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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.
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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.
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^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