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Scrags tf.Jacts. Col. I. G. McKissick was elected, on Friday, 8th iost., without opposition, Brigadier General of the Fifth Brigade of South Carolina Cavalry. It is said that a brother of a nobleman well known on the turf has been expelled from a London olub for stealing candles. The noble delinquent is in the receipt of ?20,000 a year. Newton's nephew was a clergyman. When he had performed the marriage ceremony for a couple, he always refused the fee saying?"Go your ways, poor aevus: I have done yon mischief enough already." The Atlanta American says the Etowah Iron Works, in Cass County, are manufacturing-nails, and the specimens on sale in Atlanta show them to be equal to those madejn any part of the world. One of the persons engaged in taking the oensus of Boston under the United States Marshall spells reluctanoe?reiuc. tinks; and when he wishes to write the words "good deal,"- he does it thus? "goodele." The different Sunday Schools of Chester, in ooncert with Chester Division, No. 14, Sons of Temperance, will celebrate the ooming 4th of July in that place, with a public demonstration. They will have a procession, and an oration and a pic-nio in a grove. T_ nnwuU nf aonnnmimil mar-1 - "" V" JLU DUO WA vvw-v? riages, the Cincinnati young people have betaken themselves to the street railroad cars. Three couples have heen married in these conveyances within a short time.? The wedding tour is thns made brief and comparatively inexpensive. Mr. H. W.Long brought to this office, on the 9 th instant, a stalk of cotton measuring over four feet in height, and bearing one -hundred and thirty bolls, blooms and squares?some of the boils nearly as large as at maturity. It was raised on Maj. P. D. Finley's plantation, about three miles North of Ocala.? Ocala (.Fla.) Companion. Dr. F. F. Carroll, of Barnwell District, has invented a cotton planting maohine, said to be all that can be desired by planters. It is simple iu its construction; oan be made at a cost of not more than six or seven dollars; it is not liable to disorder; will last for years; is drawn by one horse with an ordinary hand, will plant from six to seven acres per day. The inventor has applied for a patent. The inhabitants of Carroll county, Ohio, are very much excited by a male child, from seven to ten years old, that has been several times in the woods, but as yet has not been taken. It has approached children quietly, but flees from the approach of a man. or woman. The place has been found.where it had slept the proceeding night and had eaten a frog. Several hundred persons, regularly organized, are out en the hunt. ? A young lady friend of mine was recommended by a ooiffeur to use sago water to promote the growth of the hair. She was obliged to discontinue its daily use, as it made her hair too thick. Pour boiling water on the ?ge leaves, and let them remain some time in the oven or near a stove; then strain and apply to the root of the hair daily. If any pomade is needed, an equal mixture of cocoanut and olive oil, with a little perfume, is very efficacious.? London Field. In the obituary notices for 1859, just published by Judge Crosby, of Massachusetts, it seems that tbe average of all the clergymen whose ages are given (181) * .t e is uzi; ana me average age i? mi mc puj-i sioians (227) is 57?making a difference of j over four years in the longevity of the two1 jjrofessions. This result confirms other facts showing that the clergy, as a class, are i long lived, though a different impression prevails among many people. Of the 181 obituary notices of olergymen in this work, 30 were over 70 years old, 22 over 90 years, and 3 over 100 years old. An old darkey in Washington who supposed, from the extraordinary prepara- j tions that were being made to receive the: Japanese Embassy, that it was composed of a superior order of beings, delivered himself, thus, after these strangers had arrived: "Why, dey, ain't nothin' mor'n colored folks wid their heads shaved. Plen-i ty colored folks in dis town whiter den dey ; is. Better not come here. Go torn foolin' j round too much, somebody snake'em off: and sell to Orleans. The Lord bless us, anyhow, niggers ie lookin' up.' A gentleman from Colleton informs us that the rice is in excellent condition and every prospect fine. Should the same fortune, that has attended the crop thus far, j continue to the end of the season, the big-! gest Qrop ever made will be the result. On Combahee and Ashepoo the planters have, been somewhat troubled by salt water, but by hard work and watchfulness a favorable turn i has been given to everything. The harvest, flow is now being let on ; a great deal being! already on. The rice is very handsome and jjorc, the rains have kept down the grass, and the planters are in high spirits. The cotton crop is also good in that section.? Charleston Neics. A u.an, calling himself J. C. Stanley, a shoemaker by trade, but who was recognized here by a gentleman as one whom j he formely knew under the name of Clarke, came to this village about two years ago, representing himself to be a Kentuckian, and | who after working himself into favor in our community by attention to business, under the guise of honesty and the garb of Mason- j ry, was accredited in our midst as a gentle-! man and an honest man. About the 1st! of May last, he left this place, and with; the exception of his having been seen in j Columbia and Charleston, has not been | heard of since. Since his departure, it has been ascertained that he had obtained ; money from various persons here under false pretences, that he left his creditors! unpaid and, from various other circumstan-] ? * ^e CeS, It 18 DOW appsruui mat uc is guntj ui forgery, and is a scoundrel aod villain? that he is a wolf in sheep's clothing. The public generally, and Masons particularly, are warned against him. These facts are made public for the benefit of others whoj may likely be made victims of his villainy. I Said Stanley, alius Clarke, is about thirtyfive years old, weighs about 225 pounds, I is dark-skinned, hazel-eyed, black-haired,' rather fleshy but very muscular, five feet! ten inches in height, bald on the top of j his head, and the nails on his Sogers run ; remarkably far back towards the joints. He I dresses well, is keen and Bhrewd, and ap-j parently a jolly fellow, and is well calcula-i ted to deceive.?Laurtnsville Herald. }* |\t |urkMIk tfnprtr j edited by SAM'L W. MELTON... WM. W. EAST. CONTRIBUTING EDITOB: JA8. WOOD DAVIDSON....Columbia, 8; C. YORKV1LLE, S. C. THURSDAY MOBNING, JUNE 21.1660. Special Notice.?All communications, on matters connected with the paper, should be addressed to "The Yorkville Enquirer and net to the Editors or Proprietor, personally. Per- J sons desiring prompt attention to their favors, i mast bear this in mind. Capt. D. D. Moobe, Maj. Myles Smith, Samuel G. Brown, and J. L. Thompson, of York; John R. Allen, Post Master at Chester, S. C.; Joseph Walker, Charleston, S. C.; and Wm. D. Cook, of Bennettsville, are authorized agents of the Enquirer. TO ADVERTI8KH8. Our advertising friends will place us under especial obligation by sending in their favors as early as Monday or Tuesday of each week. THE NEWS At Home.?Congress has been endeavoring to get the business of the country in such a condition that they might adjourn before the meeting of the Baltimore Convention. June the 12th was a busy day, especially with the Senate. On that moroiog-every Senator found on his desk a copy