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0 rv? "v WeTT? A W^WWWt 17 T^ AWWT?TD) "" * ui ufi-iuH} USAU2^U2JUS3 ui uasLiiu-3 u?3u?Jaiawi JA#i wSl TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM] 4 4 t ii e r? n ice out" liberty x s eter.3xta.xj vigiijanoe." [.PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. BY DAVIS & ROLLINGS WORTH. * ABBEVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE, 5 1856. VOL. XIII NO. 7. ttllUg[SB[i,lb&53iatDq38. PREMATURE MATRIMONY. Marriage is a Divine ami beautiful arrangement. li was designed l?y I'ro\ idenee not solely as the means of keeping up ' population, or as a mere social and eooiioini- [ cal convenience, but as blending of two ' spirits into one?tlio masculine represent- j ing wisdom, and the feminine afleclion.? When there is a true spiritual ailiuity be- i tween the two, then the design is accomplished.. 1 j Premature marriages are among the ,.t .1. . : > ' who v?i UliJ UIIIUIS, ?(IIU It W'UUIU liot be a bad idea in these days of re- ! lorius, if an nnti-marryiii^-in-a-!iurry so- j ciety were instituted. Now-a-days, people i leap into the limbic lilc-circlo uiili no ( more consideration than I hey would par- , . take of a dinner?little thinking that, 1 when once in, they are there until their 1 end comes. There is little, sometimes, of I mutual analysis of di-ipo.sition and coiupari- ! sons. They seem to f.mey that, if there 1 arc any discrepancies, the fatal (>ordiau ! knot, which can l>e seldom cut and never untied, will harmonize all. The numbers who have '*? !t this truth? ' the numbers >ti!l I'.elii g it t<> their heart's core?are incalculable. Th<*y recognize it as the great mistake of their lives. The chain is nut to them a silk one, but a cable : r . ? ? ' oi iron, 111:11 tig'iteiis aroumt tin-in more and more, cni.-liin^ out :i!l hope and energy, j . . | Mib-tituling hale lor love, ati'l eating out with its rust, the vciv inner IiiV; of the son I. Boys ami pi Is n<uv marry to a greater ! extent tli.ui ever before, instead of waiting j till they become full grown and matured 111011 ami women. The young dandv, as j soon as he g.-ts out of >hort jackets, ami : timls a little. furze gathered on his upper lip j ?ami the voting miss, as she emerges from ; the nursery ami abbreviated frocks?think j they arc <pialiiied to asMinie iSie nio-t .solemn 1 responsibilities of life. Ami so if " IV I and "Ma" wont consent, ihev post o!F to some Gretna Green, and there lake obligation, that, it. ninety-nine cases out of a bun tiled, they will never cease bitterly to repent. Marriages should never be the result of | fanev. The ball room and the evenimi- I - f? I party rarely <h:Velope real character. Un- i <ler the exhilarating influence of I lie dance, ; tile glare uf t!ie lights, nml merry Hjuih i Mini joke, the dissolute young man may an- ! pear uminhlc, and the slatternly scold love- j libit*. Mutches made lit such place-, or j muler simitar lircumstanc.s, ;ue not of the j ! class that originate in heaven. They are more generally conceived in tlie opposite : place, ami hring forth only hiouity. The true way to leain each other i.-> to do it at home, in the pailcr, in tin; kitchen, ami on occasions that tcsl the temper. We see the result of these unions in the almost daily divorces that are taking place, in the tunning away of husbands, having their ?. ^ 1 ..1 !! 1 * ? .... 1 -? . w*>, iiii i i:m;iuvii 10 si:n vi', :ixici lit mr ' elopement of wives. Not only this, hut j we witness it in l>?-? !;?.*:? spirited men, m.vle i old in tins prime ?.f life, Mnti^lin;^ on for i mere food and clothing and shelter, ami in j woman cross, flirty, js!tt:ti>!i wrinklcd. j It would l-o <jiiite insjcissiMc !' >r us to J depict faithfully the multitude of physical j and moral ?viU tiiat result from these sinful i marriages?for sinful they are. They mil' ! the body, corrupt the morals, and blullify the mind. And the result does not stop with husband and wife. Thera are the j children. They partake of the li-eldcuess i and the vices of the parents, liolh physical > and moral, and go out into the busy world blunted and gnarled. (Jod pity t'tt-m ! We would not bo understood :;s speak'"S against the iustiimiou of marriage. It is holy, beautdul and benefieient. Hut let overv one- take his mate or uoin?. Lot not the brave eagle pair with the stupid owl, nor the gentle dove with the carrion crow. Like should have like. It is a glorious tight to see two old people who have weathered the storms and basked in the sunshine of life together, go hand in hand, lovingly :Mk1 truthfully, down the gentle deelhiiy of time, with no angers, uor jealousies, nor hatreds garnered up against each other, iind looking with hope and joy to the evertrmlinrr vnntli /if I...I ?1 ..I...II J ....... V. H ilUC 11KJ fcllitll i>c one forever. That is the true marriage ?for it is the marriage of spirit with spirit. Their love is woven into a woof of gold, tliat neither time, nor death, nor eternity can sever. EST The fast youths of Schenectady " tked after by the City Fathers ho have passed a law "to "per assembling of boyR," s that it "bhall not bo ther around any corner, a vera, dwelling, bridge, streets, or to make a nguage, play marbles, ny of the open places, ne city. Every offender A /v?* imr\nflnniMA??* w w? v*? Wl jiUj/lldVilUlVMIf .* ''''J* j of fashiou stepped into ft .g?itiRe, and asked tho keeper . any matrimonial baskets, she be-oo polite to tuxftrtidies. ; >l ' +jt,4 ' * - Evidhict of ifaeiidthip.?Kis&irig n mSrxiad lady out of pure lore for her hysbanJ. i THE WHITE SLAVE TRADE. A horrible system of stealing men and women from tlicir homes in China, mid conveying them to the West Indies, Peru, has grown up of late, (says the llaltimoro American,) in lieu of the African slave trade ; and as might be expected, like the old slave trade, it is carried or. chicily by Kngtirdi and American vessels?the latter hailing in all cases, jis far as we arc aware, from the non-slave States, and a largo portion of them from New England and New York. Very likely some of the same men are engaged in this nefarious business, who are loud in denouncing the Southern man fur not turning a large part of his family out of doors, or sending them to the snows of Canada. The following oxtract of a letter which lias been handed lis for publication, says the New York Journal of Coinnicree, shows how the materials of the modern slave trade?the Chinese Coolies?are obtained. To fill out the horrors of the middle passage? which is often fatal to largo numbers, and then to see tho poor wretches getting out guano at the Chincha Islands, which soon destroys the remainder. We are credibly informed that a person who lay some days near tin- Inlands, saw eleven (we think it was) of tho poor creatures j jump into the sea, preferring death by i drowning, to the slow torture to which their employment subjected them. If a white man were as gooil as a negro in the estimation of the noisy pretended philanthropists of this day?or rather if their i humanity was not a sham?they would , utter some voice of remonstrance against the abominable system to which we have j alluded, and which is < anicd on in part: by their own neigh bora and from their own . ports. Kxtracl of a letter dated Swotow, (China) j Dec. 10th. lSjj: We have now bent our sails and expect lo sail lor Calhio in a lew days. Wu liavo now 011 board 700 Coolies, and expect to take 200 more. I snnpnse, it" <" ??*.! preserves our lives, wc will arrive in about 75 days. I will try to explain what our cargo consists of, viz: men?Chinamen of course ? who are called Chinamen Coolies. A* you have been to Kussia, you had a sample ? the same as serfs, or as our Southern j negroes; but, poor things, they are torn from their parents and friends, and sent on hoard of our bhip, and many other .shins of oni own country, as well as Kuglish. They hi].nap them and take them to the junk, as we call it, and .stay there one or two weeks, li!l the captain thinks proper to lake them on board of our ship. They are bought for iil'teen and twenty dollars per man, and ( when the captain is ready to go on board j the jnnk the mate sings out " hay aft here," j calling the hoys by name, and they have ; to keep the boat aw.av from the junk, for fear of some of the Coolies' friends coming j ami lasting tlictn away. Wo liavo one Cuii'iu who has ran awav from live ditt*crenl >liii?s. The kipuappcrs bring out the Coolies llie same as at the slave market at Mobile !