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-? .- An Act For the Better Establishment of a General I System of Registration of fiirths, Marriages and Deaths, in the State of South Carolina. Sue. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, note met and sitting in Generul Assembly, and by the au thority of the same, That from, and after tho , passing: of this Art. it shall be the duly of! the Tax Collectors of tho different districts and parishes of this State, to require of the inhabitants of said districts and parishes, at tbo time of making the general tax returns, a separate return stating tho number of flutes, male and female, who have been bo^n, married, or who have died during the year in their respective households, ana the number of blacks who Imve been born, or who have died during the same period, and return the same to the Comptroller Cene fal; and in each case in which the Tax Collector neglects his duty, he ah all he fined five dollars, and the citizen rcfu?inor, chars od live per cent, on his general lax. Skc. til. That one Registrar shall l>e appointed bjf the Governor, whoso duty it shall be to receive from the respective offi ees of the Comptroller General, in Charleston and Columbia, the returns of the Tax Collectors, and make and publish a full report of the same annually, filing a copy of jiis report in the Comptroller General's office, both in Charleston and Columbia. Sec. Jt. That in order to ascertain as ne curatelv as possible the number of births, marriages and death* of non-tax paying whites, it shall he the duty of the Tax Collector to ascertain from the magistrates, physicians and ministers of the Gospel, of the different districts and parishes, the number of births, marriages ntul deaths that have taken place among the persons within their jurisdiction, or belonging to their congrega lions respectively ; and it shall be the duty of the Registrar to diaw out a proper form of registration for the Tax Collectors of the different districts and parishes, and for the use of the magistrates and ministers of the Gospel, of the said districts and parishes. Skc. 4. That the said Registrar shall receive, annually, the sum of four hundred 1 dollars for his services. Skc. 5. That the Tax Collectors shall be entitled to retain out of the taxes collected by them, three cents for the entry of each birth, death or marriage required by this Act. % In the Senate llouse, the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one 1 thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, and in the eighty-first ycat of the sovereignty ' and independence ot the United Slates of ' Atnciiea. JAM MS CI IKS NUT. Jr., 1 President of ilie Smmia .1A M KS SIM ON S," ' Speaker of the House of Representatives. J XkW OCliAN* M All, Si'CAMKIl PltO.TKCIS. j' "We regret to have to say that the House j 3'ost OlHco Affairs Conuuittee have not do-1 termiiicd to recommend that no new ocean ( mail steamer contracts shall he made on he-1 half ?>f this(iovei nment except with the lowest ladders and under all the regulations applicable to the inland mail service of the United States, as erroneously a! lodged in more or less distant newspapers of late, j "While some such idea has been talked over 1 in their Committee, iL has not assumed the , shape of a direct proposition. Our opinion is that it will not triumph there, because a majority of the Committee arc known to fa- i vor the enactment of a Lid or bills to an j thorize special contracts with favored indi- " viduals on terms specified in the acts for the I conveyance of the mails of the United States ! by steamers on the ocean. This is the old 1 and (admitted to be) very vicious system. I Perhaps two, or r.t most three of the dozen such propositions now being urged ? one lor i a line from New Voik touching at Savan-I nah, to l'aia, (cast coast of South America;) | another from Panama down the west coast of South America; and another from New! ' Yoik to the North of Kurope, havesiiflicicnt i ' influence hero to obtain the endorsement of | the Committee referred to above. Whether uiey can possibly command the sanction of; a majority of the House as matters now i stand, is a very different problem, fortunately. Wo think that in the course of theh necessary discussion on such hills it will la-'1 made so glaiiiigly apparent that the system ; 1 of special ocean mail steamer contracts has; been so very vicious in all its results up to' this time, as that, if any new lines are an- i thori/.ed, the contracts will he required to Inmade precisely