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Orginal Poetry, I AM GROWING OLD. It nY MI.u. LA DD.t irenins of my youth, beautiful dream*,I sweet visioni that have long since farded iway from ile inthway o'li ti. Vciinmi, like thie gorpeusu tintedt clentdo of oreyob, ad night folIls hier <t-irk mantle arolund thle car th. Gono like thle glittering dw W W1in toucheid by thoe vcorchingi ray. Siuch is life. Life with its mournting of beaut-li'ul ting. LiCO Witlh its nloomday of un-1 realitics. Life wht is evening shadows Dre'ams of my youth, so sweet, so g!1y Why have yo tied, Could ye not. stay ! t I)renms so beautiful, dreams more bright I Than the gilded clouds, when (ho sunset N light Fringos their edges with purple and gol d N Tlhn sinks to ro3t, 'nuath tho gorgeous % fold, Sweet dreains, Like tho zunset clouds they have faded t away, In the dark, dark, tints of a leaden gray When night stops on, departing day, 1 am growing old. Yet memory to-night (lid the page unfold, And I saw my youth-and the Fairy land That I peopletd so ott with an Elfin biand, And I gazed again, whero once I would see The future its lire then seeme.l to m1. A future of flw-vers, and jewels bright. That flaslied like cart.h, when the morning light, First touches the coronals as they lay On each tiny bud, anal each wreathing spray DIiamonld coronals, night hail wept O'er the sitent. earth, as she calmay lept With none to wialh bllut. the golden eyezi Of the starry world,in the far oil skies; All were forgotten, I could only see Life as I oneo luI dreain'd t'wotltd be. It, is gone, and forever Startleh, I awoke, from that alreamn so sweet And it passed away with its noifclm teet, I awoko to life, with its hoirs so drear its withe:ed hopes, its toil, its care, I.closed the pige that hail once seetnaed truth, hC pilge where 1 wrot e t l he dr-wi a, outt I: With at startin;r team, with ia 4jltiver-ing sight I folaled the leal', 1 have laid it lay, Dreams of my youth. Du Ohaill, M. Do Chailht devoted a lecturAe.dliv. ored in NeOw York som1e days :.go,to the .gor1iIba anld ot her ap.es. Wv (poa;me a few passages. After speaking of th leaar of the gorilla m o'ug tim lativea, he de 1 en,: bes his eiiIotois vhen he (en first upont traces of I iesa alren adfl beast: 1 rceiiember* vell tihe first tilm I at it glililpse of I he gorilla. We lid reaclei'd a place wihere once a villago h,.ad been built, ntl vhere a egeneratt kind of suga1r can)io was growingr, in the very spot. where the houses had fortme rly tood, wh-!en!I my meni perceived wh1a1t itt. onico threw us into tie greatest state of excitement,. I Iaore and there the caneo vas beat en down, torn up by the roots, aind laying about; in fragments which had evidemly been chewed. Iy v mien looked at each tOther ir. Si i Cle, and mut. tered the word "Nguyla," which is the name tLy give the gordln. We foliow. r.d the traces, and prI.eently camu to the foot pints of the so long desiread atnimal. It was the first time I had evear seen these lootpriints, and iiy sention wasii induescribale. I hIr was 1. now, it, seem.i doin the poi int oif ineeting facee to face tat mionster of whose feroity, .'Mrer: gth and ciutnning natives haad tolad me' o mtuch---an aiinimal whiich, since a e dy oif H anno. had not been seaen ini its wi state by a whiite tmani. My heart beat util iI feared its loud paliaion:; woit proavo fatal. By the tracks it was ea.sy to see t hat there inuist htave becen seve. :rl goihis~ ii comipany. We prepared at. once to follow tem. Th'ei woinm of our party, wha) cariedca the food of thieir hutsbands, were teirriid, and we lefta themil an escort of severaI maen. Thn tne rest of us looked once0 more1 carefully at our gunms, for the mal~ie gorilla gives yon nto time to reload(, and~ youtr gun lunist not miss fitra, for woe to ha;in whom .he attacks I We were armied to the tenthi, and1( wo departed from camp atnd left the peopile there wa~ith fear written on thteir faces. Slowly we pressed on through the dense b)ush, lest, wo should ahl rmnI the