<>? inspection. They ;ne then made to go through several exercises?jumping, kirking, Are., and then inspected by the doctor. Alter this, they are given new clothes, and then sent on board the ship, and we have to keep sentry. We have twenty men armed on sentry night and day. The Coolies have several times tiied to lise, and if it had not been for two or thr< c Coolies who made it known, tlicy would have taken the ship. We have plenty of ammunition i>n board, and three guns, which are lathed so a.s to bear on the slaves if they should imc. a i - i. - e ..... o..n> Lwuiv nuiuu iroui nerc ami sold them for *"250 each. This ship expects lo stay out here about two j'ears. jt57" The widow of an eminent composer having staled upon the tomb of her husband, that " he has left this life and gone to (hat blessed pliico where only his music can be exceeded," the mourning relict of a famous pyrotechnist adopted the same idea, and caused to be inscribed upon the marble slab?"lie is gone to that blessed place where oidy his Jireioorks can be exceeded." Jti?" "Pa," said a little urchin to deacon N., " havo poor folks got any soul ?" "Certainly, my child ; why do you ask such a question ?" " 'Cause I hear folks 6ay Parson P. never goes to see anybody but the rich members of the church." " Go to bed, child." ^ ? #? A Lucid Explanation.?"Pray, Professor Sclinewkzc, what is a periphrasis?" "Mu.ln.n ;? ?:?? : ' ? , iv >o omijiijr u cirutiiuiiuury anu plcnar.tic 0}-cle of oratorical sonorosity circumscribing nu atom of ideality, lost in verbal profundity." "Ob, that's it, is it? well, tew be shore!" < ? Rightier says: "No man can either live piously, or die righteously, with* out * wife."' A very wicked bachelor of our acquaintance says this, " O, yes ! sufferings and severe trials purify and chasten the hearl." ' jtar An Irishman, giving testimony in one of our courts, a few dnys since, in a riot case, said, " The first man I saw coming at mo. wlifli* T imt nn mm torn " ??? 7" Why is twice eleven like twice tent Bicaruso twice eleven nre tvreiity-two, and twice ten ?re twenty too, THE HAUNTED MOOSE. A friend of ours, says the Albany Tri bimc, Bob II., during the late cold teim, tliunglit lie would go into IlafnilUin and have a moose bunt, lie left the city, in company with six other gentlemen, on Wednesday of last week. After a lido of i about twenty-four hours, they reached the borders of the great wilderness. Having put up their horses and sleigh at the hist \ tavern, tliey started out for a week's sport in tlie woods. The second d:iy in the wilderness, onr friends and party started a moose of fust class proportions. Tliey sighted liitn about noon, and kept on his track till about 3 o'clock, p. 111., when the party informed Kob that they were completely tired out, and that they intended to take the back track for the shanty and Lave dinner. Our friend said: "Very well, go back if you please. As for 1110, I'll have that moose or perish in the attempt." The party went hack, and Kob went ahead.? lie kept up the chase till nearly dusk, when he got snfliccndy near to give him condign, lie was a glorious fellow?like Frank Grang.-T, 'Six leet high and well proportioned." Kob was rejoiced at his success. Kut his plcasuie had one drawback?"what In* ili? willi lilut V* \ _ -? . ..w ? _ .. .1.1. . .kiiviuvi n\./ui VA; of uneasiness was the excessive colj, and the distance fruin the shanty, some eight miles. While philosophising upon his folly, | night came on, and as there was no siuli j thing as getting up a lire, he was at his j wit's end to keep from freezing. At la?t he hit upon an expedient. lie cut open the moose, took out its entrails, and crawled in and lav down. The animal heat kept him as warm as " pepper sass," till ahmit midnight, when he fell asleep. He awoke ahout sunrise and thought I... ?vn..U ..-1 ' ? - - .. V-...V. v ii ii i u in HUM 31.111 U;UK 10 Ills Iriends. There was one pull back to this j arrangement. After tin; heat had li ft the j moose, he had frozen as still' as a po.-t, an j operation that subjected JJoh to as rigid <-oulmi-mcnt as if he had heen locked up in a l'astile. lJub endeavored to cut his way out with a knife?hut it was no go? ' he might as well have undertaken to whit- j t!e granite. 1'oh spent a most melancholy j lav, and linalh" woriicd nature into a .sound ; .-Jeep. \\ hi 1 o thus ii!icoii.<ciuus, a companj' of | hunters came along. discovered the moose, J fastened a r.'pe to his leg, and set ahout dragging him out of the wooils. The movement awakened liob, who thought he was gelling haunted, and, therefore, commenced hallooing lur help. Such a noise coining from u dead moose, excited ihe s i|'0i>tilioii of the hunter to s>uch a dvirrees t'.iat they abandoned their prize mid lied us if the devil was after them. After run- i n'.ng ahoiil three miles they met Bub's ! friends, who had l>een out all day trying to discover his whereabouts. The hunters ! told the story of the haunted moose, and j t ie strange noise which came from his i abdomen. Uob's friends smiled. - * i iii-t n-'jucMi' i uie i miners to return.? ; r?? :i halt* hour the " haiintcil mooso" was J reached. The friends halloed l* Bob !'