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' * - - n - ' my -; ,y ' <* ? ' . * ? . * ?f'. .. * c * , - . - - ; , > r> V ^TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM] 44 THE PRICE ODE- m. T 13 :E n. T Y is ETETI KT A. L vigilanoe." [PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. BY DAVIS & HOLLINGSWORTII. ABBEVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 22, 1857. VOL. XIII \n la i wxtuh brikwinq on the plantation. letter from mr. hrniiy, the investor. Mouile, Doc. DO, 1S5C. Editor Columbus Enquirer: I am happy to perceive such a spontaneous interest in my invention as your editorial evinces, and that of many others who havo kindly noticed it, and your concluding paragraph is as profoundly correct, as it is enlightened?that "if it succeeds, it will do more for the South than all of llie political theories and commercial speculations of the da}', and will at once strengthen our institutions, aud greatly enhance the prosperity of our already favored section." Let us examine its chances of success.? You observe how confidently 1 speak of the performance of my invention. It may be a work of fioino difficulty to convince others of its practicability, but it is not impossible, and let mo illuslrato it to you, that through you others may comprehend it, and hence let me beg your patient observation of my remarks. You know the giti gins cotton at tlio plantation, and the fleecy lint i* thrown into lint-room. You know at the cottun factories cotton is received in the bales and is there spun into yarns, as well as woven. If you will step down to one of your cotton factories, you will see that the. bale of cotton is there first run through a willow or picker to open and disentangle it, and from the lint-room into which the picker casts it, the cotton is brought out and weighed to the apron of a lap machine (a spreader and beater, as it is cal'ed.) The cotton passes through this machine and comes out at the other end in a sheet, and is rolled by the machine around a cylinder, and in this state the cotton is called n lap. This lap is fitted to :v place in front of a cardcr, and when a lap for each card in the factory is thus placed, (lie carders placed in rows arc put in operation. From each carder the sliver is taken hy | a railway to a drawing head placed at the ' end of the row, and nil the slivers are here ! doubled and passed through this drawing- i head i?to a can before it. And at this : drawing head the process of spinning truly j begins?(back of this being technically j called tho ''Preparation,")?as here the | elongation of the fibers has commenced.? j Tho cans, which accumulate at these drawin g-hen <1*^ arc taken and placcd before other drawing-heads, ami the slivers from a certain mimWr of cans a.3 gai'.J'^Viil.ff into another can in front. Front these cans the now straightened and attenuated hlivurs pass to tho speeder and bccome moving, ! from thence to the spinning frames, where j tho yarn is finished, from thence to the : reels, and then it is baled. You observe a j shaft passes through the Factory, which : is moved by water or steam povvei in Cot- ) ton Factories, said to this sluift, each of j these machines are geared by bands, r.o wfieh it is desired, either or all of the in a- 1 chines arc put into operation by this shaft. Here you have presented l lie disconnec- j ted operations of the Gin at the plantation, 1 ?iiw1 ' 111a tttlMllllfliv in'W'litniiiHf nl fInk - " i 6 "v * "- j , torv. .Suppose you take an ordinary Gin lo ' * your market-house, there bring from one j of your Colton Factories a lap machine (or ; speeder and beater) half dozen carding \ machines with thier railway and drawing- ; beads, a drawing frame, and cans, a speeder j frame, and three spinning frames, and arranging them factory fashion, the Gin in ; front, gear them all to a shaft, (to run some ten or twelve feet from the ground through ; 'the market-house,) arrange horse power or j steam engiue, if you please, to work the j ? shaft. M't. . C . - ? i ' iiiu nrsi question wnu-li arises is, is tliorc \ any more difficulty to gear that gin to this shaft, to cause it to aeL here, where and while the other machinery is desired to * operate, an}' more than there is to cause *"**. the others to operate ? Certainly not. . Suppose you put seed cotton into the gin, and set it iti motion ; from the flue in the hack of the gin, the fleecy fibres will be thrown to the other end