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? . : ~ -^%| V 3 A R E F L E X OF PO P IT T A It E V EN T S. Droofetr lo Progress, tl)C fcilgljts of l!)f Soitf!), anfr l!)c Diffusion of Useful iinowlrfoijc among all (Classes of XVorhiita iltm, VOLUME IV. GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 28. 1857. NUMBER 3. L . i ? - - I ' jjr fxnttljmt Ciitrrpmt IS ISSUED E7EHY THURSDAY MORNINO, ^#aY PRICE & McJtTNKIN.1 WII.I.AM i*. PRICE, EDITOR AND WlOPltll^TOK. C . M . M'J U N Iv 1 N , PRINTER. TERMS, Oak D?iu.\n And Fii'ty Cknw in advance; Two i Dollars if CLUBS of FI VE and upwards, Oxk Dollai*, ! the money in every instance to accompany the ! order. ADVERTISF.MEXT5 inserted conspicuously nt ] tho rates of 79 cents per square of 5 3 lines* for J tl?e first insertion, ana 37$ cents for each subsc- j qucnt insertion. nantrtoU for yearly advertising made reason , bio. AOEWTS. W. W. Walk ten, Jr., Columbia, S. C. Pktkr HYSadlkv, Esq., Flat Rock. N. f. A. M. Pkdkm, Fnirviow P. O.. (Jrectivi)In Pist. William O. Bulky, Pioasnnt Drove, Oceanvillc C*rt. It. Q Amdkrsov, Enorcc, Spartanburg. g 1 ^rlrrtrii ^ottrij. I Owe No Mad a Dollar. BY CIIAS. T. 8IIIKA3. Oli, do nol envy, my own dear wife, The wealth of our next door neighbor, Hut hid me still to ho stout of heart, And cheerfully follow my labor. You must know, tho last of those little debts, That have been our lingeiing sorrow, | Is paid this night ! So we'll Imlli go forth ; With happier hearts to ntorrow. Oh, the debtor in hut a shame faced dog. With the creditor's name on his collar, While I am a king, and you are n queen, For we owe no man a dollar! Our neighlror you saw in his coach to day. With his wife and his flaunting daughter, While we sAt down to our covet less hoard, To a crust nr.d cup of water ; I 8flw that the tear-drop sti*nl in your eye, Though you tried your best to conceal it? 1 knew that the contrast reached your heart, And you could not help hut feel it; But knowing now that our wnnty fare lias freed my neck from the collar, Vou'll j..iM ij) my Jangh. and help me shout, That we owe no man a dollar ! This neighbor whose show has du/./hd yoyr In fact is a wretched debtor, {eye*, 1 pity him oft from my very heart, And I wish that his lot were better. Why, ihe man is the veiiest slave alive, I.;- ~ .. :c. ..?.i .1 1 ? vt ?nn w(OT ?/;*! (Wlll^HlT Will live in style. tLcvugii nmi should come? 1 So 1re goes like ? lamb to <ti^> daughter; Hut be feels it the tighter every day, j That terrible debtor's collar! Oil, vrltftl would he give, could liosny with lis,' J lint he owed no man a did I in ! Von seetn amazed, but I'll tell you more : Within two bourn I met him Sneaking away with a (lightened air, As if a fiend hud lionet him ; y*t he fled fr i?))) a very worthy man, Whom ( met wiiii the greatest pleasure? Whom I called by naiiiejind forced to stop. Though he said he was not at leisure, He held mv last note ! so I held him fast, Till he freed my neck from the collar; Then 1 shook his hand as I proudly said : " Now, I owe no man a dollar !" Ah, (Dw yon sm?Ie, for you feel the forco Of the truth I have been repeating ; I knew that a downright honest heart In that gentle breast was beating! To-morrow I'll rise with a giant's strength, To follow my daily labor; Put e'er wo deep, let us humbly pray For cur wretctied next door neighbor ; And we'll pray for the time when nil shall be > free From tlie weight of the debtor's collar? ( When the poorest shall lift up bis voice and i cry, mm -+.t w a ?i " ?XOw, i owe no insn a dollar : Dox't You Want to But aCootkk !? The Peo Dee (Cher**) livrald, of the 12th inat.,!? responsible for the following good one: M It js perfectly refreshing at this timo to have is^od joke. When the freshet i?a* done ita work, the peach crop failed, all the * bullae*' vines pulled down to make hoope, and no prospect of corn, a good joke is per leolly relished. Some few days ago, as the train on the Cheraw and Darlington Bail Koad was coming up, and making time in a 2.40 stvle, an old negro was seen on the track waiving his hands as if in great distress. The obliging conductor put