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/'A T^T^ToWl F t ! f 'V Vr) /?\ SVi^'fTfiiYr)) ua u?L?-Jj Ui iJj J ! ..Ll 6^wSl\ikj. <AJ uijiiLia TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. 1 "tub r?nioi3 of uinBriTy xa etbuktau vianjANou." [PAYABLE IN ADVANCE BY DAVIS .V. ('It 10WS. ABBKVIIJ.IO, S. ('., TIUIKSDAV MOR.MN<;, Al'lUt, 7, 18.-,'.). VOL. XV No. 5<K THE "ARKANSAW TRAVELLER." | , Our flieihlly ami gratifying -i-nuiM)eu<lful | correspondent " Saw dust," of I'ass (..'liris- ! t tian. Miss., must pardon vis f<?r presenting !a a somewhat ro luced copy of his clever ; s sketch, wherein we have endeavored lo j t preserve the spirit of the original : In tlie lc c irl v settlement of Arkansas, a traveller, j after tiding some eight or ten miles with- | out meeting a hum in being, or seeing a << human habitation came at length, by a t ' u?.hleu turn of the wood road, lo a misera s ble " shanty," the centre of a small clear- j y ing, in what lia<l originally been a" Black- ! 0 jack-thicket," whence liie only sound thai j t proceeds is the discordant music of a hrok i |, cn-winded iiihlle, from tlie troubled bowels j :i of which the occupant is laboriously ex j, torting the monotonous tune known ! " The . 11kmi-taic, or Ilocfcciisuck T>under." I s Our traveller rules up to within a few feet ! |, of the door, which was once the bedframe I 1, of a cart body, now covered with bear skins i t and hung upon two big wooden hinges.? j c after much shouting, the inmate appears, i L fiddle in hand and evidently " wratliy" at i v being interrupted in the exercise of his art. ! I The following colloquy onsuos, the itide ! I fatigable tiddler still playing the first strain ! * of '"The Arkansas" Traveller," which in ' r fact he continues, at sudden intervals, tin j j Jil flu* <!i:ili;isi will !i/> ic l.fiiiurlit I to an unexpected conclusion. It* tliis be 1 \ not 44 seeking lodgings under dinieultics,*' c we sliouKl like to know what might be le gitimately so considered : t Traveller: 4 Friend, can I obtain ac t commodatior. for the night with von ?' i Arkansas 4 Artist,'4 No, Sir?'nary 'com i; modatiun.' c Traveller: 4 My dear sir, I have already t travelled thirty miles to day, and neither ; i: myself nor my horse has had a mouthful ! I to cat; why can't you accommodate me ! o for to night V j ii Ark, 4 Artist,'' .1 u?t 'case hcint'l be did', o \\ e are plum out of everything to cat in ' I the house; Dill's gone to mill wiih the last t nubbin ef corn on these premises, and it'll bo nigh onto the shank of to-morrow eve- j niu' a fore he comes home, unless suthiu [ oncommon happens.' i( Traveller: 4 Vou study have something jl.-i T r l . - i lliill L e.'lll ICt'<l lO IIIV IKU'MJ " tiVC'll a ;; few potatoes woul<.l be belter than no ' v .food.' Aik. 'Artist' ' Stranger, our catin'-' ,| roots'gin out about a week ago ; so your chance is slim l/tar. Traveller: But my fiieinl 1 must re main willi you, any way. I can't go any | ( /allher, whether 1 obtain anything to cat or | ^ not. You certainly will allow me the bhel J t ter of your roof' Ark. 'Artist:' ' It can't be iliil, i>l?l lioss. ( You see we've got only one dried hide | on the premises ami me an-1 the oM 'oniaii alius occupies that; so whar's your chance ?' Traveller : " Allow ine to bitch my horse to that persimmon tree, ami with my sail a <11? :inil I'll :i I.k.I in lln> ( fence oorner." Ark. 4 Artist,' 4 Ilitcli your boss t<? ( tlijit 'simmon tree ??in a lioru ! Wliy you must be a natral foul,stranger! Don't you sec that's me and the olo woman's only chance for Yuninon-beei, in llie fall of Ibe year? If your lioss is so tarnal hongry as you say lie is, he'd girdle it as high up as ho could reach, a fore mornin.' Hitch ( your boss to that tree! I 'spect not; no? | no, stranger, you can't come nary sieh a ( dodge ;is that.' I Our traveller seeingUhat bo had an origi tal to deal with, ^i.CT*U?iiig himself an nm-.tcur performer vu^pu*lhe instrument to ( which the settler wds so ardently attach ( ed, thought he woultl change liis tactics. ( and draw his deteitftincd not to be ' ho.->t | out a little, before informing him of the , fact, that he loo could play the ' Arkansas ( Traveller;' which once being known, he ( rightly conjectured, would be a passport to his bettor graces: Traveller: ' Well, friend, if I caul stay, how far is it to the next house V Ark. 'Artist:' ' Ten miles; and you'll ; tb'uik they're mighty long ones, too, afore you get tliar. I came nigh onto for ( giUV to tell you, tho big creek is up; the br\il<ro is carried oil; there's nary , yearthly chance to ford it, yer'll have to , go about seven miles up stream, to ole Dave Loily's puncheon bridge, through one ; of the dariitV&i bamboo swamps ever you eed. I reck<>u tho bridge is staudin' yet?'twas yesterday inornin': though one end had down stream about .fifteen feet, or sich nmtter.'f ? Traevller: " l'ritiul, y0U Beem cotnmu 1 Tucnlive, and if it's t,0 offence, I'd like to know what you for a living here V Ark. ' Artist:' ' No o(\\.?co on yenrtli, stranger ; we just keep a g??