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. ? . a' "i . - K * , *OTV . >. - j - - >c> > * ' .. . * * . ' , , * >?' . ? * 4 ' V 4 fM IlilfBffil MHifla, ^*i'* * mM*<r ?.i?' ^1 WK?aJ wn^I ui<*" i?if^-^>d ^ ml C-? TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM] " tub pniou o r liberty is eteuktax. vigilanob." LP AY ABLE IN ADVANCE, RY DAVIS & HOLLINGSWOUTII. ABBEVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 19, 1857. VOL. XIII. NO~43t WHAT IS TBUE EDUCATION*?HUGH MILLAEllugh Millar, tho well known geologist, who died lately iti Scotland was .1 prominent instance of what true education, docs for a man. We say true education, Localise though lie had never studied in a college, Hugh Millar was educated in the highest sense of the term. In other \voids) not only was his mind thoroughly disciplined, but whatever he learned at all ho completely assimilated, so that it became Ins own. llis career shows what energy, perseverance and industry can do even for a anan born under tho most unfavorable circumstances; for though originally but a poor lad, though only a journeyman stoneanason, still after his majority lie rose to i>c one of tho most prominent scientific mien of Great Britain?a writer of acknowledged ability, and the leading editor of a principal party in Scotland. In his "Autobiography," published a few years since, lie ti as left a narrative of his boyhood, vhicU is worth almost its weight in gold to young men about beginning life. Ilad lie written nothing else, he would have left, in that work, an invaluable legacy to his race. l?or nowhere, not even 111 the autobiography of Franklin, is the great trulh so forcibly illustrated that all men who have become eminent owe their success less to schoolmasters, than to themselves. It is self-discipline, after all, that wins the battle. There were thousands of youth cotemporary with the boy iltigh Millar, enjoying every advantage of education, and many of them possessed of no inconsiderable jiL&Kty, who never made any figure in alter life, while the poor lad, whose principal leather was nature, who possessed no books but a Bible, and who consumed some of his best years in hewing stone, rose to be aheir acknowledged superior, and to become famous in two hemispheres in both letters iind science. This distinction he achieved l?y omitting no opportunity to acquire knowledge. It was in quarrying stone hi a wild district, for example, that he made the world renowned geological discovery, which (upset the brilliant but delusive theories of tlie famous il Vestiges of Creation," and achieved his own reputation. His fellowworkmen enjoyed the same ^jjjior.tuniiy of winning this groat distinction, but tlicy let the fossil fish, which settled the problem* |>{issvunnoticed, and so the}' died, or will <lie, unknown stone-masons laboring at linlf a jlnllaf a day, while the decease of their companion fills .two continents with I - Another thing is proved by the career of - ? flu"h Millar. It is that it is better to mas . iker a few books than to read carelessly a doacn libraries or more. To be plain, study j * % valuable, not merely for the facts it gives j - *" a "man, but for the habit of thinking it im- j parts. lie who voraciously swallows volume's upon volumes never gives himself time to digest his intellectual food. He becomes, consequently, a mere smattorofc,? " lie understands no principles. Learned as ' lie thinks himself he is without knowledge, lie is really worse educated than the man \vliO has read but few hooks, provided those ijf-;. " V books wm good ones, and have been thoroughly assimilated. Hugh Millar never \ fta a book till he had made it completely his oiVnA What Hugh Millar did, every man who l^as bccomo?great in literature has but to do, whether born poor, like Millar or bred up with every advantage of schools j. :. ii.Q<i colleges. [Men who wish 10 uc rcany ^ .educated, must study"Wr themselves. Tlie. iln^vOf kiiftisl$dgo cannot bo climbed by .deputy^*-; .Hence the ^difference in securing . jv rfftf*.education lietwccfi u rich man's son and 'c ?