of an enlarged and handsomely bound edition of Helper's "Impending Crisis." No one seemed to know where the books came from ; and the Southerners, especially, were surprised at the donation. On the same morning, the Senate committee on Finance determined to recommend the re-enactment of the Tariff bill of 1846, giving Pennsylvania specific duties. The Senate on the same day called on the Department of State for papers relative to the settlement of the questions between our country and England, in 1856, relative to the Bay Islands.? This call was made, because nonauras nas recently ceded these islands to Great Britain.? An amendment was made on the same day to the Civil Appropriation bill, appropriating $400,000 for distributing arms to the militia of the States, allowing them to choose their own pattern of arms. On the 14th, the Pacific Railway bill was amended so as to determine the route, and thus laid over till the next term ; public printing reduced "40 per cent; and the time of adjournment put off to the 25th instant. The following officers have been elected by the National Division of the Sons of Temperance, in session at Portland, Maine, for the ensuing two years : "Most Worthy Patriarch, Dr. Silas L. Conditt, of New Jersey; Associate, Thomas J. Evans; Scribe, Dr. F. A. Fickardt, of Pennsylvania ; Treasurer, Robert M. Foust, of Pennsylvania; Chaplain, Peter G. McGregor, of Nova Scotia; Conductor, Nathaniel Constable, of Missouri; Sentinel, John H. Batty, of Indiana. Nashville, Tenn., was unanimously chosen as the locality for the Annual Session of 1861." A secret organization is said to be rapidily spreading throughout the Cherokee nation, into which none nre admitted except pure blooded Indians. It is death to divulge the object of the society. They hold meetings in thickets, and all other convenient places, to initiate members.? This is dow said to be an abolition movement, beaded by one Rev. Evaa Jones, a Northern Baptist Missionary. It appears that he has been argning in the pulpit and in social circles on the subject of slavery, contending that it is not a political question but a moral one ; and has thus gotten np an extensive exciteroeDt. It is thought that the secret organization designs I to move down upon the Cherokee nation and the borders of Arkansas, and uproot the "peculiar institution." A foul murder has recently been committed in Cincinnati under very mysterious cicrumstances. Prof. Henry T. Crawley, of the Mt. Auburn Female Seminary was with two misses (Menzies and Vallette) escorting them from Pike's Opera House late at night to Mt. Auburn. | The ladies were just ahead of him, when they, I in passing a wretched locality, were insulted by i four rowdies standing on the streets. Professor | Crawley coming up, turned and confronted them, j tbe ladies proceeding. Miss Vallette thought j she heard Mr. Crawley laugh sneeringly ; hut a j moment afterwards he staggered towards them, J and fell headlong in the street. He was dead ; j nnrt thp vnnnrr Indies had to make their wav! alone through that dangerous and vile locality i back to Mt. Auburn. The extra session of the Massachusetts Lcgis-1 lature, convened on business relative to the cat- j tie disease, has adjourned. Two bills were: adopted relative to the disease, increasing the j State commission to five members; providing for a scientific investigation; giviug large discretionary power to town councils in regard to cattic, and appropriating $10,000 to meet the expenses arising from these enactments. They could not adjourn without putting their fingers into the pie of* Federal politics. Resolutions! were adopted?8G to 44?endorsing Sumner's! recent speech in the Senate. Various accounts from all parts of the South j show that the crops are both more forward and more promising than usual. The first cotton blooms were seen as early as the last of May.? A drought has prevailed in parts of Georgia, j Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas and Mis I souri ; and several hail-storms have done some! harm in different parts of the country. But; upon the whole, prospects are bright throughout the land of an early and abundant harvest. Mexico.?The latest news from this unhappy country goes to show that while hostilities continue, both parties are in a completely exhausted j and prostrate condition. Uraga had organized aa army in the north and captured Sun Luis) Potosi and some other cities; but in an attack on Guadalajura, his army was routed and he taken prisoner. Simultaneously, the failure of the treaty between our country and the Juarez party has shed additional gloom over the Li be ntls. Furthermore the latest advices declare that Lerdo, one of the ablest of Mexican states men, and Senor Tegada, the Secretary of the Treasury, either had or were about to retire in disgust from public life. On the other hand, although Zulnaga failed to successfully declare himself president, a serious division was seen to exist in the Miramon party. The bankers, too, on whom Miramon depended for resources, have failed. Both parties, then, are without resources; defeated, divided, dispirited. The | idea of a third party, now, is said to be preva {lent; and any sudden change not at all improbable. I Abroad.?A general war throughout Europe is considered by some as imminent; while ' others regard it as a joke. There are five or six ! powers, it is said, which kuow not whether to vote with a view to war or peace?for railways f or armaments; and the questions, who are to be friends and allies ? who, enemies ? what is the game to be bagged ? and who will bag it ? are the absorbing topics of the day. Some say that Russia and France are secretly allied?and for what ? Why, they say France has her eye on Belgium and the Rhine Country, while Russia's old appetite for Turkey is enkindled anew ; and this alliance is for mutual protection and defence in a premeditated scheme of mutual aggrandize-1 ment. If this is shown to be the policy of thesoj two natioDB, it will likely combine Austria, Germany and Eogland against them; while Italy will struggle on for her independence. Sicily.?Garibaldi has besieged and taken Palermo. Wherever he has been triumphant he has increased the enthusiasm of the people in his favor immensely, by liberalizing the government. There is now no doubt that Sicily is lost to Francis II. Garibaldi, it is said, would as dictator, on the fall of Palermo, issue a decree declaring the island attached to Sardinia; subject, however, to the will of the Italian people, to be ascertained by universal suffrage. Meanwhile a provisional government is to be instituted with fifteen of the most notable citizens of Sicily, and Garibaldi as president. His army is some 40,000 strong; and the cry everywhere is for United Italy.?The Neapolitan Army have capitulated to Gen. Garibaldi, after a terrible fight. A cessation of hostilities was caused by I the intervention of England and France. | Sardinia.?The treaty ceding Savoy and Nice to France has been ratified?226 to 33?by the Sardinian deputies. Victor Em&nnel, daring his recent toar through his newly acquired provinces, was received cordially by the clergy with one exception?Cardinal Carsi, of Pisa, who received him badly and afterwards renewed the offence. , He has been taken to Turin to answer for his conduct. The people of JEmilia are none the less his warm friends. Emannel's course has been mild and conciliatory. He suffered the public collection of St. Peter's pence; and Baron Ricasoli went even so far as to