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Ijj^H HI VOLUME H CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 22,1853. NUMBER 47. I PUBLISHED WEEKLY ItV THOMAS J. WARREN. T E R ?JL S. .. f.vo Dollars if paid in advance; Two Dollars and .Fifty Cents if payment bo delayed three months, and Three D dlars if not paid till the expiration of the year. ADVKftTISRMEXTS will he inserted at the fol- ; lowing rates: For one Square, (fourreeu lines or less.) seventy-live cents for the tirst. and thirty-seven and a half cents fbr each subsequent insertion. Single insertions. one dollar per square; semi-monthly, monthly and quarterly advertisements charged the same as for a single insertion. ~^~rhe number of insertions desired must be noted ion the mirgiu of all advertisements, or they will be published uutil ordered discontinued and charged accordingly. iliisfdlaneons. First Spree of tlic Bricklayer's Soil. FROM " CONFESSIONS OF A WORKING MAX." Some of the journeyman of the work-yard where I was first employed, kept the feast of Saint Monday most devoutly, and had often tried to make me do the same. 1 refused at first without much trouble. The recollections 1 of the Barrier wine shops were not too invi- | ting ; but they attacked me by bantering me ; ; they declared that 1 was afraid of being whip- j ped by my mother; that I was not yet wean- ! ed, and that brandy would burn my throat. These jokes piqued me. 1 wished to prove that I was no longer a child, by acting btdly as a man. tin a day following that of (layment, j when I still had my fortnight's money they ' dragged me beyond lire Barrier, and 1 stayed there until everything had passed out of my pocket into the till of the wine seller. Sunday and Monday were spent in this long debauch. I came back the evening of tbe second day, without a bat, covered with mud, and stagger ing along the walls of the faubourg. My mother did not know what had become of me, and I vi*..c III.if I,r rlfwl til., had liHikpd for me at first at the .Morgue, and then at the hospital. I found her with Maurice, who was trying to comfort her. At the sight of me her uneasiness vanished, hut not her trouble. To the first delight of finding me again, followed the grief of seeing me in such a state. To lamentations succeeded reproaches. I was so drunk that 1 could hardly hear, and 1 could not understand any thing. The tone of her voice alone showed me she was reproving me. Like most drunkards 1 was vain-glorious when intoxicated; and I considered myself for the time one of the kings of the earth. I replied by enjoining silence to the good woman, and declaring that 1 would henceforth live accord ing to my own fancy, and no longer he tied to herapron-strings. My mother raised her voice; I exclaimed louder; and the quarrel was growing worse, w hen father Maui ice parted the fra v. iie declared that this was not the time to talk, and made me go to bed without a word. 1 slept without moving until the next morning. When I opened tny eyes very early. 1 recollected all that happened, and 1 felt a little shame, mixed with much perplexity. Self-love, however, hindered my repenting. Surely, I wa> master of the money gained by my industry. 1 might spend my time as I liked , nobody had a right to find fault with me; and 1 resolved to cut short all remarks. My mother alone made mc uneasy. I got up softly, wishing to avoid ! her reproaches, and sot off without seeing Iter, j AV I Oi-iii-u/l .it fho it-fii If van I I found the ! others already at work ; but they did not seem ! to notice me. I began to rough-wall careless- | ]y, and in a bad humor. The days of do- j bauch had taken the spirit for work out of me. Besides, I felt an inward shame which I hid beueath a bravado air. 1 listened to what the journeymen were saying, constantly fearing to hear some joke, or some vexatious remark at iny expense. When the master came, I pretended not to see him, for fear he should ask ine the reason of my absence the evening be fore. I had ost the good conscience which formerly could make me look the world in the face. 1 now felt that 1 had something in my life to hide. Those who had carried me off i to the Barrier were not yet returned ; the master noticed this. " It is a sort of weakness they have," said the wag of the work yard; * when they chance to work, they swallow so much mortar that they require at least thiee days of Argenteuil wine to lince their throats." All the journeymen began to laugh; but it seemed to ine that there was a sort of contempt in their laughter. I blushed involuntarily, as if the joke had been meant forme. All jiew as 1 was in irregularities, I still felt shame at them. The day passed thus sadly enough. The sort of uneasiness 1 felt all over my body, extended to my mind; I was tired in>ide and outside. Whilst we had been working, father .Maurice had not said a word to me ; hut when it was time to go, he came to me, and said we would walk together. As he lodged at the other end of Paris, 1 asked him if lie had any j business in our quarter. " You will see," lie ' replied, " shortly." 