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*T~*~*~T!!^ r~ "TTTpirrmWOTTTT^ |III? MK HI Ml I I II I Hill II' ^ TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM.] '"rsia PRICE OP liberty IS ETEIUXTAIJ VIGILAPJOE." [PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. BY DAVIS & HOLLINGSWORTII. ABBEVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 21, 1850. VOL. xm x~o ,? Bi WRITTEN FOR THE AUUKVU.LE BANNER. 8TANZAS. 1$Y II. C. M, L*. S. A. INSCRIBED TO MISS A. 1- THOMAS, AUGUSTA, <1E0. Thou fuir young spirit! in the lovely form Which makes you present to an earthly eye, III bloom of being, fresh, life-lighted, warm Ami beautif\il?too beautiful to die; Slow like u star of heaven, ere conies the storm To o'ershade the beamy waters gliding l>y, Does thy eharmed image light my heart's deep j dream, And fill eaih pulse with its embosomed beam. (Forever present ! with thy haunting gaze, And snowy brow, and darkly flowing hair, A iwt ?liv.niiiv emit aliiiMt-oliiiutono/l l>1n>? Of bcuulv, radiant o'er eaeli feature fair; And shape with step that lightly treads the maze Of grace, like some Aurora of the air; Bevoud nil these, I feel thy power to bless, Divinely veiled in httliiau loveliness! These charms?no part of thee?arc only thine, Thy self's unseen, tho' beauty fills the sightNor would I hope that sueli should e'er be mine ; Unless the fair veiled spirit, iu its might Sincere, should sigh our beings to enshrine lu ever-living love's life-giving light; For love of loveliness that soon is past, Brings anguished darkness o'er the heart at last. I There is a sweetness, sweeter than thy voice, In 'the ?>ofi breathing of the song or sigh. And a deep brightness that eneliaiits the ehoice, O'er the rich niellovvue.-s of thy beaming eye; | nuu ojpciij* iiiiusuiuru, in which i mure rrjuicw i Than the lilest <Irc;i:ii<T when an angel's nigh, ! Soul-felt revculiugs of a heaven d>orn worth, | Excelling all tliou must rcs:gu to earth. O, lovely spirit' couM t]?< brain-felt spell On me, round both its sar.rcd circle sweep; Where all to each, our conscious souls should I dwell, And in belli hearts low's mutual worship keep; Breathing house's holy bib's too deep to tell? Deeming as gems each tear die loved may weep; My heart's full joys should all o'ciflow to thine* And thy heart's sorrows he absorbed hv mine. | i There is u world, where those who love in this j Shall meet, tho' dimly dreaming here awhile I And shall embrace each other in I lie bli s Of blending radiance brighter than earth's smile ; And deeply breathe, inhaled as with a kis*. Each other's presence without guise or guile? j All chance of change nr parting, far above, 1 IOscaped thro* death to live in denthlcc* love. ! I Turning to tliee, in s-eif devuting vow, Tlion idol-image of inv <l''ar?-sl ilrckiu My soul would bask its darkened breast, and brow, ; In the glad baptism of tliy bi-itig's beam ; | All thoughts to thee committed now, Like pearls and roses to a sl;y-bri?ht stream; ' Tliy earthly course, a heavenly guide to me? I Sly wish of Heaven cnhaueeJ to be?wish tlicc! Wriyhtahoro, (!<t.. Jut;/ 28, 18."j l>. ffl 3 3 $ Is !L iL Si iii ? ? iD 3? fcOTTCN. Colton bales were a noble breastwork at j the battle of Xew Orleans, and cotton lias ' .. . . t ever since neon noting llio part ut a .strong 1 protection of tlie UniU.il States against j Great Britain. It is no longer, however, as a shelter for our riflemen, behind which j they may conceal themselves and pick out ' a bright red coat as a mark. Cotton is ! now our great commercial bulwark?the ! graud conservator of peace betweeir Kurope mid the U nited States. We may be laughed ; at for our little army and our little navy; j ? but we must be respected for our great cot-, ton crop?an unchivnlric defence for a martial people, but a potent one and a peaceful one, which sheds 110 blood, imposes no taxes, and does not drain the national treasury. If there is a diplomatic flurry between England and the United Stales, the cotton lords of Manchester rise and protest ngainst any interruption of peace; if the crop falls sliort in the Southern States, Manchester feels it, and if the crop is a largo one, Manchester still enjoys the benefits. There is doubtless a little humiliation felt in England at her condition of dependence Upon us in this matter of cotton ; and numerous have been tl?e schemes for procuring the taw material from her colonies and from other countries. The success of these lias been only partial. Indian and Egyptian cotton is indeed imported into Englai.d, but the quality is inferior to the American, ?nd the quantity, though considerable, is hot such as to produce any effect upon the ?