put a stop to the endeavors of the Waldenses to disseminate | the gospel in Tuscany. But theso efforts to soothe the Papal party availed not; and the bishops lost no opportunity to show their contempt of the government, until Farini, a Sardinian minister, gave orders for their arrest. This vigorous and decisive movement throw the "timorous flock" into confusion. Cardinal Prela, whose seat was at Bologna, having died recently, the Pope will appoint a new arohbishop, while the Sardinian cabinet, as au exercise of its newly acquired sovereignty, will appoint an administrator. Thus the matter will be brought to an issue, and the priests of the now vacated diocese will have to decide for the Pope, or for Victor Emanuel. Austria.?Austria has offered to make some concessions to Hungary. This may be owing to the fact that she wishes to conciliate the Magyars, preparatory to the invasion of Lombnrdy, which Austria has threatened to do, if the king of Naples is compelled to fly from his dominions. Austria is now between two sharp fires. She is anxious to preserve the Neapolitan government; and, therefore, disposed to make Sardinia, or Lombardy, accountable for the misdeeds of Gari; baldi in Sicily. She is, therefore, harassed by | the Sicilian insurrection. On the other hand, if she invades Lombardy before Hungary is paoifled, the magyars will inevitably revolt. Even now I letters from Pesth say: "Garibaldi's expedition has produced much political agitation and universal sympathy. Hungary appears to be on the point of breaking out into open revolution. The Croatians are also ready to rise and throw off Austrian rule. We are on the eve of great | events." England.?The ultimatum of England and j Prance to China, demands an apology for the Peiho affair; tho restoration of the guns and ! ships lost on that occasion ; the ratification of the Pekin treaty, &c.; all of which are refused by the Chinese government. All hopes, then, are dispelled of an $micable setttlement. War is the consequence. In the difficulty between Russia and Turkey, growing out of the condition fkwlntln nn Jn + ortiin trv P.ntvlanri Ul LUC vuuauauo 1U vuv i??www? WUWM j I mu^iuuu together with Austria and Prussia takes sidee against Russia, with France on her side. Japan.?Extensive rumors have been circulated to the effect that the Tycoon of Japan was murdered on the 15th March ; but they appear to have little or no foundation. The schooner, Page, Capt. Morehouse, brought the news over to San Francisco, where it was published in the Alfa Californian. The rumor was afterward corrected by tho statement that the Prime Minister, instead of the Tycoon was assassinated by fourteen Japanese disguised as travelers. The Patje, which brought the news, made the trip in 20 days. So we may now have monthly accounts from this remote part of the world, as another evidence, added to others accumulated beyond number, of the widerspread state of amelioration which marks the present age. MERE-MENTION. We have received a fine sample of oats from Mr. Wm. Love, of Clark's Fork?five feet high. There are seven thousand three hundred and fifty-two scholars in the public schools at Providence, Rhode Island, uuder the charge ot one hundred and thirty seven teachers. A man named Coqn has invested $5,000 in what he calls a froganium, in New Jersey, to raise frogs for New York restaurants. The weight of the Floyd gun is 49,099 pounds ; it will carry a shell of 350 pounds, and a solid shot of 425 pounds weight. Dr. J. D. O'Banxon, of the Barnwell Company under Capt. Walker, in Mexico, died rocently at the residence of his sister, Mrs. Myeb8, near Robinson Spring in Alabama. The Lynchburg Republican states that there has been quite an advance in the prices of fine tobacco in that city. On Tuesday, several hogsheads were sold, at prices varying from $30 to $00 per hundred, and one lot 6old for the extraordinary price of $251 per hundred!' The American Medical Association, at its late session, adopted a series of resolutions recommending to the State Legislatures a law prohibiting the sale of poisonous drugs, such as strychnine, morphine, arsenic, ?-/. nr<tccu nrdprpd hv nlivsieinns; Hint thp word 'poison' should be plainly written upon such articles, and that persons purchasing them should leave their names and residences with the apothc'cary. Th e Rer/ieler says: The Winnsboro' Steam Mill has entered upon the work of grinding new wheat. The Charleston papers announce the death of Mr. John C. Walker, ol | the firm of Walker, Evans Si Co. Among the list of graduates at the recent Commencement of the North Carolina University, we notice the nsme of Robert B. Adams, of Yorkville, The Petersburg Ex-prets tells about a boy in Prince George County Virginia, finding a partridge nest in which were seventy-eight eggs! imi EDITORIAL) INKLINGS. i The Boston Traveler gives the annexed | account of a singular incident: j "One of those incidents that we always find ir [storybooks, and that sometimes occur in out i own experience, took place a short time eince it j the picture gallery of the Athenaeum. While ; George L. Brown, the artist was putting the fin ishing touch to a recently purchased picture, a 'gentleman approached him with uo little nstonI ishuient in his face, j "Mr. Brown, do you remember me ?" "Capt. Howes, by all that's memorable." Away went palette, brushesand mall stick, and the two gentlemen were in each other's arms. It seems that when but sixteen years old, Brown | was possessed with the idea that he was to be a ! great artist, and that the quickest way of bej coming so was to visit Rubens, Rembrandt and I the great European masters ; so with but twenty j dollars in his pocket, he got on board the brig ; Hebe, bound for Antwerp. Forty eight hours j after the vessel had touched the pier in that no | ble old city, her Captain found Brown crouched | behind a hogshead, sobbing most dolefully, and | without a franc in his pocket. Tho generous hearted sailor placed the boy on his feet, sbovj ed some gold pieces iuto his hand, gave him some [good advice and a God speed?little thinking j ever to see him again. I Twenty eight years have passed since then. 1 They find the Captain of the Ilebe at the head of [a flourishing mercantile house in this city, and ; Brown one of the most justly celebrated of | American Landsoape Artists. It is easy to imag ine the mutual congratulations that suooeeded the recognition, after so long and adventurous a separation." < Perhaps no man at the South is just now receiving so much mingled praise and blame at 1 the hands of his countrymen as Hon. William L. 1 Yancey of Alabama. The appended pen-portrait of him, from the Montgomery Mail, will, there- ' fore, doubtless be read with interest: I "There in Mr. Yancey, standing at the corner of Market s.nd Perry streets, and standing, too, i very erect, but swaying himself round and back, ( every few seconds. He is of medium height, and of oompact, muscular form, but with no ten- < dency to obesity. He has a rather large face, < squarish, with fair skin, light eyes, good-6ized , mouth, and massive, semi-Napoleonic chin.? , His smile is very frank and cordial, but his face in repose is very expressive of resoluteness. He f looks about forty, despite neuralgia, but is really < forty-seven. He is quick in his speech, earnest, j courteous- If he is enforcing a constitutional point, and his hearers do not appear to "go with 4 him" fast enough, be ejaculates "Don't y'seel ] don't y' see'!" rapidly and nervously. Of course ( he