betasits. Makindai was to go to the right of the rock, whiile I took tho heft. Un fortunately, lho got in ad vancte of mue. The watchful anitmals sawv him. Sud. denly, I wats st art led by a stranice, dis cordait, halIf-hitman, devil ish crWy anmd behluda four gorillas rutnning past ini the thick of the forest. We fired, btut bit nothmng. Thelan we rushed ini purstuit but thi(.y kiiiv the w~oods beattert thatn V.0 (lid. Neovert heless, I cawghit a glimipse of e of thie animals ag'ain, but an imteroven Iing teeo spoiled myi imin a nd II dial not fire. \V he we cotuld pt'rette no more we rettuned slowly to our camp, whero~ (lie woimen anal 'mena were anxiously, expiecting uIs. .As they ran on their hmnd legs these gorillas looked fearfully like hauiry men. Thecir head down, their body intclined forward. t heir whole appearance waa like meen rtnnaina for their lives ; andI 1 ceased to wondor .that tho naitivea havo the wildest super.t stitions about these ciwild metn of the woods." ernrs STrontu:s. One of tho stories was- that two Mbondlemos womean wecro walking to- La gether through the woods, wh'len sud-l a - dleudy, an Immellnse gorilla stepped into a, -.the patht, and clutchitig one of the we- tl "~~t, bore her offi'in spite of thao screamus f< sY~truggles of both. Them oilier wo 'a retuirned to (lie village and related a 1'story. Of course her companion. u . RiVpn up for lost. Great was the sur- d prise, therefore, wvhen a few day's after d she returned to the village. She related t that she had evidentiglyv escaped from the 1' g rillas,- "Yes,"said one of the men, jt L 1: th was a lnn t t had tiurned into a sai orilhi," whIeh -lanation was received ke Ith a genaerad gruit of approval, ftor th ese! peoplo believo ditha somte mon1 be1 ave tiried into gorilias. Such gorillis a la 1e uiatves behove cani never be killed, wih niii the poscsessed lest9 are, according be, them, eidowed with the intellgence oni f i i mnunited to strength and th feroi- yoi y of the beast. Another man told me ow some years ago, a iarty of gorillas ma *.ere found inl a lied of suwar vane ty yo g up the canes im reguhar bundles, reparatory to carrying it away. Thie wi atives attackel thlm, libut w'ereI routed, \ C viral beimu killed, while othes were th< aUried away by tho golrillas, but inl a Th W days tlhey ret urned homo uIninjuz red, u iti tlhis horrid exception-the nails of thi heir ingers anmid toes land beeni torn 0' tl their captors. Finally, the story, ab ilici is current among all tho tribes )r< vhio arc at all familiar with the gorilla, ru vas related, that this animal lies ini ai,, in the lower branels of tho trees, un 6'atching for people t1o go to and fro, and m enh one pvasses sufilciently near, grasps ab he luckless fellow witht his powerful tre 'et, and draws him ill) into the tre, du vhiere hie generally chokes them. tll A GoInLLA KILLED. tiV rel Suddenly as wo were yet creeping ili long In a silonieo which mado a heavy -an >reatllng seem loud and distinct, the att voods were at once filled with the tre- wi iendous barking roar of the beast. Then Lt lie underbushu swayed rapidly just otl head. and presently before us stood an le mimense male gorilla. le had gone sa hrough the jungle on all fours, but u vibei It saw our party, ho erected him. elf and looked us boldhv in tho face. early six feet high, with tinl immienlse TI )ody, huge chest, and great muscular fol r:ns. intensely black face with fiercely "c hiring large, deep, gray eyes, and a eliinhlu expression of face, which seemed att loim, like some night mare vison, tis wi tood beforo me, the king of the African a I oreo-,. lie was not afraid of us, but feI tood there and beat his breast witi his ha fi' ft till it resounded liko in ji. lig ueSe bass drua, which I found to be im ii 3 mode of offering defiane, Ineantimue pa ;iving vnt to roar after roar. This da oar of the gorilla is the most singular a i mnd awful noiso heard in these A frican w-t voods. It begin3 like a sharp bark of a I m angry dog, then glides into a deep l' Mss, wvhich literally and closely resem- by les tie roll of diht aitlilundTer aloig tlie na ky. So doep is it that it seenms to pro- ar eed les from a mouth and throat thath -l 'rom the deep chest; and vast paunch. ed Ii5 eyes begati to fiash fiercer fire as ve Ve stood on th defeansive, and the crest lit. ,f short imir which standi onl his fore- pr iead began to twitch rapidly up and iml lown, while his powerful teeth, vere S hiow' as ie sent- foth a thunderous - til -oar, and now truly he reminded me of an iothing but, some hellish dream creature ia .