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Select JMrj). LET US BE HAPPY. BY ELIZA COOK. Oh ! let U9 be happy when friends gather round us, However the world may have shadowed our lot, When the rose-braided links of affection have bound us, Let the cold chains of earth be despised and forgot; And say that the friendship is only ideal, That Truth and Dovotion are blessings unknown, For he who believe every heart as unreal, Has something unsound at the core of his own. Oh! let us be happy when moments of pleasure Have brought to our presence the dearest and best, For the pulse always beat to most heavenly measure When love and good will sweep the strings of the broast. Oh! let usbe happy, when moments of meeting Bring those to our side who illumine our eyes ; And thoueh follv. perchance, shake a bell at the greeting, He is the dullest of fools who forever is wise. Let the laughter of joy echo over our bosoms. As the hum of the bee o'er the midsummer flowers, For the honey of happiness is from love's blossoms, And is found in the hive of those exquisite hours. Then let us bo happy when moments of pleasure Have brought to our presence the dearest and best, For the pulse always beats to most heavenly measure, When love and good-will sweep the strings of the breast. Let us plead not a spirit too sad and too weary. To yield the kind word and themirth-ligiited smile; The heart, like tho tree, must be fearfully dreary, Where the robin of hope will not warble awhile. Let us say not in pride that we care not for others, And livo in our wealth like an ox in his stall; 'Tis tho commerce of love with our sisters and brothers Helps to pay our great debt to the Father of All. Then let us be happy when moments of pleasure Have brought to our presence the dearest and best, For tho pulse ever beats with more heavenly measure, When love-and good-will sweep the strings of the breast. ^ ? 1. ? IflkdlanawiS Icabing. AN ADVENTURE. mi _ n 11 ii._?n; a. ?ne ionowiog inriiungaccouutui au auveuturc with a lion in the wilds of Southern* Africa, is extracted from a record of an African sporting expedition, recently published in an English magazine : Whilst breakfast was preparing, I proceeded to take a saunter down to the pool, not witheut some faint hopes of a bath, though I feared our horses, to say nothing of the other animals who had visited it during the night, might _ have muddled it too much for that. However, I resolved to try, and throwing my Minnie into the hollow of my arm, and cocking my wide awake over my eyes, lounged down a path among the bushes, now well beaten by the feet of man and horses. The latter I found up to their bellies in the pool, enjoying themselves as completely as the flies would let them ; but the water looked uncommonly turbid, I thought I would skirt along a little to the left and look for a cleaner spot j and so, climbing a short steep, covered with longgrass and underwood, I dashed aside some brauches which intervened between me and a small clear space of shorter turf and?to my very intense astonishment, though I must say not at that moment to my dismay, I was used to the sight of them? found myself within a few yards of one of the finest male lions I ever saw, and who was engaged with a look of grave patriarchal interest in watching the movement of tho horses below J ^.Aii __1 _ . iv _ i r in ?aououess selecting one ior nis Dreanmst.? Have you not seen Lundseer's catching of the lion in the old Tower Managerie ? In exactly the same attitude, still and unmoving, like a noble statue, stood this neighbor of mine; and, for a few moments, I remaiued really lost in admiration of the grand beaut}* of the 'tableau' he presented. It was, however, necessary to decide on some line of action immediately. I could not help hitting him, if I chose to fire, but if I did not kill him rightout with one shot, he was so close to me that I could hardly hope to escape without an uglybrush. Surely this was a case in which discretion would be the better part of valor ; and as he was so absorbed in the contemplation of the horses below that he had not yet noticed me, I concluded (as Jonathan would say) to steal oft' as I came. Ah ! that diy twig that would place itself in the way of my very first retrogade foot-step 1 The sharp crackle effected what the more subdued noise of previous movements had not done, and with a short startled growl, the beast swung himself round, and in a second, was staring at me witn a look which said, 'Halloo ! wlio are you?' as plainly as look could speak. Instinctively I: threw my rifle forward, cockiug it at the same ^ moment, and some seconds of perfect iuimova-: bleness on each side ensued, during which I, was trying to make out whether he would charge or not. The study of physiognomy is doubtless pleasannt enough on the whole ; but when your subject is a big male lion, and the question depending on the study whether you i shall be summarily 'smashed' or let alone, why, \ I confess it becomes (as 31 r. Weller says) too exciting to be pleasant. How I studied every feature, trying to detect a change of some sort which gave me a clue! It came at last; he gradually lowered his head, and by the 'wiggling' motiou of his j hind quarters, which I could just spy over his shoulder, I saw he was gathering his hind legs . under him?a sure indication. "What odd 1 thiugs come into people's minds in moments of j peril! That movement brought to my recollection most vividly a bitterly parallel scene in j; my aunt's garden at Harrow, where I watched lior r?<if uniri fin HTfiollvcimi. i o ?