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' >. m -> .; ? \jp mfs 'lA^^WWftft T? ^ ii ilfiJulih uSSLai^i^i^l Vj liiLkisLkliL^l l?Ju?Acau:. J lib lijjja TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. 1 44 TIXE JPTIIOE oF :t* X a3 aa I*. is ETEJIKTALI viohjance." [PAYABLE IN ADVANCE * BY DAVIS & HOLLINGS WORTH. ABBEVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 2G, 1857. vor xnr no aA. From the Montgomery Aih't rlher. HOW TO PRESERVE THE UNION. "The Union: It can only bo preserved l?v cultivating fraternal feeling amongst the ' States, ami securing to each section the un- j disturbed enjoyment of its constitutional rights."? Senator The foregoing sentiment, sent hy Senator ^ _ "Woiler to a late Democratic celebration in ^ Ohio, announces the only reliable means of ? giving perpetuity to the Union. L>ut it seems j lo us that " farternal feelings" would ho a _ Consequence of the "undisturbed enjoyment" j of constitutional lights l?y each section.? j We can scarcely perceive how first they can ; l>e cultivated, except l?y the adoption of a J /'>?< "courso which, if it do not secure, will at : least, not prevent the enjoyment of lights. j It may be that our views are very narrow i on this, as we know the)' arc on many sub- ; jects?that it is entirely wrong for lis not ; to cultivate fraternal feelings towards those j who spend their lives almost from the era- j die to the grnve, in :i systematic assault 1 upon rights, they are bound by the most solemn compact not to molest. It would be? i and wo acknowledge it with all humility? ! i>etter to " love those that hale us. and pray j for those who despitefully use us." Hut we are j human, and it isdillicult for those who liud it j impossible, from their weakness, to practice j in private the sublime precepts of Chris* i .. tfanity, to be guided by them in public at when the subject matter of contro.. * * ?1 peals to them as men as well as patriots. Let us, l?v all means, cultivate fia* ' tern:il sentiments ; but in the endeavor to do . so, let us never forget that they can only be ; made permanent by observing ourselves, j ajid making others obseive, the constitu- i ' . tional rights of all. This, we know, is very | ' rtltra language, and idiraisui in matters re- ' iatnig to the rights of the South is, in these; i latter days, at least, suspicious. There is ! no "lion's mouth" m which so grave a . charge against one's 'nationality" can In: j deposited ; hut it can 1>< whUpcrcd in the ; by-ways, ami liintcl in tlie prints, ami seat- ! d tered abroad as though it bad been written ! ' '**' on the sybyline leaves and blown about bv j 1 lie winds. There is we fear, a reactionary ; fcelihg amongst us?a disposition to aban- j. don the noble ground t:ik*Mi by the South j in the late canvass?to onitail our demands i for light by a feeble milk and-water pol- ! icy:. * ,It isjjetting common to denotinre ami | i. proscribe men because they were Southern j '? > -iiUriota and ultraists?to c.Ul thoin forsooth, j sectioualists," ?ot recosrnixinir the taci I - t ... . ' ? ? " . filial iu sectionalism alone, was true conscrv- j atisni, Unionism?while the men who as- | * ^'-liired to the fame of " nationality," sought . ^liT'hv eomnrolnisiiH' t,v slmi t-si-riilnl cv mi i _"~A T r? * J ? * * * | ^ pcdients; liy ;i timi?l vacillation ? l?y j . V't, Xr<?achcrous concession. In 1 851) the I >? 111- J / Sr/ ocratic party of Alabama was ultra; some 1 of our friends diil'-'ryd wij.li lis au<l were j ~ , i I ?i fining to watch and wait. Perhaps it wa.s j better policy ? wo say nothing of thai; but soon wc all stood together again, and ! #.* ' if * * *" ? O 1 j .. * ?"? tljo Georgia platform was our basis of union. | ^ JTliQ ^Democracy in I SOo again became one j v.T'" 'homogeneous party in opposition to the ' .. .^Federal doctrines and prosrriptive tenets! . -of KnowtNylhingisni. lit 1 they stood ! . in firmer, phalanx, supporting the Cincin- i * - flatiplatform. It gave the Southern ultras ' ^ .\fl1l thev ashed : thev were willing to risk I .""I ' fheii'p&KtHjHl fortunes and honor in main- , & "< ' " "jft iii a fuel which no "well informed man ^ T will deny, that il was tlie linn ami unyieldf ing position of these " ultraists" that * . i g^lreugtheiicdaud upltchl the Northern I >em" ' * nu>" !,s Toinrov, Wcllor, .1. V "Ofeuicy Joues, I'ugh, Wrllard, and a host of j j?? in the contest against fanaticism.? , $"**': j'V-tTfiicy xjonlft point to the iifliinaltun thus %? s-. * .TtmiQOiiced by the men of the South, who rT i -: ' " ' represented rioj, only the Southern feeling, ^ .? Ij^fcthei constitutional doctrines of the South, ."* ?^?