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lewis m. grist, propnator.j fubepeitbtnt Jfantils ftcluspaptr: Jfor t|e promotiffii of tjjc political, Social, Agricultural anb Commercial Interests of t|e Sontj). jteems?yeai^? ad vakce VOLUME XII. YORKVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MOMIXG, NOVEMBER 29, 1866. NUMBER 32. Original |1ortn). For the Yorkville Enquirer. 'TIS NIGHT. 'Tts night, and all around Is darkness. The fitful wind, in plaintive murmurs sighing, Scatters the glories of Autumn's brightness, And nature sad, beholds her beauties dying ; The monarch trees and shrubs of every hue and grade. Seem weeping for their charms?so soon to fade. Tis night?and I sit dreaming?listless, Scarce thinking?but my thoughts are roving, My mind?it is not calm, but fevered?restless, Fast through tne realms of fancy moving ; Methinks I am not living raid scenes of earth, But stray beyond where spirits have their birth. Tls night?its gloomy shadows round me press, As dreaming where I sit?their forms In size keep growing, Till hov'ring on their ebon wings they seem in words to address Whisperings in my ears, that move my tears to flowing; Methinks they speak of joys that soon must pass away, And leavee the heart to saddening gloom a prey. Tis night?my soul is sick from weariness, Though flitting forms no longer round me crowding, Beset me with their mock address, But leave me to my thoughts?while memories shrouding The buried hopes of happier days gone by, Learne e'en to forget them where they lie. %, Sketch THE GERMAY STUDENT'S STORY. ?I have myself,' said Kreutzner, 'witnessed maDy duels; but we are not so bloodthirsty generally speaking, as your moral Americans. We usually settle these matters with a sword, a better method, by the way, and more worthy of a soldier than your cold, murderous pistol firing. Aoy poltroon may pull a trigger, but it requires the firm hand and steady eye of a man to manage the steel. However, as I was saying, when I was at Jena they called each other out as merrily as beaux and belles to a dance. It was but the treading on a toe?the brushing of an elbow; nay, an accidental look that fell on them when they ?i-L -J nn/i fko norf riot? WISUCU UUl uuacivauuu, auu >uc uvi? or, by St. Andrew, the oext hour, there was a clash of steel, and the stamping of feet on the greensward; and the kindling and flashing of fiery eyes?and plunge and parry, and cut and thrust, till one or both lay at length; a pass through the body?a gash open in the cheek?the skull cleft down, or a hand off, aod the blooa bubbling and gushing forth like a rill of mountain water. There were more than one of these fellows?devils, I must say, who, when they found among them some strange student, timid or retir.d, with whose character they were unacquainted, or whose courage they doubted, would pass the hint out of mere sport; brush his skirt, charge the offence upon him, demand an apology too humble for a hare and dismiss him from the adventure only with an open shoulder, or daylight through his body. 'There was one fellow among us Darned Mentz, who assumed, and wore with impunity the character of head bully. He was foremost iD all the deviltry His pistol J was death, and bis broadsword cut like the scissors of fate. It was curious to see the fellow fire?one, two, three, and good bye to bis antagonist. His friendship was courted by all; for, to be his enemy was to lie in a bloody grave. At length, grown fearless of being called to account, he took in insnlfiner sfrnnaprs. and even wo ?""" M" r. P---J ^ men His appearance was formidable; a great burly giant, with shaggy black hair, huge whiskers, and grim mustaches, three inches long, twirled under his nose. A eort of beauty he had too; and among the women?heaven help us?wherever those mustaches showed themselves every opponent abandoned the ground. It was, at last, really dangerous to have a sweetheart; for out of pure bravado, Mentz would push forward, make love to the lady, frighten her swain, snd either terrify or fascinate herself. Should the doomed lover offer any resistance, he had no more to do but call a surgeon; and happy he considered himself if he escaped with the loss of his teeth or an eye. He had killed four men who never injured him?wounded seven teen, and fought twenty duels. He once challenged a whole club who had blackballed him unanimously; and was pascified only by being re admitted, though all the members immediately resigned and the club was broken up. <At last there came a youth into the uni versity?slender, quiet and boyish lookiogt with a handsome face, though somewha, pale. His demeanor, though generally shy, was noble and self possessed. He had been but a short time with us, bowevcr, before he was set down as a cowardly creature, and prime game for the 'devils broke loose/ as the band of Mentz termed themselves. The coy youth sbuoned all the riots and ?- * 1.