as all other United States I mail contracts are entered into. | Washington Slur. CI It k at l)l8COVBI?y at XI ao ar.v KaI.I.S. A fine harbor of some two hundred and fit* I ty acres has been discovered immediately above tho rapids and below the old Sclilosser bar. As much more can be dredged out at a small expense, g'ving a depth of, ten to fourteen feet water Heretofore vo* sels could only come down on t e American side to the old store-house, some two miles above the Falls. A pit-r is to bo ruu out) above the Goat Island bar for about a half j a mile into the river, and the upper bar so! cut that vessel* of twelve feet dial'*. can go' through ami down t<> the mouth of the great canal. Tim discovery has opened a geological wonder to tho people in Western New \oik, and it will provo a g.eAt commercial blessing to thai cointntinitv. It is j expected that navigation will he opened l>v i the first of July fur all class vessel-. ? riotfotttN'j One's Otkhts.?We clip the following from tho Now York Mirror : " At a large and rather promiscuous party i up town the other night, (mi r thousand inxitatiofts having been issued,) the host exhibited the latest novelty of the season. Two policemen in ur.ifortrt tvwo stationed at the entrance of the supper room. Wbother this di/plny wan neccsearv to keep '-Voting New-Y ork' in order, r# to prevent the mystcrirui* dtfpppcarr.rec of ail er. i* not known. KvMy f ? is ??sirjd'Ci'nl tr t?fhc V y^'WOp' 1 'Sj*. ^Hi ; y'? How Hew York"Bakers Make Bread. The editor of the Journal of Commerce has been diving among the city bakers and conies up with this tale : " Our bakeries are mostly under ground and out of sight, and few who eat their bread ever witness the process of baking, and perhans it is well that it is so. It has been said that he who would relish his dinner, .Unnl.l W/.- ..1 -* 'I u. onvuiu viv?r ui me Kiicnon. i lie rooms where the dough is mixed, are generally small and under ground ; the men sleep often, perhaps generally, in the same room h part of the night. They often amoke or chew tobacco or both, and wo are credibly informed, that the feet instead of the hands are often employed in the process of preparing the dough." And the New Yoik Express follows with this strong corroboration : r "There is a bakery not two hundred feet from Nassau street, we mav add, whore the laborers are daily seen coming into the street, with their naked feet and logs all covered with dough, and the dough oozing between their ten pedal extremities ! Ugh !? Ugh !" The Journal of Commerce further says : " The expedients resorted to by many of our bakers to compel the consumer to pay the highest juice for bread, aro various. They charge the consumer, when the loaf is purchased at their counters, 6^ and 124 cents for their loaves. Now a b..rrel of flour will tuako 22-4 of tho former, and 112 of the latter, equal to $14 for a barrel of flour baked into bread ; and when the consumer buys of the grocer, instead of the baker, in many, if not in most instances ; making a loaf of less weight for the grocer, to whom ho sells the same for a propoitionatcly less price. The consumer therefore pays a double profit?one to the grocer, and one to the baker, when he buys of the former." The Vegetable Kingdom Quizzically Considered. Rend what Cnjtfain Job Prest, in his " Wondeiful Adventures," says of tho vegetable kingdom : I The term vegetable?sometimes pronounc- ? od vegetable?is probably derived from the peculiar long and pointed form of this description of esculents, hence oiiginally called j wedge eatable thence wogetable, and now I' reduced into the jiresent term. i Annual floweiing jdants resemble uhales I I IC tll/tl* ? * ? 1 I ?.i %u\:j vuniu uj' IU UIUW, ( Flowers are very warlike in their disposiion, and are ever aimed with pistils. They are migratory in their' habit*, An < wherever they may winter, thev arc mire to cave in the spiing ; most of them very poite and full of houghs. ^ lake dandies, the coating of many trees . s their most valuable portion. Cuik trees j. in I hoot trees, for instance. . Grain and seeds ate not considered dan- j j porous, except when about to shoot. Several trees, like watch dogs, arc valued . uostly for their bark. J A little bark will make a rope, but it < takes a largo pile of woo<l A>r a cord. , 'I bough there are no vegetable beaux, , there are a number of spruce trees. It is considered only right and proper to axe-trees before you fell tliein. 