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a . Lirwis aL OB^T," ^ firityfent jfkmiig |Ubyr: ,/cr :lu- yrcr.ioticn: of tit |olitital, ggrial |gricnltr?ral ai^ Coinmrtid |ni;rt3ts of il? gont|). ^ VOL. "?"5. . v . ; V YOEKYILLE, S.. C., THTJBSDAY, A.TJQ-XJST 26, 1S6&. <*. \ ITO. , 04. ?-?? ? '' " - II Mil -I .11. Bigg?aa^ ?lm? .jNfotel fiefeg; IltKSil LAMENT* ' * I'm sittm' oti the stile, Mary, .* r Where w?. get hide by side On s bright May morning h)ng ago, When flwtyou were my brjae; The ooro Wee apringiiT fresh andgreen* The lark sang load and high? ; ; The red wris fin your; cheeks, Mary, And the loYenghtlb yoni* eye. The-pl&ce is little Aianged, Mary, " ; ? The landmarks pB remain?* ' * ? . The hurk'a loud song is in my ear, . The gorn is gremi^gain: _ ' But I miss the soft clasp of thy hand. ' And yooribrdath warm on.mv cheek, And I atni kdep liateoin' fpr the wbrds' Yeunwey In ore will speak. ' * 'Tis but a step down yonder lane, 1 . And the little church stands near, The ohurch wherC we were "Wed, Mary? I seethe spire from here. * But the grave yard lies between*Mary,And my step might break your rest, _ for I* ve laid you.darftn.', down to. aieep With your oabv on yoor breast, ritLveiy lonely now, Mary, lbs poor make no newfriemls. But, 01 they love thee better still Tne few our Father sends! And you were all I had, Mary, "Mt blossin' and my pride. t There's nothin' left to care for now, Since my poor Maiy died. * w Yours was the good, bravo heart, Mary, That still kept hoping on. Whan the trust bx Godhad left my soul Aha my snn'4 yoafig strength was go as; There was ?omfortevor oil your lip, And the kindjook ou your brow? I bless you, Mary, for that same, Though you cannot hear me now. I'm btcfdin' you a long farewell, MyMafry, kind and trtte! " * But I'll not forget yon, darlin* 1 * . In the land I m goin'to J-1- They say there's hread and work for fill,. And the sun shines, always there? Bof I'll ryot forget,Ola Irefiapd, Wemit fifty tunes as air. . \ And often in those grand old woods Fit ait aAd. shut my eyes, .. And my heart-will travel, back again To the place where Mary lies; And FU-think I see the little stile _ Where we sat aide by side. And the springFn' corn and bright May morn When first yen were my brxd^. ~ it ., ... , ? MBS. DEWSFOBB'S DAUGHTER. _ BY EMMA PAUL..;?' . ? . Mro TiowsTdrrl eat. in her'own room, assiduously employed in fastening dried butterflies .00 a sheet of pasteboard, with an'^Enfydopedia of Etymology*!, lying on the table beside her,.and a magnifying glass affixed in some mysterious manner to her nose. A spare, prim, hard-featured matron, was Mrs. Dewaford?one whohelievedjm Women's Rights, and thought woman generally a much abused persoBage, deposed from her proper Sphere and trampled on by the tyrant Man! Mrs. Dewsford had oome very near being a man herself?what with a deep voice and bearded chin, and a figure quite innocent of all superfluous curves or graces.! Really, if one had changed her skirt and body to trousers .nod coat, she would have pa&sadfor one of the contemned sex without much difficulty. f. ' ^ . But Lizzie Dewsford. was quite different?Lizzie Dewsford, who stood beside her mother, with cheeks round and ripe as a peach, deep "blue eyes made mystic and shady by their long lashes, and brown hair wound round and round her pretty head in shining coils. You wondered, as yon gazed at-her, how they could both be women, and yet so unlike. "Nonsense, child!" said Mrs. Dewsford, critically examining a butterfly with pale yellow wings, sprinkled with carmine. "But, mamma," pleaded Lizzie, "it isn't nonsense. He really does want to marry me." "Marriage is all a mistake, Elizabeth," said Mrs. Dewsford, laying down her magnifying glass. "I don't mean you shall marry at all." "Mamma!" " . . "A woman who marries," went on the strongminded matron, "is a woman enslaved: If I had known as much about life when I was eighteen as I do now, I wonld never have married. .Prom the standpoint of a grand mistake committed in my own life, I can rectify yours, Elizabeth." ' "Rut mamma." orifld IMOr Lizzie. "what tthftll I dor" ~ "" "Do, ohUd! do!" ejaculated the mother. "That is a pretty question for my daughter to' ask! Why, read?study?improve your mind. Devote ail the energies of your nature to the solving of the great social problems that surround you.". "I don't care a pin for the social problems, mamma," remonstrated Lizzy. "I like Charley Everett, and I'm going to marry him I" "Never, with my consent" "Oh! mamma," cried Lizzie, aghast "surely you woold not?" "Elizabeth," said Mrs. Dewsford, in a tone of judicial calmness, "don't you see what a confusion you are creating among these insects whioh I have so carefully classified ? I bog you. will interrupt my studies no longer. Co and finish reading that Report of the English Convention for the Amelioration of Womankind.' What are you crying for? A well-regulated womau never cries," "I wish I wasn't a woman!" sobbed poor Lizzy. "I wish I wasn't something that had.to be elevated, and improved, and cultivated. Oh ! mamma, darling, you weren't in earnest when you said you wouldn't oonsent to.my marrying Charley. We shall be so happy together; and he says he will be miserable without me ; and?" "Elizabeth, I am astonished at you! Of course I was in earnest! I have neither gold nor jewels to lay on the shrine of the canse ; but I have a daughter, and I intend to show the world what f woman, unshackled and unfettered, can be capable of I You, Elizabeth, should glory in thus becoming an offering!" But Lizzy, apparently unappreciative of the great lot in store for her, cried more piteously than ever. "Tears will not melt me," said Mrs. Dewsford, calmly resuming the Encyclopedia. "I only regret to be the mother of so degenerate a daughter!" # "Mamma," ventured poor Lizzy after-a few minutes of silent grieving, "I?I promised Charley J i ? r.L 4k;? ??? ^ 10 riue OUt WltU miu uiu aimuuvu i ? "You must give him up, Elizabeth. Upon such a subject I can aocept no oompromise!" . "But I promised, mamma !" Mrs. Dewaford gravely rubbed the end of her nose. ~ ' * * ** -A ' " "A promise is a promise, Elizabeth; nor shall I require of you to break it." Here Lizzy visibly brightened. "But I shall acoonjpany you!" The pretty face became clouded and overcast once more. ' 'Where are you going ?'' "To the woods beyond the glen, mamma. Charley is going to get some wood sorrel for my herbarium." "Nor will the expedition be unprofitable to me," said Mrs. Dewsfbrd, gravely. "There are many choice varieties of Adiantum and Asplenium to be found in these woods, and my collection of native ferns is as yet incomplete." And Lizzy went away in great consternation? not to read reports, nor to study paleontology, but It. ? . w . 