^1 revels of the uuiversuy?msuiiea no uuej sod if his mantle brushed against that of another, apologized so immediately, so grace fully and so gently, that the devil himself could not have fixed a quarrel upon him It soon appeared, too, that Gertrude, the lovely daughter of the Baron de Saale? the toast of all the country?upon whom the most of us had gazed as on something quiet above us?it soon appeared that the girl loved this youthful stranger Now Mentz has singled Gertrude out for himself, and avowed his preference publicly. Arnold, for thus was the new student called, waB rarely, if ever, tempted to our feasts; but once he came unexpectedly on a casual invitation. To the great surprise of the company Mentz himself was there, and eeated himself unabashed at the table, though ao uubidaen guest. The strongest curiosity at once arose to witness the result, for Mentz had sworn that he would compel Arnold, on their first meeting, to beg pardon on his knees for the audacity of having addressed his mistress. It had not appeared that Arnold knew anything of Mentz's character, for he sat cheerfully and guyly at the board, with so much the manners of ' a highborn gentleman, that every one admitted at onece his goodness, his grace and ; his beauty, and regretted the abyss on the j brink of which he unconsciously stood. 'What, bo !' at length shouted Mentz, as the evening bad a little advanced ; 'a toast! Come?drink it all; and he who refuses is a poltroon and a coward. I quaff this goblet filled to the brim?to the health and happiness of Gertrude deSaale?the fairest " ' i rxr i _i_ _ i ... . ot trie rair l w no says ne nuuwo ? iauci 10 a black liar, and I will write the word od bis forehead with a red hot brand.' Every goblet was emptied but one, which stood untasted?uctouobed On perceiving this, the ruffian leaned forward, fixed his eyes on the cup, struck bis brawny hand down fiercely on the table, which returned a thundering crash and rattle, and then repeated, in a voice husky with rage? 'There is a cup full: by St. Anthony I I will make the owner swallow its measure of molten lead, if it remain thus one iustant longer.' 'Drink it, Arnold?drink it, boy ; keep thy hand oat of useless broils,' whispered a student near him, rather advanced iD age. 'Drink, friend,' muttered another, dryly, 'or he wili not be slow in doing his threat. I promise thee.' 'Empty the cup mau!' cried a third, 'never frown and turn pale, or thy young head will lie lower than thy feet, ere tomorrow's sunset.' 'It is Meotz the doelist,' said the fourth 'Dost not know his wondrous skill. He will kill thee as if thou wert a deer, if thou oppose him in bis wine. He is more merciless thaa a wild boar. Drink, man, driuk!' 'During this interesting scene, the youth had remained motionless, oool, and silent A slight palor, bat evidently more of indignation tban fear, came over bis handsome features; aod bis eyes, dilated with emotion, resting full aod clear upon Mentz 'By the mass, gentlemen I' he said at length, 'lam a stranger here, and ignorant of the manner prevalent in universities; but if yonder person be sane, aod this is no joke?' 'Joke!' thundered Mentz, foaming at the lip. 'I must tell you that I came from a part of the country where we neitbor give nor take such jokes, or such insults.' Hast thou taken leave of thy friends? said Mentz, partly hushed by astonishment, 'and art thou tired of life, that thou burriest on so blindly to a bloody pillow! Boy ! drink, as I have told thee, toGertrude, fairest of the fair!' And his huge round eyes opened, like those of a bull upon a darling victim. 'That Gertrude de Saale is fair and lovely, oried the youth, rising, 'may not be denied by me But?1 demand by what misohance I find her name this night common at a board of rioters, and polluted by the lips of a drunkard aod a ruffian?' 'By the bones of my father,' said Mentz, in a tone of deep and deadly anger, which had ere then appalled many a stout heart? ?by the bones of my father, your fate is sealed! Be your blood upon your own head. But,' said he, observing that the youth instead of cowering bore himself more loftily, 'what folly is this! Drink, 1-J I T I .1 I T ihu, unua . c*uu x nuit iucc uut* x iu?c thy gallant rearing, and my game in not such as thou.' ?He added this with a wavering manner which had never before been witnessed in him, for never before had he been opposed so calmly and so fiercely; and, for a moment, he quailed beneath the fiery glances darted at him from one he had supposed ! meeker than the dove. But, ashamed of | his transieut fear he added : 'Come to me, poor child ! bring with thee thy goblet?bend at my foot?quaff it as I said, and?out of pity?I spare thy young head ' What was the astonishment of the com pany on beholding .Arnold, as if effectually cowed by a moment's reflection, and the ferocious enmity of so celebrated and deadly a foe, actually do as he was commanded. He rose, took the cup, slowly approached the seat of bis insulter, knelt and raised the rim to his lips. Murmurs of shame, shame, poltroon, coward ?' came hot and thick from the group