of the market, liouse. ' Uere is whero I come in, and instead of .letting'*this fleecy cotton l>e thrown to the end of your market-house. I take the apron from jrour lap machine, bring this machine snt)g up to the flue of the trin. and liv n ? o ' ~ j peculiar arrangement tlirow the cotton into ^ tlijl hip machine \ nnd the lap mnchitio be* j shaft, as soon as Tap machine. T km. ?t # V? 4 , > . -1 ** t * i x V. t4 I ranged to suit the smaller planters, agreeably to the hope you express, and one way or another, we will do it, 1 think. It was the smaller planters you had in your mind, when you wrote the paragraph that no planter would "invest his money in maehiuery so expensive, without satisfying himself of its practicability," certainly they will not} I and 1 think I know loo much of my own and human nature to supposo they would. I v.. t : :n i --* ? X1 w Mill IIUIIUI mil 11115 L'OLUMI , can be conducted from the Gin to the lap? \ and if that is conccded, the 2>racticabiUt y i of my invention in also. Then, if machinery costing $3,000 or J less, arranged in connection with the Gin, ! and run by six mules, will gin and spin 100 ! bales of 500 pounds of cotton between 1*1 I Sept. and 1st March into yarns, and this machinery to le attended by live operatives from 8 to 12 years old, one 12 to 14, and three old women or men, (if crippled will answer,) and this machinery and these oporaj tivos (for we cannot call them hands) in this time, six months, will produce as much as the 25 or 00 hands, the plantation, 12 to 15 mules, overseer and planter, all together, did in tircfrc months, it so- ms to | me, iins snows economy and prolit. This | is equivalent to another plantation, negroes, stock and overseer, without the trouble of ; it. Yarns, it must be borne in mind, aver; age in value over twice tlie cost of cotton. ] Now, if my Invention consisted in a process by which each planter doubled his : crop of cotton, and I shoud raise it suddenly from 3,000,000 to 0,000,000 bales, with the lights before me, I should not regard that ii3 a valuable one, as it would be too great a yield for the day. l?ut my Invention will repress the production of the raw mateiiul, lather than otherwise, I think, as planters will l>e better enabled to divert some of their force to the cultivation and raising of a greater quantity of articles uf living and comfort. I hardly think that spinning up the cotton will abstract bona j Jidc hands from the cotton crop. J As 1 have answered some of tny friends ; whose crops arc much over the figure I have i illustrated (of 10U bale planters,) ami you have some large planters in your section, I will stale that a planter making 300 bales of cotton, by spinning the vear round, can ' y a steam engine, ami the machinery he wants, spin 7.30 pounds a day, for about *8000. and icoaire onlv about the same j ?!iTuineYalot? i?>r (i;e Iuu oaie man. ?_/. course, I 300 bale men, 500. GOO to 1000 bale men ' will not di'lav Imnr nn Ilit ! their spindies in operation. The clause in the remarks of the able ; editors of the Georgia Journal, saying I would have a Factory in operation in six weeks, arose from mv informing them the = I machinery for a 100 bale planter could l>e manufactured in about six weeks. A Factory cannot be put in operation without seed cotton, and the past short crop lias been ginned up. I am arranging to establish agencies, and j so organize as to disseminate my invention as rapidly as possible, and I do not ask it for myself, but for the planter, and for the thousands of interests, commercially and politically, which will result from it, that all parties interested in Southern Progress will do, say, aiiii write about it whatever they think may aid and encourage and develop it; and I am, sir, most truly. Your obedient friend, GEO. G. 11ENRY. Chloroform in Surgery.?Prof. Simpson I states tliat during the last six or B3ven years few operations have been performed in Edinburgh, either in hospital or in private practice, without the patient being previously anaesthetized with chloroform. During that period one death has occurred in the city among the many thousands who have been subjected to the use of chloroform. But during the same six or seven years, among the comparatively few operated up there without chloroform, threo or .:..i- i IVUI u,;nii? mo ceililllliy KIIOWII 10 iiuve taken place, either during or imincdintely vfter surgical operations. There are marked difference* between