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Jim, Tact and Philosophy.
A man who had been elected major of
militia, ami Who was not overburdened
with brains, took it into his head, on the
morning of the parade to ? exorcise" a
little by himself. The fiold selected for
the purpose was his own apartment.
Placing himself in a military attitudo with
his sword drawn, he exclaimed?
" Attention company! Ecar rank, three
paces, march!" and he tumbled down into
tho cellar. His.wifo hearing the racket,
came running in, saying:
;My dear, have you killed yourself?"
if Go- about your business, woman," said
the hero, >? whirt do you know about war!"
A modem Juliet, claiming to be a mem?
ber of tho Society of Friends, sends to a
dies' magazine a copy of verses which
commence thus:
" Dearest come kiss mc: tny lips irra yet -warm.
And my.bosomstiUpants from the cla3p of thine arm;
The blood dances wildly through each throbbing
vein;
B it i droop,.uh..- L droop for thy kisses again."
To which the truant Romeo is said to
have responded as follows:
" Jco-roos-alonr! dearest, i dart Bkc a fish ;
My lips shaU with kissc3 respond to thy wish ;
i'll chock not tho blood throbbing wild in each vein,
But i'll stop thee from drooping with kisses again."
Idleness.?Idleness is the bane of body
and "mind, tho nurse of naughtiness, the
step-mother of discipline,.the chief author
of all mischief,' one of* the seven deadly
eins, the cushion on which the dovil chiefly
j reposes, and a great eauso not only of
L melancholy, but ofmany diseases; fbr the
D mind is naturally active,- and" if it bo not
Bjpccupied about somo honest business, it
Bmshes into mischiof, or sinks into niclan
BHlply-?Burton.
W^ft-Geaeral in the Russian service having
H^cry long Polish name, the Emperor
Masked him, good humoredly :
? " Pray, General, what is your name ? "
?J ? The General repeated to him the whole
?? namo thus?Ablampakcusslopwitch.
" "Why," said the Emperor, 5' Satan him
? self never had such a name."
s "I should presume not, Sir, replied the
I General, for he is a relation of mine."
\ To Preserve Eogs Fresii a Year.?
' Mix a handful of unslackcd lime with the
samo quantity of salt, in three gallons of
water; first pack the eggs, with the small
end down, with some shavings to keep
them down, and pour tho mixture over
them; be sure none of tl >"C cracked.
Tho following lines, found written in a
hymn book, which its owner had incau?
tiously left in her pew, in a church :?" I
look in vain?he does not come; dear, dear,
what shall I do? I cannot listen as I
ought, unless he listens too. Ho might
?Tn1*ve~c?mo as well as not!?What plagues
the fellows are; I'll bet he's fast asleep at
home, or smoking a cigar!"
" Union is not always strength, as the
sailor said when ho saw the purser mixing
his rum with water.
" If an carthquako woro to ongulph
England to-morrow," said Douglas Jer
rold, "the English would manage to meet
and dine somewhere among tho rubbish,
just to colcbrate the event."
Douglas Jerrold,on hearing pretty Miss
-mentioned, praised her early beauty.
i;Sho was a lovely little thing," ho said,
" when she was a bud, and before she was
a blowen.'"
The Impossible Wish.?A young man,
very much given to pleasure, standing by
St. Ambrose and seeing his excellent
death, turned to other young men by him,
and said. " Oh ! that I might livo with
you, and die with him!"
Watchful of Faults.?You will per?
haps bo amazed when I tell you that it is
not so necessary to watch against crimes
as against faults which mav. appear to us
**? srrr34t-S.nd^i?djfforent.?Chrysostom*
Ingratitude.?An ungrateful man is
detested by all, every one feels hurt
by his conduct, because it operates to
throw a damper upon generosity, and he
is regarded as tho common injurer of all
those who stand in need of assistance.?
Cicero.
Worth not Birth.?Aristoltc hearing a
man boast that he was a native of a famous
and mighty city, told him, " That does
not signify so much; the quostion is, arc
you worthy of such a city ?"
Lice on Cattle?Take a white oak
bark, boil it in water?making a strong
decoction: wash tho animal on the back
and on the sides. In twenty four hours
tho lico will be completely tanned. Tan?
ner's oil is also first-rate.