1 was going my usual road, but he made me take other streets, without, telling ine why, until we arrived before a house ! in the faubourg St Martin. There he stopped. , 44 Do you see in this building," said he, " the Jiigh chimney which rises near the gable end, j und which J call Jerome's Chimney? It was | there your father was killed!"' I shuddered | deeply, and looked at the fatal chimney with ; a sort o<" horror mixed with anger. " Ah ! it j is there," repeated I, in a trembling voice: j 44you were there wereyou not, father Maurice';" 441 was." " And how did it happen (" " It was neither the fault ol the building nor of the ! work," replied Maurice. " I'hcscatlblding was well fixed?from the Harrier?his sight was ' confused?he no longer knew where to place I his steps; he took empty space for a plank, and was killed without a plea for excuse." 1 j felt the blood mount into my face, and my heart beat quicker. " Father Jerome was a ! valiant workman," continued Maurice, "if! drunkenness had not ruined him. I>y long sit- ^ timr at table at the wine-seller's he left there w? o his strength, his skill and his mind. Jiut, hah ! one lives but once, as the saying is; one may then he allowed to amuse one's self' before | one's burial. If at some future time one's wi- 1 dow and orphans are cold and hungry, they i inav go to the poor house and blow their fin- I gers. Is not this your opinion, tell me V? 1 k And lie began to sing a drinking song, then j well known: "Serve your time to a drinking trade; When you've learnt that. }*our fortune's made." I was hum hied and confused, and did not j know what to rej Iv. I knew well that Man- ! rice did not speak seriously; hut to approve,, would have shamed me; to contradict him, was to condemn myself. 1 hung my head, without saving a word. In the mean time, he continued to look at the cursed gable end. " Poor Jerome !" continued Maurice, changing I his voice as with emotion; " if lie had not followed had examples when he was young, we should have had him now with us- Madelainc j would have had some one to direct you. Ilut, j 110; now there remains nothing of him?not j even a good memory; for we regret only the ; A....,, Wlian flin nnhtinnv m.in ! i III* irut? uinuinii. ** uvu \v;is crushed I here, oil the stones, do you know what the foreman said? ?"A drunkard the | less!?take him away, and sweep this up!" I | could not restrain a movement of indignation. ' ( " Well! he was a hard fellow," continued Man- j, rice; " he only valued men for what they were j , worth. If death had taken a good workman j , he would have said, " It's a pity !" At hot- i torn, every body thought as he did, and the | j proof is. that Jerome was followed to the grave , by his fnViids only. Even those with whom j he drank turned their backs upon him as soon j as he was in the colHn ; for, you see, scamps j ( are companions, but never friends." I listened ] all the while without a reply. We had begun ' ( agiin to walk; at the first cross-way Maurice j | stopped, and showing me the chimney, which j ] far away rose above the roofs?'' When you i j wi>h to begin again your yesterday's life," said i | he, " first look there, and the wine that you , drink trill to ale of i/ood." He departed, Icav- , ing me quite overwhelmed. Tlie Loss of a wife. In comparison with the loss of r. wife, all . other bereavements are trifling. The wife! she < who fiils so large a space in the domestic hcav- 1 en,? she who is Busied, so unweariedly, for the i precious ones around her,?bitter, hitter is the f tear that falls upon her cold clay! Yoii stand I beside her coffin and think of the past. Itseems I nn ninln>r colored nathwav. where the snn i shone upon beautiful flowers, or the stars hung j > flittering overhead. Fain would the soul lin- > I gcr tlieie. No tliorns are reinembered above ! i that sweet clay, save those your hand may un willingly have planted. Her noble, tender heart < lies open to your inmost sight. You think of i her now as all gentleness, all beauty, all purity, i But she is dead! The dear head that laid upon 1 your bosom rests in the still darkness, upon a I pillow of elav. The hands that have adminis- | tered so untiringly, are folded, white and cold, I beneath the gloomy portals. The heart whose < every beat measured an eternity of love, lies s under your feet. The flowers she bent over I wHi smiles, bend now above her with tears, s shaking the dew from