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BY DAVIS & HOLLINGSWORTII. ABBEVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 22, 1857. VOL. XIII \n la
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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
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, 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.
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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
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peculiar arrangement tlirow the cotton into
^ tlijl hip machine \ nnd the lap mnchitio be* j
shaft, as soon as
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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"Oft understands mat a dividend Las just
>??n declared in the shape of a fine white
.*4 bouncing baby.?Exchange.
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f Father, wasn't Alexander n hero f1
?#Yet, inyboy."
f WWl, th^n, father^ Kgtn't Mrs. AJexftnfttherof*
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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 >
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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
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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
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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.
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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 .
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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.? 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 !
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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
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