>c<.ty i Traveller : ' A grocery ! Wi,er0 lho narno of h11 that U mercantile <1., Vo|Jr cU;4 tomcrs como from ? Your nearest uui??hb0r is ten miles distant ?' Ark. 1 ArtistThe fact is, i,)(s un<J the olo woman is the best custom^, yet; but wo 'epect these diggins \ improve, and in course business will j,n prove too. llows'cver, we do sutli'm v now, even. Mo and the ole woman took tlio cart t'other day, and went down to town; we lort a bar'l of whiskey; and artcr wc coiuo homo, and 'gin tu count I lie balance' uti hand, we found tliar want niljUt one solitary picayune left, ami as he ole w milaii cariies the pus, in course lie lia<i it. Well, I sut the har'l gin one ide of the loom, ami shortly alter, tlio | ?le woman says: 4 Supposin' you tap vonr end of the har'l,' an>l I did ; ami slie j (ought a think, and pai<l me the picayune. 1 Vcttv boon, I he"tin to <ret dry, ami se/. I : 1 n ^ >le woman, sposin' you lap your ceml of he l?ar'l V?ami she <li?l ; and then slie ells a me drink; and tlie way (hat pica! urn; has travelled hack'ards and for'ards j vcr the hung of that har'l, is a caution to hem as loves "red eye." lint, .stranger,!' oses is apt to come with every business j lid me and the ole woman has lost some >i the grocery line; and I'll tell you ?? MM.... I !> ' iwh iii.it uoy i>inl our ohiesi un, he .seed how the liquor was go in,' ami ' ie did'nt have nary red to join in tiic retail U'iness; so one night he crawls under 1 lie house, and taps (lie bar'I atwixt the 1 racks in the pttneheon floor, ami I r'ally : ' iclieve he's got more than ine or the ole . :l Ionian ei: her ; the good for tiothin'vagan o ioikI to comc llic girutT over his natural . 'I torn parents : it's enuil' to make a man our agin all creation ; that boy "II he the uitialioii of lis yet. lie lakes to trickery ; ist as nateral as a hungry possum takes ' ' o a hen roost. Now, strang-r, what on 1 earlli am I to do? He beats me and the i >le woman all holler.' Traveller : ' It would he dillieult for me ; o advise in regard to your son, as 1 have , 1 10 family of my own. You say Us ten j ' uiles to tlie next house; the big creek is , ' ip, the bridge carried away ; no possibility ; * j if lording it, and seven through a swamp t o 1 he only bridge in the vicinity ? This j s a rather gloomy prospect, particularly as ' In? sun is just about down ; still inv curi sity is excited and as you have teen play- j ' rg only one pari of the 'Arkansas Trav- i lkr1 ever since my arrival, I would like to j mow, before I leave, why you don't play | he tune through ?' j ' I Ark. 'Artist. 'For one of the best | | easoiis on yearth, old hoss?I can't do it. j liaint laint the turn of (hat tchuue 1 < 11< 1 drat me if I believe I ever shall." Traveller: 'Give mo your instrument, ind I'll sec if I can't play the turn fur . . I Ark. ' A.'tist:' 'Look here, my friend, lo you play the (urn of that (chunc !' Traveller : ' I believe I can.' I Ark. ' Artist;' * Lite, lite, ole hoss ! ? vc'il find a place in the cabin, .shore.? Jle woman ? ole woman ! (a hallo? within ( lie shanty was the first indication the ( raveller had of any other human being on lie premises) (lie stranger plays the turn f the4 Itackensnck Traveller ' My friend, lileh your hoss lo the Yntimoti tree, or my when; you please. JJill'll be 1 ere iooii, and he'll take keer of him. Ole wonan, you call Sail and Xance tip from he spring; tell Nance to go into the pring house and cut oil* a good big piece ?v barslcak; to brile for the stranger's iupper; tell Sail to knock over a chicken >r two, and git out some lloiir, and have urn Hour doins and chicken lixens for the itranger. (l?ill heaves in sight, twenty our hours earlier than lie was expected i half hour before.) Hill, O Hill ! there's i stranger here, and he plays the turn of .lie 4 Kackensack Travellergo to the ?nin niiil ? l.t-* ' ,v... v..*' ?? ?> jjif II 1/1- #?I1U ining it to the house, so the stranger :an have sutliin to set on ami skin a Later 'long with me and the ole woinam while the gals is gettin' supper; and, I>i 11 lake the lmss and give him plenty af corn ; no nubbins, l>iU ; then rub him Jown weM; and then, when you come Lo the house, bring up a dried hide and a barskin, for the stranger to sleep on : und ihep, Hill, I reckon L-e'll play the Lurn of t'ne 4 Uackensack Traveller' for us.1 The pumpkin was brought ; the ' Inters' were Skinned' and eaten ; thu 'turn' of ii.~ 4 n.sj 1. fM n i uiu ikuciLi'iisiicK a riivencr was repeatedly played, to aliuiulant edification: and tho gals' finally announced tliat "supper was ready,' and allhotigh instead ' storelea,' thoy only had ' saxifax tea doins,' without milk, yet the repast was ono to he long and gratefully remembered.? The traveller remained all night, and was piloted safely over tho 4 big creek' early the next morning. Of truth, 1 music lias charms lo soothe the savage beast !'