* Bob ' halloed " la-re !" The friends said : ' w? 1 are going to cut; look oul for the axe." Iioh said : " Let drive?Letter have a damaged ' h --ad than legs made of icicles." The adventure has made an impression) on Uohert. ' lie savs the next time he sleeps iu.-iile a > moose, lie will take good care that it has ] ' leather hinges on its Lack." A CASE FOR ORNITHOLOGISTS. j An Knjh Jfatchccl and Nursed h>j ? , Shunf/h'ii.?About six weeks ago Mr. Robert Cameron, who resides on the Miami river, a few miles below Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio, discovered a bald eagle's nest on a huge Sycamore tree standing near the j river, and one of his sons, an active and j adventurous fellow, by "tall climbing" j reached the eyrie, and made a prize of two j eggs of the bird of our country, which i were at once deposited under a " setting j hen," and in two weeks a fino, lusty eaglet j nicked the shall. .*nnl in-nU ! ;? 1 t 1 "?? ??%?? iii-j ajqicrtl" ance, with less pain and pomp and circumstance than attended the birth of tlio " enfant de Franec." One of the eggs proved a failure, and this, with the eggs of the lien, were thrown a way, it being considered that the barn-yard fowl would have quite enough to attend to in the person of the feathered "prince imperial;" ami the chicken and eaglet are both, wo are pleased to learn doing as well as could be expected. The plebeian nursefowl is, wo are informed by Mr. Cameron, apparently, ai times, very much astonished at the eccentricities of llis Royal Highness, the infant bird of Jovo, whose koon, unflinching eyes, and stout, sharp, crq^ced beak, and appetite for fish and flesh are slightly terribl?. and beyond her appreciation. Still she attempts to relievo his wants with true motherly devotion, and in trying to induce him to take a promenade clucks at him vainly by the hour. Ilis legs are not serviceable, and disclaiming to crawl after her, he looks, with eager aspirations, as becomes his illustrious race, skyward. He is very fond of fish, and luxuriates in rats and snakes, though ho is not yet strong enongh to skin them for himself. The quantity of skinned garter snakes that he consumes is qoeer.be being competent to dispose of almost his Weight io that article of prepared snake,? Cineirfnuti Commercial, ' _ J A NEW INVENTION. Some years since hoop-iron was proposed as a substitute for rope in baleing cotton, and to some extent it was brought into use; but in consequence of the difficulty in adjusting the rivets, and the time lost in securing them, most persons abandoned the use of iron and returned to the rope. We were shown yesterday a new invention for fastening tho bauds, which obviates all objections, and can be done by any one who has eyes and hands, in an instant?much sooner than (i ivjiu tiiii uu Lieu. The fastening is mado by bending over each end of the strap, so as to form two hooks, and when one is placed in the other, a sliding clasp is placed over them, which confines them immovably. This simple contrivance is the invention of David MeC'omb, of cotton press celebrity, and by telegraphic dispatch received yesterday from Washington, we learn that he has obtained a patent for it. The advantages of using hoop-iron foi baleing cotton are, with McCotub's fastenings, obvious enough. First?Time is saved, as the straps can be put in ' fastened more rapidly than ropes can be tied. Second?The straps will hold the bale to within two inches of the size that the mess makes it, while ropes stretch incontinently. Third?In compression for shipment, the straps can be more readily re clasped than ropes can lie lied, and they will hold the compressed bale to its size, while with ropeties it expands twenty-five to thirty pel cent, after it leaves the press. This will make a gain of space to shippers that is important. To illustrate?A ship that has stowage for 4,000 bales tied with ropes, can make room for o,00U bales with iron straps. Fourth?The weight of the straps to each bale is about ei"ht sind niw-lmlt' t.