their petals, that the s verdure around her may be kept grtuoi aiwi : I beautiful. j l There is no white arm over your shoulder; I uo speaking face to look up into the eye of ! Love; no trembling lips to murmur, '*0 it is 1 so sad." ( There is so strange a hush In every room! < 110 light footstep passing around. No smile to greet \ on at nightfall. And the old clock ticks i and strikes, and strikes and ticks?it was such | music when she could hear it! Now it seems I to knell only the hours through which you i watched the shadows of death gatheri g upon I her sweet face. : And every dav the clock repeats that old < story. Many another tale ittelletli too?of joys past, of sorrows shared, of beautiful words and i llmt orn i-oir!ufi>ri>il Ymi fiw?' O ' ' how often, that the grave cannot keep her. Tobacco Users, Read, Learn and Inwardly Digest the following Facts. A friend with whom we have been well ac- j quainted from his boyhood, who was tolerably j | athletic and healthy in youth, but in middle life became feeble, and before he was fifty years , old, was attacked by distressing and alarming ] fits?was very dyspeptic, and suffered more j than tongue or pen can tell, from that nervous state of the system very appropriately denominated the "horrors," constantly sinking lower and lower, until it might be truly said lie was a torment to himself and all around him. From a very amiable, affectionate, kind-hearted man, i he had became excessively irritable, cross 1 groined and troublesome, and a very serious j trouble to bis family. Of course the physi- j 1 cian's aid was constantly invoked, but it was j all of no avail, lie gradually became inure ner- j vous, and less capable of self control. He was very poor, a mere shadow of his former self ami the personification of despondency 1 and mental suffering. At length although a | thorough cold water man, he had fearful visita- j ?* ti. I * I ' I .4 . " .I.J. 4* I nuns <>i --.siiiiiu's in ins uuuis, ;ui auacit ui t rlcliriutii tremens. lie was at this time aliout; fifty five years old. And here we will leave! hi in as ho was, ami tell our readers what he is. i We had not seen him for six or eight years, until tic called upon us last week, hut sochunged that literally we could hardly believe it was ! the same individual?instead of the mere sallow, lantern-jawed shadow, we saw before us i a healthy, robust and very cheerful, happy i inan. Instead of the skeleton of IK) or 115 pounds, we saw the smooth-faced, elderly gentleman, weighing from 140 to 100 pounds.? Instead of being barely able to drag himself about, he was able to perform the hardest labor. And now our readers will ask, what litis produced this wonderful and entire transformation? The answer is, he abjured tobacco after having used it for forty years. 11 is physicians assured him that medicine was of no avail ?that snakes would never leave liini while they could find a pipe or tobacco-box in which tlioy couldalttvrtatc* It...J 'I'lilo r> v / I 1 u/1 11 1I r/1 ni f I I " ?l J* 1111 I MUM 1 I Ilin V Atliui III.'" ??! Iiini| j hut ho resolved to make tlie attempt. He did ' so?lie resolved and there was stiil enough of i manhood that had not hecti smoked or spit out left, to enahle him to keep his resolution?to! save him from anticipating the torments of another world, and snatch him from a premature "rave. Let the hundreds of thousands who rrc pur- j suing the suicidal course of our friend, reflect, j and while there is jet hope, like him castaway j i the filthy, loathsome and poisonous weed, that ;t if they must die prematurely, let them resolve 11 it shall not he by suicide, nor by such a nan- ; t seous, disgusting instrumentality as the use of J < tohacco. And we do deliberately assert, that ! I with thousands of facts like the above, alt bough j < perhaps not so striking, constantly before them, , i those who deliberately continue the use of this j deadly narcotic, will be just as guilty of suicide as if they shortened their days by arsenic or poison hemlock. _ h luota the Charleston Evening .