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A H ' 1 ^ S ?" i VOLUME 14 " CAMDEN^ SOUTIUGAJlOLmV TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 15, 1853. NUMBER 46,. :. J'1"I!L1SIIED AVJ'KKLY J}\> THOMAS J. WARREN. T E R ?I S. TSn D'tlhrs if paid in advance; Two Dollars and Fifty Coats if payment be delayed three months, and Throa Dollars if not paid till the expiration oftlievear. AJJVKIiTIdHMBNTS will ho inserted at the following rates: For one Square, (fourteen lines or less,) seventv-fivo cents for the first, and thirty-seven and a half cents for each subsequent insertion. Single in scrtions. one dollar per square; semi-monthly, monthly and quarterly advertisements charged the same as for a single inscrtiou. ;y?F"fho number of insertions desired must be noted on tiio margin of all advertisements, or they will be published until ordered discontinued and charged accordingly. Ml Ml IIFTWIJW -W.! III! MOM MM JHisrellmifons. A Word to Fathers. HAVE YOU A DACCIITHR. Then how groat your responsibility ! Can you look on that fragile form?sec the outbeamings of that artless spirit, and not shudder to think of the dangers that surround her ? A child of frail and fallen tit best, long before her young heart had been sobered by experience, or learned one cold lesson of this world's selfishness and falseness, she is called upon to take steps that must tell on the brightness or blackness of her destiny. As she first steps forth upon life's stage, how her bounding spirit sends out its aspirations in the holy confidence of hope and love. With her bosom unsteeled to the fascinating influences of flattery and folly, as she looks out on life, robed in all its rainbow colorings, how bright, how bcautiful.itappears to her. She thinks not of deception?she suspects 110 hollowness, but believes the reality will prove, as the surface appears. Poor child ! how little does she know of the dark, withering shades of human depravity. whose blighting influence she may soon feel ! IIow little does she think of the dcceiv 1. i.:~ 1.1...m ,,r ? IT **1111 111 rs uuimj ciiiiiv ?mv? uuivit ?.v ??, v, ... censorious world, with its scornful smile mid unforgiving spirit. Yet through all these snares, these hidden fires, that lie along "her untrodden path, she must pass uiischathed ? unsoiled. One false step and she is ruined? her name is blackened?her happiness gone. Gold cannot gild it, beauty cannot adorn it. tears of bitterest anguish cannot wash away the stain. Let the tributes of wealth he laid at her feet, let pleasure breathe its soft melody around her, let every other joy, like gems of morning, sparkle around her path, and yet a cloud is on her brow, a blight is on her character?she feels that her gloty is departed, that hers is a miserable lot. Are her imprudent acts of childhood ever forgotten? Are those follies, over which a man would smile and lee! a kind of pride, ever overlooked or fin gotten when committed by a girl ? lie may reform with honor but the"verj'tftttne of reform in a w oman is disgrace. The summit of moral excellence and influence, tire world's admiration , and esteem may he gained by him. over whose youth, marked with dissipation and pr? fliga y, the veil of fiorgetfulness has been thrown, lint ? i |>OU! Wlllllcill, 1/llCII IH^UVIVU * ?%? KiibMiuxi ted as s!ie is, must present t<? an exacting world, a whole life from childhood up, untinged, unsullied by a single stain. Nor is this the mere arbitrary deei-iou of so eiety, it is written on woman's own leant. To be loved, to be esteemed, to stand unclouded and utireproached, above slander and suspiiion ?this is her natural and holy ambition. Interwoven with her nature, it concentrates the very elements of her being, and i> at once the goal of her life and the safeguard of her character. This, then, on which woman's happiness depends? which can fling gladness around her life, or wring anguish from her hoart, must be decided by herself long before maturity, has given her strength or experience. Who, then, is responsible for the manner in* which her character is formed, her mind moulded, her destiny shaped ? Oh, how many a tale of woe, how many a tale of lingering agony, of crushed hopes, of cold, ra) less despair, might have been pi evented, had a father's time and attention, so often expended on t:itles, been <!i reeled to that frail ami delicate llower, whhli, exposed to the rude blast and scorching sun, must bloom unsullied or else be despised. r nr.... ?