of spectators who had risen in the excitement of their curiosity, and stood eagerly bending forward, with every eye fixed upou the object of their contempt. A grim smile of savage triumph distorted the features of Mentz, who shouted, with a hoarse and drunken laugh-'Drink deep?down with it to the dregs ' 'Arnold, however only raised the rim to his lips and waited a moment in silence with an expression so scornful and composed ! that the hisses and exclamations were again : quelled ; when every souod has ceased to a : dead silence. Never' he said, 'shall I refuse to drink to the glory of a name I once loved and honored?Gertrude, fairest of the fair! But, he added, suddenly rising and drawing up his figure, with a dignity that sileni ced every breath, 'for thee, thou drunken, bragging, foolish beast! I scorn?I spit upon?I defy tbee ! and thas be puD. j ished thy base, brutal, insolence, and tby stupid presumption.' 'As be spoke he dashed the contents of | the ample goblet full in the face of Mentz, i and then with all his strength, burled the massy goblet itself at the same mark The giant reeled and staggered a few paces back, and amid the shining liquor on his drenched { clothes and dripping features, a small stream ! of blood was observed to trickle down his forehead. 'Never before was popular feeling more suddenly and violently reversed. The object of their vilest exeorations flashed upon them with the immediate brightness of a i superior being. A loud and irresistible burst of applause broke from every lip, till the broad and heavy rafters above their heads, and the very foundations of the floor, shook and trembled. But the peal of joy and approbation sooo ceased; for although this inspiring drama had so nobly commenced it was uncertain how it might terminate. Before the tyrant bad recovered from the stunned and bewildered trance into which the blow, combined with shame, grief, astonishment and drunkenness, had thrown him, several voices, after the obstroperous calls for silence, usual^on such occasions, addrersed the youth who stood cool and erect, with folded arms awaiting the course of events. 'Brave Arnold ! Noble Arnold ! A gallant deed. The blood of a true gentleman in his veins!' 'But, canst thou fight,' cried one. 'I am only a simple student, and an artist by profession. I have devoted myself to the pencil?not to the sword ' -But thou canst use it a little?canst not?' asked another. 'But indifferently,'answered the youth. 'Aud how art thou with a pistol ?' demanded a third. 'My hand is unpractised,' replied Arnold. <1 have no skill in shedding human blood.' 'Fore heaven ! then rash boy, what has tempted thee to this fatal extremity ?' 'Hatred of oppression,'replied the youth, in all its forms and a willingness to die rather than submit to insult' Die then thou shalt and that ere to-mor row's sun shall set!' thundered Mentz, starting up in phrensy, and with a hoarse and broken voice that made the hearts of the hearers shudder as if at the bowl of a dog or a demon. 'I challenge the to mortal combat.' 'And I acoeDt the challenge.' 'It is for thee to name the time, place and weapon; but, as thou lovest me, let it not be longer than to morrow night, or I shall burst with rage and impatience.' ?I love thee not, base dog I' replied Arnold ; 'but thou sbalt not die so inglorious a death. I will fight thee, therefore tonight.' By heaven, boy !' cried Mentz, more and more surprised, 'thou art in haste to sup in hell !' and the roffian lowered his voice.? 'Art thou mad V 'Be that my chance,' answered Arnold ; 'I shall not be likely to meet, even in bell, a companion so bruial as thou?unless, which I mean shall be the case, thou bear me company.' 'And your weapons V said Mentz. 'Are here,' oried Arnold, drawing them from his bosom ; 'a surer pair never drew blood The choice is yours.' 'To night then be it,' said Mentz ; 'though to-night my hand is not steady; for wine and anger are no friends to the oerves.' Dot h you refuse me then ?' demanded the youth with a sneer. 'By the mass, no ! but to-oight is dark; the moon is down; the stars are clouded, and the wind goes by in heavy puffs and gusts. Hear it even now. Therefore,' said the youth, apparently more coldly composed as his fierce rival grew more perceptibly agitated?'therefore will we lay down our lives here?in this ball?on this spot?on this iostant?even as thou standest now.' 'There is no one here who will be my friend,' said Mentz; so evidently sobered and subdued by the siugular composure and self possession of his antagonist, that all present held him in contempt, and no one stirred. 