" How fortunate beyond all others is the
man, who, in order to ad just himself to-his
fate, is not obliged to cast away his whole
preceding life."?Goethe.
Idleness and Poverty.?To be idle and
to be poor have always been reproaches;
and therefore every man endeavors with
the utmost care to hide his povorty from
others, and his idleness from himself.
Men's lives should bo like the day, more
beautiful in the evening, or like tho sum?
mer, a glow with promise, and the autumn,
rich with golden sheaves, where good
works and deeds have ripened on the field.
A Double Pun.?A clergyman had just
united in marriage a couplo whose Chris?
tian names woro Benjamin and Ann.
How did they appear during tho cere?
mony? inquired a friend. "They ap?
peared both ani-mated and ben-efitted," was
the ready reply.
The Beautiful.
Come in tho calmness of tho twilight
hour, when the eephyrs play among tho
branches of moving trees?when the birds
are caroling their eveningsongs?andmuse
on earth's beautiful objects. All nature is
lovely, from tho blue sky abovo us to the
springing grass at our feet; from the
mighty ocean to the rippling streamlet
passing gently by among the shrubbery.
And charming indeed is the cool fragrant
air of the morn, and the gentle breezes of
evening. Tho sparkling ray of tho sun,
and the pale silvery beams of tho moon
and stars, that lend their influenco to il?
lumine our earth arc beautiful. Even the
birds, as they Inno their sweet voices,
teach us a lesson of cheerfulness?inspire
within our breasts a love of the beautiful.
Tho rosy dimpled-eheeked child enjoying
its innocent plays?the ruby, noble spirited
youth, and- even the aged with heads al?
ready blossomed for the grave, each feel
that life has some sunny spots?some
halcyon days. Some may tell of the dis?
appointments, the partings, the bitter
teal's; they may tell of death and the
grave; but you who are good, say, is not
this a. happy world of ours after all ? Do
you not remember some bright joyous
day, when the world seemed as one pleas?
ant drama, and no cloud dimmed the clear
sky of hope and prosperity? Does not
memory recall the innocent sports of
childhood, the happy hours spent with
young companions, and tho kind friends
who hovered around, strewing our path
with flowers of tenderness and affection ?
Think of the pleasant smiles, the hours
of sweet communion with the loving ones
of earth, and then join the eong of all na
turo that beauty dwells in every path.
Ye who say it is bitter, cruel, think 0 !
think again?gaze on all life's attractive
objects, taste the pleasure of a well spent
life, and joyous will be your meditations,
calm and sereno your spirits. Life will
pass as a pleasant dream, and death will
only be a passport to a more genial clime
?angels will waft your spirit, on their
glittering* wings to tho Elysian fields
abovo, and their soft strains of music shall
forever fall in sweet accents on your car.?
Exchange.
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Tue Tomb of David Hume.?David
Hume, who produced in his time so much
skepticism as to the evidences of Chris?
tianity, does not seem to have convinced
Ids own relatives. A correspondent of
Tho Presbyterian sa}-s: " By the way,
speaking of Edinburgh, while there I
acted as guide to a brother minister from
America, on a visit to the tomb of the in?
fidel Hume. It is a circular stone build?
ing; over its iron-grated door there is in?
scribed hin name, with the dates of his
birth and death. No doubt, like Voltaire,
ho flattered himself, that he had given the
death-blow to Christianity. But, behold,
there on the wall of his tomb, those who
arc flesh of his flesh, and bone of his bone,
bear testimony to the lallacy of his expec?
tation. On its outside, and immediately
above the name of Hume himself, there is
a tablet containingauinscription,by David
Hume to his wife, Jane Alder, dated 1817.
closing with these words, " Behold I come
quickly. Thanks be to God, who givoth
us the victory through our Lord Jesus
Christ." Also, in the interior, there is
another tablet, sacred to the moniory of
David Hume, ono of tho Barons of Ex?
chequer, and his two sons, dated in 1848;
tho whole surmounted by these encourag?
ing words, lJ am the insurrection and
and the Life.'"
