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V * fc ? "I'll ?Befbmin the British Army. . | The Atlantic brings intelligence of a wholesale refon- in the liritisu army, the consequence, partly of the battles in the Crimea, ana partly, also, of the allianco with France. A Government order has just been issued, directing L6rd Raglan to select one sorgentfrom each regiment for promotion to an ehsigncr, the sergeant, in each cause, to be that one who has displayed conspicuous gallantry in the Crimea. A London juuruat justly compares this to a return to the practice in vogue during the eld martial days of England, of conferring knighthood on the field of battle; for the commissions, with delicate tact, aro all to date from the fifth of November, the day of Iukerman.? This raising men from tho ranks by wholesale, and not merely in rare exceptions, as has beeu the caso heretofore in the English service, will add new stamina to tho array, as well as prove a fresh incentive to recruiting in future, a British private will have something more to aspire after than a retreat for old age in a public hospital as the reward of a life devoted to arms. lie may -IswvU fv. .1 A- 1 1 iw* luinnru vu promotion, ii ne is uravo and capable, and. perhaps, hope, if very successful, to rise to he a general officer. It is not to be concealed, however, that this reform has been forced on the British aristocracy. But for the example of Hie French array, and the necessity of a new bounty to recruits, we do not believe this step towards popularizing the service would have bten made. Yet it was in a precisely similar manner that 'the haughtiest of the British became what they aro. To have "come over at the conquest" is considered the proudest boast . of an English family. But the men who came over at tho conquest, and who, by the confiscation of the Saxon estates, became the landed proprietors of mediaeval England, were notoriously mere adventurers. Of course there were Norman noblemen among the followers of William, and even wealthy counts and knights from other European countries, but tho great bulk of the army was composed of comparatively penniless men? such, in fact, as make up the majority of modern filibustering expedition*. Their bravery in battle, however, coupled with the success of the enterprise, con veiled them into lords of English manors, and subsequently # into powerful barons. Very few of the haughty British aristocracy, even if they arc able to trace their families to the conquest, can go much beyond it, without reaching what they now call, contemptuously, an "obscure parentage.'. The Conqueror himself was the grandson of a tanner. The first of the proud Plnutagencts was a mechanic, a goou aeai iiouesier malt wan most, of Ins successors. Families of lesser magnitude, but now amongst the most exclusive in Great Uritaiu, sprung from peasant-;, burghers, and even highwaymen. .For several centuries after the conquest, the ranks of the aristocracy were recruited, in a similar manner, from brave soldiers who had especially distinguished themselves.? The great Earl of Warwick, surnained the "King Maker," came from a family originally humble, but which, after various elevations, culminated by a marriage with the heiress of the Beauchainps. After the accession of Ilenry the seventh, the nobility began to receive accession from the elevation to the peerage of distinguished civilians; and this practice has continued down to the present day. Most of those thus distinguished were conventionally well born, however, being the younger sons of noble houses, or the cadets of country squires, the latter often having a more undisputed genealogy, traceable to the conquest, than many a princely baron. At present, a vast majority of the English nobility arc of comparatively new creation, few ]>eerngea dating back beyond the reign of Ilenry the Seventh, and the hulk not rising above James the First's. The British oligarchy have no reason, Consequently, to succr, as they have done, at the idea of promotions from the ranks.? The heroic sergeants of Inkerinan were quite as deserving as me adventurers who tought at Hastings, and who, as we have shown, were the ancestors of the most fur-descended of the British nobility. It is scarcely probable that any of these sergents will ever rise to a peerage. But, if one did, he would only achieve for himself what the English aristocracy had achieved for them bv ancestors who lived centuries ago.?Philadelphia. Ledger. The Crimes and Casualties ok the 1?ast Year.?We find in rtur Qxohanges tabular statements of the different crimes and casualties in the United States during the year wkudi Wiajust closed. The footings up arc a?i<>llows: The total amount of property destroyed by fire is