& .... ... .... v 0..... I lar way to pouuceon a wretched sparrow. The next moment he dashed at me with a ; hoarse snarl, which sounded as though a giant j had drawn the bow suddenly across the strings j of a stupendous violin cello. I fired as he rush- { ed in, aiming as well as I could at the middle of his forehead. As 1 did so, I was swept I down with the force of an express train, and ' for a few seconds Install consciousness. The first thing I was sensible of, as soon as 1 I began to get my senses together, was the I ; clear, strong voice of X , calling to me in 1, the most placid, though earnest manner: 'Lie perfectly still, Walter, it's your only chance.' How my.heart leaped at the voice ! Help j was at hand, but the very words that announ- j ced it at the same time pointed out my extreme j danger : it needed only the most moderate ex- ' ercise of my returning faculties to understand ' why. I was lying on my face among the long grass i at the top of the little steep I have mentioned, I could see nothing, but I could feel the lion close to me. I could hear his deep, short, an- j gry breath, like staccato purrs of an enormous ' ' cat?could detect a smacking noise, which 1 af- j terwards found arose from his lickingat a steam of blood which flowed down the side of his j i nose, from a deep sore on his forehead given ! i him by my ball?nay, I could feel his huge ^ i tail, us he rolled it angrily across from side to i i side, rest -for a moment on my back now and < then. ' The bitter anguish of those few years of 1 moments?well, you can guess all that. Presently I heard the crack of a rifle on my left, a sharp whistle close to my head, and a third f on my right, as the shot told among the fur, g succeeded by another short, sharp snarl louder t than the first?another crack, a sensation like t a red hot wire across my neck, (being at the f bottom of the slope, they could but just sight c the lion over my head, and N had fired a a quarter of an inch too low,) another furious t snarl, and then a roar?and such a roar?with- 1 in a yard of my tympanum. I n.ver heard a such a sound out of anything, living or dead; c then three or more shots close together, and a t bustle at my side, which sounded like my neighbor settling down among the grass and 1 a ousues. 'Now roll! roll for your life!' shouted N?'s e clear voice again. I was saved the trouble? c the dying brute, in his convulsions giving me 1 a kick with his hind legs which sent me fly- c ing down the steep out of reach of further i danger. a s From tie Mobile Tribune. C ON THE RAISING OF STOCK. f In agricultural essays embracing so many s objects calling for the attention of the planter, a it seems proper that something should be said c about raising stock, and it has in it more diffi- a culties than auy other one item of its duties, s But a few years sinco Bacon Shoulders cost 3 j cents, Sides 5 cents per lb., aud Mess Pork 810 per bbl.,?now Shoulders cost 10 cents, f Sides 12, and Mess Pork S20, and may be cal- i culated on as the ruling price for years to t come. At these prices meat will cost about j twenty dollars a head, that is, for a gang of t one hundred nersons. the cost will be ?2,000. c - - J- - - ^ , If to be made on the plantation, it will require a two hundred head of hogs to be killed, at 100 a lbs. each is 20,000 lbs., which, the offal will be its equivalent. This will require fifty or 1 sixty good sows, and 1000 to 1500 bushels of } Corn worth 50 cents, 3750, and make no charge r for stock minder, of whom there should be two, ? one to feed the stock hogs night and morning, i with one bushel of ear corn and one bushel of a cotton 6eed, and be with them all day, and 1 one stock-mihder at home to boil for and feed t the sows and un weaned pigs that are to range c on a wooded pasture and running water, and 1 be pened everynight. The hog, for health, 3 requires water and shade and cool earth, with a access to rotten wood and charcoal. The feed 8 must be enough to keep the stock hogs, in or- 1 der, but not fat, and they must be in the pea i and corn field so soon as gathered, (and some 1 send them there earlier, and they think with- r out loss,) or the potato lot, to give them a good t start before going into the fattening pens. It \ is better to kill off everything from 70 lbs., up- c wards, so that the stook hogs will be very few in the spring. The sows and unweaned pigs t never need go into the pea and corn fields, but \ remain under the same care and feeding all the year. The pigs, as weaned, to be carried r tn tViu ctn/Vt Vmrr mnorn?tbo nntnto lot and a t W ?UU b" r pinder lot-for spring use, to be for the sows and \ pigs. The sows and pigs to be kept fat, and a with free access to running water and shade, f and it promises well to keep thein from disease, s Where they are to be raised in a well peopled settlement, there will be great danger of c too many being borrowed without privilege, s and yourarrangements must be such as to keep ii them under supervision for the day, and under ti lock and key at night. The run of the cow- t pen and the scattered corn of the mule stable makes a considerable item of food?a small lot s of groundnuts and a squash and oat lot and e potatoe lot, with the pumpkins boiled with 1: cotton seed and corn, will make ample food. If a convenient to a market it would be cheapest a to sell the green meat killed at six cents, as you get the offal and buy pork as old as wean- h ed pigs at 82 will also do. Molasses at 20 cents s a gallon is as cheap as Bacon, and do for the o children. It is cheaper to raise your own meat, t but it is very troublesome, and requires your t very watchful care, and your lot well arranged v to suit. a Sheep I have paid more attention to and 0 they are raised with little care or atteution, ^ more than driving up and penning at night.? ^ I would advise not more than a gang of 100 s penned in the same place, and the pen should ^ be removed every three weeks. The smell of s a large head is very strong and I, think the 1 source of disease. Two Leicestershire, South- ^ down' or Tunis bucks with a well selected lot a of 100 common yews will give 100 lambs a ^ year, and the young bucks to be made wethers, t; and the stock kept down by the knife or sale, " selecting only the very best for breed. Up- 0 laud pastures are best, and they will winter P without being fed, but it would be much bettcr to give fodder or pea hulls at night. You 11 may calculate on two pounds of wool, each, if you can keep them from the cucklc burs. If ^ you are safe from dogs and other depredations they will be healthy to sleep in the woods ^ where they choose. This looses to you their 0 manure, and as four sheep give the same a- P mount of manure as our cow, a great deal of '! ground will be mauured in the year. The ^ lambs are dropt about Chrismas, at which time S( they should be put into a