1 I'init trees have military eharactfristies. , I When young they arc trained ; they have!] many kernels and their shoots are straight. , Grain must he treated like insects ; when ' ' the head heads it mu-t he cradled ; and j threshing is resorted to t<> lit it for use. Taies are inostli found ivith smaller grains t ?which require Moving. 1.1 (ileal indulgence in fruit is dangerous? v uul t*?o free a use of melons produces a!t nebm-colic effect. I. Ohl maids are fond of pears?hut cannot end tiro any reference to dates. j' r->an?<i J> arc* auncneu to nays, oystermen to I beeches; lovo sick maidens to pine. j] Xoxr Kxkmpt.? In her life of George j Washington, Mrs. Kirkland gives us one | close view of that stately lady, Mrs. Martha j Washington : 1 ' If we were to give our piivato opinion," 11 savs Mrs. Kirklaml, "wo should say that j Mis. Martha Curtis Washington, with her i, large fortune, her strong dome-tie tastes am! ['flections, and her dutiful common sense j diameter, exercised her full share of intln- 1 mice over the Commander in-Chief of the | Armies of the United States of America.1. She had a very decided way of speaking, j and as she never meddled in public affairs, ! we can easily imagine the Central letting her have her own way in pretty much eve- , rything else. I " A guest at Mount Vernon happened to vloo)> ill U l-ot.m " * l.#?4 | * j I the President and liis lady. Late in the] evening, when people had retired to their j various chamhcrs, he heard the lady doliv-1 n c/.rtr nrn I/-* !?/> I ^.."o and master upon something which lie had I done, that she thought ought to he done ' differently. To all this he listened in the ; |>rof?>tiii lest silence, and when she, too, was j sih nt, ho o] toned his lips and spoke, "now, good sleep to you, my dear." This ancc dot a of the great man in his night eap is quire characteristic of him. hut it is equally so of most lords and masters, who, we in?-I ngine, all receive curtain lectures, as Mr. Caudle nn?l Washington did, In piofound si i lenoo. Kxpeiienco probably, leaches them thai it is the better way." A Kansas Jcstick.?A man was ricentlv arrested in Kansas for stealing a cow and a bee gum. The jury, to facilitate matters, put both charges in one indictment, and convWtcd him of stealing the cow. lie I took an appeal. The justice, in making up I his docket, made out the following report of j the case : The defendant in tho case found guilty : he beats us on tho bee gum, but we cotcb liiiu on thj cow ! [Daifi/ Mamcriger. Woon.?'I his indcsnensahle winter article is selling in Washington al $6.50 per cord ! This is 1 igh wood" and also a lngh i jr^C. 80UTHERNF/NT(5RPRiSE7 *= W. P. PRICE, Editor. OUR MOTTO?'* EQUAL RIGHTS TO AIX." GREENVILLE7S. C. Thursday, January 33, 1657. Something Sweet. On behalf of our silent partner, we return thanks to the proprietor of the Ladies' Store, for a bottle of Harrison's delightful perfume ?Extract of Clematis. Odd Fellows' SchoolMr. Pif.kck, for several years tho Principal of tho Odd Fellows' School of Columbia, has linnn ?w t^anltar fnr iKo im>a?v\*a/1 ? ? ?"> school In this place. The exercises of the school will commence in February. A Visit Wo were glad to greet our friend, Mr. W. F. Noams, of the Newberry Mirror, on yesterday. The paper which he prints i> always acccptabie, and to the ladies we would especially commend it. They will be pleased with the Mirror?and its propiietors. Death of Mrs. Ann Ioor. Wc regret to nnnouncc the death of this! estimable lady. It occurred at hcrresidence in this place on Saturday night last. She has resided in our Town and District for a number of years, and was highly esteemed, by all who knew her, for her many christian virtues. She leaves several children and grand-chi dren to mourn her departure. Mail Failures. Wc arc compelled to unite with our hrc- | ihren of (ho press everywhere along the J lines of Railroad, in their disapprobation af '.ho present arrangement of the mails, j Detentions may bo unavoidable, but it be- j fomcs almost insufferable to have the carsl arrive, bringing no mails. No Charleston mail reached here 011 Tuesday night, which ! lias compelled us to place more miscellanejus reading on the inside of our paper than isual. Another Editor Gone ! The following notice speaks for itself: I " Maiuukii, in Anderson l>islrict, on j Wednesday evening, the 14th inst.. l?v the lev. .1. Scott Murray, .1. V. M< >' >UK, K*?p, j Editor of the True Carolinian,) to Miss ': iv I']. IN >151 XS( >N, daughter of I >r. Win. I llobinsou, all of Anderson Ihstriet." Editors will get married, if they can, and i udging from the above, and similar notices, 1 ve incline to believe