+ *. AMoxiiEii'sSouLoatv.?"lis mine!?hound to me by a tie that death casiuot sever. That little Heart shall ncvir thrill with pleasure or throb with pain.withouta quick response from mine. I am the centre of its little world; its very life depends on my faithful care. It is my sweet duty to deck those dimpled limbs, to poise that tiny, trembling foot; yet stay.? My duty ends not here. A soul looks forth from those ^>lue eyes ! An undying spirit, thai shall plume its wing for a ceaseless llight, guided by my erring hand. The hot blood of anger may not poison the fount whence it draws its life, or the ha-ty words escape my lips, in that pare presence. Wayward passionate, impulsive?how shall I approach it, hut with a hush upon my spirit and a silent prayer! Oh, ceaseless sentinel, slumber not at thy post of its trusting innocence ! Oh, reckless "sower of the seed," let not "the tares spring up!" Oh, unskilful helmsman! how shalt thou pilot that little barque o'er life's tempestuous sea sate to the eternal shore 'Tis ours A father liei'ds proudly over that little eradie! \ father's love! how strong! how true! But, oh, not so tender as hers, whose heart that babe hath lain beneath! Fit me for the holy trust, oh, good shepherd, or fold it early to thy bosom !?Funny Fern. Boston they say, is the richest city in the world in proportion to its population. II its taxable property were equally divided, every Bostonian would have fourteen hundred and forty dollars. lie that is little in his own eyes will not he troubled to be thought so in others. From the X. Musical World it' Times. A Skclrti tcoin Lif<>; or tEte Age ?i j Progrcvss. Look into yonder window ; what do yon see? nothing new, surely; nothing l<ut what the an- , gels have looked down smilingly ujion since the ; morning stars tiist sang together. Xothing hut j I a loving mother hushing ujion her faithful hreast j awaiting bahe; whose little lite hangs by a j slender thread; mortal lij>s have said, " The j boy must die.'' A mother's hope never dies. She clasps him ! close? to her breast, and gazes upwards; food and rest and sleep are forgotten, so that that little llickering taper die not out. Gently upon her soft warm breast she woos |*<>r its baby slumbers; long weary nights, up and down the J cottage lloor, she paces, soothing i's restless moaning. Suns rise and set; stars pale; sea- ' sons come and go; she heeds them u<?l so that tiiose languid eyes may beam with brightness, j Down the meadow l?y the brook, on the hill i side she seeks with him the health restoring ' breeze. j (Jod be praised, health comes at las!! What 1 joy to see the rosy Hush mantle on the pallid ! I cheek; what joy to see the shrunken limbs!; giow round with health ; what joy to see the ; i damp thin locks grow cusp and glossy ? What j I matter though the knitting lie neglected? or' I (he spinning wheel lie dumb, so that the soar- : i ing kite or bouncing ball but please his bovi-h I fancy and prompt the gleeful shout? What i matter though the coarser fare be hers, so that | the daintier ulorsel pass his rosy lip? What i matter that her robe be threadbare, so that his graceful limits be clad in Joseph's rainbow coat? What metier that her couch he hard, so that : his sunny head rests nightly on a downy piilow ? 1 What matter that her slender purse be empty, < so that his childish heart may never know de- < nial? * t Years roll on. That loving mother's eyes < grow dim : her glossy locks ate silvered ; her I footsteps slow and tottering. And the hoy ? the cherished Joseph ? lie of the la-Id blight eye i and sinewy limb, and bounding step ; surely, I from bis kind hand shall flowers be strewn on I the dim downward path to the dark valiey ? I surely her sou's strong arm Ire her's to lean on; I his voice of music sweeter to her dull ear than seraph's singing. No. no. The hum of raise life has struck upon Iiis ear, drowning I lie* voice of love, lie lias become a man!?refined, fastidious!? and to liis forgetful, mililial heart,(God forgive him) the mother who Lore him is only, "the old) woman." Fanny JFbun. Paragraph for PisiJivc People. II..w quietly, vet how strongly expressed, is the valuable idea of the paragraph annexed. It is the opening passage of an article in the last We>tii;iiis'er Review. "From time to time tliere returns upon flic ine.au!ious thinker the conclusion that, considered merely as a question of probabilities, it idee'dedly unlikely that his views on any deltateahle topic are correct. 'Here,' he r. fleet", are thousands around tne holding, on this or th it point, opinions different from mine?who!Iv in most cases; partially in the rest. ?Kaeh is as confident as I am of the truth of his convictions. Matty of them are possessed of great inteliigcnee; and, rank myself as high n> 1 m ay, I must admit that some are my equals?perhaps my superiors. Yet, whilst every one of us !s .