down ' the brakes, turned otf the steam, apd stopped the train ; the passcngors were on the alert, the engineers and firemen the personification of curiosity, when the old negro walked up with an air as if be had dooo the Road a great favor, and with a self gratified look, said. * Ma-aster, don't you want tobuy a cooler P Passengers, conductor, engineers, all let off ateam, and not a word <was said from there to Cherur, If you want to get a fight on your hands, go to iQriie depot and say * Cooler,''" - - W i n \ c VUV IVI \ ttX3 w mil of a living salary. Their hearing associates get $1,000 per year?in some cases one third moro than thnt sum?while the mutes get only $700. The latter work hard, but an increase of salary is not to be hoped for. They toil for years and years, but their wages will not be incrca-ed. If they could but speak, an increase of pay would be the certain result. They cannot speak, and as a necessary consequence, their wages are narrowed down to a point of dependence which operates to prevent thern from rejoicing in their freedom from a harrowing sense of their humiliating condition. The wages of the deaf teachers, as I have sajd, average $700 a year?and that in a Inrgecity, w here the high prices of provisions ipduce a corresponding advance in the wnges of woik. I K >r a mute with a wife, it is quite an impossibility to live well on seven hundred dollars a year ; that's certain. Two mute teachers up North, both mar ' ried, drew up n petition asking for an increase of salary, and sent It to lite Trustees of the establishment where they were employed. Their petition was laid on the ta ble, so that they got a kick. Well, that was no matter. Hut, still, 1 cannot help ' thinking it strange that a tribe of bipeds professing to have at heail the welfare of the deaf and dumb, should not have extend- ' ed a helping hand to the mutes who, by a I long course of study, had qualified them-; selves to teach their companions in priva- j tion. The petition which the teachers drew J up, was quite genteel in tone: not an anori i w ? ov word from iu-gioidng to ond, but, on the contrary, a common sense view of tlie matter was exhibited throughout. I copy it verbatim ft verbatim as tlie teachers wrote it: '* To the Directors oj the Dei if an<! Dumb hittifntioii: Ki-:*l*ectki> (Jbsti.kmen?Knconraged by the interest which you take in tlie cause of the deaf ?nd diinih, we beg to speak to you on a subject of vital importance, believing, as we do, that you arc willing to know any thing that concerns the welfare of this portion of the human family. The enormous cost of provision*, and the consequent increase of board, the advance in the price of leather, tho universal increase of salary j among the employees in mercantile houses, j the frequent difficulty on our parts, with $700 a year, in making both ends meet, all induce us to beg you to remember us at this meeting, in regard to an increase of salary. We remain, with sentiments of the highest esteem, your humble and obedient servants, Then think of the pecuniary independence of the muto teachers?now cramped and narrowed by tho selfish policy of the Trustees, and this tyranny removed?what a republicanship they might sway in the monetary realm I They wish to earn an honest livelihood, but what they most desire is an equality of wages. The idea of reducing their wages on the score of their physical defect, is the very quintessence of impudence. Unu )Um Kwpcror of himself a route, was allowed to assume the reins of government. A deaf and dumb gentleman owns a house, and rents it to a gentleman of the i.~ A-.tr s.? im^.ivov vuiuiill^ , y% ll?