$^frymd -that* they should come tip to yi' '^^^<ft#mepts, jin?l restore the Union lo , iiphiiu purposes. livery T Vc. 'rtrjtljapfeB of viiciHftioii?every symptom of y-;1"' 11"dmscreion~lfa? related the ... ^*e)ter{*ie8 unp^cciiofl the fears of our N*|jili' v^rjj iri^nda- 'flould.ttj'cy, can they light oty^ ive waver in iho conflict, an<) ^ lumc' orit a flag' of truce ? The Northern ? -. ^r' i. . ? "*, . > -^Dtmocrntf, with every disposition io.do us " .^JugtMo.. iinvo '.been pfcctd in a position "Jir.?almost,/orb)d it^^by tire course of the .V^*iBoBu?brfi people.; VheiHiap*jiovor 41'nderw^ojllhow it >vas that iijon who appreciated . 1 " ^ *p( lite South, who had the ca^;.^i^^^^|(jjto/un'ciers4.'?nd her post lion and want^ ^^^^W^greatsocial inatUiiticfli, apd?the courage T mit* who com prei * li?fjfde^.)jerjiltilui!e in iho Confederacy, mid ' ' , '^^iytlj^ibcforo an?J $?cr, could point out, , 2 fo pifttrnnd dangers oi the "* y*^o jinked only n strict obser '-' iiii^kiivmg no faith in ih* ultimate su- \ pwnacy 6f truth?would ousure a preueut! I i * V success by abandoning it, or hedging it in with such qualifications and explanations as destroy its vitality. The Democratic party alone possesses in its principles that comprehensive spirit of nationality which will enable it to preserve tlio Union. It alone exists as a barrier to a fanaticism which has destroyed oven the bonds of Christian brotherhood; and it can only be preserved " by the cultivation of fraternal feelings, and a strict observance of the constitutional rights of every section.'' Thai. Midi will 111* ill luil-n >1?? doubt; that it will be guided l?\* the great fundamental principles of the equality of the Stales, ami of the people of the States, and be neither driven by the aggressive spirit which is now predominant in the North, nor misled bv the artful conduct of those who give to it a fictitious strength on the day of battle, like the followers of the army on (Jillies' hill at r>atinockburii, who lingered oti the heights and surveyed the Held, and came down with their banners, when it was won, to share the spoils of the camp. We are led to these remarks l?y the comments we lind in the Mississippi Free Trader. unoll ail !lli it'll" ill ?ln> I ..<vin.fl-.II Ml.. > i ? server, denouncing "Southern ullraists" as having tended to the dcfuat of the Democracy in the last canvass. 11 does not represent Southern Democratic opinion in saying so; il is not juntitled or supported by the facts. Nor will il do just at this peculiar juncture in our governmental affairs, when every one is looking lor the announcement of the course and policy of the incoming administration in the complexion of the l'al>iiict, to assail ami denounce such men, L'ither directly or indirectly. Jell'. Davis, an ''ultra" man, is in Mr. Pierce's Cabinet; 1 who rehukes the President fur having selcc- ! teil him as a man representing Southern h-.i^ ? 'irn. < j iiiui.iii received, on the lirst [ allot in the I >cmucratic Convention, the highest number of votes fur Vice President ; ! who reproaehud it for having honored an ' " ullrais-t," who was unwilling to cum pro- \ mise Southern interests ami honor' Look rjver the names of the men now piomiiicriL in the I>einoeratic party, ami who have attained their position hy having proclaimed their unalterable determination to maintain uju ucieuii ino rights ol the >outli, aiut count Imw many of them are ultra men, I beginning willi Wise, of Virginia, ami following llivm through the Scutli and Southwest ; ami let liiui who denounces them perceive that lie denounces the men who in the two greatest struggles the parly has passed through since the days of ''JS-'iK), have been the bulwarks of Democracy. The J 'is'jut'ta Vulcuno.? It is said that (lit; statement, in referono to a volcano having recently made its appearance in Pendleton county, \ a., on the great Hack-bone : - *? ! ' --- ? '- > !.- 11 in-, i iiu v/iuiiocriami i olograph says: l( is at a point on tlie mountain directly between the heads of the dry fork of (,'lieat ami tlic Sotilli branch of the I'otomac river, at a place known by the name of the" Sinks'1 so called from the depressed condition of the mountain at that point. Those "Sinks,'' are funnel shaped, and each one embraces as much as an acre of ground. On the 1st. day of January the reports called hy the bursting forth of subterranean file were heard for .1 distance of twenty or thirty mile*. Vast columns of (lame and smoke issued from the orifice, and red hot stones were thrown up in the air several hundred feet above the month of the crater. <>nr iufoi mailt adds that the people, in the vicinity are becoming alarmed