chloroform and ether and their effects. Ether lias a strong penetrating odor, which renders it repugnant to some persons; it always commences by irritating the respiratory organs, and frequently provokes cougbltog, and sometimes suffocation. Chlorofotfn does.not disturb nor irritate the organs it passes through, nnd produces only a feeble organic excitement Ether -deretapes - its anesthetic effect* felowly, nnd they remain for sometime alter the experiment or tho operation is elided in the form of intoxication, headache, foeWe pulse, and cold limbs. Chloroform, contrary, ceasses in guneral its action 1 vbta the patient stops inhaling it, and it is >nty:in especial cases that it it Been to pro* ong its effects for some time after tho patent ceases to inhale it. '"jd Dividetul.?It will be recollected that odielhing like nine or ten months ago, Luy Stone and a Mr. Black well became parties o matrimonial contiact The Boston !% -? ' 1 '* * "Oft understands mat a dividend Las just >??n declared in the shape of a fine white .*4 bouncing baby.?Exchange. 1*5 *???? f Father, wasn't Alexander n hero f1 ?#Yet, inyboy." f WWl, th^n, father^ Kgtn't Mrs. AJexftnfttherof* . r- , i . 1 V/' . s, THE WOMAN OF FASHION. A French author deseribes a fashionable woman as "an animal that dresses, uudress! es and redresses." Tho reader who has 1 1 ever visited a watering-place will take tho i . forco of tho definition. Ilero a woman < seems an actress, playing "many parts;" 1 ! one day appearing as Miss Lily in the morn- ' | ing, as Mademoiselle Rosa at dinner, and as ' j Signorinn Violetta,in the evening; dressing I elaborately for each character. Tho next 1 day n different hill of performances, more J varied and alti active, if possible, than any ( 1 preceding; and so, from the beginning to ' ! the closo of tho season, she flowers forth i in hues of magnificence, to which Solo- 1 ' mon, in all his glory, could make no pro- 1 i tension. 1 Fortunately?or rather unfortunately, i some would say, wc are not obliged to go | ! cither to Saratoga or Newport, for an illustration of tho Frenchman's saying. Tho ? watering-places are deserted ; and the fash- ; ionable woman is at home. She is to be ? seen in church on Washington Street and < ! Broadway, and in her own drawing-rooms : | and those of her friends; and wherever > I she appears, the same characteristic is prom- ] ! in en I. t j Last Sabbath, at tho solici'ation of a t friend, we visited the fashionable " place of j : worship." Ah observers and moralists, we | I entered early ; and, being carefully dressed c ! fur tho occasion, in our best coats and hats, j J wo succeeded in attracting the attention s i and commanding the respect of the sexton, j ! who made haste to seat us in a good place, , : where we enjoyed an excellent opportunity i 1 of viewing tin; thronging worshipers. We thought the 15eing worshiped there, must ., feel highly complimented bv so dazzling a t display of riches and beauty. The splen- e dor of satins, silks, and shawls wo witnessed is indiscribable. IJut it was to us a cold > Sllli'litlnt* ivnnvm ?.%.! ?? -J- J ...... .v.- ,j moved from human .sympathy, in the cloud t of so much magnificence. Our idea of love- , litiess is something different; a being not ^ altogether covered up and hidden in wealth , of gorgeous stuffs ; a creature of sweet aspect, humble mien, in modest and puic at- j lire; with a heart of love and a soul of . . . f aspiration shedding their warm effulgencc around a brow n? o hard and polished as the world's, 1> simple and tender, and ^ i around a form whose outlines of grace are j not altogether married or disguised by the t conventional waists ami skirts. Of course, cordanee with tlie popular opinion ; just as j our conception of a true woman's character y is that of a gentle, enlightened, and aftec- j lionnte being, whose mission and happiness lie in comforting, soothing, aiding, teaching, elevating, by hand, and heart, and song and ^ cheering smiles, the suffering humanity around her,?and not a sort of animated . t' wax doll, a slender axis of attenuated hu- ^ inanity, in a vast whirling globe of magnificence. ^ As one of the latter description of beings came sweeping down tlic broad isle, filling ll it quite full of glistening and rustling fashionality?an admirable creature, whose minute seed of a heart, bore apnarentlv above . * IS the same proportion to the immenso r.r conceit and artificiality in