knows everybody in town, and everybody knows him; and as he passes along the pavement 1 he nods familiarly to this one, nair shouts to another, at some distanoe, "how are yon?" and sternly matters goodmorniDg between his teeth, to some special one who is passing. His dress is never remarkable, in any respect; ( generally, we believe, he affects plain black I clothes, and his servant, we presume, is more i likely to remember than he, abont the brushing. In fact, we don't think he gives much thought to the great question, "wherewithal shall ye be f clothed ?" Perhaps he was more particular in his ( younger day9?we don't remember?but he never certainly was dressy. Indeed, to look at him on our streets, one would suppose that he was only an intelligent, well-bred, professional gentleman, knowing and liking his fellow-citixens, enjoying an occasional dish of gossip, relishing a joke or sharp word, but generally frank, friondly, genial." A correspondent of the Edgefield Advertiser, speaking of the young men of South Carolina, gives s. striking reason for a part of the emigration to thp-Western States. He says: It seems that tho day of South Carolina's great men is over. She was at one time represented by her Calhoun, Luwndes, Cheves, McDaffie and Williams, and none have appeared to take their places. The polioy of this State in the promotion of her young men has been the cause of all this, for ours is a repressive system?with us it is esteemed almost a crime to be a young man; and promotion is unprecedented, except to fill the places of those who hare lingered to eat the crumbs of applause, when they ceased to be effective in the discharge of the duties of thfeir office, were removed by death. The distinguished Hammond rightly entered with reluctance upon the duties of Senator, when his promotion was deferred until i:be evening of his life. And the gallant Bonbam should have been fifteen years ago where he is now. If the polioy of our people is not changed, we will continue to see the best ispirits among our young men, becoming the leading stars of the Western States. "Ike" Fowler, ex-post-master of New York, has been called a "good fellow" from Maine to Texas. A New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Sunday Ditpalch, gives the following extravagant facts which will in some measure account for this singular apotheosis of dishonesty, injustice, ostentation and villainy: Speaking of Fowler, he says: His great ambition seemed to be to enjoy the universal good opinion, to weild authority and influence, to live tn prince, and see his associates made happy through his instrumentality. For several years his rooms at the New York Hotel have been the focus of political sentiment, for they were open to all, and champagne and cigars were as abundant as at a banquet. No matter who you were, if you dabbled in politics, you had only to choose between the 'green seal' and the 'golden seal' for a beverage, and the Havanas were unimpeachable. His weekly bill at the hotel must have been enormous. Then, again, he was Grand Sachem at Tammany; and, as he was always lavish in his contributions, he was at the head, besides being the soul and two-thirds of the body, of many other political organizations. In this manner he squandered money, without the first idea of its real value; and it does not demand a long period, with such wide-gaping sources of exodus, for the most capable of pMnnrces to exhaust itself. Fowler's father was President of the Highland Bank. He was a similarly dashing, gay, and exuberant gentleman. He became the victim of a defalcation to a heavy amount, and committed suicide in his mortification. His son inherited his sire's love of a brilliant existence, and spent a patrimony of sixty thousand dollars in his first dash of social experience. He next spent a hundred thousand for bis mother, when she wisely cut off his supplies. His third application was through the funds of the postoffice, and his deficit there will reach one hundred and eighty thousand. Besides this, he expended much money that he was cons tantly making in successful specu lations, and lost much in a host of unfortunate ones, for he was ever dabbling in enterprises of the dazzling and desperate kind. He made fifty thousand dollars in three days, in the purchase and sale of lots on Staten Island, but it did not last him over a week; and had he been favored with a raillipn a month, he could have squandered it all, with the greatest ease, elegance, and nonchalance imaginable. This spirit of careless profusion necessarily won Fowler many friends. Everybody liked him, and hence everybody pities his misfortune. A timely outcry has been raised by the Portsmouth Trcnscrxpt, against the unhallowed and disgraceful custom of defiling our churches with so much tobacco juice. We copy the last paragraph of the article: "It is contrary to common etiquette to expectorate in a par,.or. Why not in churoh ? We j have seen a pious pew holder praising God and vnllinrv htu nnwl in tho mnQt rfoliflrhtPr? mfinnpr e -imaginable?spilting great jets of ambeer and groaning "Amen" in the next breath, and singing half a line of a hymn and spittingand grunting the other. The vestibules frequently suffer, and stains are everywhere visible. How much of the poetic beauty that shines along the pathway of Religion and invests it with a charm which causes even the infidel to respect it, will remain, if the filthy customs of perverted taste are tolerated in its temples ? Why should a beautiful house be consecrated to God, if it is to be desecrated by indecency? We should as soon see a man carry his bottle with him, and drink in full view of all, as to see him sit and squirt, or clandestinely dribble his disgusting expectorations amidst the pews and'aisles of the sanctu ary. The deed would be more decent, at least would not defile, as well as insult, the House of God." Some people are opposed to the eagle as the emblematic bird of our Country. They will, probably, be glad to seethe following from the New York Herald, and would be gladder to see the suggestion carried out. It is a picture : "AVe see by the papers that a "chicken dispute," 011 an extended scale, has been arranged at Washington between a pair of belligerent fowls, the property of Vise President Breckenridge and the Secretary of AVar, Mr. Floyd. It is quite natural that Mr. Breckenridge, who presides over one branch of a very turbulent and disorderly Congress, should run towards a difficulty of some sort; aud. as Secretary of War, any kind of fighting comes legitimately in Mr. Floyd's way. The members of Congress and the elite of Washington society, it is said, have taken the I greatest interest in this gallinaceous contest, aud the ladies have quite forgotten their Japanese idols in the contemplation of the approach. offolr Tvhioh ihnntrh a fnnl ntiA trill Kn rliu. I 1U8 ..