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mm mrnmm Miia ^ tTWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM ] "tiie prioe 01- liberty is eteh3staxi vigilanoh." [PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. * BY DAVIS & IIOLUNGS WORTH. ABBEVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1856. VOX- xtit ^ ^ ttii u Q ^ IS Ua Ik !A llii IS & iiii 3 THE NEGRO-QUESTION AND THE TRUTH. Philanthropy is universally allowed to bo a very charming characteristic of modern life, especially when it is masked, as in Jioston, by some little book learning and Bnivils its periods according to the inexorable rule3 of rhetoric. It always reminds us forcibly of the respectablo old gentleman, venerable in gray hairs and the glory of i learning, who sold Moses, tho son of the Vicar of Wakefield, a gross of spectacles "winio uo announced to lmn that " wc know nothing of tlio world now-a-days." The South has been playing Moses for many years, and the North has been as profound as the venerable Mr. Jeiikinson, on all her deficiencies and needs; but tlie time is about to come when wc will be shrewd enough not to swop our excellent ' family horse for a gross of sea-green spectacles; not to exchange, in fact, our property, our position, our hopes, for a lot of worthless " Yankee notions," though the latter may be backed by an extraordinary amount of scholastic impudence. Philanthropy is a very decent-looking, well dressed, affable old humbug, but wc scarcely want any more of its spectacles. "We would not have been betrayed into ' theso remarks, but that philanthropy has ! been claiming a remarkable share of pub- \ lie opinion of late, and wc deem it neces- ; sarv to cx.nninn It ?i.~ : meed of popular applauso so eagerly demanded by its worshippers. Wo arc afraid of mistaking Tartufte for a sincere gentleman, or Joseph Surface for an honorable friend ; and bitter experience has compelled us to submit Philanthropy, whenever or wheresoever we encounter it, to a very strict and starching examination. It may be a good naturcd fool, like Fourier or an eloquent dreamer, like Louis Klaucbut, on the contrary, it may be an arrant knave like Greeley, or a dangerous agitator like Seward. Many a fighting-man wears a Quaker's costume; many a rogue has an excellent reputation ; and many a seller of sea-green spectacles, like Mr. Jenkinsoii, or of wooden clocks, like Sam Slick, may be exceedingly erudite in the language which clothes his rascality. In truth, we have al ways to pause when Philanthropy begins to speak, and ask, with the liev. Mr. Primrose, whether we " iiave not heard this on another occasion." 'Die peculiar phase of Philanthropy in the United Stales, as our readers are aware, is negro-worship; it adores an African ; it admires his limbs as much as Miss Jlwmor, who encountered a " black Apollo" in New Orleans; it fondles his ebony beauty and plays with his wool, like Tiuania when she caressed the long ears of the ambitious Bottom ; it is ready to sacrifice its life (in print) in the great struggle for the "regeneration" of a racc which is now inliniii-K' I better oft* than it ever was, or ever will be again if Abolitionism succeeds in the realisation of its views. But, mind you, this afloction is all wasted on the well fed Southern slave, for the African in the Norlh has no claims on the sympathy of Hie people ; ho is anathema and stinks in the nostrils; ho cannot be admitted to an omnibus, or permitted to live in any more aristocratic quarter than the Five Points. This is only natural, inasmuch as tne poor negro lias no earthly chance of competition in a community which possesses intelligent white labor at four dollars a week, and pays two cents each for its shirts to its unfortunate milliners. ltecalliug the foregoing facts, whicl. have often been mentioned before, we are foiced to certain conclusions on the relations of modern philanthropy and abolitionism.? AVe are compelled to think that tho North does not really desire by its IHack Republicanism to elevate and improve the negro, but only to humiliate the South by the ? ' > * juuiuiuum uso 01 ciap-traps which women (old and young) aro always certain to mistake for truths. This view o' the question is somewhat novel amongst us. We are accustomed to receive the speeches of the Abolitionists seriously ; to investigate them seriously ; to answer thom seriously; when in reality, they have no existence, save on paper, and no Biguificance, save in printer's ink. When Parker or Greeley talk of human freedom and the co-equal rights of the blacks, we have invariably replied to Parker and Greets 1 ! ivy vy tscienunc ana commercial proofs of the necessity of slavery; as if the said Parker or Greeley believed a word of their elaborate gibberish 1 They know the negro race as well as we do ; they do not desire its freedom, because it is incapable of using its freedom io a practical and sensible way; but they perceive the weak point, or what they consider the weak point, (though it is tho strongest point, in fact,) of tho Southern States?and, accordingly, putting on the armor of philanthropy, and mounting the Rosinante of cant, they charge and shiver their Unces on a wind,rt51L !n?l?i?M? ? ' u viuu U1VUJJII III IS not under arms, and able to resist their most desperate .usauHs. ^ "VVe do not mean to imply that these meo?-the Hales, .Seward* and Groeleys of the North?are not sincere and earnest ; for thai would he childish and prepoptei* ousin the extreme. We only say ' they are not sincere in their noisy affection for \ W^r^jrYliMSliis I III tlio African race, and caro vciy liltlo as to whether it is free in Liberia, "starving in Jamaica, or housed and clad and fed in tlio Southern States. On a very diilerent idea their sincerity (for they possess that gift) is based. They perceive that two nations exist on this bounteous soil of ours?tlio Northern and tho Southern. They recognise the same phenomenon which is the secret of British politics?tho incompatij bility of the honest agricultural character I with that of tho money-monopolist?the i difference, in a word, between Richard Cobden and the Earl of Derby. They believe, like the bourgcoisc of London and Liverpool, that every feeling of national honor, every instinct of real liberty, every manly principle must be made suservient to tho Price Current; and therefore, as the South docs not share their views, and has not yet surrendered the good old patriarchal notions of the sanctity of nic family?of the chivalry required from individuals, of the superiority of intellect to wealth, and the right of Thought to govern Gold instead of Gold becoming tho overseer of Thought ?therefore, we say, they aro in earnest in their unholy crusado against us, and will prosccute it to the bitter end. They desire to subjugate us politically, as a necessary preliminary to subjugating us socially and commercially. They wish to degrade whites, not to elevate blacks. They have no other ambition, no other hope. What is Sambo to them, or they to Sambo ? Some dyspeptic women amonsrst them mav ailmirn w J Sambo, but three-fourths of their number despise him and would whip him on the sly if they had a chance. They regard the struggle, as we view it now, in the light of a war between two separate nationalities? two people distinct in their habits, opinions and faith; and herein they are light. We trust every Southern man will pass over the clap-traps of the Philanthropists ?iiii contempt, ami examine tlic question from Ibe point of view which we have rather hastily suggested.?J\rcio Orleans Delia. Those members of the Whig party who have sacrificed their party attachments on the altar of their country, merit the public i gratitude. They should be remembered in i the day of reward, for they have not forgotten that country in the hour of its peril. Honors and distinctions may bo by them unsought, but true policy requires the un- > ion in the public service of all who by position and character can strengthen the conservative sentiment of the country. An attempt to revolutionize the government has been baffled by the united firmness of those who refused to surrender the constitution to faction. Such men as Toombs, Stevens and llutijamin in the South, with m ?i />.?? - .? " . . l vjiiuiiiv iiiiu v^unis in me lvist, have liad the moral courage to renounce ties which were incompatible with their constitutional obligations. Some of them have courageously braved the opposition of the majority iu the communities in which they live. AVo find a parallel to such conduct in times only that try the patriotism of noble spirits. In the War uf 1812 the liberal Federalists of that day cut themselves loose from party attachments, which