\eics.. I t Walker A James' Publishing House. ' The marked ill success which has'attended ' almost all experiments in publishingat the South ' has led many to suppose that an establishment i ' such as that to which we arc about to introduce : ^ mi* r.inrt.Mc fmilrj not hfi sustained in Charles- ! ton. A visit to the new and spacious edifice j . recently erected for Messrs. Walker & Jarne^, corner of East "Ba y and Broad street, will show that we have among us gentlemen of sufficient | enterprise and means to encounter the perils and supply the best advantages of publishing. Messrs. Walker & James were the first to j ' introduce steam printing in this city. The en- i gine which they ha\e now in use is the work of j a C'liailcsloii mechanic, Mr. James McLeisli. j I'hc building in which their extensive opera-i^ tions are carried on is owned by Edward tie- i { bring, Esq., President of the State Bank, and is j ( piitean architectural ornament to the neighbor- ( liood, credible to the taste of the proprietor and ( his architects. Their arrangements are com- J s filete and comprehensive. A capacious steam j j urnace and boiler occupy a portion of thelowJj ^ story. On the second floor is the steam en- j ;ine, setting in motion book, job, and card presses, of valions classes and sizes, on which ^ very description of fine work is executed to j any extent that may be called for. Ascending j -till higher, wc reach the several apartments j ledieated to newspaper and book punting, t ivla:re some twenty compositors are laboriously employed. Here we iind forms and proof ^ sheets of the venerable *' Southern Quarterly," lie " Charleston Medical Journal," " Southern I5apti-I," and 11 Southern Episcopalian," await- x ng the supervision of their respective editors I ^ md proof readers. Besides the periodical pub I ^ lications, the mechanical execution of whicli! is unsurpassed by any of their contemporaries i j ilsewliere in the Union, all the standard works I! nf the Southern Baptist Publication Society = ire issued from this busy repository. Enter- ! ( n.r il.ii i.mk< rnrtnw wi? find laim? editions of I "r> '"x j ? ?o > I books, pamphlets and newspapers, emerging, [, like magic, fvoni the mammoth machines pro- |' idled hy the mighty power of steam. From j n-iicc, the printed sheets are conveyed to a My- j irostatic Press of great power, where they are | oilijected to a heavy compression for several * Inmrs. The apartment for drying sheets is imply and conveniently arranged in the fifth jfury of the building After gelling up so l?'gh, the visitor, who may feel inclined to look low n upon the busy world below, can enjoy a j line panoramic view of East Bay and Broad ! street, and also of the beautiful harbor of Charleston, and the neighboring islands, spread out before him like a map. Adjoining the compressing rooms is a large and complete Bindery, owned hy Messrs. Welch and Harris, in which operatives of both sexes are employed?the stitching and folding being execu i led by females. Here various elegant specimens of the art are exhibited, affording satis factory evidence that even in this most expensivc department of book publishing, the means can be furnished for getting out a work complete. and bound in the best ami most substau- ( tial style. We were politely accompanied in our examination of this interesting department of the publishing business by IWr. Harris, one of the proprietors, who pleasantly and satisfactorily explained the different processes of j binding. The machines used are an embossing I " . O l irouu cmv! nir m-ir-liiim n nil iliiiil>li> net ifin nrrwcoe ! I" ? ~ y - r*?,v~ | | l* >r pressing books,?all sot in motion by steam. ( The process of stamping and gilding is very ; beautiful, and well worth the inspection of the !' curious and tasteful in such matters. There , j is no style of binding of any degree of finish j and costliness which cannot be furnished by | the aid of this machinery. ^ The whole building is copiously supplied t with arrangements for procuring water and lights, by means of pipes and machinery, and thoro'ly ventilated by a profusion of large windows on tin* street, aided by a superb skylight { above, ellectually excluding everything in the f shape of "darkness \isible" from the entire pre- t mises. L in noticing this admirably conducted estate v lishment, it is but just to its public spirited t proprietors, to say that it oilers, in its manifold i departments of labor as rare, facilities for book s work as can be found in any similar house of r its class and resources in the United Stales. ! f Indeed there is nothing that wo know of likely ') to be needed, in publishing a Southern book. ' i which it cannot abundantly furnish. Mr. Jo- r sepli Walker, the senior partner, is the agent j of the now paper manufactory near liranitcvillc, S C., and from his warehouse, on East j \ Hay, the printing ollice is kept abundantly sup- j c plied with paper of every description and qual-11 ity. 1 lie pruning is superintended in person by t Mr. Hubert James himself u practical printer, t born and brought up to the trade in this city, and qualified by the experience of years for the duties of his responsible post. j We would now say to our friends of the t South and West, who have anything" to do \ with making books or issuing circulars that j they need no longer go North for cheaper or j I belter work than they imagine can be procured i below Mason <Si Dixon's line. Our