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J VOLUME 14 CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 13,1853. t ^WBER^j PUBLISHED -WEEKLY BY THOMAS J. WARREN. TJEK.HS.v Two. Collars if paid in advance; Two Dollars and Fifty Cents if payment be delayed three months, and Throe Dollars if not- paid till the expiration oftheyenrl ADV"KRTISKMEXT$ will be inserted at the fo.lowius rates: For one Square, (fourteen lines or less,) Boventy-five cents for the first, and thirty-seven and a half cants for each subsequent insertion. Single' in-1 se'rtions. one dollar per square; somi-mouthly, monthly and quarterly advertisements charged the same as for asingta insertion. . . * ? . number of insertions desired must be noted on the margin of all advertisements, or they, will be published uutil .ordered discontinued and charged accordingly. 1 |lli5Cflliiiif0ns. . . WHY I LEFT THE A3 VIE. Br eliiii; ncunir. . I see joti would ask me what I have to say for myself for dropping the hammer and takiug up. the quill, as a member of your pr<. fessiou. I will be honest now, and tell you the whole ? ? .1 ;i . .1.1 story. I was transported trom uie anyu to me editors chair by the genius of machinery. Do hot smile, friends, it was even so. * I had stOod and looked for hours on those thoughtless iron intellects,; those, iron fingered, sober, supple automatons, as they caught up a bale of cotton -and twirled it in the twinkling of an eye into a vast whirlpool of whizzing shreds, and laid at ihy feet in folds of "snow white cloth, ready for the use" of our most voluptuous antipodes. They were wonderful things, those looms and spindles; but they could hot spin thoughts; there was no attribute of Divinity in them, and I adMired them, nothing, more. They were excessively curious, but I could estimate the wh'oie compass of their doings and destiny iu finder power; so Icauie-away and left them spinning ?cotton. One day I was tuning my anvil bemjath a hot iron, and busy with the thought that there was as ranch intellectual philosophy ni my hammer as in any of the enginery a going in modern times, when a most unearthly screaming perceu Tpy-ears; I stepped to the t^ior, and there it was, the great lion Horse! Yes, he had come, looking for all the world like the great Dragon we read of in Scriptuie, harnessed to half a living wo\Id, and just landed on the earth, where lie stood braying in surprise, and indignation at the." ''base uses" to which he had been turned. 1 saw the array of human beings gliding with the velocity of wind over the iron track, and droves of cattle in their stables travelling at the rate of twenty miles an bottr, towards the city slaughter . house. It was wonderful. The little busy bee winged machinery of the cotton factory dwiridletHnto msiguiticance before -it. Monstrous beast Of passage and burden ! it^devoured the intervening distance, and welded the cities together! But for its furnace heart and iron sinews, it was nothing but a beast, an enormous aggravation of?horse power. And I went back to the forge with au unimpaired reverence for the intellectual philosophy of my hammer. Passing along the street one afternoon; I heard a noise in an old building as of some one puffing a pair of bellows.. So withoutmore ado I stejK ped in, and there iu a corner of a room, I saw the ehefd'oeuvre of the machinery that ever has been invented since the birth of Tubal Cain. In its construction it was as simple and unassuming as a cheese-press. It went with a lever?with a lever longer, stronger than that with which Archimedes promised to uplift the world. "It ,v m tifiniinrr. nrfss." said a bov staiidilltr " " t e?- r-r~ ? .? ? . by the ink trough, with a cut-loss turban of brown paper on his-hcad. "A printing press? what do you print?*' I asked. "Print ?" said the boy, staring at ioe doubtfully, "why we print thoughts." "Print thoughts ?" I slowly -repeated after him, and we stood looking for a moment at each other in mutual admiration ; he in the absence of an idea, and I in the pursuit of one.? But I looked at him the hardest, and he left another ink mark on his forehead, from a pathetic motion of his band to quicken his apprehension of my meaning. - - - "Why yes," he reiterated, in a tone of forced confidence, as if wasting an idea, which, though having been current a hundred years, might still be counterfeit, for all he could show on the spot, "we print thoughts to be sure." "But, my boy," 1 asked in honest soberness, "what are thoughts, and how cau you get hold of them to print them ?" "Thought* are what come out of people's minds," he replied. "Oct hold of them, indeed!" Why minds ain't nothing you can get hold of, nor thoughts either. All the minds that over thought, and all the thoughts that minds ever made, wouldn't make a ball as big as your fist. Minds, they say, are just like air; you cari't see