estimated, in round numbers, at twsSjJfc'fivo millions of dollars. Tho number of persons whose lives have been sacrificed by burning buildings is put down at one hundred and seventy-one. There have been one hundred and ninetv-three railroad accidents, killing one hundred and eighty-six persons, and wounding five hundred and eighty-nine. There haveAlso been forty-eight steamboat accidents, killing five hundred and eighty-seven persons, and wounding two hundred and twenty-five. During the year six hundred And eightytwo murders were committed, and eightyfour persons were executed. In the Stnto of New York alone there Avcrc seventy-four murders and seven executions, and in Cali fornin sixty four murders and fifteen executions. Terrible Tragedy.?The New York Mirror, of January 2, says, Joseph Ilall, a young man, 21 years of age, had a difficulty last evening with William O'Brien, at the store corner of Laurense and Grand streets, when he fired three bullets into Lis body.? O'Brien was taken to the hospital, where ht lay this morning in a critical condition.-^ Ilall, immediately after shooting his adverse ry, shot himself but not fatally. SOUTBERNENTERPRISE. S? (3. Friday Morning, Jan. 12,1856. AQKNT8. E. W. QARR, N. W. cor. of Walnnt and TlurJ-et. PhUaddphin, is our authorized Agent. A. M. PFOEN, Fairview P. O.f Greenville Dist WM, C. BAILEY, Pleasant Grove, Greenville, j W. W, SMITH, Morritsville, Greenville District. | I 0, P. M'KINNEY, Slabtown, P. O., Anderson Dist. | ' 1 Removal. J^~The office of the Enterprise will hereafter be next door west from the New Court-1 louse, ! where we hope to receive the favors of our patrons and fricrtds. To Correspondents. " Ciiamana.'*?In removing our office vour nr tide was misplaced. So soon as found it will ! appear, in the meantime, for fear of our being unable to find it, you bad better send a duplicate. W. R., Lexington.?Thorc is no situation of the kind yon refer to open in our village. ' Karmi.f.y."?Your artielo is published to day. Favor us again in that department. THE MAILS. We arc gratified to learn (says the Carolinian of Wednesday last,) by a private despatch that the I'ost Oilico Department and the Railroad Company have come to terms, and that on and after Monday next the mails will he regularly conveyed over the South j Carolina lload. FARMER AND PLANTER. Owing to tho non-reception of paper in tended for the January number of this periodical. a delay has necessarily occurred in the transmissission of that number. We j ' have been requested by its editor, Maj. Ska- | iiokxe, to make this announcement, in order! j that the subscribers to it might learn the | the cause of delay. OUR NFWTFFICE. The llntcrprixc is now published where flic g<>od old Mountaineer flourished something over a quarter of a century ago, the shadows of which are still visible in and about the place. Times have changed since then, and things h'avo undergone a transformation equal to the times in which wo live. Men have had their day, and passed frotn , earth, and although wo occupy the place once used for printing, and follow the same 1 calling, one would scarcely recognize it as being the same business. The old Damage | Press has fallen into disuse, and in its stead | is found n neater and more expeditious improvement. The halls linve given place to an elastic composition roller, whilst everything in a measure has advanced by improvement. Our ofiice is not quite underway yet. It has been an effort upon our part to get out this number in time, having been compelled to remove at a very unseasonable time, and | when a portion of our force was unable to aid us. In a short while wo will have all things right, when we hope to make our paper as blight as a new dollar. Come friends, let us havo your eo-operation during the year so shortly entered ! A number have sent in their names since our removal, and wo are anxious to have the aid of the good and true everywhere. Let each | one of our present subscribers endeavor to | send us another, and we will still try and I j furnish a paper worthy their continued sup- j I port. If our efforts to please and instruct j prove abortivo, we are willing to vacate in j favor of those who may bo better qualified J to discharge tho-duties of the station. Hut until a generous public shall decide for such n move we still shall cling to the Enterprise, and leave no efforts wanting or pains spared to prove it acceptable to all chisses. A NEW SOCIETY. Wb understand that our village boasts, j among other things, anew organization, aj name for which its projectors have not, as i yet, found anything appropriate. We have not been initiated, but have taken some pains to find out "a tiling or two'1 in relation to it. If what we liavo gathered be correct. (and