1 , -tor slip out in the garden, where a great toee-trec carpeted the velvet grass with showers of soft pink i petals at every passing breath of air, Jind where Charley Everett was busied in cutting otif stioks a ftr carnations. . . " * / t "Oh," Charley?Charley 1 I aw so miserable.'' j what is the matter ?" a ' He dropped knife, sticks and all in dismay at her woful couhtenance; and Lizzy told him, to the best a of her ability, what "the matter" was. " J" C **Iathat all?" he asked, quietly, when the recital * was concluded. *- ? C "Isn't that enough [" she-rejoined, piteoasly. | "When we were going to hatfe such a' nice drive all ; by ourselves, and (hen come Lome by moonlight, aod^" " * '* . ^"Don't fret, cara mia; it will be all right f So 0 she won't consent to our marriage, eh ?" t; "She saya most positively that shp will not/' /'What shall we do, "Lizzy? Shall we elope 0 quietlyr4'* * ' eo "Oh* Ch&rley^ou know" I would neyer "marry v without her consent" '? ^.' "And are two Jivea to bef made miserable just j because she thinks matrimony is a mistake ?" he 0 asked, gravejy. ' r' - ' t "T suppose so, Charley." y Lizzy Dewsford's pretty head drooped like arose g in the rain. Charley watched her quivering lip and tear-wet eye-lashes, and said.no more. - . - Jjra Dewsford was ready, with a preposterous n PTeen nmhrella tn keen off the sun, "a tin case to In put.tho ferns in, an extra pair of boots,'in .the faj event of.swampy.""walking, when Mr. Everett's t' little tight phaeton drove up to the door. The D springs croaked ominouslyas she stepped in; and fa Lizzy, meekly Mowing, was nearly Overwhelmed v hyhiar mother's volaminous draperies. -a .^Thad bettor sit in the middle ?it preserves fa the o^uiKbriuin of the. vehiole better," said Mrs. ( Dewsford, wedging herself in between Lizzy arid tj Mr. Everett with & smile of great complacency, fa ' And she immediately began disbursing on the p properties and habits, of the fern, with unpausing 0 volubility, while Lizzy, perched on. the extreme <] outer edge of the Beat, had all she could-da to keep v in the vehicle, ancLMr. Eyerett*8 eyes were in ex- i treme danger with the points of the green umbrel- c hkj which veered to and fro like a. ship m a storm,. i as MrB. Dewsfdrd's tale waxed in interest. " <] - Suddenly she cheeked herself as her eye caught' I a duster of green waving vegetation on the crest- a like point of a rock which overhung-the'road.v e "Charles! Chariea!" she cried, "stop a minute, o Can't you reach that Aspienium Ebunum ?" } 'Is this it, ma'am?" said Mr, Everett, making r a dive ata tail stalk of something. ' v - , ... t "No, no; nor that?ihe little green thing with fc the black stem 1" *: *> J"' b .This,ma'am?'.' haiarded Charley,clutching at g 4ikt-leaved cluster of weedy growth.'v - - u "Oh, dear, dear, Charles, how stupid you are!" t sighed Mrs. Dewsford. "I'll jump out and get it X myself!" ' - ? u *: .. I ' "Mammal" remonstrated Lizzy. <" p "Oh, I'll help her!" nodded Charley, springing f nimbly on the cliff, and pulling Mrs. Dewsford by .y main force up the steep side of the rock. "Here fa you are, ma'am I" " ' * b - "Yes," panted Mrst Dewsford; "but?but it t was very steep. I really think women should do- b vote more attention to gymnastics. Oh, Lere's the I Aspienium?very choice specimens, too. -Charles, where are you going?" jf For Mr Everett had sprang back into the phae- y ton. * e "Only for a Kttle tarn, ma'am, while you are v collecting your botanical treasures." 1< "Yes, but Charles " t Mrs. Dewsfonfs words of remonstance were t drowned in the rattle of the wheels, as Mr. Everett r drove briskly away, with Lizzy nestling up to his p side. One long, lingering glance she gave after the y departing pair, and then returned to her tin case h and umbrella. - g ' "They'll be back presently," she said. * t But the afternoon sunlight faded- off from the oliff, and the red orb of day sank majestically down y behind the evergreen glens that bounded the wes- 'h tern horizon, and Mrs. Dewsford greg* tired, and n cross, and rheumatic; and still, like tue character s of romance, "they came not." 0 "Something has happened !M cried the prophetic o soul of Mrs Dewsford. "It can't be possible that n I shall have to stay here all uight!"' ' I She looked nervously round. It was a tall, steep k cliff whfcreon 6he stood, cut off from the woods be- il yondby the rush and roar of a wide and by no v means shallow stream on one side; while on the g other three it was almost perpendicular, rising y some twenty feet up from the road. Mrs. Dews- \ ford began to feel, as she surveyed it, very much y like St Simeon Stylites on his column in the wil- p derness. _\ y "liP they shouldn't come!" she thought ' t But at the same instant a welcome rumbling of t wheels broke the hushed stillness of the seldom p travelled mountain road, and Mrs. DeWsford's strained eyes caught sight of Mr. Everett's spirit- f, ed gray, gashing round the curve of the hill 0 "Well," she cried. "I never was more thankful o for anything in my life! I'm tired to death, wait- t ing." ; . *' ii . "Are you ?" said Charles Everett, as he checked a the horse in the middle of the road. p VYes. Why don't you drive closer?" sharply } demanded Mrs. Dewsford. * b "Oh, did you want to drive home with us ?" ii "Why, of course .1 did ! I'd have been home e long ago if i could have got ott this piacc. o "Well, ma'aiu," said Charley, in accents of the I coolest deliberation, while Lizzie clung, frightened d andyefc smiling, to his side, "I shall be very happy n to help yon off the cliff on one condition." "Condition! Charles Everett!" exclaimed the b astonished and indigant matron; "what do yon y mean?" n "Simply this, Mrs. Dewsford. I want to marry b your daughter. But Lizzy, like a too dutiful child, g will not become my wife without your consent" a "Which she shall never have!" said Mrs. Dews- ii ford, emphatically. p "Very well, ma'am! Geoup, Whitey;" and fi he shook the reins. . a "You're not going to leave me here V shrieked f) Mrs. Dewsford, in a panic of terror. p "Unless you comply with my condition, ma'am, y I most certainly shall." y "And that condition is?" s, "Your consent to my marriage with your daughter!" i, "Elizabeth!" cried Mrs. Dewsford, "will yoube j, a witness to this?this atrocious conduct, and not 0 interfere?" 