them; they don't make any noise, nor have any color; they J 1 .1 ? ij:ii ,llrt c?v. I aoo i weiffn anv iiiui". uui uui^uv, <...v, , I 1 ! ' ton, say*, that a man weighs just as much when i hi* mind is gone out of him, as he did before. No, sir, all the minds that ever lived wouldn't tveigh an ounce troy." " "Then how do you print thoughts J" I then asked. "If minds are thin air, aiuhthoughts are ' thinner still, and make no noise, and have no substance, shade, or color, and are like the winds, and move like the winds, any where in a moment; sometimes in heaven, and sometimes on earth, and in the water under the earth ; how can you get hold of them ; how can you see them ! when they are caught, and show theni to others?" Ezekiel's eyes grew luminous with a new idea, and nushinn his ink-roller across the mctalic page of tlie newspaper, ho replied, "Thoughts 1 work and talk in thing's what make tracks; and we make them tracks, and stamp them on paper or iron, wood or stone, or what not. That is the way we print thoughts. Don't you understand ?" The pressman let go the lever, and looked interrogatingly at Ezekiel, beginning at the patch i on his stringlcss brog.ms, and following lip with his eyes to the top of the boy's brown paper buff cap. Ezekiel comprehended the felicity of his illustration, and wiping his hands on his. tow apron, gradually assnmad an attitude of earnest exposition. I gave him au encouraging wink and so he went on. "Thoughts make track?," lie continued, im- A 1 pressively, as if involving a new phase of the idea by repeating it slowly. Seeing we assented j ^ | to his proposition inquiringly, he stepped to the * type case, with his eye fixed admoimbingly on k 1 us. "Thoughts make tracks," he repented, ar- 1 ranging in his hand a score or two of metal !"/ ,cl slips, "and by the aid of these here letters we "on? 1 can take the exact impression of every .thought was leSf that ever did go out of the heart of a human 'll0>t on. man, and,print it too," giving the inked form a stroke of triumph with his fist?"and print it /' e !e too, if you give us paper and ink enough, till the W,ee 1 tlie great round earth is blanketed around as by . 11 ? a coverlid of thoughts, as much like the pattern ,on\ . as a couple of peas." y .su ' Ezckiel seemed to grow an inch at every syl- ln. j,B(J lable, and the stont pressman looked first at him ^ and then at the press, in evident astonismcnt. ' h 11 1 ... a louriic "Talk about the mind's Jiving forever!" ex- ^ ^ claimed the boy, pointing patronizingly at the 8 ground, as if mind lay there incapable of immor- ^ talitv until the printer reached it a helping hand, . 16 1 "indeed the earth is brimfuil of live-bright, in- 0 1 > 0 dustrious thoughts, that migli have been as dead cot' en\' as a stone, if it hadn't been for boys like me, zea that have run the ink-rollers. Immortality in- m\.^' c deed ! The people's minds,?' he continued, his . . -c imagination climbing into the profanely Sublime .Xvlt 1 ?"people's minds would'ut be immortal if it ',,lruSt:r, was'nt for the -printers; at any- rate in this plan- : JIJM1I)C clary burying ground. We are the chaps that . was bl manufacture immortality for dead men," he sub- j "cast, ^ mitted, flapping the pressman graciously on the ma" " shoulder. The latter toolkit as if duhhed a col'rso> kuight of the legion cf honor, for the boy had u,l< put the mysteries of his profession in 'sublime tlie!C#S1' apocalypse. . ' . . t - wns 111 "Give us one good, healthy mind," returned ?' Ezekiel, "to think' for us, and we will furnish a *,aPs< *vc dozen worlds as big as this with thoughts to or- u u' tier. Give us such a man, acd we will keep ?ot. mliim alive forever ain?'Ug the' living. He. can't vhu'ltc die, no way you cajU'fix ,it, when once wo have j P11"1 touched him with these here.bits of inky pew- n"ls,V Wi tor. lie shan't die n^r sleep.. AVo- will" keep r?V|,',am his mind at work .on all the minds that shall ,, 1 come to Jive here as long as the world stands." co",1|ry "Ezekiel," 1 asked, in- a subdued tono of the ' avv'1J 111 greatest rcvcreuee, "will you print my thoughts at too?"-;, , ' , not forg "Yes, that I will," lie replied, "if you will nn ?'s 'n think some of the right kind." . .that had ; "Yes, that wo will," echoed tire pressman. ; pleasant And 1 went home had thought,, and Ezekiel sccurc f1 has printed my "thought-tracks";ever since, e." 1 3 . an cxliih Standing at Church Doors. ?It is a com- f'1'^ 'iat' tirou practice, wlicu a congregation is dismissed, t.ra: [u to see a line of young gentlemen, ranged along j l(J the curb stone, staring impudently at every fe- c"" *' j male that coines our, and often indulging urim-1 ^ ^ ^j. ^ peiiiucnt remarks liiat cannot hut be heard by \ ^ t j . those who are the subject of tliein. Very rare- ; j. ly there may be found among the mob of dan- j . , djes and dunces, a husband, a father,or brother, whom unavoidable ciiyuimsOMiovc-liMd prevented . altending church, and who is waiting to accotn- |">llt'|V t.ol party a wife, daughter, or M.?ler home. ^ej Such, of course, we do uot. censure. But as (jt n|jtTrJ scarcely one in ten belong to this class : as they ! , ' * OSS || I c v | ] form, in fact, the exception not the rule, we shall j speak of those, who indulge in this custom ? without reference to such. It is the addle head- ncr?