we do not doubt the information,) it in by no means to bo discountenanced. We regard it even better than tho society of Know Nothings or I'ay Nothings?they say they Drink Nothing, and their order bids lair to have its day, provided the classes of which it is now composed flock to the standard. Among its members are found a few disaffected 44 Sons," a still larger number who from tho tightness of tho times have been compelled to abandon their cups, whilst the remainder are those whose cretttt for the "staple article" is not known upon Change. Thegnecessity for such an aljiauce is quite plausible. " In union tltero is strength," and by forming themselves into a tangible shape, they may be enablod, at no distant day, to produce the great object?tho dessideratum of the times: a reduction in the price of liquor. A strike is anticipated, and when it is made, it w ill be a Mnin(e) one: h * A RELIGIOUS DEPARTMENT.1^ AtTHOUon'we have from time to time derated some of our space to the diffusion of | religious reading and intelligence, we have ^ concluded to have a column or two each week devoted to " Sunday reading," and request all who are prone to tffiting upon the 1 subject, to favor us with their productions. They will be. graciously received, provided they breathe not a spirit of denominational pride. Our paper, in this respect, shall be open to none but those whose desire is to advanco tbe groat cause by the surest and best means. We nave determined to do so from repeated invitations from different parts of the State, and from a knowledge that our efforts so far has met with general favor, as the following extract, which we take the liberty of publishing, will testify : . Jftn 1855> " Mr. tV. P. Price :?For a long time I have noticed innny instructive, moral and religious articles in vour paper, much to my gratification and I believe to the welfare of many of vour readers. Your little paper is now looked for with pleasure by many a hoiuo circle, and in the coming year may be productive of much good, and I trust with profit to its proprietor. C." COLUMBIA CORRESPONDENCE. Owing to domestic affliction oar Columbia correspondent has been prevented from furnishing us with bis usual weekly letters from the capitol. lie will, however, resume his duties next week. CENSUS OF GREENVILLE. From tho Compendium of the Seventh Census of the Uuited States, wo extract tho following statistics respecting our District: There are male whites, 6,048?female whites, 0,722?Total 13,370; free colored, 95? slaves, 6,691?Total population, *20,150, showing an increaso in population since 1840 of 2,317. Dwellings. 2,351; families, 2,351 ; 150 pupils at colleges, academics, and private schools; 900 pupils at public schools?total number attending colleges, academies, private and public schools, 1,950; whites over 20 years old unable to read, 1,821; farms, 1,068; acres improved land, i ju, < - < ; ununproveu, ^ay.v ao; value with improvements an J implements, $2,102,038 ; horses, asses and mules, 4,312; cattie.l 4,047; sheep, 9,252; swine 30,525 ; wheat, 60,082 bushels; rye and oats, 111,071 bushels; Indian ecorn, 037,784 bushels; Irish and sweet potatoes, 88,510 bushels; peas and beans, 19,803 bushels; butler and cheese, 110,903 pounds; hay 22 tons ; rieo 15,782 pounds; tobacco, 12 505; ginned cotton, bales < f 400 lbs. 2,452 ; wool, 15,760 lbs.; beeswax and honey, 5,724 poouds; valuo of animals slaughtered, $104,077 ; capital employed in manufactures, $170,S50, hands employed, 290 ; annual product, $213,510. Sport tikkoiie Seiiastopol,?Wo give the following from a dairy of the seige of Sebastopol : 441 luring the day the Russians llro on the British about one gun every live minutes.? The English look out. A man cries, Tower, Redan, or Garden battery, and the shot is returned ; but tho lire on tlio French is much more lively, and is kept tip with some effect on their earth work and parallel. Every night about nine o'clock, the Flagstaff, Quarantine, and Wall batteries open a furious cannonade, which, for from twenty to forty-five minutes, is as hard as the men can load, right into the French lines, and then follows instantly a sally, the result of which is invariably the same. The Russians push a strong column out of the.place, rush toward the first lino, drive in'the pickets and ritlcmen get up to the first parallel?sometimes into it, occasionally beyond it, and close to the second parallel?when they are received, as they advance, by tho French covering parties with a deadly tiro ; they halt and tiro in rftm n, aro charged by the French, who rout and pursue them into the town, but who aro obliged to retire by the Hank lire of the batteries and street guns. In this way the French lose forty or fifty men ; but the loss