- 0 ?, ..... ?? tinguisbed, undoubtedly, by fair play. Perhaps | i it is as good a thing as Congress could do. They ! make a very bad job of it when they attempt to! govern the country; but they maybe able to add cock fighting to the list of our national I sports, and so improve the breed of poultry, as1 prize-fighting, we are told, developes tho muscle of the rising generation. We have only one suggestion to make. As the Vice President and the I Secretary of War both belong to the Democratic I party, it will be absolutely necessary that ! the referoe shall bo a republican. We have the authority of Judge Douglas to prove that old Abe Lincoln, the only honest man in the United j States, has bad a great deal of experience as a judge of horse races and prize fights. He ought j to be the umpiro in this very important affair between the official birds. Who knows that the fight may not result in the overthrow of the American eagle, and the setting up of the Gallic I cock as the Bird of Freedom ?" To Prevent Doge from going Mad.?Mix a small portion of flour of sulphur with their food or drink through the spring months. This is practiced in Europe to prevent the disease from breaking out among the packs of hounds which belong to the English noblemen, and is said to be a certain preventive.? Exchange. XjOOAZJ AFFA1T1H. Commencement Week. , The examination of the young lacfiea of the Female College began on Tuesday morning of lost week and lasted nntil Wednesday evening. The examining committee appointed by Presbytery to be present, expressed themselves highly gratified with the result of their observations.? We, ourself, we regret to say, were able to attend only on Taesday; bat we heard all the classes in one or more of their studies on that lay. We were much pleased with the proficiency and readiness of the pupils; as well as the jkillful mariner of instructors in asking questions, rhe only fault we have to find?and this is a small one comparatively?is, the modesty of the poung ladies (we admire the quality) would not tet them speak out, and show to the entire auiience how well they acquitted themselves.? Fortunately we had a seat nearer, and readily " iiscovered that the fair pupils were too modest Bntirely in the estimate of their attainments. This Institution commences its Fourteenth rerm on the 22nd August. It is under the care if the Assooiate Reformed and Presbyterian ahnrches; and like all their schools .aims at thoroughness and a high standard of onltnre.? That the faculty are eminently qualified for their position, is evinced not only by the scholarship of the young ladies, but by the kindly and eleTating atmosphere of moral and sooial refinement, surrounding the Institution. We cannot mention the proofs of this?they are made up of a thousand little gracious acts whioh must be seen to be felt?but we are sure that all who attended the examination and Commencement exercises, witnessed the charming and purifying state of things to which we allude. . Wednesday night, owi^g to the absence of. the minister who bad been appointed to preach the Commencement Sermon, was occupied with the semi-annual address of J. B. Ebwin, Esq., of the Yorkville Lyceum. We regret that we could not be present; but we understand that the audience was large?flatteringly so?and that the speaker's address was short but well written. Thursday morning the members of the faculty read the compositions of the graduating class to an immense audience. Without the least flattery, we can say that these were indeed complimentary to the fair authoresses. They were short, olear, pointed, elegant and elevating; all of which are positive merits in a graduating composition. Where all did so well, we dislike to make any "invidious distinctionswe, therefore, give the list of graduates and subjects'without further comment: Miss Sarah R. Adickes?'"Midsummer DayDream." Miss Mart L. Adickbs?"Modtrn Mythology Miss Mart Galbraith?"Rational contemplation profitable and delightful." . Miss Amanda Galbraith?1"The Prairie." Miss Martha H. Hanna?"The fancies of youth, not the realitiei of life." Miss Elizabeth Killian?uThe path of blue aboundt with many a snare." ' Miss JaSe Latta?" Woman." Miss Laura Metts?"Live for Something." Miss Julia Sartor?"Why are tears of sorrow shed f" ' < Miss Mart J. 8ate?"The four Seasons an emblem of Life." Miss Addie Turnipsebd?"The Ideal." Miss Emma Walker?"Are we through J" Miss Mart Warren?1"The Power of Association." In the afternoon, the brief, bat chaste and affecting Baccalaureate of the able agd admirable President was heard; diplomas were given to the lovely, sorrow-strioken graduates; and John S. Richadrson, Esq., of Sumpter, the commencement Orator, was introduced to the audience.? As he rose his fine faoe, his well-balanced hea I, his clearly marked features and his mild kind eye, melted and kindled with the heart's emotions, thrilled us with the hope and the promise of nhoofWtr natVino olnnnoncfl We were notdeceiv V/UOOUV^I |?uvavw| Viw^uvuvv. < ? i. ed. His theme was woman?to the bible she owes her dignity, influenoe, education, every thing. It was a happy conception; began well, and ended at the end. We shall not attempt an analysis of the speech. Suffice it to say, that we learn Mr. Richardson has had a good mother and now has a good wife, and well did he honor their teaching and influence on this occasion. He is qnite a young looking man; bnt is evidently a good scholar for his age, and a high-toned un.ostentations, pure minded gentlemam. After the address of Mr. Richardson, the large audience assembled on the "College Green" to witness a parade of the Jasper Light Infantry and the Cadets of the Military School, under command of Major M. Jenkins. Both companies turned out in fall numbers, andln full uniform, and went through their evolutions with muoh oredit to themselves and gratification to those present. The skirmishing drill which they are learning now, is "a love of a thing is something new, too; and delighted everybody on Thursday evening, we believe. Indeed, we can boast as martial a town as any; and though we don't make much fuss about "bobolition nor any of those things," Yorkville looks sometimes al mo9t liko a camp?we keep our powder dry? and all bosoms throb patriotically. The evening of Thursday was taken up with the young ladies' Concert. We have never seen, we think, a teacher of music surpass Prof. Menlkh, in a love of his beautiful art. His quiet, intellectual face, always beaming with a gentle smile, lights up with a new enthnsiasm whenever he approaches the piano with a bevy of girls around him. The attainments of his pupils and the elegance of their musio, manifest likewise, his proficiency and taste as a teacher. We, ourself-?not professing to be a connoiseur, however ?were more than entertained with the Concert. Indeed, the week wa9 one of unstinted gratification to ns. There was, however, one set-off to the enjoyment of what was going on. The audience was two fussy?two noisey, in all conscience. One could'nt hear bis own ears; much less, the fair school girls, who were not especially ambitious to be heard all over the house. The two evils aggravate each other. Let the girls speak out, and the audience will listen better; let the audience keep quiet, and the ladies will speak out better. It was a hubbub nearly all the time; young America was bent on developing his ideas, whether anybody grew wiser and better by them or not. A din and chatter all over the house, and the young ladies trying to talk to and entertain Buch a gang of magpies ! made the whole thing look almost liko a farce. Shame ! shame!! | This ill-mannerea inauenuveness is a cnaracI teristic reproach of Southern audiences. Has I any one reflected how much it tends to retard our educational, nnd especially our oratorical, development ? Eloquenoe presupposes a sympathizing, awakened, interested, thrilled audience ; and no man, therefore, can be eloquent until he acquires the attention of his auditory. Who can estimate its bad influence on education, too ? The student sees especially those of his or her own ago, of both sexes, indifferent; and his or her zeal flags?ardor cools. Let everybody learn to regard the College Hall as next sacred to the Church, and the young of both sexes will manifest a deeper interest and thoroughness alike in the necessities and the accomplishI ments of an education. Weather Statistics. Muj. McKexzik has again favored us with weather statistics?those for the month of May. He says the Thermometer ranged from 70? to 94? daring the month?the 10th at noon being :he warmest day. The wind was In the South 8 Jays,' North, 1; East,. 