at the pertinacity with which the flames are kept up and the rod hot masses l-_ -? - -- <n mcK.s iiirowu out. A heavy, rumbling noise, like distant thunder, is continually reverberating through J.he deep caverns of llie mountain, which at limes seems to tremble, from summit to base. Life in jVcio York.?New York is just now a skittish place to live in. The " reign of terror" is upon us ; but the terror is in ilio hearts of the poople. The noli and affluent do not .'dare go out of nights,? Night keys are out of use. The up town gentlemen ring at their own bolted doors. liy many cases the servant girls will not go t<Ml>e door at all, but men nre employed ; apd when the ifiuiteers and brokers, the eflshieit nnd presidents go homo, they havp their front doors thrown wide open that it may bo seen that 110 garroters aWj lurking riii' the dark.' Chamber doors are kept locked all day; families' do not go to. bed without a general search under beds nnd an energetic pokitig in the closet with a cane or Duker. The murder of Dr. Bur dull, the atccet stabbing and robbery, (be chpking aud gioroliiig, which aro pastimes of oiir city foj the present, deter the theatro goers, the pleasure seekers, fro^fc. their usual pastimes. The bouses of public piny and acting nre almost deserted, and tbe actors in most of our theatres aro like disabled soldiers?oiv half pay. Some' talk.of vigilance committees; some call for a public meeting. Tli&Jfayor does all that he can do. He cannot do mora with the force ho ha*. But-some aid must come from some source, or the people yill ba universally | armed.?New Yorjc Letter. * . It is not yoor business, but the" energy and prudenco with which you coqdnM it, that decide between your success or failure, * From (he A*. O. Delta. SOME ACCOUNT OF THE CAMEL. Mr. A. ltay, Chief of Camel Department, IJ. S. A., h:is favored us with an in' teresting account of tho habits of the camel, ; from which wo make the following e.\1 tracts: FOOD, AC. The camel appears to eat whatever vegetation the earth produces; lie loves to ; gather his own food, and will then eat ali most everything. If his food is given to liilll readv cut or <rsitli?r<ul li.> luionnino j ^ "V ^VVWM.VO '"'Jfastidious, and cares only for thistles or a ^ few tender herbs. As a general rule care : must lie taken that the camel is not sent out lo feed before the dew is oil the grass; ! leu at night is a good hour to return them i ? from the pasture. In autumn they are sent ' out after sunrise and returned from pasture : after sunset. In winter they arc pastured ' as in autumn, but they are only allowed to I drink when the water has been warmed l?v ' the sun. Camels are in the habit of lying | down and ruminating on their arrival at j camp; they must lie compelled to rise and ' eat. because as thev sleen onlv fmn- lmnr? J - -J k J ' they have time to ruminate during the night. In regard to the dew (lie Arabs arc not agreed as to its injurious effects; the French in Algeria, however, deem it hurtful. ; Barley and straw (broken) are given to the camel when pasturage cannot he had.? When oil a march or on arrival at camp, ' no herbage or feed can be found, the camel then has given to it a -few balls of dough made of wheat, horse bean and barley (lour. Sustained by this, the traveler, Shaw, says . he has seen a camel carry a load of TOO lbs. ; for ten or fifteen hours per day without stopping. The Arabs sav it is necessary to let tlie camel have pasturage and young shrubs in the summer, aud tlioy give it neither barley nor straw. It subsists on what it can get for itself, pieferring spiuiotis vegetables. excent :iloi? wlii.-li !i .HJSL-n* 'I'.. fatten tin: cannl, its pasturage shouM he occasionally channel. In a good pasture it will cat enough in l? u hours to last twenty-four hours. MKllll'I N I'.S, Tar, suljihatc of copper, hi-sulpliaio. of i mercury, au<l lite cautcry arc tli only cx' tcrnal medicaments u->ed l?y tin; Arahs.? ! Oils, rancid butter ami grease are interior remedies*. At four years old tin- camel is loaded mill used for all purposes; at live years he is at full vijjor, ami remains so ui> to nine vcars. From nine to thirteen years In: loses liis s! rciitrlh, atul at seventeen 110 is oM. ! a c.vmi:i. load. j A shout*, vigorous animal fan easily carl iy on a level road 7.V> lo 800 lhs.; in a ! liillv eonntrv the load on-'hi not to exceed j - ? 000 lbs., saddle included. When necessity j demands it, they can he fully loaded, even I in a mountainous legion, hut in that case there must he snare animals in the i j troop. l'aci: 111*' the C a mhi.. i If not. overdriven the camel will march ; loaded, from snuri.se to sunset. Stretching his neck from side to side of the road, he ' gathers the herbage within his reach, and j in this manner makes his 30 or -10 miles 1 per day. It is well, or rather necessary, to j rest him every ninth day. The camel must ! !ll?V(ir DMclinil !