? Knickerbocker. More A Lout the Frauds.?III proposing, in '.lie Senate a short lime before (ho adjoiunmoir, amendments to I lie Post Office appropriation bill, Mr. Wilson said he knew n oune whore Ric?, i-ilitor of tho " Pennsylvunian" hntl contracted for printing blank" for 8-10,000, which cost him jnst $5,000, nnd the profits were djvidod, fifty percent, to tlie Wnsbington " Union, "five prr cent, to .Mr. Appleton, and three per cent, to n p.-ipcr published for the interest of a member of Congress. Mr. Mosonsuid- If that was a fact, it wn? due to the Sunato nnd couutry (o lay the information hsfore thom. Mr, Wilson reiterated the statement, nnd said that Kioe himself had said no, and moreover tlio arrangement was with cognizance of MrBuchanan. Mr. Camewin said the matter was notorious, that cvorybody, exoept perhaps Mason, knew it. Rice, until lately was a creature <if the I'lt-sidont, hut recently the}' qunrr*led, and Kioe weut blabbing ali about K \ Tlio Washington " States" says this nffair " is investigated,'and the fact# laid before the when this is done it wdl he found that n "?< ?! Opposition Scuator stated is not far from COUlt^ *? ' 1 ) J Votn tfir .V. )* lal'fH in*/ /'?>/. A VISIT TO ATHENS A fairer <lav I never saw, not oven in j America, while after a hurrie<l breakfast ami ^ willi excite*! imaginations we hasl<-nc-?I to i the ruins of Athens. On that hohl rciek j hetore tis was onee seatcJ the ^ramlenr of j the "City of Minerva,"?the Acropolis?j wiihin whose houmis stood tl e tinijxnilhvnt ' Parthenon uml tin; l'umlrosetim, hu>i'les J many of those huililin<;s with which l'eric- j nr* liumitiii.'.l !?!.? ?!? I *' - - '' .,.<v>i?.vi m* vuv. it was lor mis ( ^ point wo were hurrying; but stay, how can j wo pass those beautiful columns? Ilow [ .jrand ! On inquiring of our guide, lio in- ( forms us in a long sing-song narrative^ | [which makes mo so angry.) that they are \ uipposed to he the remaining columns of j lie temple ??f Jupiter Olympus?lit em- j ' [ loins of its fallen grandeur; and was it ( 'lero that the gold and ivory statue of the j 1 ;od was, where these hovels, was once the j emple of Jupiter ? It is even so, for al| | our route the huts of the sotialiers l I M ' t ire built of stone from tho ruins, ami 1 am .old that when a farmer wants to wall his j i and he has but to go to the ruins, where j io finds the blocks already hewn. After a ' ( ittle .scramoliii" over broken pedestals ami i i _ 1 j i scattered capitals, we found ourselves in the 1 uoseiice of the Parthenon ; and it was j lot till now that its grandeur and extent | Itecame visible. All around us lay its < sculptured stones, while above towered its splendid columns. Tearing ourselves from | it.:. i i .ins aosorning scene tor a moment, wo | , 'razed around us?wo were in the venire of; , i lovely, fertile plain, ci'cirelod by a range j >f blue mountains. On the one side lay j .lie struggling remains of ancient grandeur; j ( ivliilo on the other modern Alliens. See j tlio fate of cities! Like that of man, they j i ire made of dust; they flourish ; to du.?t j .! ey return. A few whitening lines alone j ' 111.uiv mo sue ot me prMc of J'orioles. i ]>111 to ilio Parthenon again ; this temple, i was dedicated to Minerva, hut was i!e::lroyed < in the ruins of the city by the l'orcilcs (to whom we owe that encouragement of art before unkuow,) in 444, B.C., rebuilt it in < i most, noble manner, as its remains now I .leclarc. It was in this temple that 1'liul- 1 ias's renowned ivory statue of the goddess ; Stood ; it was folly-six feet hi^h, and cost i idiout ^o7'3,000. This rock of the Acropolis is one perfect mass of ruins?ruins, too , that will cope with any in the world, Kgypt not excepted. There are growing on this Held of stone a few scattered olive trees, , which were one of the emblems of MiliLTV.n. After spending many hours among , ihe-e interesting remains, we deceiided to ihe Catapolis, which is now occupied by , the site of modern Athens. There were ; many wonderful buildings in this part of the city, but they are now almost entirely obliterated. It was in this part of the city that the most magnificent edifice of the Grecians was situated, I refer to the temple of Jupiter Olympus, whose remains I have befoio referred to. Here, too, were those schools in which the philosophers u>ed to tench their scholars; not dismal prisons, hut- hcautiful gardens, where Were expounded the mo.?t magnificent theories of the world. Alliens fulfills all my expectations, with the exception that I did not lind as many sculptured stones and frescoes as I had before imagined; thesp, I suppose, have heel) taken by greedy collector, and it