that, although ill fa- j vored in some tilings, yet in other respects I hey do sometimes succeed. Our friend of the True Carolinian has! our best wishes for his future success. May j lis amiable and highly esteemed bride he ! ?le?t with ail the joys of this life?and j do(o)re too ! Cold Weather The intensity of the weather on Monday j ind Tuesday last has not been exceeded i vithin our recollection. '1 lie thcrinoineter, >n Monday morning at sunrise, stood at jelow zoto. This may he taken as about, lie average fall, although some havo stated j to us that it was known to have been as , low as G?. One of our " oldest inhabit J ants" says that during the cold winter of 1the thermometer was not lower than I 7?, which shows that the severity ?f that i much-talked of cold weather was not, much more intense than the present. '1 lie ponds in the neighborhood of this place are the icenes of much pleasuro. Skating is now 11 the go. The snow which fell on SaturJny night to the depth of several inches was reinforced l>y a considerable fill of the same article during the day on Sunday, and also on Tuesday night. It still remains up uti the ground, to the gratification of the young folks, who go a-sleighing, (and get slewed,) hut to the no little annoyance of those whose business calls theni away from warm tircsnte*. w o uopo u# oe pardoned, i if wo err, in expressing our joy at tho prospect of its speedy disappearance. The snow may he pleasant to those who have warm tires to go to, but there are many w ho have no such luxuries. For the takes of the children of the poor - and the poor themselves? we shall be glad when it leaves us. Spartakduro Kxtrers.?T. Vono Farrow, Esq., has retired from the edr.orial control of this journal, and has been iicceedcd by our young friends, A. S. 1)ocola*b, Esq., and T. II. Evins. The Express hi^ been an interesting and readable paper heretofore, and will no doubt continue so undet the control of its present editors. They liyvc our sincere*! wishes tor mo future aueoct* | of their Express. I Tub Mails.?It is hardly to bo expccld that we should get mails in this weather, when they were so " few and far between" beforo the snow. The Wilmington nrd Weldon road and the Manchester road hate possession of all our mails, and keep them on hand longer than the law allows; bu we live in hopes that they w ill turn upsomt proe or oilier.? Sou(h CdroHnian. Receiving Canes Wc consider the following anecdote quite np propos. It is taken from ibo Newberry Sun : " 'flic darkies employed by Mr. ?? presented bim on New Vear's day with a on no. Hum, a speaking nigger, tnado the following oiation: 4 MsssA^My respects to you de Boss of ie niggers, and hopiu' bat you will bo our Boss nil do time, and askin' of you to please 'cept dis cane, and wisbin' dat you may uever die, and I may live all de time, and ho pin' dat in de mornin' of de general 'sembly when Gabriel comes down and places one foot on de mighty sen and de oder on do dry land, and swar by him dat livolh dat time shall bo no longer, dat yon may git up when de good old angel blowa his trumpet, and shakin' off do grave dust, may live wid de blood washed millions nnd go away up through great tribulation.'" CORUES PO ND E N C E. (Jiiahi.kston, Jan. IS, 1S57. Dear Enterprise : There is nothing of inteiest on tapis at present, or at least no feature of sufticient prominence in the daily routine of life to prove of moment to your ' renders, or to attract the attention of the ! Knights of the Quill. j Although there is a calm in the deeds of | mighty men around us, yet there is a gale in the elements above us. While writing, [ this late at night, the wind is howling feari fully through the casement, as if it were some demon of the storm seeking entrance into my dim little ten-by-lwelve apartment; and though the season is so propitious for goblins, burglars and witches, yet I feel free from their intrusion, so long as a very formidable looking Medical is snoozing in the corner at the rate of ten knots an hour. It has been snowing throughout most of the day, but ceased in the afternoon. The earth was so thoroughly saturated with rain, before the snow began to fall, that I am afraid the beautiful scene will bo dissipated ere another twenty-four hours roll 'round. The Gleet produced by it is beautiful in the extreme. As the eye looks either way, for almost two miles?save hero and there, ? 