rye lot for ten days, 0 till they get strength enough to follow their mothers. They require close care from Christ- ^ mast to 1st March,*as sheep browses more than y grazes. The raising of cattle be}'ond the wants of a plantation, which are small, would not be profit- f able in a limited raugc and well settled neighborhood. I would make the stock a small one, and the cows formilk to be cooked for and e. well fed, aud two gallons a day from each a j1 reasonable expectation. The quantity of milk for a pound of butter is very uncertain, but may be generally from ten to twelve quarts.? The cows that give the least milk generally give the richest, and those that give much the least rich. The digestion of the cow is bad, i uud all their fond should be cracked, and the finer the meal is ground the better and boiled. Dl The cow pea gives more yield of milk than & any other food. Two quarts of peas, or three of corn meal, well salted may be conveniently ^ boiled in the kitchen, and is enough for a cow to be divided, and fed evening and morning, " brand,.pea huulings, cotton seed, cut shucks j ' or hay. or pumpkins may be added to the mess j in the scperate mortars or troughs, and with | abundance of water, say not less than two gal- ' ^ Ions to each cow in her feed. I should select j ^ from common stock of the country. They w stand the climate, can better support tliein- srselvcs in the range anil arc of less cost. The I Sl raising of fine stock in which very laudable ! T pursuit some of our wealthy farmers arc en-! si gaged, is a most important, but a very differ- j w ent branch of business, and 1 .leave it to the tl very valuable information in our agricultural ; w works?my object in these essays has been to 1 li improve on our general plantation business, '111 is it is with the means it furnishes, rather j ai than in recommending any new branches It j p; is too much our practice to overlook the value j M of the proper use of the means in our hands, j in reaching too far at other things of uncertain ! tl value and attainment. A Planter. J oi LAUGHTEB. Professor Flogel devotes 270 pages to prooundly philosophical investigation of the origin, use, and benefit of laughter generally, and reats of its different causes and aspects under hirty-seven distinct heads, fie is able to inorm us how to judge a man's character and lisposition by hearing him laugh. The melincholy man's laugh is a poor hi, hi, hi!? he choleric temperament shows itself in a he, le ! the plegmatic in a cheerful ha, ha, ha !? md a sanguine habit is betrayed by its own iharacteristic. ho, ho, ho!?Westminister Rc neic. Two hundred and seventy pages devoted to aughter! But not too many. As a remedial igent nothing equals it. One hearty laugh ivery day will cure each and all who are sick, >r any way ailing, of whatever complaint, and [eep those in health always well. The laugh jure will even beat the water cure, potent as t is. And the two combined, if universally ipplied, Vould soon close every apothecary hop, lay every physician, water cure included, >n the shelf, and banish every form of disease rom among them. All its giggles effectually itir up every visceral organ, churn the stomach ind bowels more effectually than anything else :an possibly do?hence the easy laughers are dways fat?hurrying the blood throughout the lystem with a real rush, burst open closed ;ores, and cast out morbid matter most rapidly e? i J?i i.-1 ?1UI UUVf 3UUU UUUB tUU liUUI ty Idnut luviuv,^ ree perspiration_-set the brain in motion to nanufacture emotions, thoughts, and mentaliy, as nothing can excite it! and universally >ractised would be worth more to the race, han if California depositcs covered the whole larth ! Only when fully tried, can it be duly ippreciated. Laughter is life; while sadness ind long-faced sedateness is death. A medical neighbor tells the following:? iVhile on a pic-nic excursion with a party of roung people, discerning a crow's nest on a ocky precipice, they started in great glee to lee who would reach it first. Their haste beng greater than prudence, some lost their holds ind were seen rolling and tumbling down the lill-side, bonnets smashed, clothes torn, posures ridiculous, &c., but no one hurt. Then jommenced a scene of the most violent and ong-continued laughter, and which, being all roung people well acquainted with each other, ind in the woods, they indulged to a perfect urfeit. They roared out with merry peal on )eal of spontaneous laughter; they expressed t by hooting and hallooing when ordinary aughter became insufficient to express the meriment they felt at their own ridiculous situaions and those of their mates; and ever afterward the bare mention of the crojf-nest scene, iccasioned renewed and irrepressible laughter. Years after one of their number fell sick, >ecame so low that she could not speak, and vas about breathing her last. Our informant called to see her, gave his tame and tried to make himself recognized, >ut failed till he mentioned the crow's nest, at ffViinh clio ro/inomi'7od Viim find hmrnn fn InnnrVi " J ^ D vu "o ? .nd continued every little while renewing it; rom that time began to mend, recovered, and till lives a memento of the laugh cure. The very best application of laughter is in onncction with intellect, as in the best soultirring speech where some public folly or wrong 5 held up to merited ridicule?the location of airthfulness at the side of casuality indicating heir conjoint exercise. But whether we laugh wisely or foolishly at omething or nothing ; at ourselves or at othrs ; let us ha-ha ! many times a day, and augh off many of those ills and petty annoyncos at once, over which too many now fret nd cry. The hi, hi, hi! he, he, he ! ha, ha, ha! ho, io, ho ! mentioned in the above quotation as igns of character, are all true, but embody nly the merest glimpse of those characterises disclosed by different laughs. Thus coninued laughter, continuity, and application; rhile a short ha, ha ! of only two ejections, ud the first the most forcible, signifies "good / O O n the spirit," but without consecutiveness.? Vliat such can do with a rush, they will do irst-rate, yet will plod over nothing. Wholeouled, spontaneous persons, laugh right out leartily