* # in A?uam I wv tiui, m *>i m'ViiL ui* ! goncy. During (lie march the pace is relaxed when the ground offers good pasturage. SIGNS OF A OK IIV TIIB TKKTII. At two years of age, the camel has no teeth ; at four, ho has two incisors; at five, i four incisors; at six, six incisors; at eight, eight incisors, lie has also canine teeth and molars. TUB HUMP. The condition of the animal can always be judged of by the size of its liamp, which is formed from the superabundant nourishment. The ro-absorption of this glandularliko substance compensates in a measure foi n scarcity of food. During a long march the hump is seen gradually to diminish, aud iii chso oi lamine 10 uisppear. DRINK or TUB CAMEL. The Arahs say the reason the animal drinks so little, is because he secretes no bile. The quantity he drinks at one time is from thirty to forty pints. TIIR CAEML'8 HKSKUVOlll. Tho cainel endures hunger and thirsl with a patience that would be thought lit tie short of miraculous, were one ignoraul of the construction of the stomach, which is.not only capable of containing water in reserve, but, according to Cuvier, of producing it. Tho camel not only has foui stomachs, like all ruminants, but has alsc III mm rtf 1%/irr* n " * I ... mv.... n nj/civiw ui reservoir lormed in cavities or cells, which may altogether contain twenty pints of water. This walci remains there without deterioration to sucli an extent'tbat it is stated by a celebrated traveler that he has seen a camel disem< boweled, which had been dead ton days, jr whose reservoir was found three pints of w? tor still drinkable. By compressing lb< reservoir, by the action of its muscles, th< animal moistens its food. The camel gen erully drinks once in three days. 1 , - ' dsji TMR CASIBL ON BAD ROADfl. It &en happens that in jiscending'Ai acoHvity or muddy road, the carael fntls t< bis kneet?hi* forefeet slipping?he do? , not then try to rise, but goea on in that po r^Kion, nor docs he try to right hiqwelf tmli lie is out of the bad road. IIo easily slips on clay soil, especially after rain. lie must then bo brought to a halt, as lie is liable lo break his legs, particularly the hinder ones. There is not the same amount of danger on ground, although tlio Arabs in the latter case cover the camel's feet with a sort of j nioccason or shoo of bullock's hide, to . protect them from being cut when they ! slip. rilAKACIT.fl OF TIIK CAMKt.i It is the most gentle animal in existence, . and the most submissive. It is stubborn, it | is true, but not. so iniudi so as the mule, and il is easily and quickly corrected. It is so ! patient, that it will proceed with its load | until totally exhausted, and then it falls never again to rise. During a military expedition of llie French in Algeria, in the month of April, 1841, it was astonishing to see their camels, although reduced to skeletons, making forced marches with their | loads. Mules, in their condition, could not have carried oven their saddles. / 'rout /In- South'in Christina Advocate. THE MATRIMONIAL MARKET. Knongli attention is not given in this country to the statistics ot" matrimony.? ! i Nothing more surely marks the real pros- I i polity of a people tliiin tlio ratio of mar- ; I liages to tlio population. In Austria tliis j ! ratio is small, because marriage is forbi?l- j | den by law to those who cannot show a . reasonable prospect of maintaing a family, ' , am.! the)' are many who cannot moot this | | condition. The ratio is small in Paris, for | suclr is the demand for luxurious living ' among all classes, that marriage becomes 1 an iiupossiliility to those of slender income, j ! In our own country the matrimonial mar- j i ket has heretofore been very generally of ' the best, both as to supply and demand, ; in ouaiililv :nnl un.