of the Russians in these alertca must bo considera ble. Frequently, about day-break, the Russians repeat the peiforniauce." liaro sport, that! Five Cents Dearly Earned!?A man i named Crocker some months since applied to 1 the railroad ticket ofliee to pay his fair, but ( finding it closed, he entered the cars with the intention of going to New London : though I lie had only lifty cents with which to pay | his passage. The conductor demanded an additional tivo cents, otherwise he would be compelled to put him out of the cars.? Several j?erson? employed on the train assisted in thrusting Croker out. J lis knee f>an was broken, but ho managed, by crawing, to reach a house three-quarters of a inile distant, and subsequently brought suit This was recently trior!, and the jury brought in a verdict of $8,200 damages against the lluilroad Company. j A gentleman in Alabama, in exertinrr himself ono clay, felt a sudden pain, and fearing his internal machinery had been thrown out of gear, sent for n negro on his plantation, who made some pretensions to medical skill, to preacribo for him. The ne pro, having investigated the cause, prepared and administered a dose to his patient with utmost confidence of a speedy cure. No relief being experienced, however, the gentleman sent for a physician, who, on arriving,1 enquired of the negro what medicine lie had given his master. Bob promptly responded, ilosin and alnm, sir!' "What did you givo them for?'continued the doctor. *Whyf replied Bob, "de alnm to draw the pagtltogedder, and de rosin to aodder um. The patient eventually recovered. ' Dividends. The Dividends of oar Banks and other in(tttutiona providing 6ouroes of investment dgnahze a state of prosperity which favorably compare with similar institutions in other parts of the Union: Bank of Charleston, 4 psr rent, for the last six months. Planters' and Mechanics' Bank, cents per share, at .the rate of 7 por cent per anuum. State Bank, foifr per ceut. for the last six months. Union Bank, $1,75 per share, at the rate of 7 per cent, per annum. South Carolina Bank, a semi-annual dividend of VI,Ut) per share. Tho Pooples Bank, a semi-annual dividend of 75 Cents per share. The Bank of Georgetown, a semi-annual dividend of81.25 per share. The South Carolina Insurance Company, a semi-annual dividend of$l per share. The Commercial Bank of Columbia, a seini-annual dividend of $1 per share. And the Columbia Gas Company, a dividend of one dollar and rifty cents per share of $25 for the past six months. Advertisement Extraordinary.?The New York Express contains tho following ad vertisetnen t extraordiuary : Later from Cuha.? Wanted, 5,000 Emigrants to one of the most delightful parts i of the World.?Gov. Marey, Secretary of Statu, having decided in relation to tho u Kinney expedition." that inasmuch as he haa no knowledge or information, other than that said expedition is with the intention of effecting a settlement in New Grenada, for mining und agricultural purposes?the Government of the United States has no right to interfere, the emigrants intending to become bona fide citizens of New Grenada, and of course subject to her laws. Therefore, the Cuban junta, having purchased largo tracts of ianu in the island of Cuba, would invite those desirous of having a home in that delightful Islaud, to send in their names forthwith. Attack on Liquor Snops ar Women.? The Kalamazoo (Mich.) Telegraph furnishes the particulars of a descent made on the groggcries of Otsego, by tho women of that place, in consequence of an insult offered by a dealer to a female whose drunken husband visited his house. Tho Telegraph says: "The woniF.n of the village, to the number of 38, armed with axes and hatchets, firmed a procession and marched upon the destroyers of their domestic peace. Proceeding to tho hotel, they commenced a general demolition of decanters, jugs, tumblers and barrels, when the proprietor, be seeching them to desist, came to terms, ami gave bonds not to sell any inoro liquor for six months, after which they quietly withdrew. They then proceeded to several retail groceries. One of the keepers, after a j portion of his stock had been destroyed, signed the required bond. Another refused, when uors, amidst tne gi ing the operation, the proprietor rudely grasped one of the females and hurled her back, whereupon ho was seized and most thoroughly drenched ;n his own liquor, lie received several very severe injuries in the melee. After.having accomplished this, the women quietly dispersed." . ?? Tnv: Rights ok Citizenship Anno \n.? The following is the hill passed by the House of Representatives, last session, and the Senate this session, to secure the right of citizenship to children of citizens of the United States born out of the limits thereof: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of tho United States of America in Congress assembled, that per sons Heretofore Horn, or hereafter to he horn, out of the limits ami jurisdiction of the United States, whose fathers wero, or shall ho at the time of their birth, citizens of the United States, shall be deemed and considered, and are hereby declared, to he citizens of the United States, Provided, hoyrevcr, that j the rights of citizenship shall not descend to jwrsons whose fathers never resided in the I United States. Pmcr ok Laiior at tiif. North and I South.'