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I I 1 I ??????? jno. i. miller & co., Proprietors, j An Independent Journal: For the Promotion of the Political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of the South. {lewis n.GBisT,Pubii?her. VOL. 4. YORKYILLE, S. C., THTJE8DAY, JANUARY 21,1858. 3STO. 3. Original f aelrg. ~ - ir For tlie YorkviUe Euquirer. I MISS THEE. TO IMMOGENE IN DEATH. BY MBS. M. W. STRATTOX. I miss the-' still, above my path One heavy cloud forever rests, Tho' other ties my bosom hath The vanished one seems dearest?best. I miss thee still when day is done And night in darkness shrouds the scene, I gnze upon God's starry throne. And deem thee there my Immogene. I miss thee when the lighted room? The cheerful hearth?the merry crowd, Would seem to banish all of gloom, And almost shriek thy name aloud. I miss thee when my muse has caught Some happy thought, or word, or line, For all my hand has ever wrought Was dear to thee because 'twas mine. I miss thee, and it seems relief Into my verse to weave thy name, For this my first, and deepest grief Aught less than music seems too tame. I miss thee, and in coming years A bending form with silvered hair, Tho' many a tie her life-path cheers Will weep for one no longer there. I miss thee, yet can be content When reason soothes my anguish keen, Thy summons home was kindly sent, And God has blest my Immogene. Columbia, Dec. 5th, 1857. IHisffllaiifous-ilfabing REMARKABLE DOGS. | The dog has been, time out of wind, the friend of man, and the faithful and viligant protector of his person and property. Numberless anecdotes fyear witness to his memory of persons, places, and favors?his bravery, his fidelity, aud his quick appreciation of the difficulties of a portion, and more than instinctive power of subjecting circumstances to his purposes. A dog who acted as lead r to a blind begger in New Orleans remembered not only the route taken by his master through the different streets of the city, but also every house where contributions were given at regular intervals, on two or three days of the week. It was noticed by a lady, one of the beggar's patrons, that the dog brought his master to her house regularly on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays,stoppiug ou no other day of the week; while on Tuesdays and Fridays, but on no other days, he was seen to stop at the next house These were the days on which those patrons were accustomed to contribute to the necessities of the dog's master.? What almanac did he consult to ascertaiu the day of the week ? A gentleman, living near a country town in Indiana, was lately called to town to see a sick relative- Ilis dog, a large Newfoundland, accompained him. On returniug home, the master, anxious to receive daily accounts of his sick friend, wrote a uote of inquiry, tied it about Boxer's neck, and told him what to do, pointing along the road in the direction of the house. Boxer, after a few moments of study, started off on his errand, and faithfully performed it. For a period of three weeks he made two daily calls at the house of sickness, and bore to his master the letter there giveu him. A more singular instance 01 sagucuj is told of a large mastiff in an English market-town. Hover had the misfortune to run a thoru into his foot. The matter was neglected by his master's family until the foot was largely swolleu and extremely painful. The master returning from a journey just at j this time took Hover to a surgeon, who ex- j tracted the thorn and hound up the foot, directing that he be brought back next morning for a further examination of the injured limb. This was done. Hut there- j after the dog went regularly every morning to the surgeon's office, scratched at the door | till he was admitted, and then presented his foot for examination. Finally he was cured, and the surgeon ; lifting up the foot, said, 'Rover, your foot is well ; you need nit conic any more.' This Hover,however did not understand but continued to come evidently regarding the surgeon's words in the light of valuable professional advice.? One morning, however, he declined to leave the office alone, talciug hold of the surgeon's coat to induce him to come also. Following him to the door, the surgeon found there another lame dog which Hover had brought along, but which the servant, on admittiug Rover, had shut out, not considering him a proper patient. The good-natured surgeon took the dog iu, and performed what was necessary for a cure; the two dogs appearing every morning until the stranger was cured. Hut this was not the end of the matter.? Hover brought to the surgeon's office every lame dog he found, on the street, and as all were well treated and none proved uugrateful, he shortly found himself, when ou the street, the centre of an admiring and grateful concourse of dogs, who followed hitu wherever he weut, and by barks and the waging of their tails endeavored to show "o O their gratitude to their benefactors?obtaining for him among the townspeople considerable notoriety, and the sobriquet of 'Doctor