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%\x littepktt |uitnurJ--|tWA fa friiffe, ffcnrfure; $?, pmtls, ^griailfur^ Science anbr gat BY HUMPHREY'S. THE ?NBERS?N INTELLIGENCER, IS ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY, AT ONE DOLLAR A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. Jpgy If delayed six monlhs, 51.50; and S2.C0 at tlio end of the year. IIOYT & HUMPHREYS, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. Advertisements inserted :it moderate rates: liberal deductions made to those who will advertise by tho year. A Call to the Ministry. Somebody is always tolling stories about tho ? Hard-shell Baptists." Wags have the ran on them, and they may as "well be content and boar it. Here fol lows.a-.tale told of thorn not long since. My informant locates it in the mountains of North Carolina, whore tho Hard-shells are quite numerous, and where they be? lieve pretty strongly in dreams aud voi? ces. In the important matter of a call to tho ministry, a dream or a voice is almost indispensable. Now, it camo to pass that a man by the namo of "Walker felt himself considerably moved to " hold forth," and kept" spread? ing tho lleccc," Gideon-like, to ascertain his duty in the important premises. To assist him in his pious investigation, he called at a still-bouse one evening to get some o? the " good critter." After re? freshment, the story runs, ho left for homo, and on the way be felt " moved " to go into the grove a few hundred yards from the road, " thar to wrastle on the subject." While he was " wrastlen " most earnestly, scarcely outdone by the patri? arch, somo one passed the road with a long-eared animal, politely culled a John loft off, as his race is wont to do some? times, in a most moving and thrilling man? ner. Walker's imagination, by his earnest " wrastlin," was wrought up to g?eat in? tensity, and he converted Ar.-ijor John's discordant music, which, to most men.re? sembles the filing of a saw-mill saw, into a call from Heaven, urging him to preach the Gospel. No time was to be lost. He rose from his knees duly commissioned, went to his charch, and demanded a li? cense, when the "pastor interrogated him j thus: Paster. EV^c" i ;-1"--^ Prc+her Y.V. ker, that you arc caned of Gcc to preach, <: as wsa .".von :" ?f.v-. talker. Meet sart!--y 7!?d:cs. Pastor. . Givi- ll.o Chuich, that is, tho lircthi'en}.the proof. Walker. I ras mightily difjkitted.acd I was detern::::ou to> go into tho woods . and wrastlo it cut. Pastor. That's it, Brother Walker. Walker. Arid whilo there wrastlin'. ?Jacob like, I hearn cno ov the curiousost voices'I uvcr hcara in all my horned days. ;* Pastor. ? You are on tho right track, Brother Walker. Go en witii your nova? tion. Walker. I couldn't tell, for the lifo ov ?"?]Ttll<yrftoi.y/'Hri ""^ ;" ihZ^;v or down in tho' sky, it sounded so citri-' ous: Pastor. Toor crccturl how ho was dimkilted. Go on to norate, Brother Walker. How did it appear to sound un? to you ? Walker. Why, this a-way; "Waw waw-kcr?wa w-waw-ker ! G o preach, go preach. gtj preach, go preschte, go preach ah. go preapji-un, s? prcach-ah-ec-uh-ah ee. Poster. -Brathering and sis'er, the. right sort of a call. Enough said, Broth? er* Walker. That's none ov yer college calls, nor money call:-;. No doctor ov di? vinity uvcr got sich a call as that. Broth - or Walker must have licenso fur sartin and for sure. The license was granted, the story goes, and Walker is now doubtless ma? king the mountains ring with his stento? rian lungs. Wholesale Poisoning of Wolves*y a "Woman.?The Ecu Claire (Wis") Free Press gives the following account of a fight which occurred on Monday night of last week at TU-idgct Crock, between Mrs. T. C. liiggins and about a dozen wolves : "Early in the evening Mrs. IIi<r?nns . j^pord a;: unusual noise :?. llio call-pen, and uiion going out found that something like a dozen wolves contemplated an at tack?upon the calf. Upon, her opproaeh they rotrcatcd a short iTi'sIanee. Mrs. 11. is a <^ood shot with a rifle, und she first determined to shoct at least one of the intruders with her husband's loaded rule: npon reflection she concluded to put strychnine upon somemoat she had in the house, and give it to her- unwelcome vis? itors. She did so, and upon the return of herhu8band, who was abs'ent the fore part of the evening, he found tweivo wolves lying dead within*a few rods of the houso. -<t> Duellists must have their -seconds, anil widows arc entitled to their thirds. " Tail-holt better than no holt." The following laughable affair is from a book entitled Fisher's River Scenes and