>H cd lads, with high shirt colhtre and canes, avera- j ?r" ging about seventeen or eighteen years of age, I10' P'e( * ^ l)0 111 tl who form the great mass of these impertinent . ' . spectators, that we would liokl up to public re- . . proof. "Where are the fathers of these young s u,'| dandies ? Where is the wolesome rod which re> s?r Solomon recommended J *- Where is the police 1 "I1 ")l( Only a refined temale kno\vs how annoying it st,r.?"= .,< 11,1.0 J ivTve ?g?'ated, its iu I lill mv ^??uiikiv.v wi itiivoo kiiiiimwuiv vwj ?? 1 ' I* I Nor do tliev spare-anybody. The matron is ; '"!' just as much at their mercy as the maiden ; the i "! a llc< plain face as .subject to remark as the bcHUtiful osclVal one ; the poorly-dressed as open to impertinence : Vs 1 ?.SNl as the mo?t richly attired. One female meets a J as ,n "V sneer as she passes, because she does not happen '? r^e.e'1 to please the fancy of some young foi>l, while 1 the cheeks of another are made to tingle by his . *'\res lotid and insolent admiration. Even where the1. . P' lady cseapcs without verbal insult, she is stared out of countenance, and has no resource, except n')tlcl"o to drop her veil, hurry on, and escape into a 0 ,c>n ? ' more respectful atmosphere as fast as possible. w Benevolence and Haim?ixe?s.?A life of ; w.',om *! passionate gratification is not to he compared . a"xl with a life of active benevolence, God lias so m fcai constituted our nature, thai a man cannot be !ol,-'? l happy unless he is, or thinks he is, a means of i T. we , d<?itig good. Judging from our own experience, I ,lway we cannot conceive of a picture of nunc mint ' iea^ terable wretchedness than is furnished bv one ' cru '11 who knows that he is wholly useless in the ' l,eara,,c< worl/J. Ciive a man what you please, surround Presumf him with ail the means of gratification, and yet j a bPccl; let the conviction come home to him clear and ;* irresistiide, that there is not a being in God's universe a whit the better or happier Ibr his \ , " existence; let him feel that he is thus a blot | "car" a up?>11, because a blank in, the universe, a d the ' a st,0llo universe will not furnish a more unhappy he- j w?s ?Pe ing.? Herein lies the .solution of that to many, : s^mLl ' ll inexplicable fact, that the schemes of mere i .. .C,H: selfi>hnes6, however wisely laid, however ener- I 1 11 s getically and succes-fully prosecuted, never add ' . to the joys, but alwajs to the pains of those Was..1 who originate and engage in them. It is not 0111 so with a man of opposite characteristics. 6axeme Take from him what you please, and you do so aStP. not take from him the elements of his joy, if co??Li(>I jou leave him the conviction that in any way * u,_-0 lie is useful. If you contract the eirele, and , , diminish the sphere of his influence, you de- tlie deat tract from his joy only as you detract from his a" .at,u means of doing good. And as w e cannot con- a*p"" ceive of a more wretched being than one who a<comp feels himself to be the slave of an uncontrolled .'lat 0 " selfishness, so we cannot conceive of a happier lst wu.s.1 . irimwl in bfivg than a man of truly benevolent heart, whose wishes describe the circle and bound the sphere of his influence, and whose means 1,1 are ample to give those wishes a lull expres- _,:lt a, si 011.?Mason. ' Louh1 , m , we wert Remember, ye wlm ridicule a young man for al'(' his parsimony, and stigmatize him as "small," j w,|eel.-> that by-and-by he can afford to be generous st'nsatioi when you have nothing to give. *lt is | Avarice is the fallen angel that waits upon the piihv^v e soul of man, existing upon his misery, and dying ?iirown. in the presence of charity. * tended to UOE WITII A MADMAN. I A RAILWAY INCIDENT. . , : month of August, 18?, it was incum>n me to take a journey to a town at stance from my own residence. The iug no object with mc, and the country which iny route Jay very .beautiful, 1 lived to take it in what was to me the joyabie way; but after diligent inquiry thing in the shape of, a stage, I found mail coach had ceased running the sfQro; so that "the rail" was my only nf getting to the place of my destinaVherenpon I made a virtue of necessimitting, though With tho worst grace vorld; for my habituari dislike to this travelling was increased by one of (accountable fits of reluctance to taking >y which sometimes seizes one, and usually set down to the score of