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Nations Without Pike.?According
to Pliny, fire was for a longtime unknown
to some of the ancient Egyptians; and
when lixodus (the celebrated astronomer)
showed it to them, they were in absolute
rapture. The Persians, Phoenicians.
Greeks, and several other nations ac?
knowledged tiiat their ancestors wore
once without the use of fire, and the Chi?
nese confess the same of thoir progenitors.
Pompanius, Mela, Plutarch, and other
ancient authors, speak of nations who. at
the time they wrote, knew not the use of
tire, or had but just learned, it. Facts of
the same kind arc also attested by several
modern nations. The inhabitants of the
Marian Islands, which were discovered
in 1551, had no idea of fire. Never was
astonishment greater than theirs when
they saw it on the descent of Magellan
in one of their islands. At first they be?
lieved it was some kind of animal that
stuck to and fed upon wood. Tho inhabi-,
tantsof the Phillipine and Canary Islands
were formerly equally ignorant. Africa
'presents, even in our own day, some na?
tions in this state.
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The Treachery of Evil Passions.?
Evil passions exert a powerful influence
over the understanding; they derange its
action, and having the art of self-conceal
| ment, are likely to operate with greater
fatality when least exposed to the notice
of their victim. Of the drunkard, it is
often said that he is a poor judge of him?
self often imagining himself to be sober
when he is not. It is very much so with
all the evil passions that prey upon fallen
humanity: they beguile and deceive, ruin
and destroy, without advertisement of
their presence except in their results.
They shrink from the blaze of conscience,
and burrow in the heart.
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A swell iu a drawing-room wanting
his servant, called out, i4 Where is that
block-head of mine?" A wag replied: "On
your shoulders "
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Emulation as a Motive to Study.
The intellectual form of selfishness is
emulative ambition; a radical disorder in
our schools and our scholarship. AVe put
our pupils too much in this race, not that
thoy may attain a common good, but that
they may outstrip each other. To be
wise, to be strong, to be masters of life,
wielders of bright weapons against all
ignorance and wrong?this is not made
the aim?but the poor complacency of
looking hack on t he rest. A hateful fire
is set burning through tho fresh growths
of these unsordid breasts, which scorches,
blights and blackens, wherever its hot
tongue can find a generous feeling to
sting. "Why talk of following knowledge
for its own sake, if our practice teaches
children to prize it only as a ladder of re?
nown, or as a price paid for applause J?
But my friends, the moment you carry
your objections to tho conductors of edu?
cation, they tell you the emulative plan is
the only one the previous management of
their scholars allows them to use, with
tho least hope of getting out of them any
tolerable amount of work. That is to
say, the trail of tho serpent runs all the
way, from alphabet to diploma?and who
knows how far beyond ?
Prio^jpiice proposed a system of educa?
tion, hy having sweet cakes cut out in the
shape of.fho letters?the child to cat a
letter as soon as he had learnt it?and so
until hp had devoured and digested the
baked alphabet. One is reminded of this
philosophy of compound nourishment,
when he sees little children mado to think
that the only purpose of learning is to be
fattened whether on cakes, money or com?
pliments. Suppose rather, that from the
beginning of his studies, the boy was
made to' feel that the grand object of them
is nscfrirri.ess to society and the sendee of
God. Suppose the question put foremost
by the voice nffhthor and mother, teachers
and tut* , were, how to contribute the
largest life to the welfare of man, and
how to help others to live; how to
lighten the load of the wrong and op?
pressed; how to raise burdens and cheer
outcasts, and render science the. minister
to overtasked strength, and turn discove?
ry to the relief of sorrow :?
"How bcsl In help Hie sleudor store,
Ho)v mend flu; dwellings of the poor,
Ifiw gain in life, as life advances,
Valor and Charily more nnd more."
The mind can never open into the largest
compass and power under any but tho
broadest and highest motives. Nor can
it ever be too soon to expand it by that
Christian measure.?Prof. Huntington.
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John Randolph's Advice.
When John Randolph was in London
he wrote to a gentleman who married his
favorite neicc. In it was tho following
advice:
Have no dealings that can possibly be
avoided with vom* neighbors. The disre?
gard of this caution will certainly lead to
squabbles and strife.