which it was en- n cased, as her extremely little and refined self did to its excess of silken husks?we a slightly nudged the elbow of our friend ; and as the creature's pew was reached, and all that unsubstantial mass of hooped and tlounccd externals was by skilful manage- T ment, and, as it were, by magic, made net- I| ually to contract to the narrow capacity of ol the pew door, we whispered reverently in tl our friend's ear :? ll " What is the chief end of woman!" hi "To dress," answered our friend, with sc- ft riously down-cast eyes. in We laugh at the absurd costumes and of w nations; but surely, to see an American w woman of fashion in the nineteenth century, ?! enter the so-called house of God, and hold- h ing daintly her gilt Bible in one hand, roll b her hoops sideways into her pew with the v< other, savors slightly of the ludicrous.? w Will it be an improvement, when Hindoo ni and Turk, converted from heathenism, cling M devoutly to the skirts of our civilization ? ol Or, does it not rather seem inconsistent, G that the fashionable Christian woman should M deem it necessary, iu seeking a sphere of et missionary labor to look beyond the hoop ty of her own horrizon. ^ In A Man of Leisure.?A French paper w states that M. Buulanger, Judge of the Iin- ? perihI Court of Paris, who lately died, left * no less than ninety-fivo wills, in which he made many bequests, not a few of the legatees being persons entirely unknown to him, except from notices in newspapers of their being distinguished for act9 of virtue or dovotedness. In one of the wills of latest date he expresses the desire that his family will not attempt to dispute his bequests. Besides this preparation for his de- j cease, be wrote letters to his executors, and ^ most intimate friends, Announcing his own death, leaving the day of his decease blank, J itiui iiiHruuiivi? w ms servant to till up ^ the vacant space with tbe date, the moment be expired, and to despatob tbe letters? ^ which was done. , ^ ' "An' inll yeb* afther telling what kind p, o' baste ye call tbis," said a newly arrived Irishman, holding up a wasp fcttween his si THE POSITION OF THE NORTH. We have repeatedly Raid that the lato Presidential election should rather be regarded by the South as h warning, than as a triumph. They liavo carried the vote, bui they liavo not carried the people. And now let us see what construction is put upan the vote of the North by the highest official liutlioritv. Til lli? (list IIIHMam Irtllin - - - ?? , Legislature of New York, Governor King j uses the following langiingc : " I have yet another duty to perform?a ' lnty, the obligations of which I am not at ibcrty*to neglect even if I were so disposed; und tho performance of which, in my judgment, is rendered imperative by the respect which is due to the sentiments and votes in lie recent Presidential election of a great majority of the people of this Stale, and of he other Free States. " I do this in no partizan spirit, but tinier the conviction that the great nrincinle it issue in llic election, and which it so triimpbantly vindicated, lies at the root of >ur free institutions, and is alike tlie concern md should be equally the caieof all citizens ,vho rightly estimated those institutions.? STo mere party question could call forth so loop an interest, and so significant and de:isive :i vote througliuot tlio lenghtli anu jrcadlh of tlic State ; and I venture to heieve I do not mistake its import, nor your onviclions respecting it, when I assume, as ts deliberate and irreversible decree, that | o far as the State of jVew York is concerned i 'here .shall be henceforth no extension of j Slavery in the Territories of the United Slates. n Tl ? - 1 - T ' *? una conclusion 1 mosi unreservedly idopt, and am prepared to abide by.it, at all imes, under all circumstances, and in every imergency." And this conclusion of the Gorcrnor of \'ew Yoilc drawn from lliu facts of tlic Presilenr.al election, Uemhpatically endorsed by lie New York Courier and Enquirer, which nay be regarded as the representative of lie Seward and Fremont party of the State. L'hey do not look upon the late result as a lefeat. They treat it rather as a victory.? t is better for then; than they expected; ind, as a stepping stone for futures operaions, they look upon it as a result which liey have n right to regard as securing, in 8G0, the triumph of Free-soil principles mil the Free-soil candidate for the FresiIcncy. What