would he hard to say if they are not now at better purposes than to he defiled and made stone walls of. The sun is already tinting the Parthenon with its varied hues, and I must close this very uninteresting letter on a very interesting subject. IjkjIiL J'Jsscnlittl to Health.? While tho importance of pure air and appropriate exercise, to the healthful development of the Kfwh' te I? 1 .viti.my, i ii numu quarters, mni attention which it justly demands, the importance of Light as u sanatory ami curative agent is scarcely thought of. In genteel life dark rooms are only fashionable ; a bleached skin is deemed the perfection of beauty ; and gloves and veils must be worn out of doors, lest tho sunlight should give a little darker hue to tho marble like tablet. Hut plants seek the sunlight, and without it becomes pale and sickly ; and animals need it no less. In tho years of cholera it was invariably found that the deaths were most numerous in narrow streets and northern exposures, where the salutary beams of light had seldom shed their genial innucnees. Scrofula- ami tiniilar " ? found to be most prevalent in poor children living in confined and dark street**, where,, on the other hand, exposure to llio sun in tho opott air lias been found .one of the best menus of restoring them to health. In countries where little covering is required for ihe body, cases of natural deformity are exceedingly rare; and an Kuglish physiolo gist has maintained, with a great array of facts ill support of tho position, that expo-i i; -i.i : - -t - > 1 sure 10 mo Huuiigiu is uusuiuieiy essential to the regular conformation of the body. If, then, the light of day is essential to the full.development of the human form, it becomes an imperative duly to construct our dwelling-houses, our schools, our workshops and our churches, upon principles that will allow tho life-giving clement to have the fullest and the froest ingress, and to admit al) tho light that is consistent with a suitat le protection from tho direct-rays of | the 6un. / '? <>/? lh< H<>w ./'iiirnii/. TH? SPRINU FASHIONS. Ul clioicu mat'-rial lor robes, iiothin:; can exceed?lor the next month?in l?Comingness, tin; bareges in chachcmeer | colors. Tln-y constilnUi tin; feature of the | season ; ami, 1 i 1< > the early vi<>!? ts 111:it ; holder our woodland streams, are certain ' tu become (Ik* most ? ??Iiv? 11ir>?; ornaments j of tin; side walks of Hroadwav. They ale I woven in !?iiil*l?r j"J"\ am!, as is i!se fasliion j in double jupes ij-'iierally, (lie upper one is j [ ordered. In (lie matter of st\lo all may | L?e suited in these goods , for if a robe bien j iiroii'itincu is required, it. will be found fttnoug those wit It strong contrasts between i I lie ground am! tin* l>or<ler ; while those j ivho desire an mi obstrusivo robe, subdued ; nut rich, will select those in which the ! tutors of the ground and the borders liarlionize. The next novelty is tho composition latilies, woven ;a l<>ti!>?o jupe, and wii.Ii 1 >hawl. <_>l" course this dress won!.] form a j inic monochrome, were it not for its smal' j lloral figures, which make it seem as if fab j riealed from a liehl of strawberries. "l he diawl varies in size, from a single Vandyke ; o a eommon sized stella. 'I his is really a | leal. pretty style for demoiselles. Next, we have barege robe ?double jupe i ? plain chintz figured, and with ara- \ liesoiie, lloral and architectural borders.? j These are suitable to the present month, tnd will continue throughout the spring. : 'or promenade; their infinite variety in; oolois an*l figures calls forth the discrimiu- , ution of the pin chaser ; and there can be! no surer index of the taste of a lady, than | will he disclosed by 1 r style of costume of j Jio present fashion. \Ve a.'Xt arrive at the Organdies, woven iti cither two or three flounces, or double j jupe. Of these we noticed an extensive . variety at K. L imber <fc Co.'s new store ; j those of double jupe?the lower one plain, j ,,,.1 11... ,i, i;? i - ii bnv *?| ?v. vnvf vitvu ? iui r>i 11 it I j | ihii.lz figures?wire the prettiest that we j saw anywhere. The.-e appear eharming j when made in a single-skirled morning | ilress, with that which the weaver intended ! for an nppeiskirt, for a low of double how ! knots, on tabiler. 011 a cjuilles up the sid< s, ! find a knot at the front of the waist with ! ends widening to ten inches at the bottom, [ and reaching lu within a loot of tlio edge 1 of the skirl, and three knots also over the 1 jockeys on the pagoda sleeves?using the j holder of the upper jupe for edging the i-nds of the knots ; and if not enough for j liordeiing the sleeves ami ihe flowing end< j of tlie pattes from the waist knot, then sup J |ily the deficiency with ribbon to maleh, | >111 c 1 .fMlli.ar n.. I l.o -.? .. 