Dog-star.' But as Doctor Dogstar was in reality a skillful physician, that which was at first an anuoyancc attracted public attention to him, and ultimately aided in securing him success in his profession. The fierceness of the bull dog was wel' illustrated by a horribly cruel experiment tried, for a wager, some years ago, in the north of England. A young man, confident in the ferocity of his dog, laid a wager that at separate times, he would cut off the animal's feet, aud that after every aBmmammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm amputation it would attack a bull who was brought for the purpose. True to its natural ferocity the dog inattentive to the injury it had received, continued with equal eagerness to assault the bull, even after its four feet, wore cut off. The terrier is known to be among the most sagacious of his tribe There is a wellauthenticated story of a small terrier which used some years ago before the days ol Western railroads, to accotnyany its master, a country merchant, on his semi-annual trips to Cincinnati, from which his village was distant uearly 60 miles. The hotel where the merchaut put up was guarded by .a large and savage dug. Having occasiou, on one of these visits, to pass over into Kentucky on a journey of some weeks, the merchant left his terrier in care of the landlord of the hotel. On his return he inquired for the dog, and was told that it had disappeared. The day after his departure the large house-dog had fallen upou the little terrier, and so injured it that it could scarce walk. After two days of careful nursing under the landlord's direction the terrier had strayed away no one knew whither.? Eight days thereafter it returned to the hotel, accompained by a very large dog, when the two forthwith fell upon tho terrier's former enemy and gave him so unmerciful a drubbing that he was long ur.abie to move. Thereupon the two again disapeared, and, had not been seen since. On returning home, the terrier was almost the first to greet the merchant. On inquiry, he was told that the little animal had returned home, looking bruised and ill at ease, and that the following day he had again disappeared. At the same time a neighbor missed a very large Newfoundland, which he prized much. In a few days the two dogs had suddenly returned, and no one had thought farther of their absence. It was I fViA mnrAViarif'c forripr hnil nrn. V f lugub bUUU VIIW UJVi vuuuv w *W Uvva v cured the neighbor's Newfoundland to aid him in getting his revenge. Judge Ilaliburtou tells a story showing that dogs are susceptible to the passion of jealously, doing to George's Island, he took with him two dogs?a Newfoundland and a small terrier called Tit. Tit, being a slender, clean, and dandyish dog, soon became a favorite among the Judge's friends, and was often admitted in the parlor when the shaggy Newfoundland, wet and dirty, was excluded. The consequence was that Thunder became jealous, and refused to associate with Tit, punishing severely any attempt at familiarity on the part of the little favorite. As their master, however, would suffer no quarreling, Thunder contented himself, when in his company, with treating Tit with silence contempt. One day having beeu on an excursion with the dogs, the Judge missed the terrier. "Thunder was close at my heels," says he, "and when I whistled for the other, wagged his tail and looked up in my face, as if he would say, Never mind that t'oulich dog ; I am here, and that is enough?or is there any thing you want me to do? 'Searching in vain for Tit, I happened to ask a sentry if he knew where he was. 'Yes, Sir; lie is buried in the beach.' 'lluried in the beach ? said I. with great anger. 'Who dared to kill him ? Tell me sir immediately.' 'The large dog did it, Sir. lie eDt'ced him down to the shore by playing with him, pretending to crouch and then ruu after? sometimes retreating from and then chasing the small dog. When he got him near the beach he throttled him instantly, and then scratched a hole in the saud aud buried aim, covcriug him up with gravel. After that lie went to the water, and with paws washed his head aud face, aud thou returning to the barracks.' 'On searching in the spot designated,Tit's dead body was fouud. Meantime Thunder, who had watched our proceedings from a distance, as soon as he saw the body exhumed plunged into the harbor and swaui across to the town, where he hid himself for several days, till he thought the matter was blowu over, when lie approached me with anxious faceaud cautious mien, evidently fearful of puuisiuent.' I A touching instance of tenacious memory ! in a large mistiff is within the knowledge * ; of the writer of this. The dog had lost a j master to whom he had been much attached. llis master's portrait was hung in the par! lor of oue of his sous, into whose possession j Watch also came ; and the dog's favorite | resting-place was on the parlor carpet, just i below this portrait, which he evidently reI cognized, and looked up to with a touching ' uft'ectiuu. One day, many mouths after i his master's