-a king of hat.h I ideous order, half man,|go lail beast. I lu advanced a few slps, iml, hen stopp(d to itter hat hideotus roar it gain, and beat, his chest, and finally Ik( too1ped when att a dit aiee of about. six ho -ar(s from us; and here, just as lie pr >e0ani one of his roar:,. beating 'his he ,reast in rage, I killed him. With a th< roan which hlad sometimg terribly lii- Ot nan in it, and yet was full of brutish. an me:, he fell forward on his face. The pe >dv shook convulsively for a few min- w( Ios, the ll bs moved abo'it in a stig. he ding way, and then all way quiet i hith imd doneo his~ worik, and I had tre eisuire teX i examine the la rgo hodly. "\ Al- Du~i Claillbi obser'ved that lhe ou >rought, twenty-three skinas of gorillas o tins count-ry a fewv years ago, and Thred to seil thbem for $5000. No f'ol no acceptedi the offer, aiid hec finally y, old them for a tmuch laiger suma in to nilanid.ol Of tho habits of the gorilla, and the l .imeiult~y of taming it, M. dui Chaillu q aid : o Thei animal li ves in the loneliest and lye la rkest puortion of the A fricanjumngle, is ,rfefmanig dleepl-wooded valleys and he waimpy soil. i i is a restless or nomadic east, wander-ing from place to place, gic nd scarcely found' two days in the amoe ncighborhiood. This restlessness wc :( auisedl by the struiggle it has to fmnd da ts fasvorite food. For though the goril. .1 psesses such imnmenso canino teeth, ad though his vast striength doubtless Is hima to capture and kill abin'st every nimal which lreqieaats the forest, lho is strict vegetarian. It, does not live on att aces; its enormons wveight would pro enut it firotm doing so. Some of the mles must weigh from 300 to 400 sa ounds. By the examination of the sid~ tomnachs of the many spoeimons I have th<t ad, I w~as enabled to ascortain wvitha ~ )lerable certainmty the naturo of its foodh, w' and I discovered that, it ha-1 no need to scend a tree. It is fond of tho heart of T1' ame trees, also of a kind of nut with a cry harud shmelh. A fter my first explorations I said that col lie gjorilla was niot gregarious. Mv sai tst jouianey has demoanstrated that 'I by ras wrong, for I have soon ten of thism pai gether, hbnt I found them wvhen adults cat hiost always one male with one fe- pr< mle. When the male becomes very cve hidlie wanders companionless. In such tur case, as wji the "rogue" elephant, lie wau particularly morose, aind malignant, of: iid danigerous to approach, and woe to sis io uman w~ho comes suiddenly upon01 onte be thieso old ones, and tho hunter tracks cot iemi maust be onl his guard. 1 founa zin >mectimes bands of four or flvo gorillas. beu V hen in bands these are very shy and is tin dinicult to appro ach, as thoir hear-. bt ig is iact. for Somnetinmes, like the lion, the gorilla sta > amuse himself roars andl roars, atnd in faar distanice I mistook this for a munt- ] ring of thunder. One (liy I found the at it w~as a male gorilla roaring to its drn male, who, after a wvhiile, couald boeoat eatd with a weaker cry. The echoes Lio velled and did away from hill to hilh, roni uitil tho wholo forest was full of the the mn. As I approached I could hear thle col oap drum liko sonud caused by beating sid ieir breast with is hunge fast. Present.