> o """ kV "1" pounds, ami can be furnished this year, already painted, with hooks ami clasps, at about twoeenls per pound less than rope? of itself a very considerable item to the planting interest. Finally, the iron hoops are a protection against fire, for though it may burn some on the oulsidt*, a bale of cotton cannot readily burn up until the ties are broken and the air allowed to get to the mass ol cotton.? Vickisbury Ur/t/?jr. NATURAL CURIOSITIES OF TEXAS. Mr. J. 8. Strothcr, in a late letter to the Iluntsville Advocate, gives the following account of some rare creatures to be found in Texas : "I will now give you a description ol some of the insects, or > ? which this scctiou is infested. I will comiiitiieo with the most poisonous of all, tin. Centipede, the sting of which is deadly : should one crawl across your arm, the tlesli would rot olV to the bone?sometimes producing death in a short time to the person stung, who will sutler the most excruciating pain until he is relieved. The Centipede if about eight inches long when full grown and resembles the " Thousand Legs" in shape. Next conies the Tarantula, a spe cies of insect, reptile, or whatever you ma\ choose to call him ; he is what we might term half Terrapin and half Spider?more vicious than both, and three times as activi as either; he is near the size of a small teacup ; his back is covered with coarse ret hair, under which is an almost impenetiabU shell which covers the top of his body which is supported by long, spindling, dotr ble-jointed legs, and were you to see otu throw liinwi.W Im/.t- ' !? 1 r IIJ'UII uia iL-^5 lor i combat, you would be tempted to knocl liiui, like Paddy did the dog, "spachless.' His muutli is of enormous size; he has ar eyo that indicates his ruling passion, vi ciousness; his bito is also very poisonous Snakes are very numerous. Stinging Liz nrds are in the greatest abundance. I car put up with the latter two?but remove m< from the disagreeable presence of the firs' two. Horned Frogs are plenty, but the} are innocent and harmless. 41 Mule Kab bits" are the greatest curiosity I have yd seen ; they are about the size of a "fawn,' and are so swift that the fleetest dog is no where; their tars look like they w^ro ueai ten inches long, when they first jump uj before you. I am of the opinion that t - TT .1 r* rr? . vyi'HLijiuuL*, xiornuu i'rog, tarantula, and I Mule Rabbit, placed on "Commercial Row/ would attract more attention, excite inon curiosity, tliau tlic menageries of a dozer 'Barnuin humbugs.'" ' Hifulutin Letter Writing.? A young boarding Reboot miss out west, who seemt determined to soar above the common-plac* vulgar 6tyle of the present day, sent tbt following excuse to her female friend : " Fondly cherished Clementine: It is nol iu tbe powor of my elocution to excogitaU au epistle of efficacy?the intense frigidity of the circumambient atmosphere has congealed the placid aqueous fluid of tbe enormous river Mississippi?that with the most imminent and superlative reluctance I an constrained to procrastinate my egress tc the environs of your magnificent residence." < ??'' ?m m " g3T An elderly gentleman, traveling in n stage, was amused' by a constant fire o1 words kent up between two ladies. One nl lost kindly inquired if the convereaUorj didn't make his head ache ( -He replied? "AVcll, no mRdam?J have Been married upwards of twonty-eiglit yehrer * 4 ipronrnnr* _ _ ORIGIN OF "EMERALD ISLE." [The originator of the title " Emerald Isle,'' is Dr. Drennun, one of the ablest writers among the United Irishmen. His Lrltrr* of Orrltann contributed powerfully to enlist Ulster in "the Union." 11 in bodies and ballads, which were chiefly directed to the name object-, are vigorous and graceful beyond any political poetry of the period. The following song, in which '' Emerald " is for the first time applied to Ireland and which has fixed upon the idle that cpilhci, is esj teemed by a good judge, (Tom Moore,) among I the most perfect of modern son^s. A little vol| utiic of his poems was published in 18l.r>, but it now very scarce. ill 17U4 lie was brought to trial for his politicul principles, but neither then nor throughout a long and honored life, did lie ever abandon tliem. lie died in Belfast in 1S20, aged C3 years:] ERIN. HV Ml. DllKNXAN. When Erin first rose from tho dark swelling ilood, God blessed the green inland, nnd saw it wqf good ; The om'ruld of Europe, it sparkled and shone, Iu the ring of the world, the most precious stone. In her sun, ill her soil, in her station thrice blest, With her back towards Britain, her fuce to the West, Erin stands proudly insular, on her steep shore, i And strikes her high harp 'mid the ocean's dcej t roar. But when its soft tones seem to mourn and t< s weep. The dark chain of silence is thrown o'er tin deep ; At the thought of the past tho tears gush fron her eyes, And the pulso of her heart makes her white bo Kom rise. i O! sons of green Eiin, lament o'er the time, i When religion was war, and our country a crime When 111:111, in (iod's image, inverted his plan An.! When the inl'njdt of stntc wrought the genera , woe, The stranger