ner3. So I tried to explain mine; which, me drew near, rose to a complete dread my no small annoyance, for I had a it for,omens and presentiments; and v. but vaiiilv. I tried -to pooh! pooh! >utofit.inoiniiig. broke, dull, wet, oppressive, pareutly half a score of thunder storms /e for my especial use; at at six o'clock d up from an uneasy dream, in which truggling with some nondescript wild > find I liad only, half an hour left to iy toilet and got to the station. Of everything went wrong; strings slip> knots?buttons flew. Never was ch confusion. I could not be quick, I such a hurry. Hastily swallowing a xi, (pail of which, to crown my mismt the wrong way.) I ran to the station, d it; found the time had been altered; ticket; and sprang ii)to a carriage, inpted me as containing only one oceunnd the huge mass slowly took its iy from under, acres surely, of glazed 1 speedily |eft it behind. ' - - ? ?- ? ^ lU a s\ nnn sun ceasea as we g<>i imu mo \-|<on ; n fine breeze sprang up, which blew y fidgets, and I "began internally to myself for having been such a -foul? citing to congratulate my better self iving triumphed over the neivous fears be>et inc. It-rea lly became almost It was a mail-train, so that I was oni the plague of frequent stoppages, Consequent fiesh starts. There was jrating atmosphere?the dark clouds spoken of thunder when I.rose, now g no sueh obstreperous intentions, but taking themselves "off as fast as thev The weight on my spirits was removed" began to he susceptible of a modified enjoyment, and in the g'lyctv of my* old my fellow-traveller that it was a ? a remark to whi' h he vouchsafed me er, save such as might be called the on me a pair of eyes that, looked vastve coats. Tfiey almost made me start; isidered it was no business of mine.? ltleman's e\es were his own, and I not that mine, owing to a short, sleepit, were as mnch too dull as his were bt; sol whisked my pocket-kerchief ticm, by way of polishing thcui a little, a newspaper, sank'into a cosy corner, mrcd to read, or sleep, as the case may be very drowsiest part of a long speech, list going off into the most luxurious imaginable, when I was roused by the jess of my compani -n, who, as I waked Highly, seemed laboring under some ud inexplicable excitement. He looked changed his seat frequently, moved s impatiently, borrowed my paper, and ? returned it with some unintelligible lion; then peered anxiously out of the throiiirh which he thrust hiniselfso far luce me to volunteer a caution, wliicli fed pleasantly,'stared fit the wheels, as ie whs calculating their revolutions, and timed his seat. erturbatiuii was manifest. I could not what possessed the man; hut at length, the' agitated manner with which he meed through the^window, as though hciher we were followed, I determined nust he some gentlemanly rogue, to >eedy (light was indispensable, and that ety and excessive disturbance arose r of pursuit?n fear that to me seemed lose vain ones peculiar to the wicked, vere then nearly at the ultimatum of speed, and did not expect to stop he hing our destination, still-at a consid istance. His whole manner and ap* i confirmed this view ?>f the case. I d his evil conscience had conjured up il engine" at our heels, and, after in in a few appropriate moral reflections, . If, of course.) I resumed my paper, ext. minute he was opposite to me. I light movement and raised my headknile, such as is used in pruning trees, n in his hand ; and, with eyes verily ling, his startling address, in a tone, tinned of* ti'litnh ctronirol o n#?litrflSli?H .....v.. =V.....0VV import, was?"I'm going to kill you! rible truth flashed upon me at once; nsaiic, and I alone with him, shut out possibility of human help! Terror calmness. Fixing my eye upon him, command his movements, and perhaps lint, I answered, quietly and firmly, u are not." It was well I was preThat moment he sprang on nte, at d li-struggle began. I grappled with him, mpted to secure his right arm ; while d again, as 1 strained every nerve to isli this purpose, did that accursed itt"r before my eyes, for my autagonny superior in muscle and weight, and i addition with the demonical str ength ess, now expressed in every lineament iflamcd and distorted countenanco.? sight was that not super human lace ! ly and hoarsely I called for help, hut ! rushing along thirty miles in the hour, cries were drowned amid the roar of and steam. I low horrible were, my 11s! Cooped up thus, to be mangled perhaps proper to remark that in England, > occurrence hero described took place, the images arc very unicreiiliy constructed iroin They closely resomblo a coach, and arc inacconiinodato but six passengers each. and murdered by. a. randhiaii, with means ol rescue within a few feet of me,' and yet that help, that fcomrniniicaiioriwitli my fellows that would have saved me,as unattainable as though we were in a