printers here are able and willing to work with fidelity and I despatch at barely remunerating prices, and it I is only the greater demand for labor and wider j I circulation of hooks and newspapers at the j North among a more decidedly reading people j (ban we can boast, which places us in the back- I t ground of our brethren t hero in the matter of j n cheap literature. The better sort of journey-1 ] men in our cit y would bo ashamed to put their I t imprint upon suehaboininnblespeciincns of book j I work as the shelves ol our hook stores are do- j t luged with, in the closely printed cluiiisey re < 21 till trashv immnhlet. novels ol the I day. Anlliors disposed to give tliem a trial'ij kvill find Messrs Walker & James ready to exend to them liberal terms, or, if they happen i .0 be overflowing with work, (as is freqetitly f lie case in the winter season) there arc others I >? a less scale, but equally deserving, who are ' both skilful and prompt in business, and ac- c jotnmoduling in disposition. We confidently nvite you, gentlemen, to test the matter for | ('our own consideration. II. I . The Dardanelles. j s The old gates of Janus were opened when !1 Home was at war, and their modern proto t ypes, the Dardanelles straits, arc open only c ivlien a war makes treaty stipulations void, s md the Porte deems it necessary to admit his c lilies through tin ni to protect his capital. The iccounts we now have are tlmt they are now j 1> mnn f.... fKo nacuirn rif tfio Kurdish Ulld Fl'eiicll M' ieet's."" r ? ; " |6 The Dardanelles, from which the strait or | ?'1 Hellespont derives its name, are four strong ! e :astles built opposite each other on the Euro- n lean and Asiatic coasts, and are the keys of b Constantinople. Two of these castles (the old c :astles) were raised by Mahommed II. soon 11 ifter the capture of Constantinople, in 1453? ? he other two (the new castles) were built in d he middle of the 17th century, to protect the | 0 Turks against the Venetians. The latter com- j P nand the entrance to the Hellespont, and the ; listanee apart is about two miles and a quar- " er. In four hours'sail i:p the strait are the a dd castles, which are about three quarters of a d nile apart. These are well mounted with for s nidabie batteries. All along the European ' bore to the Marmora the aspect of nature in ts ruggediicss corresponds with the frown of he guns; but the scenery on the Asiatic shore I 8 s beautiful. The region abounds too, in pla- u ses famous in classic story. Here it was Le- i mder paid his nightly visit to Hero; here the j:l ll-fated hosts of Xerxes crossed on a bridge j e if boats; here Solyman crossed on a raft; and c n modern times here Byron swam from Scstos ^ o Abydos. f'I'hese famous straits have been more than J1 nice passed. Ju 1770 the Russian squadron }l mder Elphistonc, appeared before the tower ind castles, and the admiral actually went by c vithout damage. But the other ships did not {J iillow him, and he returned with drums and 11 nunpets sounding. A Biitish fleet under Ad- " nil-able Duckworth forced their passage in 1S07 P Duckworth, in a despatch to his Government d rivimr -in ivrnnnf. fit" this fiu't. acknowledges e > ' '"b W" VW?MV 1 O hat he ran u narrow chance. lie set sail on s he morning of the lDlh of February. At a I |uart*-r before nine the whole squadron, under l tremendous fire, had passed tlie outer castle; v it half past nine the leading ship, the Canopus, v nlered the narrow passage of Sestos and A by- (' los under a heavy cannonade from both castles- s cceiving stone-shot of 800 pounds weight.? ^ 2ach ship as it passed had to endure this cannmade. The admiral remained at Constant*!- ^ ioplc until the 3J of March, when his squadit!) often ships returned. In this interval the " I'urks had been so busy that the castle were s naile " doubly formidable." The admiral u veighed anchor in the morning of this day, 0 ind "every ship was in safety outside of the P tassage about noon." The Admi-al in his lespatch expresses his "most lively sense" of u> good fortune, and admits that had the Turks p( >eoii allowed a week longer "it would have |( icon a very doubtful point whether a return vouldlay open to him at all." lie lost 42 ( billed and 235 wounded. The Turks were so udignant at the esc;ipe of the British fleet that hey believed the Governor cfthe Dardanelles vas bribed by Duckworth, and beheaded him. ?i The Dardanelles are said to be in such a fornidable condition as to be impregnable. J, Huston rout. M Slf.kp.?pew ot our readers, pernaps, are tware that the human body falls asleep by tie pecs. According to M. Cabinis, a French diysiologist, "the muscles of the legs and arms }, ose their power before those which support s he back, and he illustrates this by cases of a icrsons who sleep on horseback, or while they p tre standing or walking lie conceives that c he sense of sight sleeps lirst; then the sense >f taste ; next the sense of smell ; next that of p tearing; and lastly that of touch. He main- f, ailis also that the viscera falls asleep ono tiler another, and sleep with different degrees of j ;oundness. 