11.. I ..?VIV ?winv tvn IMUIKII^ ll'niB lis ! symbolic crest?an unbroken waste of white* capped houses meets the view of the delighted gazer. If beholding this little nien .so entrances one, how incomparably superior the etFeet, on seeing the wide-reaching plains of the West covered with a crystal sheet far as the eye can reach. The ministers have taken the duello in hand, and are exerting their benign influence to obliterate it from the pages of our every day life book, but whether they will succeed or not is another thing. In returning from church tonight, it iequired considerable skill for one to maintain his equilibrium in walking over the crystaliz< d pavements; but I noticed the ladies swayed along with a graceful case, while the men wero cutting sundry antics. This seemed a little vtrange, but can beattiibuted to the awful preponderance of crinoline and whalebone, which act as balance weights. There is nothing startling in the theatrical woild. Ncafte, who rants like a mad lion, and almost excels Forrest, has just completed an engagement of a week, moderately success fill. Miss Ince commences an engagement next week. Yours, 8. Manning, S. C., Jan. 15, 1857. 1 >kah Piiick : I have long promised to wino io yon, and give you a description of in alters and things generally ill this my present home. You will remember that I cainc to Clarendon District in March last. On the fifteenth of May following the village lots of Manning, the selected county-! seat of Clarendon District, were sold, and brought very large prices, to-wit: from $00 to $405. I say the prices were large, though when associated with tho idea of a village 'of, they would, to some, Roem very low, but t is to ho remembered that the tract of land 'jKdCCl^I r... *!.? ?.-** ? " ' *??" ci??soly covered with a growth ot largo, and, I night almost say, antcdeluvian pines, not a tree having heon cut off of the larger portion of it since it originally came from the l ands of its maker. Immediately after the sale, tho purchasers went to work cutting down trees and digging up 9tumps, and soon overturned and destroyed all that patient nature had required hundreds of years in forming, and tho noise of tho axe and hammer was heard, where before, save the joyful tune of tho singing bird, or the doleful coo of tho dove, silence reigned supremo. Tho greater part of the trees have been felled, and dwellings and stores now occupy their places. Several persons of wealth and lmvo purchased land near tho village, and our prospects of a pretty and thriving little town are at present very good. Land around tho village sells very readily for $60 per acre. Our District officers were elected in Octobet last, nnd, in point of intelligence and i sobriety, will compare very favorably with , any of our neighboring Districts, i Wo aro now innkir.g preparations to ore ganizc a school and form a tempernnco ho lictf. We will soon have a church, allfo. m * Our village Abounds in mechanics, and the professions will itkewise be fully represented. Wo will soon have six resident lawyers, besides (hose who nrc partners and rcsido elsewhere; and, consider?ng that we are so near Suinter and Kingstree, I think that that number is about as many as we can support. Of resider1 physicians we have none, though there are sevcml inise diately around us. There is iu contemplation a railroad, to connect the Wilmington and Manchester with the IN orth-Eastern itoac, anil it u is ever completed it will pass through Manning, and thus afford us easy access to Columbia or Charleston, or the Worth, but we are too much indoctrinated with the princi-1 pies of Southern Rights, to wish to go there. Our court house and jail, according to contract, will bo completed in November next. They will be of brick, aiuj' will cost $18,000. Our first court will be held 011 the 13lh of April, and tho session will consume about three days. The bum. pro. docket will be the only one called on the civil list, and as yet I know of no criminal case of any importance. Pardon and look over all errors, for 1 write in haste. Yours truly, T. S. C. Tiiirtt Years Oct of tux. Srkatr.? The New York Herald learns that Gen. Dufl" Green is preparing a book under the title of " Recollections of a Washington Politician who was Thirty Years out of the Senate." The intention is to make head against Col. Betnon's work of Thirty Years in the Senate. The Ilerald says: As the title partially implies, this " thirty years " of Gen. Dufl Green's political experience will be a historical refutation of the "thirty years" of Cel. Thomas II. Benton ?including the gentlemen, the small men, the great political events, questions and parties, and caucuses, and interviews, and plots, land counterplots, and