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f * iw0 DOLLARS F?R ANNUM.J *4tc"^3:ei z*iiiob op Iiissrtv ijsi etehnaij vigiiiAnce." (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. by DAVIS & CREWS. ABBEVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING~APltIL 9, 1857. VOL. XIH ..... NO 50 From the Charleston Merturi/. ABUSE OF THE TERMS FREEDOM AND BLATS&Y. Of the original find entire inconnection between the subject of domestic bondage, and the questions with which it has been so perversely mixed up, by the demagogue philanthropists of the day?(u new species of publio agitators)?we have sufficient evidence in the circumstance, that it has always equally existed under free and despotic governments?being no more inconsistent with principles of either than is the institution of the family, of which it is, in fact, only a modification, or enlargement, as t_ t_ i !.i _c ii.n is seen in uiu History ui mu imtivui. x inner chs, who sometimes married tlieir handtnntda, and whose slaves wcro often nearly ao numerous as their flocks. A son by a slave was often equally honored with one legitimately born, and was not unfrequently -adopted, and treated by the lawful wife as her own offspring. ' hus it is related in Genesis, chapter xxx, that when liachel found that,8he was barren or not likely to 1iav? children, " sho gave Jacob, LTilliali, llcr handmaid, to wife. And Bilhah con ceived-and brae Jacob a 6on. And Rachel ?aid: 1 God has judged me,' " (that is, fail vored me,) " and hath heard my voice, and hath given me a son." So, as it is stated ??* onmn oltnnhtf 41 Wlion saw that alio had left bearing, she took Zilpah, her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob to wife. And Zilpah, Leah's maid, bare Jacob ? son. And Zilpah bare Jacob a second son. ' And Leah said, Ilappy aril I, for the daughters shall call inc blessed; and she called his name Asher." Wo have made these quotations to show that domestic bondage was not only a usual appendage, but a beneficent feature of the ancient patriarchal system, having been impressed still more strongly with a family character by the practice of adoption above described, which drew still closer the ties that existed between the master and his slaves. This tnild and strictly domestic character it still bears at the present day, and equally under free ar.d despotic goverments: alike in Tur1 J TT?!l 1 Cl..l ?|w> cn.n>ill<ul J?.uy UIJU IUC U IIIICU OKlLto HIV OVV/IUIUM slave forming a part, and often a faithful, attached and cherished member of the household of his owner, both in Mahometan countries and in the families of the planters of the South. It is, in this connection, worthy of especial remark, that though under the New Dispensation, a stricter character was given to the marriage tie and the practice of polygamy was discountenanced and finally done away with, the practice of domestic slavery, with which it was so closely connected, was not only not abolished, but expressly sanctioned and continued, as we need not make any citations here to prove. Those who denounced and succeeded in eradicating so rooted a custom, and replacing it by a more restrictive and moral institution, which has pro duced so extensive and radical a revolution in society, would not have failed to proscribe, and have laid under the ban of their censure and interdiction, the system of domestic-bondage, had they deemed it criminal, or liad they not regarded it as an established social telation which they had no Authority to meddle with. Tliey could not, .also, but have perceived that it tended to mitigate the hprrors and evils of war, by converting the prisoner, who might otherwise have been regarded as a subject for vei^geance and retaliatory cruelty, into an omgt.of value, and thus securing him the protection and kind treatment of the con, 4?idror, and often rendering him, in turn, tWAitbful and Attached friend of the latter Or of his fornler hated and, perhaps, hereditwjf ?neray. It likewise formed then, as it does wherever it exist*, a preventive ol that otherwise incurable evil or ulcer of the body politic (pauperism) and a better check Upon crime than any system of penal laws *?fer yet -devised t while it establishes in th< ^/immunities in which it nrevails.* the ordei ?uct euBSrdination of armies, without the . rijg??r,^nd harshness of military discipline Tffiiw, w^bile slavery, in the proper sen& of fee-term, consists in the subjection of r ?wh<Me people or nation to the pow$r of t jsingle despot, or, it may bo, of a/robligar chy, domestic bondage consists in the sub jection'of individuals, either singly or-ic detached bodies (having no national" rela tionship,) to the power of different raasten * 4W owners?towards whom, as .is showa bj the. account given in Scripture iltfceir con ditTon^tfndor'tlie patriarchal system, mid bj " the trgatraerit. which*" th^r receive in Southerfi families a(Hfieypr$sept day, J,ho? atanc jd- a nearer relation ais'huraaa belpgs thar as property.v; For their being as such h.