-iliiv ii< wimk I V 1 -* "" > ""v wc see it slated thai it is rather heavy at this time in some of our larger cities. It is said thai in Huston there was last year a falling oil' of twenty per cent, oil the marriages of previous years. The men arc as handsome and the women as willing as they ever were, but marriage has heroine a i luxury that few eau allord. The rise ill l | bonnets and talmas, laces ami lurs, silks and grenadines, has depressed the marriage market. We saw the other da}* an inventory <>f a lady's "turn out*' in San Francisco.? Tim jewelry cost 15?the entire outfit ->.1.10 1 ?the dress alone being put at ; T.? !m> suic these wcie California prices, litil ; hi us reduce her $050 worth of dress by j 100 per cent. to moot our prices, ami you j still have a woman too fine for a poor j man's wile. Who can alloid to have three i hundred dollars of his income parading i the streeLs every time his wilb turns out? , to say nothing of the watch, bracelets, and j other appendages? If it were a suit of j steel armor, or some everlasting material, it might bo toli-rutcd, but il will never do in t hese days when fashions change so r;i|>idly that l>eeeniber forgets what last January wore. And yet " genteel society" is inex" I iliable, l'oor people in this country often manage somehow to belong to that very respectable caste, but they must pay for it. It docs not always matter about their grammar or rhetoric, their manners or morals, but their dress and furniture and equipage, are all important. A stain oil the character is easily forgotten, while the bonnet of last winter is remembered, and the former may be tolerated, the latter not a second season. Genteel society h:is a certain style, and its suhjucU must be versed in its rules 1 and abide by them, or be banished. So, at ' least, foolish people suppose, and they practice accordingly. Hence the extravagance that everywhere abounds, and hcnce the declino iu the matrimonial market. 1 There is a multitude of young mcc^an' H>AC U'1?ACA W???AO nrnn l 1? WW II wvnw IKI^UO (UU IllVUUi nie, Civriib whoso salaries arc small, Iawyears whose briefs aro too brief, and physicians who do not feel pulses enough to fill a purse, any 1 of whom by strict economy could support ' a wife, but who will, if there is not a speedy change, be wliolly unable to enter the market. Tlioy are doomed to celibacy, or to ' worse. Start not, fair reader, if a friend ' asks you how many of those gay young 1 men whom you sec at an evening party, so genteel, so polite, have learned that a concubine is less expensive than a wife. You - will be shocked when you know how many there are, and who they are. And ? it is the fault of their mothers, sisters and sweathearls. They liavo carried folly and 1 extravagance in dre*s and living to bo 1 igli a pitch liint n poor young man of any pride ' of character is afraid to marry. No man > wishes to see his wife living in humbler style than his affianced, or sscin to want from the husband what the father supplied. f Kiither, he desires that his choscn at least i appear better off married than single; but I how can he when young ladie? dress as - they now do I Of this lie is hopeless, and i if his moral character be not well estab lisljed, the syren can in auch cases too often i successfully tempt him to. his nndoing, and ) cause him to entangle lijjinself in some iuiiiinml (IliancA Mmt rnina liim But pariufetbtwid run* the rUc and man**. The extra v?gK)0k ta?U* tlut have \ been a*itiyou?ly cultivated by tbe father > and lWyo*ngwifc, are brag]it , to aTll* . indulgent hiflfcand. But it aapa^Jm moral J strength to do it. The ordinary source? of i money fail to supply his needs?patient toil ' does not suffice, and grand speculations j must be adventured. The show of prosperity is necessary to the bold speculator; and money is spent by husband and wile with- j out stint. Fortune docs not smile upon (lie adventurer, and often, in these eases, a desperate game is played, in which moral character is staked againM. the chance of gain and is lost. How many forgeries and j defalcation can be trace<l precisely to (liis j source. Mow many husbands curse the j day tlicy ever began to indulge the extravagant tastes of their wives. How many wives, when failure, poverty and degrada- I ? - ' ? - - nun l-uiiic, wouiu giauiv nave lorgone their folly, could tliey have predicted the end.? I Let ub hope that the evil has readied its ! height, and that society will soon he re- , stored to its senses hv the misfortunes and ; crimes that attend its madness. This is no trilling subject to the mothers ^ of this generation. It is with them to , shape the tastes and habits of their daugh- j ters. The husband often succeeds iu ac- j juiring a competency which the father j fails to retain. The wife may add to a , prosperity which the daughters exhaust be : fore the oldest gets out her teens, or strikes j some other vein lor gold than the paternal ^ pocket. Look to it, ye mothers, tli.it 3*011 j teach other and wiser arts than those of show and dress. Look to it, or there may j be such a decline iu the demand for walk- j ing millinery blocks, that a few years hence , you will see only a bevy of fading spinsters, ; where you had hoped to see your grand- ! cniMien :il l?!:iv ; you wondering tneani while if tin: matrimonial market will over I ; rise so high as that they may yet become ! merchantable articles. - _ j .1 .1/ijsttrious /'cr.sontif/c. ? I infer this: i caption a contemporary (nils a story, says I I he N. V. Sun, of an elderly gentleman, I elegantly dressed, ami carrying a gold | headed cane, who <jave an order at a res- i I taurant in J'ark row, on a slip of paper, ' lliret! vears :?