desert. I quivered, as turning aside thrtfst after thrust, dealt with . exhaustless and frenzied violence, 1 doubted not'(lint the next must find its way to "my heart. My strength was rapidly failing; uotso that of my antagonist. I struggled desperately, as alone the fear of such a death could .enable a than to do, and, my hands, gashed and bleeding, atdast wrenched the knife from hrs hold, and flung it through the window. Then I first seemed to breathe; but'not yet was I safe. With redoubled rage he threw himself ;(t my throat, crushing it as with ii'on lingers; and as I felt f # ? Ins whole frame heave and labor with the vioS| " -1 -? r \ * ir .f T Menee or me auacic, lor one uieuiuui mumcm i gave up all for lost.. But, surely then seme .unseen power strengthened me. Half-strangled, I flung the whole weight of my hody upon him, got him down, and planting toy knee on his breast; by inaiij strength held, him,spite of his frantic efforts to writhe himself from under. My hands were bitten and turn jn his convulsive rage, but I felt not?heeded it not. Life was at stake, and hardly 1 fought for it. The bitterness of death was upon me, and awfully clear and distinct, in that mortal struggle, were the past and the future?the human, sinful past, and the dread, unknown, avenging elenwl future. IIcw were the joys and sorrows of years compressed into that one back ward glance, and how utterly insignificant did thty appear as the light pf life seemed fading from them. Fearfully calm and collected was jny mind, while my. hody felt as though dissolving with the terrible strain to which all its powers were subjected. And yet consumed as I was with mental and physical agony,! well remember my sensation of bliss, for such it ? -I* t L p .. . -i 1i?.? \V;iS \\1ICI1 me COOl Dl'eeze jor ll mumi-ui uiuw upon my flushed and streaming brow, which felt as though at the mouth of a furnace. But this cquld not last long. My. limbs shook, and were fiist relaxing their gripe?a mist swain before my eyes?my. recollection wavered, when, thank heaven, I became sensible of a diminution of our speed. Fresh strength inspired me. I dashed my prisoner down as soon as'he attempted again to free himself. Then the welcome sound of letting off the steam?the engine stopped, the door opened, and I was saved! My companion was quickly secured, and presently idenlfipd as a lunatic'who escaped from confinement. To it he was again consigned ; and I, from that day to this, have never entered a railway carnage . with only oih passenger in it! "They tell a good story:' of Lorenzo Dow, 01 a perambulating preacher of his "school," to the effect that riding once in a stage-coach on his way to an appointment, he fell in company with wild young blades, who were led, from his eccentric appearance and manner, to imagine that he was a proper subject for their jokes and raillery. He at once humored their design, bj affecting silliness, and making the most absurd and senseless remarks. Upon arriving at the place where lie was to stop, they ascertained who their butt was, and began to apologize, observing, in extenuation of their rudeness, that his own conversation had misled them. "Oh,r said he, "that's my way: I always try to accommodate myself to the company I am in; i t o,r.w.u i t-iiLr f.w.liJ. r' Tnn Pert Yocmo Max.?Tlicrc is a period in the lifc of a young man, which may appropriately be called the age of puppyism. It is at that period when he is a little more than a boy, a good deal less than a man; when the hand, stroked across the chin detects r. sort, ol downy inequality, and visions of barbers and razors rise tip constantly before him ; when the tailor suddenly becomes a person of vast importance, and he begins to talk of the " men ol our college, and the ladies of our acquaintance." Very tight pantaloons, displaying immense moral and physical courage in venturing into the world with such slender supports; a knowing, halfjockey, half-gentleman hat; fancy vest, gold chain, and a quizzing-glass, make up the external qualifications of the jart young man.?lie sets his legs apart in addressing meu old enough to be his grandfather, twirls his cigar, and calls him " my dear fellow," or u my boy." llis parental parent lie always calls u the governor," and never thinks of him, or refers to him, except when he wants the "governor to come down handsome," who as lie maintains has no right to " expect a man" to be unable to pay his billiard expenses. He walks the streets as though he owned them ; salutes the ladies with a fascinating smile, and takes off his hat to them when 1 1 ' l?n /1i/l n/if Vi'Jcli DC lias pilSSCU Ilium its uimi-11 4ivi u.?.? ..w ....... the courtesy to be observed ; but, then, lie bail observed older men do this, and he thinks it "gentlemanly" to do so likewise. His conversational powers are very limited never having1 fathomed anything deeper