'No matter,' oried Arnold ; I will myselfforego the same privileges.' The company began now to fancy that Arnold had equivocated in disclaiming skill as a duelist; and from his invincible com posure, thought him a more fatal master of the weapon than the bully himself. The latter also partook of this opioion. Young man,' he cried, in a voice cloud ed and low; but stopped and said no fur. ther. Your choioe !' said Arnold, presenting the pistols. Mentz seized one desperately and said? Now name your distance ' Blood thirsty wolf J' said Arnold, there shall be no distance !' He then turned and addressed the company : Gentlemen,' said he, deem me not either ; savage or insane, that I sacrifice myself and the brutal wretch thus before your eyes, and to certain and instant destruction.? ! For me, I confess I have no valuo in life. 1 1 : Her whom I loved I have sworn to forget; , and if I existed a thousand years, should probably never see again. This ruffian is a 'coward, and fears to die; though he does i not fear daily to merit bis death. I have \ long heard of his baseness, and regard bim as assassin?the eoemy of the human race and of God?a dangerous beast?whom it will be a mercy and a virtue to destroy. My I own life I would well be rid of, but would , not fling it away idly when its loss may be made subservient to the destruction of vice and the relief of humanity. Hero then, I : yield my breath ; and here, too, this trembling and shrinking coward shall cIobo his I oourse of debauchery and murder. My com ; panions, farewell; should any one of you I hereafter chance to meet Gertrude de Saale, i tell her I nobly flung away a life which her ! falsehood had made me despise. 'And now, I recreant,' he said in a fierce tone, turning | suddenly towards Mentz, 'plant thy pistol | to my bosom, as I will plant mine to thine. Let one of the company cry three, and the I third number bo signal to fire.' With an increased paleness in his couni tenance, but with even more ferocity and j firmness, Arnold threw off his cap, displayI ing bis high brow and glossy ringlets. His j lips were oioscd and firm j and his eyes, : which glistened with a deadly glare, were ! fixed on Mentz. He then placed himself in an attitude of firing ; broadened his exposed chest full before his foe; and with a stamp ; of fury and impatience raised the weapon. ! The brow beaten buMy attempted to do the same; but the pistol held loosely in his grasp, whether byaccident orintention, wenl off before the signal. Its contents passed through the garments of Arnold who, levelling the muzzle of his own cried calmly? 'On your knees, base slave ! vile dog !? Down ! or yon die. 'Unable any longer to support his frame the unmasked coward sunk on both koeet and prayed for life with right earnest vche menoe. Again wild shouts of applause and delight, and peals of riotous laughter stuo ned his ears. As he rose from his humiliating posture, Arnold touched him contem tuously with his toot, tiroans and nisses now began to be mingled with several mis sites. Mentr covered his face with hit hands and rushed from the room. He wat never subsequently seen among us.' Coins and Coinage. From an interesting article in the National Intelligencer, on the above subject, we present our readers with the following extracts : The history of coins and coinage is interesting as well as instructive. There is much doubt among antiquarians as to the precise spot where the first ooins were made. The Parian Chronicle attributes the custom to Pheldon, who is said to have first stamped or coined money on the Island of iEgina B. C. 895. Herodotus, not the best authority. asnrihea to the Lvdians the first coins of gold and silver The gold stater, produced at Miletus, on the shore of the loarian Sea, is believed by many to have been the first ooloed money, and it is certain that the oldest coins extant are from Ionia, in Asia Minor. The first known copper ooins of Greeoe bear the date B. C. 897, but copper never became a ohief medium with the Greeks. Silver coinage commenced at Rome B. C. 200?gold at B. 0. 204. Homer, which is, perhaps, the most remarkable work in the world, as a description of existing arts and customs, makes no mention of coined money, and it is very evident that no coins had been introduced at that period, some nine hundred years before Christ. A metallic curreooy existed in Britain previous to the Roman occupation. Under the Romans the coin of England resembled that of Rome, but a totally different coinage was introduced by the Saxons. Skeattae silver coins, worth abont four per cent, less than the penny afterwards used, have been discovered, and being without the sign of the oross on them, it is evident that they were coined prior to the conversion of King Ethelbert, A. D. 597. Stycas, minute coins of silver, copper, and tin, coined by the Kings of Northumberland, about 670, and remarkable for the excellence of their workmanship, are extant. Silver pennies worth about three of the present English pennies, were introduced about 725, and formed the principal English money till some time after the Norman Conquest.? Edward the Confessor issued a few gold pennies, but no regular coinage took plaoe till the time of Henry III , who forbade the old and commanded a new coinage in 1 9^7 Anmmnnrtino flio nrftM nAlnoAO nf F.no. l^vi j wuiujvnviuc; iuw ^viu vvtuw^w v> land with a few gold peonies. Since then