-urc he is right, unquestionably most of us are wrong. Why should 1 not he amongst the mistaken ? True, I cannot realize the likelihood that 1 am so, but tlii- proves nothing; Ihr though the majority of us are necessarily in error, we all labor under the inability to j think we aie in error. 1< it not, then, fool ? | i isli thus to trust myself? When I turn and ! look back on the past, I find nations, srets. j philosophers, cherishing belief in science, inor- j . 1 iinl i*??lt?rlnn uliu?!i \vi? ilti/'isi Yt 1 v I .W.->, , v.. ... ... .J 1 reject. Yet 11 icv held them with ;i laith (|'iite . : :i< strong a< ours: mi v?stronger, if their in i * i tolerance <>f dissent is any criterion. Of what iittle woi tli, therefore, seems this strength of ' my conviction that I am right ! A like warrant I! has been felt hy men all the woild through; 1 | ami in nine eases out often, has proved a do! Iiisive warrant. Is it not, then, absurd in tne ? to put so much I'aitli in my judgments { ' ? ?f2>?s ? I Q>. iol?l better t!t:m Farm Fruditec. , j 'j'ln' Ohio Fanner in commenting upon the i I letter of a California correspondent, makes some ' j verv sensible remarks about the mania which 1 j has jios^cs??"d the people of this country to for- < sake the golden fields of their own State to dig ' in the "gohMieKU'' of California, where they I often gather nmre disappointment than produce: i It has ever been our opinion (snvs the l''ur/ncr) i j that the ultimate prosperity of California, or any other State, inu-t be iiithicuccd more hv its I adaptation to all agricultural pursuits than by i j any or all the gold mines that have been or may ] ' be found therein. There can I e no sort of doubt ( i but that the greatest source of wealth which 1 i California possesses is found in the rich valleys, i table lands and the mountain slopes >o graphi Jt cally described by Fremont, and now so ably i ' noticed bv Mr. Kell ev. \V hen these resources i I are developed, as lhey will he very s<>oii, the gold ; 1 diggings and the quartz rocks will sink with com- ! < parativy insignificance. Look at it. It is said | ' that the yield ol gold lruin the California mines j 1 for the current year will reach the enormous sum , I | of fifty five or sixty millions of dollars! An n ! enormous sum, truly ; and yet we venture to say j i i that the value of the hat/ crn/j alone of the State i I of New \ ork will fully .equal it ! Six counties I i i of that state produced, in 18.">0, 800,000 tons of j I j hay, which at 87 per ton, would he 8.7,000,000. I i | Thus they do,your after year, with a gradual in- j crease; and ve,t how few are seen rushing to j , the meadows of Oncido, .h-llerson, Chenango, j I Delaware, ( hantatu|iie or St. Lawrence. The i | wheat and eorn fields of Ohio produce annually { i more dollars than tin' gold mines of California. I Vet there is no noise made about it; and instead , J of thousands rtnhiiig to them in the hope of j' growing suddenly rich, thousands have ken I] < - ; ing from them in search of gold ? gold -gold, j i We hazard nothing in saving that had the cmi-11 grants to California, since she discovery of gold ; I j there, gone instead to the rich lauds ot our \\ i s- i j tern Slates, they could have protiuc'.i ?i??tn?n* j tlio'amoinit Of all I In- e>?|,l ?]n<e from I lie mines ; | of that Ml Dorad o The capital necossaiv to < i place n man in working condition in the Ca ibrnia mines would have settled him cotnfortnb an an eight v acre lot in Iowa, in a good calii with a team, farming utensils, jirovisious, Ar and insured him instead of a chance for a litt gold, the ccitaintv of an independent positi* for life, without the sacrilie" of home, frieia health, morals, and indeed all that men shou esteem valuable in life. Thank heaven the go mania is in its decline, and the lime is near win it will be seen and known that every ounce gold dust dug from the mines of California h cost twice its market value. triidjcd Jewels, Oh, me! two jewels crushed in the caske two Imds withered in the home wreath; t\\ llowers faded in the household vase ! I<o, t! babies slnmber! Whiter than unhewn marbl colder than deified snow. I]rush away tl wavy hair, there are no sin lines on those win hrows, no care shades in the depth of thoi dark and dreamy eyes; no line, no mark, m shade, on those meek, Madonna faces, uptun ed pale and passunde-ts. Not long their lit! feet pattered along life s highway, ore the grew weary and sunk hy the wayside. Tin the golden gates opened, misty forms bentovi them, white