else had we a right to expect?? A'c went inio tlio couu-sl as a <juestion of ifu and death. We have coine out of it arely with lifo; and with life secured onl}* iy a four years tenure. The party opposed o us have achieved fur more than tliey exacted. They have approached to the very orders of victory, when tliey merely intened to lay the foundation of a party for fuitre aggression. The readiness with which !iis party was adopted and sustained by the opular sentiment of the North, not with* Landing that Mr. Fill more, the rcprcscnta- : vc of the old Whig party, was already in ic field, shows how sharply defined is the nti-slavery feeling of our so-called brethren eyond Mason and Dixon's lino. The truth i that the separation, in opinion, is already < jade; and it only requires a political act > define the terms, and make tho necessary rrangements, to render the separation as i rictl}' legal as it is already in sentiment.? Charleston Mercury. < Interesting Facts about the Koran.? ' lie Koran was written about A. 1). G10. :s general aim was to unite the professions , f Idolatry and tho Jews and Christains in , 10 worship of one God?whose unity was ' >e chief point inculcated?under certain ' IWS find PPrJMTiniiiiKS nvnolin/* ?? ?. ... , WUVUIUIICC lO [ahomct as tlio prophet. It was written ' i the Koreish Arabic, and tliis language, * hich certainly possessed every fine quality as said to be that of paradise. Mahomet ! jserted that the Koran was revealed to 1 im, during a period of twenty-three years, 1 y the Angel Gabriel. Tho 6tylo of the olume is beautiful, fluent, and concise, and ' here the majesty and attributes of God ' re described it is sublime and magnificent. 1 [ahomct admitted tho divine mission both 1 F Mosses and Jesus Christ. According to ibbon, the leading article of faith which 1 [ahomet preached i< compounded of ati crnal truth and a necessary fiction, name- 6 that there is only one God, and that M?- 1 omct is the apostle of God. The Kornn ! as translated into Latin in 1143, and into nglish and other European languages about 763. It is a rhapsody of 8,000 Terse*, ivided into 114 sections. A Rhymstcr in Limbo.?A poetical ge? ? ius was hauled up before one of the police 1 lagistratea for kissing a handsome girl and * icking up a dust?and tie. following oxninntion took place: c Magistrate.? is your name <>olin Kay ! c Prisoner.?Yes, your honor, so the peo- ? le say. j Mag.?Was it you that kissed the girl J id raised the alarm ? Pris.?Yes, your honor, l>ut I thought it as no harm. t Mag.?You rascal, did you come here to lake rhymeii I j Pris.?No, yoar honor, hot it will hapan sometime*. ? Mag.?Be off, you ?cainp, get out of my ' ilk '^5?? REMARKABLE FACTS OF A MAD DOG. A dog belonging to Mr. .funics McKoy, who lives four miles north-cast of Augusta, went mad, and in his travels committed tlio most extensive depredation. Rumor has it that the dog had been bitten three weeks previous to his going mad. by another <Jog known to havo been rabid ; but being a great favorite with his master, ho tied him up and refused to kill him ; when attacked with the disease, in Iiis paroxysm, lie broke from his fastenings and escaped?having, however, befoic leaving his master's premises, bit two of his horses, which have since gone mad. He then took a course westward, on the Warsaw and Augusta road, and when about three miles from his starting point, overtook Mr. Patchin, who was return'ng home from Augusta in a wagon, to his home near Chili; one of his horses the dog bit, and the animal has since gone mad.? lie next overtook two strangers on horseback, one of whom was leading a third horse; these three horses the dog bit, but as the travelers proceeded on their journey, it is not known whether fatal results followed or not. At the residence of Mr. James Nutt ho bit one horse, which has since gone mad. At "NVigletown, he bit two horses, (one since mad,) also, two steers, (one since mad,) and twelve hogs. Next he bit a fine mare, (since mad,) for Mr. Hart. Next he bit a very fine horse, (since mad,) also three head of horses, (one since mad,) also a cow and calf, (both since mad.) Next at Sylvester Crouches', he bit one horse, (since mad,) and five sheep, (all now dead.) Next he went to William Taighman's, bit seveial hogs, two very largo ones, estimated at 500 pounds each, (since gone inad,) and oi;C steer. At Williamson's, bit ono cow, (sinco mad.) Next lie fell in with old Mr. Ilickman