would have placed them in opposition to their country. The mass of the Eastern Federalists, like the bulk of the Eastern Whigs of the present day, assumed a hostile attitude towards the Government. They would have paralyzed its nrm. They discouraged all who would by loan or material aid assist in the public defence. They wore in the commission of moral treason then; they are traitors to the Constitution now. Then it was that the Draytons and Pinckneys of the South refused all political association with those who construed that instrument to suit their factious views, as the Choates and Curtises deny affiliation with those who would interpret it to in the spirit of social levellers and revolutionirts. The parallel is complete between the Blue Light Federalists of 1812 and the Abolitionists of 18f>8, as it is between the patriotic Whigs 1 or that day and tlio present.? Charleston Evening Nexus. ^ Typographical Blunders.?The Franklin Register lately published an address by the 1 Rev. Mr. Abbott, and in its next issue noted ' the following correction: 44 For 4dum swizzle,' please read 4 promi- ' nence.'w This was bad enough, but the next week ' the same paper bad the following: u In an advertisement which appeared in ! our last pnper, for 'Bumbleton's storm de- ! Btroying porringers,' read 'Hamilton's worm 1 destroying lozenges.'" Faulkener, who edited the Dublin Jour- j ual, announced in glowing tenps the arri- j val in that city of a distinguished member of the British nobility. On the next day, j his paper contained the following very H?r ^ bernian correction: 1* - uor Her Grace the Duke,' in y eater- ( day'? journal, read 'Hit Grace the Du- ^ chess." Ho improved the matter quite a* much as the good clergy map in England did, Who, < without book, was praying, and said: ' 1 " Oh, Lord, bless All classes of people, .< from the beggsroUtho throne to theking J on the dunghill?we mean from thejting 1 throne," t \ ik THE "I CANT'S." Tho "T cant's" arc numerous ami ubiquitous. Their numbers arc astonishing. A curious statistician estimates that about one-half of the children born into the world, are furnished by Nature with a remarkable lingual facility for the utteranco of this brief and cowardly sentence. Neither time nor experience enables them to abolish from their vocabulary these fatal words, and from tho cradle to the grave they drag a slipshod life, spent in accomplishing nothing, from the fact that they lack tho energy and | will necessary to accomplish. These human drugs are recognisable anywhere under any circumstances, and in whatever garb. In the palace, but more often in tho prison, especially in such enlightened States as ours, where prisons serve as a welcome refuge to many of them, who are too utterly worthless to get their own living, and therefore force their creditors to g^? it for tltem. And with this exception, we can seo no other humane purpose in a debtor's prison. Of the regal and ducal " I cant's," history furnishes loo many examples to need illustration at our hands.? Of titled members of the order, of lower degree, the world is cursed with a less number than formerly, for the reason that the I :? ' i?iv;o is uymg 01 mere liisniii' \*; but 111 t!io grout world, among the mas^s, it ii as'. jaishing what a host of drones share the honey of the liccs' gathering. Regarding everything they do jus hardship, looking upon labor as an evil, it seems to be a sort of moral duty with such men to do as little as possible, and got all they can for it. " I can't" is their shibboleth and shield. Propose to tlieni the accomplishment of whatever new work, anything out of the beaten track, any little addition to what they have done, and see ! how, like trained jackdaws, their beaks fly open?without a moment's consideration of the possibility or desirability of the doing?and out it conies, like the "pretty.Polly 1" of a pet parrot?" I can't." We have said you may know them everywhere : in tltft l.'rridotivn liolU K_? - Q.w . w inviiOj VII bilU UclLllo fieKl, in the council chamber, at the bar, in the counting-house, in the studio, at the bench, or in the furrow; for they are spawned everywhere, and among all classes of industrials, merchants and mechanics. Vou may know 141 can't" as well by what he does, as by what he will not try to do; and a miserable, mumbling, mealy-mouthed, mountain-raising, and