and loudly, while secretive persons uppress their laughter, and hypocrites change heir countenance into an unmeaning leer.? Varm feeling but reserved persons hold in for while, then burst into a broad hearty laugh. !uch will be cold and stoical on first acquainance and towards uncongcnials, yet warm and evoted friends when their affections, adhesive r conjugal, are once enlisted. Discriminating ersous laugh at sense, or only when something jughable is presented ; while the undiscernag laugh about as much at what is a little lughable, as at what is superlatively ridicuDUS. Cast iron conservatives laugh little, and hen by rule; and proud aristocrats must keep n a dignified hard-faccd look, while true rcublican familiars laugh freely. Vain persons mgh much, at least with their faces, and at 'hat they have said and doue. Forcible peraus laugh "good and strong," while tame nes laugh tamely. Some laugh mainly with acir faces, others with both face and body, 'lie former is better for health than nothing, eta thousand times more healthy is the latter. The old fogy notion, that to laugh out loud ; decidedly vulgar, especially for a female, is imply ridiculous. It is ou a par with breathig, thinking, and every natural function.? rue, there is a course, gross, sensual, and an xcecding vulgar laugh, yet its vulgarity consts in the sensualism of the laughter and its cartiness. ORIGIN OF SURNAMES. Few people, when they hear a stranger's lrnamc, pause to think how it originated.? ct, as a man originally had hut one name, as .dam, Enoch, Noah or Abraham, and as surames therefore are of comparatively late oriin, it affords a curious study to inquire how trnames originated. A late article in the Edinburgh Review discusses the origin of Inglish surnames. Without confining our;lves entirely to that article, we shall yet draw rgely on it, in the few words we have to say aout surnames and their origin. The first resort when population became so lick that surnames became necessary to disnguish the different members of a family, j as to affix an epithet descriptive of some per- i mal peculiarity, or of the trade the man pur-1 led. Thus arose the names of Smith and anncr, Brown and Black, with others of a j milar description. In some cases, the child j as called by a name which distinguished it as ! ic son of some well kuowu person, and in this ay originated Johuson, Harrison and Wilanison. In the Roman tongue where Fitz j leans son, arose, in like manner, Fitzwilliam j ad Fitzgerald; and in the Celtic, where the ! refix Mac has a slight signification, M'l)onald, ['Michael, and others of a cognate kind. Another class of surnames had a local origin, ie person being named from the estates lie ivned, or the village where he lived. All English surnames ending in ford, field, brook, \ vule, street, and similar terminations, belong j to the latter class. So do surnames ending in I ham, ley and ton; which signified respectively, in the old Saxon, houses, meadow and town Lytileton means, therefore, Littlctown, and Granville Grandtown ; and other names of the English nobility have the like plebian origin Examples of names derived from estates arc De Spencer, De Coursey, and De Valenco, de being the Norman for of; and therefore all names of this character belonged originally to Norman families. Another class of names are foreign ones, naturalized, so to speak, in England or here. Among these are Bouvier, the French name, meaning cowhead; Cadwalader, a Welch name, meaning Chief of the Druids, and Campbell, an Italian name, meaning a beautiful field. This last name, curious to say, runs through nearly every language in Europe, as Fairfield, Kemble, Bcauchamp, and Schonau. Neander is Neuraan made classical, as Grotius is De Groot, transformed in a similar manner. In addition to names descriptive to the personal appearance, there are names originating in the mental qualifications. Goodman, Wise, Moody and numerous others illustrate this.? All the Clarks are descended from ancestors, in various localities, who could read and write . in times when those accomplishments were rare, and who were therefore called clerks.? There are many names, derived from occupations, which at first sight are little suspected of it. Chaucer is an instance, for it comes from chaussure or horse, so that the ancestor of the great English poet must have been a stockingmaster. Sir Charles Napier, the rampant British Admiral, as well as Sir William Napier, the historian of the Peninsular War, had a progenitor, centuries ago, who was a waiter, for the servant who offered the napkins or napery, to the guests went by this name in old times. The lapse of centuries, and the consequent mutations of fortunes, have, in a similar way, put surnames often in odd contradiction to existing circumstance; for we have known Goodmans imprisoned for crime, Kings playing the part of menials, and St. Johns cheating at cards. A volume might be written on surnames, without exhausting the subject. To persons who have leisure, and are curious in such matters, it will afford interest and amusement to trace the derivation of their acquaintances' surnames. Many a would-be aristocrat, now a days, might be humbled in this way, simply by recalling the obscure origin of his or her name.? Western Agriculturalist. TJSST UJtf' AjaUJLilTlUiNlHM. All is not gold that shines, and the londest mouthed philanthropists and reformers sometimes cave in when put to a severe practical test, like the following: 'I had a brother-in-law,' saidMose Parkins, 'who was one of the ravenest maddest reddesthottest abolitionists you ever see. I liked the pesky critter well enough, and should have been very glad to see him cura to spend a day, fethchin' my sister to*sec me and ray wife, if he hadn't 'lowed his tongue to run on so 'bout niggers and slavery, aud the equality of the races, and the duty of overthrowing the Constitution of the United States, and a lot of other things, some of which made me mad, and the best part of 'cm right sick. I puzzled my brains a good deal to think how I could make him shot up his noisy head 'bout abolition. "Wall, one time when brother-in-law come over to stay, an idea struck me. I hired a nigger to help*me haying time. lie was the biggest strongest, greasiest niggeryou ever sec. Black! he was blacker than a stack of black cats, and jesl as shiney as a new beaver hat. I spoke to him. 