and liis son. lie sprang at llic boy with such force as to throw him down, but did not bile him. A large dog of MrII.'s being in company, seized him and drove him off. lie, however, before leaving his premises, bit one, (since mad.) Next he had nn encounter with Mr. Blake's dog. After this lie went North to Mr. Adams', and bit one steer. Next he went to John Stuart's and attacked him. Mr. Stuart defended himself with a hoc, and finally succeeded in killing the animal. The stock bitten was estimated to be worth 83,000, and already gone mad $1,500. None of the animals bitten went mad short of three weeks from the time when bitten. Tl>=- J o?T iuraiial/ly cnUgtli his victim by the nose. Most of the damage was done in the night, he having left i.:? ' a in.mei s iiouse auout uusK, and was killcJ about, noon of the next day.? ITarsuw Inquirer. PROVERBS FOBTPLANTERS. Farmers and others will need llic following, whatever they may think of look or fancy farming generally. They will direct the attention of their sons to these universal rules, and command every one to follow them. Wo are indebted for most of them to that excellent manual, the Illustrated Register of Hur.-d Affair*, every line of which is a text in itself for a more elaborntc article : Never keep animals on short allowance ;f - ?i .1? = '? .? J vu omnc luciii, UiL'J' Will bUrCIJ' 8lftrV6 you. Although, in draining land tliotoughly, four purse may bo drained, yet the full :rops that will follow will soon fill it again. Trying to farin without capital is like irying to run a locomotive without fuel.? Money and wood must both bo consumed) ,f thtfy are to move the machine of the farin 3r of the rail. Always givo the soil the first meal. If his is well fed with manure, it will fed all ilso?plants, animals and man. If you wish to give nn enorgetic movement to all your fnrni machinery { and keep ts hundred wheels in rotation, he sure not to be without a good rotation of crops. If you allow your animals to shiver, your fortune will be shivered in consequence? hat is, a farmer who leaves his cattle to the ivinds will find his profits also given to the >viuds. Heavy cnrrot crops for catllo will soon reurn carats of gold. Did you ever liear the inUsical notes of a itai ving herd of hogs ? Extinguish by food hose notes speedily, if you would avoid sven more annoying notes after pay-day las passed. Many a farmer, by too sparingly Rcedifig lis new meadows, has had to cede his vhole farm. Every farmer should see daily every anmal lie has, and inspect its condition.? Weekly visits, ns with some, soon result in veakly animals. 1 The officcr of tho deck on board a man?f war, asked the man at tlie wheel ono day, >f wind. M South-ayftt," replied Pat, touchHow does she head !" it was blowing n gale ng bis hat, but forgetting to add M Sir" to lis answer. "You'd better put a few more 8's in your miwvr, wuen jrou speaic to me," said the mffy lieutenant. " Ajy ay, Sir-r-r," returned tbe witty rieman. A day or two after, tbe Officer called out igifo: ' . ' " How doe* ?be bead 119* r "SoM..?". ?W be teott, b.lf.oorti POPPING THE QUESTION. DY TOM I'lt'EB. 1 ' A coach no alow, That e'en a tortoise with his moping gait, Would pass it in the race." Old Plat. Some young men are susceptible?fall in lovo and are constant in tlieir affections, but through timidity are backward in disclosing the state of their feelings to the only object who would take a deep interest in tho subject. Cases have occurred where a young and blooming maiden, after wailing a seasonable time for an eligible but very bashful swain to pop tho question, and finding him still standing aloof, has suddenly and very properly left hiln in the lurch, and be- I slowed her hand and affections on a rival ! ? [ who if not more meritorious in every point, knew how to act promptly, and had a tongue in his head. A young lady, who possesses tact and presence of mind can sometimes help her silent lover amazingly, in bringing these tender matters to a crisis ?nnd without even violating the conventional rules of propriety, or maidenly delicacy. J lie course adopted bv Laura Gl<Micoe, to secure a husband, who was decidedly slow, is a case in point. She was pleased with James Dewsoti,and he worshipped the ground she trod upon?hut poor fellow, had never dared to tell his love! She gave him every reasonable encouragement to speak right out?blithe continued to sigh, look foolish in her company, twirl his