-u * no-other effe$i than to niflke them objects 4 additional attention, Appreciation .anc form, we are ready to agree %it4 /' *942*40# elation or * '. . rotiW&taate j??*i(on 'to that lb which the) wl^ JJ^ocepp^, both la 4he household "" *d\ 4 kr&ab4 W9,^iUvehomng Cotb -1 tiro^jetteir can claio jfrMH; ft tmc4i m<*? iaMnediateiy tinder th ?flre ai)4 jproj^ctioo yf tlje lairs, than an; w ' 1 + o. * i a ? *--* "" otlicr class of the community, or than they would be if free. For it is only where the evil of slavery exists that governments are at least enabled with despotic hand to prevent the growth of the equal evil of jmupcrism (that [/jnts that enlarges tho desert from which it springs,) by enforcing on tho slave owner, whenever it becomes necessary to do so, the duty of maintaining, or of feeding, clothing, and comfortably lodging his slaves; a duty, however, which he is otherwise generally well disposed, and has every inducement faithfully to fulfill. The authority, then, of the Paler Familias over his bondmen, who often form the largest portion of his domestic establishment, is of the same kind, and is, therefore, both as lawful and unlimited as that which he exercises over the rest of his household, or over his wife and children?though, from the closer relation that exists between him and the latter than the former, it may sometimes degenerate into tyranny. In this c.-ise, however, the law is nlways at hand to check its undue exercise (as it is where he abuses his parental authority,) and soon admonishes the domestic tyrant that the slave has as much claim to its protection as his owner, and that there is another or still more ovcr-mastcriny power, namely? the Legislature or Government of the State ?which, though it owns no slaves itself, controls those who do. The quotations we liave made from Genesis servo to show that personal servitude existed at the earliest dawn, or was coeval with the birth of society ; and that it partook, from the beginning, of the mild and beneficent character which the close domestic relation in which the bondman was placed towards his owner, or his elevation from the condition of a forlorn and friendless captive, to that of the inmate of a comfortable home?(for those who could afford to purchase slaves must, at least, have possessed a sufficiency) ?could not. fail to impress upon the institution, especially in polygamous countries. Civilis. THE GREAT PLAQUE IK LONDON. No event which history records is more awful in its character than the great plague which desolated London in 1605. The utter helplessness of man is so forcibly impressed upon our convictions that, with all its sadness, a wholesome lesson is conveyed. This dreadful pestilence is estimated to have carried off nearly 100.000 of the inhabitants of London, within a year. By the superstitious mind of that time, various ocrences were accepted as prognosticating the plague, though tliey were probably not gen erally so received until after the event had warranted the prediction. It was asserted that a blazing comet hung for months over the town. The authorities of London used the most vigorous efforts to check the ravages of the pestilence, but without avail, for it slowly passed from end to end of the unhappy city. Whenever the existence of a case was detected, the house was at once barred up, marked with a great red cross, and vigilautly guarded by a watchman, who permitted no egress. Deaths soon became so numerous, that the ordinary formalities ol burial could no longer be observed. It was impossible to prepare coffins, or dig graves in sufficient number. In this emergency, great pits, capable of holding several hundred bodies, were made, into which the dead were deposited. One of these pits contained 1114 bodies. Carts passed regularly through the streets, preceded by a bellman, calling, " bring out your dead! bring out your dead JM Infected people often cscapted into the streets in dehrutn. 1 and sometimes anticipating their fate, pre: cipitated themselves into the dreadful re 1 ceptacles of death. So predominant be; came the dread of dissolution that all the ' ordinary intercourse of life was affected.? 