Take no receipt on loose pieces of pa?
per. Carry a receipt-book in your pocket
ami take all receipts in il; if you are afraid
Of losing it keep it in your de.sk. Always
have the receipts witnessed when practi?
cable
Copy, or have copied all your bills in a
book, so that yon must at glance sec the
cost of any article or branch of expense.
Without accurate accounts, you ma}' fast
fall behind-hand.
What voyage woidd a ship make with?
out observation or reckoning? You are
now embarked on a voyage of life; with?
out a good look-out you ma)-bo cast a way.
Form no intimacies with your neigh?
bors under a seven years' acquaintance.
The rigid observation of my own maxims
did not prevent ill blood between some of
my neighbors ami myself. My maxims
preserved me from strife and loss by
j those. With the rest 1 was on the best
[ of terms.
Kconomy?the adapting of your sup?
plies judiciously to the intended end?this
is a gift of Cod. It cannot be taught, at
last. I have tried to learn it all my life,
without success. My mother had it to
perfection.
Frugality.?It is in the power of every
honest man, who means to rotain his hon
ty, toyrcfrain from indulging in expenses
which he cannot afford. A disregard of
tins maxim, the result of their ignorant
indoL^pco of their own affairs, has ruined
all my name and race. They did not
know what they could afford, and some, I
fear did not care.
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Habit.?I trust every thing under
Cod," said Lord Brougham, " to habit,
upon which, in all ages, the law-giver, as
well as the school-master, has mainly
placed his reliance; habit, which muk?s
every thing easy, and casts all difficulties
upon the deviation from a wonted course.
Mtko-sobriety a habit, and intemperance
will fee-hateful; make prudence a habit,
and reckless profligacy will be as contrary
to the nature of the child as any of your
lordships. Give a child the habit of sa?
credly regarding the truth; of carefully
respecting the properly of others; of scru?
pulously abstaining from all acts of im?
providence which can involve him in dis?
tress he will just as likely think of rush?
ing into an clement in which lie cannot
breathe, as of lying, cheating, or stealing."
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It is said that the venerable Abolition?
ist, Joshua E.'Giddi^s,^ Ohio, has de?
clared his preference for DoHgHvS to Lin
coin, on thoground that Douglas isd**roorc
efficient representative of anti slavery
" Lot Mo Kiss Him for His Mother."
An Sung by Mix. Mary and Uta Emilie Jiailcg.
Let rac kiss him for his mother,
Let nie kiss his youthful brow;
I will love him as a mother,
And seek her blessing now.
Kind friends have soothed his pillow?
Have watched his every care ;
Beneath the weeping willow,
Oh! lay him gently there.
Cltonus?Sleep, dearest, sleep!
I love you as a brother;
Kind friends around you weep?
I've kissed you for your mother.
Let me kiss him for his mother,
Though left a stranger here,
She has loved him as none other,
I feel her blessing here.
Though cold that, form lies sleeping,
Sweet angels watch around ;
Dear friends arc near thee, weeping?
Oh ! lay him gently down.
Cltonus?Sleep, dearest, sleep, &c.
Let me kiss him for his mother,
Or perchance a sister dear,
If a lather or a brother,
1 know their blessings here.
Let me kiss him for his mother,
It will soothe her after years;
Farewell, dear stranger brother,
Our requiem, our tears.
Napier's Estimate of Military Glo?
ry.?Nineteen long letters from Lord El
lcnborotigli! He lias mltfe me Governor
of Seinde, with, additional pay; and he
has ordered the captured guns to he east
into a triumphal column, with our name.
I wish he would let me go back to my
wife and girls, it would be me more to me
than pay. glory and honors. This is glo?
ry! is it? Yes. Nine princes have sur?
rendered their swords to me on the field
of battle, and their kingdoms have been
conquered by me. and attached to my
own country. "Well, all the glory that
can he desired is mine, and 1 care so little
for it. that, the moment I can, all shall
he resigned, to live quietly with my wile
and girls: no honor or riches repays me
for absence from them. Otherwise, this
sort of life is life to me; is agreeable, as it
may enable me do good to these poor peo?
ple. Oh ! if I can do any good thing to
serve them where so much blood has
been shed in accursed war. 1 shall be hap?
py. May I never sec another shot tired!