molehill-moving mummy of a man, will you find him in any of these pursuits. Jle is always for delay, "lie hasn't time, or lie hasn't tools; lie lacks means, or he must have more help;" you " had better wait," or he knows " it is impossible;" anything rather than do it.? "I'll try !" never comes into his head, as it did into Capt. llragg's; to try being just what he wishes to escape from ; while to say "I can't," is the easiest as well as the meanest method of accomplishing his desires. " I can't," is a humbug and a nuisance, and society ought to make him sensible of the fact by kicking him without its pale. All things arc possible to God; and of the countless things possible to man, through the right use of the gifts he has bestowed upon liim, not one in a hundred have yet been accomplished ; myriads of failures resulting from the soulless efforts and combinated blunderings of the inanimate host of " i cants." jy boy, of Bound body and mind, ought to be punished every time lie uses the phrase, by the adoption of which salutary corrective, tho number of the men who will use it can materially bo diminished. "Can't," is tho most contemptible combination of letters known to tho English scholar ; and it may be 6afcly assumed thati neither Alfred nor Arkwright, Milton nor Maury, Washington nor Whitney, Girard nor Astor, nor any other among tho glorious galaxy of determinate industrial 6tars, ever yet recognised tho canting use to which the pliraso is put by such as we describe.?HunCs Morals for Merchants. Hallucination.?Ten years ago, a wealthy farmer named Simmonds, living near Newburg, on the Hudson River, " had a presentiment" that he would die on the 20th day of August, 1856. So strongly was he impressed with the strAngo idea, iliat he regarded his deceaso at the timo mentioned as a matter of certainty. lie selected a jpot for his grave, brought an iron railling to surround it, and had a fine tombstone , Mid an elegaut coffin preparod and brought to his house. On Thursday last, the day indicated by the "presentiment," he bad /tloviwman am*1 i_1.? - * 1 * - v.v>gjnuu nu uiiuoriuKor at uanu, ind at two o'clock in tho afternoon, after 1 ' j having partaken, with his friends, of a hearty dinner, lie went to bed for tho pur-? 1 pose of yielding up the ghost. He tried 1 bis best to die, but couldn't and was at last | obliged to confess that he had been a slave if a ridiculous hallucination. It is said ' that hundreds of people flocked to his house to sde him expire. ' ???y?Lim?.jj i . Gun Maying.?th*numbar of raecbani- i ?1 p$oc&w necswwry to comploto a guo ' .ook k 101 tor the Urrel, 38fc>r the From the S. C. Agriculturist. REPORT ON FISH PONDS AND FI8H CULTURE, READ BEFORE THE NEWBERRY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. BY COI? W. S. LYLES, CHAIRMAN. Two years ago, tho report on tho successful culture of fish by a Mr. Hill, near Augusta, Georgia, called my attention to tho subject. J laving near my house a suitable location, (a hollow in the hills, with two or three bold springs breaking forth,) I laid off a pond forty-five feet wide, and seventy feet long. I then proceeded, by digging the earth from the upper side to a level with the surface water of llio springs, [ to construct a dam on tlio lower side, six feet high with a seven feet base. This cnabled ine to raise a live foot head of water, at which point a small trunk of common * # | plank was inserted as a waste away. In this pond, I placed, in the month of April last, sonic six or seven hundred fish, such as perch, mawniouths, silvers and minnows. To these I havo since added a few others, such as trout, flyers, &c. The increase in sizo of these fish has been verv *? !.!!/? 1 ? ?~, i? uuu nivj mcreaso ill uunibcr has been enormous, indeed, I bolievo ten thousand, from the appearance in the pond, would be a moderate estimate* Ac yet I have only used a few for the table, preferring to wait another year for their increase in size and the thorough stocking of the pond. I have, however, been enabled to spare to several of my neighbors, who have since erected ponds, a sullicicnt number to start the culture with. The pond being too small fur such a vast ,.C *5.-1- * - " ' ui iisn 10 procuro subsistence in tlio ordinary way, I have been compelled} of course, to feed thein. Almost anything answers for this purpose, such as shreds of meat, crumbs ?f bread, hominy, wheat bran, entrails of fowls chopped line, together v.'