<? <> fur : iliiiii.ii- "Aim 1 ..t' ! j curtain dishes, an J two small bottles of i claret wine, t?? lie prepared for liim at a | stated time everv day. The gnest and [ j the dinner are there at the appointed hour* I I lie proceeds to the particular box appro! printed to him, draws down the eurtain, ; and discusses his dinner. Two wine glasses are alwavs furnished. Alter din'mir, lie ! j " * turns out two glasses of wine, the contents ! of one he drinks, and pours the other on the floor, and thus continues till the two bottles of wine have been disposed of, and the same thing is repeated day after day. | I hiring the whole period lie has not been l i . ..ii ? - ~ i inj.11 <i l>j inter ?t worn. 11 nas ueeu saiU thai to a greater <>r less degree, every man and every woman is a monomaniac ; l>itt the gentleman in the above case, from some hidden cause, cert::inly seems to possess an unusual share. Henatifill Sentiment.?The beautiful extract below is from the pen of lion. S* Milliard: " I confess that increasing years bring ! with them an increasing respect for those ! who do not succeed in life, as those wolds i are commonly used. Heaven is said to be : a place for those who have not succeeded | I upon earth ; anil it is surely true that celtfs tial graces do not best thrive anil bloom in tlio hot blaze of worldly property. Ill success sometimes rises from superabundanceo' I qualities in themselves good?from a con" science too sensitive, a taste too fastidious, a self-forgctful ness loo roinaulic, a modesty loo retiring. I will not go so far as to say, with a living poet, that the " world knows nothing of its greatest men," but there are forms of greatness, or at least cxcelleneoi that " dio and make no sign." lliero arc martyrs that miss the palm, but not the stake; there are heroes without the laurel and conquerors without the triumph." Startling Occurrence.?At a church in an adjoining count)', a Sunday or two since, just as the congregation were about to kneel down to prayer, a lady, in a tone of horror, raised the cry of s-n-a-k-c! Great excite incnt prevailed, a.. J there was a mighty rush from tlio dangerous locality. At length a gentleman advanced to (lie spot, gazed a moment upon the coiled monster, and, pouncing upon it, held up to tho view of the stnrtled crowd a whalebone hoop, which had wriggled itself out of a lady's petticoat and quietly coiled itself upon tho floor.? This is a fact, and ought to admonish tho !adie? of the danger of not securing wel' tho snake-like circles which encompass their lower extremities.?Clarkuville (Tenn.) Chronicle. " IIow many genders aro there ?*' asked a school-master. " Three, air," promptly replied little blue eyes, " masculine, feminine, And neuter." "Pray, give ine an examplo of eachfc" said the master. ? " Why, you are masculine, because you are a man; and I am feminine, because I am a girl." "Very well. Proceed." - - 441 don't know," said tho little girl, " hut 1 ' reckon ' Mr. Jenkins ia neuter, <ts he is an 'Old Bachelor. ^ . .. - I A tfnUcnttatt AlaWirt*tvinir in exclaimed Il~~, with a -L_-_ U& :JL SOUTHERN LITERATURE. I'lii nam's Magazine for I'Vhruary contains an article upon the ahove suhj^-.t, thoroughly saturated with malignity, which tin; writer?Parke (iodwin, wo suppose- ? evidently mistakes for wil, ami no douht ; thinks himself delightfully Pickwickian in ; the style of his effusion, judging from the j parade of the ifritinittis jwr.soiiir of tin: I'irk- | wick Cluli in almost every line. Indeed, j the coruscations of the author's wit are so { freipieiit, so hrilliant and dazzling, that>t is J almost impossible to g?