- -- I heard tree cracking, and sawv through nm me woods how, eve..y r.... .ii:n..c-. a z. ding was swiuig about and then bre . Tho gorilla has no other roa it that, I havo described. There ix ide, the scream et the female, whei rmed, and a low kind of chick witl ich the watchful mothers scom to cal . child to her. Tho young ones hav< y a cry when m distress, but thoi co is harsh and sometimes is more i an ofpain thai a child cry. The fo to gorilla has iever more than ou iMg at a time. 1'he gorilla ivalka in an orect positioi ,h groater case thanti tho chimpaize hlen standin ig up his knees are bent a joint, outward aid his body forward e common walk of tle gorilla is tic :)It his hind legs, but onl all fours. It s position the arms areso long thit head and breast are raised conside y, and as ho runs his hind legs ar might far beneath the body. 1le ca Iat great speed. he adilt gorilla is, I think, perfect] tamable. The young oIes, so far a oxperience goes, I have never boe oto tame. In no case could an atmient of mine, kind or harsh, snt o these littlo monsters. Constaitl enemy of man, resenting their car ity, young as my Speciimens wer< hsing everything in the shapo of cii .ed food, and attacking mo with toot d nail, even though I was in constar endlanieo upon them, finally dViin thouit previous sickness, or starvin mselves to death, or dying withot ier ascertainable cause tharn the r'I a chaling of a spirit which could in ler captivity nor the presence lin. A T..i.: op Uin:urIM:n LovrE. le editor of the Ureka Union relatesa lows low Ie oncO got in love anl 01. the mitten :" We Weru never, kind reader, 'dospei in love" but once, and that wi ti a red-no, aubirn-haired girl wit 'reckled complexion, who had bu v pretemsions to beauty ; but t hen sh A suelh really beautitiful eyes, dee uid orbs through wlich her soul i: uniients of teideriess, looked out i ssioiate fervor, and inl joyous mirt lied and sparkled with the light housaud (dw drops-damonds wN re going to say-but we never sal hiousand diamonds. Hefr name wn ura-wlich, when breatlhed softl a very soft, lover, is a very swe( me-ati d her clear ri'nging langh fe >ud like a shower of Silvetr bell 'rovor, she wore a dark, wine-colo dress, trimmed with lilac colore lvet and black fringe, with a iIe le white colar of fine lace, whie Mticst of dresses, has the elleet t Ae a plain girl absolutely charminc n iever perforated her ear, to han ,reby a peudulum of glass or bras d the only ornament onl the little whit 1id, wi ich needed none, was a plai Id ring, sacred to the memory of ideni proimlisr. Well one evening wits moonlight suimmriet time-we sn me on the Ilorch by the cottago dooi Iding that little white hand in genti ssure, but ono a ri had stolent rot r Waist, and a silett song of joy, "lik musie of the Iight ," was in our soul *r lips met inl a sweet delicious kis .1 beitding softly to her ear, we Whik red thte tale of passionate devotion proposed. li a moment she tor Sliaid from ours, and with a look c tIfblo scorn, sheo said, in a voic mbling with suppressed rage: V hat!I marry an editor I You gi t !" We slid. I frUMous (P -rmt: Ti.;TcOnAwi.-Tht lowing ocetired it l3atavia, Nov >rk, a year or so ago. Otne of Ih 'ia's bellos cntered the telegrap cc and prtesenit ed to the genitlemuat operator a communticaieitioni, and rt estedl to hiave it sehnt. The 'smar :ctric ag'itator' requtested her to ap sil her signiature, when she politel; ited that it would not bo required a knew her hiand writintg. 1 fire is someting from tho coal re mns that deserves a better fate titan th per basket. The following messag s sont from an office in thart, ilk a foi ye ago: "P.-, 23d. Rev. Mr. S-- W -, Fx.: Dome home to marr~y M. ] . Stuar ursday morni ing, Answer in)medi ly. The worthy divinio received the mee e in a shape which startled him cot erably, if ntot more. Hie doubtles night Ito was going to rsee his wilei a ito popular now-a-days. Thi "Coma home and marry me. Stat ursdaiy morniing." N bIMPnovicD, WHsIT;iewASH.