1 i M I wil lliu iV) III VI IV iiuviii\.v.u !in?l ruflled edgu. A brown, seven-straw platteil flat, with low crown, encircled with tufts of feathers, hrowti string beaded over the ears with a rosette composed of a rose and leaves in natural colors, is worn with this dress.? Also a linen color ornamented at the closing in front of the neck with a knot in keeping with the others 011 the dress, hut not so large, in trimming knots, which, with imitation embroidery?a Li. chatc/aine ? is the termination of the i/uilli' or side bonier style of skirt, let the size of the knot.-; dimini.di regularly from the one at the bottom of the skirt to that at the neck; there should be four on each side of the skirt. The jockeys should be edged like the ends of the sleeves. This forms a morning costume de rhez soi, which no lady can fail to admire; and we think that oue made from a material of plain white ground, ornamented, not too thickly, with small pink colored figures and borders, is irresistable. Very light drab kids. Of course we should not lose sight of the new style of tutfetus with satin volants figured and plain, in mode, Marie Louise blue, and ashes of roses. These are intended for dinner and evening robes for e.\r lv sprinir. and nothinir could bti more appropriate, except it l>e darker colors for dinner dress; but the former are the fashion. It will he seen that flounces and doubles are in favor. Tho inanimation of these styles proves that what wo stated in referciH-e to the crinoline, in tho Home Journal of the 20th ult.,is worthy of consideration ?for tho beauty of a flounced skirt consists in its drapery ; and then small figures have superseded tho largo dssigns, and to disclose the beauties of large tigures, it bo. came necessary to inflate tho skirts by relictdated foundations. Crinolines arc not losing favor, hut cages have. Tlie spring grenadines, tout ch svie, are tho most charm ing possible ; those in tnoilc cachcnur, and chintz figures are incomparable. Tulle illusion in two iuneB. ornamented iii chenillc, is most fresh aud I eautiful for tlic ball-room, as is also tlio tarlatans with colore*! floss borders. Children^'dresses Iiavo also been thought of, anil those of bareges in two flounces, and those in double juj>es, arc fresh and juvenile appearing, being ornamented with a very light tracery, as a border to the upper skirt, and short sleeves, in the color of the dross, which is usually white, and without foliage. Spring Shaiaiti.?Tho only, really now and pretty novelty, independent of tho dvess, is a cachemere, in 6lripcs three inches wide, of pink, white and green?tho stripo* figured in difleront floral designs, representing the flowers and foliage of both hemispheres,lustegd of that oriental favorite, the J pain* leaf. THK WISDOM OF VIRTUE. A iviiliixliuji Tillotsnii, when I )ean Uaiilerhtirv, ahout tlio year, ltJSO. was liii-i 'I (says his biographer) 41 upon l??*i info. 1 that tin* Karl of Shri'.shury v heing i.||._j:i._?,.,| Jo ji conversation wh 111i111 prove dangerous to liis virtiii1, well as so liis character, to write to h 111o following loiter, which is a inastcrpi' lor the elegance ami politeness as well tin; force ainl pathos of the remonstrant " My l.onl.? It was a grout satisfacii to mo to he anyways instrumental in I gaining your lor<lahip to our religion, wli I :nn really persuaded to be the truth, I Jut I am and always was more coneerti that your Lorddiip would continue a \ luotia am) good man than become a 1 tenant, being assured that the ign anco and errors of men's uuder.staudi will fmd a much easier forgiveness w Ci?id than the faults of the will. Y? Lorddiip olive Sold me that you would deaver to justify the sincerity of y< change hv a conscientious regard to all oil paits and actions of your life. I am st you cannot more ctl'ecluallv condemn y? own act than hv heing ;i worse man at your |?rofe-.Moii to have embraced a het religion. I will certainly he oik* of I last to believe any thing of your Lordsl that is i.ot good ; hut 1 always leale should he one of the first that should h it. The time I last wailed upon your Io ship 1 had heard .something that alllicl me very sensibly ; hut I hoped it was i true, and was therefore loth to trouble y< lord-hip al-out it, l?ul having heard same fiom those, who I helieve, bear no will to your loidship, I now think it duty to acquaint you with it. To sjh plainly, 1 have been told that your L< .ship is of late fallen into a convorsat dangerous both to your reputation and tue, two of the tcnderest and dearest thii iu the world. I believe your Lordshiji have a great command and condueL of y sell; but I am very sensible of li'.jtv liai'.Vy, and of the dangerous lemptati* to which youth is exposed in this dissol ajjo. Therefore, I earnestly beseech y lordihip to consider, besides the hiyh p ouKUoii of Almighty God, and the lniz of your soul, whenever you engage ii bad course, what a blemish you will br upon a fair and unspotted