1 Parents fled from their children, and hue' bands deserted their wives; the worst and * the best passions were stimulated to theii highest manifestations. Nurses hastened i the end of the sick, that they wight th< i sooner seize upon their effects; the dead t were strinned of their p.lnt.hon #n<t i-lnion - iind r&bbers paraded the streets. On tlu - other had were exhibited the most glorious i courage and self-sacrificing philanthropy.? Every precaution which "tho fmaginatior ? could suggest, was tnken to escape the in r faction. People no longer shook handi . *tth feach other. Tradesmen kept pots o r- ^fnegar in wliich to steep the money thej . received, and their customers Lelped them I selves lo avoid the danger of another1! r touch. Many families, having laid in i I supply of provisions, barred themselves it i their houses, and remained until the pesti I lence had passed aw$y. i After the plague 1iad begun to abate, th< city of London was nearly destroyed by i r great fire. It broke out on the 2d of Sep i tember. 1606, and swept over a surface o , wee winaroa toaieveniy-tnree ttoroe, con | euming thirteen thousand two hundre< I houaea, eighty-nine parisfi churehea, and de i stroying propgfty to an amount estimate* f Mi 4510,780,000. ^ BaehdOr/r.?The Cleveland JJerald ad % dte**m tlus to the old bachelors; > 5 If Ot Maker thought it wrong fo ? Adam to lira single when tb*re waa not 8 woman earth, how.crimfrlaljy goiJty ar e old bach^ors. with the world fall of- prdtt; y ,? * From the Scicntiffic A mrrican. THE BUXKING OF GXTNPOWDEE. There are some operations so slow as to challenge the highest effort of the imagina- ( tion. Such are some of the changes reveal i ed to us by geology. There are others so t extremely rapid that their division into \ successive steps becomes still more difficult* j In this last class may be included the sue- j 1 cessivo ignition of each grain in a charge t of gunpowder. It is in one of those sub- j c jocts difficult to reduce to experiment?a ! r fact which, were it not sufficiently obvious , t of itself, could bo readily proved from the ! f diverse opinions expressed by savans who j have investigated tbo question connected t therewith. s Professor Treadwell, of Cambridge, has i within a few months published a paper on 1 the construction of a large cannon, in which I ho concludes that it is possible and perfect- i ly practicable, with our present means and ] materials, to construct a largo cannon t which will throw balls to a very greatly i increased distance. He proposes to do this ( by shrinking hoops upon the guns, a form t of applying the material which would cer- 1 tainly increase the effect of the exterior < layers of metal, although it would tend to i increase the crush, and contribute to the ] disintegration of the interior particles when < the explosion of the charge occurs. 1 But wo recurred to that paper mainly 1 for its graphic descirption of the process of 1 firing which is as follows : 1 "Count llumford has proved that the < burning of the grains is slow, or that a sen- i Bible time is required with each grain before it is wholly converted into the gaseous I state; and various experiments made in I England and in Prussia Lave shown that I there is no sensible difference produced in < tlie velocity of the shot by communicating i the fire to the centre rather than to one end < of the charge, which ought evidently to j lake place if the fire is communicated from \ one grain to auotber in succession, as this i communication, being in both directions when proceeding from the middle, would i require but half the time that is required 1 when proceeding from one end, and ought to produce a sensible increase in the velocity 1 of the shot. 1 I think thcrefoic that these two facts 1 *1?a 4V%I I/n n r\ no #/% t It a ?. ..V W..V ....awi.vv ..w W W.I. course of the action during the production of the force. When the fire roaches the charge from the touch-hole, the nearest grains become kindled, the hot fluid evolved is thrown further into the charge, and the hummer Riippprtrlo Aitfw>fteivn1ir until tl*<* - o pressure becomes so great as to condense the air contained between tbe grains sufficiently to produce the heat required for firing those grains, which are then consumed more or less rapidly, as they are fine or coarse. We have, then, first the burning in succession of a small part of the charge; then the immensely rapid, though not instantaneous, kindling of every grain com. 1 posing it; and then the consumption of those grains, which is not accomplished wiihout time. It is a task for the conception to grasp these events, following one another in distinct succession, each having its beginning, middle, and end, and all be1 ing comprised in the period of 1-200th of 1 n second (gun 4 feet long formula I- 2s 1 plus v). When wo have mastered the imagination of these, we may go further and 1 combine with them the connected