decease, repairs being | made, the portrait was takeu down and i placed upon the floor; and presently Watch I was found standing close to it, fondly lickI ing the face of the picture; aud no iuduce! ments would persuade the faithful brute to I relinguish his place, or permit the portrait ! to be touched by the workmen who had takeu it down. He quitted his post only ; when ordered by the master of the house. Hogs seem to find a peculiar aud gratifyj ing excitement in a fire scene. There are I numerous instances ou record throughout ] the couutry, of dogs, generally power; ul fellows, attaching themselves quite naturally j to a lire company, aud displaying, on oc> j casions of conflagration, the greatest euthuj siasui. In front of an engine-house in i Brooklyn, Long islaud, may be seeu, in! closed iu a glass case, the stuffed remains oi | a dog who was loug u cherished member ol i the company, the first ou the alert, and tin i most lively and good-tempered iu times ul trial and danger. Ouc of the engine com pauies of Philadelphia had long a dog a tuoug their number. Hover's name wa; called at every roll-call, and Hover hi 111.-el was always cared tor, as his sterling ([Uali tiea of vigilance, activity, and tailtitulnes: deserved. 'Hill,' a dog belonging to a 'Gre-eseapt man' in the east of Loudon, is not only tin Grst to discover a Gre iu his neighborhood i but also Miust in the advance to the rcsI cue. Bill is a terrier, about six years old. He is generally the first to notice an alarm of fir.', and immediately barks loudly for as' sistauce, when the fire-escape is putin motion. If it beat night, Hill seizes a lantern ! in his mouth and runs before to light the way. No sooner is the escape fixed against i the burning building than a race commences between the dog and his master as to who , shall get first to the top?the master going up the ladder, while the dog works his way up inside the canvass. No sooner is a window opened than in dashes Bill, examining the bed and every corner of the rooms for the inmates, and barking loudly for assistance if he finds any one. In this way the noble animal has actually aided his master in saving no less than seventy-two lives at various fires. Bill's first essay in this department was unfortunate for him. The flooring gave way beneath him, and he fell through the flames into a cellar, where he was afterwards discovered in a butt of water, which though it prevented his being buried, was hot enough to scald off his coat. On another occasion Bill helped his master to save five persons from one house. One man was lost. Bill again fell through the floor and after the fire was extinguished, was found in the cellar with the body. It is worthy of remark that Bill has never been forced into, or instructed in, his present business. It is his natural bent, and he uses his own best judgment in the various emergencies of his fireman's life . ROBERT BURNS. The great poet of Scotland was born in a clay-built cottage, raised by his father's hands on the banks of the Doon, in the district of Kyle, and county of Ayr, on the 2oth day of January, 1759. As a natural mark of the event, a sudden storm at. the same moment swept the land, and the gajjlc wall of the dwelling gave way, the babe was hurried through a storm of wind and sleet to the shelter of a securer hovel. lie was the eldest boru of three sons and three daughters; his father William Burns, had J come from Kinkardineshire, married Agnes Brown, a young woman of the neighborhood, and settled on the "banks of the Doon," where he followed the profession of gardner. Among the bonnic winding banks, IiAma TA.\/\r* ?>nno tttIriinrr olnow ..liv-.v ^uv.. IUUO V.V..., Whore Bruce once ruled the martial ranks, And shook his Carrick spear. The early childhood of Bums was spent between this neighborhood and that of the town of Ayr; and "here awa, there avva," the inspired child, following his ffcuius upon the mountain side, or among the wooded paths along the riverside, was imbibing never-dying images of humor and pathos. The elder Burns wasasilent, austere, well informed man; his wife was of a mild mood, i blest with a singular fortitude of temper, and loved, while busied in her household concerns to sweeten the bitter moments of life by chanting the songs and ballads of her country, of which her store was great.? When the poet was six years old his parents were induced to remove to Mount Oliphant, a farm belonging to the laird of Doouhclm. After a residence here of six years the laird died?and then many terms never intended to be called for by the generous laird were exacted so harshly by his factor that the family were obliged to relinquish the farm and seek shelter on the grounds of Lachloa, some teu miles off, in the parish of Tarboltou. When, in after days, men's characters were in his hands, the poet gave his factor a lasting touch, for his iusokmcc and wrong, in the poem of the "T'"a Dogs." Besides such instructions as Burns recei| ved from his parents, he was aided by one ! John Murdoch, student in divinity, who undertook to teach