reputation; w uneasiness and trouble you will crcal( youiseit iroin the severe relict-lions o! guilty conscience; and Iiow great a lenee you will oiler to your good priucip your nature and your education, ami I mind the best made for virtuous and i tli\* things. And do not imagine you stop when you please. Experience sin us the contrary, ami that nothing is in vain than for men to think they can bound* for themselves in any thing ilia had. I hope in (iod no temptation ha? yet prevailed on your Lordship so far af he guilty of any loose act. If it has, you love your soul, let it not proceed to hahit. The retreat is not easy and o| hul will every day become more dillii and obstructed. God is so merciful ll upon your repentance and resolution amendment, ho is not only ready to lory what is past, hut to assist us by his grac< do better for the future, lint I need enforce these considerations upon a in so capable of and easy to receive ?*< counsel. I shall only desire your Lords to think again ami again how groat a jx of wisdom it i.s, in :dl our actions, to c suit the peace of our minds, and lo h no quarrel with the constant and insep hie companion of our lives. If others j please us, we may quit their company, I he that is displeased with himself is i I voidahly uhappv, because ho has no v I to get rid of himself. | ' My Lord, for God's sake and your o 1 think of being happy, and resolve hy means to save yourself from this untow generation. Determine rather upon speedy change of your condition thai gratify the inclinations of your youth any thing hut what is lawful and lion hie; and let 1110 have the satisfaction tp assured from your Lordship either t there has been no ground for this report that there shall bo nouo for the fnti which will bo the'welcomest news to tin the world. I have only to beg of y Lordship to believe that I havo not <J (his 10 satisfy the formality of my pr< sion ; but thiit it proceeds from the trt alTection and good-will that one can pi 1?ltr lwtnr In mini I nr,?w f\t\A a.. V J ? * J/l *\J V^V/U U* day for yonr Lordship with tlio same stancy and fervor as for myself, and do rr earnestly beg that this counsel may b? ceptablu nn j effectual. I am, ?kc." Feeding Poultry.?Professor Gregorj Aberdeen, in a letter to a friend, obson As I suppose you keep poultry, I may you that it hits been ascertained that if; mix with their food n sufficient quantitj egg-shells or chalk, which they eat greed they will lay twice or thrlco as tnanv o as before. A well foil fowl is disposed lay u largo number of egga, but oaimot so without LUo material of tbo shells, li ever nourishing, in other respects, the f may .bo; indeed, a fowl fod ou food i water, freo frolfo carbonate of lime, And finding any in tbo soil, or in the ."-hap mortar, which they often eat on the wi would lay no egg* at all, with the bc-^t in the world. DRESSING SKINS. of Tin* method ?>!' dressing skins with the j in. hair on differs but little in ]>iiticiplti from m iii<_r th:it of tanning them for leather, in pic ias parinj; skins for leather, they have to he tie | ieh privetl of their hair, either by sweating or ;,s liming?this process i.; dispensed with in im pH'parinjj robes. The fresh skins, if they ^ have to slant! lor some time before they ;is ean he treated, are first steeped in a brine e: | "f common salt; then lifted out of the | on brine and laid over a table or bench, with j |?. the hairy side downward, all the Ik-shy | ^ id, parts scraped <>11 clean with a knife, and the j raided cdjre.s cut oil' and trimmed. They I , i are now leadv for nnder<'oin<_j the proverv ' 1 I . * . ! in ! in'' operations. If tliev are clean white 1 . " rU| 'to i S',,rl'l> skins, intended for seats, saddles or j , mats, they are steeped in a solution uf alum ! fur several days?from tliree t? six?tlien ' jj lifted ont, nailed on racks, to stretch them | to their fullest extent, and dried in the air. >nr | ' r t ,| ! liiey are now ready lur use. The strength en i t - / ?' ul the alum solution emolovid should lie ! ' >nr 1 ; ill. the rate of one pound of alum to every four pounds of skins, the alum being dis '* J(|r solved in sufticienl quantity to cover the % wski|,s-. . r , _ Calf, doj* and other skins designed for ' tl rohes, are prepared in a dillei'ent manner. I(j After having all the fleshy parts removed, j '' j as heretofore described, they are steeped in j ? a bath of oak bark or sumac, or blackberry ' ? ear . ' J i(j wood liipior, eoulaimr.g some alum in so ! ^ j Iutit>n. A peck of ground oak bark is suf j 0 Hcient for tanning twenty pounds of skins; j r< it will require twenty pounds of American I j ? sumac, or the same amount of voting black ? HI berry bushes, to effect the same object.? '' These a>-e bailed in a close vessel for about l' my . I tliree hours in water to extract their Jilk jit | strength, then mixed with sullicieiit col>'. . water to cover the skins in two separate j 11 i./ i I . :i. I . . . . - I i . Lf.ium i.?i wj n ai I wo several tunes.) " ?i'i ? il lliree poutius of dissolved alum is also 1 | placed in each bath when they are ready ; lur 'or the skins ; these are all placed in one ^ of the baths :it a time, ami allowed to re n lan . ' main fur three days, luring turned in the in ^ teriin every succeeding day, and then lifted f , out, dripped and placed in the fresh baili, 11 whore they undergo similar operations du N , ling the noxt three davs. They are again c anl ,," . - ... 