hands bore the tinv travellers iul the pure hind. 1 he crown rested early, ver early, on their heads; angels guided, God le them, the short journey they had taken. Lool His signet rest till on them?His seal on tk [- iire hrow?Ilis stall' in the baby hands! A tround thee, evermore, will he the rustling < diver wings in the. moonlight?the gleaming < white forms, the print of small, shadowy feet i by life path; the tap of tiny lingers on th window panes, when tiie rain comes?tales < jach tlower leaf, moaning melodies in the rns >f the southern winds. Deeper, darker, grow the rolling oeenn ; mightier, stronger the sig jf the northern Mast. Deeper, darker, th mart's waters?mightier,stronger, thy despai 1'lie gu-h of childish glee is hushed ; nevt note will those young eyes peer int'> thine ! I); >v faces glance before tliee, little forms glid :>y thee, warm, dimpled hands clasp coididen y thine own. Ve only have the memory, tint ibid, lady memory, that? There has boon childish laughter 1'outsteps quick and light, Baby voices chiming. Young eves flashing bright. Tones of deep, rich music, 'J hiilling the heart all through, Kyes, which stole liom violets The darkness of their line. Checks which borrowed shading l-'roni the rose's loaf; prows, untouched by pencils Of tlie painter's grief. Tiny firms, at twilight, bowing ljesidc their mother's chair, Dimpled hands, upraised to Heaven lu attitude of prayer " jiiu .iosus sent nisjcweuor uown To crush them one ami all: lie said that lie had need of thetn To deck His coronal. So give h:ie'? his keeping The jewels He had given. Knowing full well you'll tiud them All at rest in Heaven. FaXXY l-'EliX. Hints to I.itti.k 1'oi.ks.? When your pi rents tell you to <Jo anything, do nut wliimpt and say you "don't wau't to," or "you will i a minute," hut do it immediately and dice fully ; lor when your dear parents are laid i the-grave the recollections of your disobed etiee a ill reproach you. When your parents dress you nicely on Sal hath and hid you go to Sahbath school, do in rim away and play, for one day a inothei voice will chide you from the cold gloom oftli tomb. Don't fret and murmur when you are sent I school, but look around you at the many lilt hoys and girls who are forced to beg or wot (br a living and believe that y on possess pcei liar advantages, and that they iniisl be iinpro' .*d. When your parents reprove y ou, do not n l?ly with imprudence or in anger, but know tin t i* for your good, and thai some day the gel tie hand that now seeks to guide y our lilll Heps aright, will be still' 'neath the valley <od. If you arc fold to keep out of the streets r to relinquish the company of an associate, d lot think it. hard, tint believe that you posse? 10 more stability than thousands u!io liav been led away, and that in an evil hour yo nay forsake the path of rectitude, and be hurl ?d away in the stream ofdestruction. Araid had habits. Do not think it mnnl :o drink, smoke orehew,?that is a mistake dea; they only indicate bad family govcri nent, or a fickle, unstable disposition. lie hind to our another. There is nothin dial reproaches one so bitterly a* an unkind wor n a moment, of pas-ion. When y our little sisk ics cold in death, the little causes of displcas are w hichyou liavegiveu her, will cluster aroun y?>nr heart and wring many a hitter tear. I your jouincy through life, there will be nothin 9o grateful to your thoughts, as the plcasin Miiviclioii oj your obedience to parents whil lhey lived Oh ! obey them, little friends, whil ihev are with you, think that you can neve Jo enough for them. We have been an 01 [than Ibr nearly twelve years and we have o Len thought thai if our parents could once mor be restored to us they would never again h pained with our faults. Oh, Irille not with mother's heart; there is a stream of afl'ectio within a mother's brea-t, that however ill yo use her, however often you inav cause licr l?i ter tears to How, will ever continue to nouris mid protect the wayward fancy, and recall ever wish to step aside from a mother's inllueuee. The " Xnf York Mirror" in a talk ahoi the circulation of some of its eotomporarie: philosophises this wise : "There is something hotter in this worl Ih;i>) money?something nohler in the newsp: per element than the fart of having the lariie circulatiod in the world.' * We appn ijiato the value of money, knowing lull we the want and worth of it ; hut there is a seen t i,.,;..., .1 ... IIIMI (III ? l"UII I". <* I i Ml? t 1 V 11 ill till' I I # I I *' I' " Hess nf never having prostittongue or j?c lo obtain it ; that is worth more than ail ill luxury that ?o|?l can I