# UlllVrS Willi MIU1 in tliis, that ho can both bear and apeak, Another unite is a commission and retail hardware merchant?ho is reputed to be worth $30,000?made bis owu money? and manages his family affairs as if he were not deaf. A deaf lady in Philadelphia, previous to her marriage, had earned $700 by making segnrs. A mute teacher out West, made $00,0/00 by buying and selling land. These uiutes were oot subjected to the pain of dispensing with their individual rights as are those who are employed iu schools esI tablished expressly for the instruction of ! their class. In tho Ohio Institution mute teachers are liberally paid, and the same justice is done to them at the Virginia Institution. I have undsAftood that the teachers of the Tennessee Institution faro gs well. The Directors (frrigitiol Drgnrtiiimt. [for tiik ttorrnHnx entkhpmi-k.] The Wrongs of Deaf HuteoBV JOB, TIIK J HUSKY MI'TH. . Much lins been nl?out ihe wrongs of woman, and with truth ; but the wrong* of mutes are not less deserving of sympathy. I could, if I were so disposed, point out the: schools for tlio deaf and dun?b in the United Stntes in which deaf teachers nre con j doomed to slnvn tlmir lir?o mil f.?? !'? 1 of these Institution* deserve the thank offer ing of every educated mute in the land f'?i treating the mute teachers as men. Mat lie who ?aitli, ' The laborer is worthy o his hire," bless them. Who can doubt that, with a marrletl mute, whose occupation compels hiin to liv< in a gicnt city, $700 a year barely coveri the expenses of living ? He it known thai he ha* n wife to support besides the enormous expenses for tho nooessaries of life which, truth to say, eat up $700. A thou sau'l dollars per annum w ill pay, teohnicnllj speaking. Outside of the walls of tho In stjtufion, 110 disparity in pay is allowed t< mute mechanics ; but once within the pah of the Institution, the unfortunate muto is obliged to submit to a less measure of jus tice than is meted out to others of the sam? ilk. Mr. Nkwsam, of Philadelphia, wh< has stood for many years at the summit o his profession, which is that of lithographii engraving, receives a liberal salary?on< which enables him to lay by something fo a sick day. It is also the means of inlro ducing liini into good society. There an many excellent pictures of the late Bisho] White extant, which were executed by hi skillful pencil. Mr. Nkwsam Is a mule, am yet lie receives equal pay with other artist! Mr. Neck, tho deaf poet mentioned in Pi Griswold's " Poets of America," ha* a sala rv ??f one thousand Hollnr* ? year. Ho ha a family. JJe is employed in the City Ilal at New York, as a copying olork. In th name of common sense, why are the ninti teachers denied an equality of cowpcnsatioi with their hearing colleagues ? I pause fo a reply. Philadelphia, Pa. Hlisrrllimfnus lUnbitttj. A Woman's Belief in "Woman's Rights,' The follow ing condensed opinion of44 wr in mi's rights " will remain true nr.*! in fill force long after the feminine misanthropic of the day shall have been forgotten : I believe in woman as an etpml of mat] in that she ecjttally with him was create*! ii the imago of otir Creator. An*! I believ that the dignity an*! worth ofhnman nntur consist in this likeness of Go*!, so essential!' and only, that after this all other dislinc lions fade and are lost. 1 believe that woman is inferior in po>: | tion to man, in that sho was created uftc him. for him, and dejrendent upon bint. I beleivo that man possesses a strengt ! and comprehensiveness of intellect, whie ; enables liim to grasp a vast and com plica ed subject, and reveal its intricate relation which woman can only comprehend aft* they are once unravelled. I believe that woman possesses a deliene and acntenes; of perception, which enablt | her to feel lier way directly to many impoi ( tant and practical tiutlis which man reach*, by a longer and more labotiotis process. I 1 believe many women surpass many tne 1 in intellect. I believe (bat many men surpass man | women in feeling. I believe that neither the vigor of inan' intellect, nor the accuracy of woman's tac | can avail to preserve them from error if th ! will be not bowed before the decrees of Got I believe in woman's right to careful d< I velopeuient and cultivation of all her nali ' ral powers and capabilities, so as to rendc I Iter in the highest degree intelligent, ar? happy in the sphere which God has assigr ed to Iter. I believe in woman's right to keep silenc in public assemblies, and to leave the las of public instruction to those better fate by nature and circumstances to fulfil ths important duty. 1 believe that most