1 i ?? i-x ? i :? xi i. "UQariey WOO i ici me uuve u vuice m me mui- c ter, mamma, at all," said Lizzy, demurely. "He p says he don't believe in women's rights!" t Mrs. Dewsford gave ahollow groan. Mr. Everett \ touched his horse slightly with the whip. "Stop!" cried Mrs. Dewsford. "I consent? fc but it is under protest!" - t "You can protest all you like, "said Mr. Everett, \ driving closer to the rock, and standing up to as- r sist his mother-in-law elect into the phaeton. 1 Silently Mrs. Dewsford entered the vehicle? c silently she rode home?silently she crossed the t threshold of her house, as became a conquered i party! "To think," she said, in a hollow voice, as she 1, sat down to dinner, "that after all my precepts and s example, Elizabeth should end her career by get- v ting married!" <3 A ' r ^ - . - - - - - ' ' "Mamma," said Lizzy, timidly, "I don't think I t's so very terrible, after all!" <; "To think." sighed Mrs. Dewsford,.paying no i ittentfoa to ner daughter's reply, "that you should 1 neet tLe fate of any ordinary woman l" c "But, mamma, I never had any ambition to be f n extraordinary woman!" * i - And ao was brought to a termination the plots j nd plans for a "model existence" which had been brmed for Mrs. Dewsford'a daughter I '"a pisic^te?tfltts jUadiiuj. I t VIEWS OF A GEORGIA FARMER. ' 3Ir. Dlokson, one of the most successful farmers i f the. South,, writes to the Southern Cultivator, e he fbHomn^conoerning immigration: - - t "I wish to draw the attention of cotton-planters, t" f the South to the subject of immigration. It is d ne of great interest, and if successful, I -think 1 rill prove deetiuntive to the cotton interest. I do 1: lot wish my view# to prevail unless they are right, o wish both sides to be heard, and hope those who . ?? n/m o?m] v?La WfWnO WlfK TTrtA will Ka t UU fTICIU UJC ^JUU) (Uiu yjuvi ugivw niw* ?wv yr? * WW r teard; the other sjde has been heard already, and t re have been taxed to promote this.cause. The t State of Georgia is moving for.our destruction. ? The negro we have with us, and we cannot get v id of him if we would! They wiH not die out, as ^ aost of our Northern friends' and many of our 0 eopje think. The next oeosus will show a large c lorease. Tho odly.way to make it tolerabte. lor hem to live amongs't us, is to give them employ- 0 lent, .With full employment they will steal less, ^ e more law-abiding,- and a loss nuisance in every j1 riy. Do we want D/ore laDor, and for what? The w gricultural interest at tha South is chiefly valua- D lo for its production of cotton, tobacco and rice." ,D Jan we make more money by doubling the quan- ity of labor, than we Can out of what we now } ave? Do numbers increase the'quantity of labor F ro rata, orwill- the dividends he greater for^ all ? oncerned? ' Can the first Urilhoh of people in T leorgia, having the .first ohoice of lands tOculti- P ate and the balanoe forpasture, make more or lesB f ban the second million,-havingthe poorest half to l] ultivate and no waste land for stock to graze on? f s the second million likely to be more skillful, in- n lustrioos; law-abiding and enterprising, &c.&c. ? ^ think, history teaches jas thata population, with ? plenty of room, and ldnd, ate more cheaply gov- a rned than a dense population?can livebettef and '' an have jnore labor to spare for. improvements. 1 Vhat country has built the same amount of RaiU *oadsand Factories as the -United States? The v Jnited States having plenty of lands to cultivate, l iy seleotjng the beat, can, with one half of its la- ^ FOrers, make.* plasty of all the products of the v oil, whilst the other half can build Railroads and c aachinery of all -kinds, and work them. The cot- 0 an States, with its present labor, can build more tailroads, erect more Factories, develope more lines, carry education and refinement to a higher loint than if the population was increased fouraid. With cotton at twenty-five cents per pound ou have money to do whatever you wish collect- , rely.' In 1848 and '49, with 900,000 to 1,000,000 | tales of cotton in Liverpool, cotton soldrin Angus- , a, at 4} to 5} cents. With 350,000 to 400,000 tales at present iu Liverpool, cotton is selling in kugusta from 25 to 29 cents per pound. Why . lo you wish, to make the change,? Our Northern ? riends say, if we do not produce cotton cheaper, 11 ie will lose the trade. I am willing to lose it if it ? an only be held by makingchCap Cotton. JfHhny 11 rould take a little more interest in preventing the 8 ass of our liberty, instead of the loss of the cot- c on trade, it would inure to the benefit of both, sec- c ions. Give us our liberties and constitutional' \ ights, with our best men to represent us in all delartments, and we can make as much cotton as the 0 rorld wants, at fair prices, if it be ten millions of ^ tales, without, an out;side man or dollar. Good ;overnment would do moro to develope this country , ban all the men and monoy in the world. - Cotton planters, it is not to your interest to sell . our land at a mere nominal price. How can you y nvest your money to any better advantage. Land D lust advance in price. In thirty years, .without a ingle immigrant, Georgia will have a population f two millions of people?the sons and daughters y f the present population. Be patient?wait for " atural increase, and what may voluntarily coi^e. )o not spend your money to hasten an over-papp- ' ited country. It will come soon enough, and when ^ t doesoomo, you will have no outlet- Some ore rilling to cut their lands- up into small lots, and ' ive every alternate lot to immigrants, thinking it riD more than double the price of the balance., Vbat do you dire what your lands are worth, if ^ pa have none to sell?besides it would reduce the , rice of cotton moro than one-half, and the lands ou have left would not pay per acre one-half of a he dividends they do uow?reducing your profits j liree-fourths. You have a plenty of native poor f >eople to sell land to, if you wish to