'Jake,' sez I, 'when you hear the breakfast bell ring, don't you say a word but you come into the parlor and sit right down among the folks and eat your breakfast. The nigger's eyes stuck out of his head about a feet! 'Your jokin' massa,'sez he. 'Jokin!' sez I. 'I'm sober as a deacon.' 'But,' sez he, 'I shan't have time to wash myself, aud change my shirt.' 'So much the better sez i. an, DrcaKiusc come, so did Jake, and he sat down 'long side my brother-in-law. He started, but he didn't say a word. There warn't no mistake about it, Shut your eyes and you'd know it?for he was loud, I tell you.? There was a fust-rate chaucc to talk abolitionism, but brother-in-law never opened his head. 'Jake,' scz I, 'you be on hand at dinner time ;' and he was. lie had been workin' in the mcddcr all the forenoon?it was hot as hickory and bilin pitch?and?but I leave the rest to your imagination. Wall?in the attcrnoon?brother-in-law come up tome, madder than a short-tailed bull in hornut time. OIosc,' said he, 'I want to speak to you.' 'Sing it out,' sez I. 'I hain't but few words to say,' scz he, 'but if that 'ere confounded nigger comes to j the table again while I'm stoppiu' here, I'll ! clear out.' Jake ate his supper that night in the kitchen, but from that day to this, I never heard my brother-in-law open his head about abolitionism. When the fugitive slave bill was passed, I thought he'd let out some, but he did'nt, for he hnoic'd that Jake teas still icorkhuj on the farm.? QUvc Branch. LOUIS NAPOLEON. IIow astonishing it seems now, that when Louis Napoleon lived in Eugland, of the ma- j ny intelligent Englishmen to whom he was | well known, there was but one, Sir Robert Peel, who considered him a man of more than j ordinary talent. One would think that such 1 a man as he has proved himself since his ac- j cession to power in France, must have im-' pressed every one who came in contact with j him with a profound sense of his superior abil- j ity. That he is the greatest statesman and ablest ruler of the old world, seems to be the | universal opinion of all Europe; yet he had j lived to middle age, and no one discovered a . spark of genius in him, till he emerged from j obscurity. Undoubtedly he is a great man, i the master miud of Europe, and, aided by the I English alliance, is capable of making greater ' changes in the map of the continent- than i were achieved even by his illustrioutHihcle. ' I Nay, England herself, but for the blue water j that rolls between and the "walls of oak" that , float upon the wave, would be completely at! i the mercy of the nephew of Napoleon. The j present war has destroyed the "prestige" of, the British army in the eyes of France and |, of the world. It has inspired the French ; soldiery with a perfect contempt of England | as a military power, and soothed the pride i ( which has been wounded and bleeding since | the downfall of Napoleon. "Without drawing I the sword against her ancient foe, France; un- j der the second Napoleon, has amply retrieved j the tarnished laurels of Waterloo.?Richmond ( Dispatch. A bad sign?to see a man get mad when dunnedfor a debt. We always think he would j act the rascal if he had a chance. 1 BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT. Shortly before the departure of the lamented Heber'for India, he preached a sennon; which contained this beautiful illustration :? "Life bears us on like the stream of a might) river. Our boat at first glides down the narrow channel?through the playful murmuring of the little brook and the winding of its grassy borders. The trees shed their blossoms ovei our young heads, the flowers on the brink seem to offer themselves to our young hands; we are happy in hope, and we grasp eagerly at the beauties around us?but the stream hurries on, and still our hands are empty.? Our course in youth and manhood is along a wilder and deeper flood amid, objects more striking and magnificent. We are animated at the moving pictures of enjoyment and industry passing us; we are excited at some short lived disappointment. The stream bears us on, and our joys and griefs arc alike lefl behind us. We may be shipwrecked, we can not be delayed, whether rough or smooth, the Viustpns tn ifi linmo fill fhr> rnnr nf f-.Ii c * * ? ?W ? W ocean is in onr ears, and the tossing of th( waves is beneath our feet, and the land lessen.' from our eyes, and the floods are lifted up a round us, and we take our leave of earth anc its inhabitants, until of our further voyage there is no witness save the infinite and eter nal ?" RULES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. Seventeen things in which young people render themselves very impolite : 1. Loud laughter. 2. Heading when others are talking. 3. Cutting finger nails in company. 4. Leaving meeting before it is closed. 5. "Whispering in meeting. 6. Gazing at strangers. 7. Leaving a stranger without a seat. 8. Want of reverence for superiors. 9. Reading aloud in company without be ing asked.' 10. Receiving a present without some man ifestation of gratitude. 11. Making yourself the topic of conversa tion. 12. Laughing at the mistakes of others. 13. Joking others in company. 14. Correcting older persons than yourself especially parents. 15. To commence talking before others an through. 16. Answering questions when put to oth I era. 17. Commencing to eat as soon as you g< to the table. [How you like 'em, young uns?]?Imj). Disconcerting an Orator.?It is au as tonishing thing how little a matter will some | times disconcert a man who is accustomed t< speak in public, and to have his thoughts abou hiin, and ready at command on almost all oc | casions. 