?It is strange that while there is j such a decline in price of white labor at the North, there continues to l?o a scarctity of slave labor at the South, where prices are ex1 orhitantly high. The last Norfolk Aryua says: 4,In both town and county, servants of different ages bring very high priecs. "Cornfield" bands readily command $150. In the city, cooks and honso servants are in great demand, the prices being $50 to $75.' The New York Erprena refers to a late sale of nhtves in \ irgi?iia, where a woman, and a child eight months old. brought $1. 010, and says it is liko the ground," and must produce a re-action. It addst "$1,310 for a negro woman and child gives an interest, at 7 per cent, of $91 70? and this, with life insurance. 3 per cent., $39 30 taxes, doctors' bills, and clothing and food, must run up the cost of such a negro to at least $225 per annum. Now we pay for our woman servants from 5 to $7 per month? which averages onlr $72 per annum. Children we would. not take with the woman if lliey were given to us. The South cannot, then, it is certain, stand for any length of time this sort of competition in labor; and tlio cost of the negro slave must come down decidedly down : and thenco we give the warning, from under." A Rhode Island Hoo.?The Woonsock(R.I.,) Patriot sa^tiliat Mr. Jonathan Br*?es,of Woonsodkct, had a hog slanghtered last week which was leas titan eleven months old, and weighed four hundred and eighty-one pounds. Rrom tho date of his purchase Jo the time of his death, which included a "number of .months, his average gain in weigliU per day wa* about three l*xmds. ip ? * What Should he the Chief Crops of the South 1 j Corn ast> cotton in the bottom planting States have, by common custom, become the universal crop of extensive cultivation. How far this shift is correct, is not entirely proved by its universality, nor by the prejudices which sustain it in minds of planters. Indian corn, indigenuous to the soil was perhaps the most convenient and profitable when the country was first settled, and when an abundant aud easily prepaiou crop, to s;;p ply the wants of both man and beast, was' a requirement of the times. In* this relative value. It still is the. most valuable cropgrowu on the virgin soils of the Middle ana Southern of the Western States, foi- it luxurates upon tl?c vegetable matter abounding in new soil, and with littlo preparation and indifferent culture, yields large returns for labor bostowed. Such, however, is not the case in the older States, where the cream of the hind has been stolen away imperceptibly by the a -..1 : a ' a' ...1 *1. * ml - 1 51 must e.MutuMmg s vstum wiui-u tuieu son has ever been subjected: and hiking ten years' cropping together,* the Indian corn crop is the moat uncertain. we can plant. It is difficult to grow pn any but virgin or alluvial soil, and the droughts of an miner except in extraordinary and luost favorable seasons, cut it off to a ruinous extent The corn crib is called the store-house of the planter in the South, and indeed it is bis main dependence, but this only because he is not accustomed to interweave other crops* with the cultivation of cotton. On the improved and well prepared soil barley and wheat would yield irioro bushels of grain of more value to the planter than Indian corn. In fact, barley is the most valuable which we cultivate at the South.? If sown at tho proper season, it readily perfects it-self from the winter moisture in the earth, and yields heavily. It is fine soiling for all kinds of stocks, and comes into liarvest in May, a time when a few days can be spared from tho cottou crop without detriment to its growth or production. Its grain is so well protected, that it is not liable to be spoiled by exposure to tho weather, and it may bo any length of timo in the straw, whqn duly housed, without being injured.? A I 1... !