0 Conhuct ok Ladies is the Stkrrt.?When liree ladies are walking together, it is better or one to keep in advance of the other two, hail for all throe to persist in maintaining one. in broken line. Thev cannot all join in eon- T 'Orsation without talking across each other?a hing that in-doors or out-of-doors is awkward, ^ nconvciiicuf, ungciitci'l, and should always he l.oidod. Also, three ladies walking abreast j icrupy too tnucli of the pavement, and thereitre iiicominode (he other passengers. Three oung men sometimes lounge along the pave- c uent arm in arm. Three young gentlemen s lever do so.?Mrs. Leslie's Hehavinr Look. j Whatever be a man's station in life, whether ligher or lower, public or private, he will beioine a better man, and escape many a disas- d er, if he will listen in due season to the voice v if the intelligent and the refined among the si itlicr sex. t First A iter at.i..? An Irish gentleman hav- <i nga party to meet sit si tavern, exclaimed, on o trriving, finding the room empty*. v "So am I first after all." li The waiter informed him that lie was inista- a ten; that his friends lisul been there, but were 11 ,'ono. p "Very well," replied the Hibernian,' then I d lave made no mistake ; for sis they were all here t ieforc me, surely I was light by saying 1 was h irst after all. ' i n A Pkkt Uuit.v.? A young l??ck belonging ' I< o the independent drink or-let it-alone-just-as-1 tl is-l-please-without-signing-the-pledge-society , j v lo/ijicd (he <] ii est ion to a pretty girl a short n ime since, who brought a still deeper blush to h lis always blushing countenance, by replying r hat as she had signed a pledge to neither p Irink nor trallie iu ardent spirits, she did not g eel at liberty to Iraljir herself oil' for a lions- n inul of liran ili/. I I *jr.\S ;\ lVKVOi.u riu.\ imivumi ...... ,o?.?The New York Mirror speaks quite con idently of the success of mi invention patentee ?y Mr. John Power of that city for the eco lomieal use of gas in warming houses ami looking victuals. It says: The modus operandi is perfectly simple.? Hie eominon gas pipe is tapped at any point, ,n Indian rubber tube is attached by means ot n ingenious coupling, composed in part of the aine material, (for which Mr. Power has also patent,) through which the gas is conducted o a small iron plate?not much larger than ne's hand?that forms what may be called the tove. This plate is filled with perforations, outlining asbestos, which concentrates ami ifTuses all the heat. The computation made y the inventor goes to show that a small ofce might be heated for the trifling sum of fteen cent3 a day. incredibly small as this ppears, we confidently believe that it will eovr the whole expense, though we have not delonstrated this by actual experment. Admitng, however, that a much larger amount will oine nearer the truth, the advantages of the lvention are obvious, l'or lawyers'and sirnifiices, where it is desirable to avoid the dust, irt and trouble of a coal lire, to say nothing f the expense of keeping an attendant, it is eculiarly adapted. A man can enter his ofce in the morning, turn on the gas, apply a latch thereto, and the fire is instantly started, nd by the time he gets comfortably settled own to his desk, the room is warmed. We hall soon he able to give our testimony as to ic economy and utility of the heating part of he invention. Of its complete success in cooking we can peak with a confidence founded upon careful bservation and repeated experiments. We ave eaton meats cooked by this new process, nd can vouch for their fine flavor; as for the xpense, we can speak with mathematical preision, having carefully computed the cost with Ir. Power and the President of the Brooklyn ias Co. To cook 3 lbs of mutton chops takes ist. 10 minutes of tiinc, and costs only 1 3 ol cent; to boil a kettle containing half a gal>n of water, occupies exactly 12 minutes, and onsumes less than a cubic foot of gas. To et up a breakfast of four dishes, say one for teats, a second for cofTee, a third for potatoes, nd a fourth for eggs, or whatever else you lease, will cost only 3 cents, and can all be one within 15 minutes. If any of our readrs arc skeptical on this point they can easily ntisfy their cariosity hy a visit to Skinner & \nver\s Gas Works, Fulton street, Brooklyn. The gas pipes are tapped, and the connection nth tiic cooking apparatus made in