&lC8 Of OUr nrodllf.lK FfTill-la liovn l.nnt. truulo to grow it in Italy and in Algeria, but tbev have proved quite unsuccessful.? In spite of tlie production of cotton in India and Egypt, the English demand for the American article has been steadily increasing. At the present time it is called, in found numbers, two millions of bales. This, out of a total crop of about three and a half millions, is a very important proportion, leaving, as it does, only a million and B half of bales for domestic consumption, i e ? ?- it - - nuu >v> tu iiiu counncni oi Jturopo. Two million bales of colton keep some million* of people ill work and bread in England, find it may readily bo sceu what a calamity it would bo if tlio suppltes.\rore gtopp*} by 8 War or any otlior cause. It it ddttonstrata) by part experience that, in the present amazing progress of the 'WH fa JW0* increase of wealth in (1* prtoiotss metals and its constantly growP**4*# ite world, does oot keep u features are constantly ' ii operations; so, loo, with Uio nmpS>^c8 of ? L . Li ! Franco and Germany, while at home, in I t J ' / i spile of our low tariff, the consumption of cotton is growing larger every year. ]5oston, New York and Philadelphia each import the raw material in very large quantities, and all that comes here, together with much that comes to New York, is consumed by the mills of Philadelphia and the various towns of the interior of the State. These mills are steadily increasing in numbers and in their operations, and in a few | years the domestic consumption of cotton J will bo as great as the foreign has been within the memory of many persons now living. In view of all these things. th? pft'orts a 7 * *"* occasionally made to alarm America l>y threats of growing cotton elsewhere, arc totally unworthy of consideration. Some Manchester men have lately been making such a threat, and talking about extending the culture of cotton in India and Africa, solely with a view to making England independent of America. The declared intention of this movement is not altogether consistent with the intense affection lately expressed by the Manchester people in a Peace Address which received many thousand signatures in a few days. Dut the soul of Manchester is in her calicoes, and she is fur peace or war just as they may ro: ijmiu;. mijncssiuii is nifit tncy win *tiways require peace, notwithstanding the late effort to make England "independent" of us, and so we may successfully cultivate the olive branch and the cotton plant at the same time.? I'/iilailclj>/tiu JJulfctin. HOW WHISKY TASTES. The editor of the lJoston Olive lJratich says, that at a recent scsssion of one of the western conferences of the Meihodist Episcopal Church South, the venerable lJishop Soule, in making some observations 011 the subject of Temperance, is represented as having said?"Though I have passed the scveiitv-lifdi year of my age, 1 have not yet learned how whisky tastes!"' True to the letter. We were present on the occasion, and heard, as the old people used to s:iv, " willi my own cars," the statement as il full from the lips of that eminent minister of the Cross of Christ. And here it should ho known and well understood by all concerned, that as the legitimate result of this rigid adherence to the total disuse of ardent spirits, the I>ishop> though now verg'ng towards the eightieth year of his age, is possessed of a much larger share of physical energy and muscular strength than usually falls to the lot of men in the prime of life ; nor can his most intimato and intelligent friends and acquaintances perceive the slightest abatement in llio herculean force and vigor of his mental faculties. He stauds*as uprightly, walks as briskly, cats as heartily, siccps as soundly, talks as lluently, proaches as powerfully, prays as fervently, and feels as deeply and intensely for llic interest and prosperity of the church, as lie did forty years <i</o. In addition to his incessant and aiduous labors, within the limits of the several Stales and Territories of this great confederacy, for the last half century, lie has twice crossed the Atlantic, performed the lour of Europe, and preached the glad tidings of salvation to admiring thousand in nearly all the principal towns and cities of the British Empire. 