women, if they liste reverently to the voice of God and nature i their own souls, will find themselves draw rather to acts of love ?nd iflercy in prfvat and domestic life, than to grand publi schemes for ameliorating the condition < the race. I believe that woman's natural end priate position is that of companion and ai sistant to man. & uniu> o in nuiifnii n ii^ut iu minimi ur reservedly to her husband in everything savo in matters of conscience between Go and her own soul. I believe in man's right to love his wil even ns himself, to regard her interest An welfaro before Ills own, to chorish and pre tect her as the applo of his eye. I believe in tlio right of each to labor, t sutler?if neod be, to shed their heart's bloo for tho other. I believe that the beauty and joy of lit is love, and that woman can love and doc lovo m deeply and devotedly as inao. Comkt SraucK.?A lady in Owe# coun ty, Iowa, has become d^raog^j from dwell ing with morbid apprehensions upo;* th predicted colKbton wUU the comet* The Angel of the Rouse. r There is an angel in tli** house. No mat. (cr h<?w fallen the inmates, how depressed I f the circumstances, there is an angel tiiere toi pity or to cheer. It may he in the presence J 1 of a little child, or it may he enclosed in a I stooping and wrinkled body, treading lie' 3 downward path to the grave. Or, perhaps, .!mi a checiful spiiit, looking upon the ills of| i life as so many steps towards heaven, if on ly hravelv overcome, and mounted with sin-( " less feet. Wc knew such an angel once, ami , it was a drunkard's child. On every side, . | wherever she moved, site only saw misery r and degradation, and yet she did not fall. , Iler father was hiatal, and hor mother dis" I cotjrjtged, ami her home thoroughly com* fort loss. Hut she struggled along with an>| gel endurance, bearing with almost saintly k uniiuiiiir, uiu i:!unim:cs ui nun who p?vf Iter existence, and tiion liourly embittered it. I Night after night, at the hours often, twelve. 3! and even one. barefoot, s||^? lless, and bon> [ netlcss, has she been to the den of the f drunkards, and gone staggering homo with B her arm around her father. Manv a time I has her flesh been blue with the mark of his I hand, when she litts stepped in between her r j helpless mother and violence. Many a time j has she sat upon the curbstone wit Ii Ids e head in her lap; many a time known how p, bitter it was to cry for hunger when the money which should have bought bread ! was spent in gin. And the patience that [*! the angel wrought within made her face *. j shine ; so that, though never acknowledged r.; in the courts of this world, in tlie kingdom . of heaven she was waited for bv assembled I hosts of spiijts, mid the crown of martyrdom lay ready wailing for her young brow. ' J And she was a martyr. Ilor gentle spirit b went up front a couch of anguish?anguish p ' brought on by ill usage and neglect. And u I never till then did the father recognize the i angel in the child ; never till then did his l manhood arise from the dust of its dishonor. | From her humble gravo lie went away to ! keep bis resolves for the bettor in bitter ?' tears; and be will tell you today how ihc ' memory of her much-enduring life keeps ' him front the howl ; how he goes sometimes - j and stands whcie her patient hands have i? led him, while her cluck crimsoned at the ( ' sneers of those who scotl" at the drunkard's II J child. Search for the angels in your house I hold, and cherish tlioin while they are i among you. It may be. that, a|l une<?nI ..a.. e. ---? < ? ( I yi,,, iru>>u infill, U lion a M|1 IK! () J would lead you ro a Knowledge of their exI eeeding worth. They may i>? among the p, least oared for, inost despised; hut when v I they are gone with tluir silent itifluencc. j then will you mourn for them as for a jewel I of great worth. Thfl ?lay Actor's Excuse. j One evening when I'izarro was annnuncI i cd as the play, thero was considerable dcla\ . J in commencing, in consequence of one of the ^ j performers being absent ; the audience beI oame impatient, when John Kemble (Holla) ' came forward and delivered himself to this effect: " Ladies and gentlemen, at the re I quest of the princijtnf pciformers in the play ! of this evening, I am to inform yott that the I absent person is Mr. J2mcry." The house i received this explanation without any disapprobation or otherwise. (Emery, at thi* ! period, although a very pathetic acto:\ had I not arrived at the summit, of excellence, and . I on this evening, the part of the sentinel was ^ j given to him.) Scarcely had Mr. Kemble i I quitted the state, w hen, dressed in a great t j cost, dirty boot*, a face red with haste, and pi wet with pc.