*- V? ' , y jrajtaVa is le^^han is generally sup? * i. pJ?ed. lu >truth,"the self reliance which v V 3Hiiited drcurostartces give to a lad, may ' . almost be considered to counterbalance the advantages which fortune bestows. It is ? ?* m Cn,t 4 t n /iAn(ii>mntiAh |1mq Hint ^ ft* OiriKJUg laui) II* Wllllllllllbivu VI v??l*7) IrlJCtb our groat men lihyo befeii born /naQU'. Young men should tttinli of this. ' * V ?*. >j v r ** ?'e _ ' ' A^TJirifty JParion.;?A'domition pprty '* t Jiw9>^Tven-tie other dH/lto*.a clergyman ii\ s- - .: $&. ^*jl^^J?n'glan<I pillaged, and P. J.:- . - j?n?fl?lhe articlc%he received wa$ a superb y the -tficitrin of tKp place. The ^.'^r?6nrrtvBch ple^&*syith the hat,' ventur^fgd tq-feajj? jhe 4of)(jr. yhat sych a hat aught is, nri eight dollar * - - ?Tli"(ffparson turned U Oignks to tlie hat? 'rjy r^W^?i^irfemnr^e<i/4l^^ 'was "" Very fine, id so they-j^^d. * ' ? Vtfrft Jgnfoftr .vte^fled;bis way % &JiUtrnfara stqgftfctild aftafcihe custom. took bifl0jfliK^^kJi?8eVved thnt ' ^ worth I 2 ' < < '? 5/'\ ESSAY ON HEALTH. IltKKGCI.AK IIADITS. Among tho causes of deranged health, irregularity of habit must bo enumerated, livery organ of tho body calls for regularity of action. Tho lungs, tho heart, tho glands, the stomach, tho whole digestivo economy, tho skin, all in a proper regimen, act with clock-like regularity. And every j deviation from the regularity of habit I which the organ requires, tends to deratige, incut. The bodv has meat noiv?r of ^ 0 ^ , -- , , taliun to circumstances. It can become ac| customed to tilings absolutely injurious, if ! judiciously habituated to then). It can have its diet, labor, modes of life, climate, dress, &c., changed. It can even slowly conform to the use of poisons, as nlcohob tobacco, arsenic, and remain in ordinary health, provided its treatment is regular.? Uut it cannot become accustomed to irregularity. Activity and repose should be alternately periodic, and as regular as day and night. Any marked deviation from regularity in this respect is injurious and tends to derangement. All the habits of the body in relation to eating, drinking, bathing, exercise and repose should be dressing regular to secure tho soundest health. 1,' 1..I I.I I - ui iiiu nuiu uuu> auumu uv; educationally systematized to proper habits. Nut that there should never be change in exercise, diet or dress, but that these and all oilier things should be wisely regulated to meet the changing vicissitudes of the seasons, years and life. Physical life should conform to a system. It should be a sciencellap-hazzard living isacoiislaut transgresionsion. Daily and hourly irregularities arc a perpetual wear and tear upon the organ ism. It cannot long preserve its integrity when every day subjects it to a new trial, levies a new tax upon it. There is no way in which the laws of health are more frequently and variously violated than in Lire almost universal irregularities of human life. The mass of mankind conform but lillle to any systematic direction of their V;U([IUICcU llllUIL'nid , IlUil^U V luiauuil Id IUU only order, and derangement the perpetual COUSCqUCUCCS. EXCESSES. Excesses of all kinds arc irregular, and the excesses in which man indulge are legion. Excess in labor, amusement, study, rapture, anxiety, sorrow ; excess in ?ating> drinking, dressing, sporting ; in the exercise of any desire or passion or indulgence is injurious. Every excess is a violation. It overtasks some bodily power and impairs | its strength. It is a law that the proper action of any organ, muscle, or member gives it strength, a nil the exuess of the same kind of action impairs its energies* When we think of the table and saloon indulgences of men ; of the haste, passion, excitement, competition, ambition, toil, hardship, eagerness, so universal ; of the many kinds of excessive indulgence, both of a pleasurable and painful character to which men yield, we cannot fail to 6ee a great deal of bodily weakness.? Valley Fanner. The Dullness of yrcut Men.?Descartes, the famous mathematician and philosopher ; La Fontaine, celebrated for his witty fables; Button, the