.lh the oll'al of all animals, &c. Occasionally, 1 furnish them with a treat in the way of earth worms, grubs caterpillars, ?fcc. I have recently learned from a gentleman connected with the Japan expedition, that the Chinese, who are perfectly uu fuit in fish culture, feed and fatten tlieir fish on fresh cow dun!* and trrass chonncd finn. generally that among us, known to farmers as purslam. "Whether tliis will answer, I am unable to say, but su> I intend to make a trial, I trust I shall be able to report at a future day. The varieties of fish proper for such ponds as mine or any still waters, I think, arc bream, tho pcrcli, tlie mawinouth, the red-bellied perch, the trout, &c. I would by all mcaus avoid the pike, tho jack, and that horrid fish, known as tlie cat. The objections to tlic.se are that they aro ex- ! treinely voracious, and prey not only upon ' tho spawn, but the small fry of all other fishes ; besides this the two former are very bony, while tho latter is scnrccly fit even for a stew. The trout too is a voracious fish, and tho propriety of breeding them with other fish is very doubtful; but as I took care to stock my pond well with minnows, before I procured tho trout, I hope to be able to succeed. This fact, however* only can be settled by time. The cost of my pond was only twentyfive flflllnrs !in<l iccnfflninntl" " .uoumviviiiijr liligU} L tlllllK, fur llio purpose. The gentleman referred to previously, informed mo that almost every garden in China had its fish pond, many of them not more than ten feet square. In these, however, the fish were only fattened, while they wero bred elsewhere. If this be so, it follows that every man in the State can havo a pond, who has a spring or running brook on his place and at an expense so trifling, in comparison to tho advantage, that its cost will be a raero bagatelle. In my neighborhood there are now, besides my own, four fish ponds, and one near Winnsboro, belonging to my relative, Capt. T. W. "Woodward, commenced at tho same timo or beforo my own. Ilis experience has so far been norfontlr 4 j nuu he concurs with me, that fish can be as easily propagated and raised as poultry. 1/ such bo tho fact, and I sincerely believe it, why Bhould not every man have his fish pond as well as his poultry yard ? To say nothing about tho pleasure of angling, the fact that fish can be obtained at all seasons, when poultry is scarce, <fcc., ought to determine the question favorably. In conclusion, I will say that my experience is too limited as yet to dotermino what varieties of fish aro best for particular localities, Ac. How to get Rid of Flies.?A French noriAi* fV*a At* TT??? *? r..(.v., >Uv wunui uu jinvru, in auuaing to a plan lately suggested for driving away flics, (iho use of laurel oil) states that no fly will enter a room in which a wreath i)f walnut leaves has been hung up. The Courier do Lion, in referring to tho aame jubjoct, says: 44 It i? a curious fact that although the butchers' shops at Geneva are all open, ,and in immense number of flies may be seen on the' outside wall, not onp comes inside. IliU is c&uted by the inner watts being rqbbed oyei with laurel oil, which is an^effectual preventive adrainsL the intrnalrm 5 ?Uo with wec<^ w 4 ***** i..;? ... i ..?: " ': &%? ? -*&&&: ' AN IRISHMAN IN THE TELEGRAPH OFFICE. " An' is this House's telegraph ?" asked a Hibernian, the otlior day, as ho entered tlio office in Boston. On being infortnod it was, a dialogno ensued, of which tho following is a verbatim report:? Pat.?Is Mistlior House in? Clerk.?No. I attend to the busines here. l'at.?Oeh, yo do ! Well, can ye send to ine brother Mick, in New York ? Clerk.?Yes. llavo you your inessago written ? Pat.?O bother! Divil a need of givin' Mick a message in writin', at all, at all.? Just givo him this five dollar bill, suro, for to help pay the fine the blackguards put upon him. Clerk.?But we cant send money by tch'graph. Mouey must go by mail. Pat.?Shuro what 'ud I go buy male for? An' isn't it three pecks of illegant male I have in the house already 1 Clerk.?No. You dou't understand. I mean by post. Pat.?Post is it i In a 1 either ? An' yo can't send it by Iho telegraph ? Clerk.?No. All wo can do is, if you have a message we can send that. That is, wc chargo the wire with electricity, and make it write in New York whatever you wish. Pat.?Make it right, is it! Well, now, l>ed:id, that's the thing entirely, .lust make it right with Mick, an' here's five dollars, aviek! Clerk (slightly vexed.)