thumbs, and hold his pcace f Matters might 1 have remained in this unsatisfactory ttate j for years, if Laura, who was a smart as well as a good girl, had not seized a golden op-! portunity, and made liini pop the question, i without knowing it ! They were taking a sentimental walk in the country?but she was not "hangingon Ins arm," as is customary among lovers.? They came to a muddy spot in the road, and the instinctive politeness of James, prompted him to ofTcr assistance to the lovely girl who was with him. lie turned towards her with a kind look, and said in rath?r an earnest tone, "Give me your hand, Miss Laura, and?" I3ut slie did not allow him to finish the sentence. " Oh, James!" said ohe, looking confused, 41 do you really mean it? Well, if it must he so, I will give it freely, nnd my heart, too. Hut dear James, you must ask pa's consent ?only as a matter of form you know; and yon luul better do it at once.1' And so the metter was settled to their mutual satisfaction.? Olive JJranch, PREMONITIONS. Teihaps the following cases are even more curious than those we published last weik* One is related of Professor Bolm, teachir of mathematics at Marburg) by Stilling.? lie was suddenly seized with a conviction^ one evening, whilst in company, that he ought to go home. 13ut being very comfortably taking tea, he resisted the admoui. lion, until iL returned with such force that, at length, he was obliged to yield. On reaching his house, ho founJ everything as he had left it ; hut he now felt himself urged to remove his bed from tlie corner in which it stood, to anothef-; he resisted this impulsion also. However, absurd as it seemed, lie felt he must do it; so he sunr tnoncd the maid, and, with her aid, drew the bed to the other side of the roottt; after which, he felt quite at case, and relumed to spend the rest of the evening with his friends. At ten o'clock the party broke up, he felircd homo, went to bed and to sleep* Iu the middle of the niirht ho was awaki?ni'<l by a loud crash. A large beam had fallen bringing part of the ceiling with it, and was lying exactly on the spot his bed had occupied. Another is related of a gentleman , who, \then absent from lioffte once, was j seized with such an anxiety about his family, , that, without being able in any way to ac- | count fur it, lie felt himself impelled to fly | to tliem and remove them from the house ( they were inhabiting, one wing of which ] fell down immediately afterward* No no- , tion of such a misfortune bad ever before , occurred to him, nor was there any reason | whatever to expect it, the accident oritrmn. ?? I ling from sonic defect in tlie foundation.? One of the mOSl singular cases of present! inent is afiirmed to have occurred on hoard ( of a British ship, while off Portsmouth. Tlie , officers being one day at the mess-table^ a . young Lieutenant P. suddenly lard down his knife and fork, pushed away his plate, ( and turned extremely pale, lie then rose j from the table, covered his face with his ( hands, and fcli'red from the room. The President df the mess, supposing him to be ill, sent one of the young incn to inquire , what was the matter. At first, Mr. P. was i unwilling to speak; but on being pressed* j confessed that ho had been seized by asud c den impression that a brother he had theu ; in India was dead. " He died," said bo," ou x tbe 12th of August, at six o'clock; I am perfectly certain of it." No argument could overthrow this opinion, which, in due c course of post, was verified to the'letter.? % The young man had died at Cawnpore at ? the period mentioned.. t ? . t An Irish gentleman having purchased fc an alarm-clock, an acquaintance asked him vtfiat he intended to do with it. u Oh," he,>it?. jfeVjgoi* convenient thing ja I the Vorld, for l'?e notliing to do but to 4 THE HABIT OF EXAGGERATION. Somo people's tongues are coutinually emulating the frog in tho old fablo, and always straining into an ox?a state of verbal alike ridiculous and fulsc. They are thoRO which never experience a moderate and occasional degree of pain, hut they speak of it as a "spliting" headache, an "awful" spasm, or 44 dreadful" torture! If they meet with a sliglol in<:i?ion of the skin, they have 44 eut their finger to the bone," the application of a mustard plaster for five minutes never fails to 44 flay them alive," a common cold is mentioned seriously 44 as a most violent influenza," and a week or two of fever is regarded as a 44 severe and frightful illness." The 44 suncrlativo" is ?!