13csiJes this, within the last twenty-four months he has twice visited California, sunerintciuli'fl Willi ' J " """" wvw sions of tlio Pacific Conference, and traveled extensively through many portions of that far-distant land, proclaiming "Jesus and him crucified," as the only hope of a wretched and ruined world, to the vast crowds tliiit everywhere flocked to hear him, in tlio wide wastes, as in the cities full. I But not having yet filled up tlio measure of his obligations to the church and the world, he is even now holding himself in readiness to pay California a third visit, should no one of the younger members of the Episcopal College find it convenient to enter upon the performance of tbis important mission. Such, in brief, is a rough outline skeloh of tlio physical intellectual, moral power and cllicieucy of tho man?and the only man?who can in truth say, at tho advanced ago of seventy-five years.?" 1 hare not yet learned hoio whisky tastes /" Order !?Never leave things lying about ?a shawl here, a pair of slippers there, and a bonnet someVvhere elso?trusting to a servant to set tilings to rights. No matter bow many servants you have, it is a miserable habit, and if its source is not in the intellectual and. moral character, it will inevitably terminate tbere. If you Lava used tho dippor, towel, tumbler, &c., put them back in their places, and you will know where to find tbem when vou want r ~ *" them again. Or if you set an example of fjarelessnesa, do not blame your servants&r following it. Children should be taught to put things jback in their places as soon as they are old enough to use them; and if each member of the family wore to observe this simple rule, tlio bouse would never get much out of order, and a large amount of vexation atid- usefctt' labor would be Avoided. ' tt Vi J ..'y - ttjij w vuo jfuer v a groat rnc* | ohanical genius ! ;^c4wi it mrira #?ir.| out of wire, I TIIE "WAY SHE TURNED KIM. The most bigoted ami unreasonable party itfan wo over met with was Jack 1)., now a prosperous and influential attorney iii S County, in this State. At the time of which we are writing, he was a rod hot Democrat, and his chief pleasure seemed to consist in making the fact as notorious as possible to tlie whole world, llis friends and acquaintances, who knew him well, and whom ho had often victimised, with one consent pronounced Jack a bore, and his politics a nuisance ; but with a stranger, the thing was essentially different. Seized by the button at the moment of introduction, Jack would astonish him by a rapid rehearsal of the articles of his political crced?and branch out into an in.1 1 ?titijfovsvi v un uivj JUUIIUCSk UC5tiny ul* the great Democratic party. One unlucky day, Jack met, at the house of a mutual friend, a young lady of great personal beauty and accomplishments ; attracted by her loveliness, and captivated by her intelligence, he became assiduous in his attentions, forgot for a while his "principles," and without inquiring what might bo the political preference of his "lady love," imprudently proposed, was accepted, and they were married. The wedding was over, the gUcst3 had departed, the happy pair had retired to their chamber, and were snugly ensconced m ueil, when Jack, 111 the course of a qniot conversation with his wife, unwillingly alluded to his favorite subject l?y casually speaking ?f himself as a Democrat. ' What!" si M s?!io, turning sharply and suddenly upon him, " arc you a Democrat ?" " ! 41 Yes, maJ.un," replied Jack, delighted with the idea of having a patient listener to his long restrained oratory. " L am a Democrat, a real, JeiVersonian Democrat, attached to the principles of the great Democratic party ; a regular out-and-outer, double-dyed and twisted in the wool." ''.Just double and twist yourself out of this bed, then," interrupted his wife, "I am a Whig, and 1 will never sleep with any man professing the abominable docilities you ilo." Jack was spcechless (Yum absolute amazement. Tliat the very wife uf his bosom should prove a traitor, was horrible?she must be jesting. JJe remonstrated?in vain ?tried pcrnitasioti?'twas no go. She was in sober earnest, and the only alternative left him was a prompt renunciation of his heresy, or a bed in another room, .lack did not hesitate." To give up the great and established doctrines of his party, to renounce his allegiance to that, faith which had become identified with his very being, to be ruled by the lnerc whim and caprice of a woman, was utterly