a friend, an<l the native a foe; While the mother rejoio'd n'ci- her children op pressed. And elusp'd tlia invader more close to hei ! breast. When with pule for the body, and pale for the soul, Cliureh and State joined in compact to compiei the whole, And us Shannon was stained with Meli.sian blood Ey'd each other uskauve, and pronounced il was good. I5y the groans that ascend from your forefather') grave Tor their country thus left to the brute and tin billVC, Drive the Demon of Bigotry homo lo his den. Ami where Britain made brutes now let Erii mukc men. [ Let her sons, like the leaves of the sliamrocl unite, A partition of sects from one footstalk of right Give eujh hit* full share of the earth and the sky : Nor fatten the slave where the serpent would die ^ Alas! for poor Erin that some arc still seen, Who would dye the grass red from their liatrei to green! 1 Yet, ()! when you're up and they're down, le I them live, i Then yield them that merey which they wouh not give. Arm of Erin, he strong! hut be gentle as brave And uplifted to strike, be still ready to save! Let no furling of vengeance presume to defile The cause of, or men of, the Emerald Isle. i i i The eauso it is good, and the men they nro true And the green shall oullivo Loth the orange un< J blue, *..J -1 - ! 1- 1 > - - , aim i-iic iniuiij'iiB 01 r-nu iicr uaugiiitTS tliul I j share, i Willi tho full swelling chest, and the fair flowing hair; Their boBom heaves high for the worthy ant brave, i Hut no coward shall rest in that soft swellinj | wave. Men of Kriu ! awake, and make ha3tc to tin blest, Ride?Areli of tho Ocean and Qnccn of tin W est Rapid JZxpcritnents.?Tho hot-air loco motive, " Vampire," which was briefly de scribed in hist Saturday's issue, ran oft' th< track near Patterson, during au experiinen tal trial trip on Friday, vrhilo running at f rate judged to have beeu about eiyhty milci an hour ! Fortunately, no harm resulted either to the machine or its passengers; the nbsence of any following train, even oi a tender, conducing very much to thesafotj of such experiments at this extraordinary speed. The machine it will bo recollected, ia impelled by heated air, or rather bj both heated nir and steam, in a manner in vented by Mr. Phiueas Bennett, and is, wt think, the first locomotive ever tried will hot air as a moter to any form. It is, taken together, a very remarkable construction. It has cost, up to the present time, $40,000, but has never been altered in anj inateiial point from its original design. 11 has no tender, and carries its engineer on ita back, or rather on its side, near the furward end. Its weight, in ruuoing order, is forty-one tons, and fuel enough for a trip ol 800 miles, weighs only about three tone more, and is carried in ita capacious furnace as a single charge. The working out ol the principle hAs been most skilfully executed; the whole credit of this being due, we believe, to Mr Win. K. Thomas, one ol the principal draughtsmen at the Novelty Wnvlre flwk ?? -?' ? vim* auv o|n}cu uinuo ?m> um moment of leaving the track as above noted, indicates what tlie principle is capable of accoinplisbing.?y. y. Tribune L : /ar/rfce editor Yorl?. Dutob 1 ^^?{>e?Wnftof a drink,l?,once hnd an oooasjon to indulge in, saja he conldp't Ul I whether U was brandy or ft torchlight fhy ccstion going down his throat, / ' ? SOLILOQUY OF A LOAFER. Let's see, where am I? This is?coal I'm laying on. llow'd I get here? Yes, I mind now. Was coming up street?mut a wheelbarrow?was drunk, coinin' t'other way, the wheelbarrow fell over me, or I over the wheelbarrow, and one of us fvll into the cellar?don't know which now? ' I , ! guess it must ha' been mo. I'm a nice i young man, yes I am?light! tore ! drunk I j Well, I can't help it?'taint my fault? , wonder whose fault 'tis ? Is it Jones' fault ? No. Is it my wife's fault ??Well, it ain't. | Is it the wheelbarrow's fault? No. It's , whisky's fault. Who u whisky? Has lie ] a larsre familv? All nnnr I rni?l.w?n T I " - " 4 ' " ' j think I won't own him any more. I'll cut ' his acquaintance. 