part with any. Do those who have no land wish competitors in 0 ibor, and in the land market?reducing your wages j nr mnrp? T)n vnn wish a frreat increase v if money capital, reducing the rate of interest to u he. standard of Europe, causing property to rise ^ a proportion to the fall of interest. Your wages j, re fixed by the surplus of cotton you have to ex- ? iort, and the price it will bring in Liverpool. ^ Tour prosperity depends upon the scarcity of laior and a high fate of interest You have noth- y ag but your labor?you cannot borrow money, ven if it gets down to two per cent. The value ^ f your labor being fixed by the value of cotton in e iverpool, who/e interest-is low, you can, by resi- s ing where it is high, acquire proportionally much v lore bud in a given time. 8 To those who have land to sell, or more than can e worked, let me say the very scarcity of labor a rill make one-half of your lands bring in annually lore money than if all was pbnted?the other t] .alf is worth 5 per cent to grow broom sedge for p razing, and will advance more than fiye per cent. nnually. For the safety of the manufacturing a itefest, especially in cotton, it is not prndent to a nsh it too fast?not faster than markets can be ^ ittnd for the products manufactured. Just as sure j, 8 the winds roturn the water to be condensed and v ill again above the shoals, the people here will ossess the money and energy and skill to put the p rater to work; and to effect this most speedily, ^ re want a scarcity of labor, that there may be a >, carcity of cotton, and correspondingly good prices. a With cotton at 20 to 25 cents per pound, wo can, o a Georgia, appropriate ten dollars towards increastig our manufacturing interest with more ease than ne dollar, with double the labor, and cotton 8 to h 2 cents. Where are the laborers best fed and v lothed ? where labor is scarce. Where does land g lay the best profits? where labor is scarce; and si he roason is, the products of the farm bring the v icst prices under these circumstances. a I am equally opposed to begging for money to il io brought to the South to be invested. If capi- b alists come of their own accord, let them come, t! int it is not to our interest that they should. You s: iow own the property of Georgia?if you sell one v lalf of it, you own but the other half. It is very o lifficult to transfer real property from one oountry o another. The most you would get would be the a neans to live and dress fine for a few years. n What we want is a system of saving and proper- fc y investing each year. We could and ought to \ ave annually fifteen million of dollars, to be in- e -ested in maohinery. That would pay future e lividends to be re-invested. I am for more labor s ? ,?t ?:?? ? joo, but I want such aa we may never regret aoiniring. Accumulate all sorts of labor-saving nachineS; improvn-yQur land to a capacity double t8 present rates j Improve your systenia fully louble-of what tbey now are. Learn' to do fully Ifty per cent more work, with the .same labor tban s no* done, and'with more ease; learn' to. apply 'Car labor to greater advantage tban b now done -do alk this, and more too, which can -be done, nd you w2ffind your ptoducta' ample, without tiy increase t)f population. I am for "non-action y Georgia?non-Sctton of otlr people. Leave the ubjeot of immigration to time, and the free Willof hose who wisb-tq come among ua. and be of us. We owe our prosperity at this , time entirely to be scarcity of labors-many, negroes having refusd to work; others being employed in repairing orn up. railroads apd buDding new roads. If. all be negroes had gone to work .on the. farms, and One full work, itwould.htwe taken twenty years ?' - rm. o reacn oar present gitaapon. xue uuaruiyr ui lbor is the only blessing w6 new enjoy as a-result f the war. \ The scarcity of labor in the Sooth gives oe the irooeeds of the very labor home people wish to ransferbere. The profits of one hand in the coton field,, give us the labor of twain Europe. Transer him here, and he will compete with the labor jq now have, or ho will labor with those we now tave to lessen their profits; and bring about a state f things whioh will get up strikes. Sou must re-< 1 ollect a strike itr the o6tton or~hofyest field, is not< ike one in a cotton "mill or on a railroad. If the sill stops, what has been done is not loatr-Jf the lands refuse to move any more dirt, what has een remains. Not so with wheat and cotton?all 3 j lost unless you continue to advance. "The guano anst be pnmped up into the cotton bolls, and they 3ust be gathered by Uninterrupted labor. One more poiut I will mention, and then-j&we he subject to be dfscnssed fhlly, I hope, by abler ens. THe press of the South has labored earnstJy. bp get the ootton plttnter to make aH hi? liesat home, urging if as being the'oboapest ioli?y. Now every ootton planter'knows that p thing pays us well as oOttotf, and all the presses 3 tho- world cannot'change his opinion. . But. if bc'pfeas will strike at the root of the evil, they J jay do ine^colable'good, I wilj state what it is; have always practiced it;botVfhu true interest f the cotton planter and patriotism should make II adopt it Apply one-half of oh. labor and land 1 0 the making of foil supplies ofall kinds'that are ceded on the,plantation, and enough to spare.for hose engaged in other pntsuits., Do this and yon- rQl get more money, (take ten years together,) for he other half of labor and land engaged to prouce cotton. If this Is. true, immigration Is cerainly not to our interest, and why should net the otton planters consult their interest, as well as ther people. Very respectfully, - :! David DroKsoN. A WATCH THICK. * ' " ,, The fbllowihg'adroit trick was recently played . ipon the frequenters of an English village inn: A genteelly dressed man walked in and professedo be tired." Having taken refreshments, he said le would dike to fake a nap for an hour. To sleep ie went, and in a very-business-like way, in a hair, and a sonnd nap he seemed to-enjoy. Bebre it expired the usual smoke-pipe company bean to drop in, and among the rest, two stratfgera made their appearance. One of the company remarked that it was unpleasant to have a man eleepq a public room with valuable property about him, uch as the sleeper, who hod a fine-looking gold hain displayed on his waistcoat, and apparently onnocted' with a watch in ope of his pockets. To his remark one of the strangers replied: -"Pooh! that's no gentleman, I'msure; he's one v them ere swell mob as is always a takin' ov the.; leople in. I dare say he has no watch at all; but '11 soon see." - Suiting the notion to the word, the stranger soft-' 7 drew from the sleeping man's pocket a piece of rood, round and'about the size of a watch. "Ithought so," said he; "there's a pretty n tatch for you," holding it up so that the company might see it, and then returned it to the owner's iocket.