Characters. The incident is located in North Carolina. It is the story of a man named " Oliver Stanley," who was taken captive by wild "Injins." After some consideration, they put him into an empty oil barrel, and headed him up, leaving the bungholc open, that he might be longer dying. The prisoner relates a portion of his experience in this wise: I determined to get. out'n that or bust a trace; and so I pounded away with my fist, till I beat it into nearly a jelly, at the end of the bar'l, but it were no go. Then I butted a spell with my noggin, but I had no purchase like old rams have when they butt; fur, you know, they back ever so far when they make a tilt. So I caved in. made my last will and tes? tament and virtually gave up the ghost. It wur a mighty serious time with mc for sure. While I was lying thai', balancing accounts with t'other world, and afore I had all my figgers made out to see how things 'ud stand. I beam suthin' scrambu Iatin' in the leaves, and snortin' every whipstieh like he smelt suthin' he didn't adzactly. like. I lay as still as a salaman? der, and thought may be there's a chance for Stanley yit. So the critter, whatever it mout be, kep' moseyin' round the bar'l. Last he came to the bungholc, put his nose in, smelt mighty pcrticler, and gin a monstrous loud snort. 1 holt what little breath 1 had to keep the critter from pmcllin' the ?itarnals of the bar'l. I soon seen it was a bar of the woods?the big king bar of the woods, who had lived there from time immemorial. Thinks I, old fellow, look out; old Oliver ain't dead yet. Jist then he put his black paw in jist as fur as he could, and scrabbled about to make somo 'scovcry. The first tho't I had better nab his paw, as a drowndin'mau will ketch at a straw; but I soon seen that wouldn't do, fur you see he couldn't then travel. So I jist waited a spell with great flattcration of mind. The next move he made was U> put his tail in at the bungholc of the bar'l to test innards. I seen that were my time to make my Jack; so 1 seized my holt, and ..honied at the top of my voice: "Charge. Chester, chaise! Ou, Stanley, on!" And the bar he put, anil I knowed t:fil boli were better than no holt; and wo went, bar'l and all. the bar at full speed. Mow, my hope was that the bar would jump over aoine pressepiss' break the bar'l all to shiverations, and liberate mo from my nasty. stinkiT)', ily prison. And sure 'null', the bar at full speed leaped over a calarack fifty foot high. Down we went togthcr in a*pile, cowhallop, on a big rock, bustin' the bar'l and nearly shakin' my gizzard out'n me. 1 lot go my tail holt ?had no more use for it?and away went the bar like a whirlygust of woodpeckers were after it- I've never seen nor hearn from that bar since, but he has my ba^* ?wishes t'-^'J^Mififap 1 luturejv^are. Etiqnet among the Chinese requires | that in conversation each should compli? ment the other, and every body belonging to him, in the most laudatory style, and deprecate himself, with all pertaining to him, to the lowest possible point. The following is no exaggeration, though not die precise words : ?? What is ~our honorable name?" " My insignificant appellation is Wong." ?? Where is you* magnificent palace ?" ;: My contemptible hut is at Suchan." <: Haw masy arc your illustrious chil? dren? ?? My vile worthless brats are five." "How is thehealth of your distinguish? ed spouse ?" "Mymean, g>od for nothing old wo-( man is well." Fish?A PiUsent.Wo must express onr high appreciation of a handsome string of fish, seit to us by our friend, Freeman Hoyt. Thoy wore fresh from bis prime pond 'some of them still "kickinf,") and osKbited plainly the ef? fect s of^ood feeding. They -were fat and plump. ?-Ir. Idyt's pond is now thoroughly stcckcdk'ith fine fish, o." tho several ap? proved species known to our country I stream?ud ponds. Thcidea of raising I rish, an of feeding and fanning them lor privatjase, seems to be a lovel one, yet j its praticabilty has been fuly developed. j With small outlay, and a liilo care, tho farmeinay raise his fish as eifcily as his pigs aj chip kens?have them in as fine conditio for the table, and aboi.t as easy of accca Mr. Dyt's pond we believe has now entered V,on its fourth year. It was among thou-st established in our District. ?S'tmter Vatclkan. ? ?-?\?o-??