arithmetic, grammar. French ! and Latin, to the hoys of Luchlea, and the i sons of five neighboring farmers. Murdoch was "an enthusiast in learning, much cf a , | pedant, and a judge of genius. He thought j wit should be always laughing. lie taught i llobert the names of different objects in j Latin and French, the grammar of the En- j glish tongue, and the natural order of prose I and poetic composition. Hums was even in | those days a sort of enthusiast iu all that! I concerned Scotland. He read of the bloody j ! struggles of his country for freedom and ex- j j istence, till a ''Scottish prejudice,'' he says, ; ! "was poured into my veins, which will boil j i there till 1 die." liurns lifts himself from j ! the studies which made hiln a poet. "In 1 my boyish days," he says to Moore, "lowed \ ' much to au old woman (Jenny Wilson) who j ; resided iu the family, remarkable for her * credulity.and superstitiou. She had I sup- j ! pose the largest collection in the country of i tales and song, concerning devils, ghosts, j fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunk ! i ies, elf candles, dead light apparitions, gi- \ ; ants, enchanted towers, dragons and truui-1 pery. His mother, too, uuconsciously led ' j him to the muse; she used to sing to liiin a j strange ballad called "The life and ages of; i : Man," which was iu his mind when he wrote ! I "Man was made to Mourn." j He found other teachers of a tenderer na-/ !J tureand softer influence. "You know" he j <' says to Moore, "our country custom of coap-! ling mau and woman together as partners in ! ' 1 the labors of the harvest. In my fifteenth I ! autumn my partner was a bewitching crca-1 i turc a year younger ttian myseir, ana, uni . wittingly to herself, initiated me in that Je | delicious passion which, in spite of acid dis1*1 appointment, and book-wortn philosophy, I fj hold to be the first of human joys. How ! ! she caught the contagion I cannot tell ; I t" never expressly said I loved her. Indeed, I ; did not know why I liked so much to loiter j - i behind with her, when returning in the even- i > | ings from our labor; why the tones of her j voice made my heart-strings thrill, and my | pulse beat when 1 fingered over her little s j hand to pick out thistle stings." Thus with ! him began love a verse. Through such ini j stinct in after years were composed some of : ' his best songs; such as Uoutiic Lesley," , j "Highland Mary," "Duncan Gray," "John Anderson my Joe," Fairest Maid on Devon's Banks," "Ye Banks and Braes," "Had I a Cave on some Wild Distant Shore," "Bonnie Jean," "Auld Lang Syne," etc. On his father's death, Burns took the farm of Mossgiel,and with his mother, sister, and brother Gilbert, managed it with care and frugality. His wages were fixed at about thirty-five dollars a year, out of which he bought books. Farmer Attention, the proverb says, is a good farmer; but Burns was only such by starts. Though excelling, reaping, mowing, &c., he would stop to write a poem on the sheep that he was about to shear, or a song on that girl among his reap ers who had the whitest* hand. There was in preservation a memorandum-book containing his earliest verses. Though a poet at sixteen, he seems to have made not oven his brother confidant until his judgment had ripened with manhood. In this book were some of his best compositions, mixed up with maxims, observations, hints for his own guidance. The first words noted are stanzas on his fair companion of the harvest field; among the last is the matchless lyric, "Green Grow the Rushes, 0." To him the stubble field was musing ground, and the walk behind the plow a twilight saunter on Parnassus. With his thoughts thus laboring on, in two years, from the summer of 1784 to the summer of 1786, Burns composed the greater part of his poems. The failure on this farm, his engagement with Jean Armour, the publication in 1786 of his first volume at Kilmarnock, his setting out for the West Indies, changed in direction to Edinburg, the friends made and his literary fame there, t-:- i X- ,L. v-a C?,n? ?.?_ ins tour iu me i>uriii ?> eai, uuauj, mo ittum to Mossgiel, all the weH-koown particulars of his life brings us to his marriage with Jean Armour ; the happiness and reconciliation of their families, and his new plans for settlement in life. With his young wife, a punch bowl of Scottish marble, an eight day clock, a new plough, a beautiful heifer, two thousand dollars in his pocket, a resolution to toil, and a hope of success, Burns set up his staff on the farm of Ellinland, on the banks of thcNith, about six miles from Dumfries. Here he produced, in asingleday, "Tam O'Shanter." He wrote few poems after his marriage, but he composed many songs, the sweet voice of Mrs. Bums and the craving of Johnson's Museum account for their number but not for their variety. Here also he wrote "Mary in Heaven," "Willie brewed a peck o' maut," "The Deil's awa wi' the Exciseman." Here at the end cf the third year prosperity deserted him again, and having been appointed to the excise, he bid adieu to the plough and sickle