mi v." ii"j Mrx OK tiik Hi'.voi.uriox.?Gen. Green, ly | in iiis des; atebcs, after the brittle of Eutuw, in,! says: ~ c., j ''Hundreds of my men were linked as they lo were born." .Judge Johnson, in his life of >n j Green, says: "Posterity will scarcely believe pC l<, | that the Joins of many iiion who carried death 1.1 j into tne enemy's ranks at Hntaw were galled j , Id j by their cai touch boxes, wliiie a fold, or rag, n | or tuft of moss protected tbe shoulder from of j the same injury from tlie niiisket." as I Geiuuat Green says, in his letters J tin; Secretary of War : "We have three hun- ^ I died men without arms, and more than one J?1 ; thousand so naked that they can he put on Hu t ; tv only on' the most desperate ca.-es. Our dif- ( ^ licullics are so enormous, and our wants so ie pressing, that I have not a moment's relief j( | i-, Iroin the most painful anxieties. 1 have more ^ ie ' * mbarrassments than it is proper to disclose to j to the world." >r ' Tejiteranc k in the Methodist CncnoH.? a-1 The aumial State Conference, now in session (|V Ie ( in Lynchburg, had under consideration on the q,, 'J olst lilt., the following resolution from the Mis- lr. m souri Annual Conference: p11( L?r | Jit.wire J, That this Conference recommend t|.t to to the ensuing (General Conferenoe, and most jjc v respectfully request it, so to change our rule. t||( d on t,emperanco, as to prohibit the use, mauulac- ua k; turc and sale of ardent spirits, as a beverage, nn ie by members.of our church. Jni II The Missouri Conference asked the endorsa- j(|1 ?f, tioii and co-operation of the Virginia Confer- jNV :>f once ; hut, after full discussion, it was not con- J{g n ciirred in, by a vole of sixty-live dissentients aM ie.' to thirty.two allirmants. . fi t ?? i?, 11 : Iiitsn Generosity'.?For the more purposes re I s of emigration, there has ci'ine to'the knowledge kn 'l of the English Comniissioiieis of Emigration .V that, from this country there was sent, in 18- in r- ?18, ? 100.000 ; in 1849, ?540,000 ; in 1830, sh, ?957,000; in 1851, ?997,000??2,047,000; IV ^ nearly equal to 815.000,000. pii ["J A Par ycr.yi'II from Goethe.?Goethe has f"> ^ written few passages more beautiful than the "I j following: "u " The year is going away like the sound of le? bells. The winds nass o*er the stubble, and I ad ; find nothing to move, only tlie red berries nl' th" ; that .slender tree, which seem as if they Would h)i i fain remind us of something cheerful ; and the h'1 j measured heat of the thresher's flail calls up 'hi the thought that in the dry and failing yea rlies ul> (so much iiourishincnt and life." ' co -4? New Fountain.?Aunt Mary, whilst going j along the street the other day, saw over a tail- : : or's door, a sign bearing the inscription " Foun- f ia tain of Fashion." " Ah !" exclaimed she, that j c? ; must he the place where sqyirls come from, at 111 the time casting a malignant squint at a couple of young men with incipient whiskers and stand- '"j i ing collars. A woman of great perception is w! our Aunt Marv. i _L- . c,) * ill' ! Tin: Voice.?A certain writer, speaking of ^ : the inllueiice of temper on the voice, makes : the following remarks : '* The influence of torn j ^ j a* per upon tone deserves much consideration. co 'r Habits of queruloiisness, or ill-nature, will 111 communicate a cat-like quality to the singing, ^ r* as infallibly as ihcy give a quality to the speaki" ing voice. That there is no deception ; it is to }" ' * j many, the index of the mind, denoting moral j. ; qualities; and may he remaiked, that the low, j ,m soft tones, of gentle and amiable beings, what- i I Co ever their musical endowments may be, seldom | ^ s fail to please ; hesi'les which, the singing of la- j 10 diqs indic ates the cultivation ol their taste gen 1 erally, ami the embellishment ol the mind." 'e Tuuvuns.? A pure pas-don for flowers is llic ('e 'v only one which long sickness leaves uiitcnclietl | '* with its chilling inliuence. How often during ,l'1 a weary illness have we looked upon new books with perfect apathy, when, if a friend has sent s" a lew flowers, your heart has leaped tip to their vo dreamy hues and odors with a sense of "ono1 vated childhood, which seemed like 0110 of tho ' y ,t? ; nivsleries of our being. P:| s j * tin J AnvKitnstxCr. ? Blackwood's Magazine says ?" There is but one way of obtaining busi- ^ ness-- publicity?one way of obtaining pub- j * licity?advertisements. The newspaper is the 1 u J fly-wheel by which the motive power of busi- j j 1 ness enterprise is sustained, and money the j \ steam by which the advertising is kept going, 11 V ?