1 "1 was once opening a speech from tin stump," said a distinguished Western politi cal orator to us recently, and was just begin ning to warm with my subject, when a re markably clear and deliberate voice spoke ou behind me saying: "Guess he wouldn't talk quite so hifalutin i hc\new that his trowscrs was bu'st clean ou behind!" "From that moment I couldn't 'got on/? The people in front began to laugh, and tlier< was a loud roar in my rear, and I dared no reverse my position, for fear of having a nev audience of my condition. I made, or rath er invented an excuse for delay, and sat down The malicious scoundrel!" coutinued the ora tor: "it was only a mean trick after allThere was nothing the matter with my un mcutionables!" Too Good to be Lost.?The Washingtoi correspondent of the Charleston Standard tell the following joke on Gen. Cass: "A goo( joke is being told on a guest at Guy's Nation al Hotel. Meeting Gen. Cass (who is though to favor Guy) in the hall of the hotel, he com mcnccd abusing him roundly for not giving him a better room. Cass remarked, "Sir, yoi don't know to whom you are speaking: I an General Cass, of Michigan," and passed oui of the hall. The guest was thunder-struck In a few moments he saw the old General a gain, entering at another door, aud running up to him he slapped him familiarly on the shoulder, "I have a d n good joke to tell you, the richest thing out; I met old Cass jusl now, and thinking it was you, I commenced cursing him roundly about my room." "And you have met Old Cass again, sir 1" drily remarked the great Michigan Senator, much to the confusion of the mistaken guest, and to the great merriment of the crowd who happened to overhear the conversation. Education's Riz!?A precious youth, in a country town in Massachusetts, had arrived at the age of nine years, when his father sent him to school. He stood beside the teacher to repeat the lotters of the alphabet. 'What's that?' asked the master. 'Ilarrcr?' vociferated the urchin. 'No, that's A.' 'A.' 'Well what's the next ?' 'Ox-yoke.' 'No, it's B' 'Taint B, neither! it's au ox-yoke. Why crotch all hemlock! gosh a mighty! think I don't know." A Witty Rejoinder.?"Pete," a comical son of the Emerald Isle who carries wood and water, builds fires, &c., for the "boys" at Hamilton College, is as odd a spccimeu of the genius Hibernian as ever toddled in a brogan. One of the students having occasion to reprove him for delinquency, asked him where he expected to go to when he died. "Expect to go to the hot place!" said Pete, without wincing. "And what do you suppose will be your portion there?" asked the Soph, solemnly.? "0," growled the old fellow, as he brushed his car lazily with his coat-tail, "bring wood find water for the boys." JUST PUBLISHED BY rrilJE HOWARD ASSOCIATION, Philadelphia.? JL Report on Spermatorrhoea, or Seminal Weakness, Impotence, the Vice of Onanism, Masturbation, or Self-Abuse, and other Diseases of the Sexual Organs, with an account of the errors and deceptions of Quacks, and valuable advice to the afflicted, by Geo. U. Calhoun, M. D., Consulting Surgeon of the Howard Association, Philadelphia, Pa., abencv olent Institution established by special oulowtncni, f?r the relief of the sick and distressed, afflicted with "Virulent and Epidemic Diseases." A copy of the above Report will be sent by mail (in a sealed envelope) free of charge, on the receipt of two stumps for postage. Address Dr. .GEORGE It. CALHOUN, No. 2 South Ninth-St., Philadelphia, Pu. Dec. 13 4 (J tf BLI'ESTO.VE, sulphate quinine, Iodine, Iodidc-l'otash, Morphine, Tannin Sic. For Sale by L. P. HARNETT & CO. Nov 1 43 tf xi^etiierill & brothers, pure WHITE LEAD. For sale by ADAMS & McCORKLE. may 3 17 tf Cljc f ffrkHIle inquirer 13 ISSUED EVEEY THUESDAY MOENINO, at i Two Dollars per year, in Advance. i To Clubs of Ten, the paper will be furnisli | cd, one year, for Fifteen Dollars?invariably in advance. All subscriptions hot specially limited at the time of subscribing will be considered as made for an indefinite period, and will bo continued until all ar rcarages nre paid, or at the option of the Proprietors. Subscriptions from other States must ixvabiably be accompanied with the cosh or the name of some rc' sponsible person known to us. i Advertisements will be inserted at One Dol, lar per square for the first, and Thirty-seven-and-a' i.-ir n a., r i_ : ? nuii v/cms lur uucn auuacijueiu lusuruuii?u aijuuru ^ to consist of twelve lines, Brevier, or less. Business . Cards, of a half-square or less, will be inserted at $5, , per year. For advertising Estrays Tolled, $2; Citations, $2; Notices of Application to the Legislature, ' $5; to be paid by the persons handing in the adverk tisemcnts. Monthly or Quarterly Advertisements . will be charged One Dollar per square, for each insertion. . Contracts by the year will be taken on libe' ral terms?the contracts however, must in all cases 5 be confined to the immediate business of the firm or ? individual contracting. All advertisements not having tho number of insertions marked on the margin, : will be continued until forbid and charged accord | ingly. I | Obituary Notices exceeding one square in length, , ! will be charged for the overplus, at regular rates.? " Tributes of Respect rated as advertisements. THE PRINCETON PRESS. THE design of tho inventor was to get up a Press which would answer every requirement of the offer made by Geohgf, Brcce, of New York, in 1851, viz: cheap, light, easily managed, and capable of throwing off at least 500 sheets per hour. This Press will throw off from 500 to 800 sheets per hour, doing tho work equal to any Cylinder Press. The bed stands about 30 inches from the floor, and is the most convenient of all Presses to make ready the form on. It is adapted to jobbing, or book work, us well as newspaper, and will register as well as any other Cylinder Press. - It requires, to work it, a man to turn the fly wheel and a boy to feed the sheots. The Inking Apparatus is very complete, and differs from the apparatus used in Cylinder Presses . generally, being more like that used in the Power Platen Presses. Two rollers pass over the form twice to each impression, taking ink for each sheet / P oss of this description for newspaper and jobbing, bed 44 by 28} inches, with roller mould, roller stocks, blanket, flying and registering appara'.as, &c., complete, will be furnished for $500. If intended for book work chiefly, an extra ink fountain will ' be furnished for $20. The press, fly wheel, &o., will weigh about 2000 pounds. The sides, &c., are iron. Length of frame, seven feet?height, to front - edge of feed