-' \ Ex-Gt^Rceteow Jei-sey, takes tho [ position, nNjAje^t letter, that that State thould unito \ttthc Confederate States. A correspondent of the San Francis? co Wceldy Mirror gives the following viv? id description of the sensations he felt while under the intoxication of chloroform, in which he had been placed for the pur? pose of having a sliver of iron extracted from his eye: "Jdy last sane recollection is of the sur? geon applying the handkercheif to my mouth; then the room began to magnify to gigantic proportion; a common lamp was transformed to candelabrum, more luminous and costly than ever lighted tho grandest cathedral in the world. The surgeon became a giant of prodigious magnitude, holding a huge, gleaming knife, with a single blow of which he might havo severed mo. The sound 0/ voices :in the room seemed like the clamorings of a vast multitude during tho During of a city and a sign-board, screeching out? side, conveyed, tho idea of a furious mob collected in the street for my excution. On entering the room I had noticed a large cat sitting asleep on a shelf, which turned its head lazily toward me and then resumed its slumbers; this creature became a hideous, vampire-like monster, with great fiery eyes and with claws like what were fabled to bcglong to the grif? fin, walking round, and blowing fetid breath on me, and pressing its frightful paws on my breast. But the worst of all was a collection of gigantic men. sharpen? ing instruments for my dissection; I could hear the whirring of the stone and tho shrieking of the highly-tempered knives as tho grinder." laughed at the in? tended dissection. One was more jocose and heartless than tho rest; he was my implicate enemy; we had quarrelled and fought about a schoolmate love. Present? ly I felt their keen knives at every joint; 1 shrieked and screamed, blasphemed and besought my tormentors, but still the in? struments hissed through my quivering ffosh, and grated along every bone. 1 am satislied that all these' emotions were experienced within a moment alter tlf? fiist inhalation which began the process of stupefaction. So Swift are the evolu? tions of thought when sense is subdued, and when the phantom monarch of dreams leads the soul through the endless ave? nues, swifter in its jottrneyings than the short lived lire which falls from the womb of an overburdened cloud. ??But a gradual revolution of mental perception succeeded ; those frightful spec? ters began to recede; the men and knives begun to diminish; the cat returned to natural proportions and crept slowly away; the voices became less harsh and threatening, and the noise in the street was subdued to unbroken silence. I look? ed into a universe of light, with nothing visible, until indistinct forms appeared on the horizon coming toward in,; and de? fining themselves as they came. One was my mother, clad in grave-clothes,' but, ajL^^^ared, her habiliments chan jjj^*^ fine fabrics which glittered i'i the prophet's vision t\^cu he looked over the ?groat congregation which no man could number.' Directly she stood by ine; amk recognizing every feature, I saw that each age-mark was gone; her cheek was fresh as the young girl's when she first blushes at the whispered WCrds of hive, and, stooping to kiss me. the apparition went out leaving another, still more beau? tiful and youthful; it was the figure of my young wife, who died in the birth of her first child. She held an infant in her arms who reached down and ran his tiny fingers through my hair, but when I tried to take him in my arms, infant and moth? er were gone. Strange, that I felt no disappointment; I knew they were but pictures that hung in the galleries of a fathers heart. Every? thing changed to an existence of inde? scribable pleasure; I laughed and danced like one mad with tho-exhiiiralion of un? expected deliverance from torture; the air came into my iungs gratefully as the up gushing of cool water to the lips of a thirsty drinker. The aroma of celestial gardens seemed about me; I believed that I was in the territory of souls' and wondered how any 0110 should fear to die. I could hear sounds in the street, but t hey se emed to prolong and swell like the sound of a great organ. Alillious of symmefri eal creatures passed in review, along a ho? rizon of silver and gold, and yet 1 was concious that they were but the creations a distorted imagination. " Presently I became conscious of re? turning sense; my limbs felt unwieldy and of too great proportions to be moved by the Strcnghthening will; my eyes open? ed, and began to discern objects returning to natural dimensions; I began to compre? hend the conversation of persons in the room. The whole operation had not oc? cupied half an hour, but I had lived cen? turies of indescribable horrors, and emo? tions of happiness which are incompre? hensible to the sane and wakeful mind. My sight was preserved, and the, frag