Horrid, horrid war! Vet, how it wins
upon and hardens one when in command.
So 3'otiug man can resist the temptations,
I defy him; but thirty and sixty are dif?
ferent.?Life and Opinions <>f General Sir
' 'lindes James Napier.
To Ci uk a Coi.n.?Upon going to bed,
rub the entire stomach, briskly and forci?
bly with a large coarse towel dipped in
lukewarm water; or if the patient has
been accustomed to it, the water may be
cold. This should be kept up until a rich
crimson glow pervades the skin; alter
which thoroughly dry the surface, and
then anoint with pure fresh lard, being by
no means economical of the quantity ap?
plied. -After the above prescrptiolt hits
been carefully carried out, burn the feet
awhile to a tire, then drink a cup of strong
ginger or pepper tea?get to bed?goto
sleep, ainl wake up in the morning well.
A most excellent and simple ivinedy lor
colds is powdered gum anibic snuffod up
the nostrils, frequently through the day:
until a complete mucilaginous con I is form?
ed upon the irritated nuieous surface. We
have seen this remedy relieve the mosl
troublesome catarrh in twenty-lour hours.
Atlanta Uygienk Journal.
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Im.knkss.?Nine-tenths of the miseries
and vices of manhood proceed from idle?
ness; with men of <piick minds, to whom
it is especially pernicious, ibis habit is
commonly the fruit of many disappoint?
ments and schemes oil bullied; ami men
fail in their schemes not so mm h lor the
want of strength, as from tin* ill-direction
of it. The weakest living creature, by
concentrating his powers upon a single
object, can accomplish something; the
strongest, by disposing his over many,
may liiil to accomplish anything. The
drop, by continual lulling, bores its passage
through the hardest, rock?the hasty tor?
rent rushes over it with hideous uproar
and leaves no trace behind.
Singular Arithmetical Fact.?Any
number of figures you may wish to multi?
ply by 5 will give the same result if divi?
ded by 2, a much quicker operation; but
you must remember to annex a cipher to
the answer when there is no remainder,
and when there is a remainder, whatever
it may be. annex it 5 to the answer. Mul?
tiply 464 by 5, and the answer will be
,2320; divide the same number by 2, and
you have 232, and as there is no remain?
der, you add a cipher. Now. take :>?7.
and multiply by 5, the answer is 1785.
On dividing this by 2, there is 17S and a
remainder; you. therefore, place V. ? at
the end of the line, and the result is again
1785.
An Klepiiant &Vimmj.nci Across the
Onto Eiver.?Dan Rice's elephant, "Lal
lah Rookh," swam across the Ohio river,
last-Thursday, opposite Cincinnati. The
Commercial says:
At limes nothing but the end of her
trunk'would bo visible, then the top of
her head, ami again she would dive en?
tirely out of sight, remaining tinder wa-j
tcr until those on shore began to think j
she was drowned, when of a sudden she
would throw her huge bulk half-way out
of tho water.
Loquacity storms the car. hut modest \
takes captive the heart.
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New Atlantic Telegraph.
The seas, we trust, will hooii be cabled, and the
globe begirt with telegraph wires. Tbc failure of
the Atlantic telegraph ought not seriously to dis?
courage us. It indeed demonstrates two tilings:
that a cable can be laid between the old world and
the new, and that the electric spark can be trans?
mitted from the one to Ihc other. Had the first
Steamboat exploded at tlic close of its trip, would
steam navigation have been given up? Hud the
first steamship ibat crossed the Atlantic been
wrecked on her first, voyage, would the idea of
navigating Ihe ocean by strain have been abandon?
ed '! A new telegraphic route has been proposed
by Col. ShafTncr between this country and Europe
by way of Labradoro, Greenland, Iceland, and the
Faroe Islands. It has beeu already surveyed by
the colonel, who reports that it is free from any
physical difficulties, and calls upon the British
government to make a more cartful ami authorita?
tive survey. The advantages of the route arise
from the shortness of the submarine cables. The
government survey, it is hopnd, may be made, as
it. might be justified by the claims ofscience alone.