><? i?ff mood with tliem 1 j u.mmi 11IV UCVUUIt'H Devo crnshirceam; anil small bear Guineas* stout; "superb," "exquisite," ' wonderful," " glorious," " horrible," u tremendous,'' " delicious," " charming," " beautiful," " lerrific,' 4' astonishing," aud sucli extreme adjectives* teem on their lipsas plentiful as conjunctions. and we often wonder, while guaging the narrow calibre of brain, whence the big torrent issue?how such huge furniture could be found in such a small house. Let those people repeat a story or circumstance, and k you can hardly detect the original; the)'see everything through a magnifying glass and kaleidoscope bl?>ndcd. Talk of painting**, veritable colors, the foregiouiul and outline#, often give in mere words, brut the pro-I'a i:. ... jiiMiviiivs oy nounes ; a Dutch garden all tulips anil peacocks, or a smnincr sunset al' purple and gold, or soft and nniiupoiringcompared to the li mining powder of one of these fluent sign-painters. Wc once kept an account for a ladv during a three milco* walk through rather sandy lanes, who declared herself ** half dead" with fatiguo ev_ cry few minutes, and we found she had died exactly eleven times and a half at the end of the ioonipv ?lu>n tl.i. km-mII.* ' ? - ? ...ivr??..un'U viucr and sandwilchcs in n most vital faiihion> considering her multiplied state of demise. Wo met a cottager's child, which she rushed up pronounced to he an " angelic little cherub," but our near sighted eyes could only perceive about an average bread and buttor devouring little biped as ever plagued a mother ; then she informed us that the view to the left was " grandly sublime," though there was nothing to eliuit rupture beyond a broad common, fringed with a plantation barely relieved in the foreground with a very yellow pond, and still yellower goslings. ?Eliza Cook. A Singular Case.?Quite a slrango and novel case was recently decided by the Kentucky Court of Appeals. The facts are these: Ellen Bell, llie appellant, married .?i li-.ii * ? * - " * WU..IUEI Hen, mr buh xn-mw, lie died, leaving Eilcn, his widow, and several childred, l?y the daughter of Ellen. The heirs of Samuel refused to assign dower to Ellen,' whereupon she brought suit against the heirs in the Trimble Circuit Court. Judge Pryor, theti presiding, thought the marriage was prohibited by the statutes of 1798, and thefcfoie void, and he dismissed the suit of Ellen. From this decision Elleti appealed. The Court of Appeals held, first, that the marriage between a woman and her son-inlaw was not prohibited by the act of 1708. Sccolid, that the net did not prohibit the marriage, still tinder the provisons of the ...I- 1 * -v. . >? r?niijij}u was omy voidable mid the wife was entitled to doner unless sentence of divorce wits declared ; and further, tliat the sentence of divorce ?-uuld not be declared after the death of cither of the parlies; wlierettfiofi tlicy reverse the decision of Judge IVyor, and say that Ellen, the mother in-Iaw-wife, must havo dower. During the late Presidential canvass, and nt the moment a gallant Senator from the South was proclaiming the certain election jf Mr. Buchanan, a feather dropped at hit feet, from the wing of an eagle that vm [lying over. The gentleman preserved the' p?ill, and to-day, had it forwarded,to Mr. Buchahaftf to write his inaugural address with; It Was not plucked l>y man from the wing, but whs the free gift of our nnlional i?ird.? Washington Correspondence Alexindriu Sentinel. '1'lie above statement is correct. Senator Brown, of Mist>ii>fii|>)>i, is llio gentleman referred to. Tlie quill i* now in possesion of Mr. Huchanan, nt Wheatlaml, where w^taw t 011 Friday, and in accordance with the cquest of the "gallant Senator," it will be jsed by the President elect, in writing his naugural address.?Lancaster Intelligent* er. ' A man who pusses though life without narrying, is like a fair niHiioion left by the >uildet unfinished. The linlf that ia competed runs to de<?ay from neglect, or beoinea at hcst hut a sorry teuement, waning the addition of that which make* the vho'.e useful. . : . A beantifal thought this, that we Anil;I* >ne of our exchanges*. ulf lhera im man vbo can ent IiU bread fn peace with Qwl . ,nd man, it? the man who !?*? brought bat bread out of the earth. It israntared >y no fraud, it ia wet fey, tto i&uw, itidi aiftia* d witti no blood." Thero i* I row lb Cbfcnecttaul 4