tensiv~o Oxperi.. muontIs in tho sameDt thinig, anmd hisk statenmen t is that lithieen pounds of bioi led corn, imake as0511 mnuchl pork aIs thirty p)ounids of raw corl." Tu1Isl VFxFratx -General flowardndu suite, of t hO Freedme's i'5Hreiaim, a-n vi' in tis ei.y oni Saturdaily, 11nd( since iIhat. - tine haive been~ VJsiting~ the co-lored pop.~ n~Laio)n an ;d i'xan1 Dling into their conid I Io (ID~Lst nig~ht, thu freetdmen'1 turnlCed ont in) large Dniumbier.4, with torches ban ni'rs. tranIspaiIriincies etc , ande enorI em the General anud pa~'rty to the A fricati Chlurch,, where several addr'esss. wore dehivered. Gen'u. I loward1 adlvisedc the:n~ to remam i wvhere t hey were--thart indlnen. mnts w~ore held ont, to them to'onmlgra to to other States, hut that rtimovials w'ero always tronlhhnsomep, and offen very far from advantagoons ; ho advfsed them -to tho industrions and abidt, by their - con tract~s ; inmf ressed non)I thema the impor. tanuce of education. Mating that thu o-(gh out. the Somthern State.a, there were n.tw over 150,000 colo:-ed ch'ildren boing ed. neated, anld conlcluded his remarks with co:taim patriotic ex pressionsw, which cre'ated considerableit feeling among tho, dusky nuol- - m,..-. 8th