great naturalist, were all singn iany ueiicicni in uio powers 01 conversation. Marmonte), tiic novelist, was so dull in society that his friend said of him, after an interview, " I must go and read his talus to recompense myself for the weariness of hearing him. As to Corneille, the greatest dramatist in France, lie was completly lost in society?so absent and embarrassed, that ho wrote of himself a witty couplet, importing that he never was intelligible but through the mouth of another. Wit on paper seems to be something widely different 'from that play of words in coversaliou, which while it sparkles, dies; for Charles II., the wittiest monarch that ever . sat 0)) the English throne, was so charmed with tho humor of " liudibras," that he caused himself to be introduced, in the character of a private gentleman, to Butler, its author. The witty king found the author a very' dull companion, and was of .opiuion, with many others, that so stupid a fellow could never have written so clever a liook. Addisoq, whose classic olegance has long been considered the model of style, was shy and absent in society, preserving, . i.,.r ? ?j Ji j otoii uciuiu ib oiii^iu oiuui^ui, on if, umu yi^v nified sileilce. In conversation, J}ante was taciturn and satirical. Gray of Alfieri seldom talked or smiJed. Itosseau was remarbably trite in conversation ; no^a word of faucy or eloquence^ warmed him. Milton was unsocial, and even irritable, when much, pressed .by talk of others. jA . T/tfr Profits of {he Slave Tra<}e.-?It is estimated that about forty vessels are en.gaged in this country jn thtTfelave trade.? These, it )8 calculated, ship 000 negroes fciictf from the African coast, of wbom 000 , are landed at (ho port pf ^pstination. AI , lowing *4uuu jor eacu vessel tor DroKornge nnd commission from tUe port whence she . uits, $4000 Qflfpch Fessejfof wagea for officers-and men, $15 & head far the purclituc . Qf nogrocs on the African ?oast, ?>r)d $43.tfl , secure tho Wdingof each nfigro the port , ()( ilpltosry, tho #bol0*eoM ^oijldjionie tit J to $1,4*0,000,. Twenty thortM^ itqjyom at $500 a head, wouldj>roduce $10,000,000 ; profit of $B,524.00(f, tft npon tw i voyages a year, more than $17^009,009, * ' * ' ??' * a'. > * . WHAT IS RESPECTABLE SOCIETY. Wc heard a man, otherwise intilligent enough, lately sneer at another " because," said he, "0110 never meets him in respcctaI l>lo society !" Tlio speaker did not mean, ( however, lliat tho person he affected to look ! down upon, was immortal, hut merely that , his circle of intimates were not composed of the fashionable or rich. This notion of what constitutes respectable society, is quite a favorite one with that class of individuals whom Thackeray has so significantly called "snobs." Empty : pretence always making its own character isties a standard, l>y which it strives to incasuro the respectability of persons at large. In a community of mere money getters, wealth is the test of respectability. Among the proud, narrow-minded, eilcte j nobility of the Faubourg St. German, respectability depends upotx being descendants from ancestors who have married their j cousins for many centuries, that neither : muscles nor brains are left any longer to degenerate descendants. With tho dandy ! ofiicers who constitute a considerable por! tion of tho American Navy, respectability | consists in having sponged on "Undo Sam," in wearing gilt buttons, and in jilting tai' lors. Every conceited fool thinks himself, I in like way, the only man really weighty, ! the only person who is respectable. But true respectability depends on no | such adventitious circumstances. To be re! spectable is to be worthy of respect; and he | deserves respect who has most virtue. The humblest man who bravely does his duty, is more worthy of respect, is more truly respectable, than tlio covetous milliuairo among his money bags, or the arrogant monarch upon his throne. The Hue lady who back bites her neighbor, is less worthy of respect than an honest washer-woman. The profligate noble, though he may wear a dozen orders at his button-hole, is