what not of Benton's I two ponderous volumes of self-conceit and personal bitterness against Calhoun. Gen. Green's " thirty years " of personal observation at Washington will thus come into collision at every assailable point with Benton's " thirty years." Simon Cameron.?The election of Simon Cameron as Senator from Pennsylvania, is Vl'flLllinr lin iiwIImioliAn Ho * "i- ??" credit of being n very corrupt mid unprincipled man, and one who does not scruple j to reach political station as Philip conquer ed cities?by gold. The Pennsylvania!! says: "That Cameron lias purchased his election, is the universal sentiment of all par lies. IIow far the disgrace of admitting him to the Senate may be averted, as \ei we do not know. If the plain fact, which all men instinctively know in regard to tin means and agencies by w hich he secured his election, can be legally established, the United States Senate will owe it to its own dig nity to spurn him from that body. Counterfeits.?New counterfeits, of the j denomination of six dollars, on the Farmers Hank of Klizabcth City, (North Carolina.) have made their appearance. The Charlotte Whig, which gives us the information, does! not give a description of the genuine or the J spurious note. The Richmond Dispatch has I been show n a counterfeit ten dollar note on j the Central Hank of Vitginia, w hich is so j well executed that most any person unac- j I customed to the detection of countcifcit tno , | nev, would take it. notwithstanding the fact | that the plate is different from the genuine one. Johnson Female Univkhmty. ? The Due West Telescope says : " The Hoard of Trustees announce that the endowment of this Institution is so fat completed as to justify them in opening on this plan at the beginning of the next session. This is llin Hi-it nvnoMinoni .... dowrnent of a Femnle School by ihc sale of scholarships that wo have heard of, and wo are glad to hear that it has proved successful. ? % Grants of Land in South Carolina.? This is perhaps the la?t year in which grants of vacant lands will he made to tho State of South Carolina. A hill to this effect pass ed both branches of the Legislature at the recent session of Assembly, but for the want I Kel/>7MsdH"ft.W?figfl^W..*Al; lKtll? 'hmht'fM. i having grants for their land or wishing to ; take up vacant lands, would do well to attend to the matter.?Kingttrer Star. Secret Society.?The Odd Fellows in the United Stat?* number 3,307 lodges with 193,14 members. They expended, in the year ending with Juno, nearly half a million of dollars for relief of members and their families and tho education of orphans ; their total receipts being $1,180,320. Tho encampment, a branch of tho order, nunibering 23,749 members, received $102,808, and expended for relief $30,093, Kik^dciii T*oi iTtrn ??Tim nf i!?a election* fur olliccrs of the Missouri State Legislature, seems to have been adverse to the. Ibototi ar.<l American parlies. whirl* united, and were beaten at nil points by the union of the pro slavery Whigs w;th the Atchison party. This indicate* the ability of tho auti-lieutoniies to elect two United State* Senators. i i Lutiikkan CoLiroB. ? The NetvWry Mirror, of the 10th instant, says t?At the meeting yesterday of the Hoard of Trustees of tho Lutheran College. Kov. Dr. Harhman was elected President of the Hoard ; Col. S. Fair, Vice President; Mr. Henry Summer, Secretary; Hon. J. P. Kin.ird, Treasurer. I * i p 'i' .Lii.-iii 11 n iim-samm From Nicaragua. Nkw Orlbaxs, Jan. 16, 1657. Nicuraguans, returned by ibe Texa?, give contradictory but rntlier dismal Recounts of tb<* capture, en ibe Shjj Jcbt? River, !?v an American named Spencer, with one of tlio company's l?o(tt bund* and three hundred Costa Kicnns. They took all the river boats, Forts Castillo and San Carlos, and Walker's large lake steamers and a few haroes. Several ofilcers, passenge.a on the Texas. Some of them say that Walker is a 'gone case," while other* are hopeful, At n meeting of Walker's friends wlio came out in the steamer, it %vas decided to go back in a few days. It is reported that the man Spencer, men- I tioned above, is in the pay of Mr. Vandcrbilt. The British assisted him with gun* boats. Col. Ixjckridge, with two hundred 1 men at Punta Arenas, would attempt to recapture the boats lying tlierc, but the Brit* isli commander gave notice that he would not allow it. Cahkyino Home Bundles.?Many people have a contemptible fear of being seen to carry any bundle, however small, having the absurd idea thai there is a social degradation in the net. The