?Wc can do nothing of tho sort! I mean we can write? print the words you want to say to your brother in New York. Pat (scratching his head with a puzzled air.)?If ye can do that, jest be afther dis I coorsin wid him as soon as ye like! Clerk.?l)ul you must write the message you wish to send, upon this bit of paper. Pat.?Oeh! bad luck to it! I haven't the gift o' wntiu' at all, sure. [Here the clerk arranges his papers, atid prepares to write the message for Pat himj self.] Clerk.?What's your brother's name? rat.?Same as me own. Sure we'ro brothers 1 Clerk.?I know that. But what is he called ? Pat.?What is he called ? O! well, in the owld country they tailed him " Shillelah Mick," bekaso of tho mighty fine taste he had at swingin' that bit of a twig; and many's tho sconce ho cracked like an owld taypot, when . Clerk (exasperated.)?I don't care what thoy called him in Ireland. (Jive mo his other name. It is " Mick" what ? Pat.?Och, botheration, no ! Mick Watt is my cousin, and lives in tho county Kerry, and been dead these fivo years?heaven rost his sowl 1 Clerk.?Confound it! Can't you tell me your brother's other name ? He has one besides Michncl, hasn't ho ? Pat.?O yes ! Shure, why didn't ye tell me that's what ye wanted before?for faith, as sure's my uame is Pat Finnecan. vn o "? J ~ should havo been towkl tlie family name of my ancestors begorrA ? Clerk.?All! Finnegan's tlio name. Pat.?No, jewel?Mich Finncgan. Divil and R. Finncgan is there in the family, savin' llory. He has 'listed for a soger. Clerk proceeds to write a message to " Mick," as dictated by Pat?after which he counts the words. The first ten will cost you forty cents, and the others twentyfour, making sixty-four cents in all." Pat.?O, bother the first tin words!? shuro Mick'll never miss 'em. Send the last. nia..l^- 1- J- ' -< 1' vism.? ??o uuu b uu mai. iou muBi pay forty cents at any rate. Pat.?Sorra a bit can I do that. Shure yo may tell Mick that tho r'ason of his j gilt in' no missage from me, was owin' to tho occasion of the money it cost?an' that'll explain the r'ason of his not hearin' from me at all. I [Exit Pat, anathemising tho "dirthy ( wiro machine of a tilegraph and followed | by a not over friendly ejaculation from the , clerk in attendance.] ] Defence of Oen. Walker.?Wm. T.John- 1 son, one of the Americans who was taken ' prisoner by the Costa Ricaus after the bat- 1 tie of Santa Rosa, is out in a letter defend- ' ing Ocn. Walker. His name, it will be remembered, with the names of Bix others, was signed to a circular addressed to llio people of the United States, in which Gen. Walker was accused of being an unprincipled adventurer, and of entiping by false promises young men from the United States to join his army. Mr. Johnson says that the circular is a tissue of falsehoods from beginning to end;. that his signature was put to it without his consent, and that his comrades signed it under intimidation. i. ,.-T ' '? ' * * m " ' ' ; Damage to. th? Cotton in Alabama.? The Montgomery Mail pays: t: "Thft freq??at and copious showers wJLuch .^U during fi>ut a( jast week to the cotto^ crpp. Th^raiM eamMoo^ to do,*py: Wil# to ?h?d off,- and many nf tb/^i^ j ^^':- ' : y-. ? j|^ ELEVEN COURSES OF SOUP AND GINGERBREAD. "Immediately on entering, tho guests were desired to seat themselves, tho Commodore, with Captains Buchanan and Adams, occupying tho highest talilo on tho right haud, and tho regent and his associates tho one opposite on the left. A pair of chop-sticks was placed at each corner of every table; in tho centre was an earthen pot tilled with suki, (the intoxicating drink made by the Lew Chewans,) surrounded with four acorn cups, four large, coarse China cups, with clumsy spoons of the samo material, and four tea-cups. On each table were dishes to the number of some twenty, of various sizes and shapes, and the exact basis of some of which no American knoweth to this day ; possibly it was pig. Of the dishes, however, which wero famliiar to Western apprehension, thcro were sliced boiled eggs, which had been dyed crimson, fish made iuto rolls and