not often respectable as the shoe-black who cleans hib boots. That which is callcd "the world" cxidts the oue and despises the other, but it dues not make them respectable according to the real meaning of that word. Their respectability is but a hollow sham, as they themselves fie<piently feel; and those who worship them bow down to a Fetish, a thing of feuthers and tinsel. Tho seliiah, idle 1 drone, who wastes life in his own irratifica ' tiuti, ami dissipates the fortune of his progI ciiy, is not, and cannot be respectable; but llie hard working, self-denying father, who wears out his life to bring up his children, is, even though lie be but a day laborer.? Nothing can make l>ives fit to lay on Abraham's bosom, while Lazarus is welcomed there, even with the sores the dogs have licked. This false view of life, which would measure respectability l?y a conventional standard, is totally at variance with our republican institutions. It creates an " impcrium in imperio," for while the law declares all citizens equal, it erects a socail standard which endeavors to ignore that great truth. The course, brutish, knavish, nrofliorjita criin'iiitl?ill short- nil wlin full short of llicii-duty to themselves ami their fellow-inen, are those who are not " respectable and this, whether they arc rich or poor. While those who live honestly, and strive to do what ?jood they can, constitute in reality the respcctahle class, irrespective of the fact whether liiey eat with silver forks or steel ones. A LEGAL CONSULTATION. A certain lawyer in this city is noted for his promptitude in demanding payment of his fee, his lack of faith in human honesty Ir.nilinrv liim f a ciionant tlmft Atr/ififltAiltr ic determined to client him. Ilis plan is the same that newspapers are sometimes compelled to adopt?to collcct subscriptions in advance, lie considets that if he is unable to get his own fees before the action is commenced, lie will prove hardly competent to gain his client's cause afterwards. Yesterday a gentleman in tho tailoring line culled on him and informed him that he wished to hold a short consultation with him respecting a suit which hp was about to commence. " My feo will bo fivo dollars lor a consultation." " What 1" exclaimed the man of 4; Five dollars, if you please?and I generally lake the fee in advance," paid he reaching forth his fraud* far the cxppcLed fee. 41 No, you don't," said the tailor, making his way towards the door, 44 you can't play that off on me." 44 There's nothing wrong or unprofessional about it,7 said the lawyer with severity, 441 can't help that?you must get your five dollars out of the other party-" 44 No, that'll never do. Nover twwd ol sucb a proceeding." " Well, then, I'm blowed if I don't aban' 4on the Suit, and you njay gdt somebody olae to make it. 44 What auit aj-eyou talking abowt," ask/ad 1 the n>y?u'fte4 Uwyar, 1 *' Why, tbo suit of clothe* you won a, Jim ob tli? election.. 1 came to eo? 1 suit yon about the color, and J han't paj | five dollars for advice, by a great sight." "Oh?ah?urd} Tbat'tt a different cane ' I"rather thiijcHl bw^fcgreen flrirfAtW lit* ~?.iJ%L ??, * . \ * ^ '. . .. A DOG STORY. Wo stepped into the telegraph ollice in Portland, Ohio, soon after it was established ; fortunately, just in the nick of tiuio to witness the following scene : While the operator was explaining to ns the mysterious workings of the galvanic current, the incxlus operandi of its application in transmitting iutclligcnco between distant places, a tall, particularly ungainly snccillieil of thn trenns linnin stnll'i'd into the office. lie was a muscular, brawny j follow, of tho species l'iko, and, to judgo by 1, is brusque manners and uncouth appearance, had always dwelt on the frontier, or somewhere near sundown, outside tho pale of civilization. lie showed the symptoms of a rapid walk, and hastily inquired : " Telegraft office, eli!" " It is, sir," replied the operator, politely. " lluns from hero to Dayton " Yes." " Good ! I have got a right smart job for ye. I left there afore sun up this morning, in such an alKircd splutter