merrt of steel is in my possession, which, like the key of St. Peter,.unlocked celes? tial splendors and opened a Pandora box of hellish imagery, which, even now, scares mc from dreams to sudden and trembling wakcfulness. G. A. C." -. How Not to Do it. "Blynks," t!ic spicy correspondent of the Nashville Patriot, writes from "Wash? ington as follows: As ycu will perceive, I am still taber? nacling in this humiliating attempt at a great city. ? I am extremely disgusted with Washington. I would like to meet, at a social gathering of four, the minis? ters of England, France, and Russia, fresh from tho rplcrdor-; of London, ofJParis, and of St. Petersburg, and .get thorn to tell mc candidly what they think of the Capital of this great nation. I think I shall do it before I leave here. Every? thing *in Washington is unfinished?ex? cept the contents of the Federal Treasu? ry. Piles of brick, mortar, lumber, &e.. are*scattered everywhere, but the work? men seem to tc perpetually gone to din? ner. There's the now dome on the Capi? tol. They have been hammering away at it for a number of years, and it is not finished yet. If they had been employed by the job they would have had it done in twelve or eighteen months; but they arc employed on heavy salaries, and by the day. and don't care how long it takes them?the longer the belter. They climb to the acme occasionally, pull oil' their coals, take one tug at a bar of iron pull on* their coati again, and go offaudstayaweelc. Tho whole tin he is a regular swindle} and" the government seems to like it?perhaps because it is so much like the government. This dome, when completed, will have cost about one million of dollars, and will have been four, or live, or six years in building. I can go to Nashvillonr.il have one just like it put up in twelve months for half the money,'and clear ft large for? tune by tho job. If all the money that has been appro? priated for public buildings, and other im? provements in "Washington, had been ju? diciously and honestly expended, this would be to-day one of (he finest cities in the world. As it is, considering all things, it is next to no city at all. If the govern? ment should have occasion to build a pig? pen six feet square, it couldn't possibly ho done fcr less than fifty thousand dol? lars, exclusive of the salaries of the super? intendent, the draftsman, and tho engin? eer, which would be about three thousand dollars each. If private enterprises througljput the country swallowed up money as remarkably last as public ones do here, you couldn't ge^your boots black? ed without incurring an expense of a hun? dred dollars to save your life. The way the government gets its work done is curious. As an illustration, you and your family meet in convention of the whole, adopt a resolution authorizing the construction of a hen-coop in your back yard. -Von at once appoint me su? perintendent of the work, putting a thou? sand or two ot dollars in bank for mo to cheek on. I get you to appoint my broth in-kiw. chief engineer. I appoint two of my brothers assistant superintendents, and my brother-in-law appoints two of his brothers assistant engineers?all at your expense. "We buy each a fast horse and buggy, and ride around town, drink cock-tails and play billiards, until tho hank deposit gives out, when we make out a printed report of seventy-three pa? ges, furnishing yon a complete topograph? ical survey of your hack yard, and a vast amount oi statistical information with re? gard to the number of hens you are like? ly to have for the next forty years. We wind up the report with the announce? ment that the site of the hen-coop has been selected, and call for another appropria? tion to prosecute the work, which wo as? sure you will be done with vigor." You place another thousand or two in bank, and employ two hundred hands, at three dollars a day, to transport seventy-five cents worth of lumber (which costs under our management ten limes that many dol? lars'), to the place of operations, which re? quires about three months. In the mean? time, we drive around and go on vigor? ously with the liquor and tho billiards, j We then come tip with another report and a demand for another appropriation.? With this wo get tho walla of the struc? ture up. and with one or two moreappro ations, and a great many moro cock-Lai is and billiards, wo get the thing covered in, and at the end of twelve months, which wo very appropriately stylo our 11 fiscal year," we put you in formal possession of a ten thousand dollar hen-coop that any negro carpenter would have been glad to knock up some Saturday