--yr. Jr >son has mado a whitewash wvhichi ii to bb anmuost as durablo as n)ainl dissolvimg 50 parts of' glute in' 151 -ts of water, arid addinig 2 parts e istie soda ; after boilinig, a flocculcn cipitato separates, which may, how >r, be disregarded. A fter the mix a has cooled, lie adds 50 parts ter glass, and stirs ini enough oxyd smno to tmake it of the proper cotn .once for paitnting. Two coats shiould aplied, and whetn dry a soluitio: taing 1 0 per cnt, of chloride c c should be laid on, .which gives it mutiful gloss and great durability.I veil suited for wood, metal or brick should he applied as soon tas made it cannsot be keopt long m the propel to. ir. Samuel Olough, who publishec Ne w England Almnsao one hun. id and sixty-five years ago, was itlous to a fault in his progttostica. as of the weather. -lHe tells hii ders that porhtaps, from the 5),h te 23d of January it wvill be ver3 a weather, if it "freeze by the fire. a or a fence at noon." So in April 'Perhaps wet weathoer, if it rains v fair woatheor if the sun shines I windyor anim.' From the Waynesboro Tiues. r Joseph E. Brown. "One riseth by another's fall, and some do climb so fast, That in the clouds they do f'orget what cli mates they havo paA." r Political regenera tion is a matter i more casily undeartood, these trou blous time, tilall the religious regene ration suggested to Necodemnus of old, for m one case the reward is iminedi I ate, while ill the other it was distant. .'The politiciaus who undergo this thor t rough cleansing take "theire couitr"y's good" as a Cloak to hide their imbe t cile notions and dwarfish conception, iand mislead mnuy by this seeinin1g t, unselllis inotive. To remove the vcil from one will be but the uimasking of a all. Joseph EL Browu stands before i the people as "boing born anew," having re-entered the politioal womb and issued forth a, regencrato mnan1. s None but the river Jordan could cure, ai so lie was dipped and the leprosy <)f v sucession hls eft him. The man whom Howell Cobb declared as "mad r with secession," has taken a Radical emetic and diigorged the monster, , and his leannesii is quite apparent.. . The man who, by personal influence hi and gubernatorial power, formed more t regiments than almost any other Gov g ernor, would alost deiy his part ill the revolution. The man who ,emt t his speceches to fihe army inl the pacek ots of "red jacewts," and ill the git t beriatocial contest declared imtseli d the soldier's friend, hs animounced all his pasr acts and become identilied with tile party which ho endeavored - by every ieans to destroy. The man s who turndCI ove* r the SttO tr-0oops to the Confederate Glovernment is ready and willing to turn over th(- citizens of the same State intothe hands of 4 their bitterest. enimies; and yet, with h1 his career before tile public eye, he t wailts ithe people's Coil fid ence e The mau who had one eye open to 11 his count ry's good 1ms at last openeud bothi to his own individuital linterest. i The lioll "sCeSsion" is dcad, and all h political jakes give him 21 kick. I "A live dog is botter than a dead 0 lion," 1nd so every prosperous o.ur V wags a secure tale. Like Paul, of S Tlarsus, the scales have dropped from Y his eyes, and what was abomination t before is religious faith now. The leopard has changed h1is -pots and the other alim uals do not recognizo him. le has coimo down from his watch tower, where "the nation's eyes wcre on t ham" but tile latiol's eyes were shut, 11 for they dill iot regard J. E. 13. as 0 tie impo-Jrtantt seer lie would liavo theim believe him. i1s words,thoughl 1as voluble as wisdom's self, have lost s their power, and the people begin to feel what a (aingerous citizen is that a loud-mouthed orator, who lacks boti a discret ion and principle. 