that 1 clean forgot my dog at the tavern. He's a mighty powerful good dog, stranger, 1 tell ye?a cross between a Newfoundland and u regular bull?smart as a mountain cat, and stout as a grizzled bar. lie ken whip his heft in wald cats every day, and is wuth hi-u-chiclcomin to hunt injuns, and that's just the plaeo where I'm gwine. Now, I want you to tckgraft him down here ill double quick meter, for the steamboat is gwine to leave in an hour, and I wouldn't ! lose the critter fur a heap." Wo observed a comical expression flit over the operator's countenance as he pretended to note down a description of the missing quadruped, and answered "all right, sir," to an assurance on the part of the ex citeu customer that lie would ilrsip in alter the dog in half ail hour. When he returned, the first object that attracted his attention was a stump-tailed pug of the most diminutive proportions, which was lied to the leg of the operating tabic, and saluted hi in as lie entered, with a thrill bow, wow, wow ! " You are just in time, sir. Here is your dog, all O. K. Only a little out of breath, owing to the rapidity of his journey," said the operator. " Where?" interrogated 1'ike, striking an attitude expressive of astonishment which was too pregnant for words. ' llere, sir, tied to the table." " W-h-a-t! that teen)' sprinkliu' uv fizzle hair, mv dog ? Von don't mean to say tlui that there dod-darned, short-legged, littli stjiuiil eyeu, lop-enrcu, mangv-oeast js m? dog? No, sir; that aim my dog. Minis tlio best dog in Oregon?a walopin' bij suplendud animal?reg'lar beauty?a t\vhundred pounder, sir! 1'hew! Cuss . snake! At this point, the speaker having exhausted his vocabulary, stopped to t?k breath. " Very singular?extraordinary singulai 1 may say. lias your correspondent mad a mistake, and forwarded the wron?; mi mal i" " Mistake be cussed ! It's a reg'lar swh dlo, sir. That blasted tavern keeper u thar.has stolo my dog, an* sent me this ii fernal little runt in his place. What's tl damage {" " Nothing, sir, as you have failed to g the right animal," replied tha operator, wl joined us in an uproarous burst of iner merit, as Pike left the office, swearing was "gwiue up to Dayton, to scalp tl dog-rotted, dog-stealing tavern keeper P1 ?? ? Fuels about the Presidents.?Four the first seven were from Virgnia. Two the same name were from Massac hu*e and the seveuth from Tennessee. All 1 one were sixty-six years old on leaving fice, having served two terms; and Otic them, who had served but one term, Wot have been 6ixty-six years of age at tha e of another, Three of the seven diod~ the Fourth of July, and two of literati* t same day and year. Two of thom w the subcommittee of three thatdraftfdft Declaration of Independence, and thqgplv died on the sarno day and year, andt^ tl anniversary of the Declaration of indepoi dence, and just half a century from the da of the Declaration. The names of three c 1 the seven ended in son, vet neither of tliet>i transmitted his name to a son. In respect to the names of all, it may be said, in con- j ' elusion, the initjnls of two of the seven wore the same; and of two others tbat they were tho same. The remaining one, who stands alone in this particular, stands alone also in the love and admiratjoq of his countrymen and thaciviltaed world?Washington 1 Of the first five, only one had a son, f t .i . t 'W . ana tnnt son was awo x-rosiaent. m m . i One Ilundrfd Dollars a Drink.?-There , is n case pending in the Superior Court, fa which the plaintiff, Barnabas B. Bayley, I seeks to recover for service as a singer while engaged by Owian J3. Podge. Tlie .defen. f Uwt jreftMfip to pay ^ . cause there was w agraamaat that if the > co?p)aip?nV it^ iWdeai spWl* should forfe}t$l&> for tach drinfc; and the d#6m-. dADMlleowiUatthapiaiBtiff ha$ used arr f * yifc* BARBARISM IN ENGLAND. A duel in the United Slates or any act that can bo tortured into a cause for abusing this country, is always eagerly seized by the English press. We are represented as a nation of outlaws and cut-throats, brutes in habits, and boors in manners. Tu facf. an