board, three feet six inches. Any size mnde to order. The following is the list of Sizes and Prices as far as established: Bed 28 by 20, $400. Bed 48 by 31, $580. D " 36 24, 450. " 50 32, COO. "44 28.1, 500. "52 32, 625. " 46 30" 540. The beds will take chases their full breadth; and within two inches of the length. Terms.?Oue-lialf, cash: one half, note, at 4 months, with approved security; or 2} per cent discount for cash. 3' Boxing and Cartage, $13. t For more than three years the inventor of the above Press has been improving it, working i'c all the whilo, and ascertaining, with great care and expense, the host mode of carrying out all the details?and he 3 flatters himself he has succeeded in perfecting it; and is now manufacturing the Press himself. No Press will leave hisprcmises without being thorough" ly tested, and without it performs to the entire satis faction of the purchaser. t JOHN T. ItOBINSON. Princeton. N. J.. Nov. 1855. 46 8m ; NEW BLACKSMITH SHOP. mHE undersigned have leased the shop known as JL WALKER'S OLD STAND (recently occupied by - Stecdman & McConnell) on Main Street, opposite the % residence of Col. Wright, where they are prepared to execute all kinds of BLACKSMITHING, iu the t most substantial manner and on reasonable terms.? j They are also engaged in llio Manufacture and sale of TORMAN'S PATENT IRON PLOW, the best Plow now in use, and which cannot fail to commend itself to every intelligent farmer who gives it a trial. - They solicit an examination, and will be pleased to _ exhibit it to all who may call. They solicit a share of public patronage. LETSON, ROTIIROCK & Co. Yorkvillc Sept. 20 37 tf. 1 CAUTION!?-FORMAN'S IRON PLOW. s YTAYTNG purchased of the Patentee of FOR1 til. MAN'S IRON PLOW, the right to manufacture and sell said Plows in the Districts of York and Chester, the undersigned are determined to prose' cute all violations of their rights. They are now - entering suit in the United States Court against one , person in this place, who has assumed to manufac5 ture and sell said Plows without authority; and they 1 give warning to all persons who may purchase of i him that they too arc liable, and that suits will be t entered against every person who uscj any Plow of his manufacture. This notice they give that per' sons who choose to buy his plow may do so with their eyes open, and with the understanding that r they will have to stand a suit in the U. States Court. LETSON & ROTHROCK. ' Yorkvillc, Oct. 11, 1855. 40 tf . i imm-niiffit I f|!IIE undersigned respectfully informs his friends . JL and the public generally, that he will attend to the sale of all kinds of PRODUCE, MERCHANDIZE, NEGROES, STOCK, FURNITURE, and eve1 rything that can be-sold, at a reasonble commission. . All business entrusted to him will be promptly attended to and immediate returns made. He returns his sincere thanks to the citizens of Yorkville and vicinity, for the liberal patronage heretofore bestowed upon him, and hopes by strict attention to business, to merit and share a continuance of the same. Address, Y. E McELHANEY, Auctioneer, Yorkville, S. C. REFERENCES: Yorkville.?W. I. Clawson, Juo. L. Miller, Dan'l Williams. C/ieMt-.?A. G. Pagan & Co. Lancaster.?J. Curcton, J. II. Witherspoon. North Carolina.?W. L. Irwin, R. Irwin. Unionville.?W. J. Keeuan. & Yorkville, July 20, 1855. 21 tf HSf The Chester Standard, Fairfield Herald, Unionville Journal and Lancaster Ledger, will copy 3 times weekly, and forward accounts. Notice. THE Firms of J. N. LEWIS fi CO., at Yorkville, S. C., and BEWIS & WILSON, at Chester, S. C., are this day dissolved by mutual consent. The names of the firms will be used at both places in settling up their old business. J. N. LEWIS, D. 11. WILSON. October 1st, 1855. ?? CO-PARTNERSHIP NOTICE. J BENNETT, J. N. LEWIS, & D. II. WILSON, have this day formed a Co-partnership for the purpose of carrying on the WATCH and JEWELRY Business, at the stand heretofore occupied by J. N. LEWIS & CO., at Yorkville, S. G\, under the name of BENNETT, LEWIS, & CO., and at Chester, S. C., under the name of BENNETT, WILSON & CO., at the stand formerly occupied by Lewis & Wilson. JORDAN BENNETT. J. N. LEWIS, D. H. WILSON. The old firm of J. N. Lewis & Co., feel grateful for the liberal patronage shown them on the part of the public, and hope that the same may be continued ! to the new firm. J. N. LEWIS, D. H. WILSON. Oct 11 40 . tf 3?SQ3:I?f JQMS GMB, DK. IS. 31. COBB, \\TILL be pleased to receive Professional Calls in ? T the departments of MEDICINE and SURGERY. Unless professionally absent, he may be found at his residence, Fort Mill Depot, York Dist., S. C. Oct 11 40 ly J.1S.SE.\C'E or COFFEE, Yeast Powders J and Hops. For sale by Nov 1 L. P. BARNETT & CO. QIAOLE A\D DOUBLE TRUSSES, O for adults, children and infants ; Gents and Ladies Shoulder Braces, Supporters and Bandages. For Sale by L. P. BARNETT & CO. Nov 1 43 tf BROWXLNGILEMAX, IMPORTERS OF - French, British and German i DRY GOODS, ' 209 and 211 A Iny, Comer of Market-strce. CHARLESTON, S. C. KEEP constantly on hand, and offer to tlicir friends and the public generally, the largest assortment j of Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods in the Southern ! States. Their Stock is constantly supplied with a full assortment of RICH DRESS GOODS of all the newest varieties of style and Fabric, in Silks, Tissues, Bareges, Grenadines, Muslins, &c.? Bombazines, Alpacas, and Mourning Goods of all kinds. EMBROIDERIES and LACE GOODS, of every description. EVENING DRESS GOODS, of every variety. Gentlemen's and Boys' Wear. CLOTHS, Cassimcrs, Testings, Linen Drills and i uoaungs, 01 nest f'rench (ioods. f Satinets, Tweeds, Jeans, &c. FOR FAMILY USE. | Rose, Whitney and Bath Blankets. ; Red and White FLANNELS. . ! English and American Cotton Flannels. i French, English and American PRINTS and Cam- I , brics. fl j Linens, of Richardson's celebrated make, for I Sheetings, Shirtings, Pillow Cases, Table Damask, Doylies, Napkins, Towellings, B. E. and Huckaback Diapers, Fruit Cloths, Apron Linens, Ac. CARPETING. Ingrain, 3 Ply, Brussels, Tapestry and VELVET. British and American Floor Oil Cloths, i Wilton, Velvet and Axminster RUGS. White and colored Mattings of all widths. Stair