- - pr J, " Mr. .Tones, don t yon think marriage is a t means of grace?" " Certainly, my dear madam, anything is a moans of grace which breaks 1 0p ? ' up pride and leads To repentance." [Kxit Mr. I ( [j .Tonus, under the influence of a mop-handle.] j tji( s- What m: Dikdop.? We overheard the fol- i d 1? winjjr diul.-.giie bet ween an a Mori nan ami an n? 11 Irish shoplifter: tin ?r : I ? ; ' What's gone of your, husband woman?"' ^ ; ' What's gone of him, yer lionor.' l\..ih, and : '"= t, , lie's gone dead.' ? ; ' Alt! Pray, what did he die of?' .. j 'Die of, yer honor? lie. died of a l'riday.' , f. j 'I don't, mean what day of the week, but . q j what complaint ?' j , ' lft | 'Oh what com plaint, yer honor? faith and: jj ;l its himself that did not get time to complain.' I, j 'Oh, oh, ah?he died suddenly? ,, I ' Rather thai way,yer honor. | ' Did lie fall in a lit ?' tdi |, | No answer. .. ' He fell in a tit perhaps?' dil 1 A lit, yer honor ? why, !io, not exactly that. I';| I lie fell out a window, or through a cellar door j i ?I don't, know what they call it.' ',(i | ' Ah, ait, and broke bis neck ?' j I' si ! , No, not (piite that, yer liotior.' j ',n j ' What then ? i n" - ^ L r,,, ' r.||.Sli.f III* Olll'll l\V I It'll I (] i "i 11cru was ?i imi lit wi v?'n?j x>t buui t. like, and it throttled poor Mike.' - i A gentleman who was wailing upon a young \\i II lady, was making Inn of a sack which she wore, joi I.; " VouM heller l?e 'piicl, or I'M give you the sm s- sack," re|i!ied the lady, areldy. aw n | " I should he most happy," was I lie reply, a<i io ( " if you would give yourself inside of ii." a I j li is said she. did. lit ?racntl firms. The Prcsiilcjil's MesSage. The Xcw York Courier & Enquirer's coitos" ndent at Washington, says: 'i'lie frame-work of the Me.s.-ngc has been id out and the l>rc>iJent is engaged with IiU jcri taries in reducing it to form. Its develuiients, respecting our foreign relations, wi I s doubtless, deeply interesting. Through its ritcmcnts, we. shall be informed of tbe exact ogress of the negotiations relative to the liei v question and the northwest trade. The st informed hern believe that tbe Secretary State is proceeding quietly Cut. efficiently to adjustment of the differences which have so ig existed between England and the Lnited r.n cnl.ii.At Ynll.imr f lofi 11 i I nr .".I O ry i ii t porta it L can be expected to have taken ice in reference to Cuba, Mr. Soule not hav1 yet presented himself for acceptance at the nirl ol'Spain, and there being no' representae of the Queen near this government. The estion pending with Mexico is the right of insit across the Tehuantcpcc as involved in ; ;5!oo Garry com tracts, and defined ill the saties negotiated by Judge Cobklin and Gov. stclier ; the demand for the right of way for j Pacific Hail road through Soiiora und Chitliuahua, the reclamations of Mexico for Iudi depred itioiis, and the re-adjustment of our dual commercial relations. These are most pot taut subjects of negotiation between the 0 republics, and the President's revelations to the progress jnade in adjusting llietn are raited with universal interest. Diplomacy, however, is the science of'keep; state secrets, and the state of our foreign lations must necessarily be but imperfectly own, until the first ninndav in December. In domestic affairs the policy recommended the Message will be, it is whispered among a personal and confidential friends of the esident, in rigorous conformity with the inciplcs of the democratic party, as nnnouncby its founders and earliest expositors. In unco, the President will advise the adoption a revenue system widen shall keep the anal receipts nearly on a level with the estinia1 expenditure. One of his subordinates in ministration lias not inaptly characterised e present system as "a revenue tariff r protect nil."' It is to be amended by striig out the words "for protection." As to a surplus on hand, the system of purchasing i government stocks will be pursued until it is Osumed. In reference to expenditure, the most rigid onomy will be insisted upon. It is expected at the policy of improving rivers and internal rbors will be discouraged. 'The plan of niieeting the contract system of carrying ails with the increase und support of the Xa , will he referred to in unfavorable terms, d its abandonment, as soon, as cou-istent mi c.