ridiculous and absurd, and he ?1 1 * ' ' uiruw imnseii rrum the Lied aii>l prepared to quit llic room. As he was leaving the door, she called v ' to him, "I say, my dear, when you recant your heresy, and repent your past errors, jiial knock at my door, and perhaps I will let you in." The door was violently slammed to and Jack proceeded wrath fully in quest of another apartment, A sense of insulted dignity, and a lirm conviction that he was a martyr in the right cause, strengthened his pride, and he resolved to hold out till lie forced his wife In n n1??t V"J'< VMIWHUIt* In the morning.'die met him as if nothing had happened, but whenever Jack ventured to allude to the rupture of the night previous, theje was a "laughing devil" in her eye that bespoke a consciousness of her power, and extinguished hope. A second night he repaired to his lonely couch, and a second day was a repetition of the first?no allusion was made to the forbidden subject on either side. Thero was a look of quiet happiness and cheerfulness about his wife that puzzled Jack sorelyi and lie felt that all idea of forcing her into n surrender must be abandoned. A third night he was alone with his l.lmtirrlifa TTia ? .? ..0??. ivuwbiviio nuiu mUFO 8C" rious anil composed than on the night previous. What they weic, of course was only known to himself, but they seemed to result in something decided, for about midnight three distinct raps were made at his wife's door. No answer. The signal was repeated in a louder tono ; stiD all was silent; and the third time the door shook with the violent attack from the outside. "Who's there?" cried his wife, just aroused from a deep sleep. "It's ine, my dear; and perhaps a little the best Whig you ever saw." The revolution in his opinion was radical and permanent. lie removed to Another country, became popular, offered himself as a . candidate tin the Whirr lintwt for tlio legislature, and was elected, and for several sessions represented his adopted country as a Arm and decided Whig, although not so noisy and disputatious as before. i; ' *m SST Many a true heart, that .would have come back like a dove to the ark, uftor its first transgression, has been frightened beyond recall by the angry look pbd ttienace FASHIONABLES AT SARATOGA. A correspondent of one of our New J , York cily exchanges, draws quite an inter- ' j csting picture of fashionable life at Sarato- i ga. If it be true, that the circumference ' h i of a fashionable dressed woman thcro is ' 1 about seven feet and a half, and of the ten ! J i , thousand visitors said to be at that interest- ji ing locality, one half belong to the softer ; 1 sex, Saratoga must be in quito a crowded i 1 I conuiuoti. jsut for the fact that tlicse hoop- t i ed petticoats are suspended on a peg at i ! niidit, wo think it would ho a difficult task i j to furnish sleeping accommodations for c j the ten thousand souls that are now diink- [ ' ing Congress water in that delectable re- I j . noil. t I 'Ihe correspondent above alluded to v says : J ' ! I The circumferencc of a fashionable dress- j ed woman here, is about seven feut and a i *' half, and when two of these animals get | waltzing together they look like a largo I N balloon inverted. The daily occupation of . ^ the fair creature begins with dressing in j c elaborate morning attire and promenading j ' to the Congress Spring, where site takes i 1 two or three glasses of the water, lieltirn- | J1 ing she has a sylph like breakfast?then I dresses for a drive. After the drive she = takes an anti-prandial snooze, or receives a J s snob or two. Then comes the work of * dressing for dinner, for which she appears I *' like Villikinsin the song in " gallant array," js with all sorts of diamonds and things.? i ' , 1 Dinner is at throe, ami iiils up two hours, i J Next conk*s riding, and in the evening the j 1 fair flowers of creation dance to the iuu.->ic j ' of Monk's Hand; or vagabondise bare-;1 headed about the streets of the village. j 1 Such is the daily life of the Saratoga j 1 belle. She gets up a good many flirtations* : ' and she likes it. Look at that splendid j J creature in pink, she has already exhausted i 1 three waltzing men, and is now flirting with 1 ? ' ... i a thin voutli in tliu eonipr. I T.? is Ii.iI-ik* j her that lie is uil' for Newport tomorrow 1 J ami wants a l?it of her liair before he leaves. j She tries to look sorry, l?ut is really lliink- j t j itig whether he could give her a brown , i stone front in a good street ami ten tliou- ! 