Englishman's idea of an American is a tall, raw-boned, six-footer, who speaks through his nose, chews an inordinate quantity of tobacco, and carries a revolver in his pocket, and a bowie Knife at his side. lJut how do English manners and customs compare with ours Here no ono thinks of committing so ungcntlcmanly an act its smoking in a railroad car, yet by a recent English paper wo observe the directors of railways in England have given up all hopes of stopping the practice there. As a sample of English laws and of the magistrates who enforce them, we may mention that two poor men in Norfolk were recently sent to prison for fourteen days for the awful crime of shooting, on the wild common, two wild rabbits! The men who prosecuted them owned thousands of rich acres, yet they begrudged these poor men the pitiful products of the wastes. When these mcu were brought up for trial before a certain " Lord" Hastings, there occurred one of the most remarkable scenes that ever transpired in any pretended court of justice. It appears that the Norfolk jVe/?>.*, a paper published in the town, had commented with some severity of language upon the extraordinary proceedings in the case. " Lord" Hastings therefore went to the house of the editor and threatened " to blow Ins lunins out," indeed, desired " to call Liin out," as lie expressed it, in a duel. "When the ease came before the court, tlie editor, who was also solicitor for the poor men, desired "Lord" Hastings to Icavu the heucli, as ho wished to make an application to the other sitting magistrates for a bond to compell "Lord" II. to keep tlie peace.? lie refused, however, to leave the bench, and insulted the counsel by telling him " he had no tight in him," indeed, ho seemed over anxious to come down from the bench aud have the dispute decided with pistols on the spot. If an Arkansas or Alabama Judge had ottered to fight a duel from the bench, what a splendid text it would have been for our abolition journals to expound from ! How they would have expatiated on the corrupting inllueuces of "slavery !"? 1 Jut in "free" England,all these ebullitions go for nothing, bo much forbeinija " bar barous" American, ir.stcad of n, "refined" x uuauelplia Jiullctin, after making some very timely suggestions on the duties of the current year, comes to the following very sensible conclusion. Its hint is as applica' ble here as in Philadelphia : "Finally, make a resolve?if you ate in any sort of business, that you will push it with all the economy, liberality, spirit and enterprise you can muster; and by way of taking a fresh start, and combining the the whole four io one vigorous effort, the best thing you can go hi, beyond question, to take a, newspaper, and send to it a good long advertisement-?one of lhat kind which not only make* it certain that your name will bo seou by all the world, bat which also proves that you are doing a firdt rate i-i. ' J" FATE OF THE APOSTLES. St. Matthew?This Apostle ami Evangelist is supposed to have suftered martyrdom, or was slaiu with a sword at the city < of Ethiopia. St. Mark?This Evangelist was dragged through the streets of Alexandria, in Egypt until ho expired. St. Luke?This Evangelist was hanged upon an olive troe, in Greece, St. John?This Evangelist was put into a cauldron of boiling oil, at Home, and escaped death !?lie afterwards died a natural death at Ephesus in Asia. St. James, tho great?This Apo. t'e was thrown from a pinnacle, or wingof the temple, and then beaten to death with a fuller's club. St. Phillip?This Apostle was hanged up against a pillar, at Hierapolis, a city of Phrygin. St. Bartholomew?This Apostle was ilaycil alive, l>y the command of a barbarous king. St. Andrew?This Apostle was bound to a cross, whence he prcachcd to the people until he expired. St. Thomas?This Apostle was run through the boily with a lance, at Coromandel, iu the East Indies. St. Jude?This Apostle was shot to death with arrows. St. Simon?Zeabot?This Apostle was crucified in Persia. St. Mathias?This Apostle was first stoned aud then beheaded. St. Barnabas?This Apostle of the Gentiles was stoned to death l>y the Jews, at Salinia. St. Paul?This Apostle was beheaded at Rome, by the tyrant Xero. A JYcw Jixcilenient in fruspccl?JJuminrt t/?