2; West, 12; Southwest, 3; North-West, 8; North-East, 2. During the month it rained 12 hours. Wednesday, the 30th, was a day of thunder ind lightning, such as seldom oocurs in this country. The morning was dark, and the clouds irere low. Humbling thunder was heard in the listanoe until 8 o'clock; when, in the expressive anguage of the Major, it "began. to fall out in leavy peals, and the rain at every peal, in heavy lashes." , Large Beets. We have been favored by Mr. Charles E. Wilkbbsox, with a sample of tke produce of his garden, in the shape of beets of this year's growth.' The largest measured 13} inches in jiroumferenoe?the next in size, twelve inches. Our thanks are tendered. Kahnweller &> Brother*. The attention of our readers is directed to the advertisements orMessrs. Kahsweilbe & Jt> bothers, in this morning's issue. This establishment has been but recently opened in oar town, and our ears are every day sainted with the reports of the excellent bargains they are giving, the public. From external evidences they appear to be through-going "Young Amerioa" . business men; and a trial will satisfy the most skeptical of the truth of what they promise. The store is situated a few doors above "Stowq's" hotel. Anniversaries. / The Jasper Light Infantry celebrate their first Anniversary on the 28th instant, at the grounds of the Female College, as announced in the advertisement elsewhere. Our eloquent young townsman, Mr. E. McIyeb Law, is the orator, of the day. As will be seen, likewise, by advertisement, the Catawba Light Infantry will celebrate the 4th of July at Allison Creek Church, in this District. A special invitation is extended to theladies'far and near; and a general invitation to the rest of mankind. The Jasper Light Infantry of our town, have a place in the picture ; and we predict, it will be altogether a brilliant affair. We, the editors, "with all the friternity of the office,!' will be glad to accept* the special, solicitation made to us, and join in the'time-honored and thrice-worthy festivities of the occasion. . - _ . , Sons of Temperance. The following persons have been elected officers of Bethel Dicition, No. 37, for the carrent quarter r * ;? W. I. Stowe, W. P.; W. M. McCully, TK A.r J. D. P. Cnrrence, R. S.; B. B. Currence, 4R. S. ; R. H. McCully, F. S.; H. Barnett, T; J. M. Hipp, C. ; R.. N. Glenn, A. 'C.; M. Barnett, 1. S. ; N. B. Campbell, 0. S.; A. A. McKenzie, P. W. P.; J. L. Adams, Chaplain. Personal. . We will be pleased to hear frbm our^friend at Clinton, Laurens District, privately under his proper name ; when we promise him entire satisfaction. . -r . We were glad to see Mr. E. J. McDahiel? editor and proprietor'of the Chester Standard? in our town on last Thursday. He speaks of buying a new press, in order that he may enlarge his paper, and thus accomodate all his adverti sing patrons. The success of his paper in this respeot seems to be decidedly great We wish him?old friend as he is?renewed prosperity from day to -day. Urf? Oata. Capt. John F. Workman, of the Indian Land, baa presented us a specimen of winter oats, six feet and a half high; and he thinks, likely to produce forty or fifty bushels per acre, Mr. Workman is an enterprising planter. He told u? that he has 'laid-by' almost all his old corn; and has a field of cotton that would average nearly knee high. He is a "workman that needeth not to be ashamed." CONTBIBUTORIAL. Summer-Touring. These summer days in this "leafy month oi June," ore eminently suggestive of excursions. Those who can go will soon be off. The seaton ?t. _ n l . # w?1 ? proper opens me nrm ui outy. The most ambitions class of tourists go to Europe. Several from our midst have already left. Those going so far must need? start early. The class next in orbital range are to go north. To go north is to loiter among the great cities there; to 9eek the never-tiring majesty of Niagara, or to join in the fashionable gayeties and pretentious frivolities of Saratoga or .West Point ; to make the tour of the Lakes ; or, aquatically inclined, to seek the visionary pleasures of Cape May the beautiful, of Newport the olassical, ol Lake Qeorge the picturesque, or of -Nahant the romantic; or, with less crowd, to spend a fen days at Deal, at Long Branch, at Coney Island, at Rockaway, at Glen Cove, at Sachem's Read, or at Shrewsbury. The White Mountains have attractions; so have the Hudson and the Ohic rivers. Indeed, La Belle Riviire has been regarded by some as the loveliest stream in Am erica. The less ambitious class of travellers?including those who have an eye to comfort, as well as non-intercourse citizens?who are to confine their wanderings within the South, have a field before them in many respects no less attractive than the preceding ola98. .. We have glorious scenery in the South?humbler names, it is true, but we challenge comparison in beauty. The Hudson has a proud history certainly, and mountains no less proud, look it nrvnn ftiat nnhlp atrfiAm. Wt have felt like kneeling there. Bat the Tennes see in its tortuoas windings among dark warrior like mountains, almost nameless in their pride has etirred a deeper well of feeling in our sou than the wcrld-noted Hudson had done. True Niagara is unequalled in America; but the Miss issippi (in the South only) is just as far ahead o everything else iu our whole country. But w< do not care to push a comparison. We love th< south. We have cause. Let us mention a few of the visitable localities nearer home. Old Point Comfort on the ooast of Virginia i.' a capital place for quiet folks. It is Vvrginiai in tone?somewhat English, neat, cheerful, ant not noisy. The society is bettor than at water ing places generally?less miscellaneous, and ii the same degree exclasive. White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, is a place o much resort. The establishment, under the su perintendence of Mr. Humphreys, never faili to be first-class in every respect. The jan sometimes renders comfort out of the question It is a fashionable Southern place of resort. Sullivan's Island, we presume, will be visitable The Moultrie House on the island is usually well kept. Glenn Springs, in Spartanburg Distriot, enjoys a fine reputation for the mineral virtues of it! waters, especially in cases of jaded digestion. Thegayeties of the season are the hop, the drive, the promenade, tbo gossip, billiards, and flirtation?things that people will do; and if thej enjoy them, why not ? Williamston, in Anderson District, on th( Greenville Railroad, is sought by crowds, mainlj from the adjacent districts, we believe. Th< vicinity is pleasant, and the plaoe very agreeabh in its way. We have seen the place only it passing. Casar's Head, in Greenville District, has manj attractions for the mountain-lover, the recluse. or the artist-souled seeker of the picturesque, The society is so transient as to bar* little characteristic about it. There is a cottage-hote on the summit, here Mr. Martin affords enter tainment suited to*-tbe sorrouDdings?rustic, v wholesome, everything fresh And