and commenced a town life at Dumfries. From this day his downward course may be dated; politics, fondness for society, the absence from home required by his new calling, and the irregularities which grew upou him, through these causes, ruined his health and prevented an effort made to better himself Burns died at Dumfries on 21st July, 1798. On the fifth of June, a marble monument was erected. In April, 1834, the body of Mrs. Burns was laid beside her husband. Dumfries and its churchyard have become a shrine. The "Brigs of Ayr" will stand side by side, and the Brig O'Doou still coutaius the keystone of its arch where " honest Tarn O'Slmnter, As lie frne Ayr a night did canter," lost the tail of his gray mare Meg. Alioway kirk is now desolate and roofless, the four walls only standing with the small bell swinging in the east end. In the churchyard lies the father of the poet, with this epitaph by the sou? Oil, ye, whose cheek the tear of pity stains, Draw near with pious reverence and attend : Here lie the loving husband's dear remains, The tender father and the gen'rous friend, The pitying heart that lelt tor human woe, Tlie dauntless near; mat icareti no uuin.-ui prim*, i The friend of man, to vice alone a foe, For e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side. The old cottage is now an ale-house, and j contains sundry humble relics and tokeus connected with Burns. The monument to his memory above alluded to was raised by national subscription. Five acres of hill and dale were purchased ori the banks of the Boon?not far from cottage, brig, and kirk, and this structure erected. A full-length statue of the poet, of the Flaxtuau, adorns the building, and the grounds are kept tastefully cultivated?the whole was inaugurated a few years ago by Prof. Wilson and a host | of other admirers. THE BIBLE FOR EVERYTHING, j Br. Ilall, in his Journal of Jfm/th for j May, speaking of the iuiportuucc of inhab-' iting houses in their structure and situation j favorable to health, refers as follows to the Bible: "There is more sound practical hygiene, on this subject of healthy houses, in the j fourteenth chapter of Loviticus, from verse thirty-four, than in all the skulls of all the I health commissioners and common couueils of all the cities of Christendom. Pity it is that we don't read our Bible more?that! great book, which contains the leading priu- j ciples of what is indisputably good, and true J in all that really pertains to human liappi- j ness ; and pity is it, that the Sunday uewspapcr, and the trashy weekly, and the euticing story-book, for childhood and hoary age, on subjects pertaining to the world, and party preaching, aud infidel peripatetic lecturers, with their new-fangled crudities for ; human amelioration, and their insane theo- j ries for elevating the masses?pity is it. we say, that all these things so attract our attention, that the Bible, the best book of all, aud the wisest, true in ail its theories, aud in all its practices safe, has become a sealed book to the uiaDy, and any other volume on the centre or side-table is soouer opened than it. 0 ! hie to the "old paths" and to times of laug-syue, when the Saturday afternoon Bible class was the thing talked of u prepared for during the week; its leader, a William Wallace, and then a John McFarlaud, a pupil of the elder Mason. Aud these suuio youthful Bible learners, the men of their generation, where are they now ?? What are they doing ? Why, they arc scattered through this whole land, East and West, aud in other lauds, leading tnen everywhere, as secretaries, as professors of colleges, as influential editors, clergymen of mark, and higher still, as missionaries to the distant heathen, and the privy counsellors of kings! Let us tell you, reader, a Bible man?a man whose principles are founded on Bible teachings?is a man everywhere, whether a shoeblack or an emperor; more, the only man who can be safely trusted, in all God's universe." BROTHERLY AFFECTION. In the reign of Queen Anne, a soldier belonging to the marching regiment which was quartered in the city of Rochester, was taken up for desertion, and, being tried by a court martial, was sentenced to be shot.? The Colonel and Lieutenant Colonel, being at the time in London, the command of the regiment descended to the Majos, a most inhuman man. The day on which the deserter was to be executed having arrived, ftio rnrrimnrit n? iisiihI nn snnh nnnnsinns was drawn oat to see the execution. It is the custom, on these occasions, to draw lots from the several corporals, for this disagreeable office; and when every one expected to see these lots.as usual, they were astonished to find that the Major had given orders that the prisoner should die by the hands of his own brother, who was a private in the same company, and who, when the cruel orderarrived, was taking leave of his unhappy brother, and with tears fa?t flowing, that expressed the anguish of his soul, was hanging for the last time, about his neck. On his knees did the poor fellow beg that he might not have a hand in his death ; and