/> /},>,?/ \n XT?,?, ? * " V ^v/.rw physician has, according to tlie Buffalo Republic, written an elaborate work in favor of the practice of burning the dead, which is to be published after his own death. ]>y his will, lie directs his mortal remains to be kept for five days in a warm room; the thorax then to be opened, and the heart extracted, which is to be embalmed and enclosed in a thick vellum bag, strongly impregnated with asphaltum ; the remainder of his body is then to be publicly burnt on a pyre of sassafras or sandal wood, in one of the public cemeteries, the ashes carefully gathered and deposited with the t I- 1 1 - - _ _ 1 uuiuHiiuu.t iic.u i in a nronze uin. i'lvo copies of tlie loading daily city papers, containing an account of the whole proceeding, .rc likewise directed to be deposited in tlie mi, \yhieli is then to be hermetically scaled, >iid taken to the New York Museum. In the midst of the excitement created >y these proceedings, tlie work is to be >ubli*hed. For its circulation ?10,000 are ippropriatcd, $10,000 more for distribution imong tlie city officials and leading politi ians of all parties, who arc to rceeivo from 525 to $100 each for assisting in the ccrenony; and $10,000 more for the editorial rateruity, to bo divided jtfo rata according o their lmlueiice. Should anything occur to prevent the lue execution of the will, the bulk of his >roperly Is to be at onco transferred to a haritable institution in Philadelphia. The Republic has these facts from the ittorney wljo drew up the will, lie estiuates the property at $200,000. The Scarlct Fever.?The following rom:dy for the scarlet fever is recommended by Jr. Lindsey, of Washington, as the treatneot which has been resorted to with great .uecess by Dr. Schneemai), physician to the ?ing of Hanover. Wo give it, rather for .he benefit of our medical men than for for in a matter of such importance, ind involving consequents so serious, too Uttch care cannot be exercised ; From the first day of the illness, and as soon as we are certain of its nature, the patient must be vuhbed morning and evening over the whole bodv with a pieco of hMQti, in such a tnanuer that, with iho exeption of the liend, a covering of fat i? ivery where applied. In order to make this rubbing in somewhat easier, it is best to Ufa a piece of bacon the sizo of the hand, tUat we may have a firm graxp. On the oft side of this piece slits are to be made lit order to allow the oozing out of the fat. 1 The rubbing must be thoroughly performed, 1 and not to quickly, in order that the skin may be regularly saturated with the fat.? The beneficial results of the application arc tsoon obvious; with a rapidity bordering on magic, all, even the moat painful symptoms 1 of the disease are allayed ; quiet sleep, good humor, and the appetite return, and there remains only the impatience to quit the 1 sick room, , Death among the Chinese.?The Abbe Uuc, in his book, " Tho Chinese Empire," i observes; i The astonishing calmness with which the Chinese see the approach of death doe* not I foil when the last moment arrives. They , expire with the most incomparable tran BE PATIENT WITH THE LITTLE ONES, 15o patient with tlio little ones, Lot neither their slow understanding nor their occasional pertness ollVnJ yon, or proyoko |,ho sharp reproof, Remember the world in new to them, and they have no slight tusk to grasp with their unripened intellects, tlio mass uf facts and truths that crowd u]h>ii their attention, Yon are grown to maturity find strength through years of experience, and it ill becomes you to fret at the little child that f;iils to keep paco with youp thought. 