*t at (he meaning or substance, if there is any, in the article.? As far as we can make out, the action of the late Southern Convention relative to the propriety of encouraging Southern an?l discouraging Northern literature, has irritated his gall bladder, ami caused this hitter ?lischarge of acrid insipidity. The South affords an excellent market for the I item lure of the North. With their accustomed indill'erence to their true interests, the Southern people are pr...ligal of their patronage to Northern literature, whose tendency always, openly or insidiously, is to underufii.e her institutions and to injure her interests. The South has not snflieieiitly supported her own authors, publishers and newspapers, and if she would resist the tide of ^Northern iuNucnce, she must <:ea*e to encourage tin? dissemination of Northern publications, ami earnestly set to work to build up a Southern literature. The principle involve* I in an excellent paragraph in a late number of the New Orleans I tilletiu, in which that paper says, "the best way of defending the South, is to make a vigorous assault upon old fields and dilapidated feu- j ces; that it is only necessary to set the . plough and spade going and overwhelm (he i enemy with mountains of manure, to discoiniit him,"' applies here. Let the Southern people subscribe for Southern papers and magazines, let them purchase Southern hooks and publications, ami we shall soon have. :i Smilli.-rii lii..i Mim-.. ........1.1.. ' >' i Ui11IT head against the assaults ol l!ic North- I C* O 1 ami even carry (he war into tlie enemy's eonntiy. Southern teaeliers anil Southern | text. hooks also should he supplied In all Southern schools. The South is, to a pitiable extent, dependent upon the North for her teachers and se.hool hooks. The remedy, as we have said, is iu the hands of the Southern people. W ill Ihev use it, or will they submit to the taunts of these Northern scribblers, who laugh at the idea of a Southern literature as an impracticability, and announce iu the most supercilious and haughty terms, that "the literature of I lie country cares no longer to duck and compliment and omit, but will speak louder and louder every day, directly and indirectly, against human slavery." The writer of the article in question ?oes on to say : " We speak for the literature of the country, when we say it 110 longer intends to shiver and turn pale when it speaks of the South and Southern institutions. It will treat slavery as a great moral, social and political blight;" and "we do speak ill of slavery, and shall often do so." This is the poisoned chalice which the North oilers to the lips of the South through the medium of its literature. Will the South drain it to its dregs, or will it dash it indignantly to the earth, and turn to the pure fountains which gush forth at their own doors? Will the South support and foster her own literature and literary talent ? Is there not public spirit, intelligence and energy enough in the South to resent these | insults to its dignity, and these assault* upon its intelligence and its institutions ? The war is declared. The South must either ignobly succomb, or do battle boldly and bravely for her dearest rights, her vital interests, against those who are directing against her uncompromising and continuous assaults. In this struggle, the press will be found her ablest champions ; her literature?if she will but build it up?her most impregnable bulwark. Let the cry be, " Southern books, Southern magazines, Southern papers and Southern talent." Let them be called for. ward to take in the South that position hitherto usurped by Northern publications. ino talent and intelligence are here*. Is there not patriotism and public spirit enough to foster it? We do not mean, by anything we have sai ], to foster or encourage a literature that is purely sectional in its character, as is the casu with too much of that which comes of late years from the North; but we do mean that the South should excommunicato and place under ban such publications as that of Putnam, which declares that it intends to make war upon our institutions and our people whenever the opportunity presents itself. We have always regarded Putnam as a credit to American literature, properly so called; but when it descends to the fniro of sectional politics, it Joses nil claim to support from our people; and this effcct i? already vjaiMo ia the diminished circulation it now has in this section, which will grow still *4 smaller by degrees and boautifully less," with the Bppeorunco of eacli additional attuck in its columns upon the Soutli.?Baltimore Dexpatrh. ?? .. At a late public meeting, the following ' dty*Mat was given. The author will g?t * buttered" when he reaches lion kocLledgo, the second nibhilg, find1 the 1 ast spread#?considerably." ANECDOTE OF WM. C. PRESTON AND WARREN R. DAVIS. The Classical and the Vernacular.?Tlio I Ion. Win. C. IVeston ami the lion. Warren II. I )nvis, ilio one still honored and cherished among tlio living, tlio other deeply lamented and fondly ivmemhered among the dead, were alike given to sometliiiig akin to monopoly of conversation, at dinner or social parties, and l>oth spoke so well that their auditory were never weary of listeuiuir. < >11 some diiiiier oi-^M^iiin al the hospitable board of .1 miit 11:1! friend, ami wen*, :is usual, both b"s?