1 i I sand a year. j <The daily life of the.snob at the springs j c is about the same as that of the belles, if ' he is a ladies' snob, lie is her cavalier ser- | 1 vieute, an.I revolves around her hoops. lie i 1 in treated as she treats her lap dog, and is j ^ thrown a smile with tho same air that | 1 Fidolo receives a chicken bone. But it is 1 the style among some snobs to call '* these l v.onnn a bore you know." These last y j named snobs play billiards, smoke awful ci- ? ! if a IV. drive lloI'M'S wliifli nro l.omrl.l ???.l 5 ; o-m-mi ilie buyers sold at the .i;unu time, ami <?llicr- 1 wise spend their time in those healthy and c invigorating sports which make the American snob so valuable a member of society. The ladies' snob is preferable to the liorso i and billiard snob. i - - r HOOPED PETTICOATS. j j 4i Does not de ladies wear umbrella petti- I coats J For sartin thev do. What's de J , consequence ? Whalebone's lip and 1 j sometimes triilible for de sisters' safety when I sec a gust of wind eoinin, for tear f some ob dem will go up like a balloon and j( come down like a pankako. De ladies' j petticoats hab got to sich a spread dat a gemmon can't git in ten foot ob dem, and t it takes a putty niitihle feller to make his way trew Broadway ob an arternoon widout n skinning his shins on de projection hoops. ^ lie has to pick his way like a kitten over a 0 slinnerv fence, or ?. crnli nn ? M.-.* " ? " t boacli.' It's all wanity, my frens, but I diilei't "know how much vanity ?dar wus in a a modern petticoat till brodder Ike Soracrdike axidently broke 6ister Frorinda's bones ^ laas lecture nito as she tried to squeeze past ,j his long knees to her seat, and it seemed ? to me dat she collapsed and slunked down jj like an old dry umbrella wid do sticks broke, and she, dat a ruinit before, come saliu in as a man ob war, set down as meek c as a drenched tom-cat?one puff and de t] wanity was gone. * * * * Why o do you wear dem ? Do yon spose dat us he fellows aiii bo green as to belebe dat you am rancid as much Jike a wasp as your . hooped petticoats would infer? If you do, c you may as well rip otit de bones at once. Do you spose dat mankind don't noe dat ?! human natur nebber formed a woman wid ^ a bead like an applet a bust like two pote- ' cary globes, a waiste like de shank ob an r* urn, and a body liko a molasses hogshead ? , If you ebber find a case wboro natur cut up sich shii'.os wid de 1 human form doviiio,' j jis let mo noe it and 1'le Barnumizo de . kentry ai once wid her. Some ob you In- " aics, i understand, am not content -wit) de simple whale whalebone, buJt liab absolutely ai sowed barrel hoops in your skirt*, as some j" look as if dey had a young hogshead; un- J der deir dtewesj dey Btiok out soiu all dj;- C, reclions. In fact, 'Hoopiania1 rages so Marmingly at de present time, dat de ottoibus folka^aro contemplatin a rise in d&fare V in consequonce pb de double room dey ockepy and de lumber each lady brings in do omnibus wid her. It was rufnored in -Q dte Shfcle lass week, dat young sbr $ tor Johnson bad actually bound herseff ln; .1 ifon&Kps, W4 X 1 tin A. hnon d? tail* of deir Al.oMirMii V HAPPINESS. Mr. President,?Happiness is like 11 crow, j erched on llio lop of a l'ar oil' distant Mountain, which some fishermen vainly trives, to no purpose, to ensnare. Ho ! ooks at the crow, Mister President, and, ! blister President, tl.o crow looks at him, md, sir, they both look at each other.? | Jut the moment ho attempts to reproach > lim, he banishes away like the schismatic j aitits of the rainbow, the cause of which, , t was the astonishing ami perspiring genus of a Newton, who first deplore! and ; mvelopcd the causo of it. Cannot the )oor, man, sir, precipitate, into all the >enutics of nature?from the loftiest niouii- j ain, up to the most humblest valley, as , veil as the man prepossessed of indigence? j fes, sir! While trilling transports crown j lis view, and rosy hours allure his sanguiu- i try youth, he can raze his mind up to tlio i aws of nature, incompressible as tlicy are, ! vhile viewing the lawless storm, that i i cindletli up, the tremendous, wailing thun- 1 ler, and frycth up the dark and rapid lightng, and causeth it to fly through the inensily of space, that belches forth their twful and sublime meteors, and " ri'llvbolyallussus," through the unfathomable regions* of fiery hemispheres. Sometimes, 1r, scaled in some lovelv retreat beneath : | lie shadowy shades of an umbrageous