afternoon for a suit of your old clothes. -* Fewer persons are killed in a bold ad? vance than in a cowardly retreat. Energy in Adversity. Some live not only to see earth in its vanity but to experience years of misfor? tune. Adversity and care have faded from many a fair cheek, the rose-tinges of health, and bowed many a manly form beneath tho weight of their oppressive burden. Unfeeling as tho world is, they have been left, no matter of what merit, to toil almost in vain, amidst the glitter of wealth and the sunbeams of surround? ing prosperity. Many minds arc so gen- , tly and delieatly constituted, that they yield easily to the ivintry blasts of disap? pointment and the blight of faded expec? tations. "While' ft-us may show that they have hearts of keen sensibilities and re? fined emotions, it proves also, that phys? ically and mentally, they arc not consti? tuted to bufiot the angry waves of fortune, or have cultivated and strung to an undue extent, those delicate cords of soul which yield melody to the breath of happiness; and wail to that of misfortune and sorrow. "While it is pleasing to see in any one the emblems of sensibility under danger, difficulty and misfortune, it is admirable to show a true heart, a sustaining energy, an unconquerable spirit. lie who .dis? plays energy in adversity is far more cer? tain of receiving the substantial sympa? thy and encouragement of the world than he who sinks under the sweep of the tem? pest. The man who defies the rage of tho storm, who looks upon Its approach with an unblinking and steadfast eye, whose spirit never yields, though the body may bo crushed to tho grave, is apt to excite admiration and sympathy, and may tri? umph over apparently insuperable and dangers. But the proud spirit of man of man should rise in dignity and unbroken strength though adversity and poverty and neglect should surround it?though oven human love itself .should falter in its idolatry. Heaven helps those who help them? selves." But Heaven will help those who do right> Integrity, energy, and a proper dependence upon tho Supreme ruler of tho world will give tho talisman of suc j cess, and scatter disappointments, misan? thropy, and despondency, like mists be? fore the morning sun. If then the spring flowers of hope have seemed to wither along your path., u-^u ticipated success and triumphs have van? ished as summer-night dreams, take cour? age, look up, depend not upon vain hopes and fruitless lamentations but upon integ? rity and energy - for they arc linked with the most valuable gifts of fortune. If they fail to bring success they cannot fail to bestow the consoling consciousness of having deserved it.?Augusta Republic. -o A Homespun Pautt.?Col. Donald, of Lcako county, Mississippi, recently gave a novel part}' to the young people of his neighborhood. The ticket sent to each young lady required that she should come dressed in Mississippi manufactured appa? rel, in the manufacture of which she must in some way assist. The young gentlemen wore also required to dress in the manufacture of Mississippi; made in Leakc and Attala. There were near one hundred persons of both sexes in attendence, all attired as specified above. -^ Remarkable Instance of Madness in a House;?One da}- last week a valu? able horse, belonging to Nicholas Smith, of Medford, was seized with madness and became so furious that it was necessity for the safety of th.ose about him to con? fine him to a strong enclosure. He ex hibited his strange malady by biting his keeper, and dashing his head against the sides of his stall. He attempted to gnaw bis hoofs, in doing which lie broke his lower jaw so that it hung useless. He bit his ow.i sides, and fir.aly died after three days of terrible suffering. -An eagle, soaring on high above the mist of the earth," said a down east-lawyer, - winging its daring tlight against a mid? day sun, till its contemplation becomes too dazzling for humanity, and mortal eyes gaze after it in vain-"Hero the orator faltered, and after an abortive ef? fort or two, sat down in confusion. -The next time sir." said the Judge, "you bring an eagle into Court, I should recommend you to clip his wings. Tue Place fou tuf Capital.