- , r. ' < By-and-by the sleeper awoke, and oalled brisk7 for a glass of brandy and water. He assuming patronizing way with the farmers, which soon t aiBed a desire to put him down. Accordingly one * ' ? i J A- w. :_r j ?1, I sue semora revjuiruu w ut; luiuixucu iuo vwiu u* . ay. ' . .* -. i "Why," Baid the gentleman, "the fact is, Ihad drop too much last night, and forgot to wind up ] ij watch." "Just so 1" ejaculated the senior, "you foTgot ' o wind it up? You'd be puzzled to do that, I bould say; wouldn't you now?" I "Well, sir, yen seem to take more notioe of such i trifle than there is any call for; but the truth is, i have not a watch key about me, and mine js < atber a peculiar watch.'! - r-*] Here a burst of laughter ensued, and a number : f jokes were passed about the. peculiar style of'i he watch. At last one of the company loudly told ] iim that he had no watch at all about hhn; where- < pon the amazed individual hastily clapped his iand to his waistcoat pocket, declaring that, un- j jss the watch had been stolen since ho had been j a the room, he had one. Satisfied, apparently, ; y the external application to his pocket, he said: < "It's all right; my watch is here; I thought ] ou had been playing a trick with me." i "I'll bet you five pounds you have no watch/' < awled out one of his tormentors. Another offer- j d to bet ten pounds; and one of the strangers ] aid he hadn't five, but there were two sovereigns i rhicli he would like to double by betting in the < amc way. The awakened man looked at them in apparent j stonishuient, and asked if they were serious. ; They all stuck to it that he had no watch, and < ben he took out his purse and produced five ten i ound notes to the amount of the bets offered him. 1 'he Btakes were posted, and then the thoroughly ; wakened sleeper coolly pulled but a piece of Wood 1 t which a hoarse laugh arose again. The laughter i ras soon on the other side, when touching a spring I l the bit of wood, it flew open and disclosed a j ery handsome gold watch enclosed within it. ] The gentleman gave a very plausible reason for \ referring so odd-looking a case for bis watch, with rhich his dupes might feel satisfied or Dot. lie ] ad received their money to tho extent of ?40; nd they had bought their knowledge of the "time f day." . _____ The Steam Plow.?We see that an experiment as been tried with a steam-plough in New Jersey rith the most satisfactory results. Two steam enines are placed facing each other on opposite ides of a field. Each works a windlass, around rhich is wound a steel wire. The plough is drawn cross the field by one of the windlasses, and when ; has traveled the whole width, it is pulled back y the other wire, and so on. The engines move bemselves along as is required. The plough has ix shares, all of which turn up the ground at once, rhich is worked deeper and pulverized more thor- ] ughly than by the ordinary plough. 1 The whole maohioe costs $13,000. This seems 1 large sura, and one would suppose that it would i ot displace horses; but on some of the large es- 1 ates of England they find economy in using them. 1 Ve think that they will, after a while, be employ- 1 d in this country; for several neighboring farm- 1 rs may combine and purchase one of them, and < ave by so doing. Moreover, the engines can be ' employed for many other purposes, such as grinding, threshing, &c. BOQKS BEFORE.PRINTING. . The occupation of transcribing manuscript prior to the kventioivof printing, wasavery important on^-and-gave employment- to & vast number of persons known by- -the name of copyists. The scribes,.cmploycd in keeping the national records and transcribing the laws, jihad a highly honorable office among the Jews, and it-seems doubtful whether they evbr copied the manuscript for sole. In the middle ages the work of copying was at first chiefly carried on in the monasteries. Under one Abbot of St. Albans, about the year 1300, fifty-, eight books were transcribed, and more than eighty under Wothemwede, in the time of Henry VX Several of the early fathers and prelates maintain' ed many copyists in-their establishments. -Still, hy far the greater number of books must have been copied by persons professionally so. employed ;-and it is said that, at tbe period of the invention-- of printing; six thousand oopyists existed at Paris. Thishndv made a formidable demonstration against the introduction of the new art, in which' the; wore countenanced by the Parliament of Par?, but effectually opposed by the ahtewd Louis XI. - The expenditure of time.in copying"waff-some- ' times immense. In * manuscript toll of th? Can-, ons of Gratian, the oopyist states- that its transcription occupied bkn 21 mouths. -To obtain V j 000 copies atihat jute, would have required the . work of-one man for 5,256 years. Guido d^Sais oommeqoed writing and illuminating a very beau tiful copy of the Bible at the &geo?4$, but did not finish Hiill he was00.^ . , In the tenth oentury the same copy of the Bible' and Book of Offices jerred^more than one monastery. -Lupus,. Abbot -of Bertiers, declares' that throughout-France- s complete copy of -Obem-or QuiotiUian did not exist. Private individuals sol- , dorn possessedany hooks at all ^ and we read of a Countess of AfttoU'bartering 200 sheep,.five quarters of wheat, and a? much -oats and millet, for a book- of Homilies. JSvon a? late, as-1471, when Louis XI wished to borrow the works of. Basis from the Library of- Phyriaaus at Paris, he.waa, obliged to leave-a large quantity of plate,4 and to procure the signature of a nobleman, agreeing to' 8 ' forfeit, as-ajiledge of security. We> can- form -air idea-of the estimate placed upon books iu those* days, whw aXing had to'"pawn'1 his-'plate and l<oxeoute.a bail bond." * " . ' The ravages of-war, tbo irruption 6f.barhariap nations, and mistaken religious ?eal? were almost fatal to the manuscripts of-^he-ancients.