1'vo had that notion for about ten years, and always hate to do it for I fear of hurting his feelings. I'll do it now?I think liquor's injuria' ine?it's spoilin' my temper. ( Sometimes I get mad, when I'm drunk, and abuse Bets and the brats; it used to be Lizzie and the children?that's some time ago. I'd come home o' eveniu's, she used ' to put her arms round my neck and kiss me, and call mo her dear "William. When I comes home now, she takes her pipe out , of her mouth, and says somethin' like? " Bill, you drunken brute, shut the door af} ' tor you ; we're cold enough, bavin' no fire, j 'thout lutlin' the snow blow in that way." 3 Yes, she's lJets and I'm Bill, now. I ain't { a good bill, mither; think I'm a counter 1 ; fait, won't pass?n tavern without goin' in _ j and getlin' drunk. JJon't know what bank I'm oil. Last Saturday I was on the liver bank?drunk. , I stay out pretty late; 110, som times I'm ? out ail night; fact is, I'm out pretty much all over?oui of friends, out at pocket, out I at the elbows and knees, and always outrageously dirty?so Rets says; but then she's no judge, for she's never clean herself. 1 wonder why she dosen't wear good . clothes ; may be she hasn't got 'cm ; whose fault's that??'tain't mine?must be whiss ky's. oomctimes I'm m, Iiowevir; I'm intoxicated now, am! in somebody's coal cellar. There's one principle I've got?I won't get t in debt; I never could do it. There, one of my coat tails is gone?got tore oil', 1 expect, when 1 fell in hero. I'll have to gel a new suit soon. A lellow told uie, t'other . day, that I'd make a good sign for a paper mill. If ho wasn't so big, I'd kick him. I've had this shirt 011 for nine days, an' I'm ' afraid it won't come oil' without tearin', People ought to respect me more'n they do, for I'm in holy orders. I ain't a dandy, , though mv clothes are prctly near Grease. inn style. I guess I lore this window shuttei in my pants t'other night, when I sat down 011 the wax in 13en liugg's shop; I'll have 1 to get it mended, or?I'll catch cold. 1 ain't very stout, as it is. As tho boys say, L I'm as fat as a match and as healthy as the j small pox. My best hat hns beeu standing guard for a window pane that went out ! t'other morning at the invitation of a brickbat. It's getlin'cold down here; wonder I if I ain't able to climb. If T hud :i drinl. I could tiling better. Let's see; I ain't got , three cents; if I was in a tavern I could * sponge one. Whenever anybody treats! and says 41 come fellers," I always think mv name's " fellers," and I've got too good manners to refuse. Well, I must leave this, or they'll arrest me for an attempt at 1 burglary. I ain't come to that yet. Anyhow it was the wheelbarrow did the harm ' ?not me. ^ What Unitarians lidicve.?The Chrisu tian Register, the New England organ ol Unitarianism, says that as opposed to Orthodoxy, Unitarians maintain that human beings do not inherit from Adam a ruined nature; that there id no transfer of his guilt made to us, inflicting upon us a moral ^ inability; that our relation to God has not oeen prejudiced uy Adam's tall; tliat lite is not a foregone conclusion with any one ' of us when it begins; that wo have not been condemned as a race, but shall bo judged as individuals; that, whatever be the rank of Jesus Christ in the scale of being, and whatever be his nature, he is not ' presented to us in tho SciipturoB as the Supreme God, or as a fractional part of the Godhead?therefore, he is not the source, but is the channel of Divine grace ; he is not tho object of our homage or our prayers, uor the ulliointe object of our dependence and trost, but fulfils his highest work ] for us when he leads us on to the Father; that the Scriptures do not lay the omphalic stress of Christ's redeoming work upon his death, above or apart from his life, oharac^ lor and doctrine; and that his death, as an P element iu his redeeming work, is made efAw;?.a r.. i 1.?.!? .1 .... | WHIO IVI IIUUIAIi BHIVtlllUII lurougl) lis 1Dt fluence on tho heart and life of man, not f through its vicarious value with God, nor through its removal of no abstract difficulty in the divine government, which hinders the 1 forgiveness of the penitent without further satisfaction. S3T "I say, Bill, Jim's caged for steal ing a horse." I' "Served him right v why diJn't ho buy one tnd far it lit* ... ^ Western J)ris?^A young litdy out West [ Wng a?lte |'^-?)i? should wear tbat bonnet to cliurch, replied, she.should not iccav anything el?e. j RICH AND rOOH, It is undoubtedly true, after nil, that very little of the happiness of lite comes from . wliat most persons covet so eagerly, viz: j wealth and worldly consequence. Tho following thought is just: ; " Rothschild is forced to content himself j with the same sky as the poor newspaper , writer, and the great hanker cannot order a private sunset, or add one ray to the mag. nificeuco of night. The same air swells all lungs. Each one possesses real I v hU own i ... - senses, soul and body?those arc liic prop* [ erty which a man owns. All that is valua, bio is to be had