--Although it has been endeavored to give Alabama the prestige of preference in the location of the new Southern capital, yet it has certainly not been so decided. ETor will iL be, so far as Montgomery is concerned. The suggestion has been made to us from a distinguished quarter, that the Southern government should assemble in the summer mouths; that the winter sea? son at home, when all planters and other persons desire to be in personal superin? tendence of their domestic affairs; that with us summer is the season of vacation when time can be easily afforded, by rep? resentatives and visitors, to the matter o? Congressional legislation; that with the North in the recent government it was just the reverse; in winter everything with them was locked up in ice, and it was therefore the very period they could best spare home duties?and hence tho use of that season for government pur? poses. Is not the suggestion of summer Con? gresses a good one ? And if so, where should wo locate the capital ? The an? swer must bo, in some cool, healthful.sit? uation, near the mountains. Alabama offers ono such at Huntsville; Georgia ono, at Atlanta; and South Carolina one, nt Old Pendlcton. Start not at the men? tion of so humble a village. It would bo a noble location for our Southern capital: It has the most charming of summer cli? mates. It looks out upon our grandest Southern mountains.., It is accessible by railroad, and will be easily so (when the BIuj Eidgo Head is completed) to all parts of the South. And yet-again?per? haps more than all?it was tho homo of Calhoun. Within a few miles of the vil? lage is Fort Hill: and it might well be? come the Mecca of Southern freedom. Make Pcndleton our seat of Government, < and our Congress -will legislate in tho same glorious_ atmosphere tha(Tlnspifed~ the intellect whose reasoning Las brought on the Southern Confederacy.?Edgefichl Advertiser. -4?-1 Charleston Items.?"Wo clip the fol? lowing from the Charleston papers, of Wednesday: Distinguished Volunteers.?Among those wlio, yesterday, girded on their -swords for the defence of the soil of the State, wcro lion. Lewis T. Wigfall and the venerable Edmund Ruffin. The commencement exercises of tho Cadets of the Citadel Academy, previous? ly announced as about to take place at Hibernian Hall, to-day will, on account of the immediate prospect of collision in our harbor, be dispensed with for the present year. Tho ceremony of confer? ring degrees upon tho First Class took place privately, yesterday morning. Fatal Result.?We regret to learn that Mr. J. 11. Smith, of Portsmouth, Vir of the upper windows of the Pavillion Hotel, we noticed some time ago, died on yesterday, at tho Roper Hospital, from the result of his injuries. Rifled Cannon.?A fine rifled gun reached this city yesterday, from Liver? pool. It is a present to the State from a Carolinian now resident in tho latter place, (Charles K. Prioleau, Esq.,) who although absent in a foreign land, does not forget his State in the hour of her need. -o A Glass of Brandy. {: A glass of brandy can't hurt any body ! Why I know a person, yonder he is new, on high change, specimen of man ly beauty, a portly six-footer. Ho has tho bearing of a prince, for he is one of our merchan t prinoes. His face wears the hue ot health, and now, at the age of fif? ty odd, ho has the quick clastic step of our young men of twenty-five, and none more full of mirth and wit than he, and I know ho never dines witeout brandy and water, and never goes to bed without a tarrapin or oyster cupper, with plenty of champagne; and more than that ho was never known to bo drunk. So here is a living cxamplar and disproof of the tem pcrsnce twaddle abcit tho dangerous na? ture of an occasional glass, and tho de? structive effect of the temperate use of good liquors." Now it so happened that this speefman of safe brandy-drinking was a relation of ours. He died in a year or two after, of chronic diarrhoea, a common end of those who arc never drunk, nor never out of \ liquor. Ho left his widow a splendid mansion up town, and a clear five thous? and a year, besides a large fortune to each of his ubc children; for ho had ships on every cca and credit at cveiy counter, but whichiio never had occasion to use. For months before ho died?he was a year in dying?he could cat nothing without dis? tress, and at his death the whole alimen? tary canal was a mass of disease; in tho midst of his millions, he died of inanition. This is not tho haif, reader. He had been a steady drinker for twenty-eight years. He loft a legacy to his children, which he did not mention. Scrofula had been eating up one daughter for fifteen years; another in the mad house; tho third and fourth of unearthly beauty; there was a kind of grandeur in that beauty, but they blighted, and paled, and faded, into heaven, we hope, in the sweet? est teens; and another is tottering on tho verge of tho grave, and only one is left with all the senses, and each of them is weak as water.?A?n. Temp. Journal.