the poor prisoner, forgetting for a moment his petition to Heaven, begged to die by any hands than those of his brother. The unrelenting officer, however, could not be prevailed on to revoke his cruel order, though entreated to do so by every officer in the regiment ; on the contrary, he swore that the brother and he only, should be the executioner, if it were only for exarapl s sake, to make justice appear more terrible. When much time had been lost, in fruitless endeavors, to soften the rigor of this inhuhuman sentence, the prisoner prepared to alio anil tlio krntlmv frt t]|f> ionor The Major, strict to the maxims of cruelty, stands close, to see that the piece is properly loaded ; which, being done, he directs that the third motion of his cane shall be the signal of fire. Accordingly, at the third motion of the cane, the Major, instead of the prisouer, received the bullet through his own heart, and fell lifeless to the ground. The man no sooner discharged the piece, than throwing it on the ground, he exclaimed : He that can give no mercy, no mercy let him receive. Now, I submit; I had rather die this hour for that man's death, than live a thousand years and take away the life of my brother.' No one seemed sorry for this unexpected justice on the inhuman Major, and the man being ordered into custody, many gentlemen present, who bad been witnesses to the whole affair, joined to entreat the officer to defer the execution of the other brother, till the Queen's pleasure should be known. The request being complied with, the City Chamber, that very night, drew up a feeling and pathetic address to her Majesty, setting forth the cruelty of the deceased officer, aud humbly entreated her Majesty's pardon for both the brothers. The brothers were pardoDed, aud discharged from the army. ? -? Orioin of Odd-Fellows.?It has been supposed by many that the origin of the society of Odd-Fellows?or rather the organization of that association?was of comparatively modern date. They will be somewhat surprised, however, says the Cincinnati Times, "to learn that its origin dates as far back as the time of Nero, and was established by the Iloman soldiers in the year 55.? At that time they were callad -Fellow Citizens.' The present name was given to them ' y Julius Cicsar, twenty-four years aftcri j .1? ?!i_j warns ; ana mey were su eaueu uuiu mc singular character of their meetings; and from their knowing each other by night or day by means of mystical signs and language. At the same time he presented them with a dispensation, engraved ou a plate of gold, bearing different emblems of morality. In the fifth century the Order was established in the Spauish dominions, and in Portugal in the sixth century. It did not reach France and England until the eleventh century. It was then established in the latter country by John DeNeville, who, assisted by five Knights from France, formed a Grand Lodge in London. This ancient fraternity has now its lodges in every quarter of the globe, and, by its usefulness and benevolent character, commands the respect and countenance of all who are acquainted with its nature and purposes." Those upon whose information reliance may be placed give credit to Baltimore for first introducing Odd Fellowship into the United States, and to Grand Sire Thomas Wildic, belongs the honor. Cash System.?The popular DrugHouse of J. C. linker & (Jo., rbiiadeipma, nave abolished the system of credits in the management of their business. Experienced and discerning business meu all over the country are strongly iuclined to the same determination, and we confidently expect the present financial troubles will result in a complete change in the present and former modes of business. Trust is unpopular even in the country, Our shoe-makers blacksmiths, printers, doctors, carpenters, &c., Sic., have hated him for many long year, and they only need a few bold adventurers to encourage them to give him an open and palpable cut. Pay-as-you-go, on the contrary, is toasted on all sides, and is bound to become a universal favorite.? Salisbury Watchman. Penny Wise and Poind Foolish.? i The latest illustration of this maxim is a case which occurred in the commercial circles of Cleveland, Ohio, a few days ago.? An ancient broker of that city, who knows how to save even the shadow of a continen' tal dime, having reflected upon the tariff adopted by the express companies for the transportation of money packages, and the great certainty and dispatch arrived at in their delivery, resolved ou a plan of paying less than the regular fees. The rates for money packages are calculated upon the value of the contents, as marked upon the outaide of the envelope. lie enclosed 82,820 in an envelope, and having been very careful to mark it "81,500" on the outside, paid* the rates on the latter sum to the express company. The package was unfortunately lost. The banker did not dare to claim the whole contents, 82,320, and the company, with its usual promptness, paid over the amount registered. The package, as we are informed, turned up at last, through