the history of English coin is much better defined. It was not till about a hundred years later, however?during the reign of Edward III.?that gold coinage may be said to have properly beeo established in England. At first florins, half-florins, uud quarter florins were issued; but the gold nolle, named in honor of the nobility, immediately, by royal orders, supplanted them. This coin, with its reverse showing the King at the helm of the Ship of State, is the earliest specimen of great advaoce in the art of coinage in England. It is well known that in this reign the elegant arts first began to receive marked attention. Windsor Castle was rebuilt and the Order of the Garter established at this time, and English prose and poetry may be said to have taken their origin at the same period. During the Auglo-Saxon and early Anglo Norman periods of English history gold byzants were the legitimate circulation in England and throughout Europe. These coins were circulated from the niuth to the fourteenth century, a period of five hundred years; and Camden, writiog in the sixteenth century, says that "a great piece of gold, valued at ?15, which the King offered on high festivals, is yet called a Bczantine, which was annually ooined by the Emperors of Constantinople." The Turks, at the siege of Cmsarea, in 1102, hid these ooins in their mouths. The Crusaders struck their captives in the back of their necks, and the coins were thus disgorged. One writer declares that the bodies of the slain were piled up and burnt for the purpose of getting the byzants which they had swal lowed. Similar coins of less value were struck by otber countries. The flrst brazen or copper coins, according to Pliny, seem to have been made at Rome, under Servius Tullus B C 578, nearly 2,500 years ago. The matal was called ass, and it is not certain whether it contained any alloy of zinc, though it is certain that it contained but a little if any at all. The coin was called an at, which became a common name, the gold coins being known by the same term. The copper as, which weighed one pound, was ca?t, and specimens are extant adhering together as they came from the mould They were stamped with the images of cattle, (pecus,) and henoe arose the word pecu?ua to signify money. The as was as high in weight as five pounds, and as small as the twelth part of a pound, small balls cast upon the face of the piece indicating the number of ounces. On one side of the piece was the head of JaDus, and on the other the prow of the ship, and hence the boys of Rome, instead of "head or tails/' sang ont "capita i aat navem"?heads or prows?when they 1 I I pitched coppers, and this was the cry in the ! t game for centuries after the head and the \ , prow bad both disappeared from their s ! money. c The British coins extant form a most in- p , teresting and valuable collection. The col- f j lections whioh have been preserved in pub- t ; lie and private museums embrace an f I uubroken series of coins, running down c from the earliest life of the nation through a nil tlio rncnlnMnnfl of pc?rn kind whinh I f j ~ ?J ? i have transpired during the nation's growth J I ; and existence. The illustrated works upon ! coins and coinage, which exist in volumes j j sufficient to form a large library, show the i fact that if thccmire written history of the ' , British islands were destroyed, and all mem- 1 i j ory of it forgotten, a very respectable histo- t ; ry could be constructed from these numisI matic memorials. * | The Process of coining was, in early 8 | time.-, accomplished by hammering ballets 1 | of metal flat and placing them between two I j dies, the impression being secured by r ; heavy blows, with huge mallets. The 1 1 Ffench improved upon this method about F ' the middle of the sixteenth century, by the ^ application of the sorew The coining press 8 was invented in 1553, by Antoine Bruoher, * and milled money was first coined by Eliza, beth, in 1562, though it was not general in D England till a hundred years later Boul- ^ ton invented his coining machine in 1788, 8 and the most of the coinage of the realm 8 was oarried on at his works, at Sobo, Bir- ' mingbam, till the mint was established, in 1810 0 The primitive money of the American 8 Indians, which under the name of wampum, 8 consisted of white shells, strung together, was peculiar in the fact that, unlike any 8 other money in any part of the world, it ^ wag in itself worth only the labor involved 0 in its manufacture. The phells were abundaDt on the seashore and required only to be picked up and made into strings. This 8 money was used by the early white settlers v of New Eogland. But we propose to de r vote a second article exclusively to Arneri- ^ can coins and coinage. C1 The earlest mention of money in history is found in the book of Geoises, where A- 11 braham is recorded as buying a held and * cave in the land of Canaan, in which to r bury his wife, for "four hundred sheokles of 9 silver current money," or, better translated, 3 "current