-' The early Christians destroyed the books-found in the-pa-;; gan temples, and subsequently the PuriUtys served those found in CathoKc^onjs^riesiibeKktne way.. To -Petrach is due the recovery of m&nyofthe neg.-. lected literary treasures of antiquity; -and be spent years in ransacking the monasteries of France, Italy, Germany and Spain. The labor, of copying,, revising, expunging, adding indices and notes, &Q., was immense; bat-Petrarch had. aroused the erf- r thusiasm of learned- men, and time and persistency awomplished'the task; ' : It is believed that many valuable books "have been losfc-to naby the process resorted 'to during the middle ages (owing to the scarceness and expensivenessof parohment) of removing writing-nnd patting the parchment to use again. Many a crude monkish legend thus displaced an old olassio. Augelo Mai, the librarian of the Vatican, recovered several valuable works by restoring the original manuscript "by means ofVsolution of gaH. THE WIFE MARKET IN RUSSIA. Sitting up all night with a conplo of Russian ladies might or might no.t suggest the idea of telling you. something of the marriage customs of this strange country. A Frenoh wfherj whoso nam? I forget, has-truly said, "the Russians are-a nation of polite savages," a remark that is not very apt,, but it helps us toward a proper, understanding of thi social condition pf the people. Thp rich are . very rich; the poor are veiy poor. Tha nobies are courtly, polite, and refined in-manners as those of the same class in Germany, but the serfs, or those who belonged to the nobles before the emancipation, are rude and not half civilized. Almost as soop as e girl is born1 in -the better ranks of society, her parents begin to prepare the , dowry she must have when she goes to her- bus-, i band; for this is indispensable in the eyes of any . Russian -young gentleman who proposes to he mar- i ried. She must fbtnish everything for an outfit < in life, even to a dozen new shirts for her coming . husband. . I have heard of a lady of rank and wealth who had. prepared a costly dowry of silks, Jmen, jewels, : plate, &c., for her beloved daughter, who died as she camq.to be twenty years old. The mother re- :i Solved to endow six girls with these riches, and ao- i tually advertised for them. A host of applicants, i same, and she selected-six. None of them had lovers; bat nanrthat they bad a respectable dowry j wvjired. each eirl was SDeedily engaged, and, with 1 the husband, took the. dowry, and paid the rich i lady by promising to pray for the repose of her \ daughter's soul. .... ' ~ < In no country is the arrangement of terms oar- < ried on with more caution and completeness than ] in Russia. The young man .goes to the hortse of < bis proposed bride and counts over the dresses and < axamines the furniture, and see&to the whole with I bis own eyes, before he oommits himself to the jr- 1 revocable bargain. In high lifq such things are 1 jonducted with more apparent delicacy j but the i Pacts are ascertained wkh accuracy, the business i being in the hands of a broker or a notary. .The ( trousseau is exposed in public before the wedding I day. I At Whitsunday there is a curious custom, which < is gradually giving way with the advance of civili- < sation. The young people of a neighborhood i jome together, and the girls stand in a row, like so many statutes, drapedj indeed, and not only draped but dressed in their best, and painted, too; for the poung ladies, and the older ooes-also, of this coun- : try, use cosmetics'freely, and a box*of lady's paint 1 is a very common present for a young man to make i to the girl he likes. Behind the row of girls are i their mothers. The young men having made i known their choice, the terms are settled between i the parents of the parties. < The ladies in Russia are very anxious to marry, ? becausethey havenoliberty before marriage. They i ire kept constantly under the maternal eye until < * i i r xi ? :hey are given up to tne nusoana, anu mou mey take their own course, whicTi is a round of gaiety ind dissipation, only regulated by their means of indulgence. The Greek Church, like the Boman, permits no divorce > but the Emperor, like the Pope, can grant special dispensations. The Greek priest can marry once, and if his wife dies he cannot marry again. No one in Russia can be married more than three times. St. Petersburg Letter. ? ? ? The Country Around Gettysburg.?An ar:heological investigation of the country around SettysbuTg, conducted by a learned antiquarian, bas proved tho truth of a belief long entertained by residents that the battle field of Gettysburg bad, in the distant past, been the scene of a bloody 3truggle between the Indians or some unknown or long extinct race. This fact is attested by the exhumation of the military implements of the combatants, and the remains of the dead in what is known as the Indian Field, about a mile southwest of Round Top and of the National Cemetery. Ihese relics are found thickly imbedded in the soil < 4 over the whole area of territory which was the scene of the battles jp 1863. They consist of stone arrow heads, battle axes, War clubs, shields, Ac. Some of them have been disinterred from their tomb of centuries and placed on exhibition in the college for the present WODERtfJUBGfiS. " 4 Thq following is a case of cgntepapt of Qoprt, as witnessed by a frienfffrorn'tbis State; whoiiappento be present and witnessed the scene', recently, in Camden, Arkansas.- The parties to theraflahtwere Judge. McCown, Sheriff Beauchamp add Conner Moses Winton. Judge McCowor like some of our North CalrpHda Judges', "takes sugar In hhf?V' in other words, the water being flat* houses a good deal of sugar m Bis whiskey and fight smart o? whiskey iir his sugar. On thedcSiislan ofthe-cceant'+fertn of Snnorior Onrfrt for Cjftndeih the Judge hsd adjourned die Court to 2 o'eldok, P. M. During the recess a dfsjmtcurose between the Judge apd^thc Sheriff as to .whether the Court hod been adjotfriied to 2 o'clock, or to half aftet one, Hud pretty "high and" angry words ensued. Th? Judge went upon the bench and fined ftie Sheriff ClyOOOr and brfiered-hfm to,jefl #>r> 'poutemptf ofCourt.5''The Sheriff contended thai he had bees gTlflty-fetno-oontenipt?thai thp Judgujiad adjourned the Court jo 2- o'olocJc. An attorney: present pajd, ytmr.ftohpr JP correct, the Court was adjourned to 2 olclock."". | . ri find jwju twenty dollars,'y, ^aiff'tha. Judge .t? the attorney "tour opltaiou waa not ^aak^di" Coroner Win ton was . ordered to arsest the Sheriff!, The Sheriff would not be arrested. %A pQsae "was ordered, but the? Would'flbfanovg." 