the same ray that wo "have described for heating. Fifty ishes can he cooked at the same time, if deired. A tine large turkey was roasted at the istor House the other day by this process and liose princes of caterers, Messrs. Coleman Ai Itetsoi), pronounced this new mode or cooking he most complete and successful in its resuki hat they had ever witnessed. The da} s of toves ami cooking ranges are numbered. The se of gas to form a part of our domestic cconmy, and the kitchen will become an attractive lace. Anotiiek Victim to Intemperance.?A 8w evenings since a stranger in our city was jund drunk out in the streets and to protect im from danger of lying out exposed to the inlemency of the weather, lie was placed in the iuard llouse. Upon visiting him the next lorning lie was found dead. A coroner's bluest was held over the body and the verdict U-turned ' Died from the effects of drinking.? 'bus has intemperance sent one more soul unrepared to meet its God, and thus have liquor enders one more murder to answer for at the reat day, when God will sit in judgment, to onsidu-r our actions whether good or evil. Atlanta (6rVo.) Intelligencer. A Beautiful Incident.?A naval officer ping at sea in a dreadful storm, his lady was itting in the cabin near him, and filled with larm for the safety of the vessel, was so surrised at his composure and serenity that she ried out: "My dear, are yon not afraid ? How is it ossihle v<>u can be so calm in such a dreadj| storm !" He rose from the chair, dashed it to the deck, rcw his sword, and pointing it to the breast f his wife, exclaimed : " Are you afraid V' She instantly answered, "No!" " Whv ?" said the officer. " Because," rejoined the lady, ' I know this word is in the hands of my husband, and lie ;>ves me too much to liuit me." "Then," said ho, "remember I know in ihom 1 believe, and that lie who holds the rind in llis fists and the water in the hollow ol lis hands is my Father." A barber desired a groggy customer of his hie Sunday morning, whose breath studied trong of alcohol, to keep his mouth shut, or he establishment might get indicted lor keepng a rum hole open on on Sunday. The intelligence by the Baltic although not leeisive of the question of ultimate peace or vnr, shows that notwithstanding the military irray and imposing show of armaments, by lie bclligcrnnts, there is an aversion to come o blows, at least, on the part of the Emperor f Russia, whilst the military demonstrations if the Porte are evidently more in compliance nth the fanatical impulses of those Asiatic lordes which lie has called from their native .bodes than from bis own inclination to enter ipon hostilities. ?We have, therefore, hopes ot ieace, amidst all this parade of war. It is ovient that I he.Czar would gladly withdraw from he embarrassing position in which he has placed imself. That he cannot do so without the ass of some share of the prestige which has illicrto surrounded the throne of Russia, is no ,'ss evident, especially if lie has to abdicate lie principalities which he has so wantonly inaded. The results have falsified his forecast, o less in the amount of Turkish physical force e has evoked than in the opposition and firm L'sislcnee ho has met with from the Western owcrs. Tudor these circumstances lie would ladlv make an honorable retreat, if possible, out the false position in which lie has placed limsclf.? Ck irlcatun Kvcuiuy Xcias. . | general ww. Cotton in Algeria. I . j "The culture of Cotton," says the Moiiiteur I of Friday last, on its first page, "is raj idly ail- t | vancing. The magnificent impulse received -: this season is well known. From a few sparse , j jilots which it occupied last year, the culture : i this year (1353J has heen extended over more , | than 500 hectares, (1,236 acres.) and nothing 1 i could he more satisfactory than the reports i with resjiect to it which has just reached us.? If some failures owing to the inexperience of 1 planters, cast a shade over the |?icture, the < crop id general promises to be all tnat can be desired, b<?tli as to quality and quantity. It 1 . may be considered as settled henceforth thai 4 the culture of cotton is acquired to the country, -J The problem is resolved. To time and to the 9 intelligence is now left tho task of completing 9 the development of this rich culture, which will 9 in a few years emancipate French mannfactO' 'f9 rers from the dependence on foreign pro . jfl duction in which they are now held for a most flj notable portion of the supplies they now require. But the Administration has noU been j| alone in comprehending the magnificent re- 9 sources u lie red by the colony for the supply of cotton. At its sitting of 15th February: I.j?t 9 the Chamber of Commerce of Algiers voted 9 ;~>00 francs