with the merchant." This money a was weighed, as they had no coin In one ^ of the Theban tombs, among the innumera- " ble illustrations of ancient Egyptian cus- 8 toms, there is the picture of a scribe on the a walls, with bis scales, his pencil, and his c book, weighing out the wealth of his mas w ter and recording the amount. In one so&le is a weight representing a lamb and 0 in the other the pieces of the precious met- ^ al. This picture is interesting as an inter- 0 pretation of the faot that the word transla- * ted pieces of silver in the Bible means also a lamb and jusc weight. The lamb was thus a used to determine the just weight of the ^ pieces of silver. Job's frieuds are thus rep- v resented on oue occasion as bringing him 8 each a lamb or piece of money and an ear- ^ ring. 1 Gold and silver at this period was often u put ioto rings, as both the pictures upon ^ Egytian monuments and ancient writers ^ show Rin?s. bracelets, and anklets were io use then, as they are in fact now in ori 6 eDtal countries. The comiog of money be- 1 iog unknown to them, they formed their 1 gold into rings around the arms aud ankles for preservation, and wheD wanted to sell 9 tlhe tioker was ready with his to<$ls to cut them off and the scales wore at hand to a weigh them. At the present day travellers t? are often surprised in the East to see the e poorest women with heavy rings thus upon 0 their limbs. The early Britaius used ring ^ money, and the fact is mentioned by Caesar ^ in his account of England, and be remarks P that these rings had a fixed weight, being 81 used no doubt as we use coins. Ring mon- w ey was used also in Gaul and in Northern ri Europe before coinage existed. The rings b are now found abundantly io various parts a of England and Ireland, a quantity in 1832 a being found at St. Quentin, France, of which the intrinsic value of the gold was nearly 86,000. 8 ? A Brave Woman.?L Hessick, who a runs a pack train between Red Bluff and Hayfork of Trinity, gives the particulars of a daring and muscular exploit worthy a re- b cord and Henry rifle. Mrs Sarah Don nelson, formerly a resident of Red Bluff, is 11 living in a log bouse on the trail with her P nhilHren anil her father A few davs apo ^ ? J _ -O" her father went out hunting9tock, and Mrs. CI D. wa9 looking after her poultry a short 16 distance from the house. Suddenly five ; 01 Indians made their appearance. Mrs. D D started for the house, and was intercepted j J1 by two Indians. Throwing them from her, | ? a third caught her by the shoulder. She J ?! knocked him down and reaching the house w in safety,1 she barred the door The Indians rested one or more rifles on the win- " dow, leveled at the woman who approached T them She took down her father'9 rifle and a returned the fire of the Indians through the v apertures or "chinks" of the log house.? P On attempting to cock her gun Mr9. D. I " found that the thumb of the right hand had b been shot away by an Indian bullet, but D using her left hand, she soon had the pleas- C1 ure of knowing that her would be murderers ! h:id retreated. whether with whole hides or P not she could not tell. Muscle, courage : a and self-possession won a victory, one agaiDSt a' five?and that one a woman. We challenge j _ the State to exhibit aD instance in Indiun a fighting, wherein a woman has acquitted 81 ! herself tuoro creditably?Occidental {Cat- o: xfornia) Vanguard. ! 0 - | tl A Hint to Loverrs of Flowers.? el A most beautiful and easily attained show ii of evergreens may be had by a very simple plan, which has been found to work remarkably well on a small scale. If gerani- fl , urn branches, taken from luxuriant and w lealtby trees, jast before tbe winter sets in, )e oat as for slips, and immersed in soap 1 rater, they will, after drooping a few days, i hed tbeir leaves, pat forth fresh ones, and | lontinae in tbe finest vigor all winter. By ' >lacicg a Dumber of bottles thas filled in 1 lower basket, with moss to conceal tbe bot- I lea, a show of evergreen is easily seoored I or the winter. All the different varieties < if the plant being need, the various shades t ind color of the leaves blend into a beanti- 1 ul effeot. They require no fresh water.? < Jo says a lady who has tried it. ; ^ i The Intelligence of Brutes. j iiTk. n ~e ? >> ? J.