\i?uny t'tuiuiim iiuu it'ouiuu^ ileitis ill be recommended. The proportion to niiect the Atlantic and Pacific coasts by a cat national railroad, will be discussed, but e President will state bis conviction that and policy require it to be left to tbe indiilnnl energies and the private capital uf the mi try. The Secretary of the Navy is maturely colliding the condition of the Navy, and will esent a plan for re-organizing the peisonal d reforming the material. Many naval ofers, however, expect more from experience d collective talent of judiciously appointed mmittees on na al matters in Congress, than )in the Department.Wasiiinoton Itkms.? Mr. Crampton is id to have had a long interview with Presilit Pierce, in the course of which the former ntli'in-iii positively denied that there was any ith in the ridiculous rumors that the British ivernment was engaged in any scheme to bsiitute the apprenticeship system for slary in Cuba. Chevalier IlulseiYiann paid bis respects to cretarv Marey yesterday, but what transred between them is not exa* tly known, alnigli from the fact that a courier arrived j ?m \ iciiua on Hit* night previous, ana pro-1 L-dotl p-'st haste to llit* residence of the Rusill Ambassador, it is surmbed tli.it the G'hever's visit was in sumo way connected with .* liusso Turkish .difficulty. Ru<sia, it is well owu^U-dosfi bus of securing the neutrality of a United States in the expected struggle, in lieh case the Czar, hacked by Austiia and ussia, would feel authorized to hid defiance nil tlic other powers of Europe combined, is broadly intimated that it was the purpose gaining this very object of neutrality that iduced the ijuiet and speedy arrangement of i Ko.-zta affair.?jV. Y. Herald. The Methodist of the United States have ifio iulinir:ibse provision for ltic education of ir pastors. They have already eight first iss colleges, with property and funds amount-, i in the congregate to -S l!)4,0(>3, and anotli is projected in Missouri. hey U:tvc also [ ty-six theological academies ami seminaries, I twenty-ni no of wliirli there are 4,t):3t> s*tunts ail average of 17$ students to each sein- I ny. The oldest nftheircollegesi< at Wilbrain ami was founded in the year 1SU0 l?y the v. Wilbur risk. A I'.vui: Siiiirr. ? The Augusta Constitution st says:?We saw yesterday at Messrs. ] )'it ignae, I ]vans ami Co's office, samples of the iereiits Jiareels of Cotton offered at the late ir for premiums. There were samples of 0 hales, ami were it offered as a lot, would one of' die best ever offered in this country. - , 1,1 i\l( 11)000 1110 eyes ul j?iiiiii* hi mil I'm vuiiv.n | vers watery to lo<rk at it. The like we Jo I expect to see ourselves agai.i. Jriur.s ok Womi-:\.?The groat niimliu* of gravateil assaults committed l?y tneii <>u their vcs, in Mtiglaml, has led one of the London minis to recommend a new punishment for eh offences, as well as a novel method o| aiding it. '1 lie proposition is to try all sinli emits hy a jury of women, partly to olilain hirer verdict, partly cover the edoiiual with (iciile.. Startling Feat*.&<- ?.A Paris correspondence of the New YorkTimes givtjo.lbe Ibllowiug account of the-Jitest amusement devised fur the wutidcr-iavbig Parisians : . . . . ' v "The feat of jumping from a Balloon, thejumper sustained by an Jndia-rubbpr rope, was .. duly performed on Thursday, --it was the hiogt stupendous exhibition of daring and address, that the Parisian* have been permitted to wit-. ^j ness. From one side of the car of the balloon hung the.India-rubber cord descending 150 feet, and then returning and being fastem d on the itl liiif w'lil.i iii flu* * *! It time (< >rini>r1 n ctr/.mr loop. * 1 he ulhvlete was dressed as Mercury; his" * l)ody, from the neck to I lie small ot'liis l>nek, was endued in a I'ramewoik which enabled. *2 him to endure tlio suspension without wrench ing or dislocation. The rope passed through ^ an eyelet in the middle of the hack, placed sn that lie was held in perfect equilibrium. When; > the balloon had reaelied an altitude double that '2 of the supposed elasticity of the cord, the vol* ligeur appeared ou the edge of the car, looked 3 over, and dove into space. The eyelet slipped along the rope so that the first ISO feet were a positive fall tluough the air without any resistance or break. The rest of theway'wps an ; elongation] of the rope. It stieclud fourtiines its length, making, in all, ^descent of GOO feet, accomplished in two seconds. .Alter $ attained its lowest point,, the rope contrac^eu.> once, peiliaps two hundred feet, and then. de-??. seeuded again. There was no further relimind and no oscillation; the voltigear lay calnily, cradled in midair, and probably-apent the leis-V i lire he was now permitted to enjoy, in recover*; ^ ing his breath and conteinplating the prospect-. - ' The ajrtrnaut above now commenced on Jthe wind I us, and gradually wound his dangling-^,' I'liend up again. In four minutes lie climbed-, over tlit side of the car, having made the fastest time that any human being has ever achiev--r ed, except such as have been shot from cannon, < as Baron Munchausen said lie was, [ think,< COO feet in two seconds is at therate of ihre?. miles and a half a niinule. We are.waning- . now to see what will be-done next. ?