for nothing in this world. Genius, beauty and love, are not bought I and sold. You may l>uy a rich bracelet, but not a well turned arm to wear it?u I pearl necklace, but not a pretty throat with which it shall vie. The lichest banker on earth would vainly oiler a fortune to be ablo to write a verse like Hyron. Ono comes into the world naked and goes out naked ; tlie ditferenco in the litness of the bit of j linen for a shroud is not much. Man is ! handled of day, which turns quickly back J again into dust. 44 Wretched is the man who has no employment but. watch his own digestion ; and 1 who, on waking in the morning has no useful oc> upation of the day presented to his | mind. To such an ono, respiration is a toil I and existence a continual disease. Self-oblivion is his resource, indulgence in alcohol j in various disguises, his remedy, and death or superstition his only comfort suit] liope. For what was lie horn, ami why docs ho jlivc? arc questions which ho constantly a>ks himself; and his great enigmas arc in I the smiling fiices uf habitual industry, stimj ulutcd hy wants of the day, or fears of tho j future. If he is excited to exertion, it is commonly to indulge some vicious propen; sitv, or display his scorn of tho.se pursuits | which render others happier th:ui himself, j If he seeks to relieve his insanity iu hooks, : his literature ascend no higher than the roj malices or scandal of the day; and all tho I nobler pursuits of mind as well as body, aro | utterly lost iu regard to him. His passage I through life is like that of a bird thronrrli the air. and his filial cause appears merely to be that of sustaining the worms in his costly tomb."? Sir Richard Philips. A MAGNIFICENT NIGGER. Dickens gives the following description in a lute number of the "Household Words," of a dandy darkey he encountered in a Paris restaurant; I would have borne half a hundred dis1 j appointments similar to this diuner, for the ' | sake of the black mau. Legs and feet, ho : was a character 1 He sat opposite to me, calm, contented, magnificent, proud. He wiis as black as my boot, and .is shiny. Ilis woolly head, crisped by our bounteous mother Nature, had unmistakably received a recent touch of the barber's tongs. lie was perfumed?he was oiJed?lie had i moustaches (as I live!) twisted out into j rats' tails. l>v means of Piimninil# j groise. lie hail a tip; he h:ul a scarlet j Turkish cap, with a long blue tassel; he had I military stripes dowu his pantaloons; ho had patent leather boots; he had shirt ! studs of large circumference, pius, gold j waistcoat buttons, and a gorgeous watchchain ; 1 believe ho had a crimson under waistcoat; he had the whitest of cambric handkerchiefs, a ring on his fore-finger, and i a stii k with an overpowering gold knob, i Ho was tho wondeifulest nigger that tho j eye ever beheld. j lie had a pretty English wife?it is a | fact, madam, with long auburn ringlet*, 'j who it was plain to see was desperately iu love with and desperately afraid of liim. j It was marvellous to behold the wrapt, fond , gaze Willi wiuuli slio contemplated him an j lie leaned baek in his chair after dinner and refreshed his glittering ivories with a toothpick. Equally marvellous was the oonI densation with which he permitted her to | eat her dinner in his august present*, and suffered her to tie round his ucck a great j emblazoned shawl like a flag. j Paris, May 25.?The forthcoming barj vest and viutago are looked to with hope, { beyond any entertained within five or six ! years. The crons nM'cr Innl-o.l -? - .... v. .VVMVU wvici nv n corresponding period of the year. The vines are deemed safe from the malady which has affected them throughout that period. The disea.se is described as announcing itself by tho development of miuuto mushrooms on the stem and leaves of tho plant, the produce of )ong-continued humidity.? Independently of the beucficial influence of the improved eliiuate, the vinegrowere have successfully., combated tho distemper by powdering tlie;f)Ue8 with sulphur. To enjoy life you should be a little miserable occasionally. Trouble, like cayenne, is not very agreeable in itself, but it gives great zest to other things, * A NoU.?The following order, verba tini et literatim was received by an undertaker in the Bowery, N. Y., last Friday morning, from an ..ji?** ? J- ?II ?MV If V in veari street M Sur: my Wiaf ii tletwl an<3 Wo tit* to be berried to-inotrow. At Monimr.. klok. U uoae wftir too digf the 2IoUi~^4K# iw'd Of mi too V Owr * tUftt emjtfy. ca#k (of t* xiloaning over departed spirit*/1 . 1'.