boiled in fat, pieces of cold baked fish, slices of hog's liver, su gar candy, cucumbers, mustard, sailed radish tops, and fragments of lean pork, fried. Cups of tea were first handed round; these wore followed by very small cups of saki, which had the taste of French li'jitcur.? Small bamboo sticks, sharpened at one end, and which some of the guests mistook for toothpicks, were furnished, to be used as forks, iu taking balls of meat and dough from the soup, which make the first courseSoup constituted also the next sci<cn courses of the twelve, whereof the repast consisted. The other four were gingerbread, salad made of bean sprouts and young onion tops, a basket of what appeared to bo some dark red fruit, but proved to be balls composed of a thin dough rind covering a sugary pulp, and a delicious mixturo compounded of lieaton nmn nn.i .? ?1? Mtiu ?fc ciciiucr white root with an aromatic taste. Novel as was this bill of faro, the gentlemen of the expedition endeavored, with truo courtesy, to do honor to the repast, and at the end of tho twelfth course respectfully took leave, though they were assured there were twelve more to come. Tho number of the courses indicated a desire to do our countrymen a double share of honor, inasmuch as twelve is tho prescribed number for a royal entertainment."?Dr. Hank's Narrative of Japan Expedition. HOW SHIPS* ARE NA1IED. In tho United States Navy, since the last war, the following rules have been observed in naming vessels: AH the names of the States or rivers, as the case may bo, aro put in a wheel, which is turned, and one name is drawn out at random, which is the namo of the vessel to bo launched. Ships-of-thcline arc named after the States. For instance, the Ohio, North Carolina, Pennsyl vania, &c., all mount seventy-four guns.? Frigates are named after American rivers : tho Columbia, liaritan, Cumberland, St* Lawrence, Merrimac, Sabine, Potomac, ?kc. When you see the name of a river given to a government vessel, it is safe to conclude that slio will not carry more than thirty-six or forty-four guns. Sloops of war arc called after State capitals and others cities?Capt. Ingraham's St. Louis, tho ill-fated Albany, the Vandalia, tho Plymouth, tho Jamestown, all belong to this class. Brigs may be known in print by tho name of some noted naval commauder who has died in service?thus, tho Decatur, Bainbridge, Perry, &c. Revenue cuttors aro named af icr members ot the Cabinet?thus, we have bad the Walter Forward, the Wm. M. Meredith, tho J. S. Dobbin, and probably now havo a "William L. Marcy, a James Guthrie, <fcc. As many of the vessels in the navy wero built previous to the adoption of this bill, there are of course some exceptions to it. Tho Collins steamers are named after waters, and the Cunarders after countries. Bearing this rulo in mind, one can very easily recollect to which line tho Baltic, Atlantic, Adriatic, Asia, Africa, Canada and America, respectively belong. t ? Tough it Through!?It would be well if .his spirit were more common among all classes, old and young. Here is a school, boy with a hard lesson : don't be discouraged, little fellow, " tough it through."? [lore is a young clerk in a store, he has to rise early, wait and tend all the day, and be a servant to the whole establishment: lever mind, " tough it through," be faithful ?nd diligent, and you will soon be in better tircu instances, and have some to open shop ind wait on you. The mechanic often gets lold of a hard job, which he lias half a uind to throw up. Bat tako good advice, 'tough it through;" do it thoroughly and aithfully, it will be no loss to you in the md. A man in business often gets into a ipot from which he can sea no light^-no and ahead, and he is just ready to give up o despondency and despair. But we ad'iso him^ " td try and tongh it through.'* Light will appear when yon least expect it; f faithful, and honest, and persevering, you if! Itnailv ouwiu ** .... ?-?.J WV?|>V HJU yillVVfV BUU rOHCIl me and. " " f, : " ' >???<??? .' ... ; fjit Strang* Anno}m&m*nter~At a meeting >f spiritualists, *t Lowell, Mrsb., Ifust 8/{r. i ky, fc#*mooniM*rf tlwt^N<ib^Qen , P^jS2?