and con1 tcmporancous action of the ball, which passes from rest to motion, and through every 1 gradation of velocity up to 1,000 feet a sec ' ond, and leaves the gun as our historical ' period of l-200th of a second expires." ' We may add that the formula does not apply exactly, and the time during which the powder burns profitably is, consequently ( less even than tho Professor has estimated. The formula would apply if the powder acted with equal force on the ball from its I commencement of motion until it left the muzzle; but this is not tho fact. Thepow. I der, or rather the expanding gasses produced by its combustion, acts with moBt force | at the beginning of the motion, and gradually dies away. We will present some facts relating to the varying pressure on the interior of a gun in our next issue. Influence of a Holy Life.?There is an energy of moral suasion in a good man's life, passing the highest offort of the orator's f genius. Tho seen but silent beauty of lioli r ness speaka mora eloquently of God and duty than the tongues of men and of angels. Let parents remember tbis. i The best inheritance a parent can he, queath to a child is a virtuous example, a legacy of hallowed rememberances and associations. The beauty of holiness beaming 0 through the life of relative or friend, 1a more 1 effectual to strengthen such as do stand in k virtue's ways, and raise up those that are f bowed down, than precept, command, en* . txaaty, or yrarnjpg, Pbmtianity itself, f j believe, owes by far the greater part of its {. moral power, not to the precepts or parables j of Christ, bat to hi* own character. The konntv of flint hoi in MM which in muliniuul ?' f-r k? the four lvie/ kwgfgpbte? of the Mao of - Nazareth, has done raoce, to cegenerate - die ypfld bring in ^everlasting rightIt eOustit*s tfaan all other genciee pftt togethk #r. It bat done more to.spread bj8 r<%ioe e in the world -tb*fl all thai been y preached or written on the e0$$c<* of ghxtelfipij,-- Ckalrneft, n 9 From the Scientific American. THE MANUFACTURE OF IKON. Tho name of Henry Cort, a native of jreat Britain, should be forever kept proinnent as among those of inventors to whom ho world owes most. Cort cheapened wrought iron, a step nearly or quito as im>ortant as the previous invention, by Lord Dudley, which had cheapened the producion of pig. Cort introduced as great u iliange at that period in tho wrought iron nanufacture as the processes agitated within ho past year could do now, oven if perfectly successful, lie invented the puddling >roce6s almost exactly as now conducted, 111(1 altlinnrrli \f?* TT?*1I nf VV?UV|M> JLJLCtH) V/? ?JI?IJ1VJU hire, the author of a hook on the subject, ecently published in London, claims for limself tho invention of the " principle of soiling iron," Mr. Cort would appear, reforing to his original English patent, dated in [784, to have understood tho fact that the uctal boil, and actually to have boiled it? dthough he perhaps was as blind as we are, and also every one of whom wo havo tried ,o take lessons) with regard to its precise laturc and effects. The following from the jriginal patent of Mr. Cort will be intcrestng to iron makers, as showing how far puddling was set forth at that day, and to itliorc nc a o*?/l ??? ? ?/ ivt iiiiu uicai vjAj/iiiuaiiuti wi -lie process by which this all-important netal is changed from the still* and crystaline carbonate, which can only bo worked jy melting and casting, into tho fibrous condition in which it is worked on the invil:? u I make use of a reverberntory or air furnace or furnaces, of dimensions suited to ;he quantity of work required to be donei the bottoms of which are laid hollow, or lished out as to contain the motal when in J tluid state. My furnace, for the first part af tho process, being got up to a proper decree of heat by raw pit-coal or other fuel, Lhc fluid metal is convoyed into the air fur nace by means of ladles or otherwise.? When this air furnace is charged with sow and pig metal, or any other sort of cast iron, llifl (Innr nr rlnnra llm fnrn-i/>/i ilmnlil bo cloecd till the metal is sufficiently fused; nud when the workman discovers (through n hole which he opens occasionally) that the heat of the furnace has made a sufficient impression upon the metal, he opens a small aperture or apeiturcs, which I find is convenient to have provided in tho bottom o^ the doors (but which is or are closely shut, as well as the doois, at the first charge of tho furnace with cold cast metal) ; and then the whole is worked and moved about through these apertures by means of iron bars and other instruments fitly shaped, and that operation is continued id such manner as may be requisite during