1lunged .il - tile ooss-pool of political 1ilth, he would persuade tile people to share his bed of infamy and wallow in tie mire of Sfanaticisil. He forgets that tile piths I that load to fortnno to qftoln pass e throuigh the narrow defi's of meani -ness, where a man of spirit cannot stoop to tread. The people cannot afliliate with those whom they have ~ cause to feel beneath them, nor will they lend their support to those who have deceived thcm. o Tfhe weak, the base, tile hlyp)orite - are time first to turn withl inldigniation a from their follow-mortals inl disgiace, while the pure an~d honlest abjide by their principles unt il conlvinlced (It C thei'r error, and11 endeavor to palliate ftile mniseries and~ misfortunes of their -counltrymnen. TIo (10 ill, in aniy cir I cunmstances, is the eflfet of a corrupt -heart. To do well, when there is -nothiing to fear, is theo lieri t 01 a com1 t mon01 man ; but. to (do well, wheni a man - exposes himilself thereby to th~e groat 7' est dangers, is peuliar to the truly a virtuous. Thle revolution has1 gonlo againlst us,~ anid we stanid alon11, dev'oid -of prescent sy mmpathiy-I had alnost C saidfuture hopc. '1'h 11Rad icals arc C successful, and success too often throws v a chlarm rounld inljustice, like thle daz11 zic of the necromancer's shield in Ariosto, before which many fall. Radicalism is an infernal deity, wh'lo demands of his votaries suchl cru101 sac rifices, thlat every one initiatedl inlto tihe mlysteries of is faith~ muIst make a solemn anid absolute renunciation of the use of his mlorls-shut his eyes upon)01 his integrity-and deny to is heart thme pleasurable emotions of Shonesty and1( truth. J. E.. B. has1 maude Sthe saciicial offerings and thley hlave s been1 accepted. 'fie man who, whienl the tide ran in, in 1802, was biuoyed lip oin tile flood, nIow 'when~ it isrunm nling out would ride on1 its ebb, is quite anl anomaly thes~ CUriouIs timeIs. I lec 'has surpassed Arazo iln thme juggling s art, and wilo deceiving others, is pr 'haps hiimself deceived. To under ) stanid is art, see the effect.; lie has Somifbine~d elemients hitherto regarded Sas incompatible. The comlbulstible - oeomnt, termed( "scessionl," has un11i -' ted withl Radicalism, its oipposite, amnd I brought forth a spurious abortiomn-an a hlermalphroditc of p~rincilo. Hoe has1 -damniled himself to a plrurionlt notorie ty, whice hisasuccess depends npon tile Ielements of character he possesses to so hlighi a degree-trickery. As well might the wvriting obliquity (if tihe sorpent be compared to thie swift dii rectioni of thle arrow, as tile duplicity of J. B. B.'s ambliitien to theO simiple 'steadiness of gonulino0 matgnanimmity. In his mnind all is shuifling-amubigu ous, dark, insiduous and little; noth ing simple, nothing uinixed ; all af footed happiness and dissimulation ; a C hoetorogonlous mass of contradictory qualities, Hie has, by lhis owii acts, shoewn himself to by about the last ii link in the scale of politicat humanity. I With suchl scurities as Ben. F. But- a1 lor and Thad. Stevens,is suecess as ai a Southern Radical is certain. Tihe cook may crow, Mr. Brown, but don't deny the present Iordl andl maner.T Gorrit Smith's Spooch at Richmuond. Gerrit Sm13iith I made a speech to a Inixed asemibly of blacok and wviite peo. le ait lichmiond onl Tuesday which was till of Characteristic benevolence, tand mandbroader and mloresnil views3 than tih I pceelces of :,. oth(er NLorticrn orator now in the South. I fe lid not spare the South f'or its sins and 1'ies, for bringing on i war, or For ittemptign", In Some caos, to run away ron the restonrl ioln t erms of Colngress mt lie bdatied the North alco for itl iare in bringing on the Lronh- and ir is wail. of, iugninimity. Iloilgh nll iAr the constitution those who took )art. in 1ighItihgi agoaiit the Governmenit ir traitora to-day, he -:l he wi "a verse t) haviig hi:4 Comnitryn (11h4e joutherns) go down to pLoerily Stig natized as traitors. . When ti, strife ind advanced to a gre.at civil war, with td f(act') governent it , and ca i ol ivar ais ai indepeldent, powrP , the XerC no lonlger rnitors. 1He wanted Ius to lif thieI fromo tuiir su pposed logradation. The North, ie wmi.1 .a, vas undee a comimon responsibility wi'th .he South for the lat war." After speaki'ng of LIavery a., the c:InC >r the war, And the North'bemg equaly nIilty wit1 the South for establishinl.U Ind mnaintailling that insLitll.ion, he ad. led, ve of the Norhi reaped far .1ore ain from slavery than yon did. Yoi >nt held th' cow-we inclked ii.." It. i. ihle was notl an advocale of einlis. 