than a brandy smash, or extended his inquiry beyond the bill of fare of his favorite restaurant. In his manner to ladies he is rather patronising, and at the same time very humane; for, in the first instance, lie acts upon the conviction of the inferiority of the sex, and in the next, with consideration with regard to tlie killing effects ol his own beauty and many accomplishments lie cannot marry them all, and to show partiality would la; unfair. Ilis head is the only place where nature acknowledges a perfect vacuum. Gkttixo Foiitunks bv Lottbrv.?A Pennsylvania paper has taken some pains for the purpose of showing how near a man may come to drawing a prize by buying a lottery ticket. First, (lie savs) there are upwards of seventy numbers used in making out the ticket, and there are three number ion each ticket; now the question is, how many different tickets can bo made 1 It hut ten figures were used, instead of seventy, there could be issued 3,028,800 tickets, each dilli rent, from the others; and if twelve figures were used, instead of seventy, there could he issued 4/0,000,000 tickets; so a man, in the first instance, where there are ten numbers, would island one chance out or 3,u'.i8,Buu cnances, nnu in the last instance, where there are twelve numbers to change by, lie would stand but one chance out of 170,000,000, and if the whole F seventy figures be used; and if as many tlineren tickets were issued as could be formed "-by tli , permutation of these numbers, it is probable tha i there would be enough to more than carpet tli ; whole territory of the United 'States.. Of course very few are printed, -compared t ; what might be printed, yet there is-just as goo* a chance for the prize to fall to an impriiite< ticket as to a printed one.- If it does so, as n< ) one can claim the money', it ronrains wjtli tliOs i making the lottery. There -arc,- iii sueh a cast , thousands of chances in favor of the lottery ma - Ker. Atjain, 71 loiienes yvtjrc itm >j wiiviuvm ' there would be hundreds Or thousands each montl .; receiving a fortune by the high prizes alone; am ; each year-lhere could be named frojn one thou sand to ten thousand persons thus , favored V fortune. Irvtbis -we have only been speaking o one single prize iu each lottery, and as there ar : many important ones in e.acl),- the! fortur ate per sons ought to greatly exceed ten thousand an , rurally. Yet, how seldom do yoti hear that ever .- a ^1000 prize is drawn? Still all the prizes o t every lottery should fall on some one atcacl drawing. Who gets them??where do the fa vored ones live ??and how does it happen tlra their names are not--paraded "before the publii each week, and thus used td induce othefs t< buy ? It is simply because no one holds a ticke entitled to the j?riz6, and, of course, the monc^ remains with ths maker of the lottery. Tin whole system would be a perfect scheme of gam bling? even if honestly conducted, but manager as it is, it loses the character of even honorabl gambling, and should rank with the lowest spe -cies of frfiurj; ? " . ' _ - It is a remark of Dr. Stone, that tire ol< ; French never die in New Orleans?they onl; i go out.. For years rind years, going back as fa as memory runnetn, you may note, sitting oi the bafcoliies oF the oh I square of tlie '6it\v':tli same* venerable,white-headed, portly, oldFrenc! and Creole ladies, dressed clcanand neat,'lookini contented and happy, with - their* ;bright*.eyei , daughters and grand daughters around them? perfect models of green- old ago; - '"These vfenern lie-dames have lived-in New Orleans ever sine it-has been a city. They have lived under.thre governments. Mexico. ; In the work lately published in the city c ' Mexico by General Almonte, the ftfest road be 'tween tl?e Atlantic and Pacific oceans is stntoi I to be that traversing tfie republic front Ver , Cruz to San lMns, whether as regards person? convenience, economy iii time and money, or th . p:ctitresque character of the district throug > which it rurs. Add to this, that these district arc the most populated.'' In three arid a lial days from Vera Cruz we reach, the capital I) . djlige'ncc, ayd thence continue on the route t . San Bias, which can be gained in ten days. 0 . the capital of the Mexican republic?the seat c ! the supreme power of the confederation?th , General thus writes: * . , "More than (Jve eentufieB since it wasfoundei I by the aborigines, who, adopting the name c , Tenoctilan, chose a site on a lake in the mids [ of a valley fourteen leagues long; seven broai , and forty in circumference, elevated seven bun I died Spanish feet above the level of the sea, am . girded by a crown of mountains sixty sevei leagues in extent. The city, in the highest stati I of Indian supremacy, consisted of 140,000 hous es, divided in to four quarters', each quarter adorn ed with numerous temples dedicated to idols