tho remainder of the process. After the metal has been some lime in a dissolved 6late, an ebullition effervescence. or Slirh lih? intfislinn moftnii takes place, during the continuance of which a blueish flame or vapor is emitted; and during the remainder of the process the operation is continued (as occasion may re quire) of raking, seperating, stiring, and spreading th? whole about in the furnace till it loses its fustibilitv, and is flourished or brought into nature. And the whole of the above part of iny method and process of preparing, manufacturing, and working of iron is substituted, instead of the use of the finery, and is my invention, and was never before used or put in practice by any other person or persons," WEBSTER'S OPINION OF BYBON. In a letter to a friend, Hon. Daniel Web" ster gave this estimate of Lord Byron : l nave read iom Moore n urst volume of Byron's life. Whatever human imagination shall hereafter picture of a human being, I shall believe it all within the bounds of credibility. Byron*s case shows thut the fact sometimes runs by all fancy, as a steam-t boat runs by a scow at anchor. I have tried hard to And something in him to like, besides his genius and his wit, but there was no other like able quality about him. Ho was an incarnation of demonism. lie is the only man in English history, for an hundred years, that has boasted of infidelity and of every practical vice, not LocJuded in what may be termed, and what his biographer has termed, meanness. Lord Bob ingbroke, in his most extravngant youthful sallies, and tho wicked Lord Littleton, were saints to him. AH Moore can say is, that each of his vices bad some riitue or some prudence near it, whioh ta somsort checked it. Well, if that were not so in all, who could escape hanging! The biographer, indeed, says his moral conduct must not be judged by tbo ordinary standard. And this is trao, if a favorable decision is looked for. Maoy excellent reasons are given for his being a bad husband, the sura of which is that he was a vary bad ujan. I confess I was rejoiced then, and am rejoiced oosr, that he was driven out of England by public scorn; because hu viees were not in his passions, but in his^principles. He denied all religion And all vjrtue #ora the house. Dr. Johnson saya there n merit in main* taininggood principles, though the preacher it adduced- into viouluuu of them. This in tntfi. Goad tfeeor? i? *p44feing, J3ut a theory of living and dying, too, made up of the elements of hatred and religion, contempt of morals, and defiance of tbp opi#iopa (A all tty *ec9*t part fit *e public? vhef|?h0Corc has ajr?n of lettchi avowed it t If Wilton W maat ur&? prominent cbattfitewfo-hi* groat epic, he oould emheHiih^Am witli^e* traiu wither rioJaUng > * OUR SOCIAL CONDITION?THE LATEST NEW YORK EXCITEMENT. The intense vitality of New York, arising from its position 011 the seaboard, and the mixed character of its constantly increasing population, displays itself not only 111 the reckless energy which distinguishes its business operations, but also in its social characteristics. TI10 wise mail and tho fool; the honest man and the knave; tho merchant aud tho speculator; the dandy and the sloven; labor, sloth, crime, licentious uess, religion and infidelity ; arc all jumbled together in that seething cauldron of human life, and each, in its turn, hubbies up to tho surface, and sometimes becomes a means of pointing a moral, and sometimes becomes the theme of a romantic narrative. Life in New York is a fitful fevor, with its temporary calms and its prolonged struggles and writhing; its sensible intervals, alternating with dreaming or foolish wonderings, or passionate outbursts. In that one city, more than any other on the face of tho globe, tho world may be truly said to be epitomised. Representatives of all nations, and :?ll creeds, are there to bo found ; and there also the basest crimes jostle tho noblest virtues. in snch a motley multitude as is congregated together on tho Island of Manhattan, these violent contrasts were to be expected, ami the conscquence is, that an ever varying succession of criminal mysteries and social scandals afford, not only tlie people of that city, but the wholo Republic, with topics for discussion or themes for dchorta* tion. For a month or more, the journals were filled with strange details connected with the Burdell tragedy. The Coroner's inquest, conducted in an unusual manner, and laying bare, with a daring and shameless hand, the privacies of life and character, stipulated the morbid appetite to an extent not excelled by the most licentious of French romances, and encouraged the publication of rumors which gave additional spice to