*t. 1 ?v the < ?? coclh.cs lo</itciufi; l?ul Mr. lYestoii, by stfperior tactics, ami much io the annoyance of his distinguished friend and colloquial rival, ?ot the parole, and kept tl, too, without stint or compassion. The theme of iho accomplished ex-Senator was a favorite one with him, and one on which he delighted to dwell and expatiate?il was the extraordinary power of condensation, in both thought and expression, which characterized thoau1 dent (Ireek and f.atin languages, heyond anything of the kind in modern tongues. On it he literally "discoursed eloquent music," adorning it with frequent and apt illustration, and, among other, examples, citing thy celebrated admonition of the riparian uiother to her warrior son, on the eve of battle?" With your sh'eld, or upon : r> ?n._ ?1. ? il. jiiu miuic j>:iny were UeliglitCtl with the ric.li tones and classic teachings of the gifted eolloijuist, except his equally gifted competitor lor con verbal ionul laurels, who, notwithstanding his enforced admiration, sat uneasily under the prolonged disquisition, anxiously waiting for an opportunity to take his place in the picture. At length, a titillation seizing the olfactory nerve of Mr. J'reston, lie paused to take a pinch of snuff, and Mr. l>avis immediately tilled up me vaccum, taking up tlie line of *pccch, in this wise: " I have lis'ened," said Iip, " with equat edification and pleasure, to the classic discourse of our friend, sparkling with gem* rilike of intellect and fancy; but I differ from him lolo ca lo. lie may say what he will, ps to ihe superior vigor and condensation of thought and speech, characler'stitf of classic Greece and l&mc; but, for my part, I think there is nothing equal to our own vernacular, in these particulars, and I am fortunately able, although from a humble sousce, to givo you a striking and conclusive c.tumplo and illustration of the fact." 11 As I was returning home from Congress, some years since, I approached r river, in North Carolina, which had been swollen by a recent freshet, and observed a country girl fording in with sailsfurhil,aud a piggin of butter on her head; As 1 arrived at the river's edge, the rustic Naiud umergcu irorn 1110 watery element. 4 My girl,' said I, ' how deep's tlie \Vater, and what's (lie prico of butter?' 'Up to my waist and nine-pence,' was the prompt and significant response! Let my learned friend j beat that, if he can, in brevity and force of ? expression, by aught to be found, in all hia treasury of chissic lore 1" A roar of laughter followed this humorous explosion, and n unanimous -vote iu ** ? favor of the vermicular awarded the palm to the distinguished and successful wag over his classical but crest fallen competitor. ? Charleston Courier. Use of Turpentine in the Arts.?The uses of rosin and turneiitiim nconi 4 ?v niviwipg with every development of inventive talont. In painting, in printing, in soap making, and especially in lighting, its uea scums to l>c almost univefsal. It forms ait important element in many chemical operalions, ami it is estimated in a lale communication to tlio London Society of Arts, that from two to (liree hundred tliousand dollars worth is consumed annually in the American India rubber manufactories. At an examination of the Colifcgo SWgoons a candidate was asked l?y Ahernethy : 4 What would you do if a man was blowtt Hp with powder V . . 1 'Wait until he camo (fowiij* he replied cooly. 'True,' replied Ahernethy, 'and suppose 1 should kick you for such an impertinent,? reply, what muscle, would I put iu motion J* 'The flexors and extensors of my arm, '' for I would knock you down immediate!*.' ** llo got ft diploma. .. *"7 TI16 head clerk of a large mercantile hou*e ? was bragging ratber largely of the nnfounl** of business dcfiie by his "firm." i?*^oil ^ may judge of its ejftcnV said he, u #he? i tell you that the quills for our correspondence only, cost two thousand dollars A year!" M Pooh I" said (Na aIaA nf omw?Kk? -_..r - -r v? I*UV?|1QI house who Was Bitting by : 14 "What is tbnt to oilr correspondence, when I save four thousand dollars a year in ink, frotrt merely omitting to dot the iV . i. .^ i ^ i An hone*t Hibernian, in recotnthending a cow. Mid she would give milk year after year, v without having calves, M beeaMe," aid lie, " it rons in tlifc brnde, f<>r*he came out t>f r dtir/ that hivtMiad a calf.n' long did Adam, remain ill I*aradlib he Binned I" said ?n amiable apofliie to. her husband, <*$?>. " Tili 1m got a V?fo,n oalmlf anewered tbe husband, ?& \ VftZl.."Tb?r