<L ii. J ;v uanc) crup huwu wan giiuuu, cuitun seeu or well compared compost manure, after the cotton crop is gathered in December and January, would conic sufliciently early to sow stubble down in peas to be turned under in autumn, and the rotation of small grain with this system pursued, would bo the best and most efficient mode of improving our lands. It would also bo fitted to the economical and easy cultivation of the after cotton crop, by the ploughing under of the herbage in the fall, which would bo thoroughly decomposed by the next spring. Barley, groundand mixed with water reduced to chaff by a cutting machine, is better feed for horses and cattle than any prcj paration of Indian com, and for these persons I who have not mills, simply soaking the grain in water is a fine preparation for feeding to horses. Swine fatten and keep incondilion more easily on barley than 011 corn. As a 'conclusive argument in its favor, more barley can be cheaply grown on an acre of improved dry upland, than wo can grow of corn. Wheat, sown with guano, in like manner after the cotton crop, would come in at a seaon when the harvesting could be attended to without detriment, and after the cotton crop is laid, and in the interval between that time and tilt* ennnnpnivmont of llm ---- ? ?- ? I""-?"ft* "" thrashing and preparing it for market or the mill could he attended to without hinderancc. The middlings, shorts and bran of n large wheat corp, all mixed togethor, would go far to feed the plantation stock ; negr*es would reli-di wheaten bread as a change for the corn bread usually allowed to thcin. Wo would, from these reasons.stated, and many more needless to mention, recommend the reduction of the coru corp to such a degree as would throw all land not naturally producing Indian corn well, into wheat, barley, rye and oats. We should then cultivate our tilled crops well and easily, and the rev enues of tho system wuul.l soon repay for the experiment. We know that those recommendations will bo mat with by all tho objections which prejudice and the tyranny ol custom engenders in those who cleave to old practices and theories; but as they are convictions of tho true policy, we have no hesitation in making them.? Southern Agriculturalist. Tlie Miser. Or all the creatures upon earth, nono is ?c despicable as the miser. It is not impossible that the profligate may have a fVicnd, foi there is usually left about him some toucli of humanity?some unbroken cord of lh< finer feelings of our nature ; but tho inisei meets with no sympathy. Even the itrna who is hired attend him in his latest Whirs lotlis the ghastly occupation, and longs toi me moment 01 iter release ; lor although tin death damp is already gathering on his brow tho thoughts of the departing sinner are stil upon his gold ; at the mere jingling of a kej he starts from his torpor in a paroxysm of terror, lest a surreptitious attempt is being made upon the sancti^Fof his strong box; There are no praycrs'of the orphan or th< widow for him?not a solitary voice has evei breathed his name to heav-m as a benefactor Ono poor penny gigen away in the spirit o true charity, would now l>o worth more U him thun all the gold the world contains but, notwithstanding that he was a church going inan, and familiar from his infancy with those awful texts in which the worshij of Mammon is denounced and tho punish nient of Uives told, ho has never yet beer .able to divorce himself from his solitary lov< of lucre, or to part with one atom of his pelf And so, from a miserable life, detested ant despised, lie passes into a dreary eternity and those whom lie has neglected < r] mistia ed, make merry with the hoards of Uie miser The Editor of the llawosville, (II!.,) Ea git invites a man who had taken offence ai one of his articles, to walk up to his sane turn and get kicked out I 0 *'&rt anlT~J)i0ran?t|7"~ Carious Faot - .1 jj Br a simple experiment, it is easy to di? cover to what aniinal atiy kind df blood or. spots of blood belonged. The process is as follows ;?Put a few drops of blood, or the scum of blood, into a glass, and concentrated sulphuric acid, to the amount of one-third or onfc?half the quantity of blood, and stir the wiioie together "wilu a gltw. rvd; by this means the Odoriferous principle peculiar ?to tlie species of animal to which the blood belonged, is evolved; thus, for instance, the blood * of man disengages a strong odor of the pres.pi ration of man, which it is impossible to confound with any other ; that of a woman a similar odor, hnt much weaker ; that of a sheep th e well known smell of greasy wool of a pig, the disugreeab|o odor of a piggery ; * and so on. Even the blood ot a frog has given out the peculiar smell of marshy rdeds, and that of a carb the peculiar smell of a fresh water lisli. Upon trial mado to ascertain whether spots of blood could be distinguish- . ed and referred to their source, it was found. that to n certain extent a pretty Rure judgement can be given even after fifteen days. The spotted linen is to be cut out, put Into a . watch glass, and being moisten with a little water, left for a sllorl timo at rest, and well soaked ; a little sulphuric acid is to be added and atirmd ?brii!