-spiralion?on rushed the culII pi it. Emery stayed some moments before the audience, Apparently Agitated, and at length delivered himself to fin's effect: " Ladies and gentlemen, this is the first j time 1 have ever had to appear before you as an apologist. As 1 have been the sole eatisc of the delay in your entertainment. I allow me shortly to offer iqy excuse, when, . j I ain sure j shall obtain an acquittal, cspej dally from the fair part of this brilliant an^ dience. Ladies (for you I must particularly address) my wife ! and I (thunders of applause interrupted the apology ;) and I n ran fur the doctor. M 1 on ve said enough," exclaimed a thousand tongues. ,4 I could u not leave her, Indie*, tintjj f knew that she | was safe." Jdravo, Emery, you've said ^ enough !" was re echoed from all parts of the house. Emery was completely over> powered, and, after making another ineffec s tual attempt to proceed, rcijrecJ?jmving first placed iiis hand on his iieart and bowed ( gracefully to all parts of the house. The play p.oceeded without interruption ; hut it j appeared Emery had foigotten his obliga tion to Kembie, for that scene before the r, prison, in whicji ?olia tries to corru|>t the ,j sentinel by money, the following strange in' terruptiou occurred in the dialogue: Holla.?Have you a wifof Sentinel.?1 luwo. j Jlolla.?Children I , Sentinel.?I had two this morning?have V, ff?l three now. ^ Loud applauso followed this retaliation, 1 and it continued so long that the entire ef ' feet of this scene was lost, and Mr. Kembie, ' after walking some tjjpg ijj awkward confnI' j sion, terminated, it by abruptly rushing into i the prisoo. FioBMiaiiir requires action*, not words. Mr. Gough's Apostrophe to Water, At 1 tie close of one of the lecture* of John ' ?! It. Gonglt, in Galena. lie took a glass of wn I 'er. and hohling it aloft lie fore the audience, j t lie apostrophized in the following eloquent d inuniier : [ k " Look ?i 'hut. ye t|iirsty o|jes of Oflrtli '.: c Heboid it! See its polity ! How it glit-1 ters, as if a muss of liquid gems! It is a' J beverage that was brewed by the limit! of a the Almighty himself! Not in the sim- i moling still or smoking fires, c]io|te<j ?it|| ' poisonous gases, ami surrounded by the I stench of sickening doors and rank corrup s lions, doth our Father in Ileavcn prepare c j the precious psscpco of life, the pure gold ' e water; but in the green h.ake and grassy It | dell, where the red deer wanders and the j k : child loves to play ; there God brews it ; C j and down, down in tlie deepest valleys, ' i where the fumitalne murmur and the tills 1 | sing ; ami high "}>on the tail mountain tops, c i where tho naked granite glitters like gold | i in the sun, where the storm rlnml*' br?wwl I i : and ilie thunder storms crash* and away I s ; far out 011 tlie wide sen. where the hum j ' : canes howl music and the big waves roar J ? ' tlie chorus, sweeping the march of God? 11 I there He brews it, that beverage of life? ' ' health-giving wntcr ! And everywhere it1 * j* u thing of beauty; gleaming in the dew-1 J | drop, singing in tho summer rain, shining 11 j in the ice gem?till the trees all seem turn 11 I ed into living jewels?spreading a golden : ' | veil over the setting sun or a while gauze j1 I around the midnight moon, sporting in the 1 | cataract, sleeping in the glaciers, dancing in 1 the liail shower?folding jfs bright curtain ^ j softly about the windy world and weaving * i the many-colored iris?that seraph's zone ' j of the sky, whose warp is the raindrop cf 1 i earth, whose