tree, it whose venal foot flows sonic limnin<r. i i O' I tagnant stream, lie gathers around Iiim lis wife and the rest of liis orphan children. i le there takes a retrospective view upon J he diaphragm of Futurity, and easts his -ye, like a flashing meteor, forward into lie Past. Seated in their midst, aggravated and exhaled by the dignity and iude>endence coincident with honorable poverty, lis couuteuaiice irrigated with an intense jlow of self-deficiency and excommunicated ! cnowledge; he there endeavors to distil j nto their youthful minds useful lessons to j juard juvenile youth agahisl vice and im- | tiorlulil v. Theie, on a dear sunny evening, when lie silvery moon is shining forth in all her udulgeiice au>l ubiquity, he teaches ihc list sediments of gastronomy, by pointing nil lo them the bear, the lion, and many >ther fixed, invisible consternations, which ; ire continually involving upon their axle- I rees, through the blue cerulean accompany* j iient above. luom tin vast clherial he 1 lives with them to tlie very bottum of the infathoinablo ocean, bringing uj) fruin hence liquid treasures of carllfnnd air. He lieu courses with them 011 the imaginable ving of fancy, through the boundless re;ions of unimaginable ether, until swelling nto impalpable immensity, he is forever ost in the infinite radiation of his own >ver\vhelming genius. DENNIS AND THE POST MASTER. "llillo ! Mister Post Master, and is there ver a letther here for Dennis O'Callahan ixjuiied the identical Dennis himself as ho ode up to Uic door of a certain post ofikc u Ohio. " I believe there i.-..'' replied tbe post lias tor, stepping back and producing the utter at tbe door. " And you will be so kind as to rade it i>r me, seem' I bad tbe misfortun' to be edcated to raa*. ujver a bit in tbe woild?' nimbly asked Dennis. " To be sure, sir," said tbo accommodaitig post master. lie opened tbe epistle and read, witli n ;ood deal of difliculty, three interesting pa- 1 ;es concerning Dennis' folks and affairs in 1 Id Ireland, the said Dennis with botli legs 1 urned on the same side of the saddle, lis eneu an me n unc witn Becoming meekness 1 nd gratitude. "Much obliged to yer honor, for trou- ' I'm' yourself and consumin' yer valyblo ' inie will* the like of me and mine ; how ' luch might be the postago of my let- ' lier ?" ' " Fifty cents, sir." "A very reasonable price for such a j omfortin' letlher; but as I could nivcr { liiuk of axin' yer worship to crediL the liku | f me, ye may jiat beep the letlher for jmy" x Let the Children Sinff.?The editor of ' iie American Magazine, in speaking of vo- ( td music, says : 1 "All children can learn to sing, if they * ommence in season. In Germany, every 1 liild is taught to us^its voice while young. e u their schools, all join in singing, as a 1 jgnlar exercise, as much as tliey attend to ' ic study of geography; and in their c liurelies singing is not confined to the r lioir, that sits apart from the others, per- v nps in one corner of the house, hut there a vast tide of that incense going forth to 1; od from every heart that call give utter- g nee to this language from the soul. In t Idition to tlio delightful influence music a (id upon the character, it has also a mark- t j influence in suppressing pulmouary com- 0 Dr. Rush used to say that the 0 ia*>jr why the Germans seldom die of con- g Hnption, was tliat they were always sing- y A JSensibU Emperor.?The Emperor of v jWna, instead of paying'the doctor us we y' wlien w# are unwell, the instant he is f, the pay of his physicians, enew it until he is quito well ], . ??'i&ij' <*. FEMALE BEAUTY. " 1 )ean Swift proposed to lax female beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms, lie said tlie lax would be cheerfully paid, and very productive." " Kontenelle thus daintily compliments the sex, when lie compares women and clocks?the lntlev serve to point out the hours, the former to make us forget them." "The standards of beauty in woman vary with those of taste. Socratcs calls beauty a short-lived tyranny; l'lato, a privilege of nature; TheophraM-iw, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice ; Carueadeas, a .solitary kingdom ; ami Aristotle udirmcd that it was better than all the Liters of recommendation in the world." With the modern (5reeks and other nations on the shores of the Mediterranean corpulency is the perfec tion of form in woman ; and those very attiibulcs which disgust the western European, form the attractions of an Oriental fair. It was from the common and admired shape of hid country-women, that Kubens in his pictures delights so much in a vulgar and odious plumpness:?when his master was desirous to represent the 'beautiful,' he had no idea of beauty under two hundred weight. J I s very graces are all fat. lJut it should be remembered that all his models were Dutch women. The hair is a beautiful ornament of women, but it has always been a disputed point which color most becomes it. We account red hair an abomination; but in the time of Elizabeth it found admirer.