the narrative by revolations damaging alike to the victim, to the parties accused of putting him to death, and to minor personages, either immediately or remotely connected witii this terrible drama. But repletion came nt length, and just as the public v. -c Lcsiinr.ir.;? to -,v...irv -.? the horrible repast, the table is cleared of the fragments, and tho appetite is again tempted with the cakcs and delicacies, tlie wines and walnuts of a little romance in private life, the dramatic persona: of which consist of n wealthy father, a wilful young lady, and nil adventurous Irish coachman. In another column the last act of this tragic-comedy will be found recorded. Wo call it tragic-comedy with reason, for however the masses may sympathize with the romantic young lady and her successful 9uior, there can be no doubt that her parents must be suffering intense anguish for what at least they regarded as the loss of a favorite child, around whom their affections were twined, and for whom they had probably anticinated a brilliant fiitnr* Wlmi. ever others may do, we, for our own part, sympathise with these parents. The match may turn out ill or well ; but the grosser nature of the man leads naturally to the belief that the future of a refined and sensitive woman, highly educated, and accustomed to every luxury her fancy craved, cannot be so happy as in her sentimental moments she lias imagined it will prove. Cast loose upon the world?ho to the exer ciso of hia rough labor, she to teach music and the languages?their path through life must be ono of sharp contrasts, and hers especially of painful reipiui&ccnccs. Love may do much to abate the pang?but even love cannot compensate for the lack of that intellectual accord which usually comes into effectual play when passion subsides and reason re-a68umes the mastery. .Lear, in his desolation, wildjy declares-^ "Oh, sharper tlian a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child." And many a parent now lives on this continent who has realized the truth of this outburst of agony on thje port of tho discrowned king. Disobedience to parents is tho clinging curse of tlu) rising generation. The old revejeaee for authority ha* departed. That beautiful harmony which oncc existed among families is rapidly passing away, and in its stead we have those elements of insubordination, which tut too frequently lead boys into evil courses, and girls to sacriGce themselves at the altar of ambition, or to marry some rude elown with whom they can have no sentiment in common.? The fault doubtless lies, to some extent, in that wapt of system which is all essentiul to an appropriate homo education, but it also results, at least in part, from the extreme freedom which pervades the body politic, and occasionally treads on the verge of license. It is a sad state of things, and suggestive of reflections #*411 more sorrowful. We Are young yet as a nation, but our boys are men,- our girU women, while the law recognize them only as infants. Both soxea are, older titan their years, ajjd Jiave thoughts jpfiraUoip wtyj&b, to .times past, rarely erineed tfceujselm jn %ot? snlii fortified bjr wise pqunseU or by the tench. Igpeof ? moro matured experience. In thjs chnoiio aociai *ondilioD, &e rag, ulatloos adopted by?r#ul paredU |o pro | tect from eonUmionUon the morale of thoir l^biUren are frequently as tyrannous, and iho general current spIb so strongly against these occasional barrieis as to tend to uproot tlicm and and bear K them out to sea among the drift wood of 11 tho Hood. Id tho case of Miss lioker, to which wo have referred, the young lady is ^ admitted to he of an age to decido for her. n self. Whether she has chosen wisely her futuro husband and protector, tiino alone ? can prove. But we do not sympathise the . less wun those who nurtured her in her j' childhood, and drew around her all the com- ^ forts which wealth could command, and ' t who, however mistaken thov may have been j in soino respccts, could certainly have no j other object in view than a sincere desire to promote her welfare and happiness. It may be that she will succeed eventually in . . . j raising her coachman husband to her own ^ level, but the chances are that she will fail. It is far more likely he will drag her down to his; and thus the parents suiter first'"rom the daughter's disobedience, and subsequently still more severely from tl.e self-entailed wretchedness of their blasted hopes. | ( ?