'IVilf.1i lii?? " . O 'tiBUlijr, ?J> *JOl| tcjiclics you, " line upon line, precept upon precept; here n little, and there a little"? Cheer him on in this conflict of mind?in after years his lipo, rich thought shall liso lip and call 3'ou blessed, bide patiently the endless questionings of your children. ])o not roughly crush the springing spirit of free inquiry, with an impatient word or frown, nor attempt} on the contrary, a long and instructivu reply to every slight and casual question. Keek rather to deepen their curiosity. Convert, if possible, the careless question into a profound and carncft inquiry; and aim rather to direct and aid, than to answer this inquiry. Let your reply send the little ques? tioner forth, nut so much pioud of what lie has learned, as anxious to know more, Happy thou, if in giving your child tho molecule of truth lie asks for, you can whet his curiosity with a glimpse of tho uiouijtain ol truth lying beyond { so wilt thou send forth a philosopher, and not a silly pedant into the world. Boar patiently tho childish humors of those little or.es. They are but the untutored pleading of the young spirit for carp and cultivation. Irritated into strength. and hardened into habits, they will haunt the whole of life like fiends of despair, nnd make thy little ones curie the day they were born ; but, corrected kindly and pa* tientlv, they become the elements of hap-t&an piuess and usefulness, Passions are bgt fires that may either scorch us with thoir uncontrolled fury, or may yield us a gonial and needful warmth. Bless jour littlo ones with a patient caro of their childhood, and they will certainly consecrato the glory and grace of their manhood to your service. Sow in their hearts the seeds of a perennial blessednessits ripened fruit wijl afford you a perpetual joy. A Gaud Story.?" A bear and its leader,n says the Courier do Lyons, "lately arrived towards night at a village near this city* and the latter sought admission into the public house of the place. The host at first declined to admit the strange pair, not knowing where to placo the animal, b;?jt finally he consented to receive them. The bear was placed in a pig-sty, and its occupant, a fat pig, which was to be killed 011 tlia morrow, was let loose in the court yard,--* In the middle of the night cries of help, proceeding from the pig-?1y, aroused the house, and the host, his wife, and the servants, at once ran to the spot. It was theij DQftnrluniA/l #1??* < 1? it ..^ ix.uvv uuh 1* uihii, uy uhi splendid condition of tho j?g, hud dei-efr mined on eloping with it, and had entered the pig-sty with that laudnblu intention.? Tlio bear, displeased at boing suddenly awakened by this cm j Uprising nidiuddal, rewarded him with a fraternal hug, which caused tho would-be-thief to cry out ?o lustily. The man was delivered from the paws of the bear, but only to be handed over iuto tho hands of justice/* Do Good.?Thousands of men liroatlio move and live, pass oil' the stage of life, and are beard of no more. Why i they do not ~C 1 !.. ,111*--* uu u |N? uvii3 ui gnon in uiu wuriu, auu nono were blessed l>y them, nono could point to them as the instilment of tlieir redemption j ^ not n word they spoko could bo recalled, ' .' and they perished ; their light went out hi darkness, and they were not remembered more than ibo insect of yesterday. "VViU you thus live and die, oh man immortal!?* Lire for something. J)o good, a??d ieavo behind you a monument of virtue that tlia storm of time can never destroy. Write - * your uame in kindness, love aiid mercy, on the hearts of thousands who como fu contact with you year by year; you will ncrer be forgotten. No, your name, your deeds, will bo as-legible oh tbe heart* you " /- / leave behind, as die stars on t|i0 brow of evening. Good deeds will sbutO #8 t})g % stars of licuven. Imports on Dry Goods.?Tbe import* of dry goods ?t New York sinoe January 1st, show a deerease of $300,205 asoom* pared with the corresponding' period of 1850, but an increase of $ii7?0?O88 com* pared with tbe same of 1850, and of $154,000 compared with the same period of i#54^ The total thrown upon tbe market daring the month, shows an inoreme even upon tiie total for lit* MOW period of hut year, the withdrawals from warehouse for consumplion having excetwfod tlie entries for wmo, ho\?Anfr-~ Journal ifCovtmerce,^ . j, ' .j' - <****T" :?'' W-' **' *'