*Wb>* 6lr*Cfcn. Andrew *! ts&SEr'*"' *. .' i*- .,? Jto ** ' - . . v * > ? %' > ,- < ' v >: . ? ? HOMELY WOMEN. ? Listen how a California editor talk8 about " homely women Wo liko homely women. Wo havo always liked them. Wo do not carry the V; peculiarity far enough to includo the hideous or positively ugly, for sinco beauty and money arc the only capital the worhl will recognizo in woman, they are more to be pitied than admired; but wo have a . chivalric, enthusiastic regard for plain wo- > | men. Wo never saw 0110 who was not 1 lnndnsf ?* * -* , nuu anuui. njiujmreu, and have seldom come across one who was j not virtuous and had not a good heart. Made aware early in life of their want of beauty by t.ho slighted attentions of the opposite sex, vanity and affectation never take root in their hearts; and in the hope of supplying attractions which a capricious nature has denied, they cultivate tho graces of tho heart instead of tho persotit and give to the mind those accomplishments which the woild so rarely appreciate in woman, but which are more lasting, and in the eyes of men of senso more highly prized, than personal beauty. See them in tho street, at homo, or in tho church, and they are always tho same, ,j' and the smile which ever lives upon tho face is not forced there to fascinate, but & lll<> snnfilnii/.niio ? i- " 1 " .|.v..?.>iwuo oiiuauiuti rcnecieu trorn h kind heart?a flower which takes root in the soul and blooms upon the lips, inspiring s respect instead of passion, emotions of ad- i miration instead of sensual regard. Plain women make good wives, good mothers, cheerful homes, and happy hus- ^ bands, and we never see 0110 but we thank heaven that it has kindly created women of sense as weii as beauty, for it is indeed seldom a female is found possessing both. To homely women wo therefore lift our Jj u tile" in respect; the world will extend the same courtesy to beauty. For the Hiccups.?Travelling soma time since by railroad from Columbus to ^ Baltimore, I took my seat Immediately in front of a gentleman who was suffering uu- $5 der a paroxysm of hiccups to a degree that ?f|j I never before witnessed. Iu a few nannies a person appeared from the end of the * %&. car and took a seat beside hiin, wheu ha said: " Sir, can you tell me what is good for tho hiccups ? I have been afflicted in tho way you seo me since yesterday noon, and have no rest or relief from any phyai- .W cian to whom I applied for assistance. X. -r am worn out with suffering." To whom -P the person replied : " bir, I wnt ? in less than two minutes by the wrti*j?. nave contidencc, tor 1 am euro I can do it. Iluld up high above your head two fingers, of your hand ; lean back in your seat, open / your inoulh and throat so as to give a free / passage to your lungs ; breathe very long / and softly and look very steadily at your fin- ^ gers." In less than the time specified the r* cure was performed, one hiccup only occur- If* ring during the trial. The patient could Vnot express his gratitude, while tho pracli- ' tioner only extracted from him as a fee ^ the promise that he would extend the ^ knowledge which he had imparted as free- ; ly as ho had received it, assuring him thafc he would never bo disappointed in the re- :<p:suit. Wo were all struck with the facL. 'A; Since then I have often had occasion to Igf practice upon patients in the same disorder, ' and never without the most signal success* ? Water Cure Journal. ' . -4 - $ ; A young man volunteered 1 see a young lady home from a! ' {>,. . %fp tho way he cudgelled his brain *1. irfiu.tr> "* esting topic of conversation tc 'ms?- b <:r : ^ wun ; uecouia nit upon nothii; i'ii M? v-' met several cows, when theswai ..iu, k',;U ' much simplicity of manner : ! virF "Now, Miss Julia, isn't it i :y Mniyjp what a motherly appearance si t.ajijf ..--5 To which the lady replied." i .,r ' -iSE "I do not think it strange -'U, nif, that a cow should have a moth * ^ ance to a calf; Tho beau was silent during i at the walk. < -i Tht Tea Trade.?Although . t ?..-MtoB2[ States has but little over twenty-* of inkfthiUnli fan mlllirtM. look tl and nine millions less thaft tiL. Zollverin, still in one article of Southern Asia, it ouUloe$.thase > : >/? poftlous countries of civilised Euro] !"** ..... year 1861, England carried 65, it .e;^'^v#v>7% of tea from China to Europe, ju 000 lbs. to India and Australia ; V, States exported from China 84,8 Holland 3,000,000 ibe. and otli . 3,000,000 lbs, while Russia cajT^ ooo lbs. by tad. i The lart BloctofaAQto ?*( ,1M kUiViilA 1 TX7?M I- ifc?J . .