-Journal Com. POLITENESS BETWEEN HUSBAND AND WIFE. The transformation worked in a lover af iti Iiiiu i iii^u, IlilS HJIlg UCCU il pel 5UI>J0CL | with satirists, liefore tlic nuptial knot is tied, the suitor is all devotion. No busiiness engagement is pcrmitcd to infringe on ^ the evenings cansecraled to his Jianccc. If ^ she drops her fan, misplaces a glove, or needs help in putting on her shawl, ho is instantly at her side, the most eager, the most patient, the most delicate of servants. She has only to express a wish to go to church, or to visit some place of amusement, and lo ! he waits on licr even beforu breakfast, and though it rains as if a duluge had come, lint when the irrevocable vows are said, and the honey-moon comfortably over, a change too often comes over the obsequious cavalier. The latent selfishness of 11 the male animal " begius to develop itself. The wife has to pick up lior own fan, search for her own gloves, shawl herself unassisted, go to church alone, get to concerts when she can. Sometimes the poor creature is happy to win even a civil fmm lin?? m/l?? 1 ~? ...... .uwv, IUIU. 1UCII who would bo civil to even a strange servant, if a woman, think it quite natural tu uu unpulito to their wives. Vet there is uothing l?y which even a selfish man can more easily benefit himself, than by being respectful, well-breil and considerate to to her ho has sworn to "love and cherish." Sooner or later an imperious or exacting husband makes an indifferent or careless wife. Talk of love as you may, eulogize the forbcaranco of woman till the language of praise is cxhaus ted, and still tl^d fact remains, that as our sex has not a monopoly of human nature, feminine flesh and blood feels injustice flually quite as accutely as ourselves. It may require years to make a " long-suffering" woman as indignant as a man would bccome in a month, but she will get indignant at last, her affection will as inevitably declinc, and the sweetest boon of life be lost to tho husband forever. For money, whir*li ifc fnlcnltr c??/l Ko ?1>Ia ? J ? ?"? ^ everything, cannot purchase love; anil love whether at the sick bed or by the household hearth, docs what no paid servicc will. As the truest happiness which a well regulated mind enjoys is in the family relations, so there can be no true domestic felicity where there is injustice on one side and its consequent alienation on the other. It may be said that if a husband loves his wife sincerely there is no necessity for these little acts of politeness. Tliey arc trifles, we are told. ]3ut life is made up of trifles. Did the lover despise them once because tliey were trifles? Was not something of his earlier success attributable to the assiduity and delicacy with which he plied his gratified mistress wjtlj these trifles? Has his wife oeased to like such attentions' Will she think tlie less of her husband because he shows how thoughtful he is of her comfort, even in these trifles ? Believe us, if a woman's affliction is retained undimin ished, in spito of the rudeness of her husband towards her, it would be vastly increased if ho exhibited a little of the lover's courtesy?if ho was considerate of her in trifles. It seems the strangest and most in Aoiupiehensiblo tiling ij) the world, if wo look at it dispassionately, that selfish men think the only persons they can neglect with impunity are those on whom their hppiness principally depends. They nre too stupidly blind, to use oho of their own pet phrases, to see that politeness to wives M pays." For it is only of selfish husbands that we speak". Those who respect, love, and reverence woman, as t/yo womanhood out to be respeoted, loved ajid venerated, need no incentives to be courteous and considerate to tbeir wives.?Bait. Sun. Tlinrn wne nnra n r>larmimiin in M??. bj " Hampshire, noted for bis long sermons and iydojegj habits?ty# tliinga jfr?co?clfabis. 44 How is it," said a man to his neighbor that oyr pajrsoi), Jjje laziest mau living; can jvr$to confounded infernal long sermons V* " Wliy," said his neighbor, " he probably, gets to writing, and js ioo <*>n&>aqd?4 jiair toitop/ ;TT m M>? ? i ; .. / .( I . A. lady being asked her opinion about moustaches, replied; "I always set my face against them." * i THE MIND AWAKENED. Dr. Adam Clarke, in his autobiography, ivcs the following account of his earliest lental efforts, lie speaks of himself in tic third person. He employed two days and a part of the bird in fruitless endeavors to commit to lemory two lines, witli their constructions, f what appeared to him useless and inompreheusible jargon. His distress was tidcscribable, and lie watered his book with lis tears; at last ho laid it by, with a iroken heart, and in dispair of being able o make any progress, lie took up an Cnglish class, and rose with them to say .*i gsson. The master perceiving it, said, in a errific tone, "Sir, what brought you here? vhere is your Latin Giamiuar ?" lie 1 urst nto tears mid said, " I cannot learn it."