-IULU -x uc uaiujuutco ui naiurO) txu ntereBting volume just published by the \ppleioos, we extract the following para, graphs od the intelligence of animals: As the mammalia are man's nearest relaions in a physical point of view, they are dso endowed with an intelligence saperior o that of the other animals, and not seldom >rompting them to aotions which seem ather to belong to the sphere of reason han to that of brute instinct. The chirn tanzee, for instance, will lock and unlock a loor or drawer, will thread any needles nd cannot be taken in by the same thing wice A dog in a monastery, perceiving that the aonks received their meals by rapping at a >uttery door, contrived to do so likewise, nd when the allowance was poshed through nd the door shut, ran off with it. This ?as repeated till the theft was detected. Another dog, belonging to Mr. Taylor, a lergyman who lived at Colton, near Wolely Bridge, was accused of killing many heep. Complaints were made to his masor, who asserted that the thing was imposible, because he was muzzled every night. I'he neighbors persisted in the charge, the log oue night was watched, and he was seen o draw bis Deck out of the mnzzle, then o go into a field and eat as muoh of a heep as satisfied his appetite He next rent into the river to wash his mouth, and eturned afterward to his kennel, put bis ead into the muzzle again, and lay very uietly down to sleep. Mr. Moreland, a surgeon in Paris, had aken into his house the dog of a friend 7Vnnh hnrl Hrnkon Jfa lor* ontl rrnn^ nafn_ i ' U1UU UUVI V/UUIl IM IV^I uuu gvvu Ut?vuedly cured it. Some time after the dog cratched at the door of Mr. Moreland's tudy, and, on being admitted, introduced, nother dog to whom some accident bad appeoed, and who could barldly crawl a}ng after bis guide. The first dog plainly bowed by bis caresses what be wanted, nd the surgeon admiring bis sagacity, took barge of bis protege and oured bim likewise. As the elepbani surpasses all that breathes n dry land in bulk and muscular power, is mental faculties also assign to bim one f the first places in the animal creation. Vhen tamed be becomes the most gentle nd obedient of all domestic quadrupeds, nd in most cases is exceedingly fond of bis eeper, and soon learns to distinguish the arious tones of the human voice as expresive of anger approbation or command, lis strength is rendered doubly serviceable o man by the intelligence he evinces in its se. He will load a boat with amazing exterity, carefully keeping all the articles ry and disposing them where tbey ought 3 be placed. In propelling wheel carriaes heavily laden up a declivity, he pushes hem forward with his forehead and suports 1 hem with hid knees. In Ceylon, where the elephants are fre- 1 uently employed in dragging and piling ' tilled timber, they manifest aD intelligence ( Dd dexterity which is surprising to a stran ( er because the sameoess of the operation ( oables them to go on for hours, disposing | f log after log, almost without a hiut or ^ irections from their overseers. Sir E . 'ennent mcntioos two elephants thus em- ' loyed in the yards attached to commissariat tores at Columbo, who accomplished their 1 rork with equal preoision and with greater y apidity than if it had been accomplished a y dock laborers. When the pile attained ^ certain height, and they wero no longer ble by their conjoint efforts to raise one of c le heavy logs of ebony to the summit, ^ ley bad been taught to lean two pieces gainst the heap, up the inclined plain of ^ hich they gently rolled the remaining logs ' nd placed them trimly on the top Mill ? Manufacturing ?To show unmistakaly the importance of devoting more atten- ? on to cotton manufacturing at the South, v , is only necessary to refer to the immense F rofit resulting from the investment in cot- ' jc factories in Lowell. The aggregate ' ipital invested in her ten large companies 1 16tated at 313,000,000 The amount of 1 attoo consumed is 100,000 bales ; the 0 umber of yards produced, exclusive of a arcs, is something over 100,000,000 j and 1 ie Dumber of operatives is 12,000. The peratives are mostly women and girls. It ould require at least 30,000 field laborers ) raise this cottOD, and yet it is converted 8 i _ ? J I *1 O AAA ft HO oioms ana yarns uy i.j,vuu uperunveo. 'he process for manufacturing the cotton 8 bout doubles its value, and the average di idends declared by these companies is 33 a er cent. When we consider the saving in b -eight and the advantage which the local uyer has over the agent of distant compa- t ies, it is manifest that with the same effilent management here which characterizes te Lowell companies, a profit of nearly 50 a er cent, could be realized on the invest tent. This leaves out of view the general q dvantagcs resulting from sach enterprises c -increasing our population, erecting local s larkeis and diversifying industrial pur- a jits It is strange that the manufacturers f Europe are not induced to transfer some f their capital to the South. They would a jus outflank the tariff imposed for the ben- y Bt of Eastern manufacturers, and save the s nmense amount of freights and obarges. fl hm 8 Chicago shipped 72,823 barrels of b our, and 618,226 bushels of wheat east- I ard last week. c The Human Family.?The number of aDgnages and dialeots spoken in the world imonnts 3064. The inhabitants of the globe profess more than 1000 different religions, rbe Dumber of men is abont equal to the aumber of women. The average of bnman life is abont thirty three years. One quarter die previous to the age of seven years; ane-half before reaohiog seventeen; and those who pass this age enjoy a felioity refused to one half the human speoies. To jvery 1000 persons only one reaohes 100 pears of life; to every 100, only six reaohes the age of sixty-five ; and not more than one ?