*, and was in fashion. Mary of Scotland, though she had exquisite hair of her o\\ n, wort' Mollis, i.loopatra was red-haired; and the Venetian ladies to tliis day conn terfeit yellow tair.'' " -\lier all that may l>o said or sai.g about il, bi'Mily is an undeniable fact, and its endowment not to be disparaged. Sydney Smith gives -omc good advice on the sub joct. 'Never teach fulsome morality. IIow exquisitely absurd to teach a girl that beauty is of no valu--, dress of no use! Beauty iof value?her wl.ulo prospects and happiness in lii'o may often depend upon a new gown or a becoming bonnet; if she bus live grains of common sense, she will find this out. J lie great thing is to teach her their ju?>L value, and there must be something better under the bonnet than a pretty face, for leal happiness. But never sacrifice truth.'"?Suluil fir the Suctul. Curious Habits of Muvkervl.?The habits of these fr>h are very peculiar. And although they have been taken in immense numbers for thice quarters of a century, their habits arc not well understood. They often move in immense bodies, apparently filling the ocean for miles in extent. They arc found near the sii'face. Sometimes thoy will take the hook v.ith great eagerness; at other times, not a mackerel will bite for days, although millions of them arcvisible in the water. When they are in the mood of taking the bait, ten, twenty, and even thirty barrels are taken by a single vessel in a few hours. They usually bile most l'reelv soon after sunrise in the morn ing, and toward sun sot at evening. * They all ccase to bite about the same tunc, as if they were actuated by a common impulse. They are easily frightened, and will descend into def'j. water. It has often happened that a fleet of vessels have ucvii j iii-j i P. the Cape, say a mile or two from the shore in the midst of a school of mackerel, and taking thorn rapidly upon their decks, when Lhe firing of a gun, or the blast of the roffi, would send every mackerel fathoms dec]) iiiiu wie wuicr, as suuuemy :is mougl) tti<;y liad been converted into so many pigs of lead, and perhaps it would be somo hours liefoio they would re-appear. Thcv are .'aught more abundantly near the shore, and rery rarely out of sight of lanJ.? Old Col>ny Mimofiul. The Largest liuotn.?The largest room n the world is ,1 St. i'etersburg, Bussia, ?nd is (550 feet in length and 150 feet in jreadtli. By daylight it is used for militay displays, and a battalion can eonvenienty maneuver in it. In the evening it is )ften converted into a vast ball room, when t is warmed by sixteen prodigious stoves, ?nd '20.000 wax tancrs are romiirud to liorlit 1 - 1 ?? t properly. Tho roof of tbis structuro is u ingle arch of iron, the bars alone on which t rests weighing twelve thousand eight iiindrc-d tin thirty puutuls. The most wonlerful part of the room is, that there is lot a single pillar or arch to obstruct the iew. A Good Old Age.?We learn from a reiablc source, that there is residing at Johnonville, Williamsburg District, a lady by ue name 01 siugieton, who is 130 yoars of ge. Slio is a native of Georgetown l)isrict, was n grown young My at the time f Braddock's defeat, and can Recount many f tlio incidents of the revolutionary war.. >hc has been perfectly blind for thirty ears, but enn walk about tho house ^d Aid with no other Assistance than a waiklg stick.?Marion Stnr, . Right.?A young lady writing tt> befriends, Bays of the. polka, "The^dansin' on't aipount to mqob, but ii?o huggin' is t3T A liUle girl, observing a goose \Viih vnkrt on. AxeliunMl M Wli*? !- ' J F "7 ?M?| lUvl JU i goose g^OOreSs^n. It walks jttal lilcoj "... ' i j4< *> *1*1 . r^+'lL' TtrVft* 'til' <?