1 ( ^ lifted out, nailed on racks dried in the open ^ air, and aro then lit for use. in" L h it Skins are composed mostly of gelatinei which is very liko'y to decompose by expos .. ure to moisture and tho atmosphere. To 1 I ii 1 . , preserve them, thev aro brought into chein t: vio ; ? I ical union with sour) substances, so its to c | form an insoluble compound. An ncid in s oak bark, willow, sumac and hemlock, has <ivor . , . been used Irom time immemorial sis the chemical agent, to form an insohlblo com c jws , noumi wuii me iroiainic 01 me skiiis i?y a 3 ore 1 , . . i s ^ process called tanning. Any other cliemi- ,c ^ . cal substance that will produce the satno '' effect may be used fur tho same object, 1 ami hence alum, which is a colorless suit s stance, is employed for this purpuse for 11 white skins, Kobcs of skins require to be '' more ela stie and soft than leather, hence ^ they arc not submitted to the tanning pro cess for such a loii" period. Youn" black Kit, 0 ? j. berry uslies impart to the skins greater 1 softness than oak or sumac liquors. I rive i lo preserve skin robes truin the attacks li - to . . of insects, they should be submitted to a |: . , slijrht #m??kin?j in a smoke-house, and then o 111,1 . ? i r , , j hung up m Hie wind tor a lew days aftpr u I . wards. If found to be a little too hard ' when drie-l, they should be beaten with 0 rods until they are quite soft. Uy attend ing 10 these directions carefully, persons ^ ,lVC living in the country may prepare Heir ,, own skins, with no more apparatus than a f , s barrel, a t;vble, and a kettle.?Scientific ? A?uria?, ' una ? ? vay Cirtut Friahct und Inundation?Jlaivy Gale 1 an a it real jirsirueuoa. ?</ i ropqrly.? lne ? protracted ruin of 1'iiday and Saturday, wl\ together Willi tho heavy g;do of wind from all the South, caused an innndution here more ex artl tensive than lliut of iho previous week. The H river conlinueil to rise until Sunday morning, when the water reached n point nearly two feet 1 I to , . , , t . . . higher than that reached at the previous mini1,1 daliou this season. ^ or,l Operations on the Hudson River Railroad were ' i bo entirely suxpoiidcil, and the passengers which liat 'eft New York in the early truin on Saturday 0 OJ. morning, reached here yesterday morning in the f ' Steamer Oregon. They were taken on board at t ',,0, Rhiuebeclt. The Ilendrick Hudson arrived here c 3 111 yesterday with n large nuinher of passengers and ^ 0()r tin immense cargo of freight. Soon uft< r leaving New York she eiieounteied a gale which la?te<l I 'C all night. In the Highlands it wus terrific, ami f( such as is seldom experienced on tho Hudson test River. I' oggj Both honta nrrivod hero about the name time, u am] landed nearly two thousand pa>?cu!, gcrs. v con The flood extended farthor down tho river |, lost lhan usual, and the effects of it were visible nt I ac l'ouphkeepsie. Between this city and Hudson e the river presented the appenrancc of a lurge e lake. Tho inundation extended to the villages below this citj', covering places whero water has ' of not been seen ii? fifty yenrn. It appears to have ti been confined to tho valley of the Hudson, for 'CS ! t ~ .i._ i ..i il.? \?,.i i. M jrwiu uiu o?i? ?*?*u VI*" wuiittWlv Wo Ctlll lell learn of 110 disaster. ' ' ' " 0 The freshet rtt the North hns been quite exF011 tensive and very disastrous. Tho loss to the hint- c f of bormen at Glen's Falls is estimated at from |t .. $100,i>00 to SI SO,<100, \ sunken boom at " ' -vi Fort Edword gave way, when 200,000 logs and ?rrgs a Urge amount of lumbor were swept away? I I '1'he water was very high and the ourrent swift, ' and no effort wqs made to save tlie tim- ' , do ber. . "* 1 The Haosao river Ima overflowed aud a lOW portion of the embankment of the Troy ? uod ani\- Greeufield Railroad lias been waihed J . away. # . - t nnu ?f|,0 flood hero is now subsiding, tho not river having fallen nearly three feet Irom I /. the highest point roached on Hunday nioru- . ? "lB* . nil?, The Saratoga Bridge was carr'e 1 awoy this 1 will ,norn'"P by tho flood. The piers were { mostly dciuol shed.?Albany Journal of Month >J 1 THE USE OF FLOWERS. Wo only wish we could induce some of i(j fair ladies of the Smith to write such mtrihutious as ilie following, which wo lip from an <>M paper, hut which 1ms lost nne of ith fragrance l?y having been so >ng preserved by tlie " art. imperishnble."