* ? ?!? wwl tKa nm^n, liar odor will then be recognized; but tins experiment should be performed without delay, tor a fortnight the odor is scnrcely preceptible. Ambrotype Likeness. A most valuable improvement in tho art of producing likenesses has recently been in1 trodueed by Messrs. (putting ?fc liowdoin, of | Boston. Tho picture taken upon plate-glass, j ufier which a similar glass is placed over it, and the two are cemented together by an indestructible gum, rendering tho picture en Li rely impervious to atmostpheric influence, and securing to it tiie most perfect durability. The great sujxjriority of this new process is manifest, in as much as by it tho most perfect, minute and life-like delineations are produced, cither in miuiaturo or of full size, and capable of retaining a perpetual brilliancy. The pictures are not reversed, as in tho ordinary dnguerreotyping process and they are immediately perceptible in any light without the necessity of change of position. Mr. Cutting, the senior partner, is tho inventor of this process, and patents have already been secured, in tho United States, Great Britain and France. It may, with perfect truth, bo urged that this is tho most important discovery in the art of photography that has yet been made.?Atlaz. A Valuable Inventoin. The Baltimore American says : " Mr. William Dilhhunt, of this city, a i practical mechanic, foreman in the cabinet making establishment of Messrs. J. & J. Williams Si Co., has, for n year past. employed his leisure hours in constructing a working model of a machine of his owfl invention, to supply a great desideratum to the press,'and especially the newspaper press.? It is called a 4 feeding machine,' being in( tended to take up a sheet of paper wet and ( ready for printing, separato it from the sheet i next on the pile, carry it forward a distance i of twelve or fifteen inches, aud deliver it to i tho 4 lingers' of the cylinder of the press At > a given moment, without the possibility of i delay or failure to perform its work. 4' We linve examined the machine of Mr. i Dillehuut, in company with our own press man and several others of the most experienced practical pressmen of tho citv, all of I whom were unanimous in their verdict as I to its perfect utility and success, l>oyond nil fenr of failure?and were equally confident that no human* hands could perform the work with such unerring certainty nnd prc> cision. l Mr. Dillehunt's apparatus is of most sirn pie construction, occupies but a small space, could bo cpnfined to the weight of fifty pounds, if necessary, is elevated over the r heap of paper, and will raiso and carry the 1 last sheet of a thousand with as much cer tainty as the first, and without the slightest attention from the pressman, it being at tachcd to tho press by a cog-wheel, and requiring no more power to drive it than is necessary to blow a small pair of bellows. In short, it is tho ' finishing ' of Colonel lloe'a , great cylindrical Printing Presses." Surgical Operation o* the Chest? Displacino the Heart in a Liviko Body. ' ?On tho 3d of the present month, Mr. Als phonso Hickford^of Palmyre, Mc, had his > chest tapped, and the almost incredible s amount 01 nino pints ot fluid, in all its cliar, acteristics resembling pun, taken therefrom, r The Portland Advtriitier say* i 5 "The operation <ras performed by Dr. J. , C. Manson, of Pittsiield, advised and assisted I by Dr. lionson, of Newport. The fluid was elf i situated in the left side of the chest, and consequently tho heart was very much diplaced; r so innch so that it was distinctly felt beating two inches upon the right of the sturnum or ? medium line of the body. It however gradr ually receded during the operation, and af. tcr the entiro evacuation, was found beating f in nearly its natural position. Tha patient > immediately began to amend, and is at prea; edt doing well. IDs case baa for some time - past been considered hopeless, but there is r now a prospect of his recovery. JStoxqmv in Kxpexditurk.?Economy i should be the first point in all families, what5 ever be their circumstances. A prudent , housckeeperwill regulate the ordinary ex| pensea of a family, according to the annual j sum allowed for housekeeping. By this . means tho provision will be uniformly good, , and it will not bo requisite to practice meanness on many occasiqps, for the sake of meeting extra expenses on cpe. The best check upon ontrutaiingim income is to pay' tyUs 1 weekly, Tor yon may then retrench in * This practice is likewise a salutary check tfpou the correctness (/the accounts themselves. '* . ; V