The Danish government has conceded the right of
laying the lines through Greenland and the islands.
The European terminus is in the north of Scotland,
whence Ihc cable is to be laid to the Fatoe Islands,
230 miles ; thence to Iceland, 280 miles; thence a
land line extends to Rcikiavik, a town on the wes?
tern coast of the island : thence to the southern
end of Greenland, distance from -5tX> to *><V> miles;
thence by land lines from the eastern shore of
Greenland to Julianshaab; thence a submerged
line leads to Hamilton's inlet*on Ihc coast of La?
brador, a distance of 000 miles : thence hind lines
proceed to the shores of St". Lawrence. Such
points, it is said, can be chosen for carrying the
line to the land as will protect it from disturbance
of icebergs. Tbo water by this route varies from
300 fathoms to 1,500. It is computed that the
speed of transmission would be twenty words a
minute. There arc more extensive enterprises on
foot; they seem visionary, but there is no setting
limits to the achievements of science. From a
postscript of a letter of Colonel Shatfner's wc ex?
tract the following: ?' Wc arc doing very well, and
hope for success. Wc sail again for Icelaud and
1 Greenland's icy mountains ' in July. We made
those icy mountains' echo with many Methodist
hymns, and we will do so again." Everything
that brings the nations together will promote in?
telligence, progress, and happiness.?Advocate $
Journal.
Tiik Blessed IIojie.?Home! Tobe at home is
the wisli of the seaman on stormy sens and lonely
watch. Homo is the wisli of the soldier, and ten?
der visions mingle with the troubled dreams of
trench and tented field. Where the palm tree
waves its graceful plumes, and birds of jewelled
lustre Hash and flicker among gcorgcous Bowers,
the exile sits staring upon vacancy : a far away
home lies upon his lieavl : and borne upon Ihe
wings of fancy over intervening seas and lands, lie
has gone away home, and hears the lark singing
above Ins father's fields, and sees his fair-haired
brother, with light foot and childhood's ?lcc.
chasing the butterfly t>y his native stream. And in
his best hours home, his own sinless home, a home
with his Father above (lie starry sky, will be the
wish of every Christian man. He looks around
hint?the world is full of suffering; he is dis
Iresscd by its sorrows and vexed with iis sins. He
looks within him?he finds much in his own cor?
ruptions to grieve for. In the language of :i heart
repelled, grieved, vexed, be often turns his eyes
upward, saying, " 1 would not live always." No.
noi for all the gold of i ho world's mines?not for
nil the pearls of her sens?not for ail the pleasures
of her flashy, frothy cup? not for all the crowns of
her kingdoms?would I live here always.'' Like a
bird about to migrate to tln.se sunny hinds where
no winter sheds her snows, or strips the grove, or
hinds the dancing streams, he will often in spirit
be pluming his wing for the hour of Iiis flight to
glory.?Vuthrie.
Tue National Anm in: <.r Suctii Cabolinm.
The position mummed by Sottlh Carolin*! in the
Presidential contest, says the Philadelphia /'<??
MfflpaniuH, is one which, if followed by the whole
South, could hot tail to result in tbo election of
llrcckeuridgc and Lnne. In that State are to 1?
found no divisions. The sentiments of the people
and of the press seem to be unanimous?not a pa
I per is to be found supporting Douglas or Hell, nor
do we believe that siucc the adjournment of the
Baltimore Convention has a voice been heart] from
; the hustings or elsewhere, in advocacy of the clcc
iion of other than the nominees of the National
! Democracy. If sued wer*.* the casein every South
1 em Suite, if the vole of a united South could be
I
i made absoluiely certain for Brcckenridge, and ire
I do not doubt that it is, what an immense moral
weight would it exercise upon the Democracy of
the North. They would then see rendered almost
certain Ihe election of their candidates by Ihe pen
pie. or at leas-t the certainty of defeating Lincoln
and Iiis Black llepiiblicnu crew, by throwing the
liual decision of the contest Upon the House of
Representatives, where defeat might be considered
a foregone conclusion.