^ji j ii Ji J ?; u LL ^ ru | 8ALT TO DESTROY WORMS, &C, Iii that excellent paper, the (.lerinaiitowu j Telegraph, \vc fiml some remarks on tho , value of salt lo destroy worms in vegetahies. Wo copy what follows: A weak ; brine, not exceeding tho strength of sea wa- ;t^gfl|H j tcr, proves :i remedy for tho "squash de- j slroycr," one of tho insidious and persovcr* ! ing, as well as voraciously destructive one- ^gJH| i ? j uncs wuii which the gardener grower is called to contend. It > most ellVctual preventive of aj plant lice, vermin which prcv upoi. j bage and turnip tribes. In every . of the application of biilic to tho. j Lies, tliat has fallen Under our ob: its success litis been complete. .N need be apprehended from a ve application, say one quart to a ph solution be of tlic strength indicat All the cabbage tribe are liable (1..T.-0.I f..?.>n.. 11 . ?....v. ...vniij tnjiircu uy mini i golft, resembling, very nearly, tho j in cheese, ami which are doubtless .. _ Jr, \ of some H v. There is another cm. . ' ?&&* . . . ' by which tlu-y are frequently im ?' | small grub, similar, in many re those found in corn and potato 1 which not uiifrcqueutly prove very tive. Salt water applied to the j have a tendency to arrest their ! lions, ai:d if the application be| i'f* ' && I frequently, say once in two or thj ' [it will effectually dost rev or dril ? , i ol ;. j The water, however, should u .-Ift 1 lowed to come in contact with lit ^ r. l'< ' : * ? - iAl" - HMO inoi.uii.c, UUI JSllOll 111 1X3 9 ^".,2 the soil immediately nrouiul tlie et wiiliout coming in actual contact w v.V 'To destroy llio first named insect i l?e applied in a state snJliciently UM v. % ; admit of perfect ablution of ever[the foliage; but :is wo said bof cvJ.; j must be taken not to make it too t.ron^. t.' . c it will destroy tho plant. Eve - \'i-.'%+knows, or ought to know, that tho t of cabbage, lettuce, spinach, ?fcc. water before coo.cing or preparui & . , , . . . _ . * iR : t-I 1 V I/I ID Sltrl uiviv, in on: m ill VAJIC1 CVV.TJ' b{>OCU . sect which so frequently seeks a li '*Y&S or a shelter ii) these vegetables.-* A'/rlcullurisl. ' ' ! * : MULCHING. . ' y ^vvf;5*.f This is a tcrtn used by horticult i '> ijii shading the ground aroundjfrowii ^t '* shrubs, and plants. Tlicrp aro mai ' so delicate in their structure,'ttiat i ^ solutely require mulching the firsti z&'iJ-S&e to ensure their roots a Ih'm hoi ground, liut as most of our 6gui: ?;-* i so dry and hot, there aro few.. are not benefited by mulching. ' J' If the gruutul around fruit trees stimuuJ: 5 of the weeds and gr;ys, and inuh ' vi 'v.t'y leaves or straw, immediately iR r h v;*i -. ihe tree will be invigorated, QIi?j :r thid ,x.v. crop of fiuit wilj bo the reward. that are wiliiiiy, ami showing! bloom will be revived, and bloom ; by miililiiiiLf ivlicn the ground is n 'iiu.-'~'ra?lg6|& The Dahlia, a plant that requir >\ ?to# deal of moisture, will bloom in ; <.: ' vt'e^UppS8^ until frost, if kept properly u'ulctj^d^ throughout the summer. Now, . r v" * recommend mulching, we do ni ; .ifi>. few leaves or straws placed ill! fvl'ifi . 1*' ;;'oinid the plant, but a coatiuj JiJtk/': tj | that the sun ?.7.'.""ot. penetrate tin ami. j placed as far from the jY.V*"' or : %'y": ilium-lieu i>i uiu roois extend. Anytiimg^^iflK lliat will shade the ground; rock, brick plank, will answer to mulch with ; but fcuUi stances that in their decomposition make a soil, are decidedly preferable. The niitive forests mulch themselves, and weseo ' "1 fi how rank and vigorous they grow. Wo think, that unless tho surface be kept stantly stirred around a tlee or pluut^-lM^ rays of the sun should never rest upqjir Those who luck upon labor and effort^'iw;?5|g|5 great bug bear, may get along mulching. Hut those who mulch proMmuH^^^W actually savo time and labor, for whetfeft ft-^EBBag! well done, the labor is done for j and the soil is all the time being enrwi^^-^^prv: j as the plant grows and perfects 1 Therefore wo say to the orohardiat, iiiuuuu m nces 10 iuo \jne-grower, mulch around the grape vines; to the gar-. , doner, mulch among the vegetable* 5 to ouf fair lady floiihU, mulch among tho flowers, mulch?mulch ? mulch. Never tire if MM mulching.? Soil of the t?QU'A, j A Ruled Apple Pudding.?Pare-aht) ' ' quarter four large rt[>plcs, boil thein tender . with the rind of^ i^Qiyj^soditt$p water vp that nothing may reml^iajrheD done but \ : the juice, and thecrtim]^j?>fra small roll, fa- *3 01. butter, meUod, tlieiyo}|(^^^^u^^ * wliitrn IrS llifnd ? maining \vhytes-i*^5* round tb? oc^j^f iftie dftb; grUfi^liUlO * white sugar over, when baked, >' To Clean IVal\ Paper,?Soiiwl pers may be made to. look an well {kM)h^^;^ * i ?s new, in moat o?8b8, by the follpj^U>j| ? pedient:?Take nbout