Rods and STAIR CARPETINGS of all kinds. CURTAIN MATERIALS. Of every variety in Silks, Satin and Worsted. Curtain Cambrics and Muslins. Embroidered Lace and Muslin Curtains. Gilt Cornices, Curtain Gimps, Holders, Loops, Tassels, Drapery Cords, Bell Ropes, &c. PLANTATION GOODS. Blankets, Plains, Kerseys, Caps, &c. >. Cotton OSNABERGS,. all of tho best Southern make. All the above, with every other line of Dry Goods which can bo demanded, are of our own Direct Importation, and are offered at the lowest Market Prices for cash or City acceptances. The one price system is strictly adherred to. All Goods"are warranted, and orders filled with promptness and the most careful attention. BROWNING & LEMAN. March 29 " 12 ly ; GREAT SOUTHERN REMEDY I JACOB'S CORDIAL, for all f Botcel Diseases, Cholera, Dysentery, Diarrhx, ChoU era Morlm, Bilious Cholie, Cholera Infantum. Also, admirably adapted to many diseases of Females, especially ppinftU menstruation. The virtues of Jacob's Cordial are too well knowJi to require enconiums. 1st. It cures the worst cases of Diarrhoea. 2d. It cures the worst form of Dysentery. 8d. It cures California or Mexican Diarrhoea. 4th. It relieves the severest Colic. 5th. It cures Cholera Morbus. Gth. It cures Cholera Infantum.' 7th. It cures Painful Menstruation. 8th. It relieves Pain in Back and Loins. 9th. It counteracts Nervousness and Despondency. 10th. It restores Irregularities. 11th. It dispels gloomy and Hysterical Peelings. 12th. It's an admirable Tonic. A Pew Short Extracts from Letters, Testimonials, Ac. "I have used Jacob's Cordial in my family, and have found it a most efficient, and in my judgment, a valuable remedy."?Hon. IIibam Wabneb, Judge of Supreme Court, Georgia. "It gives me pleasure in being able to recommend Jacob's Cordial?my own personal experience, and the experience of my neighbors and friends around me, is a sufficient guarantee for me to believe it to be all that it purports to be, viz: a sovoreign remedy,"?W. H. Underwood, Formerly Judge of Superior Court, Cherokee Circuit. "I take great pleasure in recommending this in l 1.1 .12?2 -ii ? ? 11 vuiuuuiu iul-uiciuc iu un amicicu wim oowei aisenses, for which I believe it to be a sovereign remedy ?decidedly superior to anything else ever tried by me."?A. A. Gaulding, Deputy G. M. of the Grand Lodge of Georgia. "I have used Jacob's Cordial in my family, and this, with all 1 hear about it as a remedy by those who have tried it, induces mo to believe that it stands at the head of every preparation of the kind, and I would recommend its use in the diseases for which it is compounded."?Miles G. Dobbins, Cash- , ier of the Bank of the State of Georgia, Griffin. "If there is any credibility in humau testimony, Jacob's Cordial, must stand pre-eminent above all other preparations for the cure of Bowel Diseases.? From the mass of testimony in its favor coming in from all quarters, it must be very far in advance as a curative agent, of jnost if not all other patent preparations.?A. Flemino, Cashier Marine and Fire Insurance Bank, Griffin, "This efficient remedy is travelling into celebrity as fast as Bonaparte poshed his columns into Russia, and gaining commendation wherever used."?Georgia Jejfersonian. B0u For sale by L. P. BARNETT & Co., Yorkville; Patterson, Moore & Co., Fort Mill; J. Boss, Sandersville ; Wylie & Smith, Hickory Grove; Davidson & White, Bullochs Creek j Haviland, Harral & Co., Charleston; Drs. Fisher & Hcinitsh, Columbia, and the principal Merchants and Druggists throughout the State. W. W. BLISS & CO., Proprietors, 20 Beekman-st., New York. Sept 20 . 37 ly M. JOHNSON & CO. ALL ABOARD! I A T tlm vnnl nf />nmir.anr) AT TAUVOAU tl A* ?-v nw*? v? ??vy *?* u V/Uil WV11 bUUA passage on the Railroad for the cities of New " York and Philadelphia, and purchased especially for j this market a splendid assortment of articles in his line of business. .The firm arc determined to enlargo their establishment and to keep on hand hereafter a more extensive, carefully selected and finer stock than ever before offered in this place. In the stock now opening, will be found every variety, and the best quality of * SADDLERY HARDWARE; Harness Mountings of various styles; Bridle-Bits, of all kinds; Whips and Collars; Trunks, Valises, Carpet-Bags, &c., &e., &c. They invite attention to this Stock, and are confident that they are able, by offering the best qualities at the lowest prices, to give general satisfaction. As heretofore, they will continue to fill orders for the J,/ HOME MANUFACTURE of Saddles, Harness, Bridles &c., and are alwayj ready to do REPAIRING at the shortest notice and in the most workmanlike manner. Their thanks are due to their friends and the public generally for a generous patronage, and they hope by strict attention to business to merit and rooeive a continuance of public favor. Call at the store, formerly occupied by Meek & Moore, opposite the "Adickes Building." M. JOHNSON & CO. Yorkville, Aug. 30, 1855. 34 0m Removal. MESSRS. LL,DSAY & THOMASSON announce to their customers ami the public that they have removed their establishment temporarily to the store formerly occupied by them, one door North of WALKER'S HOTEL, where they arc prepared to serve their friends as usual. They have now on ' hand a good assortment of ^ . Drugs, Medicines, Dye-Stuffs, &c., ana an armies m umir line 01 me oest quality, and at reasonable prices. J. F. LINDSAY, D. H. THOMASSON. Yorkville, Mar. 1. 8 tf ~ DRUGS AKD MEDICINES,~ AT WHOLESALE Oil 11ETAIL. L. P. BARRETT & Co. A RE now receiving a large addition to their stock, J\. consisting of DRUGS nnd CHEMICALS, I'aints and Oils, Window Glass and Putty, Varnishes, Brushes, Combs, Soaps, Perfumery and Fancy Articles. To Country Merchants and Physicians, we will offer liberal inducements, guaranteeing everything as represented. We make our purchases with cash of manufacturers and importers, and feel assured that in most articles we can compete with any one in M the State. We only ask an examination of our stock. fl Prompt attention given to all orders. Goods care fully packed and forwarded as directed. Prescrip- I I tions accurately dispensed. I L. B. BARNETT & Co. I 1 Yorkville, Oct. 30,1855. 43 tf * I I