for the reserve fund, as a premium lor the best cotton produced on plantation? of I i a ccitain extent. Tlie prize which was w.arm- 'J . ly disputed by numerous competitors, lias just M ! been awarded to a colonist of the arondisse- M { merit of Blidah, whose plantation, comprising 9 eight hectares, (20 acres,) was pronounced t?v | be in the most prosperous condition. Eight * ? other cultivators received honorable notices. | The manufacturers1 society of Mulhonse havhaving repeatedly made ose of tbe cotton and other products of Algeria, has shown its de- J sire to cooperate for the encouragement of such agricultural enterprises in Algeria, as 1 seem of a nature to contribute at once to the i pro>perity of the colony and of the manufactures of France. The society lias just established premiums of gold and silver medals for the encouragement, o* tne growers 01 cotton j and madder in tlfe colony." 1 The terms of these premiums are: A golJ medal to the planter, who shall have produced 1 in Algeria, and delivered at current priees in . the depar.ment of Mailt-Rhin iu France, before the close of the year 1854, a crop of at least J300 kilogrammes, (002 lbs. avoirdupoise) of short staple cotton, or 100 kilogrammes (221 lbs.) of long staple (sea-island) cotton.?r A silver medal for crops of half the abovo amounts respectively. The planters must furnish the society with samples of their cottons, and with docuinentary full information touching expenses and modes of culture. We have frequent evidence of the interest 3 which the government of France takes in tjic cotton-producing capacities of the French possessions in Africa. The Minister of War iu Paris has just established a permanent exhibition of the Agricultural productions of Algeria. The Moniteur of Thursday last, in an article announcing the opening of the exhibition, thus, alludes to the cottons which figure in it: "Rut what has attracted the Minister of War above ever) thing else, are the cottons which figure there, by samples, of the various species, with specimens near them of cotton fabrics manufactured from them. This precious raw material, of which the spinners of Lille and Rouen have already established the great manufacturing value, is destined to become a source of wealth to the colonists. Government on its part has just established premiums to be awarded after each season to the planters who shall produce the finest crops "?Correspondence of the National Intelligencer. Cotton.?From the November number of DeBow's Iler'tcic, it appears that the total cot ton crop ?>f tlie United States in 185*2-3 was 3/20*2,882 bales; to which, if we add the previous stock on hand of 91,176 bales, wc have for the total quantity now 3,35-1,058 bales. Of this amount, after deducting the foreign export and a stock on hand in the country of 135,013 bales, and *20,801 bales burnt at NcwOileans, there remain 021,009 bales for home consumption, against 603,0*29 last year, and 404,108 the year before, exclusive of the amount consumed by manufacturers south of Virginia. In this and southern establishments, it is estimated that 20,000 bales are used in North Carolina, 10,000 in South-Carolina, 20,000 in Georgia, 5,000 in Alabama, 5,000 in Tennessee, and 30,000 on the Ohio ; making a total of 90,000 hales; which, if added to the stock of interior towns, etc., give a total crop of the IT. S., la?t year, of about 3,300.000 bales. .1 .i.. . r. r'..; i Ml ICN)l Hie cimoii v.\|ium:ii iiimi mu uin[ to.l States amounted to 8112,315.317. In 185*2 the value of the cotton exported from the ports of the Gulf of Mexico alone amounted to ahout *100,000,000; and the other products from the same ports amounted to *100,000,000 . more. The total value of the cotton exnorted from the United States from 1790 to 1851, was *1,711,091,070. Cotton Choc.?The following extract from a letter from a planter of Jasper count}*, Ga. a gentleman of high character, and in whose judgment we have high confidence, presents a gloomy picture of the cotton crop in that sec1 tion. The letter is in response to one from u gentlemen in this city:?Aiir/itsta Sentinel. t?nn.i, iq" o .A3rr.il vu., nuv. ?*,?? iwu. My Fiukmi: 1 have wanted to see the effects of the frost fully developed before 1 an swered your letter. 1 have examined my own crop and some others in the neighborhood,and have cmpured of all my acquaintances whom I have seen since the recopt'on of your letter upon the subject. My own crop and others in that neighborhood will not make more than one-third of the last crop. I made last year 187 hags; this year not more than 50. 'J'ho county will do better than this, but from all I can learn the county will not make more than one half of the crop of last year. This is not an under estimate.