_ PAA ! _ . I. in ovv nves to eignty years or age. mere ire on the earth 1,000,000,000 inhabitants; and of these 33,333,333 die every year, 31,822 every day, 3730 every hoar, and sixty every minute, or one every second.? These losses are about balanced by an eqaal number of births. The married are longer lived than the single, and, above all, those who observe a sober and indnstrioas conduct. Tall men live longer than short ones. Women have more chances of life in their Favor previous to being fifty years of age than men, but fewer afterwards. The number of marriages is in proportion of seventy-1' 3ve to every one hundred individuals. Marriages are most frequent after the equinoxis; that is, during the months of June and December. Those born in the spring are generally more robust than others. Births' ind deaths are more frequent by night than >y day. The number of men capable of leariDg arms is calculated at one-fourth of >he population. The Famine in India?A correspond;nt of bd English paper writes from India: Famine daily becoming worse, and T night have said death more numerous.? j Doming in the other morning from Murkot ah, I saw two dead bodies within 300 yards >f the place, the dogs eating them leisurey, while vultures looked on. Two miles >d, at a village named Murpba, I saw part if a tinman Knttu Kninrv htt ftvu wm ? VV/VIJ WVlUg VJ ? W V logs; the flesh was quite red, and in faotf jloody ; the right band was resting on the 'orehcad, partially on the left side. I realy do believe the dogs oommenoed their ghastly baDqaet while breath was in the Dody. At a bazaaj named Poonagha, I saw-1 ,bree dead bodies in one line?I should say "ather, mother and daughter j they appeared :o have died within a few minutes of each uber; they looked as if sleep. Little to he north of these I saw two more bodies [ did not examine them ; their bare legs old their own tale. About half a mile furrher on, at a village named Soroul Sooltan, [ saw another body, the vultures finishing vhat the dogs bad left. From thenoe nothDg more, exoept occasional bad smells.? Sfew grain is again coming iD, but it will )c of little help to the starving wretches; bey have not the means of buying, consejuently but live on charity. Heavy on Whiskey.?The eccentric tod talented George Franois Train was resentlv a candidate for Congress, from Ne>raska Territory. It became necessary to tall upon George to furnish carriages "to jring up the voters," and money "to scaler among the beer shops and grogeries." He thereupon withdrew from the canvass n disgust, and comes down upon treating n handsome style. He says, "Any spare noney I may have I prefer to devote to edication and christian charities. Purohasng votes debases the franchise and demoralizes the people. No wife, do little obiliren shall have reason to complain of a irunken husband or father on election day >n my account. Whiskey is the curse of >ur time. It is ruining our yonng men and lurrying our old men into the grave.? Elicb and poor, high and low, alike are beng destroyed under its blighting inflaence. iVhen we have fewer breweries, fewer disilleries, more christian churches, more universities and more schools, the law oourts nd the jails will be less patronized, the vorld the better for it." Troth fitly spo:en, and while we admire the manly course >f Mr. Train, we commend his views to he consideration of every patriot in the and. We sincerely hope that the day has ;one by when a man who treats in elections rill be supported by the people of this 'nnntrc ?Infpllinpnrpr. J & Responsibility ?A young man in Vir;ioia bad become sadly intemperate. He ras a man of great capacity, fascination, and tower, bnt he bad a passion for brandy rbich nothing could control Often in his talks a friend remonstrated with him but n vain; as often would he urge this friend o take the social glass in vain. On one iccassioo tbc latter agreed to yield to bim, od as they walked up to the bar together he bar keeper said: "Gentlemen, what will you have?" "Wine sir," was the reply. The glasses were filled and the two friends tood ready to pledge each other in renewed nd eternal friendship, when be paused and aid to his intemperate friend: "Now, if I drink this glass and become drnnkard will you take the response lility?" The drunkard looked at him with severi* y, and said: "Set down that glass." "It was set down, and the two walked way without saying a word." The drunkard knows the awful conseinpnpps of tho first class. Even in the L?.?? ? ? aadness for liquor, he is cot willing to asume the responsibility of anotheri>ecoming > drunkard. ?? The Bishop of Wnrtembnrg once sketla sprightly shepherd boy, "What are ou doing here, my boy 7" "Tending wine." "How much do yon get 7" "One lorin a week." "I am a spbepberd also," aid che the bishop, "but 1 have a much etter salary." "That may all be, but suppose you have more swine o"*Vi ^oar are," replied the boy.