the efforts of the company's agents, and its contents disclosed. As the comnanv had made good the loss, the merchant had to suffer to ! the tunc of SS50. I-- ?? mil - ? Lockjaw.?It is well known that this is j one of the most painful complaints that flesh ! is heir to, and frequently baffles the power of medical skill to cure. It may be produced in various ways, but most frequently by runDing nails into the feet. We have known it to be caused by simply running a pin into the toe; again by cutting the wrist with : glass, and other ways. The following, con- i tributed by the Baltimore Sun for the benefit of its readers, may be worth remembering, i I have noticed lately several deaths by lockjjaw, and for the information of all I will i | give a certain remedy. "When any one runs a nail or any other sharp instrument into aDy part of the body, take a common smoke pipe, fill it well, then take a cloth or silk handkerchief, place it over the bowl of the pipe, and blow the smoke through the stem into the wound; two or three pipe fulls will be sufficient to set the wound discharging. I have tried it myself, and five others, and found it gave immediate relief. If the wound has been some days standing, it will open again if the tobacco is good. Try it any one who may chanee to get such a wound. Newspapers.?Judge Longstreet, the newly elected President of the South Carolina College, thus sets forth the value of a newsj paper :? Small is the sum that is required to pat: ronize the newspaper, and most amply re| munerated is the patron. I carc not how I humble and unpretending the gazette which : he takes, it is Dext to impossible to fill it ! fifty-two times a year, without putting into J it something that is worth the subscription 1 ; price. Every parent whose son is off from ! home, at school, should supply him with a i paper. 1 still remember what difference j there was betweeu those of my schoolmates | who had, and those who had not access to { newspapers. Other things being equal, the ' i first were decidedly superior to the last in 1 | debate and composition at least. The reason 1 j is plain, the have command of more facts! 1 j Youth will pursue a newspaper with delight, 1 I wheu they will read nothing else. Formidable Preparations.?Advices j from Washington represents that Brigham and his followers, will have to yield in the spriug. Gen. Scott is busily engaged with ; Gov. Floyd, the .Secretary of War, in arI ranging the campaign against the Mormons. . Orders are issued and will be despatched immediately for the First cavalry and the 1 I Sixth Infantry, now in Kansas, and the j Seventh Infantry, now in Texas, to hold \ themselves in readiness to march by the first of April to reinforce the army in Utah.? | Troops from the Pacific side will also be ; ordered. The War Department has determined on sending immediately large reinforcements to the army now serving in Utah. This force will be composed of both cavalry and infantry, with two light batteries of artillery. It is expected they will concentrate at Fort Leavenworth and take up their line of march at an early day. SSrThe Legislature of Tennessee has passed a bill declairing that, the banks of that State shall resume specie payments on the 1st Jonuary, 1859, at which time they are to issue no notes below ten dollars. No bank, broker, or insurance company dealing in money is permitted hereafter to pay out | for circulation the notes of any bank not I i I? rv 1 E??l, choll cuartereu uy icuucsacc , auu uu uu.ua. OUuw pay out any notes except its own ; nor shall it sell or dispose of gold or bank notes for any premium or discount. No dividends shall be paid during expansion, except the profits arising from the Bank of Tennessee, and no interest shall be paid on deposits of any kind. ? Newspaper Quarrels.?The Boston ! Transcript very justly says : In our view j of the matter there are but few editors who I have indulged in personal controversy, and ! at its close could truly say that they had j neither lost their self-respect nor fallen in the j estimation of judicious friends. We know I that the best men in the editorial profession j have looked back upon their personal quarI rels and newspaper squabbles as the least profitable portion of their lives. We do not apprehend the public really take any more interest in the altercations of editors than they do in the disputes between persons In other walks of life. Hoops.?There were two million pounds of whalebone in the United States when the hnnn fashion came in vocue, and this was sel w ling at about 60 cents per pound. Since January 1, 1857, tbe imports of this article reached one million eight hundred thousand pounds, yet there is now little or no'stock in the market. What remained in the seaboard cities has been nearly all bought up at 81,20 per pound. Impressive Words of ft en. Shields. ?A volunteer in the Mexican war, writing from Baltimore to the National Iutelligcnccr, says : May I ask a small space in the columns of your paper for the purpose of laying before its readers the few words that escaped the