? . will lighten any sail heart to read it, and e most eheet fully insett it in preferenco ? anything we could say on so dclicato a ihjeet: " If you wish to know, in passing through 10 country, which of the homes aro tho lost cheerful, look at the door-yard.? here is an index of tho taste, habils, and i>atncss of tho occupants. The poorest ian will have some little plants of llowery aauty in his door-yard, if ho be indusious or have a neat, domestic wife; there ill he, despite of poverty, some of Natro's luxuries?some Four-o'cloeks will leru l?o lifting their bright faces to the snu. s if to proclaim in their many colors tlio lany j?*ys their presence has diffused to tho earls of tho inmates; tho yellow Mariold, l'ans'es or (Jhiin Aster, even tho eod which hears a pretty flower, will thero o seen. Children learn to lovo Xnturo trough (lowers, ami first learn to read tho >ve of Ilim who ina(ie them, as written 11 their fragrant leaves. Let not a nook r corner where a child may roam bo withut llowers ; let not a cottage door-yard, xposed to the gaze of the yonng, bo bar.'ii of these little monitors. Thero is a ingnage of lo^'o in the growth and habits f their petals; let th?s yonng know its innence?let the aged see through them iejt?ysof life, and each little flower bring ack some reminiscence of the past, 'Who does not Velish the smell of fresh ptnrned earth ! Who, that has known lie pleasure, does not watch with interest lie germinating seed or unfolding blossom ? Uid who ever r?'!?rette I their hilmr ?mnn<ir owe is ? Who ever felt unhappy in being ble to send a I'll hling bouquet to a sick r absent friend ? None?surelv none.? n tho cottager's yard or prince's garden, f wo see no. flowers, we may luok in aiu for flowers of the heart in die ocupants of th^ dwellings; there is somehing beside the meat s wanting. Lovo Mature, you will love hor originator, and >e happier for the love. Then, loo, by flowers does the infant uind flrst learn to meditate and wonler; by them is a spirit of inquiry by ibsorvalion nurtured, and in their capnles do the flo?vers hold the seeds of wislom and knowledge. Thus in childhood ire they sown, and in manhood developed in the full blown fruit, blossoms of cientitic investigation. Study, which hna ioen induced and fostered with pleasure i>r a rewad, is not apt to tiro or vox lie mind, and thus will tlio adult puruo with interest ami inquiry an employment which has Xnturo for a patron aud ustructor." The Proper Kind of Trees to Plant Out, ?A gentleman, originally from New York, ut now a valuable citizen of South Caroina, who bids fair to become eminent as a poinologist, and who has instituted exiciiments in various fruits, far in advance . if general practice, thus sensibly writes to , is ' T .W5.V. r.f ....If.-..,, . mv.mw ..vw v. umiuitii oi^c, uiju yp?rr Id, from tho graft or bud, as the cnso may . ie, aud lilted, as regards llio conditions of ho roots, for immediate and vigorous ;rowtb. I am qniio averse to buying large rnit trees. 1st. Tliey cannot be systematic ally trained and 2d. They require to bo, hortencd in so much, to compensate fur uutilalion of roots, as to present a wide, urfaco of wounds. Trees, too, should be. >f Southern propagation, and thus, in some iieasure, adapted to our climate. VVe shall, lever have Southern nurseries of, great exciit and merits, until we ceaso to buyv. Northern trees.'Maiden trees of one year old, wo always, refer, from tjic reasons given so clearly bv >ur friend. Hut how different is the habit if persons ordering trees, and how mi}cl|( id lacy exists in notions which prevail If}, his matter! Some persons wiph an orhard in full bearing the ne*t year afyer hey plant, and accordingly prd/jr L'nrge. rees, with spurs and bud*, nil ready forget), or the iininediate production of fruty,?'or these men disappointment lies stored ip, and their labors are nerer to l/o re rarded. A tree is like an infant, it, mist l>e taken young; nurtured and traind by tbo proper rules: in fact, it must bo ducated bv proper culture to fit it for earing perfect fruit. If left to the uuoaruiii result* of natural notion, it vyi^ became ;iltl and rampant in its form, and dogenracy in the sive and flavor of its fruit is ertain. ^Ve say tins in order more clearjr to fix the idea In the minds of. oyr reat^. rs, that too much attention cannot be paii^ o the preservation of the roots in (.r'ansilanting t|ee8. We may as \yeil atop "up he moujh of a child wifh cement nnij exicct it to live, as to plant o^t a 1 urge-topped bean-pole looking tree, wjtji a danlf >ody exposed to tho sign's rays, antl sup* >ose it would flourish. When the tre? dnnted has the proper kind of roots, hen feed it?yes, feed it bountifully, mm} ,ur word for it, your labor will be jrg* vnrded. , .. .. . ,