woof is the sunbeam of lieav 1 in, all checkered over with the celestial |' tlowcrs by the mystic hand of refraction?j' { still always it is beautiful, the blessed life water! No pobon bubbles oil the brink; ! its foam brings no sadness or murder; no I ; blood stains no limpid glass, broken-hearted ' i I wives, pale widows and starving orphans j< i shed no tears in its depths; no di Milliard's i j shrieking ghost, from the grave, curses it in J < j woids of eternal despair; beautiful, pure, h I bles..ed and glorious; give me forever the I | sparkling, puie cold water!" I| Coleridge on Pcayer. ' i Some of our modern rationalists ridicule j prayer. It is cow aid ice. It is superstition. It is folly to think of moving God. Against I these impious revilcrs we may rpiote the 1 sentiment of a true philosopher: "On my ; first introduction to Coleridge," sajs a wriJ ter who has collected memorials of that 1 i great man, " lie reverted with strong com : punction to a sentiment which lie had ex j pressed in earlier days upon prayer. In ' j one of his youthful poems, speaking of God, ; he said ; "Of whose nll-s?-<si;ig ey, Atiglit to iJoi|j?i?rt w?>re inipotcn c of mind." 11 This sentiment he now so utterly condemn-. 1 ed, that, on the contrary, he told ute as his) own peculiar opinion, that the act of prav-1 ! ing was the very highest energy of which j the hitman heart was capable: prating, j that is, with the whole concentration of the faculties; and the great mass of worldly t, men, and of learned men, he pronounced ; absolutely incapable of prayer. tyr. Coleridge, within two years of his death, very solemnly declared to nie his con- 11 viction upon the same subject. I was sit- j i ting by his side one afieinoon, and he fell J. ] into a long account of many passages of his ' past life, lamenting mane things, condemn1 ing others, ifcc. " Neither do I reckon," said i lie, " the most solemn place in God, as a real j object, to be the most arduous act of the ' reason and will; O, no, my dear, sir, it is to 1 I pray, to pray, as God would have us; thi* j is what at times makes me turn cold to my | soul. Helieve me, to pray with all your . heait and strength**?with the reason and { the will, to believe vividly that God will listen to your voice through Christ, and verily do the thing he please)h thereupon. litis is the last, the greatest achievement of I the Christian's wnrfaie on earth. Tench us | to pray, O Lord ! And then lie hurst into j a floor] of tears, and begged me to pray for I him." ^ ^ ^ Ki'kakino of the effect of intermarriage among tuoou reunions, mc nreuericksburg j News says: " in this county, in which we were raised, for twenty generations back certain fain ilies of wealth and respectability have intermarried until there cannot be found in three or four of thein a sound inan or woman ! Oue hns sore eyes, another scrofula, a third 1 is an idiot, a fourth blind, a fifth bandy leg god, a sixth with a head about the size of a < turnip, with not one out of the ntmiher exempt from physical defects of some kind or other." Oxe of our exchanges announces that a Mr. White, living in V'etjice, Pennsylvania, was recently murdered in his own bed by some one who wished to get his money. The ed it?r adds that, "luckily Mr. White had de posited his money in bank tint day before." Mr. White lost nothing but his life I Ax Alabama editor eaJIs young America " the tiundle bed portion of the community." Tuinji on a Tomiistqk*.?Tomlistonea lo n<>t always lie, a* some people suppose, leie is an epitaph, which, we wj|| yenture o say, approaclies tho truth as neArly ns lisintercsted observation can do. It is la;en from a torpbstonp jp Horeleydow hurchyaid, Cumberland i " Here lies the body of Thomas Bond, and lary his wife. She was template, chv?*teT nd charitable, but she was as proud, peevj sh, and pas.