'ation, and advinid the blcks tot to isk for it, but to seek homne bv theN lonie.t eari igs. I te would n'so r. ieve the Soulli for hamf a dozen yeair.; rom direct Federal taxes to enabl lum )coi))e to r'eCOve%*r n tin of thir ormerVI propriy Cogoh si hilould have aIlproriOjated wit or t, I .y million Of doliar.o that su!iemi andl. Hlov nuch blroad an.1 Wihm view contras with the narrow and lliberal polvy of lCogre, in taxaig wlen they miost nld assist:mit!c 1 low lifert ii this spch ot (errit Smit .o Llhme hnte-in and mr ata ;chc~ll.1 of Wil n Keluv anid 'o:w! >lir ;Northern orator.; in 't ho Sout h We thiiink Gerrit Slith wonl do a Zrent. deal of good were lie to iollow hose other speakers thrmou hIou, the >uiitlh, and we reccolimnuond him to do .-NtCew .)-ark Ha... Ciutnen C.iiri.sem.-We (.111 Ow ollowing ''CateclliIn fior Ch ir'" fromu he Eranyd!el Iiutl!c n, aI i.bhed at Jhairlotte, N. C. Alth0ugTh prepv -ed 'or anuther latitude, it 11ay,13 porlai ind an application ill tlis-vicinity : I. What is the object of a elioir Ans. 'To sing i ie, ainei niii play the beautiful qu'malities of the h ludR11 voice. 2. llowshould the tinic of F"ervice Lbe spekt ? Ans.,. In the mosit interesting man r r possible. Readin, nloels and irtiig will alswer very Vell, thou these Occupations aiiy be OCcasionlly Variod by couitilig tile nmber f People allinllg tle Congrogation who ire asleep. 3. \Vhat should 1)o the rule with regard to attending rehearsals ? Ans. If you are a paid singer, you will have to go, of courro. If not, 10onA't, go uii nless yoU Choose. I 1w leader oulit to be ta111fuil for your (rigices wheveiiir it isyu. pesu!t rgve thien,. .Lu cesr g d1. 1 low should the leader of ht ahotir be treated '1 Anis. Ver~y miuchi as you feel. It. is pictasanit to dilfer with him11 continally ini the select ion of miusiuc to be smu~ir. 5. What should be (don1 inl a~se reis anyl troubile about the chijce of seats ? Anls. iinst upon01 having the place you wiant at all hazards. It will be 4uro to produce an agree ible exci te muent, and may, p~erhapslt, lead to ai di.. Vision1 ill the chiurch. It is an oppor tunity not to be thirowni away. 6. How cani your imiportance as a choir singer best be made mnif est. ? Ans. By rmingat homeiU when over the choir haippens1 to 1)0 in a par' Licularly weak cond it ion1 ; or', still b)t.. ter, go to (thurch with "sneh a diread ful cold that you are unable to sing~ ai noto,"' and you cani thus sit wvith thce congregation1 and cujoy the discoitt uire of tile choirl- AlIso, by ceasing to usig, in tho middle of some passage in which y'our voice is mniost nieeded. This will have tihe add itionlal ad van Lago of keeping the leader in a healthy utate of vegetation. 7. Finally, what arc- he peculijar aid ever-to-bc eM-;ished privileges of hoi r sinpeers? Ann. TIo hanve unoven'01 tellpersl, to mitch suddeni colds, to try the patience fl ministcrs, to set cong'regationsl by) hie ears, and1( in every possi ble way to rev'ent theii stiagnation)1 whi lonIclg eon - inuied pene0O and1 qtuiet would be sure .0 pr'oduce in a community. Jr. WrlKEs Boo-ru S-rn .r. Auv :.--. A. lotter from A nidrow M. WVilson, at Eiveton1, 'Txas., to th1e New Orleans M~cayutnc, givo an account of an inlter1. riew with a genitlemian in Calentta, who lid wont a bet of five hundred dollars hat Booth was alive, and hind produced ho oath of two men01, selected by the aan wvith whonm the ihet was made whot wore that, they sauw hliml. T1his wiriter says that Dooth's wherea 'outs is known to five persions only, whio know that he is Booth. Hie is iving in obscurity, far from his ntive rind ; and is perfectly safe, as his dis nise is so complete that his own broth. r would not, recogniz'e him. A chimney, a t Thompsonville, Con ecticut, 1 00 feet high, contamning 00,000 bricks, was moved last, week, distanco of seventy foot without dam go. During a recent thunder storm in holiver, South America, abont one0 hun. red pnrrn wern kiled b imtni,,,. .fiA YDEN k I 111 & , (Cl1OCK i-'RtY, (CiNA, G . \s~ m\ A l: zilii I C I'i il~s1ill'? i I I d . Ol Gold aini NSl n r pureh cl.ed .' a~t .l<~~ Vo rreral 2-- ll t; r., rot:Nh:L ol' tii:A '.lN Ol'l6.