most trifling as well as llio most weighty packages must be sent home to them, no matter how much to the inconvenience of others. This arises from n low soil of pride. There is n pride that is higher, that urisc from a consciousness of there being something in the individual not to l>e atlcclcd by such accidents?worth and weight of character. This latter pride was exhibited by the son of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte. While he was in college ho was one day carrying to his room a broom he had just purchased, when he met a frcind who, noticing the broom, with surprise, exclaimed " Why did you not have it sent home!"' I "I nin not ashamed to carry home anything which belongs tg. me," was the sensible reply of young Bonaparte.?Lord Stanley. Human Nature.?A good story is told of two brothers, who lived a sort of cat and dog life, to their neighbor's discomfort, for n good many years, but who had been at a camp meeting, were slightly converted, ami both of them concluded to reform. " Brother Tom," says one ; when they had arrived at their home, " let us sit down now, and I'll toll what we'll do. You tell me all my fuults, and I'll tell you of your'n, and so we will know how to go about mending of 'cm." " flood," snys brother Tom. " Well, you begin." " No, you begin, brother Jt?e." " NN ell, in tho first place, yon know, brother Tom, you trill lir/" Crack goes borther Tom's paw, between brother Joe's" blinkers," and considerable <?f a scrimmage ensues, until, in the course of about ten minutes, neither l*-i?ig nblo to time, reformation is postponed nine die. H vuk Broar.?T he lake in fiont of tho city, on New Years' day, presented a spectacle such as wo never khw before, and will probably never fee again. T he still cold weather of the previous week had frozen tho lake with a smooth stttfuce for miles. At 4 o'clock, at least 1,000 hoys ami inen were skimming the glassy surface, ninny quite as far out as they could bo seen from shore. The most ven lit roue tell of feeling tho restless heaving of the waters beneath their gliding foot, and that when they were quite nenr the outer edge of the ice they dared not rest a moment in their course, lo*l they should go through. Hut the great danger only gave the sport a keener relish to tiieir taste, and on tliov flew, looking out sharply for cracks, and jumping not a few of them. The chief i danger to the skaters, was one of which they i probably never thought. Should a change | of wind come suddenly, as it often does hero at all seasons, and break up the ice to' wards the shore, inside of the most renin| rous, they could not ltuve been rescued. [Chicago Press. | Don't Lkavjc tiik State.?A young man l from Texas, in ? letter to lite Chester Stand* nrtl, says that Toxas is a fino place, and if men must move, they had better go there, but upon the subject of moving at all, he makes the following sonsible remarks:? " Instead, therefore, of persuading the young men of South Carolina to leavo their native State, I would say to them, 44 Turn your attention to every new branch of business that is honorablo and remunerative. Build up manufactories of evory kind. Introduce the j culture of everything that yields a largo re; turn froin a small extent of land. Use your j boundless supplies of water to irrigate your ,* tcnn i J av muni as- uicy are ndW xiAmjf, Plant groves around your dwellings tct shield you from the miasma that rises fror^ the creeks and rivers. In shor*, do every ? thing that is necessary to incr?.~e and raid* tiply the resources and independence and power of South Carolina." A wild bear wm killed in Elbert couuty, Georgia, on the 16th inst? by Mr. Cam:-, thers, which weighed three hundred and twenty-five pounds This Old Bruin had, been prowling about in the neighborhood I where he met his death for some years, but I i.;- i.o/iii. -ii -? ? *? ? ilia ikiui^o ncio nil U'MIIU U9 IH#?lVOU| lip to tlie day of his death. We understand that there was raro sport enjoyed by the hunters ou the occasion. a nkw conow faotonr.?messrs. wca* ver and McMalcin have, as we have learned, purchased the site of what is now fcnowp ?s Ma berry's Mills, some five miles from iho village, mid have made preparations with a view to the ereotlon of a cotton factory. Mr, Weaver is an experienced nrannfncfurer, and wo havo no doubt they will make it a profit-, ublo investment.?Sjtaranburp JSxpreta. brnnfiK I). Prknticic contradict* the i rumor that ho was about to remove to St. Lotifl, and says be wlfrflOt t&Ve tne'T.onk* r!!e Jotirna? MtR his breath leaves bW?