-ii>?ate. She was an affectionto wife anc* ? tender nioljter, bgt lp?r hlW* and and phild, whom the fared, seldom aw her face without a frown, while she recivtd visitors wlioni she despised with an ndearing smile, ller behavior wus discreet . owaids strangers, but imprudent toward ter own family. Abroad her conduct was fovemed by good breeding, but at home hp 11 temper. She was a j?erfect enemy to lattery, and was never known to praise op tommend j hut talent* in wl?icl? *1* pvMciwily excelled w ere drtferejicTi of opinion and ii discerning flaws and imperfections. She* otr.etimes made her husband happy with ler good qualities, but more generally inis rnble with her many failings, insomuch hat in thirty years' cohabitation, be often a m en ted that, of all bcr virtues, lie had not njoyed two years of niflliwnopial comfort \t length, finding that she had lost the af ections of her husband, as well as the re-? ajard of neigh but s?family disputes having noon divulged by servants?she died of vex lion, July 20, 1708, ng?-d 40 years. Her worn out husband sutvived iter four uiorrtfor md two days, and departed this life 28lh Sovenilier, 1708, in the 45th year of his ige. llis brother, William Bond, erected his stone as a weekly monitor p> the surviving wives of this parish, that they may tvoid the infamy of having their memories lianded down to posterity with a pntclp work character." , Pa mink in tiir Land ok I'mcxtt.?Thefact that peoplu arc perishing in Michigan and other divisions oif the W psf from want )f food, while it is our boast lliatf raitroads to intersect tbe land that the superfiox of sue section is sure to relieve deficiency in' my other, forms a curious part of our economical history. Grain is held at the chief ports of exportation nt speculative pi ices, and the tvareliou.es are ready to answer the for* sign demand tlip moment that a change in* I he weather en the other side of the Atlantic gives the least assttranco of a deficiency. That any portion of onr people should be actually starving while we are ready fe?d European communities, who are only in prospective want of the necessaties of life? shows something disjoined in the framework of our social and industrial economy. Either the communication between tbe more fertile and less fertile districts is morev i'rav perfect than is supposed, pj- the large dealers * are enabled to monopolize and" 1'iold for ft rising market large quantities of grain,,b]jr eredtt facilities, which, without such monopoly, would better equalize consumption and supply beteewu the destitute and the superabundant sections.'?Evening News.. Two Comets.?Besides D'Arrest's comet, now vii-ihle through the telescope, a second coinet, visible through the snme instrument, has been seen by Mr. Bruhn, of Berlin. It is situated in the western sky. and is nearly bright as IVArrestV. If lliesa comet? arebelligerently inclined, we would suggest the propriety of their hitting each other, instead, of striking this mundane sphere. A pitched battle on such a celestial field, and between such fiery combatants would be something, novel and exeifjng. A fei.low who is considered rather" ' soft,'' speaking the other day of the many inventions which have been made by the present generation, exultantly wound up with?" For my part I believe every generation giows >yiser and wiser; for there's my father, lie know'd more'n my grandfather; and I believe I know a little more'n my father did." " My riet?r, sir," teijjarked a bystander, " what an old fool your great, grand-father must have been." ? I and J.?There are no two letter-* in tliemanuseript alphabet uf the English language wilich causes so much misconatruction as I and J, as most |>eop!e write them nvoitilu .lit-/, Tl.? ?..U AxA ? .1 VMHV\IJ I I'C MIC IUI WIHfll^ ijit'ni properly, ami which ^eacrye* to bo univeiaally adopted, is to run the J bclosv ihe line,, and the J even with-the line. Rslioiovs Eorrone.?St. Louis has the> following " assortment " of religious editors : The editor of the Leader is a Catholic ; the editor of the Democrat a Jew ; the editor of the Republican an old fogy ; the editor of the Angetgor nn Intjdd, ?ud the editor of the News a Mohamedan. Tkmptations are a lilo which rubs oflT much of the ru?t of self confidence. [fVnrfon. Do I not kill >nv enemies by making them my friends ??EinjKror Si'jirtftuud. Thk most mischievous Kara ar? those *hq> keep on the verge of truth