? Iehad now reason to expect al| tho severity >f the rod ; but tho master, gottling a iittio noderate, perhaps moved by his tears, confuted himself with saying, "Go, sirrah, md lake up your Grammar ; if you do not .peedily get that lesson, I shall pull your jars as long as Jowlcr's, (a great dog beonging to the premises,) and you sl|i|l| bo i beggar to the day of your death." These ,vere terrible words, and seemed to express .he sentences of a ruthless and unavoidable destiny, lie retired, and sat down by .lie side of a gentleman with whom he had been in class, but who, unable to lag boliind with his dulncss, requested to be separated, that he might advance by himself. Here be was received with tho most bitter taunts and poignant insults. " What, liavo you not learned that lesson yet ? O, what a Stlinid ass! Von nnil T luwin l/.noil.ni. . 4 - - * ? you are now only (As in jmesenti,) and I am in Syntax 1" and then, with cruel meetings, began to repeat.the last lesson he h?id learned. The effect of this was astonishing ?young Clarke was roused from n lethargy, he felt, as he expressed himself, as if something had broke within him: his mind in a moment was all light. Though ho felt indescribably mortified, he was not indignant; what, said he in himself, shall I ever bo a dunce, and the bull of those fellows' insults! lie snatched up his book, in a few moments committed the lesson to memory, got the construction speedily, went up and said it without missing a word !?took up another lessson, acquired it almost immediately, said this also without a blemish, and in the course of that day wearied the master with his so often repeated returns to say lessons : and committed tp memory all the Latin ^ verses, with their English construction, in which he?vy and tedious Lilly has deseri#^" bed the four junctions, with their rules, coplions, &c. &c. Nothing like this had ever appeared in the school before?tho ' t. boys were astonished?admiration took the place of mocking and insults, and from that hour, it may be said from that lament, found his memory at last capable of embracing every subject llial was brought before it, and his own long sorrow wn^V. turned into instant joy. For such a revolution in the mind of a 9\ child, it will not be easy to accoqtjt. Ho was not idle; and though playful, never y wished to indulge his disposition at the expense of instruction?his own felt incapacity was a mose oppressive burden ; and the anguish of his heart was evidenced W the tears which often flowed from his eyes.? r? . * - * * ueprooi aim punishment produced n#itlfcr cliango nor good, for there was nothing to be correct to which they could apply.? Thrcatenirgs were equally unavailing, le^ causo there was no wilful iiulispotition to sludv and application ; and the fruitless desire to learn showed at least the regret of want of ability, for the acquisition qf wliicl).-' he would have been willing to barir any kind of sacrifice. At last this ability was strangely acquire' but not by slow degrees; therv.^ ?t ^ conquest over inaptitude jpid duiuciflF' l,v l'o severing and gradual conflict; tho^fo seemed generated in a moment, and iWjV" moment thero was a transition fronj ness to light, from mental imbeuHtly to intellectual vigor, and no moans or e?fcite~ment wero brought into operation b#t those mentioned above. The rcproaehoa of his- * p school fellows wore the sparks which fell oil the gunpowder and inflamed jjL uwtantjy,?? , Tho inflammable matter was therp before^ but the spark was wanting. Tbis would" bo a proper subject for the 4i8c?|ss]o}} of those who write ou the philosophy x>f the human mind. j *#V; This detail has been tho more jfiur ticular because he eyer poijsjdered 4t as ono of the most important circumstnnceflfon his life; and ho has often mentioned it ft* a singular Providenfce^vwbich gave W strong characteijs.tic coloring to lijp subsequent life.?American Phonetic Journal. ~ r?- . ' % _tPreservation of a Corpse.?Thq follow.? . ing remarkable statement appears in a late number .of the Yieksburg (Miss.) Sentinel; " We were present on the 27th instant,.. 1 at t}je disipterigeqt of tlu? reftiams of Mfrs. tfary Jane Tompkins, first consort of Honorable P. W. Tompkh% former member of Congress of tbis district, and m sisLar of E*-Goverqor Helm, of Kentucky. She had been interred seventeen years on th<$ 4th instant, enclosed in a zinc co^n, filled with- alcohol, which was re-encloso^ iu a wooden coffin, and all carefully packed ja charcoal. The wooden coffin and the top of the zinz on^'wpre somewhat decayed, but the corpse itself was in a porfect state of preservation, features natural, r.ni hair as floxiblo as in life." "