3he Judge p/dered.the" Coroner to he fiapdL fl.OOO^ notex-' ecuting the ordojg of the Court; and said, if the Coroner would-ftusftrou'hjth '(the Judge, f he ffO&ff arrest the Sheriff and take him tajifl." Jhe Sheriff rfcid, ^iloithar you riar your d^ff ?pwd can tdfcemtttojail; I defy yojfafl.''.' '"WhJi these words he feieppednUtoho"room.rarhis pfeffcla. It Was .whispered in Judge,'s ear tfiatlhe Sheriff wished to %ee him, The: Jutfe hjff the Bench and. went into the Sheriff's room, Srhate they tiled, in vain, ta-settle the'jvjpttifcn* of oou* tempt. "From'word! they soon came* to. hlagftT The' Sheriff knocked the Judge'down an? mauled him sfcrerejy. - Thisbout wit^'t^'^heriff of Oau\3eu OccurretTbu Se turday joTthr^term V op-Moiiday the judge called the (fcwt agfdn, h&tope bearing marks of the' Sheriff^ jrr p wess at fiaSmift," gbd Ek excellence as an"exccutAeofficer, The Judge, a? tw the Court was opehed, apologized to the "citizens, the Sheriff and the Bar, fbrfMs opuduct On Saturday, asking them all -to forgive kpn, -as he trasdrank at the time. % r* , ^ ? . The neck.-before tfttMt Henteon Oonriiht&e syne State, the Judge had: <dt?<rtwd4be-Bolicitor for "contempt,'\aud fined him000. v * j At Hampsteafi, duriogj&p-session of tfc&CkRrrt," the Sheriff aud*3oHcitor had afight; and botlw were fined.for contempt of Court .Coring the aainc term, the Judge fin^d the -Court.fhiiBseif):ten dollars and planked it~up. It was done in- thburay. James 0reen, a member of the "petty- juryf" in recess, asked the Judge permission Jtk be absent next day, and.it was;granted^' The next-"day he was called and, not answering, the-Judge ordered a fine against him of $10. Thetlay .after, whan he was. called, h? zenynded the Judge oftlie fact that he hadgivei^ him leave of absence the day befbrqf whereupon, the Judge remitted- the fine against Green and imposed it on himself for giving, the permission. ?Baleigh StnOnal . th? empire of womabt. lathe'education of females, you plant the-oak, round which the ivy -twines and .aspires 1 that is, the example which irresistibly attracts, aay^commands, in-the great, cause of virtue and jefigion. That women, are 'susceptible of stronger and more lasting impressions than men, we see, by the almost invariable constancy and fidelity ofkheir Attachments. Even the elight tincture of the sen-: 008, which their fashionable education imparts, is seldom obliterated by all the hurry andepnfusion of a. life of gaiety and pleasure. You will rarely, perhaps sever, see. a woman to whom.any-idewof religion has been communicated,. entirely Abandon a compliance withany of its extemai4utie%.or insult its principles by the laDgmge. of profanity land oontempt There is a fervor in the soil of a female heart whiefi never misses sending up what it receives, be the culture ever so scanty; whan aburfdant, the return *s invariably glorious. We have numberless examples of women in the holy writings, and in every period 0?"Christianity that filj us with astonishment, %fr the sacred subfimityand heroism of their charaoters?and the history of the j Pagan world, particularly the austere and virtuousdays of the Grecian and-Roman commonwealths, afford likewise the most illustrious proofe that the sex, when properly directed, can. be-nroreHthanthe rival of man, in every, action, every sacrifice that goes to digpify anil exalt the human name.' From tho very appearance of female depravity we tecoil, as from something shocking and unnatural; while men the most immoral and abandoned are always overawed, and not un frequently reformed, hy tbe, contemplation of female excellence.' Even the most profligate libertines approach it wkh a sacred rev* crepce which they cannot account for, hnd are equally unable to-repreM Wonderful that a crea-, Cure uat orally so defenceless, so Weak in her conformation, so timid in her ways, so unaspiring in ber pursuits, so humble in her position, bom I may say to serve, should yetj under pertain circumitances, possess an empire-that nothing can resist, that renders her very silence eloquence, her entreaties law, nay, her presenoe alone superior to the most awful considerations, in the control of licentiousness and vice. Yet so it is, such has universal experience declared to be the ascendancy of virtue and religion in woman. How Jim Wicker's Head Got Bald.?Jim Wicker was a comical-looking fellow, with a very poung face, but by reason of having no hair, he ooked very old from his eye-brows alf thc way round to the back of bis neck. He was very sensitive about the defect, and was somewhat celebrated, fom a fight he had with a traveling agriculturist, vho, upon being asked by Jim, "What woqhf cause the hair, to grow upouJbis shining-poll, was idvised to cover the top of - his head with- guano, ind plant it down in crab grass.'' But Jim wouldn't juarrel with Captain Wild, for that gentleman ivas net only the host of the Fairy Queen, but also had the key of all "the refreshments" in his possession ; so without hesitation he enlightened his luditory after this fashion: "You see the har always did grow rather scarce bout my scalp, and I was always rubbing one thing ind another to fotch it out, for I was sartMr^the roots wasn't dead, though thar was little to be ieen above ground. I'd heard ofbar's grease, and nought a gallon in bottles, but- I believe it was jothing but hog's lard and mutton taller; so I ;hought I would have the genuine article, and I ?ot old Dan to go out and kill something for my especial benefit. Dan told me it was in the spring, ind that the bar was in bad health.and out of seaion ; but I believed he was trying to <qniz me, and wouldn't take no fof an answer. A short hunt iotched a crittur at bay, and Dan, by a shot in the ritals, saved the varmint; bat the bar was in a Dad condition, for he looked as seedy as .421 old Canadian thistle, and he had hardly ile enough in tiim to keep his joints from squeaking, but what be did have I got and used; and, strangers," said Jim, looking sorrowfully round on the company, > "in two dayk what little irir I had*-' oommemed falling off, and m a week I was as bald s* a gunbarreL"" D&n bright; theviwniat was shedding ' himself* and.aothing ifi>im bdt hmrttoB&rt tit, and the oonseqaehce is, "I can\in thi ^ari?