\ 4lNiSTON I.-' AT ~ ~ ~ ~ - \\A~lS\ s \0,/;l l.ICN AT . E. 1, wl l i : N 1. 1 . T11 xIro.\l.\, . 110v' 27-U ESTABLIXSHED 1854 IN MILL.rI[ERY,, STRAW, CII A11,,T().N, S. C. NV ITCI thw Tei- o eaine th fid . :0 1variel-4 i m nte e I, .4 P-4 d'loer, 1'"hAs Nies CApNI s, VV N, \ l o f 6mw 111 d1in. I~~xhtit, Ithete G al es Siks .) t, SIvl ) ., . b c .4 l n I rA R . i , 0. ) .i t1 .i', in 'i nsmay r i l . oC ..;-iin ..1' ib ItM, I bel ri with N w Onl I.: flig t Fi - r k.N.A I A'. AIll td A on s of J i'iard lo day, i F4~'x 0). C Ce i d tiC. JU ioe g 'i i PUR l.: l (Sueic tr( o1 Ir Ct S Wilson WHIOLESALE DRUGGIST, C C lu' i)iit C l l i l it g C liut j ol, I o n 1(tso ti l "E ii' '. n -r li t n ..'1~i~e iqo afl. Gn a d ok Urlf:'g. Chem eieniPini, ls, UKituioTn' S NDR E, Ana lys :f ities, tuoilct eriizr, c l. F. ALN w1).\N N IONL S ellT know ordr r go sbb (LiiehIDand .\iol n hoe1.10,) il At heaSitu ofunthea Tnosn Tol j ioeg. 'rnolpoe Knvd Daler Pincoe Englisunt bHARDWARE &N MoUATILERYO .n.EON 20 , NailsLT stigs,u al. Frs o o Millilr1ns, SuarUas Coi. F. a ver'y irritable and ima. (tent man hul oceasion once, whihtt pinonhorebamck throumgh a small1.11 town iln the 10r , te, atru"oi'. a DutchtI .l eketith. ".\r" ym; thle smith ?" he aske d of thle Stoult bakh ad , m- Invb - gr1ilimmed OI o l n n, who eunell mut (!I the ;Iop to look at t hlt.,' de m b:. I U t'i I li;41e ti I t i -4.,' t1i ip tiho jhoes. "Vet, I he derm ,"rpied (it i .it l O h .a:t\ h IId 'n L lhe h-ra ' . fi w th hv ii. t (11 -14 I h l o ui:,h* t ot , .a"t h e ne h . --It n f' 'I . ir," a re li\ he actome i-tn' "I set I shy < thp wir . yah, I ma I iill him inl onec hour .i . Th. llon ! we t : .i 01 reurn ed at the appointed time, mal found the l ac mb zi vt work 41n il i Wi was I erY wvroth whn hW :aw- thW :,tat , of a tiai, 1 t h0 v t alvt. again w ith to Irjomi t at in ft'nt ludi I mr"nth oe woh be At i At~ ler di inno in no very mtt--jihtl' ao:.. wilil ]p)' vvv) 111'1dl 11 ul m1)r1b" 110 indu hik appl" anc aga-ini at the 41n1p,:ust d what wa to pa.1Y "i -'1us h illit , wt ls hIe re 'pl .! "Four shitlin ! whae an lsi It in!' ia I .: ~lta'' exchiond tt, i 'r Colne. ' ve Pr h m r a akild o set.. \ell ," ncaked mein her. i"Yotln shiling i foraI th vo heatva-i -'.\ i 0, !0 Pt ic ' ro)r-.1 the e::eitd trai h-r. "\\ 'h it Pid y t to, tuet nore ti ln t t s l t1 I" Said ti : lit h. W ! 'Tit aitlelmd !'' Vansweld thelt r ,*.i-.l r -. '- "'- l - u . ha\eidn i M! Y o say set tie hoto On dL. fCu-I Cfe " 'eek o t ,"r aid O!:-n it::teler ; the c i C Iwo cb..i it - (C o url feet !"( theoy of "I it, .1 t , Ic 6,l1, mvsitl ''. "hointat i.-r to tk! t uil hm :it ee. N re1 onai ing llat Ite i n daU .t win therl 1ettatdpo ttt tyt iso thin it Eu. '-~ .to itral ol p'alo c 11 ex ea , tte 'onr, itr tv.ho rio wI l ' i . waseieite -by iii Jai! il i i i k'. i. . .,, Ao bt. ti e - tie y .'O --bluder nt lhit. o :n." to ta ti i, "Ysou evenke <- itt! ltmtey !io teu del:n , iii a eioo l av'ii h o to ir C onel rei,,:tu-.n: wor tm w ve'. eld Noa ilt whheo.- hi, d that coii -tinoils a tackiii, liy liii :1 ai abbed Dutchlem hio n, I ..u on ill otf nl i-yda hx:ed - renf the i olt itN ad-o I HO for uola to tual fin.'' eu :e xpa tIhe matt r. n t The Wit it i d Othei whie herritiw i i smoked fi.:idy eer.ind coiony thaijtdt wihlale our With imspeias wayobut (the Pighty-doonder and tHe i i -st .Ji--r m o .- ~a r n . rabi.gi te C !!M, pnt o fr twgon :ear tal v idrtu the ho m- p'ftatbeho lilto i t ohem. ao tlit tiany o herhi niet evn th itechenl, ave it iea ber kpers. ete aht ptt thor tit itac bml.itspen abh- nen-r Ctat a(hus ilshol f i he d wi thieux fhn ortywpi~ can hext l~t~ oi gooil esi.ell ason aee smaly w:.1I bun on ita. rtmhii. killful as lgn is~ Ic blsw readiltty s Abro iloian it ofaro aorficanvfo wnTh char of gookhanher - own playzzuin arion tor I clttle th Au dairty kien nd hoean adorn have rive man an rm oet