neat and do- a mestic. A simplicity genuine and comfortable j is tte spirit of the house. The elevation, above 1 the Saluda that runs near by, is 2800 feet. It is one x>f the most oharming, breezy and appe- | tizing places we ever saw. The poet may find t themes for his holiest -meditations on nature; t and the dyspeptic may find an excellent appe- t tite! The Register is an interesting old book, g too; full of dear familiar names?those who in i other years passed that waf. What a.place for i memories?How often does the aoul start at a i name-it deemed?Pshaw! We are mixing senti- ? ment with statistics ! i Go to Catar't Head if you desire a quiet ru- a ral retreat. Its landscapes are very fine. Its c elevation the greatest in South Carolina. Its 1 water is the coldest. Its brow -the breeziest.?: t It is a great place to dream. We've tried it. ' t We have other places to mention?next Week, i maybe.. c i Literature. * " 1 We hear.that Mr. Van Bnren Moore, who was j getting up & book on Sonthern Poets, has trans- { ferred bis materials to Messrs. Jno. R. Thomp- | son and John Esten Cooke. These gentlemen purpose, as we mentioned a short time ago, , issuihg a work covering the'same ground. Next fall is the time set for the appeannce of the ; j volume. .. . ', . The novel that is making the greatest noise 1 this week, perhaps, is "Margaret Jfoncreiffe: the , | First Love -of Aaron Bnrr." It' is by Charles Bnrdett,.and is eminently a sensation book. It appeals to a cariosity already existing in the public mind. Burr's 'forte, to the minds of the many, was love-making?love-making in the style that forma the - staple of a vast range of works of fiction. Many facts of Burr'h life are what that class of readers call spicy. Names differ, as well as tastes.. This novel has a fine, far. simile of Burr's celebrated cipher letter and kef ?the mysterious alphabet of that language in which some of his clandestine correspondence was carried on; Tbose'wiahing the bopt'cran get it by ordering from the publishers, ^Derby d' Jackson, in New York. They will send it tree by mail for a dollar and a quarter.' The National Quarterly. Review, volume one? number one, has reachedus. We bare spoken /* # s ,ii.' f?".y of it before; .and will speak more in detail next week.. Published in New Yofrk. Three dollars a year, Two hundred and seventy four pages. Personal. i ' Madame Le Vebt, Ansa Goka Bfrctnir, Ar GtrsTA J. Eva*s, Mabiom Habeand, Mabia J* McIstosh, Bos a YbBtxeh Johssos, aad others of our Southern literary ladies, have place among the illustrations of Mary Forrest's new woA-i." Women bf the South Distinguished in Literature." The portraits are to be fine steel engravings. The tytok ouftfoou.*" ''~r m Dr. WiLLiAlt H. HotcoM^?rthe.-auth6r of areoent volume of Poems, Uvea at Waterproof, Louisiana p not in Richmond, Virginid; as "the papers" had it. * : \ . Stephen Mamet, whom many of our readers will recognise as the humorist, ."Jeems Riper,5' and others will remember as u racy and entertaining lecturer upon miscellanies; is engaged lb writing'(as amanuensis) a kind of Autobiography or Coufessious of Albert Hicks, the pirate and murderer, whose horrors are creating such a sensation in "the papers" just now-.. .. Ehrbsburo has been eleeted by the Paris Academy of Sciences as successors -Hamboldt. Among the candidates for the place were Aga? I ail, Mmfchiaon, Liebig, Airy,'Strove, and Wohier. I Ehrenburg was the oompanion of Humboldt io' ; hie Siberian expedition,' Agassis, at Harvard University, in the United States, is 53 years of age. Murchison is Eaglish, is 68 years old, and at this time Director of the Masenm of Practical Geology. Liebig is German, 57 years old, a Professor in the University of Munich." Airy is English, 59 years old, and holds the offioe of Astronomer Royal. Struve is a Russian astrono' mer of the first rank, and is Direotor of thoXen-' tral Observatory of Russia, at Pultowa. As to Wohier, we don't know. To Correspondents. No. 1.?To the friend who wishes a copy of the English Grammar that we use?referring to our parsing a few weeks ago?we can only say the volume is too ponderous for the post-office . transmission; besides, the address is not given with sufficient explicitness. f No. 2.?These are the words: "And bo ?aid,?'You will never find it cold, save the ice of death has frozen its current.' And she said,?'Time tnay erase that sentence from ' your memory, hut I shall remember it alicays.' " ' The simile of the frozen stream belongs to an icy latitude?it certainly is not Southern. Our r streams may freeze oyer; but the current is never frozen, in streams of any respectable size, af i any rate. J. W. D. , ' Columbia, S. C. for the yorkville enqtflrer.. letters from a father?no. 9. Messrs. Editors:?I intended in my lastletter, . when I began it, to have written you of the evil I effects of bad example; and illustrated my posi, tion by reference to the past and present condt[ tion of my family. But my space was taken up ( with a digression on a theme which always interests me so much, that when I begin.'.! never , know when to cease talking about it. I now . come to the subject of example. r You remember that I mentioned having five , children, the eldest of whom is now jnst fifteen 5 years of age, uamely: Charles, Mary, Franklin, . George and Ida. They resemble each other and . my four eldest, very much, in manners, disposi, tion and a certain train of notions and sentiments I which seem to be the common property of Us all. , These notions and sentiments, so far as I have . been able to disoern their canses, are the comf bined effect of inherent nature and outward ex3 ample, appropriated and acted upon, until custom j has become "second nature" by the force of sheer repetition. 3 Now, in a family, the mother has the greatest influence ; then the father; then the eldest child, 3 and so on to the youngest. This is the rale; j of coarse it has its exceptions. For instance, if 1 the mother be a heartless shrew, and the father an affectionate and considerate man, he will l supercede bis wife in the love of, and influence over, their children. So, too, if the father be f cruel or mean, and the eldest ohild, especially . when a son, be noble and higb-sou'ed, the child > will irradnallv aoanire the prerogative and do 3 O" * * i minion of the father in tho household. Bat the rule is, the parents then the older children surpass in influenoe at home; and so on to the youngest whose example seldom has m> oh direct- ef[ feet, though sometimes a little over the next youngest member of the family, especially when I of the same sex. ) These remarks may seem curious and childish , to the unreflecting reader. HemlJ'say: ??Oh! , it is a crazy old man whose cares have besotted him, that says this." But if we take them as r true, we shall see how mighty they make appear the example of loved ones over each other. For ? they tell us in plain terms, .as Gardener Spring ' has it, that the parent is the God of the ohild; ! and more if possible, that family government, > home influences and home education make the i man. Who can estimate the influence of a pious r mother ? a wise father ? a gentle sister ? or a , noble brother? What mind can measure, or , tongue tell, the combined influence of all? A ! word, a look, a frown;--a smile, will often go t like a barbed arrow to the heart, or light up the countenance with transports of joy. What then, S rhen all the worde and deeds of a large family are sammed up for only one day ? How much oy.they