^ A P.izzle for Lawyers*?Whose Baby ?~ " The glorious uncertainty of the law,'", has been- % ~a standing toast for centuries.?Still it is lauded v, by its professors as " the perfection of reason*" The paradox presented by these two dogmasfis only apparent, for both are true. Nothing can Jjj be more harmouious and certain than legal prin- ciples, yet nothing is more uncertain than;these - ; principles in their application to facts. . ,'i These principles arc so arranged, like the Lea- * i vculy bodies, that they cannot come in conflict Vet the great V chapter of accidents" to which . mankind is subject, will present occasional anomr> > alies and exceptions to all rules. A recent case-v ' has. occurred in a neighboring District, which- is altogether the most extraordinary1- -we lAve ever heard. It is perhaps the only case ever known, .. to which two conflicting rules of law apply.?* > The legal principles arising upon the case, in : . volve a flat absurdity. These are the facts, - J A man died, leaving a widow. As is very " & common in such cases, the widow was not '' like Rachel who would not be comforted," but was shortly wooed and won by an impatient lover., r; In a few months the widow doffed Jier 44 widow's ^ weeds," and enrobed in. satin slippers and whiter muslin, appeared before the altar of Hymen- totake the oath of allegiance to a new lord. Thus.: o far it is a common-place history. But scarcely, had the honey-moon passed, butdre.the-even tenor of their way was disturbed by a squall. Thaconsequenec was, that the liusband was present- " e?l with a heavenly stranger in au unprecedented short time. The first husband left a considerable estate, which raises the question of the night of tln> child to inherit from. If the widow had not*, married there could be no doubt, for the child \ . conies clearly within 44 the statute of limitations,in such eases made and provided." But hero c iiucs in collision two rules of law. The first is that which makes a child born within ten lunar months after the death of the husband, a legal . heir. The other is a rule equally clear and inflexible?44 Pater est quern nuptiec demonstrant," ! In Kiiglish, that the husband is the father. If I the wife under similar circumstances, had not I bec.i previously married, the child would be, m law, life child of the present husband. If the j present husband should die, the child would l?o his legal heir Bv the first rule, 1t is'now the legal heir of the deceased husband. The case presents a strange complication of facts, which seem a Gordian knot to lawyers. According to the rules or the fictions of law, (ho child is tlie child of two fathers, and a legal heir to both, which of course is an absurdity. Tlio cusp is. wo understand, to be brought before tho Courts, and of course has to bo decided in some mainur. Wo wish the parties concerned a safe deliverance.? Independent Press. Amkkjcax Wool.?Peter A. Browne, of Tibia'dolphin, in a communication to the Uichmoud (Ya.) Whig, asserts that he can show that "as iiiielle.ee can be procured in the United States as in any portion of the world." lie says that he has in his possession wool grown in Allegha iiev county, IVnn., by Win. Hall, which measures iVotn 1-21SG to 12300 part of an inch, while the finest wool in the collection sent to him by the King of Prussia, and the finest among the specimens sent to him by the King of Saxonv, measures 1 -21SG. Mr. Browne denies the correctness of the decision on this subject at the London Crystal Palace Exhibition, and produces facts to show that the jury on wool did injustice to the specimens of American wool exhibited. Nkw Oki.kaxs.?No one certainly would possibly imagine, from lite present aspect of our city, what its condition was a few short weeks ago. Within ten or fif.een days thousands have been added to our population. The absentees have neai Iv all returned, while the large vaeutu created by tlio recent appalling mortality is quickly disappearing, in conse- J (jt.ence of the arrival of a lea ion of strangers ] :1?4oi!g lis.?New Orleans Jitr of Oct. 25. A New Wheelbarrow, it is said, has hoc in. vented. The wheel is placed under the ee?? f: tie, so that none of the weight of the load ^ rest- up<>n the bands. A man can wheel twice i I 'lie usual weight.