>teQ my heai^oa v dried gourd, i?l depend Qfi foel i ..?. .? ' V^sOT.GB^EAsaauf.FSBKroA^^ien the'Great Eastern steamship was launched, and glistened "Lwthaa,'-' it m%g notiuwe been noticed how singokriy oppMpnate^pber is a put of the descriptioain. the H*t chapter of Job? ifcsoh more apposite certainly; to a wrafa* frsntiad than to any "moofftec of the detfp" conceivable. 'It will be seen, of oon*se? -tbafr'^tria sales" aad "the Jakes of his fl^h'^reftr to Ap metaflfepiates %hwhichUwT^elieeucaaei: 15. His scales are his pride, shot?p togetfier as with* close safL t. - 16. "Goo iaao near another that 09 air caoeome between them. * "17. TDiey are joined one, tcf another, tSaj Bpak together, that they.capn# be Wadftnd. jfc Oat of . his north go Vaiifag lamps, and sparks of fire leap out- . . . OA kL. MfcJU 1.it a -~-xm nifr nf o J AU. V W OV, IjW if mr. ? seethia* pot or cankhon.'* f v -"* ? ai. jji?faatftrkhi?oili tmk, <tf?4ttwyeth oalof mbarfk " 1 *" > ~v_~" 32. Hi makeih a path tQ afcfctt aJhyfe^fone fcoold think the deep-to he hoary.r. .33.-Upo* earth tbere-ja W h? Jfte, mtoia orsddmtboufr " . * iKPtrwi WAUSP.?pfthe defcrteooas efflfcta of ?pv? f^er, fifVf bum ^terfe'ft ittflfcethB tararhfes atogjd&flgw ^%3&sSsr bbil coflin Uonty4()ttrhj)tdpi bet/$fai? wjhrftom hmer ^ -aflMa MM/ftr only a.few liar^ iVyill afcioab jaearitf nue rfls^moonfcof aBioc^>B^?d^(7a^tUj|H^te ?pafl^4oah8?b tEeter^a*** is^Hs^doobled by plainly %ws tftfr wtert^^rSia peer pitfit JfctotaUp wjfrihc 4w?Mimpw81 epdefcashi not W psal '4^dtofc 14 rt|B th?t; ?b* J&% hrge pajl-o? water eiaet&jg'in ^ ro^ iroelffhelp to puriiy the atunisphere, bat* *^<^be throrn pertant dements aToffrxataafc.* v-r? ~?r? < * - WflMAf* AnalHjcb. ?A. PMadelpfcie paper gam that a vamta wonan nf that: ate. who had ftoquysTlby-haMt of ^kitoofa^ beatif cmto fbot. rsasrtiy took * medical bitliv and OQ'emeadfw .from iL waa at god&g- herafltf as ~hlaek an* IHtopi? She tHiBeformatioo waa (Mwpfatoa Hofrw vestige of the .dbpronin {ktoMMMaee "WssJeft. Efer physieiaa was pent fcHa alarm C haste. On Ma arrival, h& hughed hnnuxfcrat^jr, and said, anr, xWsg? Dpt i^ yoo are no, loqget * woman, you. gee ajgjuphntet. It 1s not. now a qaestion ot medical treatment, bat of ample-ohemieftl action. I shall-analyze you. Come, I shall eabtnit yon to a bath of Bulphuric arid dihitod with water. The acid will have the honor of combiniagTrifh yon; it Wffrthke up the sUlphtrr?the metal will produce a sulphfte, and ye shall dud til a precipitate, a very pretty woman^ .$he geod natorod phyaciau wont through with-hp analysis, and the belle was restored to her membership with ?thw white race." Young hdhw who are. ambttiouff of snowy .complexions should retnembei this,, and he careftil what pdwdsifc, ah^Ocmetito tfcey use?if they use any. at all! The Ljke Eceipss.?A correspondent of a Philadelphia paptfihus writes of a prolonged "totality" : "Few peopl^ trouble themselves to &ink what the pffjet would he,, if tift- eolipsfeof Saturday were to last aay length of tim* and the sow were blotted frOm -the heavens. * Philosophy declares that not only wouJJ a tfdnor of dulmgss .cover the earth, but the moisture of the air would * i r 1 w ^ .?* i .V pe precipjnttea m suowersio cat sang, apa $ft. to*JbaduI joofa, JM&uig leas than. 230 degrees betas senv JWnren-. Twit. She earth wnuhthe the seqt of darkness andiBere tiUur Arctic desolation'. Nothing eould survive guA fleeung oo&ftf uiomest, no.ioece Au one CQUJd breathe iq scaldiDg water. In three days after.the copling. process began, nothing created would be dive but the {boosters that wallow in deep ocean, and the eyeless readies that make their hauotein caves wBiohpenetrate far under-ground.'' ? i * 4 ?'' ' Taw Esaj. Qenxleman.?Not "he who displays the latest fashion, dresses in extravagance, with (gold rings and! chains to $splfy Not he who talks the loudest and makes constant use of profane [language and vulgar words. Not he who is proud and overbearing, wh ?oppresses the poor, and looks with.eontempt on honert: industry. . N<?fc hp who cannot control his J?assioi3&, and humhkjnmadfas a child. No; noneoftheae arereaigenffemen. It U he who iaJrind and obliging, who is ready to do you a favor with no hope of reward; who visits the poor, and assists those who are in need; who is more careful of his heart than the dress ofhis person; who is humble and sociable,-'not inytoible or revengeful; who always speaks the truth without resorting to profane or indecent -words. Such a man is a real gentleman, wherever he mag be found. Rich or poor, high or lowr he in entitled to the appellation. ? *< < - Cleanliness.?Aneat, de&q, fresh-aired, sweet, cheerful, jreD-arranged house exerts a'^noral as . + 1 . l l n : Z ? > weir 08 pnyacai muuence over iuj luyr"?, ?*> makes fchkmcmbera of fi family peaceable, and considerate .of each other's feelings and happiness The connection is obvious between the .statB of mind thus produced, and habits of respect for others, aud for those higher duttes and obligations which no laws can enforce. On ,tile oontjifr, a filthy, squalid, notions duelling, in which none of the decencies of lifo can be-obwyved, contributes to make Us inhabitants selfish, sensual; and.regardless of the fee&ig of others; and the oonstept indulgence of such passions renders ffeeip reckless andhrutaL newspapzbs.e r I have wandered in n^nusstm^labpP^^theT in the Bast, West, North or South; Jhitealwaysobserved that where the news^pgiuifts taken by the fiaife, there thrift, moxyowrand general intelligence woe to be found, ja.ife jgjadhinS'Of the West, na soon as my eyoc^qflttflPB^of the newspaper, 1 thought to myself 'TJw^sfcleast, I wQl find morality, intelligence, oourtesy, and welcome, as a. garden ripe to receive the gospel seedl" and I was seldom mistaken. On the contrary, where neither newspapers nor good books were to be seen, there ignorance, bigotry, superstition and grossness were found in all their forms. Yes, I have often thought that the newspaper was the pioneer of civilixatioo, and did much to make the way easy for the successful labors of the home nuarionaiy.?Zorauo DOIfl.'; '