must produoe; or hbw much misery! Vhat then, when long years of social intercourse d ?of joy and Borrow, shadow and sunlight?are ilaced together? Oh! hd>r deeply, widely, i iniversally important is home influence and 1 tome education! Let it be remembered, too, hat a bad example is always stronger than a ;ood one. One Vicious ox, or sheep, or hog f rill spoil a whole herd, flock or drove. One un uly child or scholar often brings great trouble . ipon an entire family or sefaool. This is oo- 1 canted for by the fact tbat we are inclined by latore to evil; aud wrong example has thereby i tenfold bold upon .the heart. No one with irdinary observation and experience can fail to M iave nottced. that ".we"copy the. faults, or at best * he'odditieS, of those we imitate oftenev. than ;hjeir good qualities. A due regard for virtue nA *Ua nAsoAQfltnn nf rthrJqtian nrinflifjfl Avon nust be strengfkened by long-standing habits jefore we can be entirely free from temptation, [t is known, too, as a sadly momentous fact in :his connection, tbattbe pious training of parents tor many anxioas years bae often been blunsfl ind blotted/ if not wrecked, by a brief season of association with "fast" young men. 'Take Benjamin as aninstanee. When no older than Charlie is now, bis habits, so far as I know, were'good; I know he had the reputation of being a fine, upright boy. He -thsn started to College. When there, instead of applying himself closely and behaving as an orderly student, he took np the foolish notion that "yonng men of genios never plod," as it i? called; and forthwith be wen* to idling, dissipating and committing all the follies of that class of students. So he kept his "genina," but made shipwreck of his character. Ever since then his life has been without $ -purpose or'an/inspiring hope; and air fiis thoughts have been recklessly bent on the a gratification^ Of-those demoralizing, degrading M and bungryrhabits which, be formed at College. Al| the endearing associations of borne and all the memories of the. past, cannot win him from his infatuation. ' This brings me to another pijiht T by natuc* we see ?h?good but pursue theVviI; so whsn the evil has grown into onr very life, "the sight of the g^od effen" goods ub into deeper follyand crime in .search of forgetfhlness. The "reason'is^ we despair of reoUvery from our-degtraded condition. When- we get fhiriy Into the '"fetching, Tnigbty" current of vicieul habits, nothing short of'Almighty Power can call 'us Sack. The remembrance. of a -mother's blessed'.teaching still attends as, but ^las! ^often to onrse and not to bless, us?to.hurry us down,"down, "down." Who thea cantelt the. wondrous influence bf that ezainjrte Which blends with a -mothers teachings ? How sacred it is; nod."' eternity iwelf oannot measure u^.euuiess importance. . From these remarks; ire may learn two things gpeiyally ; first, the paramount necessity of a correct regime for the family "oirde. The parents should be-right in thought, feeling aad action. If they .thiak wroag,-^they wili -speak wrong?"for out of the abundance of thehfeart the mouth >pe?keth''" jtnJ the listening child will imbibe tfiefoolish utterance. ff they feel wrong i they will act wrong, and their children .will do like them. .Jt is vain for parpnta to rebuke a child for quarreling, if the father the.next minute gets into a fory with the hostler, and the mother rails out at the cook. Yon. need not try to keep your child from tale-telling, if you are constantly scandaliripg your neighbors in the chip's presence.. What will it avail to tell your little one not to speak an untruth?never, never? if you tell your poor neighbor in the little one's | presence, luftt you nave uo meai; aoa in* little one has just' beeu to the meal-room with the cook, and ran its arm op to the elbow in the meal? Such things as these necessarily tend to develop in children a low, servile, lying and hypocritical disposition. No! ell the influences of home mast be consistent with themselves, and Inculc&tive of truth and virtae. Thas the example of the parents ought to show that what they do, they do from principle?from a sense of dirty?from a love of the right. Their precepts will then have ten fold weight, when enforced and illustrated by an orderly walk and converse- . tion. ' Secondly, vre learn that it is all-important to avoid the beginnings of evil. Good example tends to imbae the mind with a sense of the "beauty of holiness," and thus to incite to avirtnons course of life. Bat before we are confirmed and cast as it were id the moald of daty, good habits most fortify this inward sense?this germ of a- divine development For when by alow and insensible degrees' we have fallen far below, attainable perfection, and the son! has been thrust out into a bleak region where the snn-lighr of heaven never reaches ; even then this sense of what is pare aad good may remain, yet only as a dagger to the bosom's peace. We" have received a letter from Henry and Eliza. They were in New York?having passed through Baltimore, Washington and Philadelphia?and speak enthusiastically of their trip.? They were going-to Niagara Falls in a few days, to see the world's wonder and Blondin's feats.? Thence they will tarn their faces homeward. I am anxious to see them again.I want to see thorn domiciled settled down in-the matter of. fact, overy-day relations of man and wife. When their honeymoon is over, I fancy they will find a rough and ragged world, standing before them, that, like the gbost of Banquo in the play, will not be cried'down.. I desire their ultimate happiness ; bat some people will learn only from wretohed'experienoac^ Catherine improves every day as a-housekeeper and business woman; and it is interesting to observe a corresponding, improvement in the rosinese of her choeks and amiability of her temper. Indeed it is only in a conscious and conscientious usefulness that the best natnral dispositions oan remain good and amiable. Jane was naturally a sweet child; bat petted, indnlged in every whim and raised in utter idleness, she became selfish, peevish, pouty and ill-natured. The more, too, she feels separated from the common dnties of every-day life, the less usefnl and neetKUl sae iecis, ana iau mure uiuruao oae uecomes. So, occasionally, now I find her, instead of petting her poodle and other playthings, renting her spleen upon them. Yesterday, while tasking a nosegay for her little coosln, she could not get a large white rose to lie to sait her, and in a pitiful fit of rage she tore it all to pieces. Her heart is souring, because she feels that she is merely filling so much space in the world, like a mommy in a pyramid, without vitalizing anything around her. Benjamin is in quite a different, but an equally bad, situation. He is the victim of bad habits. They goad him on to the daily commission of acts which, he feels and knows, degrade him ; yet he cannot, or he will not, resist, Alas! my unhappy children, how much your father mourns your lot. The daoger of Charlie's taking np with Benjamin's ruinous habits, keeps me in hourly anxiety. Oh! for some nnscen power to guide him safely by this maelstrom of bad example and temptation! I remain until next week and until death. Yours, very truly, OLD FOGY. In the vicinity of Baltimore, on Thursday last, Mr. Thos. Bryan, aged 70, and Mr. Samuel Neal, but a year or two younger, both from New York, fonght a duel with pistols. The latter gentleman was 'Wounded in the shoulder. A discussion on the nativity of Garibaldi led to the insult.