lips of General James Shields when he was being carried off the field of battle at "Cerro Gordo," Mexico ??supposed at the time to be mortally wounded and dying, having been shot through the body with an "escopcta" ball. I was one of the party that assisted in conveying him from the field, and the words are as vividly impressed upon my mind as if they had just met my ears. They were these: "Men, I am of no further use to ray country ! You are. Lay me down and let me die; I might as well die here as to be taken off to die. You are all strong, able-bodied men?able to do your country some service. For find's sake. lav me down and co to vnur * ; ?0 ? O- m duty." This brave hero ancf accomplished gentleman has just been elected one of the United States Senators from Minnesota. AN*ACT To alter and amend the lair in relation to the Qualification of Jurors. I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That every persou who may be entitled by the Constitution of this State to vote for Members of the State Legislature, and who shall have paid, the year preceding the sitting of the court, at which a new jury list shall be made, a tax of any amount whatever, for property held in his own right, shall be liable to serve as a Petit or Common Pleas Juror. II. That all clauses of Acts heretofore 1 passed, repugnant to the provisions of this Act, be and the same are hereby repealed. , "A Bio Gun.'*?A monster has been tried at Woolwich, England, successfully, \ with 70 lbs , of powder, though its full charge is 300 lbs. The shell is one yard in diameter, and, uncharged as it was in the e&puniiicut; it IUIU up PIWIIV^ UIIU pm-n i>ug earth as high as a small house, and filled the air for a radius of 200 yards with earth, stones and roots of trees. The monster is compounded of wrought and cast-iron, in separate pieces, tightly hooped together.? At the fifth round the middlering gave way partially, and thus interrupted the practice; but it was successfully shown that it couK throw a shell weighing a ton and a half. Ciiang and Eng.?The Siamese Twins were takeu down to Louisville, the other day, to-be shown there. The showman who had charge of them gave the conductor but one ticket for the two. The conductor demanded two tickets, as they were two persons. He replied that they never yet had bought more than one. Conductor must have another. Said the showman, "I bought the ticket for Eng., Chang can take care of himself; you can put him off the cars." As Chang could not go off without Eng, whose ticket was paid for, the conductor submitted with as good grace as he could. A Significant Fact.?The recent census of the State of New York gives 1,706,288 males, and 1,724,653 females. The widowers number 35,397 ; the widows 85,182. Nearly an equal number of males and females, but 60,000 more widows than widowers! An exchange paper sajs: This great disparity proves more conclusively and strikingly, after the manner of the fable, that, whatever amusement marriage may afford to the women, it is death to the men !" Why Cats Wash tiif.ir Faces.?A cat once caught a sparrow, and was about to devour it, but the sparrow said, 'No gentleraau eats till he has first washed his face.'? The cat, struck with this remark, set the sparrow down, aud began to wash his face with his paw, but the sparrow flew away.? ^ ? 1- J 1 ! J /A ltus vexed puss exiremejy, aua uesaiu, -as long as I live I will eat first and wash nay face afterwards.' Which all cats do even to this day. The Jefferson II raid carries its antipathy to banks further than any other antibank-rag-amuffin in the State. The editor will take "hides, peltries, eggs, snake skins, hog meat, live bull frogs, possum dogs, coon skins, old boot legs, jack kuives, tallow, beeswax, copper, lead, gold and silver, in fact anything except paper money,'' for dues to the office. When Feuelon was almoner to Louis XIV, his Majesty was astonished tofind, one Sunday, instead of a numerous congregation, only him and the priest. "What is the reason of this ?" asked the King. "I caused it to be given out, sire," returned Fenelon, "that your Majesty did not attend chapel to-day, that you might know who came to worship God, and who to flatter the King." A New Paper.?The prospectus of a new paper to be called the "Conservatist," and published at Newberry, appears in the papers of that town. It will make its appearance about the first of February, and is to be ed'ted by Wm. F. Nance, Esq., a gen?.! - ? oKi 1 If T7 hi f* Vl lifpfA. lieilJciiJ ui awauvm^ugvu ry attainments, and an intimate acquaintance with the political history of the country. Hon. M. L. Bonham.?This gentleman arrived at home last Sunday. We regret to learn he has bad a severe attack of rheumatism?and under the advice of his physician, expects to remain at home a week or so to recover. He is much better already, and we sincerely hope will be able, in a ' short time, to return to his post in Congress. ?Edgefield Advertiser.' . * * I?" Dr. A. Jones, ex-President of Texas, committed suicide at Houston, on the 8th instant, by blowing out his brains.