i lie chief of which was Huitzilonochtle. ffod o """" ~ 7 - r * ? Q war, whose temple had for its base a pyramii forty feet high, snicl was readied by 140 steps the whose forming an appearance stf iinposiu* as to astonish Cortez and his companions when i on the 13th of August, 12ol, they entered an< : took possession of tliu city. Previous to-thi ; event, the grand plaza of Pbiteloco was tl>c pub lie market?place, of which designation there tiov remains no indication. The phtn'of the city i a square, with the streets at right angles. Tin extension within the.gates is 4,340 vnres of Cas tile Irom north to south, and 3,040 from east t( west. The 'water which supplies it. guided ii channels from the neighboring lakes, passe: around the walls, and formerly intersected tin streets with canals, which were entered daily b; fleets of canoes that would sometimes ascend a far as the National Palace in the grand plaza The city is still entered by the different cause ways of stone constructed by the Indians; o these are those of Guadalupe, Tacnba, San An touio, Abail. It is adorned by. edifices whicl command much admiration by their style an< character of architecture, by fine public walks an< beautiful fountains; the water that supplies on< of these being conducted more than, two league by an aqueduct of nine hundred arches. Tin population of the city exceeds two hundred thou sand, and in the different plazas a vast traffic i being continually carried on. The cliinnte ma] be characterized as benign, and, though a con tinual springs reigns, the seasons of the year an sufficiently distinguished by the flowers am fruits successively produced. Without the walls 1 *i,A ooci U'Iiata tin C.NCepi/ "I U1U UllCVtlUII v/l HIV ?HV>V V... country is sterile, from the vicinity of the grea lake, Tezcoco, the scenery is enlivened by tin richest vegetations, l?y farms of large extent, an< by gardens yielding abundance of flowers, fruits and vegetables. ''The fields abound in grasses, which at one beautify and serve for the support of herds o cattle. Watered as this region is by rivers am by lakes, the capital is readily supplied with th most delicate and seasonable fruits through on the year, as well as other luxuries. Within thi range of country arc also found cedar, and othc rare trees, gums and drugs, numerous metalli productions, marble and precious stones. Aih in both valleys and mountains may be descrici villages and country scats. As to the spirit o the Mexican people, Gen. Almonte affirms, am in this none, we presume, will slitter, that the; i have great aptitude for the arts, ana uint n oliaracter, generally speaking, they arc liberal ' courteous, atfablc, and charitable." The road to ruin is through the gate of wrong The man who cheats has taken the first stej i towards litigation and poverty, bail-bounds am i broken-breeches. God has so ordered matter I that the only things that produce lasting bene fits, are honesty and right. Out of a dozei well to do scamps that I knew five years ago, tei i have ran away, while the other two act as or ! doily sergeants to a swill wagon. t i nc snvannan ?ews says 7 7%un)?_oi ourotfy -m e Pl)j s:clans hasJiaffde3 w5i.rrc'.{ijllowiqg- ' ? t from n letter written to him, by. a "profcssTwiiA | c brother in the up-country, tfeslfirifchig ? J what singular caser we,believe of Ihire oceurfouce m 0 in Medical practice:- . 'M 1 u I must put m-a-slip to give yofi a slnguhif \ instance of'deatli from the rapid accumulation 0 of fsrt. We had ayoung man rcsiding'eightoe^ Jj e miles from this place, \Vtio was one of the cles of nature; at the age of 22 years, he uVighy Jfl "ed 565 lbs. lie continued gradually to increunp r,- in flesh Until he reached a little fover 600 its!; 11 ? He was able to got about with tolerable ease and a ;1 comfort to" himself,- and attended to his planting ' interest ; he had a fine esta'te and looked after it J| 1r with care and interest?some four weeks agafoiSC J f commenced increasing in flesh very rapidj)V e gained at'first I 1-2 lbs. per day, then. it - found he gained a 'little over 2 lbs perd;it? - week be died suddenly in bis cbnir ; I tliiitkirotit* ^JJ \ an accumulation 01 rat arounu uiu nean; mi^* i| f days prior to his deafh-he weighed 648 i had lie been weighed the day of his death no - doubt he would have gone over 660 lbs. I have jfl t often seert him and visited hisfainily a few rnobtfe 3 ago professionally1;" 1 ' ] Cure fo.r Boxe-felLon.?A .corrcspondei?|t '"l f of the Baltiifiore Clipper says, that a' .tfihpb& ;1 3 full of soft soap 'and -quicksilver, mixed 3 bound tightly oyer the telofi, will dra#iti<&jfc .^j * r h^ad in the course of ten ortwefve hours. e cure can thcu be removed, and by the.appli,<^w -"jj ' tion of the usual poultices the so^.-wiln oe sohrr .