Sbxd in Yora Copies.?A meeting of the citi?
zens of Greenwood, Abbeville District, was held
week before last at that place, it had been ascer?
tained that several clergymen, in that section, and
through them, their congregations, had suffered
the indignity of being made the involuntary re?
cipients of copies of Simmer's late speech in the
Senate, on what he styles the " Barbarism of Sla?
very." II resolved, among other things, that Ihc
dissemination of such dirty, vulgar trash as this
speech, and all like it, was a " direct insult to our?
selves, treason to the whole country and as the
J most dangerous incendiarism:'' also, that all pur
j sons who had received a copy, forward it immedi?
ately to the Secretary of the meeting. John T.
Barks, " thai in one common pile, in the Congres?
sional District of the late Hon. Preston S. Brooks,
and on the anniversary of Simmer's caning, they I
may be consumed in a bonfire lighted by ucgrucs.*' 1
Send in your copies.
EtHiBPiKLD News.?The Adctrthcr of the loth
gives u? the following:
MiiMcTLors Keli.vkuv.?Wc arc pleased to
state that Mr. tie'". Whicker, shot sonic time since f
by one Milhslgc Whittle?three balls passing j
I through his right lung and 50 small shot lodged in j
the right shoulder?is recovering, and reasonable !
hopes are now entertained that he will ere Ion:: be I
up mid about again. Dr. A. F. Lnngfbrd, ihe at-I
tending physician, has certainly managed this J
critical ease with much skill, aud for which he has ;
merited great credit.
The ('But* of Eim:kkiei.o.?According lo the >v<t |
information wc can obtain, the corn crop of this ?
District ij a failure generally. A few localities '
have been favored, especially Beach Island, where
the low-grounds of the Savannah are bearing
abundantly. But in at least two-thirds of Edge
field, there will not be mere than half cuotigh corn !
made. j
Cotton show.^ a little bellcr average : l-m nlso 1
short, and no mistake. Our planters will probably }
fail itt '.heil' calculations by nearly a haK ci -o j
K
Over Eleven Hindrkd Kkee fc&uitoKi
or Sale.?On Thursday; in front of the
Jourt House, eleven hundred and ninciy
hrcc free negroes will be offered for sale,
or a sufficient time to enable them, by
,hcir allowance per dieiu, to pay tlieir
,axes. Some of these negroes are indebt?
ed as much as 825 to the city, and as they
generally sell for ton cents a day, their
raluo will no doubt be made out of them.
Petersburg (Va.) Express.
Hox. Wx. L. Yascev.?This gallant tribune'of
die people has agreed to place iiimself, nAer this
month, at the disposal of the National Democratio
r.'oniniittcc, which will appoint for him to speak hi
nil the large cities of Pennsylvania and New Jer?
sey, and also in Boston and New York. The peo?
ple of the North will ihus. have an opportunity of
seeing and hearing a man whom, through the mis?
representation of the tripartite opposition, tlroy
have boon impressed to regard as u " monstrnm
horrendum." .Mr. Yancey will speak for himself,
anil l>y his conclusive logic will force the convic?
tion of the integrity of hi position as a true
friend to the Constitution.
We predict for him the largest audiences ever
assembled nt the North.
Dkath from Ltcimnxo.?We regret to announce
the death of Mr. John E. White, a worthy young'
man of our District, who was killed by lightning,
at his residence, near Stoncy Point, on Tuesday
evening, the 7th inst. He had tukcu refuge from
the rain in the barn which was struck by light?
ning?the lluid in its passage setting fire to the
building. The body was very much burnt, before'
it could be rescued. He was a young man of ex?
cellent, moral character, and very much respected
by all who knew him.?Independent 1'rena.
Another Wiiiskby CrntE.?On Monday a Sus
quclianna township farmer was bitten by a veno?
mous snake. The whiskey cure was promptly re?
sorted 10, and proved successful, as usQal, saving
the man's life. Whiskey is a certain remedy for
strike bite; upon the principle, we presume, thai
one counteracts the effects of another.?JIarriabitrg
Telegraph.
A witty man can make a jest; a wise
man can take one.
Dick.?The best throw with the dice is,
to throw them away.?Old Proverb.
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A Pohtical, Commercial aud Literary Journal,
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