^3 . healed. Tlic 'i etnedy is said to be a very seVere ] one, but altogether preferable to the, disease?" jjfl J Bone felons of late years are quite cohintOn, an4i; 3 f thcrenicdy, if effectual, will provea real blessing* 1 r totbo-siifiercrs. ' I e JI'og Crop- of North Miss6Sim.~The Ab- J " .erut'cn i/eiiiocnu, or iuesaay-jasi, eays*: . -t? From all that we can lfcarn^ dier$1^^5UJ? ?: : d abundant hog crop this year,-and eveic^-pito?^>ecp ] - that pork will be qaite' reasonable in pride tlte* coniing season; irr comparison "with the l;Rt -taw>: ^ e years. The farmers of North figett* j c to have opened their eyes, at'last, to' a s$ftse'Of their true interest in this natter, aiidffom' WftW *? we see and hoar, will have but little need of, i Kentucky and Ohio meat the coming; ie&on;. >f This is as it should be." A matr ivhb cart' r;usa 1 corn to sell at 20 cents per bushel, and/^qivitt' ^ j not endeavor to raise his own meat,' ought lb 1 ;i pay 20 cents for every pound of bacon 'hdTuy^ . tl- - ' i"**:-?J e An American, w riting from Paris,-says l h Politeness and refiuement h'e. cHaracteristic of s the French ; but it is oddj tliis being^ tha. caefa 9 If that the street sweepers of Paris shotly be wo- J )' men. But it is true. In tlM gay, faskunnahle | o capital, women are the scavengers !?The/act ?. J 'f not mucli to the honor of thematiop, andjiittisif 3 ?f is astonished that the* politest people on eiuPth. J e should have SoTittle regard for the weaken sex. i No wonder that the women of the lower elass^ Tl d in Paris become fiends in time g( anarchy. - - J ?f jj> * ? *' -<* I j m The treasonable correspondence found con* ] J cealed in Major Andre's .boots when1 he was * " searched by Paulding, Williams, and Van Wert, *J' has recently been discovered at Albany. The * 11 papers consist of an enumeration of-the number i 5 and disposition of the Anierican forces at West Poitii, and a description of .thaJ^&ations^ 1 with suggestions in regard to the wcaj^ftnd- ^x-' - ' ' ? posed points. Tliere is also a pass'frdo* Arnold, ^ ' under/-whicfr'Aodre, as "Mr. John .Smith,'^was "1 returning to the British Camp; ? ^ < & . J | f ^ ' They have been having a great excileiwertt j in Californhi concerning a monster treei'Thu* j s latest story in relation to jts size !s'?gravel^r \ told by the Sacramento Fimr., Itsays*. that j f a party of ladies and gentlerttart recently visr-" i s ted it, and the bark being aff andiagaJn fitted \ e together, was put on a plhtforiitf,?and the com- .. ? 'pany, with the necessary mosic, and a number 3 of spectators* entered the qjvity and .enjoyed | j themselves hi dancing three quadrillion. T" ' j t ; The private letters received at Nevr York by ' , f the steamprs.frpm'jhe leading bankers fa L5.11- \ 5 don and Paris, express the conviction tfmt the , danger of war front the complications dft.Jbe - eastern qaestion^hfts.p&sse&awny. Especially i f at Pai is is this viewiof the question he1dk -Some ! - of the letters speak morefavorabTy oTthe Mori.*' j 1 ey market?the demand being- stiU active but 1 the supply nboada?t;- and one of the leading .* 1 bankers of London expresses the. opinion that * i 2 the banjv will not raise the rate of interest at Jj s present,, and probably not. at all. Money in 2 Scotland is stated to'be very abundant. In re gard to Anierican Securities Rehear of only a' s reiuiLousiness' aomg. The large negotiations \ f of new enterprises arc all- suspended for the: present, and the parties are coming home by b the next steamer. One of the letters romarks 1 that the time is rapidly approaching when seci, ond class Bonds cannot he negotiated either in 1 t London or New-York. * t ? s The Pickens JCeotcte Courier of the 3d in.1 stant says: >, We have to chronicle the following sad occurrence, which took place in this District on e Monday evening last. It appears that two f brothers, Win. 1\ Atkins and Jas. M. Atkins, 1 of Spartanburg, were "on a visit to their rclae lives, near Pirkensville, and had for the past t fortnight been engaged in a drunken spree. * While in a highly intoxicated state, thev, with . _ III*?' i T\ V ' tlieir cousin nnjan uavis, were return matron) c a neighbor's house, when James struck VVil1 liain, whereupon lie turned and pushed him -1 over. Davis discovered that James was sc1 riously injured by the fall and gave the alarm. I He lingered for two hours and died. A jury f of inquest was forthwith einpannolled, and 1 from the testimony and medical examination, 'i returned a verdict that James M. Atkinson came to his death from the fall, which caused a rupture of the right ventricle of his heart and consequent hemorrhage, p Win. F. Atkins, gave himself up to an ofJ finer and is now in jail. He expresses great s sorrow at the occurrence. Davis has also been !- committed and lodged with him. , A young stock broker having married a fat .. old widow with $100,000, said it wasn't the face that attracted him so much as the Jxr/ure' - . J